The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 11, 1924, Page 3

February 11, 1924 “ THE DAILY WORKER POINCARE DEPUTY | Mine Owners Refused to Heed Workers’ Protest Against Death Danger IS PELTED WITH RED PROPAGANDA Debate Assumes Novel Form in Chamber (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS.—While a regiment of cavalry cleared the street outside the French cHamber of workers en- gaged in a demonstration against the new tax proposal of the Poincare government the opposition on the in- ‘side under the leadership of the com- munists and the radical socialist, Edouard Herriot, hurled everything from Billingsgate to movable furni- ture at the government benches. Andrew Maginot, minister of war in a rage that left him shrieking like @ whirling dervish, picked up a copy of L’Humanite, crumpled it into a ball and hurled in at Marcel Cachin communist deputy, He only suc- ceeded in hitting a neighbor in the eye. Cachin a more experienced sharpshooter managed to land a cop of the Temps, rolled into a ball be- tween the optics of the minister of war. Howling with rage the latter attempted to make an assault on the nearest radical deputy, but was held down by friends, A scandal resembling the Teapot Dome affair was the cause of the first assault_on the premier a few days ago. Frauds in the payment of indemnities to certain individuals were discussed, but the battle shifted to the issue of giving the government authority to immediately take what- ever measures of economy it con- siders advisable. New Labor-Saving Cars Opposed by Ontario Workers TORONTO.—Legislation to pro- hibit the use of one-man carg. on street railways was asked a deputation representing labor, which waited upon the government of the province of Ontario, The deputation asked further for: an eight-hour day bill; relief of un- employment; regulation of the bar- ber trade to require all barbers to undergo an apprenticeship; continua- tion of the provincial savings banks; inclusion of all workers, irrespective of age, undér the workmen’s com- pensation laws; extension of mo- thers’ allowance act to include wid- ows with one child; and the appoint- ment of a representative of labor on the Ontario Hydro-Electric commis- sion, Police Union. to Enter Elections; Asks Labor’s Aid MONTREAL.—The iocal-_ police- men’s union is carrying its fight with the city council into municipal potitics. It proposes to place two candidates of the union in the field at the coming city elections. Ap- plication for approval of this step has been made to the Montreal as- sembly of the Canadian Labor party, the political body associated with the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. The assembly has referred the request to its executive for ex- amination, as the Policemen’s Fed- eral Labor union is not affiliated with the party. The Montreal assemb! of the Canadian Labor party itself has already nominated one candidate for the municipal council. Co-operatives in Flourishing State Down in Mexico (By The Federated Press) MEXICO CITY. — Thirteen new nts’ co-operatives were founded in the state of Guanajuato alone dur- ing the last six months with the aid of the federal department of agri- culture. The co-operatives have not only received governm2at credits but free legal service, machinery at cost and other facilities. Treviously they were given land and free water and timber rights as a basis for their co- operatives. Such facts explain why the peas- ants are rallying to the defense of the present government. Join the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club. Lenin Portraits Show your loyalty, love and respect for the greatest leader of the revolutionary workers and adorn the walls of your room, clubs and meeting halls, with a portrait of Nikolai Lenin, The price is within anyone’s reach: . Single copy, 8x11 inches 25 cents. Single copy, 14x17 inches 65 cents. Radical discount for quantity orders, Agents wanted, Literature Dept. Workers Party of America PRINCE OF WALES BREAKS HIS NECK THIRTEENTH TIME Falling from Horse Fa- vorite Outdoor Sport * ee & (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, February 10.