The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1924, Page 4

Page Four THE DAILY WORKER SECRETARY WORK CIVING AWAY BiG U.S. COAL FIELDS Fall’s Successor Hands Out 800,000 Acres. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.— Coal land to the extent of 800,000 a in Utah and 100 acres in Cali- fornia and Washington has just been restored to entry by private interests Soviet Government Gives Church Lands To Jews For Farming (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 22.—Hight hun- dred thousand acres of the most fer- tile land in’ Europe, former czarist estates and church lands in South- ern Ukraine and Northern Crimea, have been offered to the Jews for agricultural colonization purposes, The Ukrainian Soviet government has recently passed resolutions fa- voring this move. Many thousands of Ukrainian Jews whose business interests have been RUSSIANS WILL HOUSE 10,000 ORPHANS IN MODEL CITY NEAR MOSCOW WITH LENIN FUND AID A children’s model city, where all the best educational and mechanical and agricultural equipment will be provided, will be built for the 10,000 homeless orphans in the environs of Moscow, states a report from the American delegate of the Committee for International Workers’ Aid. The report goes on to tell of the tremendous efforts which are being made on behalf of the children. taken from the streets and placed in institutions. The Lenin fund for children organized re- Thousands have been paign for discrediting the Soviet re- public, Moron Kansas. City Censors Play Their Tricks On Fifth Year (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 22.— Almost the entire film of “The Fifth Year” was ruled “immoral and ob- scene” by the movie censorship board of morons here; so.that this picture had to be combined with “Po- likushka” to make an evening’s prog- ram. One of the censors, named Flynn, backed by a Chamber of Commerce |] DAUGHERTY DIDN'T SHOW HONESTY WITH HIS FELLOW THIEVES (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 22.—Gas- ton B. Means, praised by Wm. J. Burns as “one” of the best investi- gators | ever knew,” has given the Brookhart committee further testi- mony as to Jess Smith’s taking of graft from the whisky ring. He told the senators that on the day Wednesday, April 23, 1924 AS WE SEE IT O'Flaherty Coming Back The DAILY WORKER has just re ceived a letter from a reader at Port Clinton, Ohio, reading in part as fok lows: “What has become of Thomas J. O'Flaherty’s “As We See It” column? That is the first write-up | look for each day. There is something lack ing without it. Please give us more of it, and | am sure the readers will enjoy and learn more from it.’ This ‘gives us an opportunity to ase by order of the United States Depart-| destroyed and who have suffered in| cently by the All-Russian con- How About U. S. Child Slaves? “red” spy named Boyle, an illiterate} before Jess Smith—“friend and |sure all of our readers that O'Flaherty ment of the Interior, under Secretary|the old pogroms are now turning to| gress of Soviets will solve the| Nothing is said by the capitalist! ex-intelligence officer, ruled “immoral| bumper” of Harry Daugherty— eh soon be back with us again, Our Work. At the same time the Geo-|the land in a serious endeavor to problem of the homeless waifs. | press about the suffering of children | and obscene:” Lenin, Zinoviev, and| committed suicide in Daugherty's ) amar was. ey to Leptin an logical Survey reports that 19 appli-| become agriculturists. The Soviet K ee ee vife, hi in this country, where there are two| other Soviet officials; the Red Army; peration recently, which we had i i oS he geiaccar mean tan yh A Romer ae i i apartment, Jess told Means that /hoped would incapacitate him for only cations for coal-prospecting permits| government recognizes the grave posed any memorial to her husband | Million five hundred thousand child} all Russian mass meetings; all meet- and 20 applications for coal leases| were answered during the month of March. Oil prospecting applications, under the leasing act of Feb. 26, 1920, numbered 234 during the month. More than 150,000 acres of public land in ‘Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kan- sas, Montana, South Dakota and Utah were designated as non-irrigable un- der the enlarged homstead acts by the Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior during the month of March, 1924, and made subject to en- try as homesteads of 320 acres or less. Over 250,000 acres of the public do- main in Arizona, California, Colorado and Montana were also classified un- der the stock-raising homestead law and designated for entry in tracts of 640 acres or less. Much of the acre- age involved in these designations is included in original entries or in ap- plications under -the enlarged and stock-raising homestead acts which confer a preference right. About 100,000 acres of land in Cali- fornia were withdrawn as public wa- need for assisting this urban Jewish population to adapt itself to the eco- nomic conditions. Zionists both in Russia and Ame- rica approve the colonization plan. The Russion Zionists appealed to the American Jews to raise a -$1,000,- 000 fund for the establishment of these colonies in the Ukraine and Crimea. The Soviet government has already granted transportation rates and other privileges to the Jews. CALIFORNIA BAY DISTRICT UNITES FOR FOREIGN BORN 30 Organizations Form Council To Fight except the fund to be used for the care of