The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 21, 1924, Page 2

HAND IN GLOVE WITH THE KLAN Still They Meet With Disastrous Defeat (Special to The Dally Worker) HOUSTON, Pa. Nov. 20.— The United Mine Workers of America, District 5, officials, if not members themselves of the murderous Ku Klux Klan, are working hand In glove with these Fascists against the Com- munists and other progressives. But in one instance they have met with disastrous defeat. Try to Expel Communist. This was in the attempt to expel Andrew Harmison, progressive can- didate of the miners, and thus to get his name off the ballot. Over a year ago, while a member Meadowland Local No, 182%, An- Harmison had his back broken the Meadowland mine. But while tember working with the other coal he won the majority of the membership to the progressive and this riled the reactionaries. the Meadowland miners elected Gotnrade Harmison to the Indianapolis Convention as their delegate. ‘Take Advantage of Cripple. While at Indianapolis, Comrade Harmison fought the Lewis machine, and when he came back and had to reenter the hospital, the financial gecretary of the Meadowland local, ‘who is a member of the Klan, made @ motion in the local while Comrade Harmison was still in the hospital to @xpel him “because he is @ self-ad- mitted Communist.” Notice was served upon Harmison in the hospital to appear to answer charges as soon as possible. Two days after the framed-up farce of a ‘trial” at the Pittsburgh district office, the travelling auditor, George Fenton, and the Kluxer financial secre tary of Meadowland Local 1829 eame over to the house of the financial sec- retary of Local 1724 and asked him to turn over Comrade Harmison’s card. When he balked at doing this and asked, “What'll I tell Andy when he comes after his card?” Fenton said; “Toll him it is void!” Licks Gang Unanimously. This shows how desperate the gang progressives off the ballot. If they could have gotten Harmison’s card, they would have destroyed it and he would have had no proof of this mem- bership. But the game didn’t work. On Thursday, Comrade Harmison finally was able to appear for “trial” before the Meadowland local. And the crooks and fakers and Kluxers caught hell in particular. Dobbins and Fenton were in the meeting and-had to take water. Harmison talked for an hour exposing their crookedness. The only excuse Fenton could rake up for trying to get hold of Com- rade Harmison’s card was that he was “Just going to bring the card to the looal until the charges were disposed ot,” This sounded pretty thin to the coal diggers and by # unanimous vote the charges against Comrade Harmi- son were dismissed. Kiuxer’s Flowers to Dead Boss. Immediately a progressive miner preferred charges against the Kiuxer financial secretary of Meadowland tor his conspiracy to frame up Andrew Marmison. This will bo acted upon at the next meeting and the Klansman fp Ukely to get it in the neck as he has the coal diggers hating his guts for sending a $10.00 bunch of flowers in the name of the local when a coal operator died. At this meeting Pat H. Toohey, an- other candidate of the progressive miners also took the floor and the Officials did not dare reply. Fenton, Dobbins and Board Member Hughes are members of this local and by the unanimous vote in favor of Comrade SATURDAY, N national Trade Union Move: Leader of the Junior Groups. ‘The Crisis in Italy Is Ripening. Letters from Moscow... Red Soldier’s Manual... Beexe geere ERSE PICTURES ORDER | 1113 W. Washington Blvd. in District 5 is getting to throw the|the man had been killed. Nearby, IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE The DAILY WORKER Magazine Section Recent Changes In Chitar..ssesesssessesssseenee Campaigning for Communism........ Negroes and the Caste System... American Intervention in Europes. Gompers Makes a Move to Block the Unity of the Inter. crmeneemeanennmeurnicnennenn ny ANNE The Shop Nuclei—A Need Now. And Other Interesting Articles THE DAILY WORKER UNITED STATES GET NO REQUEST TO GAG IBANEZ ON ALPHONSE WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—No re- quest has been received by the United States from the Spanish gow ernment to prevent the publication of “Alphonse XII! Unmasked,” Blas eo Ibanez’s attack on the king of Spain, it was said at the state de partment. This government could not stop the publication of Ibanez’s works anyway, save by court injunction, and that Is considered improbable. Harmison are practically repudiated by it. In their speeches, Toohey and Harmison both asserted that they were Communists and proud of it, and were applauded when they told of Communist principles. It was quite tich to see the three fakers have to Sit still and swallow their rage. Pat Toohey has been nominated by more than thirty locals in the dis- triet. Harmison Not Afrald of Scrap. Harmison is the man who was re- fused