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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
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new YORK TOILERS
HOLD BANQUET FOR
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2t.-The BAN
quet, attended by over 600 comrades
who packed the hall to capacity,
rendered to comrade Foster by the
needle trades committee of the
Trades Union Educational League,
was a huge success.
Many speeches we're made by
representatives of the various sec
tions of the needle trades commit
tee endorsing the candidacy Of Com
rade Foster and the entire ticket
of the Workers Party.
A splendid spirit was shown by
all present and each and every
worker present pledged his unstint-
ed support to the party. An excel
lent program was arranged and be-
fore comrade Foster spoke a coIlec-
ton Of over $3.50 was taken up.
comrade Foster was enthusiastic
ally received and the workers
cheered for the Workers Party,
for Soviet Russia and for the COM
Ing Soviet America.
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Workers Party campaign headquar,
ters, 210 Il. 18th Street. New York
City.
Comrades, Tony's example must be
followed in every way. The Trade
Union Educational League drive for
shop collections is ON, and Tonys
contribution must be matched by help
from every shop where a single radi-
cal worker is employed. The expense
OF carrying on political campaign is
enormous, and yet we can hope to
reach the ears OF the workers only in
proportion to the amount OF money
that is raised for the work.
Contradict symnathizer! Provide
yourself with list and make a can.
vass of all the workers with whom
you come in contact, Encourage our
collectors with large, easily given do.
nations.
Send all contributions to the Work.
ers Party Campaign Committee, 2io
East 18th Street, New York City.
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Interview With Karakhan, the Russian Ambassador to Chin

Then / continued: you nave been
in Picking nearly one year / should
think you have never been so busy
during this last year as you are now
since you have to wage diplomatic
war simultaneously on two fronts:
the Japanese and the Chinese. :
No, not only two fronts interrupts
Mr.. .Karakhan, for think how many
fronts it will make if you look at the
diplomatic body here!'"
Relations Friendly.
my next question was Both your
name and the name of Mr.. Yoshizawa
are most popular with Japanese. today.
In both your persons we have the
right men in the right places We
have heard it reported that tho the
negotiations between you and Mr..
Yoshizawa often assume an acrimon.
ious character, you are, however,
good friends in your personal rela-
tions. Am l right, then, in believing
that this circumstance does much to
facilitate the fulflment of your most
difficult task?-'You are perfectly
right'-came the Ambassadors reply.
We respect each other and have mu-
tual confidence. This is certainly of
the greatest importance. But for this
circumstance, it is easy to imagine
how difficult it would be to continue
these most difficult conferences. In
deed, if our negotiations are doomed
to failure, the sad end would certainly
have come earlier than necessary
were it not for the mutual respect and
trust shown by the two negotiators.'
For open Diplomacy.
"Your correspondent then expressed
admiration at Mr.. Karakhan's success
in concluding the treaty with China.
1T is truly wonderful diplomatic
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an adjournment, a rupture, or a
breathing-space ?'-Mr. Karakhan's re.
ply was: Your question can answer
as follows: at tho last session, Mr.
Yoshizawa proposed to adjourn the
conference, as he must report to his
government on the course of negotia,
lions. So the latter were inter.
rupted. The negotiations are to be
resumed Immediately Mr.. Yoshizawa
Celther after he receives instructions
or without waiting for them--I don't
know invites us to a session.
The next question was; Referring
to the Soviet-Chinese and the Soviet
British negotiations it was first re.
ported that they had ended in failure,
but then news was soon received
about the signing of the two treaties.
NOW, five days ago you said about the
Soviet-Japanese negotiations that the
situation was critical, and day after
that they were interrupted If we
look at the experience of the Soviet.
Chinese and the Soviet-British con.
ferences, should we not say that we
are now OTTO on the eve of a Soviet.
Japanese agreement?
Mr. Karakhan's reply however,
was 1T is risky to draw such a paral,
lei. As you know, the Russo Chinese
agreement was finally signed but two
months after the rupture. True, the
Soviet-British agreement was signed
twenty-four hours after the break.
down. However, in neither case did
we make any concessions. AS re,
CARDS our negotiations with Mr.. Yoshi.
zawa, they have not been broken up,
but only adorned. This has happened
before. The only thing is that now
this interruption has taken place at a
time when the conference had reached
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a crucial and decisive point: that is
why the impression created is more
vivid. However, we are waiting
quietly. / hope Tokyo will take stock
Of the seriousness of the situation
and will come to realize that we can
not give Japan more than we gave
other states
Believes Situation Is Serious.
"The next question was: When
Kiyuras cabinet gave place to Kato's
ministry, Trotzky, Yoffe and other So
Wet leaders in Moscow made state.
ments to the press, expressing most
optimistic views on the future course
of Soviet-Japanese negotiations. How.
ever, if the conference is now dead.
locked, as you say, does not it show
that the optimistic views of the Mos.
com public men have not been justi-
fied?'
"Mr Karakhan's answer: 4 must
say that Immediately after the change
of cabinets in Japan | myself had the
opportunity of voioing, in an inter
view, my hope of turn for the bet
ter. However, l must say now that
the situation is most serious
Before leaving, your correspond.
ent asked one more question: DO you
believe the complications between ia.
pan and America may have any bear.
ing on Russo-Japanese relations? p
Well, it's a question | wanted to ask
you myself. - remarked Mr..
Karakhan.
THUS ended your correspondent
conversation with the Soviet Ambas-
sador. Abiding by an understanding
with Mr. Yoshizawa, the details OF
the actual Russo-Japanese negotia.
tons were not touched upon-mueh to
the regret of both interlocutors."
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KWLUX KHAN
SOWS ITSELF
UP IN PAPER
Bi Fight is to Kill
BOIsheUik Ideas

