The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 2, 1924, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday, April 2, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. Fe ante Nine rein nccanenes Sah abl Sein <<lheatroteminecapatnlinaeses Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill, (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: 36.00 per year $3.50..6 months $2.00..8 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .8 months $8.00 per year Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER 1640 N. Halsted Street J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ J. LOEB.. Entered as second-class mail Sept. ‘21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 3, 1879. SB 306 Adverti Chicago, Illinois dececieecvceveces Editors Business Manager ing rates on application. Hoover Exposed That Herbert Hoover, now Secretary of Commerce in the-Coolidge cabinet, while head of the American Relief Administration, which had séveral millions of dollars at its disposal intended for the starving people of Russia during the period of the great famine in 1919, diverted a million dollars from that fund to the notorious brigand and counter-revolutionist Admiral Kolchak, for the purpose of creating civil war in Russia is the startling testimony given by Captain H. L. Scaife, former Depart- ment of Justice agent, before the senate com- mittee investigating Dawgherty, in Washington. {When Hoover was appointed director of the American Relief Administration, the Commun- ists pointed out that Hoover would do the very thing he has now been charged with by a gov- ernment agent, who is not a Communist or a radical of any school. The Communists pointed to Mr. Hoover’s record in Hungary, where, his agent Gregory, a Hoover tool, used the funds of the relief ‘organization to overthrow the Soviet Republic under Bela Kun and place the dictator Admiral Horthy in power. ‘The blood- thirsty admiral murdered thousands of work- ers and the blood of every mother’s son of them is on the head of Herbert Hoover. So Hoover tried the same game in Russia! . The Communists warned the American work- ers that behind the cloak of humanitarianism, with which the designs of the American cap- italists were hidden, was the sinister intention to Sebap advantage of the frightful calamity which visited the workers of Russia, to sabo- tage their government and turn the country over to the tender mercies of the Czarist gen- eral who would consent to sell its resources to the American plunderers for whom Hoover was acting. es The American workers, to their eternal glory he said, heeded the warning of the Commun- ists and sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Russian workers without any conditions, to save millions of Russian workers and peas- ants from a lingering death by hunger and, more important still, to save the revolution. Thanks to the aid of the workers of all lands the Soviet Government was able to foil Mr. Hoover’s plots, and the workers of this country feel proud that thru the Friends of Soviet Russia they did their share in saving the Workers Republic in its most critical hour. Now, the entire country knows what the Communists knew four years ago. Hoover is charged with a crime compared to which the direliction of Fall is trivial. He misappropri- ated at least one milliog dollars of the fund consigned to his care for the relief of distress. He attempted to overthrow a government with which the people of the United States were at peace, which they were in fact saving from the curse of famine. Crimes greater than these no man could commit. Hoover’s crime is but another example of the treachery of capitalist governments and their unrelenting determination to crush the rule of the workers. This further proof should increase the determination of the workers and exploited farmers of America to get rid of the capitalist class and establish a Soviet govern- ment. The DAILY WORKER published the com- plete report of the ‘Committee of 15,” of the Chicago Federation of Labor,- attacking the conduct of the state’s attorney’s office in the garment strike, in our Monday morning edi- tions. The Herald and Examiner trailed along with a paragraph about the report in its Tues- day’sissue. Better read the DAILY WORKER and get the news while it is news. Among those who have mourned the death of Barney Bernard, is Bernard McFadden, owner of several health and beauty magazines. Barney’s picture was featured in one of the health magazines as a typical example of what a person can do for his body by following the advice of McFadden and subscribing to his literature. Everybody must die, of course, but it is rather hard on McFadden. The Shah of Persia got his name in the papers about six months ago when he con- tributed a new wrinkle to the terpsicorean