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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
NEGROES WILL
CHALLENGE CAL
ON KLAN issue
EUasions of Silent One
Won't Work
lspeoIaI 70 rhe DaIIy w0rkerl

WASHINGTON, August d.
Cautious Cal has found a way
to squirm around the Ku KIuxi
Khan issue, in the opinion of his
advisers here. His letter de-
cIaring that a Negro is as much
entitled to run for a congress
sional nomination as is a white
man was designed to overcomei
the loss he sustained when La
Toilette publicly denounced the,
Khan and it's racial and religious
discrimination.
Coolidge does not repudiate the help
he is receiving from the Khan in In-l
diana, Oklahoma, Maine and else
where, but he makes a bid for the
colored vote. 81
The bid comes too late however, to-
prevent a serious revolt among the
intelligent Negroes. That a great
number of the Negroes are not fooled |
even by the beautiful phrases of La
Toilette is indicated by the statement
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, ins
which they repudiate the alleged sup-i
port they are said to have given thel
Wisconsin Senator on the grounds that
he refused to organize labor party
at Cleveland on July 4. nd
Negroes viii Challenge Calvin 4
Influential Negroes in this city states
that they will challenge Coolidge to-
denounce the Khan directly, in view
of the Klan's espousal of his cause
in Indiana and Oklahoma. Does he4
repudiate Senator Jim Watson's deal
with the Indiana Khan, or does hel
tacitly approve that treaty? Can
Coolidge be pro-Klan in Indiana andi
anti-Klan in New York?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
CICERO POLICE Il
ARREST COUPLE 4
OF SOAPBOXERS
Western Electric Still
Sore at Workers Party

Clarence Miller of the Young Work.
ers League and Frank Zalpis of the
Workers Party were arrested yester-'
day and released on a bail Of $102l
each for speaking on the corner Of
West 14th st. and 49th Ct, in Cicero,
on the usual f1imsy charge of "disor-
derby conduct" and speaking without
a permit"
When Miller, who has already been
pinched once for soapboxing becausel
the cops did not like his red hairs
asked the Cicero defender Of law and
order if there was free speech in the
United States, the blue-coated worthy
replied: "Of course, but it depends
what you speak about"
AS Good as Duncan Sisters.
After having made this profound
and philosophical remark, he hailed
the two comrades to the bailiwick of
Captain of Police Svoboda, who
promptly relegated the awful reds to
the same cell as had previously been
occupied by such respectable persons
as the Duncan sisters.
Just before being released on bail,
the captain inquired as to whether or
not Miller had made a political
speech. When assured that he had,
and told that the comrade had spoken
for the candidacy of William z. Foster
for the Workers Party, the brilliant
chief of the police inquired If Foster
was connected with this guy LaFol-
lette."
Captain Knows His Stuff.
This question, which shows an
amazing keenness and observation,
should fit Captain Svoboda immedi-
ately for the candidacy of mayor Of,
Cicero.
The hearing OF the two arrested
comrades will come up on Monday
morning, 10000 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
PRES. HARRIS IN
PICKLE AT WEST
VA. LABOR MEET
Failed to Push Farmer
Labor Party
Especial to The Daily worker)

WHEELING, w. ", Aug. 13.-The
West Virginia State Federation Of La
Dor convention which opens in Wheel
ing earl yin September, will iron out
the internal strife Of the past year.
Local unions that protested against
alleged irregular and unconstitutional
procedure OF President Harris and
that were dropped from the fedora
ton will be given representation at
the convention. The executive coun-
ell. American Federation OF Labor,
which heard the grievances Of the
local unions and city central bodies
at its Atlantic City meeting early in
August, promises that everybody will
have fair show at the state conven-
ton.
Financial Kicks Coming.
Altho financial complaints loom
large In the opposition to Harris, other
grievances include his failure TO push
the Farmer.Labor movement Endorsed
by the previous convention
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
WANTS IRELAND
TO BREAK WITH
GREAT BRITAIN
England Charged with
Treaty Violation
lspsoIaI 70 The Daily wOrkerl


