The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 12, 1924, Page 1

” ? ce REE SS NTN RE ARR ERS TS RANTS PIE SOILS A EG RS | eee smsesemencn esses sneer ewemncenr wamenmemas RO RETE ) SRO eee em ee — THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 362. OIL INQUIR THREE FORCES PREPARE FOR STRIKE TALK Workers, Bosses and Citizens’ Spokesmen to Meet Three forces interested in the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union were preparing today for the clash, Thursday after- noon, before Miss Mary Mc- Dowell, of the Bureau of Pub- lic Welfare. These forces are represented by: The Workers—Including spokes- men for the Garment Workers’ Union, as well as the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Bosses’ Lawyers There. The Bosses—Including individ- ual bosses, as well as spokesmen for their various associations. These spokesmen will no doubt in- clude some of the most able “open shop” lawyers in the on fen The Citizens’ Committee—In- cluding members of the committee Subscription Rate; that called on Mayor William E. Dever Monday morning, and forced the hearing that was granted for Thursday afternoon. “This ig the first time that I have acted in this capacity,” said Miss McDowell, to The DAILY WORKER, “but we have hopes of accomplish- ing something. Invitations have been sent out to the unions, the man- ufacturers and the members of the Citizens’ Committee, to attend the conference Thursday afternoon.” “Who has been invited to repre- sent the strikers?” was asked. “The officials “of the Garment yore Union,” said Miss McDow- ell, Consider “Committee of 15.” It was pointed out that the Chi- cago Federation of Labor was taking a keen interest in the strike, that it had appointed a “Committee of 18” to protect the interests of the Svcikers, and it was urged that such a body ought also to be invited. “We had not thought of that,” said Miss’McDowell. “That might be done.” Miss McDowell was asked about the attitude of the garment bosses during their visit to Mayor Dever last week. “She admitted that they were rather hostile in their position at that time. The Real Boss. If Mayor Dever ordered the police to book all arrested strikers prompt- ly, so that they could be admitted to bail, his orders are being treated with indifference by the policemen he has assigned to State’s Attorney Crowe’s office—and whom he is still paying. Lillian Shapiro and Edith Abrams, arraigned before Judge Samuel H. Trude in South Clark street police station yesterday, had been first kept for hours in the B ges station with- out being booked. They were ar- rested by Crowe’s men and detained and bulldozed in the hope that they would turn scabs to regain their liberty. The police, as a matter of fact, did not book them until the union lawyers took an aggressive stand and forced the police to do so. Jailed With Prostitutes. irls were peacefully picketing ‘arket Street when a couple of pera bulls from Crowe’s office grabbed them and threw them into a patrol wagon. They were taken to the South Clark Street police station and held here with scores of pros- titutes. They finally managed to get word to the union of their plight when Sophie Altschuller, Freda Reic- her, and Kate Miller were brought in- to the station under arrest, When Sophie and the other two girls were released on bonds they went to the union offices and told there what had happened to Lillian and Edith. A lawyer was sent to the police station and when he told the desk sergeant about the two girls who (Continued on page 2.) The along THE DAILY WORKER. In Chicago, by mail Outside Chicago, by UTAH MINE PIT CONTINUES TO GIVE UP DEAD Twenty Crews Search For Bodies CASTLE GATE, Utah, March 11. —Little hope is now held that any one caught in Utah Mine No. 2 at the time of the fatal explosion has | escaped with his life, It was believ- ed that by. tomorrow the fate of all the unfortunate wage slaves will be determined. ‘ Governor Charles R, Mabey, of Utah, who reached here yesterday, is planning to issue a nation-wide call for relief funds for the dependents of the coal company victims. It is estimated that on an average the widow of each dead miner has five children, Picked rescue crews, working in groups of twenty, continue to remove the dead. Mats h |, $8.00 per year, mail, $6.00 per year BIG SHOPS SURRENDER TO STRIKERS GRANTING UNION EVERY DEMAND While “strike settlement” talk is being wafted from Chicago poli- ticians two important shops surren- dered completely to the union late yesterday. They are Moll & Coop- ersmith at 115 S, Market street and Deusch & Miller at 325 W. Adams street. All union. demands were conceded. Vice-President Perlstein said the loss of these two large shops means a_ perceptible weakening to the ranks of the The Weiss Dress Company at 302 S. Market street is a smaller firm yielding at the same time. Skirt makers employed in the cloak shops have assessed them- selves five per cent of their earn- ings for the strikers, announced Mr. Perlstein, Indiana Governor in Court for Graft: Strike Speaker Urges Reading of The Daily Worker “Read the DAILY WORKER; it is the only paper telling the truth about the strike,” urged Leo Krzucki, an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, former socialist alderman of Milwaukee, who address- ed the garment strikers at 180 W. Washington St. yesterday afternoon. The strike speaker urged support for the workers’ paper after the strike as weil as during its progress, Applause followed and there was anothed burst of applause when Kraucki declared that the workers’ fiylit weuld go on until they had achieved the same success as their comrades in Soviet Ru: Join the “I wai DAILY WORKER nt to make THE grow” club, Soviet Russia Frees Women While Capitalism Rivets Chains on Them W, March 11.