The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 2

th i I inion lima, SAM AND CAL IN UNTED FRONT AGAINST REDS Gompers Joins Legion in ‘Education’ Week {Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The American Federation of Labor and the Fascist American! Legion of scabs have joined | hands in boosting “Education | Week,” proposed by the United BALDWIN NAMES HIS CABINET: IT'S ALL-TORY Jobs ‘Are Scarcer Than Applicants (Special to the Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 6.—Premier-Desig- nate Stanley Baldwin completed the formation of his tory cabinet this evening and sent the names to King George for approval. It will be an “all tory” cabinet. Harlier in the day there had been reports that Baldwin was meeting with obstacles over the surplus of candidates for some of the ministerial posts. The Cabinet Lineup. By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Continued from Page 1.) side of the class conscious vote for Foster. But is quite clear that mil- lions of workers voted for Coolidge out of fear, that an election deadlock would bring “bad times,” +e 8 ‘HIS election shows at what a low level the class consciousness of the masses is in America, The ex- pectations of a greater revolt against Big Business has not materialized. The “people” did not get seriously ex- cited over the sale of the Teapo Dome and the Naval Oil reserves, That was graft, at its worst, but graft is inseparable from capitalism and the American citizen hardly ever asks the question: “How did you get it?” THE DAILY WORK AS WE SEE IT ||CHINESE ‘SON ER OF HEAVEN’ GETS BIG PAY SLASH Now He Is Called Son | of Something Else (Special to the Daily Worker) SHANGHAI, China, Nov. 6.— The “Son of Heaven” has lost his job. The world outside of China is perhaps little aware that altho the Manchu bar was overthrown in 1911, it still has an emperor, a mere boy, it Fate of Socialists at Elections Accelerates the Drift to Communism By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. Toney: the Milwaukee socialist daily, “The Leader,” edited by Victor L. Berger, arrives with the election news. But nowhere do we find a word of editorial comment. For rane Berger is silent. But silence, in this instance, speaks volumes, * ® 8 © The alliance with the LaFollette campaign didn’t help the socialists. Instead-it worked disaster upon the socialist totals. This was conclusively shown in the vote for sheriff Friday, November 7, 1924 CHARGE DOWNING MADE EDITOR T0 AID ROWAN SPLIT I.W.W Convention Here Exonerates Doyle Thomas Doyle was exoner- ated of all charges relating to the controversy within the I. W. W., by action of the:convention now meeting in Emmet Mem- orial Hall, and was then dis- charged from his office as secre« § States government of Cal Cool-| Baldwin was expected to announce| T° 8°t caught fs the principal erime.| is true, and bottled up in the| of Milwaukee County, for instance, where Edmund T. Melms, ty idge as waa ot starting a|the cabinet personnel tonight. It pee! imperial palace within the walls| former socialist sheriff, was snowed under by the republican tary-treasurer of the 1. W. W. ‘campaign against the “Reds.” |is understood that it will include HAT the political influence of} 6+ "WHat ig known as “the for-| With the small vote of 29,828 against 43,020, Delegates Erwin and Leonard, Vice-President Matthew Woll | of the A. F. of L., has sent out Jetters to every affiliated body urging that class’ collaboration | be set up with the capitalists against the Communists to put across “Education Week”—a -week to be devoted to attack- ing Communists. The strike- breakers of the American Legion are to be co-operated with as much as possible, orders “Woll. The Gompers family has maintain- ed the most disgraceful relations with the legion for the past year, and it “4s certain that the labor fakers will have their machine oiled up, so that at El Paso, these crimes against the ‘workers will be approved and ordered continued. Warkers Party C.E.C. Issues Statement on Tuesday’s Elections (Continued from page 1) es were scared with the spectre of Communism. Back Stairs Politics. The failure of Gompersism to lead the workers behind the LaFollette banner may be the signal for another Procession to the back doors of the old parties. Other sections of the work- ers will become disgusted as a result f the