The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 6, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 42. SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. Outside Chicago, In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. by mail, $6.00 per year. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1924 cote 290 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. ae SIRE ANE STAR Ate TONS —— Workers! Farmers! Demand: 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 U. S. AIDED ANTI-SOVIET WAR Communists Score Big Victory In Germany BOLSHEVIKS WIN 60 SEATS IN ELECTION GermanLefts Quadruple Power In Reichstag (Special to The Daily Worker; BERLIN, May 5.—Defeat of some of the features of the More gan-Dawes plan is seen as the result of the German elections Sunday in which Communists and anti- Dawes nationalists made gains and the coalition forces lost many seats. While the Marx-Stresemann government has a majority of seats it will be unable to muster the two-thirds vote to put thru the railroad amendment neces- sary to the transferring of the government transportation sys- tem to private interests. An Anti-Labor Coalition. There is even doubt whether the| other proposals can be put thru. The various parties in the coalition gov- ernment are at variance with each other over details. They are united by their fear of the proletariat rather than by a common program. The latest tabulations give Com- munists 60 seats, tripling their power since the last election; Socialists 98, a loss-of nearly half their seats; na- tionalists 80. Socialist Losses, For the Marx-Stresemann coalition the returns. give Reichstag seats as follows: Folkepulei, 35; democrats, 30; centrists, 61; folkists, 33; Han- overaner, 4, and The undecided Bavari- an folks, 20, The losses of the socialists were just as marked as the gains of the Communists. Communist Growth Terrifying. “Terrifying growth of the Commun- ists,” as the Marx-Stresemann govern- ment calls it, is the outstanding fea- ture of the Sunday elections now be- ing tabulated. Sixty Reichstag seats were won by the revoltitionary party in spite of Fascisti repression in the industrial districts. The Communist victories —on a revolutionary campaign—por- tend a tremendous revolutionary sen- timent among the workers. 7 Big Socialist Losses. While the Communist strength jumped ‘from three to sixty, the So- clalist party fell from 180 to 84, the latter figure representing Social Dem- ocrats and Independents. Communist growth came from the industrial workers largely and is looked on gloomily by commercial leaders of Gerrhany and by diplomatic representatives of France, America and other nations supporting the Dawes plan. It is feared by the Entente repre- sentatives that the finai,cial stability) that is needed to put thru the steady collections from Germany that the Dawes’ plan calls for, will be marred by the unrestful condition indicated by the Communist growth. Communist Enthusiasm. Communist enthusiasm election day brought disquiet to these conserva- tives. In Berlin, where Frau Ruth Fischer and Emil Eichhorn, were elected with other Communists, the revolutionists came in force to the polling places to prevent election frauds, they announced. In many industrial towns of Sax- ony, the Communists were practical- ly in control. The Marx coalition government is on a frailer foundation than before. Its 260 seats are distributed among So- clalists, Democrats, Catholics and People’s party, with many points of difference between them, united only by their weakness, fear and hatred of the Communists. On the other hand the opposition, consisting of 180 votes, is at swords’ points between itself. The Commun- ists have nothing in common witli the reactionary nationalists or the Fas- cisti. But the Communists are a dis- ciplined block with a definite revo- lutionary program and have the back- ing of Communist parties of the world in their official proposals. How many ef your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER, Get one of them to subscribe today, PULLMAN STRIKE SPREADS! GARMENT CONVENTION GREETS STRIKERS BUT SIGMAN ATTACKS EXPELLED LEFT WING MILITANTS (Special to the BOSTON, May 5.—With a Daily Worker) burst of applause the delegates to the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union assembling in convention today sent a telegram of cheer and greetings to the Chicago strikers. The telegram of greetings.followed a parade thru the streets SOAR RLS FOE a TS | of Boston. 