art in a Casino at Deauville, France. Again he got a little publicity not so much on the occasion of losing his throne. The poor Shah now sheds salt tears over his misfortune. Like a weeping Jerry he sits in his apartment near the Bois de Boulogne. Cheer up, prince. The worst is yet to come, A prince with a head these days has some- thing to be thankful for. @& JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY -@g A Fit Defender If the American workers need any further proof of the moral turpitude of ex-attorney general Harry M. Daugherty, and his eminent unfitness for holding any public office higher than superintendent of a public convenience station, they are referred to the March 31st issue of the Herald and Examiner of Chicago. William Randolph Hearst, the champion journalistic prostitute of America, if not of the world, has written over his own signature aj lengthy editorial scoring the committee which is investigating Daugherty and his deeds, de- claring that to date they have not produced any evidence of an incriminating character against the ex-attorney general and charging that the attack on him is due to the alleged fact that he was a “friend of the people” and not a corporation lawyer. The readers of the American mess have long ago ceased to place any credence in the declarations of William Randolph Hearst. They are interested in his defense of Daugh- erty only to the extent of having their curiosity aroused over the secret back of the yellow journalist’s defense of the notorious grafter and strikebreaker. Not so very long ago ft was whispered around the Capitol that the publisher and Mr. Daugherty were bitter enemies. One of Mr. Hearst’s champion muckrakers was put to work ‘jgetting the goods” on the then attorney general. As the story goes Arthur Brisbane, Hearst’s ““Good Man Friday,” visited Washing- ton, had a conference with Mr. Daugherty and the expose, partly set up in type, was killed and never appeared. (What is the deal between Hearst and Daugherty? Mr. Hearst has extensive inter- ests in Mexico. Did he secure the aid of the Department of Justice in rivetting the chains of bondage on the Mexican peons? Mr. Hearst saw nothing heinous in Daugh- erty’s strikebreaking activities. He saw noth- ing heinous in his setting the machinery of his spy agency in motion to smash up the shop- men’s strike. There was nothing offensive to the sensitive nostrils of Hearst in Daugherty’s association with the scourings of the under- world, the grafter Jess Smith, the immoral debaucher Jake Hamon, and the hundreds of others who hovered around the Capitol since he got into office, like buzzards around a battlefield. & William Randolph Hearst is a very fitting defender for the disgraced ex-attorney gen- eral. Much tho we despise Daugherty we cannot help extending our condolences to him for his new-found friend... To have lost a com- paratively companion like the burglars’ “fence” Jess Smith only to be obliged to lean on William Randolph Hearst is a punishment that would melt the heart of even a plundered bootlegger. The Booze Secretary Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treas- ury and one of the wealthiest men in the United States, is charged with getting a share of the graft of several unsavory bootlegging deals thru his power to grant permits for liquor removals, under the Volstead Act, the enforcement of which the Treasury Depart- ment is charged with. Several witnesses testifying before the com- mittee to investigate Harry M. Daugherty, stated that Mellon owns a big distillery in Pittsburgh and that one of the first big pieces of graft that came the way of the new booze aristocracy had its origin in the whiskey fac- tory of our very respectable Secretary of the Treasury. It is an axiom that crooks never trust each other. It is not surprising, therefore, to learn that shortly after Mellon accepted his present post, President Harding sent a corps of spies on his trail to get the “goods on him.” ‘They failed the first time. Mellon slipped thru the lines. The second time, the sleuths got on his track, they nabbed him. Harding kept the “goods” in his safe, no doubt, for use, in an emergency. The workers and farmers of the country did not know anything about this until Gaston B. Means delivered the “goods” on the witness stand in Washington. | The capitalists who run this country were quite disturbed over the exposure of Mellon as a common booze-running grafter. It hurt the dignity of the office. Fancy a man who had charge of the nation’s money being mixed up in booze peddling! Violating the rules he act- ually made himself, for a few hundréd thou- sand dollars or a few millions! This was strik- ing pretty near the roots of capitalist govern- ment. It must be stopped. The workers would lose confidence in the “respectability” of their