The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1924, Page 3

ai x Friday, March 14, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER™ VANDERBILT IS BEAN-SPILLER IN EVES OF G.0,P, Prowls Around Capitol On Trouble Bent By LAURENCE TODD. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 13.—Ad- ministration apologists are worried by the presence in Washington of Frank A, Vanderlip, who has been sued for $60,000 by the two young men who purchased President Har- ding’s paper, The Marion Star. The owners of the Marion Star were not questioned in detail wnen they came before the senate oil investigation committee last month, and declared that Vanderlip had no basis for his charge that they had paid twice as much as the paper was worth. Van- derlip appears to view the coming trial of the damage suit with a dead- ly cheerfulness, Vanderlip on the Job. Since Vanderlip made his apolo- getic appearance before the commit- tee on Feb. 15, he has apparently been busy securing information as to the actual value of the Harding newspaper and as to many other matters relating to the financial af- fairs of the political “friends of Do- heny and Sinclair. He has consulted with some of the best informed men in Washington, and predicts that the trial of the damage suit against him- self will furnish generous headlines, even in a presidential year. Vander- lip’s visit to the capitol has been lit- tle noticed chiefly because of the sen- sational charge by Leonard Wood, Jr., that the oil crowd determined the defeat of his father and the suc- cess of Harding in the presidential race, and the further disclosure that Senator Wheeler’s committee will eonnect up Attorney General Daugh- erty’s department and American oil interests, with the recent. counter- revolutionary movement in Mexico, This Mexican phase of the oil scan- dal has recurred persistently since the beginning. First, it came with Doheny’s testimony that he owed Fall more than he could ever repay, be- cause of Fall’s efforts in the senate to safeguard Doheny’s interests in Mexico, Then former Attorney Gen- eral Gregory and former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, were em- ployed by Doheny to plead with the state department, under the Wilson administration, to protect these same interests. Then George Creel came into the picture with his unofficial mission to persuade Obregon and de la Huerta to surrender to the official American attitude on Mexican oil rights, And McAdoo was promised a million dollars fee if he could get results in Mexico City. maging Evidence to be Uncovered. uummer a compromise was reached, Mexican loans were nego- tiated, recognition of Mexico was ac- corded, and peace appeared to be se- cured. Yet, almost immediately the Fascist revolt broke out and secret agents along the border began to re- port its progress to the American oil magnates, The Federated Press published at that time the view of Mexicans in Washington that the oil men were back of this reactionary uprising. Now it appears that when one of the agents of the government on the Texas border reported that he had seen an illegal shipment of arms to the rebels he was instructed to re- lease them. It also appears that the friends of Fall were in close touch with the rebel chiefs and that their interest in the revolt lay in the fact that de la Huerta was pledged to turn over vast amounts of the natur- al wealth of Mexico to American exploiters, It happens that the de- cisive events in this Mexican event took place about the time that Fall, McLean, Slemp, and other characters in the intrigue at Palm Beach were in conference there, Young Wood is going to tell what he knows of the secret history of the Republican convention wnich made Daugherty attorney-general and Fall secretary of the interior. Still more interesting may be the testimony of Clara Smith Hamon, who shot and killed the man who controlled the oil delegates, in that convention. It is he will disclose the red as to Hamon’s reasons for making the nomination of Harding possible, but it is expect- ed that she will make clear the basis for Hamon’s confidence that he would be secretary of the interior under the new administration. She ean say whether Hamon intended to ap aside for Fall and whether he believed both he and Fall were to be in the cabinet. Strive in Vain. Week-end attempts by the admin- istration press to arouse public re- sentment at the publication of Presi- dent Coolidge’s to McLean fell flat, The national committee hinted, that the oil investigation was an. other Bolshevist plot. BE The New Disciple Labor’s Own Photoplay ESTINED to add at least 10,000 new subscribers to THE DAILY WORKER circulation within the next three months, the big cam- paign has been started. More favorable conditions for carrying on a drive of this character could not be hoped for, THE DAILY WORKER has been received with enthusiasm by every worker who has had the opportunity of reading it, Political and economic developments in America are such as to force the American workingclass to look more closely upon what is going on around them and to supply themselves with the means whereby they may be informed of the important events which are now happening every day. More and more intelligent work- ers are beginning to understand that THE DAILY WORKER is the only newspaper in America that