The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 19, 1924, Page 3

= Saturdays April ih ssi $57,000,000 NETTED THRU TEAPOT DEAL Witness Says Stock Rose That Much. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 18.—How Harry Sinclair made his money out of the suckers on the stock market rather than out of the ground was brought on in the testimony of W. W. Tarbell, geologist, called before the Teapot Committee by Sen- ator Spence, republican, of Mis- souri. Tarbell said how the Teapot Dome lease did not result in much oil pro- duction, but it led to a tremendous booni of Sinclair's oil stock on the New York Exchange, Beginning with a story of the “mar- velous manipulation” of the stock of the Mammoth Oil Company, the con- cern which operates Teapot Dome, Tarbell went on to give figures. Stock Advances $57,000,000. The stock was put on the market at $40 and run up to $140, he claimed. Sinclair’s stock advanced $57,000,000 on the strength of rumors about the Teapot lease shortly after it was made, Tarbell added. Walsh declared as a result of Tar- bell’s testimony he intended to sum- mon E. C. Finney of the secretary of the interior office to give additional information concerning lease of naval reserve No. 2 in California, Wood's Buyer Coming. William Cooper Procter of Cincin- nati, who contributed lavishly to the presidential campaign of General Leonard Wood in 1920, told Senator Walsh he will arrive in Washington tomorrow in answer to the oil com- mittee’s subpoena. Procter will he quizzed about the sale of the nomina- tion at the Chicago Republican con- vention. The late Jake Hamon, who handled the boodle bag at the convention, was brought into the hearings today by Phil H. Baer, United States marshal for the eastern district of Texas, Baer said he was a delegate to the Chicago convention and that Hamon tried to swing the delegation to Lowden. That was before the deal was fixed up that gave the nomination to Harding. At an earlier hearing John Smith of Paris, Texas, told the committee that Baer informed him that Hamon in- tended to make Baer rich if he got to be secretary of the interior. Gas Blast Fatal. JOHNSTON, Pa., April 18— One person was killed outright today and seven others possibly fatally injured by an explosion of ‘accumulated gas in a residence here. When in the . FEDERATION BUILDING patronize the CIGAR STAND in the lobby. . We handle Union Made brands. Federation Cigar Stand 166 W. Washington St. Fred Liebermann UNION FLORIST 243 W. North Avenue CHICAGO Phone: Lin. 1066 And Workers Party In Free Speech Test (By The Federated Press NEW ‘YORK.—Whether *deacefal meetings held on private property may be prohibited by interference of police or municipal authorities is the issue in the test case which the American Civil Liberties Union here has brought before the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Pittsburgh. This action is being taken, acording to the union, “following a long series of ar- bitrary interferences with the right of peaceful assemblage and free speech by Mayor Lysle of McKeesport.” This particular appeal is brought before the court on behalf of Robert W. Dunn, associate director, American Civil Liberties Union and Patrick Toohey, member of the Workers Party. Dunn and Toohey were two of five speakers arrested in McKees- port last September for holding a free speech test meeting forbidden by Mayor Lysle. The meeting was held deliberately by the union and the Workers Party to test the workers’ constitutional rights in Pennsylvania, and they say the case will be carried to the United States Spreme Court if the present appeal is lost. No similar test case has ever been before the high courts of Pennsyl- vania. Other cases have affected only the right to meet in public places or streets, the court ruling that such 1 Civil Liberties Union « places were completely under control of the authorities. Canuck Lumber Barons Decide To Tighten Screws On Farmers (By The Federated Press) WINNIPEG, April 18.—A profiteer- malted barley grain. REPUTABLE because it upon for best results. HIGH- HIGH TEST MALT : eputable eliable RICH because of its richness in the true sugars of barley, malt and other valued constituents of the ledged merit and the standard of highest purity. RELIABLE because it can always be depended 100% PURE BARLEY a? MALT EXTRACT WITH CHOICE BOHEMIAN HOPS Sold by leading dealers Sar Be ing activity of the Canadian lumber interests is the statement of the pres- ident of the Western Retail Lumber- men’s Association of Winnipeg, who urged that the prairie lumber men force the prairie farmers to change from grain growing to mixed farm- ing. As long as the prairie farmer simply grows grain there is little chance of the lumber dealers‘ squeez- if~ much out of his hide. President Skov of the Retail Lumbermen’s As- sociation declares that the lumber- men should not hesitate at using co- ercive methods if necessary to “make the farmer understand that his credit would be not good unless he engag- ed in mixed farming.” Mixed farm- ing like dairy farming and stock and poultry raising mean no more money for the farmers but it calls for erec- tion of silos and barns and outbuild- ings and more fences and right there is where Skov and his consorts are numbered among those present. Night Flying Not So Good. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 18.— Lieut. W. A. Fredericks ‘and flying cadet R. H. McCully were burned to death when an airplane in which they were praticing night flying, at Kelly Field, crashed. Fredericks’ home was at George White, Texas. McCully lived at Columbia, N, C. The Long and Short of It. NEW YORK, April 18.— Business stopped in court here when traffic cop Andrew Geyer, six feet six, appeared as a witness against Jacob Starr, four feet tall, accused of delaying traffic. Geyer has been on the department twelve years and it was his first ar- rest. is a product of acknow- TEST EXTRACT COMPANY A PRACTICAL PLAY SUIT FOR BOY OR GIRL. 4242, Here is a new and pleas- ing version of the Romper style, with outstanding pocket sections and comfortable sleeve. Cham- Bp” (SH RULER: ARE RAILROADING B INDIAN RADICALS Communists Put Issue Up To MacDonald. BOMBAY, India, April 18.—"A trial is proceeding in India upon the out- come of which hangs for the time be- ing, the right of political action and association for economic ends of the three hundred million miembers of the Indian working class,” says a manifesto issued by the Communist Party of India to Ramsay McDonald and his fellow cabinet members in London. A charge has been lodged in an In- dian Court by the Chief of the Secret Service Department, on behalf of the Indian Government, against eight per- sons for alleged “conspiracy against the sovereignty of the King Emper- or,” on the grounds that political agi- tation has been made among the In- dian workingelass for the organiza- tion of the Indian workingclass into a Political party of their own. “The most arbitrary allegations have meen made, without foundation of proof, and the trial is proceeding to its close without any chance be- ing given to show its true purpose nor the real issues at stake. Conspiracy Trial at Cawnpore. “Gentlemen of the labor Govern- ment and Fellow-Workers of Great Britain, it is not we eight accused who are on trial in Cawnpore. It is the entire Indian workingclass and the idea of political agitation and organization of the workingclass which awaits the verdict of the au- gust Court. The time-honored charge of “conspiracy” has been brought against eight individuals, in order to damn the growing workingclass movement in India for social, econom- ic and political emancipation, as il- legal. “Such a struggle is proceeding in India, not only on political but on economic and social lines as well. The movement is all-embracing and is revolutionary in the truest sense of the word, for in its course, the en- tire outlook and condition of the peo- ple are destined to be changed. * * * Labor Party’s Responsibility. “Were another party in power in England now, we could expect it to sit idly by, while the weapons of the bomb and the Star-chamber proceed unchecked in India. But you are a Government of the working class, pledged to support the interest and welfare of your class wherever thesd are jeopardized. As a Party, you have always proclaimed the international solidarity and brotherhood of the workers. As a Government, you are bound ‘to protect the rights of the Indian workers to freedom of politi- cal association for economic ends. “Under cover of a trial of a few individuals charged with ‘conspiracy’ for the crime of having preached the Indian workers and peasants in- to a political party of their own, a whole creed, an entire principle and the long history of the working class struggle for betterment is at stake, —the creed and principle and tradi- tion upén which you yourselves, as a Party and as a Government, stand. “The toiling masses of India will record the verdict or the British La- bor Government upon this chapter in the history of their struggle for em- ancipation. “On behalf of the Communigt Party of India, (Signed) “Manabendra Nash Roy. Our Daily Pattern. brey, gingham, khaki, Inen and cretonne are good for this design. The pattern is cut in five sizes: 2, 3, 4,5 and 6 years. A 4-year size requires 21-8 yards of 36-inch ma- terial. To trim as ‘illustrated will require 8-8 yard of 86-inch con- trasting material, Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 10¢ oh silver or stamps. The DAILY WORKER, 1113 West Washington boulevard, Chicago, Ill. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND ie" 1924 BOOK OF FASH- its) THE DAILY WORKER Irish Free State Finds The Divorce Problem Hot Spud DUBLIN, April 18.—Since the treaty between the British govern- ment and the Irish Free State was signed, at the close of the year 1921, the imperial lackeys who function as @ government in Dublin have had many problems on their hands, many of them quite knotty. They sur- mounted their difficulties, however, tho sometimes the margin of safe- ty was narrow. It is generally agreed that a problem now faces them which carries more dynamite in its system more than even the repub- Mean wing of the Irish Republican Army in its palmiest days. It is the problem of finding a con- venient method for separating a couple once bound in the holy tram- mels of wedlock, without giving his holiness the Pope an apoplectic fit. The Catholic church has rung the changes on the evils of divorce until Catholic Ireland is almost as preju- diced against it as bootleggers are against straight-laced prohibition agents, When Ireland was more nominally inside the British Empire, an Irish- man finding the bonds of conjugglity infelicitous could take his troubles to the British House of Lords, and be- hind the Pope’s back, so to speak, re- gain the right of self-determination. But small nations are vigilant, par- ticularly when they are Catholic na- tions, and the question of divorce is at stake. The Catholic church takes the p@sition that those put together by God cannot be separated by man, tho this rule is sometimes violated when one man takes another man from his wife and sends him to death on the battlefield. : The world will watch Ireland on the divorce question. American Agriculture Pioneers In Russia Hold Conference CHARKOFF, Soviet Russia, April 18.—A conference of representatives of American agricultural communes of Russia was held here from the 6th to 8th of March. Comrade Smolianin- off, representing the Council of La- bor and Defense, acquainted the dele- gates with the problems that confront the immigrants. It is expected of the immigrants that they will help to rebuild and develop the agricul- ture of Russia by using the knowl- edge and methods acquired by them in the United States. For a few years to come Russia is more interested in agricultural immigration, than in in- dustrial. The communes of the im- migrants should become educational centers where mechanical means of tilling the land will be demonstrated. The use of hired“labor by the com- munes wilk be permitted only in cases of emergency and when all able bod- ied members of the commune will al- so participate in the work. The con- ference drafted an appeal to the Rus- sian colony in the United States. *r «@ LENINGRAD. — According to the latest statistics there are pow 128,- 931 women members in the trade un- ions of Leningrad. Massachusetts Party Branch Shows How To Boost Membership To the DAILY WORKER: Here is a bit of good news. The month of March witnessed a phenomenal growth of our branch of the Workers Party, Revere Jewish. It was indeed a red letter month for us. Having only nitie members on March 1, we closed the month with 23 full-fledged members and a couple of prospects. This proves that the material is pres- ent, and it is only up to us to get on the job. How did we do it? We arranged a social gathering in the house of one of the comrades and invited all s¥m-, pathizers to attend. After the meal (?) we started an impromptu forum on the subject, “Why Join the Workers Party?” with a net result of seven applications. Since we have added two members and they are still coming. We are fast turning our new recruits into readers of the DAILY WORKER. It seems to me that the reason why we are able to enlist new members is because most of our comrades are active in their unions and in their fraternal organizations. This is the real secret of our success.—Charles Schwartz, Secretary, Revere, Mass, Trachtenberg’s Chicago Speech In Monday’s Paper Full reports on Alexander Trachten- berg’s speech on “What I Saw in Rus- sia and Germany” will be given in the next issue of the DAILY WORKER. Our early press time made it impos- sible to carry the story this morning. Indications point to an audience that will fill the large auditorium at North Side Turner Hall, and we can confidently predict that the effect of the international demonstration will be to put additional life into the movement, wf Trachtenberg In Gary Sunday. Gary, Ind., will be the scene of] The Poor Fish says he believes Trachtenberg’s Sunday speech. He|that women should have as much free- speaks there at 2:30 P. M. at party|dom as