The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1924, Page 1

daily papet of the workers but it THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 327. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1924 Subscription Rates: By Mail, $6.00 per year. Chicago: By Mail, $8.00; by Carrier $10.00 per year, | Published PUBLISH. a 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 Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER ING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. LEWIS LOSES CONTROL OF MINERS’ CONVENTION Big Auditorium Is Too Small For Lenin Meet NICOLAI LENIN MEMORIAL 1S HUGE AFFAIR Every Hall in the Great Ashland Auditorium Filted Chicago workers. filled every hall in Ashland Auditorium last night, jammed the hallways, overflowed in- to the streets and in the monster Lenin memorial meeting, under the auspices of the Workers Party of America, showed that the death of the great leader and teacher of the working class, even tho fore- shadowed by many months of ill- ness, has come as a shock to thou- sands of Chicago toilers, i The stage of the auditorium was & mass of red carnations, wreaths and streamers. They filled the plat- form and had to be moved so the Freiheit Singing Society, the inter- pretive dancer from the Studio Players and the speakers could ap- pear. Show Daily Worker. Moving pictures of Lenin in action anda reproduction of the first page of the DAILY WORKER carrying thé news of his death were shown. The great mass of spectators were of two minds. It wanted to applaud Lenin’s picture and the new fighting sion prohibited such a demonstration but as the speakerd began to em- phasize the message of Lenin and the Third International the audience throw off all restraint and shook the building with their manifestations of approval. The Young Workers League was much in evidence. Its members took charge of the overflow meetings and sold the DAILY WORKER. Marty Abern, its secretary, delivered three Speeches to as many meetings and during the hour it required for the great crowd to leave the building, the members of the League were taking applications of adults for the Workers Party and of girls and boys for their own organization. International In Character. The international character of the meeting was evident when Arne Swabeck, district organizer for the Workers. Party, announced’ that speeches would be made in Russian and Italian as well as English. Fol- lowing these speakers Marty Abern spoke for ten minutes on what Lenin had done for the young workers of | the world. ae Lovett Fort Whiteman — 8 trib- ‘ute to Lenin on behalf of the negro workers, Robert Minor, editor of the Lib- werator, spoke of the love of Lenin for the children and of his interest in the workers problems. He was FORD SCRAPPED BY PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE'S PARTY Support of Coolidge Gets Him the Axe OMAHA, Neb. — Henry Ford’s name will not be presented to the national convention of the Peoples’ Progressive Party as a presidential candidate, delegates to the conven-| tion decided as the convention got under way this afternoon, Ford’s announcement that he fa- vors President Coolidge in the forth- coming election, alienates kim from the progressive movement and elim- inates him as a presidential possi- bility, R. R. Pointer, Fort Dearborn, Mich., personal friend and booster of Ford, said. The convention was primarily called for the purpose of nominating ‘01 never too tired or busy, said Minor, Ford. to hear the views of workers, peas- ants and ail the humble toilers of great Russia. William F. Dunne, labor editor of the DAILY WORKER, spoke for ten minutes on the tasks of the Com- reg “egh nl wd be bur- lens and responsibility placed upon it by the death of Nicolai Lenin, its teacher. William Z. Foster spoke on Lenin bree ay re ana action and tegist @ revolutiona: move- ment. He stressed the sues that ( Continued on page 4) Borah Says Teapot Halted Attack on Soviet Russia\"" Eighteen delegates, representing as many states, bd in ae ad when Tempora: irman Roy Har- cat Omaha, called the meeting to Resolutions denouncing the federal reserve system and the Teapot Dome scandals were presented and passed unanimously. Dirty Work In Secret, WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, — The house military affairs committee went into executive session today: to