The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 17, 1924, Page 2

MET ae ; iY i ‘ ir ¥ tion papers contain the name of the “marker, thus enabling the owner of Page Two TEACHERS HAVE MC ANDREW ON _ THE DEFENSIVE Show Up Irregularities| in Recommendations | The teachers of Chicago have got Superintendent MoAndrew on the defensive. | They are now openly challeng- | ing McAndrew to produce evi-) dence on his statement that an/| anonymous teacher has voiced | to him the sentiments of the} teachers with regard to secret markings. | MoAndrew Falls to Appear. Twice Miss Margargt Haley, busi-| ness agent of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation, has appeared before: the | administration committee of the board | of education to thrash out this ques- tion. Twice Superintendent McAn-| firew has failed to appear. At the first | meeting Mrs. Lillian Hefferan, then In the obair, requested a few members pn the committee to phone Mr. Mc- Andrews to be present. The first part of the meeting was dragged out to give him a chance to appear. The puperintendent did not show up and James Mullenbach, member of the pommittee, suggested that they post- pone the matter until the next day, ‘Wednesday, Oct. 15, and McAndrew be Tequested to appear. The next day the meeting was called to order at 4 o’clock. Miss Haley was there, the teachers filled the seats in the rear of the hall some even stand- tng, but McAndrew failed to show up. Mr. James Mullenbach again moved that the matter be deferred until the hext meeting of the administration committee and the superintendent be informed that he is to appear at this meeting to take up the matter under discussion, secret markings. Question Up Several Months. The matter of secret markings has been before the board for several months. On June 19 of this year the Teachers’ Federation, the teachers’ ‘inion of Chicago, adopted a resolu- tion asking the board of education | to abolish the system of secret mark: | ings. They requested the board to give | the teachers the same consideration shown the engineers in their exam- inations. The engineers’ examina- the paper to get further information about his marks if he desires them. Teachers, on the other hand, have hho redress if they feel that they have been given an unfair marking. A teacher may fail to pass an examina- tion for a position of higher degree and never know why, “Can there be any better and more @fficient method of crushing the spirit of the teachers?” the militant mem- bers of the Teachers’ Federation ask. The teachers know that the effort to keep their markings secret is a direct attempt to discriminate against those who have shown opposition to the fiumerous attacks upon them by the Dusiness board of education and the tool of this béard, the superintendent ,0f schools, William McAndrew. In a report submitted by McAndrew to the board of education he said that he had received a letter from “a teacher.” And this anonymous teacher reported to him as follows: “I represent the teachers in the fed- @ration and in the councils. The teach- @f are not opposed to secret mark- ” Telling It to McAndrew. In answer the Teachers’ Federation has sent word to McAndrew that it does not conduct mysterious negotia- (tions with nameless teachers. And ‘at their regular meeting held in Sep- tember, they ordered a protest sent | to the board of education at its meet-| ‘ing of September 27. The report was} ¢ : i = $8.00 a year 1113 W. Washington Blvd. a ent McAndrew will be notified for the third time. In addition to the question of secret markings a number of matters per- taining to rules which came up at Wednesday’s meeting had to be de- ferred tor the time when Superintend- ent McAndrew will be present. These rules all contain recommendations for changes in existing rules. Miss Haley protested against the continuouschanges that are being made in the rules for promotion by efficien- cy and credit. “As the matter now stands, teachers do not know what the regulations are. The board of ex- aminers seem: to have the power to make changes.” Miss Haley said that the book of rules used by Mrs. Ella Flagg Young when she was superin- tendent contained specific rules for the board of examiners’ guidance and the teachers knew what rules were governing examinations. Mr. James Mullenbach moved that the matter be deferred until the book of rules used by Mrs. Young be gone into by the committee and upon a suggestion of Attorney Frank S. Rig- heimer, the teachers were asked to submit their objection in writing be- fore the next administration commit- tee meeting. Another change in the rules submit- ted by McAndrews was one hitting at the teachers’ pensions. Mr. I. T. Greenacre, attorney for the pension board, took the floor and proved that the new rule regarding pensions for teachers was entirely worthless as it was not legal. "The superintendent did not have the power to make any changes in the penisloti law. And the changes he suggests would only de- prive the teachers of their pensions. “Let it alone and leave it to the legis- lature” was his recommendation to the