The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 29, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS PARTY FORMS MID-WEST JEWISH BUREAU Plans Active Fight for Foreign-Born The middle-west branches of the Jewish Federation of the Workers Party held a two day conference in Chicago which finished its work Sun- day night. The conference organized a Middle-West organization bureau of the Jewish Federation which will have headquarters in Chicago, and laid plans for an intensive organiza- tion campaign afd the strengthening of the branches of the federation. The Middle-West Bureau of the federation will be in charge of the city central committee of Chicago and a representative of each of the in- eluded states acting as an executive committee. ‘was authorized to employ a perma- nent organizer who will tour the middle west and organize new branches of the federation and help branches already organized to carry om their work. A special organiza- tion fund to be made up by the branches of the federation will fin- ance the work. The bureau was in- structed ‘to call another conference of the branches of the federation in the middle west within a year of the organization of the bureau, Wire Sorrow For Lenin The conference opened with the passing of a resolution of sorrow at the death of Lenin and the sending of a telegram to Moscow expressing the condolences of the Jewish work- ers of America to their Russian brothers in their loss of a great leader, The national executive committee of the federation made a report of the work of the federation for the year and called on the conference to take action on several important questions facing the federation. These questions include the treat- ment of the foreign-born workers, and immigration, the recognition of Soviet Russia by the United States, the organization of a Labor Party and strengthening of the branches of the federation. A. Loonin, national organizer. of the federation, reported on his work for the past year and David Rubin, manager of the Chicago office of the Freiheit, reported on the work of his| offiee, To Organize Jewish Youth M. Levin of the Jewish Young Workers League called on the con- ference to urge the branches to help organize the Jewish youth of Amer- ica. “=~—-Resulutieone. were. passed against. restrictive immigration and registra- tion of foreign-born workers and the conference outlined a plan to carry out the policy of the conference for the defense of the foreign-born workers. Resolutions pledging the support of the federation to the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany in their drive for funds for German relief were passed. The resolution also called on the Jewish Workers Relief organization to get behind the F. S. R. and W. G. drive. The following resolution greeting the DAILY WORKER was passed: “We greet the appearance of the first Communist daily in the English language with great joy and promise our full support and co-operation and we trust that the DAILY WORKER is but the first of many Communist | dailies in English in this country.” Japs Fight Exlusion Act WASHINGTON—Japan is fighting Congressman Johnson’s proposal to bar all Japanese from America. Am- bassador Hanihara is making vigorous representations to the state depart- ment protesting against the Johnson clause to the immigration bill. Young Worker Wins Debate SAN FRANCISCO—Ebe Bassi, member of the local Young Workers league carried off the honors for the affirmative side in a debate between high school teams on the subject, “Resolved that the Criminal Syndi- ealist Law Should be Repealed.” The judges decided for the aifirmative, NEXT ENLARGED CONFERENCE of the FRIENDS OF SOVIET RUSSIA AND WORKERS GERMANY Wednesday, Jan, 30th, 1924 8:15 P. M., at the WORKERS LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blyd, Branches Send Your Delegates 4 to This Important Co: ce THE AMALGAMATED CENTER Blackstone Kibezarna 309 South Halsted Street Gapan, Proprietor The executive committee | (Continued from Page 1) ought to await the report he will appoint to go into the scandal which has shaken official and political Washington as they have not been shaken for a generation, Senator Walsh, Montana, who has taken the leading role in investigat- ing Teapot Dome said in a statement that Mr. Coolidge’s sudden announce- ment that he had decided to appoint special counsel to prosecute eivilly and criminally, the oil lease cases was made after a confidential deci- sion of the senate public lands com- mittee had been reported to the White House. Coolidge Stools on Committee Walsh intimated that some mem- bers gf the committee-had hurried to Mr. Coolidge and advised him to “beat the committee and the senate to it” with the idea of staving off senate action today on the Walsh- Caraway cancellation resolution, Walsh, however, intends to go on today with his effort to