The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 26, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 35. SUBSCRIPTION RATES v THE In Chicago, by m Outside Chicago, ai ail, 8.00 per year. by mail; $6.00 per year. DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21,1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1924 CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days Three Cents per Copy. d Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. OUR MAY DAY SLOGAN: A CLASS PARTY ON JUNE 17 NIGHT IN CELL FOR ANOTHER CLOAKMAKER Seize Barkan In War On Big Union. Arrest of Meyer Barkan, prom- inent member of the Cloakmak- ers’ Union, his imprisonment all night in a lousy cell of the Cook County jail and his coming trial before Injunction Judge “Den- nie” Sullivan is the latest chap- ter in the employers’ attack on the International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union. Barkan, like Business Agent Sam Laderman, <arrested the day before, is not a member of the striking dress makers’ local and not on strike. His arrest, like that of Laderman’s, is seen by union officials as a pure and simple conspiracy—under cover of the. present strike—against the powerful Cloakmakers’ Union which has long been a thorn in the side of the open shoppers. “Picketing!” Yaps “Dennie.” “You were picketing!” Judge “Den- nie” Sullivan snarled vindictively, as Barkan was arraigned in the injunc- tion court yesterday morning after spending a night in the cell because bail had been refused. Barkan began to explain that he had not yet been tried and the evidence in the case had not yet been present- ed but “Dennie” had his mind made up in advance and turned away as the case’ was postponed until May 6. Barkan is free until then. The arrested cloakmaker is a former business agent of that union, but is now employed at Cohen & |” and other leading members of the ~ainion have been informed by detec- tives that “we'll get you fellows too if you keep on helping thése damned dressmakers.” John Doe Had “Contempt.” Night before last as he was coming down the’ stairs of his shop, with a partly finished cloak on his arm which he was making for his wife he was seized by a certain Cozela, who show- eda sheriff's badge and told him he was being arrested on a John Doe war- rant for “contempt.” Taken to the Cook County jail he demanded bail. The functionaries there told him county cases were pe- culiar—they proved to be so for him— and that he could not be bailed out: Seen by a DAILY WORKER re- porter after he had cleaned off the ef- fects of the cell Barkan taugned: “It'll take more than that to dis- courage me. We're going to win this fight. A night in jail won’t stop me.” Asked what he thought of Judge Sullivan, Barkan just said: Sullivan “Class Conscious.” “Sullivan’s like all the rest. He’; working for his class. I wish tl workers would be as class conscious as those fellows.” Barkan is the second prominent cloakmaker to spend a night in the cell during this strike. The other was Morris Bealis, who is also president of the Chicago Joint Board of \ 4 In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Union. More arrests of the members of this branch of the international will not surprise unionists but they are Prepared to fight out the issue. Drunken “Slugger.” ‘Walking down S. Market street yes- terday afternoon the DAILY WORK- ER reporter's eyes were greeted with the sight of a big tubby looking “siug- ger” being helped into a taxi-cab. The slugger” was being helped in by two others because he was too drunk to get in himself. . This happened near Ribback’s scab (Continued On Page Two) PARIS, April 25.—France’s on the subject of the Da British circles, it wi Replies from France, ceived and will be J. P. Morgan he declared to be one him. cruise in will be pri ind unofficial, the source of the proposed loan MORGAN IN PARIS TO ANNOUNCE WALL STREET TERMS TO FRENCH reply to the Reparations Commission wes report is considered leaned tonight, ium and Great Britain have been re- blished when that from Italy arrives. ied Paris today, physically very fit after what of the few real holidays of his lifetime. Morgan went directly to the offices of hi tion to confer with Louis Barthou and Sir- John Bradbury awaited The reparations commissioners wish on the financial clauses of Dawes’ reyort Morgan came. from Venice, where he hi it corsair. His conferenc but it was learned that the subject of will be put After remaining here 48 hours, Morgan May Day, the International holiday of labor, comes this year in the Unt- ed States with a great opportunity be- fore the workers and farmers of this country. The capitalist system