The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 14, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARDS FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 312. Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year. MONDAY, , RUSSIAN RECOGNITION War on Unions in Philadelphia MILITARY RULE THE GOAL OF ROCKEFELLER WELFARE WORK| IS ESTABLISHED IN QUAKER CITY Policemen, FiremenAre Under Fascist Dictates (Special to “The Daily Worker”) THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1983, at the Post Office at Chicago, Tinols, under the Act of March 8, 1879. ANUARY 14, 1924 pe 04 UP ENGLAND FACES — RAIL STRIKE AND RULE BY LABOR Complicated Situation Faces British Workers (Special to “The Daily Worker”) LONDON. — The British Labor Party is on the anxious seat. With the King’s address from the throne two days away the Labor Party has no idea of the attitude the Liberals will take toward their assuming of- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted 8t, Chicago, Hlinois. 10 €0 Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party mation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents. GRESS Hearst Commission Makes Very Favorable Report; Workers Party and F. S. R. Launch Big Drives After seven years, since the Russian Revolution in 1917, the United States government is now face to face with the vital question of the recognition of and the opening of trade relations with Soviet Russia. The effort of the Coolidge administration to divert the de- mand for recognition into an hysterical attack on the American Communist movement has failed. The state department under Secretary Hughes and the department of justice under Attorney General Daugherty have not been able to prove their frame-up nor to make good on PHILADELPHIA—General Smed- ley D. Butler of the Marines has re- ceived a year’s leave of absence from President Coolidge to serve this city as Director of Public Safety. This department has control of the Bureaus of Police, Fire, Electrical Signals and Lighting, Building, Boiler fice. Unless the Liberals are willing} to back Labor, J. Ramsay MacDonaldj cannot become premier, and the threat of a possible railway strike! looms on the horizon. All the Lon- don papers say that until the ques- tion of the railway strike is settled] the Liberals and Conservatives their forgeries. The committee that will investigate the question of Russian Recognition will have a friend of Soviet Russia, Senator Borah, as its chairman. Simultaneous with the beginning of this probe the unofficial American Congressional Commission, sent to Soviet Russia by the Hearst newspapers, has made its report and declares and Elevator Inspection. @ General Butler’s assumption of his new duties followed the installation of a new eity administration which was elected last November. The new administration promised to “clean up the city.” Plans to Smash Unions Pennsylvania is famous for a “pro- gressive” governor, its Cossack state tropps and Directors of Public Safety io recognize no law but their own wishes and those of the corporations serve. Mx. Butler did not leave the public in doubt as to what his rule for the workers. He called chiefs into his office and sad eed i Gis ced in true Hell-an’- Dawes ‘was 2s hard- a8 ckard of the Ku about to tar am old lady of 80. The Butler will treat n is indisated by the } nt delivered to the BS lela of hemen, “ohh ” “fins Dieeotor ammounced that he has formed a seerat squad of 800 to check up.on the doings of policemen. Follows in Coolidge’s Footsteps. General Butler probably remem- pers that President Coolidge worked his way up to the White House by|- erushing the Boston policemen who went on strike in 1920. The bosses fear the police who are reeruited from the working class and while the policemen are used to do the dirty work of breaking strikes for the boses end beating up the strikers they learn that whenever they request better conditions the bosses treat them in exactly the same manner as the in- dustrial” workers are treated. That a consciousness of this fact is grow- ing among the police is indicated by the various attempts made in several) places to form unions. The workers and farmers of Penn- sylvania are not ackiol in object lessons on the need for independent political action. While they allow themselves to be deceived by fake progressives like Governor Pinchot and fooled by Gompers’ reactionary “reward and punish” policy, they must expect mounted Cossacks, spies and hardboiled dictators. Labor Shows There Can Be No Peace Under Capitalism The Lesson of Pekin, Illinois. What Will the Winter Bring? _| When one analyzes the