The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 19, 1924, Page 1

é "Vol. Il. No. 207. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT AS WE SEE IT ia By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. ASTER IN CHANCERY BRIGGLE. of Sangamon county, Illinois, makes it quite clear that Governor Len Small owes the state one million dol- lars. which he made by lending state funds to the packers. at 8 per cent, ‘while Small only had to turn two per cent into the treasury. The capital- ists do not like such conduct on the part of their servants, so they are af- ter Small’s scalp. An interesting fea ture of the case is that the LaFollette political scavengers who raised so much fuss over the corruption in ‘Washington were able to line up with Small and found him a “friend of the people.” eee Montana farmer-labor paper com- ments on the approaching trial of Burton K. Wheeler for activities similar to those carried on by Fall Denby and the rest of the G. O. P. crooks in Washington. Wheeler suc ceeded in putting the Anaconda tool 'T. J. Walsh, over on the workers and farmers of Montana, but there is a growing suspicion that Walsh will leave Wheeler in the clutches of the wolves. That is the way politicians play the game. And Wheeler’s former friends, the workers and farmers he betrayed, are inclined to let the wolves-do “their damndest.” see N ingenious correspondent. inter- ested in getting to the bottom of the Dean O’Bannion murder, picked ‘upon the leading catholic ecclesiastical section of the bas those who supported Crowe's Irish- eatholig opponent, Micheal Igoe, ignor- dng the fact that. Crowe is also an Irish catholic and just as loyal—for business reasons of course—to the Roman creed as is his opponent, o 8 8 (OSE who profit from the capital- ist system are not bothered with religious scruples. Those at the top never allow their religious affiliations to stand in the way of making a dol- Jar. ‘Only the superstitions workers take it seriously. This is just as true of the fanatical anti-catholics as of the catholics. The workers must be shown that the leaders of finance ‘and big business, the ‘Morgans, Rockefel Jers, Schwabs, Ryans, Belmonts, Garys’ Farrells, Kuhns, etc., meet, eat and play together without worrying wheth- er their respective souls go to heaven ov to hell after they stop clipping coupons, Fortunately religious prej- udice is dying out and race prejudice with it. (Continued on Page 6.) CLEVELAND WORKERS T0 GET THE TRUTH ABOUT - ‘ANTI-COMMUNIST WEEK’ (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, Ohio., ‘Nov. 18.— ‘The national Education: Week’ of the American Legion, and tho national chamber. of commerce will be ex- _ posed in Cleveland at a mass meet- ing, Thursday, 20, at the La- bor Temple, 2536 Eticlid avenue, at 8 p.m. The speakers and subjects are as follow: J. A. Hamilton, “The ‘raud of Education Week”; George peun, “The Fight of the Y. W. L. jainst the Perversion of Educa- Max Lerner, “Proletarian rship vs. Capitalist Democ- Herbert Benjarnin, “Working Claws Loyalty vs. capone Patriot: | ism," “This meeting is one of the meas. ures which the Cleveland local of the Workers Party is taking to coun- teract the open ) anti-Commun- ist propaganda which is being ad-— Inistered to the public the guise of National Education Week, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: GOMPERS AID TO FASCIST DAWES World v THE DAILY WORKER. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year Rantered as Second-class matter Septeinber 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ulimois under the Act of March 8, 1878. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1924 —* PUBLISHING CO., Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORK 1113 W. Washington Bivd., posi | Mle sates OL ET US ANSWER COOL- IDGE’S ANTI-RED WEEK BY ADDING 2,000 NEW MEMBERS TO THE WORK. ERS PARTY. Price 3 Cents War Vets Condemn ‘Education Week’ POISON MINDS OF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL, CHARGE Part of Drive to Smash Organizations of Labor (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 18.—National Education Week as proclaimed by President Coolidge is strongly condemned in a resolution adopted» today by the national executive com- mittee of the World War Veter- ans, assembled in a special ses- sion at Minneapolis. The World War Veterans, quite unlike the several other organizations of former service men, have displayed sufficient courage to come, out into the open and brand this un-Amer- ican movement for what it is— a campaign among the school children to poison their childish minds against the expropriated farmers and exploited workers, a drive to reduce wages and smash labor organizations with the support of teachers and in- nocent scholars. The resolution as adopted and sign- ed.» by Jack Bradon, national presi- dent of the World War Veterans, fol- lows: Rh on Monat “Calvin Coolidge is designating Nov. 17, to. Nov. 23, 1924, as Education Week and in enlisting every known agency of reaction in the United States, has again definitely aligned himself with the enemies of progress and advancement. “That there is no depth to which the forces of corruption and predatory in- terests will not stoop is proven by the fact that in this particular instance the assault is directed against the pub- lie schools of this country. “Little children are to be taught a living lie—~are to be told that every movement in the direction of human progress is fostered by dangerous ‘Reds’ and discontented radicals. Their little minds are to be system- 18.