The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 20, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER i Monday, October 20, 1924 THIRD ROUND IN /STETLY FRESH Ecce” our TFRANCE FORCED _ WANDREW WAR WITH TEACHERS Expect Showdown at Tuesday Meeting Tuesday afternoon, at four o’clock, the gong will ring for the third round in the bitter fight between the Chicago Teachers’ Federation and the Superintendent of the Board of Education, William McAndrew. This will take place in the * Board of Education building at 650 S. Clark street. The board will invite Miss Margaret Haley, of the Teacher’s Federation, for the third time to come before the administration committee to present the teachers’ side on the subject of secret markings. And it will invite for the third time McAndrew to be present and present his. reasons for the stand he is taking. Expect’ Acid Test. At the last two meetings, McAn- drew flatly refused to be present. And it does not seem very likely that he will attend the third time in view of his reported statement that he would not attend “even if the meet- ings were held all winter.” Mrs. W. S. Hefferan, when asked if the superintendent will attend to- morrow’s meeting said, “I will person- ally ask the superintendent to attend and the third meeting will be the acid test.” Mrs. Hefferan’s position in this se- cret markings battle resembles very much her stand on teachers’ councils which was so thoroly praised by. the ‘“Journal.” In that fight she presum- ably took a stand to make McAndrew do the “fair thing,” and then at the last minute went completely over to Mc Andrew's position. It is more than a guess that history will repeat itself} fn spite of her hvowal for “fair play” at tomorrow’s meeting. ° Teachers Ready for Long Fight. From McAndrew’s past actions in enforcing his iron rule over the heads of the Teachers’ Federation it is not at all likely that he will surrender in this latest attack on the teachers. The board sustained him in the fight on councils and in every other recommendation he has made, It can hardly be expected that the board will carry this fight to a finish with Mc- ‘Andrew in spite of the little flurry aroused in their midst by a few naive members of the board who look for justice in a fight between boss and employe. Many teachers have attended the “Yast meetings at which McAndrew failed to put in an appearance. Many teachers will attend this meet- ing. But that they are not going there with any illusions as to what the board will do is certain from their only too recent experience in their de- feat in the fight on teachers’ councils. Chicago Federation Rejects Resolutions to A. F. of L. Meet Resolutions calling for a canipaign for organizing the unorganized work- ers, for investigating the question of | unemployment and for condemning the Ku Klux Klan activities as detri- mental to organized labor were tabled at the Sunday meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Arne Swabeck, delegate from Paint- ers’ Local No. 194, Andrew Overgaard, Machinists’ Lodge No. 390, and J. W. Johnstone, Painters’ Local No. 147, urged that resolutions covering these subjects be sent to the American Fed- eration of Labor for its 44th conven- tion to be held next month at El Paso, Texas. Secretary Nockels headed the drive against these resolutions. Another resolution, calling upon the A. F. of L. to organize a series of} Mass meetings thruout the country condemning the Ku Klux Klan, intro- duced by the same delegates after} causing a little skirmish, finally met with a call for division of votes and was tabled with 23 against and 94 in favor of tabling. A third motion recommending to the A. F. of L. convention a resolution de- nouncing the imperialist tendencies of the United States capitalists was en- tirely ignored. It was also tabled. Bwaback, Overgaard and Johnstone spoke for their resolution, urging the seriousness of these questions and the’ need for Chicago labor to take a definite stand on these important mat- ters. “Shop Committees- A Revolutionary ” Weapon” By WM. F, DUNNE, One of the most burning issues before the labor movement dealt with by Dunne, who has just re- turned from a trip thru Burope. THE WORKERS MONTHLY Out November First—Subscribe! (Special to The per cent during the month, in 49 cities as follows: Buffalo, Fall River, New Haven, 3 per cent; Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dal- las, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas | City, Los Angeles, Louisville, Man- | delphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, Oregon, Providence, Rochester, Salt Lake City’ San Francisco, Scranton, Wash- ington, 2 per cent; Detroit, Milwau- kee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Pearia, Portland, Me. St. Louis, St. Paul, chester, Newark, New York, Phila- | ' 16 PER CENT IN PRICE WHILE NO MENTION IS MADE OF BAD ONES Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.