The Daily Worker (Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.)
August 12, 1924

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N er ORDER YOUR BUNDLE OF THE DAILY WORKER’S FIRST SPECIAL CAMPAIGN ISSUE-SEE PAGE SIX I THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS* GOVERNMENT Vol. 11. No. 124. CAR BUILDERS’ STRIKE SPREADS MAC DONALD RAIDED COMMUNISTS FOR APPEAL TO TROOPS NOT TO SHOOT DOWN STRIKING WORKERS (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, August 5 (By Mall.) —The rafkl upon the head quarters of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the arrest of John Ross Campbell, the editor of its official organ, “The Workers’ Weekly,” is disillusioning masses of British workers as to the alleged labor character of the Ma<jPonald government. The excuse given for the arrest of the editor and the raid on the party headquarters was the publication of articles ad dressed to the armed forces of the empire, calling upon them to line up with the workers and to refuse to shoot at their ur uniformed brothers in the event of a strike or any other struggle between the workers and their masters. This is the crime for which the “Labor” regime began its ”"1 i4S WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY J THE path of the reactionary labor leader Is not strewn with thorns. Banquets, junketing trips, large salar ies, government honors —these are the rewards of fealty to capitalism. Jails and persecution at the hands of the capitalist governments are reserved for radicals and those who fight the exactions of the exploiters of labor. It is pleasant to be a labor leader nowadays. Even when the Sahara desert is at its worst the labor lead ers have their oases. One of the tribe •is Peter Brady of New York, Super visor of the City Record who was re cently selected by the American Fed eration of Labor as delegate to the British Trade Union Congress in Lon don. On the eve of Mr. Brady’s de parture to London, a dinner will be held in the Shelburne Hotel, Brighton Beach, at which several labor fakers will eat, drink and make speeches. Mr. Brady will leave for England on Sept. 1. The officialdom of the A. F. of L. will be fittingly represented by Mr. Brady at the British conferences, but the American workers will not.

JOHN L. WALKER goes into ora torical ecstacies over the possibil ity of getting sugar from the sun. "Victor Berger is equally enthusiastic over the development of the radio. Express trains in Germany, Ms. Ber ger tells us, will be fitted with radio equipment whjch will enable passen gers to speak to any telephone sub scriber in Germany. Our American railways will surely follow the Ger man example, muses Berger. And then: "Evidently man seems to have gained mastery over the ether. What next?’’ To Berger the marvelous im provement in radio equipment may be another argument in favor of ditching the class struggle and overthrowing the capitalist class by means of ether waves. If we get sugar from the sun a la John Walker can’t we get rid of the sugar trust? Until the workers gain mastery over the capitalists they will not be able to enjoy the blessings that new inventions and ty develop j ment of machinery could confer upon humanity under a system of society where things would be produced for use and not for profit.

SECRETARY OF WAR JOHN W. WEEKS does not obtrude himself very much on the public vision be cause of such qualities as made Theo dore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson or Billy Sunday, famous. Like the late Mr. Harding, the secretary of w6r breaks into print only when he is guilty of some unusual piece of stu pldlty. September 12 has been as (Continued on page 3) Postal Strikers’ Wage Cut Fought by Toronto Labor (Speoial to the Dally Worker.) TORONTO, Aug. 11.—A protest againßt the reduction in pay for the postal workers who went out on strike recently has been made by the Toronto board of control, and the 1 trades and labor council hue arranged I for a conference with the men who i acted as intermediaries between the strikers and the postal authorities. The cut In pay protested against is uc to Se** l 1 THE MILT WORKER. OIIDCODinTiniI niTTO. n Chicago, by mail, SB.OO per year. oUDounlr I lull HA Ito I outside Chicago, by mall. $6.00 per year. persecution of the Communist movement in England, and showed itself to be a staunch defender of British capitalism. One of the articles, addressed as an open letter to “the fight ing forces,” reads as follows: THE CRIME Comrades —You never joined the army or navy because you were in love with warfare, or because you were attracted by the glamour of the uniform. In nine cases out of ten you were compelled to join the services after a long fight against poverty and misery, caused by pro longed unemployment. Once in the services, you are sub jected to a giilitary discipline that bears down upon you in an ever increasing manner. Repressive regulations and irk some restrictions are intentionally imposed upon you. And when war is declared you are supposed to be filled with a longing to “beat the enemy.” The enemy consists of workingmen like yourselves, living under the same slave conditions. But the government not only organ izes the services for war, it always keeps them fully equipped to be able to crush their own workers when the need arises. Have you never noticed how, in large strikes and lockouts, all the newspapers condemn the strikers, and talk about maintaining the "essential services and the food supplies”? Have you forgotten that during the Tonypandy strike of railwaymen in 1911 the soldiers were used and workers were shot? That gunboats were used by Asquith to defeat the dockers in 1912? That troops were used at Liverpool against the transport workers in 1912? Have you forgotten how the labor government threatened to use naval men during che dockers’ strike this year? How in the tram way strike the government threat ened to introduce E. P. A., which would have forced many of you to have shot your own brothers and fathers? Have you forgotten the miners’ lockout in 1921, when tin reserves were called out. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, the Communist Party calls upon you to begin the task of not only organiz ing passive resistance when war is declared, or when an industrial dis pute involves you, but to definitely and categorically let it be known that, neither in the class war nor a military war, will you turn your guns on your fellow workers, but in stead will line up with your fellow workers in an attack upon the ex ploiters and capitalists, and will use your arms on the side of your own class. Form committees in every bar racks, aerodrome and ship. Let this be the nucleus of an organiza tion that will prepare the whole of the soldiers, sailors and airmen not merely to refuse to go to war, or to refuse to shoot strikers during in dustrial conflicts, but will make it possible for the workers, peasants and soldiers, sailors and airmen to go forward in a common attack upon the capitalists and smash capi talism forever, and Institute the reign of the whole working class. Refuse to shoot down your fellow workers. Refuse to fight for profits. Turn your weapons on your op pressors. Entered aa Seoond-claee matter September 21, 1923, at the Poet Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 2, 1879. LOVESTONE’S ARTICLE TO SHOW LA FOLLETTE BACKS BUSINESS MAN The second article on Senator LaFollette will appear In tomor row’s issue. What the banking circles and some of the leading political ob servers think of LaFollette’s radi. callsm and how many of the so called progressive planks have been accepted by the big capitalist par ties will be told In the next story. Tomorrow's installment will show that what LaFollette Is really after is to make business safe and stable and that the net effect of the “Wis consin plan” has been to increase the profits of the railroad owners and public utility magnates. JOBLESS FLOCK TO GARY MlliS SEEKING WORK Two-Thirds of Steel Employes Laid Off By KARL REEVE. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) Gary, Indiana, Aug. 12.—Over two-thirds of the force of the Gary works of the United States Steel Corporation have been laid off and those kept on the payroll are only allowed to work two and three days a week. The town is overrun with unem ployed who have migrated from Chicago and other cities looking for work. Residents of Gary who have been laid off are ex tending their credit to the limit and vainly searching for work. It was admitted even at the office of Mayor R. O. Johnson that unemployment in Gary is widespread. The ousiness men and petty officials of the town are hoping against hope that work will soon pick up. The Post-Tribune, the only paper in Gary and practically a house organ of the steel corporation, is running front page stories almost daily attempting to fool the public as to conditions in the steel mills. The only authority the Steel Trust paper could find to create the impres sion that unemployment is diminish ing ls'the street car company, which declares that the number of passen gers is increasing. The Post-Tribune, which the steel workers have nick named the “Daily Cesspool," inter prets the street car companies in renged traffic to mean that unem ■loyment is decreasing. The unem iloyed riding out to the mills looking .or work, however, form a large part of the street car traffic. On July 31, the unfilled orders of the United States Steel Corporation amounted to 3,187,072 tons, against 3,262,605 tons on June 30, showing a decline in unfilled orders of 76,433 tons during July. Further decreases in production of steel are expected in financial circles. In May the unfilled orders of the United States Steel Corporation fell off 580,400 tons, and in June a further decrease of 365,434 tons was recorded. The Duluth Works of the United States Steel Corporation, which are even larger than the Gary works, have completely shut down. v FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO FOLLOW GREAT BRITAIN IN CONFERENCE TO RECOGNIZE SOVIET REGIME (Spacial to The Dally Worker) RIGA, Aug. 11.—Soviet Russia will shortly make rep resentations to the French government for a treaty confer ence similar to the Anglo-Russian conference just concluded in London, according to word from Moscow today. It is known that the Harriot regime has been making overtures looking towards de jure recognition of the Soviet Republio for some time. TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1924 RICH NEGROES LIKE WEALTHY AIMING WHITES Black Capitalists Hit as Race Exploiters By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer Dally Worker.) NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—De claring that “the Negro masses are suffering from the same capitalist system that the white people are suffering from,” and admonishing his hearers not to forget that they have that sys tem to fight, Marcus Garvey, president general of the Univer sal Negro Improvement Asso ciation, at that organization's convention here, scathingly at tacked “the capitalist class of Negroes whose only concern is to rob and exploit the unfor tunate of their own race.” Describing the manner in which he said the unfortunate Negro on migrating to the large cities falls into the hands of “the privileged Negro” who de spoils him of what he may have and then leaves him without money -*vr friends, Mr. Garvey indicated that such incidents are typical of the capitalist sys tem under which we live. “The Negro is suffering from the oppression of the same capitalist bunch as the white people are suffer ing from and are fighting now. Don’t forget that we have that bunch to fight. Negro Victim of Oppression. "The Negro people are suffering un der exploitation by a privileged class of Negroes, business men and profes ional men who have no more consid eration for their own unfortunate peo ple than the white capitalist has. 1 have no more use for this kind of Ne gro than I have for the white ex ploiter. Their selfishness is their only motive, their contempt for the masses of their people Is great, and their only mission is to rob and exploit the unfortunate brothers of their own race. The Negro real-estate man in New York is the greatest devil we have to combat.” Garvey described a sort of combina tion of the Negro real estate specu lators with white speculators who he said were of the Jewish race, the two conspiring to fleece Negro tenants who are at their mercy because compelled to live within a segregated district. “The white and the black real-estate agents get together, and they drive the white tenants out of a building, and they let Negro tenants in on con dition that they pay double the rent. These skinflints make the Negroes pay 100 per cent more than the white tenants paid.” Yet, the speaker said, the Negro race considered as a whole did not even then accumulate wealth by this process, because "within one year after, the Negro speculator’s lit tle five or ten thousand dollars goes back into the pocket of his Jewish fel low-speculator.” Negro Preacher Curse to His Race. “And the Negro preacher,” said Mr. Garvey, "is the curse of his race. And I trust that you will take that into consideration.” He declared that he absolutely refused to conceal his real thots on this question. "We have not only to fight the white capitalist,” said he, “but we also have to fight the capitalistic Negro. He (Continued on page 5.) DEFENSE DAY STUNT WEIGHS HEAVY ON REPUBLICAN MIND; SIR PERSHING TO GET CREDIT By OWEN STIRLING. (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, August 11.—It may be an evasion of a bad issue by the Coolidgeian Sect of Republicans. Or it may be giving credit, so-called, where credit is due. However it may be, the Defense Day idea is now being attri buted to the Dandy of the army, General John J. Pershing, who glories in the title “Blackjack.” The White House was embar rassed by the widespread objec tion to the war department’s order for mobilization on De fense Day. Attributing the plan to “Blackjack, who wore his uni form better than any other soldier in the American Expeditionary Force, will not embarras "Blackjack.” On the contrary, news of it will probably increase the enjoyment of his travels, which recently consisted of journey ing in luxury with the American monument commission thru European cemeteries. The thing that would probably make him happiest would be a deci sion by the commission to recom mend a monument to him. Defense Day Had Virgin Birth. The Michigan committee in charge of the program for Defense Day has been told that “Blackjack” first thought of the Defense Day mobiliza tion plan at a meeting of army officers in 1922, when the officers’ reserve corps was being organized. And members of the committee have broad cast this explanation, denying at the same time that the program is a polit ical move. It sounds reasonable, Sept. 12 being ’"Blackjack’s” sixty fourth birthday. A soft pedal is being put on all swashbuckling maneuvers in Detroit. But units of the regular army, the na- KATTERFELD TO BE FREED ON PAROLE Will Be Released from Joliet Today L. E. Katterfeld, one of Com nunist Labor Party members irrested during the Palmer ‘red” raids in January, 1920, and later convicted and sen tenced to a term of imprison ment in Joliet state prison will be paroled today to New York state. Comrade Katterfeld was out of the country when the other convicted Communists were called to begin serving their sentences. They were pardoned after serving ten days by Gov ernor Small. On Katterfleld’s return from abroad, he presented himself at the state prison and contrary to expectations Governor Small did not follow the same procedure as in the case of William Bross Lloyd, Ludwig Lore, Jack Carney and the other C. L. P. prisoners. More Workers Starved! BERLIN, Aug. 11.—No sooner did the government permit exportation of German grain, than bread prices be gan to rise. IGOOLID6E CAMPAIGN BOSS THANKS LfIFOLLTTTE, JR., FOR PAPA'S COURTESY WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Wil liam M. Butler, chairman of the re. publican national committee, today sent a letter to Robert M. LaFol lette, Jr., chairman of the republic an state commltfae of Wisconsin, thanking Senator LaFollette for his promise that only Coolldge electors would be placed on the republican ballots In that state. "Whatever brawls disturb the street,” there must be peace between "Cal” and Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. tional guard and the reserve corps will be mustered. They will muster at their armories. Workers to Hear Piffle. The spellbinders will be mobilized, too. The organized employers of the state will open their factory doors to the propagandists for militarism and herd the workers into crowds to hear them. This is partly because produc tion is slumping. And it is partly be cause the factory owners desire large armies and navies, both for use in strike injunctions and in protecting the foreign investments of American capital. Goslings to Be Gab Goats. School teachers also, looked upon as the parrots of the 100 per cent pa triots, are to be asked to read patri otic, jingoistic speeches to the chil dren which the law forces under their care. Sept. 12, designated as Defense Day, is the sixth anniversary of the battle of St. Mihiel. That battle was the beginning of the allies’ final victori ous offensive, which cleared the Euro pean economic slate of previous for mulaes and made possible the brand ing of the Dawes plan on the forehead of the German working class. Fertilizing Morgan’s Tree. The bodies of drafted soldiers that fell at St. Mihiel are fertilizing the family tree of the House of Morgan. OUSTED I. W. W. ASK COURT FOR LAW’S SUPPORT Seek Injunction Against Administration The five members of the Gen eral Executive Board of the I. W. W. which were ejected from the general headquarters of that organization on July 29, after being suspended from the organization by the remainder of the board and the secretary treasurer, Tom Doyle, upon charges of disruption, yesterday signed an application for injunc tion in the Chicago couit of Judge Timothy D. Hurley, County Court building. This injunction immediately issued by the court was served upon Secretary-Treasurer Tom Doyle and General Organizer Joe Fisher yesterday afternoon. It orders them to appear in court at 10 a. m. today to show cause why they should'not be ordered to vacate the general headquarters of the I. W. W., to turn/over all property and funds on hand to J. A. Griffith, who was elected list year as the alternate of General Organizer Fisher, and to J. J. Murphy, who was the alternate of Secretary Doyle. The injunction petition is signed by James Rowan, P. D. Ryan, Charles Anderson, Harry Trotter and Fred Bowerman. These deposed officials have established a headquarters rival to the administration against which the injunction is now aimed. Their attorneys are W. F. Bigelow and T. B. O’Connell. Cutting Reichstag. BERLIN, Aug. 11.—There are too many parliamentarians running around loose in Berlin, many people think. The announcement of the gov ernment, that a bill is to be intro duced by which the representation in the reichstag is to be one for every 75,000 votes cast instead of one for every 60,000 is finding favor. The next reichstag would then have 399 mem ,bers instead of 471 as at present. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents STRIKERS ARE WINNING FIGHT IN HEGEWISCH Even Small Business Men Back Workers The carbuiiders in the Ryan Car company, of Hegewisch, adjoining the struck Western Steel Car company, went on strike yesterday, closing down the Ryan shops completely. The men walked out/ when the company discharged some of the force and tried to get the carbuiiders to do double work. The Ryan strikers will be invited to attend the strike meeting of the Western Steel Car company this morning. Foremen Join Strikers. Some of the bosses in the Western car shop joined the strikers today when the company officials ordered them to get out in the yards and drive rivets. They refused and walked out. Production is completely stopped in the Western company. Over 700,000 dollars worths of material has been prepared by the production depart ment for assembling, and is now rust ing in the yards. Everyone observing the strike makes the same statement that was made during the recent Pullman strike—" This is the mosc effective strike conducted in Hegewisch for many years.” The reason is admit edly the activity of the Trade Union Educational League and the influence of the DAILY WORKER, which is the only Chicago paper writing up the Hegewisch strike. Small Business Aids. Many of the small men of Hegewisch got behind the strikers yesterday, sending meat and grocer ies to the strikers and contributing money to tide them over. Sympathe tic foremen told some of the strikers yesterday that the employment man ager has been ordered to settle with the men this week, as hundreds of thousands of dollars are being lost in cancellation of orders and deteriora tion of material. (NOTE: Early Hammond strike story on page three.) Anglo-Soviet Treaty Success Peeves U. S. Diplomatic Prophets (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Admin istration officials who had prepared to make political capital of the re ported failure of Uusso-British nego tiations are angry at the sudden change of front in London and the decision of Ramsay MacDonald to sign two treaties with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republic*. These treaties admit the Soviet Union into the credit arrangements by which the British government is building up foreign trade and thereby relieving unemployment at home. What alarms Washington Tories still more, the Moscow trade delegation will receive diplomatic Immunity In England. Mr. Hughes’ advice has fallen on deaf ears. JACKASS PARTY MAY BE TORN APART BY WALTON CANDIDACY IN OKLAHOMA (3pec!al to the Dally Worker.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 11.—The Democratic party of thla state faces a wide open split In its ranks over the question of support ing former Governor “Jack" Wal ton, victor In the primary elections, as its nominee for United States Senator. After wrangling over the prob lem for an hour, the state oentral committee of the jackass party ad journed for three hours so that “passions might be cooled” and the party saved from a split. Walton was Impeached for al leged bribery after a spectacular campaign out of whioh he became governor. Bend in that Subscription Today-

