The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 1

any FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | J 4 | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND VOL. I. No. 340. neuen st THE DAILY WORKER. Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1924 qq » Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. 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 Rerornition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents ASHINGTON IS IN THROES OF OIL PANIC Bread Should Sell At Five Cen JU. S. FLOUR IN BRITISH 4-CT. BREAD Charge Millers and Bakers Making Huge Profits (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— A colossal “Bread Trust” is robbing American homes of $1,000,000 a day, Basil Manly, well known economist and statistician, declared, in a de- mand for a congressional ac- tion against the “combine.” Bread should be selling at five cents for a pound loaf, in- stead of for nine cents, Manly said, basing his statement on the present price of wheat. Manly’s report was based on an in- restigation made at the request of tongressmen who desired to know why bread prices remained virtually at the war level while wheat went back below prewar prices. Ba Bread made from American flour ls today being sold in England at four cents a pound, Manly reported. He charged that millers, bakers and retailers are making enormous pro- fits on flour and bread. Manly cited the General Baking Dena which he declared in br » before the declaration of two stock dividends of 100 and 300 per rent in the same year. — Profits for {923 were even greater, he asserted. Bread Trust Profits As result of these alleged profits and stock dividends, one dollar in- vested in General Baking company stocks in 1916 is now worth $309, Manly said. Bread prices in American cities were declared by Manly to be “arbi- trary and artificial,” and violating all economic laws. Bread costs two cents less a pound in New Orleans and Houston, far away from the wheal and flour milling states, than in Chicago, Omaha, Butte and St. Paul, all in the heart of the wheat belt, he said. Wheat Belt Cities Suffer Boston, Bridgeport, New Haven and other New England cities pay less for bread than any city in the grain belt, except Kansas City, Maply reported. These “artificial and excessive prices” are fixed and maintained by tetailers supported by the large wholesale bakers either voluntarily pat cana The Ku Klux Klan Defeated at Herrin, Illinois. Labor, Lynching, Disfranchisement, Segregation, Are Issues Testing the Sanhedrin at Final Session Today Whether the hopes that Negro labor has had in the great All-Race Assembly or Sanhedrin are justified or not depends on what decisions are made for a united front plan of action against oppression at the closing sessions today, in the Wabash avenue Y. M. C. A., Wabash avenue and 88th street, Chicago. e Negro workers, who supported the original call for the Sanhedrin, had reason to expect that the result of the con- ference would be an aggressive and united campaign for equal- ity in the labor unions and disfranchisement, segregation, peonage, inadequate public schools and lynching. At the opening of the con- ference the leaders—altho or under threat of boycott, the report tHese leaders are not working- charged. Duluth Labor in Demand for Probe men—professed themselves in sympathy with a labor pro- gram. Today comes the test, for the decisions of the confer- of Crosby Disaster ence are made today. (Special to The Daily Worker) 4 pout Feb. 14.—A resolution titioning Gov. J. A. O. Pri to appoint a commission of five citizens to investigate the Milford mine dis- aster Tuesday at Crosby, was adopted a meeting of the Federated Trades mbly of Duluth. The petition re- quests that one member of the com- mission be a mining engineer and an- othe a representative of organized labor. Labor Issue Side-Tracked. Until the present the regular ses- sions of the Sanhedrin have been taken up with speeches delivered by speakers selected by the chairman. And, unfortunately, labor, which Chairman Kelly Miller declared at the outset, was the most important issue hefore the Sanhedrin, has not had a full half-day alloted to it, as have other less important subjects. While the speeches-were going cn The Duluth group will seek the co-|the important work of the Sanhedrin , te |was being done in committees, or Federation ss 7 ny Rag commissions, by commission members labor unions thruout the state, in se- | sppointed bad Fong ie Hepa nrc be - {chairman lat 4 pF bicstapr i sist cg tions to be made on request. These ‘ commissions iy Perlape yn iagr pen 'rench lis. Education, and other subjects have PARIS: Feb. Lethe prec franc | been working out programs which was weaker today, hezia oted at|will be presented today to, a super 22.40 to the dollar and 96,40 to the ‘committee, or commission “For Per- pound sterling, manent Results,” which will sift out _Klan’s Imperial Wizard Mouths _ More “‘Pay-triotism”’ Against Aliens ‘ager te The Dally Worker) I Feb, 14—An “embargo” on every alien not in havistor vim top netieaal ideale of the United States was urged by Dr. H. W. Evans, im wizard of the poly ter eg a speech to a gathering caberatibe of every undesirable type, be completely stopped,” he said, “until our illiteracy and internal s1 can be superseded by un- selfish patriotism.” ) what it wants to present to’ 'he San- hedrin for its approval. There is a serious danger that the | Sanhedrin will adjourn today. with- out having adopted any definite pro- LABOR FIGHTS MACHINE RULE AT SANHEDRIN Denounces Efforts to Ignore Great Issue Labor rose in revolt at the San- hedrin late yesterday afternoon against the machine rule that, has been denying expression to the €vork- | ers’ cause, Tremendous applause came from the delegation and Labor is IXely to win its point to have the entire gram of action around which the op-'morning’s session devoted to the most pressed members of the race can important issue before the race which rally. This danger comes from the has been ignored until now. fact that such a large proportion of | the appointed committeemen repre- sent interests that conflict with the interests of labor. If a do-nothing policy is adopted it will be on the (Continued on page 3) Labor Ignored. The revolt led by members of thé Workers Party and the African Blood Brotherhood came at the close of an afternoon,of speeches on inter- (Continued on page 3) Does General Foreman Want Big Business Dictatorship? (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill., Feb. 14.