The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 1

-_* THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. Il. No. 29. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WASHINGTON $ U. S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FORTIFIED POLITICIANS AT CAPITOL AGAINST DRY DAYS (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 18.—Speaker Gillett got a trunkful of liquor seized by the department of justice in 1920, Captain H..L. Scaife, former department of justice agent, charged today before the senate investigating committee. Scaife’s charge brought a sharp rebuke from Senator Wheeler, Montana, when the witness said his testimony was MINNESOTA FARMER BLOWS UP AND DIES FROM POISON HOG BIT RED WING, Minn., April 18—Ba- cillus poisoning from a hog bite caused Ernamus Johnson, 59, to “blow up” and die, Dr. H. E. John- son announced today. Johnson, a farmer living near Dia- mond Bluff, Wis., literally blew up. His body, which has been swollen and discolored, since he entered the hospital last Wednesday, burst from the pressure of the poison gas. Johnson swelled up far beyond normal despite all the physicians could do. Then his skin started to give way, breaking many points. Death. followed in a few moments. HANG NEGROES ON ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF CHRIST Friendless Negroes Die | case was presented to a Grand Jury On Chicago Gallows. by hanging two young Negroes, Lu- clus Dolton and Henry Wilson, con-j jy presented to the Grand Jury,” said vieted for the slaying of Policeman] gogite. Vincent Skiba, January 7. State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe,| port of the case to former Attorney gloating over the execution, declared | General Daugherty by registered mail, that he wanted more hangings at} asking him why no indictments had shorter intervals. Hangings are few in Chicago, in comparison to the numoer of slayings here. Rich men always escape the death penalty, white criminals sel-| Alonzo Bunch of Washington, D. Cj dom suffer it. The law is speedy in| alleged to have owned part of the the application of the gallows only} liquor, but Bunch did not respond. in the case of Negroes. The case against Lucius Dolion and Henry Wilson was railroad€d | ing Committee resumed open hearings thru in frantic speed. To begin with,| today with Cecil H. Kearns, former the men were not arrested in the act| Toledo druggist, paroled from Atlan- of killing Skiba, . Seized later and|ta penitentiary, again on the stand. third degreed an alleged “confession” was obtained by the police. At the trial in open court thirty | tion law, charged that Federal Judge days later, the two stoutly maintain-|Killits of Ohio, was responsible for ed their innocence. Policemen have | the revoking of his parole. a bad reputation on the South Side where they have committed numer- ous crimes against the Negro popu- lation, but Dolton and Wilson con- tended that whoever killed this po-| William Cooper Proctor, millionaire liceman, it was not them. Negroes Denied Appeal. Unsatisfactory evidence was offered,| “oil deal” offer had been made to by the State’s Attorney's office. But|General Leonard Wood at the 1920 the Jury gave short shrift to the Ne-| republican national convention. gro defendants. The verdict of guilty was quickly reached. Appeal to high-| Wood turned down an offer by the GoodFriday,— | . "The statute of limitation “has not Jesus—yesterday/ run against that crime and the guilty based on “reports” and an al- leged newspaper statement by Gillett acknowledging having the liquor for a constituent. “Who gave you the information?” asked Wheeler. “Gaston B. Means, for one.” Wheeler Worrles About Gillett. “It is not fair to Speaker Gillett to inject second and third knowledge in- to this testimony,” said Wheeler. “I think it should be stricken from the record.” ; “I can name witnesses who can prove it,” said Scaife. “We don’t want 100 per cent gos- sip,” continued Wheeler. “You'll find it 100 per cent true,” insisted Scaife. Seven department of justicé agents and former agents who could “prove” his story were then named by Scaife. Everybody Got Some. Scaife charged that the liquor ob- tained by Speaker Gillett was a part of liquor valued between $50,000 and $100,000 seized by the Department of Justice before the Volstead Act went into effect. This liquor, he said, was distribut- ed among officials of the department and private citizens. Scaife said the October, 1922, but noggsiggiictments were returned because of insufficient evidence. can be punished if the case is proper- Scaife said that he sent a full re- been returned in the case. Liquor Owner Is Absent. Chairman Brookhart called for Druggist on The Stand. The Senate Daugherty Investigat- Kerns, who was convicted in 1922 of conspiracy to violate the prohibi Oe. sae Soap King Testifies (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 18.