The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER : ; Friday, February 29, 1924 ey emer ernem THE DAILY WORKER, | ‘1: 02 0p reir annual financial statements| ) ni > ’ eer. of profit and loss of their property. The life enb Joined n res 6 Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.,|of the miner doesn’t matter an iota to the e - | oo any ‘ AS WE SEE IT 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. profit-hungry capitalist. It’s only the dollar— t Fe ated Chi . L ; when eathecine wih i : inp 3, By T. J: O’FLAHERTY. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) the congealed sweat and blood of the miners By STANLEY BOONE pagan pie sree pan. Oat se ppp ocean age SUBSCRIPTION RATES coined into fabuleus dividends—that counts. reais ce Mag sc ce Proes)) | oes of all the educated men who|roaring underclassman painting his} The number of human beings who By mail: According to the Bureau of Mines only 320 rig y pi she Ae hala en te 4 just us t Sab college days. Den-|class numerals on the corner stone of | haye come to their ends by having $6.00 per year $8.50..6 months _§2.00..8 months | of this heavy casualty list are accounted for|the navy, is the story of a “joiner” | (for. Te ad ae srs List ned gutted Lt an crate Sa| Cesena. and’. serunds. iniected into By mail (in Chicago only}: 50..3 months by unspecified causes. All the other losses of | who joined one club too many. University of Michigan), the orator Tice ahmteek Cad asane: chin he eet aml agg pen hee Royal $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 months] lives were due to such causes as falls of roof Denby, ns eres Nt fan lawyer jat serps Pep meetings, the perpetual | the job of making pep speeches at the | 8, Copeland, Pants for New York. Address all mail and make out checks to and coal, haulage accidents, gas'and dust ex- aration: a director in Pieee ake sophomore who would die either for | Parris Island training camp. He had | Farmers succeeded in having laws his country or his college colors. He|}een gunner in the Spanish-American passed protecting their cattle from THE DAILY WORKER plosions, etc. These can all be controlled to may have wept because he did not|war and: he went back into fighting! serum and vaccine fanatics but hu- mobile manufacturing companies— 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, Mlinois|a large extent by the installation of improved |the Hupp, the Federal, and the form-|have two lives to give—one to his | to ¥ ; s me 7 gs as he has gone back to football bi tt. dered s J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ¥ safety devices and by. providing better Work Ee eee eran er ae acct cathe ta re the cc, [meee meetings Inthe college town of valuable with the "result thar they ‘WILLIAM F. DUNNE t pene eeeeeerenee Editors ing conditions. But such steps our coal mag-| minister to China, tive cigar cae Musical comedies, back in the days|his youth year after year.» It was| are easy prey for every quack and of the college and merry widows, et |‘Yea, team!” at Parris Island. And | yngcrupul ufacti f fake al, had their Denbys. They can still | he may have had something to do Kino doy TContaiindter teenie cause be seen in the pictorial advertisements | with nicknaming the boys ‘of the lockjaw and other fatal maladies, de- A ; But it has heen thru his sopho- of dealers: in clothes for men. Marine ‘Corps the ‘Devil Dogs.” _ It} clares Dr. Copeland. Under capital- folly in the ethical code of Big Business. ie sociability and ‘the reputation| Welly by proficiency of this kind, | was Celanese aie Thats AOE: ism profit making is the prime mo- Alongside of the almighty dollar of the father, @ prominent Indiana | Which amounted to being seen moro Bf belie walled: Tesh wow prow ig Hee Ccletotana tata fed ie ala ian, that Edwin Denby for a|often than anyone else at class re- ‘or the welfare of society. Du i p capitalist, the life, the security of the worker |Po..¢; t 4 any Deivid dott ‘ Pea i i f ri : brief ill-st d i ; enby undoubtedly belongs to a|are told this is the great incentive Micawbers of the c. P. P, A. shrinks into nothingness. The thousands of| put his Toot anies! at hecstaeye Denby forged ahead in the world He [Humber of clubs he has forgotten all | fo success. , MORITZ J. LOEB..........