get the can- cellation resolution adopted. If it is blocked, he pointed out, everybody will know the reason. Mr. Coolidge may today appoint the bi-partisan legal commission he announced would investigate and prosecute either civil or criminal wrong in connection with the naval reserve leases. John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, Henry L. Stimson Catch Cal and All His G. O.P. Gang in Teapot’s Oily Mess former secretary of war, and Samuel Untermyer are being mentioned as among likely selections, ee 8 Oil Also Sticks to Christian Who May Not Get Job (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—Nine of the 17 members of the Senate committee on interstate commerce have agreed to hold up, indefinitely, any action on the nomination of George R. Chris- tian, Jr., former private secretary to President Harding, as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Their reason for this refusal to accept Christian is that he fs reac- tionary, and was a member of the Fall-Forbes-Daugherty-McLean group that surrounded Mr. Harding. More- over, he is not considered to be equipped to perform the duties of the office. The Commission now has two liberal and two reactionary mem- bers; he would throw the balance against the public interest. While refusing to consider Chris- tian, members of the committee are urging Mr. Coolidge to name either Charles Lyman, of Wisconsin, for- mer secretary of the National Board of Farm Organizations, or W. T. Chantland, of Iowa, a former attor- ney for the Commission, to the place. WORKERS AND FARMERS IN SOLID OPPOSITION TO MAY 30TH DELAY (Continued from page 1.) the Machinists District Council and secretary of the Working People’s Non-Partisan Political League, de- clared the proposed postpgnement to be a menace to the entire farmer- labor class movement. “It would be the greatest folly,” he said, “for the rank and file class movement to gam- ble its whole future on the prospec- tive future action of political adven- turers in the ranks of the capitalist parties. This is precisely what the postponement means. William Ma- honey has made a serious mistake in allowing politicians at Washington to induce him to even consider such an idea. I am sure that he will with- draw the proposition when he sees how strongly the rank and file feel on the question.” J. Emme, delegate of the St. Paul Labor Assembly to the A. F. of L. Convention, said: “I am flatly against any suggestion of postponement, We want 4 class party. Let us go ahead on May 30th and organize for it. If anyone does not come with us it will only be because they dp not stand for the things we stand for. It will hurt us to go along without such people.” Statement by Manley. Joseph Manley, secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party with headquarters at 800 North Clark street, in a statement to the DAILY WORKER on the action of the Den- ver Farmer-Labor conference, said: “The clear-cut statement of the Denver conference in opposition to any postponement of the May 30th convention and its decisive action | against the exclusion of the Feder- |ated Farmer-Labor party and other more radical elements is, of course, very gratifying to us. More than that |I think that our organization can | truthfully say that we are in a large | measure responsibile for the rapid erystalization of a bona-fide move- ment of workers and farmers for a class political party. “That is what we stand for and ‘work for and our members in South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Min- nesota, Illinois and other states can, I think, be proud of the successful efforts made by them to halt any at- jtempt at postponement of the May | 30th conference, engineered by poli- | ticians who wanted to wait to see jwhat the democrat ‘and republican parties would do. We know that they | will do—give just enough considera- tion to the problems of the workers |and farmers to attract the support of uninformed and discouraged toilers who still believe in spite of the proof % to the contrary that their exploiters’ 3 | Parties are going to lift the burden : jof low wages and farm mortgages ‘| from their shoulders. “The Federated Farmer-Labor Par- ty believes that the action of the Den- ¢\ ver conference constitutes an em- *phatic repudiation of middle-class %\leadership and indjcates that the | ed ¢ ‘workers and farmers political move- | ment is ready and able to stand on its own feet.” Train Man Is Killed. DALLAS, Texas, Jan, 28.