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Page Two LAFOLLETTE HIT BY RUTHENBERG AS FAKE LEADER Exposes Bob’s Silence on Unemployment Four thousand friends of the Workers Party, the largest crowd that ever gathered at a Workers Party picnic, spent Sunday at the Press Picnic in Riverview Park, which netted two thousand dollars to the DAILY WORKER, besides giv ing aid to the other party publi cations. The DAILY WORKER carried off the popularity contest, with 30,205 votes. The Lettish Work ers Party paper, Strahdneek, won second place with 17,036 votes, and the Labor Herald, d\j/e to the last minute elec tioneering of the canny Jack Johnstone for the Liberator, carried off the booby prize with 750 votes. Comrade Johnstone pleaded so eloquently that the Liber ator received 1450 votes and was done out of the booby prize. “All Power to Worker*.” C. E. Ruthenberg, executive secre tary of the Workers Party, speaking to three thousand people who massed around the bandstand, declared, “The Communists will not rest until the mass power of the workers wrest the government out of the hands of the capitalists' puppets and put it in the hands of the workers’ organs—the Soviets under the leadership of the Workers Party.” “The day is coming when the work ing class will stand on its own feet and say, ‘lf we must have dictator ship, let us have a dictatorship of the workers.’said Ruthenberg. He showed how the American gov ernment as it is at present consti tuted, with the Democratic and Re publican politicians at the helm, is a dictatorship of the capitalist class, with Coolidge, the strike breaker, the figurehead with the Republicans, and Davis, the Morgan lawyer, the rep resentative of the capitalists in the Democratic camp. Ruthenberg then paid his respects to LaFollette and the Socialist Party. Denounce LaFollette Dictatorship. “Germany has its Scheidemann; France its Herriot; England its Ram say MacDonald,” said Ruthenberg, “And we have our Robert M. LaFol lette.” Ruthenberg said that LaFol lette, in spite of his statement that he is against dictatorship, is in favor of the individual dictatorship of Rob ert LaFollette. He said the central point of LaFollette’s stated platform, is the antiquated trust-busting idea. LaFollette, he declared, wants to en force the 3S-year-old Sherman anti trust laws, which have proved so fu tile in the past in stemming private monopoly. S. P. Has Kicked Bucket. "Tile Socialist Party now takes its plaoe in the LaFollette camp,” Ru theaberg added, “after for twenty years declaring for the principle that the workers should control the trusts which have already been built up. The Socialist Party, by dissolving it self in the LaFollette ‘back to 1776’ middle class ideology, demonstrates its litter bankruptcy.” Ruthenberg said that LaFollette maintains silence on the question of unemployment. “The workers want the opportunity to work .and produce wealth and earn a living,” he stated. “But LaFollette says nothing about governmental action to create unem ployment funds.” Ruthenberg de manded that workers be paid their enlarges while unemployed. Reason for Deep Silence. Ruthenberg declared that LaFol lette is maintaining silence on these vital questions because he stands with Colonel Rudolph Spreckles, the California sugar king, and neither Radolph Spreckles ,nor the small busi ness men backing LaFollette want to pay wages to the unemployed. Bulgaeian Buttermilk Fermenting. ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 11.— The Communist movement in Bulgaria is making great stride*, according to ad vices from the frontier today. The usual fake news about the Commun ists being the leaders of border fo rays is being peddled by the kept in ternational press. BE SURE TO GET THE NEXT ISSUE “DAILY WORKER” MAGAZINE SECTION SATURDAY, AUOUST 16th, 1924 1. The Tactical Significance of the Election Policy .By James P. Cannon 2. I Arrive in America—A Btory By John Loaaer 3. MacDonald Sign* a Treaty MIMMMtMMMMMMHM By Alexander Bittelman I 4. On Factory Nuclei (A German Experiment) By W. Ulbriehe B, Th# Geneva Labor Conference y A. Enderle I 6. On the Foster-Nearing Debate By Joseph Brahdy VERSE PICTURES ILLUSTRATIONS ORDER NOW! THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois a U. S. AUTO IMPERIALISTS “SELL” PAN-AMERICANS GOOD ROADS IDEA TO INCREASE BIG PROFITS HERE By OWEN STERLING (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) DETROIT, Aug. 11.—One of the most elaborately planned maneuvers looking toward the exploitation of South and Central America by United States capitalists, was the recently completed tour of 10 states in this country by the so-called Pan-American highway commission. The tour had all the earmarks of a gov ernmentally financed survey but it was paid for to the last nickel by automobile companies, rubber companies, road machinery companies and American banks. Nothing like it on so grand a scale has ever been attempted. Thru the Pan-American union and the U. S. highway educa tion board, each one of 20 South and Central American repub lics was induced to send from one to three highway engineers to this coun try. The party, numbering about 50 technologists, studied highWay sys tems in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, the District of Colum bia, and Illinois. They visited the highway engineering laboratories at the University of Wisconsin and Michigan to learn how highway en gineers are trained in this country. To Sell More Autos. The reason for the costly survey was the over-production of automo biles In the United States. The Ford Motor Co. today is working only three to five days a week. The automotive industry of the United States wants new markets. But before there is a large market in South and Central America there must be pavements there. At present goat paths are more common. The capitalists decided to sell Lat in-America the idea of good roads. The magnitude of the sale is indicated j by an Argentine representative who said that in his country $350,000,000 would be necessary at once if the highways were even moderately mod ernized. Argentina is the best equip ped of the 20 republics. Official Puppets Greet Them. The visiting representatives were led first to the white house where President Coolidge and Herbert Hoover welcomed them. Government officials accompanied the party thru the states visited. But financial in terests paid the bills. The majordomo of the tour was Roy D. Chaplin, chair man, Hudson Motor Co., and vice president of the U. S. automobile chamber of commerce. The visiting engineers were aware that corporations were financing the tour. But they did not see thru most of the tricks of the resourceful sales men of the north. One of the sales men, perhaps Chapin himself, was shrew enough to suspect the Latin- Amerlcans would enjoy music,—a kind of sales-talk that would not, of course, be given to an American en gineer. Arrangements were made for Spanish church services. Ford Cordial Salesman. Henry Ford, his son Edsel, and the most glib of his executives were hosts to the party at a luncheon in the Ford Motor Co. private dining room in Detroit. The sale was be lieved important enough to justify Henry Ford himself playing salesman awhile. The South and Central Am erican engineers are expected to prop agandize at home for better roads. Next spring In Buneos Aires a Pan- American highway conference will be held. The engineers who made the study in this country are to be the official program committee of the con ference. Many manufacturers and fi nanciers from the United States will therefore be on the program. Deporting Wobblies. SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Aug. 11—Jack Gaveel, political prisoner of Califor nia, has been deported to Holland. He was the oldest criminal syndical ism prisoner in San Quentin in yearq of service, having been convicted May 26, 1921, in Los Angeles. He has been for many years active in the I. W. W. movement in California. British Bury Mrs. Evans. MEXICO CITY, Mex., Aug. 11.— The body of Mrs. Rosalie Evans, Brit ish subject, over whose death the Chicago Tribune is still raving, will be burled in the British cemetery to morrow along side of the body of her husband. Wales to Visit Cal. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. The Prince of Wales, champion interna tional horae-flopper, will visit Silent Cal Coolidge while here to attend the International Polo matches. HERRIOT OFFERS TO QUIT RUHR IN ELEVENMONTHS French Seek Another Confab on Debts LONDON, Aug. 11. —There is grow ing optimism here over Herriot’s suc cess with the French cabinet, in secur ing an endorsement of what trans pired in London with reference to putting the Dawes plan into opera tion. But counting the chickens before they are hatched is a hazardous tho popular political pastime and there are elements in France that have not yet made manifest their views on the the agreement reached in London. The crux of the situation so far as the French and Germans are con cerned, is the evacuation of the Ruhr. Premier Herriot made a new proposi tion, that the evacuation of the Ruhr be completed within eleven months provided the Germans carry out their part of the plan. The Germans coun tered with a proposition that evacu ation be completed within six months The dickering still continues. Where League Comes In. It is expected that disarmament of Germany and military control will be invested in the League of Nations. What will happen to the Coolidge government in the next election, be cause of its unauthorized participation in the London conference and its com mitting the United States to future European political and financial en tanglements, will be an interesting subject for speculation, in view of the fate of Woodrow Wilson’s failure with a similar plan. Whether the bankers are now sufficiently powerful to do what they failed to do in 1920 is the question. To Drop Debts. The French are now demanding a conference to deal with Allied war debts. The suggestion is maue that this conference be held in November after the American elections, so that in the event of Coolidge being elect ed, the United States could officially participate. In fact, official partici pation of toe United Sates wouid be assured. No matter which of the two Wall Street boys is elected, both be ing perfectly in harmony with the international bankers on tae question of European policy. HARD-BOILED PINEAL ELAND MAY SAVE“BABE” Nathan Leopold’s pineal gland ossi fied when the slayer was 19 years old, Dr. Harold Hulbert testified Saturday, and therefore Leopold should not be hanged. “Leopold’s pineal gland was calsified at 19,” he said, “when nor mally this should not occur until about 30.” i 1 The X-ray also showed some pecu liar looking grease spots on Leopold’s skull, but the alienist explained: “These have no medical significance —they are merely the traces of the preparation Leopold uses on his hair to keep it in order." The defense is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers and witnesses, and the state is spending hundreds of thousnads of dollars in rebuttal. About the most important conclusion so far brought out is that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold are a couple of fresh and unrepentant kids who freely squandered the money squeezed by their fathers out of poor ly paid young workers. Glandly speaking, Leopold was ahead of his time. Send in that Subsoription Today. ROCKFORD, ILL., WANTS COMMUNIST—LJtFOLLETTE DEBATE FOR CAMPAIGN (Spection to ths DAILY WORKER) ROCKFORD, 111., Aug. 11.—Plans for a debats between a Communist and some representative of LaFol lette'* candldaoy are being mad* as the result of enthusiasm aroused by the addreso of J. Louia Engdahl, Workers Party eandldat* for U. 8. senator, at the annual plonlo of tho Furniture Workers’ Union, at Illi nois Park her*. It Is also hoped to establish an English language branch of the Workers Party her* in th* near future. THE DAILY WORKER DAVIS ACCEPTS NOMINATION IN FORMAL SPEECH Promises to Turn Hose on Washington (Special to the Daily Worker.) CLARKBBURG, W. Va., Aug. 11.— Addressing a huge throng of townfolk, neighbors, political henchmen and job seekers, John W. Davis, the demo cratic nominee for president, made his speech of acceptance tonight. After paying the ordinary compli mentary remarks to his birthplace, Mr. Davis got down to what the dem ocrats propose to call the issues of the campaign. The promised progressiv ism of the Morgan-Rockefeller lawyer didn’t materialize in the speech. Deplores Blocs. Mr. Davis early in his talk sailed into the tendency toward a sharpening of class divisions in the United States by declaring that: “The solidarity of the great war has given way to a chaos of blocs and sections and classes and interests, each striving for its own advantage, careless of the wel fare of the whole government itself, to which the humblest citizen has the right to turn with confident reliance in its even-handed justice, has fallen under the prevalent distrust. There is abroad in the land a feeling too gen eral to be Ignored, too deep seated for any trifling, that men in office can no longer be trusted to keep faith with those who sent them there. A situa tion so threatening to the very foun dations of the social order demands boldness in facing the causes which have brought it about, and tireless ex ertion in the effort to remove them.” In the main, the speech was a re hash of Senator Pat Harrison’s key note address at the democratic con vention. It dripped oil and mud in its recitation of the republican scandals. Republican Confidence Men. The republican party was charged with “having shaken public confidence to its very foundations.” The demo cratic platform’s abstract generalities regarding the world court were fully indorsed by Mr. Davis. In a half-heater attempt to paint himself progressive, the democratic standard bearer dabbled in generali ties to the effect that: “All that goes to make better and happier and freer men and women is progress; all else is reaction. Progressives of fchis sort, tho they may not care to use the name, nevertheless in their hearts are democrats.” There was nothing new or startling in the much advertised labor planks that were to be presented by Mr. Davis in his speech of acceptance. It will be remembered that Mr. Davis re quested Gompers to withhold the A. F. of L. indoi sement of (LaFollette until the executive council would have the opportunity to consider his own labor attitude. Davis on Labor. Mr. Davis merely dodged the vital issues confronting the workingmen. He said: “Concerning our sentiments to ward labor, there is room for neither doubt nor cavil in the light of our past history. The right of labor to an adequate wage earned under healthful conditions, the right to or ganize in order to obtain it, and the right to bargain for it collectively thru agents and representatives of its own choosing, have been established after many years of weary struggle. These rights are conceded now by all fair-minded men. They must not be impaired either by injunction or by any other device. The democratic party, however, goes a step beyond this. Its attitude has been well de scribed as ode inspired neither by def erence on the one hand nor by patron age on the other, but by a sincere desire to make labor part of the grand council ot the nation, to concede itß patriotism and to recognize that its knowledge of its own needs gives it a right to a voice In all matters of government that directly or peculiarly affect Its own rights. This attitude has not changed; it will not change. Democracy in government and democ racy in industry alike demand the free recognlton of the right of all those who work, in whatever rank or place, to share in all decisions that affect their welfare.” Nothing But Phrases. To the farmers Mr. Davis had noth ing tangible to offer. He merely mouthed the meaningless phrases of Harrison in this fashion: “To the farmers of the United States also we promise not patronage, but such laws and auch administra tion of the laws as will enable them to prosper in their own right. They are not mendicants and, fortunately for all of us, are wiling to take the risks that attend their all-important calling. They are entitled in return to a government genuinely interested In their problems and keenly desirous to serve them to the limit of Its power.” The Morgan-Rockefeller attorney wound up his speech of acceptance with more sweet phrases, evading the Klan, prohibition, League of Nations, campaign funds and similar Important “Issues.” Sandln that iubaoriptlon Teday. These Are Unhappy Vacation Days for Morgan in Europe By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. TODAY, the Russian Soviet Republic stands more firm than ever. This is shown by the two facts: FIRST.—The signing of the Anglo-Rusisan treaty. SECOND.—The announcement that Soviet Rule has planned to take care of its own in the drought stricken areas.

An official communication, issued in Moscow, announ* cing the signature of the Anglo-Russian treaty, says: “This treaty brings us nearer the an agreement recognizing the Soviet as a new form of political, social and eco nomic regime, and constitutes one of the principal events in the foreign policy of the Soviets, and consequently In the history of international relations of our times.” In other words, the mighty British Empire, on which it is claimed the sun never sets, bends before the indisputable fact that Workers’ Rule has come to stay in Russia. It was Lloyd George, while premier, who claimed that British Rule would never shake hands with the “bloody Bolsheviks.” But that was a long time ago. Lloyd George, who helped send tens of millions to early graves in the world war is no longer premier. He is just an ordinary member of the House of Commons. The enemies of Soviet Rule are being driven into the little places.

Complete recognition of Soviet Rule by the British means that the trip of Morgan, Lamont, Mellon and Hughes, to Europe, has been pretty much of a failure. Loans to Ger man workers, who must coin their sweat, blood and agony into gold for Morgan, can look to the East and win inspira tion for new struggles from the vision of the brightly shining Red Star of victorious Workers’ Rule in Russia.