decide upon a report to the. house on the disposition of Muscle Shoals. Scandal Has. - WASHINGTON. “Samuel Gorpers caine, with his per- sonal and official staff of Soviet-smashers, but he was not heard. Senator Borah did not call international relations together. the sub-committee on Russian Instead, he talked privately with Senator Swanson and Senator Pepper, his associates in the inquiry, and with Mr. Gom- pers. Presently Borah an- nounced that because the Tea- pot Dome debate in the Senate was about to start, the Russian hearings would be suspended for a time. committee. And the Bert Clarke of County, and J, E. Hover of the nent of Justice, She Chester M. right and other’ of Mr. Gomper's CAPELLINI DISOWNED BY DELEGATES FROM HIS OWN DISTRICT INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—Rinal- do Capellini, president of District 1, was repudiated by delegates from his own district yesterday, be- cause of his support of the Lewis machine, when Alex Campbell, a delegate from Capellini’s own local, voted against the machine on roll-call as did delegates from Pitt- ston, Pa. hitherto regarded as a Capellini stronghold. Obregon Forces Defeat Troops of De La Huerta TAMPICO.—De la Huerta fascisti were beaten off after a desperate attempt to capture the Los Nar- ango oil fields which were She ob- jective. General. Emilliano Menachs. owas left on the field among the dead. Wholesale arrests of fascist sympa- thizers are being made by the Obre- gon government. Harry G. Rush, a prominent German resident, was among the men, arrested. March. on Vera Cruz. MEXICO CITY.—Orizaba’s army i captured by Obregon’s ‘orces and the federal troops are continuing their victorious “march towards Vera Cruz, the capital of de la Huerta. Standard and. British oil interests are watching the campaign with in- tense interest for on its outcome de- pane their plans. De la Huerta is lieved to have sympathy of Brit- ish and. European interests, and should he win the Standard have to undertake negottations with Wallace Plan Boosts Living Costs. WASHINGTON. — Secretary of Agirculture Wallace, testifying be- fore the senate committee on - culture in favor of the “Wi lan” of relief for the bankrupt oie indust therwise known as the McNary-Haugen bill, admit- ted that the measure, if ado} 8 would probably result in a further increase in the cost of living. ¥ erati Halted /Fire. ‘BALTIMORE Jan, ho, — Fire broke out in Johns Hopkins hospital toda; that two would ohnston | HE’S ON THE WA ¥ ILLINOIS MINERS WILL MOURN FOR LENIN SUNDAY Many Towns Will Hold Memorial Meetings Lenin Memorial meetings in Mis- osuri, Iowa and thru the great min- ing fields of southern TIllinols will bring out many thousands of mourn- ers for their beloved comrade who lies under the Kremlin walls. One of the meetings will be held in Johnston City, IM, which lies under the crushing sorrow of the great mine disaster but where the miners insist on doing honor to Lenin. The meetings are arra: by Dis- trict No. 10 of the Workers Party and are enlisting the co-operation of labor and community organiza- tions. They will form the greatest series of mass demonstrations this tri-state district has seen for a long time. Sunday evening at eight o’clock, Musicians’ Hall, at 3535 Pine street, St. Louis, will be crowded, with John J, Ballam, speaking. Ballem will speak at 10 a. m. the same day at adison, Ill., at Sakes Hall, and at 2’ p. m. at Belleville, MM, e other meetings are as follows: Ziegler, Ill, Lithuanian Hall, Sun- | titled day, Feb. 8, at 2 p. m., Max Schact- man, §| ‘ing. Christopher, TIll., Miners’ Hall, Sunday, Feb. 3, 7 p, m. Collinsville, Tl., Bundays Feb. 3, at m,, local ») ‘Se City, Ill, Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7p. m., local speakers, * Kansas City, Mo., Fraternal Hall, Sunday, Feb. 3, at 8 p, m., Earl R. Browder, speaker, Sioux City, Iowa, Labor Lyceum, Feb. 3, at 8 p. m., local speakers. Springfield, Ill, Sunday, Feb, 3, local speakers, Dowell, Ill., Sunday, Feb. 3, local speakers, West Frankfort, Ill, Sunday, Feb. |, Monday, Feb. 4, at 7 » ™m. P Bast St. Louis, IL, Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 8 p.m, Valier, es Thursday, Feb. 7, at Tp. m,, T. Sullivan, speaker. pted, | 3, local Miners Sing While Lewis Rages TOMLINSON HALL, INDIA By JOHN FITZGERALD. Stall Correspondent of The Daily Worker) NAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 30.