The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 1

merece em mae Lore sgt mem meencmen \ Vy Vol. Il. No. 202. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT SUBSCRIPTION RATES: e—————— THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter Septeniber 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Iilimeis under the Act of March 3, 1979. Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year’. by mail, $6.00 per year, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1924 <#&»" od Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKIUR PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ET US ANSWER COOL- IDGE'S ANTI-RED WEEK BY ADDING 2,000 NEW MEMBERS TO THE WORK- ERS PARTY. Price 3 Cents WAR’S MUTILATED DEMAND BREAD AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. N the death of Dean. O’Bannion, State's Attorney Crowe has lost one. of his best henchmen. O’Bannion kept a florist shop as a side line and carried on a general business in mur- der, burglary and bootlegging. He used’ to be a democrat but in the last election’ he turned over his very effi- clent forces to Robert E. Crowe and helped the latter win the election. The notorious Dean set up his florist shop in front of a cathedral. No doubt there was an undertaker’s par- lor handy and perhaps a saloon. eee NDEED, it would not be surprising to learn that O'Bannion was also financially interested in the undertak- ing business. His own personal busi- ness was heavy, and gunmen are not unicky over bills. His flower business waxed prosperous catering to the un- derworld trade. When the brother of “Scarface” Brown was killed, there were so many wreaths of flowers on his coffin where he was being waked that the mourners could barely enter the room where the body rested await- ing burial. wee HE gunmen are usually very relig- fous, Outstanding citizens, in- cluding several priests, attended the funeral of gunman Brown. Masses were said for his soul and the chris- tian God was asked to make things easy for him on the other side. A capitalist clergyman cannot under- stand why a capitalist God cannot be #5 lenient to gangsters as the capital- ist law is. * ee B pee men who killed O’Bannion are not doing any worrying. Perhaps Crowe might get after them because they. killed his friend. But others will take O’Bannion’s place and the demo- not wear the hempen collar. Q’Ban- nion is expected to have a very ee. © fl junmen, priests, police, taal thea capitalists—some- tmes they quarrel but they belong in Lhe same cesspool. ; eae N. DOAK is vice-president of ‘the Brotherhood of Railroad ‘Trainmen. He was a Coolidge sup- porter in the eléction campaign. His political. guide is William Lee, head of the trainmen. A Youngstown reader of the DAILY WORKER mail- e1 U8 a little booklet issued and dis- tributed. by the committee on public | relations of the eastern railroads. It consists of a diatribe against the public ownership of public utilities, chiefly railroads, by the worthy Doak. oe ‘HIS scabby labor faker got this stuff off his chest in a radio speech, the expenses of which were undoubtedly paid by the railroads. Doak said that public ownership was bad for the interests of the “public,” that the. “proposed plan of national zation of industries will tend to create a class government, foster a class domination and encourage a class Hatred. The governed have always had faith in our form of government and this faith must be -continued if our free institutions are to survive. Federalization of industries will shake that faith.” * 8 is not necessary to show up the fallacy of this hokum, It is plainly directed by the ruling class and to argue with a notorious stool pigeon end scab like Doak would be to in- Suffice it to say that during the ra’ road strike of 1920, not alone did scab, but he organized scab em- it agencies. There are degrees ‘infamy even among labor fakers, the *scabby Doak is among the tof the low, ? “4 *.¢ ILE gunmen and robbers hold en house in Chicago even New York has its thrills. Every once in a (Continued on Page 2.) Labor Government Defeated. MELBOURNE, Nov, 12.