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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Striking Machinists
Standing Solid at
Flow-Meter Plant

In spite OF the fact that Federal
Conciliator Marshman is trying to get
the strikers at the Flow-Meter ma
chine shop to return to work, the
picket line is holding firm after a
months effective striking. The ma
chinists struck as non-unionists
against wage cut, and Immediately
joined the International Association of
Machinists.
Marshman is the strike-breaker who
aided the Pullman company to break
the strike of the steel workers last
May, and who tried to get the gar.
ment strikers to accept the employers
terms and go back to work He is
supposed to be impartial, but always
tries to make a settlement on the en-
ployers' terms.
The Flow-Meters machinists had
beenN earning $1.00 an hour, but the
boss slashed their wages 25 per cent
and the men struck.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

where strong labor movements were
destroyed by physical force in spite
Of their economic power. "These
facts show that altho you may have
the strongest and best organized un-
ions, capitalist reaction burns your
halls, murders your leaders and i'm.
prisons and intimidates all active
members-and does it successfully
unless you organize resistance, pro.
tect your halls, defend your lives and
save your union and it's economic
power"
The report was accepted and
turned over to the committee on pol.
icy.
Still severer Censorship
Complaints against the Spanish and
Hungarian papers for printing Com.
munist and anarchist matter were
read. Nobody knew which articles
were referred to, nor did anyone sug
gest that the papers should be free
to members and such articles ans
wered. Everybody in the I. w. w. is
supposed to be able to write articles,
but nobody is supposed to answer ar
ticles expressing different opinions
than the orthodox. 1t is much easier
to suppress them. So the G. E. B.
was ordered to exercise a still fur
Their censorship in the future!
Rowan's Friends Knife Griffith.
J. A. Grifith was handed a nice
package as reward for signing the
injunction and then recanting. Row
ans gang in the convention, who sue
cessfully used the demagogue cry Of
''let the membership decide" and
saved Rowan's expulsion for a refer.
endum, played slick trick. They
made motion for the expulsion of
Griffith and got 1t thru without any
referendum. Let traitors to Rowan
bewareI Only traitors to the 1. w.
w. get referendum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
CELEBRATE The
SEVENTH YEAR
OF SOVIET RULE
CONTINUED from Page ~


