The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1924, Page 4

' i | ; i 4 4 FARMERS MOVED OUT, BROOKHART MOVED TO WASH, | Towa * Senator Typical Real Estate Shark By J. E. SNYDER. DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 6-—It, is ®aid- that the old line farm-owning Tepublicans of Iowa moved to south- ern California and the tenants they left behind elected Smith Brookhart to the United States senate from that| state. | There grew up a.“united front” be- tween the established trade unions of the state and the tenant farmers to} the extent that they voted and con-/ tinued to vote for a would-be “re-| ‘tormer of capitalism.” | It was not a class united front| from any conscious standpoint, but a reWellion against railroad rates on| farm products, farm machinery on the | Part of the small farmers and tenants | and the high cost of living and receed- | ing wages on the part of the wage workers. Near Rebellion. It can be said that the entire west and south is in a state of mind near rebellion against an enemy called “Wall Street.” They would march on this enemy with gun and sword and destroy the monster with- out quarter. Little thought or reason is given to this rebellious spirit ex- cept by the Ku Klux Klan that says “Wall Street” is made up of Jews and catholics, and should be driven out of power. By which it is implied that the protestants are to be put in power because of the, exceptional virtues of some of their number, like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Mr. Mellon and company. In all of lowa perhaps one-half of one per cent of farmer-labor has some conception of a class united front. Of this small percentage three-fourths | of that number are miners and other | wage workers, leaving the number of farmers that are class conscious al- most nil. A Change of Masters. At one time the socialists polled quite a vote in Iowa, but in looking up this membership we find that they | were hardly good populists and stood | for no more than the reformism now advoeated by Smith Brookhart who is hell bent on running the rascals out | and putting “good” men, like himself, in. We understand that in lowa many widow and orphan cold testify to Brogkhart’s brand of honesty, were his.real estate deals all brought to light. l Towa has many towns of from forty to one hundred thousand population. These towns contain packing houses, small stock yards, elevators, and milk depots, as well as all sorts of smaller industries. Many of-the workers in these industries are young men and women born on Iowa farms and in the small villages. They carry. with them to the industry all the ideology of the country church and capitalized school besides a belief in advertising the quality of “their” coal character- ized by signs on auto windshields, “Buy Iowa Coal,” “Buy Monroe Coun- ty Coal,” when it is well known that coal can be loaded in other states and shipped cheaper than they dig it out of most of the poorly equipped ill ventilated mines in Iowa. * Not Easy Job. Much of this rebellion could be coined into a class united front by am eXtensive propaganda and inter- Pretation of the market, the wage sys- tem and an attack on the ethical teaching, the populace has been fed om these past hundred years in the middle west. It will not be done in a day, nor a year and to do it, other sections must pay a large part of the expense of education. ‘That it is necessary to educate these people stands to reason for from the central west and south of these United States will come many an in- Bocent youth with prejudice burned fato his brain to break the strikes of the workers in the large industrial ‘enters. A united front is possible if we institute a propaganda for the anion front before attempting to or- ®anize the impossible and non-exist- ant Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? ' Bricks and Consequences By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. CTOBER-NOVEMBER saw a return of bricks as a style event. It is now recalled that burning blocks of clay (bricks) was practiced by all ancient civilized nations. The Babylonians, 6,000 years ago, burnt them well. Bricks were extensively used during the time of Sargon of Akkad (3800 B. C.). One day while picking pelican from one of his many hollow teeth, the Sargon of Akkad-is said to have muttered: “She’s a brick.” This alone shows in what esteem bricks were held in the B. C. days. The sight of the ancient city of Babylon is still marked by huge mounds of brick. They were thrown down from the ruined towers, pal- aces by lovers and layers of brick to build surrounding cities. This alone shows that bricks were heaved in B. C. just about as they are heaved today. * * * 8 The first brick buildings in America were built in Manhattan in the year 1633. A governor of the Dutch West India Company did the Job. These bricks came from Holland. This alone is conclusive proof that bricks can travel long distances. And it is reported that only recently, in 1924, a descendant of a Euro- pean family, himself carrying a Dutch name busied himself with a kind of brick at a point formerly called New Amsterdam. The Chinese also understood bricks. The Great Wall in China is made of brick. Last month two Chinese armies met at this wall. On one side of the wall was Wu Pel-fu and in back of him Americans and and Britishers. saying sic ’em. On the other side of the wall was Chang Tso-lin, and in back of him the French and the Japanese saying sic ‘em. And there was the Chinese Wall, of brick, between the two, playing a part that really had revolutionary significance. Cg * * * A standard dimension for bricks was established In England in 1625. The standard set was 9x4!