The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 6, 1924, Page 2

ann omhi..government of Roumania, and it Page Two == -~ REPORTS OF ROUMANIAN COUP DENIED But Country is Held Incommunicado VIENNA, June 5.—Contra- dictory reports have come from} Bucharest during the past two days, some insisting there has been a revolution in Roumania and «that troops under General Averescu have forced the gov- ernment out. A semi-official statement from Bucharest, however, deplores the rumors of a revolution and says that General Averescu was simply holding a yearly mass meeting with his followers out- side the city and adds that there were “rio incidents.” It is impossible to communicate di- reecfly with Bucharest, and for that reason renewed reports of a’ revolu- tion in Roumania persisted. It is quite significant, however, that the wires are idle between Bucharest and the outside world. There has been no report of a_ telegraphers’ strike or an earthquake. Since it was learned that General Averescu was marching on the capital at the head of 50,600 peasants nothing has come out of Roumania except semi-official denials. Perhaps the officials are in no position to affirm or deny. People in this part of the world are becoming so accustomed to rumors that nothing short of an accomplished fact will get a rise out of them. The Roumania situation, however, is cloudy. The king and queen are traveling Europe on a begging expedi- tion. This indicates poverty, and royal families can count only on those they can buy. It would not be sur- prising to learn that the army turned against the royal family on hearing that the king was not successful in touching the Paris and London bank- ers for a loan. General Averescu is a reactionary and has recently returned from Italy, where he had a conference wjth Mus- solini. His activities since his return indicate the proximity of a Fascisti coup. In fact, it may already have taken place. The downfall of Poin- care was a severe blow to the pres- ‘would. cause no surprise to learn, when the clouds clear away, that something serious has happened to its present rulers. Miners Force Free Books. HURST, Ill, June 5.—Free text- books for all school children in the Hurst primary and high school dis- trict have been voted at the district election. Miners’ union 2418, of which J. E. Gebert is secretary, was the principal force back of the campaign. | The Illinois law permits text- books by vote of the school board, or if the board refuses to act, the voters may carry it thru by petition of 5 per cent of the voters to put it on the ballot. SHIDEHARA MAY BE JAPAN’S NEW MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS BARON SHIDEHARA The recent earthquake not only overthrew buildings; it also toppled over a government. The extreme re- actionaries went down in the elec- tions and a more liberal set of poll- ticians were victorious. FOOD WORKERS CONTINUE BIG UNION DRIVE Plan Mass Meeting for Next Week The general membership meeting of the Amalgamated Food Workers accepted the report of District Or- ganizer Charles Keller on his New |Yerk trip with great enthusiasm at |their meeting Wednesday at 24 | North State St. An organization committee was elected with full power to proceed with the strike and with the organ- ization of the Greek restaurant work- ers into the union. The organization committee is' now working out the details of a continued drive for or- ganization into the union of those members who have not already joined. For this purpose another mass meeting will be held early next week. Organizer Keller told the DAILY | WORKER that the work of the organ- izing committee will lead up to a mass demonstration of all the restaurant workers in the city. He said that the CARPENTERS GET READY TO NAIL HARRY JENSEN Frank Stahl Slated to Head Council Sample ballots have been issued by the nominees in the June 14 elec- tions of the district council of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ers, which will oppose the Jensen ma- chine. The slate opposed to Jensen is expected to sweep the elections, because of the almost unanimous con- demnation heaped on the present dis- trict council president, Harry Jensen, when he almost disrupted the organi- zation by arbitrarily suspending nine locals which had as members candi- dates opposed to him, Besides Frank Stahl of local Union No. 13, who is opposing Jensen for the presidency of the district council, the anti-machine slate is composed of John Brims, local 80 for vice presi- dent; R. G. Wolf, local 141, William Daniels, local 13 and Jasper Som- mers, local 1786 for the finance com- mittee; Frank Stahl, R. G. Wolf, W. Johansen, local 58, M. G. Baade, lo- cal 448, and Adam Tait, local 1307 for the arbitration Board; P. L, Anderson, local 62 and D. Dunbar, local 13 for outside business agents; and William Osterhause, local 1, for warden. The program issued by the candi- dates opposed to Jensen’s reactionary achine declares: “The Chicago District membership | has. passed through the past three years of struggle gloriously. In ge face of the Citizen’s Committee open shop drive our ranks are intact and our membership increased. In the face of the foregoing with a single ad- ministration in the District there has been made no_ reapproachment