The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 18, 1924, Page 2

ones U.S, METHODS IN VIRGIN ISLANDS ON THE CARPET Davis Committee Won’t Disturb Imperialists (By The Federated Press.) "NEW YORK.—American methods of government both in the Virgin Islands and in Porto Rico are to be brought up on “the carpet” andj subjected to vigorous examination. The Federated Press is informed that the commission appointed by Secretary of Labor Davis reached New York on its way to the Virgin Islands to investigate economic con- ditions on this particular Carribean possession of the United States, Expect Display of Innocence Especially the starvation wages and sinister working conditions of laborers on the islands will be called to the commission’s attention. A eynical observer anticipates that the United States government's commis- sion will deliver a report with an mmnocence appropriate to the name of the Islands. The government body is under the chairmanship of George H. Wood- son, Des Moines, Iowa. The com- mission leaves this week for the Virgin Islands. Simultaneously, the Porto Rican delegation, appointed by the Legisla- ture at San Juan to seek from Pres- ident Coolidge and the American Congress a declaration as to the status of Porto Rica, arrived here yesterday. The delegation, of which Horace M. Towner, Governor of Porto Rico, is ex-officio member, was met by rep- resentatives of the State Department, } the army and navy and several con- | gressmen, Put Forth Wild Claims In Washington, the delegates will be received by the President, Sec- retary of War and Appropriations Committee of the House of Repre- sentatives. The delegation is putting forward claims for mild concessions in au- tonomy to Porto Rican government institutions, The Land for the Users! BRITONS EYE COMMONS AS BI DEBATE RAGES (wontinuea :rom page 1.) is great Britain came at 4 P. M. to- y- At that hour, J. R. Clines, veteran labor leader in the House of Com- mons, introduced an amendment to the motion approving the king’s speech to the opening of parliament, expressing misconfidence in the con- servative government headed by Prime Minister Baldwin. The division of the House which government, is expected about 11 P. M. Sunday. Keen debate on the Clines amendment is expected roughout the sessions until the vote jonday night. zs ¢ *@ & Greet British Labor Party. By FREDERICK KUH. NEW YORK.—The working class Political parties, the unions, and other labor groups here are watching the political drift in England on the verge of the Labor Party’s assump- tion of power. Sidney Hillman, president, Alama- gamated Clothing Workers, charac- terizes the British workers’ electoral triumph as a source of hope and en- couregement to the workers of the sworld. dressing the executive council, Labor Party, the American Teague for Industrial Democracy staets: “It is our ardent hope that the coming labor government may goon result ina revision of the Ver- sailles treaty and reparations de- mands, the assumption of normal re- lations with Russia, drastic reduction of armaments and the stifling of im- perialistic ventures. We realize the enormity of your task. We have faith in you.” The Cooperative League of Amer- ica has sent a message expressing gratification at the possibility that he will of the profit making interests ™ay be challenged by England’s first labor regime. ‘We sincerely hope,” concludes the league, “that your ef- forts may lift the cooperative movev- ment of Eingland to a final and com- plete victory ovevr the competitive, predatory interests which have hith- erto dominated the nation’s eco- nomic life.” a ha DAILY WORKER i ee eanucry 2c, i205 Crimes of Hiram | (Continued from Page 1) the money-power to have men of your type to appear before! the workers and deceive them with phrases. * * * * THE ARTFUL DODGER What is your record on the railroad question? Gompers has you listed as a “friend of labor.” But on December 18, 1919, a motion was made in the Senate to take out from the Esch-Cummins Railway Act the clause making strikes unlawful. You dodged the issue, an issue of such vital importance to the railroad workers of America. The sixty-seventh congress gave’ away directly and indi- rectly approximately $14,000,000,000 to the financiers and manufacturers. You, Mr. Johnson, lined up with Senator Smoot, one of the Latter Day Saints of the Mormon Church and one of the angels of Big Business in the capital. And when the Mor- mon