The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1924, Page 3

Thursday, October 30, 1924 MORGAN BREAKS WORKERS’ RANKS IN MILWAUKEE LaFollette is Silent Against Big Trast KARL REEVE. caseeh to the Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 30. —J. P. Morgan with his Inter- national Harvester trust which he organized in 1918, is allowed by LaFollette to break up the unions here altho LaFollette has been the political czar for 45 years, The Milwaukee works of the International Harvester com- pany, covering thirty-one acres, and having an annual capacity for turning out 150,000 engines, tractors and cream separators, has Jaid off thousands of men without making any arrange- ment for their welfare. Organize Company Unions. LaFollette, who brags about his ac- complishments in this»state, allows J. P. Morgan to break up the workers’ union in this plant, and institute in- stead the scab “International Harves- ter Industrial Councils,” which are controlled by the directors of the com- pany. Morgan, who has one of his serv- ants, Charles Dawes, running for vice- president on the republican ticket, and his lawyer, John Davis, candidate for president on the democratic platform, Owns practically all of the stock of the Milwaukee harvester company plant. Morgan Formed Trust. Morgan was presented with millions of dollars worth of stock in the Mil- waukee factory ‘for joining the large agricultural machinery manufacturing companies into one gigantic trust, which has reduced the wages of mil- lions of workers thruout the country and has raised the price of farm ma- chinery to an exhorbitant degree. LaFollette’s State Worst. Now thousands of workers are go- ing hungry in the J. P. Morgan plant here which is part of the International Harvester trust. The company union is. blacklisting every worker found fa- voring a union run by the workers. Workers who favor workers’ control of industry are fired immediately. Some workers who have been em- ployed in the plant for many years have been forced to send their wives and daughters out looking for work the.entire plant is on part time, with many not working at all. No provision has been made by Morgafi, who makes millions of dol- lars yearly out of the International Harvester company workers, to take care of these hungry employes. Now that Morgan does not need them, they are turned out on the street after years of faithful service. Fight Hi Living Cost. TORONTO, Oct. 30.— A campaign against the high cost of living is in full swing. The city council has or. dered a probe of milk and bread prices. A proposal to set up a city coal yard was defeated, and a motion that the city sell gasoline was side-tracked to & committee. lebrate November 7th To All Units of the Workers Party and of the Young Workers League, EAR COMRADES: The Communist International has called upon all Comminist Parti and organizations of Communist youth to unite in making the celebration of the Seventh Anniversary of the Rus- sian Revolution a Great: demonstration for Soviet Russia and Commun- ism. New attempts are ain made by international capitalism thru its henchmen, the rs of the Second International to encircle Soviet Russia and to weaken the Soviet regime in that country. These attempts of the MacDonalds, Herriots and German. social- democrats must be met by a great demonstration of the revolutionary workers. The Central Executive Committee of the Work National Executive Committee of the Young Worke calling upon every unjt of these organizations to immediately make pre- parations for a united celebration of November 7th. Joint committees for arrangements should be organized wherever possible to carry out the following program, 1. To hold November 7th celebrations in shops and factories wher- ever such celebrations can be arranged at which the speakers will point out the meaning of the great victory of the Russian workers. 2. To send speakers for noonday addresses before shops and fac- tories. 3. To have both forms of shop meetings adopt resolutions in sup- port of the workers’ and peasants’ government of Russia. 4. To unite in great mass celebrations on November 7. 5, Those Party and Young Workers League branches which are located In cities where no city central committees or large group of Party members exist must hold branch meetings to which sympathizing workers should be invited for the celebration of November 7th. A special program is being prepared for these meetings and will be published in the Party press. In addition to the celebration among the mas: the celebration of November 7th must be used to inspire in our Party membership the Bolshevik spirit and the necessity for the Bolshevization of our Party. It was thru the application of the Leninist principles that the Russian revolution achieved Its victory. Clear understanding of these principles is a task for every member of the Party. November 7th is especially. significant as a day on which we must take up with great energy the achievements of the Bolshevik spirit and understanding among the Com- unists of this country, Fraternally yours, CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman. Cc. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Party and the League join in YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE OF AMERIC John Williamson, Secretary. YOUNG WORKERS INAUGURATE TREMENDOUS DRIVE ON FIVE LARGEST MAIL ORDER HOUSES The first city central meeting of Interested in the Chicago league were of November 10, when leaflets ad- vertising the Young Worker will be given out at the five largest mail or- der house in Chicago, namely Butler Bros., Montgomery and Ward, Philips- born’s, Sears, Roebuck and the Chi- cago Mail Order House. Comrades from the area branches where these selling The Young Worker which con- tains stories of these houses, and to talk to the workers as they come out. ‘Whereever possible open air meet- ings will be held in front of these houses the latter part of the week. On Friday, November the 14th, every area branch will call the mail order house workers to its shop meetings, where a capablé speaker will tell them about the exploitation of young workers not only in the mail order houses where they work but in every single shop in every single country on the globe with the exception of Soviet Russia and will explain to them the program and principles of the Young Workers League and urge them to join the league en the basis of our MILWAUKEE, WIS. Workers Party Bazaar From Thursday, Nov. 27 to Sunday, Nov. 30 inclusive. Entertainments Refreshments Educational Nov. 27—Showing of moving aaa ‘Rus- sia and ' Nov. 28—Russian Ni Nov. 29—Hungarian Nov. 30—Banquet. | MILLER HALL, Germany.” ht. ight. . 802 State Street Bverybody Welcome, NEW WAY WET WASH LAUNDRY Flat Work Ironed 1515 Cherry Street Telephone KENOSHA, WIS. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 5, 8p. m. German-American Home, 665 Grand Ave. Milwaukee, Wis. Grand 3787 - SEVENTH VICTORIOUS YEAR—NOVEMBER 7TH Russian Revolution Anniversary Celebration RACINE, WIS. SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 8 p. m. Slovak Sokol Hall, 1625 Racine Street Speaker: MANUEL GOMEZ. GOMEz. the working area branches was very well attended, besides the regular 15 delegates to this body, many comrades present, A long list of recommendations Was brought in from the city executive. The most important among them were: That a campaign on mail order houses of Chicago which employ about 35,000 young workers at a miserably low wage was to begin the morning¢—————_____________ demands. A pamphlet dealing with the con- ditions of the young workers in mail order houses was ordered written by Comrade John Harvey to follow ur the sale of the The Young Worker. When the reports of branches were called, delegates from the six branch- all, reported enthusiasm. and in- creased activity on the part of the members. In every shop where two or more comrades were working com- rades were put in charge of forming @ nucleus and several definite nuclei had already been formed in shops and high schools and many more are in process of formation. Branches are completing the regis- tration of their members and gather- ing data on the shops in their various districts. When this is completed or- ganization of shop nuclei will take) @ more systematic course, It was decided that beginning with! the third’ week in November an in- tensive campaign in economic trade union work be begun and systematic drive made to get our members into trade unions and the T, U. E. L, At the next open propaganda meet- ing (these are held last Friday in month by all branches) prominent speakers from the league and party will speak on THE VOTELESS YOUNG WORKER. A meeting of branch functionaries (taking“in Organizer, Secretary, Ed- ucational Director and Literature Agent) will be held every second Tuesday of the month, where the work of these important offices will be discussed with the point of view of securing better response from the membership and coordinating the work of all the branches, vnunnn PHILADELPHIA, ATTENTION! — BIG — SURPRISE BALL given by Central Braneh, Workers Party New Traymore Hall Franklin St. and Columbia Ave. Saturday, Nov. 1, 1924 Admission, 25- Cents Sharlips Union Orchestra. THE BAILY WORKER SMALL USED GOLD DUST ON FORMER FOES Now They Eat Honey Out of His Fist (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Iil., Oct. 30.— When the “pay-roll special” was run from Springfield to Kanka- the job holders and their friends to a pow-wow in the interest of the “small” gévernor of Illinois, it had aboard the president of the State Federation of Labor, John H. Walker. Four years previous John was a candidate forthe position him- self and said that Small was so ked he couldn’t lie in a roundhouse. fin this occasion, however, he nede a speech in of the farmer and wage worker is Small,” meaning the. gov- ernor, of coursg, John Makes ’em Wonder. Some people marveled at Walker's position as he had completely re- himself in the four years of mall insumbency. Going back ‘ew years again we find where he ‘as an ardent booster for Dunne “the hope of the wage worker” and he and his executive board issued a state ment boosting Duane as a friend of bor and Lowden as the arch enemy of. progress. In spite of his denunci- ation Lowden was elected even though his opponent gave Frank Far- rington a thousand dollars for his support and while Lowden had the apparent undying opposition of Wal- ker and Farrington he soon had them both in his vest pocket and at the Bloomington convention of the State Federation a few. years ago he pre: sented Lowden as.“a loyal friend of Labor.” Some are now wondering what it takes to make @ friend of labor out of former enemies and especially out spoken enemies such as Lowden with his connection and close association to the Pullman Company or Small who was on the unfair list of the Kankakee Federation of Labor. Smal! is now a “friend of labor” even though every piece of hard road from th¢ Wisconsin line to airo was built by” /non-union contractyrs at scab wages. | The cement that is used is produce under non-union cenditions and when | Small boasted of how he made tpe | price of cement and secured a reduc: tion in price of approximately twenty |per cent, the wages of the cement ; Workers were reduced some fifty per cent. Small Spread the Vaseline. Where busiriess agents attempted to interfere with the program of the non-union contractors they were) chased off the job and threatened | with arrest if they sought to interfere. {When Farrington threatened to call ‘a strike of the Illinois miners unless . Small permitted him (Farrington) to have some say-so in naming members of the Industrial Board the governor} in effect told him to go ahead and naturally the governor was an enemy of