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

, many. features Another Minor Cartoon on the Cleveland G. O. P. Convention on This Page Today THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. II. No. 68. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. . THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicage, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924 E> 290 « PUBLISE Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Demand: Workers! Farmers! The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents MING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill CONGRESS IS LOYAL TO BOSSES , Teapot " showin BE CAREFUL IF NOT GOOD Thieves Must ‘Hang Together or— WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5. —Blackmail, corruption, bribe- ry, and wholesale use of gov- ernment for private profit, are the charges made against the principals involved in the Tea- pot Dome and Naval Reserve oil scandal, in the report of Senator T. J. Walsh of Montana, to the Senate.today. No sugyestion is made, however, of the wide Sweep of the corruption dis- closed, that reached into the White House. The report brings to an end the Jong and sensational. “scandal” in- quiry which involved scores of men high in public life and resulted in the resignation of a cabinet officer. It was written by Senator Thomas J. ‘Walsh. A minority report may be submitted later by Senator Spencer, Missouri, Republican, who objects to 1k The chief features of the Walsh re- port. are: Denunciation of the leases made by ‘former Secretary of the Interior Fall and Harry F. Sinclair and EB. L. Do- Aheny on the legal ground that they were made in “flagrant disregard of law.” A severe arraignment of Fall for accepting “loans” of $25,000 from Sinclair and $100,000 from Doheny, with an attack upon former Secre- tary of the Navy Denby charging Se Drawn Especially for the DAILY WORKER by Robert Minor. Ghosts of Jake Hamon and Jess Sniith: “We bring you the lau rels of victory.” dereliction of duty in failing to inves- tigate the leases before affixing his signature to them. How to Rob Legally. A suggestion’ that hereafter no lease of government oil lands should be made without competitive bidding and then only in case the lands are suffering from drainage by adjacent properties. A requirement that hereafter leases ®Bhould be passed upon by the comp- troller general. A charge that the leases are “cor- rupt” without mentioning names of ‘those against whom corruption is charged but aiming it clearly at the half dozen principals in connection ‘with the leases. — An attack upon Fall for using the ) to chase off from Teapot certain squatters’ who were By ROBERT MINOR. Another article on the Cleveland G. O. P. Convention written specially for the DAILY WORKER. eee 'HE Republican party’s national convention, opening at Cleveland on June 10, will practically be called to order on its seventieth birthday. A short-sighted view of the “Grand Old Party” of the highest and mighti- est gilded nobolity of Wall Street (which possesses also, now, a “Grand Substitute Party” called the Denio- cratic), would make one feel that the the Whigs, Democrats. and. the new- ly formed Liberty party. no longer expressed the class divisions of the day. The country was. in economic depression, an irreconcilable conflict of two systems of labor exploitation, and a crisis which could not much longer be softened by compromise. The country had been ruled from the beginning of the republic almost continuously by the slave-holding oli- garchy of the south, with compro- and gradwally sar sineeged con- cessions and the slave eae the | eum modern capitalism of hha Sao compromise policy pressed in the “M' or of 1820, by which the. been divided between el had slay cality ofthe west with slave advo- cates, The discovery of gold in California in 1849 had made the slave owning south dream of a vaster empire. The industrial system of the north was be- ing staryed out. The northern manu- |facturing interests felt themselves on the verge of ruin unless they could wrest from the southern oligarchy the control of the federal’ government, solidity the nation as a single unit; build’ a tariff wall which would force bétween jthe southern states to turn their trade land their cotton’ to. the northern states. The issue was one of life ex-|and death between two economic sys- tems, and it could no longer be com- promised. The northern manufacturing inter- On the G. O. P. Birthday tension of slave property rights into northern states by the enforcement of the new “third party” demand that of the Fugitive Slavé law. The