The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER Monday, April 7, 1924 MAGNUS MIXES WITH OILY PARTY. MACHINE OUTFIT Fights F.-L. P. Position In Illinois Magnus Johnson, who is supposed to represent the workers and farm- ers of Minnesota in the United States senate, has thrown himself into the Mlinois political situation in the re- publican primaries, The party that Magnus Johnson at- tacked in Minnesota as the party of the landlords, grain gamblers, bank- ers and food speculators,’ becomes in Illinois the stamping ground of this Same “Magnus”. one of whose achievements in Washington, D. C., is losing out in a milking contest. U. S. Senator Johnson is in the re- ublican primaries, in spite of the ‘act that the Cook County (Chicago) Farmer-Labor Party has officially called upon the workers and farmers to stay out of the old party primaries, and while the Illigois Farmer-Labor Party has iabelled the republican and democratic outfits as “decayed to the core, and that the only solution is for labor and the farmers to have a party of their own”. Dodges Questions. Senator Johnson tried to justify his action in lining up with the Jenkins- Small-Lundin politica] gangsters, who are said to have a deal on with the Ex-Governor Deneen forces, by giving his views to the DAILY WORKER in an exclusive interview. When asked whether he would stay away from the corrupt politicians, or whether he would betray the farm- ers and workers who elected him to office, Johnson told the DAILY WORKER, “I am campaigning for the election of Newton Jenkins, a candidate for senatorial] nomination on the republican ticket. True, both the republican and democratic parties &@re smeared with oil, but I believe in supporting a farmer-labor party only when there is a good chance for elec- tion,” Senator Johnson seemed more an- xious to talk about himself than) abd@ut what he has done to justify the sup- port of the farmers and workers of Minnesota. Instead of talking about fatfm and labor legislation, Johnson was more interested in his milking contest with the Setretary of Agri- culture, which seems to be Johnson’s only bid for fame. Former support- ers of the Minnesota senator are pointing out that he lost even that. For Small Business Man, Senator Johnson placed more em- phasis on the smal] business men in talking to the DAILY WORKER, than he did on the farmers and work- ers who elected him. When a direct question was asked him about a party which really represented the workers and farmers, or if the Teapot Dome scandal showed that America‘is “class ruled” by fhe capitalists, he side- stepped by talking about “good-fel- lowship” and “philokophy”. When- ever Johnson approached unsafe ground, he pulled himself back with the statement “The public is tired of standpatism and Coolidgeism, and I am a progressive”, “The business men are dependent on the farmers and workers for their trade and their existence”, said John- son, “and in my campaign in Minne- sota, I had the support of the small bankers and small business men. Even the_big business interests are not strongly opposed to the La Follette movement.’ They see the handwrit- ing on the wall, and they know what is coming, Our enemies often call us radicals and some of them have even called me a Communist, but of course that is ridiculous.” The Cat Slips Out. Senator Johnson in his zeal for the middle-class business men, belittled the idea of an independent labor party in this city which the militant workers are advocating, on the grounds that “It didn’t amount to much and that all the labor leaders} have indorsed the old party candi- dates anyway.” Newton Jenkins, who was with the Senator, agreed with this statement. “Fitzpatrick, all the railroad unions, and practical- Our Reporter Goes Campaigning With Magnus Johnson In Spite of Walker, Foe of the Labor Party Senator Magnus Johnson, the man-of the people, the rip- roaring, tobacco-chewing Scandinavian “Theodore Roosevelt,” has been in our midst. When interviewed by the DAILY WORKER he had just finished telling a crowd at the Western Electric Company’s gates, at 48th Street and Cicero Avenue, |that he was for a big soldier’s bonus—he was no pacifist, you bet you—he was a patriot thru and thru. It was a motley crew that the DAILY WORKER reporter, in the course of his duties, was ride back to town on the “L.” There was Newton Jenkins, the intellectual, superior, cultured, English-welsh lawyer—suave and looking bored to death.