The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 3

5 4 Wednesday, April 16, 1924 CLASS CONSCIOUS AMAZING FATE Who Owns Country? ‘Ask Morgan By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) Are you one of the lucky 1,500,000 who divided up on a pot of between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000 on April \? If not you have missed out on your share in the ownership of the sountry’s industrial wealth and there nust be some flaw in the contention of big business that banks, railways, public utilities and manufacturing es- tablishments are owned by the peo- We. This big fortune distributed ‘on fort 1 was no April fool. It repre- tents the dividend checks mailed out mm that date by 402 corporations, gg check good for so much cash. includes in addition to regular monthly and quarterly payments a tonsiderable number of extra divi- lends paid out of the exorbitant profits of 1928. Among the concerns ing such extra payments were jan Kodak, American Window Mass, Island Creek Coal, Penn Cen- ral Idght & Power, Fajardo Sugar, wd Pittsbupgh Oil & Gas Co. Billlons in Dividends. This great outpouring of cash to the small class in the country which lives off the labor of others calls at- lention to the increasing wealth hich they receive each year from © profits of industry. According to the U. S. Government Department of Pommerce the average monthly divi- lend and interest payments during $023 amounted to $298,987,000, bring- ing the amount paid out during the as a whole to the huge total of fovse7.844,000, Never before the history of the tountry have the cash profits paid out to stockholders and bondholders teached so large a total. It exceeds by over $168,000,000 the former peak in 1920. It means that the actual cash payments to the owning class are manning more than 100 per cent above those of the pre-war years 1913 and 1914. Total payments in 1914 ‘mounted to $1,787,376,000. The dividend and interest . pay- ments of 1923 would have provided ‘or 2,500,000 families on the basis of wages now prevailing in the manu- facturing establishments of the coun- ry. If one-half of the total had been set aside as a national savings fund ‘o provide for future capital needs, the remainder would have given a wage increase of 25 per cent to 5,000,000 workers, allowing a higher ttandard of living to about one-fifth of the entire population. The total cash payments to the ab- sentee owners of the country’s capi- ial during the last ten years have imounted to approximately $27,000,- 400,000, enough to purchase the en- \ire national debt with a considerable surplus besides. This huge total is only a partial reflection of the full rofits of the investing class, Bil- ions of dollars have been held in cor- porate surpluses and reserves to be lisbursed later when income taxes tave been reduced or to be divided as ttock dividends, 5 \ Senators May Jail Mal Daugherty For Withholding Books WASHINGTON, April 15. — The Senate Daugherty Investigating Com- mittee today will decide. whether to order comtempt proceedings against Mal Daugherty for his refusal to pro- fuce the books of his bank for the committee, Open hearings will be sus- pended for the day while the commit- tee holds an executive session. Brookhart is of the opinion that Mal Daugherty can be ordered into cus- tody of the sergeant at arms of the senate and held until he produces books of the Midland National Bank of Washington court house, Ohio, but other members of the committee be- lieve that only court action, involving & long legal battle, can accomplish that end. Wheeler also will confer with Sena- tor Borah, chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the indict- ment of the Montana Senator. Borah said the investigation is not likely to get under way until the middle of the week when witnesses subpoenaed trom Montana will arrive. Textile Mills Close. SANFORD, Me.—Six hundred more workers have been thrown on the streets jobless by the partial closing of two textile factories of the San ford Mills here. The factories. and the dye house of the company will go on three-day a week basis, FIGURES Tee) irra racy SENATE'S WAR WITH WASHINGTON, April 15—Renewals of the bitter conflict between Presi- dent Coolidge and the senate over the fight of investigation by senato- rial committees into the doings of government departments was promis- ed yesterday with both sides to the argument as determined as ever to enforce their views. Senator Reed’s resolution to punge from the record the message of President Coolidge to the senate assailing the Couzens’ resolution of the investigation of the internal reve- nue bureau as outside the bounds of local inquiry still is pending before the senate. Reed said he would de- mand action on the measure today. Republican leaders were trying to- day to arrange a truce with demo- crats to prevent another day of such bitter partisan discussion as obcured Saturday. They fear that the senate will get into such a mean temper over this question, if allowed to go on de- bating it, that little legislation will be passed before the time for the poli- tical conventions in June. Democrats regarded the President’s letter as a challenge. They in- tended to insist on a report this week from the expenses committee on the Jones resolution empowering the Cou- zens’ committee to investigate the in- ternal revenue bureau and to hire Francis J. Heney with government money instead of privately, out of the purse of senator Couzens, as at first arranged. Anti-Fascisti Organizer Starts On National Tour NEW YORK CITY.