The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 30, 1924, Page 2

~ and the reqtest made known, than the * reasons sufficient to justify it against Page Two WOBBLIES VOTE NOT TO RECEIVE RILLU. MESSAGE lesne Livens Day of Technical Wrangling After a day spent in technical | wrangling on changes of the} constitution, in which nothing) more militant was at issue than | whether the |. W. W. should be} centralized a little bit or not at} all, the unwelcome issue of the proletarian revolution was brot upon the floor of the 16th gen- eral convention of the Industrial Workers of the World by repre- sentatives of the executive bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions, Harrison George and Mike Nowak, ap- pearing and asking the privi- lege of the floor in the name of the Red International of Labor Unions. Single Lively Issue of Day. No sooner were the credentials read one significant fight of the day broke loose. Hendrickson, who had. previ- ously shown his ignorance by confus- ing the R. I. L. U. with the Commun- ist International, maintained this tradition by weighty remarks against | “politicians.” The chair recognized a! motion to file the credential. Fred Mann pointed out the folly of filing credentials, and an amendment |} ‘was made to return them. Delegate Cole of the agricultural workers} amended the amendment with a mo-| tion that Harrison George be given the floor for 16 minutes. The fight | came on Cole’s motion. Right, Left and Center. The issue illustrated the division in the convention between right, left and center, the center voting with the! right on this issue of revolutionary importance. The job unionist lumber workers were solid against hearing what the R. I. L. U. might say. After two weeks of avoiding revolutionary issues, a stand was called for. The center group, vaguely gathered around the I. U. 330 and I. U. 510 del- egates with Welinder of I. U. 120, and some of the I. U. 310 delegates went with the right wing reformist indus- trial unionists. The center, speaking thru E. Rumbaugh, found technical ® revolutionary stand. “These cre- dentials bear the name of Nowak, an expelled member,” Rumbaugh pro- tested. He was allowed by the anar cho-syndicalist to dwell upon this at length. Swanson, of I. U. 310, obfect- ed to the whole subject, saying that the Red International had occupied attention in other conventions. Other * delegates objected technically against discussion of the revolutionary issue. , Anarcho-Syndicalist to the Rescue. ‘When Mann, openly announcing that hhe “would not play to the gallery,” AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) New York state, is a “progressive in- dependent.” What does this mean to the initiated? It means that Hillquit, while openly endorsing Reverend Doc- tor Norman Thomas for governor, tac- itly endorses Alfred Smith, the Tam- many candidate. What is the 8. P. howling about? eee ASSACHUSETTS may join Geor- gia and North Carolina is killing the child labor amendment on Novem- ber 4. If it does not it will not be| the fault of Louis A, Coolidge, treas- urer of the United Shoe Machinery company and the Prince of the Chureh, Cardinal O’Connell. Calvin Coolidge has not yet opened his lips on the question. Mayor Curley, of Boston, who until the time the car- dinal stated his position, was denounc- ing the “abominable system of sweat- ing children in industry” discovered a few days after he made this speech that the amendment was planned in Moscow and that the instructions to put it over bore the signature of Trotsky. His honor the mayor, seems to have known that Lenin was dead but the name Trotsky sounds better in a team. It seems that “Zinoviev and Trotsky” does not rhyme so well. I would not be surprised if they pick- ed Rykov as a team mate for him before long. ~ se ee 'HE 1920 census showed that there were over 400,000 children he-| tween the ages of ten and fifteen years employed in industry other than agriculture. Massachusetts is a great mill state. David I. Walsh, also a catholic, who is running for re-elec- tion, is keeping silent on the ques- tion. The, Catholic Church has mob- ilized its black shirts on the side of the bosses. Those who imagine that the Roman agency is a religious or- ganization, should open their eyes. The cardinal sent out a letter to all the clergy in his diocese calling for a meeting of catholic women to dis- cuss the amendment. Ce es | 'HE letter reads in part: “I would recommend that you bring to the attention of your parishioners at all the masses on Sunday, Oct. 5, the dangers hidden in this proposed child labor amendment and the necessity of their registering during the week and of their voting on election day to pro- tect the interests of their children.” How horrible! The women are called to protect their children form the horrible monsters who would keep them out the factories, in their in- fancy! se @ 'HE Catholic Church is one of the strongest bulwarks of the capital- ist system all over the world. It is no accident that Mussolini should make friends with the Pope, and recognize the Papal right to grant titles like other