The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 1

} * and pledged their support. THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD THE DAILY WORKER. Ti aggre ea rane eercaratd jo Section. FOR A WORKERS’ AND On all other di Three FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Entéred as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. pay eh ignore 2B il, $6.00 5 Published Daily exeept Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER VOL. IL No. 323. Cepepligas a. seserty darter si0bo pes year. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1924 EM vs PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. MINERS RECONSIDER NOVA SCOTIA ISSUE Free Prisoners, Repeal Sendicalism Laws, Is Demanded WHEN THE INVESTIGATION WILL TAKE PLACE LABOR P ARTY. Z RECOGNIZES SOVIET RULE Only Details of Pact toBe Adjusted Later (Bpecial to The Daily Worker) LONDON.—The British La- bor Party cabinet, in a special communique issued thru the foreign office, announces that it has decided to grant full rec- ognition to the Russian Soviet government as soon as possible. James O’Grady will be the am- bassador to Russia. This is the first official act of the néw Labor Party govern- ment and coincides with pledg- es made during the campaign. The decision of the Labor Party government will make Great Britain the first major power to recognize the Soviet government. According to the Russian Trade Mission, headed by M. Rakovsky, negotiations for rec- ognition had been progressing before the labor party came into power, but the death of Lenin interrupted theni. They will be resumed in a few days to determine a number of minor itions bearing on. recognition. ovsky said he did not believe that the death of Lenin would have any effect upon the attitude of the Labor Party government. Brilliant Weekly, The Freeman, to Appear No More (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—Announcement by the Huebsch Publishing Company that the Freeman would be aban- doned March 5, four years after its founding in 1920, brought keen re- gret to radical and intellectual cir- cles. The magazine was distinguished for its brilliant ironic comment on present day affairs and for the in- tellectual ‘courage and clarity with HOWAT CASE SOON UP FOR SETTLEMENT Lewis--Murray Machine Loses Grip on the Delegates By JOHN FITZGERALD (Stall Correspondent ef The Daily Werker) Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, Ind.—A sensational backdown of the Lewis-Murray machine, which outlawed the Nova &co- tia miners for their sympathe- tic strike in behalf of the steel workers and their endorsement ef the Red International of La- ber Unions, came this after- noon when Vice-President Phil Murray arose and moved for reconsideration of the Nova Scotia issue. A tremendous volume of, ayes greeted the motion. and it was carried with tremendous enthusiasm after a speech by J.J. Watt, of Springfield, Ill. MacIntyre Allowed to Speak. Cheers again greeted the demand of aoe Poca oe Nereet) it e de: pwnd fent the Nova Scotia ithe fieor. WLS fh —— ww The convention brushed aside the, motien of Chairman Kennedy that the anti-Nova Scotia resolution origi- nally submitted be concurred in and MacIntyre mounted the platfrom. Another ovation came as MacIntyre began to speak. Great Threat to Administration. MacIntyre requested postponement of the discussion until he secured cer- tain documents which are in Indian- apolis. : There Are 100 Firetrap Public Schools in Chicago—News Item. FALLIN SICK BED CORONER'S JURY GIVES STANDARD _AFTER-$100, 000 TALE OF BRIBERY OIL WHITE WASH No Voice Is Raised for Got Money Before Do- heny Got Lease Dead at Pekin Fall Contradicts Doheny WASHINGTON.—How the ya- rious leases granted Doheny on government oil reserves occurred, with relation to the loan of $100,- 000 he made Albert B. Fall, then wecretary of the interior, is shown by these dates: July, 1921—Doheny signed roy- alty oi} lease with the government. November 30, 1921 — Loaned $100,000 on personal unsecured mote to Secretary of Interior Fall, who had charge of leases, Nova Scotia case is the great- est threat the Indianapolis machine is facing. The outlawing of the min. ers in this maritime province has aroused bitter resentment thruout the_union tho John L, Lewis boasted of his deed at the A. F. of L. con- vention. MacIntyre and his colleagues are prepared for the fight. The adminis- tration learned that they had a state- ment in the printers’ hands for dis- “Close Ranks,’’ Says Trotsky in Tribute to Lenin (Special Correspondence to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—“In our mourning let us close our ranks and our hearts for new combats,” Leon Trotsky, Russian war min- ister, wrote in a remarkable tribute to his dead comrade, Nicolai Lenin. The tribute, cabled from Tiflis, where Trotsky is ill, wes published today. It read: How shall we now proceed along our path, Comrades? ae we not wander now that Lenin no longer is with us? “Nol “Lenin-ism remains. “Lenin is immortal in his doctrine of work and his mothod and example, which live in the Party he created. “He was the head and the helmsman. “Our grief is as great as our loss, but we thank history for Permitting us to have been born as contemporaries of Lenin. “Our Party is Leninism in action. Every one of us contains something of Lenin. “With the light of Leninigm in our hand, we shall find the true road, by collective thought and collective will. “How many among us could not unhesitatingly give the very last drop ef our blood to revive the circulation in the veins of our matchless, unequalled leader? “Lenin was necessary to the world’s working classes as per- haps never in the history of humanity has a man been necessary. “The Party is now an orphan. “The working class is an orphan. “That is what one feels today above everything else. “Our responsibility now has been doubled. Let us be worthy of him who taught us. “In our mourning, let us close our ranks and our hearts for new combats. “Farewell!” WORKERS PARTY. |\Peasants Bloch Roads Leading to Lenin’s Funeral (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW.—So many thousands of peasants are pouring toward Moscow from all parzs of Russia, to pay honor to their dead leader, Nicolai Lenin, ‘that. roads and railways are blocked for miles. It became neces- sary ‘to. postpone the funeral from Saturday to Sunday. An incessant stream of persons still passes slowly and reverently by the simple bier where Lenin lies. To view the body for a brief instant, one must stand for hours in line in the biting cold. The respects of the diplomatic corps, representing countries that recognize the government Lenin founded, were paid by Count Borck- dorf: Bantzau, German envoy, who OPPOSED TO ANY MAY 30 DELAY Statement Issued on New Mahoney Proposal (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn.—William Mahoney, ‘returning from a conference in Washington, -D. C., with Senators LaFollette, Shipstead and Johnson, will advise the postponement of the May 30 farmer-labor confer- ence until after the conventions tribution to the delegates and this is (Special to The Daily Worker) believed to have caused the back-| WASHINGTON.—The senate pub- down in giving them the floor. lic lands committee investigating The Nova Scotia case is an en-| Teapot Dome will demand absolute tering wedge for the coming Howat| proof of the truth of the 5 told fight. In spite of the Farrington al- ys § E. L. Doheny, millionaire oii man, Hence oe L, Lewis is facing a bat- bs a paginactrd se. incon a at all his payroll supports may | former secre! o 6 . not be able to win at this Cnvenion, Both Fall and Doheny must. sub- Delegates have been eagerly read- mee ormeete, aves fend com- mittee eir im: agcu- po ced inithe DAILY rate, committee members said today The Howat Caso Comes Up. as the committee Ht say bo te con- tinue delving into mazing Lait The power of the Lewis-Murray| of loans to the man who contro! machine will receive its severest test| the leasing of vast national wealth when Alexander Howat makes his|in the form of oil in the naval -oil pid : ee faa ore reserves of the west. ni ic Howat » ent was Pies shown as the fighting coal digger = aeiing Ser ae eae a riers |ateet 11 Sloth lect nighh Som Bow Delegates rushed to his side Orleans, to undergo an ordeal of cross examination never before faced by an American cabinet officer, or former cabinet gee will tal April 25, 1922—Obtained con- tract with government, stating that his company, the Pan Amer- ican Petroleum Company, was to have priority rights to drilling on naval reserves Numbers One and Two, Dec. 11, 1922—Signed leases with government for exclusive drilling rights on naval reserve Number One, known as the Elk Hill reserve. BUT- Doheny Contradicts Fall WASHINGTON. — Here’s the Sei ana eeee fig alc byifes cal on lay to explain to boos witness : jonday, accord-|! senate Pocrssarys fi investigating ig to present plans. ‘|| Teapot Dome. It is taken from Colonel J. W. Zevely, Washin, testimony Fall gave before the representaive of Harry F, Sinc! committee Dec. 27: rival of Lat Agee ashe tte “It should be needless for me Dome, Gentuned cavpeve 2) ei of that in the purchase of the Packers Win the Thin Dime Medal; sere sopresicd EL, bony Pay Slaves in Ice Fields $10.50 never approached E. L, or any one connected with him or Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., Chieag largest packers, entitled te the counterfeit thin dime abwually rina any of his corporations or Mr. H. ded to the tit paying the lowest wages. ii thas F, Sinclair or any one connected At Fox Lake and other lakes they are paying a net wa, with him or any of his corpora- tions, nor have I ever received ing bed and board of $10.50 a week fer « 10-hour day, six fee harvest. The hourly from either of said parties one a bed in the bunkhouse and f. cent on account of any oil lease Only ablebodied, hardy men ca: which it dealt with new movements fin philosophy and jiterature. Its own political point of view was that of the single tax economist who has however, no faith in existing politi- cal institutions, and this disillusion- ment set it strikingly apart from the liberal periodicals, The demise of the Freeman is said (By The Federated Press) * PEKIN, Ill.