The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Hlinois,; under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate}1s,chicase, by mail, $8.00 per year. MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1924 { Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year ne LR 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 THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT | VOL. II. No. 6. DAILY WORKER Chicago, Mlinois, Published Daily except Sunday by TE PUBLISHING CO.. 1640 N. Halsted S ue 20 NEW FACTS BALK EFFORT TO STOP OIL PROBE COMMITTEES ACT TODAY ON INJUNCTION Students Continue Defiance of Suliivan Writ “Down with Judge ‘Dennie’ Sullivan’s injunction!” will be the cry of organized labor at a monster demonstration which will be staged in Chicago at an early date. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is expected to speak at this demonstration, Vice-Presi- dent Meyer Perlstein, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, informed the DAILY WORKER last night. He has just received word from New York City that the Interna- -tional union expects to have Gom- pers here to lead the attaek on the writ which attempts to deny union labor the right to walk the streets. Parade Thru Strike Zone, The demonstration will be staged jointly by the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Chicago Federation of Labor, it was learned from other sources. It may take the form of a huge parade thru the strike zone as well as a mass meet- ing. “The. International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union is determined to win this strike,” announced Perl- stein. “Splendid support is coming from all parts of the union.” Cloakmakers Give $10,000. “A $10,000 donation has just been made by the Cloakmakers’ Union of Chicage. . The check was turned in to us this morning. It was a volun+ tary donation. In addition, every member of the Coakmakers’ Union here, 8,000 of them, is assessing himself $1.00 a week for the strike. And .all the strikers who have re- turned to work are assessing them- selves 10 per cent of their earn- ings” This will be a big day in the strike of the garment workers. Picketing will be carried on in all the dress manufacturing districts on a larger scale than has ever been attempted before. \ The gg oi will have as assistants in their picketing a large group of members of the University of Chicago Liberal club. Saturday 25 members of the club picketed with the strikers and two of them were ar- rested. They will continue defying the infamous injunction day by day. Strikers Watching Committees. After the morning picketing is over the attention of the strikers will be rivetted on the meeting of the “Committee of 15” and the “Injunc- tion Committee” of the Chicago Fed eration of Labor. This meeting will be held at two o’clock this afternoon and the strikers are hoping for quick, decisive action in aid of the strike from the committees. All the strik- ers are frank in hoping that there will be a call from the committees to ignore Dennie Sullivan’s injunction and calling on the men of the Chi- cago labor movement to go to the picket ilne with the girl strikers. A sub-committee of the “Com- mittee of 15” consisting of John Fitz- patrick, Anton Johannsen and Victor Olander will see Mayor William E. Dever and tell him how his police force have been treating girl strikers. The committee was given a startling report by the I. L, G. W. U. on police |, brutalities Saturday, but since Satur- is a half day for politicians, the ittee did not get a chance to see Mayor Dever, List Police Assaults. The report takes # few typical instances of on the part of the police and gives the complete de- tails of them. No instances were cited where the union was not in possession of complete details. In each instance ge brutality cited by the union the names of the girls assaulted and the numbers of the policemen doing the’ alspulting bor movement wants police to stop and to stop at once. | - STUDENTS SHOW “COMMITTEE OF 15” | An Incident of the Picket Line. POINCARE PLACES WAR BURDENS ON POOR OF FRANCE Only Property of Rich Reconstructed viseaipaomanibe 3 Seats path (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, March 24.