—Leonardo Fri- sina, national organizer for the Anti- Fascist Ailliance of North America, has started on a long speaking tour toward the Western States in behalf of the’ alliance. Due to the recent general election in Italy, the alliance has renewed its activities among the Italian workers in the United States and will keep up the agitation against the introduction or the formation of black shirt groups here. Frisina is scheduled to speak in several important cities, among which are Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y.; Erie, Pa.; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Milwaukee, Wis., and Chicago. ex- JAP CLAUSE MAY FORCE VETOING OF IMMIGRATION BILL International Trouble Is Feared By Cal (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, April 15.—Veto of the immigration bill, recall of Am- bassador Hanihara of Japan and probable diplomatic complications were among the possibilities dis- cussed here today following the sen- ate’s angry gesture regarding the ex- clusion clauses of the pending immi- gration measure. The senate’s vote yesterday, abro- gating the gentlemen’s agreement, which up to this time has served as the method of regulating Japanese immigration into this country, clear- ly foreshadowed adoption of a drastic exclusion provision. While Congress is very angry at Japan’s protest, thru Hanihara, against the exclusion provision, Presi- dent Coolidge and Secretary Hughes feel themselves in an embarrassing position. At Japan’s daring to inter- fere with legislation on a domestic question, pending before Congress, but they are concerned about the dip- lomatic consequences of Congress’ anger, Cal May Veto Bill. It therefore has been suggested that Mr. Coolidge will veto the im- migration bill when it comes to him carrying the exclusion clause. But the present temper of Congress is such that a veto will be overridden. When ‘the Shortridge . amendment, which is similar to the exclusion pro- vision carried in the bill passed by the house, has, been voted on, the troublesome quota provision will be settled. Senate Republicans in con- ference agreed on one per cent of the census of 1910 as the basis. If this is carried the difference between the house bill, which provides for two per cent on the census of 1890, must be reconciled in conference. Chicago Labor Protests, Progressive forces of the labor movement are uniting against the “se- lective” immigration proposals. The Chicago Council for the Protection of Foreign Born and similar councils are expected to send delegations here to oppose the plans to register Euro- pean workers. Vigorous opposition is offered by the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and numer- ous influential bodie’ of organized He will then. proceed toward the | ‘West thru the states of Indiana, Mis- souri, Kansas and Colorado. “The outcome of the general elec- tion in Italy,” Frisina said, “is such as to give new impetus to the most pessimisitic among the rank and file of our organization. It shows once more that the spirit of a class con- scious proletariat cannot be killed even by the murderous weapons of the black-shirted criminals.” Studebaker Plutes Expect to Split A 10 Percent Dividend SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 15.— Wall Street’s Drive on Studebaker corporaton stock will not affect the ten percent dividend on common stock, president A. R. Esrkine an- nounced. “Profits considerably exceed divid- end requirements and promise to do so thruout the year” he said, ad- ding: “Even with twenty per cent res- triction on business which now ap- pears probable I can take an optomis- tic view pf the automobile business and predict that when the year, is over records of the industry will com- pare favorably with results shown by steel, railroads and other big indus- tries.” Studebaker plants here and at Det- roit are working full time, according to Erskine, and each will be required to turn out 14,000 for April and May to meet the demand. Lewis Back In Kansas to “Settle” Another Coal Strike KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 15.— John L. Lewis, president of the Unit- ed Mine Workers of America, con- ferred today with miners and oper- ators in wage scale negotiations here in an effort to reach an agreement to settle the strike of 35,000 men in the southwestern district. The committee of union representa- tives and employers attempting to frame a new contract reached a dead- lock and Lewis was called as a last resort. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. COAL BARONS LAY OFF 11 MEN; EIGHT THOUSAND MINERS STRIKE Pics alert brake aad ge javigation Com uck unex ly today in 8; Lansford Not 5 colliery, who have been on strike nce Friday because at the eleven men were laid off there. the Lehigh Coal ith 00 men The strike closes all the company’s colleries in the Panther Creek field betwee Workers will arrange a elabluas in Mauch Chunk and Tamaqua. District officials of the United Mine conference at once, it was said. é labor. be Ne Japs Angry at Exclusion. TOKIO, Japan, April 15.—Japanese opinion and Japanese officialdom to- day seemed in a turmoil over the ac- tion of the American House of Rep- resentatives in passing the Japanese exclusion measure. Woman Faces Jail For Using Charlie’s Name Too Freely NEW YORK, April 15.