The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1924, Page 4

frre if Page Four THE DAILY WORKER THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill, (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50. .6 months By mail (in Chica; $4.50..6 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE § ** as <ofaltors MORITZ J, LOEB .Business Manager PA drnsdab atten tara is hh ecco SSE NEES Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the ‘act of March 3, 1879. 3 tnd nseace hehe va ii cade SS SD vos Advertising rates on application. ee Make It a Real Investigation John Fitzpatrick, acting on the authority of the Chica'go Federation of Labor, appointed a committee of fifteen to investigate the conduct of State’s Attorney Crowe’s office, in its rela- tion to the strike now on in Chicago, involv- ing the dress manufacturers and the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. In a letter to Robert E. Crowe, John Fitz- patrick charged the state’s attorney, with hav- ing assigned police attached to his office to strike duty. He charged Crowe with having his police acting the role of agents provoca- teur by mingling with the people in the strike ” district and fomenting discord. ‘ There are other charges contained in the letter that appeared yesterday in full in the DAILY WORKER, which call for the most thoro investigation. The committee of fifteen appointed by John Fitzpatrick to make an investigation of the anti-labor conduct of Robert E. Crowe’s office owes it to the workers of Chicago to make a thoro probe, not alone of Crowe’s office, but of the offices of Mayor William E. Dever and Chief of Police Collins. The members of the committee appointed by John Fitzpatrick are: Anton Johannsen, Carpenters’ Union. Robert Fitchie, Milk Wagon Drivers’ Union. Oscar Nelson, Post Office Clerk’s Union. Agnes Nestor, Woman’s Trade Union League, David McVey, Lathers’ Union. Frank Buchanan, Iron Workers’ Union. John O'Neill, City Firemen’s Union. Victor Olander, Seamans’ Union. Anna Fitzgerald, Womans’ Label League. Chester Semple, Molders’ Union. John Clay, Laundry Drivers’ Union. John A. English, Printers’ Union. Harry Van Artsen, Pressmen’s Union. Charles Glover, Blacksmiths’ Union. Harry Sheck, Union Label League. At the first meeting this committee held on Thursday last in the office of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, it was charged that the plain clothes thugs employed by Crowe are atso-ow the payroll of the city administration. We find State’s Attorney Crowe, the repub- lican, and Mayor Dever, the democrat, and alleged “friend of labor,” both equally respon- sible for the actions of the police in assaulting strikers and protecting strikebreakers at the behest of the manufacturers. The committee might ask Mayor Dever, why Captain John Alcock, notorious man bruiser, was transferred from the record department, where he was placed because of his unsavory reputation for manhandling prisoners, to the head of the army of policemen detailed by Chief Collins to guard the strikebreakers and beat up the strikers. In order to retain the political friendship of certain labor leaders, Mayor Dever may prom- ise the committee, that the present mis- handling of the strikers by his police officers will cease. But the committee should not be satisfied with empty promises. If Mayor Dever wishes to have order in the strike district he can do what a genuine work- ingclass mayor does, when a strike develops within his jurisdiction. Appoint a force of special officers recruited from the Chicago labor unions. Such a committee would be in- terested in maintaining order. The police and the gunmen from Crowe’s office are not. The workers of Chicago are watching the committee of fifteen. They will expect an in- vestigation that will go to the bottom of the situation, regardless whether those affected are democrats or republicans. The DAILY WORKER is firmly convinced that a real inves- tigation will show that in this strike the offi- cialdom of Cook County, in the City Hall as well as in Crowe’s office is carrying out the orders of the dress manufacturers and the Chicago Chamber of Commerce. The almost deadly silence maintained by the capitalist press of Chicago is also proof that every agency of capitalist power in the city is solidly lined up against the workers. The DAILY WORKER alone is throwing the searchlight on the strike and giving the gar- ment workers the necessary backing and pub- licity. The DAILY WORKER urges the committee of fifteen to make a real investigation! $2.00..3 months only): $8.00 per year $2.50. .8 months Chicago, Mlinois The garment workers have heard a good deal during the last year about the disruptive tactics of the Communists. This