The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 1, 1924, Page 1

———— Workers! Farmers! Demand: sve Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Reennition af Srviet Russia THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, MIlinois; under the Act of March 3, 1879. TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1924 «ep , pn i Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. VOL. II. No. 13. OOVER AIDED ANTISOVIET WAR (Special to the DAILY WORKER by Our Own Washington Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 31,—Charges made by Captain H. L. Scaife, former Department of Justice agent, that the American Relief Administration, in 1919, on orders of Herbert Hoover, now Secretary of Commerce, diverted $1,000,000 worth of supplies intended for starving Russian civilians to the counter-revolutionary leader, Admiral Kolchak, at Archangel, may be investigated by the Senate Daugherty Committee. Scaife, in his testimony before the committee Saturday, made: passing reference to a and later amplified his statement. Hoover, Scaife said, ordered a whole atle a counter-revolutionary associate of Kolchak, at Archangel. The’ supplies, he said, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year Subscription Rate! Price 3 Cents “diversion of funds by the administration to finance a revolution in Russia,” of trucks, medicines, food, clothing and hospital supplies turned over to Gen. Yudenitch, were carried in a shipping board vessel, commanded by Captain James E. Martin. Garment Strike Leader Kidnaped by Crowe’s Office SINCLAIR IS INDICTED FOR FRAME-UP ON CONTEMPT OF OIL PROBERS: BEALIS, JOINT HIDES HIS PRIVATE AFFAIRS (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 31.—Harry F. Sinclair was in- dicted today by the Federal Grand Jury on a charge of! con- Hidden From Friends Who Seek His Release tempt of the Senate oil investigators. Sinclair refused to answer the questions on the ground Sergeant Patrick Collins and Detective William Schroeder, that the committee—or any congressional committee—was from the office of strike-buster | onveHERTY quiz T0 GONTINUE DESPITE HIS RESIGNATION (Special to The Deily Worker) WASHINGTON, /March 31.—At an executive session called for the Purpose of planning its future course, the Senate Daugherty in- vestigating committee today decid- ed to continue its ing without regard for the rasig of At. torney General Daugherty. : Tho some members favor slow- ing up proceedings with a view to an early halt of the probe, it was decided by the committee to go ahead for the time being at least as if nothing had happened. With this decided, the committee THE SO-CALLED MAJES TY OF THE LAW without constitutional authority to compel a man to divulge his private affairs. Involved in the long legal fight which is expected to follow is the important point of authority of congressional investigat- ing committees—a point which never: before has been finally decided by the courts. ¢ | 4 State’s Attorney Robert E, Crowe’s office, invaded the Chi- cago headcuarters of the Inter- national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, at 328 'W. Van Buren street, late yesterday and kidnapped Morris Bealis, manager of the Chicago Joint Board. tomorrow will continue ite hearing of Captain H. L. Scaife, former <p- partment of justice agent, and thereafter Gaston B, Means on the stand again. RECOGNITION OF Sinclair must appear volun- tarily before the court for a re- arrangement of bail or a war- rant will be issued for his ar- rest. The indictment specifically charged Sinclair with ten counts, nine for as many questions which he refused to answer before the committee and the FRENCH PREMIER TREMBLES WHEN | DEPUTIES JEER on a ee ae that he vio- . ated Section 102 of the revised slams EN al sieves sai ta RUSSIA NEARER statutes in failing to answer any|Much Laughter Over ait <a RL ONe any . - formal charge against him ai without bail. Rushed first to the State’s Attor- ney’s offices in the Criminal Court BY CANONS Ac | question, he indictment chargé was as fol- lows: “That Harry F. Sinclair did-unlaw- His MinisteriaiList PARIS, March 31.—Premier Poin- warts oe , aa suf fully refuse to answer such ques- ie Chee Aeon reception from uilding he was nsferred from * tions against the dignity of the Unit-| the mber of Deputies today when are to the East Chicago police Pressure on Washington ed States and contrary to the form of| he read his ministerial declaration station. Habeas Corpus Writ Doesn't Help. Strikers and union officials who demanded to see him and members of his far ‘ly were coldly denied ad- Grows Stronger . By LUDWELL DENNY. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Preps) the statute of the same in such case was made and provided.” The indictment was returned be- fore supreme court justice Hits of the and presented the new Cabinet. Frequent interruptions and laughter came from the left benches. Poincare was not his old fighting self. His NE K. oReeéieni- District of Columbia Court. It cites hands trembled and he trittance. Attorney W. G. sp acsoede abies Oe Been ee aouce eee legal documents in connection with|*®PPeared noticeably over-strained. f ang gg age! | 2a" aay ye rerg PREP SN Er ren: Solace ag ce the leases including the original ex-| , Angry at his interruptors, the corpus writ from Superior Court result of the impending recognition ecutive order of President Harding remier. stopped reading. j pee pes Wg Team’ ne ae of Moscow by Canada, in the opinion transferring the jurisdiction of the| “Canaille! (name of = dog),” lowed the detectives to work’ their will on him all night. Held For Koyler “Shooting.” Bealis is held on “suspicion” of being connected with the “assasina- tion plot” again Nicholas Kovler, dress manufacturer whose. shooting of the committee of representative American business men who have been working for the last year to smoke Secretary Hughes out of his anti-Russian position. American Exporters Restive. Since London and Rome renewed posed | relations with the Kremlin to the ad- Frae: onc peated ce ne ab vantage of British and Italiqn busi- The DAILY WORKER got a defi- |n@ss men, American exporters and in- nite statement from Mr. Rovler that |Vestment interests have grown in- he was not in the room into which |¢reasingly restive under the handi- two shots were alleged to have been|C@PS imposed on them by the stub- fired and that he had never been threatened by any union men. tectives, however, were quoted saying that they intended to arrest union officials in connection with the shooting. At Detective’s Mercy, Bealis is held for “investigation.” That means for the “gold fish” room, the “sweat box.” He .is held all night there at che merey of the most callous bunch of labor hating detectives in America, De. | U. S. state department, That Cana- born and short-sighted policy of the dian business-men are now to get in ahead of them is the last straw in breaking the patience of the New York capitalists whose agents report that Russia is the only country in Europe on the up-grade and there- fore the safest field for trade and in- vestment. “In the best interests of both coun- tries” Canada is prepared to recog- nize the Russian government. Prem- ier King has written to A. Yasikov, FARMER-LABOR PARTY RILED AT LEADERS’ ACTION Charge Fitzpatrick Is Violating Party Rule A serious ‘division *has’ arisen in |, the Cook County branch of the Farm- er-Labor Party of the United States over the action of John Fitzpatrick “IT AS A PERFECTLY LOGICAL SITUATION,” ~-UOHN FITZPATRIGK Resolution of Ilinois State Fed- eration of Labor indorsed by John i patrick and Edward N. Noc- le: j “Resolved that the nomination of the three candidates (Small, Jenkins: and Kellar) is hereby. urged. Further resolved that trade unionists in all congressional. and senatorial districts be and hereby yr urged to support these candi- tes,” 4 naval oil reserves from the navy to the interiér department. EXPECT STRIKE OF COAL MINERS IN SOUTHWEST Expect 45,000 Workers To Walk Out KANSAS CITY, Mo:, March: 31,— Unless.a ‘new ‘agreemént’ between miners arid mine owners - on* wages It also contained copies of the various resolutions passed by the sen- ate empowering the Public Lands Committee to investigate the leases and Section 102 of the revised sta- tutes which states that any wituvess failing to answer questions before a congressional investigating .commit- tee can be indicted by the grand jury for contempt. The indictments was as follows: “The Grand Jury for the United States of America impanelled and sworn in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia presents that for many years past the govern. ment of the United States has been greatly disturbed by the progres- sive diminution of the supply of petroleum from which are derived fuel oil, gasoline and other valu- able products indispensably neces- sary to the operation of naval ves- sels and consequently have been |shouted Deputy Lacotte, radical lead- er, “cannot we laugh?” Poincare retorted that he would re-read his sentences each time there was an) interruption. There were plenty of these and at one time he read a phrase seven times. The Premier shook with rege as Radical deputies ridiculed his an- nouncement of the new ministers, because four of them were Poin- care’s opponents and politicians feel he has made a political compromise. Mussolini Hopes for Uprising of Middle Class in England LONDON, Mar, 31.—Premier Mus- solini of Italy foresees “sooner or later” an uprising of the middle class- es in England in a somewhat different form from the Fascist revolution, Sir Eric’ Hambro, prominent British banker, said today in an interview. r Me. i ’ is reached- by midnight,-strike of ed in ‘the subject of Sir Eric referred to a recent con- | EP es ge ri ag't AILY |Moscow representative in Montreal,|and E. ¥ Nockels, original founders | Pe oe af be nid Pri eae 45,000 workers. will be» ordered in ation and e ic -|versation with the Italian premier in WORKER got a statement from the |8¢coTding to reports reaching here.