The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1924, Page 1

) \! ‘ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 360. 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 MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1924 <q In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year 1879, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. ‘cscinsiiaseacasseiacinaibaaaiaestaiieeetaiinaiimy Workers! Farm: 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 Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents MEXICAN REVOLT FINANCED BY OIL ROBBERS _ Class Party Spokesmen in Historic Gathering FARM-LABOR, FORCES MEET IN ST, PAUL Big Hemant {s For the May 30th Conference (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Mar. 9.— Representatives of the Farmer- Labor Party movement from all over the United States are gathering here to formulate definite plans for a national Farmer-Labor Party conven- tion in which the Farmer-Labor movement will be crystallized, The conference which be- gins Monday is a continuation of the November 15th confer- ence in this city at which plans were made for a national con- vention on May 30th. Since that time new events have created a situation which re- quired re-indorsement of the plan to hold the convention on that date. Expect Good Attendance. The organizations which are ex- pected to be represented in the con- ference are the Farmer-Labor Parties of Washington; Montana, North Dako- ta, South Dakota, the Progressive Party of Nebraska, The. Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party, the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, The Committee of 48 and'the old Farmer-Labor Par- ty, The Buffalo Labor Party will also haye a representative present, showing the’extension of the Farm- er-Labor movement to the° east. Some suggestions have bden made that the date of the May 30th Con. vention be changed to a later date. Advance information received from representatives of the organization which will participate in the confer- ence indicate thatethere is very little support for this proposal. Practi- cally all the state Farmer-Labor Par- ties stand firmly for the original date before the two old party conventions, because they feel that the actions of the old party conventions have no relation to their attempt to form a_ National Farmer-Labor Party which will embrace all the existing organizations. Minnesota Organizations Meet. On March 12, following the con- ference of the organizations partici- pating in the May 30 call, the Farmer-Labor Federation of Minne- sota will hold its convention. This is an organization made up of rep- resentatives of the trade unions and farmer organizations which is ex- pected to be a deciding factor in the work of the Minnesota Farmer- Labor Party. Under the Minnesota laws party or- ganization is entirely decided by vo- | ters in accordance with the provisions | of the law. The Farmer-Labor Fed- eration is an organization within the legal Farmer-Labor Party which is the directive force in it. Select State Convention Delegates, With the conferences here next week representigg practically every group in the United States which stands for the organization of a Farmer-Labor party on a nation. wide scale the decision made will un- questionably be of historic import- ance. All things point to a degision which will mean a great convenr ¢ of farmers and industrial workers on ef 80 in which these groups will build a party which will henceforth carry on the struggle for their po. litical interests, fighting against the two old capitalist parties, County groups of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party met last Satur- day to select delegates for the state convention to be held at St. Cloud, Friday, March 14, Call for Convention. JAILED! What Is Chicago Labor’s Answer? No Postponement of May 30th Convention Is Sentiment as Farmer-Labor Delegates Meet A 6 A ' N BRINGS By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special _to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., delegations parties are here from the organized and mous sentiment for the May 80th conference. March 9th—A canvass of the states where Farmer-Labor functioning shows unani- From Wash- ington comes Wm. Bouck, national chairman of the Federated Farmer-Labor party and head of the Progressive Farmers or- ganization in his own state, John C. ton State Farmer-Labor party, from ennedy of the Washing- ontana, Charles Taylor, editor of Producers News, and Budden from Nebraska. J. Beebe and W. H. Green from South Dakota, Tom Ayres and Alice Lor- raine Daly and from North Dakota, Dad Walker and H. R. Mar- tinson. New York is represented by Campbell, of the Buffalo Labor Party. Joseph Manley is here for the Federated Farmer- Labor party. These men and ‘Labor organizations in their re- spective states and every one \of them has come pledged to work and fight against post- ponement of the May 80th