The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1924, Page 1

F ie THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS" GOVERNMENT Wa Il. No. 200. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. FASCIST! PLAN Austrian Rail Strike . AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. CCORDING to elements, that have again blocked the Mephistophelian designs of the Soviet government, the latest outrage committed Dgainst decency by the Bolshevik authorities ig to organize semi-nude societies, in order to overcome the shortage of ciothing. Our information comes by way of Teheran, Persia, and was pub- lished: in the Chicago Tribune. This means that it is as true as the auto- biography of Baron’ Munchausen or the diary of William J. Burns. , es UT what is funny is good whether it is true or not. The workers have brains, and using them is good mental exercise. There is no better for of mental gymnastics than look- ing for a particle of truth in the columns of the capitalist press in general and in the Chicago Tribune in particular. The Teheran corres- pondent, tells us that the Russians are wearing skins to save the cloth- ing bill. He did not say whether the new wearing apparel was made out of the hide of the mensheviki or the Georgian “patriots” who were recent- ly slaughtered in big heaps by the cr-0-01 Cheke. But we venture to say, if the skins originally adorned other and more respectable animals, that the new style will not prove any more economical tham the old. Un- fortunately tigers and hyenas are not as plentiful as mensheviks. * 2. * beastly trick of the Bolshe- viks was nipped in the bud, themselves all dressed up to go, except near the furnace. But a picture of a Red Army regiment in the capitalist press a few days ago, showed a set of fellows neither shirtless not coatless, and evi- dently anxious to skin the capitalist class on general principle. It’s not @ bad story at that. see ENERAL Ludendorff, has a scrap with Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, ‘The former wants the Kaiser restored to the Hohenzollern throne. The latter does not, desiring the seat himself. Unless William the Last sits on it, Ludendorff intends that it shall be covered with tacks. Prince Rupprecht insists’ that he will plant his posterior on it, even if he had to decorate that part of his anatomy ‘with a cast iron basin. So the battle rages. eee JUPPRECHT suggests that Luden- dort has a brain’ which competes in clarity with a kettle of mush. The general reports that the prince’s word of honor would turn a grave robber green with envy. Even kings can be abusive. “My word is as good as a king's,” declares Ludendorff. Rupp- recht smiled. Perhaps he thot the word of honor of a king is as worth- less as that of the man who promised to produce some steam heat in the editorial office of the DAILY WORKER. The radiator is there alright but it is too independent, Its like a Communist who does not be- long to the. Workers Party. It is | comet with nothing. If it stays i same condition much longer, Mable to freeze to death, but not the editors turn into icebergs. Kooper kool with Koolidge seems to have been taken seriously. . * ° EB sudden illness of ‘Senator Bo« rah is causing considerable spe- culation in Washington. Shortly after it was announced that he was slated for the important of chairman of the te foreign relations committee was suddenly taken ill. His stom- was blamed, but perhaps his food guilty. Doctors usually. make poor stomach the goat, But it is fay more sinned against than sin- Borah is known to be a strong ite of recognition of Soviet Rus- (Continued on page 3) Find Girl's Decapitated Body. “The decapitated body of a fifteen year old girl, the head lying beside the body, was found today by work- men in a scrapheap in the rear of the Tron ‘eS dae company, Hast ra [DIPLOMATS OF LEAGUE FEARFUL OF BIG WALKOUT Seipel Asks Dictator- ship to Crush Labor (Special to the Daily Worker) GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 10.