The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 10, 1924, Page 6

Page Six 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 $2.00. .8: months By mail (in Chicago only): 34.50..6 months $2.50..3 months $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ( Ddit WILLIAM F. DUNNE J ivteereesst¢+++ + Editors MORITZ J. LOEB...........- Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. po Advertising. rates on application. Our Own Home The news that the DAILY WORKER will soon occupy its own home should prove most welcome to every man and woman who is com- pelled to labor for an employer in order to earn a livelihood. This arrangement will enable the only fighting working class daily in Amer- ica to render better service and to strike more telling blows against the exploiters. — The value of a Daily to the workers is in- estimable. We need but notice the tremen- dous propaganda launched for the Mellon plan to save the tax bills of the millionaires. It was thru their control of the press that the bankers and manufacturers were able to organize the greatest propaganda campaign that has per- haps been seen in the world since America’s entry into the war. The importance of being able to state the case of the workers and farmers cannot be exaggerated. The situation in England at this moment af- fords the most striking proof of the necessity of the workers of every country building up a powerful press. Here we have the British Labor Party at the helm of the government. This party despite all the advantages that its present parliamentary position entails is now seriously handicapped in its functions ef the Chicago, Illinois it does not have its own press and is af the mercy of practically the entire press od the country which is capitalist and reactionary. The British Labor Party has only one datly, The Herald, and this paper is weak because many of the men who are now the leading figures in the cabinet did not find it necessary to render it proper and sufficient support. This change, welcome’as it is, should en- courage all the workers and farmers to take a greater interest not only in making the DAILY WORKER the most powerful influen- tial newspaper in the country, but should also stimulate the activities of the working masses towards building up a chain of labor and farm newspapers that will speak for the workers fearlessly and unfalteringly. Chicago’s Homes The exposure made by the DAILY WORKER of the wretched housing conditions of New York pointed out very clearly that this acute suffering was not local and that the housing problem was a national question. The conditions. to which the mass of work- ers in New York are subject are essentially repeated in every large industrial center of the! In Chicago, for instance, the unsani-| country. tary conditions, the poorly constructed homes, the miserable congestion are almost the exact replica of the New York situation. The report of Mr. Thomas Allenson of the Department of Public Welfare, arrived at in co-operation with the Illinois Department of | Public Health, makes one shudder at such a state of affairs being tolerated in a city which) has often been called the “Queen of the West.” | Hundreds of dilapidated, germ-laden dwell- ings are now overcrowded with men and} women of the working class. “To have lived one’s childhood here is sufficient evidence that one has seen the rough side of life.” This is typical of the painfully graphic way in which the report views the conditions of the so-called homes which the working men of Chicago are compelled to inhabit because of their low wages and because of the exorbitant profits| being piled up by the landlords and capital- ists. The housing conditions in Chicago are as unbearable as they are in New York.’ Many schemes have been put forward by all sorts of nondescript capitalist and semi-capitalist in- stitutions to relieve the distress. All of these have failed. All of these schemes have only tended to perpetuate the acute gravity of the housing crisis. It is time that the workers themselves, those who have been doing the suffering, those who have been subject to these , abject conditions, should get together into a national united tenants association of their own and force an end to this misery and wretchedness. “Gutter Gatherings”’ At last the Chief Executive of the nation, the symbol of honesty and integrity in Amer- ican government today, has been drawn into the oil mess! What times are these when so skilled a -ward-heeler as Coolidge, so consummate a capitalist politician as the President, loses control of the rudder of the ship of state to such an extent as to allow himself to be caught manipulating and maneuvering with the Tea- pot thieves? It ig rather difficult for us to understand _ why “Silent Cal” should have been go talkative in his dealings