The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 3

“Fiida,,. oruary 29, 1924 4) THE DAILY WORKER —=== BANKERS’ FRIEND, WEEKS, OPPOSES FREE PHILIPPINES $70,000,000 in Bonds Another Attempt Made to Deport Mexican Radical (By The Federated Press) SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Feb, 28.— An attempt is being made ta revive deportation proceedings against Ra- mon Sanchez, a Mexican criminal syndicalism prisoner here, A previous attempt in 1922 was averted. Mean- in U. S. while Sanchez’ health has been af- Owned in VU. ». fected by incarceration in the dun- geon in various protest strikes. (By The Federated Press) As the terms of the earlier crim- WASHINGTON, Feb, 28th, —Jj inal syndicalism victims approach Seventy million dollars of Philippine government bonds, which have 29 years still to run, are held by Amer- ican banks. That was the chief definite reason urged by Secretary of War Weeks, at a hearing before the House Com- ‘mittee on insular affairs, against giv- ing immediate independence to the islands. Weeks, the bond broker, now the cabinet officer, talked pompously of completion, the state government is making strenuous efforts to have the few foreign-born among them deport- ed by the federal authorities. So far, as in® the cases of Jack Gavyell and James Olson, and the earlier ac- tion spear Sanchez, the authorities have been unsuccessful in their at- tempts. Gurley Flynn Speaks the, “obligation” of | the | United at Membership Drive tates to tl need for Baudane ceamteration of of N ew Y ork ig Ww. L. any change in relations with the Filipino people. Th were very near to Japan and China, and any- how the present demand for inde- pendence was “not expressive of the « best interests and wishes and ma- ture consideration” of, the Filipinos. Wants Pound of Flesh, Weeks said the United States should hold the islands until full guaranty of payment of these bonds, and some $41,500,000 of other se- curities, was made. He and General McIntyre, head of the Bureau of In- sular Affairs, admitted that the Unit- ed States had no legal dlaim based on these debts, but they thoug! there was a “moral” claim whic would justify continued American occupation. Weeks felt that if “for a definite period” American rule should be guaranteed, American capital would continue to flow into the islands and develop the resources NEW YORK, Feb, 28.—The Young Workers League of New York will begin a drive for new members with a mass meeting at Webster Hall, 119 E. lith St, Sunday afternoon, March 2. In adidtion to a list of prominent speakers headed by Eliza- beth Gurley Flynn there will be a fine musical program. The Freiheit Singing Society, and the Lithuanian Mandolin Orchestra will be the head- liners. The Young Workers League here has recently increased its influence greatly by taking up new activities and doing a great deal of hard work. The League aims to bring within its fold every militant young worker during its membership drive. Farmer-Labor Party HOLD YOUR NOSE, THE WAR FRAUD SCANDALS MAY COME IN BUNCH (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—The American people must not be giv- en too much light on these war fraud cases, all at once. It might hurt them—or somebo: Senator King of Utah, rising in his place on Feb, 19, moved to re- scind the order of the previous day under which Attorney General Daugherty’s report on the war fraud litigation was to have been printed as « public document. “My attention has been called,” he said, “to some matters con- nected with the report which, in my judgment, indicate that per- haps that order was improvidently eee M masmuch as the report from Daugherty had been denudal at King’s suggestion, his willingness to turn the material over to the senate judiciary committee for its carefully scrutiny was welcomed by Senator Willis, spokesman / for Daugherty, and the senate agreed to that co: pivcnarc as ic, Ne A Past Legion Head Says War Shouters Are Now Anti-Bonus (By The Federated Press) ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb, 28.