Omission that the Ku KIux
Kin, under the cloak of sup
pfting the American constitu-
tih, is in reality bosses or
gnization which fights working
ichss parties is contained in the
Itest issue Of the Illinois "Kour-
hr," official organ of the Ku
Nux Khan.
'The most dangerous foes are
false IDEAS" declares this paper.
'We prepare against the en-
trance of Bolshevistic Russia,
but let the ideas of Bolshevism
come in. If we are to keep UNI
desirable aliens out, by all
means let us keep out their UNI
desirable ideas"
For Glass Collaboration.
The Khan, while claiming to be toll
Grant and freedom loving, lines up
with Frank harrington for class col
liberation. 1--WE believe in a closer
relationship between capital and Ia
bor," says the Khan mouthpiece. "We
believe in the prevention of unwar-
ranted strikes by foreign agitators.
We believe the rights of American cit.
liens are superior in this country to
those of unnaturalized citizens"
The Khan thus throws off the mask
and comes out flatfootedly as Fas.
cist movement formed by capitalists
to fight the working class. In an
other part of the paper the Khan
brags that it took a leading part in
defense day September IL, designed
to promote interest in capitalistic
wars "a distinct honor was confer
rod upon Charles G. Palmer, Grand
Dragon, X. X. K, Realm of Illinois,
when he was invited to be one of the
principal speakers at Chicago's official
demonstration in Lincoln Park" says
the paper. "N1r. almer, who is a
prominent attorney, was member OF
the Governors Committee for De-
tense Day arrangements"
A Black United Front.
The Ku Klux Khan, while it tries to
create riots and dissension among the
ranks of organized labor, and while
it seeks to divide the workers by
race, creed, religion, and in any
other possible way, at the same time
p1ts UP united front with the CAPT
talist politicians, with the church,
with the capitalist militarists, and
with the enemies of organized labor.
The Khan comes out for class collabo-
ration, against strikes, and against the
communists" and foreign agitators. "
The Ku Klux Khan, like the Italian
Fascist, is the enemy of the working
class, and must be exterminated and
Stunned by all workers who are loyal
70 their class.
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means that over 100000 workers who
were on New York factory payrolls in
July, 1928, are still out of work. 1t
means that employment in the state
is still IA per cent below March.
Building Material Drops.
Shientag reports the important de
Icreases in the building material indus
try, while the significant increases OF
CURED in furniture, pianos, shoes and
other leather goods. The large ma,
chinery and electrical equipment
group of industries together with the
iron and steel mills held practically
even. Slight gains we're reported in
automobiles and stoves. Textile mills
were reported still in the midst OF
severe depression with only about
half of the cotton mill employees of a
year ago still employed.
Employment in New York City fell
during August in contrast with the
rest of the state. Shientag attributes
his in part to the failure of the cloth,
ing trades to show the usual seasonal
revival.
The situation in these two states is
typical Altho the next months will
probably show some revival there are
no indications that this can absorb the
millions of unemployed before winter
sets in.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
1OO-pERCENTER
GETS IT IN The
NECK AT UTICA
Workers Party Speaker
Holds Big Crowd
BY ROSE PASTOR STOKES.
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UTICA, N. ", Sept. 21.-I had
the best meeting yet-here in
Utica. spoke on Franklin
Square. The capitalist press
for some reason, had announced
that the socialist party was GO
ing to hold a meeting there and
when we arrived the comrades
found an old local Spite with a.
woman speaker ready to take
possession, but we beat them
to it. 3
We had a large crowd, over
800, and they stayed thru to the
end of the meeting.
As the questions l called for werG
not forthcoming, the crowd was begin-'
ming to disperse when a 1OO-percenter
started something. He asked why +
don't like America. And that gave us
an opportunity to reach a new crowd
1t was just the hour when theaten
crowds come out on the streets. d
pitched in on the answer and / SOON
had an even larger crowd than bes
fore.
D, of J. Bully squeIehed. afv5
Several times reactionary heckIerE
tackled me and got the worst of the
argument every time One man who
turned out afterward to be a detective
in the department of justice SERVICE
was rough-handled by policeman fori
attempting to disrupt the meeting. Ha
was indignant and showed the poliee4
man his badge, and !, noting the ges-l
ture announced to the crowd the
reason for this mans 1O0-percent en-
thusiasm for things as they ares
Daugherty oil and booze figured in
the explanation.
The great crowd from the start were
won over and nobody could start
trouble, After coming close to the
car from which l spoke, and shaking
his fist in my face, the bully skunk
away to the outskirts of the crowd
and nothing was heard from him afteri
that
DAILY WORKERS Sold.
| made a special DAILY WORKER
| talk showing the workers need for
viewing their problems in the light Of
their own interest and not in the light
of their bosses interest as in the
capitalist press where the news is
colored in the interest of those who
own the press. This called attention.
to the DAILY WORKER and we sold
all the copies we had.
Long after the meeting was overl
the crowd stood about in little knots
and discussed the question of Work.
ers and Farmers government and:
Sovietism against Capitalism. i
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RAILROAD LORDS MEET
TO FIND OUT HOW TO
CUT WAGES OF LABOR
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NEW YORK, Sept. 2t.-The asso-
citation of railroad executives have
held meeting to discuss plans for
extending the influence Of the open
shop drive and devise ways and
means to reduce the wages of the
railroad workers.
The announced purpose of the
meeting which was attended by the
presidents of the principle rail-
roads Of the country, was "stablIza-
tlon Of unemployment" However,
II is understood that discussion Of
the unemployment problem included
ways and means to cut down the
force and retreneh during the indus
trial depression.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
Export csaI from Russia.

