The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 3

_— Friday, March 21, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Three CAL'S’ CAMPAIGN Urban League, Negro ‘*Welfare”’ Agency, Ignores Housing Issue; Workers Party Is Leading Fight Despite the fact that the Negro workers were clamoring for a clear-cut housing and labor program to be adopted by the Sanhedrin All-Race Conference, which was held in Chicago PRINTING DONE BY SCAB LABOR Strikebreaker Coolidge Has Consistent Record By CARL HAESSLER (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) President Coolidge is for union labor in the district where he can get most votes that way. He is for the open shop wherever he thinks that more votes will develop out of scab conditions, This is made clear in an inter- view granted to Typographical Union No. 16 by the Coolidge cam- paign headquarters in its magnifi- cent Wrigley building suite, The printers want to know why the union label does not appear on Coolidge campaign literature. The official answer was that some times it does and some times it doesn’t. But this is not thru care- lessness or, negligence. The pur- chasing agent of supplies for all the Coolidge headouarters thruout the country said that the use of the label is determined by political ex- pediency in each state. “The New England states, particularly Connec- ticut and Rhode Island, insist that the label be omitted,” the agent de- clared. “Texas is another state where the label can’t appear. Illinois doesn’t matter much . because we aren’t making a strong fight here.” Northampton, Mass., is evidently against organized labor., Coolidge’s home town has published a folder boosting him. for the Republican nomination. ete is no label on this folder. The anti-labor bias of Coolidge no secret. His only appointment of a cabinet member is that of Judge Curtis D, Wilbur of California to succeed’ Secretary of the Navy Ed- win Denby, who was run out of office by the senate. Wilbur is chief justice of the state supreme court that has persisted in keeping Tom Mooney and Warren Billings in jail under life sentence on confessedly perjured evidence. His court has repeatedly sustained the criminal syndicalism law of California under which Anita Whitney, the suffrage worker, and hundreds of labor men have been convicted. Coolidge has kept in his cabinet Attorney General Harry M. Daugh- erty, whose assistant, William J. Burns, spends his time trying to put both American Federation of Labor and other unions out of busi- ness, Burns ~uses government rey sources. to help his private detec“ tive agency from its jobs and get more -business. sis the tege of Hiram Johnson, another presidential aspirant. Coolidge has also ‘kept James Da- vis as secretary of labor, whose plan to register alien workers and build up a huge political and industrial police machine was condemned py the A, F. of L. in its Portland con- vention in 1923. | Dutch Children Are Busy Collecting Funds For German Kiddies (By The Federated Press) AMSTERDAM, March 20,—The children of Holland are collecting money with which to erect feeding kitchens for the starving school child- ren of Germany. Already enough money has been brought+ together to erect one such feeding kitchen in Berlin, where 30 of the neediest tots are fed daily, To keep down the over- head, it has been arranged that the pupils of the upper grades, who are receiving lessons in home cooking, . shall prepare the meals every day for these 30 under the tutelage of the domestic science. teacher. It is expected that a large number of kitchens will soon be provided for. BURNS MUST GO! ° on the Race question—THE Negro Workers Are Against — Conservative Sanhedrin Leaders btm f we show up the Urban League, and how little it cares for the betterment of the housing and labor conditions of the Negro Race. It will be noted that so- called social workers and real estate sharks worked. to- gether in the last Sanhedrin Conference, to throw out aggressive and definite housing reforms demanded by labor delegates. The dissatisfaction of the mass of Negro workers with the conduct of the conservative members of their Race, who are in league with large white industrial firms, prompted the Negro NEGRO TENANTS LEAGUE. last Sanhedrin Conference a little further, showing how the labor and housing problems of the Race cannot be separated We will also present a program on Negro conditions in the United States, indorsed by the only political party which has a definite and, practical program the week ending February 16, only a vague and brief resolu- Tells tion on labor and housing was allowed to seep thru the con- servative watch dogs who controlled the Congress. Due.to the efforts of Dean Miller and Arnold T. Hill of the Urban League, a recruiter Commerce, and their non-labor and anti-union. associates, the popular demand of the mass of Negroes, who had their eyes on the Conference as their hope for better living conditions, was thwarted. «That Labor Resolution. The weak resolution thrown as a sop to the mass of Negro workers, was finally reluctantly passed in this form: “It is the sense of the Negro Sanhedrin that the exploita- tion of Negro labor in the conflict between capital and organized labor is unfair and detrimental and that the