potentates. It is not surpris- ing that some of the leading officers in American industry have honored by the Pope and that on the occasion of the raising of Archbishop Hayes and Mundelein to the cardinalcy Amer- ican capitalism rendered these two flunkies royal honors. The Catholic Church is worth the money the capi- talists spend on it. Cardinal O’Con- nel’s opposition to the child labor amendment, means money in pocket to the sweaters of child labor. The cardinal is willing to wreck their little bodies “in order to save their souls.” fought for a hearing for the R. I. L. U. on the grounds of courtesy and fair play with important revolutionary or- ganizations, he tried to answer Rum- baugh, but was shut off by the chair who rushed down to his desk with up- raised gavel. What was not brought out was that Nowak was expelled by Bowerman and Raddock two years ago, as a Communist. One Revolutionary Speaks Up. The one delegate who argued on the question as a revolutionary issue was Cole, of I. U. 110. . “This organization comes to us from other revolutionary workers and wants to discuss with us| how to overthrow capitalism. I am not afraid of being poisoned with what they have to say, I am a wage slave and want to learn all I can and do all I can to overthrow the capitalist sys- tem.” Cole, also, tried to show that dele- gates who attacked Nowak were de- fending the injunctionites, but again the chair shut it off. “Anyhow,” Cole continued, “Harrison George isan I W. W. besides being a representative of the Red International. We talk of free speech, but we don’t want to listen to talk of revolution. I don’t believe in free speech myself as be- tween capitalists and workers, it don’t exist under capitalism, but with- Wholesale Arrests in Germany! Social Democracy and German Pluto- cracy in conspiracy against workers and wor. ng farmers in order to put the Dawes plan thru for benefit of Amer- ican capitalists. White Terror increases in Germany. White Terror.is a common danger for » workers, The defeat of the German working class means the defeat of the working class of the world. Meet the Common Enemy with Common Action! Workingclass Need Urgent in Capitalist Germany! ‘ Rush Legal and International Workers’ Ald, 19 So. Lincoln Street, Chicago, Il. Enclosed find $. in its hour of need. to NAMES crscosssssssoossssssnessorsesseee ADDREIBBS | ccoccosnsssosorsreorsessovemensserveesosseenesoneoseeeeeseseensstesebensssedoesseesoenoe Material Help! help the German working class CITY & STATIS cccsssoosssrsssssssnssiesssossnsonsonscosssnessssesenessiisisisiessednsctbdlabascite in the working class only. But I want Harrison George to be granted the floor,” A record vote was called for, and the privilege of the floor was refused by a vote of six to nineteen. Those who voted to give Harrison George the floor were delegates Mann, Jor- dan, Cole, Hanson, Mattson and Ober- mann. Rowan Financially Stumped. Meanwhile, in court, the customary jrefusal of Rowan to withdraw the in- \function took place, along with the jusual testimony about gunmen and |violence. It was a very tedious farce. | The only thing possible to get the |injunction removed appears to be the possible lack of funds for Rowan to carry-on the fight in court, It devel- joped that his idea of having the court expenses of several hundred dollars a |day taken out of the I. W. W. funds |tied up in the bank was altogether | wrong. Master in Chaneery Bernstein de- jelared it impossible, and added that Rowan as plaintiff must furnish cash jat once for tite two days’ hearings al- jready held, and pay cash in advance each day before the court would sit. This may make Rowan draw upon the union treasuries under control by his group or lose by default in court. For’ this reason, and because Rowan had to go back to Judge Sullivan and jask for modification of the injunction | only to allow documents to be removed from I. W. W. offices, hearings were suspended yesterday. Washington Very Unhappy Over Soviet Victory (Continued from page 1) France. Other small nations in cen- tral Europe that look to France for diplomatic guidanee are also expected to negotiate with Moscow since Paris has resumed friendly relations. Jap Treaty Expected. Japan has been negotiating with Moscow for months both at Tokyo and at Peking, leaving the United States the only leading power which has adopted a strictly hands-off policy concerning Russia. Russia has exchanged ambassadors with Germany, Italy and Turkey, and has also sent an ambassador to China altho China is still represented in Moscow by a trade delegation. Min- isters have also been.sent to all coun- tries which have recognized the Red regime with the exception of Great Britain. rge d’Affairs Hodgson represents British interests in Russia pending the appointment of an ambas- sador, and Russia’s representative in England does not as yet have minis- terial rank. Trouble in China. The sending of an ambassador to Peking completely upset the political situation in the far east as the Rus- sian envoy’s rank has always been that of minister. The present ambas- sador, M. Karakhan, is now in