~The labor government of the pate of Victoria was defeated today on a confidence \ X UP BATTLESHIPS FOR NEXT WAR - _ AS ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATIO: CHARGE FASCISTI ARE MURDERERS OF MATTEOTTI Mussolini Is Facing a Growing Opposition (Special to the Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, Nov. 12—On every hand is heard the pro- phesy of the downfall of Benito Mussolini and the probable sup- planting of Fascist rule by a dic- tatorship of the military, backed by varied elements among the bourgeoisie dissatisfied with the Fascist rule and supported by the war veterans’ organization, which is seething with discon- tent and which out-numbers the Fascist black shirts. When the chamber of depu- ties convened today, Communist Deputy Repossi violently at- tacked the Fascist majority, de- claring it guilty of the murder of Matteotti. The Bourgeois Boycott. The section of big capitalists and much of the petty bourgeoisie which were injured by the policy of Fascismo in trading off monopoly rights to some { capitalists and in filling government offices with incompetent grafters, are This opposition is being expressed by the refusal of the parliamentary deputies to sit in the chamber of de- puties. Many national figures, such as Giolitti, liberal leader, started this boycott and when the chamber con- vened at 3 o’clock yesterday after- noon, 105 of the opposition bloc re- mained absent. Prominent members of the Fascist party are resigning ev- ery day. Mussolini is on the defen- sive. Communist Party Gaining. Against both bourgeois elements the Communist Party of Italy is fight- ing valiantly and winning large sec- tions of the workers. The party has had to lead an illegal existence un- der the Fascist regime of murder and terrorism, but it succeeded in spite of that in placing 19 members in the chamber of deputies. The party so far has refused to withdraw its deputies’from the cham- ber as it has as little interest in sup- porting the bourgeois opposition as it has in Fascism, and it remains in the chamber to challenge Mussolini face to face and better to arouse the work- ing masses than by withdrawal and silence. It is the policy of the Com- ment until conditions are ripe for the armed ‘struggle for proletarian power. Labor Unions Slowly Change. hands of the reformist leaders. Never- being won over to revolutionary pro- the Red International of Labor Un- the control of Communists. If Mus- solini falls, the Communists will grow overnight into a force nearly strong enough to begin the final struggle. Gore for Agricultural Secretary. Coolidge has virtually decided on the pointed acting secretary of the agri- cultural death of Secretary Wallace, Sunday Night? _WASHINGTON, Nov, 11.—Following @ conference today with President | ®"° Coolidge, Senator Hale, republican, of Maine, chairman of the senate naval affairs committee, announced that at the opening of congress he would urge| 49 immediate consideration of his bill authorizing the construction of eight new! oy company’s cruisers and the conversion of six old coal burning battleship to oll burners. | went ashore off bby Mmeeeien See tee 6 Bom Revae 200s aPrten: bet tet petton but was grams advocated by the adherents of | of these parents, that elaborate plans TAXICAB DRIVERS 60 ON STRIKE FOR WAGES AT KANSAS CITY, MO. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 12.— Taxicab drivers in Kansas City car- ried out their threat today to strike. More than 200 of them, according to E. R. Linderman, secretary of the Drivers’ Union, walked out. About 250 drivers are employed by the Yellow Taxicab company. Drivers of other companies may be affected, union leaders said. The men demand 20 cents an hour for a 10-hour day and 42\% cents for overtime, After a year’s service they ask 32 cents. They now are Ww. on a commission basis recently in- stalled. There are approximately 100 employed by one company which threaten to go out during the day. BiG BIZ BACKS MC ANDREW WAR IN THE SCHOOLS Board Backs Down in Fight for Teachers Chicago’s big business board of education has at last definite- fight’ on the militant teachers of Chicago's schools. At the regular meeting of the board yesterday afternoon, Mc- Andrew’s request that principals have full authority to call meet- ings of the teachers’ councils was granted. Board Yields Last Inch. In taking this action, the school ; board has yielded the last inch-in such | bution of the leaflets during the last fight as a few of its members have been disposed to make in behalf of the teachers and the councils in which they have for years found an oppor- tunity to express their ideas. At first refusing to coerce the su- perintendent to comply with the ac- cepted rules of the board and to call the councils together, they next pro- ceeded to allow him to change the rules in such a way that the councils were completely abolished unless he should see fit to resurrect them. And now it has placed in his hands the right to make a few men and women the controlling factors in these coun- cils. Supt. is Lackey of Bankers. In this way, in the short space of a munists not to withdraw from parlia-|f®W months, the councils from being instruments of the rank and file teach- ers, have become instruments of the superintendent of schools, who is ad- mittedly the lackey of the bankers ‘The confederation of labor is in the} and