The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 23, 1925, Page 4

YY Four. HE DAILY WORKER _————$$_____. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. 1113 W. Washington Blydj Chicago, 1). Phone Monroe 4712 bd SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): By mail (outside of Chicago): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $6.00 per year $3.50 six.months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks’ to THE DAILY WORKER, 1118 W. Washington) Bivd., Chicago, IHinols a A + AS ENE eae J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F, DUN! MORITZ J. LOEB... See ee Bntered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the post-office at Chi- cago, Iil., under the act of March 3, 1879. | nnn FOP Business Manager Advertising rates on application. aS Young Bob and the Socialists Read the Mil- > 10 This world is’surely an awful place to live in. ‘waukee Leader and weep over. the ingratitude of man. During the} ? last elections the poor socialists buired themselves in political anony- mity and sang the praises of Robert Marion LaFollette as one who had finally arrived among them. Victor Berger said that “Bob” -was always a socialist, and Morris Hilquit, amended Victor’s endorsement, by saying that what- ever Bob was lacking in formerly was now supplied. LaFollette was carrying the red flag chirped Debs. But old Bob died and so did his mushroom party. “B & 0” Bill Johnston is now working the pulmotor on it, without success. In his spare time he is trying to smash the Machinists’ union: Out in the great state of Wisconsin, there is competition over who should inherit the late “fightin’ Bob’s” shoes.» Young Bob is willing to wear the slippers. So is:John Work, socialist and edi- torial writer for the Milwaukee Leader. ¢ 6G : The socialists thot they would fall into the LaFollette political estate, but they were disappointed. Young’ Bob, like a real; chip ‘off of the old block, declares that he is his father’s son, and can interpret his father’s bible any way he sees fit. The socialists say that they only are privileged to wear the “fisherman’s” ring and that the late Bob’s guardian angel deposited they keys of the kingdom, with bluff Saint Berger. There is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in the socialist camp. For what did we prostitute ourselves they say? We handed over our virtue to the LaFollette machine, and not only did we not get it back, but young Bob is now toting it at the top of his flag pole as if it were his own. : Young Bob is in alliance with Governor Blaine. He is running in the republican primaries for the nomination. If he wins there is every reason to believe that Coolidge will find a way to lure him back into the G. O. P. fold and the LaFollette illusion will have petered ont as far as the LaFollette family is concerned. The Unholy Alliance Frank Farrington and the coal operators have seized on the recent disturbance in Zeigler to crush the militant leadership of the local union of the U. M. W. of A. For a long time, with the aid of the ku kfux klan, Farrington has been trying to get rid of Henry Corbishley and the other officials who have stood like rocks of granite against every attempt of the company and their tool, Far- rington to betray them. If Corbishley and his comrades had agreed to go along with the Farrington machine they would be taken care of. The fakers always prefer to purchase competent men than to fight them. But Corbishley and his associates were not the purchasable kind. There- fore Farrington decided that they must be gotten out of the way. Several times during the past few years, the K: K. K. attempted to shoot the progressive leaders of the local, union out of the town. They failed. Ninety per cent of the miners were behind their lawful leaders. The klan would never date raise their heads in Ziegler but for the support of Farrington and his tools in the sub-district office. Driven to desperation the coal operators and Farrington with the aid of the klan cutthroats decided that now or never was the time to dispose of Corbishley and the’ militant leaders of the Zeigler miners. What happened’ doés not need repetition. Suffice it to say that several leaders of the Zeigler miners are held on bonds for conspiracy and assault with intent to murder. Tho the only fatality resulting from the fight, was a progressive miner who was killed by a member of the ku klux klan. The Zeigler miners haye a hard fight in front of them. They are confronted by a powerful combination, that will spare no efforts to destroy them. The miners thruout the country, should rally to the support of their comrades in Zeigler: So should the workers in every industry. The fakers in all unions are making a united front with the employers. The rank and file should unite against both. r Farrington’s Power Plan An engineer’s report published a few days ago approves the so-called giant power plan sponsored by Frank Farington, president of District 12 of the United Mine workers of