The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 3

~<“~re-menty encourage agri February 9, 1924 BRIT LABORITES SAY HOUSING IS MAJOR PROBLEM Plan to Erect 200,000 Dwellings Yearly (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON.—Following a confer- ence on housing held yesterday at the ministry of labor at which represen- tatives of the building unions and building trades employers were pres- ent, the Labor Party government is prepared to go before Parliament next week with its program on this important domestic question. The formant was represented by Tom haw, minister of labor; Margaret Bonfield, parliamentary secretary; John Wheatley, minister of health, and D. Adamson, secretary for Scot- land. One of the difficulties that the La- bor Party government must meet in its proposal for relieving the hous- ing situation and at the same time cutting down unemployment, is con- tained in its endeavor to get the building trades union to relax their rules and take in workers with little building trades experience. Unions Want Guarantee. The unions are said to be agree- able to this proposal if the govern- ment will in turn guarantee a build- ing program that will employ their members for a period of fifteen or twenty years. The Labor Party gov- ernment is apparently willing to en- ter into this understanding with the unions if financial arrangements can be made. The need for workers’ dwellings is so great that this length of time will be needed to carry out the program as outlined. 200,000 Homes Yearly. It is estimated that 200,000 new homes per year are needed and some idea of the immensity of the pro- posal is gathered when it is known that estimaces already prepared show that the existing brick plants are un- able to supply the required amount of materia. The ministry of health has let it be known that any attempt on the part of building material concerns to take advantage of the new demand for their wares will be met by dras- tic measures, What Workers Expect. Among the masses of workers, or- ganized and unorganized, who sup- ported the Labor Party, it is expect- ed that the government in addition to the immediately moving to re- lieve the housing and unemployment situation, will make substantial re- ductions in the taxes on sugar, tea and the cheaper forms of entertain- culture, which is in a bad way, and increase the payments to the blind, war victims, war widows and widowed mothers. A cut is also expected in the naval, military and air budgets but not in the pay of the army and navy per- sonnel, While the Labor Party govern- ment is known to intend to devote most of its attention to domestic problems, now that Soviet Russia has been recognized there is much specu- lation as to the attitude the govern- ment will adopt towards France. It is known that Premier Mac- Donald intends to visit France in May, when the French elections will be over and the view is expressed here that with firmness in the gov- ernment’s attitude on Frencn policy the new Chamber of Deputies may be disposed to incline a more sym- pathetic ear to the British repara- tion proposals, Firm With France. In_an_ interview published today by the Manchester Daily Dispatch, the Labor Party premier says that the hesitant attitude of the late gov- ernment was largely responsible for the misunderstandings with France. He says: “All that is gone. Great Britain will no longer be content to sit and watch events, and the result of this new attitude seems to be suc- ceeding beyond expectations.” The dockers are threatening to strike but are still/conducting nego- tiations with their employers. The strike has been set for a week from today and may create a serious prop- Jem for the government exceeding that of the railway stoppage. port AITS PHOTOGRAPHY 12” $15 BERTRAM DORIEN BASABE. 1009 N. STATE ST. “PHONE. SUPERIOR 1961 OPEN ON SUNDAY 12 7050M THE DAILY WORKER Page Three Proof Accumulates That Oil Shaped Hughes Russ Policy By LAURENCE TODD. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C.