The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 15, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER f af Friday, February 15, 19; THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00. .8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50..8 months $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE. MORITZ J. LOEB...... d-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- epi gs el the act of March 8, 1879. Chicago, Illinois Editor . Labor Editor ..Business Manager Entered as Office at Chicago, Ill. There Are No Classes---? START FIGHT TQ | Ot! Trust Outrages All Decency, Cries Nebraska Governor, Loudly Bewailing Coolidge’s Inactivity LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 14.—“Lower the price of gasoline or ‘ll fight to nationalize the oil industry,” was the ultimatum delivered today by Governor Charles ‘W. Bryan, of Nebraska. Bryan joined Governor W. in a campaign against what they termed “a nation-wide oil This is a lively season at Palm Beach. Very lively! The picture of Colonel Dupont, powder. millionaire, with silk stockings and knickers, conversing with Mr. Moore, Ambassador to Spain; in straw hat and white pants, promen- ading in the bright sunlight of that blessed climate, appears on the pictorial pages of. our large capitalist dailies. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, accompan- ied by another millionaire’s wife, can be seen reclining on the sands in the cool shade of a fancy parasol, watching the females of the Smart Set display as much of the “female form divine” as the environment permits. The correspondent of the Daily Worker tells us that the chief topic of conversation in Florida—where the millionaires gather, is not << 3 Advertising rates on application. On Top of the World So far westward that it is traveling east again, the course of American imperialism wends its way. } J. P. Morgan and Company are floating a bond issue of $150,000,000 for the Japanese government. They are 6 per cent bonds, sold at 9214 and will therefore yield about 74% per cent to investors—a rate of interest that will ruin any government. This is the largest foreign loan negotiated in the United States sipce the $500,000,000 Anglo-French financing in 1915 and in respect to the length of time the loan is to run—thirty years—is the only one of its kind handled by American financiers. The Dutch and Swiss issues of the same loan are to be paid in American dollars. This event marks the consolidation of Amer- ican financiers’ world supremacy and as the bulk of the proceeds of the loan will be spent in the United States, little of the liquid capital required will actually leave the country. Japan is in a bad way. To the reconstruc- tion problems and expense caused by the earthquake there is added the growing unrest among the industrial workers. Her imperial- istic adventures in China have not been of the most successful character and undoubtedly one of the unmentioned concessions made by Japan in return for the much-needed loan is relinquishment of part of her gains in China to American interests. “General Dawes is slated for head of the new international bank that is designed to put Ger- many on her feet with—actually at the feet of —American capital. W. P. G. Harding, former head of the fed- eral reserve bank is to take over the financial management of Hungary. Mexico’s government bonds are held by Wall Street financiers. All these ventures, say the capitalist press, are aids to Ameriean—prosperity.—_Certainly they indicate that the American wayge-earners toil hard and fast when the rulers allow them to work or such huge surpluses could not be piled up. They are made freely because back of them stands the army and navy and the will to plunge the nation into war to collect from a defaulting debtor. These loans force whole peoples to pay tribute to American finance- capital, they strengthen the exploiters in the war against the workers at home while from their overflowing treasuries comes the golden flood that debauches the labor leaders, pub- licists and public officials. The American capitalist class sits on the top of the world. {Triumphantly the Chicago Tribune pro- claims: “Jap Loan Puts U. S. on Top in World Finance.” The heads of the American labor movement, blind to the dangers that their followers face, conduct a war against {he workers and farm- ers government of Soviet Russia—the only powerful enemy of cap‘talist imperialism. Brisbanism Arthur Brisbane says Mr. Mellon is working for the people for nothing. He can make at his own busi- ness in two days or two hours what the people pay him in a year. We do not disagree with any part of this statement except that which says he is work- ing for the people for nothing. Mr. Andrew Mellon, as secretary of the treasury, is not working for anyone but him- self and afew of his class. He could not make, or save, as much money as a private individual as he can as secretary of the treasury or he would not be in office. The truth of the matter is that Andrew Mellon, like Daugherty, Fall and other cabi- net crooks, is using his office to advance his personal fortunes and doing it in a far more brazen manner than either of these two dis- credited servants of the oil