The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 1, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND «ARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. il. No. 89. SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1924 290 > Published Dauy except Sunday by ‘THE DALL Hear McDONALD, Farmer-Labor Presidential Candidate, at WICKER PARK HALL, Tomorrow Night THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. 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 Price 3 Cents Y PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill. WORKER MORGAN PLOTS TO FOOL VOTERS INTERNATIONAL MONEY KING TELLS DEMOCRATS 10 HUSH AVALANCHE OF NEGRO PROTEST HITS COOLINE Davis Poor Substitute at Philadel phia By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker) PHILADELPHIA, June 30. The annual conference of the National Association for Ad- vancement of Colored People, now in session here,~has very nearly been turned into an ava- lanche falling upon the heads of the republican party which has so long held the Negro as its docile follower. President Coolidge’s refusal to answer a written request that he declare his views on the Ku Klux Klan, followed by the recitals of many Negro delegates of ex- periences with republican and democratic politicians, gener- ated a spirit which broke out in the impassioned declaration of Delegate Coles of Philadelphia, “If the Republican party is our aip, then personally I am going to take to swimming.” Davis Defends Coolidge. Apparently advised of the course of idge sent his secretary pf |hbor, James he sent bis secretary fr iGene-Covl- J. Davis, to address the! copference. Davis, received with mich acclaim, launched into a defense of Coolidge, and an attack upon those “who want to throw mud at our president.” In a long. slow and halting speech, he said “President Coolidge is the great- est thinker of our time on the subject of labor.” And, “Absolute political and economic equality is necessary for all groups.” He talked long on “the dig- nity of toil,” and then advocated that religion be added to the three “Rs.” because religion was responsible for the phenomenal gain of the Negroes. Upholds Finger-Printing. “We haye 200,000 more coal miners than we need,” said Davis, in defend- ing the immigration bill. He declared heatedly that there was no reason why immigrants should not be regist- ered under Coolidge’s famous finger- print measure, because “everybody has to register when he votes.” “Keep- ing wages up is why we are so happy,” he said. “There is work in America for every man,” — “President Coolidge,” said Davis, “came from the farm, where his back- ground was 100 per cent square deal. If you had moving pictures of the wrong-doers of the republican party and the wrong doers of the democratic (Continued on next page.) Here were prominent (Special to. The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, June 30.—Two prominent figures in the republican party, and two conspicuous democrats were indicted today by the special grand jury which has been investigating the leases of the naval oil reserves, The indicted are Albert B. Fall, formerly secretary of the interior in the Harding cabinet; Harry Sinclair, prominent financial angel of the republican party, an oil magnate whose bribing proclivities resulted not pnly in wrecking a perfectly good republican cabinet, but in causing the murder of a deputy in far-away Italy, who was going to expose the corruption bought with Sinclair dollars; Edward L. Doheny, prominent in the councils of the democratic party, friend of Irish Freedom who also supplied oil to John Bull’s navy, and Edward L. Doheny, Jr., one of the Doheny boys and a chip of the old block. It was Doheny, Jr., who car- ried the $100,000 to Fall in an old satchel. Fall and Doheny, father and son, were charged on one count with conspiracy to defraud the United States; on the second count Fall was charged with accepting a bribe and the third count, both Doheny and Sinclair were charged with offering a bribe; on the fourth count Fall and Sinclair where charged with conspiracy to defraud. ‘ The indictments are the aftermath of the famous Teapot Dome oll lands investigation which showed the Harding cabinet engaged in the lucrative practice of selling out the nation’s private property for large sums of money. Fall had left the cabinet before he was exposed, but Coolidge, who inherited many things from Harding besides his cabinet, saved the other grafters until he was finally forced to -drop Denby and Daugherty. Coolidge was clearly pointed out in the course of the investigation in telegrams between McLean, the Washington publisher, and Fall, as the “principal” in the oil and boodle conspiracy, but the democrats, led by Senator Walsh, of Montana, chief of the investigation, protected the august person of