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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
BY c. E. RuTHENBERe.

BY G. (. RUTHENBERG.
LIVE THOUSAND new members
l Joined the Workers Party dun
ing the first six months Of 1924.
This Is a ratio of increase almost
twice as great as for the same six
months of 1923.
For the first six months of 1923,
1892 members were accepted by
the Party. For 1924, 5,o41 MEM
bers came into the organization.
These figures indicate the grow
ing appeal of the Communist pro-
gram for the workers Of the United
States. They show that the aetivI-
ties of the Party in the struggles
of the workers, particularly the
part It has played in the fight to
mobilize the workers and farmers
for independent political action,
have rallied thousands of workers
to its standard.
AS shown by the average dues
payments, the record of growth of
the Workers Party for the six
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
MACHINE SHOP MEN
UNANIMOUSLY STAND
FOR FOSTER GITLOW

The workers Of the shop WinkIer
and Rleehmann Co., producers Of
loud speakers, who are all members
Of the International Association Of
MaehInIsts, passed the following re-
solution at their shop meeting
which was attended by every work.
er In the plant:
Whereas: various bodies Of labor
have declared their allegiance and
rendered their support to their po-
Iitlcal parties or candidates, and,
Whereas: such declarations help
the political party or candidate and
the principles endorsed,
Therefore Be II Resolved, that
we, the shopmen, die and tool maxi
ers, maehInists and specialists en-
ployed by the WInkIer q RIeehmann
Co. also declare our Allegiance to
the Workers Party and endorse the
candldsture Of Foster-GitIow for
president and vlce-presldent, as rep
resentIng the Interests Of the work.
ing class, and be II further
Resolved that we assess ourselves
percent Of our wages for two
months to assist them In their cam
psIan.
John p. Denne, shop secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
ANTI WAGE SLASH fight GROWS
Five Thousand Join Workers Party

months period in question is as fol.
lows:
1922, the first year Of the Party,
1920 average monthly dues pay
ments.
1928, 1896 average monthly dues
payments.
1924, 1922 average monthly dues
payments.
The tabuIation Of the total mem
bers on the rolls Of the Workers
Party for the same six months
period as shown by reports received
from the various barnches, show a
total Of 1880 members now on the
rolls Of the Party. Because Of ir-
regularity in dues payments, thru
secretaries receipting books by
writing receipts therein in place Of
using dues stamps, the average
monthly dues payments are only
little over so per cent of the total
membership on the rolls of the
Party. The steps taken by the Gen.
trial Executive Committee thru
establishing the rule that any mem
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

new member and one new SUBJ
seriber for the DAILY WORKER.
Special combined cards are in the
hands of all of the branches Of the
organization.
The fact that the Party won
5000 members during the first six
months Of the year, should be an
inspiration to every member and
branch of the Party to carry on an
energetic campaign to secure new
members during the membership
drive. These five thousand new
members show the possibilities for
our Party. II we organize our
selves for this work and make an
effort, our Party strength will be
greatly increased during the next
six months. A Party of thirty-five
to forty thousand members is we'll
within our reach before the end of
1924. That possibility can be made
a reality thru hard and efficient or
ganized work to stir the enthusiasm
Of the whole Party for the men,
bership drive now under way.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
GROVE STILL HOWLS
FOR THE BLOOD or
LOEB AND LEOPOLD

Robert E. Grove won't be salts
fled until the judge hands down the
decision against the two young muir
derers, Loeb and Leopold, which
will mean their hanging.
Grove yesterday pointed out that
life Imprisonment did not really
mean what II seemed to mean. In
Illinois the law allows for pardons
and paroles at the discretion Of the
governor, and II the death penalty is
not given Il Is likely that another
ten years or even less may see the
two reprobates free.
With these facts In his hands,
Grove raises long and loud yell
for the alocse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
BUFFERS FINKS
SWARM IN ALL
TEXTILE UNIONS
Helped Coolidge Smash
Police Strike
Third ArticIe)

