The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Friday, December 12, 1924 STRIKERS TURN "Titer on rors oF fanace | DOWN PROPOSAL’ CAPITALISTS IN LATIN-AMERICA OF ARBITRATION The following manifesto, exposing and opposing, the nefarious plote * P,P, A, LEADERS MEET TO DISCUSS FUTURE POLICY Johnston Says Time Is Ripe for New Party | Socialism in Germany Reveals Itself As Twin Brother of Fascism Roll ,!. Call to set the peaceful peoples of South America to mass murder of each other over some trivial question of “national honor” or disputes concern- > | Company’s Attempt to . . Run Scab Train Fails ing boundary lines, was published tn Mexico City during the sessions of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, creating a sensation among the (Special to The Dally Worker) SPRINGFIELD, lil., Dec. 11.— Efforts of Mayor S. A. Bullard of this city to induce the 350 striking employes of the Jllinois traction system to return to work again failed yesterday. The strikers insist that they be paid time and one-half over- time for all work over ten hours and demand a closed shop, They have refused to listen to propo- sals of the mayor and Spring- field chamber of commerce that the men return to work and then arbitrate. Strikers Surround Scab Train. A passenger coach was operated from Litchfield to Staunton Monday night by a non-union crew. A crowd of several hundred strikers and sym- pathizers surrounded the car and its crew on its artival at Staunton, and insisted that the car be returned to the Litchfield barn and kept there The car was taken back to Litchfield and no further efforts to use strike- breakers have been made, At the main office of the Illinois traction company at Springfield, the company denied responsibility for the running of the car. Company officials claimed the car was taken out of the barn without their permission, “prob- ably by joyriders.” Strikers, how ever, declare that the car was run tc try out sentiment of the population in the towns affected by the strike. Long Records of Strkebreaking. Superintendent D. W. Snyder, who is representing the company in nego- tiations, has a long record as a vic- ious strikebreaker. Snyder was form- erly manager of the traction system at Bloomington. He was responsible for the historic Bloomington street car strike of 1917, which was marked by violence and bloodshed incited b) gunmen imported by Snyder. In the Bloomington strike these professional strikebreakers tried to do their stuff in the usual fashion, and there were several clashes between the strikers and the hired gunmen Bloomington unions raised $3,000 tc defend and exonerate several of theit members indicted by a packed gran¢ jury for alleged rioting. The Bloom ington carmen now have a 100 pe cent union as evidence of Snyder’: incompetency as a strikebreaker. It looks as tho the running of the car to Staunton were some of Snyder's handiwork. Further negotiations are expected tc take place today either at Peoria or at Springfield. The last strike on the Illinois trac tion system in 1918 resulted in a par- tial victory for the strikers. FRENCH COMMUNISTS T0 PROTEST THE MASS ARRESTS OF WORKERS PARIS, France, Dec, 11—Commu- nists announced their intention of holding a street meeting near the Lazare railroad terminal tonight to protest against the continued arrest and deportation of Communists. Communists of foreign birth are be- id here at the rate of two ry day, at the instance of the Herriot government... .. The government has declared its Intention of attempting to prevent or break up the meeting. Large forces of police are to be concen- trated at the railroad station tonight in an effort to surpress the meeting, The Communists pian several de- monstrations of similar nature pro- Post Cards in Colors Something New and Different. Use them for your regular cor- respondence. Have a set for your album. No. 1—Lenin, directing the revolution No. 2—Lenin, when 16 years old No. 8—-The Red Fiag of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics No. 4—The Russian state seal emblem No. 56—Trotsky, commander of the Soviet Red Army ONE CARD 5 CENTS In lots of 10 or more, 2c per card. 1% in lots of 100 or more. Send money order, check or post- age to Literature Department WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill. delegates and among the workers of all Latin-America. A Call to the Workers of Chile and Peru Yankee Capitalists Foment War Between the Latin Nations in Order to Weaken Comrades! and Conquer Them In the name of all the workers of Latin-America, who suffer so keenly from the crimes of Yankee imperialism, we address this call. The principal obstacle to the definite and complete triumph of Yankee imperialism the power not yet weakened, of Argentina, Chile, Brazil and the other countries of the