first national ,platform of the new “third party” demanded that those relics of barbarism, . polygamy and slavery.” But timidly, at the end, cropped up the more definite and real demands of the capitalist class: the building of a railway to the Pacific and such measures. By 1860 the new party of the north- ern capitalist class had found its com- plete form. The Dred Scott decision of the supreme court, which extended the arm of the slave oligarchy into the north, the civil war in Kansas and the John Brown raid, found their (Continued on page 2.) Dome Report Slaps Burglars On Wrist THE CEREMONY AT CLEVELAND $50,000,000 FOR GREATER NAVY BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR WORKER-FARMER NEEDS WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5.—Congress is preparing to adjourn in twenty-four hours. The legislative solons are getting ready to pack up and get out to their localities to open their cam- paigns for coming back to Washington. The republican congress- men and senators are preparing to rush off to Cleveland for the national convention. The first session of the sixty-eighth Congress which was $0 widely advertised as a progressive body, where the insurgents were in such strategic positions to influence legislation, thus ends without having madé the least effort to deal with the urgent needs of the millions of bankrupt farmers and exploited workers. Despite the fact that more’ than two million farmers have deserted the rural communities for the cities in order to escape the hardships of broken-down agriculture, and that almost one out of every four farmers in more than half of our dominantly agricultural states are virtually bankrupt, Congress has not taken ests were obliged to have a political rallying center in order to win their ends. The political parties of that day were not divided along the issues which divided the nation. Within the Democratic party were advocates of slavery and also those who wished to curb the slave power. Within the Whig party there ‘were pro-stavery- we economy and wage labor.economy. A line had been drawn aeross the map at the latitude of 36 degrees 30 min- utes. North of this line, it was agreed, labor. should be exploited thru the wage system, and employers of wage labor should rule. South of the line labor should be exploited thru the out- ATTEMPT TO TURN OVER MUSCLE SHOALS TO HENRY POSTPONED 3 el: right ownership of the laborer, and the country should be ruled by the lave labor owners. But in 1864 this compromise was with the “Kansas-Nebraska” , and the slave owners of the south a free hand to extend the 1 slave system thru the newly “golden west,” provided they 80 by settling each new lo- 1 EE thruout the country “May, as reported by Dun’s Re- 11 French parliamen- ction the Communists ites and anti-slaveryites. Seeing the conflict coming, the ar- rogant slave owners moved to consol- idate. their power. The west was thrown open to a scramble for con- trol. While the Kansas-Nebraska bill was being debated in congress, the defi- nite breaking up and realignment, of parties began with a mass meeting in Wisconsin of members of the Demo- cratic, Whig and Free Soil parties, de- claring that they “would throw the old party organizations to the winds and organize a new party on the sole issue of the non-extension of slavery.” The revolt’ spread, especially in the west. At Jackson, Mich,, on July 6, 1854, occurred a) state convention which, with other state conventions closely following, finally crystallized the party of revolt—the Republican party. The movement was fanned to tury by the bolder and bolder demands of the slave oligarchy, which demanded not only a free hand in the west, but the purchase or conquest of Cuba Spain, to be added to the United | | States as slave territory, and the ex: WASHINGTON, June 5.—Consid- eration of Muscle Shoals legislation by the senate today was put over until December 3, when it will be taken up and finally disposed of. Thi: tween supporte: Chairman, Norris and senate lead- ers, after Senator Underwood, of Alabama, abandoned his attempt to “get a vote on the question this ses- sion in the face of certain defeat. a single step to alleviate the suf-* ferings of these great rural masses. Railroad Barons Safe. Even the McNary-Haugen bill which, at- best was only a meas- ure aimed at rendering tempo- rary help to’ some well-to-do farmers, and totally disregarded ine interests of the farm-work- mt: ts, and dis-. sed farmers, Was rejecte The railroad capitalists are safe in their continuing to eharge freight rates 45 per cent in excess of the pre- war level. In Canada: and Argentine