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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Get Out Your Old Clothes

The Chicago Christian Industrial League, one of
the innumerabe charity organizations that gathers
up the crumbs from the table of capitalism, and
uses them to ease the strain of the human wreckage
caused by the system, has caught an mixing of
what may be expected by the workers during the
coming winter to witness extensive unemployment.
wealthy families of Chicago asking for round
up of all the "castof clothing, furniture cooking
utensils, and anything else that is lying around
useless"
The Christian League says that it expects the
coming winter to witnes sextensive unemployment
1t will use the castof articles it collects to give
work to some jobless and homeless men and women
who would otherwise starve or freeze Those who
are thrown helpless into the arms of the Christian
League will repair the old clothing, ETC., and in
return receive 'Doard and lodging"
No one will accuse these Christians of arriving
at the conclusion of threatening unemployment
this winter, thru any economic analysis of capital
ism 1t has become rather an accepted idea that
this is going to be a bad winter. The Communists
pointed out the inevitable crisis year ago, and
again. particularly, last March, Now that the
pinch is being felt so strong that the Christian
Leagues are issuing an S. o. S. for all the old
clothes from the bourgeois cellars to keep the un
employed alive, perhaps more workers will begin
to set up and take notice.
But of course this is not important" enough
for presidential candidates to take note Of 1t is a
beautiful system that we have, and so much better
than that of the terrible Bolshevks of Russia, who
took the houses, factories, railroads. and govern
ment away from the capitalists, instead of taking
their old clothes But there is presidential can
ddate, William z. Foster, who says we should for
get about the old clothes Take the govern
ment, nationalize the big industries and put all
the unemployed to work, is the message to the
working class of the Communist presidential cam
paign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Dqwes, Friend of K. K. K.

"They were brave men," said Charles g. Dawes,
republican candidate for vcepresident, speaking
of the K K. X. murderers of Williamson County,
Illinois, where Glenn Young, fake prohibition
agent and gunman set up Chamber of Commerce
dictatorship under the K. K. K. hood Thus does
Dawes, speaking in the Klanridden state of Maine,
take stand for claw enforcement" Every Klans-
man in the country will be delighted with such
"denunciation." Dawes has won the Khan vote
Dawes went about as far as he could in putting
his stamp of approval upon the Khan, without
actually procaiming himself member of it. He
justified the Khan in its Oklahoma war, he praised
the motives of the Klansmen he credited them
with being claw enforcers." In fact there has not
been so open a bid for the X. K. X. vote in the
national campaign as that made by Dawes
Perhaps Dawes would have even endorsed the
organization, but for the organzational patriotism
for his own Fascist gang the minute Men of the
Constitution" This is sort of super lan," be-
ing a picked body, carefully excluding the hoi-
polloi that give bulk to the Khan, and combining
itself to our best people" who thus constitute the
general staff of such organizations of the boobery
as the X K X. But the boobery must be given a
little recognition to that it votes right SO
Dawes gives them a decoration for law enforce
ment and bravery"
Coolidge and Dawes Davis and Bryan; LaFol-
lette and Wheelernone Of these sets of candidates
has any fundamental quarrel with the Khan. None
of then would speak out against the Khan in their
cciaI announcements All of them covertly solicit
It's support That is because all of them stand upon
he same belief in the sacredness of capitalism, and
of the capitalist constitution. They all agreed
that the dictatorship must be of capitalism over
the workers Only the revolutionary workers. nm
der the leadership of the Communists, really fight
AGAINST the Klan because only they really fight
against the capitalist system, for the protection
of which the Khan is the illegal armed force today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Rewarding Virtue

