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Page Two PRESIDENT OF CUBA TRIES 10 GO INTO BATTLE Government Anxiou For Peace With Rebels (Special to The Daily Worker) HAVANA, Cuba, May 5.—For the | [LORD BALFOUR TELLS AMERICAN | CAPITALISTS TO FOLLOW BRITISH EXAMPLE IN REDUCING LABOR COSTS By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor). Reduction of American labor costs as the price of success in | meeting foreign competition or else three to four years of industrial | depression is Sir Arthur Balfour’s diagnosis of the industrial situa- | tion in the United States-in an interview given to a leading business |journal. Balfour pointed out that the high protectivve tariff was THE DAILY WORKER first time in the history of Cuba’s in-| impairing America’s ability to sell its products in world trade. “We have nothing to fear from American competition,” he said, ternal troubles and revolutions a president has gone to a front of actual | “« President Zayas has arrived | fighting. at Cienfuegos to inv ally the insurrection. tigate person- the government is very anxious to make peace with the rebels and is! ready to grant amnesty to all rebel forces. Because of the president’s order suspending the two leading papers of Havana, EH] Sol, a morning paper, and El Heraldo, another very influential daily, it is hard to get accurate news. Most of the news sent to the United States so far has passed thru the hands of such agents of the Zayas government as, for example, the high officials of the United Railways of Ha- vana, Meanwhile fighting is proceeding with intensity in several sections of the mountainous country. Federico Laredo Bru, a veteran of the Cuban war of independence, is one of the leaders of the rebels. Aldo Baroni, director of the newspaper El Heraldo, which has recently been very out- spoken in its opposition to the Zayas administration and has been waging a strong propaganda campaign in be- half of an independent Latin-Ameri- can movement as against American ageression, has just been ordered ex- Pelled from the country as “a perni- cious person.” The government is counting on the American stock of ammunition and arms to crush the revolt, if the rebels refuse to surrender. Despite its re- peated statements that the outbreak is insignificant and not widespread, the authorities fear its possible de- velopments. A proclamation just issued by the National Association of Veterans that “the definite hour of action and of sacrifice has come,” is especially dis- quieting to the government. Reserve Battalion of Rail Workers. MILES CITY, Mont., May 5.—A mil- tary reserve battalion of railway men is to be formed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway under the reserve act. The trainmaster ap- pointed commanding officer is receiv- ing applications from ex-service men for vacancies. It is said that} jnot last, adding, certain except in specialized lines such as automobiles. Your cost of production is too high. You have too many luxuries and you pay your labor as much per day as we do per week.” | He declared that the apparent pros- |perity of American industry would “You are filling the demands of your local markets which, since the war, have been dormant. Your prosperity may continue for |some time—ray 18 months, but not }much longer.” Balfour thinks it will take several years of depression to teach America the remedy. In England, he said, they experienced just such a trade paralysis and are just beginning to wake up to the fact that the only remedy is to cut labor costs. eee This is a clear forecast of what la- bor has to expect from the capitalist fight for world markets. Successive reductions in British wages have brought many primary producers to a level scarcely 50 per cent above pre-war while the cost of living ranges about 80 per cent above that level. In other words, the pre-war standard of living of the British working class has been seriously impaired. Pi ee This impairment of the wage earn- er’s living standard in the interest of a commercial empire is nothing new to British history. Frank Vanderlip, former president of the National City Bank, in his book, “What Happened to Europe,” describes the stunted pop- ulation of English manufacturing centers as due to the “red ink over- draft” which British industry has made on its physique of her citizens in order to compete for foreign mar- kets. Balfour expects this fatal policy to move across the Atlantic to the Unit- ed States where previously the sacri- fice of working class well-being has been in the interest of building domes- tic industrial capacity to a point where foreign markets became a necessity. And as Balfour is presi- dent of the Associated British cham- bers as well as manager of one of England’s foremost tool steel works, his analysis merits consideration. Negroes Are Told They Must Fight For Their Rights (By The Federated Press) BROOKLYN, N, Y., May 5.