The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 33. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the Post Office et Chicago, Mlinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. In Chicago, by mail, 8,00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. _ THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924 PBe0 290 nae Published Daily except Sunda PUBLISHING CO,, 1118 W. Wa by THE DAILY hington Blvd., © Demand: Workers! Farmers! 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 WORKER h PULLMAN STRIKE SPREADING TO YARDS AND SHOPS BONUS FOR DEAD VETS IS VICTORY Senators Vote For The Insurance Plan. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23.—Soldiers won their bonus in the Senate yesterday after a long fight. The cash bonus was lost early, giving the majority to the insurance policy plan. The vote was 67 for; 17 against. The house has passed the bonus bill which will be up to Coolidge after conferences between the house and senate. During the fight for the cash bonus Senator Neely, West Vir- ginia democrat, said that the railroads had been given $2,000,- 000,000 in adjusted compensa- tion and that the war profiteers had secured even more. Neely allied himself with the cash option proponents. 20 Year Insurance Policies The bill offers cash payment to veterans not entitled to more than $50 in adjusted service compensation and 20 year endowment insurance po- licies to others. To meet the cost of the bill for the calendar year 1925, an appropriation not exceeding $100,- 000,000 will be made. The adjusted service credit is based on a $1 a day for home service and $1.25 for overseas, with maximums of $500 and $625, respectively. The first sixty days of service are exclud- ed.from: computation. Provision is made for all enlisted men, women and officers up to the rank of captain in the army and marine corps and lieutenant in the navy. There are many exceptions not allowed bonus compensation. Service between April 5, 1917 and July 1, 1919, is considered, but enlistment must have ante-dated November 12, 1918. Borah Against Bonus Senator Borah, republican from Idaho, lead an attack upon all bonus systems. He warned, “It is time to take stock and turn the corner.” The bonus bill has been on the leg- islative program for two months. An amendment making the cash pay- ments available at once was adopted today before the fihal passage of the bill. OIL LAWYER IS NEW WITNESS IN WHEELER QUIZ Senator Badly, Floored In Immunity Issue. WASHINGTON, April 23.—The Sen- ate investigation of the indictment of Senator Wheeler, Montana, was re- sumed today with L. V. Beaulieu, Los Angeles attorney, on the stand. Beaulieu was formerly attorney for Gordon Campbell, Montana oil man, who was mentioned in the Wheeler indictment. At the outset, Senator Sterling, South Dakota, insisted that the wit- ness waive immunity from prosecu- tion, but on objection by other com- mittee members, this was not done. WASHINGTON, TEXAS, RHODE ISLAND HEAD LIST FOR JUNE 17 (By The Federated Press) ST. PAUL, April 23.—Rhode Island, Texas and Washington state have sent in the first three responses to the recently distrib- uted call for a national nominating convention of the Farmer-Labor movement to be held in St. Paul June 17. To overcome the fact that the farmers are not so organized as the industrial workers, a special basis of representation provides that any group of 25 farmers may send a delegate to the St. Paul convention, provided that they are not repre- sented thru some other organ- ization from their county. DAUGHERTY IN BRAIN STORM BOOSTS SELF Sees Wheeler-Wobbly Plot To Get Him. WASHINGTON, April 23.— Now that the lunacy trial of Harry Kendal Thaw has come to an end at Philadelphia, Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general, is trying to entertain the readers of the yellow press with his brainstorms. Daugherty has just issued a broadside in defense of himself that includes some of the fol- lowing thrilling sensations: «That U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler promised the-- tndustrial | Workers of the Wold, if elected, that he would drive the attorney general (meaning Daugherty) from the cabinet. That h ewas never a drinking man, and that he quit entirely when he became attorney general, to keep his conscience clear. That the Wright-Martin airplance scandal was based on lies. That President Harding was no- minated and elected the freest man that ever stepped across the thresh- old o fthe White House. That there are four doctors and an undertaker who can testify how Jess Smi mind gave way, result- ing in his suicide. That he never sa wthe my ous green house o nK. Street. / That he did use the house on H Street. That “the shac kalong the creek” was a decent place, where nothing ever took place that was not de- cent and wholesome. That he appointed Gaston Means with reluctance and dismissed him in the face of opposition. This would indicate that Daugherty feels that his morals, and not his re- cord of graft as attorney general was being attached, Daugherty is expected to spill some more of the same in a speech at Co- lumbus, Ohio, tonight. nse: Spushned Boycott Used To Force Acceptance Of Ford’s Offer WASHINGTON, April 23.