with the ‘h lights of the oil drama. It is even more ult to understand how Coolidge could permit such leaks, as his message to McLean, in his sacred affairs of state. Really, the president ought to do some housecleaning and he ought to begin in his own White House first by getting himself servants who would never permit such infor- mation to get to the masses. Senator Lodge, the most cultured ignoramus in the Senate, and the leader of the republican reactionaries, has called the charges against Coolidge “gutter gatherings.”” We agree with the aged self-styled historian from Massachu- setts. Coolidge has at last been put in his proper place, The gatherings in the gutters of Washington have been piling on so thick of late that they have caused the news sewers of the country to burst with filth, And the presi- dent is by no means the least conspicuous of these “gutter gatherings.” The exposure of Coolidge and his deals in the oil scandals should immediately raise a storm of protest to drive him out of his office: Coolidge should be impeached. There is more than enough grounds on which Congress canimpeach him. The president is besmeared with oil from head to foot. How can the workers and farmers be ex- pected to have the slightest trust in Coolidge and his appointed oil prosecutors when he sends private messages, secret telegrams, to McLean the day after the latter confessed publicly that he lied in order to protect Fall? How can Coolidge be expected to use the un- limited powers of his office to punish the criminals when he publicly admits that, one of the arch-criminals, Mr. MeLean, has “always been most considerate” to him? How can we expect Coolidge to act fairly and squarely in the prosecution when he himself must rely on McLean to get in’touch with his own private secretary, Mr. Slemp? How can we be ex- pected to put our trust in a president who has been so deeply involved in the oil scandal that he is compelled to issue conflicting apologies and explanations for his telagraphic connec- tions with the nest of oil thieves at Palm Beach? The finger of guilt points straight to the White House. Coolidge ought to show some of his former practical, hard-headed political sense. He ought to make a sacrifice, as Borah said, and quit his office of which he is most unworthy. But the workers and farmers must not hesitate a moment. The working masses the country over must unite their forces to kick Coolidge out of the White House, to force Con- - ies to impeach him without any further elay. The Dictatorship of Dicks The labor spy is a definitely American insti- tution. But during and since the war he has become a menace not only as an institution, but as an institution protected, encouraged and allied with the government itself. The labor spy has no éspecial reason for existence in organizations which are not prole- tarian, and for the same reason those unions in which the rank and file is bound hand and foot by reactionary officials the demand of the employers ‘for industrial espionage never reaches the point it does in fighting militant organizations. It is not surprising, then, that the I. \W. W., for instance, which has been the bogey-man of the bosses in such industries as copper production, should be the target of the bosses working thru such nefarious agencies as the Burns’ Detectives. Such opponents are the ; inevitable compliment of a fighting or- ganization. In the investigation of the conduct of the Department of Justice under the administra- tion of Daugherty and Burns, which is just now opening, the greatest threat to capitalist government ig not the exposure of corruption and graft in the heart of the federal govern- ment, but the exposure that the government, which is theoretically supposed to stand above classes and to take no sides in the struggle be- tween capital and labor, is secretly in closest co-operation with great corporations in black- | listing, deporting and persecuting discontented workers and labor organizers. Senator Wheeler has in his hands the power to tear aside the traditional mask of federal govern- ment “Justice” and display to the simplest worker the cynical smirk of a harlot 'govern- ment sold and delivered to capital. In the exposures which are to come the sub- servience of the federal government. to the Burns’ Agency in its union wrecking will be proved beyond all doubt, despite the lie Burns told the Walsh Committee ag to his severance from his agency since becoming a government officer. It is a duty of all workers’ organiza- tions to expose this plot widely. Daugherty’s Defender Ex-Senator Lame-Duck George E. Chamberlain, of ree ts the hy best in ary array of legal counsel alled by orney General D; him before the Senate Committee, ee ee _ Obviously Mr. Chamberlain is well qualified for the job. He Was one of Mr. Harding’s