| He no doubt subscribes to Pro- fessor McDougall’s theory that humans are divided into four distinct grades of intellects— and Jenkins is in the front rank of,the highest caste. Some “People” Dislike Us. Then there was an ex-wobbly ex- hobo-hotel-keeper now connected with the Hiram Johnson campaign, shining in the reflected glory of a real, live Senator. Last but by no means last was Frank Walker; of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, “from Stone’s office”, a stern, sour indivi- dual, with a crabbed wrinkled face, who took an immediate, unchanging and violent dislike to the DAILY WORKER reporter. It was evident that Johnson was giving Jenkins a lesson in how to be an honest-to-god, handshaking, shoul- der-slapping politician, and it was equally evident that Jenkins took no joy in the job. “Ah, Mr, Jenkins, said the Senator, “there’s a soldier, see his soldier’s button. Meet Mr. Jen- kins, he’s for a soldier bonus, you want to vote for him in Tuesday’s primary”. “How are you,” said Jen- kins phlegmatically, and he said no more, altho himself an “overseas” man. Magnus looked at the republican senatorial candidate with obvious dis- aproval, and to show Jenkins how it is done launched into an impassioned plea for the reward of the faithful vets.. Johnson’s pose was somewhat shaken when a man in the surround- ing crowd yelled out “All you farm- ers are no damn good, I wouldn’t vote for you on a bet.” Then ensued a rather undignified squabble during which Johnson said the heckler had no sense and was no good, to which the ruffled interrupter answered, “You're common, damn common, I don’t want to talk to you, I’m a pastelaltr’s and walked off in a huff, Budding “Teddy” Good Actor. The party escaped into a restau- rant for some “coffee and”, after “labor leader” Walker made an un- successful attempt to get rid of the DAILY WORKER reporter, It seems the chauffeur who brought the Tonn- son-Jenkins party to the industrial plant, had been as bored as Jenkins by the affair, for he slipped away be- fore Johnson had finished his speech, and we were left to the tender mercies of the “Elevated”_railroad. The DAILY WORKER reporter thought he would. remind Magnus, upon whom the mantle of Theodore Roosevelt had considerably descended that in this enlightened day women were also voters. “You are waiting on a very famous personage,” he said to the waitress, “Meet Senator Mag- nus Johnson of Minnesota, the man who got licked in a milking contest with Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace”. “But remember,” said Magnus, af- fably, “He only won a newspaper de- cision, And besides he was born on a farm, and I never saw a cow until forced to associate with in the LABOR SKATE TRIED TO PROTECT MAGNUS FROM DAILY WORKER Frank Walker, of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, TO EXTEND OVER 2 MORE MONTHS Score of Witnesses Yet : To Be Heard WASHINGTON, April 6.—New strands in the tangled web of ac- cusation being woven about former Attorney General Daugherty ‘were being unravelled today by Senator Wheeler as the senate investigating committee rested from four weeks’ labor, In checking up on the witnesses and evidence yet to be heard, Wheeler estimated that at least two months more of cpen hearings were in prospect, Go to Bottom of Mess. “While we have had abundance made an ineffectual attempt to save Senator Magnus Johnson, of the Farmer-Labor Party, who came here from Washington to advance the senatorial campaign of a re- publican, from the contaminating clutches of a DAILY WORKER reporter. “Come over here with me, Sen- ator”, said Walker, breaking in on the DAILY WORKER interview. “But I’m talking to a newspaper man”. “But he’s not for us, Senator, He is from. the DAILY WORKER. They haven’t given us any publici- ty. They’re for an independent labor party.” In spite of the fact that railroad “labor” leader winked and made significant faces at Senator John- son, the Minnesotan refused to budge. Senator Johnson thought he had enough political experience to “get by,” even with an advocate of independent political action with- out making a statement that would offend his republican associates, Some mix-up. A Senator elected on a worker's and farmer’s plat- form campaigning to have a repub- lican nominated for the Senate, re- buked by a “labor leader” for as- sociating with a man who believed in a militant labor party. No wonder the DAILY WORKER is advocating a militant farmer’s and worker’s labor party that re- fuses to bargain with the corrupt politicians, or to elect leaders who “sell out” to corrupt politicians. ———— Iwas 23 years old.” It was ever thus. Another idol shattered, The man whose reputation was built upon rural atmosphere. The man whose daily companions, were reported in the press to be cows—the man who rode into the senate on a cow’s back, you might say, never saw a cow until he was twenty-three years old. We were safely on the “L” at last, after Senator Johnson had repeated his formula, “I’m Senator Johnson of Minnesota, I’m campaigning for Jenkins in the republican primaries. Vote for him, he’s a good man,” to an Italian grade crossing watchman, and to half a dozen street corner loafers. Ain’t It Tough, “Frankie?” Walker had made