America. Farrington claims the plan is a solution of the troubles of all*those engaged in the coal industry in Illinois. The plan proposes: First: the organization ‘of a semi-public corporation in which Farrington, the operators and the “consumers” would be repre: sented. Who is to pick the “consumer” we are not informed. Far-|! rington and the operators? Second: To establish thru’ this corporation one or more giant power plants on the Ohio and Mississippi'rivers for the manufacture of electricity thru. burning Tlinois coai: ‘ Third: to form an integral net-work of major and minor power lines to make electricity available to every hamlet and farm house in the state. Fourth: To treat cdat‘at the giant power station in order to save and to sell the valuable. by-produets naw wasted. Farrington is getting paid to look after.the interests of the miners and not after the interésts of the operators and the vague element called the public. . Superpowtr is alright, but like every other improvement in the industrial machinery under capitalism, it benefits the employers and not*the workers. In Soviet Russia, super- power operates for the benefit of labor. Every economy it produces means taking s0 much of the burden of toil off the backs of the workers. But under capitalism, whatever saving is made by its introduction goes into the pockets of the capitalists and more work- ers are thrown Qn the streets. The super pojver we are most interested in is, the power that will enable the workers to Gonsigh the Farringtons and their paymasters the capitalists,»té the historical dung heap. When they do that we will be more interested in super-electrical power. 4 The socialist, party of. France has withdrawn its support from the Painleve ministry. What’s/the matter? Were the cash terms not satisfactory? WORKERS PARTY CALLS AGW. T0 UNITED FRONT Injunctions Fought by Labor Party Action NEW YORK, August 21—The Work- ers (Comunist) Party of New York district, number two, has issued a atatement showing that the Injunction prohibiting the Amalgamated Cloth- Ing Workers’ Union from pleketing was Issued by a Judge who is sup- orted by many New York trade union officials, The statement calls upon the Amal- gamated members to work for inde- pendent political action of labor, and demands a united labor ticket in the coming municipal campaign. It also exposes the fake campaign put on by the socialists under the, name of “la- bor fusion ticket.” The statement follows: The decision of Supreme Court Justice Churchill, granting the applica- tion’ of the International Tailoring company for an injunction forbidding pickéting against the officers and members of the Amalgamated Gloth- ing Workers of America, strikes a stunning political blow against the clothing workers and more important still ‘against the entire labor move- ment, Supported by Labor Fakers. Tom Churchill, as he is familiarly known, is a glaring example of the handshaking, Gompersite, “friend of labor,” type of Tammany Hall poli- tician. The fact that he has been sup- ported by the Central Trades and La- bor Council has not deterred him from handing down one of the most sweep- ing, and vicious decisions in the his- tory of the local labor movement. The Central Trades and Labor Coun- cil ‘and the other local unions of the | city gannot safely overlook this omin- ous agsault ‘upon the rights of labor by a trusted henchman of Tanimany Hall, ‘The poliey of non-partisan po- liticalaction used ‘by the labor bureau- crats as an excuse for the support of Tammany Hall has proven to be a means of support)of the sworn ene- mies of the labor Movement, of whom injunction Judge @hurchill is but one example. This suicidal policy must be im- mediately repudiated. The answer of the trade unionists of the city to the attack of the Tammany Hall hireling of the capitalist (lass, Justice Church- ill, must be the f#emand put forward by the Workers Harty, the demand for a united labor ticket in the coming election campaign, This demand for a united labor ticket must be alvocated everywhere in every local union of the city by all workers to see and understand that the workers must have their own ticket in the field in the coming cam-, paigm and make a real effort to do away with the enemies of labor in the courts and in the city and state gov- ernment. Must Work For Labor Party. But the decision of Justice Churchill will be of more far-reaching signifi- eance’to the: members of the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers itself. Those who are. directly affected by the decision in their fight against the In- ternational Tailoring company. These workers, for the most part, understand the nature of the capital- ist courts and have for years been staunch advocates of independent po- litical action on the part of labor. This year, however, the movement to- ward a labor party in this city has re- ceived a decided setback owing to the action of the socialist party, with the open support of many prominent figures in the Amalgamated. In the