The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 361. Subscription Rates THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-olass matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year TUESDAY, MARCH 11,1924 «<q Mayor HORROR RULES AT UTAH COAL MINETRAGEDY No Hope For Goal Barons’ Victins in West (Special to The Daily Worker) CASTLE GATE, Utah, Mar. 10.—Headless and charred bodies of the victims who were caught in the terrible disaster at Utah Fuel Company’s Mine No. Two, last Saturday are to- day being taken to the surface. Thirty-one bodies, eighteen of them identified, have so far been removed from the galler- ies. Mine experts say there is positively no chance that any- body could be alive in the stifling, gas-filled chamber. The single street of the little mining town is crowded daily with the relatives and friends, widows and orphans of the entombed miners. Pathetic Scenes, Pathetic scenes were witnessed as frantic women driven insane by sor- row attempted to go down i the deadly pit to join their husbands in death. One young woman with a baby in her arms roamed about all day erying “I want to go to him.” Her husband had laid down his life as a Dey age to the capitalist greed for gold. 5 Considerable coal baron propagan- da is being broadcasted telling of the precautionary measures taken to pre- serve the lives of the miners. ere is an investigation on, but the miners fear it will whitewash the coal bar- ons. Twenty other bodies were sighted in a tunnel still inaccessible as work- ers bored into the mass of debris choking the passageway: Fire and deadly gases hampered the relief efforts yesterday, but the flames finally were extinguished last night and rescue squads equipped ‘with gas helmets made their way into the tunnels. It was believed that the levels where the main body of the en- tombed men were at work might be reached today. f Gas Fumes Deadly. One rescue worker died from in- haling deadly gas fumes last night. As soon as the blaze is extin- guished, officials belleve they will be able to reach the position where the miners were working at the time they were trapped by a sertes of blasts. Of the seven lies recovered near the entrance to the mine, five have been identified. All were married men with families. Two other bodies were so badly mutilated that they could not be identified. Crowds packing the canyon roads leading to the mine, are orderly. \Deputies held the spectators and members of families of men caught in the death trap, a mile from the mine entrance, Hang in Far North, Too, WINNIPEG, March 10.—Out of the it ice barrier of the silent N came the news today that Canadian law had taken its course, and that the two imaux murder- ers, Alikiamik and Tatangamen had been hanged at Herschel Island February 1, (By ONDON, Feb. 21 to the headquarters of the KNOW-NOTHING DEVER “I know of nothing wrong in the city police conduct of the Garment Strike.”—iayor Dever to the DAILY WORKER. Spirit of Unity Prevails at St. Paul as Farmer-Labor Conference Starts By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., March 10.—Wil- liam Mahoney, editor of the St. Paul Trade Union Advocate, opened the conference of representatives of farmer-labor parties at 3 p. m. today in the Labor Temple. The conference. was called to take final action on the decision of a pre- vious conference held on Nov. 15 last to hold a National Farmer-Labor Convention on May 30. In his opening speech Mahoney stated that he had been notified by ™many organizations that they could not/be represented but had sent their views. “This,” said Mahoney, “is what we do not want.” It will be some time before cre- dentials are approved, the convention organized and the voting strength of the gathering known. State parties om Minnesota, Nebraska, Montana, North and South Dakota and Wash- ington are represented here in addi- tion to the two factions of the Illi- nois Farmer-Labor Party, the Buf- falo Labor Party and the Labor Party of Washington, D. C., headed by William V. Mahoney. William E. Rodriguez and Gifford Ernst are here for the insurgent faction of Illinois, Ilinois Farmer- Labor Party; J. G. Brown and Robert M. Buck for the old organization. Rodriguez, Ernst and William V, Mahoney, of Washington, D. C., wast- ed a lot of valuable energy before the convention was called to order, in conducting a propagarida campa‘ among the delegates against 6 Communists with copies of the DAILY WORKER as Exhibit A, The farmer delegates seemingly still rather. &canty, ‘was conducted in I was received in Comrade Rakovsky's office, . Jafter sending in my name and that of the DAILY WORKER. Comrade Rakovsky has not been long in Britain, and his acquaintance with English is inch. Comrade Rakovsky is a man of about forty, pecial |slight, and of middle