The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 1

\ THE DAILY WORKER RAISER THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | Vol. II. No. 210. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: GOMPERS ANTI-SOVIET PLOT FAILS rrp SPOKESMAN OF BRITISH TOILERS srusraser™™_ jie DEREECUTED BY HER TEACHER Satellite School Marm Obeys Boss’ Orders Teachers at the Clark school have been persecuting pupils who denounced anti-Communist education week. OHN D, ROCKEFELLER, Sr., de- lights in giving pennies—not many—to children, and telling them that by saving pennies they can be- come rich. Old John did not become rich by saving pennies. He became rich by exploiting others. The Rock- efellers are so rich now that they can- not help getting richer. Since Silent Calvin was re-elected stocks have been bounding in Wall Street. Among those to go skyward were the Stand- ard Oil stocks. In one day John D. Jr. added $50,000,000 to his nest egg. It would take him a long time to save In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year that much in pennies. REAT consternation in Paris! The czarist emigres are madder ‘en the deyil and their wrath only takes second place to that of the Rou- manian and Bulgarian Fascist govern- ments. It is over the fact that the Russia fleet used by the White Guard Wrangel to sail his troops from port to port after the Red Army kicked them out of Russia, will be turned oyer to the Soviet government by Premier Herriot of France. The Rou- manian and Bulgarian governments who have ports on the Black Sea, did not like this arrangement, but Herriot gave his shoulders a little French shrug and said that France had recog- nized the Soviet government and was therefore obliged to turn over all Rus- sian property to the Soviets. ERRIOT also intimated that Rus- sian industry should be helped to its feet and that such a develop- ment would be helpful. to France. Some objections were: made on the Rose Plotkin, in the fourth grade of the Clark school who was absent from school Wednes- day, was accused by her teacher of being absent because her work with the junior groups of the Young Workers League had made her sick. When Comrade Plotkin denied this, her teacher said, “You’re a liar.” Comrade Plotkin was made to sit at the foot of the class, altho an ex- ceptionally bright pupil. She was given poor marks and accused of not doing her homework, which she also denied. It is thot that the teachers have been persecuting members of the junior groups on orders from the prin- cipals, who in turn receive their or- ders from the chamber of commerce controlled superintendent of «schools, McAndrew. Professor Protests. Professor Joseph Kalar, of Clemen- ston, Minnesota, has written the DAILY WORKER protesting against Covlidge’s education week, “The ground that French help in develop-; teachers of Minnesota-and-the teach- ing the Russia’ oil industry might|€" of the United States in general, bring the heavy hand of Morgan and aré in receipt of a very interesting bulletin for. American education week.” Rockefeller down on France, but Her-| 5444 Professor Kalar. “Ail teachers riot remarked that France must look af: are commanded to carry out this pro-) terherowninterests. Which proves that) pram.” The. professor. then describes business is business. Herriot likes| the interest of the American Legion Communism no more than does Charles] in education week, and describes the Evans Hughes or Victor Berger, but} anti-Communist program. Soviet Russia is\a great military pow- “It is expected that the children of er, has great mineral wealth, and/| this great Godly nation will make mar- France has capitalist enemies that|velous strides in their own personal are out for her scalp. OHN W. DAVIS went to Europe for a rest and seemed to regret that nobody sared whether he went, returned or jumped into the river. All " ior groups will attend a mass meet- it ‘in. ‘ the die pablicity te fot Bieat Catv ti ing tomorrow at eleven o’clock at 1902 If Calvin ever says anything excep what the reporters say for him, he will stay on the front page as long as Dean O’Banion’s murder. Davis was willing enough to talk. He used good English, and his style was in harmony dicks. with the best parliamentary traditions. It is even doubtful if old Mr. Roberts. whose rules of order have often caused disorder, had anything on the digni- fied, scholarly Mr. Davis. But the masses did not listen to him very well, so he is taking a trip to Europe. They listened to Silent Calvin who said nothing. 'HE Milwaukee Leader is the source of much amusement and inspira- tion these days. Victor Berger has education during education week,” Professor Kalar concludes sarcastic- ally, “For God and country!” Mass Meeting Tomorrow. The children interested in the jun- Division street to discuss the results of education week. The case of Rose Plotkin will be discussed, as will the denial of Emmet Memorial hall to the children this week by secret service TORY CABINET MAKES THREAT AGAINST EGYPT (Special to The Daily Worker) "LONDON, Nov. 21.