The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 11, 1924, Page 2

: 4 7 ‘ “Page Two THE DAILY WORKER 4, SHYLOCK LEWIS MAY TAKE HS POUND OF FLESH Sharpening Knife for Operation on Sam (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— The fine nest of labor fakers, who split away from Gompers| in his imbecile rush into the arms of LaFollette and who chose to sell out to Coolidge, are in high feather at the pros- pects of reward from the new Coolidge regime. if The wise guys around the capital are whispering names of those who are going to be handed a government job. Amofhg them are some of ‘the choicest grafters that ever ob- structed a labo? movement or seuttled a union. A Hot Lot of “Labor” Men. John L, Lewis, now president of the United Mine Workers, is promised, as reported in the DAILY WORKER some time ago, the job of secretary of labor after March 4. The queer “la- bor” representative who has_ held down that political plum is John J. Davis. Davis is a banker, and a millionaire banker at-that. He’ lives in Andy Mellon’s town, Pittsburgh. John W. Lewis is about as interested in forwarding labor’s interests as is banker Davis, and both of them are as devoted to labor as is Archduke Michael Michaleovitch of Russia. Anyhow, Andy Mellon and Frank Stearns, financial backer of Coolidge, will name the next cabinet. There are other jobs being picked for other prize labor fakers usually supported by the liberals when the Communists have attacked them for class collaboration. on the industrial field. Liberals could see nothing wrong with John L. Lewis when Com- munists pointed out that his industrial co-operation with the operators was treacherous class collaboration. Now they see the political colla- boration, but probably have learned nothing from Communist criticism. T. V. (ingey) O’Connor, already holding a job on the shipping board, . is in line for fatter pickings, and Bill Lee of the B. of R. T. is due to get something directly or have his lob- byist, W. NW. Doak, made safe on the inferstate commerce commission. *e Lewis to Fight Gompers. Lewis is expected to make things hot for Sam Gompers at the A. F. of L. convention which opens at El Paso November 19. He came out with @ sorehead from his defeat in the 1921 convention and now has a fine'chance to knife Sammy to the heart. Lewis backed Coolidge and Sammy’ backed LaFollette—all according to the “non- partisan” plan ofthe A. F. of L. Now John Lewis is going to rub it in. He figures that the A. F. of L. will have to be nice to him as he is going to be the next secretary of labor. Teachers Ordered To Tell Children Red Flag Means Death PEORIA, Ill, Noy. 10—School chil- dren of Peoria will be told that the red flag means death, under arrange- ments made by the school authorities with the Peorla American Legion to celebrate national education week be- ginning Nov. 17. On patriotism day, which under the propaganda plan of the federal educa- tion bureau comes Nov. 18, the chil- dren will be instructed by teachers, legion speakers and others that “the red flag means death, destruction, pov- ' erty, starvation, disease, anarchy and dictatorship.” On the day before, labeled con- stitution day, the school officials will impress on the youngsters the alleced menace of extreme pacifists, revolu- tionists and Communists, And the Peorla Minfsterial Associa- tion will lend a hand with special gas attack on pacifists and radicals dur- ing that week. | dollars. WAR DEPARTMENT'S AIR PILOT WILL PREACH ON PEACE TO SILENT GAL (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Presi- dent Coolidge attends the First Con- gregational church in the capital. The Congregationalists belong to the Federal Council of Churches, which has asked that all clergy in the affiliation of the council preach a sermon in the cause of world peace. At the president’s church the pulpit will be filled on this occasion by Col. John T. Axton, chief chaplain of the army, who will talk on “A Definite Pathway To World Peace,” the war department announced, WORKERS CABLE GREETINGS T0 SOVIET RUSSIA |4,000 Pledge Solidarity with Russian Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 10.— The celebration in Central Op- era House, of the Seventh Anni- versary of the Russian Revolu- tion held here was tremendous and inspiring. Four thousand enthusiastic workingmen and women packed the large auditorium beyond its utmost capacity ‘at fifty cents admission, and several hundred had to be turned away because there was no more room. Every expression of solidarity with the workers and peasants of Russia, every advocacy of world’ revolution, and especially every mention of Lenin, was met with rousing cheers. The temper of the audience is shown by the following resolution, which was adopted unanimously to be cabled to the Soviet government: Workers Cable. To.the Workers’ and Peasants’ gov- ernment of Soviet Russia: Kremlin, Moscow, Russia: We, the class conscious workers of New York, assembled under the auspices ‘of the Workers Party of America, om the Seventh annivers- ary of the