The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 10, 1924, Page 2

~~ SOUP KITC! ee om Page Two IENS, BREAD LINES IN TEXTILE CENTER Expect G.0.P. Prosper- _ ity for Fall River, Mass. By ART SHIELDS XPederated Press Staff Correspondent.) FALL RIVER, Mass., ‘Nov. 9. There were bread lines and soup kitchens in Fall River last ‘ winter: bread,.lines and soup kitchens are the prospect again the coming winter in this textile city of 4,000,000 spindles. The industrial depression fell on Fall River fifteen months ago. In other New Hngland cot- ton cities unemployment. aver- "ages fifty per cent. : Suffering le Widespread. Th Fall River the ratio is two thirds. Ta other cot cities the unemployed md destitute got assistance from G@iends and national clubs. In Fall iver the suffering is so widespread tat the city has had to spend more taan hali illion dollars already this Year on poor re Walk thru th Fall River should be standing tomer: Fall River is perhaps the most glar- ing example of republican “prosperi- ty” in the couhtry. It is an old man- ufacturing city, dating back to the be- inning of machine production in this country. Its industry is “protected.” Yet the workers are hungry—in acute distress—and there is no good reason to believe that conditions will improve this winter materially. Wages Less in South. Fall River mills specialize on the @oarser cotton print goods. This is the field affected most by southern competition and Fall River, according- ly, is harder hit than any other New England city by this rivalry. Recent- ly, the Newburyport and Pawtucket mills have gone south and the big American Printing company is about to erect plants in the same region. Hours range from 55 to 60 in the south @md wages are several cents an hour Jess—small as they are in the north. The American Federation of Textile Operatives, a conservative independ- ent union, ran on the craft council basis, has considerable membership in Fall River, also in New Bedford, and several other New Eng- id towns. But, unfortunately for it- gelf, it has no connection with the southern industry. Its Fall River Members are mostly out of work to- @ay. During the 1922 strike this un- fon did not attempt to pull out the Mills in Fall River or its twin city, New Bedford, while the mills across the Rhode Island border were shut down by the United Textile Workers’ Union and the Amalgamated Textile ‘Workers’ Union. But the Fall River find New Bedford unionists did con- tribute thousands of dollars to help the strikers. “Monsignor James R. Cassidy, a prominent Catholic priest, spoke from the pulpit against a proposal of Will- fam L. 8. Brafton, treasurer of the Sagamore Manufacturing company to Jengihen hours and cut wages for the @lleged purpose of meeting southern @ompetition. Cassidy told the people that inefficiency of management is the greatest trouble with the Fall River quills. Opposes Undertakers. “Wo want mill conductors, and not mill undertakers,” said the priest. The Brayton family is one of several in Fall River that have-inherited their mili properties from generations. be- fore. But hereditary ownership and efficiency have not gone hand in hand ‘ft Fall River. Cities for Parochial Schools. The Red International Affiliation concerning the Grady injunctionite faction of the I. follows: Se Ws Workers, the Metal Workers Railroad Workers—at least such ar support Rowan and company, are the whole I. W. W. Other unions are admitted only if they agree in advance to a so-called “plan of action” that would make a complete wreck of the I. W. W. and an absolute farce of class solidatrity. Rowan Acts—the Convention Talks. By shutting out all other industrial unions and I, W. W. members these fine gentlemen have, in fact, expelled them. They have, indeed, expelled the convention. More, they have done so without any fiub-dub about democracy. Without taking any referendum, either! This is using more resolution to split the I. W. W. than the con- vention possessed when it left and leaves the expulsion of the injunction- ites to referendum. Wifile the convention has thus shown a lack of “initiative;”-the in- junctionites have shown no small lead- ership in a vigorous, centralized and .|uncompromising effort to destroy the I. W. W. Let no one fool themselves! Time will show that there now sits in the I. W. W. convention those who will leave it to support Rowan inthe field, just as they have supported him in the convention with fine words about “letting the membership de- cide.” Those who would wreck the I. W. W. are organized. While howling against “politicians” they show them selves possessed of a fair understand- ing of how to maneuver. They were organized long before the convention and long before the ejection from |headquarters. Their fight from the |first has been well planned. * Stool |pigeons who are well supervised have such plans. To wreck the I. W. W. it was only |necessary to organize around some | slogans made popular by demagogues. |“Down with politicians,” or “Take away power from general headquar- ters.” Anything to furnish another enemy to fight than the bosses. Any other enemy but the boss will do. Fight Pollticiaris Instead of Capitalists Members of the I. W. W. Look over the propaganda put out by the men who would. split the I. W. W. Can you find in it any program against capitalism? The