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SPOLANSKY LIES
HIS WAY THRU
TO FAT SALARY
His Fakes Cause Inno
cent Men Much Misery
By KARL REEVE.
Jake Spolansky, former sec
ret service agent of the United
States government, brags about
his aid to the steel trust in the
1919 strike of the steel trust
workers under the leadership of
William Z. Foster.
Spolansky couldn’t give the
steel trust much aid, but he
shows himself proud of the fact,
in one of his closing articles in
the Daily News, that he man
aged to milk the steel barons
out of a fat salary by putting
innocent steel workers in Jail.
It’s Haymaking Time.
The fall of 1919, when the steel
strike was called, was haymaking time
for even the stupid denizens of the
underworld, who were then acting as
stool pigeons in the ranks of labor.
Altho Europe had long since re
leased Its war time political prisoners,
In America, working class newspapers
were being raided, meetings were be
ing broken up by chamber of com
merce mobs and'thugs in the secret
service or In public office.
The right of the workers to organ
ize was being systematically curtail
ed, and workers were no longer per
mitted to have their own legislative
representatives. Lusk committees
were being formed and Palmer was
about to begin his shameful deporta
tion raids.
Even the most stupid and lowly
"dick" could get a job organizing
phony “anarchist” organizations like
the “Knights of the Red Star," so
Spolansky was given a job.
On Steel Trust Payroll.
"While Spolansky was getting paid
to do his dirty work for the steel
trust, William Z. Foster was writing
the most glorious page In the history
of the American labor movement.
Foster's genius for organisation had
fully roased the deadened steel trust
slaves for the first time. They rebel
led at the long hours and small pay,
compared to the millions of dollars In
profits reaped by Elbert H. Gary, and
answered the strike call of the A. F.
of L
Speaking of this activity of the vari
ous agents of the steel trust who at
tempted to break the srlke, William
E. Foster, secretary-treasurer of the
National Committee to organize the
steel Industry, of the American
Federation of Labor and leader of the
strike, tells the true reason for such
aettvity. “Realizing full well the re
actionary spirit of the times, the steel
companies proceeded safely to ex
tremes to crush the strike, dubbed by
them an attempt at violent revolu
tion," Foster stated shortly after the
strike. • “To accomplish his, their end,
they stopped at nothing. Thruout
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JOSEPH PODKULSKI
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and JOHN EDWARDS
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CAPITALIST DICTATORSHIP HAS
MADE ELABORATE PREPARATIONS
TO PROTECT ITS HOARD OF GOLD
By LELAND OLDS
(Federated Press Industrial Editor)
Hare you heard about the new capitol building designed expressly for
the real government of the United States? No, not in Washington, where
the constitutional government designed for arisocratic landowners and small
business men continues like a fifth wheel on a coach. But on Nassau street
in New York City. It houses the federal reserve bank of New York.
The federal reserve bank of New York Is the public representative of the
of the capitalist In America. It is really nothing more than an
integration of the great private
banks of New York district thru
which the giants of finance have been
steadily organizing the country into
industrial provinces under their rule.
It is the largest bank of issue in the
world with assets in the neighborhood
of 91,600,000,000 and annual business
figured in tens of billions.
Move to New Building.
October 1 was moving day for this
pool of economic power and during
the ensuing weeks its personnel num
bering approximately 2,000 quietly
took up quarters in the new building
representing the last word in material
protection for the gold and securities
that give New York financiers control
over our economic life.
The symbol of this dictatorship is a
horde of gold unequaled in the world.
The continuance of this dictatorship
rests upon the belief of the people in
the divine right of the gold and secur
ity owners to rule the economic life
of the country.
The new capitol building centers in
the extraordinary vault designed to
protect these symbols, ownership <ft
which is supposed to confer on New
York bankers the right to rule. Will
Nassau in The Wall Street Journal
Oct. 18 describes this vault:
“The vault is probably the largest
and strongest in the world. It is be
low tidewater, an additional factor of
safety, and the lower floor rests upon
piers imbedded in a foundation of
solid rock. It contains three levels
which, while no more than the bank
! the strike, whenever and wherever
they could find municipal and court
officials willing to do their bidding,
the steel barons abolished the rights
of free speech and free assemblage,
so precious to the strikers.
Gunmen to Intimidate Strikers.
