The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 5, 1924, Page 2

=, Page Two DAUGHERT DODGES THE WITNESS. BOX. Refuses to Testify at Graft Quiz. (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 4,— Harry M. Daugherty, former at- torney-general, today refused to appear before the Senate Investi- gation Committee on the ground it was without avthority to con- duct the investigation. Daugherty’s refusal to face his accusers was made in a letter to Chairman Brookhart, read by Paul B. Howland, his attorney. Daugherty based his refusal to appear on the decision of Judge Cochran in the habeas corpus case of Mal S. Daugherty, brother of the former attorney-general. A sweeping denial of any “illegal, corrupt or unethical” conduct as at- torney-general was made by Daugh- erty in his letter. Datgherty declared he believed the committee was engaged in a “desper- ate attempt” to blacken his character and notified the committee that after today he would no longer permit his counsel to attend the hearings for him. Send in that Subscription Today. Mexican Oil Strike Spreading Boycott in Central America (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 4.—Refusal by the American Association of Petro- leum Producers, of New York, to per- mit the officers of the Mexican oil workers’ union to represent the em- ployes of the Aguila (Cowdray) Com- pany in negotiating the adjustment of a dispute between that company and its men, led to the Aguila strike, upon which was based a whole crop of rumors of seizure of oil properties by “communist workmen.” This is the in- formation which has reached the Pan- American Federation of Labor, here, from Mexico City. The Mexican papers charge that the American Agsociation enforced its dic- tation in this case in order to ruin the Aguila, which was a possible competi- tor in the Mexican field. The Mexican department of labor officially reported that Aguila’s spokesmen were “under an influence which does not permit them an independent and definite dis- cussion of the points at issue.” Boycott of the Aguila products is ex- tending through Latin America. Send in that Subscription Today. ST. LOUIS TAILORS GIVE BIG VOTE T0 MAX SILLINSKY ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 4.—Local 11 of the Journeymen Tailors’ union voted overwhelmingly for Max J. Sil- linsky in the referendum election for general secretary-treasurer, The number of votes for each candidate was, Sillinsky, 203; Soderberg, 52; Sweeney, 11. Sillinsky is the left wing candi- date in the election, having issued a statement of what his policies would If elected, that includes the out- standing progressive measures be- fore the labor movement. He proved by his vote in the A. F. of L. Port- land convention, where he stood for amalgamation, labor party, recogni- | THE DAILY WORKER LAFOLLETTE MAY HAVE TO PAY HIGHER PRICE FOR GOMPERS’ SUPPORT THAN “BOB” CAN AFFORD WASHINGTON, June 4.—Senator Borah thinks congress ought to stay here, regardless of the convention, and proceed to enact railroad and farm relief legislation. He does not seem to have heard the call to become running-mate to Coolidge any better than he heard the summons to deliver the nominating speech for the head of the ticket. Speaking of taking on responsibility—Coolidge loads more every day. This time it is selection of Dr. Marion Burton, former president of Smith College for Women, in Northampton, Mass., where Coolidge practiced law and was elected mayor, to nominate Cautious Cal at Cleveland. This* Burton is now president of the University of Michigan, and for a while was at the University of Minnesota. When he ruled the women’s college he was credited with saying disparaging things about the size of Coolidge’s brain-pan, and his opinion in that respect appears to have re- mained unchanged up to a year ago. But last winter he was entertained at the White House, and was given a dinner at which Denby, who had been dismissed from the cabinet a few weeks before, was toastmaster. The celebration turned out to be an ova- tion for Denby, but Burton accepted the second-fiddle role with the sleek grace of a master-goosestepper, and he went away with cordial feelings for both Cal and Denby. This Burton, who will eulogize Can- didate Coolidge, is not a blood rela- tive to the Theodore Burton of Cleve- land, who will eulogize President are related only thru seervic to the system. Samuel Gompers’ attitude toward LaFollette, now that the Wisconsin senator has lambasted the Commu- nists, remains sphinxlike, His official declarations deal only with the duty Coolidge in the keynote speech. They | of organized labor to appeal to the conscience of the Republican and Democratic conventions. But it may be significant that, in publishing ex- traets from the LaFollette statement, the A. F. of L. weekly news letter se- |lects only the anti-Communist ma- jterfal. Nor is there anything to no- |tity the reader that LaFollette seems |to be launching an independent cam- |paign for the presidency. On the other hand, there are hints |that no choice as to a presidential |ticket and platform will be formally made by the A. F. of L. non-partisan |political