The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1924, Page 2

aa RIO Rantaattetaiea ET 3 4 Page Two 4,000 VOTES FOR COMMUNISM IN WISCONSIN POLL Party in Good Showing in LaF ollette’s State (Continued from page 1) ticket, while the socialist party threw its entire support to LaFollette and had his picture prominently displayed on all of its campaign posters. The socialists miscalculated assum- ing that the LaFollette vote will go to the socialists who have meekly submitted to his dictatorship. But Berger is now wailing that he has been betrayed by the LaFollette sup- porters. The results of elections indicate that while LaFollette received 458,678 votes, the LaFollette republi- ean candidate for governor, Blaine, reocived the lion’s share of LaFol- Jette’s votes, 412,255 votes, which La- Follette-socialists received only 45,257 ‘votes. In the face of this betrayal, confus fon and demoralization, the Workers Party carried thru with meager re sources a class fight and registered over 4,000 votes for its candidates. Berger Almost Loses Scalp. “Comrade” Berger almost lost his seat in congress, winning by a very small margin. In the previous elec tions Berger carried by a large ma Jerity altho he was opposed by a can- didate representing the combined forces of republican and democratic parties. In this election it was a three-corn- ered fight and even under these oir- cumstances Berger was almost de feated. The general vote shows that the socialist party received a much smaller percentage of total votes. While this year a very heavy vote was cast approximately 20 per cent higher than in previous elections, the socialist party records a very small inerease. It may be expected that Berger will continue to masquerade under the “socialist” banner, since the betrayal did not pay. He will still re- tain support of the socialist party un- til such time that he can land on the rocks of the so-called independent movement. However he is very care- ful lest his erstwhile friends should get away with his watch while he is lickixig their boots. Lost Without a Trace. ‘The socialist party machinery and membership is badly disorganized and soon the fatal report of “lost without a trace” will record the true status of the socialist party. It is interest- ing of note that the socialist party lost its place on he ballot thru its failure to place its own candidate for presi- dent as the law of Wisconsin provides that the status of a party is deter- mined by the number of votes it re- ceives for its presidential electors. Minor Parties Absorbed by LaFollette, The prohibition party also lost its place on the ballot, receiving only 2,926 votes for its electors while on the state ticket this party received 11433 votes. The margin of 8,500 appears that the following of the socialist labor party also voted for LaFollette since their candidate for President received only 413 votes ‘while their state candidate polled 1,437 The Workers’ Party was the that received consistent both on state and national re I Socialists Support Communists. survey of election reports indi- the Workers’ Party received the strong socialist wards in such places where very paganda was carried on by forkers’ Party. It is reported several members were expelled the 8. P. for opposition to Berg- er’s LaFollette betrayal. Communism Haunts Berger. ‘The results of elections clearly indi- cate that the Workers’ Party stands on the eve of real growth and develop- ment. From now on the history of American labor movement will wit- ness the decline of reformistic parties and the growth in strength and influ- ence of the Workers’ (Communist) Party. The future belongs to Com- munism! PESEREE ste! Police Protect Strikebreakers. WILLIAMSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 24.— State police have been called here to protect strikebreakers of the Un- rivaled Hosiefty Mills. Two hundred girls walked out last June against a ten per cent cut. Burgess Shadel has banned parading by strikers. Those Militant Miners! A splendid article on one sev tion of these workers you will find in “THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINERS” By JACK LEE. In the December issue of the WORKERS MONTHLY. OUT Now! *|give you an idea how the votes are pia tax payer, BROOKHART WINS BY NARROW MARGIN, THE OFFICIAL COUNT SHOWS DES MOINES, la., Nov. 24.