The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 3

| J | } Thursday, May 15, 1924 SEE FARM-LABOR PARTY AS HOPE OF FOREIGN-BORN Milwaukes Council For St. Paul Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) MILWAUKEBR, May 14+—Enthusias- tic indorsement of the June 17 con- vention at St. Paul has been given by the Milwaukee Council for the Protection of Foreign Born Workers, composed of labor unions and foreign language groups. The council sees a strong political movement by the workers and farm- ers as the greatest weapon against the persecution of foreign born work- ers now being carried on thru immi- gration laws and by other methods. Mass Meeting Coming. At a mass protest meeting, May 28, at West Side Turner hall, 304 Fourth street, against such discriminatory legislation as the Johnson bill, speak- ers in German, Hungarian, Slavic and English will put the Farmer-Labor party case before the workers. Tom O'Flaherty, editor of the Irish People and on the staff of the DAILY WORKER, will be one of the speak- ers. The council's statement, on the Farmer-Labor issue says in part: Urges Farmer-Labor Unity. The council further believes that the best way of combating legisla- tion directed against the foreign born is for native and foreign born workers to organize their political afd industrial power and to fight shoulder to shoulder against the bosses. The executive committee of the Council for Protection of the For- eign Born Workers urges, as the first step in this direction, that all foreign born workers shall join the labor unions in the industry in which they are working, thus fight- ing with the workers who have or- ganized their power against the bosses. A strong organized labor move- ment, embracing native and foreign born workers alike, a strong Farm- er-Labor party to fight the political battles of the workers and farmers —these are the weapons with which the native and foreign born workers must fight to secure better things for themselves. The council urges the affiliated organizations to discuss this ques- tion at their meetings and to con- duct a systematic campaign for ev- ery member joining the union of his industry and to support the devel- oping movement for a Farmer-Labor party to fight the political battles of the workers. EARL SORENSON, Secretary. Farmers’ Insurance Tax-free In Spite Of Big Companies (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14. — Two thousand mutual insurance companies in the farming communities of the country are relieved of a ruinous de- cision by the internal revenue bureau, by an amendment adopted by the sen- ate in the revenue bill at the demand of Sen. Shipstead, Farmer-Labor. This amendment wipes out the phrase “of a purely local character” in the tax- exemption given to farmers’ mutual insurance concerns. The internal revenue bureau, by a ruling that these words meant only companies operating in a single neigh- borhood of a few square miles, had be- gun to collect some 8 years back taxes on the sums assessed by these mutual companies to pay for losses to their members thru fire, hail, tornado and other calamities. The private insur- ance companies were back of the rul- ing, since they expected to drive the mutuals out of business ‘and write hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of insurance at increased rates. In God’s Own Country. SACRAMENTO, Cal., May 14,— There were 343 murders in California in 1923, and 4,358 deaths by accident, many of them industrial; 1,001 persons committed suicide in California last year. THE DAILY WORKER CARDINAL LOGUE OF IRELAND MAINTAINS PRECARIOUS TOEHOLD ON WRONG SIDE OF FREE STATE LINE DUBLIN, May 14.—The struggle between the Free State and the north- ern government over the fixing of the boundary between the twenty-six counties under the southern govern- ment’s jurisdiction and the six coun- ties under Orange rule is growing in intensity. When Lloyd George divid- ed Ireland into two parts and set both fighting each other, he performed a service to the British ruling — class that they should not soon forget. No doubt Mr, George has long ago re- ceived material compensation, tho the fickle voters have consigned him to comparative oblivion, The Irish question no longer is an international thorn in the British im- perial. foot. After the treaty was signed a factional struggle between rival groups of bourgeois nationalists culminated in civil war. When the Republicans were defeated, the ques- tion of the border boundary assumed importance. The British rulers sim- ply say, “The Irish cannot agree among themselves.” The radical Irish workers are not shedding any tears over the fact that the Irish bourgeoisie are disunited. To