The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1924, Page 2

peereeie ene Heh Page Two WORKERS PARTY INVITES 1. W. TOUNITED FRONT Communists Urge Fight Against Capitalism A communication was sent to the |. W. W. convention in Emmet Memorial Hall yester- day, calling on the I. W. W. to select a committee of three to act with a similar committee of | three from the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Workers Party in a nation-wide cam- paign of protest against the crushing of labor organizations by the capitalist class. The letter, signed by William Z. Foster, chairman, and C. B Ruthenberg, executive secre- tary, of the Workers Party, sent its warmest revolutionary greet- ings to the proletarian -fighters of the I. W. W. held as prisoners by the common enemy, the ¢cap- italist class, and called the attention of the convention to the necessity of united action of all workers ‘against the oppressive measures of the capi- talist class. Letter to 1. W. W. Convention. A basis for discussion is outlined to the convention by the Workers Party letter, which is printed in full below: To the 16th General Convention of The Industrial Workers of the World Emmet Memorial Hall, Chicago, I. Comrades and Fellow Workers: In view of the fact that the repres- sive forces of capitalist society are attempting by every means, legal and illegal, to crush every revolu- tionary labor organization and per- secute its members, and in consid- eration of the plain necessity of united action by all such orgahiza- tions upon defense against their common enemy, therefore, the Workers Party of America proposes to you the following action: ‘That your convention elect a com- mittee of three to meet a committee of three from the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party to work out a nation-wide program of action. As a basis for discussion by such joint committee, the Workers Party proposes the following actions to be jointly undertaken: 1.» Nation wide and international protest against’ the deportation of workers. 2. A nation-wide protest against criminal syndicalist laws and partic- ular protest and work for their re- peal in states where these laws ex- ist or are enforced. 3. A nation-wide campaign for the release of criminal syndicalist law prisoners, to include’ special campaigns in states where such prisoners are held. 4. A special nation-wide cam- paign for release of workers who have been framed up on various criminal charges, including the Cen- tralia victims, Mooney and Billings, Ford and Suhr, Rangel and Cline and Sacco and Vanzetti. The Workers Party of America recommends that, to carry on these measures, joint action be taken as follows: A. Mass meetings in every large city thruout the country, with special meetings of protest in particular states. B. A campaign of publicity thru- out the entine labor press. _ Cc. A campaign within the labor unions to rouse wide masses of the rank and file fora support of these measures. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party sends, thru you, its warmest revolutionary greetings to the proletarian fighters of the I. W. W. held as prisoners ‘by the common enemy,-the capitalist class, and declares its readiness to PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK \ DENTIST Rendering Expert for 20 ¥ . al Service 645 SMITHFIELD S8T., 1627 CENTER AVE., ar 7th Aye. . Arthur St. IN THE NEXT morial Hall, and given to the DAILY mittee of the’ convention, 16TH ANNUAL CONVENTION (Day by Day) On Monday, Oct. 20, the seventh day of the 16th annual convention opened gates present, except those who were in the day formally withdrew from jthe proceedings, presenting a written Cantwell. \for their actions the following: they felt that. one-third of the delegates present were partial to Doyle and Fisher; the recording secretary had acting as stenographer for Doyle and Fisher, and was passing notes in the convention. With their withdrawal twenty-seven tion. Several wires were read and filed. respective reports which were ac- cepted with one exception and in some instances given further instruc- tions. The constitution committee re- ported in part, “That we accept the preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World as read.” A further mo- tion from the constitution committee was as follows: “That the present constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World be laid on the table and a@ new constitution be drafted.” Car- ried unanimously. 