The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 31, 1924, Page 5

| 1 ! Monday, March 31, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER PUSHING WEEKS, MELLON INTO THE MAELSTROM Daugherty’s Exit Can’t Save Coolidge (Continued from page 1) sleeping hours of prominent graft- ers in the Republican Party. William J. Burns will soon follow Ha: Daugherty out into the cold world, William J. Flynr, Burns’ predecessor, is in clove touch with the situation in Washington and is assisting the “D. of J.” investiga- tors hoping that in the event of a Democratic victory that he will be back on his old joh again. But the workers have no more reason to love Flynn than they have to love Burns. Both are among the most contemptible creatures that ever trod the earth and should be behind the bars for their many crimes against the working class. The guns of the probers are now levelled at) Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon and John W. Weeks, secretary of war, In fact the be- whiskered secretary of state, Mr. Hughes, has finally been dragged into the quiz. A startling story— the most startling since the inve: tigation onened—was told last Sat- urday by Captain H. L, Scaife, for- mer Department of Justice inves- tigator, He stated on the witness stand before the committee investi- gating the Department of Justice that high government officials. were involved in a plot with the Japan- ese government and big manufactur- ers to deffaud the government of which they were mombers. Blames Crooked Politicians, Captain Scaife declared “as a re- sult of my investigations into the aircraft and other cases I became convinced that our government is being overthrown not by Bolsheviks but by crooked politicians.” This testimony has created ter- ror in the ranks of the big capital- ists who own both partics. At the very moment when the Department of Justice was combing the country for radicals, smashing labor unions and trying to fasten the Dupont Wall Street explosion on the Com- munists, the government was, thru its department heads actually en- gaging in illicit commerce with spies of the Japanese government and with agents of grafting con- cerns who were robbing the govern- ment of hundreds of millions of dol- lars. The effect of these revelations are of course fraught with danger to the present two-party system by which the ruling ¢a) shag came, ot this country . ains. its . po! eee yates frantic aj peals are being sent out from Re- publican headquarters calling for a let up on investigations, else there is danger that neither party can win out in the next election with the result that the election may be thrown into the house. A bill has been introduced which would permit congress to meet immediately after election and the inauguration of the president to take place on January 3 instead of March, as hitherto. Among the sensations in the tes- timony of Captain Scaife was the charge that the Losch Magneto Company, a German owned corpor- ation was sold to she firm of Horn- blower and Weeks---Secretary of War Week’s concern—for over two million dollars less than its stock was valued at. The captain’s testimony was, in brief, as follows: 1. That Attorney General Daugh- erty was connected with a plot to defraud ithe. government’ in the Bokeh Magneto case. T. B. Felder, law partner of Daugherty, assured Seaife that the attorney general had come to ‘terms with the company. Felder offered, Scaife $10,600 for his silence. Feider made the agreement with Daughrty on ay 5, 1922. (That was three months before raided the Communist convention Bridgeman on a charge that it w: engaged ina plot to overthrow the government.) The sale of the Rosch Magneto Company was financed by the bank- SAVE MONEY! Best Make Sewing Machines $10, $15, $20 5 year guarantee—City wide delivery 970 MILWAUKEE AVENUE Phone Monroe 4630 DO YOUR WORK AT J. KAPLAN’S ‘CLEANERS AND DYERS EXPERT LADIES’ AND GENTS’ TAILOR 3646 ARMITAGE AVE. Albany 9400 Work Called For And Delivered Being the continuation of the re- port given by Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, chairman of the Commun- ist International, at the city meet- ing of the Collective Bureaus of the Leningrad Communist Party Organization. if *. IV. Composition of Our Party. W HY may we not allow the for- mation of fractions or groups? Besides the reasons already given, we heve additional motives for not allowing this, Consider, for instance, the inner situation of our Party, re- member the difference in age of its members, the division of work ob- taining in the Party, and the num- Bers of its personnel, Our Party is the largest in the world. It takes the first place among all the parties in the Comin- tern. Whatever faults it may