NSpeeiai 10 the DAILY WORkER)
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.-The
biggest men in the republican
party are engaged in a con-
spiracy against the workers.
Yesterday we told how former
U. S. Senator p. j. McCumber,
author of the Fordney-McCum-
Der Tariff Bill, one of the old
guard surrounding Coolidge,
used private detectives to dis
credit an opponent in the cleo
tions.
We told how William Morgan
Butler, textile multi-millionaire,
who is now chief financial
hacker of Coolidge and chair
man of the republican national
committee, had hired a swarm
of stool-pigeons to worm their
way into the confidence of the
textile workers of New Bedford.
We told how the Sherman Service
had in their pay as a stool-pigeon,
John Silver, Secretary of the Doffers'
and Spinners' Union and Secretary of
the Textile Council.
FInks Backed Coolidge.
The Sherman stool-pigeon Service
is closely connected with the republi.
can party and its standard-bearer in
this campaign. It was backing Cool
idge as strike-breaker while he was
CONTINUED on Page 60
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

Der, of the Party who has dues
book in which dues payments are
receipted in any other form than
with stamp, is automatically ex-
PEELED from the Party, is expected
quickly to bring the dues payments
up closer to the membership on the
Party rolls.
Campaign Drive to Win Thousands
of New Members.
With the first six months Of 1924,
showing 5000 new members joining
the Party without any extraordi-
nary campaign for membership, the
last six months of the year are ex-
pected to show double and treble
that number of new members gained
thru the organized campaign which
is now under way.
All the branches of the Party are
being modified for systematic work
to increase the Party membership
and to secure subscriptions for the
DAILY WORKER.
Each member of the Party has
been given the task of securing one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

Badillo and Candida
Are Arrested

Ten postoffice inspectors and
plain clothes men yesterday
bore down upon the Workers
Party headquarters and ar
rested Louis Candida, secretary
of the Italian Federation of the
party and Aware BadiIIo, bust
ness manager of the italian
Communist daily, II Lavoratore,
for alleged violation of the fed
eraI postal regulations.
Charge Postal Violations.
The charge was made that
lottery tickets had been sent
thru the mails in violation of
the law but Comrade Candida
today explained how the diff
Guilty arose.
Some time ago, number of persons
forming a local committee had begun
to circulate lottery for the benefit
of the weekly predecessor to II La
voratore, Alba Nuova, but soon aban
doned the project Comrade Badillo
ignorant of the postal regulations, de-
cided to revive the lottery and turn
the money over to II Lavoratore. He
did this without the knowledge Of the
management of the paper or the exec
utive committee of the federation.
Takes Responsibility.
On being questioned by federal
agents yesterday at the postoffice, Ba
dillo assumed sole responsibility for
having sent out the lottery tickets
The two comrades were released in
the hands OF their lawyer, Isaac Z
Ferguson, until the time when they
will be called again.
The presence Of department of jus.
tice agents may complicate matters
since they demanded more than infor
nation about the lottery. Minutes Of
various committees were requested
but the dicks were unsuccessful in get
ting them. II is not expected thai
the lottery case itself win develop into
serious.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
K. K. K. SPANKED FOR
RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE
NOT ON LABOR STAND

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 27-Fol-
lowing the new lead set by its presi-
dental candidate, the democratic
party Of this state, at It's convention
today adopted a platform declara-
ton on the ku klux Khan which at
taeks the organization as raising the
standard Of racial or religious be-
lief as a test Of fitness to the spirit
Of the American constitution.
Not a word is said about the
klan's antl-abor attitude, and II ls
certainly not condemned for Il. Tho
democrats see the waning influence
ofthe Khan as depicted in the losses
they suffered In the recent prl-
maries In Oklahoma and Texas, and
they are making the attempt to ride
the wave Of reaction against the
Hooded Hoodluns dressed in kute
knlghties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
MINERS HEADS
DON'T DARE TO
URGE WAGE CUT
Herrin Meet Can't Get
Diggers to Yield
BY KARL REEVE
(StaH Writer, Daily Worker)

