The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 7, 1924, Page 3

hfiertnea tices ct scendoranitn sadarcamse Friday, March 7, 1924 THE DAILY WORKE R BURNS AGAIN IN TOILS HAS NEW BOMB PLOT CLEW.. The Notorious Defective Pulls the Old Gag (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 6.—On the same day that William J, Burns, no- torious fourfiusher\and red _ baiter, was placed in the dock in Washing- ton and grilled like a common crim- inal, to force admission out of him that he gave away the secret code of the Department of Justice in order to tip off the crooks who were run- ning away with the oil recources of the government, the inevitable ‘“‘so- lution” of the Wall street explosion, the private property of Burns, broke into the press. The Crook is Clever. It should be remembered that when the 67th Congress of the United States made a farcical investigation of Harry M. Daugherty and his chief criminal Burns, the latter in order to turn public attention away from his own illegal acts, spread a big stcry in the news about his discovery of the perpetrators of the Wall street explosion. The latest stunt of the desperate Burns gang is an alleged confession signed by a fellow named Ralph Thurber in London declaring that he had part in the Wall Street explo- sion in 1920. Thurber has implicated several others, according to a telegram re- ceived by District Attorney Banton from Governor Smith. Banton is not inclined to take the story seriously as similar confessions have already been proven as canards fabricated by the imaginative liar, William J. Burns, who spends most of his time when not otherwise engaged lying down on a couch in his palatial of- fice coneocting plans to -frameup zoreee with a view to shaking them own, Murderer Apes Burns. American, Consul Skinner in Lon- don sent the following table to Sec- retary of State Hughes: “All details of the plot and names of conspira. tors are known to the Rev. Herbert Wilson, of San Diego and Los An- geles, Calif.” The Wilson referred to is a former evangelist now con- victed of murder. He is probably trying to escape hanging by qualify- ing as a lunatic. He could not think of any better way to fool the alien- ists than to copy the methods of William J. Burns in his announce- ments on the quest of the solution of the Wall Street explosion. Te should be noted that the papers on the eve of the great blast de- clared that it was the result of an accident to one of the DuPont pow- der wagons. This theory was imme. diately dropped and scores of radi- cals were arrested by Burns’ agents and some of them beaten to death before the public became so disgust- ed with him and his lies that he did not even dare to issue a new fable until now when he is in danger of being put in the cell as a common crook and traitor to a very import- ant capitalist government bureau. Republican. Party Scavengers Fell Down, Says Hiram GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 6, —The same marines who fired squat- bee pters off the ment’s western oil reserves be sent to oust Sin- clair and Doheny, Senator Hiram Johnson declared here last night in an address opening his second inva- sion of Michigan this year. “When Doheny and Sinclair, with bribery of public officials in Wash- ington, take over our oil reserves, we wait for constitutional discussions aud legal advice* * * not however, from chief legal adviser of the country,” the senator said. - “I admire the courage of Attor- ney-General Daugherty for stand- ing there and telling the will not ape i ed Le ‘not seta e courage of anybody for refusing to ask him to youre. “He is no longer useful as a mem- ber of the cabinet.” Johnson warned the Republican party that if it does not clean house io year, “the people will do it for em. Get New Cabinet. ig 6.—At the re- King Albert, ex-premier of Belgium, who resigned ae week, a today to attempt formation a new cabinet. Work Daily for “The Daily!” North Side Houses, Ancient Homes of Old A dated relics of decayed mansio: ristocracy, Now Broken Down Filthy Shacks Inhabitants of Chicago’s so-called “slums,” living in dilapi- ms, are prevented from moving out of districts of social disorganization and physical decline. Migratory workers and white collar clerks alike, are crowded together in ever denser numbers in the lower North Side, and the West and South sides, in ancient, unsanitary homes. Rooms, outnumbered by roomers by the thousand, cling to dirt which breeds disease. These facts were disclosed by the report prepared by Thomas Allinson, superintend- ent of the men’s service station of the department of public welfare, in co-operation with the lodging house inspecting ‘department’ of the Illinois De- partment of Public Health. “Dilapidated survivals of rich peo- ple’s houses have been taken up by an army of roomers,” the report states. “When these old residences are converted into rooming houses the whole social life of the region changes, the one outstanding factor being that more people are being crowded into each house. Hundreds of old dwellings on the South Side fall into decay each year while few are built to replace them. Altho the population is decreasing, there is’ no decrease in the crowding of the