The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1924, Page 3

: February 7, low. OBREGON PARTY FACES SPLIT OVER ASSASSINATION Labor Leader Charged with Act By BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) MEXICO CITY.—A split is threat- ening in the civil forces of the fed- eral government where a_ serious difference of opinion has arisen over the poorly named question of “direct action.” The rumors to that effect took open forrh a few days ago when Vitto Alesio Robles, staunch govern- ment supporter, ex-minister of labor, and senator with socialistic tenden- cies, offered a motion to impeach Luis N. Morones, deputy and leader of the Laborista party, so that his dismissal from the chamber might deprive him of his parliamentary tle of exemption from arrest. e might then be called to account for the murder of another senator tor which Robles declared Morones responsible, The break became more open when Jose Vasconcelos, minister of education in the cabinet, tendered his resignation by telegraph to Presi- dent Obregon. He refused to make a statement, but it is well under- stood that the same question is in- volved. The senator fwho was murdered outside the senate chambers a few days previowsly, was Field Jurado, Cooperatista, It is generally felt, that the assassination was political and his opponents charge Morones with the moral responsibility. They base their charge on a chain of cir- cumstantial evidence beginning with the murder of Felipe Carrillo by the facsisti in Yucatan, followed by threats of vengeance on the part of Morones and other prominent labor leaders, These threats gradually took the form of a punitive expedition to Yu- catan on the one hand, and of using “direct action” against the senators and representatives who, altho parti- sans of the counter-revolution, re- mained in the national congress to block legislation and particularly to block the ratification of the claims convention between Mexico and the United States. These senators could not legally be touched because of their parliamentary exemption, Leaders of the Mexican Federa- tion of Labor gave notice publicly that if these friends of the counter- revolution did not cease their ob- struction they would be made to. The federation leaders telegraphed to the president on the western front, ask- ing him to furnish train facilities to the parliamentary fascisti so that they might go and join the counter- revolution, “where they belonged.” “Senator Field Jurado then wrote a letter to Morones which is reported to declare that he would be in the senate on such a day and every day thereafter and that he would do his utmost to block the work of the gov- ernment till de LaHuerta should be- come president of Mexico, He was there at the appointed hour and time and so was an automobile with armed men. When he left the senate house shots fired from the auto ended his life. The auto disappeared. . Immediately there was strong dif- ference of opinion expressed on the matter. One faction of the civil government declared that such ven- geance degraded the supporters of the government to the same level as the murderers of Felipe Carrillo. These included such men as Vascon- celos, Alesio Robles and others. The president from the battlefield issued a statement condemning the murder and requesting that every effort be made to apprehend and punish the responsible parties, Vasconcelos re- signed when more than a week had passéd and no arrests had been made, not yet public but I have reason to believe that it refers specifically to the murder of Senator Field and ‘otests absolute loyalty to General mn. Enemies of the growing domina- tion of the Laborista party within the central government are workin, the opportunity for all it’s wort! trying to force the government to repudiate Morones, Rum Runner Takes Chances DETROIT, Feb. 6.—A rum runner, fleeing from the police today, dived into icy waters of the Detroit river. The man was drowned, it is believed, How many new readers have you secured for THE DAILY WORKER? Get another today. Get unity thru the Labor Party! The text of his resignation is| or “A Week” 1917, will appear DAILY in Feb. 16. DAILY WORKER will live “A DAILY.” Our paper is It wants everyone to feel it. be swept away forever. But this means that all = now on. back numbers once this seri: CANADIAN LABOR IN DEMAND FOR EIGHT-HOUR DAY Nation-wide Campaign Is Launched (By The Federated Press) TORONTO. — The eight hour day, a general minimum wage law, and unemployment insurance were the main demands presented here to the Provincial government by the Trades and Labor Council, as a part of a Dominion-wide campaign of organ- ized labor, for those achievements. In agreement with the plan map- ped out in last September’s union conferences in Vancouver, B. C., as to what demands should be made additional to the three aforemen- tioned points, the legislature re- quests included amendments to the various labor effecting laws, as for instance, to