face of the critical situation confronting labor in this city, they have decided to divide labor's forces by setting up a “labor fusion ticket.” which is nothing more or less than the ticket of the socialist party. This socialist ticket has come out o1 a platform which dodges the question of court interference in labor disputes and makes no demand for the aboli- tion ‘of injunctions against labor. Tt. is the duty therefore of the using their mass economic power to destroy the injunction thru a vigorous policy of mass violation to demand in every local union that their organ- ization come out emphatically for a united labor ticket in the coming elec- tion campaign, bases upon a clear cut program which shall include a straightforward demand for the im- mediate abolition of the use of the injunctions in labor disputes and the election of workers’ candidates’in the coming election campaigh. If you want to thoroughly un- derstand Communism—study it. Send for a catalogue of all-Com- munist literature. St. Louis, Mo., Attention! Phone Forest 8749. . Joe Kaizer Candy Co. HOME MADE CANDY ICE CREAM LIGHT LUNCHES PHILIP RACHEFF, Manager . Build th A RKE! 4975 EASTON AVENUE Build the D, by wonee St. Louis, Mo, | with subs, ‘ ° THE DAILY¥# eae wee . * Htalian Workers ‘at: Newark $B NEWARK, N. J.,; Aui 21.—(FP)— When a band of Italfan fascist! from New York invaded a meeting of 260 Italian workers in NeWarkk gathered to hear former Deputy Vinéenzo Vacirca of the Itdlan parliament, the result was a fight ending with two men seri- ously injured by stabbing and 25 oth- ers slightly wounded. Count Ignatius Eduardo di Revil, reputed head of the fascisti in Amer- ica, led the invasion, Vacirca was forced to flee to Switzerland from fascist Italy and is now touring the United States lecturing. ‘NITGEDAYGET’, LENINIST YOUTH CAMP OF N, ¥, Days Are Given to Play and Training Amalgamated Clothing Workers while | By MARTHA STONE, Member of the City Executive Com- mittee, Junior Section of N. Y., and Secretary of the Leninist Youth Camp, Group 2. NEW YORK, Aug, 21.—For the first time in America a Communist chil- dren’s camp hi8 been established— the Leninist Youth Camp at Camp Nitgedayget. It is a camp for work- ing class children. It is necessary that the children of the working class be brought up under proper sur- roundings that they should not grow up in ignorance but that they shall become class conscious fighters and leaders in building up a working class movement and finally in establishing a working class government. For these reasons our camp has been established. It is a gréat aid to us in organizing the working class children. We are given mental and physical training there so that when we grow up we should be?strong and trained fighters for the: oppressed masses and that we should be able to carry on as we ought to the struggle of the workers children (right here today. Every year hundreds of children are sent away to the boy and girl scout camps. There they are given patriotic training so that when these ignorant children grow up they will make good soldiers and fight for the interests of the capitalists, On the other hand, we have the Leninist Youth Camp. We, too, have exercises and drills but with one vieW in mind—to produce fighters for the working class and the working class children and not to protect and fight for a leisure class, The two foundations of the camp are discipline and co-operation. We have Communist discipline that. must NEGROES RALLY TO SUPPORT OF LABOR CONGRE Green Told to Keep His Hands Off CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 21—That the Negro workers are rallying to the support of the American Negro Labor Congress, which holds its convention in Chicago in October, is again dem- onstrated by an editorial In the Cleve- land Herald. This Negro paper advises William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, who attacked the Congress, to first see to it that the labor unions abolish discrimination against Negroes before passing out gratuitous advice. The editorial, printed in the Aug. 15th issue, is given below: Gratultous Advice. Our ever solicitous friend, William Green, president of the American Fed- eration of Labor, takes time from his pressing duties to advise Negroes to boycott the coming American Negro Labor Congress. He informs the Ne- gro laborer that the congress is being propagated by Moscow gold, and that its purpose is to “mislead the Colored man into believing all their grievances will be remedied by overturning the government of the United States and establishing a Soviet republic.” Mr. Green further declares that the con- gress “will not be held to benefit the Negro but to instill into the lives pf that race the most pernicious doctrine —race hatred.” : Since gratuitous advice is being passed around we rise to offer the following to the heir to the late Sam- uel Gompers’ throne: It is not any effort on the part of alleged Commun- ist emissaries from the Russian capi- ta] that instills race hatred