The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 1

f [ ( THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 22. — Subscription Rate FEDERAL JURY WILL PASS ON OIL THIEVERY Case Will Take More Than Ten Days (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 10.— Actual presentation of evi- dence before the Federal Grand Jury called to investigate al- leged criminal conspiracy in connection with the oil scandal will begin April 16, govern- ment counsel announced here today. Atlee Pomerene and Owen Roberts, in charge of the case for the government, have com- pleted their case for presenta- tion to the jury, it was learned. A long list of witnesses prob- ably will be called. George L. Miller, one of the own- ers of the Miller Brothers “101 Ranch” in Oklahoma, admitted be- fore the Senate Daugherty investi- gating committee today that he em- ployed John E. Todd, former law partner of Harry M. Daugherty, “to get his case before the attorney general.” The committee dug further into the alleged inactivity of the de- partment of justice in prosecutin; the Miller Brothers for return o' Indian lands valued at $500,000 which it is charged they obtained by fraudulent means, A special federal grand jury to- day is to be impanelled to take up the criminal side of the oil leasing scandal, sae ae. lence will be presented to the grand to show a con- spiracy. to defraud the United States. Indictments will be sought against five or six persons, it was é indicated, including former Secre- tary of the Interior Fall, whose part §In Chicago, by mail, ) Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year $8.00 per year. ACen 24 THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at. Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Illinois. WALL ST. FIXES FRENCH REPARATION P Workers! Farmers! Demand: sue Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorga: The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protectiun of the Foreign-Born Reenenition of Seviet Russi ized Price 3 Cents | OLIC ° ° © ° © © | : Chicago Labor Applies For Strike Parade Permit DAWES PACT TWO MINERS DIE AS MINE GUARDS FIRE ON KENTUCKY UNION MEN PINEVILLE, Ky., April 10,— Three companies of state militia- men surrounded properties of the Liberty Coal & Coke Company here today following fights be- tween union and non-union work- men in the mines. Fighting began when mine guards fired on striking union min- ers and two were killed. Governor Fields called out the troops last night. The situation was quiet today, and women and children of miners who found shelter in the court- house returned to their homes. DEVELOPING TO FORD'S SCHEME Senate Committee Is Against His Offer (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 10.—The Ford offer for Muscle Shoals ac- cepted by the House will meet de- feat in the Senate Committee on Agriculture, it appeared today fol- lowing an informal poll. Any move to report the measure favorably to the Senate probably will be beaten by an approximate vote of 9.to 8. Five Senators on a committee of 17 have pledged themselves to de- feat Fo: ris, Keyes, new Hampshire; ‘Kinley, Illinois, and Johnson, Be die oy Five others are pledged to sup- port Ford. They are Senators Har- rison, Mississippi; Heflin, Alabama; Caraway, Arkansas; Smith, South Carolina and Ladd, North Dakota. in ‘the alleged conspiracy will be Presented to the grand jury as that of the person chiefly responsible for the plan to violate the law in turn- ing over naval oil reserves to the Sinclair and Doheny interests, New Mellon Tax Plan Goes to the Senate; Debate Next Week WASHINGTON, April 10.— The new Mellon tax bill. was formally presented to the Senate today. Chairman Smoot of the Finance Committee, reported out the bill and its visions were officially made pl While the income tax, surtax, and inheritance tax provisions are not ex- pected to survive the senate, Repub- jicans are pared to fight hard for them in or to obtuin the best pos- sible compromise. Smoot announced that the bill would be taken up for debate “early next week.” Presentation of the evidence, it was indicated today may take ten days or two weeks. Even Poison Ivy Spreads. DETROIT, Mich., April 10.