—At a meeting teeming with excitement and tee of the farmer-labor federa- tion again showed their hands, the motion demanding a re- count of the ballots in the 35th legislative district where Emil S. Youngdahl, Communist can- FOSTER EXPOSES TOOL OF IMPERIALISM By WILLIAM Z. LIAM Z. FOSTER. ELEGRAPHIC dispatches from El Paso, Texas, where the forty- fourth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor is being held, state that in private conferences between the leaders of the A. F. of L. and representatives of the trade unions of Mexico, Great Britain, Canada and Germany, plans are being made for co-ordination of international labor bodies thruout the world, It Is added that Gom- pers hopes to establish from. these conferences @ Union of world labor organization under the guidance of the American Federation of Labor. This indicates that Gompers is finding it necessary, as a part of his regular program of furthering the interests of American imperialism, to get into the European labor movement, This mecessity arises from the fact that the invasion of Europe by Amer! imperialism, of which the Dawes Plan is the first big step, requires that Gompers and com- pany, who stand at the head of the labor art of American im- perialism, throw their restraining influence the European labor movement which is stirring with revolutionary 4 ent. In. this Gompers aims to repeat the serv! | already rendered to American imperialism in the western hemisph where the labor move- ments of Mexico, Central America, the West |) dies and South America are saddled with his reactionary policies thru the control of the Gompers bureaucracy of the Pan-American Federation of ir, It is unlikely that Gompers will form any y international. It is unlikely that he even intends to attempt the fo} of such an organ- ization. But it is his first maneuver to re-enter the international Fed- eration of Trade Unions, known as the Amsterdam International. However, Gompers will seek before entering Amsterdam to drive it to the right and to prevent admission of the revolutionary FARMER-LABOR REACTIONISTS (Special to The tttess Recount for ©) Youngdahl, Communist (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. “This man can’t be a delegate,” POLICE AID 10 BIG MAIL ORDER HOUSE BOSSES By AL SCHAAP interest, “the ted-baiters” holding delegate- hips in the city central commit- first by organized opposition’ to IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS OF U. S. HUMILIATE MEXICAN DELEGATES COMNG OVER INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE By J. W. JOHNSTONE. Nov. 18.—Immigration officials yesterday held up the of Labér convention. delegates were subjected to insulting inspection. pointing: tora Mexican worker wearing cotton trousers and sandals and no unionists of Russia. Indeed, this threat of a new international is designed by him to have this effect. He will seek to force Amsterdam to drop even Its socialist phraseology, and to adopt, as a concession to him, even more reactionary policies. But once inside of Amsterdam, Gompers will have three objectives. First, to organize and strengthen the right wing against the growing left wing. Second, to prevent the admission to Amsterdam of the revolu- tionary unions of Soviet Russia and the unity of the Amsterdam organ- ization with the Red International of Labor Unions. Third, as a matter of customary adherence to the policy of the American government, Gom- pers will make war relentlessly upon Soviet Russia. The policy of Gompers and company always follows the policy of the American government. When Wilson was in office, Gompers was a rabid propagandist for the League of Nations. At the same time he was holding the A. F. of L. affiliated to Amsterdam. When the big cap- italists of America dropped the League of Nations in favor of a policy of independent imperialist action, Gompers also dropped his support ahd withdrew from Amsterdam.’ Just as the American government Is the bitterest foe of the Soviet government, Gompers In the labor move- ment wars relentlessly upon the Soviets of workers and peasants. Now, that the aggressive and independent policy of American Im- perialism is successfully foreing the capitalist groups of Europe to accept the dominant leadership of Morgan and company; now that Amer- ican diplomats are givirfg directions in every great nation on the Europe- an continent outside of Soviet Russia, Gompers, the servant of American imperialism is maneuvering upon terms of his own making, to return to Europe to give direction, reactionary and counter-revolutionary direction, to the Amsterdam international. Gompers is following the Fascist as 1000 MEXICANS INVADE EL PASO But They Can't Infuse It With Class Spirit By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 18.