have, it was the first to carty out a great reyolution, and has now held its po- sition at the head of the victorious working class of Russia, for seven years. However, many’ weak points we may discover in it, it possesses other, and so strong points, that these latter outweigh the former a million times, Age of Members. Let us look at the Party as it really is. Above’ all, let us take into consideration the various ages of its members. Before the year 1905 there were 2,517 active mem- bers in our Party, vetween 1905 and 1916 7,916 joined, in the *year 1917 85,154, in the year 1918 63,643, and in the year 1919 107,840, in the year 1920 121,789, in 1921 40,419; in 1922 there were scarcely any new members admitted. Seven thousand members joined without the year of their admittance being noted. This record comprises, after all Party purgings, 360,000 members. Up to the year 1916 we had 10,000 ing house of the present secretary of war, 2. That in 1922 wnen relations with Japan: were critica: Daugherty had evidence that Japanese spies were taking pictures of the fortifi- cations along the cost line of the United States but no preventive Measures were taken by the attor- ney general. That the Standard Air craft corpcration which had charge cf making airplanes for the govern- ment during the war was owned by the Mitsui company of Japan, which in turn was an agency of the Jap- anese government in this country, and thru which they paid their spies. This company gave a bribe of $100,009 to Daugherty and Jess Smith to call off the prosecution. The prosecution was called off. So startling was the testimony 6f this former D. of J. man that the revelations of Nicholas Cimine of New York attracted little notice, tho n. ordinary times: they would get-a big press. He’ told of meeting with Howard Mannington’ and Daugherty to secure the appointment of a liquor man as immigration commissioner in New York. In return for this work he received around $1,500. Meanwhile the Democrat sappers are busy undermining the position of Mr. Mellon. They hold that his con- nection with the bootleggers renders him unfit for office, A resolution was introduced in the senate calling for an investigation of his office, ere is a statute, more honored in the breach than in the observance,-which prohibits—but does not prohibi anyone connected with mercantile or commercial corporations from occu- pying the position of secretary of the tweasury. Other cabinet members slated for a scourging are Wallace, Hoover and Work, Howard Mannington, once private agent of Harding and the writer of most of his pre-election speeches is on his way from Paris where he has been in hiding. He is wanted by both the Daugherty and Teapot Dome committees. Tho Coolidge dropped Daugherty from the cabinet, their relations can be judged by the fact that the graft- ing ex-attorney general will be a Coolidge delegate at large on the ticket to be voted in the Ohio pri- maries April 29, with the blessing of the White House. Thus it is clearly evident that Coolidge merely let Daugherty go, hoping to appease pop- ular clamor for a head, but with the mental reservation that in the event of Coolidge’s re-election the ex-attor- ney general would cabinet, perhaps, as prohibition di- rector. tinues to grind out sensation after sensation and the end is not yet in sight. New evidence has come to Senator Thomas J. concerning the “Million Dollar Vote Bribe” story of Al Jennings, two-gun politician from the West. If confirmation of the information now in Walsh’s hands is received, a| % subpoena for two or three prominent men who knew of developments at . UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS be in the next] ticipate, The Teapot Dome committee con- rt members; in the yeur 1917, 30,000. All other members were admitted later, the overwhelming majority in the years 1919 and 1920, What does it signify when the membership of a party is thus con- stituted? Every party has its history. Our Party has a very peculiar history, The history of our Party. comprises the brief period of 2¢ to 25 years, and almost the whole of its membership is terribly young, and has only belonged to the Party for two or three years, This is nat- urally the result of the fact that we were. working underground for 20 years ‘under czarism at the task of laying the foundations of the Party, and during this time it was impos- sible for great masses to join the Party. One hundred thousand — per- sons joined the Party botween 1917 and 1918, More Agrarians. This was the generation which the party’ had reared during the period of its illegal activity, during the period of the “Iskra,” the “Pravda” and the “Svesda,” until October, and a little later than Oc- tober, These members