The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1924, Page 1

‘The DAILY WORKER ‘| Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. Il. No. 222. SUBS ~ AS WE SEE IT > By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. | THOMAS, former colontal sec- "' yetary in the MacDonald govern- ment and secretary of the National Union, of Railwaymen, apparently has mtet'gained in popularity among the menibers of the union since he became the manager of John Bull's colonies. When Thomas lost his job as colonial thinister, he returned to the union’s payroll and at the earliest possible moment arranged a mass meeting for tiimself in London. The London coun- cil of the N. U. R. however refused to*have anything to do with the faker jomas’- meeting and that worthy gentleman therefore called off his talkfest. Things are moving in Eng- land. ‘ se UCH indignation is running riot in the capitalist press over the enthusiasm: for the Soviet regime shown by the British labor leaders who visited the recent Congress of the All-Russian Trade Unions. The yellow socialist guardians of the Amsterdam International issue warnings that Brit: ish: labor will repudiate Purcell, Til let and the other visitors, when they réturn. There will be a fight of course. All British labor is not ever ay-far advanced as Purcell, Tillet anc Bromley, but the revolutionary leaver is working, and the Communist Part; of Britain, small tho it is, gives thc reyolutionary movement leadership. es. © NOTHER desperate effort to kill "Athe Communist government of Russia, is the secret of the present international campaign led by the tory government of England against the Soviet power. The strongest rea- son for the present campaign’ is the great inroads Communist propagande ig making in the colonial possessions ofthe robber powers.. The growing influence ‘of Soviet Russ China, republ{c to the exploited peoples of India, Egypt, Morocco and other coun- tries has created terror among the ral- ing classes of the world who maintain their power by exploting “their own proletariat at home, and by the double exploitation of the poor natives in the ¢olonies. 3 se E specter of Communism hovers over Europe today much more vividly than when Karl Marx wrote the famous manifesto. The frenzied efforts of the capitalists to destroy this’) menace by executions and jails will only arouse the working class to more determined action against their | enemies. - That Herriot, the so-called socialist premier of France should be- come the lieutenant of the British tory government in leading the anti-Com- ‘munist fight in Europe, again proves the Communist contention that there is. only one patty in every countr: that is.a class party of labor and that is the ‘Communist Party. All other par- ties. are. fundamentally anti-labor. Herriot, in France, MacDonald in Eng- land and LaFollette in America fight tor: capitalism when it is in danger just..as. vigorously as the Baldwins, Poincares and Coolidges. Sar ie ed ‘REAT BRITAIN has dropped the > league of nations and old fash- foned diplomacy is no longer on the defensive. Austen Chamberlain is touring Hurope making secret treaties Im the good old style. Tie British ruling class will not allow the United States capitalists to snatch world leadership from them without a strug- gle. Watch the tory government. Eng- land has signed commercial treaties with Germany. What this does to the Dawes plan may not appear on the face, but the D. P. will not run as thiy as Wall Street would wish. The {advantages “civilization” gained late war appear so slight that doubtful if Sam Gompers the impudence to sing its an audience of mental bor fakers, fF EN little Cuba is in the business of deporting labor organizers, Cuba was freed from the tyranical ryle of the Spanish by the troops of the American sugar and tobacco inter. «ests. The Cuban wage slaves did not seem to ar their anetts. Span- ish labor organizers are deported to fois and another “foreigner” is de- borted to America. * pe a NNT CALLES of Mexico is » plying supreme satisfaction to ie se em York hold @ torchlight parade ~ (Continued on Page 2.) praises detectives MORGAN Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of. March 3, 1879. CRIPTION RATES: Outside Chicago, FIGHT PLOT 10. STEAL VICTORY OF COMMUNIST Start Recount of Vote for Youngdahl (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 7.