—Colonel soap manufacturer, denied before the Senate Oil Committee today that any Previous witnesses have said that er courts was denied to black skin| late Jake Hamon of votes and money and small purse, Negroes case of Dolton and Wilson not only did he refuse to commute their sen-| such story,” Proctor, who was cam- tences, as he has commuted many | paign manager for Wood, declared, others, but he would not defer exe- cution over Good Friday, o 8. Dies for Killing Detective. - LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 18.— “Diamond Joe” Sullrvan, last of the southwest’s old school outlaws, went to his death in the electric cliuir here today—Good Friday—without an out-| 1eath bed. ward sign of the “yellow streak” at- tributed to him by underworld asso- ciates. The prisoner walked to the chair| “#binet it he wanted it, but that he with an air of gay cerelessness and ease that astounded spectators. He maintained his calm ana ed attitud @ adjus' ing while he lay dying. Nichols de- ‘aneo ond sate the awitch was Wate] iivered the note to the president and ed on. shop-mates read know its contents, but when the presi- How many of bas THE DAILY WORKER. Get one o them to subsoribe tod: i} a j charge that Governor|ship of thé interior if Wood was Small is hostile to their race, In the| elected. in return for promise of the secretary- “I don’t know anything about any Didn't Want Cabinet Job. His voice choking with emotion, Nichols, intimate friend of the late Jake Hamon, told the committee the story of his “Buddy's death” and how Hamon wrote a secret note to Presi- dent Harding while he lay on his Jake told him Nichols said, that he (Hamon) could have had the secre- taryship of interior in the Harding didn’t want it. One of Hamon’s last acts was to write a secret note to President Hard- then destroyed it. Nobody but Ha- mon and Mr. Harding, both dead, dent read it, Nichols said, tears (Continued on Page 2) & SATURDAY, APRIL a Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. 19, 1924 <> rer 290 CENT © Including Saturday Magazine Section. __ | other days Three Cents, per Copy. 4 a Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, TL. IF YOU HAVE TEARS SHED THEM NOW FOR loNAGE PADEREWSKI “Ping Lung still lives, but I do not expect him to last out the day.” With these words Dr. W. P. Tague crushed the hopes of the.. adorers of the fat little Pekinese who once belong * to the son of the last emperor of Vaina and Is now the darling of Ignace Paderewskl, late. anti-Bolshevik premier of Po- land. Newspapermen and photograph- ers, the eyes of the bourgeois world, are keeping the last death watch on the prize pup. It is.a tragedy that obliterates the fact that thousands of migratory workers are half- starving on West Madison St. and that greedy landlords are putting mothers with families out into the street. Pity for Ping! It looks Ike cur- tains for him, as he lies in his lac- quered bed, with silken mattress and covers In a private compart- ment of the Paderewski Pullman car In the Illinois Central yards right off Lake Michigan. Ping is suffering from the same plutocratic disease which nearly carried off Fat Bill Taft some time ago—acute stomach ache from eating too much rich food. Ping is 15 and fat. He has over- indulged in everything. Dr. W. P. Tague who has been giving him hours each day has nearly given up hope. M. Paderewski and the Madame are heart-broken. The mea- sure of their anguish can be gauged by the fact that they are showing more distress over the illness of their dog than over the starvation of the workers of Poland. COOLIDGE TRYING TO MAKE UP MIND ON JAP PROBLEM Take Your Choice. (Special to The Dail; Worker) WASHINGTON, April 18.— Presi- dent Coolidge today took under con- sideration what action he shall take on the new immigration bill exclud- ing Japanese when the measure reaches the White House, The President conferred in rapid succession with Secretary of State Hughes, known to oppose strongly the exclusion provision in the immi- gration measure; Senator Lodge, Re- publican leader of the Senate, who took the lead in supporting the ex- clusion provision, One of the following two courses is likely: 1. That Mr. Coolidge will sign the measure and at the same time issue a statement explaining that no prac- tical end would be served by a veto, in view of the temper of Congress; that no affront is meant to Japan and that the administration has made it plain that it strongly opposes the en- actment of such legislation against Japan. 