The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 14, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER KLUX EMPEROR | SELLS HIS CROWN FOR $146,000 Gives up Title to Klan and Kamelia ATLANTA, Ga., Feb, 13.—Colonel William J, Simmons, founder of the Ku Klux Klan is willing to let 100 per cent Americanism run the risk of getting drowned in the Anglo-Saxon stream in return for enough money to soothe his patriotic conscience. According to reports circulated here he has buried the hatchet for the consideration of $146,000, giving all his rights in the Klan and Kamelia to Imperial Wizard Dr. H. W. Evans who will henceforth run the morons without competition from Simmons, if reports are authentic, Call Meeting For Feb, 26th. A meeting of Klansmen is called for Feb. 26 to “kill or cure” the hooded order it was was announced at the office of BE, Y. Clarke, former Imperial Wizard, Ata meeting of the Simmons fol- lowers now held in Jacksonville, it Was stated that Simmons plans to promulgate @ new order to be called the “Knights of the Flaming Sword” and will be organized along the line of. the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Thus the battle rages between rival yee anes for the control ° iggest aggregation of s in the history of America. > ee a Departed From “His Ideals.” JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 13. William J. Simmons, “Father, of the Loa ged Klan, renounced his brain ideal it departed from its his, it was learned to Simmons’ reason for wiviee cant with the rival faction of the “hooded order,” headed by Dr. W. H. Evans whereby he was paid $100,000 for his rights and interests in the organ- ization agreed to retire, Simmons, in a speech to the Klans- men here, related the fight he made for the life of the Klan, explained in detail a compromise agreement with the Evans faction and then pro- claimed a@ new sect society, the Eights - the Flaming Sword.” e conference has bee: i here for two days and is stimodes to representatives from Ohio, Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado and Florida. The 500 delegates voted to go with Simmons in forming the new organization which the former Klan leader declared would pursue his original principles and ideals. The new order will be launched im- mediately with Simmons at the head. New Name is Necessary. _ He served notice he would con- tinue to preach-his doctrines but thet it had become necessary to proclaim them under a new name. He then reviewed in detail the long bitter struggle between his forces and those of Dr. Evans for control and charged .the latter with departing from the original Purposes of the order, Explaining his compromise agree- ment, he said he received $90,000 for his copyrights and rituals and had agreed to resign as a Klans- man and would never become af- filiated with the order again. He in- vited those who had followed his Paths to travel the same way with him again and said if they wanted him as the leader he would accept the post. Orders for the organization of the Knights of the Flaming Sword were then drawn and probably will be made public later this week. Coke Workers Strike, SYDNEY, N. S. W., Feb. 13.— Coke workers in New South Wales, are striking for shorter hours. The men asked for a 46-hour week, to include a daily half-hour for meals, in place of the present 48-hour week, This the employers refused to grant. How many of your shop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get one of them to subscribe today, attended by | Sale of The (Continued from page 1) dead. I want to look under the shroud for that very reason and to protect the name of a dead president.” Star Subject of Gossip. Rumors concerning the sale of the Marion Star, the late President Harding’s newspaper, came to the at- tention of the Senate Teapot Dome Committee some time ago, it was learned today. The committee has not investigat- ed them, members said, because there is no definite information to go on. When shown Frank A. Vanderlip’s speech suggesting inquiry into the sale of the Star, members of the com- mittee said they did not feel war- ranted in investigating it unless some “substantial and definite information” was furnished, The Senate today broadened its oil investigation to cover international dealings of big American oil interests. The resolution of Senator Dill, Washington, was adopted, calling on the State Department for information concerning international activities of American oil men. It is aimed particularly at Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of teapot dome, who recently made oil Jeases in Persia and who is reported to have been ne- gotiating with German and Russian interests, and Edward L. Doheny, who has Mexican oil. (Continued from Page 1) appear