The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 1

Today’s _ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 347. THE DAILY WORK Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1924. <q Subscription Rates: Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Cents Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days Three Cents per Copy. J Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., - 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Minots. REPUBLICAN MACHINE BACKS DAUGHERTY DOCKER RANK AND FILE T0 REJECT PAGT Port Strikers Rebel at Official Compromise (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 22.—Dock- ers’ delegates who met here to- day to ratify the agreement ending the nation-wide strike that has paralyzed British ports adjourned today without deciding one way or the other. They all meet again Mon- day. Meanwhile the ‘strike continues. The men’s leaders and em- ployers reached a settlement yesterday, but the delegates have to agree before the strike can be called off. Between now and Monday the dele- gates will return to their home dis- tricts and put their terms before the members. The latter are reported generally determined to insist upon obtaining the full two shilling increase imme- diately. The employers offered a shilling raise now and another next year. The meeting yesterday showed that the rank and file of the strik- ers are in open revolt against their leaderg and the compromise offer of a shilling raise now and another after a period to be settled by fur- ther negotiation. ~ Strikers Suspicious. is for the purpose of getting them back to work and demoralizing the trike after they have demonstrated their power to tie up transportation completely. The demand that the employers be required to furnish the men with a full week’s work or pay the equiva- lent has not been agreed to by the stevedoring companies but has been to a commission to be ap- pointed by the minister of labor. Union members from London and the northern ports are strongly against any compromise whatever as their employers have signified their willingness to pay the two-shilling increase. The absolute tie-up and the feeling that the Labor Party government can interfere for the employers only at risk of losing its whole left wing labor support gives the dockers greater confidence in the strength of their position. Government Makeshifts. If the settlement is rejected by strikers, and this is regarded by those who attended the co: here as a serene ae government in a system for the Spar: gs trans- portation of food. No taken from warehouses except on permits that are ratified by the strike committees of the union. The storage warehouse owners have already agreed to this proposal, Prices will also be fixed by the gov. ernment. The emplo: of the cold storage ‘houses in mdon and Liverpool struck yesterday, further increasing the difficulty of food deliveries, In Liverpool they returned to work after. receiving an increase of 7% shillings per week. More Labor Trouble. The entire labor situation is be- coming more delicate as more a; ments expire. The miners federa- tion will meet the operators March 6 and has called a delegate conference for March 12 to consider the offers made by the operators. It is agreed in all quarters here that unless the operators grant hand- pare concessions a strike will be called. Winding Up the War.. PARIS, Feb. 22.—Austrian minister Eichhoff has returned to France the keys of the City of Lyons, seized by an Austrian army in 1815, The pur- pose of affair is to demonstrate Austria’s gratitude for financial as- sistance accorded her by the league of nations with France’s permission, Slayer Near Collapse. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb, 22—~ Frank McDowell, 20 year old slayer, was near collapse today following confessions to the murders of his pa- rents and his two sisters to atone for a “sin” of ‘ “ea on |and would never become one | DAUGHERTY’S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE | Adams, G. O. The Sword for Workers; Whitewash for Rich, KIWANIANS SEE TWO CULTURES’ SHARP CONTRAST Army Instructor Insults Parsee Student Delivering a Washington birthday speech before the Kiwanis club, at the Hotel Sherman, Colonel McClos- key, chief of staff of the sixth army corps area, exhibited several copies of The DAILY WORK¥ER as exam- ples of the asbrerave “pacifist ana bolshevist” propaganda spread in the United States. Speaks On “Patriotism.” The colonel spoke on “Practical Patriotism,” and according to him this could only be ex§mplified by loud and insistent pai for