the Ontario Workers’ Compensation Act, extending the operation of that law to all (work- ers irrespective of who their employ- er may be; to the Mothers’ Allow- ance Act, so as to include widows with one child; to the Minimum Wage Act, as to include all young persons of both sexes, and to the Municipal Act, so that municipalities would be unable to compete for in- dustries by offering reduced or fixed assessments. ; Beside smaller matters, as san- itary measures in barber shops, for- bidding of the operation of one-hand street cars, the request was made for at least one labor representa- tive in the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Women’s Peace Union Asks Amendment to Stop Waging of War (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. — Proposing a constitutional ndment which would forbid the making or carrying on of war, either by the federal gov- ernment or by any of the state gov- ernments, the Women’s Peace Union has sent a baereaed te, Washingiys to start its campaign, le senator, wi a pane of heaps disclosed, prom: endo: lea. Miss Yelihor Byrns, lawyer, of New. York City, directed the drafting of the measure. It provides that “War for any purpose shall be il- legal, and nalther the United States nor any state shall prepare for, de- clare, engage in, carry on, or in any way BF eaip = pd ot Sibes armed co expedition, invasion we ettaking'within or without the United States or any state.” i Moreover it forbids the govern- ments, both federal, eps and ver divisional, and corporations, associa- tions and within the United States j ction to train, main- tain, hire, manufacture, use, or au- ze the use of an army, militia or other armed force, or of armed ships, machines, or other arma- ments; nor shall taxes pe ieres for any such purpose, nor s! arms or munitions be transported. This measure is the expression of the “absolutist” opposition to war. The Woman's aby A ‘bab was formed two and a years ago and has a membership How Lewis Henchmen Terrorized Delegates at Miners’ Convention To THE DAILY WORKER Daily Worker will give he space ice tte (Ohio) called a special atl ing of the delegates from that dis-] and flayed the “reds” but never tioned elected ihe a duly delegate I believe the’ that went on at our trict in the rear of the hall, William the “yellows”. When one of Sate, Vice eepedan’, of ear ieee | a gevegeree a halt on the the floor and began to speak for| flow of hot air, Wa proceeded to {ia machine oy. telling Cie meh teh) cures Ma Suenily, iend vigorously if they were against committee’s|and threatened to beat him, The an RL cele Ge dae Ee ek ne mittee’s voted down on : he was not intimidated the roll cal i would bea menace to i which was HE decision has been made. of Russian life since the great revolution of November, ga menena sensei ug termina Every Day The world-famous story the DAILY WORKER. The first installment of “A Week” will appear Saturday, The daily installments were decided upon so that the up to its best traditions as a DAILY. It is in the fight from day to day. It wants its readers to realize this fact. Publishing only weekly in- stallments of this great novel would etill perpetuate the idea that we are working on a weekly basis. This must our readers, and thousands more, must get on the mailing list and stay there from Get others to subscribe. See that your own subscription is renewed. There will be no chance to get al has got under way. Send your subscriptions and renewals to The DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. yi Propaganda of the Kept Press Fans Race Riot Danger To The DAILY WORKER: Never in the history of Chicago has such a vicious anti-Negro propaganda been propagated, as that which is being at present conducted by the terror-stricken, frantic, exploiting capitalists and their lackeys. It is | an established fact that ever-dying organism puts up its greatest fight to continue to live just before death comes. Quite so with the capital- ists. The gutter sheet, the Herald and Examiner, heralds every crime that a Negro commits, in big, black let- ters, always having the word Negro in headline. The Daily News tells ; how vicious Negroes are holding | pretty young white girls in slavery, forcing them to cater to Negro men for a price. The unspeakable Chi- cago Tribune in reporting an affair in which a Negro defending himself | from white ruffians shoots one of | them, headlines the news item, “Ne- gro shoots rich man’s son.” The filthy, weak lies of the Ku Klux Klan “Dawn” and “The Star” descend to the lowest possible depths in creating prejudice against Ne- groes, by continually playing upon the delicate strings of sex, telling of the increase of Negro men and| j; white women associations, This deadly poison gas of the concubine kept press of the capital- ists is being inhaled by white work- ers. Within the space of a few weeks Negro men escorting their light skinned Negro wives have been set upon by whites, who thought that the