The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 17, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD AND FOR A WORKERS’ FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 27. SUPSCRIPTION RATE: In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. —_———___. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1924 E> 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Workers! Farmers! Demand? The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents DAUGHERTY GOT SHARE OF $200,000 BOOTLEG COIN FUTILE WAR |'Workers Score Victories In Garment War OF REACTION ON JUNE 17th Sharp Reply to Organ of Railroaders Editor's Note—This is the first of a series of weekly press statements that will be issued by the National Arrangements Committee of the Farmer-Labor Progressive Conven- tion to be held in St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. The DAILY WORKER will publish these statements in full and urges that they be brought up at all workers’ and farmers’ gath- erings in order to secure their full- est co-operation with the June 17th Convention. The first statement is as follows: 7s. @ (Special to The Dally Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., April 16.— A weekly paper published in Washington, D. C., and known as “Labor” and owned by the sixteen standard railroad organ- izations is going out of its way to assail the Farmer-Labor-Pro- gressive Convention, to be held in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 17. In the issue of March 29th, and April 5th, vicious attacks were made on the proposed na- tional Third Party Convention. In an editorial in the issue of the latter date, a specific injunc- tion is given to stay away from the Convention on the grounds , that it is fostered and will be controlled by “Communists’’. / . The spirit of the articles against the June 17th Convention shows very clearly that the author does not be- Meve in the things he says. It is evi- dently an attempt to bring failure to the-Third in that the July 4th Convention may con- trol the situation. — Genuine Farmer-Labor Convention. The Convention on June 17th, is ex- pressly a Farmer-Labor Progressive Convention for the purpose 6f nomin- ating candidates for President and Vice-President on a national Third party ticket. There is no contingency nor uncertainty connected with the purpose of the gathering. Invitations and credentials have been sent out to over fifty thousand (Continued on Page Four) Ford Muscle Shoals Plan Strikes Snag In Senate Chamber WASHINGTON, April 16—The bat- tle over disposition of the Muscle Shoals nitrate and power project re- opened today in the Senate Agricul- ture Committee. Supporters of Henry Ford’s offer face an apparent majority against them. The committee has a number of other proposals. Among these are the Morris plan for government own- ership and operation and a tentative proposition presented by Senator Wadsworth of New York for lease of the project by the government to a group of New York bankers. Good Time to Get Sick. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 16—Phy- sicians were in constant attendance today upon John M. Moore, who was ousted as president of the Fidelity National Bank and Trust Company, after a shortage of $600,000 was found in his accounts, Relatives said Moore's condition was serious and that he has been unconscious con- stantly since the shortage was dis- covered last Friday. How many of your THE DAILY WORKER. them to subscribe today. ates read Get one of _ What Did the Russian Communists Decide? There is universal interest thruout the United States, among thinking workers especially, about the decisions of the Russian Com- munist Party growing out of its recent discussions, which have been extensively published in the DAILY WORKER. ‘ We are, therefore, sure that there will be an extensive reading of the two resolutions on party policy, the second of which is being published on Page Five today. The first of these was the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Central Control Commission Concerning the Party Structure. This was unanimously adopted, at the joint session of the Political Bureau of the Russian Communist Pai Central Control Commission. The second deals with the Immediate Taske of the Economic Policy. Turn to Page Five today and read it. GERMAN GOVERNMENT SURRENDER TO DAWES PLAN REACHES PARIS PARIS, April. 16-——The German government in a note to the Repara- tions Commission today accepting the Dawes report strikingly desig- nated it as not merely a basis for negotiations but “as a basis for a swift solution of the reparations problem.” The not, which was remarkably brief, gave assurance of Germany's willingness to co-operate in the ex- ecution of the reparations experts’ project. JAP EXCLUSION MENACES PEACE, DECLARE BRITISH Tokio Minister Adds Voice To Warning (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 16.