The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 6

a Py PTT Page Six THE DAILY WORKER ‘ Thursday, April 3, 1924 ae THE DAILY WORKER. Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50. .6 months $2.00..3 months By mail (in Chicago only): $4.50..6 months $2.50. .3 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 Sf rtcttstessceets Editors MORITZ J. LOEB............ Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill, under the act of March 3, 1879. ta 806 Leave It to the Courts “Leave it to the courts” has become the eleventh commandment of our capitalist class. There is no other country in the world where the courts wield as much governmental power as in the United States. The courts are the very heart of the government machinery of oppression used by our capitalists to defend their class interests and to crush the working and farming masses. Whenever the employers are in serious danger they can always count on their courts, their intricate judicial system, to stand by their class interests. Several months ago Coolidge was compelled to call upon the Federal Trade Commission to look into the gasoline: price situation, The sacred capitalist law of supply and demand was. then being knocked into a cocked hat. Prices of gasoline were rising swiftly, altho the visible supply was abnormally large and the current demand was unusually small. Scarcely had the Federal Trade Commission gotten on the job to explore this wilderness, this puzzling situation, when the Supreme Court cried “Halt!” and put an end to its work. This is not an isolated case but a typical, normal example of the services rendered to the bosses by the courts in protecting capitalist interests against even the feeblest questioning. In a recent tobacco case the court decreed that the commission could not examine the records of a corporation, unless it could tell in advance precisely which financial papers it wanted. This, of course, was a clever, but dis- honest, method of making all investigation of capitalist profits impossible. The capitalist dictatorial powers of the Supreme Court and the lower courts is best seen by the workings of our employing class judicial system. A decade ago, Congress em- powered the Federal Trade Commission to ex- amine the papers and books of corporations engaged in interstate commerce. The presi- dent’s signature then made this enactment of Congress law. Dozens upon dozens of occa- sions, the House and Senate voted the commis- sion money to proceed with such investiga- tions. Along comes the Supreme Court, that collection of most menial lackeys of the em- ploying class, and kills the law made by Con- gress, the supposedly revered representative of the masses. Forthwith this capitalist agency makes its own law based upon the thin ridicu- lous abstraction that a corporation is a legal person whose sacred rights would be violated by such an investigation. The pirates of old would have to learn the A-B-C of pillage and cunning from our capital- ist exploiters and their governmental protectors of today. Yes, “Leave it to the courts” is an excellent slogan for our bosses. It is exactly for this reason that it would be suicide for the workers and farmers to put the slightest faith in the capitalist judges and employing class justice. Chicago, Illinois Advertising rates on application. A Significant Omission Coupled with the propaganda for the dis- continuance of the Daugherty investigation, the fact that in all the reams of testimony before the committee there has been not one word of the greatest outrage perpetrated by the dis- credited attorney-general—his securing of an injunction effectively breaking the strike of 400,000 underpaid railway shopmen in 1922. The reformist and partisan nature of the whole proceeding, partaking of the nature of a quarrel between two groups of henchmen of hig capital, is effectively shown by the omission of this outstanding incident in the whole crim- inal career of Daugherty as a representative of the employers and financiers of the United States, 4 In this connection it is of further interest to note that none of the officialdom of the railway labor unions or of the American Federation of Labor took advantage of the Daugherty invest- igation to request the right to appear before the committee or issued any public statement in which the role of Daugherty as a strike breaker was featured, The reason for this apparent lack of interest in the discrediting of Daugherty is found in the fact that other union officials besides John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers intend to support the republican party nominees. It is a great game that is played in Wash- ington and up to their ears in the mess of cor- ruption and betrayals are the “practical” men