The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE SFANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 318. Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year. ) per year, E DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1924 <q = Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. 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 Price 3 Cents. VANDERLIP SEES FASCIST MOVE IN ENGLAND THE DAY FOR BRITISH TOIL TOWIN POWER But It Is Still Long Way To Real Workers’ Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON.—British labor, in- sofar as it is represented by the British Labor Party, will take power today, unless Winston Churchill is able to lead enough liberals back into the Tory camp to make a Liberal-Labor majority impossible. This is believed here to be beyond the bounds of probability. Experience in Other Lands. Now that Labor rule with a socialistic tinge seems inevit- able the experience of other countries and of British colo- nies under similar forms of government is giving a great deal of consolation to the vested interests. It is pointed out that France under the Briand— a former socialist-government, Aus- tralia under labor rule and Germany ‘with a social-democratic regime, were the subject of no striking experiments in property ownership and control. It ig believed that Ramsay MacDon- ald, who will be the Labor Party premier, will frown on any drastic changes; he is depended upon to dis- courage any outbreak of the group of |’ ~ Scottish and Welsh members with Communist tendencies and it is thought that he will deal in a more (Special to The Daily Worker) Party government in Great Britai and a recognized authority on inte’ ity of the formation of'a fascist mov ment in England blackshirts into power in Italy, ment is not at all improbable.” NEW YORK.—In an interview to- day on the formation of a Labor n, Frank A, Vanderlip, noted financier nation affairs, stated that unless Bri- tish lebor rises to its responsibilities there is a very considerable probal- similar to that which swept Benito Mussolini and his “I was told by an Englishman whose position entitles him to speak with the utmost authority,” Van- derlip said, “that a fascist move- The danger, if any, in a British uncompronusing matin. than did the Baldwin government. As a mater of fact, while the Labor Party will be the government, this is only nominally so. Without the sup- port of the Liberal Party led by Her- bert Asquith, the Labor Party would be a minority in the House of Com- mons. This will exercise a restrain- ing influence that will probably re- sult in a compromise between the Liberal and Labor Party program with the Labor Party making the bulk of the concessions. This, at least, is the view of influential land- holders. and manufacturers who would have the most to lose by an “wey witht ~ hy eeu unrestricted application of the capi- tal levy plank of the Labor Party platform. This Is the Worst. Revision of the mothers pension law, increased old age pensions, ex- tension of the free public school sys- tem and the sale of the large estates to farmers at nominal prices, is the worst that the economic rulers of Great Britain expect from the Labor Party government. The foreign policy of the Labor Party as enunciated by Ramsay MacDonald differs but little from that of the Liberals. An attempt will be made to conciliate France and to ar- rive at an understanding on the ques- tion.-of German reparations. If France continues in her present re- * ealcitrant mood, however, the collec- tion of the French debt to Great Bri- tain will be the next order of busi- ness. There is little doubt that pres- sure would be exerted by the placing of British-owned French government and commercial securities on the world markets; the demoralization of French finance that would result would create a serious situation that might lead to war but the Labor Party is firmer in its determination to do this than to institute a capital levy if ‘the public utterances of Ram- (Continued on page 2) mittee of the uni, taken followi: of the British the union was willing under the circumstances, Be Sure to bahay British Engi To Strike (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON.—Seventy thousand members of the Locomotive En- gineers’ and Firemen’s Union were scheduled to strike at 12 oclock Inst night. This action was made certain, barring the capitulation of the railway executives, by the unanimous vote of the executive com- not to withdraw the strike call. an all-night conference with Margaret Bonfield, head ‘rade Union Congress. The final offer of the railway companies was announced as insufficient to comply with the demands of the men and not a single member of the executive committee off ake responsibility for postponing the strike Labor government, the fina! believes, would not be in its lead- ers. Vanderlip knows personally most of the men at the head of the T-| next week. “British labor’s problem is not in its leaders,” according, to Van- derlip, “but those who are led. There is a radical element in the British Laborite ranks that creates serious difficulties for the leaders, = of “Capital Levy,’” he said. should not prove an exception.” party scheduled to go into power “I hardly believe a labor govern: ment would attempt the much talked “The fg responsibility of government always exercises a sobering influence on 0 parties and men. ‘The Labor Party hat qualities he may show as Prime reat Britain?” was asked. lied, “if he were younger. ersonal relations inst him,” “MacDonald, possibly?” inister.’ “Who would be the Mussolini of “Tt might be Lloyd George,” he re- But he no longer a young man and he has which militate “Well,” the banker answered, “‘it fouN seem probable that the British men of the hour would comeefrom combination of labor and liberal “ups which seems to be forming. MacDonald is not a man of great per- onal magnetism, but nobody knows jens Upper svuse ol one It Has Openly Seized the Government. — Labor Opposes Underwood, BIRMINGHON. — Letters stating the opposition of the Alamaba State Federation of Labor to the candidacy of Sen. Oscar Underwood for the Democratic nomination for the presi- dency are being sent to the various state federations. Hetch-Hetchy Strike off. GROVELAND, Calif.—A short, spontaneous strike at the San Fran- cisco irrigation project, Hetch-Hetchy has been called off again for the present. The men_ struck because they were compelled to eat their lunches standing knee-deep in water. The Land for the Users! The vote was Mellon Tax Plan' Draws Farm Labor Fire In Capital WASHINGTON.—Labor and farm- er organizations entered upon an in- formal coalition to oppose the Mel- }lon tax program. | Working from different angles, but intent upon the same purpose, or- ganized labor and farmers have joined forces to increase surtaxes | above those provided by the Mellon plan and to reduce the normal tax on small incomes. The farmers thru the National Federation of Farm Bureaus and the National Grange, have already begun the presentation of their case to Congress and the American Federa- tion of Labor was scheduled to ap- pear before the House Ways and Means Committee today. The Labor Tax Plan, it was learned, authoritatively, would keep surtaxes at approximately their present level and would extinguish entirely all levies on incomes of less than $5,000. Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the ‘great epic of the Russian revolution, by the Miners’ Convention St Subscribe for the Daily Worker. It \ iant young Russian writer, Tue Atl LOUISIANA LABOR | IN MEXICO IS ANALYZED Fastisti Counter-Revolution Is Foreing Workers’ Unity By BERTRAM D. WOLFE | MEXICO CLTY.—The appeal of the reaction to armed force: has resulted in a veering to the| left on the part of the govern-| ment officials here. Arming of | workers and peasants has given| ‘the armed forces, that most es- sential section of the mechan- nouncedly revolutionary char- acter. Cheer for the Workers. It is a daily sight now to see peasant bodies, clad in their enormous and decorative straw sombreros, flaming serapes or blankets and costumes resem- bling a suit of white pajamas, come trudging along the city streets in little groups, bearing rifles of every description and degree of modernity, little rag sacks in place} of knapsacks, and often a heavy saddle apparatus as well. Similar groups of workers, often have bands on their hats bearing on a red background the black letters, Viva los Trabajodores (long live the workers.) Of more immediate political effect is the distinct change in governmen- tal machinery. The Callistas, who LEFT DRIFT Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges the news tions. of their various sec- Every Party Branch should before the’ rebellion controlled only cnamper oL deputies, now control both houses. They have carried the municipal election for the control of the city of Mexico, formerly in the hands of a Cooperatista government, have strengthened their control on the ers named governors of many of the Callistas Victorious. former college president and intellec- tual with socialistic tendencies, has beeh appointed provisional governor. In Zacatecas, where there were rival legislatures and governors, Ezequiel Salcedo of the Mexican Federation of Labor has been