The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 22, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, October 22, 1924 WORKERS PARTY TELLS STONE OF LABOR IN PRISON Cal’s Attorney General Shows His Ignorance (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 21.— Harlan Stone, attorney-general of the United States, in reply to a resolution passed by New York trade unions and fraternal or- ganizations demanding the free- dom of persons convicted for the expression of opinion, denies that there is any “person in the United States today undergoing imprisonment in any federal court for the free expression of opinion.” In the letter sent to Charles Krumbein, New York district or- ganizer of the Workers Party, Mr. Stone further goes on to state that “neither the president nor this department has any jurisdiction whatever regarding the extension of executive alem- ency to persons who have been convicted for violating a state law.” 90 In California Prisons. When interviewed here today Krum- bein made the following statement, “There are today 90 workers impriso- ned in the state of. California, for attempting to exercise the right of free speech guaranteed them by the consti- tution of the United States. “In Massachusetts, Coolidge’s home state, Judge Thayer has just confirmed the sentence of the two workers— Sacco and Vanzetti. This case has attracted national and world-wide attention. In all there are 106 workers in the United States, who are in jail in START 7,000 MILE. TRIP TO DISCOVER NEW ROUTES FOR AIR MAIL (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) MITCHELL FIELD, L. I., Oct, 21, —Lieut. M. L. Elfiott, U. S.A., hop- ped off today on an inspection trip of the east-west air mail routes that will keep. him flying over 7,000 miles for a month. The primary purpose of the trip Is to find new air ways for mail planes. The war department author- ized O. E. Cesare, an artist, to ac- company Lieutenant Elliott and make sketches of the country oovered. The first stop will be Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Then the plane will go to Cleveland, Bryan, Ohio, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, Columbus, Neb- raska, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco, California, Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, Texas, San An- ton‘o, C¥icago and back to Mitchell field. utter violation of the federal consti- tution. “The fact of the matter is that the federal government thru the agents of the department of justice, has taken a prominent part in these state cases, often furnishing evidence ahd materal assistance, “specially was this true in the Bridgeman case in Michigan where William Z, Foster, and C. E. Ruthen- berg were tried at the instigation of the agents of the federal @epartment of justice. Mr. Stone’s attempt to plead “lack of jurisdiction” is simply a subterfuge. Workers Would Like to Know. “Has Mr. Coolidge in his campaign utterances made even the faintest mention of-his attitude toward the imprisonment of these men and women? Does Mr. Coolidge mean to imply. that he can by resorting to a legal technicality evade responsibility for the existence of this standing menace to the free activity of the working class? The workers would like to know.” 2 ee ne Advance Announcement By William Z. Foster By Alfred Wagenknecht Exit Savinkov By Alexander Bittelman The Torchbearers By Moritz J. Loeb An inside vie it is doing By Keene Wallis Our Future Tasks : By Tim Buck [By Wm. F, Dunne Europe. By Jack Lee colorful, and press. Photographs $2.00 a year ) THE WORKERS MONTHLY 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Iilinols, Enclosed find §.... Some of the contents of the first issue of The Workers Monthly Out November First The Workers Party to the Fore An analysis of the political and industrial situation. A Visit with Sun Yat Sen A colorful story of Canton and the revolutionary nationalist leader of the Chinese masses. The most dramatic event in the recent history of Russia, written from the full documents just arrived from Moscow. of the DAILY WORKER machinery, what what it wants to do. A Harvest Stiff Comes Back to Town A poem with the keen atmosphere of proletarian struggle. Trades Congress of Canada and A size-up of conditions among our neighbors to the North. Shop Committees--A Revolutionary Weapon One of the most burning issues before the labor movement dealt with by Dunne, who has just returned from a trip thru Profusely illustrated with Drawings | wvarsrescccesserrveree STATED: ssssssservsorseccesrcesonsen The Rocky Mountain Miners The story of an industry by a worker who knows it from intimate Sree as well as by thoro study. A BN akloy and also informative, article. This gives you a little inkling of the treasures that THE WORKERS MONTHLY will bring to you. for other announcements