The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 27, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT THE DAIL Gd WORKE Post OMe at Chicago, Ilimois under the Act of March 3, 1972. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. A * omer £ 5 i, $8.0 te 290 Published Dail cept Sunday by THE’ DAILY WORKER ° Vol. Il. No. 187. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: outsize Chicago, by matt, 36.00 per year. MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1924 <> PUBLISHING 00, 1118 W. Washingion Blvd, Chicago, 1. Price 3 Cents € \ GARY SCHOOL DE SPOLANSKY AND HIS OLD PAL, ‘BILL’ BURNS, KING OF DICKS, CASTING THEIR LOTS TOGETHER By MANUEL GOMEZ. Spolansky and his old pal, William J. Burns, king of the dick- fink underworld, are together again. Information has reached the DAILY WORKER thru the Labor Defense Council that about a. week ago, Jake was offered and accepted the remunerative job of manager of the “radical department” of the Burns detective agency. This is the final and sufficient commentary on the positive, out-and-out rottenness of the whole parasitic detective business. Burns,,who has seen every one of Spolansky’s “anti-red” stories in the Chicago Daily News, must appreciate now at least that he does not know anything about the revolutionary working class moyement—because Burns himself, was on the inside of most of The Latest MAC DONALD IS CHARGED WITH RUSS FORGERY Sensational Charge on Election Eve (Special to the Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 26.—Ramsay MacDonald, beneficiary of the millionaire Sir Alexander Grant, the conspiracies that Jake “exposes” as “red’’ plots. Jake is not being hired on account of his knowledge, which is nil.- He is ‘being hired because of his unscrupulousness, be- 4 + cause AS WE SEE IT has taken a leaf out of Lord Curzon’s book and_ startled Great Britain with the publica- tion of a forged document, al- leged to have been issued b' the Communist International, and urging the Communist Par- ty of Great Britain to prepare of his extraordinary eagerness to prostitute himself, because of his long experience as a double-crosser and frame- AY TAKE ONIN TROUBLES THE |. W. W, TODAY ing on the Injunc- ) the Rowan-Bower- ion of the Indus- the World is re- faster in Chancery Fred Be this afternoon, the delegates to tHe 16th general con- vention, meet in Emmet Memor- jemselves thrown entire machin- funds of the COURT sumed bef ial Hall, may out of contro! ery, prope: I. W. W. Should Be: tion which group. has ficers who 4 3 m grant the injunc- Rowan-Bowerman the temporary of- ve been installed by the convention would be forced to turn over use of the I. W. W. head- quarters and @ii of the property of the organi: which they now itish Scandai NEW MANIFESTO SPREAD AGAINST WW. MEETING Rowan-Bowerman Fac- tion in Another Attack By KARL REEVE. Another manifesto has been broadcasted by the Rowan- Bowerman General Executive Board of the Industrial Workers of the World, refusing to recog- nize the convention now con- vened at Emmet Memorial Hall. The attack on the convention, signed by Harry Trotter and P. D. Ryan, charges that over one- UP! UP! AND STILL UP! GOES THE PRICE = || OF THE FOOD WE EAT Prices are again on the upgrade, stowly eating into the purchasing power of wages. According to the | monthly price index numbers of the | U. S. department of labor there was | an increase of 2 per cent in retail food costs between August and Sep- tember bringing the total increase since April to 4 per cent. The cost of food absorbs more than one-third of a workers’ wages. The cost of a worker's food budget is today 47 per | cent above the average cost of the | same budget in 1913, but it is still | 2 per cent below the level of Sep- tember a year ago. Wholesale prices have also been rising steadily. The increase of more than 1 per cent during Septem- ber, as reported by Dun’s Review, brings the total increase since June 1 to approximately 4 per cent. Wholesale prices of foodstuffs show | the biggest gains. Within a year wholesale prices of breadstuffs in- creased more than 19 per cent, while the average price of meats rose ap- proximately 9 per cent. i | 919 REFUSE FROEBEL HIGH FOR TALK BY Wit. Z FOSTER Plan Huge Demonstra- tion for New Auditorium (Special to the Daily Worker) GARY, Ind., Oct. 26—An order of the superintendent of Gary’s platooned schools has aused the withdrawal of the luse of the auditorium ‘of the Froebel high school from ‘ré- presentatives of the Workers Party, who had rented the hall