The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 9, 1924, Page 1

¥ THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR. A WORKERS .AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 70. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Entered as Second-class matter September 21, In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. DAI Workers’ and Farmers’ News Abo THE JUNE 9, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAIL PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., xen 290 P. Convention Every Day in the Daily Worker WORKER. at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. MONDAY, Workers! Farmers! Demand: 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 Y WORKER 7 Chine i . Price 3 Cents ' WHISKY AND FLAGS INSPIRE G. 0. P. By ROBERT MINOR, Staff Writer and Cartoonist of the Daily Worker LEVELAND, June 8.—Patriotism is the last resort of---the republican convention. Flags? The city is choked with flags. Also peanuts, hot dogs, badges, whisky and noise. These also are patriotism. As the scene of a cut-and-dried convention, and the big invisible powers which already have , 1 A LaFollette at the G. O. P. Convention Z “COME, BOBBY, TURN UP YO 4 i UR PLATFORM.” Beg “hey epee Richer nite aes CLEVELAND ON EVE OF BIG: STRIKE Company to Use Armored Cars CLEVELAND, O., June 8.—A strike that will paralyze street car traffic, beginning at mid- night next Tuesday, the day the republican convention gets un- der way, was voted almost un- animously by motor men and conductors of the Cleveland rail- way company early today. Decision to strike followed re- fusal of the street car company to grant a twelve cent an hour increase with 15 minutes pay for making out accident reports, which was awarded by a major- ity vote of an arbitration board. Maximum pay would be in- creased from 60 to 72 cents. Day crews voted to strike as a meet- ing last night. The night crews ratified the decision to strike at a meeting at 1:30 today, The vote -was 1,587 to 532, U. 'S. Attorney A. EB. Bernstein to- day called a special meeting of rep. resentatives of the board of arbitra- tion which awarded the Cleveland Railway company employes an’ in- crease and union motormen and con- ductors who have voted to walk out Tuesday at midnight, in an effort to land. on the old party tickets. G.P.P.A. Against Third Party WASHINGTON, June 8—The Conference for Progressive Political Action announced today that it will not propose the organization of a party at the July 4th Convention in Cleve- It will stay by the old policy of putting up candidates until after the republican convention. With 100,000 visitoys and delegates expected in town for the republican convention, the strike would cause a transportation tieup unprecedented in the city’s history. John J. Stanley, president of the traction company, declared today the company still stood pat in refusing the award of tle arbitration board, which voted three out of five to grant an increase. “We will hire strikebreakers and will have them available as soon as the union men walk out,” he an- nounced. , Armoring of cars is already under way. They are being covered with steel mesh to protect all glass. City- officials today indicated that they would “take drastic action” to have the strike called off. ‘Klan Kandidate Kan’t be Kanned, Says Kommittee WASHINGTON, June 8.—The sub- committee of the senate elections com- mittee investigating the election of Senator Mayfield of has decided that the evidence thus far submitted does not rrant the unseating of Senator Mayfield, according to re- have the strike called off or postponed | ports at the capitol today. { JEWISH BAKERS HIT SULLIVAN'S Vicious WRIT The Jewish Bakers, local union 237, held a mass meeting in the Labor Lyceum yesterday morning, protest- ing against the vicious injunction is- sued by Judge Dennis E. Sullivan in an effort to restrain the 300 striking bakers from picketing. It was announced that an effort is being made to engage Frank Cumer- ford to fight Sullivan’s injunction in the courts, It is planned to present a cross bill which will prove that.most of the statements in the injunction are untrue, The bill will seek to prevent interference by the prejudiced courts and the Master Bakers’ Asso- ciation with the union workers in the closed and settled shops. A series of mass meetings is being held in the sections of the city affect- ed by the strike, to let the women know of the strike and protest against the injunction. Send in that Subscription Today. ‘ \ . SOCIALISTS HEDGING ON LA FOLLETTE Delegates Uninstructed to C. P. P. A. Meet (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, June 8,.