leader brought up his resolution for the sales tax to shift the burden from the millionaire tax dodgers to the working class you voted with Senator Smoot against the “common peo- ple” you are so fond of singing their praises. You are the “artful dodger” of American politics, Mr. Johnson. People have an idea that you are a rough, unpolished honest-io-God old-fashioned American; a typical example of shirt-sleeve diplomacy. But—when the unseating of the cor- ruptionist Senator Newberry of Michigan came up in the senate you were conveniently absent. * * * * CHEWING GUM CANDIDATE Big Business is not afraid of you, Mr. Johnson. Who are your financial backers? One of them is William Wrigley, Jr., the millionaire chewing gum king of America. Powerful inter- ests are behind you. You will make a safe and sane candidate for Wall Street if they cannot put over the Strike Breaking president from New England. p You may denounce Wall Street with all your eloquence but the bankers will laugh in their sleeves. You, can serve them well in the present crisis. Between yourself and Calvin Coolidge they need have no fears. How harmless you are to the money, power is well put by Mr. Charles Stetson Wheeler, a California! nominating you. He said in part:— THEY FEAR HIM NOT “Ten years ago big business men in California and our conservative millionaires were fearful of him; they feared delegate to the Republican convention in 1920, in his speech! that his ideas were dangerous and they fought him bitter- ly; but when the powerwas in his hands he used it so sanely and the reforms for which he stood and which he put thru were so humane and so just that today he has no supporters in the land more outspoken and enthusiastic in his praise than the bankers and the big business men of his home state. Big business, if it is honest, will have nothing to fear from him tho it measures its capital in millions and tens of millions. “You doubtless do not men who aan do * | OF * ENEMY | you with a thousand tongues. ouse. talists. 12,000 MINERS STRIKE IN GLACE BAY, NOVA SCOTIA Walkout After Failure of Negotiations GLACE BAY, N. 8.—Twelve thou- sand goal miners are on strike in district following the failure of ne- gotiations for a renewal of the con- tract with the mining companies which expired Jan. 16th, Nine thousand miners are directly involved in the controversy and 3,000 are striking in sympathy with them. Negotiations had been in progress over a period of weeks with no re- sult and with the expiration of the contract the strike was automatically called, word from the headquarters of the United Mine Workers of America concerning the attitude of Interna- tional President John L, Lewis, to- wards the critical situation. It was Amalgamation means strength! Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges members of the party to sthe news of their various tions. Every Party Branch should “appoint its own correspondent and make him responsible for the news that ought to be sent in to The Daily Worker, The Party Page should be the livest page in The Daily Worker, Help make it so. |! Address all mail to the Editor. The Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. | | in this district that James McLachlan, local leader of the miners, was re- moved from office by Lewis follow- ing the calling of a strike in protest against the use of troops by the Ca- nadian government in, behalf of the British Empire Steel Company and against striking steel workers, McLachlan was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary on a framed know it, but in the California delegation are men who represent practically every big business interest on the Pacific Coast. Among them are minate great electric ligh $8 te Aka bonw- FOS power interests. t and aud tHe PresGeArs vi Luce UL Dall Francisco s largest DalLks —banks whose deposits aggregate more than $240,000,000.” * * PRODUCERS Senator Johnson, you are a fake progressive. You are an enemy of the workers and farmers. Your record speaks against It is high time that the workers and ry aga — _ as to political oblivion and with you the re: italist ii ii ae er ce ioe Fane whieh Had of the capitalist lackeys who serve Mammon in the White The workers and farmers of America are now building up |a farmer-labor movement for the Purpose of sending men and women to congress who will represent the interest of the masses. These representatives will be under the control of the producers as you and your kind are now under the direction of the cnpi- CHILDREN UNDER SIX YEARS ARE SOLONS TO SLAM FALL AS HE GOES INTO THE DISCARD “Benedict Arnold” Is. Mildest Epithet | WASHINGTON, D. C.