The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 24, 1924, Page 2

Page Two Y.W.L. ACTIVE IN SUPERIOR HIGH seHOoL DEBATE New Recruits Result of Active Campaign By TOIVO TENHUNEN (Special to the Daily Worker) SUPERIOR, Wis., Oct. 23.— The Public Speaking class of the Central High school here was called upon to deliver speeches on the candidates in the present campaign. Students volunteered to speak for Coolidge, LaFollette, Davis and the Young Workers League members chose myself and Otso Latvala to speak for Foster. Distribute Handbille. Prior to the rally we cignt Y. W. a members of the high school dis- gussed Communism and Foster with #& great many students. Jast before the meeting we distri- buted the following handbill: “Your intelligence is in A-1 con- dition, if, after thinking over the fact ‘hat Foster is a workingman, a un- ‘don man and a Communist and that Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette never ‘were, are not and never will be—you ‘vote for Foster.” ‘The three supporters of Davis did mot show up at the rally at all. One jot them gave the reason that there "was nothing to say about Davis. Otto (Latvala gave a short history of Will- Yam Z. Foster in the labor movement, explained what Communism and Fos- ‘fer stand for. Foster Edges Davis. I brought the discussion closer to the campaign and showed why cldss- conscious workers should support Foster. I compared his position to those of Coolidge, Davis and LaFol- Jette in this campaign. Our speeches were very well received. A straw vote was then taken of the candidates which brot the following results: Coolidge, 387; LaFollette, 587; Davis, 19; Foster, 15. Two mem- bers of the Y. W. L. were on the staff to count the votes. Tremors In California. BERKELEY, Cal. Oct. 15.— An earthquake lasting approximately 40 minutes but not of major severity, oceurrred last night at some point be- tween 5 000 and 6,000 miles from here, examination of the University of Cal- ifarnia seismograph today revealed. The earthquake started at 9:11:9 and ended at 1:50 Pacific time. Indica tions were that it was somewhere on an east-west line with California. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Building trades group, Trade Union Educational League, .will meet Fri- day, Oct. 31, 8 p. m. at Workers’ Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., 2nd floor. Build- ing trades workers! .Get there!! Meeting of branch industrial organ- izers of party, Friday, Oct: 25, 8 p. m., et Workers’ Hall, 722 Blue Island Ave., 2nd floor. Workers inthe tnited Custom Gar- ment Shop, Madison near Green’ St., members of the Amalgamated Cloth- {ng Workers have just sent’ in $30 to the Workers Party, Local Chicago, for the Foster-Gitlow campaign fund. Workers in that shop see that the Teal issue in the election is the Work- ers Party against the field of capital- {st parties—republican, democratic find “independent” lette. . . * The Workers’ Atheletic Association ‘will play the Danish-American Club at soccer football next Sunday, Oct. 26, 2:30 p. m., at Douglas Park. Y. W. L. and party members should witness the workers’ athletic club in action. The Workers’ Athletic Association was for- merly the Hungarian Y. W. L. soccer team. The Communist youth are now organizing into a national Workers’ Sport Alliance in an endeavor to win the working youth of America away from the bourgeois sport clubs into the workers’ sport organizations, and. to win them for the political and econ- gmic program of Communism. AS WE (Continued from Page 1.) ‘HE conservative liberals and the tory leaders agreed to cut out three-cornered contests where such @ situation would favor the labor can- didate. But many liberals hate the tories more than they hate the labor- ites so the bargain will be all at the expense of the poor old liberal party. It is reported that Lloyd George is angling for a big position in a coalition government, but the tory leaders are supposed to be gunning for him and sharpening their knives for his scalp, The bible-thumping Welsh revivalist is not the kind of leader the cold blooded and dignified tories want. . en eo “THE German workers are getting ready to pass their judgment on the Dawes Plan. The nationalist par- ty 1s openly out for the return of the Hohenzollerns. Now that Hbert has done all the harm he possibly could to the working class movement he isready to step down from the presidency and turn bis chair over to Wilhelm Marx, the Catholic: The social democrats and the centre party are supporting the Dawes Plan while the Communists are opposing it from the point of view of its effect on the workers. The so- cialists of Germany are the Dawes’ Minute Men of the ‘American bankers’ plan to enslave the German workers. snr INN GALB, formerly of Mexico and other parts is again loose in Washington, D. C. He has opened a radical book store there and promises | to publish a radical magazine in the near future. Gale is reported to have “talked” after his arrest, in return for a promise of leniency. He was arrested for evading the draft. | 7 | ** DMIRAL Von Tirpitz who gave the | order that resulted in the sinking | of the Lusitania has written a book which proposes to “tell everything.” Tirpitz is the leader of the nationalist party in the Reichstag—the gang that favors the return of Will Hohenzol- lern. \ PREMIER’S SON PREDICTS LABOR PARTY DEFEAT Coalition Will Wipe Out Liberals DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 23.