The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 25, 1924, Page 1

, THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. 1. No. 322 THE DAILY WORKER. Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year, Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924 > 1879. 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. ~ PROGRESSIVE MINERS BLOCK LEWIS MACHINE Nova Scotia Miners Issue Rocks Convention , OGRADY T0B "BRITISH RUSS AMBASSADOR J. H. Thomas Quits As Rail Union Secretary (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON.—The Labor Par- ty ministry is now in charge of the affairs of the British Em- pire with Ramsay MacDonald doubling in the offices of pre- miers and secretary for foreign affairs. Two cabinet appointments have occasioned surprise. One is the naming of Lord: Chelms- ford, former viceroy of India, as first lord of the admiralty and the other is the appoint- ment of John Wheatley, 'zener- ally considered as belonging to the left wing of the Labor Party, as einiseer of health, Wheatley came from the Clydeside and it is from this well-organized industrial section that the most trouble for the gov- ernment is looked for. Housing is a burning question in the Scottish in- dustrial district and with this the minister of health will deal. On the question of unemployment the min- ister of health will also exercise a great influence and it is this domestic titer that will first roe Deine the a ——..-Entisi-ot te ‘Lator-Party Resignation of re gaa One of the first. of a number of pressing’ foreign affairs demanding MacDonald's attention was to receive the resignation of Lord Robert Cecil as British representative on the League of Nations council. Cecil will be succeeded by Lora Parmoor, president of the council in MacDonald’s cabinet, and it 1s under- stood he and the prime minister will press vigorously for early inclusion of both Russia and Germany in the League of Nations. Russ Recognition Up. Other problems accumulating for MacDonald’s attention are recogni- tion of Russia, ratification of the Lausanne treaty and the Tangier con- vention, negotiations regarding the Mosul oil fields and the Egyptian dispute, to say nothing of the Anglo- French dispute about occupation of German territory and over repara- tions. It is considered unlikely that Mac- Donald will be required to devote much attention to the rail strike, al- tho there was no break in the dead- Jock today and J. Bromley, leader of| the engineers and firemen, who went out Sunday midnight, said the strik- ers positon was stronger than ever. O'Grady for Ambassador. There seems to be no doubt in the public minds here that full recogni- tion to Soviet Russia will be had as soon as the government can get thru the routine work occasioned by a change of ministries. As ambassador to Russia the name most mentioned is that of James O'Grady. He is known to be sympathetic to the Soviet Republic and is well-informed on Russian affairs having made two is also the author of a book on Rus- sia and took an active part in oe iL affairs of the Soviet. Strike Situation Serious, tinues serious. Tom Shaw, new min- ister of labor, has had a long con- visits there, in 1917 and 1922, He ing British intervention in The railroad strike situation con- (Continued on page 3.) FOSTER ASKS FLOOR IN MINERS’ CONVENTION TO REFUTE SLANDERS William Z. Foster has demanded the floor in the Indianapolis Con- vention of the United Mitie Work- ers of America to answer to slanders hurled at him and the Trade Union Educational League. His telegram to William Green Secretary of the convention, was as follows: .* 2 ee William Green, Secretary, United Mine Workers of America, Indianapolis, Indiana. Information has reached me that a resolution submitted by Inter- national Organizer Ben Williams, thru Tayler Bell local union, vici- ously attacking me as an enemy of the United Mine Workers of America is now pending in the convention, Therefore I request that I be given an opportunity to make suitable reply to the same on the floor of the convention when it is acted upon. United Mine Workers will not condemn a union man of long standing without giving him an opportunity to defend himself. I am coming to Indianapolis for that purpose. Gigned) William Z. Foster. |) MINERS OF NOVA SCOTIA DESCRIBE LEWIS" TREA Claim Union Officials Aided Corporations INDIANAPOLIS, Ind—The de- posing of Secretary-Treasurer James B. MacLachlan and other officials of District 26 and their denunciation by John L. Lewis while they were fight- ing for the removal of troops from the district is one of the chief rea- sons why MacLachlan was convicted and sent to the penitentiary for two ears, says a ‘statement issued by Lo- ¢al 4529 of that district and distribut- ed to the delegates here, The high-handed