The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 2, 1924, Page 1

{ vow. 1. Ss Sn THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND PARMERS’ GOVERNMENT No. 329. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00. per year. SATURDAY, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. FEBRUARY 2, 1924 SP Cents Including, Saturday Ma Section. zine On all other days Three H Cents per Copy. Published Daily except’ Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. MINERS CONDEMN KU KLUX KLAN Progressives Crush Lewis Support of Masked Night Shirts SOVIET RULE RECOGNIZED | BY BRITISH Action Held Up Until Now Thru Fear of Haste t (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 1.—Great Britain today recognized the Soviet Government of Russia. The MacDonald cabinet met today and after its conference, recognition of Russia was an- nounced in a Foreign Office communique. Feared to Be Hasty. Before and since his acces- sion to the office of Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald had consistently stood for early recognition by Great Britain of the present regime in Moscow. Action had been postponed for a time, however, due to the wish of the newly established labor government here not to appear hasty. The. foreign office communique said. that the Moscow government had been notified that De Jure rec- ognition had been accorded.» Russia. “O'Grady Goes to Moscow James O’Grady, who was in charge of negotiations at Copenhagen, with Maxim Litvinoff, assistant commis- sar of foreign affairs in the Russian government in 1920, regarding an exchange of war prisoners, and sub- sequently went to Russia with an English relief force, will be the first British ambassador to Moscow. M. Rakovsky, now in London, is the Soviet ambassador to the Court of St. James. Simultaneously, it said, the Brit- fish government will be glad to re- ceive a Russian charge d’ affaires in London. SERIOUS HOUSING SHORTAGE FACING NATION'S LABOR | SCRAPPING “ Senate. The quagmire of the Doheny oil scandal, which has wrecked the reputations of the Coolidge Growing Home Dearth Since War Started Here is the first of a series’ of articles on the growing problem of housing. facing the nation’s workers. This series will take up all the varying phases of this knotty question and present the for the way out of this vapitalist chaos. Contributions from our readers on this question are invited. Send in your views, the local conditions you are fac- ing. Write plainly. Address: The DAILY Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. Pa By JAY LOVESTONE and Harding cabinets, rose about the feet of leaders of the Wilson administration in: the sensational hearings before the senate oil committee this after- noon. William G. McAdoo, gon-in- law of Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of the Treasury in the Wilson cabinet and Thomas W. Gregory, former attorney neral, and the man selected by Coelidge to follow the present graft trail, althe ORKER, 1640 N. Coolidge knew of his oil connections, were publicily.named by Edward L. Doheny as paid retainers of hig cor. poration. s Perhaps no other problem con-|Doheny Gave $250,000 to McAdoo. fronting the workii masses today involves as many difficulties as does the housing question. In no other difficulty faced by the workingman are there so many rdships involved. Ajl the ills of ges, unspeakable living con- ditions, complications of race and nationality, child labor and lack of aerpayert ee Rag bor erg ip ugly relief as the background o! the ible conditions arising from capitalist control of the houses of the working class, Since the declaration of war, in 1914, there has been developing a t dearth of homes for the work- ing masses, ‘Taking fifty of our largest cities, we find that the hous- ing shortage is so great that it would take at least ten consecu- tive years of building, at about 25 per cent above the normal rate of ion, to make up the se- rious deficit. It is estimated that at least a million and a quarter new bagretn’ ations will have to be launi in order to check the in these fifty cities. For the entire country, at least five million new building tions are needed, since these fifty cities con- (Continued on page 4.) Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars was the price McAdoo re- Reaction Is Going into the Discard at Indianapolis. Wilson Cabinet Bogged In Oil Mess: $250,000 to McAdoo; Gregory, too (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) WASHINGTON.—Cancellation of the stolen oil reserves of Teapot Dome and California is ordered by a 120 to 4 vote in the house on the Walsh resolution already approved by the The quarter of a million was paid for services alleged to have been ren- dered shortly after McAdo left the cabinet. “He still represents us.in Mexico,” said Doheny. As for Wilson’s attorney general, Doheny: said that “our company and a half dozen others employed Mr. Gregory to represent them before the president in regard to getting permits to drill oil wells in Mexico.” Coolidge Ditches Gregory. These revelations showing that Coolidge selected a Doheny man to investigate’ Doheny graft amazed even some of the more hardboiled senaters in the committee. Reports at the White House were that Gre- gory would be withdrawn as special government oil council. The disclosure of the rewards heaped cm McAdoo so quickly after he left. Wilson's cabinet come at the moment. Rear Admiral Grayson is ceived, “all told from our company,” |denying visitors to his father-in-law declared the