The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 1, 1924, Page 1

oe ARBITRATION : Striking Dressmaker:. Prepare | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND ‘FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 353. LASH BOSSES FOR REFUSING For Hard Struggle Statements of the Employers’ Association that the demands of the union, if accepted by the dress manufacturers, would ruin their business were vigor- ously denied by the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union which is on strike. The statement of the union says that they offered to sub- mit to arbitration all their de- mands, but that the employers association refused to consider the proposition. Bosses” Case Unjust. “Our suggestion was that a board of three disinterested citizens be named and that both sides present their case before them and that the decision of the arbitrators should be binding and final. If the employers association had a just case they would not have refused the offer made by the union,” the statement said. “The trouble with the garment in- dustry is that there is too much pro- fiteering. Most of the manufactur- ers, in Chicago especially, are not. in- terested in keeping their factories continuously at work. Instead of basing their profits on the quantity of work produced each year, they base {t om each piece of work. Instead of \ducing three dresses and making ‘ton each dresf they would rather. produce one dress a1 ny spetld rather profit from it. Demand Regular Work. “The workers on the other hand are interested in continuous employment for two reasons! ~ First, continuous employment will give them a larger income per year and second, contin- uous employment will bring about a condition where the profit of the em- |* loyer will be based on ntity pro- Ractiod and that will reduce the cost of dresses. Garments will then be . cheapér, the public will buy more and that will give more employment.” The statement of the employers as- sociation threatens to fight the union to a finish. To which the union re- plys: “Threatening to fight to a fin- ish will not solve the problem. Where one fight ends another begins. We are well prepared to fight and will fight but we are prepared to talk.” Split Among Employers. Signs of a break in the ranks of employers came yesterday in the third day of the big strike against sweat- shop conditions in the dressmaking industry. Several individual employers indi- cated to union officials that they wanted a settlement. | Competition in the trade makes a shut down of their plants at this busy season most serious. They are considering a hotee with the bitter-end group of emplo; undreds of strikers from non- union shops have affiliated with the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers Union in the last two days and some of them are among the most ac- tive pickets, Picketing Going Strong. Vigorous picketing is being carried out shop squads all along the Loop, Northwest and West Side dis- tricts. The strikers are preparing for a long battle, if necessary. Strike headquarters “in every district re- ported that more shops were being pulled out on strike. More and more workers are going out on the picket duty that will win or lose the strike. South Market St., yesterday morning was lined with strikers. Police and (Continued on page. 2) IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Subscription Rate THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1924. <g> + Sipeiiaaidhaions ios Ypowy SAYS TENANTS TO LOWER RENTS Negroes Suffer Most, Says League Head “Landlords of Chicago will raise their tenants as-much as they can because to fight rent increases ten- ants must go to court and make a costly legal fight. The laws which proteet tenants are few and can only be invoked thru the courts,” said T. G. Vance, president of the Tenants’ League of Chicago. E Landlords on the South side where Negroes live have “run wild” he said. They are demanding rent increases of from 50 to 200 per cent. The thousands: of Negroes who have come from the south are being forced to rent homes in the Negro districts. Three and four and often more fam- ag are being forced to live in one On the edge of the colored districts apartments are being rented to Ne- groes for twice as much as the rents which were tery charged whites. Vance said that in §In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, + Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year CHARGE HUGHES I$ TOOL HIS ROBOTS Or WITH THE UNION !! BORAN DAUGHERTY’S IN CAPITOL CIRGLES ‘Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Sen- ator William E. Borah, Idaho, is to succeed Harry M. Daugherty as attorney general, when the latter is eliminated from President Cool- idge’s cabinet, according to gossip in usually well informed circles y- ‘ Borah has taken a leading part in urging President Coolidge to ask for Daugherty’s resignation. He said today nobody had eyer suggested to him that he would be given Daugherty’s post. The report that Mr. Coolidge Would offer the post to Borah cre- ated much interest, as Borah has been talked of lately in connection with presidential politics. Borah is known ag one of the best lawyers in the senate. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Bolshevik Russia Reads Many Books, «N.Y. Librarian Finds BELGRADE, Feb, 28.