The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1924, Page 1

} j * 4 \ ‘© women claim an 81-year-old THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND | T FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. I. No. 189. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: FRANCE RECOGNIZES RUSSI British Communists Gr Election Struggle t MOST BITTER FOE OF SOVIET REPUBLIC FINALLY BENDS ITS KNEES 10 THE WORKERS’ RULE (Special to The Dally Worker) PARIS, Oct. 28.—Announcement was made by the foreign office today that a French note recognizing the Russian Soviet government would be sent to Moscow later in the day. The Petit Journal, in commenting upon Premier Herriot’s decision to grant de jure recognition to the Soviets, said that this acyion placed France in a position to discuss the debt which Rus- sia owes France. “The first result of recognition will be the re-establishment of diplomatic relations,” said the Petit Journal. “Jean Herbette french ambassador to Moscow. AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. presenting Russia in England, probably will come to Paris,” At this moment relations between the Russian and British governments are somewhat strained, owing to the forgery of an alleged letter from Zino. viev. AMSAY MACDONALD’S outburst against Gergory Zinoviev, served the same purpose in the present Brit- ish election campagn as LaFollette’s denunciation of the Communists of America served here, No matter what government succeeds the present in England, it cannot afford to ignore Russia. It should be remembered that when the German government raided the. Russian trade Jegation, a few months. ago, it acted very impudent- BI Moscow government and has negotiat. ed a treaty with the Soviets, but it has not yet been ratified by the Brit- ish parliament. A similar treaty probably will be éffected by-France to protect commercial interests in Rus- sia, * SWALD GARRISON ‘VILLARD is grateful to. Ramsay MacDonald becauee that gentleman brought about peace in Europe. Peace! What about the 23.000 workers in’ Spanish dung- eons and the thousands in the prisons of the other Enropean countries. Mac: Doneld the pacifist never’ spoke a word in their behalf, tho he made a long speech in favor of the bloody bandits of Georgia, who want to get the ezar back on the throne again. And to get nearer home. to MacDon- ald, he did not bring peace, to the 263,000 Hindu rebels who are filling the Indian jails, because of their war against British imperialism. But, beg pardon -dear Villard, they are Hindus not Europeans, You said MaeDonald created an atmosphere of peace in RFurope, and of course you mean “to Kuropean capitalism.” We admit you have us on a technical point. oe 8 ACH capitalist’ party has its own set of labor fakers. The repub- liean. party has Messrs, John L. Lewis and T. V. O'Connor to issue its “labor statements." The democrats have the notorious George L. Berry and P. Mor- rin, the latter head of the Structural Iron Workers, while LaFollette heads them all with Sammy Gompers who was forced to desert his old affinity, the democratic party, by the great mass revolt against the old parties. Sam is getting sick now and the rival chiefs will soon be fighting over his office. MEET DEATH Pocket Blast Cause (Special to the Daily Worker) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 28. —Laboring 14 hours between walls of flame, a rescue party of eight men, recovered the third body from the Black Hawk coal mine, 12 miles south east of here today, following an explosion. The dead: George Ettle, Brazil. John McKee, Terre Haute. Frank Hawkins, Pimento. Victims of Windy Shot. Three men, shot firers at the Black Hawk mine, were the victims of a sion 1,300 feet from the entrance last night. Early today the bodies of two had been recovered, one of whom~- was identified as Frank Hawkins, 27, of Lewis, Ind. A spark blowing into a gas pocket caused the explosion, it was believed. The three men were employed yes- eo 8 OT since the republicans planted stink bombs in the Rhode Island legisiature to oust the democrats, was there so much consternation created in Providence, the capital of the state, as when patriotic and somewhat start led ejtizens noticed inscriptions chal! #d on the sidewalks and public build- ings advising people to vote the Com: munist.ticket, The police are looking for the miscreants. Perhaps Spolan- sky can tell in what mail the orders to do this arrived from Moscow. The republicans and democrats who tried to “stink” each other out of of- fice have now united their odors, oe gas explosion at the mine, and they when the blast occurred. FATHER AND SON ARE VICTIMS OF SAME SAW, I THE SAME SAWAIL LOGANSPORT, Ind. Oct, 28.