WALLER, ILL.,, Aug. 27.-"The
officials of the miners union
don't dare to agree with the
coal operators in favoring a
reduced wage scale for the min
ers. If they told us today to
take a wage cut, not a man
would 60 down in the mines to-
morrow morning" This is
what Dick Swift, old time coal
miner here, thinks about the
Herrin convention which is try
ing to reduce the miners wages.
Used to Cut Talk.
"The' coal operators may
think they have us starved out.
If they do they're fooled. This
is not the first time the miners
have heard the coal operators
clamoring for a wage reduction.
We are used to it, and we pay
no attention to 1t. The coal
miners have stood for a lot of
treachery from their reaction
airy leaders who favor class
collaboration, but they will not
stand for a wage reduction.
am going to write a lot about
Waller because Waller is wildly illus
trative Of the many problems facing
the miners. When the city slicker
hits Waller, he knows he is in the
heart OF the coal mining country.
Waller. with it's $500 population, is
trustified coal camp. The one mine
in town, supplying work to all the
men in the town, is called the Waller
Coal Company, but in reality it is
owned by the Burlington Railroad,
(Contiued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
MINERS PAPER
ATTACKS SPLIT
PLAN OF 0. B. U.
McLachlan Calls Halt
to DualiSts
Especial to The Daily worker)


|. GLAcE BAY, Nova Scotia,
August 27.-The fight of the
members of the Communist
Party and the Trade Union
Educational League against the
o. 3. U. secessionist propa-
ganda which has been carried
on in this district for some time
has began in earnest with the
publication of an editorial in
the current issue of the Mari
time Labor Herald denouncing
those who suggest that the
miners have anything to gain
by running away from the fight
against the Lewis machine in
the United Mine Workers I'm
ion by means of split.
The editor of the paper, Jim
McLachlan, veteran leader of
The miners, draws upon the ten
years bitter experience of the
miners of the district with dual
unionism prior to 1919, for
examples as to what is in store
or the miners if they split the
solidarity Of the rank and file
If the district.
Adhere to T. v. E. L. Program.
The adherence of the militant min.
ers to the policy of the Red Interna.
tional OF Labor Unions and the Trade
CONTINUED on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
WAR-MONCERS IN
JAPAN COUNTER
US. WAR DAY.
National Drill Day" to
be Oriental Reply
Especial to The Daily worksr)

TOXIC, Aug. 27.-The military
reservist organizations today officially
launched an agitation for National
Drill Day" on October % to be held
all thru Japan with the obvious pur-
pose of countering the imperialist
maneuvers in the United States on
Defense" Day.
Government officials have not yet
given sanction to the plan but it can
already be seen that the day will be
observed by the inspired statements
that are being issued to the effect
that there is no connection at all be-
tween the japanese and American
day.
Defense Day for War.
That the Communists interpreta-
ton Of Defense Day here as the first
big postwar step towards open prepa-
rations for a new war over the con-
troll of Pacific treasures, is seen in
the protest against September 70 to
President Coolidge by American mis-
sionaries in Japan who realize more
acutely why the mobilization Of Am
erica's military strength is about to
take place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
IN
AUTOCRAT RULE
OVER NEBRASKA
Green Threatening to
Kick Over Traces
BY THOMAS MATTHEWS
Especial to The Daily Werker)

OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 27.-Dis-
ruption is still growing apace in
the "LaFoIIette movement" in
Nebraska. Attic the progress
sive party in this state was muir
dered in appropriate style by the
LaF toilette forces in their Estate
convention" at Grand Island on
the 10Th, State Secretary w. n.
Green refuses to have the coffin
lowered. In fact, Green threat
ems to carry the case before the
court of public opinion.
Green went to Russia last fall
and was elected to the presidium
of the Peasants international.
This, of course, places him "be-
yond the pale" with the LaFol-
lette politicians, who would like
to get Green out of their way at
the least possible cost to them
selves. Green has refused to
resign as state secretary of the
progressive party, and insists
that his organization will have a
full state ticket in the field
whether LaFollette and Wheeler
will so or not. So the battle
goes merrily on.
Local Republican papers, mean
while, are making the most of the La
Follette-Bryan deal, by which this
crowd hopes to put Brother Charley"
Bryan in the White House by minority
vote. The Omaha Bee" local Repub-
lican organ, states in it's issue of Au.
gust 23rd that:
it seems certain that in Me-
braska at least, where the Bryan tao
tics are fully understood, there will
be enuf democratic votes cast for
Coolidge and Dawes to make sure Of
Coolidge and thus block the scheme
to make Bryan president thru the
back door Of the Senate"
LaFoIIette SkuIIduggery.
1t has come to light that after the
Grand Island LaFollette meeting, a
"hand-picked" meeting OF the newly
elected state committee was held, at.
tended by seven out of thirty mem.
bers, and this the first meeting of the
committee. The bosses in control
proceeded to name their permanent
officers, but this was too raw for An
son II. Bigelow, labor attorney OF
Omaha, who walked out after protest.
ing against the methods used to ram
down what LaFollette wanted" This,
it must be admitted, required some
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
WILD RUSH MADE BY
81 WORKERS FOR ONE
JOB IN MASON CITY