—The the Interna‘ Soviet Council of Commis: phasized tional Working, Women's Day” b "? fing of the Soviee Republic them for centuries by their Moslem rulers. with fi ‘ears imprisonment the compulsion 2 daughters to marry. outlawing harems. Z INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 11. Surrounded by self-admitted crim- inals, bootleggers, automobile thieves: white slavers and operators of fake matrimonial schemes, Warren T. Mc- Cray, governor of Indiana, stood be- fore Federal Judge Anderson today and pleaded not cit to indictments charging him with using the mails to defraud and violation of the na- tional banking laws. In a room reeking with the un- mistakable odor of jail disinfectants, the governor of the state of Indiana sat thruout the morning and waited hig turn to be arraigned. ie governor pleaded only after demurrers to each indictment, filed by James W, Noel, his attorney, had been: overruled. Judge Anderson set April 21 as the date for McCray to go on trial on the indictment charging violation of the postal laws, Moors Rout Spaniards. PARIS, March 11.—The Moors have done it again! In spite of a huge army of reinforcements and all the modern instruments of war, the warrior tribesmen of Morocco have ae the Spanish forces in the eld. Bonus Bill Up Monday. nie pies caer 11.—The bonus bil? “may before the House Monday. The sub-committee of the Ways and yO rome on up: feature, He Is Republican — ee Se INDIANA COAL MINERS MEETING AT TERRE HAUTE Question Expenditures Of Their Officials (Special to The Daily Worker) TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 11.— More than 200 delegates, representing as many local unions in the 13 coal mining counties of Indiana, gathered here today for the opening sessions of the 29th consecutive and sixth biennial convention of district 11, United Mine Workers of America. The convention will continue until all business has been. transacted, which will require at least four days. From _all indications, the conven- tion wilt involve numerous heated discussions between the administra- tion and opposing factions of the district. Resolutions are in the hands of committees caling for a check on the expenditures of district officers dur- ing the past 18 months, thoro investigation of: the legal de- partment of the district organization. If You’ve Got Them. ROCKFORD, Ill., March 11th,— “Watch your ten dollar bills, espe- cially those bearing the portrait of Andrew Jackson.” This was the warning sounded by authorities thruout northern Illinois today following the passing on local merchants yesterday of a number of the counterfeit $10 bills. _ Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker.. Send tn goar pa scription at once, Get Aboard “The Teapot Special” THe conference of the delega' of the Minnesota Farmer-Lal Movement, the Federated Farm Labor Party and eight state farm- er-labor organizations has decided to hold a national convention in St. Paul on June 17th. At this oes yy: candidates aba , 4 en to represent t unit front of the workers and poor farmers against the Teapot poli- ticians and agents of the capitalist class as organized in the Demo- cratic and Republican parties. Big things are ahead for the workers and di of America. Bigger events than have ever oceurred in the history of our political labor movement are in the making. | and for a hoped to secure favor and concessions TEAPOT DOME PROBERS FACE STONE WALL Opposition Is Falt From Many Directions (Special t& The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.— Facing a stone wall on every side, the Teapot Dome commit- tee may be forced to close its investigation within two weeks. The weight of high pressure from various sources is, being felt and investigators Jet it be known ‘today that unless some means can he devised of break- ing thru the obstacles, their in- quiry may fail. \ Many reasons are ascriged for failure of the committee to ascertain the facts concerning multifarious re- ports, rumors or direct information that have come to it. They include: 1.—That the exigencies of politics have caused some witnesses conveni- ently to “forget.” 2.—That the agencies of the com- mittee are not sufficiently powerful to dig up the absolute: evidence in the face of opposition from high quar- ters. Smoke—Must Be Fire. 3.