—The Austrian — railroad strike, threatening to spread any hour to all of Germany be- sides, has the _ frock-coated diplomats of the league bf na- tions worried. Tied Up Tightly. Airplanes and motor trucks are being pressed into service to move food and mails, but can only make a, scratch. Country districts naturally suffer least, having food supplies. But in the c.ties the situation is becoming critical. Capitalists are afraid that the neces- sary sequence of a general strike— uprisings of hungry masses—will give the workers the idea of revolutionary struggle for power. League In a Fix. The league of nations is an em- barrassing and unpleasant situation. Its le plans for capitalist “recon- struc! are upset by a lot of work- ingmen, If they give in to the strikers and make some decent concessions Bi rf they ‘aon't do this Italy and Czecho-Slovakia—both mem- bers of the league—threaten to violate its discipline and ‘treaty agreements by invading Austria to keep a route open for their necessary commerce. It must be understgod that the Aus- trian strike ties up these other two nations as well. Phe cathiols giailogiiée Boiset, Pho resigned, asserts that if he is given authority by parliament—which meets today—to crush the -strikers with troops and white guard terror, he will for the league of nations. GOMPERS' WN. Y. MACHINE 0. K’S AID TO DAVIS (Special to the Daily Worker) | NEW YORK CITY, No¥. 10.— At the first after-the-election meeting of the New York Cen- tral Trades and Labor Council, the action of the executive of- ficers in indorsing Davis, Mor- lawyer, in spite of the 's previous indorsement of LaFollette, was approved. This utter disregard of the wishes of the body was heartily indorsed by an uncommonly fine collection of gangsters and thugs, who had been procured for the occasion. No Socialist Protest. A notable feature of the meeting was the complete failure of the social- ist delegates to make any defense of their standard bearers, LaFollette and Thomas. Among those absent were Feinstone, well-known socialist, sup- porter of LaFollette and delegate from the United Hebrew Trades. Criticism of the action of the officers was led mainly by Delegate Lefkowitz, of the Teachers’ Union, who, as usual, was doing the dirty work that the so- clalist party did not have the covrage enough to do itself. The chief pastime of the meeting seemed to be whacking the remains of the socialist party. Calls Socialist Party Dead. In refuting the charge that he was a politieal office holder in the pay of Tammany Hall, Sullivan claimed that he had only accepted his present lu- crative position with the city admin- istration, after many months of plead- ing on the part of city officials. He defended his indorsement of Davis, mainly on the basis of its neces- (Continued on Page 5.) take back the job of running Austria | a: EXCLUSIVE RICH JUST CAN'T BE BOTHERED BY VULGAR SURROUNDINGS NEW YORK—Legal representa. tives of the Rockefellers, of J. Pier- pont Morgan, and of other wealthy New York residents argued in pub- ‘lie hearing, at the city -hall before borough president Julius Miller, against the extension of manufactur- ing districts in the exclusive Park region. The multi-millionaire absen- tee residents of the red and gray stone palaces of Fifth and Park ave- nues do not want garment and fur manufacturers to bring their shops and workers into the hitherto exclus- ive residence and retail section of Manhattan. Private detectives and guards now employed by these wealthy residents would not be able to handle the increased crowds on the sidewalks, it is unofficially announced, and increased trucking in the neighborhood would cer tainly be annoying whenever the rich families were staying at these particular homes. 'YOUNG WORKERS IN DRIVE ON MAIL ORDER HOUSES Distribute L Leaflets at The drive on the mail order houses conducted by the Young Workers League of Chicago has met with initial success on the very first day. More than thirty members of the Y. W. L., with the aid of several members of the Junior Section, were at the gates of the giant plant of Sears, Roe- buck & Co. and at Phillipsborn, yesterday morning and after- ae es distributing 10,000 leaflets nnouncing the campaign and the expose of the dreadful con- ditions of the mail order houses which will be featured in the special mail order house edition of the “Young Worker.” Young Workers Show Intérest. Many of the young workers greeted this campaign as a signal for a fight against the bosses and showed a will to help in this fight which has been initiated by the Young Workers League of Chicago. An encouraging sign in the campaign was the fact that most of the young workers kept the leaflet which was given to them. For this campaign 15,000 copies of the Special Mail Order House edition of the Young Worker have been printed. Compared with the number of young workers in the mail order industry in Chicago the sales of this edition are expected to be far below the demand. Starting with Big Push. Eyery effort of the city organiza- tion of the Young Workers League will be made to get definite results out of this campaign. With the vim and vigor with which the membership of the league has responded there is no question but that the