The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1924, Page 5

Friday, October 31,°1924 LW.W. CLAIMS ~ INJUNGTIONITES ‘HELPED FINKS Rowan-Bowerman and Co. Are Expelled? By KARL REEVE, Unpublished proof that Wil- liam J. Burns used the depart- ment of justice as a_ strike- breaking agency competing with the Thiel detective agency in disrupting labor organiza- tions, is in the hands of Thomas Doyle, suspended . secretary- treasurer of the I. W. W., he told the convention of the I. W. W.' yesterday. Doyle, who is defending himself against charges in the convention at Emmet Memorial Hall, started his tes- timony just after J. Rowan, F. Bower- man, Harry Trotter, James Griffith, P. D. Ryan, and all others bringing the injunction into. the capitalist courts ,and refusing to appear before the convention, were expelled from the I. W. W. provisionally upon refer- endum, Doyle Goes to Washington. Doyle took a trip to Washington, he declared, at the request of Robert Dunne of the Civil Liberties Union, as the evidence he had in his posses- ‘Sion was said to be certain to cause ‘Burns’ resignation as head’ of the bureau of investigation of. the depart- ment of justice. “Burns resigned the day before I arrived to testify before the senate committee investigating his bureau,” Doyle told the conven- tion. Doyle did not say that Wheeler refused to use the evidence against Burns, but this is known to_be a fact. “There is danger that a national criminal syndicalism law will be brought up in Washington. This evi- dence is still wanted in Washington, and I believe the juicy exposures it ‘contains will knock on the head and blow up any national syndicalism law proposed,” said Doyle. i >, Doyle declared that. it was only be- cause of, the insistent:demand of: In+ jal Union 210, which had gather- ‘ed some of the evidence that he and Joe Fisher, suspended general organ- izer, were able to induce the Rowan- ‘Bowerman faction of the general ex- ‘ecutive board to make public even a ‘part of this evidence. Bowerman Against Expelling Dick. Bowerman, Doyle said, made a speech against printing this evidence, “because they didn’t have the. guts to let it out, as they were afraid of go- amg to jail or being raided.” He ‘Charged that Bowerman and his co- . horts voted against expelling the two Burns’ agents who had been uncov- | (ered as stoolpigeons in the I. W. W. | i“Even a bootlegger doesn’t get a ‘fair trial’ in the I. W. W.,” said Doyle. “Why give a bonafide fink that you shave the goods on a fair trial? If you call him for trial he'll disappear. ‘Yet these men on the G. E. B. did not want to expel Haines and the other fink, because they said they wanted to give him a fair trial. A man who will do that is not far from being a fink himself. Bowerman made some other odd jobs on the-cam; lation of the DAILY Wi SOCIALIST THOMAS TRIES TO TALK AWAY TAMMANY HALL FRIENDSHIP (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 30.—Norman Thomas, socialist/ candidate for governor, in.a lame speech at Rutgers Square tried to give the impression that there was:no-alliance between the socialists and Tammany Hall, Speak- ing of Smith) he said that the'latter was a good man. The only thing wrong ‘with Smith was that he ‘belonged to Tammany Hall, At any time during the day or evening if you have an hour to spare—come over and volunteer your help to enable us to get out a heap of mailing, Thomas also claimed that Smith socialist party in regard to the public exploitation of water power. No mention was made of the fact that Smith killed the welfare program which the Tabor moyement of the¢-———————____________. staté lad for years beén trying to get on the statute books, No mention was made of Smith’s stend on the injunction issue. Imme- ditely after this tame speech, Thomas’ good man Friday, Levinson, took the platform saying, “The other day the DAILY WORKER charged that the socialist party was ning up with Al Smith. Did you hear how Thomas at- tacked. Smith Just a minute ago?” The crowd was so impressed with this argument that it-moyed.across to the Workers Party meeting ina body. The prize speaker of the evening, however, was one Weinberg, who stood helplessly before a crowd of Jewish Communists and begged them very peculiar 5. B.” ‘ Doyle charged that only half of the scandal relative to Burns in labor or- ganizations has:come out-and he be- lieves it should be printed. No one appeared to prosecute Doylé on any charges yesterday. Expel More In Afternoon. Three more mén, Dr. Frederic A. Blossom, James Quinlan and Bert Lor- ton were expelled by the I, W. W. con- vention in the afternoon session, after an argument as to whether or not their expulsion should go to a refer- endum vote. Delegate Claude Erwin led the fac- tion which tried to keep Blossom and his pals in the organization by relying on a referendum. Erwin claimed the former convention had -violated the constitution in providing for suspend- ing these men. One of the 110 dele- gates charged that “Blossom has a, fol- lowing in this convention and