committee. The rules governing the receiving of notices by teachers did not get a hear- ing and was referred to the next ad- ministration committee meeting. This rule, under the pretense of keeping out all advertisements from the schools, is so worded that it would deprive the teachers of the right to receive any kind of notices other than those sent by the superintendent and principals. Notices of their union meetings would of course be forbid- den under the new rules. The next meeting of the administra- tion committee will undoubtedly see another large attendance of teachers. AMALGAMATED ON STRIKE; BOSSES BREAK CONTRACT (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—All workers employed in the Boys’ Shirt and Waist Workers’ Union of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, declared a general | strike yesterday. The strike was de- cided upon at a big mass meeting in ITT SSeS eee eee eee eee eee SS eee The “Reds” Exposed ‘ WHAT THEY DO ' WHAT THEY BELIEVE i Told Every Day in Their Official ““Red’”’ Paper f $ i The Daily “THE NATIONAL LABOR DAILY” ON THE NEWS STANDS—3c Or Get it at home by mail in Chicago $4.50 six months THE DAILY WORKER ST SS oh ee turned over by committee to Superin- /Cooper Union Hall, Wednesday night tendent McAndrew, and was never| The workers declare that the bosses ead at any of the meetings. |violated the contract which they had Protests of the teachers at their | signed with the union, reducing wages THE DAILY WORKER Worker $2.50 three months Chicago, Ill. Campaign Committee In New York Gets | Ready for Tag Day | NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Attention is jbeing centered on the arrangements jfor TAG DAY, Saturday and Sunday, | October 25 and 26. Many workers are |commencing to show interest. Tle outlook towards success is most prom- ising: Volunteers are already enrolling at the compaign headquarters, and the various branch stations as follows: Downtown Campaign Headquarters, 210 |Bast 12th.St. | Greek Home, 345 West 39th St. qjiiungarian Workers’ Home, 350 Bast st St. Harlem Section, 64 Hast 104th St. Bronx _ Section Headquarters, 1347 Boston Road. Russian Williamsburg Headquarters, 319 Grand Ave., Brooklyn. (Continued from page 1) real activities of the government spies of Spolansky’s type, The senate investigation shows the utter disregard for law and constitu- tion by Palmer spies and provoca- |teurs. It showed effort to plant evi- |dence. It showed thousands of illegal jarrests. It showed that the men and women arrested were treated in the most brutal and inhuman manner by |Palmer’s red spies of the Spolansky type. q Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, who was compelled to handle most of the deportation cases arising .out.| of the Palmer raids, has written a book telling the truth about Spolan@ ky and his kind. It shows conclusive- ly that the raid on the Communist Party was an effort to destroy an or- ganization which, because of its pro- paganda, threatened the class rule, the class privileges of exploitaticn of |the capitalists of the United States jand that the government violated its own constitution a thousand times in jcarrying out this raid. | Not one person arrested in the | Palmer. red raid was accused of an act of violence. No Communist in the United States has ever been charge, or indicted for an act of violence) What the government tried to do i 1919 was to destroy an organization | because its members believed that his- |tory showed the correctness of a cer- tain viewpoint in regard to the out- come of clashing social forces. In spite of all the illegality and violence, the terrorism and third degree methods employed by govern- ment agents in 1919 in the arrests of the three or four thousand mem- bers of the Communist Party, the re- sult showed that even by these methods the government was unable to make a case against the Com- munists. Out of the three thousand five hundred arrested, not even 500 were ultimately deported. That is the strongest indictment against the Spol- jankys and the higher-ups who en- gineered the raid against the Com: munists. » The Communists and Strikes. We are told by Spolansky that the reason for the government attack was | becauge the Communists were respon- THE TRUTH IS LOST AMONG LIES istration committee which will meet mass meeting at the Studebaker thea-|and establishing non-union conditions ter brot the superintendent's alibi that the teachers’ communication ar- ried at five minutes of two and couldn’t be put thru at that board meeting. Eventually the letter got before the board, and was referred *\to the school administration commit tee, which was scheduled to meet on Thursday, Oct. 9, but failed to get a quorum. in the shop. |sible for the great strike of 1919. The Amalgamated struck for the| According to this iculous story, old conditions and an additional in-|/the Communists brought about the crease in wages, registration of all) strike of the half-million steel work- contractors, and guarantee that union |ers, the strike of the 500,000 miners rules will be maintained in the shop. The workers answered the strike call 100 per cent, not a member of the union working yesterday. They de- \clare they will remain out on strike jand the threat of a strike of the rail- road workers, all of which is part of |the history of 1919. The Communists would be glad to claim credit for initiating these strug- The matter is now to come up be- | until union conditions again prevail.