—The opposition to President Poincare has had a tre- mendously powerful weapon placed in its hands by the government's decision to discontinue work in the devastated regions and to reject the damage claims of thousands of small home owners, Leon Eseoffier, a deputy from one of the devastated areas, is quoted by papers here as authority for the statement that the government has re- fused to allow small claims totalling 25,000,000 francs; that the minister of finance has vetoed the measure proposing a loan for reconstruction purposes of 150,000,000 franc to the department du Nord and that many crews of workers now engaged in re- construction work are to be dis- charged. All further claims for damages to personal property are to be paid not in cash, but in ten-year notes and all credit loans with the” exception of 4,000,000 francs, will be cancelled. The properties—factories, etc.—of the wiakne have either been restored or the owners compensated and the burden now falls exclusively on the workers and peasants who can least afford to sustain the losses. The Po- incare government policy has thus re- sulted in saddling the physical dam- age of the war upon the poorest sec- tion of the populace and no talk of the victory in the Ruhr can prevent this fact being known by the victims. Even the recovery of the frane fol- lowing the loan from the Morgan in- terests has not served to quell the dissatisfaction with the government in the devastated districts. Compensation Law Fought Bitterly by Quebec Employers MONTREAL, March 23.— Quebec employers are fighting vigorously against the reforms in the Quebec workmen’s compensation law which are being advocated by organized la- bor. A striking evidence of this an- ism has been given by the re- liation by tive Lowe of Quebec section, Canadian Manu- facturers’ Association, of the findings of the interprovincial conferice of 1921, which has been the basis of re- cent by the wyers of the province and on ex-| by insurance companies. cuses for its continuance be er ie ll ill oot be. Sip Fri pes rae lowed any longer; ‘SEATTLE, March his uniformed men are guilty with ner union in Beatle ns wceed- "8. al ‘a 90 per cent organ- Olga Levin Beaten, ization and will for wage in- One of the latest assaults which the cfenses ‘and ‘abolition ef: the so-called ‘Continued on page 2) efficiency rating system. What ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF “LIFE OF JOHN BROWN” IN TOMORROW'S ISSUE Another installment of “The Life of John Brown,” by Michael Gold, will appear in tomorrow’s issue of the DAILY WORKER, Owing to Tack of space today’s installment was om . ROMAN CLERIC; GIVE HIM GATE Ikons and Vodka Losing Out in Russia MOSCOW, March 23,.—Archbishop Zepliak has been released from prison after serving a year of his 10-year sentence for conspiracy against the government. Zepliak originally was sentenced to death after conviction on charges of opposing seizure of church property and conspiring with the enemy during the Polish offensive. Later his sen- tence was commuted to 10 years in prison. The archbishop will be expelled from Russia. Simultaneously it was ahnounced the case against Patriarch Tikhon and his co-defendants, accused on the same charges for which Zepliak was sentenced, has been dropped com- pletely. Action of the government is at- tributed to the fact that “the popula- tion is becoming less superstitious about religion and is turning more to the study of science.” POLICE THREATEN TO RAID DAILY WORKER Girl strikers tell reporters for the DAILY WORKER that police- men detailed to strike duty have told them that they intend to gang up and come to the office of the DAILY WORKER and wreck the plant and Seat oF the staff, because we have the truth about their beating strikers. Our address is 1640 N, Halsted St. Don't be a “Yes, But,” The Daily Worker, ‘Sead in'your sabe seri at once. | AND BEAT UP EDITORS |} TWO DEAD IN IRISH SKIRMISH: Free State Government Fears Complications , puMIe Treland, Merch 23.—The killing of two British soldiers on a Queenstown pier and the wounding of a score of others by a party of men in Free State uniforms has created a sensation in Ireland. The attackers driving a fast motor car, used a ma- chine gun which caused havoc among the British troops massed on the pier, The Cosgrave government boasted recently that there was not a British soldier within 20 miles of any of the twenty-six counties included in the Free State. President Cosgrave immediately sent apologies to Ramsay MacDonald and promised to bring the responsible parties to justice. The Free State military headquarters in Cork City is-, sued a statement declaring the shoot- ing was done by the anti-treaty forces, who it is charged,.have resumed gure- illa warfare following the mutiny in the Free State army. All the capitalist papers denounce the incident as an outrage and called upon the government to adopt what- ever drastic measures may be deemed necessary. Cosgrave’s