at the earliest possible time.” Arrangements will be made to have Schuyler testify in a few days. | Investigation of public lands by ‘former Secretary Fall has been jbroadened to include his leasing of certain Indian lands. Fall ruled that unallotted Indian lands could be leased if the admin- istration saw fit, The legality of ithis ruling was questioned by the sub-committee of the House Indian affairs committee, which yesterday reported unfavorably a bill to pay ithe Indians royalties accruing from such leases. Says Creel Lied. When the senate committee re- |sumed its hearings today, J. Leo Stack, Denver} repudiated the testi- mony of George Creel. Creel yester- day said he didn’t know E. L. Do- heny was behind Stack in an effort {to get Teapot Dome. “Mr. Creel knew that Mr. Doheny was the man behind our project,” |Stack said, “even tho he told me he didn’t.” Stack and Creel were associated during the last administration in at- tempting’ to get the- Teapot” lease for Doheny. ' Stack said he got $5,000 from Do- heny and gave it to Creel. “I wanted Mr. Creel to introduce me to the officials in the various government departments,” Stack said. Stack said Creel introduced him to Secretary of the Navy Daniels. Stack tried to prevail on Daniels to lease the naval reserves, but Dan- iels flatly refused. Stack said his plan was not aban- doned, however, because “the incom- ing administration of President Hard- ing was practically committed to leasing the lands.” Stack Collected. The Pioneer Oil company has been secretly pressing.to get the leases. Pioneer had the advantage, Stack said, because of certain warranted claims to sections in the Dome. Doheny became disheartened then and withdrew. But in order to reward Stack for his work Doheny had the Pioneer— a Standard Oil subsidiary—give Stack a contract. This contract gave Stack 5 per cent of any profits if the leases were obtained. As a pre- liminary advance to Stack for his work, the Pioneer gay’ him $14,000, he said. Lenroot questioned Stack about the settlement he and Fred G. Bon- Marion Star Wheeler After Daugherty. Simultaneously Senator Wheeler, Montana, Democrat, introduced a re- vised resolution calling for investiga- tion of the activities of Attorney- General Daugherty in connection with the oil leases, war frauds prosecu- tions and other matters, This was a substitute for the orig- inal Wheeler resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that Daugher- ty should resign. Dill Wants Oil Dope. Dill’s resolution covers the entire oil world. It requires the State De- partment to submit all correspond- ence in its files relating to oil. Dill wants to find out, he said, “How much of our foreign policy is an oil policy.” i In a statement today, commenting on President Coolidge’s stand on the Denby ouster resolution, Senator Robinson said, “Retention in office of Secretary Denby means that the Pres- ident for all” practical purposes sup- ports the Secretary’s policies and ap- proves or acquiesces in his actions. “Notwithstanding his defiant state- ment, it is respectfully suggested that the President soon may be forced by public opinion to turn out of office every one including Secretary Denby, who encouraged or participated in making the secret leases,” said Sen- ator Robinson, democratic leader in the Senate. Fight Strawn, Bought Lawyer, as Prober of Oil Scandal fils, publisher of the Denver Post, made with Sinelair by which Sin- clair promised to pay them $1,000,000, “The only claim you had was based on a charge of fraud against the Pioneer, wasn’t it?” “Well, yes,” Asked by Lenroot about this charge that there was conspiracy in connection with the lease to Sinclair, Stack said: “T thought that the Pioneer con- spired with Sinclair to ‘gyp’ me out of my interest. The Pioneer said they got $1,000,000 in oil from Sin- clair for the claims but I don’t know whether they did or not. They just wanted me to get out of it.” Fight On Strawn, Reports that Silas H. Strawn, Chicago, had withdrawn as one of the president’s special counsel in the oil leasing cases, were prevalent to- day after Strawn conferred with President Coolidge. It was stated at the White House, however, that “nothing was decided” at the conference. This was taken to indicate that Strawn’s withdrawal was under consideration. Concerning “a report that James A. Garfield, Ohio, was to be named one of the special counsel, a White House official said that “it would not be well to go too strong on that.” Garfield called on the president to- day. Strawn was reported to have of- fered to withdraw if President Cool- idge thought his membership on the directorates of two Chicago banks known as “Standard Oil banks” ren- dered him less available as a prose- cutor in the oil