—Mrs, Myrtle Bowman Hayes, charged with forging the endorsement of Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate and now on trial before Judge George F. McIntyre in general sessions for forgery in the second degree, he today withdrew her plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to attempted forgery in the third deg- ree, Her plea of guilty was accepted by Judge McIntyre, who stated that un- der no circumstances would he per- mit the defendant to withdraw it. Mrs, Hayes was held in $10,000 bail, pending investigation of her case by the judge, who announced he would pronounce sentence two weeks from today, " Under a plea of guilty of attempted forgery in the third degree, defend- ant is Hable to a sentence of one year and six months or greater. Siberian Farmers From Government MOSCOW, April 15.—The Tech- nical branch of the Government Busi- ness Department is receiving many orders for tractors from Siberia, Tur- kestan, Kubania, Samara state and others. The tractors and sets (includ- ing plough etc.) are sold by the g0- vernment'to the peasant on easy pay- ments. Last year they sold at $2,300. The Technical Branch bought a- broad 1,500,000 rubles worth of agri- cultural machinery and intends to spend 1,000,000 more. Part of the goods has been delivered and is being distributed among the peasants of the different states, The Fight of the Lady Barbers. SEATTLE, April 15.—A curigis jurisdictional tangle has embroiled Seattle workers with the throwing, out of the Lady Barbers’ shop card in the Solidarity barber shop in the lumber workers’ section of the city. A card issued by the Barber Workers’ In- dustrial Union of the I. W. W. has re- placed the other union card. The Lady Barbers themselves are not rec- ognized by the American Federation of Labor, and their admittance to the Seattle Central Labor Council here was one of the reasons for the threat- ened revocation of the charter last year, _ pending, Are Buying Tractors 2". |e THE DAILY WORKE “Indict Wheeler!” Yelps Daugherty’s Former Assistant GRBAT FALLS, Mont., April 15.— John S. Pratt, special assistant attor- ney general, argued the case of Sen- ator B. K. Wheeler before the Federal Grand Jury which indicted Wheeler, according to members of the Grand Jury. PLUMBERS’ CHIEF PLAYS SCAB ROLE IN PHILADELPHIA Orders Men Back Under The Union Scale (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, April 15.—Plumb- ers Union Local No. 123 of this city, several weeks ago went on strike in order to enforce a new wage scale of $1.25 an hour instead of the old rate of $1.15. The strike was declared in full agreement with the Union rules and with the full knowledge and ap- proval of the General Executive Board. The strike was practically won when the President, Cofield, of the In- ternational Union interfered and pro- posed that the strikers give up ev- erything they won during the strike and return to work at the old rate. The rank and file of the local at a well attended meeting refused to ac- cept this proposition, knowing that complete victory is in sight. Cofield, Scab Herder. Mr. Cofield then ruled that he will supply the shops with sufficient men to replace those who refused to liquidate the strike and proceeded to “reorganize” the local in a most auto- cratic and unbrotherly way. The lo- cal appealed the actions of President Cofield to the general BHxecutive Board. The appeal gives an illuminat- ing picture of the struggles the rank and file must carry on not only against their bosses but also against the heads of their own union. The ap- peal to the members of the G. E. B. follows: Among the points emphasized in the, appeal are: That the General Of- fice promised “full moral support,” tho no financial aid; That President Cofield, after a conference with. the strike committee and two of the big plumbing bosses, namely the W. G. Cornell Co. and the Cronin Co. at which Cofield ordered the bosses to remove non-union men from the job. Men Reject Scab Rate. The bosses failed to do this and Co- field did not insist on it. Instead the bosses offered to take the men back at the $1.15 wage with the promise that August 1 they might grant $1.25 This offer was rejected by a large majority of the members but Cofield asked them to return to work anyhow at the $1.15 rate, saying they would be able to get $1.25 by July 1. The workers refused this, pointing out that some 100 members of the lo- cal were then working at the $1.25 scale in other shops. Furthermore the local voted that anyone returning at the lower rate would be consider- ed “unfair.” Business Agent, Scab Herder. When the local business agent ad- mitted he was trying to get men to go on the unfair jobs he was sus- pended. The business agent tho, thru a frame-up arranged with the secre- tary and one of the trustees of the bricklayers’ union from whom the building is rented, read a notice or- dering the premises to be vacated at once. But he waited until the meet- ing had adjournd to read this notice. Late that night, March 7, the business agent and some other officers re- moved the books and the charter. Three days later, however, the brick- layers’ local denounced the removal order and denied that it was official. At the next meeting of the plumb- ers’ local, March 17, Cofield "i ordered the men back to work at thé $1.15 scale. The strike is still on, appeal to the Executive Italian Goods to Ru LENINGRAD, April 15.