after the Russian masses had risen to
overthrow their oppressors. And still
the forces Of Communism thruout the
world were strong enough to bring
the end of the world massacre.
Remember the seventh day of No
vember, of 1919. That day saw the
backbone of the counter-revolutionar
forces broken forever. Remember
when the Russian workers smashed
the ring Of fire and steel which the
capitalist nations had drawn around
them. Remember November 7, 1921,
which saw the hosts of the white ter
ror and their generals-the Yudenitch-
es, the Kolchaks, the Denikins, swept
into the Black Sea, and the dastardly
attacks of the Polish lackeys Of i'm
perialism hurled back
"Then few years Of more peace
full building and planning, the com
plete liquidation of the great famine,
the restoration of industry and agri-
culture.
Capitalist Governments Surrender.
"And now, on November 7, 1924, we
see twenty capitalist governments
openly confessing that their attacks
on Russia have failed, and that they
have been powerless against the de-
termined masses of Russian workers
Wild cheers greeted Comrade Will
lam q. Foster when he mounted the
platform. Most of the audience had
heard Comrade Foster speak after his
first trip thru Russia in 1921. Most
Of them had heard him speak when
he returned from Russia this summer,
and was able to tell of the wonderful
progress of the workers and peasants
governments. And they were eager to
hear more of the international signi-
ficance of the revolution.
1.-THE Russian revolution is the burn
ing, living symbol of the new society,""
said Foster. 1T is our assurance that
not only in Russia, but in every coun-
try of Europe and finally in America
we shall be able to raise the red flag"
There were other songs and other
speakers. There was the Freiheit
Singing Society and the mandolin or
chestra of the South Slav Federation.
There was Comrade Oliver Carlson,
who spoke for short time on the
spirit of the Russian youth, and Com
rade Martin Abern who as chairman,
guided the meeting smoothly.
Then the collection and the sale
of literature. But how different from
the ordinary collection" NO coaxing,
no long explanations.
Respond to DAILY WORKERS Call.
The mere name of the DAILY
WORKER, which was to benefit by
the celebration brot hundreds of dol
lars from workers eager to give what
they could. Pamphlets, papers, but
tons-all went quickly. Over $500 was
taken for the DAILY WORKER.
And it was only one of the celebra-
tons taking place on that day In al
most every city Of America, where
workers were greeting the end of the
seventh victorious year of revolution.
Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge
Room, Ashland Auditorium.
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added that just as pacifists were brot
in, the fighting and class conscious
workers were repealed by the change
in the I. w. w. When pacifism began
the l. w. W. had $4,000 members. now
it had only 10000.
These pacifist elements had taken
the lead and so dispirited the mem
bership that it would not fight back.
When he heard, Smith said, that the
4. W. w. loggers in Maine were de-
telmined to resist the violence Of the
ku Klux Khan, he cheered up and
was for publishing the story in Soil.
darity, but Vangsness of the Lumber
Workers had vetoed it on the grounds
that it might encourage the members
in Maine to fight, and that was
against the interest of the organiza
ton.
No Cheek Turning for Speed.
So far had the non-resistant ideas
gone, said Smith, that in San Pedro
the members did not retaliate even
when their children were taken on
the occasion of a raid and dipped in
tubs Of boiling coffee. IF had been
there, l believe l would have done
something" said Smith. Erwin
jumped up and tried to make point
by saying, Two nights after the
raid a crowd gathered to hear George
Speed speak on the street." per
haps to-" said Smith, "but I'll bet that
Speed didn't tell them to turn the
other cheek" Speed, a delegate.
hoped to his feet = You're darned
right I didn't
These men were not towards. ex.
planned Smith. Not at all. They
were only paralyzed with inaction in.
duced by pacifist teachings. They
showed great heroism and splendid
sacrifice. but won nothing but a job
in the San Quentin jute-mill. Erwin,
again trying to make a point, asked
Smith If he was willing to go to Cali.
fornia to violate" the Busick injunc.
ton. Smith said he was when pac-
lnSm was lald aside and the only ef-
fective action, mass violation, started.
When you get thousand men to go,
Ill be with them. But your pacifism
has destroyed so much that your calls
don't get them any more. The gen.
eral who would fight like the I. w.
w. paciists have in California, and
send little detachments separately
onto the firing line to be killed off
would not be complimented, but shot
for treason" Smith observed.
Non-Resistance Officially Licked. :
When the vote was taken to accept
the majority report vindicating Smith
and calling on Erwin to retract his
charges, the vote stood 20 to 3 in
Smiths favor, Leonard. Murray and
Schwandt opposing. But the non.re
sistant Erwin resisted the call for re
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

traction and as there is nothing more
savage in attacking other workers
than one who believes in not attack.
ing capitalism, the delegates passed
up the refusal without notice.
Report Stlrs Anarchist Ire.
The convention had before it
Smiths report as editor. This had
been handled very gingerly previously.
Rumor said that it was loaded. But
upon Smiths vindication a motion was
made to- accept his report. Pande-
monium broke loose. The anarcho-
syndicalist chairman claimed the
right to attack the report. The con.
vention having apparently decided
that one Of its necessary functions is
to keep Welinder silent, he resigned
the chair, but finally took it back after
being promised ten minutes to state
the position of the Berlin Interna.
tional.
The report was read. It calls on
the I. W. w. to declare clearly
whether it has any revolutionary pur.
pose, whether or not it is organized
to overthrow capitalism, or merely tc
carry on production after capitalism
shall have been oyerthrown by some
other forces. 1t takes up non-resis.
lance and it criticizes the California
boycott, not in principle and not in all
its forms, but decrys the evil effects
of relying on the boycott to overthrow
capitalism and aserts organization al
the point Of production rather than at
the point OF consumption should be
accented and unenforcable boycotts
not attempted.
Wesley Everest Was a Communist.
Welinder's attack was solely on the
suspected implication that IL force
was necessary then a red army was
necessary, too. and any one who thot
so was Communist He set up the
novel argument that when the l. w.
W. is attacked in its hall by mobs II
should not resist there, for there was
better way, no resistance was
needed anywhere except on the eco.
nomic field. He even inferred Yves.
ley Everest was wrong in defending
his life at Centralia. He should have
depended on economic power. The
same with the men on the Verona.
When the Germans invented poi.
son gas" said Welinder, "the English
did not use the same method in re
taliation. They invented more sci
entific defense against the gas
namely, the tank. Those who believe
in other than economic methods fol
waging the class war, should &c
where such methods are approved, tc
the Communists"
Are Tanks Economic Power7
The innocent remark that England
did not use poison gas raised laugh
But that tanks were represented al
economic power" no one seemed e
notice, nor was inquiry made why tn,
English had not gone on strike wher
flndenburg attacked, and met tn,
poison gas with folded arms.
Smith replied, however, and pointed
out the experience OF Italy and Spain
I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
CLAIM GENERALS IN
MEXICO RESTLESS AS
GALES TAKES POWER