3 The auditing committee on the main office, general defense, Solidar- ity, Pioneer, small I. U.’s and the Equity. Printing company brought in their report, which stated they found the books all correct, The report was held in abeyance until a report is heard on the general executive board books. % Following the auditing committee the general administration officials, who had been elected on this floor to act pending the outcome of the pres- ent controversy, reported thru fellow meet with a committee elected by the I. W. W. convention or appoint- ed by its general administration, to discuss the above or any other meas- ures they may offer to open the prison doors, *‘ Fraternally, Central Executivé Committee, Workers Party’ of America, W. Z. Foster, Chairman, C. E. Riitheiberg, Executive Sec- retary. Doyle Makes His Report. ‘In his recommendations to the con- vention, Thomas Doyle, suspended secretary-treasurer, likened the I. W. W. of the present time to “a starving man, walking down the street at the point of death but making a lot of noise.” “We are bankrupt financially from top to bottom,” he declared during his financial: report. Doyle recommended the slashing of payrolls and the drastic reduction of the number of those employed by’ the organization. Doyle declared that he was against the clause in the ‘¢onsti- tution of the I. W. W. limiting the term of the officers to a year. The caliber and ability of the officers is decreasing, and as soon as they learn their jobs they are yanked out. Doyle said he advised that a more easy and speedy method of recall should be devised to take the placp,of the one year clause. aa Urges Raise In Dues. “I am convinced that the I. W. W. is over-officered and over-employed,” Doyle said. He recommended that the dues be raised and the number on payrolls be decreased. Doyle declared a clearing house method of financial organization should be instituted and the general offices put on a sound financial basis. He pointed out that many parts of the constitution, es- pecially those dealing with the forma- tion of the branches and districts, should be changed. “The present controversy has im- paired our efficiency to an alarming degree,” Doyle asserted, “and ¥ hope those officers of the organization elect- ed by this convention will be equal to the task which confronts them.” Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashfand Auditorium, Join the Workers Party! ISSUE OF THE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 The Program of the Communist International. (Draft adopted at Fifth Congress.) Forces Making for Imperialism. Prepare for the Coming Struggles... Campaign Notes of a District Organize: Principles of Communist Propagand: And Other Interesting Articles PICTURES VERSE see By Manuel Gomez wesBy 1 Stalin Russian Communist Party By Alexander Bittelman ly Arne Swabeck By Communist International ILLUSTRATIONS ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. a ¥ Chicago, Illinois at Memorial Hall, with all the dele- excused for committee duty, and two delegates from I. @. 120, who later |statement with their reasons for this action. The two delegates who with- drew were Matt Johnson and Pat They gave as the reason been an employe in the main office, lat they thought Doyle delegates now constitute the conven- Committees then brought in their OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF I. W. W. NATIONAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS The following is an official statement approved by the sixteenth conven- tion of the Industrial Workers of the World, now meeting in Emmet Me- WORKER by Ed Delaney, press com- + worker Broman. He stated in part: “Fellow worker Frank Gallagher turn- ed in his resignation as business manager of the Pioneer, Industrial Solidarity, and Equity Printing Co. We have placed George Williams in his place.” He also stated that the in- junction proceedings had come up be- fore the Master in Chancery and had been postponed until Friday, Oct. 24, at the request of the attorney for Rowan and the board members who had signed it. He also stated that fellow worker Gray, now acting as as- sistant secretary-treasurer had asked Rowan if he would withdraw the in- junction for the welfare of the organ- ization and that Rowan had replied he would not, His report was accepted and the regular noon-day adjourn- ment was called. The afternoon session opened with the reading of several communications and wires. The body then wént on record to publish:a statement that was adopted in the morning session relative to the convention proceedings, in all of the organization publications. Immediately following that action |the body moved into new business. The report of the Italian paper Il Proletario was taken up and laid over to the grievance committee for fur- ther action. \ Fellow worker Gray, of the tem- porary administration, reported at the request of the assembled members. He stated practically the same thing that fellow worker Broman had in the forenoon, hO6wever, he added that when the injunction proceedings started before the Master in Chancery, it would cost the organization atleast $500.00 per day, and that it would probably take ten days to finish it. He also stated that the temporary officials had taken over the cash, not attached by the injunction, from Doyle, Fisher and Morris. The afternoon session was then ad- journed to allow the committees time to function. Signed: P. J. Welinder, chairman, and Ed. Delaney, Press Committee. ‘PEARLS, SHAWLS AND LADY ASTOR IN POLL BATTLE . : t Baldwin’s Chickens. Fly the Tory Coop (Special to the Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 22.