“To carry on the terror so well be
gan by the suppression of free speech
and assembly, the steel trust turned
loose upon the devoted strikers the
great masses of armed thugs it had
been recruiting since long before the
strike.” And the federal agents In
cluding Spolansky, freely enlisted in
this terrorizing of labor. Spolansky
charges that Foster sought the co-op
eration of I. W. W. "agitators," that
the "Federation of Labor not only re
fused to place its aproval on the
strike, but even denounced It as un
authorized and threw all Its co-opera
tion to the government.”
Spolansky’s Chief Stock in Trade-
Lying.
This Is another bare-faced lie of
Spolansky. True that some of the
American Federation of Labor officials
were tardy in indorsing the strike.
But the great mass of the workers
were heart and soul with It. Even
the officials Indorsed the strike from
needs, are about equivalent to the
space occupied by 40 New York
■ apartments.
Wall Ten Feet Thick.
"The easterly wall is 10 feet thick
and the three other walls eight feel
thick and are of a type selected after
a series of tests conducted by the
federal reserve board with the assis
tance of the U. S. bureau of stand
ards. At these tests all kinds of mod
ern vault construction were subjected
to the action of such powerful agents
of destruction as TNT, dynamite,
oxy-actelyine torches, and jackham
mer or pneumatic drills."
He describes three cylindrical re
volving doors weighing with’ their
frames 230 tons apiece and three em
ergency doors 8 feet thick and weigh
ing 185 tons each. Such weights have
never before been attempted in bank
construction. There are listening gal
leries with instruments to detect any
attempt to tunnel in the neighborhood.
There is special provision for locking
in the armored cars which bring ac
cessions of wealth and for their un
loading under the control of an over
head gallery of bullet proof steel.
From this unloading platform the gold
and securities will be transferred to
the vault on hand trucks operating
thru a corridor controlled by a bullet
proof screen pierced to command the
whole length of the corridor.
The financial oligarchy Intends to
protect its title to exploitation against
all comers.
Gompers down. We learn from Fos
ter that:
"President Gompers pledged the
support of the A. F. of L. to the strike
two day after It Btarted and labor gen
erally has shown its determination to
stick by the steel workers. Even the
officers of the International Union of
Steam and Operating Engineers in
dorsed the strike.”
Spolansky repeats an old _ charge
that Foster was instrumental in creat
ing the railroad strike which followed
the steel strike. Foster said in an
swer to that charge:
"Probably there never was a strike
in this country more spontaneous and
unplanned than the one in question.
But that does not worry our depart
ment of justice. It announced to a
credulous world that the whole affair
is a highly organized plot to over
throw the government”
At that time Foster declared. “I do
not lmow a solitary one of the men
advertised as strike leaders, nor has
there been any communication what
soever between us. I have not attend
ed a strike meeting nor have I even
seen a man whom I knew to be a
striker. But, of course, such details
are irrelevant to the department of
justice and the newspapers.
Bosses Hide Behind Flag.
"The steel strike was a drive
straight at the heart of industrial au
tocracy in America. It could expect
to meet with the most unscrupulous
resistance,” Foster stated. It was to
be expected that some means would
have been found to thoroly discredit
the strike. This conviction was inten
sified by the unexampled fury with
which each important move of labor
daring recent years has been opposed,
not only by the employers, but by the
government officials as well.
Box Makers Get Increase.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. Wage in
creases of $1 and $2 a week have been
granted paper box workers employed
by the Paper Box
soclatlon by the board of arbitration
which acted between the union and
employers after the recent strike.
Working hours remain the same. For
two years all differences on these
points must be submitted to the board
of abitration.
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THE DAILY WORKER
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Trade Union Rebels
; Hear Communists
b By jack McCarthy.
{ (Special Correspondence.)
LONDON, Oct. 12.—Under
the shadow of the Nelson monu
| ment on Trafalgar Square,
London, the national minority
, movement of Britain held its
' first public meeting. Today the
. huge crowd swarmed into the
. square from all directions,
1 marching behind bands and as
-3 jsembled around the base of the
, monument which served as the
- platform for the speakers.
The bands played the Intern a
- tional, the Red Flag and other
revolutionary airs. The march
ers carried banners with inscrip
; tions, “Down with the Dawes
! report,” “A wage increase of a
pound a week for all workers,”
. “44-hour week and no more.”
Then came the Young Com
munist League placards reading,
’ “Communist Youth Will Win,”
“Up Young Rebels,” etc.
There were scores of unions march
ing, each with its respective banner,
but perhaps most significant of all was
a large group from the National Un
ion of Railwaymen,- of which C. T.
