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February 1, 1924 SENATE VOTES T0 Morgan Man Visits Mr. Hughes WIPE OUT LEASES, ALSO TO IMPEAC Denby and Daugherty Face Loss of Jobs (Continued from page 1) made “in defiance of the settled pol- of the government.” tor Howell, Nebraska, had in- a last minute amendment which would authorize seizure of the naval ofl reserves immediately and require the lessees to return to the government any oil extracted from them since the leases were entered into. . ° . Talk Holds Up Action. (Gpecial te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—Action in the naval oil loasing scandal today was being held up by an apparently in- surmountable barrier of senate talk. Tho the yotes to pass the Walsh resolution ordering court action to cancel the Doheny and Sinclair leases aro available, the sonate seémed unable to get to the point of voting. Mr. Coolidge is a little annoyed at the senate’s delay. He has ap- pointed counsel, but the senate in- sists on the right to approve his selections before they can actualty go to work. Indications are that it may be several days before the reso- lutions authorizing employment of these speciul counsel and providing funds to pay them and their staffs will emerge from the welter of talk and political wrangling in congress. Meantime three impartial medical ex- perts of Washington—selected by the senate investigating committee, undertook today to determine just how sick Albert B. Fall is. The physicians reported they be- lieve Fal] too ill to appear, but be- lieved it would be advisable for the committee to go to his bedside. Naval Inquiry Continues. The house naval affairs committee continued its inquiry into the naval poliey of exchanging oi] drawn from the reserves for storage and the spending of money derived from the oil te build docks, puraping stations and other equipment at Pearl Har- bor. 3 Silas H. Strawn, Chicago, Repub- lican member of the special counsel appointed by the president, was studying today the evidence disclosed by the senate committee. He will confer with Thomas W. Gregory, the Democratic counsel, as soon as Greg- ery gets here from Texas. senate went on debating, hop- to adopt the Walsh resolution ore night. * . * Strn to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—With the wing demand for the dumping of of the Navy Denby and At- torney-General Daugherty in both houses, the senate today is preparing to pass the joint resolution Ppa the oil leases secured by Fall an Doheny and demanding the prosecu-| P: tion of everyone found criminally connected with the scandal that has set the nation by the ears, The administration now, advised by its pilots that the Teapot Dome ex- posures have aroused a storm of anti- administration sentiment, is trying to allay public resentment by promises of prosecution. If this does not have the desired effect, and indications are that it will not, Denby and Daugherty will be forced out of office in the eleventh- hour effort to save the face of the Coolidge administration. Coolidge will have to make a quick decision on this vital tactical ques- tion for the three roll calls taken on republican amendments to the re- stitugion resolution show that the administration ‘aig og et Fg stren, to s resolutions 0: Fda Wheeler, Mont., and Robin- son, Ark., demanding the resignations of Daugherty and Denby. There is every reason to believe that in the event of Denby and Daugherty refusing to resign a moye will be made to impeach them and many senators are known to favor this method of removing them from office holding that this procedure would establish definitely their guilt in the public mind. “Resigning is to easy a way out for men against whom there is much evidence tending to show a guilty knowledge of a crooked transaction,” is the way one senator put it. More Oil Found In Russia CHITA. — An expert expedition returned from Kamtchatka reports the of oil, It that the lon caeubios far, in ye bebe a pure, and of The Industries for the workers! Rebel Mayor in Cork. CORK.—John French was elected of Cork. French is a who was released from prison not long ago. Werk Daily for “The Daily!" and U. S. Warships Go to Mexico (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—American warships today re- turned to “guard duty” off Vera Crux, Mexico, as advices to the State Department indicated that American interests there may be jeopardized by fighting between the Obregon and De LaHuerta forces, _ The fighting in Mexico, so far as advices received here in- dicate, has not yet threatened Vera Cruz, but reported intention of Obregon’s army to move towards the city was believed to be the basis of the order to Admiral Magruder, THE DALLY WOR KER Page Three WORKERS LEAD IN PHILIPPINES IN LIBERTY FIGHT Manila Cable Thanks Workers Party (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—The cam- af = F; pratt i fl American in Flotilla. commanding