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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

the T. U. Il. l.. and the left general
ly. These fights will come to head
at the conventions. While the fight
in the A. G. w. has so far not taken
on the open and bitter character seen
in the other unions, Comrade John
stone explains fully in his excellent
article on the needle trades. the de-
finite danger signals which have APP
reared in the tendency of the A. c.
w. administration to permit the For
ward right wing gang to begin the
same disruptive war against the left
as has weakened and nearly wrecked
the other unions.
Another test OF the A. c. w. will
be its action upon the call for June
18th. since the 1922 convention "a.
vored class Labor Party, the mill.
tants will fight for these fine words
to be put into deeds. The article In
the May LABOR HERALD Is indis.
pensible TO any militant who seeks to
keep in touch with the latest develop
ments in the labor movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
Between Two Dictatorships

The Communist view of the unions
is that they are of necessity working
class organizations and that as such
they must include, the more success
full they become in organization
work, all elements of the workingclass
irrespective of political opinions, re-
ligious differences or color distinction.
This is the only workable basis for
unions which are the instruments
used by the workers in their daily
struggles with the capitalists. The
Communist policy in the unions
is to organize these diverse elements
around program based on their COM
mon needs as workers.
There are at the present time a num-
Der of important unions that the Com
munists could capture" if they be-
lieved in using the tactics which Mr..
Thomas accuses them of clarifying;
that is, they could seize control Of the
offices and have at the same time a
majority of the membership behind
them instead of minority as is the
case with dozens of union oficialdoms.
Thy realize however that the Ameri-
can labor movement as a whole must
be brought up to certain level of
understanding before anything APP
preaching Communist leadership
could greatly influence the trade
unions nationally. This process is be-
ing accelerated by the increasing in
stability of American capitalism and
the outright betrayal of the working
class perpetrated by the officials. The
Civic Federation meeting in New York
the other day attended by Gompers,
Vol and a couple of notorious hang
ers-on of the Gompers machine is only
one item in the list of treacheries.
When Mr.. Thomas refers to the cap
ture Of power "by any means which
may work" he doubtless is thinking in
parliamentary terms and looks upon
a recorded majority as the only man
date for the control of official posi-
tions. In this we disagree with Mr..
Thomas and all his kind. Speaking
only of the parliamentary system in
vogue in the American unions, it is
notorious that there is no such thing
as square election where the eco
nomic interests of the machine are
involved and those who base their
idea of the representative character
lof trade union officialdom upon re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
Did Coolidge Win?

On the day following the exposure of his deal
with Henry Ford, by which the fvver king was to
get Muscle Shoals on his own terms, "Cautious
CAP Coolidge captured the republican primaries
in Ohio. At the same time Daugherty was picked
as one of the seven Coolidge pledged delegates to
the republican convention at Cleveland
No doubt the Coolidge campaign managers will
try to read into these results an endorsement of
the graft and corruption that prevails in govern
ment in Washington They will claim that the
electorate has spoken, and given notice of its
approval of the Coolidge regime
But the balloting showed that only handful
of voters marched to the polls in this great state
1t was the machine vote of the reactionary republic
can party Coolidge's only opposition came from
the fake progressive, Hiram johnson, of Califor-
MIA, who endorsed corruption in the high places
in Washington, when he lodged casting his vote
on the ousting of the millionaire, Newberry, of
Michigan, from the United States senate, for hay-
ing purchased his election. This defeat in Ohio
just about puts Hiram on the political dung heap.
Coolidge won in Ohio, for the same reason that
he won in Michigan recently johnson offered no
suitable opposition, and only the bought votes con
trolled by the republican organization went into
the ballot box.
1t is this fact, that the workers and farmers re
fused to be drawn into the old party primaries
that gives the most encouragement to the organiza
ton of a class FarmerLabor Party The pro
ducers are planning for class party of their own
Michigan will be well represented at st. Paul
June 17th If the voting, Tuesday, in Ohio, means
anything, it indicates that there are hundreds OF
thousands Of thinking men and women in Ohio
who need representation at st. Paul next month
There are six weeks ahead during which every
effort should be made by militant workers and
farmers in Ohio to see that they get that repre-
sentation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
BY William r. dunno.

