The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 22, 1924, Page 2

i ' ; } | } GREAT BRITAIN SPREADS LIES AGAINST INDIA Sends Officials Here to Do Dirty Job By M. K. MORSE. (For the Federated Press) (NOTE:—mM. K, Morse is the pen- name of an Indian now residing in the United States and cognizant of the British official propaganda about India let loose in this country. By his close Indian connections he is able to expose the British state- ments.) see Great Britain is seeking Amerioan co-operation to con- tinue her tyranny in India. Lord Sydenham of Combe in a recent article in the Current Histor’ Magazine of the New Yor Times has made this clear. To mislead the American pub- Hic, official and non-official pro- pagandist who falsify the situa- tion in India for the benefit of the British government are flooding America. Says Unrest Is Not Serious. Otto Rothfeld, according to the New York Times, is the jatest addition. He ‘was for many years a member of the Indian civil service and has recently ome from Bombay to lecture on In- dia. He classes himself as a liberal afd is anxious to spread the impres- sion that the majority of the Indian people are satisfied with the so-called reforms granted by the British gov- ernment, that unrest in India is not serious, and that in due time the In- dian people will be granted self-gov- ernment by the British. Facts Give the Lie. If the political unrest in India is not serious, it is hard to understand why the British government has suspend- ed the reform measures in Bengal and the central province and why the vice- Toy of India is using his veto and “certifying” power to run the govern- ment, regardless of the legislative branch. The British government does not enjoy the confidence of the peo- ple of India and the best evidence of it ts that within the last few months in Bengal alone about 60 of the most enlightened Indian political leaders, two of whom are members of Bengal legislative council and one the former chief executive officer of Calcutta; _ have been put im jail without trial and without specific charge, but on mere suspicion of assembling with “dan- gerous” characters, believing in the overthrow of British rule in India by violence. India Ruled by a “Czar.” ‘This really means that there is no civil government in India. Earl Read- ing is ruling India like a czar, assisted by Lord Lytton, governor of Bengal, and others who deny the simple right of court trial to persons merely sus- pected of political agitation. The Brit- ish government in India has surpassed the csarist regime by denying all forms of trial to political offenders in Yndia suspected of working for inde pendence. Cleveland to Hold Dance. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 21.—Local Gleveland of the Workers Party has wranged a dance and entertainment to be held Thanksgiving eve, Wednes- flay, November 26, at the Institute Hall, 2491 Wast 55th street, opposite Mast Tech high school. Admission will be 35 cents. Free favors will be piven ont. All party members, sym- pathizers, and reds of every hue can- afford to miss this affair, which be one of the outstanding radical atherings of the year, | “DAILY WORKER” TO EXPOSE MISTREATMENT OF WAR VETERANS IDESPREAD dissatisfaction exists thruocut the country among the ex-service men who were disabled in the “war for dem- ocracy” and who upon being dis ' gharged from the army, were de- nied their right to conpensation, in- surance and decent hospital treat- " mont. Conditions today under Cool- idge’s director of the veterans’ bureau, Major Hines, are as bad as they were under the regime of the teapot domers, who were forced out of office because of their cor- ruption. Beginning in Monday's iseue of the DAILY WORKER, Kari Reeve will contribute a series of three ar- ticles on the treatment by the Cool- idge adminstration of ex-eservice men. The material used will be largely exclusive, being evidence contributed to the DAILY WORK- ER and the Workers Party by ex- soldiers, revealing the rottenness of the capitalistic Coolidge admin- letration. These articles will tell of the present treatment of insane and disabled ex-service men, ineapao- itated in the war, and what attitude the benevolent Washington polit- lolans are taking toward the care of disabled soldiers. COMPERS RAG, THRU MISTAKE OF COURSE, ON RECORD FOR “VIOLENT ACTION” AS “GUIDING PRINCIPLE” By J. W. JOHNSTONE, (Special to The Daily Worker) EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 21—The visitors and newspaper correspondents at the 