The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 27, 1924, Page 1

— " =—_ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 9. MINE STRIKE LOOMING BIG IN BRITAIN Another Gaint Struggle Is Fac- ing MacDonald's Rule (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 26.—Fol- lowing announcement of a deadlock in negotiations be- tween miners’ officials and mine owners, the British cabi- net met at 10 Downing Street today to consider an impend- ing crisis in that industry, the third the government will have been called upon to face in its brief tenure of office. At the same time, a national miners’ ..delegate ..conference, representing 800,000 workers, met, Agreement Expires April 17. The existing wage scale int the niin- ing industry expires April 17 and conferences have been under way for some time, seeking to’ adjust differ- ences regarding a new scale. ‘The board of trade announced officially early today that these have broken down completely. The employers suggest a court of inquiry, which the miners rejected unqualifiedly. Promise Minimum Wage Bill. It was forecast that today’s dele- gate conference would recommend a nation-wide ballot of miners to as- certain whether the workers are will- i fi ing. to. sixike.to force. acceptance of, The minister of mines will take a hand in the controversy. tomorrow. If this intervention fails there is said to be no alternative save introduction in Commons of a minimum wage bill for the industry, as promised by the government. If the House should defeat this bill, it would, mean a debacle for Premier MacDonald’s government. Morga M. POINCARE, WALL STREET HOPE, QUITS French Premier Is Asked To Form New Ministry (Special to The Daily Workers PARIS, March 26,—Ray- mond Poincare, the $100, 000 white hope of J. Pierpont Morgan, was defeated in the chamber of deputies on a vote of confidence in his minister of finance. ; The long threatened defeat came on the eve of the report of “Hell and Maria” General Dawes, of the reparations com- mittee. Poincare is one of Europe's lead- ing militarists and a bitter foe of the Russian Soviet Republic.. He took a prem Fag: in the intrigues that ied up to the European war and a visit to Leningrah t paid , then St. Peters- burg, right on the eve of the great struggle. . Last Word Against Germany! Bt abi! the war he urged a re- lentless policy toward Germany ayd on assuming the premiership in 1922 began urging that the vanguished enemy be compelled to pay to the last mark. In 1923 he sent his troops into the Ruhr thus creating a situation around wales world polit raged ever since. hen the vote that hese, down the ministry was taken and the re- (Continued on page 2.) 4 Subscription Rate; BRITISH COAL MINERS TO S THE DAILY WORKER. - Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1924 << In Chicago, by mail, $8.00: per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year SH Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois, TR op “Labor”? Alderman Is Silent in City Council as Police Arrest Forty-Five More Strike Pickets n’s French L LONDON TUBE IT YELLS FOR WAR But It Is Silent About the School Land Lease Steal. Police Chief Gets Fired For Arresting Coca Cola Queen; Should Stick to Nabbing Strikers ATLANTA, Ga,, March 26.—James L. Beavers, police chief of Atlanta, stood suspended today pending hearing on charges growing out of the arrest of Mrs. Asa G. Candler, wife of the millionaire coca-cola manufacturer. Mrs. Candler was arrested in a raid on an apartment in which she and two prominent business men were found. She was released at a pre- liminary hearing. Accusations brought against Bea- vers before the police commission in- cluded that he “arrested a wife under -guch circumstances as will lead to divorce proceedings.” Score of Orientals Believed Dead in Los Angeles Fire LOS ANGELES, Calif, March 26. —wWith one body recovered, police and firemen were \today searching the ruins of a Chinatown rooming house destroyed by an early. morn- ing fire, for the cremated remains of at least a score of other orien- tals believed lost in the blaze. Thirty-five Chinese were sleeping on the lower floor of the rooming house and fifteen on the upper, ac- cording to police figures. Ony eight 80 far are known to have escaped. The fire started shortly after midnight, presumably of ‘incendiary origin, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Sob for Cattle; Forget Humans. NEW ORLEANS, March 26,—-Dr. E, Pegram Flowers, secretary, Lou- isiana live stock board, announces that 50,000 head of cattle died dur- ing the past year as a result exposure and underfeeding. | Cap- up WORKERS PLAN STRIKE FRIDAY Traffic Bill: Introduced In Commons (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 26.—Unless Lon- don’s tram and bus strike is settled by Friday mid-night, subway workers will walk out as well, it was officially announced today, This would leave the city’ without transportation, ex- cept for taxicabs and a few “pirate busses.” : The Locomotive Men’s Union an- nounced that all its members em- pieven on underground systems have m Ordered to» quit work Friday italist newspapers have taken the story and given much space to it, Not a word has been said about widows and children who are un- dernourished, underpaid and ‘dying from consumption, the resu't of in- sanitary factories and low pay. OUT WITH DAUGHERTY! Daily Worker's it. i leanwhile reaenies rey ah Ay cee e government en ve vane fruitless. The govern: ent introduced ‘a traffic bill in Com- mons, bens it hopes flay lead to a of ackey Out KLUXERS THINK QUITTING MASK RADICAL MOVE Also Plan to Admit Foreign-Born (Special to The Daily Worker) MUNCIE, Ind., March 26.