—The Sen- ate today deaffirmed its decision to include a Japanese exclusion provis- ion in the pending immigration bill by a vote of 71 to 4. Senators Sterling, Colt, Warren, Wyoming and McLean, Connecticut, all Republicans, voted against the provision. The record vote was tak- en on the plea of Sterling and Colt that they were absent during the oral voting yesterday. * (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 16— The British Press today sees in adoption of the Japanese exclusion amendment to the immigration bill by the Congress in Washington “Grave danger” to peace in the Pacific. gation that Ambassador Hanihara’ note to Secretary Hughes, urging against adoption of the amendment, constitutes a “threat” to American sovereignty and insists that the Sen- ate’s action on the amendment dem- onstrates “a dangerous spirit of en- mity” towards Japan. The American Senate should go slow, the newspaper says, and “con- sider the note for what it is—an ex- planation—and think carefully of the dangers toward peace which lurk in intolerance.” * “Affects Friendship,” Say Japs. TOKIO, April 16—Fear that pass- age of Japanese exclusion by the United States “will undoubtedly” af- fect “that spirit of friendship and es- teem in which we have been happy to regard you,” was expressed today by Baron Mitsui, Japanese Foreign Minister, in an interview with Ameri- can Press representatives. e 2 8 WASHINGTON, April 16.— Con- gress has served notice on the admin- istration of its determination to ex- clude Japanese from the United States. Exclusionists boast that President Coolidge will not dare to veto the bill. It’s Crime To Try To Die in French Aviation Corps PARIS, April 16.—Sergeant Troyes, mechanic in the French aviation corps, attempted suicide in an air- plane and wound up in jail, facing a court-martial. Troyes, who knew little about fly- ing, entered a plane planning to go aloft and end it all with a nose dive, He merely succeeded in taxi-ing his plane into a fence, wrecking it. He was arrested and must stand ** trial for damaging government prop- erty. ty and of the Presidium of the N. Y. TYPOS MUST FAGE NEW FIGHT Printers League in Def to Job Printers By H. M. WICKS (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 16.—The New York Times carries a story to the effect that the Printers’ League the Closed Shop Branch ofthe Employing Printers’ As- sociation, has served an “ulti- matum on Leon H. Rouse, president of Typographical Union No. 6, calling for the ne- gotiation of a definite arbitra- tion agreement.” \ This action, according to the Times, was taken at the sugges- tion of the National Publishers’ Association, “representing the leading magazines of the coun- try.” Unless an arbitration agreement, making arbitrable all demands of the publishers is accepted the vain threat is made to move a numper of big mag- azines away from New York. The de- mand is further made that the agree- ment run for two years. Follows Newspaper Fiasco. ‘This move of the Printers’ League follows close upon the miserable capi- tulation of the officers and scale com- mittee of “Big Six,” to the newspa- per publishers. In the newspaper scale negotiations the position of the rank and file was weakened by STRIKERS DEMAND REINS TATEMENT OF LEFT WINGERS Instruct Delegates To Garment Convention. Delegates elected to represent Lo- | eal 100, the striking dressmakers of | Chicago, at the coming convention of | the International Ladies Garment Workers in Boston, May 5, were in- structed by the local to demand that the International take back the ex- pelled left wing members into the union. They were also instructed to demand that the International con- tinue the present strike to a success- ful conclusion. The three progressives elected, Os- car Simons, Frieda Reicher and Mary Rienabel received twice as many votes as the highest’ votes polled for the conservative candidates, none of whom were elected. Left Wingers Best Strikers. Vice-President Meyer Perlstein urged that delegates to the conven- tion go uninstructed. But the strik- ers overwhelmed this suggestion be- cause they declared the expelled left wingers and the present progressive members were the most active and useful workers in the present strike. The meeting which elected the del- egates met in Schoenhoffen Hall, Division Street and Milwaukee Aven- ue. The meeting also went on record for an organization campaign among the makers of children’s dresses, who are not now well organized. Eject Policemen. Two policemen were ejected from the hall after a violent protest at their presence at a strictly union meeting. A little later a police sergeant also put in an appearance. also by Acting President Charles | After telling him what they thought both their local president and / Typographical Union, who had sol- emnily promised the membership that the Executive Council would back them up in the newspaper scale and