Communist Candidates THE DAILY WORKER For RAISE* THE President: BTANDARD WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. FOR A WORKERS AND WORKER, For Vice-President: FARMERS* THE DAILY GOVERNMENT tatared u ■imnd-ciaae matter September 31. 1931, at dw Poet Ofloe at Ofeloace, nilawta nadar the Art eC Mare* a, l*7i. BENJAMIN GITLOW. In Chicago, by mail, SB.OO per year. 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER per year. MONDAY, Vol. 11. No. 181. SUBSCRIPTION BUIES: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 OCTOBER 20, 1924 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111. Price 3 Cents SPOLANSKY EXPOSES OWN PLOTS "" —\ AS WE SEE IT 0. S. SECRET SERVICE SLEUTH By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. On a Labor Faker's Trail ■ i Calvin Coolidge fails to land in UNRAVELLED BY DAYLIGHT HIS IFthe White House for the next four A RED WEEK WIRE FROM NEW YORK | years, vaudeville may be treated to TOLEDO LABOR FARRINGTON IS a long-wished-for novelty In the form spurt RED CONSPIRACIES DARK In a hot for WEEK. PLANNED IN YORK CITY has crossed the line of silence. A1 Jolson, the noted black NEWAn advance order for ONE THOUSAND UNITS of campaign litera- faco comedian, with a troupe of fun- GIVES FOSTER ture reached the national office by wire this morning. ACCUSTOMED TO By MANUEL GOMEZ makers visited the White House, to ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS that to date one How Jake Spolansky, his brother, his brother-in-law and a shake hands with the president and thousand party members in New York have each contributed fifty cents couple of rank outsiders, got together night after night in Gary, advise him that the country was be- for their 137 piece literature unit, which each one of them will distribute DISAVOW Ind., some five years ago to plot death and destruction, and then 26 ACTS WELCOME during Red Week, Oct. to Nov. 2. They say far, BIG hind him. did not how met again in the morning as detectives to work out some satis- ONE THOUSAND LITERATURE UNITS MEANS that 137,000 pieces but that what can you expect from factory solution of the self-same mysterious, baffling and de- of campaign literature will go forward to New York City alone—leaf- comedians? Retracted His Charges cidedly anarchistic plots, is a story that would make those who LaFollette’s Meeting Is lets, pamphlets, stickers, DAILY WORKERS—and that at least 137,000 « • * '♦ paid the salaries of the Spolansky family tear their hair in rather New City will get Communist message . and his merry companions were additional workers in York the Against T I. Lewis ridiculous rage. s Poor in Comparison day. paid to do this by the republican before election “The Knights of the Red Star’’ was the flamboyant name AL New York City’s drive for the participation of every member for a national committee, so there is no (Special te the DAILY WORKER) By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. given by the Spolanskys to their dread organization—a name hard feeling. It was the funniest del- Red Week literature distribution can be duplicated everywhere. (Article Seven.) which could only have been conceived by someone whose TOLEDO, 0., (By Mail.)— branch CAN the co-operation of its members egation that visited the president Foster, EVERY party secure Frank was familiarity with the literature of the revolutionary working class William Z. presidential DO—for ACTIVITY muet constitute the When Farrington since T. V. O’Connor led his labor candidate of the Workers Par- In this task. Decide, then confronted with the proof of movement was confined to paper-covered novels of the type of lakers into the royal presence on La- part of the make-up of every Communist. ty, addressed an audience here greater having accepted money from “Life Among the Nihilists” or “The Terrible Gas House Con- bor Day. A1 Jolson is funny, but the EVERY MEMBER MOBILIZE FOR RED WEEK! spiracy.” funniest joke he ever no- many times the size of that ac- Colonel Frank L. Smith, demo- cracked has cratic candidate for governor One might have thought that Jake Spolansky would be at thing on Coolidge. corded Oswald Garrison Villard, of Illinois, he first least discreet about “The Knights of the Red Star” and would *I * • who spoke here recently in sup- at denied the but hav- refrain from ever mentioning if Chicago again wag- port of LaFollette. charge finally admitted The Tribune is received one again. ing Soviet Russia from Vienna Foster’s meeting was held at GOOD MEETINGS ing thousand dol- war on JOBLESS COAL Can’t Keep it Down. and Riga. The Tribune general at the Labor Temple, the same lars. But like the republican But he has contracted