Especial to The DAILY WORKER,
Eel PAso, Texas, Nov. s.-Presi-
dent-eIeet PIutareo E. Gales is
threatened with a revolt involving
many Of the generals in the Mexi-
can army who declare their loyalty
to General Oregon, the retiring
president, it was learned here to-
day.
Plans for an uprising in the army
have been completed by the obre-
gon generals and It is thot the move
may eliminate in the curtaiIment Of
Gales power as president and the
appointment Of Oregon as seere-
tary of war.
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issued describing the 1. W.. w. as an
exact duplicate of the early Christian
church and boasting that no organiza
ton in the world ever endured SC
much illegal violence in a better and
more forgiving spirit.
Salvation Army Man Leads Wobs.
He stated that by adopting a non
resistant attitude the I. w. w. had
attracted to it all the types who
glorified martyrdom above proletarian
accomplishment The leader of paci-
fism in the l. w. w, so a wobbly
in the audience told the DAILY
WORKER, was a Salvation Army cap.
tain named Alfred Cohen. Smith did
not mention Cohen, however, but
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

Nothing organized left American
destruction left
wing organization militant program
Let demand for this Let him
his rising
of solidarity labor
powerful
Raise the solidarity and class struggled
Spread the militant proqram
Break the sabotage Of the reaetionariesl
Build the left
For international and national trade union unityI
the struggle capitalism,
government
THE TRADE EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE
National Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Nov. "a
fiat statement that former Secretary
OF the Interior Fall did not conceive
the Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, fuel base
project, involving the trading Of gov
eminent royalty crude oil for fuel oil
in storage, but that the plan origin
ated in the navy department, marked
the trial of the governments suit to
cancel Il. l.. Doheney's leases in
federal court her etoday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
New Khan Building at
Forth Worth, Tex, Has
Gone Up in Smoke
Especial to the Daily worker)

FORT WORTH, Texas. Nov. o.
Fire declared by Ku Klux Khan off,
cials to have been of incendiary orr
gin, completely demolished the new
huge Khan building here today, caus-
ing a loss Of several hundred thou
sands of dollars.
Investigation revealed that the
blaze had started at both ends of
the building simultaneously. The
fire followed on the heels of a close
fight in Forth Worth during the gu
bernatorial elections. DR.. George c.
Butte, republican and Khan supporter,
was leading Mrs. Ferguson here and
in Tarrant county by so votes today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Only Left Wing Can Save Trade Unions

Of Japanese British American imperialism find the labor
positively the Chinese
and their national revolutionary organizations The workers of Amer
lea demand "tlands 0 chna"
RECOGNIZE SOVIET RUSSIA vital to the
interests Of the working but above all sign Of international
solidarity the the world the demand be made for the
complete unconditional recognition Of Soviet Russia
INTERNATIONAL UNITY The present movement for complete
initiated Russian
the of Labor Uons the the work
ing class. It must be supported by all means.
GENERAL UNITED FRONT OF LABOR All the old artificial
among working
modified the destruction the
defeat to relieve unemployment
working conditions organize the unoganzed and
all Of militant this united
mee conferences must be brought together local.
district general labor should be
called possible unity the whole working class struggle
the political and economic fields
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
italian Protests in Paris.

PARIS, Nov. 9--An Italian stood be.
fore the Office of the Italian consulate
here last night and fired six shots
from a pisctol. He said that he
wished to protest against the Fascist
outrages which have been terrorizing
Italy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
candldates IN Cleveland.

