The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT j AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. T may be a waste of time to devote valuable space to the rantings of the muddle-headed editor of the Mil- waukee Leader, who competes with the highly paid capitalist toady of the Hearst press, in running a “column,” tho, without the literary fluency of Brisbane. What is worrying Victor Berger, just now, more than his excess avordupois, or even his real estate, is the charge made against LaFollette, to the effect that he is a revolutionist. Berger takes up the cudgels for his friend “Bob,” A few quotations will prove enlightening. se * ““F"—HE attacks of our American cap- italist papers and politicians of LaFollette, however, go to the limit of ignorant ill-will and criminal ignor- ance. Far from being revolutionary, LaFollette is the man who stands be- iween capitalism and chaos.” What does Berger mean by chaos? Read on; “It is extremely foolish to de- hend on men of the makeup of Cool- idge .or Davis, who by their stupid capitalist ‘conservatism’ are, bound to bring. on a bloody catastrophy of the type of the French revolution or of ‘he Boisheviki upheaval in Russia.” ©, Berger joins the multi-millionaire, Spreckles, in putting up “Bob” as a dam against the social revolution which Berger once gave lip service to. in Berger's vocabulary the rule of the workers is synonymous with chaos. eos 'é order to quiet the nerves of those} who may believe that LaFollette end the socialists are revolutionary, the Milwaukee Leader publishes on the front page of its Nov. 1 issue, the planks of the C. P, P. A. platform siopted. at; Clev: nd_written..by LaFollette. The - ey eer “Where is there @ single demand ‘or 2a single proposition in this program that is revolutionary? Or a single plank that is not in strict compliance with the common sense and the com- v2em needs of the common people?” Berger has even stopped talking about ihe workers and now turns his sewer- pipo on the poor “common people,” a social class as vague as Berger’s soc- ialism. ee AFOLLETTE did a neat bit of double crossing on the farmer- labor’ party movement when he de- iivered a broadside attack on the Jane 17 convention in St. Paul. Since then, however, “Bob” has been get- Ung some of His own medicine. The ©, 0. P. has plenty of money and can c'g up as many red plots against La- Folletie he latter eould charge the Commiur with. The biter is get- ins bitten with a vengeance. eos | Rhett: staged a perform: ance in New York recently. Prominent actors and actresses were | scheduled to appear. But their man- agers happened to be for Coolidge and warned them that if they appeared at | the LaFollette show, they might cool thair shins in the employment offices | around 46th St. and Broadway, for the winter as far as the theatrical man- agers were concerned. What happen- of when the andiefice, who paid big Tioney to see first rate vaudeville per- formers ‘were presented with medi- ocre talent, is told in the news col- umns, soe HE Prince of Wales is back in . England again. It is reported that his father is not at all pleased with the kind of publicity his son received J in America. Edward P. is solely to . He made that kind of publi- The king did not mention the yY WORKER reporting. on the 's visit, but we had some good ‘(Continued on page 3) In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Yolk Il. No. 193. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: THOUSANDS HEAR FOSTER IN GARY © Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WORKERS’ LIVES SACRIFICED T0 COMPANY GREED 13 Killed As Freight Car Hits Trolley Another example of the indif- ference corporate greed has for the lives of the poor, was given Sunday morning at two o‘clock jwhen the outrageous practice the capitalist politicians allow of permitting the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul railroad to |use their tracks thru the work- jing class district on the north- west side for a switching yard, took toll of at least thirteen lives, mostly if not all working people, and seriously injured twice as many more. Conductor Shows Company to Blame. An east bound North avenue car approached the railroad tracks which run north and south near Halsted street. “The gates were down,” said conductor Olson, “and the flagman was out with his lantern. We waited while a switch engine and a string of cars passed over the crossing. “Then the gates were raised and I gave the motorman the signal. We started across the tracks, but when our car was half way across a freight | car shot out of the darkness. Our car |-was struck in the middle and over- turned. There were forty or fifty people on it. When I regained con- sciousness men and women were strewn all over the street and screams of the dying filled the darkness.” For years and years the © worl class of the nofthwest side: have pro- tested vainly at the. city government permitting the Milwaukee’ railroad, one of the richest in the country, to imperil their lives continuously by! using the tracks laid thru their| busiest streets as a switching yard. They have also pointed out that where railroad tracks pass through a wealthy district farther north, the rich people are carefully protected by elevation or