—Alvin M. Owsley, past national commander, American legion, addressing a bonus mass meeting here, predicted victory for the soldier bonus bill The meas- ure will pass the house by a 6 to 1 vote, Owsley thinks. “The men who are fighting the bonus bill now are the ones who were shouting the loudest for the men to go out and fight during the war,” the speaker asserted. He pointed out that the United States is the only country engaged in the world war of West Va. Plans Convention Mar. 13 (Special to The Daily Worker) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Feb. 28— The Farmer-Labor Party of West Virginia will huld a convention here beginning March 138, to organize for the coming political campaign. A call has been sent out asking local labor unions and working class political parties to send delegates, This con- there. Representative Schaefer of Wis- consin asked, pointedly, whether Weeks did not mean that American forces should hold the islands for the next 29 years. Weeks made no direct reply. Filipino Demands Freedom. _ Speaker Manuel ete] of the island legislature replied to the broker-secretary, saying that the bad financial conditions of three years a in the islands were due to world vention, indications are, will be the lepression in trade, and had now dis-| biggest ever held in West Virginia appeared, The government is in a Preparations are being made to ac- sound condition. It asks no financial | comodate hundreds of delegates. help from America. “We are a people who have fought Oil Scandal Blocks Other Agents of Big several wars for freedom,” - marked. ‘or thie eh ead Biz in Washington » (By The Federated Press! a hopeless struggle with the United ) WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Gov- States to win our independence. We have given deliberate and mature ernment hydro-electric power plants will be constructed at the Yuma ir- consideration td this issue. We are Porn doubt. We want to stand lew da One-Faurth af Baw. —1- <tte a yews eee un 2 CHUULE | rigation’ project it Arizona; and on ject in Idaho; at.a cost Factory Employes Get |¢s° $230,600 and. $400,000. respec- tively, due to the fight made by Sen- Less than $12 Weekly ator Ashurst and Senator Borah in [the Senate against private power ‘/companies’ spokesmen in that body, in debate on the Interior Department appropriations bill. Fear of another scandal proved too strong for the (By The Federated Press) _NEW YORK, Feb. 28.—This is likely to prove the crucial week for the 48-hour week and minimum wage bills. On Tuesday, the 26th, a hear-| corporation bloc to organize their ing was held ore the joint senate | usual resistance. and assembly committee which was : district on the mmenentatives of alll Another Bank Hits | the bil onthe fact thet semce| the Trail to the Tall workers of the state are being un- j, i derpaid afd overworked more than F inancial Timbers half of those employed in factories and mercantile establishments re-| ANTELOPE, Mont., Feb. 28.— ceiving less than $15.75 per week, | The Citizens’ State bank, the last of and a fourth of them less than $12. | Antelope’s financial institutions, has The most optimistic of all the many |closed’ its doors to go into receiver- surveys that have been made place |ship. Farmers who had deposited the average cost of living at $16.00, |money from the sale of their 1923 crops and local business men are los- Use of Lumber on ers. Sheridan county had $22,000 Louisiana Infants on deposit’ in county funds which it has been unable to draw since 1921. The county deposit is covered by Legal, Says Court} bonds. (By The Federated Press) SHREVEPORT, La., Feb. 28.— Louisiana, one of the most backward states in the union in education, still clings to the old fashioned paddle to punish children. Miss Myra Wood- ward, principal of a local school was charged in the district court with using a wooden paddle to punish Willie tenga rh 6 year old school boy. The disobedience of the child consisted in antag, the school yard after hotirs. ing to escape the bogeys the boy was injured by falling di a flight of steps. Judge E. P. Mills di d teacher on the grounds that the state of Louisiana recognized the use of a wooden paddle to punish children. Montreal Labor in Demand for Say on School Commission MONTREAL, Feb. 28.—Labor resentation on sion to study educational sem of the province of Quel manded by the Montreal Trades and Labor council. As the children of workmen form by far the greater of the attendants of public the free text- free tuition, and co) ca~ | unions was averted tion are by in the resolution. | which for These demands f to the pro- | into effect Sept. 1. Musicians coal nuda Nis | ay ok dee se Bs pat by anton conference in > mi help, 50 cents a ‘ancouver, B, C. ' aye gk campromie setilement IEDAILY WORKER.” Gat ane of me K Got one of | of $10 instead $5, and assistant See aer ttc eder a” | corpeatore of G15 tnstend of $6: bes f6, de> | entertain March This Reads Like a Page from Family History of Abraham ALTON, Ill, Feb, 28.