2. That’ the president will veto the measure under some arrangement, such as a plan whereby Ambassador Hanihara would issue a statement clearing up the supposed threat of “grave consequences” in his note, which would give Congress an op- portunity to reconsider the passage of the exclusion bill in view of Hani- hara’s explanation. of the Party. gestion and ur; a holiday wheteer tion of a day's w: Make ¥ a May Day a Holiday! On the initiative of the Harlem section of Local Greater New York, the Central Executive Committee has taken action to make May Day a holiday for every member The Harlem Section recommended to the Central Ex- ecutive Committee that no Party member should work on the First of May, if they could ayoid it, and that those mem- bers who were compelled to donate to the DAILY WORKER, their wages for The Central Executive Committee concurs in this sug- all Party members to make May Day jer they work on that day or not. A dona- ages if the member is obliged to work, would certainly show a spirit of Ma tions will help to build the DAILY ay Day a Holiday. CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA, , C. E. Ruthenberg, Executive Secretary. William Z. Foster, Chairman, Daily Worker Big Issue In Strike Court All Pickets Are Grilled About Their Paper. Garment strikers staunchly defended the DAILY WORKER in Judge Foell’s court room yes- terday, when the prosecutor, stung by the support given the pickets, repeatedly launched an attack on the DAILY WORKER. “Are you a reader of the DAILY WORKER?” was the question asked of every defend- ant by Charles Hyde, instead of the usual query, “Did you go on the picket line?” Raymond White, one of the strikers, was suspected of being a DAILY WORKER reporter and was quizzed at length as to whether or not he ever worked or reported news for the DAILY WORKER. Alive to the fact that the DAILY WORKER is a bulwark of strength to the strikers, the dress manufactur- ers have evidently instructed their lawyer to concentrate their attack on the paper. All Read Daily Worker Every striker admitted proudly that he reads the DAILY WORKER every day in order to get the strike news that the other papers in Chicago will not print, “I am a striker,” said Raymond White when asked his business. “I am not a reporter for the DAILY WORKER and have not reported news to them. I read it every day.” ig Many labor unions The Workers Party has been one of the nevertheless severe attack on right of strikers to picket. He resorted to the hackneyed phrase which is the last resort of every tyranical tool of the master class when he questions Fabian Tip- shus, who was born in Russia. “I don’t want foreigners to ride rough shod over the institutions of this country,” said the labor-hating Judge. “This is a gountry of opportu- nity and if you don’t like it in Ame- rica you'd better go back to the coun- try you came from”, Constitutional Rights Violated. After a clash between Hyde and Peter Sissman, Marya Czajkowska was called to the stand, altho she is one of the defendants, and the lawyer the for the defense objected to having ground. her called on a technical Sissman argued that no defendant can be forced to testify in her own case. He exclaimed that Miss Czajkowska | could not speak English and would not understand. Sissman was over- ruled. She was finally called. She denied thru and interpreter that Pat- rick Moran had served her with an injunction writ. Judge Foell tried to bring out that the strike picketing was a “conspira- ey”, by trying to show that the strikt ers were directed by the union. Strike- cards were produced on the demand of the Judge. But Raymond White explained that the cards had nothing to do with a strike benefit or with going on the picket line. They are (Continued on Page Two.) ork on that day should lay Day., oa and such dona- ORKER. 3 TATESMEN GOT LEON TROTZKY UPHOLDS ZINOVIEV IN DEFIANCE OF JOHN BULL'S THREATS MOSCOW, April 18.—MinlIster of War Leon Trotsky, speaking here, declared himself in accord with the statement made by G. Zinoviev, president of the Communist Inter- national, that Soviet Russia would refuse to meet the entirely fanciful claims made by the British govern- ment In behalf of its capitalist cli- ents. Trotsky said that the Soviet government would carry out any engagements made by its represent- atives at London. It should not be understood, however, that Moscow would be intimidated by Inspired propaganda campaigns in the Brit- ish capitalist press. The breaking off of negotiations with Roumania did not mean war, he continued, altho there was such a possibility. Germany was the bat- tlefield of the revolution of the