The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 13, 1924, Page 2

Is (Special te “The Daily Worker’) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Despite the efforts of Sam Levy, lobbyist for the Citizens’ Alliance, the open shop organization in this city, the labor aldermen in the city council success- fully countered an attempt to give an.operating liccnse to restaurants tun by George Demos and Stafford because of their known antagonism to the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ Union, Levy had been consulting frantical- ly with Alderman Brown and Buck to get the licenses thru the council, but due to the prompt action of Alder- man Bastis, labor, in moving to strike the two anti-labor restaurants from the license lists, the attempt of the reactionaries fell thru. The motion to refuse the licenses was supported by Aldermen Bastis, Scott, Gisslen, Ben- eke, Dunleavy and Hadley and was carried by the council with the oppo- sition of the tools of the Gitizen’s Alliance. GREETINGS from of ' Soviet Russia (National Office) ta The Daily Worker. > SCAB RESTAURANT J" REFUSED LICENSE BY LABOR SOLONS Citizens’ Alliance Frantic Over Defeat | | (Continued from page 1) | question. The senators who have recently returned from Europe, without exception, favor recognition, This fact has angered Mr. Hughes, who unofiicially informed the public thru the press, that their views have caused indignation among administration officials. “Upon what meat does this bewhiskered statesman feed that he has grown so great’ the Chicago Herald-Examiner. Are these men not entitled to as 1 credit for their reports as the lackeys of Mr. Hughes, George B. Harvey, the yankee devotee of knee breeches and Haig and Haig, and the million: flunkey, Myron T, Herrick? Secretary Hughes Got Stung had Mr. Hughes disposed of the pesky Boishevik menace than the latter turned itself as if by magic into a hornet’s nest, Angry ive senators began to buzz ominously around the secretary’s ears. add of North Dakota introduced a resolution requesting the sec< retary of e to provide the senate with information concerning its Rus- sian policy, particularly with reference to any “secret agreements, con- fidential understandings, diplomatic arrangements or verbal contracts” existing between the State Department and foreign nations “with a view to prohibiting, restricting or retarding trade’ between Russia and the United St The secretary was also requested to”furnish the senate with all ir ion concerning the alleged activities of the Russian gov- ernment in jing propaganda here. Daunted but not subdued Mr, Hughes immediately gave the public a sample of the kind of “evidence” his Department of Justice can turn out at a moment’s notice by making public an alleged letter of instructions from the Communist International to the Workers Party of America, This letter after goir > the technical details of making bombs and training bomb throwers wound up with a fourth of July peroration hoping that in the not far distant. future the red flag would be raised over the White House. | No sooner progr his did not take very well, so instead of open fabrication, forgery was resorted to. The secretary of state next had his agents translate or mistranslate an article from the Nov. 7, 1922, issue of Izvestia, the official organ of the Soviet Government, designed to prove that the Communist International and the Soviet government were identical. Editor Charges Forgery M. Steklov, editor of Izvestia, accused Secretary of State Hughes of changing the sense of the article. “Mr. Hughes,” he writes, “having xtracted a few lines out of the general context of the article, added several lines of his cwn, thus changing the sense. Despite the external coincidence of the separate words, I still categorically declare that by qi4ing my words in the manner Mr. Hughes did, he consciously committed forgery.” M. Steklov continues: “As regards the material bonds between Soviet Russia and the Communist International, as cont«ined in the November yarticle, Mr. Hughes omitted the following phrase: “The matter at issue is ‘not material assistance about which the bourgeois press is speaking, which |is a myth, but bonds of a spiritually political nature.” Mr. Hughes in his willingness to obey the dictates of the international bankers who are fighting Russian recognition has apparently bit off more than he can chew. There is division even in administration circles. It is reported on good authority that even the Department of Justice doubts its ability to furnish. Mr. Hughes with the kind of documents necessary to make good before a senatorial committee the charges of Soviet plots in the me COHEN & HORVITZ well-known Insurance Salesmen are greeting the birth of THE DAILY WORKER, wishing it a long life and success. i | ' | i ! ' } ys. M. HORVIT:, 1253 N. Hoyne Ave. HAKRIS COREN 2645 Potomac Ave. Office: 787 W. ROOSEVELT ROAD Phone Roosevelt 2500 mee: He ILY WORKER January 13, 1924 he Hughes’ Plot Falls by the Wayside | Unitea States. ‘Very few senators place any credence in Department of Justice “evidence” particularly since the disclosures brought out by Frank P. Walsh in his investigation of stool pigeon activities prior to the trials of William Z, Foster and ©. E. Ruthenberg at St. Joseph, Michigan. U. & Found Guilty But while Mr. Hughes and William J. Burns were putting their in- genuity to the test for the ordeal ahead of. them the Senate judiciary com- mittee was quietly going ahead with an investigation of the investigators. While Mr. Hughes was bleating about mythical Soviet propaganda in America the judiciary committee was bringing in a verdict of “guilty” against the United States government on the charge of carrying on propa- ganda—yes and “force and violence’—against Soviet Russia, i This information is embodied in document 86, the result’ of the investi- gation of war loans by this country to foreign powers. A Universal Service dispatch under date of January:2 states: “This series of amazing transactions with Boris Bakhmeteff, ‘“ambas- sador without a government,” showed that a considerable part of the pro- ceeds of the loans Mr. Hughes demands the Soviet government recognize The Cause of Bad Dreams By IAL. DEVELOPMENT before this country will enter into any negotations looking to a resumption of relations went to the support of Soviet enemies, “Secretary Hughes in his flat rejection of Tchitcherin’s overtures said the spreading of propaganda in the United States was the “most