con- vention. A panorama of the north western agricultural area and the conditions obtaining there is containedyin the state- ments given by these militants in outlining their position on May 30 as against July 4th. They feel that they cannot agree to further delay and express the wishes of their state organizations. H. R. Martinson, for instance, secre- tary of the Farmer-Labor Party of North Dakota, president of the Fargo Trades and Labor Council, states that a year ago, the railway unions in this territory were for a farmer- labor party. They went to the Non- Partisan League conference believing that it would form such an organiza- tion but were disappointed and they The call for the state farm: convention, Minnesotat, follows: “In comp! many voters of the Farmer-Labor labor are now solidly behind the recently formed North Dakota Farmer-Labor with requests from | Party. par- |" Both Martinson and Dad Walker ty of Minnesota, and with the ap-|agree that only for lack of finance proval of a majority of the members| due to the poverty stricken condition of its state central committee, a state |of unions and farmers the complete convention of the Farmer-Labor at the armo: in the city of St. Cloud, on Friday, e fourteenth day of nization of North Dakota would of Minnesota is hereby called to eed be. ai accomplishment. “We are fo: to del organization work, except what can be done by March, 1924, at 10 o'clock in the af-| correspondence until the cows come ternoon, to give attention to olicies and its ney for the nine cee and a euon ok oe bo elie and the hens rth zation party, cele ca. ome te the future, On record for a farmer-labor begin to lay,” North Dakota 4 Fading ot mee women speak for the Farmer- | Walker has brought to this confer- ence and which reads ag follows: “Judging from the developments that are coming out of the investi- gations here I do not know but what | the time is ripe for such a movement and with good chances for success in the coming election.” Numerous influential farmers now state officials have endorsed the Farmer-Labor Party and promised to organize their counties, according to Martinson and Walker, “We can absolutely count on eighty thousand votes for a farmer-labor program and candidates, which is enough to put us in the position of the second party in the state at least,” said Dad Walker, The same story of lack of finance |’ is told by Tom Ayres, who tells of a meeting of a hundred farmers recently which he addressed and who emptied their pockets for organiza- tion work. The total was less than nine dol- lars. “Most of the rarmers in my state are desperate and have lost hope in everything,” said Ayres, ” hey talk more about buying rifles and ammunition than they do about detailed organization work, but with a national farmer-labor organization launched they will begin to hope and work.” ‘he practical nature of the prob- lem with which the delegates have come to deal is shown by the fact that they are engaged no longer in estimating and weighing sentiment for a national mass, class party, but are talking of what the conferena can do to solve the matters GLENN YOUNG WAR TO HERRIN Kluxers Protect Him with Machine Guns (Special te The Daily Worker) MARION, Ill, March 9.—Klan and/u anti-klan organizations narrowly avoided a clash here+ today when Flaming Cirele dispersed without, making their threatened attack on 3. ; Glenn Young and Ku Klux Klan dry forces. Half of the state troops station at Herrin were sent here when it was reported that members of the “Circle” |were planning to war upon Young and ireturned to Marion last night. Several hundred klansmen with {four machine guns mounted guard jthruout the nigft, barricading a garage where Young sought refuge when news of the attack reached him. Word that the “Circle” was coming was sent from Carbondale near here. New Discovery May Revolutionize War and Transportation NEW YORK, March 9,.—Trans- mission of power without wires—a discovery that may revolutionize transportation and war—was an- nounced by Professor Nikola Tesla, radio scientist, according to a publish- ed story here today. With his discovery Professor Tesla declared it is possible to transmit power for the operation of ships and ‘aircraft great distances with less loss than on relatively short metal circuits, Tesla is preparing to erect a power station to prove his statement, His discovery, he said, is the result of two years’. effort. | The system is explained as a sort \of electrical generator which delivers ‘its energy into the earth from which t can be delivered by stations possess- jing the proper key. ‘ ; Join ‘the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow” club. INEWSINCLAIR, eight auto loads of Knights of the} DOHENY ROLE TO BE SHOWN, McLean Tries To Shielg) “Principal” Coolidge “(Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, March 9.