The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 8, 1924, Page 2

| } { LEGION DIRECTS EDUCATION WEEK Power Behind Program of Red-Baiting (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—The American Civil Liberties Union, i Meading the fight against the red-baiting program written by the American Legion for Amer- fean Education Week, bares the fact that the Legion is not only Exsine up the program but se- ing the organizations to co- operate. The Liberties Union accuses John. J, Tigert, U. 8. Commis- sioner of Education, who is sup- posed to be in charge of Amer- fcan Education Week arrange- ments, with “unwarranted vio- lation of trust in the conduct of ® public office and its. prostitu- tion to the private interests of @ military organization.” Plan Attack on Radicals. Features of the programs for Mon- vay and Tuesday, November 17 and 18, the first two days of the week set mside for speeches on education thru- wut the country are to be attacks on radical organizations, according to the ‘written program, which the Liberties Union says were prepared by the le- gion. The announcement for Consti- tution Day, the 17, says: “Communists and pacifists are a menace to these guarantees.” About Patriotism Day, it says: “The red flag means death, destruction, poverty, starvation, dis- ease, anarchy and dictatorship . . Stamp out revolutionary radicalism.” Request for speakers should be made to the American Legion, the off- ial announcements rear Invites From Legion. The Young Women’s Christian As- pociation, representing 600,000 mem- bers, telis the Liberties Union, thru Mabel Cratty, general secretary that its invitation to take part in American Hé@ucation Week came direct from the American Legion, not from the U. S. oner of Education. The in- was emphatically declined be- @ause of the militaristic nature of the movement and will throw its the American Education to ~Seuneleae ‘tobe ‘held independently the same week in New York City. A prominent list of educators has followed the lead of Roger N. Bald- and other directors of the Liber- Union in protesting against the Jegion’s militarizing of education pro- paganda. Dr. Charles W. Eliot, presi- lent emeritus of Harvard; Dr. W. H. . Faunce, president of Brown Univer- gity; H. W. Tyler, secretary of the American Association of University Professors; among the persons who have communicated their protests @gainst Tigert’s high handed alliance with a private miltaristic organiza- fion to the Liberties Union. James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, tells the union that “The legion pro- Paganda program will not only tend fo stultify the brain but act as a smoke screen to becloud just griev- ances and the shortcomings of misfit Public officials.” Last word from Tigert is that he ‘will go ahead with his program. The Liberties Union is organizing public Nneeting protests. FOKKER, DUTCH AIRPLANE | MAKER, BOOSTS FOR A BIGGER AIR WAR FLEET NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—H. G. Fok- ker, Dutch airplane manufacturer, arrived today from Europe with a ‘warning to the United States that it must awaken to realization of the Importance of an adequate air pro- gram for warfare. Only ten per cent of the airplanes in the world now, he said, are for @ommeroial purpo: accord- ing to Fokker, is engaged in an ex- tensive plane building program un- der direction of German engineers. He predicted that within ten years there would be regular 24-hour trans-Atlantic travel by “plane.” (Speolal to The CHARLESTON, W. Va. Nov. 7-—Machine gun nests In the hills about the coal mines In the Banackville seetion of West Virginia are the mocking eoho to the political oratory about freedom that filled the state during the presidential campaign. Supplementing the guns are high power searchlights. Armed bands range and patrol the country, some for the companies, some ally Worker) for the state and helping the companies, some on their own. The company had been operating on a union basis until this spring. The West Virginia Federationist, official labor organ endorsed by District 17, of the United Mine Workers, charges that under cover of the political cam- paign the nonunion coal and steel masters are making a drive to wipe out the miners’ union in West Virginia with the connivance of the public | officials of both parties, FRENCH LABOR ASKS VANZETTI, SACCO BE FREED 6,000 Protest at U. S. Embassy Office (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Nov. 7.