The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 339. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. TEAPOT OIL Senate P robe LANDIS MEN) 2¥88z=, IN THREAT TO FIGHT STRIKE Plan To Engage Scabs To Man Struck Trucks Infuriated over the success of the strike called by the Ex- cavating, Grading and Asphalt Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ Union, Local 731, against the Chicago Contracting Team Owners’ Association, the Com- mittee to Enforce the Landis Award in a public statement threatened to organize a fleet of trucks and smash the strike, which at present has brought building operations in Chicago to a standstill. The union men demanded one dollar a day increase and an additional fifty cents if they are required to help load their trucks or wagons. . The existing scale is $6.50 a day for truck drivers and $5.50 for wagon drivers on the basis of a nine hour day. The strikers are also fighting for the 8- hour workday. Boasts of Its Success. The strikebreaking agency known as the Landis Award committee openly boasts of its success in fur- thering the open shop in Chicago. In letters to Landis Award con- ‘tractors. officials” of the’ committee say: iy: v3 “The citizens committee takes the Stand that nothing shall interfere with construction in Chicago. If your work is being delayed by the tieup the committee intends to take the same action that it took last spring when the teamsters refused to haul structural steel to the Cub’s, ball park and the committee organized trucks and men to do this work.” The contractors fear that accept- ance of the offer of the Landis Award strike breakers to introduce scabs into the situation will bring about Sympathetic strikes. The haulers are determined to fight for victory. Several big building projects among| them the new Unidn station and the Balaban & Katz theater at Lawrence avenue are at a standstill, Collins Offers Services of Police. Barely had the men quit their trucks than Chief of Potice Collins offered his services to the contractors in case the latter attempted to break the strike. The police under the in- structions of Collins would protect the strikebreakers. The strikers would thus be given an example of n Are Urging All ‘Race Assembly To Lead Fight For The labor program of the great Negro All-Race Assembly or Sanhedrin is being worked out-in an executive session of the labor committee, at the Wabash avenue branch of the Y. M. C. A., as this is being written. Sitting with the original committee, appointed by Dean from labor, are a half dozen others from the Workers P. the African Blood Brother- hood. These members of the workingclass will fight for a genuine labor program that will mean actual progress to- wards the industrial emancipa- tion of the workers of the darker race. Ask Equality in labor Unions. The open door into the labor un- ions is one of the important issues before the labor committee. More ‘arty and their minds than a hundr, in Elaine county, Arkansas, October, 1919, after they had organized a tenant farmers’ union. Organization on a national, not.a local scale, is the answer. Recognition of Russia, The international aspect of the la- bor movement will be’ considered to- morow or Friday when the resolution from the Workers Party colored del- egation urging the Sanhedrin to en- a @ massacre of more TRICKL Open Door Into the Labor Unions; Kelly Miller, which contains only one actual representative | is eaNe ro cotton farmers Th the benevolence of a Democratic ad- ministration which was elected to of- fice on the ground that it was friend- ly to organized labor. John Flynn, president of the Ex- eavating, Grading and Asphalt Team- sters’ and Chauffeurs’ Unicn which ig conducting the strike has charge of strike operations and is busy out in. the field, He declates that his men are out to win the fight. The plea of the Chicago sociation that the business cannot af- ford an increase does not hold water in the opinion of labor-men conver- sant with the situation. The work performed by the haulers is laborious and dirty and the increase demanded by them is extremely moderate. Profits Are Big. The contractors make big profits and can afford to grant the) strikers demands. Talk of beg thetic strikes are in the air but i and more labor unions have been dropping the color barrier but there are still leading: industrial occupa- tions from which the Negro is shut by conservative unionism. The real labor elements of the labor commit- tee want the Sahedrin to Ahrow all its influence behind the program of. equality in every labor union jn America. They believe that if. tHe standing labor commission that will sit after the conference closes, will constantly_agitate this question and make an issue of every instance where the color line “aah that ‘ogress towards racial Envsont the labor movement will be greatly hastened. Migration of a million southern Negroes into northern industries has made the labor