who are the labor leaders of America. It is little wonder that they hate venomously the rising Farmer-Labor movement and are co- operating with the capitalist party politicians to hamper it in every way. They have no wish to see political treason placed in the same cate- gory as scabbery, gw JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY -@g "The Roosevelt Name ‘les None of the male heirs to the Roosevelt name appear to be endowed with the business ability of the late Mr. Jess Smith or the courage of Edward Lockhart, the famous war hero and patriot who was just killed in action—while staging a holdup. Theodore is Assistant Secretary of the Navy. In that capacity he has proved his right to the first syllable in his title. There is nothing to him but a name. His brother Archie, after es- caping from the World War in as good condi- tion as he entered it, was given a job as Vice- President of one of Harry Sinclair’s oil com- panies. It happened this way. Sinclair wanted the Teapot Dome lease. It belonged to the Navy. Theodore was Assistant Secretary. Denby was Secretary. The latter had no brains. The for- mer had less. But his father’s reputation counted for something. So if he threw his in- fluence in favor of a lease to a friendly oi] man it would be worth something. ; When Theodore asked Sinclair to give his brother Archie a job, the oil man made a vice- president out of him. His function was .to wheel the baby carriage for Sinclair’s wife and take her to the movies once in a while. He was such a handy vice-president that his salary was increased from $5,000 to $15,000 a year. Then something burst. In fact everything was exploding. Even revolvers. It looked as if the entire Coolidge cabinet would be shot before sunrise. The noise of the Teapot. explosion scared vice-president Archie Roosevelt stiff so he went and squealed on Sinclair. Then Sinclair squealed on the Roosevelt family and‘said the darned lot of them weren’t worth an empty oil can. Archie was a dumbell says the oil magnate. He gave him a job out of sympathy. The Roosevelts tried to crawl out of the Tea- pot scandal but were got while making a get- away. “Dumb and dishonest” is the popular verdict on the family of the late “Terrible Teddy” exemplar of 100 per cent Americanism. A resolution is now up in the Senate calling on the president to demand the resignation of Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The capitalist press is horrified. ‘Lese Majeste” they intimate. The RodSevelts are supposed to have inherited the right to public office. But they seem to be better qualified for doing the chores around a penitentiary. Slippery Path to Fame The Duplex Printing Press Company of Battle} Creek, Michigan, is sending out a calendar car- rying the “office creed” of the Marion Star, owned by the late President Harding. The calendar is accompanied by an effusive eulogy of the deceased president which is credited to the chairman of the board of directors of the Dupléx Company and is similar in tone to the flood of literature, halted somewhat by the Teapot Dome exposures, that was designed to establish a Harding cult in the United States. The eulogy ends with this ecstatic note: A personal and somewhat intimate ac- quaintance with him (Harding) of more than thirty years enables the writer to tes- tify of his own knowledge that the basic elements of character which were the foundation of Harding’s career were faith and conscience with the ultimate purpose of benefiting mankind. The achievement of this purpose was his constant aim and the crowning glory of his life. The glorification of dead rulers has been going on for thousands of years and the truth is deliberately obscured for the reason that the masses must not be allowed to know the real nature of the individuals who represent from time to time the interests of the privileged minority. Upon what a frail basis the myth of Harding as a great good man rests is shown by the fol- lowing extract from a recent article by Julian Street: I have been disillusioned about many things, but most of all I am staggered by the knowledge that every hotel bellboy and taxi driver in Washington knew on March 4, 1921, what I have only lately learned, namely, that to the affairs of federal gov- ernment, the morals and methods of a ctit- rupt small town council have been applied. When Harding died the press of American capitalism organized for him a funeral befitting a genius and a hero. He was neither but the reverse and in the light of the recent revelations —not one-tenth of which have been allowed to reach the public—the psycho-analysts can study the Harding funeral rites as an example of mass over-correction and an interesting psychopathic social phenomenon. To be entirely successful the