as the November issue goes to Watch Cartoons Single copy 25 cents f $1.25 six months ————— — —USE THIS BLANK— — — — — —— seecenneecnnnsennennens BIG RESPONSE TO SPECIAL NOV. TTH EDITIONS List of the Articles to Appear Announced The announcement that the DAILY WORKER. will issue two — editions in celebration of the seventh anniversary of the Soviet Republic of Russia has brought enthusiastic response from the readers of the paper. The first special anniversary number will come out on Satur- day, Nov. 1, and the second, Thursday, Nov. 6. Russia Works Toward Commuhism. Specially prepared articles will be written for the two numbers, covering every phase of the revolution, thru its preparatory stages, the dark days, the bitter and heroic struggles and the upward road to victory. These special issues are significant at this time because of the interna- tional position of the first’ workers’ republic. While the-capitalist nations of the world are being torn with the contradictions of their own political economy, while the workers every- where face unemployment, lengthening of the workday, cuts in wages, new wars and misery, Russia's new citizens are happily working towards the new society, Communism. While capitak ism becomes more shameless and naked in its decrepit bankruptcy, Rus- sia is forging a new age in the crucible of revolution. Branches throut the country are urged to place their orders immedi- ately for the special celebration meet- ings. Some Features Announced. It is announced that the following articles will feature the two special editions: Seven Years of. Soviet Russia, by William Z. Foster. The Class and Party That Made It Possible, by William F, Dunne. Seven Years Ago, by Max Bedacht. The’ Russian Revolution and the American Communist Movement, by Alexander Bittelman. Leaders of the Russian Revolution, by J. Louis Engdahl. Gompers and Russia, by Earl Russell Browder. The Russian Revolution “and the Communist International, by Charles E. Ruthenberg. Russia's Youth, by Oliver Carlson. Hughes and Russia, by Tom John O'Flaherty. The Proof of a _ Revolutionary Theory, by James P. Cannon. Russia and the Oppressed Nationali- ties, by Harrison George. The International Position of Soviet Russia, by I. Stalin, secretary, Com- munist Party of Russia. Liberal Women Alone Greet Debs In Berger’s City By G. S. SHKLAR. (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 21.—Con- siderable indignation has been aroused in the socialist and labor circles at the announcement that Eugene V. Debs is scheduled to speak in Milwaukee on January 6, under the auspices of Mil- waukee Forum, a privately owned in- stitution, It is strongly rumored that the so- cialist party of Milwaukee did not want to organize a lecture for Debs in Milwaukee. The membership of the socialist party and progressive trade unionist are wondering why in the city of socialist administration, Debs must speak in a small hall hold- ing only 300 people at the most. It is also interesting to observe that so far no mention of Debs’ lecture ap- peared in the Milwaukee Leader—the private enterprise of Berger and com- pany. The socialist party having used Debs’ prestige in order to put across the LaFollette Vetrayal is now afraid even of the revolutionary pharseology of the old leader and he must come to this city of beer and socialist adminis. tration fame to speak under the aus- pices of the liberal women and long after elections. Sic transit Gloria Mundi. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. IN THE NEXT . Washington Blvd. FHE DAILY WORKER NO REDUCTION IN THE SUGAR TARIFF GIVES $40,000 10 TRUST DAILY (By Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—No re- duction In sugar tariff rates will be made at this season by President Coolidge, in spite of the recommen- dation to that effect made to him by the tariff commission, Consum- ers will continue to pay an addi- tional $40,000 a day to the sugar combine. A hint from the White House that Coolidge would take no action on sugar tariff rates is enforced by a news item issued by his campaign committee. it quotes William Oeschger of Denver as saying that Colorado will go republican because the big profiteers like the present sugar and wool and mineral tariff rates. MERRY TALE IS WELL TOLD BY Sarcasm on Fink By Carl Haessler. (Editor of the Federated Press) William Randolph Hearst is in- directly responsible for a belated re- CARL HAESSLER F. P, Gis Squirts! hashing of time-honored, motheaten, | | TROTSKY URGES CHINESE T0 JOIN THE GLASS WAR Greets Oriental Society (Special to The Daily Worker) } MOSCOW, Oct. 21.