— Lester Kimball, 17, suffered the loss 4 y the left hand was so severely man- veteran of the civil war as their| gled that amputation may be neces- wful husband. The case is up before| sary when he fell into a portable saw mill near Grass Creek, near Sweeney, of Pheobus, W. Va.. a ova Women say things about him| here. - y that" © one to wonder, considering}, Three years ago the boy's father, his ag@, but the veteran has no recol-| Edward Kimball, was killed when (Continued on Page 2.) he fell into the same saw. THE DAILY WORKER Now On New York , News Stands Tell your English-reading fellow workers to buy the DAILY WORKER at some news stand every day. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. ———“is mentioned as the possible 4. Rakovsky, who has been re- Great Britain has recognized the ~TNDIANA WINE Spark Blown Into Gas “windy shot” which caused an explo- terday as shot firers to substitute for three men injured last Friday in a had been in the mine only one hour a ‘cablegram Britain. the cablegram declares. Workers Party of America, 1113: W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. tion. workers and exploited farmers. policy of socialist party which trickster LaFollette. Seeking A Pledge Support in’ of British and American Imperialism HE campaign waged by the Workers Party to wih the American workers for a revolutionary class |~ struggle against American capitalism, is being watched |~ with great interest and hope by the workers all over the world, is the word received by the Workers Party in from the Communist Party of Great The success of the Workers Party in the fight it is making in the election campaign will give the workers of other countries new courage for their own struggles, The part played by American} capitalism in Europe thru the Dawes plan makes the | fight which the American.workers make of great im- | portance to the workers of all other countries. J The cablegram in full reads as follows: London, Oct. 27-28, Communist Party of Great Britain sends Workers E DAILY WORKER. Mantered as Second-class mattor September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1979. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1924 <»”” gee sR Fight on Alliance perialism masquerading as labor party leaders, who want British workers to co-operate with British capitalists in exploiting subject races of British Em- pire and of Europe. Against unholy alliance American and British imperialism we fight with you for united battle front of American and British workers and of’ all exploited peoples. ALBERT INKPIN, Secretary. * ¢ *@ To this cable the Workers Party has sent the follow- ing reply: Communist Party of Great Britain, 16 Kings St. S. W., Covent Gardens, London, England. Workers Party welcomes your fraternal wishes of success and pledge for a united fight against Brit- ish and American imperialism The MacDonalds and LaFollettes are the capital- ists’ last line of defense, to which they turn when the Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W, Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents eet Workers Party gainst U.S. Capitalism * BRITISH TRADE UNION CONGRESS ACCEPTS ZINOVIEV INVITATION TO INVESTIGATE FORGED DOCUMENT . Gpecial to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Oct. 28.—The Trade Union Congress announced today that it would accept the offer of G. Zinoviev, president of the Communist International to send a mission to Russia to in- vestigate the forgery published by the foreign office. All indications now are that the “plot” will prove a boomer- ang. Whether MacDonald’s apparent duplicity will have damag- ing effects on the labor party’s interests at the polls, or only on his own personal fortunes is too early to predict with any degree of certainty. It is not too early to say, however, that the rank and file of British labor are thoroly disgusted with the attitude of the pre- mier and also of Snowden and+ Party of America wishes for success Comrades Foster, Ruthenberg and other in presidential eléc- Eyes of workers of the world turned today upon efforts of vanguard of American proletariat to consolidate and lead to victory class alliance of Workers of Great Britain see in your great fight’ first serious challenge of American capitalism, which today is center of world imperialism. Congratulate you on exposing class co-operation is following the In your success the workers everywhere will gain new confidence and strength for own struggle against both British imperialism and lackeys of im- united working orkers Watch Fight Here id in War on Dawes Plan HE German workers, who under the Dawes plan are becoming the slaves of American capitalism as well as of their native exploiters, look with hope u is carrying on against capitalism and its candidates in this country. The following cablegram from the Communist Party of ¢ teymany, which the German capitalists and their social-democratic supporters are trying to destroy, expresses the attitude of the German workers on the fight the Workers Party is making here: Workers Party of America, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Til. For