The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1924, Page 1

| —— THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 344. DOCK STRIKE SHUTS EVERY BRITISH PORT 225,000 Workers Quit Jobs, Want 50 Cent Raise (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 19.—Pre- mier Ramsay MacDonald’s re- ply to a question concerning the attitude of the government to the dockers’ strike that has closed the ports of Great Bri- tain is taken here to mean that the Labor Party government is no more sympathetic towards the strike weapon than govern- ments that have preceded it. Amid hearty cheers from the|. opposition benches the premier stated: “The government will not fail to take such steps as are required to se- cure the transport necessary, .anc has ajready set up the nucleus of an organization. May.f add an expres- sion of hope that nothing be raid or asked here to make difficult the only thing that réally matters—a settle- ment of the dispute ” The skyrocket ascent of food prices has. also i ernment in the form~of an official cabinet communication which Says: “The cabinet has had information from various parts of the country that meat and other prices are hetigt raised from 33 1-3 to 50 per cent. There is no reason for this increase except the power of profiteers to ex- tract from the public unjust prices. The cabinet hopes this notice will have the effect of stopping these in- creases, but in the meantime it has asked that law officers consider the powers of the government -in this matter and draft such emergence: measures as may be necessary to pre- vent exploitation of the consumers owing to the present strike.” Despite this threat prices continue to rise and the Meat Traders Associa- tion has announced that “the retail- ers are compelled to charge the pub- Give lie more owing to the increase in| —-- wholesale prices. Full force of the strike began to be felt today. Hundreds of ships from all quarters of the earth docked and lay idle, facing the prospects of | textile seeing cargoes rot in their holds, un-|seize the textile less the strike is settled. and take on coal. Labor Minister Shaw and his com- mittee were to meet again today to consider the situation. The stevedoring companies are re- cruiting blacklegs for the docks svhich the strikers are picketing. It is an almost foregone conclusion that the attempt to move cargo will re- sult in violence as the population of the seaport cities is overwhelmingly in favor of the strike. i The government, nevertheless, is completing its preparations for co- oreration with the stevedoring com- panies, The tieun of shipping is complete and only about fifty per cent of the warehousemen’s union reported for work yesterday. Their officers stated that a strike will be called Wednes- day. Veoh from many ports are to the effect that the strike is growing and that workers in all trades are quitting in large numbers in support of the dockers. In Liverpool the tugboat men have struck, Jt is estimated that more than 225,- 000 men are already on strike. The dockworkers in Belfast are still at work but have refused to handle any freight for Great Britain and shippers in the other Irish ports have been compelled to refuse to ac- cept consignments for British desti- nations. *_* & Strike Extends to Ulster. BELFAST, Feb. 19.—The Ulster dock workers received orders today not to handle any more cargoes ar- riving from Great Britain, where the dockers are on strike. Today’s action from the gov- |" Outbound |country within 20 days if their de- ships were unable to load cargoes}mands are not met by the present THE DAILY Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1924 <q » Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. MEXICAN TEXTILE WORKERS DECIDE TO TAKE INDUSTRY Bosses 20 Days to Yield Demands (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb, 19.—Mexican workers. have resolved to industry of this owners, This revolutionary program was decided upon by representatives. of the textile workers in convention here, when the owners continued to refuse to obey the Mexican labor statute requiring three months’ no- tice before the discharge of an em- ploye. Committee Works Out Plans. Plans for occupation and manage- ment of the factories are being worked out by a committee appointed by the union, Complaint is made by the union men and women that the Mexican government fails to enforce the labor law. Other unions having headquar- ters here are considering action sim- ilar to that of the textile workers. Labor has supported Obregon against de la Huerta and demands that its just demands be supported by the government, Recently the Tampico street rail. way strikers took over the operation of municipal transportation without consulting their employers. The Tam- pico traction stem is British owned. Mayas Win Battle. GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 19. Maya Indians, fighting on Obre- | gon’s side, are pi Singin for Pres- ident Obregon’s victory over the Fas- cisti forces in western Mexico, The | Mayas braved heavy machine gun fire in i iy pontoon bridge across the Lerma River, which enabled the troops to make a triumphant attack. Obregon’s entrance into Guadala- jara was greeted with cheers by the people, who have found the de la luerta forces particularly tyran- Installment Ladies’ Garment Workers Renting Halls for Strike The strike committee of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is busy renting halls and mak- ing final arrangements to call the strike of 10,000 dress makers’ and cloak makers which has been decided on. The strike committee has “not made the date of the strike public yet, but from the preparations