The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 18, 1924, Page 2

<! ~ REMOVEG.E.B. IS | POLICE PROTECT THE DAILY NEWS INSTRUCTION 10 ALW.W. DELEGATES lof Want N ew Deal in Drive| to Settle Controversy | Many of the delegates to the ineral convention of the In-| lustrial Workers of the World, | nowmeeting in Emmet Memorial Hall, have been instructed by| their industrial unions to res move all members of the pre- sent general executive board of the organization and elect a néw temporary G. E. B. until the controversy within the or- ganization is settled. This was revealed in yester-| day’s session. Effort to Release Delegates. Joe Jordan, of I. U. 110, tried to have the delegates released from their in- structions on all matters pertaining to grievances, which included the fao- tional controversy. The chair ruled this motion out of order on the grounds that the delegates had no right to remove the instructions, The chair, however, was not sustained af- ter an appeal. Jordan’s motion that instructions on matters of grievances be removed was lost. Debate on Jordan’s motion develop- ed that IL U. 440 instructed delegates to demand an itemized fianancial statement of expenditures of the gen- eral executive board of the I. W. W. Delegates for I. U. 120 were instruct- ed to vote to remove the present gen- eral executive board from office and slect a temporary G. E. B. until the con- troversy between the two I. W. W. fac- tions can be thrashed out. Delegates representing I. U. 210 and 220 were also instructed to see that Officials belonging to both factions were temporarily removed from office and a temporary G. E. B. elected. The convention, thru the press com- mittee, issued a statement declaring that “Tom Doyle claims he gave no interview to any reporters on this converition,” and stating in part: “We wish to inform the public in general, that there is no antagonism among the delegates relative to this controversy. The convention is going on in a very orderly manner and is impartial. “Neither Doyle, Fisher, nor the ex- goutive board members have been or will be shown any partiality. “Nor is there any hard feeling among , the delegates. We wish to emphatic- ally deny the allegation that the dele- gates who had come to the Memorial Hall from the Washington street hall, had come to ‘filibuster, make trouble and delay proceedings.’ “The delegates from all industrial unions, that are present have agreed on their respective voting power and have also set the voting power which will be granted to the other industrial | unions*which have no delegates pres- ent, as yet. “The conventon has gone into per- Manent session and all committees necessary have been elected. Sessions will be held daily in the Emmet Mem- orial Hall, except Sundays. The pub- lic in general will be allowed to sit thru the entire convention.” After prolonged debate, the rules of the convention were adopted. includ- ing the rule that two delegates repre- senting different industrial unions are required to get a roll call or record vote before it will be taken. Workers’ Hotel Ready. TUCSON, Ariz.—A clean room and /a job is awaiting the migratory work- “er that chooses this city for his winter abode. The city jail has been reno- vated even to the extent of washing the blankets, and sufficient vacancies (Continued from page 1) gan, of the Thiel Detective Service Co, The Thiel agency, with Chicago headquarters at 53 W. Jackson Blvd., is almost as large as Burns. It is one the three outstanding agencies (Burns, Thiel and Sherman) who make a practice of furnishing labor spies to large corporations. It also maintains an army of armed guards, gunmen and professional strikebreak- ers. The usefulness of such a law was discussed many times in the Thiel headquarters, and in the offices of clients. The matter was taken up with individual members of the state legislature. One day, Mike Flana- gan set off for Springfield with $40,- 000 in his pocket. Shortly afterwards the law was passed. Under the White Terror. The so-called “red raids” marked a period of governmental terrorism un- paralleled in American history. They were conceived by Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer and the group of labor-baiting plutocrats who owned him. ‘The ground was carefully pre- pared. In early May, 1919, the newspapers blazed with accounts of sixteen ex- Plosive packages which were inter- cepted in the post office at New York. A number of other bombs had been sent thru the mails at that time, and one of them had actually exploded, in the house of ex-Senator Hardwick of Georgia. The whole thing was at once proclaimed by the police to be “a gigantic conspiracy by an organized gang.” A hue and cry was raised, with every now and