The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 335. ITALY YIELDS RECOGNITION TO SOVIETS Holland And Norway Are Next In Line (Special to The Daily Worker! ) M OSC 0 W.—The Italian government yields full diplo- matic recognition to Soviet Russia today, following the ex- ample set last week by Great Britain. The Italian diplomatic rep- resentative has informed For- eign Secretary Chicherin that his nation recognizes the pres- ent government of Russia with- out qualifications. Rome is nih ea fo appoint am ambassador % loscow immediately and est the Russian government to dispatch a duly appointed ambas- sador to the Italian capital. — At the same time the Russian for- eign offices announces) that the Rus- sian diplomatic representative in Rome has received similar notifica- tion of the formal recognition of his government. : Further Russian diplomatic victor- ies are looked for along the line. Hol- land and Norway are expec’ to fol- le of England and e yw the < ~~ Bay ‘eel The need of Russian le and established power of the workers’ government has shown the futility of the policy of isolation which European nations have follow- ed until now. ie we ee Mussolini Forced by Crisis. (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME.—Mussolini’s act in recog- nizing Russia is a turn-about-face from the policy he has pursued since Ke first made war upon labor and seized power as an exponent of reac- tion. Political observers explain his act as one dictated by the economic exigencies of Italy and say that in recognizing Russia for the sake of the Russian trade Italy needs he is taking the only course open to Italy, if she would avoid going down in the economic debacle that has engulfed other parts of Europe. The act of recognition raises a new issue in the April elections when Fascismo goes before the voters for the first time. Mussolini will now attempt to gain the suffrage of liber- als on the basis of the recognition pact and at the same time will con- tinue to bid for the support of reac- tion on the basis of his domestic poli- cies. ap Be, OE | Holland to Follow. (Special to The Daily Worker) THE HAGUE.—Recognition of the de jure Russian government by Hol- land is a matter of a very short time, it is believed. Since Britain and Italy have yielded recognition this busy little republic of manufacturers and traders can do naught but follow suit unless is is prepared to lose the ; commerce with the great nation of \ eastern Europe that is finding its out- let thru the west. The offer of Soviet representatives is to make rdam one of the chief importing and exporting centers for Russia and thus put on its feet this Dutch port which is so paralyzed by the strangling of the Rubr district, Japan Fears Recognition. (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO.—The Japanese cabinet is seeking ways of resuming trade with Russia short of actual recognition, which it is felt, would encourage the communist and trade union movement in Japan. rane re France Still Flinty. (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS.—The Poincare government, alone in Europe, is turning a flinty face towards Moscow and the state- ment is given out from official circles that France will not follow the example of England and Italy and recognize the Soviet Perotti Trade reasons would te recog- nition if they were the only reasons to be considered but the enormous - Russian bonded debt which French fievestors hoid make the attitude of French rulers different from that of the merchant nations, ‘these huge Russian bonds were sold by the sg government largely to finance war with Japan and the costly re- pressions of the Russian revolutionary movement in which he indulged and the Soviet government Bits not con- _ pidered the obligations incurred by as | Eelisalng ently consliection. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class. matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00'per'year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. ‘ OLD STORY | THE Chicago Workers Get Big Start In Daily Workers Sub Campaign The active DAILY WORKER boosters’ meeting, Thursday night, agreed unanimously that the goal set for the present sub- scription drive, of 1,000 new readers, is an object easily within our reach for the period set of one month. The campaign will begin definitely Sunday, Feb. 10th, and terminate March 10th. All branch DAILY WORKER Agents received an adequate supply of subscription books and took upon themselves to make sure that in each case their whole membership would do active work. Those present at the meeting organized themselves as a vanguard of the drive ready to take the lead. Each party branch will cover par- ticularly the immediate territory in which it is located, and every work- man’s home will be visited. Our comrades will approach their shop mates and union members. When this campaign gets well under way, Chicago will know that the DAIL WORKER is in existence, and