The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1924, Page 2

' a — Sed ) COOUDGE VOT .-.... Jout, Tilinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Page Two % ALMOST COMPLETE FIGURES OF RECENT ELECTIONS ARE ISSUED; COMMUNIST TOTALS NOT. GIVEN he MILLIONS LESS The following table, based on virtually complete, altho unofficlal returns, tells the story of the recent elections. This tabulation omits the minority THAN HAR parties. The national office of the Workers (Communist) Party is gathering its own returns from the various states. J State Coolidge Davis LaFollette Harding Cox v 4 + y_|Alabama 70,000 170,000 11,000 74,000 163,000 at Figures Show Calvin’s| arizona 25,000 21,000 14,000 37,000 30,000 : Arkansas 49,000 116,000 18,000 71,000 107,000 Strength Exaggerated California 706,000 104,000 415,000 624,000 229,000 — Colorado 200,000 80,000 55,000 173,000 105,000 (Special to the Daily Worker) Connecticut 256,000 109,000 38,000 229,000 121,000 | WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—| Delaware 52,000 33,000 5,000 53,000 40,000 © Revised and virtually complete | Fiorida 47,000 105,000 11,000 45,000 90,000 figures on the presidential elec- | Georgia 28,000 112,000 10,000 44,000 107,000 tion of 1924 today destroyed | idaho 34,000 12,000 26,000 89,000 46,000 some of the popular illusions} tiinois 1,440,000 878,000 416,000 1,420,000 534,000 that were held by political ob-| indiana 690,000 495,000 65,000 700,000 510,000 servers prior to the vote of|towa 525,000 271,000 183,000 635,000 227,000 Nov. 4. Kansas 385,000 148,000 92,000 369,000 185,000 The popular vote, a8 NOW | Kentucky $88,000 365,000 36,000 452,000 456,000 compiled, falls considerably | Louisiana 17,000 53,000 4,000 38,000 87,000 short of the estimated 30,000,- | Maine 138,000 55,000 11,000 136,000 58,000 000 mark and will barely exceed | Maryland 161,000 146,000 45,000 236,000 180,000 the 26,000,000 mark established | Massachusetts 701,000 280,000 142,000 681,000 275,000 in the Harding-Cox fight four | Michigan 865,000 242,000 181,000 762,000 233,000 years ago. Minnesota 408,000 54,000 327,000 519,000 148,000 These figures show that, despite the | Mississippi 7,000 84,000 3,000 12,000 69,000 Btrenuous efforts to get out the vote, | Missouri 875,000 500,000 63,000 727,000 74,000 there are still millions of “vote slack- Montana 70,000 31,000 65,000 109,000 57,000 ae those denied the | Nebraska 206,000 182,000 98,000 247,000 119,000 ‘ Nevada 10,000 5,000 9,000 16,000 9,000 att taaking. tat the veto hes been |New Hampshire — 100,000 57,000 8,000 95,000 62,000 sufficiently tabulated to reveal some |New Jersey 673,000 296,000 111,000" 611,000 258,000 interesting facts anent the election of | New Mexico 39,000 37,000 7,000 97,000 46,000 1924, which will be studied and pored |New York 1,800,900 960,000 460,000 1,871,000 780,000 over by the political historian’ of the} North Carolina 200,000 325,000 15,000 232,000 305,000 future. North Dakota 95,000 13,000 90,000 160,000 37,000 Davis Beat Cox—Downward. Ohio 1,160,000 470,000 346,000 1,180,000 780,000 James M. Cox, generally hailled as| Oklahoma 182,000 215,000 25,000 243,000 215,000 the “worst beaten” candidate in demo-| Oregon 122,000 67,000 58,000 143,000 80,000 eratic history, will have to yield to} Pennsylvania 1,300,000 385,000 265,000 1,218,000 600,000 John W, Davis, despite the fact that| Rhode Island 128,000 77,000 7,000 107,000 . 55,000 President Coolidge ran considerably | south: Carolina 3,000 66,000 4,000 64,000 2,600 Debind Harding. Davis carried on€/ south Dakota 88,000 23,000 63,000 110,000 85,000 wpere.. stato than Cox did, twelve), incense 108,000 34,000 10,000 219,000 206,000 a Vern cases sepoo owes gueen: = = nen totals | Vermont 80, 16, Dh 5 Dh hy ere gem Pringhyn ony ce Virginia 70,000 185,000 13,000 87,000 141,000 14,100,000; Davis 8,000,000; La Fol-| Washington 175,000 35,000 118,090 233,000 84,000 lette 4,300,000. West Virginia 202,000 169,000 3,000 280,000 220,000 The vote for minority tickets such | Wisconsin 264,000 60,000 366,000 498,000 113,000 as Workers (Communist) Party, pro-| Wyoming 40,000 13,000 25,000 35,000 17,000 hibition, single tax, labor, American ete., will be necessary to bring the 1924 popular vote ahead of the 1920 figures. On this basis of virtually complete tabulation it is shown that President Coolidge ran ahead of Harding in 17 states, California, Colorado, Connect- Head of Chicago