The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 28, 1924, Page 1

, f Ve ¢ | aa Sa-_ | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS' AND “FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 36. SUBSCRIPTION RATES _ Revolt of Housing Victims i ree THE Outside Chicago, May Day Rent Strike Threat Among Hundreds of Chicago Tenants Against Landlords A “rent strike” is the May Day threat of thousands of Chi- cago’s tenants to their grasping landlords if these robbers at- tempt to raise the rents again. Over forty organizations have associated in a Tenants’ League to protest the crushing rise in rentals since 1918. They vow they will not move and that they will not sign leases for rents advanced more than 100 per cent during the last six years. Plan Centralized Organization. Trade unions, Workmen’s Circle branches, Workers Party and Social- ist Party branches, the Jewish Moth- ers’ League, and other organizations are.combining in this threat to the apartment monopolists, The groups are planning a central organization and expect to procure legal aid in their fight. The squeez- ing landlords will be battled right thru the courts. Mass Meeting Wednesday. A mass meeting will be held Wed- nesday evening, april 30, at Venetian Hall on Douglas Park Boulevard at the corner of Ogden and Kedzie. Plans for the Tenants’ League will be com- pleted then and May Day strike tac- ties discussed. Mrs. S. Blumin, Mrs. N. Tatarsky, and Mrs, L. Levin of the Jewish Moth- ers’ League, are actively working for the blow against the landlords. They claim that 3 and 4-room flats whict rented for $18 a month, six years ago, are now. $40 and that the weekly in- come of most of the families in tnese flats is $28 to $35. If the rents are increased again this May, these fami- lies will have to move to poorer plac- es or join the Tenants’ League in pro- test and defense, Check Up on Evictions. Cases of eviction are being checked and will be advertised for propagan- da purposes, Reports of landlords’ negligencies wilt also be recorded and ‘used against rent Taisers, About 100,000 families are moving this May in Chieago because of expir- ing leases. The Northwest side groups want to ward off the excessive ex- pense and ifconvenience of changing residence and have formed their Ten- ants’ League. They claim that rents should not be increased this year be- cause of the extensive building of apartments during the last season. According to J. Ritchie Patterson, in an address before the Women’s City Club, coal is no higher, janitor service no higher, labor no higher, and taxes no higher; so landlords have no reason for being rent-hogs and raising rents now. DAUGHERTY’S CRY OF ‘COMMUNIST PLOT’ FALLS FLAT Grafting Harry Still Must Explain Loot By LAURENCE TQDD. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) WASHINGTON, April 27,—This time the announcement by Harry Daugherty that he has full proof of a “hellish conspiracy” of soviet agents to overthrow the government of the United States, has failed to evoke more than a weary smile in Washing- ton, The first three or four times that this bolshevist menace was discoy- ered by the former attorney-general —on the approach of the railroad shop strike and the anthracite coal strike—he was applauded by a large section of the reactionary press. But now that he is out of office, and uses . this assertion as a defense of his re- fusal to permit the senate to inquire into. the files of the department of justice, he fails to gain any approval. Even the White House is disappoint- ed that he employed so discredited a bogey, “Whére Did You Get That Cash” Senator Brookhart of Iowa, one of the “soviet sympat ” assailed by Daugherty in his Columbus speech, replied: “All his talk of a hellish Com- munist plot does not answer the ques- DETROIT MACHINISTS VOTE TO SEND BIG JEWISH ‘UNION BODY AIDS STRIKE Garment Victory Seen ByI.L.G.W.U. Head Mobilizing of the funds of the trade union movement of Chi- cago for the benefit of the strik- ing garment workers begins this evening when strikers’ commit- tees start their drive on the unions. : The raising of the big strike fund was authorized by the Chicago Federation of Labor and it has the enthusiastic back- ing of the Jewish “Gewerkshaft” or United Hebrew Trades, which has between 30 and 40 affiliated local unions in the Chicago district. Hebrew Trades Help Eagerly. The “Gewerkschaft” voted unanim- ously to support the strike at its meet- ing when Vice President Meyer Perl- stein of the International Ladies Gar- ment Workers, Union laid the-dress-. lakers cause before them. Speakers from the Jewish organization will ac- company strikers’ delegates on the rounds to all of the Gewerkschaft locals and it is expected that thous- ands of badly needed dollars will be speedily raised for the fight on South Market street. “We are going to win this strike,” Morris Rappaport, secretary of the Chicago Joint Board enthusiastically told the DAILY WORKER