—The labor government will fall in the polls of October, says Malcolm MacDonald, son of the British premier, who, with his team of Oxford debaters, met de- feat at the hands of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, last night. + The young Oxfordian is himself standing for the commons and says he is uncertain of success. He thinks he should be at home taking his share of the heckling instead of taking part in college debates on prohibition. Mr. MacDonald believes labor will gain some seats in the coming elec- | tion, but will not obtain a majority and that the threatened coalition be- tween liberals and tories means the end of the former party. The pres- ent premier he says, will remain as the leader if his party is returned to power. Commanist Open Air Meetings in Chicago Saturday, Oct. 25. North Ave. and Orchard—Auspices of Hungarian branch. Speakers, A. Henderson and D. DB. Earley. Roosevelt and St. Louls—Auspices of D. P. Jewish branch, Speakers, J. Louis Engdahl and Friedman. Division and Washtenaw—Auspices of N. W. Jéwtsh branch. Speakers, John Edwards, 8. T. Hammersmark and Elsa Bloch. 30th and State St—Auspices of South Side branch. Speakers, Gordon Owens and George Maurer. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, T SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY, ——— OTHING in the Chicago Tribune about the “revolution in Georg- ia” these days. Perhaps the Tribune Mar outlived his welcome in Constan- tinopole. On the other hand we read many interesting items about Soviet progress. The planned air line be- tween Moscow and Pekin, for in- stance. Soviet Russia has an excel- lent air service to Vladivostok and ar- rangements are now made for a rapid mail service between Japan and HE DAILY WORKER SCHOOL BOARD CONTINUES ITS LITTLE JOKES Each Meeting Puts Off Important Issues The board of education, thru the person of Supt. McAndrew is still playing its game of hide and go seek with the Chicago Teachers’ Federa- tion. At its last regular meeting it Hurope thru Siberia, So the Commun-jagain postponed action on the Teach- ists can do more than spread propa- ganda. sf LL is not well among the heir pretenders to the throne of the Romanoffs. The proclamation of Grand Duke Cyril of the Belrin al- leyways, got under the delicate skin of Maria Feodorovna, who thinks she is an empress. The royal lady isn’t sure that the Czar and his brood are dead, and she thot is was rather in- decent of Cyril to grab the throne. Another dissatisfied customer is Grand Duke Nicholaievitch, who pre- fers the royal cushions to the Paris catacombs. He joins the empress in taking a swat at Cyril. But in Moscow, the workers dangle a carrot before the Duke’s nasal appendage, hoping he may follow it. In which case the poor lonely czar might have congenial company, tho it is reported they did not get along so well, while they lived in Petrograd. But that scoundrel Ras- putin was to blame. Re tases EWSPAPER publishers, writers, bankers, multi-millionaires have joined with working people and men and women of progressive trend in saying “I’m for Bob,” reads LaFol- lete campaign publicity. Among those listed, besides the old reliable multi- millionaire, Rudolph Spreckels, is Cor- nelius Vanderlip, Jr. millionaire Cal- ifornia publisher. The others in the nst are capitalist politicians and pro- fessional men—all bepeficiaries of the capitalist system, but dissatisfied with the two old parties for some reas or other. These politicians are a ing advantage of the discontent among the masses to ride into polit- ical office. TRIBUNE'S REPRINT OF OUR EDITORIAL BRINGS US FRIENDS We take this occasion to thank the Chicago Tribune for reprinting our editorial announcing Red Week from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2, and calling upon all workers to send. In their orders to our literature department for Communist literature distribu- tion week. Whatever may have been the in- tention, the results are very satis factory. Already we are beginning to cash In on this valuable publicity as will be noted by the following letter we received yesterday: “Here’s $1 for literature. Just got your address from the Tribune. C. H., 511 N, Peoria St., Chicago.” Line forms on this side! Who's next? Fire in Danville Mine. DANVILE, Ill., Oct. 23.