into the Negro. Rather it is such American practices as the Federation of Labor approves: discrimination against black, workers. When the American Negro joins a revolutionary host to over- throw the government of the United States it will not be because he has been prompted to it by alien influencé but because he has been driven to it by American lynchings, disfranchise- ment and oppression. AS WE SEE IT (Continued from page 1) News, died last Thursday. Lawson was a reactionary and his sh out- side of its foreign page, which is fairly good, is the dreariest typogra- phical monstrosity that ever came off a press. Lawson was very wealthy, be carried out ‘at flte“camp. The dis-| and like many rich people, salved his ciplInie is not made for the good of a few comrades but for the welfare of the camp as a whole, In order to have @ successful camp we mugt co-operate with each other. It is oftén necessary that one individual should sacrifice something for the good of the camp. If we co-operate and carry out dis- cipline, the camp runs smoothly and everything is fine. 3 Some of our activities “are council meetings, swimming, games and dis- cussions~ Every day coumcil (Soviet) meetings are held to discuss the plans for the day which must be carried out. We also have discussions each day .on topics that will give us a deeper and a clearer understanding of the class struggle existing today. By our songs, cheers, and enter- tainments we have interested parents and children and in this way we have added new members to our lists, The days pass so swiftly at the camp be- cause we are occupied all day in working and playing together with Sur comrades that when the time comes to leave the camp a pall of sorrow is thrown over the once merry faces of the Juniors. How we dread to leave the camp where we have enjoyed working’ and playing with our com- rades. During the vacation at the camp each comrade has been drawn into activity and a real fighting Commun- ist spirit awakened in each individual. When we return to the city we begin to take our Junior work more serious- ly and become more active because of the deep influence the camp has had upon each comrade. Forward all together shoulder to shoulder towards a Leninist Youth Camp! 5 Crops in England and Wales Decrease. Production of cereax crops In Eng- land and Wales is slightly below that of last year, according to a ‘cable- gram received by the United States department of agriculture from its agricultural commissioner at London, This is the first European country to report decreased wheat production this season as compared with last year. The wheat crop of England and Wales for this is estimated at 48,000,000 bushels against 50,000,- 000 bushels last year; barley 43,225,- 000 bushels against':44,142,000 bush: cls; oats 57,766,00p< against 102,629- 000 bushels, an + conscience and fed his vanity by be- queathing part of the loot he took out of his employes, to charitable purposes. The paper that Lawson owned will continue to run, as if nothing had happened. This shows how small a part capitalists play to- day in the enterprises out of which they draw their dollars. of R. JOHN ROACH STRATON, fire- eating baptist, has challenged Clarence Darrow to debate on the sub- ject of evolution. Straton believes in the virgin birth theory, simply be- cause his god would be in a hell of a fix for an excuse to call Jesus of Nazareth his son, on any other grounds than a_ supernatural one. What the ruling class accomplished in making a monkey out of Jesus was to rob the oppressed of a darned good rebel. That's just what Jesus was if he was anything. seo 8 EFAULTING bank officials get away with something like one thousand times more loot every year than do the professional bank. rob- bers, according to statistics. Yet, we do not hear of any auxillary police being organized to get the drop on the | bankers. The bankers are offering re-"| wards for bank robbers dead or alive. The suggestion is made that under- paid clerks could raise their living standards considerably by taking an occasional pot shot at their own bank heads. sy) 6 HICAGO is noted for its crime record. More police are demand- ed to stem the flood of murders that has been swelling steadily in recent years. But if one is to judge by the number of policemen engaged in mak- ing war on the unions lately, it would appear that Chicago has police to spare. A few evenings ago a police sergeant with a squad of men ap- peared at a union meeting, with a gun in one hand and a tear bomb in the other. He mounted the platform and threatened to hurl the bomb into the middle of the packed hall, if there was a move made. see IK: Nae dg was no excitement. The po- lice searched the members for arms but.no weapons were found. Three of the officials were arrested and held in heavy bail. This is typi- cal of the way the police act towards the workers. Officials and members of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers are now held in hundreds of thou- sands of dollars’ bail, on