The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 9, 1924, Page 2

THE DAILY. WORKER nical A BLSAUERONS ty Wednesday, April 9, 1924 “PROTECTION” FOR BREWERY FOR $5,000 Thousand Violations Are For- goiten, Says Witness (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 8.— Further details of alleged “pro- tection” afforded a Chicago rum ring by federal and state officials were related by Brice) Armstrong, Chicago dry agent, | before the Senate Daugherty Investigating Committee today. Armstrong said that Ww. Oo. Potter, United States district Phone Trust Plans attérney at East St. Louis, nolle $7,500,000 Paid: on rossed a case of prohibition Pialation against the Western New York Public Because We and the change necessitates pf this week. After this we building and prepared with to carry little else than the will not be affected. In our building and with to make up to our readers an Brewery Company at Belle-| ville, fl. Later, he said that; 1. Rte Sebeeetiy sae ee he learned that $5,000 had been paid by the company to some government department “in lieu” of prosecution. Doesn’t Need Evidence. After seizing a truck load of beer from the brewery, Armstrong said he recommened prosecution and in- junction proceedings. : “J went to see Mr. Potter to give some additional evidence,” he said. “Potter said ‘I don’t need any more evidence because I have orders from the Department of Justice to. nolle prosse this case.’” “Was it nolle prossed?” “Yes.” The witness said that he was told by the secretary of the Western Brewery Co., of the payment of the $5,000 to the government. He was ‘Roosevelt Deeper in Oil Scandal Than Denby’’--Dill (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 8. onel Theodore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, is “more deeply involved in this oil scandal than former Secretary of the Navy Denby ever was,” Senator Dill, Washington democrat, declared in the ‘oday. oo snd he believed Roosevelt is unfit for his office be- cause of his action in sending marines to Teapot Dome to pro- tect the lease of Harry F. Sinclair from poachers. tigation of the New York Telephone |Co,, charged with being a monopoly and part of the American Telephone & Telegraph \Co., a nation-wide trust is provided in a resolution that has passed the New York state senate and is now before tne lower house. Chairman Downing of the finance committee attacked the public serv- ice commission for alleged conniv- ing with the trust in fixing exorbi- tant rates, The company has made application for a $7,500,000 annual increase in rates. It is further charged that the company forces consumers to pay for installation of the dial system, tho it saves the ~ompany thousands of dollars. Mean- while the trust is disguising profits sy building up what it calls a de- preciation reserve, asked by chairman Brookhart to fur- nish the name of the secretary of the company later so that a subpoena couid be issued for him. “Garden City” Escapes. Describing what he called “the City Brew case,” Arm- —e 2 ane. said’ seven carloads ‘of beer} ROME, April 8—A former minis- were seized from the Garden City|ter of Albania is declared to have company. Later, he said an injunc-/been involved in the plot that re- tion against the Brewery was modified | sulted in the murder of two Ameri- to permit the brewery to continue) can Magee sata a al i operation. =a .., |Seutari Highway Sunday. pur- Sa caattong said his divisional chief, | pose is said to have been to embar- a Mr. Kemp objected to him securing rass Albania in its relations with the id pe at ey age eve their teres of Nations on the subject of “This was done pre +r | boundaries. saloonkeeper friends from getting in| The Albanian legation here said trouble,” he a £ 1,500. martial law had been declared and Eight Out o! . inqui ened. The switteeaa said he had reported |*" he Americans, Robert Lewis Cole- from 1,000 to 1,500 violations of the | man of San Francisco and George D. prohibition law in geri bari” De Long of New York, were at first years but had been calle ‘ od supposed to have been victims of but eight times in criminal proceee-| hi¢hwaymen. ings. Gan you explain praadt hoe foe More Milliners Wanted. ne cases were fixed? eeler NEW YORK, ‘April 8. he basens' “The Ylinoi committee sends out another urgent oy mae lly Moen Bg? appeal for comrades and sympathiz- 1922, I took a truck load of beer from] ¢rs who can give some time with the Frankie Lake, Butch Cook and some Millinery Group which is turning out th I asked for criminal prose-/| hats for the booths of the Third An- un, and on March 22, 1923 I was nual International Bazaar, to be held instructed to go back and get Some April 10 to 13 at Central Opera mauage Tu sweep meres every atvecooen Dai a ions. is grou e 0 thbadeon ee ero collec-|and evening at 313 East 13th street, tions are fo en on every day in Chi-|April 15 and all comrades who can cago.” Asked for an instance of it, help are urged to donate their serv- he said: ices. Material has been received in “T know that W. W._Flowers gave|large quanities and the problem now a Negro politician on the south side|is to make this material into hats that Charge Someone Is Trying to Get Albania in Bad named McGowan $1,500 to have an|will get bigger prices than would the fAdictment against him quashed.!raw material. Flowers was convicted and he squealed. That's what started Cla- Marcusy Re-Elected. baugh’s investigation.” NEW ORLEANS, La., April 8.