The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 3, 1924, Page 2

“WAGE EARNERS’ LEAGUE” COVERS MUCH TERRITORY But It Has the Help of Boyle’s Umbrella None other than the famous crook and infamous labor faker, Mike Boyle, is furnishing his well-known umbrella for the most variegated bunch of polit- ical specimens to stand under. From a specimen ballot put out by Boyle's gang, going un- der the alias of the “Cook Coun- ty Wage Earners’ League” the amazing connections of what Sam Gompers calls “non-par- tisdn politics” may be illus- trated. Not “Dual Union.” Tor the benefit of “those who came ig late,” we explain that Mike Boyle required that cold cash be dumped im Kis umbrella when he was bribed to eall off strikes. Is must beborne in mind that this “Wage Harners League”—of course it isn’t a “dual ‘union”—has been en- dorsed by both the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor and the Dlinois State Federation of Labor. And the united front of labor fakers, liberal college professors, social welfare uplifters and underworld characters is wonderful to behold. The Len Small crew played their hands wisely. They waited until after LaFollette and his socialist camp-fol- lowers had endorsed Small, then at Harrisburg, the Ku Klux Klan center, Small declared, “I have always been a republican and will be a republican the rest of my life.” “Safe and Sane” Labor Leaders. The connection of Len Small with the labor fakers, Wm. Quesse and “Umbrella Mike” Boyle is a matter of common scandal. Now we begin to see where the “safe and sane” lead- ership is heading labor for. Boyle’s “Wage Earner League” is a sort of an “alias” for the labor fakers ¢ontrolling the State Federation and the Chicago Federation. And the bal- lot it recommends is amazing, amus- i anything but a labor tieket. We on it as “presidential elect- ors” the expected names of slick John- ny Walker, and facinorous Frank Far rington, the liberals, R. M. Lovett and Jane Addams, and, who do you think ~Sam Levin of the Aamalgamated Clothing Workers! Levin Under Boyle’s “Banner.” The A. ©. W., which has a “pre amble,” almost, ff not quite as revo- lutionary as that of the I. W. W., is epparently gone a long way to the vight when its leading Chicago offi- cial starts out to “overthrow capital ism,” and to “take over the means of production and distribution” under the “revolutionary banner’ of Mike Boyle’s umbrella. It was expected that the labor fak- ers, including Levin, should favor the republican, Carlstrom, for attorney- general of the state. Carlstrom has Promised to withdraw all graft charg- @s pending against Len Small. Nat urally, too, the republican who is Sterling in name, if not in honesty, should grace the LaFollette, Mike Boyle, Jane Addams, Sam Levin unit- ed front. But why should these and wll the labor bodies in the state of Minois and the city of Chicago also |be tied up to the democrat, Albert A. Sprague? Sprague is a millionaire, a colonel BiG GROWD TO HEAR ENGDAHL TONIGHT AT CLEVELAND MEETING CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 2.—J. Louls Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, will be the principal speaker at the closing campaign rally here on Monday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. This Is the last of a series of successful campaign meetings ad- dressed by Engdahi on his eastern speaking tour and a large crowd is expected to turn out to hear him. in the world war who didn’t get more jthan half-shot, a leading member of the strikebreaking American Legion, a@ resident of the silk-stocking dis- trict at 1180 Lake Shore Drive, and a members of the scabby Sprague-War- ner company. Yet he has the endorse- ment of “labor” thru the sanctified pronouncements of Mike Boyle and both of the labor federations! “Labor” Loves the Bankers. There are other queer endorse ments for a “wage earners” league. Here is ‘labor’ endorsing Sterling, who, as noted, made some money him- self, along with Small. Sterling is a banker of Rockford. Labor seems to be voting for bankers when it cannot go into financial class collaboration by starting “labor banks.” Then there is the spectacle of the Chicago Federation of Labor backing, thru the “wage earner” Mikey Boyle the republican, George A. Curran, for municipal judge. Curran the other day, when a Workers Party speaker was before him, offered the “judicial opinion” that “we should buy a tick- et for these fellows.” The “Reward and Punish” Policy. But even worse is the “labor en- dorsement” of Edgar Jonas for muni- cipal judge. This fine bird was so “friendly to labor’ that when the Pullman strikers of the Railway Car- men’s Union at Pullman came before him for trial he did his dirty damned- est to have them convicted. A jury |acquittal or two discouraged him, but his “intentions were good.” Such is the fine lot of political |monstrosities gathered together un- der Mike Boyle’s umbrella! Work- ers will vote for the Communists! JOB SELLING” PLOT UNEARTHED IN SOUTH ILLINOIS WEST FRANKFORT, IIL, Nov. 2.