The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 2

© automobile on Chicago's south side. Page Two THE DAILY WORKER BOWERMAN IS. CHARGED WITH AIDING POLICE Delegates to I. W. W. ° . * Discuss Centralization By KARL REEVE. William Hanley, in telling of the arrest of Arthur Linn, of the agricultural workers, charged to. the convention that Fred Bowerman aided the police in court to convict Linn of rob- bery. Linn has been confined in jail up until yesterday. Linn charges that he saw Bowerman a few feet away from him when he was arrested. Grad, of industrial union No. 120, told the convention that he has again tried to get some money out of the Rowan faction for convention expenses and was turned down cold by his own faction. Linn was arrested, according to Hanley, on October 13, the very day the conventions of the I. W. W. were called by both factions. “Legal moves to have Linn released have been checked by some forces in opposition to his release,” said Hanley. Executive Session. The hall was cleared just before Hanley appeared before the conven- tion, while the delegates discussed some matter in secret. It was thought to have pertained to Linn’s imprison- ment. . The question of decentralization was again discussed pro and con by the convention when discussing the reducing of the per capita tax from 15 to 7% cents. Swanson, who favors abolishing officials broached the theory that the fewer the officials the less the fights there would be among officials, and that officials there- fore should be eliminated. Welinder again care out for decentralization and favored cutting support of gen- eral headquarters in half. Welinder said that five out of seven of the general headquarters staff. should be dismissed, and that two were enough to take care of all general administra- tion work. In Propaganda Stage. Charles Gray declared this “is just fan angrcho-syndicalist scheme of de- yientition.” He said that when oint-S#Qend in new) ficlds-the.gen- quarters must have money to ativance for speakers, organizers and Mterature. “Only four out of twenty-nine industrial unions in the organization are self-supporting,” said Gray, ‘Twenty-five are in the propa- ganda stage which means the I. W. W. is in the propaganda stage and must be financed by.the general or- ganization.” a Cole, another I. U. 110 delegate, de- clared that the move to decrease the per capita tax is “the move of a dis- gruntled few who themselves have no executive ability, but are crying about pie cards.” He said that begging for funds outside the organization put the I, \W. W. in a bad light with the un- organized workers. Oates took the side of the decen- tralizers. IF THIS HAD ONLY HAPPENED IN RUSSIA IT WOULD BE “SOME NEWS” When the telegraph editor of the Tuesday morning at 9 a. m., the polls had already been open in the city of Chicago for three hours. The news ticker had already typed off the following casualities of the “orderly processes of democracy”. within this center of bourgeois “peace order”: Shot—Condition Serious. Antone Rudzinuki was shot by six , men speeding by in an automobile as he turned to leave a polling place. His condition is serious. Seven gunmen were arrested in the , early hours of the polling, three were ‘travelling in an automoblie and the others were loitering about polling places. Several Kidnapped. oe Shortly after 8 o'clock, police re- ported that several election workers had been kidnapped trom the vicinity of a polling place on the north side. The detective bureau is holding emergency squads in readiness to rush to scenes of disorder. Patrol wagons and ambulances are provided for to take care of the dead, the wounded and the arrested. State Militia Called Out. While it was yet too early to get the casualty lst from the country at large, wires from Albuquerque, New Mexico, promised to give returns even before the polls opened, On re- ports fhat United States Marshal Romero was swearing in many depu- ties to preserve order on election day, Governor Hinkle has ordered two companies of militia to guard Las ‘Vegas. Teamsters’ Union Official Killed. Shortly before noon John Mackey, ap official of the Teamsters’ Union, ‘was killed and Claude Maddox wound- em by men firing from a speeding Morris Spagit, @ democrat of the thir- ROWAN-BOWERMAN-GRADY INJUNCTION CREW OPENLY ISSUES ITS CALL IN AN ATTEMPT TO SPLIT THE I. W. W. Because it will live as an historical document recording the treachery. and perfidy of its signers, a document which places them in the class of reptiles in human form who seek to disrupt the organization for which better men have died, for which hundreds of workers are now rotting in prison, and upon which thousars of workers look as their only protection from the greed and vengeance of capitalism, the DAILY WORKER prints ‘the follow- ing manifesto, in which the whole Rowan-Bowerman-Grady injunction crew j attack ‘trouble is centralization of power at throws away all pretense and openly c: will mean its certain destruction, There if more we could say about it, but we call attention to, every paragraph in the “Plan of Action” as signed to wreck the I. W. W. and we #— add that this is the work of stool pigeons, It is proof enough that they “politicians.” The recent months have shown to members of the I. W. W.