“Down with Poincare! Down with the Ruhr!” shouted the masses in the streets of Paris, when Premier Herriot re turned to the French capitol, over the week end, to discuss the developments in London in the battle over the Dawes plan. But Morgan has told Premier Herriot that he must carry out Poincare’s promises, and only the Communists have pro claimed, the French with the German Communists, “Away with capitalist rule in the Ruhr!” Herriot, as well as Poincare, must support the capitalist rule of iMorgan, the financial Caesar of the world. It was a Roman Caesar who once heard the warning from the crowd, Beware of the Ides of March!” Recognition of Soviet Rule, forced from the British Empire, and the French masses in the streets demanding “Down with Poincare!” must carry meaning to the Caesar’s ear of J. Pierpont Morgan.

And the Soviet Republic has announced that it will feed its own hungry in the agricultural districts hit by this year’s drought. That is bad news for Morgan's newspapers. These papers have been predicting dire things for Soviet Rule be cause of partial famine in isolated districts. But the Moscow government has appropriated 138,000,- 000 gold rubles (about $69,000,000) to aid the peasants in the districts where the crops have failed. No one has ever heard of the government at Washington proposing plans for the relief of American farmers who have suffered from crop failures. Instead, these farmers, by the millions are forced to go into the cities and compete for jobs with industrial workers.

But only 58,000,000 of those gold rubles will be needed to provide grain and meat for the drought stricken farmers. The other 80,000,000 rubles will be used to build giant irri gation works, to store up the waters of winter and spring against the dry days of future summers.

Thus does Soviet Rule make progress on every front. Capitalist nations are being forced “to recognize the Soviet as a new form of political, social and economic regime.” That means that on the heels of recognition must come the acceptance, by the workers and farmers of the world, of the Soviet as their own political, social and economic order. The Soviet idea spreads. These must be unhappy “vaca tion” days for Morgan in Europe. RED ARMY MAN WOOS 6IRL WITH BOLSHIE WISDOM IN NEW FILM (By The Federated Pres*) NEW YORK, Aug.'ll.—Life in the Red Army and the isolated country villages of Russia is shown in a five reel film, “Beauty and the Bolshe vik,” shortly to be released by the Friends of Soviet Russia for exhibi tion thruout the United States. Red soldiers are shown in their schools and at play, as well as helping the peasants with their crops. The story is that of a battalion com mandant who woos the village peas ant girl with Bucharin’s A B C of Communism and marries her after convincing her that a civil cere mony Is more desirable than the Incantations of an orthodox priest. A three-reel scenic film is to be shown with this romance. Building Wages In Tampa. TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 11.— Building trades wages In Tampa are: Carpen ters, 80c to $1 an hour; electrical workers. 80c; plumbers and sheet metal workers, $1.12*4; painters, $1; bricklayers and plasterers, $1.60; la borers, 40c to 60c an hour. This Is the union scale. Nonunion wages are still lower and the unemployment is about 25 percent of the union mem berships. The shop crafts of the Sea board and Atlantic Coast Line roads also report 25 percent laid off. •and In that Subsoription Today. Philadelphia Party. PHILADELPHIA. August 11. The Central English branch of Philadel phia meets Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 8 p. m., at 621 York Ave. Ten new members have joined during the last two weeks. The South Slavic branch is mak ing elaborate preparations for a pic nic which will be held on Sunday, August 17, at the Flaxman’s Farm. Rovnoat Ludu (Equality of People). This is the only revolutionary pa per in the Slovak language in this country. If the fellow worker by your beach in the shop, on the farm, or anywhere cannot read English, write us for a sample copy of Rov nost Ludu, 1610 W. 18th St., Chica go. 111. Tallentlre In Portland. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 11.— Nor man Tallentlre speaks here August 13, at 8 p. m* at the Workers Party hall, 227 Yamhill street. A large crowd is expected to hear Tallentire’s attack on militarism and capitalism. Fitzpatrick Out. John Fitzpatrick disclaims any con nection with the national executive committee, Farmer-Labor Party of the United States. This contradicts claims of the new Denver national headquar ters of the party that Fitzpatrick rep committee. Photo-Engravera Meet Aug. 18. LOS ANGELES. Aug. 11.—The con ventlon of the Inti. Photo-Engravers union opens in Los Angeles Aug. 18. Send In that Subeoription Today. Tuesday, August 12, 1924 COLORED WOMEN PREVENT PROTEST AT SEGREGATION Patriotic Song Drowns Question to Official Three thousand falsetto voices, shrieking “The Star-Spangled Ban ner” at the command of President Hal ite Q. Brown at the final session of the convention of the National Associa tion of Colored Women, at the Wen dell Phillips high school, effectively drowned out the voice of a Negro man in the audience who attempted to take to task Acting Secretary of Labor Theodore G. Risley for the policy of segregation which is rigidly applied to all employes of government depart ments in Washington. Risley—short, bow-legged and bald —who had been sent from Washing ton to address the convention in place of Secretary of Labor Davis, had just blown the last bugle call of a mili tant war speech, when a tall Negro man arose in the audience, shouting, “Let me ask the secretary of labor one question.” Miss Hallie Q. Brown —stately in a black and silver gown and glittering with jewelry—brought her gavel down on the table with a determined rap. “No questions may be put to the sec retary of labor,” she ruled. Again came the voice of the tall Negro: “I want to ask the secretary of labor one fair question.” The splendid lady on the platform waved a delicate hand to the pianist; the pianist struck up “The Star-Span gled Banner,” and the audience rose to its feet and howled in unison. But not before the black man had shouted a last word: “You’re afraid! You’re afraid to ask a white man for your rights-” The militant Negro was Mr. J. J. Napier of Nashville, Tenn. Back in 1912, Mr. Napier told the DAILY WORKER, he held a minor position in the treasury department in Wash ington. Because of the stringent Jim Crow regulations which permeated every department of the government he quit. He had assumed that the democratic administration was respon sible for the policy of segregation. He found that the republican admin istration took no steps to remedy it. Mr. J. J. Napier had wanted to ask Secretary of Labor Risley why Hard ing and Coolidge hadn’t thought It worth while to give Negro employes of the departments the right to use the same stairways, the same elevat ors, the same washrooms used by the white employes. The last day of the convention of colored women witnessed no such burst of spontaneous enthusiasm as had greeted Robert W. Bagnall’s de nunciation of the Klan and the re publican party. The leaders, it is true, couldn’t prevent Mrs. Rose Haynes, who works among Negro girls in industry, from demanding that Risley install a Negro woman in a responsible position In the depart ment of labor. But the audience of three thousand women was fairly do cile while Risley, six years after the close of the world war, shot off anti- German popguns and howled for mili tary preparations. They swallowed without blinking his assertion that one of the reasons for the passage of the Johnson immigration bill is that Ne gro girls can work most factory ma chines as well as men of foreign birth. They endured an hour’s eulogy of the republican convention by Mrs. George S. Williams, who praised the party for “having in Its ranks most of the country’s multi-milionaires.” And Miss Hallie Q. Brown, retiring from the presidency In favor of her successor, Mrs. Mary Bethune, re ceived from Roscoe Simmons, repub lican organizer among Negroes, the gift of a very satisfactory job in the ranks of the republican party. Frisco Will Hold Picnic for Relief Os German Workers _____ (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 11.— A day and moonlight picnic, under the auspices of the San Francisco com mittee for International Workers Aid. will be held Sunday, August 17, at the Neptune Beach. Aside from the numerous enjoyments and sports, a unique review will be given by Ellen Rose’s gifted youpg pupils, some of whom are only 2 years old. Herman Nudin, leader of the Ju gend Movement In Germany, recently arrived here, will speak on conditions in Germany as observed at first hand. He is a stirring speaker and has a large fund of knowledge. The recent Communist victory in Germany indicates the necessity of class conscious workers giving their utmost support to the relief of the German proletariat at this time. 2,000 tickets are to sold in advance, price 25 cents. Eathonla’s Interest In Ruasia. MOSCOW, Aug. 11. —It la reported from Roval, Esthonla, that the pavil ion of the Uear at the exhibition held In that city has been a great euoceas. Tho local business circles have been showing much interest for Russian grain, sackcloth, rosin, mineral wat er* and various artistic edition*.

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Tuesday, August 12, 1924 CARMEN’S UNION DRIVESPREADS INTO HAMMOND Plan to Organize Entire Calumet Region The strike of car makers which has been in progress for the last four weeks against a 25 percent reduction in wages is assuming greater importance owing to the decision of E. K. Hogan, organizer of the Broth erhood of Railway Carmen, to put on a drive to organize the car builders of the Calumet dis trict. The campaign in Hammond, Indiana, started Friday night at an organization meeting held in Strobela’s Hall, corner of Mor ton and Columbia avenues, held under the auspices of the car mens’ union. The meeting was attended by about a hundred car builders employed in the Standard Steel Car plant. The company was represented by a man employed as a clerk to one of the offi cials at the plant whose duty it is to see to it that the workers do not be come organized. The meeting was opened by the declaration of E. K. Hogan that the only solution to the problems con fronting the car builders of the dis trict was to organize them and pre vent them scabbing on each other to the advantage of the bosses. Mass Addresses Strikers. The first speaker was Barney Mass, organizer for the Young Workers League, who made a powerful speech outlining the necessity of the work ers organizing themselves so that they would be able to fight the wage reduc tion and open shop campaign being carried on by the companies. He took as examples of how workers can bet ter their conditions thru organization the clothing and mining industries. He was followed by Tom Bell of the Workers Party, who showed the folly of the workers attempting to better their conditions by fighting in isolated ■etclons against the well-organized owners of the plants, who unite all their forces against the workers. “Union Will Stick,” Hogan. E. K. Hogan, in a fighting speech, declared that the carmen’s union was in the district to stay until the car builders had been organized. Review ing the 1919 organization drive, he de clared that the bosses had only pre vented the organization of the work ers of Hammond by the use of their thugs, who killed five workers at that time. But he urged the workers to recognize that a defeat in the past was no reason for giving up the fight to establish a union. Regarding the present campaign, Hogan stated: “The union that I represent is in this fight to stay until the car makers of Hammond are organized into a solid union.” Low Wages Bring Child Death. Reviewing the conditons under which the workers labor, he pointed out that the company houses were the graveyards of working class children, and that the companies kept wages on a common low level because of the competition and scabbing that went on among the workers in the various plants, and that the present plan of the bosses was to lower their wages to a still lower level. Many Join -Union. The result ?f the meeting was that many of those present gave their names to the organizer as being will ing to become members of the union. To the DAILY WORKER Hogan ex pressed his satisfaction over the out come of the meeting, saying: “The sentiment among the men for an or ganization is better at the present time than it was two or three years ago, when we were in here before.” The organization campaign is to be spread to Pullman, Michigan City, be sides Hegewisch and Hammond. Hegewisch Strike Still Solid. The fourth week of the car build ers’' strike in Hegewisch finds the ranks of the strikers still unbroken. A new development in the conduct of the strike is the collection of funds from the shopkeepers of the town for the support of the strikers and their families. Friday was the first time that his was taken up, and it will be continued on a larger scale. Donations Made to Strikers. The following have donated to the support of the strikers: Joe Yalo witz, dry goods: Sarenac grocery, Mike Blavich’s cigar store, J. Ball, dry goods; Dave Slavlck, dry goods; Baltimore barber shop, A Friend, and Kolaaowjkl premised that he would donate groceries to the strikers. These Dldn’J. The following were visited, but re fused to support the strikers, in spite of ttye fact that they rely principally upon the strikers for selling their goods: Pete Lonconi, Ben Anderson Son, real estate; Petlak’s grocery and the Hegewisch Consumers Gro cery Company. A meeting of the strikers has been arranged for this morning, at which the refusal of the manager of the plant to meet them on the plea of sickness will be takon up. Build the Party and the Daily Worker Combined Membership and Daily Worker Drive Presents Great Opportunity for Constructive Work By C. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secretary, Workers Party ONE item on the Program of Work presented to the mem bership by the Central Executive of the Workers Party is the drive in the combined campaign for new members and subscribers for the DAILY WORKER. Every member of the party has been called upon to secure one new application and a reader for the DAILY WORKER during this cam paign. This campaign offers our party one of the greatest opportunities for constructive work in building up the Communist movement in this country that has been presented during the existence of the party. The Membership Drive. If we could add 15,000" new mem bers to our party during the next three months, we would Indeed make a great achievement for the Communist movement in the United States. A party of 40,000 would be a powerful force in the life of the labor movement and In the life of this country. All of the activities of the party would be strengthened and broadened thru such an increase in membership. We would have an increased number of party workers to call upon to carry out the party campaigns and increased financial support for our organisation. The achievement of this goal is not Impossible. It Is not a vision ary idea to expect that our party could in three months’ time add 15,000 members to Its ranks. Rather the reverse Is true. The situation in which we find ourselves AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. (Continued from page I) signed by the military clique in Washington as "Mobilisation Day.” The American people are very touchy about militarism. Only when their masters declare war do they go to war and get quite bloodthirsty. But nor mally they prefer to see the fighting done elsewhere and by other people who like it better. Therefore deep was their wrath when "Mobilization Day” was sprung upon them. They did not like the name.

IT is quite true that the masses are not up in arms against this new militarist wrinkle that Washington is trying to carve into the national gran ite of the United States. But Com munists and pacifists are bringing the scheme to the attention of the work ers. There are also politicians who want to nab the anti-war vote. So Mr. John W. Weeks is obliged to re ply to militant letters from angry pa cifists. To one of these letters Mr. Weeks saying that the war de partment in 1(3“ "Mobilization Day” was only obeying the law of the land. It seems that an act was passed in 1792 prescribing that all males be tween the ages of eighteen and forty five years should be eligible for mili tary service. So it seems that it took Weeks to obey a law which slumbered peacefully for 132 years. Weeks was unlucky in the selection of "Mobiliza tion Day” for his warlike exercises. There is a good deal in a name Had he been endowed with brails he would have called it by some name that would sound better.

THE wealth of Mexico has a strong appeal to the imagination of the Chicago Tribune. An alienist would no doubt prove that some gland in the capitalist system which the Tribune upholds, is responsible for this tend ency. However, the World’s Greatest Liar is iippatient to get down into our neighbor’s territory and avenge the lives of alleged Americans even if it takes the death of twenty young men to balance the loss of every so-called American killed in the southern re public. It is more than likely that for every American who lost his life at the hands of a Mexican outlaw, 100 Mexicans were killed in the steel mills of the United States. The blood spilt by a puny Mexican bandit is only a drop in the bucket compared to what flows from the sewers of the hell holes whore American legalized ban dits make their millions. The Trib une is now quite excited over the death of Rosalie Evans, the female hell-cat who refused to obey the laws of Mexico because those laws veered in favor of the workers and peasants. The United States has lost its pres tige. Ramsay MacDonald would send his warships to shoot up some Mexi can city but he is afraid J. P. Mor gan might not like it. Therefore nothing is done and much valuable gore is left unshed.

BUT, bloodthirsty tho the Tribune is, we have an idea that its desire to feed the vultures of Mexico is not mainly due to its desire to relieve thousands of workers of the necessity of feeding the brute, by feeding them on bullets. The Tribune is anxious to is such as to favor our success in putting thru this campaign. The Workers Party is today the only revolutionary party standing upon a working class program which has any life or appeal to the masses of this country. Thru our work In the past two years we have built up a large circle of sympathizers around our party, but we did not, during this period, carry on organ ized work to bring these sympathiz. ers into the party. What the Central Executive Com mittee of the party is proposing to the membership is that we cash in in organizational strength on the work which we have done during the past year. The plan of work is simple. Every member of the party is asked to secure one applicant for member ship during the next three months. Special combined DAILY WORKER and membership application cards have been printed and all material for the drive has been sent to the party branches. The first step to be taken by each party branch is to organize a Mem bership Campaign and DAILY WORKER Subscription Committee. This committee should supervise and direct the work in the branch. It should see to the distribution of the special literature already sent to the branches. It should keep the record of the work of each member. It should carry on agita tion in the branch for active work by every member of the branch. There is only one reason which will prevent us from attaining our goal in this campaign. That is the get into Mexico for reasons similar to those which animated the patriotic jingo William Randolph Hearst before he made his peace with Obregon. There is untold wealth in Mexico, and some of our American millionaires would like nothing better than Exploit that wealth with cheap peon labor under the protection of the guns of the United States. Rosalie Evans died in vain. Had she not been married to a hated Saxon, perhaps the patriotic fury of the Ku Klux Klanned popula tion could be aroused. As it is the Tribune may curse, fume and turn out rotten editorials but nothing will hap pen—just now. Some day, unless a miracle happens, an excuse will be found and the Stars and Stripes will be carried into Mexico to stay there when the rulers of this country be lieve the time is ripe.

AVERY interesting case in which William Randolph Hearst was involved has just passed thru the New York courts. William J. Fallon, a criminal lawyer, was charged with bribing a juror in a mail fraud case. Fallon, the day after his indictment issued a statement charging Hearst’s New York American with framing him, and with hiding a witness who was alleged to have been bribed by Victor Watson, editor of the New York Am erican, to testify against Fallon. Ac cording to Fallon, the reason for Hearst’s animosity toward him was, knowledge that Fallon had in his pos session the birth certificates of three children of a prominent movie ac tress.

