The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 21, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING cof 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $3.50....6 months $2.00....8 months | By mall (in Chicago only): | $4.50....6 morths $2.50....3 months $6.00 per year 68.00 per yoar Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Bivd. Chicago, Ilnole * .J. LOUIS ENGDAHL 2 waitors WILLIAM F. DUNNE {nnn rey MORITZ J. LOEB... Business Manager —————— —_——<—<—$—<$ << — Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. | ie 290 Advertising rates on application (SR Dodging a Big Issue Coolidge declares that “unemployment has ‘dis- appeared,” Davis says he will make it disappear if put in Coolidge’s place, while LaFollette is silent on the subject. The effect of the position of each of these capitalist candidates is the same, so far as the workers are concerned. In each case it is but a means of evading that which is the biggest issue before the working class. The only proposal for action that will enable the workers to combat the menace of unemployment which threatens to destroy the labor unions and all the small achievements, painfully won thru years of Eve of a Great Anniversary ” Our hearts begin to beat faster and our minds think quicker every year at this time when we approach the annual anniversary of the’ Russian Bolshevist revolution. It is our day of days, the guide and beacon for our lives and struggles. November 7, 1924, will mark the completion of seven years—mark the number!—seven years of proletarian rule in a country of nearly 180 million | people, occupying about one-sixth of the globe’s surface. And on November 7 of this year the class- conscious workers of the world will again join in a mighty chorus of jubilation at the greatest vic- tory of their class, the success of the Russian revo- Iution as embodied in the triumphant existence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The Workers Party of America,-section of the Communist International, has already begun preparations for the celebration of the great an- niversary. In every nook and corner of the land, where militant proletarians are struggling for a better day, there will be heard, on the day of celebration, the voice of triumph and_ brotherly greetings to the brave fighters in the Russian revo- lution. We shall make it the occasion for more militancy and more intensive struggle against our own masters, the capitalists of the United States. We shall renew the building of our party and our press with increased vigor and determination. For it is only by a militant struggle against our “own” capitalism, looking toward the day of its complete elimination, that the American working class caat properly celebrate the great anniversary 0) the Russian Bolshevist revolution. struggle, of the labor movement, comes from the Workers Party, the party of the Communists in America. There are no false promises in the Communist proposals. Foster does not tell the workers that if they vote for him that thereby the unemploy- ment problem will be solved. No, the Communists tell the workers of America that they can win nothing without relentless struggle against the ruling capitalist class. Paper ballots cast in the election are well enough, if cast for Communism, as a means of agitation and mobilization of the workers for the struggle—but the struggle itself comes in the shops, factories, streets, unions— wherever the masses of workers gather their strength and wherever they come into conflict with the repressive powers of capitalism. Only thru struggle can the workers win any ad- vancement whatever. And in the question of un- employment, the only program of struggle is that given to the working class by the Workers (Com- munist) Party. A vote for the Communist can- didates in this election is an enlistment in the rruggle against unemployment on the lines of the! Communist program. All workers, organized or unorganized, must close their ranks in solidarity for this struggle. The alternative is to see our <rginizations melt away before the coming on- slenghts of the Morgan-Rockefeller-Gary-Dawes forces of the “open shop.” The fight against unem- jloyment is the chief issue before the American vorking class. Get a member for the Workers Party and a new tebseription for the DAILY WORKER. Harding’s Favorite Scribbler Shortly before the late President Harding suc- cumbed to the assaults of his chef and his boot- legger, he expressed his enjoyment in reading an article in the Saturday Evening Post, by Samuel G. Blythe, one of the leading scribblers on that} five cent national advertising medium. A _ post} mortem examination of Harding’s body did not) show which of the two, his chef or Blythe, con- tributed most to his demise, but it can be said without fear of contradiction that any mind into which the stuff Blythe writes is injected for a con- siderable period of time, will suffer irreparable injury. Fortunately, however, only minds of the Harding and Coolidge type can stomach such drivel. Blythe is now engaged in the task of proving that Robert M. LaFollette, candidate for presi- dent on his own ticket, is a “red.” The object of Here Comes Red Wéek While the capitalist political wizzards are dig- ging their beaks into their respective dung piles, looking for filth to hurl at each other in the mad scramble to land in the White House after Novem- ber 4, and hang- out their shingles as_ political specialists for Morgan and company, the Com- munists are busy fitting out the workers with spectacles that will enable them to see straight and later on consign the capitalists and their system to the museum of history, Between October 26 and November 2, the Com- munists of America will distribute millions of pieces of literature. While the capitalist parties peddle hokum, having for its object the confusion of the masses, the Workers Party spreads educa- tional propaganda which insists on the workers