delinquent children. Lenin loved children and always insisted that the children shall be provided for first. Krupskaya carries out his wish. Lies About Russian Children. The Soviet Government is not sup- pressing any news about conditions in Russia. The reports state that there is still a certain amount of suf- fering among the children, that there are still.scars left by the various oc- currences. of the last ten years in Russia, such as blockade by the capi- talist powers and invasions by for- eign armies or attacks by counter-rev- olutionary armies financed by the cap- italist governments. Hoover and the American government with the aid of the counter-revolutionary general Yudenitch, are in part responsible for the*remnant of suffering that is still left. But the capitalist press is howling about nationalization of children in laborers, more than in any country in the world. Recently a case hds come to light of an orphan boy in.Canada who was kept in practical slavery working on a farm from early morning to night without receiving any wages at ail. He was then sent away penniless and had to walx for miles to the nearest city. This is only one case of cruelty to child laborers on the farms, and there are thousands of such cases in Canada, and in this country. In New York City children under ten years of age in over two thousand families are doing sweat-shop work in homes which are hovels rather than homes. But the capitalist press does not proclaim these facts’ and only digs up reports about suffering of children in Russia and distorts these reports in its campaign of slander. Instead of suggesting that Soviet Russia be recognized, the kept press is intensi- fying its campaign of hatred. Liberals Balk Labor Education. ings of the Communist International; and all Russian factories. All that was left uncensored was the scenery and the Russian children. When the ruling was appealed the two women from the Parent-Teach- ers Association and the liberal who made up the appointed board, un- animously upheld the censor. Business Confers With Teachers On Control of Youth (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, April _22.—The third annual conference of business men and teachers has been meeting in this city. The Eastern Commercial Teachers’ Association sponsors these meetings, which are directed by a spé- cialist in commercial education. Prominent speakers from the busi- ness world discussed commercial oc- cupations, preparation and placement Daugherty had refused to return his split of a big fund which the whisky ring had paid Jess for re- moval permits. Still more sensational was Means’ statement that A, Mitchell Pal- mer was called in by Daugherty, and went away “looking scared to death,” and that Jess Smith told him that Daugherty and Burns had intended at first to indict Pal- mer and Francis P. Garvan, former alien property custodian, for their sale of the Bosch Magneto property to an alien felon, Kerns. Means declared Smith informed him that Daugherty decided to hold Palmer under blackmail, and make him manipulate the Democrats in con- gress in accordance with Daugher- ty’s wishes. George W. Storck, accountant for the department of justice, testified outrageous frauds in the sale of seized German properties in the a few days. Instead of being able to return, however, O'Flaherty was forced to take a more extended leave of absence. We are hoping that this will terminate as soon as possible, however, and that his “As We See It” paragraphs will soon be back again in in the last column on the last page. We know that all of our readers will join us in this very earnest wish, oye ew Philippine Leader a ~ Says Congress Is For Independence TOKIO, Japan, April 22.—The bill now before the insular affairs commit- tee creating Philippine independence will receive a majority in both Houses of Congress, Manuel Quexon, Presi- dent of the Philippine Senate said when interviewed here. “I believe the majority in both houses of Congress favor Philippine independence,” Que- fn declared. “I hope, that the independence bill ter reserves. Nearly 6,000 acres in (Special to The Daily Worker) Soviet Russia, about the neglect of with the teachers. Big Business oat California; Colorado, Washington and} SAN FRANCISCO, April 22—At a|children, about Soviet Russia being} LONDON, England, April 22—Lib-| thinks there is nothing like Philippines, under Governor Gen- | will be passed by the present session. mass meeting of representatives from} overrun with homeless waifs. This| eral members in parliament are not | paying the teachers inculcate the phil- eral Harrison. Storck said that for- |I have every reason to believe that Wyoming were classified as power- site lands and a little more than 3,000 acres in Wyoming previously included in power-site withdrawal and not val-| uable for power were restored to en-| try. The area of land withdrawn as valuable for power was increased nearly 2,000 acres in Colorado and| decreased nearly 2,000 acres in Wash- ington. LEFKOWITZ LINES | UPFOR AUTHOR | OF SHIFT SYSTEM Fake Teacher - Liberal| Supports Ettinger. peat to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, April 22.