HEARST is also alleged to have sent detectives to Florida to get evidefice against Mrs. Hearst. This in formation was locked in the manly breast of Mr. Fallon but Mr. Hearst had visions of blackmail, therefore he sicked his man Watson on to Fallon. But Fallon proved everything but an easy mark. He turned the tables on Hearst and emerged victorious.

THE incident shows the power of the capitalist -press and the un scrupulousness with which this power is used to crush the enemies of their owners. Hearst is reputed to be the most unscrupulous of the unscrupu lous. His name has been linked with that of a movie actress and so has the name of the late attorney general, Harry Daugherty. In the struggle be tween the two the publisher was the victor and Daugherty went to the mat but a friendly relationship was estab lished between the two which lasted even thru the investigation of the De partment of Justice which brot about Daugherty’s downfall. The story did not appear in the Sunday supplements of the Hearst papers but T! Mr. Fallon is telling the truth it may appear in some other papers before long. Not the least obnoxious part of tlse im morality of capitalism is its hypoc risy. The capitalist press have tried to poison the minds of the workers against Communism by charging that the new order would "destroy the home and the family.” But even their own press bears ample testimony that the capitalists have as little re spect for their own moral code as they have for the laws made by themselves but only meant for the workers. THE DAILY WORKER fact that we are unable to mobilize our present membership for the work in hand. If every branch of the party will proceed at once with the work of organization and every member give support to this cam paign, we will be able to make this achievement for our party and for the Communist movement in this country. The Daily Worker Subscription Campaign. Last year our party mobilized its strength and raised close to SIOO,- 000 for the establishment of the DAILY WORKER. This was an achievement to be proud of. Thru the efforts of our member ship, we are able to create our daily paper, to establish its own printing plant and to secure a building to house the DAILY WORKER and the National Organization of the party. Too many members of the party, however, have concluded that the task was done with the establish ment of the DAILY WORKER. The contrary is true. The establishment of the DAILY WORKER and the printing plant is only the beginning in making of the DAILY WORKER a powerful weapon for the Commun ist movement In the United States. We now have the daily with a circulation of approximately 15,000. That is something, but it means that we are not making full use of the potential strength which our daily gives us. The DAILY WORKER should have a subscription list of 50,000 in place of 15,000. It is the task of our party to secure the additional readers for the dally. We must NEW HAVEN IS ENTHUSIASTIC AGAINST WARS Hundreds Hear Gitlow, Simons Expose Morgan (Special to The DAILY WORKER) NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 11.—New Haven held an open air meeting Sat urday night, which comrades call the held here for many years. Over 700 700 workers heard war denounced by Benjamin Gitlow, Workers Party vice president candidate, and by District Organizer, William Simons. The m -ei ing was held at tho Central Creon Bi-ndstand. Gitlow discussed the economic caus es of war, going into detail into the causes of the World War ten years ago. He showed the finger of Mor gan in every move, showed how the war sentiment was artificially created, and the workers hurled into the slaughter. -He foretold the greater waste in lives and wealth of the com ing war. Gitlow explained the role of unemployment in the present sys tem, and showed how the race for markets and spheres of investment brought on the clash. He pointed to the possibility of war in the Japan- United States controversy over who was to exploit the undeveloped eco nomic resources of China. Jobless Workere Hear. Turning to this country, Gitlow saiued into his rival for the vice presi dency, General Dawes, branding him as the agent of the House of Morgan. He paid similar respects to Davis. The war industries of Bridgeport and New Haven, death scattering muni tion plants, were seized upon by the speaker to prove the ever-increasing productive capacity of capitalism, which brings on unemployment soon er, and makes necessary the quest for foreign markets. The unemployment argument appealed to the workers present, many of whom were without jobs. William Simons, organizer of the Connecticut District, recalled to the minds of the audience the flying ban ners, the blowing trumpets, accom panying the draft call. Once more the workers will be compelled to give up standards of work, won by years of hard struggle. After the next war, again they would be faced by the open shop drive. And the capitalists, the jingoes, would use the war to enrldh themselves, and would not suffer pro secution. The workers would again bo called upon to fight their masters’ bat tles for them. The situation in all countries of the Westom Hemisphere, especially Mexico and Central Amer ica, wus pictured, revealing the House of Morgan, muking and unmaking gov ernments. "Down With Warl" That war could be prevented by ceasing a policy of isolation was shown to be ludicrous, in tho light of our loading statesmen, who woro "va cationing” in Europe, attending to Morgan’s affairs. Simons advised tho workers to see to it that when tho next wur was started that it should be converted into a war against capi tal, a war to establish a Soviet Gov ernment of the world. He ended with tho slogan "Down with War! Up with the Workers' and Farmers’ Govern umnt of America and of the World.” mobilize the whole party to build up the subscription list of the daily. The attitude of most comrades has been that the job was done when the DAILY WORKER was estab lished. What the Central Executive Com mittee is now asking of the party is that it put into the drive to increase the circulation of the DAILY WORKER the same enthusiasm, the same hard work which was put into the campaign to secure the funds for the establishment of the DAILY WORKER. We must double and treble our circle of readers. If we treble our circle of readers we will thereby treble the influence of the Commun. ist Party in the United States'., We will be creating new circles of sym pathizers around our party, whom in turn we wil be able to win for the party and thus continue the work of building our organization. As part of the campaign for in crease of the subscription list of the DAILY WORKER every branch is asked to appoint a DAILY WORK ER subscription agent as a member of the committee having this cam paign in charge. This is one of the important points of the campaign. The building of such an organiza tion for the DAILY WORKER means building for the future as well as carrying on the work of the present campaign. All Together to Build Our Move ment. Comrades of the party! The com. bined DAILY WORKER and Mem bership Drive has not as its goal something to be achieved in the far NEGROES URGED TO SUPPORT ONLY PAPER WHICH GIVES ALL WORKERS SQUARE DEAL: THE DAILY WORKER By CORDON OWENS All news or rumors, detrimental to or placing a Negro or Negroes in an unfavorable light, always appears on the front page of the capitalist owned and controlled newspapers. The word “Negro”’ always appears in large letters in the headline when a Negro is accused of some crime. All news favorable to or placing a Negro or Negroes in a good light always appears on the last pages of the capital ist owned and controlled news papers, in case same happened to appear at all. The Chicago Daily News carried a small write-up of The Negro San hedrin last February on page 16. Likewise on page 18 appeared a tiny article reporting the convention of The National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People in June. At this writing, The Daily News and Tribune have both ignored the con vention of The Universal Negro Im provement Association, now being held in New York. This is the larg est Negro mass organization in the world. Lie and Mislead. The Chicago Daily News of July 30, page 1, column 1, carries a gambling expose article headlined, “Police Drive Closes Negro Gambling Dens.’’ Same was featured on front page for three consecutive days. The Chicago Tribune of Sunday, Aug. 3, in reporting a fight between two Negro youths and some whites on a Wentworth Ave. car, headlined same on its first page that a mob attempted to lynch the Negroes. This is a vi cious lie. Two weeks ago the lying and filthy Tribune in reporting a fight between a light and dark skinned Ne gro, stated that a white man shot a Negro in the leg because the Negro married the sister of the white man. Defaming for Bosses. All sorts of crimes are committed every day by members of other races, but their racial identity, such as Jew, Irish, German or English never ap pears in the headline nor in the arti cle telling of the crime. Why the dif ference? The employing or ruling class de sire that all Negroes be placed in an inferior position to all whites in order to flatter the white workers and have them to believe themselves superior to and better than Negroes. Natur ally the exploited white workers who are under this illusion will not join hands or unite with nor fight in com mon with Negro workers to better conditions in general lest tho criminal Negroes may become the eqrnals of the duped and exploited "sciasorbill” white workers. To Keep Workers Divided. This anti-Negro propaganda of the bosses and employers, carried on thru their newspapers, is their best wea pon to divide Negro and white work ers, and to keep alive prejudice against Negroes. Awakened and class conscious Ne gro and white workers must make herculean efforts to induce workers of both races to read and subscribe to the working class newspaper, the DAILY WORKER. On# Paper Fair. The DAILY WORKER prints on its front page news placing Negroes in a good light and truthful news of the problems and handicaps of Negro distant future. Thru this work we can secure immediate results. We can complete a task which will make us proud of our organization. The Central Executive Committee expects that every branch of the party, no matter what language sec tion it is part of, will participate in this campaign. Our campaign for the DAILY WORKER will build the central English organ of our party. The membership drive will strength en every section of the party. Let us all together put our shoul. ders to the wheel and give our party a big push forward. The re alization of the slogan, “Every mem ber get a member—every member get a subscriber for the DAILY WORKER,” means a great drive for ward. No party meeting can be per. mitted to pass without the member ship and DAILY WORKER drive coming before it. No public meet ing of the party should be held with out an appeal for new members and an appeal for readers for the DAILY WORKER. Our party constitution prescribes that only those persons who are willing to participate actively in the party work can be members of our party. It is the proud boast of the Communist Parties of every country and the Communist International that the Communist Parties are made up of the advance guard of the working class —the active, militant workers. LET US PROVE THIS IN THIS UNITED CAMPAIGN TO BUILD OUR PARTY AND THE DAILY WORKER. workers. The DAILY WORKER fights the battle of both black and white workers. The white workers are badly in need of the kind of information about the Negro, which The DAILY WORKER contains. Boost DAILY WORKER. Let the Negro and white workers support The DAILY WORKER, which seeks to unite them, and cease sup porting their bosses’ organs, the capi talist newspapers which seeks to di vide Negro and white workers and keep them hating and fighting each other for the bosses special interest Berkeley Chief of Police May Be Head Os San Quentin Pen BERKELEY, Cal., Aug. 11.—The real reason for the return of August Vollmer, Berkeley’s chief of police, who was lent to Los Angeles for a year, but ran home after the San Pe dro klan riot, may be revealed in a statement of Governor Richardson that he has selected Vollmer as war den of San Quentin, to succeed James A. Johnston. Richardson*has been trying for a long time to get rid of Johnston, a Hiram Johnson follower. Johnston says he is still in San Quentin and expects to remain there. Vollmer is on his honeymoon. In view of the hundred political prisoners in San Quentin, the attitude of the war den toward labor is oX vital impor tance. Vollmer did not shine in San Pedro, his avowed neutral attitude working out practically in assistance for the rioters. SAN FRANCISCO I. W. A. **hV Offer* x Monster Day and Moonlight PICNIC For the Relief of the Struggling Workers of Germany Ellen Rose’s Kiddy Revue Bay District Singing Societies Aeroplane Rides Bathing Dancing Whip Riding at the A NEPTUNE BEACH, ALAMEDA, CAL., Sunday, August 17th, 1924 8 A. M. to 12 P. M. Ticket* of admission sold only In advance 25 cents, at 225 Vaienol^iSt. i ii I LEN SMALL GANG i HOOKING UNIONS FOR LAFOLLETTE S. P. Lines Up With Walker and Olander The American Federation of Labor officials definitely entered the LaFolr lette campaign In Illinois today with the announcement that these officials 1 “have established headquarters at the Morrison Hotel In conjunction with the national campaign headquarters.” The same reactionary officials of the Illinois Federation of Labor, directed by John Walker and Victor Olander, who are campaigning for the regular Republican Len Len Small, have' taken over rooms in the luxurious and spacious LaFollette suite which cov-j ers most of the fourth floor of thei Morrison Hotel. Hi-Jacking the Negroes. At the same time it was announced] that G. Victor Cools, of the Co-opera-j tive League of America, has been ap-l pointed National Manager of the Inde~j pendent Colored Voters LaFollette for] President Club, to cash in on DaFoH lette’s reluctant anti-Klan statement and round up the Negro vote. Statementsi have been sent to the local unions of the Chicago Federa- j tion of Labor asking that a LaFollette] campaign committee of five be ap pointed, and funds donated to LaFol-i lette. The Len Small Federation chine, which knifed the class Farmer- Labor Party in the back, claiming that organized labor should keep out of active participation in politics, is now busy rounding the union mem bers to work for LaFbllette. Socialist Gets Democratic. At the last meeting of tool and die makers lodge No. 113, of the Interna tional Association of Machinists, busi ness agent Dillon, member of the So cialist Party, who six weeks ago de nounced the Farmer Labor Party ad vocates for "injecting politics into the union,” appealed for the organization to get behind LaFollette. When a member of the union moved to vote down LaFollette’% appeal tor aid, the president of the lodge denied him the floor on the ground that he “was lying when he said LaFollette was a representative of the middle class.” This lodge member appealed from the decision of the chair, and mustered almost half of the members to vote against the gag rule of the La- Follette advocates. The LaFollette aid was rushed thru by the reaction ary machine, however. ORGANIZEYOUTH OF HAMMOND IN LEAGUEJJRANCH Following the organization meeting?, held last Friday under the auspices of. the Carmen’s union at Hammond, In-j diana, a meeting was called of young workers by Barney Mass of the Young Workers League and Tom Bell I of the Workers Party. Forty-two j young workers attentively listened toj the speeches delivered and signified their willingness to become members 1 of the League and enlist as active j fighters against the rotten conditionsi of American capitalism, which is ex-, ploiting the youth of the country to swell the profits of the bosses. The majority of those attending the'! meeting are employed in the dard Steel Car company and know the 1 necessity of the young workers organ*# izing to fight against the rotten con-f ditions and low wages under which j they work. The message of the com- 2 munist fight against capitalism was listened to attentively and with ap«*< preciatfon. Complete Organization Tonight. An organization meeting was de- 1 cided on, to be “held oh Tuesday,. August 12, at 7:30 p. m. in Strobela’s Hall, corner of Morton and Columbia Aves., East Hammond, to complete the organization of the branch. The new members of the League will pro- J vi’de an orchestra for the dance which! will take place at the close of the j organization meeting. fg Send In that Subscription Today, is Page Three

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Page Four FARRELL STEEL WORKERS’ CASES COME J SEPT. Defense Sends Plea for More Funds By Wallace T. Metcalfe. YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Aug. 11.—The Labor Defense and Free Speech Coun cil handling the now famous Farrell se dition cases has just completed cir cularizing the labor movement of Ohio. Thousands of letters have gone forth to the organized labor move ment in Ohio setting forth the out standing injustice being inflicted upon the six Farrell steel workers for dar ing to exercise their constitutional rights of free speech and peaceful as semblage in a district owned body and soul by the Steel Trust. Two workers have o'een convicted of violating the infamous Sedition Law of Pennsylvania. Two are con fined in the Mercer County jail be cause their bondsmen were compelled to turn them over to the custody of the sheriff. The defense is exerting every effort to secure the early re lease of these two workers and the outside world is being appealed to for assistance. A cash bail of $2,000 each is required by the court. Jobless—Blacklisted. The two workers at liberty under bail awaiting trial have been out of employment since their arrest. Boy cotted —blacklisted —jailed and com pelled to fight against uneven odds, the game fight being put up by these workers is exemplary. The appeals of the two convicted steel workers will be heard before the« Mercer County court sometime in September while the four steel workers yet to be tried will have their trials in October. The defense committee is faced with the gigantic task of financing the appeals and the trials. It will re quire $6,000 at the least to carry on the legal battle in defense of these steel workers. The defense committee has ap pealed to the labor movement in the United States and Canada. Thru the labor press the TRUTH about Far rell has been broadcasted to the out side world and in response to these appeals many organizations have con tributed. Miners Sympathize. A letter received today from a United Mine Workers union in south eastern Ohio displays the real spirit of the American wording class. Here it is and every member of the work ing class should read it. Labor Defense and Free Speech Council. Dear Sir and Brother •_ In reply to your letter of July 25th. We are with you brother but this local has been out of work since last November, 1923. We was always ready to help of any kind but the shape we are in I am sorry to say that we cannot help at the present. With the best wishes for a better day. We remain,