them @ united front means unity among the workers against the cap- italists, to secure possession of their rightful heritage, the land of Ireland and its wealth-producing machinery. As the Voice of Labor said in a re- cent issue, there will never be a satis- factory solution of the boundary dis- pute until the workers and peasants on both sides of the border are in the saddle, Capitalists Worried. Since the British Labor party as- sumed office, the workers in Belfast have made considerable political gains. This has produced a nervous feeling among the big Belfast capital- ists. Sir James Craig is more afraid of his own exploited wage slaves than he is of Cosgrave and the Catholic south. He could get along much bet- ter with capitalist adherents of the Roman church than with radical workers, who would hang his holiness on the nearest lamppost, provided the latter was without his Fascisti body- guard. It is not surprising therefore to have Craig suggest to President Cos- grave of the Free State that they both meet “as Irishmen,” without “having any Englishmen butting in,” afraid that some progressive British labor- ite might be appointed as the third member of the boundary commission. Since then Sir Robert Borden of Can- ada has been invited, and perhaps Craig’s patriotic Irish heart may in- duce him to compromise on the Ca- nadian. A Reactionary Prelate. The boundary dispute is aggravated by the position in which Cardina) Logue, the Catholic primate gf Ire- land, finds himself in, His palace is in Armagh (being a prince of the church, he must live in a palace, and republican America is learning a lit- tle about papal titles these days), right close to the Protestant cathe- dral, which once belonged to the Ro- man church, but was lost to it when the British rulers changed their re- ligious clothes. The greater part of his flock is in the south of Ireland, but quite a number are in the six counties and are very much at the mercy of the Orange wolves, who not alone interfere with their spiritual rights, but even subject them to phys- ical violence. Cardinal Logue is one of the most reactionary dignitaries fn the most reactionary political-religious institu- tion in the world. He is a dyed-in- the-wool imperialist and was always against the movement for Irish inde- pendence. Today he sides with. the Free State because the interests of his church demand it. No cardinal can be appointed in Ireland without the sanction of the British govern- ment, and since that government granted its first subsidy to Maynooth college, the Roman Catholic semin- ary, in 1845, the Catholic church has been a very efficient police force and information service to Downing street. ¢ Plutes Like Him. In a statement recently issued by the cardinal, he deplored religious strife and pointed to his thrée visits to America, where he was treated more generously by the Protestants than the Catholics. The cardinal has no reason to complain of his treat- DETROIT Workmen’s Co-operative Full Line of Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables k Prices Lowest in City Our Aim To furnish pure, clean and wholesome food to the working class at cost. We pay no dividends or interest on stock or investment. \All surplus goes toward working class educational institutions. Visit our market. 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Even that representation, under the leadership of the reaction- ary imperialist, Thomas Johnson, has simply formed a tame opposition to the Free State government and bogged itself in the mire of compro- mise and class collaboration. But, as the Voice of Labor points out, there must be a new forward move on the part of Irish labor to win back the position occupied by it a few years ago, drop its recently adopt- ed attitude of political parochialism and join the world revolutionary movement for the conquest of power by the workers. Such a labor movement would set- tle the boundary dispute and Cardinal Logue, Sir James Craig and all they stand for. Textile Industry In New England Is In Desperate Condition WASHINGTON, May 14.—Without objection the Senate adopted, within a few minutes, on May 12, the reso- lution ‘by Sen. Walsh of Massachu- setts, calling upon the Tariff Board for information as to the cause of wholesale unemployment in the New England textile industry, and the Smith resolution declaring for imme- diate drastic reduction in freight rates on farm products and supplies. Tex- tiles in Massachusetts are in such desperate condition that even Lodge spoke for the Walsh measure, while Cummins joined Smith—spokesman for the anti-Cummins majority of the interstate commerce committee, in urging the freight rate reduction. The Smith resolution declares agriculture to be a fundamental industry, and as- serts the policy of the government to be one of “fostering” agriculture by reducing freight rates for the revival of agricultural prosperity. Magnus Johnson reported that the price of butter—which is the last re- source of farmers in the northwest— is now tumbling, and more banks will close as a consequence. Negro Moves Into Good Neighborhood; Is Nearly Lynched OAKLAND, Cal., May 14.