cases, Strawn’s connection with the two banks was revealed to the Senate Teapot Dome committee by officials of the banks yesterday, and was con- firmed to the committee by Strawn himself, Industrial Organizers in Cleveland. CLEVELAND, 0O., Feb.13—A meet- ing of all the industrial organizers of the Workers Party, in Cleveland, will be held Friday, Feb. 15th, at the Labor Temple, 2536 Euclid Ave., at 7:30 p. m. where plans will be made for getting all the members of the Workers Party who are eligible to join labor unions to do so. It will be urged that all members of the part; join actively in the industria] worl of the organization. Every indus- trial branch organizer is urged to at- tend this meeting. Herrin, the Klan and the Miners By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH. T APPEARS that there are some people who are determined to keep the town of Herrin on the map, even at the expense of adver- tising for the merchants who deal in pillow cases and bed sheets. If, after the recent episodes in Herrin, there are any who still doubt that the Kian is a business organization, they should be treated to an ex- amination by a competent phrenolo- . $0 as to determine the reason for such doubt. Under the cloak of a “Law and Order” campaign, and under the per- sonal jon of a paid agent of the Ku Klux Klan, the otherwise ‘gauche mining community, located in what is known as “Little Egypt,” was invaded and its inhabitants bru- tally assaulted. The gang led by 8. Glenn Young will find that they are not dealing with a lot of scissor- bills, for - yng Nad 7 eo es} the ones in ‘ ie te PT ane ot gabe before that will tolerate no invasion. hag By that has just been declared is only a natural conclu- sion to the events that led up to it, for there is ‘sin yee that be sure, that the miners there, as in "other-union field, will refuse to z8 ak under armed guard, and it makes no difference whether they come as bums to work as coal and iron lice, or as wearers of the K. K. K. hoods or tin badges, or even the wearers of the khaki uniform. fh the oyen and minds of the miners yall three are analogous as far as they are concerned, and those who have undertaken to usurp the right to rule that community against the wishes of the people there, might just as well come to an understand- ing of that fact now, for if they don’t it will come to them later. It is quite possible and even prob- able that there are men in the ranks of the miners, who because of racial or religious ine ee have joined forces with the Koo Koo’s, but that should not deter action on the part of the others to put them where they belong, outside of the union. At the convention recently held in the city of mer ae the miners of the country declared in no un- certain tone, that the United Mine Workers could not harbor both union men and the K.K.K., Fascist wearers of the Nightie, and decided that in- asmuch as the Miners Union was organized primarily for the purpose of protecting the members, it could not tolerate the agents of the busi- ness interests on the inside, and that they had to “get out.” Now it is time for the officials of the miners’ union to get busy, and even tho there are many who do not admit to membership in the Klan we think that on an occasion of this kind they can be best judged by their actions. Let those who pro- claim that the law of the ‘United Mine Workers of America shall be obeyed by its members, not fail to act in the interest of the union, by applying Article 14, those who belong to the Klan, ad- \ i) Section 2, to | peaceful mittedly, and also to those who, by their action, have shown that they belong to it, even tho they do not possess the courage to pub- licly declare that they do. The only sure way to cure an ill, whether it be social or otherwise, is to remove the cause, and the cause of the trouble at Herrin ig in our mind, the desire to avenge the deaths of the “scab-herders” who were loaded up with death-dealing armament and sent into Herrin to help break the strike of 1922, To do this dirty job, the Klan-paid usurper, S. Glenn Young has injected him- self, armed to the teeth, and the disorder and chaos that now pre- vails there is a direct result. He is the cause of all the trouble and should be summarily punished for his acts, Young boldly declares that the law will be administered and that a “speedy justice” will be meted out, and now that he has made such a declaration he should be given a dose of his own medicine. There should be no hesitancy about plac- ing the responsibility for the Herrin outrages on the shoulders of the Ku Klux Klan and its agent, S. Glenn Young. They are without a doubt the cause, and the cause should be speedily removed, so that the poor innocents who have been de- tailed to Herrin as