The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-02

auCCIOu DlOC. Between the rap'
winning steed is to be chosen.
The delegates gathered bri
John Roach Straton tell Jesus
o. dained of Cod" and to pray
for their physical strength to
bear their burdens"
Khan Conflict Crucial
Chairman Homer Cummings of the
Resolutions Committee soon after
came up to make a confession. He
told, with some frankness, of "the
great differences of opinion" over the
religious issue" Cummings was
camoufaging the Ku Klux Khan issue
He told of "the heated, acrimonious
discussion" and said, with a tinge of
pathos in his tone, IF committee of
81 could show such feeling, then we
began to wonder what would happen
if such question would be put on
the floor.
Split Talk in Air
1--WE began to think what would
happen to the party and began to
draw closer so that America might
have the benefit of the services of our
party.
I'm all my years of political exper-
fence / have never witnessed such a
scene as saw in the committee room
at 6 a. m. One Of the members rose
and recited the Lords prayer. We
all Joined. Bryan then lifted up his
hands in an invocation for divine
guidance and help in the grave crisis.
II therefore ask that we recess till
3 p. M"
The convention adjourned.
A Nomination Fight
At p. m. Rabbi Wise was put into
the prayer for change of luck in
begging the Lord for guidance. The
Rabbi failed to line up God for unity.
Homer Cummings came forward with
the announcement that there would
be majority and minority reports on
the League and the religious, the
euphomious name for the Klan) issue.
For the first time since the conven-
ton was called to order there was
complete quietness in the jammed
Garden. Everybody expected a fight.
Everybody was fully prepared for it,
as 1t is now days that the struggle
over these issues has been going on.
Of the two questions the Khan is the
serious one. Beneath the surface con-
troversy the battle over the Ku Klux
is a tug of war between the Smith
forces, drawing their strength mainly
from the northern and eastern CAPT
talists and the McAdoo forces, getting
their support mainly from the western
and southern capitalists. The Smith
group has chosen this issue as the
best fighting ground for their nominee.
With the McAdoo forces the fight is
a defensive one. 1t was forced upon
them.
Why the Difference
The why and wherefore of the diff
ference in the attitude between the
two groups of ruling class interests is
very complicated one. 1t is to be
explained by the difference in the
social, political, religious and eco
nomic conditions transmitted and at
hand in the various sections of the
country.
In the South and in the West big
industry is not as well developed, Nc
Adoo states, is, on the whole, less
concentrated and centralized. Conse-
quently, the tendency towards the
Capitalization of state power is less
marked in this group of states. Con-
sequently the politico- economic condi-
tons in the Southern and Western
states afford more suitable breeding
ground for the development of an
extra-legal. extra-state machinery of
the employing class for keeping the
working masses in subsection.
Then, of course, there are the re-
ligious and social differences making
for the greater spread of the tenets
of the Khan in the South and West.
In this section of the country the non
Catholic and native population pre-
ponderate. The ratio of Catholics and
foreign-borp is far smaller here than
in the Eastern and Northern indus
trial states.
Furthermore, organized labor which
is opposed to the dark order hiding
itself in white sheets and which has
been a source of voting strength