28 STRIKERS TAKE A LOOK AT “DENNIE”-TODAY Victory Indicated By Split In Association Twenty-eight garment strikers walked into Judge “Dennie” Sullivan’s courtroom this morning to see what the old fellow had to say about their right to walk the streets. The strikers are facing the injunc- tion judge with confidence. Fresh in their mind is the fact that one of the leaders in the bosses’ association and one of the first bosses to get an injunction had to sign a union agree- ment the other day. Strikers say that Hymen’s former associates in the Chicago Dressmak- ers’ Manufacturers’ organization will’ have to give up their open stiop ideas if they want to get ready for the sum- mer rush. Some of the sttikers have been car- rying on useful educational work among their fellow workers against the overtime evil. They are pointing out that unem- ployment prevails in the garment in- dustry and that as long as a single worker is out of a job overtime is treason to the working class. As strikers return to work in settled shops they are more and more refus- ing to work overtime. MINNESOTA MEN PULLING STRONG FOR JUNE 17TH F crrnerdinhosites Say June Meet Is Right By NORMAN TALLENTIRE. saree! to The Daily Worker) HIBBING, Min., May 5.—'l'wo hun- dred enthusiastic Farmer-Laborites, representing all sections of the Eighth congressional district of Minnesota, met in Masonic Hall, North Hibbing, yesterday and unanimously indorsed the June 17 convention to be held in St. Paul. The action followed a statement by William Mahoney, chairman of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation, showing the relative merits of the June and July conventions. Mahoney clearly stated the objections of cer- tain Minnesota representatives to the June convention. Nevertheless the delegates were firm in their support of June 17, and the opinion was freely expressed that in this instance the men of Washing- ton were wrong and the judgment of the Farmer-Labor movement in Min- nesota was correct. It was reported to the meeting that the Benton county convention has also indorsed June 17 in its session yesterday afternoon, KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 5.—Forty thousand coal miners in the southwest on strike since April 1st, returned to their jobs today under a wage agree- ment reached by a joint committe: of operators and miners, Saturday night. The agreement provides for renew- al of the 1923 wage scale for three The police allowed the paraders to carry no slogans but when the march ended Mayor James Curley presented the keys of the city to the dele- gates whom he wants to line up for Al Smith. Sigman Attacks Militants. In contrast to the spirit of solidar- ity shown by the delegates, President Sigman, in his opening speech, launched into a bitter attack on the left wingers, characterizing their ac- tions as treason and thanking God for the wisdom of the general executive board, which sustained their expul- sion. The issue of the expelled militants has swamped every other issue be- fore the convention, Every one is talking about it. Over forty delegates have been contested, the interna- tional’s machine planning to retain power. by disfranchising duly elected (Continued on Page 2.) FOOD ERS’ ‘STRIKE GAINS ;Call Big Mass Meeting 1 For Wednesday Night Amalgamated Food Workers are confident of victory in their fight to organize the Greek restaurants of Chicago and smash the 12 to 14-hour day and the seven-hour week. Two restaurants have already signed the union terms, said Organ- izer John Stewart of the Amalgamat- ed. They are the “Vivian,” at 2346 Lawrence avenue, and the “Cosy Lunch,” at 2426 Lincoln avenue. The strike is expected to spread this morning to four more restau- rants, and Stewart believes that the movement started May. Day will shortly change the entire face of the Greek restaurant industry, which has been entirely unorganized until now. Daily Worker Girls Picket. Active picketing is going on in the four struck restaurants in the north end of Chicago—the Pomeroy, at 1120 Argyle street; the Elroy, at Lawrence avenue and the “L”; the Carvell’s, 1149 Wilson avenue, and the Elite, 1037 Wilson avenue. The Greek Federation of the Work- ers Party has been assisting in the picketing, supplying pickets from vis- itors from out of town who were here at a party conference. Girl pickets from the office of the DAILY WORKER took active strike work on also, The DAILY WORKER picket front is now running from Pull- man on the South Side to the struck restaurants on the North. Mass Meetings Tomorrow. Six arrests of pickets have been made to date. The last one, Monday, was of John Colvas. All demand jury trials when arraigned in the Sheffield avenue station. Tomorrow night a big mass meeting of strikers will be held at the union headquarters at 214 N. State st., at which many of the thousands of unor- ganized workers in Greek restaurants will be present. Oil Doesn't Bother Texans. DALLAS, Tex., May. 5.