/2x3 inches. And in 1650, at New Haven, the first American brick was born. The birthplace is still visible on the right, as the locomotive swerves to the'left, out of New Haven towards Wallingford (named Wallingford before “Get-Rich-Quick Waftingford” surmised a nutmeg state existed, we understand). We think this establishes bricks, singly or by the ton. This being the case, we shall proceed by reverting to the first line we wrote, above. October-November saw a return of bricks as the fashion. Upon a bright day in early October a bright idea took shape in Chicago on a boulevard. The idea resulted in a revolution in brick. A dimension was dropped (who cares where). It was dropped to facilitate the promotion of a mew scheme in building. This revolution in bricks resulted in bricks for the revolution. RR, Se, cass, Walt Carmon did it. There is or was a city in further Spain, during the time of Julius Ceasar named Carmona. it may be that Carmon’s ancestors hailed from there. Anyway, one day In 1247 a certain Ferdi- nand put a rough-shod boot upon this fair city and exclaimed: “As the Morning Star shines in the Dawn, so shines Garmona in Andalusia.” Which, brought right down to the reign of Carmon in the circulation department of a building at 1113, was improved upon thusly: “As the Sun shines above the Clouds, so shalt shine daily the Daily.” In this wise Carmon went Ferdinand some better. If we counted right, there were 33,333 of these bricks for the revo- lution sent out, no telling where not. And Carmon, without moving an inch from 1113, dared 33,333 recipients of bricks to fire (heave Is the | official word of action) them back at him. * And then the heaving began, heaving bricks to build, much the same as in Babylon. Just as the old bricks were esteemed B. C., so were the new. They travelled from very long distances, some even from Amster- dam avenue, the very same spot to which the first imported brick trav- elled from Holland. Dropping a dimension gave these bricks wonderful revolutionary significance. tion building. It gave them exactly the proper measurement for circula- Circulation is the barometer which shows the distance of the revolution from the point at which it will occur. It made heaving them to what's fashionable—we now announce y and their. travel light. And to come back at it is quite the thing to carry a half dozen of these new bricks (Carmon patent) in your pocket at all times, pulling one out every time a worker heaves in siglit, and then heaving it back with that worker’s name and money. It is said that every brick-colored proletarian, whether small, potato or large, must heave back a brick before the week-end or take the consequences! THE CONSEQUENCES: May a ton of brick, the kind standardized in England in 1625, fall on you if you're the only one who don’t. Case Against Luigi Ceccoli is Dropped After Many Months By BARNEY MASS (Special to the Daily Worker) DETRUIT, Mich., Nov. 6—On a mo- tion made by Attorney Sugar, charges against Luigi Ceccoli, of carrying con- cealed weapons were dropped. Sugar argued that the seizure and search of Ceccoli was illegal and biased. On June 8 an attempt was made here to popularize the Fascisti, outfit. A meeting was called to celebrate the inauguration of the Fascisti reign of terror in Italy: Italian workers came to the meeting to see what was up. On learning the purpose was Fascisti propaganda they got busy and dis- persed the meeting. Of course arrests were made. Cec- coli who had first hand knowledge on the Fascisti government was arrested as he was leaving the hall. The po- lice as usual went thru his personal belongings without having a warran to follow this procedure. They charged Ceccoli with carrying con- cealed weapons. The sentiment of the Italian work- ers on that evening proves that not only is the Fascisti bunch of cut- throats becoming unpopular in their own country, but that the masses of Italian workers here will not tolerate any attempt to introduce the same Fink Beats It As Farmers Back Up Communist Speaker (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS GITY, Kansas, Nov. 6.