extreme south, In order to nullify these forces, and to extend its tentacles over the rest of Latin-America, to do what it has done in Mexico, Central America and In the northern part of South America, the octopus of Yankee Imperialism is preparing fratracidal war between Chile and Peru and between Argentine and Brazil. The newspapers of November 26 inform us that there have been firing between Peruvian and Chilean soldiers near Teela. This act indi- cates to what degree the sinister forces of imperialism have advanced the realization of their plans. Pretending to be an “impartial” arbitrator in the dispute over the provinces of Tasna and Arica, the North American government, at the same time, has ordered Admiral Woodward of the Yankee navy to Peru, together with many other officers, “to reorganize the army and navy of the country.” The same action has been carried out in Brazil, ordering Admiral Vogelsang, and fifty officers in addition, to prepare Brazil for war against Argentina. than to Argentina, neither prefering Not that Yankee imperialism is more favorable to Brazil Peru to Chile, but that it wishes to break the “A. B. C, Alliance” (Argentina, Brazil and Chile), and to pro- voke at all costs these wars, in order to wipe out the last obstacle which obstructs its victorious march toward continental imperialism. The only hope of saving Latin-America, of rescuing Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina from arriving at the same condition as Santo Do- mingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico, etc., is action, resolute, immediate and overwhelming, of the workers of these countries in order to stop the imminent war and unify the forces of all the continent against our real enemy. The false patriotism that foments militarism, the agents of Yankee imperialism in Chile and Peru, will betray these countries into serfdom to the House of Morgan. Now is no time to be feeding old rancors over battles won or lost by the bourgeois armies in long gone years. The danger is not In the past, but in the future, and in the present. If the Chilean and Peruvian governments lend themselves to these maneuvers of the United States, the workers of both nations must make immediate demonstrations against imperialism and against those gov- ernments, overthrowing them if necessary. The future of all the workers and peasants of Latin-America trem- bles in the balance. tions today! Tomorrow will be too late. All Latin-America calls— Begin the demonstra- WAR AGAINST FRATRICIDAL WAR! WAR AGAINST YANKEE IMPERIALISM! FORWARD TO THE FEDERATION OF WORKERS’ AND FARM- ERS’ GOVERNMENTS OF BOTH CONTINENTS! LONG LIVE PAN-AMERICAN SOLIDARITY! Signed: THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF MEXICO. The WORKERS (Communist) PARTY of THE UNITED STATES. The MEXICAN COMMITTEE OF THE RED INTERNATION, LABOR UNIONS. Gompers Dies While Returning to the U. S. from Mexico (Continued from page 1) stated by three physicians who at- tended him to be “bronchitis and possibly twenty-four hour pneumonia.” Had a Lucid Interval. After a night of delifium in Mexico City, he told his attendants in a lucid interval that he thought he would live it he were moved to a lower altitude and insisted on boarding a train for the United States. He was removed from the train at San Luis Potosi early Wednesday night, and was examined by physi- cians who reported that his condition was not dangerous. He spent the night in the hospital at San Luis Potosi, and resumed the journey Thursday morning, hoping to reach Laredo, Texas, on the border, on Friday morn- ing. But the mountain range’ in the vicinity of San Nicolas is the highest along the route of the International and Great Northern railroad to the United States, and despite the efforts of the physicians to keep Gompers alive by artificial means, his heart would not function. Gompers was born in London, Eng- land, 1850, of Jewish parents. He be- came a cigarmaker and, tho he has continually opposed the entrance of workers from other countries, came to America himself as an immigrant alien worker. More than that, he was a “radical” alien immigrant. He skimmed thru some of the pamphlets of the immature revolutionary move- ment of the time, and announced him- self te be an anarchist. Like all anarchists, however, he grew ever more close to the position of the petty bourgeoisie in social out- look, and after attaining the presidency of the American Federation of Labor in 1880, he waged unrelenting war upon all revolutionary ideas in the labor movement. Fortified in his posi- tion by building a machine which con- trolled the American Federation of La- bor from top to bottom, he increased his attacks on revolutionary tenden- cies within the labor unions, and be- came the most open advocate of class