The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 20, 1924, Page 3

Wednesday, February 20, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Three BANKERS WORTH BILLIONS LOAN FARMER. MILLIONS “Generosity” Excites Praise of Plute Press By NORMAN SMYTH (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW_ YORK, Feb. 19.—Mr. Mc- Hugh, representing various local banks, carried with him to Chicago five million dollars in subscriptions to the proposed loan of ten mil- lions for the “relief of Northwestern farmers.” The banks participating in this “generous” act were Mechanics & Metals National, Chase National, Chemical National, Hanover Na- tional, the National Bank of Com- merce and the Guaranty Trust Co. In addition to these banks several large industrial corporations are said to have subscribed, Oi! Magnate In It. The metropolitan press praises this “generous” act of the Eastern fi- nanciers. How generous is it? The directors of the Mechanics & Metals National include among their num- ber Colonel Rogers, whose daughter married Count Salm. He is worth over $75,000,000. In addition, he holds 16,200 shares in the Standard Oil worth around $45,000,000. John D. Ryan is also a director, The late William Rockefeller was a director. These “philanthropists” are worth over $220,000,000. On the director- ate of thg Chase National we have such men as George F. Baker, who is worth, according to governméht returns, $150,000,000. ‘ Generous Jimmie Stillman. Among the -remaining bankers we find the name of James Stillman, who belongs to the “Love-birds’ union.” oor Jimmie! He has a mere trifling $100,000,000 to get along with. There is also Robert Goelet with his trifling $200,000,000, and A. F. Vanderbilt, who has a share in a half billion dollars of the Vanderbilt estate. Last, but not least, we have the Guaranty Trust Co. Noble and gen- erous souls! Controlling this finan- cial institution are Morgan, Ryan, Guggenheim, Duke, Berwind, Bed- ford, Harriman, the Morton estate, and Whitney. Their combined for- tunes amount to over $3,750,000,000. All of the above kind, noble and generous gentlemen agree to lend (emphasize that lend, printer) to the farmers. It looks as if there was a day’s wage campaign among millionaires. Contrast the five mil- lions lent to the farmers with the money given to Soviet Russia by American workers during the fam- ine campaign! 3,000 “SHOPS” MAY OPEN AS BEER SALOONS Court in Big Blow at Dry Campaign Opening of the floodgates of beer was feared today as the courts knocked out the props from Mayor Dever’s campaign against “soft drink parlors.” By a decision handed down in Mu- nicipal court, more than 5,000 coffee shops, saloons, and “soft drink” par- lors, closed up in Dever’s dry fight are allowed to reopen with no danger of city action against them. Judge Harry M. Walker in his de- cision ruled that municipal soft drink parlor licenses—which were revoked by Mayor Dever, were themselves in- valid, thus opening the way to opera- tion of these shops. In the wake of a “beer war” be- tween rival beer running “syndi- cates,” which claimed several lives in shootings, Mayor Dever revoked more than 2,000 municipal licenses for soft drink parlors. Other hundreds of places closed their doors in fear of court action. Almost simultaneously, soft drink parlors, saloons, and roadhouses were given a new lease on existence when Chief Justice John R. Caverly in Criminal court ruled that issuance of “John Doe” warrants was illegal and unconstitutional. In the face of the two court de- cisions, Chief of: Police Morgan A. Coliins announced a renewed drive on bootleggers and rum runners, de- claring federal courts “are certain to aid in prosecution of law violators,” Miss Mac Swieney Says Ireland Is Mac Donald’s Test Special to The Daily Worker! « > LONDON, Feb, 19.—Mary Mac- Swieney, Irish blican, hag writ- ten to Ramsa: ‘acDonald, sa; the Irish bigs jlicans have the British labor party with t interest, She said that she bts if the idealists in the Lal will stick to their ideals any stronger than did President Wilson, Ireland will be the first test of the sincerity of the Labor ent, she said. She wants to know if the rime minister will force the Free Btate to war on the Irish Republicans as did other English io Miss MacSwieney asks MacDonald to make an Irish peace on the basis of a free and independent Ireland, many of roti the DAILY. WORKER? Get ‘one of them to subscribe today. McAdoo--The Workers and Farmers Reject the Verdict of Your Handpicked Jury R. WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO.—Your conference 0} select lieutenants has decided that you are to stay in the Democratic Party race for the Presidency. To the workers and farmers, whose support you are seeking, it was a foregone conclusion that a gathering of those who are expecting to be rewarded with political jobs by you, as Chief Executive, could make no other decision. Mr. McAdoo, for years you have paraded about the country as a friend of the men who work in the mills and mines and who toil on the land. For years you have posed as the friend of the working’ masses and sought their support. In preparation for the coming presidential elections you have thrown your hat into the ring and announced your plans to become the candidate of the Democratic party and the presi- dent of the United States. You have been making a lot of noise about the purity off your Democratic party and yourself in particular in so far as its and your relations with the big husiness interests, with the} capitalists, with the open-shoppers, with the enemies of labor of this country go. For some time you succeeded in fooling some of the peo- ple.. Then came the infamous Teapot Dome scandal. Your own Democratic colleague the international oil king Edward I. Doheny, who was among those nominated for the vice-presi- dency of the United States at the 1920 Convention of your pure Democratic party then let the cat out of the bag. Mr. Doheny, who was one of your own California delegation to this conven- tion, struck the first damaging blow at you and your presiden- tial aspirations. You now stand before the masses of this country as a cor- poration tool of the most dangerous sort.. Long before the country was let in on the secret that your pockets were heavily lined with oil, you were in the service of some of the most gigantic corporations.. Long before you were exposed by your own friend Doheny as being on his payroll at the admitted sum of $50,000 a year and having cleaned up a quarter of a million dollars thru services rendered his oil interests in Mex- ico, you were pursuing the vicious, corrupt capitalist practice of selling your services to the highest bidder who sought your legal help because of your influential connections with the Gov- ernment as a former member of ‘the Cabinet. You started off as a broker, became a contractor for the Hudson tunnel in New York, and then entered national politics. Since then every step you have taken has been a step in the interests of the big capitalists and against the workers and farmers of this country. * * * * A FRIEND OF THE KLAN. The workers and farmers haven’t forgotten your letter of congratulation to Earl B. Mayfield, the Ku Klux Kian candi- date, upon his being declated elected United States Senator from Texas.. Everybody knows that this open support you have tendered to Mayfield knocks the bottom out of all your demo- cratic pretensions, for it has already been established beyond refutation that this Klan candidate was awarded the election in Texas only thru his having violated every principle of hon- esty in the campaign and after having outraged the very foun- dations of the constitution of the country to which you would have us believe you are so unswervingly dedicated. Mr. McAdoo, today you are the only one of the outstand- ing Democratic presidential aspirants who has not dared to declare himself on the Klan issue. You have not the courage to tell the workers and farmers where you stand on the hooded order of American hooligans and strikebreakers because you are trying to fool these workers and farmers into voting you into the Presidency of this country. f HELPED BLEED SOVIET RUSSIA. Mr. McAdoo, your hands are not only spattered with the oil of Doheny, but they are stained with the blood off hundreds | of thousands of poor Russian workers and farmers, whose only crime was that they rose in revolt against their barbaric, im- perialist Czarist oppressors. While you were Secretary of the Treasury, about two hun- dred million dollars of our workers’ and farmers’ money in the possession of the Government were given away to Kerensky, the agent of the Russian capitalists, in order to help him crush the suffering, struggling Russian workers and peasants. After the Russian masses got rid of Kerenky, despite your generous support to him, you continued to allow his agent in this coun- try, Bakhmetieff, to squander millions of our money, as the representive of the bloody, gangster-governments and the counter-revolutionary armies of Kolchak and Wrangel, who slaughtered thousands of poor, helpless Russian men, women and children, WILLING TOOL OF BIG BUSINESS INTERESTS. Mr. McAdoo, you have time and again boasted of your being the father of the Federal Reserve system. Under this system the biggest capitalist financiers have amassed fabulous profits at the expense of the poor farmers and workers. Your effort to make the working people believe that your relations with the capitalists are pure and holy because you resigned from Doheny’s payroll