The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1924, Page 1

Pe Giana THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL, I. No. 363. INCLUDE-ALL JUNE 17 CALL IS AGREED ON Expect Thousands of Delegates at Farmer-Labor Meet BY WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., Mar. 12.— After, considerable discussion the call for the June 17th con- vention to organize a national Farmer-Labor Party, which will wage a vigoreus campaign in the coming national elections, was adopted by the St. Paul Conference of Farmer-Labor delegates here. The only opposition to the call came from the handful of delegates who represented a negligible following in Illinois. William E. Rodriguez, Gifford Ernst, Robert M. Buck, J. G. Brown and William V. Ma- honey, of Washington, D. C., whom everybody here believes to be the under cover agent of Samuel Gompers, constituted pod of the opposition to this call. Call All-Inclusive. The delegates are going back to their respective Farmer-Labor parties imbued with confidence that the June 17th convention will be the biggest gathering of progressive workers and farmers this country has yet seen. The call adopted by the con- ference is an all-inclusive one and invites the labor and the political groups of the workers and farmers the country overs ~ Mr. Mahoney, of Washington, who represented at this gathering “the unity committee of Washington, D. C.", a creature of his own making, was thé leading opponent of this call. Brown, Buck, Rodriguez and Ernst, of Illinois, in co-operation with Mr. Teigen, Magnus Johnson’s secre- tary, made repeated but vain assaults against the call being so inclusive. Workers Party the Target. The target of the attack launched by the Redriguez faction was the Workers Party and the Federated Farmer-Labor Party. The delegates overwhelmingly de: reated these dis- ruptive efforts of the disturbers, driguez and his followers were given all the time they wanted to make their attacks, Mr. Rodriguez, in the course of one of his speeches read for more than half an hour ex- tracts from articles and manifestos;; that appeared from time to time in the DAILY WORKER, Stuff Too Old For Capitalists. Rodriguez made no headway at all with his arguments. At the close of his speech a reporter for one of the capitalist newspapers, The Pioneer Press, remarked: “I believe he made a lot of converts for the Commun- Buck and Brown followed along the same lines that Rodriguez did. They made a desperate effort to stampede the delegates by painting crimson pictures of a red menace, This did not take at all with the delegates, particularly the farm delegates, who time and again wanted to end the discussion. Manley Makes Able Reply. Joseph Manley, national secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor par- ty, then took the floor and in one of the ablest speeches delivered to the conference completely disposed of all the arguments made by Rodriguez and the others, The welcome that Manley’s speech received showed what sorry figures Buck, Brown and Rodriguez cut oe fore the conference. The ar; of the latter were so childish that even the capitalist press did not fall for them and discontinued giving them the prominence which their authors had hoped would be accorded them. Commits Defended. Delegate W? H. raska, ridiculed the fears of the Ili- Subscription Rata! FARMER-LABOR MEN UNITE IN CALLING BIG UUNE 17 CONVENTION (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., March 12.—The call for the June 17th national con- vention of farmer-labor forces was signed by William Mahoney, St, Paul and R. D. Cramer, Minne- apolis, representing the Minnesota Farmer-Labor movement; by Joseph Manley, secretary and William Bouck, chairman of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, Bouck is also president of the Western Progres- sive Farmers of Washington state; by Chairman R. H. Walker and Secretary H. R. Martinson, North Dakota Farmer-Labor party; Chair- man Tom Aytes and Alice Lorraine Daly, South Dakota Farmer-Labor party; Chairman J. L.-Beebe and Secretary Wm. H. Green, Nebraska Progressive party; Chairman C. E, Taylor and Secretary P. Budden, Montana Farmer-Labor party; Sec- retary John C, Kennedy, Washing- ton state Farmer-Labor party, and James Campbell, Buffalo Labor party, The close of this conference is being followed in Minneapolis by the Farmer-Labor federation of Minnesota which expects to become the vital force in the Minnesota state party. Then tomorrow the Minnesota Nonpartisan league and the Working People’s Nonpartisan Political league, the industrial wing of the party hold their separate conventions for Minnesota in Min- neapolis. The actual state conven- tion of the Farmer-Labor party opens_in St. Cloud, 75 miles north- west of the Twin Cities March 14, BIG SUB