principal of equal pay, recogni- tion of Negro workers in fields where labor is organized, and com- munity assistance to Negro work- ers in industrial centers and organ- ized financial relief 1h farming cen- ters are all highly desirable.” The nearest the rich business mon and real estate sharks controlling the conference came to mentioning the dreaded word “trade unions” was “in fields where labor is organized.” And the nearest these real estate sharks came to mentioning the ter- tible housing conditions for which they are resnonsible and by which they made their money was “com- munity assistance to Negro work- ers in industria] centers.” Compare this to the clear cut pro- gram on housing presented by the Workers Party delegates to the con- ference, which was turned down by the big business interests. W. P. Housing Declaration. The Workers Party and the labor delegates proposed the following as a housing program: “The Sanhedrin conference de- clares itself unalterably opposed to the segregation of: Negroes into “black belt” residence districts. We declare the discrimination against Negroes in regard to which part of a city they may live in and which part they may not live in, is a political question, and must be dealt with just as we deal with discrimination in voting. The time has come when the living accommodations of the public cannot be left to the pri- vate control of a few wealthy parasites who decide where the colored man may live and where he may not live. * “We demand legislation by which all tenements, apartment houses and homes to let shall be subject to the claim of the first comer, regardless of race or color or the will of the landlord. “Whereas, it is common know- ledge that Negroes are customar- ily charged rent at a rate of 20 per cent to 100 per cent higher than is charged for the same apartments rented to white peo- ple, we demand legislation for a fixed rental for all places to be let, with heavy penalties and dam- ages whenever a landlord charges “higher rents for one race than would be charged another race for similar accommodations, Traitors to Race. “We declare that any Negro real estate agent who connives in charging more rent to his own color than would be paid by the whites, is a renegade and a trai- tor to his own people. “In advocating the foregoing measures of relief, ave do not re- gard them as being permanently effective. This conference adyo- cates taking the whole housing question out the hands of pri- vate individuals, and advocates the.taking over of all rented resi- dences by the public, to be rented workefs: to organize the Tomorrow we analyze the WORKERS PARTY. _ BE SURE TO SEE The New Disciple Labor’s Own Photoplay of labor for the Chamber of without discrimination of color to the peorls at a fixed low rental. “Whereas, it is a custom of large employers of colored and white labor, such as mine opera- tors and mill ‘owners, to house their employes in “company houses” and thereby to control the lives of the workers, being able to throw them out of house and home whenever the bosses please and wherever there is a disagreement about wages or working conditions, we demand any legal measure that may be necessary to prevent any employ- er of industrial labor owning or controlling the homes rented» to his employes, “Pending legislative relief, and during the present period when the Negro’s rights are ignored by governmental agencies, we cail upon the residents of all Negro communities to organize colored tenants’ unions so as to be able in an organized way to refuse to pay exorbitunt rents, or to con- sent to live in inferior buildings or segregated districts.” Urban League Scab Agency. As opposed to this espousal of the cause of the majority of the Ne- groes, in both housing and labor problems, the Urban League, in an- nouncing their “Plans for 1924,” im their official organ, “Qpportinity,” makes no mention of negro housing conditions. . In officially announcing their program for this year the Urban League shows itself up as a go-between connecting the indus- trial oppressors of labor with a Negro cheap labor market. “We will standardize and co-ordin- ate local» employment agencies of the League so that exchange of in- formation and more regular corres- pondence can assure applicants for work more effivient and helpful ser- vice and employers of labor a more efficient group of employes. We Shall work directly ‘with large in- duStrial plants.” That is the pro- gram the Urban League offers the Negro workers to help them secure higher wages, and fight discrimina- tion in unions and in renting their homes, A part of the Workers Party plat form on the other hand, declares for “the abolition of all discrimination against Negroes in housing.” It»was- this -very evident and at once apparent thwarting of the clear cut program offered by the Workers Party and labor delegates, voicing the hopes of the large ma- jority of Negroes, by the few trai- tors to the Race like the Urban League officials, that led the South Side Negroes to form the Negro Tenants League. Tenants Meet March 31. The Negro Tenants League, which holds its first mass meeting on March 31 at Odd Fellows Hall, So. State street, was formed by repre: sentatives of the Negro workers who are tired of being held down by the so-called social workers. They have concluded that the controllers of the Last Sanhedrin program have been proven to be hand in glove with the real estate firms and the large white industrial concerns. It is to be expected that the mass meeting indorses' a vigorous and definite program similar to that turned down by the Sanhedrin po- litical manipulators. If the ‘San- hedrin did not take definite action to aggressively better the housing and labor conditions of the Negro, at least it showed the Race where the interests of the colored workers really lie, and prompted them to act for themselves, Wilkes-Barre Free Speech Test Coming; Pinchot Won’t Act (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 20.