the ref- erendum ballot is a last life line they are using to keep these men in the or- ganization.” The delegates who spoke for send- ing . to. # referen- aia wore telpag bathe hemeione vote to keep Blossom inthe organiza- tion, as the lumber workers’ have a reputation for blocking progressive legislation passed by conventions, and left to referendum. Delegates Erwin, Grad, Murray, Nel- son, Anderson, Nelson and Swanson who favored Blossom in the debate, voted against his expulsion. Delegate Joe Oates refused to vote. _ “Train Guns on Downing. The delegates trained their guns on Mortimer Downing, editor of the In- dustrial Worker, printed in Seattle, when a telegram was read by the grievance committee: from the busi- ness manager of the Industrial Work- er, condemning William Hanley, sec- retary-treasurer of I. U. 110 for not paying a, bill of $288 which he owed. Hanley told the grievance committee that he would not support the Indus- trial Worker as long 4s it printed mat- ter of an controversial nature, and favored Rowan. y “We find Hanley’s statement to be true,” said the report of the grievance statements in the G. Over! inserting and ign to increase the circu- KER and the WORKERS had captured the platform of the to have the “decency” to listen to him. It seems that Weinberg had some time ago deserted the Commun: | ist movement and the crowd had little use for a renegade. Instead it broke into little discus- sion groups which berated vehemettt | ly ‘the betrayal of the socialist party. Weinberg charged that the Workers Party had raised LaFollette to the skies, but when asked to read such a statement he ignored the question, | “Just see,” said one worker in utter disgust, “the socialist party is now) acting in the same way as the repub- lican and democratic parties. It is trying to fool the worker.” — committee, “and direct Hanley to pay the debt as soon as the Industrial Worker publishes retraction. of ar- THE DAIL COAL OPERATORS WIN. VICTORY IN WILKES. BARRE Lewis and Cappellini Aid in Breaking Strike By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. WILKES BARRE, Pa,, Oct. 30.— Without attempting to deny that the operators have flagrantly violated the existing agreement between them- selves and the U. M. W. of A., the un- ion officials h succeeded in getting the 10,000 miners in this region to re- jturn to work without a settlement be- ing reached. On the plea that the contract must be lived.up to, and that only the of- ficials have a right to call strikes, the general grievance committee which called the two recent strikes in this region, voted last Saturday to refrain from calling any other strikes in the future unless sanctioned by the dis- trict officials. n Damaging Effect. While agreeing to the centraliza- ation of authority for the purpose of strengthening the position of the min- ers in their constant struggle for their Y WORKER. FARMER-LABOR CANDIDATES IN NORTH DAKOTA ANNOUNCE THEY ARE FOR COMMUNIST TICKET WILLISTON, N. D., Oct. 30.—Many false storigs have heen circulated by the kept press of North Dakota about ‘the position the farmer-labor can- didates of North Dakota are taking in the preaent.campaign.. So that their stand may be clear to all they have issued the following.statement to the AUDITS OF BOOKS SHOW LEWIS GANG WASTES FUNDS ticles siding with acts of Rowan.” A rights, the latest action on their’ part, motion to condemn the editor of the|in surrendering the only thing that Industrial Worker and demanding his|they have had to protect their inter- expulsion was tabled, to be acted on/|ests, will show itself as the most dam- later. aging act they have committed since The Rowanites in the convention al |the formation of the general bodies a ‘|the interests of unity. so stood up for Mortimer Downing in this dispute. Delegate Swanson de- manded that Hanley be condemned, “for boycotting the Industrial Work- er.” Oates’ Motion Has Joker. Joe Oates did Rowan, Ryan, Trotter, Bowerman and the Rowan faction a good turn when he presented a motion for their expulsion with a joker in it that it go to a referendum. vote. Oates’ motion was finally passed, after many of those who voted for expul- sion had opposed putting the matter to a referendum. Most of the dele- gates who favored the outright expul- sion by the convention, voted for ex- pulsion thru a referendum only in Oates thus scored a victory, saving! one of the few who wanted the mat- ter to go to a referendum vote, but the motion expelling Rowan and his followers was carried 23 sto 3 and Oates’ little scheme worked. Starts Bravely Off for Europe. Over the question of sending creden- tials to an I. W. W. administration to, Czecho-Slovakia, in answer to an ‘ap- peal sent from that country for aid in organizing an I. W. W. group there, arose a discussion involving the en- tire problem of international connec- tions and political affiliations, In spite of the fact that the discus- sion ended in the adoption of a reso- lution empowering the general execu- tive board to call a conference of for- eign