—Six thousand workers, with a group of Com- munists at their head, stormed the office of the American em- bassy last night and demanded the release of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the two Italian-American workers to whom the Massachusetts su- preme court has denied an ap- peal from the judgment which, if carried out, is to send them to the electric chair on a framed-up murder charge. Fight Back Pollos. The workers resisted the attacks of + |two hundred police agents, sent by the perfect to scatter their gathering. Re- serves were called out, but it was im- possible to stop the manifestants, whose fury was at fever heat. The Communists met at the work er’s house in the Rue de la Giaage and marched from there to t’s Ameri- can embassy. Thousan2s of workers on the streets, ler aing the purpose of the demorziration, joined the marchers on their way, and by the time the embassy was reached the group hadeassumed the appearance of an army of protest. The demonstration recalled the furi- ors protests of four years ago which the sentence of death pronounced on the two young labor organizers in Am- erica called forth from the workers of nearly every country of Europe. It was these protests, directed in each case to the American embassy, which were largely responsible for the delay in the execution of the sentence on Sacco and Vanzetti. It was the hope of the American courts that if the matter were hused up for a time, the matter were hushed up for a time, the workers would forget the case, alto- gether. Choose Appropriate Day. That the workers of Paris chose Nov. 7, the day of the victorious pro- letarian revolution in Russia, as a fit- ting time to raise the voice of protest against a sentence which amounts to a virtual murder of laboring men by capitalist courts shows that far from having forgotten Sacco and Vanzetti, the proletariat of France considers the case as a matter of international im. portance for class conscious workers. Rail Brotherhood Heads Meet Today to Discuss Labor Board CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 7.—War ren 8. Stone, president of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Hngineers has called a meeting of representatives of railroad brotherhoods which takes place here Saturday morning, Nov. 8, and will discuss the Howell-Barkley bill, the bill which fs almed against the railroad labor board, and which is the first to come up when congress reconvenes. The meeting will open at 10 a. m. in the anditorium of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Stone in conjunction with other re- actionary labor leaders, has taken an aggressive stand against this labor board because it takes out of their jurisdiction the right to bargain with employers and makes every deal sub- ject to the board's approval. if the DAILY had the deal stronger position in carrying out a Communist campaign, A real circulation for our paper would make it possible for us to expose this corruption and place the leadership in the hands of the left wing. This Is our task in Minnesota. You may rest assured that we will do everything possible to bring this home to our membership. STANDARD OIL TRUST KNEW BIG DANGER TO WORKERS FROM POISON NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Instructors in the department of physiology at Columbus university announced to- day that experiments seeking to de- termine toxic qualities of tetra- ethyl lead, now blamed deaths of five employes Standard Oil company at Elizabeth, N. J, have been in progress there for several weeks. The inquiry, it was said, was started at quest of officials of the oll com- pany some time before the accidents occurred. Tetra-ethyl lead Is used line to make it more combustible so that carbon deposits will not be left of automobile in the motors. cylinders POOR CHILDREN WILL GET LESS EDUCATION NOW Those Avs the Proposals for Meeting Deficit The children of the working class will be made to stand the comes from that body in its tion into the little breathing go; 906 in 1924) g0, too. on in 1924-1925. Should all these plans still not net the necessary amount to make up the deficit the public (workers of course) will be called upon to shoulder an ad- ditional tax burden. No mention ~was made in the pro- posal to get after the big holders who have been shown up by the Chicago Teachers’ Federation again and again as being responsible for robbing the school funds of mil- lions of dollars annually. Charge Klansmen Desecrated Church. BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 7.—Gordon Wells and William McCreedy, phyte members of the Ku Klux Klan entered pleas of not guilty today when they were arraigned tenden county court charged with grand larceny in connection ‘with the desecration of St. Mary’s cathedral. The work of drawing a jury was be- gun immediately. William C. Moyer, a Klan Kleagle, who Wells and McCreedy said was their leader, has pleaded guilty to a charge of grand larceny. Hunt Wins in Arizona. PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 7.