The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 24, 1924, Page 1

peng Taate, = THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD AND FOR A WORKERS’ FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 321. ; NEW DOPE ON ' TEAPOT GRAB STIRS NATION Coolidge Tells Daugherty to Watch Friends (Special to The Daily Worker) THE Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year, NATIONAL' ‘Moscow, in Mourning, Ready to WASHINGTON.—President Coolidge has ordered Attorney General Daugherty to send a department of justice agent to the Senate Committee’s inves- tigation of Teapot Dome to listen to disclosures regarding the leasing of the naval oil re- serve to Sinclair interests, it was stated at the White House today on Mr. Coolidge’s behalf. |. If irregularities are disclosed at the investigation the depart- ment of justice will take what- ever action is necessary to bring to “justice any individuals found guilty of breaking the law, i stated on behalf of the president. Mr. Coolidge took this action, the White House spokesman said, be- cause of certain rumors heard by Withhold All Suspicion. The department of justice was rep- resented at the hearing by President. Coolidge’s express direction, it was said. It was indicated at the White ‘House further ieeetantions were “vans, fet Gould “dis-) eussed at the moment magn Sy they might dry up sources of information, The spokesman for the president emphasized that the government did not wish to cast suspicion on any individual, Poor “Justice” Faces Defeat. Rumors that have reached the White House however, are too grave to be overlooked, and an investiga- tion of them is proceeding, the pres- ident’s spokesman said. The department of justice is pre- pared to go the limit in taking ac- tion against any person, whatever his position or previous position, against whom evidence is found to warrant prosecution, it was said on Mr. Coolidge’s behalf. For the government to indicate who is under suspicion, the White House spokesman pointed out, would defeat the ends of justice and noth- ing could be disclosed at present beyond the intention of both the President and the department of jus- tice to press the investigation until any misdeeds are uncovered, * * & FIGHT ON SENATE FLOOR (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — The Teapot Dome scandal is to be carried to the senate floor today, when a demand will be made by Senator Caraway, (Continued on page 3) Blockade Lifted, Cruiser Returns, Says Sec. Hughes iodeg ry eat = bn ens against e pol 0. ‘am ‘8 been lifted permanently, according to| ca; ®@ dispatch to the State Department’ se aD oa Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 19) TATION WORLD LABOR PAYS TRIBUTE at the PostOffice at Chicago, All Unite at the Grave of Lenin. 15,000 Railroad Men Given Raise To Avert Strike (Special to, The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—The New York Cen- tral lines» today granted a five per cent wage increase to some 15,000 men of the brotherhoods of railway engineers and firemen. If other lines follow suit 45,000 workers will be affected. Strike talk has been dropped by New York Central firemen and engineers and the controversy that has raged since Dec, 4 is at an end. Eighteen lines were represented in the conference. Original demands for the increase were made in Chi- cago in July when the men asked a fle of twenty per cent, Dropped from Payroll, BLOOMINGTON, Ill—One hund- red and fifty employes of of the Chi- o & Alton shops here find them- selves di from the payroll, The: today from John Q. Wood, Ameri- ean consul at Vera Cruz. HA asides of State Hughes is now el gt to Neb! the cohsul’s et it is confirmed the American cruiser Richmond will be withdrawn from Tampico, the State Department anno Workers Party of America. Workers Party to Hold Lenin Memorial Meetings Lenin Memorial meetings will be held all over the United States Sunday, Feb. 3 by districts, sub-districts and branches of the National, distriet and local officials are already busy preparing arrangements for what will undoubtedly be monster demonstrations for sympathy on the part of American workers for the workers and peasants of Russia for the great loss they have suffered. men are off, the company says, to reduce operating expenses, pe 1500 employes offered to go on a five-day-week basis in lieu of "the the| other workmen being laid off. This was rejected by the company, main shops of aCe ktaeeiscated re, RAIL STRIKE IS FIRST BUSINESS OF MAC DONALD Tells Henderson to Get Men, Bosses Together (Special to The Daily, Worker) LONDON.—Ramsay MacDonald presided over the first meeting of Britain’s new Labor cabinet at the historic residence of premiers, No, 10 Downing Street, this afternoon. The new prime minister walked to the meeting from the foreign office, Tom Shaw, minister of labor, reported on the railway strike sit- uation to his new colleagues. aie ve AONDON.—The. first act of the MacDonald government, even before it was quite formally in office, was to attempt a settlement of the rail The While the government of Great Britain was pase into the hands ene es was Being an end to the owls spreading industrial oar of the trans- portation tie- Men chosen by. premier Ramsay MacDonald for the nation’s first peng’ cabinet were early at the vari- ous government offices. Their retir- ing predecessors, the conservatives, showed them “the ropes” before leav- "Some More Osculation The hg agi and can the veal ters went to the palace and aval iiven ohe. eobe PLAN FOR HOUSE OF MORGAN MORTGAGE ON GERMANY IS RIPE (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS.—The plan of the Amer- ican bankers for the restoration of Germany industrially and finan- cially includes as its major propo- sition a loan of $250,000,000 as vapital for an international bank _to be establ in either Holland or Switzerland, it was learned to- Ys That this enormous sum is to come from American sources and that an American financier will be placed in charge of the bank if the eek! is accepted is con- sidered certain here. The American financial experts, Brigadier-General Dawes and Owen D. Young, will return to Berlin and hold further confer- ences with Dr. Schacht, head of ny the German commission, on Jan. privy council cry held the first cabi- net meeting at 4 p. m. Arthur Hendefson already has as- sumed his duties as home secretary, altho a seat in commons must be found Stor him before he can be of- Adee given the seals of office. lacDonald, however, instructed oer pt not to wait, but to “get busy and compose the differences of the engineers and firemen and their employers.” Doesn’t Stir a Ripple The British spirit of fair pers is manifesting itself in the public and press lion to the laborites, Today's newspapers, regardless of polities are per tA icp unanimous in ‘Donald’s good judge- roca nym 4 his selection of a cabinet. Morning Post admits: “It might easily have been worse.” Ilinois, MYERSCOUGH PHIL MURRAY Slap at Radicals By JOHN FITZGERALD (Staff Correspondent of The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The first real clash to take place W. of A, convention here was staged this morning when the committee on officers recom- mended .approval of Vice-! President Murray’s report. One section of the report mentioned thé Progressive Min-| p ers International Committee in general and Thomas Myers- cough, its secretary, in particu- lar. The report charged the Progressive Committee with trying to induce striking western Pennsylvania miners to accept a reduction in wages| at a mass-meeting held in Axelton) on\ Nov. 25, 1921. The committee recommendation to accept the report was no sooner made than several delegates were on| their feet demanding the floor to re- fute the charges made. Delegate James Oates, of Charle- roi, Pa., declared that he attended! the meeting in question and but for the work’ of Myerscough and others the operators would have succeeded| in breaking the ranks of the striking miners and reducing wages. His statement was substantiated by Frank Mercantili of Local Union 4546, one of the signers of the call for a special meeting in Monongahela to discuss the situation on Dec. 4, 1921, Mercantili stated that he had been a union member since he was thirteen yeats old. He had attented the meet- | ine in Axelton, testified, to the good work of Myerscough and others in preventing a wage-cut. Delegate John Hindmarsh of Riv- erton, Ill., asked Vice-President Mur- ray if he wished to leave the impres- sion that the members of the Pro- gressive Miners, who signed tye call for a mass-meeting, on Dec, 4, ad- vocated a wage-cut. Murray an- swered in the negative. Hindmarsh urged that the convention refuse to condemn Myerscough or any other miner on one sided evidence “with- out hearing the other side of the case.” Fagan Contradicts Murray. President Fagan, of District No. 5, admitted in his speech a%the ques- tion that Myerscough and Guiler spoke against a reduction in wages. President Lewis, just before the vote was taken, announced that My- erscough’s case would be heard be- fore the convention adjourned.’ The report was finally adopted by a show of hands with a heavy negative vote. Interview With Myerscough. In a statement made to the DAILY WORKER representative, Tom My- erscough, who was expelled from the union by action of the Pittsburgh district executive board, after tite international executive board de- clared the Progressive Committee to be a dual union, said that the meet- ing in Hazelton mentioned by Vice- President Murray was not called by him of the Progressive Miners Com- mittee, but by an agent of the coal operators for the purpose of break- (Continued on page 2) Fifty Entombed In Mexican Mine, El Paso Reports (Special to The Dally Worker) EL PASO, Texas.—Fifty miners, Americans and Mexicans, are en- tombed in the Eruepcion mine at Villa Ahumanda, Mexico, 80 miles south of El Paso, according to reports reaching here this afternoon, Officials of the mining company here ex; ed doubt as to the re- rts. ‘They said an American min- ing engineer named Perry had been badly injured in a fall of rok in the mine. under the Act of March 3, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1924 <<. Published Daily except Sunday by THE PUBLISHING CO., since the opening of the U. M.| ly WORKER. 1879. 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, BEFORE COAL MINERS Receive Lenin’s Remains Stand Firm for Fin DAILY WORKER Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation 4 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. MIlinois. al Victory, Appeal to Workers, Farmers, Red Army, as IS TARGET OF Russia Prepares for for Lenin’s Funeral (By Our Own Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW—While Moscow is a city of black, prepared to receive to- day, the remains of Nikolai Lenin, the dead premier’s fellow leaders urged | worke rs, farmers and the Red Army to stand firm. “Final victory of our party will be the best monument to Lenin,” Vice-President of | of Miners Takes a proclamation issued by the Central Executive Cofmittee said. Lenin’s’ body was to lie in state here until Saturday, when it will be interred in the Kremlin wall. ‘ens of thousands of his comrades |are to be given an opportunity to gaze for the last time on the stilled features of the most powerful re- volutionary figure of all times. Lenin, after a lingering illness, died at 6:50 P. M., at his villa at Gorky, passing away while unconscious. A cerebral hemorrhage caused paralysis of the respiratory organs. (Note: An official announcement by the Russian Soviet Government confirms our previous reports that Lenin’s death occurred exactly 6:50 M., Monday, not 5:50, as errone- eualy "reported by other sources.