<<

Page Two THE Wednesday, July 23, 1924 AMERICAN MARINES FAIL TO STOP PRIZE WINNER STEEL WORKERS WORKERS PARTY CHINESE ’S LINE Toller, Freed, Has (Special to Th« Dally Workar) IN REPORTING TIE UP COMPANY RUNNING DUNNE SHANGHAI, , July 22.—The general strike of the Chinese In the Shameen, the foreign quarter of Canton, continues In spite of the landing CONTEST TOLD MuchtoWrite About WITH BIG STRIKE of American, British, and French eallors and marines. Servants, private and municipal employes are out in Canton, protesting against the law which Over 3000 Out to Fight FOR GOVERNOR makes them submit to search before entering the foreign area, and against Mine Story Writer the By J. LOUIS ENODAHL. other race discrimination by the intruding white imperialists. , Winner; Who Is Next? Big Wage Losses Dr. Sun Yat Sen, founder of the Chinese republic and one of the atrong , 's dramatic genius, is free Engdahl for Senator; influences In the formation of the Chineae trade union movement, Is sup- The prize for the best story contri- TODAY,again after five years in a Bavarian prison. (Special to the Daily Worker.) posed to be encouraging the strike at Canton. Dr. Sun has opposed the buted last week to the DAILY WORK- was one PITTSBURGH, July 22—The wage Line ER by a volunteer reporter goes to the Toller’s’ crime being of the active leaders in Cook Co. F.-L. in foreign domination and interference which has deprived the Chinese work- slaves of the McKeesport Sheet and worker writing the story page five an attempt to establish the Bavarian Republic, in ers of their opportunities in public service, commerce and professions. on Tin Plate company, one of the largest William F. Dunne, trade un- of the July 18 issue of the DAILY 1919. among the so-called independent The strike of the Chinese telephone operators here over a wage dispute * * * * and delegate to the WORKER headed, “Union Miners See firms, have been on strike since July ion militant has succeeded in tying up at least two sections of the International settle- Only Scab Mines,” "Organ- Work In The cables tell us that Toller appeared “pale and ema- 10. The strike was started by the , for ment. Foreign operators are scabbing to break the strike. Shut, Wages ized Mines Scab Down.” before a Reichstag committee protesting against young catchers’ helpers, who were Illinois, and J. The contributor’s name is not revealed ciated’’ Governor of soon Joined by the whole force of open—that is, to unite and organize as a protection to him. The story is the prison treatment he and other workers had received. Louis Engdahl, editor of the 3,000 men when the company gave no- politically into a farmer-labor party. sent from South Brownsville, Penn- But the latest picture of Fritz Ebert, the socialist president WORKER, for Senator. tice of wage reductioils from 10 per DAILY This fact the militant forces in the BSSGUIT sylvania. of Germany, shows him as fat and sleek as ever. WORKERS cent to 35 per cent. These are the state candi- labrevolutionary down and at the same time to action for Offers Program with them to return to their is paign. betrayed the interests of the workers carried on by the Mine workers while the enemies of labor were acquitted “because Jobs un- j* Workers of America or else the union til the directors will come back from Entire Membership Busy. and farmers. We have no confidence By BARNEY MASS their political affiliations were more to the liking of the leadership. will be weakened. their vacations. But so far both campaign committee of in such The state The patriotism of the bosses of the judges.’* threats and persuasion failed to break rallying Feet in Old Parties. » Many Contributed Uhe Workers Party is its en- National Biscuit Company goes far workers were not. allowed visit their the strike. as Good stories were sent in by Carl Imprisoned to fJtire party membership, individual Senator LaFollette, in announcing as their pockets. The employes were dying mothers, in several cases, and another was not There was no sign of union organ, his, Cowl of St. Paul, and by Wallace Met- party sympathizers and sympathetic his candidacy refused to throw given a holiday on the 4th and sth ization among these workers before fi •work, calfe of Youngstown, Ohio. There was allowed to attend the burial of his child. One prisoner was f, party organizations for the support to independent political ac- of July, but when receiving their the strike, but in the last few days or- sig- a gdod story contributed on the corrup- punished because a revolutionary poem was found among j This work includes obtaining the tion by the -workers thru the forma- meager pay, it was discovered that ganizers representing the steel work- carry tion within the bricklayers unions in his and another was put in a be- natures that petitions must be- tion of a farmer-labor party. He thus they were docked for the two days. belongings, strait-jacket Chicago. Jack McCarthy contributed ers’ committee of the A. F. of L. and fore names of candidates can be definitely repudiated all sincere ef- The company never pays for the vaca- cause he had failed