Detectives Was BIG FIRE IS STILL RAGING IN JERSEY CITY JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov. 14. — With fireboats playing streams of water on freight and coal yards of the Lehigh Valley railroad, endangered by fire and with help speeding to the city from half a dozen other munici- palities, firemen of Jersey City fought with desepration this afternoon to check a conflagration which, after three hours, still raged beyond con- trol to the north, east, and south threatening the entire downtown in- dustrial district. Hundreds Homeless. Damage done by the blaze has gone far into the millions, fire department officials said. Hundreds are homeless are virtually penniless. The frame dwellings in which they lived, with all their effects, were destroyed. Thirty persons, most of them fire- men, were in hospitals. Five great factories and warehouses were rav- aged by flames and fear was expressed that the fire might spread to the great plant of Colgate & company, occupy- ing two city blocks. Reports that looters were active in deserted homes caused issuance of an order by chief of police, Richard T. Battersby, to “shoot to kill.” Flame Tipped Acid. A terrific explosion in the saltpetre refinery of Battele & Renwick, started the fire. Police said they believed the factory workers escaped without in- jury. series of explosions which splatter- ed flame tipped acids far and wide shook the lower part of the city, felled firemen and drove crowds back for hundreds of feet. Flames, attaining great height leaped across street intersections ai three points while buildings in twe square blocks burned fiercely, setting ablaze structures directly opposite. The Saltpetre Works, the Richards Chemical company plant, the Hoppe Paper Box factory, the American Su- gar Refining works and huge ware- garded as unlikely in the case of Dia-| houses owned by*Colgate and the Su- suke Namba, sentenced to die for an|gar company were among the build- ¥ attempt on the life of Crown Prince | ings destroyed. Hirihito. His execution will probably be carried out next Tuesday. (Continued from Page 1.) Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ver- mont, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Florida and South Carolina. Ran Behind Harding Coolidge ran behind Harding in 31 states, Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kent: Ay, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Okla- homa, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennes- see, Texas, Utah, Washington, West ‘Virginia, Wisconsin, Alabama, Ar- kansas, North Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico. Davis ran ahead of Cox in 19 states, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts. Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Flo- rida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Utah. Davis Behind Cox Davis ran behind Cox in 29 states, Arizona, California Colorado, Connect- fout, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Kan- sas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland. Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Mevada, New Hampshire, North Dako- ta, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wash- ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wy- ming and New Mexico. LaFollette ran ahead of Coolidge in only one state: Wisconsin. He ran ahead of Davis in 11 states, @alifornia, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and ‘Wyoming. In most of these states, the com- bimed total for LaFollette and Davis exceeded the Coolidge vote. LaFollette Cut Into Davis ant are many indications that La- . lette cut far more deeply into Davis than into Coolidge. This is particularly true of the border states and the western states. much to say that many things hap- relationship existing between Dean O’Bannion, State’s Attorney Crowe and the police is proof of this. Not so long ago Lieutenant O’Bannion on charge of stealing booze from a government warehouse, tectives led O’Bannion’s happen along. of this escapade, but the Hearst pa- charge with O’Bannion. tale. Gunman Is Buried. Grant No Clemency. TOKIO—Clemency was today re companied him to his grave. successor, Alterie, of the Janitors’ Have you heaved your brick? MOLDAVIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC BORN WITHIN THE SOVIET FEDERATION : By ANISE. MOSCOW.—(By Mall.)