The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 8. Subscription Rate; Outside Chicago, by STRIKE MAY STOP NEW YORK'S KEPT PRESS In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 per year THE DAILY WORKE Entered as #econd-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOfice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924 AGBo so. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 .N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ilinois. NEWS STRIKE “On Ts City Hall Today!” Say Bcorniaie Stribirs IS VOTED BY N. Y. TYPOS “Big Six” Asks Strike Sanction In Rousing Meeting {Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Mar. 25, —The oldest and largest typo- graphical union in the world threw down the gauntlet to the most powerful combination of publishers on the face of the earth in a special meeting held here in the auditorium of the Stuyvesant High School, when the membership overwhelming- ly voted by secret ballot to re- quest strike sanction of the International Typographical Union. Every Daily to Shut Down. The membership already has the assurance of Charles P. Howard, President of the In- ternational Union, that the ex- ecutive council will back the membership of New York to the limit. This will be the most complete strike in the daily newspaper field that has ever been conducted in the United States. Every daily news- paper in the city of New York will be shut down while the struggle pro- ceeds. The composing rooms in all daily papers are one hundred per cent organized and those affected are the advertising compositors, make-up men, copy cutters, linotype operators, proof readers and mai‘ers. La Negotations Fail. ‘the publishers have. been going on. sines December 2, when the union at a special meeting, also held in Stuy- vesant High School, instructed the scale committee to demand the estab- lishment of the six-hour day in all newspaper offices in the jurisdiction. Thus the working hours per week would be reduced from 48 og! work and 45 night work to a flat 36-hour week—or six hour day with four shifts per day, instead of ihree as at} present. At the same time a demand was made for an increase in wages to $66.00 per week for day work (an increase of $11.00) and $72.00 per week for night work (an increase of $14.00). " The counter-proposal of the pub- lishers was a reduction in wages of froin 2 to 6 cents per hour and a change in shop conditions that would devitalize the union and make the compositors abject slaves of every whim of the publishers as regards working hours and speed of work. Employers Giving Way. A deadlock was soon reached by the local scale committee and UF page Charles P. Howard was. called in, He succeeded .in breaking the stubborn resistance of the employers and got an offer of a three dollar per week raise in bibcape all eee giger remain- ing the same. s_ not being a pro- position Mr. Howard felt he should recommend to the union, a_ special meeting was called for today and three propositions voted upon, They were: 1—To accept the proposal of the employers for a $3.00 raise. 2—To submit the controversy to arbitration, 8—To ask strike sanction of the . (Continued on page 3.) for Daily Prove “How the Communists , One New Sub Every Day Anna Louise Strong Writes Worker Magazine interesting to of now reading the DAILY WO ‘ ge su trial “Sub Offer” aa anaionr In this Saturday's becy pm Section she writes-on [Tae BuRDEN 0 HE BURDEN OF THE EVIDENCE KLAN KONVENTION DEBATE IS. SORDID (Special to The Deily Worker) MUNCIE, Ind., March 25.—Dec- larations that millions of dollars have been made by individuals at the expense of klansmen and klans- women, that spies have, been em- ployed by the parent ofganization to spy on the klans thruout the country and that one-man rule had hecome so despotic that. the true purpose of the klan had long been making money, have worked dele- gates and visitors to the Independ- ent Klan of America convention here into such a fever heat that there seems no doubt of a final break with the Ku Klux Klan of Atlanta. $4 Per Nightie. From the platform, the direct charge was made by Samuel Bem- enderfer in his convention keynote speech, that F. C, Stevens of In- dianapolis, klan organizer in ten states, had made enormous profits thru selling klansmen robes at a Profit of $4 to himself on each robe and thru his share received from each merhbership. fee, It was also charged by te speak- er that the Rev. Daisy , Friends minister of Newcastle, Ind., had cleared one million dollars for her- self in the last year thru selling robes to the women’s auxiliary, ° making a similar profit. (. Spying On Themselves. ‘he speaker declared that Court Asher, a Muncie police character and supposed to be antagonistic to power to find these non- page. ‘ower in Russia.” Nh Will H the klan, had been employed for months by the Atlanta headquarters as @ spy in Muncie and thruout In- diana, receiving a satary of $100 a week for his work, The constitution for the new or- ganization was completed in secret session here iast night and was in- troduced on:-the convention floor this: morning,» It is d to he ion is ere. ogg he , 3 z that. the convention now in session will either make or break the orig- inal Ka Klux Klan of the south. King of Greece Now Member of Unemployed Camp (Special to The Daily Worker) ATHENS, March 25.