strike has demonstrated that the Communists are always the staunch supporters of the workers, not Congress Next In a country like ours where the plundering of the national resources and the looting of the national treasury by capitalists is the big- gest industry, it is no surprise to find second- class crooks go unnoticed and remain unknown for some time. (his is the condition that prevails in the United States today. The Teapot Dome ex- plosion happened to‘ break out first and now the lesser thieves are unmolested, reaping a harvest. But despite the fact that the Teapot scandal. has dwarfed everything else, the cor- ruption and graft with which our whole capi- talist governmental system is reeking is break- ing out in putrid scabs on our national body- politic. The exposure of the debauchery in the Veterans’ Bureau has brought to the forefront two Congressmen charged with having re- ceived bribes for their efforts to secure par- dons for certain prisoners. We are told that Congressman Zhilman of Maryland, chairman of the House Committee on Labor and one of the worst labor-fakers in the game, gentleman from Kentucky, Congressman Lang- ley, a stalwart reactionary, have taken for themselves a handsome sum for “services rendered.” A This charge against the two representatives is interesting from one angle. to say the least. Only the modest sum of $200,000 is supposea to be involved in the graft handed out here. What a difference! When cabinet officers and senators and presidents are engaged in the game of serving big business and grafting, their fees and their transactions run into the millions; but when mere congressmen get into the mess, their money turnover is limited to so paltry a sum as several hundred thousand dol- lars. And yet some would say we have no classes in this country! One by one every division ofthe govern- ment is being shown up in its true role—an agency in the hands of the bosses against the workers. First it is the cabinet. Then it is the senate. The president get his turn, to be sure. |Now it is the poor, powerless congress, Truly, this last tidal wave cf graft establishes at least one point that all workers and farmers ought to remember about the capitalist government running the United States: More and more it is becoming evident that the amount of money passing hands in the relations between the | government and the big business interests is | directly proportional to the power the par- | ticular governmental subdivision involved has. The higher the official the bigger the price. | Whatever may be said against this practice, jit can not be denied that this is good business sense in the eyes of the moneyed men. And these are the men who run our government and industries today. Strange Generosity American marines are engaged in serious fighting in Honduras. It looks as if our mili- tary forces will suffer unexpected casualties in shooting Wall Street democracy into the help- less Latin-Americans. But there is one aspect to the bloody affair that would be ludicrous enough to make the most dismal misanthrope how] with laughter if it were not so tragic fundamentally. Our mili- tary and naval headquarters charged with the operations of the marines and cruisers against Honduras would have the world believe that it was the death of an American Negro at the hands of the native population that awakened in our government its great sense of duty to protect its citizens and brought about Amer- ican intervention. : Whom do the kept editors and military publi- cists think they can fool now? Do they think that they can fool all the people all the time? One might yery well answer these menial serv- ants of our imperialists that they ought to know that charity begins at home. If these uniformed and ununiformed protectors of our lives are so anxious about the security and wel- fare of the Negroes why don’t they take steps to guard the lives and improve the conditions of the colored masses in the United States where protection could be secured without any loss of life being suffered by the saviors and protectors? : The Government of ours is now violating the independence of Honduras on the pretense of avenging the loss of life suffered by a Negro in the Latin-American Republic in civil war most likely caused by conflicting American and other capitalist interests struggling for the control of the natural resources of the country. The number of Negroes lynched in the United States, the number of these lynchers who have gone scot free, the intolerable conditions forced on the Negroes in the South and elsewhere, belie the high humanitarian motives now claimed by our capitalist government. Last year close to a half million Negroes, 478,000 to be exact, fled from the South