— The arrést here of Joe Klynas has un- covered a “job selling” ring in the southern Illinois coal fields that had its inception at Orient mine No, 2 of the Chicago, Wilmington and Frank- lin Coal company, the largest coal mine in the world, and has spread to other mines, involving many “higher ups.” Klynas was arrested and placed in jail at Benton after affidavits were obtained from seven coal miners that they had each paid $100 for a job at the Orient mine. The money, according to the af- fidavits, was paid to Klynas who then gave each man a note to George Pol- lock, mine manager at the Orient mine. Pollock is alleged to have put the men to work then. The “ring” has been operating in Franklin county for at least five months. The probe will be extended to other points in Illinois. The Orient mine No. 2 now employs 500 men. The southern Illinois coal fields have recently gone through an unusual period of depression causing great unemployment. WE ANNOUNCE CONSIDERABLE GROWTH! THANKS TO THE BRICKLAYERS In the last 28 days we subscriptions—sent in by members of the DAILY WORKER Bricklayers’ Union. This Is slightly over 74 NEW subscribers everyday. And this does not Include renewals—very heavy at this time when live members of the Labor move- ment are building up THEIR paper. In this same period the DAILY WORKER has lost only 147 subscriptions thru expirations—-and will get most of them back. have received 2,075 NEW All this in 28 days! What the future of the DAILY WORKER will be If we put our shoulder to the job of building it up— you can judge for yourself. YOUR PAPER Is feared by Labor's enemies now. It will become a real Power—the instrument in build- ing the Labor movement—if you put yourself on the Job of getting subscriptions. find a brick, In this Issue you will “Heave It Back.” THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Boulevard Chicago, Illinois T Et HE DAILY WORKER LABOR FAKERS IN CRAZY QUILT (Continued from page 1) lan contained a statement signed by Charles McGowan, LaFollette state chairman, urging third party voters to support Len Small, who has indorsed Coolidge and Dawes, Small, who is the Coolidge and Dawes leader in Illinois, is practically indorsed by the LaFollette leader in Illinois. McGowan says, “The repub- lican candidate for governor is run- ning on a platform identical in the main details with the progressive platform. We advise as far as prac- tical, that the progressive forces co- operate,” the Klan statement of Mc- Gowan ends. Even the kluxers, how- ever, dare ndt indorse Small’s record outright. Only the Illinois labor fak- ers do that. The Klan apologizes for supporting this crook by saying, “So far as the republican candidate, Len Small, is concerned perhaps he doesn’t measure up to all the standards and requirements of Illinois.” Devoid of Scruples. Three of the outstanding labor fak- ers in the city, Mike Boyle, William Quesse, John Kelly, however, had no scruples about indorsing Small un- qualifiedly. They formed the “Wage Earners League,” which is whooping it up for Small among the trade un- ions. Charles Wills, business man- ager of the Federation News is one of the most blatant howlers for the vir- tues of Small in this fake organiza- tion. The Federation News, run by the Chicago Federation of Labor, which is run by Kelly, Quesse and Boyle, is identically with the Klan, also supporting LaFollette, and. Len Small, who in turn indorses both the Klan and Calvin Coolidge. Len Small has made the same speech in all his campaign meetings, This speech was written by Percy B, Coffin, upon outlines dictated by Fred Lundin. Coffin is the boss of the Quesse, Kelly, Boyle combination which controls John Fitzpatrick and the Chicago Federation of'Labor. The whole tribe of labor leader politicians is under the wing of Fred Lundin, who is supporting Len Small, who in his turn, is supporting the Ku Klux Klan and Coolidge and Dawes. Thus a united front prevails in this election campaign among the Federa- JOHN D.’S SLAVES (Continued from page 1) Elizabeth,” manufacture of the diluted gasoline will not be stoppet. While the 36 men are still in the hospital, most of them in delirum, the Standerd Of] announces it will con tinue the manufacture of its ethyl at the Du Pont plant. Employes of the Dayton research laboratory have met a similar horrible fate, it now trans- pires, and in the Du Pont plant, which will be used by the Standard Oil, many have been driven insane and two men have recently been killed by the tetraethyl lead after a terrible period of insanity. Chemist Committed Sulcide. Claude Becker, cousin of a chemist employed in the summer at Bayway. has now revealed that the chemist, Henry C. Becker, committed suicide as a result of