—What is looked upon as an appeal for a dictatorship of business men with Fascisti tendencies over Herrin was sent to Illinois senators an congressmen by Dr. J. T. Black, superintendent of the Herrin hospital, which was shot up by a mob of Kluxers a few days ago. While the responsibility of the Klan for the hospital shoot- ing is not questioned, Dr. Black, in appealing for open hangings openly arrived at, as a cure for the violence that now disturbs the peace of Wiiliamson County, harks back to the killing of the imported strikebreakers, in 1922, and regrets that those who were indicted for that affair were not executed.” “Let us hang someone for murder here and we will have law and order,” said Dr. Black. A A conference of “influential citizens” met at two o’clock this morning and listened to Major General Milton J. Foreman tell them that they must “establish a stable government here while the troops are on the spot,” else it cannot be accomplishea when the soldiers are withdrawn. ; But the citizens of Williamson County elected their officials in the last elections. What does General Foreman want? We thought the ballot was more sacred in the eyes of 100 per cent Americans than the bullet. Is a dictatorship of Big Business the General’s solution of the Herrin muddle? PROBE TRAILS $1,000,000 SLUSH FUND Proved Daugherty 0. K'ed Fall Leases (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.— | Washington is rumor mad and politicians are literally hyster- ical with fright. Every man in public life, who ever bought a share of oil stock is afraid his name will be dragged into the Teapot Dome scandal, Men who had more damag- ing connections with the lead- ing figures in the case are wait- ing in a sort of numb terror for|* the blow to fall on them. Frank Vanderlip, former head of the National City Bank, a Standard Oil institu- tion, has given the capital its o ts DAILY WORKER ALONE SEES BIG STORY IN THE ALL-RACE CONGRESS If you depended for your news on the capitalist dailies of Chicago you would not know that the most important congress in the history of an important American Race was being held in Chicago this week. Yet the great Negro All-Race Assembly, or Sanhedrin, is news— BIG NEWS. No newspaperman can see the representatives of 61 national organizations coming to- gether for the first time for the purpose of uniting twelve million people without knowing that a vital news happening is at hand. All this is true but the capitalist dailies are maintaining a conspiracy of silence against this splendid ef- fort of the Negro Race broken only by the most meager mention. Only the DAILY WORKER is reporting this convention giving two col- ums a day to the news, The capitalist press maintains a conspiracy of silence against all constructive efforts of the Negro Race, which their big advertisers want to see kept as a disunited voteless lot of men whom they can exploit the more effectively on the industrial field. How different are these same vicious papers when a Negro is un- fortunate enough to get into the greatest thrill. Administration officials today are ‘ike men walking thru no man’s land under heavy enemy fire. No one knows when he is going to be hit and the possibilities are that the : entire pose may. be wiped out. ‘th addition to the ‘Vanderlip bomb: shell more high explosive in the shape of information that men still higher up in the nation’s govern- ment are involved by evidence to be laid hefore the senate committee has official Washington in a state of ex- treme tension. Nerves are yn- strung, eyes are red and tempers are raw. $1,000,000 Slush Fund. Reports of a $1,000,000 “slush fund,” raised by oil interests pro- vided the senate oil scandal inves- tigation with another startling “lead” today, as they prepared to run down gossip which has dragged the name of the late President Harding into the affair. Frank A. Vanderlip faced stern examination by the committee this morning on his statement that sale of the Marion Star by the late Presi- dent Harding should be investigated, The committee will call on Vander- lip to tell whether this statement was based on information indicating some connection between sale of the Star and the oil leasing scandal, or merely upon rumor and gossip, Vanderlip in a speech at Ossining, N. Y., not only drew Mr. Harding’s name into the inquiry, but assailed Attorney General Daugherty, Sen- ator Reed of Missouri, and others, ‘and said there should be a wholesale house cleaning in Washington, While Vanderlip was schedfed to be the day’s “star” in the scandal inquiry, other developments were im- pending that threatened to carry the investigation into new fields and to smirch other names in addition to the long list of those already in- volved. Used to Bribe Officials. The $1,000,000 “slush fund,” ac- cording to gossip about the commit- tee room, was provided by oil men interested in the leases, for the use of government officials. A man close to the Harding administration, tho not official.y connected with it, was | reported to the committee to have | drawn more than $200,000 from the fund at one time. Harry F. Sinclair, now on his way home from Europe, will be subpoe- naed ie minute he lands and will (Continued from page 1.) OIL SCANDAL IN ITALY ROME, Feb. 14—The Rome press scents a “teapot” in Italy's oil leases and is demanding that the Mussolini government publish the full text of the convention by which Harry F. Sinclair obtained a monopoly in the survey and ex- ploitation of Italian oil resesrces. Thus far, the agreement with the Singlair company has been kent secret, ABIG DAY!