—Sena- tor Smith W. Brookhart was official- ly declared winner in Jowa’s sena- torial race by the executive coun- cil of the state this afternoon, with 447,706 votes against 446,951 cast for Dan F. Steck, democrat, and 1,124 for Luther Brewer, Independ- ent republican. STOLE THOUSAND FOSTER VOTES IN ALLEGHENY Ballots Not Counted in) Many Places (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Noy. 24.— At least 1,000 votes were stolen in Alle- geheny county alone from Wm. Z. Foster, Workers Party candidate in the election, according to the calcu- lations of local Communists as reck- oned from the returns given by the election commissioners. Foster was, according to the re- turns, given only 648 votes in Allege- heny county, altho John 8. Otis, Work- ers Party candidate for state treasur- er was given 1,677 votes and Edward Horvach, candidate for auditor gener- al got 1,496. In the congressional field, Otto Yea- ger of the Workers Party got 496 votes, in the 33rd district, Anton Hor- vat, 318 in the 32nd district and Max Davidson 160 in the 34th district. In the state legislative districts the Workers Party had candidates in five out of thirteen districts. The vote ran as follows: First district, Louis Cohen, 80 votes and Samuel Mosko- vitz, 67 votes. Two offices were to be filled in some districts accounting for two party candidates. In the seventh district, Paul Hanas got 77 votes and Fred Randa 54. In the eighth dis- | trict, Andrew Borich received 143 | votes and Susie Kendra 141. In the ninth district, Wm. P. Mikades got 189 votes, running alone. ‘The tenth dis- trict had four candidates, Theodore Mower getting 358 votes; Morris Schlinder, 289; Milan Wijnovic, 249; and Hazel Yeager, 279 votes, From McKeesport, Pennsylvania, it is reported that the Workers Party polled 189 votes. Sioux City Vote, The DAILY WORKER has received from Sioux City, Iowa, a copy of the Sioux City Daily Tribune, showing “official totals” of Woodbury county, Towa, in the election. The town of Sioux City is given first, precinct by precinct, showing 65 votes for Foster in the city. Then the country vote is shown, by town- ships, with eight votes—making 73 in all. But the explanation of the figures came along with the clipping in the form ofa letter concerning the pre- cinct vote in Sioux City. It says: “Kindly note that in the 9th precinct of Sioux City, where I, and two more men, I am sure, voted for Foster, there is no record of it at all in the figures given—the ninth precinct, it shows cast no votes for Foster. This will stolen. I am not a Communist but I can see the reason for being one.” Vote in Elmira, N. Y. ELMIRA, N. Y.—The board of elec- tion commissioners of Chemung coun- ty were not overly inclined to count Communist votes, according to the county tabulation. Foster got only 14 votes on the presidential ticket; for governor, James P. Cannon got 18 votes; for lieutenant-governor, Frank- lin P. Brill, 59; secretary of state, Lilly Lore, Communist candidate, got 39 votes; Abraham Epstein for comp- troller, 115; Edward Lindgren, treas- urer, 52; for attorney-general, Arthur S. Leads received 63 votes; and for state engineer, Richard J. Verhagen received 49 votes. Eighteen Communist Farmers HARLAN, Iowa. — To the DAILY WORKER: Gentlemen:—Enclosed re cent vote of this county, Shelby coun- ty, Iowa. Foster got 18 votes in this a farming community. Respectfully, A. W. Barton. see Vote in Rice County, Minn. FARIBAULT, Minn., Nov, 24,— J have been furnished the official count on the Workers Party for this (Rice) county, which shows that Foster and Gitlow for president and vice-president received 35 votes; the socialist labor party, 33. In the town of Wells—a farming district exclusively—5 votes were cast for Foster-Gitlow. In the town of Erin, another farming district, 4 votes were cast for us. ‘We put out 1,000 copies of the na- tional platform and 150 DAILY WORKERS in Rice county. Supreme Court Drops Minnimum Wage Test Case. WASHINGTON, Nov, 24,—The United States supreme court today dismissed for want of jurisdiction a case testing the validity of the Mil- waukee minimum wage scale on pub- lic works. A city ordinance requires this scale to be paid by contractors and sub- contractors on city works to all their employes. Validity of the law was challenged by Herman A. Wagner, as JUNIOR GROUPS BACK ANTI-RED WEEK FIGHTERS Children Tell How They Fought Cal’s Dope Resolutions pledging support to Comrade Rose Plotkin, who was persecuted by her teacher for fighting education week, and | thanking the Young Workers League members who co-oper- ated