The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 181. SUBSCRIPTION Vol. Hl. No. 181. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside" hice Outside ee In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Watered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of Mareh 3, 1979. MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1924 eg» 790 Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER meal ORE ae tl co., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Price 3 Cents Chicago, Ill. OPOLANSKY EXPOSES OWN PLOTS AS WE SEE IT By T. J. OFLAHERTY. It Calvin Coolidge fails to land in the White House for the next four years, vaudeville may be treated to @ long-wished-for novelty in the form of silence. Al Jolson, the noted black face comedian, with a troupe of fun- makers visited the White House, to shake hands with the president and advise him that the country was be- hind him. They did not say how far, but that what can you expect from comedians? 50-8 * L and his merry companions were paid to do this by the republican ionai committee, so there is no hard feeling. It was the funniest del- egation that visited the president since T. V. O'Connor led his labor takers into the royal presence on La- bor Day. Al Jolson is funny, but the funniest joke he ever cracked has no- thing on Coolidge. 1.8 o The Chicago Tribune is again wag- ing war on Soviet Russia from Vienna and Riga. The Tribune general at Trebizond was obliged to surrender that position owing to a_ strategic ‘Turkish move in the rear. He is now xdvancing toward the Mediteranean Sea. It is believed that the positions #t Riga and Vienna will hold out in- definitely unless the Tribune generals become infected with the scurvy that is spreading rapidly among the Czar- ist counter-revolutionists. eb nde HE Tribune gloats over the fab- ricated reports of burning oil , wrecked railroads, and mur- ered Soviet officials. But somehow or other Russia emerges stronger than ever from every onslaught, while her enemies become fewer and more dis- reputable. Even imperialigt France the most brazen enemy of the Soyiet “government is now ‘obliged to negotiations with Moscow. The Tribune will not make peace with Russia until it first bends the knee to the American working class. But it will be a different Tribune then. ve ee . P. MORGAN is in. Paris, looking over that part of his kingdom. His French soldiers are closely guard- ing his royal person. If any untoward incident should occur during the royal visit the great man might revenge himself on the French government for the carelessness, by hammering cown the French franc. Morgan is busy getting the Dawes Plan to work. The only elements opposing it are the Communists. * as, MBI, E are indebted to T. V. O’Connor, former president of the Interna- onal Longshoremen’s Union, for the startling information that Soviet Russia sont barrels of gold rubbles to the LaFollette treasury via Mexico. We T. V. that if such is the case “ill be a noticeable strain in the hitherto friendly relations existing betyreen The DAILY WORKER and the Soviet Government. It was unkind of T, V. not to advise us of the coming cf the treasurer. Had we known of it in time we could have taken steps to intercept it. se ee 'HE Philadelphia Public Ledger, gives the front page to this rub- bish of O'Connor's. The notorious faker is quite well aware that the Communists who control the Russian government know LaFollette to be a reactionary, tho not as ignorant as T. ¥. O'Connor secured his present ,po- sition as president of the United States Shipping Board, by being an accomplished traitor. He expects to (Continued on Page 2.) TOLEDO LABOR GIVES FOSTER BIG WELCOME LaFollette’s I Meeting Is Poor in Comparison (Special te the DAILY WORKER) TOLEDO, O., (By Mail.)— William Z. Foster, presidential candidate of the Workers Par- ty, addressed an audience here many times the size of that ac- corded Oswald Garrison Villard, who spoke here recently in sup- port of LaFollette. Foster’s meeting was held at the Labor Temple, the same hall-in which Villard spoke. Workers Hear Foster. However, there was a remarkable dierence in the two audiences, not alone in size but in the makeup. Fos- ter’s audience was distinctly working class, scores of aggressive rank and file trade unionists were present and | loudly applauded his speech. A large collection was taken up and much literature was sold. Desperate efforts have been made by some of the local labor fakers to arouse the rank and file to the point of supporting LaFollette. The suc- cess of the Foster meeting in view of the fact that these same fakers have vilified Foster, because of his fight for amalgamation of the craft unions, has had a very ETE Plan New Activities. The outstanding feature of the Fos- ter meeting was the fact that it at- tracted so many local reds who for some years have held aloof from all revolutionary activities. Many of them became so enthusiastic that they said: “The time has come to get into the revolutionary harness again.” Toledo Workers Party is enthused over the success of the Foster meet- ing and are planning new activities with an assurance that in this old time home of the reds Communism will finally prevail. Foster’s clear cut enunciation of the Communist pro- gram was a complete answer to the LaFollette liberals and pussyfooters. Foster’s answer to the dictatorship of Wall street, was the dictatorship of the proletariat. re Good Gathering in Cleveland. By J. A. HAMILTON.