to- wards a closed shop condition. “The present administration react- ing to the consciousness of their in- efficiency and inability to secure a re- approachment with the’ contractors looking towards a closed shop con- dition have in the present campaign struck a solar plexus blow at the mem- bership’s intense desire for a bid for the closed shop, by the action of de- claring. candidates pledged to a pro- gram of reapproachment not qualified to appear on the ballot. After a furor in the press—among @he membership —and action by our International President, this ruling has been re- scinded. “In view of the above, the under- signed candidates, who were at first ruled off the ballot, the action later rescinded, appeal for the suffrage of the membership of the District Coun- cil: that the time has arrived~when the membership sick with wiggle- wobble are ready for a change. Said change to mark the opening gun in the battle for a closed shop town.” UNION BAKERS special “Food Workers’ Strike Edi- |tion” of the DAILY WORKER has stirred up much favorable comment jin New York. There is a constant de- mand for the DAILY WORKER among the food workers in New York, Keller declared. SHOULD BE CAREFUL IF NOT GOOD (Continued from page 1.) paid millions of dollars to “irresponsi- ble” claimants “with more or less shadowy claims.” Most of the 36 printed pages of the report deals strictly with the testi- mony developed from a legal stand- point. It refrains from passing judg- ment in most instances and merely ‘sets forth the facts without inter- preting them. Walsh, however, said: “Not only was the Teapot Dome lease awarded to Sinclair without competition, but he paid a fabulous sum to procure the elimination of a potential rival. A Delicate Hint. “One seeking a fair contract from the government does not put off his “competitors; neither does he, when he secures it ordinarily, submit to black- mail in connection with it; nor does he while negotiations are pending, ac- commodate the awarding officer with loans.” This reference is believed to be in ' connection with testimony that Sin- HIGH COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION OF LW W. DEFENSE WITHESSES (By The Federated Press) SACRAMENTO, Calif, June 5— In defiance of all precedent in legal practice and traditional American fair play, the California supreme court has upheld the convictiap of five defense witnesses arrested af- ter they testified at a criminal syn- dicaliem trial. The men were sub- poenaed as witnesses, and were not permitted to testify unless they would acknowledge membership in the I. W. W. Their arrest and con- vietion followed on the sole ground ua” had admitted this mem- clair paid J. Leo Stack and F. G. Bon- fils, of Denver, a million dollars for an alleged claim which Walsh states was worth less. * In this connection Walsh also points with significance to the fact that Bonfils is editor of a Denver news- paper which attacked the leases at first, but when Sinclair promised to pay the money “the attacks of the newspaper thereupon ceased.” “The proprietor of a rival newspa- per upon a claim even more shadowy, if, indeed, it can be called a claim at all, got $92,500 out of the Pioneer Oil Company as his share of the monies, yielded up by Sinclair.” Walsh con- tinues. It May Be Loan! Outlining the evidence that Doheny sent Fall $100,000 in cash in a black satchel by his son and the admission that Sinclair, thru his counsel, J. W. Zevely, gave Fall $25,000, Walsh said: “Your committee ventures no opin- fon as to whether transaction was in fact a loan or whether it might more appropriately be otherwise denomi- nated. Tho the committee refrains from characterizing the transaction, it does not hesitate to condemn it as in the last degree reprehensible on the part of all concerned in it. The es- sentially corrupt character of a loan made under such circumstances re- quipes no comment. “It would be impossible for an offi- cer to accept a loan of such an amount under the circumstances with- out a ‘sense of obligation to the tender.” Walsh also mentioned the $10,000 contributed by Sinclair to the Republi- can campaign fund and the subse- quent addition of $76,000 to help make up the party deficit. He also pointed to the contribution of Doheny to both party funds. 4 ‘Walsh admitted in the report that he had fa¥ed to establish that there was a conspiracy of ofl operators at the Republican convention to select a “complacent” secretary of the interior. FORCING BOSSES. TO ACCEPT TERMS Half Struck Shops Signed Up The striking members of the Jewish Bakery Union, Local 237, are today preparing a campaign of mass meet- ings to combat the injunction just issued by the infamous injunction judge, Dennis EB. Sullivan, which at- from picketing. Despite the injunction, and a series of sluggings instituted by the bosses, the strike is fast pressing on to a suc- cessful conclusion. Over half of the strikers have gone back to work in the thirty shops which have so far settled with the union on the union's terms. M. Zorokin, 1214 S. Kedzie Avenue, has sworn out a warrant against Thomas MeNichol, of the bakery bosses’ association, who is declared to be one of the most despicable gun- men and tools of the bosses. This warrant grows out of the beating up some time