—The British a novel way of running a column. He/| government will avail itself of the generally quotes an article written|opportunity afforded in the death of Minnesota Labor Fights Reactio ‘SSUOTUUESSTAATUOAN AAALAC » = REMEMBER YESTERDAY? The BIG PAGE? Covering their yellow with our RED? No brighter splash of RED was ever flung into the face of our enemy than when, about a year ago, The DAILY WORKER was born, But everything that is born does not live. No revolutionary tabor paper will ever celebrate its first anniversary unless it has in back of it the invigorating, sustaining hand of a determined, vital prole- tariat. We are in a struggle. Capitalism there. We here. You're on our side, aren’t you? GOOD! Let's get the best of the beast! INSURE THE DAILY WORKER FOR 1925! Insurance Policies Are Ready $1 $5. $10. BUY YOURS! tiene le The Daily Worker We've got it! Let’s keep it! and BUILD! MMMM UL GOMPERS SENDS HIS LIEUTENANT TO MINNEAPOLIS TO LINE UP OR DISRUPT LOCAL LABOR ASSEMBLY (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 21.—Paul W. Smith, personal representative of Samuel Gompers, in an official appearance before the Minneapolis Trades and Labor Assembly here delivered a drastic and contemptible ultimatum which if carried into effect may spell the smashing of the local labor move- ment and the inauguration of the “open shop.” A confirmed advocate of capitalistic rule could not have made a more emphatic demand that the workers submit to oppression and tyranny than ATTACKS FAKE WORKER’S PAPER Labor at about the same time that (Special to The Daily Worker) by somebody else, giving it a few lines|Sir Lee Stack, in Egypt, to tighten by way of introduction. On the edi-|its hold on that country. The tory torial page, other writers try to wrig-| government is considering openly an- gle themselves out from under the|nexing the Sudan, it was learned to- debris of the LaFollette election de-| day, bacle. They quote Marx to prove that Fears French Opposition. their policy of a united front with La-| This move, however, would tend to | Follette is the very best socialist tac-| further inflame the slumbering hatred tics, They pour the vials of their| between France and England, and it ‘} wrath on those who would isolate |is expected that the tory government ~ themselves within the “corral of the | will hesitate to carry out its inten- alist party.” To be isolated from |tions. French and British interests thé petty bourgeois politicians and/clash in the Near Hast. the fakers is to them the last word in loneliness. them t! ed to in -FASCISTI SPY SYSTEM STRETCHES EVERYWHERE, SAYS PROFESSOR CRISPI LONDON, Nov, 21.—Professor An- _ gelo Crespi, of London University, accused the Fascisti of conducting a Id wide spy system on behalf of terroristic Mussolini govern- ir Crespi says, their families [on Zaghoul Pasha, the Bgyptian are immediately | premier, and the Egyptian govern- govern. |ment as a result of Zaghoul’s agita- Bi capes in Ital _perseouted by Mussolini officially by Smith, demanded that the Minneapolis Trades and Labor As- sembly enter into an agreement that no delegate holding views in sym- pathy with the Communists (Workers Party), I. W, W., or any other dual organization, or who is known to be a member of the Communist (Work- ers Party), I. W. W., or any other dual organization shall hold office in the Minneapolis Trades and Labor As- sembly. After hours of intense and spirited debate, Delegate Dave Broderick, of the Police Federation, who slurringly remarked and inferred on the floor of; the St. Paul convention, June 17, that W. Z. Foster was in the employ of the department of justice, made a motion to adopt and concur in the recommendations of the central ex- ecutive council of the A. F. of L. The motion carried with forty-five being recorded in favor of same, Communists Refuse to Vote. Comrade Jack Bradon, party mem- ber, who was seated as a delegate, arose to explain while the voting was in progress that the Communists would not vote one way or the other. They remained seated and therefore no votes were recorded against the policeman’s motion, Paul W. Smith, in coming before Frank L, Morrison became a member, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 21.— termed Smith’s demand the worst and most brazen insult ever handed Amer- ican workers anywhere. Motion by Policeman. The Trades and Labor Assembly by passage of a motion last night began a fight against the Minneapolis Daily Star, a publication originally founded The executive council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor, represented by progressive farmers and workers, but whose present private manage- ment has betrayed the cause. The assembly action provides for the employment of any attorney who will oppose any attempt by the Star to’ levy an assessment against the stockholders who have already been fleeced of thousands of dollars. R. D. Cramer, editor of the Labor Review, laid down the first barrage against the Star and was followed by numerous other prominent members of the labor movement who said that the farmers and workers were looking to labor for protection of their interests. One delegate stated that since the non-parti: league had fallen by the wayside, it was up to organized labor to look after the interests of the farm: ers who were formerely members of the league. As usual, the ultra-con- servatives opposed any attempt to pro- mote harmony between the farmers and workers, and stood by the Star, saying that this was not a matter for the assembly to decide. The attorney is to be engaged immediately THE DAILY WORKER. Matered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, linois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, GBB» 290 a 1924 GREAT BRITAIN AND U. S. AGREE ON ARMS CONFAB France and Japan Are Not So Enthusiastic (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.