mania from lead poison- ing. All over the country, the expos- ures of death caused by the Standard Oil's newest profit grabbing scheme are coming to light, altho the Stand- ard Oil refuses to stop killing its em- ployes. Immediate action by organized la- bor to protect the workers against the poisoning is urged in a letter which been sent to trade unions thruout the country by the Workers’ Health Bu- reau, 799 Broadway. State federa- tions of labor and central bodies in every state are urged to protést to state departments of health and in- dustrial commissions, to call for im- mediate investigation of the Standard Oil working conditions and to demand that the ethylized gasoline be taken off the market immediately. Capitalistic Murder. The FE. I. Du Pont de Nemours com- pany, the General Motors company and other concerns. controlled by the Standard Oil are equally involved in the worst exposure of capitalistic murder of workers in recent yea! Following the death of the latest victim, Herbert Fuson of Elizabeth, N. J., who died in a straight jacket, the New York board of health has been forced to issue a statement, bar- ring the tetraethyl lead gasoline from New York City as a public menace, Tho Standard Of] has admitted that its poisonous gasoline is in use in ite 10,000 filling stations thruout the country. It is doubtful whether it will be possible to force the powerfu! oil trust to take its poisoned gasoline off the market. Killed Professor’s Opinion. Dr. Yandell Harrison of Yale, it has been learned, was asked by the Stand ard Oil for his opinion of the effect of the poison Standard Oil gas on human beings, but because his opinion was detrimental to their business, his re- port was suppressed and rejected by the Standard Oil company. Dr. C. K, Flint, head of the Recon- struction Hospital, admitted that many of his 36 patients are “suffering from mental disturbances.” Patients who died in this hospital were not given ef- fective treatment, it has been disclos- ed. They were treated with intraven- ous injections of hyposulphite of soda, } tion of Labor leaders, the Ku Klux Klan, Bob LaFollette, Len Small and Calvin Coolidge. There are many var- jations to this corrupt political mess in which the labor fakers of Illinois are wallowing. John Walker is in- dorsing Deneen for senator and John Fitzpatrick has indorsed the demo- jcrat, Sprague, altho both are united on Small and LaFollette. The Chica- }go Federation of Labor has indorsed Igoe for state’s attorney, altho the Klan, which is co-operating with the Federation in backing LaFollette and the Coolidge candidate, Small, has come out for the re-election of State’s Attorney Crowe, a Catholic. The socialist party is also wallowing in the mire of capitalist politics. Percy Coffin was appropriately called in by the labor fakers to bury the farmer-labor party by means of the wage earners’ league. McGowan, who smiles upon ali this has indorsed Sprague for senator. The socialist party, shrunk in size and morale so that it could no longer retain its own identity, joined with the bankers and the federation of labor in indorsing LaFollette. MeGowan, glad to get a few votes for LaFollette wherever he could, treats the socialist party like a poor relation, however. Rolled in the Gutter, The socialists have been grovelling at McGowan’s feet, trying to shine in the reflected light of the LaFollette candidacy. But they have plastered themselves with the mud of the cap- italistic political gutter. Meanwhile, their own candidates, whom they ex- pected to help by donating money to LaFollette, have been completely ig- nored by the trade union leaders and LaFollette men; The labor leaders, more wily politicians, have given the socialist state candidates the com- plete go-by, thinking it more profitable dorse corrupt capitalist politicians. The Workers Party is the only pol- itical party which has stood on a con- structive platform with the single aim of building the power of the working class. Their program aims to build a mili- tant body of farmers and workers to gain control of industry for the work- ers and establish in this country a workers’ and farmers’ government, DYING OF POISON pital on five successive days, and the prestige of this so-called remedy has disappeared. Meanwhile the patients still alive are suffering untold tor- ments. Thomas ») Jr, who invented. the poisoned gasoline for the Stand- ard Oil company, tried to lay the blame of ‘the deaths on the workers themselves. “The men failed to ap- preciate the danger of constant ab- sorbtion of the fluid by their hands and arms,” said the Standard Oil em- ploye. 34 COMMUNISTS IN GERMANY MAY BE IMPRISONED (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) BERLIN, Nov. 2.