— Women are playing the greatest part in the pres- ent election that they have ever taken in British politics. Not only are there 42 women candidates for seats in the house of commons, but fully 300 women are taking active parts in the campaign. Every political meeting finds women. jleading the heckling of the speakers, if the are not represented on the plat- form. Pearls and Shawls. Lady Diana Cooper who a fortnight ago was a star in a Broadway pro- duction, now is out early every morn- ing in the Lancashire fog canvassing the girl workers in the mills for votes for her husband, Duff Cooper, Lady Diana affects no simple garb for campaigning. She is dressed in fashion’s latest, and wearing a choker’ of pearls, she provides a strange con- trast with the beshawled gifls of the mills. a Miss Isabel MacDonald, daughter of the premier, is speaking several times daily and visiting the voters of Basset- law constituency in behalf of her brother Malcolm, who is a candidate. Betty Baldwin, daughter of the former premier, unlike her brother Oliver, who is a “shirt-sleeve” labor- ite campaigner, is spending her time soliciting votes for the same cause, but gowned in the most recent mode. She is attempting to win the votes for tho bachelor candidate, Major Robertson, who is standing for the labor party in West Islington. Lady Astor is making her usual slanderous campaign against labor in Plymouth, Packers Have Hopes. An optimistic survey of business conditions and a prediction of con- tinued prosperity in 1925 as the United States reaps the benefit of re- adjustment in Burope thru operation of the Dawes plan was given at to- day's session of the Institute of Amer- {can Meat Packers’ convention here by R. E, Chapman, of the American Provision and Export Co. ED. GARBER QUALITY SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2427 LINCOLN AVENUE CHICAGO Telephone Diversey 6129 "Secretary Wanted “— Woman stenographer, competent to prepare manuscript for publication, Must have extensive knowledge of labor movement, Position open in December. Age between 35 and 50. Single. v J. R. SWARTS, 349 E. Ohio St. Chiengo, Il. ) THE DAILY WORKER PROGRESSIVES Chicago Tribune Tries SMASH LEWIS | to Parade as Fighter IN NOVA SCOTIA) for New Against Old T.U. E. L. Policies Are Again Vindicated By J.B. McLACHLAN (Special to the Daily Worker) GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, Oct. 21.—After fourteen months of a provisional rule, set up by John L. Lewis in District No. 26, the miners of Nova Scotia have again their district charter re- stored, and are again running their own affairs. Had Lewis deliberately set out fourteen months ago to wreck the miners’ union his re- cord here could not be blacker. He started out by wrecking a strike where the miners had victory almost within their grasp. The strike had been called as; a-pro- test against the use of government armed forces, which were being used to crush the striking steel workers. So | effective was the tie-up in the mines that the governor-general of Canada, had, after a conference with the min- ers’ officers agreed to the withdrawal of the troops. (*) Hardly had these miners’ officers left the governor-gen- eral, than Lewis got word of what was going on and rushed to the aid of the British Empire Steel corporation by de- posing the district officers, and revok- ing the charter and ordering the min- ers back to work on pain of taking away their local union charters. For this black deed Lewis will never, never be forgiven by the miners of Nova Scotia. Broke His Word. By such acts as these did Lewis continue to reign in Dist. No. 26. He promised the men relief last January when they again had to strike to resist @ wage cut. He never kept his word, but made a contract with the coal com- panies behind the men’s backs which enabled him to collect out of the pay envelopes of the miners $118,000. This precious contract of his he submitted to a referendum vote of the miners. It was voted down) and he told the miners it did not matter how they voted, the contract would go into ef- fect. GsoH, Sale Oo, : Wasted Union Funds. The men he set up as district of- ficers were men that the miners had previously kicked out of office. These men, like the man that put them there, held the rank and file in contempt. ‘They spent the union funds like water until the corrupt Lewis himself got disgusted with them and fired them all and restored the district autonomy, en- abling the miners to elect their own officers. : Lewis sent three men from Indian- apolis to audit the district books for the 14-month period. . Their audit was so glaringly wrong that Lewis ordered a@ second audit. The excuse they made for coming back to make the second audit was that there was too much rum in the dictrict office the first time to permit a proper audit being made. May Land in Jail. The second audit showed that $1,481.50 had been stolen and now the Lewis secretary-treasurer for Dist. No. 26 is up against the bonding company and may find himself in jail before it is all over. Such is John L. Lewis’ record in Dist. No. 26. With shameless treach- ery to the working class of Nova Scotia, he came in here; with black- est shame and dishonor