rulers. told to take his burglar’s tools along with him, Mellon was slated for the skids. But imme- diately the capitalist press, democrat and re- publican, began to lay down a heavy barrage behind the Booze Secretary of the Treasury. Cartoonists and hack writers were called into play and it looks as if millionaire Mellon’s dough will choke off the moral indignation of the democratic snipers. After all this reign of terror against the republican grafters could be carried -so far that it might threaten the existence of both capitalist parties. A united front of capitalists to save Mellon is being formed. The men who own this country do not like to see their polit- ical lap dogs in Washington getting out of hand. It spoils their game. So they are now| The majority of — cracking their whips over the heads of the |*partments and fate noisy democrats and goading the frightened republicans into a more aggressive attitude. | 1 \ After Daugherty was handed his hat ana|it “The Story of John Brown” This is “The Story of John Brown,” by Michael Gold, _ Pub- lished by the DAILY WORKER thru arrangement with Haldeman- Julius Company, of Girard, Kans. Copyrighted, 1924, by Haldeman- Julius Company. e ae J OHN BROWN, JR., and Jason, Brown, two of the fighter’s sons, were captured hy Missour- jans and suffered ineredible tor- tures after the Pottawatomie af- fair. Both men were burning with fever, but they were drag- After Pottawatomie. ged at the ends of ropes for two or three days, beaten, hung up and let down, and then chained to ox carts in the wind and rain. John, Jr., always of a nervous temperament, went temporarily insane ander this treatment, but his captors had no mercy. Tho he shrieked wildly, and tho | his brother. Jason begged that the Southerners have ity, their hearts were hard as flint. , The following scene is describ- ed by Jason: Brutality of Stockholders. “Captain Wood said to me: ‘Keep that man still.’ ‘I can’t keep an insane man still,’ said I. ‘He is no more insane than you are. If you don’t keep him still, we'll do it for you,’ I tried my best, but John had not a glimmer of reason and could not under- stand anything. He went on yell- ing. Three troopers came in. One struck him a terrible blow on the jaw with his fist, throwing him on his side. A second knelt on him and pounded him with his fist. The third stood off and_ kicked him with all his foree on the back of the neck. ‘Don’t kill a crazy man!’ cried I, ‘No more crazy than you are, but we'll fetch it out of him.’ After that John lay unconscious for three or four hours. We camped about one and a half miles southeast of the Adairs. There we stayed about two weeks. Then we were order- ed to move again. ‘whey drove us on foot, all the prisoners chain- ed two and two. At Ottawa ford young Kilbourne dropped of a sun stroke.” a The men were later released, for they had done nothing that could be prosecuted in the court where the pro-slavcry govern- ment “troops” had driven them. This was the sort cf thing John Brown was fighting; it was life and death, and no mercy could be expected from the Southerners. Mr. Villard and other timorous friends of John Brown do not seem to understand the nature of the battle; and they do not under- stand what giant faith and cour- age it must have taken for an old farmer of fifty-five to continue. fighting in such an atmosphere. John Brown did’ not flinch. Another son, lerick, was shot down in cold blood on tne steps of the family home at Osawatomie, but the old fighter, shedding a silent tear for the loss, for he deeply loved his children, went on his stern path, Reward Offered for Brown. The spuriously elected slavery governor offered a reward of $3,000 for John Bro and the President cf the United States a reward of $250. Federal troops scoured the territory for him. For months he and his men slept out in the fields, flitting from Place to place, many battles; With only nine men he fought off a troop of twenty-three Scuth- erners ut the “battle of Black Jack,” and forced them to sur- render, In August, 250 men-mov- on Osawatomie. Jolm Brown gathered about forty men to-re- sist the Southerners, and a hot battle was fought, in which, of course, brown had to retreat. The town was thoroly wiped out, and also granted “Southern rights.” There were many other skir-. mishers; the name of Captain John Brown, old Brown of Osa- watomie, became a legend in Kansas. He became a sort of Pancho Villa figure to the South; a hundred times he was reported dead or captured; a hundred times he was blamed for wild deeds he had never done. Here are two contemporary pictures of John Borwn in the field, The first is writtea by Aug- ust Bondi, a brave and able young Austrian Jew, who put himself under Brown’s leadership after the Pottawatomie affair: “We stayed here up to the morning of