—On his ar- one apartment) Tival here after a stay of three house on Calument Ave. flats which| months in Russia, H. M. Lindenberg, had been renting for $45 were being Of the New York Public Library, | for heresy. rented to Negroes for $120. At 42nd Irs jorsved Sts. in Sm ogame build- ing Negroes are char; for flats for which ce Sire famil)s said that there were never as many s read in Russia as at the pres- ent time. “I am not concerned with whether the Bolshevist government is pay $47, At the present time white a good one or not,” Lindenbe said, and colored people are living in the “but this much I know, that the Soviet same building and payi: different rents for the same sized flats. On the seven room apartments which rented Tenants Lea; sees no hope for the workers whee: rent is increased by the landlords except organizatio They point out that the courts cai possible to make the Russian tion read books, and the people for $85 are being raised to $200. The|to the north west side six and| government has done everything pula- ussian are utilizing the opportunity fullest extent.” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! little for the tenant whose saat. ° Mellon Plan Beaten raised. The court might be able to have the raise slightly reduced but it could not continue the old. rates. The remedy lies elsewhere. “United action is the only way the tenants can fight the landlords,” Vance said. Deipendent Over Loss of Job Man Shoots Wife, Two Children and Self HICKMAN, Neb., shot and killed his then killed himself, Feb. 29.—Art wife and two chil Doctors said Ewerworth was ¢ yed riven sation Of be @ombons Despondency over the loss of his job was believed the reason for his Platte river : ’ ; threaten to overflow and flood the the condition of Mrs. ~ the children was serious but that they live. 5 the oe Oil company and had been | army bombing planes were due here 5 sai Ewerworth, filling station employe, lidren at their home here today Ewerw and But Nick Longworth Compromise Passes (Special to The Daily Worker) ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 29.— The. House late today adopted the Longworth compromise for the Gar- ner tax. reduction plan, after decisive- ly defeating the original Mellon plan, This action assures passage of a “re- publican” tax bill. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Plan to Dynamite Platte. OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 29.—Two today to dynamite ice jams in the and tributaries which cA , | BROWN DEFIES MIRACLE BELIEF Aged Communist Fights Heresy Charges (Special to The Daily Worker) GALION, Ohio, Feb. 29.—Declar- ing that he is at last in a “fighting mood,” Bishop William Montgomery Brown, Episcopalian, launched ap at- tempt today to “shame the House of Bishops out of trying me for the 23 heresi¢s atleged against me in the Presentment of the Bishop of Ver- mont, Indiuns and West Virginia” In a letter to Dr. John G. Murray, Baltimore, Bishop of Maryland, the Bishop delivered a scathing attack on Christian ortodoxism/ and chal- lenged “any bishop in the house” to say that he believes implicitly in the miracles related in the bible. The charges against Bishop Brown are an outgrowth of his radical ideas on religion as set forth in his book, “Communism and Christianism.” ae Murray is president, of the court which is to try Bishop Brown IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Caleutta Hears Pittsburrh. CALCUTTA, Feb. 29.—An amateur wireless operator here using a five valve radio set, picked up. broadcast- ing from Pittsburgh, Pa., relayed from London, Saturday. British sta- tions failed to “get” Pittsburgh ow- ing to atmospheric conditions. —— | Cents Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days Three Cents per Copy. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. OF STANDARD OIL COOLIDGE'S SECRETARY OF STATE HELPED JOHN D. CAPTURE NEAR EAST FIELDS (Special to The Daily Worker) sual WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—A charge that Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes intervened in oil negotiations respecting the Mosul oil fields in Mesopotamia “ so that the Standard Oil Company alone bene- fitted” is made in an article appearing in tomorrow’s issue of “Labor,” a paper issued by railroad labor organizations. The article, which is under a London date line, also charges that an American destroyer carried L. I. Thomas, of New York, vice-presi- dent of the Standard Oil Company, to Durazzo last May whil- keen inter- national competition was on for Albanian oil. FIGHT ON OVER DAUGHERTY INVESTIGATION HE Senate today plunged, into a fight over the form of the Wheeler resolution for an in- vestigation of Attorney General Daugherty’s administration of the Department of Justice. When the resolution came up, Senator Wheeler modified it to provide that the Senate should elect the investigating committee. It originally named the committee, with Senator Brookhart, Iowa, as chairman. Senator Lodge moved to amend by faving appointment of the committee to the chair and. debate on this point started. PROBE INCOMES OF SINCLAIR, DOHENY, FALL boned Senate today unanimously adopted the McKellar resolution requesting President Cool: idge to have Secretary Mellon furnish the Senate oil committee the income tax returns of Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Doheny and Albert B. Fall and of all the Doheny and Sinclair oil com- Panies. An amendment by Senator Moses, New Hampshire, to include the Securities Investment Company was adopted. Moses said the reason for the amendment would appear later. DAUGHERTY was": | EAL ETHICS THREATENS TO QUIT AS AIDS. TRY. 10 srs-s-.. | 1S-PALMER'S ~ § NEW ALIBI PICK PROBER NEW I Worked With Daugherty to Geccloneh te Yan cee erg Want to Name Investigators of Attorney General Save McLean “The De (Special to The Daily Worker) as chairman of the senate public lands committee which is inves- tigating the naval oil Scandal. “I would be very glad to be re- lieved of the duties of chairman of this committee and I will say that if this goes on indefinitely I shall have to ask to be relieved,” said Lenroot. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.— WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.— The Senate today dropped all Piecing together, patch on other business to concentrate patch, a disjointed story of on the Wheeler resolution call- sordid intrigue, the object of ing for an investigation of the which was to cover up the truth Department of Justice. about the naval oil scandal, the By terms of a compact Senate oil committee today between Attorney General delved into a new batch of telegrams. He was discussing at the time criticism of himself and Senator lie the story of their conference with Albert B. Fall at a hotel here at Christmas time last year, just after testimon; regarding Fall's purchase of a $91,000 ranch -had been given the committee. Daugherty’s critics and defend- . ers, the measure will have the Andustrial Draft These messages, sent by var- in Next Wi qd \ious persons, some previously Because Daugherty has de-| ie ar, Urged ; manded the inquiry, his friends by U. S. Colonel from many different places, will make no effort to obstruct ——— went to Albert B. Fall and E. its passage which probably will! ed bi gn Dhaasied Calif., Feb. 29.18. McLean, publisher of the late today. —Page “‘the war to end war. Lieut. Washi Post hi come la y Col. K. A. Joyce, chief of staff, ninth| Washington Post, who was Administration leaders who have ! Fall’s host at Palm Beach. is “trial”? (Conference of adjutants general at| A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney-gen- of the cabinet also wants his “trial” | the Presidio here that in the next war ° to occur quickly. — P |the United States must draft workers | called to the witness stand to explain The resolution cites as necessity for into the industries. “We must rem-} mention of his name in the tele- an investigation the charge that the edy the impossible situat'on,” said | grams already discovered. department has lost the confidence Joyce, “of one man’s making himself | Palmer worked as McLean’s attor- of the people. : Flags says he did so simply. as a Daugherty’s direction, has failed to rot Pg A ai n'a ‘shipyard tpl Pagal doy Co Brags prosecute anti-trust suits, cases the object of keeping McLean off the turned over to it by the Federal, Mrs. Trubbel Teapot’s Mother. witness stand. Trade Commission, cases growing out; NEW YORK, Feb. 29.—Harry It was during these negotiations f the Veterans’ Bureau investigation, | Payne Whitney has claimed the | that McLean, thru Palmer, gave the (Continued on page 2.) name “Teapot” for a two-year-old (Continued on page 2.) IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Smoot, Utah, for not making pub- IMPEACH COOLIDGE! right of way until disposed of. | not named in the inquiry and deen teeta te donee Docgherty. ont corps area, U. S. army, informed a eral in the Wilson cabinet, was It declares the department, under Sr ees St 9904: toed tions with senators and others, with De pe we BC ge bay filly by Broomstick. The d: IMPEACH © IDGE! y filly by Broomstie! e dam Ts Mrs. Trubbel, Mopping Up the Week’s Deluge of Oil Bo democrat and republican parties have suffered severe casualities which they were members. by reason of the continued revelations of the bi-partisan nature of the T Dome during the mre " scandal past have been telegrams read by the commit: Bringing the president himself straight into the scandal that has the week, nation on tiptoe is the discovery by the committee from the perusal of attorney-general under Wilson, is now known to | secret telegrams that E. W. Smithers, White House courier and ‘by McLean to keep him from being subpoenaed. In ‘agent of the president, was turned over to McLean to handle the leased Palmer is referred to as the “law partner wire installed to keep him, McLean, in touch with developments and evade of Colonel Zevely,” attorney for both Fall and Sinclair. Zevely paid Fall fiscovery. Bonds. the $25,000 in Liberty * Pal i ig ala or not im at all, William by McLean to have been his con senior, appears also as the reci and Steel Com departments. id Smoot, ins, have confessed that they the attorney-general’s I ehee sa mhafore the expovure they knew was coming everything on the rom consulted and that they concealed fact influence Senator Walsh to “go easy” with McLean | Thru ety | rs Py that McLean, not Doheny had paid Fal 5 "G. McAdoo and his son Francis are shown ntial advisers for seven years. Mc. it of a huge fee from the Republic Iron pany for representing it before one or more government | Attorney-General Daugherty, in a statement given to Chicago news- Papermen, threatens with exposure officials high in the administration unless he receives their support. rm | The American people are thus preserited with the spectacle of the by telegrams signed , chief law-enforcing officer of the nation using his knowledge of official ‘corruption to blackmail opponents and protect himself from the result of his own shady connection with the Dohenys and Sinclairs. The fight in the senate now is over the personnel of the committee ‘called for in the Wheeler resolution providing for the investigation of department. It is evident that Dau: is staking assurance of the senators he has whipped into line thet investigating committee of a handpicked committee will be appointed. yi itted the false statement i ; ad ALL EDUCATORS ATTENDING THE PRESENT CHICAGO GATHERING OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION SHOULD ; ead the Second Article by Upton Sinclair on American. Education On Page 4 Today LR I