—An inves- tigation of the fire that destroyed the uncompleted shaft and works of the Devalley Coal company on the Urbana road, six miles west of Danville, Tues- day, disclosed the fact that the fire not only was incendiary, but that the bottom works were dynamrted before the fire started. Persons living near the mine stated that they heard muffled noises shortly before the upper works burst into flames. The loss will be about $9,000 without any insurance. The mine was intended for local sales of coal. North Pole Expedition, LONDON, Oct. 23. — Norwegian Lieutenants Larsen and Dietrichson /are organizing a north pole airplane expedition under command of Roald Amundsen, according to a Centarl News dispatch from Christiania today. | of the tale. The expedition is to start from Spitz- bergen in May, each plane leaving for the pole in different directions. It is estimated that the pale can be reach- ed from Spitzbergen in about eight hours if traveling at full speed. Vote Communist This Time: UNDREDS of thousands of workers actively supporting the DAILY WORKER would make it the most powerful daily newspaper in the land. “To achieve this goal is the ambition of the “Bulld the DAILY WORKER Campaign” now being carried on in all sections of the nation. The vanguard of militant labor ia on the job dally, winning new adherents for the “DAILY WORKER Bricklay- ers’ Union,” that is busily engaged in building this power, that will help labor in all its battles, making victory in the workers’ stru: quicker and more sure. It Is not sufficient for you to send In your own “sub,” to heave in your own brick., You must enlist the subscriptions of ‘large numbers of your shop mates. Let it be sald in the future, when the story of the present historic days is being written, that you have helped. J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ers’ Councils and on six year term for principle’s certificates which the fed- eration is protesting., In the same dodging manner it is avoiding the is- sue on rules on secret markings, pro- hibition of receiving of notices by teachers of any sort other than those sent by the superintendent and prin- ciples and changes in teachers’ pen- sions which includes the Sabbatical year and which has been ruled illegal by I. T. Greenacre, attorney for the pension board. These last three rules are to come up before a joint committee on rules and admintstration which the teach- ers so patiently wait to meet and | which is postponed indefinitely. In the meantime, Supt. McAndrew has shot another tarret at the Teach. ers’ Federation in th. form of a dis- missal of Miss Ida C. Calhoun, a teacher at the Wadsworth School, 6423 University avenue. He charges insubordination, reporting that she re- fused to perform extra duty outside of school hours, Workers Party Opens Class on Imperialism; Manuel Gomez, Director Imperialism, what do you know about it? Few busy Communists have time enough to read up about it. Here is a good chance to learn. Lenin called it the final stage of capitalism. As such we must know more about it. Accordingly the Chi- cago local of the Workers Party is starting a study class on Sunday to go thoroly into the study of “Imperialism, the Final Stage of Capitalism.” This class will start next Sunday, Oct. 26, at 3:30 p.m. It will meet at the Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch boulevard, with Comrade Manuel Go- mez as instructor. A rich period of study and research is assured to all who will attend and take this course of classes seriously. For example, a glance at the outline of the imperialism class shows that the students into those phases of the subject lows: 5 The struggle for empire. Rule of the banks; monopoly and the decay of productive forces; export of cap- ital; exploitation of colonial peoples; the British Empire contrasted with one of the great empires of ancient times; foreign investment and foreign policy; the Dawes’ plan; how Wall Street fights for domination in Europe, Mexico, South America and China; imperialism and Soviet Russia; coal, oil, iron and the next war. This class is open to all readers of the DAILY WORKER and other rad- icals. The fee for the whole course is $1.50. It would appear that the new class is assured of an excellent sea- sons study. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. War Vets Advertise Neglect. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.