— heeler asked Paul Howland, Har-/paye Marcusy has been re-elected for ry Daugherty’s attorney, to furnish) 1.6 seventh consecutive time presi- the Clabaugh report to the commit-| 405+ of the New Orleans Central tee. Howland Bagi ns do 80. Aided the leg gers. Outlining the “graft system,” position. Armstrong said oo peat bi ‘ht pressure to bear on Depart- Livery of Justice officials and arranged) BOSTON, in advance to have bootleggers let off|Charles W. Eliot has added one more with light fines. book to his famous “Five Foot Shelf” “To what extent is this graft going]—a bank book. ” ii “ thousands of dollars are; Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of handing’ bands every week in Chi-| The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- ” scription at once. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! It Pays. ba 7 the Department of Justice got busy couldn’t they clean up that situa- nm?” “They could.” ———e French Recognition Move. MOSCOW, April 8.—Belgrade re- ports that the French government is ing an early recognition of the Uiion ‘of Soviet Socialist Republics by the most convenient intermediary be-| Party in Finland has not been able tween Paris and Moscow. spite The Shingle Wins. “Oh, go ahead and shingle,” the|Party’s most active superintendent of the Evanston hos-| polls alread; Communist gatherings and conventi full opposition ticket, with- ital acquiesced wearily today after The white government has also been forced to release 52 of the im- ume investigations | put up a : Part? (Communist) inst whom | whidre i in order that|out their label, suffered a de- ty a and fain iets with ate ieee Wanker ct the SorlaliptsLAbor Fes 9 ¢ ju Dns! ool be fay biped ary Se re a eat the ye tel pa their hair prisoners are members of the parliament. tee. county ako lf You Miss Anything, It’s The DAILY WORKER is moving into its own plant earlier than usual on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday even a better paper than we have been furnishing. For the three days mentioned the paper will be able papers and during this time we ask the indulgence of aur readers. The other features of the DAILY WORKER suffer during the strenuous moving period. Our new ad- dress will be 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, III. re Moving that we go to press much will be settled in the new new equipment to get out news carried by afternoon eur own plant we promise y inconvenience which they FARMER-LABOR PARTY ORGANIZED IN WEST VIRGINIA PARENTS? UNION COMING OUT OF SCHOOL STRIKE Permanent Results Are Sought by Y. W. L. By NAT KAPLAN. Director of Y. W. L. Children’s work. The strike of the children in the Cregier school against the brutalities of Miss Mary EB. Tobin, the principal, has now been in progress for two days. The first day of the strike started with an attempt by the Young Workers League and thé Pxrents Com- mittee to guide the young pickets in their endeavor to win the support of the children who were going to school and scabbing on them. Thus about 7:30 a. m. a small band of the pickets}met on an empty lot in the vicinity|of the school and dis- tributed bannefs and orders for picket duty to theiy fellow strikers, A butcher owning a shop adjoining the lot determined to end this youthful uprising and fent in a riot call for the police patjols, The scene which followed this incident can easily be imagined.. Fat Bills Chase Kids. Big fat ylicemen chasing little State Federation Splits Over New Move By TOM TIPPETT. (Staff _Correspundent of the Federated Press) CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 8. —Organized labor and the farmers in West Virginia will have their in- dependent political party in the No- vember elections. They have their ticket nominated and plan an inten- sive campaign for their own West Virginia Farmer-Labor Party. It is not affiliated with any national or- ganization, The independent step is taken here after 16 years of the “re- ward your friends and punish your enemies” policy. Split in Federation. Unfortunately