Page Two THE DAILY WORKER FORMER SM Chicago Labor Hits Syndicalist Laws BREAD PRICE UP, Berger’s Socialists Are HD KLUXERS (Continued from page 1) several delegates were on their fee EIGHT SWITCHMEN HURT FARMS ASK AID, PIGEON lii POSE at once demanding the floor. The Worse Off Than the Bat THREATEN MORE chair recognized Delegate Schussler IN COLLISION DUE TO SILENT who delivered a telling speech tha CALI was listened to with close attention. OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT Aesop OF“TIRED RED” Schussler declared that the resolu Gamblers’ Millions Paid Wrote About HERRINDEATHS was vital importance the tlon one of to Eight switchmen were Injured, by entire labor movement and not the for Workers two seriously, in accident at the ( only. He felt that the an Returns and Resumes Communists switching yard at Clearing, The price of bread went up in Chi- By J. LOUIS ENCDAHL Disarm 500 Klansmen/ capitalists were not going to coniine eaueed by the obsolete method used by the cago yesterday from one to three penalties of this law to the Com His Dirty Work the railroads in handling the freight cents a loaf. Flour continues to in- Sheriff Tells Small munists but that they were designed cars. crease in price, and bread Is expected TODAY, Victor L. Berger, the lone socialist congressman in the trade union movement also. By M. A. SKROMNY. for The freight which are backed to go still higher as the result ol Washington, (Special to The Daily Worker) He appealed to the delegates not to al cars gets his picture in the papers. Not that he up side of a hill are sent down speculation in the wheat market HERRIN, 111., Fob. The Chicago Herald-Exam- low their prejudices or their political one has wounded capitalism, any attack made upon it. I.—Sheriff the other tide by gravity. The which has boosted May wheat to $2.00 by George of differences to cloud their better Judg- ao- Galligan Williamson iner is out to beat the “scoop” oldent freight, per bushel on the Chicago board of Berger is not given this attention because of any fear he ment occurred when a county is in Springfield today, of the Chicago Daily News in speeding down the hill, collided trade. has aroused in the ranks of the class enemy of labor. His pic- personally putting before Gov- Against Any Recantation. running wild stories about Bol- with a motor speeder which was The workers are paying for the mil- ernor Len Small request reaped by ture Is not published as that of a capitalist foe. He is only his The central body he pointed out had climbing to the top of the hill. The lions of dollars in profits that the 500 klansmen In Herrin sheviks. previously gone on record against switchmen, gamblers In wheat As soon as the being rewarded by the kept press for tickling its humorous who were riding the who are armed to the teeth and Yesterday’s edition carried a criminal syndicalism laws, and against cars to put the brakes when the smaller bakeries run out of their old side, a speech on in that he made trying to tantalize the LaFol- ready to cause full-page the Michigan law in particular, and it the stocks of flour, they are advancing the more bloodshed, story of a stool-pigeon train neared foot of the hill, lette “progressives” in the house of representatives in con- be immediately disarmed. would look rather strange for us tc were hurled from the care by the price of bread. who is heralded as a “U. S. Sol- gress for professing themselves “good republicans.” Galligan has appealed to Small that repudiate our former position. Would collision. While the wheat gamblers were * * * * dier and University martial law be declared, stating Graduate” this mean that we had recanted in making millions of dollars at the ex that Herrin will be torn with strife until who went to Russia as a con- our opposition to the criminal syndl pense of the workers thru specula- But the funniest slant at Berger’s utterance is that it can oposed syndicalist the klan is made to disarm. vinced Communist but came calist laws, he asked. to the criminal tion, the farmers, who were forced to be used against Berger himself batter than it fits the bed-fel- took the Small Helps Klan. back entirely disgusted with the Schussler pointed out that the Struc- laws, and yet his committee sell their wheat crop below the cost lows of the socialists in the recent presidential campaign. cowardly position hiding behind a Gove mo.' Gmail has frequently been Soviets. tural Iron Workers in New York con of of production, were waiting to set Representative Frear, “republicans” one of the LaFoliette asked for troops by Williamson