—“If La Follette runs for president as an independent, which means as an independent Republican, how can the Socialist party support him without ceasing to be socialist?” This question was asked by a speaker at the gen- eral membership meeting of Socialists of Greater New York, called to instruct the Socialist delegates to the Cleveland con- vention. The question was not answered. No vote was taken, nor were delegates instructed. Speakers who favored withdrawal from the Conference for Progressive Political Action unless its Cleveland ‘convention launches a labor party re- ceived most applause from the 200 members at the meeting. The hope was general that LaFollette would run as a labor party candidate. There was practically unanimous sen- timent among the 30 speakers that the party could not continue as a part of the ©. P. P. A. if the latter indorsed McAdoo or any other (Continued on page six) pyeet patriotism. LITTLE BOSSES BEGIN HERDING BOOB DELEGATES AT CLEVELAND Delegates are here by the carload, crowding hotel lobbies like sardines, smoking the stinkingest cigars ever known and trundling some of the p Dose bellies ever seen. Tall, short, lean and fat, country-clad and city swell—all have that same blank visage, the delegate’s face. Gradually you begin to separate the types. By the half-dozen you locate the “boob” delegates, the | plain, stolid, passive type that comes to conventions and obeys | orders just for the railroad trip and a badge and the yelling. Then you notice the more nervous type, sitting in corners, earnestly whispering, or floor-walking the lobby to gather up the boobs by twos and threes to march them away somewhere—the petty job-hunting type. Now and then the more composed, hard- faced fellows—as yet anonymous—whose names you'll get to know later on. Already fingers begin to point: these are the real go-getters, givers of orders in a small way. These are the early arrivals for the convention. The really | big fellows with nationally known names, the kind that figure in| Teapot scandals, haven't come yet—or maybe they have come but keep out of sight. | SELLING OUT THE NEGROES In my hotel—of course a cheap one—are lodged the dele- gates from two southern states and Hawaii and Porto Rico. To see their faces here brings a twinge to the heart. As I watch a Negro delegate from Alabama, lounging in the old-fashioned and faded finery of.a “Prince Albert” coat and big, black Stetson hat, I recall the speech of the leader of the republican party, Presi- dent: swho went to°a southern city to commit himself and his party “ufiicompromisingly against every suggestion of social equality.” Of course it was a plea for the southern white vote. It meant a promise that the republican party from then on would support the southern ruling class in keeping its Negro working class and tenant farmers in semi-slavery. “Social” is a word applied to. any kind of equality that one plans. to rob the Negro of. Well, these Negro delegates will be permitted “social equali- ty” here—the right to stand around and sit around a white man’s hotel for a few brief days until the convention is over. And maybe a few of them will get political jobs in consideration for helping to keep their people down. | GENTLEMEN FARMER CANDIDATES | Who will be nominated for vice-president? is about the only question, and, as far as I can judge from their talk, nobody cares. The jobs are given out by the president, not by the vice-presi- dent. And probably most of these early arrivals haven’t yet been told whom they are to vote for for vice-president. There is a little talk of Capper—Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas—for vice-president. He sports the now priceless title of “farmer’’—and some of “farmer stuff” has to be pulled this year. Capper is a farmer as Secretary of Labor Davis is a “laborer”’— that is, Davis somehow hornswoggled a union card about forty years ago, but owns a bank and is a millionaire for a living. Capper is a “farmer” in the sense that he is proprietor of several big newspapers, some of which specialize in promoting bankers’ propaganda among farm readers. | FARMS WITH GOLF STICK | But, as far as anyone here is talking about anything but where to get tickets and drinks, Frank O. Lowden seems to be the most talked-of “farmer.” Yes, Lowden is a “farmer’—you can get away with anything here. Lowden farms with a golf- , there is nothing for anybody to do but bust free cigars, all sewed up and with no surprises, Cleveland is rather excited. With, nobody hoping to gain anything except job hunters everything pocketed, with not @ cause or even a popular personality to yell for, HUGHES ACTS AS AGENT FOR STANDARD OIL Letters of State Dept. Bare