Russian Revolution, send our greetings to the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia, who by their great achievements have won and fortified the proletarian revo- lution, and we assure our Russian comrades that we stand by their side in the international struggle of the workers against capitalist im- perialism and for the establishment of a world Soviet republic. (Signed) Charles Krumbein, District Organizer, Dist No. 2, Workers Party of America. The impressive success of this meeting proves that the Communist movement of New York is not afflicted with any “after election sleeping sickness.” It demonstrates that the members of the Workers Party con- tinue the campaign after election just the same as before—the permanent campaign for a Soviet America. Financially the meeting was as great a success as from the propa- ganda standpoint. The share of the DAILY WORKER, which receives three-fourths of the net proceeds, already amounts to over one thousand Receipts from the tickets sold in advance by the branches wil) probably bring the net returns to the DAILY WORKER up to twice this amount. Meet Only When Boss Whistles. MANCHESTER, N. H.—Additonal prof that the Amoskeag Manufactur- ing Co.'s company union is run by the company was given when the Workers Congress, the official name for the organization voted to hold no more regular meetings unless called by the management. No further ac- tion was taken on wages. Recently the company union voted to accept a 10 per cent cut. The wage cut is be ing opposed by the textile council af filiated with the United Textile Work- ers’ Union, WOBBLIES VOTE TO REINSTATE THE POLITICALS Expelled for , Accepting Individual Amnesty All political prisoners who were expelled. from the I. W. W. because they accepted individu- al amnesty, have been rein- stated ~into the organization, providing they have not been taking part in controversies or denouncing the I. W. W., b order of the convention which held its concluding session in Emmet Memorial Hall yester- day. A motion of the Rowan fac- tion to hold up the expulsion of Fred Blossom, Quinlan and Lor- ton until put to a referendum vote was voted down by the convention, Schwandt Voices Views Delegate Emil Schwandt declared that those who opposed the reinstate- ment of those who came out on parole are trying to obtain solidarity in jail instead of in thé industries. “We fight to get the men out of jail and when we get them out we expel them,” said Schwandt, He was refer- ing to delagates Erwin, Leonard and Murray who “are opposed to anyone coming out out on parole”, as Erwin, one Rowanite at the convention, put it. Swanson and Leonard, who wanted to put the expulsion of Fred Blossom to a referendum, tried to cre- ate the impression that the member- ship is flooding the delegates with protests against Blossom’s expulsion by the convention. Practically every delegate, however, denied they had re- ceived any communication from the field urging a referendum on Fred Blossom. George Speed, of the ma- rine transport workers, said that “probably seven members met behind a water tank and pased a resolution and these delegates are now trying to say that the membership wants a referendum.” The motion for the referendum was voted down because it was felt the convention had all the evidence which has not been placed in the hands of the membership. The 16th general convention of the I. W. W. was appealed to by Bd Hayes, a member of the Metal Mine Workers 210 who had been expelled at the instance, so it is alleged, of questionable elements suspected of connection with the Burns detective; uncovered last year. ‘ After a long hearing the convention sustained Hayes and ordered his re- instatement. interim Officers Appointed. The convention ordered that the G. O. C, of each industrial union should furnish members of a temporary gen- eral executivé board until others are elected. In the case of 120 and 310, the convention appointed delegates Leonard and Broman to take office in the place of the Rowanites who, at the head of these unions, are still fight- ing the convention and attempting to split the I. W. W. Welinder Appointed Gen. Secy.-Treas. P. J. Welinder is appointed to fill the office of genera] secretary treas- urer until a new official is elected by referendum. As he came to the con- vention from the lumber workers, whose industrial union officials are the injunctionites who have attacked the convention as being “controlled by politicians,” there is a possibility that Welinder may be expelled by the lam- ber workers’ union for being led around ‘by the Communists. Forest Fires in Indiana. ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 10.—Precau- tionary measures to prevent a disas- trous blaze were being taken here today following the breaking out of six field and forest fires in the Parches woodlands in this neighbor- hood within the last few days. Lack ot rain has increased the forst fire menace until it is possible a vigilantes committee may be organized. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum. $$$ mens the Open Forum. our strongest weapon the security of the enemy. » We must keep it load we send in. ae Like the famous long-range gun of the Germans, “EQUILD THE DAILY WORKER?” Yes, and we cannot bulld it too fast. It is at this, stage of the game, led to the muzzle. its ammunition is the subscriptions Where the DAILY WORKER goes, there co: which will win the power for the workingclass. courage which will make the workers masters realization of strength and the steadfast determination to building up the Communist parties everywhere. Let us be daily workers for the DAILY WORKER every day. James H. Dolsen, Organizer, District No. 13, Workers Party of the world, (Leek for the Briok on Page Four, HEAVE IT BACK!) ~~~ i i it Is a continual menace to mes understanding of the tactics There ‘comes the patience and There comes the succeed which is - i af ne acts it lll. ™, rane , ea ee es os “ _ REBELS DIE UNDER GUNS OF THE FASCISTI DICTATORSHIP IN SPAIN (Special to the Daily Worker) London, Nov, 10.—Joseph Liacer and Jean MonteJo, rebels against the military dictatorship of Spain, met thelr death at the hands of a Spanish firing squad at daybreak this morning. ‘ : The two men were among the hundreds arrested yesterday for earying with them literature advo- cating armed uprisings against the government. No pretense was made of giving them even the semblance of a trial. The Spanish military authorities have indicated that the rest of the prisoners wil be exe- cuted wthin a day or two, : BORAH TO PUSH FOR- RUSSIAN RECOGNITION White Baptist Slated) for Trimming (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.— Recognition of Russia, direct and unqualified, is to be an issue henceforth in every debate within the Coolidge political ring. And upon recognition will de- pend the further longevity of “red plot” scares and terroriza- tion campaigns against radicals in the rank and file of labor un- ions. : Borah to Lead Foreign Relations Senator Borah, who becomes chair- man of the senate foreign relations committee, after Lodge having died, has stood thruout the recent campaign for this direct recognition. He told the voters of Idaho in every speech he made that there could be no real dis- armament, no real peace, no economic safety in the world, until the United States had established normal rela- tions with the Soviet Republic. His vote was 90,000 as compared with 60,000 for Coolidge in Idaho. Hughes and Hysteria Hughes alone has stood between the administration and a less hysterical stand on the seomntion. issue, Hoover was a) jing..to change ground, but Re prevented him from speaking. Col. Harvey, before he became editor of the newspaper owned by Ned McLean, nephew of the last imperial Russian ambassador, indi- cated to senators who had toured Russia, that he favored outright re- cognition. If he becomes secretary of state next March, he will be free to follow his own judgment in giving such advice to Coolidge. . Investigate Goose « Island Tracks in Probe of Death Crash Hearing on the trolley-train wreck in which ten people were murdered by the greed of the Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul Railroad company was to come up yesterday in Judge Harry Olson’s court in city hall but was postponed until this morning to give the city engineer an opportunity to investigate the tracks at Goose Is- land. The city offers to inform the jury what chances there are of ele- vating the tracks. Albert Becomes Silent. The DAILY WORKER reporter asked Alderman Arthur Albert who represents the public at the sessions and who was very aggressive in the beginning of the hearing why he har presumably given up the fight. Alder. man Albert has been sitting thru the sessions the last few days without ut- tering a word, “IT am disgusted with the personnel of the jury. They are a wishy washy bunch who keep vaseillating. They don’t come to any decision.” The reporter then asked him what he thinks he as a representative of the public can do to force the railroad officials to elevate the tracks. He re plied that it i “matter for the city council to take up,” and that he will see to it that they do take it up. He failed to say, however, why, the city council has done nothing fore. —_—_—_—— Gompers Passes Thru Chicago. Samuel Gompers denied himself to interviewers most,of yesterday after- noon at the Morrison Hotel. Gompers passed thru town on his way to the American Federation of Labor conven- tion in El Paso, Texas. Gompers, to- gether with members§ of the inter- national ‘unions, left last night for El Paso. —_—_ Mail Robbery Trial Postponed. ‘Trial of the $3,000,000 Rondout mail robbery case was postponed until to- morrow here today on request of the prosecution. The illness of Assistant U. 8. District Attorney Wdwin F. Weisl, who has been appointed a spe- cial assistant attorney general to prosecute the nine defendants, was given as the reason for the delay. Open .Wening Wiehe: Ledec ‘Room, Ashland Augueuine * . world Armistice Day is Call to Workers Everywhere To End