coun- Ha* Stoolplgeon Record. syndicalist sup “receive and file” recommendation what farm legislation would be a demned the laws and relief from Wisconsin, who j'oined the badger senator in the little ty’s sheriff, and has invariably shown ported resolution Bimilar the rather than for or against. passed by congress. As a matter of fact this “gent” was a to one badger game of fooling the petty bourgeois into believing reluctance to supply them. Small re- acting as a stoolplgeon In the United proposed here today. The federation Must Be S. L. P. Etc. Coolldge Refuses Farm Aid. they were going to have a nice middle class third party, made lied on klan support during his Nov- establishing danger- hearing begin today States as far back as the mlddls of would be a very Then a delegate, who must be eithe! Public will in his speech the right the ember election campaign, and is sa- the summer ous precedent If it accepted the recom a labor the senate and house agricultural defending of LaFoliette “progres- of 1919. member of the socialist party sives” to play on the private preserves of botaging the efforts of Galligan to At that time the Communist move- mendatlon of the resolutions commit or a reader of that party’s official or committees. The consideration of the the republicans. He bring peace in Herrin. argued for the right of the LaFoliette ment in the United States was in two tee. gan, delivered an attack on th( recommendations of President Cool following to remain in “There are 600 armed klansmen in groups—the Communist Party and the Delegate John C. Flora, a reaction DAILY WORKER for its statement oi ldge's agricultural oemmmision is now the republican party, when these same LaFoliette politicians Herrin,” said Galligan yesterday. “The Communist Labor Party. The stool- ary, but a cautious, "sociailist" pol he death of Sam Gompers. He favor before these committees. are supposed to meet in Chicago this month to form a “new police and my forces are powerless. I pigeon, Morris Oordin, was active tician, then moved as an amendment :d informing the Michigan supremt The recommendations were vague party,” so they said. In reply to Frear, Berger came to bat want 100 soldiers sent here to disarm about the party headquarters on Blue that the C. F. of L. reaffirm its prev court that it made a mistake in up and indefinite, and even these recom- with a bat story as follows: every klansman in Herrin. Then, may- Island avenue. ious attitude on the syndicalist laws holding Ruthenberg’s conviction, be- mendations, it is known, do not have be, between the police and men, * my When Ludwig C. K. Martens, rep- He made it quite clear that he war cause it would give Ruthenberg an op Coolldge’s support, as he has repeat “Aesop tell* a fable of the bat, who In a war between the quadrupeds We can take care of them.” resentative of the Soviet government doing this as a matter of political portunity to pose as a martyr. His edly declared It In violation of hi; and the birds, posed as a quadruped or a* a bird, according to which aide Klan Lawlessness. in this country, proposed to a group strategy, fearing that the rank am speech was almost word for word ac campaign pledges that he will oppose was victorious. But the bat waa found out and shunned by both tides “I regret to state that some citi- of Chicago comrades to organize a Ale would bombard the federation witl editorial that appeared recently in the any farme relief legislation. ever after. zens seem to think that the prohibi- Society of Technical Aid to Bovtet resolutions they repudited theii Weekly Cal’e Dope Is Good. tion law is the law to be enforced, if People on the same question. “My colleague from Wisconsin, Mr. Frear, reminds me of that fable Russia, a meeting was called for that position. reactionary, Members of the and some have violated other laws former This also felt that the ted house and senate and of that bat. Mr. Frear posed as a great LhFollette laet in purpose. declare man sum- their zeal to enforce the prohibition "We cannot afTord to let the Com eratlon would be In n bad position by that the “recommendation ol mer, when the more or less socialistic LaFoliette campaign Queer monkeys Coolidge’t loomed up law.” Behavior at Meetings. munists make out of us a: repudiating its former policy. Hr commission fall short ol big the political horizon. on In reply to Galllgan’s plea for A representative of the Soviet they have done before," said Dele hated the Communists so thoroly proposing necessary farm relief.’ mar- Jones, “And loi Mr. Frear has humbly kissed the flag—no, the law, again bureau gave a report on tho economic gate Flora. He was opposed to syndi however that he would vote “no” on |Rep. of Texas, declared that the kissed ele- tial Small showed his re- report phant’* tail—and begged for permission to crawl Into up situation In Russia and urged the calist laws in general but It appears the amendment against his better is, "one of hazy generalities." the hoto and pull luctance to clean klan lawlessness or- the hole in after him. in Herrin by stating he ganization of a society for technical that he is as much opposed to the judgment Senator Norris, chairman of the sen would not “Any who to be declare martial law “unless aid. Gordin, who was present, de- Communists as the department of Jus They Closed Debate. ate committee on agriculture, saic’ man claims a progressive, who claims to stand for re- absolute- form, ought ly necessary.” manded the floor. He was granted tice and for the same reasons. that tha report “does not go far enough to be willing to pay the price. If not. then he It a weakling. A lively discussion appeared to be John Smith, garage the floor and at once launched A delegate from Painters’ Local No in its recommendations.” Several bills Especially, In this oase, the price these gentlemen are asked to pay is owner, has been ltno an inevitable but these was too much talk so Insignificant made head of the klan to replace attack against Comrade Martens. 637, said that the attack on the Com have been introduced providing for as to be almost ridiculous—the loss of position on com- the of Communism and the inevitable dele mittees. republicans slain gunman, Gleen Young. Smith "Why does Martens appoint spies to munists was but a prelude to an at various forms of farm relief, but Cool The have a right to control their own organiza- gate moved the previous question tion*.” immediately tried to start organize this society?" he cried. An- tack on the entire labor movement ldge will oppose all these bills. further Enough reactionaries rose to be *OOO trouble by threatening to of other member of the Jewish Douglas He also asked Fitzpatrick to state thi kill Chief counted for this motion. Only the Police Matt Walker. Walker, a former Park branch, who was since expelled previous attitude of the federal gov But where does that let Berger off? Berger quit Communist delegates and the genuine the revo- klansman, who became disgusted at from the party, supported this attack. ernment towards the syndicalist laws lutionary progressives voting against. The vote struggle for socialism when he decided to remain the klan’s crimes, discharged one of The chairman stopped them. They Fitzpatrick seized this opportunltj POSTAL WORKERS' with the Second (socialist) International was approximately 80 to close debate and fight the Com- his constables, Harold Crain, for beat- started a discussion, but the great to deliver a against brief tirade the and 29 for further discussion. munist International and the Russian revolution. Like the ing people up who were peaceably majority of those present Communists, referring to them The became so as so-called progressives of the defunc bat, Berger a part of the Second (socialist) International had walking the streets. Crain was the indignant that they drove the in- "soldiers of fortune” and “adventur RILL LOST IN farmer-labor party remained sitting the only klansman on the police force, truders oft the stage. Later ers." He said the merely worn cloak of socialist principles, casting it aside on the that federation wai The put and he was using his to beat society was organized. amendment was then to vote in the hour of the open struggle with capitalism. offloe ug and carried and terrorize miners who were against After the meeting was over some overwhelmingly. ROOSEREDTAPE instead Berger, with the Amerioan socialists, counterparts manager of the offlclal . the klan. Russian workers who had been drafted World Dawes Plan The business of organ of the Chicago Federation WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. the social-democrats in all lands, puts on the cloak of capi- Smith Threatens to Shoot. into the army, came over to the chair- o I.