—While the Prince of Wales was putting his mount over a fence at Billiggton Manor, near Ascot, today, both fell, resulting in a serious tho not un- usual injury to His Highness, The prince, after rising to his feet, attempted to remount when his equerry remarked, “I believe you have broken your collar bone, sire.” “It feels that way,” replied the prince as he staggered around his spirited steed, evidently with the in- tention of getting on the animal’s rig His efforts were not success- ‘ul, It is said the prince loves horses only a little less than he loves liquor and his frequent collisions with mother earth can only be accounted for on the theory that they happen while Wales is more or less intoxi- cated. This is the thirteenth time His Highness has brought grief to his collar bone, U.S. War Craft Off to Protect Morgan’s Loans (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — The American cruiser Rochester has again been dispatched to Honduras to protect the dollars of the American bankers: invested in that country. The State Department. announced today that a civil war is imminent in Honduras and that American in- terests are endangered. This means, of course, the interests of Wall Street. -Many an old tar is today shed- ding salt tears over the degenera- tion of the U. S. navy into a collect- ing machine for the millionaires of America, Besides a knowledge of geography and the laws of. naviga- tion, candidates for captaincies in she navy may in the future be se- lected from the staffs of the dollar-a- week credit houses. The ancient mariner is being! pushed off the map by the bill collector. Jobless Fighting on New Orleans Docks for Work By J. W. LEIGH (Staff Corréspendent of The Federated Press) NEW ORLEANS.—Conditions in this city from the standpoint of the workers are deplorable, Despite official reports unemployment is on the increase, Every week hundreds are added to the already long list of those who are seeking a job of any kind in order to live. The influx of scabs brought here the shipping interests to replace 2,000 white and colored Jongshoremen, the ‘hun- dreds of strikebreaking electricians, the northern tourists who come to escape the winter, added to the dti- zens out of work and on part time, increase the unemployment evil. The other day 500 able bodied men were waiting on the fruit docks, Aaniine 205 the opportunity of car- rying bananas at 25 cents an hour. An installment house advertised for salesmen and out of 68 who applied when told that the average earnings would not exceed 50 cents a day, 60 clamored for the jobs, Only five men were selected. Mid-City Branch . Discusses Tactics of Workers Party Harrison George was the Liter | ir the'Mid ‘City Branch of the: Work of ers Party on Feb, 6. He ined the Communist posi- tion and the attitude of the party toward the I..W. W. Citing the comphes te tena oot toe Tile exam} e out the folly of isolated abortive movements and the the branch . 20, Enthusiasm for The DAILY WORK- ER must be ted into action transla’ and ber of the branch| resi ; mun ‘die AILY WORKER. Denby portion has the breach ion Dan Horsley, en M that mem! , Branch ——- Secretary. As Ean 4>°2] Page Three The sketch, drawn by a DAILY WORKER staff artist, shows the underground workings of the Milford mine, at Crosby, Minn. The bottom of the pond, known as Rabbit Lake, dropped out, thé water and mud rushed into the upper level and thru the raises down to the lower level, where most of the victims Were gathered at the station level waiting for the cage DAILY WORKER °S Fears Realized in Brazen Whitewashing Report of School Board Denying ‘Firetraps’ In one of, the most brazen reports ever made in a white- washing probe the Chicago School Board asserts that “there is no such thing as a firetrap scho ol.” This absurd falsehood is in flat violation of the report of the fire department and the board’s own engineer and there were 50 firetraps and it is in still more glaring contradiction with the facts established by the investigators for the DAI- LY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER’s pre- diction that the school board’s} report would be a slick coat of| whitewash for its own criminal] negligence and indifference to the lives of the hosts of little ones en- trusted to its care has been abundant- ly brought out, Wooden Fire Escapes Ingnored Such) murderous devices as wooden fire escapes, wooden stairways, an- tique buildings, either without any fire escapes or with these refuge places difficult of access were quietly and completely ignored in the board’s report. _ None of the “minor recommenda-| tions” which they made involve the spending of more than the meager- est sum, in spite of the $4,000,000 additional revenues that have been voted by the tax payers when they taised the school tax from $.75 to $1.00 on each $100 of taxable Prop-| erty, at the last election. | Only 30 Schools Visited WILSON SEEN IN IMMORTAL LIGHT BY BISHOP BROWN But Immortal Only for Lies and Crime By BISHOP WILLIAM M. BROWN Whether at Babylon or Wash- ington,” Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The leaves of Life keep falling one by one.