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The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government ol. Il. No: 226. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside Chicago, FOSTER, GITLOW ARE GIVEN 33,316 VOTES IN 13 STATES BY THE PLUTE POLL JUDGES After some five weeks of waiting the national organization of the Workers Party has at last been able to secure information in regard,to the vote credited to the Communist candidates in thirteen of the fourteen states in which the party was on the ballot. The figure received as the total vote in these states, 33,316; bears out the contention of the Central Executive Committee of the party, taking into consideration the fact that in many in- stances votes cast for the Communist candidates were +counted by election officials, AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY, 'E business office of the DAILY i WORKER has received a check amounting to $11.82 from. the English- Americdn section of the Political Emi- grant's/Club in’ Moscow for. the Sacco- Vanzetti \detense’ fund. This news should makea strong pullon the purs¢ strings of the readers of the DAILY WORKER. And-it should inspire the American workers to, renew their efiorts!to save our. imprisoned com- redes from the electric chair and one of the best ways to do this is to raise tunds for logal defense. | ie ee HE millions of the employing class of the United States are behind | \leads the way in the total number of the ‘state of Massachusetts in ‘the effort to send Sacco and Vanzetti to the death ‘chair. It is significent of the growing spirit of solidarity among the workers of the world’ that our comrades in other lands should volun- tarily contribute their share to thwart the aims of the assassins of labor in the United States. The fight to save Saeco cnd Vanzetti is as pressing a duty as ever confronted the American working class. No time should be lost. Money. is badly needed. It should be remembered that only last week the workers of Moscow sent one thousand dollars to the Sacco-Vanzetti défense committ Russia is indeed the land of the HS swraad are no Sacco-Vangettis in prison in Russia, This is a good retort to hurl in the teeth‘ of the ene- mies of the Soviet government who prate about dictatorship and persecu- tion of the ~ bourgeoisie. When. a worker. ponders over the sufferings of, the Russian proletariat.and. peas- antry under the ezar, the patience. of the emancipated Russian workers is marvelous. It should not be forgotten that it was a -parade of Leningrad workers before the American embassy in that city that first dramatically called the attention of this city to the erime that was perpetrated on Tom Mooney. and that parade helped to initiate. the great movement that saved him from the gallows. Sacco and Vanzetti must be freed. and it is up-to the American. workers sseg get busy. eee HE Grand Duchess Cyril has ar- rived in New York; She is a duchess without a country but she is assured of her three squares a day _ (Continued. on page RUTHENBERG. Tr .affirmation ‘of the verdict of the Berrien county court find- ing me guilty of criminal syndical- ¥ rt of the state of ‘Michigan, establishes a ‘new “crime” so far as the state of “Michigi nis concerned. The only rge inst: me was that 1 at | tended the convention of the Com- ” The United ‘States supreme ne cour Its decisions “interpreting’ ie ‘pieal of the constitution declar- that congress shall make no law Infringing an the Ss of counted dates. ‘MICHIGAN DECISION SHOWS THE CH, RACTER OF THE COURTS not In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 192: by mail, $6.00 per year. DEATH GAINS ON SCIENCE SHOWN BY MORTALITY RATE WASHINGTON, Decs 11.—Despite the onward march of science and medicine, the American mortality rate last year was higher than the year before, the department of com- merce announced today. In 1922, the rate was 11.8 per thousand; last syear it climbed to 12.3, Only seven states, six of them in the far west, showed lower mortal- ity rates for 1923 than for 1922. These were Colorado, Idaho, Mon- tana, Oregon, Utah, Washington and South Carolina. that the total vote cast for the Communist candidates reached 100,000. One of the strking discrepancies shown by the report of the vote given to the Communist candidates is the fact that in the state of Iowa, where the Workers ig has scarcely any organization, 4,037 votes were credit ed to our candidates; whereas in the state of Ilinois, a great industria! state where the party has a stron organization and carried on an active campaign, for the Communist candi- Reports from various sections of the country, pointing out the failure to count the Communist vote, are ap- pearing in the DAILY WORKER from time to time. In the votes credited to the Work- ers Party candidates, New York state ballots counted for Foster and Gitlow. The vote in that state. was 8,244. Minnesota shows the second largest vote credited to Foster and Gitlow, the total being 4,406. The vote reported by the secretar- ies of state in the various states in which the party was on the ballot, is as follows: Massachusetts New York . Pennsylvania New Jersey Indiana IMinois Wisconsin Washington Montana Colorado .. 