National Guards- men, under orders haat state, can return to their ies and suits, and allow the We > be ae Wan Vanderlip Asks Inquiry Into |ASK ALL-NEGRO ASSEMBLY T0 LEAD THE FIGHT Strive for Open Door to Trade Unions (Continued from pa; -) groes to Africa and the building of &@ great African republic and the Pan-African congresses of Dr. Du- bois which aim rather at the spirit- ae Kinship of the members of the ce, The purpose of the Sanhedrin is to bring what unity is possible be- tween these two movements. Tho Mr, Garvey has failed to send repre- sentatives to the Sanhedrin the lead- ers here are hopeful of winning him over to the united front idea at a later date. Garvey has many friends at the convention, An ardent appeal to all Negroes to support the Liberian people and -all Back-to-African movements, was made by Dr. Jay Peters, a young Ne- gro from Chicago. He pictured an America where the lot of the black man would get worse and worse and warned his hearers that when the struggle for jobs becomes more tense as times become harder‘the white men would get the preference and the Negro would be scrapped. “Liberia has not failed,” he de- clared: “the hard times she has had are due to the interference of for- eign imperialism.” _ Both Haiti and Liberia have been injured by imperialism and Negroes must support these Negro republics warmly, he cried. An appeal for literary sincerity iwas made by Miss Jessie Faucett, a nationally known literary critic’ of the race, in her talk on “The Impor- tance of Culture in Race Better- ment,” Literature and Lynching, There is power in the truth, she pleaded, urging that the race gains nothing by the attempts of Negro writers to describe Negro life, not = it is but as the whites will admire it. ; Never be afraid of the charge of ‘propaganda,” she said, citing the fact that so-called cultured people cry out against unpleasant facts by labelling them “propaganda.” The wrongs of the race, such as lynching, must be told. The injury to art, from “propaganda” is as nothing compared with the injury to life from lynching. However, she in- sisted, truth itself it art, if told with the emotional power inherent in the facts, as in the ease of Dubois’ “Dark Water.” Negro Literature Needed. Mr. W. H. Moore, of Chicago, fol- lowed Miss Faucett sand urged the ‘éreation of a Negro literature that would acquaint the race with itself as the literature of Synve, Lady Gre- gory and other Irish writers ac- quainted the Irish people with them- selves during the Gaelic Rennas- cence. Prof. Monroe N. Work, director of the department of records and re- search at Tuskegee Institute, urged the need of more race knowledge— knowledge about the past achieve- ments of the race and its present status. The Rape Lie. Value of research data was shown at the senate hearings on the Dyer anti-lynching bill when none of the opposition attempted to repeat he old charge hat lynchings were made necessary by rape. That charge had beben exploded by Tuskegee’s re- search, which showed that only 20 per cent of lynchings were traceable to rape charges—charges which were usually unfounded. if eed of a better organized Negro press to cement the race together and expose the atrocities committed against the Negro was emphasized by Mr. Robert L. Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Courier and chairman of the Negro Press Committee at the Sanhedrin, before the session. ‘bés Angeles Labor Party Opposed to Delay from May 30 LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 13.— Opposition to any move to postpone the date of the May 30, political meet- ing of workers in St. Paul was voted by the Wea eae party in a ent meeting. ve he local aes will celebrate its first birthday anniversary with a mass meeting March 9. \ Plans are under way to make a place for the party ticket on the spring election ballot by having a sufficient number of votes register Farmer-Labor party or, that failing, by petition. The recent meeting voiced a protest against the action of persons employed to register voters in a house to house canvass who in- sist that one can for only the blican, Democratic, Socialist or Prohibition parties. Small Says Money Attacks Him, Moneyed interests are behind at- tacks on him, Governor Len Small, holds. In a Lincoln Day speech here last night Small declared that certain newspapers attacking him have taken the side of wealth, aristocracy and financial and commercial power while the Governor has taken his stand on “the side of the people.” Race For Attorney-General. SPRINGFIELD, Tl, Feb. 138.