—Omar, Wilson is dead, yet he lives, both because he left undone those things, which he ought to have done, and did those things which he ought not to have done. Wilson still lives, and his immor- tality is secure, because he did not do what he ought to have done: (1) Only 80° schools were visited, or |Keep his promise to save this country 20 less than the minimum number of |from the war,—he did not attempt to fire traps admitted by the fire de-|do it; (2) Keep his promise, after partment. They said they were|tsking us into it, to make it a war ready to make only minor recom-|to end wars by forcing a peace upon mendations, fourteen points which would make The investigators were Frank Mc-|future ones unnecessary and indeed Auliffe, of the bureau of fire preven- impossible;—he did not even present tion, William Bending, inspector for |them to the Versailles conference, and the city’ building department and (3) Keep his promise to have the war to hoist them to the surface. TEAPOT SCANDAL SPLITS TWO OLD by faaatry delves further in its investiga- PARTIES ASUNDER Factionalism Grows as the Leaders Fall (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — The Ford-for- President movement showed signs of reviving today as the smell of oil grew heavier on the political, air. There was talk among Ford’s friends ‘here of drafting him to run, in spite of his announced support of Presi- dent Coolidge. This was but one manifestation of several, amid the oily reek from Tea- pot Dome, of the squirming of poli- ticians who are mightily concerned about the public’s reaction to the evidence which has connected men of both parties, in some degree, either with the oil scandals themselves, or with the men who’are principals in the scandals. As for McAdoo, his opponents were br today writing him off as a possibility, while he and his friends vigorously refused to be written off. McAdoo will go before the senate Teapot Dome committee tomorrow to make the effort on which his po- litical future probably depends. _ The McAdoo clan is not indignant at the dragging of McAdoo’s name into the oil scandal, thru E, L, Do- heny’s testimony that McAdoo has been and is one of his lawyers. The clan is not indignant—it is filled with murderous fury at what is termed a stab in the dark. McAdoo’s speech to the senate committee tomorrow ba be as forceful as he can make it. A In Republican ranks, Hiram John- son serves notice he will not be “run out” of the race. Johnson savs the Coolidge forces spread the story the would withdraw because they are afraid of the use he will make of the oil scandal issue against the ad- ministration. These tactics, he says, will prove a boomerang. The Denby question is bothering the Coolidge leaders, because they say, there is no effective way to fight . The demand for politics. A leading member of Coolidge zation said-today the president not fire with- out a hearing, even if that course should cost him the presidency. ee Oil Mess “Breeds Pactionalism. , (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON.—Bitter factional hatred grips the senate in the oil scandal dispute as the committee of There were signs of an impending split in Democratic ranks on the calling for the nation of Secretary of the Navy rwidened one or two votes may result in victory on for those attempting to oust the navy secre-| in Laxe That Drowned Milford Miners to be Drained Now; 41 Deaths Prove Necessity (Special to The Daily Worker) CROSBY, Minn.—Engineers here stated that before the Milford mine, in which 41 miners were drowned, can resume operations, the Whitmarsh mining company will have to drain Lake Foley, the body of water of which Rabbit Lake, whose bottom the Milford drift penetrated, is a part. - Pe George H. Crosby, president of the (Whitmarsh mining company, has indicated that the Milford mine will be reopened; before that can be done, say the engineering experts, the lake must be drained or a dam built that will keep its waters from the ground above the mine. The restoration of the damaged workings will cost between $50,000 and $150,000 depending upon the amount of silt that has flowed into the workings and the damage done to the timbering. The value of the ore blocked out and known to be in the property is Republicans were rallying a strong defense of Denby’s action in signing the leases which the senate formally declared were “without authority of law and against the expressed will of congress.” McAdoo Quits Doheny. As the investigation got under way today developments included: Senator Lenroot, chairmay.of the senate public lands committee! had a letter from William G. McAdoo, stating he had left the employ of E. L. Doheny, who holds the leases on naval oil reserves No. One and Two in California. Lenroot said McAdoo will be per- mitted to testify almost at once before the committee to explain his exact connection with Doheny, Criminal prosecution of former