—The na- tional assembly today voted to de- throne the dynasty and proclaim a republic. The motion was carri by a unanimous vote and is effective at_ once. Because of the possibility of a rupture in diplomatic relations with foreign countries whose representa- tives are aceredited to the “regent of Greece,” the government has de- cided to maintain Admiral Condou- tiotis in the regenecy tor the pres- ent. The cabinet during the day is expected to grant general amnesty to imprisoned and persecuted poli- ticians and pardons to members of the military convicted for implica- tion in the last counter-revolution. The governmont will expropriate as soon- as possible all immovable property to the Gluecksburg dynasty. Anderson, Head Dry Zealot, Gets Term In Sing Sing Prison (Special to The: Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March - 25,—Wil- liam H. Anderson, once the nemesis of the liquor trade and other law- breakers, will join the “pick and shovel” gang at Sing Sing .prison today. The former state chief of the Anti-Saloon League, will’ now stand stripe to stripe for a few months beside the bootlegger, grafting - ticians, and “prescription rs” whom he so»relentlessly Anderson has been degraded to the status of a common criminal by the supreme court decision yes- denying him his. application for a certificate of doubt in relation to his trial, ‘To Hang Boy of 17.- SAN QUENTIN, Cal., March 25.— sentenced to hang is only 17, having 1906. He was not law to a under 18. The court refused to admit the boy’s ba) tis: as evidence of his o pA we ‘vane doe : Mak Tt 10,000 New Subs by June 15th--See Page Fiv, OIL IS THE ISSUE IN $0, DAKOTA PRIMARY BATTLE al Teapot Heard (Special to The Daily Worker) SIOUX FALLS, So. Dak., March 25. -—Meager returns were coming in to- night in the state’s presidential prim- ary. The voters expressed presidential choice in the Republican and Demo- cratic parties, and the Farmer-Labor Party may have Robert M. LaFollette written in as choice of the new Third Party yet to be formed. Nominees for U. S. senator, gov- ernor and other state offices also are to be named by the three parties. The struggle between President Repoblican. nomination for president, and the election of delegates to the national convention and presidential electors is the outstanding contest of the primary. Senate Fight. Of equal importance to South Da- kotans is. the Aght between “gasoline governor” W. H. McMaster and the veteran Thomas Sterling for the nomi+ nation for U. S. senator in the Re- publican party, Robert M. LaFollette also figures in the Republican primary, many be- lieve. Many voters are expected pass up the candidates appearing on the ba and write in the name of the Wisconsin senator for president, Oil figured two ways in today’s primary. Governor McMaster, whose fight on Standard Oil last summer —_|NELSON DOES NOT KNOW IF HE WILL AGT “Might Embarrass Mayor,” Says Labor Alderman Alderman Oscar Nelson, of the 40th Ward, did not know yesterday if he would discuss the strike of the garment work- ers at the meeting of the city council today. That is what he told the DAILY WORKER. Nelson, besides being an al- derman, is lawyer for the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, handling the cases of strikers arrested by the. city police. On To The City Hall! “On to the City Hall!” is the latest slogan of the brave garment strikers, now nearing the end of the fourth week of their heroic strug- gle. They are going to attend the meeting .of the city council this afternoon to see whether Alderman Oscar Nelson, vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, will raise his yoice in the city council against the brutal use of the police against them. The slogan of “On to the City Hall!” was heard everywhere among the strikers yesterday, at their mass meeting and on the picket lines, It is expected that the Council Chambers on the second floor of the City Hall will be jam- med, as.in the days of the victori- ous struggles of the screet carmen and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, when action was forced from the city aldermen. “On to the City Hall!” He will defend more than two hun-' dred cases of arrested strikers to- HOW DID 0 N morrow before Judge Walker in the jury branch of ‘the municipal court. Labor Committeeman. In