—With American legion members as officers, tho without official American legion participation, a Denby for senator club has been organized in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, and is ex- pected to spread. perennials Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. NOTICE! TOLEDO! All members of the Toledo Workers party and militants of Toledo join the great street dem- onstration and gales drive for the Pee WORKER, Sat. April Alll those willing to go, report at the WORKERS PARTY book one 131 Michigan St. at 2:30 “Women and girl comrades are especially usked to help. It appears that Kendrick, Wyoming and Ralston, Indiana, will stand with the Ford forces. Both are democrats. Capper, Kansas; Gooding, Idaho; Harreld, Oklahoma and probably Ransdell, Louisiana, will vote with Norris, the DAILY WORKER has been informed—giving him enough votes to beat the Ford offer. The position of Senator Norbeck, South Dakota, is unknown. Blind Men Working On Piece System Shamefully Robbed (By The Federated Press) SYDNEY, N. S. W., April 10— Blind workérs employed in the in- stitutions at Sydney on piece rates, are paid scandalously low wages. Single men are paid $6 a week and married men get $7.50. Thru over- time and bonuses, some earn be- tween $10 and $15 per week. This is far short of the minimum wage for unskilled workers in New South Wales, Union officials urge nationaliza- tion of the institutions, to be run as business undertakings and not as charitable institutions. Nothing can be done in this direction till a labor government is returned to power in New South Wales, Germans’ Food Rations Only Half Pre-War Period (By The Federated Press) BERLIN, April 10.—The statisti- cal- office of Germany publishes a table showing the decrease in con- sumption of foodstuffs in Germany as compared with the pre-war per- iod. These statistics reveal the sys- tematic undernourishment among the workers of Germany. Here are a few of the striking comparisons made: The German peop.e today consume 3-5 of the pre-war ration of rye bread; 1-2 of | wheat bread, rolls and noodle: of barley and barley products; 1-2, of meat, and 4-5 of the pre-war cation of potatoes, Freiheit, Jewish Commun Celebrates Second Anniversary Freiheit, the Jewish Communist second anniversary season with meetings in all the big cities of the nation, The Chicago celebration will be held tonight at Orchestra Hall, 220 8. nder Bittleman, ‘4 Michigan Blvd., with A Backall as speakers, and an elaborate heit Singing Society and the Freiheit ist Daily, daily, is this week celebrating its Senators. Nor- “'MeNery, Greron | MONDAY OR TUESDAY T0 SEE MARGH Workers Will Demonstrate In the Busy Loop District The Chicago Federation of Labor will apply to Mayor Dever today for a permit to hold one of the most spectacu- lar labor parades ever held in Chicago, which will demon- strate to the entire country At last taking heed of the and file trade unionists that active and aggressive support be given the striking garment workers, the “Committee of 15” has decided to issue a call for the striking garment work- ers to march next week, prob- ably Monday or Tuesday. Go Thru Market Street. The parade will proceed thru the loop district, and will twice march past the “front line trenches” of the ‘Market street picket lines. The marchers are to carry banners declaring ‘that Sullivan’s injunction against picketing is an affront to every working man and womar in the country. s Mass Meeting In Theatre. Arrangements are being made to hire a large downtown theatre. The historic parade, demonstrating the solidarity of the strikers of Chicago against an illegal injunction which would enslave them to their jobs, af- ter marching thru the downtown dis- trict, will enter the theatre in a body. Prominent national labor leaders will denounce the injunction against the garment strikers and will offer any aid from their respective unions de- sired by the garment workers But it will not be the music of the bands nor the nationally known speakers which will receive the most honor at the hands of the rank and file trade unionists of the city. The places of honor will undoubtedly go to the striking garment workers, who in spite of wholesale arrests, police brutalities, and the injunction, have kept the picket lines intact. The garment strikers have patiently wait- Jed for the other unions to get into the fight which they have been bit- terly waging on the injunction. To know that at last the call which men like Alex Howat, have been mak- ing for twenty-five thousand union men to get on the picket line, defy the injunction, and fill up the jails if necessary, is at last being answered, will hearten the strikers to carry thru the slack season to victory. Promised Financial Aid. . Financial aid from the Chicago Federation of Labor has also been of- fered to the striking International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, and the offer of an initial payment of $30,000 accepted with thanks by Meyer Perlstein in’ behalf of the strikers, it was announced after a meeting of the “Committee of 15” with Perlstein. The striking garment workers are at last promised the active help of the Chicago Federation of