@ (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 19.—The Foster meeting in the Engineers’ Audi- torium here was the most successful held by the Workers Party in this city in many months. The reputation of workers to hear the message of Com- | munism. The’ LaFollette sentiment is strong in Cleveland, not only among the workers, but as might be expected among the’ business and professional classes as well. A straw vote taken in the down town clubs showed La- Follette to have a very high percent- age compared with Coolidge. Hence the capitalistic press, in reporting Foster's speech, were greatly impress- ed with his exposure of LaFollette, and quoted him as. saying that ,“La- Follette is no more the friend of the: (Continued on page 2) jlosing out in this district. {ago, | Orient.. {member of the miners’ union—mobil- lized 200 miners and planned to meet !Young and his forces at the edge of town and annihilate them. The in- A RED WEEK WIRE FROM NEW YORK EW YORK CITY has crossed the line In a hot spurt for RED WEEK. An advance order for ONE TH ture reached the national office by OUSAND UNITS of campalgn litera- wire this morning. ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS that to date one thousand party members in New York have each contributed fifty cents for their 137 piece literature unit, which each one of them will distribute during Red Week, Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS that 137,000 pieces of campaign literature will go forward to New York City alone—leaf- lets, pamphlets, stickers, DAILY W additional workers in New York Ci before election day. New York City’s drive for the Red Week literature distribution cai EVERY party branch CAN sec In this task, ORKERS—and that at least 137,000 ity will get the Communist message participation of every member for a in be duplicated everywhere. ure the co-operation of its members Decide, then DO—for ACTIVITY must constitute’ the greater part of the make-up of every Communist. EVERY MEMBER MOBILIZE FOR RED WEEK! JOBLESS COAL MINERS PAYING $100 FOR 1085 Charge Mine and Union Officials Divide Graft (Special to the Daily Worker) W. FRANKFORT, Ill., Oct. 19. | —A$s much as $100 is being paid for jobs by miners at Orient Mine No. 2, near here. Grafting mine officials—and union officials are dividing the loot—taking advantage of un- employment, are forcing ig- norant workers to buy jobs by the simple process of hiring no men at the mine. Many Hunt for Work. Every morning from 100 to 150 men “rustle” Orient, No. 2, but no one is ever put to work unless he shows up with an order signed by the mine man- ager in Breton. One man has already confessed to some of the active union men that he paid $100 for his job and it is known that others have done the same. Miners who speak little English are the ones who are victimized and if they complain they are threatened with the vengeance of the Klan, to which most of the mine officials be- long. Careful to Hide Guilt. The militants here are conducting a rigid investigation and the miners are aroused but absolute proof is dif- ficult to secure as the transactions are Foster, coupled with the extensiva | carefully handled. advertizing brought out hundreds of | Due to this condition and other rea- sons the Ku Klux Klan is rapidly A week Glenn Young and a hundred klansmen had planned an invasion of The Orient police chief—a vasion never came off. . In West Frankfort it is common talk that 3,000 workers have pledged and armed themsélves to wipe out the Klan forces if they attempt to carry out any such terrorist campaign as they did in Zeigler and Herrin. for the workers’ cause. VERY militant worker is becoming interested in the “Build the DAILY / WORKER” campaign now going on. that builds up the strength of our party, of the revolutionary movement, and of the power of Labor generally. All the live-wires among the workers will give their active support to this By all means every militant, should become a member of the “DAILY WORKER Bricklayers’ Union”—that live section of constructive militants who are making stronger their one great newspaper that never lets up in the fight You do the labor movement a real service when you send Im your sub—and that of your shopmate—to the DAILY WORKER. are one of the dynamic factors in the making of our working-class history. WILLIAM Z, FOSTER. A Brick on the inside page—"HEAVE IT BACK” And you also It is the constructive Kind ‘of work show that you GOOD MEETINGS FOR DUNNE IN SOUTH ILLINOIS Candidate for Governor in Mine Fields (Special to The Daily Worker) WEST FRANKFORT, Illinois, Oct. 19.—Two successful Work- ers Party campaign meetings for William F, Dunne, its candi- bandstand in the public square to a crowd of over 300 people who ‘applauded vigorously his explanation of the revolution- ary program of the Workers Party. A collection of $20 was taken. . Won't Hear Democrat. After Dunne had finished speaking, some democrat candidates tried to/ | take advantage of the crowd gathered to hear the Workers Party speaker, but in five minutes it had dwindled to less than fifty persons. The party members here have dis- tributed 2000 DAILY WORKERS and covered the city with the campaign literature ynder the direction of Com- rade E. B. Hewlett, Workers Party candidate for congressman. Speaks at Christopher. In Christopher Dunne’s meeting was held in the opera house. The audience applauded when he remind- ed the Ku Klux Klan that Morgan, a Jewish financier, was the real owner of the American government and re- sponsible for America’s entrance into the war. “The Workers Party,” said Dunne, “recognizes no national and _ racial lines and I cite~this fact simply to show the incorrectness into which these 100 per cent patriots are led when they attack those who expose the evils of American capitalism.” The Christopher audience donated $20 to the Workers Party campaign. Other Dunne speaking dates are: Monday, Oct. 20, Belleville, Veiles’ Hall. Tuesday, Oct. 21, Collinsville, City Hall. Wednesday, Oct. 22, Springfield. Paterson Strikers To Hear.Communist Speakers Tonight PATERSON, N. J., Oct. 19.