Negroes were with white ‘women, If the Kluxers really desire to keep the white women pure; as they say they do, let them start a cam- paign for living wages and cheap room rent for white girls and women workers. Prostitutes, regardless of their color, are in the game for money and all money looks alike to them, whether a Negro or white person possesses it. The writer, who lives near 43rd street and Grand boulevard, is often| Th approached on the boulevard at night by cute little bobbed hair fone things inviting me to go with them and enjoy myself. One even gave me advance notice that her price was five dollars, ‘ In view of the above facts it is imperative that Negro. and white class conscious workers do all in their power to increase the circula- tion of The DAILY WORKER among the black and white workers of Chicago and thereby prevent the capitalist press from starting an- other race riot which would cause both groups of workers to suffer terribly—Gordon W. Owens, Chi- cago. Cachin and French Capitalism. Marcel Cachin, leader of the French Communist Party is again the object of an attempt by the French government to strangle Com- munist propaganda. He is charged by the government with inciting the military to disobedience by means of articles published in the Commun- ist press during December. Once before the rnment. ai ted to prosecute larcel Cachin, when he returned from the Conference of Essen where German Communists met together with French Commun- ists to devise a program of action against the imperialist French gov: ernment and its invasion of the Ruhr. At that time Poincare failed to get action against Cachin, and so he igs trying again, FIVE AND FIFTY. And gave the ce to five, And let those pe make all the rules, You'd say the fifty men were fools— Unfit to be alive. And if you heard complaining cries Menthe teben tee att, and greed, ve for ay Injastles, cruelty pet ily t would you call them then? Not by their own buperior force Do on fifty live, , But by And privi! ua vernment— Pevters that, the ‘tty’ give. y are really have men nd five foo vrains, THE DAILY WORKER Page Three! RAGING STORM IS BOON TO JOBLESS; SHOVELERS BUSY But Many Workers Suf- fer Without Coal With the assistance of hundreds of extra snow shovelers from the ranks of the unemployed, Chicago is well on its way today toward digging it- self out of the first serious snow storm that has hit the city this win- ter. The two day blizzard which has a passed was welcomed by the undreds of migratory workers along Madison St. who were on the job ready to go to work for the city shovelling snow. This is the first time this winter that the street clean- ing department has been compelled to hire many extra workers. Suffering was generally thruout the poorer districts of the city. The stockyards and steel district charity organizations received scores of calls for coal and food. As has happened during every cold spell this winter the charity organizations were not able to fill all the requests for coal. Many families were unable to send their children to school thru the snow because they did not have decent shoes, Two people were killed and many others injured when a train hit a street car at a grade crossing at west 49th. St. and Kedzie ave, Railroad, telegraph and telephone Service thruout the Middle west was almost brought to a standstill by the storm. Telegraph and telephone wires were reported down all along the line. Both the United Press and the Associated Press were compelled to use radio to get. news dispatches to their client papers. Dozens of trains were stalled, in the snow drifts, The weather bureau reports that the storm has passed. ** #* DETROIT, Mich—Two women and one man were killed in acciden\ due to the sleet storm in northern Michi- gan. **# MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Altho the storm has abated and very little snow is falling, Milwaukee is digging. out from under the blanket of twenty -itgg = snow ae fell during the most disastrous blizzard in years, ge a toll of three lives aaa cts ing damage estimated at mo: $1,000,000. ne 43 Miners Lose Lives When Lake Floods Deep Pit ; (Continued from Page 1) long work of recovering the i of the dead, : aire Many Hopelessly Trapped. m the wall of water first hissed way those who managed to escape climbed along seven feet of vertical wall to the skip and started the ascent. As they moved slowly to the top and safety, they heard below them the frantic shouts of their com- rades, hopelessly trapped in the pit. ie water came in so rapidly, how- ever, that the last cries from the drowning men had eeased before the survivors reached the top. Most of the victims were young married men, according to officials of the mining company. When the townspeople arrived, they looked helplessly at the mouth of the shaft. Just below the top was the murky water that had en- velo its victims. There was nothing to do. From the first mo- ment no hope was entertained that any would