DUBLIN, Aug. 13.-Deputy Thomas
Johnson, Englishman and leader of
the Irish Labor Party, charges that
England, his native land, violated the
treaty which created the Irish Free
State and the Northern government,
while President w. T. Cosgrove.
Irishman, nationalist and former
professional English-hater, defends
the British government against
charges Of violating the treaty and
has reached an agreement with the
British Labor Government to intro
duce legislation establishing boun-
dairy commission. Some mixupl
After a somewhat heated debate
Cosgrove's compromise was accepted
by the Dali, only ten members of the
Labor Party voting in opposition.
Thomas Johnson, the labor leader,
urged that the time had arrived for
Ireland to go her own way. Kelvin
O'Higgins. Minister for Home Affairs,
denounced Mr.. johnson for wanting
to separate Ireland from nation Of
4O,OO0,o00 people, Irelands best Gus
toner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
H. C. [. FALLS ONLY ONE
half Per CENT IN YEAR;
JOBLESSNESS GROWS
tspeeIaI to the paIIy worker.l

(Speciai 10 tne DdIly Worker.)
WASHINGTON, August 13.-The
cost Of a wage earner's budget is
down less than y Of 1 per cent
since June, 1923, according to the
latest cost of living survey of the
United States department Of labor
which shows the cost still 69.1 per
cent above 1913. The report shows
wide variation in extent Of changes
in the cost of living in the chief
cities. The cost of living in De-
troit is S2.4 per cent above 1915
while in Savannah it is 52.7 per
cent above the pre-war level. The
per cent increase in other cities
over 1913 is: Baltimore, 71.9 per
cent; Boston. 63.2 per cent; Buff
falo, 1873 per cent; Chicago, 1875
per cent; Cleveland, 1853 per cent;
Los Angeles, 751 per cent; New
York. 72.5 per cent; Portland, Ore,
52.S per cent; San Francisco, 57.3
per cent; Seattle. 66.7 per cent, and
Washington, 592 per cent.
Send in that Subscription Today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
LAST chanoe for Evolutlon.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Aug. 49,
At the close of the hearing for and
against removing from the public
schools of California textbooks teach
ing evolution, the state board of edu-
cation lodged the issue by referring
the matter to a committee made up
of the presidents of nine colleges in
California. A majority vote of this
committee is to determine the ques-
ton. Five Of the nine colleges are
under UNCONVENTIONAL or other relig-
ious control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14


began to draw their Immigrant" la
Dor supply from the agricultural
south-Negro labor. Fearing to bring
more European laborers who are now
infected with revolutionary ideals, the
capitalist class is more dependent to-
day upon holding Negro labor under
exploitation than at any other time in
seventy-fve years.
Is it to the interest Of the Ameri-
can capitalist labor exploiters to per-
NIT many, many thousands Of Negro
workers to leave this country? No,
it is the interest Of the capitalist class
to keep the Negro digging its bitches
and working in its steel mills for a
starvation wage, so as to create the
wealth for the ease and comfort of
the ruling class. 1t is to the interest
of the capitalist class to rob the Ne
gro of his political rights, his eco
nomic freedom, his self-respect and
his will to freedom and social equal
ity; but it is not to the interest of the
capitalist class to send the Negro
back to Africa.
The Ku Klux Khan, as an instru-
ment of the capitalist system, will not
do anything to help the Negro to es-
cape from capitalist exploitation. Has
not the southern capitalist class al
ready used violence against northern
labor agents who attempted to entice
few hundred Negroes away from the
south for northern factories? Have
not several southern states under
Khan domination passed laws to pun
ish with heavy fines any labor agents
who may entice even handful of la
borers away? What, then, would be
their attitude in case of any serious
danger of losing millions of black la
borers whose toll furnishes the wealth
and luxury Of the capitalist class?
1t is entirely possible that the Khan
anti-Negro organization may make
promises of friendliness to the emigra-
ton of Negroes from America. But
if the Khan does so it will be only to
induce the Negro to give up the fight
for his political, economic and social
equality.
Negroes, beware Of your enemies
bearing gifts! Beware Of the prom
Uses of an organization which consid-
ers you as similar to "baboons and
monkeys" and which publicly ex-
presses regret that you are not still in
chattel slavery!
Regardless of any assurances that
the chief Negro burners of the Khan
may make in consideration of your
giving up your political and social
rights in America, when the time
comes to deliver, you will find your
selves all the more hopelessly exploit
ed degraded, tortured and terrorized,
people without home either in
America or in Africa or anywhere
else.
The Workers Party of America and
the Communist International stand for
the right of the Negro to migrate
where he will-freely to Africa or any
where else it may please him to go
or to stay where he will, and to enjoy
full, free political, industrial and So
cial equality wherever he may be, in
any country on earth. But without
your contesting for these rights here
and now where you are, these rights
cannot be won anywhere.
What of Africa?
The rights Of the Negro in Africa
are not free for the taking. They
have to be fought for, no less than
the rights Of the Negro in America.
The African continent is now under
the brutal domination Of the most
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
JOBLESS GET.
SPEEDY RESULTS
BY RADICAL STEP
Scare Australian Govt
Into Relief Act
BY w. FRANCIS AHERN.
Federated Press staff correspondent.)

SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. 13.
-"Give US rooms! Charge it
to the government
Clerks in the SWEETEST hotels
of Sydney looked at the invad-
ing hosts of the city's unem-
ployed and didn't know what
to do. The jobless men then
marched from the richly car
peted Hobbies into the exquisite
dining halls where Sydney's
most fastidious profiteers and
their women were consuming
lavish delicacies.
Charge 1t Up.
Give us the same and charge it
to the government" the unemployed
told the mincing walters.
Then things happened in the gov
eminent offices. Relief was on the
way, both for the unemployed and
for the shocked and contaminated
profiteers.
OOSau00 llC 4NGW OOuln W dAGD dull-
Labor government refused to find
food, shelter and work for the unem-
ployed, they organized committees
and arranged route marches to the
leading hotels at Sydney demanding
food and accommodation and ordering
the cost to be charged to the govern
ment.
After several invasions of the swell
hotels, the business interests of sgd
ney approached the government and
ordered that something be done for
the unemployed to keep them from in
vading the hotels and mixing with So
ciety guests. The government made a
grant of money for food and set about
providing work.
Appeal to Macdonald.
A large number of the unemployed
and starving are immigrants from
Britain and on behalf of these the
following cable was dispatched to
Ramsay Macdonald, Labor prime
minister of Great Britain: Mass meet
ings unemployed decided cable you
furnish funds thousands British emil
grants destitute in New South Wales.
No LOCAL help; position desperate"
The federal government also de-
cided to take some action to alleviate
unemployment and restitution. A
grant of $2,5OO,O0O has been made for
work on national roads.
And the unemployed know how to
get results.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14

will be-to torture and burn his weak
ened victim.
What Does the Khan Want Of the
Negro?
There are some who think that be-
cause the Khan hates the Negro, the
Khan will be glad to get rid of the Ne
gro by encouraging large migration
to Africa.
To any who may think this way,
will say that the Khan hates the Ne
gro, not to get rid Of him, but to keep
him working in the cotton fields and
the work shops, and to suppress any
aspiration the Negro may have to es-
cape exploitation.
We warn you that the Klan's hatred
of the Negro has an economic basis.
The Khan is an expression of the
American capitalist class, or at least
of the petty capitalist class, and it is
utterly unable to act in any way that
is not in the interest of capitalism.
The interest Of capitalism is to Gre
ate hatred of the Negro; and the Khan
hates accordingly. The interest of
capitalism is. to rob the Negro of po-
litical, social and economic equality,
so as to make him easier to exploit;
and therefore the Khan becomes a tool
for this purpose. The interest Of CAPT
talism is to maintain a caste system,
as an aid to the class division Of So
ciety; and the Khan makes the. preser-
walton Of the caste system its most
joyful task The interest Of capital
ism is to divide the working class into
"air-tight compartments" by means Of
race hatreds-gentile hating Jew,
hundred per cent Americans" hating
foreign-born workers, white worker
hating Negro worker, one religious
sect hating another-thus preventing
the working class coming together in
solidarity which would endanger
capitalism; and so the Ku Klux Khan
distils the poison which robs the work
ing people of their sanity and their
ability to understand each other, max
ing them as the people of Babel.
Thus the Ku Klux Khan, as class
instrument of capitalist society, does
everything in the service Of the CAPT
talist system of exploitation. 1t does
nothing and can do nothing of any
sort that is opposed to the interests
of capitalist exploitation.
What is the supreme interest of the
capitalist class in regard to the Ne
gro?
To exploit the Negro is the first OBJ
ject Of the capitalist class. All other
purposes are subordinate to that SUI
preme object: to extort wealth out of
the toll of the Negro as well as out of
his white fellow-worker. To gather
wealth out Of the toll of the black la
borer; to have the Negro pick its cot
ton, plow its cornfelds, dig its bitches
and slave in it's steel mills and stock
yards, is the interest of the white
ruling class. And this interest alone
will the Ku Klux Khan serve.
Capitalist Khan Wants Negro to
Labor.
The capitalist class Of America
gathers its wealth solely out of the
labor which it exploits. To have la
borers under its domination is its SUI
preme interest. In centuries gone by
the white ruling. class brought black
labor from Africa in slave ships, in
I -. I. 10 70
exploit. In later years it brought mil
lions of wage laborers from Europe
for exactly the same purpose. During
and after the world war, when the
European labor supply was shut off,
the northern industrialist capitalists
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
Workers Party Calls for Fight on KlanI