I. W. W. administrations to dis- cuss the problem of organizing in for- eign countries, the debate brought out the fact that a great deal of disagree- ment exists as to the scope of the I. Ww. W. That the organization, altho calling itself Industrial Workers of the World, is designed particularly to fit condi- tions in America, and that the estab- lishment of foreign administrations would result in “dangerous entangle- ments,” was the view taken by Charles Gray, delegate from I. U. No. 110. if That the capitalist class, in the course of its fight on the I. W. W., will deport enough of the active mem- bers to carry on propaganda in other countries was the somewhat novel stand taken by Joe Jordan, I. U. 110. ‘Tpeilini’s success are now few years ago. It is safe to predict that before long, grievances will pile up'in greater pro- portion than is the case now, the ma- qhinery for settlitig same will move slower.and the miners will once more feel the need for acting in the only manner that brings to them the de- sired results, Agreement a Joke, There is a clause in the agreement which is now in effect, that provides for the settlement, within sixty days, of all grievances coming before the conciliation board. for adjudication, but the committee responsible, and justly so, for the latest strike here claims, that two grievances against ‘|the Pennsylvania Coal Co. have been in the hands of that board for nearly seven months and are not yet. settled. Hii a Fret ‘Anderson was/'THey are not settled yet, but the men have returned to the pits and more promises have been made tp them. Their Idol Faded. ‘The miners hereabouts, and partic- ularly those who contributed to Cap- looking about for a successor to their faded idol, and before long it is expected that an outstanding figure will be asked to conduct a campaign, in prep- aration for the election to take place next June. However, there are those among the rank and file of the miners' union, who are convinced that the only way to bring about a satisfactory solution for their problems, is to fight the fight on-class lines and on gener- al principles and not on a program of ‘personal and mercenary gain, as was the case with Cappellini. What is needed is one who recog: nizes that there are no interests in common between the operators and the miners, that the work of mining coal is just as hard in one mine as it is in another, and that, consequently, there should be a uniform rate of pay prevailing. Separate Agreements. At the present time every company has @ separate agreement, no two companies pay the same rates, and the miners of at least some of the companies, when paid on the day basis, are rated on a ten-hour day, despite the argument that a uniform eigh-hour day had been established in the anthracite region by Lewis. The recent action here, in calling MONTHLY. We are very busy and have loads of work —help us out—come over! eis uk iar Order for Your Nov. 7 Meetings — , Just Off the Press! : By A. Losovsky, — General Secretary of the Red International of Labor Unions. tt yer ty § Py ppt a... ~ with Givies attrac f cover a \pot Lanin—the whole work a tribute to great leader, and an ‘,astrument toward mastering Leninism AK Me, ORDER NOW! ‘ le copy 15 cents. 10 to 25 copies 120 per copy 25 or Send remittance to 4113 W. Washingto ‘more 100 per copy, ~a . The view of most of the delegates | of the strike is a victory for the op- who voted in favor of the international | prators, Lewis and Cappellini, and a conference was that too many for-| stinging defeat for the miners. It eign countries, the debate brought out | means a continuation of the struggles calling themselves I. W. W., which are lrop their rights, altho they have in fact, not affiliated with the I. W. W- | thrown away their best weapon, but organization here. The chief purpose |... jong 1 am expecting to be able to of the conference, according to these announce thru these columns that would be to einer, ont: im. they have again recovered their lost love, the strike weapon, and are again Unwittingly Support Anarchists. | on the warpath, fighting for the things If such conference is held it is free-|that rightfully belong them, also ly predicted that the I. W. W. will fina |that they were forced to do so when that it has unwittingly been shelter-|their officials failed to secure redr ing a choice brood of plain anarchists, | for them, ' who reject all centralization such as is inherent in industrial unionism and who are mere camp followers of the labor movements in their own coun- tries. Such has been the experience of the Marine Transport Workers’ attempt to orgunize’the I. W. W. in Germany with a scoundrel named Rieger at Ham- burg, Also, it recalled how the I, W. W, published the book attacking the Soviets, written by A. Souchy of the anarcho-syndicalist international. This book put the I. W. W. in the light of endorsing the White Guard bandit Makhno, now sheltered by Catholic Poland. |"Have you Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lody Room, Ashland