houses.”” These rooming sections, where 60,- 000 men and 12,000 women are crowded together are important fac- tors in the housing situation in Chi- cago, because many workers must room in them to be near their work. “Most roomers on the lower North Side are in the white collar class,” the report goes on, “comprising the cleri- cal workers of the loop. In this class may be found the most ardent ladder climbers of the city. A rooming house crowd is always a lonely one and hence vice abounds here in its most insidious forms.” The bad results of the subdividing of these ancient mansions into crowd- ed rooming houses are many, The report characterizes the West Side as a “Region of social disorganization and physical decline,” | Lawlessness and delinquency follows the congested rooming districts, ‘West of Halsted street, on the near West Side, where there are many children is the re- gion of juvenile delinquency,” we are told. “No region in the city is more trying to the truant officer. To have lived one’s childhood here is suffi- cient evidence that one has seen the rough side of life.” Besides depriving the children of the working class of a square chance to grow up healthy physically and wholesome moralf, the overcrowded conditions are a source of lawlessness, it appears from Mr. Allinson’s report. “Little Sicily,” he states, “sandwiched in between the industrial bélt border- ing the river and the rooming house area about Clark street, has been con- spicuous for twenty years for its fueds and vendettas. Policemen have little influence here and the majesty of the law frequently becomes a tra- vesty. Churches and welfare institu- tions abound, yet they have accom- pane little toward realizing their ideals.”” The negro, according to the report, has as usual, received a dirtier deal than any one else in Chicago’s hous- ing situation, “In 1920 the negroes numbered 109,000. They have in- creased their numbers until at present there are fully one third again as many, and still they pour in, The negro invasion of the higher grade streets on the south side has been re- sisted by home owners, Intimidation of negso purchasers of property has m practiced. Between July 1, 1917, and March, 1921, fifty-eight bomb eA 8 are recorded, to frighten the negroes. The result has ‘been two negroes dead, many injured and property damage of over $100,- 000, But no one was convicted of lawlessness. “The lack of foresight shown in the absence of provision made for the housing of the negroes is apparent. The negro problem in Chicago is es- pecially one of housing. As the situ- ation now stands the conditions of the negro habitation on many streets is deplorable, in short a reflection upon the intelligence and moral sense of the community.” Dill Hits More Graft. SEATTLE, ‘'ash., March 6,— “Graft in making of contracts with private manufacturers of army and navy supplies is one of the greatest on the government.” tor C. C. Dill of Washington, has replied to Hope Lodge of the ma- chinists in answer to thei? plea for su of the Brookhart-Hull bill. The bill favors the making of or- dnance and military supplies in gov- ernment arsenals and navy yards. Sign up today for German Relief Day work. Coolidge Joins Daugherty In War on Congress Bootleg Bloc; i, Good Dodge to Obscure Teapot ; 5 re f'6. By direction of President Coolidge, indictment of two or more members of Congress will ‘WASHINGTON, "March BEER CONFISCATED, MACHINERY WRECKED _ ALL UNDER CAPITALISM ELGIN, Ill, March 6—With over three thousand barrels of beer flowing in the Fox river today, the wet contents of the Elgin Ice and Beverage Company building were practically all destroyed. After pouring the beer out and letting it run into the river, work- men acting under United States Marshal Levy began the real work of demolis¥#ng machinery. This will take several days. The brewery is the first to have machinery destroyed under the Vol- stead act, it is believed, Amnesty Talked, Not Practiced, By Hungarian Rulers (By The Federated Press) BUDAPEST, Mar. 6.—The Hun- garian government, eager to assume an innocently democratic air now that it requires foreign credits from the British Labor regime has declared an amnesty for political prisoners. It is scarcely possible to liberate the hundreds of Socialists and liberals who met death under the White Ter- ror of this same Magyar government. But the cabinet does not even appear eager to carry its amnesty far beyond the stage of a paper decree. In mid- February, only 38 political captives {had been freed and of these, many had virtually completed their sen- tences, What is actually happening is |that the concentration camps, which |have become a by-word thruout Eu- |rope, are being uprooted and the | Hungarian Socialists thereby released are being placed under police super- |vision. | Two Hungarian Social-Democrats, |Peidl and Garami, were sent to Lon- don recently to inform the British Labor cabinet as to the existing con- | ditions in Hungary. It remains to be ; seen whether they were successful in | persuading the MacDonald ministry {to hold aloof from financial support for Hungary until some vestiges of political right, at least, have been re- stored. Nationalist Papers In Bavaria Sprout Up Like Mushrooms MUNICH, Germany, March 6.