Secretary of the Interior Fall, who received a $100,000 ‘“foan” from Doheny, appeared possible following the -investigating committee’s decis- ion not to call him ag a witness. The public lands committee re- opened hearings to trace the reports that government officials “cleaned up” in stock lations in connec- tion with the jour Cromwell, president of o Ne the New York stock exchajge, was the] expected as the first witness before the committee. McAdoo, candidate for the Dem- ocratic presidential nomination, sent a long letter to Lenroot demanding an immediate hearing to dispel what he said were unfair impressions created Se ae testimony that McAdoo some connection with the leases, which the senate has or- dered i as illegal and cor- rupt. cAdoo said that it was important that he testify at once, in spite of Doheny’s correction of figures on the money he has paid McAdoo as his lawyer. When Laws Are Blue CONCORD, Mich., Feb. 10.—Side- burns on Sheiks, mean short shrift ie of a bitter fight advocates and| around $1,000,000. It is pointed out here that the Whitmarsh mining company will incur little financial loss except that due to the interrup- tion of operations as it carried liabili- ty insurance while the cost to the state in workmens compensation will come close to $400,000 it is believed. Pipes are now laid at Lake Foley to carry the water into Island Lake on the other side of the mine. It is this scheme that the miners urged as far back as last August and which if carried out would have saved tieir lives, COOLIDGE BOOST WRECKS LEAGUE IN NORTH DAKOTA Farmers Quit Commit- tee that Names “Cal.” (Special to The Daily Worker) BISMARCK, N. D.—The Non- partisan league controlled republican state central committee in session here has refused to rescind its for- mer action endorsing the Coolidge candidacy, The motion to rescind was made by “Dad” Walker who mercilessly flayed the action of the committee, Committee Chairman Ray Frazier, burst into tears when tryin defend his and the committee’s rs- commendation, after J. E. Engel of Maddock had accused him of “carry- ing around a package to be christened in the historic Potomac”. Frazier said he wanted to fight but the meeting broke up with mutual recriminations coming thick and fast altho no blows were struck, This meeting is taken by the forty league delegates who formed the North Dakota Farmer-Labor Party as complete proof of their contention that the league has degenerated into a catspaw of the republican machine and has driven the last nail in the litical coffin of that once militant ‘farmers’ organization, Negroes First Victims, HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Feb, 10.— Five Negro murderers were electro- cuted at the state prison here to- day as the state inaugurated electro- cution as its means of legal execu- tion in place of hanging, Every new DAILY WORKER reader means a new recruit in militant labor, ; tol children at Wallace and 42nd Sts., the ati of THe BAILY Cornelius J. Lamb, in charge of the bureau of repairs of the board of | education. The statement of one of the in- spectors that many children are safer in school than they are at home, brought only a smile to persons who know the condition of some of the schools. “It sounds nice, but doesn’t mean anything. To say that the public schools are safer than’ many tenements is not saying that they are safe or fit for use,” is the way one person put it. Must a Tragedy Come? When Lamb tried to excuse the re- port of the inspectors by saying that he did not know of a fire in any public school during the last thirty years, people who are interested in the school building problem pointed out that it would only take one fire to make a tragedy in most of the schools of the city. The recommendations of the-in- spectors consisted in such suggestions as that wooden partitions should be removed in certain schools. None of the suggestions made would cost the board of education any money which is taken as an indication that the re- port was practially dictated by board of education employees. Among the schools visited, the J. N. Thorp school at 8915 Burley Ave., the inspectors reported that this school has “one of the best fire escapes” in the city. The fact that’ the fire escapes are extremely diffi- cult of access was ignored as the Thorp school is, was not .made plain. They said that the sanitary condi- tions “would stand improvement.” The DAILY WORKER found when investigating the Thorp school that the sanitary arrangements were ab- solutely rotten. Principal Is Aghast At the Brown school. on Warren} Ave., the inspector said, they found “conditions very satisfactory.” They recommended that the enclosed spiral fire escapes should be used in fire drills. The principal