The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 10, 1924, Page 1

. trol and supervision, would have the THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD AND FOR A WORKERS’ FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT + Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Mlinois, |voL. Il. No. 21. Subscription Rate; {In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. | Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER. under the Act of March 3, 1 <a> PUBLISHING CO.. 879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. 1640 N. — Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Bors Recognition of Soviet Russia tinots. Price 3 Cents WALL STREET OFFERS SCHEME TO “SAVE EUROPE DAWES’ §’ PLAN Hamon Wrote ihe Check “That ‘Elected Harding MAY OUST SULLIVAN SCRAPS PAGT DF WORLD WAR Tolls Germany to Pay But He Doesn't Tell How (Special to The Daily Worker) PARIS, April 9.—General Charles G. “Hell on Maria” Dawes today delivered to the ~ Reparations Commission the report of the committee of ex-| perts of which he is chairman. The report virtually recom- mends rewriting the financial provisions. of the Treaty of Versailles. ve It is a plan for obtaining reparations from Germany, while balancing her budget and stabilizing her currency. This is the splan of Wall Street to rebuild a capitalist Europe out of the chaos result- {ng from the world war. It is the plan of J. Pierpont Morgan and his fellow inter- national bankers, fighting for the present social system, to save Europe and the world from the growing power of the} workers aud farmers. | McKenna Submits Report. At the same time there was submit- | ted the report of*‘a second experts | committee, headed by Reginald Mc- | Kenna, dealing with German wealth | abroad apd means for its return, | The Dawes report proposed: 1.—Creation of a Lain of emission, | to issue paper money for Germany. and Tabale. the reparations account. i 2.—The taking over of German rail- ways by a company which will run them for the benefit of both Germany| and her creditors. | 8.—A foreign loan of 800,000,000 | gold marks to stabilize Germany's currency and take care of her im- mediate treaty obligations. 4.—Obtaining reparations payments} from sale of railway and industrial bonds and from revenue from mono- poiies on luxuries. 5.—A_ sliding scale of reparations payments, starting at one billion gold marks the first year and increasing as Germany prospers. _ 6.—France and Belgium mé@st re- Jease their economic hold on the Ruhr, but may retain their armies of occu- pation. Revises Versailles Treaty. The report, hailed as the most momentous document since the Ver- sailles treaty, which it would in a measure revise, differs from that pact in this: General Dawes and his col- leagues, who included Owen D. Young, based. their entire findings on the hypothesis “that the fiscal and economie unity of the reich will be restored; Germany is not told what she must pay and left to find the money; the experts, thru limited con- Allies share which the late enemy interest and responsibility in the business of making every German bear a fair share of a fair burden. Re-establishment of confidence in Germany, on the part of/ her own people as well as the rest of the world, is held to be vital to success of the plan. Plan Is Complicated. General Dawes’ committee has pro- posed to create this confidence by making it to Germany’s interest to pay her debts. To this end the broadest, most complicated scheme | ever devised for rehabilitation of a nation and extracting payments is outlined. Involving intricate mechanism of parallel and interlocking boards of directors—the whole supervised by a “reparations dictator”—to safeguard the rights of tho allies who are asked to relinquish their economic grip on the Ruhr, the plan is presented ag a unit. It concludes, almost bluntly, that it must be accepted in its entire- ty, or not at all, Explain Committee's Attitude. The Dawes report opened with an explanation of the attitude of the committee. “We have approached our task as business nen, anxious to obtain effective results. We have been concerned with technical, not politi- cal, aspects of the problems pre- sented to us,” the report began. “The dominating feature of the German budget is Germany's obliga- tion to the allies under the treaty —__ Continued | on page 2) Morgan’s New Mortgage! g HEN Brigadier-General Dawes, house of Morgan henchman, was appointed as a member of the com- mittee of experts to determine Germany’s capacity to pay reparations, we stated that it was the first step in the underwriting of the reparations account by the finance- capitalists of the United States and that an international committee of bankers dominated by the house of Morgan would become the receivers of Germany. * * Bankers Feast on Germans The recommendations made by the Dawes commission bear out every one of our predictions. The most important proposal—upon the successful consummation of which all ether proposals depend—is the establishment of a new bank of issue with German participation but under allied control. “Allied” in this instance means house of Morgan control because the condition for the establishment of the bank is a loan of $200,000,000 and, the recent loan made by this same financial group to France—secured by the