—With only 45 precincts to be heard from, Gover nor George W. P. Hunt, a liberal dem- ocrat, noted as a “friend of the Workers Party. Hunt ize the copper miners. eee AM very pleased to note the campaign that has been launched to bulld the olroulation of the DAILY WORKER. Minnesota at the present time that it should have, we would be In a great clroulation in C. A. Hathaway, Organizer, District No. 9, Workers Party. ‘ Muooks for the Brick on Page Threa HEAVE IT BACKI) ‘ TO UNLEASH DEATH ON WEST VIRGINIA COAL MINERS the $15,000,000 deficit in the school board treasury, is the information that posals to cram public school educa- lowed it by the crooked tax dodgers. The following cut im the education system has been proposed for Chica- Curtailment in kindergarten work (kindergarten work cost $1,194,- the penny lunches for children of working mothers must be stopped; the dropping of classes for subnormal and special instruction will, save an additional $267,000. Night schools and community centers will And already overcrowded classes will be increased in size. The board assures the teachers that there will be no reduction in wages, but that no new teachers will be taken more than 1,000 votes ahead of his op- ponent. The “W. P.” does not mean known as assisting any organization, even the I. W. W., which would organ- THE DAILY WORKER SAY BROOKHART LEADS IN IOWA BY 1,156 MARGIN Subject to Canvass in State Nov. 24 (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Re- check of the senatorial vote in lowa shows that Senator Brook- hart leads his opponent by 1,156 Johnston, Confessing Failure, Falls Back On the Dear People Again By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. 'ODAY, additional information piles up, showing that other “labor leaders,” following in the wake of the Tam- many Hall trade union officials in New York, are planning to scuttle their “Third Party” political tugboat, that sprang so many leaks on election day. It is William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists, a renegade socialist, however, bea Medien axe: tot: fuel who offers the most peculiar alibi, as the basis for future being subject to canvass by the action, «ee @ state executive council on Nov. In the Washington correspondence of Laurence Todd, the Federated Press representative, this Communist baiter sets forth that he Will not sponsor in the American Federa- tion of Labor convention, at El Paso, this month, any resolu- tion proposing the orgarization of a political party. He charges that is not the function of executives of big labor organizations just now. What they could do and should do was to keep alive the organization In every state that have been established for the reset campaign, in order to be heer for the next emergency. f But this increases to some extent the LaFollette group's balance of power in the next senate. The republican “majority” will be dependably republican only when the interests of the middle class are not threatened, LaFollette and his fol- lowers remain a potentially powerful factor im both houses, even tho some- * what curtailed from their position in a new party is to be created, It must come from the 68th congress. ot from ecutives, is Johnston’s attit The new senate will be composed poco nen ' iia iam ne - of 55 republicans, 40 democrats and Py = * s one farmerlaborite. That gives a pa- This is Johnston, a Fascist in the labor movement, who i ee at rnd pe eine Nk falls back on the “people,” when he has failed in his promises lette group, Bob himself, Brookhart,| | %0 the workers, to solve their ills thru the LaFollette cam- Norris of Nebraska, and Frazier and| paign. Ladd of North Dakota. : Johnston now disclaims any intentions on the part of The “Maverick” Progressives. poe a Pag — down their deorees. This is his confession of bankruptcy. see whet pay eis nae These are the same executives, headed by Johnston as with the LaFollette group, have voted} Chairman of the Conference for Progressive Political Action, and will vote with it in matters that} who barred the delegates of local labor unions, rank and ate vital to the petty bourgecisic.| file delegates, from the C. P. P. A. gatherings because they For example the blind man, Schall,| might represent, too well, the desires of the masses of labor. who defeated the Cowmilker Magnus. This is the Johnston who was allied with Hillquit, the Schall has bolted the republican par-| socialist, and Keating, the democratic politician, editor of ty caucus any time he took the no-| “Labor,” the railroad men’s organ, In the war to bar an tion and even voted for a democrat) Communist influence from driving the C. P. P. A. towards as speaker of the house. independent working class political action. Some More Vaeillating Senators. his is the Johnston who made war on the Communists Other senators who have voted with} [In his own union, the International Association of Machinists, LaFollette and who may be untrust-| upholding the “red-baiting” campaign to expel and suspend worthy so far as the old guard re-} Communists from the union. publicans are concerned are the two This is the Johnston who did not consult the member- from Dakota, Norbeck and McMaster,| . ship of the organization when he inaugurated his drive for Howell of Nebraska, Johnson of Calli- solaborntion with the employers under the infamous “Balti- fornia, Couzons of Michigan, Capper more & Ohio” plan. ot Kotioas aah: Boren of Hisho. This is the Johnston who fought = effort coming PPbigghee 2 oan npg ag badd ot) up from the masses, so valiantly sponsored by the Workers hep tea sole cag.