— Ste A. Day of Evanston today filed a vs fon as a candidate for At- torney: 1 . on the Republican ticket. Attorney-General Edward J. Brundage, Walter Provine of Taylor- ville, and Oscar Carlstrom of already have filed for this place. i : Thursday, February 14, 1924 St. Louis Gathering of C. P. P. A. Makes Slogan of ‘‘On to St. Paul’’! of Greater Importance Than Ever By C. E. RUTHENBERG. The developments in relation to the St. Louis Conference for Progressive Political Action, in a statement by one of the de Feb. 12, were well summarized legates, who said, “At least we have made some progress. We have submitted the possibility of organizing a party and adopt ing independent political action at the Cleveland Convention, July 4th.” In order to understand the significance of the third confer- ence, at St. Louis, and the decisions’it adopted, an analysis of the makeup of the conference is tee of the conference reported vital, The credentials commit- that such organizations as the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Furriers’ Union had sent in credentials, but the fact was that there were no dele- gates from any international organization of labor except the 16 standard railroad unions in the conference. The representatives of these unions, together with a fringe of farmer and labor political organizations, which have sprung up in various parts of the country, composed this conference. The Socialist Party was rep- resented by seven delegates, but its only influence is the in- fluence which its leader, Morris Hillquit, wields, in conferences, upon the leaders of the railroad unions. As an organization, the So- cialist. Party means nothing in. the conferencé. Why Railroad Workers Are In Politics. It is not at all surprising that the rai'road unions, as organizations, should be the first to enter into the political arena in order to make their volitical power felt. It is the experi- ence of the workers in the industries where there is governmental inter- ference which develops their politi- eal consciousness, The railroad workers are just those who have had to meet government action most often in the industries in which they are working. During the war period the rail- roads were government controlled and these workers again and again felt the power of the government affecting their wages and working conditions. Since the end of the war they have had to deal with the legislation of the Railway Labor Board, a government institution con- trolling wages and working condi- tions on the railroads. The fact that the sixteen standard railroad unions are engaged in politics and are drifting toward the organization of a political party is the best proof of the correctness of the Commun- ist viewpoint that it is the develop- ment of capitalism in the form of governmental interference in indus- try which develops the mdss_politi- cal movement of labor. These railroad unions, however, express an attitude of what is close to contempt so far as other organ- izations of workers and farmers. are concerned. At the St. Louis con- ference they refused to consider the great mass movement for a farmer- labor party expressing itself in the call for the May 30th Convention. Their attitude was that their con- ference was the only thing worth whi‘e or which mattered in relation to political action by farmers and workers’ and they were going to run the thing as they saw fit, re- gardless of the desires of any other group working toward the organiza- tion of the farmers. and workers for political action. They made their control absolutely secure by re-adopting and also mak- ing part of the call for the Conven- tion which they have set for July 4th at Cleveland, the provision that upon roll call each organization repre- sented shall have one vote for each 10.000 members. This means, under existing circumstances, that the mil- lion and a half organized railroad workers will absolutely dominate any conference in which thev take part. The observer at the third confer- ence could not help but be impressed by the fact that the organization had made some progress since the Cleveland conference. They were not yet ready to commit themselves to independent political. action but they were drifting in that direction even against their will. The fact that the hero of the railroad brotherhoods, McAdoo, had been splattered with | Teanot Dome oil was a big feature in developing the tendency toward independent political action. Socialists Support Anderson. In connection with the decision of the conference as to what is to be done at the July 4th convention, the part played by the Socialists cannot be ignored. In the Organization Committee, which drafted the plan for the July 4th Convention, the de- cision was that the convention be called for the purpose of nominat- ing a candidate for president and vice-president on a new party ticket. When this report came before the. conference and the question was raised as to whether