to the Northern .in- dustrial centers. Nearly a hundred Negroes were officially reported to have been lynched in the last two years in this country. But the Government has not lifted its finger or even raised the faintest voice of protest against these outrages perpetrated against the Negro, Why, then, the sudden fit of: generosity on the part of our capitalist Government? The answer is very simple. The United States Government is not at all concerned with Saturday, March 8, 1924 rasan satan a Head of the Government--Tail of Finance Capital By JOHN PEPPER. CAN COOLIDGE the chief ex- ecutive of the nation is likewise the chief executive of the Teapot Dome scandal. That’s the newest and biggest re- sult of the senate investigation. Coolidge, the president of the United States by the grace of Wall Street sent his private secretary Bas- {com Slemp to McLean, one of the criminals of the oil corruption. Coolidge the head of the United States and the tail of finance capital sympathy, his message of solidarity and assurance of help. It’s the custom in political history of the United States for the president to send messages to Congress. Cal- vin Coolidge has initiated a new poli- tical customs. He sends messages to the criminals of corruption. : Where is there the innocent child who believes that the defenders of President Coolidge in the senate, told the truth about the reasons and cir- cumstances of Coolidge’s messages to McLean? Who believes that it’s only an accident that lawyers, secret serv- ice men, employes of McLean, and sent secret messages to Florida, offer-| secret service women sent hundreds ing his help and protection to McLean who is at the same time the publisher of a bad-smelling paper, a one dollar @ year secret service man and proven liar by the senate investigation, One day McLean is forced to admit that he lied before the whole nation, that he did not give the $100,000 loan to Fall. And the next day Calvin and a Coolidge sends him his telegram of of telegrams to McLean warning and advising him at the same time that Coolidge sent his warning and ad- vising telegrams to McLean? Truly, the president of the United States is in good company! Mr. Mc- Lean must know a great deal and must have a lot of power if everyone in Washington hastens to his aid, the retained lawyers, the secret service men, the chief of the detective bureau THE PARTY AT WORK | Mobilize Party Strength For Farmer-Labor Party Struggle The work of mobilizing the machinery of the Workers Party for the campaign for a mass’ Farmer-Labor Party to enter the presidential cam- paign this year is getting under way. Public meetings are being organized jn every part of the country on the lessons of the Teapot Dome exposures, resolutions calling for mation of a mass Farmer-Labor Party at the May 30th Convention in Twin Cities are being introduced and adopted in the e for- the trade unions, fraternal organizations and other labor and farmer organizations. Branches of the Party which have been asked to coftribute to the $15,000 fund the Party is raising for the campaign are making enthusiastic responses to the call. Altho the circulars covering the appeal for the campaign fund have been in circulation only for a week and only a few branches have had the opportunity to act upon them, the first installments of the fund are already reaching the National Office. In addition to the branches which were reported as having sent in their quota a few days ago contributions have come from the following Party units: Checko-Slovak Branch No. Dilles Bottom, 0., South Slavic Branc! Neffs, O., South Slavie Branch Jewish Branch, St. Paul.. City Central Committee, The appeal of the National Office calls for 1, Chicago. $11.00 5. contribution of $10.00 from each branch with up to 25 members and $25.00 from each branch with over 25 members. The Party Labor Party labels Tor”the members their quota of the fund. Branches are selling Mass Farmer- dues ‘tpoks as the means of raising Every Party branch must take up the question of raising its quota of the Farmer-Labor Campaign Fund at its first meeting during the months of March. The funds for the Farmer-Labor Party campaign are needed quickly and the Party branches must prove their ability to function effec- tively by a prompt response to meet the needs of this campaign. The Party is facing the most important and most critical struggle in its history thus far. The help given the National Organization by the party units will make possible the winning of a great victory for the Party and the revolutionary working class movement in this country. Youth Views By HARRY GANNES Sammie Is Waiting for Them to Grow Old. Eight months have passed since Sam Gompers talked to represnta- tives of the