The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 24, 1924, Page 4

Page Four REPUBLICAN PARTY BREAK-UP FORESHADOWED AS NATIONAL ORGAN WARS ON PROGRESSIVES The coming break-up of the’ Republican Party is fore- shadowed by the denunciation of prominent progressive republi- cans in the leading article of the latest issue of “The National Republican,” the republican party organ. The attack sponsored by John T, Adams, Secretary of War Weeks, and other prominent republicans, has already had a demoralizing effect on the republi- can party in states like Iowa and Nebraska, where the ad- ministration has been making a desperate attempt to hold these states in the republican column. Senator Norris controls the Repub- lican Party in Nebraska. Senator Brookhart has great prestige in Iowa, and of course, Senators Ladd and Frazier in North Dakota and Senator La Follette in Wisconsin. Senator Norris, who has been frequently men- tioned as a possible candidate for Vice President as a sop to the prog- ressives, said, upon hearing of the at- tack, “I’m proud to be ostracized by that outfit.” The article which, in effect, outlaws these prominent progressives from the regular Republican Party, char- acterizes them as, “The vitalizing spirits and active leaders of these vari-colored but closely interlocking anti-republican organizations.” The hoary stunt of tieing the Com- munists up to the liberals and to every conceivable society and publica- tion which is expected to oppose Coo lidge is indulged in by the articles, which is entitled, “Pink, Trimmed with Red”. William Z. Foster, Ruthenberg, Dunne, the DAILY WORKER, the Workers Party, of America, are charg: ed with “Trying to overthrow repub- lican government,” together with a motley crowd numbering many groups holding conflicting theories and op- posing each other's economic inter- pretations of society. The reaction to the article, which was written by Albert H. Laidlow, is that the old guard republicans have played bad politics by widening the split which is coming in the Repub- lican Party. Young Rockefeller Too Sick To Pay But Not To Pray (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 23—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was so sick that he could not keep his engagement with representatives of 17,000 Stand- ard Oil company-union men seeking a raise, was able the same week to pray and preach to the Young Men’s Bible class, Park Avenue Baptist church, New York, When he broke his date with the workers, on the plea of having a cold, a worker remarked: “Not in the head, but the feet.” Could they have listened to his Easter church message perhaps the workers would have decided that his, illness is in the head after all. He said, “People are talking too much about their rights and not enough about their duty. Emphasis has been put too much on liberty, not enough on responsibility.” New York also Gets Police Visit. NEW YORK, April 23.—Local New York has again been favored by a vis- it from the authorities. This time it was from the Department of Public Welfare. Agents sent to the local office had the books and literature of the local placed at their disposal and according to the report of Secretary Weinstone, left, very pleased with the administration. Following the visit of the agents the secretary of the local received a call from Deputy Commissioner Dod- worth and went to the offices of the Department of’ Public Welfare ac- companied by his attorney. Here they learned this investigation and questioning came as a result of a complaint made by a member of the Painters’ Union, A. F. of L. local from which the F. 8. R. received a donation of $150. After general questions by the Commissioner, the charges were found groundless and Sec. Weinstone was assured that the complainant would be so advised. Per- Bankers Decide To Make Sacrifice Of Governor McCray INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 23.— The attack of the government in the trial of Governor McCray, on trial in Federal Court on charges of using the mails in a scheme to defraud, was concentrated today on the character of the paper offered by the governor as collateral for loans or for discount to banks. The prosecution was laying the foundation to introduce evidence in- tended to show that many of the notes did not represent legitimate business transactions afd that in many cases they were forgeries. More than 100 bankers were sworn in as witnesses for the government as court opened today. In rapid succession, District Attor- ney Elliott called thé banker witness- es to the stand and quizzed them briefly on their loans to McCray and his efforts to get them to discount “cattle paper” for him. Third Degreeing Of Prisoners Criminal, This Judge Admits (By The Federated Press.) ST. LOUIS, April 23.