The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. 1. No. 354. — Subscription Rate! In\Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by ail, $6.00. per year THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924 SS Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Seviet Russia Price 3 Cents DEMAND COOL Crowe Turns State’s Attorney’s Office Over to Garment Bosses in War on Striking Workers State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe has his special police force busy working for his friends among the waist and dress manufacturers. Crowe is running for re-election on his record ag a wunion-baiter and he is doing all he can to keep his old friends on the right side of the political fence. Arthur Weiss & Co., who have their dress factory at 315 W. Adams St., are well guarded every day by from five to ten detectives attached to Crowe's office. At every election Weiss has had put into the pay envelopes of his workers cards telling them which way the boss expected CHICAGO LABOR PROTESTS CROWE STRIKE BREAKING Pledges Aid to Strike of Garment Workers. Indignation flamed out at the meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor against States Attorney Crowe’s efforts to break the strike of the ladies’ garment workers. By unanimous vote the labor dele- gates began proceedings for an in- quiry into the misuse of the people’s money and officers at the hands of the state’s attorney. John Fitzpat- rick, president of the Federation, was instructed to appoint a committee to probe the strike breaking activities of Crowe and his assistants. Strikers’ Officer Threatened. The attack. on Crowe was. opened when Meyer Perlstein, vice president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers -took the floor.-and- nounced that he had been threat- ened in Crowe’s office by two of the state’s attorney’s assistants. The strikers’ executive said that two days before the walkout he went to Crowe's office in answer to a sui- poena« To his amazement he found himself confronted with two assist- ant state’s attorneys who began to threaten him. They told him that their office was prepared to take dras- tic action against him and against the strikers if they “started any- thing.” Their attitude was distinctly hostile, Fitzpatrick Warns Crowe. This news that Crowe was again using his office for strikebreaking purposes as during the upholsterers’ strike when his men dragged union- ists in there to be grilled by Dudley Taylor of the Ilinois Employers’ As- sociation aroused angry comments from the delegates, John Fitzpatrick followed with the information that he had dispatched a lejter of protest to Crowe reciting the illegal and outrageous actions of that official and declaring that the federation would not permit such conduct to continue. Fitzpatrick said his letter pointed out that Crowe had arrested a total of 15 strikers Friday and Saturday, nine Friday and six early Saturday. The strikers, some of them girls, had been roughly handled by Crowe’s meh and their constitutional rights were, furthermore, violated by the lice action in holding them for ours—at Crowe’s orders—before they were booked. The strikers ar- rested Friday were not booked until after six o’clock, causing unnecessary delay in getting bail. They were kept meantime in a noisome deten- tion room at the police station in company with prostitutes. Delegates Flay Crowe. Anton Johannsen spoke, demanding that the federation conduct a thoro investigation of the employers’ or- ganization masquerading as a ‘states’ attorney office, and other delegates spoke to the same effect against the “The federation al ie federation also adopted a res- olution pledging full Gronneatins to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in their fight for bet- ter conditions in the needle trades. Building Trades’ Unions Hold Unity Conference in N. Y. NEW YORK, Merch 2. » March 2.—Means to bring about unity in the buildin, trades’ unions in Chicago, New Yor! and Cleveland were discussed at a meeting of the executive officers of all the international unions in the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor, in session here. A committee of 14 will meet on poe ly oi in an ttemet to ize the Phcvangar' ; 5 Wel be meh ean fond forts le e mony in other cities where “dual” councils exist. 4 4 them to vote. They were al- ways told to vote for the can- didates of Crowe’s faction. Don’, Bother About Little Fellows. Union pickets at the Weiss shop have been told by the detectives. of Crowe that, “you can do what you want to the little fellows, but lay, off Weiss. If you don’t, you will get your God damn heads broken.” _ Abe Weiss, a member of the un- ion and of the general strike com- mittee, was arrested Saturday by Crowe’s detectives and taken to the state’s attorney’s office where he was questioned. Weiss refused to answer any questions and after a while he was released. _The detectives who arrested hifm did not have any excuse to offer. He was told’that: he was wanted at the state’s attorney’s office and was hustled off without being permitted to see or talk to anyone. Later the detectives told reporters thas Weiss had ordered them to leave the vicin- ity of the dress shop. That this was a lie was proven when the detectives failed to make any charg> against Weiss. Statements of the employers’ as- sociation that the strike had failed to effect even union shops was char- acterized as “bunk” by union officials in charge of the strike. s Union Shops Crippled. _ “The shops controlled by the un- jon are not turning a wheel. The bosses are the only people who are in them,” said Mayer Perlstein, vice- president of the international ynion, in charge of the strike. “Non-union shops are crippled. The Mitchell Bros, shop which was absolutely closed against the union has 75 per cent of its workers on strike. They are the largest employers in the Chi- cago dress industry and they are the leaders of the anti-union