—It is all right for a Negro to live in West Oak- land—in fact most of the Pullman por- ters on the transcontinental lines have their homes here. But when a Negro tries to buy a home in the fashionable Piedmont district of Oakland, that is another story. Sidney Bearing, a weal- thy colored man, attempted to bring up his family away from slum influ- ences, and had to face a mob of 500 white neighbors who threatened to lynch him. Rescued by the police, Bearing agreed to sell the house he had bought. Small Children Are Exploited By Theatre And Movie Managers NEWARK, N, J., May 14.—Theater managers and dancing teachers are exploiting small children by making them perform at vaudeville and movie shows, according to the Newark Chil- dren’s Aid society and the Profes- signal Women’s club, which are try- ing to restrict the public dancing and singing of small children. WORKER ARRESTED FOR STEALING BOTTLE OF MILK; HANGS HIMSELF (By The Federated Press) WEEHAWKEN, N. J., May 14.— Frank Okonsky was known as a good father and desirable citizen in Wee- hawken, where he worked for years as a longshoreman. He lost his job. He walked the streets but could not find work. His wife and four chil- dren were starving. On a doorstep he saw a bottle of milk and a loaf ot bread and took them home to the hun- gry family. Before he got home, a policeman arrested him. In his cell he hanged himself. BIG BUSINESS TELLS SPOKANE -WHO IS MASTER Vetoes High Schoo! Meet On Centralia Case (Special to The Daily Worker) SPOKANE, Wash., May 14.—After the local board of education had con- sented to allow a lecture on the Cen- tralia case in the Lewis and Clark high school auditorium, the Associated Industries of the Inland Empire set up such a protest that the educational authorities were impelled to rescind their promise. Another hall has been obtained for the Centralia lecture, and the change of location is being widely advertised. Friends of the Centralia defense here see in the Associated Industries’ action the hand of the lumber inter- ests of this state, which largely dom- inate the employers’ association. For four years these interests have been opposing all efforts to prevent dissem- ination of the facts about the Cen- tralia case, in which eight I. W. W. members are serving from 25 to 40 years in prison for defending their lives and property against an Armis- tice Day mob in 1919. The conspiracy to raid the I. W. W. hall in Centralia, all evidence concerning which was suppressed by the trial judge, was in- stigated and directed by F. B. Hub- bard, a lumber magnate. Directors of the Associated Indus- tries of the Inland Empire include J. P. McGoldrick of the McGoldrick Lum- ber Company of Spokane, and F. E. Peters, general contractor. Both of these men have had intimate oppor-) tunity to observe the power of the In- dustrial Workers of the World in or- ganizing the workers in the lumber and construction flelds for better wag- es and improved working conditions. Hundreds of Spokane business men have lately received copies of a pam- phiet entitled, “Eight Men Buried Alive,” issued by the General Defense Committee of Chicago, which quotes affidavits from six jurors in the Cen- tralia case admitting that they were terrorized into convicting the accused industrialists. Auto Slaves Losing Work. (By The Federated Press) DETROIT, May 14.—Continued de- cline in industrial employment in De- roit substantiates the Federated Press prediction of March 15. During the last week the number employed by members of the Detroit Employers’ association decreased by 3,741 to 231,- 617. This marks a total decline of 10,714 below the peak of the year. Part time is increasing with approx- imately 10,000 working a 40-hour in- stead of the normal 50-hour week. The automobile industry reports a falling off in production during April of 12 per cent to 15 per cent as com- pared with March. The production rate is an eighth lower than a year ago. The estimated stocks of unsold ears increased, indicating production running ahead of demand. MYSTERY OF RUSSIAN GOLD THAT UNCLE SAM LET ALLIES STEAL IS PUZZLING WASHINGTON FOLKS By LAURENCE TODD "WASHINGTON, May 14.