The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1924, Page 1

_ —_—2 THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. VOL. L. No. 315. DETROITER 1S BAD EXAMPLE (Specixl to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. a the lenge he got from Senater Jim Cou- zens that they, two of the country’s wealthiest men, stage 2 public debate on tax reduction. Replying today to Coumen’s recent letter. Mellon brusquely, denied many of Couzens’ arguments but said noth- ing about the proposed debate. Mellon in Blow at Couzens Mellen pointed to the case of Con- zens himself to illustrate the conten-| tion that surtaxes on hig incomes should be lowered. Mellon said that all Couzens’ capi- tal, by his own ission, was in- vested in tax exempt securities. Hf, however, Mellon argued, the surtaxes had not been so high when tal, he would for the sake ef placing it in safely diversified investments have placed some of it in taxable Mellon sid that there is particular public need for lowered surtaxes in the cases of railroads and building, Pities the Poor Investors ‘sen the present high surtaxes he investors were practically shut off from investment in railroads or construction. With lower surtaxes proposed in the Mellon bill he said capital now in exempt securities would be at- tracted to them, Couzens in his challenge to a de- bate said that when he.got ont of the rord Motor Company and converted) his holdings into securities he “pne- paid the taxes in the price of the securities.” Shows Millionaires Exempt “To what government did you make pay it?” Mellon asked him. jumming up in one sentence his reply to Couzens’ criticism of the} Mellon program, Mellon said: | “Must a system of (axation which | permits a man with an ineome of| over $1,000,000 a year to pay not one| cent to the support of his government) remain unaltered?” | Trotsky’s Arrest Branded ‘‘Fake’’ by London Russ | LONDON.—The Russian Trade Delegation here today, announced that the report circulated in Paris | that Leon Trotsky had been arrested in Moscow was “pure nonsense.” * 6 Trotsky “Arrested” Again. PARIS.—A special Moscow dis- patch published here today, but un- confirmed by the United Press, says it is reported in the Russian capital that Leon Trotsky, soviet war minis- ter, has been arrested. Kua Klux Big Issue in the Louisiana State Elections Sebseription Rates: Chiengix By Mail, ° ° wy Carte? $1090 per your, End of British To Multi-Mialh MELLON SAYS onaires Wo THE BEAST IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY ° o ° n THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1924 <q» Published PUBLISH. 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 Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. Price 3 Cents. ry Rule Set for Monday ou ight ‘Over Tax Reductions The Klan Rides the Capitalist Monster. DISEASE RIFE SWEATSHOP HELLS OF NEW YORK CITY Dresses Made for $1.00, Sell for $49.50 (Special te The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—If the state of New York wants to end home industries where women and children work long hours for small pay it will make these home ‘workers dependent on charity for a living, it was testi- led at hearings before the state Child Welfare Commission here. Children two and three years old are working on artificial flowers in New York. Beaded dresses and clocked silk hose which are later (Special to The Daily Werker) NEW ORLEANS, La.—Returns from Tuesday's Louisiana primary teday indicated a second “run off” primary would be necessary to de- ae ine ee governor. uey P. Long apparently been peeyacned ff” will be be: ta “run o necessary tween Henry L, Fuqua, who his oppo- nents claimed is favored by the Ku Klux Klan and Hewitt Bouanchaud openly anti-Klan. Neither Fuqua or Bouanchaud received a majority of all votes cast on the basis of earlier returns. ? Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the epic of the Russian revolution, the brilliant young Russian writer, lary Libedinsky. It will start soon. by yesterday’s balloting, | sold for high prices in the most | expensive shops: are worked on in | homes often by people with com- | municable diseases, it was said. Children who work at home al- | ways go to sleep in school and have | sores and cuts on their hands, one | witness 5 “Wages are deplorable. Dresses which sell for $49.50 are finished for $1. Disease is lent,” said an- other witness, who seemed more eoncerned with the possibility that people who bought the dresses might get sick than with the conditions of the workers. Some of the prices paid are, for making roses, 20 cents a dozen; clocking silk hosiery, $3.50 a dozen; cutting lace, 25 cents a red yards. By hard work it is pos- sible for a child to cut 50 yards of lace an hour. 4 Not as High-Ciass as His “Uncle” Frank Bergman, Louisville, Ky., was under arrest here today on charges of embezzling twenty-one dollars. from Robert M. Hanisch, Whea- ton, Ill. Bergman, police stated, posed as the nephew of Elbert H. Gary, steel king. Daily or Weekly? | Herrin Sheriff Mast Obey Klan Troops Withdrawn (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—The troops sent into Willamson County at the request of the Sheriff when the Ku Klux Klan anti-foreign raids got be- yond his control have all been re- called, The Ku Klux Klan has an- nounced that from now on the sher- iff will take his orders-from them or there will be a new sheriff. Idaho Federation for Amalgamation and Labor Party (Special to The Daily Worker) POCATELLO, Idaho. The State Federation of Labor in session here adopted resolutions favoring recog- nition of Russia by the United States, amalgamation of trade uni- ons, for ‘@ Labor party and against the Idaho Criminal Syndicalism Law. Mine Workers To Fight Wage Slash COLUMBUS, 0.