to write a Trebizond was obliged to surrender hall-in which Villard spoke. party campaign fund, it is not CALS FRIENDS certain number of “anti-red” stories that position owing to a strategic Workers Hear Foster. likely that all Farrington's re- PAYING FOR DONNE IN ceipts from the sale of for the Chicago Daily News, and his Turkish in the He is NDNERS the min- was a remarkable move rear. now However, there imagination seems to he somewhat advancing toward the Mediteranean two ers' votes get into the record. dierence in the audiences, not limited; so we have this discredited, Bea. It la believed that the positions alone in size but in the makeup. Fos- He does not do that kind of RAISING BIG stupendously silly “organization” play- m Riga and Vienna will hold out in- ter’s audience was distinctly working bookkeeping. FOR JOBS SOUTH ILLINOIS ed up afresh in the form of a “red ex- definitely unless the Tribune generals class, scores of aggressive rank and SIOO Farrington is not the kind of posure.” become scurvy trade were present and infected with the that file unionists a man to be bothered over the Spolansky’s brain may be absent but spreading rapidly among loudly applauded speech. A large FUND is the Czar- his SLUSH necessity of making a change of nerve him. He treats ist collection was taken up and much Charge Mine and Union Candidate for Governor his is still with counter-revolutionists. front. He swallowed his words the little group as if it were still in • * * literature was sold. on the Howat case existence. Desperate efforts have been made Officials Divide Graft in Mine Fields and again in Big Business Ready to Tribune gloats over the fab- the organizations flag- by some of the local labor fakers to his controversy with John L. “One of most ricated reports of burning oil (Special to the Daily Worker) (Special to The Daily Worker) rant in its contempt for United States THE arouse rank and file to the point Lewis over the Lester mine. Buy Election wells, wrecked railroads, and mur- the law,” coolly us, “goes of supporting LaFollette. The suc- W. FRANKFORT, 111., Oct. 19. WEST FRANKFORT, Illinois, There are two interesting docum- he informs un- uered Soviet officials. But somehow or cess of the Foster meeting in view —AS is ents on record showing the unreliabil- der the name of ‘The Knights of the Tho Calvin Coolidge, the other Russia emerges stronger than much as SIOO being paid Oct. 19.—Two successful Work- large of the fact that these same fakers ity of Farrington’s word and.proving Red Star.’ It has a group mem- strike-breaker president of the ever from every onslaught, while her for jobs by miners at Orient ers Party campaign meetings conclusively that he will eat crow bership located in Gary. To this have vilified Foster, because of his United States, enemies become fewer and more dis- fight for amalgamation of the craft Mine No. 2, near here. for William F. Dunne, its candi- when driven into a corner. This bul- group have been traced many pieces is not noted for reputable. Even imperialist France literature, advocating the death of his fluencey of speech he does a unions, has had a very dampening Grafting mine officials—and date for governor, have been ly who expels honest men from the of the most brazen enemy of the Soviet pay boys union, public officials and signed ‘The Group lot of political thinking. His effect upon the roll and their ■4* iß'-beliwfod frhafc eomo o£~4h*>- -he'd, her* andi" Christopher. who hounds the radicals and government is now obliged to begin local LaFollette movement. joins with the bosses in blacklisting of Avengers.’ This anarchist society, silence in this campaign is lit- negotiations Dunne spoke here from the with Moscow. The Plan New Activities. union officials are dividing the them; who hires pimps and tbugs to which has branches in most of the erally golden, according to re- Tribune will not make peace with bandstand in the public square large cities of the United States,’* he The outstanding feature of the Fos- 100t—taking advantage of un- beat up rank and file delegates ports of big slush funds gathered Russia until it first bends the knee to to a crowd of over 300 people goes say, "is ruled by a commit- ter meeting was the fact that it at- crawls on his belly before those who on to by bankers and manufacturers the American working class. But it employment, are forcing ig- who applauded vigorously his tee in Boston, Mass., consisting of six tracted so many local reds who for have it in their power to punish him. to keep the silent automaton in will be a different Tribune then. norant workers to buy jobs by explanation of the revolution- persons, one of whom is a woman.