—The election machinery of capitalist democracy is under fire in the 35th Minnesota legis- lative district by the recount starting now. Emil S. Youngdahl, Commun- ist candidate in the recent elec- tion was.declared defeated on the official count after his elec- tion to the state legislature had been conceded by the daily papers which gave him a major- ity of approximately 500 votes. {n the official returns he was declared defeated by 150 votes. Show How Results Vary. A careful check was made by party omrades on the night of the election nd in a half dozen election, districts he figures reported by them was at ‘reat variance from those contained n the official count. In one district the report showed that Comrade Youngdahl recetyed 43 nore votes than the official count gives him. In one precinct he received but 80 votes in the primary election. In the general election a comrade was detailed to watch this precinct and the result was that his vote jumped to 216 in this precinct. The capitalist tactics. was. to make any sort of combination against Com- rade “Youngdahl. Two fake labor tickets mere circulated inthe d both of them carrying ‘the name | Gallagher, who was also the candi-| date of the reactionary red-baiting Minneapolis Journal, and cutting off Comrade Youngdahl, who carried the organized labor’s endorsement. The night before election the agent for the Jewish Daily Forward was presiding at a farmer-labor mass meet- ing in the Jewish part of the district and made vigorous attempts to stop Comrade Youngdahl from spéaking to the assemblage but he failed miser- ably. Comrade Youngdahl carried the Jewish district by a large majority. The opposition to Comrade Young- |dahl was not confined to the capital- ist class and their able allies, the 'American Legion and the Ku Klux “lan. R. D. Cramer, editor of the abor Review, and who had been ac- sused of being a Communist sym- athizer, took up the battle against he election of Youngdahl and in an editorial withdrew the support of his publication from Youngdahl’s candi- dacy because of Youngdahl’s support of the national Workers Party ticket. Knew Youngdah! as Communist. Despite all of these concentrated attacks. on the part of the capitalists and the fake labor leaders, Youngdahl polled a vote of 7,885 on the official count. This vote is greater by 600 than the highest vote polled in the legislative contest two years ago in this district. On account of his Com- munist activities in the labor move- ment and as a member of the Min- neapolis park board, coupled with bitter denunciation directed against him both in the capitalist daily press and fake labor papers, there were very few in the district but knew that Comrade Youngdahl is a Com- munist. The large vote becomes therefore the more significant. On the first day’s recount Comrade Youngdahl gained 26 votes in’ five precincts counted. There are 86 pre- cinets yet to be counted. Every one of the precincts counted showed er- rors at the expense of his vote. This indicates that even in the matter of counting the votes the capitalist enemies were busy. ~ Comrade C, A. Hathaway, district organizer of district 9, Workers Par- ty, is inspector of the recount for Comrade Youngdahl. The recount is being watched with keen interest thruout the city. and thedaily press is being forced to give it daily pub- leity. By: i Every party trember’s duty: The eaders of the DAILY Party. It is the duty of reach cake ete business at every In Chicago, by. mail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. LIFTS. GERMAN RULING CLASS RISURING THE ELECTIONS (Special to the Daily Worker) _ BERLIN, Dec. 7.—The Ger- man election campaign is over, and voting ig taking place to- day. The capitalist and socialist press gleefully predicts losses for the Communist Party in the next Reichstag. It is only fair to the capitalist to. admit that they have taken all precautions to make their predictions air tight. Many Communists in Jail. Practically every Communist leader who came within reach of the covern- nrent is in jail. The entire Communist representation in the reichstag, is either in prison or declared “illegal.” The loss of sixty-two prominent lead- ers, the Communist strength in the last reichstag, is a serious handicap to the party. But that is not cll. Every trade union leader who is either a member of the Communist Party or a sympathizer is arrested or threatened with arrest, so that while the official ban of illegality has been lifted from the Communist Party, it is outlawed in this election. > Two Kinds of Terror. In addition to the campaign of ter ror carried on by the capitalist gov- ernment against the Communists, the reactionary trade union leaders are also threatening the workers with starvation and unemployment unless. they vote for the Dawes’ plan. They point out that the Communists are against the Dawes’ plan and if they are given a large vote, the American yankers will lose confidence in Ger- many and will withdraw its financial support. The social democrats are vieing with the otuer capitalists parties in praising Wall Street for its aid to German industry, The extreme nation- alists are divided, some of them being against. the Dawes plan for ultra-pa- triotic reasons and some favoring it for the same reason. The Commu- nists alone oppose it on the ground that it means a further enslavment of the working class, GENERAL DAWES TO LEO KORETZ: “Hell and Maria, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1924 FE COMMUNISTS, SOLDIERS OF CLASS WAR, KILLED BY SPAIN (Special to The Daily Worker) PAMPLONA, Spain, Dec. 7.