The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 18, 1924, Page 1

" THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT THE VOL. I. No. 342. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. ernment esaseincni ninemsn Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21,. 1923, at the PostOffice at. Chicago, Illinois; under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1924 «em 1 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. Workers! rarmera! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet RB Price 3 Cents WALL STREET ROCKS UNDER TEAPOT’S BLOWS * $250,000 PROSPECTS OF MCADOO UP Wilson’s Grown Prince Sees Hopes on Funeral Pyra William Gibbs McAdoo, $250,000 oil baby of Edwin L. Doheny, purchaser of Naval Reserves and cabinets, will come to Chicago today to learn whether his connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandal has placed his presidential am- bition on the funeral pyre. Mr. McAdoo has done a rather unusual thing. He has placed his political fortunes in the hands of the “public,” which means hig campaign committee. If they decide that a candidate tan retain the purity necessary to lead the Democrat jackass to victory in the next election, even tho handi- tapped by 250,000 oil dollars, Wood- tow Wilson’s crown prince will hum- bly bow his head and mutter “Vox populi; vox Dei.” Presidential Timber Scarce: It is rumored that McAdoo’s sup- porters will do that very thing. Pres- idential timber is rather scarce in the ionkey ranks and it is also the opin- ion of Democrat. politicians that. Republicans are so submerged in the Teapot Dome that even an oil can on the Democrat ticket will bring home the bacon. In an interview the press agent of the McAdoo headquarters in Chicago likened the enthusiasm of his sup- porters to the fervor of the crusaders who crossed two continents to rescue the Holy Sepulecher from the Moham- medans, The Infidels in this case are the Republicans and the Holy Tomb is the White House which the knight errants of democracy expect to rescue from the _ sacreligious Sanhedrin Ends With Capitalist Negroes Leading Movement, But Workers’ Issue Is Before the Race The first great All-Race Congress in the history of Afro- Americans has adjourned its sessions at the Wabash avenue hands of the enemy. Today’s conference was called at the suggestion of McAdoo, On the suggestion of McAdoo the conference will also do the following: Give Mc- Adoo a clean bill of health; give him a vote of confidence; announce that he is politically as pure as the driven snow and attempt to prove that the linking of his name with the Teapot scandal fs a red herring dragged across the path of the Democrat party by enemy Republicans. Scoff at McAdoo Claims, The public generally scoffs at the alleged devotion of McAdoo to one of the fourteen points, namely “the right of self determination” for his tampaign committee. The Washing- ton expose having almost extin- ‘uished him as a candidate he is try- be to crawl back by pulling off a novel publicity stunt. Among those present at the Me- Adoo conference will be W. Jett s Y. M. C. A. and the 250 delegates have returned to their homes in the 20 states from which they were called,by the 61 national organizations taking part in the congress. Labor. scored an ‘educational victory, but the conservative machine keeps itself in power. Dean Kelly Miller, of Howard University, and the coterie .of business. men and conservative professional men associated STOCKS TUMBLING WHILE EXPOSURES HIT NEW TRAILS Financial Capitol of Nation in Furore (Special te The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 17—Wall Street, DOCK STRIKE IN ENGLAND HALTS FOOD McDonald Government Seeks Compromise in Struggle (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 17.—More than 200,000 dock and trans- port workers are out on strike all over England and the pros- pects are they will continue on strike for some time. The strike of the dock workers ties up the food supply of the na- tion, as most of Britain’s food is imported. Negotiations between the employers and workers under the direction of Tom Shaw, minister of labor, have failed to bring any prospect of an im- mediate settlement. Aided By Rail Workers. The National Union of Railway- jmen have expressed their intention of rendering the transport workers “every possible assistance,” during the strike. They will refuse to handle any shipments that have been unloaded by scab dock workers. In the event it becomes necessary they will go out on strike to help the dockers. The N. U, R. only recently were on strike themselves tying up the en- tire railroad system of England. Reviye Triple Alliance. The transport workers and the Na- | tional Union of Railwaymen were both members of the Triple Alliance, which included the miners, and was broken up during the last miners’ strike. The decision to strike was reached by the dock workers on Jan. 29th, at the very moment the railway work- ers were reaching a settlement with the government and the railroads. Since then negotiations have been going on constantly looking to a set- tlement, but the bosses would not consider the demands of the men and so the strike order was issued. Wages Cut Since War. The workers are demanding an in- Lauck, of Washington, who will rep- resent the railway labor unions. At the St. Louis meeting of the Confer- ence for Progressive Political Action, (Continued on page 3) with him, are in control of the temporary organization that will function until the next session of the Sanhedrin, in 1925. No Workers Among Officeholders Not a single representative of Labor or the Farm is found in the executive committee that will at- tempt to represent the Race which is composed 98 per cent of workers and farmers. us the carrying out of the Sanhedrin’s program for