The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 1

- ) Russia have given the THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 179. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THE In Chicago, by Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. mail, $8.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Batered as Gecond-<lass matter September 21, 1944, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulinole under the Act ef March 8, 1979, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1924 20 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents CHINESE WORKERS BEAT FASCISTI DAILY NEWS, BRASS CHECKER WITHOUT BLUSH, CONTINUES TO PUBLISH LIES BY SPOLANSKY By MANUEL GOMEZ. Despite the conclusive proof in ees ’s DAILY WORKER that Jacob Spolansky, discharged fed eral fink, is either a per- jurer or a liar, and probably both, the Chicago Daily News con- tinues to print his poison-pen articles attacking the Communists, and to advertise him as a reliable authority on radicalism and radical activities. Thus far the News might have pretended that it was taken in by the persuasive Spolansky and did not know it was printing lies. Now it shares complete moral and material responsibility. This should be an elementary school lesson to workers in the role and method of the capitalist press in the class struggle. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O)FLAHERTY. is suggested that John W. Davis take out sickness insurance on his campaign speakers, particularly those who “also ran” for the nomination. Williams. Gibbs McAdoo announced shortly after the Madison Square Gar- den convention that he would make a speaking tour for Morgan’s attorney. He started, but by taking an extended trip to Europe. On his return, he went to a hospital, and gave gravel in his bladder or gall stones or some- thing like that as the excuse for his failure to fulfiill his promise, He now claims that his doctor forbids him to take the platform. eee HETHER McAdoo has too much gall, or too mu¢h gravel in the wrong part. of his:anatomy, we cannot say. But we know that he had plenty of gall when he demanded. the sup- ploited farmers ou the basis of his “hostility” to Wall Street, in view of his past record. His conduct now is gall and wormwood to’John W. Davis. Mac may be sick but it does not take @ very lively imagination to picture that cake-eater’s smile on his. phiz as he contemplates the dilemna Davis finds himself in. 2 Pe ee | OVERNOR AL SMITH also prom- ised Davis that he would take off his coat during the campaign. He did not explain at the time that he in- tended to disrobe in a sanitarium. But that is what has happened. Smith was about to start out campaigning for Davis when he was seized with a mysterious malady known as political paralysis. Al is now being wheeled around in a chair like Sam Gompers. Perhaps he learned the trick from Sam. +e MITH heard voices in the air. They did not come from heaven, but from a more “regular” voting dis- trict. Al was informed by those voices that if he forgot Davis considerably during the campaign, that he might be governor of the state of New York for a few more years. This news made him sick, but it is expected that he will recover. *t* 'HE capitalist politicians give Mor- gan and Co. many bad half hours. It it were only possible to have a Mussolini and sack the pesky politi- clans, or compel them to take orders under pain of death, things would be very much simplified for the big cap- italists. But the capitalists and their servants in the government of the na- tion, states and cities are only united against the working class. Among themselves they fight like Kilkenny cats. Arthur Brisbane, the oracle of the Hearst press, forgets this illumin- ating fact when he starts out to prove that the workers can never free themselves because they do not know how to unite. | : Lo.) @ 7The only newspaper in Chicago where workers can expect to read the truth about themselves is the DAILY WORKER. Spolansky’s second article in the News is as illuminating as his first, which *is another way of saying that it does not shed any light. Apparent- ly he has made the transcendental dis- covery that Chicago, where the Work- ers Party has its national headquart- ers, is the center of the Communist | movement in merica. Everyone knew / this before but it did not seem so mys- terious. Our literary sleuth has also discovered that many workers became Communists when they lost their Jobs in 1919. We can add the information —which the Daily News is at liberty to spread broadcast—that many work- ers who have lost their jobs are join- ing the Communist movement today, in the same spirit of disillusionment