His Activities (By Federated Press) WASHINGTON, June 8—Sen- ate Document 97, 68th Congress, 1st session, entitled “Oil conces- sions in foreign countries,” is at last printed, after many weeks of delay from the time the State Department disclosed its oil cor- respondence at the demand of the Senate. It affords evidence that the State Department has been as active in getting profit- able new territory for Standard Oil and Sinclair and Doheny as was Albert Fall or Edwin Denby. There are 17 papers dealing with oil in Burma, 11 papers in the correspondence on Mesopo- tamian oil, 12 as to Palestine oil, 12.asto.oil in the Dutgh Baw: Indies, and 23 as to oil if Pésia. Hughes’ Mexican Deats, Mr. Hughes denies that he has had any diplomatic: correspondence @eal- ing with oil concessions in Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Argentina, Czechoslovakia or the Portuguese col- onies. The frankness of Hughes as to the work of his department may be judged by his stateemnt as to Mexico. Most of the letters written by Hughes and the British diplomats and foreign ministers deal with the world- wide struggle between Standard Oil and the Royal Dutch Shell, which is alleged by Standard to be financially controlled by the British government. The British foreign office denies this ownership or control, and Hughes cannot prove it. Here is a typical letter from George Harvey, ambassador in London, to Lord Curzon, dated Sept. 15, 1921; Interceding for Standard, ‘The American ambassador pre- sents his compliments to his majes- ty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs and has the honor to refer to conversations held in March and April, 1920, between Sir John Tilley of the foreign office and Mr. Wright, counsel of the embassy... and a conference on the 9th instance, ar ranged by Mr. Lindsay of the for- eign office, at which were present Mr. Schuckburgh and Major Young of the foreign office; Mr. L. I, Thomas of the Standard Oil com- pany and Mr. Wright, all relative to the desire of the Standard Oil of New York that representatives of that company now in Jerusalem be permitted to continue geological ex- stick. Otherwise he is the multi-millionaire part-owner of the Pullman corporation. If there is anything exciting in this convention for a man who can’t get excited about hot dogs and brass bands, it is the frantic desire of the convention-makers to find some sort of farm-coloring. The great farm-revolt of the Northwest is the bug-bear. There is a persistent belief that somewhere or some- how some sort of a name must be attached to the coming repub- lican national ticket that can be passed off as having something to do with farming. But the owner of the name must be a “conservative”—-not anyone tainted with what they like to call here “agrarian sovietism.” STANDARD OIL KEYNOTER | Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock the convention is slated to begin with the keynote speech delivered by Theodore EB. Burton, 78-year-old veteran of the ‘Old Guard,” or the “Ohio Crowd,” as it is more often called in these days of Roxy Stinson. Burton is of the inner circle of the old school of politicians that grew up in Ohio around the Standard Oil Co. in the days when John D. Rockefeller first began to feel the need of political outriders. It is said that if Burton had not.on a certain occasion made a political miscalculation he might have been made president at the time that Harding was chosen from his group. He is of the blood and bone of the “Ohio Crowd”—and he makes the keynote speech this year because Harry Daugherty can’t. What he says in the keynote speech, aside from the flowers, will be what the convention is going to put thru. \ i aminations of the areas covered by their rights or concessions in Pal- estine, which examinations were commenced prior to the outbreak of the war in 1914, Harvey Urged Haste. “In accordance with telegraphic instructions just received from his government, Mr. Harvey now has the honor to reiterate this re- quest..... “Accordingly, Mr. Thomas, who is in London for a short time only but who will be compelled to leave within a few days on account of urgent business, holds himself in readiness to co-operate with the authorities of his majesty’s govern- ment and with the emba id adds to the req of the ment of state his earnest hope an early decision may be ment, in view of the fact that the rainy season in Palestine com- mences about Dec. 1, and that delay which might compel postponement of operations until next spring would increase the inconvenience and expense already Incurred by the company.” The British played for time, but finally gave Standard what Hughes and Harvey demanded in its behalf.