he goes out. During all this trying period not a man left the union. But Lewis expel- led hundreds. The miners of Nova Scotia always had an industrial form of organization, every man from the coal face to the shipping piers being members. Lewis threw all the sec tion men out of the union. These men looked after some 150 miles of road. Others were also thrown out, such as mine examiners. Progressives in Control. Today the charter is restored and the district office is filled with men from the progressive wing of the min- ers’ union. Lewis failed completely to crush the left wing movement in Nova Scotia. As a matter of fact the treachery of Lewis and the corruption of his district flunkies has resulted in driving the great body of miners more and more to the left, and among them John L Lewis is discredited for ever- more, . In: this struggle against Lewis for the past fourteen months, and in every effort to maintain the union from the disruptive attempts made both from within and from without, one man stood out prominently—that man was Joe Nearing, who has been nominated for the office of International secretary treasurer of the U. M. W. of A. Near- ing is young, virile and absolutely fearless and one of the best informed members of the left wing movement in Nova Scotia, For years he has fill- ed various offices in his local union at Reserve Mines. In this district Near- ing shall poll a splendid vote against | ‘This is indicated by the fact that the Lewis gang received no nomina- tions except in one local where Lewis got a nomination for vice-president, and even that nomination was intend: wing movement in the forthcoming the DAILY. WORKER. By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, : Beles the Chicago Tribune, self-styled “World's Greatest Newspaper,” unblushingly admitted, lets out an awful’ howl, in the best trust-busting style of the rampaging sen- ator from-Wisconsin, It is wild against “monopoly”; this time the so-called monopoly of the newsgathering agency, the Associated Press, over its own dispatches. The Tribune wants the Associated Press stuff, not only for publication in its pages, but also to send out thru its broadcasting station to listeners in on the radio, and it is going to fight it out in the courts, * * * ° It sounds rather strange for The Tribune to proclaim that, “The issue is regarded as in effect a clash between the old and the new.” The Tribune claims it is on the side of the radio, that it wants to serve the people, that it is for pro- gress, Just a little study of the situation will show that The Tribune is just playing its old hypocritical game of trying to put itself in a favorable light before the public. This is The Tribune that. robbed the school children of Chicago, thru midnight land deals in the board of education. This is the Tribune, champion of the Landis “open shop” schemes. This is the Tribune that Is erecting its new build- ing with scab labor. This is the Tribune that labels as “Bolshevik” every little change that hits in the slightest at things as they are. Now this Tribune claims to be the advocate of “The New.” $ * * e * The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press, per- haps the world’s most extensive newsgathering agency. The © Associated Press is not a profit-making institution. It be- longs to its hewspaper members, the largest capitalist news- papers in the nation. They direct its affairs and share its expenses. Its nearest competitors are the United Press Association and the International News Service, both money- making propositions, the later owned by William eg ig e Hearst. While the service of the last two agencies can bought by newspapers, it is impossible for any newspaper in any city to get a franchise in the Associated Press with- out the consent of all other “A. P.” newspapers in that city. Of course this never happens since newspapers already in the field, do not want competitors. Hearst has secured Associated Press franchises only thru buying up entire newspapers already possessing such franchises, costing him millions of follars. But itis inevitable that some Associated Press news- papers should be stronger and wealthier than others, : It is . the most powerful that have most money to spend to en- “trench their positions. It is like the Standard: Oil trust, fighting to maintain its position against its smaller com- petitors, battling for their very lives. The Tribune is strong and powerful. {ts profits run into the millions annually. It has spread out into other publications. It is quick to utilize any new Scheme for its own aggrandizement. The Tribune was not slow to realize the possibilities of the radio. It has its own broadcasting station, over which it even sought to send out the proceedings in the recent Loeb-Leopold murder trial. It costs a huge sum to keep such a broadcasting station in operation. There are returns. Radio users pay no subscription price. There are no adver- tisers. But there is a return in the enhanced prestige of the newspaper doing the ybroadcasti, The Chicago Tribune, no m6re than the Daily News, or any other Mp pon