height. have been vaccinated against Rod- riguez-Ernst-Mahoney virus, judging by the amused look on their faces as they listened to the self-appointed red_baiters, Mahoney’s speech was cautiously worded, and an attempt to explain the failure of the committee to send out the call for the May 2@h con- vention, but he admitted that this failure had brought a storm of criti- cism and hundreds of resolutions from farmer and worker organiza- tions protesting the delays. He fur- ther stated that he had direct assur- ance that La Follette is to run in- dependently if his health permits. Speaking of the Conference for Political Action, Mahoney said that the group which endorsed McAdoo in Chicago was more representative that the group which was at the offi- cial St. Louis gathering. According to Mahoney’s close friends this is the first time he has mad¢ such an admission. Speaking of the May 30th date he asked the conference if they wished to. organize only the advanced farmer and working class elements or if they wished to wait and pos- sibly break millions of people away from the old parties. The I. W. W. in Washington are swinging toward political action and in‘'a number of lumber communities are co-operating with farmer's politi- cal movement to a marked degree, aceording to William Bouck, head of the western bah lyst farmers, Free speech fights have been con- ducted jointly by the farmers and the lumber workers organized in the I. W. W. and out of these hag grown a feeling of solidarity. which both groups are, engaged has largely broken down the old antagon- isms and a real united front is in process of formation between bank- rupt farmers and lumbers workers. Charles Taylor, of Montana, is bub- bling over with enthusiasm over the |Farmer-Labor party in that state. Be- ginning with a conference of thirty- six delegates in Great Falls, the lat- ter part of October, in both the lum- bering, mining and farming sections of the party it is building a powerful ‘machine. J. W. Anderson and Pat Budden, state secretary, have been touring the could not hold the crowds that turned out and the apathy that was prevelant before the first of the year has di appeared. “The Conference for Progressive Political Action is no longer a factor in Montana,” says Taylor, “President Steve Ely of the State Federation was a bitter opponer} of the Farmer- Labor party when first started, but at one of Anderson’s meetings shortly before I left, Ely acted as u: He probably had a change of hi after his own local at Sand Coulee told him they wanted no more opposition of the Farmer-Labor party from him.” Local unions are affiliating direct with the party in Butte and coal min- ing towns and other industrial cen- ters. According to Taylor the lib- eral Republican governor has made his peace with the Anaconda Mining Company and the lineup is conse- quently becoming clearer. “If the election was held tomorrow we would least twenty thousand The bitterness of the struggle in votes,” sa’ Taylor. Soviet Our conversation, therefore, His keen, clean- Union by the British government. willingly consented to do. “After great struggles and much suffering,” said Comrade Rakovsky, “we have arrived in Rus- sia at the establishment of a new state organ, namely, the Soviets. “And now we see that this state and in many towns the halls | This he Government of FACTS FORCE ACTION FROM CITY'S HEAD Discuss Struggle at City Hall Conference, Thursday Under fire from two commit- tees, representing the aroused forces of the Chicago labor movement and the general citi- zenry of the city, Mayor Will- iam E, Dever has authorized the Department of Public Wel- fare of Chicago to take steps towards a settlement of the _|dressmakers’ strike. Sunday the Mayor told. the DAILY WORKER he did not know anything was wrong in the conduct of this strike, which his police have been en- | deavoring to crush with all their cal- \lous disregard of law. Monday morn- ing the facts, in all their unpleasant | details, were thrust before him by the special citizen’s committee which was | organized a week ago. : The Mayor Yields. Threatened with the complete stripping away of his claims to be a “friend of Jabor” and of fair play, the inayor consented to act and the Department of Public Welfare was called into effect a settlement. Whether this is mere camouflage re- mains, to be seen. First steps will be taken Thursday ‘afternoon at 2:30 o’clock when the department will call a conference be- tween representatives of the striking dressmakers and the employers. Cautioned Against Sham Settlement. The conference will be held in the offices of the Commissioner of Public Welfare in the City Hall building and will be watched by the entire labor movement of this city which has de- termined that no sham settlement shall be