The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 11, 1924, Page 1

The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Mol. II, No. 225. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: RR In Chicago, by mi Outside Chicago, ail, $8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1924 Ee 290 Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1118 W. Washington Blvd., Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Price 3 Cents Chicago, I. MILITANT DELEGATES IN REVOLT AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY, EAVY blows descend with light- ning rapidity on the heads of the czarist emigres: in Paris~ They saw the French government recognize the hated Soviet; saw the palatial. em- bassy building turned over to the rep- resentatives of the workers and peas- ants, but the worst was yet to come, ‘The latest calamity to cast its baleful shadow over the future of the para- sites is the probable loss of the Rus- sign orthodox church, which was sequestered recently on request of the Soviet ambassador. HE]. church was built on ground purchased by the czar with the money of the Russian, peasants, of course.- The building was placed un- der the protection -of. the Russian embassy. Last year when the czarists saw signs of peril onthe horizon in the form of approaching rocognition of the Soviet government, the country- Jess Kerensky ambassador, Maklakoff, suddenly decided to put the property ander the protection of Jesus, who unfortunately for the emigres is not any more popular now than lie was in the days of Pontius ‘Pilate, at least not in Paris. eee “HE French courts will decide the disposition of the church building but there is hardly a doubt but it will be delivered to the Soviet government. Onie of the novel arguments put for- ward by the emigres in support of their contention that the church be- Tongs to them, is the danger that, once disconnected from the influence of the ghurch, the mortality rate from sud- den and violent death in the monar- gist colony may rise. It could be said, however, in support of the other side of the question, that, in America vate, the clergymen are‘running with ‘the professional MICHIGAN COURT UPHOLDS ATTACK ON COMMUNISTS Ruthenberg \ Verdict Is Affirmed at Lansing (Special to The Daily Worker) LANSING,» Mich., Dee. 10.— The supreme court of the state of Michigan today- confirmed the conviction of C. E."Ruthen- berg, executive secretary of the Workers Party, for violation of the Michigan criminal syndical- ist law in “assembling with” the Communist Party at the con- vention in Bridgeman in August 1922. Ruthenberg was tried at St: Joseph, Michigan, in April, 1923, following the disagreement of jury in the case of William Z. Foster, and the appeal has been pending before the supreme court of Michigan since that time. Plan For an Appeal. The opinion of the Michigan su- preme court is not yet available and whether the opinion leaves open the way to an appeal to the supreme court of the United States has not been decided as yet. Attorneys Frank P..Walsh and I. B. Ferguson, who argued the case be- fore the Michigan supreme court, will immediately take up the question of an appeal to the supreme court of the United States. 31 Other Indictments Pending. There is still pending in Berrien county the indictments against thirty- their | one ate Communists Egress Shaw says the Soviet tactics ind the’times and that Russian révolutionary leaders ‘are novices. hey may not all have as much wis- n as Shaw, who gets along very nicely with the bourgeoisie tho enjoy- ing the luxury of making them writhe * ogcagionally on the point of his satir- ical pen. But- when the bourgeoisie ‘are in danger, as during the war, Shaw is their man. The Russian revo- lutionists may be novices in the art of revolution, but bie - see. A . 'T. appears to us that they have con- quered one-sixth of the surface of the earth for Communism, defeated a world in arms, put down several counter-revolutions largely financed by the government which Shaw sup- ported during the war with his pen, forced the governments ‘of ‘the world with the exception of two to recognize its, Red Army, and organized a world revolutionary organization to carry the message of gneeg=e to the farthest ends of the earth. These are only a few of the accomplishments of the Russian revolutionists. It would be cruel to compare their ac- complishments to those of the British socialists, the leaders who accept bribes from tory capitalists and en- dowed autos and get kicked in the posterior when the bosses they serve no longer need om 3 I. jockeying in an attempt to form a cabinet, They are bargaining for positions like hucksters. For sthem, ? mean a fight for offices and oluments of office. The social- are lined up with the capitalists. ‘is their conception of the united The Communists, despite the tact that hundreds of their leaders were in jail, elected 44 deputies to the reichstag and 47 to the Prussian diet, (a Whether the proseeutors at St, Joseph will now press any of these cases to trial is still an open ques- tion. If it becomes possible to appeal the Ruthenberg case before the supreme court of the United States, it is not likely that any of the other cases will be tried