his citizenship papers in 1923 after he created a sensation in the court by asserting that he was a Cam- munist, believed in revolution and thought that Lenin and Trotsky were two of the greatest men who ever Uved, The Ku Kiuxers threatened to lynch him at that time, but he told them to come and try it, amd they decided he was too willing. Tt is somewhat funny to read in the papers about the Kiama wanting to “clean up the mining camps” when Board Member Hughes, who is work- ing with the Kian, is a bartender for the Elks club in Oannonsburg and draws a regular salary from them, and in addition rakes off his salary as union Officer and a padded expense account besides. No wonder these birds fight for their jobs and try to stop progressive miners running against them. Gangland’s Pistols Crack Again After Killing of O’Banion Gangland’s pistols, muted since the murder of Dean O’Bannion and the at- tendant increased vigilance of the pol- ice to avert a possible gang war, spat death again today after another vic- tim had been “taken for a ride.” The body, bearing three bullet wounds, was found slumped in an al- ley where, police believe, it had been hurled from an automobile in which police found another man dying from a fractured skull. The dead man was identified as Gen- aro Pauila. At a hospital, the other victim re- fused to reveal his identity. Dying, he adhered to the gangland’s code— 8 ce. “My friends will take care of this,” he murmured and lapsed into uncon- sciousness. The body of the slain man was iden- tifled by Mrs. Louis Parillo, 921 S. Loomis street, as that of her hus- band’s brother-in-law. He was a “man of mystery,” according to the Parilios, and they did not even know where he lived. His wife was said to be in Elgin and the Parillos thought he had a brother living in Gary. READ THE DAILY WORKER. BRITISH PLAN NEW ATROCITIES TO COW THE NATIVES OF EGYPT some (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Nov. 20—Premier Stan- ley Baldwin and Lieutenant Colonel Amery conferred today regardi the Egyptian situation and the attempted assassination of Sir Lee Stack. They decided, it is understood, to dispatch a stern note to Ngypt, charging the Egyptian government with raising the Sudan question and in this. manner incurring indirect responsibility for the attack on Stack. OVEMBER 22 sammeweBy Ae Joffe By Wm. & Foster By Gordon Owens mmm By 1 Stalin ment. By Alexander Bittelman wenn By Ruggiero Grieco By Martin Abern ILLUSTRATIONS NOW! Chicago, Iilinois achieved, GERMANY GIVES VIEWS TO ALF.L Confesses His Fear of the Communists (Continued from Page 1.) the present system of society, the causes of unemployment, forced emi- gration, poverty and wars. These young workers will be the future lead- ers in the struggle for emancipation. “Helped Germans,” Say Swales. The English unions, asserted Swales, had helped the German work- ets against the lengthening of the work day. They had not coffined themselves to defense in interftiational activities. They helped initiate move- Ingnts, not the least being the present jrorld-wide campaign against war. “Our hatred fot war,” said Swales, “must be translated into action and practice. We must have international solidarity of the workers of the whole world. A Fat Chance for. This Hope. In spite of the “nonpartisan” re- port of the excutive council of the A. F. of L., Swales: expressed a hope that the American labor movement will soon be as well organized politically as they are industrially. It was a great achievement, according to Swales, to put in place of lords and dikes, law- yers and captains of industry, miners, railwaymen, machinists, ironworkers and other men of “honest toil.” “Like all countries,” he said, “we in England have our militant section, our extremists. In some countries they caused a split. In Britain there was no split. We have met abuse sometimes, and discipline was upset. But only good comes from. this new blood. Most of my colleagues were young firebrands, but responsibility has sobered them down. I hope to re- main @ rebel against present day so- ciety, Opposes Expulsion of “Extremists.” “Instead of expelling these young people,” said Swales, “we ullow them to come in and take their share in the movement. To expel them plays the employers’ game, and would have hopelessly divided us.” Russian Workers Like Ourselves. “At the Vienna Trade Union Con- gress,” said Swalés, “we decided to make an effort to bring the Russian trade unions {nto the International Federation of Trade Unions. We have nothing to fear from Russia. They are workers like ourselves. I have faith that they will solve their problems We are coming together, not for Bol- shevism, but for brothertiood.” Cramp Bellyaches at Communists, C.'T. Cramp, the other English dele. gate, bore out his name, after a brief laudation of the “labor” movement and the “budget” of Phil Snowden, he launched