The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 18, 1924, Page 1

Vol. Il. No. 231. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHEATY. HE Right. Honorable James Ram- say MacDonald was re-elected chairman of the parliamentary labor party. George Lansbury was nomi nated for the position by J. Maxton, of Glasgow. and the nomination was seconded by Wallhead. It appears that’ the ‘Opposition to MacDonald came from within the ranks of the independent labor party of which he is a member. Maxton severely criti- cizes some aspects of the labor gov- ernment’s record, but only five votes were cast against the motion to re- elect MacDonald. Lansbury withdrew his name. Evidently the so-called left wing in the British labor party has no serious intention of contesting the leadership of the right wing. ~* ‘HERE isa split in the liberal party, tho there is not very much lett of it. A radical group led by Runciman differed with Asquith and Lloyd George as to how far the lib- erals should support the tories. This group organized and one of its main functions will be to keep watch on Lloyd George who is flirting with Bald- win. A rather nae excuse for exist- ence, * * H, THOMAS, Merce minister of * of the colonies, speaking at a dinner given at the African Society in Londdn, amused the guests with what the Daily Herald describes as a “humorous story.” “I remember once seding his majesty,” declared Thomas, “when he asked me how things were going. You need not worry about the condition of your empire, sir. The number of applica- tions I have. got for governorships convinces me that there is no dearth of people to carry on.” There is no dearth: of fakers in the British labor party to serve the pirate empire. oe ‘HE | diplomatic correspondent of Londo ly Herald admits that won" alt=the ors in the diplomatic war over the Zinoyiey forgery. The MacDonald government was largely to blame for the’ whole mess but it is not sur- prising that the labor paper should try to shelve the blame. To its credit, be it said, the Herald, from the be- ginning, turned a skeptical eye on the “yed plot.” But had the British labor patty not compromised itself on the stion it could have made the tories iculous. As it was the tories got the labor fakers into a deep hole. se 8 ‘HE campaign against Russia over T the Georgian question conducted by Ramsay MacDonald has been given what may prove to be a death blow by the British labor delegation now visiting Russia. A. A. Purcel, vice- president of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress and presi- dent of the Amsterdam International; Bramley, secretary of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, and Ben Tillet, of the Transport Workers’ Union, who have. visited Georgia and interviewed former mem- bers of the menshevik party, deny the charges made by MacDonald and other enemies of Soviet Russia as to conditions in Georgia. + # URCELL states: “I haye been in the midst of the Georgian work- ers. Iam conyinced of their economic success and of the falseness of the information circulated in Europe.” Bramley says: “Soviet Georgia is alive because it is supported by the people.” Ben Tillet declares: “The Soviet and Trans-Caucasia are living together peaceably. The self-deter- mination of a nation has been realized here in such a degree as Europe can only dream of.” Things are getting worse for the anti-Soviet liars in the British labor movement. ** # RS. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST visited Italy and was “blessed” by the pope. She also inter- ylewed Mussolini and discovered him be a fine fellow. She did not ~J is destined for eternal unless. God changes his mind. tly “His Holiness” has an understanding with his deity. Per- haps the “Almighty” makes excep | tions in the case of those who hav | lots of money. His alleged agents do. HE Pittsburgh, Pa» branch of th will hold its regular monthly present. Besid SUBSCRIPTION RATE “Notice! Pittsburgh Trade Unionists! ‘at 807 James St., N. S. All progressive trade unionists are urged to be the reports from all of the industrial groups a report ‘of the machinists’ convention will be made and the lessons that were derived from It. Come yourself and bring another trade unionist with | you—v.-S. OTIS, Industrial Organizer, District No. 5. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mali, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1924 ~<=>™" HILLMAN ADMINISTRATION USES GANGSTERS AGAINST MILITANTS IN “AMALGAMATED’ ELECTION At noon yesterday three members of Local No. 39, Amalga- mated Clothing Workers of America, were beaten and slashed by gangsters under command of Sidney Rissman, member of the international executive board of the “Amalgamated,” and general officer working under the direction of Sam Levin, chairman of the Chicago Joint Board, in an attempt to drive the militants from the polls in the elections. This was one instance where the Chicago officials of the “Amalgamated” resorted to hired sluggers in an attempt to stop “the left wing militants from U. WLW. OF A. FR THE LEFT WING Voyzey Leads Lewis in West Frankfort The revolutionary left wing in the United Mine Workers of America is making an excellent showing in the union election. In West Frankfort, Illinois, Local 959, in the face of bitter and organized opposition of the Ku Klux Klan combined with the Lewis gang, the left wing candidate for president, George Voyzey, overwhelmingly carried the local with 421 votes against only 164 for John J EDNESDAY, January 21, will be the first anniversary of the death of Nicolai nl leader of the world revolution. The Communist Movement the world over will hold memorial meet- Ing to commemor: the great services which Lenin rendered to the revolutionary wo! cl movement. Last year the memorial meet- ings arranged me it party for Lenin brought great masses of workers to meetings. The Lenin memorial meetings were the greatest demon- strations of the support of Leninism and the Communist movement which we have had qn this country. The whole of party and of the Young Workers League must organize to hold Greater and more meetings in memory of the work of Lenin in ¢ ction with the first anniversary of his death. It Is the de Pof the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party and the Ni jal Executive Committee of the Young Workers League that Joint Lenin memorial meetings be held during the few weeks’ period from uary 18 to February 1. All units of the party and the Young Wi League should immediately organize joint Lenin memorial meetit d proceed with their arrangements for these meet- ings during the weeks’ period stated. The meetings should be under the Joint ai ees of the Workers Party and the Young Workers League and s; representing both organizations should address the meetings. ational organization of the Workers Party and of the Young League will assign speakers for these meetings. ’ TEACH LENINISM. atest honor to the memory of Lenin by teaching tings in his memory. Our aim at all the Lenin just be to acquajnt the workers with the principles re the guide of the workers and peasants of Russia wer. We must bring to the workers the conscious- ness that it is | thru the application of these principles to their struggles in the United States that they can achieve their victory against their exploiters and oppi ors, While we te ‘the principles of Leninism at the Lenin memorial meetings, we mut ot overlook the building of the organization of the followers of © im, the Workers (Communist) Party and the Young Workers League thru these meetings. At all the Lenin memorial meet- ings there should be an appeal to those who accept the principles of Leninism to unite With the organizations of the followers of Lenin. After such an appeal a’@ystematic canvas of the audiences for applications for membership iq- Workers Party and the Young Workers League must be made, tl ie party and the Young Workers League! There must e pal meeting in every city and town in which there nizations. Spread the news among the workers that pnor of Lenin are to be held. Present to them the pebieg hc those who accept the prin- fighting we shaes prin- iti. Members Protest. ause the left wing militants Sat passing out sample ballots to the members advocating the election of Philip Aronberg, for general man- ager to displace Levin, and favoring Hyman Epstein and William .Savan- ovsky for business agents at large, they were.set upon, in some cases by the union officials personally and so badly beaten that some are under physician’s care. Hundreds of the A. C. W. membership protested and de- manded that such disgraceful conduct be stopped. At 12 noon, Sam Simonian, member of Local 39, was distributing the red cards bearing the sample ballot can- didates of the left wing, at Horan’s Hall, 810 W. Madison street, when seven gangsters fell upon him. One stuck a gun against him and after they had taken his sample bal- lots, they forced him into the alley- way and while some held him, the others beat him in the face, and in- flicted large wounds on his head, prob- ably with a blackjack. He appeared covered with blood a short time after- DAILY WORKER | in their struggle gang” one of the sluggers—known|” as the “Scotch gang,” called after Si- monian as he was forced at revolver point to leave the neighborhood of the polling place. Slug Girl Worker, Helen Kaplan, also a member of Local 39, was beaten and bruised by the Amalgamated officials themselves, at the union hall at 409 S. Halsted street, when she attempted to distri- bute the red sample ballots shortly after the assault on Simonian. She went upstairs in the union hall, distributing ballots among the unem- ployed. Sydney Rissman, member of the national G. E. B. and right-hand man of Levin, ordered Helen Kaplan out, and refused to discuss the right (Continued on page 2.) the left winger, even more Aasiatvety defeated the Lewis gangster, Phil Murray, by a vote of 411 to 136; while Joseph Nearing, the left wing candi- date who hails from Nova Scotia, run-! ning against William Green for secre- tary-treasurer, won the local by a vote of 311 to 204, From Local 2470 at Ankeny, Iowa, comes the result of the battle put up by the revolutionary miners. On the international ticket, the local went for Voyzey by 92 votes against 63 for Lewis; for Arley Staples by 89 votes against Phil Murray’s 59 votes. Near- ing lagged but one vote behind Green’s 73 for secretary-treasurer. The assault of the left wing is rock- ing the Lewis machine. The coal dig- “IN BRINGING THE TRIUMPH OF THE PRINCIPLES OF LENINISM. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WORKERS PARTY OF ‘AMERICA, William Z. Foster, Chairman. Cc. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE, John Williamson, National Secretary. TWIN CITIES "ASS THEM to The Daily Worker) gers, the fellows underground, want eprenea paints: (Speclat the program of the left wing. All left MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 17.—Besides cas! » sales a total of wingers should report the local vote HUTCHESON C ANS $900 has been pledged by the | ‘inneapolis“and ‘StPaul locals to. #Instre the to the Trade Union Educational DAILY WORKER tor 1925.” % axe es League, 1113 Washington boulevard, Chicago, Il. Laid Up for Repairs. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—Ambassa- dor Sheffield will leave tomorrow for Cuernavaca, a nearby health resort, where he will/rest for ten days, he announced today. He intends later to sail for Havana or Miami. POSTOFFIGE CLERKS’ RESOLUTION DEMANDS SENATE ACT ON BILL A resolution calling on the work- ers to bring pressure to bear on the senate to pass the bill providing for a wage increase to postal employes was passed by the Chicago Union of the National Federation of Post- office Clerks. “The wage require- ments of the bill,” the regolution reads, “Are based upon the wn- biased report of the United States bureau of labor.” “The provision for revenues to support the requirements of the bill can be covered adequately in a sub- sequent measure. It is cruelly un- just to penalize the postal workers any further,” the resolution adds. Lature Ree ait, Worker fn Mg $100,000,000 Toan to Government (Special to The Dally Worker) BRUSSELS, Belgium, Dec. *|17-—The whole of Europe is grecualt ‘vorrendering to the This action follows’ the campaign endorsement ‘ty. the finger, central committee meeting held last Friday which ‘was turned over ‘to Wal Carmon, circulation manager of the DAIL’ + LOST HIM VOTE ie soa the DAILY WO! problems. His joiat body Steal Election By ANDREW OVERGAARD. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 17.—As a re- ward for failing to deliver the votes King Hutcheson, all the local organ: izers who were on the payroll of the The organizers not only failed to deliver the votes to Hutchteson but sive candidate, from carrying Detroit. Rosen carried the election here with son, so naturally the organizers have failed to do their work, hence the re- The district council of carpentera} here has been under the direct super- time and the charge of the situ: has been placed in the hands of Wm. | chine, and a relative of Hutcheson|© by the name of Alger, who was ap the union for two months. It is to be remembered that one of gressives was that Rosen had not been, long in the organization, t not applied to the mi Progressives are determ WORKER, for a thoro No Good If Thay Can’t laid betore it ent of (Special to The Daily Worker) of the Detroit locals to his majes' general office will be laid off. failed to prevent Rosen, the progres: a majority of about 40 over Hutche-}" ward, vision of Hutcheson until the Botterell, an old servant of the ma pointed organizer after having been in the principal attacks against the pro- similar cries which, however” up their good work ¢ Trade Union Educational League Py meeting Sunday, Dec. 21, 2 p.m |lsumed that tho Jewish local, cast 118 votes for Rosen against for Hutcheson, will maintaii thét organizer. Detroit - proven that the carpenters will forge ahead for in spite of fice at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, Published daily except. Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., Help Insure THE DAILY WORKER for 1925! ° Pa 1113 W: Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Price 3 Cents ELECTION STEAL THOUSANDS OF BOGUS BALLOTS PRINTED BY FAKER'S HENCHMEN; MASS PROTEST MEET PLANNED (Special to The Dally Workers ZIEGLER, Ill., Dec. 17.