collabortaion, political and industrial, He mobilized the American Feder- ation of Labor for support of the im- perialist war before the United States entered it at the Buffalo convention in February 1917. And in common with all the reformist labor leaders of the allied nations he never forgave the Russian workers for turning the imperialist war into a revolutionary civil war against capitalists and land- lords, The PAN-AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE. Daily WorkeF Drive Peps Up with Big Spurt of New Life (Continued from page 1) ing the paper on every newsstand in the Quaker City. Comrade Fred Merrick of Pittsburg, was tentatively selected to handle and develop that district for the DAILY WORKER. He plans to run special campaigns among the miners and the steel workers and the possibilities for success in that region are bright. Campaign in Ohio. Comrade J. A. Hamilton of Cleve- land, is preparing to launch a cam- paign in conjunction with the Ohio subscription drive under the leader- ship of Max Lerner, district organiz- er. This campaign will add 3,000 new subscribers to our lists according to the indications at the present time, Comrade Lerner informed the DAILY WORKER business manager. A spe- cial Ohio edition will be published when that figure is reached. Increase in Detroit. Comrade Loeb found things hum- ming for the daily in the city of De- troit, The paper is for sale on the principal newsstands and the paid sub- scription list has been increased by over 200 in the past two months. A tull time agent will be put to work in Detroit at the earliest possible mo- ment. “The party members everywhere have accepted the fact that the DAILY WORKER is the instrument with which the Workers Party can be de- veloped into a mass Communist Party,” declared Comrade Loeb in summing up the results of his tour. ‘It will be emphasized everywhere that the members of the Workers Party must at all times carry on direct subscription soliciting activity as the best means the party now has of reaching the masses of the working class,” declared Comrade Loeb, | Labor Faker Talks Class Collaboration At Bosses Meeting NEW YORK, Dee. 11.—W. N. Doak, vice-president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, appearing on the same platform with railroad execu: tives here, opposed government own- ership according to press dispatches Doak, who spoke after Alfred P, Thom general counsel of th sociation of railway executiv for “active and friendly co-operation of capital, labor and management as a solution b WASHINGTON, Dec, 11,— Leaders the progressive moyement Which vported the independent presiden- tial candidacy of Senator Robert M. LaFollette were gathering in Wash- ington today for the opening tomor- row of the executive committee of the conference for progressive political ac- tion: Under instructions from its conven- tion last June, the committee is charg- ed particularly with making recom- mendations on the establishment of a permanent new third party in the United States. Four Problems. Four major things are to be consi- dered by the committee, William M. Johnston, chairman, and the president of the International Association of Ma- chinists, announced today. These are: 1. Issuance of a call for another national convention of the conference. 2. Review of the LaFollette cam- paign, 8. Recommendations for the estab- lishment of a third party. 4. Recommendations for participa- tion in national and state elections. Thinks Time is Ripe. Johnston himself expressed belief that the LaFollette campaign demon- strated not only the need of a new po- litical alignment, but that the “time now is ripe for the launching of a new party movement, a movement composed chiefly of the American workers and other progressive minded citizens of the country.” LaFollette who, because of a cold may not attend the sessions, but will be in constant consultation with com- taitteemen, holds practically the iden- tical view and will bend every effort looking toward the permanent estab- lishment of the new movement. He will oppose, however, any move by the committee other than drafting recommendations to be laid before the next convention for approval. He believes that the convention itself, not the committee, should be the body charged with definitely bringing out and giving life to the new party. Sam Is Now Safely Dead. Action of the American Federation of Labor at its El Paso convention in flatly turning down appeals to unite with a third party, will not in any way halt efforts to lay the ground work for the new movement, John- ston said, “We did not want the endorsement of the federation,” said Johnston, “al- ‘ho we realize that the backbone of our movement will be supplied by the working classes. This is to he a movement of individual men and wo- men, not of