again a police assurance to reporters that “the net tightens” or “the lightning is about to strike.” The Public Got Weary. But so much tightening of nets and no fish, and so much thunder with no lightning, made the public weary. The sensation had not been dramatic enough in its staging for a lasting scare; and the futile detective tactics hurried it on to an anti-climax. Hardly had the “May Terror” sub- sided when newspaper readers were terrorized anew by the so-called June bombardments, reports coming from no less than seven cities of bombing assaults upon the homes of prominent capitalists. A bomb was exploded at Attorney-General Palmer's home at Washington, damaging the front porch. Then a fresh horror was sight- ed in the offing. The “radicals” who were responsible for the June ex- Dlosions and the May postal pack- ages were discovered by the gumshoe men to be “launching” a campaign of terrorism to begin on the approaching Fourth of July. But, alas, the cam- paign was never heard of ‘more. And nobody was arrested for any of the other “outrages.” The lack of real “leads” in these cases is remarkable — remarkable enough to be significant. How was it possible for so gigantic a conspir- Communist Open Air Meetings in Chicago Saturday, Oct. 18. North avenue and Orchard, auspices Hungarian branch. Speakers, D. E. Earley and others. 30th and State, auspices South Side English branch. Speakers, Gordon Owens and others. Roosevelt and St. Louis, auspices Y. W. L. Area branch No. 4. Speak- ers, Karl Reeve and others. Division and Washtenaw, auspices North West Jewish branch. Speakers, George Maurer and others. Monday, Oct. 20, Madison and Green, auspices Mid- City branch. Good speakers. Tuesday, Oct, 21. Wilton and Bglmont, auspices North Side English branch. Good speakers. 14th and 49th court, auspices Cicero branches. Good speakers, ‘are reported on the chain gang to assure employment to all comers. Vote Communist This Time! Stir the The very best place to carry on facing the working class. fighter for the middle class. ‘be added to that. possible to place toriés. Sell them everywhere. LaFollette, by Jay Lovestone. By Alexander Bittelman. Ques! | Unemployment— ers today. | 1118 Washington Bivd. al shops and factories where the workers gather to earn their living, It is there that minds are open to the measures, parties and candidates that stand for concrete solutions of the problems of bread and butter It is in the shops that agg baw will see st clearly, for example, the difference between Foster, the union Dopaniser and fighter for the workers, and LaFollette, the lawyer and (Editorial seg bbs eink is HE ABOVE “HITS THE NAIL” on the head. ‘o' ig cou! i It’s up to you reader, to do everything physically THESE PAMPHLETS f the workers you work together with in shops and fac- fata Seles Now is the time. The LaFollette Illusion— As revealed in an Analysis of the Political Role of Senator Parties and Issues in the Election Campaign— ferent parties view the conditions affecting the working class, It's a gem. No worker should go to the polls this year without first reading this pamphlet. ......cvsssssessssessssessserseerseeesneenners Why It Occurs and How to Fight It, by Barl R. Browdor. pamphlet deals with the most important In lots of 5 or more at 35 per cent discount. LITERATURE DEPARTMENT Workers Party of America Shops! a working class campaign is in the Single COPY ssrsesseecssssserersersaserseereereee 100 tions and answers, how the dif- 100 This sue before the work- @ your orders at once, Chicago, Ill, acy of plotters to have escaped de- tection when most of the detective agencies of the country, public and private, regardless of expense and frequently of lawful methods, were pursuing the perpetrators with tire less zeal? There is nothing compar- able to this enigma except the fruit- less efforts of the detectives to fix the responsibility for the death-dealing ex- plosion in Wall street, New York, which occurred at mid-day more than a year after the episodes of May and June, 1919, Quite significant too is the attention given by Mr, Palmer’s “general intel- ligence division” to the steel strike and the coal strike of 1919—a signifi- cance which is emphasized by a state- ment in Palmer’s official report for 1920, in which he explains his arrests of agitators and declaring that “altho their offenses were not crimes, they were responsible for a considerable amount of the industrial and economic unrest.” 