—With to Chain All Europe Labor, reported paper only 23 days remaining the talist reforms, and runs with the middle class following of Smith took the side of the discharg- man of the meeting and, pointing that his wa* the before out best weekly present congress is adjourned, LaFoliette, in the vain hope it will break with the two Wall d policeman, and threatened to shoot Gordin, claimed that he was stool- to Wall Street Rule in the United States an< likeli- a proved point by hood that the postal Street parties. Walker. Walker swore out a warrant pigeon, and that while they his pointing to hlr workers will re- Now LaFoliette Is going to cheat the social- were in ceive salary Increases .gainst Smith for disturbing the the army Camp Grant, ques- (Continued from page 1) statement. This small weekly costs faded. The ists out of even the liberal third party, not to mention a fake at Gordin Moses bill, peace. tioned they debt, including the almost $4,000 a month to run it, de- Increasing the pay of pos- labor party. Berger is surely them when refused to Franco-American tal employes the one who is shunned on the Smith was one of the leaders in the serve they debt” spite the fact that It gets most of its but also Increasing the one hand by because were Russian postal working class revolutionists and on the other by attack on Galligan and his deputy Outlining what being news from the A. F. of L. press rates, what passed the senate citizens. The who at is done, Booth serv- liberal • sheriffs chairman was - reformers last ice free charge. has met opposition In the house. who find it comfortable to remain In the August, in which seven that time a member of the "C. L. P." said: of republican and democratic men The ways and means committee of parties. were killed. Witnesses who were at once started an investigation. Owen D. Young Again at It. Rival Grafters. * * * • the house has challenged the author- uncovered by the DAILY WORKER Gordin claimed that he was acting “Owen Young, of New York, Henry It was also stated that reporter covering some other ity of the senate to enact legislation Frear and the rest of th* LaFoliette have this the shooting, testi- only as a translator. The whole thing M. Robinson of Los Angeles, and most fake labor sheet was competing with following fied at the coroner’s inquest increasing postal rates. The com- compensation. They at least have hole to that they was dismissed as "a factional sqnab- of the other Dawes’ experts, including the federation paper graft a crawl into, as had seen Smith standing for from mittee adopted a resolution to that over on* of ble." The members of the “C. L. P.” Pirelli, of Italy, Josiah Stamp of Great business men, holding up Berger admits. “Nick” Longworth, son-in-law of the late the slain deputies them for ad effect, and decided to pigeon-hole the with a smoking were not satisfied and kept aloof from Britain and the French experts, are vertiging Roosevelt, who controls the house of representatives, shotgun in his and contributions for a senate bill when it reaches the house says hand. Smith was In- Gordin. co-operating with the chamber in tomb Gompers. the LaFoliette outfit come dicted has for Sam The dele today. The house postal can back into Wall Street’s G. O. P. but never been brought to Figured Reide. drawing up the preliminary plan. This gates committee trial. 115 did not take any action against will be asked to bring any time they pledge themselves to behave. Which they are In January, 1921, draft provides a method of settlement the out a similar Klan Mob it the time of the unnamed competitors, thinking bill independent of passed no doubt, prepared to do as “good republicans.” Attacks. Palmer for the International debtß. that by the Speaking raids, Gordin was also arrested perhaps that if a tomb is going to be senate. Berger, on the other hand, hasn’t even a hole of the attack on him by but "At a meeting of the directors of to crawl Into. Smith, said, at the Cook county Jail party mem- built for Sam, the business men and Thus to Increase the Walker “It would have the chamber Friday, the draft will be bill pay of the He is isolated completely; gaining attention only when he been bers were warned to keep away from not the workers should defray the postal workers which was suicide for me to draw a gun. I him Almost all gone over and then referred to the devoted last plays the clown and makes funny speeches In congress to surrounded by the arrested politicals cost. He served the former much bet year by appears was an angry mob of shunned him. chamber’s economic restoration com- President Coolldge, provoke a smile from his fellow political gun toting klansmen.” He was soon released. ter than the latter. to have been lost in the agents of Wall His present mittee. This committee will meet wilderness of Street. Berger is Walker and his police "revelations" do sot congressional red tape. even worse off than the bat. Another fable force left surprise those that knew him. He was within the next two weeks. should be