The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1924, Page 1

| a THE DAIL/ WORKER RAISES TH! STANDARD FOR A WIRKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No/185. Vol. H.No/185. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: outsiae'cnicaro, Outside Chicago, AS WE SEE IT By 7. J. O'FLAHERTY. ORGAN has decided to grant a $200,000 loan to France but he has | not yet made up his mind about the | terms. While he is mediating over the prospective profits, the great banker is automobiling thru southern France with his wife. He may visit the battlefields where his 100,000 Ameri- | can victims are buried, ; ose 'HE Soviet government is getting more stiffbacked every day. The French capitalists thot they were | quite liberal in offering recognition with certain reservation, but Moscow talks back and says that it is sick and tired of reservations, It is re- ported that an agreement between Russia and Japan is ready for the signatures. ‘HE ‘yellow socialists are in the habit of speaking contemptuously of the Communist leaders of Soviet Russia. But let us ‘compare the standing of the two sets of leaders: the red leaders of Russia and the yel- low leaders of the rest of Europe. To- day the Bolsheviks command the re- spect of their enemies because the capitalists fear their power. The yel- Jow socialists, on the other hand are | merely the bootblacks of the bour- é€soisie and are tolerated as long as they are useful in keeping the work- ers.from revolting. * "THE tory party is expected to win in the present election campaign in Britain. The labor party is also ex- pected to make gains. Both parties will grow at the expense of the liberal party which appears to be in the throes of dissolution. The deal made by. Lloyd George, Gray and Asquith With) the tories has created ‘a deep split in the ete ranks, The Man- Lio gor Be all: of the labor party. What Winston Churchill urged one year ago—a liberal-tory coalition against socialism—is now coming to (Continued on ieobusey ned ecs 2.) PEKING TROOPS DEFEATED BY Chinese Capital Cut Off from Outside erect AI the Daily Worker) “SHANGHAI, Oct. 23.—All tele- graph and telephone communi- cation between Tien Tsin and Peking has been cut off and telephone communication with- in'the city of Peking has been interrupted, according to an ur- message received today by a Japanese news agency. Thé situation in Peking is reported critical. © -Communication to Peking was cut off following the return to the city of the eighth mixed le of the eleventh division, pppoe! by Feng Yuh Si- Racks es here said. i Yuh Siang is apparently ally- dng himself with Sun Yo, commander f the 15th mixed brigade, who with- his tfoops from the Chihli lines and moved toward Peking a few days ago. : Wu Meets Disaster. “The Chang forces are reported to have defeated Wu in several heavy agements with terriffic losses in led and wounded. It is believed that complete disaster has overtaken the Peking troops and that this isola- tion of China tells the story silently. ‘Reports from Canton show. that Sun ‘at Sen ‘is on the job that city f hing the remnants of the mer- t's military forces. : ft is not believed that the apparent defeat of the Peking armies and the victory. of Chang will terminate the | Chinese civil war. The great powers are watch! the situation anxiously and it is considered possible that a victory for Japanese influence which success of the Manchurian war 1 would indicate, could: be consid- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. sie mail, $6.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Ratered as Second-class matter, September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulimois under the Act of March 3, 1878. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1924 MINERS CONSIDER JO <> 290 France Bows to Soviet Power STILL DIGGING INTO ELEPHANT’S TREASURE CHEST Plutes Shell Out to Pro- tect Graft SHIN to the Daily Ne teae!: WASHINGTON, os Senator William E. Berit and his committee investigating campaign expenditures of the capitalist political parties were told today by Frank P. Walsh, that the inquiry thus far had (Special to The COLLINSVILLE, Ill, No. 7, United Mine Workers of Ameri. ca, in session here. Walker's Brother Wants to Know. Following Dunne’s talk the meeting was thrown open for questions and after the speaker had answered sev- eral, James Walker, brother of John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Federation, who attacked the Workers Party in the sub-district con- vention yesterday, asked the speaker ye F enetrated the “fringe” of ollette’s charge of a huge republican “slush fund” to secure the election of the Codl- idge-Dawes ticket.’ On this “fringe” now appears the names of the principal re- publican money raisers in the state of Pennsylvania, who told the committee that they had al- ready taken in $350,000 in the fifty-three counties outside the Pittsburgh district, that they were still hard at it and ex- pected to get more before the election. Grundy at the Helm. In charge of the republican collec- tions, according to the testimony, is Joseph R. Grundy, wealthy yarn man- ufacturer of Bristol, and he has been of woolen) goods in Penns) the owner of department stores in Canton, Ohio, and Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive works. Vauclain, it developed, did not do any of the actual collecting, altho his name appeared as a member of the executive committee, headed by Grun- dy, which brought in the money. His personal contribution to the repub- lican fund was $6,100, but the com- mittee brought out _ during cross if LaFollette was any different than when the Workers Party tried to en- dorse him for the presidency. Dunne replied: “The Workers Party laid down cer- tain conditions for the support of La- Follette which, had he complied with them would have made not only his candidacy but his whole organization assume an entirely different character and no one knows that better than you do, Walker. “You know, when you lied about the Workers Party in the convention this morning, that the Workers Party in- sisted on LaFollette’s acceptance of the program of the class farmer-labor party, his submission to its discipline and management of his campaign. The Workers Party demanded that the rank and file of the workers and farm: ers be the dominant force in this cam- paign as against the treacherous and | Ne. “The bestproof,” continued Dunne, “of the truth of the charges we have made against the LaFolletteites is the fact that their first step, after LaFollette launched his candidacy, was to disrupt the farmer-labor parties that had sprung up all thru the middle west and northwest.” Walker, inasmuch as Dunne had called him a liar, demanded the right to defend himself. Dunne replied that he nor any other official spokeman of examination that he had given $10,- 000 to Julius Krutschnitt, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, to be turned over to the “American Economic Institute,” which proposed to conduct a campaign to “keep con- gress from enacting improper legis- lation affecting the rialroads.” As to using money contributed to the American Economic League to “influence legislation,” Vauclain said he was not interested one way or the other. Suggesting that “the country would be better off if congress did not meet for four years, so that. we would have a chance to catch up on all the laws that we now have.” Change Freight Rate on Coal. WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — Freight rates of bituminous coal, in carloads, from mines in southern Illinois, Dan- ville, Murphysboro, Centralia and Du- quoin districts of Illinois to Omaha and South Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, were held by the interstate commerce commission to- day to be unduly prejudicial, but not unreasonable. The railroads were giv- en 90 days to establish rates that will remove the prejudice in favor of the operators in the districts named as against those in the Belleville district. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Roqm, Ashland Auditorium, the Workers Party had been present when the charges had been made in the convention, that this was a Work- ers Party meeting and he had no in- tention of turning it over to Walker or anybody else, but offered to debate with Walker or any other supporter of LaFollette at any time or place. “The Workers Party,” said Dunne, “is in this campaign to get the Com- munist program before as many work- ers as possible. Our speakers are only too pleased to debate these issues with anyone.” Challenge Not Accepted. The challenge was not accepted and Walker subsided to the appaluse of the audience which appeared to thoro- ly enjoy this little passage at arms. After the meeting it was learned that both LaFollette supporters and the Ku Klux Klan had urged the mayor to cancel the permit for the Workers Party meeting. French Evacuating. ESSEN, Oct. 23. — French occupa- tional forces today evacuated Rem- scheid and Lennep in the Ruhr. Dortmund was evacuated yesterday. Departure of the French from the two cities was carried out without difficulty. Lennep had been occupied by the French for 21 months. CLAIM MUCH HERALDED AMERICAN INDUSTRY WASTES $12,000,000,000 —_— WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—American industry suffers a loss of $12,000, 000,000 annually due largely to preventable waste in manufacturing processes, it was announced today by the department of commerce, The facts were compiled by Edwin Ely, government simplification expert. The simplified practices bureau of the