—Among the items of “justice” dealt over the board at Versailles was a bag of gold taken from the Russian government by imperial Germany at Brest-Litovsk, Article 259, paragraphs 6 and 7, prescribing that all money and evidences of indebtedness given by Russia to Germany under this treaty were to be handed over to be held for disposal by them. This gold amounted to $59,000,- 000 and has since grown to $62,000,000, The United States, Italy and Japan were trustees, along with Britain and France. But the other day, during debate in the chamber of deputies, Premier Poincare disclosed that the whole sum had been divided between France and Britain, And now it ap- pears that the Washington govern- ment knew nothing about this distri- bution, ‘ Stolen From Russia This money belonged to Russia, So did —$340,000,000 which was shipped from Russia to England during the war to bolster up exchange with Amer- fea, The Russo-British negotiations in London are concerned with these deals among others. What Secretary Hughes will do, if the British actually [Teer Ste. Rca fo: Popa Hct to allied and associated powers forecast. He might protest against any settlement between those pow- ers, on the ground that America’s share of the gold has not been re- served to her, eee Coolidge is staging one trick after another, but none of them seems like- ly to do him any good next Novem- ber. His latest is the sanctioning of great military activity, and the as- sumption of total innocence of the vio- lent attacks made on the peace organ- izations by army officers. His local or- gan has even denounced the Women’s Conference for Political Action—a La Follette auxillary—as being tainted with dangerous foreign pacifist influ- ences. If public resentment at his tactics becomes as powerful as its | Russ repudiation of his Mellon tax evasion scheme, he will publicly indorse peace. Otherwise, he will plead for “patriot- ism on guard,” ‘LAND FOR USERS,’ WORLD FARMERS’ MEET DECLARES 50 Matson Represented In Rome Confab (By The Federated Press) A living wage for the farmer, the possession of the land by those who actually till it and freedom to organ- ize for economic, social and political ends are among the principles of the World Agriculture society now in con- ference in Rome. This organization, with representatives from more than 50 nations, emphasizes the importance of the farmer in world economy. The World Agriculture society came into being as the result of a confer- ence in France, in 1919, which met to consider voluntary co-operation by producers and consumers in the study of world problems of food supply and the welfare rural populations. It dif- fers from David Lubin’s International Institute of Agriculture, which is a governmental body for compiling and disseminating reports, in that it aims to represent voluntary organizations of farmers—to become in a sense a farmers’ international. The principles on which the organiz- ation rests as stated by Laurence H. Parker, its executive secretary,, in- clude: 1.. An adequate supply of food for all people is essential to permanent world peace. A hungry world means chaos. 2. This food supply must be fur- nished by the farmers of the world. 3. The conservation and improve- ment of the soil should be one of the chief concerns of world states- manship. But no government decree nor resolutions of conferences can ‘ insure proper use of the soil: that is up to each individual farmer. 4, The working farmer must have a living wage. A meager sustenance with a scant surplus to sell does not meet permanent social justice. 5. The land should be controlled by those who use it. 6. International co-operation in agriculture will gather and interpret facts, spread popular education in farming and country life, seek legis- lation in the interest of the farmer as a producer and to simplify and cheapen distribution of soil-grown products. 7. No co-operation on an interna- tional basis will suffice unless it en- courages free organization of the farmers. Factory Kills In 5 ‘fears. NEW YORK, May 14.—A girl enter- ing a factory at 16 canont last beyond 21 without a breakdown in health, Sophia Reben, Evansville, (Ill.) cigar- maker, told the national industrial assembly, Y. W. C. A. convention, in New York. Railroad Siagnates’ Lobby Wages War On | Barkley Labor Bill| (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14.--When the Barkley railroad labor bill come: three hours’ debate on the special cal endar, its supporters will attempt t until the opposition permits a final roll call. on two days a month, and the rail road lobby is fighting it by continu- of quorum calls. The progressives will try to keep the legal quorum- 100 members—present on the day, if necessary, to compel the old guard to face the decisive vote. Short Items From Russia MOSCOW.