Auditorium. seer m termis reat Bunty? farmers and the workers of Williams year, we find it necessary to issue the following statement: Regularly nominated at the Primaries “We were both regularly nominated at the primary election, and we are still candidates at the general elec- tiom Nevember 4, for the' offices for which we were nominated last June. All stories to the effect that we have laid down as candidates are absolut ely false. Will You Stand For This “A sinister attempt is being made by office-hungry politicians to flout the will of the people of this country. The Farmers’ Press at Williston takes upon itself to say whois going to be sheriff of Williams county, It ruthlessly sets aside the decision of |the nonpartisan league convention as well as the verdict of the primary election and without consulting the rank and file of the farmers and the workers of the county, suddenly. de- cides. that Andrew Omholt and A. C. Miller cannot be elected to either state or county office because they are communists. For sheriff the Farmers’ Press is now going to.sup- port one R. A. Marshall, an I, W..A, Farmer-Labor Party Neutrat “The Farmers’ Press at Willis- ton has stated that the farmer-labor party of North Dakota has endorsed the LaFollette movement. This is not true. At the party’s meeting in Bismark on September 3, last, it was decided that the farmer-labor’ party of North Dakota should maintain a neutral attitude on national can- didates. : The National Campaign “We favor William, Z, Foster for president for the reason that he stands for: 1. A Farmers’ and Work- ers’ Government; 2. The Abolition of the Mortgage System and the Land for the Users; 3. Nationalization of, all “great’ industries; “including the Farmers’ Marketing System; 4. The Industries for the Workers. Cool- idge, Davis and LaFollette are either silent or pussyfoot on these . vital needs-and demands of ‘the farmers and the workers of America. State Program “In the interest of the farmers and the workers of North Dakota we ad- vocate the following: 1. All public funds to be deposited in the Bank of North Dakota and the establishment of state-owned branch banks, one in each county within the state; 2. Com- pulsory state hail insurance with an acreage tax levied on all tillable land in the state; 3. Exemption of farm improvements and workers’ homes from taxation; 4. All tax titles to revert to ‘the state. Stand by Your Rights! “We use this means of bringing the facts before the voters of the coun- ty and the state and trust that all farmers and. workers will stand by us in this fight for their real needs and demands. Anything that is for the farmers and the workers and against the capitalists is always called “un- American™ by the yellow and the cap- italist press. “(Signed) Andrew Omholt, can- didate for sheriff of Williama,county. “(Signed) A. C. Miller, candidate for state representative, 41st legislat- ive district.” Mexico Sells its Liberty. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30.—The steady rise of Mexican ,bonds in the interna- tional markets is being explained by the $50,000,000 Orlitt loan to Mexico, which practically assures resumption of payment of the debt to the United States by Dec. 15, and by the fact that American and English oil interests have secured from the government all that they sent their agents to get. This means in spite of contrary statements by President Obregon that article 27 of the constitution has been practically nullified (especially the part providing that the subsoil of the land belongs to the Mexican people), UNCLE WIGGILY’S TRICKS “Nurse Jane ' aah in lettchen” County in North Dakota: “In view of the misleading stories ‘that have been circulated by the Farmers’ Press at Williston, and also froin’ other’sourees; in regard to our candidacies, as well as our position on the national election campaign this MINOR'S SPEECH MAKES BIG. HIT WITH FARMERS They Join Discussion; All Have Lively Time By W. J, MeVEY, (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 30.—Robert the best pleased crowd of workers and farmers that has listened td re- volutionary theories in many a moon. A local capitalist paper had a re- porter at the hall, who asked Com- rade’ Minor why the Soviets in Rus- sia had not ‘socialized industry more than they had. Perhaps the reporter thought this would stump Comrade Minor, Comrade Minor’s answer was clear and to the point. Some S. L. P. members tock a sling at Comrade Minor with their usual questions; one making a short talk on the 8. L. P. stuff. the last question, so he replied that it was easy for writers to write their theories down on paper and print it so it will look nice to the reader, but that is not saying the theories are practical. He said the socialist labor party can find more excuses to keep out of a:fight than any other organ- ization on:earth; The crowd roared, stamped their feet and laughed at this reply. | One. devout LaFollette advocate, | who had been editor of a local de- funet socialist paper, remarked after the meeting, that “A fellow might as’ well-go up against a buzz saw as against Minor.” Many LaFollette- supporters were present: and well pleased with Com- rade, Minor's splendid talk. ; Baku Workers Greet “Soviet Georgia On Victory Over Foes |. MOSCOW, Oct. 30.