+- Business Manager nates are not in any too great hurry to take.| Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Such steps might cut profits and reduce divi- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879.}dends. Such measures would be considered after him, so the son named a truck after himself. The cigar outlasted the truck. << Advertising rates on application, a president. It was heroic but fatal.|° But he joined one club too many. The Joe Cannon team was defeated |It was in Washington, where he joined and Denby’s public life was ended|the Teapot Dome Improvement so- until in a similar mood in 1917 he!ciety. . . ‘ Denby forged ahead in the world.’ He ee 4 ies rH li to ‘Washingt 0: Cs. is lives lost by the miners year in and year out,|table in the navy building. could not be forgotten because he |*Pout. But he will tell ape hesis; a peng mete ‘Labor, published in Washington, D. ©., 18) these thousands of sacrifices on the altar of|,.4win Denby weighed in excess of always answered rolleall-and he was | Member in good stanidng of the De-| ‘There is another branch of the Ku the official organ of the “sixteen standard rail- profits, should imbue the working class:with.a 250 pounds when he entered the ca-|always unmistakably visible because troit Cain Bicol oe oct eer Klux Klan organized in Atlanta, Ga. way unions” and the mouthpiece of the Con- ‘aah . pi ; binet. How much he gained in that|of his enormous buik, It was inevi-|COUntry club, Yondatege club, Uni-| tt will have its headquarters in-Kan- : 5 burning passion to wipe out the devastatin, i i versity club, Huron Mountain club, i ‘ke, wh ference for Progressive Political Action. 4 5 ee B, | po} table that he be nominated for some- | T° ak Aanetl lesion. | 22% City, Mo., E. Y, Clarke, who ri ? the Feb 93rd i rials ell-breeding system of capitalism. has had|thing. Once nominated he shook | bwyers, clud, erican legion, | called the disgruntled Klansmen to- Its issue of the February 23rd 1s conciusiv oa its expression chiefly in joining. Den-| more hands than his rival in: his.dis-| United Spanish War Veterans, Vet-| gether, declared at the beginning of evidence of the pitiable vacillation of the rail- by is ees of the few men in the coun- | trict and so was elected to the state irdeicledh ah het Saige the session that no attempt would be 7 i i i res risis. . t belongs t is. f i i meri vo ; i Lh yoann tpt lp atta anaps- ge Quitter and Grafter ry who belongs to every club there is. [house of representatives, amid arent | Detroit Boological Botiety, Beard of| toting ended. up. by. orming one On the first page is a feature story nections with all the veterans’ or-| fellow club members. He made so|Commerce, and the Masonic order. | just the same... He said the Klan Chicago conference which attempted to re-} That Willi i i nizations fo i ish- i i i ; | He is president of the Zoological so- ‘ Sad rd yhi Pp t 2 t William Gibbs McAdoo is as gentle a|ganiza rmed since the Spanish- | many friends in Lansing that she was | ~ A < needed cleaning from the inside. We novate McAdoo, containing the resolution of| grafter as ever stepped ‘American war, in which he was alsent to Washington, where he -was a |cicty, vice president of the Rotary| want to be in some other country g pped out of the pages of an . lub, and id f the Board confidence signed by 17 railway union officials}. Henry novel, no person with lly |Sunner__ He has Masonic connections | congressman for two terms. It. was Club, and was preal lent of the Board) when the cleaning takes place, : % t : ; oa P i) normally |of the most binding nature and be-| after the second term, and in connec- of Commerce in 1917 when he booted ee * @ and the names of the unions they represent.