— ber of offers received from Italian firms, in connection with the formal recognition of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics by Italy, is stead- fly growing. Numerous offers of tex- tile goods and automobiles have been lately received from Palermo, Genoa, Milan. The Italian newspaper Eoo has sent a request to the North-West- efn Chamber of Commérce (Lenin- grad) to furnish it with regular in- formation about the Russian markets, particularly the leather market. Disease Spreads in California. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, April 15. Hoot and mouth disease continues to spead in California, according to reports today. R FERRIS AROUSED WHEN FORD WINS. DEMOCRATIC VOTE Says Cal’s Man Has No Business in Primary. By SHERMAN BOWMAN (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15.— Sen. Woodridge N. Ferris, of Michi-| gan, sage of the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids and old fashioned Demo- erat, is aroused because his party has suffered the strange reproach of hav- ing Henry Ford, a supporter of Cool- idge for President, named the Demo- cratic favorite son of Ferris’ own state. Senator Ferris has been a Democrat longer than most men have lived. He was a candidate in the Michigan primaries, just held, for the Democrat- ic nomination for president. But some- one placed Ford’s name on the bal- lot. Ford had previously shown his in- difference to any candidacy of his own by declaring publicly in an interview |that he would support Coolidge in the election next fall. But, even under ;those circumstances and without any Ford campaign, the Michigan voters gave Ford a majority of nearly 3,000, Only about 13,000 Democratic votes were cast. “It was asinine to put his name on the ballot in the first place with- hout ascertaining first whether he was a Democrat or a Republican.” Sen. Ferris said indignantly in his Senatorial offices here “The party is now in the pretty position of going into the conven- tion with an indorsement for a Re- publican. If the spirit of the primary is followed, the delegation will have to give Ford one vote. But it is a bad situation in that he must be given even one vote, since he has declared for President Coolidge.” “Polikushka’”’ Will Be Presented April 22nd at ‘Boston BOSTON, Mass., April 15.—To sup- ply the popular demand, of the great film of the Moscow Art Theatre, “Po- likushka,” will be presented at Boston Symphony Hall for one performance only, on Tuesday night, April 22. The Boston papers have been unanimous in their high praise of this film. Ivan Moskvin, one of the star ac- tors of the Moscow Art Theatre, who plays the title role, creates a charac- ter of superb pathos, swayed by ele- mental desires, but also by elemental loyalty. “The acting of Ivan Moskvin in su- perb, as vivid and searching a pan- tomime as one could ask,” says the Boston Transcript. “It is true to hu- man nature, it is rich in folk back- ground, it is a monument to the per- versity and blind mischance which often seems to thwart humanity. The Moscow Art Theatre as actors have endowed it with abounding theatrical life and vigor.” The film has played in the principle cities to full houses and amid the universal acclaim of the critics: French Inventor Boasts of Deadly Electric War Ray PARIS, April 15—The most formi- dable war machine ever germinated in the mind of man, has been stored in the French war office since the end of the world struggle, Jules Rateau says in an article in the Journal to- day. The secret, according to Rateau was discovered accidentally by a French inventor late in the war and consists in a method of utilizing in- ra-red electrical rays called “The inging Arc,” as a destructive elec- trical force of terrible capacity. If the war had lasted a few months longer, Rateau says, the ray would have demonstrated that France's sea, air and land frontiers can be made - | impassable. Longshoremen Can't Settle. NEW ORLEANS.—The New Or- leans Steamship Association refuses to enter negotiations with the strik- ing longshoremen, The unions in- volved had made a written request that they be employed on the em- ployers’ own terms. Twelve hundred strikebreakers are employed on the independent lines against 800 union men by the U. S. Shipping Board. The vessel agents recently made the statement that if the union would de- pose Harry Keegan as president, over- tures would be received. The men followed the request of their masters and are now in a worse eonditon than before, SENATE LAND ROBBERS THROWN INTO TURMOIL BY RED HOT LETTER _WASHINGTON, April 15.—A\ tigation threatened to end the other row in the senate land frauds inves- sion of the committee yesterday. The storm broke when James R. Page, Kansas City, attorney, acting as committee “prosecutor,” read a letter from John J. Morton, publisher of Atllaxco, Te Rio Grande vat Gerge A. Hill, investigation, leaped 0 hie jon, is from the record. jet an making grave charges against land companies in the lower ‘Ir. of Houston, attorney for R. B. Cr and head of one of jer, republican na- companies under jemanded that the letter be stricken Page Thre Old Man Lodge Calamity Howls At Jap Menace WASHINGTON, April 15—Definitely | aligning himself against 5S ary | of State Hughes and the administra- | tion on the question of Japanese ex- clusion, senator Henry Cabot Lodg of Massachusetts, chairman of the 7 nate Foreign Relations Committee, | declared in the senate that if the United States yields to Japans’ Pro- test against exclusion legislation, it will cease to be a sovereign nation. “We should let the -whole world know that the United States and the United States alone is to state who can come into this country,” Lodge said, LUNACY, DEATH, TO FARMHOUSE Wife Loses Mind And} Slays Daughter (Special to The Daily Worker) WHEATON, IIL, April 15.