addition to being the lawyer for the union, Nelson is a vice-president of the Chicago Federation of Labor and a member of the committee of 15 and the committee on injunctions of the Federation. He was also a mem- ber of the Citizens committee which disbanded Monday. In the past, or- ganized labor has looked to him to or rena their interests in the coun- ell. Strikers Demand Nelson: Act. Half-dronken policemen have been {eng te. atrAEy and STremiDL yl streets. The strikers have been de- manding that Alderman Nelson, la- bor representative, raise a protest in the city council and call for an of- ficial investigation into such out- city employes against workers on strike, Recently Nelson presented the case | for the organized firemen of the city | who were seeking a raise in pay. But | he has kept silent in the council | while paid city employes were trying | to break the strike of the sweatshop workers, . “Does Not Know.” Nelson was in the office of the Chi-| cago Federation- of -Labor when he! was reached by the DAILY WORK-| Coolidge and Hiram Johnson for the| ER. “Will you discuss the strike of the | garment workers at the meeting of | the council tomorrow?” he was asked. “I don’t know. I don’t know what | will come up there,” he replied. “Will you tell the members of the | council about the Citizens committee report? ight Embarrass Mayor.” “I don’t know. The report was made to the mayor. He may report to the council on it himself. If I say anything it might embarrass the | yor in carrying out the recommen- | ions of the committee,” Nelson said. If the opportunity presents itself and Nelson can speak on the strike without offending any of his fellow politicians he may or he may not say a few well-chosen words is in effect forced gasoline prices down 12 cents thruout the middle west, made the charge that George J. Danforth, man- ager of the campaign for Senator Sterling, was employed by the Stan- dard Oil Co., in an attempt to “break” McMaster. Oil Scandal Issue. Both McMaster and Senator Hiram Johnson, who have been supporting each other in the pay race, have laid great stress on the Teapot Dome and other scandals. in) Washington. President Coolidge was the choice of the Republican. state convention last December before the deluge of oil in- vestigations broke loose. President Coolidge and. Senator Sterling, od eats runing ‘argo are ex! poll a heavy vote in the cities. Governor MeMaster and Senator Hiram Johnson will digw most of their support from the coun- "Y Follette has no ition for the Farmer-Labor nomination, and it is believed ey who otherwise would vote the ‘Labor step over ij im- to cast LaFollette, , William G r Meadoo is unopposed for the p indorsement of the Democratic ary, but there are itter contests for state office nomina- what he said to the DAILY WORKER. Look to Labor Alderman. Since the Committee of 15 and the committee on injunctions has de- layed acion on “Dennie’s” injunction and mass picketing the strikers are looking to Nelson to bring the case of the strikers to the attention of COMPANION OF DAUGHERTY DIE? Ex-Wife Believes Death Not Seif-Inflicted By LAURENCE TODD. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 25.—Was : Sntith, inseparable companion Attorney General Daugherty, a sui- cide, or was he murdered, in Daugh- erty’s apartment in the Wardman Park hotel a} year ago? That was the issue inferentially rageous\and illegal actions by paid |Taised in the Wheeler investigation of Daugherty’s record ‘when Roxie Stinson, former wife of Smith, came back to the witness stand to tell that she was framed by friends of the at- torney general when they feared that she would talk too much about Daugherty, Quarrels With Daugherty. On the witness stand she declared that Jess was in deadly fear of an expose of affairs in Daugherty’s apartment, and also that he was in extreme fear of. physical danger to himself and to her for some time be- fore his death. She testified that he had always been afraid of firearms, and had forbidden her to possess a revolver, yet on the Friday before his death in Washington, he had bought a revolyer after a quarrel with Daugherty at the “shack” where they were staying near Washington Court House, Ohio. s 6 8 Senator Wheeler, by a series of questions, drew from the witness the statement that she observed no pow- der marks.around the bullet wound in his temple when she saw his body prior to the funeral; that Smith’s doctor had flatly denied the state- erty, brother of the attorney gen- eral, that Smith’s wound due to an fore was found to be fully open after his death. In her own statement of her defiance of both Daughertys she said: “Harry Daugherty is not going to strongarm me and I am not going to have a convenient bullet thru my head.” Can It Be Murder? Daugherty spent the night at the the city fathers. They hope