of production appears before the workers and farm- ers in its true Tight, as a system of corruption, exploitation and robbery of those who produce the wealth of the country. The Teapot Dome exposure has shown for what purpose the govern- ment exists in the United States. It has shown that the government is an instrument thru which the capitalists steal the natural resources of the country for their own enrichment. It has shown that the men elected to public office and in cabinet positions, under the existing capitalist govern- ment, are the agents of those who are seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the well-being of millions of people—the capitalist cMiss. The character of government under the capitalist system has rarely been exposed so clearly as in the goyern- ment at Washington. Oil leases, gov- ernment shipping board steals, steals | in the Veterans’ Bureau, corruption | and bribery in the revenue depart- ment—all of these things are part of) the picture of the capitalist govern- ment at Washington today. The stories brought out by the in- vestigation of ex-Attorney General Daugherty presents as shameful a pic- ture of corruption and bribery as has ever appeared in the history of the United States. Daugherty, the anti-labor attorney general; Daugherty, the author of the famous Daugherty injunction; Daugherty, the author of red raids against Communists, is pilloried be- fore the eyes of the workers and farmers of this country as a corrupt inacceptable in bank, where an invita- to get Morgan’s views i s < = Capitalism: “Hey, there, you're taking one-sixth of the world?” Labor: “Yes, and the job’s not finished yet!” MANIFESTO OF bribetakers. He uses his office for his private investments and the en- richment of his friends. Daugherty, the labor hater, ap- pears as the friend of every capital- ist group which setks to escape from taxation or payment to the government of money illegally taken from the government. And the whole story about Daugh- erty is not yet in the open. Daugh- erty’s labor spy system has not yet been investigated by the Senate committee. age of the Burns Detective Agency, the head of which is the man whom Daugherty appointed in charge of the Bureau of Investigation, is not yet in the open. Even the Senate committee, head- ed by progressives, refused to delve into the labor spy system and the use of private detectives and gov- ernment agents against the workers in their struggle to secure better things from the capitalist class. Not only Daugherty has been tarred by the exposures. testimony before the Senate commit- tee, to have used his position in charge of American relief work in Europe, for counter-revolutionary pur- poses. Just as Hoover, as a member of the Coolidge Cabinet today is us- ing his office to fight the battles of| the capitalists against the farmers and workers, so Hoover as. head of the American relief work, used his re- sources, used money appropriated to feed starving people, to fight the workers’ government in Hungary and in Russia. The Senate committee refuses to permit the whole story of Hoover's efforts to overthrow the Soviet Govern- ernment of Hungary and the Soviet Government of Russia—workers’ anu Workers and Farmers Unite for May Day At Newark, N. J. NEWARK, N. J., April 25.—Essex County workers and farmers will join the May Day celebration to be given in Newark on Thursday, May 1, at 8 p.m. in the Labor Lyceum, 704 South 14th street. Speakers will address the assem- bled workers on May Day subjects, impressing upon the audience the sig- nificance of the day to class-conscious workers the world over. There will a Mediterranean with French officials onierely up to him. 1 go to London. be group singing and special musical numbers to complete the program. All workers of the city and country are given cordial invitations to attend this splendid meeting, The system of espion- | Hoover,.she great} philanthropist, has been shown, by| THE WORKERS PARTY OF Z... farmers’ governments—to be told to ducers the products of their toil and the American people, give it to the exploiters. The workers and farmers of» this | |country should demand that the whole | {system of corruption and __ bribery} {shall be brought into the light of day. | |Let the Senate investigate Daugh jty’s antilabor activity as well 2 |corrupt practices. Let the S |committee investigate Hoover ter-revolutionary work under |guise of philanthropy. workers and farmers can end the orgy of corruption and bribery, the use of the governmental power a- gainst workers and farmers who | Struggle for more of what they pro- | duce thru their toil, is by their es- tablishing a workers’ and farmers’ government in place of the present capitalist government. The way to. the attainment of that aim is thru the function of a Farmer- Labor Party to fight the class battles, of the industrial workers and the ex- ploited farm: The indust workers and exploit- ed farmers must organize their pol- itical strength separately from all other groups. They cannot expect that the capitalist will fight their battles. They, cannot expect that the small bus- iness men, or professional men, or well-to-do farmers will fight their bat- tles. They cannot expect that a party Wealth’ of SAUimpdntty |of capitalist or a party of small busin- What every farmer and workér/ess men and professional and well-to- Should ‘learn from the exposures at do farmers will fight their battles. |Washington is that the whole cap-|The only party which will fight their jitalist and the capitalist class exist! battles is a Party which is made up for the purpose of taking from the/of industrial workers and exploited producers what they create thru their farmers. | toil. They are part of a huge system; On May Day, this year, there is the of,robbery which enriches a few and| promise of the foundation of such a |leaves to the. many the bare necessi- Party. Hundreds of thousands of in- | | coun-| the The workers jand farmers should demand that the whole story be told. | The corruption and bribery in Washington is not a new story in | American history. What is new is that the workers and farmers are shown clearly that the whole gov- | ernmental machinery is in the hands of the enemy; that the Rep- publican and Democratic parties are merely instruments of their enemy | for the purpose of looting the farm- ers and workers who produce the ties of life. dustrial workers and farmers have It is this system of robbery and ex-|jearned the lesson that the Republican ploitation which the peasants and/and Democratic Parties are the en- workers of Russia have overthrown.|emies and that the two Parties sup- It is the government which maintains port the system which robs them of and sustains this system of robbery|the products of their toil. and exploitation which the peasants The: hundreds of thousands of and workers of Russia have got rid| farmers and industrial workers are of. They have built in its place their moving forward to the foundation own workers’ and peasants’ govern-| of a mass, class Farmer-Labor ment, and are using the power of that Party. They are preparing to stand government to build a new social] on their own feet politically and to order which will take from the pro- fight their own political battles a- The only way that the American | POLICE. OBEY COMMAND OF PULLMAN CO. (But Canvass Strikers’ Homes in Vain Striking car workers of the Pullman Corhpany are not only holding their lines intact but adding new recruits to their ranks in spite of the activities of uniformed police in soliciting workers to return to their jobs. The Pullman bosses have sent out the city police to canvass the workers’ homes and attempt to persuade or intimidate them into returning to their jobs. The police obediently invaded the homes of the riveters, buckers, heat ers and other workers striking, tried to ingratiate themselves and then in- sisted that the men go back to work. The police made no offers of the ;Pullman Company’s surrender to any \of the demands of the striking work- ers. Nothing but browbeating meth- ods were used when the workers failed to respond to the hypocritical |“frendliness’ of the police, Another trick some of the uni- formed men tried was asking for a drink from some worker in the hope that they could threaten arrest for vi- olation of the prohibition law, if the worker would refuse to go back to work. None of the strikers fell for |these old gags of the officers. Police Increase in Number. The police are increasing in num- |ber from day to day in the strike }zone. Yesterday morning found a |great array of the bluecoats on the picket lines. Many of them Paraded in cars Soap with CS a down the liné. Advertisements for riveters, buck- ers, heaters and reamers for the Pull- man Company were carried in the |Chicago dailies without mention of |strike conditions. A number of work- ‘ : pee }men applied at the company’s em- | gainst every group in capitalist soc- | 11,.ment office, 110th street and Cot- ey. |tage Grove avenue, but most of the | This is the most inspiring message|men were approached either before or of May Day this year. The organiza-| after reaching the employment super- tion of a, mass, Farmer-Labor Party|intendent and told that a strike was and a militant struggle against the| on, |capitalist parties by such a mass) DAILY WORKER Aids