The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 15, 1924, Page 5

Thursday, May 15, 1924 _ FEAR ROUSED BY FRENCH GROWTH ) OF COMMUNISTS Washington, Not Work- | ers, Getting Frightened By LAWRENCE TODD. | (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) j WASHINGTON, May 14.—If there is one feature in the French returns that causes anxiety outside the state department here in Washington, it is the ominous growth of Communist power in Paris and other industrial | cities of the republic. Election of | Andre Marty, who ran up the red flag on the French warship he command- | ed when ordered to fire on the Soviet forces in a Russian Black Sea port, is significant of this drift. Marty was tried and convicted of treason and mutiny, and was impris- oned. He was elected a score of i times to municipal and other Offices | Me the Communists of Paris, and fin- lly was released, last summer, after e@ had polled nearly 60,000 votes in | the district which includes St. Cloud and Versailles. Now he takes his seat in the chamber of deputies from this district, triumphant over Andre Tar- dieu, who was French high commis- sioner for loans in America during the war. Tardieu is an extreme reac- tionary. Longuet Is Defeated. Defeat of Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx and spokesman of par- liamentary socialism, is announced, while Marcel Cachin, editor of the Communist organ L’Humanite, is re- turned by a decisive majority. Cachin was last year charged with treason when he urged the Ruhr miners to resist French militarism. The French senate, mildly progressive, refused to try the case against the Communist leader, and Poincare threatened to resign, but did not make good his threat. Defeat of the Poincare government in the French election appears to be satisfactory to almost every element in Washington except Secretary of State Hughes and the army-navy- diplomatic bloc. Many of the most reactionary poli- ticians in Congress are pleased, since they feel that Poincare had begun « to hurt American business by his Ruhr policy. It. is taken for granted that the government at Paris will at least dis- cuss the military occupation of indus- trial Germany, and will at least dis- cuss with the United States the fund- . ing of the $4,000,000,000 war debt. Hughes Is Not Pleased. \ Secretary Hughes is not pleased, —~*" becatige “his policy has been one of assisting Poincare. Morgan & Co. have been back of the reactionary regime in France, and recently have had to throw another $100,000,000 into the scale to save the franc. Hughes was appraised of this deal before it was made. Senator Shipstead has demanded an investigation of Hughes’ part in the affair, pointing to the record of the quick involvement of the United States in the world war after the British had overdrawn on Morgan & EACH $2.00 a Year SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL, 19 South Lincoln Street, Chicago, Ill. 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The after-war spirit of pessimism and supine reaction is over, its last out- posts in France and Japan have fallen. Reconstruction and reconciliation, as outlined by the British labor ‘govern- ment and as voiced in America by Borah, LaFollette and the moderate radicals, are coming in. RELEASE LAST “POLITICAL” IS WOMEN’S CALL Zogg Imprisoned Under Repealed Act (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 14.—Release of the last war-time political prisoner, Nicholas S. Zogg, is demanded in a letter just received by Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler. The demand is made by a delegation of interested Penn- sylvania women and is signed by Lavinia L. Dock of Fayetteville and Ellen Winsor of Haverford. Bogg is the only “political” prisoner who escaped the executive eye in the December releases. He was sent up from California in 1918 and has served six of his twelve years’ sentence in At- lanta prison. Zogg was given ten years under the now repealed Espionage Act and two years under the Draft Act for opposing enlistment and aiding “prisoners of conscience,” the letter recounts. Zogg Old and Sick. The prisoner is now sixty years old and ill with tuberculosis. No reason appears for his further incarceration in a notoriously bad prison. The Pennsylvania women further point out that their delegation inter- viewed James A. Finch, Pardon At- torney of the Department of Justice, who admitted that the D. of J. “agents provocateurs” had framed the case of Fritz W. Bischoff, a German who was recently granted commintation. The women protest the “repugnant” me- thods of the D. of J. and call attention to the fact “that Nicholas Zogg is still‘ held in the Atianta Federal’ Peni- tentiary under a repealed Espionage Act, while all other political prisoners, even suspected German spies, have been freed.” The Pennsylvania women have also sent out a plea that all other inter- ested citizens write to President Coo- lidge urging the release of Nicholas Zose. "How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. ISSUE THE DAILY WORKER INVESTIGATION OF PAXTON HIBBEN, FRIEND OF SOVIET RUSSIA, IS DROPPED BY WAR DEPARTMENT (By The Federated Press.) NEW YORK, May 14.