—How far has the foreign policy of the United States been dictated in recent years by the oil crowd? Does the struggle for oil and the use of oil lobbyists here explain American refusal to recognize Russia? Was it at the instance of Doheny and Sinclair and Standard Oil that recognition of the Obregon government of Mexico was withheld for years? Questions Await Answer. These are questions awaiting answer from the witness chair at the Senate’s investigation of the naval oil leasing scan- dal, since Doheny has con- fessed that he employed for- mer Attorney-General Gregory and former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo to assist him in molding the Mexican policy of the Wilson and Harding ad- ministrations. Doheny testified that he paid Gregory $2,000 to “secure for us an entree before the State Department” under the Wilson administration, in getting the Department to protect Do- heny’s interests in Mexico. He testified that he paid McAdoo $250,000 to “represent us in Mexican and other matters,” and that McAdoo did represent him be- fore the State Department when Bainbridge Colby was secretary and McAdoo’s own father-in-law was president of the United States, Fall's Services Priceless. Nor is this all. Doheny told the Senate committee, in his latest ex- planation of the $100,000 “loan” to Fall, that Fall, when chairman of the senate sub-committee investigat- ing losses suffered by American property owners in Mexico during the revolutions had rendered services to Doheny which were beyond price. Fall, it will ba remembered, was the most stubborn and bitter opponent of recognition of the Obregon gov- ernment, just as he had béen violent- ly hostile to the Madero and Car- ranza revolutions, He stood out for better terms from the Mexican gov- ernment to American oil and rein- ing interests. i Oil In Russ Policy, Again, Fall was chosen by Sin- clair to accompany the latter and young Roosevelt, brother of the as- sistant secretary of the navy, to Russia to seek a big oil concession in the Baku field. This concession was drawn, according to the tes- timony of Fall himself, subject to American recognition. of Russia. Fall then came héme and gave a press interview, in which he opposed immediate recognition, but suggested that Russia might soon make fur- ther concessions to capitalism such as would warrant the United States in finally dealing with the Russian government. Whose Lawyer Is Hughes? Since Gregory and MeAdoo were employed by Doheny in dealing with a Democratic regime in the State Department, curiosity is aroused as to who were Doheny’s and Sinclair's “lawyers” who dealt with the depart- ment after Colby gave way to Hughes. Or was Hughes so fully in touch and sympathy with the for- eign policies of the oil crowd that they did not have to spend a for- tune on. political “lawyers” who had the entree to his office? Were any Republican “lawyers” paid $250,000 to raise the moral issue of our need to pay $25,000,000 to Colombia for the theft of Panama? Did any Re- publican “lawyers” discuss with the department the sending of notes to Britain and Holland about the re- striction of the Burma oil field to British development, and the fields in the Dutch East Indies to European exploitation? The answers may be demanded, when senators realize the meaning of the Doheny testimony as to Mc- Adoo’s fee. F Panic in Old Party Ranks As Oil Quiz Bares Leader’s Graft (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) _ WASHINGTON.—AIl efforts on the part of ring politicians, backed by the military-naval-diplomatic-social lobby, to stop the investigation of the oil scandal will be in vain. This unmasking of the sinister truth of ernment at Washington has set goin; ‘Tens ‘of thousands of letters are United States. rivate ownership of the gov- Ritical revolution thruout the 2° po arriving at the offices of public men who are thought to be liberal or progressive, demanding that the eaery, be developed thru every what t! 1 If the shame of bribery, fraud, theft of public property and whole- sale pollution of the springs of public action by the oil millionaires shall wreck the Republican and Democratic parties—well and good. The voters who are now taking up the issue in letters and resolutions ask only that the country be given the facts as to what kind of government actually exists. If bess . et pat errernte: by, the le, i e representative con pr egtis a mockery, then the sooner that fact is established, the sooner the mistake can be repaired. $70,000,000 of Loot Stockbrokers have been summoned to produce their books, which already are being experted by government accountants, to show whether certain senators or congressmen or adminis- tration people have made fortunes secretly from private tips as to oil leases. Rumors that the “gang” has made millions—some say $70,000,000 —from trading on the stock market in Sinclair oil, will be run down. John T, King, former Republican national committeeman from Con- necticut, organizer of the Wood pres- idential boom, and head of the Asso- ciation for Protection of American Rights in Mexico, has been sum- moned. This Association