—You do not pull together and fight for your rights,” Congressman L, C. Dyer, author of the anti-lynching bill, told a mass meeting of Negroes in Brook- lyn, called to protest against curtail- ment of their constitutional rights. Though statistics show lynchings are on the decline because they are bad advertising for the South, “we have no accurate accounts of lynchings,” Wal- ter F. White, secretary, National Assn. for Advancement of Colored People, maintained. About $500 was raised at the meeting for the association. Negroes Step Over Bar, KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 5.—The Ararat Temple of the Shrine attempt- ed to draw the color line at its annual carnival last week. Such a stunt is specially raw since the carnival was located at 15th and Paseo streets, in the heart of the Black Belt, and the residents complain that the noise prevents them from sleeping. The Negroes, after peacefully pro- testing and tendering payment, grew impatient, brushed aside the attend- ants and went in free. They were so sore that they refused to leave till after midnight, and the management did not dare to try to eject them or close, Mines In Bad Shape. BILLINGS, Mont., May 5.—Montana and North Dakota coal mines are in bad shape with no demand for coal, according to District President Joseph Bosone of the miners’ union. In North Dakota only a few small-open shop mines employing two to five men each are in operation. STRIKING MINERS APPEAL TO FEED, CLOTHE FAMILIES 22 Months’ Fight Has Made Need Great OHLEY, W. Va., May 5,—Contribu- tions of . clothing and canned foods are sorely needed here to help the striking miners who have been out against the coal operators for 22 months. Most of the men have large families of children of all ages and are virtually enslaved by the com- pany because ‘of their debts. An appeal has been sent out by the Eastern Committee In the name of the United Mine Workers of America, Lo- cal Union No. 1425, for aid and dona- tions of clothing, shoes, and canned goods, All contributions should be sent directly and immediately to Mr. Bell, Ohley, W. Va., who will see to their equitable distribution among the needy miners’ families, These minefs are striking for de- cent conditions. The coal operators attempt to control every movement of their lives and every move of their families. The men have been strug- gling for nearly two years against un- countable odds and their need is des- perate. Packed Hall Greets May Day Speakers In Warren, Ohio By MRS. TYYNE KUUTTILA. WARREN, Ohio, May 5, — This year’s May Day celebration turned out to be one of the largest mass meetings held here for a long time. The hall was packed with people. ‘The program was very good, includ- ing speeches, poems, songs, and a play named “The Red General.” The main speakers of the evening were Max Lerner of Cleveland and John Karhu of Warren, who spoke in the Finnish language. The Finnish orchestra of the Work- ers Party branch here, furnished the music for the evening and after the nfeeting, played for the dance,’ Many May Day buttons were sold. JAMAICA RACE TRACK, N. Y., May 5.—Harry F. Sinclair's cham- pion Zev was beaten in his first ap- pearance here yesterday by St. James in the feature event of the opening of the local racing season. The race was three-quarters of a mile. Dtinlin was third. ~More Facts About War On Russia (Continued from page 1) Russia. Tells of “Gigantic Conspiracy.” “It happens,” Martin began, “that 1 am the only licensed aviator in the United States who is also a licensed maritime navigating officer. I shall review for you in a separate inter- view the gigantic conspiracy under which the pioneer airmen of the Uni- ted States were shut out of participa- tion in the aircraft building program when the United States went into the war. It is sufficient just now to say that big financial groups drove me out of the country, and stopped my work in France and England after those governments had welcomed my help. I was tired and harrassed, and I came home and took command of a Shipping Board vessel, the Lake Fray, and sailed to Hamburg with one of the first cargoes of flour to reach Ger- Many after the armistice. Then I went down to Bordeaux, and was load- ing