The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 1

Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Vol. Ik No. 311. ANK nicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $ In the first issue of the Weekly Worker, Feb. 2, 1922, we wrote, “This, the first edition of The Worker, is the advance agent of The Daily Worker.” Now, in this first issue of The Daily Worker, we join hands with the comrades of the Communist International in declaring that the Daily is but “the forerunner of more revolutionary dailies in other parts of the country.” Thus, from one advance position, we move forward to an- other next ahead. The Daily is here, and we turn a new page in the world story of labor’s struggle. Another chapter begins for America’s working class. The first English-language Com- munist Daily in the world has been realized. Only the momentous developments of the not far’ future! will reveal the tremendous significance of this present historic achievement. A giant is born! A new voice is raised, battling for the workers and farmers of America, carrying its promise of many more such voices; of many Communist Dailies to come! Not only in Russia, in Germany, in Italy, in the Scandi- navian countries, in Czecho-Slovakia, in France, in Mexico, and in a host of other lands, but in those countries where the Eng- lish language dominates as well, the Communist message will now spread daily among the marching, militant hosts of the exploited in the cities and on the land. * The Daily is born! It comes to fight! It comes to inspire and call the many to struggle! The Daily Worker is the voice of the whole working class! * a * z ‘ The Daily has already aroused its enemies. The labor lieutenants of the established order, joined with the big business * interests, the bankers, the merchant princes, the landlords and other profiteers, in a declaration of the National Civic Federa- tion, seeking to prejudice the workers and farmers against it. Secretary of State Hughes, at Washington, has translated and published in the subsidized press of this country, an grresiing to Moscow, in the of oe R. er Daily in Mh Lgated ‘Baise is to be. Thus? prejudice erican labor. * * * * But we have no fears. The bosses have declared The Daily their enemy, even before its first issue appeared. They know they have cause to fear The Daily. They know it will raise the standards of a real struggle against the few who rob and plun- der the many, and keep them in submission. They know The Daily is a challenge to the continuance of their ruthless and bandit rule. ‘ ; We have no fears because we know that the workers and farmers of the United States will rapidly rally in support of The Daily in increased numbers. , or! The Daily appears in Chicago but it is the expression of the oppressed workers and farmers of the whole nation. Its daily arrival in the shops, factories, mills and mines will be cheered by the workers because they will recognize in it their champion. It will be hailed by the agonizing tillers of the soil as their powerful weapon against bankers, landlords and the Profiteers in the wealth they produce but do not enjoy. * * * . The Daily fights for the new Communist order, where all classes will vanish for the first time in the history of civilization. But it also fights for the shorter workday, increased wages to meet the rising cost of living, better working conditions, against child labor, against injunctions and other judicial attacks on the workers, for free speech, free press, free assemblage, against the efforts to divide and crush the foreign and native- born workers, for the liberation of all class-war prisoners and wiping-out of all anti-labor legislation. The Daily fights for e organization of all labor and the strengthening of its ranks everywhere. It is for the organization of the unorganized and for amalgamation as two powerful weapons to prepare for the re adustrial depression and unemployment immediately ad. i for a oe % * The Daily raises the slogan “The land for the users of the ”’ Landlordism and tenantry must go. The Daily declares a moratorium for all working farmers on their for a iod of five years. It fights against the degradation of work- farmers into peonage, against the creation of an erican. Tremendous struggles confront The Daily! It not weaken before them! It will grow in the fight, because with; new struggle new masses of workers and. farmers.will - cage The Daily as theirs, and they will rally behind it. , pete i * is hy _ | The Daily Worker belongs to all who labor. 5 x t on ts Daily! Make it strong, with the stren ' Make it ‘powerful thru your will to ; ‘ f. ica’s W }and Farmers! “scription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Here Is “The Daily”! | ithe plant, Ten ‘mile 10.00 per year. DEATH FOR 40, INJURE MANY AT PEKIN, ILL Rockefeller Concern Smashed Workers’ Organization ; By TOM TIPPETT, (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press and “The Daily Worker’) PEKIN, Hl.