--and the DAILY WORKHR has heard from many of them, that those who fight. the Communists in- stead of the capitalists and who cry “down with politicians” make them- selves suspected agents of the em- ployers, The document is as follows: “Emergency Program. “Submitted to the membership by| the General Executive Board of the| I. W. W.—Chicago, Ill, Oct. 27, 1924, “The work of organization on the job has been obstructed, and the in- dustrial unions have sustained much damage from the present situation at headquarters. Great hopes were en- tertained by the membership that a general convention would straighten out the matter. These hopes have} turned to disappointment. The pres- | ent so-called general convention at| Emmet Memorial Hall, Chicago, which } convened Oct. 13, has shown beyond all question that it is completely un- der control of the political element, whose program is the capture or liquidation of the I, W. W. It has made no effort to discover and re- move the causes of the present trouble, All its actions are calculated to strengthen and perpetuate domin- ation by the politicians. “This so-called convention has only served te further complicate the sit- uation and confuse the minds of the menibers. Intelligent action by the members on the job alone can save the organization. The I. W. W. must be taken into the hands of its mem- bers so it can function in industry as an association of genuine industrial unions and be immune from capture or destruction by political fakers or agents of the employing class. “The principal cause of the present headquarters. This makes it possible for a few officials in control of the gen- eral office to cause disruption thruout the entire organization. If the mem- bers are to derive any further benefit from the I. W. W. they must take con- trol of the organization and abolish dictatorship. In this way alone can the I. W. W. be placed on a solid foun- dation. To this end the General Ex- ecutive Board submits the folowing: “Plan of Action. “The four industrial urfions, Lumber Workers, No. 120;-General Construc- tion Workers, No. 310; Metal Workers No. 440; and Railroad Workers, No. 520, and any other industrial unions or branches, which are opposed to the rule of dictators and political ma- chines, and concur with this plan of action, shall stand solidly together and continue to carry on the work of DAILY WORKER arrived at his desk GOAL BARONS PILE UP PROFITS WHILE DIGGERS 60 HUNGRY (Special to the Daily Worker) BOSTON.—Profits of 340 per cent in the past 3 months and 1428 per cent in the first © months of the year show the extent to which the common stockholders of island Creek Coal Co. have exploited low Paid miners during the year to date. In spite of the depression this company made a new high record for output during the 3 months end- ed Sept. 30, producing 1,424-409 tons at a profit of 33c a ton. after all deductions for taxes, deprecia- tion and depletion, teenth ward, was stabbed after argu- ing with a republican, while Dan Con- tarsy, another democrat, was kid- napped by five men in ap automobile. Two Democrats Less. From Lexington, Tennessee, dis- patches later reported that two elec- tion judges were kilied by a republi- can farmer in a shooting at the polls. Singing Society Rehearsals. The Freiheit Singing Soicety re- hearsals take place every Thursday night at 8 p. m., at 3887 W, Roosevelt Road, The Fretheit Mandolin Orchestra re- hearsals are held every Friday night at 8 p. m., at 3887 W. Roosevelt Road. alls for a split in the I. W, W. which being carefully and deliberately de- organization according to the prin- ciples laid down in our preamble. “No member shall pay dues to dele- gates other than those of- industrial unions which adopt this plan of ac- tion, “No member shall be allowed to transfer to any of these industrial un- ions unless actually working in the industry of that union, “The larger industrial unions shall advance sufficient funds to the Gener: al Executive Board to have supplies printed, and other industrial unions shall purchase their suplies from the G. BE. B. for cash, at cost. “The industrial unions shall pay no per capita. “The General Executive Board shall) consist of the chairman of the indus- trial unions. They shall elect their own chairman, who will be subject to removal at any time by.