The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1924, Page 1

ee THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT YO Il. No. 12, Subscription 2, _ Subscription Rate; Sasi \ In Chicago; by mail,’ $8.00: per year. Outside Chicago, by mail,-$6.00:per year BH 10 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second.class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., i , Workers! Farmers! Demand: lhe Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Ryssia Price 3 Cents 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. BRAND CROWE AS LABOR ENEMY ‘Daugherty’ s Coie Can’ t Save: cohile LABOR PICKS PUSH WEEKS, MELLON INTO MAELSTROM Harding’s Mantle Wrecking Whole Republican Party “(Special to The Dal Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 30.— Calvin Coolidge ousted Harry M., Daugherty in the hope that he would relieve the pressure that threatens to wreck his cabinet and make of the pres- ent republican administration an international laughing stock. The republican papers thru- out the country are endeavor- ing to present this belated act of “Cautious Calvin” as an- other proof of the wisdom which animates this Wall Street automaton, showing that while he has aneye to the dig- nity of the office and the preservation of the best inter- ests of the American people he refused to be bludgeoned by the enemies of the republican party into‘a hurried compliance with the almost universal de- mand for the ousting of the Oily Tool of Big Interests. But Coolidge cannot save himself “by letting Daugherty go. The at- torney general at worst was only the tool of big capitalist interests who controlled the present admin- istration, of which Coolidge is the It has been proved to the satis- faction of everybody that the Hard- ing cabinet was a bought and paid for cabinet, bought and paid for by the money power in an open man- ner, signifying their contempt for the workers of this country and confident of their power to block any effort to bring them to book for their crimes, Calvin Coolidge is today the re- sponsible head of that group which agreed to barter away the resourdes of the United States for a consid- eration. He assumed the mantle that Harding wore and cn- his’ as- sumption of the post left vacant by Harding's death, Mr. Coolidge prom- ised to faithfully carry out the pol- icies of his dead p: he has faithfully ote: his promise to the plurderbund, “Pay-triotism” 1s Exposed. Calvin Coolidge today stands con- victed before the bar of public. opin- {ay as the head of the greatest con- that evér revealed the class cf the American govern- shane The alleged patriotism of the capitalist parties is now exposed asa sham. It has been proved that. both parties have sold for cash the very resource they were charged to protect. In dropping Daugherty, Coolidge is i sone throwing a bone to the wolf of popular indignation which is} howling Poor his own head. The workers and farmers of the United States will not be satisfied until the vingleader of this conspir- acy is bi before the bar and impeached. Coolidge was the boon companion of all the criminal ele- ments who have heen charged pub- licly and convicted of wiclating’ fl the laws, made by the capitalists them- selves but laws that are only en- forced against the working class. Coolidge must. go. The DAILY e VORKER corres- pondent. learns that ea jugei is pig pd me: win yey pe gy ‘rom his res: in At- lantic City to eer the veans, but it is no secret that tremendous pressure is Fae Pdi to bear Fs ei ae power which 5 sam Coolidge for the presi- cep his Ba shut, As : ge 4 of fact the situation has become so desperate that men: in|p : erent mame Wel Saennes defensive weapons and that fate of Jake Hamon and Jess Smith oftentimes rises up wo bedevil tho (Continued on page 5.) CANADA WILL RUSS SOVIET Assurance Given Trade Dele- gation By Premier King (Special to The Daily Worker) OTTAWA, Ont., Mar. 30.— The Canadian government will recognize the Russian Soviet Republic as a step toward the cementing of closer economic relations between the two countries declared Premier King of the Dominion govern- ment in a letter to M. Yasikov, head of the Russian trade dele- ecessor. This|gation, which was made public Hie has kept |here today. The action meets with ap- proval thruout the country. The Soviet envoy stated that. fol- lowing an interview with Pre- mier King he wrote him a letter asking whether Great Britain’s recognition of Russia would be followed by similar action on the part of Canada. The pub- lished letter was the premier’ 's reply. Canada is the first great English speaking nation on the American continent to recognize the Soviet Republic. It is freely predicted here that’the United States government will experience more and more dif- ficulty in withholding recognition, now that its northern neighbor: has taken action. * * & EDITOR'S NOTE —In order to get the question of Russian Ree- ognition vividly before its readers, the DAILY WORKER asked Alex- ander Trachtenberg, recently re- turned from Soviet Russia, for an article on this question, He re- views the situation as follows: ’ Nothing Succeeds Like Success. By ER TRACHTENBERG + © © Tz Czecho-Slovak Foreign Min- ister Benes was reported to have prophesied on New Year’s Day that the year 1924 will be remembered the re-establishment of complete Meenas relations between most of the European and Asiatic countries and Soviet Russia. Benes is one of those European foreign ministers who spends more Watch Them Fall in Line soot ae meat de S C tended de jure recognition to Russia, and haVe resumed diplo- matic relations with Soviet Russia, are as follows: t ESTHONIA, 1920. LATVIA, 1920. LITHUANIA, 1920. FINLAND, 1920. POLAND, 1921. TURKEY, 1921, PERSIA, 1921. AFGANISTAN, 1921. GERMANY, 1922. ENGLAND, 1924. ITALY, 1924. NORWAY, 1924, GREECE, 1924. NEXT? Countries having trade relati with Soviet Russia, and that extended de facto recognition, are as follows: AUSTRIA. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA. SWEDEN. DENMARK. CHINA. JAPAN. time traveling about foreign capi- tals than in staying at home, In addition to his aims of getting @ loan here and an agreement there, | for his government, Benes is trying to become a leader in the League of Nations by playing the role of paci- fier and ‘great statesman in Central Europe and the Balkans. Knew Whereof He Spoke. Being in close touch with the chancellors. of Europe, Benes knew what he was talking about, in utter- (Continued on Page’ 6.) Indiana Governor, Runs State Along Teapot Dome Lines pecial to The Daily “ Warker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 30. —Indorsemént on checks of the In- diana state board of agriculture made payable to the Discount and Deposit Bank at Kentland, Ind., were identified’ today as being in. the handwriting, of Governor McCray in the testimony of Amos D. Morris, former cashier of the bank, at the trial of the governor on lareeny and embezzlement charges, The checks totaled $155,009, the amount McCray is charged with em- bezzling. La Follet 4 eats WASHINGTON, D. C., March 30, Senator LaFollette, ill with pneu- monia, spent a comfortable n: ht, and his condition this morning was “sat- isfactory,” his physicians reported. poe OF | But Daugherty Isn’t the Only Skunk in the G 0.P. ‘Workers Suffer in West Va. and Pennsylvania | (Special to The Daily Worker) | CHARLESTON, W, Va., March 30. —Fifteen bodies. of the 26 miners jkilled Friday in a gas explosion ‘at the Yukon, Number 2, mine of {the Yukon-Pocahontas Coal Com- pany, have been brought to the sur- face. Rescue workers have penetrated far into the mine in search of the ad- ditional eleven bodies. The bureau of mines here was still without details of the disaster. Yukon, a mining settlement in Mc- Dowell county, is without telephone service’ and its only communication with the outside world is over rough mountain roads, The blast occurred just after the men entered the mine yesterday morning, about three quar- ters of a mile inside the mine. e 9 ‘ele JAMESTOWN, Pa., March 30.— Twenty miners occupying housed ‘of ithe Vinton Colliery Company, Vin- tondale, have been sérved eviction notices as result:of a strike at the mines there. Officials of district No. 2, United Mine Workers, one week ago protested the evictions to Gov. Pinchot, but the regular legal pro- cess is being followed out and notices to vacate within.a week have been served by the sheriff. Workers_Missing In Wreck. NEWARK, Ohio, March 30.—An engineer and a fireman are missing as a result of a Baltimore and Ohio freight train crashing thru a bridge at Locust Grove near here. Heavy rains last_night weakened the bridge supports. The missing men are En- gee Louise Haftle and Fireman H. F, Gardner, both of Newark. Section Hands Killed In Utah, PROVO, Utah, March 30.—Five railroad section hands were reported killed. and seven others injured to- day when an avalanche of snow, rocks and dirt descended upon a gang of fi clearing snow from tracks of the Denver and Rio Grande me railroad in Pyovo Canyon, 12 miles from here. Our Naturalization System. In the past five years over 85,000 petitioners for naturalization were denied citizenship for technical rea- sons which could have been cured be- fore the petitions came to hearing. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! COAL MINERS FEATHERS OF SCAB CROWE Slugger of Girl Strikers is Ex- posed by Gommittes State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe, strike-buster and slug- ger of garment girls, is de- nounced in a long statement issued Sunday by the “Commit- tee of 15” of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor. This statement, which, the DAILY WORKER is, publishing | in full, will be scattered far and wide fthruout, the city of Chicago to warn workingmen and women of the nature of the employers’ reptile in the state’s attorney’s office, who has turned the county prosecutors’ office over to Dudley Taylor, attorney for the garment bosses and the Illinois Employers’ As- sociation. Told To Get Goods On Crowe. The facts which the committee has gathered against the strike-breaking state’s attorney since they began their investigation Tear weeks ago at the orders of the Chicago Federation of Labor show that: Crowe has sold out to the gar- ment bosses and is seeking to break the strike of the sweatshop work- ers by wholesale arrésts and brut- ality; and that: Crowe is the enemy of all union rlabor and-is using the state's attor- ney’s office against the entire labor movement. The committee’s statement follows: + * * TEXT OF CROWE REPORT. O THE Chicago Federation of La- bor—Your Committee of Fifteen, appointed to investigate the State’s Attorney’s activities in the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strike, respect- fully submits the following report of its investigation: Your committee has found: (1) That State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe has openly and flagrantly permitted misuse of his office in the interests of the garment manu- facturers of this city; (2) That his record in the pres- ent Garment Workers’ strike is only one instance among. many other instances of the misuse of his office in the interests of the manu- facturer’s and employers’ associa- tions; (3) That in his adopting and fol- lowing of a brazen and militant policy against organized