10,000 Workers Arrested. Then followed the “red raids,” in which over 10,000 workers were ar- rested, thousands of them jailed, and thousands more deported. Raiding was carried on with extreme brutality, and disregard of law. In Chicago, the prosecutions were in charge of former State’s Attorney Maclay Hoyne, the same man who is now charged with attempted blackmail in the Freeman Coal Mining Co. case. The observant Spolansky writes naively in the Chicago Daily News that the “red raids” failed somehow to halt the Communist movement. He has yet to learn that the movement cannot be stopped by raids, however, humerous and ruthlessly carried out. The Communists are the advance guard of the working class in its daily struggles with the bosses, and in its final struggle for the overthrow of capitalism, And the working class movement cannot be stamped out by arresting individuals on ridiculous trumped-up charges of conspiracy. Arrests Did Not Stop. At the time of the 1920 raids the Labor Defense Council was not yet in existence, but it has had occasion to go thoroly into the frame-up methods on which they depended. Arrests of working class leaders did not stop in 1920. In the summer of 1922, came the brutal arrests at Bridgeman, Michigan. Only Commu- nists were involved in the Michigan cases, but prominent non-Communists, such as Eugene V. Debs, Roger Bald- win and Rey. John Haynes Holmes ral- lied to their defense. And so the Labor Defense Council was formed, with of- fices at 166 W. Washington St., Chi- cago. That was the starting point from which the present greatly ex- tended activities of the Labor Defense Council have developed. The council is now the official defense organiza- tion for members of the Workers Party and is collecting funds to be used in cases in all parts of the country, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) and billions of dollars worth of wealth. But the Red army puts up a powerful argument. see H. THOMAS, labor party colonial "secretary for His Majesty's Brit- ish socialist government, continues to bluster against Turkey. In the mean- time Kemal is passing the word along to the natives of Mesopotamia that the British Empire is getting winded and cannot stay very much longer in the race. He suggests that sharp bayonets prodding old John Bull in the rear may quicken his pace tem- porarily, only to bring on death from overexertion, Oe ERE are 253,000 Hindoo revolu- tionists in prison under the regime of the pacifist Ramsay MacDonald. Ramsay was once looked upon as a friend of India. He is a friend of the Indian jailers. But the Hindoo people, the exploited workers and peasants, now know what kind of a traitor the hypocritical Bible pounder MacDonald is. But there are over 300,000,000 peo- ple in India and MacDonald cannot find prisons for all of them, nor even enough cannons to shoot them, I LITTLE to the north we find the British Empire, under a so-called socialist government, at its old tricks. It is trying to overthrow the revolu- tionary government of South China, which is under the presidency of a real revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Sun sent a couple of hot telegrams to Macdonald. He pointed out that while the British premier took a special trip to Geneva to plead for the Georgian counter - revolutionists before the League of Nations, he ordered the British warships to make hostile dem- onstrations before Canton and threat- en to overthrow the South China Re- public, ee © ‘HE name of the ZR-3 has been changed to Los Angeles. This is an indication of the peace character of the new airship. But Japan will not take that point of view. Los Angeles is nearer Japan than Ply- mouth, Vt. The ship could be re- christened “Silent Cal,’. for instance. He is also lighter than air, THE DAILY WORKER LEADERS BETRAY HARPER SCHOOL PARENTS’ STRIKE Portables Not Solution to Our Problem With the assistance and in co-op eration® with the treacherous leaders of the Harper school strike, the board of education succeeded in putting over on the striking parents one of the trickiest and dirtiest of deals. The culmination to the betrayal of their leaders, William F. Peak, president of the West Englewood Lions Club, Frank McGarr, president of the Busi- ness Men’s Club and E. F. O'Rourke, who the strikers charge went into this strike with the express purpose of breaking it, came at the end of an eight-week fight, Over 500 parents, with their chil- dren, some mothers carrying babies in their arms, crowded into the base- ment of the Thoburn Methodist church gt 64th and Paulina streets. They were there to hear the report of their leaders who had been negotiating with the mayor and the board of education They demanded the reinstatement of the children of the 4th, 5th and 6th grades into the classes from which they were ousted. Crooked Leaders Hate Foster. Peak was in the chair. He distrib- uted ballots signed by, Morgan G. Hogge, assistant superintendent of schools, giving the only alternative to that of sending the children