ago of Zorokin. Business Agent Lipkin’s hand, pierced by a bullet last week, is prog- ressing nicely and he is still on the job, in spite of the attempts made on his life. This morning the strikers met at 3420 W. Roosevelt Road, to discuss the injunction and future strike plans. American Planes Reach China. SHANGHAI, June 5—Two of the three American-round-the-world planes flew across the East China Sea from Japan to China today. The third plane, that of Lt. Lowetl Smith, com- mander, failed to take off satfsYactor- fly and was forced to remain off Shigetomi, Japan. CLANCY, CHIEF OF LOCKS HORNS THE DAILY WORKER (Continued from page 1.) echo; but perhaps the most charac- teristic demand came in the form of @ measure dor protective tariff. The election of 1860, in which the new “third party” swept the north and west and won control of the na- tion, led to the counter-revolution of |the southern ruling class—and then to |the half-revolution which is called our American Civil War. 14 It was the logic of history and the class destiny of the modern capital- ists, that the Republiéan party should jrule until it finished its task of con- |solidating the capitalist system and national unification “under capitalist class rule, But by 1876 the Republican party |began to decline, and fell into a |riod (of twenty years of weakness. With the breaking of the power of the southern ruling class thru the loss of its black human labor-cattle (which because of conditions of production in the south could not be so easily handled on the wage-labor basis), the Democratic party lost its character as the chattel-slavery party. It became a hybrid party. At times it expressed very lamely, a certain discontent of a class of now-impoverished southern whites; and in the west, at times, middle-class discontent rallied to its banner. There was tendencies of the democratic party to become the petty- capitalist party. The Republican party, as well as the Democratic part, began to lose its distinctive “one-class” significance. Both parties became hybrid parties, in which both the petty capitalists and the great capitalists struggled for control; the large capitalists invari- ably succeeding in keeping control the party that won. In 1896, small capitalist discontent succeeded in winning control of the Democratic party. This resulted in reviving the Republican party thru to William McKinley to beat the mid- dle-class attack, and the Republican party began a new period of strength which lasted sixteen years. In this period of re-birth, the Republican party became the champion of modern imperialism—the latest phase of capi- talist demand. The industrial capi- talists, instead of the slave oligarchy, now demanded the power to dominate Cuba and other colonial territories— and got it. The middle-class revolt was beaten, ‘oth in the country at large and, fin- ally, in the Democratic, party. Wars between different schools of the same stratum of big business in Wall Street, made expedient the use of both Demo- cratic and Republican parties for the superficial quarrels between factions in the highest layer of the capitalist ‘class. With the advent of Wilson in 1912. the Democratic party was re-estab- lished as a twin servant of the Re publican party, to serve the same mas- ter—the biggest of big business in Wall Street. The Democratic and Republican parties both became hy- brid, two-class parties—with the mid- dle class trailing after each, both were controlled by precisely the same ele- ments, and finally, by compromises, controlled even by the same individ- ual big capitalists. The phenomenon of the same corporation treasuries supplying the funds for both “rival” parties, which was not unknown be- fore, became a fixed and steady cus- (B: NEW YORK, June 5—Ha tempts to restrain the striking bakers) |4weq Daugherty as U. S. attorney general, took a side swipe at the sena investigating committee in speaking at a dinner in connection with Columbia university commencement. He said: “It ip not for the attorney general, not for any other officer or body to the functions of the courts or to interfere with them In the determina- usurp tion of justice.” ‘THO FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION COMES TO COLUMBUS JUNE 7 COLUMBUS, 0., June 5.—Prepa- rations are going forward for the state Farmer-Labor convention which will be held here June 7 and 8, at Columbus Federation Hall, 50\4 W. Gay St. Trade unions, farm- ers’ organizations, and other work- ers’ and farmers’ groups are send- ing in credentials for their delegates in spite of Senator La Follette’s forced blast last week. ‘WASHINGTON, Juse 5.