then helped Rouse impose gag rule upon the membership while forcing them to swallow the publishers’ proposition. The servile demeanor of the local scale committee and of Act- ing President Howard in accepting the publishers’ proposition on the newspapers, encouraged the employ- ers in the job branch to also assail the union. In less than a week's time after the acceptance of the infamous newspaper scale the job bosses fired the first broadside. The job scale expires in October, but the employers realize that there is a serious unemployment situaticn in the industry right now and are de- termined to force a show-down if pos- sible. After the complete back-down by Rouse and the local scale~com- mittee in the newspaper controversy the job printers feel that the morale of the union is shattered and that they can force a long-term arbitration agreement upon the demoralized of- ficials. Reaping the Whirlwind. The nincompoop president of Big Six and his insipid scale committee have sown the wind of cowardice and impotency in the newspaper fight, they now reap the whirlwind of a challenge from the employing print- ers in the job line. They have prov- ed by their bungling of the newspaper scale that they cannot be relied upon in a struggle. The membership, however, are de- termined that Rouge shall not be per- mitted to lead “Big Six” into another disaster, and are preparing to change the laws of the local union in order to deprive him of his power to ap- point committees. They are determ- ined that a competgnt scale commit- tee that has the in@elligence and the guts to fight be efécted to handle the controversy in the jop end of the in- dustry. Tho the officials did yield to the publishers in the newspaper scale fight, this defeat will not be permitted to become a prelude to the complete route of all the forces. The com- positors are facing a stiff fight and knowledge of this fact impels them to greater vigilance, Confidence in Rouse, who is now serving his ninth year as president of Big Six, has been destroyed. Acting President Charles P. Howard, who is a candidate for president of the I. T.,U. has shown himself as worse than incompetent. Hence the membership izes that it must take matters into its own hands and fight for the elementary demands of civilized existence, other- wise the employers in combination with inferior and stupid officials will (Continued: on Page Two) * ome thé city going to such lengths to annoy the strikers, the dressmakers made the sergeant leave the hall. 10,000 Kentucky Coal Miners Strike For Higher Wages LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 16.—Ten thousand miners today struck for more wages in the western Kentucky field and at nearly ninety pits the only workers were crews on duty to protect property and machinery from damage that might result from sus- pension of operations. About 4,000 union miners continued work, having a contract that holds until next April. National guardsmen are on guard for the operators at Straight Creek, in Bell county. Engineers-Firemen Negotiate Over 45,000 members of the Brother- hood of Locomotives Engineers and of the Brotherhood of Enginemen and Firemen will be affected by negotia- tions to be started next week with the Western railway managements. The negotiations are to\be similar to those consumated last week whereby the conductors, brakemen and switchmen received a five per cent raise in wages. | An American Prince | PHILADELPHIA, April 16.—Rep- resentatives of old Pennsylvania families will pack the city hall court room tomorrow morning when Harry K. Thaw takes the stand in his fight to return to the society career that has been so constantly interrupted since he shot America’s most brilliant architect 19 years ago. ' Much sympathy for the scion of the multi-millionair e Pittsburgh family is expressed by members of the 400 who attended the sanity hearings today. His friends argue that such eccentricities as rabbit- chewing and whipping of girls are busi freely expressed in the best circles of Philadelphia against the vulgar comments heard In cafes and hotel lobbies regarding the way of life of the wealthy Pennsylvanians. Thaw has many supporters, not $0 much because of what he is but what he represents. MORE BOSSES IN SURRENDER TO STRIKERS Farce Of Injunction Trial Continues. With two more shops surren- dering to the striking ladies’ garment workers yesterday girl pickets walked into Judge Charles M. Foell’s court room with a consciousness of strength. The total. number of bosses who have been compelled to yield to the union’s 40-hour de- mand is now listed at 81 and the truth is becoming more and more evident that “injunctions don’t sew dresses.” Frame-up Methods. Court was again disgraced al thugs—Sergeant Patrick Collins, at- tached to State’s Attorney Crowe’s office and “investigator” Patrick Moran, a garment boss stool pigeon. Both had learned their testimony by