—That there is no evidence and hence it cannot be found. (The cem- mittee, however, is-reluctant to be- lieve there is no such smoke without a little fire). This situation obtains regarding re- ports of a big pool of government officials, rumors of the so-called mil- Won dollar slush fund, the story that} an effort was made to barter the sec- retary of interior at the last republi- can convention and other important phases of ‘the inquiry. Hears ogees Running. Tales of a gun-running and recruit- ing for an embryonic revolution in lower California in 1921 were told the Daugherty investigating commit- tee by men of thé southwest today. Senators Brookhart and Wheeler, who will conduct the probe into the attorney general’s administration of the department of justice talked with | witnesses from California and Texas and outlined the cases they hoped to have ready for presentation at an open hearing tomorrow or Thursday. The Daugherty committee has defi- nitely decided to train its opening guns on the department’s alleged complicity in the counter-revolution of 1921—a revolution which came to naught, but in which, Senator Wheeler and his colleagues will try to show, the rebels were aided by American Department of Justice agents acting under orders from Washington. The trail may lead up to the most recent revolution in Mexico—that of Adolfo De La Huerta—but at the start the committee’s efforts will be fined to showing the part they will lege Daugherty played in assisting Cantu. | What the. committee will seek to prove is that wealthy oil men, who if the former governor of Lower Cali- fornia was successful, “pulled wires” in the Department of Justice with the result that United States agents were ordered to violate the law against gun running and recruiting and thus assist the Cantu faction. Read More Telegrams. The Senate Oil Committee today searched thru a new batch of tele- grams, tracing additional facts to show the ramifications of Albert B. Fall’s relations with other principars in the oil scandal. F In executive session the committee studied messages which passed be- (Continued on page 4.) New sensations that will dwarf the shocking revelations already disclosed MS pel pr promised for end of tl i. Washington observors openly con- fess that not even one-tenth of the sordid tale of the Teapot has been told to date. Daugherty, the strikebreaker general, who broke the shopmen’s strike and has hounded innocent workingmen, is counting his days before resignation. reomtonig mang i hong it Con- gresemen a; e ite House all waiting anxiously for coming do not know whore the cat will ee thei The Teapot 1 we are getting out on 17, will give |Public Lands Committee which has| Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12,1924 <q » Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO.. 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. —_—_—$—$—$—$—$—$ Y MAY BE CHOKED OFF | ALL EGGS IN ONE BASKET QUIZ OF DAUGHERTY'S CRIMINAL ACTS TO COVER WIDE TERRITORY WASHINGTON, March 1f1.— Senator Brookhart today asked the Senate to bro: powers of the Daugherty investigating committee by permitting its members to go anywhere in the United States, issue subpoenas and take testi- mony. | Introducing a resolution for this purpose, Brookhart indicated that the committee might wish to de- pute a committee member or mem- bers to go to the Mexican border or elsewhere to question witnes in connection with its inquiry ° reports that orders we issued from Washington to partment of Justice a fering with gun running to Mexi- can revolutionists. SOLON LENROOT HAS TOO MUCH OIL IN SYSTEM Quits as Chairman of Teapot Quiz | WASHINGTON, Mar. 11.—Sena-| tor Lenroot, Wisconsin, today ro- | signed as chairman of the “Senate! been investigating the naval oil re-j serve scandal, Lenroot, who has been at Southern Pines, N. C., for a week resting, sent | his resignation to the committee. The following statement was given out on his behalf by the committee: The Oil Sticks. _ “Since coming to Southern. Pines Thave not recuperated as I had hoped and it will not be possible for me to continue my work on the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, “I realized some time ago that I was nearifZfthe point of exhaustion and stated upon the floor of the Sen- ate that if the oil investigation con- tinued indefinitely I would feel com- pelled to resign from the committee. Sacrificed Much. “T have given nearly four months service in this investigation trying as best I could to keep up with such other work as could not be neglected, with the result that I cannot in my present state of health continue any longer. “I hope to be able to return to Washington next week but shall not attempt anything more than routine work of my office, until my health is restored.” \ Senator Ladd, North Dakota, is ranking Republican on the committee and therefore, in line for the chair- manship to succeed Lenroot. Ladd has been presiding over the commit- tee’s sessions since Lenroot went south. FALL HELD SECRET SESSION WITH OIL MEN BEFORE LEASES WASHINGTON, Mar. 11—Tele- grams read in executive session of the committee