Red Inter- national Affiliation Committee has not been able to find one hint of such a struggle. The fight. against the bosses is given up. The fight against the blacklist, ‘the struggle for more wages and shorter hours, ghe elemental and immeiate |needs as well as the revolutfnary goal of capitalist overthrowal is deftly put aside. All the membership hears from the injunctionites is “Abolish the general headquarters!” “Abolish the per capita payments “Tear down all centralized class organiza- tion!” “Down with politicians!” and |“Out with the Communists!” Sucha program pleases the employing class. The bosses are not troubled with strikes while the I. W. W. can be kept busy fighting Communists. Stool pigeons ask no more. The injunctionites are organized. They act. Their field workers, like Dunsmore of 310, are aiding Rowan just as. are those who fight on the floor of the convention. The columns of the Industrial Worker were pro- vided for long ago, as explained by P. J. Welinder at the convention, It helps Rowan split the I. W. W. On the same day the convention leaves Rowan’s expulsion to referen- dum, the Industrial Worker edition containing propaganda for such action is distributed thruout the country. And in’ not one line of any issue has DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 9.~The 80|the editor written one word of con- called Ment to the state constitution was anti-parochial school amend-|demnation of the injunction. In the face of terrible persecution by wisisely defeated, returns compiled] capitalism of I. W. W. members and lay showed. The vote stood 329,100] of workers generally, what is the pro- for it; 628,896 against it. The larger| gram of revolutionary struggle advo- ities snowed it under and even those| cated by the} Nothing! #0 by small) carries is ridiculous advertisements of @ommunities which were for measure were only Margins. Workers Pai © farmers than the extension F fulness and ore 1 do not know of a single the party membership the Industrial Worker? All the Industrial Worker ten-cent packages of cigarets as a Stem HE farmers of North and South Dakota like the DAILY WORKER very much, ‘Those who get the paper and read It invariably become boosters for the of th Fraternally yours, Publsthed in a news article November 5. icy within our party that will do more to In- vance the cause of Communism among the roulation of the DAILY WORKER. Too much attention cannot be paid to this matter, Those members, in this district, who make it a polnt to read the DAILY », WORKER carefully, are the best workers for the party, idacity of the paper, and become great boosters for it, With DAILY WORKER subs we can bulld the brick wall of Communism, educationally and organizationally. They admire the truth- Committee today issued a statement call for a split in the I. W. W. issued by the Rowan-Bowerman- W. W. which the DAILY WORKER The R. L A. C. statement is as On October 27, 1924, the injunctionites, Rowan, Ryan, Trotter, Daly, Buchwald, Raddock, Bowerman and John Grady, threw aside all pretense and openly called for a split in the I. They have, in their, statement of that date, claimed that they are the They assert that the Lumber Workers, the General Construction an -——————————— Ww. W. fake “economic” substitute for or- zanization at the point of production, propaganda open or covert for a split in the I. W. W. and continued and stupid attacks on the Red Interna- tional of Labor Unions and upon “poli- ticians.” Nelghbors to the Police. These things are, we repeat, the work of stool pigeons. Bowerman works with the police to ratiroad Ar- thur Linn. Raddock is. revealed as serving in the military intelligence service of the government. But these are not alone in infamy. It appears to be no accident that the injunctionite headquarters at 186 North La Salle street, Chicago, is next door to a po- lice station and across the street from the detective bureau. There are thousands of other offices to rent in Chicago. The man who selected this head- quarters was a railroad detective. This much was told the members of this committee and to members of the Central Executive committee of the Workers Party by Joe Carroll Carroll asserted he had data in detail and offered to furnish it. However, on October 10 Carroll appeared and asserted before witnesses that altho he possessed this data, he would not turn it over. % At present, Carroll indirectly de fends the injunctionites and adds to their propaganda by veiled attacks on the Communists. The Federated Press is victimized by Carroll in being made to state the absurdity that convention delegates have no choice in their voting and that it ‘was a necessity for expultions of the injunctionites to go to referendum. This railroad detec- tive, is responsible for the publication by the I. W. W. of two books glorify- ing counter-revolution against Soviet Russia. Ungag the Press! Both the editor of the Industrial Worker and the editor of the Indus- trial Solidarity freely acknowledge that because of the censorship against discussions of policy in their papers fully 90 per cent of the members are uninformed of the facts of this crisis or any other matter of policy. This being so, a referendum is a deceit and those invoking it sheer hypocrites. Not until the IL W. W. press is un- gaged will referendums be ‘Worth