—American mine workers will not be led to accept a reduction by the promise that it will decrease unemployment in the industry, William Green, internAtion- al secretary of the United Mine Workers, declared today, addressing pn State Mine Workers’ convention re, Seabbing in Doctors’ Union EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.—At the health resort here in one week the sheriff has arrested 23 fake doc- tors alleged to be untrained and practicing illegally. A general round up of quacks is promised and many more arrests are anticipated, i CAPITOL MEET IS ATTEMPT TO HALT F. LP, MOVEMENT | Mahoney of St. Paul to Fight Reactionaries Delegates from eastern political, labor and progressive organizations will meet in the Hamilton Hotel, Washington, D. C. Thursday morn- ing to define their attitude towards the May 30th farmer-labor conven- tion at St. Paul. The conference was called by Wil- liam V. Mahoney of Washington, D. C., and its sponsors are antagonistic to the Farmer-Labor Party move- ment. supported by the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, the Federated Farmer-Labor Party and its affilia- tions. William Mahoney of St. Paul, who must not be confused ‘with Mr. Ma- honey of Washington and Professor Shopper of Minneapolis, will attend the Washington conference in an ef- fort to swing it in line in support of the May 30th convention called by the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party in co-operation with the Federated Farmer-Labor Party and other groups. Many of the elements which will be represented in the Washington conference are tied up with the Con- | ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion which the May 30th conference endorses, Finemies of the May 30th confer- ence have been openly spreading, the falsehood that while the Federated Farmer-Labor Party was invited to send delegates to the conference the Socialist Party’ andthe old Farmer- Labor Party were not invited. William Mahoney of St. Paul will explode this falsehood at the Wash- ington conference and point out that all labor, political and economic groups wil be invited to send dele- gates to the May 30th confcrence. \ MARCH OF 3,000 FARMER PICKETS BALKED BY FRAUD Double Cross Three thousand enraged dairy farmers, members of the Milk Pro- ducers Association from the Elgin, ore Papers Aid in IL, district amd southern Wisconsin | points, were imduced te abandon | their march upen the plant of the Bowman Dairy Company at Waucon- | da, Ill., by news of a fake settle- ment. The alleged settlement, news of which was flashed by the Hearst papers, and which resulted in the returning to their homes, was actually a proposal by | which the milk producers were to |. receive one-half cent less than they | are receiving at the present time. | The joker in the agreement of the | Dairy Company, “to mect | the farmers half-way,” is in the | | | | 3,000 pickets | | | fact that simultaneously with the pledge to raise the price of a hun- dred pounds of milk from $2.60 to $2.6714, the Bowman Dairy Com- pany cancelled a premium of 8 cents per pound on milk produced within fifty miles of Chicago. Over one-third of the striking milk producers are affected by this provision of which they had no knowledge when Health Commission- er Bundesen announced the “settle- ment” and the Hearst press strained every effort to get the news to the marching pickets. Armed with copies of the Hearst papers containing the story of the fake settlement, the deputies of Sheriff Ahlstrom of Lake county intercepted the farmers, who, in groups of a dozen-and more; were rapidly converging on the Bowman bottling plant. | The bare-faced fraud, practiced | apparently with the connivance of | the Chicago Health Department, ex-! tremely unfair to the milk producers all thru the trouble, has given the farmers new determination. The strike is on again with renewed bit- | terness. A conference was called yesterday by Health Commissioner Bundesen |at which Frank Holt, president of the Milk Producers’ Association was present. “The premium must be re- stored,” said Holt on his way to the conference. “The strike is on and will stay on until the premium is re- stored.” Threatened renewal of Chicago’s milk strike was averted here early today. After a hasty conference Chicago distributors agreed to pay striking producers a bonus of 8 cents per |hundred weight in addition to the price of $2.67% agreed upon yester- day. Acting as arbiter for the second time, Health Commissioner Bundesen brought the opposing factions to- mands of the producers. _ The distributors relinquished after they had been “tricked” into com- promising on a discriminate price. Chicago’s milk supply, spokesmen for both factions said, will be re- stored to normal today. Producers in Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois will resume shipments to Chicago without delay, they said. New Orleans Cotton to Russia NEW ORLFANS.—New Orleans is to begin shipment of large quanti- ties of cotton to Russia for use in the textile mills there. A Russian commission has purchased 10,000 bales of cotton of which 1,000 bales | are ready for shipment, according to J. H, Walsh, general manager of | the dock board. New Orleans will| be a concentration point for all cot~ ton destined for Russia. The com- mission is now in Texas.’ INDIANAPOLIS. — The National Executive Committee of the Ameri- can Legion today announced that the held in St. Paul, Minn., the third | week in September. WEATHERFORD, Tex.—A lighted cigarette stub carelessly thrown from a passing airplane burned off approximately 1,500 acres of pas- ture land near here, Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, Vote Soon on Confidence in Baldwin’s Reign in England (Special to The Daily Worker) : | LONDON.