canonization of Harding should have been completed before the investigations got under way. Oil has made his path to fame somewhat slippery even for a spirit whose surefootedness is proverbial. The Naive MacDonaldites. “The keynote of fascism is the realization that ¢apital is the friend of the people,” says Mussolini. All of which is the cause of much rejoicing among the British capitalists to whom the prediction of a fascist dictatorship in Great | Le, Britain was brought by a British banker recent- ly after an interview with the Italian dictator. The MacDonaldites, scorning the revolutionary doctrine of the class struggle and believing im- plicitly in the democratic pretensions of Brit- ain’s capitalists, leave the control of the army and navy in the hands of capital’s agents. Having completed his work of framing the terms on which the German workers shall be anslaved to international capital, General Dawes is going to visit the ruins of Pompeii. It is a long time since they have been viewed by such an accomplished expert on ruins 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. ._* * *@ The Great Plan Evolves. UCH more can be written of of this Kansas period in John Brown’s life; a large bibliography of Robin Hood literature has gathered about it. John Brown, and other men like him, hastened the solution of the slavery ques- tion by their firm stand in Kan- sas. If the South had been allow-~ ed to add Kansas to the roster of slave states, it would have crept further north, until perhaps there would haye been slavery up to Canada. It is seary for any insti- tution to become permanent; man is a creature of conventions. Slav- ery, like cannibalism among sav- ages, would have in time become a matter-of-fact doctrine with all America, had not the Kansas abolitionists challenged it. i John Brown left Kansas in 1857, and made a trip thru New England, gathering friends, money, arms and recruits for a new great plan that was working in his mind, Brown Gathers Recruits. He saw that the abolitionists would be successful in making Kansas a free state. The job was already half done; but when it was completed, what next? There would still be the vast groaning empire of slavery in the South; there would still be five million black folk bought and sold like cattle; beaten, raped, murdered as if they were lower than cattle. The South would still be in the saddle at the White House; the fugitive slave law would still be enforced; and churches, business men, newspapers, mobs, and Unit- ed States troops, all would join in upholding the devil’s doctrine that slavery was xespectable, the law of the land. The Abolitionists, with their few journals, were ever agitating against this infamy that was be- ing protected by the United States flag. But John Brown knew that only a bold deed could shake the union; could make men see clearly what slavery was, Slavery had become so firmly settled into the national life that the few thousand abolitionists only seemed like gadflies biting at the hide of a rhinocerous, John Brown saw that a pick-axe was needed to draw the blood. The pocketbooks of the slave holders must be uttacked, Slavery must be sabotaged, and made unprofit- able. It was such a safe and sane business now; it must be mado dangerous. John Brown planned to go boldly into Virginia, with a band of men, and start there a large movement of runaway slaves. When slaves were ‘no longer meek and submissive, when every slave became a_ potential runaway and rebel, slavery would cease to be a paying business, Thus reasoned John Brown, Carries Off Slaves. In December, 1858, with things at last peaceful in Kansas Terri- tory, and a Free State almost assured, John Brown made a last stirring raid into Missouri. 4 Negro slave named Jim Daniels had come to one of Brown’s men with a pathetic tale. He and his wife and babies were to be sold at auction in a few weeks, and perhaps separated. forever. He was a fine looking, intelligent mu- latto, and he wept as he told the story. John Brown and ten of his men rescued Daniels’ little family and carried off to freedom eleven other slaves of the vicinity. At early dawn the next day the cara- van of freedom set forth on its long journey to the Northern Star —to Canada, where siaves were free. It was a perilous and ardu- ous undertaking. The party had to sleep by stealth in barns and icy fields, with armed sentinels posted all night. The Governor ‘of Missouri wired to’ Washington; money rewards were offered for Brown, armed posses were sent searching for him, the Federal City Ordinance Passed to Aid Tenant; Is Twisted by Greedy Landlords to Extort More Money City ordinances recently passed as a supposed protection of the rights of the tenant, have been taken advantage of by Chicago’s landlords