while. Members of the I. W. W.! The Red Internationalist and Communists are not at all neutral. We are partisan to those workers in the I. W. W. who wish both to prevent a split and bring the L W. W. into action as a revolu- tionary instrument for the immediate struggle in wage wars and the final overthrow of capitalism. We are sworn enemies of all who would cease the struggle against capital and divert all energy to attacks on other work- ers’ organizations. Revolutionary education must accompany job or- ganization. There must be no separa- tion. To accomplish this we invite all sincere revolutionary workers to or. ganize themselves into a left wing and hammer out a figh.ing program. Only in this way can the life of the L W. W. be saved from the split now under way. Only in this way can 1ev- olutionary principies be made a part of actual struggle. Only in this way can all disruption and deviation be defeated. ‘And when revolutionary unionists organize there is but one center to which they may look for fighting cooperation ‘and assistance— the Red International of Labor Unions. Defeat the splitters! Organize for unity and revolution! Red International Affiliation Com- mittee. - niet, Soviet Representative in Poland. MOSCOW, Nov. 9. — Mr, Voykotf, chairman of the Soviet delegation up- on the Soviet-Polish Re-evacuation Commission, has been newly appointed Plenipotentiary representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Poland, THE DAILY WORKER RED INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATION COMMITTEE ISSUES STATEMENT OPPOSING SPLITTERS IN I. W. W. OFFICIALS AID WHITEWASH OF BIG RAILROAD Prosecutors Make Joke of Their Own Laws The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad company was aided by the city officials and the state’s attorney In its at- tempt to win release from all blame in the trolley-train wreck which killed ten people a week ago. Assistant Corporation Coun- sel C. M. Doty and First Assist- ant State’s Attorney Charles Gorman cleared the way for the release of the railroad by testi- mony that. the ordinances vio- lated were impossible to comply with. Albert Does Fade Out. “The ordinance passed in 1893 which requires all railroads to ele vate their tracks over grade crossings is not regarded seriously because of its impracticability,” Gorman told the jury. Alderman Arthur Albert, who be- came quite excited on the first day of the inquest “protecting the interests of the public” by demanding that the railroad be held responsible, has not been in evidence since, having evi- dently been surpressed by higher-up politicians. Former Governor Edward Dunne made it his task to bring to light all the numerous ordinances violated by the railroad, which was immediately followed up by the city engineer and state’s attorney who testify that these ordinances are “impossible to live up to.” C. D. Hill, engineer for the board of local improvements of the city of Chicago, who has charge of all track elevations carried on in the city, told the jury of fat capitalists that it would be impossible to elevate the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St..Paul railroad on the grade crossings at Kingsbury St. and North Ave., where the tragedy occurred, without elevat- ing the whole switching line along the river. This, according to Hill, “would be impossible.” He apparently meant that the railroad could not be induced to carry out this safety construction because it would eat into their pro- fits. Hill revealed that “the city ts going to the expense of several million dollars to go over the railroad tracks where they cross Ogden Ave.” Doty Aids C. M. & St. P, Assistant Corporation Counsel ¢. M. Doty, also gave testimony to aid the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- road. He told the jury, “I have never seen an ordinance requiring the eleva- tion of tracks except the general or- dinance refered to.” Gorman produc- ed Doty as a witness. The state's at- torney’s men and the corporation counsel evidently went thru the en- tire history of city laws, for Doty. pro- duced an ordinance passed June 12, 1872, allowing the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul’s predecessor, the Chicago & Pacific railroad, to lay tracks along Kingsbury St. : W. F. Ingraham, towerman, Brahe’s superior, testified that _Brahe’s salary is $60.92 per month, and that some of the towermen are paid as low as $50.00 per month. He admitted that it was Practically impossible to get good men to work as towermen at these wages. Ingraham admitted that the lanterns used by the Chicago, Milwan- kee & St. Paul railroad did not comply with the ordinance requiring a bril- Mant and conspicuous light on the rear of a car when backing. He nad never heard of the ordinance, ; Admitted Violation of Laws. “Colonel” C. §. Whiting, superin- tendent of the Chicago terminal of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- roads, admitted that he was violating the ordinances prohibiting the switch- ing of trains more than 20 cars or 700 feet long. Whiting said he had never heard of these ordinances. When ask- ed why. he did not break the train causing the accident, which was 58 cars long, he said, “It would have in- terfered with our work.” C. H. Evenson, superintendent of transportation for the Chicago trac- tion lines, shed some interesting