labor he has gone so far as virtually to turn over his office to the Employers’ Association and to Dudley E. Tay- lor, their attorney; (4) That he has been derelict in the carrying out of his primary duties and functions as the prose- cuting officer of crime; (5) That in spite of ‘the fact that Cook County has ‘appropriated more money yearly for the state’s attorney's office in the past four years than ever before, crimes of a major nature, including murder, have been committed and have gone unpunished to an appaling extent; (6) That the platform upon which Mr. Robert E. Crowe stands for re-election is an unveiled threat to breah the back of organized labor in Chicago, and that it is sup- ported by the interests represented by the notorious “Wheat King” James Patten, and by Dudley B. ‘Taylor, the “injunction” attorney for the Garment Manufacturer's Association and for other employ- ers’ asséciations, Crowe Found Guilty. Mr. Crowe stands convicted in the eyes of labor as one of labor's worst foes. He is convicted, not only by his own numberless utterances against organized labor, especially by his acts of relentless ¢ persecution, - In an election pamphlet entitled “Law Enforcement,” issued in Jan- uary, 1924, by the state’s attorney, he prints a number of excerpts from let- ters and Pro comments by a number of individuals, whose anti-labor poli- cies have become matters:of common|street, has near] knowledge. Most of these letters re-/'Tribune. fer by inference to his work on “labor cases.” The editorials which he| quotes, and in which he seems to (Continued on Page 2.) | he has not had any trouble with bootleggers, we have The Foul Press and the Garment Strike E garment strike must be going pretty strong. The bosses must be bending their knees before the strike forces. Victory must be percning on the banners of the strike pickets, in spite of city police and private thugs, in the face of Judge “Dennie” Sullivan’s injunctions, jail sen- tences and fines. Otherwise, why do the Tribune and the Herald and Examiner take such care to manufacture “an assassination plot” out of an alleged shooting at the home of one of the garment manufacturers, Saturday night? The Tribune stated that “Nicholas Kovler, clothing manufacturer, who has been one of the most active em- ployers in attempting to break the strike of the garment workers,” . “His wife, and a seven-year-old child were seated at a table in the dining room, and a maid was standing nearby when the bullets thudded against the wall. One of them embedded inself in the wall directly above Mr. Kovler’s head, while the other missed his wife by inches.” | SHATTERS TRIBUNE STORY | What a different story Mr. Kovler, himself, told directly to the DAILY WORKER. What a different setting for the Tribune’s “plot” the manufacturer himself gives. He states that his wife was in the kitchen, that the child was asleep in a bedroom, that he had himself left the room, and that the maid was leaving when the alleged shots were fired. This shatters completely the Tribune’s hair raising story, that it prominently displayed on the first page of its widely circulated Sunday issue. This was the first garment strike ‘story that had found its way to the first _ of the Tribune. Since Mr. Kovler assures the DAILY WORKER that. own theory about this shooting, ff there was any shooting, _which we even doubt. This theory has worked out success- “fully in previous labor struggles, and we refer it to the Chicago police, whom the Tribune claims are busy “bringing in all the business agents and active pickets in the garment workers’ unions.” ) FIRED BY PRIVATE DETECTIVES This theory is that some gunman in the pay of a fee- hungry private detective agency, that is getting fat off the strike, fired the shots. The strike has been going on for four and one-half weeks and the services of private thugs, gunmen and plug-uglies come rather high. The bank ac- counts of the bosses, therefore, who have been paying for the standing army of strike terrorists furnished by these private detective agencies, must be getting rather low. These private detective agencies know, that when the bosses begin getting weak around their check books, a few threatening letters, a few shots in the night, or into an empty room, or a little fake publicity in a daily newspaper, always helps to again start a flow of gold into their coffers. We do not doubt that this was the incentive back of the attack on the Kovler home. | MAKE THE FINKS CONFESS We suggest to the police department—especially to the sleuths of State’s Attorney Crowe’s office—that they raid the private detective agencies in the city, put their officials and gunmen thre the third degree, even as they grill innocent workers, and we assure theni that then they will come near to a solution of the shooting at the Kovler home on last Saturday night. But we do not expect them to do anything of the kind. That would help the strikers, and the city (democratic) and county (republican) administrations are against the strikers. But when the foul press and the bosses’ tools begin using these tactics, then one thing is sure, and that is— THE STRIKERS ARE WINNING. The frantic lies of the Tribune and Herald and — show that the garment bosses are waging a losing t. vat ae| ‘Union Shooting’? Story Shot To Pieces By Story (Garment Boss Kovler Tells The Daily Worker Nicholas Kovler, dress manu manufacturer, at 337 S. Market - ly as wild an imagination as the Chicago He has told half a dozen different stories since Saturday night, saying “the union” tried to shoot him at his home at (Continued on page 2.) 1 Webster Hall, New York City, April 2, Workers, Attend! fe —3 Serta TA COO u Tau