committee until after July |4. A choice between the Republican jand Democratic tickets, before La- Follette’s convention had met, would |be likely to lead to much contention | anyhow. | What LaFollette and his friends }now have to face is the demand that | Mr. Gompers is likely to make, that |they take a stand against recognition of Russia, and against all other moves | which may permit the Soviet system to take a place alongside older forms of government in the councils of the |powers. Also, there is the question jof pacifism and the question of en- |couragement of the Socialist move- ment abroad. (Special to the bling congress July 7. ed off the main Ifne, and held up un- til after election. “The senate is just waking up to the fact that it has been asleep at the switch for months,” declared one gen- tleman from the south, That this comatose condition did not prevent the senate from reducing taxes for the recipients of great incomes, but blocked principally the farm relief bills, was not remarked on the floor. Progressive congressmen have made a little noise for the rec- ord, so that they can go to the coun- try and point out what they tried to do, but the fact remains that no de- termined fight was put up for re- assembling congress after the party conventions. In view of their com- plete lack of a fighting program to obtain any effective relief for the (Continued from page 1.) of the government on every piece of important legislation. Democrats Desert Him. The failure of La Follette to keep congress in session is a serious blow to all his political ambitions. The democrats with whom he has been playing thruout the sessions threw him overboard as was expected by everybody. Even Senator Smith of South Carolina, whom the Wisconsin senator put in the chairmanship of the committee on interstate commerce un- der the guise of insuring the passage of railway relief measures, openly lined up on the side of the most ag- gressive reactionaries and voted to tion of Soviet Russia and against ex pulsion of Dunne, that his progres- sivism will stand the test. He unanimous choice of the enti wing, from simple progressives to Communists. adjourn. “Fighting Bob” who has fought less in this session than in almost all others of his Washington career will have the haraest time of -his life ex- plaining away and apologizing for this unwarranted retreat of his to the agri- PORK BARREL CLEANED, CONGRESSMEN PREPARE TO REPAIR THEIR FENCES Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, June 4.—The senate, by a vote of 52 to 36, refused to place farm relief, railroad and other legislation, backed by the so-called pro- gressives, on the calendar for the four days remaining of the session. This was the forerunner of the defeat of LaFollette’s motion for reassem- Thus all the mild proposals for relieving the imme- diate distress of the farmers is shunt-#—— . |mortgage-ridden . farmers, it was |doubtless believed by the honorable |gentlemen from the grain states that \@ stronger campaign could be made |out in the tall timber with a tale of |persecution, than would result from jan attempt in congress to get some- |thing done. Senator Curtis made a right manful attempt to obtain action on the bill to turn Muscle Shoals over to Henry Ford, so that this bit of business could be cleaned up before the Republican convention. His more careful col- leagues thot it better, evidently, to de- liver the goods after the election is over, so that the price might not fig- ure too prominently in the campaign. Curtis’ motion was therefore defeated. Send in that Subscription Today. THE FAILURE OF LA FOLLETTE cultural masses of the northwest whose interests he has pretended to have at heart. With the farmers more broke than ever and the industrial situation sinking rapidly into stagna- tion equalled only by the great depres- sion of three years ago the Wisconsin senator will be unable to pose as a Progressive to the extent that he did in the past, in the light of his refusal to try to make congress toe the mark. Despite the fact that La Follette has had the whip hand in the senate in the first session of congress and in spite of the fact that the so-called progressive group in thé house and senate has been in a better position to wield influence than ever before, less has been attempted, let alone accomplished, in behalf of the work- ing masses and poor farmers by the national legislature than in many years. No Independent Battle. At the outset it was clear that the only way the self-styled progressives “Cautious Cal’ HAD to Be Nominated BECAUSE of Oil Seandal (Continued from page 1.) sure as an accomplice of thieves, was, after all, naive, But it cam be under- stood only if we cease to look for the explanations in “the public will” and begin to look for classes and class will, To begin with: 1. The class that was caught and jeopardized by the scandal was the great bourgeoisie—the highest stra- tum of high finance and big industry. This was the class which Coolidge de- fended. And then: 2. The class whose representatives made the attack was the petty bour- geoisie—the lower stratum of the capitalist class. LaFollette intro- | business. more