—A train man was killed and several persons were injured when a passenger train and freight train on the Interna- tional Great Northern railway col- lided near Overton, Texas, today, ac- cording to dispatches here. The fire- man on the pasesnger train was in- stantly killed, the advices said. To All Party Branches, Labor Unions and Sympathetic Organizations iissday Credhir Yoh. a ms Medes Seton aati To make this demonstration a success we need the co-operation of every class-conscious worker in New York City and vicinity. We ask you not to arrange any affairs on or before that date. Lenin Memorial Committee. | becile, THOUSANDS SHOUT FOR RED REPUBLIC IN CHICAGO HALL The drive for the recognition of Soviet Russia and the relief of the starving workers of Germany is being pushed with more vigor than ever in Chicago. That is the result of a meeting held Sunday night at Ash- land Auditorium by the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany. More than three thousand workers crowded the hall. to voice their de- mand that the United States recog- nize the Russian soviet government. Speeches by Robert Morse Lovett, Max Bedacht and Max Sillinsky were cheered and the crowd expressed its delight by the singing of Russian folk songs by I. Karlash and moving pic- tures of Russia and Germany. Robert Morse Lovett, who is one of the editors of the New Republic, made the star speech of the. evening. LEGION GUNMEN RAID MEETING IN, HONOR OF LENI Vice-Commander takes Charge in Person (Special to The Daily Worker) , WILKESBARRE, Pa.—Excitement is rife in this mining community at an armed invasion which the Amer- ican Legion made on a Lenin Memo- rial meeting held under the auspices of the Workers Party. With guns in their hands the Legion men rushed into the hall followed by the city police and drove hundreds of men, women and children out into the icy streets, The raid was under the direction of William B. Healy, national vice- commander of the American Legion, who took charge in person. Crowd Boos Legion, “Hurrah for Lenin!” the crowd shouted, as they were kicked and shoved into the street, They greet- ed the gunmen with boos. The gun- men cursed them and cursed the de- ceased proletarian leader in whose honor the meeting had been called. Orders to salute the American flag which the gangsters and police had tarnished by their conduct; did not fit in with the mood of the crowd at that moment. Laying his hand on his rifle one of the officers of the white guard insisted that one of the women who had just been shoved thru the doors should do homage to the U. S. emblem. She laughed in his face, telling him she wasn’t learning patriotism from a gunman. Red ribbons were torn from members of the crowd, No arrests were made by the police, tho Harry Winitzky and Com- rade Benjamin, who were to speak at the meeting, challenged the police chief to arrest them. Alliance between the Legion and the Department of Justice, so often proved before, was again shown when pamphlets and newspapers seized at the meeting by the raid- ers was taken in charge by Healy, national vice-commander, who sai] he would turn it over te the secret service, * The Legionaires were deputized by Mayor Hart, who has been working hand in hand with Wilkesbarre em- ployers in open shop movements. Free Speech Fight Coming. Winitzky and Benjamin have served notice on the mayor that free speech will not be destroyed in Wilkesbarre, A free speech meeting will be held next week in spite of “The investigation of the Borah sen- ate committee into the question of Russian recognition has proven secre- tary of state Hughes a credulous im- he said: “The death of Lenin is a great blow to the Russian people, but because they have other leaders who match him in sincerity and loyalty if not in other ways, it will have little effect on their govern- ment.” At the opening of the meeting after the Freiheit Singing and Mandolin club sang the Russian Funeral March the audience stood for a moment in silence out of respect to the memory of Lenin. Max Sillinsky pointed out that the United States did not object to car- rying on of diplomatic relations with the dictatorships in, Italy and Spain but they did object to recognizing a workers’ government which dictated in the name of eighty million work- ers and peasants. JOHN LEWIS’ GANG COULDN'T KICK OUT ALEX HOWATS! MAN (Continued from page 1) been so much anger against the ma- chine. ec This case was considered as a test of the Howat strength and there is no doubt that Howat will carry the convention if the tellers are forced to an honest count. Nick Perkovitz, of Powell, Ill., had his seat contested because he was not emploved in or around a mine. The coal company discharged him for al- leged violation of contract but the convention could not see why the coal oompany had any right to determine the eligibility of a delegate and seat- Nick by an overwhelming vote, defeating the committee report. Frank Farrington spoke for the com- mittee, the first time he has pinch- hitted for Lewis. These two cases of contesting seats of delegates knawn to be Howat sympathizers is a fair sample of the tactics used by the Lewis machine at this convention. Alex Howat’s case did not come up this morning as was expected, Duncan McDonald; who was at- tacked by the administration for ar- ticles appearing in his paper, ap- peared at the convention today. illegal oppositon. The Legion’s unpopularity has grown immensely as, the result of this incident. Most of the rank-and- file service men who came in four years ago have dropped out and it is little more than a society affair com- posed of former officers, many of whom never saw the trenches and carried no heavier weapon while in service than the wrist watches they wore at their clerical daties, Shades of Burns, U.S. Secret Service Nabs Fake Dollar (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON.—A poor Greek refugee rug-weaver in Anatolia made a rug on the pattern of an Ameri- can dollar bill. He sent the rug to a friend in Akron, O., who finally sold it to a dealer, Mr. Lord, who put it in his show window. But the secret service of the De- partment of Justice was on guard over the republic! Detective Morris Manasse seized the four-foot woolen imitation of a dollar bill, and quoting Section 150 of the penal code, he sent it to Cleveland, from which place it was forwarded to Waslington. It was a counterfeit! + Lord wrote his ‘who appealed to W. H, Moran, that The Power Column THE DAILY WORKER is a great double-powered ma- chine, or rather it is a combination of two great machines. Coming into existence for the purpose of building up a great militant labor movement in America. To accomplish this purpose THE DAILY WORKER must be a real Labor newspaper, full of news, militant and inspiring, and besides THE DAILY WORKER must have behind it a vast army of militants to push it and to see to it'that it gets into the hands of ever more and more workers. That is why it is said THE DAILY WORKER is a double- power machine, each dependent on the other, the one the news machine with the editors and the reporters as its mechanics, the other the distributing machine with the business managers and the office staff as its mechanics, For the editorial and news machine to produce the product that the workers of this country desire it is necessary for the workers who a most intersted in THE DAILY WORKER and the movement it serves to supply the news of the activity of the labor movement all over the country. That is why the editor of THE DAILY WORKER asks thru the columns of the paper for the workers to send in the news of what is hap- pening in the shops and factories d in the party in their locality,| records in increasing THE DAILY This Mawar, & the Suoae of the ger de WORKER circulation all of us want ing class because the working class| to hear about it to give us all addi- not only owns it and manages it but also writes it. 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Get know | a Post-Card now; address it to THE other} DAILY WORKER and write, If there! want to help make THE DAILY “T WORKER grow.” Your Union Meeting Every local listed in the official di- rectory of the CHICAGO FEDERA- T:0ON OF LABOR will be under this head on day of meetin; free of charge for the first month Flogger Will Tell the Names of Ten in K. K. K. Riot (Special to The Daily Worker) published) NEW. YORK—H. E. MacBride, | one of the mob which flogged James afterwards our rate will be as fol-| Holand and John Murray, I. W. W. lows: _ Monthly meeting—$3 a year one line once a month, each additional line, 15¢ an issue. Semi-monthly meetings — $5 year one line published two times e month, each additional line 18¢ an issue. organizers, at Port Arthur, Texas, during the Ku Klux Klan riots of June 30, will divulge to the grand jury the names of ten men who par- . ticipated in the flogging fray. The American Civil Liberties union here terms MacBride’s impending statement “a victory for traditional Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year| American freedom of thought and one line a week, each additional line | expression.” 10¢ an issue, FIFTH TUESDAY, Jan. 29th, 1924 Name of Local and Place of Meeting. ers, 912 W. Monroe St. Carpenters, ersey and Sheffield. Carpenters, 1023 E. 75th St. Carpenters, Springfield and 26th. Clark and Erie Sts. Teighta il E, 15th St, Chicago 6 Hod Carriers, 814 W. Ladies’ Buren St. Marine Fire and Sonvyinng * w. ters, N. Madison. Painters, 6414 S. Halsted St. Painters, N. W. cor. State and 55th. PAINTERS, 220 W. OAK STREET. Painters, No. 21 58 M4 Offers, 357 N. Clark. Rando}; are at 8 p.m.) The Daily Worker for a month free |% congressman, to the first member of any local union chief sending in change of date or place of detectives at the i eae Atter|of meeting of locals listed here. a long parley it was d the he might get it back. shame for the good fake dollar. Strike of Filling Stations, ing labor and striking capital met in an attempt to effect an ment which would allow have gasoline and oil. All Piano filling stations here closed Saturday, and most of them remained shut Sunday and_ today, following « strike of union oil drivers. Non-union filling stat sa esi agg a oe who ~ ployed union vers in closing, not even the motoist who drove after his gas could it. Operation of business will be im- paired badly if the “filling station strike” continues, business men said, Chicago T. U. E. L. to Have Report on Miners’ Convention, Wednesday The regular monthly meeting of the Chicago of the T. U. E. L. will take place at the Wicker Park Hall, Ww. North Ave., tomorrow (|Wednesday), 8 P. M. William Z. Foster will report on the developments in the Miners’ Convention. This meeting will also have a report on the last year’s progress of the League in ‘ at this tary. Officers of the for the coming sta Nap dine ree apd i Please watch for your local and if crime of imitating real mone |not listed let us know, giving time had been committed, but that if Mr.|and place of meeting so we can keep |¥ Lord would keep the rug in his own|this daily announceme! home and never display it in public,|}and up to date. Q On Tuesday of every week we ex-|¥% Moran said there were lots of|pect to print display announcements |% done | of local unions. Rates will be $1 an |¥ his subordinate in nabbing this|inch, 50c for half an inch card. Take |¥ jis matter up in your next meeting. Your local should have a weekly dis- vi play card as well as the running an-|% BELLEVILLE, Ill., Jan, 28—Strik-|nouncement under date of meeting. |% today ‘,|Letter Carrier Hits Mellon’s Hope of Monopoly of Mails (By The Federated Prove) - WASHINGTON.—Edwin J. Gainor, ried the railroads ef 7 ooats ja many states,” “ald, Geinor HOHE et “Today the average c! for mail |¥ service is lower, while cost of |% Sect aerrice ae Tha is our|9 answer to his that Mr.|$ $ Line/of business... Mellon, as an business 5 could save the Harrison St. 5 Garment Workers, 328 W. Van | % nt complete ” MacBride’s disclosure to be made on Feb. 4 in Galveston county, is expected to strike a se- vere blow to the klan’s lawlessness, Nation wide attention was drawn to the Port Arthur events when the klan’s persecution of Wobblies evoked an IW. W. campaign to invade that Texas town. MUSSOLINI JOKE PARLIAMENT TO BE DISSOLVED Fascisti Have Scored No Successes in Power (By The Federated Press) ROME.—Italy’s next election has been fixed for April 6 and pariia- ment—the parliament which Muse solini and his fasmst friends have reduced to # flimsy joke—will be dis solved in a few days, The election is a mere formality, calculated to lend the seal of re- spectability to the Black Shirts’ dic- tatorship. It has already been de- cided by the arming of a strong fas- cist militia and the elimination of all non-fascist elements from the ime mense civil service, Suggestion by Moderate Socialists, that the opposition would unite to boycott the swered by threats from the fascist war council. The issue is between an armed horde of Black Shirts and the un-armed millions of workers, peasants, small traders and shop- keepers. A small clique within the middle class, consisting of bankers and heavy industrialists, are paying the black shirted pipers. The bulk of the middle class is itself in the role of Cinderella. Gradually the truth about the much-heralded fascist successes is leaking out, Their only actual at- tainment has been to adapt them- selves to the old system in existence when they grasped power. They have succeeded only in damaging the prestige of the Italian state by such barbarous acts as the slaughter of children in the Italian bombardment cf Corfu. They have abolished the workers’ May day, proportional rep- resentation, the inheritance tax and all those meager social reforms which previous liberal governments had_ instituted. Little is said today of fascist “economies,” of which we heard so much during Mussolini’s earlier days. Prior to the fascist government, the state’s deficit was being reduced at the rate of two million lire annu- ally. Financial reports for 1923 show that the fascist rulers failed to continue this saving. Their budget shows a static deficit. One institution is thriving under Mussolini’s rule: that of corruption. The disclosure of illicit sales of rail- road material, remaining from war- time, has resulted in the persecu- tion, not of the gui'ty fascist official, but of the non-fascist general who revealed this scandalous affair. Re- port tells of an underling in the state department, who, having slept too late to catch his train, ordered a special train to be made up for his special use. Hostile criticism of the govern- ment is more widespread than ever, tho it is seldom heard above a whis- per. The reign of terror and the castor oil regime—tho its political and economic policy have proved a fiasco—remains strong behind the niilitary force which it has conjuced up. Our Advertisers help make this Paper possible. 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