the elimination of the color line in labor unions will be left to the represent- atives of business, religion and the capitalist government at Washington. Miller Is President Dean Kelly Miller is President. Dean Miller is professor of sociology Gcuinsainiaist Does Nothing to Help Workers During Housing Crisis; Gives Full Support to Landlords By JAY LOVESTONE. ; We have seen that there is an acute shortage of homes for the workers. We have also seen that “the home is a less decent piace to live in for the wage earner’s family than it was two years ago; that there are families living in “holes”; that a great number of children are today being taken care of in the day nurseries, because mothers are compelled to leave their families and work outside in order to meet the high rent; that awful congestion is on the increase; that the standard of living and health of the worker are endangered and that tenement houses, vacated ten years ago and condemned as unfit, are now occupied; and that rents are steadily rising to heights which the mass of workers cannot hope to attain on the basis of the low wages being paid ‘them. In the face of this acute distress the government is doing nothing to help the working men. The government is not only not helping the workers in this severe crisis, but is actually (Continued on page 2.) Get Others To Read “A WEEK”--Seco 4 at Howard University, which is sup- ported by the United States govern- ment and the Presbyterian Church. F. B. Ransom, of Indianapolis, is Vice-President. Ransom is manager of the prosperous hairdressing busi- ness of Madame C. J. Walker, at Indianapolis. J. L. Neil, is Secretary.. Neil re- presents the Equal Rights League which is working along conciliatory lines for the removal of race dis- crimination. R. N. Hawkins, treasurer, repre- sents the African Methodist Epis- copal Church, These four will select four others of like kind and the committee of eight will have charge of carrying out the mandates of the Sanhedrin until the next congress, which will tuke place at a time and place they will fix, in 1926. Radicals Not Discouraged Radical iors nee not sis couraged. It forced this Sanhedr' to consider the labor ee and thru the publicity gained at the San- hedrin it brought before the Race the fact that the basis of race dis- crimination is an economic one, and that the only hope for the oppressed Negro workers and tenant farmers is thru solidarity with the oppressed workers and farmers of other racés. Radical Negro labor_cannot be pre- vented from getting into this next congread Ket in jarger numbers than at the one just over, According to the constitution accepted at the Sanhedrin each national organization will be allowed five delegates to the Sanhedrin congresses, with an addi- tional delegate for every 50,000 mem- bers or fraction thereof, Each state and municipal organization will be allowed one delegate, with additional ones at the same rate, Congresses: are to take place every two years. Labor At Nest Congress At the next congress the church, | fraternal and business organizations (Continued on page 8 the financial’ and commercial capital] ¢tease of two shillings a day, and the of the United States, is facing re-| guarantee of a full week’s work. Be- newed- panic conditions. this week|fore the strike the men were getting with more stocks under the hammer}10 shillings in the larger ports and blows of the Teapot Dome exposure.|9 shillings a day in the smaller ports. Not since the hysterical days of|Since the war tse dockers have had 1914 when the gray hosts of the Kaiser crossed the frontiers into their wages cut several times. The shipping interests have been Belgium was there such an orgy of'making enormous profits ever since selling, “Stop the oil investigations or you will bring ruin tumbling about our ears,” was*the frenzied cry of Wall Street stock gamblers to their mario- nettes/in Washington. A call for a congress of none but successful busi- nessmen to congress was made by Jesse Livermore, noted stock gambler and employe of Harry Sinclair, The confidence in business is under- mined by congressional investiga- tions he declared. It was Livermore (Continued on Page 3) POMERENE, REACTIONARY, CHOSEN BY COOLIDGE TO PROBE THE OIL SCANDAL (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—The senate confirmed Coolidge’s ap- pointment of Atlee Pomerene, Democrat and ultra-reactionary, as one of the two special oil-iease rosecutors selected by the pres- lent to smooth over the polltical disturbance caused by the exposure of the rotten mess underlying the leasing of the Teapot Dome and oil reserves to Harry Edwin Doheny, The p lve senators suc- ceeded in ‘king action on the appointment of Owen J. Roberts Philadelphia, Republican until Monday. the strenuous op- ‘position tor » tl senate voted to hold the debate on Robert's qualification for the posi- tion in open. session. the declaration of war and they are generally referred to as “the spoiled darlings of the war.” } Food Profiteers Busy. Already dealers in foodstuffs have begun holding out to wait for an in- crease in prices, Since the supply of stored food is small the speculators are a grave menace to the public. No disorders have been reported. All ports report that there is a com- plete tieup. In Liverpool, which handles one-third of the nation’s shipping, there is no activity at all in the port. Shipments of coal from Newcastle are at a standsill. Eighty ships are held at Hull by the strike and sixty at Glasgow. No Substitute for Workers. The dock workers’ strike is gener- ally considered more serious than the strike of the railwaymen was. The dockers handle nearly all the nation’s food supply and there is no way of unloading ships while the dockers strike. The government could move food by motor transport during the railway strike but no such substitute for dock laborers exists. There is no indication of just when the National Union of Rail- waymen will strike or if they will]. . strike to help the dockers. Government Works for Compromise. The government is working hard to get the dock workers to accept a compromise. So far they have not been successful. CAIRO, Ill, Feb. 17.