| (Communist) Party, for the building of the class political as well as industrial power of the working class, * for the of the the re- In gaso- brunt of new pro- space al- but not all the time for the big cap- ftalists. To make a showing for the interests of ‘their small business and, rich farmer constituency they are likely to get “revolutionary” enough to play around the Wisconsin fraud. Silent Cal Will Have to Speak Up. Now that the big business and banking interests feel that they have everything hogtied and guaranteed for four years, they are already trying to collect on the good chance afforded them by their unquestioned dictator- ship. They are having Andy Mellon get to work now preparing recom- mendations to cut the income tax on high incomes. This business ie a prettv raw deal to put over right after election, Some of the “progressive” republicans that stand half way between Coolidge and LaFollette are afraid that any such move will stir up Bob and his “pro- gressive” crew, who will make capital of it in calling it the action of a “rich man’s congress.” The trouble is that this reduction on big incomes could be carried out, if only the tax on small incomes of the middle class ‘were cut also. But the politicians say thet these have been cut. down now as far as the treasury will stand, and that if any- thing ts reduced it must be the tax on big incomes, and let the little business man stand the heavier jolt. Cal is thus caught between two fires and so soon after election, too! en @ LIVINGSTON, Bl. — Foster got 18 votes out of 573. LaFollette got 339. a majority of all votes cast. The “illu- ; |ston got them,” The next time the real thing may have a show. eee Foster Beats Davis, BRULEE, Wis—Foster beat demo- erat Davis a way yonder in this town. Foster got 38 votes, Davis 7, LaFol- lette 60, Coolidge 83. . . CARLTON, Minn. — Incomplete re- turns give Foster 77 votes in Carlton county, with Davis next higher with 176. Not so bad. eee St. Louls County Pretty Fair. DULUTH, Minn, — Tabulated re turns for both the city of Duluth and the county precincts show that the Workers Party made a fine showing among the workers, especially outside of Duluth in the Mesaba Iron Range district. While in Duluth, Foster got only 46 votes, in the outside precincts of St. Louis county he polled 273 votes, altho the total vote in the country was about the same as in Duluth. Thie makes 319 in the Says It’s a Shame. We Agree. ROYALTON, Ill—The number of votes cast here for the Workers Party was 12 votes straight and 12 votes mixed. It’s a shame we got only 24 votes out of 700 miners—William Patch, Now this same Johnston, pal of Samuel Gompers, says he will have nothing to offer to the El Paso convention of the American Federation ef Labor. This is true. He has done just about all the harm he can accomplish. Johnston will remain quiescent until the workers and poor farmers re= organize their battalions for future energetic struggles. Johnston can then be depended on to be active once more on the side of the employing class, trying to throw confusion into the ranks of the workers. But it is certain that the workers and poor farmers will be better prepares the next time, to handle misleaders of the type of Johnston, Keating & Co, Under Communist ey chap and leadership they will be better able to organize their strength and give better sup- port to the class fight, not only against the capitalists, but also against the enemies within their own ranks. Communist agitation, education and organization will prepare the workers and exploited farmers for future class victories. GANNON STARTS Fo LES ath eo 6 IT ALL OVER AGAIN Joseph Leiter, ousted from the Party Members Are In- board of trade 18 years ago, today vited to Join applied for reinstatement. Leiter was ousted May 8, 1906, fol. lowing his sensational but unsuo- Tuesday night, November 11, will] cessful attempt to corner the wheat witness the launching of another ex-| market, for non-payment of broker Movement.” orash. The instructor, James P. Cannon, is national educational director of the All claims outstanding against him, variously estimated about the Workers Party of America, and is well known as an interesting and suc- wheat pit as between $3,000,000 and $7,000,000, are now said to have cessful teacher of former study classes. It is expected that many beeh settled, to the satisfaction of the directorate of the board of trade. ‘Workers Party members and readers| © of The DAILY WORKER will enroll] E, Liverpool “Lap Supper” Party. for this class which will be held every Tuesday night at 8 o'clock in the Property neo- in Chit- labor,” is has been for our 7th anniversary of example of the interesting course of a study promised by this class, we quote roughly from the proposed curriculum: Begins by studying the roots of the present Communist movement inside the old socialist party, I. W. W., ete,; treats the reaction of the American working class to the Russian Revo- lution, and the formation of the Com- munist International; the militant left wing of the socialist party; the split, the Comm Party, and the Com- munist Labor Party; driven “under- ground”; out into the open; th Workers Party; the battle in the trade unions; united front tacties; towards the Labor Party; contemporary rad- ical movements. Sympathetic readers of The DAILY WORKER are warmly invited to come to this class and avail themselves of the educational facilities ot the Com- munist movement, The feo is $1.50 for the course, or for those taking other classes only 760, ] BUILDING TRADES WORKERS! gaard, He Must Have Celebrated. Next unday Night and Every Sun ern —) BAST LIVERPOOL 0., Nov, 7.—we|§ are arranging a nice program of music, speeches and a “lap supper” ie Rus- sian Revolution celebration, which Saturday, November 8, 1924 SOCIALISTS GET HEAVY WALLOP IN NEW YORK Norman Thomas Peeved at Needle Trades (Special to the Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 7.— The socialist debacle in this city was overwhelming. The Rev. Norman Thomas, LaFollette candidate for governor on the socialist and LaFollette ticket, aed my 48,137 votes while ightin’ Bob got away with 286,937. Thus it oan seen that the socialists did not gain anything by hanging on to the LaFollette bandwagon but al- most annihilated themselves as a political party. It must be remembered that whereas the Workers Party par- ticipates in election campaigns merely as part of its activity, to the socialist party elections are the entire sum and substance of its reason for existence. Meyer’s Seat Gone, The complete passing of the social. ist party as a political factor in New York is shown in the failure of their candidate in the 12th congressional district which sent Meyer London, twice to congress to poll more than a paltry 2,000 votes out of 20,000 cast. The only victory claimed by the soctal- ists in this efty ts the election of La Guardia, @ republican who .was en- dorsed by the socialist party. Over 6,000 votes were counted for the Workers Party presidential candi- date, William Z, Foster, in the city. The Workers Party did not wage a vote-catching campaign but used the occasion to spread Communist propa- ganda, increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER and build up the party membership. Algy Gets Smali Vote. Among former socialist office hold- ers to be snowed under was Algernon Lee, who fount himself on the wrong side of one thusand, when the votes were counted. Lee was a member of the aldermanic body and voted for the famous victory arch, in honor of the soldiers who died in France to save the Morgan millions. That was about all the soldiers got for their trouble, Opinion as to whether there shall be a third party or not organised is divided in LaFollette coonctis, Mor- ris Hillquit declared the LaFolette vote proved the need for a new politi cal alignment, but did not commit him- self to a new party, except in an ab- stract manner. He did not even hint at the necessity for forming a labor party. What WIIl Sam Do? What action Gompers. may take at the Bl Paso convention of the A. F. of L. is also a matter of conjecture. It is generally conceded that the Tam- many labor leaders at the head of the Central Council gave Gompers’ pres- tige a bad blow when they rescinded their endorsement of LaFollette and supported Davis. The Trades Council has a membership of 700,000 and the number of votes taken out of the La- Follette column by the Tammany leader’s action was @ serious loss to the Wisconsin senator. It is believed that the unions that stood to their original political endorsement were not able to throw more than 100,000 to Fightin’ Bob. Another singular feature of the elec- tion was the desertion of the needle trades’ voted under the control of Sig- man and perhaps Hillman, to Al Smith rather than to the socialist guberna- torial candidate. Thomas ts consider- ably peeved now over this , but when Comrade Cannon made a statement showing the alliance be- tween the yellow socialist unions and Tammany Hall, the New Leader, ed by James Oneal came out with a Sidney Respectable. Sidney Hillman apes Morris All members of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League em- ployed in the bullding trades are re juested to attend a meeting of the Building Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. tomorow morning at 10 a. m., at 722 Blue Island Ave. Important busi- ness will be discussed.—Andrew Over IN, Tenn., Nov, 7.—Senator i | |