—Senator Norris of the Senate Agricultural ri- British Flyers Lead Race BENDAR ABBAS, Persia, ‘April 23. —Britain’s round the world fiyers were to get away today for Kamarshi after completing successfully another jap of their efforts to beat the Ameri- can army’s effort to be the first to circumnavigate the globe in the air. Committee charged today/at hearings on Muscle Shoals legislation that mer- chants in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals were boycotting manufactur- ers who opposed the Ford offer. “IT am informed,” said Norris, “that merchants around Muscle Shoals, par- ticularly at Florence, Ala., are boy- cotting manufacturers who are ad- verse to the bid of Henry Ford.” CLASS WAR PRISONER WANTS MORE LABOR PAPERS LIKE DAILY WORKER Oe One of the class war prisoners now serving time in San Quentin prison, California, writes to the DAILY WORKE: kind (DAILY WORKER) in the hands of the working masses, the quicke: they will become educated. | hope : “The more publications of this the working class. gi the DAILY WORKER their utmost support. Many thanks to the worker who made it possible for me to get this C. A. Drew, No, 37 San Que! reat LS in, California.” - ~ THE DAILY WORKER IS THE ONLY CHICAGO PAPER COVERING PULLMAN STRIKE rs for a better world (Signed), American Capitalis m’s “Two of a Kind.” | THIS WI ( 5 AS . PRESIDENTIAL CAN DI OATES Both Ends Against The Middle. GE THE REPUBLICAN AWD THE OTHER THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FoR PRES- \DENT—OF THESE TWo THE PEOPLE MAY ELECT EITHER ONE SO FAR IM CONCERNED CO Sue on SEEDS ‘PEACE’ TALK CIRCUS PLAN BEING PUSHED Hope To ‘Hold Parley At Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, April 23.— President Coolidge and Secre- tary of State Hughes are going ahead with their plans for an- other disarmament circus here. Like good press agents they have great hopes for their plans. When the international situa- tion may be such as to make such a parley practicable, was the principal subject of interest in official and diplomatic circles, as all phases of President Cool- idge’s suggestion in his New York speech yesterday were dis- cussed. Washington was re- garded as the likely place for such a conference: Speculation on when the conference might be assembled ranged from next Autumn to the Spring of 1925. Opi- nion also differed as to whether the President could afford to call the par- ley before the elections. Some thought that for him to take this course would lay Mr. Coolidge open to the charge of conducting international affairs for political prestige. The most important factor as to time it was recognized, is the rapidi- ty with which Europe becomes stab- lized as a result of working out of the Dawes plan. Mr. Coolidge made this the pre-requisite to the second conference. Expect France to Join. Parliamentarism Is Doomed, Says Norwegian Paper KRISTIANIA, April 23—The Nor- wegian Workers Party, at the begin- ning of the year, had 40,260 members, compared with 52,792 in July, 1923, a loss of 12,532 members. The Com- munist Party claims 14,000 members. Aftenposten, organ for the most con- servative element, has this to say of parliamentarism: “The parliamentar- ism that resulted from the state court (riksrettem, 1884) is Itself already a doomed system. All see and admit the great drawbacks of parliamentar- ‘and -when the time is ripe a new political landslide will also sweep par- liamentarism away. It has not had a long lifetime, but its leaves are turn- ing and ready to fall. In astonishing short time the parliamentarism has lost its glory in our land, as well as in others.” The government has proposed that prohibition be abolished. The Social- Democrats in the Storting proposed to submit the question to the voters. At the urgent demand of the cabinet the Storting, by a vote of 96 to 44, with 10 absentees, rejected the motion. AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO SEEN AS LABOR AGENT ‘Warren Uses Mex Labor On His Beet Fields By SHERMAN BOWMAN. (By The Federated Press) DETROIT, Mich., April 23.--Accord, ing to’a special dispatch to the De- troit Free Press, which bears indica- France's attitude is recognized here | tions that it may have been extracted as the keynote of the successful hold-|{fom a communication from the am- ing of another conference. French | bassador himself, Charles B. Warren, refusal to reduce her army because| United States ambassador to Mexico, of fear of Germany was the reason|is using his influence with American land disarmament was not consider-| bankers to assist the Mexican gov- ed at the other conferences. The President now hopes ernment in negotiating a $15,000,000 that] or $20,000,000 loan in this country. France will find no futher need to} Ambassador Warren joined with the fear and will agree to join in a gene-| Wallace