using their own power to solve their own problems. The solution of those problems cannot be even seriously attempted until the workers take the reins of government into their own hands. How this can be done is told in these pieces of literature. It is short, snappy and convincing. The Workers Party is now a full fledged political party. It is waging the political struggle on all fronts. The job in front of us is to increase its efficiency as a fighting revolutionary political party. The distribution of millions of pieces of literature during the Red Week is a splendid test of our development. Boost Red Week! Send in, orders for literature to the national office of the Workers Party, 1113 West Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Dying Liberalism The present election campaign in Great Britain shows that liberalism in politics is on its deathbed | in that country. The liberal party has 100 less candidates in the field this year than in the last} election, while the number of labor candidates has increased by over one hundred. A united front between the conservatives and the liberals has been established in constituencies where a three-cornered contest would be considered to the advantage of the labor party candidate. Manifestos carrying practically the same mes- sage have been sent from the headquarters of the conservative and liberal parties. The Soviet treaty is the main object of attack. Lord Beaverbrook, publisher, who helped to make Lloyd George head of the government during the war, again calls on the “Welsh wizard” to head a coalition cabinet. Winston Churchill has joined the tories. The militant conservatives in the liberal this kind of propaganda is to scare money out of the bankers for the benefit of the Coolidge slush fund. The bankers know quite well that LaFol- lette is a staunch supporter of capitalism. They also know that Charley Bryan of the black skull cap is also a supporter of the system. But they prefer strikebreaker Coolidge whose mind would fit very nicely in the head of Calvin, the founder of the Presbyterian religion, tho the modern Calvin lacks his namesake's initiative. Wall Street will supply that deficiency. Blythe blithely tries to prove that there is a united front between the Communists and LaFol- lette. If this is so, we have something new in the united front line. The Communists are busy prov- ing that LaFollette is a positive menace to the working class movement; that he wrecked the farmer-labor party movement and is the last line of defense in America of the capitalist system. LaFollette on his side denounces the Communists because they want to overthrow the capitalist sys- tem and establish the rule of the workers thru a workers’ and farmers’ government. This means the dictatorship of the proletariat, and LaFollette will not have any such thing, even if he has to go “back to Methusalah” for pure democracy. He ‘con- veniently ignores the dictatorship of the capitalists. There are so many capitalist liars in the field that it is°pretty hard to keep track of them all. We only concern ourselves with the outstanding ones.’ Blythe is a whopper. Send in that new “sub” today! | party are joining the tory party. Those not so militantly conservative are coming to the labor party. A new orientation is taking place which is resulting in the passing of the once powerful liberal party. ™ Religion and Capitalism A full page advertisement in a Chicagu evening paper plays up religion as one of the main. bul- warks of society. It is. During the war the churches of all denominations, even the Christian ScieDce church, which claims to be the least bloody of various Christian creeds, made the capitalist God say anything his masters, the capitalists, wanted him to say. It is a great mistake to think that God made the capitalists. On the contrary, he is made in their image and he would not reign for twenty-four hours without their support. On the other hand he is worth every nickel that it costs to keep him in good condition. Calvin Coolidge is gne of the best publicity men in the United States for the religions opium joints. Coolidge missed his vocation. In fact he was born in the wrong century. His real forte would be directing the operations of the Iron Maiden under the Roman inquisition. The churches are making strenuous efforts to revive the dying interest in religion. But the times are against them. READ THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER Labor Faker’s Trail ow (Continued from page 1) by the action of the progressives in the district. “They pointed out that not alone would Farrington’s plan be bad for’ the miners of, Ilinois—Far- rington had agreed with the operators on a substantial reduction in wages— but. it would wreck the strike thru- out the country. At that John*L. Lewis charged Far- rington with strikebreaking and ac- cepting money from the operators, Is is surprising that the coal diggers would come to the conclusion that their president is on the payroll of the operators, considering his actions? The operators were highly appreci- ative of his efforts in their behalf dur- ing the 1922 strike. Farrington never has any trouble with the coal barons. His chief cause of worry is the pro- gressive element» in the union. On them hé vents ‘his wrath. Opposed Special Convention. In March 1917, ballots were sent out from the Secretary-Treasurer’s office, calling for a special conven- tion to consider the Northern Illinois machine agreement. This agreement aroused much, opposition among the miners and resulted in several local strikes, the men refusing to operate the machines. President Farrington walked into the,board room of the district offices in Springfield and inquired if it was true that ballots calling for a spe- cial convention were sent out. He was answered in the affirmative. He then made the following remark: every God damn_son of a b — — — in the organization votes for a spe- cial convention there is’ not