depression of the street or of the railroad itself at the expense of the railroad. But in the district where workers live, where the catas-| trophe in which the Milwaukee rail- | road was allowed to murder a score} of workers who slave at night, the | dangerous open crossings are allowed to stay as it would cost something for the railroad to make them safe. Employing Victims to Make More. | Another angle on the slaughter Sunday morning is the practice of this and other railroads, giving such jobs as crossing guard to old employes, }often half blind and cripped up in many cases by previous accidents in which the company buys off the vic- timized worker by promising that if he oesn’t sue them for the injury they are responsible for, they will “give him a job for life.” Corporation Lawyers Hotfoot. No sooner had the massacre occur- ed than the railroad claim ‘agent lawyers and doctors were rushed to the scene. These vampires, trained in tricking. unwary victims, knowing that the company is at fault and may be sued, try to get the injured and dying workers to sign some paper or make some statement waiving claims against the company or to agree to a settlement for ridiculously small sums, and, if the victims refuse, to make some statement that they “are not hurt much”—to use against them later, Vote Communist This Time! UNITED STATES TEACHERS HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ON “EDUCATION WEEK”; LEGION TO RUN FARCE \ ’ 4 (By {The Federated Press) ; | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Alliance between the U. S. bureau of education afd the American Legion in the promotion of Education Week, in which the American Education Assn, will play only a very minor role, has brought upon Commissioner J, J, Tigert a forceful protest from the American Civil Libertiés Union, The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, chairman of the union, in a letter to Tigert, calls the Legion a “military propaganda points out that the program announced for Education Week is “marked by intolerant propaganda against progressive political and industrial thought under the guise of combating radicalism.” According to the Civil Liberties Union, its protest has been duplicated by educators, publicists and peace and civil organizations, to the extent of pressing the opposition of these persons and organizations to any partici. pation 6f the Legion in the celebration of Education Week. ‘ | THE WALL STREET TRIPLETS FAKERS PLAY HIDE AND SEEK WITH POLITICIANS Katholics and Kluxers for Small and “Bob” Leaders of the organized labor movement of Illinois are | disclosed to be connected in a united front with the Ku Klux Klan, “Bob” LaFollette, the Coolidge administration, and the crooked Len Smail, as the election campaign draws to a close. It has been disclosed that Frank Farrington paid a secret visit to the Coolidge campaign headquarters here and altho he makes denial, persons on the inside disclose that Frank Far- rington is silently supporting Calvin Coolidge for the presi- dency. Len Small, who has gained the sup- port of all the officials of the Illinois and Chicago Federations of Labor, is backed by the Klan and has given them all possible support, it has long been known. The Klan, in its turn is throwing its support to Robert LaFol- lette for president, Fred Sterling, lieutenant governor and Small’s running mate for re-election, who is also supported by Victor Olander, Frank Farrington, John H, Walker, John Fitzpatrick, Bd Nockels and the other Illinois labor fakers, is vice-president of the Iinois department of constabulary, which en- courages lawlessness and crime by peddling gun permits. The depart- meat of constabulary, which is entire- ly a Klan organization, arms the klansmen, This corporation is also supported by Charles Dineen, repub- lican candidate for United States sen- ator, it’s a Queer Tangle. leaders have been ardently supporting, is right in the thick of this confused and rotten political mess, La¥ollette is named along with Len Small as the official choice of the Ku Klux Klan as well ag of the labor leaders, The sample ballot issued by the Ku Klux. y F eS, oa FIFTH VICTIM OF JOHN D. Oli DIES, INSANE Officials Blame Work- "ers for the Tragedy (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2—; The fifth employe of the Stan- dard Oil company; victim of the adulteration of gasoline with’ tetraethy! lead, has died in a straight jacket, raving and violently insane. The death of five employes in| the Standard Oil company at the Bayway plant, and the con- finement of 36 more in the Re-} construction Hospital here, most of whom are insane, has exposed the deadly toll taken by the Standard Oil in making mil-| lions of dollars for Rockefeller. The Standard Oil company admitted that they knew of the danger to the men in working with the lead, but the employes were not fully informed that they were in danger of insanity and death. In spite of the toll of death, the Standard Oil, true to their disre- gard for human life where profits are concerned, has hinted that they will refuse to pay a cent to the raving victims of their greed, and the famil- ies of those they have killed. An of- ficial of the Standard Oil has given out a statement that because the em- ployes were cautioned