today strongly in- dicated that former Secretary of the Interior Fall held a secret con- ference with certain big oil men at his New Mexico ranch in 1921 be- fore leasing the naval ov reserves, Other interests outside the Sin- clair and Doheny group are re- ported to have been in attendance at this conference. The telegrams were not made Public by the committee. Wit- nesses will be summoned in an ef- fort to learn what the conference was about, who was present and what resulted from it. you a line on all the ric events. The Teapot Special will equip you with just thege facts and figures, with j the information you have been looking for in all your discussions in the unions and the labor organizations. If you want to know how the capitalists play Teapot politics get your order in. for a big bundle of Teapot Specials at once, If you want to, be a better fighter in the great struggle of the workers and poor farmers to abolish all Teapot poli- tics, all capitalist control of your jobs and the government’ make sure that you get your bundle of Te Specials and hand them out to all your friends and shop mates. (Order Blank on Page Two.) | Mr. Rodriguez Workers! Farmers! Demand: ‘The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Borna Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents SET JUNE 17th FOR FARMER- LABOR MEET Compromise Date Accepted to Maintain Unity (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Mar. 11.— The National Farmer-Labor Party Convention will be held in St. Paul on June. 17th. This was the decision reached by the delegates of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement, the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, eight State Farmer-Labor par- ties and other Farmer-Labor groups meeting here. The debate over the date of the convention was vigorous, But despite the fact that the sessions were stormy at times, there was a spirit of determina- tion to organize a powerful Farmer-Labor party among all | the delegates except the hand- ful principally comprising Rod- riguez, Ernst, Buck and Brown. Rodriguez and Ernst distin- guished themselves as obstruc- tionists thruout the sessions. Committee for May 30th. The Committee elected at the first session to act on the Taylor resolu- tion reported by a vote of four to three in favor of holding the, cons —_ vention on May 30th. This was strongly opposed by Dele- gate William Mahoney and some of his colleagues of the Minnesota dele- gation. Mahoney proposed that the national convention be held on June 20th. After quite some debate the con- ference voted to refer the report back to the sub-committee. A half hour recess was declared” to enable the committee to act on the report. The revised report of the sub-commit- tee, which was subsequently adopted by the conference, called for the hold- ing of the convention on June 17th. Delegate Manley Pleads For Unity, After the recess when the sub- committee presented its revised re- port Delegate Joseph Manley, who slong with William Bouck, of Wash- ington, represent the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, moved that in the interest of unity the conference agree on a date also acceptable to the delegates following Mahoney, After some discussion the compromise was made to accept June 17th as the date on which to hold the convention, The decision was unanimous. Rodriguez Is Disruptionist. Delegate Rodriguez who was sabo- taging the sessions continually lost no time to prevent the delegates from getting together for common action. By inuendo and roundabout inference insinuated that the compromise was merely another one of the many communist plots which he had been seeing all thruout the debates. The delegates as a whole were quick to recognize that this was a deliberate campaign of sabotage by Brown, Rodriguez and Buck to smash the conference. Teigen appeared to be lending a steong helping hand to these disruptive efforts. The debate was on the resolution as a whole with the change of the date. The small disruptive group wore out the Conference with amend- ment after amendment. It was ob- vious to everybody that the sole mo- tive of these delegates was to destroy all possibilities of holding a big, successful united farmer-labor con- vention. Their amendments had no other objective than fo confuse the delegates and thus prevent action on their part. Adopt New Taylor Resolution. These efforts at sabotage by Rodri- guez and his group consumed the entire morning session. The net re- sults achieved by them was only fo secure the adoption of an amended resolution which was considerably strengthened by the adoption of a et proposed by Delegate ‘aylor. The resolution of Taylor as adopt- ed by the Conference assures the eall- ing and holding of a national Farmer- Labor Convention on June 17th, whether the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party acts or not. The strengthened Taylor resolution reads as follows: “That this conference ask the Min- nesota Farmer-Labor te co-operate with it and tions represented in this (Contineed om page &.) ' ald