another unsuc- cessful attempt to shake the DAILY WORKER reporter as we bought our tickets, and tried to induce Jenkins not to pay the DAILY WORKER re- porter’s fare—‘He won’t give us any publicity, he’s for a labor party,” the “labor” man kept repeating. The DAILY WORKER reporter talked to Magnus and “Newt” while Walker nursed his grudge against a labor party on the other side of the car, with the ex-hobo-hotel-keeper for company. The historic interview, given in another column, was on. ly every union official in the state have indorsed me for republican sen- ator”, said Jenkins. Johnson admitted that La Follette seemed more interested in becoming a Presidential candidate on no matter what ticket, rather than lead a mili- tant class conscious farmer’s and worker’s labor party. “La Follette will make a bid for the regular re- publican nomination”, Johnson ad- mitted, “However I believe Coolidge is sure of the republican nomination and in that case La Follette will have to run as a third party progressive candidate.” Third Annual Folk Dances, Athletic In Dresses, Hats, Ornamental Can Offer. Grand Opening BAZAAR for Defense and Relief of Class War Prisoners THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1924 CENTRAL OPERA HOUSE 67th Street and 3rd Avenue, New York City FINNISH PROGRAM DANCING AFTER PROGRAM. Wonderful Bargains at the Articles, Knitted Goods, Etc.—All at Prices Only a Bazaar ADMISSION 35 CENTS International Exhibitions, Singing. Booths Objects, Books, Embroidered TAX BILLWILL BRING DEFICIT OF $47,000,000 Write Law on Senate Floor This Week WASHINGTON, April 6.--A new tax bill—the one that finally will become a law-—will be writton this week on the floor of the senate The senate finance committee has plan- ned to finish its three weeks worl on the measure, passed by the house, The new bill, as finally passed, probably will provide for a 40 per cent maximum surtax ingtead of the 44 per cent of the house bill. Central Block Organized. A‘tentative agreement for this re- vision has been reached between progressives and democrats, who can control the senate, The committee bill embodies the Mellon rates but even the most op- timistie republican members of tho committee have no hope that these will survive the senate in any essen- tial detail. Democrats. could strike out the Mellon rates in committee and re- write the hill before night if they wished, Let Matters Rest. With the aid of McCormick and use of a proxy for LaFollette, the Mellon ra.es could be killed, but this would raise a question of what rates should be substituted, result- ing in a long fight, so the demo- crats have decided to let matters rest until the bill is reported ont Monday, The bill as it stands now is $47,- 000,000 short of raising the neces. sary revenue, according to Chairman | he rene cf evidence ready for presentation for weeks, every day brings up new angles that we cannvr afford to cverlook,” said Wheeler. “Now that we have started we must go to the bottom of what appears to be a rotten mess in the department of justice.” Each new evidence being gathered by Wheeler and a corps of assist- ants “ties in” with testimony al- ready heard, and Wheeler predicted that more startling disclosures are yet to be made when open hearings are resumed on Monday, Hear Score of Witnesses, More than a score of witnesses subpoenaed at the outset of the hearings are to be heard, These include Secretary Mellon and Secre- tary Weeks—the former in connection with ealleged liquer deals and the latter in connection with war fraud cases, Howard Mannington, intimate of Daugherty, and Jess Smith, who lived in the “little green house on K street.” is expectd back from Paris early next week. Another im- portant witness yet to appear is Jap Muma, alleged “master mind” in the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films deal, which Gaston B. Means charged netted Jess Smith and his associates $180,000. Wheeler, Weeks, Ryan And Standard Oil (Continued from page 1) Bisbee, Arizona, the innumerable crimes against the workers of the Northwest, can be laid directly upon the shoulders of John D, Ryan and the Standard Oil Company. Rich- ard Kilroy, editor of the Anaconda Standard, who blackmails Ryan for a $1,200 per month job, has con- doned these crimes a thousand times and boasts of Ryan’s hatred of labor organizations, Wheeler Knows Ryan. Senator Wheeler knows that these charges are true. He knows that’ John D. Ryan is a crook and a murderer by proxy und he must know that it is now within his power to show to the masses of the Amer- ican people the connection between the Standard Qil lackey, John D. Ryan, Secretary of War Weeks, the crimes of the war period, and the American government, He has the greatest opportunity presented to him that was. ever afforded a man in public life. Will he hesitate to take