Young Workers League will be knqwn to every young worker in the mail order industry in Chicago. It is expected that this campaign will mean the or- ganization of shop nuclei in every house of the industry in Chicago. The following is the program for to- night and tomorrow: Sears, Roebuck & Co. Tuesday at 4:40 p. m. Wednesday at 7:30 a. m, and Wednesday at 4:30 Pp. m. Volunteers to report at Arth- ington (900 8.) and Kedzie (3200 W.) The Young Worker will be sold and names and addresses of interested young workers collected, Phillipsborn’s, Tuesday and Wednesday at 4:30 p. m, Volunteers report at Harrison (600 S.) and Paulina (1700 W.) to sell Young Workers and collect names and addresses of interested young work- ors. In connection with the above sched- ule members of the Working Ares Branch No, 2 and No. 3 are to report at Phillipsborn’s and members oj Branches No, 4, No. 6 and No. 6 at Sears, Roebuck & Company. 4 ! TUESDAY, NOV (Special to Daily Worker) WARREN, ©, Nov. 10.—Re- turns from the election now going on in the Amalgamated Association of ‘Iron, Steel and Tin Workers indicate that for the first time in many years the reactionary leaders up for re- election are finding stiff oppo- sition in the Shape of a well organized pregmeeive organiza- tion. For many joes the fate of the Amalgamated Association BER 11, 1924 has beer? in the hands of such reactionary fakers as Mike Tighe Walter Larkin. “Leaders Betray Membership. Lodges have deserted the A. A. of IS. & T. W. because these reaction- ary labor takers haye signed scales fastening upon the membership obli- gations they could not and would not fulfill. From a one-time mighty labor or- ganization capable of carrying into action the wishes of thousands of steel, tin and ‘kers, the pres- sequence it, has to exist upon the crumbs the masters flung its way. During the past few years thousands of its members have stood upon the firing line demanding their rights as workers only to find that M. FP. Tighe & Co. viewed the conflict form afar |” enturing into the battle zone only ionge enuf to inform the strikers to return to work. Th® campaign of M. F. Tighe & Co. to return ‘themselves back to office hasbeen carried on with all the ferver and despair of labor fakers in- tent upon fastening upon the backs of the workers their pet notions of hand- shaking with the steel barons. The progressive landslide indicates that a new dawn is breaking for the | steel workers and from the rank and file new voices and «stronger hands backed with a sincere desire to serve the down-trodden steel workers is ris- ing up and paving the way for a mighty organization of steel, tin and iron workers. The present struggle in the A. A. conclusively proves that the correct place for the Communists is in the unfon of their trade. Steel and iron workers, and all others who have been holding back from joining the A. A. of I. 8. & T. W, should at once join hands with the progressives, by re- maining outside , they are aiding M. F. Tighe & Co. to continue in the saddle, Weddell Gets Big Vote. Out of 14 lodges, M. F. Tigne re- ceived 728 votes while the progressive (Continued on page 3) REFUSE ADMISSION T0 DAILY WORKER 10 FETE TO AVIATORS A fat, y major blocked the door of the itorium Theatre, where two around-the-world aviators were be- ing feted, Sunday night and refused admission to the DAILY WORKER reporter. “There aren't any speeches and the press has been taken care of anyway,” the major told the DAILY WORKER reporter, after shying at the word “worker.” The major meant ‘the capitalist press, which is giving colamns of space to the Army and Navy Club and to the militarist propaganda now being centered around the aviators. The DAILY WORKER reforter persisted, but was denied admis- sion on the ground that “this is just a society event under the auspices of the Army and Navy Club to welcome Lowell Smith and Leslie Arnold, a couple of good fel- lows.” All the capitalist newspapers in the city were allowed to view the military demonstration. tia They Died LL men must die. It is not strange to human experience that some men are killed by other men This is not strange or fearful to Communist workers. But today Communists as well as all workers commemorate the death of four men who died for labor. * 8 A building of gray stone on North Dearborn street, Chicago, is passed daily by thousands who do not know the terror behind its walls. It is the Cook—County jail. To those who know, the very sight of the build- ing makes one shudder, then flush with deep anger and hatred of the class which thirty-five years ago murdered by legal form Albert R. Parsons, August