—Instead of the usual eight or nine hundred votes that Frank Farrington was used to polling here when he had his own crooked tellers on the job, he only received 144 votes against 488 for John Hindmarsh, candidate for presi- dent of District No. 12, United Mine Workers of America, on tha progressive ticket. Despite the reign of terror carried on by Farrington and his stoolpigeons in Local No. 992, the vote was as follows: John L. Lewis, 214; George Voyzey, 634; Philip Murray, 225; 225; Arley Staples, 587; William Green,¢———————— 303; Joseph Nearing, 514. In Valier the vote was: Lewis 410. Voyzey 672, Murray 387, Staples 556, NEW TRIAL FOR Green 601, Nearing 312, Farrington 372, Hindmarsh 356, Fishwick 440, for Ruthenberg Decision Denies Assembly Right vice-president of District 12 against 405 for Hewlett. Nesbit for secretary- treasurer 385, against 412 for Con- touriox. Re-trial of William Z. Foster looms as a serious possibility, as a result of the Michigan supreme court decision uphold- ing the conviction of C. E. Ruthenberg. Prosecuting Attorney Charles Gore, has already given out an interview forecasting the re- trial of Foster, Decision Reflects Wave of Reaction. thé Ruthenberg ap. 1 reflects the triumphant wave of reac! ot American capitalist rule, ‘gain upon the re-election of Pres- ident Coolidge. The pronouncement of the judges was unanimous. The opinion written by Judge Wiest goes pi beyond the worst and most notori- is aptiebor decisions of Washing- ron Oregon. and Illinois. It strikes di- rectly at the constitutionally guaran- eed right of freedom of assembly, Practically declaring that any gather- Bogus Ballots. According to “official” returns the entire ticket of the progressives was beaten. But how this was done can be gathered from the fact that Frank Johnson, secretary-treasurer of the Valier local captured over 500 bogus ballots at Buckner Saturday and has them securely locked up in a bank vault. It is also known that a certain Farrington henchman went to the same printer with a request to print 5,000 extra copies of the official ballot. The discovery of the bogus ballots at Buckner is positive proof that he had his order filled. Expecting that such a stunt would be pulled off, Secretary Johnson put a secret mark on the bonafide ballots after he got them from the printer. The ballots captured at Buckner were “ et Mass Meeting Calfed. . There is @ bigmads meeting called at West Frankfort: for ten o’cléck next Sunday morning. Ey union man in the county is urged attend the meeting. ~ A special si istrict convention is demanded ‘to tigyl with ‘this crooked election! di 1 a man who got the 5,000 extra” ba’ printed will be named. In every loc’ union in the county where -the chine was in complete con ii candidates took everything. t in ig of Communists at all is sufficient Bush, Royalton, in the new mine sro 98 for conviction of criminal sym Ziegler, at Benton and in, ‘the,.loci| dicdem. in West Frankfort, wherever the 8 Dros. Bclear that the defense will not {gressives had a friend @r two.on thé di ge. Labor will not remain sat board, they carried the loc#is ‘Or, else | is’ ith such a vicious “heresy ran neck and neck with the r punting” dictum. It is expected that aries. * fresj sums of money will begin ta Corbishley Beat Fox. ‘ in to the labor defense council In the New North mine at Chria. jeg oe W. Washington St. Chir topher, ‘for instance, where the ma-|°%% Mlinois, for the continuation of chine has always gotten away with thesfight, the election, Lon Fox got 299 votes| May Take Case to Supreme Court. against 296 for Henry Corbishley, his gre defense has 40 days in which opponent for the office ‘of sub-district |to ask for a rehearing in the Mich’ president. In the Old North where|gan court. Whether or not this ex Bill Patterson {s local president, the | velit will be made use of, is nog progréssives had one man«on the/¥; own; Frank P. Walsh, nation tboard ‘and vote stood, Fox, 1365; |Glly-known lawyer, will be in Chicago Porbiaiar In two locals where| this week to confer with Attorney had a teller on thi |Isaac E. Ferguson, regarding further Brenkfort, Corbishley | policy in the Michigan cases. The labor defense council is determined to carry the case to the United S ipreme.court if necessary. It may he that,this is the next step. Mr. Ferguson, who argued the Ruth» enberg appeal before the Michigas jion- temper of the min. is going to be in the near future, for the distribution “(Continued on page 2) } BURIED IN STOCKS AND BONDS » «By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT. Ro days Gompers died daily upon the front pages of the crooked Yesterday his gbituary and an estimate of his all too useful cypon the financial page of the yellow pres pe csuinn “Proteetingly flanked on either side by dizzy alan -and minuses, in quotation of the coal oil, auto and fertilizer, Gompers lay at home. 80 carefully to the worms, They kissed him Gaye his dead paunch a final little mischevious ancie this big {little man had in doing the lous, solid gold funeral cortege was: i ere 1 begin to realize that Sam Gompers r onstructive factors if the era of American industrial where we are.” rd bearers of American imperialism has been rated. And in the days to come, when ar eearetine: it will be because they again and his like are rated daily all the time. 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