—The organization of an autonomous Moldavian state within the Soviet Federation was confirmed on Oct. 11 by the Ukrainian ventral executive committee, from whose territory the new state is formed. it tes not far from Odessa along the borders of Bessarabia, and will be given full autonomous rights. This is expected to cause considerable comment on the other side of the border, for the greater part of the Moidavian people are in Bessarabia under the rule of Roumania, which is suppressing all national expression with military foree. The difference of treatment accorded by Roumania and by the Soviet Republic cannot but strengthen the pro-Soviet feelings of the pmailer nationalities scattered along the Russian border, r "ge rests. gunmen who helped to break the ment workers’ strike are mixed in this murder and neither Crowe the city police is have any yn know too much, Next Sunday Night and Every day Night, the Open Forum. Guest of Gunmen impossible to make any headway in running down the clews to the mur- der? The police department has plenty of stoolpigeons in the ranks of the gunmen. It is safe to say that nothing happens in the underworld unknown to the police. It is not too pen in the underworld that are made to happen by th@ police. The close Michael Grady, so-called “ace” of the detective bureau, was indicted with Ac- cording to statements of prohibition officers, Grady and a squad of de- hijacking caravan and were prepared to shoot it out with any darned U. 8. govern- ment prohibition agents that might Grady was suspended as a result pers made such a vigorous fight for him that Mayor Dever and his chief of police were forced to reinstate him pending trial on the booze stealing The gunmen are not doing any wor- rying about the police. As The DAILY WORKER already pointed out, the latter are useful to the employers during strikes and elections. There is no record of a gunman going to the gallows for murder. Robert B. Crowe loes not make a grandstand play in the cases of gangsters, indicted for murder as he made in the Loeb-Leo- pold case, Why? It is almost un- necessary to answer. His political re- lations with O’Bannion, who, accord- ing to Chief of Police Collins, com- mitted twenty-five murders, tell the O’Bannion was buried today. Thou- sands of dollars worth of flowers ac- Hun- dreds of gunmen were there. The po- lice were supposed to arrest gangsters carrying gats. -But tho O’Bannion’s Union, was surrounded by men with bulging pockets, there were no ar- Those who remember the energy displayed by the Chicago police dur- ing the strike of the Ladies’ Garment Workers last spring in arresting pickets, may be surprised at their present inability to even get hold of a clew in the O’Bannion case. It is more than likely that many of the gar- up nor in- tention of “getting” them, The gun- THE DAILY WORKER BLOODY FASCIST Saturday Evening Post RULE IN ITALY | Takes Up Arms Against ISNEARING END) Recognition of Russia (Continued from page 1) trouble with Austria and also proved that Italy has her scissorsbills as well las the U. S. The officers were easily | distinguished from the men both by their uniforms and their weight. Most of them carried the extra poundage in front of them. In other words they were typical bourgeois business men. The rank and file of the militia ap- peared to be recruited from the same element as our strfkebreakers and gunmen of the U, S. They were hard-faced, tough-looking individuals who appeared ready for anything pro- vided they were well paid for it and the risks weren't too great. Following the militia came the By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. B aarehe the Chicago Tribune vehemently declares that “there must be no weakening in our policy under Presi- dent Coolidge,” on the question of Russian recognition. This is only part of the tremendous outburst occasioned by the fact that even the Baldwin tory government in Great Britain, haven of counter-revolutionary anti-Bolsheviks of every stripe, has been forced to announce that it will not change the policy of the deposed Labor Government in recognizing Soviet Russia. * * ° e There were plenty of the die-hards in Great Britain, especially in the tory party. There are more of them, even in the United States trying to stave off inevitable assent to the fact that Soviet Rule in,Russia is impregnable. England has its Curzons and Churchills, The United States has its young fellows of the movement, : Hughes, its Hoovers and its Gomperses. . . * * mostly