—Follow- ing court action to prevent Mayor Daniel L. Hart, of Wilkes-Barre, from interfering with the right of free spech, a test meeting will be held by the Workers Party in that Hart-ridden town. Robert W. Dunn, who has been in- quiring into the state of Lornorder in Wilkes-Barre on behalf of the Civil Liberties Union, was informed by Governor Pinchot that he has no legal power to curb “the lawless acts of mayors like Hart as long as they are confined to the first amend- ment and the Bill of Rights.” Attorney General ‘oodruff, of Pennsylvania, tells Dunn thyt Hart “violated: the fundamental law of free speech when he broke up the Lenin memorial ing on Jan, 27.” But Woodruff ‘adds that the removal of Hart from office would require a two-thirds majority on the reaction- ary state senate, y LEWIS BLOCKS THE PAYMENT OF HOWAT’S WAGES Kansas Not to Pay 5 Months’ Refund dae or, TOM TIPPETT ‘orrespondent of Federated Press PITTSBURGH, Kan., March 20.— John L. Lewis, international presi- dent, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, is blocking payment of back sal- aries to Alexander Howat and other deposed officials of District 14, vot- ed to them by the Kansas miners’ convention which adjourned here March 13. The convention had vot- ed to. pay the deposed men five months’ wage for their unexpired terms, while the ex-officials were serving their 16 months’ jail sen- tence for violation of the industrial court law. “Don’t Pay” Lewis Wires- After the convention’s action Lew- is wired the officials here not to pay. His message threw the convention into an uproar. A wire was sent to Lewis demanding that he cite the un- ion law that prohibited this district from spending its money in accord- ance with its own convention deci- sions, Lewis’ reply said the constitution “contains ample authority,” but did not mention the section. His tele- gram pointed out the “payment of moneys under such circumstances would be misappropriation of funds under ‘our own law and lay officers ilty of such action open to crim- inal court action under the state law.” One delegate defended Lewis and he was an international organ- izer. Lewis Bunk Disproved The $200,000 sent for the Kansas fight, by the Illinois miners against the instructions of President Lewis was cited as proof that his stand was wrong. Upon the advice of Howat, who spoke for the deposed men, the convention did not force payment of the salaries. The men involved in the salary question, when interviewed, said that ay, in ‘the district had suf- fered; all had lost salaries. The dis- trict officials said an appeal to the international board would be taken. A motion carried unanimously in- viting Lewis to Kansas to debate, the Kansas case with Howat and ex- plain his opposition on the salary question to the Kansas miners. Lew- is is permitted to select the date and place of meeting in this district. A scale committee was elected to negotiate a wage scale with the oper- ators at Kansas City March 28. What Howat Men Won The ‘convention adjourned | with revery proposition presented by the old Howat crowd won—excepting the actual payment of salary to the de- posed officers—and they figure that the action was a victory for them as the record now stands, They kill- ed the appointive power, dernanded a special convention for Howat’s re- instatement and the other ousted men. They undid the work of the provisional convention and rewrote their district constitution so as to permit Howat men to run for office ‘in the coming election and laid other plans to resume the control of the organization which they hore to bring out of chaos and up to the old Howat 100 percent organized standard. A committee was elected to draw up a resolution to be presented to the Illinois miners’ conyention— thanking District 12 for its support in the Kansas trouble and asking co- operation until a final settlement is made. Famous Irish Tenor Sings at Auditorium Here on April 7th John McCormack, noted Irish tenor, will make his final appear; ance this season in Chicago on Mon- day evening, April 7, at the Audi- torium theater. concert was originally acheduled for Sunday af- ternoon, April 13, but within the past week, Mrs, McCormack, wife of the tenor, was severely injured in a train wreck in Europe and the concert scheduled for Chicago has been advanced a week to permit the singer to make a hurried visit to Europe. : Mr. McCormack, who is now in the west, has been forced to cancel | j. a number of eastern concerts, but due to the fact that he must come thru Chicago on his way to