department announced that Ely’s > figures were conservative. A report: to Secretary of Commerce Hoover placed the average waste in six ma- jor industries at fifty per cent, rang- ing from 28 per cent in the metal trades to 8 per cent in the building trades and 64 per cent in the manu- facturers of men’s clothing. These statistics would put the in- , {dustrial loss near — $30,000,000,000, s|since in 1923 the manufacturing plants of the United States goods valued at ria This “largely preventable annual waste,” using Ely’s figures, equals the total debt to the United States, more than half the total national indebted- ness, the total income of the United States for the last three years or nearly four, times the federal taxes paid last year, Thru the departinene of commerce studies are being conducted by the department to cut down the waste. fv Nas said “gh saving had ane LaFOLLETTE SUPPORTERS JOIN KU KLUX KLAN IN EFFORT TO STOP DUNNE MEETING AT COLLINSVILLE Daily Worker) Oct. 23—For the first time & workingclass meet- ing was prevented from using the city hall here when the thayor last night closed it to the crowd gathered to hear William F. Dunn, cdndidate for governor on the Workers (Communist) Party ticket. A hall was secured in the Miners’ Institute building and Dunne spoke on the issues of the campaign to an audience among w! gh Were many dele- gates to the convention of Sub-District sist STONE MU RED PLOT’ DOPE OF SPOLANSKY Atty. Gen, Badges Per- sonal Interview (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.— Spolansky’s “red plot” news- paper articles, syndicated in the Coolidge press on the eve of the presidential election, have so distinct a flavor of administra- tion propaganda that The Fed- erated Press has offered to At- torney General Stone a chance to disavow them. These questions were pre- sented to Stone, ‘in press con- ference, after — at “stone “would not answer them in a personal intervi: Asked Four Questions. 1. In view of the attorney general's disavowals of any desire to employ the department of justice for purposes other than the enforcement of law in the regular way, does he not regret the use now being made of the name and prestige of the department in the Spolansky “red plot” articles in cer- tain daily newspapers? 2. Will-the attorney general make @ public statement thru the press de- fining his present position with ref- erence to the so-called “red plots” and the alleged danger of Communist uprisings in the United States? 3. Will the attorney general in this connection define his attitude toward the exploitation of past official con- nection with the secret service as a political campaign device? 4. Does the attorney general be- lieve that the Spolansky articles are now being published without calcula- tion of their political effect upon the LaFollette candidacy? Stone read the questions, after first trying to avoid the subject by saying that “Spolansky left the service last January.” That meant that he left some months before Stone came in and dismissed the force of “anti-red” detectives. After reading them, he ‘said he had “nothing to say” as to the first, third and fourth. To the second question he would reply only that the bureau of investi- gation is employed simply in the in- vestigation and prosecution of viola- tions of federal law. Presumably that meant that he was not concerned with “red plot” fears. Tries to Protect Seif. After a while he came back to the questions, to say that Spolansky, hav- ing gotten out of the department last January, had had no access to the files of the department in preparing any press articles, As a former dean of the law college of Columbia University, Stone has some regard for his own positive statements of fact. But as officer in the Coolidge-Mellon-Weeks cabinet, giving aid to Dawes and the political relics of the Daugherty gang, he had say nothing that can be construed a a rebuke to any of their phase of class fears and hatreds leading to- ward fascism, “F. Hoover, who directed the ar- rest and persecution of the alien rad- icals in 1919-1920, remains at the head of the reorganized bureau of investiga- tions. He hails from Pittsburgh, the home of Mellon and Gary. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Vote Communist This Time! | RECOGNITION IS EXPECTED BY TOMORROW Knotty Questions Will Be Discussed Later (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Oct. 23.