to give up a copy of a Communist paper the Amalgamated Association of Iron, ■ several front page stories on the Hege- placed the ballot, which in Illinois forts Hn direction. He has be- tions of its employes, even though it in his possession. on this wisch steel workers’ strike, Clarence Steel and Tin Workers appeared on [ per cent of the votes cast in the come the candidate of small bankers be a celebration dedicated to 148th is 2 the Miller wrote on Western Electric BUT:— the scene and at two meetings lined [ general election. It means dis- and independent manufacturers. He anniversary of the declaration of in- com- last pany, Hymie Siegel reported the open- On the other hand, Adolph Hitler, the leader the up several hundred of the strikers. tributing and literature refuses to cut loose from the Repub- dependence. These dealers in youth of I handbills ing of ’s class, Barney Workers Unltel furnishing speakers for the open lican party. His running labor, who always boast of their 100 Hitler-Ludendorff fascist attempt at a beer hall counter- and mate, Bur- Mass wrote on the National Biscuit meetings which will tell the whole ton K. Wheeler, refuses to cut loose per cent attitude to their country, revolution in , last autumn, and Count Arco, the However, one of the organizers, in L air company and the killing of a Commu- Work- never permit it however to interfere an interview with your correspondent, * of the state about the fight the from the democratic party. murderer of , the Bavarian workers' premier, nist in West Frankfort Illinois, and ' Len with their profits. was not very optimistic about the [ ers Party is making against Support of LaFollette be of received the best of treatment. can no Max S&lsman contributed political possibilities for organizing the strik- email and other representatives at big benefit to the workers. The LaFol- Without giving any attention to the l articles. These were not considered, Hitler was allowed to receive visitors in prison. Count ers on a permanent basis. He pointed ! Interests. movement away position of the young workers, the however, lette leads from the as the contributors are on Arco had almost unlimited freedom to leave the prison for out that this is the fourth sporadic for Every Office. real issues, in that It relies upon the company closes down departments the party payroll. The contest is open Candidates Kennedy “political reasons” and to “pursue his studies.” The Bavar- strike of the employes of the McKees- Candidates of the Workers Party present system of capitalist govern- when it chooses to do-eo. The only to rank and fliers. department suspend ian authorities prevented a Reichstag committee from in- port Sheet and Tin Plate company In i been put in the field for ervery ment for an adjustment of the griev- lUscuit Works will have operation Monday. Department No. 6 Choice This Week vestigating Bavarian prison conditions, and systematically a few years, and that on former occa- Important state and local office, ln- ances of the workers. It is therefore 1 ceases work Saturday. In this depart- The prize for next week’s best vol- disobeyed German such as they sions they always went hack to work chiding congressmen in seven out of a distinct menace to the successful prison laws, are. i the animal are unteer news contribution to the “Daily and deserted the union as soon as the congressional districts in development of organized labor. ment famous cakes It sounds like a review of American prison barbarism the ten packed Worker” will be the choice of either employers offered some concessions. and will carry the slogan, into the boxes. when Toller that were Chicago, Leaders Destroying Unions. "The Iron Heel” by Jack London or adds “hygienic conditions bad, and By tftis time these workers have per- power the workers," the Temporary suspension of operation “All to The reactionary policy toward the “A Week,” by lury Libedinsky. The the prisoners were kept in solitary confinement even when haps learned the lesson that only thru the state of is a disease inherent in capitalist pro- length and breadth of # third writing news fell that farmer-labor party issue, as officially duction. What protection dp the young article on for the they ill,” adding a comrade of his had died after and permanent organization WORKER, "Working-Class Illinois. expressed by the leadership of the girls and boys making the biscuits re- DAILY being refused medical treatment. can they hope to resist the power of The Workers Party is mobilizing its News,” by Karl Reeve, will appear In A. F. of L., is destroying the power ceive from this chronic sickness? Are this under their capitalist employers. The next the respective con- Saturday's magazine All the heel of a “socialist” president’s rule. members within of resistance of our unions to the on- they given by next section. days will tell the story. The Young any consideration the With a (socialist) social-democratic party wielding the bal- few gressional districts. slaughts of the employers. The per- [bosses? s Workers League Is being mobilized ance of power. secutions and attacks of