Europe, his managers heve deemed it advis able that he keep his Chicago en- gement, for he is so well known E this city that the disappointment jousands to the of his friends would be great. His program for the concert in Chicago will contain several new and interesting numbers as well as the countless favorite arias that have endeared him to the American Mr. McCorftack, as usual, accompanied by Edwim Schneider, who is a noted pianist. Answers the Eternal question. Shows the activities of organ- ized labor in a true and un- biased light. Opposes the so-called Amer- ican plan and the open shop. Grafting Officials Will Hold on to Prison Pen Contract By ERNEST R. CHAMBERLAIN (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) OKLAHOMA CITY, March 20-—The Reliance Shirt factory is not in dan- ger of losing its “outrageous Okla- homa prison contract despite the fact that the state house of representa- tives has passed a resolution charging its agents, particularly Eli H. Brown Jr., of Louisville, Ky., with “debauch- ing state officials.” The resolution has been sent to the senate, reported out by one committee and again re- ferred to the committee on prison affairs presided over by Senator Carl Monk of McAlester, where the shirt factory is located. Monk is a friend of the contract, W. E. Disney, house leader of the investigating committee, charged that the contract was “reeking with graft.” R. R. Rader, treasurer of the com- pany, came to Oklahoma City recent- ly from Chicago where he has his of- fice and was caught unawares by the probers. He said that tho he was treasurer he kriew nothing of his company’s financial affairs and noth- ing of the $10,000 alleged to have been paid by Brown in to the cam- paign funds of former Governor J. Walton and Attorney General George Short, Virgin Islanders Badly Fed Under American Rule (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 20.—Hear- ings on the senate bill, providing for a permanent form of civil govern- ment in the Virgin Islands, have been preceded by the pubtiffation of a report by the federal commission to the islands, The policy of the American gov- ernment toward this West Indian ‘possession stands indicted by its own investigators. The report says, m part: “Economic conditions in the Virgin Islands are far from satis- factory. The marked loss 6f trade |. is largely due to our general policy of treating the islands only as an outpost of defense for the Panama canal; federal prohibition which crip- pled the bay rum industry of the is- lands; serious droughts which almost eliminated the last three years’ crops; and the fact that St. Thomas, al- tho one of the finest ports in the world, is no longer used as a port of call by Panama canal and South America-bound steamship traffic. These conditions create an appalling- ly large percent of unemployment and already evidences of under-nour- ishment are apparent.” Mazumdar Will Tell Y. W. League About The Youth of India An exceedingly interesting orien- tal program has been arranged by the Irving Park Branch of the Young Workers League for Sunday afternoon, March 30, at 3 p. m. The program will consist of a talk by Haridas T. Mazumdar, author of “Ghandi, the Apostle,” on the youth movement in India, A very lively discussion by the members of the leagues and their friends is ex- pected. In addition there will be oriental songs and dancing to give this meeting an oriental character. The meeting will take place at Irving Park Peoples House, 4021 N. Drake ayenue. All Comrades of the city are invited to attend this, the first open meeting of the Irving Park Branch of the Young Workers League and to help make it a huge success, Lumber Trust Uses Direct Action When Their Courts Fail (By The Fetzrated Press) UKIAH, Cal., March 20.—Follow- ing on the dismissal of the criminal syndicalism case against Oscar Erick- son, when the second jury to try him failed to agree, tactics directed against the I. W. W. (commonly supposed here to be inspired by the lumber comanies) have taken a new turn. I. W. W. members are now being forcibly deported from ‘this town. On two different occasions mem- bers have been overcome by mobs of much greater number and forced out of the county. In one of these cases all their literature and supplies were burned, and the men were threatened with tarring and feather- ing. Send Pilgrim Speeches Far. NEW YORK, March 20.—The Pil- erims conquered new territory last night when the speeches of Sir Esme Howard, new British Ambassador and |Ambassador Jusserand of France were heard in London after being \broadcast from the Waldorf Astoria, The speeches at the dinner ten- dered Sir Esme Howard by the so- ciety of Pilgrims was estimated by radio experts to have been heard by at least 500,000 in America and 50, 000 in England. No Scuttling of Oil Probe! A WORKERS’ UNIVERSITY SOCIETY! STUDEBAKER THEATRE 418 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago PERCY This Stinday Morning March 23. Eleven O’Clock Great Popular Scientific Lecture by The Eminent Rationalist Orator On the Subject “The Hidden Motives Behind Human Conduct” HOW PSYCHO-ANALYSIS— i WARD THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF FREUD— UNVEILS THE INNERMOST SECRETS OF YOUR UNCONSCIOUS MIND: AND RELENTLESSLY LAYS THEM BARE, The Psychology of Every Day Life The Riddles of Human Personality In the Search-light of the Newest Science. OVER A THOUSAND SEATS -- DOORS OPEN AT 10:30 dremcem ce cemc em cecmmcemmemoaes eam aame All Seats: Fifty Cents Austria Ministering Relief to J. P. Morgan Under League Yoke (By The Federated Press) ie VIENNA, March 20.