—When you are defeated the strategy of war is to retreat. On that principle the U. S. war department has called off its frameup investigation of Captain Paxton Hibben. Russian relief was recommended for corp Hibben, who has been active in promotion to major, reserve officers’ But Secretary of War Weeks last July ordered him investigated, on the charge of “holding beliefs favorable to enemies of the U. S. government.” Hibben believes in Russian recognition, Hibben denied the charge at a hearing in October. When Hibben and his counsel in preparation for the suspended hearing examined the papers in the case they found that 41 documents had department. missing papers caused Major General been removed from the file by the war It is believed that Hibben’s effort to force the return of the Bullard to hush up the whole matter ie and dissolve the investigating board of officers. Both Old Parties Are Aided Financially By Big Meat Packers (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14.— When the senate was considering his reso- lution calling upon the chairmen and treasurers of the Republican and Democratic national committees to tell/the senate what coNributions they received during and since the 1920 campaign from the Big Five meat packers, Senator Johnson of Minnesota declared that both of the old parties had contributed to the de- flation and ruin of the farmer. He cited an investigation made by the Minnesota state senate, showing that campaigns in the interest of big busi- ness and against the farmers and wage workers’ political program had been heavily financed by business concerns. The meat packers, he be- lieved, had been generous to the Re- publican party war chest, and the Re- publican administration had failed to enforce the packers and stockyards’ law in the St. Paul market. Senator Norbeck of South Dakota charged that the Nonpartisan league spent “more money in South Dakota in 1918 than Newberry ever spent in Michigan.” Johnson replied that this was money subscribed by the farmers in self-defense against the business crowd. The Johnson resolution was adopt- ed. Russian Daily Paper “Novy Mir” To Open Office In Chicago The Russian Communist daily, Novy Mir, is opening a branch office in Chicago at 1113 West Washington boulevard. A branch of the editorial board, consisting of three labor jour- nalists and a staff of about ten corre- spondents, will take care of the Chi- cago department in the paper and cover the northwestern states. Ac- cording to the present plans, there will be a correspondent in every Rus- sian labor. organization in Chicago, and all phases of the life of the Rus- sian workers and labor news in gen- eral will be covered. There are at present over 30,000 Russians and over 100,000 Russian speaking and reading people in Chi- cago. Up to the time of the revolu- tion most of these people did not care to boast about being Russians. Some of them were even ashamed of it and were calling themselves Poles, etc. Since the revolution this has been greatly changed. The Russians are no more ashamed of themselves. They are proud of being immigrants from Soviet Russia. Organizations and persons who are interested in any business with the Novy Mir are invited to address the Chicago office, Novy Mir, 1113 West Washington boulevard, Chicago, Ill. “Baby Banks” For Southern Labor Is O. K.ed By Council By J. W. LEIGH $1.00 Six Months Food Workers soon as his strength permits, Hugene for special treatments. July 6, =| scriber, (Federated Press Correspondent.) NEW ORLEANS, May 14.—“Baby banks” known as credit unions were indorsed by the central trades and labor body. The proposed bill would permit seven residents of Louisiana to apply for permission to organize a credit union by signing af act of in- corporation. Par value of the stock would be ten dollars. The unions would receive savings, make loans and invest to the extent of 10 per cent of the capital stock. The bill also provides that the credit unions shall be organized only within groups that have a common bond of occupation, association or residence within a well defined neigh- borhood, small community or rural district. The rate of interest on loans to the member would not exceed 1 per cent a month. Similar unions exist in 15 states and have existed in Europe for many years. In cities such extension, it is said, creates credit for wage workers at low interest, and in the country assist in farmers’ short term loan problemi r Debs Still Hl. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 14.—As V. Debs, now an invalid in his Terra Haute home, will go to a sanitarium Since the treatments will require several months, Debs will be unable to attend the national convention of the Soci- alist party to be held in Cleveland Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- SECRETARY DAVIS GETS PANNED BY PENNSY LABOR (Continued from page 1) record, that official introduced Davis to the delegates as “one who worked himself up from the rank and file to an official in the cabinet” as a union man. An icy atmosphere came over the convention as Davis took the floor and began to speak. It was a speech that reeked with apologetics for the reactionary repub- lican machine with which Davis is alligned—a speech that pleaded for harmony with the employers. Attacks Foreign Born. Davis tried to justify the new strike breaking immigration laws that he has helped to nurse thru both houses of congress. What is more, the for- mer Welsh immigrant practically call- ed on the delegates before him to act as spies on European working men who come here “illegally.” Silent as a clam about the brutal force his government uses towards workers who go on strike and ignor- ing the numerous injunctions his gang issues against organized labor, the strike breaking secretary of “Labor” begged the workers to have kindly feelings towards their employers— pleading for class collaboration. “Money Is Not All.” “Money is not all in this world,” weakly urged the representative of the