} The chief care of Russia’s present leaders—mingled with their great and genuine soyrow—is that there shall be no opportunity for enemies of the Soviet to take advantage of | Lenin’s passing. Lenin Died Uncomplaining. Nicolai Lenin died silent, uncom- | plaining. An eye witness to the passing of the Russian Premier gave to the DAILY WORKER today the first story of how the end came. At noon Monday Lenin told his household he had a slight headache jand went to bed. | Professors Foerster and Ossipoff, Lenin's -wife-and his sister, Buchari, | were the only ones present when the oe agony set in at 5:30 P. M. Lenin spoke not a single word. He | was unconscious at the last. After death had been pronounced, the body was dressed in a brown suit, with white socks and soft brown slippers and placed on a table in the reception room. The Premier’s face showed no change. It has a healthy appear- ance. The table was heaped with flowers. His Comrades Arrive. A little later the minister of the Soviet government began to arrive, having come hurriedly from Moscow to Gorky, where Lenin’s villa is lo- cated. : Stalin, Kalinin, Zinoviev and Ka- menev reached the villa at 11 P. M. All were weeping heartbrokenly. Their lamentations were kept up thruout the night. After the ministers, came throngs of peasants, pouring out to Gorky in a continuous stream, surrounding the house. Russia Fights Malaria. MOSCOW.—In order to promote anti-malaria' measures, all quinine imported into Russia fer purposes of fighting malaria, shall be allowed to pass free of any customs duties, Get unity thru the Labor Party! WOMAN OF LABOR IN NEW BRITISH CABINET LONDON.—For the first time in Britian’s history, a woman oc- eupies a Cabinet portfolio. When Premier MacDonald completed his ministry today, Margaret Bonfield was found to be Under-Secretary of Labor, Chicagoans Will — Remember Lenin at Mass Meeting The passing of Nicolai Lenin will be mourned at a huge mass meet- ing in Chicago, Tuesday evening, Jan. 29, in Ashland Auditorium. Speakers who will testify to the idealism and brilliant generalship of tie departed proletarian leader will include William Z. Cc... E. Ruthenberg, William F. “Dunne, Rob- ert Minor and Martin Abern. Their addresses will be grouped under the subject “Lenin and the Role of the Communist Party.” Moving pictures of Lenin’s life and music will supplement the program. Lenin memorial meetings will be held in all parts of the country, Sun- | day, Feb. 3, in response to the appeal of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers’ Party Immense N. Y. Meeting Planned. NEW YORK.—Madison Square Garden, the largest hall in the city, has been engaged for the Lenin Mem- orial Meeting, Sunday, February 3rd, to hold the enormous crowds ex- poche" Ereat in honor of se Mg premier. Boe Dowd Lowi M, The Feb. 3 Lenia me ¥ coo meet- ing at St. Paul will be held at the Labor Temple at 8 P. M. Lenin Death Can’i Cause Injury To Powerful Russia A wave of support for the cent- ral committee will probably be cre- ated Lenin’s death, says F. A. Mac Kenzie, a Moscow correspond- ent for an American newspaper bg dicate. The Russian government, adds, is now too vast a machine to be jettisoned by the death of any one man—even Lenin. For more than a year, the cor- respondent reasons, Lenin took fo active part in the government and immensely loved as he was by the peasants his death will have no ad- verse political effect, In a personal and emotional way the shock of the great Premier’s death has been profound, MacKenzie testifies. Vast Russia from the far flung vilages of Siberia to the towns of the Crimea is dazed. Say Klan Chose Mayfield. WASHINGTON.—Earle B. May- field’s name was placed on the sen atorial ballot in Texas “in flagrant contempt and disregard of injunction orders and the law, but in obedience to the clandestine decrees of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in supercession of the lawful government of Texas,” Mayfield’s opponents alleged in new documents filed today with the Sen- ate Committee that will investigate Mayfield’s right to his seat, COLUMBUS.—Fight to give Pres- ident Coolidge a solid Ohio delega- tion at the convention in Cleveland will be planned here tomorrow at a meeting of more than 300 state and national G. O. P. leaders. NNNNNNNANL NNN NAN NHN NANA NANAIMO ION IONE NT Special Issue of Daily Worker for the Lenin Memorial Meetings For the week ending Feb. 2, the Magazine Section of THE DAILY WORKER will be issued in the Wednesday (January 30) edition, instead of Saturday’s as heretofore. This change is made in order to make it possible for those in charge of the Lenin memorial meetings which are to be held in all sections of the country Feb. 3, to obtain the paper for sale at the meetings. The Magazine Section for this week will be a special Lenin number, one which every mem- ber of the working class will want to read and to keep as a momento of the greatest man of this generation. Persons in charge of the Lenin memorial meetings or others who wish to order special bundles of the Lenin issue of THE DAILY WORKER should mail or telegraph their orders at once. Orders arriving later than Tuesday morning, January 29, cannot be filled. , The Miners’ facili Is Now On! Our Correspondent Is On the Job! — _Be Sure to Subscribe for the sci: Worker. It will Enable You to Follow this ne Gathering from to Day. Subscription Blank on Page Five.