— Nationalistic newspapers and organ- these days like mushrooms. The re- actionaries are split up into so many factions that each deems it neces- sary to make its bow to the public with a separate sheet or society to demonstrate that it alone has the unadulterated truth, and that it is not the fault of the miserable fiasco of the putsch of last November. Von Kahr, dictator of Bavaria, is anxious to show that Ludendorff and Hitlers are traitors; Ludendorff and Hitler return the compliment to Kahr. The “Bavarians” are ranging themselves on one side, the “Prus- sians” on the other. And between them are the recently gee Ger- man Workers Party, the Greater- German Peoples union, and various ae sundry other paper organiza- ions, Short Quits Libel Suit Brought To Defend His Honor SEATTLE, Mar. 6.—President Wil- liam Short, Washington State Feder- ation of Labor, and formerly secre- tary, District 10, United Mine Work- ers, has reached an agreement with Martin Flyzik, president District 10, to withdraw his suit for libel against Flyzik. . The case arose out of charges alleged to have been made by Flyzik which Short interpreted as reflecting on his personal honesty, George F, Vanderveer, chief coun- sel of the Seattle labor legal bureau, was instrumental in having the charge- es decupes Miners’ cases against Geo: . Rummeng, alleged to have the district for IE and 1922 and Ernest Newsham, secretary of the district until his re- call early in 1923, will be prosecuted. Magnus Is Worth His Weight In Spuds, In Peter Stukel’s Eyes be sought immediately by the De; ent of Justice. Evidence HIBBING, Minn., March 6.—“I against them may be this week before a federal] always pay my debts,” says Peter grand jury now in session here. Stukel, potato king of Spudville, a _:_ Attorney General Daugherty is understood to have given] *)vi"e tid Pie Maignus evidence em to the Chicago grand jury which indicted| sohvaort Wiiked ‘Chute, etnate ene ot R. ogy fron) — nt i ar — Ms weed bo megpi it, thea one bushel of W. Thompson, cont - ie ago n indict the congressmen, but that grave evidence of] ,ss te ie fone ete Bota: wrong-doing had been eu! of & made last fall. The congressmen are ‘nor oil scandals. According in league part ros go backing of a prominent p¢ not involved in the Veterans Bureau able information eae declared his pounds» re, it be tase, John: A ‘izations are sprouting in Bavaria | PATRIOT’ HART EXPOSED AS TOOL OF VICE CROOKS Wilkes-Barre Rowdies Won’t Stop W. P. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES BARRE, Pa., March 6.— “No one in Wilkes Barre has any doubt that Vice Commander Healey was playing American Legion politics when he led the deputized mob that broke up the Workers Party meeting here two weeks ago,” said O. D. Coughlin,.a prominent attorney of this city in conferring with a Civil Liberties Union representative on the recent events in this section of the coal districts, Other lawyers consulted by the Civil Liberties Union have voiced the same opinion. One of them said, “These hoodlums lead by Mayor Hart represent the bootlegging and vice business in Wilkes Barre.Everyone of them is mixed up in dirty politics that is quite as scandalous in its way as anything happening at Washington.” Every Judge Rotten. eas Another attorney who has at times represented large corporate interests here stated that “every police judge and county judge in the neighborhood is tarred with the same stick. A snowball in hell is safe compared with your chances of winning a free speech decision in the local courts.” The same attorney contended that many of the rowdies who were deputized by the Mayor to break up the Lenin Memorial meeting were “slackers of the worst sort. Most of them saw their war service this side of the Atlantic.” The Workers Party plans to hold a meeting on the Teapot Dome scan- dal in Wilkes Barre, within the fort- night, As the pressure of the Legion ‘and local patriotic societies has barred the Workers Party from Concordia ;Hall, where, according to the Chair- man of the Hall Committee, “they have been meeting in a quiet and or- derly manner for over two years,” the meeting is planned for the hall of the local Brewery Workers Union whose Business Agent Charles Krom- belbein, also the district organizer for the American Federation of Labor, says he will rent the hall to any one, no matter who they are, what they have to say, or what their political af- filiations. .. This attitude of Krombelbein’s is in sharp contrast to that of the Cen- tal Labor Council which is apparently ‘under the thumb of the Hart political machine and refused Benjamin, Work- ers Party representative a hearing on the free speech issue when he ap- Seared at its meeting on Feb. 29. hether the Central Labor Union would have taken the same action against the representative of the [American Civil Liberties Union has not yet been ascertained. Preachers Against Mayor. The local Protestant ministers hap- pen, in this case, to be more tolerant than the majority of the local labor office-holders for the Ministerium voted unanimously against a bill re- cently proposed to the City Commis- sioner giving the Mayor the legal right, which he assumed in breaking up the Lenin meeting, to issue per- mits for all meetings. The Will.es Barre ministers lead by Willman, Jones and Williams of the Methodist church were able to secure a majority of the City Commissioners against this bill. Should the Mayor or the Legion take steps to prevent any future meetings of the Workers Party, the Civil Liberties Union will assist the liberal labor elements and the min- isters in instituting legal action against the local bootleg-patriotic combination. 