The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 8, 1924, Page 1

er THE DAILY WORKER RAISES "THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Wilson Bared As VOL. I. No. 334. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class. matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Ilinols, under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1924 Se: Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,. 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. flacker of Ruhr Invasion; 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 Recornition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Oil Scandal Has Rival in Treasury Exposure WHAT IS NEXT? NEW EXPOSE HITS LOOTING OF TREASURY Gigantic Liberty Bond Frauds Stuns Even Washington (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON.—A gigan- the bond fraud involving high @overnment and treasury offi- cials threw Washington: into another fit of political delirium tremens when Charles B. Brew- er, special assistant attorney- general, uncovered evidence of a duplication of liberty bonds running into millions of dollars. “Where will the graft o: stop at? is the question now asked in the hotel lobbies at Washington. Almost the entire Gonlaee cabinet is in+ volved already in the War Veteran’s Bureau and Teapot Dome scandals. Naw the probers have reached the treasury. sternation reigns in official cir- cles. Nobody knows where the next bomb is going to fall. Evidence of a duplication of Lib- erty bonds was examined by a con- gressional committee yesterday. The fommittee will decide: 1.—Whether Brewer’s evidence should be presented to a grand jury at once, or 2.—Whether a congressional in- vestigation will precede court action. Those who have followed Brewer's investigation ie more Nene a year osed to a Congressional investiga- end in a white wash and a covering- up vrocess than getting at the facts. A close guard is kept on the treasury | vanlts where the evidence is stored. | Senator King, after a preliminary insertion of the evidence presented French er. declared tht he wes con- ¥inced there was something rotten in the treasury and the hureau of printive and engraving. He favored immediate grand jury action, else the constant flow of corruption in Wash- ington would son the confidence of the neonle of this country in the gov- ernment. Demond Mellon Reveal Facts. Demand that Secretary Mellon re-! veal facts on duplication of millions of dollars worth of government + IN sec oisasteR HFLOODED GRAVE CROSBY, Minn., Feb 7.— OF IRON WORKERS Of the forty-eight me: poy shift at the Milford Survivors in Disaster Suffer in Bitter Cold -one were drowned, seven . OF LLOYD GEORGE THAT STARTED THE STORM Here is the statement made by Lloyd George ‘in. an interview which has aroused statesmen in England, France and the United States: “There was the proposal for 15 years military oceupation of the Rhine frontier by the allies. I was opposed to it. I was called away to London. When I returned I found that Wilson had burrender- ed to Clemenceau and thus’ the ging to escape by climb- the ladders in the main t. Thirty-four of the were married and leave than sixty children. The s of the men drowned in the mine range from 23 to 55. The men drowned follow: Capt. Evan Crellin, 42. Clyde Revord, 45. John Minrch, 28, ie ii (Special te The Dally Worker) CROSBY, Minn.—While the pum; | which have been working ever ante | ithe Milford mine was flooded, when the bottom of Foley lake dropped into the mine were keeping thelr e French gained that right to occupy bonds was made in the House today Mike Bizal, 55. steady pumping to drain the flooded || the Rhine country. 1 have only by Representative La Guardia of Mike Tomac, 43. galleries, the wives and families of || quite rece: ly discovered that dur- New York. f Nick Radich, 34. Martin Valencich, 27. Henry Maki, 38. Harvey Lehti, 31. George Butkovich, 30, Peter Magdich, 40. Arthur Meyhers, 26. Alex Jyhla, 45. Jerome Ryan, 23. Emil Carlson, 32. { Victor Ketola, 39. Y George Hochevar, 36. the miners who were “killed kept a vigil in the next shafthead. Thirty-. four widows and more than 100 orphans have been standing at the mine head waiting. They are keeping a hopeless watch. It is estimated that t will take at least three weeks for the two electric pumps, which are at work to pump the mine dry and transfer the water almost a mile to another lake, ing my al ice in London, Cle- Mmenceau - at Wilson signed a secret compact on this question.” Ia Guardia, who yesterday exam- fred the spurious bonds collected by Cherles B. Breswer, Department of Justice investigator, introduced two | resolutions designed to force Secre- ery Mellon to reveal the alleged juvlicate bonds to Congress. The resolutions called on Mellon to report to the House the number, amount and serial numbers of all government bonds ond treasury cer- | they felt plainly visible on their faces. For the most part, the families ‘of the dead will have )to depend on charity for food and coal. The slim wages of the iron miners did tiflenter Isened s'nce 1917 and the | Jehn Yaklich, 36. But nothing cam convince th not permit any saving. 