to cheat their tenants of additional money. The average tenant, knowing little about the housing ordinances, is required by law to follow a strict line of pro- cedure. Real Estate Board and his own lawyer, knows just what pro- cedure to follow to place the tenant at a disadvantage. The housing law has in many cases acted as a boomerang to the favor of the landlords, The real estate dealer has inserted in his lease, whether it is.the Number 10, which is the most widaly used, or Number 7, or Number 3, several jokers which can be used at various times to extract more money from the tenant. Tenant Prosecutes Himself. If the tenant is one day late in the payment of rent, the landlord can in- stitute legal proceedings against his tenant, and according to the lease the tenant is forced to sign, he waives all trials and defenses, and agrees to pay the landlord whatever he asks for legal fees. Article Fifteen of lease Number 10, which the Real Estate Board declares to be “The Best Lease,” says, “If default be made in the pay- ment of the rent hereinabove re- served, or of any installment thereof as herein provided, Lessee does here- by irrevocably constitute any at- torney of any Court of Record in this State, attorney for him and in his name, from time to ‘time, to waive the issuance of process and service ereof, to waive trial by jury, to confess judgment in favor of Lessor, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and against Lessee, for the amount of rent which may be then due, by virtue of the terms hereof, or of any extensions or renewals hereof, or by virtue of any holdover after the termination hereof, and which may be in default, as foresaid, together with the costs of such proceedings, and a reasonable sum, but at no time less than Ten Dollars, for plaintiff's attorney’s fees in or about the entry of said judgment, and for said pur- poses to file in said cause his cognovit thereof, and to make an agreement in said cognovit, or elsewhere, waiving and releasing all errors. which may in- tervene in any such proceeding, and waiving and releasing all right of appeal and right to writ of error, and consenting to an immediate execu- tion upon such judgment; and Lessee hereby confirms all that said attorne: may lawfully do by virtue hereof. Lessors shall have a first lien on Lessee’s interest hereunder, and on ’s property now or hereafter in said premises, or else- to secure the payment of all due hereunder, which lien foreclosed in equity, and i ed- ing, a receiver shall be appointed to take possession of said premises and property and relet the premises under order of court.” Tenant Pays Costs, Landlords have many times in the past executed ju on the ten- ant for rent w is a few days overdue, and accor- the above use, moneys may case of any such foreclosure dance Me. os ne have charged fifty lars or b The landlord, on his part, backed up by the Chicago waived in the lease ail rights to de- fend himself. i It is a well-known fact, both to the tenant and the landlord, that a large proportion of renters in Chicago, be- jcause of the high rents, keep lodgers and roomers, subletting one or more rooms of a four or five room flat, in order to meet the rent. The real estate men have taken advantage ot this general practice, prompted by stern necessity, to gain another hold on their teannts, thru another clause inserted in most of Chicago’s leases. The procedure is to insist, in the lease, that the tenant must get the consent of the landlord in writing, before he sublets the rooms. The landlord tells the tenant this is just a matter of form, gives his verbal consent, and the unsuspecting tenant goes ahead and lets his rooms. But he has broken his lease, as the land- lord has. not given his written con- sent, and the landlord does not hesi- tate to break the lease in his turn, using the sub-letting clause as a club over the tenants head. Double Crossing Landlord, states that— “SECOND :—Said premises shall not be occupied in whole or in part by any person other than Lessee, | The Story of John Brown” troops combed the state. There were prairie snow storms, and there were little provisions. But the dld lion brought his charges thru to Canada, One ingident qf the trip is worth repeating. It shows what a terror the mere name of John Brown had become in Kansas. At one place, the ford of a river, Brown’s party learned there was a posse of 80 armed slavery rufians waiting to capture him. The old man did not turn back, tho. he had only 22 men, black and white. He marched down on the ruffans. “They had as good a position as 80 men could wish,” wrote one of Brown’s ney “they could have defeated a thousand opponents, but the closer we got to the ford, the farther they got from it. We found some of their