The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 2

Page Two LEWIS’ TOOLS IN PITTSBURGH FEAR RADICALS Trying to Get Militants Off the Ticket (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 17. —The Lewis-Fagan machine is using all means their small brains can think of to disqualify and keep off the ballot the pro- gressive candidates in District No. 5 election. On top of the flimsy trumped- up charge the machine prefer- red against P, H. Toohey, can- didate for district teller, they try to secure under false pre- tense the card of Andy Harmi- son who is the candidate for In- ternational Board member and thereby claim he is no longer a member of the union. When charges against Toohey fell fiat and even Vice-President Murray was unable to make them stick, the attack shifted onto Harmison. There can always be found human vermin that will do the slimy work of the officials. Two of these, members of Harmison’s former local, went to the secretary and demanded his mem- bership card. The old secretary was not willing to turn over to strangers the property left in his custody. He ask them what right they had to other members’ cards and what answer he would give Harmison if he turned his card over to someone that had no right to it, These traitors had the nerve to say, “Tell him his card is void.” Shifted the Attack. Meeting with failure in this method te eliminate Harmison from the elec- tion they then proceeded to prefer charges against him as being an avowed Communist, The charges were made in Harmison’s former local. At this meeting a small army of the of- ficial family came with the purpose of intimidating the membership or dis- rupting the meeting in case the mem- bership would not entertain the charge. In this they would have been successful if it were not for a group of progressives including Harmison who showed the officials up in their true color as working in harmony with the operators revoking charters of locals that will not support the machine and hounding members who dare oppose them in election. Making Good Fight. The progressives of district five with all of the handicaps they are faced with in combating the actions and lies of officials are making a ‘splendid fight to elect progressives to office. Meetings will be held in all sections of the district where the pro- gressive candidates will present the program which they are supporting and will fight for when put in office against the deplorable conditions in the mines of this district. after Coolidge’s election. cleaned up a fortune last week, (Continued from page 1) for days against the endorsement of LaFollette and Wheeler, In substance the report reiterates faith in the Federation’s traditiona) policy of “non-partisan” action, re- views the alleged “progress” made by it and specifically advises adherence to that poliey. All Criticism Eliminated. No criticism of those who opposed LaFollette is contained in the report. It even lacks criticism of the old parties such as that recently uttered by Gompers in Chicago. What is more, it does not ask the old parties of capitalism to adopt more liberal policies! It is a complete surrender Competent Male and Female Help Wanted! Chicago Comrades Asked to Finish Job. by Gompers to the political parties of the capitalist class! Compromise between the Gompers’ family and the recalcitrant children who refused to go with LaFollette and instead supported Coolidge or Davis, is triumphant. The only dang- er remaining is the fringe of so-called “radicals” who were responsible for the LaFollette campaign. These are sore at labor's defection in the cam- paign and object to being “treated like orphan children” as they put it. Satisfactory to Fat Boys. But the report is quite satisfactory to the big fellows among the fat boys, such as Major George L. Berry, who fought for Davis, and William L. Hutcheson who, in the Carpenters’ convention threw a LaFollette resolu- tion into the waste basket, and John AREA BRANCHES OF Y. W. L. MUST FUNCTION WELL FROM THE START Young Workers’ League, Local Chi- cago Braneh Functionarles, As a consequence of the reorgan- ization we have different branch of- ficers and new branch exccutives in all the working area branches. Since we have only three months to reach our goal, it is necessary that the new branches function ef- ficiently from the very beginning. For this reason no time must be wasted while these new officers are learning their duties—but they must learn their duties and carry out their duties and carry out their work from the very beginning. The city will give the branch of- ficers all the help it can thru the functionaries’ class, which meets to- day at 2613 Hirech Blvd—and since your efficiency as a branch officer is of such importance to your branch if it Is going to carry out its pro- gram of action—it Is expected that you and every other officer of your branch will be presented at 8 p. m. today. IF it took one comrade six or seven hours to get articles donated for the great Chicago bazaar from 60 