Spies, George En- gel—and which was cheated by the self murder of Louis Lingg before they could force him into the noose with which they hanged his three comrades. Force and terror are the founda- tions of capitalism. To those who have been in the Cook County jail when men are hanged; to those who have been locked in the same cells and shuffled endlessly around the same dingy bull-pen hung with the dirt and cobwebs of decades, where Parsons, Spies and Engels were first caged and then hung in 1887, it does not seem so long distant. The ter- ror exercised by the dictatorship of the capitalist, class seems a more Yvitig, thrédtening thing: ~ it fills one: with rage and impatience that men and women of the workers bear with this monster, this capitalist terror especially as they need not bear it. see HAT-is the story of those who were hung on November 11, 1887? First, they were leaders of the workers. Parsons was long the head of the first central labor body in Chicago. They were all union men and believed in a system of so- ciety which they called “anarchy” but which we know as the goal of the Communist movement, and call Communism. In what situation did they come to think these thoughts? The civil war had left the manufacturers of the north the victors alike over the southern slaveholders and the wage slaves of the North who had borne arms against them. Ascending capi- talism knew no bounds to its greed and ruthlessness. Unions were crushed into secrecy. Factories claimed the last ounce of human en- ergy from the workers. Ten hours, twelve hours, fourteen hours were demanded from men who had sprung to, arms to “free the slaves!” The men, the women and the chil- drn of labor were utterly at the mercy of an unchecked, swaggering capitalism. The long hours of those who worked for little pay was nat- urally complemented by the hun- dreds of thousands of unemployed who tramped the streets, begging and in rags, In the working class districts of Chicago one had to pick one’s steps along the sidewalks where slept thousands of homeless, hungry men. a NDER such conditions a conven- tion of unions was held in 1885 and a decision adopted that the long hours of labor must be short- ened and a call sent forth to the effect that on May 1, 1886, the work- ers should begin to enforce the eight-hour day and strike in case it was refused or they were penalized, Parson, Spies and the rest of the revolutionary workers of Chicago took the lead. The Central Labor Council of Chicago, which would look with loathing upon the leader- Published Daiiy except Sunday by bravia! Chadiytchrmn tomate co., By HARRISON GEORCE. 1113. W. Washington Blvd., for Labor ship of Chicago labor today, heart- fly supported these men in their militant agitation for the eight-hour day on May 1, 1886. The whole na- tion of labor rallied to the call, and the workers poured into the unions. On May 1, 1886, thousands upon thousands of workers were granted the eight-hour day. Other and larger capitalist bosses chose to fight Strikes broke out everywhere at once. The McCormick Reaper company employes, on strike, held a meeting. Police attacked it with- out warning and fired into the crowd, THE DAILY WORKER killing many workers. August Spies was thé speaker. A great protest meeting was called for the next day at the Haymarket. * 6° 8 THOUSANDS gathered to hear the revolutionary leaders of Chi- cago’s militant labor movement speak. Again the police appeared with drawn clubs and guns. They were beginning to beat and shoot again, when someone—never dis- covered—threw a bomb into their midst, -killing several. That was the excuse for breaking the strikes for the eight-hour day. The capitalist dictatorship began a@ period of open white terror. “To the scaffold” was the cry from every bourgeois throat. What mattered it that no one knew who had thrown the bomb? What matter that every- oné) knew that the police had shot ~and beaten-avorkers without mercy before they received this resistance? What matter that it was clear that Parson, Spies, Engel and Lingg were elsewhere or engaged in their regu- lar affairs? Capitalism called for blood. Parsons, feeling innocent, even surrendered.. A farcial trial was held. The “fair and impartial” judi- cial farce gone solemnly thru as tho it made any difference as to evi- dence, Albert R. Parsons, August Spies, George Engel and Louis Lingg were sentenced to be hung on November 11, 1887. The white ter- ror of the capitalist dictatorship car- ried out its murderous will. se 6 'HESE men died for labor. Let us, then, remember them. But not only remember, but avow ourselves to carry on the struggle until the capitalist dictatorship is ended. Let us vow to carry forward the cause for which they died! Let us go onward with the Communist International! ET US ANSWER COOL- IDGE’S ANTI-RED WEEK BY ADDING 2,000 NEW MEMBERS TO THE WORK- ERS PARTY. Price 3 Cents Chicago,, Ill, CHURCHILL IS MUSSOLINI OF GREAT BRITAIN At Least He Is Ready for Benito’s Mantle fy (Special to the Dally Worker) ~ LONDON, Nov. 10.