Pickets. |Farmer Labor Party means the great-| The DAILY WORKER reporter and est step forward that the workers and | the circulation manager were active in farmers. of this country will have| turning away unwitting “scabs.” Most made. of the men refused to work against There can only be one end to such*their fellows by going on the job, a struggle. Workers and farmers of altho some of the applicants were this country must wrest control of the|very hard up or broke. DAILY government from the hands of the WORKER men gave a couple of ex- captalist class. They must oust not/coal miners from Pennsylvania the only the Daughertys, Hoovers, Cool- news of the strike when the men ap- idges, but the whole crew of capitalist | plied and gave them lunch money aft- | Politicians from every. vestige of con-|er discovering that the former miners trol of government and end the gov-| had no money left. ernment for, by and in the interests} Two other departments in the Pull- of the capitalist clas. man shops came out for the first time The struggle of the Farmer-Labor | Yesterday. The broad finishers and |Party must be the Farmers’ and|the battery makers came up to the | Workers’ government. |strike meeting and joined the union | May Day this year, holds great pro-|#t once. |mise of the achievment of the first} The union had run out of applica- |great stride forward. tions the previous day, but yesterday | Let us build the mass, class Farmer|*!! who had not joined entered the junion. The strikers are now organ- \ized practically 100 per cent. Strikers voted to buy 1,000 copies of this issue of the DAILY WORKER jand took up a collection to make pay- jment. They are glad to know they have a working class paper in which | | TEAPOT DOME! they can follow f: M 3 pit ae y rom day to day the FORWARD TO THE WORKERS) progress of their fight .against the |AND FARMERS GOVERNMENT! Pullman monopoly. FORWARD TO THE NEW INDUS-| Jack McCarthy, circulation TRIAL ORDER—WHICH WILL IN-| ager of the DAILY WORKER, and SURE “LIFE, LIBERTY AND HAP-| Karl Reeve, reporter for the paper, INESS TO THE PRODUCERS OF| both addressed the strikers. Mo WEALTH IN THIS COUNTRY.” | Carthy pleaded with the men to organ- Central Executive Committee. ize with John Holmgren in the Broth- WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA| erhood of Railway Carmen. Wm. Z. Foster, Chairman McCarthy said that the DAILY ©. E. Ruthenberg, WORKER is 100 per cent a working Executive Secretary (Continued On Page Two) D a E. | Labor Party. Let us throw all the strength of the | workers and farmers into the struggle | |for the workers’ and farmers’ govern- | ment. DOWN WITH THE CAPITALIST WALL STREET SO SURE OF COOLIDGE IT REFUSES TO BET ON NOMINATION ANOTHER MILLIONAIRE SLAYER FIGURING ON | CHEATING PUNISHMENT | Ralph C. Richardson, stepson of Thomas E. Wilce, millionnaire |um- berman, appealed from the decision of a jury in Judge Hosea Wells’ court, which found him guilty of manslaughter. Richardson was the driver of a car which ran down and killed 7-year-old Dorothy Marguerite Joyce and injured her mother some- ed on Wall street, brokers say, Waiters’ Union Opposes Tips. SAN FRANCISCO, San Francisco Waiters’ union erty on $10,000 bonds, next Tuesday. Richardson is at lib- | scale to remain as at present. 2) alae Sle NEW YORK, April 25.—So sure is everyone that President Coolidge will be the unanimous choice of the Rep- ublican Conyention, betting has ceas- April 25.—The per cent to 10 per cent; the wage \Farm Bill Holds‘ Up pare alee a || GOW'S MILK USED 10 Considera of Child | °MMabor Amendment || FIRE LOCOMOTIVE NOT TO FEED CHILDREN | WASHINGTON,— April 25.— Unex- pectedly delayed by protracted con- sideration of the Agriculture Appro- raat A of priation bill, the Child Labor constitu- Dried cow's milk is good locomo- tive fuel. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, Health Commissioner of Chicago, tional amendment was debated by the House today with the prospect a vote supplied the proof yesterday by op. erating a train for twenty miles. would not be reached until late to- morrow. with blocks of dried milk the only fuel . The amendment would empower Congress to regulate or forbid employ- : The locomotive pulled the train ¢ ment of persons under 18 years of sug: | age. five cars carrying more than weeks ago. gests instead to the employers a Opposition to the amendment cent-| pai ngers, mostly children from the Judge Wells has set the case for graduated service charge, from 20|ered today about the argument that) Chicago Home for Friendiess Chil. aay: however meritorious child labor re- dren and the Chi fe] -|sulation should be left to the states, pes 9 lum ~