The city of Columbus South Carolina, COM
memorated the other day, the death of Negro
preacher who served the Lord and his earthly mas
tiers Off seventyfive years. In honor OF the Negro
messenger of God, the mayor of the town ordered
all work stopped while the funeral procession
was on.
We suppose the cynics and skeptics will now be
asked to stop all their unfounded talk about NAL
treatment of the Negroes in the United States.
This little event will be pointed out as living proof
that even in death the Negroes are accorded
equality even by the much-maligned South
And the press makes particular mention of the
fact that the preacher worked for one cent year.
This fact is cited as proof par excellence that the
Negro was virtuous What more could one ask
from mere human being than praying to the Lord
and serving Him at the munifcent sum of penny
year.
IT is interesting to observe what is virtue and
what is vice in the eyes of the exploiting class That
which, if on a grand scale, tends to enhance the
profits and political power of the capitalists is
virtue. That which tends to undermine the EN-
ployers' power is vice, a crime blow struck at
society In short that which helps the ruling class
maintain itself in power is supposed to be in the
interest of all society.
The student of historical materiaism readily
grasp how concepts of virtue arise and take root
i'm the economic conditions, in the system OF pro
duction and exchange, in the class relationship
growing out of the organized industrial order we
need but look at the capitalists of the various
countries clarifying the untold sacrifices of the
working masses in the war to make the world safe
for putocracy by resortng to that hollow mockery,
TO that vile fraud on the sacredness of the lives of
the workers-the unknown soldier" celebrations.
The very acme of virtue is reached in the eyes Of
the employers when working man, an expropri-
ated inhabitant of any country, has sacrificed so
much to the cause of the perpetuity of the profit
system that even the remains of his body cannot
be identified.
Yet we are sometimes melted to question why
it is that the bosses always seek to reward and
honor the virtues of the workers. as class, when
they are dead We are even more often driven to
ask why it is that the ruling class always makes
sure to reward its own virtues here on this EARTH
where and when they live. The poor Negro
preacher like the forsaken white unknown soldier,
is monument to the avarice and greed Of the CAPT
talist exploiters,
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teach the young men of that state
some new fashioned doctrines which
to say the least, are not those of con-
stitutional Americanism. He then
loosened upon the state of Oklahoma
a horde of hardened criminals from
the prison.
For Secret Movements.
"If there could be an excuse for law
abiding citizens to band themselves
together in secret organizations for
law enforcement, it existed in Okla
homa, and the Khan became a power
full organization.
What happened then? Then back
stepped Gov. Walton to the American
flag to which it seems to me, he had
not kept very close up to that time
and called out the militia of the state.
Then it was that those who had joined
the Khan in the interest of law and
order, found themselves arrayed
against their flag and laws of. Okla
homa.
And then what happened? There was
the application of the only method
with which our people can properly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Fascist Pal of "Silent Cal" for K. K. K.

settle such differences-the procedure
outlined by the constitution and laws
of the state of Oklahoma. Walton was
removed from the governorship by the
vote of the people and quiet was re-
stored under the orderly processes
provided by the constitution and the
laws.
The Herrin Riots.
Consider what happened in Will
hanson county, Illinois, where the
town of Herrin is situated. A reign of
lawlessness existed.
1T was marked by the terrible Her
rim massacre. 1t was marked by a
general break down in respect for
law, which indicated that the officers
of the county, including the sheriff
had been intimidated by law breakers
into inaction. A thousand members
of the Ku Klux Khan without disguise
they were brave men-marched to
the office of the sheriff of William
son county to protest against the
lawlessness in that section. If a sc.
cret organization to uphold law and
order is justifiable anywhere in our
country, it was justiflable there.
But, what happened? Immediate
Ily the IawIess element formed the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Worlds Largest Coal Mine Shuts Down