it committed | Clevel the conference to independent politt- cal’ action, it was Morris Hillquit, leader of the Socialist Party, who was the first on his feet to deny that the conference was commit by the report and to interpret it to mean that the conference’ en- dorse an old Party candidate on July 4th or nominate independently, as the circumstances warranted. Thus the Socialist leader, Hillquit, When the sprinkling of delegates representing the groups which have called the May 30th Convention made the fight to definitely commit the conference to independent nom- inations and a new party, the railroad machine easily voted it down; in fact, practicaliy: cut off all discus- sion of their proposals. The deter- mination of the railroad machine to maintain its iron-clad control was also evident in its turning down of the amendment to the convention call which provided for représentation from local unions, The Statement of Principles. Contrasting to this vacillating and indecision on ‘the question of how to carry_on the fight against the old parties and their domination of the goveritment, is the statement of prin- ciples adopted by the conference, The preamble to the concrete pro- posals to which the conference com- mitted itself is as bitter a denun- ciation of the old parties and their use of governmental power to aid in the looting of the natiom by the capitalists as could be written. True, the statement of principles does not touch the fundamental point inthe exploitation of the workers. Tt never attacks the capitalist sys- tem but it shows to what extent the governmenta! power is used by the capitalists for their own epi@h- ment at the expense of the work- ers and farmers. One of the interesting discussions on the program took place around the question whether the conference should demand the right to strike for the industrial and farm workers. There were on the floor of the convention delegates who cried out against the word “strike” urging that it would frighten. the farmers and drive them away from support- ing the conference. They were ably answered by W. W. Fitzwater, pres- ident of the Farmer-Labor Union of Texas, who showed that the farm- ers of the South-West had learned to use the strike as well as the in- dustrial workers and after his speech the problem was solved by demand- ing the right to strike for the farm ‘workers as well as for the industrial ie character of. con- ference again comes out in the state- ment of principles in the fact that the only industry which the con- ference wants the government to own is the railroad industry. The railroad workers are concerned with their own affairs. They do not trouble themselves about the miners, or the steel workers, or workers in other basie industries who have had the same experiences which they have had, but try only to solve their own special problem-——that of the oppression and exploitation of rail- road workers, This plank of the program illus- trates well the narrow, self-centered ideas of the aristocrats of labor dom- inating the conference. What Does mference Mean to Workers and Farmers? The question which presents itself to the workers and farmers of this country with this third conference for Progressive Political Action pass- ing into history is; What relation- ship jhas the July 4th Convention to the great mass movement for a farmer-labor party which has been ervstallized in the call for the May 80th Convention? \ Can the workers and farmers, the rank and file organized and ‘unor- ganized among the worst exploited of the industrial workers and farm- ers of this country, leave their fate in the hands of the aristocrats of labor who dominated the Third Con- ference for Progressive Political Action? Can they depend upon this conference organizing a __ political ere and entering into the presi- Makdeam@paten on the basis of independent political action? Can they take the chance of calling off the May 30th Convention and going along with the Conference for Pro- gressive Political Action in the hope that .on July 4th it will finally crys- tallize into a farmer-labor party? The answer to these questions is an emphatic “No!” Any one who represents the mass movement for a farmer-labor party who makes such a peepee is Despont ing the be- tresal of this movemen' The Conference for Progressive Political Action is not committed to independent political action. At the land convention, after the old party conventions, the leaders of this conference may decide that one of the candidates nominated by the old parties will represent their spe- itted, | cial interests, These railroad ors ganization leaders will sacrifice the interests of the great mass of farm- ers and workers for their peculiar frou interests at Cleve‘and as they ave