“ AWEEK”. The Famous, New Russian Novel Starts Tom r toils of the law—whether innocent or guilty, Then the pages flare with lurid _ headlines. It is a standing rule in capitalist dailies to give no space to a Negro story unless it is a crime story. It is an unwritten rule but one that is fol- rowed rigidly... The exception of the old New York Evening Post, before Oswald Garrison Villard sold it, was an exception that merely proved the rule. On the other hand the publica. tions ef the civance guard of the working class rejoice at every ef- fort of their colored comrades to unite against the oppressor—even tho this unity is not on as prole- tarian a basis as they would wish. And so for the DAILY WORKER the All-Race Congress is a big story. Georgia Bank Closes. ALBANY, Ga., Feb. 14.—The Citi- zens First National Bank, which, for many years has been considered one of the city’s strongest financial in- stitutions, closed its doors today. The bank was capitalized at $200,000, had deposits of $500,000, and a sur- plus of $40,000. Officers of the bank said the closing was caused by over- extension of credit and a shrinkage in deposits, } Join the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club. E are passing thru one of W “The people of this country are in public men is badly shaken. The Great Political Crisis By JOHN PEPPER political crises of the United States. the press of the capitalists themselves are forced to admit it, Indeed, not only do they admit the crisis, but they proclaim it, they cry it out, wailing and in despair. And to prove that this crisis is actually present, and does not exist only in our Com- munist wishes, we here give a few of the most important re- marks of the politicians and newspapers of both big parties: Per Loaf GLENN YOUNG KLAN LEADER IS INDICTED Gun-toter Is Disarmed; Charged With Theft (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill, Feb. 14.—S. Glenn Young, the gun-toting leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who has terrorized Williamson County for weeks, is now under indictment, charged with mal- icious injury to property. Young cut quite a figure here until the arrival of the militia from Chicago, when he was stripped of his artillery and told bluntly to “take off his guns and keep them off.” The situation in Herrin, is calm on the surface but there is a volcano of hate slumbering underneath. The coroner’s jury investigating the death of Constable Cagle re- turned a verdict implicating three jmen, but made no recommendations |that they be arrested. All those ar j rested in connection with the death of the Klansman Cagle have been re leased including; Sheriff George Galligan, C. BE. Anderson, mayor of Herrin,-Ora 'Fho rr mine union official. Try to Rouse Prejudice. Rumors of men being seen tearing the American flag; are spread by Klansmen in an effort to arouse the passions of the people here. The “culprits” of course are anti-Klan. On information supplied by Klans- man Young’ the United States gov- ernment had a party of injunction experts working secretly in Chicago for a week, preparing a campaign against the anti-K) i rin. That Young influence in the W ngton govern- ment is now generally admitted tho he has not yet explained his exact status. The presence of criminals in high government posts in Wash- ington, as revealed in the Veterans’ Bureau exposure tends to arouse suspicion that Young may be an un- derworld character who has appealed to the narrow puritanital New Eng- land conscience of Calvin Coolidge and thus secured unlimited powers to go on a booze hunting expedition ostensibly, but what is now clearly (Continued on page 2) the deepest and most important The politicians and rofoundly shocked. Popular confidence All of us, irrespective of party, seem to the people more or less bespattered. occurred perilously near the foundati Something like an explosion has ‘ons of the Republic.” —Senator Peppers Republican, in the Senate, Feb. 7. “The gravity of the situation can hardly be exaggerated. If the con- fidence of the people in our Government is tobe maintained—nay, if it is to be deserved—all officers who have betrayed their trusts must be brought jto the bar of the courts.” y Senator Reed, Democrat, in the Senate, Feb. 7. “No situation more humiliating, more demoralizing, and to some extent, more discouraging, has ever been heretofore for our consideration or the consideration of those who have gone beforg."” —Senator Borah, Republican, in the Senate, Feb. 8, “The structure.of our government rocks mpon its very foundations. The only way to restore to the government the confidence of the people— confidence so essential to its perpetuity—is to follow every guity man with the utmost rigor of the law and to drive from public office every man who by connivance or supineness allowed this crime to be committe: | —Senator Walsh, Democrat, in the Senate, Feb. 8. “What is going on in Washington is much more significant and may become m more ominous, than anything which happens in a meeting of Communists at Madison Square Garden, If it shall appear that the taint of corruption has deeply penetrated both pollticel parties, a great impetus will be given to discontent; Should Congress fail to show itself absolutely (Continued on page 2.) ow!