be saved. ile friends and relatives of the victims looked on today, two giant pumps were taking out the water, 6,000 gallons a minute. It will be a week, officials said, before the water is en from the principal shaft and much longer before the mine is completely emptied, Chicago Gets Plea for,Help. Orders to rush relief suppligs! to. the scene of the mine disaster in Crow County, Minnesota, were broadcast by radio from central headquarters of the American Red Cross today. ; Mrs. Marjorie Bell, Red Cross Liason representative at the United States Veteran Bureau, Minneapolis, was directed to take charge of the relief work, $4,000,000 Voted School Board Yet Firetraps Still Stand While Fake Cry of “‘Poverty’’ Is Raised The last legitimate excuse the members of the school board might have against abolishing the present firetraps that imperil the lives of thousands of working class children and building fireproof and hygienic structures was stripped from them when the people of Chicago voted them millions of additional reven- ues atsthe last election. By a vote of the people the tax rate was increased from 75 cents to $1.00 on each $100 of taxable property, for the express purpose of providing for new and safer school build- ings. The new tax rate pro- vides for something like $4,- 000,000 additional revenue— yet nothing is done. Fake Cry of Poverty. Cries of “economy” and “save money” are the answers of the Chi- cago board of education to pleas of parents in the firetrap school neigh- borhoods. They justified their re- fusal to build by saying that they had no money. They sang’ this song of poverty before the new tax rate went thru and they still continue to sing the same song—while the parents who have protested see the lives of their sons and daughters endangered and know that if they fail to send their little ones into the firetraps that the truant officer may come and they may themselves be arrested, instead of the authorities who-are to blame. The DAILY WORKER in exposing this firetrap condition is expcsing nothing new. The schools of Chicago have not become unsanitary, danger- ous firetraps overnight. For more than 30 years the city’s growth has been outstripping the school system. The school board continues to do nothing now as it has done nothing in the past, but its culpability is all the greater since the additional source of revenue was voted the school board for a construction pro- gram. Mayor Hazards Kids Lives. The only statement of a city official on the condition of the public schools was the recent message of the mayor to the city council in which he said that he realized the seriousness of the situation but that he would not close any of the schools. He hoped that until next vacation tragedy might be averted and then he would advocate emergency action. In two months he propesed to remedy a situ- ation that has been growing op the city for more than 30 years. The plans of the present board of into the working, | lif J. A, O. Preus, governor of Min- nesota, was notified of the action by the Red Cross. Pacifist of 1916 Is Buried to Beating of Drums of War (Continued from page 1.) Cleveland H. Dodge, copper mag- nate; Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chi- cago, harvester king, and the rest of the cortege. Gregory and Burleson There Thomas . Geecry, attorney th prosecuti _ nee Map ech, e ions si speech, 80 or to cau an un] war, came in the throng, ety ‘Aibert 8. Burleson, former post- aster and news- general, censor of Papers ind. magazines, followed in President and Mrs, Coolidge were Cannons roared as the late. war chief was laid away, and it was over. Wilson had from earthly just a few years after the mi on the battlefield at his in the “war for democracy.” education to meet the situation fac- ing them in the public schools is to have a white washing investigation conducted and to assure the workers that there is nothing to be elarmed about, 50 Firetraps, Admits Engineer. The chief engineer of the boami of education has warned the pedple of Chicago that there is something to be alarmed She The han te feed prevention says the same thing. The: say that more than fifty of the build. ings used as schools are a menace to e. The attitude of the present board of education on the building crisis in the schools is expressed in the pro- gram advanced by the superintendent of schools regarding additions and repairs on old buildings. According to this program only such changes as will be needed at once will be made. Additions will be made only where proof exists of the need for additional space. The measure of proof being the use of portable buildings or the double shift system in schools asking additional space. Millions #o Spend; Do Nothing. At the pr/sent time the school board gets $12,060,000. Under the new tax they will get $16,000,000. They have not outlined a plan for spending either amount, School districts that can show political influence to the city officials and politicians can