brokers on the school board. The promises held out to working theless, great blocks of unionists are | class mothers and fattiers, and to the teachers interested in the children are under consideration for the con- fons. All thru northern Italy the | struction of new buildings in which to chambers of labor are going over to|nouse the large number of students who are now accommodated only by crowding, have no basis in any action taken by the board so far. The matter of building was quietly ignored by the board, and trustees indicated that the matter will prob- WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—President | ably continue to be ignored. Moderwell to Resign. appointment of Howard M. Gore a8| ‘There is little hope that the resig- secretary of agriculture to serve un-| nation of Charles M. Moderwell, pres- til March 4, when he will become gov- | ident of the board, will bring a bright- ernor of West Virginia. Gore was ap-| er outlook for the teachers. Moderwell, who has consistently op- department following the| posed measures advocated by teachers has found it advisable to quit—prob- ably in order to keep a firmer grip on Are You Going to the hi eu Forum | his non-union coal mines in West Vir- ginia. But any hopes that may have raised that Mayor Dever—to whom Margaret-Haley of the Teachers’ Fed- eration has looked long and vainly for help—will take this opportunity to ap- point a trustee favorable to the ers, has been shattered by Dever'’s “ ” at Moderwell’s resignation, — Oil Steamer Aground. INDON — The English-Américan steamer Cheyenne the Firth of Forth, towed off today Communist Attacks Mus solini ‘YOUNG WORKER SPECIAL GETS BIG GREETING Sells Like Hot Cakes at| Mail Order Houses By AL SCHAAP (Organizer, Y. W. L. of Chicago) The campaign of the Young orkers League of Chicago in the mail order industry is now well under way. Despite the heavy rain and cold weather yesterday, more than 40 members of the Young Workers League and Junior Section were at the gates of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and at Phillipsborn’s selling the special mail order house edition of the “Young Worker.” Big Demand for “Young Worker.” At Sears, Roebuck and company and at Phillipsborn’s more than 1,800 cop ies of the “Young Worker” were sold. This was the first day that the paper was put on sale. Arrangements have been completed whereby the paper will be sold every morning and evening before the young workers enter and leave the giant mail order house. Young Workers Greet Official Organ. In less than an hour, 1, workers bought a quantity of papers so that they could give them to the more timid workers in the shop. One young comrade sold 200 copies of the Paper all alone. The young girls that work in the plant showed great. in- terest in the paper. This is a very encouraging sign because in the mail order industry it is the women that are éxploited the hardest. It is due to the diligent and efficient distri two.days which had aroused the work- ers to demand the “Young Worker.” Many employes questioned whether there would be further sales of the paper and whether the campaign would be continued. They were as- sured that the Y. W. L. will carry on this campaign until a fighting unit of the league was established in every plant of the mail order industry in Chicago. Bosses and House Detectives Scared. As a result of the leaflets which an- (Continued on page 3) N.Y. ITALIAN WORKERS RAISE RED FLAG OVER FASCIST HEADQUARTERS (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Two hun- dred Italian workers stormed their way into the Fascist headquarters on Fourteenth street ight, tore down the Fascist flag, and hoisted a red banner, All of the workers were singing the Red Flag. The demonstration was a protest against the brutalities of the Mus- solini dictatorship in Italy, and es- pecially against the whole-hearted support which the American govern- ment is giving the Fascist regime. None of the workers were arrest- ed. The police, believing that the Communist education spread among the Italian workers thru the col- umns of I Lavoratore, the organ of the Italian workers thru the col- kers Party, may have been respon- sible for the outbreak of protest, armed themselves and went to the local office of the paper here. They found no one, but expressed their determination to “get” the editors. “ In the next three issues tailing the treachery of Fi JOHN SCHEDEL Labor Defense Council and famil released efforts of the Council, 166 W. Washington St., Chicago, which is tryin him jail. leased, Schedel boarded a train for Fort Wayne, Ind., where his family has been living for years. many warm embraces of husband and’ wife, and father and children—and this time there were no heavysoled