union program more important than ever. Organization of the southern whether the bosses will hold out until this sentiment crystallizes into action is doubtful Landlords Piling up it farmers now held in peonage ecgimanl nh ped is-another vital issue before the labor committee, Fresh in Ever Greater Profits As Suffering of the City Workers Becomes Ever More Acute By JAY LOVESTO! NE. The New York landlords, like the landlords everywhere else, are not distinguished by altruism as a class. New York is known as the landlords’ paradise. Te! House Commissioner Mann emphasized to the State investigators that the landlords in off than they are anywhere else The landlord does not care ment ousing in the whole world. a cent-piece for the welfare of the tenants. All he is out for is the biggest possible profit on (Continued on page DON’T MISS I Bf Ne i equality | jdorse the demand to recognize the | Russian Republic comes on the floor. There is considerable seniument. in favor of Russian recognition-on be- half of the delegates fecause Russia is the only great. power in the world which practices as. well as preaches the theory of race equality. There is little doubt that the Russian recog- ntion resolution will go thru with en- \thusiasm unless the conservatives block it in committee. Sympathy With R ‘Russian workers towards freedom, was expresed by one of the leading speakers at yesterday morning’s ses- sion, Dr, C. S. Brown, president of Lott Crey Convention, and chair- mah at the Sanhedrin of the commit- tee dealing with the “African- American’s relation to world-wiae race movements.” The American Negro has suffered New York City are better|mov. T! “A WEE so much from oppression himself that he can sympathize with the struggles of oppressed peoples in all parts of he world, declared Dr. Brown. e Russian soil was drenched with hood that the peas- ants + ek be Bike he aciten and struggles for freedom are ig on in India, Spain, Greece thie numer- ous other countries, and to all these peoples goes the sympathy of the black race in America. Friendly to Garvey, Both Dr. Brown and Prof. Alain Leroy Locke, of Howard University, who Revennee him, held out the hand of fellowship towards the two Negro ements which emphasize the world- wide bond between the peo- ples of the African race—the move- ment headed by Mr. Marcus Garvey, which aims at the return of all Ne- ‘Continued on page 2.) a (willing to fight it out i Sympathy with the struggles of f: IS REFERRED TO SUB-COMMITTEE ‘Three or Four-Year : Pact Expected (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSONVILMM, Fla., Feb. 18.— e coal miners’ wage-scale and con- tract question ws yesterday referred to a sub-committee and negotiations, are in progress. today between the operators and miners representatives of the reduced body. Two miners’ representatives from each of the four competitive fields and two representing the operators compose the sub-committee. Attend- ing all sessions and acting in an ad- visory capacity for their organiza- tions are John L. Lewis, Philip Murray and William Green for the United Mine Workers; Michael Gal- lagher’and Ezra Vanhorn for the coal operators’ association. John. L; Lewis has announced hat the miners will hold out for a four- year contract and no reduction in wages. The operators appear to favor conceding the wage question altho a strong mjnority is apparently Among the operators the view is ‘reely. expressed that the presiden- tial year gives the United Mine | Workers a decided advantage and about the ony objection to a four- year contract so far expressed is that it would bring the next “nego- tiation period into an election year. per ) president a) CREEL GIVEN $5000 FOR HIS OFFICIAL PULL ‘Strawn Opposed; More Fall Frauds Rumored“ (Special to The Daily Worker) Steadily growing opposition to the appointments made by President Coolidge gained such headway today that rejection of the nomination of Siias H. Strawn as one of the presi- dentiai oil counsel nominations seemed inevitable. When President came back from New York this morning the‘situation was placed before him by adminis- tration senators, who advised him to withdraw Strawn’s nom- ination. rector of the First National and First Trust and Savings Banks of Chicago—admittedly Stand- ard oil banks—is the basis for opposition to him. Congress will fight it out with the i on the ‘ions- and let the move for impeachment proceed- ings against Secretary of the Navy Denby rest for the time being at least. Senator Walsh, Montana, who dom- inates the oi] scandal inquiry, has been designated to survey the rec- ord for specific charges that might warrant charges of impeachment against the secretary. The public lands committee today proceeded with cross examination of -, Leo Stack, Denver oi] man. Stack charged that the Standard Oil of Indiana “entered a conspiracy” with Harry Sinciair to put over the lease of Teapot Dome. New Sensation Promised. Senator Walsh received a telegram from D, F. Stackelbach, Denver newspaperman, stating he believed Karl C. Schuyler, Denver attorney, had “some sensational correspond- ence” relating to the Teapot Dome | lease. Walsh also received a telegram from Schuyler in which he stated he acted as attorney for Stack. He said, “I have in my _posses- sion certain correspondence which I believe your committee should see and hereby request opportunity to (Continued on page 2) Ask Illinois Coal Miners to Demand Howat Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) PEORIA, Ill., Feb. 13.