—Twelve liv- ing direct ancestors today sai proudly to their dane! tj A Neenah wereads daughter, great great-great-granddaughter, Norma Lee Penning, one day old. . Norma Lee was born at the rs ler mother is Mrs, Fred Penning, Jr., Arkansas City, Kan. She possesses two parents, four grandparents, four great-grandparents, and two great- great-grand, of her grandmother here. parents. Greek Workers Give Dance in New York Wednesday, Mar. 5th NEW YORK, Feb. 28—The radical workers be enter- hwil ithe E. 67th St. that has not granted its soldiers a bonus. ; Owsley chargeA that large employ- ers have, coerced their employes into flooding “Washington with anti-bonus Propaganda. In numerous cases, the speaker said, employes have been given the choice of writing their congressmen in opposition to the bonus bill or being fired, Blood Tests Wanted by St. Louis Cooks to Restore Confidence 3 (By The Federated Press) ST, LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 28.—Legis- lation compelling cooks to submit to blood tests and physical examinations every 60 days is being advocated by union cooks of this city. “Condi- tions in some of our eating places are deplorable,” says Jack Reed, business agent of the union. “Many of those handling food for public consumption have communicable dis- eases ot the worst sort, and we be- lieve the public would more readily patronize restaurants which an- handlers was pervision.” Cooks and Pastry Cooks’ local No. 26 is recovering from an open shop drive, 1920, which made heavy in- roads on the union’s membership. The union, with more than 700 mem- bers, was almost destroyed. As a result of an organization campaign, the local has been recruited to nearly 300 members. New York Bilis Favored by Workers Go to the Assembly (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 28,—During the past week the Upper House of New York State Legislature passed the following bills favored by or- ganized labor: $ Restoring direct primary nomina- tion, initiation and referendum at U. Ba peed “ state sna pie judges; providing for pop amend- ment of State Constitution by peti- tion, initiation and referendum at following elections providing for an executive budget of annual state ex- penditure; requiring publication of campaign receipts and expenses be- fore, instead of after, elections; pro- viding for payment of state service bonds to Naldent veterans of the World War at rate of $10 for each under state or city su- ese measures have now gone to the Assembly for final action, doubts as to the genuine satisfied. citizens against Russia, overnment to imperialist exploiting groups. ‘ Page Three SPLIT IN MORON CAMP RESULTS IN NEW KLAN ORDER New Tribe Selects Kan- sas City for Home ATLANTA, Ga. Feb, 28.—The Knights of the Mystic Klan today joined the list of rival societies of the Ku Klux Klan, growing out of internal differences in the hooded order, The new secret organization was launched here last night at a’ con- ference of 200 delegates from thir- teen states. The meeting, originally called by E. Y. Clarke, former im- perial wizard of the Klan, to “cure or kill” the “invisible empire,” -pass- ed resolutions condemning William Joseph Simmons, former leader of one faction who recently made 1 Imperial Wizard Evans. was labeled an “auto- cratic organization whose object was to overthrow free government.” The delegates elected John R. Jones as chairman of a tempororay board of control and selected Kan- sas City as national headquarters. “Castles” of the Mystic Klan were voted in Milwaukee, Durham, N. C.; Russell, Kentucky; Eldorado, Kan- sas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Kansas City and Atlanta. s+ e & Get Own Medicine. g WAUKESHA, Wis., Feb. 28.