until the decision is made on the Ruthenberg case. UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN IN FIGHT OVER LOOT U. S. Holds the Bag and Also the Dollars LONDON, Dee. 10—The British and American governments are quarreling over the war spoils now being taken out of Germany by the Dawes plan under the title of war reparations. The British foreign office claims that the United States not having signed the Versailles treaty is not en- titled to benefit under it and has no legal claim on reparations under the Dawes. plan. soe ioe Fleeecing German Workers The United States feels that because it hatched up the scheme to fleece Germany in a most scientific manner, it has as much right to its share of the loot as any other robber nation. Great Britain stands alone in deny- ing the American capitalists the right to participate in the hold-up of Ger- many, the other bandits taking Amer- ica's side. The United States claims that while it did not sign the Versail- jes treaty it helmed to defeat Germany and therefore should share in the spoils. The robbers are expected to reach an agreement, MOSCOW DOCTORS URGE TROTSKY’S RETURN TO CAUCASUS FOR HEALTH (Special to The MOSCOW, Dec. 10.—Leon Trotsky, “On November 24, the undersigned ture and results from an irritation of was brought on by the climatic change the Caucasus and damp in Moscow. non-trust variety. Thus is shown the ly ill.” The following bullettin was issued today by Trotsky’s BRITISH TORY CHIEF HAS AUDIENCE WITH HEAD OF OPIUM JOINT ROME, Dec. 10.—The Pope today recelved Foreign Secretary Cham- berlain, the object of his visit being a discussion of the Palestine situa- tion. Secretary Chamberlain and the Pope talked 20 minutes. Later Quiones De Leon, Spanish ambas- gador to France, visited the Pope. Other delegates to the council of the league of nations will be received tomorrow. YOUNGDAHL IN STEADY GAINS IN VOTE COUNT Hathaway T ells About Confusion in Voting By C. A. HATHAWAY. (Special to the Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 10.—The recount in Comrade Emil Youngdahl's _ legislative contest shows additional gains. A net gain of 60 votes’has been made with almost one-half of the district yet to be counted. The most significant is the tremendous lack of class con- sciousness shown in the voting, coupled with ignorance as how to use the ballot. Much Freak Voting. Of the 15,000 ballots cast in the di over 600 are straight labor Vast numbers voted for a reactionary for congress, followed by a vote for a Communist for the legislature and then wound up by voting for the whole slate“f reactionary judges, Or they would vote for a labor can- didate for corigress, a reactionary for the legislature, and a labor man coup led with some reactionaries for the judgeships. All is confusion. This is due to several causes, the chief of which is our present election of state legislators on a nonpartisan basis. The county ballot was headed by the partisan candidates for con- gress, then followed the nonpartisan candidates for the legislature, next the nonpartisan judges and the ballot wound up with the candidates for pet ty nonpartisan county executive offi- ces. Such a hodge-podge on one ballot is confusing to the average voter, even tho he has made a diligent study o/ the candidates and their multitudinous platforms. The candidate who pollec the largest vote in the 35th legislative district contest is an arch reactionary republican, Harry A. Montgomery. He polled 800 more votes than his next highest opponent. . The district is a working-class one, He did not make over six speeches during the campaign, issued absolutely no platform and his official campaign expense was but $35.00. But he had a well oiled political machine working for him. Two years ago the voters in prac tically the same district defeated him for re-election as county commission er, on account of his voting for a road contract in favor of the bitulithic trust, costing the county $160,000 more than an equally good pavement of a fickleness and forgetfulness of the av- erage voter. , The workers in Minnesota must be aroused to class conscious voting. The hope of the producers lies with the Workers (Communist) Party. Daily Worker) soviet commissar for war, physicians: examined Trotsky, finding a feverish condition which was aggravated by grippe lasting ten days. A second exam- Subscribe for ination Dec. 6, showed persistent abnormal temperature. Despite the meas-| the ures taken, the present high temperature is analogous to last year’s tempera- the bronchial glands. This, in turn, which Trotsky made, it being dry in “We think that Trotsky should hasten his departure to a health resort where he will be in a warmer climate.” * (Signed) “Health Commissar Siemashko, ‘ ae UNDER THE BRITISH LASH The Baldwin government and the colonies. STRIKERS FIGHT FOR LIFE FIT FOR HUMAN BEINGS (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Dec. 10. —Officials representing the striking trainmen employed by the Illinois traction company have issued a statement declar- ing that rag 8 man is on strik and stating the demands of the strikers. At the same time officials of the Illinois traction system have declared their hypocritical wil- lingness to arbitrate, but