manufac- turers. “When the employers association says that the strikers are returning to the shops they know they are only saying what they wish were true.” Seven girls were arrested for picketing along S, Market St. and taken to §. Clark St. police court Saturday. They all demanded jury. trials and were released on $400 bail each. The girls were, Eleanor Sag- lowski, Vera Dowbrow, Bertie Kno- lin, Sophie Martin, Yetta Kessler, and Minnie Suparinan. Twenty other girls who had been arrested Friday night for picketing were also arraigned in S. Clark St. court and demand jury trials. They were all released on bonds. Piece Work Is Big Grievance. Low wages, piece and seasonal work are the chief grievances of the strikers according to oné of the girls who is on strike and whd came to the DAILY WORKER to tell her story. The bosses in the dre:s industry are trying to unload onto the backs of the workers the results of the general depression which has hit the country since the war. All of them have lowered wages. The enormous profits which the bosses made during the war they are trying to continue by cutting the wages uf the workers. Girls who do finishing on dresses: receive as little as $14 and $15_a week. Operators work from five six months a year. During the last two or three years their wages have averaged $18 or $19 a week. During (Continued on page 2.) IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Coming! The Teapot Special! The DAILY WORKER announces it will issue a Special Teapot Edition, dated Monday, March 17th. This will be the first attempt on a large scale to get the real meaning of the oil scandal before the American working class, Hundreds of thousands ef copies of this issue should be distributed. Party members and sympathizers, alike, must join in this effort. _ This especial edition of the DAILY WORKER will contain articles analyzing the investigation that is taking place in Washington. The facts will be marshalled in orderly array, so that all labor will clearly understand the meaning of this far-reaching political explosion. There will be smashing cartoons and sketches by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis and our other artists. This edition will be the biggest effort we have yet put forth. Send in your orders today for this special issue to TH Chicago, I. si NOT WILLING TO GO | Coolidge to Daugherty: “Please resign.” Daugherty to Coolidge: “But I have a couple of bombs to explode.” LOS ANGELES POLICE RAID T.U.E. L. MEET Thirty-four, Including Mother Bloor, Arrested (Special to The Daily Worker) LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 2.— Ella Reeves Bloor and about thirty- three others, men and women, were arrested here this evening, when the olice raided a meeting of the Trade nion Educational League held in the Peoples Educational League headquarters at 224 South Spring Street. The police had.no warrants and no charges were placed against, those arrested. All-were released without bail subject to call when wanted. - Literature, the property of the T. U. E. L. and the Workers Party, was. confiscated. The orders to the police were “arrest everybody in room 200 Phillips Building.” ‘he newspaper photographers were tipped off and they were on hand and took pictures of the women as well as the men, and histories of their activities in the labor movement. A hall on the fourth floor of the same building alleged to be an I. W. W. meeting place was also raided and everg’thing found there carted away and those who happened to be present arrested. Plan Tool Exchange. SEATTLE, March. 2.—Carpenters here are considering a plan for es- tablishing a tool exchange @t union headquarters. Extra tools and those no longer desired could be exchanged at the tool bureau. E DAILY WORKER, Have You Anything to Say: About It? Tomorrow we will publish some of the letters that have been com- ing ‘in to us, viving the views of our readers on our serial, “A Week”. We hope to keep on pub- lishing some of these letters every day until we reach the end of the story. Don’t you want to be among those stating their views, among those who really have something to say?’ Today’s installment of “A Week” appears on Page Six. Read it carefully. Remember what has gone before. What do you think about the handling of this gripping story, about the charac- ters, about their ideas and their struggles. Surely you have some- Send in your thing to say. thoughts to the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. Legion Joins Klan Against Foreign. Born in Alliance (Special to The Daily Worker) ALLIANCE, Ohio, March 2.—The American Legion-Spanish War Vet- erans and kindred “patriotic” societies have pledged their support to the au- thorities here in stamping out “Bol- sheviki” prepaganda amongst the foreign born. The K. K. K. broke up a Lenin Memorial meeting here a few weeks ago after shooting off a few bombs and burning a Klux cross. It has long been known that the Klan-Legion and like 100% plussers have a common working agreement against organized labor and the dec- laration made by the Legion head backing up the Klan in its attacks against labor is proof again that the Legion and the Klan are tarred with the same stick. 1640 N. Halsted St., LINK GLASGOW, FALL LEGAL AID, TO LEWIS GANG Got $60,000- from the Union Treasury By THOS. MYERSCOUGH. Members of the United Mine Workers of America were treated to a surprise recently, when the name of one Glasgow, referred to as the attorney for Fall of Washington, Palm Beach and Tea Pot Dome fame, was mentioned in the news dis- patches in connection with the latest exposures of the Oil Can celebrities. The name of Glasgow is one that ig familiar to the miners and that is ag it should be, for the name Means much coin out of the treasury of the U. M. W. of A. Shortly before Charles Evans Hughes became secretary of state he was paid $50,000.00 retaining fee by the International Union, U. M. W. of A., and upon his assumption of the cabinet post, he recommended that Wm, A. Glasgow, Jr., of Phila- delphia, Pa., be selected to succeed him, according to word then sent out by the International officials. Since that time he has collected huge sums of money from the Miners’ Union as attorney in the famous West Vir- ginia cases; the exact amount is un- known, but during the months from February to December, 1923, alone, he is known to have collected more than $60,000 for his services. If, as is reported, this is the same Glasgow and he divides his time be- tween the OIL CAN grafters and the COAL MINE schemers, the mem- bership of the miners union need not furrow their brows any longer over the actions of Lewis and his satelites, in their strenuous attempts to retain the control of that organization. The rebel or progressive elements have long been aware of the influ- ence of the trusts over the affairs of their union, they have watched t work of A. R, Hamilton, the Pitts- burgh financier, thru his agent, Harry Straub, rd have seen the re- sults of the different sinister in- fluences that secretly control their destinies and now, what? The missing link may be found if the workers of these United States will punch a larger hole in the Tea Pot. Perhaps we may be able to show in the near future that heat and power are not the only saleable values of coal and oil, E BE IMPEACHED ASTOUNDING EXPOSURES IN OIL SCANDAL GIVE STRENGTH TO WORKERS PARTY DEMAND HE impeachment of President Coolidge was demanded by the Workers Party of America and the DAILY WORKER last Friday—FOUR DAYS AGO. We stated then that President Coolidge had been shown to be in close and friendly contact with the McLeans, Falls and Sinclairs, and that he and his cabinet officials and subordinates, notably Harry M. Daugherty and. William J. Burns, were actually protecting criminals they should be prosecuting. There has been rapid confirmation of ‘our statements and justification of our demand for impeachment of the president. Astounding revelations, made in the most dramatic man- ner, have linked Coolidge, Daugherty and Burns with the pirate crew that has stolen the natural resources of the nation. U.S. Secret Code Aid to McLean | A confidential employe of the White House has been found, in conjunction with the debaucher of federal officials, Edward McLean, owner of the Washington Post and Cincinnati En- quirer, to have used, with the knowledge of William J. Burns, a secret code of the Department of Justice to keep McLean informed of “dangerous developments.” Another employe of the Department of Justice, confidential secretary of William J. Burns, is shown to have been told by Burns to warn McLean that the department had been ordered to investigate him. The private secretary of the Attorney- General, one Rochester, was in close touch wit’_“icLean. Mc- Lean himself was credentialed as a department of justice agent. |, -.hemessage pent over the. secret leased wire Palm Beach, presumably either dictated by President Coolidge, or at his request, states that the “principal” is glad there will be no “rocking of the boat” and, that “there will be no resig- nations.” | Senators Make Ironic Comments So seriously involved is President Coolidge that his yame is made the subject of ironic comments in the senate; staid senators refer to him as “Cautious Cal” and Senator Caraway in a speech has challenged him to affirm or deny that he has been assuring the Teapot Dome criminals of protection. President Coolidge has said that he will make no reply to the charges. The Workers Party of America contends that the govern- ment of the United States is the instrument of the capitalist class. It maintains that its chief functions are to aid in the plun- dering of the workers and farmers of the United States and to suppress the resulting revolts. It has stated time and time again that the Department of Justice is run in the interest of the blackest section of the capitalist class, that it is run by criminals for criminals and that in addition to fighting labor and radical organizations its major task is to shield the members of the capitalist class who in their greed for profits violate the law they themselves have approved. Can’t Conceal the Dirty Mess Evidence submitted to the Teapot Dome Committee in the last four days, despite the efforts at concealment by govern- ment officials from the president down, has furnished abundant proof of everyone of these contentions by bringing to light the intimate connection with the beneficiaries of the Teapot Dome steal of the innermost circle of the Department of Justice headed by William J. Burns. Let us state again that Attorney-General Daugherty and William J. Burns, their personal and confidential secretaries, the president and his confidential courier, with other confiden- tial employes of the Department of Justice constituting those in the very heart of the government, co-operated to keep the thieving crew, whose activities the senate was investigating, informed of the slighest menace to their safety. Let it be remembered that these are the agencies of capital- ists that broke the strike of the railwaymen, because they said it was a challenge to the government, and that are trying still to jail Communist workingmen for “attempting to overthrow the government.” M If the workers and farmers of America still believe that American government in theory is their government, is it not plain that every act of the Coolidge administration is a refuta- the | tion of that theory? | Government Giant Capitalist Conspiracy Is any more evidence needed to show that the United States government today is nothing but a gigantic capitalist conspiracy against the masses of America? Broken strikes and a department of justice owned by oil and railway operators. iin Bankrupt farmers and a treasury department owned by oil 1 barons. orkingmen hounded and jailed for their opinions in Michigan, Idaho, California, Pennsylvania and West (Continued on page 2.) 4 \ ~