The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 28, 1924, Page 1

| THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND | FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT In Chicago, by mail, VOL. I. No. 351. — Subscription Rate! Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year $8.00 per year. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 «cg 1 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Minois. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amal ation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recornition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Name McAdoo, Underwood in Secret Wires Big Strike Hits Sweatshops ; eee 13 Workers Arrested When Bosses Call Willing Police The struggle the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union is waging against the sweatshops in Chicago opened’ with a bang today when 85 per cent of the dressmaking plants were shut down by the workers. Three thousand union cloak- makers came out with them for a half-day as a demonstration of ggg and will furnish a quota of pickets thruout the strike, Angered by the success of the walkout which exceeded their expectations the bosses struck back thru the police and: 13 workingmen were thrown into a patrol wagon and rushed to the La Salle street police station. Union Prompt in Defense. All the workers were bailed out promptly by the union and they will have the services of Attorney Oscar Nelson and asso- ciate counsel in the fight to de- *°Nine of the workers were av-|| FIRST ARRESTS IN BIG STRUGGLE FOR BETTER DAY IN NEEDLE TRADE rested in Blum and Kempler’s The following strikers were arrest- plant on §. Market stmet. Pickets were inviting the ed on the first day of the dressmak- ers’ struggle as they were taking sweated employes of this no- torious anti-labor concern to join the big walkout and men part in the strike at Blum & Kempler, | 170 W. Adams street. | Charged with assault: and women were beginning to come out. Jack Blum, brother of the proprie- tor, used foul language at them, the strikers say, and with some follow- = attacked them. An — of ABRAHAM ABRONITZ. police came in response to a hurry | 4 i call and commenced rounding up the | EH Ee eS orcad conduct: SAM_ROSE. CHARLES KOFF. LOUIS ISMAN. HARRY MATTEN. JOSEPH GALLER. pickets and strikers, Blum Arrested Too, DAVID KLESMAN. BORNEY BORNATSKY. Blum went with them to the po-' Amalgamated Will lice station but found himself held | there on a felonious assault charge, | preferred by Abraham Abronitz, a striker whom he had charged first | with the same offense, The other » eight, whose names are printed else- where in the DAILY WORKER, are , charged with disorderly conduct and all will be arraigned in Strike in “The Loop” ACKSON and Market streets, the heart of the dressmaking indus- try in Chicago, was a scene of surg- ing crowds from 10:30 to 11 yester- day morning as thousand of gar- ment workers left their machines in a great movement for the 40-hour week, more wages, sanitary condi-- tions in the shops and maintenance of the unemployed. Union and non-union alike were in the masses of men and women work- ers who filled the pavement and be- gan marching towards the halls at 20 W. Randolph St. and 180 W. Wash- ington St., where they would be mobilized into picket squads. “Whole Shop Out!” “My whole shop came out with me,” a bright eyed Jewish girl said. “There are only two scabs left in mine,” answered another girl who said she worked in Fried’s, on Mar- ket street, This conversation the reporter heard was paralelled in front of al- most every door in the congested industry area between Van Burea and Adams streets. There are some big scab shops still running but the union expects to get them out before the week is over, Pickets Force Them Out. The strike moment was 10:30 but it was not for another fifteen min- utes that the streets were jammed. Many of the workers in non-union shops he nace * ee, bosses were cajoling and threatening by turns. Girl's heads popped out of the windows, tho, and the sight of the crowds outside encouraged them. Pickets forced their way past the guards posted at shop doors, in many cases, and cried to the timid to join their fellows in the great strike— volunteer pickets these, expelled militants among them. The sight of the enthusiastic on the street was discourag- ing to the boses. I saw one bosses’ fee, a fat picture of woe, out signs “Stylish Stout”—referring the goods, not their owner, 9 Police coi trying qi to move on the cro va lice on foot and police mounted on their brown . But there were not enough cops on hand to suit the bosses: the crowd wasn’t moving on fast enou and more workers, enco the sight of the masses outside, were ping Met) the long stairs of the lofty buildings and adding to the Mag one