DRIVE LAUNCHED BY In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by ‘mail, $6.00 per year HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1924 > STEP INTO THE PARLOR DAILY WORKER Accept Daily Worker’s Suggestion Campaign Wil Will Open on March Fifteen The first nation-wide subscription campaign undertaken by The DAILY WORKER will open officially on March 15, and will continue until June 15. The quota set by the cam- paign managers is 10,000 new read- ers by the end of the drive. The record of progress made by The DAILY WORKER is little short of marvelous. Since the campaign opened last August to sell shares, un- til today, the workers of this country have witnessed a piece of successful organizing unequalled in the history of the working class movement in this country. Today The DAILY WORKER is out in the streets, in the factories, in the mines, out among the exploited farmers in the fields fighting for them and with them, helping them in their daily battles against the organized greed of the capitalists and pointing the way to the solution of the pro- blems of the producing class this country, the Workers Republi and Communism. Skeptical people who have grown weary in the struggle, shook their heads last fall when the Workers Party of America started the work of raising $100,000, that was deemed essential before the first issue of the fighting labor daily would make its appearance, But the militants in the Workers Party have faith in their cause, They have energy. . They don’t know what the word failure meal and on the 13th day of January, the first issue of The DAILY WORKER came off the press. Today, two months after the first issue appeared. The DAILY WORK- ER owns its own building where it will soon move into. This guarantees ‘its permanency as much as it is hu- manly possible to do so, It’s home ‘S| will indeed be the centre of the radi- cal movement in America. The new campaign for 10,000.read- ers starts off with the advantage that the solicitors will have no difficulty in assuring the workers that the DAILY WORKER is now firmly established Green, from Neb-|#"d that its permanency is assured. The announcement on page three, nois faction with Soriaheab affect, gives details of the campaign plan followed by Del He Wat Ccmoned eoiende ae R. D,|with the premiums given for sub- scriptions. Detroit High School Students Forced to Defend Corruption Worker) . The Daily D OIT, Mich., March 12 12—That the role of the American school is to ists for the capitalist sys pba ae public ite which it entaile, jor English Cl a written partheyomn ed of Northwestern ag ae nar Detroit, to be handed in pel ge ys = mang Be megs Bi ey Rog item and the Deh at ike and cor- is evi is evidenced by the spend given 12th, Denby, McApoo, and f the Farmer-Labor Federati seme, were fuse with the s That Labor’s “Committee of '15”’ B Invited to Garment Strike | Sead As the result of’ the suggestion made by the DAJLY WORKER the Commissioner of Public Welfare, Mary Mc- Dowell, has invited the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor to send representatives to the conference which will be held between the representatives of the striking garment workers and the employers this afternoon. “I had not thought of asking the ‘Committee of 15’ until the DAILY WORKER suggested it,” Miss McDowell said. “I am glad the DAILY WORKER made phe meeting will be held im|| SENATE VOTES PROBE OF REVENUE BUREAU, CHARGE INEFFIGIENCY the office of the Commissioner | of Public Welfare in the City Hall Square building, starting WASHINGTON, March 12th.— Without a dissenting vote, the Sen- ate today adopted a resolution by at 2:30 o’clock. The International Ladies’ Garment Senator Couzens, Michigan, pro- viding for an investigation of the Workers’ Union will be represented by its president, Morris Sigman and Meyer Perlstein, vice-president. President Sigman arrived in Chi- Bureau of Internal Revenue. Couzens in a speech charged that inefficiency and im- r organization” handicap ad- cago yesterday to confer with union (Continued on page 2.) Big Electric Station Is Furnishing Power For Kuzbas Workers KEMEROVO, Kuzbas, March 12.— The electric ‘power station has ‘just been completed and began operations furnishing light and power. to the mines, factories and dwellings of the PAWEL WIR, workers, How many of your shop-mates read The chemical factory began opera- |THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of tions Feb, 15. them to subscribe today. Michigan; Jones, New Mexico, and King, Utah, were appointed by Senator Cummins, presi tempore, to conduct the investiga- tion. Townley Fails to Keep Farmers From United Front With Workers By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. to The Daily Worker) MINNIAPOLIS, ranibaeeta, March 12.