—Un- der the guard of policemen and vol- unteers a score of Ku Klux Klans- men were spirited from a hotel here early today, following the mobbing of a Klan meeting here last night. Furniture and windows on the lower floor of the hotel were wreck- ed in a spirited fight between sev- eral hundred persons opposed to the Klan and members of the Klan. Most of the klansmen escaped, the rest taking refuge behind barricaded doors on the second floor of the :, hotel. ; THE DAILY WORKER. Always carry a few copies in your Rt, psiera fom Milwaukee ar-|pocket so that you back up your statements by showing the omoible early today and |paper. Make THE DAILY WORKER a permanent and constant took the besieged ki; | ; - 2 7 rs town “While police puardar eee |topic of conversation. It’s the biggest thing in the American labor movement. further attacks. Howled at Klansmen, | By advertising THE DAILY WORKER is in itself making , Several persons were slightly in-|it attractive to thinking workers. Everyone of them knows that the capitalist press is poison. With many it is necessary only How to Make the Daily Worker Grow Choose Your Method and MAKE It Work "T wort are so many different ways by which THE DAILY WORKER can be increased that we hesitate to print all of them that come to our mind and all of them that DAILY WORKER agents and boosters send in, for fear that some com- rades will be confused by the multitude of opportunities and not stick to any of them long enough to make it work. Of the dozens of special methods which DAILY WORKER agents have used with success, all of them have one thing in common:—to make them successful, persistency and energy was required. Basically everywhere the problem of securing new readers for THE DAILY WORKER is the same: 1.—It is necessary to make THE DAILY WORKER known. 2.—It is necessary to make THE DAILY WORKER attractive to the workers. 3.—It is necessary to stick to the job of selling, to overcome petty obstacles and “turn-downs” by sticking to the job. Previously, in The Power Column, we have suggested a num- ber of ways by which THE DAILY WORKER can best be adver- tised. In our opinion the best and most constant method of advertisement is by “word of mouth”. One of the first tasks of DAILY WORKER branch agents is to get the members of his branch and the workers in his locality to talking about THE DAILY WORKER. “TALK IT UP” is a slogan which must be in continuous use. Talk about THE DAILY WORKER, talk about it in general, talk about special features of it in particular, certain articles or editorials, certain policies which it advocates. When in a meeting of workers, get the floor to tell about THE DAILY WORKER, the great new labor paper which is attracting thousands to it. When in a group of workers, turn the conversation to the matter of the press and tell about THE DAILY WORKER which has been issued to save the working- class from the scourge of the boss-kept press. When talking to |a friend or shop mate or a member of your union, tell him about nounced that the health of its teas | teers entered the fray and restored | order after a half hour of fighting. | Prof. Passes Ruck see eee for College Evils to Pupils’ Parents Large numbers of college stu- dents are drunkards, gamblers and illiterate, Albert Parker Fitch, for- mer professor of history at Am- herst college, declared in a speech to the National Education Association convention here. “They are dull because they won’t study,” he said. “They think they are sent to college to learn to make money or prepare for matrimony. “They read frothy stories, are strong on card games, gossip, and athletic contests. Religion means nothing to them. They are a prod- uct of our modern society.” These students swear like “pi- rates” because their vocabularies are limited due to lack of study, Fitch declared. The fault lies with their parents, he said, “If parents aren’t quite so sure about prohibition how can you ex- pect their children to be?” . jured. Th ti purpose of organising a imct wie |to.show THE DAILY WORKER in order to secure a subscrip- of the Klan. Several citizens opposed | tion. With others it sometimes needs a little amplification, a ni the: gal “ye pi the meeting, | little argument and the sale is made. aris SNS es 80 SNS | But of all the things necessary for the successful work of The lights were turned out and a| THE DAILY WORKER booster it is sticking on the job which ne in the street rushed the doors. |is the most important. With the knowledge that THE DAILY daa poe ee in ue | WORKER is the best daily newspaper in America it is necessary ‘, eon ett; | only to work hard enough and to keep at it to achieve success. Choose your method of work and then keep at it until it succeeds. : * * * * 10,000 NEW SUBSCRIBERS BY JUNE 15. HOW MANY ARE YOU GOING TO GET? Watch for the Announcement of the Sub Campaign. * * * * _Canton, Ohio. The Power Column: I am getting THE DAILY WORKER every day and have been passing it along to each and every worker in the steel plant. I have even had a copy posted on one of the bulletin boards in the plant. It is something the working man has needed for years to put him in touch with what is going on all over the world. The boys all seem to enjoy it and I have ten new subscribers I’ll send you on pay day. I have made it plain to the boys that I would be glad to send in to you any news they might have. Yours very truly, JOHN P. O'BRIEN, Chairman, International Steel Workers of the World. * * * o Mexican Labor Is Suspicious of Ramsay McDonald Government (By The Federated Press) MEXICO, CITY, Feb. 28.