—Police bru- tality toward suspects as a means of exacting confessions to crime was re- buked by Circuit Judge Hamilton in his instructions to the grand jury. The jurors were, told: “Those. who are sworn to detect and suppress crime must not employ illegal means in the performance of their duty, and if it should come to the attention of the grand jury that any persons connected with the po- lice department resort to illegal vio- lence, they should be dealt with the same as any other person who vio- lates the law.” This same Hamilton then gassed a8 follows to the new grand jury: “You have no right, and I am sure you have no disposition, to question or assail the great foundation prin- ciples upon which the structure of our state has been erected, and in this day, when the theories of bolshe- vism are publicly proclaimed, afd a small but active minority of our péo- ple are turning itching ears to radi- cal, foreign and unwholesome doc- trines of government. I trust and ex- pect that all of your official acts and utterances will be characterized by a true, loyal, stalwart, and positive Americanism, and be a perfect re- flection of the truth.” One Dying, Six Hurt, When Fire Patrol Hits A Mail Truck Nanto Bartholomew, 32, mail truck driver, is dying and six firemen of an insurance patrol are suffering from injuries sustained when a mail truck and fire patrol crashed at a street in- tersection. Bartholomew's skull was fractured. Both cars were traveling at a high rate of speed, witnesses say, The TH TOBACCO TRUST CRIMES HIDDEN BY DAUGHERTY Harry Allowed Trust To Rob Farmers (By The Federated Pr WASHINGTON, April 23.—With a briéf glimpse of the tobacco trust case, involving the robbing of tens of thousands of farmers by the manu- facturers’ concertedly “staying out of the market,” Chairman Huston Thompson of the Federal Trade Com- mission has begun the disclosure of former Attorney General Daugher- ty’s failure to prosecute criminal cases turned over to his department by the commission in the past three years. This testimony is the most impor- tant, from the viewpoint of industrial economics of any which the Brook- hart-Wheeler committee has had to consider. Government Had the Evidence. Thompson sajd that in the tobacco and other important cases, where criminal prosecutions were asked by the commission, no replies were made by Daugherty for long periods of time. He instanced the tobacco trust affair. The commission investi- gated this at the request of the House in 1920, reporting to Daugher- ty in August, 1921, the need for im- mediate criminal action by the De- partment of Justice. Then the Senate asked for a further investigation, and the Commission again reported, send- ing letters to Daugherty in February and in April, 1922. Ten months elaps- ed, and finally, when Rep. Keller had offered an. impeachment resolution, including the charge that Daugherty had failed to take up this tobacco case, the Commission received an answer from the attorney general. Daugherty Passed Buck. In that letter to the Commission, Daugherty asked the Conimission to take the whole responsibility of pros- ecuting the tobacco crowd, when he knew that only the department of justice had power to effectively deal with the crooks. In the conference held by his office with the Federal Tratle Coiimission to discuss the is- Sue, one of his two spokesmen was the same L’Esperance, assistant at- tornéy general, located in New York, who was accused by an earlier wit- ness of having taken a share in the whisky-permit graft of $15 per case handled by one Gorini. Monessen Celebrates May Day With Big United Front Meeting MONESSEN, Pa., April 23——-A May Day Demonstration will be held here on April 27, in the Finnish Hall, Sixth Street. The DAILY WORKER will be sold. Speeches ‘and music will feature the celebration. Festivities begin promply at 2 o’clock in the E DAILY WORKER BORAH SEEKS BOTTOM "OF FRAME-UP PLOT AGAINST WHEELER (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Apr. 23.—Arous- ed by a confidential report tending to bear out Senator Wheeler's charge that his indictment was secured by a “frame-up,” chairman Borah of the Senate Investigating committee today determined to go to the bottom of the alleged plot. The new charges were contained in a letter from F, C, Ford, former attorney-general of: Montana, to former representative Tom Stout of Montana. The letter, outlining the alleged plot and naming the persons involved, was placed in Borah’s hands by Wheeler’s friends. Borah immediately dispatched a new batch of subpoenaes. Among those summoned are Dr. O. M. Lanstrom, republican national com- mitteeman from Montana and Char. les Reinfenrath, managing editor of the Helena Record. At least three members of the grand jury which returned the In- dictment also will be called, it is understood. Phillips Price Tells How Socialist Party Betrayed Germany Right in line with what Alexan- der Trachtenberg has been telling workers’ audiences thruout this coun- try is the material offered by M. Phil- lips Price in his recent book, “Ger- many in Transition.” The book shows how between the betrayal by the So- cial Democratic Party and the Ger- man Capitalists the workers