44th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor are still chuckling, more or less noisily at the joke on Gompers sprung, possibly by accident, in the “Hl Paso Labor Advocate,” a temporary “convention dally paper” being published by the Gompers’ gang at the convention and devoted to puffing the official family. On the front page of the issue of Tuesday, Nov. 18, is the cross page Streamer headline — “Sacrifice and + Service Urged by Gompers.” ‘Then, underneath, a two column sub-head in big twenty-point type says—‘“Let Vio- lent Action Be Guiding Principle, He Declares.” While this may express Mr. Gomp- ers’ “violent” opposition to the Com- munist work in the unions, it is re- motely possible as deduced from the context of his speech, that the head- line should have said “Voluntary” in- stead of “Violent.” However, we hope that this little error will escape the eyes of the department of justice of the United States, as poor old Sammy is getting too old for to take Bill Hay- wood’s empty cell at Leavenworth. TEDDY MAY NOW REST IN PEACE; "TIS SAID ALICE MAY HAVE SON WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 22.— Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, eldest daughter of Theodore Roose- velt, is expecting the birth of a son. Mrs. Longworth, wife of the repub- lican congressman, has been for many years an outspoken advocate of large families—for the workers. This is Mrs. Longworth’s first child in eighteen years of married life. GOMPERS AID TO OPEN SHOPERS (Continued from page 1) the central labor bady of Minneapolis, stated that this was his second of- ficial mission to this city and that after spending over eigtheen months here he had thought that it would never become necessary for him to make a second trip. Smith, in launch- ing into an attack on the Commun- ists, said: “Labor finds itself in the Position where it must take certain steps to protect its integrity. “During the past five years a force has been in evidence in America seek- ing the deséruction of organized labor by ‘boring from within’ actions. I have devoted the last five years of my con- nection with the labor movement to combatting this force which is slowly, but surely destroying the trade unions of this country, Court Employers’ Favors. “If we are to court and receive the confidence of the employers, we must be willing to co-operate with them, and we cannot hope to be able to re- ceive their confidence when — condi- tions are such as they are in this as- sembly. The Communists (Workers Party) have discredited this local la- bor movement. Now, brother chair- man and brothers, my orders are to say to you today that unless you are willing to enter into an agreement with the central) executive council of the American Federation of Labor that no delegate shall hold Office in this assembly ‘who is a member of the Communist (Workers Party), I. W. W., or any other dual organization, your charter must be revoked.” Uphoisterer Fights Ouster. The first delegate to take the floor in opposition to the demands put forth by Gompers’ lieutenant was Leif Vandenbergh, former international official of the Upholsterers’ Union. Vandenbergh contended that tho he Personally was not a member of the Workers Party nor in sympathy with their principles, he wanted to see the rights of free speech and thought en- forced. Vanderbergh termed this the most sweeping and drastic ultimatum ever delivered to any group of work- ers. He wanted to know from Smith why the central executive council hal fail- ed to ask that republicans, democrats and members of the Invisiple Empire —the hooded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—be also barred, as well as mem- bers of the Workers Party. This question Smith absolutely refused to reply to, saying that he was not there to engage in disputes designed to catch him asleep at the switch. | Cramer Pussyfoots Some More. Robert D. Cramer, editor of the Minneapolis Labor Review, displayed his usual “pussyfooting” attitude and proved the contention of the editorial writer of the DAILY WORKER that Cramer is not “red” at all—except his hair. Cramer said, in part: “I believe this agreement had ought to be en- tered into. I do not believe that any man who holds another movement above that of the trade union move- ment should hold office in this as sembly.” It was plain to be seen that Cramer was simply sparring to hold on to his “pie card” as editor of the Labor Review. Johnson Is Forceful. J. O, Johnson, member of the Work- ers Party—delegate to the assembly from the carpenters and a member of organized labor for the