heart, and in appearing before the first 13 of the 31 pickets now on trial before Judge Foell, repeated in a sing song the same testimony for each de- fendant. Witness Admits Boss Pays Him. Patrick Moran, the first witness for the Chicago Dress Manufacturer’s As- sociation, altho a slightly better liar than Collins, soon found - himself floundering in difficulties, Cross-ex- amination by Attorney Peter Sissman developed that Moran is a hired tool of the dress manufacturers. He was reluctatit to" tell who paid him for his strikebreaking activity. Finally, how- ever, he admitted. “I receive my pay from the Mitchell Brothers Dress and Waist Company, at 367 West Adams Street.” “Do you work for them?” asked Sissman. “No, I work for the Associ- ation, 14 members of which are com- plainants in this case.” He said he did not know the name of the associa- tion, altho he has been working for it since March 8. Detective Is Fussed. Collins, who followed Moran on the stand, seemed disconcerted by the fact that he had to leave the room while Moran was testifying, by the ruling of Judge Foell, and did not know what Moran had said. Two more shops have settled, it is announced at strike headquarters. The Pierce Dress Manufacturing Com- pany at 334 South Market Street and the Cohen Brothers shop 322 West Van Buren have signed the uni- on agreement. Striking employees from these two shops and from the Colonial Dress Company go back to work today. Altho Moran had said Collins was with him when he served infunction writs on the thirteen strikers, Col- lins “could not recall” what Moran had said to them, Moran testified that each of the de- fendants refused to take the injunc- (Continued on Page 2) TWO SPECIMENS OF THE CLASS WORKERS CARRY ON THEIR BACKS | A British Prince |" PARIS, April 16—The Prince of Wales continues his nightly inva- sion of high society and has select- ed two Americans to assist him. They are Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. of Chicago. Bate is attached to the United States unofficial reparations delegation. With Parisians flocking from dancing place to dancing place last night, the prince explored the Mont- marte district with Mr. and Mrs. ity danced at ace, a rendezvous established here by Gerald Kiley, ex-football star of the University of Wiscons: ‘ While dancing last night the prince inadvertently started a new step which has been named “Prince Owing to light eccentricity the prince while danc- ing has an oscillative right knee. soon attempted to follow ‘The prince rode for the first time yesterday. He was a de Rothschild at a Chantilly Forest, by frame-up activities of two profession- COURTS ARE TERRIRLY FUSSED ABOUT CANARY; HOW ABOUT WORKERS? SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 16.—Legal Counsel has been appointed by the Probate Court here to see that Louis Crepaux’s canary bird gets enough to eat for the rest of its life. Crepaux’s will was admitted to probate yesterday and his savings amounting to $24,500 were left to Miss Sophie Barrows of Los Ange- les and his canary bird to Miss Grace Hotson of Oakland. A clause in the will provided that the bird was to be endowed, so su- perior Judge Graham allowed $20 until the estate shail be settled and appointed Joseph Derham attorney for the public administrator to keep liquid funds on hands to provide a full seed cup so long as the bird shall live. MILLIONAIRE TO DEFEND SANITY ON STAND TODAY Thaw Pane Ex-Wife, Evelyn Nesbit (Special to The Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 16.— Harry K. Thaw, the man whose mil- lions once more have mustered a bril- liant array of legal and medical talent to prove him sane and win him free- dom, was advised by his counsel to be ready for the big test—his own appearance on the witness stand. If Harry K. Thaw were a poor man his rabbit-biting, girl-beating manias would doom him to confinement to the end of his days. Foolish Looking Plutocrat. Radicals in the courtroom took a good look at Thaw, this portly and rather foolish looking representative of the plutocratic class, for whom hun- |dreds of workers are laboring in the industries in which his wealth is in- vested. Climax of thé Thaw sanity trial— cross-examination of Harry by attor- neys for the Thaw estate and for Evelyn Nesbit, who are blocking his move for freedom—is not expected to be reached until tomorrow morning. Sex Perversion Is Issue. The list of lay witnesses for Thaw was practically exhausted yesterday. A score went on in rapid succession to swear him sane. All admitted they had avoided, in | their talks with Thaw, mention of the |slaying of Stanford White, the Gump case, the accusation of sexual per- |version that have been made against |Harry. It is such subjects as there |that Thaw will have to consider un- der the biting cross-examination of “Billy” Gray, counsel representing Ev- \elyn Nesbit and her boy, Russell, for whom she claims her share of the Thaw é4state. Cross examination of Dr. Wilson, pro-Thaw witness, delved into Thaw’s whole life, his infancy when he sut- fered from insomnia, the St. Vitus dance of his childhood, his killing of White and his practice of flagellation. Dr. Wilson was pressed to say what he thought might happen if Thaw were released. Beating of Girls. “Did you ask him about beating young girls—one of them so severely that when he was thru the pieces of her shirt waist had to be picked ut of her flesh?” “No.” “Did you ask him about the Gump matter?” “Yes, but he evaded the question.” (Thaw's alleged assault upon the girls occurred as long ago as 1904.) The witness said he thought there was no truth in this charge. 