—Returns to-| 41, day from Texas precinct conventions WELDERS AND BENCHMEN IN NEW REVOLT Workers Do Not Fear Lockout Threats Welders and bench-finishers walked out of the Pullman plant in a unit yesterday and joined the strike of the riveters, buck- ers, reamers and heaters. Some of the inside finishers have been laid off and they de- clare that there has been almost no work for the past two weeks. Plan General Lockout. The Officials of the Pullman Com- pany are seriously concerned about stopping the spread of the strike, and, according to the report of one of the general foremen to pickets, the offi- cials have practically decided that a general Jockout and shutdown is the only way for them to smash the union and get their men back. The foreman said that the strike was 100 per cent effective, and not a car had left the plant. He told pick- ets that the company officials consid- ered at eeks’ lockout would bring all the men back at the reduced wages. j Help the Strike. ‘ket line re- mat Orta men, if actually called by the officials, would help their strike more than hinder it; that it was only a question of time until the wages of the men in other departments would have been cut and forced them into active bat- tle. Max Shachtman, editor of the Young Worker, spoke so well at the strike meeting yesterday morning that he was invited to come again. He pleaded for the men to organize in the Brotherhood of Railway Car- men, urged mass picketing, told of the speed-up effects of the sweatshops of New York's garment industry, and emphasized that the men are in the battle and must keep their picket line strong. , He said a sentry is shot if he is found asleep, but a picket commits suicide as far as the strike is con- cerned, if he sleeps on the job. Johannsen and Clay Speak. The DAILY WORKER was men- tioned as one of the things the strik- ers could rely on in their fight against the Pullman Company, when Anton Johannsen of the Chicago Federation of Labor spoke to the’ meeting. John Clay, of the Teamsters’ Union, also addressed the men. Misled workers from Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and other towns attended the strike meeting and joined the picket line. They told the strikers that nothing is doing in- side. They said the only work that is going on is the boring out of rivets put in by unskilled scabs. Pick More Active. The pickets were more active than ever yesterday, and in addition to pa- trolling about the Pullman works met the trains coming in and warned pros- pective workers of the strike. A new delegation of workers was scheduled (Continued on page 2) COME TO ST. PAUL By ALEXANDER HOWAT convention ever held in this country, and the The most important in’ which the workers .have the ‘greatest opportunity to mobil- ize their strength, and to demon- strate their real power, will meet in the city of St. Paul on June 17. The convention to which I refer will be composed of men and women r&pre- senting all that is real in the great movement of farmers and workers for the formation of a nation-wide farmer-labor party. The convention will be an expression of the masses who are dissatisfied with both of the two old political parties, the masses whose eyes have been opened by a long succession of po- litical and economic events crowned by the most recent terrific expo- sures of the crooked work of the highest government officials of both the Republican and the Democratic «parties. The recent exposures have aroused the people of toil as they have never been aroused before. Now more than ever before they can understand that there is no hope for the toilers who produce the nation’s wealth as long as the great financialinterests of the coun- try own and control both of the two old parties. Now they can more readily understand that which has been true for many years—that the big financial interests centrol both of the dominant political parties. I believe that we should unite, in this coming convention at St. Paul on June 17, all of the forces of the farmer-labor movement. Let us no longer be’ slaves to the scheming politicians who represent the en- emies of our kind. The convention of farmers and workers on June 17 is the golden opportunity for the workers of the city and the toilers of the farm to asert themselves in- a tly, of the 8 which ex- Years cf experience have clearly shown that the two old parties, al- ternating in power, but serving the same masters, are keeping the working class in poverty and misery. We are denied our rights of Ameri- can citizens. There is no justice for the poor under the present sys- tem. The courts are used against the workers and in the interest of the employing