the Gossip here today centered about the visit to Secretary Hughes yesterday of Thomas W. Lamont of J. P, Company. ROCKEFELLER I$ REBUILDING PEKIN MURDER PLANT Men Unionizing For Safer Conditions (Special to The Daily Worker) PEKIN, Ill—The day after the last of the 42 victims of the Corn Products Co, explosion were buried the Rockefeller subsidiary started re- building the ruined dry starch de- partment, © e The company’s anti-union policy, which is believed by workers to have been responsible for the disastrous! blast, is showing itself again in the| construction operations. Faced with! a demand from 165 of the 200 men on the building job to unionize the work, the company replied that it had nothing to do with that since the insurance companies are in charge. At the same time the em- ployes seem to be also on the plant payroll, asgshown by the fact that the foremen can call men off the building job at any. time to do work in the departments that are still run- ning. Few Accidents Under Unionism. When the plant ran on a union ba- sis accidents were few and not seri- ous. Local 73, United Brewery, Flour, Cereal & Soft Drink Workers, saw to it then that safety precautions were rigorously carried out and that Morgan and oO MILITARISM RULES PUBLIC SCHOOLS SAYS SINCLAIR Legion and Capitalists Dictate Education ti (By The Federated Press) MILWAUKEE.—Charges that the National _ Education Association, which dominates the public school system of the country, cooperates with the American legion and cham- bers ‘of commerce in teaching public school children militarism and the divine right of capitalism were made ; to newspaper men by Upton Sinclair ka his address at the Open Forum ere, Sinclair discussed The Goslings, the subject of his new book, which will be a companion volume to his book, The Goose Step. As The Goose Step shows up the power of private corporations over colleges, so The Goslings will prove that the same private interests also rule our public and private school system. The Gos- lings will also be in part devoted to the role of churches in our educa- discuss the doctrine of the churches, including those of the Catholic church, and their connection with the official school curricula. Our public schools are run by men who hold a factory attitude toward two men were kept constantly at work removing the explosive dust from the dry starch department. Af- ter Standard Oil succeeded in smash- ing the union, safety became a sec- ondary matter until 42 lives were burned and smashed out in the Jan, 3 explosion. Majority Joins Union. The unionizing of the building jo), is in charge of the Int. Hod Carriers an¢ Building Laborers’ Union of America. At an open meeting in the Pekin Labor & Trades assembly hall over three-fourths of the 200° men signed up. A committee is present- ing the union demands to the com- any. A rate of 67% cents an hour is asked with double time for Satur- day afternoon, Sundays, holidays and all time over eight hours. The present scale is 47% cents and no in- crease in rate for overtime or Sun- days. A 100% job is also demanded. The local is 231; Conrad Nannainga is president and Will Ingram secre- tary-treasurer. the children, Sinclair continued, The modern educator who would gain the approval of the powers must run his schools as a manager of a large fac- tory does his employes. The chil- dren are taught that being different from the desired standard is a vaga- ry, a danger. They must acquire the mass mentality and conformity. Smaller classes, more teachers, better salaries and more develop- ment of individual aptitudes . are what all really competent educatons regard as the ideal toward which ed- ucation should thrive. In the majority of cities the teach- ers’ unions have been taken over by the satellites of the vested interests and used as adjuncts to the capitalist, system. Among 500 to 600 dele. gates to a national convention there are hardly 50 independent teachers, but there is a closely functioning machine of at least 300 who run the association for the ruling class. The remedy must come mainly from the teachers themselves, Sin- clair concluded, The Power Column First tonsideration in to-day’s installment of the Power. Column is given to Comrades S. ing manager of THE DAILY W T. Hammersmark, the advertis- ORKER. The advertising department of our paper is one of the most important departments, and on the success of this depart- ment depends, to a large extent, the ability of THE DAILY WORKER to expand in size and to increase its service to the American working class. Every one who is familiar, even in a slight degree, with the problems of a daily news- paper, knows as a general rule the income from the sale of papers on the news stands and thru subscriptions is only a very smail part of the general income of a news- ess THE DAILY WORK- i d Z é | ( a7f i teu | back to me in the shape of inlining portant it is to have paying adver- tisements to help keep the paper going. 