for a mass meeting to be ad- dressed by William Z. Foster. That. the Workers ; Party, aided by the steel workers. of Gary, will find another halland that the Foster rally will be on- ly the more successful: because By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. up man, for a revolution in Englan ‘hold te the faction. That the |third of the delegates are in of the attempts of Gary’s ser- Bs Try to Divide Workers. i a 2 Rowan tacsiomagy! refuse to recoo- licasue with the Doyle-Fisher vants to put -a st = § op ‘to the Such are the qualities which Burns It is admitted that Ramsay | nize the ge vention, or that ‘4 : P NDREW FURUSETH, president of MacDonald was in possession of requires in his “radical department,” this document for a consider- they will to recognize it faction, and that the convention LEN SMALL IN spreading of education that the has been “accepting. messages steel trust knows is. being é hatever is left of the Interna-|the busin f which is to disrupt only if it lers under the |. * “se sa, font Sedmans Union of America is the bor posal in the interests tf able time past, but that its pub-| most humill ditions, is more |{rom the DAILY WORKER, cageny absurhed -by ‘thie abs tuning for the official.head of T. V.|the big capitalists, to frustrate strikes (lication was decided on when| than probable, which is 4 Communist sheet: ers _here, is the unanimous O'Connor, chairman of the United|either by hook or crook; and to put| Word came that the tory party In that e formal hearing Call Convention Illegal. opinion of Party members and States shipping board. T. V. broke Communist leaders in jail under one} Was about to spring it on the on the coi which the con- “The meeting now ‘in session in Party sympathizers. into print recently with an asinine! pretext or another, One of them was public on the eve of the elec-| vention hi al d to begin this |Emmet Memorial Hall is illegal and Fear Communist Education. statement about Soviet money being | Allen O. Myers, the illustrious liar. | tion. morning, and waich all of the par- |unconstitutional, and has not been In coming to the aid of the steel boss: used to elect LaFollette This got un-| Myers, whose rapid-fire “confes- Will Do Any Dirty Work. ties to the Hfeversy have been jrecognized by the general executive es, the superintendent of schools has der the hide. of canny Andy, who is one of the most rabid red-baiters in America and a hypocritical labor erook to boot. His sanctimonious ‘looks may fool many but that is the kind of rogue who can do the most when crooks fall out it is our duty: to give them all the Publicity they desire, as they usually tell, the truth when mad with each Lyo sions” and “repudiations” before the | senatorial investigating committee are |the talk of Washington, has a truly re- markable record. He has been in- convicted once! ‘Thea there. i laa ON, MacDonald is urged py the cap- italist press to break with Russia and (Continued on Page 2.) rick Roach, another vigilant guardian potCapitatist i AND _@ “Pat” is now working for the gov. ernment. He is in the military intel- ligence department, and has just got- ten mixed up in an awkward scandal (Special to The } OF When the & tion asked man-Griffith - trial Workers 91 OLGIN, LORE, S ordered to by the di courts. ‘will be cut short On of the capitalist Daily Worker) jboard,” states the manifesto, which |Was signed and sent by Rowan to jevery I. W. W. branch in the country jin: leaflet form. “One-third of the delegates have taken part in the con- troversy on the side of the Doyle- Fisher faction.” Hendrickson, 5 August Walquist, Fred Mann, Charles Gray, Fred Fisher,.Ruth and Elmer Rumbaugh, Albert Hanson, W. H. Turned Over | Cavalry to Hooded Knights ‘Special to the Daily Worker) = SPRINGF Eto. Ills. ‘Oct..26, save me from my) friends,” declared Governor Len Smail, when he was shown a copy of a paper, carrying an in- merely proved a fact which has more than once been“shown by the DAILY WORKER-—that the Gary schools are simply one more weapon of the steel trust, which has at its command the Police, the courts and the press. Further proof that Gary and his ts.are beginning to fear the re ults of the propaganda of the Work- ers Party is shown in the arrest of two comrades who have been helping to distribute the DAILY WORKER, other. Andy ‘charges’ O’Connor with |concerning blackmail and a few hun- NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 26.