best friends in the democratic party. On the eve of the 1920 landslide for the republican party Mr. Chamberlain remarked: “There is just one democrat, I hope, will be elected to- morrow. That's George Chamberlain.” After the Ore- gonian was defeated by Mr, Stanfield, who vies with Senator Warren, of Wyoming, for being the greatest shepherd since Father Abraham, the greatest sheep owner in the world, Mr. Harding was quick to help him. Mr, Chamberlain was appointed to the shipping board, In the last year Mr. Chamberlain has practiced law in Washington. The law practice of ex-senators and former congressmen in. Washington is limited to lobby- ing for big business interests. Mr. Daugherty undoubted- ly chose Mr. Chamberlain because of his three.fold quali- fications of having of having good connections with the democratic, republican, and Wall Street outfits. Who could be a better defender of the crooked conduct of Daugherty than Mr, Chamberlain? \ ' IMPEACH COOLIDGE! By IURY LIBEDINSKY Published by THE DAILY WORK- B. W. Huebsch, Inc., of New York City. Coyprighted, 1923, by B. W. Huebsch & Co, : ** «© (WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE) The Russian Communist Party branch ‘is governing this frontier city and fighting the counter- revolution. Earlier installments tell of the fuel shortage that pre- vents seed grain from being fetched on the railroad, The Party meeting deciaee. to send the Red Army far away for fuel, at the risk of leaving the city open for bandits and counter-revolutionists. It also decides to conscript the local bourgeoisie fr wood cutting in a near-by park. Varied types of party members are flashed on the sereen: Klimin, the efficient president of the branch, who still finds time to have a sweetheart; Robeiko, the consumptive, whose devotion is killing him; Gornuikh, the brilliant youth of 19 on the Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury- loving place-hunter and Stalmak- hov, a practical workingman revo- lutionist. | Gornuikh, disguised as @ peasant, overhears talk in the- market place about a plot of counter-revolutionists to seize the town while the Red Army is away getting wood. The Communist company is summoned but, perhaps, thru special arrangement with| too late. Robeiko is dragged out of his house and shot, Klimin’s ’ sweetheart is butchered and Klimin and Stalmakhov are overporered and hurled into a dungeon, The counter-revolutionaries are in pos- session of the town, with the Red Army away.—(NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY). se ® CHAPTER XI—Continued. Ww shouts and curses they dragged out Klimin and Stal- makhov. Stalmakhov looked with cold hatred deep into Repin’s grey, angry eyes, and was going to say something. But a shot rang out and, irrationally jerking his hands and feet, his body fell on the snow. There was a second shot and a second body writhed in the snow | beside the dying first. The yard emptied. Repin galloped off after the carts and the victoria. For fif- teen minutes the two dead bodies lay motionless in the middle of the yard, while the shooting came nearer and nearer and then began to go off already in the opposite direction, while the bullets flew | more and more rarely over the empty yard. The sun was already hanging above red clouds and the sky was turning blue. . . Gornuikh ran into the yard with a revolver in his hands, At his heels were three men in black short coats with red stars on their black fur hats, gripping their rifles firmly in their strong, dark brown hands, They were the Communist railwaymen. They rushed to examine the barn, Gornuikh ran at once to the dark mass on the snow, and saw the familiar face, the dead eyes, the calm, half-opened lips, from which’ it seemed that at any moment would escape a white-toothed smile that would make the face young once more, in spite of its grey skin and network of wrinkles... . And, lifting Klimin’s head on his knee, Gornuikh bent over it, and looked endlessly into this mo- tionless face. And suddenly he Are You Reading “A What Do You Think of Our First Story? The DAILY WORKER wants to know what its readers think of the first ial novel it offers to its reade: We have published many installments of this gripping story. Another appears today. hat do you think of the stor, fone? We want our read« know. Write down and send them in to the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. We publish as many of these letters as we can find space for. Don't de- -lay. Write today. SIS SHEE ees LE ele AT felt that a sob was rising from the depths of his being, from depths of which he ‘had not known himself, higher, and higher. . . . Gornuikh wept silently with a dry sobbing that was so painful that it was as if not one but several hearts, more hurt, more disturbed than they could bear, were beating in