the biggest and best army and navy in the world. Following the meeting of which Captain Hopkins was chairman, Maneck K. Anklesaria, an Indian student at Northwestern, and for- merly one of Mahatma Gandhi’s ac- tive assistants, approached Colonel McCloskey and expréssed a differ- ence of opinion, announcing himself as opposed to militarism. Western culture was shown in its finest flower immediately. Captain Hop- kins, in the best swashbuckler man- ner, declared that “you shall not have the honor of shaking hands. with Colonel McCloskey.” He denouncea everyone from Lenin down to Jane Addams and told Anklesaria that he was not a citizen of this beg cause I shall send your name to the British Embassy and they. will take care of you.” Anklesaria is a soft-spoken young Parsee, who participated in the great non-cooperation movement the leadershin_of Gandhi which shook British rule in India to its founda- tions, and which culminated in Gand- hi’s arrest and sentence to six years’ imprisonment. - His Pacifism Strained. Anklesaria carries a scar under his chin caused by a British police- mans baton.and according to his de- scription of the incident his pacifist beliefs were strained almost to the breaking int. He is specializin; in jor mm at Northwestern an intends to start a national Indian ean per on his return to his na- ive Get unity thru the Labor Party! Installment of “ WALL STREET BOOKIES LAY EVEN MONEY ON SMITH AND McADOO (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—The odds are even in Wall Street on the chances of ex-Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Governor Al Smith of New York, receiving the Democratic presidential nomi- nation. 'W. Darnell, betti: er, reported that wi are 3 to 1 on both the candidates. T Iso report that even money is being bet on Coolidge being re- elected to the presidency, PLUTES GO KLAN LEADER'S BAIL ON LARCENY CHARGE Young’s Trial Set for May Term (Special to The Daily Worker) MARION, Ill, Feb. 22—Glenn Young, leader of Ku Klux Klan li- quor raids and unofficial dictator of «Herrin in the battles there Feb. 9 and 10, returned today to “Bloody Williamson” county and was placed under arrest. Twenty prominent Marion busi- ness men gave bond of $20,000 on ten charges of larceny and assault against him in connection with the activities of the Klan liquor raids that brought state troops here. Young’s case was set for the May term of court, ¢ Cornwall Is Urged, The American Farm Bureau Fed- eration today endorsed its president, Ellsworth B. Cornwall, gl aa Vt. for membership on the f leral trade commission. Kiss Cost Him His Job. KANSAS CITY, Kans:, Feb. 22.— “A kiss in the dark” today cost the ation of E. BE, Damon, instrue- punting at the Kansas City, igh school. tor in Kans., Haessler In Waukegan Sunday. WAUKEGAN, Ill, Feb, 22,—Carl Haessler speaks on “The Stimulus In Radicalism” before the Workers Party n Forum tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. at Workers Hall, 517 Helmholz ave. — DELAYED STRIKE BRANDED FALSE Ladies’ Garment Work- ers Ready for Action The settled policy of the capitalist press to take liberties with the labor |movement and falsify news with the obvious intention of injuring the workers in their efforts to sefure better conditions was again demon- strated yesterday when the Chicago Tribune published a yarn to the e?- fect that the threatened strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers in Chicago was postponed for a week. The DAILY. WORKER was in- formed authoritatively by leaders of the union that all necessary steps had been taken to set the strike ma- chinery in motion when the word to quit was given in the shops, but that the date for the strike, altho set, was kept secret for tactical reasons. The DAILY WORKER reporter, after seeing the fable in the Tribune, immediately got in touch with the local office of the Ladies’ Garment Workers and was informed by Manager M. Rappaport, of the Joint Board, that there was no truth what- ever in the Tribune yarn, “but that nothing better can be expected from the capitalist press.” There is no let up on strike prepa- rations according to information given to the DAILY WORKER. Halls are engaged for meetings, leaflets are. ready for distribution, chairmen are appointed, but the date of the strike is known only to the strike leaders and the rumor appearing in the capi- talist press that the strike will be called on such and such a date are only guesses. Of course, if they keep guessing long enough they may hit it right sometime. The DAILY WORKER, however, is concerned with helping the union to make a success of the strike and not with commas wit Old Moore’s Al- manac in prophecy or mind reading, Some Movie Publicity. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb. 22.— i's e program olly~ rood. roducers. Di 4 Modern stories, with as few char- acters as possible and told in six or seven reels is the present producing vogue. Work Daily for “The Daily!” TRIBUNE STORY OF P. Head, Says Its Absurd to Fire Oily Attorney ‘Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The Republican National Com- mittee thru its chairman today ney~General Daugherty, whose Pepper, administration leaders, democrat, are seeking because scandal. came to the defense of Attor- resignation Senators Lodge and and Senator Wheeler, Montana pf his connection with the oil John T. Adams, chairman of the committee, in announcing that he would issue tonight a statement defending Daugherty, said: “It is absurd to talk of dismissing a man who has not had a full hearing and an ppportunity to defend himself.” Feel Whole G.O. P. Attacked | Adams was urged to issue the statement by George B. Lockwood, secretary of the National Committee, who in a re- cent editorial in the National Republican, a party paper, said the attacks on Daugherty were unfair and unjust. Rallying of the party organization’s spokesmen to Daugh- erty’s support caused a great stir among politicians today for IT’S TOUGH JOB OUSTING DAUGHERTY LaFollette and Wheeler Join’ Forces for Monday's Fight ~(Spectal to "The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— Senator LaFollette today took command of the Senate effort to oust Attorney General Daugherty from the cabinet. At the same time, the belief grew in administration circles that if President Coolidge does not yield this week to the Sen- ate’s pressure on him to dis- miss Daugherty, the President will stand by his attorney gen- eral until Daugherty has had a full hearing before the Senate committee. LaFollette’s first step was to ar- range with Republican leaders for adoption on Monday of the Wheeler resolution to investigate Daugherty and for appointment of a committee to conduct the investigation. Wheeler Writes to Pepper, Senator Wheeler, Montana, author of the resolution and the others lead- ing the investigation scoffed at the defi the attorney general issued yesterday in a letter to Senator Pep- per, Pennsylvania, In that letter Daugherty said he would carry his case to the country in a_ speaking tour. LaFollette believes Daugherty will “not have -much time for cam- paigning when the senate investiga- tion gets under way the middle of next week.” Wheeler will present the report of, the New York investigator who, he stated yesterday, discovered that Daugherty had speculated in oil stocks. The substance of this report has already been given President Coolidge. The investigating committee will be headed by Senator Brookhart, Iowa, republican. Brookhart is chief aide to LaFollette. Daugherty Pleads for Time. When Daugherty was urged last Sunday by Senator Borah to réeSign at a conference in the White House with President Coolidge, he is re- rted to have taken the attitude that e desires to obtain the opinions of his colleagues in the cabinet. How- ever, so far as is known, he never has consulted with the other cabinet mem- bers and the investigation was not discussed at the cabinet meeting last Tuesday. Daugherty has made no statement concerning Senator Wheeler’s charge that he speculated in oil stocks. Be- yond hig formal reply to Wheeler’s charges and his letter to Pepper yesterday, he has said nothing. In the Pepper letter, which was a reply to a note from Pepper urging Daugherty to resign because he was on the wrang side of the issue in the iblic mind, the attorney general said he quit it would be a confession of baseless charges. ppears in the two reasons: 1—Because it aligned Adams, as committee head, in opposition to Pepper and Lodge, two of the party’s most influential senators. 2.