to distant Schools, to agree on part time classes in portables put up on the Harper school grounds. The trick worked. The parents vot- ed to accept the portables with only one courageous dissenting voice. Hogge was expeced to address the meeting but as one of the parents put it, “Why should he come? He knew O'Rourke and Peak would do the dirty Job for him.” At the close of the meeting, the DAILY WORKER reporter handed out copies of the paper to the parents while Peak, notorious for breaking up Young Workers League meeting: in West Englewood, shouted at thc top of his voice that the paper was a “Foster” paper, and the parents should not read it. But their trust in him ended at the meeting and.thi: remark only brot the parents close: to the reporter. Mothers Talk to DAILY WORKER. With an expression in their eye: which told the story of their disar pointment they led the reporter to th grounds of the Harper school at 65t and Ogden and then they opened up. “Shame on them. They fooled us They went into this fight to help the board against us. We should have Picketed the school like men do on strike instead of sitting at home and waiting.” The reporter learned that Peak har no children. McGarr sends his chil dren to a private school. O’Rourke during this fight took his children out of a private school and sent them to the Harper sehool, but they are back again in their private school. Parents Against Portables. The parents are signing petitions distributed by property owners in the neighborhood to have the portables taken down. They are signing these petitions because the children have been deprived of their playgrounds, they explained. The school certainly does present a disgraceful sight. Rows and rows of little shacks and not a foot of space to walk around in. he junior high school students in addition to the Ist to 6th grade children make the con- gestion even greater. The only pos- sible space for the children to stand around in while waiting for classes to begin is the middle of the road, Mr. C. F. Doyle of the Civic League of West Englewood said the matter would come up for consideration at the next meeting of the league at which time it will be decided to reor- ganize the fight with other leaders in charge. Workers Party Stays on Indiana Ballot (Continued from page 1) keep the Workers Party off the ballot However, this time even the injunc- tion method failed. The party repre- sentatives in Indianapolis appeared before the board and demanded a re- hearing which was granted. This re- hearing could not ignore the one thou- sand signatures and the board ruled that the Workers Party candidates for presidential electors be placed on the ballot. y There is a striking similarity in this action of the avowed reactionary politicians in the state of Indiana and the self-styled progressive LaFollette politicians in control of the Wisconsin administration. Both fear the entry of the Communist candidates armed with a program of proposed practical measures for the immediate needs of, the workers and armed with a pro- gram which presents the only solution for the labor prablem—the proletarian revolution. No matter how much these two sets of politicians may de- nounce one another they will readily unite against the force which organiz es the working class for the proleta» ian revolution—the Communist Party, They will just as readily unite to de feat every measure the working class may strive for, Dy se a The Cause He Died for Shall Live, Pledge of| ON CONVICTION Red Youth to John Reed|| OF RUTHENBERG By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. pe, Topay, our comfades of the social revolution in Moscow will be putting flowers on the grave of John Reed beside the walls of the Kremlin. In the United States the revolu- tionary youth of this country, in many memorial meetings, will recount his services in the struggle against capitalist oppression. ‘ For today is the anniversary of the death of the young American revolutionist, John Reed, who died at his revolu- tionary post, in Moscow, October 17, 1920, when his work had hardly begun. * . * It is very fitting that the John Reed Memorial Meetings should be held by the Young Workers (Communist) League. Our comrade, to the last, until the strangling grip of the dread typhus took life from him, was the personification of the restless spirit and fearless daring of revolutionary youth. Down thru the years John Reed will continue to be a growing inspiration to youth enlisted under the standards of America’s Bolshevik revolution. The pledge uttered by Max Eastman, at a John Reed Memorial Meeting, held in New York City, Oct. 25, 1920, will find expression from new myriads of lips with the passing of the ge “OUR TRIBUTE TO JOHN REED IS