Sunday, June ist, and during those few days I fuily suc- ceeded in understanding the exalt- ed character of my old friend, John Brown. He exhibited at all times the most affectionate care for each of us. He also attended to the cooking. We had two meals daily, consisting of bread, baked in skillets; this was washed down with creek water, mixed with a little ginger and a spoon of molasses to each pint. Neverthe- less, we kept in excellent spirits; we consideréd ourseives as one family, allied to one another\ by the consciousness that it was our duty to undergo all these priva- tions for the good cause. We were determined to share any denger with one another, that victory or death might find us together; and we were united, as a band of brothers, by the love and affection toward the man who with tender words and wise counsel, in the depth of the wilderness of Ottawa ‘creek, - prepared a handful of young men for the work of laying the foundation of a free common- wealth, and fighting in His Philosophy. “His words have ever remained firmly engraved in my mind. Many and various were the in- structions he gave during the days of our compulsery leisure in this camp. He expressed himself to us that we should never allow ourselves to be tempted by any consideration to acknowledge laws and institutions to exist if our conscience and reason condemned them, “He admonished us not to care whether a majority, no matter how large, opposed our principles and opinions. The largest major- ities were sometimes only organ- ized mobs, whose howlings never changed black to white or night into day. A minority convinced of its. rights, based on moral prin- ciples, would, under a republican government, sooner or later be- come the majority.” The other description is that of William A. Phillips, then a cor- respondent of the New York Trib- une, and later a Colonel in the Civil War. Brown, still an out- law, was on his way to Topeka, to be on hand at whatever crisis Chicago Real Estate Board Frames Leases Leaving Landlord Nothing To Do But Accept Rent Landlords, under the leadership of the Chicago Real Estate Board, have imposed leases on the tenants of the city, which give the real estate companies absolute control of sub- sequent legal conflicts, and which place all, responsibility of upkeep, repairs, damages and heating upon the shoulders of the tenants. Lease No. 10, composed by the Chicago Real Estate Board, which is used by the large majority of Chicago landlords, leaves openings for a good many sharp and unethical practices, brentmh ieee ane 6 aig cat which are often taken advan- tage of by the lessor, not only to dodge his own responsibility, but to cheat the lessee of money in addition to his legiti- mate rent. The city has no uniform lease, and there is no Rent Commission which would, in some measure, force the landlords to use a fair lease form. On the other hand, the landlord gets up all the leases. There is a mass of matter printed in small type in all Chicago’s leases which the tenant finds impossible to understand unless he takes the lease to a lawyer, which he generally cannot afford to do. The prospective tenant is told that : is eigen a Pi nt pa Med in most cases signs the lease, to find later that he has awmolnbely, he rights, and the landlord can and does take advantage of him in countless ways. , Numerous Complaints, Numerous complaints come to the United Charities and other welfare groups every month that the landlord is breaking the city ordnances by re- fusing to keep the pl or the walls and ceilings in . . These agencies examine the it’s lease and because they find in a majority of cases, the following quoted para- graph, they can not-only do to force the landlord to act, but the: find that, according to city law, tenant must make and pay for his own repairs. ays a de ph. shall keep the said walls, ceilings, paint, plastering, plumbing, pipes, fix- tures, kitchen ranges, globes and glassware, and appurtenances thereto in said demised premises in a clean, sightly and healthy condition, and in good repairs, all according to the statutes and ordinances in such cases made and provided, and the directions of public officers duly authorized, all at his own expense, Under this clause, if a tenant has lived for 13 or more years in the same house, he must still make and pay for all repairs. This clause is frequently enforced by landlords when plaster falls off the walls, when, due to age, the ceilings fall in, or when the plumbing wears out. If thru the inveterate neglect of the landlord, the house has become a danger to the tenant, and if, thru an accident caused by this neglect the tenant is injured, the tenant, in this widely used lease, is forced to agree that the landlord is in no way responsible. ‘Lessor shall not be liable to Lessee for any damage or injury