The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 6, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE‘ STANDARD FOR A WORKERS = AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. I. No. 196. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ELECT COMMUNI Morgan Tightens Dic Special Seventh Soviet Anniversary Edition THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Gecond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois under the Act of March 3, 1979. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00.per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O}FLAHERTY. ‘HE National Security League is very frightened lest children be- tween the ages of two. and six start revolutions. Here is what it says to the toddling infants, who are just learning to ask for pennies with which to buy candy: “It is unlawful to stert & révolution. You are not only not free to do so, but you will be punish- et if you do.” It would. not surprise us to read a story in the capitalist papers one of these days as follows: ‘Revolution threatens U. 8. A. Gary and Rockefoller locked-in oil tank. League of Communist Infants siezo power.” Then the story in the Dally News: “Yesterday when the twelve o'clock whistle blew, as if by precon- corted arrangement, a fleet of baby buggies, surrounded the loop and armed with suckers, cross word puz- zles, dolls and other weapons of mod- ern warfare, the hidden army of the League of Communist Infants, over- threw the government in Chicago. The police were immediately disarm- ed and sent home to wash the dishes while the reyolutionists drove terror into the hearts of residents of the loop by: theif unearthly yells.” ‘Every- thing is bawled up,” declared Mayor Dever“&s he was carted to the gullo tine in a baby carriage. “I have. the satistaction of dying for Chicago, . .” ‘would have said more but a mem- se * 4 is perfectly ridiculous, but so is the National Security League. Since the 11-year-old member of the Junior section of the Young Workers League was arrested New York, by a small army of policemen, it seems that the nerves of the ruling class of this country are badly jangled. Children who develop red hair on the outside of their heads and-red ideas on the inside are in for hard times. 2 * ae YOUNG is happy again. His friend Small was elected. Young said this means that the “forc- es of law and order” are on top. The notorious Klansman is not the only one to rejoice over Small’s election. There are others. John ‘Fitzpatrick and Victor Olander.for instance. Fitz- patrick said Small’s election was a victory for labor. “Labor” is not hard to please! It's funny “labor” didn’t lick Crowe, tho it tried to. Looks as if the labor fakers do not cut much ice in elections. They have been sell- ing their alleged influence to the pol- iticians, but the latter are now learn- ing that they have been throwing their money away. . oe" @. MALL was elected by the Ku Klux Klan and by the republican ma- chine. The Daily News and the Trib- une opposed him to save their faces. But those papers supported Coolidge and Dawes. It was the Coolidge land- slide that carried Small back to office again. The labor fakers make much of the opposition of the Tribune- News to Small. But John H, Walker supported Deneen for senator, and Deneen had the support of the Trib- he. Walker claimed that Sprague, néen’s democratic opponent was ‘labor and connected with the non- uition firm of Rothchilds, but this lit- tle “fing did not bother the so-called Wage Earners’ League, which endors- ed Sprague. «The labor fakers know -what they are after. They are out to feather their own nests, but it is doubtful if they, are worth the money wasted on them by the capitalists during election time. HERE is another way of looking at this however. It is not the serv- ices rendered around election time that means most to the capitalists, workers are obliged to go on -oceasionally in order to force « better standard of living out of the employers, This is when labor fakers come in handy. They force the strik- ers back to work, brand the strike out- law unless they go back and settle with the bosses at terms as favorable as possible to the latter. So perhaps after all, their lttle gift around elec tion time is not badly placed. (Continued on Page 2.) Seven Years of Labor’s Rule Manifesto by the Central Executive Committee of’ the Workers Party and the National Executive Committee of the Young Workers League on the Seventh Anniversary of the Russian Proletarian Revolution. Seven years ago, the workers and peasants of Russia