—France is expected to formally recognize the Soviet government today or, at the latest, tomorrow. Premier Herriot is following the precedent set by the British government in first granting recognition and talking business afterwards. Opposition from Washington. One of Herriot’s principal pledges in running for election against Poin- care was that he would recognize the Russian Soviet Republic if victorious at the polls. It is public knowledge that his fail- ure to do so to date is chiefly due to opposition from Washington. It is said that Charles Evans Hughes went | P. so far as to threaten France with an immediate demand for payment of the tremendous French debt to America in the event of Paris establishing diplo- matic relations with Moscow. The Soviet government made it quite plain to France that it did not want any recognition with strings at- tached to it. Unqualified recognition or nothing was the Soviet position. France was obliged to comply with of relations between France and Russia was the debt owed to France by the czar. Most of this money went for the purchase of bonds issued by the czar to crush the revo- lution of 1905. The French middle classes are ‘heavy holders of those bonds and the Soviet government fre- quently expressed a willingness to consider this condition without com- mitting the government in any way to recognition of the czar’s debts. It is questionable _ however, in view of France’s continued war on Russia since the 1917 revolution, directly and by proxy, whether the Soviet govern- ment will be now in a position to take a similar view of the matter. Another ,point at issue between France and Russia is the Georgian question. France has recognized the independence of Georgia, even tho the country is a contented part of the Un- ion of Socialist Soviet Republics with a Soviet government of its own. On- ly recently France spent one million dollars in financing a counter-revolu- tion which was only a flash in the pan, yet caused the Soviet govern- ment the loss of millions of dollars. It is not believed that the Herriot government will insist on this point, however, as Russia is now in a posi- tion to ignore capitalist interference with its domestic affairs, better than at any time since the November revo- lution. It is more likely that Her- riot will raise the point and thus keep his promise to the czarist emigres and the Second International which dele- gated part of its capitalist dirty work to Herriot in return for its support in France. A French ambassador is not expect- ed to go to Moscow until some of the main questions at issue are sett!od. Aporetary, te the. Moscow. conditions. St tee er SPE Open French Schools In Turkey. PARIS, Oct. 23.—Frencn schools have re-opened n Turkey, according to official advices received by the for- eign office from Constantinople today. CLAIM “RADIO KNIFE” WILL GUT MORTALITY OF CANCER OPERATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The new “radio knife,” invented by Dr. Max- imitian Stern, of the Broad Street hospital, will lower the mortality of cancer operations, surgeons attend- ing the clinical congress here said today. The “radio knife” is a needle op- erated by means of an electric cur- rent. It causes little or no bleeding. The device looks like a yard rubber wand tipped with a st wire. A sucessful demonstration of the new knife was given before sur- geons ttanding the eongress. i | Where They Speak Communist campaign meetings planned before election day are as follows: Foster in East WORCESTER, Hall, 54 Belmont St., Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 p. m. Mass. — Belmont | Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Beret i eee pe CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. CRISIS Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER, For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents HALF OF MINERS IN COLLINSVILLE FELD JOBLESS Figures Are Presented to Sub-District Meet (Special to the Daily Worker) COLLINSVILLE, fil., Oct. 23. —The figures submitted by the secretary of Sub-District No. 7, BOSTON, Mass. — Scenic Auditor-| United Mine Workers of Amer- fum, Berkley and Tremont Sts., Sun-|ica, whose convention is now in day, Oct. 26, 2 p, m. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Arcade Hall, 14th St. and Park Rd., N. W., Monday, Oct. 27, 8 p. m. BALTIMORE, Md.—Hazazars Hall, 111 W. Franklyn 8t., Tuesday, Oct. 28. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Carnegie Music Hall, corner Ohio and Federal Sts., N. S., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 8 p. m. DILLONVALBE, Ohio. — Thursday, Oct. 30. CINCINNATI, Ohio. — Friday, Oct. 31, 8 p. m. | Gitlow in New England BETHLEHEM, Pa.— Quinn School Auditorium, Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 p. m. CHESTER, Pa—Sunday, Oct 26, 8 . ™. PITTSBURGH, Pa.— Monday, Oct. 27,8 p. m. WILKES BARRE, Pa. — Tuesday, Oct. 28, 8 p. m. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—Labor Lyce- um, 580 St. Paul St., Wednesday, Oct. 29, 8 p. m. ‘RAYMOND, Mont.— Saturday, Oct. 25, 8 p. m. GREAT FALLS. Mont. — Monday, Oct. 27, 8 p. m. BUTTE, Mont. — Wednesday, Oct. 29, 8 p. m. ST. PAUL, Minn.