serious” offense of the Soviet government. The Senate judiciary committee’s inquiry unearthed a memorandum prepared by R. M. Leffingwell, then assistant Secretary of the Treasury, for the Secretary of the Treasury on December 10, 1917, a little over a. month after the soviets overthrew the Kerensky regime, which contains these recommendations: : Real Plotters Exposed “I think the present situation calls for large expenditures for propa- ganda and for relief, and that food and military supplies should be sent forward to Russia; that so far as money is in hand. here available, for that purpose, it should be used, and + a that so far as it is wanting the Presi- dent’s discretionary fund should be used. “It is important also that the pad eee iia tn eadiesninertir ment in a letter to SecretarywOf State Lansing, dated January #7, 1918, two months and a half after the soviets came into power. United States should decide promptly whether it will give aid, to Kalendin and the southern Russians” ‘(fight- ing the soviets). The committee found: { Presidgnt Wilson’ &4f théfexpendiwures made by him under the $150,000,000 appropriation given him for the pur- pose of prosecuting the war, it ap- pears he spent $15,815,523.17 for in- vestigations, relief work, etc., in Rus- sia in 1917 and 1918.” A Costly Campaign The report includes $25,000 for a publicity campaign in Russia.” Former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo suggested the policy which has been followed in the matter of nonrecognition of the soviet govern- GET BEHIND THE RUTHENB This Appeal, Soon To Be Heard, Is The Cornerstone of Michigan Defense To All Friends of Militant Labor: The workers of America are faced with the menace of the Johnson Bill—a “‘Super-Blacklist” against alien workers, and the Sterling Bill— a national anti-syndicalism bill, so drastic that under its provisions the Chicago, Il. Here is my contribution winning of the Ruthenberg LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, eeverrerrrser se. eeeetortestonceeiess simple exhibition of a button or emblem Russia or workers’ Germany might be in liable to five years in prison or $5,000 labor puts up,-and to a large extent w secured under the state laws, ebecomes the focus of attention—and paramount in importance. about to be heard. —if the appeal is successful, it is extre This makes it necessary for the Couneil sends out the immediate RUTHENBERG APPEAL.” the present situation is critical. GET BEHIND THE RUTHENBERG APPEAL! of $................ toward the Appeal. Robert M. Buck, Chairman. Eugene V. Debs, Vice-Chairman. Rev. John A. Ryan, D. D., Vice-Chairman. Moritz J. Loeb, Secretary, Will: Whether this Sterling Bill passes or not depends on the opposition Thus, the Michigan anti-byndicalism law The official labor baiters of the Burns-Daugherty “Department of Justice,” stinging from past defeats, have now turned their attention to Michigan and are out to smash the Ruthenberg appeal, which is The Ruthenberg Appeal is the cornerstone of the Michigan Defense the other 32 defendants will be brought to trial at all. The Defense Council must have plenty fighting material and must not be obliged to leave things undone for lack of funds. energies and resources on the period just ahead. We ask that you come to the support of the Foster-futhenberg Defense—-generously and NOW. Send your contribution and what you can collect from others on the contribution blank printed below. You may have already in the past supported the Labor Defense Council and sacrificed for the defense of Foster and Ruthenberg. But the Keep the Michigan defendants out of jail, free to lead the fight of the workers. Fraternally yours, LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL. Room 307, Federation Bldg. NATIONAL OFFICERS Frank P. Walsh, George Maurer, Acti: "y. . Frances C, Lillie, Treasurer. 4 gods ERG APPEAL; denoting sympathy with Soviet terpreted as rendering a worker fine, or both. pon the number of convictions the Foster-Ruthenberg defense mely unlikely that the cases of defense to concentrate all its The Labor Defense slogan, “GET BEHIND THE 166 W. Washington St. Chicago, Ill. iam Z. Foster, Sec’y Defendants’ Com. Chief Counsel for Defendants, | “Acer ding to = nart'al repent by! _ % | workers will be asking Mr. % tinues to shut off the great Russian ¢| market from the product of Ameri- % | ployment from American workers. ¢ EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE because— i | Foster, } Fi tannrasenors sans iene amemenmemamaeniin | | GREETINGS | from | General Cleaners and Tailors He demanded. “ot only that all of the terms and conditions of the Rus- sian debt be recognized, but that all be ra#fied. Sentior Burton K. Wheeler, of Mmontaaa, comngenting on thé publica- tion of the Hughes’ forgery, declared, “Tt is inconceivable that the President of the United States would have in his message to Congress, tacitly invited the Russian government to apply formally for recognition had either the ney General, had in their possession such information as Mr. Hughes now points to. I think it will be proved beyond question that the evidence which they have is a myth and the product of tlie unbalanced minds of! a la A. Mitchell Palmer has been able to see long-whiskered bolsheviks hov- ering over the capitol hére in Wash- ington. ... In my opinion the detec- tive dream will be exploded when it reaches the floor of the Senate.” McAdoo’s Plan The vendetta of Secretary Hughes against Russia is revealed as_ the! brain child of Mr. McAdoo, Ku Klux} Klan favorite as presidential aspirant in the Democratic party. Tho in two different political camps they prove themselves loyal servants of the money power against the money pow- | ers’ common enemy. of Woodrow Wilson, the world’s champion political mountebank will soon seek to rally the workers of this! country to his banner, but the work-! ers will remember the unholy alliance! between MeAdoo the Democrat and Hughes the Repubiican against the Workers government of Russia, While Mr. Hughes and his masters | carry on this crusade against the Soviet Republic the uations of Europe} are vieing with cach other in making; trade agreements or political agree-! ments with that country and whilej the Soviet idea is as repugnant to the European business men as it is to American capitalists the former have a sense of reality and know that whether they deal with Russia or not the Soviet idea is bound to win as it| knows no barriers. 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