of Ger- many have been ground all along and more than ever since the revolu- tion of November, 1918. As far as the worker is concerned, the present regime, dominated by industrial and imperialist capitalism is no better than was the monarchical regime. Ac- cording to Price, there was nobody except the workers to take over the government after the debacle of the imperial regime. But instead of a vic- tory for the workers we witnessed the Social Democrats compromising one point after another with the capi- talist class. As for the role of the industrial ba- rons of Germany, Price shows how the industrialists were calmly mak- ing business deals with the French and English and other capitalists, and did not hesitate to speculate with the lives of German workers thru deliber- ate currency inflation at the same time that the workers were bearing the brunt of the Ruhr fight. Price’s book can lead us to only one conclu- sion, that if the workers ef the world do not come to the aid of the Ger- man workers, they will indeed be crushed between the upper and neth- er millstones. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of afternoon. them to subscribe today. crash threw the fire patrol thru a wooden signboard on the curbing. Three other city firemen were in- jured, one seriously, Tuesday, when a porch railing on a blazing apartment gave way. Bank $2,000,000 Short; Jury Finds President Guilty WICHITA, Kans., April 23.—J. H. Richardson, president of the defunct American State Bank, which closed mission to hold a tag day was with- held. DESPITE THESE HIND- RANCES, LOCAL NEW YORK HAS ESTABLISHED AND MAINTAINS A SOUP KITCHEN IN BERLIN FEEDING HUNDREDS DAILY. Immigration Watch Dogs Beg Congress For a Bigger Bone (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, April 23.—Union im- migration inspectors in New York and other ports of the country have petitioned congress for a pay increase and better working conditions thru the employment of more men. In 16 years inspectors’ wages have been rajsed only $108, from an average of $1,839 to $1,947 a year. During the same period the personnel have been inereased by only 414 workers. Now ® reduction of employes from 1,740 to 1,687, and of appropriation from $3,300,000 to $3,221,000 has been rec- ommended to congress by the U. 8S, bureau of the budget. ‘The men are members of the Feder- ation of Federal employes, Local 4, Branch A, American Federation of Labor, its doors June 18, 1923, with a short- age of $2,000,000, was found guilty of accepting deposits when he knew his bank to be insolvent, by a jury to- day. Richardson's bond of $50,000 will stand until Judge Wall hears the mo- tion of Richardson's attorneys for a new trial. Governor Pawned State Funds For Loans, Is Testimony INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 23,— Governor Warren T. McCray bartered deposits of state funds to Indiana banke in exchange for loans, accord- ing to government witnesses who tés- tifled today in the federal court trial of McCray on charges of using the mails to defraud. Cc. H. Ayer, cashier of the North Side Bank of Evansville, testified his bank loaned McCray $10,000 on a per- sonal note in May, 1923, in return for a state deposit of $10,000 and a prom- ise of $10,000 more, which did not ma- terialize. Charles W. Coen, vice president of the Merchants National Bank of South Bend, testified his bank loaned McCray $10,000 on a personal note, secured by cattle paper, INVESTIGATORS BARRED FROM STEEL TRUST’S DEATH MINE; MANY BODIES UNRECOVERED By WILFRED CANAN (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) CROSBY, Minn., April 23.—A little brass check with the number 30 on it is what identified the remains of Valentine Cole, whose decomposed body was taken out of the death-trap Milford mine six weeks after the terrific February disaster. iron miners of the Whitemarsh Mining Co., a steel trust subsid- Forty-one iary, were drowned when the bottom fell out of a pond that had been permitted to remain undrained over the mine workings. The company had refused to heed the warnings of the fatal break and the safety precau- tions had been so disregarded that escape was impossible, for the men caught in the flood of slime and water. Bodies Still In Mine Grave. Cole’s body was found under a mass of fallen timber near the mouth of the 135-foot level. Soon after, the body of another miner named Graves was found and identified by his son. Other bodiés remain to be found. Thirty- nine widows and nearly 100 fatherless children are the net result of the steel trust’s saving on safety. The coroner decided that no inquest was necessary. The mine is guarded by the company and no visitors are allowed to pass the gate. Photo- graphers are also barred. Even the temporary morgue is not to be photo- graphed. An investigation is supposed to be under way but this is.muffled in secrecy. Murderous Death-Trap. From the collar of the shaft to the innermost workings the mine was a murderous death-trap. There was