—The Farmer- Labor Federation Convention opened there this morning in Rich- mond Hall with two hundred and fifty delegates present and more arriving hourly. The attempt of Townley forces to keep the farmers away from the convention seemed to have failed as delegations were about evenly divided between farmers and wage earners. a‘ William Mahoney was chosen chairman and Ralph L. ‘Harmon secretary. The grotentinls committee made a partial report following the address of ;—————________- welcome by Mahoney and re-|the amalgamated organization will port on organization by Har-| dion *isne ane convention in St, mon.- ‘The convention will fin- | cx,” ‘and’ conterenceh that. have ish its busines§ today before the | been called to bring unit; among the session of the Working People’s | Farmer-Labor forces in Minnesota. Nonpartisan Political Leagu Ri bappyrs nic today is remark- which convenes at 10-A. M. to-| Sbi¢ in. the respect that it is the first morrow. gathering of its kind including the It is expected that the latter or- farmers and wi earners and rep- resentatives of their respective eco- ganization will endorse the rye nomic organizations for joint ager aoe action, ere is an hag re Delegaten trom /of the unity” fend neared i : | : _ KANSAS MINERS STANDING SOLID FOR ALEX HOWAT Vote for ‘Special Moet On Expulsions By TOM TIPPET (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Kan., March 12.— Alexander Howat and all other de- posed officials of District 14, United Mine Workers, were voted five months’ back salary by the conven- tion of Kansas miners tm_ session here. This period covers their offi- |cial term interrupted by their expul- ion from the union when the inter- national organization revoked the Kansas district charter in. 1921. Two other Howat resolutions were also passed; one calling for a spe- cial international convention to set- tle the Kansas controversy, the other demanding of the international, rein. statement in the union for-Huwat and the other expelled men. The resolution calling’ for rein- statement met with -little opposition. The other two prectpitated the hot- test debdte so far in the convention which is entering its second week. The one demanding a special inter- national convention was the most bit- terly fought by the administration forces, D. A. Frampton,’ ex-president of the adjoining Missouri district and now an international ‘organizer, de- fended the international’s position in the Howat case. The delegates then demanded the floor for Howat who attends the ses- sions daily. Howat denied the charges made by Frampton and said he had Aekeited with every ruling of the national board that he knew of and that he had done everything it had told him to do to bring about a trial for himself as well as the other expelled officials. Re has not yet been given a trial, he says, and was nted by force from presenting his case to the last international convention and said the fight against the measure before the house was directed by ‘the interna- tional because of the inspiration fa- vorable action on it would give the miners elsewhere in the country who are agitated by the same question. Howat appealed for a special con- vention so that both sides of his case may be heard by rank and file dele- gates, The affirmative vote on all three resolutions was overwhelming. International Board Member Watkins from Iowa was denied the floor on the special convention resolution by a vote of the house after Frampton of|and Howat had spoken. A demand for a rollcall mustered but 27 votes out of the 145 delegates present, Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., NATIONAL FARMER-LABOR MEET PLANS MADE Workers! Farmers! 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 1879. Chicago, Mlinois. MCLEAN ADMITS HE LIED | ABOUT DOHENY’S. LOAN CF $100,000 MADE TO FALL Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, March 12.—Mrs. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jess W. Smith, was the first witness late today before the Senate committee investigating Attorney General Daugh- erty, Senator Wheeler, a member of the committee, announced. Wheeler revealed today that he went to Columbus, Ohio, and brought Mr. Stinson back with him to testify. While the Senate oil committee was reaching a new peak in its investigation with the testimony of E. B. 