—Because Daugherty in his letter to Pepper yesterday said the attacks were not di- rected at him alone but at the whole republican administra- tion. Adams, it was pointed out, apparently agrees with Daugherty in this wiew of the matter. ~~" St¥ollé Tato ‘Senate Chamber. Attorney General Daugherty, who is at sword points with senators who are trying to oust him, strolled into the Senate Chamber shortly after the session opened today. Sitting alone on a couch in the rear, he ;listened to the reading of Washington’s farewell address by Senator Willis, Ohio, a friend, “I promised a month ago to come up today to hear the reading,” Daugherty explained. “I am not go- ing to talk to anybody, see anybody or confer with anybody. I just came up for ‘the reading of the ad- dress.” Wheeler Stares at Him. Senator Wheeler, Montana, demo- erat, who bitterly denounced Daugh- erty in a speech and is author of a resolution to investigate the Justice Department, passed in front of the attorney general, They stared at each other but there was no sign of recognition. Senator Elkins, West Virginia, who speculated in Teapot Dome stocks, came up after a bit and sat down with Daugherty, who is charged by Wheeler with oil stock speculations. They smiled and talked. » Office Is Statement. After Daugherty had left the capi- tal, where he went to listen to the (Continued on page 2.) THIRST FOR OIL NOT ALLAYED BY TEAPOT SCANDAL (Special to The Dally/ Work WASHINGTON, Feb. The ‘Teapot Dome scandal has not hurt the demand for government oil leases. Figures made public at the in- terior department *today showed that the demand for government oil leases increased in January. There was 437 applications for oil and gas leases that month and 299 in December. Permits were issued in 435 cases, 253 applications were rejected and 45 permits were cancelled. AIR PILOT GAINS NEW ALTITUDE MacReady Climbs 41,000 Fest In Two Hours (Special to The Daily Werker) DAYTON, 0O., Feb. 22.—4 Lieutenant J, A. MacReady, army air pilot, today broke the world’s altitude record by climbing 41,000 feet. His time was 2 hours and 3 minutes. The previous record was 86,745 feet, set by Lecointe, French flyer, on October 30, 1923. MacReady’s record ways unofficial, but the flight was held under the regulations of the Federated Aero- nautic Internationale, with Orville Wright as chief observer. < In Spiral Climb. MacReady used his famous Lepere plane for the flight, which started at 9:27 a. m. When only nine seconds from the ground, the veteran pilot swung the nose of his ship upwards and started his spiral climb. The weather was ideal for the test. MacReady was dressed in a cos- tume which left no part of his body exposed. He was covered from head to foot with a feather lined quilted flying suit, his regulation 4:niform, a heavy suit of woolen underwear and fur lined moccasins. The big plane was equipped with special oxygen tanks and other spe- cial equipment. to supply the pilot above earth. Terribly Cold. “T cannot tell how cold it was,” his ead, “My thermometer roke with the mercury registerin about 60 degrees below ne It i have been much colder, for the in- strument went to smash before 1 reached the height of my flight.” Engine Gave Trouble. The small gathering that wit- nessed the start was increased to more than a thousand after the flyer had been fn the air an hour. “My engine started to giving me a little trouble, or I would still have been going upward,” Macready sata as soon as he could free himself to speak. If the unofficial figure of 41,000 feet is unchanged after official cali- bration, MacReady will have at- tained his goal. __ The bureau of standards in Wash- ington will make the decision. Victims of War Lords May Be Freed as Sop to the Jingoes LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Feb. 22. —wWar department investigators to- day began hearing the stories of 177 men serving sentences in the fed- eral prison here for war time of- fenses, > Major James Stanfield and Major Frank R. Ross, who are conducting the inquiry to determine if sen- tences passed on the men are too severe, said each of the prisoners sentenced for violation of regula- tions said that recommendations for leniency wil! be made in cases of men who may have been unjustly punished, is expected to The investigation take a week. Gives Excuse for Shooting. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 22..Her husband started beating her two weeks after they were married last July and kept it up ever since, knocking her down and kicking her last night. That was the, explanation Mrs. Billie Wolcott, 31, gave to police to- day for shooting to death her hus- band, Frank B. Wolcott, 40. Mexico Expelling Correspondent ‘i - . of Tribune-- Worst Lying Paper it to The (Special MEXICO CITY, Feb. 22.—President ge Shits oved_ applica jon y appr ap \ Frederick tion of Article XXXIII of the Mexican constitution against John Wright, correspondent of the Chicago information. Tribune for sending out alleged false An offtcial bulletin, issued by the secretary of the interior refers te Wright as an enemy of Mexico. It is understood from the bulletin that the correspondent is to be expelled from the country. Magazine Section ith life-givi ir. {he expe Wea att aaa ee \