newspaper, believes in the radio as an instrument of progress. It is merely a means for building its own power. It is a weapon with which it can crush some of its competitors, also members of the Associated Press, or subscribers to other news agencies. But every “A. P.” member has a vote in determining the policies of the organization. The little fellows, in self- defense, demand that “A. P.” news be not used for the pur- poses of the radio. The issue, therefore, is not “a clash between the Old and the New,” but a warfare between the two factions in the Associated Press, the rich and pee newspapers, striv- ‘ing to further entrench themselves, and the smaller news- papers, with diminishing circulations and constantly on the verge of bankruptcy, ready for a new capitalist press con- solidation. ° ° ° ° It is well for the workers, half a million of whom daily buy the Chicago Tribune, that the warfare in industry ex- tends to newspapers as well. It is a warfare in which the workers have no interest; no more than they are interested in the stru; between Standard Oil and Sinclair Oil; bet- ween United States | or Bethlehem. Steel, or other groups of capitalists. That is the “dog eat dog” struggle within the capitalist social order. 5 The workers have but one interest. That is to build their own power. Part of that effort must be the building of an unconquerable press of their own; to make it the most powerful. That is the only struggle between “the old and the new” that is worth while; the supplanting of capital- ism by Communism. 7 Rail Service Cut Off. ed to be taken as an effective slap at Lewis. We predict «that the labor movement shall hear more of Joe Nearing as the years go by, and his appearance on the ticket of the left train was stopped at Chenju, international elections of the U. M. W. of A., and the vote he shall carry out of Dist. 26, shall stamp his name on the mind of John L Lewis as one more man that he has got to fear. *(Kditor’s Note-—The troops were not withdrawn from the mining dis- trict until after the miners had been forced back to work by John L. Lewis.) Subscribe for “Your Daily,” MEETING TONIGHT. aon ed “ ‘ Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? one H German-Hu 1 Willow St. John Feelnoael |, Sec'y, 3741 Semi- nary Ave. SHANGHAI, Oct. 22.—Efforts to re- today, a passenger train being com-| 97, pha pelled to returm to Shanghai. The Hei five miles out of Shangha!, on orders of Chi Shih-Yuan, military governor of Kiangsu and commander in chief of the Kiangsu forces which captured Shanghai,from the Chekiang troops. 3353 Bs8d 22 8 2 2 8 BSB vie ROAST a UN PANN, Thursday, October 23, 1924 HOOVER SPENDS U.S. MONEY TO. AND COOLIDGE Anything to Make the Poor Elephant Go By CARL HAESSLER. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent Herbert Hoover’s department of commerce, supposedly an im- partial government unit that tends strictly to business, is in reality another cog in the Cool- idge re-election machine. This is demonstrated by little tell tale markings on two sets of envelopes recently delivered to the Federated Press office in Chicago by the postoffice de- partment. Sends Out Pamphlet Flood. It is a common, practice for federal jobholders to campaign for their chief when he needs help but it is general- ly expected that government funds and apparatus be devoted to other than partisan purposes. ty Apparently secretary Hoover .‘be- lieves another well-known crisis. of civilization is at hand and that every resource must be mobilized to save capitalism, just as relief funds and stores were used in Europe by his relief staff after the war to intrench reaction and overthrow progressive and radical governments. Hoover's. speech against government is being distributed in a national flood of pamphlet reprints. The Federated Press. received two copies entirely unsolicited, The pamphlets do not.say who is distributing them or paying for them. They bear no union label. The envelopes are plain large govern- ment envelopes bearing 1c embossed postage. There is no return address. Like the pamphlets they are complete- ly anonymous. But there was one clue. velope was addressed: Federated Press 611 'N. Peoria St., 176 © Chicago, Ill. The other was addressed: Federated’ Press : 511'N. Peoria St., 172-6 = Chicago, Ti. These serial numbers were peculiar on an anonymous once-only commu- nication. But they furnished the key. Helps'the Poor G. O. P. The Federated Press receives every week the official reports of the U. 8. department of commerce.,.They bear the department’s return address in one corner and the legend, Official Business—Penalty for Private Use $300, in the other. The Federated Press ‘address,on them carries the same serial numbers, 1188 and 2526, 175 and 172-6, as did the envelopes with Hoover's pro-Coolidge propagan- da—proving that department of com- merce regular mailing lists and: ad- dressing machinery were put at» the disposal of the Hoover campatgn, for the republican party. Your Union Meeting Fourth Thursday, Oct. 23, 1924, Name of Local and Place © of Weer. 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