different store and an hour and a half for one woman to sell one package of 16 tickets—how long will it take YOU to get one or two articles, or sell a few tickets? The bazaar committee reports that the Hungarian branch has sold 240 tickets (15 sets) and collected articles totaling $75 or more in value. A few other branches are doing very goed work, such as Lettish, Czecho- Slovak, Karl Marx Scandinavien and DAILY WORKER shop nucleus. Individuals from many other branches have done extremely well, but the bazaar committee wants to know what ails famous Chicago sections of the party such as, English, Italian, Finnish, Jewish, Lithuanian and Swedish branches. (If your ‘anch is, or is not, listed here, don’t feel offended, or proud. The writer is one of them there Bolsheviki.) Our “Immediate Tasks” Are: 1. Every comrade get one or more donations and sell some tickets. 2. Bring or send all donations to Room 307, 166 W .Washington St., Tuesday or Wednesday (before 2 p. m.) if at all possible. Otherwise, before Saturday noon, Nov. 22, 8. attend meeting Settlements for s for work at the bazaar. 4. Se All delegates, branch committeemen, and others willing to help, aturday, Nov. 22, 3:15 p. my, at 722 Blue ind Ave. s tickets are to be made there, and assignments all the members of your branch you can, personally, urge them to further activity. TALK BAZAAR everywhere—to friends, sym- * pathizers and workers. Rally comrades, to boost the bazaar, “oxar.” Help to fight the American Bazaar proceeds to the DAILY WORKER and Labor Defense Council. ~~ the Difference “Heave It Back” The Daily Worker 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. PEACE FALLS ON WARRING CLANS THE DAILY WORKER CAL’S FRIENDS CLEANED UP MILLIONS ON STOCK EXCHANGE FOLLOWING THE G. O. P. VICTORY (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 17-—-George F. Baker is said to have made several million dollars on the stock exchange, following the rise in stocks Harry Sinclair, on his Teapot. Dome Mammoth Oll stocks, made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Charles M. Schwab, also L. Lewis, the big chief of the repub: lican labor fakers who aided Coolidge and may be Coolidge’s choice as sec- retary of labor, The “third party” advocates are busy in the hotel lobbies boosting the fortunes of the LaFollette group. Will- iam H. Johnston, speaking at a meet ing, predicted the destruction of the democratic party and the erection on its ruins of a “liberal party.” Donlin or Lewis? ‘The name of John Donlin of Chica. go, is being mentioned as a possible competitor with John L. Lewis for the post of secretary of labor under the new Coolidge regime. Donlin refused a unanimous re-election at the Build ing Trades department convention just closed. Donlin is a faker of the deepest dye. Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the war industries board, says Donlin made a “splendid record” of support. ing the government during the war and that he “made the hest speech de- livered during the war.” Strong for Class Collaboration. Donlin is noted thruout the building trades for his campaign for class col- laboration with the bosses. He travel led over the country trying to organize the bosses so he could help them bet ter than they could help themselves. Donlin’s greatest pride was his ‘board of jurisdictional awards.” There is much discontent among the rank and file workers at the way this was organized. Instead of the board consisting of representatives of the unions alone, Donlin put over the scheme of collaboration by making the board composed jointly of bosses anc union officials. For this reason many of the unions detest the whole idea. Hedrick Hears Things. The new head of the Building Trades department, George F. Hedrick, has expressed himself as apprehensive o an effort to cut wages. He quoted < speech made at the convention of the American Association of Bankers in Chicago where the speaker said: “We are unable to do business wit! European countries. First, they havc no gold. Second, we cannont accep their goods because that would inter fere with the manufacturers of th: United States, Third, their securities are worthless. In order to make their securities worth an American dollar it will be necessary to reduce the wages of men and women of the Unit- ed States.” The banker went to say, that such a reduction ought to be accepted yol- untarily, even if it would cause suf- fering. “The suffering,” he said, “wil) be nothing to the suffering the work- ers will undergo if we have to enforce the reduction of wage scales on them against their will.” Hedrick had to admit that the dis- cord in the buildinug trades was at present too much to make any secur- ity against wage wars by the bosses. British Officials on Way. C. T. Cramp, of the National Union of Railwaymen, and A. B. Swales chairman of the last British Trade Un- ion Congress, are enroute here to at- tend the A. F. of L. convention. Peter Grassman, vice-president of the German Federation of Trade Un- ons, will be