only after the men return to work. “Instead of asking for an overtime penalty after eight hours,as most peo- ple work, we ask for overtime after ten hours,” says the statement signed by W. I. Taylor, chairman of the train- men’s strike committee and Alex Mc- Guire, international vice-president of the union. “We wanted the assurance that we could work like human beings and have some time to spend with our families. We know the only way to accomplish this was to have a penalty on overtime, which is in most every contract except the Illinois Traction System contracts.” Frantic efforts by Springfield busi- ness men to lure the strikers back to work have utterly failed. The company officials refuse to arbitrate the ques- tion of overtime pay until the men call the strike off. The strikers, how: ever, turn their backs on arbitration and refuse to return to work until the overtime pay question is settled. Traction officials declared they will at present make no effort to run the cars with strikebreakers. concentrating on trying to dupe the men back to work by using their fake arbitration as bait. They are According to representatives of the strikers, the Illinois Traction System is completely unionized, only four em- ployes being outside the union when the strike was called, men joined the ranks of the strikers immediately, The strike vote was 267 in favor of striking and 18 against, but in the interests of solidarity these 's serious-| eighteen men made the decision un- animous. These four “Your Daily,” DAILY WORKER. ‘ | JUNIORS HIKE SUNDAY | Meet the bunch at Milwaukee and Western at 10 o'clock sharp on Sun- day, Dec. 14, Bring lunch and car fare. Lots of fun ahead! League _ branch in Indianapolis and in Clinton. IS SHAKEN IN TH (Special to The jshameless betrayal of their in- terests to Yankee imperialism. The T. U. E. L. Strikes Hard. This is the immediate result of the publication of a manifesto of the T. U. E. L. of the United States, the Mexi- can committee of the Red Interna- tionalof Labor Unions and the Pan- American Anti-Imperialist League. This manifesto is creating a sensa- tion in the labor movement and in political circles as well. The congress closed with a bitter attack on the Communists by Luis N. Morones, the “Gompers of: Mexico,” who insisted that the Pan-American Federation of Labor w: not merely a parliamentary body, but stood for (By Deni in the Moscow Pravda.) TEMPORARY TRADE. BOOM WILL BRING MORE DOUGH TO THE PLUTES NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel corporation increased 506,699 tons between Oct. 31 and Nov. 30, ac- He begged that no one be “deceived by those who come masked as liber- ators, but whe were<incompetent and insincere.” Begs Help for Sammy. He made a plea that the officials of the federation, especially Gompers, be defended against criticism, and as- serted that if in the future the critics cording to the monthly report of the |“imposed upon the officials” these erities should be expelled from the corporation today. orward | £0) ss, He did not. Mention the « g omana nadacn.28 An beakss st Feyckeenainey BY Wahie- UHts TeaVIng the 9 . road open to expel even non-Commun- pl sac Poi mae ee ist critics such as the delegate from 780 on September 30, 1924 Ag On the Central-American countries have 5 November 30 of Jast year unfilled turned out to be. tonnage amounted to 4,368,584. | These delegates began to protest |when their resolutions, asking for |s0me real action on their complaints VOTES STOLEN |against the savage imperialism of the United States government and the Wall Street bankers, were “referred Illinois Gives 2,622 and Indiana 987 Votes to the executive committee”—which The elections in the states of Illi- means to bury them. A Reason Six Months Long. nois and Indiana, according to Arn Swabeck, district organizer, were not The delegate from Santo Domingo protested against this treatment, and altogether reliable so far as counting Communist votes was concerned. In wanted action against the American dicatorships He said he had served fact he charges that, “At least five to one of all votes have been stolen,” in six monhs in prison merely for say- the state of Illinois. In spite of that ing that the Hughes-Peynado treaty was not evacuation, but annexation. 2,622 votes were credited in Illinois rand 987. in Indiana. Also “referred to the executive com- mittee for investigation” were the resolutions from Guatemala demand- ing withdrawal of American troops, the abrogation of the Platt amend- ment, free speech, free press and the right to organize and strike; as well as those asking that the Pan-Ameri- In proof -he cites the reports of fraud, previously published in the DAILY WORKER, particularly from Williamson county, where the Ku Klux Klan and the declarations of martial law by Governor Small re- sulted in blocks of votes being stolen according to reports of Workers Party van federation demand the abolition ot the death penalty for labor organ- members. It would indeed be strange if Communist votes were not stolen. izers and their torture in the prisons Stealing Was Successful. Guatemala by American troops or by natives under American control, The Guatemalan delegate protested that referring these resolutions