Coolidge victory and will dis- Play a tendency to shun political ac- tion altogether. The Workers Party strongly warns the workers against these tendencies. Abstentation from politicg on the part of the workers means surrendering the field to the enemy. “The demonstrated weakness of the LaFollette movement,” the statement continues, “as compared to the pre- election estimates of all sides, not only seriously retards the development of the so-called ‘third party,’ but also completely eliminates the immediate possibility of the growth of a mass farmer-labor of industrial workers and} janq_ poor farmers, distinct from the Work- ers Party. A general agitation cam- Austin Chamberlain as foreign min- ister; Neville Chamberlain will be minister of the public health; Lord Birkenhead secretary of Indian affairs, Lieutenant Colonel Leopold Armory secretary for the colonies and EB. F. L. ‘Wood, secretary of agriculture.” Tory headquarters intimate that Baldwin invited Sir Robert Horne to be chancellor of the exchequer, but the directors of Baldwin's steel works refused to release Sir Robert to serve in the cabinet which will he headed by the principal owner of the works. Churchill Chancellor, ‘Winston Churchill will be chancel- lor of the exchequer according to the London Evening Standard. The Stand- ard says that Horne was offered the labor ministry. but refused. It criti- cized Baldwin for not offering Him a higher post. Lord Curzon has accepted the post of lord president of the council, the Standard continues, Lord Cave, lord chancellorship, Sir Samuel Hoare, air ministry, Sir Douglas Hogg, the attor- ney generalship and Sir Thomas In- skip, the post of solicitor general. Sir A. Steel Maitland has accepted the labor ministry, according the Standard. Following is the official list of the new cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer—Win- ston Churchill. Foreign Secretary—Austen Cham- berlain. Lord Chancellor—Viscount Cave, First Lord of the Admiralty—Right Hon. W. C. Bridgeman. Home Secretary—Sir William Joyn- son-Hicks. Secretary of War— Sir Leming Worthington-Evans. Secretary of India—Lerd Birken- head. Seoretary for the Colonies—Lieut.- Col. Amery. President of the Council—Lord Cur- Attorney General—Sir Douglas M. Air Minister—Sir Samuel Hoare. Labor Minister—Sir A. Steel-Mait- Agriculture—E. F. L. Wood. Minister of Public Health—Neville Daign by the Workers Party under the} Chamberlain. Slogan of ‘Yor a Mass Farmer-Labor Party,’ would not be profitable or suc- cessful.” Party's Chief Task. The chief task of the Workers Par- “ty now, the statement declares, is to M@evelop the party as the practical leader of the masses and “as the only party that represents the working ¢lass interests and knows how to fight Minister of Education—Lord Percy. President of the Board of Trade— Sir Phillip Litbyd-Graeme. Sam Gompers really amounts to was exposed in this election. It is al- most nil. He neither gave money nor yotes to LaFollette, yet the latter, who is supposed to be a political strateg ist of the first order, issued his de- nunciation of the June 17, farmer-la bor convention, thus giving that prom- ising movement a very damaging blow, on the threat of Gompers’ dis- pleasure and in order to win the favor of the middle classes and small cap: italists, But if La¥ollette had en dorsed the Communist movement, the big fellows could not have flayed him any more viciously than they did. ‘2 R. Melamed, editor of the Jewish Daily Courier, commenting on the death of the Zionist leader, Dr. Shen- cken, in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul grade crossing disaster, point- ed out that Soviet commissars were living allowing his readers to draw the inference that this was very un- fair, while an estimable person like Dr. Shencken died. We have no part- icular reason to desire the demise of either Drs. Melamed or Shencken, but it would not surprise us, granting that the Doctor’s god is not as big a joke as the Doctor himself, to learn that god took special care of Soviet commissars who are very useful peo- ple, and had no time to waste looking after Zionist panhandlers and other freaks of nature who eke out a living acting the ‘part of pied pipers of cap- italism. set ¢ O doubt Dr. Melamed:has a god of some kind on his waiting list. Why not put it up squarely to him, that he wants speedy