3 There is a mistaken idea that the advertiser will not put his adver- tisement in a radical paper, Noth- ing is further from the truth. What the eis business man wants is more trade—and he does not care what the ee color of his cus- What the advertiser does want to know is—will the money I spend for this advertisement come more business? More and more the business man is learning that RADICALS are quite human and make money just like other folks—and peri ee, they have money to spend. 6 - ness man wants part of that money z g ,Paign launched by the Workers Par- ty against American imperialism is meeting with great response. The {Philippine workers have been espe- cially encouraged by the Workers Party activities to get into the fight against General Wood and the Re- publican administration, backing him in his policy of handing over the nat- ural resources of the islands to the American capitalists, Manuel Roxas, speaker of the House of Representatives of the Phil- ippines and special Commissioner tv the United States, has just notified the Workers Party of the resolution for independence adopted by the Convention of the Federated Labor Unions of the Philippines on Jan. 19. The resolution also thanked the Workers Party for its support of the fight against Wall Street domination. ‘he demand is also made in this re- solution that Samuel Gompers and the Executive Council of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor “support Philippine independence without dis- memberment of the islands.” It is particularly important to notice that the Philippine workers are hegin- ning to give a class character to the independence movement by demand- ing that from now on the Philippine Independence Commission to the United States “include labér repre- sentatives.” Thanks Workers Party. The letter from Speaker Roxas to the Workers Party and the resolution adopted by the convention of the Federated Labor Unions of the Phil- ippines follow: “Washington, D. C., Jan. 25, 1923. Workers Party of America, 1009 No. State St., Chicago, Ill. Sirs:—It is with a cable I received from the Philip- ine Islands,.the Federated Labor nions of the Philippines have passed & resolution expressing their appre- ciation and acknowledgment to the Workers Party of America for their interest in the solution of the Phitip- pine problem and for including Phil- ippine independence in its platform. With assurances of my highest es- teem, I am, Yours respectfully, MANUEL ROXAS, Speaker House of Representatives of the Philippine and Special Commissioner to the United States,” Labor Demands Independence ippine Press Bureau, Washington, D. C.)—Federated Labor Unions in convention yesterday resolved to in- augurate a vigorous campaign for Philippine independence. The follow- ing were adopted: 1. Resolution for the American Federation of Labor asking Samuel Gompers and the Executive Council of the Federation to support inde- pendence without dismemberment of the Islands. 2. Resolution thanking the Work- ers Party of America for including a plank in its platform favoring inde- pendence, 3. Resolution thanking Senators LaFollette and King and Represent- atives Rankin and Cooper for the re- solutions they have presented in Congress for the granting of inde- pendence, 4. Resolution requesting the Phil- ippine Independence Commission to include labor representatives in the next mission to the United States. 5. Resolution creating a National Labor Committee composed of the chairmen of the Printers’ Union, Lithographers’ Union, Cigarmakers’ Union, Philippine Labor Congress, Farm Laborers’ and Tenants’ Union, and the Railway Workers’ Union, to work for independence and raise ‘at ditional funds for the campaigf® | Workers Lead Movement. Jacinto Manahan, president of the Federation of Tenants and Farm La- ‘when the workers and laborers of the Philippines should unequivocably ex- press themselves on the question of independence. It has- been charged time and again that only our politi- cians desire independence. It is time we believe this assertion once and for all. I have traveled all over this archipelago, have reached the re- motest corners of our provinces, and z most needy have often asked when is coming. say already impatient and would to see it come soon; while the , those who suffered in the wars Rest, those who have known to fight for freedom, those iardly move about now, me in pathetic terms they see their country free before The truth Sees hoe if laborers are given nothing fish to eat and ted ‘9 et, Faneqare i iin : Dail y Worker Uncovers More Firetraps AsFarcical School Board Continues Whitewash Disease-breeding, firetrap conditions are found by the DAILY WORKER in two more schools at the very time that Business Manager Burns of the school board is reporting that “nothing startling” has been discovered in the course of the board’s own investigation of its buildings. The school board’s whitewashing investigation has been going on for a week without any results in spite of the appalling conditions in all the schools in working class neighborhoods or, MANILA.