36. e jad bonds redeemed andj John Hlatcher, 46. iwivés of the men who were killed to No Sleep. Since Disaster John Marich, 39. Oliver Burns, 38. William Johnson, 36. Ronald McDonald, 32. Nels Ritali, 40. Roy Cunningham, 36. . Joseph Snider, 29. Frank Zeitz, 34. L. J. Labrash, 35. Earl Bedard, 28. C. A. Harris, 36. Tony Slack, 33. Herman Hohm, 40. G. H. Revord, 35. Minor Graves, 30. John Hendrickson, 41. Valentine Cole, 31. Marko Toljan, 39, Elmer Howg, 30. Frank Hrvatun, Sr., 47. Fred Harte, 37. A. E. Wolford, 38. The men saved were: Emil Kairin, Harry Hosford, Matt Kangas, Jacob Ravonich, Frank Hrvatun, Jr., Carl Franks and Maike Zakattik. leave the scene of the disaster. The women stand silent except when they must hush the cries. of the children. Keep Vigil In Cold. A driving north wind and a blind- ing sleet snow clouded the bare hills near the Milford mine. The mer- cury is below zero but the women and children continue to stand “and watch the water being pumped from mine. The homes of the miners are as cheerless and bare as the cold hills. Many of them have little food and less coal. The homes are mere shan- ties covered with tar paper. 4 The men who tend the pumps work in short shifts because of the bitter cold. When they pass the women who stand at the shaft house they ask them to go to their homes, but are greeted with silence, The seven men who esenped death in the mine are the hardest workers at the pumps, : Gave Life For Fellows. They remember the heroic action Ajof Clinton Harris, shipman of the mine, who was working. on the low- This information, La Guardia in- Mrs. Valentine Cole, whose hus- band was one of the miners killed, is typical of how the families of the men killed were affected. Mrs. Cole sits with her seven months old baby on her lap, and her four year old son standing beside her. She sits aad moans and rocks her body back and forth. She has not, slept since the disaster. She goes to the little two-room shanty that is her home and prepares food for her two chil- dren,’ Then she comes back to the shafthead and sits. At night she puts the children to bed and comes to sit and wait. Carl Ravord, 14, was made an orphan when his father was killed in the mine. His mother has been dead more than ‘ten years, He wanders about on the mine workings with @ set face, saying an occasional word to the men working the Pumps, and asking the women who stand at the shafthead to go home. Carl's uncle, Gasper Revord, was also drowned, tends to check against the evidence collected by Brewer. Brewer's evi- dence is now in the hands of Repre- sentative King, Illinois. Surreme Court Denies Rehearing | to Janitors’ Heads SPRINGFIEL’ TiWilliam F. Queese and hia associate member officers of the Flat Janitor’s Union, of Chicago, who. were convicted on a charge of conspiracy to boycott during the strike of the janitors some time ago, were ed a re- hearing by the supreme court of Mlinois, The case will be carried to the supreme court of the United States. In the meantime an effort will be made to ‘have Governor Small pardon the labor leaders. f your shop-mates read | THE DAILY ¥ IRKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. \ “BIG THREE” SECRET PACT STIRS WORLD Wilson, Lloyd George Agreed to Ruhr Drive (Special te The Daily Worker) LONDON. — A tremendous furor swept the British Isles and the continent today, on the heels of a charge by ex-premier Lloyd George that Woodrow Wilson and Clemenceau, dur- ing peace fixed up a secret pact behind his back whereby the Amer- ican president agreed to occu- pation of the Rhineland by French troops for 15 years. pot Dome oil scandal created in the United States involved one after another of the promi- nent figures, who helped make the Versailles treaty. Busy As Bee-Hives The French and British foreign of- fices were busy as beehives; the form- er issued a flat denial of Lloyd George’s charge; the latter put the ter for further explanation. From Paris came an interview with ‘|“The Tiger,” Clemenceau, denying Llody eorge’s assertion; Andre Tardieu, who played a prominent part in peace conference proceedings, did not know of the pact, York, Paris and London had to say in | conection with the alleged