being made it will probably be called some time this week. While awaiting the strike order the rank and file members of the unign are demanding that the union take. back the members who were ex- pelled for opposing bureaucrats of the union. They de- mand that the expelled members be brought back before any strike order is issued because the expelled work- ers were in the past the hardest fight- ers for the union and can be depended on to put spirit into the rank and file. The strike committee is every night at the union headquar- ters, So far there has been no state- ment from the union officials on the question of asking the expelled mem- bers of the union to return. Plan to Use Radio to Establish Contact of Schools with Public NEW YORK, Feb. 19—Radio to establish contact between the public and the public school system was in- troduced for the first time yesterday by William L. Ettinger, superinten- dent of schools. A broadcasting pro- gram included intimate bits of school policy and the work and aims of the pupils themselves, “It ig the woman in the house and the man in'the street,” said Ettinger, “who determine our fundamental ed- ucational policies. We believe that these radio lectures and entertain- ments will communicate immeasur- ably more to the parents of the actual school situation than any method de- vised in the past.” BELGRADE, Feb. 19.—Parliament today ratified the ItaloJugo Slav t les, re-establishing an accord on disputed points between the two drawn countries and settling the lon out problem of the stat the official | yy, vy. meeting | ofA es 100 PER CENTERS CLAMORING FOR ‘JOB DENBY HAD Nice Long List for Cool- idge’s Consideration WASHINGTON, Feb. 19th. — If ) President Coolidge takes the advice of “insiders” in the navy department, ; he will appoint an “iron man” to suc- | ceed Edwin Denby as Secretary of the | A man who will brutally wield a \big stick inside the department, and jtake effective’ measures t» chee a waning morale is the cryinz need of the. navy today, these wreli-informed versons declare, A enormous number of deserters, WORKER. OILY SECRETS IN BOOK OF N.Y. BROKERS On the Trail of Big Game, the Experts Claim (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.— Seeking evidence involving a cabinet member and a senator, the Teapot Dome Committee today opened the books of New York brokers. Information which caused this step is a written report of “a responsible New York spe- cial investigator,” a member of the committee said. This information has already been partially told to President Coolidge and is expected to be placed fully before the cabinet today. The cab- inet member himself has been ap- prised of some of the evidence. Whitney Is Called. Those involved in this new trend of the case are supposed to have dealt extensively in stocks since they took office, If the books of the Benkard brok- erage - nh were subpoenaed for secret inspection at an executive meeting of the senate oil committe, do not corroborate the investigators’ report, the inquirers will start upon a new task. Those subpoenaed were Harry P. Whitney, closely associated ‘with Harry F. Sinclair and officials of J. P. Benkard & Co., New York bro- kerage firm. . Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, is under sub- poena but was not expected to at- tend. Impeachment Proceedings Halted. Senator Lenroot, chairman of the committee, declared he would make no attempt to conduct a hearing be- hind closed doors today, He said the committee desires only to devise ways and means of getting at the evidence, Congressional leaders today showed no disposition to take advantage of Denby’s challenge to begin impeach- ment proceedings. The reaction in congress to his resignation was one of satisfaction and now that he has removed him- self from the situation, nothing is to be gained by seeking impeachment, leaders of the fight against him said. Upholsterers on Trial Today Before a Non-Union Jury steady resignation of officers and an unprecedented run of disasters—at La Honda, Cal., where seven destroy- ers were lost; at Vera Cruz, where the Tacoma was wrecked and minor accidents elsewhere—are the fruits of conditions within the navy that re- | quire harsh measures for a ctvre,' nevy men say, | Discussion today of a successor to | Derby brought out severa’ names. | President Coolidge has blasted the hopes of some with an unofficial an- nouncement from the White House that no naval offcer will he named and nobody from Michigan. This apparently eliminated Charles | B, Warren of Detroit, who was at first believed to nave the “inside track” for the positior. Warren is now mentioned for Attorney General Danshewiee job shout Daugherty quit, Claim Sun Yat Sen for Soviet China, Just Like Russia — HONGKONG, Feb. 19.--The whole Chinese press today emphasised re- ports that Sun Yat Sen, South China + ban has decided % ig a ee} ‘orm of government for Kwang- province, nationalizing lands and big business. eek’ The state will begin the presenta- tion of evidence this morning before Judge Wells in the case of the five union men who are on trial, charged with conspiracy to boycott, for their part in the strike of upholstery workers. After two days of examination of | talesmen a jury satisfactory to both sides was completed yesterday and because the prosecutor was not will- ing to begin at once Judge Wells ad- journed court till 10 o'clock this morning when the prosecution will ‘open, The state\refused to accept as a juror any man who is now or ever was a union member. ' There is not a single union man on the jury, The: are mostly clerical workers and smalf business men. Bar Firearms, Too. ‘ WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 19,— President Coolidge will sist stricter enforcement of District of Columbia regulations regarding use of firearms, as a result of the wound- ing of Greene, of Vermont, by a stray bullet fired in a battle br tween officers and bootleggers, White House spokesman said today. Know « worker who needs a working class education? Get him to read THE DAILY WORKER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Minois. ROOSEVELT GUILTY AS DEN 225,000 Workers Defy McDon NUMBER ONE | ‘ Ps on the oil scandals. Harrison. Navy in fact. from the public service.” yesterday quoting Roosevelt as President. (Continued LOOKS AS THO DAUGHERTY IS AFRAID TO 60 Public Damand, President's Hint, No Avail (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.