— Ex-service men rush thru New York subway trains distributing little green book- lets containing jokes and cartoons, in- terspersed with thrusts on the’ cosi of the war in money and men, the neglect of war veterans, and othe) pungent bits of disillusionment. Blazc and bored commuters return the book: lets when the khaki-clad youth re turns; others follow the advice print: ed on the cover of the booklet and “give what you _ please.” The statement that the booklets are sold by army and navy ex-service men for their own support tells the rest NEW YORK SHIRT MAKERS WIN BIG STRIKE VICTORY NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—The 5000 shirt makers on strike here scored a great victory today when twenty- eight bosses settled with the union granting all their demands. The 2000 workers who return to work today will receive a 15 per cent increase In wages, and full union recognition with shop committees contro! in each shop. The shirt makers, a part of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of comprising 5000 Italian ih workers, have been on strike here since Thursd: They have been meeting at the Bethovan Hall twice a day regularly sinoe the strike and have been vigilantly at- picket duty. development in the strike Is considered as a real victory. A speedy settlement of the remain- Ing shops is looked for within the next few days. Open F Sunday Night, pen Forum, rome” Reem, ey This La Follette Red Herring Also Distracts Labor From Real Fight By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. oes: the LaFollittes are furnishing a little comical side- light to the presidential campaign by trying to expose the financial support.of its opposition. What a confession of bankruptcy of principle! Nothing to do but campaign publicity from a carefully nurture rab off a little “sensation.” LaFollette is a defender of capitalism. But he does not want the muti-millionaires, whom capitalism produces, to defend themselves thru the judicious use of their stolen wealth. Perhaps he would have them use their gold in a game of flipping coins in a back alley somewhere, But that would be forbidden, no statutes, * doubt, under the anti-gambling * ° © One of LaFollette’s most enthusiastic publicity men, Laurence Todd, the Washington correspondent of the Fe- derated Press, recently spread the story that the Communists were raising a million dollar fund to promote the campaign of the Workers Party ticket, Foster and Gitlow. Todd went on seriously to inform the world that 25,000 Communists were contributing $40 each to the Workers Party campaign fund. It is to the credit of Carl Haessler, the managing editor of the Federated Press, that he dumped this nonsense into the waste basket when it reached Chicago. also that the LaFollette yet, to investigate the they did they would find contributions from workers in the United It is significant robers have made no effort, as orkers Party campaign fund. If that it is made up exclusively of tates; that the sums are exceedingly small due to the unemployment that is ravaging the land, the increasing cost of living and other scourges that LaFollette’s capitalist system is continually visiting upon the plundere * d masses. It is interesting to behold the array of millionaires back- ing LaFollette. The only complaint the Wisconsin senator \ can have is that Coolidge’s parade of plutocrats is a little longer than his own. political puddle. Otherwise they are both in the same There is Samuel Untermeyer, the millionaire New York lawyer, big holder of stock in the Steel Trust, who has been called in to aid Attorney Frank P. Walsh conduct, the La- Follette grill of millionaires backing “Cautious Cal.” This is the Untermeyer who believes in using the anti- trust laws against labor unions while his steel stocks brin him in huge profits from this Caryized industry. It shoul not be necessary again to name Rudolph Spreckels, the sugar magnate; R. C. Rawleigh, the patent medicine million- aire, and other wealthy supporters of the LaFollette camp- aign. LaFollette has not rejected any contributions from millionaires. In this respect he is exactly in the same boat with Davis and Coolidge. * In the words of Lawyer Untermeyer, addressed to Samuel M. Vauclain, head of the comotive Works, “Money. aire are using it; to make Pl shop” Baldwin Lo- Talks.” the next administration at Wash- ington parrot their orders, 3 Money wants Coolidge It could get along with Davis. It would accept LaFollette in a crisis, just as it accepted Ebert in Germany, Herriot in France and MacDonald in Great Britain. The big capitalists will spend just as much money as they have to. It is mere nonsense to investigate how much or how little they spend. If money will not make the elect- ions go the way the big heed desire, then they have resort to other methods. trust, is aporing for Benito Mussolin Elbert H. Gary, head of the steel Coolidge, but