really belonged, were the work- ers and the impoverished class of farmers. This class had no organiza- tion in the mass sense of the word, and had no representatives. Therefore this class (these two classes of nat- ural allies, the workers and the toiling farmers) did not participate, were in- articulate and unheard. So the fight which crystallized about Teapot Dome was conducted between the Big Bourgeoisie and the Little Bourgeoisie, in the persons of their representatives in congress. The discrediting of the Harding-Coolidge- Mellon-Sinclair-Rockefeller adminis- tration lay in the hands of the “radi- cal bloc” of representatives of small As this class has not duced the resolution that opened the/yet formed its own separate, small seandal. Walsh, Wheeler, Brookhart, | business men’s party and is still fight- ete., “radical” democrats and republi-|ing as a minority within, the republi- | cans, had the conduct of the attack/can and democratic parties of Big in their hands. Upon the fighting will | Business, the jue turned on the mat- of this element, depended the severity | ter of nominations of those parties. and persistence of the fight. Workers Not Represented. And last of all: 8 The classes to whom the fight | ruthlessly, Because the fight logically led straight to the heart of Big Business, Big Bisiness HAD to fight. It fought callously, sure of its ground, in defense of its inner for- tress. Middle Class Did Not Fight. The Little Bourgeoisie didn’t fight. {t confined the campaign within “re- spectable” limits. La Follette had the excuse of illness, and became passive after the first attack, except for a led the investigation up to the door of his friend, Doheny’s million-dollar lawyer McAdoo, the chief democratic candidate for the presidency, and then Walsh took off his hat and apologized. The whole kit and parcel of small- business “radicals” led the advance up to the point where the fight was to begin in something more than words; then the whole kit and parcel re- treated. They wera too polite to dis- pute the president's word when Cool- idge brazenly denied his acts in the face of documentary proof of them. Crucial witnesses were not called. The petty bourgeoisie didn’t fight to the point of fight. It {s not in the nature of their class for the petty bourgeoisie to fight any- thing to a clear-cut issue. Its ‘class AN mls FO DATA OF WEATHERMEN SLAIN BY LIGHTNING WILL HELP FORECAST BELLEVILLE, Ill, June 4.— Weather data gathered by Dr. Le- roy Meisinger in eight balloon flights in the midst of spring storms will be tabulated and sent to the weather bureau in Washington for study, it was announced at Scott flying field today. The bodies of Dr, Meisinger and his pilot, Lieut. James T. Neely, were shipped today from Monticello, ll, where their bodies were found near the ruins of the balloon, which had been struck by lightning. The observations the two men were making were the most com- prehensive of the kind ever made, and the results were expected to prove of great value in weather fore- casting. could hope to be -effective was to wage an independent battle against the old guard of both parties and never to relinquish the initiative. In- stead, from the very first day, the in- surgents refused to take the initiative and gladly allowed ‘the democrats to swallow them and use them as mere catspaws in the political maneuvers two groups speaking for the biggest capitalistic_interests, The bankruptcy of the La Follette group, symbolized by the miserable failure of the Wisconsin senator to make a serious effort to force the avowed reactionaries consider the needs of the masses, is only the nat- ural and logical policy of the weak, vague, compromising, defeatist policy of the whole “progressive” flock here. La Follette and his followers re- fused to make a serious fight for the control of the Interstate Commerce committee and put the reactionary Southern Democratic senator, Smith, in charge of this most important body delegated to handle the interests of millions of: workers and farmers. Quit in Taxation Fight. The insurgents likewise quit cold in the taxation fight. They were the laughing stock of the show in the at- tempt to liberalize the rules of pro- cedure in the house. Senator Ladd, one of their leading ‘figures from North Dakota, disting- uished himself as one of the most ar- dent advocates of giving away the valuable Muscle Shoals property to Ford who, next to Gary, is the most powerful advocate of the open shop in the country. When the Teapot Dome scandal was at white heat the progressives in the house were silent and in the senate they threw away every opportunity to strike effective blows at the very in- terests which they were supposed to fight. The only possible culmination to such a series of dismal failures and betrayals on the part of the progres- sives and insurgents was the flight of La Follefte at the moment when de- cisive action was needed most. Send in that Subscription Today. Car Company Controls Busses. MILWAUKEE, June 4.