interests. No one knows just how much the tax mea- sure proposed by Mellon will save him be- cause no one knows exactly what his income is. The amount admittedly runs into the mil- lions and if Mellon makes more than this in “two days or two hours” he is much wealthier than we thought he was. As the Whitewasher Extraordinary to His Majesty, King Capital, Arthur Brisbane has his work cut out for him these days. King Tut is not resting very peaceably, but it is a safe bet that he is envied by a lot of » Washington politicians caught in the Teapot Dome exposures. year. a 4 the housing problem, unemployment or reduc- tion in wages—but—the latest. wrinkle in bathing suits. According to the description given of this article of wear it is principally conspicuous by its absence. Hairless poodles are in great demand to go with the almost invisible bathing suit. Our young bloods are enjoying life in the sunny climate of the South. Even Attorney-General Daugherty, fleeing from the burning oil-can, found peace and comfort there. But all the people in America are not at Palm Beach. While the idle rich revel in semi- nudity and inebriety in the playgrounds of the nation the slaves, who produce the wealth, which they squander, are confined to dreary tenements in the large cities, or on bankrupt farms in the county, using up their energies in the ceaseless struggle to make ends meet. Their wives cannot afford to wear excusably inadequate finery; they are lucky to get suffi- cient clothes of any sort to protect themselves from the cold. Their husbands do not wear silk FREE CONNORS, LABOR DEFENDER|... Opposed ~ Syndicalism : Act; Got Five Years SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 14— Judge C. O. Busick, author of the anti-I. W. W. injunction, has sen- tenced Tom Connors, secretary, Cal- ifornia branch General Defense com- mittee, to one to five years in San Quentin for “jury tampering”—which consisted of circularizing Sacramento with the: rest of the state in favor of a bill to repeal the criminal syn- dicalism act. The case will be ap- pealed and Connors is expected to be set free very soon on appeal bond. Meanwhile Ed Delaney, formerly secretary at Centralia, Wash., is act- ing as secretary of the defense com- mittee. * * * Persecutors Are Defled. CHICAGO, Feb, 14,—“The convic- tion of Tom Connors in Sacramento on a charge of ‘corruptly attempting to influence a juror’ is one of the trust composed of the Standard Oil Company, independent con- cerns and allied interests.” “We're going to bust this trust wide open,” Bryan declared, “prices are increased at will. Last week’s increase was unjust. The public is being robbed of millions of dollars and Nebraskans are going to have protection.” Both governors have appealed to President Coolidge for federal action. “If the government won't act, we will campaign to arouse public senti- ment,” Bryan said emphatically “There can be but one result—aboli- tion of private oil interests and con- sequent government regulation and price fixing.” When gasoline prices were hoisted last summer Bryan and McMasters bought carload lots and sold it at cost. H. McMaster of South Dakota have combined outside the state. They regulate the price of oil ship- ments to Nebraska and begin with increases at the refineries, “We cannot compete with them be- cause we have no private source from which to purchase, “If we bought and sold at cost now we would lose by virtue of in- creases at the refineries. The in- crease was caused by a combination of retailers. Now all oil producing agencies seem to have combined and are forcing the price upward and gouging the public, “This oil combine has outraged all decency. The confidence of the public in the government is shaken. Senatorial inquiries have ceased to frighteri the oil concerns who con- tinue to tie up the producing agen- | cies in one gigantic combination | “We can’t do that now,” Bryan declared. ‘Oil producing agencies most serious things which has hap- Tin Workers pened for some time,” declared Harry Feinberg, secretary, General De- fense committee, here. “It seems that the instructions of the judge, utterly disregarding the specific of- fense charged in the indictment, were responsible for the verdict.” Demand Release of McLachlan The Irondale Lodge No. 9, of the Amalgamated Association of fron, Feinberg has wired a protest to|Stee] and Tin Workers of Hamilton, the district attorney of San Fran-| Ontario, passed a resolution calling cisco, as follows: . ¢ “Be advised that the General De-| lease James B. McLachlan, deposed stockings and knickers; they are more COn-/fense committee will continue to cir-| president of the Nova Scotia miners | on the Canadian government to re- cerned with hoiding their jobs than with set-|cularize the citizens of California | who received a two years sentence as ting the fashion. We are told there are no classes in America. Of course not. Anybody who can accumulate a few millions can go to Palm Beach and promenade with the Duponts, Moores, Hearsts, wear “Florida Special” bathing suits, tote hair- less pups around and forget about the wicked class struggle. There are no classes in Amer- ica, except in the imagination of communists and other evil-minded