multi-millionaires to the represen- tatives of the men, who have to fight the bosses for each mouthful of food on their tables. Davis concluded his Civic Federa- tion speech and sat down. If he ex- pected the working men present to respond to his palaver as Gompers and Alton B. Parker, are accustomed to do, he was mistaken. Storm of Protest. The delegates showed their resent- ment when a motion was made to give Davis a rising vote of thanks. Working men rose to protest from different parts of the floor. Delegate Lever of Philadelphia, asked by what authority Davis was invited to speak. Chairman Maurer tried in vain to close the‘incident and asked for yea and nay votes. The hall reverberated with the thun- der of “nays.” Davis begged for the privilege of making an explanation, which was granted. Endorses Strike Breaking. His explanation tried to explain Coolidge’s activities in breaking the Boston police strike, saying he him- self had endorsed the strike breaking telegram, and tried to defend the pres- ent administration’s policies. Davis ended by challenging his opponents to debate. It was a challenge that the outrag- ed delegates took up quickly, but Da- vis didn’t fight when the gage was accepted. Scores of delegates rose to their feet, demanding the floor to answer Davis. The mover of the original mo- tion insisted that the chairman h no right to call for a yea and nay vote when the motion called for a rising vote. President Maurer adjourned the convention rather than let the rising vote against the labor secretary take place. Merrick Accepts Challenge. Delegate Fred Merrick of Pitts- burgh, one of those who accepted Davis’ challenge, has put his accept- ance into the form of an official let- ter to Davis. Important sessions of the state Far- mer-Labor convention are taking place in the evenings, with the majority of the F. L. delegates also delegates to the State Federation of Labor conven- tion. Every new subscriber Increases the influence of the DAILY WORKER. ah hss | jaturday, May 24, Superior, Wis. New Immigration Bill Gives Britons Great Advantage (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 14.—British immigrants will get 91,000 out of the 150,000 chances of entering the Unit- ed States which are to be offered to the world, after July 1, 1927, if the immigration bill now in conference becomes law. Representative Sabath of Chicago, discussing this clause in the house, has shown that the allot- ment of quotas, according to the ra- tio of national origin of the people of this country—except the descendants of slaves—means that German immi- gration will be limited to 22,000 per year, Scandinavian to 5,000 or so, and other desirable stocks to similar hand- fuls. Progressive senators have only now discovered this absurdity in the con- ference bill, tho it was approved by both house and senate. It is section 11 of the conference report. Ship- stead, Norris and others are going to try to have it eliminated by fighting the whole report. Party Activities Of Local Chicago Branch Meetings. Friday, May 16—Russian branch, at the Soviet school, 1902 West Diviison street. Important discussion on the Novy Mir. se Russian Picnics, The district committee of the Rus- sian branches, Workers party, has ar- ranged a picnic for Sunday, June 1, at Bergman’s Grove, Riverside, Ill. s* * The Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia has arranged picnics for Sunday, June 8, at Stickney Grove, and Sunday, August 24, at Na- tional Grove. o* * All friendly organizations are re- quested not to arrange other affairs on those dates. so * The Third Annual Picnic of the Workers Party, Local Chicago, will be held on Friday, July 4, at Stickney’s Grove. Speakers, dancing, games, re- freshments, etc., are being provided. Sympathetic organizations are re- quested not to arrange any other af- fair, but to give all possible support to the July 4th picnic. es South Side Branch Symposium. The Chicago South Side Branch of the Workers Party will hold a very important meeting this evening, Thursday, at eight p. m., at the Com- munist Center, 3201 South Wabash Avenue. There will be a symposium on methods of organizing the Negro workers, the discussion being opened by three comrades, Otto Huiswood, William Moore and Fort Lovett Whiteman. Sympathizers are invited to be present. Trachtenberg Tour List of Western Dates. The list of Trachtenberg’s western dates follows. Addresses of halls and hours of meetings will be pub- lished later where they are not given here: Friday, May 16, Tacoma, Wash. Saturday, May 17, Seattle, Wash. Sunday, May 18, Vancouver, B. C., Canada. Monday, May 19, Spokane, Wash. Tuesday, May 20, Butte, Mont. junday, May 25, St. Paul, Minn. Monday, May 26, Minneapolis, Minn. NEW YORK CITY. ORGANIZATIONS, ATTENTION! District No. 2, Workers Party, has arranged a grand excursion and moonlight dance on the Hud- son river for Saturday, June 28th. The commodious steamer Cler- mont, having a capacity of 3,000, has been chartered for this occa- sion. Friendly organizations are urged to keep this date in mind and not arrange for any affairs that week. Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- scriber. UNCLE WIGGLY’S TRICKS The Workers Party in Action Page Five THE SPIRIT THAT WINS By C. E. Ruthenberg The National Office of the Workers Party is in receipt of the following letter together with a contribution of $3 to the Farmer-Labor Party Cam- paign Fund: “Comrades: I have little to spare and am a poor beggar. however ask a nephew for a dollar or two for the campaign. I did He wrote me that I gave enough, and sent me $2 for my birthday. I did not ask it for that, so send it to you endorsed. I hope there will be a union of forces, money order for one dollar. This being disunited is the devil. G. A.