—Austria’s suggestion that it is high time to consider the removal of the yoke, thrust upon the country by the League of Nations and foreign bankers, has elicited a “rebuke” from the league. The clerical government at Vienna, acting under pressure from the socialists, recently suggested that the Austrian parliament is, after all, the competent. authority to determine the nation’s fate, to draw up the budget, execute reforms and express the sentiment of the inhabi- tants. The League Council reports that the “bondholders niust be pro- tected”—the foreign bonchclders, of course. If there is any doubt left as to the persons who are benefitting by the league’s intervention in Austria, the league’s own statement should dispel such uncertainty. The Aus- trian workers and middle class are not even favored with “honorable mention” in the league’s dispensa- tion of gratuities. If relief is being administered, it is to the Bank of England, J. P. Morgan and other investors in the Austrian loan. League of Nations Rebukes Austria’s ‘Plea for Freedom VIENNA, March 20.—Austria’s suggestion that it is high time to con- jider the removal of the yoke, thrust upon the country by the league of nations and foreign bankers, has elicited a “rebuke” from the league. The Clerical government at Vienna, acting under pressure from the So- cialists, recently suggested that the Austrian parliament is, after all, the competent authority to determine the nation’s fate, to draw up the budget, execute reforms and express the sentiment of the inhabitants. The league council retorts that the “bond- holders must be protected”’—the for- eign bondholders, of course. If there is any doubt left as to the persons who are benefiting by the league’s intervention in Austria, the league’s own statement should dispel such uncertainty. The Austrian workers and middle class are not even favored with “honorable mention” in | j, the | ’s dispensation of gratui- ties. relief is being administered, it is to the Bank of England, J. P. Morgan and other investors in the Austrian loan. This episode should serve as ample warning to those who still hope for Germany’s rescue thru the league. Seek Toy Girl’s Wealth. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 20.— A fortune which Zoe Wilkins, toy of wealthy men, found slain in her home here, was believed to have possessed, was sought by authorities ay, as a possible clew to the mur- erer. Now Showing at the ARYAN GROTTO . 8th STREET and WABASH AVE. With the Approval of the Chicago Fed. of Labor Matinee and Evening Now Showing Daily , SOLERO M LEI OL ILM OOOO DSL D OOOO OHO OOO PMO U.S. 1S ALLOWING SANTO DOMINGO FIRST ELECTION Wolfe Tells of Cuba and Peru, Too By BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) SANTO DOMINGO. The March election in Sante Do- mingo will be the first since the American marines occupied the is- lands. Military control has been withdrawn in condition that the gov- ernment of this little country accept fiscal and political control of its af- fairs by the United States, which means in this case (and in many other's)"the National City Bank of New York A constituent assembly is to be called to revise the constitu- tion. But it will be told what “we” want, and if it doesn’t do it, the troops go back again. i Meanwhile, Henriguez y Carbajal, the president of Santo Domingo whom the marines deposed, finds it safer to stay in Havana. And even his sons and near relatives find it wise to remain in Mexico or Cuba in spite of the “freedom” that the United States has granted to the Dominican republic, ? CUBA, The popular indignation at the frameup of Arias, Quiroz and Ri- vera on the charge of hhving poison- ed beer of the scab Polar Company has grown into a series of monster demonstrations that bring all fac- tions and all unions of Havana out on the streets to protest. The Com- munist Party of Mexico has sent a pledge of solidarity to the accused and promised to bring the case be- fore all Latin-American countries. A Communist Party is in process of formation in Cuba and the indig- nation at the exile of Haya de 4 Torre, a student-worker leader, from Peru has resulted in the formation of a Communist Party there. PERU. Claridad, revolutionary students’ review of Peru of which the exiled president of the Student’s Federa- tion, Haya de la Torre, is director, as been suppressed by the Ameri- can-battleship-supported and Stand- ard Oil-controlled and State-Depart- ment manufactured President Leguia, autocrat of Peru. Jose Carlos Maria- tegui, Oscar Herrera, and Amerigo Accinelli, editors of the paper, were arrested and the issue seized. They were later released but the pub- peter, Lorenzo Rego, remains in jail, Fascism has raised its ugly head in Peru as a last effort of the pro- American clerical party to retain control and stem the rising tide of protest against autocracy, clerical- ism and the selling of the country to the Standard Oil Company.