our comrades promised that they would see to it that the natives sit up and take notice of this fact. Each branch DAILY WORKER Agent has a big task in organizing their membership for the campaign, and the meeting advised that where- ever possible they secure a commit- tee to assist in the work. A thousand new subscribers by March 10th is the slogan and an extra prize will eventually be provided for anybody who can give a good and ient reason why this number cannot be reached. Anyone who wishes to participate in the campaign but who was unable to attend the meeting, may secure supplies and register for the drive at the office of the Workers Party, Room 307, 166 W. Washington St., or at the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. hg St. Members of procdiyiaict ers Party are urged to touch with their DAILY WORKER, branch agent immediately so as to become in- formed of the duties and privileges of all participants in the campaign. “Daily Worker” for the ent of “A Week,” the great epic of the Russian revolution, by the brilliant young Russian writer, Iury Libedimeky. It will start soon. Fort-Whiteman and Minor to Tell About Negro Hero The first mass meeting of “Negro Week” will be held tomorrow night when Robert Minor, editor of the Liberator, and Lovett Fort-White- man of the Chicago Labor Defender, speak on Frederick Douglass, the eat negro abolitionist, at Wendell illips High School, 39th street and Prairie avenue. Minor and his colleague believ: that Douglass’ work was far more effective in shaping the abolition movement than the work of the men who are more generally lauded in the pages of history. And his career was colored with more of the light of adventure; made up as it was of hair-breath escapes and marvelous heroism. Rees Fort-Whitemen {s a delega' the All-Race Assembly sitting thra next week. es Relief Drive In Los Angeles. Los bao hon alte Los les conference for German re- tee which has been organized under the auspices of the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers Germany, will hold a mass meeting Sunday, Feb. 17th, at 2 p, m., in Blanchard hall, 233 S. Broadway. There will be prominent speakers and good music. The Land for the Users! House Committee Disavows Scheme to Force Aliens to Become U. S. Citizens by that committee. Citizenshi| grant by rant is to fijunctionseas he may be thrown, or are the vis and under t of enforcing this rule the immi- Sao t at gia __ {LAUNCH FARMER- LABOR PARTY IN BISMARCK, N. D. Endorse May 30 Meet; Adopt Program BULLETIN. BISMARK, N. D.—Nothing shows better the temper of the conference that launched the North Dakota Farmer-Labor Party here than the following telegram sent to Senators ‘ollette, Frazier, Shipstead, John- and Sinclair: t a conference composed of some the most representative old time guers, in the state, the Farmer- Labor Party of No. Dakota was form- ed. We are in favor of the May 30th convention at the twin cities and op- posed to its postponement. Signed: WALKER, armas, and MARTINSON, Secretary. ne © * (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D.—D. H. Hamil- ton, an old nonpartisan league mem- ber of the state senate, said last ight after the convention: “The 1on-partisan league has been stolen rom the people of North Dakota by a bunch of tin-horn politicians; they have made it a smoothly running machine.” | oe AS 8 result of this situation, R. H. Walker announced to the non- partisan ee convention that im- mediately following adjournment a conference would be cailed for the purpose of organizing a state Farm- er-Labor party, At the all night conference which took place as the result of this announcement, attended by forty delegates and many sympathizers, the Farmer-Labor party was launched ie a national and state program adopted, Resolutions were sed calling upon LaFollette to ve the Re- publican party and help lead the movement. A resolution was also adopted endorsing the May 30 con- ference and against its postpone- ment. The Federated United front cam- aign was endorsed and the Farmer- bor Voice made the official or; of the North Dakota Farmer-Labor rty. , pe. H. Walker was elected State Chairman; H. R. Martinson, secre- tary of the Fargo Trades and Labor Assembly, was chosen state secre- jan executive committee of five which includes the chairman and in| testimony before you? I am not, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1924 <q DRIVE DENBY OUT, SOLONS NEW SLOGAN Navy Head’s Conduct Too “Flagrant Faithlessness” ¢ te The Daily Werker) WASHINGTON.—Secretary of the Navy Denby should be driven out of office “with all the odium that can possibly at- tach to his going,” Senator Walsh, the Montana investiga- tor who unearthed the Teapot Dome scandal, told the Senate today. Walsh’s attack on Denby fol- lowed testimony before the Senate Teapot Dome Commit- tee by F. G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, which re- vealed: That Bonfils, with Leo Stack, a with Harry Sinclair, Teapot Dome lessee, under which Sinclair has al- ready paid $25,000 and must pay $1,000,000 more if he wants to drill certain acreage in Teapot Dome. Cents Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days Three Cents per Copy. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St, Chicago, Ilinois. SINCLAIR PAID DENVER POST FOR ITS SILENCE Mine Owners Knew of Danger From Flood Workers Protested Against Death That Lurked * (Special to The responsible for the death of the ganese iron ore. that it be drained. They were unorganized and no attention was paid to their protest altho it is impossible that the Mil- ford mine engineers could not have known of the increasing danger as the working-face was driven on a slant up to- ward the bottom of Rabbit lake, Absolutely no precautions had been taken against such a catastrophe as occurred altho it was an imminent danger for the last three or four months, as is shown by the fact that the drowned miners were standing about the bottom of the shaft at the close of the shift when overwhelmed by the flood of nud and water. Death by Few Minutes. The few minutes spent awaiting the cage to take them up cost them their lives. in Lake Over Mine Daily Worker) CROSBY, Minn.—Refusal to drain Rabbit lake because it furnished ice to the town in the vicinity of the Milford mine is 42 miners caught and drowned when it broke into the drift which followed the vein of man- The DAILY WORKER correspondent learned today that as long ago as last August the miners had discussed the danger from the lake and had asked| The Milford mining company is protected by liability insurance, The pumps that have been installed are lowering the water level in the mine but the swamp mud is believed to have filled most of the drifts and stopes and it will take weeks and maybe months to remove the bodies. A 15-year-old boy, Frank Hvratin, is credited with saving the lives of the seven miners that escaped. He was some distance from the main shaft, heard the rush of the water and ran to the mouth of the level tel- ling the men to “get on top.” So close was the water to the men who esca) that Harvey Hosford, the last of the seven to reach the col- lar of the shaft, was wet to the waist. Superintendent H. T. Middlebrook did not go below Tuesday, altho Vit is said that it was his custom to make one trip down every day. Science With Cold Cruelty That Stack at one time tried to get Teapot Dome for E. L. Doheny, lessee of the California reserves, _ That apparently was a com- promise between Sinclair and Do- heny by which one was to take Tea- reserves. Bonfils “Kept Quiet.” Bonfils’ testimony today was a voluntary statement by him, given principally to explain the suppres- sion of facts gathered by his brother, Stackelback, in New Mexico, with re- lation to Fall. These facts, not pub- lished by Bonfils’ paper, were fur- nished to Senator Walsh of the Sen- ate Committee. Bonfils told the committee he sup- pressed the story because it was libelous: His testimony regarding his contract with Sinclair was re- garded by the committee as inter- esting but not particularly signifi- cant or as having any bearing upon the question of illegality or corrup- tion in the making of the Teapot Dome lense. It was an interesting sidelight, Senators on the committee said, on Sinclair’s willingness to spend large | sums to get Teapot Dome, indicating | Denver politician, had a contract that he expected to make huge profits out of it. Bitter Attack on Denby. Walsh’s attack on Denby, delivered | soon after the Senate met, was the | bitterest yet heard since the Senate | began considering the Robinson reso-|! lution demanding Denby be called on ‘to resign. ‘Walsh expresses doubt that Denby could be impeached. “Stupidity,” he said, “is not a ground for impeachment. I do be- lieve Mr. Denby guilty of treason. I know of no evidence upon which he could be convicted of bribery or any other high crime or misdemeanor, “But this is no time to stand up on fine spun theories concerning the ex- act line dividing the domain of the executive from that of the legislative branch of the government. Charges Crime. “A great crime has been com- mitted. The very structure of our- government rocks upon its founda- tion in consequence of the revela- tions made in connection with it. There is but one way to restore to it that confidence which is indispensi- ble to its stability and pernetuity, namely, to visit upon the perpetra- tors the extremest rigor of the law and to drive from the public service every one thru whose connivance or supineness it became possible. “Are you willing, my colleagues, to turn back these great properties into the keeping of Edwin Denby? I am not. Drive Denby From Office. “Are you willing to condone the flagrant a shJapatiine which has char- acterized his administration of his great office as revealed by his! own “Are you content to let him down bie 7 lest sensibilities be offended or poli am not “I want to see him driven from office with all the odium that can ossibly attach to his going, that his eae may serve for alltime as a :doctors declared that he was dead. est prospects be affected? 1| bei Watches Law’s New Death Mode « to The Daily Worker) CARSON CITY, Nev, Feb: 8.—A civilization which was horrified as Germany introduced poison gas as a weapon of pot Dome, the other the California} War, today seized upon that same weapon as its legal means of taking the law’s toll of “A life for a life.” Once regarded too horrible for war, hydro-cyanic acid izas this morning was used to bring “a kindly sleeping death” to a man condemned to die for murder. Gee Jon, Chinese, representative of the world’s oldest civilization, is the man who was recorded as the first to die by this new means of inflicting capital punishment. He died in a little cell house of stone; ten by ten feet square, sitting apart from all else in the prison yard of the Nevada State Peniten- tiary here. For two years he has waited, while courts, prison boards, politicians and finally “experts” on poisons and deadly gasses, debated first one phase and then another of his fate. Finally, the highest tribunals avail- able to him put the stamp of the law’s approval—the stamp which meant at least legal acceptance by society—on | lethal gas as a more humane method of taking human life than the firing squad or the hangman’s noose. Today was appointed as the day for the great experiment—the official test on a human subject of science’s new- est development. The condemned man faced death as he awakened this morning with only a little more certainty than might a man desperately ill. He knew the day on which he was to die but not the hour. That detail, under the law, was withheld from him. At 9:37 a. m. three guards march- ed with the Chinaman from the con- demned row of the state penitentiary here, forty yards across the prison yard to the lethal chamber. He walk- ed quietly, with practically no sign of nervousness, The door was closed behind him and he was bound hand and foot to a heavy metal cot. The process, all of which had been thoroly rehearsed, required but a moment. Immediately when the death cham- ber door was closed, three guards spun wheels which turned the valves. There was a hiss of the poison gas rushing under pressure thru the con- duits and into the cell, Watchers at the death house win- dow saw only a slight tremor of the body and then the man’s head fell suddenly to the right side and the Three minutes elapsed between the time the gas was introduced into the death chamber and the time the physicians made their preliminary announcement of death. It is believ- ed that death came even mors quick- ly than that. Thirty persons, mostly newspaper- men, watched the execution thru the little window in the death cham- Tr. Immediately after physicians said they believed” Gee Jon dead, a cur- rent of fresh air was forced into the death chamber and later rds en- tered and brought out the body. were. one member from}warning to those who might sis. Doctors, whiie waiting for "(Continued cleared of on page 2) (Continued on page 2) i cell to be gas, estimated that _ FRENCH COMMUNISTS GET THE GOAT OF PREMIER POINCARE PARIS, — “I’ve stood enough, I'm going,” shouted Premier Poin- care in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon after some particu« larly bitter and personal heckling by Communist members. Poincare stalked out of the chamber, followed by his cabinet and the session was suspended by the president, © was an roar in chamber, ie > Finally, the premier returned and the session was resumed. Deputy Peret pleaded with the Communists to cease personal jn- vectives. but 10 seconds elapsed between the time the valve was turned and the time Gee Jon was conscious. They said they believed he was dead six minutes later. It usually requires from 10 to 17 minutes to bring death by hanging. Witnesses agreed that the chief sign of approaching death which they saw was a slight twitching of the body. Thomas Russell, an American born Mexican, who killed his Ind:an bride, was to have died with Gee Jon, by the same experiment. But his sentence was commuted late Thursday after- noon to life imprisonment, entirely un- Still Chasing “Nicky.” CLEVELAND, 0., Feb. 8—A nation-wide hunt was on today for Jules P. (Nicky) Arnstein, central figure in the $5,000,000 bond theft investigation in New York four years ago, and now sought on a warrant charging him ig chhalalek, $48,000 in a wire tapping swindle in Youngs- town, Ohio, in Suy, 1922, Stomach Ache Is Over, WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Formes President Taft is now considered virtually to have recovered from the attack of indigestion which sent him snes on Wednesday, his doctor said ys a No Lives Lost, QUEBEC, Feb. 8.—Breaking of « natural ice bridge and the sw mine A down the gee Fe St. lanieee of nine persons proved upon inves- tigation today te have resulted no casualties, i ow ee