message to MacDonald reads: “I am profoundly shocked to hear that British troops have been fired on in Irish territory, and I hasten to assure you that this coward- ly crime will arouse the same horror and detestation thruout Ireland thet, it caused myself and my colleagues.” The stalin party also fired sev- eral shots at a British cruiser which was in the harbor, Mandel Store Girl Employe Leaped to Death from 11th Floor Judge Marie Braband, 22, jumped to her death from the eleventh floor of. MANDEL BROTHERS early to- day. She was an employe of the store and had reported for work before the fata] leap. Teachers Seek Job Control. NEW YORK, March 23,—The Teachers’ union of New York has sub- mitted to the board of education a proposal regarding organization of the new Thomas Jefferson high school. It is suggested that at least one-half of the teachers engaged at the new school should be members of the union. It would be the teachers’ in your sub-'task to drawup a constitution for the school’s government, No Money From Crops, Illinois Farmers Sell Horses to Pay Taxes BLOOMINGTON, IIl., March 23.—Farmers in central IIli- nois who, did not realize enough money from their crops last year to meet their running Pay expenses, are selling their horses to HAYS HELPS TEAR MASK OFF G. 0. P, Sinclair Oil Stock Helped Pay Campaign Deficit (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 23.—Repeated efforts to choke off the Teapot oil investigation are proving powerless in the face of a ocrier of revelations that may prove’ more astound- ing than anything that has yet been disclosed by the Walsh committee. A trail of political intrigue by big business & terests in- volving the entire republican party as an organization has been uncovered. Will Hays, now czar of the movic industry, and’ formerly na‘ional chairman of the Republican commit- tee, was compelled to admit before the public lands commitee that Harry, F. Sinclair, one of the bic three in the oil scandal, gave $75,000 to the Republican campaign fund to help pay a deficit after the 1920 elections. Hays denied that the gift was in stocks and insisted that it was in cash. This statement was elicited from Hays after considerable diffi culty, Further interest has been aroused in “the investigation by the refuas! of Harry F. Sinclair, upon the ad- vice ‘of his counsel, Martin Littleton, to take the stand and testify. Sin- clair was to be questioned about the report that his. contribution to the blican campaign fund was giv- en in the form of 75,000 shares of Sincail oil stock. The Hays Confession. When Hays was asked what Mr. Sinclair had to do with the cam- paign contributions of the Republi- can party he replied: “I assumed it was. not the purpose of the com- mitee to go into campaign contri- butions, I thought you would think that was irrelevant. I am out o' that now and not competent to tes- tify about them. If you want o gc into the campaign expenditures of both varties in 1920, f have. some very definite ideas for you. I know a good deal about that which I will tell you, if you wish.” After a spirited discussion the committeé voted 6-4 to compel Hays to answer this question, Thereupon Mr. Hays admitted that the Sinclair gift was $75,000 and replying to Walsh’s question whether he himself solicited any of the Sinclair’ money, declared: did at times suggest, to some of :ny friends that they contribute. I may have suggested it to Mr. Sinclair. T asked Sinclair and others to con- tribute, Sinclair told me he would he responsible for $75,000. TI think that money went as part payment of a pote at the Empire Trust Com- pany. Blames Brother- Hays went on to testify that the Liberty. Bond transaction between Sinclair’s. secretary, G. D. Wahl- berg. as told. the senate committee when the latter appeared before it, and a man named Hays might have been a personal transaction with Mis brother, Hinkle” Hays. A The committee will look further into this matter, Tt_was also disclosed that the firm of Hays and Hays with which he was assoriated had Sinclair as a client while Hays was in the cab- inet, Subpoena Upham, Following up this lead, Senator Walsh announced that Fred Up- ham, now. treasurer of the Repub- Jican “national. commitee, would he called to testify before the commit- tee and bring all his books and fi- nancial records for examination and scrutinizing, It is likely that Mr. Upham will be called today. Sinclair Defies Committee- With Sinclair the committee did not succeed in getting any light on the financing of the Republican party by oil interests. the committee voted to com pel him to