mon but that neither should headquarters, 216 West Sree ihncante, eh Bod. 88 Seeks. osial: et ‘llcailishdecieesnctaiiaiinibiateypetsnianasiiisiy [TOUR BiG RAILROADS RUIN SERVICE IN GREED FOR PROFIT Lay O ff 1 Thousands Of Men. By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor.) The extent to which private oper- ation of the railroads tends to en- throne profits above the interests of shjppers and employes is revealed in the reports of two leading carriers to the interstate commerce commis- sion. During the first two months of | 1924 the New York Central and the Pennsylvania have reduced the pro- portion of the shipper’s dollar used to provide for adequate service and have laid off thousands of men in or- der to squeeze out a larger net in- come for stockholders. This resulted in a serious impairment of equip- ment. Compared with the first two months of 1923 the Pennsylvania -has in- creased the proportion of the ship- per’s dollar going to profits from 12.9 per cent to 17.1 per cent. This means a decrease of nearly 5 per cent in proportion of the shipper’s dollar’ used to provide for safe and expeditious handling of shipments. The proportion of the dollar used to maintain cars, locomotives and road- bed dropped from 37.2 per cent to 85.1 per cent and the expenditure for maintenance of equipment decreased by $3,355,752. All For Profit. The New York Central increased the proportion of the shipper’s dol- lar going to profits from 18.1 per cent to 21.2 per cent. The extra profit was made largely at the expense of equipment. The proportion of the dollar going to maintenance fell from 35.8 per cent to 33 per cent and the reduction in expenditure on the re- pair of cars and locomotives amount- ed to $3,370,646. The Pennsylvania shows the most rapid deterioration of equipment as a result of this policy. Between De- cember and February the proportion in unserviceable condition has in- creased as follows: Freight locomo- tives from 17.5 per cent to 21.1 per cent, passenger locomotives from 18.5 per cent to 19.7 per cent and freight cars from 5.9 per cent to 7.4 per cent. During the same period the fol- lowing changes in the proportion of New York Central equipment in bad order were reported: Freight locomo- tives from 22.5 per cent to 25.4 per cent, passenger locomotives from 21.9 per cent to 23.7 per cent and freight cars from 5.9 per cent to 4.7 per cent. When it is recalled that railroad ex- ecutives proclaimed 15 per cent of locomotives and 4 per cent of cars as bad order ratios which should not be exceeded the recent reduction in ex- penditures involving the laying off of thousands of repair men appears without excuse. Pennsylvania Profits Grow. The results will win the praise of stockholders. Pennsylvania profits for the first two months of 1924 amounted to $11,311,071 as compared with only $8,413,381 for the same pe- riod in 1923. But last year’s total profits reached $88,065,252, exceeded only once in the railroad’s history and gave common stockholders a re- turn of more than 10 per cent. The owners can hardly request a larger return this year. New York Central profits for the first two months amounted to $8,222,- 246 as compared with $7,734,645 a year ago. But last year's profits when complete amounted to $45,339,- 427, giving common stockholders nearly 17 per cent on their money, 80 here again squeezing necessary ex- penditures is not justified. There is, perhaps, another explan- ation of this effort to wring all the profits possible out of the early months of the year. Financiers back fhe management may see a busi- ness slump ahead and want to pile up profits early in order to pay dividends as usual even tho traffic decreases. By laying off men and decreasing ex- penditure on equipment they increase the probability of such a slump. And they are well aware of this. Who'll Resurrect Their Coin? DALLAS, Tex. April 18.—Rev, John Quincy Adams’ little flock of fervent worshippers waited faithfully today for the joint return of their pastor and Jesus Christ. The “holy roller” parson left town Monday in a flivver after collecting enough funds from his devoted con- gregation to “finance” the return of the Lord on Easter Sunday. Page Thre Party Activities Of Local Chicago arty Policy--Membership Meeting. THE LABOR PARTY POLICY the Workers Party and the present |developments will be discussed at the | membership meeting of the party} next Tuesday evening, April 22, 8 P. M. sharp, at 2409 North Halsted | street, Imperial Hall, C. E» Ruthen- berg, secretary of the Workers Party, | Will make a statement on the ques- cussion. It is imperative that every member get to this meeting and so better acquaint himself with the im- Portant campaigns of the Workers Party for the formation of a class Farmer-Labor Party. Members of the Young Workers League and any oth- ers interested in the question are cor- dially invited to attend. oe 8 Branch Literature Agents. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 24TH, 8 P. M., 3322 Douglas boulevard, there will be a meeting of the Branch Lit- erature Agents, or Propaganda Di- rectors, as they are called. This meeting will be held regularly here- with in order to take up ways and means of spreading Communist lit- erature more widely and effectively among the non-Communist workers. ae a UNITED FRONT MAY DAY CON- FERENCE, to which unions and oth- er working class organizations have been invited, will be held April 23rd, at 8 P. M., at 180 West Washington street, in Room 200. All delegates must get to this meeting without fail. eae THH MAY DAY DEMONSTRA- TION and celebration will be held Friday, May ist, 1924, 8 P. M., at North Side Turner Hall, 820 North Clark street. Among the speakers thus far listed are W. F. Dunne, edi- tor of the DAILY WORKER. Alex- ander Bittleman, member of the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party and former secretary of the Jewish Federation; John Wil- liamson, N. BE. C. of the Young Work- ers League; Joseph Kowalski, sec- retary Polish Section, Workers Party, and Arthur Pressi, editor Italian of} jtion and then there will be full dis-| George E. Pashas COZY | LUNCH || 2426 Lincoln Avenue | One-half block from Imperial Hall CHICAGO Phone Armitage 8529 CHRIST BORNER UNION BARBER SHOP 1631 N. California Ave. Meet us at the Prudential Restaurant 752 NORTH AVE. The only place to eat. BUY AT LOW YOUR DRUGS PRICES THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL $1.50—3' tubes Pepsodent Tooth Paste S FOR CONSTIPATION 25 CENTS AUSTIN-MADISON PHARMACY 1 MADISON STREET at Austin Bivd. We Deliver Free Phones: Oak Park 392, 571, 572; Austin 4117 We speak and read: Lettish, Polish, Lithuanian, ete, SALEM GREEN TABLETS INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA The music for Russian, German, Cros- tion, Bulgarian, Slovenian and Hungarian peoples. A. BIALKO 1020 S. ASHLAND BLVD. CHICAGO Phone Canal 505% weekly, “Alba Nuovo.” In addition there will be a concert. + 8 & THE COMING THURSDAY, April 24th, 8 P. M., J. Edwards will speak at the Maplewood Branch of the Young Workers League on the sub- ject of the ‘Labor Party and the Young Workers. **#-e ON THURSDAY, APRIL 24TH, at 8 P. M., William F. Dunne, editor of DAILY WORKER, will speak before the open meeting of the Englewood Young Workers League on “Youth in Industry.” “+ ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30TH, at 8 P. M., at North West Hall, North avenue and Western, James P. Can- non, assistant executive secretary of the Workers Party, will speak at the regular meeting of the Trade Union of May Day.” All local members should watch this column for news of all rou- tine and special Party meetings.— Martin Abern, City Secretary. ee Cyclone Hits New Orleans. Telephone Brunswick 5991 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 MEET AT S. FEINMAN and SON 338 W. Van Buren St. Chicago Educational League on “The History} THE ONLY PLACE TO EAT CRIGER & NOVAK GENTS FURNISHING and MERCHANT TAILORS UNION MERCHANDISE 1934 W. Chicago Avenue (Cor. Winchester) Phone Humboldt 2707 NEW ORLEANS, La., April 13—|MAC’S BOOK STORE A cyclone, hail and rainstorm swept over a section of New Orleans near 27 JOHN R STREET, DETROIT Lake Pontchartrain last night, de-| pul! line of Sociological and Labor stroying twenty-five small homes, in- juring fifty persons and doing dam- age estimated at $500,000. For Discriminating People SUPERIOR LUNCH Expert Cooking 753 W. NORTH AVENUE CHICAGO Literature. Periodicals and Newspapers DR. B, L, HERZBERG DENTIST Gas Administered 1612 W. Roosevelt Road 3551 W. Roosevelt Road Telephone Number... COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIO Friends of Soviet Rus 113-119 Dudley Tickets Li beia NEW YORK READERS, ATTENTION! German Workers Are Facing Famine! German Children Are Starving! VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED FOR GERMAN RELIEF TAG DAY ° SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, April 26 & 27 SIGN UP! Fill out the blank below and mail immediately—————=« and Workers’ Germany 208 E. 12th St., New. York City (New York Branch) BOSTON, MASS., ATTENTION! Be Sure to Come — You Will Enjoy It Grand Concert Given By LOCAL BOSTON, WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1924, at 8 P. M, at DUDLEY STREET OPERA HOUSE. Combined Chorus of Lettish, Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian ‘Branches —— Young Peoples Orchestra ——— Prominent Soloists NAL WORKERS’ AID Street, Roxbury 50 Cents Central 4945-4947