—The final week of the energetic | Thompson, Louis Chuba, L. McCarthy, |terview with Grand Dragon/| George Maravich and Jacob Rusak. using: $162,000 of government funds to | dred casks of sacramental wine. Thus, campaign conducted in this city for the Communist candidates, recording secretary of the conven-|Paimer of the Illinois Ku Klux} In spite of the stringent orders of break up labor unions on the Pacific/in his new employment, Spolansky | will be opened at a monster mass meeting at Clinton Hall, at |tion, and others. Klan, in which the latter|the steel bosses that any employe coast in 1922. ‘He makes other charg- es, but one is enough for us. Is it not strange that Furuseth did. not go to bat with O'Connor on this issue until the latter turned his guns on LaFol- lette.. It seems that faker Furuseth could look on the dismantling of the labor unions with equanimity, he could see strikes broken by the United States government without unloosing the vials of his wrath, but when the political fortunes of) the capitalistic politician LaFollette were imperiled, then Andy got his dander up. eo ® /\'CONNOR is one of the most no- Oo torious and unabashed labor fak- ers in America. But what about Furu- seth? Andy blames O'Connor for breaking up his union with money. ‘The fact is that it was Furuseth’s red- baiting policy that destroyed the sea- men's union. - Furuseth’s conduct on the Pacific coast was just as filthy as ‘thet of O'Connor. The latter was an open agent of the government and obenly used ‘his power to smash the movement that put him on the road to fortune, but Furuseth was a dirty stool pfgéon, turning over members of the I. W. W. to the government and e'ding the department of justice in put- tig radical members of his own un- ion in jail. Between Furuseth and O'Connor there is only a choice be- tween two evils. * “HE seamen in Vancouver are well "pleased with the way the DAILY WORKER handled the story on the conditions prevailing in the Canadian correspondent, The DAILY WORKER never pleases the capitalist class nor will have a free hand for his “patriot- ism.” Party ticket will be the principal speaker. The meeting will be held Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, at 8 p. m. In addition to Comrade Cannon there will be speeches by many other Runs Out of Bunk. Friend Jake is running out of bunk for his stories in the Chicago Daily News. He is now driven to relat- ing accounts of the size and scope of the Communist movement in the Unit- well known speakers, Moissaye J. ed States, membership figures, variety | Qigin, candidate in the 14th senatorial of publications, etc.—all of which+ district, recently returned from Rus: could much better be secured by any sia, where he has spent over six interested reader of the News, by} months studying living conditions, glancing over the published reports} will tell about Russia today, Ludwig of Workers Party officials, which they|Lore, editor of the Volkszeitung, can- are by no means anxious to keep hid-|qidate in the 14th congressional dis- den away unsold. Full and detailed |trict, Abe Caspe, candidate 2nd as- reports are contained in “The Second |semply district, Boris Lipshitz, candi- Year,” a 130-page book published im-| date 4th assembly district, Joseph mediately following the national| Roruchowitz, of the International convention of the Workers Party, last |tagies’ Garment Workers’ Union, fall. It sells for fitty cents, and/Rose Pastor Stokes and many others copies may be secured from the} wilt speak in English and Jewish. DAISY WOREER, A128. Weenine | ire tale Gara Gb the overflow which ton Blvd. Day-to-day information:con-|,, expected, the committee in charge cerning the activities of the Commun. has arranged to hold ‘an open’ air ists can be had by reading the DAILY meéting at Rutgers Square. RKER, A: in get a six. ee rete ene an alte: ra | | Cosi ani eae your friends months subscription for $4.50, or buy the paper on the news stands for|t® hear the message of the Communist candidates in your district. three cents a copy. REMEMBER, Clinton Hall, 151 Haven't Two Million Members. Clinton St. Tuesday evening, Oct. 28. Communists are scarcely interested r in minimizing their strength. In fact the despairing yellow “socialists” try SOME OF THE CURRENT DATES FOR FOUR OF THE WORKERS’ FILMS to make workers believe that we make @ practice of systematically padding our membership figures. Neverthe- less, we declare in all frankness that we haven't the 2,000,000 members Spolansky generously assigns to our language federations, that none of our 'f your city is not listed here, go Oct, 30-31—Hancock, Mich. New