action on the hated Soviet commisssars. If the Dr’s god finds it difficult to kill Rus- sian commissars at railroad crossing, there is nothing to prevent him from using his thunderbolts. If he will not do even this it looks bad for Mela- med. He may have to brave the Cheka like Boris Savinkoff, instead of fighting the Bolsheviki from Chi- cago. reer nmin Steamer Aground In Lake Ontarlo. WATERTOWN, N. Y., Nov. 6— Three men lost their lives when the steamer Glen Luchie was grounded twice on shoals in Lake Ontario, dur- ing a heavy windstorm early today. (Continued from Page 1.) for them.” To this end a united front caused the tragedy, admitted thet the from below is utged in the spirit of the Fifth Congress of the Communist International. ‘The declaration calls on the workers to militantly struggle against the boss- es. The open shoppers will look upon the Coolidge victory as a mandate to rush labor. Industrial unionism thru ‘amalgamation, and shop committees are urged, and the workers are called on to struggle for the immediate pro- ‘teotion of the labor movement and for ‘its advancement and that the Workers Party is the only organized center for air brakes on the freight train were not in use. He was not informed, he declared, that a state law requires the use of “brakes for the control of the speed of a train by the engineer, without requiring the brakeman to use the hand brakes.” The air brakes on the train were not in use, thus violating the state law. Including the city ordinance which requires the rail- road to elevate street car crossings, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul railroad has hus far been exposed as violating four laws when the accident occured. the jury brings in a verdict. “So far nothing against Brahe has been brot out,” said Kropf to the DAILY WORK- ER. « Dr. Hickson admitted on the wit- ness stand that there was no evidence of “recent acute alcoholism,” when he examined Brahe on Wednesday. “It Brahe had been drunk on the night of the accident I would have known it. In my opinion he was not drunk,” said Dr. Hickson, thus smashing the police farmeup which tried to show that Brahe was drunk on the night of the accident. Brahe told of his movements the day preceding the accident. He had been with the railroad for two years stead- bidden city” at Peking. Nevertheless, China had a real emperor, and feudalism in China worshipped him as the “Son of Heayen.” When fore imperialism divided up China aming the great robber pow- ers, provision was made for the “Son of Heaven” to stick around and draw his pay. This would keep the feudal- ist sentiment quiet, along with other concessions. Christ and Capital Against Feudalism. But along comes christianity and cap- italism and boots the “Son of Heaven” out the back door. Yesterday the “Christian General” Feng Yu-hsiang, who has seized Peking in behalf of Japanese intefests, sent his soldiers into the “fo: len city” and threw the fedualist “Son of Heaven” bag and baggage into the alley. All feudalist remnants of court titles and Manchu privileges were thrown at the “Son of Heaven” as he went down the stairs. The worst of the matter is that in- jury is Added to insult. The “allow- ance” previously provided the “Son of Heaven” was $4,000,000 a year. Thir is cut by General Feng to $500,000 a year. The Chinese workers and peas ants are not celebrating, however, as this doesn’t mean that their burden will be lighter, but only that somebody else will get the difference. Fmperialism’s Crocodile Tears. This action by the “christian” tool of Japan, is being seized upon by Am- erican and British interests. They are making a great fuss about the “out- rage,” trying to arouse the ignorant Chinese against Feng, in hope that American-British can ride on the tite of feeling” and oust Feng’s Japanese control. It is quite funny to hear the Eng- lish grow morally indignant at the “mere pittance” of half a million a year, when a million unemployed walk the streets of England to whom the empire of Britain scornfully throws a dole of a few pennies. It is still fun- nier to listen to the American legation attaches chime in, when nearly 5,000,- 000 jobless in America are not given @ red cent or a place to flop. Try to Make Red Scare. The biggest effort of the American and British imperialists is, however, to lay a basis for armed intervention by