can supply that information. More than this, the conditions are such as to give the greatest possible impetus to a subscription campaign. Workers Party members and militants in general are showing greater and greater activity and their activity is meeting with unlooked for results. What this campaign will mean to THE DAILY WORKER is obvious. It will mean that “our paper” which was established under what ap- peared to. be ada ed conditions and which has already firmly rooted itself in the lives of forward looking workers, will now take another step forward and penetrate into an ever-widening mass. Ten thousand new subscribers for THE DAILY WORKER will be the means of building a foundation which will make THE DAILY WORKER impregnable against any attacks whatsoever. It is par- ticularly fortunate that just prior to the campaign, THE DAILY WORKER was able to announce the purchage of its own building and the forthcoming establishment of its own printing plant. If up until now the militants have been a little doubtful of ‘the ability of THE DAILY WORKER to maintain itself from a business standpoint, those doubts have now been entirely dispelled. The picture of our new building which appears in this issue will offer concrete evidence of the firm intentions of THE DAILY, WORKER management to build the soundest possible physical foundation for the Daily Worker Publishing Company. This building is destined to be not only the home of THE DAILY WORKER, but also a veritable center of the militant activity of the American workingclass. From the building at 1118 W. Washington St. will radiate the inspiration and guidance which will lead the American militants and the American workingclass to new struggles and to greater victories. Fea . ° Campaign Lays Down Definite Tasks HE DAILY WORKER is one of our greatest weapons in the class struggle. To make it serve to the fullest extent the purpose for which it has been established, it requires continuous attention on the part of the workingclass militants. It needs the help of every militant, All that is necessary is a little work on the part of every one. What is required is not only enthusiasm and fine words, but deeds. We have stressed before the fact that there are thousands upon thousands of workers who as yet do not even know about the existence of THE DAILY WORKER. To reach these thousands, to let them know about THE DAILY WORKER, to let them see it and read it, is the most important immediate task. _In order to make that task the easier, THE DAILY WORKER has decided to give two months trial subscription for $1.00. Every present reader of THE DAILY WORKER must ‘know of at least a dozen work- ers who could be induced to buy a trial subscription at this extremely low rate. Yet if every subscriber to THE DAILY WORKER will sell only one trial subscription within the next three months, the goal of 10,000 new subscribers will have been far surpassed. Organizations of labor ear alse assist tremendously in the spreading of THE DAILY WORKER by means of these trial subscriptions. Those who wish to take a long step toward building up a power- ful labor movement in their locality can find no better instrument to help in this direction than THE DAILY WORKER. If they can find a dozen or 25 workers in their locality whom they feel should be read- ers of THE DAILY WORKER, but who cannot at this time be induced to subscribe, an appropriation of $10.00 or $25.00 sent to THE DAILY WORKER along with ten or twenty-five names and addresses of poterr tially militant workers will secure a two months trial subscription to each of them and at the end of that time it may be confidently expected that 90% of these new readers will continue as regular subscribers, * * * * Premiums for Live Boosters N ADDITION to the thousands whom, it is expected, will be added to THE DAILY WORKER mailing list by means of the trial sub- scriptions, there are also many hundreds who are already ripe to be regular subscribers. In order to give an incentive to reach these THE DAILY WORKER has offered a premium of a six-months sub- scription to either the LABOR HERALD, SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL or the LIBERATOR to any present subscriber who sells to another worker a one year’s subscription to THE DAILY WORKER. Here is an opportunity which many of the best militants in America have been looking forward to. Like THE DAILY WORKER, the three mili- , tant monthly labor journals above mentioned are deserving of a far greater subscription circulation. Many militants, however, have not been able to afford subscription to more than one labor journal and we know that many will avail themselves of the opportunity of securing free a subscription to one of these three magazines. It only requires a little work and the results are tremendous; the benefits obvious to all concerned. THE DAILY WORKER, the Liberator, The Labor Herald, Soviet Russia Pictorial and the labor movement as a whole will all prosper. . . * Competition Spreading HE BITTER, but friendly competition which has arisen between I the comrades of Detroit and Chicago is now coming to a climax and the results will soon be announced. However, this spirit of competition and friendly rivalry has not confined itself to Detroit and Chicago. Every city in the country will participate in the competition started by the new 10,000 subscriptions campaign and it is expected that readers of THE DAILY WORKER will watch with considerable interest the results of this campaign as they are reported in the Power Column every Tuesday and Friday. The quotas which have been announced in yesterday’s issue of THE DAILY. WORKER are extremely low and it is confidentially expected that many of the cities will exceed their quotas by 100 or 200%. Branch Agents Take Lead in Campaign F PARTICULAR importance to the branch agents and city agents O is this new campaign. These comrades who have been the best boosters for THE DAILY WORKER until now will continue in their Lime fe Be mh ibe Carlee ge a abies somes 4 cessful. It 5 pointed out to nch ant y agen’ this drive is to be of tremendous value in the laying of a broad basis for permanently successful activity. In some places it has been a pretty tough job for agents to make rt. In many localities not a single DAILY WORKER sub- ption was secured during the subscription campaign that preceeded the establishment of THE DAILY WORKER and newly appointed branch agents had nothiny to work on with no immediate prospects of successful work. Now, however, with many new subscribers ge 3 to THE DAILY WORKER from every part of the country, there wil be hardly a city or even a village in the entire country where there will not be at a small group of DAILY WOR: subscribers, a nucleus upon which the Daily circulation will grow. ‘The campaign for 10,000 new subscribers by June 15th had ggis Ha a large extent the ee the DAILY WORKER agents. e future success of the nets bree’ pig agents will depend to a large exten’ outcome o! is campaign, We k ae that the large family of DAILY WORKER readers will give their lified support to this and every other activity carried on by THE DAILY WORKER. SURE TO SEE LEGION ‘CRUSADE’ BOOSTS PARTY IN WILKES-BARRE Attacks Spur Workers To Join Party By A. JAKIRA. (Special to The Daily Worker) WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Mar, 13.— “The Workers Party received thou- sands of dollars worth of free ad- vertising in the anthracite region due to the efforts of the American Legion, Rinaldo Cappelini and Mayor Hart, who is a close friend of Cap- pelini”—was the first statement I heard. upon my arrival to this city from a miner who has no connec- tions with the Workers Party. The Wilkes-Barre Post of the Legion happens to be in bad need of members, There are more than 3,000 ex-service men in this city, but hard- ly 100 are members or the Legion, if the official reports are not exag- gerated. The workers who “fought the war for democracy” can not be fooled jnto the petty bourgeois, reac- tionary Legion. The leaders of that organization apparently realize this and are thinking hard to find some “gensational” issue that would at- tract new members. A “crusade” against the Workers Party looked like a good recruiting issue but it was a failure. Anti-Red Meet A Fizzle. The local press carried “sensa- tional” news announcing a mass meeting of the Legion for the pur- pose of organizing a campaign against the Workers Party, but only dropped in to see what was going on. The chief speaker had to admit that ex-service men fail to support the or- ganization and advised a drive for new members, The “crusade” against the “reds” was practically forgotten despite the fact that this was sup- posed to be the star attraction of the gathering, At the same time that the Black Hundred of the local Legion is using all means at its disposal to prejudice the workers against the communists, Cappelini is doing his bit to incite to mob violence against the Workers | Party. He has been issuing state- | ments that it is the Workers Party, | and not the operators, that is to be blamed for the labor troubles in the anthracite region. Our ex-progres- sive Cappelini, now, indirectly, joins hands with the operators in their claim that the strikes which break out from time to time are not justi- fied, that operators are right and the miners are wrong, and Cappelini made these statements vefore the grievance committee had a chance even to‘investigate the causes that led up to the strike. Press Supports Cappelini. The local capitalist press, in exten- sive editorials, gives its full approval to Cappelini and other miners’ offi- cials of District One “in their efforts to drive out the radical intruders” from the organization. Cappelini ap- parently forgets that the miners are very patient and that once they de- cide to strike it must pe for cause. But Cappelini must find some excuse for the operators and the easiest way to do it is to.make the Workers Party the goat. But the attempt of Cappelini and the American Legion to prejudice the workers against the Workers Party and to incite them to mob violence against the “reds” is having the op- posite effect. Since the “crusade” started many new members came into the Party and the existing Party units are busy in solidffying their 25 or 80 showed up, and among these there were several “reds” who just | Siiikers In Court (Continued from page 1) ‘ tor took up the examination of Morris Kravis. Kravis said that he went to} the Amalgamated. Bank, at 371 W. Jackson St., regularly to deposit | money and that seemg many of his friends on the picket line he spoke to them. | Taylor Tries Third Degree. Taylor then went into the examina- | tion of Eugeneia Schlacter, Mrs. Schlacter is a foreigner who does not understand English very well. Tay- lor’s method of attempting to aid her understanding was to raise his voice and try to frighten her. He tried time after time to get her to incrimi- nate herself. His attempts were aided by the woman’s slight knowl- edge of English. rs, Schlacter said that she was a widow and that she has three small children.and for that reason she was ‘not very active on the picket line. Minnie Seidel was the last of the defendants called. Seeks Better Conditions. “Judge, your Honor,” she said, “I | am anxious to go back to work. I go to the picket line to see what is hap- I am trying to get better ening. vondiots to work under. That's why I am on strike. I have not violated any law.” , (Sullivan then began beefing to her about her right to work and her right to quit work. He told her that she -has no right to interfere with ranks and perfecting their organiza- tion machinery. Fight for Rights would promise to see that the royal decree handed down by himself was not violated. “That is obviously im- possible, your Honor,” Sissman re- plied. Sullivan Turns On Sissman, “Well, if the injunction is violated will you refuse to represent your clients,” Sullivan asked? A look of surprise and indignation fought for control of Sissman’s face,” “I most certainly will not,” he snapped. “Do you think that you will be ful- filling your duty as an officer of this court if you do not see to it that the orders of the court are carried out,” Sullivan asked, “T have conscienciously advised all persons who asked me that picketing was a violation of the law of this state. I will continue to do so. But you can see that I cannot be held responsible for what persons I don't know, do,”: Sissman replied. “I have worked at the trade these people work at, and I have a very |keen sympathy for the under dog. I intend to represent them, even if they are accused of violating the in- | juyction.” ‘f Sissman had accpeted the sug- gestion of the court and refused to represent the union and its members accused of violating the injunction, they would be without a right that every murderer, crook, pimp and burglar is accorded, the right to be represented by counsel. anyone who is working. It had not been proven that she had interfered with anyone. Dudley Taylor had merely accused her of in- terfering with someone. Yet she had to stand quietly and hear Dennie Sullivan beef at her. Court Is Contemptible. If she had told him what was prob- ably in her mind, she would have een locked up for the rest of her natural life, charged with contempt. Nothing more contemptible than this bringing workers into court and depriving them of their rights, such service by due process of law and he right not to incriminate them- selves, could have been imagined. Sissman then asked that the cases be postponed in order to give hin A chance to consult with the workeis. Sullivan had a seizure of generosity and offered to let the strikers leave court if they promised to obey the law as he laid it down. He first asked Minnie Seidel if she would refrain from picketing, which according to Dennie was in violation of the law. Miss Seidel said that she felt that she had violated no law. Judge Uses Jail Threat. Sullivan said, “I am_here to te you what the law is. Will you obey it or will you go to jail? If you do not promise to refrain from picketing then I will send you to jail. bse ae et I have hat to answer. eel tha’ by violated any law. Iam on strike for a decent living and decent condi- eer have a mother and father who I must take care of. I am 24 years life I have worked old and ea WA ier ond: now threatened with jail. Really, Sudge, I don’t know what to say.” Sullivan beefed some more. Then Sullivan asked Sissman if he Answers the Eternal question. Shows the activities of organ- ized labor in a true and un- biased light. i Opposes the so-called Amer- ican plan and the open shop. Finally the court got back to the question of what to do with the de- fendants until the hearing will be held. After lecturing the strikers, as if they were already proven guilty of contempt of court, they promised to refrain from picketing until this afternoon at two o’clock and were released on their own bonds of $500 each. Police Start Big Offensive Along Whole Strikers’ Picket Line While Miss Mary McDowell, com- missioner of public welfare, was pre- paring to try to bring about a settle- ment of the strike of garment work- ers yesterday, the police were busy in a desperate attempt to arrest the entire picket. line of the striking garment workers. Nine strikers, who had agreed to meet at the Canal street elevated station, before going to the picket line, were arrested as they were about to start toward the Loop. They were taken to the Des Plaines St. police station where they were charged with disorderly conduct. They were: Ben Silver, Elianor Sad- lowska, Florence Corn, Sophia Alt- sculler, Sophie Martin, May Rodinia, Yetta Harerstein, Bessie Katz and Sarah Schneider. They were all re- leased on bonds furnished by the un- ion and will be arraigned m the Des hey s St. police court this morn- ing. Arrest Hull House Observers, Of the seventeen supposed strikers who were arrested along Market street Wednesday evening and ar- raigned in §. Clark St. police court yesterday morning, three ved to be observers from Hull House for Matinee and Evening STUDEBAKE a ee a ny PERCY On the The Cave Men of Over Over a Thousand Seats. ' | | cece ae ee oem oeme ka 8 | A WORKERS’ UNIVERSITY SOCIETY! 418 S, Michigan Boulevard, Chicago This Sunday Morning March 16 Eleven O’Clock Great Popular Scientific Lecture by The Eminent Rationalist Orator “The Origin and Evolution of the Human Race” ‘What the Latest Science Tells Us About the First Men. The Ape Men of About Three Million Years Ago. The Origin of Human Society and the Birth of Civilization. How Speech and Writing Began. ALL SEATS: FIFTY CENTS. R THEATRE WARD Subject: One Million Years Ago, Doors Open at 10:30, the Citizens’ Committee of the Chi- cago Church Federation. They de- manded an immediate trial and were given it. They were: Mrs. Evelyn Byron, Elsie Richards and Tippy Helen. Three detectives from the States Attorney’s office said that they had seen them in the neighborhood of 8S. ‘Market street several times on dif- ferent days and had arrested them because they were present when some girl used bad language. “But what were they doing? That’s the point, what were they doing?” Judge Samuel Trude said in a weary voice. The coppers were unable to say that the girls had done anything. Mrs. Byron said that they had been walking along the street when a copper pointed them out to some one else and said, “Take these ones, too.” They were put into a patrol wagon and driven off. They Are Discharged. The judge asked them wHpre they lived and when they all said Hull House discharged them. The four- teen girl strikers all demanded jury trials and were released on bonds. Charles F. Miller, a cutter,.was ar- rested at N. Robey street by police from Crowe’s office when he was leaving the picket line and going home Wednesday evening. He was arraigned in Sheffield Ave, police court yesterday morning chargéd with disorderly conduct and demand- ed a jury trial. He was released on bonds. Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union, spoke to mass meetings of the strikers at 180 W. Washington street and 20 W. Randolph street, be- fore he went to the meeting in the office of the Commissioner of Public Welfare yesterday. Bailin in Court Today. Albert Bailin will be arraigned in S. Clark St. police court this morning on a charge of criminal libel made by the Wm. J. Burns Detective Agency for statements he made in depositions he swore to in connection with the defense of William Z. Foster in the Michigan cases. The depositions were made in Chicago and aroused natiorg:l interest because of the sen- sational nature of the charges made against the Burns agency. Kuznets Coal Fields Richest. « to ( ‘The Daily Worker® LENINGRAD, March 13.—The Geological Committee has drawn up a logical survey of Kuznets coal bana, Siberia. The survey has shown that these coal fields are many times richer in coal than the re- sources of the Donetz fields. planes were used in making the sur- vey. Russian Surveyers Meet. LENINGRAD, March 13.—A_na- tional conference of surveying engin- eers has been convened at Leningrad, with a view to co™décting the results of all the surveys of the natural re- sources of the Soviet Republics lately one into. Delegates have arrived rom the remotest parts of the Union. Aero- | Now Showing at the ARYAN GROTTO 8th STREET and WABASH AVE. With the Approval of the Chicago Fed. of Labor Now Showing Daily WALL STREET TO RESCUE IN WORLD CRISIS. Expect $100,000,000 to Keep Franc Up * _ NEW YORK, March 18.—-Advand ing a credit of more than $100,000, international banking circles hera day as portending an end of the = parations tangle, the approach of workable agreement between Franee and Germany and the start of an economic revival in Europe. The credit, as announced by J. BP. Morgan and Company, already has |resulted in a strong increase in the | value of the franc, it was pointed out jand probably would not have been jgranted had the bankers not be \certain that France intends to ac the report of the exerts committee now investigating the financial cap- acity of Germany, with a view ef settlement of the reparations Fags 9 The report should be ready for presentation in Paris late this week and and will provide a working basis for the complete financial and in- dustrial rehabilitation of Europe, More Shops Settle; Thug Boss Dolinsky Loses His Workers Two more shops have settled in the garment strike, They are Paul Wachtel, 228 S. Market St, the reg te and Liss, 674 W. Madison it. 3 The employes in the shop of Katz and Dolinsky at Market and Jackson Sts., where two union pickets were beaten up Tuesday, pit work late yesterday and went on strike. than 30 of them went with union pic- kets to the strike headquarters and registered. Detectives from Crowe's office walked behind them all the way to 180 W. Washington St., the strike gta tephevewi and ct them. ey no longer have the “pro- tection” of the pelea. : Russian Grain Is Ousting American In Turkish Mi | MOSCOW, March 18.—A _ tutl |trade commission has arrived at Se: |bastopol (Crimea) to purchase Rus: sian sowing material. The | state that Russian grain has |the American and Australian the Turkish market. Th said—over 70 per cent of b: requirements of Constantin been covered b ‘in ex et Republics | 000 to the Bank of France for sta é ; zation of the frant was interpreted oad