— When the delgates to the con- vention of the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor, now. being held at the city of Juarez across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, marched one thousand strong over the international bridge, thru the El Paso streets and into the convention hall of the American Federation of Labor, Daily Worker) For twenty minutes the said Immigration Official Matthews, socks, All delegates wearing overalls, had to be identified by some “leader” of the Mexican workers before they were allowed entrance. This humiliating. inspection was re- sented by the rank and file delegates among the Mexicans. They shouted back to Juarez: “Comrades, the Am- ericans again insult us.” Mexican officials finally got order. A Resolution of Fraternity. In contrast with Mexican official greeting the delegates this morning found before them a greeting from the union of progressive workers of —+ '|November, 1924, do hereby condomn ‘} President.” * didate, was defeated by less than one hundred votes. Their tactics again became notice able during the time when delegates were preparing to leave the hall, a motion having been made to adjourn. Gustave Drake, local attorney and prominent in conservative farmer-la- bor circles, with a cunning shrewdness so characteristic of lawyers, made a motion, reading from a prepared pap- er, to the effect that at the next meet: ing the following question be debated: | “That all delegates harboring Com- munist views be barred from the fed- eration.” In the great haste of delegates to leave the hall, Drake’s motion was carried. The left wing element war not asleep, however, and Jack Bra- don, delegate from the Machinists Union, countered with a motion that at the next meeting the following ques tion also be debated: “That all delegates holding viewr antagonistic to the intersts of the pro. ducing class be barred from participa. tion in the federation.” The next meeting promises to be + lively session and is expected to be witnessed by a huge crowd of farmer laborites. atically distorted and poisoned with hatred for the progressive elements fighting for the right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’ “Teachers will be driven by fear of the loss of employment to do the bid- ding of those who seek to destroy freedom of thought and all semblance of that so-called democracy for which thousands of brave Americans offered their lives on the altar of sacrifice. “This alleged Education Week is merely a movement to prepare the minds of school children for future. exploitation—that the vested interests will be better-able to. suecessfully op- pose any and all progressive move- ments on the part of the people. Drive Children to War. “Therefore: ..In view of the above designated: facts, we,-the members of the National Eyecutive Committee of the World War Veterans, in special session assembled this 17th day of this un-American attempt” to stifle free speech and thought, and with the realization that this so-called’ Bduca- tion Week is also designed to psychol- ogize the child mind for war and to fight against those opposing warfare, ‘we pledge the offices and efforts of this entire organization to inform the American people of the true purposes behind this gigantic drive and we fur- ther pledge our efforts to warn the workers and farmers that it is their common enemies that are instigating this sinister movement: to prepare the people for wage reductions and ‘open shop’ campaigns. “(Signed) Jack Bradon, National (Special to The (Organizer, Y. W. L. of Chicago) The drive to organize into the Young Workers League the young workers of Montgomery Ward & Co., a large mail order house, met with the opposition of the city police. Yesterday as the members were taking their posts right at the entrance of the plant the police dispersed them to remote corners of the plant. Despite this interference the mem- bers of the Young Workers’ League distributed every leaflet printed and when they ran short they used their lungs and announced that the special mail order edition of the Young Work er would be on sale in the afternoon. Demand Strong for the Young Worker Many of the young workers of the plant were impatient. They wanted to purchase the paper immediately. However, they were told by the Y: W. &. volunteers that the paper would be mm sale in the afternoon. Pive thousand of the 15,000 edition of the Young Worker have been sold n front of the Sears, Roebuck com- (Continued on Page 2.) MINERS IN SPAIN ALSO FIGHT EFFORT TO REDUCE THEIR WAGES Dally: Worker) ASTURIAS, Spain, Nov. 18—Twelve thousand miners were out on strike here today in protest against a dally wage decrease of fifty centimes. Bank Bursts. BARCELONA, Nov. 18.