A PLEDGE THAT THE CAUSE HE DIED FOR SHALL LIVE.” * * John Reed was a literary genius. He could have been the pampered pet of the “best publishers.” He was a journalist of rare ability. But instead of occypying an editorial chair, comfortable and remunerative, on some “Brass Check” daily, John Reed helped edit the poor and hunted publications of the revolutionary wing of America’s working class. J . J ° It is Robert Minor who tells best how Jack, “one of the most brilliant students at Harvard University, the object of pedagogic and bourgeois adulation, disdained the praise and allurements of capitalist culture. “He was too sincere, too great an artist to commer- cialize his talent or to pander to popular dictums,” is the tribute of one great Communist artist to another, of Robert Minor to John Reed. “Even those high priests of capitalist attainment, Theo- dore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were attracted to Jack Reed by his extraordinary talent and personal charm,” says Minor. “Both endeavored to bring him to conformity, but failed. Jack was not a whit dazzled by the strong personal- ity of Roosevelt, or the mellifluous phrases of Wilson, ap- prehending the. egotistic demagogy of the former (actually refusing to associate with him) and the sophistic idealism of the latter.” Thus, instead of another Jack London, prostituting his talents to the sordid purposes of Hearst’s demands for sex stories for his magazines, we have the immortal John Reed, author of a book that will never die, his “Ten Days That. Shook the World.” - John Reed struggled with the same zeal and ardor to revolutionize American labor that he showed in helping the Russian workers and peasants to maintain the fruits of their victory. ie the stormy days of 1919, within the socialist party, he was conspicuous in his zealous endeavor to crystallize ail revolutionary elements ‘into the Communist movement. He had his convictions and he fought for them. It was while returning from Moscow, where he had gone to present the osition of the Communist Labor Party to the Communist nternational, that he was arrested and imprisoned by the White Terror in Finland. Those were days when the block- ade of the world imperialists surrounded Soviet Russia like an impenetrable wall. Hunger and disease were claiming many victims in the.Workers’ Republic when John Reed re- turned there in. 1920. Counter-revolutionary movements, supported by the imperialists of the “cordon sanitaire,” were ounding away at the Soviet Rule on many fronts. John Reed took his place with the defenders of revolution. ‘Half starved and undernourished he worked endless hours until struck down by the typhus. He was buried with the highest Communist honors. . ° * e John Reed is dead but his memory freshens with the passage of the years. He lives in the new efforts of greater numbers inspired by his valiant deeds for the revolution. Standing shoulder to shoulder the ranks of American revolu- tionists grow, “that the cause he died for shall live.” BAZAAR WORK IN FULL SWING Chicago Comrades Out to Strengthen Their Press and Defense ITH six weeks to go before the Big Bazaar for the DAILY WORKER and Labor Defense Council starts, the City Bazaar Conference will meet Saturday afternoon to take stock of the work done so far, to lay out further plans for an intensive drive for the collection of goods and articles of all sorts and the sale of tickets, and to decide on the best possible enter- fellow workers, stores, shops, markets, etc. Make a big drive to sell all the five thousand tickets; anyone can dis- pose of one small package of sixteen tickets. Boost for more power to the DAILY WORKER and Labor De- fense.” tainment and attractions. All delegates, from party branches and sympathetic organizations, are to meet together at the Greek Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., at 3 p. m., Satur- day, Oct, 18. si se Ad ery from each language section as to w! talent they will provide for entertain- CHICAGO WORKERS ment and to add color to the festivi- ties.- Ten or twelve features are al- PAY TRIBUTE 10 THE ready arranged for—choruses, orches- tras, dancers, gymnasts, special booths, MEMORY OF REED etc.—and, of course, <lag ceaeitend + Day banquet (a la Latvia) e man- al iq agement committee warns that those Feber oho ait ty Ln nad who, dont get pels basiquy’ “seats less fighter for Communism, until early will be out of luck, as the num the moment when he met his early ber 1s very limited, death in Russia on October 17, 1920, The Czecho-Slovak Women’s branch-| Hundreds of comrades will gather es will run a feature booth of thir own, is Park Auditorium, 3202 Already these women comrades are enue (Kedzie and Ogden), going from hous to house and store to store collecting goods and selling tickets, All-branches with the will to help will follow their example. Comrade “Steve” Rubicki of the Bazaar Executive urges every branch and member to; ‘Get the five hundred donation sheets that have been given out, FILL- QD UP. Ask everybody—neighbors, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorlum, LAWYERS ARGUE Ce one a | Walsh and Ferguson in | Court for Communist (Special to The Dally Worker) LANSING, Mich., Oct. 17.