—Ad- mission of foreign-born protestants who have been Americanized and abolition of the mask are radical changes from the old Ku Klux regime embodied in the constitution for the Independent Klan of America, now in session here for the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization. After an all night session the con- stitution and .by-laws committée re- jported this morning that it was ready to go before the convention _this afternoon to ask adoption of the constitution. * Only legally appointed delegates will be admitted to this meeting but as several of these are openly fav- oring amalgamation with the “Knights of the Flaming Sword,” headed. by Cel, William Simmons, banished founder of the Klan, a heated battle is anticipated and it is admitted there is a possibility of this faction blocking’ the organization plans... The*conxention will close with the election of officers this evening unless plans to block adoption of the con- stitution fail. . Teapot Meeting in N. H. CONCORD, N. H., March 26.— The significance of Teapot Dome was explained to the workers of this city when William Simons, of -Bos- ton, spoke here in Concord Hall recently. The erowd was not very large but they were interested. * Ene NELSON FAILS STRIKERS AT CITY COUNCIL But Girls Flock To Picket Line In Greater Numbers Alderman Oscar Nelson, vice president of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, and paid at-| torney for the garment strik- ers, flatly refused to raise his| voice at the city council meet- ing yesterday afternoon against | the police slugging and whole-| sale arrests which are going on in violation of the law. The labor alderman’s. deser- | tion of labor came on the 29th and most critical day of the strike. Another case of police slugging had just occurred and \three dozen arrests had been |made of girl pickets and social | workers who had come on the picket line in greater nutnbers \than ever. > Girl Strikers Demanded Action. When the city council opened at two o'clock the galleries were filled with girl strikers who were taking two hours off from the battle front on §. Market street for the purpese of hearing Alderman Nelson raise hic voice in their behalfi The girls waited for more than an hour in vaia. , Their paid attorney’s voice was lifted loudly for a special Friday meeting of the counci. to consider the $46,000,000 budget pro- posal of the city of the council but he was dumb on the issue of police s'ugging. Nélson Turned Girls Down. So the girls sent Nelson a note stating that they were “waiting for some action from. you. Can you help?” Cries “Foster” To Hide Issue. Out came Nelson. Using the same tactics he used at the Chicago Feder- ation of Labor when John W. John- ston urged mass picketing. by the |Federation, Nelson launched another attack on “Fosterism.” “There is a movement going on to |split the International Laties’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union,” he began. “It is being led by William Z. Foster and the DAILY WORKER. I’m not aet- ing under instructions from the DAILY WORKER. If the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un- ion asks me to introduce a bill on the floor I will do it. -All the protests against police action are being given to the mayor. There is no need to bring the matter on the floor of the council.” Council Acted In Other Strikes. Before Nelson could be asked what “Fosterism” had té do with the de- mand that a labor alderman protest against flagrant police violence he had turned away. In the 1915 strike of the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers, city aldermen raised such an is- sue on the floor of the council and the police were forced to back up under their fire. Fear DAILY WORKER Exposes. News that the DAILY WORKER intended to tell what was going on in the Chicago City Council had evident- ly gotten about there. When DAILY WORKER reporter went about to the side entrance that leads towards the press seats he was stop- ped by council attaches, “The DAILY WORKER”, they ex- claimed: “they won't let you in.” — Another newspaperman took up the cudgels for the reporter after seeing his reporter's pass which ig signed by the Chief of Police and pfoperly ac. credits ‘him to get news in city de- partments. He summoned the Sergeant of the Guard, a tall young man wearing horn rimmed spectacles. But the sergeant seemed to have his orders. sy “We won't let you fellows in”, he cried pompousty, The reporter in produced his (Continued on page 2) Arrest 45 While Oscar Was Mum In City Council While Alderm was refusing to the city. council against police bru- tality, the city police were making a new record for arrests of peace- ful pickets. Forty-five strikers and two so- cial workers were thrown into pa- trol wagons in the course of police raids on the picket lines in which iderable violence was used. ROSE PANITSKY. MARY SCHWARTZ. RAY WITKOVSKY. ANNa RUBIN. FANNIE KRAMER. LENA STANISH. FLORENCE PETERS. GERTIE HASSEN. LILLIAN BURKEN. MINNiE PARRISH, SARAH PANISKY. REBECCA SHARR. CATHERINE FEDARK. JANET HARRIS. SILVIA