with the capitalist system. One Genuine in Six. And ‘he rest is lies. Spolansky gives the names of six men who, he says, went to Russia from the United States following the Russian revolu- fers to as “am anarchist who had butchered a family”; another as “a Chicagoan of dubious réputation,”— and so forth and so on. Of the six names mentioned, one is genuine. The other five have never been heard of. The story is on a par with the “ru- mors” which used to emanate at reg- ular intervals from Helsingfors or Riga two or three years back, inform- ing us, thru the capitalist press, of the murder of Trotsky by Lenin or the assassination of Lenin by Trotsky. The entire article is sprinkled with casial statements Which do no par- ticular harm, but which reveal Spol- ansky as an ignoramus, utterly unfit’ to write intelligently about the revolu- tionary movement of the working class. Russian bolshevism, he says, “dates back to 1907, when, at an international socialist congress in Germany, an up- heaval took place in the socialists’ ranks. The majority, under Lenin, de- cided upon the adoption of the prin- ciple that socialism, opposing warfare, should refuse recognition of interna- tional aspirations and agitate for a social revolution, and called them- selves the ‘bolsheviki,’ which in Rus- sian means ‘the majority.’” His History Mixed. Everybody knows that the split be- tween “bolsheviki” and “mensheviki” @ convention of the Russian Social- Democratic Labor Party. The divigion was over the questions of tactics, cen- tralization and discipline, and the sep- arate role of the proletariat in the Russian movement. mn Which explains how absurd is the Daily News statément that Spolansky is an expert on Communism and: that radicals are so afraid of him that they have many times threatened his life. Spolansky was a daily visitor at the last convention of the Wor! Party, in Chicago. He sat thru all the ses- sions, undisturbed, and of course did not understand a word of what was going on. Spolansky is insignificant. He is took place not in 1907, but in 1903, at | By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive--Seeretary, Workers Party. NE _ gains. the...impressi trom chapters four and five 6f Jaco Spolansky’s romance about the “reds” that this government spy was in China during the period of 1919-1920 in place of being in the pay of the government to get facts about the Communist movement. There are just two statements which are true in the latest instafl- ment of his stories. One is that there was a Communist party organized in 1919 and the other that the govern- |ment tried to destroy it at the end of 1919 and the beginning of 1920 thru \arresting between three or four thou- sand of its members, The rest of the story as told by Spolansky, or by the person who is writing the story for him, originated in either the imagination of the po- lice spy or his journalistic agent. Some History. Altho Spolansky testified at St. FARRINGTON 1S TRIED FOR DEAL WITH DEMOCRAT 0 By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Article Fiye.) In the preceding article Far- rington was shown peddling the influence of his office as presi- dent of the Illinois Miners’ Fed- eration, for cash, to Colonel Frank L. Smith, banker and democratic politician. . Having violated the constitution of his organization and fearing the wrath of the membership he fled to Seattle after having carefully lanned to secure an invitation ‘rom one of his cronies in that city. But the miners were not will- ing to let him get away with his corrupt and treacherous deal- ings with the democratic banker. But before I treat of the miners’ move to punish this crooked faker, I will touch on his activities in getting elected president of the Illinois Miners’ Union. Wanted More Leeway. The position of International Board member palled on Farrington. It did not allow him sufficient scope for his ambitions. There were too many re- strictions. The rich pickings of the great Illinois coal fields beckoned to jhim. The prospects of easy money (Continued on page 3) Buried Alive in Cement. KENDALVILLE,. Ind.,, Oct. 16.