cago, where he secured the city look
ing for job that was not to be had.
you can't buy a job now" he said
Anton Bujan went to chicago and
finally got job in the Western Elec-
trio company.
Waiting the Long Wait.
But he was laid off with the other
low-paid slaves there who got the
gate, and is now back in Christopher,
doing the same thing ten thousand
other men in the country are doing,
waiting for the mines to open.
Luke MatosIeh has returned from
St. Louis where he learned that in
dustriaI unemployment is about as
severe as the unemployment In the
coal fields. Almond Mundjureich
hoped freight train to st. Louis,
couldn't find work, came back to
Christopher, hoped another freight
to Chicago, couldn't get work, came
back to Christopher and then hop
ped a third freight and made an
other try at st. Louis. He has just
returned from st. Louis and thinks
he'll stay in Christopher while.
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Knights of the Flaming Circle, and
then both sides were afraid to go out
at night and a condition was created
which actually eliminated in civil
war and the loss of life. And how,
again, was peace established? By the
only proper way in the sending of
the militia of the state of Illinois to
the scene of the trouble, as provided
by law in such cases.
LeaionaIres and Kluxers.
There is much in the Ku Klux
Khan which appeals to the adventur-
Gus youth. / remember once, when
travelling over Illinois, speaking for
law enforcement, the constitution, and
the American flag, some of the Ameri-
can Legion men with me talked to
other legion men who had joined the
Ku Klux Khan at one Of the towns Wis
tied.
"They told those who were with
me what they were planning to do.
They said, There is a bootlegger in
our county who is in cahoots with the
sheriff and everybody knows it. Now,
we are not going to hurt the man,
but some night we are going for him
and his still. We are going to gag
him, carry him and the still up to
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the court house yard and tie him to
1t so that the sheriff and the whole
town will see him when they come
down to their work in the morning. !"
To show his contempt for the work
ers, Dawes also took a wallop at or
ganized labor and praised the judges
who have made a speciality of issuing
injunctions in labor disputes.
So far, Calvin Coolidge has nothing
to say on the Khan and it is very
doubtful if canny Cal will follow In
the footsteps Of the general, who has
already snatched the leadership of
the campaign from his chieftain.
Khan Beaten in Texas.
Down in Texas, the anti-Klan can.
didate, Mrs. Ferguson, had lead over
her Khan opponent of $4,000 votes
with only 46 counties to be heard
from. The entire Khan ticket was
swept clean out of office and the
Khan repudiated in one of the strong
est Khan states in the union.
From now on Klan-baiting will be
a favorite sport for politicians. But
General Dawes and Calvin Coolidge
cannot very well slough on the Khan
endorsement given at Augusta, Maine.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Foot-Garment
Workers Strike in
Hartford, Conn.

HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 24.-Over-
shoe and Slipper Workers of Wiley
Bickford G Sweet Co. went out on
strike as a protest against a 80 per
cent cut in piece work wages. One
of the peacefully picketing strikers,
c. Michael, was arrested because"
said the superintendent of the plant,
"he threatened two or three employees
with bodily injury If they return to
work"
c. Michel said he was arrested not
for threatened injury (Which he did
not do) but because he talked to
workers about the strike. He was re.
leased on $500 bond
The working conditions in this plant
are miserable and the wages are very
poor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
REPORT FRANCO-RUSS
CONFERENCE WILL Be
HELD IN NEAR FUTURE