—Another; attack on former Secretary of the! Interior Fall will be made before | the senate, by Senator Heflin, Dem-| ocrat, of Alabama, within a day or! two. Heflin will follow up the as- sault begun yesterday by Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, who charged Fall with corruption in leasing the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve to Sinclair interests. Heflin says he has material for “a series of speeches” regarding Fall and the naval oil leases. Caraway also expects to follow up his first criticisms of Fall with further attacks, His speech yes- terday was one of the bitterest ever heard in the Senate. He compared Fall with Benedict Arnoid, and the leasing of Teapot Dome to Arnold’s attempted turnover of West Point to the British. He said Fall had confessed to cor- ruption in his testimony to the Sen- ate investigating committee regard- ing the source of a $100,000 loan he said he got to help finance purchase of a New Mexico ranch. “We are faced with this humiliat- ing situation for the first time in American history—and I hope it will be the last time—a cabinet officer | bertayed a high trust imposed in him and for a corrupt consideration sold the very means by which our national defense is to be protected,” said Caraway. ** ¢ @ Fall Is Silent NEW ORLEANS, La.— Former Secretary of the Interior Albert A. Fall will probably not reply to the charges made againsg him in the Senate yesterday by Senator Cara- way of Arkansas. Although the former secretary was confined to his room at the oosevelt hotel here on orders of is physicians, his wife said there ‘was nothin; “Mr, Fall is sufferin; 4 chial trouble,” Mrs, Fall said. ig not to be interviewed, he has no statement to make in re: gard to the charges by Senator Car. away. “Senator Caraway has attacked him many times in the past and Mr. Fall will probably not answer him.” SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON WILL SPEAK TONIGHT Scored Tax Plan in Detroit Hiram Johnson will tear into Cal- vin Coolidge and the entire admin- istration tonight in two mass meet- ings, one in the armory at Broad- way and Thorndale avenué and the other in the Wendell Phillips High school. Opponent to Coolidge The senator is featured as the only avowed opponent of President Cool- idge in the republican camp. Speaking in Detroit last night, Johnson attacked the Mellon tax plan, branding it as a smoke screen to hide what is happening domestic- ally and to distract attention from a wobbling foreign policy which has ON SLAVE MARKET Throwing Men and Women Out of Work Child labor is increasing, according to a statement issued by the Western Press Committee of the National Child Labor Committee, “Unemploy- ment of men and women is increas- ing. Children are shoving men. and women out of jobs.” The last Sunday in January is set aside as National Child Labor Day. There are states that have enacted | and endorsed good laws against child labor, but even in those states goods produced by child labor in other! states are consumed. The miners are anxiously awaiting | The Supreme Court declared un- constitutional a law imitating child labor passed by Congress, The capi- talists did not like this law. They \said it interfered with the liberty of the individual, so now after the seven mummies who are supposed to inter- pret all laws passed by Congress de- livered their decision, children under six can enjoy the blessings of living’ in a free land where they can be pena out to manufacturers and ave their poor little bodies coined into gold. Thousands of children less than twelve years old are employed, Child up charge for his activities in this strike and the district is being ad- ministered by a provisional official- dom installed by Lewis. The membership of the district re- cently polled an overwhelming ma- jority on a vote of “no confidence” in the provisional administration and little assistance in the present difficul- ty is looked for by miners familiar with politics! maneuvering in the United Mine Workers of America, labor does not mean selling news- papers or working a few hours on holidays, but toiling long hours at machines in factories and fields, ex- cessive tasks at low pay and no time for education, play or healthy growth. Watch the “Daily Worker” first instalment of “A Week”, the ee: tt ae Russian tag young Russian writer, Iury Libedinsky. It will start soon. for its ultimate purpose getting us into Europe's maelstrom. Nebraska Worries Coolidge _, While the “wild bull of the Cal- ifornia Pampas” is rushing madly the Windy City with the in- ntion of blowing Coolidge off the political map, the growing strength of labor in Nebraska is causing wrinkles to gather over the brows of “Silent Cal.” Dissatisfied with conditions and the attitude of the administration the farmers of that state are also in a frame of mind that bodes ill to the party of big business and its political prophets. Big Money Barons for Amalgamation Chicago ‘L’ Roads Amalgamation of Chicago’s four Veteran Coal Miners Fighting Pension of Mere $7.50 Per Week GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia.—Local unions are daily besieged by old miners who voice the plea that they have been compelled to cease work and accept the “pension” scheme of the British Empire Steel Corporation. As the pension at the most only yields $7.50 a week, the men are highly indignant, claiming that they should not be compelled to accept a plan that was not submitted to them for referendum. strange about being at-/| tacked by Senator Caraway and there | would Hkely be no answer to the ac- cusations. from bron- “He I am sure CAMPAIGN TIPS FINNISH CABINET Kallio Clique Resigns; New Elections Called (Special to The Daily Worker) HELSINGFORS, Finland. — The continued imprisonment of commun- ist members of the riksdag is the real cause of the resignation of the Kallio cabinet today. Trouble has been brewing since last summer, when in an announced campaign against the communists, Whikesala arrests of members of the Finnish Communist Party were staged. According to the Finnish constitution there must be 200 mem- bers of the riksdag present to hold a session and with the imprisonment of the communist members compliance with this provision was impossible. The socialist embers of the riks- dag, desiring an early election, made the communist prisoners a_ political issue, threatened a strike unless their wishes were complied with and the dissolution of the riksdag by Presi- dent Stahlberg followed. s A great increase of Cpmmunist strength in the coming election and the increase of the representation of the anti-bourgeois parties in the new riksdag is the prediction of political observers. SENATOR LADD DEMANDS QUIZ OF GEN, WOOD | Be Exposed WASHINGTON.—Complete tigation ‘ General Leonard Wood in the Philip. inves > Senator Ladd, North Dakota. Son’s Stock Deals Will of the administration of pines was demanded in a resolution introduced in the senate today by|taken by Kruse on his recent trip ANTI-COMMUNIST |ATTEMPT TO SAVE MELLON TAX PLAN AND TAX DODGERS Coolidge Against Move to Hurt Rich WASHINGTON.—Details of a com- promise tax plan which will not destroy the Mellon program were be- ing worked out today by the admin- istration leaders in the House. Republican chiefs plan to accept the high surtax rates proposed in the Democratic plan by Representative Garner, Texas, but fix the brackets so that incomes below $200,000 will not be hit by the maximum rates. By doing this, they believe the compromise will satisfy the democra- tic-progressive coalition, now in con- trol of the House and yet be satis- factory to President Coolidge, who is opposed to any compromise on the principle of the Mellon Plan. Instead of the Mellon 25 per cent maximum surtax on incomes over $100,000, or the Garner 44 per cent maximum on incomes in excess of $92,000, the compromise rate is un- derstood to be between 35 and 40 per cent on $200,000 incomes. The present maximum is 50 per cent on incomes over $200,000, * Leaders in the “No Compromise Plan” expressed the opinion today that a 35 per cent maximum on in- comes of $200,000 would stop invest- ments in tax-free securities. Kruse Speaks to Liberal Club on Russia-Germany Under the auspices of, the “Liberal Club” of the University of Chicago, William F. Kruse. motion picture di- rector of the “Friends of Soviet Rus- sia,” lectured on Wednesday after- many.” The meeting was held in Kent Chemical Laboratory Theater, and was attended by over a hundred -| students and instructors. Three reels of motion pictures, abroad were shown and in the ab- Stock transactions of Lieutenant] cence nf titles the ninturas were av- vernor! - ! Osborne C. Wood, son of the go general, also