—(By cable to the Phil-| communities inhabited by for- eigners. Inspectors who are conducting the investigation say they are authorized to close any schools, no matter what conditions they find. They will make no reports till they have finished their survey. | Foster School Firetrap | In both of the schools last visited by the DAILY WORKER, are the children of Italians, Jewish and negro workers. The two schools are the Foster School, at O’Brien and Union streets, with Italian and Ne- gro pupils and the Skinner School at W. Jackson and Aberdeen streets with Jewish and Italian pupils. No fire escapes were found at the Foster building. It has only 1,400 seats for 1,500 pupils. The original building was erected in 1857, with additions in 1890 and 1901. No water sprinkler system has been installed. The toilet facilities are very bad. The floor of the boys toilet is wet| most of the time in an unsuccessful attempt to keep down the smell. In the basement in addition to the toilet there are the three lunch rooms which serves 900 lunches a day, the play room, the manual training room and a small print shop, The lumber for the manual training | classes is kept near the print shop and is a big fire hazard. The kitchen for the lunch rooms is inadequate, _ All the stairs and hall ways are of wood and the oldest building which |is in the center has no exits of its | own. Pupils in the class rooms in| that building must enter and leave thru the two new wings. The assembly room is on the third floor and is used as a gymnasium. | When used as an assembly room| |common chairs are placed there, | When the fire inspectors visited the schoo] this week they said that the | assembly room should be on the ground floor and the chairs fastened to. the floor, [a ar ine | Bad As Dixie _ The pupils who attend the Foster | school are the children of the poorest sort of Italian and Negro families. Few of their parents have a vote and none have political influence. Many of the Negro families whose chil- oo Prisoner Asks Aid 1. W Powers, prisoner in Deer Lodge itentiary, Montana, writes us wishing the DAILY WORKER success. He and his cellmate have subscribed. Powers asks us to sist him in selling a ladies’ s bead hard hag, made by hisaself This vape~ is not in a position to undertrke tke task, bue asks any- one who can do so tn write to Powers at Deer Lodge, The money for the hand bag will go to the purchase of articles not included in the meager prison fare. Bentall In Harlem, Feb. 14 NEW YORK. — J. O. Bentall will tatk on the “Education of Revolu- tionists” at the next business meet- ing of the English Harlem Branch f the Workers Party, at 143 East 113th street. Comrade Frances Ged- des, a well known soprano, will give a talk on “Voice and Tone Con- trol and®Modulation,” which will be valuable to prospective speakers, at the following meeting, February 28. The Harlem branch finds time for these educational programs by its policy of promptly disposing of the routine business which drags out so long unless handled in busi- nesslike fashion. Opium Seized. DULUTH, Minn., Jan. 31.—Opium valued at $300,000 was seized by federal dgonts here last night. Im- portant arrests are expected as a result, agents said. Three Killed In Wreck. FRANKLIN, Pa., Jan. 31.—Three were killed and six injured when the Pennsyivania’s Buffalo to Pittsburgh express left the rails at St. George, x miles south of here, late yester- y. Won't Use Scab Trains LONDON. — Miss Dorothy Jew- son, labor member of parliament, has started on a 115-mile hike, to fill her engagements, rather than ride on seab trains during the strike of enginemen. ilson Is Il. Mr. W WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Wood- row Rabe asl ae bo under ie ‘as phys was a i terday to attend the former physician, Dr. Ster- fo ‘Ruttin, will see Mr. Wilson again Interest Shown in Daily’s Fight on Fire Trap Schools Members of the Young Work- crs Learue, who are distributing the DAILY WORKER at and in the neighborhood of schools writ- ten report that people are them with approval. .In the neighborhoed of the Ogden school, where a distribution was made yesterday, many persons who were oe copies of the DAILY WORKER said that they had heard about the campaign against fire trap schools, and were glad to see that their school had received attention. Each time Sam Green, who is in charge of the distribution, goes out he takes a larger bundle of the DAILY WORKER, so as to have enough te give copies to all the people who are interested. So far, he has not taken enough. More than 1,500 papers have been given out by the Y. W. L. at va- rious schvols. dren attend the school are recent arrivals from the south. any, say that the Foster school is