COPENHAGEN, Aug. 24.-George
chicherin, commissar of foreign az
fairs in the Soviet union; Christian
Rakovsky, who recently represent
ed the workers republic in It's neao-
tiations with England, and Leonid
krassin have been appointed to
represent Moscow in a proposed
Franco-Russian conference accord
ing to report received here today.
1t has not yet been officially con-
fIrmed.
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at was, but there is no occupation
here now"
The men, according to this miner,
are dissatisfied with the way Earring
tons lawyers have handled the Gem
company suit to recover the December
payroll They feel that the union,
under Farrington's regime, is falling
to pieces and are discouraged about
the future. II don't believe the mines
will ever open again in Pinckneyville"
Hawkins said.
The Wren City mine of the Old Ben
Coal company has been shut down
for many months, and the 900 men
employed there are desperate. Half
Of the houses lie empty like ghostly
shells. All the single men have left
town to Ego on the bum" during the
unemployment crisis. Some houses
are being dismantled and others are
decaying.
Plenty Of Mines-and Coal.
There are four large mines in and
around Christopher; the New North
Mine, which has capacity for produc-
ing more coal than any other mine in
the world, the East Mine, the Old
North Mine, and the Buckner Mine,
two miles outside of Christopher.
OF these, $50 miners have been out
work for many months because of the
complete shutdown of the East
mine, 600 are out of work because of
the long continued shutdown of the
Old North Mine, 500 are working in
the Buckner Mine three days a week
at the most, and 1000 men work an
average of four days a week in the
New North Mine.
Miners here complain bitterly OF the
absolute lack of consideration offered
them by the coal operators and of the
growing impotence OF the miners
union, under its reactionary leader.
ship, to resist the companies mis-.
treatment.
Demand Distribution Of Work.
Adrian Delforge pointed out to the
DAILY WORKER that large coal com.
panies owning more than one mine
should be forced to operate each mine
an equal number Of days, thus dis.
tributing the work.
Instead" said Delforge, "the Old
Ben Coal company closes the East
Mine, claiming they want to install
an electric hoist, while their Buckner
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Mine is kept open. One of the mine
bosses told me the company intends
to use the East Mine only as a fall
back, when the Buckner Mine cannot
produce all the coal they can sell.
This is unfair to the miners living
around and working in the East
Mine"
1.-THE Old North Mine was working
only two and three days a week be-
fore it closed down. They never give
us warning when they close up a
mine. The simply pass around the
word, Close her down. We never
know whether at the close of the day
we are to be miners or buns on the
road looking vainly for work"
Hits Little Business.
The business houses in Christopher
are closing down one after the other,
demonstrating the final stage in the
disintegration of the mining indus
try. STEMS Grocery company here
has closed it's doors, the Krossberg
ladies-outftting store has not yet gone
bankrupt, but the proprietor has an
nounced that he will soon have to
suspend business, Medallins Dry
Goods company has gone bankrupt,
and the large w. d. Davis general
store is running cut rate sales to keep
itself going.
Miners who have left Christopher
hoping for jobs in the cities have re-
turned disappointed and embittered.
Tony Booban has returned from Chi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25

INIoNE Of these political takers is
y sincere. While the Khan raped,
burned and killed innocent people,
they were silent. LaFollette did not
utter a word against the outrages
committed by the Khan during the
past two years. Neither did the heads
of the Democratic and Republican
parties. AS already pointed out in
previous issues Klansmen admit that
the organization orders the murder Of
its enemies and yet we have no prose-
cutions by the government All the
capitalist parties, that now denounce
the Khan, do so for reasons of ex-
pediency. The Dawes speech is a
play for the Khan vote. Dawes once
said that the Khan as present con-
stituted, would not function efficient
ly, but he always has been in favor
Of the Khan principle.
THE Workers Party alone of all the
1 political parties in the field has
IdhSh uSClSlFS slduu dBdluSJ the
Khan and all it's works and pomps. 1t
is opposed to the Khan because that
organization is a tool of capitalism,
either big or little, but always the
enemy of the workers. A combina-
ton of the Khan, the American Legion,
the Minute Men of the Constitution
and kindred anti-labor bodies under
the direction of Dawes would come as
near to resembling the Italian Fascis-
ii to anything we can think of. And
until the fortunes of Fascism recently
began to wane in Europe, those who
know Mr.. Dawes believe that he had
some such role in the back of his
head.
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left their positions for the more IRE.
spectacle" jobs in the government,
British labor has taken a decided
turn to the left. At the last meeting
of the Amsterdam International, the
British delegates led the fight for a
united front with the Russian trade
unic--
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held Dawes responsible for this loan.
Yes. Dawes can keep his mouth shut,
tho 1t is open many times too often.
1T is interesting to watch the cap
| italist politicians trim on the Ku
Klux issue. The Republican conven-
ton in Cleveland was dumb on the
question. At the Democratic conven-
ton, the anti-Klux elements led by AL
Smith tried to condemn the Khan by
name. 1t failed by two votes. John
W. Davis, the Democratic nominee for
president and Charles w. Bryan, the
vice-presidential candidate, who were
satisfactory to the Khan, were accept
ed as outstanding progressives by
those who formerly opposed them.
Mt the LaFollette convention in
n Cleveland, the politicians dare
not mention the Khan by name. But
recently LaFollette seeing that the
Khan fortunes were ebbing and realiz-
ing that he would receive heavy
Catholic vote in the East that was off
the Democratic reservation temporar-
lily at least, provided he gave the
hooded order a piece of his mind.
This he did. Walton beat the Khan
in Oklahoma. According to reports
the Khan has lost Texas. Then John
w. Davis came out and fayed the
Khan despite the fact that he has the
endorsement of Imperial Wizard
Evans. But Davis did not want to
lose the big Catholic vote and no
doubt George Brennan of Illinois
wants something to show his Irish
nationalist followers who do not like
the idea of voting for good friend
of England like Davis who in addition
is considered favored son of the in
visible Empire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
aMothery Eerauson Leads.