to wear rubber gloves they should have known of the great danger. “More Poison,” Says dohn D. At the same time that the death of the five employes and the insanity of half a dozen more was exposed, the Standard Oil put in the mails a mag- azine called “The Lamp,” annonncing “More Ethyl Soon,” and making known the formation of the Hthyl Gas noy,” and| LaFollette, whom the Iillinois labor | corporation, jointly with the General Motors corporation. Altho the Standard Oil's ethyl plant in Bayway, New Jer. sey, has boen order closed and altho officials of Rockefeller’s company ad- mit that “the gns collected a toll of death and inganity before the 49 em- Dloyes were exposed in the plant near (Continued on Page %) '|LaFollette-Wheeler middle class fore- THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-ciass matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, [limois under the Act of March 3, 1878. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1924 << DUNNE HOLDS BIG MEETING IN BUTTE, MONT. Flays Walsh As Tool of Anaconda (Special to the Daily Worker) BUTTE, Mont. Nov. 2—A crowd that jammed the audi- torium, stage and stairways of Moose Temple turned out to hear William F. Dunne speak on | the Communist program and} candidates, The meeting was one of the largest and most attractive staged here during the cam- paign and the speaker, well- known in Butte, drove home his points with examples from the struggles of the Butte workers. He told of the deliberate disruption of the farmer-labor movement by the es and characterized the support by them of Senator Waish, the framer of the espionage act, as “the worst be- trayal of the Montana labor move- ment ever perpetrated.” Walker Agent of Anaconda. | “The support of Walsh,” said) | Dunne, “who runs side by side with! | Erickson, openly the choice of the! Anaconda Mining comparfy, is the last | |ehapter in the conspiragy which re- ;Sulted in putting the Butte Bulletin! ;out of business and which has as its object the return of all power in this | state to the copper trust.” f Dunne told of the endorsement of }Gor. Small by the Illinois LaFollette, \forces, Small’s subsequent endorse- | | ment of Coolidge, and evoked an out: | ‘burst of laughter when he described | this maneuver as the “liberal concep-| | tion of practical politics.” | At the conclusion of his talk the! | speaker asked for questions, and for |45 minutes quswered queries concern-} ing the Dawes’ plan, the Fifth Con-} | gress of the Communist International, |the situation in China and the British elections. } Weather Cold. | Arrangements had been made to jhave Dunne speak from the court- jhouse steps, but the severity of the| | weather made it necessary to secure a ‘hall. This reduced the size of the jerowd but at least 500 people heard 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 COMMUNIST CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT SPEAKS 10 WORKERS: IN THE HEART OF STEEL TRUST cr (Special te The Daily Werker) GARY, Ind., Nov. 2-—Thousands of workers in the heart of the steel barony gathered here this afternoon to hear William Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate for president, the issues of the campaign before the workers in the straight-from-the- shoulder fashion in which he rallied hundreds of thousands gf, steel workers in the great steel! strike of 1919. B The meeting was held despite numerous persistent attempts on the part of the steel trust to prevent Foster from speaking, by;, denying him one hall after another. An empty lot was finally; secured and workers assembled there at last minute’s notice ta: hear the Communist candidate, eet: Foster Hits Gary. wer Cheering and applause greeted Foster when he was ofl duced by Paul Ginny famous labor attorney who defended tha, IN NILES CAUSE DEATH OF FOUR Gary, his supporter, for the con- sistenly anti-working class ad- ministration he had headed. Davis and LaFollette received their due share. LaFollette was exposed for his de-| clination to come to the aid of the) desperately fighting steel workers in Many Others Wounded their moment of greatest need. The) and B Up entire “progressive” veil was torn from the face of the LaFollette move- ment, and Foster showed that the| NILWS, Ohio, Nov. 2—Abou 1,600 program of LaFolletteism was a re-|state militiamen took over control actionary one that could not be sub | of this, city yesterday after the Ku ported by class conscious workers. Klux Klan had caused a general up- “The issue is whether we shall have| s.i4¢ by shootin ft dictatorship ef the capitalist class and Tie od igang te tts henchmen, or Tule by the workers | *t least three of whom were Knights and poor farmers,” said Foster. “The|of the Flaming Circle. These were Workers Party stands for the rule of; ™urdered while standing on the side the working class!’ walk sbesoageag firing from passing patid automobiles. More than a dozen Soho gt a etn cadigiiey Ted others “were -wWeunded arid many manner. They were out all day yes. | eaten. terday distributing leafiets announcing! Gun battles near meeting places of the rally, and an automobile toured | the hostile organizations and running the city with a sign urging all to at-|fire between speeding automobiles tend. ° were of frequent occurremce all day. Klan Didn't Parade, The Kluxers who control the city administration, had gotten a permit to parade several thousand strong thru the city streets, and the anti- klan circle had been refused a similar permit. The circle then announced that it would not permit the Klan to parade if it couldn’t. They seem to have made good, even tho it cost a few lives. But the Kluxers haye re ceived a wallop that, cost them great Good Collection Taken. A collection of $67 was taken up, which is. considered to be an excellent sum in view of the poverty of the workers in the steel town. Oliver Carlson, of the Young Work- ers League’s National Executive Com- mittee, just returned from Soviet Rus: sia, also spoke, touching on the differ- ence between the situation of the workers in a capitalist country and of those under the rule of the workers. |the Communist message. Ninety per cent of the audience were workers. j see j Great Falls Meeting. | | GREAT FALLS, Mont. — An andi-| fence of 200 workers in Carpenter's | Hall heard William F. Dunne analyze the forces. inp the election campaign from the Communist standpoint and jexplain the Communist program. Every reference to the Communist candidates brought applause. PHILA LOCAL OF WORKERS PARTY | AIDS STRIKERS PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 2.— Hundreds of dollars have been raised by the Philadelphia local of the Work- ers Party and sent to the relief of the Paterson silk strikers, and turned over to the Paterson relief fund. Ata showing of The Beauty and the Bolshe- vik, International Workers’ Aid mov- ing picture, $345 was collected for the Paterson strikers. In addition over $300 was collected directly by the party to date. In Waiters’ Union No. 405, the Workers Party appeal for funds to aid the Paterson strikers was given preference over an appeal of the La- \Follette men, LaFollette being turned {down on the ground that the Workers |Party aided the strike of waiters in the New Traymore Hall, while LaFol- Jette men were not in evidence during their time of trouble. $27 was cal- \lected by the Workers Party for the Patterson strikers, and the LaFollette fakers got nothing. The Workers Party has sent letters to each party member urging their direct aid, and co-operation thru the unions for relief for the Paterson \strikers, R. Baker, secretary, announc- es. The party also co-operated with the Workmen's Circle in staging a concert for the benefit of the silk strikers, —_— loss of influence and all their faint hearted members who want, to quit when rifles begin to crackle. Bring Them From Other Cities. Klansmen by the hundreds from many cities arrived over the Erie to take part in the parade. One train- load was not permitted to detrain by the troops. Klansmen who had been posted as “police” to guard the | parade were rounded up by the sherifr * and disarmed, The police, known to be friendly to the Kian, were called out repeated- ly. In each case the anti-klan forces, EDWARD NOCKELS STARTS ON RED BAITING SPREE The Chicago Federation of |resolutions committee voted to Labor, if the words of Edward Nockels mean anything, has taken up the job of red baiting where Jake “Spolansky left off. At yesterday's meeting, the fed- eration secretary declared that “this federation did’not intend to be continually harrassed by Communists looking for an audience.” This outburst came after the non-concur in three resolutions (Continued on Page 2.) not trusting the “impartiality of the law,” would instantly fill automobiles and race away in hot pursuit. Some apprehension is felt that the state militia is also in cahoots with the Klan, as in Iiinois under Governor Small. The sheriff, however, expects no further trouble, Moscow Confident. MOSCOW.—Soviet newspapers eon- fidently predict the overthrow of all barriers raised against recognition of the reds, now that France has given the Soviet recognition, LA FOLLETTE’S VAUDEVILLE | SHOW WAS AS BIG A FARCE AS HIS JUGGLING ACT WITH WALL STREET ——., (Special to The Daily Worker) : NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 2.—A benefit performance to bolster up the waning LaFollette campaign here proved a “flop,” when the vaudeville artists hired to amuse the followers of the aged senator from Wisconsin, failed to appear. The benefit, which would have served to keep LaFollette’s + supporters in a good natured frame of mind, and keep them from analyzing his crazy quilt program, proved a complete fiasco. Those who attended demanded their money back, causing a near riot, \ The LaFollette campaign committee here has hired an extra clerk to refund the admission, and statements are be- « ne ing issued by the wholesale attempt- in 1 laid plot emanating from ing to explain the vaudeville show|Calvin Coolidge himself. Borger's which turned out to be the greatest |papor, the “Milwaukee (mis)Leader,” political farce of the campaign. is writing stories attempting to blame The acts that did appear were hoot-|the “theatrical trust.” ed and heckled by the audience. Vic- Patrons who went to LaFollette’s tor Berger, one-of LaFollette’s most | vaudeville show paid from $1 to $3 te ardent supporters, became incensed at|get in. Their boos and calls for this, and ts charging that the audience | money back broke up the show, a