he will report to the city council on the citizens commit- tee for the settlement of the strike which disbanded Monday and tell the councilmen why the bosses were able td refuse to arbitrate. The strikers say the bosses who have refused to arbitrate were able to do it) only because they had the police force fighting for them. . Bosses Depend On Police. If the police force was not con- stantly trying fo break the picket line by mass arrests and beating up strikers, the strikers say the bosses would feel less secure in their posi- tion. Feeling that in all practical ways the city administration is be- hind them the bosses refuse to deal with the union. If the city politicians were really White House prior to the death of Smith which occurred early in the morning. No inquest was held, altho bruises appeared on the body and there apartment was in disorder. not been suggested in the senate hearings, but the implication of Roxie Stinson’s testimony was that she feared his death was not self-inflicted. -— , Workers! Farmers! Demand: ¢ Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born of Soviet Russia Recornitior Price 3 Cents MORE OF FALL DOUGH STILL ~ 1S MYSTERY Baffled Probers Are After His Son-In-Law (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 25.—Senator Thomas Walsh, Montana, today introduced a resolution in the senate asking the house of representatives to begin impeachment proceed- ings against C. C. Chase, col- lector of customs at El Paso, Texas, and son-in-law of Albert B. Fall. Chase yesterday refused to testify before the oil investigat- ing committee on the ground that he might incriminate him- self. The Walsh resolution charged that have been stories that the | Thus far the word “murder” has | Chase had entered into a conspiracy with Albert B. Fall to mislead the committee as.to the origin of the $100,000 loan which enabled the former ‘secretary of the interior to urchase the Harris ranch in New ‘exico, It further charged that Chase had endeavored to get Price MeKin- ney of Cleveland to testify that he had loaned Fall the money. Walsh asked that “the resolution be transmitted to the house to- gether with a copy of testimony in the case in order that the house might inaugurate such proceedings against Chase as may be appro- priate. The senate oil committee today endeavored to trail to its source @ mysterious $32,000 with which Al- erties in New Mexico after the Tea- pot Dome lease was negotiated. The committee examined M. D. Thatcher, president of the First National Bank of Pueblo, Colo., and trustee of the Thatcher estate, with whom Fall had financial dealings. Thatcher said Fall had from time to time borrowed $102,200 from his concerns but could not account for the $32,000 with which Fall testified he had purchased properties after he invested the $100,000 he obtained from Doheny in another property. “The testimony of Thatcher proves that Fall got $32,000 from some source not yet revealed to the committee,” Senator Walsh, Mon- tana, declared following Thatcher’s testimony. Banker Is Witness. Mahlan Dy Thatcher, president of the First National Bank of Pueblo, Colo., in which Fall handled his New Mexico ranch accounts, was the first witness before the commit- tee today. Thatcher denied that his bank had made a loan to Fall in either 1921 or 1922. Fall told the com- mittee he had arranged for a $100,- 000 credit with Thatcher in 1922. “We made a loan of $15,000. to Fall in 1916 which was renewed from time to time,” Thatcher said. “When was it paid off?” Walsh ment brought to her by Mal Daugh- asked. “May 29, 1922.” ‘is was a month after Fall operation for appendicitis a year be-|#tanted the Teapot Dome lease to Harry. Sinclair. Walsh then read a letter which |Fall sent the committee some time |ago, stating that the Tres Ritaos | Land and Cattle company, of which |Fall is president, had a big credit running up to $200,000 with the Thatcher estate, “How. much does this company lowe you now?” Walsh asked. | “$100,000,” | “In small notes from time'to time between January 1921 and July 1923.” Mysterious $32,000. Thatcher testified that most of the advances. were made for the Purpose of permitting Fall to de- velop his big ranch at Three Rivers, (Continued on page 2) filed a voluntary p United States District Court. impartial the strikers say the bosses would not be so stubborn. Oscar Nelson’s position in the city council gives the strikers a spokes- tinued on page 2.) Bankruptcy Wave Hits Farmer : Gehart Larson of Morris, Ill. Gehart Larson, a farmer, living near Morris, Ill., ition in bankuptcy before the clerk today of the The petition was filed thru Larson’s attorney, C. E. Reisdae of Morris. Liabilities were listed as $2,598.54 and. assets at near Saratoga, who holds a $1,300 note. $400. The principal creditor is Oscar-Collins, a farmer, living