DALLAS, Texas, August 24.-Mrs.
Miriam Ferguson, candidate for the
democratic nomination for governor Of
the state, is practically assured OF
victory against her Khan opponent.
Primary returns from 223 out OF 252
counties, 46 complete, gave Mrs. Fer
guson 353,136 and Felix Robertson
274,279.
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Il am sure that the Russian and
British trade union movements are
on the way to a united front. The
principal task consists in how to re-
alize united front in the lower
strata Of all active branches in the
European working class"
Since the extreme reactionaries in
the British trade union movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
Fire Starts In Mine.

BLAINE, Ohio. Aug. 24.-Fire broke
out in the Lansing mine of the Lorain
Coal and Dock Company here this
moring but was soon brought under
control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-25
CHIEF OF BRITISH LABOR UNIONS
PLANS TO VISIT SOVIET RUSSIA
Especial to The Daily Worker

LONDON Aug. 22(By Mal)-n
M P. Chairman of the Council
Chairman
establishment
international connection
Gale.
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The only revolutionary ticket in the field this
year is the Workers Party ticket. vote for
Foster and Gitlow is a vote for Communism. A
vote for any of the other parties is vote for CAPT
talism.
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Distribute bundle OF the DAILY
WORKERS first Special Campaign
Edition, dated Saturday. Aunust 90
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.Hell an Maria" Dawes denounces socialists
for their designs on the capitalist system. Nobody
knows better than Dawes that the capitalist system
is perfectly safe from the socialists. The best
friends his expert report" had in Europe were
the socialist presidents and premiers.
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crooked labor leaders in Illinois who
were opposed to him because he was
against the kind of unionism that is
enforced by gunner and radical lead
ers who were attacking law enforcing
judges. Now, it is a well-known fact
that the labor gunner" are usually
in cahoots with the capitalists. They
are on a par morally. What both are
after is graft and profit. The cap
italist calls it profit, and the gunman
designates his share of the spells as
graft, at least to his cronies. Both
are parasites living on the workers.
The Dawes gang Is not opposed to Ia
Dor leaders who rule the roost in ILL
nois. Both the labor takers and Dawes
stand for the capitalist system, but as
there is constant conflict between
groups of capitalists over the loot
they squeeze out Of the workers, some
times the bosses and their labor lieu
tenants disagree over the compensa.
ton demanded by the labor takers
for services rendered.
II REINFORCEMENT judges in
- the language of General Dawes,
mean anti-labor, injunction issuing
judges. States Attorney Grove, Sui
Ivan and the others who grant injunc-
lions to the capitalists on the slight
est provocation, are his idols. Work
ers are supposed to have right to
quit working for boss when they de-
sire, and also to try and induce others
to refuse to work for boss until he
grants decent living conditions and
better wages. But this kind of thing
hurts the business of the bosses so
they go to their capitalist judges and
secure injunctions which bring the
clubs of the policemen to the aid of
the bosses. That is law enforcement
according to Dawes.