|of the Farmer-Labor movement,’ in +the Farmer-Lebor Party of the |>outhwest coal mines, immediately,| production, handling, use and stor- |which Mustolini visualized an entire head of the garment bosses that im. | Tis action comes as the result of six going. directly against the ruling of Autiod Buchan’ “Fac the Gecieus union leaders here said today. of oils for that purpose, es. | urope under the spell of Fascism. plied he had guilty knowledge of weeks of negotiations between the, the Executive Board of. the Farmer- ated “Swi the | ubove re@eiation A sub-committee . appointed to| pecially with reference to occur- “The keynote of fascism is realiza- foe Movter thes Ne ial ie Montreal government and the Rus-|Labor Party: by indorsing old- party adopted’ by tiie: oxouttedlbéned'ct outline .a program. reached an f such supply on the pub- | tion that capital is the friend of the This was Frank Mitchel, of the dressmaking firm that takes his name and head of the Chicago As- sociation of Dress Manufacturers . (Continued on page 2.) Arkansas Families sian trade mission which it invited to Canada. nounces that he is read: @ political mission and cabled the invitation to Foreign Min- ister Chicherin in Moscow. to recei ‘asikov_ has Oil Seandal Help. With the U. S. ae epartment Premier King now an-|8. politicians. in-the primaries: on April At their last. meeting, March 14, the executive board, with sixteen out of twenty-one «present, ‘among the conspicuous absentees being Fitz- patrick “and- Nockels, ‘unanimously passed’ the following motion: “That ‘trade uvion ‘executives de hereby the Illinois State Federation of La- bor on March 17, the undersigned urge thet trade unionists partici- pate in the primaries April 8, in support of Jenkins, Small Kel. lar.” Signéd’ by Nockels and Fitz. agreement on procedure which. was presented to the Joint conference of operators and union ‘representatives. The present contract. expires at midnight. eo Re Striking London questions which Sinclair refused to answer and closed with the formal indictment of Sinclair, How many of your shop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get people,” Mussolini said, according to the banker. “For this reason they will eventually succeed in eliminating oppressive taxation from capital, thereby hastening a revival of indus- try.” Sir Eric predicted that Mussolini would have no difficulty in balancing under investigation by the senate for |all members’ atid friends ofthe Farm.| PAKick among ovbers: | Tram Workers:Vote |one of them to subscribe today. the Italian budget, with such views, n a ver rms passed by Children’s Quarrel i complicity in the oil scandals, and ae sodasiiee soe tite’ United: States, 14 sseeulive/ beard, County To A Te . ere alnend’, Now York, the gusbiite'ts|[Parmer-tabor Party. of the: Unitel| ‘the United, States—Fitepetrick pata, One of Morgan’s Coal Combines BOONRVILLE, Ark, March 81.— |pelen 12 New Tore, ee poeetalty is Geates 0. the, political expreasion ec] ¢t being conspicuously | LONDON, March 31. —Striking thao pipes was killed and be ere canes may soon be anxious to lighten his|the organized labor movement (city}, Pane ‘of the ri schon trauch fats "ae a seenen cher Announ ces 2 00% Dividend ' familtes were wounded in the renewel | PAC ee ee ae ant EEG rll nce eatheene [0k thei Rakmetkeber Party of the iineir tscders HE ta a oe Etre of a foud in Lick Creek Valley near hea] pe boon so successful |thenioal vas? ANY DISREPU-| Unite é * |week. Work will’ be-resumed tomor- WILKES-BARRE, Pa,, March 81,—There’s to be another melon | here. Ca) firt in Canada find the Washing-| TABLE CITY AND STATE OFFI-| row. cutting party in the coal industry. Stockholders of the Lehigh & | ft The M iene, ng from their Son ctfinate’ ble might relieve|CIALS,” f mers : 5 Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. one of the largest of Morgan’s anthracite \ house a the Van Allens, barricad- the yard vay " Rak -one “* Defied’ Party. a np Mla at 3h LaFollette Improves, combine, have just voted for a 200% stock dividend. And when the if bd heey - stent. fire ae source of inereasing criticism. It is] In direct defiance of this ruling of| ¢, aiid Teli ieovecabet (rural |_| WASHINGTON, ‘March 31.—Im-|| directors get around to declaring it the slices will be distributed to P| Facog spent eae tt ti fi inted out here also that Senator|their party -Fitepatzick and EB. a city. workers) and it is to be |Provement in the condition of Sen-|| the small wealthy clique who have owned the anthracite industry im ded. ey #8'Borah, leading advocate of Russian|N, Nockels, @ communication] hoped that will not entangle |4tor Robert M. LaFollette continued || since the 1890's and have made pretty sure that the gilt-edged secur- wus nt menlly arose over a trivial |Tecognition, has recently been taken which wren via publicity in the] themselves: with any disrep' today. LaFollette spent a comfortable ities did not get out into plebian hands. i tter. Sam McCarson, 12, and|into the confidence of the Coolidge Frac hen by urging that] city or state officials.” day Sunday and rested ‘well last The bg gas year nap a $40 so dividend on each $50 RR Re A gees Shea Romi a made | «eee wtieearte |e ; Co a pe — pay ORR Be ng be i} Bin su 9 ty P ane ‘Siblainincnihegalanania & E called Sam's eller sister “bad names” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! " (Continued ‘perfectly logical situation.” BURNS MUST GO! y of John Brown” Appears on Page Six Werte ae Co AY ad \ " a