methods used by the Lewis machine to prevent thoro consideration and favorable action on the appeal of District 26 has aroused new interest in the case and the mat- ter is not to be allowed to drop ac- cording to Canadian delegates. The statement follows: Dear Brother:—At the convention resolutions from District 26, (Nova Scotia) will be presented to you ask- ing for the return of our District Charter which was revoked by the International President, and the rein- statement of the officers deposed by the International President last July 17th. The circumstances surround- ing these actions of our International (Continued on page 2) Technical Aid To Honor Lenin. The Chicago Branch of the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia will hold a Lenin memorial meeting, Saturday evening, Jan. 26, at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St. A memorial program is being ar- ranged, There will be speakers in Russian and bene or The reage| takes the place of the entertainment that was prepared for the same evening, For Recognition of Soviet Russia! WILD CHARGES BEST HUGHES’ AGENT COULD D0 KlieforthCouldn’t Back Claims with Facts By JAY LOVESTONE The Daily Worker) (Staff Correspondent of 3 WASHINGTON, D. C.—A|% long and rambling soap-box|¥# speech against Russian and American Communists was the *! contribution that A. W. Klie- forth, Secretary Hughes’ wit-|? ness, made to the hearings of the senate foreign relations’ subcommittee which is investi- Actor Cries, “Hurrah, Lenin Is Dead!??|\**in5 Point ne speech Gets Hissed In Minneapolis Theatre MINNEAPOLIS, nun wh cred "Loni deed! Mra? ar he danced pon te Hennepin-Orpheum was hissed by the select audience _ The Miners’ Convention Is Now On! Our Corres _ Bo Sure to Subscribe for the Daily Worker. It Will Enable Youto Follow this History-Making Gathering from in the Russian Yarmack here. by the anti-red expert was that he was never able to substanti-|% ate any of his assertions, when asked to make Senator Borah. ‘eculiar Alibi. Klieforth explained that he wanted to save the committee time The state department’ witness his licks before Sunsiee % that | $ iat NEW AS HF HE NEW FLAG ON THE NATION’S CAPITOL | Rank and File Delegates in (By Our Staff! Correspondent) MOSCOW.—lIn the great banqueting hall of what was once the nobles’ club, rendezvous of Russia’s nobility, the body of Nikolai Lenin reposed in a simple coffin upon a humble couch today, while his comrades of the-revolu- a paid him last honors as they passed slowly in single le. The face of the dead Premier was calm and waxen, and in the play of brilliant lights it seemed to wear an expectant look. Soldiers of the Red Army, with fixed bayonets, stdod at rigid attention or kept order with hushed voices. The line of mourners was endless. Scores of thou- sands stood in the bitter cold and snow; it was 20 degrees below zero during the night. The line extended six deep for many blocks and grew constantly as thousands more joined in the hope of a last look at Lenin. Inside the hall the mourners shiiffled forward silently, many weeping. “ Commissars took turns in the death watch; that of Foreign Minister Chicherin came at 3:30 A. M. ‘today. Word from the Caucasus was to the effect that Leon Trotsky probably will be unable to come to Moscow for the funeral Saturday. The war minister is ill and has a high temperature. E Revolt Staging Big Comeback _ That Upsets Lewis Machine received at this convention. | faced yesterday. to its first defeat. Delegates Take Platform, Many of the delegates insisted on | walking up to the platform and speak- | ing from that vantage point. Prac- | tically every speaker denounced Lewis for his action against the Nova ‘Scotia miners and imprisoned Jim McLachlan. The defeat of the machine came on a motion of the resolutions commit- tee to non-concur with Resolution 80, demanding that all resolutions sent in by local unions be read as sent in| and that the delegate representing | tne local signing the resolution be allowed to explain his resoluion. Machine Over-Reaches Itself. Flushed with its victory of the pre- vious day, the committee chairman ‘once or twice referred t6 the opposi- tion from the floor as propaganda. This was bitterly resented and Thomas Kennedy, president of Dis- trict 9 and Martin Flysik of District 10, were howled down for their in- sinuations against the delegates. Plenty of Discussion. The administration allowed plenty of time to discuss ‘this minor ques- tion and as was pointed out by Free- man Thompson, this was in striking contrast to yesterday’s method of stifling debate. Every delegate who took the floor with the exception of Lee Hall, presi- dent of District 6, spoke but little on the resolution, bubt devoted most of his time to rebuking the actions of the evening