class. The power of the government has always been used to assist the rich against the poor, and it will continue so to be used as long as the employing class sits secure in political power. It is to be hoped that labor from all parts of the nation will rally to the cause with delegations which truly represent them in this most impor- tant gathering. The convention bids fair to go down in histery as mark- ing the beginning of a new day for the men and women who earn their living by the sweat of their brow. The great Farmer-Labor Party, uniting all of the serious elemnets of the farmer-labor movement now ex- isting in this country—the great party which we hope will come out of this convention—will stand for those principles upon which many had fondly thought this American republic was originally founded, tho their eyes have been widely opened in recent times in that re- spect. The call for the St. Paul conven- tion flames as a beacon light, streaming its golden rays down the otherwise darkened pathway of the future. Let it be the brilliant light on the road that leads to final eman- cipation of the workers of this en- tire nation. Let us all join hands and make this convention of the farmers and workers on June 17 a grand and glorious success. one OIL AND STEEL MOST POWERFUL ELEMENTS IN FINANCIAL SUPERST ATE. SAYS FRENCH WOMAN AT PEACE MEET | to The (Sp Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 4.—International financiers were roundly denounc- ed as the real causes of wars by speakers at the congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom which was devoted to a discus- sjon of the economic aspects of the new international order. showed William Gibbs McAdoo lead-|superstate of oil is already starting ing Senator Underwood by four to one lrriction between the United States for Texas’ choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. Governor and England” and that the struggle Pat M. Neff was running a poor third, |between France and Germany for the Booze Pact ined by King. Ruhr is really a battle of two inter- national industrial groups for control LONDON, May 5.—King George has |of its steel. signed the 12-mile treaty agreement The recent revolution in Mexico with the United States, and Great|was laid by Mme. Dumont at the doors Britain is ready to exchange ratifica-|of the Royal Dutch Shell and Stan- tions, it was learned today. ite dard Oil Companies. Oil and steel groups are the most powerful elements in the financial perstate which controls the political movements of all nations, Mme Mar- guerite Dumont of France told the congress. Madam Dumont said that the Frau Yella Hertaka of Austria urged that the small tradesmen of the world be reorganized into co-operat- ive bodies to combat the crushing power of the great international financiers, Immediate steps to dissolve “the unholy alliance between cannon and capital” was urged by Miss Emily Balch, representing the American section of the congress. TO KOLCHAK in the Far East. capitalist press. sheets refuse to print. the Reds. you.” ered motor trucks, machine oil, and food supplies gasoline, September, 1919. For the de- livery of these motor trucks and this food, Yudenitch decorated Martin with the cross. of the Order of St. Stanislaus. Captain Martin has consented to NEW FACTS SHOW SUPPORT AND FAILURE IN DRIVE FOR YUDENITCH The DAILY WORKER is today publishing additional correspondence from Washington showing how the United States not only aided the anti-Soviet War thru supporting the Yudenitch armies in Western Europe, but how the gov~ ernment also gave aid to the Kolchak attack on the Soviets These startling facts have found no place in the daily It is the kind of news that the employers’ These are the facts that show the United States did not enter the world war to “make the world safe for democracy” but that the sole object of the Washington-Wall Street alliance during and after the war was to make the United States the strongest imperialist power on the face of the earth. Read and be convinced: AHOOVER ATTACK THAT FAILED (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 5.—“You’d have American in Europe, if this thing had gone over; it was just your hard luck that stopped the success of Yudenitch and the fall of If you had won, nothing would have been too good for been the biggest This was the view of Capt. James V. Martin’s aid to Yuden- itch, expressed to him in Helsingfors by Thornwell Haynes, Amer- ican special commissioner, according to Capt. Martin, who com- manded the Shipping Board vessel “Lake Fray’’ when she deliv- to Yudenitch in Reval, early in | details of S | tell the readers of The DAILY WORK- ER, in an exclusive interview, further the participation of the American Relief Administration, un- der Herbert Hoover, and the United States Shipping Board, and the big business coterie that surrounded Woodrow Wilson during and after the war, in the Yudenitch attack upon (Continued on Page 2.) UNI _ /OF RIFLES AND STATES SOLD BIG LOT ve AMUNITION TO . NOTORIOUS ANTI-SOVIET KOLCHAK By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 5.