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-C. e. Ruthen-
berg, Workers Party candidate for
congress in one of the Cleveland dis
tricts was credited with SIT votes. c.
Brahtin, the party's nominee in an
other district received 25S votes while
A. v. Severino received 219. Their
names had to be written in on the
ballot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
HEROIC ATTEMPT IS
MADE TO SUGAR-COAT
The COOLIDGE GRIN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. g.
Candies on a stick called "charms"
have been displayed in the shops
here carrying the profile of Cool
Idpe engraved on them, both be-
fore and since the election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Brake on Paper Money kIlIs Jobs.

BERLIN.--The sterilization OF Tn.
German currency which results in tho
printing OF rentonmarks instead OF
tho daily printing OF thousand yart
etiss OF the paper money clrculatoc
Turing the imitation period. has reduc-
ed the workers In the government
printing Office from $4,000 to 5000
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lone WOBBLY
REVOLUTIONIST
wins DELEGATES
Continued from page y

Continued from page u
the anarcho-syndicalis chairman be.
gan the attack at once.
Smith is charged with writing edi
torials calling on workers to assault
overturn and destroy the capitalist
system" and urging thousands Of
workers to go to California and VIC
late the Busick injunction"
The trial was somewhat clouded by
the attempt Of Chairman Welinder to
discuss abstractly the theory of vic.
lence. The first attempt brot on a
quarrel among the delegates as to
whether the chairman was or was not
talking too much. There seemed
small reason for debating the ques.
ton.
whats In the Papers?"
Erwin arose and in contemptuous
tone inquired-"What right have
these editors to sit safely in Chicago
and write anything they want to,
while the membership in California is
facing jail for selling the I. w. W.
papers on the streets? I want a point
Of information from fellow worker
Smith as to which he thinks is the
more revolutionary attitude?"
Smiths answer implied that he
thot It made a great deal Of differ.
ence what the editors In Chicago put
into the I. W. w. papers, as to
whether selling them on the streets
was a revolutionary act or not.
The A. F. of L. union men have
been capable Of the greatest heroism,"
Smith declared, "but they are not rev.
olutionary. The United Mine Work
ers' rank and file have proven them.
selves capable of the finest sacrifice
but they are not revolutionary
Even the A. E. F. in France was he
roic, but they would be the first to
tell you that they were not only non
revolutionary but against revolution
by the workers"
This Is Real Leadership.
Smith then launched into a history
Of the growth of pacifsm in the l. w
w. from the time when Walter c.
Smiths attack on militarism was rele.
gated to the scrap heap at the request
Of lawyers under pressure of prosecu.
ton, and how it kept on, the l. w. w.
retrs&ting step by step from the adj
vancsd position which once made it
the leading revolutionary body in Am
erica
The California defense, said Smith,
became so bad that pamphlets were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
The ReactiOnarv Officials Sabotage.

Gompers and his reacona utenants will sabotage all items Of
this militant eads Of labor will the
labor anything Only file
by making militant organizing their demand
by of
the build strengthen them
program working
nication nacfion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10

Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge
Room, Ashland Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-10
Build the Left Wing.

mmon action.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-18
COMMITTEESFOR
c. OF c. FINISHED
President Announces Remain
Ing Chairmen,

Henry L. Dithmer. president of the
Indianapolis Chamber OF Commerce
today issued the remaining list of com
mittee chaIrmen.
Athletic, Harold ]. Hampton. presi-
dent of Hoosier Athletic Club; George
3. Wellbaum, Indiana Bell Telephone
Company, vice chairman; financial ad-
vlsing, Frank D. Stalnaker, president
OF Indiana National Bank; fine arts.
J. I. Holcorab. HolcOmb & Hoke Man
ufacturing Company: foreign trade.
Carl s. Wagner, vice president Of
Insley Manufacturing Company;
freight and traffic. A. d. Hitz Of
George Hitz & Sons, commission mer-
chants; insurance. Richard Lieber.
head OF State department of conserva-
ton; public service, o. d. Haskell,
president of o. D. Haskell Lumber
Company: retail trade. A. Kiefer
Mayer. vice president of Kiefer-Stew-
art Drug Company; speakers bureau.
DR. F. s. C. Wicks, pastor OF All Souls
Unitarian Church: oscar Schmidt,
treasurer OF Chamber OF Commerce,
ex-ohicio chairman Of financial com
mittee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-18
ON To POLE,' IS
SLOGAN OF NAVY
D|RIGIBEE PILOTS
Mastery of Storm by Shenan-
doah Heightens Confidence
of Airnen.