last official authentic reports on the economic conditions ih the country he gets a chill. The winter ahead has nothing but wintery prospects for the working m: An analysis of the production figures should make every worker sit up and think—and act. According to the latest findings of the Federal Reserve Board the production of basic commodities and factory employment de- creased in November. ; Production in basic industries decreased about 2 per cent. In December thd production of pig iron fell 2 per cent. _ Tke number of active cotton spindle hours is teday about 700,000 less ear ago and fell over 300,000 in November alone. To terms of plant capacity and sericea’ production, according to the Department of Commerce, in November stood at 67 per cent as against 77 * 5 per cent in October and 91 per cent a year ago. pan es Diapason Sfeaking The production of automobiles, pnéumatic tires, southern and western ig ve : 7 FOSTER MEETING STOPPED THIRD Civil Liberties Union to Fight Ruling (Special to “The Daily Worker”) NEWARK, N. J.—William Z. than , hs pat the third time Foster has been »The Bok peace plan which won the | P?"* lumber, face brick. and the number and expenditure fo building con-. prévented from speaking in this Sdaward J. Bok $100,000 prize is the | tracts awarded in 27 Northeastern States all decreased in November. | city. The American Civil Liberties With; the: fall ‘of production, unamplayment: is ineressing:., henetan teed a5 Sona Boater The shoperaft workers are being dismis by the thousands, | was Ss ee sald that it nas The number of factory employees and the wekkly pay. roll are falling by no means ended the fight for in New York State. ares ike ae | free speech in Newark, ion of the last reports comp: yy the Federal Reserve’ Foster hi barely mounted the hia and the Department of Labor and Industry, Common-' platform whe “ polite har tock wealth of Pennsylvania is especially instructive. ‘him into custody and escorted him (These reports indicate that out cf 681 plants in 39 industries of the to police headquarters, where he re- great manufacturing State there was a decrease of 1.7 per cent iv employ- | mained for an hour ‘ing his case ment, a fall of 3.4 per cent in the total wages, and a drop of 1.7 per cent in With, the police captain. the average wages in the month of November as compared with October. | Foster is on a speaking tour of In 46 separate industrial cases, wages showed 31 decreases, abn ple ot cc yaomat among ’ en and women in Chicago. The text of this scheme of which the author’s name has not yet been made public proposes the immediate entry of the United States into the [sooo court of International justice and unreserved cooperation with the. dengne of nations under specified conditions, The project also casnaes the ultimate membership of Be nited States in the league. | the Hast and will speak in Bridge- E. Ruthenberg, executive sec- And in the last Babson Report we find the following significant state-| port, Conn., and Paterson, N. J. ier of the Workers Party, said: ment: “Unemployment may lower wages. Reports received from State and. “The Bok peace plan is another at- National Employment offices generally indicate an increasing demand for No Overtime in Russia tempt at the aes to prevent | jobs anda diminishing number of jobs to-be offered to applicants. Unem-| The railroad department for the war under an in al ‘al system that war. ployment is developing. The outstanding industries. are: Textiles, reailroad protection of the workers, in Russia, . | ment, et TIME IN NEWARK should act together. | The National Union of railway engine drivers and firemen are said to have issued a secret call for a nationwide strike to take effect next Saturday. Tuesday the King will deliver his address from the throne. Then Labor will move an amendment, probably on unemployment, and if the Liberals do not move a further amendment it will mean that they will have decided to give their support to Labor, Then the address from the throne will be| debated. the debate probably lasting} all of a week. When a vote is tak if the Labor amendment is carr the Baldwin government will res: and the King will call on MacDo to form a government. Since the threat of a ot Engh 41 has been made. it is not kn finitely. what attitude the Libera will take toward a Labor govern- Until after the addtess from the throne a'l bets are off. Until the threats of the hap ay strike covernment,. especially in view of MacDonald’s repeated — statements’ | that he had no intention of being | “Red.” But they do not feel sure enough of his exact hue to trust him with the railway situation. The political dopesters say the fol- lowing is. the inside information on | the proposed cabin The sie PRIME RETARY INISTER AND FOREIGN SEC- J. Ramsay MacDonald. ° CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER— Philip. Snowden. MINISTER OF LAROR—Sydney Webb. POSTMASTER GENERAL — Robert Am- mon. LORD OF THE PRIVY SEAL and leader in the house of commons—J, R. Clynes. LORD CHANCELLOR—Lord Parmoor. MINISTER OF EDUCATION — Lord Hal- dane, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA~— C. P, Trevelyan. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HOME AFFAIRS—Arthur Henderson. MINISTER OF WAR~—J. Hl. Thomas. FIRST. LORD OF THE ADMIRALITY — | Col. J. €. Wedgwood. ATTORNEY GENERAL—Patrick Hastings. SOLICITOR GENERAI;—Robert Slesser, pQUNISTER OF HEALTH—Margaret Bond- MINISTER OF MINES—Vernon Hartshorn PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE | —Frank Hodges. _ Mr. Thomas, who is slated for the job of Minister of War, is the head of the National Union of Railway Men, who have settled with the em- Pievers on the terms the engineers. chreaten to strike against. Laugh at the KKK in the South Seas BY W. FRANCIS AHERN (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press and “The Daily Worker”) SYDNEY, N.S. W.—The Ku Klux Klan has made its appearance openly at Sydney before a huge guthering, of people who openly ridiculed and jeered xt the comic opera behavior of the night-shirt brigade. i Those responsible for the launch- ing of the Australian branch evi- dently hadn’t the courage to openly proclaim it as the Ku Klux Klan, but named it the Anglo-Saxon Klan. However, they admitted it “was adapted to Australian conditions from the Ku Klux Klan of Amer- ica,” and that it would have an imperial wizard, kluds, kleagles; would meet at klaverns, sing klodes, hold klanversations, and read T country. t b 63 fay ae Be ee ats am 5 sscag for the opening of trade relations wi Committee of the. Workers Party has to be held February 3d, demanding demonstrations are being planned by the Friends of Soviet Russia for January 27th. The Friend thru its” local of Soviet Russia, organizations over the country, has .also.launched a nation-wide petition to congress,’ demanding recoghition. The situatien at Washington, with the whole Géolidge administration on he defestsive on this question is sue “iifferent from the days when the” Wilson regime brusquely ordered #¥ne deportation of Ludwig Martens, he Soviet representative in this The most recent, and a very im- crtant development, in the rapid uccession of big events in the Rus- an recognition campaign, is the ;report of the Hearst Commission, just made public, _ This Commission. all of . whom ne a F. Ladd of North Dakota, formerly governor of that state, educator and agricultural expert and most prom- inent representative in ‘office of the Non-Partisan League. 2. United States Senator William H. King of Utah, conservative Dem- ccratic leader in the Senate and member of the Senate judiciary committee, and formerly attorney general of his state, who doubted the validity of the Soviet form of government, 3. Representative James A. Frear, progressive Republican leader in the house, from Wisconsin, right-hand man of Senator LaFollette, and lawyer, who went to Russia with an open mind as to the Soviet govern- ment, 4, Albert A. Johnson, formerly di- rector of the New York State In- stitute of Applied Agriculture, prac- tical managing expert in solution of labor and farming problems, who personally knows the officials of the | Soviet government, and whose last | trip to Russia was his fourth. oro investigation of the whole Russian question with the ban of secrecy will begin, Jan. 21, when , the special sub-committee appointed by Lodge will open hearings on Borah’s resolution that the Senate advise the President to recognize Soviet Russia. Hughes will be the first witness called. The Administration forces are entering this investigation unwill- ingly. In the departmenté of state, justice and commerce there are many divergent and _ conflicting views on the Russian problem. At first the standpat senators, Willis and Pepper, tried to have the For- eign Relations Committee prevent the holding of public hearings, but they were voted down. conditions in Russia. “During this entire period the m mishap, upon regular schedules, and “... There is an increase in the Secretary of State; gate for the year 1923 being approximately $100,000. ith the Russian nation. While this.struggle is going on in Washington, the Central Executive called for nation-wide mass meetings Russian Recognition, while similar GET 1,000 NEW ‘DAILY’ READERS IN FIRST