his breast. se ® CHAPTER XIl. "ERE black, melting earth and the blue drifts of the last snow mingled together in a whimsical pattern stretching far, far away, and the changes in its various, ever new design were still monot- onous, Karaulovy looked sharply about him, listened keenly in the dark- ness, and held the reins in a spe- cial manner, making his horse step carefully and silently, Before him, in a wide two-verst semicircle, embracing the empty ravines, ditches and low hills, to- wards the town, moved three lines of Red Army soldiers, one behind the other. The order had been to make no noise. But the moving of the thousands of feet on the earth seemed a loud noise to Kar. aulov, and the sharp-eared beasts of the field, hares and field mice, heard it for many versts, far, far away... It was like the monot- onous gushing of a flood in the steppes, and they noiselessly fled from it. But a few hours earlier, Karaulov had been hurrying his brave little horse over this very Place, galloping from the town to- wards the monastery where was the battalion of the Cheka, He had gone as if merely to make sure how the fuel-getting was going on, and to see if his telephonogram about precaution- ary measures had been obeyed. But some cloudy instinct had taken him from the town and told him to be as near as he could to the battal- ion. And that same cloudy instinet had made him stop and listen to the town he had left behind. But under the fading evening sky everything was quiet, and as before the scent-laden, sweet, cool stillness of an evening in early Spring ruled over the earth. And then, when it was altogether dark, and the ruby trace of the sun had disgolved in the dark blue sky, and the first timorous stars were glim- mering out, the keen ear of Karau- lov caught, suddenly, from the di- » rection of the town, one after an. other, three far-away shots. Karaulov checked his horse. Si- lence. A crow called, flying across. And theh again he heard a far distant shooting ... a disorderly By SCOTT NEARING. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) OTENTIALLY Canada mearis more to the United States than to Breat Britain. The Canadian wheat fields will become indispensable to 'the American people. Already the great forest resources of Canada are being drawn “upoh for paper stock and lumber, The coal of Nova Scotia, |the iron of Newfoundland, and the copper of the lake regions will be re- quisitioned for American manufactur- ing industry. By 1910, the volume of investable surplus cash in the United States had increased to such a point that Cuba, | Mexico, Central America and Canada were all called upon to absorb their share of surplus American funds, At that time, however, the amount of United States investments in Canada did not exceed $225,000,000. Meanwhile the British investors had been making the best of an ex- cellent opportunity. By 1914, the total of British investments in Canada had exceeded $2,000,000,000, In the same year the total of United States investments was not more than $690,- 000,000. ‘The war not only destroyed a part of the British market in Canada by stimulating the development of local Canadian industry, but it hurt.Brigish industry at home. by stimulating the export of Canadian manufactured | goods to the home country. At the same time, British investments in Canada virtually ceased. This war situation gave United States investors their opportunity. The Dominion bureau of statistics recently published a report on The Nationality of Capital in Canadian In- dustries for 1919, econ eee this report all of the major manufacturing and mining industries of Canada were being financed by Canadian or by United States capital. The United States investments had aly gerd equalled British investments and the volume of United Statés money pour- ing into Canada every year far ex- ceeded the volume of B; money. In many instances United States tal is invegted under | names, under ‘Caandlan theless the real control remains in New York or Chicago. Unofficial es- timates for 1923, place the total Bri- tish capital in Canada-at $2,000,000,- 000 and the total United States capi- tal in Canada at $2,500,000,000, The economic title to Canada’s for- eign investment field has passed from British to United States bankers. The political title still remains in British hands. History shows that economic possession ultimately caxries with it political control. With the lines of economic advan- tage which bind Canada and the Unit- Two Women on a Street By MAXWELL BODENHEIM. This street is callous apathy In a scale of greys and browns. Its black roof-line suggests Flat bodies unable to rise. Its air is pestis ~rawness, Troubled with ashcans and cellars. Even its screams are listlessness Having an evil dream. ' An old woman ambles on With a black bag that seems a part