— Fred Haulsey, 28, was buried alive in a cement bin of the Wabash Portland Cement company at Stroh, today, when a retaining wall gave way. He was shovelling cement from a bin into a conveyor when the accident occurred. A widow survives. Bridge Collapses, least one man was killed and it is feared the bodies of others may be found in the ruins of a section of the RTHUR is crazy in the top story |important only as an example of the | steel bridge over the Ohio river which but he is only foolish like a fox. ‘He is crazy with a purpose. ‘He ‘wants to instil itist idéas into the heads of the workers; make them he- leye their cause is hopeless. But Arthur might look at Russia and echango his mind. The workers of rest of the world a in the art of achi their freedom. on will have more effect on the ¥ than the alcholic phil, stg vaporings of Brisbanener si ee Ch A in like all capitalist papers, iw to le artistically (Continued on 6.) of the (Continued on Page 6.) collapsed here today. NOTORIOUS BRITISH LABOR FAKER TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES NEW YORK, Oot. 16). Havelock Wilson, president of the International dent of the National Sailors’ and Firemens’ = ert lesson | Seafarers’ Federation pes ee and winning | Union of Great Britain Ireland, Is newly arrived in the United S| to study problems of American seamen. eration are accompanying Wilson and ites Other representatives of the Fed- will disouss marine workers’ problems with secretary of labor Davis in Washington. Wilson is interested in ex- plaining to Americans the National Maritime Board of 48 members, ship- hours, and conditions are elyad paper Whose main bus- owners’ representatives and union men, before which all questions of wages, ught. Wilson and his party will be visitors order to em-| at the American Federation of Labor convention in El Paso in November. Wilson was employed as " in the construction of the Brooklyn bridge. | +3 arith ee % . MN \ { WHEELING, W. Va., Oct. 16.—At One Grain of Truth: a Hundred Lies Joseph’ that “hé attended a six-day Communist ‘Party convention held in Smolny Hall, 1219 Blue Island Ave., from September 1 to September 6, 1919,-at- whieh the Communist Party taking “place in the Machinists’ Hall on Ashland Boulevard. He has Adolph Germer, who was’ then the secretary of the Socialist party and who was and is one of the bitterest right wing yellow socialist opponents of the Com- munists, a& secretary of the Com- munist convention! There were three conventions held in the early days’ of September, 1919. The socialist party convention from which a left wing group split away to form the Communist Labor Party and the convention of the Communist Party of America. After the conventions of September the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party function- ed separately until the raid at the to unite the two organizations. All that Spolansky tells about the Mos- cow agents which forced the two or- end of the Year when efforts began| ganizations to unit and the convention in the Forest Preserves is utter rot. No convention as described by Spol- ansky was held in the Forest Pre- serves and no representatives of the Communist International were pres-| ent at the convention which organized the United Communist Party. The whole story told by Spolansky in the third installment is a hoax. If-any one of the cub reporters of the} capitalist newSpapers which are pub- lishing these stories should write a similar story of his own imagination he would be just as near to the facts as Spolansky. The Government Red Raid. * ‘There is, however, a question which Spolansky raises which deserves fur- |ther attention. “How the government reacted to the Communist activity, everyone knows,” he writes. If everyone knew how the govern- ment reacted it would be indeed a |desirable thing. If everyone could jread the senate investigations of | Palmer's red raids in which Spolansky aided, they would get the story of the (Continued on Page 2.) On a Labor Faker’s Trail DUNNE-OPENS ILLINOIS COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN DOWNSTATE TONIGHT William F, Dunne, candidate for dis on the Commun- is first downstate tonight In West “Lithuanian Hail, in St. Louis, Moy in Unity Hall, Grand and Page boulevards, Sun- day, Oct. 19, at 8p. m. Dunnie’s complete list of dates is as follows: Friday, Oct, 17, Christopher, Op- era House, . Saturday, Oct. 18, Dowell. Sunday, Oct. 19; at 2 p. m., Gran- ite City, Labor Temple. Sunday, Oct. 19, at 8 p. m., St. Louis, Mo. Unity Hall, corner Page and Grand boulevards. Monday, Oct. 20, Belleville, Veiles’ Hall. Tuesday, Oct. 21, Collinsville, City Hall. t Wednesday, Oct. 22, Springfield. PATCH UP UNITY IN CONVENTION OF |. W. W. HERE The public sessions of the 16th general convention of the Industrial Workers of the World got under way yesterday, after three days of patching up unity between the Rowan-Bowerman- Griffith and the Doyle-Fisher groups, 3 A half session was devoted to election of committees. The work of the convention will start at nine o’clock this morn- ing with the reading of the minutes of the previous session, to be followed by the reports of committees. Tabib Is Unseated. A second delegate was unseated just before the convention opened to the public on the