The reverend Norman Thomas
finds irresistible the temptation to
take sly crack at the left wing
whenever the opportunity presents it.
self but at the same time never. for
gets to proclaim or infer his absolute
fairness and impartiality.
He is moved to write to The Nation
commending it for its disapproval of
the expulsion of a Communist from
the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and
Accountants Union of New York at
at the behest of Samuel Gompers but
adds the sorrowful remark that after
he has read the DAILY WORKER edi-
torial on the subject in which Comp
ers is referred to as dictator and cow
ard" he is compelled to remember
that it was the left wing which intro
duced into the labor movement the
glorification of the notion of dictator
ship and the capture of power by any
means that may work"
Mr.. Thomas is habitually wrong in
his statements relative to left wing the
DRY and tactics and the present case
| is no exception. The Communists
who are the left wing of the
American labor movement advocate,
not the dictatorship of minority, as
Mr.. Thomas would have us believe, but
the dictatorship of a class-the work
Iingclass Their tactics for the capture
Of power are at all times based on
the idea that a majority Of the work
ers must first be won over to the Com
munist position.
Narrowed down to the limits of
trade union movement these tactics
also presuppose the winning over of
a majority of the union membership.
Communists reject entirely the the
ory that minority by coup can
seize and hold power Independent of
the interests of the majority of the
masses involved. In the unions the
communists conduct an intensive edu-
cational campaign designed to con-
vince the rank and file of the incom-
potency and non-workingclass charac-
ter of the present leadership; what
is more culpable from both the liber-
al and reactionary standpoint is that
they organize the left wing sentiment
thus crystallized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
May Day.
BY TILLIE L., Age 8.

=
May Day is Labors International
Holiday. at is day of struggle, -
that's what the juniors say. With that
we mean that all comrades, little ones
and big ones, come together and eel
citrate. They talk about all the things
that happened, what the capitalists
did. and what they did. Then they
discuss what they should go on to do;
and everybody feels good The older
comorades feel that if they work hard
Siey will have a Workers and Farm
ers' government; the juniors know
That's why on May Day all the jun
better homes and real good times.
That's what on May Day all the jun
Tors should sell Young Comrades. get
new members and help make bigger
and better junior groups. The older
comrades should do the same Let's
everyone get together. work hard and
help make the Second Workers and
Farmers government. Now. let's give
three cheers for our great Interna-
tional Holiday.
Ready, let's go--rah.rah.rah!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
THE VIEWS OF OUR READERS ON
LIFE, LABOR, INDUSTRY, POLITICS

To The Daily Worker: Having some
contact with Iowa and her problems,
feel duty-bound to point out to the
Iowa Communists the possibilities for
real Farmer-Labor Party in their
state.
The Communist in Iowa have the
nucleus for an excellent Workers Par
ty organization. Such an organiza-
ton will not come into bloom, how
ever. until these comrades have put
themselves on the political map of
their state at least to some degree and
1 believe that the Farmer-LabOr move
ment offers them that opportunity.
Iowa is a state of 1000, 900 people,
with a good number. of fair-sized
towns and cities well-linked up by rail-
roads. Towns which can be consider
ed in the nature of industrial centers
are Council Bluffs, Missouri Valley,
Sioux City, Mason City, Davenport.
Burlington, and Cedar Rapids. All
these towns have some degree of
trade union organization, most of
them have trade union papers.
The farming population of Iowa
is regarded by capitalists politicians as
radical" They are ripe for a Far
mer-Labor Party. They need to be
told about the Farmer-Labor conven-
ton which will be held at st. Paul on
the 18th of June. They must be urged
to send delegates to that historic gath
ering of militant farmers and wage
earners.
All this offers wonderful opportuni-
ties for the Workers Party members
in Iowa. / would therefore urge every
party branch or member-at-large in
the state to Immediately get in touch
with the Farmer-Labor League, 155
West Graham avenue, Council Bluffs,
and assist that organization in its eff.
forts to line up Iowa for the mass
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

turns in union elections admit a child
like faith that has long since departed
from one who knows anything Of the
practical workings of the American
labor movement.
1t is just here that the distinction
between the Communists and the lib
eral-progressive elements becomes
perfectly clear. The Communists ac-
cept the crooked character of trade
union parliamentary processes as a
reality and rightly conclude that the
present leadership of tn trade unions
maintains itself by an outright die
tatorship which has no broad class
basis. The liberals and progressiyes
become disguised with the rank and
file and conclude that rotten as the
otiicialdom may be, it is at least more
Iintelligent-and therefore more wor-
thy of consideration than the rank
and file.
This accounts in a large measure
for the swing of the so-called progress
sive elements into the Gompers camp
and they are now extremely angry be-
cause the Communists treat them just
about the same as they do the Comp
ers official family. AS a case in point
the reaction of Mr. Thomas after read
ing this article will undoubtedly be:
THE DAILY WORKER is commit
ting the sin Of which have often
accused the Communists. 1t is at
lacking me-a liberal--when it could
use Its time and space to much bet
ter advantage in critieizlng Comp
ers, Morgan, Rockefeller, the capital
list system and other evils.
Communists, however, depend not
upon the good will of intellectuals or
trade union officials but upon the
needs Of the masses of the workers
expressed in organization and action
to overthrow trade union and capital
list relationships. The Workers Com
munist) Party of America has no inter-
ests separate and part from the work
ingclass of America.
So apparent is this becoming that
all those whose idea of solving the
labor problem is to do something for
the workers instead of arousing the
workers to do something for them
selves are either active or passive en-
emies of the Workers Communist
Party and therefore of the whole
workingclass.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
Bughouse Fables
FABLE 8.

