The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 317. SOVIET FOE TAKES STAND ) WITH TORIES « Charges Workers’ Rule Will Bring Disaster (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON—The split in the ranks of the Liberal party, caused by the inevitability. of a Labor government, is best shown by statements of the leaders of the two wings. Winston Churchill, aggres- sive foe of Soviet Rule in Rus- sia, in definitely aligning him- self and following with the Tories, said: “The enthronement in office of a Socialist government will be a serious national misfor- tune, such as has usually be- fallen great states only on the morrow of defeat in war.” Lord Asquith, on the other hand, announces that “it is im- | possible for any member to) withhold his support from the Labor Party's amendment to the) king’s address. (The no confidence | motion.) Churchill Bitter Churchill’s statement is taken to mean that from his section of the Liberal porty, the Laborites, will en- counter unrelenting opposition, not only to their amendment, but for their entire program after they are in-office The foreign policy.of the Labor party is the subject of much specu- lation on the part of all classes. This with the impending railway strike, divides public attention. The Labor party leaders are attempting to settle or postpone the strike, but there is @s yet little prospect that their efforts will be successful. Fail- ure to avert the walkout of the rail- waymen would mean that the Labor party would take office, while a na- tional crisis of major importance was in existence. J. H. Thomas, speaking for the Labor party on the question of its foreign, policy, particularly as re- lating to France, said that his party desired to maintain friendly rela- tions with the French government. “We have been asked how we are going to deal with France,” said Thomas. “We do not desire a break with France nor do we desire any talk of war with France.” Russ Recognition Soon J. R. Clynes has reiterated his previous statement that dne of the first acts of the Labor government will be to recognize Soviet Russia and its immediate proposal following the organization of a government will occasion no surprise. There is some consolation being derived by the Tories from the be- lief that in the event of war with France, the Labor party could be depended upon to rally the workers for military service better than it could be done either by a Liberal or Tory government. J. R. Clynes moved the Labor amendment to the king’s speech. It @was couched in simple terms and he followed it with a speech outlining the failures of the Baldwin govern- ment. Indicts Baldwin Regime He charged the Baldwin govern- ment with having antagonized Russia, ce and America; of having failed to relieve the unemployment situation or to attempt to do so. He intimated that the Labor party would advocate a policy of “transfer of population” from one part of the empire to another, but carefully avoided mention of the word emigra- THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year. Labor Has Broken the Lock on Johnson’s Record. RICH IN CANADA ALSO IN FAVOR _OF TAX SLASH Use Same Arguments as American Plutes OTTAWA.—The Dominion — gov- ernment is getting lots of advice from the moneyed people these days to reduce the- taxes on income. One of the arguments being used is that Canada cannot afford to have higher taxes on income than has the United States, otherwise capital will leave Canada for the United States. This argument was used by Sir Edmund Walker, president, Canadian Bank of Commerce, one of the three largest banks in Canada. He re- ferred to the tax on income as “the most burdensome of ali the new war taxes,” and asserted that heavy in- come taxes on the “few” was injur- ing the country by checking invest- ment in industrial enterprise, A similar plea has been put for- ‘ward by Sir Jos Flaveile, former- y a big figure in the packing in- lustry. He admitted that there was a certain amount of justice that those who came thru the war and retained their holdings should pa on what they hold. “But,” he “the gifts and initiative and qualifi- cations to set enterprise in motion are centered in a comparatively oor tion. putes of the varie,” a is The Labor party amendment was! “small section” should, he urged, (Continued aa page 2.) given real encouragement to go on. Great Uproar in the Philippines; Cut Funds to Run Wood’s Yacht MANILA, P. I.—What is to become of military strategy in the Philip- inst the Moros? That is interesting |. The Philippine senate and house ual appropriation bill. The bill, as it makes no provision for the Governot-General’s yacht and omits jay expenses for military aids. The -General is said to be 000 Govreno’ sore as a boil about the cuts made in appropriations for his department. Be Sure to Read the Revie » Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges all members of the party to send in | the ‘news of their various sec- tions, Every Party Branch should appoint its own correspondent arid 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. Open Shop Spouter Spoke in Museum; Was Handed Hat MILWAUKEE.—Open shop propa- ganda in this city has over-reached its mark in at least one direction. One Frederick Monsen cf California came here to speak last year under the auspices of the public museum. Tho booked to lecture on science his theme was hundredpercentism. His attack upon socialism so pleased the reactionaries that he was slipped into the list of speakers again this year. On Jan. 6 he held forth on the menace of labor unions. Now the public museum board, by unanimous vote, has served notice on lecturers appearing under mu- seum auspices that they will be dropped from the public lecture course iff they continue to inject olitical and economic propaganda into their lectures on science. Mon- sen has been the only offender in a long list of speakers. Pressmen Get Increase. VICTORIA, B. C.—Wage in- creases have been written into the new agreements signed between com- mercial and web ssmen and em- ployers here. J. B. Boscoe, special organizer, Intl. Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ union, has been in charge of the negotiations, The Land for the Users! |r vakia; James Slovick, Rus- wof “A CHALLENGE RIGHT OF DAVIS TO DEPORT WORKERS Fight Is Carried to Highest Court (By Defense News Service) WASHINGTON.—Efforts to quash deportation warrants against five dis- charged political prisoners will be made before the United States Su- preme Court next Tuesday by At- torney Walter Nelles, representing the General Defense Committee. . All have served five year sentences im- posed by Judge Landis in Chicago under the Espionage Law and each came originally from a_ different country: Pietra Nigra, Italy; John ‘Avila, Portugal; William Moran, Australia; Joseph Oates, England and Herbert Mahler, Canada. The men have been out on $1,000 bonds each since the United States Circuit Court at Chicago sustained the de- portation warrants. Emphatic denial of the constitu- tionality of the act of congress giv- to issue deportation warrunts at his own whim is made by the Defense Committee. And the Committee a) strenuously denies that conviction under the Espionage act for expres- sion of opinion. involved a crime of “moral turpitude.” The release of the last three polit- ical mers at Leavenworth detain- ter the rest, on deportation ed writs,—hag just ‘been. effected on $2,500 bonds each, They are Jacob Tori, an Italian, and Harry Lloyd ment r seeks ort to s land. ir sentences Syonde tionally commuted by President Cool- idge and the Committee believes they can be completely discharged. De- portation cases are also nding a Richard Brazier, England; Sh Scotland; Peter Green, sia; Vincent Santilli, Italy, Joseph Graber, Poland. and ing the secretary of labor authority, inst six other wartime politicals:| Donald} eek” in —~ BIG STORM IN OILY TEAPOT STIRS SENATE Probe Sends Grafter Te Bed; Fall Gets Ill (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—The ugliest scan- dal in years lurks among the hidden | facts about the teapot dome naval oil | reserve lease. There is no longer any doubt of | this in the minds of Senator Walsh, | and others who have been trying to} break thru a wall of secrecy and! misinformation given the Senate Committee about the leasing and| other transactions which occurred about the same time. But how to bring out fully the] facts which constitute what many} Senators declare is “a national dis-| grace,” is baffling the investigators | who believe the American people, for their own future protection, are en- titled to the whole truth, no matter who is hurt. Will Erect Graft Barriers. Walsh has enough to satisfy him that the strongest possible barriers must be erected to prevent anything like the teapot dome lease ever oc- curring again. a Walsh will try to accomplish tw things: 1.—Break the teapot dome lease. 2.—Get legislation preventing fu- ture leases of naval oil reserves with- out the specific approval of Congress. The Senate investigation has already provided adequate legal grounds to break the lease which Al- bert B. Fall, former Secretary of the terior, gave to the Sinclair inter- Bts, Walsh said. | aes he naval oil reserves to the Interior Department,” said Walsh. “Second, the Teapot Dome con- tract, provided the Government should build oil tanks in return for royalty oil. This called for an ex- penditure of money without con- gressional appropriations and was illegal.” The people involved in the oil leases are: Fall, Edward Denby, sec- retary of the navy; Theodore Roose- velt, assistant secretary of the navy; Harry Daugherty, attorney-general, Sinclair and Doheny. Fall brought about the transfer of the oil lands from the navy to the interior department of which he was head. Then he leased them. Denby Takes a Hand, Edward Denby, secretary of the navy, recommended the transfer of the oil lands over the protest of the men in his department who were supposed to be in charge of the lands, Denby was one of the signers of the leases together with Fall. Theodore Roosevelt raised no pro-! test to the leasing of the oil lands. : He was formerly a director of the, Sinclair company and his brother! Archie is an officer in the Sinclair! company now. Harry Daugherty is a personal friend of Sinclair. He held up the legal action which would have stopped jthe Standard Oil from pumping out navy oil which Fall used as an ex- cuse for the leasing of the oil lands. | Daugherty also approved, informally, | the leases. Harry Sinclair made Fall his at- torney after Fall resigned as secre- tary of the interior. Edward L. Doheny is one of the) biggest Oi] operators in the world) and he has extensive holdings in ‘Mexico. lands he resigned and left Washing- | ton with $100,000, in cash in a suit ease. He said that he wanted to at- | tend to his private business. | | The Suit Case Mystery. i Much is being a suit case to haul jin, That, expert politicians point jout, is the correct way to carry cor-| | rupt funds, | Now the whole matter is in the hands of God and the president. Will Coolidge demand some resignations? Or will be make Fall an ambassador |to Mexico? Doheny, who denied that he had ‘added Fall to his staff, would not be sore if Fall was sent to Mexico. Do-| heny owns a lot of oil lands there. | He could do with more, Watch the first installment of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian by the brilliant young Rus: vathority fort he transfer by President Harding of Shortly after Fall leased the oil} | Office at Chicago, Ilinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1924 / «gm» Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IMinois. CHURCHILL ASKS WAR ON BRITISH LAE THE BOOK IS OPEN TROTSKY MERELY ILL, NOT ARRESTED, SAYS REPLY OF MOSCOW Conflicting reports as to the whereabouts of Leon Trotsky, Soviet War Minister, are the basis of the rumors of his arrest. Trotsky is in bad health and a two months leave of absence has been granted him. Attempts of foreign correspondents to locate him have resuited in his being reported as being at his home near Moscow, in the Caucasus and at Juge in the Crimea. Some of the rumors state that he has resigned all of his posts including that of war minister to which he has been succeeded by Leo Kameney, with General Budenny occupying the position of commander-in-chief of the Red Army. The conflicting reports recall the dozens of canards circulated at various times during the past six years in which Trotsky had arrest~- ed Lenin or Lenin arrested Trots- ky as the case might be. Moscow officially brands the news of, his arrest as a propa- gandist lie. WAGE QUESTION BIG PROBLEM FOR THE MINERS Committees Meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. INDIANAPOLIS.