Capitalist Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. / FT OPAN, the capitalist world is trying to celebrate Armistice Day, the Sixth Anniversary of the ending of the World Imperialist War. But instead of a time for enjoying peace after “the war to end all wars,” we find the earth shaking with new upheavals; everywhere threats of new wars; pre- parations for renewed slaughter. * . e ° Labor thruout Western Europe is rattling its chains more vigorously than ever. It is protesting against its meager al- lotment of bread. It is hungry under the decisions of the Versailles Peace and the best nostrums of the Black Capital- ist International, the League of Nations, \ > © @ @ On this November 11th it is railroad labor in Austria that raises its mailed fist to the international bandits. Austria was to rise out of its ashes, under the tutelage of the League of Nations. Loans were forthcoming, wages were slashed, workers were discharged to cut dawn expenses, papovieny on the railroads, capitalism was to be rehabilitated. AW the world was made to ring with the great cure that had been effected in Austria under “The League.” But six years after the war it is suddenly discovered that “the cure” doesn’t work, Jobs were not found for the dis- charged workers. Meager wae did not meet the high cost of living. So the Austrian wor! ‘ers are forced to strike. * * . But Europe isan economic entity. The railroads that cross Austria are needed by the other countries making up the patchwork of nations mapped by the Paris peacemakers. Czecho-Slovakia must have its outlet to the sea. Italy must get the products she needs from the-interior. So they both threaten intervention in Austria —. the striking Austrian railroad workers, in the fight for t elt own existence, * * Then there is Germany, under the Morgan-Dawes plan, a replica of the League of Nations dope peddied to Austria. The German workers are hungr and out of jobs. They are very sympathetic to Austrian labor, with the result that the railroad strike may extend over both countries. Not the best situation for the inauguration of Morgan’s scheme to subject German labor to his rule. The fate of the League's plans in Austria indicates what will i jm to the Morgan-Dawes plan in Germany. Resist- ance of the Austrian workers to the plans of the League will be duplicated by the even more stubborn opposition of the German workers to the best laid schemes of Wall Street's greatest financiers. f e e . ° q The capitalist world also prophesied as much for Mussolini rule in Italy, as it did for League rule in Austria, and Morgan rule in Germany. The Fascist dictatorship was to show the how efficiently a nation could be conducted; ial when public utilities, like the railroads, were returned to pri- vate ownership. But developments have been going from bad to worse in Italy.. Labor is more discontented than ever. In spite of the bloody tyranny of Mussolini, the workers march under the Red Flag of the social revolution singing “The Internation- al”; heralding new struggles against the capitalist oppression labelled Fascism. ‘ is Armistice Day, 1924, finds Mussolini trying to wipe out the last vestiges of parliamentary government, thru the dissolu- tion of parliament, in which his majority, secured thru the manipulation of the election laws, is now threatened. * . . * Another Fascisti dictatofship totters in Spain. Resistance is raised on every hand against the government of Dictator de Rivera, seeking to bulwark the tumbling throne of the dissolute King Alfonso, symbol of capitalist misrule. Dis- aster in the war against the. Moors in Africa has helped bring on the military dictatorship at home, which uses its greatest energies in an effort to erush the organized workers, the white terror claiming many Communists as its victims. . But Armistice Day, 1924, finds the clouds blackest in “the fetodpin sea,” the Pacific Ocean. Here it is that the Amer- ican warngakers are most active. The American jingo press hails with great joy the plans of the British, under the imperialist Baldwin government, to fortify Singapore, strategic naval port in the Orient. “The Chicago Tribune is most brazen in its statement of the imperialist intentions of the American capitalists in the Far East. It declares: ‘ “Britain, said Sir Percy Scott just before his death, cannot take a fleet to the Orient adequate to defeat Japan. The same might be said with lees certainty but with much truth in regard to the United States. The inevitable Inference follows that Britain and the United States must co-operate in the western Pacific, The white powers in the Pacific must stand together. The key to the situation at this time is Singa- pore.” 04. @ SC e The Ch Tribune utters no hypocritical pretensions to peace under capitalism. It is openly for an alliance with Great Britain, in the Pacific, to crush the competition of Japanese imperialism, and to completely subjugate the markets of China and other oriental countries. That means war. Another world war. Not because some oples are white, others brown, and still others