—Charles B. Warren, American ambassador to Mexico, has been virtually agreed upon by Republican leaders for the important post of chairman of the resolutions committee of the Cleve- land convention, it was learned au- thoritatively’ today. THE ELKS WITH KU KLUX KLAN (By The Federated Pi BUFFALO, N. Y., June &—Twenty thousand Elke New York state convention of thelr organization in Buffalo ittending ‘the annual jauded Presi- dent Philip Clancy's denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan. Clancy called klans- men cowards for hiding behind masks and'un-Amerlcan for arousing racial and religious strife. to withdraw from the Elke, He asked Elke who were in sympathy with the klan ,{lines that do not express those an- rallying all elements of big business | MORGAN’S NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL SLAMS CONGRESSIONAL PROBERS tom. Big business controls both parties, with the middle class hopelessly split between the two and following as the tail of the kite of each. What of the working class? It had never even had @ mass party. Labor, confused and dumb, had followed first one and then the other, usually taking its lead from the less contented of the middle class, but sometimes sup- |porting big business against the mid- | dle class. | Thus, in 1924, we have reached a |condition in some ways similar to that of 1854. Like 1854 it is a period }of great class antagonisms, and the {two dominant parties are drawn on tagonisms. In the Republican party ;and in the Democratic party, middle- class discontent struggles in vain as |a pitiful minority for expression |against the one element that controls |both. The working class and the more impoverished farmers have no expression within either, and never jhave had. Like 1854, it is a time of irreconcil- able clash of class interests. A break- jing up of party lines and a readjust- ment along the lines of class inter- ests is inevitable. The petty capitalist interests are slow to break. This class is not a vital class, like the vigorous, militant capitalist fdustrial capitalist class of 1864. The petty-capitalist class is a dying class. It jas no destiny. It has and can have no program except: the program of the poet: “Turn back, turn back, Oh Time, in thy flight!” The petty capitalist interests will go as a weak and timid minority to both republican and democratic con- ventions. The republican convention especially will face a petty-capitalist revolt in definite form. La Follette will be there with his Lazarus-plat- form, screaming for mercy from the big capitalist masters. He and his ragged battalion will get nothing, and will go out to scream in hopeless rage. But ‘La Follette hasn’t it In him to be disloyal to Big Capitalism. He thay run as an independent—in individual protegt—but he will not form an or- ganization, a party of protest. Above all he will not give aid to the forma- tion of a labor class party—this act at ON THE G.0.P. BIRTHDAY economy in 1854. The party lines now existing cannot even by the wild- est distortion be made to seem to de- fine the antagonism. Whatever the floundering of the La Follettites in the old-party con- ventions,—whether there be a petty- capitalist split.or not—there will be a new party born this year: The Farmer-Labor party that will be formed at the St. Paul convention on June 17. This will be the new class alignment. At St. Paul will a class with a destiny be politically born. Perhaps it will not understand its des- tiny at first. But ultimately it must know that its destiny is to rule the earth, to abolish the wage-slave sys- tem of production, as the’ chattel- slave system was abolished thru the new class-party alignments that took place in 1854 and triumphed in 1865. Ultimately the labor movement which will take its first mass political step at St. Paul will learn that it, too, can break the slave oligarchy of its op- ponents only by confiscating the means of production which is the ba- sis of its enemy’s strength. The Cleveland convention of the Re- publican party will have little action within the great hall be-strewn with banners. The wiser politicians within that hall will have their eyes trained out of the windows toward the broad plains where the birth of a new power is taking place. By LOUIS Atlantic City by the Sea Friday, June 6, 1924 MILLERAND 60 STILL STRONG French President Asking Advice PARIS, June 6.—The crisis brought Jabout by the Socialists’ demand that President Millerand resign still was acute today, and there were no indi- cations that the course which events will take will be known before night- fall. Paul Painleve, elected president of the new chamber of deputies in its opening session yesterday, visits President Millerand this morning. It is considered certain the president will ask Painleve's advice about the demand that he resign. Later Millerand will call in the president of the chamber and M. Dou- mergue, who will lay before him the exact situation regarding the demand for -his resignation. It still appears that Millerand will offer the premiership to Deputy Her- riot of the left wing groups. LAKBHURST, N. Y., June 5.—The navy dirigible Shenandoah left the naval air station here today for a flight over New York, Albany, Syra- cuse and Buffalo. ENGDAHL. During the great railroad strike, when labor over the land was clamoring for a general movement of all workers in support of the strikers, Samuel Gom American Federation of Labor, took his » president of the executive council down to “Atlantic City by the Sea,” the alluring watering place of the fashionable rich which would be high treason to th capitalist class. ‘ The democratic convention will have its own and less clearly defined petty- bourgeois petty-capitalist protest. It will be ridden over, befuddled with words, and exterminated, with per- haps just enough caution to hold a shred of it and of labor elements which. * capitalism’s “souteneurs” among