tri- umphantly swept away the last vestiges of the rule of the govern- ment of their exploiters and oppressors and established the Soviet Government and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. For seven years, this government of workers, which is abolishing capitalist ownership of the means of production and distribution and building a Communist social system, has with- stood the blows of the capitalist world seeking to destroy it. The Russian workefs’ government has triumphed against the counter- revolutionary struggle of the exploiters to overthrow it. The Russian work- ers’ government has triumphed in the struggle against world imperialism seeking to destroy it. The Russian workers’ government has triumphed in the fight against the blockade of capitalism thru which capitalism sought to destroy it. The Russian workers’ government has triumphed in the struggle against famine growing out of the destruction wrought by the World War. ee Sane Me) " Vietory After Centuries of Struggle. Thru all ages, oppressed classes have fought and struggled to end oppres- sion and build a social system in which all men could be free. Slaves have fought against their masters; serfs against their 1eudal lords; workers against their exploiters; the pages of human history are filled with the heroic struggle of the oppressed classes to end the right of the privileged tew to profit at the expense of the masses. It is this age-long struggle which is reaching its climax in the present world era. It is as the first great victory in this age-long struggle that the Russian proletarian revolution stands. The workers of Russia have over- thrown their masters. The workers of Russia are the rulers of their country. In their hands is the power to create a social system in which oppression and exploitation will be no more and those who produce wealth will enjoy the wealth which they produce. . Me ei . The New Social Order. Ps . What is the aim of the workers’ government of Russia? ‘To create a social system in which those who toil, those who produce wealth, will no longer labor for the enrichment of a small group of exploiters but in which all that the inventions, discoveries and genius of the human race has ee will rebound to the happiness and well-being of the people of uss: : i In capitalist society as it exists tofay @verywhere but in Russia, a few exploiters and oppressors of the workers in the factories and workers on: the land own the machinery of production and distribution. Thru this system of private ownership of the things that masses are dependent upon for their livelihood, these exploiters enrich themselves and amass great fortunes, live in luxury and splendor. { _ The Russian workers and peasants havo said that this system must go! In its place must come the social ownership of the means of production and distribution. In place of the czars and kalsers of industry who : ‘Continued on Page 3.) ‘ i Progress of Seven Years of Soviet Rule. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1924 WORKERS PLAN TO TURN OUT FOR NOV. 7TH World Revolution Be- gan on Nov. 7, 1917 What many of us seem to forget several times each day is that the revolution is on, It began November 7, 1917. It has continued every minute and day since that date. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is our first triumph over the bourge- oisie. We now keep close watch upon the clashing imperialisms of the great powers, upon the developing revolutionary inde- pendence movements in, the Orient, upon several continental countries in which the fields are not as green nor the grass gs eGo 290 ee YEGGS BUSY IN SMALL WAY WHILE WALL ST. STEALS THE ELECTION trade away Safe blowers, plying their while many policemen were from beats on duty at the polls made two strikes here last night, according to reports to police today. Van Sitma Brohers, Michigan boulevard jewellers, reported $20,000 worth of jewels stolen from their store by thleves who broke in- to an. electrical. company’s store next door and cut thelr way thru the wall in the Van Sitma establish- ment. Other yeggs obtained between $5,000 and $6,000 from a safe which they cracked in the offices of the Royal Blue Stores Co. FRAME WORKER FOR RAILROAD AS WRECK GOAT Plot to Send Towerman to Prison The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad is responsible day morning, Alderman Arthur Albert told the DAILY WORK- ER. “The railroad management is playing the usual gamé of the large corporation,” Albert said. “They are trying to send a poor, bewildered towerman to jail for manslaughter. But