secret pact. Meanwhile Lloyd George was pressed to produce the pact, or at jleast to answer the indignant denial jof the French foreign office.» He ‘promised a statement later today. What happened, in a nut shell, was this: The French foreign offiice intends dealing with the making of the Peace of Versailles and sent Great Britain proofs, asking permission to publish! them. These were sent on to Lloyd George, “out of courtesy, because in {conjunction with President Wilson ‘and Premier Clemenceau, he had been ‘concerned in a discussion of the mat- |ter.” | The “Yellow Book,” presumably |was. to be France’s avologia for oc- |eupation of the Rhineland and Ruhr. ‘Tt was to show that Wilson and Lloyd George agreed. Whether or not this is what the “Yellow Book” proofs contained, Lloyd George. upon receiving them, coincident with the death of Wilson, stated to newspaper correspondents that the secret nact agreeing to oc- cunation of the Rhine had been made while he was away from Paris. The British foreign office has asked Lovd George to reply to the French deni*ls of his charge and announced it wi'l probably get consent of the MacDonald government to publication of the "Yellow Book.” see * Clamenceau Denies Story PARIS.—Bristling savagely one minute, gruffly good-natured the next, Georges Clemenceau gave the lie di- rect to a statement credited to Lloyd George in an interview in the London Chronicle to the effect that “The Tiger” and Woodrow Wilson signed a secret pact during Versailles days. “T never signed a secret treaty with anybody. I cannot understand Lloyd George’s object is saying so,” Cle- menceau growled. ie Hunt In Wilson's Files. Woodrow Wilson’s” private files may yield up an answer to the con- troversy now raging between London and Paris over Lloyd George's charge that Wilson and Clemenceau arranged a secret. pact on the Rhineland occupation, while Lloyd George's back was turned, What will now be done with those letters depends upon Mrs, Wilson's DENBY'S PICNIC SPOILED WASHINGTON. — The Tea Dome scandal has called off Beet retary of the Navy Denby’s pra posed trip to Cuba to watch fleet maneuvers, A large company of American newspaper editors, invited by Denby to be his guests on the trip, will sail Sunday from Charleston, S. C., without their host. Denby's office announced he SO Ty a LA ee Te RRR AL: of te ade, Sata the flood Mexican aeriiae Lead et Ine ma wilh mared the other Puerto Mexico, Important Center ne and water had engulfed 0) till the slime and water had engulfed (Special to The Dally Worker) him. Everybody “on the range” is _ {talking today of but-one thing—tho NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 7.—It was learned from a reli-|Hetcism of Harris, when they talk able source this afternoon aoe Mapdlsige rym Huertista Fascisti oe septesnatatives aeiee min- troops are rapidly evacuating Pu co. hipbines! wi pers e mine, This is one of the most important strategic points in the eet ag tg Tilted ant eee territory recently occupied by the revolutionists and its evacua- ee that they roredsi be taken care tion is in here as further evidence of the complete <, nmi | will wishes. No‘ decision will be reached cad the present, it was indicated to- ys Ford Needs 2,000,000 Tons Stec!. DETROIT, Mid-—Henry Ford will need 2,000,000 tons of steel in 1924, it is estimated by his statls- ticians, if the proposed schedule of 10,000 cars a day is carried thru This means that the Ford factorie: consume about 5 per cent of he total steel production of thc United States, Suting the coming year. Werk Daily for “The Daily!” A sensation such as the Tea- matter up to the former prime minis- | ‘today~printed at” length everything Washington, New| jto publish a series of “yellow book,” | “The Big Three”—Liars / Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau— ‘ Betrayers of the Peace. OT the death of Woodrow Wilson, but the intended publi- cation by the French government of a “Yellow Book” is responsible for the flood of charges, counter-charges and de- nials by capitalism’s statesmen that now fill the press of the world and give additional insight into the workings of the inter- national system of oppression and plunder. The French government intended to show by documentary evidence that both Lloyd George and Wooflrow Wilson agreed, to the military guarantess for the payment of reparations that resulted in the occupation of the Ruhr and Rhineland, that dis- rupted the industrial and financial! machinery of the capitalist world and that brought unimaginable misery, disease and starvation to millions of men, women and children in and out of Germany long after the war was endéd and a peace treaty