organized labor will not go as a unit into the new politi- cal venture. There 1s a serious split in the ‘executive of the West Virginia State Federation of Labor. The secretary of the federation of labor has been ousted from office by its executive board. ‘This action was taken while resolutions were being considered that demanded the resig- nation of the president of the feder- ation and of three members of the federation who are against independ- ent political action. The American Federation of Labor has a represen- tative here to negotiate peace and a special convention of the federation ig under way, There was unanimity in official circles, regarding independent politi- cal action for the federation, so long as it remained on paper but when the nomination convention was call- ed and it began to take on real life tots over stretts and empty lots, and shouting “Hey gwan back to school, before I knoc} your little block off.” Young strikes sticking out their tongues and sjouting back to the po- licemen, “C’npn, try and catch us, you big. stiff.” Finally, hovypver, the bulky police- men were sucqssful in dispersing the young striker§ Their banners bear- ing such slogns as: “Down with Miss Tobin” |jnd “Down with Cor- poral Punishpent in the Public Schools” werd trampled under foot and torn by fe policemen. As a resuljof the first onslought Mr. Bernard Yeil and Mrs. Ray Spei- ser, both mejbers of the Parents committee, arrested on charges of disorderlyeonduct. Two of the most active ¢ild strmers were also arrested. Thicases of both Mr. Weil and Mrs, Splser will come up for a hearing befre the Municipal court on Wednesda] while the two young- sters have albady been railroaded to the Juvenile Jetention Home) The exact children on mined at thi time. The capitalist press in the ty is running big scare headlines in ink, claiming that 600 childrenpre on. strike. It is pointed out h the Y. W. L. members of the Comrttee that most of the capitalist pré reports were written in the home | Mrs. Weil away from the scene ofjattle and so are very inaccurate. ‘ing the course of Monday motng’s picket duty only about 25 chi strikers showed up. The you claim, however, that after theirst battle was over and the secondivision came to the school (the shifsystem is in vogue in this Trades & Labor council without. op-| Mass., April 8,—Dr. | Finnish Communists Poll 46,000 Votes In Spite of White Terror DULUTH, Minn., April 8—In a Stockholm cable to the “Tyomies”, Yugo-Slavia, which is looked upon a8] Finnish daily, here, it is stated that, despite the fact that the Communist | but art time, ef the fact that in the latest attempts to destroy the Communist Party, the authorities have suppress; idden school) # ranks of the striking youngste were swelled to the tune of 300. ‘ Y. W.. In Charge of Meeting. At 4 ym. a mass meeting of the child aes was held at 1103 South Loomis . The Junior Section of the You Workers League took charge othe program and explained the strikto the young participants. A membthip appeal was then made for the dior section, as a result of which 400f the children signified tostt Witenes eee ee, ~ members of the ganization. ere were In 1923 the federation called a present eat 75. children at this special convention to consider the | meeting,5 of which were Cregier Political outlook after the reaction-| school pils. While the children’s ary West Virginia legislature had| mass meng was in session a vote had adjourned. Resolutions from over was taktby the members of the 35,000 organized workers were in-| Parents mmittee on the advisability troduced calling for independent ac-| of contimg the strike. The major- tion on the political field. The |ity of thcommittee voted in favor proposition carried unanimously. The | of contimg the strike. Yesterday resolution declared that complete|there wino picketing in front of failure was the result of their 16|the scho according to the decision years of lobbying for labor measures | of the cmittee. The children were with the old parties, “The West Vir- | told to § home for the day. ginia Farmer-Labor Party be and is Pare’ Organization Coming. hereby endorsed and the incoming| The cenitte will hold another ses- executive board be and hereby is in-| sion toht in which the entire structed to give their full and undj-,| matter 1 be again reviewed, The vided support on the political field to |.arrest Mr. Weil and Mrs, Speis- ‘the Farmer-Labor Party,” ‘the spe-|er will discussed, and the Young cial convention ordered, Workerseague representatives will Anti-Labor Partyite Loses. bring ir preamble and constitution The presiding officers of that con-| for thermation of a definite dues vention are the same persons that| paying :rents’ organization. have now split on the proposition.