2,000 Nova Scotia Miners Starving _ as Pits Are Idle SYDNEY MINES, Nova Sebtia, March 6.—The failure of the British Empire Steel Corporation to open ing of the Montreal agreement leaves 2,000 miners and families faced with starvation. The miners have not worked since Jan. 15, pre- viously they worked from one to three days a week. As all union relief has been stopped the men are in a serious plight. A mass meeting of miners has tele- graphed to the provincial and federal governments for an allotment of $50,000 to meet the emergency. The company claims that it $5.45 to mi ton of coal fran the idle mines, and the highest price pro- curable in Montreal is $5.40 per ton. This time last year the company's reserve supply was approximately 90,000 tons. So far not a ton of coal has been stored. 400 Earthquake Shocks Shattered Costa Rican Roads (Special to The Dally Worker) S(AN JOSE, Costa Rica, March 6. ae, hundred distinct earthquake shécks rocked San Jose and surround- between 4 a. m. and 5 y, according to records ing terri of the sel ph h of the seismogra ere, ee twelve were exceedingly vio- jent, y ra damage A pom ing great % Wires are down, land and rock slides, fallen and uprooted DOORS OPEN AT 10:30 BIG PUBLIC DEBATE STUDEBAKER THEATER 418 S. Michigan Boul., Chicago This Sunday Morning, March 9th, Eleven o’clock Between OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD (Editor of “The Nation”) and ATTORNEY JAMES J. FORSTALL, on the Question: “SHOULD THE UNITED STATES ADOPT THE BOK PEACE PLAN?” Attorney Forstall: “YES.” Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, the grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, has recent- ly returned from Europe where he attended the League of Nations assembly in Geneva, talked with Ramsay MacDonald in London and traveled extensively thru the Rhineland, the Ruhr and the Palatinate. Attorney James J. Forstall studied under President Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University where he won honors as a debater. at the Northwestern University School of Law. where he had personal contact with the working of the League of Nations. NLKNNNNNINLNNKK NN SN KANN AHH NHN HNN NN He was an Ins' Mr. Attorney Forstall recently visited Europe Page Three y i 4 y 4 4 t 4 y | Villard: “NO.” A THOUSAND SEATS tructor in Constitutional Law ing thru the columns of THE WORKER boosters, our paper ing. it is independent of capitalist plant owners, WORKER agent. published in America. the only paper worth reading. assured. the battles of the workingclass on March 15. cribe. Let’s get them NOW. tween now and the time we move to our new home! If every | two of their three mines in the Syd-| subscriber will make it a point to get at least one new reader ney Mines coal area after the sign-| in the next four or five weeks the job will be done and we will be ready for new and even greater advances. Hungary in Grip of Industrial Crisis: Workers Are Leaving ‘By The Federated Press) « BUDAPEST, March 6,—According to a report of the trade union head- ‘costs Warters, 6,046 workers have emi- grated from Hungary during the past eight months, explaining their decision by the industrial crisis now gripping the country. This means that 3.3 per cent of all Hungarian organized labor has abandoned the nation during the crisis, The utter inadequacy of social leg- islation under the Horthy regime is given as a primary cause for the mass flight of workers from Hun- gary. In case of accident, for in- |stance, the worker does not receive compensation commensurate with his | decreased earning ; instead, he | receives an annual pittance, equiva- \lent to the value of nine loaves of bread. How ‘severe the industrial crisis has become is illustrated by the re- the | cent struggle in the Hungarian metal industries. The metal workers flatly refused beet sgz tl offer of a 5 per cent increase. They re- minded the public that their peace bpd pay averaged $8 eg Eg iggling enough’ wage even then. And now the same laborers are re cei $4 a week, despite the fact ef THE POWER COLUMN Double Circulation Before We Move, Let’s Go Into Our Own Home With Another Good Start! ODAY the Teapot, the Garment Workers’ strike, and all other big news which American workers have been follow- second place to an event which carries with it tremendous sig- nificance to the militant labor WORKRER has bought its own home. THE DAILY WORKER will be operating its own printing plant!