Labor, for which they have waited so long and patiently, and which they so richly deserve. A growing protest among the garment strikers had been mak- ing itself felt at the fact that many of the scabs were related to union men. Nothing definite has yet been done by the Chicago Federation to make the so-called union men take their wives and sisters out of the striking shops. But now, the Federation has at. least promised action on this matter also. Members of the Committee of 15, said to the DAILY WORKER that it has been decided to privately call on the offending union families, and if the scabs did not quit work at once, the families would be publicly exposed and all would be expelled from the union. But strikers declare that the scabs related to union men have been prolonging the strike for some time, and they would like to |see the Federation do something be- sides make promises, “The only thing that could stop Louis Engdahl and Morris musical program including the Frei- Mandolin Orchestra. the parade and mass meeting now would be that Mayor Dever might not issue the permit;” A Johannsen told (Continued on page 2) June 17th Farmer-Labor Conference | Biggest Organizational Factor In the 1924 Drive On Capitalist Parties By LAURENCE TODD (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10.—All at once, the extent of the revolt of the American voters against private ownership and operation of their government has become evident to Calvin Coolidge, and he has sent messengers scurrying here and there to find means of killing the LaFollette movement before it REVOLUTIONARY RUSS ENVOY T0 BERLIN USES ROMANOFF'S EMBASSY that organized labor in this! city is behind the striking gar-| ment workers to the last ditch. : growing demand of the rank) becomes a political tornado. Appointment of a Morgan the Nofrris-Sinclair approved, has chilled some White House. Selection of Lawyer Butler of Bos- | ton, former handy man for Murray Crane, to manage the national cam- | paign, has dampened the flickering ardor of Indiana and [Illinois sup- jorters. Discovery that Coolidge looks with favor upon the vice- Bra candidacy of either Al- of |bert J. Beveridge or Ex-Govy. Allen of Kansas, finishes the list of woes tecited by regulars who hoped that Coolidge would wake up in time. Now he wakes up, in a panic, and the progressives laugh, | For it is recognized, by the shrewd- est politicians in the old party ranks here, that the La Follette vote next ; November is bound to sweep a bo part of the middle west and all of the. northwest, and that it will offer thrills to the bystanders in Illinois and Mis- souri and Michigan especially. Its extent im Pensylvania will be very great. And it is going to be felt in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Oklaho- mia, Arizona and possibly Georgia. June 17 Worries C. P. P. A. ; The ce hem coe, Of sre. Gone @ ive. “Political _Ac- ‘ti6n ofan SpA ia It wili”get reports from branches in 30 states, ‘as to plans for state campaigns andj for selection of tickets of presidential electors. This organization ig wor- ried by the amount of publicity re- ceived thus far by the rival group supporting La Follette—the Farmer- Labor Federation which will hold a convention June 17, in St. Paul for the adoption of a platform and nomin- ation of candidates. The St. Paul convention is supported by the Com- | mittee of 48, the Minnesota Farmer- Labor Party and the Federated Farm- er-Labor Party, which latter body is | supposed to be largely infiuenced by |the Workers Party. The Conference spokesmen declare that the St. Paul athering will embarrass LaFollette i; the extreme radicalism of the con- vention speeches, and by prominence | given to W. Z. Foster, Ruthenberg | and other favorite bugaboos of the| capitalist prees. H. E. Teigen, Secre-) tary to Sen. Magnus Johnson of Min- |! nesota, member of the committee which called the St. Paul gathering replies that these fears are unfound- ed, the people in the Northwest know what they want, and they will tell the world in plain, moderate language done the administration no good. Announcement that the War ; Financé Corporation must help the farmers, bill nor the McNary-Haugen bill can be | ers, but he is willing anyhow to be lawyer as attorney general has but that neither the luke-warm callers at the | that will be backed up by their votes. La Follette may accept the St. Paui | nomination without waiting for the | nomination of the Conference at | Cleveland on July 4, or he may not. His action will depend upon the events of the Republican and Demo- cratic conventions. Already it ap- pears that McAdoo and Al Smith are to he supported by a great number of wage-earners who think these men are sympathetic with the needs of la- bor. Moreover, the Democratic con- vention is presumably going to reject Al Smith on the ground that he is a Catholic. La Foilette would be glad to be the first choice of these work- M. BRATMAN-BRODOWSKY BERLIN, April 10.