one day after the Senate Teapot Oil Committee uncovered you, will fool no one. You have been rendering inestimable services to many other big corporations of this country besides the Doheny oil interests while your democratic Wilson administration was still in power. ENEMY OF WORKERS AND FARMERS. Mr. McAdoo, the workers and farmers of this country know you. Your hollow, noisy pretensions at purity in politics will not mislead them. Your cries of innocence in the present oil scandal will not fool the working masses. Your whole record to date is one of unfailing loyalty to the capitalists, of uninterrupted services to the employing class at the expense of the working and farming classes. You are only a corporation lawyer oF the most objectionable type. p The conference which you have called in Chicago to revive your punctured presidential boom was a fraud. It was only a’ desperate attempt on your part to be tried by a grand jury of your own picking, and secure much needed favorable publicity to offset the $250,000 Doheny retainer. The workers and farmers will not accept the verdict ren- dered on you by this handpicked jury of democratic henchmen. The workers and farmers, judging you by your deeds and not by your blatant boasts and empty words, have already rendered their verdict. | You are guilty of being the most dangerous enemy of the working masses and a consistent, loyal friend and servant of the most powerful employing class interests. COAL MINERS AND William Gibbs McAdoo Takes OPERATORS AGREE ON 3 YEAR PACT Agreement Will Go to Union Referendum (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Feb. 19— Unless unforseen circumstances in- tervene there will be peace between the coal barons and the miners who dig bituminous coal for the next three years, as a result of the agree- ment entered into between the re- resentatives of the United Mine orkers of America and those of the coal barons. Of course progressive miners say this only means that the coal operat- ors will have plenty of opportunities to violate the agreement in spirit, if not in. the letter and woe unto the \rebel miners who resent such viola- tion, Mr. Lewis will make short work of them. It is no secret that one of the strongest arguments brought to bear on the operators by Lewis for a long term agreement was the threat that unless he was given such a pact with no reduction in wages that the union would fall into the hands of the radical elements who would throw down the gauntlet to the coal oper- ators and fight it out on the indus- trial field rather than over a ma- bomany table in the pleasant climate of Palm Beach or a sumptous New York hotel. The wage scale of the miners for the next three years will be $7.50 for datal men and corresponding rates for tonnage men. This agreement is expected to affect non-union mines. It is a well-known fact, however, that the non-union mines in Kentucky and elsewhere are operated by the same gentlemen who operate the union mines in other states. It is even hinted’ that there is a gentleman’s agreement existing between Lewis and the coal barons whereby the for- mer lays off organizing work in the non-union terfitory in return for boss support in his fight on the radi- cals in the union, _ While a strike on a national scale is virtually out of the question, the settlement by no means guarantees against sporadic local and district strikes. Agreements are generally more honored by the bosses in the breach than the observance. UNION TRAINMEN WESTERN ROADS WANT INCREASE Trainmen, Conductors, in Session with Bosses Representatives of the railroads west of Chicago and the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen met in Chicago yesterday to discuss the pro- posal of the union that a general committee of the railroads meet a committee of the unions to discuss a wage settlement, So far the union representatives and the railroad representatives have not got down to considering the ac- tual demands of the unions. The demands of the men as for- mulated by the Order of Railway Conductors and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen are substantially) as follows: Conductors, $7 a day; assistant conductors, $5.80 a day;.ex- pressmen, $5.50 a day; baggagemen, $5.16 a day; brakemen, $5 a day. In submitting their demands the unions asked for swift action. So far the attitude of the railroads has been indicated as willing to concede something but not all the demands of the unions. It is believed that a fight will cen- ter around certain working rules which the unions now have in effect. Eastern railroads recently refuse negotiate with railroad unions thrid general committee representing more than one road, but the action of the New York Central in granting an in- crease is taken by the men as indicat- ting that all the other roads will do the same. Birth Control Ban to Continue in N. Y., State Senate Rules (Special to The Daily Worker) ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 19.