@ majority vote of the board. Any G. H. B, mem- ber is subject to removal as provided for in the by-laws of his industrial union. “When the volume of business shall require it, the G, E. B. shall employ a general supply clerk, to have charge of production and distribution of sup- plies. He shall be subject to removal at any time he fails to perform his duties satisfactorily. His wages and those of any others who may be em- ployed by the G. E. B. shall be paid by the industrial unions on a pro-rata basis. “The offices of general secretary- treasurer, general organizer, and as- sistant secretary shall be abolished. “All questions shall be settled by majority vote. “All ballots put out by the present so-called convention shall be ignored. “The Chicago and New York de- fense offices shall be abolished. The California defense and Centralia pub- licity shall reqeiyp ithe full support of the membership. Until permanent ar- rangements are made, outlying cases shall be handled by local defense com- mitteps with ‘the co-operation bf the G. B. B. \ | “The above is an emergency pro gram covering the most important points that have to be dealt with im- mediately. Later on, a convention will be called of all industrial unions and branches adopting this plan, At this convention a more detailed pro- gram can be drawn uf according to instructions from the membership, same to be ratified by referendum bal- lot. “All branches and job branches are requested to hold meetings to take action,on the present emergency and consider this plan, and to report ac- tion taken to the General Executive Board, Box 1125, Chicago, Ill—Gener- al Executive Board, I. W. W., P. D. Ryan, acting chairman, H. E. Trotter, recording secretary. “The above emergency program has been submitted to the following indus- trial union administrations and con- curred in by them: Lumber Workers’ I. U. No, 120, I. W. W., Maurice Daly secretary-treasurer, James Rowan chairman, General _ Construction Workers’ I. U, No. 310, I. W. W., Wm. Buchwald, secretary-treasurer, P. D. Ryan, chairman, Metal Workers’ I, U. No. 440, I, W. W., M, Raddock, secre- tary-treasurer, Fred Bowerman, chair- man. Railroad: Workers’ IU. No. 520, LW. W., John Grady, secretary-treas- urer, H. B, Trotter, chairman, CORRECTION. In the issue of the DAILY WORK. ER for Noyember 3, on page 2, col- umn 4, under the heading—“Labor Fakers In Crazy Quilt.”—the follow- ing fence appeared: i _“The Chicago Federation of Labor has indorsed Igoe for state's attor- ney, altho the Klan which is co-op erating with the Federation in back- ing ‘LaFollette and the Coolidge candidate, Small, has come out for the re-election of State's Attorney Crowe, a Catholic.” This is an error resulting from a linotype operator skipping a line on the copy which, when added, would cause it to read correctly as follows: he Chicago Federation of Labor has endorsed the Wage Earners’ slate which is boosting Igoe 's attorney, altho the Klan, which is co-operating with the Fed- eration in backing LaFollette and the Coolidge candidate, Small, has come out for the re-election of State's Attorney Crowe, a Catholic.” Pale dt Sak Concert and Dance Saturday. Grand concert and ball, 7th anni- versary of the Russian’ Revolution celebration, will be held under the auspices of the Russian Branches of the Young Workers League and the Workers Party on Saturday évening, | Noy. 8, at 7:30 p. m., at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, f ‘ PICKED "JURY": PROBES STREET CAR DISASTER State’s Attorney Holds| Brahe Incommunicado While Coroner Oscar Wolff was trying to make John Brahe, the crippled towerman. em- ployed at the crossing of North avenue and the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, where ten were killed lagt Sunday morning, the goat for nsibility rightfully belonging to the railroad com- pany, Brahe himself is being held incommunicado by State’s Attorney Crowe. DAILY WORKER Reporter Barred. This was learned when a reporter from the DAILY WORKER tried ta set an imterview with Towerman Brahe, upon whom the railroad and street car cbrporations and the coro- ner are trying to lay all the blame. First the-police department told the reporter that Brahe