KRUSE. LENA MORVITZ. BETT E MOLASKY. CAROLINE LAVNTR. SELICE ARKUNCEWSKI. CONSTANCE KRUSCHEFSKI, MARY SHLALMWSKI. MORRIS BAILEN, MORRIS SCHULNAN. BARKEY WENTWORTH. SOLOMON AUERBACH. ~ CHARLES JARZENBERG. ALEX GORDON. SAM BACKER. ALFRED DUBIAN. MATTHEW ARBCAVSKAS. STANLEY SKLIROS. DAVE ROSENTHAL. THOMAS SAPECK. WALTER BIECUK. JACK JUNISKY. ISADOR LITWINSKY. MARY ARMATO. LENa SCIATINO. PAULINE ZORK. EVA BASKIN. SARAH NOVICK. LILLIAN LIBBIN. THOMAS HOLLAND. HELEN TIPPY. JENNIE LIEBERMAN. Many of the arrests were mode in front of the G. H. Lowenthal plant at 224 S. Market street which is the special object of police care. Contrary to law’ the police use this hallway as a temporary prison in between patrol wagon trips. Thomas Holland and Miss Helen Tippy, Hull House residents, were arrested in front of the Lowenthal plants as they éntered in their note books the numbers of police con- cerned in the beating up of Miss Jennie Lieberman, one of the strikers. Oscar Nelson = ee * & WHAT WILL CHICAGO LABOR DO ABOUT IT? 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 Recornition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents KE DAUGHERTY IS NEAR QUSTER BY COOLIDGE Crooked Attorney General Is Called to White House | (Special to The Daily Worker) | WASHINGTON, March 26. }—Smarting under the cam- paign waged thruout the coun- try, demanding the removal of the criminal attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty, President Coolidge again today called the chief cabinet white elephant into his office and implored him to quit while the quitting was The DAILY WORKER in its Monday edition pointed out that tremendous pressure would be brought to bear on the president during the week to force his hand with regard to the attorney general. See Washington as Cesspool. It is no secret that the prominent leaders of both democrat and repub- lican parties fear the revolutionary significance of the Teapot Dome scandal, and the still worse revela- tions that have come out of the Daugherty investigation. The workers and farmers now look upon Washington as a pool of corruption and on the capitalist gov- ernment as whited sepulchre of vice. They would fain stop the inves- tigations, but the pressure from the masses. is too. great. and we have today the spectacle of a great pub- lisher, “Eddie” McLean, himself, up to his neck in the graft upbraid- ing the republican side of the house for not calling a halt on the entire | business | The wise heads among the repub- licans believe that the removal of | Daugherty might whet the appetite of “the democrats for campaign ma- terial and the investigations might be called off. So they are making another de- termined effort to force Coolidge to kick the attorney general out. The president is afraid of Daugherty’s political power within the party. There was an agreement between |the attorney general and the presi- |dent to give Coolidge the Ohio dele- |gation in return for his friendship during his hour of trial. But now the other side—the Borah, Lodge and Reed republicans—fear there will be no republican party te go to the elections with unless the Ohio |grafter is fired: The pressute on | Coolidge has increased. Thus to- day’s meeting in the White House and the conversation with | Lodge. “Hell Will Break Loose.” | After the conference Daugherty | told the reporters that only routine matters’ were discussed. But it leaked out that Coolidge again im- plored the attorney general to do a fab job for the republican party (Continued on page 2.) Senator Lowenthal “‘Slagger’’ Beats Girl And Runs Away; Warrant Coming “Slugger” Frank Fuller, employed by Lowenthal, at 221 So, Market Street, will have the pleasure of accepting a war- rant this morning, served at the request of Jennie Lieberman, whom he attacked yesterday. Miss Lieberman had just been arrested and was being held in the entrance to the Lowenthal building. Slugger Fuller addressed Miss Lieberman familiarly and attempted to shove an injunction writ into her hand. - “Hired by My Boss.” “Who are you to talk-to me?” Miss Lieberman demanded. ‘Talk to the policemen. You're hired by my boss.” “Can you read English?” Slugger Fuller persisted. “I'm! not to tell you if I can or not.” “Just look at the heading of this,” the slugger insisted, thrusting the paper into her face. Miss Lieberman looked at te ceil- ing. At this Slugger Fuller grabbed her dress‘at the neck with one hand and hit her chest violently with the other , Parade--See Page Three lint Ciutenming fhe paper. He scuttled upstairs immediately after his attack upon the girl. Policeman Saw Assault, None of the’ six policemen stand. ing in the hallway protested the bru- tal assault made by Slugger Fuller. Instead they laughed at seeing a de- fenceless girl beaten. Her scratched face and bruised crimson chest didn’t phase their stolidity. on But the police sergeant on duty in that block realized that the attack was illegal and left the girl he was questioning to go up for the slug- wer’s name. He brought it back te Jennie Lieberman and told her, te swear out a warrant for the afrest of the brutal Frank Fuller. Sara Novik, who. was arrested with Miss Lieberman, became hysterica! when Jennie was beaten. She had been arrested just as she was pass: ing the Lowenthal establishment, al- tho she was engaged in peaceful con- versation with a reporter for the DAILY WORKER at the time,