to him or his prope: ce casioned by the failure of the lessor (landlord) to keep said places in, re- pairs,” says article seven of the most frequently used apartment lease in the city. “Nor shall the Lessor be liable for any injury done or oc- casioned b: ind, or or from any peer in ecw or pong snd tt gas pipes, water pipes, or from — ings, or walks nor ‘or any damage from water, ice or might arise at the opening of the legislature elected by the Free State settlers. Phillips met him on the way. Prophet of New Day. His account is important, for it, shows that John Brown saw much farther than his own times. He knew that there were) many other things wrong with the social sys- tem in America besides slavery, There ‘are plain indications here, as in other accounts, that John Brown was one of those early American Socialists, such as Hor- ace Greeley, Albert Brisbane, father of Arthur Brisbane, Bron- son Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson and others, who felt that*the abol- ition of slavery was only the first step toward a free America, Wen- deli Phillips, for inscance, one of this abolitionist band, becanie after the Civil War one of the leading champions of the rights of workingmen in their battle against the capitalists, But here is Colonel Phillips | giving his charming picture, in the Atlantic Monthly for Decem- ber, 1879, of that night ride and the conversation he had_ with Brown ag they lay bivouacking in the open beneath the stars: “He seemed as little disposed to sleep as I was, and we talked; or rather, he did, for I said little. I found that he wag a thoro as- tronomer; he pointed out the dif- ferent constellations and _ their movements. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘it is midnight,’ as he poinced to the finger marks of his great clock in the sky. The whispering of the wind in the prairies was full of voices to him, and the stars as they shone in the ‘firmament of God seemed to inspire him. ‘How admirable is the symmetry of the heavens; how grand and beautiful! Everything moves in sublime har- mony in the government of God. Not so with us poor creatures. If one star is more brilliant than others, it is continually shooting in some erratic way into space.’ “He criticized both parties in Kansas. Of the pro-slavery men he said that slavery besotted everything, and made men more brutal and coarse; nor did the Free State men escape \his sharp censure. He said we had many true and noble men, but too many broken down politicians from the older states, who would rather pass resolutions than act, and who eriticized all who did real work. Did Not Trust Politicians. “A professional politician, he went on, you could never trust; for even if he had convictions, he was always ready to sacrifice his principles for his aavantage. “One of the most interesting things in Captain Brown’s con- versation that night, and one that marked him as a thinker, was his treatment of our forms of social and jpolitical life. He thought society ought to be reorganized on a less selfish basis; for while material interests ,ained by com- Petition for bread, men utd women lost much by it, He condemned the sale of land as a chattel, and thought there was an infinite num- ber of wrongs to right befcre so- ciety would be what it should be, but that in our country slavery was the sum of all villainies, and its abolition the first essential work.” (To Be Continued Thursday.) The Great Plan Evolves. ages being hereby expressly waived by lessee.” Will Not Furnish Heat. Another clause in the lease con- cocted by the Chicago Real Estate Board which is frequently taken ad- vantage of by the landlord to de- crease his expenses, seems rather harmless, but it is really an agree- ment of the tenant, if the landlord fails to furnish heat,.that hs must furnish his own heat for an apart- ment rented as ‘a heated apartment. “Lessor shall not be held liable for any injury or dam: whatsoever | which may arise or aecrue from his failure to furnish cold or hot water, regardless of the cause of such fail- e hereby bein; lessee.” The Tenants’ League of Chicago and several charity organizations have in their files numerous records of tenants, who, renting a flat as a heated flat, have been forced, by the above clause to pay out an additional ten or twenty dollars a month to heat the apartment themselves. It might be asked, “Why does a tenant in a sane state of mind sign away all his rights, and to take all responsibility himself?” The an- swer is that ninety-two cent of the people of Chicago, if they want to live in the city at all, are forced to sign the above lease or one just as bad or worse. The Chicago Real Estate Board, be has just come before the peo- ple of the city in a benevolent, al- truistic guise, with an “Own your own home” exhibit at the