—The ban on birth control instruction will continue in New York state. The codes committee of the state senate, by a seven to one vote, refused to- day to introduce a bill that would make such instruction are This bill was proposed by the Birth Con- trol League thru Mrs. Noah H, Slee, formerly Mrs. Margaret Sanger. Advocates of birtn contro} instruc- tion point to the decision of a Chicago judge permitting a clinic to operate there. They declare that the present laws prevent working class women from getting such instruction while wealthy women get ell the informa- tion they wish from their doctors, WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Chas. B, Warren, of Detroit, former ambas- sador to Japan, and Patrick H. Kelley, of Lansing, Mich., former representa- tive, today were most prominently mentioned to succeed Edwin Denby as secretary of the navy. nd new members wanted A_ thousa’ for the “I-want-to-make-THE DAILY WORK DAILY club. BR grow" Write for club, | Strong Injection Wilson, once favorite son of Ed the White House. in the community, women, farmers, railroad workers and war veterans, he appealed for assistance to rid Washington of the political rogues, who have stolen the nation’s virtue, using the White House as an assig- nation réndezvous. The women were there—a few dozen. They ‘spoke for the several millions who could not ‘pay their fares. One farmer—minus dirt—spoke for himself. He is Benjamin Marsh. He declared the farmers want a third party but he will try to convince them that they need McAdoo. The war veterans were there by proxy. Nearly every politician shed tears over the wounds suffered by his sons. It appears they all fought in the Argonne. It sounds good at the end of a phrase, Labor was there—misrepresented by officials of the sixteen standard railroad organizations. They found him eminently available, McAdoo was given a clean bill of health, Protected Oil Interests. _ His enemies were denounced but his character remained unsullied. The Doheny dollars fell off his shoul- ders like water off a duck’s back. In speech after speech his attempt to change the constitution of the Mexi- can republic thru the liberal use of American’ dollars, in behalf of Amer- ican oil interests was characterized by his boosters as “a great service to the American people in protecting American interests from a govern- ment that was violating the sacred rights of private property.” Senator Reed Denounced. McAdoo was referred to as ““Amer- ica’s political hero” by Mrs. Anna D. Olson of Minnesota, but no epithet was too bitter for James Reed, sena- tor from Missouri, who was cursed and denounced as a renegade, a viper and a traitor by the apostles of Wilsonism. Charles Hay of St. Louis brought the audience to its feet when he said “James Reed has the im- pudence to call himself the favorite son of Misouri but there are thou- sands of Missourians who look on him as Missouri’s favorite son of—.” The rest of the sentence was drowned in a volley of cheers in which men and! women joined. Tom Arthur. of. Montana _boost- ed Senator T. J. Walsh and McAdoo. Mrs. Antonette Funk told intimate stories of her associations—in a busi- ness way—with Mr. McAdoo during the war. Boasts of his ability to float ‘liberty loans which have since found their way out of the pockets of the workers who were compelled to purchase them and into the pockets of Wall Street were made. One ora- tor delivered a eulogy of Woodrow Wilson, “the man who made the world safe for democracy and gave us peace.” This bunk was applauded. Only the newspapermen smiled cyni- cally. Ward Heelers Catered To. Every ward heeler who could swing a few votes was called upon to speak. The women were catered to. Most of the speakers were of inferior cali- bre. An old general from Tennessee who boasted of the spiritual pabulum that could be secured in that part of |the country—and apparently he had good reasons to be just as proud of Chicago—cracked several jokes and qualified as a comedian and also as an entry for the vice presidency on the Democrat ticket. There was no discussion at any time during the session. They were all McAdoo boosters and they came here for a single purpose. One tate was conspicuous by its absence. The Empire State sent no delegates. A big play was made to the farm- jer vote. Of tHe railroad labor vote jthey were assured so far as it was in the power of the labor fakers to de- liver it. The farmers, however, were not yet in the grip of a bureaucracy and could not be so easily led around by the nose. Wall Street was de- nounced. Independent millionaires