33,316 The vote for Rhode Island is still not officially counted and the returns for this state are not included in the above figures. In addition, the Work ers Party had a state ticket in Con necticut, but no presidential ticket and in Ohio and California had candi- dates for local offices and congres- sional candidates on the ballot. Want Jury Trial for Aliens, MEXICO. CITY, Dee.. 11.—An amendment to the constitution requir ing a trial by jury of any foreigner before he can be expelled from the country has been proposed here. Ar- ticle 33 of the Mexican constitution now allows the president of Mexico tc expel any foreigner without trial. Subscribe for the DAILY WORKER. ism—is a crime. Thus one more step is taken to completely emasculate the provi- sion of the constitution. The crim- inal syndicalist laws were enacted to protect the capitalist system against the advocacy of ideas which would build a movement against that system: 1 declared during my trial that the court in - which the case was being tried was a capitalist court existing to pro- tect the capitalist system. It is not at all surprising that the Michi- gan supreme court which is part of the same capitalist government and existing to protect the ex: ploiters of labor has given its ap- Pproval to an Interpretation of the criminal syndicalist law which tears down the last vestiges of the right of freedom of speech, press sand assembly. Th ‘dict is an example of how the governmental machinery functions if the interest of the ruling class—the capitalist class—and against the workers. The case will be appealed to the United States supreme court. The upholding of . decision of the Michigan court by the supreme court will be proof that the con- stitutional provisions have no meaning for the working class and will put an end to the claim’ that the constitution protects freedom of speech, press and assembly, only 2,622 votes were: message of Communism to. DAILY WORKER DRIVE TAKES ON NEW LIFE Loeb Returns From « Successful Tour Revived interest in the task of increasing the circulation and subsequently the powoe: and influence of the DAILY WORKER was_ reported by Moritz J. Loeb, business man- ‘ager of the workers’ daily, on land, Detroit, New York, Bos- ton, Philadelphia and Pittsburg | “Phe comrades in every city visit ed by me, expressed and showed their determination to translate into action the decision of the Central Pxecutive Committee on -the building of the DAILY WORKER,” declared Commas Loeb. The DAILY WORKER is now re- ceiving the main attention of the party andthe local units out the country realize that it is aK raost important weapon in the hana: of the Workers Party for bringing the New York in the Le: \ New York City has taken the lead in-bodsting the DAILY WORKER The subscription list in the metrope lis has been increased by over 1,00: during the months of October and Ne vember. This increase in subscrij tions made it possible to place th daily on the newsstands in New Yori bringing the sales up to one thousan copies per day at the present time. Local New York of the Workers Party has set itself the task of bring- ing the paid circulation in that city up to 3,000 and according to present plans, when that figure is reached, a special New York edition will be -is sued, Comrade L. E. Katterfield, city DAILY WORKER agent, is of the opinion that our -paid circulation wil! exceed 10,000 before the end of April and he expects the press pageant which will be held in Madison Square Yarden on March 15, to boost the cir- culation to that figure. The New York militants will not be satisfied until they have created a sufficient demand for the publication of a sis ter Communist daily in the world’s biggest city. Boston to Open Drive. Comrade Winfield A. Dwyer of Bos ton, who’ polled 24,000 votes for secre tary of state on the Communist tic! et in the recent elections, has bec appointed city agent for the DALI, WORKER in that city. He has fu! charge of the distribution of the cai: and the Workers Monthly. He has proceeded to organize the already ex- isting sentiment for the daily and plans to launch a campaign to in- crease the circulation in Boston to 1,000, copies within two months. In Philadelphia, it was decided to put a full time DAILY. WORKER agent in the field and to launch a cam- paign that will lay the basis for plac- (Continued on page 2) Rockford Farmer Is Killed While Trying To Deliver Scab Milk (Special to The Daily Worker) ROCKFORD, Ill, Dee. victims. Richard Saunders was shot in the abdomen and Charles Carlson was badly beaten in a pitched battle re- along the sulting when farmer picket: 7 highway halted a truck load of milk which Frank McKiski was attempting to deliver to a boycotted dairy, Two deputies who were accompanying Me- are accused of being responsi- ble for the injuries and today they his return from an organizing | tour which took him thruCleve- | thras| t 11,—Rock- ford’s milk war today claimed its first THE DAILY WORKER. the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1924 RS DIES ING TRIP THRU MEXICO Heart Failure on High Mountain the Cause 90 The Daily Worker) CITY, Dec. 11.