was created four years ago by the Doheny, Sin- clair, Standard Oil and other oil in- terests, to resist Section 27 of the new constitution of Mexico which seemed to threaten their profits from Mexican oil operations. When Car- ranza yielded to their pressure, exerted thru the State Department, and was overthrown, they resisted recognition of the Obregon govern- ment. Fall, as senator and later in the Harding cabinet, was their spokesman against recognition of Obregon. Finally, last summer, they got a compromise with Obregon, and recognition was given, Hughes on Grill i King is supposed to know how the oil anid ‘nfoenced the State De- partment under Hughes, with refer- ence to Mexico, A resolution soon to be offered in the Senate will ask Hughes to furnish to the Senate all correspondence and records showing his oil diplomacy toward Mexico, Colombia, Britain, Holland, Persia and any other government in which American oil og have sought con- cessions. From this data the Senate committee will proceed to a in- to the means by which Hughes was induced to beg for American oil priv- ileges in Mesopotamia, Burmah, Co- lombia, the Dutch East Indies and Persia. Under a separate line of inquiry 1011-1013. North HIGH QUALITY FOOD MARYLAND RESTAURANT Telephone: Superior 9441 State Street ‘ OPEN DAY AND NIGHT GOOD SERVICE possible vein of evidence, no matter e effect may be upon either or both of the old party organizations. will be taken up the question as to whether recognition of Russia has been delayed until the utmost pos- sible concessions are made to Sin- clair or Standard Oil by 'Moscow, King Helped Pick Harding King was one of the group that decided the nomination of Harding, and he was one of the Penrose con- ference at Atlantic City which deter- mined that Mellon should be secre- tary of the treasury. Mellon and Hughes then promptly “put across” the Colombia treaty, paying $25,000,- 000 in “satisfaction of Colombian honor” in the matter of the stealing of Panama by Roosevelt, and getting in return, for Mellon and other oil operators, a lot of oil concéssions in Colombia. Senator Reed, a Democratic pres- idential candidate, is blamed by poli- ticians for the discovery that McAdoo, his rival, was paid $250,000 by Do- heny for sprog, # the State De- partment and the Mexican govern- ment in Doheny’s interest. Reed is now in turn revealed as chief counsel for a big oil concern headed by J. Ogden Armour, which is suing Standard and other oil companies for $500,000,000 or more in royalties for the illegal use of a patented method of breaking up petroleum into gas- oline and other products, If he wins his suit, Reed stands to make some- thing near a million. So he, too, is “in oil”. A prominent Californian president- ial cangidate’s painful silence as to the whole scandal, except for one genera] statement, has aroused much speculation as to whether he, too, has engaged in this line of law practice. Both old parties are in agony, but they. see no way of escape. New York Is Busy in Drive for Relief to Fight German Hunger (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—Al! working class New York is busy collecting money and food for hun; workers of Germany. The New Yorker Volks- zeitung is appealing to its readers to come to the aid of their country- men and the first week t! ap- eae more than $500 was collected. he weekly, Obrana, is asking its readers to help the German workers and are meeting h success. Local unions all over the city are sending contributions to the $100,- 000 fund for German relief bein raised by the New York branch o: the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers aany. i Tag Day In Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The local branch of the Friends of Soviet Rus- sia and Workers’ Germany will hold ad for German relief Tues- GHANDI TOO ILL YET TO ENGINEER BRITISH BOYCOTT Many Non-Cooperation- ists Still Imprisoned (Special to The Daily Worker) BOMBAY, India.—Like some of the class war prisoners freed by Presidents Coolidge and Harding after prison life had ruined their health “Mahatma” Mohandas Ghandi, leader of the great movement which shopk British rule in India has come out of prison an invalid. Ghandi is now lying in a hospital and his enemies are gtoating in the hope that his prison life has inca- pacitated him from non-cooperation- ist activities for months to come. Release a “Sop.” The British Labor Party govern- ment’s amnesty to Chandi still leaves many other advocates of freedom for India in prison and an aggrer- sive agitation will be kept up for their release. Ghandi’s release is considered as a “sop” to the non- cooperationist movement much as the meager first amnesty by Hard- ing which released Eugene V. Debs and a few others but left the vast majority of the politicals still in- carcerated. Ghandi’s release was not an-| nounced by the British authorities | as the correction of an act of injus-| tice, but for “medical” reasons. Thus the government has avoided setting | a precedent which would have com-} ed the liberation of the other ob- jectors to imperialism. ° J . London Guesses About Ghandi. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON.—What will Ghandi do with his freedom? That is the ques. tion that is going the rounds of Downing street. Nothing in his rec-| ord indicates that he will abandon| his movement of India for the In-| dians when he regains his health. In fact it seems probable that the Hindoo nationalist movement wili swing back to the left, with Ghandi’s reappearance on the scene. A sec- ‘ond tremendous movement for the economic boycott of all British func- tionaries is feared. On the other hand the release of Ghandi is regarded as on the whole a statesmanlike act, aside from the humanity involved. It is belie#ed that the danger to British rule from Ghandi’s presence on the outside | may be more than offset by the con- | ciliatory effect of his prompt release by the Labor Party so soon after| taking power. Your Union Meeting Every local listed in the official di- rectory of the CHICAGO FEDERA- T.ON OF LABOR will be published | under this head on day of meeting | free of charge for the first month, afterwards our rate will be as fol- lows: Monthly meeting—$3 a year one line once a month, each additional line, 15¢ an issue. Semi-monthly meetings — $5 a year one line published two times) a month, each additional line 13c an issue. Weekly meetings—$7.50 a year one line a week, each additional line 10c an issue. SECOND SATURDAY, Feb. 9th Name of Local and Place of Meeting. Bakers, 1024 Noble St., 3 p. m. Bakers, 2401 W. North Ave., 5 p. m. Bakery Workers, 218 W. Oak St, 6 Pp. m. Blacksmiths, 4122 W. Lake St. Blacksmiths, 426 W. 63rd St. Blacksmiths, 5428 Wentworth Ave. Biacksmiths, 810 W. Harrison St. Blacksmiths, 186 W. Washington St. gers Clay, Blue Island, Jewel is 1 Coopers, 5443 S, Ashland Ave. = (Lee), 9138 Commercial ve. Firemen and Enginemen. 426 W. 63rd. Janitors See 18 % dover sgh Moulders, $2 and S. Chicago, Pressmen, Peoria and Monroe Sts. Printing Pressmen, 175 W. Was Railway Carmen, 39th Pl. and zi Street Employees (Elevated), ne Tamer, 32 Wed Be 17214 Transportation Inspectors, 308 8. Kil- dare Ave. (Note—Unless otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p. m.) The Daily Worker for a month free to the first member of any local union sending in change of date or place of meeting of locals listed here, Please watch for your local and if not listed. let us know, giving time and place of meeting so we can keep this daily announcement complete and up to date. On Tuesday of every week we ex- pect to print display announcements of local unions. Rates will be $1 an inch, 50c¢ for half an inch card. Take this matter up in your next meeting. Your local should have a weekly dis- play card as well as the running an- nouncement under date of meeting. Bakers Cut Off Bread Supply as Military Rages 4 The Federated Press) MEXICO. CITY.—The bakers of | Mazatlan, always militant, are on! strike once more against the equally militant bosses. As on former oc-| easions, the local military com- ‘mander is hostile and threatens them with arrest, in spite of the fact that his predecessor was removed for try- ing the same tactics. They have pro- tested to the Confederation General de Trabajadores and to the govern- ment. The confederation threatens a gen- Maybe Magnus, the Trick Milker, Can Explain This To the DAILY WORKER: The nine unapproachable Senators (led by LaFollette, have sent out a joint letter of inquiry to the baffled farm- ers and grain raisers of the North- west, urging them to write and tell them what they want done to relieve their known desperate situation. Were it not for the tragedy of the situation of the farmer, this appeal would be looked upon as real pathos, and the tempting flattery of it may elicit many replies with which to fill the waste baskets of the aforesaid Senators, and thereby fill the jani- tors of their office building with awe, at their ability to receive mail. Who that has read the speeches of Senator Ladd on finance, and the machinations of the Federal Reserve Board in deflating the farmer, woutd