named. provisional governor, San Luis Potosi, claimed by two “legally elected” g6vernors, Prieto Laurens, a fascist leader, and rique has been awarded to the latter. Carrillo May Be Alive. The cry of grief that welled up from the depths of the lower classes of the republic on hearing of the exe- eution of Felipe Carrillo, is slowly changing to a grimmer cry for re- taliation and vengeance. The conciliatory tone that marked governmental statements to the effect pet once the rebellion was put down he government would be generous and merciful, has disappeared, and in its place one notes burning indigna- tion in all official pronouncements. Calles, Cedillo, de Negri and other leaders of the agrarian and labor PROTESTS USE OF ARMED POLICEMEN Toilers Brave Weather to Register Indignation NEW ORLEANS.—The Central Trades and Labor council at an indig- nation meeting in Lafayette square} ¢, denounced the city administration for maintaining armed police at the plants of the New Orleans Public Service, Inc., where members of the electrical brotherhood are on strike. William Pollard, repres@nting the international union, said “the present strike is not a violation @ ie con- tract by the Brotherhood €f Electrical Workers.” , Prominent labor men addressed the ceering of over 3000 who braved inclement weather to attend. Brass check newspapers devoted little or no space to the meeting. ‘ \ Work Daily for “The Daily!” | , forces have issued statements hot with resentment. “Red” and “yellow” workers alike are clamoring for arms that they may march upon the fascis- ti. If the execution be a fact and the fascisti lose, the death of Felipe Car- ril'o is I'kely to cost them dear. Exce'sior, reactionary organ, throws doubt upon the fact of the death of Carrillo, however, in its editorial two days after the presidential com- munique, It points out that the only warrant 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, St., Chicago, Ill. 1640-N. Halsted COMPLETE TEXT OF ZINOVIEV’S FAMOUS LETTER j ism of government, a more pro-| Senator Lodge Read It | BURNS’ DICKS ADMIT SERIES OF STICK-UPS ‘Arrest Head of Burns Agency; | Confesses Grimes Arrest of Hugh Engle, assist- ant chief of the local Burns de- tective a'gency, and J. Gleason Walker, employed by the Burns and other agencies, and their admission of a long series of hold-ups and robberies that have had the Chicago police guessing for weeks, is believed will hasten the senate investi- gation of private detective all members of the party to send in Into Record of Congress’ agencies demanded by Senator The DAILY WORKER this morning publishes the complete text of the now world-famous let- ter written by Gregory Zinoviev, Chairman of the Communist Inter- national, on the birth of The DAILY WORKER in the United States. This is the lctter that was presented, in a garbled form, to the United States Senate by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, head of the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs, and published in the Congressional Rec- ord. Various interpretations have been given of it in the kept press. The accompanying translation was made -from the original. The pub- lication of the true translation is important, at this time, in view of the congressional investigation of the question of the Kecognition of Soviet Russia to be started to- day by a committee headed by Ae Pawel ont Lek Fine ,Burton K. Wheeler, of Mon- tana. The two Burns sleuths | were identified by Mrs. Ida Ja- |cobson, of North Kimball Ave., iwhom they choked into sub- | mission and robbed. | The connection of the Will- iam J. Burns agency with the series of crimes has caused a sensation and is taken as con- clusive proof of charges heretofore made by radical and labor spokes- men—that the federal department of | justice bureau of investigation di- j rected by William J. Burns is little | more than an adjunct of the William J. Burns private detective agency and that department of justice agents, private detectives, and the underworld element are, practically indistinguish- | able, ts Engle and@ Gleason claim that they states. | In Puebla, where the governor join-| ed the fascists, Lombardo Tolendano, the agrarian candidate Aurelio Man-} Daath wee ervrhaat go viev’s letter follows: -_ * By GREGORY ZINOVIEV Chairman, Communist International The appearance of a daily Com- * executive departments of the national, ™unist newspaper in the ‘English government and have had their lead-i language in America, is a great event, not only for the American labor movement, but for the whole Communist International; and that is |so particularly because the appear- ance of this newspaper jwas