—Establishment. of the open shop, criminal negligence on the part of the company and efficiency stunts are given by the survivors as the direct causes for the fatal dust explosion at the Corn. Products Re- fining Company’s plant here. The main blow-up occured when ex- plosive dust was lit in the dry starch department of the plant. This was caused_by a minor explosion in the grinding room that shot a flame thru the spiral conveyor into the dry room, according to men who were at work tin the pant at the time. Between 35 and 40 workmen were killed in the explosion and 35 others itijured so badly that many of them will die,’ There were no dust elimina- tion suction-fans in the wrecked building -and no precautions against explosions were taken since the union in the plant was destroyed: During the war the plant, which employs 800 men was organized and won union re- cognition thru a decision of the War Labor Board. : ompany refused 0g itiated a fight on the unio lasted many months. In a yl union was. completely destroy! the open shop established. This sj tem here meant that every man with union affiliations or sympathies was ;summarily fired, an elaborate spy sys- tem installed and the “American Plan”. of efficiency put into effect. Except for the 8-hour day all conces- sions won by the union were lost. The starch plant operates 24 hours a day with 3 shifts, seven days a week, Explosions are not unknown in this kind of plants. This same company has’ expsrienced them in their works at Cedar Rapids, In., and Edgewater, N. J... The men worked in constant fear. The grinding room of the starch works here was built to accommodate explosions. The walls and ceiling were of glass. This ex- plosion began in the grinding room where the walls easily gave way, the men who have since died in the hos- pitals were from this, department. The dry starch building where the main explosion took place.is connect- ed with the grinding-room by a con- veyor which carries the starch to be powdered and packed for shipment. It is in this department that the plant’s production is measured and loaded for amrket. _The building was an old one that was not made over in the re-construction of the plant. There were 35 or 40 men,employed on its 4 different floors. The explosion spent its force here, completely de- molishing the building as though it were an egg shell. Every man in the department was Killed. While the union was functioning one of its condition was that two men be kept at work in the dry starch building removing the dust. On Sunday, because of union double- time the plant was shut down, and this opportunity was taken by the dust. men to, “blow” the machines and clean the conveyors. Since the fall of the union no attention had been paid ‘the dust and it had ac- cumulated in deadly quantities thru out the entire building. The trhee shifts: that pack and load the day's ‘ut put compete with each others for porduction records. © Survivors say that. the only consideration paid by the “Efficiency cae to the dust was a childish insti ion to the men who sweep, the floor to, wrap their frooms with burlap, The plant is a ghastly sepulchre of ice for the curious crowds that mill around the high steel fence of away in tel, federal oria’s most luxurious Tand state officers are.in conference “investigate” the e3 ion. The handle scab milk, SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1924 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CC cto $04 RS SEEK 10 PROP TOTTERING GERMA! Oil Trust's Open Shop Guilty of Disaster Bank! ROBINSae BANKER YOUNG " ia i UNITED FARMERS — ~IN BIG FIGHT ON THE MILK TRUST \Dechiaes Can’t Disrupt Producers’ Unions The milk supply of Chicago. has, been reduced 75% as a result of the attempt of the profiteering milk cor- porations to disrupt the Milk Pro- ducers’ Asdociation. Until recently there were two as- sociations of milk producers in the field and as is the case when there | ~~ are two rival labor unions in the same industry, the bosses played one association against the other. Recently however, the two organi- | zations of milk produucers. united and decided to resist the efforts of the Milk Trust to reduce the pricé of milk to the producer. + All the plants of the Bowman Dairy company are picketed, and roads leading to them are watched by the farmers. Their language is tak- ing on a progressive color, such terms as a “united front” and “soli- |darity” being heard frequently F, T. Fowler, president of the Milk Producers’ Association declares that according to a statement issued by Secretary Pushkewicz of the city Cor* of Living Committee tke distributor now charging 14 cents a quart, coud | sell at 13 cents anqd still make a 21% profit. The Milk Producers’ Association has appealed to the Chieago Federa- tion of Labor to assist them in getting a charter from the A. F. of L. This is the first time a producing farmers organization, has ed to join the A. F, of L. and the move is haled as another link between the farmers and city workers, When the farmers get a charter it is expected that the milk wagon drivers’ union will refuse to iterature Crea McAdoo Unmasked as Original | Russian Recognition Foe While Hughes’ Plot Falls by Wayside | | (Washington Correspondence to “The Daily Worker”) | WASHINGTON, D. C.