—The Brit-! ish Fascisti to the number of several thousand marched from the provinces into London yes-! terday and held a monster mas¢ meeting in Trafalgar Square. The illusion that Fascisnt would not find a fertile soil in “law-abiding” ‘England, was shattered as General R. B. D. Blakeney, active head of the British Fascisti, addressed the mob of blackshirts, using the same kind of language that Mussolini used in Italy before his march on Rome. The defeat of the MacDonald gov- ernment and the lackadaisacal policy of the official trade union movement, has given the fascisti leaders the en- couragement they were looking for, backed by the Morning Post and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill who is quite willing to be- come the Mussolini of England, the fascisti are now expected to make great headway in the near future. Following Musso’s Example. They are following closely the po- licy originally advanced by the Italian dictator coupled with ‘the anti-foreignism of the Ku Klux Klan of A morrow the fascisti plan London during the armistice O gather in cere- monies, in which the king will partic” ipate. The blackshirts intend to prevent any labor or radical demon- strations. They put loyalty to the king as oné of the foremost planks in their platform. Given Free Reign. While the fascisti are armed, of- ficered, equipped with motor lorries, chemical sections, and are ready for active service, the government gives them complete freedom of action. Even under the MacDonald regime, while Communists were jailed for making speeches against capitalism, their homes raided and headquarters entered illegally by Scotland Yard detectives, the positively illegal acts of the fascisti were ignored. Those who fondly imagined that the social revolution would come in Eng- land thru a majority in the house of commons are getting disillusioned. SEIZE LAND OF PRESIDENT-ELECT CALLES IN MEXICO AND TURN IT OVER TO PEONS UNDER LAND LAW MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10.—President-elect Calles returned to the capital from his European visit today to learn that the agrarian commission had seized a large part of his ranch to be turned over to peons. While expropriating part of the landed property of the president-elect, the commission took a large slice of the ranch owned by Foreign Minister Saenz, who objected to the seizure. This is the first application of its drastic constitutional amendment to the holding of high government of- ficials, All available federal troops have been sent into southern Vera Cruz to stamp out the last vestiges of rebel- lion before Calles is inaugurated on the first of December. With the ex- ception of a small area in southern Vera Cruz, where lawless bands are active, the whole republic is under control of the federal government. Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. “PHEUMONIA PLAGUE” LATEST SCOURGE IN WILLIAMSON GOUNTY SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Nov. 10.— Investigation of a reported “Pneu- monia Plague” in Williamson County has been started by the State De- partment of Public Mealth, depart- ment officials anounced today. A report of the department was at work in the county, they reported. Until laboratory tests have been made they said it will be imposible to tell the exact character of the sickness, which has caused two deathes, Lenin--The Great Strategist of the Glass War! HE above is the name of a series of impressions of |i Nikolai Lenin, leader of the first successful proletarian revolu- tion, written by A. Losovsky, secretar’ | of the Red Interna- eg of Labor Unions. These impressions, translated by Alex- rong Bittelman and published 1 snag eset form ys the Trade on Educational League, will ba toa Fe in the DAILY WORKER, starting in Wednesday's issue. Not only Communists, but all workers should take advantage of this opportunity to become more intimate with the life of Lenin, the founder and rec nized leader of the Communist International, as well as the founder of the Russian Com- munist Party. The publication of this series of impressions of Lenin by Losovsky: starts on Wedne: aye Don't mien them! regarding. .- social....policy. * erica. To- ~ ax. Ws * ae