|gles of the workers for a higher fore the next meeting of the admin- some day next week (day will be re-| ported in the DAILY WORKER wd soon as it is known) and Superintend- meets at tonight at 8 p. m. AREA BRANCH No. 1 180 WEST WASHINGTON ST. The bosses have been trying to take advantage of the ecohomic depression to smash the union, but the workers declare they will emerge from the strike stronger than ever. AREA BRANCH meets at i ALL. LEAGUE’ MEMBERS, ATTEND! : 722 BLUE ISLAND AVENUE tonight at 8 p. m. standard of life, if it were true that the honor of having done so belonged to thém. & Of cOurse, anyon@ who thinks at all knows that the strikes of 1919 had a No. 2 Ahr ore AREA BRANCH No. 3 meets at 3142 SO. HALSTED STREET tonight at 8 p. m. YOWLS WILL HOLD REED MEMORIAL TOMORROW NIGHT Comrades Pay Tribute to Fearless Leader Tomorrow is John Reed Memorial Day and the Young Workers’ League invites you to come to its annual memorial meeting at Douglas Park Auditorium, 3202 Ogden Ave., (Kedzie and Ogden). The meeting which will be called for 8 in the evening has an interesting program in which is in- cluded speeches by J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, Alex- ander Bittelman, editor of the DAILY WORKER magazine, and Max Shacht- man, editor of the Young Worker. The Freiheit Singing Society will sing revolutionary songs in which the audi- ence will join. Come and swell the ranks of com- rades who will pay tribute to the memory of our beloved Comrade John Reed. Always fearless, taking up the battle against the enemies of the working class, this revolutionary lead- er gave his lite for Communism. The meeting starts at 8 o'clock sharp and tickets are 25 cents. Miners Hunt Girl’s Assallants. DUQUOIN, Ill, Oct. 16.—Posses of enraged miners were searching Perry county today for two swarthy men who late yesterday seriously wounded Margaret McGuire, 15-year-old daugh- ter of Ralph McGuire, on a farm’ near here when she successfully resisted an attempt to asault her. WORKERS PARTY—LOCAL CHICAGO Branch Meetings Friday, October 17. Ukrainian No. 2, hse pi ae co e-sie 1 Society, 10701 | 8! enson Ave. : Polish North Side, 1902 W. Division St. Lithuanian No. 5, 3142 8S. Halsted St. Greek Branch, 722 Blue Island Ave. different origin. been making © government had A new and better life was to be the sequel of the war. The workers were to have a greater share of the prod- ucts of industry. They were to have @ greater share in the management of industry. It was propaganda of this kind thru which the government and the capitalists tricked the workers in- to giving their support to the war. ‘When the war was over this illusion was destroyed. In place of sharing in a better life, the workers found that, they weré to pay..the» sihe de} struction wrought by the war. Th found that the capitalists who had amassed great wealth for themselves by looting the government, now in- tended that the workers should” pay in a lower standard of life for the losses resulting from the destruction of wealth during the war. The strikes of 1919 were the result of the resist- ance of the workers to this program of the capitalist bosses and the workers’ attempt to realize something of the glittering promises that had been made to them in order to trick them into the war. f The Communist Party. It is true that the Communists play ed their part in the strikes. The Com- munists play their part in every strug- gle of the workers. When the work- ers fight to secure a higher standard of life the Comunists are in the fore- front of the struggle fighting with them. The Communists have no other Purpose than to stand side by side with the workers in their fight against their exploiters and oppressors and to lead and march with them until the struggle against the capitalist system is won. That was their part in the 1919 strikes and that is their part to- day.“ % The Communists March On. “But the raids did not halt the Communist movement,” ¢onfesses Spolansky. No, they did not halt the Communist movement. It is not with- in the power of the Palmers and the Spolanskys to halt the Communist movement. “Communism” is the answer which cries out to the workers in response to the experiences of their lives as wage slaves under the capitalist sys- tem. The hardships, the misery, the suffering, the scanty lives the workers live under the capitali system can be altered by only one method. The workers mist organize their strength. They must unite as a class té fight against their class enemy, the capital- ists. Thru their daily experiences the workers are being forced into the class struggle against the capitalists. The end of that struggle is Commun- ism. The Communist movement can- not be destroyed because it is