here and John Colbert is coming from Canada. Labor’s Disgrace to Convene. The editors of approximately 200 so- called “labor papers” are gathering in El Paso for the convention of the In- ternational Labor Press: The opera: tion of the “International Labor News Service,” which was founded by Gom- pers to propagandize the policies o/ the bureaucracy as against the lef wing, will be discussed by these aco lytes of Samuel. Fat Boys Disappointed. A bunch of bloated labor fakere went across the Rio Grande yesterda; to greet the assembly of the Mexican Federation of Labor. They had been encouraged to go visiting by the re port that among the first arrivals ir the Mexican convention were four rep resentatives of the Chorus Girls’ Un- ion of Mexico, They were deeply dis appointed when they found that the Mexican chorus girls were represent- ed by four men. SSeS cc ne EEE PEER STEEL WORKER MILITANTS IN FINISH FIGHT Battle for Victory Over Reactionary Leadership _ (Spectat to the Dally Worker) WARREN, O., Noy, 17.—The battle now going on in the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers between the progressives under rank and file leadership and the con- servatives under the leadership of M. F. Tighe and Co. has pro- duced a sensation in steel work- ers’ circles. The able leadership exhibited by the rank and file is contest- ing every inch of the way and that they are producing cold chills in labor faker circles i best proven by a letter that M F. Tighe, international president of the “A. A.” sent to the Tighe Lodge No, 22, Lancaster, Pa., in reply to a letter from his lodge inquiring why no ballots had been sent. The Voice of Tighe. Hear the voice of Tighe speaking with all the bluster and pleading that such leaders are capable of: “Brother Hagen, see to it that you get out. ev- ery vote, for we need all we can get, the REDS ARE ON THE JOB.” Tighe concluded this now famous letter by remarking that “Brother Denlinger of your lodge has the BAL- LOTS.” Readers of the DAILY WORKER can draw their own conclusions as to the intent of Tighe’s statements. Up and down the great Mahoning steel valley echoes the cry sounded by Tighe: “The Reds are on the job” and knowing that Tighe reads the DAILY WORKER, the steel workers warn him and his kind that they IN- TEND TO REMAIN ON THE JOB. The last convention of the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers did away with the office of assistant president and gen eral organizer yet in defiance to this order Tighe has maintained on the payroll a chief henchman of his and sent this labor faker around the coun- try defending the machine and lin- ‘ng up votes for Tighe, at the organ- zation’s expense, with the promise that if the reactionaries continue in office he is to be promoted to the of- fice of “special organizer.” if Show Much Inefficiency. The history of the Amalgamated As- Sociation under its present officialdom is rotten with inefficiency and betray- al of the rank and file. During the strike of the Port View tin workers, McKeesport, Pa., one of the militants went into the national office of the Amalgamated Association at Pitts- burgh and asked Tighe, what are you going to do for the strikers at ‘Mc- Keesport? Tighe replied, “We can’t do anything; we are waiting for a committee to come down and tell us what to do!” The rank and file are “next” to this brand of “leadership” and the “gang’s” howling about the “Reds being on the job” seems like an echo from the steel trust propaganda dished out during the great steel strike, It was the Tighe brand of leader- ship that lost to the Amalgamated Association two of its best lodges in Canonsburgh, Pa, It was Tighe’s friendship with the Standard Tinplate Co. at this place that the industrial organization, built up by the militants, was lost along with over one-half of the membership. It was the Tighe & Co. leadership that lost two of the oldest and strongest lodges in the Amalgamated Association at Gran- ite City, Ill, who were “punished” be- cause they dared challenge the au- thority of Tighe, The czar-like censorship maintain- ed over the Amalgamated Association Journal by the headquarters gang has prevented news of these wrongs reach- ing the rank and file. Ben I. Davis, present editor, is really an office boy for Tighe and yoices the sentiments of his master on any and all occasions. These facts were given to the world at large for the first time thru the DAILY WORKER and the progressive rank and file organization, which is being supported by the militants in all labor organizations. Let Dolla Rot in Prison, The Tighe & Co. officialdom allow- ed Jake Dolla to remain behind the prison bars and had it not been for the militants arousing the officialdom to take some in Dolla’s behalf they would have entirely this rebel. K These and countless other griev- ances have aroused the rank and file to action, The militants have well seasoned leaders who have years of experience battling for a better and bigger Amalgamated Association and these sincere and