7 Insane In -Family. Gray demanded that the doctor as- sume that there were seven instances of insanity in Thaw’s family in giving his opinion on his sanity. Gray forced the witness to admit that he had interviewed no one but Thaw himself in determining him sane, What Do You The DAILY WORKER wants brates they would like to t ning for another seri Chicago, IIlinois. His only hope lies in his millions. | ¢ published next. We have ha ind “The Story of John Brown, of the life of this illustrious American revolutionist. We are plane to be started soon. the views of our readers on what they would like to see published. Write your views to the DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington St, SPLIT N. Y. GRAFT WITH JESS SMITH Means Tells Story to Daugherty Committee WASHINGTON, April 16—~« Jess Smith “split” $200,000 obe | tained from New York bootleg. |gers for whisky permits with former Attorney General Daugherty, Gaston B. Means, former department of justice agent, today told the Senate Daugherty investigating co! mittee that Smith had informe him. The bootleggers were de- manding return of the money, Means said and Smith told him that he could not return it be-+ cause he had split it with Daugherty. Everybody Knew It. “Everybody knew that Jess Smith }and Manington were splitting with the attor general on liquor with- drawals. Everybody knew that Jess Smith and Manington were working with Daugherty té get whisky per- mits,” Means said. . Means said he had turned over be | tween $200,000 and $225,000 to Smith |in all at various times. | Secretary of the Treasury Mellon entered into an agreement with a man named Shelton to get permits for \“the Green River Whisky people,” Means charged. Means was put on the stand after the committee completed examina- | tion of George W. Storck, department |of justice accountant, who testified | about alleged irregularities in sales of seized German property by the alien property custodian /both in this coun try ‘and imthe Philippines, Blackmail, Not Indictments. Means said Jesse Smith told him that “they” were not going to indict former Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Francis J. Garvan, alien property custodian, for their action in selling the Bosch Magneto Company | properties, but intended to blackmail them “to force them to do the things they wanted to control democratic votes in congress.” |} Means also said that William J. | Burns had told him that he had ad- vi nator Wheeler, of Montatia, Daugherty gave out a statement say- jing that he knew nothing about the indictment before it was returned. Storck Tells of Irregularities. Alleged irregularities in the sale of German property seized in the Philip- pines during the war by the alien property custodian were related to the senate Daugherty committee to- day by George W. Storck, department of justice accountant. Seized property was sold at ridicu- low prices, some times to re ivers appointed by the custodian to administer them, Storck said. On one occasion President Wilson inter- vened to set aside a sale in which Francis Burton Harrison, then gov; ernor-general of the Philippine Is lands, acted as agent, Storck testified, | Storck said that despite his repeat- ed reports to the justice department }no attention was paid to the alleged |irregularities and no _ prosecutions have ever been brought. Charges that the private secretary of’Governor Harrison proposed to German prisoners interned in the islands that they could be released if they would agree to sell their |property were also made by Storck. | No Prosecutions Started. | Storek testifies that Kern paid |Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh, for- mer democratic national committee- man, $10,000 in 1920 with the under- standing that this was to aid in the withdrawal of liquor from bonded warehouses. He said his investigation showed that the deal fell thru because “the change of policy” of the prohi- bition officials, Stork in answer to questions by se- |nator Wheeler, said that his records jof investigation of the Bosch case (Continued on Page Two.) Want to Read? the views of its readers on what ‘A Week,” account But we would like to get Bs: am: