The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 21, 1924, Page 3

THE DAILY WORKER CANADIANLABOR |Fall Steal Indicates White — |ROTHAM'S FIRST URGES RELEASE | House Could be Sold With | LABOR BANK OF MCLACHLAN No Risk, SaysSen. Caraway| SHOWS SUCCESS ‘ By LAURENCE TODD. . Deputation Speaks for January 21, 1924 Sinclair’s Persian Plans Show Oil Interests Preparing New Wars for Great American Empire By FREDERICK KUH (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK.—Another chapter is being written in the great serial romance, entitled The American Empire. The opening of that story is told jin terms of American capital investments in Asia and Europe. DEMAND POW BE TAKEN OU PRIVATE HA ElectricalWorkers (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) Dominion Congress BY JOHN ROBUR » (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) OTTAWA.—A plea for the re- lease of James MeLacnlan, deposed secretary District 26, United Mine Workers of America, from Dorches- ter penitentiary has been made to the dominion government by a depu- tation of the Dominion Trades and Labor Congress. Tom Moore, presi- dent of the corgress, headed the deputation and with him were P, M. Draper, secretary-treasurer, and three vice-presidents, The subject of releasing MeLach- lan was before the cabinet prior to the hearing of the Trades and Labor congress deputation, Many petitions for his release protest. that civil rights have been abrogated, others charge unfairness at the trial. Solicitor-General E, J. McMurray, who was counsel for some of those prosecuted in connection with the Winnipeg strike, has frequently ad- voeated repeal of the hysterical leg- islation passed at the time of the Winnipeg strike, which removes pro- tection previously given advocates of radical change by , constitutional means. ‘There has been some ex- pectation that McMurray may bring in legislation this year to restore this protection. A bill of this nature was intro- duced at a previous session by Jas. Woodsworth, labor member for Cen- ter Winnipeg. It was adopted by a special committee of the house of commons but never got to the point of being voted on by the whole house, BRITISH COLUMBIA LOGGERS STRIKE FOR 8-HOUR DAY Also Ask Release of the Class War Prisoners Thousands of loggers are on strike for the eight-hour day in the eastern district of British Columbia, accord- ing to reports to the headquarters of Lumber Workers’ Industrial union hers. District officials say they are confident of success, The strike was called during zero weather when the roads were ideally hard for the sleigh hau's without which the work of the loggers during the year would be valueless. Thousands of dollars are being raised from local business men and sympathizers to ‘feed and house the strikers. J. A. MacDonald, former U. 8, political prisoner who was de- ported to Canada last summer, wires} e is touring the province with member of the provincial legislature in behalf of the strikers. Following regular proceedure in western logging strikes the “release of class war prisoners” is included in demands. Other demands are for the $4 day minimum; no censoring of. mail coming into camps and no dis- crimination against the I. W. ti For Recognition of Soviet Russia! Daily Worker Gets Good Reception: at Johnson Meeting If United States Senator Hiram Johnson did not see Friday’s issue of the DAILY WORKER it was not the fault of members of the Young Workers League who distributed sev-| eral thousand copies at each of} Johnson’s two meetings in Chicago. At both the Broadway Armory | meeting and the meeting called for Negro voters on the South Side the Papers were eagerly accepted by people attending. None were thrown away. Everybody who was given a copy ef the DAILY WORKER neamed glad to get it and gave indication of intending to read !t well. Dur- ‘ing all the speeches at hoth meet- ings many copies of the DAILY WORKER were being read. of WASHINGTON.—At last the charge of corruption has been brought in the Senate against Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior in the Hard- ing cabinet, in connection with his sale of the naval oil reserves. Caraway of Arkansas, whose resolution calling for cancellation of the Chairman Smoot of the Finance com- corruptly selling the fuel oil supply of the navy, but he said that so long as Attorney-General Daugherty has contro] of the Department of Justice “they may sell the White House” and remain immune from any indictment or prosecution. that the treason of Benedict Arnold, in selling a fort on the Hudson river to the British, was a mere trifle in comparison with Fall’s sale of the motive fuel of the navy—the first line of the nation’s military defense. Teapot Dome lease, was shelved b mittee, not only chatged Fall wit To such a level has the sense administration at Washington, that senators made no attempt to reply to Caraway’s indictment. silent, listening to the charges made against his friend Fall, and did not even rise to defend or explain a single item of the recital. proceeded to other business, Fall's $100,000 Suitcase. Caraway told the story of Presi- dent Harding’s order transferring the naval oil reserves to the zare of Fall, and of the prompt disposal of the cil, to the very last gal!on. to Do- heny on the one hand and Harry Sinclair on the other. Fall then left office, “to attend to his pros- Perous and ever increasing business” of running a ranch. He negotiated the purchase of more lands ana he left Washington with $100,000 in a suitcase, There was a mystery sur- rounding the source of that $100,- 000. When asked to explain how he came suddenly by all that money, Fall became “ill” and sent a letter in which he declared that he bor- rowed the $100,000 from Edw. B. McLean, owner of the , Washington Post. Presently McLean “hired him a couple of lawyers,” the first of whom was A. Mitchell Palmer, for- mer Democratic attorney general, to assure Senator Walsh, conducting the investigation, that McLean had in- deed lent that $100,000 to Fall. Orgy of Lying But when Walsh went to Florida to find McLean, who likewise was “411,” MéLean’s other lawyer, Lam- bert, went along and was promptly able to induce McLean to remember that che never had !caned Fall a dollar, There was no check stub or bank record to prove that any loan had been made. And strangely enough, living in the same Palm Beach hotel, under and assumed name and at McLean’s expense, was Fall himself! Fall, who liad been too “ill” in New York to come to Wash- ington to testify, had fled to Flor- ida to his friend, who now disowned that financial story. Fall then ad- mitted thru a letter, while refusing to permit himself to be confronted by Senator Walsh for examination, that his story of the McLean loan had been false. Needed tr Tia “Men of this character do not de- liberately lie unless they need to,” remarked Caraway. He had called attention to the suitcase as the means of conveying corraption funds employed by “Gas” Addicks in Dela- ware in buying a legislature, and by the grafters in San Francisco in purchasing franchises for public util- ity corporations. “Why did Albert B. Fall tell a deliberate and willful falsehood to to Senate committee?” Caraway asked. “I know there is something wrong here. IT know that there is something behind this falsehood as to the source of the $100,000; some- thing wrong in the sale of the navy’s supply of fuel to two'speculators, one of whom has boasted that he will make $100,000,000 by the deal.” Daugherty Aids Rich Criminals He said that if it were not for the present attorney general, “all of these men would be indicted,” but he was aware that so long as that official holds his job there will be absolute immunity, even tho they should sell the White House, “We see here for the first time, and I hope the last time,” he con- cluded, “a cabinet officer, for a cor- rupt consideration, selling to private individuals the public *property he ‘was supposed to protect.” Great for the Bootleggers. NEW YORK.—Hotel and railroad owners, restaurateurs and amusement proprietors are jubilant at the news that this city has been. chosen for the impending Democratic National Con- vention. Large stores are restocking their shelves and bootleggers are smiling in anticipation. Tex Richard, list entrepreneur and manager of adison Square Garden, where the Democrats will foregather, is being besieged by newspaper reporters. He Johnson did not touch on _ the points raised in Friday's DAILY WORKER in either of his speeches. _ Protect the Foreign Born! is reported to have forecasted that the selection of the presidential can- didate will not be as good a drawing card as a Jack Dempsey bout. Eat Where All Friends Meet Gordon’s High Grade Restaurant ' and Oriental Kitchen VISIT OUR CLUB DINING ROOM We also cater to banquets and parties 1259 S. Halsted St. We are open late at night. CHICAGO He suggested of shame descended, in the present the Harding-Coolidge administration Smoot sat The Senate “HOMESTEADING DESERTED FARMS IN FERTILE DIXIE Negro Exodus Leaves Great Tracts Vacant (Special to The Daily Worker) MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Is the Dixie- land of song and story to becomé the land of opportunity for the land hungry American industrial workers and the peasant immigrant? Hundreds of thousands of Negro farmers have left the south in the last seven years because they fear and resent the persecution of their race by the dominant white element and because of the openings in in- dustry due to war expansion, Thou- sands of acres of the most fertile soil in the United States lie untilled, and in many cases the agricultural population of whole settlements has left enmasse. The large landowners are panic stricken, In the warm moist cli- mate of the southland the soil if not cultivated rapidly becomes jungle and already the expense of re- clearing abandoned acres has, in many instances, eaten up the mar- ket price of the land. Agricultural labor in gufficient quantities cannot be obtained and the wealthiest land- lords are now “land poor.” The belief that a large portion of the colored population would return after a brief disillusioning experi- ence in industry—a belief to which the landowners clung tenaciously to Several years—has now been aban- doned. Bad tho their conditiane mar Over Million Dollars Sent to Russia (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK.—A tenfold increase within the past nine months in de- posits at the Amalgamated Bank of New York is reported by R. L. Red-| heffer, the president. Redheffer’: | statement was made ut the bank’s| first annual meeting. Deposits in the labor-owned jnsti- tution rose from $244,070 on April 14, » to $2,302,976 today. It was also stated that the number of savings depositors had increased from 1,665 to 4,942, with a corres- ponding ascent in commercial deposi- tors from 498 to 1,700, during the same period, The bank, moreover, sent 55,696 money orders to Russia, comprising $1,552,666. Leo Wolman and Frederick Mac- Cauley were elected as directors, while the former officers were au- thorized to continue at their posts. Sentiment among labor men here is that the Amalgamated Clothing | Workers, in establishing the first labor bank of New York, have al- ready assured themselves of an his- toric success, * * ¢ Labor Bank Earns 13% | There is a labor bank in Chicago} which is earning 18% net on its capi- tal. This record for the year 192 was reported to the annual meeting by officials of the local Amalgamated Trust & Savings bank, operated by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ union. Deposits during the year increased at the rate of $50,000 a month. Ten thousand dollars of the year’s net! earnings of $26,746 was set aside to take care of any contingencies. The | foreign exchange department sent $1,524,209 in the form of 44,000 re- mittances to Russia. First mortgages | amounting to $668,650 were made to! union members on their homes. Pres. R. L. Redheffer and the other officials were re-elected for the com-| ing year. Seabs Stab Striker NEW ORLEANS.—Joseph Man- ning, one of the lineman on strike against the New Orleans Public Serv- ice, Inc., is in a local hospital suffer- ing from wounds inflicted by scabs employed by the contract breaking corporation. Manning approached a group of men on a service wagon and asked them “why do you want to take a union man’s job?” Two of those addressed stabbed him in the head The dramatic climax is being evolved in the Uni navy departments and in the myriad work upon schemes to perfect method And the prologue to the story will perhaps be of thousands of Private Henry Dubbs, fallen upon the “field of honor” in defense of American financial and in It is announced, in the harmless | Persian government has entered into negotiations with American construc- | tion and banking interests for the re- habilitation of railway lines and bridges in that country. What this means, shorn of all dip- lomatic twists, is that American ca- pital has accepted the challenge of British capital for domination of Persia, while both American and British interests will henceforth do their utmost to “protect” Persia from the influence of Russia, In fact, more than a year ago Persia’ concluded a treaty with Moscow, designed to shield that country from the preda- tory capital from the west. The corporations now engaged in negotations with the Persian govern- ment are the Ulen Contracting Co. of New York and the American Inter- national Corporation, both of which have representatives at Teheran, the Persian capital. in reliable Wall Street brought The Federated Inquiries quarters | Press information that these private! dealings are being carried on with full knowledge of the government at Washington, Tt is stated that the construction work, if undertaken by American con- tracting and financial concerns, will be paid for in part by Persian govern- ment bonds. The phrase “govern- ment bonds” has a familiar, political ring to our ears. The political role played by Russian czarist bonds in the allied nations is too fresh in our memories. The political and military implications of such bonds is too ob- vious. Rumor has it that Sinclair oil in- terests are closely linked to Shese latest endeavors of American ad- venturers in “backward” Persia. Harry F. Sinclair, after getting away with the Teapot Dome steal, has just sailed for parts unknown in Europe or Asia. He could tell-us more of | the activities of these pioneers of American empire if he cared to. This much we know already: While our solemn government institutions are busily debating whether America should commit herself to foreign entanglements, enterprising capital- ists, such as Ulen and Sinclair have long since decided this debate in the affirmative. It is the function of the American government and the American people to say “aye” to these accomplished facts, And if ; these entaglements mean future war, and chest, inflicting eight wounds, _.| Americans must say “aye” to that,! ed States war and laboratories, where des itten with the blood is of warfare an y dustrial ventures abroad. phrases of our imperialists, that the | FRISCO LABOR IN | BIG PLANS FOR | TTS OWN THEATRE Well Known Workers Going to Turn Actors | shinee | (By The Federated Press) ! SAN FRANCISCO.—An _interest- ing development in labor and art} circles here is the organization of a new “little theater” company, to be | known as the Telegraph Hill Players.| Several well known labor men andj women are among the company, | which is organized on a cooperative basis. The director, Ben Legere, is| an organizer for the O. B. U. and was leader of the 1922 Lawrence strike. He has been for many years a pro- | fessional actor. The secretary is | Miriam Allen deFord, Federated} | Press staff correspondent. | The plays to be presented are be-| |ing chosen largely for their social message, the first bill consisting of Shaw’s The Showing Up of Blanco, Posnet, indictment of puritanism and/ hypocrisy, and Strindberg’s Countess! Julia, with its exposition of the class conflict. Later other modern classics will be given, as well as two interest- ing plays which will have their first performance on any stage. Special opoprtunities will be given to labor and defense organizations to! stage benefits, Anyone interested! should address the secretary at Box 573, San Francisco. Other labor men actively with the new organization Howe and Robert L. Hartford of the Typographical union, and Maynard! | Shipley, labor