— jompers, president of ican Federation of president also of the an Federation of im the convention. of @ was returning, died in at San Nicolas, a near San Luis Po- posediy from heart to the high altitude. reported as ‘the im- use of his death, as was unable to func- he was. being taken had suffered a reiapse from other ailments while at Mexico City, Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! Published daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113. W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Progressive Ticket Leads Farrington Slate in Poll of Iilinois Coal Miners . ——— WORKERS PARTY American Capitalism | pie cactor iN Loses Loyal Servant) MINERS’ FIGHT AM GOMPERS is dead. There is no doubt that the capitalist dally Farrington Expected to press will put their front pages.in°mourning; that the bitterest Count Himself “In” enemies of the working class, sueh as Coolidge, Dawes, Morgan, will pay their respects to the departed. But the militant workers will shed (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 11. no crocodile tears. Gompers died in the harness of his masters, the imperialists of Amer-|—John Hindmarsh of Riverton, Wings. progressive candidate ica, in his last great effort to extend their power over the toiling masses of the world. The El Paso convention of the. A. F. of L. was the crowning for president of District No. 12, achievement in a long life of working class. betrayal. The sessions of the lon. aqaiens he gencnns Sten Pan-American Federation of Labor over which he had just presided were a bent, Frank Fareington: le lead continuous suppretsion of the grievances of the workers of Latin-America ing his opponent, accordin unofficial returns from the e' ee tions that were held on Dec. 9, The only obstacle in the way of Farrington’s removal by vote of the membership is the fact that he counts the vote and may steal this election as he has always done in the past. The progressive leaders declare that no coal miner in Illinois outside of those on Farrington’s payroll will ad- mit that they ever voted for the arch- reactionary and agent of the coal op- erators. Farrington says, “I will be your next president whether you vote for me or not.” Vigorous Campaign. The progressives in the Illinois Min- ers’ Union have carried on a vigorous campaign against Farrington and his henchmen. In this they were given valuable aid and leadership by the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League and particularly - | by. District 8, of-which. Comrade-Arne Swabeck is organizer. This district of the Workers Party recently published and distributed among the miners 10,000 copies of a sixteen-page pamphlet exposing the career of Frank Farington in the la bor movement and particularly in the miners’ union. This pamphlet and the campaign carried on by the progres- stves under Communist leadership had the effect of solidifying the opposition to Farrington and his lackeys. Clean Sweep for President. > 0 Price 3 Cents CAPPELLINI ONCE POPULAR IDOL, NOW A TRAITOR 3triking Coal Diggers Grill Renegade By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. (Special to The Daily. Worker) PITTSTON, Pa., Dec. 11.—Rinaldo appellini, once the -popular idol. of ye miners of this section of District , United Mine Workers of- America, turned to these parts last. Sunday ght from his aotearss in Texas and 2kico. He spent much time in his office i seranton on Monday, raving over th istration and. threatening to expos those responsible, regardless of whe they may be (intimating that some are officials or organizers), as agents of the coal operators, Today. he appeared at the meeting of the general griev: ance committee in Pittston, not a° the district president, he said, bu. ag “an individual”. He had been invited by the commit ‘| tee upon hearing that he had returned so as to find out what his attitude wa: in the present situation. He wa: asked to appear yesterday, but claim ed the press of other matters. prevent ed it and the meeting, today was ur Cappellini on Defensive. Claiming that there was a concert- vd move on foot to get rid of him by making him had goat” for everything, Cappellini said, “1 have come to the meeting to help decide whether or not I am a traitor, or whether the coal company is back of the strike. Why don’t you fellows ask the members of the district executive board to come to the meeting to defend themselves as I, a8 an individual, am defendin, myself?” To a number of “pointed’ growing sentiment against his admit | The returns from the Springfield district where the Communists are leading the fight against Farrington, show a clean sweep for the progres- sive ticket led by Hindmarsh. Far- rington has been after the scalp of John J. Watt and Freeman Thompson, officials of the Springfield sub-district for a long time but the members fn that section are solidly behind them. Duncan McDonald was recently dropped from Local 448, on threat of lifting their charter