conflict with representatives of other powers there on the question of rank for no other country has sent an ambassador to China, and the doyenship of the diplomatic corps carries important considerations. Russia also upset pre- cedent by appointing Madame Kallon- tai as minister to Norway, the first woman to hold a diplo: ic post. Student Kills Police Chief, BUCHAREST, Oct. 29, ~ A crazed student shot and killed the chief of police here and wounded two police- men, France Expects Big Advantages For Her Commerce (Continued trom page 1) permit restoration between the two nations of useful relations and normal exchanges, when the French con- science shall Rave received the ap- peasement to which it is entitled. Will Welcome Delegates. “As soon ag you have made known your assent to opening negotiations of a general order, and more particularly of an economic order, we shall wel- come to Paris your delegates, furnish- ed with full powers to meet our nego- tiators. “Until a satisfactory conclusion of the negotiations, the treaties, conven- tions and arrangements having exist- ed between France or French citizens and Russia shall not have effect, The individual legal relations formed be- fore the establishment of soviet pow- er, between Frenchmen and Russians will remain ag hitherto and the audit- ing of accounts between the two states shall be deferred in all respects, all measures , of conservation . in France being 4axon or about to be taken. Ka “Finallysit mgst be understood once for all that. nonintervention in inter- nal affairs shall rule in the relations between the two countries. “HERRIOT.” we 6 Text of Soviet Reply. The Soviet reply reads: “The central executive committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub- lies has received with greatest satis- faction the proposal of the French government fully and entirely to re- store regular diplomatic relations be- tween the U. S. S. R. and France by the reciprocal dispatch of ambassa- dors and to open immediately nego- tiations with a view to instituting friendly relations. between the peo- Ples of the U.S. S. R. and France. “It expresses confidence that all the questions mentioned in the tele- gram of the president of the council of the French republic of today’s date can be settled by full agreement be- tween the two governments to the greatest advantage of the U. S. S, R. and France, good will existing on both sides as well as absolute respect for each other’s interests.” Anglo-Soviet Treaty On Trial at Polls In Great Britain (Continued from page 1) throw the blame for the forgery and the stern note to Moscow. MacDon- ald cannot evade complete responsi- bility. In Stre&g, Position. With French tecognition, Russia is now in a position to risk breaking re: lations with England, unless an apol- ogy is made for the gross insult’ offer. ed to the government of the workers and peasants. The Moscow note in reply to the foreign office dispatch after demand- ing an “adequate apology” from the British government declares “in the most categorical terms that the alleg- ed letter of the Communist Interna- tional constitutes as has been fully es- tablished, an impudent forgery, aim- ing to wreck the Anglo-Soviet treat- ies and ruin the friendly relations be- tween the Union of the Soviet Social- ist Republics and Great Britain)” The Soviet demand for an “adequate apology and punishment of both pri- vate and official persons involved in the forgery” is a harsh pill for the proud British rulers to swallow. Com- ing from a government of workers and Peasants it is doubly distressing. The prime minister, after the first outburst of anti-Communist rancor is ‘mow supporting the Russian treaty. No doubt. he heard from the trade unions. He did not stress the class angle of the Anglo-Russian treaty, but emphasized its value from a business point of view. He Talked Business. , “An American firm,” he said, “has secured the whole manganese field in the Caucausus — one of the richest fields in the whole world. Our oppor- tunities go; the raw material goes. America get in. Goodness knows who is going to get concessions tomorrow. Come and let us get business now, even at the risk of a few millions, and we will get a settlement of things in a normal way. British trade will be ex- panded and a market will be found.” It might be noted that the oil flelds of the Caucausus are the cause of the Georgian counter-revolutions which were liberally financed by the British government, Lotta Burke Talks in Cleveland Campaign At Hanna Hall Tonight CLEVELAND, Oct. 29—The labor movement is not fortunate in having @ large number of women in it, but one of these few will speak Thurs- day, Oct. 30, at 8 p. m, in Hanna Hall, 5311 Woodland Ave. The speaker, Lotta Burke, of Cincinnati, is a candidate for presidential elector on the Workers Party ticket, and will present the Communist program with particular reference to the women. This is one of the final meetings in the present election campaign, and all Workers Party members and sym- pathizers should turn out to this meeting not only to hear a rousing good speech, but to add