The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 4, 1924, Page 2

poo ae ee gees = Se Se Se ee east = RITES St Sikes. Page Two LABOR FAKERS FIGHTING LIKE KILKENNY GATS (Continued from Page 1.) fized labor in the campaign has been the utter ideological bankruptcy of its reactionary leadership. It is an example of the low grade unionism, the failure to educate the union mem- bership, the results of the practice of | betrayal, the unprincipled scramble | for individual interests of the whole tribe of labor faker bureaucracy, that the nation-wide money for LaFollette was a fizzle. “Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L. announces that out of the three million members of the A. F./ of L., it could only raise $23,786.33. This is less than a cent a member, and illustrates the fact that the labor fak- ers in control of the A. F. of L. are unable to inspire the workers in any cause or upon any occasion. “This was admitted a few years ago by Gompers, when a strike in his own union, the Cigar Makers’ Union, need- ed assistance. Gompers said that an appeal for money sent out to the whole A. F. of L. didn’t yield enough to pay the postage on it. Such is the fruits of resistance of Gompers and his kind to revolutionary education of the workers and Communist teachings of cldss solidarity. Communists’ Fine Campaign Record. “Just look at the difference,” said Gomrade Foster, “between the work- ers who are controlled by Gompers, and the members of the Workers Par- » in their support of candidates in campaign. Gompers couldn’t get even one cent a member out of the A. ¥. of L. membership for the LaFollette campaign fund. But the Workers Party, with approximately 25,000 members, raised $100,000 without any extraordinary effort. Four dollars against a penny is a record for the la- bor fakers to ponder over. “The events of the election cam- paign have been most significant in at least two ways. First, it shows that millions of workers are breaking away from old ideas, which means they are set in motion never to stop completely until they arrive at proletarian revolu- tion. They may be long on the road and may linger at LaFolletteism, but whether they know it or not, they are on the road to revolution. Labor Bureaucracy Split. “The second important development of the campaign is the split in the labor bureaucracy. The chickens hatched out by Sam Gompers have come home to roost on his tombstone. ‘The labor fakers are falling out among themselves, inevitably and unavoid- ably as a result of the teaching of the whole Gompers’ school of “non-parti- san” class collaboration with capital- ist political parties. {jA few weeks ago a meeting was held in Washington at which all the labor bureaucrats opposed to the Gom- pers-LaFollette alliance came to an agreement and organized definitely to fight Gompers’ machine. This group was headed by such outstanding trait- ors as Major Berry of the pressmen, Hutchenson of the carpenters, and agents of John L. Lewis, who had sold out to Coolidge. “This gang has formed a ‘non-parti- san’ group inside the A. F. of L. to split Gompers’ machine and oppose LaFollette because they feel their in- terests as individuals in capitalist po- litical parties may be endangered. It is to be remembered that Berry in the Seattle convention of the A. F. of L. was the one who led the fight for a labor party. Now he leads opposition to anything that is slightly suspected’ of having a labor tinge. Socialist Betrayers Betrayed. “The nastiest bunch of political crooks in the labor movement is that represented by Sigman of the I. L. G. W., who with all his yellow socialist stripe are loudly wailing that the exe- @utive council of the Central Trades nd Labor Council of New York has betrayed them by switching from La- Follette to Davis at the last minute. “It comes with poor grace from these arch-traitors to the interests of labor, to howl about being betrayed when Sigman and his kind have done everything in their power to drive out all revolutionary workers from their organizations, have given up themselves all pretense of revolution- ary principles. It is the old case of oar: calling the kettle back. Just ih trom betraying his own union, this Judas, Sigman, is a fine bird to be croaking “traitor” at Tammany Hall. Communists expect just as lit- tle from one as from the other.” Asked if he would prophesy how soon a Communist might be elected as national leader, Comrade Foster re- marked that prophesy was not in his line, adding, “But just as certain as sunrise a Communist will be elected, not as president, but as chairman of the council of commissars in the Sov- lot Republic of the United States of America.” (Continued from Page 1.) Spolarlsky put over such a colossal fraud in the Daily News that William Fort, who has been writing Spolan- sky’s articles for him, finds himself out of a job, Spolansky’s s¢rvices as a special agent of the bureau of in- vestigation, United States department of justice, were also cut short at about the same time that Spolansky revealed his Americanism to be a fake, by mak- ing overtures to Federal Judge Camp- bell’s court for his second citizenship papers. Fred Schlotfeldt, another 100 per cent American, admitted to the DAILY WORKER that Spolansky