tice to break up the festivities, as was the case in the Mattman Hotel in Chicago, where Schedel, deported to Germany in 1920 as a member of the Communist Party of America, was sammarily Arrested after made his way back to this country so that he could be with his suffering wife and children. deportation to Germany, preceded by @ possible five years in an American prison cell. ILLINOIS MINERS, ATTENTION! | ‘WORK AT HOME’ FRAUD HITS THE SHUT-INS AND CRIPPLES EAGER 10 EARN INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 12— With Glenn D. Freyer, of Fort Wayne, and Kenneth Hackley, of Earl Park, Ind., in the hands of federal officers charged with using the mails to de- fraud, government agents continued today an investigation of alleged “work at home” swindies which, it was believed would result in the ar- rest of others who preyed on wom- en, cripples and shut-ins, eager to earn money. Alexander G. Cavins, assistant United States district attorney, said the state was flooded with fraudu- lent schemes advertised in maga- zines and periodicals and that many persons had been cheated out of large sums of money. OUT ON BAIL, JOINS FAMILY Wins Another Fight John Schedel is with his wife again. He has been oa. pxieap er a Labor Defense to save rom coudepertatieei and Immediately on being re- Happy Reunion Results. There was a happy reunion, with “dicks” from the department of jus- having He now faces re- Letters are coming into the Labor Defensé Council from all over the country from persons interested in the Schedel case. tions ate being circulated among the local citizenry, calling for dismissal of all éharges against Schedel. over, @ number of influential people have interested themselves in the ease, among them Clarence Darrow, Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, and James H. McGill of Indiana. Perhaps this will be the starting point for a mighty campaign to put’ an end, once and for all, to political deportations in America. In Fort Wayne, peti- More- Gets Job Back. From now until the final disposition of his case, Comrade Schedel is going to work to suport his family, which had such a hard time of it while he was away. He is a piano polisher by trade and his former employer in Fort Wayne has offered to take him back. Friends in Chicago have also volunteered to secure work for him in case he prefers to remain here. Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. our Polish Communist Weekly, articles de- Farrington, president of the United Mine Workers’ Union of District 12, will appear. The articles will be based on the series written by Comrade Thomas J. O'Flaherty for the DAILY WORKER. As there are thousands of Polish miners in District 12, we urge our comrades, readers and sympathizers to send in orders for bundies and distribute them among the Polish miners. The price of the paper is 5 cents a copy and can theoretician, but a practical Marxian be obtained in bundle orders at 2/2 cents a copy. without large| Rush your orders to “Trybuna Robotnicza,” 1118 W. Washington Bivd.,| gelian dialectics which Marx had de- +. [@hieago, II. Comrades act at once! Send in your orders and remittance. ! veloped to its highest point were com- SILK BOSSES START NEW WAR ON EMPLOYES: Try to Steal Back Strike Gains (Special to the Daily Worker) PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 12.—| The silk manufacturers are| starting a concerted drive against gains made by the As- sociated Silk Workers after a long and bitter struggle in which the Trade Union Educa- tional League and the members of the Workers Party took a militant part in aiding the un- ion to force settlement from 174 mills. Out of these 174 mills, eleven have gone back to the old con- | ditions, and indications are that | they are being supported by others in an effort to steal back gradually all the gains the workers have won. At a special meeting of the strike committee Tuesday night, plans were formulated to call out all weavers ‘in another general strike and the follow- ing statement was issued: Strike Committee Statement. “After the long struggle in which we have engaged, during which time many settlements were made, we now find ‘thie Workérs in the broadsilk industry are again confronted with @ concerted move on the part of a number of man- ufacturers to take from us the gains we have made. “At'a meeting of a certain clique of silk manufacturers held Monday night @ plan was set on foot to start a drive against conditions we have gained. Will Fight Back. “The condition will not be tolerated by the Associated Silk Workers, and after thoroly discussing the situation. we declare that further trouble is im- minent. Another.strike looms as the result of the arrogance of this irrecon- cilable group