able rank and leaders have i poe nit gn once SSE tortie si iit eR AR A al SDE SE te SR A a ERED see ITER tne Ea - pare to raise again the banners of ro- volt against the. ot steel eae eat ae ee NS “a A Se A tats DE i a en RR tee Mig a ce “Education Week” Helps Rouse Inquiring Mind of Nation’s School Children By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Topay: “Education Week” is supposed to be on in full blast. The pursuit of “the reds,” under the cry that Communists are a menace to “life, liberty, justice, security and opportunity,” and with all the blood hounds of the American Legion hot on the trial, was scheduled to take on enormous proportions, _ , But there is little evidence of life and activity anywhere in the capitalist camp. * e ° ° There is no beating of tom toms, to arouse the multi- tudes to a lynch law frenzy, thru the columns of the kept press. At least not yet. There may be before the week is over. _ The Communists have taken seriously the challenge issued by the Morgan-Coolidge administration at Washing- ton for “Anti-Red Week.” Everywhere thruout the land larger masses than ever before are being reached with the message of Communism, They are being shown the differ- ence between capitalist and Communist education. * * * * Perhaps the capitalist enemy, still on Nov. 4, in the political arena, put forth any exertion on feels that it is best drunk with its victory feels it unnecessary to “Education Week.” Perhaps it “to let well enough alone.” * * * There is the big probability that the “Red Baiting Pro- gram” issued by the American Legion head of the Bureau of Education in the Department of Commerce, carries the sting that is piercing the hide of those who framed it. It is dangerous to give birth to a questioning attitude in the minds of children. It is not to be expected that they will swallow, all of them, without thinking, the fraudulent igen ee to. them. i en the charge is made that, “The Red FI means death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, Pe Boa and dictatorship,” some youngsters among the millions of work- ing class school children may rise and inquire: Why is it that there is so much dying, needless death, then under the stars and stripes? The children of the coal miners, especially, could inquire, or the children of any worker toiling in the mills and the factories; always facing pre death in the unnecessary hazards of capitalist in- justry. _ What about the poverty under the stars and stripes? Millions of children know that their fathers and mothers must count the pennies lest a single one of them be spent on any but absolute necessities. What about hunger and starvation under the American flag? A million children go hungry to school every morning. Penny lunches must be served, most often to those without a penny, in the schools to the undernourished children. What about disease under the American flag? The chil- dren will raise that question. They know how disease comes stalking into their homes; disease that could easily be fought, if the doctor could be paid; if father and mother didn’t have to work so hard; if the children got better food; “if we could only live in a better home!” * * * * The children won’t understand very well what is meant when the American Legion program for “Education Week” says that “The Red Flag stands for destruction, anarchy and dictatorship.” But they will begin to question if these are not the things that exist under capitalism; destruction of all that is worth while in life for the great masses of workers and farmers; chaos in all the relations between the units in the great human family; all under the brutalizing dictatorship of greed. ‘ e e What is this Red Flag? It is natural to assume that the children will ask about The teachers must answer that it is the flag of Soviet Rule that reigns over the Russian Workers’ Republic; spread- ing out over one-sixth of the land surface of the globe. . * * * But that will only be the letting loose of the first little questions that will soon pour like an avalanche from the inquiring mind of the child. The boys and girls of the United States will want to know more about Soviet Russia; if it is so bad why do the many millions tolerate the Red Flag? Then somehow they will learn that Soviet Rule is the goverment of the many millions of workers and peasants in Soviet Russia; themselves in their struggle against death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, anarchy and dictatorship; all those tormentors of mankind thriving under all the flags of the capitalist nations. Today is called “Patriotism Day” of “Education Week.” The New York World, in discussing “Education Week” says the natural reaction is, “Patriotism? Sure! Fine Thing! I'm for it?” But on second thought the question arises, “What kind of patriotism?” And there is where the trouble starts, * * * The children will n to Brac why they owe pa- triotic allegiance to the flag of Morgan, Rockefeller and the government, that permits millions of children to be fed into the factories; there to be destroyed in their youth; unable to enjoy manhood and womanhood if they ever reach it. hey will begin to wonder if they do not owe patriotic allegiance to the struggle that has already brought such happiness, such a bright prospect for the future, to all the children of Soviet Russia, under the Red Flag, that the enemies of the children in the United States condemn so hysterically. : Let American capitalism loose the avalanche of ques- tions from the inquiring mind of the children in school and it will thus help destroy itself and all that it stands for. MEMBERSHIP MEETING Workers Party, Local Chicago Weinstone at Coney Island, SEA GATH, L. 1, Nov. 17.