past twen- ty-five years—made a stirring and forceful appeal for the delegates to assert their manhood and womanhood, Johnson raised the point that the Workers Party is not dual union, that some of the most active and efficient workers in the trade union movement are Communists. Jack Bradog, party member and sitting as a delegate for the first time tonight, defended the right of Com- munists to belong to the trade union movement. In opening, Comrade Bradon ques- tioned: “I would like to ask Brother Smith if there is a rule anywhere in the A. F. of L. regulations which state that members of the republican, dem- ocratic, farmer-labor party, the Klan, I. W. W., the socialist labor party or Workers Party cannot be officers in the American Federation of Labor. “If there is such a ruling, then I want to ask why it has not been en- forced against Mr. Berry, reactionary Pressmen’s Union head, and John L. Lewis, of the Mine Workers? Proud of His Communism. “T have been in the military service over ten years, served in nearly every major engagement in the fronts over there, but I have yet to see such a display of autocracy as has been shown here tonight by the representa- tive from the central executive coun- cil of the A. F. of L. “Tm a former soldier, was decorated for bravery in action, pardon me if that sounds like bragging, but I’m not ashamed to stand up here tonight and say that I'm a Communist. Bothers, I’m proud of it, I'll tell you that.” Attorney Shows His Colors. R. 8. Wiggin, assistant city attorney, delegate from the City and County Employes, supported the onslaught against the Communists, as did Frank- lin Hynes, conservative leader, and Gunner Olson, recently elected farmer- labor legislator. Olson confessed his total ignorance of the Workers Party principles, but said he was in favor of Mr. Smith's demands because the Communists stood for a “bloody revo- lution.” FILIPINOS DEMANDING IMMEDIATE, ABSOLUTE, COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P. I, Nov. 21—Immediate, absolute and complete independence is demanded in a resolution adopted by the Filipino independence commis- sion today. Representative Recto, who has just returned from the United States created a sensation in the meeting when he accused Manuel Quezon and Representative Comena with false-+——————_______________. hood because of statements they had made that they had opposed the Fair- field bili. Recto produced letters from the war department to Governor-General Wood stating categorically that Quezon had agreed to support the bill. He also produced a letter from the war depart- ment stating Comena had apologized for attacks on Governor Wood and promised the Filipinos would co-op erate with Wood in the future. Big Hauls of Fish. MALAGA, Nov. 21, — Fishermen of Torrox, a hamlet near here, are mak ing such unprecedented catches that the price has dropped to five centimer a basket, Thousands of baskets of fish have been used as fertilizer. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- day Night, the Open Forum, Six Communists Hold Seats in the Next Norwegian Storthing (Special to The Daily Worker) CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Nov. 21.— Following the elections, six Commun- ists have gained seats in the Nor- wegian parliament. Communism was one of the major issues of the elec- tions, prohibition being the only other matter that was widely discussed, The conservatives gained control of the “storthing” (parliament) with fifty-four seats. The Norwegian labor party has twenty-four: seats. Tran- mael, who campaigned for the Nor- wegian labor party, denounced the Communists, LEGION HEAD IS PROMISED LABOR AS CONSCRIPTS Berry Tells Drain This Is Plan for Next War (Continued from page 1) funds can well afford to make a $20,- 000 demonstration for war babies. Drain recommended the committee which is gathering funds for these war derelicts, by telling the delegates that Coolidge was an honorary chir- man of it. He added that the Legion, as everybody knows, is conducting an “Americanization” campaign with for- ty. planks, chiefly, “respect for the flag,” and “restricted immigration.” In this regard, the convention saw eye to eye with the American Legion and passed unanimously without dis- cussion, a resolution against modifi- cation of the restrictive immigration law and the Japanese exclusion pro- vision. “For God and Czar.” The “representatives of labor” lis- tened approvingly to Drain’s state- ment that the Legion was for a draft bill which would make every citizen take part in war, that preparedness was