themselves by stirring up foreign sentiment with loud howls about China going “Bolshevik.” . If the Am. erlean and British capitalists can make their people believe their yarns that the “Reds” are capturing China, they can establish a moral foundation for armed intervention to oust Japan- ese rule. ‘ American workers are advised tc look with suspicion upon news stories from China alleging “Red rule.” Cap italist newspapers are smelling around trying to find some connection be- tween the Soviet ambassador, M. Kar- akhan, and the new government, Am- erican and British diplomats in China are pretending to, fear “Bolshevism” because Sun Yat Sen, the nationalist leader of South China has been invit- ed to Peking to help form a new gov: ernment. Sun Talks Back to Britain. The re-election of Berger to congress is claimed, but the incomplete returns showed that he was hanging on by the proverbial skin of his teeth. ° ° ° e With half the precincts reporting in the state, the social- - ists were running far in the rear even of the democrat, the results showing: Blaine (LaFollette progressive), 168,848; democrat, 130,933, and socialist, 23,910. This will give the socialists less than 50,000 votes in the state; where they have often polled more than that number in Milwaukee alone. The so-called lone LaFollette landslide, in his own home state, went to Blaine, the,LaFollette candidate, and not to Berger’s candidate, Quick. Under the LaFollette-Berger alliance the socialists delivered their votes to the republican. * * * * The closest approach to any opinion from Berger is to be found in his column, “Findings,” where he comes to the conclusion, “That the moral fibre of our pore has de-~ teriorated is plainly shown by fhe questionable reaction of the common people to the latest revelation of bribery and corruption.” Berger spent his space, the day after the elec- tion, in his column, speculating on the Teapot Dome scandal. While watching his party crumple up, with the counting of the votes, he turne hb fa i The Wisconsin election returns, if one would discuss “moral fibre,” indicates what happens to an alleged working class political organization when it runs away from the ‘working class struggle, joining hands with labor’s foe—the middle class of small business. * * ° . But, where Berger seeks refuge in silence and philo- sophy, the Rev. Norman H. Thomas, socialist candidate for overnor in New York State, openly confesses, as the DAILY WORKER pointed out fact the bee gre that the socialists—under the LaFollette-Tamman all-socialist alliance—were going over to Tammany Hall's candidate, Al Smith. The Rev. Thomas now declares that the socialists were up against it, “not only because of the popularity of Governor Smith and the fear of Colonel Roosevelt in labor circles in neral, but also because of the special hold Governor Smith, ad on unions normally socialistic." (N. Y. Times, Nov. 5.) When the DAILY WORKER ys this before the election, the Rev. Thomas grew very indignant, but even he now crawls on the after-the-election band wagon, compli- menting Tammany Hall's “Al” on his election stating, “That means a far more competent and liberal administration of state affairs than Colonel Roosevelt would have given.” Just to show his deep submissiveness in applauding “Al,” the socialist reverend regrets that Al should be tied up with “the Bourbon democracy of the Seuth,” claiming this “un- natural alliance cannot | ast forever.” In other words the Reverend Thomas has flopped side by side with Morris Hillquit, in kissing the feet of Tammany Hall. They both confess that no “Labor Party” will come out of the Conference for Progressive Political Action. Their only hope, a forlorn hope, is that “there is evidence of a new arty” a phantom third oy Sg around Tammany all in New York, as the C. P. P. A. has been doing, but graciously admitting the socialists. . ’ " On the eve of the elections “Jimmie” Holland, president of the New York State Federation of Labor, denounced the socialists for trying to get a few votes for Thomas. He “charged the socialists with trailing the LaFollette campaign for the mere purpose of getting a few votes for themselves. But Holland was wrong. The socialists have been stripped of the little strength they had left. They got nothing thru their alliance with LaFollette. They betrayed the class struggle