organizations. This is not to be strictly a labor party.” The committee does not plan, John ston explained, to recommend putting complete new tickets in the political field everywhere. “We will put up candidates of our own only when the old parties offer us nothing but reactionaries,” he ex- plained. “That might even apply to the presidency if one of the existing parties nominated a real progressive.” Under present plans, the committee probably will issue a call for next con- vention to be held either late next month or early in February. Chicago is the likely choice for the meeting Place, Johnston said. Cappellini, Once Popular Idol, Is Now a Traitor (Continued from page 1) Martina of No. 14 colliery, located in Cappellini’s home town, Hilldale, when he asked the ex-radical, if it wasn’t a fact, that when they travelled around together, fighting side by side in 1920 against ex-President Dempsey, that he (Cappellini) had advocated fight, strike and various kinds of sa- botage. Dodged Questions, He also refused an immediate an- swer to a question by Delegate Lu- carelli of Old Forge, who wanted to ‘know if Cappellini accepted as official. the action of the executive board dur- ing his absence, in revoking the char- ters of the striking locals. Later, however, he used evasive lan- guage, but positively affirmed the ac- tion. All his efforts today tho, were not, as he claimed, to defend him- self, but were to get the men to re- scind their strike order. To attain this end he used a cloak of pathos mixed with an air of bravado, wind- ing up with a promise that the com- mittee, now in charge of the strike and expelled thru charter revocation, could elect an Italian from among its members and he would appoint him ag an organizer. » | & Sign of Wavering. A sign of wavering was seen at to- day's meeting, for when a motion was made to continue on strike for a “set- tlement with victory” it was carried by @ vote gf 66 to 13, one of the latter or “defeatist” votes came, when a By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Toa. an echo of Herriot’s attacks on the Communists in France, linked with similar moves thruout Europe to pave the way for the Dawes’ Plan, is heard in the an- nounced intentions of the German “socialists” to join what is called “the great coalition government.” The recent reichstag elections didn’t résult in much change in the reichstag make-up. But results will be secured thru the changing attitudes of the various parties, notably the “socialists.” : The “socialists,” Scheidemann, Breitscheid and Lobe, now declare that the “socialists” must enter the government of the capitalist republic, even tho it contain Stresemann’s people’s party, with its monarchistic inclinations. Hitherto. the “socialists” have timidly refrained from joining in a bloc with the party of the late anti-labor indus- ' trialist, Hugo Stinnes.. But it is now ready to take the plunge. The anti-Communist coalition, to chain the whole German working class, to Morgan’s chariot, must be built at all costs. What an aggregation: “socialists,” so-called democrats, center (catholic), and the people’s party (in- dustrial-monarchist), with its Ludendorff wing of extreme fascism. > ° * * The only difficulty is, not that “socialists” will fall into line with Morgan’s wishes, but that Stresemann’s crowd may refuse to mingle with the “socialists.” While the ‘“‘so- cialists” are ready to surrender the German workers to the Wall Street banking interests without a fight; Stresemann’s crowd holds out for a high price for German capitalism. Stresemann wants to be chancellor at the head of a coalition that would include the nationalist (fascisti) party. Strese- man as chancellor would put up a struggle in the interests of Germany’s industrial overlords against the new demands that will arise under the carrying out of the Dawes plan. * * * This situation reveals all parties, from the “socialists” on the left, to the extreme fascisti on the right, ready to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie. Only the Com- munists stand forth as the champions of working class in- terests; as the leaders of the laboring masses in their bitter struggles. The “socialists” are clearly revealed as a wing of fascism. In fact, the German social-democracy and fascism stand forth as twin brothers, Fascism does not object to an alliance with the social-democracy. But it insists that “‘so- cialists” come: into the alliance on the fascist terms laid down for it. And that the “socialists” will do. The tenacity with which the Scheidemann-Ebert social-democracy clings _to the German bourgeoisie is reproduced in miniature in the ““death-grip with which the Hillquit-Berger “socialists” in this country hang on torthe LeFollette snewannans: In England there is a growing opposition to