—The committee on resolutions and the committee on constitutional revisions for the In- ternational Convention of the United of the miners, to start preliminary work for the convention, which meets here Jan. 22. The resolutions committee has hun- dreds of petitions from local unions and individual miners to sift thru before the convention opens. Resolutions and petitions dealing with the wage question will be turned oyer directly to the scales committee, which will begin its work in the middle of next week. Senator Johnson Is Not Available To Our Reporter Hiram Johnson rested in the sump- tous Drake Hotel last evening before attending the two mass meetings ar- ranged for him in this city. The Daily Worker was anxious to give Senator Johnson an opportunity to answer the questions put to him in Friday’s issue, so a reporter was sent to interviqw him. He called Mr. Johnson’s room and was informed that the senator would be available in fifteen minutes. He was there on the dot, but was told Johnson would see newspapermen in half an hour. “Who are you from?” came the query from the senator’s room, “T am from the Daily Worker, a working class paper,” was the reply. Half an hour later our reporter was back, but the only thing he got was this: “Sorry as the devil, old man, but Mr. Johnson is not seeing anybody today. I would suggest that you call tomorrow morning.” So that’s that. Florida Home for Aged Carpenters. LAKELAND, Fla.—Aged members f the United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners will have an op- portunity to spend their refaining years umong the orange groves of Florida. The national executive board of the union has purchased as a home for them 1,684 acres of land near here at a cost of $632,393. BANGOR, Me.—Feb, 17 has been set as the date for the New England mass and delegate conference of the age gh ody esa union, 0. » which will meet at th I, W. W. hall, Bi ” 7 his brother-in-law || Mine Wonkers of America. met. to- lay aes Ly Lewis, president, $$ Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries fer the Worker: Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 5 Cents OR PARTY MAGNUS NOI VERY BASHFUL GIVING VIEWS |Bankers’ Hisses Rile Farmel Senator of Minnesota (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. — Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor senator from Minnesota, assures The Federated Press that there is no possibility of any support for Coolidge among progres- sive forces in the Northwest in 1924, Senator Shipstead, Sena- tor Frazier, of North Dakota, and Senator Brookhart, of Iowa, take the same position. Magnus Johnson says that it did not require the hissing he received from the Pennsylvania bankers when he attacked the Mel- lon tax plan at their Philadelphia banquet, to make him feel that the standpatters are losing all popular sympathy. “American farmers are in des= perate need,” he said, “and they are on the road to political and economic self-defense.” He wants to have the Esch-Cum- mins act repealed, the water squeezed out of railroad valua- tions in order that lower freight rates may be honestly and per- manently establi ment ownership of achieved through purchase of roads at this t sty on_k sons having only $3, Hydro-electric power devel with super-power produced by plants at the mouth of the min declares, should be publicly o and administered. Ontario’s pul ownership plan should be adopted the United States. This would the cost of electric light, heat and power in half, and would add great- ly to the comfort of people every- where. Wants Russ Recognition. Johnson of Minnesota, stands with Borah for recognition of Russia, driving of the French from the Ruhr thru pressure for payment of their debt to the American people,..and finally for cooperation with the La- bor cabinet in Britain for restoring peace and trade in Europe and thru- out the world. As one of the first steps toward restoring foreign markets for Amer- ican farm products, he urges the enactment of the Norris-Sinclair bill. Under this measure, farmers would get a fair price for their grain, and the government corporation would store or export the surplus according to world needs. Loans of grain to foreign nations would enable them the sooner to resume industrial pro- duction and so become able to buy our crops. Young Workers to Honor Memory of Karl Liebknecht The Fifth Anniversary of the death of Karl Liebknecht will be the occasion for monster mass meet- ings thruout the country. _ Speakers of international prom- inence all of them with a first hand experience of the conditions existing in Europe, are listed to speak at the mass demonstration which wil’ be held by the young workers of Chicago on Sunday evening, Jan. 20 at Prudential Hall, Notth Ave. anc Halsted St. (An article on Liebknecht appear: in the magazine section of this im sue of The Daily Worker, ; PRAGUE.—The German ca) Stinnes, is negotiating for t ¢ of iron ore mines in Sk and German-Bohemia, Gigantic Air Fleet to Stud Pacific; To Fight For U. S. Empire WASHINGTON.—Bases for a gigantic air fleet to protect America vy is completed, Admi told the House Naval Committee. ‘fainst attack wili dot the Pacific ocean when the tw | Gregory, chief of yards and docks, ty-year plan for the today Today’s Magazine Section