a cargo of shells to be returned home, when there came a cable from Amshibo, the code name for the Ship- ping Board, London office, telling me that I was to unload and go into the service of the American Relief Admin- istration, the ARA, carrying supplies from there to Reval. “This astonished and dismayed me, because just at that time I had ae- surances from Mr. Tumulty, secre- tary to President Wilson, that a spe- cial investigation of my aircraft fraud charges was about to be started. Sol protested, pointing out that there were twelve Board vessels in Bor- deaux harbor equally well prepared to go to Reval. It cost $63,000 just to unload the Lake Frey. But the orders stood, and I obeyed, when my request for a transfer was denied. On “Hoover's” Orders. “From Hoover's office in Paris, came the order, brought down by mes- senger, and confirmed by telegraph, that I should load the remaining sup- plies at St. Nazaire and Bassens, and I did so, The telegrams and letters ‘were signed ‘Hoover.’ When further orders arrived, that I take with me Gen. Ernest Wahl and certain other agents of the Russian Northwestern Army, which was the Yudenitch force, as well as Maj. Morse and three’ non- commissioned officers of the Ameri- can air force, I felt that the carrying _ of the Russian soldiers was a viola- tion of international maritime laws, and I appealed to the London office of the Shipping Board for confirma- tion. I took these precautions in or- der to make sure that I was follow- ing the policy of the administration, “My orders from Hoover's Paris of- fice were not merely confirmed by the London office of the Shipping Board; they were amplified. I was instructed ka ‘extend unusual courtesies’ to Gen. Wahl.of the Russian general staff and eertai:+other representatives ‘of the Northwestern army. Moreover, I was ta accept any instructions from Hoov- er. “And so, with the goods aboard, and bills of lading sent down by courier from Paris duly signed, I sailed from Bassens in August, and at the end of that month reached Reval. My Russian guests were treated as well as, was possible, considering the fact that mine was not a passenger ves- sel. Gen. Wahl importuned me to hasten the voyage in order that the motor trucks might be put into ser- vice as quickly as possible. Yuden- itch could not move until he had them. U. S. Trained Yudenitch Men, “The status of Maj. Morse and his subordinates seemed to be that they were on leave, and were loaned to the ARA. They wore their uniforms, and were accepted as army officers. When they reached Reval they took charge of the delivery of the motor trucks and supplies to Yudenitch. working with Gen. Ianoff and Gen, Wahl, The Americans then trained a lot of Yudenitch’s men in the oper- ation and repair of the machines, and in fact, constituted themselves as ex- perts in the motor service of the Yudenitch army until it started into Russia. “All thru this stage of the affair I had listened to Wahl’s requests and urgings of speed. I had taken extra marine hazards in changing my sail- ing course 80 as to arrive sooner than was first expected. I thought I knew the meaning of tne order that I show these Russians special courtesies. For this help I was decorated. I have telegrams from Yudenitch and Ianoff, in Russian and in English, showing that they appreciated my attitude. British Labor Blocks Plot. “But another part of the inter-Al- lied conspiracy to overthrow the So- viet government in Russia had in the meanwhile gone wrong. British air- planes and tanks were to have been furnished by Winston Churchill, and the outcry by British labor had pre- vented his doing this. So it was pro- posed to me that I take a commission to go down to Danzig and buy a lot of German planes and guns, and bring them up to Reval. The money to pay for them was to be sent from England to the Anskilda Bank in Stockholm, and by them transferred to a Berlin bank. “I had to deliver food supplies in Danzig anyhow, and this looked like a good chince to serve the policy of my government. But I wanted to be sure of the policy. I saw Gen, Goff of the British army, who was known in the Baltic region at that time as the spokesman for Allied and Amer- joan policy toward Russia and Ger- many. A Russian colonel came to me with detailed specifications of their needs, and plans for meeting them. ‘vhere was then held a conferenve at which were present Yudenitch, lanoff, the minister of finance and Gen. Goff. The latter was to get the consent of the British government for the Dur. chase of these war supplies .n’Ger- many. Orders to Aid Yudenitch, “Captain Miller, representing the ARA in Reval, confirmed to me the favorable policy of the American gov- ernment toward Yidenitch, as had Wahl and Goff. Besides, I had had specific orders to deliver my original cargo to the Russian Northwestern army. I communicated with Thorn- well Haynes in Helsingfors, and he said: ‘Obviously, your latest orders were to aid this movement.’ “I decided to make the attempt to bring planes to Yudenitch. But I re- served the right, in my correspdn- dence with Ianoff, to cease my activi- ties at any moment that I had in- formation of a reversal of the atti- tude of my government. Gen. Goff'’s naval fleet commander aed me spe- cial permission to go thru to Daniix, and I went. “Everything moved on schedule, as tar as making the purchases was con- cerned, but the money failed to ar- rive, We learned afterward that some of the English banks intrigued to prevent the transmission of the mon- ey from the London bank where it had been placed. I do not know who deposited it there—whether any gov- ernment provided it or whether pri- vate persons found the money. In any case, it did not come, and at last, in desperation, I sailed back to Re- val and reported the fact. Yudenitch Officers Tear Hair, “Yudenitch’s officers tore their hair, when they got into conference. Ca- bles were sent to England. Then it was assured that the cash, $5,000,000, would be forwarded, and again I sail- ed to Danzig, but was held there, Von der Goltz, the German commander whose force was to have assisted Yu- denitch, had suddenly marched against the Letts, and set up a Lat- vian government of his own. The Brit- ish issued an order of blockade, Yu- denitch was forced to move toward Petrograd with such equipment as he had. He got nearly into Petrograd before the Hed army stopped him, and then his troops dissolved. “I sailed to Finland later, and then was ordered to Riga, I got in thru the shallow northern passage, and was under shell fire in the battle across the river there between the Letts and Bermont, the associate of Von der Goltz. Then I proceeded to London. “After I had started to secure the airplanes tor Yudenitch, a report hos- tile to me was sent in by one Leach, who was a sort of spy for the ARA. They proposed to relieve me of my command, and Leach quoted in one report a statement by Gen. Wahl that it would be unsafe for me to re- turn in commana of my ship to testi- fy at any trial of myself. “When I got to London they locked up my crew for a week as tho they were criminals, and after I had been removed from command, I was sum- moned before a special board consist- ing of Capt, Blake and Capt. Scott, Capt. Haynes, chairman, and Ander- son, attorney for the Shipping Board, with representatives of the American embassy, naval and military attaches and lawyers for the army. Just as we were getting under way with the inquiry, a messenger from Wer Minis- ter Winston Churchill arrived, to ask me to meet Churchill at the House of Commons that afternoon. Pemberton Billings, M. P., was Churchill's in- termediary. Churchill the “Brains.” “That message acted like a damper on the proceedings. They adjourned til next morning. I had a long talk vib Churchill, who questioned me as to conditions in the Baltic coun- tries since the fate of the Yudenitch expedition hag been sealed. He was clearly the brains of the whole ven- ture, and he wanted to know why it had failed. “Next morning I went back to my investigation, but the officers were not there. I hunted up one after an- other, but each denied any responsi- bility for the business. They were not interested. It had all been a mis- take. “And that was as far as I got, War on Russia. “Did the American government make war on the Soviet Russian gov- ernment? That is a legal point. Cer- tainly they sent ald to the enemies of the Soviets. And the Finnish army, which waited on the border to move into Russia as soon as Yudenitch had taken Petrograd, stayed out because Yudeniteh did not conquer the ground directly in front of them and ask them to come in as his guests, to ‘ store order.’ If Yudenitch had been able to capture that narrow belt of ground, he would have had 160,000 well-equipped Finns at his disposal, and Finland would have been upheld at Paris and in London in the claim that she had not made war on Ris- sia, but had merely responded to an invitation from the Russian govern- ment of Yudenitch and Kolchak and Denikin, “If that English bank had sent the money, I would have delivered that cargo of airplanes in time, Yudenitch would probably have taken Petrograd. I don’t belleve I would have been call- ed before a board in London.” (Continuped from Page 1}. to arrive on the 5 p. m. train from Davenport, Iowa, and the pickets planned to meet the men as they came in. One of the strikers visited 84 busi- ness men in Pullman and Roseland before 10 a. m. yesterday morning to sell them the DAILY WORKER and inform them of the mass meeting which was held last night. He, and other strikers, encouraged all the business men of the town to come out to the meeting and get the facts of the strike and the causes. John Holmgren, general vice-presi- dent of the carmen’s union, said that the Chicago Federation had promised support to the strikers, offered speak- ers and introductions to local unions to help secure financial aid. A-couple of drunken plain clothes men were seen by the DAILY WORK- ER reporter as they reeled up to a two-seated Ford, Illinois license 80-113, and tax tag 65 from Bolton, Ill, remove two bottles of whisky, drink, and then stagger down the street toward Calumet Lake. One of the employment managers saw the men and remarked to pickets stand- ing near: “Gee drunk!” Pickets were alarmed and thought that the- drunken dicks might start firing indiscriminately. The cops that slugged Sam Green of the Young Workers League were again at their station by the employ- ment office, and tried to discourage the strikers. from picketing there. They crabbed to the men about the account of their dirty beating up and arresting of Green when he had fin- ished selling his papers. Green, Spynow Tried May 8. Sam Green, arrested for “disorder- ly conduct” in front of the employ- ment gate last week, demanded a jury trial, and his case will come up on May 8 with that of Nick Spynow, in the Municipal Court, Branch 38, 8855 Exchange Avenue. Green gave the DAILY WORKER further details of his arrest. “I had been selling pa- pers in front of the employment gate at 110th street,” said Green, “and was calling, ‘Read all about the Pullman strike in the DAILY WORKER.’ Sev- eral machine loads of workers had driven up from St. Louis and from Cleveland, Ohio, and O'Leary, the employment manager, came out and gave them the glad hand. Green Tells of Slugging. “When the men heard me call out about the strike they bought papers, and finding out for the first time there was a strike on, refused to ac- company O’Leary into the plant. I sold these men my last papers, and was standing talking to John Harvey of the Young Workers League. Emil Mertz, plain clothes slugger No. 2077, and Frank O'Keefe, No. 3547, had been sitting in their flivver watching the employment gate, They seemed whiz, those fellows are angered that the DAILY WORKER had turned the out-of-town workers away. The men swooped down on mé and one of them slugged me three times over the head. to make fun of me,’ he yelled. men grabbed me, ‘T'll teach you The pulled me down | Pullman Strike Spreads the street, and took me up toward 115th street. When I demanded to know what they wanted and demand- ed that they show their badges, they slugged me over the head again.” Green’s bail, set at $50, was sup- plied by John Stancik, 205 Hast 115th street. Cowing Gets Fooled. Foreman John has been the most unscrupulous and the most active in trying to break the strike. Cowings has whispered all sorts of rumors and threats tothe men, but they have refused to have anything to do with him. It was Cowings who sent out word to the reamers that they must come back to work and break the strike. He has several times sent word to the men to meet him for a conference, and has tried to induce them to accept the wage cut. Asks Scabs to Perjure Selves. Cowings’ worst trick was “put over” Saturday. Cowings came out and talked to three of the strikers. One of them was cleaning his nails with a penknife. Cowings went back into the shop and spread the story that this striker had drawn a knife and at- tempted to stab him. Cowings tried to impress on three scabs that they General Cowings had witnessed this act. They de- clared they had not. Cowings then told them they would either act as witnesses or lose their scab jobs. When the scabs refused to perjure themselves, Cowings that night fired them, Thus does the Pullman Com- pany bribe its men with fat bonuses to do the dirty work. Scab Goes on Strike. One scab, who admitted to the DAILY WORKER reporter that he had been nothing but a bum, a gang- ster and a cutthrg@at gunman for many years past, declared to the DAILY WORKER that he is out on a strike of his own. “The Pullman Company promised to pay ‘me 85 cents an