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Fall apparently | pot Specials” of March 17th, are got McLean to tell the story to keep | brimful of curiosity as to what kind Announcement that the Daugherty ; pot Special.” It is the bursting forth probe would open today followed|March 17th of the accumulated oil swiftly on a secret trip by Senator] scandal stories that our regular six- Wheeler, Montana, and the an-| page daily hasn't room for, “Ap- nouncement that the committee would | ples,” “Apricots,” the “Principal” and go first into stories that bootleggers| all the rest of the Coolidge crew friend of Daugherty, who killed him-| WORKER, but the “Special” will self a few months ago. Wheeler/catch up with them. Ha! Hal brought several witnesses with him Palmer Too. and these probably will be examined} So the eight-page special will ap- today. The committee abandoned for the present its investigation of a plot President Coolidge, meanwhile, was reported “almost ready” to announce his choice of a successor to Edwin Denby, former navy secretary. In a lengthy statement to the in- vestigating committee McLean de- in its tank form—to “proc left over facts on the. greatest s since the days of A. Mitchell Palmer —and that pirate’s doings too. And aren’t our readers just whet- ting their teeth? Listen to this from a comrade in West Duluth: “Enroll me for 50 copies of the “Teapot Special,” for which I am stand for three hours, gave the com- mittee little new information be- secret the fact that he really got|of a gusher there will be. the money from E. L. Doheny. “Gusher” is the word for this “Tea- got protection from the department | thought that by working overtime of justice, thru Jessie Smith, close | they could keep ahead of The DAILY between American oil men and Mex- ican revolutionists. clared: enclosing check *for $1.00. I wish 1, That he never knew Harry F.} that ten million workers would Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, or| subscribe to the daily. I am doing ever speculated in any of the Sin- clair company stock, 2. That he does not know E. L. Doheny and never speculated in any Doheny stock. 8. That he knew former Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall and former Secretary of the Navy Denby only as personal friends and never had any official dealings with them. 4. That he speculated in Pure Oil stock in 1922 as an entirely personal matter and that he handled none of the dealings of others reported to have been implicated in that trans- action. Mclean indicated that he told his first story about lending $100,000 to Fall merely because Fall was a per- sonal friend. Suicides In Daugherty’s Apartment. Mrs. Stinson, Wheeler said, was divorced from Smith eight years ago, but-was “his close frierid and con- fidant” in spite of that fact. Smith shot and killed himself in Daugherty’s apartment here a few months ago, The investigators learn whether Smith what I can; my daily goes from hand to hand until it is impos- sible to read it any longer. It is the best of all publications.” JOHN KOBI. “Biggest Oil Flow.” And this from Waiter S. Mitchell at Encante, Calif.: “Enclose $1.00 for 50 copies of the “Teapot Spécial” number com- ing March 17. “Your paper is a wonder. You've struck the biggest oil flow in the United States. Truth is mighty and will prevail. You are proclaim- ing it in every issue. No more big dailies for me while you are in the field.” J. H. Jasper of Detroit thinks that a string of five friends fm various parts of the country could distribute 50 “Teapot Specials” apiece. So he sends in $5.00 for five bundle orders of fifty. Poet Orders 50. And with this poem comes an of der for 50 “Teapots” from S. R. Bedford, Cleveland, Ohio: Our daily is a dandy, It surely takes the candy, It comes in mighty handy With grit that’s surely sandy, Long live The DAILY WORKER. These are merely samples, From New England to Florida and the far west the orders for the “Teapot Spe- cial” are hastening in. Better get your order in at once to be sure of getting it. Party branches are calling for or- ders of 500 apiece and more, besides the increased bundle orders from newsdealers and individual comrades in their towns, Two cents each in bundle orders of 50 and more ($1.00 for 50). Two dollars for 100. (Order Blank on This Page.) will seek “ had any, fi nection with reported protection af- forded bootleg liquor rings, grant- ing of paroles to bootleggers and use of “influence” in dispensing federal patronage, He was a close personal and political friend of Daugherty. Mrs. Stinson, Wheeler indicated, is ready to tell the ‘committee a full story of Smith’s receipt of stocks, bonds and money for services ren- dered in his capacity as a friend of the aftorney general. Fears For Her Life. Senator Wheeler in springing this surprise is understood to have done so because Mrs. Stinson, first and (Continued on THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. Send me................ copies of “The Teapot Special” Edition of the FT AILY WORKER, to be dated Monday, March 17, at the vate of two cents per copy; $1 for 50; $2 per 100. I want to help the workers and farmers learn the real meaning of these great revelations against the social system that is oppressing them. NAME: ... ADDRESS: ....