into a bitter attack on the British Communist Party, saying that the Communists promote strikes that end in defeat, cause disruption, that workers detest them, that if the ideal of the British Communists were “The world would be a human menagerie and brute law would rule.” He did not state what cage he would occupy in such a menagerie nor men- tion the “brute law” of calling out troops by MacDonald to break the tramway strike. However, Communism was “rapidly fading,” asserted Cramp, and he urged recognition of Russia, because it was @ problem of all western races, Hej said: “You cannot put a feace are ind Russia,’ As One Faker to Anoi Feeling himself in congenial com- pany, Cramp spoke unrestrainedly, as one labor faker to another. He said that the Russian workers “were di based” by the czar’s bloody suppre sion, that those who use brute force can expect to be crushed by brute force, that it is a servile mentality that worships a dictatorship, that re- volution, in order to justify itself, must make national wellbeing and freedom, that Russia had not fulfilled this, whatever it may do in the fu- ture, We can accept friendly rela- tionship, but not dictatorship, he said. Cramp was not under fire as he was at the British Trades Union congress when it was visited by Tomsky and other of the delegates from the Rus- sian unions. There he was compelled to be cautious, and when he ventured as far as speaking of the “mistakes' of the Bolsheviks, Tomsky replied, “Yes, we Russians make mistakes, No one is more aware of it than the Rus- sians themselves, but then you know an, do not make revolutions,” triotis: “Finer Feelings.” Cramp expressed himself as “against war,” as all labor fakers do, but urged action before war, because “patriotism has its finer feelings” and carried the day. It was too late when the bugle blew. German Delegate Speake. Poter Grassman, the agent of nes, industrial king of Germany, was a perfect type to represent the social democratic traitors of German labor bureaucracy at the gathering of Gom- pers and company, He praised Gom- pers’ “noble assistance” tor sending of money from America to pay the salary of German union bureaucrats when they were bankrupt because of the combined inflation of the mark and the desertion by the workers of A. F. OF L, CONVENTION REJECTS RESOLUTION URGING AMALGAMATION By J. W. JOHNSTONE, (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas—The resolution introduced by the Amalgamated As- sociation of Iron Steel and Tin Workers, éalling for an industrial union in the steel mills to be sup- ported by the A. F. of L., wa, de- feated unanimously without discus- sion. Andy Fureseth of the Seamen's Union, introduced a_ resolution against the use of the army or navy for the collection of foreign invest- ments. A resolution introduced by Major George L. Beyy, asks the endorse- ment of the Alrécrican Legion, prob- ably as the best strikebreakers out- side of the officials. of the Press- men’s Union. The Molders’ Union has introdue- ed a resolution asking by petition of the governor of Texas, the re- lease of Rangel, Cline, Cisneros, Gonzales, Vasquez and Perales. the trade unions. The money had helped Grassman to carry on the ex- bulsion fight against the Communists, therefore, Grassman thanked Gom- bers. No Remedy for Sharp Struggle. Grassman warned that sharp strug- gle is now commencing between the workers and the employers, Accord- ing to him, “only fools believe that capitalism has been weakened by the world war.” He says, “On the con- trary, in all countries the advance of the labor movement is coming to a standstill. But self-preservation will force ‘the toilers of the world to unite.” Grassman said, “The most powerful économie nation cannot live for long without the others,” evidently speak- ing of America. “How much truer that is of the working class. A defeat for the workers in one country con- cerns all others. We must look to the future in order to control it. We stretch our hands to the American workers and would be glad if you would shake hands with us.” “Greedy” Workers to Blame. Ct w members taken in during 1918. so he said, wanted a thousand Per cent interest on dues paid. When it was clear that it was easier to alter Political conditions than to change the economic order, these people lost pa‘ ience and followed the loudest agita- tor. He did not say that the G man social jocracy, of which he is 4 leading ber in *the reichstag, had promised the G workers “socialization” and then betrayed that promise by even giving the govern- ment railroads into private hands un- der the Dawes’ plan. Grassman, instead, blames “Mos- ‘Moscow financed Communist da because it hated trade un- jon leaders and wanted to make the trade unions an instrument for the political purposes of Moscow dicta- tors and make Germany a Bolshevist state. But they failed.” He did not add that the German