horses, for they were in such haste to fly that some of them mounted two on a saddle, and we gave chase end took three or four prisoners, whom he later released. The marshal who led them went so fast one would think he feared the fate of Lots wife.” Not To Be Taken By Boys. “Old Captain Brown is not to be taken by boys,” said the Leav- enworth Times, now Free State, “and he invites cordially all pro- slavery men to try their hands at arresting him.” On March 12th the slaves were safe in Canada, rejoicing in their happy fortune, after having been brought in the dead of. winter, thru hostile country, some 1,100 miles in 82 days, One or the slave women had had six masters, and four of the party had served six- teen owners in all. Now they were free, And their little chil- dren werefree, and would never be whipped by a Southern gentle- man or stood on the auction block like a horse or cow. The outlaw John Brown had done what was forbidden by the Supreme Court and the President of the United States; and now he was planning greater deeds, (To Be Continued Friday.) (The Eve of the Tragedy.) in each case, the consent in writing of Lessor first had and obtained.” Lease Voids Ordinances. By means of a bitter propaganda campaign, and by means ot much lobbying and wire pulling, various Tenant organizations have succeeded, in the past three years, in getting a few feeble laws passed by the city and state, which to a very limited ex- tent protect the tenant from the un- scrupulous landlord. But the CHI- CAGO REAL ESTATE BOARD HAS NULLIFIED THE EFFECT OF THESE ORDINANCES BY DE- MANDING THAT THE TENANT WAIVE ALL PROTECTION FROM THESE ORDINANCES. “THE LESSEE HERHBY WAIVES all notice of any election made by Lessor hereunder, demand for rent, notice to quit, demand for possession, and any and all notices and demands whatsoever, OF ANY AND EVERY NATURE, WHICH MAY AND SHALL BE REQUIRED BY ANY STATUTE OF THIS STATE RE- LATING TO FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER OR TO LAND- LORD AND TENANT OR ANY OTHER STATUTE OR BY COM- MON LAW DURING THE TERM OF THIS LEASE OR ANY EXTEN- SION THEREOF.” “Lessee shall pay and discharge all costs, expenses and attorneys fees, which shall be incurred and expended by Lessor in enforcing the covenants and agreements of this lease, whether by the institution of litigation, or in taking the advice of counsel, or other- wise.” Real Estate Board Controls. In other words, the Chicago Real Estate Board masquerading as a The clause which so often later pect apa Nhe spirited body, tl te’ b: claiming ‘urther the states that ™Parrassment, 1/48 FOISTED UPON THE PUBLIG 'AN ILLEGAL LEASE, IN WHICH |THE TENANT MUST AGREE TO ublic good, WAIVE ALL RIGHTS GRANTED and Lessee shall not sublet the same HIM UNDER’ STATE AND CITY or any part thereof, nor assign this lease without, in each case, the con- sent in writing of Lessor first. had and obtained; nor permit to take place by any act or default of himself or any person within his control, any} transfer by operation of Law of! Lessee’s interest created hereby; nor offer for lease or sublease the said premises, nor any portion thereof, by placing notices or signs of “To Let,” “Furnished Room” or “Rooms to Rent,” or any other similar sign or notice in any place, nor by advertis- ing the same in any newspaper or LAW, and if the tenant does have the courage to bring the landlord to justice, the Chicago Real Estate Board has forced THE RENTER TO AGREE TO PAY ALL LEGAL OSTS. Under this lease, the Chicago Real Estate Board, taking advantage of the unorganized renters, has squirmed out of the responsibility for making repairs, for giving heat and hot wa- ter, and in addition has force the at io si vat = 7 rights grudgingly given him by law. The Chicago Real Estate place or manner whatsoever without, realizes the value of organization. in a house for fifteen years, the tenant is injured, THE Landlords Hog Rights In Illegal R. E. B* MEANS of the lease concocted by the Chicago Real Estate Board, which is used more than apartment house lease in the city, the tenant must sign over all his rights to the landlord. If a lent” Chicago Real Estate Board Lease No. Ten to MAKE ALL HIS OWN REPAIRS. If the roof falls in, and BOARD FORCES THE TENANT TO REPAIR THE ROOF HIMSELF, AND THE LANDLORD, ACCORD- ING TO THE LEASE, IS EXEMPT FROM ALL CLAIM FOR DAMAGES BY THE INJURED TENANT. Tenants, learn a lesson aig toad ancy osaran ry er yd ele you into Organize, and REFUSE TO SIGN TH ESTATE BOARD’S NUMBER TEN LEASE. Board Lease any other it has lived he is forced by the “benevo- CHICAGO REAL ESTATE al an lease. CHICAGO REAL AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. Coolidge does not fear the Daugherty wrath we are told by United Press correspondent, becau! the