—Leaders of the Conservative, Liberal and | Labor parties agreed tonight that the vote on a motion of jack of confidence in the Baldwin government shall be taken at eleven |o’clock, Monday night, according to the Exchange Telegraph | Company. The Baldwin government, slated for defeat and resignation | Monday, gave evidence jn Commons this afternoon it intends to |go out fighting. Ronald McNeill, under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, lina lengthy speech, defended the government’s foreign policy. He pointed out that the late premier, Andrew Bonar Law, and | Premier Baldwin had taken up many of the problems which the Lloyd George government bequeathed them. “Whoever is Foreign-Seeretary in the Labor Government will be quickly disillusioned,” he predicted. If Ramsay MacDonald goes to the Foreign Office with a broad foot, intending to stamp upon Premier Poincare with the object of establishing peace thruout Europe, I am afraid ,— he will encounter a tremendous dis- illusionment,” McNeill continued. He denied Lloyd Geurge’s allega- tion that the Baldwin government neglected to co-operate with the United States in the proposed in- ternational committee ty study the reparation situation. “The proposal of Secretary Hughes never was communicated official! the back benches and interposed @ question, What, he asked, was the govern- ment’s position towards the separa- tist movement in Ge: y? MeNeill replied t the govern- ment would not sanction any separ- ation, amounting declaration .of independence, of any of the German Rhineland states, but would not in- tefere with e blishment of autono- mous states within Germany, if the gether and presented the new de- | 1924 National Convention will be | liy to Great Britain,” McNeill declared. inhabitants ‘wished thay “For a whole year we lost no op- Separatism, thru French aud Ber- portunity of enlisting in any pos-| gian influence, declared sible way the a: tance of the United | everything latinate, States.” At this juncture David! where a i $ Lloyd George rose fror is seat on? ves | ‘Jail for Striking Farmers’ | te 1921 the West Virginia miners, 11,000 strong, marched on the stronghold of the steel trust gun men in Logan county in a desperate effort to free themselves from the political and in- dustrial tyranny enforced upon them by sixshooters, rifles and machine-guns, in the hands of a mercenary army maintained by the mining corporations. In 1924 the dairy farmers of Elinois and Wisconsin, 3,000 strong, march on the bottling plant of the Bowman Dairy Com- pany, the head and front of the opposition to the farmers’ strike for a decent price for their product. Miners, according to the capitalist press, are known to be violent persons and there is, therefore, only anger and not surprise on the part of the press when they resent brutal oppression. But farmers! Worse than that, dairy farmers—the most peaceable of ail human beings! b Surrounded by the gentle, milk-giving bovines, whom they tend, they are supposed to have acquired much of the bovine temperament; so much so that they are as easy prey for the dairy and commission-houses as their worn-out milk cows for the packing-houses. | The appearance of 3,000 farmer pickets upon the scene during the recent strike of the milk producers forces a revison of this traditional view of the American farmer and the capital- ist press is screaming itself hoarse, editorially, in denunciation of this unsuspected bucolic pugnacious trait. The Chicago Journal of Commerce publishes an editorial bitter debate. The producers holding | so bitter and venomous that one can easily visualize the writer occasionally pausing to wipe the foam from his lips as he pounds his typewriter. The farmers are accused of attemped murder and the demand is made that they be tried and convicted. {We quote verbatim: In an agricultural county, striking farmers believe they have a divine right to keep other farmers from selling their milk to whosoever they please and under any terms they see fit. The striking farmers commit violence. It is absurd to hope that law officers will make serious efforts to arrest them. But they ought to be arrested, and they ought to be tried and convicted. Now that the strike is over, there is no danger of murder being committed; but until the peace was signed, murder was on the horizon, We have an idea that the Journal of Commerce feels to- ward these farmers as did an aristocratic lady in Spokane, Wash., who, while several members of the Industrial Workers! of the World were being tried for criminal syndicalism, said she guessed she would run down to the courthouse “to see the Wobblies being convicted.” All of which goes to prove that whether it be farmer or wage-earner in a challenge to the profit-mongers of America a record of previous docility counts for nothing. Praised to the skies by the pundits of capitalism when they accepted it as the | Alpha and Omega of social systems, the farmers are discovering |very rapidly that independent thinking—independent of capi- | talist conventions—is the next to the last thing that the chamber of commerce friends of the independent farmer want him to do. The last thing is action with his exploited fellow-farmers and the industrial workers against the growing tyranny of the American capitalist class. Expressed either by a class party of the farmers and wage-earners or by the march of striking by the brilliant young Russian writer, lury Libedinsky. It will start soo: farmer-pickets it will meet with the same relentl hostili | from the plunderbund and their governmental eel. : i: at is the Question! What is Your Answer? See Page 2