going to 'be. any called. If these God damn hastards are trying to break up the organization, I'll break it up for them myself.” There were present when this state- ment was made: John L. Lewis, Springfield; James Pitman, Carrier Mills, James Box, Virden; G. J. Frick, Marion and C..S. Stohlberg, Spring- field. < Contempt for Membership This statement reveals the mental attitude of “Czar” Farrington toward the rank and file. He has the most utter contempt for the masses and while this contempt is shared by the officialdom of the United Mine Work- ers of America, outside of the pro- gressives, Farrington is less success- full in camouflaging his attitude than the rest. Let the miners pay the dues that cover Farrington’s salary and keep their mouths shut, is his guiding thot. : et The miners who worked the so- called long wall mines of Northern Illinois were tricked into the agree- ment by Farrington, but when they learned what had been imposed on them they revolted. But Farrington had them tied up in a knot and sold “according to the constitution.” When they revolted, he took down the rules and brutally informed them that he would force them to work under the agreement or fill their places with scabs. This is where constitutions come in handy to the labor fakers. Farrington did not bother about violating the constitution when he traded the min- ers’ votes to Frank L. Smith, the republican party candidate for gov- ernor. But the sacred agreement with the boss must be kept for the sake of Farrington’s bank account and his future prospects. The coal operators like to deal with a man who can force the miners to take whatever they feel like giving them. It pays them to have a man like that as pres- ident of the Miners’ Union. But he must be able to deliver the goods, so Farrington did not let the grass grow under his feet in placing the iron heel on the miners who refused to work under the machine agreement, Farrington Speaks Instead of hurling epithets at Far- rington, we have followed the policy in these articles of letting the big labor faker speak for himself, We have placed the versatile agent of the coal barons on the stand and al- lowed him the privilege of reading his own indictment. The following letter to Mr. Peter Grubich, Secretary L. U. 620, LaSalle, Illinois, is as brazen a piece of work in behalf of the coal operators as we dare say, the oldest member of the Mlinois miners’ union can recollect. The threat to crucify the men who had struck, on the cross of gold, furnished by the coal barons of Illinois was bad enough. But Far- rington was not satisfied with that. He also decided to smash their fellow workers who assessed themselves to keep the bread in the mouths of their comrades’ wives and children while they were standing up for their rights against the operators. The Tell-Tale Letter. The letter follows: “Springfield, IIL, Feb. 14, 1917. “Mr. Peter Grubich, Secretary L. U, 620, LaSalle, Illinois. “Dear Sir and Brother: «I am writing you concerning the rebellion of the members of your local union over the adoption of the machine agreement negotiated to cover the operation of machines in the long wall mines of Northhern Illinois. . “My understanding is that the pre sent status of this trouble is as fol- lows: Your members have refused to work on the machines but the hand {men are still at work and propose to “Tf! supporting the idle machine men, chines I shall have no choice but to “So that there will be no misunder-| revoke your local charter and I shall standing among your members as to the exacts facts in this case, I.ad- vise you that their positions is a viola- tion of paragraph B of the 20th sec- tion of our Joint Agreement and can- not and will not be countenanced by the district officials, For’ the Companies “For your members to assess them- selves to support the machine men who are idle because of their refusal to recognize the provisions of a legal agreement would be illegal and your members would not be obliged to pay the assessment, nor are the companies obliged to collect the assessment and the companies have already notified me that they would not do so. Further- more, for your local to use any of its funds to support these machine men during their period of idleness would be a violation of section 25, article 14, International Constitution and later on I propose to have our traveling auditor go over your local accounts and if this audit develops that any of your local funds have been used for the purpose of supportihg these machine men, I shall enforce the provisions of the constitution in that respect. “The machine agreement was neg- otiated and signed in good faith and there is no legal way whereby its provisions can be amended and set aside except in a regular joint scale not falter in my duty in this respect. Instead I shall take the necessary steps to have your lotal charter re- voked and once it becomes necessary for me to have it revoked, it will not be restored except as provided for in section 12, article 20, International Constitution. If your local charter is revoked your members will be de- prived. of all the rights and privileges accorded members of the United Mine Workers and if any of them should meet with death during the period of revocation or before the expiration of’ thirty days after your charter has been restored their heirs will not re- ceive the $250.00 death indemnity pro- vided for in section 23, article 14, District Constitution. “Evidently your members are be- ing misled and deceived into the be- lief that there is some means where- by they will be able to escape work- ing under this machine agreement. So that you may know the truth,-I say to you most earnestly, there is no escape from its provisions and your members should be acquainted with the fact. The time is now past for any furthet parley or delay about this matter and I instruct you to lay this letter before your members and par- ticularly before the machine men