workers had small choice im the matter, since his socialist party shot them down when they attempted to set up a Sovi Nor did he explain that this “failur of the Bolsheviks opened the way for the enslavement of German labor un- der the Dawes’ ‘plan, Advocates Hope Diet. “Communism is a mental disease,” Grassman asserted, which probably explains the immunity of Gompers ard company. “This disease digap- ports when we can have hopes for he future, therefore, we Germans ac- cepted the Dawes’ plan as the only way out.” He did not say how long the German workers were expected to live on hopes, nor that a Soviet revo- lution was another “way out.” Grassman was very proud that ho was the “only expert” that Dawes called in to speak for German labor. He said that the eight-hour law in the German constitution which the Dawes’ plan is forcing Germany to repeal didn’t amount to much anyhow, that laws can only be enforced by strong organisations and that in this respeet the unions were now accumu- lating funds and had started a “labor Will Fight for Low Wages, Grassman said that altho wages a1 from 35 to 40 per cenit below the pre-war scale, still there are tested union men who will fight to keep these conditions because it is called ‘democratic republic” insted of a ‘dictatorship.” Gompers’ Agent Misrepresents Mexico Haberman, one of the lick-spittle “radicals” who successfully made of Mexico by acting as Gompers’ messengers, spoke for the Mexican federation, He invited the Class Lines Divide the Vote of Germans in U. S. Friday, November 21, 1924 2 eS te ee RIS N.Y. TAG DRIVE FOR STRIKERS and Berger Is Worried|| BEGINS NOV. 22 By J, LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, many echoes are still to be heard, reverberat- ing different reactions caused by the results of the recent election. Some little additional attention must be given to the lamentations of the lone socialist congressman, Victor L. Berger, editor of the Milwaukee Leader. Berger feels, and he feels it strongly, that he has not only been double-crossed by the LaFollette forces, but that large hosts of Germans have also given him the thumb-to- nose treatment. ° * * * Quite a number of German sheets over the land sur- rendered to the Coolidge treasury in the recent campaign. The Cincinnati Freie Presse and the Omaha Tribuene are con- spicuous examples. “The Progressive,” an organ of the Ger- man Steuben Society, that endorsed LaFollette, refers to this sell-out as one of the “Humorous Phases of the Campaign.” But Berger comes to bat strongly with the declaration that, “We can see nothing humorous in such trades.” * * * * Berger laments the lack of coherence in the forces that go to make up the Steuben Society. He especially attacks one of its leaders in Milwaukee, who failed of nomination for congress as a “progressive,” and therefore went over to the Coolidge camp. ° * . ° Berger's socialist education has taught him nothing. Be- cause the United States made war on Germany in 1917-18, he expects the Germans in the United States to vote as a block against the two Wall Street parties. He can see no class divi- sions separating German workers, small business men and big capitalists in the United States. He creates the myth of “the German bloc”; that perhaps did exist, in greater or less extent, during the war. * * ° ° Berger continues his illusion by proclaiming that he is a “sincere friend of Germany and the vars linagl gage He says he is “an absolute and implacable enemy of the hellish pact of Versailles.” But it was his friends of the Second (Social- ist) International who helped frame the Treaty of Versailles. Berger has forgotten, at least in the article from which we quote, his hostility to the Dawes Plan. It may be that. he has discovered that the German social-democracy is in favor of the Morgan-Dawes plan, along with the socialists of other countries. ‘ad ° . . * ‘i ‘ Communists can easily understand Berger's hopeless po- sition in the camp of the middle class enemies of labor. They are willing to accept and exploit his treason to the workers. But they certainly will not help him get socialist votes, or build even a socialist organization, except where It redounds to their immediate benefit. _ The Germany that Berger defends is the Germany of the - German capitalists, superec by German socialists. These. are the German capitalists in league with the capitalists of France, England and the United States for the enslavement of the German workers. * * . » Class interests are greater than “allegiance to race, | color or nationality. og yd Germans in the United States; capitalists in biemagt Sha the wealthy farmers on the land - supported Coolidge. Some middle clase elements went to La- Follette. That stripped Berger's socialist ranks pretty cleai especially in view of the fact that class conscious German workers and bitterly oppressed farmers turned to