—A year’s fight by the Socialist minority in the Milwaukee common council for an in- dependent motorbus line was lost when it was agreed to give the street car company sole permission to con- duct the local motorbus transportation business. NEW YORK CITY Party Activities Worker's Dramatics. The Workers’ Dramatic club will meet Friday, June 6, at the Ukrainian headquarters, 64 E. Fourth St., at’ 8 o’clock to make plans for dramatic ac- tivities. Tite committee elected at the last meeting will report. Final action must be taken at this meeting in reference to the Staten Island proposition tor the summer. All interested in dramatics, folk dancing; singing, etc., are urged to be present. destiny is to grumble, to waver, hesitate, to take fright at their own :icts, to whine and then to retreat be- hind the leadership of a stronger class. Big Business, on the contrary, is no weakling. It fights. It drives ruth- lessly, at least attempting to drive to a final issue. It defends its own spawn. It cleared the ground for Coolidge, its political concubine. The Big’ Bourgeoisie could not afford to lose on the Teapot Dome issue, could 1.0t afford to let Coolidge be beaten on an issue that was its own issue. It secured Coolidge’s nomination, It will secure either his election or the elec- tion of a democratic prototype of Cooltdge, as the exigencies of the coming months may demand and with- in the possibilities at hand. At least on the point of nomination, Big Busi- ness HAD to defend Coolidge, “the Principal,” who defended it at the} On June 17, in St. Paul, cost of what is called honor. Many thought that because of Tea-|farmers will enter pét Dome, Coolidge would lose the | first time in American history in any nomination. BECAUSE OF THAPOT DOME and ENGINEERS HOLD ATH CONVENTION IN CLEVELAND Union Has Holdings in Nine Banks By ALBERT F, COYLE (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) CLEVELAND, June 4—Ninety thousand locomotive engineersare rep- resented by the 415 delegates meeting in Cleveland a8 the fourth triennial convention of the Brotherhood. of Lo- comotive Engineers. Grand Chief Warren 8. Stone explained to the dele- gates, who came from every state and from the provinces of Canada, that the brotherhood had grown remark- ably in power and influence since the 1921 convention. He recommends the extension of the widow pension sys- tem to protect the wives of all mem- bers instead of just those who have heretofore belonged to the brother- hood’s pension association. Greater development of banking and invest- ment enterprise is also urged. Valuable holdings in nine great banks, a substantial union treasury characterizing the conflict between the balance and two vast investment com- panies,help to put the brotherhood in the strongest financial position in its 60 years, Gen. Sec.-Treas. William B. Prenter reports. The convention is getting down to business immediately. Committees on resolutions, pensions and the Chi- cago joint agreement are reporting. The B. of L. E. was founded under its present name at the Indianapolis convention of Aug. 17, 1864, just 60 years ago. Delegates of 54 divis- ions participated. The first step toward engine service organization was taken in Baltimore in 1855 when 68 engineers from 45 roads formed The National Protective Association. It was killed during the civil war. The predecessor of the present broth- erhood was organized in Detroit in 1863. The B. of L. E., like the other to yhis part in it, Coolidge is nominated. three train brotherhoods, is not affili- ated with the American Federation of Labor. PAINLEVE IS ELECTED HEAD OF FRENCH CHAMBER PARIS, June 4.—Former Premier Painleve, peace-maker of the parties of the left, was elected president of the French chamber of deputies to- day. Altho Painleve’s , election was a foregone conclusion, owing to the left holding a majority of seats, the con- test proved close, The Socialists elected him, 296 to 209 over General Maginot, candidate of the bloc national. The Black Sea Mutineer Marty, choice of the Communists, received 25 votes. Plan to Sidetrack Barkley-Howell Bill Thru Adjournment By Federated Press WASHINGTON, June. 4.—Bert M. Jewell, president of the railway em- ployes’ department of the American Federation of Labor, and D. B. Rob- ertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- men, in charge of labor’s fight for the Howell-Barkley raffroad labor bill, are opposed to adjournment of Congress under any circumstances until this leg- islation has been brot to a final roll- call. Moreover, they are opposed to the amendment written into the bill by the Senate subcommittee, provid- ing for federal receiverships in case of strike. Machine Republicans, opposing the bill, have the support of . machine Democrats, who have nominally sup- ported the bill, in the movement to adjourn Congress on June 7 until December. The Big Bourgeoisie defends its own. The Little Bourgeoisie whines, hesi- tates, timialy attacks, and retreats, to wait for another class to lead. The working class, which, like the Big Bourgeoisie, is a class that can fight, which has a separate class des- tiny of its own, and the impoverished farmer class, which is the natural ally of the working class—these are not organized, they have no representa- tives, no voice. They are—and espec- jaily