to fight anti-Communist education week, were unani- mously passed at the last mass meeting of the junior groups. Thelma Kahn talked on edu- cation week, and the children from the various schools re- ported on how they fought. Tell of Ousting. Comrade Kahn told* how the teach- ers from the Crieger school, and the owner of Emmet Memorial Hall, threw the children of Minnie Lurye’s group out in the street and refused to allow Comrade Lurye into the hall. Com- rade Kahn then told how Comrade Lurye addressed the children on the street, while the dicks from the Crie- ger school looked on. ‘When Comrade Lurye went to meet her group in an empty lot at the cor- ner of Armitage and Taylor streets, Sunday, to take them to the junior mass meeting, she found a truant offi- cer from the Crieger school there. The truant officer sent a prospective junior home, and scared some of the others away from the meeting. Some older pupils were watching in a butcher shop nearby. They were sent by Miss Tobin, browbeating principal of the Crieger school. One of the children who came to find out about the juniors, told Comrade Lurye, their teacher in the Crieger school had told them, “You will be sent to federal court if you attend the junior meeting. The federal court is a Place where children are punished if they don’t believe in the American flag.” Pass Resolution of Protest. The resolution protesting against the persecution of Rose Plotkin de- clared, “It has come to the attention of the juniors that one of the most active members of the Chicago section ~—Rose Plotkin—has been made the victim of capitalist persecution during national education week. Her teacher, who successfully does whatever the big bosses order, found out about the junior mass meeting in her district and she wanted to prevent all the working class children from going to the meeting. “She gave all the children who might go to the meeting extra long and hard home work to do. Poor Comrade Rosie couldn’t go to the meeting, and had to stay home. She worked so hard that she got sick and could not even go to school the next day. And when»she finally appeared at school the teacher accused her of missing school because of the junior group. Not only did she not believe our comrade, but she put Rose—the brightest in the class—at the very foot of the class and then even sent her home. “We, the juniors of Chicago, in mass meeting assembled, pledge our co-oper- ation to Comrade Rose and pledge our support to any comrade who gets in- to trouble because of trying to learn the truth about our class and give our pledge to do our part in the working class struggle for freedom.” Both resolutions were unanimously passed by the 150 children present. Leo Koretz, Swindler De Luxe, Is Caught At Halifax, N.-S. HALIFAX, N. 8., Nov. 24.—Canada’s legal machinery moved swiftly today to complete arrangements for the ex- tradition of Leo Koretz, swindler de luxe. The sauve Chicagoan who took mil ions from his friends and eluded ar- ‘est for nearly a year, spending the ‘ast seven months and many thous: ands of his plunder in ostentatious splendor here, was arrested quietly at + Halifax hotel by Chicago and pro- vincial officers, NOTICE CLEVELAND! A bi get acquanted “Penny Socl. Sponsored by the newly or- ganized East Side English Branch, Young Workers’ League, will take place Friday, Nov. 28, at the Work- ers Party dquarters, 5927 Euclid Ave., Room 13, In addition to a fine musical program, added attractions have been arranged, including danc- ing, refreshments, novelties, prizes, and many surprises. Com bring your friends. Fun starts at 8 p. m. Police Get Busy Again. Wholesale indictments of police chiefs, precinct captains and lieuten- ants and patrolmen was threatened here today as Coroner Oscar Wolff in- voked a new method of application of the Volstead act in connection with the inquest into the death of Eddie Tancl, ex-pugilist and - land’s “square-shooter,” shot and in his Hawthorne Park ina yesterday. THE DAILY WORKER REPUBLICAN PARTY GRAFTER WHO ROBBED VETS GOES ON TRIAL An effort of government attor- neys to consolidate the indictments against Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the United States Veterans’ Bureau and John W. Thompson, St. Louis and Chicago contractor, failed here today as the two went on trial on charges of bribery and conspiracy. The charges grew out of defrauding of the government in connection with the erection of Veterans’ Bureau hospitals. The trial is expected to consume about a week. CONVENTION OF C.R. 0. M, ENDS AT JUAREZ, MEX. Supports Calles’ Bow to Wall Street By J. W. JOHNSTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) JUAREZ, Mexico, Noy. 24.