the Com-.. munists. e ° . e The complete bankruptcy of Berger's socialist party is thus revealed once more in the confession of the Milwaukee congressman. The socialist ———— evaporates with the phantom results gained by the socialist appeal to middle class support. Only the Communists, as this situation clearly reveals, carry on the class fight inst capitalism. The Workers (Communist) Party makes its direct and exclusive appeal to the exploited workers in industry and the poor farmers on the land. The socialists desert the class t against labor's enemies in every crisis. Communists utilize every crisis to rally the workers and farmers for a renewed and increasing struggle to end the capitalist social order. GOMPERS REPORTED GREATLY UPSET BY MENTION OF INTERNATIONALISM a By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 20.—-The speech of fraternal delegate A. B. Swales, Chairman of the British Trades Union Congress, advocating admission of Gompers. : Gompers Going to Amsterdam, Gompers is trying, as reported in the DAILY WORKER of Tuesday, to force the Amsterdam international to lay aside all pretense of revolutionary struggle and to refuse admission tO Omnia the Russian unions, in order to obtain Cleveland Attention! affiliation by the A. F, of L. so that Gompers may control Buropean un- fonism for American imperialists. Swales’ Speech for Unity. Swales, in his speech sald that Brit ish workers had no fear of Russian workers, and that “at Vienna (the re: cent meeting of the Amsterdam Inter. national) we decided to make an ef tort to bring the Russian trade unions into the International.’ Sam “Vexed"—May Reply. Those close to Gompers report that he is “vexed” at the suggestion that the Russian trade unions be invited to Bohemian Workers Party was lately against any relations with Russia in the labor movement and is a faithful follower of the policy of bitter hatred of Soviet Russia practiced by the cap: {talist government of the United States, Russian unions to Amsterdam, has greatly upset the equanimity of Samuel |: CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 20. — A organized in this city and energetic Raise Relief Funds for Paterson Silk Workers (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK GITY, Nov. 20.— On Saturday and Sunday the United Council of Working- women, together with all women. of the Workers Party, will conduct a tag day here to collect funds for the Paterson strikers. This tag day must be made a tremendous success for the very lives of the strikers depend upon the funds collected to keep them and their families in food. Women and Children Hungry. The Paterson strikers are waging » heroic struggle with their bosses in an effort to better their living con: ditions, They have been beaten up Many had to be sent to the hospital #0 badly have they been wounded by the thugs employed by the bosses, The capitalist courts and judges always on the side of the bosses have made an exception in this strike only insofar as they have been more ruthless in their persecution of the strikers. Hundreds of them have been sent to jail. The women and children of the Paterson strikers are hungry and cold. Respond to the Call of Your Class. You, a8 @ member of the working class should heed the call of the women and children of Paterson. No matter how little time you have you must set aside a few hours at the very least for this important task be- fore the women of New York City during these two days. Every woman comrade and sympathizer report at Jimmy Higgins Bookshop, 127 Uni- versity place, to sign up for your sta- tion. Help put this tag day over big. Junior Groups of Y. W. L. Locked Out * Of Meeting Hall (Continued from page 1) ‘was not on the part of the children, but of the detectives, who treated the Young Workers League members pres- ent roughly. bee, Call Children of Workers Dirty. One of the teachers sent to spy on the pupils told Muss Lurye, “We couldn't think of admitting such dirty children into the hall.” The children ot this neighborhood are mostly Ital- {ans, sons and daughters of workers. The junior groups are helping them learn the truth about their class as well as gaining social activity. “ The detectives tried to find out “where the central office of the Young Workers League is.” They were ad- vised if they wanted to find ont they should subscribe to the DAILY WORKER. Two boys in the crowd admitted they had been sent by Miss Tobin to spy on the activities of the children and report back to her. They were afraid Miss Tobin would persecute them if they did not obey. Meetings of the junior groups held at 8822 Douglas Blvd. and 2738 Hirsch Bivd., were uninterrupted, both meetings many new members were adghitted into the junior groups. Death of Lutheran Minister’s Wife Still Held to Be Suicide i Ze PS as RKERS PARTY oem No. 2, will hold a Memorial ” Teh to orca Fe ail wérkard org Mtg