| equipped mind will doubt for a moment after |Iongs to a few clubs in which a de-|tion with the ridiculous Payne-Ald-|and spurred himself down the street) me parry WORKER a From the standpoint of the political forces in| reading the facts concerni i ee of exclusiv ‘ intal ic i 70 to recruiting, headquarters. That : ee gz ning his acceptance | gr eness is maintained | rich tariff that he rose at a moment s few'd that Calvin Coolid: the C. P.P. A. it is an impressive list. of the Doheny quarter millign dollpr retainer |Y, the size of the initiation fee. Be-|of collegiate ardor and gave three was the best publicity stunt by a poli- Bae “ating talk” Pavhipe t In the editorial column is a blackface boxed] on the strength of his connection with Wood-|2s these, he belongs to two gen-|rousing cheers for Joe Cannon, for pian tata has—talked to Daugherty, Roosevelt, editorial reprinted from the ‘“Washington|row Wilson, and his large fees from the no-|“n° woh Oe et eat ot Burns and the rest of the huma: News” eulogizing LaFollettee but deprecating| torious swindler Morse in return for services the, Amerlesh, Revnaea ag junk that threatens to sink his politi- attempts to make him appear as a third party | rendered. i i But perhaps he is at his joiniest ast Say ag ee Hey ty caiene P “T oR f ” . : ae candidate. LaFollette’s state,” says this edi- _In addition to the generally accepted con- ° to know whether they have a human torial, “under his 20 years of leadership, is| viction that McAdoo hands are soiled with Mexican Revolution Had Big being for president or an Egyptian mummy. more solidly Republican than Pennsylvania| graft, there now comes the additional charge From Prince to Pa pe or Vermont.” that Wilson’s son-in-law is uper . H Neoageed i, “Lonergan’s. Column,” a° feature con-| quitter in that he-went backer > nph-egc?pl By SCOTT NEARING Habit of Being Successful A British general, to-wit, Reginald Francis Legge, won a medal for dis- tinguished service in the world war. His wife also thought he was a hero for a while. But the tinsel wore off and she declared war on him, hostili- ties ending in the divorce court. ( E : V The lady examined her husband, The in Mexico? That.is the question that everybody is asking now| husband examined the wife. Each that the present rebellion seems to be drawing to'a close. Obre-| @émitted indiscretions. The general 1 ‘ was guilty of misconduct, so was gon says this is the last one. Mrs. Legge. The general secured a One who knows the forces that make for revolution in| divorce. The wife alone was Mexico would hesitate to answer in that way, but this is prob- double (Staff Correspondent Federated Press) tributed by Edward Keating, manager of| the latter was in the greatest jeopardy of his “Labor,” is another eulogy of LaFollette ac-| entire piratical career. ——e. “ig Bn ee wel doubt es to ‘ Mr. McAdoo, “the political hero” of the what he will do—stay wi e republican) hysterical Wilsonians and reactionary labor} economic life o! Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press party or split. . _ | officials, who gathered in the Crystal Room of| the German eile ee the ost MEXICO CITY, Feb, 28.-Will this be the Test revolution The official organ of the C. P. P. A. as this) the Great Northern Hotel to clear his reputa-| prosperous on the continent of Eu- analysis shows is merely drifting with the|tion of the crude oil with which it was tar-| "pe. Today Mr. Hoover estimates tide, buffetted by the political waves as is the| nished, never quit the employment of Doheny ae 20 millions of them (neaJy a organization for which it speaks. _ | until he concluded that such employment gk ae Ey —a a The spokesmen of the so-called progressive} threatened to destroy his political career. > “se ; i The G f 1918 5 in the eyes of the law. The wing of the American labor movement are} McAdoo knew that he was employed by|try at pyste ved pers ian sey thee ably the death blow to any attempt on the part of the land standard of morality dies slowly,e torn between their allegiance to McAdoo and] Doheny to ravish the mineral wealth of Mex-| essential resources; a country of high| owning party here, unaided|———————_________ LaFollette. They are exercising no initiative| ico, not because of legal ability, but solely be-| agricultural efficiency; a country of i i whatever as a labor group but are willing to|cause he could walk into the. (White House|>usy factories, active _ railroads, denne, coiciate Sen DINNER PAIL EPICS that added 30 millions to its popu- | NTO n " Vera: Cru: shez would : LLO’ lation in 40 years. Full of Sodan: cialistically tinged regime that Na at Tsien tine ony ee nn Le ata ia follow either LaFollette or McAdoo as candi-| while Wilson was president and over the cof- tz : s dates of the eamttaliat ype rather sg fee urge his father-in-law to threaten Obre- throw the semi-progressive, so straight thru the American labor movement.