the workers’ struggle that compels them to take the road toward Communism. | T0- NIGHT! FIRST MEETINGS OF THE WORKING AREA BRANCHES OF THE YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE ' AREA BRANCH No. 4 meets at 3322 DOUGLAS BOULKVARD tonight at 8 p. m. rene pane come me wee pe at \ They Label the Effort to Abolish Slavery of Children as Bolshevist b By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TOA: we find two issues among others being pressed to the front in the election campaign. The proposed anti- child labor amendment to the constitution and the abolition of the supreme court v€to of congressional legislation have both aroused the fury of the vested interests. Both of these issues are hailed as importations from Soviet Russia, as “Bolshevist” and “Communist.” * * * * The Roman hierarchy joins the olig&rchy of great wealth in an effort to show that the Communists are trying to “break up the home” thru taking the children out of the factories, the mills and the workshops. To deprive the black-robed judges of the U. S. supreme court the right to rule the country, instead of congress, is hailed as an attempt to blow up the constitution, and shatter the “American form of government,” claimed as “the best upon earth.” * * e e It is true that in Soviet Russia there is no judicial clique to over-rule the decisions of the All-Russian Soviet. It is true that in Soviet Russia children are sent into the schools instead of into industry. But this has been achieved, not by tinkering with the czarist regime that went before, but by abolishing the rule of the bankers, the landlords and the great industrialists, and by establishing Workers’ Rule in its place. * * * * While Communists heartily join in the fight to restrict child labor, nevertheless, they do not believe that children will ever have a chance under capitalism. : It is the worst form of hypocrisy for Catholic church- men and politicians ‘to claim that fathers and mothers, not congress, should have the right to say whether their children should go into industry. They know that it is the lash of necessity that makes wage workers of children. This is an echo of the age-old war between the church and the state, showing how Rome sacrifices even the children in its effort to maintain its own power. ‘ It may happen that the vetogower of Taft's court may be abolished, but the Fascist rule of big business in congress will remain in power, just the same. The blow to its high court will not even stagger capitalism. ‘ * * * * There is no ry ted court to hamper capitalism’s par- liamentary rule in Western Europe. Yet Mussolini maintains his bloody sway equally well without it. Herrjot, in France, Ebert, in Germany, and MacDonald, in England, help main- tain the dictatorship of capitalism in their respective lands,® without the aid of a supreme court. Horthy established his murderous rule in Hungary without the aid of a black-shirted judicial Fascisti. .% mi A aii a | Wo MESS oe ire 6 5 Se Morgan would rule the United States just as effectively, with results equally beneficial to himself, even tho LaFollette should be able to place the most extreme restrictions upon its judicial pet. The supreme court would still remain a cap- italist court, dedicated to the protection of property rights instead of human rights. The fight that is being made for the Supreme Court, however, shows how bitterly capitalism will contest the at- tack upon even the least of its privileges. * * * * D. H. Barger, president of the Virginia Farm Bureau, is the latest capitalist lackey to have his utterances exploited against the anti-child labor amendment. He loudly proclaims opposition to “Bolshevism, Communism and Sovietism in any and every form. The proposed amendment. (anti-child labor amendement) if ratified by the states, would land us in that chaotic condition and Russia would have gained her point thru America’s reds and opponents to our republican form of government.” * * * * This is only one of four reasons given by Barger-to his attack on the anti-child labor amendement in a letter te Frank G. Louthan, secretary of the Virginia Manufacturers’ Association, who has had the correspondence published in the Manufacturers’ Record, for Oct. 9, This is in the state of Thomas Jefferson, whom LaFollette so loudly acclaims. Barger’s clinching argument is that, “I am now 67 years old, stand six feet five inches, weigh 245 pounds, and am in perfect health. | inherited ery when born, and worked as a child, youth and man. Today | am considered a man of more than ordinary means; hence | wish to leave to posterity the same chance that | enjoyed under our splendid form of overnment.” * * * ° Barger's stuff might prove more convincing if he had submitted to a mental test administered by an alienist, and showed some favorable reactions, instead of giving us the Fy abondend of his physical make-up. The biggest hulk of a ody may carry the puniest brain, anid Barger confesses him- self, thru his arguments, exceedingly stunted from the ears up. He reminds us of the cartoonist’s conception of the American ideal of a