Communist Candidates THE DAILY WORKER For President: THE RAISES STANDARD WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. FOR A WORKERS AND THE For Vice-President: FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT DAILY WORKER. Bntarad aa ■aaond-olaaa ■after September 2L 1923, at tbs Post Office at Chicago, Ollaoia under the Act of March 3, IMS. BENJAMIN GITLOW. In Chicago, by mail, SB.OO per year. ■*(^“ 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Vol. 11. No. 178. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1924 PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111, Price 3 Cents SHOW “RED” BAITER IS PLAIN LIAR AS WE SEE IT STUFF BY SPOLANSKY IN THE By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. Faker's Trail a Labor t On s Rev. Norman Thomas, orphan CHICAGO DAILY NEWS SHOWN THKsocialist candidate for governor POLICE SPY SHOWS WHAT HE DOES of New York state, and Morris Hill- FARRINGTON IS quit, the of the American so- BRITISH Moses NOT KNOW ABOUT COMMUNISM BLACK UP AS “WORTHLESS TRASH” cialists (he is leading them out of Egypt) sent messages of greeting to By C. E. RUTHENBERG MANUEL Ramsay and expressed the CAUGHT Executive Secretary, Workers Party By GOMEZ MacDonald SELLING SHIRTS REACJI Jacob Spolansky now stands convicted out of his own labor party best title for the second of tlu hope that the British above would have been the mouth. The very first of the anti-red articles written by this would be allowed to run His Majes- THEseries of anti-Red articles which are being published in the discharged federal fink for the Chicago News, proves con- spy, Jacob Spolansky Daily ty’s Empire after the coming general VOTES TO “DEM” capitalist press by the former government 100,000 FIGURE clusively that he is either a perjurer or at least an ambitious liar. likened MacDonald If Spolansky learned so little about the Communist move- i And the Daily News stands exposed as a survival from elections. Thomas his six years of spy- to LaFollette, which is just about ment, as is indicated in this article, during era of newspaperdom, Its eagerness for then indeed the government the antedeluvian sensa- what we have been saying right along. Charges Union With ing for the federal government Armed Reactionaries to tion and its blind hatred of the Communists having led it into The fact that a yellow socialist hap- wasted its money. paying out thousands of dollars for worthless trash. agree does Expenses the movement gained its pens to with us for once of Deal Spolansky tells us that Communist Crush Labor Spolansky’s much-advertised initial article, which the News we should wing of the St. Louis conven- not necessarily mean that impetus in the formation of the left played up with an eight-column streamer head, purports to be change our opinions, that it makes By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. party in (Special to the DAILY WORKER) tion of the socialist the story of a secret meeting one feel uncomfortable. (Article Four.) 1917 and Debs and Berger were LONDON, Oct. 15.—British • * * on Nov. 7; 1918, at which the wing! Frank Farrington is very me- the leaders of this left Fascisti numbering 100,000 un- American move- messages are worthy of a At spy Spolansky will Communist ticulous about the observance least the FOSTER SPEAKS der the presidency of Brigadier ment was founded. BOTHplace in the record. Thomas make Victor Berger snort. He, the WOBBLIES ARE Ahead of His Time. “American labor and American of the union rules by radical wing at St. Louis! General Blakeny, appeared to- said: leader of the left in the Brit- Spolansky declares that he as a progressive movement sends best Berger, who was bitterly op- day as a new factor members of the rank and file. Victor government operative, had been shad- ■wishes for triumphant return to power posed to the anti war resolution forc- ish elections. But he is not so particular about IN NEW YORK AT owing the participants for weeks pre- British labor party in the com- the St. Louis convention by Tho the Fascisti claim their SEEKING UNITY of the ed thru ceding the meeting. He relates real- ing election. We hope to duplicate violating the union law when it the left wing, and only accepted the part in the election will be non- istically how he followed one of them British, achievement suits his own and his he saw a substantiated labor’s wonderful plans own resolution when there was no partisan, claim to the meeting place In the Mid-City of LaFollette to the has been raised to by hope beating it, . they are the election pocket. of ATWO , by the fact that not MEETINGS‘-'j Bank building and overheard all that of pow- leadership of IN CONVENTION presidency and the creation a the position