people, who are jealous of our millionaires. Of course we have rich and poor, but are we not told that the poor “we shall always have with us?” The proper course for our millions of wage slaves tb follow is to practicé thrift, save at least one dime a day and, if they live long enough to save a million, they can rise into the smart set, go to Palm Beach and do everything our favored few are allowed to do. Jt is quite simple. Lots of Opportunity Pessimists keep croaking that this is no longer a land of opportunity, in spite of evi- dence to the contrary. In fact, our opinion is that opportunity never knocked at the doors of wide-awake American citizens with more persistence than it does today. Let us give you a few examples: Albert B. Fall was a poor man only a few years ago. By persistent effort he worked his way up in politics, got landed in Harding’s cabinet as Secretary of the Interior and by a judicious use of his office accumulated enough wealth to enable him to quit a paltry $12,000 a year job and live like a real fellow. Why, money was coming his way in satchelfuls. Charles P. Forbes had a checkered career. He experienced the ups and downs that any fullblooded 100 per cent American ‘goes thru before success crowns his efforts, but he finally got there. Persistence is the key to success. What he did in order to reach the summit need not be recorded here. Our readers are re- ferred to the investigation of the graft in the Veterans’ bureau for the details, Mr. Forbes shoulder-slapped, glad-handed and smiled his; way up to the White House and was placed in charge of the work of disposing of hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. This Mr. Forbes did in a highly efficient manner to his own satis- faction at least, if not to that of the veterans, who won the war. Self-interest is the great motive-power of human progress, say our|Hepp teachers. Mr. Forbes developed the idea one hundred per cent. There are others, from ‘William Gibbs Mc- Adoo, who followed the cireuitious route of marrying a president’s daughter, accepting a cabinet job and finally striking oil, Leo Koretz, who cleaned up several millions of dollars on an oil well located in the Chicago Loop, to the lowly “Yellow Kid” Weil, who a few weeks ago transferred $30,000 from the pockets of a Detroit millionaire to Mr. Weil’s bank account. skeptical that opportunity has not fled this country? Financial suecess can be achieved in the United States provided one does not| wil! make the mistake of working for a living. The beauties of Ku Klux Klan law and. order were unveiled in Herrin day before yesterday|py MAIL— when a hospital, filled with patients, was rid- dled with builets by the valiant forces of law enforcement under the leadership of Glenn Young. There will be peace in Herrin—and other places—when not one, but several hospitals are filled with these bravos. Anyone interested in knowing where the economic interests of the legal profession are can learn something from the difficulty en- to bed and oily to rise makes a man| countered by Coolidge in finding a lawyer of , wealthy and then it had to happen| any prominence who is not an attorney for, some branch of the oil business. eR ti? ae who are potential jurors ever manner it deems best. in what-|a result of the strike against the The| British Empire Steel Company in latest action of the Sacramento court | which the miners became involved, can only be compared with the old ezaristic government that has reaped what it has sowed. Your boast that this is the first conviction of its kind in this country shows that anything is possible under Judge Busick’s court.” Connors Circularized State. In March, 1928, Connors, acting as head of the California committee, conducted a campaign to have the criminal syndicalism law of Califor- nia repealed, mailed 20,000 multi- graphed copies of a letter claiming that it was a product of war hys- teria, and violated constitutional rights. One of these letters fell into the hands of H. D. Arnold, one of a panel of jurors drawn soon afterward to try a criminal syndicalism case. Connors was indicted April 2, 1923, on two counts: criminal synétcalism and corruptly attempting to influ- ence a juror. The criminal syndicalism charge was dropped. The first trial, July, 1923, ended in a disagreement. Be- fore the second trial, which began Jan. 28, 1924, counsel for Connors filed affidavits of prejudice against Judge Busick and argued for a change of venue. The resolution is as follows: (1) We, the members of Iron- dale Lodge No. 9 of the Amalga- mated Association of Iron,. Steel and Tin Workers of North America, petition the Federal Government and the Provincial Govérnment of Nova Scotia,to release from prison the men that were arrested during the steel strike of July and August of 1923, believing that was a frame- up on the part of someone to break the morale of the strikers and to drive the men into submission and break Organized Labor in Sydney. (2) We, as loyal Canadian citi- zens demand the release of J. B. McLachlan and other members of Organized Labor, and in doing so, base our demands on evidence. given. We believe it is a gross in- justice to the workers of Canada and call upon the several Govern- ments to