The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 22, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year. VOL. I. No. 319. TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter. September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. 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. Giant Railroad Strike in Great Britain as Labor Party Prepares to Take Over Government EYES ON THE FUTURE 60,000 STRIKE IN ENGLAND'S RAIL SERVICE Enginemen and Firemen Fight Wage Reductions (Special to The Daily Worker) LOND ON.—Railwaymen, members of the Society of En- ginemen and Firemen, to the number of 59,000 are on strike. They were joined by 11,000 members of the National Union of Railwaymen, whose national secretary, J. H. Thomas, is slated for a post in the new Labor Party ministry. The Society of Enginemen and Firemen have issued the following statement: “It is a battle against the capi- talists, who from 1913 to 1922 amassed a surplus of £9,000,000. “We have no intention of starv- ing the public and will not inter- fere with any legitimate emergency measures to insure a supply of foodstuffs. We do not mind what the government does so long it does not run the railways during the strike and by such ‘an act be- come a blackleg government. Our strike will prevent, for a period at least, the use of the t system. Private trading thi: more of it- self than of its servants.” * Fight Wage Reductions. The strike is the result of wage- reductions for enginemen of . $2.50 to 5.00 and $2.00 to $4.00 per week after midnight Monday. ~All efforts of the leaders of the British Labor Party to settle the strike failed to avert the walkout and the sympa- thetic strike of a section of the National Union of Railwaymen was contrary to assurances given the gov- ernment by J. H. Thomas. ‘ J. Bromley, secretary of the Society of Enginemen and Firemen states that the strike is a complete success. That his view is correct is evidenced by the fact that train service in Great Britain is practically at a standstill. Strike in Full Swing. An early morning countrywide sur- vey showed the strike in full swing. Engineers and firemen who are mem- bers of the Associated Society which ordered the walk-out after strenuous efforts on the part of England’s most Sreent bid — failed, did not show up for work. Some of those on strike lounged W about the shops in their Sunday of Young oman clothes and jibed at those who re- ae mained loyal to the orders of J. H.| NEW YORK—A boy born on Ellis Thomas and ran the few trains that| Island, whose immigrant mother, got away. Ruth Grahn, died there, has been, There was no Ray of sabotage.| given into custody of his aunt, Mrs. Efforts of rad stril sty to rents Minnie Hester, of Moline, Ill. ‘were confined to verbal persuasion. ams egy * Mrs. Hester, sister of the dead Locate ae feat pa ae | Woman, blames the death of her ge bs . yt | sister on Ellis Island authorities. The wan pans spores By “thes present girl had been detained since before strike. Street cars and buses here and| 8 in the provinces continued to run,| Christmas. ing many thousands of subur-| Before an order for her deporta- banites who ordinarily depend upon| tion could be carried out a son. was. local train service, In the great! born. A special] board ruled that strike of 1919, these transportation! the child was of Swedish nationality, facilities were completely disrupted.' altho born on American soil. ‘There This strike ‘is confined entirely to was no quota hindrances and the boy engineers and firemen and their help- was admitted on the promise of his ers. ‘ | aunt to educate him. Last night trains were leaving London penne on Pagminen but their crews ran them 0 certain pre- ~ * { state department is due to one thing ae Points and then abandoned —the fact that labor rules in Russia Hyde Park was on a “war basis,”| thru its own form of government. with fleets of motor lorries mobiliz- (Continued on page 2) o Work Daily for “The Daily!” Balloting Shows Complete Unity Within Russian Communist Party (By Radio to the Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—At the national conference of the Communist Party of Russia, held here just prior to the All-Russian Conference of Soviets, all resolutions proposed by the General Executive Committee were adopted by a vote of 125 to 3. The resolutions of the minority on the program for economic recon- struction were criticised as impractical and their thesis on party organiza- tion and policy was condemned as showing menshevik tendenies. It showed much loose egy reins as.well ny ee eunere petty bourgeois viewpoint that secured ve response fro ie delegates. The conliidenk pee the program of democratic centralization ‘for the but caucuses within the party are absolutely forbidden. The unity of Ne panty following the conference is more complete than ever. In the elections held the last day of the session of the All-Russian S. viets the highest votes polled were for Lenin, Kameneff, Zinovieff, Stalin and Bucharin. Blamed for Death ie sone robberies and assaults, say reports current in Chicago police circies, private detective agencies which