MASON CITY, la, Aug. 27.-The
prosperity that has hit this town
may be judged by an announcement
that appears in the local paper. 1t
refers to an advertisement that had
been inserted for truck driver and
warehouse man for an all year
around job, and remarks that the
placer of the ad informed the news
paper that with only one insertion
Of the ad "a replies had been re-
ceiVed by noon time.
This is an indication of the state
of unemployment in Mason City, as
we'll as thru the entire West.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
co.operators Succeed

, CLEVELAND, Aug. 27.-The Work
ingmen's Cooperative Co. of Cleveland,
organized in 1912 by Bohemian work
ers, and now having membership Of
LOO. reports business Of over $780,
900 for the first six months Of 1924,
with a surplus of over $4,000 in excess
of liabilities. not counting the thou
sands of dollars returned to its Gus
toners in form of purchasers rebates.
The company operates six stores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
ORDERS POURING
in FOR SPECIAL
CAMP Align ISSUE
Arsenal of Facts for
Election Battle

There will be enough cam
paign ammunition in this
Saturdays Special Campaign
Edition of the DAILY WORKER
to blow the capitalist theology
out of the minds Of the work.
ingcIass. The problem is to
get this material to the work.
ers.
That problem is now being
solved as well as can be ex-
pected. Numerous large cities
have ordered thousands of
copies. They have sent in the
orders and the money, too.
That's the way to talk.
Expect Flood of Orders.
Between now and Friday night we
expect the flood of orders to increase.
Orders are coming in from all over the
country. From country towns as well
as from the great industrial centers.
The Labor Day issue of the DAILY
WORKER is the first Communist
Campaign Issue of any paper ever is
sued in the United States. 1t is the
first Communist Campaign Issue ever
issued by daily in the English Ian
guage. 1t marks a milestone In work
ing class revolutionary history.
Can't Afford to Miss Il.
Who can afford to miss this historic
number?
The best writer's in the Workers
Party have co-operated to turn out a
we'll written mass of material that
will enable our agitators to turn the
tables on their willy capitalist op-
ponents in argument. 1t will give
the records of the capitalist candi-
dates, what they have done for the
capitalists and what they have done
against labor.
The workers in the factories who
have been bamboozled by the drivel
peddled out in the capitalist press, will
be glad to get refreshing draught
of common sense in the DAILY
WORKER Campaign Issue.
1t will not show pictures of Foster
handing a sap bucket to Henry Ford,
or Ben Gitlow presenting fur coat
to shivering Zulu. None Of the
hokum that gives an Intelligent work.
er nauseating sensation in his in
tellectual stomach will be spread be-
fore the readers of the DAILY WORK
Err. Onr de-bunking. specialists will
take care of that.
Here are a few of the orders that
have come in as we go to press:
. Macdonald, Pa, 100; Carnegie, Pa,
100; Cheswick, Pa, 100; Bentleyville,
Pa, 100; Maynard, Pa, 200; Denver,
Colo, 500; Omaha, Neb., 100; Collins.
vile, Pa, 80; Boston, Mass, 100; New
York Zone branch), 200; st. Louis, 200.
Use Blank on this Page.
Send in your orders now. Orders
will be accepted up until 6 o'clock
Friday. That is the dead line. Order
by mail or by wire and make 1t snap
by. This is an election campaign.
The campaign number sells for FIVE
cents and costs ave In bundles. Order
from the DAILY WORKER, 111s w.
Washington Blvd, Chicago, Ill. Use
the blank on this page.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Two Labels Now

NEW YORK, August 27.--Beginning
with September all ladies garments
made under union conditions will have
both the union sanitary label and the
subsidiary trades unto mabel, the In
ternational Ladies Garment Union an
nounced,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Pullman Meeting ronIuht

There will be a general membership
meeting tonight at o'clock at the
Russian School Hall, 11449 S. Park
Ave. The question of organizing union
locals and other important matters
will be discussed. Every member is
requested to surely attend this meet
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
STRIKE REPORTED AND DENIED

today carried telling possibility
would another strike
Labor Meyer Peristen
OF the Chicago said
would
Asked to the tem Mr.
Joint Board stated that strike action had contemplated
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
Membership Meeting In Cicero

There will be a membership meeting
OF the Workers Party and the Young
Workers League Of Cicero tonight at
D. m. at the Lithuanian Liberty Hall,
w. 14th st. and 49th Court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
For Mime apoIIs Labor Temple.