of the a getting up any candidates, it is took place thru a crack in the door labor party.” A strong light was thrown on erful American movement he opposed. known the organization is anta- the But according to Spol- • • of room. • Farrington’s mental attitude at the last What Happened at St. Louis. Put More Speed Into gonistic to labor. ansky’s sworn testimony in the Ruth- Lone is a little more to the convention of the min- The Fascisti say their part in the Lumber Worker h In view of the putting over of the enberg case, he did not become a “left” than the preacher. Morris ers’ union held in Indianapolis. election will be confined to putting HILLQUIT Dawes’ plan by the American capital Aggressive Campaign member of the department of justice mentions “socialism.” This is what Nick Perkovitz, a coal miner lown election disorders. They deny Sulking in Tent ists, thus preparing the ground for a until nearly six months after the date he cabled: "Socialists of the United from Dowel, Illinois, was elected (Special to The Daily Worker) any affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan. new- imperialist war into which this when he says he listened in on this States send congratulations upon the by the rank and file of his local Fail. The convention of the Indus- country inevitably be drawn, it NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The Black Shirts j little conference. If he did not eom- determined and dignified stand of the to represent them at the con- will trial Workers of the World was worth while to recall what happen- two mass meetings to be ad- In their role as peace maker, the | mit perjury in the Berrien county British labor government against the vention. But the credentials is still busied yesterday with the ed at the St. Louis convention of the dressed by William Z. Foster, black shirted followers of General | court, he was in the army on the date petty attack of its combined reac- report of the credentials com- committee seated his opponent, socialist party about which spy Spol- Communist candidate for presi- Blakeny failed to stop disorders at j mentioned, and could not possibly tionary opponents. The forces of la- Whitechapel night mittee, after having absorbed a lackey of Farrington’s, who ansky makes such a ridiculous blun- dent, in New York and Brook- last which forced have seen and heard what he says he bor, socialism and progress on both Sir John Simon, liberal leader to practically all the delegates who was not elected and who came der. lyn, on Sunday, Oct. 19, will be cur- 'did. sides of the Atlantic are now en- tail his address. DAILY now chal- first were inclined to adhere to Indianapolis, confident that The left wing socialists in the St. in the agres- The WORKER to gaged in a simultaneous campaign for the biggest events The laborites claim the Fascisti Daily the the Farrington-Lewis machine Louis convention stood upon the Com- are lenges the Chicago News to split convention called by jus- sive Communist campaign be- ” the rights of the people—social a “comic opera organization. .print the truth about Spolansky’s ini- Rowan and the other G. E. B. would ditch Perkovitz. munist principle that the workers here by the tice and world peace. May both be ing conducted Former Premier Baldwin was to tial story. Below given citations Radical Won for Once. should refuse to fight in the imperial- are members who had applied to equally triumphant.” Workers Party. open his campaign at Queens hall this from the court record which the News the an in- • capitalists. capitalist courts • • to ist war of the The Am- for Nick took the issue the floor of Foster will speak at the New afternoon. A combination of liberals is at liberty to verify. We have no the erican. capitalists were forcing us into junction. the aims of American socialism convention however and he was Star (Tasirio, 107th St. and Park and tories is seeking to avoid a tri- hesitation is saying, however, that we seated by the world war in order to protect their No one was at the hall at 180 are whittled down to "social jus- an almost unanimous vote. Ave., at 2 p. m., and the New angular contest with labor in doubt- expect the News to ignore us. SO It developed profits and investments. The left W. Washington St., where J. A. tice and world peace.” Unless we are that Perkovitz is a radi- York comrades are expecting a ful districts and if their object of It will continue to publish Spolan- cal with a holy hatred of the booses. wing socialists at St. Louis said: “We Griffith had asked all delegates mistaken, this is the progranf of the placing only one candidate to oppose sky’s lies, and perhaps even to syn- will carry on a consistent and persist- large overflow meeting.