have one leg in the department of justice and anothtr in the investigation bureaus of the big open shop enter- prise of America. The revelations or underworld ac- tivity as well put the leading sleuth corporation into such an ugly light) that the Wheeler proposal cannot be} halted unless Burns can get the Chi-| cago confessions reputiated. | Mrs. Ida Jaconson, of North Kim-! ball avenue, appeared in South Clark street court yesterday against Hugh Engel, former assistant chief of the) Chicago Burns agéncy, and J. Glea- son Walker, a subordinate, whom she has identified as the men who choked, her and robbed her of a $1,000 brooch and other jewelry. Her testimony was awaited with keen interest by a dozen private detectives of various agencies who sat in the: courtroom but the Burns’ attorneys succeeded in securing a postponement till January 29, by which time it is believed that William J. Burns will have completed whatever preparations are possible for-a whitewashing of his agency should the two dicks look like losers. Meanwhile the Chicago police force which has a professional jealou: against private agencies, though it has worked with the Burns agency in “red’ hunts, is following up the con- fessions regarding other robberies which the Burns men are charged with. Paul Mezner, a deputy sheriff, who is said to have purchased Mrs. Jaconson’s $1,000 brooch, is held by the police while the investigations are being conducted and Har: LABOR'S REGIME, TAKES HELM AS STORM BREAKS All this fuss over Russia by our on Eve of Vote (Special to The Dail; Worker). LONDON.—Great- Byftnin’s unknown address. = while overhead rages the broke with full force today, the new Labor government, ernment’s adherents own pose of the walkout at. midnight: on page 2. (Continued on page 2) Starts Today! (Continued § e y | “Never before-has >:the-bitanitous Hash Robbery Scandal, Says Police William-J. Burns, areh-communist: ferret, is planning a hasty visit to Chicago:to buck up the morale of his subordinates who’ are confessing here The sensational disclosures of “‘stick-up” activity by the Burns’ dicks in the Windy City come at a moment when United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana is pressing congress for a searching probe of the Transportation Tied Up new ship of state was scheduled to em- bark at 11 o'clock last night for. an Its tortuous course, thru troubled seas, is strewn with submerged rocks i storm which, after brewing for a fortnight, Had~the departing Tories delib- erately set about to devise a plan which would be most embarrassing to the; could not have done better than what a large section of that gov- accom- plished thru the strike weapon, al- tho that of course, wag not the pur- Ramsay MacDonald and. his pros- pective colleagues. of the new. gov- COAL MINERS’ CONVENTION OPENS TODAY Indianapolis Scene of Great Workers’ Gathering (By Our Staff Correspondent) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Del- egates representing approxi- mately half a million coal min- ers from every mining section of the United States and Can- Daily Worker Greets Coal Miners’ Convention THE DAILY WORKER, America’s only English-language Communist daily, extends its best wishes to the Sixth Biennial Convention of the United Mine Workers of America. Meeting at a time when the American capitalist class is at the height of its power, when that section of it whose profits are drawn from the coal mining industry has forced widespread unemployment to be used as a club to compel acceptance of wage-reductions, THE DAILY WORKER hopes that out of the deliberations of the miners will come a program around which the whole organized labor movement of the United States can rally. If the miners and other wage-earners can be whipped on the industrial field, then the first step has been taken towards a campaign of suppression of all privileges. THE DAILY WORKER stands for an uncompromising ada are here, for the opening} struggle against the capitalists on the industrial field—as well day of the 29th successive con-| #8 for the protection of foreign-born workers, for amalgamation stitutional and 6th biennial| for a class party of the workers and farmers, for Recognition convention of the United Mine|°f Soviet Russia. Workers of America. THE DAILY WORKER will carry full reports of the con- The main work of the con-|vention proceedings and of the progress made toward their vention will be the drawing up |Program by the militant miners. of a new wage scale and work- May the Sixth Biennial Convention of the United Mine ing conditions demand for the| Workers of-America mark a turning-point in the American next contract with the oper- ators. The present bituminous agree- ment expires March 31, except where there is an overlapping condition as in Kentucky. Much Unemployment. A meeting of coal operators and miners in the central competitive field (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and western Pennsylvania) is already scheduled to meet at Jacksonville, Fla., on Feb. 11 “for the purpose of negotiating a new wage agreement to become effective on April 1, 1924” according to a call