| He stuck to the Doheny dough ‘bag until it|*0s® the world; believing in them. bk es Peer arting. eon Bh Liar yo hr tl tec yh » at Until Obregon Broke the Spell By BERTRAND. D. WOLFE F ROM prince to pauper in a decade sums up the last ten years in the only too willing gentleman to dis- arm some of the more militant peas- crowded market places; a country antry of. the most militant state of is not confined to the political field but runs In no other great capitalist nation does this| was discovered that “the peerless leader of | S1ve*,08 the super-race, the German iat Bl peed bo ly be reck- | itary machinery of former regimes. |ing of his majesty. For there situation exist—in noother country are_ the progressive democracy” a in danger of he- folk sited oe eS of — ype ng He did not en’ the need of } king’s 20 beat for fair, the 4 officials of the labor movement waiting breath-| coming unavailable for the presidency. Then| ‘Ten years have passed. The 5 and Mexican revolutio : ; al Bay = lessly for middle class politicians in capitalist | he quit. perous Germany of 1918 is has been bribed for the time being | ° = armel 3 ‘and vrale- parties to frame the policies of the unions.| Doheny is a pirate, a purchaser of cabi-|*? beeeary. For all except the rich, at a tremendous price of about a eines: aha hae: maa 6 joules cules So reactionary is the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor that the Com- mittee for Progressive Political Action has been termed its most progressive outpost; this progressivism goes no farther than the expres- sion of the discontent of the middle-classes and if LaFollette does not get the republican nomination and does ‘not split we will witness the spectacle of the majority of the officials of the unions affiliated with the C. P. P. A. striving with might and main to herd the work- ers into the democrat party provided McAdoo receives the nomination. They want LaFollette first ‘as a republican candidate; second as a third party candidate. If neither event should develop they are for McAdoo as the democrat nominee. We are willing to go no farther than this with predictions at present but if McAdoo and 5 ivi ’ | billion pesos, the recognition of tho | < nets, a robber of public property. McAdoo] ey down tar colon the mee war loval | debt and the interest thereon. Even | intact by giving them land. was his accomplice, but McAdoo along with! of the unskilled worker. the oil intéreste have been quieted in Rina K hoc pe aa gt being a grafter is a quitter. Science was one of the most promt. | art “by. concessions, aa to: the nen fine jain eh ep ve nent features of pre-war cman he ne eage | OWE anced - of iE inn Paton. po ye plipinke! ideas ord ” * f fexican constitution. in ‘in I see MacDonald went ly that even’ the best endowed insti- | {re Mexican Peon nore i917 ove | the Zapatista: settled: anid eatin. | 2°) Wed, Sim 8 fork futions cannot afford to renew fail. {110% of the constitution of 1917 are | tie © ipatistas were id 18- }and kidded with the Duke of York. i 5 bags, fail-/ +4 be recognized as accomplished | fied. In Yucatan’ the Mayas were id. ing "ocipment ith the pactni| tc" eoenaedatacemrlet | ap cottent: "Moroes, some of the [Shade Hace Me, SBA the oily folk quiet. least reliable elements of the army eign publications, the German scien- itary tifie world finds itself isolated, and| Consequently, the present counter- were demobilized. The. mili fen“ world . ty 53 zh ned to workers and the scientists themselves can barely | Tevolution, barring aid it received oeabaare: “ava? : knee britches. Her fears, I bet, keep body and soul together on their |from minor European capitalist. in- Pees Che bens arate Bo; | rose “to the pitch where her red meagre salaries. They cannot afford | terests, was a home brewed affair.| Communist elements i ict itch, to buy a magazine, to take a street |Even at that, home brew has had a! omcers. When’ the rebelli ‘eke car, to get their shoes re-soled, to| marvellous kick here in the past.