put over. The committee which saw the mayor was headed by Father Frederic Seidenberg of Layola University. |The other members were: Mrs. B. F. |rapid progress being made~by the |Longworthy, Mrs. V. Frank Brown, | ;Dean Thomas Holgate, Mrs. Abe | Simon, Miss Mary McDowell of the | University Settlement and Thomas Holland and Dr. Ralph Gerard of the |General Medical College. | Ww Gives Orders, The committee read the mayor a |report prepared by several residents |of Hull House which reviewed the at- |titude of the police toward the strike. | The report specifically charges that the police have abused strikers and man-handled them on the slightest provocation, It also tells of how Ar- thur Weiss, head of one of the largest anti-union dress manufacturers, gave lice refer to him as “the boss.” The mayor told the committee that he had ordered the police not to Nosd any persons for violations of minor charges without booking them at once. He also said that he had re- ferred the whole matter of the strike to the Department of Public Welfare. Tell It To Sullivan.” Magistrate Samuel Trude yesterday |morning refused to issue a warrant |for the arrést of Leonard Wolman, \the employing dressmaker who beat up Florence Corn. “Tell it to Judge Denis Sullivan,” was Trude’s advice. rant was that Wolman had an injune- tion against the strikers which he (Continued on page 2) Russian Soviet Representative to Great Britain Sends Greetings By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. ‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) Mail).—Today I went Russian De! in a comp: Soviet Union will be general, of Great Britain, Norway and recognized my country within undoubtedly be followed by France and other countries.” Id be closely con- ¢ ’ shaven face, alert dark eyes and mobile expression | Workers and Peasants is legally renpgtiited by |you think that America, ». shou closely my last chance of , as he was about i f many of the great bourgeois powers, is I con-|cerned in the rpatter of the Recognition of the to depart for eee order to confer with hig| "Vel @ capacity for quick decisive action, analyti- | ‘iter to be a pat vietory; and it is a vietory owing | Soviet Union?” - Foreign Office, and receive instructions, before re- |c@l power and humor. to the mi cent courage and sacrifice displayed “Most certainly,” replied Comrade /Rakovsky. turning to London for the ference the After a comradely hand-shake, I asked Com-|by the ers and peasants of the Union of Soviet |A great industrial country, like the United States, r two countri “hich shall settle the various out-|rade Rakovsky to give me a statement of his | Socialist gH their loyal and unswerving whieh 1 needs the maintenance of i ‘i opinion regarding the recent. recognition of the| support of the Soviet. power. in Europe, for th orders to the police and how the po-| “You mention the United States,” I asked. “Do development of its foreign com- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. OIL CROWD IN $1,000,000 PLOT Dever Hears About Garment Strike POOR CHARLEY SCHWAB TELLS CAL COOLIDGE SCANDAL HITS BUSINESS WASHINGTON, March 10th.— Business prosperity in the United States is being handicapped by “hysteria” over the investigation in Congress of the naval oil leases, Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate, told President Coolidge today at s conference at the White House. “I told the president,” Schwab said, “that I never saw, prior to these difficulties and this public hysteria over the oil investigation, more promising business condi- tions. Today, the country is pros- perous as it should be. “Conditions in the steel industry are good. General business condi- tions are sound.” iSmall Army of Lawyers Travel with Famous Oil Grabber Harry F. Sinclair, holder of the Teapot Dome oil lease, now under in- vestigation by the government, at- tended a mass-meeting of his lawyers here today. Some time this evening | Sinclair and his attorneys, augmented by two or three from Chicago and | perhaps a few others, will leave for Cheyenne, Wyoming. Sinclair arrived here. from New York accompanied by Martin W. Lit- tleton, R. W. Ragland, Paul D. Cra- vath and cther noted lawyers from the East. Col. J. W. Zevely, Sinclair’s Washington attorney, who has al- ready appeared before the Senate | investigating committee, algo. is here. Sinclair and his attorneys discus- scd the stand to be taken in the Fed- eral court at Cheyenne where decision is to be made on whether the Sinclair Teapot. U.S. Supreme Court Wipes Out Dorchy WASHINGTON, March 10.