KHARKov. Russia. Sept 21.--Dur
ign 1924 II is planned to export coal
from the Donetz basin both TO Med
iterranean ports and TO Baltic coun
tries. The mines have so improved
and the need Of Russia for purchasing
power abroad IL so great. that 1t is
planned to export about 100000 tons
OF anthracite and the same amount
OF soft coal. The production OF
coal for July, 1924 in the Donetz basin
was 100000 tons.
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charae Mayor WIN Assault.

DIXON, H., Sept. 21.--A warrant
charging assault with a deadly weap-
on and with intent to do bodily harm
was to be served today on Mayor
George w. Johnson, of Franklin
Grove, as result of his alleged at.
tack on Bertha Zoller, following a
controversy over his orders that her
dog be killed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
WORLD WAR HAS
LEFT TRUST IN
DICTATORSHIPS
Ramsay Mourns Decay
of Capitalist Democracy

LONDON, Sept 21-Premier Ram
say Macdonald, writing today in a
special mo More War Edition. of the
laborite organ, Daily Herald, com
pared present conditions with those
that existed in 1914, before the war
burst upon the world.
The War Failed.
mo one has come into direct con-
tact with the facts can doubt that the
rnentalities of nations today, their
fsars and the safeguards they seek
are as menacing to peace as those be-
fore 1914" wrote the premier. The
war failed lamentably as it was bound
to fail, in settling moral issues and
changing spirit. 1t has not establish.
ed democracy nor spirit of democ,
racy, but has left trust in dictator.
ship and force and an impatience with
ordered progress and national good
feeling.
Cursed With Takers.
1.-THE old enemies were beaten and
yet none are safe. What curse is this
under which mankind lives that we
seem to sacrifice, but never attain?
This country has just escaped from
one Of the greatest military dangers
ever threatened under the guise OF
peace-a treaty of mutual guarantees"
Premier Macdonald said that the
laborite governments had given Eu-
rope the chance of peace by raising
the banner of arbitration. He con,
cluded:
what we have achieved at London
and Geneva cannot be wholly undone,"
What Hypoerite!
While Macdonald was thus pro,
claiming himself as man of peace,
British armed forces, with his con.
sent and under his authority were
busily engaged suppressing the liber.
ties Of people in China, India, Egypt,
Mesopotamia and several other coun-
tries.
Macdonald mourns the decay of
bourgeois democracy. He takes a
yelled slam at the dictatorship of the
proletariat in Russia, which is a gov
eminent of, by and for the great ma
jority of the people of that country,
the workers and peasants. The prem
Ter knows, unless he is suffering from
premature senility, that there can be
no peace as long as the capitalist sys-
tenn exists, and that the real strug.
gle now is. which dictatorship shall
rule in the near future, that Of the
workers or the present yelled dicta.
torship of the capitalists?
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AS WE S EE IT
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

J envy press in order to expose its per.
fidy.
THE TRIBUNE'S correspondents
! were kicked out of Russia and
Mexico because they not only lied
about those countries but acted as
spies and agents provocateur. They
are now forced to sell as news, the
fantastic yarns, spun by the Czarist
opium eaters who will do anything for
the price of shot in the arm. But
the Russian revolution is now a mat
ter of history and the dope fiends who
would have it fall, see in their dreams
between them and their desires the
bayonets of the red army. 1t is there
to stay.
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The Last Of the MohIcans.