family of central Michigan ral limitation of land forces. Observers here believe that if the|beet industry in this state. in organizing a combine in the sugar Mexican proposed conference be held along] labor is extensively used in beet cult{- the lines indicated by President Coo-| vation. Recent testimony before a lidge it may be a much more import-| senate committee proved that work- ant meeting than the first Washing-|ers are being imported from Mexico ton parley. In view of the inclusion|to keep the standard of living in the of land forces and aircraft in the|peet fields at a low level. President's plan, Russia and Germany would be invited, it is believed. Says G. O. P. Bonus Bill Fools Veterans, Trade unionists in Michigan are waiting to see what effect Warren's assignment to Mexico will have on this condition. It is being said among trade union- ists that his willingness to assist the Pleases Wall Street | Mexican government to borrow mill- ions from United States banks is to WASHINGTON, April 23.—The Re-|him merely an effort to mortgage, publican Insurance Policy Bonus Bill] ™orally, the Mexican state to United is an attempt to deceive the soldiers | States bankers. And it is expected and at the same time to appease the|that thruout his career among the wrath of financial interests, Senator | Mexicans he will have every opportun- Sheppard charged in the Senate in| ity to act as a super-recruiting agent opening the attack against the bill. for his beet fleld bosses. PINE TRUST, LABOR’S FOE, ON THE GRILL Left Trail Of Blood Across The South. WASHINGTON, April 23.— The Southern Pine Association, one of the most criminal and murderous aggregations of cap- ital in the land, had a close friend in the former attorney general, Harry M. Daugherty, according to facts revealed be- fore the senate committee in- vestigating the department of justice. It is the Southern Pine Asso- ciation that has left a trail of workers’ blood across the south- ern states, ruthlessly subduing any signs of discontent on the [Pits of its workers. Its murder regime in Louisiana, for instance, reached its climax, in 1919, with the cold-blooded assassination of four organizers of the American Federation of Labor, at Bogalusa. Alleged price-fixing of the South- ern Pine Association, and charges that the department of justice failed to prosecute it after a case against the organization has been worked up by the federal trade commission, were brought to the attention of the Senate-Daugherty investigating com- mittee today. : Violated Anti-Trust Law. Huston Thompson, chairman of the commission, told the committee that there was unquestionable evidence of anti-trust law violations by the asso- ciation, yet the department of justice under former Attorney General Daugherty, did nothing to prosecute the suit brought against it in Feb- ruary, 1920, John H. Kirby of Texas, former president of the association, was brought into the testimony by Sena- tor Wheeler, who read into the re- cord excerpts of a speech by Kirby referring to a conference with Daugherty about. the government’s suit against the association. Th mpson § id the West Coast Lumber Association had been ap- proached by the Southern Pine Asso- ciation to arrange for cooperation for price increases but had “revolted.” The investigation of the Southern Pine Association, Thompson said, showed “price fixing” by the various groups of the association and “co- operative methods to curtail produc- tion.” “I think ‘co-operative’ is the wrong word,” said chairman Brookhart. Supreme Court Needs Reforming. “The Supreme Court has adopted that word,” said Thompson, (Continued on Page Two) ARIZONA FUMIGATING ALL TOURISTS FROM SYNDICALISM STATE PHOENIX, Ariz., April 23.—Wires into Phoenix are hot with indignant protests from California chambers of commerce against the fumigation policy which Arizona is adopting against the hoof and mouth disease. An |. W. W. delegate here said he was amazed that Arizona had not protected itself against the Califor- nia peril from the first day of the plague. His organization has been active during the last year in fur- thering a boycott against California for its persecution of union men un- der the criminal syndicalism law— 100 men now lying in San, Quentin and Folsom penitentiaries. AXE NOT USED AGAINST 28 Federation Is Raising Fands For Strike. The injunction axe lay idle on Judge “Dennie” Sullivan’s desk yesterday as 28 girl garment strikers appeared before him on his return from his “vacation.” | All the cases were postponed until May 6. Sullivan is follow- ing Judge Foell’s line and is de-| ferring judgment against the} spunky girls whose strike is standing staunch against in- junction judges. | Sullivan appeared in court with ruddy face but far from cheerful humor. He avoided even. glancing. at. the strikers who filled the court and seemed even more bored than usual with the dull proceedings of the cases which preceded the gar- ment workers. The sluggers and dicks dozed off while wait- ing for the trials to bring out