tion to him that reform was needed in finance? Who that has heard Lynn Frazier speak, or hag followed his checkered and harassed career as Governor of North Dakota, from which position he was deposed by the combined ef- forts of the banks, the milling trust and the transpoftation monopoly, would not know—would have to in- quire? Who that has even casually fol- lowed the career of Robert M. La- Follette, read even odd copies of his magazine, or his long and exhaustive speeches in Congress, but knows that he, of all men in public life, is fully aware of the evils resulting from ‘watered stock and over capi- talization of transportation com- panies? Then why this hurried inquiry, this truculent request for informa- tion? Can it be to furnish them an ex- cuse for dealing with price-fixing of farm products, or even of delay, in- stead of making a combined attack on the fundamental issues? Or is it to obtain a postponement of the date —May 30th—by thus pretending they are still solicitous of the con- dition of the oppressed (by the rob- ber) farmer? Magnus, the Trick Milker, could answer this question. George Foster, Spokane, Wash. De La Huerta Gold Is Making Trouble in Railway Unions By BERTRAM D. WOLFE. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) MEXICO CITY.—A split _is re- ported in the Federation of Railway Workers here as a by-product of the revolutionary situation in the coun- try. The railway federation is the |most powerful organization in the country in point of ability to support itself, most of the unions subsisting directly or indirectly on government subsidies (the exceptions being the railwaymen, the anarcho-syndicalist Confederation General and various autonomous unions). The revelations following the re- bellion in Vera Cruz revealed that certain leaders of the railwaymen, and of the anarcho-syndicalist unions, were also accepting money from the public treasury, de la Huerta having paid large sums for the founding of the National Railway party and the Partido Socialista Mayoritaria, dum- my organizations which were to give his candidacy a labor coloring. All such leaders either left to join the fas- cists or were expelled. Nevertheless, Branch E of the railway men, con- sisting of express workers, has just seceded because of “politics within the organization.” The officials of the railway federa- tion declare that the so-called yel- lows or Confederation Regional Obrera Mexicana who have long been hostile to the railwaymen, are back of the new move. The section split-of is insignificant in comparison with the total membership of the railway fed- eration consisting only of some of the express workers of Mexico City. ‘Bolshevism,’ ‘Red Flag, Is ShrieR of (Snecial to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—A bill intro- duced here by representatives Mc- Nary and Haugen to create a $50,- 000,000 fund for handling the wheat crop thru an export corporation was dubbed communistic by L. F. Gates, former president of the Chicago Board of Trade. “This is a monopoly in the inter- ests of the producers,” declared Mr. Gates, “and leads directly toward the nationalization of industry. It is paternalism run wild and presents as menacing a development to the American public as the Bolshevism, which openly parades under the Red Flag of Communism. It would re- sult in bureaucracy, extravagance and the crushing of individual initia- tive and take out of our public life that freedom to trade which to our industrial pioneers is the breath of their nostrils.” The bill which has aroused the wrath of the die hard Gates proposes to fix ratio prices on surplus farm products and set up the export cor- poration to buy wheat at some fixed price and sell it abroad at world market figures. What would Mr. Gates say if somebody introduces a bill to give the land to the users of the land? 3.400 Married Men Jobless. TORONTO.—Married men to the number of 3,400 were reported to be unemployed here, according to city officials at a conference to provide work for the jobless. Provision has already been made for unemployment for 500 of these by the city. It is eral if necessary to protect them from the local military. Ma- zatlan is completely without bread. roposed to carry out all possible pee gaia by day labor between now and May 1, next. have the temerity to make a sugges- | Wheat Gambler SABOTAGE WITHIN! LAW SOMETIMES, SAYS IDAHO COURT. ste | Goin J i meal or drinking a Russian Tchei- bl No — ie nick (pot) of tea with Mrs, RESTAURANTS Many Greetings to THE DAILY WORKER from The Radical Inn The place where you