ANDERSON, Ind, Sept. 21.-Only
eight of the 116 survivors of the one
hundred and thirtieth Indiana regi-
ment of Civil War veterans were
present today for the organization's
fourtieth annual reunion.
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Crown Prince Sick.

PUERTO REAL, Spain, Sept. I'll
The Crown Prince of Abyssinia, who
has been touring Europe, became sud.
denly i'll here today while prepare
lions we're being made for public
festivities in his honor.
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coal mines show a l4% gain In
the payrolls and per capita earn
ings increased from $2S.66 to
S33.16 in 80 days.
Still Severe.
In spite of this optimism unemploy.
ment continues severe thruout Illinois
with 1872 applicants at the free en-
ployment offices for each 100 jobs.
This is an improvement over the two
preceding months but it marks this
August as the worst in five years with
the exception of August 1921 when
there were 211 registrants for each
100 opportunities to work. There are
still at least $4,000 factory workers out
of a job who were employed in the
state year ago.
More plants in Illinois took on work
ers during the month than laid them
off. OF 10 industrial groups, six made
gains and of So individual industries
80 showed increases. OF the 10 prin-
cipal cities for which employment
data is analysed, eight showed more
workers employed in August than in
July.
Merely Checked.
The report, however, points out that
such figures are more important as
showing that the downward course of
industry has been checked than as
showing any improvement of great
consequence. The slight gain during
the month, it says, still leaves the
number of workers in manufacturing
industries at point 33 per cent be.
low the average for the year 1922 and
14.2 per cent below the level Of Au-
gust, 1923
Per capita weekly earnings, on the
other hand, increased / per cent to
$26.96. This also represents gain
over August, 1923, altho it is still $1.37
below the peak which was reached in
June, 1923.
Several important reductions were
reported in New York state factories,
says commissioner B. L. Shientags re-
port. but there were enough increases
In work to offset the decreases so that
the total volume OF employment went
no lower from July to August That
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
Gompers' Political
Policy Doesn't Work I
in Washington Poll

SEATTLE, Sept. 21.-Edward Cliff
ford, indorsed by the Washington
State Federation of Labor and by
many of its constituent organizations
ran bad third in the republican,
primaries for governor. Labor ofici-'
ais who follow the A. F. of L. nom.
partisan political policy and who look
with disfavor on the Farmer-Labor.
Party of Washington attribute the
defeat of Cliffort and of most Of thel
other labor-indorsers to the indiffer.l
ence OF working men and women td
politics. Anything but independent
action! ,s....t
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22
SLIGHT GAIN IN JOBS THRU TWO
STATES is INSIGNIFICANT; JOB
PROBLEM FOR MILLIONS UNSOLVED
BY LELAND OLDS
Federated Press Industrial Editor)

The sharp drop in employment which began April and
army of obless workers unparalleled any
except 1921 appears touch bottom That the inter-
put upon August employment reports labor
departments of Illinois and New York The Illinois department
prospective improvement in three
tenhs % the total volume of factory employment Illinois
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-22

PARIS. Sept. 21.-High Spanish on
cials today had reports that the Span
fish directorate had opened negotia.
tons with Abdul Krim for settle
ment Of the Riff warfare in Morocco.
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BY RosTA.

PICKING, China, Sept. 19.-The Ros.
ia News Agency is in a position to
publish the following interview which
was granted by Mr.. Karakhan to Mr..
Fuse, representative Of the Japanese
paper, the Osaka Mainiehi.
"Profiting by the interval in the
Russo-Japanese negotiations" reports
Mr.. Fuse to his paper, your CORE
spondent called on Ambassador Kar.
akhan, who is still living in the build
ing of the Soviet Mission outside Of
the legation quarter.
Note Must Be Free Of Conditions.
sit is probably my last opportunity
to talk with you in this study | re-
marked. Why?' asked Mr.. Karak.
han rather astonished. Well my
reply was, tomorrow or the day after,
or at any rate one of these next days,
you will receive from Mr.. Yoshizawa,
the present doyen of the diplomatic
corps, an invitation to take possess
ion of the building of the Russian leg
alton, and you'll move there This
reply drew a smile from the Ambas,
sador, who remarked that he was not
so sure of it, anyhow until he would
receive a note free of any condi-
tions.