the first time in the history of the United States, which is the strongest capitalist na- tion of the world, a representative of the revolutionary workers is a candidate for the presi- dency. He stands alone in the fight for the interests of the workers against the candidates of the capitalists, Coolidge, Davis, and LaFollette. The German workers, persecuted and tortured by the capitalists of their country under the sway of the American bankers, call out to the American workers as a result of their ten years of misery and suffering: DOWN WITH THE workers can only be held in check thru such be- trayers. Your splendid fight, which has made Com- munism and the Russian Workers’ Soviet Republic the issue before the werkers of Great Britain in the election gives promise that these workers will soon repudiate MacDonald, the tool of British Imperialism, and take their stand with the Communists in a re- volutionary class struggle thru which they can alone win their freedom from the oppression of capitalism. The efforts of world imperialism, still shaking under the blows dealt it by the war and the Russian workers, to feconsolidate itself must be met by a iron blows it will go down forever. pon the struggle which the Workers Party class the world over, under whose Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Secretary. Berlin, Oct. 28, 1924, CAPITALIST AGENTS, COOLIDGE, DAVIS, LA FOLLETTE! LONG LIVE THE AMERI- CAN WORKERS! LONG LIVE THEIR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOSTER! Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Germany. COMMUNISTS IN CHICAGO IN BIG MEETING DRIVE Thousands of thinking Chi- cago workers are signify in no uncertain manner that they are thru with the elephant, the jackass and the bobcat, and the rest of the capitalist political 200, In the last week of the cam- paign a storm of carefully plan- ned and faithfully executed meetings, indoors and open-air, are being held all over Chicago. Monday night a special drive many street meetings were held the first congressional district for Gordon W. Owens, our colored com- rade and candidate. Tuesday, ip the sixth district, six meetings were ar- ranged, But this is not all. The meetings are only the opening gun jn a rapid- fire attack of street corner appeals, mat meetings, factory gate and house-to-house disttibution of Com- munist literature which will mark the final week of the campaign in Chi- ofgo. All workers must watch the (Continued on Page 2.) : , i STEEL TRUST DECLARES AN EXTRA DIVIDEND 10 COMMON STOGK HOLDERS NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Directors of the U. S. Steel corporation at their meeting this afternoon de- clared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share on the common stock, in addition to the regular dividend of $1.25 a share. Net earnings of the corporation for the quarter September 30, 1924, were $30,718,415, against $47,053,- 680 in the same quarter last ye: Surplus after taxes and charges amount to $15,078,110 equal after preferred dividends to $1.72 a share on the common stock. ‘ Taste of Boycott. BRUSSELS, Oct. 28.—The League of Nations council this afternoon voted to exclude Americans from bidding for the construction of the $1,000,000 league peace palace. Only citizens of member nations will be al- lowed to compete. ; U. 8. Busy Protesting. LONDON, Oct. 28—The American legation has handed the Persian gov- ernment a note protesting against the tardiness in punishing the slayers of Vice-Consul Imbrie, according to an agency despatch from Teheran, Vote Communist This Time! Big Chicago and N. Y. Drives NEW YORK’S EAST SIDE RALLYING TO CONMUNISM (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 28.— The Communists en masse in- vaded the former stronghold of the socialist party, Abe Gahan, editor of the Jewish Daily For- ward, and the labor fakers on the lower east side. The Red Night there not only resulted in the complete rout of the socialist forces, but it brought a wonderful response from the Jewish workers, now becoming disgusted with the yellows, Socialists Get Busy, As soon as the socialists heard of the proposed Red Night in this dis- triet, they decided to prevent the Com- munists from reaching the workers at all costs. Therefore they sent a squad of socialists to Rutgers’, Square with instructions to camp there from noon hour in order to hold the meet: ing place, In spite of all their efforts, however, the series of meetings ar- (Continued on Page 2.) 4 the other pronounced Commun- ist haters in the labor party government. The Soviet government has sent a sharp note to England demanding an apology for the charges of subversive propa- ganda. No Such Letter, In his message to the British trade union congress, Zinoviev, said “There was not and there could not be such a letter. The fabrication is so crude that no one, not even a too literate of- ficial of the foreign office, but could see its falsity. ».