—The military. digtatorship has murdered three more Communists. Juan San- than-a farcical hearing of a few minutes before. a court martial, which’ would allow no testimony in their behalf or even a legal repre- sentative. Pablo Martin took his own life, when, on the way to the place of execution he broke away from his captors and leaped to his death from a gatlery of the prison. CHICAGO'S ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED FORM COUNCIL Mass Meeting Called for Thursday, Dec. 11 With the organization of the Council of Progressive Unem- ployed at a mass meeting of un) employed workers at 913 West) Washington St, the thousands | of unemployed workers of Chi-| cago n their organized fight foriba and Pal geting nance while out of work. The large audience of un- employed present selected a committee to perfect the coun- cil of the unemployed. Workers Organizations to Attend. The ‘committee will call another Bg 290 PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., (Special to The ment under control. to the Dawes plan. land the Communist army of }29,000 men” which a catholic ‘cardinal warned against the {other day. They got 300 work- jers but no arms. Not One Russian—Ain’t That Hell? Only 70 of these workers are for- eigners, and not a single Russian was taken, which was quite a disappoint- ment as Herriot had only yesterday declared of the chamber of deputies: “There are to.many foreign Commun- ists in France. They are indulging in political demonstrations and we will not tolerate it; we will not let them meddle in our political life. If we meet resistance we will break it; and we will deport as many as necessary.” That the whole affair is part of the plan by European capitalist govern- ments to attempt to break the resist- ance of labor to the enslaving Dawes plan, is seen by the statement of Her- riot, who frankly admits a conspiracy with the Hnglish government against the working class: He says: Admits Conspiracy Against Workers. “Mr. Chamberlain and I readily agreed to the necessity of putting down the Bolshevik activit is Openly® told press reporters fol- lowing the conv tions “between Herriot and Austin Chamberlain, sec- Pantani bela pel bh aks retary for foreign affairs in the new CHARLESTON, W. Va. Dec. | tory cabinet of England. 7.—That the coal companies of} ‘The declaration of war on the work- Logan County were the law and|ing class issued by Herriot follow- the government in this strong-|ing the . visit of Chamberlain, was hold of the open shop. is de-|made in the chamber of deputies when ore. proven thru an admis-|the 26 members of the Communist sion from the attorney general parliamentary fraction made a com- of West Virginia, when an in-| ined attack on the government's sus- junction was granted prohibit- pension of Mayor LaFlanche of the ing the “mine guard” system. village of Douarenez, because he had Judge A. P. Hudson of the Ka- led and aided strikers in the sardine nawhi * *, sq_ canneries, Fist fights took place in res pepe Si court is many parts of the chamber and had The injunction is directed against iad yh all aad i gical sbi court judge, Robert Bland, of The Herriot government has fol- Logan; prosecuting attorney, John} ioweq up its war upon the Comman- Chatin, of Logan; W. F. Farley, John-| ists with an open drive against a son Queen and P. M. Toney, the Lo-| series of strikes in the province of gan county commissioners; C. Lt ministere, by dispatching a punitive Estep, assistant prosecuting attorney; expedition of 200 mounted police to approximately 250 deputy sheriffs and ‘crush: the strikers. about 50 Logan county coal companies. " praise, Gounty: Omens FE ge EE i 35 ng aE The: order. restraine. the. ahexitt, Jacques Sadoul, now a citizen of So- pedal wc other officials from) iet Russia, has been transferred appointing deputies to’ act as. watch- t pen 208 brivgte individuals or corpo- from the military prison at Paris to rations, restrains the deputies from further acting or performing any du- ties in the capacity of guards or watchmen for any private individual, firm or corporation, and _ restraint the coal company from paying money directly or indirectly to the deputies for services or to Sheriff Chafin for appointing deputies to act for any in- dividual, firm or corporation. Chafin is charged by the attorney general with illegally appointing nine guards, that the deputies are paid by the coal companies and not by the county and that Don Chafin is paid for making the appointments LOGAN COUNTY SHERIFF GIVEN ANCTHER BLOW Valuable Graft Taken “Away from Him” order of Premier Herriot, and the strike, have a clear and direct con! of the banking interests of J. P. Mor mass meeting of unemployed workers, which has Been tentatively set for Thursday, Dee. 11, at the same ad- dress. ; All workers’ organizations. are in- vited to send delegates to participate in the work of the council in behalf of Chicago's fast growing army of un- employed workers. = ° Open Forum, ‘eenday Night, Lodge Room, Ashland Auditorium. Datune Tee acl, Worker por Mes ; Beats Up on Witness. WORKER in every branch of the Workers every such reader to insist that the sale of Insurance Policies is made a special order of imperialism’s conquest of Europe, makes necessary a hard fight