may not get his citizenship papers as soon as he would like to have them. “It’s a tick- | lish subject, now that Spolansky has been writing those ‘red’ stories,” said Sehlotfeldt. “Spolansky will not be able to get his papers outside the regular channels, and must post a notice of intention to file 90 days pre- vious to court action.” Down in the Mouth. Spolansky’s wire pulling has made him very irritable, for he swore vilely at the DAILY WORKER reporter when asked how he was getting along in his so far unsuccessful attempt to become a hundred’ per cent American Spolansky’s Americanism means money to him, for he cannot very well continue his denunciation of class con scious foreigners and praise of one hundred ‘per cent American scabs now that the DAILY WORKER has exposed the fact that Spolansky is still knocking to be admitted as a one hundred per cent patriotic citi- zen. A member of the editorial staff of the Daily News, evidently ashamed of Spolansky’s bunk in. the Daily News, told the DAILY WORKER that | Spolansky is trying to get the paper to print the rest of his series which has not yet seen the light of print. | He was hard put to explain why Spol- ansky’s articles were cut short after such prodigious advertising. News Steers Clear of Responsibility. E. C. Dennis, managing editor of the Daily News, refused to place the re- sponsibility for Spolansky’s lies on his paper. “Spolansky must be respon- sible for his own statements,” Dennis told the DAILY WORKER. “I will be glad if you will point out any cor- rection in his stories.” After the DAILY WORKER reporter had point- ed out three lies in one sentence of Spolansky’s bunk, Dennis coughed and sputtered and after a long pause, replied, “I thank you very much for giving me the “correction.” No one interviewed by the DAILY WORKER had a good word for Spol- ansky. J, Hamlin, chief of the bureau of investigation of the United States department of justice, said his depart- ment had given Spolansky no aid in his articles. “I don’t know much about Spolansky. I didn’t know any- thing about his ‘red’ articles until I saw them advertised on the bill- boards.” Hamlin told the DAILY WORKER. He even refused to say that Spolansky was a good stool- pigeon. “Jake” Exaggerates Wildly. Special investigator Jamie, another stool pigeon who worked with Spolan- sky, told the DAILY WORKER. “Un- less they're good investigators they don’t last long here. Spolansky wasn’t with the bureau very long. We did not consider him an old timer. You know what kind of stuff Spalansky has AS WE | been putting in the paper as well as I do.” Fred Schlotfeldt also seemed very much amused at Spolansky’s stories. “You know how Jake is,” he told the DAILY WORKER, “He ex- aggerates wildly to say the least.” The general opinion of old time newspaper reporters around the Fed- eral Building is that the Daily News was slipped a lemon, “I’m surprised that the News fell for him,” said one reporter, when informed that Chi- cago’s famous one hundred per cent American is frantically trying to be- come naturalized. “The stuff he print- ed was so ridiculous all the newspa- per men got a good laugh out of it, The News probably cut the stuff short because the people got sick of Spolan- sky's twaddle.” Real Name Shpoliansky Spolansky was born in Odessa, Rus- sia, in 1891, and came to America in 1909, the DAILY WORKER reveals. His real name is Jacob Shpoliansky, but his mania for posing as an Amer- ican patriot induced him to change it to its present form, Spolansky, after working as a cook in a restaurant, and in lumber camps near Seattle, mar- ried a professional actress and set- tled down to running an elevator in a State St. store. Spolansky then did some dirty work in the army and since 1919 has been known as a professional stool pigeon. Spolansky sold himself to the em- ployers during the war, when as an employe of the treasury department, he drummed up trade for the interna- tional bankers. Spolansky came to the notice of the employers by. vigor- ously pushing the sale of liberty bonds. In fact since changing his name, Shpoliansky has adopted the psychol- ogy of a typical one hundred per cent American. He has stooled on his fel- low countrymen, being especially aet- ive in the interests of United States steel corporation in having good union men deported to Russia, He has en- gaged in numerous side lines, making his colleagues at the Federal Building jealous and himself wealthier by his deals in getting Russians past the im- migration officials, according to his friends at the Federal Building. Spo- lansky is able, they declare, to work his liquor and other grafts more suc- cessfully because he is a citizen of Russia, and it in touch with Russian monarchists who are anxious to come to this country and be just as good one hundred per cent Americans as Spolansky. They evidently consider this the land of golden opportunity for patriots of that stripe. Leaves Story, Gets Ha Hal Schlotfeldt, from whom Spolansky is trying to get the nat jon papers which will make him eligible for further stool pigeon jobs, had a good laugh over the picture Spolansky painted of himself stalking the “reds” ‘in Michigan. “That’s my home town, jyou know,” said Schlodfeldt. “Poor |Jake had to cover