—Ssturday, Nov. 1,8p. m. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Sunday, Nov. 2. DULUTH, Minn.—Monday, Nov. 3. | Ruthenberg in Ohio | CLEVELAND, Ohio — Carpetinas Hall, 1303 West 58th St., Friday, Oct. 24,8 p. m. CLEVELAND, Ohio—Public Square, Sat., Oct. 25, 3 p. m. AKRON, Ohio—Perkins School Au- ditorium, Sat., Oct., 25, 8 p. m. CLEVELAND, Ohio— Jaites Hall, 6006 St. Clair, Sun., Oct. 26, 8 p. m. Engdah! Goes East DETROIT, Mich—Friday, Oct. 31, 8p. m. BUFFALO, N. Y.—Saturday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m. BOSTON, Mass. — Paine Memorial Hall, 9 Appleton St. Sunday, Nov. 2, 3 p..m, CLEVELAND, Ohio. — Bricklayers’ Hall, 2105 21st St., south of Prospect, Monday, Nov. 3, 8 p. m. | Browder in Missouri | KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Musicians’ Hall, Monday, Oct. 27, 8 p. m. ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Labor Lyceum, 1243 N. Garrison, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 8 DP. m. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Sunday, Nov. 2. Bedacht in 3 States TOLEDO, Ohio.—Friday, Oct. 24, 8 p. m. SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Kossuth Hall, 820 W. Indiana Ave., Friday, Oct. 31, TACOMA, Wash.— Eagle’s Hall, 18th and South East St., Sunday, Oct. 26, 8 p. m. ASTORIA, Ore-—Tuesday, Oct. 28, 8 p. m. PORTLAND, Ore—Workers Party Hall, 227 Yamhill St., 3rd floor, Wed- nesday, Oct. 29, 8 p. m. BERKELEY, (al.-— Berkeley High School Auditorium, Allston Way and Grove St., Friday, Oct. 31, 8 p. m. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—226 Valen- cia St. Sunday, Nov. 2. LOS ANGELES, Cal.— Symphony Hall, 282 8, Hill St. Friday, Nov. 4 sp. m session here, show that 50 per cent of the membership is out of employment. The figures are: 4,700 work- ing, 4,600 unemployed. The great majority of those regis- tered as employed are working only two and three days per week. Discuss Jobless Relief. A picture of the misery of these workers is painted by. the discussion during the first day of the session jcentering around proposals for unem- ployment relief. Many of these miners with large families have been unable to get a single day’s work in the mines since last March or April. Winter is near and they face it without clothes, food or fuel. Considerable criticism of the last district convention and officials was voiced’ because of the failure to initi- ate a program of relief. “What is to become of us?” was the question asked by almost every speaker who took part in the debate, and there is no disguising the fact that death from exposure and starva- tion faces hundreds of miners and their families this winter. Quote from Dunne’s Speech. One. passage from the speech of ‘William F. Dunne, made last night fh the Miners’ Hall, is being quoted among the miners with considerable approval this morning. He said: “You have thousands of jobless miners. You marched on non-union mines in West Virginia. Why don’t you march on the Illinois state cap- ital and demand of Len Small, this great ‘friend of labor,’ who has en- dorsed Coolidge, that he spend a few million dollars for relief of the miners as well as fof hard roads for the relief of tourists?” FOURTEEN ARE KILLED ON U. S, CRUISER TRENTON NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 23.—The cause of the explosion aboard the cruiser Trenton resulting in the loss of 14 lives and injury of a dozen other sail- ors, probably never will be known. Navy authorities expressed the belief, today that the board of inquiry will meet a “dead wall.” Friction is Cause. “Any findings,” they said, “can bé be little more than guess work.” The most probable theory now ad- vanced is that the three charges of old powder from the magazine of the Trenton “let go” when brought up to the 10-inch gun in the forward turret thru friction caused by contact with the hoisting apparatus. » . No more deaths. were reported by the naval hospital today. The condi- tion of Seaman Thomas H. Bailey, of Erie, Pa., was good it was said and while not out of danger, hope is en- tertained for his recovery. Four other dangerous. cases are being watched closely by naval hospital physicians. CLAIM THE LITERARY DIGEST SPENT MILLION ON ITS STRAW BALLOT (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Senator Caraway of Arkansas has stated that he will call upon the publishers of the Literary Digest to explain to the campaign fund investigating committee the reasons for their ex- pending nearly $1,000,000 on a Cool- idge poll. He says the poll is obviously not representative, and seems to be un- justified by any business return which the magazine might secure from th erprise. He rai the question as to whether this is a million dollar gift to the Collidge campaign fund, and if so, what me tive promoted such generosity.