French gold reserve—shows that from this source alone * * is this amount procurable. Like vultures, the international bankers have waited and watched the breakdown of German industry and the increase of hopeless misery in Germany and western Europe until they could safely, at least without fear of immediate danger, take huge mouthfuls from the bodies of workingmen, women and children. It is the workingclass of Germany that must pay first and all the intricate calcu- lations of the capacity of German industry, the mortgage value of the German railroads, the indexing of imports.and exports, cannot disguise the fact—except for those who want to be fooled—that every dollar of the reparations comes, not from the German capitalists but from the ~ sweated bodies of the German workers. * * * + Germany Converted Into Slave-Pen Nor can the workingclass of other nations escape the consequences of the arrangement that converts Germany into a gigantic slave-pen wherein will be manufactured for starvation wages commodities that must flood the world. market if the reparations are to be paid. No other method of raising such an enormous sum can be devised and the tremendous repercussions of the reparations settlement will be felt in every capitalist nation—if the conditions are accepted. The German workers are thrice enslaved by the settle- ment—they are slaves to their own capitalist class, slaves to the French, slaves to the house of Morgan. This is the one outstanding fact compared with which the carefully drawn estimates of annual revenue from a dozen sources, but all deriving actually from the unpaid labor-power of the workers, are of little importance. There is one other recommendation of the Dawes commission that is also of supreme importance as proving that parliamentary majorities mean little to the real rulers —the finance capitalists. Disputes arising over payments and capacity to pay are to be referred to the league of nations and this almost defunct body, which the congress and senate of the United States refused to endorse, is thereby resurrected, by the house of Morgan whose scheme it was in the first piace. * * * ~ More Misery—More Gold With the investment of something like $200,000,000 by the most powerful group in America in the aliied bank to which payments are to be made the participation of this country in the league is a foregone conclusion. One hundred per cent Americans will derive great consolation frorns the fact set forth above as proving not only “ ’ right but “our” ability to profit from the world-war. The shameless fiasluetaliers that began to dominate completely the government of this nation when this coun- try entered the world war in 1918 has now reached its zenith with the report of the Dawes commission. Washington, D. C., Refuses Memorial Tree For Nikolai Lenin---But Wait! (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—A request received by the authorities here that a memorial tree be planted on 16th Street in the name of Nikolai Lenin has been refused. fact that an ex-soldier, J. Bentley Mulford, made the request, it is pointed, out that trees in memory of Washington veterans are planted on this street and the fastidious spirits of these’ seph F Guffey, of Pittsburgh, for- veterans would object to the company of the immortal Lenin. In spite of the JAKE WILLING EVEN TO GIVE COOL MILLION Witness Not Sure As to Oklahoman’s Motives (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 9.— Further testimony concerning alleged “deals” to secure the republican nomination for War- ren G. Harding, was given the Senate Oii Committee today. J. F. Baughn, Harlingen, Texas, the first witness called, declared that Jake Hamon check that nominated Harding for president.” Farmer Is Witness. Baughn, formerly a farmer at Duncan, Okla., said he had known Hamon for 18 or 20 years and that he “talked politics’ with him after his return from the Chicago 1920 convention, “He told me then that he had ‘mo- tives’ for,suppérting Harding «and if need be that he would spend $1,000,- 000 to carry Oklahoma republican. He never explained what his “mo- tives’ were.” Investigation Will Proceed. The Senate Committee, in a brief executive session this morning, de- cided to push its inquiry. Senator Brookhart, the chairman, drew cheers from a crowd of specta- tors when he announced at the end of the executive session that “the in- vestigation will proceed with a force and determination that it never. had before.” Harding's Campaign Fund. After Baughn was excused, Wm. | H. Miller, former assistant attorney- | general of Ohio was called. J. B. French, friend of Hamon, testified Monday that Hamon said he |gave Miller $25,000 to pay the Chi- | cago hotel bills of the Harding head- quarters. Miller, French said, was |the pre-convention Harding manager |in Oklahoma. | Miller denied that he accepted any} j money from Hamon to pay Harding's | hotel bill. | “I paid out no money and I took jin no money. I was neither a cam- paign manager nor a sub-manager,” jhe said. Miller declared Harding’s cam- paign had been a “poverty campaign all the way thru,” and said he had heard no reports at the convention that Hamon had paid any Harding | expenses. | He was then excused. | Probe California Reserve. | Senator Walsh read several com- munications from Secretary of In- terior