himself up with leaves.” The general reaction to Spolansky’s articles in the News, coming as it did, unfortunately, at the same time as Spolansky’s difficulty in becom- ing naturalized, has killed his chances of being promoted to even the ranks of the second rate stool pigeons. Spo- lansky is now a back number as a labor stool pigeon, and the Daily News will have a lot of explaining to do. SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from page 1) they located a capitalist candidate. It is most ungrateful on the part of the labor leaders and the progressives,” These who have tears prepared to water the grave of the socialist party out with them. o8, 'HE §. L. P. is still in the field and toutly defending “Americanism” against all comers. Thelr presidential candiate is named Johns. He uses the radio as frequently as President Cool- idge. A reporter from New York World, interviewed Johns, recently and was quite surprised to learn that the S. L. P. candidate did not expect to be elected in the next fifty years and that it was possible an S, L. P. candidate might not be elected inside of 200 years. Johns however was a long distance optimist and was as full of hope as,a dope friend. On ue. OHNS had a nice little blue print which showed how the 8. L. P. revolution would function, from the North Pole to the South and from 45 Rose street, New York to the Island of Yap. If anybody loses a toe nail during the voting, fhe Communists will be to blame, as the 8. L. P, has it all over Ghandi and J, Christ when it came to turning the other cheek. VASA HALL, 267 52nd Street, Brooklyn SATURDAY & SUNDAY, NOV, 8-9 Under Auspices of Scandinavian Branch, Workers Party, for Benefit of “Ny Tid.” Admission 25 Cents. M They only get mad when they see a Communist—an American Commun- ist. They believe the Russian Com- munists can be tolerated—in Russia. ee @ “| HOPE I need not say that we don’t advocate violent measures,” con- tinued Johns as the reporter glanced at the picture of a red flag. “We, more than others, deplore and despise the I. W. W. We stand for revolu- tion, yes, but a peaceful revolutior which can be brought abotu in th civilized way of counting noses at thc ballot box.” The S. L. P. never miss es an opportunity to emphasize it: devotion to capitalist civilization. which is anything but peaceful. Thi 8. L. P. goes out of its way to attack other working class organizations, al ways being careful to suggest to th« department of justice that its rivals in the radical movement are violating the law and should be sent-to jail. Ar long as the 8. L, P. is in existence the attorney general can afford to economize on the employment of stoolpigeons, o/s.» 7 ENATOR BORAH is expected to bring the question of Russian re- cognition up in the senate during the next session of congress. ‘Perhaps, when the election campaign is over, LaFollette and his alleged .progress- jives may find courage to again asso |elate themselves with Borah in the | movement for a resumption of diplom- | atic relations with Russia. The fact that France has recognized the Soviet Repiiblic gives the cause a big im- petus in the United States. It is also clearly established that the British foreign office was responsible for the Zinoviey forgery. This is another expected to hang arguments, Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. THE DAILY FEDERAL FINK NOT CITIZEN — peg on which the anti-Soviet ranters | * BOWERMAN OF | W. W. RUMP 6, EB. CHUSES ARREST OF WOBBLY That Fred Bowerman of the in- junctioriite wing of the I. W. W. had laid a frame-up pian with the police and caused Arthur Linn, of the agricultural workers to be ar- rested and railroaded to the Chica- go bridewell, was charged on the the floor of the I. W. W. convention Monday afternoon. Linn is still in jail, but Wm. Hanley of his union, is trying to get him released on bond to state the facts before the delegates, ROWAN FACTION OF |. W. W. ISSUES CALL FOR SPLIT (Continued from Page 1.) ofthe rump general executive board, and P. D. Ryan ‘is de- clared to. be the new chairman of the general executive board and general organizer of the hew organization to take Grif- fith’s place, A “program of ac- tion” has been issued by this group, which hopes to split the whole I, W. W. wide open, and this program is announced as an “emergency program.” The Splitters. The new organization, according to the statement, is represented by the general construction workers, the metal machinery workers, the rail- road workers and the lumber workers. |: All other unions are invited to join in the move to wreck the old I. W. W. The name of James Bowerman, one of the leaders of the Rowan-Bower- man faction in the IL W. W. and champion of the injunction, was linked with stoolpigeons by J. Minnoli, sec- retary of Industrial Union 330, who testified before the I. W. W. conven- tion in Emmet Memorial Hall yester- day. Minnoli told the convention he has suspected Bowerman since 1920, when Bowerman was overfriendly to Leo Reese, who was exposed as a la- bor spy. “At the convention of 1919 Leo Reese who attended as an observer from Akron sang the praises of Bower- man,” said Minnoli. “When we re- turned to Akron, it was learned that Reese acted as one of the most trusted stoolpigeons working within the I. W. W. and the Matrhinists’ Union. 