— In the face of an.open demand that he resign and what was regarded here as a broad hint from President Coolidge to the same effect, Attorney-General Daugherty today was clinging to his post in the cabinet. A three hour conference last night, a cabinet discussion to- day and a brief conference with President Coolidge re- sulted in Daugherty deciding not to quit until he had been given a hearing and a chance to reply to his critics. Daugherty remained with Presi- dent Coolidge after the cabinet meeting broke up. When he came out again he refused to say anything. “The only thing you can quote me on,” said Daugherty, “is that I have nothing to say.” Other members of the cabinet were equally reticent, but indicated ina roundabout manner that they did not expect any development today in Daugherty’s case. It was stated on Daugherty’s be- half that when he had anything to say, he would say it in a general public statement. No intimation was given as to when such a’ statement might be expected. Sore at Borah. Daugherty regards the demand | of Senator Borah, Idaho, that he resign because he has lost the public confi- dence as unwarranted, Borah, summoned to the White House by President Coolidge, made this demand to Daugherty’s face and the president, who knew Borah would make it and summoned Daugherty to hear it, said nothing. This was taken here to mean that Mr. Coolidge hoped Daugherty would accept the White Hoyse conference as a hint that his withdrawal would (Continued on page 2.) “If Denby gets out, Roosevelt should get out, too. one connected with this damnable episode should be driven Daugherty Next To Go | | 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 Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents BY Ld * ra) ald Regime (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) i WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 19.—Resignation of Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, was demanded in the Senate by Sepator Harrison, Mississippi, during a bitter debate “Roosevelt is just as guilty as Secretary Deby,” declared “Yet he aspires to be governor of New York. has let his friends believe that he is now the Secretary of the He Every- Harrison said he had read a statement in the newspapers saying “I am not resigning,” as he left the White House following a conference with the on Page 2) DAUGHERTY MUST QUIT SAY SOLONS Borah Demands Coolidge Bounce Harry M. (Special to The Daily Worker) The resignation of ‘Attorney- |General Harry M. Daugherty from President Coolidge’s cabi- net is expected. Daugherty, “the man who made Harding president,” it was freely forecast here, will follow Secretary of the Navy Denby as the second cabinet officer to leave public life as the result of the scandal over the investigation of the naval oil leases. The attorney general is understood already to have virtually decided in his mind the action he will take, fol- lowing a conference of several hours with friends in the senate. Those at the conference in Daugherty’s suite at the Wardman Park hotel here in- eluded Senators Pepper and Reed, of Pennsylvania, Willis, of Ohio, and Moses, of New Hampshire. Borah Demands Resignation. Daugherty himself, however, today refused to answer questions. It was indicated by C. Bascom Slemp, sec- retary of President Coolidge, that the attorney general’s resignation had not yet been actually received. The question is @xpected to come to a head at the meeting of Mr. Coolidge and his cabinet at the White House this morning. . The big factor in the expected resignation of Daugherty is a stron demand ‘made by Senator Borah o' Idaho, in a Sunday night conference at the White House that the attorney General retire immediately from public life. While both Mr. Coolidge and Daugherty sat and listened, Borah dramatically urged that the attorney general resign. He gave as his rea- sons that the president had found it necessary to go outside the Depart- ment of Justice in arranging for the (Continued on page 2) Mimerion Due For House Cleaning, ”” Says London Press (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb, 19—The resignation of Edwin Denby as sceretary of the navy was treated by English newspapers as the biggest story of the day. administration are proved to be true, enough to defeat him. guilty may be swept in the dust bij President Coolidge in the approaching p) Giving most of the front page to the story, the London Daily Express in an editorial, said “if only half of the charges against the Republican, the repercussion on the candidacy of ential election will be serious “The Demoerats are in no better shape, “Every one who had hopes has seen them dashed to the ground and his chances of eleetion drowned in oil, “America is out for a house cleaning and the innocent as well as the ’ Appears on Page Two 4 WA { WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.