Secretary. In back of the Farrell defendents hundreds of thousands of workers and sympathizers are being mobilized anfa from obscure oppressed steel workers they are now known the world over for their loyalty to their ideals. That non-partisan force for Free Speech—Peaceful Assemblage and Freedom of the Press, the American Civil Liberties Union, has exerted its powerful influence in behalf of the constitutional rights of these steel workers. Its representatives were first to come to the rescue of the de fendants. Workers Must Help. Workmen’s Circle branches from all over the United States have contrib uted. This splendid organization of Jewish workers and business people maintains its tradition of defending the rights of the oppressed. Four of the defendants are members of the Workers Party of America, South Slav Federation, and the bulk of the financial support has been giv en by them. On account of unem ployment the contributions have been ■mall. The defense committee ap peals to the membership of the Work ers Party—to all members of the working class and to those who sym pathize with them in their struggles to heed this appeal for funds. There must be no letup in the cam paign for the defense of the Farrell steel workers. Contributions regard less how small should be mailed at once to the defense committee. Wm. J. White, treasurer. Box 883, Youngs town, Ohio. Send In that Subscription Today. RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENOLISH AND IN AU-Kg*”fi| rONCION LANGUAGES INK. FADS. DATEB3 NUBBER TYPtere. NOBLER STAMP SEAL CO, _ fife. Pboiw Wabash 6680 CHICAGO JBH MAJL OROr»9 PROMPTLY qgTfft ATTSMOKO TO Bucharin Report on Program to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International Editor’s Note:—This Is the flret In stallment of Comrade Bukharin’s re port on the proposed program for the Communist International made to the Flflth World Congress of the C. I. Our readers should follow this re port with keen interest. Comrade Bukharin is a noted Marxist and one 1 of the leaders of the Russian Com munist Party and one of the Russian representatives on the Executive Committee of the Communist Inter- E national. A second Installment will 1 appear tomorrow.