before. Lewis Grip Slips. Delegate Morgan of Nordegg, Can- ada, denounced Lewis for refusing to allow McLachlan’s friends to de- fend him, Lawrence Lamb, of Spring- field, established a precedent for the rank and file by being the first to take the platform. This move was greeted with cheers. Lawig was losing his hegemony over {the tonvention. Delegates William {Deck, J. J. Watt and Thomas Parry also opposed the committee report. Blames Lewis for Trouble. Thomas Horan, of Locustdale, Pa., an anthracite miner, said that the whole trouble at this session could be laid to the action of Lewis in re- = tia a chance to be heard. | He declared that the resolutions committee should be elected from the floor of the convention and not ap- pointed by the machine. He was ap- plauded even by some of the Lewis messenger boys. Even Green Fails. | Strenuous efforts were made by the rush of feeling against, even Secre- tary William Green, the “Pinch-hit- ter” of the administration forces tak- ing the floor; the miners, however, *\ were on the clean-up and they vented %, wrath for the crucifixion of the Nova ¢ Scotia miners on the resolution com- | mittee. The committee report was defeated er yneimingly and the original reso- : \lution carried, i, Progressive Committeeman Unseated. | At the opening of the convention j today Joseph Chicolini, of Pennsyl- *|vania, was unseated for membership , |in the Progressive Miners Interna- tional Committee. A resolution calling for the afiilia- tion of the miners with the railroad & | workers brought out the information that attemps on the part of the Unied Mine Workers to arrange such an agreement had beben unvailing be- (Continued om page 2.) | fusing the delegates from Nova Sco-|' By JOHN FITZGERALD (Staff Correspondent of The Daily Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—The Lewis steam-roller, that yes- \terday rolled over and crushed the resolutions asking for a |square deal for the Nova Scotia miners, this morning was | blocked by a solid wall of protest and anger that ended in bringing the administration forces the first defeat they have Since the convention adjourned in an uproar last night, after the hysterical speech of Lewis against the imprisoned | leader of the Nova Scotia miners, John McLachlan, the indig- nation of the delegates has been growing every hour. opened today Lewis found a different spirited bunch of men than those he When the convention Rank and File Challenges Machine. Angry voices were raised and fists shaken at the platform. The rank and file challenged the machine, fought it and beat it until it went lurching FALL T0 SAY A DEMOCRAT GAVE DOUGH Full: Story of $100,000 Will Be Told “Special to Th, Daiw. Face) [WASHINGTON.—A report spread thru the Senate office building today that Fall has in- formed a senator “the full story of the $100,000 would be told.” This is the $100,000 Fall said he got from E. B. Mc- Lean to buy a ranch, but which McLean later said Fall didn’t use. This report had it that Fall would say he obtained the money from a democrat, seven months after the lease of Tea- pot Dome. The democrat was not an oil man. Senator Walsh was informed of the report, but would make no comment. Walsh Misses Doheny. Senator Walsh, Montana, went to the Union Station to- day after Doheny arrived on his private car, but said he did not see Doheny who was in seclusion i a hotel. “I am satisfied Doheny will tell all the facts about the leases he is con- cerned in,” Walsh said. Senator Lenroot, chairman of the gee lands committee, pe x Walsh for a conference and the two went into Lenroot’s office. Fall and Col. J. V. Zeverly, Sin- clair’s Washington attorney, are due in Washington at 10:20 tonight, ac- cording to a telegram received here from the train on which they are traveling. Both Fall ‘and Zeverly were reported as remaining in seclu- sion in their compartment, having their meals taken to them. Secretary of the navy Denb ferred with President Coolidge at at the White House for 15 minutes to- day, but would not admit he talked about Teapot dome. Denby refused to comment on the senate investigation beyond saying that so far as he could see, no facts had been disclosed yet. Denby Approved Grab. Denby approved the naval oil re- serve leases with Sinclair and Do- heny. He testified before the senate committee some months ago, that the leasing was “a detail” which he did not carefully investigate, Denby has told friends within the ast 24 hours that his conscience is bf on the naval*leases and that he will not get into the matter unless he is drawn in. The Teapot dome scandal, which for a long time was “just ‘another senate investigation” to most people ba become almost overnight a throb- ( Continued on page 4) ondent Is On the Job! to Day. Subscription Blank on Page Five,