only one shaft and that shaft was danger- ous because the laths were bulging out under the pressure of the wet sand. The laths are two-inch planks placed up and down behind 12x12 timbers which ate arranged about three feet apart crosswise. These two-inch planks three feet long bulged out three inches, The ladder-road up the main shaft was loose and flapping and swung out so far when a man was on it that the fellow underneath couldn't get a hold, The steps of the ladders were 11 inches apart and some of them were missing. There was no lad- der-road at all from the low level ex- cept up thru the pump shaft and that means tram men on the low level had to depend upon the skip or BRITISH PRESS SAYS ‘AMEN' T0 COOLIDGE TALK Think MacDonald Will Also “‘O. K.” It (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 23.—The British press joins in a fervent “Amen!” to the views expressed by President Coolidge in his New York speech, They are especially delighted over Coolidge’s indorsement of the Mor- gan-Dawes reparations plan, which means the granting of a huge Ameri- can loan to Germany to help her meet her financial obligations to France. It is generally claimed among the organs of British big business that the MacDonald labor government can- not help but accept the propostions advanced by Coolidge, especially the one urging so-called limitation of armaments. In view of the Labor party’s plat- form, urging limitation of air, sub- marine and land forces, and Prime Minister MacDonald’s declaration that such limitation is vital to the preservation of world peace, it is con- sidered a foregone conclusion that Great Britain, as in the case of the Washington conference, will be the first nation to express official ap- proval of Mr. Coolidge’s suggestions. Expect MacDonald’s Approval. It is confidently expected MacDon- ald will take the earliest opportunity to make an official declaration of Brit- ish approval of the Coolidge sugges- tions when Parliament resumes after the Easter recess. Meantime the British press warmly praises the American President’s re- marks, Characterizing the conference sug- gestion as “of the highest impor- tance,” the Daily News adds: “If a serious attempt is made by the French government to torpedo this new effort for peace, with all the hopeful consequences that it implies, the isolation of the French republic then must be final and complete.” Nervous About Frontiers. The Manchester Guardian also in- dorses the proposal for a new arms conference, to be held as soon as the reparations question is settled. “As long as France is nervous about the security of her eastern frontier, her present diplomacy will continue because there are armaments every- where in Europe. But with a real set- tlement of the reparations problem she can no longer have grounds for fear.” Cal Beats Hiram in Jersey. TRENTON, N. J., April 23.—Sena- tor Hiram Johnson lost another round in the presidential campaign Tuesday when New Jersey turned him down, 40 to 1, in favor of President Coolidge. for small pay. A_ skilful 7 hours in Germany. duce cheaply. To meet German low prices wages to the German level. age. The cage would only accom- modate about eight men to the trip and each trip would consume three minutes. The cage was unprotected and the men often had their coats torn in traveling up the shaft. Saw Danger Signal. At the 135-ft. level of the mine workings ran north from the main shaft about 200 feet and drop about 30 feet to the 165-feet level. At this point was a timber slide and a flimsy ladder. The mine was wet and muddy and some of the rooms were still hung up and the blast men were in danger. Hung up means that the blast did not cause the rock and upper strata to come down solidly and allow for proper bracing. One miner quit work a few days be- fore the pond broke thru. He had noticed the warning signals given by the seepage of wet sand from above. There were only three feet of rock be- tween the sand and the pond and he decided to give up his $4.40 a day job for a while until things got safer. Miners Ordered to Death. The management had been asking anxiously for a number of days whether the braces were holding pro- perly but in spite of the plain evidence of disaster they continued to order the miners into the pit. Then came the roar of the torrent as the pond suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth and the miners were overwhelmed and drown- ed like rats below. The relentless greed of the steel trust has contributed to the strefigth of the Farmer-Labor movement in this part of Minnesota, F E 4 = 2 i E = H : Three American Soup Kitchens supported by the Committee for International Workers’ Aid: No. 1—Petersburger Platz No. 3, rlin No. 2—Aachenerstrasse, Wilmer- dorf No. 3—"“New York”, Emdener- strasse 23, Berlin forces German workers to labor long hours machinist must work for the same amount of nourishment 2 hours in the United States This enables German Big Business to pro- market, Big Business in other countries must sacrifice profits or reduce the scale of Thursday, April 24, 1924 | THOUSANDS WILL PARADE IN - BIG MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION _| BY ROCHESTER AMALGAMATED (Special to The Daily Worker) ” r ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 28.