—As a re-} sult of the small returns brought in for crops last year, due to market control by speculators, a farm . wife here is in the state insane asylum, her little daughter is dead, and her three other children are critically in- jured. Mrs. Sven Carlson and her husband owned a farm near Batavia. But the farmers could get little money for their crops. Things got so bad that Carlson, like the other farmers, was selling his crops for less money than he paid out in freight and haul- ing charges. | Carlson had to rent the farm and} moved to Wheaton. Mrs. Carlson, ac- cording to her husband, began to brood over her troubles, as thousands of farmers thruout the country have been doing. The bankrupt condition of the farmers preyed on her mind, and she became mentally unbalanced. Friday night Carlson came in from the evening chores. He found his wife standing over their daughter Doris. The despondent woman had attacked her children and endeavored to take her own life. Carlson de-| clares that the lot of a farmer these | days is indeed an unhappy one. April 27th Children’s Day. * NEW YORK, April 15.—At the last- meeting of the Executive Committee of the Junior Section of the Young Workers’ League of New York.it was | decided to devote Sunday afternoon, April 27th, to a celebration of Chil- dren’s Day—the function of this cele- bration to be the commemoration of the formation of a Communist chil- dren’s organization in New York and the establishment of closer relations between the children’s and the adult movement of this city. A mass meeting has been arranged for the occasion at Webster Hall, 1ith street and 3rd avenue, New York city. An appropriate program has been ar- ranged for the occasion, including Prominent speakers and a very good entertainment with children’s talent, consisting, in part, of group dancing, a boxing match, tableaux, a playlet, ete. The workers are urged not to make any arrangements for that afternoon and attend in full force, thereby help- ing the children to make their first undertaking a real success. There is nothing more encouraging to the chil- dren than success in their undertak- ings, Hits Wavering of Swedes. MOSCOW, April 15.—The Swedish | press is very much disappointed with | the wavering policy of the Govern. | ment in the matter of the restoration | of normal relations with Russia. Sev- eral papers remark that the Izvestia, official Moscow organ, is right when it warns Sweden that the Soviet Re- publics will naturally have to dis- continue placing orders in Sweden, as the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- publics has no juridical basis -for business in that country, BERTRAM H, MONTGOMERY Attorney and Counsellor 10 south La Salle Street, Room 601 CHICAGO Telephone Franklin 4849 Residence Phone Oak Park 8853 Telephone : Brunswick 6991 DR. A. FABRICANT DENTIST 2058 W. DIVISION STREET Cor. Hoyne Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. Res. 1632 S. Trumbull Ave. Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Building 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657 Central 4945-4947 miNTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA ton, Bulgarian, ‘Slovenian wad gee” bay very peg) © 1020 8. ASHLAND BLVD, Phone Canal tos: CM!CAGO by ISRAEL FELOSHER 3 ROORENL Tp © ‘Attepnoons, i to 3 | Congratulates LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL PLEDGES AID TO MOONEY London Workers For Stand (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 15,—American labor has not forgotten Tom Mooney. All over the country a new campaign is gathering headway to force the governor of ( { to release him from the prison cell in which he languishes, a victim of one of the most brazen frame-ups in the foul history of capitalist assaults Writing to H. D. Car 1, secre- tary of the London Trades Council which has pledged its support to the campaign to save Mooney, the Labor Defense Council declares Behind the Campaign. “Your letter of March 20 is bound to strike a note ¢ in every real labor organization coun- try. As for the Labor De Coun- cil, we hasten to ure you that we ar ewholeheartedly in sympathy with your high purpo: The fense Council must be counted as a determined supporter in the renewed campaign to free Mooney. “The Mooney case one of the most important that this country has ever known. Altho every important witness against his has long since confessed to ury, Mooney is still in jail. He will re n there unless the workérs force his rele: Proletarian Solidarity. “Tha tthe t impulse in the new Mooney campa came from London 3 significant of the close bonds which unite the workers of England with those of the United States. It is a tribute to your sense of prole- tarian solidarity. “We recall that he Mooney case was first brought to the attention of wide masses of American people thru an appeal sent out from Soviet Rus- sia. 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