light on the activities of “spotters” and se- cret service men in spying on the traction employes. He told how hard it is to get a job with tho traction company, which pays notoriously Jow ‘wages. men applying for employment A, B, and C. We investigate the history and ‘and then call those we want for ex. amination,” said Evenson. mental and physical examination, they pass that we send them to thi line division head for instructions, There old expefienced motormen and conductors train the new men for two division questioning and if he are sent to my office, of my assistants. They are then placed on the list, Then and not until “We grade the applications of references of those graded A and B ‘We give the applicants a thoro It weoks.” They are then sent to the superintendent for further tisfled, they The applicant is then questioned either by me or one By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ‘ODAY, Victor L. Berger, socialist boss of Milwaukee, has recovered sufficiently.to give his views of the election. Not the national election, the state, or the Milwaukee county elections, But the immediate political misfortunes of Berger, himself, in “the Fifth Wisconsin District.” * * * * Berger claims his re-election. The police returns reveal he is 396 ahead on the final showing.’ But the Coolidge- LaFollette politicians have not given up. They ate still trying to count him out. That is Berger’s bitter pill. And up to the time of going to press he had not been able to swal- low it. : ’ * * * * es Berger now admits that when the socialists went into the alliance with LaFollette it was nothing more nor less than a political trade. The socialists were to aid LaFollette. Then the LaFollette strength was to go to the socialists. Berger himself admits, over his signature, that “Victor Berger was entitled to the full LaFollette vote.” * * * * But capitalist politics are not played that way. Berger found that LaFollette “leaders” in Milwaukee advertised in the newspapers, calling on the voters to put their crosses in the G. O. P. circle, and to “vote ‘er straight.”. That meant knifing the socialists. Berger's lament is as follows: “While the socialists of Milwaukee (and of the state of Wisconsin for that matter) have loyally supported Robert M. Lia- Follette with their organization, theit press and their money— while the socialists have concentrated all their efforts in behalf of LaFollette, just as intensely as they did in the past for Eugene V. Debs for that matter—some petty LaFollette leaders in Mil- waukee—and most of these leaders are ‘small bore’—obviously did not reciprocate with the socialists. We do not blame La- Follette personally for this.” * * e ° ’ And why not blame LaFollette as well as his petty henchmen! LaFollette, as much as his least consequential ward heeler, was a party to the “deal” with the socialists. The big fact is, however, that LaFollette and his political machine remained loyal to the class they represent—the small business class. Berger betrayed his socialist principles, yellow as they are, when he entered into a class collaboration deal with LaFollette. Berger turned traitor to the work- ers and exploited farmers. Then, in order to make the “deal” go over, he thought LaFollette would be as big a traitor as he. LaFollette; however, remained loyal to 9 class inter- ests, as did his followers. They knifed the socialist candi- dates for the straight republican on os . * Berger's little bit of class collaboration in politics failed, just as all efforts to link the interests of labor with those of capitalism must react against the working class. , LaFollette votes did not go over to the socialists. In- stead,asBerger admits over his own signature, “Some 10,000 voters changed from the socialist ticket to the republican ticket apparently in fear that the tremendous last minute campaign in behalf of the ‘yellow paint’ Lueck—democratic ber Coolidge candidate for the governorship—would elect im.” Thus the socialists helped elect the LaFollette candidate, Blaine, whom the socialists, especially Berger’s Milwaukee Leader, had bitterly fought in the primaries, denouncing him as an enemy of the workers and farmers. Berger's class collaboration with LaFollette’s republican per resulted in a masses of socialist voters, who had roken with the capitalist political parties, going back into the Wall Street political fold. . * ° In his alliance with LaFollette, Berger carried out a little National Civic Federation stunt all his own. Berger often denounced Gompers and other “labor lieutenants” of the capitalist class for banquetting under Civic Federation auspices with the biggest capitalists, oni age | this would blunt the edge of the working class struggle. But the La- Follette-Berger alliance in Wisconsin has brought even — confusion into the ranks of labor in that state. hey have been led to accept LaFollette and his nostrums as something “just as good,” or even better, than indepen- dent political action. - . ° J These Berger policies, the policies of the socialists, in the litical struggle, are no different than any other class col- aboration policy. They smell of the same surrender to the enemies of labor that one finds under the so-called “B. & O.” Plan, in the industrial field, by which the railroad workers are called upon to surrender the interests