—Convention Hall, the largess auditorium in the city of Rochester was chosen as the ending point of a monster parade which will be held Thursday, the First of May, under the auspices of the Rochester Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and in conjunction with other progressive economic and political organizations in the city. Five bands of music, descriptive floats, nationally, known speakers and a concert and dance for the evening are also part of the preliminary arrange- ments. Five to ten thousand paraders are expected to be in line when the parade -starts from Amalgamated headquar- ters at 1 p. m. The decisions for the great Interna- tional Labor Day celebration were made at a meeting of the Joint Execu- tive Board in the headquarters of the Amalgamated at 476. North Clinton avenue. National Organizer Aldo Cursi presided. From the very start it was evident that all the active members who. took part in the meeting meant business. Edith Christeson reported the ar- rangements up to the time of the meeting, which included the securing of Convention Hall and invitations ex- tended to several economic and polit- ical organizations in the city. To encourage every member of the organization to take part in the great demonstration, double personal cards will be issued thru the shop chairmen to every union member in advance. This card will serve both for the pur- pose of admitting our members to the Convention Hall meeting in the aft- ernoon and to the concert and dance which will take place in the evening at the Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers’ headquarters. Big May Day Floats. A novel feature of the parade will be descriptive floats embodying the spirit of the first of May celebration. The following members are on a spe- cial committee to arrange these floats: Joe Plati, Charles Rosen, I. Berstein, D. Rosenblum, Freda Schneiter, Rose Miller, Morris Levin, Thomas Volpe. The personnel of the committee is an assurance by itself that these floats will be a success. Joseph Schlossberg, general secre- tary-treasurer of the national organ- ization of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, will be the principal speak- er. It is possible that short addresses will be delivered in the several lan- Rotary Speech His Last. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 23.— George Fort Milton, editor and. pub- lisher of the Chattanooga News, and Tennessee manager of the William G. McAdoo-for-President campaign, dropped dead in a hotel at Murphys- boro, at 1 a. m. today. He.had. just addressed the Rotary Club. to be made guages of the different nationalities which compose the great family of the Amalgamated here in Rochester, End Day With Dance. An unusually fine entertainment will be arranged exclusively for all the members of the Amalgamated and their families at 8 o’clock at the Amal- gamated Hall, 476 Clinton avenue, north. The entertainment will be fol- lowed by a dance which will mark the close of a successful fall and spring educational program, A meeting of all the Joint Boar members of the Executive Board ai shop chairmen will be held at t] Amalgamated headquarters on Mon- day evening, April 28, at 8 p. m. sharp, for the report of the preparations for the celebration of the first of May to be made. The grand marshal and marshals for each local will be chosen at this meet- ing. The line of march and other im- portant details will be taken up at this time. For size and enthusiasm this parade is expected to surpass any- thing the Amalgamated has staged in this city. PHILADELPHIA READERS, ATTENTION! Demonstrate Your Solidarity With the Starving Ger- man Working Class Attend the INTERNATIONAL BAZAAR THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY May Ist, 2nd and 3rd KENSINGTON LABOR LYCEUM 2nd and Cambria St. 3 Tickets 25c for one day; @ 50c for three days On sale at 521 York Ave. and at 340 So. 5th St. Auspices: INTERNATIONAL WORK- ERS’ AID, Philadelphia Conference. SLU nutusevnataneunagnseeusaes cant gs cent eaenccecenctcn THE DICTATORSHIP OF HUNGER) IN GERMANY forces German working mothers to away their children. A want ad in a man paper reads: “Will give away baby immediately after its birth. Necessary clothing available. fore Offers by letter. Address L. Z. 2172, Agency of Sulz.” Another reads: in the world A Defeated Working Class of Germany Is A Menace to the Working Class of America Enclosed find ADDRESS...... CITY, Committee for International Workers’ Aid, 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill, “Will give away forever little daughter aged nine months. No compensation expected. Offers to be sent to B. H. 1390, Agency of Lindenthal.” toward the support of American h 5 ae