1, was arrested and for deportation, and Reese, who visited me in prison and brought me food and clothing, was found to have signed my warrant un- der a false name. He confessed and revealed that he was receiving $250.00 @ month as a stoolpigeon. Reese was always boosting Bowerman, telling what wonderful ideas he had, and how the organization should put him on the G. E. B. and allowed him to carry these ideas out. “Now I believe Bowerman has been carrying out those ideas. The injunc- tion in the capitalist courts which has done much to disrupt the I. W. W. is one % them. I have heard that thero is a ection between Bowerman and A. Ballin, the notorious labor spy.” Tomorrow Judge Dennis B. Sulli- van, who made his reputation with the employers of labor by allowing police to beat girl garment strikers and then sentencing the girls to long terms in jail, will have the pleasure of sitting in judgement on the I. W. W. Sullivan will hear a plea of the Rowan lawyers that the I. W. W. funds be released to pay expenses of Rowan’s lawyers. STRUCTURAL IRON WORKER FILES MOTION FOR A CHANGE OF VENUE (Special to the Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 3,—John McNamara, secretary and business agent for the local Structural Iron Workers’ Union, indicted on four blackmall charges in connection with alleged e; ions at the new “million dollar Elke club after, it is charged, contractors failed to em- ploy men favored by McNamara, to- day filed a motion for a change of venue from Judge. James A. Collins of the criminal court. WORKER Patten, the Gambler, Is in the Limelight Now; But Shadow Awaits Him By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, James A. Patten, the multi-millionaire wheat gambler, pats himself on the back for another good deed he believes he has committed, in donating a parcel of land valued at $1,500,000 to various religious enterprises. Patten isn’t very different from the robbers of old, who stole much and then gave a little to the church. * J . . Before he retired Patten was one of the biggest plungers on the board of trade. Some of his coups netted millions. Instead of remaining on his grandfather's farm, where he would be compelled to fight for a, living from the soil, Patten left Freeland Corners, I!linois, and came to Chicago, and went into the grain business from its more profitable selling end. He got his training from those bucaneers in the buying and selling of food products—Bartlett, Frazier & Carrington. * * * * Patten thus became one of the big pillars in the robbery system that is driving millions of farmers into bankruptcy; that is rapidly creating in the United States a landless peasantry. : His religious bigotry no doubt allows him to feel that he is now making peace with his God; if he ever admits that he has brought misery and want to large numbers of his fellow men. ‘ * * * * One of Patten’s first gifts was the luxurious Patten Gymnasium donated to the Northwestern University, a Methodist institution located in his own home town, in Evanston, Chicago’s suburb of the intellectual bourgeoisie. But Patten is Presbyterian and his present gifts go to the board of education of the Presbyterian Church, to the Evanston Hospital and the Presbyterian Old People’s Home. There isa lucky combination. If the good Presbyterian children accept the “goose step education” that is prepared for them by Patten’s disciples, thus going thru life willing servants of their capitalist masters, they may find a place in their declining years, among other outcasts, in the Pres- byterian Old People’s Home. Patten is at least trying to instill some order and system in his capitalist chaos. * * J * “He wants to see some results while he is still alive,” explained Mrs. Patten to the reporters who came to get the usual interviews, Patten himself being unavailable, And it is good for Patten that he thus taken time by the forelock. It it will not be for long that the workers and farmers will be content to be plundered out of billions of wealth annually, receiving but a pittance in return for their arduous labors. Whether Patten knows this or not, he is wise to get a little publicity and notoriety in his own press now. Patten is a director in banks, railroads and: public utility trusts. Look at the list: Continental & Commercial National Bank of Chicago; City National Bank of Evanston; People’s Gas, Light and Coke Company; Commonwealth Edison Co.; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. That is quite different from being a clerk in a country store; an occupation followed by Patten in 1869-71; a start similar to that of John D. Rockefeller, in the days when capitalism was young in America. * * * * It is safe to say that Patten did no useful work after leaving the country store. Newsies may be pinched in the alleys of the big city for rolling a game of dice. That is called gambling. But Patten and his friends, on the board of. trade, gambling in the prices of the nation’s food, are safe from the policemen’s club. That is business. There is so much money to be won in this form of gambling that it has become respectable. Cin a ° ° Patten's profits became so great that he was able to retire without an old age pension, and spend his time rear- ing monuments to himself, out of his winnings, while still aie; gymnasiums, religious schools, old people’s homes and what not. . But when the workers and exploited farmers take ov all power the memory of Patten and his gifts will be blotted out. . If students, in their studies of the history of the capi- italist era, ever come across his name, they will know him as one who fattened off the agony of his fellow man. Patten is having the limelight turned on him now. He is wise, for he will soon be in the shadow a long, long time. INDIANA KLAN JUDGE REFUSED TO TRY BALLOT FRAUD CASE ON GROUND HE MAY BE INVOLVED (Special to The Daily Worker) EVANSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 31.