—The French premier, ment “in the name of humanity,” beg- ging not to execute the four members | of the Kieff counter-revolutionary or- ganization, “the Center of Action,” revolution. His telegram was printed “The Insolence of Poincare.” exe @ KIEFF.—The telegram of Poincare counter - revolutionary organization, “the Center of Action,” created a wave of indignation among the work- ers as well as among the educators. The professors of the local university, in an interview with the correspond- ent of the Rosta, stated that they con- sider his telegram as the lowest form of cinism. Others considered his tel- egram as an insult to Russia. 6: ae ODESSA. — Great indignation is} shown here by the professors of the/ local university and people active in| public who are not party members, in| connection with the telegram of M. Poincare, which is trying to save the| lives of the convicted members of the} “Center of Action.” se keep the house in continuous session | The bill can come up abi ous breaking of a quorum and forcing} floor | continuously all night and all next} M. Poincare, wired the Soviet govern-) found guilty of espionage and counter- | in the Moscow press under the head, ! in connection with the trial of the | * Page Three NOT A LYNCHER PUNISHEDINULS, ALL LAST YEAR | |The Law No | Protection For Negroes By LUDWELL DENNY | (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) NEW YORK, now up again in the house, on May 19, for} May 14.—‘Americans lize that it is not the lives |of Negroes t re concerned but the honor of America, nual report of tl National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People, commenting on the decline of \lynching. It ¢ its public opinion | with bringing the number of victims down from 61 in 1922 to 28 in 1923, But there were no convictions of members of lynct mobs. One mob leader when br it to trial for first 2e murder was acquitted. Rebel Peons Still In Jail. Eight of the 64 Negroes sentenced to life and long prison terms in con- |nection with the Arkansas peonage riots of 1919 are still in prison. Of the 12 sentenced to de 6 have been freed after a 4-year legal battle con- ducted by the association and 6 have |been made eligible for patole. pital for colored. war veter- been won with the appoint- 14 colored physicians and 37 |colored nurses ans ment ¢ Mob deportations of |Negroes were stopped in Johnstown, |Pa., and Spruce Pine, N. C, Exclusion jof Negroes from freshman dormitories at Harvard university was prevented. In its activi nst the Ku Klux Klan the association helped to pass the New York anti- law, requiring public membership lists and prohibit- ing circulation of anonymous letters and unsigned printed matter. A klan |rally was prevented in Denver and an ured from Gov. Wm. E. Sweet “the klan is neither needed nor order s that | wanted in Colorado.” Pressing Anti-Lynching Bill. The Dyer anti-lynching bill, killed in the last congress by a filibuster of The Peasants and Lenin. WELSK}. Vologodsk Gub.—At the Volost conference of Welsk county the peasants decided to have a “Lenin | desatin,” which will be worked by| public labor and the profit from which | will go for the benefit of the homeless children, to liquidate illiteracy, etc. | They recommended similar action to | other Volost conferences, some of which took similar action. + 6 MOSCOW.—The Moscow Pravda, | Official organ of the Communist party, is organizing in all the big centers of Russia groups of labor correspond- ents, so-called “Rabcors.” It is being done for the purpose of eliminating | the waste of time of the correspond-| ents and to fhstruct them in the prop- ler way of writing labor news. FOUR BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF GOLD IN AMERICAN BANKING CHESTS SHOWS WHO WON WAR By LELAND OLDS | (Federated Press Who came out on top in the world war? American finance and the American dollar. | If you don’t believe it read reserve board, particularly the part dealing with the inflow of gold) from abroad. The $2,000,000,000 in gold which American banker got out of Europe, according to extent made the dollar the world’s standard of value and the| United States the world’s financial capital. “Since the federal igh ih ENS WTSI TP OPE a banks began operations in No- world’s gold center. As it has vember, 1914,” says the report, “over two billions of gold have been added to the stock of the United States by importation. It is the gold which has been thus received that now consti- tutes the largest portion of the gold reserves of the 12 federal reserve banks. “The first billion of this gold came prior to the entry of the United States into the world war. The second