1oGG o.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 3d.
Speaking from the white House steps
to a delegation of "dirt" farmers from
South Dakota, who came to hear Mag
nus Johnson deliver his speech on
Government by blocs or by block
heads" Calvin Coolidge, declared that
the greatest danger confronting the
people of America today, is the in.
huence of Wall Street. "This rapa-
cious organization" said the president
has not alone throttled the voice of
the people OF America, but has
stretched out its hand and is now
bringing Europe under its control
"Hell-andMaria" Dawes, who went
over TO Germany, is nothing else but
tool of the big bankers and | pro.
pose TO show in the presidential cam.
paign, that the Communists are not
the menace that confronts America
with all due respect to my friend
Sam Gompers-but the men OF great
wealth. We need more men like
Magnus Johnson, Senator Wheeler
and lighting Bob" LaFollette in the
senate. Then, crooks like Harry
"a. Daugherty and Mellon could not
get away with the graft" The
speech has created a sensation in
Washington, and a horde of alienists
from Wall Street is on the way to
Washington to prove that the presi'
dent is insane.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

An estimate of 10000 is placed upon the number
of suicides in the United States last year by the
Save-a-Life League.
IT admits that poverty is one of the main causes
of sefmurder and in its report states that,
Nothing is more pathetic than the many disabled
soldiers who themselves ended lifes battle 1000
having gone out in this regrettable way
1t is also admitted that many Of these ex-sol-
ders, who committed suicide, left in sickness
and poverty because of the wholesale grating in
the Veterans Bureau of the Harding Coolidge Ad-
mnistration.
We do not recolect Of any activities being car
ried by the Save-aLife League during the recent
world war, when millions we're being slaughtered
IN Europe. Nor do we find that the League is car
rying any campaign against future capitalist
wars, or against the capitalist system that breeds
wars. as well as hunger and suicides.
But the figures made public in themselves may
help turn the stomachs Of the workers and farmers
Of the United States against the that the
House of Morgan is preparing. In that they may
do some good
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

that l would like to see once again
on the first page Of the DAILY
WORKER is Fred Ellis cartoons,
which in my opinion are among the
best that the American Communist
movement has yet produced.
A paper such as the DAILY WORK
Err, to appeal to the broad mass of
workers should try and add to its
number of features. for these are the
methods that will make the circulation
grow. However, the few that it has
must be retained and l feel that Ellis
cartoons are an important factor.
Fraternally yours,
SYLVAN A. POLLAcK,
Organizer
Bronx English Branch Workers Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
Why Every Junior, Young Worker and
Old Worker Should Be a Communist.
By WILLIAM LURYE. Age IL
MarshfieId Junior GROUP.

BY WILLIAM LURYE, Age Is.
Marshfeld Junior Group.
In the United States today more
than two million workers are without
jobs! Do you know what that means i?
Starvation and suffering not only to
these workers but starvation and suf-
fering to their children, starvation and
suffering to the mothers of these chill
dren.
We have 100000 farmers driven
from the land into bankruptcy on ac-
count of the bitter exploitation of the
capitalists. Are we going to stand
Cor this? | say NO. We have suffer
ed long enough, it is time something
was done. What can we do? Well,
I'm going to tell you.
ORGANIZED Organize the juniors!
Teach them to be strong and sturdy.
Teach them to fight the capitalist
public schoolsl
ORGANIZE the Young Workers.
Teach them what's wrong in this sys.
tenn. Teach them to fight those big
fat capitalists! Organize the old work
ersi Show them how they've suffer
gether with the Young Workers, the
ed for SO many years. Bring them to-
Juniors! Put some spirit into them :
Wake them! Teach them to fight those
DULLES with the big fat stomachs who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01
This May Day!
rational May Day /!