testify, Sinclair read a prepared statement refusing to an- swer questions. “I shall ‘reserve any evidence T may be able to give for those courts to which you and your colleagues (Continued em page 2.) “T) What Did the Chicago Tribune Get For Its School Land Lease? HE DAILY WORKER demands that The Tribune tell the workers of Chicago what it got from the Union Trust Company for its 99-year lease on school property, at the corner of Madison and Dearborn Streets. Washington is getting at the inside of the oil land leases. Chicago’s workers must get the truth about the Tribune’s school lease, to know how much the Tribune is profiting, in golden dollars, at fhe expense of Chicago's school children, housed in 50 firetraps, admitted by the fire department, jammed’56 and 55 into small rooms with a single teacher, crowded into unsanitary “tin can” portables. The Chicago Tribune, in December, 1923, transferred its stolen school lease, gotten thru a shady deal, to the Union Trust Company. The Chicago Tribune has not made public what money consideration was involved in the transfer. That the Trib- une got a good hunk of coin out of it, there can be no daubt. The workers of Chicago ought to know how much. CXOOKED AS TEAPOT STEAL When the Tribune’s crookedness got a 99-year lease on Chicago's school land, it committed a crime just as grave as that involved in Sinclair’s plundering of Teapot Dome. The oil reserves were set aside for the people of the nation. The school lands were set aside for the children of Chicago. Originally one square mile of land, in the center of what is now the “Loop” or downtown business district, was given over to the school children. If this square mile of land had been reserved for the children, the workers of Chicago would not now be called upon to pay one cent in taxation forthe upkeep of the schools, The money to run ~~ the schools would come out of .the high rentals of the tall skyscrapers. But. this square mile of school land has been juandered, in bargain counter sales or cheap, leases, and the Chicago Tribune has been in on the ground floor of the steal. : STOLE ONE OF BUSIEST CORNERS It got its 99-year lease on the property, just one block from State and, Madison Streets, the busiest corner in the world, in 1880. It, therefore, runs until 1980, fifty-six years more. ‘ It was in 1895 that the attorney of the Chicago Tribune, who was also president of the Chicago School Board, se- cured the wiping out of the 10-year revaluation clause in the lease, so that property values in Chicago’s business district might rise and rise, but the Tribune school lease never brings an additional cent for the children. Now the Tribune has moved to the North Side, into a building of its own, and it doesn’t need its old location. So it has gone to the Union Trust Company, to whom the children of Chicago will continue to pay tribute, thru their inability to secure the education to which they are entitled. We ask the Chicago Tribune, “How much did you get for this valuable lease? How much did the Union Trust Company pay you? How did you divide the swag? The workers of the city of Chicago want to know.” McCORMICK, ONE OF THE THIEVES One of the beneficiaries of the millions in profits earned, each year by the Chicago Tribune is United States Senator Medi!l McCormick. How much is he getting out of this debauchery of Chicago’s school lands? If United States Senator McCormick will profit by the plundering of a school land lease in Chicago, he will sup- port Doheny, Sinclair, Daugherty and the rest of the busi- ness and political bandits in Washington, D. C., in robbing the nation’s oil reserves and its other natural resources. We ask United States Senator McCormick, “How much are you profiting by the transfer of this school land lease from the Chicago Tribune to the Union Trust Company? You are up for re-election and the workers of Chicago want to know. And they are going to find out.” “PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES.” The Chicago Tribune, that robs Chicago’s school chil- dren, cannot be expected to call for the impeachment of Se the resignation of Daugherty, and the ousting of urns. It cannot be expected to join in demanding that all graft and corruption in high places be exposed to the public gaze. It cannot do this because it benefits itself from this same form of corruption. The DAILY WORKER demands that the workers of Chicago be told how much The Tribune received, from the Union Trust Company for its ill-gotten 99-year school land lease. 9 Have You Done to Get 10,000 New Subscribers by, June 15th? See Page Five Today