— The retail cost of food jumped two per cent during August and September, the department of labor announced today. “Strictly fresh eggs” led all commodities in price advances, increasing 16 Dpring September the average family expenditures for food increased Bridgeport, * Communist Open Air Meetings in Chicago Monday, Oct. 20. Madison and Green, auspices Mid- City branch. Good speakers. Tuesday, Oct. 21. Wilton and.Belmont, auspices North Side English branch. Good speakers. 14th and.49th court, auspices Cicero Seattle, 1 per cent. AS WE (Continued from page 1) | ts: | reach higher by acting like an accom- Plished fool. * 2 # @ Ty OT a single representative in the United States senate re- presents the working people” declared Senator Frazier of North Dakota. Who does Frazier represent in the name of 1776? Surely he cannot re- present the cursed “predatory inter- ests.” Perhaps Frazier is right. On second thought we leave out the “per- haps.” He is right. And the same goes for the house of representatives, tho the beefy blatherskite Berger would at least claim to represent the “common people” who ever the devil they are. * . APITALIST party labels never never meant less than they do today. Republicans and democrats change their political affiliations as often, if not more frequently than they change their shirts. The Chicago Daily News, puts on the official gas mask when discussing Len Small. So does the DAILY WORKER but for a different reason. Small is not content with robbing the workers. He is an all- round artist. The long fingered gover- nor is bringing the capitalist system into bad odor. Hence the nasal ar- mor. * ‘HE Communists point out the rot- teness of the capitalist system and continually tell the workers that they have the power and the ability to clean the political and social atmos- SHOW SPOLANSKY (Continued from page 1) avenue, where he described himself as a “social worker.” “Azotov” and Jake Spolansky were friends, and Jake’s brother was a char- ter member of Azotov’s little gang of “avengers.” Co-operating from time to time was Spolansky’s brother-in- law, Margolies, who had come on from Seattle with a fake I. W. W. card in his pocket and had established him- self as a stool pigeon, spying.on the local Communist movement. His Memory Changes. During deportation proceédings in Gary, Spolansky denied knowing “Azo- tov,” but later, in Chicago, he admitted it. The “Knighs of the Red Star” were in existence less than a week. As soon as Gary Communists got wind of the organization, they pulled out the few honest workers who had been de- ceived into joining it, thus leaving it nothing but a body of detectives. For a long time, especially during the period of the “red raids,” all sorts of wild crimes were attributed by the police to the non-existent “Knights of the Red Star.” Threatening letters were received by prominent govern- ment officials. Bombs were discover- ed in corridors and under front porch- es. Always theré was a big hulaWaloo, with scores of public and private de- tectives hired to drag out the villians —but no “member” of the death-deal- ing “Knights of the Red Star” was ever discovered by the eager pursuers. Fraud Put Over Poorly, One of the crudest incidents came in connection with the alleged attempt on the life of Maclay Hoyne, then stato’s attorney of Mlinois, and now accused of blackmail by a poor ex- coal miner. Hoyne was at that time in charge of the trials of a large group of “reds” consisting of 41. members of the Communist-Labor Party and 85 members of the Communist Party, who had been arrested in the brutal Palmer raids, i According to Chicago newspapers an attempt was made upon the life of Hoyne by a would-be assassin, who fired a shot thru the window of the Hoyne home. The “Knights of the Red Star” was first declared to be re- sponsible, and then an attempt was made to frame up Alfred Wagen- knecht, now an/active member of the Workers Party and at that time e: ecutive secretary of the Communist- Labor Party. It was declared that on May 25, 1920, Hoyne had received a threaten: ing letter, signed by Comrade Wagen- | Knecht. The make-up of the letter | branches. Good speakers. SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. phere by dropping the darned thing into the historical abyss. And .they will do that little thing some day. The republicans who hold that there should be honor among thieves are against Small and those who hold that a thief should not be bothered with scruples of any sort are for him, The workers