—William W. Weinstone will speak on “The Pol- itical Situation in the United States,” Thursday, Nov, 20, at 3109 Surf Ave., Coney Island English branch of the Workers Party, announces Jeannette D. Pearl, organizer. Sticks to His Job, WASHINGTON, Nov. 17,— Reports that Brigadier General Frank T, Hines would resign shortly as director of the United States veterans’ bureau, were denied today by Hines himself. IMPERIAL HALL, 2409 N. Halsted Street. © AGENDA: 1, Review of Election Cam 2. Shop Nuclel. for that night. All 8 p. m. sharp, , THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 8 P. M. ign and Future Tasks of the Party, All branch meetings called off party and league members be there on time, the government that they have established ~ , November 18, 1924 = [HERE'S ALIBI FOR LAFOLLETTE AND HIS THIRD PARTY Buck Is Passed to the Workers and Farmers Editor’s Note:—Here's the latest from the Gompers-LaFollette camp In Washington. We shall have some editorial comment to make in a fue ture issue, By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.~ Panic did not merely wipe out half of the popular vote which would have been cast for the LaFollette ticket if the election had taken place in September; it has destroyed the chance of formation of a new party next January when the conference for progressive political action is to meet to discuss the matter. Rear of disturbing and anger- ing the men who own the in- dustries was sufficient, in No- vember, to elect Coolidge. “Clean” Party Born Dead, Fear, transmitted by means of the direct threats of closing down fac- tories and mills, and by indirect threats contained in forecasts of “chaos” and general collapse, drove millions of farmers and wage workers and their wives to abandon their eager resolves to throw in their lot with the progressive movement. This same fear, reinforced by the fact that the republican and demo- cratic machines remain in the field with ample money at their disposal, is now crushing out the last hope of progressive republicans and democrats that their leaders will create a new “clean” party. The Federated Press has questioned spokesmen of every element in the progressive movement in the national capital since the election, except Sen- ator LaFollette, who has been in Wis- consin, It finds that. the railroad labor chiefs believe that they must con- tinue to appeal to republican and democratic voters and to the persons whom these voters elect to federal of- fices, and that instead of, creating an independent party they should build up the conference for progressive po- litical action for the purpose of nom- inating their friends on the tickets of thé two old parties, The central idea of the non-partisan league appeals to them as being more practical than the idea of trying at this time to supplant the democratic party. They say ee. that they are going to “play safe.” Always Opposed “New Party” There has never been any question as to the hostility of the officers of the American Federation of Labor to @ new party. They ventured in the recent campaign to denounce the two old parties as being in the hands of the enemies of the people, but they did not declare that the time for launching a new party was at hand. The El Paso convention is scheduled to declare for the old policy of non- Partisan action. Between the C. P. P. A. and the A. F. of L. strategy is this difference—that the C. P. P. A. Proposes to establish organizations in the congressional ‘districts to Dick out far in advance, the best men to be nominated and elected on one or the other of the old party tickets, The A. F. of L. has seldom taken an effective part in primary campaigns, but has waited until too late to secure the best representation of labor im attempt to put Senator out of the republican fold, The democrats pe ieee to Senator Wheeler t they are ready to welcom: back and to make their “good Bressive enough to Philosophy that its absorption by socialist party is no possible, re Tries to Straighten Socialists, The [ who appear disappointed and impatient with results of the 1924 alliance, the ©. P. P. A. convention then the socialists will stand on ti ag and resume the ot traight propaganda socializa- tion of the Tansee ae Railroad labor, the arch on which the new rest, has not fitted in clalists, keystone party in was