powerful capitalist governments on
earth. It's gold, diamonds, rubber and
other products, and the power to ex-
plot African labor, are among the
most precious possessions of these for
eign aggressors, who will fight to the
last with the strongest armies and ma
vies in the world before they will sur
render an inch of Africa's soil Even
the supposedly independent" African
Negro states are being irresistibly en-
croached upon by these greedy Euro
pean capitalist states, with the Ameri
can capitalist government also forcing
its way in, to have a share Of the
spoils for American capitalists.
Is it, then, possible that these pred
atory governments would permit or
encourage a migration into Africa Of
large number of Negroes going there
for the purpose of winning their own
nationhood and freeing the millions of
African people from the exploitation
of these very powers? Will the CAPT
talist powers who are seizing Abys-
sinia's seaports extend a welcome to
tens Of thousands of Negroes come to
strengthen Abyssiania's independ
ence? Is it not clear that the sup
posedly independent" republic of Lii
IBERIA is completely under the control
of the great powers that are stealing
her land on all borders, when the
American, French and British minis
tiers, and not the Liberian government,
decide the policy Of that country? In
refusing the recent request of your
organization for permission to locate
5000 immigrants, did not the presi-
dent of Liberia state as one reason
for the refusal that he is keeping his
mind on the obligation Of Liberia to
the great powers? Does this not
mean that Negro independence in
Africa is farce, and that a fight
against capitalism and capitalist gov.
ernments in Africa, in America, in
Europe and thruout the world is a
necessity to any plan for Negro free
dom?
Can you afford, then, to abstain
from fighting against petty and con-
temptible Negro-baiting society in any
one of these countries, on the theory
that such a society will tolerate your
efforts for liberation? The Ku Klux
Khan will not help you to destroy its
father and mother, capitalism and i'm
perialism. It will fight you. You
must fight it.
Is it not better for you to issue your
defiance to the Ku Klux Khan and the
capitalism and the caste system
which it supports, and to join hands
with the great world movement which
is fighting your enemies in all coun>
tries?
On behalf Of the Negro workers and
white workers and workers of all
races who are members of our party,
we most earnestly request the con-
vention of the Universal Negro I'm
provement Association to reconsider
the resolutions which were passed on
the subject of the Ku Klux Khan. We
ask you, for the sake of not betraying
the Negro Race and the class to which
you and we belong, to declare your
undying antagonism to the Ku. Klux
Khan and all that it stands for, and to
join us in the determination not to
rest until the last filthy trace of it is
DIFFERENTIATED from this country.
Fraternally yours,
THE WORKERS PARTY OF
AMERICA.
WILLIAM 2. FOSTER,
National Chairman.
c. E. RUTHENBERG,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14

MEXICO CITY, Aug. .13.--over III
100000 barrels OF oil were exported
from Tampico during the FIRST six
months Of 1924. This shows an in
crease Of 100000 barrels over the first
six months of last year, in spite of the
prolonged strike OF the FL Aguila OIL
company The largest export com
pany this year Is the Transcontinental
STANDARD OH.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
NON-UNION MINERS
GET LEAD BREAKFAST
IN WILBURTON, OKLA.