a peace measure and that to main- tain peace we must have a navy equal to any and an efficient army with all citizens ready to fight for peace at the drop of a hat. “We stand for God and country in peace as the soldiers stood for God and country in war,” he shouted. Green, deeply moved by mention of the “heavenly father,” he hopes to avoid for some time, said in reply that he was sure “everyone was inspired with Drain’s adress.” “Non-Partisan” Report Offered. The long report on labor’s activity in the recent election and the course proposed for the future by the execu- tive council, were offered yesterday. In brief, it does not prevent the fed- eration leaders from indorsing LaFol- lette, or any other candidate, but the federation is constrained to take no hand in the C. P. P. A. or other labor party movements. It .is likely that this, as all other proposals of the council, will pass without much fuss. If there are any left wing delegates, they are in hiding. The convention is the most hopeless one I have ever attended. Ameringer Renounces Socialist ‘Faith. There are about 50 ex-socialists here, but they are marked out from the rest only by being more reactionary than the usual run of fakers. Oscar Ameringer, correspondent of the Fed- erated Press, and once a great “red,” admits in today’s issue of the conven- tion daily,“The Labor Advocate,” that Gompers was right and he was wrong about the class struggle. “Gompers was issuing charters,” says Ameringer, “when I was issuing manifestos. Sam was right when I was only consulting the Communist Manifesto.” Thus he renounces Marx for Gompers. And the Strikes He Broke. Ameringer continues with, “If we measure Gompers by the tears he dried, the smiles he spread, the long- ings he stilled, the hopes he aroused, he is a mighty big man. I am writ- ing this tribute to atone for some of the harsh things I have said about him in years gone by. I thought it better to hand him my little bouquet while he can still enjoy it.” This is the fourth day of the con- vention sessions and not one delegate has yet spoken from the floor, A fake fight is expected on the “World Court.” It is a servile and slushy con- vention. The day's relief. was adjournment for a barbeque with the Mexican fed- eration at the Juarez race track. Mexican Agrarian Law. In the Mexican federation, Chair- man Rico pointed out the advantages of the agrarian laws as beneficial to the poor, because they limit the am- ount of land a,single person or so- ciety can legally own. Those having an excess, must sell on terms pro- vided by the government. If the own ers refuses to sell then the govern: ment will parcel out’ the land. Promises New Deal. Ricardo Trevino, secretary of the Mexican federation, said that all con- tracts and concession made by former governments since 1876, which result ed in accumulation of land, water, and natural resources in the hands of in- dividuals or corporations, would be revised and might be declared null and void if dangerous to public wel- fare, A Grassman, the fraternal delegate from Germany, made the same speech to the Mexican convention as to the A. F. of L. gathering, except that he left out the attack on the Commun- ists. Perhaps he was impressed .by the sight of several hundred overall- clad worker delegates, some wearing bright red shirts. The convention paid tribute to Felipe Carrillo, the la- bor leader executed by the de la Huer- ta forces in the recent rebellion. RANGOON, Nov, 21.—Four Buddhist monks were sentenced here today to from five to seven years in prison, when found guilty of attacking two American missionaries, Professor and Mrs. GGreason, ‘A THE DAILY WORKER BRITON BLAMES Let the Red Flag of the Daily Worker Replace Tribune’s Yellow Flag By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, the drive to “Insure the DAILY WORKER for 1925!" is on; bulwarked with an unbounded supply of Communist enthusiasm and energy. The Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party, in a special call, declares this to be “The Party's Biggest Task.” But it is also the task of every reader of the DAILY WORKER, many of whom have not yet been won for the party’s ranks. * ° * M * It is because the DAILY WORKER is the central organ of the Workers (Communist) Party that it is also the fight- ing giant of the oppressed masses of the American working class. In order to wage successful struggles against capital- ism, however, the DAILY WORKER must be able to reach ‘the masses. It must be able at all times to interest the many, and bring them into action. The establishment