done in the past if they find it to their interests. They would en- played the part of preventing a clear-|dorse a McAdoo or a Smith, or some cut decision and leaving the way open for the endorsement. of a Me- Adoo, Smith or some othe en party moi eae re rin boo * is action by illquit again pul ec fn) the Desition of holdng up the de- velopment of a mass farmer-labor party and betraying the farmers and workers to whom have said that they are for independent politi- cal action, other — lied progressive, if his platf is right on the railroad question, and leaving the farming and working masses in the lurch, The Third Conference for BRITISH PLUTES BREATHE EASY; PREMIER SPEAKS No Trace of Socialism in MacDonald’s Speech (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb, 13—Whatever fears were slumbering in the breasts of the capitalist class of England that the British Labor Party would make things hot for them on coming into office were dissipated when Premier Ramsay MacDonald, in the House of « Commons, and Viscount Haldane, in the House of Lords, spare on the: pol- icy of the ‘so-called labor government. Even Lord Curzon, notorious re- actionary, in a speech following Hal- dane admitted that there was no trace of Socialism in the policy of the British Labor Party and said that the apprehension with which he viewed the formation of a Labor government had been sensibly relieved. The govyernment’s program ag out- lined by MacDonald was one that would appear quite in place in the platform of the most reactionary Tory government, The most impor- tant statement of the new premier was his appeal for a world confer- ence on reconstruction. This means capitalist reconstruction of course. lacDonald thought that America might be willing to assume an. active interest in European affairs if the European nations spent less for arma- ments, This was a slap at France, tho the British government i8 nét far be- hind in warlike preparations. The British flag flies over one sixth of the earth’s surface and the millions of colonials who are enjoying the doubtful blessings of British rule must be guarded by a liberal supply of bayonets in order to save m from themselves. The British Labor Party under the leadership of the yellow socialist will continue to “car- ry_the white man’s burden.” Like his predecessors, the former pacifist, MacDonald, declared that until other nations disarmed England could not put herself in a weak posi- tion by reducing her military and naval power. course, England must protect her loot. The peoples she has robbed must be prevented from regaining their property. The following synopsis of Mac- Donald’s speech summarizes the Brii.sh Labor Party’s policy: Britain will seek a world confer- ence with the object of restoring order in Europe; will except Amer- ican co-operation as soon as United States bankers feel that their-invest- ments will pay interest; favors co- operation with France, open diplo- macy, expansion of British trade and commerce; hgs not thought of a capi- je tae fstiog Labos este’ poset: e is) rr ’s program before the election.. : MacDonald has in mind three world conferences to discuss a special meet- any of the League of Nations to ne mit Germany to membership, to di: cuss the findings of the commission on reparations, and a disarmament Centerericg after sounding America rst, ANTI-KU KLUXER TELLS OF THREE DAY KIDNAPING Klan Disarmed, Peace Returns at Herrin ‘Special to The Daily Worker) MARION, ‘nn, Feb. 18.—William- son county was quiet today under a disarmed peace, with state militia- men pacing scenes of trouble in Her- rin, and others quartered here and at, Jounston City. . Major General Milton Foreman to- day traveled over the county, urging ° the business men to lend their aid in Bespin the district erift Gorge Galligan, Anti-Ku- Klux Klan , arrested on orders of Glenn Young, for three days dicta- tor of the county under the of Meg fm! raiders, was it back wdalttgan, pf Beatog 3 You with alligan, i oung with a ide arenas of Stans Coa plicity mi of sar le, of Herrin, which ipitated in strife that resulted in the 1800 — guardsmen being sent here, today told a sete story of a three-day kid- naping. ~ A prisoner in the county jail which he has occupied the two years sheriff; Galligan said he had been to being held 24 hours in the pare Jail, which was filled to over- arrested by the tar Policemen of png the yrs) wait dey others Adgeet put into mobi'es and placed in the proces- ise of the funeral of Cagle, which He thousand klansmen attended Sun- jay’ afternoon, Galligan said, “We had no rest, no sleep, and were subjected to ‘sical and mental abuse,” he said. ‘ The procession drove from ne po to be ped off we were in the i! y” Galli- iamson county jail, w! he i ¥ J j