at the Brown school was informed the superinten- dent of schools that he would not take the responsibility of using these fire escapes because he considers them dangerous. He has told the board of education and the fire in- spectors that he thinks that if the doors at the bottom of the fire escapes do not open, children would be sure to be smothered to death. This is the oldest school in the city. At Branch No, 1, of the Mayfair school, which is a two story affair built in 1880, and which has wooden fire escapes, the inspectors recom- mended that a fire alarm box be put in front of the building. hi They said, that the Foster school on O’Brein St., should have several wooden partitios removed in the Nake the world safe for democracy— he did not add one item to our lib- erties, but took many away. Wilson still lives, and his immor- tality is secure, because he did what ought not to have been done: (1) He created and operated the largest and most efficient lying, coercing and robbing machinery in the interest of the owing class and against the work- ing class that any nation has ever possessed; (2) He crowned money as our king and influenced his majesty to appoint corruption as the prime minister, and (3) He placed the name of our country above that of every other as a symbol of gold, graft and crime—the triune divinity in which his 100% Americanism lives, moyes and has its being, and to which divinity he sacrificed thousands of young men and billions of wealth, helping mightily to flood the world with blood and tears. New Immigration Bill Puts Bars on Political Refugees (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON. —Irish republi- cans and other immigrants who have done time for political offenses at home will be interested in Par. c, Sec. 6, of the new immigration bill ac- cepted by the house committee and soon to be reported to the house for passage. It reads: “The immigrant shall furnish to the consular officer, with his applica- tion, copies of his ‘dossier’ and prison record and military record, if any, a certified copy of his birth certificate if required by the country of his birth, and copies of all available pub- lic records concerning him kept by the government to which he owes al- legiance. The documents so fur- nished shall be permanently attached to the application and become a part thereof.” Armed with this information, plus the secret reports which the police of each country will furnish to ‘he consular officer in his character a: judge of the fitness of the alien tc come to the United States, the con. sular officer will determine whether the alien is safe for American indus try. If the police record, the prisor record and the military record indi cate that the applicant vhas made trouble for bosses and dictators ir Europe, his chances with the con sular officer will be poor. The new system, as approved by the hous committee, is designed to exclude “dangerous” persons—the type o: Karl Schurz, Eamon de Valera an Ramsay MacDonald. Fake Eight-Hour basement. This is one of the worst fire trap schools seen by the investi- gator for the DAILY WORKER. At the Fallon school for crippled the inspectors found that moving pictures were being shown and in- fammable film being used. They recommended that the movies be dis- continued, To recommend that non- inflammable film be used, would cost the board of education money and would run counter to their policy of economy. Many of the crippled kids at the Fallon school never see movies except at school. Daugherty Asked To Report Upon Packer Friends (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty would be required to report to the Senate what steps have been taken to break up “the Big Five hoy under a resolution Day, Liberal Bait for Labor’s Vot. (By The Federated Press) VICTORIA, B. C.—There is nov further proof of the falsity of th proposed Eight-hour Day bill whic the present Liberal provincial goverr ment proposes to enact to enable to make a bid for votes. When th bill was being considered the lumbe interests were consulted frequent! but when the Vancouver Trades an Labor council made a similar reque: it was put off with an evasive answe The meagure as framed will m benefit the workers, There is stron likelihood that the bill may be rm pealed before it comes into oper: tion. The provincial election is he) this year and the Hight-hour Day bi does not go into effect until 1925 + that once the votes are secured th resent provincial government ms ave the effrontery to annul tl measure. Many believe that this w be done. Introduced in the Senate ce? Senator Ladd, North Dakota Republican. of eevee tubeeribe tedags them “The Ui psychologica' new man must first be that he will ther create ditions j the new '