im- mediately and inform them that, un- less work on the machines is res- conference and the members of the umed, your local charter will be rey- United Mine Workers of America are legally and honorably bound to re- spect its provisions.” (Note that Farrington, as already | stated, declared he would not tolerate | | oked and perhaps some of your mem- bers permanently expelled from the organization. \ “I would like to be advised immédi- ately, or as soon after as it is pos- the calling of a special convention so |sile for you to present this matter that the rank and file thru their de! egates could have a say on this agree- ment.) The Strikebreaker President “|. . As president of, the Illinois Miners’ Union, I am bound to employ every means at my command in order to induce or force them to do so and I now officially advise that unless your to your members, as to what they propose to do. “Yours truly? “Frank Farrington, President.” Constitution Used Against Miners After reading the above one cannot help coming to the conclusion that the constitution, to Farrington, is merely an instrument to hog tie the coal dig- members go to work on these ma-| gers and force them to accept any ag- Only the strong SSSS —S SSS SS eS ES Tuesday, October 21, 1924 reement that Farrington in conjune: tion with the operators put over! Every disciplinary clause in the con- stitution is called into play te punish those who use their only weapon, the strike, against the bosses. Threats of revocation of charter, threats of suspension, threats of expulsion, threats of loss of death. benefits—all these threats are used in behalf of the coal operators, Is it surprising that the coal dig: gers of Illinois believe that Farring: ton js on the pay roll of the Illinois coal operators? Is it surprising that the coal operators should give Far- rington handsome and costly wedding gifts while they give jail sentences to men like Alexander Howat and Jim MacLachlan and other leaders who are loyal to the miners? Is it sur- prising that Frank Farrington is the favored son of the unspeakable Len Small, the capitalist politician, while Duncan McDonald is universally de nounced by the capitalist press! There is a reason. The men who are denounced by the coal operators and their kept press are loyal to the workers. Farrington is loyal to the coal operators. Hesis their chief “in- side man” in the coal miners’ union of Illinois. Use of Criminals Future articles of this series wili deal with Farrington’s actions during the “outlaw strike” of 1919, his hir- ing of sluggers to beat up delegates from the mines and his slush fund which he was compelled to give an account of by the International Gon: vention. The DAILY WORKER wil) publish photographic evidence of the use of gunmen and panderers by Far. rington in order to crush the strike People who have wondered why Small opens the gates of Joliet from the inside to men and women of the underworld, will be no longer mys- tified when, they read the story of the “outlaw” strike of 1919 and the disreputable characters used by Far- rington to slug the strikers into sub- mission. WG Swarte— Drawn especially for the DAILY WORKER by K. A. Suvanto, SACCO AND VANZETTI. (Continued from Page 1.) the eyes of the workers. The work- ers know the Tribune and News as militant organs of capitalism and foes of the working class movement. What the masses don’t yet realize is that the it between Small and the News-Tribune clique is not a fight over principle, but a fight over loot. . * * ET, there is something encourag- ing in the growing skepticism of the masses toward the capitalist press. This ¢hange fs manifesting itself in the increasing circulation of the DAILY WORKER, the only working class daily in the English language that leads the workers in their every- day battles against the capitalist en- emy and points out the road to their émancipation. The present circula- tion drive of the DAILY WORKER, which ends on Nov. 7, the anniver- sary of the Russian revolution, is moet- circulation manager and his corps of voluntary helpers are working over- time taking in the flood of subscrip- tions, and he is taking in more mem- bers into the DAILY WORKER Brick- layers’ Union, every day, than there re pennies in a five dollar bill. This proves that the workers are waking uy it . . OOD news has a habit of coming in torrents. The Prince of Wales paid us a visit—or rather the stock- yards, but then we must not be too particular. It is true he left many sick hearts and sore heads after him, But the Duke of Alba and his better halt—very much better from the point of view of pulchritude—came along right after the prince left dnd took a peep at the hogs. The hogs were not #o interested in the duke as they were in the prince. Now comes the news that James A, Stillman, the banker, Tha ‘who haa long been « jhorp inthe side hand of the working class can save them! AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. of our upper class, because of his foolish suspicion that his wife had an Indian guide complex, has made peace with Mrs. Stillman. a er) 'HIS is all very interesting, particu: I larly to the unemployed workers. They can pick up a copy of the New ‘Jork Times, if they exist in the me- tropolis and reclining luxuriously on the benches of Bryant Park, get a mental thrill out of the news that banker Stillman, was able to present his newly married daughter with a million dollar necklace after paying lawyers a couple of millions during the past two years in an illegitimate quarrel with his wife, . * . N’'T it consoling to know that tho millions are starving ‘with hunger, our ruling class can live ob: livious of such things as unemploy: ment, hunger and want? Yet this kind of lite will not go on forever, In 1914, the czar of Russia and his hench: men were enjoying life, and the Rus- sian workers were not so happy. But today, the Russian workers are on the top of the heap and the czar much at the bottom,