Cramp is secretary. Cramp is as hos
tile to the minority movement in Brit
ain as Sam (Jompers is to the T. U. E.
i L. He (Mr. Cramp) was instrumental
in getting thru the resolution at the
labor party congress calling for the
exclusion of the C. P. members from
the labor party.
Tom Mann Cheered.
When the meeting was opened by.
Sam Elsbury, of the garment workers,
who was chairman, the crowd was so
large that it became necessary for the
opening of a second meeting on the
other side of the monument. The ap
pearance of the veteran labor leader,
Tom Mann on the platform, was the
signal for a roaring demonstration
from the assembled workers which
could have been heard in Buckingham
palace. Tom Mann spoke in no un
certain terms about the Dawes’ report
and what it meant to the workers of
the world. He severely criticized the
labor government for its acceptance.
He outlined the program of the min
ority movement and explained what it
meant to the trade union movement of
Britain.
In replying to the actions of the re
actionaries who were responsble for
the resolution carried at the labor
party congress in reference to the ex
clusion of the Communists, he said:
“I have been in the labor movement
all my life and I want to tell the offl
cials who are responsible for these
resolutions that I am in it to stay for
the rest of- my life.” This brought
shouts of “hear, hear,” and prolonged
applause from the twelve to flfteeen
thousand assembled workers. "The
Communists,” he continued, “ are in
the trade unions, not as we have been
accused by the reactionaries, ‘to de
stroy the trade unions,’ but to co-or
dinate and amalgamate them into one
powerful, industrial organization for
each Industry, to make of them effect- j
ive weapons thru which we can en i
force our immediate demands; to de-1
velop them further as instruments of
the class struggle, not to patch capital-!
ism, but to destroy it.”
Workers Against War.
The next speaker was J. R. Camp-1
bell, editor of the Workers’ Weekly,
and who is responsible for the present
general election. The prosecution of
Campbell by the labor government
was withdrawn because of the pro
tests of the trade unions, the tory
and liberal members in the house of
commons passed a vote of censure or
the labor government for dropping the
Campbell case, hence the general
election at this time. When Camp
bell stepped on the platform this war
a signal for another demonstration
from the workers. They shouted their
approval of what he had Bald in the
Workers’ Weekly.
The other speakers were Jack Tan
ner, George Hardy, Harry Pollltt, Wa!
Hannington, T. Winter, J. Springhall
and Alex Gossip, each of them repre
senting a different union.
Fasciati Got Theirs.
Just as the meeting was about to
close, a few torles could be seen In
the crowd and when the chairman
called for the singing of the Red
Flag, the tories were compelled to
remove themselves or their tall hats.
While the workers were singing the
Red Flag and the International,
a small group of fasclstl tried to sing
God Save the King, but they were
s6on scattered. One member of the
Y. C. L. got 21 days In jail for putting
one of the fascist! singers out ol
! ordor.
The huge crowd dispersed. March
ing behind their bands, with their red
flags and banners they returned to
their respective localities, confident
that they had demonstrated their
strength to the enemies of the work
ing class.
LAFOLLETTE’S HOKUM IS PUT
INTO PLAIN LANGUAGE BY
SOME WISCONSIN COMMUINSTS
By JOSEPH R. BOOTH.
(SDeclal to The Dally Worker)
SUPERIOR, Wis., Oct. 29. —The Communists of Wisconsin, being so
familiar with our great statesman Billy Sunday’s stuff, can truthfully inter
pret LaFollette’s platform in the following 14 points:
Ist. I, the representative of the middle class cannot bear to see the big
capitalist parasites so barbareously
suck the blood of the working class
without also giving a show to the
smaller parasites
2nd. I’m here to avoid the spread
of Communism, the outcome of cen
tralization of capital, and therefore
my policy is decentralization.
3rd. I boost my liberal reforms to
cause workers to forget their revolu
tionary aims.
4th. By running independently I
! have so far succeeded in destroying
| the Communist’s plans of a class
■farmer labor party.
sth. I oppose proletarian dictator
ship in preference to a la LaFollette
dictatorship.
6th. Down with workers and peas
ants soviets. Hail to commercial
clubs.
7th. I have a clean fighting recprd
against the late war, altho sceptics
meanly place it to pro-Germanism.
Bth. I am entitled to all labor sup
port, after getting the endorsement
of labor leaders like Gompers & Co.
who render great service to labor by
drawing the swellest salaries.
9th. Even the “practical” socialist
party has renounced Marxism as bunk
and is with me.
10th. It is also not to be under
estimated that thru my power the soc
ialists forever declared their firm
bankrupt.