editor and organizer. connected | are Arthur Teachers to Have Observer to May 3O+t ” . \from the crowded cities to ris et reat lury ~ It will soon, } YY PVHLGy AP ovat, abave UE: be in modern industrial plants, in'}« ” the north, they enjoy a freedom from meee nee. the petty tyrannies of overseer and landlord never known by them be- unable Lovestone in New York. “/ too, until labor asserts ; and Sinclairs. fore. Thi Fy NEW YORK. — Jay Lovestone, * EERE Eg masters; neither do they wish to WORKER will tell “Who Owns take advantage of the concessions that their exodus has forced the whites to make. The land is idle— millions of acres of it—and if white settlers are not secured will quickly ‘become the vast expanse of cane- brake it was before the settlement Wednesday evening, Jan. 23rd. after a long investigation methods of big business in politic promises Congress” at a meeting to be held at Stuyvesant Casino, 142 Second Ave., The lecture which Lovestone has prepared of the to be a startling revelation.' ber of the T SEATTLE.—The Workers union will be revived }ful. Cory of the south. Reluctantly the landlords have been forced to the conclusion that a new type of farmer is the only solution—a farmer owning his land and becoming a unit in the social, economic and political life of the south. Only under the threat of speedy bankruptcy have the land- owners arrived at the conclusion that they must break up their enor- mous holdings, sell them to new settlers for what they can get and watch the development of a new agricultural south that will have none of the traditions of the pre- war southland—an agricultural south that will be much like the Middle West. Here in Memphis has been formed an association of landowners for the purpose of inducing immigration— from the northern states and from Europe. It proposes to sell the big| estates to settlers on the casiest. possible terms—terms as low as the rent formerly paid. {¢ is still at-) tempting to exercise a sort of se-. lection of prospective settlers but the necessity of populating the de- serted section with all possible speed | makes this very difficult, impossible | in fact. An indication of the crit-/ ical nature of the agricultural situa-! tion here is that the association pro- ses to advance transportation nds “to desirable immigrants,” A family that can and will farm can have land almost on its own terms and if bonafide farmers, their maintenance will be furnished for a year or so pending a good crop. In North and South Carolina sim- RATES: tik Rill Tell It to | itself with the same determination as the Ulens Boot and Shoe Seattle if the efforts of Tom Cory, | Pacific coast organizer, are success- came here from Van- S| couver, B. C., where he is a mem- cades and Labor council. RKER is the only daily news: (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—The Eastern States | Conference of the American Federa- tion of Teachers held here, to send an observer to the decide in nual convention Federation of Teachers, July 11th. For Recognition of Soviet Russia! Bill in Congre: By LAURENCE TODI (Staff Correspondent of the Federai W ASHINGTON—Starting tionwide ‘campaign on bel jpublic super-power legislati voted at the coriference of the Ownership League of Americ after the bill drafted by the committee during the past y been analyzed and compared + Ontario and California and legislation on power ownersh control. The committee selected to ¢ the campaign includes Rev. Jj Ryan, National Catholic univ James P, Noonan, president, Ir tional Brotherhood of El Workers; Charles Edward magazine writer; Benjamin C. managing director, Farmers’ Ni Council; Miss Jennie Buel, Mic State Grange, and Charles K. M }engineer of Chicago. The bill was indorsed after Noc Ryan and Senator Norris, ar others, had outlined the dange private power monopoly in the i diate future, and the need for px federal legislation to place the o ship of super-power in the har, the nation. Noonan read_ the ref adopted by his own union and F last convention of the American eration of Labor, and declared organized labor was to be cot upon in the battle against the pr power interests and in favor of government ownership and gof ment administration of the powt: dustry. Dr. Ryan said that the developn of super-power would cut in half present cost of electric service, would make electrigity cheaper t gas, oil or wood; it would make sible the redistribution of popul: towns, since small factories coul located anywhere when ele power could be delivered anywhe After reviewing the exto! practiced by the railroads and anthracite mine operators upon public, Ryan declared that the way to avoid the evils “i government ownership of the 4 and instrumentalities of efe energy and government distrib: of the product.” The public w get better service, lower rates less-interference when served b; own organization. Senetor N~ ¥s will hew=.chorg supe It pror occ eina Shoals but all other avail sion which would be created by d|measure, for development of tt National Conference of Farmer-Labor parties | to be held at St. Paul, May 30th. | The observer will be instructed to report on the proceedings to the an- of the American sites and for the linking up of coal at the mouths of mines. the private interests should give the fight and seil out, as was the ¢ in Ontario. the World! ly daily newspaper a red- Too ee EE THE DAILY WORKER, ilar effotts being made qnd as the knevleine 7 apt a 1640 N. 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