| out some wi Spare? regi te e get their teeth filled. They are for-| When there has been no interference ened abt ein ppt wae tunate if, after standing for hours|on the part of foreign capital, the regiments of "pes pe many ‘more | think that titles now .is cheap. y in line, before a bakeshop, they re-| struggle here has always been a sor- sl ca pa ain’t the only ones ‘to fret. The ceive half a loaf of bread. did one between the. polftical ing and The ‘professional army remained. | cost of peer’s. robes t be There are more than 60 millions | the political outs, fought out in But Obregon gave preference to his | And coronets sure tute be hal, oe An Instructive Coincidence _ lf it is true that every cloud has its silver lining, then the corollary, that every silver lin- ing has its cloud must also be true. There is a humorous phase of the Teapot affair that is worthy of comment, even if it is only for the joke value in the incident. Coolidge’s handpicked bipartisan oil prose- cutors, Messrs, Lowe, Duck, Pomerene and Bank Attorney Roberts, have at last been put on the job to plumb the wells and get some results for the “people” in the Doheny-Sinclair holdup. And alas! These expensive lawyers Aristocrats will all have f about MacDonald’s new made Bison I bet they shed a briny weep to LaFollette do not get nominations and La-|have gotten unto themselves a suite of offices | of le Ifvine’ ta: Ge train. |comic” opera style without real ‘Yaqui Indians over other | else the kin; Follete does not bolt wé will not be surprised |in the new Transportation building right next] ed, eficient, willing to work but with battles They were always short, sonal division that | If peers in “4 Sends ste tao ak to see the C. P. P. A. split between the two| door to the local headquarters of the Standard| the mark selling at .000,000,000,024 | relatively bloodless | and uniformly on their shields,” | the hired gitls might go and tell i (24 billionths) of t. the whole | successful. ‘The professional military | hitherto an oppressed group. And |them that the ki d ig v0 flab d! We d Hesnulal, eetoetace oft Gamma 4 class made and’ unmade presidents | Obregon subsidized and: fostered Ja-)a ‘peck of ‘spuds, = ‘tah to, =. bh: » indeed! We not] shot to pieces. Meanwhile, only the | from its own numbers. ‘The army in bor movements and aided a healthier | New peers might get a awful slight pro ~~ pe i : by oy Pheu y ar iy = jungle-strugdle for food and warmth = field J optieee a paveret to power: v a pod i. on Ryd duds that weren't quite clude forthwi at there is to be close|remains of the nation that,.ten short | Here's the manner 2 : COU it, § prepared to show its co-operation between the government’s repre-|¥e#"® ®#0, was the proudest finan- Revolutions to Order. aed ti Ae wae Oy avery: hie — mick, ps Pugporeie ise rch sentatives and the Rockefeller interests, Pér-|“ empire of Europe. A division general “dis-recognizes” | holder ~A food nat madeen | tee ; haps these “servants of the people” couldn’ No further demonstration should be | the central authority in the narie of | Money and horses, and by the church | It's queer that labor likes that he!p themselves. If they had rented the next] who see public events but dimly, that|his héad. All the other generate e cen- necessary to convince, even those|any tomfool slogan that comes into | *"4 roles Liles ace a the | bunk; it otta send the king to least suitable office they might have landed|the present economic system is the | telegraph their loyalty to country, cre- | junk. For now that labor’ pel aire nt, R iMew new confi- jrule, the king might go ee ae in the same building with the Washington||east stable of any of its immediate |tral government and ask for more tha protectin al flea » damages They say that labor has branch of the Mexigan Petroleum Company, Leberg mr Ril lot in teh forge separ and money. At} suited-in the ‘Fevolgtlontal S pee ht Yjacbonald eee phy Bm : A thru ~ ‘ Uy . " = is . Penang J of hi Doheny Pan-|turies, but capitalism, which is the radi rot Sper ined ames ati at. least, of various state’ govern-| trick; the king might take to lay. ng nae eum Corporation—the lessee | child ‘of yesterday, withers at the| it for me?” All such revolutions. al- | ™© nd the. setting of auxil-| ing brick. of the Ils Naval Reserve in California. | first