advan- tage of it hecause John D. Ryan is a member of the demovrat party, to which he belongs, and because John D. Ryan was appointed by President Wilson to the head of the aircraft corporation which spent over a bil- lion dollars for 247 “flaming coffins” and made war, not on the kaiser, but on workers? The real test of the senatorial investigations is now at hand, The investigators have brohen thru the first line of defense of the big cap- italists of the United States and the next steno takes them into the offices of Standard Oil. It is the irony of fate that two senators from Montana-—the Treas- ure State whose inexhaustible natu- ral\\resources, oil, copper, water- power and timber have been seized by Standard Oil—sheuld be in charge of the committees which, if they make public all the facts con- cerning the ownership of American government by oil and finance may do more to crystallize forces mak- ing for a mass political revolt than any other agency, Tables Are Turned. In 1917, 1918 and 1919 the Stand. ard Oil and its subsidiaries put a price on Wheeler’s head. Today he can deal them a blow that will shake to the foundations their political control and upon the decision he makes much depends. ‘The imass movement of the workers and farm- ers is arising and will .become stronger from year to year no mat- ter what happens in Washington, but Wheeler himself must now choose between an opportunity for great service and tl democrat party of Ryans and Rockefellers, Fasting Cure Is Fatal to Man But Woman May Recover DAYTON, Ohio, April 6.—Daniel Johnson, 61, who fasted 47 days in an attempt to cure himself of a saat Stig” wet after ¢! nourishment failed, ma) days in re- is wife, who fasted 43 sympathy with him, is slowly covering, The aged couple were said to have Sie rules for fasting in a mag- ine, Johnson weighed 206 s when started fasting. At hs death he weighed 125 pounds. DAUGHERTY PROBE |Single Women, Getting Cheapest Wages, So Badly Housed That They Take to the ‘‘Easiest Way’ There are 300,000 women working in industries in Chicago, most of whom live in the rooming house district, or in clubs and society rooms, There are only the single women. 8,090 available places to house In a speech before the Union League Club recently, Miss Marie Merrill, for eight years in the seriousness of the shortage of available homes for Chicago women who are in industry. “Life is a dreary prospect for a woman who has no comfortable home,” -said Miss Merrill, need a real home more than men. I have seen women come to the department of public wetrare, down and out, without hope in life, and when we supply them with a home- like place, it is wonderful to see how they brighten up. One_ night in a comfortable home raises the hope of these women and gives them courage to go on. There are also many married women in indus- try, and for that, reason it is abso- lutely nesessary for the city to con- sider increasing its inadequate day nursery facilities.” Not Enough Rooms. The rooming house facilities of Chicago are decidedly inadequate, esyecially the accommodations for women, was the conclusion of an investigation of the housing of non- family women in Chicago conducted three months ago by the Chicago Community Trust Company. The three principal rooming districts for ‘women were investigated; those nearest the loop in residence neigh- borhoods on the North, South and West Sides, The Norch Side rooming district west of State street was found to be “filled to overflowing with non- family men and women. Household- ers heve don’t have to advertise rooms in the papers, Acard in the window brings several applicants within an hour.” The Juvenile Pro- tective Association in another sur- vey, found five thousand women and ten thousand men huddled together in rooming houses in this ward. No Place to Go. The Community Trust survey says of the West Side rooming section, the 18th ward: “This is cld Chi- cago. Old families who began to make the city grfit have gone, leaving the decaying mansions ‘to be rented as cheap lodging houses.” The Y. W. C, A. Industrial Service Genter says of the southern part of this ward: “There were £0,000 in- dustrial girls working within a radius of ten blocks. Last year the West. Side residence of the Y. W. C. A, turned away 1,500 apulicants, and many single women who applied at the other homes could not be admitted.” The Communtty Trust investiga- ton says: “Furnished rooms in the 18th ward, in comparison with other rooming districts, have poorer bathing facilities, poorer furnish- ings, more rooms at grade C (the lowest grade listed) and furnish fewer laundry privileges.” Wages Low But Not Rents. Only eighteen, or 6 per cent of the 300 rooms visited by the Com- munity Trust investigators rented at less than five dollars a week. Rooms renting from 5 to & dollars comprised 26 per cent of