of her back, And a candidly hawk-like face. She croons a smothered folk-song to hadadds | a flittering bara into her sharply parted face. Then she surrenders her hand To the welter of a garbage can. A hugely wilted woman slinks by With a cracked stare on her face. Her eyes are beaten discs Of the street-lamps’ ghastly keen- ness, She glides away as tho the night Were a lover fi her: SF tele seek, Mis cus vas wag is wl Happily into her lover's room, The working class must value every possibility how ‘ht, for organizing its force: the curse of our class is that we are not organ- Monday, March 10, 1924 Week’? bundle of sounds. He spurred his horse and with all his strength struck it with his nagaika, and it dashed forward at a swift trot, avoiding the deep pits invisible in the darkness, Arriving at the monastery, he enquired if his telephonogram had been obeyed, assured himself that everything had been done, short}y explained the charecter of the operation to the battalion com- mander, Seletsky, and, fifteen min- utes later, before the quiet ranks of the Red Army men, told them briefly what was on foot, And then, as they rode out into the country, he explained to the military Com- missar of the battalion, Danilov, elegant, good-looking, in leather coat and broad red riding breeches, the political meaning of the re- volt, and Danilov in reply nodded his handsome head that he carried lightly on his strong neck. Dan- ilov had been a miner, unable to read or write, and even now he read with difficulty, and indeed had not been able to even read “The A BC of Communism” all thru, but the Red Army men: loved him for his simplicity, which they di- vined under all his elegantly got up equipment, while Karaulov thought well of him for his bold. ness, for his honesty, for his di- rectness and also because some- times they had a drink together. Seletsky, meanwhi#, was riding from end to end of the battalion, -assuring himself over and over again that everything had been done as it should have been done. ++. It seemed that the line was properly deployed, machine guns in the center, and patrols sent out on the right flank, together with cavalry scouts... . Everything had been done, and presently Seletsky would meet she enemy once again, and once again would be solving in human lives that familiar, but every time new and interesting military problem. Once again to meet the enemy ... the bandits... . Were not religion, nationality, class, merely colored, modifying denotations, concrete denotations thru which were expressed the ab- stractions of the great game of war? Of the beloved game of death which, for Seletsky, was like an intoxicating narcotic... . And he remembered how seven years be- fore Ensign Seletsky ... then against the Germans. . . led his company to the attack, and was full of enthusiasm and dreamed of a heroic death for Russia. And then, in the opaque gloom of the trenches, what with illness, con- tusions and wounds, this enthusi- asm had withered. But in ifs place there had grown up a new, painful interest in this deadly game at which for so many years on end the whole of mai been playing, in this oldest of all games, in this most beloved of chil- dren’s games. . .. And now it was all the same to Battalion Com- mander Seletsky. . . . Germans, Poles, Czecho-Stovaks, Cossacks, Whites, bandits ... all the same. ...+ Before him was an ¢hemy who also would be throwing ‘out his lines, sending out scouting an. tennae, pouring out rifle fire, and flinging forward the flame of bay- onet attacks. And the suffering, wounds and deaths were merely algebraic signs to express the quantitative changes in the oppos- sing sides, . (To Be Continued Tuesday) Canada Is Financial.Colony of U.S. ed States together; with the very large sums of investable surplus which lie ready on hand in the United States and with the pressure of Bri- tish imperial policy forcing American industries to locate in Canada in or- der to obtain the advantages built upon imperial preferen®es, there seems to be an overwhelming prob- ability that the British financial posi- tion in Canada will grow proportion- ately less and that the position of the United States will become rapidly more dominating. W. Va. Farmer-Labor Conclave Mar. 13 to (Special to The Daily Worker) CLARKSBURG, W. Va., March 9. —In complying with the action of the July convention, the officers é6f the West Virginia Farmer-Labor Party issued a call for a convention, to be held March 13, in Carmichael Hall, on 6th street in Clarksburg. It is believed that will nominate candidates from gov- bisa down on the Farmer-Labor Name Candidates convention AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. Washington still marvels at the si- lence of Calvin Coolidge. Not so) Cyril Lambkin of Detroit, who has sent the following comment to