multi-millionarie free- booter to the senate committeemen. and tate chief, who is said to be dy- With the Party of Lenin | By C. E. RUTHENBERG panes T= scores of Lenin Memorial meetings, which are being held under the auspices of the Workers Party, ‘and the great audiences of workers who are attending these meetings, prove'the wide influence which the great leader of the world proletarian revolution had won even in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of workers, who, even tho not sufficiently conscious of the class strug- gle to fight with the Communists as yet, instinctively feel that the Russian Revolution stands for a new and better ‘ life for the workers, These workers, who are today pay- ing tribute to the memory of Lenin, will tomorrow be in the ranks of the party of Lenin in the United States—the Workers Party. ings are the best Leninism, wk pat audiences at the Lenin meet- " ni of the future triumph of trade ed at 0 jessa, THE MACHINE” HE MACHINE” |BAPKERG OF PLAN AFOOT TO GET OBREGON T0 DESERT CALLES U. S. Oil Interests Seek Split in Mexico (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C:—Discovery LASH SUFFER BIG DEFEAT Negro Delegates on Floor in Fight Against Reaction By JOHN FITZGERALD (Stall Correspondent of The Daily Worker) TOMLINSON HALL, IN- DIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 1.— With a thundering chorus of Ayes the convention voted its condemnation of the Ku Klux Klan as an enemy of organ- ized labor and voted down the proposal of the President John L. Lewis machine to permit members of the United Mine Workers to belong to the hooded order, whose purpose is the subjection of the foreign- born and the flogging of radi- cal workingmen. The fight on the Klan was led by the gressives, as they have led every other forward looking measure since the conven- tion -doors swung open... And the fight for- the Mlan was-led by Vat ; H, Bittner, Léwis’ right hand man, whom he used in the braaking. of the miners’ union in Kansas, Alberta, and in Nova Scotia, and in the dis- ruption: of the strike in the coke regions, Bittner. presented the report of the resolutions committee which rec- ommended that the convention can- cel the clause in the constitution forbidding members of the United Mine Workers from belonging to the -| K. .K.’K. "His speech was calculated to placate the enemies of this anti- foreigner organization and at the same time to reverse the anti-Klan Policy of the union. Colored Delegates Defend Race. Several colored delegates took the floor in fiery opposition to the night riding enemies of their race who are dnote all rights to human beings with black skins, wherever they have the power. There were encouraging shouts from the delegation. The United Mine Workers has led the American labor movement in the program of equality to all workers in the mines, regardless of the color of their skins and the hercism of black men in the West Virginia marches were fresh that Obregon is- handicapped by his support of Calles, who is ‘‘an extreme ‘radical, literally a bolshevist,” is made by the Washington of the administration and oil interests, in an editorial. printed Jan. 30. Despite the stand taken by Hughes in defense of Obregon, this editorial seems to threaten a reversal of policy unless Obregon shall disown Calles and the policies for which the Obregon government stands. “Calles,” says the Post, ‘has made mischief sufficient to condemn him in the eyes of natives and foreigners alike. The governments of Yucatan and other native states have been made practically. communistic by Calles, and the confiscation of prop- erty is one of the basic features of those governments. “Gen. Estrada, de la Huerta’s chief lieutenant in the field, has a large fol- lawing, and js strongly opposed to the agrarian policy of the Obregon ad- ministration. He has taken the field against the policy of confiscation without compensation. “If the revolutionists under de la Huerta are fighting bolshevism, and if foreign-owned Property in Mexico, ‘is still being. confiscated, the people of this country will not regret. the passing of Obregon, if he should be overthrown,” The immediate occasion for thix feeling is found in the fact that the Mexican minister of agriculture ha« recently declared null and void the titles of some millions of acres of properties forcibly taken from their owners by, Porfirio Diaz and given to | Americ: favorites or foreigners. Russ-Roumanian Conference MOSCOW.—The Russ-Roumanian Conference for the conclusion of a it has been inaugurat- "For Recognition of Soviet Russia! beg at in. the minds ef many in Tomlinson Hail. Hessler Speaks in Vain. A- voice for the Klan tried in v to turn the tide against the brotherhood of the lash. The voice ‘was from John Hessler, one of the lieutenants in the Lewis army, His speech had all the earmarks of a Klansman’s, tho he would not affirm or deny the suspicion as to his..own. membership in the terror society. . But a skeptical murmur arose when he tried to tell the con- vention that several thousand mem- bers in his district were Klansmen, Hessler was ‘a member of the reso- lutions. committee that sought to save the Klan. But his speech was in vain, The sentiments of the convention were expressed when John Hind- marsh of.ilLinois rose and shouted: Denounced as Strike Breakers. “The Klan is a strikebreaking in- stitution!” Ma “When the Ku Klux Klan’ wants take off its mask and work in open, then it will be time to change our constitution and let the miners join,” declared John Bates, of