—A joint session ‘or the Soviet and representatives of labor organizations of Baku (Caucas- | us) sent a message of greeting to the |workers and peasants of western Georgia in view of the quick and reso- |lute resistance they offered with their own forces to the menshevik “putsch” (attempt at revolt). In another resolution, Mkewise adopted unanimously, the Baku Soviet | expresses indignation at the spreading by foreign papers of fabricated re- ports of an alleged insurrection at Baku and generally in the Republic of | Azerbeidjan. Thé resolution goes on | to say that “after their miserable | fiasco, the organizers of this menshe- vik action, such as Jordania, Tsere- telli and others, are trying to find con- solation’ by disseminating avowedly false reports of alleged revolts in Georgia and Azerbeldjan, thus trying to mislead public opinion in Europe. “We hope,” concludes the resolution, “that’ the workers of Britain “and France will estimate at their real value the intrigues of Georgian emi- grants representing the interests of alien capitalists against the peoples of Caucasus having at last entered in- to an era of national cultural reyiv- al.” 2 ———— Can't Sell Land for Ten Years. MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30.—President Obregon’s recent important land de- cree provides that the land granted to the peasants cannot be sold nor mort- gaged for 10 years from date of ac- quisition, This it to prevent the re hogging of land by the large land. owners of Mexico. my racket Janie?” Minor spoke here in Turner Hall to | Comrade Minor knew this was about | Figures Certainly Had ~ Wild Time of It By JOHN McRURY. (Special to the Daily Worker) GLACE BAY, N, S., Oct. 30.— Two audits of the books of Dis- rtict No. 26, United Mine Work- ers of America, have been made in less than seven :weeks. The district charter was suspended over a year ago. International President John L. Lewis sent three men to the district some weeks ago to make. an audit. These. men were paid $15 per day, and took exactly thirteen days to go over the books and make a report. This cost in the vicinity of $600. The report revealed a high carnival of money spending—items were charged against men who had not re ceived a cent in order to hide deficits Glaring mistakes were made in simple additions, and other items were tampered with in order to hide the truth from the miners. Lewis Restores Charter. Hardly had this trinity reached In dianapolis with its report, when. John L. Lewis decreed that the charter of District 26 be restored and the miners be given full autonomy. Lewis also ordered that a complete audit was tc be made. Lewis restored the charter because of pressure of the miners of the district, and because he is unwill- ing to be responsible for the coming wage battle at the expiration of the present contract. The new audit covered the fourteen month periéd ‘of thé Lewis regime in the “district—trom ‘the time that the duly elected officers of the district ; Were deposed until ‘the Lewis’ ap- pointees' were discharged, who, be- cause ‘of ignorance, ran the district to ‘Buch A mess that Lewis gladly washed his hapds of the whole af: fair. The second audit discovered a shortage in the funds to the amount of $1,481.51. Louis McCormack, a Lewis appointee is being held re- sponsible for the disappearance of the money. The case has been handed over to a bond company for collection. Provisional President Houston is still in the district and it is reported that his sole purpose in remaining“here is to prosecute McCormack. It will be remembered that Silby Barrett, the first provisional president of the dis- trict, ran into such a mess that he was finally evicted by Lewis. Miners are Indignant. The miners are indignant over the Startling disclosures made by the jaudit. While the miners have been literally starving on two and three days’ work per week, the provisional officers of the district have been loll ing in luxury created by their ‘hard earned money. After scanning many pages of the financial statement oneisamazedatthe amount of money paid out to officers and field workers, which totalled $45,- 262.57. During the entire career of provisional activity not.one local un- ion was visited by one of the so-called field workers. These and other para- sites have so devoured the money that little now remains in the treasury. Individual loans comprise an import- ant item when it is shown that the largest amount was “loaned” to Silby Barrett, one of the first district wreckers. These and many other items com- prise a record that will be handed down as evidence of one of the basest deeds ever perpetuated in the history of the American labor movement, PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. 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