bea pen Be a riot oth ame a rattling patrol wagon. (Continued on pase 8) ALL EDUCATORS ATTENDING THE PRESENT CHICAGO GATHERING OF T Support Strike of I. .L. G. Workers ed Clothing Workers’ Union,” ‘said A. §. Fisch, secretary of the Chi- cago Joint Board of the Amalgamat- ed, last night. Fisch said he was speaking as 4 union member, not an official. The Joint Board meets tomorrow aad will discuss ways and means of as- sisting their comrades of the ladies’ garment industry. A closer feeling of sympathy will come~between the two unions as a result of the strike, Fisch said he felt certain. In New York relations between the two organizations are excellent as an effect of the support they have given each other in struggles. Expelled Left Wing Unionists Aid Strike Against Sweatshops Evidence of a desire for harmony with the left wing expelled members during the strike was shown yester- day afternoon when Dora Lipshutz ‘was invited by Harry Rose, who is in charge of the strikers’ halls at No. 180 W. Washington street, to assist the strike committee. Miss Lipshutz was an active union member who was expelled for her affiliation with the Trade Union Edu- cational League, which is working for progressive policies within the union, Expelled members gave valuable aid in picket work yesterday. Clara Gabin, Israel Litwinsky and Jack Perry were among those who were on the : fae of! the picket line, WAR GRAFT PROBE IN SIX DEPARTMENTS ORDERED BY SENATE | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 27, —The treasury, war, state, inte- rior and navy departments of the government as well as the ship- ping board will be investigated by the senate committees as the result of six resolutions that were passed by the senate today. The investigators will try to find if it is true abe Rermereite pe: litical influence collect huge sums from the government by filing a claim for imaginary damages, The claims, most of which grew out of alleged violation of war contracts by the rnment in- ion of dollars, Sensational revelations are sure as a result of the investigations. TO THE FINISH Big Business does not only control the education of the workers’ children thru the local boards of education. Business also controls educatio: Big m thru the professional organ- ization of teachers, known as the National Education Asso- ciation, or “N. E. A.” it. This is not a teachers’ union—far from It is against the things a union is for. Read what Upton Sinclair, author of the celebrated book on American education, the “Goose Step,” has.to say of the “N. E. A.,” which is now hav- ing a convention of its superin- fendents’ organization in Chi- cago. (The chapter here ‘given, and the ones to follow, are taken from Sinclair’s latest book the “The Goslings.” * * * *-. By UPTON SINCLAIR Author of “The Gosiings.” E now ascend to the top of our great school pyra- mid, the National Education Association. This is the pro- fessional organization of the educators of the United States, and as such it possesses tre- mendous prestige and power} in the educational world. You prob- ably know very little about it, and may think that it has nothing to do with your local schools; but in this you will be deceiving yourself, for its influence is none the less strong because indirect. What the N. E. A. does is to set the standards of the school world; in its councils, open or secret, the thing called educational greatness is determined. Who are the “great” educators of America? Who are the ones that really know how children should be taught and what they should be taught? Do you know who they are? Manifestly you do not; you have to be told who they are, and the func- tion of the N. EB. A. is to tell you, It is the dispenser of educational prominence and applause, The final test of greatness in the school world is to be invited to deliver one of the addresses before its annua] conven- tion; while to have your name added to the list of presidents of the or- ganization is in the school world the same thing as it is in lic life to have your name added to the list of peaidenth of the United States, which every schoo! child has to learn by heart. You step out before this yast assemblage, amid a flutter of applause, and tens of thousands of teachers and sympathizers absorb your utterances, and carry them away to the farthest hamlets—this is what is known in America as “in- spiration.” The local newspapers print your address in full, and the Associated Press sends a summary of it to its thirteen hundred leading newspapers. Thus, if you are a re- actionary, you help to set backward the clock of American history, and to_render the position of your capi- talist employers secure. If you are not a reactionary, then you do not ; get within many feet of the platform | at the N. E. A. convention. There are at the present