— That the oil robbers, who loot- ed the Teapot Dome and Naval Reserve No. 1, were responsible for the recent civil war in Mexico, is the latest bombshell to be thrown into the political kettle in Washington. The senate committee inves- tigating the Department of Justice expects to prove that E. L. Doheny, Harry F. Sinclair and Albert B. Fall were in- volved in the recent Mexican counter-revolution and had helped to finance the attempt to overthrow the Obregon govern- ment because the latter refused to turn over the oil wells of Mexico to the oil barons a: , Denby and Coolidge did in Washington. That Senator Wheeler of Montana, who is conducting the investigation ef the Department of Justice will have the aid of former membe 's of down the relations of the D. o: with the Teapot grafters, was stated today... Their identity has. not.‘ yet been revealed. \ The denial of Senator Curtis that he was the “principal”? mentioned in the White House-Palm Beach tele- graph correspondence as stated by I:a E. Bennett, editor of the Washing- | jton Post, throws the quest back again to the White House and into the of- jance*of the city | forces the Department of Justice in running | s Workers’ Union against the r bosses. He doesn’t know that the those working out of office Crowe, have been used on the side of the garment bosses and against the garment strikers, trying to better their condi- tions. He made these declarations to The DAILY WORKER on Sunday after- noon, saying that he expected to see the members of the Citizens’ Com. mittee investigating the brutalities of the strike, at his office on Monday morning, at ten o’clock. Knows Nothing Wrong. “So far as I know there has been nothing wrong with the handling of the «strike by the city police,” he said. “I have no information to the contrary. I have asked for a re- port.” sub-committee of four, of the “Com- mittee of Fifteen” of the Chicago Federation of Labor called on Mayor noon and protested against the alli- police with the of State’s Attorney . Crowe from the north side. To all of the questions put to him about the strike, Mayor Dever cause he didn’t know anything about the strike, he had heard no complaint against the police. This also in of the fact that the daily press hasbeen full of stories of arrests of strikers, while the courts have been granting - (injunctions ~ against the workers, and the forces of private detective agencies have been massed against them. The Mayor and the Strikers. Mayor Dever was spending the Sunday afternoon comfortably at his home, 5901 Kenmore avenue, in the fashionable North Shore District fice of Calvin Coolidge. It is whispered here that Bennett on | the advice of McLean is endeavoring to shield Coolidge from the exposure | that would follow his direct connec- tion with Ed. McLean on the Teapot scandal. Senator Curtis, how is not willing to be made a sacrifice to the presidential ambitions of the huddled little figure in the White House. Senator Curtis was one of the Re- j anything worth while about it. when reached on the phone by the DAILY WORKER. He was not averse to talking. But it was difficult to discuss the strike with him, since he so very conveniently didn’t know He was net concerned, apparently, with a struggle that concerned tens of thousands of needle workers in the city of which he is the chief execu- tive. publican chiefs who insisted on hav- ing Daugherty thrown overboard to} lighten the ballast in the Coolidge po-} litical balloon. | Oil as medicine has come in for| some uncomplimentary references | here, since most of those implicated | in the Teapot scandal have taken sick. | Palm Beach is their favorite sanit: ari- im. t The Public Lands Committee is still | wrestling with the McLean code names. Bennett identified Fall as “Apples”, but Bennett claims he is some other kind of fruit. McLean| sure kept a rich orchard! . “Get Rid of Harry.” ‘Senator Curtis of Kansas, repub- lican whip of the senate, advised President Coolidge to get rid of At- torney General Daugherty on the grounds of Daugherty’s ill health. | Ira E. Bennett, editor of the Wash- | ington Post, today testified before | the senate oil committee. “Curtis told me that the new presi-, dent had asked him for some advice about the new duties imposed on him,” Bennett said. “Curtis said he! advised him to get rid of a certain | cabinet officer. It was Attorney Gen- eral Daugherty. He-said he told the president that Daugherty was in (Continued on page 2) Ts committee investigating the Department of Justice and At- torney Genera] Harry M. Daugher- ty has given an international turn to the revelations of the Teapot Oil Scandal. Mr. Daugherty is to be called upon to explain the part played by him and his agents in the last Mexican “revolution”. It is openly charged that the last mili- tary struggles in Mexico were fomented and financed by American oil magnates and that these oil interests were working hand in glove with the United States Govy- ernment thru the Department of ustice. Our Teapot Special will lay be- fore the workers and farmers a mass of