| No more profits to landlords or printing plant owners! DAILY WORKER is firmly established! There can be no more suitable place in which to comment on this stirring news than in The Power Column. discuss what is of importance to the development of the POWER of THE DAILY WORKER. Next to the power it de- rives from the earnest and effective work of THE DAILY| strength than in the firm foundation that it builds in a per- manent and efficient printing plant, installed in its own build- Nothing can give better assurance that THE DAILY} WORKER will continue to thrive and grow than the fact that, Yet it is another great obligation that the militant labor movement is taking onto itself. requires a steady and a large financial income. The ownership of a printing plant relieves some of this financial burden but makes a regular ‘income all the more necessary. so momentous a decision as the purchase of a printing plant, | THE DAILY WORKER management is relying implicitly on} the strenuous and effective activity of the militants who have made THE DAILY WORKER possible and who since the be- ginning have been making THE DAILY WORKER grow. means every member of the Workers Party, every red-blooded | militant worker and especially THE DAILY (WORKERiis by all odds the best daily paper | It is by all odds the best English lan-} guage publication published anywhere in the world. Thou-} sands, even millions of workers will some day swear by it as} possible, to make them regular readers is a big task, but one which is not too big for willing and courageous militants to perform. The permanence of THE DAILY WORKER is now It will grow at a rate depending upon the energy which the boosters put into their work. in a degree depending on the number of its readers. The campaign for 10,000 new subscribers starts officially But who wants to wait until then to start? There are thousands of workers just waiting for someone to show them THE DAILY WORKER and to ask them to sub- DAILY WORKER, must take movement. THE DAILY Within a few short weeks| THE} Here we can have no greater source of landlords and capitalist print Publication of a daily paper In making That it means, every DAILY To reach them now as fast as It will fight always and the fight will be successful Let’s double our circulation be- MENTIONING THE MOVIES By PROJECTOR. Film News From Russia Proletkino, a stock company con- trolled by Russian trade unions, co- operatives, Red Cross, Moscow Soviet | and other working class bodies, is! now engaged in the production of a feature film from “A. Week,” the Libedinsky story now being published serially in The Daily Worker. Efforts will be made to bring the picture to America to tour under our auspices. “The Fight Against the Ultimatum,” a recent production, is meeting with very favorable response both in Mos- cow and in the Provinces, but it is not considered suitable for American audiences. A splendid six’ reel comedy of Red Army life entitled “Kombrig Ivanov” is being sent to America now and will be exploited here early in fall. An extensive review of the film, with pictures, will apear in the next issue of Soviet Russia Pictorial. Springfield Host to Chinaman. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 6.—~ The honorable Chang Chien Jr., high | more than $16,000,000 has commissioner of the Chinese Trade ea” former enemy owners, Commission now visiting this coun- try, was Springfield’s guest today. “IMPEACH COOLIDGE! » _ i rerty custodian have POLIKUSHKA A wonderfilm based on the story by LEO TOLSTOI, Produced by the MOSCOW ART THEATRE Will be shown in BRONX, N. Y. March 7, Ebling’s Casino PHILADELPHIA, PA. March 8, Lulu Temple BOSTON, MASS. March 11, Symphony Hall CHICAGO, iLL. March 19, Orchestra Hall CLEVELAND, O. March 22 and 23, Engineers’ Auditorium YOUNGSTOWN, O. March 19, Park ‘Theatre RIDGEWOOD, N. Y. C. March 14, Queens Co. Labor Lyceum NEW YORK CITY March 18, Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St. Presented by RUSSIAN ARTFILMS, Room 701, 32 So. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Ill, Philadelphia Gives Russian Art Film on Saturday Night {Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 6.— Polikushka, the great proletarian film, adapted from Tolstoy’s story by the Moscow Art Theatre and made in Russia, will be shown at Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden streets, . next Saturday evening. The film at all times holds the sym- pathy of the audiences. Especially jof the workers who in their hearts see their own weaknesses exaggerat- ed in those of POLIKUSH and they know that he, like themselves, is a victim and creature of an unjust social system which no individual could change. The film is the first of a series to be distributed by the Russian Artfilm Company of Chicago. There will be two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. Admis- sion will be 55 cents and 83 cents. Appropriate music will be given by the large International Orchestra, Aliens Getting ~ Back Property - Looted in War (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 6—Fore' owners of property seized during tl war now are receiving regularly the income from the property and more than five thousand Taye had_ their werk sng to bogies . er, alien property reported to President Coolidge today. uring the first year’s operation of the Winslow bill providing for return of property valued at $10,000 Ree less, . cf said. Representatives of the alien floes in Berlin to axpedien of claimn, 24