ex-attorney general is proper!) “sewed up’ and if he squeals ol P Coolidge that wily gentleman will unlock the. political Pandora Box and turn loose enough evid spirits to make Hatry feel like purchasing a one way ticket across the river Styx. We thought so much, Cool- idge withheld the axe which he dan- gled in the vicinity of _Daugherty’s neck until his ‘sleuths had Daugherty hog tied, Then the fearless strike- breaker lopped off Harry’s political head with ag little fear as if he were only denouncing the growth of Bol- shevism in the columns of the La- dies Home Journal, 7, * & Coolidge dropped Daugherty © be- cause he was considered a crook by everybody who reads the papers out- side of William Randolph Hearst. At the same time he has placed tie seal of his approval on him as a Coolidge delegate to the Republica’ convention. There is no doubt bi Daugherty is as mad us a doze! mad hatters, but what can he } Unless he wishes to play the role of Samson and pull tke political structure down over his own head, he had better keep that head from uttering any words: thet might en- danger its future. q se oe There is a very bright prospect of having a complete set of strike- breakers appealing to the voters in the next presidential election fox White House honors on the Demo- crat and Republicar tickets. Cool- idge stands a good chance of being the Republican standard bearer, Strikebreaker number 1. As a run ning mate he may have John L Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. Strikebreaker number 2, Major George L. Berry, president of the International Print- ing Pressmen’s Union, is a candidate for the vice presidetial nomination on the Democratic ticket. Strike breaker number 8. The list is no yet complete. Mr. Berry is a ma jor, you will notice. He got the honor by being a good boy during the war, and, like a good many preachers who were ferocious pa triots in those hectic days, but re main at a respectable distance from the firing line, George stayed ix Washington and expended his vocal \ energies in hustling others across the pond to meet the bullets, unti] the armistice was signed, set 8 Berry, we are informed on reli able authority, had designs on a jot which would bring him into proxim- ity to the nation’s gold supply dur. ing the war. Sam Gompers recom mended him for the position. But at that time the members pf Mr Berry’s union, thought they-had rea sons to believe that their was rather careless with funds and the government being obliged to-give several billion dollars away to n and embattled Europ~an nations a: to Czarist anti-Bolshevists, did not want to place any further tempta tions in a good man’s way. Instead Berry was turn into a major which is worth some money to him nowadays. Pa sf 4 We are anxiously waiting for the Democrats to produce a ticket lead. fer whose principal qualification i: that of strikebreaker, fn the event of the foursome being knocked inta a deep hole by some Third Party golf expert, the vaudeville stage would have the opportunity of pre. senting a new feature, to patrons who are weary listening to the same old jokes and looking at the same old actors year after yra¥, How would this sign Isok on the theatre billboards: “Silent Cal” and | “His Strikebreaking Four’? We believe it would make a hit, * * * * This column hes aroused the wrath of several Jewish workers who have sniffed a suspicion of Ford popaganda in the statement that Samuel Gompers can trace iis ancestry back to Moses, The test reflects credit on our rele who feel a certain guilty responet. bility for not having ted Sam’s me. dieval ancestors on some ‘nourish. ment such as Paris Green or cyans nide of potassium, which of course would save the American workers a lot of trouble, Whitechapel, London, from the dishonor of being his ’ birthplace and our Jewish readers from a dizzy feeling every time his name is mentioned. ‘Iney should feel comforted, however, in the thought that tho they have inflicted Gompers on the American workers and David Goldstein on the Irish workers, the latter weep salt tears whenever a Doheny or a “Dennie Sullivan” buys an administration or issues an injunction. Keep underwear on, fellow workers, There is no offense meant, but we don’t blame you in the least for ree tting the existence of Anyhow, one Karl Marx covers @ multitude of Gompers and one James Connolly makes np for a cel- lar full of “Dennie” Sulliva Let us be calm, BURNS MUST GO! : etiam dy, a Question of Distance, “You say,” quizzed the J: “that the defendant nred Sieve: shots fea es in rapid ce seonge Now, ir were batman you from him when ee fust shot, or the last one, ~ “Why? What difference does make?” “"Bout @ quatah ob a mile, sah.” rn sey, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! | #, ce