By United NetC8
LAKEHURST. N. J.. Jan. 18.-"On
to the pole?' Triumphant in their
mastery over one of the most severe
storms ever experienced by a dirigible
airship, officers of the Shenandoah are
exclaiming that slogan now, the
epitome Of their hopes for the future.
The safe return of the Navy's giant
air vessel, after a narrowing expert
ence in a seventy mile gale, with a
skeleton crew and with the ships bow
badly smashed. has only heightened
confidence of Navy men in the prowess
of their craft, and whetted their eager
ness to reveal its worthiness in the
contemplated voyage to the northern
polar regions.
1.-THE Shenandoah will be ready to
take the air again within thirty days. a"
said an announcement Thursday night
from Captain McCreary, commandant
Of the air station.
hCaptain McCrary will appoint i'm
mediately a board Of three officers,
headed by Commander Ralph d.
Weyerbacher, to conduct a thorough
examination Of the Shenandoah.
The entire outer fabric covering.
which was torn in several places by
it's fight through the storm. probably
will be removed and replaced by
new one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-18
K|NGAN COMPANY
GIVES $4,000 FOR
BUTLER BUILDING
Gift VIII Be Used Toward
Establishing School of
Commerce.

A gift Of $4,000 cash from Kingan
& Co.. to Butler University. to be used
toward erection Of school of com.
merce building at the new plant at
Fairview Park, was announced today
by John ". Atherton, executive score
tarv of the general endowment com.
Mite
Butler now has a department of
economics, b saded by Dean ]. W. Put
nam. Courses are offered in money,
;redits. banking. craftsmanship, trans
portation and similar subjects. Facilf-
ties for this department. limited at the
present location, viii be extended.
The gift Is the first step toward Sc
curing the new building and equip
ment, Atherton said. Conferences
looking toward establishment of the
department have been held between
Charles N. Thompson, dean OF the
University Of Illinois school of bust
ness; Glenn L. Swiggett, head of the
Federal bureaus trade extension work;
President Robert J. Alley and other
Butler officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-18
GENERAL AULTMAN
TAKES STEP Up
Fl. Ben Chief VIII Sub for
Bundy During Absence.

Brig. Gen. Dwight E. Aultman. com
manding officer Of the 10th Infantry
Brigade and Fit. Benjamin Harrison,
will by virtue or seniority supplant
Maj. Gen. James H. McCrae, as com
mander OF 9Th Corps Area, who will
enter foreign service early in Febru-
airy. 1t was announced today.
General Aultman will serve for
Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy. who Will tour
Asia during a leave. OF absence until
Aug. /. when he win return to head
quarters OF the corps TT. Hayes.
Columbus. Ohio. Col. ]. T. Dean, COM
mander OF the 18th Infantry, will re-
place General Aultman. The advance
ments are only temporary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-01-18
ONE DEAD, THREE
HURT IN ACCIDENT
Mrs. l. C. KerchevaI, Wife Of LInkBe Superintendent Is
Northumberland Driver.

Nicely. and Kercheval escaped injury.
They were thrown out Of the car.
Kercheval said that the slippery
condition of the pavement caused the
machine to skid off the road and turn
turtle in the ditch. He was so affected
by the accident that he said he could
not discuss 1t further.
Funeral arrangements for the VIC
tim have not been made.
Mrs. Robert Van Hoy, 1471 Roose.
welt Ave-. and Mrs. Edward White.
2702 Olney St, were cut and bruised
Thursday night when the cars driven
by their husbands collided at 2719
Roosevelt.
Frances Hiatt, 7S4 Middle Dr.. Wood
ruff Pl.. escaped injury, when he
jumped from his auto as it struck d
chuck hole at Massachusetts, Ave. and
Bellefontaine ST., swerved into a car
parked at the curb and turned over
According to the certificate of title the
other car, belonged to S. L. Savage,
South Bend, Ind.