WlLRERToN, okla, August 49,
Five non-union miners were shot,
one being seriously wounded, In an
ambush attack at Hughes, 10 miles
east of here late yesterday, accord
ing to word from Sheriff Austin
Park today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14
EVACUATION is
HELD AS CLUB
over GERMANS

LONDON, Aug. 13.-Premler Herriot
of France, Premier Theunis OF Bel
GUM, and Chancellor Marx OF Ger
many, met today in a supreme effort
TO work out plan for evacuation of
the Ruhr by Franco-Belgian troops.
Premier Herriot insisted upon coupling
evacuation with commercial agree
ment. including treatment for Alsatian
factories.
Both the French and Belgians in
sisted upon a detailed settlement with
Germany regarding their future COM
mercial relations before submitting to
definite Ruhr evacuation plan. The
French are especially anxious to safe
guard Alsace-Lorrain Industries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-14

MOSCOW, Aug. 1.-THE last con-
tsns soma!nIng IN the city las e@sn
shanged into a factory for tit p1any
.ciure oil CRITICAL Limbs Tho eisi.y
nvs., mostly old women whs fc-~o ely
dwelt in thu Convent OF The t0ly
virgk are being carcS for ~ Ds.s sn.s
in tx aaighLorhocj.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
NATIONAL BOARD
LAUDS YOUNG STAR

In an official statement concern.
ing the william FOX production OF
Tho Blizzard. the National Board
u Review gives ertrayagant praise
20 Ellnar Hanson. the young swed.
ish star Of the cast. comparing him
favorasiy with Rodolph Valentino
and Richard Bar'helmess. Tho Bile.
zar,lr was adapted from The story
of Country House" by Selma La.
gsriof. noted awsdish writer. winner
or tho Nobel priro for literature.
Mary Johnson has tho principal fem.
inins role and capable cast is In
support.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
LILLIAN GlSH Is
COLLEGE FAv0RITE

MARY pickford may be- Americas
Sweetheart" but Lillian Cluh rules
supreme At the University OF Cali.
fornia, according TO reports Of the
committee on sub3ee, "a" Subject
"a" is a required examination In
English composition AT the. univsr.
sIty and Is prescribed for all under.
graduates
From list Of IL subjects assigned
TO them. the students wcrc 20 choose
one Tho mos; popular topic was
The Best Movie Have Ever Seen. .
and tho majority who wrote on this
picked out Lillian Gish In THE
White Sister" a. their IDEAL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
ALL STAGETRAINEn

Every member IN George Archin-
haud's production. The Plunderer. e
now being made At the Fox West
Coast lot. has appeared on the stage
with the exception OF Katherine
Grant. Frank Mayo. the lead. has
been away from the iegit for eight
years: Evelyn Brent. feminine lead.
Tor four years: Eddie Phillips for
three: Tom santschi for 10; Dan Mn.
son for 10: Peggy Shaw for three. and
linn Mason for five.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
LuPIN0 Lane is DIE

Lupino Lane. king OF English pan
tomime comedians. win return TO the
United States this month TO make a
new series Of feature screen com
edics for the Fox company. Lanes
original contract provides for his re.
turn TO London each winter to APP
pear as the star OF one OF the big
English rcvues.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
LEW CODY TO TRY
Film EXPERIMENT

Lew Cody. thc Goldwyn featured
player. has purchased the motion pic
ture rights to one.act play Of for
eign origin and win produce II in
films himself probably in tho even
lngs after he bias finished day work
In Goldwyn pictures. He win be
able TO do this as tho sketch win
make but a two.rcel picture. Il "a
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
DoUBLE.HEADER

A "double-hcadcd' net was con-
strucied for the swickard produc-
ton. san Francisco" now being
directed by Charles Twickard for
Grand. Asher. ono end was a cafe"
in sab Francisco in the days OF
gold. The other end was n China
town cabaret in 1906. Julanno John
stou. leading woman. was n French
danscuse in the old.timo Get and a
Barhary Coast dancer in the later
scene. Josef swiekard and Francis
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01

dramatic vigustte. OF unusual
power. and il considered Of outatani.
ing merit for a short film
There are only three people In tho
story and the whole action takes
place within one scf, consequently
II can be produced for little cost.
Tho popular actor VIII make The film
merely for the personal satiafacsion
Of the thing. TO be shown at private
functions However. II the picture
has a wide appeal. Cody may release
-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-01
HERE'S Al NIFTY

John Gilbert pulled a wise one the
other day on the William Fox West
Coast lot. where he Is starring n his
new picture. "A Mans Mate" difec.
ton Of Edmund Mortimer. This
isn't an animal picture" said 81. Gil.
bert. even tho the names Of leading
chhractess are Lion and Wildcat.
They are Apaches.v