of the DAILY WORKER was a tre- mendous victory in itself. But it will be an even greater victory for us to enlist the great hosts of exploited workers and poor farmers in its support, at all times. That is the object of the present campaign to, “BUILD THE DAILY WORKER!” * * * * Capitalism has ite huge propaganda machines. It sup- ports them liberally with its gold. It stands back of them because it needs them. They are useful instruments in the campaign to deceive the workers and farmers and keep them in submission. The so-called Curtis publications, during 1923, returned a net income of $11,863,432, This group showed the great- est profits during this year. It includes the Saturday Even- ing Post, the exclusive reading matter, outside of the yellow of great myriads of white collar slaves; the Ladies’ Ho ournal, for the women and children, and the ‘‘Coun- try Gentleman” for the farmer who refuses to realize that he is a worker. That is the usual combination. The Curtis publications also include one of the worst “open shop” daily newspapers in Philadelphia. rh * * * . Then there is the Hearst group. It comes next with a net profit of $10,251,312 during the past year. These millions of dollars have not only been taken from the greatest army of newspaper readers ever gathered together by one manage- ment in the history of journalism, but they have also been lifted from great hosts of readers of the salacious magazines issued by this most unscrupulous of publishers, * * * * It is interesting to see that the next greatest profits fall to the chosen press spokesmen of capitalism in the nation’s two largest cities, The Tribune, open shop organ in Chicago, taking $3,285,709, and the Times, peer of the reactionist press in New York, getting $2,886,030; with $1,494,612 going to the Chicago Daily News, while the profits of Funk & Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, total $1,415,890. The business of prostitution has always paid well; but it has proven most profitable in the case of the yellow press. It shows how well capitalism keeps its ladies of the press. * * * * It is against this great power that the rising waves of the working class press lash in all their vy he bought ress has strength only because it is read by the millions. if it could not lure millions of readers into its fold it would be useless to its masters. The power of this press crumbles immediately the workers are won for their own press. To win the workers away from the capitalist class press in support of their own working class press is the task of the drive to build the DAILY WORKER. * * * > The Chicago Tribune, out of its enormous profits, has just erected one of the most complete newspaper plants in the world. It is housed in one of Chicago’s most sumptuous buildings. The Tribune claims that the flag that flies from the top of its tower, breasts the breezes from the highest pinnacle in Chicago. The Tribune has climbed high. But the workers may well remember the saying that, “the higher they climb the farther they fall.” For it is the task of labor, especially the workers of Chicago under the vanguard leadership of the Workers (Communist) Party to tumble The Tribune to the earth, thru building the power of their own DAILY WORKER. eed ° * One of the especially appealing slogans of this drive is, “Let us cover their yellow with Red!” Instead of the yellow flag of The Tribune, flying from the highest mast in Chi- cago, make it the Red Flag of the DAILY WORKER. * * Read again the program of the campaign as outlined in yesterday’s DAILY WORKER. Read again the call to action of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party. ie In the words of our campaign director, Comrade Alfred Wagenknecht, “Understanding and ACTION gave us Soviet Russia. You understand) NOW ACT!” for the DAILY WORKER, your weapon in the struggle to triumph over your enemies. plant except for medicinal purposes. Horace G, Alexander of the English Quakers, made an attack on the pol- tey of the India government and the British colonial office in exploiting the sale of opium to reap rich profits OPIUM TRAFFIC ON GOVERNMENT |e: uct Britain and Japan are still fighting over the control of the opium trade. GENEVA, Noy. 21.—The British government is responsible for the continuation of the opium traffic in India, a Britsher, Rev. E. J. Dukes, charged in the conference dealing with the smoking of opium. Dukes is rep- resentative of one of nine societies trying to supress the smoking of opium. “The British, and not the people of India control the government of In- dia, and the people of India are not represented in this conference,” Dukes charged. Dukes presented a petition signed by 206,000 Hast Indians, urging the total extirpation of the opium 13 1, W. W. Regain Liberty. missal of criminal syndicalism indict- ments against 18 members of of the I. W. W. in Sacramento, another blow has been dealt to this vicious law. The defendants were delegates to a state convention of the I. W. W., ar rested last February, One other de- fendant died from pneumonia con: tracted from prison conditions; an other was dismissed because of severe iiiness, A trial last June resulted in a i SACRAMENTO, Cal,—With the dis- \ DOUBLE REPEAT | FOR BOLSHEVIK DRAMATIC FILK “Beauty and Bolshevik” Draws Big Crowds The repeat performance of | "The Beauty and the Bolshevik” | which will come off at Tyrian | Hall, Philadelphia, Nov. 28, was | inspired by the tremendous suc- | cess of the first show at Lulu | Temple, but while it was a pre- | cedent it was not allowed to be a record. ] New York went one better by | arranging a double repeat. On top of its'eleven day show in August it has arranged a two day show for Nov. 21 and 22 in Brownsville and an additional show in Harlem, at the Finnish Workers’ Home, on Nov. 24. Several other localities are planning to run several neighborhood shows in Place of the one big downtown per- formance, Toledo and Detroit being the leaders in this move. Smaller cities have found from experience that one night's showing means a much More certain success than a hasty Spread over too much time and ter- ritory. Definitely fixed dates for “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” and “Rus- Sia in Overalls,” are as follows: Brownsville, N. Y¥., Nov. 21, 22; . Dowell, Iil., Nov. 28; Harlem, N. Y., Noy. 24; Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 28; West Frankfort, Ill., Dec. 3; Dillon- vale, Ohio, Dec, 10; Chicago, Ill, Jan. 18. For other films routed by the Inter- national Workers’ Aid, these dates are made: “Russian and Germany”: Nov. 26, New York Finns, Nov. 27, Milwau- kee Bazaar, Nov. 30, Chicago Slovak Dance. “Polikushka”: Nov. 30, New York Finns, Dec. 27, Rock, Mich. “The Fifth Year’: Nov. 26, Mass, Mich. In many cities movie arangements are pending and in a very short time dates will be fixed. Among them are: California: San Francisco; Ilinois: Joliet, Christopher, Livingston, Noko- mis and Zeigler; Iowa: Davenport; Michigan: Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw; Minnesota: Chisholm; Ohio: Bellaire, Cleveland, Powhattan Point and Toledo; Pennsylvania: Bentleyville, Marianna, Erie and Wilkes Barre; Nebraska: Omaha; South Dakota: Frederick; Wyoming: Hannab. In addition the eastern dis- trict also has a long list of pending dates. If your city is not already on this list, get after any and every labor or- ganization to which you belong and put it there. Any such organization, no matter how large or what it lang- uage, can run a sucessful movie show. Send for list of films to International Workers’ Aid, 19 S. Lincoln street, Chicago, Illinois. Young Workers League Member Beaten Up at Sexton Stove Co. Plant Gangsters employed by the Sexton Stove company, 700 North Sacramento Ave., badly beat up Comrade Hyman Bornstein, of branch five of the Young Workers League, who was selling the ‘Young Worker in front of the fac- tory gates. Bornstein was ordered to stop selling the the paper, which ex- posed working conditions in the fac- tories of Chicago, but asserted his right to sell papers on the sidewalk. The manager of the stove company then sent out a burly watchman, who shoved Bornstein half a block down the street, cursing violently at him. Bornstein remained at the end of the bridge half a block from the factory and continued selling Young Workers and distributing cards advertising the purposes of the Young Workers League. Five gangsters then came out of the factory and beat Bornstein, grabbing the Young Workers and throwing them into the street. They quickly made their get-away as a crowd of workers from the stove factory gathered. The workers picked up the papers from the street, and stood around reading the paper, discussing it with Bornstein. Bornstein was badly beaten abouy the face and head, his lips and ch bleeding profusely. p) Ince Funeral Today, LOS ANGELES, Cal, Noy, 21.— Private funeral services will be held here Friday for Thomas H, Ince, not- ed motion picture producer, it was announced today. George E. Pashas COZY LUNCH 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half er from Imperial CHICAGO