framed up charges or for picketing peacefully and within their legal rights. Yet there are people who say this is not | ® class government, | - - - | Thompson and Watt Answer Farrington (Continued from page 1) about these and other horrible con- instead of their being any information| ditions that Thompson, Parry and that the rank and file was interested| Watt are exposing? in, a certain statement issued bythe; And cannot you see that Farring- Springfield Miners’ ~Educational| on must by all means try to stop League had gotten under Frank’s| these men when they come before thick hide 4nd he was more than| you with a remedy out of this mess groaning over the thots of the miners | that Frank Farrington is a party to, gaining any kind of information other | @nd cannot you see that he cannot than he and the editor of the Iltnois| Come before the membership and con- Miner were ready to give them. ~~ Afraid of Debate. O yes, it is illegal to get any kind of information covering Frank's ac- tions except that he wants to give you, and he doesn’t like the idea of Thompson; Parry or Watt running over the state “Tearing at the vitals of your union.” But he can’t. get up enuf nerve or courage to meet these individuals anywhere in the state to back up the claims that they are mak- he reserves this sheet all to himself, Why fs it, rank and file, that Frank Farington will not meet these men and explain to you In thelr presence, how. they are “tearing at the vitals of your union?” i Remember this is the same scoun- drel, this man Frank Farrington, who a very short time ago accused John L,, Lewis of doing the very same thing, ; We don't dare say euch things about Lewis now, Oh no. Frank has just a little while to stay in the United Mine Workers 90 he ts laying off of John L. Lewis for the present, Farrington in his demetra states that: First: “If they (Thompson and Watt) and their families are to be front either Thompson, Parry or ‘Watt? In fact, Watt fust recently toured the South part of the state alone, and not one of the machine dared stick his head up in any of these meetings. Rank and file, there is a reason, so therefore they are forced to try every means to prevent you from hearing all sides to the controversies, They only want you to have their side and mem are recelying money that you should be having, to work quietly among you, never in the open, to try to decefve you, but Thompson, Parry and Watt will be on the job Where fe an Election Report? Tt Frank Farrington fs such a strong man for constitutionality, why has he not used the power of hfs office to demand that the International union send out to all Jocal unions a tabu- lated election report by local unions of the results of the last International election? We believe that Frank Far- rington dare not cross John L. Lewis’ path again regardless of any violation of law, Frank Farrington says secondly: that “you are therefore instructed not. to use auy moneys of the United Mine Workers of America for the purpose outlined fn the circular here- in referred to. Remember, rank and cared for why not include all of the | “le, no appeal has over been: mate to others who are in an even more des-| /0cal unions for finances,’ perate plight than they? Don’t be decetved, an appeal i# be- Our answer: What is Frank Far-|i0& sent to individuals asking indi- rington doing for the families that are | Vidual aid and not from local unions, even in a more desperate plight than |20 Moneys from local unions will be Thompson and Watt? Nothing what-|9¢cepted. We want interested men ever, but Thompson and Watt wher | i= the unions to finance this move- évér they go are telling. the miners|™ent and, surely, Frank Farrington that they must at once demand an|°@0not prevent you from donating to equal’ division of work and shorter |®¥ cause you may see fit, day-dnd week, and that if they do not| f he can then really he is more do.so the union is blown up, Frank|POwerful than any czar that ever used to feel the same way about the |ived, and when he wrote this article 6. hour day but in the last Interna- he knew that no requests had been tional convention he turned a right |™ade trom local unions for ald, it is about face and now spéaks of the 6|MIy @ scare to try to keep individu- hour day as a nice ideal and a nice| #18 from donating so that Thompson, issue to grandstand on, in fact this is | Parry and Watt will be forced to stay how the proceedings of that conven-|im Springfield and thus be prevented President Farington: (page 761) “The shorter work day is nice as an ideal. . , it gives a man a splen- did opportunity to grandstand, but we are dealing with a condition gen- tlemen, and not with an ideal.” But just for a moment let us see what Frank’s former position was in (a quote him in part: from exposing him and his machin- ery. We want no funds of any char- acter that Frank Farrington claims he- longs to him. He forgets that he takes filthy luchre at times, remem- ber that money he got from Frank L, Smith? It Makes a Bit of