rectify the wrong done. Eight-Hour Day in Finland Shown to Be Myth Same as Here HELSINGFORS, Finland, Feb. 14. Busick denied his |The eight-hour day is still upon the prejudice, even tho he had been but|statute books of Finland, but in a few days before reprimanded by | reality it is a myth. the California district court of ap- The government has annulled the peals for wrongful instruction of @!law by the simple trick of granting jury, to the prejudice of the accused, in a criminal syndicalism trial. is also the judge who »!more and more exemptions to it. ©} Among the industries in which ex- &\emptions are granted are the follow- whee tale short time ago, the blanket injunc-|ing: building industry in rural dis- tion against the I. W. W. On Feb. 1, Connors was convicted |and_ bridges; ticts, repair work on railways, docks, forestry and lumber and on Feb. 5 was sentenced by| work; railways, postoffice and tele- Judge Busick to five Sr in P ind state penitentiary, and bail pending appeal was denied. _* ¢ © Liberties Union Protests. LOS ANGELES, Feb, 14.—Declar- ing the conviction of Tom Connors, secretary, California branch, Gen- graph offices, the customs department, hospitals and prisons. The trade unions have entered vig- orous protest, thus far without success. Refuse Equal Pay. MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb, 14. eral Defense committee, under the|—-The federal government has re- anti-criminal syndicalism law “an |fused to grant a claim for equal pay outrage and a disgrace,” the Los | for the sexes employed in the federal Angeles Civil Liberties union adopted | civil service. The claim was re- a resolution condemning the action|fused on the ground that the wage of the Sacramento county superior | fixed for a man had to be adequate court. ’ Continued support of the move- to maintain himself, a wife, and two or three children, while that fixed for ment for the repeal of the criminal |a woman was simply to provide nor- syndicalism law was pledged. RED REVEL, FEB. 16. See the RED REVEL and Die y. Be sure to Revel, Feb. 16. Treat yourself! REVEL. RED REVEL! The Land for the Users! ‘mal necessities for a single woman living away from home, Normal In Australia. SYDNEY, N. S. W., Feb, 14.— Come to the RED |Save for a few sectional disputes, the Something different—The |coal mining industry in Australia is now about normal, and at most of the mines there is little or no unemploy- ment. with a strangle hold on the con-! sumer.” Capital Centralizes on Clothing Industry, Says Sidney Hillman Concentration of capital in the clothing industry is continuing, says Sidney Hillman, president, Amalga- mated Clothing Workers, who dis- cussed union conditions with The Federated Press here. “Instead of the drift into the smaller towns away from the strong- ly unionized centers, we find that capital in the clothing industry 1s} largely found in, the larger com- munities and tends to increase in amount and concentration there,” Hillman said. “A faw manufactur- ers each year attempt to set up plants in out of the way localities but the stream flows in the other di- rection. “When an employer goes else- where the union follows him and gets a cordial reception from organized labor in the new district.” The so-called Golden Rule non-un- jon clothing shop in Cincinnati, run by an employer named Nash who gets the platform for his goods at re- ligious conferences on the strength of his “golden rule,” was condemned by Hillman. It pays lower wages and enforces worse conditions than any union shop, he said, while the al- leged co-operative features are a de- lusion, ; The Russian-American . Industrial corporation, organized by the Amal- gamated and now an integral part of the Russian clothing industry, is preparing to issue another dividend to its stockholders, Hillman said. Solon Upshaw, of Georgia, Ku Kluxer, Judging by Speech CLEVELAND, Feb. 14.—Congress- man W. D. Upshaw, speaking at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church re- cently indicated that he was a mem- ber of the Ku Klux Klan when he boasted of having blocked a resolu- tion to investigate the hooded order AS WE SEE IT ’ By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Harry Davis, former mayor Cleveland is sentimental. city on May day, 1919, when rowdies armed. with clubs and policemen on boot and on horseback broke up a socialist parade, expressed his desire to buy two of the old horses the city is planning to sell. “I guess there is a bit of sentiment behind my wanting ‘the horses,” said Davis, “most of the served when I was Mayor here and several of them were used to quell the memorable May Day riot.” The local Scripps-Howard paper has the following comment on this statement: “If Mr. Davis wishes a real souvenir of the so-called riot, he should buy one of the motor trucks that was stationed in East 9th Street, hours before the ‘riot’ filled with rowdies armed with bricks and clubs and driven by chaffeurs who were instructed to charge into the march- ers and break up the parade at any cost.” The workers of Cleveland who were peacefully celebrating the international day of jubilation of the working class of the world had re- ceived a -permit from Mayor Davis to march, but, lick-spittle