get things from the board of education. Working class districts that cannot muster the politicians go without. To replace the present old school buildings with new, decent and ade- quate structures it is essential that a complete building program be made out. A program that will have no place for political influence but will consider only the needs of the work- ing class districts. To build new schools the board of education jhas at, its disposal tens of millions of dollars and yet it has no plan on which it works in spending this money. Whitewashing Continues The whitewashing investigation of public schools being conducted by the board of education into the fire hazards of school buildings continues, The same reports are ig made, “Nothing start has been dis- covered, The three fire who are conducting the investigation under the direction of Daniel Burns, business manager of the board, are busy visiting schools and whitewash- ing the board of education. More than fifty schools have been “in- spected” yet nothing has been found wrong and indications are that the inspectors do not intend to find any- thing wrong, or if they do it will not be made public, While the board of education can find nothing aoe 3 with the public schools the DAILY WORKER'S in- vestigation bares 8 shi that the bureau of fire peorention the fire department spoke mildly in stating that when they re id to the mayor that more than fifty public school buildings are fire traps, An by Firetrap. Yesterda: A hero pared of the DAILY WORKER the Sta: branch of Lane Technical pee as bad from the point of fire hazards as any building visited by the DAILY WORKER investigator. It is three stories high with old fashioned fire escapes of the tube slide style. e school is used only by boys and has 12 rooms and 400 pupils. The neighborhood is a factory district and fires in the district are frequent. Wooden Stairways. The halls and staifs are dark and all wood. There are many smal! halls between rooms and wooden lockers are crowded into most of them. The boys who go to the school are mostly around fourteen or fifteen years old. That is just the age when many boys begin to smoke a little and carry matches, The toilets are in the basement. ey are as dark, as damp and as illy ventilated as any such place could be. The entire building from basement to roof is of the poorly designed ramblingly constructed type of build- ing usual in 1880 and unsuited to any sort of public use. There seems to be no way of remodeling such buildings to make them safe and fire proof short of tearing them down, and building over again. The elevated railroad passes the school on one side and its noise must interfere with classes. If the school were a few blocks east it would be in an ideal location for a school building. This would not be a hard- ship for the present pupils as many of them already live some distance from the school. The school building is a fire trap and is located in a neighborhood not suitable for a school. It is over- crowded and the sanitary conditions are rotten, Wires Down in North Dakota Delays News of N. P. Convention Owing to the sever snow storm which has swept with particular severity thru the North West, Joseph Manley, representative of the Fed- erated Farmer Labor Party and cor- respondent of the DAILY WORKER at the Bismark, North Dakota con- vention of the Non-Partisan League, ‘was unable to communicate by tele- gram with the office, the wires being down. As we go to press the West- ern Union advises us that heroic efforts are being made to put up the wires and thev expect by tomorrow to have the lines between Chicago and North Dakota open. Conviet Killed LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 6. — Euloz Sullivan made good his boast that he would never be electrocuted in the state penitentiary here. Sul- livan and Emory Connell were shot down from a treetop near Redfield by posses which had hunted them since their bold escape from the death house last night. Amalgamated Opens Forum Jay Lovestone will speak on the subject “The New America” at the open forum of Local No. 39, Amal- gamated Clothing Workers, Friday evening, Feb. 8, at Room 237, Ash- land Auditorium, Ashland Blvd. and Van Buren St. Admission is free. The Land for the Users! LEWIS ORDERS Hii TOOL BARRETT Ti MEET WITH BESCI British Empire Steel Cc’ Now Defiant (Special to The Daily Worker) ' MONTREAL. — Following “hi, master’s voice”——in this case a tele gram from Indianapolis—Silby Ban, rett, provisional president. of Distrie, 26 of the United Mine Workers, at; rived here today, heading a delega, tion of three, to re-new negotiation, with the British Empire Steel Corpo) jration as to the ending of the striky, in the Nova Scotia coal pits. t Roy Wolvin and other High Priest. already have been in session her, for a few days, issuing statement. to the press, lying as to what wage the miners are getting. The cours, things are going to take now seem: quite clear when learning