total one- quarter of the membership of the Party, but three-quarters are quite new comrades, who have joined since 1919, and who possess splendid qual- ities, for they have passed thru the school of revolution, the school of the civil war. We. know that they possess strong points putting any other experience in the shade. But there is some- thing which they do not possess, comrades—and’ it is their misfor- tune and not their fault that they do not possess it—and that is the knowledge of the history of the Party, of the whole traditions of the Party, of that holding together the last Republican national conven- tion will be issued today. Jennings charged on the witness stand that the late Jake Hamon told him of a million dollar deal to elect President Harding, whereby Hamon was to get the secretaryship of in- terior and lease the government oil lands to private interests. Will Hays, who was ché?¥géd by Jennings with getting $25,000 of the million, also will go on the stand next week to be questioned regard- ing his vehement denial of the story. Whistle for Robots Blows April 20th at - Chicago Turner Hall The new Labor Production of Karel Capek’s great Robot play “R. U. R.” will have its first Chicago presenta- tion on Sunday afternoon, April 20, in North Side Turner Hall, 820 N. Clark St. A™ second performance will be given Wednesday evening, April 23, in C. 8. P. S. Hall, 1126 W. 18th St. Several ingovations have been in- troduced in the Labor Production of “R, U. R.” which represents daring "departures from the method used by the Theatre Guild in its grains of the play. No liberties have beei taken with the author’s manuscript. On the contrary, certain devices of setting and costume have been adopted which will serve to bring out the real meaning of Karel Capek’s significant dialogue. The cast has been rehearsing for several weeks. The Robots have be- come so imbued with the spirit of their role that it has actually be- come necessary to blow a big, hoarse factory whistle “so that they will know when to stop work.” Tickets for all performances sell for 75 cents. They can be secured from the Labor Defense Council, Room 307, 166 W. Washington St, Boston Workers Plan Several Affairs in Next Two Months The Workers Party of Boston, Mass., has mapped out a program of activities for the next two months. The dates and places are as follows: Friday, April 11—“The Freiheit” Celebra- by the Jewish C. C. C., at —Grand Con- given by Local Boston, at Dudley St. oe House, 113-119 Dudley St., Roxbury, Combined Chorus of Lett it Roxbury, ape 18 nN | Workers’ Ad-| Alliance in America, gele Within the Russian Party which only the long years of under- ground work under the heavy yoke of ezarism could have brought abouté Further, comrades,’ you must ob- serve. the following circumstance: Until the year 1917 our Party was predominantly a labor party: There were only about 2 per vent peasantry in the Party. Since 1917 and 1918 we have a large number of peasants in our midst—66,000 party members who till the soil, whilst at one time we had only a handful cf peasants among us, The Various Strata. This is a very considerable strat- um of a new class, Besides this, we have a number of | followers who go with us without exactly sharing our convictions. The Mensheviki, form ped the greater part of this description of followers, but now that we are in possession of power, a part of them follow us. Great mass organizations have sprung up around us, as for instance, the Russian Communist Youth Union. This is a magnificent organization, but it too has its faults, and it has members simply follow the crowd. Besides this, comrades, we must consider, the question of division of work in. our Party, I shall try to name the most important categories. We have “Party workers’ (of these I shall speak in further detail later), that.is, workers immediately occupied in the Party apparatus. And then we have Soviet adminis- trators, Party admini union administrators. Further, economists, specialists, officials—representatives of the Peoples’ Commissariats, etc. And then we have snilitary work- ers, comrades working in work shops, 66,000 comrades — following the plough, an extensive group of WORKERS HOLD SPORTING MEET IN NEW YORK Plan to Call National Conference who 4 rators, trade Party. members attending educa-! tional institutions, the students, whom I shall also mention again | later on. I have recounted the main groups only. Small Number of Old Guard. We can. thus see that there is a great division of labor in the Party; and this cannot be otherwise, as we are governing a great state. This division of work has its advantages, but it has its negative aspects as well. cialized in some particular line, and is