—The fol- lowing telegram was sent by jLeon Trotsky, People’s Com- missar of War, in reply to a |message addressed to him by |the Oriental Society for Strug- gle Against Imperialism: program of the struggle against world imperialism, which is now preparing finally to enslave China. | “In your fight, whose progress will {depend on the growth of conscious- | ness and organization of the toiling masses of China and those Chinese intellectual elements who are faithful to their people, you may count on the proletariat of all countries, on one hand, and on inevitable antagonisms | between the world imperialistic depre- |dators, on tho other. “True to the will of the founder, the Union of Soviet Republics will alto- gether and entirely remain on the side jof the oppressed against the oppress- ors. By \their opprobrious work of in Fight on Imperialism) “I wholeheartedly join the} conscious support of the revolutionary | frostbitten, threadbare jumble of|violence ‘the imperialists are driving anti-red yarns in the Chicago Daily|the Chinese people to hate every for- News just, when everyone thought |¢eigner and everything foreign. they had been finally burfed with the} “It is, however, the task of Chinese political decease of Harry M. Daugher ty and the hurried and assisted exit of | sleuth William J. Burns from the de-| partment of justice espionage bureau. News Sees Red Hearst’s evening daily has been giv- ing the Daily News the blind staggers in the race for circulation, though the Hearst sheet sells for 3c and the| News for 2c, Hearst also charges enlarged picture edition sticks to 2c. Various circulation dodges were tried by the News; prizes for best detective word puzzle prizes etc. The columns became more rank to seduce readers from the yellow compétitor. Finally the supreme yellow stunt was launched on October 14 with an 8 column streamer across page one reading “RED” PLOTTERS IN AMERICA. Y Jake Belly Flaps. It appears that Jake Spolansk, one of the more clownish Burns agents in the department of justice, got the hook soon after his chief was chased out of Washington) The kink in the Daily News circulation coincided with the kink in Spolansky’s breadbasket and the two kindred spirits got to- gether to cook up the red series for mutual profit. The installments are tedious and clumsy warmed-over ac- counts of some fact’and much fiction served in what the News evidently regards as Hearst style. The full ridiculous measure of this prehistoric goofing in the News is taken by the DAILY WORKER in a page one announcement appearing on the day the red series began. DAILY WORKER Chortles. “Bolsheviks!” the Daily Worker ex- claims. “Chicago is Don’t read their ‘exposure’ by a ‘re- ured’ secret agent when you can read how they act and what they believe every day in the official ‘red’ news. paper, the DAILY WORKER.” The sauce to this red salad is un- consciously served by the Daily News itself 'in its introduction to Jake Spo- lansky’s tattered tale: “These rum- ors,” the News seriously declares, “have been passed over with a laugh. ‘They have been looked upon by many THE DAILY WORKER as constituting a national bugaboo and stories of what the Communists or radicals were accomplishing have been often set aside as fairy tales. Even so. Except where circulation is threatened by an able and unscrup- ulous competitor and where an un- employed dick is scratching for the beans. Merger of Steamship t.ines, A $5,000,000 merger of the Goodrich and the Graham and Morton steam- ship lines, operating 12 lake steamers, was announced today. The merged concerns will operate at the Goodrich Transit company, ISSUE OF THE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 1. The Program of the Communist International, (Draft adopted at Fifth Congress.) 2. Forces Making for Imperialism. By Manuel. Gomez 3. The Present World Situation. woe By 1. Stalin Secy., Russian Communist Party 4. Prepare for the Coming Struggle y Alexander Bittelman 5. Campaign Notes of a District Organize: By Arne Swabeck 6. Principles of Communist Propaganda....By Communist International And Other Interesting Articles VERSE PICTURES ILLUST! RATIONS ORDER NOW! i ‘ Chicago, Illinois Se Saturdays while the News with its | story solutions, best photographs, cross: | news | |revolutionists, in order to guard the \Chinese people from chauvinism, to |teach it to distinguish in every cap- jitalistic nation between two funda- | mental classes—the imperialistic bour- |geoisie and the revolutionary prole- tariat. | “It is only in union with the work- |ers of the world that the Chinese dem- |ocracy will repel the new imperialistic onslaught. on the national independ- ence of the Chinese people, “Tt hope to dwell more in detail on this world-important question in the |near future. To support the liberative struggle of the toiling Chinese peo- jple is the duty of each revolutionist and the more so is it the duty of the anti-imperialist committee.” se 8 “Hands Off!” Movement Grows, MOSCOW, Sept. 21. — Latest avail- able reports show that the “Hands Off China” Society numbers over 