four Wall Street’s automaton from the disgrace of ex- posure. A few sacrifices were thrown to the wolves and the rest of the dirty mess was covered up until ‘the election campaign renders its use capitalist politicians, caught red handed stealing valuable public property, yet so far the only punishment they receive is a slap on the wrist in the form of an indictment, which it is confidently believed will never cause those indictéd any discomfort. Doheny is still busy making money and Harry Sinclair is wander- ing over the world seeking new territories to suck oil from, protected by the United States navy. + Coolidge Republicans and McAdoo Democrats Indicted For Oil Loot The class character of capitalist government was never shown more clearly than during the Teapot Dome investigation. The value of Doheny’s “gift” of the naval oil reserve of California can be estimated from the fact that the net profits from the part of it now working, during one month was near two million dollars. It only cost Doheny a paltry $100,000 to put the lease across. Sinclair in return for the Teapot Dome lease, along with giving Fall a herd of cattle, also agreed to pay the deficit of the Republican election campaign which put Harding in the White House. Robbers and grafters! Bribers and accepters/of bribes! Crooks of the first water, even betraying the trust plaged in them by their capitalist masters! Of such are both capitalist parties composed. Both parties will fight in the coming election campaign for the privilege of robbing, of superintending the robbery and exploitation of the workers for the next four years in behalf of the capitalists who own this country, and also for the privilege of looting the raw resources of the nation for their own individual benefit. The workers must not be misled by the cries of reform raised by ambitious careerists like LaFollette who promises to clean up the corrupt mess and give them a nice, pure, robber system that will fune- tion without calling for the use of gas masks. The capitalist system is rotten to the core and the rottenness is neither typically Republican nor Democratic. It is inherent in the system itself and the workers should only fight for the abolition of that robber system which breeds corruption, and more important for them, poverty and its attendant miseries for those who labor. The Farmer-Labor Party raises the slogan of a Workers’ Government as a step in the direction of the emancipation of the toiling masses while the best the reformers and political crooks of capitalism will do is to profitable for partisan purposes. threaten to clean house. UNION TEACHERS SAIL BOSSES’ EDUCATION ASSN. Convention Under Way ‘at Webster Hotel The reactionary tendencies of the National Education Association, which is meeting in Washington this week, were bitterly assailed by union teach- ers at the convention of the Ameri- can Federation of Teachers, at the Webster hotel yesterday. “We have nothing to do with the N. E. A.,” teachers from all parts of the country told the DAILY WORK- ER. “We are a labor organization, and with laboring men and women the aristocracy of the N. E, A. does not care to deal.” Whatever progreggive measures such units as New York Local No. 5, of which Henrietta Rodman was a mem ber, has succeeded in getting passed, have been put through without the help of the N. E. A., and even in the face of opposition from its officialdom, (Continued on next page.) YOUNG WORKERS LEAGUE BEGINS INDUSTRIAL DRIVE BY ATTACKING BUNTE CANDY FACTORY TOMORROW By BARNEY MASS. The first of a series of factory campaigns will be started by the local Young Workers League at the Bunte Brothers Candy factory, Wednesday, July 2. The city membership upon. receiving WORKERS PARTY LITERATURE HAS DAY IN COURT WHEN “RID TRUN. OF FARRELL STEEL WORKER OPENS (Special to The Dally Worker) MERCER, Pa., June 30.—The third day of the second Farrell sedition trial before Judge McLaughry of the Mercer county court found Department of Justice agent Lennon of Pittsburgh on the stand for the prosecution most of the morning session identifying a large number of state’s exhibits entered as evidence against the defendant steel worker Andy Kovacovich and to show that the organization of which he is a member is a seditious organiza- tion existing contrary to the Sedition Law of Pennsylvania. Various copies of the DAILY WORKER and articles con- tained therein were entered as evidence by the prosecution, also such pamphlets as “State and Revolution,” by Lenin, and other pieces of literature by various authors, were identified by Lennon as being seditious. A pamphlet, entitled “From Science to Ac- tion,” a gift to Lennon from the chief of the Chicago bomb squad was also entered as evidence in the case. A leaflet ob- tained from the literature de-@————————_-__—_ partment of the Workers Party under an assumed name, by MORE DELEGATES writing to N. Dozenberg, was entered as evidence. The title of this leaflet is “Why Every Worker Should Be A Commun- st.” Lennon testified that he lid not know C. EH. Ruthenberg, wleged author of the leaflet, per- (Special to The DAILY WORKER.) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 30.—Rise of J. W. Davis, attorney for the House of Morgan to 63 votes was the feature of the count on the ninth ballot late this after- noon. Supporters Yor the millionaire sonally. West Virginian are predicting a steady advance as the balloting con- tinues. Indictment of E. L. Doheny, oil king and former employer of Wilson’s son-in-law, is believed to have set back McAdoo’s chances. His failure to rise higher than\444 votes by the Marx In Court Such well-known authors as Lenin, (Continued on next page.) Cicero City Court Dismisses Case of Daily Worker Man The case of the DAILY WORKER reporter, Karl Reeve, who was arrest- ed for distributing leaflets advertis- ing the big exposes of the Western, Electric Company which were run in News from the district. committee, which has outlined the cam- paign, welcomed it with enthusiasm. Many have already volun- teered.to speak, scll the Young Worker, distribute leaflets, etc. The current issue of the Young Worker has articles in it, exposing the revolting condi- tions in the Bunte factory, also pointing out to the youthful wage laborers, ways and means of bettering their present intol- erable position, . The campaign will serve many pur- Poses, of which the most important are: obtaining more members; estab- lishing a nucleus; increasing the sub- \ Seriptions to the YOUNG WORKER and making it more popular and in- fiuential within the ranks of the ex- Ploited youth; to create a sentiment favorable in organizing the factory in- to the union and incidentally promot- ing its shop economic demands. The drive will prove successful, if hard work, organization and persist- ency are to be given consideration. The district and national committee will help the local organization in ini- tiating the campaign. The members in addition to selling the YOUNG WORKER and distributing leaflets, will carry on personal conversation with the employes of the Bunte Con- fection Manufacturers, the DAILY WORKER, has at last been dismissed in the Cicero court. The defense attorney, Shuchter, partner of Samuel Holland, moved for dismissal. The prosecutor, A. Borng, asked for continuance.. The ninth ballot is believed to be partly due to the whispers about the effect Mandel {his status as attorney for a criminal will have on the jackass vote. | Smith, shows a slight rise, stand, ing at 278; Cox has gone up to 60 debate before the judge wasted over| votes, Jonathan Davis, of Kansas, to an hour. The prosecutor brought in the DAILY WORKER, entirely ignoring the charge of “disorderly conduct” and attempted to show that it was a paper which “abused” the constitu. tional provision for free speech. The defense lawyer pointed out that the case had already been continued three times and that further drawing it out was quite unnecessary; so the judge granted dismissal. 32 4-10. Train Kills Kianamen MARION, Ohio, June 30.—Klan Kleagles lost three candidates for the role tonight when an Erie railroad fly- er crashed into the car in which a group of people were hurrying to a Knightshirt exhibit at Marion, Ohio. The dead are: Willis P. Young, his wife, Mrs. Lulu Young, ana Dick L. Wilson. » }DONKEY’S. HIDE. MAY ADORN PAPAL LANCE Battling Christians May Kill the Brute (Special to The Daily Worker) MADISON SQUARE GAR- DENS, NEW YORK, June 30.— “Will the Democratic party split on the religious issue or. will a Catholic be given second place on the ticket?” is a question fre- quently asked here since the hooded night ghouls escaped by the strings of their night shirts from getting named in the anti- Klan resolution as enemies of Americanism, religious liberty and what not. It is predicted that either one or the other will happen, The Democratic party is not a homogenous political organiza- tion like the Republican party. The former is a political chop suey composed of hostile ele- ments who unite on the spails of office alone. Otherwise they are incompatible. The Republican party is the party of big business with a capital B. The New York Democrats get along nicely with New York Re- publicans, but feel a tingling sensation in the spine when a Missouri Democrat—excepting James Reed—is in the vicinity. Tammany Hall and the Koenig Re- publican machine divide the spoils like gentlemen and only when there is a battle for the mayorality is there a real scrap. But everybody admits that’s a prize worth fighting for. The religious question has been the slumbering Ethiopian in the Demo- cratic woodyard since the decline of the Know-nothing movement. It lived apathetically and drew sustenance only from scattered and fanatic indi- viduals who may be down but never out. This element was represented in- tellectually by the Menace, a religious publication that specialized in dis- covering imaginary priestly harems and blood-thirsty Catholic oaths, plus (Continued on Page 4) LEAGUE ISSUE TO WIN VOTES 4 ee (Special to The Daily Worker)~ A MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New York, June 30.