—One death and damage estimated at $1,000,000 was caused today by a fire which de- stroyed completely the Mengel box factory at Hickman, Ky., according ‘to meager advices here. nd Installm ent In Oil Baby in Chicago to Learn His Fate —_—_—_—$$$$ | ALL THE ALMIGHTY DOLLARS | “A WEEK” By IURY LIBEDINSKY, Published by THE DAILY WORKER thru arrange- ment with B. W. Huebsch, Inc., of New York City. Copy- righted, 1923, by B. W. Huebsch, Inc. (WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE)—The Russian Communist Party is at grips with counter-revolution. The first installment told of the party meeting in the City Cireus and the economic crisis. The farmers must have seed grain, but seed grain waits on railroad transportation and railroad transportation waits on fuel. If the Red Army is sent out for fuel bandits and counter-reyolutionists may seize the town. The party decides to take the risk—(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.) ae any aS CHAPTER Ii. 9 he the town, over the endless white snowdrifts, over the hills, noiselessly passed the blue-eyed moonlit night. The evening was disturbed and windy, the clouds swept swiftly between stars and earth, the belt of sunset flamed scarlet. The wind shook the nameboard and it sang a squeaky song, while its black shadow swung to and fro on the footway. And then the wind drove off the clouds and dropped. It turned a little frosty. Empty streets; one could see from end to end of them; loud steps of chance passers-by; and the sky deep and starry as in winter. Klimin went out into the open air and took a deep breath. He felt joyful, because one could smell the perfume of the sleepy breathing of the Spring, dozing in the distant glade, in the forest. Where should he go? Dawn was close at hand, it was insensibly stealing from behind the high houses, and the night was slowly paling, as if some one were lighting the street with a big lantern far away. Soon it would be already morning and work would begin again. And with cheerful, youthful strides he went. off thru the empty streets to the Cheka. to. Sles Dei till morning on the divan in his office, and, in the morning, once again set to work. He wanted to eat, and still more he wanted to sleep, and seraps of sentences jingled in hig heart, the voices of the com- rades, their faces, the steady look of Robeiko, Ziman standing drawing on a scrap of paper and Karaulov with a smile tap- pie quietly on the floor with his huge foot, in a yellow military oot. The town was in profound silence, and there were no lights visible at that late hour of the night. Only the two-story building of the Cheka threw light on the blue snowdrifts, and on the watchful sentinels on guard at the entrance. And inside the building, in the empty rooms, lit by the deathly clear electric light, were frozen chairs, tables, cupboards, and it seemed as if they were numb, in a light sleep from which they would easily awake. The officer on duty at the Cheka, the Investigator, Gor- nuikh, was writing something, bending over the table. His face was dark, broad, with big cheek-bones and deep-set eyes, and a shaggy cap of hair hung over his forehead. At first sight he seemed elderly, but when you approached him from the side and observed the lines of his mouth, the soft oval of his face, it was clear that he was still quite young. He wanted to sleep, to stretch his legs under the table, lay his head on the arm of the chair and drop into careless, pleasant sleep. But he must not sleep, for in the sleeping town, over the breadth of the sleeping country, in which are so many woods, ravines and dark unknown ways, Gornuikh alone was sleepless like a sentinel at his post. At any moment the telephone might ring, he might be called to the direct tele- graph. . . . Sleep was not to be thought of. But Gorniukh for two days and nights had not slept for a minute. There had been an operation last night, a whole series of searches, and, returning on horseback thru. the empty streets, Gornuikh had breathed the frosty morning air, and had thought of how he would undress and lie down on his bed, but, at the Cheka they had stopped him unex- pectedly, and he had had to remain on duty in the place of a comrade who had fallen ill. Swearing hard and with feeling, Gornuikh had taken on the duty and all night had not dozed for a,moment. Several times the telephone had rung, and secret cipher telegrams had been brought from the tele- graph. As the night wore on his weariness increased, the lines ran together in his eyes, and he stopped writing and listened to the regular noise of the ventilator, and watched the dark blue square of the window. His eyes closed of themselves, and from all sides a soft cloud of images, voices, rustlings, and noises enveloped him. The ventilator made a noise, and its noise was like the noise of the tall grass stirred by the wind, the tall green grass that crushes under the feet . a girl in white was walking in the grass and it rustled and murmured under her feet. Her face ... he had seen it somewhere. . . . Still a child, he had seen her in a girl of the steppes, but how light her movements, how scarlet, how sweet her lips. ... The sound of an opening door reached his ears, and he suddenly awoke, cursed himseX for dozing, and the young dream slipped tracelessly away ‘and was instantly forgotten, A knock at the door? A telegram? A summons? No. It was Klimin. Gornuikh knew his step. (Continued on Page 6) Today’s Issue { They i