—Judge Elmer Lockyear, before whom a case was brought by eleven democrats charging five local prominent repub- licans with misuse of the absent voters’ law, refused to hear the proceedings today on the grounds that as a candidate himself, the facts stated thus far would cover so much territory that he would be included, According to court officials the charges brought against the republican leaders, County Clerk Frank Grange, Deputy Clerk Harry Anderson, Ben Bartlett, Otto Klein and Art Lillicap were specific. HILE the existing craft unions are constantly loosing ground and facing complete annihilation by the onslaughts of the bosses due to their in- efficient antiquated methods and forms of organization and stupid reac- tionary leadership, the DAILY WORKER Bricklayers’ Union is strengthening its forces. It Is destined to grow and become powerful, inspired as it is by real revolutionary zeal and composed of militants who know’ that building of labor's press is not only the greatest necessity but also the greatest service to the cause J of the working class. _ Arne Swabeck, Organizer Workers Party District ho. Tuesday, November 4, 1924 TAMMANY HALL WRECKS THE THIRD PARTY (Continued from page 1) inated in the primaries on the farm: er-labor party ticket. In Montana, Wheeler, the La¥Fol- lette vice-presidential candidate, open- ly repudiates Anderson, the farmer- labor candidate for U. S. senator, and urges the election of the democratic party’s national chairman, Walsh, the corporation lawyer and sponsor of anti-labor legislation. The Chaos Is Complete. It needed only the action of the _|Gompers’ crowd in New York City, in endorsing Morgan's lawyer, to make the chaos complete. This is only another result made possible by the war of the socialists, the Hillquits and the Bergers, of the wavering labor officials who made some claims to militancy, of the stripe of Fitzpatrick, Hillman and Mahoney, upon the conscious’ effort of great numbers of workers and farmers, thruout the nation, to build this year for a real farmer-labor party. Instead of building the party of the working class, these elements turned to one of the worst enemies of the farmer-labor party, to U. 8. Senator LaFollette, and at the Cleve- land gathering of the conference for progressive political action, won sup- port with the claim that they would organize a “third party” after the election. That is one the succulent phases of “the LaFollette illusion” thet has duped large numbers of workers and poor farmers into supporting the greatest treason to their own class interests. Large numbers of workers in the nation, viewing the New York de- velopments, must retalize that it was thru the weakening of the farmeris- bor party cause, thru the treason of the socialists atid the so-called labor progressives, that has now made it possible for Gompers and his friends to “deliver” their support in New York to Morgan’s Davis and Tam- many Hall's Al Smith. ‘When the Mirage Fades. The whole mirage of “the third party,” that was used to lure the workers and farmers away from their own farmer-labor party, will fade out when the American Federation of La- bor meets in annual convention at El Paso, and takes its stand against even the least effort to allenate the workers and farmers away from the two old parties of Wall Street. The complete ‘disillusionment will come when the conference for pro- gressive political action, Tammany Hall-controlled in New York City and state, gathers in its after-the-election meeting and does nothing. Completely disillusioned the rank and file of the workers and farmers must then take up the struggle anew and blaze new paths toward class power. Then they will be willing to listen more then ever to what the Communists have to say to them. School Breaks Down. GALESBURG, Ill, Nov. 8, — Mrs. Frank Shapley, 81, of Knoxville, was crushed fatally and a score of others injured when the floor of the Glisson school house, seven miles east of Galesburg gave way during a pot luck supper last night. More than 150 persons were in the building when it was plunged into darkness’ and the floor sank beneath their feet. Amf screams of pain fright, more than 100 were hurled the basement where Mrs. Shapley and a score of others were preparing the super. Investigation showed the walls of 5E Vote Communist This Time! FOR SALE CHEAP! MERCHANT TAILORING CLEANING & DYEING SHOP With Hoffman and Single Motor Newfie: Machine. D. BLUESTEIN 1123 So. 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