the Mil- waukee & St. Paul railroad is responsible for the deaths.” Railroad Violates Laws. “The railroad has violated an ordin- ance making it compulsory for them to elevate tracks over street car cross- ings. This ordinance was passed on Feb. 3, 1893. The violation of it has resulted in many deaths for which the railroad officials are responsible.” John T. Gillick, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, admitted at the last session of the coroner’s inquest that he had never heard of this ordinance in spite of his responsible position with the railroad. Gillick admitted in his tes- timony that his road had abolished the automatic derailers because “it took too many men to keep the ice cleared away.” Alderman Albert brought out that the railroad abolished the auto- matic safety devices in 1919 because levermen)to run these devices cost, the railroad ‘company $124.00 a month, whereas the “common labor.” as Gil- lick put, are paid only $65.00 per month, as towermen. Sacrifice to Rallroad’s Greed. The testimony brot out that John Brahe, the towerman, whom the police and the capitalistic coroner’s jury are trying to blame for the railroad’s neg- ligence, lost his arm in the service of the railroad. Gillick admitted that towermen are very often “employed by the roadmaster because incapact- tated for other service by injury.” Gillick told the jury that he did not manage the | lenged the wor long for upper. class grazing as} think the tracks could be elevated “be- before the war. cause the railroad could not afford The revolution is on! And in Com-|it.” The coroner's jury, led by former munist Parties in 43 countries we|Governor Edward F. Dunne, long a work unceasingly, hopefully, determin- | corporation lawyer, is aiding the rajl- edly—knowing of course, where con-|road by placing the emphasis on psy- ditions are more favorable, loss favor-| chology, alcholism, and new ordin- able, but never knowing exactly when | ances, and ignoring that the wreck the lightening of an angry revolution- | was caused by the violation of a long ary proletariat may next strike an ar-| existing ordinance. rogant but dying expoliting class. Judge Olson Threatens. Slogan of Marx—Courage! When Alderman Albert suggested The slogan ot Marx to the workers | ‘to the jury that Brahe has been ter in conflict with the exploiters was,|Tified by his long confinement, and “Courage, courage, and once again—|should be heard before adjournment, Courage!” He knew it*took valor, a}80 that he might be gotten out on a never-say-die spirit for this greatest | Writ of habeus corpus or otherwise, of all tasks, winning the world for the Judge Harry M. Olson declared that proletariat. Lenin also knew. The} “Albert should be punished for his re- Bolsheviki possessed this nerve and | marks, and in a regular court of law pluck in abundance, And that is why| he would be punished, too.” Olson de- November 7, 1917, marks history as|clared Brahe would most likely be the date upon which a country of 180,-| sentenced for manslaughter, and other. 000,000 people taced about and chal-| wise shielded and defended the rail- d's @ to a ne-| road company. ed, a) The inquest will be resumed today re 2 RONNIE 2 OHO” 8 Rants neon Ena Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, ml. EXPECTED 10 JOIN CELEBRATION! SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY RUSSIAN SOVIET RULE NOVEMBER 7, 1924 IN THE Price 3 Cents T IN MINNESOTA torship at Washington STRIKEBREAKER COOLIDGE AND OPEN SHOP DAWES $N SADDLE: : RIDE LABOR HARD Strikebreaker Coolidge and Open Shop Dawes are in tha saddle. DAILY WORKER on election m Reactionary imperialist br agen as predicted by the orn has won. ing, The incomplete returns indicate that the “man on horse- back” in the executive branch of the capitalist government wilt have a comfortable majority whip against opposition in the PP « PO 8000 ET hie 9 ERRORS lower house of the congress in spite of the tack on the saddle by the “still rampant radical bloc” in the senate. The Workers’ Interesting Prospects. With the world economic situation threatening widespread unemploy- ment and the only relief to it being the promising chance of a great war with Japan and her allies, and irom- shod reaction riding hard at home, the American working class can be promised an interesting four years. Five States Doubtful. Five states are, at the moment of writing, in doubt. These are Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico and North Dakota. The only state so far reported giv- ing LaFollette a plurality is his own backyard, Wisconsin. But