hour,” said this man, “but when they paid me off I only received 65 cents an hour. My arrangement with the company was that I was not to do any actual riveting, but was to make a lot of noise so that the men outside the plant would lose heart. I would not do their dirty work for less than they promised me, and quit.” Strike Aid for Pickets. Plans have been made by John Holmgren, the strike leader, to visit some of the favorable unions during the coming week, and appeal to them for financial aid to the strikers. Some of the painters and carpenters’ locals will be among the first visited. “Strike aid will be given on the basis of picketing,” Holmgren told the DAILY WORKER. “Every striker has promised to picket the shops and railroad stations, and each one has been assigned a definite time and place to do the picketing. We are planning to pay some of the urgent expenses of these pickets and expect substantial financial aid from organ- ized labor in Chicago.” Union organizations which have been following the progress of the Pullman strike in the DAILY WORK- ER are urged to write the DAILY WORKER stating when they can re- ceive a delegation of the strikers to take up the matter of financial aid. (Continued From Page 1.) , delegates. With a large proportion of the delegates coming from local unions demanding reinstatement, the international is likely to fail. Democratic Politicians. There was some resentment among the delegates at the way President Sigman turned over the convention platform to a Democratic politician. Mayor Curley’s speech was like a Democratic rally. His friends who sat in the.audience boosted him for governor, and Curley in return boost- ed Governor Al Smith of New York for president. Then President Sigman announced that Al Smith would address the con- vention. 2m “REINSTATEMENT” THE ISSUE (By The Federated Press) BOSTON, May 5. — Expulsion of members of the Trade Union Edu- cational league from the union locals by officials of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ union is one of the controversial issues before delegates to the biennial convention of the union in session in Boston. A labor party and alliance with the con- ference for progressive political ac- tion convention in Cleveland; adop- tion of a union label; release of poli- tical prisoners; action against injunc- tions, the Ku Klux Klan, the Fascism are other matters before the conven- tion. Revision of the union's ke, tution has been recommended by the executive board. No Dual Unionism. Charges of dual unionism are de- nied by the expelled members and oth- ers who point to their long and ac- tive membership in the union and their election to joint boards by the rank ard file as proof of their loyalty and value to the I. L. G. W. They charge the officials with conservatism and fear of a militant program for amalgamation, a class labor party, and workers’ control thru the shop delegate plan. Their expulsion was brought about by autocratic methods of the international officials in defi- GARMENT CONVENTION MEETS ance of the rank and file, they claim, N. Y., Phila. Chicago. New York local 22, 1, and 9, Phila- delphia cloak joint board and local 15, and Chicago locals and joint board are listed in the executive -board’s report as important units controlled or part- ly controlled by league members be- fore the expulsions. Of the New York local 22 board of 24 members, 19 were expelled last September. Two Chicago board members were put out in Aug- ust, and later 11 members who led in the protest against that action, When Philadelphia locals 2 and 15 refused to obey the expulsion order, both lo- cals were outlawed by the internation- al officials who formed new locals, The union officials, who maintained last summer that no real bullets were fired at William Z. Foster at the Chi- cago protest-expulsion meeting of garment workers, have modified that stand in their biennial report. They say the shooting is “among the great unsolved mysteries of the age.” Fed- erated Press and Chicago police re- ports stated that bullet holes were visible in the Carmen's hall ceiling. As a substitute for the amalgama- tion program of the T. U. BE. L. a federation of five needle trades unions was started by the I. L. G. W. and Amalgamated Clothing workers last September. The I. L. G. W. officials report to the convention that “noth- ing practical has been accomplished.” Mes 2, May 6, 1924 N.Y, WOMEN WILL PARADE; DEMAND HOUSING RELIEF Want City To Build Houses For Workers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, May 5.