those vis- ited in the North, 71. per cent of those in the West, and 56 per cent of those on the South, “Only a few single rooms were found to cost less than seven dollars per week, over 25 per cent cost ten dollars: per week, and over 30 per cent were ten dollars per week or over.” In spite of these high rents, which were exorbitant considering that the single women renting them re- ceive even lower wages than white- collar men clerks, the accommoda- tions were found to be unusually tad. “Over 26 per cent of the houses inhabited by _ non-family women on the South Side contained bathrooms used by more than six persons, of both sexes, The same condition prevailed in 41 per cent of the rooming houses on the North Side, and 52 per cent of the room- mg houses cn the West Side.” City Neglects Workers Comfort. The lack of method and of mu- nicipal supervision of the rooming houses of the city, makes life mis- crable for the single women. The low wages paid to women factory hands, clerks, stenographers and saleswomen, combined with the high rents and uncomfortable homes to make it difficult for Chicasro's young | the women to keep off tne “ensist path.” The city’s neglect of the housing of its single women has been one of the main factors in the increase of prostitution, the Com- munity Trust Company found, . The general living conditions were found to be wretched. Only 61 out of the 300 rooms examined were found to be cozy and fairly com- fortable. The rest were shal and poorly furnished, bh dah out of the 300 were found to pe “the sort of a place we are forced to ac- cept because of the great range of needs we are asked to meet,” which means that the women are forced to get as cheap a room as possible, lh Sewage which is near to their rk. all the rooms pd ha very to lack ee Ay the bare health and comfort. of the meant a gas plate or red electric grill set up in a ton dollar a week bed-room, One-third, or over one hundred of the rooms, had no means whatever by which the pa pos Ni isle: omer wre ‘were not allowed to } f 5 a Usually the housek “Women |- social welfare work, pointed out have men call at the house, and there was no reception room or par- lor where guests could be enter-~ tained, “With few exceptions,” says the survey, “the residences turn away Tany applicants every month. Most of them turn away many more times the number of applicants ,than they have rooms. Thus the survey,” is the gehersl conclusion, “has indi- cated very inadequate provision for transient; and for single men and women, in the city.” Housing Lack Inéreases Prostitution The conditions described by_ 0. Henry in bis famous story “Brick Dust Row,” which show how many girls are ecntinually sinking into the mire of the city’s cheap night life simply because no one takes an interest in them or. tries to fill their simplest needs, are prevalent in Chicago today, with all their evil influencés and -degenerating results. Against Indiana Governor-Forger INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 6.— The state has rested its case against Governor McCray, charged with embezzlement and larceny of $155,- 000 of the funds of the state board of agriculture, shortly before noon today. The prosecution closed with the testimony of two handwriting ex- Perts, both of whom expressed the opinion that various signatyres’ on notes given to the board of, agricul- ture as collateral were written by McCray. The two experts were introduced by the state in an effort tu prove the contention of the prosecuting attorneys that McCray had forged the notes he gave the board of ag- riculture, Japanese Scientists See Nature Breathing Just Like Humans .. TOKIO, April 6—Japanexe scien- tists have been startled .by the dis- covery that the Lake of Reeds, lo- cated in the heart of the Hakone mountains, is rising and falling with the regularit; ft Trenthine. y of a person The rise and fall amounted to sev- eral inches. The activity is attrib- uted to some voleano disturbances which caused recent earthquakes in the Japanese isles, x Professor Nakamura, leading seis- mologist, has rushed to the Hakone mountains to make a study of the phenomenon, __ Trotzky Returns On April 15th. MOSCOW, April 6—When Leon Trotzky returns to his Post as War Minister on April 15, he will find a number of changes in his department. The council of commissars has de- creed that General Frunze, assistant war minister, be made chief of the general staff in place of General Lebediev. General Sergius Ka- menev, who has been Commander-in- chief of the Red army, is now army inspector, and M. Unschlicht, former acting chairman of the political police, is now chief of army supplies. Fly to North Pole. MOSCOW, April 6—Lr. Fridtjof Nansen, the famous Norwegian ex- plorer, ,has consented to undertake a flight to the North Pole with the Russian airman, Rossinsky, accord- ing to a special report from Mos- cow, Altho Nansen is 63 years old, he is still active in relief work, un- der the League of Nations, He has not been in exploration work for years but is confident that the polar flight is feasible with a specially designed airplane, ee Extend Housing Law, NEW YORK, April 6.