little better than the rural schools that their children attended in the south. The play room in the basement of the Foster school is the usual dirty, ily lit room found in schools in working class neighborhoods, | Skinner School Firetrap | The Skinner school at W. Jackson Blvd. and Aberdeen streets, altho better than most of the working class district schools has many objectional features. Tho most objectionable | feature of the schoo] is that there ate so many ve young children going there that the first two grades attend on the two shift plan. Ed- | ucational authorities in the public | schools of Chicago say that children | for the first four grades at least should be permitted to go to school a full day, Under this two shift plan classes start very very early in the morning for some of the children. When very young children are forced to get up very early an unnecessary hardship is imposed on them, the ed- ucators say. The toilets in the Skinner school are unclean and always wet. There is no sprinkler system as a safeguard | against fires. The gymnasium is also | used as an assembly room. The prin-/| cipal said that the gymnasium was used as an assembly room only about | three times a year, and therefor it} was not important to have a good! one. When it was suggested to him that if they had a good -assembly room which could be used often it would encourage community activi-| ties in the school and an interest on the part of the pupils families in the school, he replied that he had not thought of that. The school has about 1000 seats and 1100 pupils. The stairs and entire interior is of ‘wood and would burn like tinder in @ fire. The most glaring fault of the school however is the two shift sys- tem for the first two grades. Most of the pupils at this school are the children of Jewish and Italian non-voting workers. The Investigator for the DAILY WORKER has been repeatedly im- Pressed by the fact that the worst schools are in neighborhoods where foreign-born workers without a vote RUSSIAN TRADE EXPERTS TO QUIT FRENCH CAPITAL Departure May Whip France Into Line NEW YORK.—The _ semi-official Russian trade delegation in Paris is contemplating an abrupt departure from the French capital during the next few days, and its destination is | reported to be London. Skobelev, chief of the delegation, | has told American newspapermen in | Paris that he proposes “to quit Paris bag and baggage.” The immediate | Treason given for this contemplated move is the failure of the French government to afford the Russian | representatives adequate’ legal pro- | tection on French territory, But the presence of the Labor government in London obviously 4 lends special significance to the Rus- sian delegates’ imminent departure for the British capital. This episode may be interpreted as a demonstra- tion of good will toward Premier Ramsay MacDonald by the Russians. Every opportunity will be given to the British labor party to carry out its avowed intention of improving Anglo-Russian relations, and Httle doubt exists that British friendliness toward Russia will soon bear tangible fruits. It is considered likely that the French government, influenced by the bankers and industrialists of that country, will not be slow in realiz- ing that it is to their advantage to adopt a Russian policy similar te that of the British Labor govern- ment. Episcopal Church Splits. ‘FT. WORTH, Texas, Jan. 81—As an aftermath of the recent funda- mental-modernist row in the Epis- eopal church, a new Episcopal church has been formed here by fundamen- talists who withdrew from Trinity church, of which Rev. Lee W, Hea- ton is pastor. Rev. Heaton was the center of a controversy in the church because of his liberal views. “From the tops of our heads to the very soles of our feet we are fundamentalists,” the announcement of the seceded group said. How They Do It In Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 81— If you are a prospective bridegroom in Turkey you may not go swim- ming with more than three friends at a time, you may not send more than three carriages for your bride and ‘her relations on the happy day, and if there is to be music at the wedding, you must pay the town crier $2.50. fact a day in, adnentota People are judged by the books they read. All the best books, old and new, can be obtained from ‘ | Morris Bernstein’s Book Shop, No Fire Sprinkler System || "3733 Weat Roosevelt Road. Phone Rockwell 1453. Stationery, Music and all Periodicals. Come and get a Debs calendar free. MAX BLOOM'S RESTAURANT 3546 ROOSEVELT ROAD Telephone Crawford 2450 Roedoedoedeeetestendecetrndendondonteetoetoeetretoedorioctotoetoate Res. Phone Crawford 0331 Violin Office Phone Rockwell 0112 Teacher HENRY MOSS ORIENTAL JAZZ BAND Music Furnished for All Occasions Members American Fed. of Musicians 1215 S, LAWNDALE AVENUE or other political influence live. 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