kids around eighteen or under, who obviously showed their pleasure in belonging to an organization of cut- throats, a sort of modern way of play- ing pirate in a more realistic manner. Of course, they tried to look as fero- cious as possible. No Applause for Musso. There was no applause as they passed and the whole atmosphere was one of a funeral rather than-a cele- bration, After the parade the Fascist assembled in the piazza in front of the cathedral. In a very few minutes an automobile plowed its way through the' crowd making the people jump for their lives and pulled up at the foot of the steps leading to the ca- thedral. Out stepped Mussolini in a black shirt and about two pounds of medals on his manly breast, mounted the cathedral steps and made a short speech in which he lauded his accom- Plices for the gentle manner in which they had saved the borgeoisie from the terrible Bolsheviks and the work- ers from getting an extra crust of bread a day. He then got down and was kissed -by a number of his com- patriots after which he made his es-| cape. : But while the Tribune walls that, “We do contend that they (the Russians) will make more petty mischief than recognition is likely to be worth in trade,” another powerful organ of American capitalism, the Saturday Even- ing Post, bases its opposition on entirely different grounds. It uses up considerable space in the Nov. 15 issue of its two and a half million circulation, raising a cry against “The War on Capital” in Soviet Russia; a war that it claims is beginning to permeate American institutions. . ° . ° The article ends with an appeal for those pillars of American capitalism—“free endeavor” and “initiative.” It pleads, in the best style of the Russian emigres, those who supported the czardom and plot for its return, that capitalism be restored in Russia. The big cause of -the hysteria is the admission that Soviet Rule, even under the New Economic Policy, instituted under the leadership of Nikolai Lenin, has been driving hard against the private beled in Russia, the Nepman, tendng towards their comp ete extermination. Cyrus H. K. Curtis ‘is president of the Curtis Publishing Co., that publishes the Saturday Evening Post. Curtis was —s those called to Washington before the Borah committee investigating campaign funds. Curtis admitted he was working for the re-election of Coolidge, and that he had contributed toward the Coolidge $4,000,000 cam- paign fund. This is the Curtis who fears Bolshevism in Russia, because he feels that it will inspire the workers to establish their own Soviet Rule in this country, that it will mean the end of capitalism. : * ° J e The Saturday Evening Post levels its strongest attack against the Russian co-operatives, especially the All-Russian Union of Consumers’ Societies. It sighs because of the efforts of the Russian co-operative movement to wipe out the little shopkeepers. Here are its own words: “Thruout Russia, in trains, street cars, on walls and in windows, you'see posters aimed at the elimination of private enterprises. Here is one of the ¢hoicest injunctions: “‘The co-operative store does not rob you in measure or weight. It selfé without cheating.’ “A second reads like this: “‘Buy everything In the co-operative store and nothing in private shops.’ ; “A third, which contains the usual capitalization of propaganda opportunity, is as follows: “(The Fascisti have plundered the workers’ co-operatives of Bul- Ominously Silent People. There was cheering and waving of guns but the Milanese who were in the crowd took no part in it but re- mained, what seemed to me, rather ominously silent. An American who witnessed the same celebration last year said that this was in direct con- trast to the way crowd received |. the heroes then, The turning point was the murder of Matteotti and al- though he (Mussolini) may hang on to power another year pr two, he and his organization are losing popularity day by day. However, he saved the hide of the bourgeoisie for a time and has therefore. performed his mis- sion. Third Party Issue Is Facing El P aso garia, Italy and Germany. The Revolutionary proletariat establishes A. F " of Ril Convention its co-operation—their weapon In the struggle with the world bour- — geoisie” (Continued from Page 1.) “Still another reads: ® A. .M. Huddell, Chelsea, Mass., steam engineers; William J. Mc- Earley, Cleveland, lathers; John J. Hynes, Washington, sheet