the labor-bureaucracy will try to drag in for raping. About one thing there can be no question: The working class and the bankrupt farmers cannot be made this year, to compromise and surrender to follow either old party. The Dread Scott decision of 1856 has become the Daugherty injunction of 1922-24. The crisis of the northern industries of the ‘fifties has become the crisis of labor-dedation and unem- ployment and union-smashing, and farm-bankruptcy, mortgage-foreclos- ure and evictions, of 1923-24. The issue between the capitalist system and the industrial working class and poor farmers, is as irre- concilable as was the issue between the slave oligarchy and the capitalist id Press) tone, the Morgan lawyer who fol- War Horror Talk All Bunk, American Blood-Drinker Says By the Fe ed Press. NEW YORK, June 5.—The new tac- ties of the militarists in fighting peace advocates is to declare that the hor- rors of war are exaggerated by senti- mentalists. “Well meant but danger- ous ideas of kindly women and preach- ers who want to abolish war and the national defense with it,” is the de- scription given’ by Major General John A, Lejeune, commandant, United States marine corps, to the annual din- ner of the Second division veterans, New York. “There are no veterans today in pacifist socteti They know war. Most pacifists are women, men too old to fight or those who ducked to cover when the war came. Their minds have been perverted by the imagined horrors of war they never knew.” This was Lejeune's climax, Pacifists here reply that the hun+ dred percenters fear the rising anti- war movement just because it in- cludes so many drafted men who say, “Never again.” They further point out that peace organizations are pre- dominantly made up of young pepole, that men too old to fight are the bulk of the so-called preparedness and de- fense organizations. ANNAPOLIS, Mé.—Following grad- uating exercises at the naval acad- emy, there was a rush to the altar, graduates were married. on New Jersey’s ocean shore. Gompers, Duncan, Woll and the rest looked over all the resolutions coming in from all sections of the land, and in the midst of their luxurious bathing beauty contest in fu and clearly visible from thei it was all a “Communist plot, engineered that the rail strikers were in no need of assistance from the whole labor movement. * * Histor: class Farmer-Labor Party. demands. He had been advised of the situation by William Mahoney, chairman of the Arrangements Committee of the June 17th St. Paul Conventio A. F. of L. regime, LaFollette City by the Sea,” and it also was to the effect that the demand of the workers and farmers for a class party was just another “Communist splet engineered from Moscow.” Gompers was able to p from coming to the aid of the rail strikers. But LaFollette was not so successful in his Atlantic City edict. T&e work- ers and farmers decided to go ahead without him. The op- pressed masses, in the cities and on the land, refused to take instructions from LaFollette mind of their own, * = Everyone admits that the failure of LaFollette to lure the workers and farmers into the trap prepared for them part due to the fact that the DAILY WORKER was in gr is in the field. There was no DAILY WORKER in existence when Gom- ers betrayed the railroad strikers in 1922. ORKER was on the job when LaFollette tried to betray the workers in this ye ‘ ceeded. ence. s pol * * In the future the success traying the workers and farmers will depend in great part on the strength of the DAILY WORKER. and influence the masses comes thru an ever increasing circulation of a daily paper. an exception. That is why we are exerting every ounce of energy in the present important crisis in our endeavor to win repeats itself, is an’ old saying. Senator Robert Marion CaFollette, like Gompers, also left the noisy and con- tentious atmosphere of Washington, D. C., and went to “Atlantic City by the Sea” to decide what part he was to lay in the national campaign this year. There were demands rom all sections of the land for the organization of the LaFollette failed miserably. surroundings, with a national ll swing on “The Boardwalk” ir windows, they decided that rom. Moscow,” LaFollette knew of these n. But, like Gompers and his issued his e from “Atlantic revent the workers generally at Atlantic City. They had a * * But the DAILY itical struggle. Gompers suc- at wae the differ. * *? of the enemies of labor in be~ he power to educate The DAILY WORKER is not tens of thousands of new readers for the DAILY WORKER. We want you to help by sendi the accompanyin; THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Hlinois. . Enclosed find §..... to the DAILY WORKER taken on let the workers and farmers know class farmer-labor movement, NAME Aeenpeneeeseceseeessenenenereenseseneenenen senepeneessserereeranabonennasnensenspeeseeeeeeses Bent I DY .rsccvssacsssoersesnnssersesesserseeseeres .. to cover the list of v.00. subscriptions secured at the Special Rate of $1 for two months. This is my effort to _ Write plainly, in ink if possible. Better print the names. Send in for special $1 for two months sub cards, ing in a list of subscriptions on blank at our special rate of TWO MONTHS FOR $1. 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