west, and the Bessarabian question would be solved in connection with Germany's fate. The trade unions in Russia have decided to permit the workers to abstain from work for eight days, beginning April 26 and ending May 2. The period will cover the Easter and May 1 and 2 holidays. Foreign Born. (Special to The Daily Worker) sand workers voiced their and foreign language bodies. prime factors in pointing out the dan a law. An Open Shop Scheme. ous U. S. Senate. advocates, in mortal rear of the mili tant elements that would strengthen unionism, are the northern countries. It Bill. Foreign Born In Strike. tempt to bar Western years. The textile and steel workers’ strike, strikes showed ways to be found in the front ranks against their masters. the forerunner of numerous others, should this bill become a law. Among the others who addressed the Trade Union Educational League, sault against the foreign born. Bentall spoke on the attitude of the Western workers. sen Litfshitz spoke in Yiddish. A resolution to be sent to all Con- mously. Told To Work With Scabs SEATTLE, April 18.—Pacific coast bill posters are restive under the terms of a contract recently negotia- ted by international officers and the Foster-Kleiser company after a strike of several week’s duration. Unionists and are being forced to work with non-unfonists in Los received increases all Pacific coast cities except Angeles. N.Y. WORKERS HIT IMMIGRATION BILL AS SCAB SCHEME Big Demonstration For NEW YORK, April 18—Two thou- protest against the Johnson rmmigration Bill in an open air demonstration called by the International Council for the Protection of the Foreign Born, The gers ahead should this bill become Great enthusiasm greeted the vari- speakers as they assailed the Johnson measure now pending in the | Ludwig Lore, editor of the Volkzeitung, pointed out that this bill is aimed primarily to bar all those workers escaptng Fascisti terrorism and brutal white reaction in western Europe. The open shop thus trying to weaken the workers by bringing in conservative labor from England and was shown that Samuel Gompers, 1s once more lining up with the enemies of labor in his agitation for the Johnson Charles Krumbein, District Organ- izer of the Workers Party, showed that the main reason for this at- European workers, is the role they have play-' ed’ in all the big strikes in recent miners that the foreign born workers are al- He further pointed out that this bill is merely the meeting were Jack Jampolsky, of Jack Stachel of the Young Workers League spoke on the attitude of the young workers against this new as- J. 0. gressmen from New ‘ork protest- ing against this bill passed unani- ated by the amendment to the i The amendment, offered by farm cultivation. The farmer immigrant would be required to go to states or sections where farm help is needed. Should he leave the soil he could be seized as an “undesirable” and de- ported on complaint of his employer. This is facilitated by the registration clause in the bill. A Southern Cotton Scheme. Senator Simmons’ idea, it was learned, is to provide cheap and semi- compulsory labor on the tobacco and cotton fields which have lost their Negro tenants and day laborers thru the migration to the industrial north. War With Japan Nearer. Passage of the immigration bill puts America just that much nearer to war with Japan. Even if President Coolidge vetoes the bill the Japanese have learned that the ent to ordinary diplomatic courtesies where they are concerned. It was not merely exclusion that was at stake. Exclusion was carried fore. bias with which the act went thru. The reduction of the immigration that much toward war. For Use Against Strikers. coming in here. their “desirability.” - | law. Senate Democrats Call On Coolidge WASHINGTON, April by President Coolidge on his views to Senate. ance policy” plan. World Court Up Again. WASHINGTON, April the world court. Two Suggestions. rialized.—A Reader. Ragging the Aged. NEW YORK, April 18.—The Erie prize to the oldest commuter on the road, There are 106,000 daily trav- elers. Work and Pray, Live on Hay. OPELOUSAS, La.-— The Civic League will celebrate May day with a carnival. Baskets of flowers and poor people of the city. legislative branch of the government is indiffer- out fairly completely under the “gen- tlemen’s agreement” that existed be- It was the obvious anti-Asiatic quota for Europeans to 2 per cent of the nationals living in America at the time of the 1890 census and the reg- istration restrictions put on these im- C i] isan aniza-|igrants who are admifted: will lessen ene the friendship of Burope and tend by Progressive labor is concerned most with the power which the immigra- tion bill gives the anti-labor admin- istration over foreign born workers By. putting the bur- den of proof on the immigrant it will be possible for the government to pick up strikers of apparent foreign birth and hold them in custody until |they can prove their citizenship or It is pointed out \that the free use of deportation war- rants on steel and coal strikers in |1919 will be intensified under the new For Party Showdown 18.