to the executive committee, meant that ‘they were practically rejected, they would sleep in the archives of Gompers. Gompers Holds Out for Torturing Organizers. “Surely,” he stated, “the congress Comrade Swabeck says, in addition,|is opposed to torture of labor organ- “A number of our poll watchers in|izers by hanging them up by the Chicago ajso reported attempts made|thumbs and breaking them on the right at the counting to steal our|rack as in the times of the inquisi- votes, in many ilnstances the stealing | tion.” became successful.” “While we suffer,” he cried, “you In linois the presidential vote for|Sive us words to fight the powers of Foster was 2,622; for senator, Com-;American imperialism. The congress rade Engdahl got 2,618; for governor, Comrade William F. Dunne got 2,329; for lieutenant governor, John Watt re ceived 2,810; for secretary of state, Comrade Loeb received 2,285; for rep- resentative at large, Comrades Minor and Hewlitt received 2,235 and 2,160 votes respectively. The remarkable, and even unusual similarity between the votes of the (Continued on page 6) ———$ CLASS IN ECONOMICS presidential candidate and the other candidates, looks very queer, almost MEETS ON FRIDAY AT N.Y. WORKERS’ SCHOOL arbitrary, when we see how the vote has varied in other states between The class in Marxian Economics given at the Workers’ School of New candidates, Few Members in Indiana. York mi every Friday, 8 p. m., In Indiana, where 987 votes were re- at the quarters of the school, 208 east 12th St. This class is part of the party training course intended for com- rades selected by the various branches. Comrade Jacob Mindel, tl is accounted for| well known in the Jewish Federa- by. the fact that the Workers Party | tion particularly for his educational has few members in the state, and| activities, is the instructor. those few mostly in Lake county, and Comrades who have istered South Bend region, with one small by se for this class are urged to be pres- ent on time, bee social and economic changes as well. |’ RULE OF GOMPERS AND MORONES E PAN-AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR CONGRESS By J. W. JOHNSTONE, Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Dec. 10.—The Pan-American Federation of Labor developed in its last day into anything but a smooth stream of water whereupon the class-collaborationist ducks: of Sam Gompers and Luis Morones could swim about in peace. : The delegates of the Central and South American countries, . even such few of them as there are represented, and even such week elements as they were, revolted against the naked and + WAGENKNECHT I GETTING RESULTS IN “DALY” TOUR Drive Director Puts It Over in Cleveland (Special to The Daily Worker) CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 10.— Ohio is responding with great energy and with a flood of hard cash to the campaign to secure a fifty thousand dollar fund to isure the DAILY WORKEn for 1925, Comrade Alfred Wagen- knecht, director of the drive, reports, At a meeting of the city cen- tral..commities...ef Cleveland Monday” night, - By Comrade Wagenknecht, hund- reds of dollars were pledged and arrangements were made for distribution of insurance poli- cies. A membership meeting of all party members and sympathizers will be held here Thursday night at the South | Slavie Hall, 5607 St. Clair St., at which Comrade Wagenknecht will explain the campaign to make the DAILY WORKER grow. Splendid meetings have ben held in | Warren, Conneaut and other northern | Ohio towns, Comrade Wagenknecht |declares, at which great enthusiasm was displayed for insuring the growth of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Wagenknecht will address membership meetings of the Workers |Party in Youngstown at the Workers | Hall, 338% west Federal street, Dec. |12, and at Toledo, Dec. 14, in the La- |bor Temple, 131 Michigan A St., at 2 Dp. m | Vendewlins Called as Witness in Veterans’ Bureau Graft Case Elias Mortimer continuing his testi- mony in federal court here as to the graft, corruption and bribery practic- ed by Charles Forbes, while head of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, charged that Forbes had him framed up in 1923. Mortimer was indicted in New York City in May, 1923, charg- ed with bootlegging. He charges that Forbes engineered the indictment. Frank Vanderlip, New York finan- cler, has been called as a surprise witress ia defense of Forbes, and was expected to go to the stand either late yesterday afternoon or today. Mor- timer characterized Forbes as “A amist and a deserter from the United States army.” Jail Uses Scientific Stavation, TACOMA, Wash—The “Black Hole of Calcutta,” as the Tacoma jail was renamed by women who investigated frightful conditons there, is furnish- ing food to prisoners at 11.6 cents a meal, the police department figures, Red Hunt Brings Fever. PARIS, Dec, 10-—Premier Herriot’s physicians today ordered him to sus- pend all official business and to re main in bed a few hours. The premier is suffering from grippe, but his con- dition is declared to be not serious, Boss Solons Take It Easy. WASHINGTON Dec. 10—The sen. ate this afternoon passed the house resolution adjourning congress , eee 20 to Dec. 29 for a christmas