this column: : “Only those with poor memories will marvel at the golden silence of Cautious Cal. It is no mystery to those whose memory serves them well. Just recall what happened two summers ago, when Cal, who was then vice president, attempted to bestow his golden eloquence on a gathering of farmers in Minnesota. The whole gathering got up and walked away whistling, Under the circumstances what man with a grain of self respect would not exchange golden eloquence for golden silence?” _* * 8 We are of the opinion that Calvin is silent because he has more political sense than brains, ; Woodrow Wilson talked himself to death. He was really too clever for the average type of politician andshe became unpopular as a result. Harding talked and ev- erybody laughed at him. Coolidg says nothing and the nation marvel at what he doesn’t say. He can’t fool our correspondents, tho. + * 8 # Secretary of the Navy Denby—he is still on the job—states that even Woodrow Wilson did a little “teapot- ting” while he was in the White House. In a letter to Congress, Denby declares that on Dec. 6, 1920, Secre- tary Payne wrote to Woodrow Wilson suggesting that the Boston Pacific Oil Company be allowed to drill five new wells on California naval reserve No. 2. The letter was found in the rec- ords of the navy department and an- notated “approved Dec., 1920, Wood- row Wilson.” Our contention that the Teapots are simply calling each other names is borne out by the de- velopment in this scandal, * * ® The desire of the dope trained read- ers of the capitalist press for salaci- ous and thrilling stories is respon- pote: ne the verge) in Ngee on capitalist papers play up murders and sexual crimes. This leads them to commit offenses in order to make news for which ordinary citizens would be arrested. But the papers can violate the law with impunity here. The Daily News, Tribune and Herald-Examiner have their own finks and when a murder story breaks, ten to one that they nab the suspect ahead’ of the police. Tense rivalry exists here in Chicago between the Tribune and the Herald-Examiner, ee. @ . When the Duffy double-murder oc- curred here a week or so ago, the police made the usual fatheaded assertions that the murderers would be arrested “within twenty-four hours”, or that “a blond girl well- known in the bright light district of lower North Clark Street was known to have been with the murdered man 30 minutes _before his body was found.” Policemen are known to have talked like this in their sleep. The Herald-Examiner arrested Duffy, held him prisoner until it got a good story out of him and then turned him over to the police. Naturally it chuckled over the feat. It had a scoop. The city editor might get a raise. It meant a few thousand moze readers. Up goes circulation and advertising rates, That’s the point to be taken into consideration. That is how Hearst and all the other capitalist paper magnates make their millions. *_ * * * Now something happened. The circulation manager of the Tribune warned the editor that “100 per cent Americans” may be virtuous but it is generally compulsory. Their vir- tue is for use in the show window but secretly admire those whose profession is taking liberties with the moral code, and they greedily devour every bit of news concerning the activities of the daring frater- nity. Mow, competition may be the life of trade but sensation is the life of circulation. A hint is as good as a nod to a city editor. That worthy, with one eye on pay day and another on his job, got his sleuths busy, and from distant Cleve- land brought in a victim by the name of Jeanne Mason, underworld char- acter for whom the sleuths of the police department and the Herald- Examiner office looked for in vain, into its own “gold fish” room and over crackers and cheese pried forth the information that Chicago is fa- mous for its bg fee and Boul. Mich. . Now the Tribune laughs at the Herald-Examiner and justice is being served, Where this competition will stop is hard to say. Why not abolish the police department and the state’s attorney's office and leave the task of protecting ‘air name of jus- tice in the hands of the Tribune and Herald-Examiner? The incentive to get busy whenever the murder ring gets unusually irresponsible and kills bootlegger by mistake will be the circulation figures, Crim- inals would have the advan of getting their photographs inted, the limellght. tight "enjos the priv e limelight might - lege of having their pe on every- thing from the Teapot Dome to cap- ital punishment appar 4 Th's suggestion is worthy of consid- eration, Furthermore tkose who en. the pleasure of spending a as guest in the detective offended ys tel, i lllced at the in a steady visitor to the “gold fish’ ‘}rooms of the Bi sterl ng capitalist new! pers of Chicago, Let justice be served! t ‘é