—When the Russian Soviet Government, thru its | foreign minister, George Tchitcherin, in reply to the obvious suggestion for j diplomatic reapproachment contained in President Coolidge’s address to congress, held out the olive branch for a joint conference to compose the outstanding differences between Russia and the United States, Secretary fof State Hughes within 24 hours, with a e unheard of in ‘diplomatic | procedure, disnatched a note to Moscow via Riga slamming the door in. the !face of the Soviet Revublic., : But the closi i +tieon "by the progressive senators who®have been collecting data on the (Continued on page 2.) { s , | Expose Oil Trust’s Open Shop THE DAILY WORKER will publish a series of articles on the recent idisaster at Pekin, Il., and the conditions among the workers there both |hefore and after the disaster. Tom, Tippet, wi:o covered the disaster in the, Standard Oil Trust’s Open Shop plant, in the story appearing in an adjoin- ing column, will write the series. Watch for it! Help Break Rockefeller’s Grip Poity Worker Sub Ritkes Cut! Subscription rates to THE DAILY WORKER have been mat reduced. The new rates are set at $6 a year, $3.50 for 6 months and $2 for 3 months outside of Chicago. By carrier in Chicago the rate remains, at $10 a year and $1 per month; by miail in Chicago prices have been re- duced to $8 a year and $4.50 for 6 months, "| With the new low prices asked for THE DAILY WORKER, it is ex- pected that within the next few months it will have more readers than any other daily labor paper in America has ever secured, For the Chicago readers and prospective Chicago readers, who y’ query why the ra places, it is ex- are extended ig costs within the city are more ‘ially n £9, mailin, than $2 a year higher than for, outside. _ Those who have subscribed for THE DAILY WORKER at the higher prices, will receive the paper for a proportionately longer period of time, THE DAILY WORKER business office announces. > Sh sing of the door of recognition to Soviet Russia by Secre-/ }tary Hughes serves as an excellent opening for the big fight for Tecogni-| Section One. There are three sections te this issue of “The Daily Worker,” including 16 pages in all. See thet you get all of them. Price 5 Cents. ). U. S. AIDS ‘WALL STREET - DOLLAR PLOT Great Fear of Labor's Growing | Discontent In Europe Brigadier Gener: les G. Dawes will preside over ti st session of t jub-committee cf exper i ga@ing the German financial situation under auspices of the Reparations Commission in Paris on January 11th, The other sub-comm arged with the investigation o: xport of German capital will delay meeting until Jan. So as to give Henry M. Robins: American r ber, @ eS= conferences to fix Germany's ability to pa jhaps be | financie | Should th worki Eurory rift |gium ar jto the | lords, | U.S. Representatives Reacti rng the prominent interr Reginai McKennitt, former! " Chancellor of the Exchequer and no Chairman of the Midland Bank; | Atthalin, director of the Banque Pa jet Pays Bas; and Jean V, Parment one of the managers of the Credit Foncier de France. America’s “Big Three” at the con= ference are typical resentatives of Big Busin “ are all out-ande out reactionar enemies of the wor Brigadier Genéral Dawes is the oI who sold McKinley, the first imperi president, to the ri He is President of the C Co. of: Mlinois. j called “Hell-and-) Chairman of the Gene uncompromising Board handling supplies for American military ferces, and wag the ‘ first” Di or of the Budget. | “Hell-and-Maria”’ Dawes is an open+ }shopper and an eat-em-alive swash- | buckler. whose attitude towards labor {is best summed up in an address he | recently delivered to the Chicago |Chamber of Commerce in which he said that “the politicians these days are afraid ofthe labor uni marr of which are headed by criminals, Wi, need men whd are not afraid of moby ;——who are ready to fight.’’ Fe Morgan Interests Well Represented Owen D; Young, the second Amer 7% ican member, is one. of ‘the directomgly of the International'Chamber of Comes ; merce, the United States ts % ;Commerce, the Federal Reserve Bai lof New York, the Bankers Trust Cont }pany, and Chairman of the Radio Corporation of America recently attacked by Trade Commission for ¢& iHegal monopoly of wire’ mission circuits throughout the world: |Mr. Young was a member of Wilson’ second Industrial Conference’ and is now Chairman of the General Mlectri¢ Co. which has extensive interests i Europe. r | Henry. M. Robinson, | American representa’ Angeles lawyer and president of, the Fi of Los. Angeles and is” prominent! lidentified with ny other ‘finaneia’ jand industrial itutions. M binson is closel steel and rubber development companies’ in California, and the anti-union Amer. ican Telephone and Telegraph © Thru the appointment’ of Owe Young and Henry M. -Robinson. the Morgen interests are well represent: jeds E.R. Stettiniyg: aad Dwight W. Morrow’ who are. partners of J. °P, | Morgan & Co, are blso directors of the General Electric. Go, »Mr. Robins’ son has for many ‘vears heen. closely associated. with. Ji-P.-Morgan himeelf, How «much. importance our finan- ciers attach to ‘these conferences is jevident from the following’ statement \ (Continued.on Page 12) 4 SESE