signed, conference days, * * * e Lloyd George has denounced the Ruhr invasion. He toured the United States to arouse sentiment against it and he made it an issue in the election campaign just fought in Great Britain. Woodrow Wilson, the apostle of “‘a peace of understanding and not of vengeance,” who posed as a friend of the German people, is now seen to have been not, as many thought, a weak opponent ef French capitalism’s bloody program, but one of the sponsors of that program. We care not at all.whether Woodrow Wilson and Clemen- ceau hatched this devilish scheme without consulting the slimy little spokesman of British imperialism; we do not care by what | back-stairs maneuvering and bed-rcom diplomacy the plan of | murdering untold numbers of workingmen and women and | their children was brought into being so that the patriots of the | stock markets and the exchanges could collect their interest and dividends, | We are not interested in knowing whether Lloyd George | or his secretary were present when the lives of millions of | workers and their children were weighed against the fortunes of the class that made the war but did not fight it. Nor are we imterested in knowing whether the three men, Clemenceau, | powers, had breakfasted well that morning and appeared with | smiling faces and a white carnation in the buttonhoies of their frock-coats, 1 TNE tags ae ‘What we are interested in knowing, and it is well for the | masses in England and America to know, is that during and for a long time after the war, they had at the head of their | governments men who posed as humanitarian liberals, who denounced the bloodthirstyness of Clemenceau, who appealed | to the peoples of the world in the name of justice and brother- hood, who stood forth as the champions of oppressed national- ities and who all the time were arranging, consulting upon and | agreeing to a program of mass starvation and murder, enforced by bayonets and machine-guns, without parailel iri the world’s bloody history. What was the object of this program, providing for the invasion. and occupation of a conquered country which had acknowledged its defeat, overthrown the monarchy which had driven them to the shambles and set up the kind of government which the Wilsons and Lloyd Georges favored? } Its sole object, after the amount of reparations had been set at an impossible figure, the German people disarmed and back at work, was to enslave them to the Franco-German indus- trialists and financiers, to make them work at the point of the bayonet for the rest of their lives for their own and foreign masters, Conceived in infamy, this scheme has all but brought France and England to bankruptcy, in the United States has ruined hundreds of thousands of farmers by demoralizing cur- rency system and destroying markets. Woodrow Wilson is dead and every effort is being made to enshrine him in the national sanctuary; Clemenceau and Lloyd George still live to curse their countries, but no maudlin regard for the memory of the dead or respect for the living should pre- vent the workers and farmers of the world from learning the lessons taught by the controversial deluge that floods the em- bassies of capitalist government the world over as one cornered diplomat tries to clear his skirts by laying the blame on a dead man and another, just as guilty, but more honest, involves both the dead and the living in the responsibility for the plot against | the workers of all the world. * * . The Teapot Dome scandal shows us our rulers participating in an outright theft of the nation’s wealth. The governmental machinery of capitalism ne longer works smoothly at home and the masses get a peep at their rulers without their robes of state, The governmental machinery of capitalism no longer works smoothly in international affairs and the masses have an oppor- tunity of seeing how their rulers have, as a political gesture— a “compromise,” if you please—sold into slavery millions of workers and farmers of other lands while at home they voiced noble sentiments and called upon God to testify to their utter righteousness, : Let the good work'go on. It began when the halo of divine right was torn from the brow of a king and the rising capitalist class came into its own. It will end when, tired of the exploitation and wars carried on under the pretense of doing the people’s will, fooled no longer by the lies of capitalism’s hypocritical spokesmen, the eens class dethrones its present rulers and puts them to wor! ' If they won’t work— “You talk too much and tell too many ” eaid Friar Tuck to the monk, ‘therefore, go and swim ~ -_ f Pd y Wilson and Lloyd Gedrge, representing the “great capitalist