the Dawes. plan among the workers, even among its most reformist tions. This opposition is not so pronounced in Germany, altho it is growing. The results of the recent German elec- tions shows that large numbers of German workers: still harbor the hope that they may get something out of the Dawes plan. This can be the only explanation of the slight recovery in ‘‘socialist” strength in the reichstag, altho the “socialists” met with a big reverse in the elections to the Prussian diet, while the Communist gained. * J * * But the workers will be stung into action under the lash of Morgan-Dawes oppression. They will break the class truce thru withdrawing their support from the social- democracy. They will give their strength to Communist leadership; to the Communist struggle for power and a Soviet Germany. and requested a motion to meet again tomorrow to reconsider the same ques- tion, which was made and accepted. A strong belief is current now that at tomorrow’s session, the men will be swayed into accepting another “dose” of promises, which, in substance, will represent a “third sting in the same place” for the men, and “victory” for the operators, for which they will he ever thankful to Lewis, Cappellini and Co. To Drop Committees. Cappellini is quoted by the capital- ist press hereabouts, as saying that he will not deal with the general griev- ance committees in the future, but that all grievances must be handled by the local committees, That an effort ‘0 “outlaw” the general bodies was on ‘oot, was predicted in these columns everal weeks ago. Seems like an- other case of a father trying to dis- own his illegitimate child, Cappel Uni founded the general grievance committees and rose to power and po. sition thru their medium, but now that he recognizes that his “pedestal” is being mad ky via the same route, he welcomes the demise of these bodies, probably expecting thereby, to escape punishment for his guilt of re- peated delay in the settlement of grievances. Cause Will Remain, Whatever the settlement of the strike brings, when it does come, it will only effect a temporary lull, for the “cause” will remain, until these “instinctively rebellious” miners learn that there is something more to do, than to deal with the “effects.” Cap- pellini tuld the committee that his trip to Mexico was ordered by his su- perior officer, Lewis, and that the ex- pense was borne by the government; this while trying to square himself against the charge that he had been in hiding within close proximity to bis home, Fire Destroys Valuable Documents SEVILLE—Fire broke out in the West Indian building today and de stroyed priceless documents in the arehives. Many of D “were of historical value, sens GET ACQUAINTED PARTY SAT. AT WORKERS’ SCHOOL Lecture Big Feature; and Dance to I Follow The Workers’ School of New York invites you to a lecture and entertain- ment at its headquarters, 208 East 12th street, on Saturday night, Dec. 13. Harold Ware, who has spent many months in Russia as head of an Am- erican tractor unit, will tell how Rus- sian agriculture is being “American ized” and how the the Russian peas ant reacts to modern methods oi farming. Comrade Ware, with hir wide experiences in Russian agricul tural areas offers you an opportunity to gain valuable information which you should not’miss. And those who have heard him speak can all assure you that his interesting manner of presentation guarantees enjoyment ar well as information. But that is not all, There will be dancing after Comrade Ware's talk. with musie provided by the famous orchestra of the Williamsburg Bnglish branch of the Workers Party. Which means—fun and frolic the whole eve- ning long, as those can testify who have had the’ good fortune to dance where the Williamsburg orchestra plays. Come, then, and meet your friends at the Workers’ School on Saturday night, They all will be there—from Bronx and Brownsville, Har and Williamsburg. Get acq with ae Oats Is your local here? Then look for your branch! If it’s not here—elect a Daily Worker agent at your next meeting. Present! ERIE, PA. Finnish «Ed. Laurila Jewish .... wo le Lutsky -H. Perkon Ed. Staff Stefanofski McKEESPORT, PA. Captain: Wm. McKades, Russian ...ssccsues City Agent Russian ..... ‘Sam Mazuk Hungarian ... Steve Nyegre PROVIDENCE, R. I. Captain: W. S. Murdock, City Agent Russian .....ccss0ee00Mike Nahod HAMMOND, IND. Captain: C. Garner, Clty Agent SOUTH BEND, IND. Captain: Earl Kirk, City Agent Russian .......0D. Kozachuk ? «John Tezla ne .W. F. Schuhardt KANSAS CITY, KAN. Captain: Nelson Sorenson, City Agent Jewish English South-Slavic ... KENOSHA, WIS. Captain: Alexander Tishon, English ... South-Slavic,. Russian... Finnish eassovvvevinosousole i MILWAUKEE, , Captain: J. C. Gibson City Agent FINNIBH vases Wm. Korpela H. Speizman —