were all right—those who did not have the Wall Street taint. The Gary “Labor” Vote. Emmet White of Gary, Ind., claimed to have the labor vote of that section lined up for McAdoo. In a rambling and incoherent speech he declared that labor leaders in Gary had on more than one_ occasion cleaned out corruption. Well, they have never organized the workers in the steel mills, A labor faker from Oregon, by the name of Rhodes, a member of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, told a story in which “ compared socialists to “howling owe.” A photograph was taken of the conference at the end of the morning session. The managers instructed the delegates to wave their hats and hold up their hands “‘so that enthusiasm would get into the picture.” ’ Interest in the “progressive cham- pion” was nourished while he was preparing his ech in the Black- stone Hotel. hen he reached the crystal room of the Great Northern at 4p. m. the paid campaign workers succeeded in making a lot of noise. The candidate smiled as he stepped to the platform. He is rather slight physically and does not seem to be what is called a “strong” man. He is Purge His System of Oil William Gibbs McAdoo, son-in-law of the late Woodrow of Publicity to win Doheny, is now the “‘polit~ ical hero” of three hundred Wilson democrats, who gathered in the Crystal room of the Great Northern Hotel in this city to give his candidacy another push forward on its oily path to If McAdoo does not win, his fault will not lie in not carry- ing enough arrows in his quiver. tinguished and unextinguished friend of the four main elements Declaring himself the dis- Wilson’s political heir. enough. “Doheny Owes Me Nothing.” Chairman W, W. Howe of North Dakota, looking him straight in the | eye, informed McAdoo that this con- | ference commanded him to serve. McAdoo accepted the command. He read his speech which was a justifica- tion of his conduct in accepting $250,000 from Doheny. He did not mention the million received from Morse, the notorious crook, and from the motion picture interests. “Do- heny owes me nothing,” he shouted. | He declared for “economic and so- cial justice” and said that his first act after his inauguration on March 4, 1925, would be to call a new jn- ternational conference for promotion of peace and if an agreement was | reached at that conference it would be referred to a national referendum for ratification. This was his trick to satisfy the Wilsonian League of Nations’ adyo- cates and at the same time enable those politicians whose constituents are opposed to it to pose as regular democrats, who believe in the will of the people. Long on Promises. He promised to take the grip of Wall Street off the Treasury. He promised railroad reform, low freight and passenger rates and “justice” for railroad labor. The rest of the working class were not of any con- sequence! It was votes that counted. He promised to do “something be- sides talk” for the. farmers. He did not say how. The prohibition law | would be enforced and of course our | old friend “corruption” cleaned out. | The Veteran’s Bureau would feel the | effects of his broom and he would see that the war veterans had “a reason- | able adjustment of compensation.” Taxi Strike Won by Milwaukee Men in Twenty-four Hours (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEE, Feb. 19,—It took just one day of strike activity for 80 taxi drivers here to bring the Boynton Cab Co. to terms. The men have won every demand and are now behind the wheels again. 4 Under the new “agreement drivers are to work under much the same arrangement in force before the Yel- low Cab line was consolidated ‘with the Red Top and Green some time ago. The agreement, which is be- ing given a 60-day trial, provides that the drivers will receive 25 per cent of all meter receipts, and 50 per cent of all extras charged for extra passengers, waiting and bag- gage. The company is to pay for all gasoline. When the consolidation went into effect meter rates to taxicab patrons were cut from 30 to 25 cents a mile. At the same time drivers’ wages were cut from 25 per cent to 20 per cent of meter receipts, no commis- sion on extras, and drivers to pay for all gas. Wife Aids the Police Arrest Husband on Abduction Charge KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19—Jack McEvers was arrested here on charges of abducting 14-year-old Margaret Keller of Ottawa, Ill., when his wife disclosed his whereabouts. Mrs. McEvers received a letter from her husband in Chicage saying he was returning to Kansas’ City to ‘make a new home for her and their two children. Shortly afterward she read of how the Keller girl had been induced to go to Chicago by McEvers and was then abandoned. When the woman received a tele- hone call from her husband saying