—Bouquets for the Corn Products Co., and # verdict attaching no blame for the Jan. 3 explosion that k 42 workers’ lives, marked | the “hearings by the coroner’s jury into the industrial disaster. No one ventured to push himself forward against the poertal Stand-| to be occasioned by the bgirage eet ard Oil subsidiary and point out that bw Bon cereal snnyort of peg i i eilson, the absence of suction fans was editors. Mrs. Neilson had fulfilled her ‘original promise to maintain the paper for three years. It is being retired at the height of its circula- tion but is not self supporting. The paper accepted.no advertising. probably the principal element in the causes leading up to the starch factory blast, No one called atten- tion to the fact that since the union was broken and the open shop insti- tuted the union precautions against danger had been junked and a deadly competition for production records ' stimulated by the company among ; its three shifts, Instead, one:employe was induced to testify that “as far as he knew the company did everything possible to keep the plant cleaned up.” Oth- ergs snid there had been safety first lectures by company officials and lots, | ef notices to be careful, The cor-) oner’s jury found that the men came to their deaths “as a result of burns | and injuries received at an explosion | and fire which occurred at the Corn| , Products plant at Pekin, Ill.,on the | morning of Ja: ‘of 3:30 and is. not fixed, Separatist Assassinated, LONDON.—Herr. Schlicht, noted separatist. leader, was assassinated today at Adenau in the Rhineland, according to a Central News Berlin cispatch. LANDLORD GOES TO JAIL; FAILED TO GIVE HEAT; MAY STAY IN 300 DAYS Michael Bottigliere, landlord, is in a prison cell today, for fail- ure to provide heat for his ten- “I have been waiting 29 months to get a square deal,” said the man who was kicked out of the miners’ organization when he led the great fight against the Industrial Court in Kansas. “I expect to get it now. “I am demanding nothing but jus- tice from the miners,” continued Ho- (Continued on page 2.) ants, Bottigliere was convicted on a charge of allowing his apartments to go without fire during the ree- ent cold snap, When the landlord refused to pay a fine of $150, he was sent to jail. If he serves out his fine costs, he will stay in jail for 300 days. dust, the dead employes of the Rockefeller co poration will have the benefit of a shaft in the center of their burial plot in the cemetery. is 27 7 Kei 16.50 a week. F. The runeral services were attend- * Sisiar stoi $6 Pass in checked off,| Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of | ed by several thousand yople. ind the work of cutting and storing ice) The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- after deduct- y week in the soever.” took his turn in line and reached of the democratic and republi- the coffin at one o’clocs in the after- san parties. This announce-| noon. ment is made in a statement to| In a letter to the Petrograd So- the press issued by Mahoney. viet, Minister Zinoviev proposed : * F 7 ti houtd It is believed that his action |e changed to Leutngul Tas oe will arouse much opposition in sembly carried the motion amidst ait the ranks of the labor andj vation. farmer organizations sponsor- ‘ORE ing the conference. The Land for. the Users! The Workers. Party, which has Narang oar geener" Legion Ally of taken a leading part in organizing D. of J. In Fight Mahoney proposal cf posting. the (Special Ti the high offices they now hold-thru', INDIANAPOLIS. — The alliance part of the Shipsteads, Johnsons and threatre manager from showing “The want to keep the support of the farm-| obey- timid elements as this would be to Prohibit showing of such pictures was Workers Party is interested, Hughes for anti-Russian propagan or upon any other account what- fer 10 hours « day at this season, scription at once. For Recognition of Soviet Russial The Miners’ Convention Is Now On! Our Correspondent Is Be Sure to Subscribe for the Daily Worker. It Will Enable You to Follow this History-Making. Gathering from Day to ay. the May 30th conference, today’ is- sved the following statement on the May 30 meeting: si ” “The Workers Party is unalteraBly ( In 66 ge to, i postponement of the . Fifth Year lay 30th Conference, for the conve- nience of politicians who have secured se a ee eee between the Ameritan Legion and pe Sauer of the farmers and wage- ithe Daugherty: Burns crew of stoal- “This. i jest pigeons was shown. yesterday when postponing action—the belief on the the Departmen: of Justice forbid a La. Follettes that a decision will be Fifth Year” film that tells of the easier for them after the capitalist constructive achievements of the parties have met, adopted platforms’ Soviet Government. and nominated candidates, Adverse publicity was threatened “In plain English, these politicians by the Legion if the manager did not ers and wage-earners without antag-| A prompt refusal came from the onizing their friends in the capitalige| theatre owner who is taking the mat- parties. \ter up with the American Civil “To postpone the May 30 confer-| Liberties’ Union. ence at the request of such hopelessly; Admission that the law does not jeopardize the entire political move-;made by the Legion representative ment of the farmers and wage-earn-| over the telephone, but he declared ers that is crystallizing rapidly into a' that his organization was taking ac- national expression of these two| tion anyhow, grou: J > “Senators who criticise Secretary “ da,” not in organizing the masses behind he added, “should be put in jail.” ! some more or less prominent figure —_—_—— (Continued on page 2.) ! 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