—The bank of Villa Nueva has suspended pay- ments and thrown into nankeraptey, a factory owing 600,000 pesetas. the paper factory of San Rafael, Mex- co. “To the workers who manufacture paper and the workers of all the in- lustries of the United States, greet- ngs: “Comrades, These lines are a frat- ernal greeting, to our class brothers, but at the same time, we take advan- age of the opportunity of communi- sating an idea which synthesizes the aspirations of our struggle. Our cri- ‘erion is international, and we wish to be acquainted with all the advantages, ull the experiences acquired by our »rothers Who spéaksanother language, out have the same objects as we. “To this end, it is necessary that ul your pamphlets, papers, magazines, ,00ks, Iptters and the like be known ous, in order that we may adapt, to or environment, all your progress, be it of an economic or social order or in the field of production. “By acquainting ourselves with your happiness, your triumphs and your sufferings, we will be able to attain to the creation of that true cl: con- sciousness that is necessary in. order that the workers of the world may get to the point where they can govern alone. We trust that when you return to your respective organizations, you will make every possible effort to comply with our wishes. Yours for the cause of the organized worker, greet- ings and social revolution; San Ra- fael, Chalco, Mexico, November, 1924. “For the executive committee, the general secretary and delegate to the sixth convention of the Mexican Fed- eration of Labor, Luis Romero M. Gil Espinosa.” the dreary picture of the stodgy, fat and diamond - bedecked batch of labor fakers was sud- denly transformed into a gathering of real workers. Gompers Holds the Stage. But the intrigues of Gompers with the reactionary and reformist leaders of the Mexican Federation cast a dull- ing tone upon the note of proletarian spirit engendered by the presence of real workers in overalls and dirty shirts who wanted to sing the Inter- national. Thri the Mexican fakers, Rico and Treyino, Gompers held the center oi the stage. In his speech, Gompers lauded Obregon, Calles, Rico, Trevinc and Morones as the “saviours of dem ocracy.” Many of the Mexican dele- gates have no love for these politi cians and labor fakers so dear to Gompers’ heart. But, not understand. (Continued on Page 2.) IMPERIALISM IN EUROPE MAY GET AID OF AF. OF L! gy Anti-Labor. Plot Being Hatched at El Paso 4 {Special to the Dally Worker) ~ | EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 18.—7 In private. conferences with} labor representatives of Mexicog! Great Britain, Canada and Gers! many, the leaders of the Amera) ican Federation of Labor are discussing plans for “co-ordi- nating activities” of interna~ tional labor bodies thruout thé world. “ An International Call Rumored, ™ Out of these conferences is expect- ed to come a call for a world labor gathering, probably this winter, when a definite organization of European and American labor will be formed. That some sort of a union of world labor organizations be established un- der the guidance of the American Fed- eration of Labor is stated to be the chief act which Samuel Gompers hopes to accomplish before laying down the active leadership of the American Federation of Labor. No mention of the relations of such a move to the existing Amsterdam in- ternational and the Red International of Labor Unions at Moscow, is di- vulged. - = Sam Feels His Years. Gompers has confided to friends that this is the last year he will seek re-election as president of the A. F. of L. If he can accomplish his hope in the coming year, he will not again seek his present office. The representatives with whom the federation leaders are conferring are many of the Mexican leaders now at their own convention in Juarez, Mex- ico, just across: the border, C. T. Cramp, of the National Union of Rail- waymen of England; A. B. Swales, chairman of the last Trade Union Con- gress of England; Peter Grassman, vice-president of the German Federa- tion of Trade Unions and bitter foe of the workers of Soviet Russia, and John Colbert of the Canadian unions. AMALGAMATED CLOTHING WORKERS IN NEW YORK MEET SATURDAY RIGHT (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Nov. 18.—The Amalgamated Clothing Workers sec- tion of the T. U. E. L. In the clty of New York invites all Amalgamated members to come to the great mass meeting to be held at Cooper Union, 8th street and 3rd avenue on Satur- day, Nov, 22, at 1 p. m. The meeting is called to protest against the methods used by the un- ion officials especially in their man- nef of raising dues. All coat mak- ers, pants makers, vest makers, children jacket makers, operators, pressers and washable sult makers are urged to attend. BALDWIN’S TORY GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN VERY MEEK BEFORE THE RUSSIAN SOVIET GOVERNMENT ¢ LONDON, Nov. 18.—Announceme' jal to The Daily Worker) nt came today from the foreign office denying that Baldwin's tory government had any intention of going to grips with the Russian soviet government. It denied that the cabinet planned to send to Moscow a stern note pro- testing against alleged Soviet propaganda in the British empire and thus provide grounds for a break in relations with the Soviet government. The foreign office also. denied that Winston Churchill and others within the cabinet supposed to be of anti-Russian inclinations dominated the situa- tion, SREDOATION WEEK” MASS MEETING, New York (the Bronx) _FRIDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 21, WORKERS HALL, 1347 BOSTON ROAD ae: SASCHNA EPSTEIN, LUDWIG LORE, ABRAHAM MARKOFF AND MANUEL ELSTON. a RI