—Under the direction of the United Council of Workingclass Women, New York workers’ wives will march on the City Hall, May 17th, in a demonstration parade, demanding that the city build houses and rent them to work- ers at cost. The marchers will as- semble at Rutgers Square at 1:30 p. m. on May 17th and move in forma- tion from there to the City Hall, Over fifty affiliated organizations are supporting the demonstration planned by the United Council of Workingwomen ‘and it is expected that the march will be memorable in the number of participants. Preliminary Meetings Planned, Open air meetings preparatory to the great demonstration, are to be held by the Council, as followg: Wednesday, May 7—Upper East Side and West Side. Friday, May 9—Coney Island and Negro Section in West Harlem. Saturday, May 10—Harlem, York- ville, Williamsburgh and Brownsville. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, May 13, 14, 15, 16— Lower East Side. Speakers will address the residents from trucks at various points en- route and literature will be distrib- uted. The aim of the Council of Workingclass Women and their par- ade will be explained to the women and a call for aid issued. The United Council sent out a reso- -uuon on housing and the demonstra- tion to various labor organizations of New York. The council asked en- dorsement of the resolution and what- ever contributions can be made to help out the work. The resolution is: Resolution Sent for Approval. “Whereas, the rent laws passed in 1920 and the recent extension of these laws have afforded no relief from the intolerable situation in which the workers find themselves, and “Whereas, the tax exemption did not relieve the great mass of work- ers who cannot pay $20 a room in the newly-built tax exempt houses, and “Whereas, the workers are still compelled to live in unsanitary and dangerous fire-traps, “Therefore, be it RESOLVED that we endorse the demand of the Unit- ed Council of Workingclass Women for CITY BUILT HOUSES TO BE RENTED TO WORKERS AT COST, and Be it further resolved, that we heartily support the DEMONSTRA- TION arranged by the United Council of Workingclass Women to be held on Saturday afternoon, May 17th, 1924 in PROTEST to the miserable ~ondi- tions that endanger the morale, health and very life of the workers.” This is to be signed by the name of the organization, date of meeting, place of meeting, number of mem- bers, and approved by the secretary. Contributions should be sent to Kate Gitlow, secretary, United. Coun- cil of Workingclass Women, 125 Fourth Avenue, New York City. In- formation can be obtained at this office between 2 and 4 every day ex- cept Saturday and Sunday. Rent-Hog Bombed; Doubled Rent And Leased To Negroes More drastic action than a strike threat was taken against a greedy South Side landlord Sunday morning, when two of his buildings were bombed. Alexander Rosen, owner of more than 16 apartment buildings on the South Side, confesses that he re- cently bought three Groveland Park butidings and doubled the rents. The irate white tenants raised a ery, but Rosen told them to get out, and he had his agents seek Negro tenants from their crowded district. White neighbors protested. The DAILY WORKER has already pointed out how the white landlords started exploiting the Negroes and how some bourgeois Negro landlords have gone even the whites one bet- ter in exploiting the people of their Race. The situation has come that well-to-do Negro tenants prefer rent- ing from white landlords, who soak them not qufte such exorbitant rents us Negro exploiters. Northwest side tenants are continu- ing their protests in the Renters’ Court, under Judge Samuel Trude. South Side tenants seem to need a similar protective league themselves. HENRY FORD'S CANDIDATE, CALVIN COOLIDGE, THANKS THREE BANKERS FOR GRABBING GERMANY FOR MORGAN WASHINGTON, dent Coolidge today expressed the thanks of the American government and nation to the three private ex- perts who represented the U. S. in the fromulation of the Dawes plan for a settlement of the reparations ques- tion. After visiting Secretary of State Hughes and Secretary of the Treas- May 5, — Presi-)Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Owen D. Young and Henry M. Robinson, called on President Coolidge at the White House, Asked as to the possibility of his en- tering politics to seek the Republi- can nominiation for vice-president or be a permanent chairman of the Re- publican National Convention, Dawes replied: “I am not in politics and I have no ‘ury, Mellon, the American experts, |intention of entering politics,