sand, and that we were ‘not respon- Orpheum Theater. -——— which James P. Cannon, candidate for governor on the Workers PARTY CAMPAIGN MEETING TONIGHT ON NORTH SIDE Johnstone Will Speak at Imperial Hall Workers living on the North Side will turn out tonight to hear J. W. Johnstone, the first Communist candi- date on the Workers Party ticket from the ninth congressional district, speak at the Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted street. Johnstone is the assistant secretary of the Trade Union Educational League and has for many years been extremely active in the labor move- ment of Chieago, particularly as lead- er of the stockyards labor council during and shortly after the war. Near Gampaign’s End. This is the first meeting of a rous- ing week of campaign speeches which will close the efforts of the Com- munist candidates in the congression- al districts of the Chicago territory. Meetings have been arranged dur- ing this last week for the other Com- munist candidates for congress and the senate. J. Louis. Engdahl, can- didate for senator, is scheduled to wind up his campaign with open-air don Owens, of the first congressional district; Joseph ~ Podkulski, of the All Charges Denied. Gray is charged with attempted bribery, Fisher with being “a profes- sional hanger-on around headquar- ters,” Fred Mann with touring the harvest fields electioneering for Doyle and Fisher, and W. H. Thompson with being an expelled member. All the delegates have denied the charges. |. W. W. Print Shop Errs, Chairman P. J, Welinder explained that the DAILY WORKER had been sent a message by the convention, but due toa misprint in the I. W. W. print shop, the printed minutes had twisted the story. The temporary administration was instructed to draw up a denial to these charges to be distributed to the membership, with a statement that further slanderous statements of the Rowan group will be ignored. A discussion on the reorganization of the general defense occupied most of Friday’s sessions. The debate be- came so prolonged that the convén- tion became temporarily demoralized. One of the delegates, after listening to hours of fruitless squabbling, said he could stand such rot no longer, and left the hall for almost two hours. The convention finally abolished the general defense committee, ruling that general defense work should be handied by the general secretary- treasurer. One delegate, evidently made nervous by the long debate, got into a jam with Chairman P. J. Wel- inder and took off his coat, demanding the floor. When denied the floor, he During the discussion of general defense policies, Fred Fisher objected boasted of having secured the use of the state fair ground and the state cavalry horses from the Small administration for his parade. The Klan chieftain admitted that he was for Small and that the hooded knights held the balance of power and could force the politicians to give them what they wanted. It was also brought to light that the notorious Glenn Young, the murderer of Will- jamson county fame was on the stump for Small. Small’s Klan Deal. The governor was suspected of hav- ing made a deal with the klan but Palmer's admission was the first con- | firmation so far, that the suspicions were well founded. What effect the | news will have on Small’s fortunes in Catholic, Jewish and Negro districts which are being urged to vote for him by leaders who have sold out to the governor, can easily be gueszed. The miners of Illinois are incensed against the klan, yet Frank Farring- | ton, president of the union is boost- ing the klan-supported governor. The International Union is definitely on record against the knights of the bed- clothes. Klan Split Up. Not alone may the information that Small has the klan on his side bring about his defeat, but the klan organ- ization is torn to pieces over the ef- forts of rival kleagles klokards, drag- ons and klalifs to sell the membership to the best paying capitalist politician. Palmer is reported to have expelled 14,000 klansmen from the organization and the 14,000 now threaten to have in Chicago trying to straighten the matter out. found reading the DAILY WORKER is to be fired, the circulation of the paper among the workers continued to mount, and the next step of the bosses was to attempt to stop the distribu- tion of the paper at its source, No Grounds for Arrest. Confronted with the necessity of placing a definite charge against Com- rades Maravich and Rusak, the court had to admit that there were no legal grounds for arrest. The