| and MrWeil are especially opti The convention provided for the call-| mistic :the sibilities hs ie lag Po inte ou: the fight began. Movement Began in 1920, The present move tor sndependent political action in the state federa- tion began in 1920 at a special con- vention. Its chief advocate and sup- porter there was H. L. Franklin, but the proposition was voted down.. The next year (1921) Franklin was elected by the federation convention to be secretary-treasurer. “He was re-elected the following year and the next having had five opponents in each contest. ing of a Farmer-Labor party conven-| rents’ onization. It is tion in March, 1924, It was this|that thgroup is, practically the meeting at Clarksburg March 15 that | pioneer the attempt to launch de- |precipitated the fight. The president | finite wing class parents councils of the federation, W.'T. Harris, at-| which } be able to review the life tempted to steer the convention|of the !d in the school and make away from an independent ticket. | decisionor the betterment of school ‘His resolution called for continuation | conditi¢ This, if nothing else, of the Farmer-Labor party, but op-| should ke McAndrews, superinten- jposed a ticket in the field. He was| dent ofe Sicega schools, rest un- idefeated by 78 to 4, A easy ins official chair, coe poles the convention. > Commiite platform was drawn up and tat ticket named with Dr ry &. Roe. Sene ommittee orth cot ig for governor, Pre Land Frauds esolutions hostile to d i three members of his executive j Soe Din on Rio Grande came in from subordinate bodies of i on the federation asking their resigna-|] WANGTON, April 8.—The \tion for not carrying out convention | Sena ew vag: of alleged land e Rio inde con- instructions, with Rush D, Simmons, chief tal ins; , scheduled to resume stand for cross examina- tion ¢ postal investigation of the land vities of R. B. Creager, re- ee ational committeeman from "ex: Sims will be kept on the stand Senator Heflin, Ala- secutor said. Heflin that the postoffice commit- ch is pondveres the probe, examine inspectors to enter the elections officially and in | bamaief exp! the Communist press, for! tee, A oe and imprisoned hundreds the leaders, editors and speakers, partial reports from the | Donan, and Williamson, who were give the Communists 46,000 votes, assig to the Creager case, so they three days. roads of London. “pirate” vehicles, belonging to of the strikers, lines. These are utterly inade- quate to cope with the problem of London’s traffic. You can see hundreds of thousands of workers walking their _four, five or six miles to work, in the morning. The principal streets, leading from the great residential suburbs of London, are choked with a moving mass of people. And now, today, comes the news that the subway men have decided to strike, in sympathy, at midnight on {Friday next! Sympathetic Labor Action. Today, or tomorrow, the London District Committee of the Electrical Trade Union meets to consider sym- pathetic action, “quite apart from the question of the introduction of blackleg labor.” This is because the Electrical Workers have already an- nounced their decision to shyt off to run street-cars with blackleg la- bor. . So far, there has been no such attempt. The strike is absolutely 100 per cent effective, Not a single scab has yet been seen! The strike is a remarkable one, when we consider that the omnibus drivers are striking merely in sup- port of the street car men. The street car men’s demand is quite simple: they want an increase of eight shillings per week, for all grades of work, There are no graded and complicated demands. Their slo- gan is “Eight shillings or nothing!” There are 17,000 of the street car men, Their present wages are—for motormen and conductors—58 shil- lings, as a commencing rate, rising, with service, to a maximum of 67 shillings. Splendid Solidarity. The 21,000 omnibus men struck because the low wages of the street car men are being used by the omni- bus company as an argument for the reduction of omnibus men’s wages. There is no definite attack at present, on omnibus men’s wages, but it might come at any time. So that the omnibus men’s strike is a re- markable manifestation, coming, as it does, so soon after the depressed state of British labor, when it was difficult enough to get the workers into fighting form even for definite demands. It is also a splendid example of the necessity for the newer unionism. The omnibus men and the street gr power the minute there is an attempt | f, isis Without A Scab:-- shleigh Writes of London Bus and Tramway Tie-Up CATNGL ICS By CHARLES ASHLEIGH. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, March 26 (By Mail).