— “Run along now like a good detective —gve want to talk to the Communists.” At the door of the Kansas City stock yards, a dejected-looking group of farmers, who had just sold their cattle at a sad price, were gazing at a bit of paper plastered up on one of the gates. The paper read: “Capitalism is driving the farmers from the land. We demand land for the users, a five-year moratorium for tho farmers.” And below, in large, bold type, the words, “Workers Party of America.” At this point appeared the fink. “You're under arrest,” he announced to Comrade George Vucic, who was responsible for pasting up the Com- munist sticker. “Nothing doing,” came from the lips of half.a dozen farmers. “This young man has an appointment to talk to us. That sticker’s just plain sense and that there Workers Party is all right.” The fink sized up the crowd and dis: appeared. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” form of government in this cvvntry.!the DAILY WORKER. HAT better way is there to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution—the greatest event in working class history—than by doing something constructive for the Labor movement—by getting a subscrip- tion to “Build the DAILY WORKER”? This can be your contribution to the Labor movement on its greatest day. subsoription you build for working class power, (Look for a By all means “Build On It.” By getting a James P. Cannon, Member of Assistant E: Party. the Brick on Page Five. pe Central Executive Committee and utive Secretary of the Workers HEAVE IT BACK!) THE DAILY WORKER COMRADE FEURER, ARDENT. FIGHTER FOR CAUSE, DIES Well Known in Party Activity in Bronx, N. Y. Joseph Feurer, an untiring worker for the cause of Communism and active member of the Bronx, N. Y., Workers; Party Branch died on the morning of Oct. 21, 4 Comrade Feurer was born in Switz’ erland on July 3, 1862. In his youth in his native country he was brought up religiously. He began working at the age of 10, and when he reached the age of 16 was able to support his mother. As he became older he fre- quented a church whose pastor spoke more of material things than of gods which preachers of all times have taught the masses. From that timo on he attended public meetings and became a socialist and later a Com- munist. In 1891 Comrade Feurer migrated to the United States and has been resident of New York City ever since. organizers and also president of the Swiss Embroiderers’ Union the first organization of its Kind in Ameriaa, thereby gaining the’ hatred of the em- broidery bosses at that time. Com- rade Fearer, ever since he entered this country was identified with the radical movement, and for many years was & member of the socialist par so long as it remained a party of mil- itant class conscious workers. He was in the midst of all their sttuggles, and making sacrifices from ‘lis meagre wages. For many years, un- til it ceased to exist, he was a prom- inent member of the German socialist club named “Workingmen’s Educa- tional Association Bronx,” in those times when the red flag was the sym- bol of the socialista, the class strug- gle and send his only son named Jack to the socialist school conducted by the W. I. A. om Wednesday after- noons and Saturday and Sunday morn- ings, Comrade Feurer was always busy whenever funds were to be collected for a worthy cause. He himself gath- ered several hundred dollars for the Russian relief for the Friends of So- viet Russia, and also for the Inter- national Workers Aid to help Gernn comrades. “Aside from his activities in the rad- {cal movement, Joseph Feurer was identitied with numerous Swiss vieties, and he was particularly; en- thusiastic in * working: for the Swis- Gymnastic Society New York, and also the Federation of Workers’ Gym natic Societies. His efforts at making “ years until the end. The funeral of our beloved Com- tade Feurer took place on Friday, October 24. Many organizations were represented and paid him a last tribute. Among the nugerous syonk- ers was Comrade Ludwig Lore, editor of the “New York Volkszeitung,” whe champion of labor which Feurer had read since he came to this country. North Bergen, New Jersey. Thrown into Jail | 43 Times I. W. W. state hospital for the insane as a cution delusions that arose from the realities of persecution at the hands of the police. The Los Angeles oflice of the General Defense committee is trying to find a home for Pete where he can recover under sympathetic care. SOAVTEUUANOEREUAOAGOL TOGA AAN NAOT Dr. S. ZIMMERMAN DEnN-TriS’T MY NEW LOCATION Special “XR Prices rity, to Gas Workers Given ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS. My Examination ts Free My Prices Are Reasonable My Work Is Guaranteed Extracting Specialist DELAY MEANS DECAY In the early 90's he was one of the|ganization in France. THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON LIFE, LABOR, IND O'Flaherty a Jesuit! To The DAILY WORKER:—In the columns of “As We See It” by T. J. O’Flaherty of October 14, you refer to the recent society formed in Utica, N. Y. by the Masons and