45,000 You’re workers’ battles— their center. | A9it CHICAGO “NAME STREET. Page Threw EVEN HODGES MUST ADMIT DAWES PLAN IS HOSTILE T0 WORKERS The Dawes plan as an instrument of class oppression by international financiers is the keynote of an ad- dress delivered by Frank Hodges, former secretary of the British min- ers’ union and member of the recent Labor government of England. Speaking to a big meeting in the cen- ter of one of the coal mining areas of Great Britain on September 20 he predicted that the Dawes plan would | bring forth a great capitalist of- fensive in the countries outside of Germany against the established conditions of the working class. | members, without Moscow; the mem- | bership includes individual persons | jand collective bodies from among all jclasses of people—workers, employes, | peasants, and all parts, even the re motest ones, of the Union—Ukraine, | Caucasus, Siberia, Turkestan. Not a day passes in Moscow without there being some meeting in factories, offices or military units, with reports giving information on events in China. Everywhere resolutions protesting against attempts of imperialistic inter- vention are being enthusiastically adopted, Earl of Overland : Now Carries Title of Count of No Account “TOLEDO, Oct. 21.—Clarence Earl, dubbed Earl of Overland: for the role he played in the Overland automobile strike here a few years ago, has been indicted in Texas for using the mails to defraud in connection with a fake motor scheme. A picturesque figure, Earl imposed | himself upon the herds of the Over land company, became vice-president of the firm, assume’ the role of “tren man of industry” to the Babhitts of Toledo, and proceeded tp lead h's| company into a disastrous strugele against union labor, The strike proved the Waterloo ot | this industrial Napoleon. His personal fortune crashed. Sheriff's deputies | replaced the armed guards he had in- stalled about his palatial home to} ward off attacks by the “anarchists and reds.” Exquisite furniture and ex- pensive bric-a-brac were knocked! down to the highest bidders while Earl disappeared. Now an obscure news dispatch from Texas records his disastrous encounter with the law on/ fake promotions charges. i Join the Workers Party! Hired! Until November 7 If you want a larger and stronger DAILY WORKER to fight the The Job is Yours || It is ap to YOU to carry bricks to the building—and every brick 'Iii|_ you send us is added strength to a mighty working class structure ag | Become a Builder Wi] The FUTURE of the DAILY WORKER depends on YOU. SEND THIS BRICK TO THE BUILDING OF The Daily Worker | | | | “The National Labor Daily” 1113 W. Washington Blvd. RATES SOOO a year §3.50-6 months 200 3 montts -~$800 a year F450 6 montis § 250 Eamon THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER NEGROES WITH WINTE FRIENDS LAW VIGLATORS At Least That Is What Chicago Police Think In the opinion of Officers | Cooper and O'Brien of the third |district police station, any Ne- ;gro who has white friends and |visitors is a criminal, and must ‘be arrested. Last week William Gray, a Negro workman, and his wife, |who reside at 4145 Vincennes Ave, were visited by a white couple, friends of the Grays. The two above mentioned Sherlock Holmes policemen spied the white couple enter the, house where Negroes reside, and straight away went to Mr. Gray’s flat, rang his door bell and announced that all the occupants were under, arrest. The Grays, their white friends and a roomer of theirs were all taken ‘to the police station. In court’ this case was continued because the officers ad- mitted that nothing disorderly was found at Mr. Gray’s flat. In other words, the two policemen objected to the whites visiting Negroes. Has it come to pass in Chicago that Negroes are liable to arrest solely on account of having white friends and visitors? It appears that way. The writer, a Negro, has more white friends and visitors than Ne- groes, and I am pondering if some of the insignificant specimens of hum- anity and capitalist minions, the po- |licemen, will place me'and my white guests under arrest for the crime of | being friends. The policemen have been carrying on a reign of terror during the past year by molesting, insulting, assault+ ing and arresting Negro and white couples, and Negro and fair com- plexioned Negro couples. They un+ doubtedly recefved instructions from |higher ups to carry on this dirty work, This illustrates to what extent the \capitalist minions and hirelings will go to in their efforts to prevent Ne- gro and white workers from becom- ling friendly, and to keep them separate \and apart. Fortunately, however, in spite of all |the vicious tricks of the capitalist éx- \ploiters, Negro and white workers are becoming friends and are mixing and [mingling together. | | | | | Chicago, Illinois ng a TN en nNOS