yellow. In the last world war the British uae the Germans, both of the same race, both of the same blood. The British slaughtered Germans and vice versa in the struggle to win advantages! for competing capitalist groups. , The same will be true of the U. ritish war on Japan and its allies, no matter whom the latter may turn out to be. It will not be because’ Americans are white and Japs brown that the war will be fought. It will be because Amer- ica's Wall Street has united with Great Britain's Lombard Street for the domination of the Orient. And if the workers of all the countries engaged refuse to fight each other, and turn against capitalism at home, as the Russian workers and peasants did in 1917, then t italists of the United States and Great Britain will be the first to unite with the Japanese capitalists to crush the workers! revolution, The goal toward which all labor, in all countries, on this Armistice Day, 1924, should struggle, remembering the World War of 1914-18, is the abolition of capitalist imperial- ism in all countries, : Only the world-wide rule new wars now threateni Only the victory of the the armed truce and lasting of the workers can prevent tho f the capitalist nations today into the real Tuesday, November 11, 1924 SOCIALISTS IN. ITALY GO OVER March Side by Side with Blackshirts (Special to The Daily Worker) CASTELNUOVA, Italy, Nov. 10.—Blackshirts and “social- ists" joined hands here on Sun- day in a joint ceremony in memory of the socialist deputy Matteotti and the fascist deputy Casalina. That the blackshirts and the socialists marched side by side surprised no one who has watched the counter-revolu- tionary tactics of the socialist party—and other parties of the legal. opposition—within the past months. Go Against Rebel Workers, The socialist party has again and lorkers’ Soviet Rule can change * ‘}cational and literature agents m) attend, iy ee Browder’s in r again refused the offers of the Com- munist Party to form a united front against the Mussolini regime, and has expressed its desire to remain with- in the ranks of the legal opposition, of which the democratic party is a member. Only a few days ago Mus- solini himself characterized the so- cialists as harm! parliamentar- ians from whom the fascist dictator- ship has nothing to fear. The joint ceremonies in Castelnuova are taken as a sign that neither the socialists nor the fascisti bear each other any ill will because of the kill- ing of one of their members. That the circumstances surrounding the two deaths make the cases absolute- ly incomparable to each other seems to have made no difference to the so- cialist or the fascist leaders. Shed Every Semblance of Decency. They have forgotten—or else they ignore—the fact tliat ‘while Giacome Matteotti was brutally murdered bya gang of gunmen for his attempts to expose the graft operations of the Mussolini cabinet, Casalina met his death at the hands of a worker who had seen his friends shot down, their homes burned and their unions broken up by orders of the fascist corpora- tion of which Casalina was the head. Mass Meeting in San Francisco. (Special to the Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.—10—A huge mass meeting, arranged by the newly- organized Jewish branch of the Work- ers Party here, will be held at Rob- inson’s Hall, 1175 Turk street, Sunday night, Nov. 16. The purpose of the meeting is to interest Jewish workers in the Communist movement. Sam Globerman, who has been very active in the Communist movement in Los Angeles, will speak in Jewish, and James H. Dolsen, district organizer, of the party, will address the meeting on the need of a strong organiza- tion. The Pace of the Spenders. David Gage Joyce, millionaire lum berman and former brother-in-law ot the famous Peggy Joyce, was made defendant today in a suit for $24,289 which L. Linden Co., Chicago interior decorators claim is due them for deco- rating and furnishing Joyce’s town and Florida homes “in the most ex: travagant fashion possible.” D'BANHON, CITIZEN OF LIVELY HABITS, RETIRED FROM BUSINESS CHICAGO, Nov. 10—“Dean” O’- Bannion, one of Chicago's most col- orful police characters whom prohi- bition and its attendant beer run- ing, and hi-jacking is said to have brot millions, was shot and killed. in his floral store here today. jt was to this store that O’Ban- nion, gang leader and gang fighter, pistol wielder and veteran of sev- eral shootings, had retired to end quietly a life replete with excite. ment and danger, Party Activities Of Local Chicago Tuesday, Nov. 11.» Roumanian Branch, 2250 Clybourn avennue, Polish, Roseland-Pullman, 205 Bast 116th St, hf Northwest English, 2738 Hirsch Blvd, Arne Swabeck speaking on “Tactics of the Comintern,” Irving Park English, 4021 Drake Ave. Gomez speaking on “Theses the Colonial Question,” Ukrainian No, 1, 1532 Ww. avenue. _ Czecho-Slovak Hanson field and Grand. ; \ South Slay a %, 8748 Buffalo Ave — . YOUNG WORKERS LEAQUE, LOCAL CHICAGO, | ‘Tuesday, Nov. 11, Functionaries meeting, 2618 Hirsch Blvd. All secretaries, organizers, edu-