—The Workers Party will hold a alrge mass, meeting for its candidates in this election. The meeting in Paterson will be held at Helvetia Hall, 156 Van Houten street, at 8 p. m., and the main speakers of the evening will be Rudolph Volgraff, candidate of the Workers Party for U. 8. senator from New Jersey, and Harry M. Winitsky, candidate for congress on the Work- ers Party ticket in New York City. In addition there will be other prom- inent speakers and the committee in charge expects a very successful meeting of Paterson workers anxious to hear the message of Communism from the candidates of the Workers Party in this election, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium, On a Labor Faker’s Trail FARRINGTON IS ACCUSTOMED TO DISAVOW ACTS Retracted His Charges Against T. L. Lewis By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Article Seven.) When Frank Farrington was confronted with the proof of having accepted money from Colonel Frank L. Smith, demo- cratic candidate for governor of Illinois, he at first denied the charge but finally admitted hav- ing received one thousand dol- lars. But like the republican party campaign fund, it is not likely that all Farrington’s re- ceipts from the sale of the min-| ers’ votes get into the record.| He does not do that kind of bookkeeping. Farrington is not the kind of a man to be bothered over the necessity of making a change of front. He swallowed his words on the Howat case and again in his controversy with John L. Lewis over the Lester mine. There are two interesting docum-| ents on record showing the unreliabil-| ity of Farrington’s word and .proving | conclusively that he will eat crow} when driven into a corner. This bul-| ly who expels honest men from the union, who hounds the radicals and joins with the bosses in blacklisting them; who hires pimps and thugs to |beat up rank and file delegates! | crawls on his belly before those who have it in their power to punish him, Ate His Own Words He did this in his controversy with T. L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers in 1910. T. L. Lewis was no better or no worse than his |namesake who rules the International junion today. He is now a non-union | (Continued on page 8) CANTON “REDS” HOLD “TOP” MITT IN CIVIL WAR CANTON, Oct. 19.—Despite efforts of the merchants and their allies to retrieve the losses received in the heavy fighting which lasted for two | days in the streets of Canton, their | efforts have been unavailing. The defeat of the fascisti has in- | creased the morale of the workers con- siderably and they are ambitious to go on the warpath against the enemy. It is now freely admitted by even | some enemies of Sun Yat Sen that | he has tolerated extreme provocation from the merchahts backed by the British government. Fear of Russia and to a certain de- gree Japan is the only hindrance to the landing of British and American troops here. Moscow Reports Earthquake. MOSCOW, Oct. 19.—An earthquake was reported from Taskhent today. RUTHENBERG SPEAKS AT MANY MEETINGS IN OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA C. E. Ruthenberg, executive sec retary of the Workers Party will make a series of campaign speech- es in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Com- rade Ruthenberg is the Workers Party candidate for congress in Ohio. The following is a list of his meetings and their location: Charleroi, Pa—Iitalian Hall, 8th street and Lookout avenue, Wed- nesday, Oct. 22, 8 p. m. |the forces of the steel trust. doubtedly, the chief purpose of the Pittsburgh, Pa—Carnegie Music Hall, Fedgral and Ohio Sts., N. S. Thursday, Oct 23, 8 p. m. Cleveland, Ohio.—Friday, Oct. 24, Cleveland, Ohio.—Saturday, Oct, 26. Cleveland, Ohio, — Jaites Hall, 6006 St. Clair avenue, Sunday, Oct. 26, wn, U.S. SECRET SERVICE SLEUTH UNRAVELLED BY DAYLIGHT HIS CONSPIRACIES PLANNED IN DARK By MANUEL GOMEZ How Jake Spolansky, his b rother, his\brother-in-law and a couple of rank outsiders, got together night after night in Gary, Ind., some five years ago to plot death and destruction, and then met again in the morning as detectives to work out some satis~ factory solution of the self-same mysterious, baffling anarchistic plots, is a story that would make those who, e salaries of the Spolansky family tear their hair in rather Spewegtd paid t! ridiculous rage. and de- “The Knights of the Red Star” was the flamboyant name given by the Spolanskys to their dread organization—a name which could only have been conceived by someone whose familiarity with the literature of the revolutionary working class movement was confined to paper-covered novels of the type of “Life Among the Nihilists” or spiracy.” “The Terrible Gas House Con- One might have thought that Jake Spolansky would be at least discreet about “The Knights of the Red Star” and would refrain from ever mentioning it? again. Can't Keep it Down. But he has contracted to write a certain number of “anti-red” stories for the Chicago Daily News, and his |imagination seems to be somewhat limited; so we have this discredited, stupendously silly “organization” play- ed up afresh in the form of a “red ex- posure.” Spolansky’s brain may be absent but his nerve is still with him. He treats the little group as if it were still in existence. “One of the organizations most flag- rant in its contempt for United States law,” he coolly informs us, “goes un- der the name of ‘The Knights of the Red Star.’ bership located in Gary. group have been traced many pieces of literature, advocating the death of public officials and signed ‘The Group of Avengers.’ This anarchist society, which has branches in most of the large cities of the United States,” he goes on to say, “is ruled by a commit- tee in Boston, Mass., congisting of six persons, one of whom is a woman. . . and any ruling of this body is looked upon as final by anarchists thruout the country.” He Uses Imagination. The writer has had some experienc- es with anarchists in the labor move- | ment, and has yet to find a single one | of them who accepted any ruling as final! I can’t help wishing, in spite of myself, that the real, live, flesh-and- blood anarchists were, at least in some respects, a little like the anar- chists of Spolansky’s fiction. Then perhaps Communists might not find it so impossible to work with them. Spolansky is certainly drawing upon his imagination when he refers to the thany branches of the “knights” cover- ing the country like a nerwork. As a matter of fact there was only one small group. It was organized in Gary during the great steel strike of 1919, in which many thousands of | steel workers, under the leadership of William Z. Foster, struggled bravely against overwhelming odds against Un- group was to provide an excuse for wholesale persecution of strikers, with |a view to breaking the strike. The “Knights of the Red Star” was organized by a stool pigeon who went by the name of Azotov. When not busy among the Gafy steel workers, he had private offices at 5 S. Wabash (Continued on page 2) It has a large group mem- | To this| CAL'S FRIENDS RAISING BIG SLUSH FUND Big Business Ready to Buy Election Tho Calvin Coolidge, | strike-breaker president of the | United States, is not noted for his fluencey of speech he does a lot of political thinking. His silence in this campaign is lit- erally golden, according to re- ports of big slush funds gathered by bankers and manufacturers to keep the silent automaton in the White House for the next four years. Cal is not talking in this cam- paign but a ten million dollar slush fund can do a lot of speech making. The American capitalists feel that they are crossing a stream and don’t want to change mounts. The old and reliable elephant looks better to them than either the descrepit donkey who is not able to raise the price of oats, or the hydraheaded freak of nature which the LaFollette conglomeration rides on. Bankers, manufacturers and big capitalists in general have decided to raise a fund that will make Harding, Jake Hamon and Jess Smith raise hell with envy in their summer home on the Styx. Ten million dollars would look big even in the days immediately after the war. And the sum may be between twelve and fifteen millions. Big Plutes Involved. The biggest leaders in the financial and industrial world will be called before the Borah slush fund investi- gating committee to tell the why, what and wherefore of the millions they are raising to substitute for Silent Cal's lack of vocal activity. Among those present at the notable society event will be: Samuel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works, the (Continued on Foe bisa S| ITALIAN COMMUNISTS DEMAND THAT SACCO AND VANZETTI BE SET FREE “Demand freedom for Sacco and convention of the Italian Federation at the Emmet Memorial Hall to the 56 delegates representing many indus- , “Condemn Judge Thayer for denying a new trial centers of the counry. Vanzetti” was the ringing note at the of the Workers (Communist) Party trial to Sacco and Vanzetti and initiate a campaign for a United Front for the release of these two workers and all political prisoners,” C. E. Ruthenberg, representing the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, addressed the convention. activity of the party and urged the necessity of greater discipline of the Italian press and co-operation of the Italian federation with the central committee of the party. In complimenting the federation on its achievements in one year, he said that at the last June, 1923, convention when the federation only boasted three or four hundred members he was skeptical about the possibility of their maintaining a daily newspaper. To maintain a powerful daily like “Il Lavoratore,” to increase their mem- bership in such great proportions, representing the workers in import- ant industries like the anthracite coal hh MS, ee He gave a report of the political —— ly mines, the shoe industry of Massachu- setts and the needle trades of New York City and Rochester is indeed an achievement and the party is very that that proved the important role the Italian federation would play in America, The field for work is large and the Italian comrades are soing at it in the correct spirit. The convention cancurred in the re- port of Comrade Ruthenberg pledging its entire support to the Communist program and cloger contact ana co-op- eration with the central executive committee of the party, the proud of the Italian comrades. He said ,