that he is, he, obeyed the orders of the capital- ists and sent his police to smash the heads of the people it was his duty to protect. * * Is France willing to trade the Vir- gin Islands to the United States for the French debt? According to a statement published in a Paris paper recently, the subject has been dis- cussed in Washington, tho U. S. of- ficials have denied there is any truth in the report. The alleged French proposition would turn over the West India Islands to the United States, while the latter would wipe off its slate the French debt and assume the responsibility of the French debt to France. * £ & # American ,imperialists are of the opinion.that their government should own more islands in the West Indies for strategic reasons. This was really the motive behind the pur- chase of the Danish“islands during the war which cost the government $25,000,000. The French debt how- ever, is three billions and the ad- ministration does not value the French island possessions at any- thing near that figure. Perhaps the United States government will event- ually accept the islands or anything else the French may offer in lieu of the three billion loan which will never in all probability be paid. fae eer hae | The Chicago Tribune has added an- other liar to its list of foreign cor- respondents. He is stationed at Ber- lin, _The Riga prevaricator was growing stale, and he needed a rest. The pew man is giving a good ac- count of himself and may deserve the iron cross if the Kaiser ever gets back to the throne. The Tribune is very anxious to see Trotsky fill a neat fitting overcoat of cold clay and as the possibility of Leon’s de- parture to the world from which sinners never return is only equal to that of any other mortal, the cor- respondents of the World’s Greatest Liar in Riga and Berlin, weave ima- gipary yarns with Trotzky playing the role of applicant for speedy in- terment. The latest act of this imaginary Trotzky was to hurl a defy at the Third Internationale and chal- lenge the Cheka. Moscow is getting each day its daily thrill and life is by moving an amendment to investi- gate all secret or limited organiza- tions. This was a rap at the Catho- lic church and its various secret societies. ‘i Besides his avowed sympathy with the Klan the ranting of Upshaw against the aliens and his general lack of ‘intelligence placed him in that intellectual class from which the Klan is largely recruited. He decared there were 39,000,000 in the United States who are domi- nated by foreign beliefs. They should/ be Americanized or sent back to where they came from. To prove that he was ® typical Babbit Upshaw sang three songs to the assembled worshippers of Jeho- vah. One of them. entitled “Turning Down the Kaiser's Mustache,” the followers of Jesus applauded vigor- ously. 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Pt) SRS AOL LL NID COSTE TIEN Fy TON eae pan riireien ee | have the DAILY WORKER sent right to your home. Here is the blank. | months’ subscription + 3 «sce STATE perking up noticeably around the Kremlin. ‘ . * Bolshevism faces France, declared M. Tardieu in attacking the Poincare financial bill which contains a pro- vision for a 20 per cent tax increase. The Clemenceau supporter is not far wrong. The rule of the workers hovers like a Damocles sword over all the capitalist governments in the world and the French government being one of the most reactionary is liable to go thru the experience be- fore very long. * * * * * Bishop William Montgomery Brown is at last liable to have the opportunity of «facing his accusers in the house of bishops of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church, Since he wrote “Communism and Christianism” the revolutionary bishop has been , under constant fire but his enemie: P did not dare bring the case into the clerical court. The charges were filed by Bishops A. C. A, Hall of Vermont, Joseph M. Francis of In- dianapolis and Wazren L, Grave*+ ef West Virginia. Bishop Brown is charged with “holding and distribut- ing thru a book ‘Communism and Christianism’ certain doctrines con- trary to those held by the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.” The * Bishop will fight. * * * * ‘ An epidemic of bank failures is sweening the country but the public is getting rather used to it and bank crashes are no longer played up on the front pages. Banks in rural sec- tions of the country are shutting their doors daily. Here in Chicago during the past year many of them have given up the ghost. The latest to come in for undesirable publicity is the State Commercial and Savings bank, located at 1935 Milwaukee Avenue. The bank faces a receiver- ship after it has closed its doors by order of state bank examiners. The great majority of the deposits in the bank were the savings of workers. ae Pa wage slave is fleeced in re ae if he does ma: to save a little and puts it in th nk for a‘rainy day, he stand good chance liek some grafter run- ning away with it, ¢ Watch the “Daily Worker” for the first installment of “A Week,” the wrent epic of the Russian revolution; by the brilliant young Russian writer, Jury It will start soon, — ¥,, oe ad ‘ ing on the riot which occured in that ; ) fo i | — . ee RETO il | i