—Senate Democrats, after a series of confer- ences, today called for a shcwdown| ward pending bonus proposals in the Senator David I. Walsh, Massachu- setts, in charge of the Democratic bo- nus bill, announced he would not press for the Democratic cash pay- ment plan if assurances were received from Republicans that the President will not veto the Republican “insur- 18.—The Senate foreign relations committee today appointed a special sub-commit- tee to hold hearings on the proposal of the late President Harding that the United States should participate in To the DAILY WORKER: Parts of Nexo’s “Pelle the Conqueror,” partic: ularly those dealing with the Copen- hagen strikes and life in the “Ark,” could be readily summarized and se- Railroad has anpounced it will give a messages of hope will be given the BOOZE SENATE IMMIGRATION BILL BINDS THE FOREIGN BORN 10 AMERICAN FARMS AS SERFS (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.—U. S. farm serfs will be cre» mmigration bill which the senate adopted this afternoon by a 46 to 39 vote. Senator Simmons of North Caro- lina, democrat, provides that quotas as large 25 per cent might be provided from countries whose immigrants were skilled in COOLIDGE BACKERS AT THE STANDARD OIL “U” ARE VERY HARD LOSERS Charges of political trickery ;were made today in connection with the presidential nomination of Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin by a mock Republican national conven tion at the University of Chicago Jast nfght. “The entire LaFollette business was framed by a group of radicals in the political science departmént,” C. D. McBride, a senior and president of the Codlidge club declared. “It was carefully plotted by LaFollette work- ers who wanted it said the University of Chicago favors the Wisconsin sen- ator.” McBride refused to place the name of President, Coolidge in nomination becaise he charged the convention was dominated by “radieals and reds.” |He declared he refused to nominate any real American on the platform, which called for recognition of Rus- sia, total disarmament, continuance of the “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan, independence of the Philip- pines and other similar planks. Me- Bride then bolted the convention, fol- lowed by several solid Coolidge dele- gations. LaFollette was nominated on the first ballot, receiving 199 votes. Pres- ident Coolidge was given 96; Senator Hiram Johnson 21; Senator Borah 19; Secretary of Commerce Hoover 11, and former Governor Lowden 3, APPEAL IS MADE FOR PARDON OF PA. POLITICALS | Favorable Action Would Stop 21 Cases. RR (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 18—On the |ground that the prosecutions violated constitutional rights of free speech,’ the American Civil Liberties Uni New York, is appealing for imm ate and unconditional pardons for “\four victims of the Pennsylvania state sedition act. The prisoners, Jo- seph Martinovitch and Israel Blank» enstein, Communists, and Charles Spinack and Steve Zonoff, members of the Union of Russian Workers, were convicted in 1921 and 1922 for terms from three to five years, In the cases of the first two mere membership in the Communist Party was held a violation of the law. The only testimony against the men was given by a government spy. Spinack and Zonoff were convicted for distrib- uting radical leaflets. Twenty-one Workers Party mem bers are waiting trial at Pittsburgh, Farrell and Philadelphia under the same state sedition act, and it is é@x- pected that the ruling of the pardon board at Harrisburg in the four cases now before it will have an important effect upon the pending prosecutions. The governors of Illinois and New York have long since pardoned the prisoners held under the sedition laws of those states. Governor Pin- chot of Pennsylvania opposed the se- dition law in question before he be came governor. Francis Fisher Kane, former United States district attorney at Philadel- phia, who recently returned from Rus+ sia, is conducting the appeal of the four cases before the Harrisburg par- don board. Fire Sweeps Hog Pen, rs Fire swept the five-story hog build- ing of Morris & Co. in the stockyards district yesterday. rant Articles Baring U. §. Dollar Diplomacy Starts in DAILY WORKER Monday! a