—A_ resolu- tion calling upon the convention of Dist. 12, United Mine Workers of America, to be held in Peoria the second week of March, to demand a special international convention of mine workers to settle the Howat, case is now being read in Illinois The settlement that is expected here is a three-year contract with- out a wage reduction, altho. there may be a read justment of ki schedules. / easter ag Hindmarsh Opposes Sub-Committee. John Hindmarsh of Riverton, Ill. who fought for the six-how the Indianapolis convention, was one of the wage-scale committee who objected to referring the wage-scale and contract question to the sub. committee. It was announced, as, a result of the objections, that the report of the sub-committee would be subject to thoro review by the entire conference before acceptance. No announcement was made of the possibility of amendments, Phil H. Penna and other active members of the coal operators asso- ciation have moved from the Mason hotel to the Seminole hotel, where Lewis and other miners’ officials are quartered, Informal conferences are being held in addition to the regular sessions. ir day at fore such a meetin; locals. The resolution in part reads: “Alex Howat has been refused the floor of our last international con- vention, and by such refusal the de- mands of the many local unions that the Kansas issue be brought out on the floor on the international conyen- tion and settled once and for all time have also been refused, and “Whereas: Repeated demands have been made upon the international exeucutive board the last two years past, that the Kansas Issue be settled and this has not been granted the rank and file, therefore we believe that the only way this issue can be Li be settled is by the calling of a special international convention to give Alex Howat and all other Kansas mine workers who have been expelled from our union a fair and impartial trial and a decision rendered that shall be final and binding by the dele- Fs present.” The law governing special inter- national conventions requires the con- WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. Coolidge} Strawn’s connection as a di-| THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1924 gp » Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. PRE RED ARES: esse PAN 2517S, LR 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 Recopni*ion of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents RICKLES INTO HARDING Sinks Dee BUBBLE, OIL AND TROUBLE Into Putrid Me VANDERLIP TELLS A LOT OF POLITICIANS | . THEIR RIGHT NAMES NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—In Frank A. Vanderlip’s speech, as published here today, the financier’s utter- ances constituted the climax of an impassioned plea for a general house cleaning by President Coolidge in Washington. “Tie last administration,” he said, “stands challenged. We can- not wait for Congress or the courts, especially when we remember that Mr. Daugherty is attorney-general. Lack of courage and leadership is the underlying evil in American life today. Coolidge has a great op- portunity, but he nee-'s sufficient courage to ge to the bottom regard- Jess of which party he nits.” Striking out at different individ- aals who have figured in the teapot dome probe, Vanderlip said William G. McAdoo, “Like any boy with | stolen jam, dropped his client im- | mediately after the client had tes- tified before the investigating com- mittee.” Of the committee itself he said "The associates of Senator Walsh | are very improper investigators of | any moral question. ‘Jim Reed’,” | he declared, “is a political skunk | and if he were dusted with asafe- tida, it would perfume him.” _ | “The Senate,” he charged, “did not go furthez in investigating Sec- | retary Fall because Fall was ready to ‘peach’ and what he would have said would have gone into a high place They didn’t dare.” Mr. Vanderlip then gWépt inte charges against the veterans bu- reau, the shipping board and “t’sg sinister activity of Attorney-Gen- eral OS eG SRO “All these things,” he said, “are going to be scrutinized closely and coldly sooner or later. What was Ned McLean’s relations with the government? Let us know.” KING MORGAN GRANTS BIG LOAN TO JAPS; Money Will Be Spent in U.S. NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—A §$150,- 000,000 loan, one of the greatest if not a