who understand what is back of the quarrel between the thieves, are supporting William F. Dunne, the Communist candidate for governor and the only candidate who represents the interests of the work- ing class. * ‘HE Federated Press notes with subdued alarm deviations in the direction of reaction in that much- touted organ of Christian liberalism, the Christian Science Monitor. During the war the Monitor was one of the most rabid militarist sheets in Amer- ica, It did every thing that the most exacting war monger desired with the exception of publishing the casualty list. Only when important persons like the Emperor of Austria died did it depart from this rule. ee eee ’ HY Christian Science Monitor is opposed to war beggars the im- agitation. It believes there is no such | thing as death.’ The killing of human beings being the most distressing feat- ure of war, if such a thing as death is only a trick of the imagination, wars could be ag diverting and much safer than polo playing. The Monitor is a staunch defender of capitalism. Any paper that defends capitalism cannot be other than reactionary. HIS OWN PLOTTER was ridiculous. Wagenknecht. no doubt has his faults, but the spelling and general misuse of English display- ed in this letter would not be attrib- uted to him even by his worst enemies in the radical movement. Following is a copy: “New York—May 21, 192—Mr. State's Attorney Hoyne and dirty dog Henry Berger; and Barnhardt and Mike Flannegan of the Thiel agency —We want you all to know that you all have been found guilty by our com- mittee; of conspiring against 200 men and women and therefore J have been instructed to write to you and let you know that you will be shot at the first opportunity we get. We mean all of you; especially Flannegan, the dirty crook dictitive; this is our second letter to you—relize the men or you will be shot soon.. We have spies as well as you got and we know what you are planning as well as you know what we are planning. “You can sat goodby to all your friends if don’t relice these men in ten days; we know that the bankers including the prisident of the first na- tional bank; that we will put him in hell just as well as not. We may meet him some this days and make him a surprise of something and the other bankers too. “By order of the national executive board: “Baker, Lindgrand and Bilan, “A, Wagenknecht, executive secre- tary. “This is you last notice.” Detectives Wrote Letters. The Labor Defense Council has a copy of this letter on file, as well as a number of similar letters written by detectives and purporting to come from radicals, We have reason to be- lieve that most, if not all, of them were written by Mike Flannagan, of the Thiel Defective Service Co., the same Mike who did such heroic work in putting over the Illinois criminal syndicalist law. In a future issue of the DAILY WORKER, I shall give some other instances of Mike’s frame-ups, with which the adventures of Jake Spolan- TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET POWER Will Request Moscow to Open Parleys (Special to The: Dally Worker) PARIS, Oct. 19+-The com- mittee appointed by Premier Herriot to find a formula for the recognition of Soviet Russia by France has finished its labors and submitted its report to the premier. France will follow the British precedent in first granting the Soviet government de jure re- cognition, before proceeding to discuss the many: differences that exist between the two countries. Soviet's Most Bitter Foe. In view of the fact that France, dur- ing the regime of Poincare was So- viet Russia's bitter foe, the action of the French government is particularly gratifying to Moscow. The Commun- ist government does not see in the new policy a relenting of hostility to the workers’ republic on the part of the French capitalists, but rather to a recognition of the strength of the Soviet government and the corre- sponding decline of capitalist power, Diplomatic Language. The Herriot committe found the fol- lowing formula: “The French govern- ment, rembering the long friendly re- lations always maintained with the Russian nation, is disposed to recog- nize the Soviet government as a gdy- ernment of all territories which ac- cept its authority, and in consequence the French government is ready to en- gage them in conversations for a set- tlement of differences existing be- tween the two countries in a manner to safeguard the interests of French citizens.” The telegram containing this for- mula will be sent to Moscow early next week. It will also contain an invitation to Russia to open negotia- tions. The first meetings are sched: uled to take place in Paris. Big Business Wants to Buy the Election for “Cautious Cal” (Continued