he still has of twelve states, where voting is a mandate to stay there and do it some more, The 69th Congress. With: 1,000 candidates contending for 435 seats in the house of repres- entatives, the returns, altho incom- plete, show an increased majority for the republicans in the 69th congress. In the senate, however, where 32 seats were being contested, the LaFol- lette bloc promises to hold the bal- ance of power by a narrow margin, altho possibly losing two of its lead- ing fourflushers, Brookhart and Mag- nus: Johnson. Mormon Sugar Senator Peeved. Senator Reed Smoot, after visiting Silent Calvin late at night, expressed a fear of the new senate and said that “in the event the republicans cannot control,” he favored “turning the responsibility over to a coalition of democrats and LaFollette in- surgents.” Dictatorship Winning Factor. Everywhere the first line of cap- italist outposts, its propagandist ma- chinery of press, pulpit, rostrum and radio swayed the great mass of work- ers to voting against their own ma- terial interests. The club of “hard times” held over the workers if they dared “make a change,” ts a trem- endous factor. “Force and Violence” When Needed. When all blandishment and econ- omic intimidation fails, or is even questioned, the capitalist dictatorship showed in the way it treated its own oppositional groups in this election, how murderous and vicious it will be when the revolutionary party of Com- munism becomes a serious challenge to capitalist rule. Keeping the Masses Trained. The suave way of the capitalist press associations and election of- ficials working together have of ceri- tering the public eye on the capitalist candidates by simply not reporting the returns of balloting for any others, among them the Communist candi- dates on the Workers Party ticket, is another instance of how capitalist dic- tatorship works. These capitalist agencies control the, reporting of statistical returns, (Continued on Page 2.) a chance in’ Minnesota and North| Dakota, In all but the “solid south”) MINNEAPOLIS COMRADE GOES TO LEGISLATURE C apitalist Press Says Youngdahl Won By CLARENCE A. HATHAWAY (Special to the Daily Worker) | MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 5.—The capitalist press today conceded the election of Emil a i |, Cogamy eandi- date for the [i on the farmer-labor party ticket. He polled 4,483 votes, despite the stubborn opposition of Rob- ly Cramer, editor of the Minne- apolis Labor Review and other labor leaders. J. F. Emme, Communist, running for congress against the solid opposi- tion of the reactionary labor officials and the capitalist press has polled over thirteen thousand votes so far in St. Paul. The farmer-labor candidates ran far ahead of LaFollette on returns tebu- lated yesterday. Coolidge swept the state of Minnesota. 3 According to all indications, Mag- nus Johnson, has lost out to Thomas D. Schall, his blind opponent. RED RUSSIA PROGLAIMS BROAD AMNESTY ON ITS ANNIVERSARY (By the Federated Press.) MONTREAL, Can., Nov. 5.—Thou- sands of Russian political refugees are barred from the benefit of an amnesty proclamation by the Russian government thru America’s faffare to recognize the Russian The amnesty for the Russian govern- ment’s foes will take effect with the celebration of the seventh anniversary of the present regime November 7. A. A. Yaszikov, special representa- tive for Russia in Canada told the Federated Press that the amnesty er- der applies only to Russians resté- ing in countries that have accorded diplomatic recognition to his govern- ment. This excepts thousands of fol- lowers of Denikin, Kolchak, Yudenitch and Wrangel who are now exiled in America, he explained, The amnesty order, says Yarikov, shows that the new social order in Russia is too strong to be over: thrown. All persons coming within the scope of the proclamation will be fur- nished passports to the home land on presenting themselves to local Rus- sian representatives after November 7 and before June 7 of the following year. PROGRAM FOR YOUR BRANCH THE SEVENTH SOVIET ANNIVERSARY 1. SINGING OF THE INTERNATIONAL. 2. READING OF the MANIFESTO OF THE WORKERS PARTY. 8. READING OF SPEECH ENTITLED: WORKER FOR 1925!” “INSURE THE DAILY 4. COLLECTION: The proceeds of the meetings are to be remitted to the DAILIY WORKER. 5... READING OF SPEECH MADE BY LENIN UPON THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. 3 6. READING OF SPEECH ENTITLED: WORKERS PARTY!” 7. SHORT SPEECHES BBY THE MEMBERS OF THE BRANCH, — 8 SINGING OF INTERNATIONAL AND ADJOURNMENT, “BOLSHEVIZE THE ~