yesterday. With support from the Chicago labor movement and from the International we .can finance the strike right thru the dull season until the Summer rush.” Visiting All Unions. Anton Johannsen, chairman of the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, has laid out a sched- ule of Chicago trade union meetings and it is planned to cover every one of these meetings with speakers from the ranks of the strikers. Checks for $10,000 each were receiv- ed from the cloakmakers’ local earlier in the strike and from the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers—the last union not connected with the Federa- tion of. Labor. The drive this week will be for the purpose of coining the sympathetic expressions of Federation unionists into something that will pay strike benefits and legal expenses en- tailed by the injunction persecution. The strikers are hopeful that sub- stantial contributions will be made by building trades’ locals. Building trades workers have been enjoying higher wages than most trade unionists and it is believed that when committees of girl strikers face them and tell them the dramatic story of the strug- gle with “sluggers” and police on So. Market street that they will aid gener- rously. 43 Ihjunction Cases Wednesday. The injunction cases are coming to a head this week. Next Wednesday 43 cases: come before Judge Charles F. Foell in Superior Court. All the evidencé has been heard in thirtee. of these cases and they are waiting to see whether Foell will follow in the footsteps of Sullivan and inflict jail and fine sentences, or whether he will realize the indignation of the workers at this unconstitutional overriding of their right to walk the streets and dis- miss the cases. So far Foell has been scolding the girls brought before him, declaring that they nad no right to picket— (Continued on Page Two) DELEGATE TO ST. PAUL, JUNE 17TH (Special to The Daily Worker’ DETROIT, Mich, national Association second meeting In May. A committee expenses of delegts 2 April 27.—At a ular pe of Lodge 82, Inter- of Machinists, it was d to rasta the June 17th convention at St. Paul. led to send a delegate to The delegate will be elected at the was appointed te ralee funds to defray In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. i Reni by mail, $6.00 per year. mS SSR aU S DAILY WORKER Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Fereign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents | | “The workers’ Flag is deepest r And ere their limbs grew stiff cold Their life blood dyed its ev fold.” HOLLAND WILL YIELD TO GET RUSS TRADE AMSTERDAM, April 27.—Holland will grant de jure recognition to Russia within a short time, it was forecast authoritatively here Thurs- day. Russia, according to this in- formation, has made recognition by the Dutch government a condition for resumption of commercial rela- tions between the two nations, and Holland has agreed. Negotiations between Dutch and Russian representatives will be re- sumed forthwith in Berlin. SCOTTISH LABOR M.P.’S THREATEN DIRECT ACTION Roused Over Weak-knee Policy On Evictions LONDON—David Kirkwood, one of the Clyde left wing members of the Independent Labor Party, who is as fhuch of a thorn in the side of Ram- say MacDonald as in the anatomy of the British ruling class threw another bombshell into the dove cote of labor imperialists and class collaboration- ists, when he denounced the gov- ernment for the provision of its Rents Bill which would place the burden of granting relief to prevent the eviction of tenants on the shoulders of the local authorities. » Kirkwood declared the should be a-national charge. nuing he said: “They are not going to get round about us in this fashion. The time has come for the Labour Party to prove to the tenants, particularly in Scotland, that it is going to be of some use to the people who fear burden Conti? It shrouded oft our honored dead; ‘ed, and ery PULLMAN CO. Join Walkout The steel cabinet workers in the Pullman Car shops, one of the largest and most important departments in the Pullman plant, will strike with the buck- ers, fitters, reamers, riveters, and heaters unless their wage demands are accepted by the Pullman officials. Three hundred men, the en- tire force of the department, signed the demands presented to the Pullman officials Satur- day, that the recent wage cuts be abolished and the old wake scale restored. Many of e brass finishers, wood cabinet makers, and battery repair men also joined the strikers Satur- day. (Continued On Page Two) DAILY WORKER NOW TO BE HAD THRUOUT THE STEEL DISTRICT Here is good news for the work- ‘8 thruout the steel district fo the south of Chicago and over the line into Indiana. With this issue THE DAILY WORKER goes on sale on the news- stands in South Chicago, Pullman, Kensington, Calumet and Hege- wisch, on the Illinois side, and in eviction, “Up to this time the tenants might as well have had the Tories in power.” (Opposition ‘laughed, and a Liberal Member: Why?) “Because they have done nothing! replied Mr. Kirkwood. “There were two evictions in my constituency this week,” he proceed- ed, “and I give my word of honour that, if they do not stop evictions, I “| will put the people back into their houses as I have done before; I will defy the law, and my imprisonment will be a greater menace than my be- ing kept on the floor of the House.” “I don't want to break the law. I want to be law-abiding; but I won't stand for my people being thrown jout.on the streets.” Hammond, on the Indiana side of the state line. In addition to the workers in the steel mills, there are tens of thous- ands of workers in other industries, in this far-flung industrial district practically all unorganized, especi- ally the workers in the giant plants of the Portland Cement Co., and the ious oll companies. w inthe above-mentioned cities should help increase the de- mand for the DAILY WORKER. Get subscribers. Get workers to buy the paper on the news stands. Spread it 'ywhere. THE DAILY WORKER will scat- ter the seed that will soon result in the building of giant labor unions , thruout this whole district. CRIPPLE THE 3 More Departments MINERS SEE PRESIDENT ~ FARRINGTON: RIDING © IN A SCAB TAXICAB AUBURN, Ill, April 27.— Altho a bitter battle is raging in Spring- field, Ill, between the union Taxi cab drivers and those of the Yellow Cab Co. Frank Farrington, Presi- dent of the Illinois Miners union patronizes the scab concern. While driving from their homes in Springfield, to attend the.. Sub-Dis- trict convention here, Freeman Thompson and Joe Tumulty, ac- | companied by five other miners, sam Farrington enter the Yellow Ca’b in front of his home on South Grand’ Boulevard. MINERS ENDORSE AMALGAMATION AND LABOR PARTY Sub-District No. 4 Meet Supports Howat By THOMAS MYERSCOUGH, Secretary, Progressive Miners’ Com- mittee. AUBURN, IIL, April 27.—As if in one voice, the “ayes” rang out Friday in favor of both amalgamation and the Farmer-Labor Party at the convention of Sub-district 4, Illinois, in session here. Both measures were ~recom- mended in President Thompson’s re- port to the convention. In Vice President Parry's report is contained a brief review of the Kan- sas situation. A Springfield delegate named McGlennon, who was a Howat supporter before the “marriage” of Lewis and Farrington, arose to oppose the recommendation of Vice President Parry that a special international con- vention be called, Antidote for Poison. McGlennon is an old man whose af- flictions are many, and include deaf- ness and a tendency to assimilate all the poison news distributed by Editor Ellis Searles of the Mine Workers’ Journal. There wi clamor among the delegates for the first opportunity to show Delegate McGlennon how ig- norant he was of the facts in the case. A delegate named Shymamiski used the miners’ journal to quote some of Van Bittner’s “spew” at the recent District 5 convention at Pittsburgh, Pa. This brought Delegate Jones to his feet, and he spared no words in denouncing those who opposed Howat. He stated that he knew Howat well and that he came from the Southwest field, and that as long as Howat lived (Continued on Page Two) (Special to The NEW YORK CITY, April 27. the progress being made by J. Pi peace. $100,000,000 to Germany to help plan then there will be no loan. But the British, Italians and Belgians have already accepted the plan, while France is still holding out for revision. Morgan’s offer is that Amer- ican bankers will subscribe half of the proposed 800,000,000 gold marks ($200,000,000) loan to Germany, if the Dawes scheme is adopted in its entirety, without alter- ations or political modifications, Mr. Morgan, in a two hour confer- ence with Louis Barthou, president of the reparations commission, and Sir John Bradbury, British member, as- sured the reparations officials that an American banking syndicate would subscribe $100,000,000 to the loan. Promises obtained from London indi- cate that an English group will take $75,000,000, leaving the balance of $25,000,000 to be placed in France, Holland, Switzerland, Italy and else- where, Warns Against Changing Plan. These tentative pledges, however, hold good only if the plan immediately becomes operative. Mr. Morgan warned the allied politicians that they must keep their hands off and not shackle the experts’ businesslike ar- |rangements with political or military |considerations or interfere with the German government’s complete sover- eignty-inside-its-territory so German industry can be made to produce the |greatest possible output and be able | to compete favorably,in foreign trade. | The’ sharp contrast in the tenor of |the French and British, Belgian and Italian replies idicates the chasm splitting Premier Poincare from the} other allies. The French premier’s communication is almost as long as the other three combined, and whereas Premiers Theunis and Mussolini agree on the experts’ conclusions practically without comment, and while oir Wil- liam Tyrrel points out that there are only three points for the allied gov- ernments to decide on and transmit} to the reparations commission, Pre- mier Poincare insists that the entire reports of the Dawes and McKenna committees, totaling 45,000 words, re- quire rewriting. The letter of Premier Poincare de- mands that the reparations commis- sion proceed to revise the whole re- port. “The governments await the repara- tions commission to take a definitive decison, giving the experts’ report an executive form, as most of the ex- perts’ proposals are written under the form of simple indications, and to complete certain points which the ex- perts left for the commission,” he says, “It is only after the reparations commission has defined these points that it will be able to present its final eonclusion to the governments.” Poincare then objects that “the gov- ernments cannot act usefully until they know exactly what practical re- sult the reparations commission will obtain thru the experts’ plans.” Desires to See German Action. Arguing for a further delay, Pre- mier Poincare continues: “The governments must know what measures the German government has taken for the execution of the deci- sions of the reparations commission. This decision can be taken only after the reparations commission approves of the projects and laws demanded from Germany.” | The French premier then insists | that the allied governments must not be considered on the same footing as Germany. Demands Better Guarantees. Regarding releasing the “French military grip on the Ruhr industry, M. Poincare renews his demand for a larger and surer guarantee than he now holds with the poilus’ bayonets in the Rhineland in exchange for Ger- mperialist Plot Near Completion Morgan Uses $10,000,000 Loan Club to Force Western Europe to Accept His Plan Daily Worker) -—Wall Street is satisfied with erpont Morgan, in Paris, in forc- ing the Morgan-Dawes plan upon the nations of the Versailles The familiar Wall Street-Morgan club, of a loan, in this case her fullfill her obligations under the plan, is being used with good effect. If the big nations of Western Europe refuse to accept the MEAN'S DIARY GONE: BURNS FACES GRILL Loss Aids Crippling of Daugherty Probe WASHINGTON, April 27.— The Senate investigating com- mittee’s searchlight was turned on the mysterious disappear- ance of Gaston B. Means’ fam- ous collection of “little black books.” Without the “minute by min- ute” diary and the documents of the former department of justice agent, upon which much of the case against the former attor- ney general Daugherty has been built. the committee will be seriously hampered. and py méans will be spared, chairman Brookhart said, to recover the missing papers. Means, himself, was to be the first witness of the day, Senator Wheeler, committee prosecutor, said. After he has related the story of the alleged |theft of his documents by a clever ruse by two mysterious strangers claiming to be officials of the Senate, the committee plans to call a Depart- ment of Justice agent. William J. Burns, director of the bureau of investigation, may be called. “CAUTIOUS CAL” IS FACING CRISIS SILENT AS USUAL Immigration, E Bonus Bill, Taxes, Big Action WASHINGTON, April 27.—Decis- ions which will have a bearing on his own political fortunes and on the nation’s economic and political future, will shortly confront President Cool- idge. Congress is preparing to put before him three pieces of legisla- tion, all of which involve tests for Mr. Coolidge. These are the immigration, tax reduction and bonus bills. 1—The President is faced wit pos- sible loss of support in California. and other Pacific coast states should he veto the Japanese exclusion immigra- tion bill. On the other hand, if Mr. Coolidge signs the bill and no other attempt is made by the government to allay Japan's consequent displea- sure, ill-feeling between the United States and Japan may follow. 2.—On the soldiers bonus bill, the issue is stability of the nation’s fin- ances versus the government's oblig- ations to the soliders. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is expected to urge a veto. 3.—The issue involved in the tax bill is regarded as one of insistence upon adoption of the administrations tax-program as against tax relief in some degree of different form. Al- tho the senate finance committee has reported the Mellon program, the measure finally to come from con- gress is expected to be more nearly the compromise measure passed by (Continued on Page Two) the house. STREET CAR MEN IN PITTSBURGH, PA., TAKE STRIKE VOTE TODAY (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 27.—A strike vote of the 3,200 motormen and conductors of the Pittsburgh Railways Co. will be strike vote is favorable the men will go out on May has inform en Monday. If the The traction trust he city council It will not grant the wage increase demanded.