of their class struggle for power to the interests of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, a capitalist institution, The railroad corporation, privately owned, gains, while the workers lose, : The same condition arises in the arbitration of labor disputes. The arbitration board is always packed with the a olders of the capitalist system, who are on the opposite side from the class poner of the workers, and decisions hostile to labor resu There is the classic example in the Railroad Labor Board, where the representatives of the workers collaborate with the spokesmen of the railroads and “the public.” But the representatives of “the public,” just as Li — as the spokesman of “the people,” are always to be ound, in any crisis, championing the interests of the cap- italists, not the Interests ° the orkers. * Four millions of workers and farmers voted for LaFol- lette. Berger's Milwaukee Leader claims that the same number of votes could have been cast for E V. Debs, if Debs had received as much publicity as LaFollette., But Debs and Berger helped deliver those votes in support of LaFollette, a believer in capitalism. : It is now the task of the Workers (Communist) Party to win those four million of workers and farmers for the class war agsinet capitalism; for the overthrow of the Coolidge- Davis-LaFollette-Berger social system. We Must Win These Four | Million Voters for Our SEEKS WAGES TO Struggle for “All Power” ‘ollette, who . Monday, November 10, 1924 AUSTRIAN LABOR FACE FOOD COST German Workers Plan to Join Big Walkout (Continued from Page 1.) Austrian workers and they are be- ginning to resist. Dawes Plan Strikes Reef. While the Austrian railroads are completely tied up and even the postal, telegraph and telephone work- ers are talking strike, the left wing of the German railway unions is forcing the social-democratic union officers to consider a general strike in Germany at a meeting to be held today. The “huge success” of the Dawes plan in “balancing the budget” is now revealed as the capitalist side of it. The social-democrat government is permitting business to make 60 to 80 per cent of profit, while wages are either reduced or remain stationary and the price of bread and other necessaries are climbing higher and higher. On the German railroads, the other big complaint is the slashing dismis- sals of workers. This was promised in the Dawes plan and the dictator sent from America, Owen D. Young, fired tens of thousands of workers and is still “weedin&” them out. Yellow Socialists Can’t Deliver, Just as in Austria, the social-dem- ocrats of Germany have created the illusion that all would be well if cap- italist “reconstruction” was accepted and all talk of “Bolshevism” sup- pressed. The party of Ebert and Noske began a campaign under the slogan of “cheaper bread.” But the price is going up instead of down. This illusion befng exposed to the workers, and their foreign dictators giving apt illustration of capitalist “reconstruc- tion,” the German workers, particular- ly the railway workers, now working for a private corporation into which the Dawes plan ordered the govern- ment lines be merged, are ripe for strike. Strike Electrifies German Labor. German workers are reported as be- ing greatly strirred at the news that Austrian railroads are shut down. The strike is carried out with military discipline. Not a train has moved, . even the government failing to get — a train it begged for to take govern- ment officials to the capital. The strike brings to a head the crisis that has long threatened to ex- plode under the smug hypocrisy of the League of Nations pretense that its program was “rehabilitaing” Austria. R League of Nations Spfit. In the face of the general strike, news from all quarters indicate the intention of Fascist Italy to invade Austria with armed force to keep the traffic lines open upon which Italian industry depends for coal, coke and continental grains. This is supposed to be in agreement with Czecho- Slovakia to invade from the north to keep rail lines open for its needed constant communication with Italy and the seaboard. ; However, invasion by Italy and Oxecho-Slovakia would flatly violate the provisions of the League of Na- tions, ‘not only because Austria is a so-called “independent” nation against which no armed invasion may be launched unless approved by the league council, but the invaded na tion being under the dictatorship of the league invasion of it by armed forceis practically making war upon the League of Nations by Italy and Czecho-Slovakia who are both mem- bers of the league! League Warns Its Members. Herr Zimmerman, dictator of Aus- tries are suffering, no one .} What will happen, Settlement strike depends upon the action of a new cabinet to take the fallen government of Seipel, the Cath- olic socialist pacifist, PHILADELPHIA. HOODLUMS BEAT UP COMMUNIST (Special to the Daily Worker) . Alfred Knatson, Dietriet Organizer, Workers Party. then bd they start drawing thelr sal- After the traction employes get a job, Evenson stated, they are con- . | stantly watched by supervisors, spot- This can only be done by enlisting these millions in the ht against the class collaboration policies of the enemies of the workers, both within and without the organized labor movement.* These millions eae be won for the Communist