grounds that he was partial to the controversy. Caesar Tabib, of the General Constriction Workers’ Union, No. 310, was unseat- ed because it was alleged he helped others circulate matter attacking those I. W. W. members who had ac- wepted conditional commutation of their terms in prison. The other dele- gate who was unseated, is Mike Sap- per, mal one delegate from each faction to be denied credentials as a delegate. ~ Much comment was heard from the delegates ‘relative to the report of the convention printed in the DAILY WORKER yesterday morning. Some delegates demanded that the DAILY WORKER print only the stories given them by the I. W. W. press committee, which has just been formed, of which (Continued on Page 2.) HOLD CAPACITY FOSTER MEET AT DETROIT, MICH ist Get ant ‘esponse in (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 16.— William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Workers Party, was the attraction that packed the capacity of the House of Masses at his recent meeting. in Detroit. The Foster meeting was one of the largest and most success- ful ever held in this city. The entire audience paid twenty-five cents admission to hear Foster and in addition a collectjon of several hundred dollars was taken. Much Literature Sold. A large amount of campaign and general party literature was sold. Sev- eral new applicants for membership were received and a number of sub- scriptions to the DAILY WORKER were added to its Detroit list. The Foster meeting at Detroit was parti- cularly successful in the large num- ber of trade unionists which it attract- ed. Comrade Foster’s speech repeatedly stirred his audience to a wildly enthus- iastic response. While he ruthlessly flayed the old party candidates, Cool- idge and Davis his most detailed cas- tigation was reserved for LaFollette. Speaking of him, he said: “There is some analogy betweefi the campaign of Senator LaFollette and that of the campaign of the parties of Herriot in France and MacDonald in England.” In the present political crisis which faces the workers of America the La- Follette movement with its liberals headéd by the Wisconsin senator are the hope of the ruling industrialists and financiers. This movement and its “liberals” is attracting the atten- tion and energy of the working class away from the class struggle. All Believe in Capitalism, “In Europe the ruling industrialists and financiers are willing to turn the governments over to men like LaFol- lette, Herriot and, MacDonald. They know those men and their followers believe in the present system of pri- vate ownership but will at the same time give the ‘king class « some vague expectation of satisfactorily im- proving it.” It is expected that the high spot in the present Eastern tour of Foster will be the big meefing scieduled for him at New York City and Brooklyn. For several weeks thé New York party organization has put forth in- tensive efforts to make them the most successful\ever held in the metropo- lis. These meetings will be held at New York City, New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave., Sunday, October 19, at 2 p. m., N. Y. Arcadia Hall Sunday, October FORCES OF SUN YAT SEN UNDER RED FLAG INFLICT BIG DEFEAT ON ALLIES OF BRITISH BANKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) CANTON, China, Oct. 16.—Chinese workers, organized as a “Red Army” under the leadership of General Sun Yat Sen, have delivered a stunning defeat to the Fascisti forces under the leadership of the Chinese merchants backed by the British and United States governments, At the end of a battle that r aged thru the streets of this city, for two days, the Chinese workers completely defeated the Fas- cisti opposition. The Chinese workers fought under the Red Flag and mad¢ bayonet attacks on the enemy raising the cry of a “Soviet Re- public.”’ ‘The demoralization of backers is complete. While fleeing from the Chi- nese red soldiers, the Fascisti brigands found time to set fire to hundreds of buildings. The red forces now haye the fire under con- trol and the task of mopping up the remainder of the black shirts is pur- sued with great vigor. Chinese Attention to Detail. The story from our Canton corre- spondent is the climax of a series of incidents beginning with the ship- ment of a consignment of arms to the Canton merchants from the British bank at Hong Kong. The ship was accompainied by a British warship which forced the Sun government un- der threat of immediate hostilities to allow the Canton merchants to re- ceive the weapons. The Canton workers however seized the arms and are now using them with telling effect on the enemy. Accord- ing to other dispatches, the British and American forces are threatening protectorate over South China, the stronghold of Chinese radicalism. The arming of the Chinese workers to fight for themselves against the capitalists is an event of historic sig- nificance. It is news that sounds bad to the ears of the bourgeoisie of the} world, ie ee WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.