—Looking after the diplomatic interests in Germany of the Russian Soviet Government is M. Bratman-Brod- dowsky, Soviet Amb: dor to Ber- lin, recently appointed. Proof that the German govern- ment realizes that Czarism has lost all claims to restoration is signi- fied by the fact that the former embassy of the Romanoff repre- sentative. was turned over to M. ~'Bratman-Brodowsky. Germany, England and Italy are among the European powers which have acceded diplomatic recognition to the workers’ republic and pres- sure to force France to fall in line is increasing. FILIPINOS FIGHT PESO WAGE IN SUGAR FIELDS 'Guevera Tells of Union On Plantations their second choice, when the Demo- cratic convention has taken its or- ders, A Few Certainties Out of the mist of political uncer- tainties, these points emerge: 1. LaFollette will be a candidate for president in 30 or more states. 2. He will be supported by the St. Paul group which is..going. to esfak lish” a definite Farmer-Labor party on a permanent basis, and by the rail- road-labor and other elements in the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which does not yet see a chance for a new party, and is op- posed to the Workers Party element. 3. He will get enough electoral votes to prevent the re-election of Coolidge, and perhaps enough to throw the election into the House. 4. He may enlist a great share of the Catholic vote, on a protest basis, as a consequence of the failure of the Democrats to name Al Smith. 5. He will have the support of Ladd Frazier, Magnus Johnson, Shipstead, Norris, Brookhart and possibly How- ell and Borah in the campaign. He may have the support of Wheeler and Dill from the Democratic side of the Senate. Coolidge is now trying to find a basis of secpeetert with Borah gv will not involve a repudiation of the eR SRM foreign policy of Hughes. He needs Z end Se Seay N the help of Capper and McNary and| WASHINGTON, April 10.—Not Norbeck and Gov. Pinchot. But he | Political revolt, but determinat clings to his Daugherty-Weeks crowd, Win a_ living wage on the sugar and the day of reckoning with the La| plantations in the Philippines, is the Follette revolt—which bids fair to | purpose of the new society or labor ing to further their campaign against During the past few weeks much Communist International. At this meeting the speakers, among them being, Max Shactman, Editor, the Young Worker; Martin Abern, National Secretary of the Young Workers League of America, and William F. Dunne, Editor, the DAILY WORKER, will point to the difference between the position of the milk and water pacifists and the stand of the militant communists. Strenuous efforts have been made ave at this' meeting, many of the ioldiers and sailors who have fought under the Bagner of the American D Mar in France. The meeting will be held on Sun- day, April 13th, 8 P. M., at the Work- ers’ Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd. The Young Workers League of Chicago, under whose auspices this meeting is being conducted announces that the admfesion will be free. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Klan Victims Demand Trial. DANVILLE, IIL, ithe 10.—Thirty- sight of sixty-one Williamson county residents arralkend in federal court here teday pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition laws, Their fines totalled nearly $8,000, Thirteen of the sixty-one, picked: up in klan oe raids, demanded trials’ and seven will enter pleas later, | « IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Young Workers and Service Men Are Rallying Against Capitalist Wars With the American Legion making every effort to pit the World War ; Veterans against the radical movement in their struggle against capitalist | said " x wars, the Young Workers League of Chicago will hold a Giant Mass Meet- | strike of seamen in the islands, and wa; connecting the work of the pacifists with th be a revolution—rolls nearer. |union known as the Power of the Poor, or Kusog So Imol, according |to Commissioner Guevara. The | commissioner, interviewed by the | Federated Press on the New York | Times’ cable dispatch from Manila, which declared this society to be “secret” and “armed,” replied that the charges were “utter nonsense.” “The substance of the matter,” Guevara, who led the first the militarists. knows the Philippine lahor move- said and written in an effort to fae wa onthe “is yee ecg ear R sel i i i day is e wage of sugar plantatio! if, wana