“It-seems thatthe laurels of Mr. Hughes are being divided by some one in England. It is obvious that we have in this case a too clear election man- euver.” Zinoviev also referred to an offer he made to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, to establish the falsity of certain documents which the lat- ter was using in his campaign against Soviet Russia, but Hughes ran away from the offer fearing exppsure as an arrant lar. Special Commission. “We are prepared to offer to the foreign office even more than that, namely, to allow the general council of the Trade Union Congress, thru a special commission or thru its dele- gation appointed to visit the Soviet union, to investigate immediately the question, regarding the authenticity of the alleged document. The deci- sion of this commission will be ac- cepted by us as final.” Most of the members of the Mac- Donald ministry have accepted the Ra- kovsky statement that the letter is a forgery. The following statement was issued from the labor party headquar- ters: “Several statements have got into currency during the week-end which are untrue; first, that the letter, at- tributed to Zinoviev, had been dis- cussed by the cabinet; second, that it had been intercepted in the post, pho- tographed and delivered to the Com- munists in the ordinary way, and final- ly that instructions had been sent to labor candidates’ not to speak of the Russian treaty. “Foreign office ‘officials consider that the document is authentic. Ra- kovaky declares that it is a forgery, and obviously this issue cannot be finally settled one way or other until after election. The whole circumstanc- es, surrounding the letter attributed to Zinoviev, are regarded with deep- est suspicion in labor quarters. It is singular that copies of the letter were in the possession of The Daily Mail and conservative headquarters before it had been issued by the foreign of- fice to the general press. “While the question of the authen- ticity or otherwise of the document remains open, there can be no doubt at all that the vigorous note to Ra- kovsky entirely disproves the allega- tion, made by the enemies of labor, that the government is under the heel of Communists. It gives a guarantee that the agreement between this coun- try and Russia will be enforced by the government both in letter and in spirit. “Labor invites the conservative leaders and The Daily Mail to be frank with the public and state how they came into possession of the docu- ments.” Foreign Office Trick. The Daily Herald, official organ of the British Trade Union Congress seeks to throw the blame on the for- eign office, of which MacDonald is (Continued on Page 2.) FOSTER SPEAKS TO BIGGEST NEW HAVEN AUDIENCE ReceivesHearty Ovation From Workers (Special to the Dally Worker) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 28. —Foster'’s campaign speech in Music Hall, New Haven, Conn., will remain the talk of the class conscious’ workers for some time to come. He won his audi- ence and held them for two hours while he preached the message of Communism. Music Hall, the largest in town, is used by all political parties for their rallies. The Communists succeeded in at- tracting a larger crowd than any other party, even tho they charged an admission fee. The democrats with all their candi- dates, with an outside state governor and a band of music, could not muster as many as the seven hundred who came last night. The attendance far overshadowed that at the two previous political meet- ings run by Local New Haven. A Different Speech How different from the spread eagle type of political oratory indulged in by capitalist politicians! Foster gave a masterful presentation of the under- lying facts of modern civilization, of the capitalist system of wage slavery. He was not concerned with a mere discussion of personalities, but with the necessity for a change to a new (Continued on page 2) CONFERENCE FOR FOSTER AND GITLOW HOLDS TWO MEETINGS THIS WEEK The Foster-Gitlow conference will hold two mass meetings this week, to forward the support of the Com- munist candidates of the Workers Party, who advocate the only pro- gram which brings real working class rule—a Soviet Republic and the dic- tatorship of the proletariat as against the powers of capitalism. To-night. At Liberty Club House, 3420 Roosevelt Road. Speakers in both English and Jewish, including J. Louis Engdahl, candidate for U. S. senator, Arne Swabeck, Frank Pel- legrino, candidate for congress, N. Shaffer, speaking In Jewish, and &, Lifschitz, representing the Left Pa- ola Zion. Friday Night! At Workers’ Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch ° Bivd, Speakers in both English and Jewish, including Arne Swabeck, Sam Hammersmark, candidate for congress, M, Loonin, speaking in Jewish for the Workers Party, and M. Schuchter, of the Left Paola Zion,