t Comrade Bukharin’s Report. A>OMRADES, we two reporters who were appointed by the Executive to deal with this question—Comrade I Thalheimer and myself, have divided the work between us. Comrade Tbal heimer’s report will not be a counter- part to mine, but rather a supplement 1 to it. Comrades, at our last congress the program question was discussed with considerable thoroness. The most im portant program questions were dealt with in the reports made at that time. I will therefore not again go over the paragraphs contained in my report and in Thalheimer's supplementary i report Capitalist Accumulation. Differences arose in connection with two quite different questions: first, in connection with capitalist ac cumulation —a purely theoretical ques tion brought forward by Comrade Rosa Luxemburg. We have omitted this purely theoretical discussion for i today, not because of our inability to discuss this question, or because we do not attack any importance to it, but because it is a question which does ndt lend itself to discussion in the plenum. It is of an extremely theore- J tical nature and therefore not suit able for the plenum of a great con gress. We have decided to deal with these purely theoretical questions at separate meetings. The second question, which gave rise to differences the question of partial demands and transition slo gans,—was settled by the Fourth Con gress. As there are no differences in connection with it, this question disappears from the agenda, unless 1 some delegation or group of delega tions object to this. Thus, in today’s report I will deal only with new questions, namely with l questions not discussed in former re ports. Comrade Thalheimer and myself propose (and I believe we voice the opinion of the Commission on this) that at this congress, we adopt not a final program, but rather a draft which the parties affiliated to the Communist International may discuss. This draft must be distributed to the sections for discussion in the name of the congress. Determine Aims and Methods. In the first place, we need the pro gram for the ideological training of the parties belonging to the Commun ist International. We also need the program for its political significance, in order to determine its aims and the methods by which these aims are to be ‘achieved. We also need the program to demonstrate and to fur ther our unity. I must say that I do not share comrade Maslov’s scepti cism with relation to the program. He 1 published a rather good article in re ply to comrade Boris’ article in "Die Internationale”—the theoretical maga zine published by the German Party, expressed himself against the adop- But in article, comrade Maslov tion of this program. He argues that i sufficient preparatory work has not i been done and that various, purely theoretical questions, are not yet solved. He proposes that only a pro gram of action be adopted in lieu of a progran* I do not agree with his contention, for I think that in the various documents already adopted by i the Communist International, which date from our first congress, we have sufficient material and also sufficient elucidation of the most important questions which concern the program. I also think that, with a few excep tions we are justified in saying that even the purely theoretical questions 'have been, on the whole, well thrashed out. I think that there is no justification for comrade Maslov’s, theoretical scepticism. Philosophy of Movement. I come now to the question itself. As I have already said, I will deal now only with questions which are com paratively new. I presume that form er reports, which were published in book form, and the discussions con nected with them, are familiar to all the comrades. The first question we have to con sider is—our philosophy. Not a word has been said in the draft laid before the Fourth World Congress about the philosophy of the Communist Interna tional and of Communism in general. But since then wo have gone thru experiences which make it impera tive for us to deal with this ques tion. During the meeting of the En larged Executive we had a very heat ed discussion on the religious ques tion. This of course, is a tactical question, but not merely a tactical question. These discussions on the Enlarged Executive showed us that the question of our philosophy needs elucidation. There are more subtle toots which, in a less crude form per haps than the religious discussion in dicate that there are still some dan gers ahoad. We notice among Com- munist Parties, and to a still greater extent, among social-democratic par ties—especially in the German Social Democratic Party—a relapse into the old Hegelism, which we must desig nate as pre-Marxist and an idealistic viewpoint. This is particularly no ticeable in the social democrat Cuno, especially in his works on the state, the role and functions of this state. This Is linked up with a certain re lapse into Lassale-ism. I cannot of course, deal here very fully with these questions, I merely want to emphasize the fact of those relapses in the ranks of the social democracy. Unfortunate ly, Communist Parties are not im mune from such relapses into the old Hegelism, certainly in a less promi nent form than in social democratic ranks, but which nevertheless reveal the same potentially harmful tenden cies. The Italian Party. The second phenomenon is parti cularly noticeable in the Italian par ty, altho probably It is not conscious of it. This ideological deviation from revolutionary Marxism, could be desig nated as idealistic voluntarism, which is substituted for Marxist activism." We find the same deviations in the' Russian Party, but in a different form, namely in the form of agnostic posi tivism in lieu of Marxist materialism. Some comrades base their attitude on the teachings of a revolutionary school of thot, the so-called reflex ology, and go back to activism. All this may be plausible enough, but it is not revolutionary Marxism. The point is that in all this, Marxist ma terialism is treated, avowedly or tacit ly as an obsolete viewpoint. This is a great danger, especially because bourgeois science and bourgeois phi losophy and ideology are at present in a process of dissolution. This bour geois ideology is tainted with mysti cism, and therefore in a period of general disintegration and chaos can to a certain extent permeate prole tarian circles. That is why philoso phy must be given a place in the pro gram. It must be precisely and con cisely formulated. We must say that we are materialists; our viewpoint is the viewpoint of revolutionary materi alist Marxism. This is a rather elas tic formula but we cannot do with out it if we want to proclaim our re volutionary Marxism openly and meet the perils which I described to you. Shows Certain Dangers. As to the second group—the eco nomic questions, I must say that if the influence of bourgeois ideology is noticeable on the philosophical field, it is also present in our economic doc trines. I should like to propose to the congress here to discuss Comrade Boris’ article in “Die Internationale.” Not because I attach much import ance to Comrade Boris’ arguments, but because his article shows us in a crude form the dangers which are ahead. It is not a question of Boris, but a question of symptomatic phe nomena. For it cannot be ascribed to mere chance when a scientific organ conducted by educated people print such foolish things and such social democratic rot. Such a phenomenon shows rather that there is a certain psychological basis for such discus sions. This article is a palpable proof that the bourgeoisie and the social democratic theorists have gained a footing in our camp. The article is very outspoken. Certain compliments are paid to us in it. For instance, I am described as a petty bourgeois gone mad. This is a very outspoken expression, and as I said before, the article is very outspoken indeed. Comrade Boris would like to send the entire bourgeoisie and also the petty bourgeoisie to the devil. He has no wish to make common cause with any revolutionary parties in the colonies whatever, on the plea that they are bourgeois parties. He also taboos par tial socialization. Ha says: to the' devil with any kind of socialization which is not complete socialization! He wants to socialize everything, in cluding the waste-paper basket of "Die Internationale.” He justifies his article by saying that political econo my is the be-all and the end-all. Thus, we must socialize everything, or noth ing. He is much more radical than the most radical elements represent ed here. But under this radical cloak, we have literally a purely social de mocratic theory, and I fail to see how it was possible for the editors of “Die Internationale" not to notice it. This Is ludicrous, and at the same time dangerous. Comrades, I will read you' an extract from Comrade Boris’ ar ticle to give you an idea what we have really to contend with. One of the most important differences be tween the Second and Third Interna tionals is the conception of imperial ism, the conception that a few great, powers exploit the colonies, receive super profits from these colonies and by means of them corrupt some work ing class sections, which provide the basis for social democratic policy. Hitherto we thot that this concep tion is the most Important point which separates us from the Second International. This conception is a strong weapon In our hands against social democracy, and against the im perialist policy of the bourgeoisie, a strong weapon which enables us to establish a connection between West ern Europe and Asia, between the in dustrial proletariat and the backward colonial peoples. We have In this conception a connecting link between the revolution of tho Industrial prole tariat and colonial rebellions, which THE DAIL.Y WO-RKER In the trend of history are nothing but component parts of the World revolu tions, Against this, fire directed all the attacks of the social democrats, on the theoretical as well as on the practical field. Criticism of Program- Now what does our super-clever Bo ris propose? He criticises my draft program by saying: "What is the implication of the assertion that the bourgeoisie raised the wages of the workers at home and thus gave them an interest in the plunder? The European and Ameri can workers are exploited. The work ers receive the value of their labor power, i. e., the means of existence which are necessary to maintain and reproduce their clasß. Hence the means of existence must be sufficient to maintain the laborer as a laborer in his normal standard of living and to allow him to reproduce his kind. By fighting, the workers have been able to attain a certain standard of living. The basis for raising this standard was the development of pro ducing power. The wages of the workers in the home countries were not raised by the bourgeoisie for the purpose of corrupting the super-pro fits of some sort or other. Moreover, there are no super-profits; there is only one profit, and this is created by surplus labor in production.” "We cannot speak of super-profits from the Colonies.” And after he has set forth our mu tual stand point, he writes: "And the Communist International is expected t« elevate this class-con ciliatory nonsense to its program. And the thesis covering the war and post-war period are still more ab surd. For the 19th century, Bukharin was able to use Karl Marx in a muti lated form. For the beginnings of the 20th century, ha used Hilferding, whom he faithfully echoed, since theoretically he is his Disciple. But he has also developed a few of his own senseless theories of state capi talism.” Thus, the whole doctrine of super profits is fundamentally anti-Marxist; it is absurd, it is class-conciliatory, etc. Well, I don’t know what class conciliatory means. But first I want to make a brief remark. Comrade Boris says that this doctrine is not Marxist at all, —that it is fundamen tally anti-Marxist. There is no such thing as super-profits; it is impossible and impermissible to speak of the ex ploitation of one country by another; that is sheer nonsense. I base myself on an author who was in no way a petty-bourgeois run wild, i. e., the ven erable Karl Marx. In his “Theories of Surplus Value,” Vol. 2, Part 2, Marx says: "Even a blind sow can find an acorn, and even a bourgeois economist can sometimes speak the truth.” And with reference to his famous blind sow, Marx says: “J. B. Say, in his comments on Constanzio’s translation of Ricardo, made just one correct observation on foreign trade. Profit can also be made by cheating. One wins what the oth er loses. Gains and losses within a country cancel each other. But this is not the case between various coun tries. And even according to Ricar do’s own theory—which Say does not notice—three working days of one country can be exchanged for- one working day of another. Here the law of values must be essentially mo dified. Or, as highly-skilled, complex labor within a country bears a certain proportionate unskilled, simple labor, so the working days of one country can bear a certain "proportion to the working days of another country. In such a case, the richer country ex ploits the poorer, altho the latter may gain by the exchange. J. S. Mill de veloped this theory in his ‘Some Un settled Questions, etc.’ From this we can infer that Com- Faae Boris’ conceptions are somewhat more profound than those of a blind sow. But of course, that is not the decisive factor for us. The decisive factor is that we clearly see that this doctrine of super profits of richer countries is an entirely Marxist doc trine. Marx put that down in black and white. But Marx proceeds from the hypothesis—only from this hy pothesis—that there is a peaceful ex change between the countries. He does not speak of downright plunder; he does not speak of tho results which must arise from the direct pressure of the state apparatus. What must be said when we also take this power ful means Into consideration? The question is perfectly clear and com prehensible to any child. Only C#w rade Boris believes that this doctrine is absurd. Now for the arguments of Comrade Boris on wages. Naturally, the bw*r goois can corrupt the working clot* only by means of higher wages. That Is entirely correct. If, for instance, _ We consider the wages of the workers In the Imperialist states, we observe that the workers receive their income In form of wages, but that Is not tho question. We must ask: Why are tho wages of these workers higher than the average wage? One answer Is: The wages are higher because the la bor power is of a different nature, because the labor power la more high ly skilled. That would be correct, but a further question Is necessary: where Is the basis? How did the pos sibility arise for these sections of the working class to transform the* labor power into more highly skilled labor power? This must be answered. Os course, this question, the decisive question, did not occur to Comrade Boris. The wages of every seotion of tho labor aristocracy conforms with its more highly skilled labor power, But why was Just this labor more higly skilled? Why does this labor power belong to the highly skilled workers and not to the unskilled worker? Practically the whole work ing class of tho capitalist state is an aristocracy as compared with the pariahs of the working class. That Is the basic question. This question Is answered by our doctrine, which wsU created by Marx and developed by Engels and Lenin and which is clear ly discussed even In "the pro grans, ot the Russian Party. Comrade Bo 4« absolutely overlooks this questtos. And that Is a return, a complete turn to the Second International. For if we do not have this premise, we cannot fight against the labor aristo cracy, imperialist politics, and will not be in a condition theoretically to explain all these fundamentally im portant phenomena. Engels, as even those who are not specially educated in Marxism know, even speaks of the bourgeois proletariat in England. This is also an absurdity from Comrade Boris’ standpoint, because he is not familiar with Marxist literature. We must ask: How is It possible that the editor of the “Die Internationale” can not exercise a censorship? (Korsch: It was merely brought up for discus sion!) Comrades, we cannot bring up every bit of piffle for discussion. That is a bit strong. (To Be Continued.) THE WORK OF THE PARTY C. E. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS PARTY. THE following matters were dis cussed and decisions rendered by the Central Executive Committee: Meeting of August 2. Party Platform: Committee con sisting of Comrades Ruthenberg, Bit telman and Lovestone were elected to go over the proposed 1924 platform prepared by Comrade Ruthenberg with authority to publish same after agreement by committee. Program of Action: The commit tee decided to hold special semi monthly meetings for the purpose of following up work done by the party organization in carrying out the pro gram of action. International Publishers and Book sellers. The committee adopted a mo tion declaring that it did not approve of the establishment of a private pub lishing house to publish radical and Communist literature by Comrades Alexander Trachtenberg and A. A. Heller. Freiheit Management: The com mittee considered an appeal by Com rade Salzman, Manager of the Frei heit, against the appointment of Com rade Lifshitz as Campaign Manager for the Freiheit and requested that the Bureau of the Jewish Section sub mit to the C. E. C. Its views on the subject. Meeting of August 4. New York Membership Meeting: The committee appointed Comrade Foster to represent the C. E. C. at the New York Membership meeting to be held August 15. Amalgamated Clothing Workers: The committee voted to approve of the publication of the statement call ing upon the locals of the Amalgamat ed Clothing Workers to repudiate the endorsement of LaFollette by the General Executive Board of that or ganization. Labor Defense Council: It was de cided to take up with the non-party supporters of the Labor Defense Council the question of broadening its activities to include all the de fense work of the Workers Party, combining with the Labor D|fense Council the National Defense Com mittee and if approval could be se cured to as quickly as possible, turn over to the Labor Defense Council all the defense work of the party. Mobilization Day: The issuance of a special party manifesto in leaflet form on Mobilization Day, September 12, called by President Coolidge, was authorized. All party units are instructed to hold mass meetings on that day for the purpose of agitation against war, militarism and Fascism. Election Campaign: The committee authorized the preparation of a cam paign handbook by Comrade Love stone, a pamphlet containing a simple statement of Communist principles to be prepared by Comrade Ruthenberg, and a pamphlet on the political par ties in the United States to be pre pared by Comrade Bittelmaji. Audit of Party Books: There was submitted to the cojpmittee the state ment of Comrades Abern and Maurer who had been appointed to audit the accounts of the party for the period from August, 1923, to July 1, 1924, that they had audited the accounts and found them correct. Obolonsky Appeal: Appeal of Com rade Jacob Obolonsky against the censure by the convention of the Rus sian section of carelessness in keep ing the books while Secretary was considered by the committee. It ap peared that Comrade Obolonsky had been secretary of the Russian section for a period of only two and a half to three weeks and that during that period only two remittances were re oelved. The Russian section was in t “-eiaaasfiaMtJU DO YOU WANT A LITTLE BUFFALO INJfOUR HOME? WASHINGTON, Aug. I(b—Having a eurplua of buffaloa In tho Yellow stone National Park, the govern today offered to give one away free to anyone who could pay the coat of catching and transporting. Persons who get buffaloa must also agree to care for It and not to kill It except-to self-defense. There are about 730 buffaloa In tho Yel lowstone herd. Christian Soldiers Marching Against Darwin's Monkeys SACRAMENTO, Cal., Aug, 11.— Opening guns in the reactionary at tack on the teaching of evolution in California public schools were fired at a special meeting of the state depart ment of education here. Rev. George Thorpe of Corona, who precipitated the fight, argued for the elimination of over 50 text books teaching the relationship of man and animals, and pleaded for the teaching of spontaneous generation and spe cial creation. Rev. Harvey Gill, Uni tarian of Sacramento, led the modern ist forces, arguing that evolution and Christianity can be reconciled. Will C. Wood, state superintendent public instruction, will render a verdict af ter considering the speeches on both sides. An initiative measure will prob ably appear on the 1924 ballot pro viding for teaching the Bible In the public schools. Send In that Subscription Today. structed that if the facts were as 3tated by Comrade Obolonsky, to withdraw the vote of censure. Miller Case: Lettish Branch Chica go: The committee authorized the Lettish Branch in Chicago to accept Comrade J. August Miller as a mem ber of that branch with all the rights of membership, at the same time vot ing to submit to the Russian Com munist party his stated record of ac tivities for confirmation. Lithuanian Bureau: Communication was received from the Lithuanian Bu reau in regard to the rumored pro posal of publication of a Lithuanian daily In Chicago and the establish ment of headquarters in this city. The statement of the Lithuanian Bu reau was accepted as satisfactory by the C. E. C. Freiheit Re-incorporation: The com mittee authorized Comrades Alexan der Bittelman, Noah London and Ben jamin Lifshitz to act as the incorpora tors of the Freiheit, holding the stock in the name of the C. E. C. during the period of incorporation. Language Section Meetings: The committee authorized monthly meet ings with the secretaries of the lan guage sections for the purpose of dis cussing with them party policies and methods of carrying out policies. Comrades Cannon and Ruthenberg were appointed to represent th.e C. E. C. at these metings. Campaign Fund Collection by Party Papers: The committee directed that party papers opening their columns for the collection of campaign funds must remit the full amount collected to the National Organization, stating the source, and the National Organ ization will transmit the respective quotas to the party units in accord ance with the arrangements made. C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary Walden Book Store of Chicago Succeeds on Co-operative Plan A oucc«*sful enterprise on a co-op •?r*tlve basis is being conducted by the Chicago Co-operative Bookstores Co., organized on the Rochdale plan of one vote to each stockholder, irre spective of the amount of his hold ings. The venture is better known by the name of Walden Book Shop and the capital is divided into shares of $5 each, the constitution provides for a cumulative dividend not to exceed 6 per cent. After this has been paid, the directors must set aside 10 per cent of the net profits as a reserve until it equals the capital paid in. Then 5 per cent of tbe profits shall be used in teaching co-operation by edu cational advertising. After these ob ligations have been met, a customers’ dividend may be declared in the ratio ot their purchase. Under the management of Theron P. and Lenetta Cooper,'the business has developed to the point whore the cumulative dividends have been paid to Dec. 31, In the ability and personnel of the management and clerical force, In the variety and quality of the stock car ried, and in the atmosphero which IHtaches "wherever books are loved as wen qs sold, the Walden Shops nold their own with capitalist competitors. BRISBANE, Queensland, Aug. 11.— The civil service employes of Queens land arc duly affiliated members of the Australian Labor party, following (heir application and their adoption of the party's platform. The anti- Labor press interprets it ns a wave of Bolshevism thru the ranks of the service. i Tuesday, August 12, 1924 j IMMIGRANTS TO SOVIET RUSSIA TO BEASSISTED Technical Aid Society Warns of False Agent* (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—For the past, six months a number of complaint* have come to the attention of the Central Bureau of the Society for Technical Aid to the Union of Social ist Soviet Republics against various unscrupulous agencies and Individ uals who, it appears, have found a .new source of easy Income thru ex ploitation of uninformed people de siring either to return to Russia In dividually or to obtain a restitution of Russian citizenship. Some of these complaints deal with remuneration, at times extremely ex orbitant, exacted by some agencies and oflicers for soliciting services. Other complaints are directed against persons styling themselves “Soviet consuls” who have been charging from five to one hundred dollars for Issuing “passports” invalid in any country. Also there are complaints by persons stranded at various Eu ropean ports, simply because they fdll prey to irresponsible agents provid ing these unfortunates with worth less documents and permissions of no value whatsoever. False Agents Cheat. People in large numbers from an parts of the United States arrive in New York, ready to sail. But at their great dismay and disappointment, they learn at the Central Bureau S. T. A. S. R. that they have been tricked and cheated by reckless agents and that unless they are pro vided with proper bona fide docu ments they cannot gain entrance in to the U. S. S. R. Lastly, applications presumably for obtaining admission into U. S. S. R., have been incorrectly accomplished by these agents ana solicitations un dertaken by them have proven to be in flagrant violation of particular re quirements obtaining in re-emigrant cases. Russian immigrants apply to those various agents and offices merely be cause there is no official representa tive of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the United States. To avoid a recurrence of such de plorable cases of cheating and mis leading of Russian immigrants, and in order to establish a proper and correct procedure for such solicita tions, the Central Bureau S. T. A. S. -R. (799 Broadway, corner 11th St., New York City), has undertaken the task of accomplishing the application blanks for entering Russia and for warding these to the proper Soviet authorities. Offers Aid. The duties of the Central Bureau S. T. A. S. R. in this respect are as follows: 1. To solicit for Russian citizens desiring to return to Russia. 2. To solicit for all persons of foreign nationality desiring to be come Russian citizens or being re instated into Russian citizenship. NOTE:—Persons who left Rus sia without permission after and contemplating at some time to return there, must effect a res titution of their Russian citizen ship formerly held by them. 3. To solicit for foreigners desir ing to obtain a temporary permis sion of stay in Russia. The handling of application blanks and solicitations for obtain ing permission to enter Russia will be conducted by the Central Bureau S. T. A. S. R. in strict accord with precise instructions from proper Soviet institutions having jurisdic tion in this matter. The offices of tbe Central Bureau S. T. A. S. R. for execution of the services above-mentioned will be open daily from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. and Saturdays till 3 p. m. For all information, in writing or in person, please apply to Central Bureau S. T. A. S. R., 799 Broadway, Room 402, New York City. 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Tuesday, August 12, 1924 H IMi CHICAGO BARBERS WILL URGE ONION TO ADMITWOMEN Biggest Local to Ask at Convention (By The Federated Press) The largest delegation from the largest local in the Journeymen Bar bers Inti, union will work for admis sion of women barbers into the union when the convention opens in Indian apolis, Sept. 9. Local 648, Chicago, is sending 17 delegates to represent Its 3,000 mem bers. Pres. William Leidig declares local sentiment solid for admission of the women hairdressers and barbers. “The west strongly favors abolition of the sex discrimination," Leidig says. “Chicago has 800 women bar ber shops with 1,600 to 2,000 women barbers. Seattle has a very active well organised body of lady barbers. But the eastern locals are against ad mitting the women. They haven’t the same competition from them that we have in the west.” A. F. of L. Dodges. The sex bar was discussed at the 1923 convention of the American Fed eration of Labor, at Portland, and was referred to the barbers’ international as a question within the autonomy of the craft. Affiliation of the lady bar bers to the Seattle Central Labor council was one of the charges in the indictment brot against the control body by the executive counci., A. F. of L., last year. Seattle dropped the women’s organization as one of the conditions for retaining its charter. The Chicago local will have over 4,600 members if it is permitted by the international convention to take in the women barbers and if it suc ceeds in organizing them to the same high degree as the men. Over 93 per cent of all men barbers in Chicago are in the union. Orientals Barred. There is no color bar against Ne gro barbers, of whom there are 200 in Chicago in the Chicago local. Orien tals, however, are excluded. The International union paid per capita on 43,200 members to the A. F. of L. in 1923. This compares with 88,400 five yeare earlier, in 1918, and with 47,000 in the peak year of 1921. James Shanessy is international presi dent and Jocob Fischer secretary. Russia and Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 11.—Re lations are strained between the new Turkish government and Russia. The Russian military attache and the Rus sian consul at Angora are reported to have been arrested for espionage. OUR DAILY PATTERNS AN UP-TO-DATE SPORTS SUIT. 48 Qyl 5550 j/lJ l I >L_/ r' 4822-4860. This stylish model is composed of ladies’ waist coat blouse 4822, and ladies' skirt 4860. White flannel is here portrayed with facings of black suede. This style is also good for ratine, or silk alpaca also in sports silk or crepe. The blouse is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 Inbhes bust mea sure. The skirt in 7 sizes: 26, 27, 29. 31, 33, 36 and 37 inches waist measure, with corresponding hip measure, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46 and 47 Inches. To make this suit for a 36-Inch size will require 6 yards of 32-inch material, with V4-yard for facings, if made as illustrated. The width of the skirt at the foot is 1% yard. TWO separate patterns mailed to any address on receipt of 12c for each pattern in silver or stamps. •end In that Subscription Today. LEGION TALKS CHEAP MEMORIAL FOR SLAIN CENTRALIA RAIDERS SINCE $250,000 SCHEME FAILED (By Defense News Service) Far-and-wide dissemination of the fact that $16,500 col lected for an American Legion memorial in Centralia, Washing ton, had been dissipated for salaries and expenses of collection has evidently put the promoters of the memorial project on the defensive. For it is now announced that a hero monument will be erected anyhow, but on a cheaper scale. In May the Defense News 1 Service issued a news story under a Centralia date line tell ing of the collapse of the en deavor to raise $250,000 to com memorate the deaths of the Legion aires killed in an attack upon the I. W. W. hall in Centralia on Armis tice Day, 1919. This collapse had become public knowledge thru a lawsuit filed to re cover money alleged to be due to Frank Jackson of Seattle, who had contracted to direct a subscription campaign at a salary of SSOO a week and expenses. One-half of this salary was to have been paid weekly and the balance when the entire fund of $250,- 000 was raised. Wobblies Exposed Them. Defending the suit, the memorial association pleaded that it was with out funds, and that all of the cash col lected had been used for expenses. Leaflets giving details of the affair, as revealed in the lawsuit, were then widely circulated by the General De fense Committee of Chicago, being sent to Legion posts and members and to kindred organizations in many parts of the country. It was recount ed that the commemoration project, sponsored by Col. C. B. Blethen, pub lisher of the Seattle Daily Times, had hit the rocks. Plead For Patience. Now, however, the Grays Harbor Post, a weekly published in Aberdeen, 50 miles northwest of the tragedy scene, declares that a hero memorial positively will be unveiled in Cen tralia on Armistice Day, 1924. But instead of costing $260,000 as origin ally planned, the cost will be only $15,000. “A memorial to the men who fell at Centralia before the bullets of mis guided radicals was planned three years ago,” says the Grays Harbor Post. “Funds were collected for the purpose but the amount never reached the desired proportion for the memorial planned. Every dollar that was raised, however, was kept sacred in a fund and has been expended up on a monument designed and sculp tured by Victor Alonzo Lewis, at a cost of $15,000. “This monument will be in the form of a gigantic doughboy, on an eight foot pedestal of granite. On the sides of this pedestal will be the portraits, in bronze, of the men who died in A POPULAR MODEL FOR SCHOOL WEAR. |j* -r jjjpr 4843. Plaid gin,ham with fading, of llnene is here portrayed. This is also a good style for flannel, alpaca, crepe and linen. The sleeve may be in wrist length, or, in short length finished with a cuff. This pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. A 10-year size re quires 3Vi yards of 40-lnch material. For collar facings and cuffs of con trasting material H-yard is required. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE FALL AND WINTER 1924-1926 BOOK OF FASHIONS. Address: The Daily Worksr, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. NOTICE TO PATTERN BUYERS—Th« patterns being sold thru the DAILY WORKER pattern department are fur nished by a New York Arm of pattern manufacturers. Orders are forwarded by the DAILY WORKER every day as re ceived, and they are mailed by the man ufacturer direct to the customer. The DAILY WORKER doss not keep a stock of patterns on hand. Delivery of pat terns ordinarily will take at least 10 day, from the date of mailing the order. Du not become impatient If your pattern in not reoslvsd by return mall. Centralia on Armistice Day five years ago. “The I. W. W. Defense Committee, working to secure the release of the men convicted, have covered the Northwest with leaflets stating that the money raised for the Centralia monument has been dissipated. The answer to this mis-statement will be the unveiling of the statue November 11. The men given the sacred charge of raising the fund for the memorial have kept the faith.” Had the Goods. Immediately upon learning of the Grays Harbor Weekly’s announce ment,. James Morris, secretary of the General Defense'Committee of Chi cago, wrote the editor saying: “If you will investigate carefully, you will find that this committee has never stated anything but the truth concerning the Centralia memorial project. Our information, as pub lished in news service and leaflets, was based on data which is a matter of court record in the lawsuit by A. D. Tasker, to whom Jackson’s claim was assigned. Substantially the same de tails which we disseminated were published in the Centralia Daily Chronicle on May 4, 1924. Copies of the defense committee’s letter were also sent to the editors of the Daily World and the Pythian Record in Aberdeen: the Centralia Chronicle, and the Bee-Nugget and Lewis County Advocate in Chehalis. Not a Popular Cause. This proposed $15,000 monument is the third to be projected by those who contend that the Legionaires killed in Centralia were heroes. As early as September, 1921, it was an nounced in Centralia that a bronze memorial had been sculptured for the American Legion by E. M. Viquesney of Americus, Georgia. The Viquesney design, it was stated, was a figure of a helmeted infantryman charging with a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other. But that statue never turned up in Centralia. Reference was made by the defense committee in the leaflet mentioned to a statement published in the Spokane Daily Chronicle on February 2, 1924, in which Dr. Robert Farley, district commander of the American Legion, Indicated that he would recommend an immediate investigation of the committee’s charges relative to the Centralia case. One charge was that Judge John M. Wilson, who presided at the trial, suppressed a great mass of evidence vital to the defense. Two months and a half have passed since that leaflet was isued, but no word has come from the Spokane dis trict of the American Legion that it has taken any action whatever to get at the facts. And no reply has come to a letter dispatched to Dr. Farley in May. Scab Hotel Queered Diet Expert With Seattle Worker* SEATTLE, August 11. —Because he up at a nonunion hotel the Seattle Central Labor cpuncil refused to listen to a diet adviser who wanted the floor at a regular meeting. An other offense, of the adviser was his recommendation that workers feed oleomargarine to their children. John H. Jepson, business agent Milk Wagon Drivers, local 66, took office as president of the central body Aug. 6. Send In that Subscription Today. Go to eat where all the rest 100% union men and women go Deutche-Hungarian Restaurant 29 South Halsted St. Pure Food, Good Servloe and reaaonable prloea our motto Improve Your Property Damaged Buildings Restored LOANS TO IMPROVK New Floors, Front#, Shelving MID-CITY CARPENTER SHOP JOB 8. Irving Ave. Seeley 1883 PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering gxaert Dental gervlee THE DAILY WORKER JOBS SCARCE, WAGES LOW IN "BOOTBARONY Wisconsin Not Utopia For Workers MADISON, Wis., Aug. ll.—Employ ment in Wisconsin factories fell oft 4 per cent between May and June and the total paid in wages dropped 8.6 per cent, according to the monthly re port of the state industrial commis sion. This means a decrease of 4,8 per cent in average weekly pay which declined to $23.93. The number on payrolls is more than 10 per cent be low last year while the amount dis bursed in wages has fallen 13 per cent. Industries sharply affected by the depression together with the per cent reduction in their working forces since a year ago are brick, tile and cement blocks, 11.5 per cent; pig iron and roll ing mill products, 44.9; foundries and machine shops, 22.6; stoveß, 11.8; ma chinery, 16.6; automobiles, 25.6; box factories, 29.7; furniture, 13; boots and shoes, 35; clothing, 14.1; canning and preserving, 47.7; flour mills, 24.9 per cent. In the course of the month construc tion work picked up. Building work is empolyingf 7.3 per cent more men than a year ago, railroad construction 17 per cent more and marine dredging, sewer digging, etc., 30.7 per cent more. But the number in highway construc tion has fallen 27 per cent. The number of applicants placed by public empolyment offices shows a falling off of 13.6 per cent compared with May and 31.4 per cent compared with June, 1923. Your Union Meeting SECOND TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1924. 