added to the Aesop collection to treat of the special the klan laet August, following the not a Communist when be left, as he Plan Ready in April. case of Berger's socialists. attack of the klansmen on the deputy hope claims. He was and still is a stool- "We to have a definite, con- Show City Laws Are sheriffs. crete plan April. forresstole pigeon. by This plan then as Firetrap will be presented at the chamber’s Jokes Communists Rouse Fire Raging in annual meeting at Brussels in June. FROM HOSPITALS Takes Six Lives A. F. OF L. Students of Marx, "Our plan will have the advantage GALLS French Workers with Take Notice of Three of being drawn up with regard for (Continued from page 1) Higher Pay Eastern economic principles and Demand Change not influenc- IS NEW CHARGE Lane arrived the building was alread: OFF LONG STRIKE of Class! Ohio Coal Mines ed by politics.” inferno, dyim •in and the screams of (Continued from page 1) Finance Minister Clementel of The government spent mingled The class in elementary economics TORONTO, over one annnts with the roar of th for repressive Ohio, Peb. I.—A Are France, will have an active part In million dollars expenses more measures against has had its vicissitudes this season, in securing flame*. Firemen said the victims’ live OF R. foreign agitators, that has proportions drafting socalled. assumed serious the debt plan. Booth said. the verdict of "guilty” against and last Wednesday the class suffered Charles were lost from the start, the victim RJHOPMEN The is raging in three connected mines "I will see M. Clementel frequently," fact that these workers, chief- another disappointment they ol Forbes, former head of the U. 8. being trapped on the third and fourtl ' MOBERLY, Mo.. Feb. I.—Tho rail when the Toronto Fire Clay company he continued, “because f ly and Poles, guilty only here Clementel was Veterans' Bureau, and John W. floor. road shopmen’s strike two and a hal Italians were were unable to get into the class today. The Laßelle mine my predecessor president of the of being active in labor organization rescue crev as Thompson, contractor, who conspired The twenty-eight working class fan; years old, will end on February 1, room. from Steubenville arrived here to fight international chamber of commerce. among their compatriots was suffi- Max Lerner, with Forbes to defraud the ex-Boldlers illes that were Jammed Into the tens according to an official statement the new Instructor, not- the flames but were handicapped by We probably will discuss the subject cient ground for their expulsion. For- out of millions of dollars compensation ment lost all their posteealons. given out this morning by F. R. Lee, ifies all class members that to make roof falls. of international debts as affecting the money. tunately they were not compelled to certainty doubly Make Negro the Goat. chairman of the Federated Shop assured, the meeting The Amsterdam mine rescue economic situation of the world.” re-enter their respective “father- place crew Forbes still faces charges brought In Mrs. Benlah Fritz, owner of the Are Crafts of the Wabash Railway com of the class will herefater be at has been ordered report Proper an lands.” to at the Everything In Its Time for indictment at Baltimore. Forbes trap, told the coroner she had bough pany, with headquarters in Moberly. 722 Blue Island avenue, where all will mines, as well as all mine is charged Red Unions Lead Fight. next state In- Ameriea. with selling three millions the building eight years ago. Sh Lee bases bis statement on a letter come Wednesday at eight o’clock spectors In eastern Ohio. Booth dollars worth of hospital appears The questions will was hailed cordially In front supplies to said she received as high as $11.50 pe- received from B. M. Jewell, president There to be nothing to dis- be published, aays page the of govern- Lerner, interviews in Paris newspapers, firm Thompson and Kelly of week tor the dingy rooms. An at of the Railway Employes’ Department tinguish the Harriot socialist in tomorrow’s paper. wniminiiiiiimniiiniiiimiiimmtimiiiimiHmtmtimia' quoted which him as saying America Boston for half a million dollars. tempt is being made to lay the blame of the American Federation of Labor, ment from an avowedly capitalist was in no hurry to Forbes sold groat advtsing Why collect the French these quantities of on Noteby Applyeby, the Negro Jani- him that the executive com- government in dealing with labor Rack Your debt hospital supplies problems. Kerr and Company, while the ex-soldiers tor. Those who are trying to mittee has decided “to terminate the “Let’s not talk of inter-allied debts were suffering In badly shield The French Federation Brains Solving equipped hos- the city and the landlords who pad strike.” United of Robbed, Loses Cash now. Americans have no Intention of pitals for lack of represent- calling (Communist) them. He the workers Into this city’s thousands The letter off the strike Lnbor comprising about Cross Word Puzzles? | demanding money Immediately ed the supplies organized and Keracber’s Watch from as "used” in order to of firetraps are seeking frantically so. follows: half of the workers ol your country. Everything in its prop- the government (500,000) launching defraud and the ex- a “goat,” and it they have “As advance Information, to be France in a cam- er time,” the American banker was soldiers. la believed used as you may paign for general increase in wages. The firm of Chas, H. Kerr and com- I picked on the Negro. are ala< decide best In the a Aren’t the workers crazy i quoted as saying. The Rumors of your stogan ”20 ($1.10) day pany, publishers of socialist books, was trial In Baltimore had been set being spread that a mysterious “dope Interest membership, tho The le francs a enough already? "The most Important question of the for this month, but may be executive council has Just voted to for every worker.” -obbed of about S7O cash on Saturday postponed fiond” was a tenant In the building noon, hour Is Germany’s ability to pay,” the at the request of Forbes’ couneel. terminate the strike now In effect on The leaders of the movement ar< when two masked men entered If you have any use ? and might have caused the blaze everyone Ideas Interviews continue. "We should first John Crim, special all roads, excepting one, February olive tendency of big en\ ud held up present, taking them W. prosecutor There la no dodging the responsibility on to the the in bringing custom- I make Germany pay. Then we’ll see.” selected by Coolldge, told Jury 1, 1925.” ployers to develop a labor aristocra- John Keracker’s watch, among other the in of the landlord, however, for the de ers to the Red Revel Ball, 3 The morning papers gave promi- summing up the government's case, Tho one road not by cy better-paid workers as In the things. pi orable condition of Chicago’s affected the of Peb. 28, at 37 S. Ashland I nence to Booth's remarks. "It Is time to call a halt to skulldug- tens order is the Pennsylvania, according United States and are beginning tc • • • manta. Aveuue gery and rascality In Washington. O, to Lee. tendency. The combat this But the Amerloan Gov't. Represents the sins that the of city has failed to provide ade Moissaye J. Olgin friends Warren quata wummmmmmmmmmmmmm Booth. Harding visited on him,” said Crlm housing for its workers. Lectures in Boston WASHINGTON, Feb. I.—'Willie H. almost weeping. "O, that they had BIG CHINESE CONFERENCE OPENS Booth, president of the International stayed away from Washington. O Regulate Bu* Bualnaaa. Tomorrow Evening PITTSBURGH, PA. that Ind„ chamber of commerce, and vice-presi- he might be alive today to tell how INDIANAPOLIS, Fab. I—Thai DESPITE SUN YAT SEN’S ILLNESS To those who work herd for their dent of the Guaranty Trust company, he wad pued by hie friend*.” Crln the public service commission shall \ Moissaye J. Olgin, well known money, I will save 60 per oent on all does not represent the gov- told how Mortimer, who was In league regulate the boa Industry of Indiana author and lecturer, recently their dental work. American (•ptclal to The Dally Worker) re- ernment abroad, and bis views anent with Forbes In stealing money from was indicated today as tha eenttment turned from an PEKING, Feb. I.—Dr. Bun Yat Ben, Chinese leader, le better today. Intensive tour of the French debt are purely hia own, the ex-soldiers, visited Harding In of a majority report from the senate Russia, will speak In Tues- A bulletin gave hla temperature put* Boston on DR. RASNICK and not the administration’s, it was Marlon In 1920. roads committee. The bus regulatory at 101. S and 140. Hla eonditlen la re- day evening, Fob. 3, at Steinert Hall, DENTIST ported weak, said here today, when attention of "Mortimer moved among fixers and measure la slated for consideration but his mind clear. 162 Boylston street. 646 Smrthfield 9treet. government officiate was called to his crooked employes of the government,” Monday. A minority report of three Deaplte Bun’a Inability te attend, th* Chinese reorganisation conference —■ - - - - Interviews in the Parle preee. OrUa said. semwlttoo Members la aapeote*. will epeei here tomorrow. Get an “Ad” for tha Daily Weriwt*