—The sixth convention of the Mexican Fed eration of Labor (Confederacion Re- gional Obrera Mexicana) ended here Sunday night after a week's sessions, largely devoted to making plain, thru its homage to Gompers, its support of the submission of the Mexican goy- ernment to American imperialism, Class Collaboration to Pay. The convention received a message from the Mexican government stating that all its financial transactions with the United States would hereafter be thru the labor banks set up by union officials. Another influence exercised by the Mexican government is its promise to buy only union-made locomotives and machinery, and to compel all Mexi- cans who return from a foreign land to join a union in the nearest town. No mention of the method of compul- sion is made. “Just Like Debs.” A resolution was passed demanding the release of Rangel and Cline from the. Texas penitentiary, but making no demand upon the A. F. of L. for its forces to be summoned into action for this purpose. Nellie Nearing, wife of Scott Near- ing, liberal economist, presented ¢ bust of Bugene V. Debs to the Mexi can Federation and referred to Debs as the “greités{ socialist in the world.” Presumably Mrs. Nearing had never heard of Lenin. Salcedo, Personal representative of the Mexi- can government of Calles, replied that Mexico, like Debs, was “follow- ing the path of socialism.” Indeed, they do seem to be following the same path—but not of socialism. Grooming Morones for Job Edurado Moneda is elected the new secretary of the Mexican. federation, to hold office one year. Ricardo Trevino, in a final speech, glorified Luiz N. Morones, the labor faker who, in a fight in the chamber of deputies, was wounded a few days before the convention. Morones was hailed as the great chief of Mexican labor, and it is current gossip that he is being prepared to succeed Calles as presi- dent of Mexico. Militant Bloc Shows Its Strength in Steel Union (Continued from Page 1.) wing candidates almost 50 per cent of the vote. There is a real left wing movement gaining headway in this union and it will be given added vigor by the obvious election manipulation of the Tighe machine. Lose By Narrow Margin. Reports from the headquarters of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers indicate that by a boldfaced theft of votes the progressive candidates were counted out, by @ narrow margin, by the ma- chine of M. F. Tighe, and his gang has been “returned” to office by the “tabulation of ballots” of the Interna- tional Canvassing Board. This board, composed of Edward Miller, John A. Powell, R. D. Hollis, James J. Phillips, Herbert H, Lapp and Robert Beeside, met in the office of the international last week and fixed up the election results to suit the old guard of Tighe and company. Tighe’s Gang Revises Arithmetic. Not one of the progressives was al- lowed to win by this “canvassing board” which counted out some of the progressive candidates by as clos margin as 200 or 300 votes, while giv- ing Tighe 1,000 votes more than Wed- dell, the progressive candidate, Out of the 5,000 votes cast. Jennings was beaten, according to count, by 700 votes by D. J. Davis for secretary- treasurer, while Frank Marshall of Warren, Ohio, lost the vice-presidency to Walter Larkin by only 300 votes. This stealing of the election which clearly was going in favor of the pro- gressives is one of the rankest out- Coolidge Crowd Invites LaFollette Group Into the Republican Caucus By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY: the members of Morgan’s congress, senators and representatives, are packing their grips and returning to Washington for the session opening Monday. This is not the meeting of the new congress elected early this month, It is the same congress that went on a vacation six months ago; so that its members could enter the election campaign and propagandize the masses for the maintaining of dollar rule in power, The so-called “wise forefathers,” who framed the “sacred American constitution” thought that the hot temper of the masses, stirred to white heat, might on some occasion not have time to cool during the month from the November elections to the early days of December. So the congress just elected will not go into office until