enthusiasm to the meeting. ‘ lois oh Sbah ses Morgan’s Golden Goose, The Capitalist System By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY. the discredited Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of Standard Oil in the Coolidge cabinet, is going up and down the land losing votes for “Cautious Cal.” Secretary Hughes, of the republican administration, like Premier MacDonald, in Great Britain, tried to palm off forged documents in his diplomatic war on the Russian Workers’ Republic. But in the hour that Hughes was delivering his most bitter broadside, in Chicago, against Soviet Rule, the French diplomats, at Paris, were taking their medicind, in difficult swallows, and admitting that the government of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics rules undisputed thruout all the Russias. * * * * The French notified Hughes last week what they were going to do. But that is as far as the French-American entente held. It couldn't stop the French imperialists from bending their knees and knuckling down before the grow- ing Workers’ Power. : Recognition by France of Soviet Rule is an admission of the defeat of the whole imperialist war, supported by France, the United States and the other Paris allies, against the Russian workers. Perhaps Hughes still has hopes of renew- ing that war. In his Chicago speech Hughes blatantly declared: “The extreme radicals have never been able to under- stand why they could not have the gold eggs after the goose was killed.” And again: “The dictatorship of the proletariat is the effort to dis- tribute the eggs that are no more.” There is no doubt good material for a crossword puzzle in this diplomatic language. But it looks as if Hughes were trying to go “Silent Cal” one better in the uttering of pure nonsense. * * * * Hughes no doubt likens the capitalist system of private ownership to the goose that lays the golden eggs. Since the workers and peasants in Russia abolished private owner- ship, Hughes tries to infer that industry is stagnant, that the land fails to produce, and that the Russians are on the road to “the demnition bow-wows.” * * * e But that is only a Hughes nightmare. would wish it to be; not as it is. The golden goose of capitalism has been busy these many years working for the landlords, the bankers, the in- dustrialists, but not for the masses of the workers and the peasants. Under that system the workers and peasants decided they were being made geese of, and iy | decided to have a change. They wanted to get some of the golden eggs for themselves, : It is only now, for the first time in all Russian history, that the workers and peasants of Russia are enjoying the full fruits of their labor, and building a social order where the golden eggs Pagporage | from human effort will not go to the parasites, but to the producing many in a classless society. That is as he * * * * Hughes claims that the dictatorship of the proletariat in Soviet Russia, that is gradually ushering in the Commun- ist society, is a losing proposition. Of course, he has no arguments to support this stand. If what Hughes says were true, then there would be no reason for the capitalist nations, one after the other, to yield recognition to Soviet Rule. Instead the United States is today the only great power that has not recognized the First Workers’ Republic as the established successor of the ezarist regime. He J within the past year the procession has included England, Italy, Norway, Austria, Greece, China, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and now France. ” * * * Let Hughes peddle his piffle over the land. It will lose votes for Coolidge. It will help the Communists. It will help reveal to the workers and exploited farmers what a puddin- head administration Morgan has placed in power in Wash- ington. “3 It should set the rising waves of American working class protest to bateagi ny, ay fury against Morgan's rule; demanding not only. that the United States grant recognition to Soviet Russia, but calling upon American workers and exploited farmers everywhere to rise in the struggle for “All Power”; organize and strdggle to establish their own Soviet Republic. Let Hughes’ plea to save the golden goose of capitalism fall on deaf ears. Let the workers and poor farmers get a golden goose of their own, LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL SENDS $50 TO SCHEDEL’S FAMILY AND AIMS TO GET HIM OUT ON BAIL Responding to the appeal of the Labor Defense Council, Chicago friends of John Schedel, who is in federal custody, facing a five-year prison term and re-deportation to Germany, away frim his wife and four small children, have A representative of the Labor Defense Council left for Fort Wayne, Ind. early yesterday raised the sum of $50 for the relief of the Schedel family. morning to Mrs. Schedel and to turn the money over to her, Comrade Schedel was deported to Germany. during the “red raids” of 1920, the sole charge against him be- Foster Makes Good Showing in Theater Hughes Pleads for Life of CANNON HITS ‘Thursday, October 30, 1924 AT TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE Exposes ‘Backdown of LaF ollette (Special to the Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 29.