and suffered the fate of all traitors. From the national office of the socialist party comes the declaration that the socialist voters were confused by the LaFollette campaign. That states the situation clearly; with the socialists responsible for much of the confusion, wen oe the LaFollette boosters. ut the results of the election will help dissipate the of Industrial Union 310, opposed the exoneration of Doyle to the last ditch, claiming that Doyle had violated the constitution. Charge Doyle Guilty Edwin, who has sided with the in junetionites thruout the convention, declared Doyle was equally guilty with those who brot the injunction, in stir- ring up disruption within the I. W. W. “I don’t see why you should white- wash Doyle and make a goat out of the others” Erwin stated, Chairman P, J. Welinder favored the exoneration of Thomas Doyle, but charged that Doyle was inefficient in the handling of the office of sec- retary treasurer. Welinder charged that Mortimer Downing was selected as editor of the Industria? Worker ir- regularly by the Rowanites. “There is an individual named James Stack who was going from one lumber camp to another in the North. west, condemning the I. W. W.,” said Welinder. “Stack tried to get I. W. W. members to act as scabs in the September strike. Now it is learned that this same James Stack was.em- ployed for the Centralia publicity committee to act as advance man. Stack was employed by James Rowan and his job was to sound out senti- ment among the membership 8 Rowan. I was conyinced that Rowan was hatching a plot not in Chicago but in the Northwest to split the I. “I received a letter from Thomas Moore asking me to curtail the sales of Industrial Solidarity and Industrial Pioneer and push the sales of the In- dustrial Worker as much as possible. Mortimer. Downing and James Rowan are working hand in glove to split the Lw.w”. Welinder declared the Industrial Worker committee met on May 4 and then adjourned. Following adjourn- ment, Welinder said, Mortimer Down- ing came to Seattle, and another meeting of the Industriale Worker com- mittee was called when the matter of firing Gahangthen editor, and put- ting in Rowan’s man, Mortimer Down- ing, was discussed. No grounds could be found to eject Gahan, Welinder said, so the meeting of the Indus. trial Worker committee was suspend- ed. Charges Downing Frame-up A general membership meeting of Seattle was then called, Welinder stated, and Gahan was put out and Downing made editor, altho there was no specific charge against Gahan. Wel- inder characterized the whole action of Downing as a frame-up of the Row- an crowd who wanted to gain con- trol of a portion of the I. W. W. and Buch 4 struggle. The point of view of Sun Yat S headquarters deserve Job Shoved on Him. ily prior to the accident. Brahe de Denys: oF apd yeu do some clear a vem RSP, Attorney Oscar A. Kropt announced |clared he saw no lights and had no| 24 the reason why British business is conte. Rtn ge erty meee oa FRey” will, think {*Bsnks.” He declared Doyle entitied i Silent Cal’s Victory to Coroner Oscar Wolff, who has just|warning that the freight was approach.|?aising such a scare about “Reds,”| thinking. nia cele A if to a thoro exoneration. j Enthuses Biggest been re-elected on the Coolidge ticket,|ing the crossing. He denied he had|™&y be aes ar enee te ak coe Communist. Pde Shee we) a Joe Oates, who would not { : i. : that he is “acting at th t king ‘ gram sen’ jun Yai ‘ on 8 motion which finally American Capitalists |ct tarry olson, one ot the forors, to|he had been drunk. No charge has| sssembly of the League of Nations, These features of the election’s results should clarify ios, that “Doyle be exonerated and protect John Brahe in his constitution-|been placed against Brahe, altho he|™eeting at Genova: the fight of the working class for power. “No compromise” | nis temporary suspension become per. (Continued trom Page 1.) final count, altho unofficially reported,| Kropf did not seem to relish the show Brookhart has only 66 -more votes than Steck. Both candidates are calling for a recount. In the last “doubtful” state, North Dakota, Coolidge has the lead by 9,000 at last reports. al rights.” ¢ job, as he commented to friends that “the job of protecting the poor inno- cent Brahe has been shoved on me.” Kropf told the DAILY WORKER that he cannot say whether