—If the designs of the socialist leaders of Germany and their police agents succeed, thirty- four Communist deputies to the Reich- stag will soon find themselves fac- ing long senterces of imprisonment under the most inhuman prison con- ditions known anywhere in the world. The adjournment of the reichstag, which automatically closes the term of parliamentary immunity which all deputies enjoy, was the signal ,for President Ebert and Chancellor Marx to unleash their socialist bloadhounds, who have been straining for months to get on the trail of the workers’ rep- resentatives in the reichstag. Communists Fight Dawes’ Plan. The bitter and single-handed fight of the Communist deputies against the acceptance of the imperialist Dawes’ plan, which would. deliver the German workers over to bondage un- der the lash of international capital- ism, has infuriated the socialists, who for almost seven years have been playing the game of the world rulers. And the socialist anger has been an anger based on fear—fear of the pow- er of the workers, who have again and again shouted their approval of NAME ‘STREET. CITY. Three Coal Miners Died Today Where 3 Were Injured Only Yesterday By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "ToDay, the working class in Indiana is burying its dead and healing its injured. This is not an unusual proceed- In fact, it is the common lot of workers. But there is bitter irony in the reports that come simul- taneously from Terre Haute and Logansport. * * . * Three coal diggers died in a blast in the Blackhawk Coal Mine, 12 miles southeast of Terre Haute, It is not new that coal miners should die at their work places. Thousands die that way every year. BUT THESE THREE WORKERS, GEORGE ETTLE, JOHN McKEE AND FRANK HAWKINS, HAD SUBSTI- TUTED FOR THREE MINERS INJURED AT THE SAME WORK PLACE LAST FRIDAY, AND THEY HAD BEEN AT ure. to their personal ambitions to in- WORK ONLY ONE HOUR WHEN THE DEATH BLAST SNUFFED OUT THEIR LIVES. * . * e These three men had waited for the jobs of the other three. There are hundreds of thousands of idle miners, and risking death in the coal pits is preferable to starving, espe- cially when there is a wife and children at home also de- manding food. Last week there was a gas explosion. But miners’ lives are cheaper than safety measures. The pockets of gas in the mine remained unmolested. The second three went into the death pit. They were young men: Hawkins was only 27. Their first shot, to break away new masses of coal, sent a spark into a gas pocket. Then the blast, flames, death. It was 14 hours later that their charred remains were found. All that is left of the bodies of these young, healthy workers goes into another hole in the ground, in the ceme- tery, while three more are selected frém the living, from among the jobless thousands, to face death in the mine tomb that never closes its gates, either upon the entrance of the living, or the carrying away of the dead. * * Not far away is Logansport. Lester Kimball is only 17 years of age; but his right arm is already gone at the elbow, and he will never again be able to use his left hand. ze It all happened when young Lester became the victim of the hungry teeth of an unprotected saw in a portable sawmill near Grass Creek, not far from Logansport. It is also not unusyal for workers to meet death and Goo a year §3.50-6 montis $200 9 montis -f$8o00 ayear F450 6 montis § 25 ‘THE NEW SUBSCRIPTION TO BUILD THe DAILY WORKER injury in saw mills. In fact, next to mining, the lumbering industry is the most hazardous. BUT THE SAW THAT TORE AWAY THE LEFT HAND AND THE RIGHT ARM TO THE ELBOW OF YOUNG LESTER, WAS THE SAME SAW THAT TOOK THE LIFE OF THE BOY’S FATHER, EDWARD KIMBALL, THREE YEARS AGO. Life is cheaper than safety devices to protect the lives and the limbs of the workers. The boy will go thru life crippled, unable to make. a decent. living under capitalism, whiie another jobiess worker, perhaps a brother, will take his place at the sawmill. * * * * This is in Indiana, the state of U. S. Senator Watson, supporter of Coolidge for re-election, baiter of Communists. This is the state of ex-Vice President Marshall; who attacks every effort to improve the condition of the workers as “pure Bolshevism.” This is the state of Judge Anderson, the judi- cial assassin of workers and workers’ organizations. This is the state of Gary’s self-named steel trust town of Gary, of the Standard Oil Trust’s town of Whiting, the state where every great industry has its own little czardom populated by the wage slaves of the year 1924, under the rule of capi- talism. * * * * All those who believe that the profits of the mine owners and the lumber barons are more sacred than the lives of workers, will take their places with Watson, Anderson, Gary, Marshall and Rockefeller, They will support the capitalist system of Coolidge, Davis and LaFollette. But those who place the rights of the workers first, will take their places with the Communists, in the struggle for the ending of the capitalist