by Farrington. One of the propositions which the miners were called to vote for besides offices for the next two years, was the old age pension guaranteeing aged miners $25.00 a month. It is proposed that an assessment be levied against the wages of the miners in order to cover the cost of the pension, Another Religious Institution Takes Cue From the Holy Ghost A police investigation of the Luth- eran Girls’ Home, a semi-charitable organization here, was launched today following the arrest of the chef at the home and his alleged confession that he was the father of a baby born to one of the inmates. — The home, according to police, pur- ports to be an establishment where working girls are able to obtain room and board at nominal costs under the chaperonage of a matron. There are 76 giris living there. Attention was directed to it when Mrs. Letta Schenk, 19, gave birth to a baby at a local hospital. To her hus- band, summoned from Minnesota, where he lives, Mrs. Schenk is said to have involved Thomas Richmond, 30, chef at the home. His arrest fol- lowed, Ely, Minn., with But Six Members Gave Foster 24 Votes (Special to The Daily Worker) ELY, Minn., Dec, 11,--The vote for Wm. Z. Foster, candidate of the Workers Party for president, was in this little town, 24 votes. We have only six members in the Slavic branch here.—Signed, A, Delac, and a White-washing of Wall Street’s imperialist domination and exploitation, Where formerly imperialism sent missionaries with bibles as their advance agents, Gompers showed them the more effective way of sending labor fakers lo blind the masses, to currupt their leaders, and to disorganize their move- ment. For more than 40 years Gompers consistently plied his trade. Allied with the most corrupt and reactionary elemente in the labor movement, the Brindells, the Lewises, the Murphys, the Berrys, the McCarthys, who formed the basis of his powerful machine, Gompers ruled supreme, the bitter and ferocious enemy of every attempt to strengthen the working class and to use its power in struggle against capitalism. He was the enemy of industrial unionism, fighting desperately to keep the unions small, divided, and weak: He blocked and sabotaged every militant action of labor. He conspired with the capitalist politicians to keep the labor movement hitched to the capitalist ind opposed all efforts for independent political action of the work- He ignored or sabotaged every attempt to organize the unor- ganized, as was instanced in the steel strike. He completely neglected the problems of the unemployed workers, except insofar as Judge Gary and resident Harding invited: him to: hetp capitalism solve its problems. He 1 as the oustanding champion of class collaboratiop, with all of its conse- “ienges of subjection of the working class, and against the class struggle in | its forms. In’ the struggle of. international imperialism to strangle and destroy oviet Russia, none was so militant and bitter as the servant of imperialism, sami Gompers. In his invective against the first government of workers and farmers, Gompers. ‘atid even such spokesmen of the capitalist class as Hughes, Lloyd George, or Poincare. He hated Russia because Russia of the Soviets had become the symbol of working class struggle in the betrayal of which Gompers himself was steeped for 40 years. Among the last acts of Gompers was a final crime against the cause of jorking class solidarity, his attempt to block the great movement for world nity in the labor movement, the unity of the International Federation of ‘rade Unions of Amsterdam, and the Red International of Labor Unions of loscow. Gompers withdrew from Amsterdam when Wall Street temporarily vithdrew from direct participation in European politics; Gompers was, when i¢ died, busy re-entering the European labor movement to follow the Dawes lan and help to enforce it. He was maneuvering to enter the Amsterdam ‘ternational to fight the unity proposal of the Red International of Labor Jnions, and to perpetuate the split in the international trade union world. In the anhals of capitalist imperialism, the name of Gompers will be vuritten high among those who served it loyally and well—but in the annals of the revolutionary wofking class, Gompers will be given his true place as the betrayer of the toiling masses and the agent of the mortal enemies of the proletariat. The weakening of the reactionary labor machine of which Gompers was the head thru his death should be the signal tothe workers of this country for a militant struggle to drive Gomperism from the labor movement. The alliance between the reactionary labor officials and the employers must be broken, the trade unions must be amalgamated into strong industrial unions, a widespread campaign for organization of the unorganized must be launched, labor must take up the struggle against unemployment, labor must enter the political struggle as a class to fight its own battles, ‘ Gompers is dead! The workers must now kill Gompersism. Central Executive Committee, Workers Party of America, William Z. Foster, Chairman, c. Eg. eee Rxenutive: Secretary.