time a undred and twenty-five thousand ;members of the N. E. A., and they | pay dues at the rate of two dollars per member. More than 80 per cent of them are the plain, ordinary, humble, rank and file class room teachers, whose function is that of the day laborer in the grams corpor- ation—to produce the wealth, while their superiors spend it. You will be told that the N. E, A. is a demo- eratic organization, and you will un- derstand what this means when I tell you that Tammany Hall also is: a “democratic” organization. New members are welcome, in fact, they are eagerly sought—‘“drives” are carried on, and the prestige of schools is established by the fact that they have one hundred per cent membership in the N. E. A. Some school systems are even going so far as to make membership in the N. E. | A. compulsory to all applicants for (Continued on page 6.) FATALITIES IN ILLINOIS STATE Brother of Union Secre- tary Dies in Belleville (Special to The Daily Worker) SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Feb. 27— Bodies of two men, killed in a dust explosion late yesterday in Citizens’ Coal Mine, west of here, were re- covered early today by a mine rescue crew. The men were shot firers and were the only workers in the mine when the blast occurred, A mule tender, who sought to res- cue tue mules after the explosion, was gassed but will recover. * eee Union Leader's Brother Killed, BELLEVILLE, Il., Feb. 27.—Edw. Nesbit, 42, was killed yesterday in a fall of slate in the St. Louis and O'Fallon mine number 2 here. Another miner was crushed badly in a previous accident the same day. esbit was a brother of Walter Nesbit, secretary of the Illinois Mine Workers’ Union, Rumor Several Hurt in Big Accident at Fair on State Street preter: The Fair, one of the largest down- town department stores on State Street, was closed today. Officials of the store announced that a large electric cable had been | broken in the boiler plant, putting lights and elevators out of commis- sion, A report that several ons were injured was denied. a Workers Elect Spokesmen to Apply for Membership in Russian Party (By The Federated Prens) MOSCOW, Feb, 27.—Applications for membership in the Communist imposed beta as their representatives within the ing for mem! Ip. has developed—men and women are being elected Party of Russia have flooded the party offices. This in the face of the stringent test one must undergo to enter, in face of the onerous duties party members, in face of the its members, and in face of the tremendous deductions made from the salaries of party members for unemployment and for party work, Groups of working men have elected men from who are politeally most active and most likely yy se into control the party exercises over their number party, curious Masinione . a for the purpose of apply- Tried to Work on Walsh to Save McLean From Telling About $100,000 Given Fall (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The names of Oscar Under- wood and William G. McAdoo, both candidates for the demo- cratic nomination for president, have been found in telegrams submitted to the Senate Oil Investigating Committee in secret, and which will be made public tomorrow, a committee member told the DAILY WORKER correspondent this afternoon. Underwood, the committee member said the telegrams dis- closed, was to be approached by A. Mitchell Palmer, former attorney general and counsel for E. B. McLean, Washington Post publisher, to “work on Senator Walsh in an effort to have him refrain from questioning McLean regarding a loan of $100,000 to Albert B. Fall.” McAdoo and his son, Francis H. McAdoo, a New York lawyer, were named in a telegram sent by McLean from Palm Beach to one of his employes in Washington. In this telegram, the Senate committee member said, McLean told his man here to go to New York and “see McAdoo. You can trust him. Either he or his father has been my personal attorney for seven years.” Apparently the efforts to get Un- derwood and others to “work on” Walsh were unavailing, for accord- ing to the committee member who told of the as yet undisclosed mes- sages one of McLean’s men wired him a little later that “We are help- Smoot and Lenroot Admit Warning F. all of His Danger WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Senator Lenroot, chairman of the Teapot Dome Committee, revealed today that he and Senator Smoot had a heretofore secret conference with former Secretary of Interior Fall, just before Fall told his first story less. It’s no use to do anything more, Walsh is in a fighting mood and has set his jaw.” Some of the telegrams which will be read tomorrow are understood to be in code, the word “apple” des- ignating one man and “cherry” an- other. Committee members indicated te- day that Francis H. McAdoo, A. Mitchell