he has greater admiration i, the bloody Fascisti dictator of Italy. lf the Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Garys, the Schwabs, the Vauclains, the Stotesburys, the Grundys and the Folwells, cannot maintain their rule by buying up elec- tions, they can set the elections aside and rule by their own might, thru their own Capitalist Dictatorship. In that hour LaFollette will be at Morgan's side; just as the LaFollittes in Italy lined up side by side with Mussolini against the Communists. é The big LaFollette is labor. fact for workers always to remember is that for the capitalist social order that enslaves Money, the army, the navy, the state militia, the whole sp system of capitalism, are all weapons of the Capitalist tate; all Street’s Dictatorship. LaFollette’s investigations are mere sham battles. The’ do not hurt. They merel electoral stryu LaFollette red- herring to provide a Roman circus for a dull le. In this instance they constitute another distract the workers and farmers from their real struggle against the whole capitalist system. * * Only class issues clearly. Only the Communist candidates present the working the Workers Party, rallying labor, in the cities and on the land, to the Communist standards, builds the. power that will abolish capitalism and all its evi Only the victory of the workers in the class war against the capitalists will feed the mouths of the hungry and brin about the great change—that will usher in the Communist era—when both the use of money in elections, with LaFollette’s investigations, will constitute equally inter-. esting studies of how capitalism ruled in the days of its chaos and approaching collapse. PATERSON TO SEE “BEAUTY AND THE BOLSHEVIK” FOR BENEFIT OF SILK STRIKERS’ RELIEF FUND “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” the new Russian picture that has been shown with tremendous success in New York City and Philadelphia, and which is to be shown thruout the country, is coming to Turn Hall, Pater- This will be a benefit performance on behalf of the silk strikers, the proceeds to be used for carrying on the son, on Saturday evening, Oct. 26. splendid work of the strike. ‘An interesting and. very important addition to the “Beauty and the Bolshevik” is a special motion picture taken by the Committee for Inter- PRADA EES ASN Enc AR The low admission price of 26 cents has been decided on in order that a large number of workers in Pater- opportunity to motion picture My Examination Is Free will be three performances: from 5 to 7,7 to 9, and 9 to 11 p. m. Tickets are procurable national Workers’ Aid of the Pate: strike, showing the men on the picket line and in many other vivid scenes of the strike. These pictures of the strike will be shown for the first time at this showing in Paterson. There also be a special feature—the new, three-reel graphic picture of Russi latest economic development—"Russia im Overalls”. son may have see this performance. There will at is why the million- eeeeeeiente meee eee Like a Red Soldier We also woo wih Bucharin's ‘A-B-C of Conmanism’ But to make the wirkers “see,” Tell it With Movies THE record-breaking success of this rol licking romance of “Love in the Re¢ Army” is due to the intense interes ‘BEAUTY of the first’ great feature film made in Soviet Russia by “Proletkino,” Labor's own producer, AND hundreds of American local unions fraternal lodges anu other labor or ganizations are going to show THE picture as the one sure way of edu: cating the workers to the true signifi. cance of the BOLSHEVIK At the same time they are going to raise funds for strike relief, labor press benefits, international workers’ aid and other worthy labor causes. Any labor organization in any city, large or small, can make a success of a movie show. Added Attraction Supplementing “The Beauty and the Bolshevik” is a three-reel survey of Russian economic life as it is today. Oil, iroh, coal, steel, magnisite, loco- motives, shoes, clothing, cigarettee— with the Soviet label—made before your eyes. Special emphasis on en- terprises aided by American organ- ized labor: Kuzbas, Russian-Ameri- can Industrial Corporation, Friends of Soviet Russia. A SUCCESS WHEREVER SHOWN Write today for information and list of other available films. International Workers’ Aid 19 S. Lincoln St. Chicago, III. Ship Owner is Mediary, * SAN SEBASTIAN.—Echvareita Bil- bao, wealthy ship owner, is acting as mediary in negotiations with the re- bellious tribesmen in accordance with, the reported Spanish plan of aban- doning a large part of the zone occu: pied by the rebels. ; Dr S. ZIMMERMAN DEwris’[ MY NEW LOCATION ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. Special rices to Workers Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY it My