bil- lion of gold has been received during the five years since the conclusion of the war. Net imports of gold during the year 1921 alone amounted to around two-thirds of a billion dollars. The gold reserves of the federal re- serve system which stood at $2,063,- 000,000 at the end of the year 1920 in- creased to $2,875,000,000 at the end of the year 1921, to $3,047,000,000 at the end of the year 1922, and to $3,- 080,000,000 at the end of the year 1923.” $4,300,000,000 In Gold. Of the world’s total monetary gold stock of about $9,000,000,000 the Unit- ed States now holds over $4,300,000,- 000 or more than twice the amount held in 1914. Europe's gold stock has decreased by nearly $2,000,000,000 during the same period. The gold holdings of the principal countries of the world in 1918 and 1923 are shown’ in the following table. § Fat ~ Dec. 31, Latest Spores 19: 19" Gated States..$1,904,694,000 $4,247, Dalted ed cantons 830, ohoon * 754, 000 7 915,700,000 111,247, ee. sesnnennnane . 1 sxnsmreee 14011,000,000 46,043, “By virtue of its creditor position and its unprecedentedly strong gold position,” says the reserve board “the United States has now become the Industrial Editor) the annual report of the federal the report, has to an increasing | assumed the high respons ty of so managing the vast gold supply domi- ciled here that it may be available for redistribution by export as occasion may arise without producing any un- toward or disturbing effects in our own domestic, economic, and financial situation.” New York—Financial Capitol. This means that New York is about to become the financial capital of the world, taking the place held by Lon- don down to 1914. The world’s chief free gold market tends to command the greatest confidence and therefore to attract the largest volume of for- eign financial accounts and business from every quarter of the world. American bankers dreamed of this during 1916 before we entered the war. And by entering the war to in- sure victory of the nations most heavi- ly indebted to them they made sure that the ultimate victory would be theirs, a victory of American finance |southern senators, is being pressed in |the present session. The Capper-Fair- field bill for uniform regulation of mar- riage and divorce is opposed because it prohibits marriage between blacks and whites. Senator Capper has |promised that the objectionable clause will be eliminated Opposition to the education (former- ly Sterling-Towner) bill is advised on the ground that it would legalize the present discrimination against colored children in the south, and would back that discrimination with a federal law and $100,000,000 a vear. In many southern states $10 is spent on the education of every white child to $1 or $2 for every colored child. The Crisis, monthly organ of the association, has a net paid average circulation of 37,100, the report states. Detroit Solon Would Ban Peace Movement; His Knowledge Scant (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14.—Repre- sentative McLeod of Detroit, a mem- ber of the American Legion, who sent a letter to the department of justice, suggesting jail sentences and the | breaking up of the organization of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, in case the charges of disloyalty and foreign in- jtrigue which he had heard about it should be sustained, knows nothing about the W. LL. P. PF, Questioned by the Federated Press, the youthful congressman admitted that he did not know that Jane “Ad- dams was the head of the organiza- tion; he did not know the character of the resolutions or of the general program of the league; he had heard none of the speeches, nor had he se- cured copies of any of them. He had acted on the information of a young woman employed in his office, and of one the Daughters of 1812, who tried to break up the sessions of the league congress here a week ago. One Le- gion post, he said, had since sent him a message of approval of his state- ment. McLeod is innocent of any knowl- edge of the career of Jane Addams or of any of the scores of other world- famous women for whom he proposed jail sentences, “if.” He now says that he has not sought to prejudge them, but thinks the department of justice can establish the truth, Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- and the American dollar. scriber. CITY Come with your local In case of Rain, demonstration will NEW YORK READERS, ATTENTION! DEMONSTRATION SATURDAY, MAY 17th, 1924 MARCH Midi us Demand that the City Build Houses and Rent ; them to Workers at Cost We will gather at Rutgers Square at 1:30 P. M. : UNITED COUNCIL OF WORKINGCLASS Wome HALL unit or individually, take place the following Saturday