Work, in connection with which various leases in California naval reserve Number 2, and an- nounced he will shortly begin a thoro investigation of this reserve which previously had been neglected by the committee. The committee then adjourned un- til Friday. f Witnesess who will appear Friday are: Wm Nichols, Oklahoma City po- lice chief, and General Edwin F. Glenn, chief of the Wood headquar- ters in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920. Mrs, Hamon, widow of the Okla- homa politician, hes not yet been served with a subpoena. She prob- ably will appear Saturday, Walsh an- nounced, D. of J. Refused Aid. George W. Stork, a department of justice accountant, was the first witness, After presenting a letter from the department refusing to furnish files in the Bosch Magnto case, and the Green stock case asked by the committee, Stork went into lengthy details leading up to the sale of the Bosch Magneto company prop- erties by the alien property custo- dian during the war involving Jo- mer democratic national (Continued on page 2.) told him that he “signed the WHAT DAWES? EXPERTS ARE EAGERLY HOPING FOR THEIR PROPOSALS WHAT THE EXPERTS’ PROPOS- ALS ARE SUPPOSED TO MEAN TO GERMANY: Relief for two years from repa- tations payments; these to be taken care of by a foreign loan and a tax on industries at present non- productive. Return of economic interest in the Ruhr and Rhineland. Stabilization of her currency by means of a loan of 800,000,000 gold marks and creation of a gold bank of emission. A return of German capital that has “flown the country” with col- lapse of the mark, * * * TO FRANCE: Priority in reparations payments insofar as the cost of her armies of occupation are concerned. Assurance of slowly but steadily increasing payments by Germany under allied supervision. Protection against an adverse exchange or trade balance that might result from. incautious Ger- man Payments. TO THE UNITED STATES: Provision for payment of the costs of the American army that was four years on the Rhine, +. 2 8 TO THE. WORLD: Probable settlement of the repa- rations problem that has_ kept Europe in turmoil since the signing of the Versailies treaty. PROMINENT MEN HAULED IN AS KLAN MURDERERS Two More Are Dying! After Klan Massacre JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 9 | Twenty-four members of the Ku Klux | Klan are under arrest here today charged with rioting and murder dur- ing a Klan demonstration at Lilly Pa., Saturday. Two more of those shot by the Klan murderers, Patrick Bradley and Frank Miasco, are ex- pected to die from their wounds. State constabulary are still patrol- ling Lilly today, while influential Klansmen are trying to get their riot- ing colleagues out on writs of habeas corpus. Governor Pinchot announced that he would govern his future coursg by reports received from state cossack Major Adams. Attorney General Woodruff declared at Harrisburg that unless further disorders are re- ported the state is not expected to interfere with local authorities, Of the twenty-four Klansmen who participated in the massacre, some are prominent business men, two are constables, and one is a councilman. igation Continues. Authorities today continued their investigation into Saturday night’s fatal rioting in Lilly between citizens jand the Ku Klux Klan. The death of Frank Miasco of Lilly brought the total dead to three today and a fourth man, Patrick Bradley of Lilly, is reported dying in an Al- toona hospital. Six more Lilly citizens have been arrested in connection with the out- break and will be arraigned today. Additional arrests are expected. Klansmen Get Hearing. Twenty-six Klansmen will be taken to the Ebensburg court house from the police station here today for a hearing on a writ of habeas corpus to determiue whether they can be admitted to bail. The men are esa on charges of rioting and mur- ler. Crowley Heads New York Central. NEW YORK, April 9.-—-P. E. CLAIM JUDGE “DENNIE” HAS BROKEN DOWN Faced By Forty Strikers Who | Defied His Injunction | Judge “Dennie” Sullivan is) going to be ousted from his job of using the machinery of his | court in making war on the! strikers of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. This was one of the develop- ments that became known in the courtroom of the American prototype of the British labor oppressor, Judge Jeffreys, of two centuries ago, when he was faced by 40 strikers yes- terday who had defied his in- junction. He’s Just Worn Out. The excuse is made that the “Hon- orable Dennie”’ is» just. “worn .out”’, and that he needs a vacation. Others say that his spirit has been broken by the defiance of the strikers. Anyway, it is claimed that he is making arrangements with the law- yers for both sides to have the strike cases transferred to the court of Judge Fels. “Can't you go in and see if Judge! Fels will take these cases?” Sullivan is reported as saying wearily to the lawyers. “I am going out of town ‘or a few days to rest up. Just go into Judge Fels’ court and tell him I sent you.” Over forty pickets were in court, filling the jury box and the lawyers’ chairs as well as benches around the room. It has finally dawned on Judge Sullivan that in spite of his looks, his threats and severe fines and sen- tences, there are as many strikers on the picket line as there were when the strike began. Dunne Addresses Strikers. The strike meeting of the garment workers was addressed yesterday | MONTANA OIL © INDICTMENT HITS WHEELER ‘Got Fees For Oil Permits, His Enemies Are Charging Special to The Daily Worker) GREAT FALLS, Mont., Apr. 9.