tpt as cm shame ind tabirenks and that they realize that this is slave labor. They know that sugar production costs are lower in the islands than in Hawaii or Cuba, and they propose to better their condition. The charge of holshevism and threatened armed revolt is gen- erally made by employers and If You Miss Anything, It’s Because We're Moving! others interested in keeping wo! ers under their private donnatio: % The Filipinos are jubilant at the in reign atgmar- | tact that thoy have blocked the at- s t tempts of the Wood administration at Manila to force the sale of bet 4 big sugar “centrals,” pledged for pr) preyed Nh sicpegl will |loans to the Philippine Bank, to American sugar interests. Secretary be settled in the new building and | Weeks’ son-in-law, Atkins, who is prepared with new equipment to one of the big suga ‘ons in see ee een cvetter Paper than |! Cuba, recently visited Manila to Pie, the tres'aias Pe ha ed || 00k over the possibility of getting the paper will ba dile te cay some of these mills at a bargain. filha. alan: ibis eh ied | He reptesents Boston capitalists, tle cose than the news carried |! Filipino planters predict that by by afternoon papers and during this time we ask the indulgence of our readers. The other features of the DAILY WORKER will not be affected. ' 1940 they will have pai their debt and will co-operati own every sugar mill and refinery in the | islands. ‘IS MORGAN'S ULTIMATUM ‘To Poincare, Tied Up By | Previous Loan | WASHINGTON, April 10.— France probably will approve the Dawes pian, as it is under- | stood that the Poincare govern- |ment is bound by conditions of |the Morgan $100,000,000 loan |to accept the report. The lib- eral government of Great Bri- tain also is expected to give approval. The action of Ger- many still is in doubt. | With strong objections cer- tain to be made to it, the Dawes report stands better | than an even chance to effect a final settlement of the repar- ations problem, official and diplomatic Washington be- lieved today. The principal objection ex- pected is that the report does not recommend a definite total reparations figure, a fact to which Germany already is ob- | jecting. Reparations the Reich now is under obligation to pay total 132,000,000,000 gold marks, An effort may be made to make it appear that under the proposals of Secretary of State Hughes which | brought about the Dawes inquiry, the experts. were obligated to set a total {aac * sie ' Silat | Dawes Has His Fears The reason the experts report did | not deal with a total sum is that Gen- eral Dawes found at the start that |to try to fix a total would wreck te | inquiry. | The total indemnity that Germany } must meet, even if the Dawes plan is accepted, may be worked out in a | European economic conference called to put the experts’ report into effect, jor might result from a satisfactory execution by Germany of her obliga- | tions under the plan over a period of years. Objections to Proposals | PARIS, April 10.—While the repa- | ration commission studies the experts’ reports, France keeps pace with Ger- many in objecting to the proposals. The old familiar game of European | politics already is being played with |this effort of international bankers, No Faith in Morality The Dawes plan was based upon so-called “co-operation and restored (Continued on page 2) CANADIAN MINERS STRIKING AGAINST OPEN SHOP PLAN Coal Barons Refused to Renew Agreement (By The Federated Press) GALGARY, Alta., April 10.—Coal operators in Western Canada are re- fusing to renew the old agreement with the miners’ union in District 18 for three years and a strike of 8,000 to 10,000 miners is on in Alberta and British Columbia. The. agree- ment, which expired April 1, provid- ~|ed, with some modification, for the seale and conditions prevailing in the central competitive field of the Unit- ed States. The operators want to cut wages and to make the new ¢on- tract for one year instead of three, The strike is expected to be drawn out thru the summer in view of large supplies of coal on hand. The Ci dian Pacific Railroad claims to ha’ six months and the Canadian Ni tional 12 months stock of coal. Min have been running on part-time a large portion of the last year. The strike demands include some changes not in the present agreement such as abolition of tents and bunk houses, ending of night work and in- aueuration of hiring thru the union office. In our building and with our BRUSSELS, April 10.—Premier BRUSSELS, April 10.—Kin ig A ‘Charles G. Dawes at luncheon today. General Charles G, Dawes at luncheon. Belgium ‘Sure Is Very Thankful to _ Dawes For Strangling the Germans Theunis of Belgium today entertained Ibert of Belgium entertained General '