metal work+ ers; James P. Noonan, Washington, electrical workers; E. J, Given, Chi- cago, plasterers; secretary-treasurer, William J. Tracy, U. 8. department of labor. In a statement today Gompers de- clared that labor fared “almost phenomenally well” in the general elections. “In the face of the Cool- idge landslide there were elected to the new house of representatives more members having labor’s indorse- ment than are to be found in the pres- ent house.” That this means absolutely noth- ing can be seen from a survey of the activities of “union card” congress- men in previous houses, elected with the indorsement of “labor” on thi democratic or republican ticket. It is @ certain sign of the continued Gom- persian asininity and attempts to be- fuddle and mislead the workers that Me has the nerve to say that labor fared “almost phenomenally well,” despite the tremendous Coolidge land- slide, a guarantee of a black reaction- ary rule against the workers of Amer- ica for the next four years. i The senile old faker adds insult to injury when he further states» that the new congress “is not likely to pass any measure greatly detrimental to the interests of the workers.” A statement of this sort made in the face of the appointment of Coolidge’ y| manager, William M, Buler, to fill the place of the deceased blackguard, Lodge, is either to be classified as hopeless ignorance gr knavishness. In the case of the doddering old man of the sea, it is probably the latter. Membership meeting, Workers Par- ty, Local Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 20, 1924, 8 p. ms at Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted St, Order of busiriess: 1, Review of election campaign in Chicago and future taske. 2 nuclei, f All other meetings cancelled, Meet- ing starts promptly at 8 p. m. Party and league comrades, be on time! es “‘All that we require while NEP rules is a co-operation which In extent and depth comprises the Russian people.” es a Rae Therefore the Saturday Evening Post laments. Because the workers and peasants of Soviet Russia are striving to build their own co-operative system. Evidently this sheet wants us to infer that it is in favor to do all their sma from bandit capitalists; that it approves of the burning and destruction of the workers’ co- operatives in countries still under capitalist rule; that this is its wish with the hoped for return of czarism in Russia; that it objects to the masses of the Russian workers and peasants determining their own destiny. The Saturday Evening Post sheds copious tears because during the first six months of 1924, the applications for Pang vate shop licenses, in Moscow alone, decreased by 8,000; proof conclusive’that co-operation in the struggle towards Communism, is winning out over the last vest! of the “free endeavor” and “initiative” of which the upholders of capitalism so proudly boast. Matar Intelligent workers and farmers in the United States, who are struggling to build their own co-operative movement, within the cap! shell, even-in this country, will not be Maes oy 4 by the capitalist class arguments of the Saturday vening Post. Neither will they be frightened by the Tribune’s bogey of “Bolshevik Propaganda.” American workers and farmers want to know the truth about what is going on in Soviet Russia. In time they will not only be content to have the United States recognize Soviet Russia, but they will be join- ing the struggle in this country for a Soviet Government of tl ‘ heir own. ¢ Withhold Decision , in Trial of Coal talk of secession, hold this against (Continued from Page 1.) progressives from the local if possible by revoking the charter and keeping | ment aghting as the progressives out when it is rejwhole U, M. W. of A. organized. Members Must Stick. If the officials can get rid of Harm! son, progressive candidate opposing Russian Lecture Tomorow. ber, and Pat Toohey, who is running for auditor they hope to provoke the progressive |Radwanski. elements™ and miners into|lecture will be. asty and ill-advised action and wild /guage of robbery in measure and weight; that it wants the workers - If the officials can provoke the men to this folly, they hope to be able tc Miner Progressives the Teeneraeey sy, / afterward, But the progressive lead- 2% ers are actively opposing and move: ment which will furnish ammunitior sive ticket off the ballot and oust the|to the reactionary machine against the miners’ only hope—a solid and powerful progressive miners’ move body thruout the A lecture on the Third International O'Leary for International board meni-|Will be given this Sunday afternoon, 0 o'clock, at the Soviet School, the progressive slate |1902 W. Division St. Speaker: N, Admission free. The|buy the traction lines, and will d Saturday, November 15, 1924 TORY CABINET PROBING ITS OWN "RED’ PLOT Ramsay MacDonald Is ShownUp in ‘Mutt’ Role (Special to the Dally Worker) LONDON, Nov. 14.