against social-democratic deviations, in what- ever form they appear, in the Com- munist Party and relentless warfare against French imperialism as part of the fight against world capitalism. Th on the International Situation and Tasks of French Communist Party : tae We The conditions imposed on France by the American capitalists (Hurley- Mellon plan) make Ker dependent on finance capital, and primarily on American capital. A considerable por- Subscribe for “Your Daily,”| tion of the reparations payments the DAILY WORKER, (more than half of the 52 per cent Sheriff Chafin recently inflicted in- jury on a witness who testified against him, The sheriff was arrested and released on bail. The notorious thug and murderer was also convicted of violation of a federal statute and sen- tenced to the Atlanta penitnetiary But he has sufficient influence to keep. him out of jail. : It is reported that a struggle for power between democratic and repub- lican politicians is largely responsible for the present injunction. Published daily except Sunday by THE DAIL tivities.” This | Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Y WORKER © Chicago, Ill Price 3 Cents IS FIST IN EUROPE | GOVERNMENTS OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND START WHITE TERROR TO FORCE DAWES PLAN ON LABOR Daily Worker) PARIS, France, Dec. 7.—The government of Herriot, the so- called “radical socialist,” has arrested 300 Communist working- men and has announced thru Minister of the Interior Chautemps, who is commander of the national police, that it has the move- These workers were taken in raids upon Communist head- | quarters both in Paris and thruout France. This is the result | of an international conspiracy to crush working class resistance Twenty police commissioners and 700 men of the political | police were engaged in searches for rumored “stores of arms” HERE’S PROGRESSIVE SLATE IN ELECTIONS OF MINERS, TUESDAY The slate of the Progressive coal miners in the referendum elections to be held Tuesday, Dec. 9, is as fol- lows: FOR INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS, For International president, Geo. Voyzey, Verona, Illinols. For International vice-president, Arley Staples, Christopher, IIlinois. For International secretary-treas- urer, Jog Nearing, Nova Scotia, Can- ada. The following is the Progressive slate: For officers of District No. 12 U. M. W. of A. International board member, Thos. F. Scott, Eldorado, Iil., L. U. No. 1865. For president, John W. Hindmarsh, Riverton, Ill, L: U. No. 754, For vice-president, E. B. Hewlett, Orient, II, L. U. No. 303. Par seoretary-treasurer, Louis’ J. Conturiux, West Frankfort, fll., L. U. No. 303. For arbitrator, William E. Wall, Divernon, Il., L. U. No. 146. For special accountants, Dan Mc- Gill, Springfield, Hil., L. U. No. 731; Joe Angelo, Springfield, Ill, L. U. No. 413 For legislative committeemen, Oscar Dunnigan, Springfield, [ll..L. Us No. 3495; Tony Schragel, John- son City, Ill. For auditors, Dick Swift, Valier, HL, L. U. No, 3613; Willlam MoAu- lay, Springfield, Ill., L. U. No, 448; John Gartshore, Virden, III For alternate. auditors, Andy Young, O'Fallon, Mil., L. U. No. 705; Charles R. Harris, Herrin, ill., L. U. No, 1000, a prison at Orleans. Meanwhile, the Communist newspaper, L’Humanite, is rousing the workers in the great fight for amnesty. It says: “Our password today is the same as yesterday—wrench Sadoul away from the military judges, open the frontiers and jail doors to all victims of class sentences, whom the senate is keeping in penal settlements or exile.” FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY SHOWS WHY IT IS PERSECUTED—STATES RIGHT WING IN PARTY MUST GO That the raids on the Communist Party of France, as carried out by the xeral persecution of French workers on tion with the domination over France and company, is seen by the analysis of the international political situation given by the Communist Party of France in its latest thesis, a part of which the DAILY WORKER gives below. It ig to be particularly pointed out that the French Communist Party takes the view that the shifting of class alignments in the wake of American which goes to France) will go to Eng- land and to America for the payment of foreign debts. The investment of American capital in French industries, as well as the control of the French and Belgian railways, will little by little make of France and Belgium spheres of influence of American tal. The connections between the Morgan trust and the financiers of Europe are the same as those which existed between the trust of Schnei- der, of Creusot, and the Stinnes trust, during the war of the Ruhr. In other words, these understandings are bas- ed on the interest which European financiers have in exploiting with their American colleagues, the mass of the population for a profit, the greater part of the surprofit being re- served for American capital, Parallel with the monopoy of indus- try which they are trying to get, the United States is seeking to limit Bu- ropean armaments and to exploit the (Continued on Page 2.)