preceded by long and serious work of prepara- ion by American Communists among the masses, the collection of funds among the workers, and considerable agitation in the trade unions, etc. The American workers whose spirits were dominated for many years at a stretch by the Gomperses and Hill- quits are now beginning to bestir themselves and rally around the young Communist Party. To collect among the workers the funds necessary for the launching of a great daily news- paper in the English language in ‘America is no easy matter. The American comrades worked at this task with perseverance, energy and success. We congratulate them warmly on this first success. We still remember vividly how, ap- proximately ten or eleven years ago, under the leadership of Comrade Lenin, we began just such an under- taking in Russia, how the vanguard of the Russian workers collected the necessary funds in Kopeks and half- Kopeks, in order to issue in Petro- grad the. first Bolshevist daily news- paper, the “Pravda.” We remember how Comrade Lenin gave his whole spirit to this thing, how he personally counted over the number of workers’ groups which had responded to the jappeal of the Bolsheviki and had (Continued on p: 6.) |. MONTREAL,—Classes in econom- \ies for industrial workers may be | established here thru a request for such action made st the last meet- ing of the international union of ma- ; seve Oven working wii "higus. 8” who gave them tips on the wearers lof expensive jewelry, The victims would then be followed and held up on the street or in their homes after entrance had been gained by flashing their detective badges. Engle says that when the names of the “higher-ups” are made public it “will rock the town”. The employes of the municipal court bailifi¥; office have also been arrested in connection with the crimes confessed to by the former Burn’s aides, Two of them, Paul Mezner and Harry Baker, are deputy sheriffs and the third member of the trios, Ben-* nie Galliano, is custodian of a bail- iffs office. A broach found in the possession of Mezner, said to be worth $1,000, was identified by Mrs. Ida Jacobson as taken from her fol'owing the assault made upon her by Engle and Gleason. The three bailiff office attaches claim to have purchased jewelry from Engle and Gleason, who they say believed honestly in spite of the fact that they knew Engle had been employed by the William J. Burns agency in an execu- tive capacity and Gleason by this and other agencies, Borah Probe of Russ Recognition Plans Start Today By JAY LOVESTONE, Staff Correspondent) for believing it consists of a cable chinists, and referred to the Trades ‘rom the monetary commissioner of and Labor council for consideration. Yucatan who claims to have gotten The same union asked the council the information from_ this country. to set up a committee to investigate while he was in New York. | the future of shipbuilding in Can-- Excelsior | points out that news-| ada as a means of providing a rem- papers coming ftom the territory oc-| edy for unemployment. cupied by the fascisti do not confirm — it but on the contrary seem to indicate that he is in hiding somewhere in the Yucatan peninsula, after a successful escape from prison. In that connection it is interesting to note that owing to broken com- munication, I have not yet been able at this late date definitely to verify the long officially-confirmed report of the execution of Heron Proal, lead- e of the striking tenants of Vera ruz. “hunting holes in. th but “in many other ways.” ay! Our Correspondent Will Enable You to F low this History-Making Gathering from Day to Day. Subscription Blank: on Page Three, ‘ Rich Hire 50,000 Lawyer: «+ Holes in Nation’s Income Tax Laws WASHINGTON. — State Depart- ment officials will be the first wit- | nesses before the Borah sub-com- mittee of the Senate fcreign reia- tions committee which meets Mon- | day to inquire into the vropriety \of recognition of the Russian Soviet | Republic. Chairman Borah will bring out in the examination of the State Depart- | menti witnesses the comparative scope of various foreign propaganda efforts | in America since 1914, ard the rea-_ |sons held by the Department for be- jlief that dangerous propaganda is now going on. He will later sum- mon witnesses not conrected with (Continued on page 2.) i unt a 2 tes Copel to The Daily Worker) iat Re tae Map nragray lawyers, hired by rich men, are ie income tax law: inder-secreta: Winston told the House ways and Bh ti punting: Apes gecre 4 Winston testified at hearings on the Mellon tax plan. wealthy not only seek to evade taxation by investing into tax-free securities, He said the Be There!