—Charges and counter- charges fell fast on one an- other today following indict- ment of Burton K. Wheeler, Junior United States Senator from Montana, for alleged un- lawful receipt of money in con- nection with the issuance of oil and gas prospecting permits. Wheeler, who is prosecutor \of the Senate Daugherty Inves- tigating Committee, was in- dicted by the Grand Jury with Gordon Tageel a oil operator, jand L. Stevenson, promotor. U.S. District Attorney Slattery said a warrant for the sena- tor’s arrest has been tele- graphed to Washington. Campbell, who the indictments charge, paid Wheeler $4,000 in con- nection with permits, immediately is- sued a statement denying the allega- tion and declaring his dealing with the senator “open and above board.” ; Friends of Wheeler denounce his political foes as responsible for the indictment. nets Wheeler Calls It Frame-Up. WASHINGTON, April 9.—De- nouncing the indictment against. him. as a “frame-up” by the republican national committee to balk the un- covering of “a great conspiracy,” Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, today declared investigation of the department of justice and Harry M. Daugherty would not be stopped by the indictment. Wheeler, chief prosecutor of the Daugherty committee, was indicted late yesterday by a federal grand jury at Great Falls, Montana, on a charge of illegally accepting a fee in connection with oil land cases for the Gordon Campbell interests since he became a member of the senate. Wheeler prepared to go back to Montana to defiand an early trial. He decided this was the best thing to do, after a long conference’ last night with Senator Walsh, his colleague, and other democratic leaders. Mean- time bond for Wheeler's appearance in court is to be arranged by wire today. Daugherty Plays Innocent. Wheeler's indictment was like a bolt from the blue. Wheeler had no afternoon by William F. Dunne of | warning of it, altho he had charged the DAILY WORKER staff. He urged the strikers to continue their picketing and pay no attention to the injunction saying that this was no time for the workers to show any sign of weakness. He pointed out that obedience of the legal ‘fictions of the employers’ courts would end in the complete destruction of the labor movement. Preparations are being made for the monster parade of strikers and sympathizers thru the loop district which is planned for Monday with a mass meeting in some loop theatre yet to be selected. Altho the officials of the union are prohibited from ordering or arrang- ing for picketing voluntary picketing is keeping the strike lines tight. This is a remarkable feature of the strike that has even aroused the admiration of the thugs and police. Nelson Is Still Mum. Alderman Oscar Nelson still as mum as ever at Wednesday after- noon’s meeting of the city council. He said that he had not been asked to bring up the question of the strike, neither by Vice-President Meyer Perlstein, in charge of the strike, or by the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Federation. He was not inclined to start anything him- self. While the city council was in ses- sion in the city hall the “Committee of 15” was also meeting, but at the offices of the Chicago Federation of Labor in West Washington St. Late in the afternoon Judge Sul- livan sent five of the strike cases to Judge Fels, carrying out the report jthat he was planning to turn all of This anti-strike activities over to Judge Fels, and leave the city tempo- Crowley wag elected president of the commit- |New York Central today, succeed- ing A. H. Smith, ae rarily. IMPEACH ‘COOLIDGE! that he was being investigated by the department of justice. Altho dispatches stated that the indictment was the result of evidence secured by department of justice agents before Daugherty resigned as attorney-general, Daugherty said that he “never heard of the case,” while he was in the department. He was inclined to believe it was a small fraud case worked up by the post- office department. Republican Heads Knew. Wheeler told the Senate he had been informed that the republican national committee several days ago knew he was to be indicted. Depart- ment of Justice sleuths have been in- vestigating his history for months, he declared. The young democratic-progressive made a complete denial of all the charges, and insinuations ‘that have been made against him since he began the investigation which preceded re- signation of Attorney General Daugh- erty from the cabinet. “This was done solely for the pur- pose of injuring me, and detracting from the work of our investigating committee which has unearthed 2 con- (Continued on page 2) EXTRAORDINARY! TRIAL DATE OF BOOTLEGGING CONGRESSMAN IS SET (Special to The Daily Worker) . COVINGTON, Ky., April 9.— The trial of Congressman John W. Lwingley of Kentucky and his al- leged associates, charged with con- spiring to withdraw liquor from a government warehouse was set to- day for April 18 at 9 a, m. Another Article by J. T. Murphy on “What’s Doing in England” on Page Six Today ne saan arene