from page 1) man who boasted that he “didn’t give a damn for the law except when it serves my interests.” Edward T. Stotesbury, banker and coal mine owner, head of the bankers’ group of Coolidge slush fund raisers. His son-in-law was mixed up in the famous “Dot King Murder.” By the way, the investigation into the case was scandalously squelched after it was discovered that the Stotesbury son-in-law had the girl on his payroll at the rate of one thousand dollars per visit. “Dot” was a prominent and successful member of the 400 among the demi-monde. Manufacturer of Yarns. Joseph R. Grundy, not the husband of the universal Mrs, Grundy, but a yarn manufacturer of Bristol, Pa. He will be expected to tell an amazing yarn on the witness stand. He was charged by the G. O. P. campaign com- mittee with the task of raising $300,- 000 among the manufacturers of his state, who profited by the tariff on woolens. Nathan T. Folwell, treasurer of the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia. George W. Simmons, vice-president of the Mechanics’ and Metals’ Nation- al Bank of New York. publican National Committee. W. W. Atterbury, head of the Penn- sylvania Railroad. Another “Yarn” Manufacturer. T. V. O'Connor, former labor lead- er( and a darned ‘crooked one at that, —Ed.) and now chairman of the Unit- ed States Shipping Board. He will be asked to. show cause why he should not be classed as a common liar for his statement that LaFollette is financed by Russian money via Mexico. Unless he does so the Sov- iet government may sue him for libel. Theodore Gary and John T. Ken- nedy, both Kansas business men and others of less prdminence will be called as witnesses, Good Campaign Stunt. While the LaFollette managers do not consider it criminal to raise large campaign funds, they see an oppor- tunity to get the edge on the campaign publicity by placing the G. O. P. on the defensive. The services of Frank P. Walsh, an expert in this kind of work, have been secured by the La- Follette management and his opening, promises many headlines and much sky are interwined. Buy the DAILY WORKER, and read of the adventures of Mike and Jake, both honorary mem- bers of the order of “The Knights’ of the Red Star”! GENEVA, Ill, Oct. 19. — Insanity will be. For, in addition to a snappy, Lincoln, lawyer-horticulturist, goes on trial for his life here for the sl ing of his wife, Lina, and her brother, Byron Shoup. ro smoke, also some fire, The democrats will also be called on to reveal the source of their cam- paign contributions, but they are ashamed to take the witness stand. Their insolvency is disgraceful. No- body is so low that he cares to bo seen putting a dime in the democrat- ie hat. It seems that Borah is doing the same service for LaFollette in this investigation that the Republican Brookhart did for Wheeler in the Daugherty quiz. William V. Hodges, treasurer, Re- ; Capitalism Preaches the Doctrine of Submission to Chicago’s Negro Workers By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the whole Negro press warns the Negro workers -* against the Communists. This press of the Negro work- ers, like the capitalist press of the white workers, fears lest labor will become class conscious and build its own power. The Negro press is especially hysterical during these presidential campaign days, when Coolidge money is plenti- ful, and the coffers in the business office can be replenished for the lean months ahead. * * * * In other ways, however, the Negro is being taught humility; urged to accept things as they are; asked to believe that he has already achieved his goal under capitalism. * ae * * It was doctrine of extreme humility that dripped its propaganda all thru the pageant, “Milestones,” given by the so-called South Side Community Service, at the Auditorium Theater. This was probably one of the most ambitious ef- forts of the Negro race, in Chicago, but it was 100 per cent propaganda for the republican party. * ® * * The pageant was given in nine episodes. But never dur- ing a single moment was the Negro held up as a fighter for his own rights. In Egypt he was the slave ‘of successive dynasties, pictured only as pleading to the kings of the Nile, “Let My People Go.” He was shown as idol worshipper, ab- ject in his idolatry. In the “African Village” scene, the slave traders come an dag the Negro natives wholesale, more submissive than the helpless animals of the forest. The whole village surrenders to the white slave hunters without a blow. They are equally helpless on the auction block in the American slave market. On the cotton plantations they are made to appear as praying, psalm singing victims of the slave drivers, sending up their wails to the Christian God, instead of bowing