unable to form a clear survey of other lines, Now, comrades, look at our party as it is. Of the old guard there remains only a small group of 10,000 men. An enormous number of new members have joined, who have been steeled in the Are of civil’ war, but lacking in adequate preparation and real party schooling. ‘ There hag been an enormous influx of peas- antry, many other followers have joined us because’ we were success- ful, the division of work has en- sued. Is it not inevitable that there must be tendencies in the party which strive towards schism Splits are possible with reference to the Soviets or to the party; a rupture may take place between the old main body of the party and the younger section; it is also possible that Breaches take place in economic and productive matters, or in trade. union affairs, Thus we have three possibitities of schism and decay. We are hold- ing all these trends together with one single clamp—with party disci- pline, with the decisions of the Party Congresses which hold the staff of the Party together. Imag- ine what would be the result, were we to add to’ all these fundamental tendencies still one more—the ten- dency to split into groups. What would happen then? Fate of Party at Stake. It would mean the decay of the Party, so much we muvt candidly admit to ourselves. It is not a ques- tion of whether we allow or do not allow this or that person to “join” someone else for the purpose of the existence of the Party itself; the fate of the whole Party is at stake. And therefore we ask the ques- tion, whether the decisions for which Comrade Lenin fought, could only be defended by him alone; must Every comrade becomes spe- | — GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros. done Hours: P 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE. DR. 8803 ROOSEVELT RD. Nii ATALE OF TWO REPUBLICS Mar. 31 HERRIN, ILL., Annex Theatre Apr. 1 BENTON, ILL., Star Theatre, 2 P. M. rg 1 JOHNSTON CITY, ILL., Palace Theatre, 8 P. M. ” 2 W. 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Afternoons, 1 to $ and 7 to 9 p. m. why there is no Revolution in Germany why there is hunger and despair in Germany how Russia is slowly building herself up the contrast between the two most talked of Countries in Europe RUSSIA and GERMANY EIGHT REELS OF MOVIES To Be Shown KINCAID, ILL., Kincaid Theatre we cancel them, or shall they con. tinue? By EMIL TOIKKA. (Special to The Daily Worker? NEW YORK, March 30th.—The Workers Sport Conference, call fork which was published in a recent is- held on Sunday, March 23rd, at the Workers Party Finnish headquarters, New York. Organizations Represented, The following organizations were represented at the conference: Williamsburg English Branch, reps resented by Al Furman; Hungarian Young Workers Athletic Club, repre- sented by S, Kisza; Athletic Club Kaleva, of Brooklyn Finnish Branch of Workers Party represented by A. Rasp and H. Wigell; Jugo-Slav Sport Club, represented by J. Duimovich; Czecho-Slovak Workers’ Gymnastic Federation rep-~ resented by F, Modrovisky. Ukrainian Branch of Workers Party represented by Shalagan; Athletic League of Workers Party Finnish Federation represented by A. Wax; Oriental Branch of Workers Party represented by D. Yamashima; Scandinavian Branch of Workers Party, represented by E. Mattson; Workers Party, Finnish Branch of Jamaica represented by K. Kuusisto; Athletic Club Vesa of the Harlem Finnish Branch of Workers Party represented by John Abrahams; Jew- ish Branch of Workers Party No. 2 Bronx represented by Freda Siegel; Harlem English Branch of Young Workers’ League represented by James Geraghty. After a lively discussion about workers’ sports, which took up two or three hours’ time, it was decided to call a National Workers’ Spors Conference. All delegates were in favor of the policies of the Red Sport International of Moscow. A provisional Executive commit- tee of five was elected and instructed to issue the call for a workers’ sport conference for the purpose of organ- izing a Workers Sport and Athletic The P. E. C. was also instructed to carry on in- tensive propaganda for the workers’ Hall, | sports. Entertaining Program. After the conference many of the delegates participated in the watt | elebration arranged by the Athletic Club Vesa of Harlem Finnish Branch of Workers Party, A very fine pro- m was arranged in which over a “neg 1d gymnasts took part. In the were members from the Sport Club, the Czecho- ni sue of the DAILY WORKER, was} (To Be Continued Tuesday.) TH 190 MILITANT ‘Trial Subscription Goupon! | Enclosed please find $1.00 for two months subscription to THE DAI- | LY WORKER to be sent to: i, | | STREET NO. ........ 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