—The strike of the tram- way men and omnibus men has now been in full swing for Solidarity is complete. Not a street-car is on the Not an omnibus, except a few so-called little private companies, which pay above the union rates, and which are running by permission The only means of locomotion, for the great masses of the London population, are the subways and the suburban railway ie a abattoir a eat ett French Government Pimping in Islands Of New Hebrides (By The Federated Press) VILA, New Hebrides, April 8.— Another protest has been made by missionaries in the New Hebrides st the traffic in women’ coun: by the French government authovities in the islands, & Tt is alleged that the French en- list lahor for the plantations by using single women as decoys, These women are taken to the plantations and “married” to a man to defeat the island regulations, and are then al- lotted to the men at the will of their employers or are given to the la- borers without further protection. , The New Hebrides islands are jointly controlled by the Pritish and rench governments, but cwing to the Proximity of the islands to New Caledonia, French law and customs predominate. The missionaries are appealing to bring the island under the control of the Australian federal government. Communist Christening Here. NEW YORK, April 8.—The first Communist christening in this coun- try will take place when the son of Jim and Fanny Menus, two young Communists of the Greek Branch here, will be dedicated to the service of Communism. A similar cere- mony took place a few months ago in Moscow, when the child of a young couple was dedicated by some of the great leaders of Russia, to the cause of Communism. teens Form Laundry Trust, .NEW ORLEANS. La., April 8.— Nine laundries representing an invest- ment of $3,000,000 have formed a trust in the guise of an operating company known as The Laundry & Dry Cleaning Service Inc. House- wives of New Orleans will pay the price or bend over the washtubs themselves as all standard laundries have cast their lot with the new or- ganization, 1, Comme lly Violence Reigns As Monarchists Wi: MUNICH, April S- Retna tren half the precincts of the Bavarian elections show that the Monarchists men are in the same union—the Transport and General Workers’ Union. They have one union and one general staff conducting the fight. Also, let it not be forgotten, this is the same union which has just re- cently concluded an offensive action in behalf of the longshoremen, in a nation-wide strike, which ended in the securing of higher wages. The have been able to forcibly captur the election by their Fascist viateneer The socialists polled only half their usual strength and the Communists lost many votes. because they were forcibly kept from the polls. Women Pan Resection. LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 8,— Recent action by the Los Angeles Transport workers are going ahead with flags flying and trumpets call- ing—and, incidentally, they are show- ing what industrial unionism really can accomplish! Striking Against Government. The negotiations with the employ- ers have broken down. The tramway authorities replied to the men’s de- mand for an all-round increase of eight shillings with an offer of a fiye- shilling raise for certain grades only, This, the men immediately refused, thru their representatives, and, on the evening of March 25th, the ne- gotiations ended. The government is to set up a court of inquiry, similar to that which functioned in the dock strike. In this strike, by the way, the employer is the London County Council, as far as the street car men are concerned. The London tramways are~ “publicly owned.” The omnibus system is owned by — capital: the London General mnibus Co, And so—and so, under a Labor Government (save the mark!) thou- sands of men are engaged in a bitter struggle for a living wage. And the government, of course, immediately commandeers the rt system, in the name of the wor! of Bri- tain, and settles in the men’s favor. Doe: t does not! It is hot that kind of a labor govern- ment. What it does do, is to appoint a court of inquiry which, in a week or two will give a decision, probably a compromise one, which the govern- ment will beg the workers to accept. ‘a Gold Braids, But there is one thing for which we may thank heaven. ere has as been no strike in the gold braid wheat So Mr. MacDonald, Mr. reiary of Indle whlch to new trying retary of In now nj to send Indian workingmen to pit for organizing a go tan class litical party—can be sure of beng able to renew their beautiful blac! velvet, gold-braided knee breeches, when the “Labor” ministers kneel to kiss the king’s hand. It is a pit: it is only his hand. One can think of even more picturesque means by which they may express their loyalty, Klan Defeated.’ DALLAS, Tex., April 8.—With the re-election of the Dallas school board April 1, the Ku Klux Klan which had i Parent-Teachers’ Association con- demning radical and progressive ac- tivities of the youth and Passing a resolution opposing reduction of the reserve officers’ training corps in the public schools has been roundly scored by the Women’s Shelley club. Hughes Arrives. NEW YORK, April 8.—Waving his arms and shouting for a “league of English speaking nations to save civilization” from the so-called yellow peril, W. M. Hughes, renegade Labor premier of Australia during the war, has arrived in New York. pet YOUR NAME Ten thousand and Day ever witnessed complete the job! Join the 1924 | May Day Parade of the red-blooded workers who will march on May Day, 1924, in the columns of THE DAILY WORKER. tants in America will join the first National May Day Parade ever staged. Will you be one of them? You must act quickly. The May Day Special will be published on Satur- day, April 26. All entrants into the Nation- al May Day Parade must be in the office of THE DAILY WORKER by April 20, at the very latest. But don’t wait until the last minute! See to it that your friends, com- rades and shop mates are signed up at once. Get your Special May Day lists mailed to THE DAILY WORKER immediately. May Day 1924 will be the greatest May DAILY WORKER May Day Special will help to make it great. WORKER National May Day Parade will SOCIALISTS JOIN BELGIAN COUP Coalition Endanbered By “Democrats” By A. HABARU. (Special to The Daily Worker) BRUSSELS, April 8.—Because of the contemplated united front of the Belgian Socialists and the Flemish Catholics it is the general opinion here that the third Theunis cabinet will soon fall, In outlining his policies the prime minister of the new cabinet declared in favor of more unity between the Allies in order to come to a favorable solution of the reparations problem. He favored adjournment of all ques- tions which would be able to divide the Catholic-Liberal coalition, New Alignment. The new government, tho it can- not escape the influence of French imperialism, has declared for a close Anglo-Belgian collaboration. Hymans, the new minister of foreign affairs, has written to Ramsay MacDonald in the most friendly spirit. The first step of the new cabinet is significant in view of the participation of the former government in the French oc- cupation of the Ruhr, Altho the Belgo-French economic agreement has been rejected by Par- liament, and is now abandoned by the new government, French influence re- mains considerable in fhis country. French banking interests are develop- ing daily in Belgian affairs. The newly discovered rich coal fields of the Flemish Kempen are already partly under French capitalist con- trol. The Belgian Government ig tied to France by large former loans and \ by a secret military agreement, so it jis certain that any Belgian cabinet cannot openly adopt a policy which would be in opposition to the French, Belgian state finances are closely dependent on payment of the repara- tions. But ag the occupation of the Ruhr was not very productive, the tendency of the new cabinet is to bring about an “honorable” end to the occupation and to provoke a gen- eral settlement of the reparations, Socialist-Catholic Combine Probable. The bourgeoisie is divided and’ it was very difficult to form a new coalition. The opposition of the Socialist Party remains complete, and the Flemish Catholics do not agree that the language question in the army should be adjourned, Therefore these two are now preparing the way for taking power after the gen- eral elections next year, Vandervelde is expected to realize his ambition of a minority “democratic” government, with the help of his Catholic friends. Perhaps this conservative coalition, which is in close touch with the Mac- Donal bor government of Great Britain, will open the eyes of the workers of these two countries to the conservative character of the social democrats. Canadian Postal Workers’ Strike Set for Monday OTTAWA, Can., April 8.—A strike that threatens to tie up the Cana- dian postal service is scheduled for April 14, unless salaries of letter carriers, railway mail clerks, postal clerks, postal porters and transfer agents are revised upward. The trouble was caused by announcement that the wartime bonus, paid in ad- dition to salaries for a number of years, would be again reduced, The revised salary schedule asked for by the letter carriers, railway mail clerks, etc., provides for a min- imum of $1,260 and a maximum. in the’ neighborhood of $1,980. The present salaries with bonus range from $780 to $1,560. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! down among the rest more of the best mili- in America. THE THE DAILY ga