Williamston, Pa., leading the anti- Klan forces. : Hearty cheers greeted every de- nuneiation of the Koo Koos and cties. of ‘protest or ominous. silence was the delegates’ answer to every attempt of Van H. Bittner and John Hessler to itimatize the hated order,’ The United Mine Workers of a is vigorously on record spice the Ku Klux in spite of the Lewis machine, The resolutions committee is the fecha we = Po it rina ring ro The resolutions ings are administration wants, And the = lection of Van H, Bittner to nt the resolution shows how Jona L. _ (Continued on page 3) ba a ee The Miners Must Save Themselves HE coal miners of this country are facing a desperate struggle. Tens of thousands of miners are out of work. Other tens of thousands are working only part time. In many coal fields the miners and their families are already suffering great hard- ships because the mines do not give the miners regular work pr are closed down altogether. Twice in five years the half-million coal miners have had to strike—and suffer all that a strike means—in order to defend themselves against attacks on their standard of living and the working conditions they have won. Each time the government has been against them. Another great strike threatens April Ist. The miners will have to fight again for a wage scale that will give them a decent living and to safeguard their union. The bad conditions in the mining industry are not the result of a temporary situation: Unemployment, short pay checks, fights over wages, fights against the attempt of the operators to destroy the union, will be part of the life of the miners asi long as present conditions continue in the coal industry. The situation in the mines is due to the greedy struggle for profits by the coal operators. It is due to management which aims first to make profits for the bosses and doesn’t care what happens to the workers in the mines. One hundred miners were killed by the operators while the convention was in session. The coal industry was overdeveloped during the war. It is because of this fact that unemployment and short time for the miners—which mean less for the miner and his family to live upon—are now the order of the day in the coal industry. The coal operators will not remedy the conditions they created in the coal industry thru mismanagement. They can- would rather sacrifice the miners. The Lewis machine refuses to face the situation and to hmake the fight which will save the miners. It would rather expel individuals who propose progressive measures and even whole districts from the organization. It spends the money of the miners for the benefit of the machine rather than for organ- izing the unorganized territory. The miners themselves must take up the job. They must adopt a program and fight for a program that will solve the immediate problem of unemployment and solve the whole prob- lem of the bad conditions of the mining industry. The following program will save the miners from the hard- ships of unemployment; it will change the conditions of the mining industry: 1. Immediate legislation by Congress to compel the caal operators to pay regular wages to unemployed out of their profits. . 2. Immediate legislation by Congress establishing the six- hour day and five-day week in the coal industry. 3. Immediate nationalization of the mines. 4. Sending of a delegation by the Convention to Congress to make these demands and fight for them and a fight of the whole miners’ organization for this program. The passage of a law compelling operators to pay wages to unemployed will immediatély relieve the suffering now existing in the coal industry. The six-hour day and five-day week will help solve the unemployed problem and standardize production in the coal fields. Only nationalization of the mines will bring @ permanent solution of the problem of over-development and mismanagement by the operators. Miners! This is a real program for the coal industry. This is a real program for the coal miners. Nationalization! The six-hour day and five-day week! Immediate unemployment relief from the coal operators! A delegation to Congress to demand passage of these laws! This is your program. Make the fight in your Convention, Get something real out of the Convention for the miners. The miners must save themselves. Daily Worker Exposes Crime of Seating Delegate From One-Member Miner ’s Locals (Special Correspondence to the DAILY WORKER.) (TOMLINSON HALL, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 1.—One of the many diabolical schemes used by the President John L, Lewis machine to defeat the progressive element in conventions is to seat delegates from one-member locals, William Feeney, Secretary-Treasurer of Provisional District No. 4 (Fayette County, Pennsylvania, coke region) is such a delegate. .He “represents” Local 849, Albany mine, near Brownsville, Pa. Feeney used to belong to Local 593, Charleroi, but it is said that several years ago he circulated false statements con- cerning William Guiler, one of reports show that Local 849 the members, and transferred paid as International tax for his membership to Local 849 the ten months ending Dec. 1, for fear of being expelled 1923, the sum of $5.00 which is from Local 598. exactly the amount required This action was certainly from one member at 60 cents per month. It is said that a good thing for Local 849 for without Feeney it would be a Tosnay: status be Sais aie dead one, Secretary Green's ented. Rr genye hag le» — not, Without sacrifice of profits. They wilr never Gotha “Pihey