144 Amalgamated Clothing Work ers, 1569 N. Robey St. 133 Boot and Shos Workers, 1939 Mil waukee Ave. 21 Bricklayers, 912 W. Mcnroe St. 378 Brick and Clay Workers, Paving Inspectors, 166 W. Washington. Calumet Joint Council, Sl4 W. 117th Street. 58 Carpenters, Diversey and Sheffield. 141 Carpenters, 1023 E. 73th St. 272 Carpenters, Moose Hall, Chicago Heights. 461 Carpenters, Witten's Hall, High land Park, 111. 1786 Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. Clerks, Grocery, 59 W. Van Buren Street. 15 Conductors (Sleeping Car), Capitol Bldg., 10 a. m. 381 Electricians, 505 S. State St. 1030 Electricians, 741 S. Western Ave. 302 Engineers (Loc.), 5058 Wentworth Ave. 402 Engineers, 180 W. Washington St. 645 Engineers (Loc.), 2433 W. Roose velt Road. 826 Engineers (Loc.), 2647 W. 35th St. 1705 Egg Inspectors, 418 N. Clark St. 27 Federal Employes, 64 W. Randolph Street. 15441 Federal Union, 3046 W. 26th St. 715 Firemen and Enginemen, Ogden and Taylor. 20 Hatters (Trimmers), 166 W. Wash ington St. 5 Hod Carriers, 225 E. 15th St., Chi cago Heights, 111. 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 27 Hod Carriers, 62nd and La Vergne Ave. 715 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Harrison St. 81 Ladies’ Garment Workers, 328 W. Van Buren. 12 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 17 Leather Workers, 777 W. Adams St. 84 Machinists, 2548 S. Homan Ave. 915 Machinists, 4126 W. Lake St. 1494 Machinists, 6284 Princeton Ave. 546 Meat Cutters, 175 W. Washington Street. 571 Meat Cutters, 9206 Houston Ave. Marine Fire and Oilers, 357 N. Clark. 10 Musicians, 175 W. Washington St., 17358 Nurses, Funk's Hall, Oak Park. 147 Painters, 20 W. Randolph St. 180 Painters, N. E. cor. California and Madison. 184 Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. 191 Painters, N. W. cor. State and 55th. 275 PAINTER 6, 220 W. OAK ST. 521 Painters, Trumbull and Ogden Ave. 502 Plasterers, Monroe and Peoria Sts. 130 Plumbers, 1507 Ogden Ave. 250 Plumbers, 180 W. Washington St. 402 Plumbers, 4111 W. Madison St. 416 Railway Carmen, Odd Fellows’ Hall, Blue Island, 111., 7:30 p. m. 1170 Railway Carmen, 11037 Michigan Ave. 1257 Railway Carmen, 5324 S. Halsted St. 352 Railway Clerks, 549 W. Washington Street. 739 Railway Clerks, Moose Hall, Chi cago Heights. 906 Railway Clerks, 6438 S. Halsted St. 2219 Railway Clerks, 509 W. Washing ton St. 376 Railroad Trainmen, 3359 W. Madi son Street. Teamsters' Dis. Council, 220 S. Ashland Blvd. 727 Teamsters (Auto), 220 S. Ashland Blvd. 87 Tile Layers, 180 W. Washington St. 7 Walters, 234 W. Randolph St. (Note —Unleus otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) LENINGRAD, Aug. 11.—Professor Bekhteroff, of the Academy of Sil ence, the world-known Russian psy chiatrist, has left for abroad on a scientific mission. UNCLE WIGGILrS TRICKS A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN RICH NEGROES LIKE RICH WHITES (Continued from page 1) will sell his own people into Hell the same as anybody else.” After several others had Bpoken, Mr. Garvey again took the floor, say ing he desired to make a statement. “In my remarks a while ago, 1 he said, “I made certain remarks about the Negro preachers. Someone has asked me to qualify what I said and to specify that I mean some Negro preachers and not all Negro preach ers. Now my views on that subject are very plain and well known; there are some Negro preachers who are liberal. Nevertheless, those who are liberal are very few. I will not con ceal my thots and I say plainly that the Negro preachers need a new con version. I really mean what I said. I repeat that the Negro preachers need to get educated. They are 90 or 99 per cent wrong, and they know it, too. “We have to speak as we feel, and I really mean that. Even Bishop Mc- Guire, too.” However, later Garvey as chairman called a delegate to order for speak ing of the Negro Improvement Asso ciation as being against the preachers. Garvey said to him, “This organiza tion is not against the preachers; please don’t misinterpret the spirit of this convention.” The president-general’s denuncia tion of the capitalist system and the Negro bourgeoisie were brot about by the speeches of several delegates who thot that the solution of the problem of adjusting race differences was to address communications and apepals to upper-class Negroes; Mrs. Lilly Jones of Mississippi earlier in the day spoke of trying to reach the Negro preachers and teach ers of the South, “who are the lead ers of their people,” complaining of the conduct of the preachers and the refusal of different religious sects to co-operate with one another. Delegate Hampden spoke of similar conditions affecting Negro lodges in the South. His remark to the effect that “the only way we can solve the problem of the South is to get in with the well-to-do class of Negroes,” is thot to have been one reason for Gar vey’s warning against the treachery of the Negro capitalist. Complains Rich Negro Sells Out to White. A delegate 76 years of age, born in Mississippi, told of having been threat ened with murder on his travels in Arkansas, and complained of Negroes in favored positions who “sold out to the white people.” A peculiar conception of history which seems to be fundamental to this organization’s plan for a grand migra tion to Africa as the only possible so lution of the Negro’s problem, was shown by a delegate from Ohio, who said: “I know of no case in history where a slave class was liberated within the surroundings in which it was held in slavery.” This sentence epitomizes the domi nant current of thought in the organ ization. Steeped in the preacher's lore thru generations of life in the backward South, the average Negro is better versed in the biblical version of the Exodus from Egypt than he is in the history 9f the Russian revolu tion. The biblical story of the Jews’ escape from slavery in Egypt “back to Palestine" is constantly recurring in the speeches, evidently furninshing the model for the escape “back to Af rica.” Thus the Ohio delegate, truly ob serving that in American capitalist so ciety “the Negro has no rights which the white itian is bound to respect,” concludes that “this country is not his own," and that the Negro must take the Utopian solution of migration to Africa. Thus also he reaches the strange conclusion that he can afford to surrender all of his rights in America to the Ku Klux Klan. Delegate after delegate spoke elo quently this afternoon of treatment they had suffered in the South, of lynchlngs of Negroes for crimes that appeared to have been committed by white men, of disfranchisement or co ercion of voters and the abuse of Ne gro women in the* South, and the southern habit of refusing any legal redress to Negroes who after accumu lating property find their accumula tions aprpopriated by white business men. One delegate who has lived all his life in the South told of having thot he could have a career as a busi ness man; but after accumulating SIO,OOO worth of property everything he had was brazenly taken away him by white business men on the flimsiest form of swindle. He rushed to the law for protection, but was coolly told that the courts couldn’t do anything for him. The Reverend Barber of Abyssinia advocated the Negroes’ remaining in the South for a While, “instead of coming North Where the real estate sharks are waiting for you,” and in vesting their savings in Mr. Garvey’s plan foip a steamship line, until they could go to Africa. “Africa is the greatest cotton-growing country in the world,” said Dr. Barber, who advo cated the establishment there of “a black United States, or a black king dom of Africa.” He was sure that the black and the white races could not realize their hopes in the same country, “because two king bees don’t belong in the same hive; and two kings cannot sit on the same throne.” He said, “since we cannot get what we want in America, let us go to Africa.” He expected to raise cotton in Africa, which he thot could soon find a mar ket in America, because “the boll weevil, the same thing that killed old Pharaoh’s crops,” and the army-worm, are in his opinion going to ruin the South as a cotton-growing country. Two speakers attempted to dispar age the property-less Negro who feels indisposed to take the employment of fered him and thereby arouses the an tagonism of the white community. This aroused an angry protest from the large assembly. Immediately there followed Mr. Garvey’s attack upon capitalism and the capitalistic Negro. Delegate Johnston of Indianapolis followed Garvey’s speech by declaring rather mildly that he thot the matter of adjusting the radical differences in the South “to the satisfaction of all concerned” should be handled "diplo matically and strategically, in the same careful way as the Ku Klux Klan matter was handled.” Johnston asked, “Does the white man of the South persecute the Negro who has pro duced something? No, the Negro Is persecuted to the extent that he is a non-producer.” “I believe,” continued the speaker, “that the southern white man is not hard to handle. I believe that in as much as he has blessed the Negro by compelling Negroes to get together that is in segregating them, that he will do something more for the Negro now. I think it will be possible to ap peal to him and to get assistance from him to get out of this country and get a country of our own. “We can say to him, ‘The Negro has served you long. He has nursed your children. He has made him what they are. The Negro has been a will ing servant to you. Has not the time come when you will help him? Will yon not let him go now, and lend him assistance to get a country of his own?’ The latter remarks were coldly re ceived by the audience, and were fol lowed by Garvey’s reaffirming his caustic remarks as earlier reported. Another speaker pointed out the impossibility of settling the race prob lem “to the satisfaction of all con cerned” when both the Negro and the southern white exploiter were among those concerned. “As long as the Ne gro has a heart, as long as he has' feeling, as long as he is a man.” said this delegate, “he will not be satisfied with the solution which will satisfy the white exploiter. As long as the Negro is the tool of the white man, he is going to feel the oppression of the white man.” He continued: "And if you take all of the Negro workers out of the United States the white man is not going to be satisfied. You need not believe that manual la* bor is going to be displaced by machin ery. Machines cannot do all the cot ton picking and the work of the mem bers of our race in the fields." The speaker was of the opinion that much work would have to be done se cretly in the South, because of the op pressive conditions. Send in that Subscription Today. GOMPERS WAKENS TO LEARN ABOUT WEST VA. MINERS Sends Pretty Protest to Servile Governor (Special to The DAILY WORKER) ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Aug. 11.— More than three years after the min ers of West Virginia rose en masse and marched on Logan County in an attempt to cleanse that obnoxious spot of the gunmen and armed thugs who were preventing unionization of the field, Samuel Gompers and his execu tive council, meeting here, have passed a resolution calling upon Gov ernor Morgan of West Virginia to take immediate steps to prevent “eviction of miners and their families from their humble homes by private gunmen em ployed by coal corporations. 5 Green’s Got Gall. The resolution, curiously enough, was sponsored by none other than William Green, secretary-treasurer of ,the United Mine Workers of America, and an integral part of the Lewis ma chine, which has consistently sabot aged every effort of the West Virginia miners to establish the union securely thruout the industry in that state. It is a notorious fact that Lewis blocked every attempt of the locked-out min ers of West Virginia, who have now been living in shacks and hovels for years because of their brave fight for the union, to circulate the other locals of the International organization in an effort to collect some financial relief for their starvation conditions. The latest stunt pulled by Lewis is his taking over of the entire district and putting it under the personal su pervision of one of his henchmen, Percy Tetlow. Gompers Will Slay Dragon. Gompers’ executive council adds in sult to injury by offering the president of the United Mine Workers of Am erica, John L. Lewis, the full support of the American Federation of Labor in protecting the West Virginia min res. Gompers as the protector of any group of workers who are actually en gaged in a struggle against the bosses in one of the bitter jokes in the Am erican labor movement. Ask Morgan to Fight Morgan. It is also considered typical that the resolution is addressed to Governor Morgan who is infamous for his con stant servility to the interests of the banking house in Wall Street which is headed by the flnacier of the same name, J. P. Morgan, and which con trols the mining properties in West Virginia. HAVE YOU BEEN IN RUSSIA! Why not go there while on your vacation? Buy these books and save the price of a round trip ticket and other traveling txpenses? SPECIAL ROUND TRIP NO. 8 Through the Russian Revolution, by Albert Rhys Williams $2.00 First Time in History, by Anna Louise Strong 2.00 Total $4.00 Special price till Sept. 1, 1924....53.00 SPECIAL ROUND TRIP NO. 6 The Russian Revolution, by W. Z. Foster, cloth SI.OO Industrial Revival in Soviet Russia, by A. A. 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Page Six TMI DIMLY WORKER, Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. (Phone: Monroe 4712) SUBSCRIPTION RATEB By mall: 96.00 par yaar 93.50 ...6 months 32.00 1 month* By mall (In Chicago only): 19.00 par year 94.50....6 months $2.50....3 montUs Address all mall and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1118 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois J. LOUIS ENODAHL 1 irdftn™ WILLIAM F. DUNNE tailors MORITZ J. LOEB Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, 111., under the act of Murch 3, 1879. 290 Advertising rates on application. Morgan Gains a Point When Premier Herriot of France succeeded in obtaining the approval for the French interpreta tion of the Dawes plan, and returned to London to continue negotiations, it meant that J. P. Morgan had scored another point in his drive for world hegemony. One after another, the centers of re sistance to the Morgan plan have been converted into centers of co-operation, at least insofar as public pronouncements are concerned. Morgan is marching ahead triumphantly. The argument of the American dollar carries great weight. It is no surprise that Morgan has been able to count from the first upon the British Labor Party, the French liloc des Gauches, and the German Social Democracy, as his very ablest assistants. That MacDonald would become his chief lieutenant was in the order of things political. That the French socialists should join hands with Ebert and Scheidemann in approving the Dawes method of enslaving the German workers was quite the expected thing. It was only the logical continua tion of their spineless servility before power, real power in the hands of capitalist money lords, and their eagerness to lick the boots of the ruler of the money world. More unexpected was the yielding of the jealous nationalism of the French, and the abandonment of resistance by the German nationalists. This is to be accounted for from two main angles —fear of their own proletariat, and promises from Mor gan. In both France and Germany the Communists have been making phenomenal gains. The capi talist and social-patriotic parties are sick with fear of the awakening working class. Another great struggle at this moment would hasten the revolu tionization of the workers. Therefore they have a distinct reason to find a compromise if one is humanly possible. The Dawes plan, furthermore, cleverly assures the co-operation of the German capitalist class by promising to load the reparation burdens upon the workers. It gives them a free hand to lengthen hours, denationalize industry, and plunder the German nation. The German nationalists sell out their nation in return for a junior partnership in the firm of Morgan. But all the while that Morgan presses his ad vantages, and consolidates his position, he is un consciously accentuating the inherent contradic tions of the capitalist system. He is heaping more combustibles upon the European wreckage in preparation for the great conflagration that ap proaches swiftly and surely. The Dawes plan averts a struggle at this moment by making a greater and more disastrous one even more certain in the near future. Nothing can prevent the destruction of Europe today except a proletarian revolution. International Unity Unity of the trade union movement of the world is a burning issue today. Four years ago the leaders, of the reformist and reactionary unions, supporting one another in treachery in their as sociation called the Amsterdam International, were cynically dividing the labor movement of the world and delivering it to the employers nnd imperial ists. But the Red International of Labor Unions was launched, in 1921, with a program of revolu tionary class struggle and the united front. United struggle against capitalism, the slogan of the Red International since its inception, has taken a great hold upon the masses of workers everywhere. It was the Red International which pushed thru the Frankfort conference for fighting against the Ruhr invasion, while all the reformist officials kept silent. It was the Red International behind the united front with the Transport Work ers International for struggle against war and fascism that inspired the world’s workers until it was sabotaged by the Amsterdam International. And finally, it was this slogan of the united front that brought about the formation of a left wing at the recent Vienna Congress of the Amster damers, and forced them to make a gesture toward international unity by entering into negotiations with the Russian trade unions. The Russian trade unions placed the situation before the Red International Congress, just closed in Moscow, and that body decided to again take the initiative? in striving for international unity of the trade unions of the world. The resolution adopted calls for a world congress of ALL UNIONS, delegated on the basis of proportiouul> representation, which should re-establish a living unity in the labor movement disrupted by the treachery of the old leadership and unite the unions for world-wide struggle against capitalism. Again a clear lend has been given to the working class by the Red International. That Industrial Registration Perhaps there are still a few members of the Workers Party who do not understand the im portance of the industrial registration now being taken. If so, they should read the article in yes terday’s paper by J. W. Johnstone, which rightly characterizes the registration as “a step towards a real Communist Party.” It is just that, and must receive the careful attention and execution that such a step demands. A Communist Party is something more than a mere electioneering machinery, and it is also something more than a propaganda agency. It is the supreme organ of the class struggle. It is fighting for the elimination of capitalistic ideas from the minds of the workers, it is fighting for the establishment of a proletarian method of think ing and working class ideas of how to act. It is struggling with the capitalist system for possession of the minds of the working class. It is trying to establish working class ideas as the leading force in every struggle of the workers. This requires that the party shall mobilize its forces where the struggles of the workers are going on. This is primarily in the shops and factories. But the party strength cannot be organized in the shops and factories, and in the unions, unless there is a complete registration of the members upon that basis. The party must know where each member works, what union he belongs to, ami how best he can be utilized in the larger scheme of things. That is what the industrial registra tion is for. It is, indeed, a “first step towards a real Communist Party.” Let every branch member and officer make it his business that this registra tion is carried out promptly and efficiently. I Getting One*s Money*s Worth “I want to get my money’s worth,” a working man was heard to say as he bought a capitalist daily paper. “The DAILY WORKER only gives 6 pages for 3 cents, while the World’s Greatest Bunkshooter gives 30 pages for 2 cents.” Os course, one wants his money’s worth. Pennies are scarce and must buy as much as possible. But this poor worker was a little off his nut when he thought he was getting it. What he was buying was 30 pages of capitalist propaganda and ad vertising, while what he wanted was reliable in formation. The more pages he got the worse he was cheated. On the other hand, comparing news item for news item, he would have found more news in the working class paper, in 6 pages, than in the 30 pages of intellectual poison which he bought. With out considering the quality of the information given, which is of the most vital interest to an awakened worker, he would actually get more news from the poverty-stricken workers’ paper. When a man has 50 cents to buy a dinner, he doesn’t invest it in fertilizer just because he can purchase 100 pounds of manure for the price of a plate of ham and eggs. But when he buys a capi talist paper instead of The DAILY WORKER, be cause “he wants to get his money’s worth,” he is doing that very thing. The DAILY WORKER is intellectual food for the working class, while the capitalist dailies are intellectual dung, prepared to poison the workers and make them better slaves. Killing the Steel Workers The story of the killing of several workers by an explosion in the steel mills of Gary, carried in the DAILY WORKER yesterday and ignored by all the capitalist papers, reveals a terrible condition in this domain of the Steel King. Workers' lives are considered of such little consequence that knowl edge of deaths is suppressed, no records are kept, even the coroner makes no pretence of knowing how many men are killed, while his secretary re marks that, of course, many bodies are never even recovered. Enter offices of the Steel Trust, however, and you will find that even the pencils used by the clerks are carefully recorded, and signed requisi tion is required to get a new one. But the life of workers is cheap. They are of less account than pencils, which cost a few cents to be replaced, while workers replace themselves free of charge. AR of which is carefully kept secret from the working class generally by the capitalist press and the tools of the Steel Trust that occupy the govern mental positions. Only because the workers now have a daily paper of their own do those outside the steel mills begin to get an inkling into the ter rible conditions under which the steel workers must labor. The fellow who is constantly asking you for in formation about the labor movement, may not l»e a subscriber to the DAILY WORKER. The next time he asks you what is doing hit him for a sub. If he is a prospect you will get ji subscription. If he is only a suspect, he will stop asking you ques tions for his amusement. The Workers Party propaganda is given credit for the rebellious condition among the exploited Filipinos, by the government officials. Os course, the honor is appreciated, tho candor must compel us to share the laurels with the American imperial ists who have produced the causes of discontent. ft If the enemy appreciates the power of the Com munist press it looks like a good reason for our members to get behind the DAILY WORKER and make the subscription drive produce so many new readers that the enemy will have better reason to worry. f A new member for the Workers Party and a new subscriber to The DAILY WORKER. i THE DAILY WORKER Clothing Workers at Crossroads By J. W. JOHNSTONE. Assistant Secretary, Trade Union Educational League. The amalgamated clothing WORKERS' UNION is being put to the test. It is passing thru its most critical period. Its actions in the coming months will determine, to a large degree, whether or not it is going to mature into a real fighting expression of the workers or sink into the camp of the class collabora tors. That they are playing on the border of the class struggle and class collaboration is self evident, and the. next convention will undoubtedly force the officialdom to abandon their middle of the road policy with its heavy leaning to the right, and either travel the road of the class struggle or sink into the mire of class collabo ration. The A. C. W. U. is a young organiza tion, a “war baby.” Like all new or ganizations, it gained its strength thru its fighting ability to look after the interests and better the conditions of the workers it represented. It ex pressed its youth in the bold, deter mined manner in which it met the problems confronting ff. It estab lished itself firmly in the industry be cause the United Garment Workers considered the life of a labor organ ization depended upon the good-will and co-operation of the employers. Os late the A. C. W. U. administra tion has shown signs of weakness, of hesitation, of shirking the fight, when determination and a clear policy was needed. In New York City they sub mitted peacefully to wage cuts and the reduction of workers in certain factor ies. The employers, their appetites whetted, systematically took away, without a struggle, some ol the condi tions gained by the union in former battles. The yielding to wage cuts without a determined fight is always the fore runner of another wage reduction. This is the experience of labor organ- RHL.U. ELECTS EXECUTIVE AT ITS CLOSINGSESSIONS Epoch-Making Congres Comes to Close (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, July 24 (By mail).—Wm. F. Dunne, editor of the DAILY WORKER, and Wm. Z. Foster, chair man of the Workers Party of America and its presidential candidate, were unanimously elected the representa tives of the United States on the full bureau of the Red International of Labor Unions in its closing session here. Earl Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, and Charles Johnson, were chosen as alternates. The rest of the bureau is as fol lows: from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Dogadow, Kalnin, Lepse, Lesovsky, Melnitschansky; Germany, Heckert and Geschke; from France, Monmousshau and Jacob; from England, Tom Mann and Alli son; Checko-Slovakia, Josef Heiss and Seipka; Canada, Timothy Buck; the Latin American republics, Pene lon; Poland, Resene; Spain, Andres Nin; Italy, Germanetto; the Balkan countries, Lasitsch and Dimitrow; the Scandinavian countries; Lumivuoko; Java, Semaoen; and Japan is repre sented by Tany. Arnold Losovsky, general secretary of the Proflntern since its inception, was unanimously re-elected. In his closing speech, Losovsky de clared that the congress had not only drawn the balance sheet but had also indicated the line of tactics to be fol lowed. The Proflntern again leads the drive for unity of the international trade union movement. In the ques tion of the trades unions it conforms with the Comintern. Before the con gress the question was mooted as to whether the old policies would con tinue to be followed or a new way hammered out. The congress unmis takably declared itself for the old road towards unity. What is new, is that the question of unity is now not only national but also interna tional. The Russian trade unions have yesterday received a letter from the Amsterdam International, which contained the invitation for pour parlers decided upon in the resolu tions of the Vienna congress. The Russian trades unions will reply to this in the spirit of the resolution of the Proflntern. The Russian trades unions are n part of the Proflntern and will always maintain its policies. We must mobilize the masses for unity, or else the decisions of the congress are illusory. It is a distinct gain to the congress that it considered and settled the question of strike strategy. The Vi enna congress of the Amsterdammers did not have before it any questions of tho struggle for that would be con trary to tho ways of reformism. We have taken the initiative and we shall win the masses. Revolutionary de velopment moves forward. The ex istence of Soviet Russia and the Communist International, und the awakening of the Orient ure revolu tionary factors. Our task is to weigh correctly our forces and strength and to defeat reformism and cupitulism. With the singing of the tionale" the session closed. V izations without exception. The greediness of the employer forces him to reason that if the workers accept a cut without a determined protest they must be very well fixed and can af ford to stand another reduction. This vicious circle continuing until the workers ’are actually forced to strike. The New York strike was an out come of this vicious circle in which the A. C. W. U. found itself. The lead ers awoke to the danger of the situa tion and, to a certain extent, rose to the occasion much quicker than the average run of labor leaders would. The mistake was a mistake of the ad ministration, and the realization of the danger was primarily due to the alert ness of the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. which continued to point out that the power of the Amalgamated was being destroyed in the New York market. The strike was a purely defensive one: The extent of the victory gained will be determined by the policies pur sued by the union in the future. The settlement of the strike, altho it did not gain back what-had been lost, re established the confidence of the mem bership in the union, which had been badly demoralized thru the peaceful mediation policy. It stopped the wage cuts, unified the militants, and laid the basis of a return to power of the Amalgamated in the New York mar ket. It can only be considered a real victory' providing the administration follows it to its logical conclusion. However, New York does not deter mine the standards for men’s clothing. Chicago is just as important as New York; and Philadelphia, _ Rochester, Buffalo and Baltimore all play an equally important part in the market and ai;e going thru the same process as New York. Philadelphia realizes the danger of the situation, —the systematic under mining of the strength of the union by the employers having the conditions intolerable. In the best attended membership meeting ever held in Phil PARTY ACTIVITIES IN CHICAGO Twenty-three new members were admitted into the Party at its last City Central meeting, August sth, eight joining Italian branches, seven English, two Jewish branch, two Ukrainian, two Greek and one each Lithuanian and Scandinavian. Unionists joining were from Typo graphical union, Amalgamated Food Workers Laundry workers, Post office employees, Leather workers, and machinists. ANTI-MILITARIST WEEK. Over 60,000 Anti-Militarists leaflets were distributed in Chicago during the week of July 27 —August 4th. Street meetings in all parts of the city were held on Anti-Militarism. In addition to the anti-militarist mass meeting held in Wicker Park Hall, the Lettish, Lithuanian, Roumanian, Greek, German and Finnish sections of the Workers Party here held spe cial anti-military affairs in their par ticular languages. PARTY CLASSES. Comrade Arne Swabeck’s Trade Union Class has been postponed for one month. The speakers class under the direction of J. P. Cannon is going very well and excellent results are ex pected. A special local research bul letin Is being issued weekly by the Educational Department. This Re search Bulletin is of excellent use to street speakers and also for lectures in the various branches. A class in English will be started shortly. Comrade Thelma Kahn from the Junior Section of the Y. W. L. address ed the City Central Committee on the Junior section work, a collection of $7.00 and a donation of SIO.OO in addi tion to the $25.00 previously made, was made by the city organization to help the Junior C. C. C. carry on its work among the working class children of Chicago. INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY. Meetings of the various Amalgama ted Clothing workers T. U. E. L. groups are now very well attended, Several big issues such as the read justment in industry and the endorse ment of La Follette or Workers Party candidates are being taken up in the locals and our comrades are on the job. Comrades in the I. L. G. W. U. are preparing ground for revival of activi ties. The coming wage agreement for Chicago and the question of disfranch isement of militants in the union are the fighting issues. The Metal Trades Group of the T. U. E. L. is holding regularly monthly meetings. They have drawn up prac tical plans for work in the various trades and are now starting a drive to secure subscriptions for THE METAL TRADES BULLETIN. The Building Trades Group of the T. U. E. L. is slow in picking up, only about a dozen comrades participate in the work of the group and not many of our comrades give support to the left wing Bulletin. The latter is uncalled for since the Building Trades comrades are re ceiving relatively high wages. The activities of the militants in the Printing Trades situation is being discussed by tho T. U. E. L. Comrade Foster has gone to New York to take up the situation there; upon his return to Chicago a more detailed report will be given. The Workers Party, T. U. E. L. and tyoung Workers League have been especially active in the Hegewisch strike in getting our organisation on adelphia, the membership unanimously adopted a resolution demanding the settlement of grievances, the correct ing of unsatisfactory working condi tions, the immediate stoppage of wage cuts, that work be sent to union shops only, the establishment of a board of sanitary control, minimum wage scales, regulation of production, and a system of unemployed insurance. Upon the basis of this resolution they have voted full power to their officers to call a strike if necessary to en force these demands. In Chicago, however, the Amalga mated officialdom is allowing the union to travel the vicious circle of wage reductions without a struggle. The situation is extremely dangerous, not merely because of the wage cut which is taking place piecemeal under the guise of readjustment, but be cause of the manner in which the membership was fooled into acepting the readjustment plan. (This was ex plained in a statement issued by the Needle Trades Section of the T. U. E. L. in the DAILY WORKER of August sth.) “No wage reduction” should be the slogan of every union, and it should always be fought. No union worthy of the name will submit to a wage re duction without a struggle. Many times in spite of heroic protests the workers are forced to accept a cut in wages. To accept without protest, if continued, means the death of any union. It is slow suicide and should be categorically condemned. But, to accept a wage cut and then fool the membership into accepting the agreement on the basis that it is merely a “readjustment” is the worst type of class collaboration. It can only result in dembralizing the rank and file and creating a distrust in the leaders. What effect is this having upon the Chicago members of the A. C. W. U.? According to the statement of the Secretary of the Needle Trades Sec tion of the T. U. E. L., some 5,000 the job on the problem of organizing the unorganized. Thru our efforts the Carmen’s Union became interested in the strike. Attempt is now being made to spread the strike thruout the Calu met Region. We have sent many active Party comrades to the strike area at various times to aid as much as pos sible in the strike and it has helped in maintaining the solidarity of the strikers. We have had THE DAILY WORKER regularly on the job and the Party’s and League's prestige is being increased thereby among the strikers. A Young Workers League branch has already been reorganized from among the strikers of young American heater boys. The South Slav branch of Hegewisch has been doing its share and undoubtedly it will gain members thru this. The Polish comrades have also been on the job. It has been one of the best means of stimulating acti vity among them. This is the kind of activity that the Workers Party must engage in for it is the strongest builder of our Party. The Party is putting full energies into it. ELECTION CAMPAIGNS. All particulars about the Elections Campaign into which the Local Party is putting most of its energies at the present time were printed elsewhere in THE DAILY WORKER. The Party is doing good work in Chicago in the various fields but there has not been sufficient done by any means in regard to THE DAILY WORKER. Failure to put over THE DAILY WORKER and membership campaign strongly hinders our work in every respect. Our Party work is progressing well but there can be no doubt that if the branches will make far greater efforts to put THE DAILY WORKER over that their work politically, indus trially, etc., will be increased mani fold. We are out to see that every mem ber of the Party gets a subscriber to Order Your Bundle of First Campaign Issue IUIAKE Monday, Sept. 1, a real “Labor Day” for the American Communist movement, by distributing a bundle of the First 1924 Campaign Issue of the DAILY WORKER. It should be a labor of joy to help awaken a~few more workers thru getting them to read this special issue of their fighting paper. Here is the order blank. Rush in your order today. FOR THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. For the enolosed 9 send me copies of the First Special Communist Campaign edition of the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Saturday, Aug. 30, at the special rate of 3'/ 2 cents per copy, or $3.50 per hundred. I want to help raise the standards of Communism in this campaign for the Workers Party ticket—Foster and Gitlow. NAME ADDREBS CITY I STATE