Difference. Frank says thirdly: “If you do you regards to the 6 hour day. On Febru- will be gilty of rallying to the sup- ary 21st, 1919, Farrington issued alet-| port of a dual movement and financ- ter which in part reads; _ “1 am cinvinced we will get no substantial relief until a six-hour day five days per week for all the €d except as’ necegsity may require, mage should not be regarded as be- ing: a necessity. uncompromising, organ- ized fight to attain that end. Noth- ing’ short of that will bring the needed relief. ~ full strength of our union should: be used to attain this: end. things are secondary, will do.” Was Farrington grandstanding when| do in he wrote that letter?. Let the convention records: Delegate Thompson, District No. 12. (Freeman Thompson page 765) “I would like to ask Delegate Farington @ question. Did I understand’ you, President Farrington, to say that you sent out a curcular letter some eight years ago bearing on the subject-mat- be a six hour day for the coal min- er?” ; Delegate Farrington: “Yes, your un- derstanding is correct. I would not be positive as to the exact number of years ago, but I did cireular.” Question by Delegate Thompson: “Were you then grandstanding at that Unie?” Farrington did not answer. ¢: Some Questions, So, rank and file, we ask you “what send out such a! member ing men while they go over the state trying to disrupt your union.” Do you remember when Frank Farring- ton was fighting John L. Lewis how he mine workers of the country with and: others sent $750 to Michael Hal- fo double shift work on coal allow- | apy? - You also wrote to Mr. Halapy in and development for increased ton- part as follows: “Surely to god there are enough We must wage an | mine workers in the Pittsburgh dis- trict who would be willing to con- tribute enough money to purify their organization,” “by all means I think To achieve this re- | your circular should be prepared by form is vital and paramount andthe your committee and be issued from Pittsburgh, and it should not only be Other | sent into Illinois but into every dis- nothing less | trict in our organization.” That’s what we are attempting to Illinois now, Frank, and when us see by| we learn of what happened in various sub-districts as far south as Harris- burg, it is about time that the district machinery in IlInois was purified? About Dualism, Do you remember how Thomas Myerscough was brought before the Illinois delegates at a meeting held in Indianapolis and read statement after ‘Stat it of crooked elections and how at that’same meeting the starting of Illinois Miner took place, presumably to fight the International officers, was that dual, Frank? Re- the statement you made at Muskogee, Oklahoma, that if John L. Lewis was the United Mine Workers’ Union, that you was out to destroy him, or words to that effect? Now, Frank Farrington, we are do- ing everything possible to wake the is Frank Farrington doing for you or | rank and file up to all the treacherous your families?” What has become of | things you have done And are doing, thé Old Age Pension that Farrington | and we feel that your article in the ‘and machine so succei ‘What has become fully ditched? | Illinois Miner, so-called, will bring in the district | more funds and wlil give us the neces- funds? What has become of the|sary advertisement that we need, in ‘shorter, work day? stindards eréd' now. by Frank his machinery? Why ven in tonnage mines?’ i - Why the infamous Johnston oi proposal that meant a feductione wages to. the mine workers of this Why’ are your|fact we have received several nica and conditions being low-| donations already and many of tho’ Farrington and |rank and file feel thar whatever you this $8.04 rate | are against, that it 1s to their interest to be for, so we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for this slip in| of yours. As for other matters stated in your State, in fact the proposal offered by | false statements they will be taken the coal comipany which was forward- | care of in a little while and it is grati- ed to that local union for their con-| fying for us to report to the rank and sideration along with a letter from | file that in @ very short time things Frank Farrington stating that some-| will take a decided change for the thing must be done “to reduce the| rank and file, and wo call on you to cost of production and to enable the | é prepared for some coming miove- operators to meet the competition of | ments that will break down the bar- the ‘nonunion fields.” 43 riers that you are now surrounded Boss and Good Looking Wives, | with. A ‘Why is it that the yellow dogs are} Thompson and Watt are scheduling all right to be singed, why is it that | @ new route of meetings, write to them only thru a “pull” you are able to get | for dates for your city, asjob and in some instances,a “good | Signed: Freeman Thompson, Pres, looking wife” has its effect on the John J. Watt, Sec'y-Treas,, boss, what is Frank Farrington doing Sub-District No. 4,U.M. Wyod a, me A fi { J 7