Palmer, “Doc” Smithers, White House telegrapher; John Ma- jor, employe of McLean, and pos- sibly others mentioned would be sub- poenaed, as to where he got the $100,000 for his ranch improvements. The significance of this revelation lies in the open charge of Senator until “the scandal” was really brought to light. Lenroot and Smoot went to Fall’s apartment at the Wardman Park hotel during Christmas week. The complete story of the Ward- man Park conference was told to the DAILY WORKER today by Sen- ator Smoot. “Lenroot and I went out to see Fall at Wardman Park. We told him everything in the*record had been explained except where he got the money for the improvement of his ranch,” said Smoot. “He told us he borrowed an old friend. “Tm not a pauper; I can get money when I want it,’ Fall said. “‘Well, Albert, why don’t you tell the committee where you got it?’ we asked him. “It’s a private swered, “He was a sick man then. He was lying on a couch and perspira- tion was streaming from his face.” Poor Hearing. Lenroot says that Fall said, as we were leaving, that he got the money from Edward B, McLean, but I did not hear that. “We went there as friends to get him to clear the matter up for his sake, the committee’s sake and the sake of the public. This was a few days before he sent the letter to the committee that: he got it from McLean. “T have never sent a telegram to Fall or received one from him since then. “The only communication’ I have had with him was when J. W. Zeve- ly (Harry Sinclair’s Washington at- torney) called me on the telephone | from New Orleans and told me Do- | heny was coming to Washington and , tell it all. He then said ‘Albert Fall is here and wants to talk to you.’ | “Fall told me that he would ar- range to come up later, that both of his daughters were ill and that he could not come at that time. “It was two or three days before Senator Fall wrote his first letter to the committee,” Lenroot told the DAILY WORKER. “Both Senator Smoot and myself insisted that he come before the committee and tell | the whole truth, “He made us a definite promise that he would and told us that he had obtained the money from an old friend here in Washington. . I am sure he said he obtained the sum from Edward B. McLean.” Admit Lies. Both Fall and McLean later ad- mitted that this story was untrue, McLean said that he had given checks for $100,000 to Fall but that Fall had returned them and they it from matter,’ Fall an- ) if E NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION SHOULD Walsh of Montana that republican members of the invest genre. committee , _at- j temp 0 hinder his Saaiirs REEO HINTS BRIBERY OF OFFICIALS FROM THE PRESIDENT DOWN HANNIBAL, Mo., Feb. 27.—~ “If the Cabinet is not purged soon, President Coolidge should resign,” was the message Senator Jam: A. Reed carried in his campaign for the endorsement of his home state for the Democratic presiden- tial nomination today. In a speech here last night, Reed said he believed “bribery was not confined to Fall,” “After the war, word got out of Washington that you had to get a man with a pull instead of a lawyer, to do your busines. ‘ “Doheny bribed Fall. He also hired McAdoo to work with the Wilson administration of which he had just been a part.” Reed charged McAdoo sold his influence to the movies, under the guise of “legal ability.” “All he did was don a cowboy hat and hair leggings and have his picture taken with movie stars.” — ee were destroyed without cashed. Washington bankers, how- ever, testified McLean’s checking ac- counts were as low as $4,950 around this time and at no.time within a year had they totaled anywhere near $100,000. The fact that Lenroot and Smoot, ranking republican members of the investigating committee had gone secretly to see Fall was never re- vealed to the Fall committee. “That is the only conversation I had with Senator Fall since the mat- ter of the $100,000 was first brought up,” Lenroot said. These reports prompted Walsh to investigate the files of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph com- panies for records of all messages sent from Washington to Fall or Eeenen at Palm Beach or New Or- leans, Secret Hearing Continues. This examination was resumed to- day by the committee in executive ° session, Files of the Postal were submitted today. After all the messages have been examined those which are be- lieved to be pertinent to the oil in- vestigation will be made pubile. The name of a “Francis McAdoo” was found in one telegram sent to MeLean, committee members said. In others the name “McAdoo” w discovered. Members of the commit- tee are attempting to identify “Fran- cis McAdoo.” The telegrams did not make clear his connection with (Continued on page 2. a Read About the Great_Work for Education in sagt Russia--Look On Page Six Today being .