Tuesday, August 12, 1924 have already received a direct cut. Since this statement was issued, other employers have applied for a read justment, which means that those who have not been directly cut are ex pecting, with a certainty that they are next. Dissatisfaction is rampart, the morale is lowered, and the strength of the union materially weakened. The officials have not as yet awak ened to the danger of the situation which is being so forcibly pointed out by the militants in the Trade Union Eeducational League. The member ship feels the danger, the militants see it very clearly, but at this writing the administration is still blindly fol lowing the path of class collabora tion, the vicious circle that leads to disaster. The Amalgamated Clothing Work ers Union is at the 'turning of the road. The membership is militant. There is a real substantial left-wing revolutionary minority. The organiza tion has played a leading part in the progressive movement and can be come a valuable asset to the revolu tionary struggle. The leaders find themselves in the poisonous atmos phere of LaFolletteism, rubbing shoul ders with the most ruthless exploit ers of labor, such as Spreckles, the sugar king, and leader in the “open shop” movement in the west, with bankers, business men, and rich farm ers; with those who openly advocate class collaboration, such as Gompers, Johnston, Berry, and others. Is this to be a permanent alignment? Or, are Hillman and his colleagues big enough to see their mistake (Is it a mistake, or is it a move made after considering all angles?) and get on to the correct, hard, and unpopular road of the class struggle? Only time and a-- thoroly awakened membership can tell. Now more than ever is there need of a real revolutionary left wingj History is in the making. What shall it be? The revolutionary class struggle or reactionary class collabo ration? THE DAILY WORKER and gets a new member into the Party. FORWARD TO THE COMMUNIST CAMPAIGN, ON TO ACTION. Next City Central Meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 1924, 8 P. M. at Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. MARTIN ABERN, Sec’y. BRANCH MEETINGS. Tuesday, August 12. Irving Park Knglish—4o2l Drake Ave. Northwest English—2732 Hirsch Blvd. Polish, Iloseland—2os E. 115th St. Ukrainian No. 1—1532 W. Chicago Ave. Wednesday, August 13. Roumanian Branch—22a4 Clybourn Ave. Thursday, August 14. Lithuanian No. 2—1900 S. Union Ave. Cz.-Slov., Ncyth Berwyn—Sokol Oak Park, Roosevelt and Union Ave. 11th Ward Italian—2439 S. Oakley Blvd. Scandinavian, Lake View—32o6 N. Wilton St. Scandinavian, West Side—Zeich’s Hall, cor. Cicero and Superior Sts. Scandinavian Karl Marx—2733 Hirsch Blvd. Friday, August 15. Scandinavian, So. Chicago—64l East 61st St. Speakers' Class—l9o2 W. Division St. Lettish Branch —4359 Thomas St. Czecho-Slovak, Hanson Pk.—Bohemian Freethlnk School Rovnost, Mansfield Ave. near Grand. Veteran Minus Leg Plus Needle Habit: Uncle Sam Drops Him SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.—Seven years ago, when the United States called for men to make the world safe for democracy, James Buero respond ed. Ho was a hale and husky youth. A shell took his left leg off at Belleau Wood, and in the months in hospitals afterwards he was given morphine to relieve the pain until at his discharge he was a fully developed dope addict. No attempt was made to cure him. Now Buero, with his crutches, la in the San Francisco jail for 90 days, going thru that dreadful ordeal known as the kick-out cure for the dope habit. This means simply suffering the tortures of hell without drugs, and then being thrown out “cured,” with $65 a month, from the government and one leg. Buero is a typical example of what happened to hundreds of boys who went to the war to’ end war—and for whom there is no place except a county jail or an open gas jet in lodging house.