Knights of Columbus, jointly, You state: “In Utica, New York, Catholics and Masons have joined in a local organ- ization known as the Hamilton-Jeffer- son Association. Prominent members of the Knights of Columbus are lead- ing the Catholic wing. The members of the new organization are profes- sional and business men, As far as we know there are no priests involved in the movement. It is not likely that there will be. The Catholic hierarchy in America not very well pleased with the atitude of a section of the Knights of Columbus. As this organ- ization has grown in power and in- fluence a tendency has developed to act independently of the clergy. This kind of thing has reached the point where the Bishop of Detroit, Michae} Gallagher, hinted that the pope might be obligated to place the Knigh‘s under the ban as he did a similar or- “The so-called “atheist” element {s now in control of the organization. It is an open secret that many of the Jeaders are Catholics in name only and rarely attend mass or any of the other Catholic services. This element favors a friendly alliance with the Masonic order. The bishops are strongly opposed to this move, fearing its effect on the rank and file who are led to believe that all those who are Cutholics go to hell, after death.” Religion Used to Divide Workers. Why were those two columns placed in*the paper? Surely Comrade O’Fla- herty must be aware that religion (all denominations) are controlled by the international bankers. Religion is a weapon in the international bankers’ hands by which workers have been divided for countless centuries to this date. Masons, Knights of Columbus, Holy Name Society, Elks, etc., etc., Salvation Army, Y. M. C. A. ete. ete., are all controlled by one string, the international bankers—regardless of the labyrinths by which these organ- izations are divided or sub-divided, or- ganized or disorganized or merged to- gether. As I stated once to Comrade Engdehl that in my way of thinking religion (all denominations) is the radicals out of his countrymen aid {TS and for more power to comrade not meet with such success,as ho hai|0’Flaherty so long as he gets undor expected, but he kept at them fur the skin of. both the international b The body was cremated in the New |°M be excused on the ground that he York & New Jersé¥ Crematorim in|! #3 Spanish as I am Irish, and there- is Driven Insane |: al! as far as I could see. This and LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 6.—|for my present lack of reverence for Peter Lustica is in the California|the Holy Father and his army. result of unremitting persecution by | ized religion, however the Los Angeles police. He is a mem-| blind one to the fact, that the capital- ber of the I. W. W. He was first ar-|ist system is not as plain as the nose rested in the San Pedro free speech |on my critic’s face, or any other nasal fight in the spring of 1923. Since then appendage for that matter. he was put in jail 43 times, always on |are various props of the capitalist sys- charges growing out of his distribu- tem, beside the Catholic Church, and Uon of Literature or attempts to help | they are fighting for the premier posi- his comrades in prison. When his; tion at the table of capitalism. They mind began to break under the perse- fight each other for that privilege, cution he was released from the city| just as the capitalist stockade and he attempted suicide.| each other for the lucrative honor of The confinement in the asylum fol- being the governmental organ of Wall lowed where he labors under perse-| internationally organized espionage agency of the international bankers. These two paragraphs of Comrade O'Flaherty is disillusioning to work- ers, and is not the truth. Well trained suits often write that*way, It is ening to read such material—in a Communist paper. Yours for more power for its work- ankers and his thoroughly en- tronched reptile agents, priest, bite | rabbi, the trinity, which in its naked- ness, is but one, holding the sring by which the international bankers reigns supreme in all countries but Soviet Russia. Louis Reguera, Boston, Mass. oats Reply—The irritibility of my critic fore holds the Pope in as high esteem as on who once watched the priest pretend to turn crackers and wine in- to an ancient Hebrew, tho, unless the metamorphosis took place in,the holy man’s stomach, it did not take place other “miracles” were responsible Opposition to organized or unorgan- should not parties fight Se be Night and Morning to keep them Clean, Clear and Healthy Write for Free “Eye Care” or “Eye Book Marine Co., Dept. H. $.,9 B. OhioSt.,Chicago and Communistic movements. party. Call State 8491 or write There } USTRY, POLITICS Street. This does not detract from the fact that all churches are servants of capitalism, but some of them are more capable servants than other. Analysis of K. of C. Correct. My paragraphs on the Knights of Columbus are based on authentic in- formation. The