—Sale of 198,833 rifles and 13,594,026 rounds of ammunition by the American government to Admiral Kolchak under a contract dated July 30, 1919, “for delivery in Siberia,” was disclosed in an official report by Secretary of War Weeks to the Senate, in answer to a resolution asking for prece- dents for his sale of war supplies to Mexico. Not only does Weeks cite the precedent of the sale of rifles and ammunition to Kolchak, but he offers in evidence a letter from Acting Secretary of State War Newton D. Baker, dated July 11,1919, to prove that Pres- ident Wilson knew all about the deal and gave his sanction. Wil- son required, however, that no official recognition of Kolchak should go with the act of supplying him with arms on easy credit. The Senate resofiition of March 20, 1924, asked Weeks for details of the sale of arms to Mexico, and also for copies of all questions he had secured from the law officers of the Govern- ment to justify his action; also “a complete and detailed list of all prece- dents concerning the transfer to for- eign governments, or factions, for money, of arms and munitions of the United States.” Wilson Sanctioned Delivery. Weeks replied that he never re- quested the formal opinion of the law officer of his department in regard to the Mexican sale, and as to prece- dents he submitted a list wihch com- prised only three incidents—a loan of 5,000,000 rounds .of ammunition, dur- ing the Cuban rebellion of 1906 to the firm of Hartley, “under telegraphic instructions from President Roose- velt;” the sale of rifles and artillery by. Austria to the Confederate States of America in 1861, and the following: “July 11 and July 25, 1919, sale un- der contract dated July 30, 1919, to Russia (Kolchak Government) of 198,- 833 rifles and 13,594,026 rounds of am- munition, for delivery in Siberia.” Attached as an exhibit was this let- ter: “State Department, Washington, July 11, 1919. “My dear Mr. Secretary: On June 27, 1919, I asked the Mis- sidn at Paris whether I could assure you and any others concerned, that the announcement to support Kolchak meant that we could work on a credit basis with 10 per cent initial cash payment in putting supplies at the dis- Posal of the Omsk Government.” “Mr. McCormick telegraphed me July 2, 1912, that he had shown my telegram to the President, who saw no objection to our dealing openly Frank L. Polk, to Secretary of with representatives of the Omsk Gov- ernment, nor to the proposed financial arrangements, provided that in both cases there is no formal or diplomatic recognition of the Omsk Government. “I should be very glad if you will let me know what arrangements, if any, you may come to in regard to furnishing supplies to the government of Admiral Kolchak thru Mr. Znamens- ky or any other representative of that government now in this country. I think if we are going to do anything at all it must be soon, “I am enclosing copy of my tele- gram and Mr. McCormick's reply, I am, my dear Mr. Baker, Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Frank L. Polk. “Enclosures: Telegram to the Mis- sion, dated June 27, 1919; telegram from the Mission dated July 1; and telegram from the George Washing: - ton, at sea, dated July 2, 1919.” Anxious to Aid Bandits. The McCormick who was at Prest- dent Wilson's elbow was Vance Mc- Cormick. of Pennsylvania, national committeeman and friend of Mitchell Palmer. In the list of legal opinions dealing with sale of war supplies is one dated July, 1919, holding that arms and mu- nitions acquired prior to the entry of the United States into the war could be sold to others than the Allied gov- ernments. This would appear to have been produced in sympathy with the warning from the State Department's acting chief—“I think if we are going to do anything at all it must be soon.” A list of offers of purchase of Amer- ican was supplies is also given, with this report. It shows that the Russian contract called for delivery of 260,000 rifles—“Russian 7.62," but that only the number quoted above were deliy- ered. The purchase price was $5,552,- 399. A separate sale of 100 denating fuses, for $290, to “Russia” is record- ed for Sept. 25, 1919. No indication is given as to whether these were sup- plied for the blowing up of railway bridges, and stations during the re treat of the Whites in Siberia,