11th. I am a specialist in com
bating the Bolsheviks. While the reac
tionaries do it in a clumsy way, I,
in a remarkably liberal fashion grant
their constitutional right to free ex
pression, but not to association, be
cause they get orders from such ter
rible men like Zinoviev, Trotsky, Bu
charin, Radek, and Kalenin, who
surely cannot be compared with the
gentlemen, LaFollette, Gompers, Hill
quit. Berger, and Cahan.
12th. Don’t fear my radicalism as
long as I am solid for capitalism.
13th. Fellow citizens, this time while
I and Wheeler are running please stay
away from the corrupt republicans
and democrats, who make no such
promises as ours.
14th. In the name of Spreckles and
Co. send us to the White House be
cause you know we can deliver pros-
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RUSSIAH STUDERTS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST
CHINESEINTERVEHTION
(By Rosta News Agency)
MOSCOW, Oct. 29.—Numerous
demonstrations were held here to
day by students against foreign in
tervention in China. Besides a
message of welcome to the Chinese
students and the leaders of the na
tional liberatlve movement, a resolu
tion was passed to send a message
to the students of England, France,
America and other interventionist
powers, calling upon them to do all
in the students’ power to prevent In
tervention In China.
perity to everybody—workers, farm
ers, businessmen, bankers, etc.
These are LaFollette’s 14 points.
They will meet the same fate as Wil
son’s.
We have only one point to offer.
The workers’ and farmers’ only sal
vation is the * revolutionary Workers
Party, with its true fighting standard
bearers William Z. Foster and Ben
jamin Gitlow.
Organize Box Workers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—With a brass
band whooping up the music, several
big busses full of striking paper box
workers rode thru the streets of New
York past their shops and spread the
word of their fight for organization
and for decent conditions.
The issue of the fight is organiza
tion of small shops. The union has an
agreement signed for two years with
the box makers’ association but many
small shops are not organized. The
union asks a $5 flat Increase in wages
and the 44-hour week.
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YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE
ACTIVITIES.
LOCAL CHICAGO,
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Thursday, Oct. SO—Class in Ele
mentary Economics, 2618 Hirsch
Blvd. Earl R. Browder, Instructor.
All league members should attend.
Thursday, October 30, 1924
NEW LENIN FILM
IN MILWAUKEE
ON NOV. 7TH
By WILLIAM F. KRUSE.
The anniversary of the bolshevik
revolution, Nov. 7, is to be celebrated
in Milwaukee, Wis.. with an especially
■ fitting number on the program —a mo
tion picture story of the “Life of Nico
■ lai Lenin.” The film opens with the
front page 1 announcement by the
DAILY WORKER of the death of the
greatest working class leader, and
then reviews his six years of servioe
jto the Soviet republic.
He iff shown agitating the masses
toward Kerensky’s overthrow with the
[slogan, "All power to the Soviets,”
| then before the congress explaining
: the “New Economic Policy.” We see
| him “on the job” as well as “off duty,”
i and the tribute paid him by the work
| ers of Russia and of the world at
large are truly inspiring. Two other
! celebrations in the country can run
ithe picture on Nov. 7. Send applica
i tions to Internatonal Workers’ Aid, 19
S. Lincoln St., Chicago, 111., at once
as only two more showings are avail
able.
“Russia-Germany” Picture
Makes a Hit.
A very successful showing of the
workers’ film, Russia and Germany,
produced by William F. Kruse for the
International Workers’ Aid, was held
in Oakland, Cal., and netted a profit
of 9300 for the relief funds.
The picture will be shown on Sun
day, Nov. 2, in the High School Audi
torium at Berkeley, permission having
been granted by the board of educa
tion. It is expected that a showing
will soon be arranged in Sarcemento.
California and other’ Pacific coast
cities can arrange for showing's by
getting in touch with F. Siegman, 226
Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal.
Duluth to See Beauty Film.
Duluth is not to be outdone by iti
sister city across the state line, even
! tho the other may be called
Both will see the new Russian feature
1 film, “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,"
Superior on Nov. 5 and Duluth on
Nov. 13. The film is in Hancock,
Mich., Oct. 30-31, and in Rock, Mich.,
on Nov. 2. Kettle River, twenty miles
south of Duluth, will see The Fifth
year, on Nov .2.
Loses all Civil Rights.
RIO JANERIO.—M. J. Pasquall, a
Brazilian citizen of Alfredo Chaves,
has been deprived of citizenship be
cause he refused to undergo military
training. His objection was religious.