startling evidence to show how government been a It was on this same Sunday after- noon that the strikers were preparing for another week of struggle, in homes without food or fuel, as a new snow storm hit the city. They were getting ready to face the clubs of private detectives, allied with the city and county police forces, on th picket line in the struggles for vic- tory that means a little more of the necessities of life for them and their families. While Mayor Dever ba#/ ed in his ignorance two committees, the “Com- | mittee of 15” of the Chicago Federa- “Citizen's | Committee” announced that they were | government yesterday. tion of Labor and the going ahead more strenuously than before the workers of the whole city. Will Tell Mayor. “If Mayor Dever does not know the facts about the police brutality in the strike he will be informed when the citiven’s committee sees him,” sui.’ Alex Elson, an investigator been working with the com “The Citizen’s Committee, by Walter R, Mec, exe tary of the Chicago Chu tion, has made a careful in and fds a Tong list of brat unwarranted ar: (Continued on page 2) eaded ecr2- ion 3 and it will This in spite of the fact that at Dever,.at his office, on Friday after- | declared he could make no reply, be- | + has| Mayor Dever Thinks All’s Well in Strike of Garment Workers in Spite of Arrests and Injunctions Mayor William E. Dever, of Chicago, doesn’t know what is happening in the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment apacity of Chicago’s garment police, both the city police and of State’s Attorney Robert E. BIG DISASTER HITS MINERS IN UTAH PIT No. Hope Held Out For 183 | Coal Diggers - (Special to’The Daily Worker) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 9.—CQine hundred and. eighty-three men are believed |to be trapped in the Utah Fuel \Mine No. 2 at Castle Gate, Utah, as the result of an explo- sion that occurred in the mine here. | The reports state that 183 {men entered the mine Satur- day. No word has yet been re- jceived as to whether any of the supposed entombed men way to safety. One of the rescuers sent down was killed and bursts of deadly gas hamper the work, as black damp fills the mine. All hope for the escape of the men is lost. Another battalion of the army of labor has fallen. The greed of the capitalists knows no limits and only a catastrophe like this brings to the attention of the workers of the United States the dangerous condi- tions under which the miners toil te roll up millions for their masters, Most of the miners were married and have families. The scenes around the mine are indescribable. Frantie women, attempting to burst their way to the pit are held back by guards, The first explosion occurred be- tween 8:15 and 8:30. It was violent. Two more blasts followed in quick succession. The rescuers are. working frantic- ally. Soviet Republic Is Recognized by the Greek Government ATHENS, March Sth.—The Greek government recognized the Soviet The agree- |ment was made and signed in Berlin jever to get all the facts of the strike, /and accords full diplomatic recogni- jnot only before the mayor, but also}tion without any conditions. The signatories to the agreement, were, on on the Soviet side, Counselor Aussem and M. Canellopoulos, the Greek min- ister to Germany. Over Weeks’ Protest. WASHINGTON, March 9.—Oppos- }ed by Secretary of War Weeks, the bill providing for an elected governor in Porto Rico has been favorably re- - ported by the house committee on in- sular affairs. Weeks protested that “the time is not yet arrived” for the | Porto Ricans to be entrusted with this | power. willing tool in the hands of the big- gest oil interests in Mexico, Colom- bia, and in other countries, . Everybody is asking: Where will the Teapot Scandal stop? When w@ it end? From the Presi- dent down every capitalist poli- tician has gotten his feet wet in oil, The Cabinet is soaked in the politically poisonous liquid, The Republican whip, Senator Curtis of Kansas, has been dubbed the mys- terious “principal”, Washington observers now expect the disclos- ures to continue at least‘until June First when Congress is expected to adjourn, What do all these events mean to the working and farming classes of our country? Will the Teapot bring about the organiza- | Where Will the Teapot Scandal Stop? tion of a third party? What are the chances for launching a mighty national farmer-labor party on a class bai What is the outlook for the coming big political strug- gles? These are only a few of the questions which our Teapot Special will answer. In the Teapot Special we will present facts which will roi the country from center to ciseumference, You can’t afford to miss it. Order your bundles now. Use the blank on Page Two. Help yourself to this treat. Help your friends, Help your shop mates and your eon Ayrge Get behind our campaign to bring the Teapot Special into the homes of the work ers and farmers the country have been able: to make tet" \