human being—all body and no head. * ” Capitalism’s ambition is the continuous reproduction of new generations of human work horses, ommunism's ideal is the development of human beings, with minds and bodies liberated from the shackles of past traditions, customs and institutions, freed from capitalism. There is a clash between these two social orders, The one is the deadly enemy of the other. There can be no com- romise. The one must go to make room for the other. Cap- italism dies with the birth of the Communist era. With cap- italism, and only then, dies its institutions, the tyranny of the courts, child slavery, and all those other tentacles thru which it holds the toiling masses in subjection. ‘ AREA BRANCH No. 5 meets at 947 WEST GRAND AVENUE tonight at 8 p. m. oe oe a ' / .| this season. a ERRNO te 4 me le AMEN “i a (Friday, October 17, 1924 Patch Up Unity in Convention Here of Two I.W.W. Elements (Continued from page 1) fellow worker Delaney is a member. Some objected to the statement that the “sixteen demands of the Rowan Bowerman group were lengthy and varied.” They declared “demands” to be too harsh a word, and that “mild suggestions” would have been much better. -Others objected to the print- ing in the DAILY WORKER of re- « marks made by Tom Doyle to the DAILY WORKER declaring the dele gates who had held out at 180 W. Washington St., had come to the con- vention to filibuster. They declared that this statement must be corrected @ once, as it is not true. Press Committee Is Silent, The press committee had no state- ment of any kind to give the DAILY WORKER, Delaney declaring that his reports to the press must first be ap- proved by the convention. The DAILY WORKER will be glad to print any communication coming from the I. W. W. members which they they believe will be of interest or profit to the working class. The DAILY WORKER cannot however, be, responsible for the declarations of op: posing officials of the I. W. W., nor can it print only the news which cer- tain delegates of the I. W. W. wish _ printed. Wobblies Read DAILY WORKER. Thousands of members of the I. W. W. thruout the country look to the DAILY WORKER as the only source of information as to what is trans- piring from day to day in the I. W. W. deliberations. Many of them have written this office commending us for printing all the obtainable facts. The Position of the Workers Party on the I. W. W. faction fights was given in yesterday’s leading. editorial, The DAILY WORKER will continue to take this position in spite of the dif- ficulty in obtaining news owing to the veil of secrecy which the I. W. W. has so far thrown over its delibera- tions. \ I. W. W. LEADERS? ‘OR many years the I. W. W. of | the old days had no foolteh no- tions against its own self-developed proletarian, leaders. It did, of course, with complete Justification, attack the corrupt labor fakers and yellow reformist Iéaders of the sociallets. But the stratum of sincere, fighting leadership, necessary to efficient conduct of the struggle, was accept- ed as a matter of course. Of late years, however, an almost steady campaign has been waged against the theory of leadership. Rules are made compelli to retire! almost as soon as they become con- versant with the routine of their office. Continuity of policy Is im- possible, and ability to forward the intere: of the organization is be- come ground for suspicion. How this has led the lL. W.. W.. In- to bad leadership rather than none at all, and how the whole theory of “down with leaders” Is Illustrated by current editorial polley of an I. W. W. paper, is explained in a bril- liant polemical article; “A ‘New Vo- lapuker as I. W. W.~* Editor” by Harrison George, to be published In tomorrow’s DAILY WORKER, Workers Party Starts Sunday Open Forum at Ashland Auditorium The Educational Committee of the Workers Party of Chicago has plan- ned a well-rounded program of activi- ties for the next few months. There are three study classes now going on. But while these are important, one of the popular methods of education, open to everybody who cares to come, is the OPEN FORUM. The OPEN FORUM is to start next Sunday night at 8 p, m., at the Lodge Room in the Ashland Auditorium. The forum will be opened by C. B. Ruthen- berg, executive secretary of the Work- ers Party with a lecture on “Political Forces in the Blection.” Questions and discussion will follow. A great number of the most prom inent speakers of the American labo. movement are scheduled to appear on the platform of the OPEN FORUM Every Sunday night a lecture. While next Sunday is ex. pected to draw a crowd to hear C. B, Ruthenberg, the throng probably will grow steadily. On the Sunday follow- ing Oct. 26, J. Louis Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER will speak on “Wall Street and Us.” ‘PITTSBURGH, PA, # DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering &x ing ‘one ee vaztatel Service LG SBREERIPLD BT Near 1th Aye. TO-NIGHT! | AREA BRANCH No. 6 meets at 2613 HIRSCH BOULEVARD tonight at 8 p. m. _ YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, LOCAL CHICAGO ll s ~—— Py