—The United Mine Workers’ conven- tion adjourned at five o’clock tonight in disorder atter President John L. Lewis had lost com- plete control and had provoked The outbreak occurred whe: should be allowed one delegate the greatest out burst of indignation yet seen here. nm @ miscount vote on a resolution providing that large locals for each one hundred members was announced as support- ing the report of the constitution committee. The vote as counted by the Lewis tellers was against. 785 for the committee and 692 There was an avalanche of jshouts for a roll call. On the |show of hands for a roll call the tellers counted three votes | short of the necessary number. | The convention was on its feet | and bedlam broke loose. Cries of “recount” and “give us & square deal,’ came from all parts of the hall. The chair- man gavelled for oder but without any effect. A delegate from Pennsylvania was assault- ed by a sergeant-at-arms, dele- gates stood on their chairs and a number of delagates started for the platform. Lewis stood smoking a cigar and called on Van Bittner to continue the re- port, but he could not be heard. Administration sup- porters called for Van Bittner to go on and yelled “Put it over.” Shouts fora roll call continued. Lewis shouted, “You may yell till you. meotench..othar.in hell,” and: added fuel to the flames. Officials of District 12 are now fighting Lewis on the issue of representation. The gallery cheered and jeered “Let Ca- pellini count the vote.” Van Bitner kept on reading but no one heard him. The delegates then began to sing and sang until 6 P. M., when Lewis declared the convention adjourned. The uproar lasted more than an hour and the convention pwas completely out of hand. Administration Rocked By Progressive Showing TOMLINSON HALL, IN- DIANAPOLIS, Indiana. — By allowing paid organizers to vote in defiance of the consti- tution, the Lewis Machine de- feated the resolution to de- prive the president of ap- pointive power by the narrow margin of 157 votes. The un- official count shows a still smaller majority. The total as checked up by the administration tellers is 2,106 for the resolution, 2,263 against. Immediately after the announce- ment of the vote, following the af- ternoon recess, Delegate Toohey of District 5 submitted the following motion: “Inasmuch ag in the roll call vote taken, upon the question of depriv- ing the international president of the power to appoint organizers, field workers and others, there were many who voted who were not en- te vote under the terms of the constitution, therefore, there shall be a corfimittee of five elected from the floor to check up on the vote taken with the records of the organization so that all votes illegally cast may be eliminated from the grand total, and that committee report back to the convention as soon as possible.” Lewis declared this motion out of order and would not allow it to come before the convention, . Invisible Empire Helped INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.— With the aid of the payroll vote and the in- visible empire composed of “blue- sky” locals whose membership is non-existent, but whose per cap- ita tax is paid by administration su ie Lewis machine yes- terday, counted a majority of 157 votes in support of the inistra- tion, and for the appointment ot organizers and field workers, as against the resolution calling for ] A their elect readies Fe rant Nore AE eIN. .5:anadh:| doctete aboct tq operate on, two Wateh the Worker” tor the lot the menbershign Tha eens rated Press afterward that in the| tients were to move first instalment “A Week", the| tabulation of the roll call vote was cenree, of aden ‘yeahs, will re-| ® window. ge. ol, oe Raselon rovetations| £208 for the, commision ‘report, and bee gemgr o4 fo spel of | Don't be a “Yow, But wapporter fry bedi rie will start coon. a concrnd ed by the payroll rote and Hen sendin ot eo ; — "Werk Dally Gor "Tho Deity — |” "Continued en pease 4) ‘ * sani - Coal Miners! Do You Know James J. Davis--- Foe of Unions and Alien Workers By WILLIAM F. DUNNE ‘AMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor, appointed by Pres. Harding, sponsor of many bills calling for registration and finger-printing of foreign-born workers and supporter of othegs, has been invited by President John L. Lewis to address the