sent out for the meeting by the chairman of a joint committee from the organizations in- yolved. miners been faced with a more seri-| ous condition than that which exists in the industry now. The unemploy- ment is unprecedented—nearly one- third of the mines are closed and one- half-time operations prevail in most of the working fields, The Howat Case. Altho the administration forces predict harmany, a number of in- ternal problems will come before the delgates. Alexander Howat expects to be reinstated to his former union status by this convention, and the grievance of the Nova Scotia (Can- ada)’ miners will also be introduced. The trouble there centers around the revocation of the district charter by the national admiwistration during a steel strike in July. The ‘ miners who were employed by the British Empire Steel Corp., the steel trust, struck in violation of their agree- ment in protest against the employ- ment of soldiers against the steel strikers. A provisional government was set up by the international organization after it had deposed the elected of- ficials. James MacLachlan, ousted secretary of the district, is now in Dorchester penitentiary (Canada) be- cause of his activities during the sympathetic strike. Other internal questions of less importance as, the coke region strike, nationalization, progressive miners, etc., also appear in resolution form, * . * Ohio Miners for 6-Hour Day. INDIANAPOLIS.—Delegates. from the Ohio district, U. M. W. A., have arrived here under unanimous in- structions from their district conven- tion to present to the miners’ nation- ‘al convention demands for a six- hour day and the unionization of the big nonunion fields in West Virginia and Kentucky “as a matter of self- protection.” The Ohio convention, which closed in Columbus Jan. 16, placed itself on record for a substantial wage in- crease to meet advancing living costs. The scale demanded fixes a 25% advance in pay for tonnage, and a half for overtime and double time for Sundays and holidays. Under the existing contract, over- time and Sunday work is paid solely on a straight-time basis, The day wage scale demanded gives equal side mine laborers, Miners’ pensation under the new scale would be $1.17% per ton and $1.25 per hou, as against 94 cents and 93% cents respectively under the old ernment, after failing in every pav- sible argument to persvade officia!s ry of the Associated Society of Engi- Baker, another deputy and Benniej neers and Firemen to accept a, com- tract. The convention further asked United Mine Workers negotiate the new nt on a two-year bi to become effective April 1, 1924. i the national executives of the Correspondent Is On the Job! 1 Youto Follow this History-Making Gathering from Day to Day. Subscription Blank, on Page Three, ; yardage, and dead work, with time’ rates of pay for both inside and out-| com- labor movement—the point which will mark the beginning’ of the control of the labor movement by the men and women of labor who have a clear-cut policy, and the will to fight for it. Program for Which Progressive Miners’ International Committee ‘Will Fight at Indianapolis, Ind. Nationalization of Coal Mines with genuine democratic control. Operation of the mines by Union coal miners. * 8 * * A national class political party seeped of and controlled by-wage-carnero.andfirmers, ~~ “w+. * * = * An aggressive organizing campaign that will remove the threat to wages and working conditions now contained in the huge production of coal from low wage, non-union territory. * * * * A United Front of coal miners and railway workers—be- tween the men who dig the coal and those who haul it. * * * * Reinstatement of Alex Howatt and other Kansas miners, expelled because of their fight against the Kansas Industrial Court law. ~ * * * Reinstatement of the fighting Nova Scotia officials—Liv- ingston, McLachlan, McIntyre and Stewart—and of the mem- bership of District 26. * * * National agreements for the entire industry, expiring on the same date. * * * * * Direct election of organizers and travelling auditors. * * * * ; : Support of the United Mine Workers for ‘industrial union- ism thru amalgamation for theAmerican trade union movement. * * The six-hour day and the five-day week. * * * * Against secessiénism and dual unionism. * * * * Closest possible affiliation of the United Mine Workers with the organized miners of the rest of the world. * * * * Cleansing the organization of corruption and election frauds. * * * * A leadership that will not flinch and com: romise i struggles that must be fought. min 4 __ * * * * before the rank and file an a, should be carried on. we SSSA manne relay M22 ‘ To bring these matters sive campaign of education No Economic Reason Why French Franc Should ] Not Follow Mark (By The Federated Press) rh Weta fe inthe ed res francs may yet sell for 1,000,000 to the dollar of a big business expert jnistra' Speaking in confidence to a friend, Phi peer batho ss seal tions as well as any banker can know them, reason why the mark, _ GHIGAGO BRANCH DAILY WORKER AGENTS Will meet tonight 7:30 P. 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