would come within the scope of the investigation. A committee of five senators would be appointed to conduct the inquiry. The investigation committee would be charged to ascertain: grams sent to American newspapers alleging that certain senators and re- presentatives and others Commission for espousing the cause of» independence. _ “Actions of General Wood in rela- tion to the Philippine government, its legislation and its banks, and its rail- way, sugar centrals and efforts, if any, to exploit the islands by Amer- ican commercial interests. “Deposits of Philippine govern- ment money in American banks. “Stock transactions of any army or navy officers or other officials or peo- ple associated with governor general Wood; how said ‘stock transactions were conducted and any other matters ters proper for a full report thereon to aid congress in prearing any nec- essary legislation.” PROGRESSIVE SLATE WINS LOCAL 584, MILK DRIVERS All candidates nominated on the progressive tickets in Local 584, Milk | Wagon Drivers’ Union, were elected by majorities of from two to five to one. Louis Castelvecchi, Presi-, dent; William Schantp, Vice-Presi-| dent; William Schantz, Vice-Presi-| Treasurer; Nathan Lout, Abe Mono- witz, Dan Rienzo, trustees, and Max Liebler, business agent, were the suc- cessful candidates, | Dawes Waits for Schacht PARIS.—Work of the committee of the experts examining Germany's sacs to pay, slackened today pending the arrival of Herr Schacht, director of the reichsbank, who is coming from Berlin. Charles G. Dawes, chairman of the committee, | took the occasion to confer with| American Ambassador Herrick, Raise Is Accepted elevated railways under the name of the Chicago Rapid Transit Com- pany, was considered hore today. The consolidation would call for a| them nancial reorganization to include the Oak Park elevated, which was bought yesterday by interests own- ing the others, A merger of the other three, the Northwestern, the Metropolitan, and the South Side Tlevated conipaiteer was affected 10 days ago, They Want the Railroads WASHINGTON.—aAfter going thru the motions of a national conference on transportation, here, the organ- ized railroad financiers, managers and their allies have announced: “The public interest requires that The Moving Picture Operators’ Union of Chicago voted yesterday to accept the raise of 5 per cent offered | 7 the theater owners. The raise of 5 per cent will bring the minimum wages of the operators up to $55.50 The agreement will run for a year, “Truth or falsity of Manila cable- housed, and constituting the bulwark received| t© find Soviet Russia, under a Com- pay from the Philippine Independence, Munist regime, to be suffering under yy the lecturer ngs they were “You would expect from what you hear that in staid, thrifty, almost respectable capitalistic Germany the workers would be well nourished and of an able and trusted government. On the other hand you would expect the very opposite of all these good conditions, “A trip to Europe at this time would be quick to convince you, how- ever, that there are many things you know in theory are not so when it comes.to practice. In Russia today the workers are well fed, paid in stable currency and giving enthusi- astic support to thtir owm proletar- | od; jan government—the oldest. and strongest in Europe today. In Ger- many starvation stalks the masses, and insecurity bordering on open civil war prevails from one end of the land to the other. An international workers’ relief organization is usin; German army field kitchens to dis! out to German starving the food donated by the Russian workers.” The “Liberal Club” meets regu- larly in one or another of the uni- i buildings and brings many noted liberals to address the students, Scott Nearing will speak there in the near future; a very successful lecture Hy Margaret Sanger was re- cently held. Big English Orders. MOSCOW.—The Petrograd Co-op- erative Society has received consider- able orders from English firms for various supplies. The firms under- take to advance credits for the neces- sary purchases to the amount of 25] Fre: per cent of the cost of the products on condition of guarantee on the part of the State Bank, Production Increasi: MOSCOW.