—With an oratorial appeal for the maintenance of the “merit system,” Abraham Lef- kowitz, of Teachers Union No. 5, so- called “Progressive” and handy-man of the Socialist Party, put across a resolution before the Central Trades and Labor Council, indorsing the re- election of William L. Ettinger, a Tammany Democrat, as Superintend- ent of Schools of the City of New York. The resolution was presented by Mr. Lefkowitz, as part of the re- Port of the Committee on Education. He was the only spokesman on the resolution. There was no further dis- cussion and no objection, and it was therefore declared carried. Ettinger Plan Like Gary’s William L. Ettinger, is well-known in this city and thruout the coun- try as the initiator of the Ettinger Plan, a half brother of the notorious Gary Plan. Under the Ettinger Plan, the city and the real estate sharks Save a tremendous amount of mo- ney which would ordinarily have to be spent on new schools. Instead of a seat for every child, we have but one seat for two and sometimes more children, The schools are run in shifts, like a factory, at all hours of the day, whether the time is suit- able for study or not. Labor has consistently opposed every attempt to limit or curtail educational op- portunity. The extension of the “pla- toon” system was recently condemn- ed before the Chicago Federation of Labor. And yet we find a labor man, and so-called progressive, in support of the founder of the Ettinger plan. A Prime Red Baiter Mr. Ettinger was Superintendent of Schools at the time of the expul- sion of Samuel Schmallhausen, Ben- jamin Glassberg, Henry Schneer, Ray Ragozin and Thomas Mufson from the public schools, for their opinions. Not only has Ettinger made no move to restore these teachers to their po- sitions, but he has recently declared himself opposed to the granting of a license to David Berenberg. On the ground that he is a Socialist. thirty different groups, including Ser- bian, Greek, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Italian, South Slavic, Finnish, Lettish, Esthonian and German language or- ganizations the local Workers Party branches and the Socialist Party, and five unions of this district, held here in the Workers Party hall last} Wednesday, a Bay District Council) for the Protection of the Foreign-born Workers was formed. | After a short explanation of the/ danger still facing the workers thru| the immigration bill now before Con-| gress with its registration and identi-| fication clauses and its provisions al- lowing for the entrance into this coun-| try of immigrants under contract to work in certain industries and locall-| ties at the discretion of the Secretary | of Labor, the temporary chairman urged the carrying on of an aggres- sive campaign, in connection with sim- iliar councils in other cities, for the purpose of making the strongest pos-| sible fight against such exception leg-| islation. For Farm-Labor Party. An Executive Committee of five was | elected to plan the local campaign, | which is to include the holding of mass meetings of the language groups as well as a big joint protest in which all will unite. In order to make the protest as forceful as pos-| sible, the council voted unanimously | to participate actively in the agitation | for the formation of a farmer-labor| party in this state and thruout the} nation. This places the groups repre-| sented squarely behind the movement | for an independent political party of| the industrial and agricultural pro- ducers as the most effective means of protection against such discriminatory laws. (SeSSroressrssssssssssssssrrssssrrsessrs cers Hit Registration Plan. The resolution to the Council points out. that the Johnson bill’s provision for the filing of photographs of immi- grants at Washington, would lead to the introduction of a nationwide regis- tration and espionage system. By a “joker” in another paragraph this measure would require the alien to prove his innocence of charges made against him by immigration officials, thus reversing te whole basis of our legal procedure. The proposed legis- lation is also attacked on the ground that it would permit the revival of the contract labor system and because of the wide exercise of discretionary power granted consular officers a- broad in their certification of immi- grants, State F.-L. Convention Coming. The resolution, besides calling on the foreign-born to aid the movement for independent workingclass political action, endorses the call for a state convention on May 31 to establish a) farmer-labor party in this state and similarly endorses the call for the | June 17 convention at St. Paul. | Members of language organizations | or workingclass groups not represent-| ed at this conference are asked to} get in touch with the Council's organ- izer at 225 Valencia street. The office is open from 8-10 p. m., and by ap- In climbing on the Ettinger band wagon, Lefkowitz has practically turned his back upon his felow Union members who were expelled for their pointment during the day. Address all communications to “Council for Pro- tection of Foreign-Born.” is not out of pity for the children, but out of hatred for the first work- ers’ republic. Now that the workers all over the world are clamoring for the recognition of Soviet Russia the kept press is intensifying its cam- you money on each article that you buy from us, not fade within 2 years. If it should we will give you another rug. HERATI WILTON RUG 9x12, Reg. price $148.50, Our price... going to let the Labor government run any startling educational bills thru the House of Commons. The Liberals have just formed a special committee to keep special watch on all educational measures introduced. 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