March 4, 1924, when Coolidge is inaugurated, and it cannot be regularly called into session until next December. * * * ° Perhaps Coolidge will call a special session in the spring. Wall Street has nothing to fear from the new congress. It has 100 per.cent control. No Communist will have a ‘place there. The St. Paul machinist, J. F. Emme, was defeated by a small margin. He would have been a power for the cause of the workers, His defeat was due in great part to the be- trayal of labor's cause by the Magnus Johnson-Hendrik Shipstead elements in the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. Altho a Communist, Emme was nominated on the Farmer- Labor ticket. But the pussyfooting reactionaries in the Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement would rather see the democratic spokesman of the landlords, the railroads, the banks and grain gamblers elected, than the Communist champion of the working class. ° ~ * * Shipstead is already back in Washington awaiting his reward. Magnus Johnson, who originally claimed he lost because of the handicap of the LaFollette campaign, is going to put up a fight for the seat he lost, charging the bootleg vote took it from him. Shipstead complains that the workers and farmers went to Coolidge because of distrust in their own ability to run their affairs better than the bankers are running them. But it is the Shipsteads and the Johnsons who have fought every effort of the workers and farmers to build up their own class power so that they would have a weapon with which they could confidently enter the struggle against their capitalist oppressors. It is very significant that invitations have been sent to Senators LaFollette, Ladd, Frazier and Brookhart to attend the conference of republican senators to be held Friday. This quartet fought the Coolidge ticket in the campaign. La- Follette promised “the new party after the elections.” He said, “No new party was ever organized before the elec- tions.” But he has now received an invitation to join with the other republican supporters of the strikebreaker president just as if he had been “regular” all during the campaign. Up to the present writing none of these invitations has been rejected. * * * * All indications are that the LaFollette group in the house and senate will accept every crumb that is thrown to them. All threats of reading the LaFollites out of the G. O. P. have died down. Instead there is the weaker threat that some of their committee assignments will be hit. But Representative John M. Nelson, LaFollette’s campaign man- r, confidently proclaims from Washington, where he has pv arrived early, that the republicans will be “too wise for that.” . * * * This is Nelson's confession that the republican man- agers in congress know that they can use the LaFollette group for their own purposes; that they can safely ham- string them when occasion demands. Gompers, in the American Federation of Labor conven- tion, at El Paso, Texas, declares he never deserted his nonpartison policy of boring within the old parties. Under his direction the convention takes a stand against any “new arty.” r So the LaFollette elements in congress, with hat in hand, will return to the republican fold, claiming they had never had any serious intentions of leaving it. They will be received with joy according to the reception given all pen- itent, home-returning prodigals. Ladd and Frazier will take another week-end trip down the Potomac River, with the “Strikebreak Coolidge as their host on the presidential yacht, “Mayflower”. * * . All this must be revealing to the great masses of work- ers and farmers who thought they were being led into a real struggle against big business under the LaFollette standards. These masses now find themselves betrayed and deserted. The overwhelming majority, the class conscious workers and farmers among them will not return to the Wall Street parties. They must turn to the Communist leadership of the Workers Party. They must and will organize their class power for real victories in the future under the standards of the Workers (Communist) Party. East Pittsburgh Dance Tomorrow. EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 24. ~The Heast Pittsburgh City Central Committee’ will hold a dance on Wed- nesday, Nov. 26, at 8 p. m. at Worl Home, corner of Blectric and North Aves. f All party members lowed to get away with this stealing of their union. Tighe Helps Blacklist on Dolla. Jacob Dolla, the militant steel work- er who served several years in prison for his activity in the 1919 strike, and whose release was secured this year thru the movement set on foot for him by the Trade Union Educational League, is blacklisted everywhere, and in spite of Dolla’s loyal sacrifice for the union Tighe is doing nothing to help Dolla get work. He has been in both the Pittsburgh and the Detroit district and is refused work by every company, Apparently it is understood between Tighe and the steel trust that Dolla is to be driven out of the in- dustry. joyment and fun for all. Wood Helps Out Ban! MANILA, Nov. 24.—Gov. ard Wood today signed th viding for the absorption ernment of the $30,000, tained by the Philippine year ago as a government institution The bill also provides for the reim- bursement of losses incurred by pri: ‘vate stockholders in the bank. a Subscribe for “Your Daily,” the DAILY WORKER. Register Now—208 E. 12th St.'day Night, the Open Forum. New York Workers’ School. Next Sunday Night and Every Sun- Tuesday, November 25, 1924 BRITISH FLEET ORDERED READY TO SHELL CAIRG British Cabinet Breaks 1922 Agreement (Continued from Page 1.) pounds sterling to the native police men who chased attackers attempting to disrupt a parade in Alexandria. It is reported that martial law has been declared in Egypt and that Brit: ish troops have seized the customs office in Alexandria, Both moves are within the province of Lord Allenby, British high commissioner in Bgypt without’ consultation with London. The cabinet’s stern action over the death of Sir Lee Stack was applauded in the capitalist press today but there were whisperings of dissatisfaction in some circles. Like Serbian Note. The Daily Herald likens the British note to the demands made upon Ser- bia in 1914 and says. “We may pur sue our policy of crushing a small na tion without fear of incurring armed opposition from a state of our own size yet the consequences may be in the long run, disastrous enuf.” The Herald says the cabinet has struck a severe blow at the league of nations, ignoring Geneva and resort- ing to old style methods. Compared to Mussolini. On the other hand the London Daily Sketch says Premier Baldwir has taken the honors for stern action from Mussolini. The Times and Tele- graph applaud the action as necessary ‘o protect Mritish interests. The Morn').g Post raises the bogey of Bolshevism saying that Moscow is behind the Egyptian agitation. * * Thieves Make Compact. PARIS, Nov. 24.—France will keer an attitude of “hands off” in the British-Kgyptian dispute, the foreign office announced today. England promised to hold aloof from French administration in Mo rocco and France, in return, promised a similar attitude towards England in Egypt, in the Ango-French treaty oi 1904, the foreign office pointed out. s* @ Robbers’ League impotent. GENEVA, Nov. 24.—Doctor Mo. hamed el Guindy, Egyptian delegate to the opium conference here was ‘\waiting today for his government to instruct him to appeal to the league of nations’ council in Egypt's confer- ence with London over the assassina- tion of Sir Lee Stack. “I have not heard from my govern- ment,’ the doctor said, “but I am ex- pecting instructions to appeal to the council for intervention if the British carry out their threatened extreme measures,” If Egypt Appeals. The league secretaries are of the opinion that altho the league cannot take the initiative, because Egypt is not a member the council must take up the matter if Egypt appeals for in- tervention. Dispatches received here are indi- cations that Britain is opposed to the league intervening in what London regards as a matter to be adjusted between it and its colonies. MARSHAL TUAN IS PROVISIONAL HEAD OF CHINA PEKING, Nov. 24.—Marshal Tuan Chi Jui, for years famous as the leader of the powerful Anfu party in Chinese politics, was today formally installed as chief executive of the provisonal government of The inaugural ceremonies were in the buildings of the ministry of war and not in the presidential palace. Chang Tso Lin, the Manchurian war lord who played an important part in ousting the Chihli party from control of the former Peking government . headed by Marshal Tsao Kun, will ar- ments of Chang’s Fengtien troops par: eer ee eee eee y- f ph The third member of the vie rate now ruling China, . Yu Hsian, the christian general, is in IN MEXICO there is a stir in the ranks of Labor. “LATIN-AMERICA PRE- PARES FOR GOMPERS” Bank, The bank was cl al