record peace-time international financial issue, has just been complet- ed between the Japanese Government and a group of American financiers, headed by a P. Morgan. The transaction, completed at the Morgan home Monday night means that Japanese Government bonds in this sum will be floated in the United States and certain European conti- nental countries. ed to Japan will, for the most: p: return to the United States thru di- rect trade channels, U. 8. Beats England, Simultaneously with the completion of the loan transaction in New York, a similar loan of 23,000,000 pounds sterling was arranged in England be- tween the Japanese Government and a British group of financiers, Under cond:tions of the loan, a | a reconstruction program will be made in tne United States. An interesting feature of the transaction is that the Unitea States receives a larger share of the business than England, which, before the war, always had what ap- peared to be first call on new interna- tional business. High Priestess Robbed. Three bandits, one of them a “fat little man who cussed horribiy” were hunted by police today for taking jewels valued up to $150,000 and $2,000 in cash from Gilda Gray, high priestess of the shimmy. EAST ST. LOUIS, Feb, 13.—A thru the next Illinois state legislatu first district conference, bers attended. Outwor blessings of the state secretary, says the organization wants senate and the house in lature will be q propaganda sent of five district organizations be- i can be held. question. Those who favor the ized business, K", The Famous, New Russian Novel, Starts Satur bulk of Japan’s expenditures for her | up. Illinois Chamber of Commerce New Drive for State Cossacks cossack system was revamped. favor of state pol uestioned in reference to their at measure will receive the support of ss VANDERLIP IN SPEECH ASKS STAR INQUIRY Purchase Price Too Large, Says Banker pectal to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 13-4 Frank A. Vanderlip, New York financier, today indirectly de- manded an inquiry into the conditions of sale of “a certain Marion newspaper, which sold for $550,000, when it was well known to everyone that it was not worth half that sum.” Vanderlip today was sub- poenaed by the Senate Teapot Dome Committee to appear be- fore it tomorrow morning. Chairman Lenroot called Vanderlip because of the lat- ter’s statements regarding need for congressional investigation of the sale of the Marion Star, | owned by the late President | Harding. |. Explaining the sumr jp, Senator Lenroot s: | “Certain insinuations ‘made by Mr, ‘ [late President” Havdmg: mitiw desires to smeant, of Vander have begs he W- wart to know what rea- son he $ad tor making such a state- ment. The wmiitee has no infor- mation toucwing on this subject. but we desire to know all the facts.” Vanderlip Only Has Thoughts. Vanderlip in New York today said he had no persona] knowledges of the matter, but thought there should be a@ congressional inquiry to clear President Harding’s good name of Washington rumors regarding the sale of his newspaper. Behind the scenes here, there has been private comment about the amount of money received in the sale of the Star. It sold for $550,000. Louis Brush of Marion, purchaser of the Marion Star from the late President Harding, will] not be sub- poened to tell about the sale of the Star until after. Vanderlip has testi- fied, Senator Walsh announced, “We want to hear all that Mr. Vanderlip has to say before we call other witnesses,” Walsh said, Vanderlip Wants Investigation, A congressional investigation te Harding's name of Washington rumors regard- ing the sale of his newspaper, The Marion Star, was urged today by Frank A. Vanderlip, in an interview with newspapermen at his office here. Vanderlip thus explained his speech on the same subject delivered last night before the Ossining Rotary Club, during @ banquet at Briarcliff Lodge. He delivered any personal knéwl- edge of the facts in “The Kettle of Washington Gossip,” but added that “this gossip outrages the name of the dead President and should be cleared clear President good Vanderlip emphasized that all he knew about the sale of the Marion Star is “that it was sold for over $550,000, when it was not worth half of that,” and, therefore, that Presi- dent Harding’s name is “floating round in the kettle of scandal sim- mering at Washington.” “There seems to be a policy of silence on the part of the press with regard to using President Harding's name in connection with the Washing- ton scandals,” said Vanderlip. “The newspapers do not want to look un- der the'shroud, out of respect to the (Continued on page 2.) in renewed effort to jam a state police bill ire was forecast in a me Illinois Chamber of Commerce. eting here of the About 250 mem- phasize the alleged T. R. Moss, Chicago, member of each district in the ice. Candidates for the legis- titude on the state police organ- day! tending to em one come benes