breath of calamity, ways succeed ‘so they're. only. too | {ary 70M sional: popular’ armed ee ge ICR the latter mu: ‘A Dirge Or if Messrs. Pomerene and Roberts had] Did the economic system, in Ger-|eager to jump, and stop only long back to work and. leave repped = capitalist parties but united in hurling anathe- mas at the class Farmer-Labor party that will be in the field inevitably under those condi- tions. Just at present, however, the Conference for Progressive Political Action waits Micawber- like for something to turn up. On the Altar of Profits An item that is never found in the annual reports of corporations giving the profits and dividends for the year is the item dealing with the loss of limb and life suffered by the work- ingmen in the very process of grinding out . taken refuge across the way from this build-|™any die of old age? Not for ajenough to another shipment o’ 3 rend profits, these big dividends for be ing they an $l hava ibe into rig eur f moment. It was stabbed to death | cash al “A central ment | onal din By nr ah ogee yf osses. A perusal of the annual statements o: quarters of the many Washington watchmen in a brawl between bankers and busi- | and haggle as to price. ey don’t Rough . moanest the big industrial organizations affords the examiner a survey of the value of common and preferred stock, but not a single word about. the price paid by the workers in en- it the. lead 4 h erying. Der Grief too sad for song; of Mr. Doheny, the San Francisco lawyer, Christian countries. cath ae | tags Along revi , are ye 7 George McNab or in the environs of Levi B.|' There is only one rule’ that is Cooke, Mr. Fall’s special legal representative | known to masters of modern life:| story. Guadalupe Sanchez, in Washington. ‘The weakest to the wall! Not only | Carranza’s best friends and a whole- hancing these values for the employing class.| _1}) of this may or may not be a case of very|i", ("ei dealings with their weaker onary, made the deci- ; ry This is the sad state of affairs with every in-| strange coincidence. The reader has his free- Sone, in Hate), a The Philippines. Soot om ie thie same ‘Sanches that dustry operated on the capitalist basis of the highest profits for the owners and the lowest wages and worst possible working conditions for the employes. The American coal diggers are the pa makers in mining efficiency. Our miners the most efficient in the world. The American miner is_almost three times as productive as his nearest competitor in mining efficiency, the British coal digger. But the American miner suffers far more than his British comrade in the price he pays for his efficiency, netting the pperators terrific profits and swollen dividends. ‘Last year, for instAnce, nearly four of our were killed for every million tons of toal they mined. In 1923 no less than 2,452 miners were killed digging coal and dividends dom of choice. Yet, we submit that this some-|do modern empires follow law | the standard onary re- what humorous side of the oil tragedy affords|0f the jungle, but in thats giealinige volt in Vera Cruz for de la, Huerta of eos case of instructive coincidence. The] em Sa seun ork sot fo Desmnberr of 1928 mae plight of the poor prosecutors shows in a hu- m ara v thin he ree" morous way, of course, the grip that oil has breeds bora on in Ge: ! The Lesage tle gh ee antag le on Washington. The champions of the “pub-| disintegration of the pre: eco- lic” cannot even do their legal plowing in an atmosphere which is not saturated with oil.’ Again we say that the fact that the housing peopen for our oil prosecutors has resolved | gam people of itself into a choice between rubbing elbows] States are playin tee game with Standard Oil or being neighbors of Do-| Tomorrow their bill will fall due, heny oil is a coincidence even more instructive - Let us not be too cynical. All power to oil!| from 30,000. to 60, rome} tn ndaitional 60,000-spindle nal Attorney-General Daugherty has received erected in a short time “ti tor their employers. Yet, the coal barons|some telegrams expressing confidence in his|the orders on wre reckon the loss of life or pie injury suf-' administration, he told Chicago newepaper-|i% ‘hs number of children by the miner them when men. Contrary f general f