he will ask for a writ of heabus corpus until has been in the custody of the police since the accident. “4 Every witness who has testified to being on the scene of the accident sald that no lights were placed on the end of the freight train as it aproch- ed the crossing. No lanterns of any kind were visible at the crossing. “In view of Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald’s disquisitions on the inde- pendence of Georgia and international peace and justice at the recent ses- sions of the assembly of the League of Nations, it may possibly interest the league to know that on Sept, 1 I protested to Mr. MacDonald against the delivery to my government of an ultimatum, which threatened hostile in the class struggle becomes a bigger slogan than ever for oppressed phd ay This must accelerate the drift of workers and poor farmers into the Communist movement. Russian Comrades to Sing and Dance at Anniversary Party they thought it advisable to give Communists a few, so as notto altogether queer. : This is what they said we got = 36 Cook county: Foster for president, 988 votes; Engdahl for senator, 723 ; British naval action in the event of] Tomorrow evening the grand con- hy favored his exoneration. Erwin's | The Results of the Elections |2\rmr\tiar cis| uc a iit sitin a telragy: DM eee Tac at Shay nt ; measures to suppress a rebellion at} seventh anniversary of the Russian ‘ 2 Doyle's immediate resignation,” was - ‘ Canton instigated by imperialistic and , Upholds Labor Board. seconded, , other type of oppression needed profits of the capitalist class. the craft unions into powerful \ (Continued from page 1) militant class struggle. The amalgamation of idarity, into industrial unions, must be carried out. The industrial unions must be given a for the greater organs of sol- der the leadership of a revolutionary party, All hesitations and petty bourgeois illusions must be put aside. Struggle for the immediate pro- ers Party is the only organized center of such a struggle, Rally around the Workers Party more than ever before. We must build the Workers Party of America! reactionary interests. To this protest Mr. MacDonald has not replied, “IT understand his silence to mean that the British policy in Ohina will ties against the national movement, which aims at the establishment of a strong independent China. “It is no wonder that after assisting revolution comes off. Everything is set to make this a big party. Held under the auspices of the Russian branches of the Young ‘Workers’ All of which means that the labor movement tection of the labor movement and for its ad- ; League and the Workers Party every-|to testify. The decision affects 105 is‘facing a serious crisis, If it would protect | vancement in the present situation calls for a oa te fr ga Pr ph body will be there, young and—all| witnesses, chiefly labor union heads,|| ~ BENTLEYVILLE, PA! itself, only weapon at its command is clear-cut program of class struggle. The Work- nar te ceaione, activi. |crters (Communists never grow old). |who have refused to appear. Avisid ‘dalebiktions ofthe eaviellll Tt will be held at the Workers’ Ly- ceum, 2738 Hirsh Blvd., and begins at 7:30 p.m. Comte early so as not to miss any of the concert which con- tains a real revolutionary program. | " Brookhart! Adds to Lead. ’ United States senatorship race was] Labor Templ ’ ] bels and reactionaries in Canton, | There speakers ple, Pike and Jeffei ipateation ‘ct camps chmnitigen, - he. taber Ceateal Bixacuttye | Commision, te. Medea gus to deaom colaes Mgt pores gore oe Berg al CANONSBURG, kno sande its tion of polit Workers Party of America, champion the cause of counter-revolu- SEU PHPTGRR UE NYT in the checking of Buena Vista and ical action beyond participation in elections, William Z. Foster, Chairman, tion in the Republic of Georgia in the | Communist Votes In Cook County. | poi, counties, \ ‘NOVEMBER 15th, at 7 p,m, and must consolidate its forces for struggle un- ©. EB. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. guise of an ‘honest broker’ scenting Miners’ Hall, When election judges fen te got thru given the vote Federal Judge Wilkerson upheld the authority of the United States rail- DHS MOINES, Ia., Nov, 6,—Senator TTENTION, _ CANONSBURG and Anniversary of the Russian Revolur tlon: NOVEMBER 9th, at 2 p, m. would be tn | : county, RR se: EN