was “at the in- quest.” When the coroner's office was reached the reporter was told that Brahe was being held by county authorities, Finally, when Crowe's office was questioned, the reporter was met with gruff’ refusal and the statement that “nobody chn see Brahe.” Wolff's “High Class Jury.” At the inquest, Coroner Wolff had Managed to put over his handpicked “jury” of capitalist politicians and big property owners to “investigate” the disaster, He wanted a “high class jury,” he said, He got one. On the jury are County Clerk Sweitzer, Chief Justice Harry Olson, former Governor Edward F, Dunne, Henry Barrett Chamberlain, superintendent of the Chicago Crime Commission, John Ter- borgh, vice-president of the Foreman National Bank and Robert Litel, pro- prietor of the Randolph Hotel. Bottle Smeller For Moral’s Sake. This jury is of a complexion openly interested in the attempt, practically announced before the inquest started, by Wolff to absolve the Milwaukee railroad from blame by laying it all upon the crippled towerman. ' Chamberlain is chosen because he is guaranteed to follow the smell of moonshine to the exclusion of all other scents, altho the evidence shows that Brahe_was not drunk, but had only followed ghe age-old custom, which is nade sity for those who are 09 to deal with banks, of cash- ng his pay check by buying a drink tt some saloon séveral hours before. “Fair and Impartial” Jury. Terborgh of the Foreman National 3ank is financially interested in clear- ng both the Milwaukee railroad and he street car company, as this bank s connected by bond holdings and in- verlocking directors to these transpor- ‘ation corporations. Hitel’s hotel bugi- ness is also dependent upon the good zragés of railroad companies. The three capitalist politicians are, as usual, expected to protect property interests without further orders. However, the workers in the North avenue district are putting some pres-. sure behind their alderman to find out, why their lives are played with by law-bréaking corporations which go unrestrained by authority, while all the whitewashers are busy smelling bottles. Alderman Arthur Albert, who has brot out the fact that the Milwau- kee railroad: had ignored the law or- dering it to elevate its tracks, has re- vealed a new angle of the affair. Murdered Ten to Save $60. Albert states that he possesses a letter showing that five years ago, by; agreement between the Milwaukee railroad and the Chicago Surface Lines, a perfect de-railing safety de- vice was discontinued at the fatal crossing, “because it cost $124 a month to operate, while at that time a towerman would cost only $65 a month.” Since then the towerman’s wage was cut to $60, which Brahe was trying to live on at the time of the disaster. Easton-Phillipsburg, Attention! BASTON, Pay Nov. 4—The local branches of the Workers Party and Young Workers League of Easton and Phillipsburg will have a 7th Anniver- sary of the’ Russian Revolution cel- ebration on lay, Nov. 9 at 8 p. m., at the Lithuanian Hall, North Seventh street, Haston. Comrade A. Jakira of Philadelphia will be the main speaker (in English) and there will be. speak- ers in Lithuanian and Hungarian, All comrades are working to make this meeting and celebration a big success, Unions Aid Ohlo Miners. —.. CLEVELAND, Nov, 4,—Efforts are being made by Cleveland unions to re- lieve the destitution in southern Ohio mines where coal diggers in many in- stances have been idle nearly a year because of the d ion, Funds and clothes for the 13,000 jobless workers and their families are being collected by the Cleveland Federation of Labor. PE CPi aN Making: Pearls. z GENEVA, 1 4, — The Swiss chemist, Professors Duarin and. Al- martine, experimen: ‘carbon pearls by distilling coal to obtain jewels pf the same density color as the genuine, i, ‘@ ting in making) The Election is Over But Communists Renew War Against: Capitalism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ODAY, the election is over, have cast their ballots for four years more of capitalist They have expressed themselves in favor of the misrule. continuance of Morgan's social system. dictatorship, thru its “democracy” sent to four years of its tyrannical sway. “Hang the guilty! yells Coroner Wolff, in Chicago, as er grade crossing catastrophe are be- ing buried, while a score still lie in agony in hospitals scat- the ten dead in anot tered over Chicago. It was a Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul freight train that struck a street car in a grade crossing death trap, a The guilty ones are the railroad profiteers. They refuse to spend