their testimony. LeBoskey Keeps Away. Attorney LeBoskey, representing the bosses, failed to appear in court but sent his assistant Dumas. The junior Sissman took charge of the girls’ cases in this session. Indications that the Dress Manu- facturers'Association is weakening are evident in their inattentiveness to the court proceedings. It is rumored that the expense of the strike is seriously affecting them and that their hitherto solid opposition to the union is break- ing. Dyers Give $1000 to Strike. The Cleaners and Dyers Union of Chicago has contributed $1000 to the garment strike in response to the ap- peal by the-Federation’s Committe of Fifteen. Beginning Monday evening, five| special committees, under the direc- | tion of Anton Johannsen acting for the Committee of Fifteen, will visit every union meeting in the city in an effort to get the maximum aid for the International Ladies Garment | Workers in their fight against Chi- cago clothing bosses. Vice-president Meyer Perlstein says that the $100,000 bail-bond fund has already beep used up and that he is telegraphing New York for further securities. Between $60,000 and $70,- 000 in fines have been levied by Judge Sullivan, Payment of these fines has tr put off while appeals are pend- ng. Tippett Talks Tomorrow. Tom Tippett of the Federated Press will address the strike meeting Fri- day afternoon. Tippett has just re- turned from an extensive survey of CALL POLICE FOR STRIKERS PAY DAY LINE Forced To Wait Long For Their Money. The strike of the car workers |against the Pullman Company is spreading. It is expected that a general walkout of all the shopmen and yardmen, which will completely tie up the car works of the Pull- man shops, will be launched be- fore the day is over. Sympathy for the s' buckers and heaters ing riveters, reamers, fitters, is spreading rapidly to the 15,000 em- ployes of the Pullman Company . Many other depart- ments did not return to work yester- day morning and augmented the ranks of the strikers. shopmen in The strike committee told C. D. McLaren and A. B. Gunn, production manager that they would not compro- mise, and refused to accept a cut in wages. McLaren theatened to drop the names of the strikers off the pay- roll, but his bluff did not scare the strike: yesterday. When the five hundered strikers cal- led for their pay yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock they were told by the pay- master to come back for their money in the afternoon. The men called for their pay at one jo’clock and after a wait of two ho received their bac ° men, officers no. 66 and 3289, were on guard at the gates to the employ- ment office where the strikers were paid. They shoved the men around on the sidewalk a good deal, but th strikers were_not all cowed. - Pull Regular Puliman Stuff McLaren refused to give the strikers back the money they deposited on tools they were using up to the time of the strike. The strikers were re- fused admittance to their lockers in- side the yards, in which they have their*personal possessions. As the men lined up for their pay several foremen and hirelings of the Pullman Company circulated among the men pleading with them to return to work until the differences are set- tled. One foreman was heard to remark, “You fellows certainly have started something. All the other departments have caught the fever and are talking strike.” How Speed-up System Works A member of the strike committee told the DAILY WORKER that the Pullman Company used to pay $65 and use a gang of forty men for fit- ting up the side of a car. Now they pay only $25.30 for fitting up one sde, and use seven men. “They accomplished this by using the ‘speed-up’ piece work system,” the striker said. “The Pullman em- ployes have been the sickest lot of workers employed in the steel shops. All the .life is driven out of them When ‘the Pullman employes go to another shop they have to work alone They are the fastest piece workers in the steel shops. This is because the Pullman Company continually tries to speed up the workers, and when they |get so they are earning a fair living along comes a drastic reduction, as in this case. “The men have come to the end of their rope, and they are going to fight the speed-up system to a finish.” This striker told the DAILY WORK- ER that riveters receive only $7 for riveting the side of a car. By work- ing twelve, fourteen or sixteen hours a day the riveter can complete a side in one day. For the hardest kind of work, before this drastic cut, théoriy- eter managed to earn only $7 a day. (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 2) KLAN FROM STATE AS ILLEGAL TOPEKA, Kans., April 23.-—-The Ku Klux Klan is doing business illegally in Kan Brews! K appointed to hear Brewster id without be! overruled the according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by S. M. evidence in the attempt to oust the the organization could not transact id a foreign corporation. charge that the Kian was guilty of intimidation saying that point had not been proven.