—Grand View, Calif.” I also send a I see the date is now June 17.— The'spirit of this letter is the spirit which has been behind the great movements in the interests of. the down-trodden and oppressed. It is the spirit which has been shown by the Russian workers and peasants while fighting against overwhelming odds for their Workers and Peasants’ Gov- ernment. It is a spirit like this which will build a great mass movement in the United States to establish a Workers and Farmers’ Government here. BRITISH PACIFIST SAYS FORCE ONLY CAN BRING PEACE (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, May 14.—“In all of the decisions of the League of Nations, I do not know of a single one that has been just,” Bertrand Russell, British scientist told a New York audience, He added that the league would not have prevented the last war and will not prevent the next war. “Idealistic motives will never pre- vent war, only selfish motives,” he said. “And three or four more first class wars will be necessary before strong commercial nations for selfish motives, try to outlaw war.” But he looked forward to the time when it would be to the interests of Wall Street, the master of Europe, to stop European wars. Then the European and American bloc under the United States will fight the Orient, which under Russian leadership will revolt against western capitalist exploita- tion, Russell predicted. “What will the workers in the U. S. and other capitalist countries do when their governments increase the subju- gation and force war upon the Ori- ent?” he was asked. He pointed out that pacifism on the part of the eastern countries is useless, that armed re- bellion is the only weapon in the last analysis which will stop even “civil- ized” oppressors like Britain and the U. S. Russell said that white mis- sionaries did more harm than white traders because they are crusadors trying to impose a “superior” civiliza- tion and give an idealistic excuse to white countries to war against so- called backward peoples. Cast-off Workers Must Buy Own Food Even In Poorhouse (By The Federated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, May 14.—“We get only one nourishing meal a week; the rest of the meals we get beef from which all the nourishment has been boiled for the employes’ soup. It is then warmed up and served to us as ‘roast beef.’ You should taste it!” says a pathetic letter to a local news- paper from “Several Inmates” of the Relief Home (poorhouse). “Do you know that the prisoners in the county jail get better food than we? Inmates who have no money to buy food grow weak from lack of nourishment. We must buy even our own sugar or go without it.” Italian ex-Socialist Dictator Bans Workers May Day Meetings (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, (By mail)—All May Day celebrations were banned by Mussoli- ni. The Fascisti Party threatened with severe punishment all workers who joined any May Day demonstra- tions. Employers were given permis- sion by Mussolini to fire workers who downed tools on labor’s International holiday and in case of mass desertions from the factory, to lock them out. The Italian Communist Party in an open letter to the Unitarian and Max- imalist Socialists suggested that the three parties devise ways and means of bringing the workers out in a great demonstration thruout Italy. Both parties refused. The Unitarians boasted that they fa- vored democracy and taunted the Communists with being in favor of a dictatorship. No doubt, the Unitari- ans are opposed to the dictatorship of the workers, but they allow the Mussolini dictatorship to sit lightly on them. One of their reasons for refusing the United Front appeal of the Com- munists was that a mass demonstra- tion would be dangerous, New Trial League For Sacco-Vanzetti, Class War Victims (By The Federated Press) BOSTON, May i4.—Greater efforts to save Sacco and Vanzetti, convicted in 1921 of murder on perjured. dence, from the electric chair are be- ing made by the recently organized Sacco-Vanzetti New Trial league. The league is cooperating with the original defense committee which familiarized the labor circles of the world with the attempt by the U. S. department of justice to fasten a payroll murder on the two Italian-Americans whom it wished to get out of the way to con- ceal one of its own murders. The league is publishing a bulletin at 43 Tremont St. Boston. The first issue appeared May 1. The executive committee of the league includes Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans, author of the 10c pamphlet, “Outstanding Feat- ures of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case,” John S. Codman, J. H. Krauzer, J. Van Vaerenwyck and Selma Maximon, sec- retary. Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new aub- scriber. REMOVAL NOTICE Please be sure to address all Letters, Newspapers and other mail to our new address. THE DAILY WORKER 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Concert Begins 8:15 P. M. ERT International Concert Orchestra Freiheit Singing Society * Admission, 50 Cents PHILADELPHIA NOTICE CONCERT AND BALL SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1924 Eagles’ SON Broad and Spring Garden Sts. Violet Laskey—Soprano Refreshments and Music in Basement Auspices, Local Philadelphia, Workers Party Chicago, Ill. PROGRAM L. Erbe, Soprano Lyman, Violinist Oscar Wardrobe, 15 Cents ane ‘yities of. :