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27.-Stock is
being successfully sold here to labor
unions and individuals to finance the
erection Of labor temple.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28
AS WE SEE IT
BY 7. J. o'FLAHERTY

OSWALD GARRISON WILLARD,
- speaking at the Institute of Poll.
tics in WilIiamstown, Mass, de-
nounced the policy of the United
States government in sending its war.
ships to protect American capital in
South America. The policy is grossly
immoral" he said, land should be
stopped. Bankers and investments
should be warned that when they in.
vest their money abroad, they do so
at their own risk, and that Uncle
Sans navy will not be used as bill
collectors" Well. that is one of the
reasons why battleships exist and will
exist so long as capitalism lasts.
When American battleships went over
to Europe to fight Germany in 1914
they went in obedience to Morgan's
demands. And the naive Willard thot
for long time that it was really
war for democracy:
News comes from Forth Worth
In that move will be made to drive
the Ku Klux Khan out of the Demo
cratic Party. The prime mover will
be the notorious Albert Sidney Bur.
Lesson, the notorious postmaster gen.
eral who served during the reign of
Woodrow Wilson. Burleson was sill
ent while the fortunes of the Khan
were rising but now that it is losing
ground he comes boldly out to slay the
dragon
britain has just completed won
- derful air dreadnought II is the
most powerful single-engined airplane
In the world. It measures SS feet
from wing tip to wing tip, stands 10
feet from the ground and is 81 feet
from nose to tail. 1t only weighs
1900 pounds The pacifist Macdonald
ministry is doing fine. The new air
giant should prove very effective in
dropping bombs on the Hindoos and
Egyptians.
IkTHAT happened at the conference
wv between Calvin Coolidge and
Charles G. Dawes that took place at
plymouth Vt? Nobody seems to
know except the G. o. P. leaders. and
they will not tell. 1t is safe to say
that Coolidge said: Now, Charlie,
frankness is very fine and after elec-
ton you may curse all you want, be-
cause peoples memories are short,
but during the election campaign you
should be more careful. You should
not allow Mr.. Davis to rush you of
your feet. Watch my technique. We
need the Khan vote, but it will never
do to come out so openly for 1t as you
lid" And after Dawes swung his
arms over his head a few times, no
ioubt he said, "Oh, hell an Maria. j
guess you're right"
THE situation in Morocco is daily
growing worse for the Sanish
troops. Not since 1921 were the ma
tives SO aroused and even tribes form
erly friendly are now joining the at
tack on the invaders. The Moors are
we'll supplied with money and NUM-
tions, which supports the suspicion
that France is backing the rebels
against the Spaniards. After Spain
is driven from Morocco, the French
Continued on page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-28

Communist Candidates
For President:
WILLIAM z. FOSTER.
For Vice-President:
BENJAMIN GITLOW.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-02-15
POPLAR RESIDENTS
OBJECT TO MOVING
OF COUNTY OFFICES
Appeal Litigation Must Be Settled
Before Change Made, Says
HOrkan.

Helena, Feb. IL Announcement
of the decision by Judge George Hor-
kan. at Forsyth, favorable to Wolf
Point in the Roosevelt county seat
fight, is understood in Helena to
have nearly caused a riot in Poplar
Monday, when certain of the county
officers took steps to remove their
records to Wolf Point, and may oc-
casion the filing in the supreme court
of an application for writ of man
date preventing removels of county
offices pending the perfecting of an
appeal from the judgmenet rendered
by the Forsyth judge.
1t is understood by the Helena at
tOrneys. G. A. Spaulding and I. w.
ChOate, who have been retained by
Poplar to look after proceedings in
the supreme court, that the announce
ment of the decision reached Poplar,
in advance of the courts order, and
that the county clerk Immediately
packed up and moved his Office to
Wolf Point, with other officials pre-
pairing to follow suit.
1t is understood that Judge Horkan
on learning of this situation, tele-
phoned to Poplar that the removal
could not take place until after his
Continued on Page Four)