— Great Britain and the United States are substantially in ac- cord on the proposition of hold- ing another international arms conference as soon as possible; France and Japan are cool and critical and disinclined to go thru with it this winter. This, in a nutshell, describes the present status of the various informal moves looking toward a second Washington confer- ence, which President Coolidge promised he would initiate “at the proper time.” A Diplomatic Denial. The state department’s denial that this government is taking steps to bring about a new conference is con- sidered here a purely “diplomatic de- nial.” It was dictated by the fact that to date neither France nor Japan have shown any decided warmth toward the proposal and.on the contrary have in- formally advised “American officials they prefer to let the, league. of na- tions handle the armament question, It is true that mo invitations have betwi © powers on the subject of @ second conference. But is is also true, despite the fact that ‘the state department declines to characterize the moves as “steps,” that the diplo- matic representatives of this govern- ment and of Great Britain have been busily engaged for the last two weeks in unofficial and informal conversa- tions with other world powers looking to the holding of a conference before spring. French and Japs Cool. Whether the French and Japanese objections are so insurmountable as to preclude a conference being held be- fore spring is problematical. There was decided American-British accord at the first conference and it is apparent that both France and Japan view with something akin to distrust and alarm the prospect of another such accord in another such confer- ence. Gentle Hint to Cal. LONDON, Nov. 21—The Baldwin government is planning to intimate privately to President Coolidge that any invitation from him for the arms conference in Washington would be warmly welcomed. When the British government has Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKI/R PUBLISHING. CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. J Price 5 Cents AT EL PASO TELLS LABOR DUKES RUSSIANS WILL SOLVE PROBLEMS By J. W. JOHNSTONE, (Special to The: Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 21.—‘We have, | feel, nothing to feat or lose from Russian workers,” said A. B. Swales, fraternal dele- gate to the American Federation of Labor convention from the trades unions of Great Britain, in addressing the delegates, “Their temperaments and conditions may be different frond ours. But I have faith that they will solve their problems.” Unity An Insult to Fakers, ‘i This statement, sets forth perhaps, the answer of the Brit- ish trade unions to the intrigues of Gompers, said to have taken place behind closed doors, in which he, in conference with Swales and other foreign delegates, had tried to influence the English delegates, who are in a commanding position in thé eee Amsterdam International, to- ward a hostile, instead of a friendly attitude toward admis- sion of the 5,500,000 Russian unionists to Amsterdam. Certainly the statement of Swales has created a furor in the ranks of the labor fakers. Gompers is raging and promising to attack this “guest of the convention” who dares to sug- gest unity of western labor with the industrial unions of Soviet Russia, and Chester M. Wright, the yellow ex-soc- ialist. who is chief publicity agent for Gompers, is today issuing a printed attack upon Swales in the temporary “convention daily” called the “El Paso Labor Advocate.” Yellow Socialist Sees Red. In the attack on Swales, Wright says, “There was bitter resentment among many delegates against the in- troduction and manner of treatment of the Russian: question by the British delegates. ‘We have; I feel,’ said Swales, ‘nothing to fear or lose from Russian workers.’ " “Inéenged by this inference that the attempt by Gompers to fight against the Russian unions, being admitted to Amsterdam by threatening to.form a “new international” would. be opposed by the dominant English group in Am- sterdam, Wright spits out his. venom at Swales. Wright “Amazed” at Brotherhood. “There was. amazement,” says Wright, “when Swales added, speak- ing of the Russian workers, ‘We will help them and they will help us. Per- haps we have not fully understood them in the past and they have not understood us fully, but this is rapidly changing. We are coming together, not for Bolshevism, as parodied in the capitalist press, but for brotherhood.’ “These statements,” continues Wright, “delivered to a labor move- ment that has been compelled to fight Communist propaganda in its most vicious form, couched in almost the verbatim language used time after time by labor’s enemies in America, caused not a little comment. It was the most unfortunate diplomatic blun- der in. a long time.” It is rumored that Gompers is finding it hard to ex- plain why Amsterdam should be asked to repulse the application for admis- sion of 5,500,000 organized workers straightened things out in Egypt—|0f Russia, to get a brokendown and with arms—and gets the Soviet situa- tion somewhat cleared up, if it ever will, it has no objection to talking dis- armament under the leadership of the United States. There apears to be a strong Japan-French bloc developing against the Anglo-American entente. JAPS PLAN TO SPEED UP NEGOTIATIONS FOR SOVIET RECOGNITION TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 21.—The re- port is current that the Japanese government is telegraphing its min- ister, Yoshigawa, at Peking, to speed up the negotiations with Soviet Ambassador Karakhan, for a treaty of peace and recognition between Japan and the Soviet Re- public, It is stated that if the fundamen- tals are agreed upon, no time should be lost in completing the negotia- tions and recognition of Russia. Bancroft Arrives. The new ambassador to Japan from the United States, Edgar A. Bancroft, of Chicago, yestreday pre- sented his credentials and was re- ceived by the prince regent. The reception, however, may best be described as “cool and qualified,” tho courteous. This is the usual pre-war attitude of diplomats to- ward each other before they call on the workers to kill each other while they look on, \ spiritless American Federation of La- bor with about 2,500,000 members, Spanish Naval Aviators Die. BARCELONA, Noy. 21.—Jose Piner and Thomas Perez, naval aviators were killed today when their hydro- LEGION HEAD I PROMISED LABOR AS CONSCRIPTS Berry Tells Drain This Is Plan for Next War By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to the Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 21.— While Gompers was busy else- where being banquetted by the El Paso chamber of commerce, a special committee was ap- pointed to greet James A. Drain, national commander of the American Legion. William Green, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, took, Gompers place while Major Berry introduced Drain to the delegates of the American Federation of Labor now meeting in convention. Urges Conscription of Labor. In introducing Drain, Berry stated that in event of another war, both the American Legion and the American Federation of Labor are in favor of conscription of both labor and cap ital. He added that Drain was a man “filled with Americanism.”. Berry was right about that. Drain oozed. Amer’ canism from every pore. As is customary with all speakers, Drain began. with praising Gompers, At least he supposed {it was praise to say that “Gompers is a man who fs the friend of kings and presidents.” Drain went on to prove, probably to enlighten the British, if not the Ger- man delegates, that “America won thé war.” What Abot the $280,000 Balanee. Drain referred feelingly to Major Berry who, so he said, had “donated @ $20,000 farm in Tennessee for war orphans.” Drain did not mention the $300,000 or so that Berry misappro priated from the funds of the Press men’s Union, as charged by the Chh cago local of his union, and used té finance a corporation owned by Berry and his family in Tennessee, One whe plane crashed thru the roof of a house here. can get away with $300,000 of union (Continued on Page 2.) WEISBORD QUITS THE SOCIALIST PARTY, DENOUNCES OPPORTUNISM OF LEADERS, AND SEEKS COMMUNIST MEMBERSHIP (Special to The Daily Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 21.—Albert Weisbord, secretary-organizer, New England district, member’ national executive committee socialist party, national secretary young people's socialist league and national director of young people's department of socialist party, has issued a statement resign- ing from the socialist party and made application to join the Workers Party. Weisbord denounces rank opportunism of socialist leaders and its policy of class collaboration and endorses the principles, policies and statutes of the Communist International, and its American section, the Workers Party. Weisbord ends his statement of resignation with “Long live the Workers (Communist) Party of America.” Weisbord’s statement follows: ‘0 the members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America: Greetings! | hasten to apply for membership in the party of Lenin in Amer- ica and to enroll under the red banner of the Communist International. The passive and opportunistic socialist party must be exposed before the American proletariat as the enemy it is. Long live the Communist movement! Long live the Workers Party! ALBERT W ORD, r