Young Workers League of America about the problem of or- ganizing the American youth into the trade and industrial unions. At a conference held in Chicago, the league representatives presented the old man of labor with a definite, ar-cut program that would be of benefit, not alone to the youth, but the entire sorely harrassed American working class. | Gomper’s stuck his pudgy finger to his nostril, supposedly in deep thought, and exclaimed in a poise of profound wisdom, “Wait!” There was method to his madness, however. You see organizing the youth is a youth problem. So, thought Gompers, if I let these young brats grow up until their heads are bald or gray and probably when many of them have been killed off by intensive labor, of the brutalities of the mine and mill it will be no more a youth problem and I can handle them ilke I do their fathers and uncles (pro- vided Jehovah is williag.) * But the class struggle, like the tide, stays for no men and especial- ly is it impossible to push it back. * Tite past year has shown an official increase of 38 per cent in children leaving school in order to work. Most of these kids are 14 years of age and come under the category of youth labor. Some of them are 15 and 16 and are put to work in places ordin- arily occupied by men and women. Since talking with Gompers the league has uncoverd the crafty plan of the building trade bosses to sup- plant adult, union labor, with scab, boss-trained apprentices; and no ac- tion has been taken against this union smashing policy, not alone Gom- pers but by the entire officialdom of the building trade unions. How young fellows were taking the places of the older skilled wor! in the automobile industries is com- mon knowledge in the automobile sections of the country and to all those who read the Young Worker. in, nothing done about it. ut the Gomper’s policy of ‘“‘watch- ful waiting,” will not solve the pro- blem. e army of youth labor grows and as the 5 le intensifies as it is now doing with the half mil- lion of unemployed, the solution of- fered by the only working class youth organization, the Young Workers League of America, will meet with Shipping Companies Protest Sending Rich to Ellis Island Gaol (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 7.—According to a decree issued by the commission- er of immigration at Ellis Island, all aliens arriving second class or on “one cabin” steamers will hereafter be obliged to pass thru the ordeal of Ellis Island just as steerage passen- gers on the transatlantic liners. Managers of the steamship lines are up in arms against this verdict, which would subject the remunera- tive buginess in foreign tourists to the rules applying only to immigrant workers, Their attitude is resentful that foreign gentlemen of property should be stewed in the same melting pot as European proletarians, The steamship owners have started a campaign to revoke the deeree. Their sole interest appears to be to save inconvenience to comfortable travelers, while permitting the au- thorities to vent their incompetence, parading ag Americanism, upon the poorer immigrants. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! of the Department of Justice, ex- secret service men who are hired now by McLean, journalists of doubtful calling, individuals .who would be thrown into the greatest quandary if they were asked what their profession is, and the president of the United States. Where is the expert who could tell today where the White House ends and the private business of Mc- lean begins? The chief of communi-. cation of the White House, E. W. Smithers, is.also the employe of the private wire of Mr. McLean, to make “easy access” to the White House possible for the proven liar of the Fall investigation. Bascom Slemp, the private secretary of the president. Tushes to Florida to McLean, and if the president wants to communicate with his private secretary he sends his wires to McLean because it is not the president but McLean who knows the private address of the private secre- tary of the president. The chief of the ushers of the White House, Mc- Kenna, renders his services not only to the president but is busy advising McLean about the goings and com- ings of the private secretary of the president. The thousand times secret code of the Department of Justice is not only placed at the disposal of the government, but at the same time is Placed at the unrestricted disposal of Mr. McLean and his employes of vari- ous kinds and shades. Where is the expert who could tell where the public sphere of the White House ends and the private sphere of Mr, McLean be- gins? One of the employes of Mr. McLean wired to Florida that he saw the “Principal” who assured him that there will be no