comrades were released, and will continue to distribute the DAILY WORKER to the steel workers. GITLOW DEMANDS JOBLESS AID AT LAWRENCE, MASS. Workers in LaF ollette’s State Also Suffer (Special to the Dally Worker) LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 26. —Benjamin Gitlow, Workers Party candidate for vice-presi- dent, demanded that the textile industry do something for her thousands of unemployed work- ers in and around meetings. & appealed from the chair’s position, awrence, ‘government merchant marine, written roa sp Lai es pte muta & sto bia see seb i on WT T= thae Madtings Planned. but the chair was sustained. his head. The imperial wizard and the}and presented the Workers by Sydney Warren, Federated Press a Q Pcp ge acre an! ‘Beauty and Bolshevik.’ Other meetings are planned for Gor- imperial Kleezeek are reported to be Party program for the relief of unemployed at a large meeting here. - sible in y b to some I, W. W. members philosoph- he 1 4 the labor fakers; it cpewae pleases bees Al belay ae sreyeer Nov. 2—Reek, Mich. Workers’ togtth etait Prank Betiorins, of lizing about Tolstot and Mahatma onal vee ag pga! yn Gitlow urged the preparation ¥ pieces achicha oMigylbrncaten By anaes ack “OW Vcd Sescblipslash “Vink ‘aaah PRE ME oe ed Grandi And declared against the /himeelt and another klansman. by the half-starved and exploit- geo! , BS voy ; i e' : . something indecent, and which bas a de mae ee ti Airdate Theater. . George Maurer of the eighth district, |P*ineiples of non-resistance. He also ed textile workers here of shop ’ (Continued on page 6) day Night, the Qpen Forum. Sunday Night and Every Sun-/he knows they were a direct out- —_——_—_— “The Fifth Year.” Oct. 30—Kettle River, Minn., Opera House, * “Russia and Germany.” Oct, 28—Milwaukee, Wis., Party forces in the United States to Commu- nist headquarters in Moscow,” when (Continued on page 3) were more than twice the total paid in wages and salaries, In 1923, according to the department of commerce, in the 68 chief establishments in the United Btates. Value added by manufacture was $84,588,404, while wages and sal- aries amounted to $11,456,811, leaving a gross profit of $23,132,593, The wages amounted to $7,728,938, divided among 6,876 wage-workers, or Nov, 19—Providence, R. I., Work- ers’ Educational Society. Any labor organization, large or small, can run a successful movie ‘or particulars address, In- Workers Party members are expect- ed to make note of meetings as they are announced and be actively pres- ent. i ey SS Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- argued against the “narrow policy of having each industrial union support ing its own defense committee,” stat- ing this form of organization to be rank decentralization. James Morris, present secretary of AUDIENCE BY BENITO MUSSOLINI (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Oct. 26.—Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, wife of the American publisher whois touring Europe, was received in audience today by Premier Rhode Island Labor For Amalgamation and Workers’ Rule Resolutions calling for amalgama- regular convention. They were or dered sent to Secretary Morrison with instructions to read them at the an- nual convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor in El Paso, Texas, which begins on Noy. 17, with recom: committees and unemployment councejls to face the coming de- pression in an organized man- ner. ( : Gitlow showed how the workers of " day, Niaht he Forum, iicuekiied A Wisconsin are just as badly off as the f rae. Ie ontinu on * 4 __ |\ SWEET PROFITS IN CHOCOLATE = || =" ae met P hin be, ora mre sant aes ane oe eases ’ - 2 j d state bi Most of thi WASHINGTON.—Profits in the chocolate and cocoa-product industry gate 30—St, Paul, Minn, “Reel HEARST’S WIF E IS RECEIVED IN Jeisciicd Pasion oh jae > Ma are atieols bev * won ae ‘- one or two days a week, and many of the textile workers attended the meeting. John J. Ballam, candidate of the Workers Party for governor of Massachusetts, also spoke, mite Many of thi ork ined $1,124 @ year on the average, Salaries figured out on the average $2,497 a 1 Workers’ Aid, 19 8, Lin. | Benito Mussolini, Mrs, Hearst was introduced by Baron Sardio, one of the "shor ine ioontaael , year for the 1,492 persons listed as drawing salaries In these 68 plante, ooIn St., Chicago, Il $,% i bay 2 = these resolutions, oe mame ay mendations that the convention adopt| Workers Party after the meeting and donated liberally to the cellection, — sh cs hea.