con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America now in session in Indianapolis. The United Mine Workers of America probably has the highest percentage of foreign-born workers of any union in the United States. These foreign-born coal miners are the back- bone of the organization, its best fighting material, never found wanting in the struggle against the tyrannies of the coal oper- ators. Dozens of foreign-born workers have been killed by the gunmen of the coal association in Colorado, Pennsylvania and other states in the struggle for the junion. It is no exaggeration to say that the foreign-bor: coal miners are the foundation on which the structure of the United Mine Workers rests, _ Beet wre y : ~ To the eénveRtion ofthe organization these foreign-born, miners have suffered for, fought for and built, is invited James _ J. Davis, open and avowed enemy of the foreign-born working- class population and enemy of the entire organized labor move- ment. An enemy of the organized labor movement? Yes! And John L. Lewis, who brings him to the miners’ convention as his guest, knows that Davis is an enemy of the United Mine Workers and the labor movement of which it is @ part. So dangerous to the labor unions is the finger-printing and Police registration pf alien workers, for the benefit of the cor+ porations, advocated by James J. Davis, that the Portland con- vention of the American Federation of Labor denounced the Davis plan unequivocally and instructed the executive council to immediately begin to fight with every resource the labor movement could muster against their incorporation in the laws of the land. Is the term “enemy of the labor movement” too strong a term to characterize a secretary of labor who, in dozens of speeches made before chambers pf commerce, associations of Police chiefs, rotary clubs and other strike-breaking organiza- tions, advocates laws that will compel every foreign-born worker to have his picture taken, carry a passport on which it is pasted, have his finger-prints taken and report to the police at stated times? Could the most cunning agent of the employers devise a better blacklist system that is to be enforced by the govern- ment itself? | Could any corporation agent invent a better method of blacklisting all active union men, persecuting them, making strikes impossible and breaking up unions? Yet this is exactly what James J. Davis, guest of John L. Lewis, proposes. As secretary of labor, he schemes to break’ up unions instead of protecting them. He wants to reduce the foreign-born workers to the status of criminals living in constant fear of the police, afraid to call their sosls their own. This hanger-on of the most corrupt and| reactionary government this nation has ever had, himself an immigrant, carrying out the orders of the House of Morgan and the Steel Trust, declares that the foreign-born workers, who have produced the bulk of this nation’s wealth, should be branded, tagged and segregated just as were the black slaves for whose freedom the Civil War was fought. When John L. Lewis, on behalf of his administration, in- vites James J. Davis to the convention of the United Mine Workers, he gives tacit approval to the Sterling bill and other measures now before congress containing finger-printing, police ; registration and deportation provisions. 4 ‘When John L. Lewis invites James J. Davis to the conven- 7 tion he takes a position directly contrary to the convention of the American Federation of Labor to which he was a delegate © and endorses the anti-labor acts and utterancds of this enemy of the labor movement against whom, in self-defense, its con- vention was forced to take action. If the finger-printing and police registration laws against foreign-born workers favored by Davis are passed, John L. Lewis knows that the United Mine Workers of America will be at the mercy of the employers, their spies and their police. The rank and file delegates also know this and The Daily Worker hopes that’ they will make known in a manne? that James J. Davis, the enemy of the labor movement, and John L. Lewis, his friend and host, cannot fail to understand, their ‘ suspicion of, dislike for and opposition against the strike-break- ing laws proposed by James J. Davis in his capacity as piece of the coal operators, the Steel Trust and all the the American capitalist class, reat i el] \ }