of manufacturers. “We emphatically assert that those who haye settled with this union must live up to their agreements, other- wise they will find themselves con- fronted with a wholesale shut-down of the industry. Drastic Action Promised. “All delegates, shop committee men and chairmen are instructed to meet tomorrow (Wednesday) night at union headquarters for the purpose of dis- cussing plans to take drastic action against this menace. “We fought for 14 weeks to estab- lish’ decent conditions in this indus- try. We have received loyal support from organized Jabor thruout the country and we do not purpose to per- mit a few greedy manufacturers to tri- umph in their efforts to take from us the fruits of our victory.” Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. EX-SOLDIERS IN FRANCE PROTEST: CARRY RED FLAG Demonstrate Before the Herriot Residence (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Nov. 12— Carrying red flags, the ragged and starving crippled ex-soldiers organized into the body calling itself “The Mutilated,” accom- panied with their poverty- stricken families, paraded Paris on the afternoon of Armistice Day and visited the residence of Premier Herriot to demand re- lief from starvation and in- crease of their miserable pen- sions to offset the high cost of living. When groups of sentimental bour. geois tried to march alongside the war cripples, these desperate wrecks of French imperialism spat upon them and in many cases attacked them with crutches and canes. Herriot, receiving a delegation, which protested that no man let alone a family, could live on the $5 a week the cripples get, made a speech on the necessity of maintaining the franc on the international exchange. SCHURMAN GIVES COOLIDGE VIEWS ON CHINESE WAR (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.— Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister to China, who is in the United States on leave held a conference at the White House today with Presi- dent Coolidge at which the situation now reigning in China was discussed. * U. S. Warship Busy. SHANGHAI, Nov. 12.—The U.S. S Penguin, late tonight rushed to Nan- king from here following radio advices that troop transports of Wu Pei Fu, former Chinese military dictator, which left Chefoo this morning, had passed the mouth of the Yangtze river and were due to arrive at Nanking tomorrow. A Tien Tsin dispatch late today said Feng Yu Hsiang, whos coup resulted in the downfall of Wu, had fleé from Tien Tsin because of the menacing attitude of Chang Tso Lin's troops, who are now spreading out over Chi- hli and Shantung provinces, driving southward unopposed. Sentence Negro to Hang. Lawrence Washington, Negro, this afternoon was sentenced to be hanged December 12 for the murder of Munzio Mascollino during a holdup of Mascollino’s confectionary store at Evanston, Sept. 14. MARXISM IN PRACTICE Editor's Note.—Every day until publication has been completed, the DAILY WORKER will publish a new chapter from the book, “Len- in: The Great Strategist of the Class War,” by A. Losovsky, secre- tary of the Red International of Labor Unions. The second chapter is entitled “Marxism in Practice.’ eee ENIN was a Marxian dialectician. There are many people that know Marx very well but are incapable of deriving the political lessons and conclusions implied in theory, In this respect Lenin was totally different. He has taken the Marxian theory and methods and applied them in the prac- tice of life. And with the help of his acute analytical mind he interpreted events in their dialectical develop- ment. Lenin was ore of the foremost. experts in the economic and philoso- phical theories of Marx. But as al- ready said, he was not primarily a and a political dialectician, The He- pletely mastered by Lenin. He never reasoned abstractly. He despised pure rationalizing. He hated the free sway of “pure reasoning.” He fought against philosophic charlatanism and always proved in action that the truth is concrete. Just as Marx was maneuvering with the general factors of economic life, so was Lenin maneuvering with the con- crete forces of the class struggle. In the colorful kaleidoscope of social re- lations and froti the complexities ot the everyday events of modern life hé always managed to hit upon the fun. damental and most important tend- encies. He was never deceived by ap pearances. He, was a man called upon to tread new paths. Always pursuing | his own way, capable by means of his dialectics not only to explain but con- stantly to drive history forward, Len- in was a dialectician in politics and a Marxist in action. That is, he knew exactly how to make history in as masterly a fashion as Marx explained it. “ee “ Tomorrow—“Identity with a Clase. aneet LES Ls hina