—The for- eign office has qualified its as- sertion that the question of re- vocation of trade agreements with Soviet Russia was not un- der consideration, by saying that if the cabinet inquiry of the “Zinoviev note” warranted, the whole question of relations would be taken up. Zinoviev’s Counter Charge. The foreign office statement inti- mated that recognition and allied ques- tions might come under cabinet scrut- iny if no substantiation were found for the charges of Gregory Zinoviev, president of the Communist Interna: tional, that his alleged note to British Communists was a forgery. This forged note was the means whereby a British spy in Moscow, was caught by the Soviet cheka, according to reports. This spy had obtained ac- cess to important documents and pho- tographed them. As nothing in them, however, warranted disturbance-in the relations between England and’ the Soviet government, the plan was laid by the cheka whereby the spy, then under suspicion, would be proven a spy by what the British government didvafter he had photographed a let- ter, supposed by him to be genuine, which the cheka planted for him and which contained imaginary plots di- rected against Britain supposedly by Zinoviev. i Tories Used Trick on Ramsay. As the tories, under Ramsay Mac: Donald, the “labor” premier, control led the admiralty and army depart ments of the British government and ° were in charge of all the technical work even in the foreign office, when the photograph of the forged letter reached Great Britain, it was copied and secretly given to the conserva- tive newspaper, the Daily Mail and leaders of the conservative party. As the cheka in Moscow had put into the forged and planted note the amusing suggestion “to the British Communists” that Ramsay MacDon- ald Was a good fellow and, being pre- mier, was in a position to aid in over- throwing the English government, the conservatives waited until the eve of election day. Then the slick tories in the foreign office persuaded MacDon- ald that he could make a big hit by publishing the thing, ‘together with a sharp note to the Soviet government, and thus show that he, Ramsay, was standing for no foolishness from the Bolsheviks. i Ramsay Reniged Too Late. As the conservative party had planned, the effect of the publication of the forgery damaged MacDonald in the eyes of the bamboozled British people, everything possible to connect Mac- Danad with Bolshevism and frighten the nervous electors. Altho MacDon- ald reniged at a late hour and said he thought the note a forgery, it was too late and the election went against him. Paregoric for Public. The statement made previously that the conservative cabinet would not consider revocation of the recognition of Soviet, Russia has been seen to be politically unwise in the consideration of the tory leaders, it is thot, and the present qualification issued to soothe the nerves of the public which does not understand the trick put over by the Baldwin conservatives upon Mac- Donald and the labor party regime. The British government recognized Soviet Russia for business reasons, not because of affection for Bolshev- ism, and the same reasons argue against any revocation. English state- craft is equalto the occasion, and will probably marage to escape from Zinoviev's charges by laying all the blame on Ramsay MacDonald without breaking off profitable relations with Russia. EDUCATIONAL MEETING. The Douglas Park English will hold an open meeting this day, Nov. 17, 1924. William F, Dunne, who h the Workers’ Party delegation, will report to us on the fifth World’s Congress of the Communist International. A record crowd is expected. This meeting will take Douglas Blvd. at 8:15, are expected to decide today or not the city will be able to buy and consolidate the surface and ele vated systems, The bankers will give a written verdict on the Schwartz oer- tificates, with which the city hopes to and the conservatives did . <A