—Labor cireles here are beginning to arr aee Neaged character of the new British govern- ment because recognition is being withheld from Mexico on various retexts, Reports coming from Great itain are to the effect that that country will not recognize Mexico until “claims of British citizens” are As these citizens are the exploiters of Mexico and their claims are not unlike those of French and British , the workers here cannot see why this country should not be recognized first and the claims discussed afterward, Nor do they feel it the mission of a labor “its” finance Go Thru an Air Hole, DUBUQUE, Ia., Feb. 28.—Three drowned and a fourth nar- Jesus of Nazareth Is Burning Issue (By ‘The Federated Press decision. The latter ruled that illegal nature of the I, W. W.” (this a arising from some the I, W. The petition belief in the divinity of Christ is sign of “criminal tendencies.” Th’ ties. House Will Debate Fords Plan to sentative , chairman of t a special order to be taken tax Dill 0 it was expected the tax bill will Sos of Wrideg’on Savarsny in California State ) ; SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 28.— The prosecution has appealed to the state supreme court the criminal syn- dicalism cases of William Flanagan and Albert Stangeland, on which the appellate court recently reversed was necessary that Flanagan and Stangeland should have realized “the the time they joined it. The appeal court also stated that conviction was unjust in so far as it was based on anti-religious beliefs or statements songs, quoted in court). for appeal to the su- reme court takes issue with these Radings, claiming in essence that dis- does the fundamentalist controvers: enter the realm of California poli- Gobble Muscle Shoals WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Repre- house appropriations committee, an- aciapaed tae house today, " that agreement had been reached to make the Muscle Shoals bill accepting the offer of Henry Ford for the oust up for after the The Power Column: One way I get subs is to canvass in the evening when the men are home from work. I tell them all about the paper. Some of them try to put me off but I tell them they can pay me on payday. : : In order to be able to get them to subscribe to some working class paper, I take a list of the foreign language papers with me with their subscription prices. If any worker tells me he can’t read English then I tell them about the worker’s paper which is published in their own language. Then they can’t put me off; l either sell THE DAILY WORKER or one of the others. I think I have some good advice to give to other DAILY WORKER agents: Some evening go to visit your neighbor. Don’t say anything about our paper right away. They will start themselves. This is what most of them say to me: “Gee I wish I had something to read. What do you do these long evenings?” Then is your chance. Tell them’ about THE DAILY WORKER and before you leave you will have a new sub. Try this and see how it works. If you can’t get them the first time try them again and you will surely succeed. : ’ One party told me’ that he had a good job and didn’t like to lose it just now. You see he would sooner sell himself for a job than to the working class. Pity this kind that are still so dumb. Some of them call me a red but I laugh at them and tell them that red is a nice color, Comradely yours, MRS. MIKE GERGITCH, Marianna, Pa. * * * * Dear Comrades: Better send me a couple more sales books. If you wish my branch to cover Austin Station I have a couple of reliable comrades to help me out. I am literature agent for my branch; so for commissions due me I give literature to those subscribing. What do you think of that? It ought to help me clean my shelves. oh it at of a us Yours for success, E. WICKSTROM, Oak Park, Ill. be | poosters? Say it thru The Power Column. POWER CO PHILA. PAINTERS * WILL TAKE PART IN MAY 30 MEET Say Teapot Shows Old Parties