system; for the abolition of the rule of Gary and Rockefeller, - The lives of the workers must not always be fed to the saws of the lumber mills; to the gas explosions in the coal mines; to the hungry por ge Be industry. Yet only the workers themselves can end this barbarous condition thru ending the social system responsible for it. Instead of capi- talism—Forward to Communism, the acts of the Communist deputies. Communists Gain in Election, With the election of seven more Communist deputies to the Hamburg senate, and the loss in the same elections of sixteen socialist seats, German “socialism” is in terror, and is hunting down with the utmost bru- tality every Communist representa- tive that can be found. The charge against the Communists is that of “high treason” to the-father- land. Among those sought most eagerly are Ruth Fischer, prominent in the in- ternational Communist movement, De- puties Scholem and Katz, who acted as the Communist floor leaders in the reichstag. Missouri-ites to Be Shown How to this election day. Carl Miller.” FPATES ' months Vote Communis' Communist voters residing in Mis- souri must observe the following rules if they want to make their vote valid Monday, November 3, 1924 $10,000 BRIBE TO NEGRO PAPER FOR AIDING CAL Negro Editors Bought to Betray Own Race. (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. 0., Nov. 2.—The colored prostitutes are not all poor Negro girls forced by low wages to sell themselves. Coolidge’s agents in the Negro branch of the republi- can national headquarters in New York, are revealed by testimony given Friday before the Borah committee, as having sent out a circular letter to colored newspaper editors and pub- lishers, inviting them to @ banquet at the Hotel Dumas in New York. At the banquet Editor Vann of the Pittsburgh Courler presided. He told them that they would be expected to peddle their support to Coolidge and Davis before there would be any dis- cussion of paid political advertising. Carl Murphy, editor of the Afro- American of Baltimore, testified be- fore the committee. Murphy and his advertising manager, Henry T. Allen [told how the scheme worked and how when they refused to pledge sup port to Coolidge, and left the bamquet they got no advertising. Chicago Defender Selle Out. They were told by Vann, the previ- ous day, that the Chicago Defender, the chief Negro paper in the United States, had received $10,000. It has Coolidge propaganda each week, said Murphy. . Allen, in a spicy letter to the Bal- timore Sun, which was read into the record, told of the banquet and said it was designed to pledge the Negro press to Coolidge and the Ku Klux Klan. EDWARD NOCKELS HUNTING REDS IN CENTRAL BODY (Continued from page 2) introduced by Painters’ Local 275 at the previous meeting and were laid over. The resolutions already published in the DAILY WORKER, called for a fight against imperialism, on the Ku Klux Klan and in aid of the un- em) ed. workers,» e resolutions .committee voted non-concurrence on the ground that ‘the resolutions bore all the earmarks of Communist origin. The committee did not say that it handled the resolu- tions with asbestos gloves, tho it must be hot stuff. The committee also made the startling announcement that the Communists had the propaganda possibilities of the resolutions im mind when they hatched them. Nockels Excited. Nockels announced, as part of the red-baiting plan of the federation, that Jack Johnstone of the painters and Nels Kjar of the carpenters were un- seated as delegates to the central body, Johnstone because of his Com- munist activities. E. Arnold fo the Painters’ Local 275 spoke against the report of the resolu- tions committee, pointing out that his local had 1,000 members and that the same kind of language now used against the Communi: was once used against the socialists. When another delegate from the painters tried to get the floor, a reactionary called for the previous question and it was carried, About one-quarter of the delegates voted against the previous question and the motion to non-concur. A dele- gate protesting against closing discus- sion declared that there was some- thing rotten that was being hidden. t {This annoyed Nockels, patrick’s rel restored order. Northside English Branch Meets. Tonight important meeting of the Northside English Branch at 2409 N. There will be no column for the| Halsted St, at Imperial Hall. Very Workers Party candidates, therefore|‘mportant matters to come up. Every _ use blank space at bottom of column. Fill in name “Workers Party,” then) write “for president’ William Z. Fos- : ter” and make your cross (x), under} BERLIN,—Russia and that write “for vice-president Benja- min Gitlow (x) and president elector member is urged to be present. Belgium Opens Parley, DR. TAFT 1555 West Roosevelt Road 9 5 Bi Sundays and it 3 ek M4 m been printing four or five pages of .