Coliseum, ab- solutely controls the leasing of all the apartments and flats in Chicago. Must Leave Improvements. If you rent a home in Chicago at all, you must agree in addition to the above, to leave all ements you have made on your apartment at the disposal of the landlord, orif he desires to baile the improvements, such as loc doors, cupboards, shelves, bathroom fixtures, tenting a seg (land lord) may remove and store same. and removal LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS ARE DOLLAR RULED) Four Billions Are Sunk ' There | By LELAND OLDs. (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Your share of our American invest- ment in Canada and Latin-America would be $150 if ownership of the rapidly developing American financial empire were equally distributed among the 41,600,000 gainfully em- ployed persons in the country. Au- thoritative reports place the total grip which United States capitalists have secured on the productive enterprise of the remainder of the two conti- nents at $6,260,000,000. Investment of United States dol- lars in Latin-America, according to a statement by the department of com- merce, amounts to nearly four bil. lions—$610,000,000 in pubic securi. ties and $3,150,000,000 in Latin American industries, That means, it! says, nearly $35 for everyman, wom. | an and child in the United States without scounting almost two billion dollars in trade which affects directly {and indirectly a great number cf Americans engaged in producing, transporting and marketing merehan-" dise. This ought to prove, of course, that even the humblest inhabitant of the country has a stake in the ex- pansion of empire. The department discusses the growth of imperialist interest: “Our great interest in Latin-America,” it says, “is largely a growth of the last ten years, almost entirely of the 20 years which have elapsed since the beginning ,of work on the Panama canal, Latin-America prior to 1904 was terra incognita to many Ameri- cans; now manufacturers and mer- chants, farmers, bankers and inves- tors, shipowners and operators, trav- elers, educators and students are looking for all the information they can get on Latin-American affairs. Colleges are giving special Latin- American courses.” The department of commerce is publishing a series of financial stu- dies of Latin-American countries, These can be secured -for 15 cents each from the superintendent of doc- uments at Washington and should be of interest if only as an indication of the attempt to educate the people of the country into supporting finan- cial aggression. i Consolidation of American foreign » investment is to be secured thru such institutions as the recently organ- ized International Securities Trust of America which is starting under the wing of the great Morgan Guaranty Trust with a capitalization of $65,- 000,000. This corporation is modelled after similar investment combines which have for years supervised much of the overseas investment of the British empire. It is known as the group system of investing. The se- lection of securities to be purchased |by this trust is rigidly circumscribed by conditions which @nsure interna- tional diversification. Among the conditions laid dewn is that “invest. ments may be made only in those countries where the financial history shows stability and the protection of private property assured.” A recent instance of the expansion of American investment in Latin. America is the purchase of control of the International Railways of Cen« tral Anierica from British interests, This means American control of al- most 600 miles of railroad across the backbone of Central America. The road has a contract for carrying all the United Fruit Co.’s products in Guatemala so that the transaction really means a consolidation of Amer- ican control in that region. Tribune Begs Lady’s . ' Pardon for Calling Her Working Woman (By The Federated Press) A horrible stain on the character of a real lady has been hastily ree moved by that most chivalrous of character assassins, the Chicago Tribune. The assassination in_ this’ instance was unintentional and the lady’s reputation was revived a few days later by formal printed apol- ogy. She was not a radical and was therefore entitled to decent consid. eration. The moral lapse unintentionally roger 4 to the gentleyoman was not the familar fleshy one to which even our toniest ladies are suscept- ible. It was Sopansoely far worse, Tt was * Sewn ae ha aris- tocracy, of gentility, our democ- racy’s highest social standards, The Trib had called her a “gove erness,” basely implying that she ber ogne her Erie her Lae rawing a beggarly wage in peel sr Pome pricey <9 0 ‘rom bonds, The F ited Prem will’ do what Ha can to poe nod ey cake reprin’ apol wi peared in the Tribune of March ot Mrs. Williams was a highly and instructed AY