can enjoy an interesting discussion while having Smith’s own home made cake, —_— Arrangements for services for par- (Special to The Dally Worker) organizations and private ties, attorne, genera ed invoke | U spectable hue in the decision just handed down by the Supreme Court} of Idaho, freeing three members of | | the Industrial Workers of the World| under 1431 S. SAWYER AVENUE Phone Rockwell 0202. MULLER’S RESTAURANT A good place to eat. 1010 RUSH STREET Tel. Superior 7079 Downstairs of National Office, COZY LUNCH | held criminal — syndicalism | |eharges for alleged advocacy of| sabotage. The decision is a vic- |tory for the General Defense Com-) mittee which took the appeal. The men had been held at Bon-| ners’ Ferry, Idaho, for months, for | distributing copies of a Jumber work- | ers’ leaflet that urged the “strike on/ the job,” known in England as “ca) canny,” which lower courts in Idaho | have ruled is in violation of the syn-| dicalism act. | Legal Sabotage. | The decision freeing them cites the! various acts defined in dictionaries and encyclopedias as sabotage, among which are listed “slack work” and the “publication of trade se- crets.” é “Slack work” or the strike on the job the court throws out as not of itself criminal, ruling that the syn. dicalism act does not declare against it specifically. The court then goes|; George E. Pashas on to show that all forms of sabot- age are not illegal per se, and makes the following comment regarding the | We Bake Our Own Pies publication of trade secrets (a form i vs 2426 Lincoln Avenue of sabotage that European workers | have frequently used against oppres- One-half block from Imperial Hall CHICAGO sive and dishonest employers): Where Sabotage Is Virtue, “Publication of trade secrets may be to the disadvantage or in- jury of the employer, but to the advantage or benefit of his cus- tomers, and it is hardly conceiv- able that the legislature had any intention whatever to make such an act criminal. Suppose an em- ploye of a manufacturer discloses the methods by which such em- ployer evades the provisions of the pure food law and sells to the public food products, so called, that are utterly unfit for human consumption, or makes known other pernicious practices that we have reason to believe are some- times resorted to by the employ- ers, can we say that the legisla- ture intended to include sud dis- closures, however much they might injure the employer, in the mean- ing of the word sabotage? We think not. And yet, if we adopt the most comprehensive definitions of this word that have been given by the writers of greater or less note, we shall be led to the neces- sity of declaring such acts crim- inal.” Two judges dissented. The three lumber workers released by the decisions are Richard Moore, Bates and Perring. The reversal of their case is believed to mark the ending of persecution under the criminal syndicalism law in Idaho where courts were rendering their verdicts on the basis of forms of Qa—=——————= peaceful sabotage now found to be legal. Four other workers are still in Boise penitentiary from earlier syndicalism convictions. Scott Nearing Thinks Daily Is Very Promising “The DAILY WORKER is the most promising thing I have seen in o radical tibet ” the elas tates,” said Scott Nearing, who has just finished a speaking tour of the || Is the center for the North-West middle west. Nearing was leaving|! Side intelligent eaters. S Chicago to go to Pittsburgh. home cooking and baking 1 “Next to the DAILY WORKER in|} daily. J. Koqanove, Proprietor. importance is the May 30th confer- ence of Farmer-Labor parties in St. Paul. I intend to be in St. Paul in May and see what happens. It is of the utmost importance. RESTAURANT Ben Norske Kafe 2741-45 West North Avenue Entire 2nd Floor Good cooking served in a homey atmosphere. Math Pedersen Orchestra Sunday Evenings SPECIAL BANQUET ROOM Phone Armitage 4706 Open—11 A. M. to 12 P. M. DELICATESSEN AND ICE CREAM PARLOR Orders taken for Parties, Weddings, Picnics, étc. || Prudential Restaurant 752 NORTH AVE. The only place to eat, VEGETARIAN HOME RESTAURANT 2nd Floor, at 2714 W. Division St. For Discriminating People SUPERIOR LUNCH “T was particularly glad to see the Expert Cooking good work the DAILY WORKER did at the miners’ convention. It was] 753 W. NORTH AVENUE great.” CHICAGO RADICALLY DIFFERENT! SECOND ANNUAL Red Revel SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Van Buren and Ashland $100 in Cash Prizes for Costumes Music HUSK O’HARE’S TEN WOODEN SOLDIERS NMAC NII Benefit DAILY WORKER LABOR DEFENSE KAMAN NINN