—The “Yurt” (South Mining Trust) has produced over 10 million poods of iron ore and about 6 million poods of manganese ore dur- ing the last working year, the duction plan being thus wholly ful- filled. Over 2 millions in ponds of manganese ore have been sent to the ports for export abroad, Get unity thru the Labor Party! Boost the Newsstand Sales The Dail: of 0, Xe early days of its existence. Our readers are is or great importance E theref each day until it is well mega iene be privately own- eee ed and operated u rorker news sive yikes, of governicints ares i cae > tion.” . an extra copy day ifertienemateptcseyilatinn: 5 Mp est another worker in the and Work Daily for “The Daily!" Seribere and readers'to boost the ‘Dall ‘ ' Worker can now be secured on the news stands in the ld be given encouragement to display the Daily W: fore urged to purchase at least one copy of the pecial importance that our readers should ask for The Daily agent near their homes, are a subscriber we nevertheless ur; to purchase from a news stand. Teu:edn ten thar 6 ” cit; such that those who have charge 3 ll advertised, ite Weiatae. Wa epee eas tae Fy e ly Worker, on | noon, the subject, “Russia and Ger- FIVE THOUSAND “45” U, $. GUNS REACH OBREGON Mexican President Is Confident of Victory | MEXICO CITY.—“A simultaneous offensive on all fronts will go for- ward in a few days. You will see im- mediately the overwhelming strength of the government,” General Serrano, minister of war in the Obregon gov- ernment, said today. President Obregon telegraphed to the United Press from the Hast front: ‘ “Five thousand ‘45’s” bought from the United States arrived today. By tomorrow we will have eight, fighting planes ready for action, We have gas but will not use it. “IT have no fear for the outcome. We have munitions, loyal troops, all the necessary funds and a righteous cause.” The Mexican foreign ministry ex- pressed satisfaction at the American warning to Adolfo de la Huerta that the embargo at Tampico must not in- terfere with legitimate commerce and added that Mexican officialdom never was so appreciative as now of the United States “constructive Mexican policy.” PANAMA CANAL IS EASY MARK FOR BIG NAVAL GUNS But Easily Defended from Enemy Airships WITH THE ATLANTIC FLEET, COLON, Panama.—Two main devel- opments stood out today after the first day of maneuvers in the great | naval war games now under way here to test the defenses of the At- lantic entrance to the Panama canal. These are. ny First—an enemy fleet lying 15 or 20 miles off Colon, armed with 16 inch guns, would be able to bombard the vital Gatun locks, which are seven miles inland, without. danger from the shore defenses, the largest guns of which are 14 inch rifles, which would be outranged ten miles. Second—enemy naval aircraft could only work at great disadvantage since they would be forced to find, a base for operations and at th same time have to face the attac’ of defending air squadrons, BLOW AT POLICE THIRD DEGREE AT - ST.LOUIS, MO, Broken Ribs Help Get Prisoners’ Confessions ST. LOUIS.—Another jury in this city has delivered a knockout rebuke to police third degree meth- is. Five men were acquitted in a whisky robbery case, despite what appeared to be convincing evidence. James A. Cloud, one of the accused, against whom a charge of burglary was pending, testified that the police fractured one of his ribs in extort- ing a confession, In a number of recent criminal cases, the juries ac- quitted when it was brought out that confessions were obtained by police torture, Jurors interviewed in one of the cases said they voted not guilty as a means of big oroh rd their disapproval of police brutality, WILL U, S, WITHDRAW RECOGNITION FROM THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT? (Special to The Daily Worker) ARRINGTON, Pe C..— The mch government is trying to qui- etly repudiate its ion ak to Me United States, Senator Borah red i ye Senate, ere is every indicat§on,” he said, “that the French government is declining not only to meet the interest payments but even has made no effort to just the debt as a creditor acting good faith natu- cig lpg desire’ to make, “While this debt is technically due the United States government, in reality it is due to the ot the United States” s*Payers GENERAL STRIKE OF NORWEGIAN HARBOR LABOR MAY SPREAD CHRISTIANIA, Norway. —The harbor workers in every port in Norway are on strke. A general strike of all transport workers may be called. ‘ Phone Spaulding 4670 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO, PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES Estimates on New and Old Work 2619 MILWAUKEE AVE., CHICAGO —