—Con- viction of August Dorchy, officer of | District No. 14, of the United Mine | Workers, in 1921 for violation of the Kansas Industrial Relations Act, was vacated today by the supreme court. Dorchy pened i on the grounds the sections of the act proclaiming the mining of coal to be clothed with public interest, , ject ip the police power of the state were™void and unconstitutional. | Dorchy and Alexander Howat were | sentenced together July 27, 1921, to ; Six months in jail for having ordered the miners at H Mine of the George K. Mackie Fuel Co., in Cherokee |county, Kansas, to strike until one ;of their number was paid by the the union to be due him. |Outraged Virtue No Match for Millions in Atlanta Court ATLANTA, Ga., Clyde Byfield today lost her attempt to obtain $100,000 damages from an alleged attack on board a ship. A jury in De Kalb superior court after deliberating since Saturday de- nied Mrs. Byfield’s claim for dam- ages and found for the defendant, His excuse for refusing the war-| who charged the suit was the result of a blackmail plot. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! The recent examples | Russia, Ttaly—who have all the last month—will the United States, selves.” “And “Con my eaceful relations a company is to continue draining the| Conviction in Kansas, and therefore sub- | company certain money claimed by. March 10.—Mrs. Walter T. Candler, son of the mil- lionaire coca-cola manufacturer for to The Daily Worker: “I believe,” continued Comrade Rakovsky, “that, merce, should be concerned, in the highest degree, atively short time, recognition of the with the establishment of normal relations with “The working class of all countries,” pursued Comrade Rakovsky, “will gain much thru this re- cognition of the Soviet Government, as it is another manifestation of the fact that the working class have the capacity—even in an industrially backward country like Russia—to govern them- your WORKER?” I asked. working-class organ,” “with best wishes for its growth and success.” Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries fer the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Bora Recognition af Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents WITNESS TO BARE BRIBERY, GUN-RUNNING Will Also Tall of Mysterfous Washington Influence (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 10.— Evidence directly involving for- mer Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, and some pres- ent government officials in a $1,000,000 bribery and gun- running plot will be sought by the Senate Daugherty Investi- gating Committee from a wit- ness subpoenaed today. He is Harry S. Obbon, for- mer mayor of Calexico, Cal., a town on the border between California and Mexico. Obbon wrote a letter to Senator La Follette, Wisconsin, detailing alleged instances of interfer- ence from Washington with ef- forts to stop gun-running across the border during the Cantu revolution in 1921. He also told of a $1,000,000 fund, Cantu, leader of the revolution and which, according to Obbon, Fall had control of. LaFollette turned the letter over to Senator Wheeler who at once summond Obbon. Many Willing to Testify. Since announcement by the com- mittee that it was going into reports that Department of Justice agents on \the border were called off from Wash- | ington when they tried to prevent |violation of the neutrality laws by gun runners, much information has been volunteered. | The committee has received offers from several persons whose names |are being kept secret, to testify if they are afforded protection. Will Play Trump Cards. The committee intends to climax‘ {its revelations this week by play- jing long delayed trump cards. The plan is: |. 1. To call Edward B. McLean, pub- |lisher of the Washington Post, who | has been under subpoena for more than a month and ask him. about his connections with the White House, Attorney General Daugherty, former Secretary of the Interior Fall and other high officials, He will also be asked what he knows of the report- ed million dollar slush fond and stock speculations of government officials. 2, Ask Leonard Wood, Jr., and Jake Hamon, Jr., what they know about a reported attempt to barter for the presidency at the last Re- publican convention with the post of secretary of the interior as the price. Gaston Will Be Called. 3. Gaston B. Means, former justice department agent, who is reported to have made an early investigation into the scandal long before it was unearthed by the committee will be called to the stand. He will also be asked concerning a trip to Flor- ida he is supposed to have made to acquaint McLean with some of his information. The committee recessed over today and will resume tomorrow morning, Some additional telegrams received from the Three Rivers, N. M., office of the telegraph companies will prob- ably be surveyed first and then Me- Lean may be called. et message for the DAILY fraternal salutations to that young said Comrade Rakovsky, part of which was to go tePstehan ——-—