rocking of his boat and no resignations or removals, and that the oil scandal will be smoothed over. Who is this “Principal?” Sen- ators have asserted that the “Princi- pal” of the wire to McLean js no less than the Principal of the American mation, the president of the United States. Calvin Coolidge is the Prirftipal of the oil scandal and of the United States. Who believes that it was an accident that Calvin Coolidge named as counsel of the government, one af- ter another, men about whom it was proven that they were connected with pil interests? Who believes that it was an accident that while forced to accept the resignation of Denby, Coolidge expressed his solidarity with his Secretary of Navy, who is one of the guilty ones of the oil corruption? Who believes that Coolidge has not very important reasons for not forc- ing the resignation of Daugherty the head of the Department of Justice, who neglected to prosecute the crimi- nals of the oil corruption? We ask and the whole nation must ask the question: Why does silent Cal- vin Coolidge remain so silent on the oil corruption? Has he nothing to say or is he afraid to incriminate him- self? Is he so ignorant about the basic facts of our oil politics or is he exercising the right granted to every citizen of the United States of not giving incriminating evidence against himself? Coolidge fs silent, but the masses of workers and farmers are aroused and they demand an answer. The workers and farmers distrust Coolidge who became president of the United States because he is a proven good strike-breaker and who is now pro- tecting and serving finance capital. The. workers and farmers are ask- ing what will be the next statement of the president: a message or a con- fession? The workers and farmers want an “easy access” to the White House, and they want to drive out the big capitalists and the president of the big capitalists from the White House. The Workers Party is only the mouth- piece of the laboring masses when it demands the immediate impeachment and ousting of Coolidge. Impeach ‘and oust. Coolidge !—that must be an irresistible demand of the masses, Mass meetings must proclaim these demands. Trade unions and farmers organizations must send this demand to every Congressman, to Congress itself. Impeach Coolidge and with him the kept government of big capital, and establish the govern- ment of workers and farmers! ED 0 CED () ED () IPED () CRD: () GRIND (1 TITS () TED ( | ATTENTION! ! Volunteers For German Relief Day AND ALL MILITANTS OF CHICAGO Call for your supplies and instructions for the house to house canvass at the place nearest your home on SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH, AT 9A. M. a8 “HEADQUARTERS: “VILNIS,” 2513 S. Halsted St. “FREIHEIT,” 1145 Blue Island Avenue “DAILY WORKER,” 1640 North Halsted St. “LIBERTY CLUB HOUSE,” 3420 W. Roosevelt Road “WORKERS LYCEUM,” 2788 Hirsch Blvd. t2 SHOW YOUR WORKING-CLASS SOLIDARITY, ON THIS DAY, Millions of German men, women and children are doomed to die unless YOU DO YOUR SHARE! Call. at any of the above mentioned places and perform this duty! € 'f GERMAN RELIEF DAY, SUNDAY, MARCH 9TH! i) ETD () EEE () <AAD ( MASQUE BALL | at the Purim Bazaar and Exhibition of the Jewish Workers’ Relief Committee For the Children Homes in Soviet Russia “at thea ASHLAND AUDITORIUM Van Buren ‘St. and Ashland Ave. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 8 ++-MARCH 20, 7 p. m. «MARCH 21, 8 p. m. -MARCH 22, 1 p, m. ++eeeesMARCH 22, 7 p. m. / P. M. —s confining their help to lip service, but getting] the safety of the Negroes or th a" eee Concert and Close .... vsecs- MARCH 23, 1 pm, / down on the firing line with them. a people. The Governinbat ‘s "ae Pe " ths eal ; a Tie) gna isis aaa atom using the loss of life by the unfortunate N Still He Is Endorsed. pet “] f $e poe ie, i A certain labor paper that stands for inde-|as an excuse for getting into Hokdwne te MG wh beatc oma api Rs amma Ticket bought before the Bazaar for all dent political action, had a pretty edi-} protect the heavy investments, the property,|of President Coolidge wore ad four days or for four visitors, 50 Cents, bap a torial vy pala wreee corp oy last - pe wom bankers and manufacturers. | at five ‘ anes ee eas Write or call: _ mayoral election in Chicago which gave Mayor|The military and naval forces in Hond ‘conventions cal 1088 , ‘ ' Dever credit for being a friend of labor. But PAS Are) Paton to the republican Hatlonal eom> JEWISH WORKERS there not to save the llves of the workingmen but to do the dirty work of the capitalist class whose servant it is, vention, eenemeaeatants sini The Land for the Users} the strikers do not find the clubs of his police nit sa too friendly rm ? Di hilt all he