e had arrived here and wanted her to come right out and meet him, Mrs. McEvers called the police and accom- panied them to the fugitive’s hiding place. He is held here for Ottawa authorities. Socialist Alias in St. Louis Stops in No Man’s Land * (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 19—The American Labor Party of St. Louis will continue to exist as an indepen- dent political organization, it was decided at a recent meeting where the report of the delegate to the Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion was made. They called on the C. P. P. A. to form a national polit- ical organization at the coming Cleve- land convention, The meeting of the American Labor Party was attended by 28 dele- ates nearly half of whom were from the Socialist Party and the Labor Publishing Company. ‘The meeting decided to ask the executive committee of the state C, P. P. A. to call a state conference. This will probably be done and the conference held at the same time as the convention of the state federation of labor which is scheduld for Han- nibal, Mp., in Mi Get unity thru the Labor Party! That was | MELLON TAX PLAN ‘BEATEN IN HOUSE; G0. P. 18 DIVIDED Garner (Dem.) Plan Adopted, 213-188 (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19th.—The House today swept aside the Mellon tax reducti plan and adopted the Garner Den ic substitute provi sions on no and surtax rates on perce by a standing vote of 213 to 188. By a vote of 136 to 224 the House rejected a compromise proposal by Representative Madden, Mlinois, to fix the maximum surtax rate at twenty- six per cent. Madden’s amendment would have left the norma! income tax rates as they are in the Mellon plan. A substitute proposing a 25 per cent cut in both normal and surtax in- come rates was offered by Republican Leader Longworth. Longworth’s substitute proposed a normal income tax rate of three per cent on $4,000 incomes and six per cent on incomes above that amount and fixed the maximum surtax rate at 31> per cent on $100,000. Calling on all Republicans to “stand together as Republicans’” and vote down the Garner Democratic plan, Longworth declared his substi- tute would raise more revenue than any program thus far put forward. About 40 Republicans, including Chairman Green ‘of the Ways and Means Committee, voted against Mad- den’s amendment which he called the Mellon-Coolidge plan. 45-Hour Week Won by Printers on Chicago Papers The members of the Typographical Union No. 16 have begun work un- der the terms of a new agreement made with the newspaper publishers of Chicago. The settlement was reached after a conference between jthe employers and President Charles P. Howard of the International Typo- graphical Union. Negotiations have | been under way since last May, when \the old contract expired. The new agreement raises the pay of all typos $3 a week. The work week has been cut from 48 hours to 45 hours. The agreement is retroae- tive to Feb. 11th. | The new contract will run for three lyears. The scale of prices will be, $58 a week on the day shift and $68 a week qn the night side. ee ae ST Negotiations in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—Bix Six of the Typographica gotiations with local newspaper pub- lishers looking to the settlement of a new wage scale. The negotiations will be carried on by the union’s con- ference committee and the interna- tional president. Teachers Demand Freedom of State Class War Captives NEW YORK, Feb, 19.—Release of all political and labor prisoners in state penitentiaries is demanded by the Eastern States Federation, American Federation of Teachers, in letters to the governors of California, Washington, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois. The letters, signed by Henry R. Linville, president, state that such an amnesty appeal was voted unanimously by the annual conference of the federation here, Dec. 28-29. “In view of the release of all fed- eral prisoners by President Coolidge,” the letters conclude, “it appears to us as organized teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, that the tolerant spirit of the national government might well be manifested in your state.” Mexico or Navy Department for Warren of Detroit WASHINGTON, Feb. 19—Charles B. Warren, of Detroit, who has been menioned as a possible successor to secretary of the navy Denby, is con- sidered by the White House to have accepted the post of ambassador to Mexico, it was learned today. Warren left fox Detroit still dee- laring he had not made up his mind but officials at the While House today regarded the matter as settled. Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges all members of the party to send in the news of their various sec- tions. 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