before the idol left behind in Africa; both with equal results. The pageant attempts to deify Abraham Lincoln as the liberator of the black race, raising him to the pedestal of a God. There is not even the taint of an effort to show that chattel slavery was swept away as a result of the clash of economic interests between the growing capitalist class of the North and the feudal landed class of the South. * * * * The complete prostitution of this Negro pageant to the purposes of the white dominant capitalism is best shown when a whole episode is given over to a tribute to Colonel Charles Young, said to be the only Negro to climb to this rank in Wall Street's military machine. The climax comes with the showing of the graves of Negro soldiers on Flanders Field, the black victims of Morgan’s war, decorated by Negro mothers, with Negro children waving American flags and singing “America,” half the audience sitting, half standing. Toward the end of the pageant a belated effort is made to show that the Negro race, in America, has produced some outstanding figures. Among these, however, we find much attention given to a Negro comedian and a Negro business woman. No effort is made to visualize the growing im- ohyp= ig of the Negro in industry, nor to give even an ink- ing of the great problems confronting both the Negro -and white workers alike. e * * * Perhaps an insight into the moving forces responsible for this pageant, with its propaganda of Negro submission, may be found jn the fact that Mrs. Medill McCormick, wife of one of the most prominent stockholders'in the Chicago Tribune and candidate for United States senator in the recent primaries, gave a luncheon recently at the Chicago Women’s Club oa pes of the campaign to put this dope over. The names of all those present at the lucheon were pro- minently published in the program. They read like a direct- ory of the wives of “our best bankers and business men.” * * * It is the duty of every thinking Negro to make war upon this kind of poison. The Negro worker, no more than the * white worker, can make progress for his class, by bending in submission to the forces that now rule over him. The Negro worker is the victim alike of the alliance between the Negro and white politicians, between Negro and white busi- ness men. . * J * * Only thru recognizing and fighting for his class inter- ests will the Negro worker move forward. In this campaign, the Negro worker will deliver a blow at his own class inter- ests by allowing himself to be misled by the McCormicks, the Chicago Tribune, and other instruments of republican capitalist misrule. ,_. In this year’s presidential campaign the Communists call alike upon white and Negro workers to stand erect and fight their common enemy—the dominant ruling class. Increas- ing support HJ Negro workers of the Communist campaign means new blows struck at wage slavery, the successor of chattel slavery, in exploiting the black race. Every attack of the Negro press, as well,as the white press, on the Communist movement, is added proof, if any is needed, that the Communists are the 7 true spokesmen of the whole working class. All races, all nationalities, all workers most move Torward together for the common vic- tory of all labor against capitalism. WORKERS GIVE FOSTER BIG WELCOME IN INDIANAPOLIS AIDS MC NAMARA (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 19.—The Central Labor union of Indianapolis, has voted to defend John McNamara, secretary and business agent for the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ union, in jail here on a charge of hav- ing attempted to destroy the million- dollar building owned by the Elks club. At the same time, Sheriff George Snider and Chief of Police Hermann Rikhoff announce that they have their forces ready to double the guard if the need arises. The controversy is assuming the na- ture of a labor war. On the one side are the union fron workers, backed by the organized labor bodies of In- dianapolis. On the other are the open (Continued from page 1) workers than the other two capital- istic candidates.” . Kept Press Wakes Up. Of course Foster’s advocacy of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government and the abolition of the capitalist sys- tem brought a rise from the press. The “Times” stated, under a head-line “Urges revolution,” “Revolution by Com- munists to gain control of the govern- ment and industries of the United States was predicted and advocated by William Z, Foster.” This report af course, will have the desired ef- fect of impressing the bourgeois read- ers of the “Times” with the dreadful- ness of Foster and the Communists, even tho it is an incorrect report of the speech. Foster did not predict “revolution by Communists,” but revo- lution by the proletariat, the working class, to which the Communists stand in the position of leaders. Of course, A a capitalist news-writer would not be expected to see the distinction or to make it if he did realize it, but no Communist would ignore this ‘ very vital point, Subscribe to DAILY WORKER. ‘The audience showed its serious de- sire to advance the Communist move- ment by contributing over $250 in the collection and purchasing 21 DAILY WORKER sub cards, over $60 worth of literature and Foster-Gitlow but- tons and quite a bit of Young Work- ers’ League literature. Negro Hits Coolidge Rule. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Prof. Kel- ly Miller, world-famous mathematician and member of the faculty of Howard university here, in a circular letter to other leaders of the Negro race in America, pronounces the record of the Harding-Coolidge administration to- ward the Negroes one of broken pledg- es and indifference, i shop builders and the “law enforce- ment” officials. The feeling of the labor bodies on the subject of the McNamara arrest runs high, partly because it is gen- erally understood that McNamara is being persecuted, and partly because the bail demanded to release McNa- mara from jail has been placed at $20,000—a sum which the workers have found themselves unable to raise. A. W. Lyday, secretary of the cen- tral labor union and representative of the local miners’ organization, says that he believes the persecution of McNamara threatens the destruction of all union principles. Even Prosecuting Attorney William H. Remy has explained the indict- ments on which the arrest was made as a piece of legal, strategy devised by Attorney-General Lesh. He admit- ted that it would be hard to prove that McNamara was the man who did the damage to the Elks building. LaFollette Tries to Get Crowd with the “Labor Party” Label (Special to the Dally Worker) BENTLEYVILLE, Pa., Oct. 19.—At least two hundred miners crowded into the Miners’ Hall here to listen to a Communist address delivered by Jay Lovestone. In a nearby hall there was being held another meeting addressed by a LaFollette agent. Despite the fact that this meeting was held under the spurious name of the labor party, there were only a handful present. The LaFéllette forces boasted of an attendance of at most sixty. Some of the miners left the La¥Follette meeting before it was over and came to the Communist gathering in the Miners’ Hall. One of these workers showed his disgust with the so-called progressive labor party outfit by do- nating five dollars to the Communist campaign fund. “There are today more than four hundred thousand workers walking the streets, out of work in the proud- st, richest city of the United States— New York. The miners are now working at most only three days a week, Twenty out of every hundred steel workers employed a year ago are now jobless. One out of every four farmers in the fifteen wheat and corp states are virtually bankrupt. This was the picture of the present economic situation given by Love- stone. In analyzing the role of the government and the various political parties, Lovestone said: “We have today a whole zoo, a full mangerie of bosses’ parties. We have the elephant republicans, the donkey democrats and the bobcat progres- sives. But we have ony one working class party in the field—the party of the Communists, the Workers Party of America, which is as frank in its hatred of the capitalist class and its. rule as the bosses are in their opposi- tion to the estabishment of a work- ers’ and farmers’ republic in the United States.” Other Lovestone dates are: Akron, Ohio—Monday, Oct. 20. Youngstown, Ohio—Athletic Hall, 338% W. Federal St., Tuesday, Oct. 21, 8 p. m. . Newspaper Drivers . Take Up Question of * Strike to Win Demands Strike by all union ‘newspaper drivers of Chicago against every pa- per in the city, with the single ex- ception of the DAILY WORKER, was being considered yesterday by the lo- cal union at its meeting at Chauffeurs’ Hall, 220 8. Ashland avenue. The strikers demand pay of $45 a week, the six-day week and the eight- houf day, and a two weeks’ vacation every year with full pay. The drivers at present get only $36 a week, and are forced to work nine hours a day, receiving no vacation whatever. Many of the newspapers have of. | fered a scale of $40 a week for six days and $42 a week for seven days. The union is determined at the start to refuse anything less than their de- mands. . The capitalist newspapers of the city, fearing that their low rate of payment would bring a strike shortly, have organized a group of over 300 seabs, the men claim. The lo cal is making plans to deal with these scabs. \ ri ———