WEEK Work Hard to Get New Names on List Thirty-six hundred dollars for sub- scriptions were taken in by the b ness office of The Dafly Worker dur- ing the week ending Jan. 12th. Ap proximately one thousand new rea“ ers were put on the mai ist Moritz Loeb, Byainess . With such a record the first week of the subsc: drive the prospects for a big mailing list look exceedingly bright. Fight Against Delay. One of the chief difficulties con- fronting the business department to get the names: on the mailing | in time so that subscribers will experience delay in gett papers. Comrade Loeb wi our subscribers and subscription hustlers to take the present rush in the office shes into consideration before kicking about a possible delay. With the appearance of the first regular issue of The Dai'y Worker the drive to send its circulation soar- ing into hundreds of thousands be- gins in real earnest. Members of the Workers Party, the Trade Union Educational League, progressive labor unions and other working class organizations are devermined that the first Communist daily in the 'English language wil) establish a jnew circulation record for labor | papers in this country. | Get Support of Masses. The Daily Worker will be the leader of the workers in their strug- gles against the capitalists It will support them through thick and thin. It is the workers own paper; it dogs not pretend to be anything else. It will be a thorn in the side \of the capitalist class. Their mouth- |pieces have already greeted it with | hostile statements. | The National Civic Federation and the Journal of Commerce condemn it as an organ of a class. The Daily | Worker glories in the charge. [t is the organ of a class, the dnly class that contributes anything to society, the working class. As the capitalist ress speaks for capital so will The Baily Worker voice the demands of labor. | High Spots of the Hearst Commission’s Report | \ “It is not improper to remark that many foolish, stupid and inaccurate stories appear in American and European newspapers, with reference to Indeed, many of these emanations are absolutely false and seem to have been coined by persons to whom veracity is an utter stranger and mendacity a pre-eminent qualification.” embers of the Party travelled without with the utmost freedom, and, so far as they were able to determine, free from espionage” exports and in the imports, the aggre- The heavy indus- shops and building in localities where the winter has set in,” ‘reports that overtime had been regu- The workers have not yet forgotten the serious crisis of 1290-21. Then! ianly worked on the Moscow la millions of workers were walking the streets, out of work and out of hope.'line. One Altdorf, head of the com- Starvation was the lot of many. The fierce open shop drive followed, Wages mercial department of the line, was were slashed to’ the bone. The unions were smashed. responsible for this. He was there-'down the Potomac on the president's y i Now is the time for the workers to get together to organize and pre- fore brought before the People’s yacht. Politics was taboo. It is re- In view of these trade conditions, members of the party believe that inst the misery of unemployment and the degradation of smashed Tribunal and condemned to one ported that fertilizer was under dis-|* TRADE AGREEMENT between the United States and Russia would be of ganizations. The workers must help themselves, power is year’s imprisonment. cussion. The North Dakota senator |importance to the Russian people and increase the affection which they feel the only language te employers, who have all governmentai and finan- -_——— is on hi to the political dung | towards this Republic. . .It would facilitate trade and commerce and pro- cial resources at their command, goat hanes py Get unity thre the Labor Party! heap via the yflower route, mote amity between their respective peoples.” * tries, owned and controlled by the State, while still languishing and with greatly reduced production from the pre-war output, show signs of revival, and will yield in 1923 an increase over the production of 1922.” “Twenty nations have entered into trade relations or diplomatic rela- tions with the Soviet Government.” “The higher the development of ps ahonrgsy > ae ae the greater the danger war. This development ori with it a sharper struggle for vretval between the national groups of capitalists.” , “The Bok peace plan cannot solve his contradiction. The end of war vill come only with the establish- aent of the international soviet.” extracts from the Klora: Senator Lynn Frazier has joined jthe Mayflower Society. He cruised T WILL APPEAR SOON