that th: board of directors of Beseo hac “thoroly considered the Cape Bre ton coal situation and regretted tha’ the miners of district 26 had re jeeted the offer to restore the 192 rates, under which they were work ing when operations were sus. pended.” It “concurred in President Wolvin’s view that the limit of gen erosity had been reached and there is no prospect of any further con cessions.”” However, doesn’t it seem a te- markable coincidence that as often) as Besco is in danger to get beaten) by the Nova Scotia rank and file, John L. Lewis promptly saves the day. “If it can be done by education THE DAILY WORKER can do it”, Fur Bosses Yield Concessions to |: Workers in N. ¥: NEW YORK. — Negotiations be- tween the International Fur Work- ers’ Union and the Manufacturers’! Association in New York, after two! months, culminated in a settlement’ hich offers concessions to the union,! ‘he terms include: f Twelve and a half per cent in- creases on all minimum wage scales; establishment of an unemployment ‘fund; regulations for contracting shops; establishment of apprentice- ship system and limitation of learn- ers. In view of the seasonal nature o1 this industry, a special i clause is introduced into the agreement, stip-' ulating that, in addition to the three! months’ provision for division of! work, in an emergency situation in the trade to mitigate or, reduce unem- ployment: ~Thé* latter arrangement becomes clear when coupled with the fact that, at the present moment, three-fourths of the workers engaged in the fur trade here are out of work. The agreement, which immediate. ly affects about 413 6¢CO workers in New York. will pe submitted to a referendum of the worlers without delay —its_acceptance .s considered probable. In this case, about 7,500 fur workers, now unemployed, will return to the shops. Rejection of the scheme would entail a strike. In a statement to the Federated Press, Morris Kaufman, president of the vnion, characterizes the set- tleaen as a “sptendid victory for the union.” He adds that “the mem- bership is overjoyed at the successful outcome of the negotiations.” ; How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. _— Bs THE DEMANDS OF THE CHIL- DREN Article No. 13 The most important struggle of the Junior Groups is against the tyranny of school discipline. Now and then we hear tales of how the | children were beaten in the schools, or that they were punished by be- ing given special work to be done, or by being vented from speak- ing. The id is hurt not only by the suppression of his own per- sonality but he feels as well the injustice when a school-mate is pun- is] This is especially strong when a child is punished for being backward in his classes, The chil- dren revolt against this and hate the teacher who torments a child for this reason. The Jinior Groups show the chil- The communist children will al- ways demand. They demand from the bourgeois authorities and from the school bureaucracy, as well as from the organizations and institu- tions of the working class itself— the Party, the trade unions, the co- operatives, Of the former they de- mand the fulfilment of their wishes; of the latter they demand help in the struggle, bien will demand not what they are told by adults, but what arises from their own experi- ence, what they realize to be their own needs—and some of the de- mands that arise out of their inner pr es ata will be startlingly clear, Pedagogs and petty bourgeiosie and reformist socialists assert: “Children have nothing to demand, They have to ask for what they want, and to be grateful for what dren how to convert this secret they receive. They have not yet hatred and pent-up anger into a| done anything. It is their job to conscious struggle against cofporal| become something, somebodies. It Punishment; against the assumed! is the duty of the adults to care for right of a teacher to beat a child;| the children. Adults know much ai by an overdose| better what children need, The ad- o' against military school discipline; and for democracy in the school; for ee councils; for the right of the children to establish their own system of dis.) cipline, for the abolition of a rigid curriculum. We are not giving the child new and strange terms. We only help to formulate what the child itself thinks and wills, and we do not formulate what the child itself thinks and wills, and we do not for- biped on bin big by iscussing e matters openly an frankly and leading him to the cor- rect conclusions. ults have the power, and hence the, wisdom. How can children make eros br social Recees ie ‘ow these r_hyste: peo) lament over the: abuse of the chil- dren; over the way in chil- dren are being taught to Fi “phrasemongers, talking machines, party soldiers.” iy We do_not invent children’s. . mands. We merely the hel; dren to do it—to a | the H in the formulation their and demands and in the obtain them, i (Watch atrnggle the conference committee in' the fur industry is to devise means,.