the capital- * * * Past experience shows that they are Irish Republican * on the same basis. The various Ju- ist government thru injunctions and Cicero League and pledged the least taken into reckoning and nior groups have their un- working 1 Attacks comes of the like is hand in hand with that the only alternative facing them Davis as There another story out this “socialist” Ger- Party Memberships qualified support. helping these reactionary policies and | is to take matters in their own hands. Britain’s Choice many that would indicate where “socialist" sympathies lie. Daily Worker In Fight. process. Meet Thursday Night in this destructive Thru their association into an org&n- It is the story of a young apprentice painter at work on the will be one The DAILY WORKER In order to maintain, build up and , ization such as the Young Workers’ Berlin City Hail. weapons (By Federated Press.) CICERO, July 22.—A membership of the sharpest in the cam- strengthen the labor movement; in ! League, a program of aotion will be at introduced when- He saw a picture of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the late meeting of the Workers Party and paign. It will be order to unite our forces so as to be I their disposal to carry out for their WASHINGTON, July 22.—John Fin- group addressed, wherever Kaiser, surrounded with imperial pomp. It was a sight he Young Workers League of Cicero will ever a is able to meet the attacks of capital- 'own Interests. nerty, counsel for the Association for ' did not like and he swished his brush, black be held on Thursday, July 24, at 8 a signature is obtained. ism, policies, militant meth- Recognition of the Irish Republic, dipped in paint, Party militant j p. m., at hall, 49th Ct. and W. A conference of the Workers ods and militant tactics are necessary. commenting upon the fact that John across the picture, so that Wilhelm’s visage vanished behind Milwaukee, on Aug. 2, will nomi- Unemployment Down 14th St. The following points will be in This Cook county conference recog- W. Davis, democratic presidential a murky smudge. campaign taken up: The organization of the nate local candidates. The nizes that the Workers Party is pur- South in Railroad nominee, had been counsel for the Then came an who, he attempt to show along infuriated city official as Y. W. L. branch, the reorganization in Milwaukee will suing such militant methods. The Irish Free State after having served the stand Camp and Steamers beheld' the sight, began calling the painters’ apprentice of the Junior Group, the DAILY up the backwardness of Workers Party has repeatedly warned as ambassador to the court of St. LaFollette and the socialist rather hard names. WORKER campaign. taken by against the danger of following La- James, declared Davis to be hostile him. MOBILE, Ala., July 22. Several The DAILY campaign is regime which supports that a repu- to the Irish cause. He said that Da- The apprentice is reported to have replied, “What I WORKER Follette, because means hundred men were thrown out of em- special Importance, as quite a Union and other groups are greet- Party vis was as clearly Identified as Sec- did was right. That picture of Wilhelm does not belong to of bit diation of the Farmer-Labor ployment when the Mobile & Ohio already ing with enthusiasm the state and lo- retary Hughes with' defending the these of effort was spent In the idea. In view of these facts this con- railroad shops at Whistler were republican days.” cal program of the Workers Party, Morgan Imperial Western Electric company campaign. ference indorses the national and lo- closed until further notice. Large cuts interests under the It is said that this so enraged the monarchist official published in yesterday’s DAILY flag. Recently, The sentiment that was produced by cal candidates of the Workers Party had been made in the shops previous- British Davis tried to that he and President WORKER. Following is the resolu- possession shouted, "Co paint your Ebert as this campaign will have to be crystal- for the November elections. ly and when the shops were ordered secure of the Dail funds in as tion of the Cook County Branch of the America for the Free State. black you will. I haven't any objection.” lized by the getting of more tubs for (Signed) JOHN WERIK, closed within 24 hours it came as a * * * * Illinois Labor Party in adopting the Finnerty that, the DAILY WORKER and the for- Metal Polishers, No. •. great surprise. declared also altho program: Senator Walsh of Montana had been But, of course, that is not necessary. Ebert and his mation of a strong Communist nu- N. GLANCE, All Mobile industries are either “socialists” cleus in the factory. More detailed closed or running part-time. a consistent supporter of the Free fellow German have painted themselves as black Amalgamated Clothing Workers No. There plans will be presented at the meet- COOK COUNTY RESOLUTION are State, the Montanian had immediately as can possibly be done. All of which the young painter 152. close to 200 seamen without a ing. The comrades requested berth also. The shipping board lays gone to the White House