— Two American war ships, the Sacramento and Pamtanga, have been ordered to Canton as the result of the defeat of the Fascisti by Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s troops. DAWES PLAN I BRIDGE TO NEW WORLD CONFLICT By JAY LOVESTONE (Ninth Article) The Dawes plan is a bridge to the next world war. The Dawes scheme, heralded far and wide as leading to the crossroads of peace, leads straight to a new imperialist conflict. All the commercial rivalries, all the struggles for the indus- trial and financial supremacy which gave rise to the last de- vastating catastrophe are only intensified by the Dawes pro- posals. A thick pall of gloom is already hovering over many British industries which are paralleled in Germany. The fear of a revival of German com- petition from an economically revital- ized Germany is already haunting France. Germs of New World War. Then it is obvious that the essen- tial prerequisites for the success of the Dawes proposals demand a lower- ing of the standards of living of the! German working masses. The im- mediate effect of this assault on the welfare of the working class of Ger- many will be a lowering of the stand- ards of living among the French, British, and Belgian workers. The continuation of this degrading pro- cess is bound to engulf the workers of evéry country in the world in view of the international character of capi- talist production and exchange. Finally a grave menace confronts the workers of the United States and the other countries in the rise of Am- erica as the strongest imperialist power. The investments of the ‘Yan- (Continued on Page 5.) —_ the Fascisti and their merchant DEFEAT POLICE BAN ON SPEECH IN SILK STRIKE Communists Hold Right to Address Workers (Special to the Dally Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 16. After three weeks of struggle to jestablish the right of Commun- |ists to talk to the silk strikers |in Paterson, just three weeks to a day after Chief of Police Tra- cey had closed Pirola’s ~Turn Hall ne of Communist speeches of H. M. Wicks, the hall was opened this morning and Wicks spoke before a |packed meeting of strikers wha staged a demonstration such as jhas seldom been witnessed in all the history of Paterson strikes, Hi Win Free Speech Fight. The capitulation of the police came j after a free speech fight conducted, by | the Civil Liberties Union and after |many prominent people had come to his city to establish the right of any- one to speak regardless of their pall tical affiliations, This morning Roger Baldwin and a number of his associates were here ready to carry the fight further, but it had already been won late yesterday afternoon. Chief Tracey capitulated after a | stormy conference including Tracey, |Charles Pirola, owner of Turn Hail, |Comrades Louis Stein and Wicks. | Wicks told Tracey that he was going to speak if he had to become @ reaj- dent of Paterson in order te continue the fight. Wicks further said that at he had committed any crime it was the duty of the police to arrest bhm but warned Tracey that if he arrestell him he had better make. it good in a a high court, otherwise he would be sued for false arrest. Tracey finally said he would order his men to permit the meeting and the Morning Call car. ried his statement. Await Next Move. The Evening News carried screaming headlines to the effect that Wicks would never be permitted to speak in the city of Paterson because he had betrayed the cause of the strikers into the hands of Communists under the direction of the Russian Soviet gov- ernment. It“reprinted it its entirety a mani- ico for their suppression of free speech and urging Paterson workers to vote for Foster and Gitlow. Now that Wicks is again address ing the strike meeting, strikers ‘are awaiting with interest the reaction of |the kept press that has boasted that it won a great victory by excluding Wicks from the platforms of the city, Journeymen Tailors In New York City Hold Meeting Monday NEW YORK, Oct. 16—A meeting of the Journeymen Tailors’ Union, Local No. 1, will be held Monday, Oct. 20, 8 p. m., at Maennerchor Hall, 56th street, between 2nd and 3rd avenue, New York City, Important matters are on the order of business and it is imperative that every member at tend this meeting without tail, festo issued by the Workers Party branch of Paterson assailing the pol- ,_ Wats