This is the day we celebrate!
In all sections of the United States, in the agri
cultural as well as the industrial communities,
imposing demonstrations will be held under the
direction of the Workers Party. Never before in
the history of the American Communist movement
have so many celebrations been planned.
So in all the countries of the world. Every
where labor today challenges the rule of the master
class And in Soviet Russia the workers and
farmers celebrate another year of triumph over
world Imperialism
On this day the workers at home see the bank
ruptcy of American capitalism in the many revela-
tons now being made in the tornado of investiga-
lions that has struck the national capitol
And the workers and farmers of all lands see
world Imperialism, in struggling gasps lighting to
maintain itself thru imposing the Wall Street
Morgan Dawes panacea for the chaos in Europe
resulting from the last great war, that came upon
the world ten years ago. More and more the
workers of the United States see their interests
linked up with those of other lands. May Day is
becoming truly international thru the growing
solidarity of the workers everywhere in reply to
the consolidation of capitalist Imperialism.
On this May Day we receive the agenda of the
Fifth World Congress Of the Communist Interna-
tional to be held in Moscow, June 9Th 1T lists
the mighty problems that will be discussed by the
spokesman of labors vanguard everywhere. The
world economic situation will be reviewed, trade
union tactics discussed program of World Com
munist action decided on for the first time, and
the questions of Fascism, the Farmers lnterna-
tionaI, the Youth Movement, International Red
Aid, the Cooperative Movement work among
women, work in the army, taken up, thoroly com
sidered and the most fitting action taken.
Perhaps the biggest and most inspiring fact for
awakened labor on this May Day, on the May
DAYS of the past six years, is that the Communist
International the world leader of the revolution,
meets and discusses its problems and makes its
plans without interference from imperialisms
white terror. Behind the bayonets of the Workers
and Farmers Red Army it builds the power that
will carry the world revolution to triumph.
In the United States the workers and farmers
have big tasks before them on this May Day, 1924.
During this presidential year. with the old parties
Of big business wallowing in the mre of their own
graft and corruption, with a growing industrial
depression, with the cost of living increasing as
wages are hit by new reductions, the call goes out
everywhere for land and city labor to organize its
political as well as its economic power, thru the
National Farmer Labor Party that will grow out
Of the conference planned for ST. Paul, Mimi,
June 18th.
The call of May Day, 1924, is to build the mass,
class National Farmer Labor Party. Down with
the capitalist Teapot Dome Forward to the
Workers and Farmers Government! Forward to
the complete triumph of labor Move forward on
May Day, 1924!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

The only trouble with Governor Warren T. Ne
Cray, of Indiana, to have been that he didn't
steal enough If he had stolen a few hundred mil
lions, he would still be an honored and respected
citizen, pillar of the church, and a staunch de
fender of Americanism instead of being candi
date for the penitentary. When you steal under
capitalism, the rule is that you must steal whole
sale in order to get away with it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

Don't forget the class war prisoners on Inter
national May Day, 1924 Remember Sacco and
Vanzetti, Mooney and Billings, Dola and Blanken-
stein, Ford and Suhr and all the rest. They are
the inside for you. DO what you can for them
on the outside.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

Daugherty helped rob even the school children
of the nation thru refusal to prosecute the sta
tionary trust, thus aiding it to reap an unchal
lenged profit of $50 per cent. When the school
children hear of this they'll begin to question the
Coolidge.Daugherty brand of 100 per cent ''pay-
triotism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

care for no one but themselves.
Altogether, juniors, young workers,
old workers! Get behind the work and
push! Help to establish the second
workers and farmers government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

If all the crooked timber in Coolidges Official
cabinet we're thrown out, only the mirror would
be left and in it "Cautious Cal" could survey the
biggest crook of them all.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

Distribute bundle of the DAILY WORKER
on International May Day. And then get some
new subscribers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

The Poor Fish says, there shouldn't
be so much criticism Of Hoover for
giving the salmon rights to the Alas
ka Packers Association after all
Hoover did TO feed starving people
during the war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

was happy to read in Wednesdays
issue of the DAILY WORKER that
Comrade O'Flaherty's brilliant CO.
lumn, "As We See 1t" will be back
with us soon again. Another feature
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-01

class Farmer-Labor Party and the
June 18th convention. 1t is an oppor-
tunity for Communists to show their
colors.
TOM MATTHEWS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-02
Federated Clubs
OF Third District
To Meet Here

Il
The third district Federation of
Women's clubs will meet in the as
sembly room Of the Southside Baptist
church Thursday and Friday, October
16 and IL. Fourteen of the sixty-six
clubs will act as hostesses on this oc-
casion. These clubs are the Alexis
Study club, The Axis club. The Biz
mingham Art club, The Cadmean, the
Caxton. the Clionian, the Current Topic,
the Eclectic, the Edgewood, Fenelon,
Etude de Art, the Forward Study club,
The Highland Book club and the Junior
league.
One of the features of the meeting
will be the luncheon to be given Thurs
day in honor of Mrs. Val Taylor Of
Uniontown, the president of the state
Federation of Women's clubs. This af-
fair will be given at the Baptist church
and will have number Of distinguished
guests among them being DIR. o. d.
Carmichael of Montevallo, Miss Agnes
Harris and Miss Virginia B. Handley
of Montgomery.
Reservations for the luncheon may be
made at once by telephoning Mrs. w.
J. Adams, Main 1890.
The club presidents, who have tickets,
are urged to send checks or return same
at once, that reservations may be made
for luncheon guests.