when it was was no doubt aware. are to SAM HAMMERSMARK, attend. Admission is by membership Both of the old parties have nomi- up ships for lack of cargo, throwing feared that DeValera might be exe- Former Secretary, Cook County La- For painters are usually apt to be thinkers. Especially cards only. nated as their candidates for the whole crews on the beach. cuted. In contrast was" Senator of the United States two bor Party. Massachusetts, who refused young painters. presidency In northern Alabama the Long-Bell Walsh of • • • • outstanding reactionaries, enemies of MORTON L. JOHNSON, Lumber Co., one of the largest non- to do anything to save the life of the the workers and farmers. Both par- State Committee, Labor Party of Illi- union outfits In the south Is laying leader of the republican movement. This young painter must have known, for instance, ties are under the control and domi- nois. off men and cutting wages to coolie Finnerty predicted that David Walsh that under Karl Severing, the social-democratic (socialist) nation of Wall Street. To the workers ARNE SWABECK, level. The Long-Bell people own most would be held accountable In the sen- minister of the interior, the Deutsche-Zeitung, the labor BE A CHASER and farmers only one solution lies . of the timber In Alabama. atorial election this year. baiting mouth-piece of the reactionaries, openly proclaimed A Book ChaMr that the Italian fascist dictator, Mussolini, should have mini hiiih revelled in the murder of the socialist, Matteotti. This sheet, tolerated by the "socialist" democracy, declared: • "Mussolini’s attitude was not heroic. He should have taken the stand that Matteotti was an enemy of the Fascista MORE NAILS NEEDED! State of Italy. . . . There was was no reason to regret the For the Capitalist Coffin = end of this social-democrat (Matteotti).” • • • • Here an Inducement or two. A monarchist sheet published that under the “socialist" 1b Some one said that “every new subscriber for regime of Fritz Ebert, president of Germany. OFFER NO. 3. And in the same hours the Communist daily, in Berlin, The People’s Marx 75 the "Rote Fahne” (Red was Dictatorship vs. Democracy, by Flag) ordered suppressed for 50 THE DAILY WORKER two weeks because it urged revolutionary mass action of The Militant Proletariat, by the workers. Lewis 80 ; is another nail in the Capitalist Coffin.” 2 , Ernst Toller should surely find much material for his Lenin, Hie Life and Work, by Zinoviev .... 15 dramatic genius in the transition period thru which Ger- r But say—that’s some big coffin and we need a lot more nails at once. Send in that many is now passing—From Capitalism to . Total 83.00 ' Special tilt Sept. 1, 1824 SI.OO subscription today. , OFFER NO. 4. LAWYERS’ APPROVAL OF INDUSTRIAL Principles of Scientific Social- SUBSCRIPTION I 11 ism, by Vail 81.60 COURT LAW SHOWS PROFIT-SEEKING Revolutionary Essays, by [iuininiiiim»iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiimiii)HHHinniiiiiimimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRATES: . Burrows 1.00 THE DAILY WORKER, 1 A B C of Communism, by I 1113 W. Washington St., A apeclal committee of the American Bar Aaaoelatlon, the powerful One Bucharln .60 BY MAIL- Big Union, of lawyera, haa recently affirmed that the graataat need of the Chicago.s 111. ,1 1 year $6.00 I contemporary world la “efficient means for preventing Industrial warfare” and Total 83 00 Special till Sept. 1, 1924 $1.50 5 6 month* $3.50 | | that impartial Investigation points to the eonolualon that the Kansas Indus- Enclosed please find 3 months... .$2.00 for months subscription trial eourt represents the kind of “machinery whloh has thus far proved Any one book at the regular price moat affective.” It further demands a body of law designed “to permit firm Two or more at 33 cent I to THE DAILY WORKER. per discount handling of group conflicts.” . Get the books and lay down to read them. Order from a body of legal Importanoo tha Bar Aasooiatlon, of whloh 1 • When euoh at IN CHICAGO name I DEPARTMENT | —1 [ Charles Evans Hughes is president, expresses an opinion Ilka that quotad LITERATURE BY MAII— above, it le ease to aeeume that It voloaa tha sentiment whloh will be ex- WORKERS PARTY .. == STREET FLAT . pressed In the form of legislation against the workers In the very near future. 1113 Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. 1 year SB.OO I / | - It means that capitalist atateemen are using every effort to extend and In- 6 month* . .$4.50 CITY _...v STATE i H orease the present enormoua power of the government to Interfere In atrikes 3 month* .$2.50 * | _ dlsputaa ruling, _____ and Industrial In behalf of tha amploylng olaaa. ______l In ordar to meet this proposed attaok on tha part of the capitalist class, | “EVERY READER A SUBSCRIBER” “EVERY SUBSCRIBER A BOOSTER” 5 tha organised workers of America should Join thslr own polltioal party, the Workera Party, to fight their battlea agalnat tha onslaughts of the oapltallst iiiiMMUuiniimiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTniiiiiiintM»i;;hi!iit!!nmiiiiniiimhiiHi)iiiniiniwiiiniiaii° Hate.