the farmers have‘ had freight rates lowered to the 1913 scale. At the same time the ‘workers are to be forced to tolerate the strike-breaking machinery of the railroad labor board, headed by the same Ben Hooper who led the attack on the shopmen during their 1922 strike. High Tariff Untouched. The Fordney-McCumber tariff act remains untouched and the big indus- trial interests will continue mulcting the masses out of billions anually as additional tribute levied on the work- ers and farmers thru high tariff rates. But congress is not forgetful of the i interests of the big capitalists. Busy as the representatiyes and senators are, they are planning to rush thru a bill providing for the expenditure of $150,000,000 to strengthen the navy and help the imperialist armada be- come the most powerful fleet on all waters. _ With misery and bankruptcy star- ing millions in the face, with the spectre of unemployment again haunt- ing the millions of workers congre- gated in the big industrial centers, the senate is planning to build more cruisers, battleships, submarines and gunboats to protect the conquests of our ruling class in the far off sections of the Pacific and the Latin-American countries, Congress Rejects Publicity. A so-called omnibus pension bill will be rushed thru with little ado in order to enable the senators and con- gressmen facing election to talk about all they have done for the veterans of various wars in their respective constituencies. The proposal to make public cam- paign expenditures and to shed full publicity on the campaign contribu- tions and contributors will be killed by congress before it adjourns. Little it any resistance is expected from the self-styled progressives who seem to have read themselves. completely off the map since their utter failure in preventing the adjournment of the sessions. PHILADELPHIA FARMER-LABOR PARTY TELLS JUNE 17 ENEMIES IT’S ON WAY TO ST. PAUL By ABRAM JAKIRA. jal to The Daily aba PHILADELPHIA, Per Suis 5.—Anewer! PELF-PUFFED BOSSES WANT Western Electric ie ga Slaves for Its Profit By promising to train young men who have not yet learned a trade, the Western Electric Company is able to maintain its wage scale far below the union standard. Thousands of young- sters who have just completed high school, or who leave school to get a technical education, go to work for twenty dollars a week, fed up with the hope that by learning to be fast they can later on earn a decent living at piece work rates: The Western Electric Company spends thousands of dollars yearly, printing a magazine on the best type of paper and distributing it to its 63,000 employes every month: The magazine fills the employes with the bunk that every man is paid exactly what he is worth; that he is amply re- wardéd by the company for his loyalty and years of service, and all he has to do to rise from the ranks is to be cheerful and “take a little more in- terest in the work than your boss de mands of you.” President Brags of Output But from this magazine you learn that the company in reality pays just as little wages as possible. The presi- dent, C. G. Du Bois, in the current is- sue of “Western Hlectric,” brags not about the good wages paid to em+ ployes, but about the. fact that “in 1923 actual deliveries to telephone companies was $186,000,000; and over (Continued on page 4) YOUNG MEN Dirigible Tries Second Escape. LAKEHURST, N. J., June 5.—After having floatetl aimlessly for hours in a fog between Trenton and the naval air base here, the giant navy dirigible Shenandoah, was placed in its hangar shortly after 8 a. m. today. DAUGHERTY FIGHTING TO GRAB HARDING'S OHIO 6. 0. P, MACHINE. a ecial to The Daily Worker) ~* VELAND, O., June 5.—-Harry a ran eben former attorney gen- eral, will make a desperate fight to recapture control of the Ohio Re- publican organization, This was seen today in reports which said the former attorney gen- ‘eral will combine with Sen. Frank the organized campaign of | 8. Willis in an effort to force seleo slander against June 17 by certain labor aan who are opposed to in-| tion of Louis Brush, of Salem, O., dependent political action and by several non-workingclass groups led by LaFollette, the executive committee of the Philadelphia Farmer-Labor Party reaffirmed the decision to send its del 17 in every way possible. An appeal tions of this olty to stand by St. Paul. jagate to St. Paul and: ia being Issued to all labor organiza- to support June) man. Rud K. part owner of the Marion Star, for merly the late President Harding's newspaper, as national committee- Hynicka, Cincinnati, Present committeeman, is weer to retire.