the money to abolish the death traps, aster took place in the Goose Island district, in one of) the sections of greatest misery in Chic: of the working class. So what doe doesn’t care for the lives of the workers; especially when the workers consent to keep capitalism in power. * * * 7 This Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul railroad, that brought death to many working class homes in Chicago, some years ago saw the lives of more than half a thousand coal miners snuffed out in the Cherry Mine disaster, at Cherry, lll. The railroad refused to provide the proper safety appliances in its coal minés, just as it refuses to protect or abolish its grade crossings. So the Cherry coal mine became a tomb; even as the railroad’s grade crossin, strewn with the dead and dy next- quarter the dividends will A circular of the New York Central Railroad offers as an excuse for high rates that there are 4,000 -grade -cross-- ings in New York State. It would cost $100,000°to. obliterate That would be a total of $400,000,000, But the rates continue as high as ever; the grade crossings are not wiped out; and the toll of new victims mounts from day to day, That is capitalism. Those who supported Cool- idge, Davis and LaFollette, voted to keep this murderous each one of these, system going. In New York City, in the depths of the East Side, Sam Roth, his wife and three children die in another tenement house fire. They lived “second floor re Goerck Street firetraps. Dense smoke arising as the hungry flames swept everywhere chokéd this little family of the working class into unconsciousness before the agony of death by fire reached them. Mrs. Roth was later found with clutched to her breast. The landlord will collect his insurance. will be repaired to receive new tenants. ‘friends will bury the dead, And the profiteering n rents off the firetraps on the East Side, in New York City, where else over the nation, will go on the same as ever, her three-months-old bab That is capitalism, The declared, on Tuesday, for its continuance. it go on!” B * * “Wipe it out!” say the Communists, “Abolish it!” °." Usher in the new social order that interests of the whole working class. : And it is today that the Communists in the United States, in common with Communists thruout the world, with the slogan of “Down with Capitalism!” upon their lips, re- new the struggle for the victory of the workers, Philadelphia All Set For Anniversary Celebration Nov. 7 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 38.— Philadelphia Workers Party and the Young Workers League have arranged for a huge demonstration to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Friday evening Nov. 7, at the Labor Lyceum, 6th and Brown streets. C. EB. Ruthenberg, the executive sec- retary of the Workers Party will be the principal speaker. This will be Ruthenberg’s first public meeting in Philadelphia this year. A revolutionary musical program will lend color and distinction to this celebration, The International Con- cert Orchestra, conducted by Com- rade‘ John Lyman, and well known and appreciated by the Philadelphia comrades, ig working overtime, pre- paring an excellent program. The celebration of the Russian rev- olution is the biggest event of the year among the Communists and our sympathizers in this city, but this year’s program and arrangements will surpass any-demonstration ever held here. The entire Workers Party and Y. W. L, membership is hard on the job working for the success of this meet- ing. All the friends, supporters and sympathizers of Soviet Russia will be at the celebration Friday evening, November 7 | | Grade Crossing Takes 11 Lives. | NORFOLK, Va., Nov. 4. — With a total of 11 dead and four more critic- ally injured as a result of the cross- ing accident at North Hampton late yesterday when a large auto bus was demolished by a Chesapeake and Ohio Passenger train, county officials today endeavoring to learn the facts to present to a coroner's jury Wedi day evening. Earthquake in Western Canada. VICTORIA, B. C., Noy, 4.