Rotten PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 28. — Painters’ Local No. 1083, of Phila- delphia, after a heated debate, vig- orously condemned the Teapot Dome steal and endorsed the St. Paul Conference by adopting the follow- ing resolution: The senate investigation of the Teapot Dome oil leases show that the government of the United States under both republican and democratic administrations serves the capitalists as an instrument for looting the nation. Senators, cabinet officers have been shown to be the paid men of big capital- ist oil interests and even presi- dents are not immune from gheir influence. Fall, Denby, McAdoo, Daugherty, Lane, Roosevelt; these are the names which the workers and farmers of this country have been asked to honor, but now they are all covered with the slime of corruption and graft. Government, Workers’ The Teapot Dome exposures only prove again on a larger scale what has been proven in this country hundreds of times; that the government of the United States serves the interests of a privileged class and is the enemy of the workers and farmers who produce the wealth of the coun- try. It proves again that not one among the high and mighty of the old parties is immune from the corruption, grafting and loot- ing thru which the capitalists take for themselves the wealth of the nation. It proves again that the existing system of industry and government is part of one system of special privilege and exploita- tion thru which the workers and farmers are robbed of what they produce. There is only one answer to Teapot Dome and the whole sys- tem of Teapot Domes which is capitalism—the organization of a Farmer-Labor Party and the struggle for a workers’ and farm- ers’ government. Only a workers’ and farmers’ government will end the looting of the nation by the capitalists. A great, mass Farm- er-Labor Party must carry on the struggle to establish that work- ers’ and farmers’ government. Endorse May 30th Convention. Whereas a convention has been called for May 30th at St. Paul by the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota, The Federated Farm- har Part The Warmer Ta Enemy. ar bor Party of Washington, Mon- tana and South Dakota and other organizations, for the nomination of a farmer-labor candidate for president and the adoption of a national platform and this com vention gives the opportunity to create the mass farmer-lator party which will carry on the fight for a Workers and Farmers ernment. oo it therefore resolved, that we indorse the May 30 conven- tion and pledge ourselves to send delegates to this convention, and Be it further resolved, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the labor press and to tH repre- sentatives in congress and the senate from this territory. Workers Party Mass Meeting. A huge “Teapot Dome” mass meeting arranged by the Workers Party, Philadelphia local, will be held Friday evening, Feb. 29, at the Machinists’ Temple, 1239 Spring Garden Street, William Weinstone of New York, S. Sklaroff of Phila- delphia, R. Baker of New" York, of the Machinists Union, and A. Jakira, district organizer of the W Party, will speak. Wall Street Sorry Ramsay Wouldn’t Break Dock Strike (By The Federated ae NEW YORK, Feb. 28—The more excitable heads in Wall Street are breathing amusing sighs of relief at the apparent moderation of this dan- gerous radical, Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald. Indeed, they are in their excess of relief, verbally and thru the columns of their press patting the Scotch labor leader on the back. “He is quite giving the lie to those who announced that the labor minis- try would bring a series of disas- ters,” says one observer. And an- other writer makes this typical ob- servation: “An almost comic touch is furnished by the spectacle of the labor premier passing a bill to build warships by the aid of the Conserva- tives against the protests of his What have you to say to your fellow DAILY WORKER rty, giving the latter, meanwhile, pe fie on the real way to secure disarmament.” However, the fact that the dock workers’ strike “axgarently ended in a victory for labor” has cooled the emotions of a good many. Wall Street, that very small part of it which occasionally reads history, rather expected MacDonald to pall a Briand, so to speak. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Our he ee — make this P. ie. Patron- ize Pebagy sess and tell them you saw their Ad in The Daily Worker.