they have been in the past— hazy, un-class-conscious, and following the lead of tne spineless, fightless, hopeless middle class. Having no, mass political party of their own, they are a class without a vote—a class with only the privilege of voting for other classes, “On to St. Paull” Minnesota, this will be changed. The workers and the arena for the other capacity than as retainers of another class. if Thursday, June 5, 1924 The Daily Worker Will Be There By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. “TWO MONTHS FOR $1.00!” That is our subscription offer for the DAILY WORKER; an offer that expires on June 15. What is your answer? Perhaps you will be able: to give your answer, a little more enthusiastically when we have made a few things clear. What is going to happen during the next two months? Five gatherings of tremendous importance to the work- ers and farmers will be held as follows: JUNE 10.—The National Republican Convention at Cleveland. JUNE 17.—The National Farmer-Labor Convention at St. Paul. JUNE 24.—The National Democratic Convention in New York City. JULY 4.—The gathering of the Conference for Progres- sive Political Action at Cleveland. JULY 6.—The National Cleveland. : * * * Socialist Convention at Workers and farmers thruout the nation cannot intelli- gently fight for their own interests unless they clearly under- stand what transpires at all of these gatherings. It is clear that all workers and farmers cannot go to Cleveland, St. Paul and New York City, to listen to what is said, to see what is going on. But the DAILY WORKER will be at all of these gather- ings. It will interpret what takes place from the working class angle. From the beginning of the Cleveland gathering ‘ of the Republicans to the adjournment of the Socialists in the same city, one month later, the story of what these gatherings really mean to the oppressed workers and farmers of the nation, will be presented in convincing form. And when we say that for the DAILY WORKER, you know what we mean. Our smashes at capitalism, in our interpretation of all these gatherings, will come straight from the shoulder as always. working class, * * * e have but one interest to serve—that of the We have already announced that Robert Minor, editor of The Liberator, the Communist monthly, is going to Cleveland for the DAILY WORKER. The articles of this world famous writer and cartoonist have already begun to appear in the DAILY WORKER. There will be something every day. The first article appeared yesterday: “Hell for Europe—Maria for America.” That was the title. Hell will remain in western Europe until capitalism has been dethroned and the All-European Soviet established. The franc is falling again in spite of all that “Hell and Maria” Dawes and his “Commission of Experts” accom- plished during their recent world-heralded, salvaging trip to Europe. But French finances continue to totter to ruin. And the Republican party of Morgan’s Wall Street wants to help bring some of that ruin and chaos to the United States thru makin, “Maria” Dawes a candidate for vice- president along with its presidential candidate, “Strike- breaker” Coolidge. Maria for America” means “Hel! for America” as well as “Hell for Europe.” But let Robert Minor tell the story in his own inimitable way. * J * Minor leaves soon for Cleveland where he will report for the DAILY WORKER all that is worth knowing about the national convention.of the Republican party. Minor will have his seat at the press table. He will see and hear all that the reporters of the yellow dailies will see and hear. But he will see and hear with the eyes and ears of a Communist, always alert to catching the working class viewpoint of developing events. Plans are already being made to cover the four other gatherings. You will want to go with the DAILY WORKER to St. Paul on June 17, and watch the building of the National Farmer-Labor Party. This is to be the history making gathering. The other conventions and conferences will mark time or slip back- wards. At St. Paul the workers and farmers will march for- ward to the organization of the national class farmer-labor party. Now are you more reading terested than when you started is column? Have you decided to send in a “Block of Four!" on the subscription list at the bottom of this page? Let this be your immediate contribution to combat this year. Great hopes are being placed in the e the big political rgetic co-opera- tion of the District Organizers of the Workers party, in all sections of the nation. WORKER. They must all join in this mig drive for tens of thousands of new readers for the If thousands of new readers are secured for the DAIL’ means a stronger an: scious worke Today is the day of action. action. MONTHS FO busy today. THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, filinois. “Enclosed find §...:..::s00 to cover the list of .., to the DAILY WORKER taken on the list below. These “subs” were secured at the Special Rate of $1 for two months. This is my effort to let the workers and farmers know the truth about the attacks on the class farmer-labor movement. 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