labor then, But it is all changed now. Small is the “candy kid” and gram to every miners’ local in the state urging them to support Small on the very eve of the primary. An investigation here shows that all that was required to make a friend out of an enemy in the person of the governor was to permit Walker and Farrington to have somé say in get- ting jobs for their friends and relat- ives, This does the trick and now Smiall is a hundred per cent all right for labor, The question of his steal- ing two million dollars of interest money does not interfere with his purity and undying devotion to the cause of labor. The fact that he put every member of the family on the payroll even to the house-keeper and added another job as assistant sec: retary to the governor for his son Leslie is beside the mark, The cheap wage non-union contractors who get the state jobs operating under non- union conditions is a question aside from the issue. Small is now our friend and savior. Hurrah for Small. Subscribe for.“Your Daity,” the DAILY WORKER. Notice for Cleveland! CLEVELAND, Oct. 30.—The meet- ing of the Trade Union Educational League scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2, will be postponed on account of Work- ers Party literature distribution, An- nouncement will be made of the next meeting. CLEVELAND LOCAL OFFICE MOVES! eginning Nov. 1, the office of Local Cleveland and District 6, Norkers Party, will be located at! 927 Euclid Ave, Room 13. kee some months ago carrying | the interest.of Small in which he | is quoted as saying, “The hope cement companies come to time in the! the State Federation is out for him) strong. When the nominations were) being made Farrington sent a tele-| HIDEOUS CRIMES OF KLUXERS CONCEALED FROM THE PUBLIC (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Oct, 30— In barbarous Birmingham early Sunday morning, between four and five o'clock on 8th Avenue, a man and a woman were jen to come out of a house and enter a taxicab. The man's back was a mass of bleeding wounds, where he had been whipped, evidently a short while before. The’ woman was seemingly his wife. The newspapers here have made no report of this crime. There have been no arrests, The victim and the public are in- timidated to silence. Sheriff Shir ley is said to be a K. K, K. man. Birmingham, Ala. is a nest of night-prowling vermin, protected by the press and the government, Many Speakers at Fourth Co-op Meet in New York, Nov. 6-8 NEW YORK, October 30.—Speakers selected for the Fourth National Co- operative Congress to be held in New York November 6, 7 and 8, at the Co- operative League House, promise in- teresting sessions. Edward Solem, who will lead a dis- cussion on “How to Salvage a Sinking Co-operative,” is manager of the City Co-operative Dairy of Cleveland. Ben- jamin Levine, leading spirit in the Federation of Massachusetts Jewish Bakeries, will lead on the discussion of bakeries, For store management the leader will be Leo LeLievre of a co-operative operating six stores, a butcher shop and the largest bakery in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. _ Miss Mary E. Arnold will discuss organ- ization of consumers’ co-operatives. She is general manager of the Con- sumers’ Co-operative Services in New York, a cafeteria organization with 1,900 members. Probe Police Discontent, MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct, 30.— Arising out of the policemen's strike at Melbourne last November, the new Victorian state labor government has appointed a commission to inquire in- to the circumstances which caused dis- content in the police force prior to the strike. 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- sng trades workers! Get there!! | on the slogan: 4 | | NAME STREET. 2 z = ‘ ' = i FH = 2 = 2 ‘il T this time particulariy—and at all times as a rule—it would be weil to act “Build the DAILY WORKER.” The importance of the DAILY WORKER to the progress of the Labor move- ment Is too obvious even to need further comment. campaign getting subscriptions with other hustlers Bricklayers’ Union—get ih now! By all means—“Build the DAILY WORKERI” Martin Abern, Member of the Central Executive Committee, Workers Party Secretary Local Chicago, Workers Party. HEAVE THIS THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blud., Chicago, Ill. PEO a year §3.50-6 montis '2.00 3 montis G2 CHICAGO ai Gco a year fiE> 6 montis § 250, 3 months THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THE DAILY WORKER 8th Congressional Campaign Meeting _ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31,8 P.M. | Greek-Italian Hall, 722 Blue Island Avenue | SPEAKERS: GEORGE MAURER Candidate for Congress, 8th Congressional District, | T. J. O7FLAHERTY Writer of “As We See It,” in the DAILY WORKER, . AND OTHERS. & Bring along that LaFollette booster and make a Foster voter! SEJUUTAUONGHNUOANNAAADONGAONAAAUOSEOOAUANUOUOUUAOULAGLSMGAU ES AAUEESAUUEAASUOEMAU SURGES SEHR CAMPAIGN DEMONSTRATION UNDER AUSPICES FOSTER AND GITLOW CONFERENCE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 8 P. M. Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard SPEAKERS: S. T. HAMMERSMARK Candidate for Congress, 7th Congressional District. N. SHAFFER ° Manager of the Chicago Daily FREIHEIT. ARNE SWABECK District Organizer of the Workers Party. 3 a Come early and bring your friends. ON0UUUNHONNLEESUOEUGeQUONAnEEEUOAONOOGOEEAASERERRLOUAUOGOUASEORUUEEELOUUCEREEVAATOREENUATEGEEE OAUTH CAMPAIGN MEETING AUSPICES NORTH WEST BRANCH WORKERS PARTY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 8 P. M. Odd Fellows Hall, 2517 Fullerton Avenue SPEAKERS: T. HAMMERSMARK District. Ss. Candidate for Congress, 7th Congressional ARNE SWABECK District Organizer of the Workers Party, AND OTHERS. Bring that friend along! = SN If you are not in the present in the DAILY WORKER BRICK BACK! 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