—An earth- quake shook Victoria eatly today and ‘akened ypeople invall ot the city.. The tremor was of dura- tion and did no damage, it was re- grease or to ary ’ t working hours from @ to. 12 per “determined by the value of the la- Cannonsburg ©. C. C. has set aside Nov. 9 for the big celebration of the 7th Anniversary of the Russian Revo- lution to be held in the Labor Temple at the corner of Jefferson and Pike Sts., and every branch in and around Cannonsburg must make it their duty to see that every member is at this celebration. Bring your friends, « Wednesday, November 5, 1924 |GOMPERS BUSY IN SUBMARINE WAR ON FOE Fights for Dictatorshi in the A. F. of L. — (Continued from Page 1.) going to the meeting of the conte ence for progressive political actio scheduled to mble the next mon in Cleveland. Gompers only shrugs: his shoulders, sniffed the air, a) grunted; all of which was intend to convey the idéa that ine Clevela: meeting didn’t matter, Gompers Controls in New York. it the Cleveland meeting of ti Cc. P. P. A. in December, 1922, tox and against the “labor party,” refused admittance to the Communi delegates, and the next summer at t) Albany meeting of the New York co ference for progressive political acti we find Gompers’ Tammany ‘Hall r litictans in the New York labor mov ment absolutely in control. ‘During--the pest year the C. P, - A. bas been drifting more and mo towards, the Gompers’ position. It wi Gompers who pulled Fitspatrick az Nockela out of the July 4, 192 farmer-labor convention, in Chicag It was Gompers who inspired, LaF« lette’s attack on the June 17 nation tarmer-labor conference, in St. Pat this year. Gompers has been in league wit the worst elements fighting the Cor muniate, It was Detective Burns wt said that altho he didsnot sleep in tt same bed with Gompers, nevertheles they were in agreement on map things. ? Gompers used the conference fc progressive political action and tt LaFollette movement to destroy ind pendent ‘political action for the: wor) ers and-farmers under the. standand of the’ farmer-labor movement. ms Regains Dictatorship. © Now lie is using his machine, Mb the Tammany Hall crowd in Ne York, to destroy the conference fc progressive political action, so that b will again become the dictator of tb political policies of labor's officialdon “ ‘Two of the original slogans of th Cc. P. P. A, “the labor party,” an “recognition of Soviet Russia,” hav been completely dropped. While reco; nition of Soviet Russia was the bi issue in the British political struggl, }LaFollette has been absolutely siler on this question while Hughes, Dawe and other republican campaigner have carried on a systematic attac against Soviet Russia. Gompers is < one with Secretary of State Hughe on the question of warring agains the Workers’ Republic and he he pulled the LaFollette campaign alon with him on his side in this fight. Watch El Paso Convention. . | The situation -will' clarity itself siderably with the meeting of American Federation of Labor few dayé at Wl Paso, Texas. There Gompers’officialdom will have to clare itself on the proinises of LaFollette: campaign that it is to organize the third party.” The workers and farmers The Wail Street has won the public con- he dis- ‘0, All the victims were it matter? Capitalism in Chicago was . But at the ending of the e as fat as ever, * . r’ in one of the” many The firetrap Neighbors and , as every- majority..of voting citizens They said, “Let places above all the Fes rs Gog i SOME QUESTIONS FOR GLASS TM ELEMENTARY | |aie tinea commie” soon 8 it MARXIAN ECONOMICS | jn oo tact eu ary the liquidation of the conference fo Class in. Elementary, Marxian Economics, Wednesday evening, 8 Pp. m., at 2613 Hirsch Boulevard. Questions for class of November 5: 1. Explain the difference between labor time as_a-measure of value, on the one hand, and the value of labor power, on the other hand. | 2. If the purchasing power of the working class” generally in- creased what kind of commodities would find an incréased market? 3. Would a general increase of wages for the working class cause © an Increase in prices of the neces- sities of:life? . 9... a 4, Why will-an increase in prices -| of commodities, consequent upon a general increage in wages, ‘be only temporary? ¥ 5. Im what way will Increasing di for necessaries of life cause a change In the distribution of cap- ital among the various industries? 6. What is the most beneficial to the.workers, a rise In wages or a decrease in working hours? 7. Do shorter hours tend to in- ; wages? 8. What would he effect upon wages of a general increase of the ssive political action. ‘Where Will the Socialists Go? This raises the question of wha will happen to the socialists in thi 9. What is the difference between “labor” and power”? F 10. Is the v ) of a commodity. his network of Mes, charging that’ # ist Communists’ who have mad bor power used In its production, or by the duration of the labor time i produc. Cannonsburg to Celebrate Nov. 9. CANNANSBURG, Pa., Nov. 4.—The 4 way out of the dificult situatfe in which they now find themselves, ———$ Next Sunday Night and Eve day Night, the Open Forum ¥ hae \