— James P. Cannon, Workers Par- ty candidate for governor, has just made public the following letter sent to Normarf Thomas, socialist candidate for the same office: , “My sand Mr. Thomas: In the letter issued by your campaign committee, which letter pur- ports to be signed by 65 labor leaders of the state, certain claims are made which I beg to question. ‘ “The letter indorses your candid- acy on the ground that you are sup- porting LaFollette who stands for co- operation between the nation and the states inthe control of superpower. I notice that Smith also stands for the control of super-power. Ie seems to me that there is a very faint line of demarcation between the soctalist and the democratic program, the dif- ference in fact between tweedledum and tweedledee. “What is more important however, and what the so-called labor leaders entirely ignore is the fact that LaFol- lette is beginning to back down on his demand for government ownership, a demand for which the socialists have stood for years. z “The letter furthermore makes no mention of the possibility of the for- mation of a labor party, which you and the socialist party have been hold. ing out as a glorious prospect to come out of the LaFollette movement All that is mentioned is a ‘new party.’ May I ask what kind of a party is meant? Is it to be a third capitalist party, another party to mislead the workers with high-sounding hypocrit- ical pharses? Questions Endorsement. “Tncidently I notice that ten of the 65 labor leaders are members of but one organization, the Teachers’ Un- ion.: It might therefore be. pertinent to ask how many of the 65 signers are acting as the authorized representa tives of recognized labor organiza tions. r “T hope you will be kind enough to make the issues, which I have raised, clear to both myself and to the work- ers, who are deeply interested. “Very truly yours, “JAMES P, CANNON, “Workers Party candidate for gov- ernor.” : . ene Friday, Oct. 31. Harlem=-Open air, Furriers’ group, start from section headquarters. Main meetings, 110th and 5th Ave, and 106th and Madison. Speakers, Felshin, Brahdy, Marshall, Benjamin and Ob- lan. Hall meeting. New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park. Ave, many fam- ous speakers. Overflow meetings tak- en care of. Bronx.—Series. Start from section headquarters, main meeting, Long- wood and Prospect. Speakers, Grecht, Padgug, Pollack, Sparer, Mitchell, J. Lifschitz, Raskin and Mins. Brownsville-—Series. Main meet- ing, Stone and Pitkin. Speakers, Trachtenberg, Warshefsky, Primoff, Tanhenslag, Lena Chernenko, Mary Lifshitz, Raskin and Mins, East Side—Series. Main meeting, 10th St. and 2nd Ave, Speakers, Can- didates Lore, Brodsky. Also Codkind, Jampolsky and Fishbein. Lower Down-Town—Series, Matn meeting, Rutgers Square. Speakers, Lifshitz, Winitsky and Saltzman. Also Zack, Salant and Gavitt in Jewish, Wiliamsburg—Havermeyer and 8. 4th St. Speakers, Sam Nesin, also M. Gordon in Jewish, Celebration In Cleveland. CLEVELAND, Oct. 29.—The Amal- gamated Clothing Workers of Cleve- land will celebrate Halloween by a dance Saturday evening, Nov. 1, to which they invite all their friends to _ be present. The affair will be held in /~ the Carpenters’ Hall, formerly known! - as the Eagle's Hall, 2226 B, 55th St, Music will be furnished by the we! known Fitzgerald's Orchestra, They. ing membership in the Communist Party. His wife went insane for a time as a result of the hardships fol- lowing the separation. The family is now in dire need. Contributions should be sent to the Labor Defense Council, 166 West Washington St. Attorney I. E. Ferguson has wired to Washington in an endeavor to get an agreement reducing Schedel’s bail, which {s considered exhorbitant, The bail was set by the local authorities at $2,500. Comardes and sympathiz- ers who wish to see Schedel out on bail and able to rejoin his family, at least temporarily, can help by loan: ing money and Liberty bonds to the Labor Defense Council for use as bail, All bail loans will be returned as soon as they are released by the authorities following disposition of the Schedel case, ~ ee Straw Vote Contest YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Oct. 29.— A straw Vote was taken at the Hippo- drome and Park theatres here. At both theatres Comrade Foster re- ceived some votes, The Hippodrome vote was Foster 4, Davis 6, LaFollette 14 and Coolidge 84. At the Park thea tre Foster received 22 votes, Davir 163, LaFollette 311 and Coolidge 1008 - Talk Rights In Tangiers. © PARIS, Oct. 29, — French, British and Spanish commissioners will meet at Tangiers on Saturday to preparé for the carrying out of the Tangiers agreement effective Dec, 1, Thir agreement defines the rights of thos: nations at Tangiers, . Mote Communist This Time! five cents admission, Wood Turners Organization Meeting! Matison Men, Variet: ke-henif operators, Machine" peed ‘nd makers, Finishers and Gliders are working on lamps, tees. Sy joining the Wood Wi Union of you ings youae eerie