facts are as follows: The Knights of Columbus was organ- 12g] under the direction and with the approval of the Catholic hierarchy, It was dosigned te be the political arm of the church,’ in oppesition to the Masenio order, It happens however, ‘hat a group ef mon have entrenched themsslvyes in. power within the Enights of Columbus and hava on mom than ono ocoasion defied the hierarchy. Lat me give an instanos: Bishep Michnel Gallagher of Detroit, sent a representative to Washington, to ap pear before a meeting of the highest counsil in the Knights of Columbus He was refused a hearing, on the ‘round that he was not dressed like 4a ordinary mortal. Bishop Gallagher, was angry over this and in a sermon delivered before the Detroit Council of the Knights, made very serious charges against the officers of the order, declaring that\ many of them were in reality atheists, did not attend church for a number of years and were in tho or- ganiation‘for what they could get out of it. He said that “His Holiness” might be obliged to place the ban of the church on the Knights et Columbus as he did on a similar or- ganization in France. Following the Bishop’s sermon, a convention of the organization was held in Montreal at which the Bish- op’s partisans, put up a slate of thelr own and were badly kicked by Grand Knight Ilaherty and his faction. The minutes of that convention are in- teresting and would have a salutary effect on comrades like my critic, who allow themselves to get the crazy no- tion into their heads, that the machin- ery of capitalism and its props, relig- ious and lay, runs smootly. It does not, which is well for us. I assure, comrade Reguera that I am neither a Jesuit nor the son of a Jesuit, tho I confess to a litle swelling of the upper story over the insidious flattery hidden away in the fifth para- graph of his létter. If the feeling of nausea induced: by my two offend- ing paragraphs, in the sensitive intel- lectual stomach of Comrade Reguera, has not yet subsided, I hope this reply will make him a well man again. T. J. O'Flaherty. Students Strike for Better Eats. Anderson, S. C., Nov. 6—More thar 650 students of Clemson college in Anderson are on strike because of bad food and other conditions. More than 650 additional students threaten to leave if their demands are not com- plied with at once. It is charged that food was not fit to eat. “Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. Friday, November 7, 1924" eee DETROIT WILL HAVE BIG MEET SATURDAY, NOV, 8 Dunne to “Speak at 7th Anniversary Gathering DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 6.—The Sev- enth Anniversary of the Russian revo- lution’ will be celebrated in Detroit Saturday evening, Nov. 8, under the joint auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Workers’ Leagus. The meeting will be held in the House of the Masses, 2646 St. Aubin. Wm. F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY. WORKER, will make the principal address. Comrade Dunne, who has just recently returned from fussia where he attended the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, and the congress of the Red Trade Union International, will have a message di- rect from the revolutionary front. Ruth Reynolds will speak on behalf of the Young Workers’ League, and the combined junior sections will round out a most interesting pro- gram. Russia Has Many Victories. The past year has witnessed numer- ous victories for the Soviet govern- ment. These victories have not been confined to the material conditions within Russia, tho the general im- provement of the lot of the workers and peasants thru the re-establish- ment of industry and the consequent increase in production, has been grati- fying in the extreme. But in the realm of foreign relations Soviet diplomacy has also major victories to her credit. Nineteen nations have accorded full recognition to the union of Socialist Soviet Republics. France, greatest enemy of Russia with the single ex- ception of the United States, has been the last to fall in line. The class conscious workers of De: troit, in common with the workers oi the eatire world, rejoice in every ad- vance made by Seviet Russia. They hail the revolution as the first great victory in their own struggle for eman- clpation. The House of the Masses will register another record demon- stration, Admission is 25 cents. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL! FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Ere. NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, CHICAGO MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ——ATTENDED TO—— FOR SALE CHEAP! MERCHANT TAILORING, CLEANING & DYEING SHOP With Hoffman Pressing and Single Motor Sewing Machine. D. BLUESTEIN 1123 So. Western Avenue, Come At any time during the to enable us to get out a h other odd jobs on the cam lation of the DAILY WO! —help us out—come over! 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