— The supreme court of Michigan today heard arguments for re- versal of the conviction of C. E. Ruthenberg, executive. secreta- ry of the Workers Party, for | “assembling with” the Com- | munist Party at the Bridgeman convention in 1922, Attorney Frank P. Walsh opened the hearing with a statement of the facts in re- gard to the case, showing that there was no. evidence submit- ted that the Communist Party had at the Bridgeman conven- tion made any advocacy in vio- lation of the crimina) syndicalist law of the state of Michigan and that the said case was based upon the as- sumption that the mere assembling of an organization which elsewhere had adopted a statement of principles construed to be in violation of the criminal syndicalist law in the state of Michigan was a crime and that’a person assembling with such an or- ganization could be convicted of a crime. \ Judges Ask Questions. The statement of the facts in the case by Walsh brought a flood of ques- tions from the judges, who- seem particularly interested in the fact that literature and documents which the prosecution claims were found in a barrel buried on the grounds where the convention was held has been used as evidence against Ruthen- berg. It was one of the contentions of the defense that this “evidence” was in- admissible and that the trial judge, Charles E, White, erred in permitting the prosecution to read from “The A B C of Communism” and the pro- gram of the Communists, particularly to read sections dealing with religion during the process of the trial. Aassistant Attorney General O, L. Smith followed Walsh. His method was the same as during the trial at St. Joseph, depending upon vitupera- |tion against the Communists in place of argument to meet the legal points | ‘of the defense. = Under the questioning of the judges Smith finally was forced into a corner and admitted “if there is no evidence to show that the Communist ad- vocated doctrines in violation of the criminal syndicalist law at the Bridge- man convention, then we are out of court.” Attorney I. EB. Ferguson replied to Smith for the defense. He declared, “There is nothing in this record to show that the Commun- ist Party advocated ideas in violation of the criminal syndicalist law in the state of Michigan. | “If Mr. Smith admits that he is out of court, if there is no proof of ad- vocacy in Berrien county and the state of Michigan, then thts court can- not do otherwise than to. reverse the judgment of the trial court, “For, in instructing the jury, the trial judge, Charles BE, White, said the following: “In order to convict this respondent it is not necessary that the jury should find that the Communist Party of America, that is the group or society which assembled at Bridgeman actually advocated the doctrines of criminal syndicaliém within the county of Berrien.” Hits “Assembly Clause.” Continuing his argument, Ferguson said: “The statute declares a felony punishment for the mere enunciation of a doctrine without regard to the circumstances of the enunciation, We content that the ‘clear and present danger’ rule marks the limits of con- stitutional use of police power in punishment of advocacy and the es- sence of the ‘clear and present dan- ger’ rule is that the criminal character of all advocacies is to be tested by the circumstances under which they are made. “The assembly clause of the statute is contrary ‘to the constitutional guarantees because it is an arbitrary and unreasonable infringement upon personal liberty. The punishment proceeds upon the assumption that there will be future advocacy of crim- inal syndicalism. as a result of the assembly, even tho such advocacy may not occur in the state of Michi- gan and even tho such advocacy may never be presented anywhere undey circumstances of imminent danger of substantial criminal injury, Assump- tion of future advocates (some and sometime, to whomever may and under whatever circumsta: may be) is superimposed upon; the primary assumption of inherent tend- ency in the proscribed documents. To punish the acts of assembly with- out regard to acts of present unlaw- fulness by the assembly is to deprive citizens of the right of peaceful as- sembly.” f It will probably be a month or six weeks before the court renders a de