—New York state’s housing tax exemption law which expired March 31, has been ex- tended for another year. The purpose is to encourage building and relieve investigations by the state revealed widespread disease and crime due to overcrowding and unsanitary condi- be neccoupled with rent gouging by| NEW IMPEACH COOLIDGE! ~~ serious housing situation. Recent ” Chicago Working Women Find Wages Low; Not so With Rents STRIKE AGAINST CREGIER SCHOOL STARTS TODAY Parents Determined To Oust Principal By NAT KAPLAN. The last meeting of the Cergier School parents voted almost anani- mously to declare a school strike at an immediate date, The issue at hand, namely, the brutality of Miss Mary E. Toben, principal of the school, had reached such a point that the parents would tolerate no further delay. The position of the Young Workers League participants in the fray was as follows: (1) Being a small minor- ity of the parents, an immediate strike would result in failure. We must therefore organize and , agitate for the removal of Miss Tobin with- out resorting to the strike, and (2) If the majority of the parents’ body decides fer a strike we must partici- pate in it, guide it, organize it, and help to make it as successful as pos- sible. Young Workers League Wins Confidence, The fact that the Young Workers League members reiterated their in- tention of standing shoulder to shoul- der with the parents and children in this fight, altho doubtful of its out- come, won for them the confidence of the rebelling parents. Minnie Lurye, John Harvey and the writer were elected on the executive com- mittee of the Parents Body and helped to formulate most of the de- cisions. { Executive Committee Plans Details. The ‘details of the strike were left in the hands of the executive commit- tee. Yesterday the committee met and decided to call the strike for Monday, April 7th. The women on the executive committee are making arrangements to have the children of the neighborhood go from house to house and leave printed leaflets and letters announcing the day of the strike. Besides that the most active women in the fight will be engaging in a house to house canvass today and tomorrow in order to get as many of the Cregier School parents as possible down to the: Parents Mass Meeting to be held Sunday evening, April 6th at 1103 §. Loomis which will be the last rally before the strike. At this meeting all the parents will be instructed on the details of the strike. Children with banners and slogans will be marching up and down in front of the school in order to attract the children who attend. Some of the ringleaders among’the children will secure-a drum and stage a regular parade. The Young Work- ers League members took special care to point out that the parents involved in this affair could be ar- rested for breaking at least four state laws. Yet it was absolutely necessary that since the strike was decided that we go thru with these demonstrations. The parents by this time were beginning to feel that “justice” could not be found and the bounds of the capitalist laws anq so determined to go thru. with al details at any cost. The first day of the strike will end up with a chil- dren’s mass meeting at 1103 S, Loomis street at 4 q’clock. Members of the Junior Section of the Young Workers League will arrange a pro: gram and young strikers will tell of their experiences under the corporai punishment system in the Cregier School. The Prospects for Success. The prospects for the waging of a successful strike in this case are very slight. The issue itself is more of a personal one, i. e., parents who have suffered at the hands of Miss Tobin jare against Miss Tobin who has caused the paki 2 All attempts on the part of the Y. W. L. members to point out that this fight was a big- r issue—a fight against not only fis Tobin and the Cregier School, but against the board of edugation and the entire municipal adminis- tration, was not recognized by the parents. The attempt to link up this fight with a fight against the Nation- alist and religious propaganda in the public schools also proved futile. The assistance of the Y. W. L. members jn a direct fight for the ousting of Miss Tobin was welcomed and so we are in this thing and will try to make it as successful as possible. The big- gest victory won so far for our pro- m was the decision of the parents to form a regular dues paying Cre- gier School parents organization, Ford Gets Ford In Trouble. — i YORK, Ap 6. Eyres id chauffeur, was fine Rae toc, paaeg in a “namesake” machine. (A