—James Pierpont Morgan, master financier behind the League of Nations, has ordered the democratic party to soft-pedal League talk and get votes on domestic issues—in the interest of the League, his agent explained. As the first day's balloting for the nomination ends the Inter- national Money Trust sits back cynically. Just as it wrote the platform and outlined the campaign policy so it will pick the dark horse who will finally break the deadlock. The orders to the convention on “The League” came straight from Owen D. Young, millionaire democrat, Morgan’s represent- ative on the Dawes’ reparations’ commission and president of Morgan's General Electric company, and were immediately fol- lowed by a two to one vote—742 to 353. Young’s letter was read to the convention during the debate on the majority League of Nations plank, which was finally adopted. This plank praises the League enthusiastically and commits the democratic party to its principles but seeks to allay opposition by the promise of a referendum on America’s entrance. It was hotly opposed, how-*— ever, by Newton D. Baker and a strong opposition rallying around the minority plank call- ing for immediate entrance. Wall Street Letter Clincher. Wall Street letter was read as the big gun argument against the Imme- diate-Leaguers whose attitude seemed likely to drive voters out of the demo- cratic fold and into a third party movement. Alfred -Lucking: was ‘the ~ person chosen to give the Young letter, con- taining ‘Morgan’s wishes to the con- vention. Lucking is Henry Ford, billionaire auto manu- facturer. The Young letter said: Called “Most Unwise.” “It would be most unwise both for the League and democratic party to make the immediate joining of the League anissue. This year domestic issues will be most important.” The billionaire auto manufacturer’s spokesman then went on to ‘mpress on the convention that Owen Young was the man who had suggested the (Continued on page 2.) Bill J. Bryan Hands Harding a Lily to Please Wall Street NEW YORK, June 30.—To show that there is no real hard feeling be- tween the Democratic and Republican politicians who put on a battle every four years for the spoils of office, William J. Bryan, the anti-Darwinian head hunter and religious bootlegger of doting democracy introduced a resolution calculated to alley any ars on_the part of Wall Street, that #° bedlam represented by the Dem- ocratic convention would be trans- ferred to the White House in the event of the Jackass Party being successful at the polls next November. Failing to” find anything else to agree on, Bryan like a ghoul, plucked a resolution from the grave of Warren G. Harding and brot the delegates to their feet in silent tribute to a capital- ist president who would be their chief target for abuse today, did not pro- vidence, working in the usual mys- terious manner shuffle him off this earth before the Democrats discov- ered his cabinet was giving the nation away for cows, and other juicy mor- sels. The resolution may be read with considerable interest by Harding, Jess Smith and Jake Hamon in their boat on the Styx. Here it is: “In political compaigns the Amer- ican people are divided into opposing parties; after the election they are as one man in allegiance, to the gov- ernment and in loyalty to the nation’s chief executive. As democrats we stand uncovered beside the grave of Warren G. Harding, late president of the United States, vie with his most devoted friends in expressions of re- gret at his untimely death and\share the sorrow that it has brought into his home.” attorney for; TO DEFEND AL. Beery Smith and Scabby Berry His Choice By JAY LOVESTONE. (Special to the DAILY WORKER) NEW YORK, June 30.—The pro-McAdoo statement issued by the leaders of the railroad chiefs brought Samuel Gompersfrom a | lying-in-hospital to make battle for his particular capitalist can- didate. In order to prove that he was |in a hospital and also to excite additional sympathy, he carried a nurse in his entourage. Gompers resents the imperti- nence of a group of men setting themselves up independently of | himself in the business of selling jthe labor vote to the highest hidder. This, in the opinion of Gom- pers, is the prerogative of the president of the American Fed- eration of Labor. If he is to maintain his position as chief of |the labor lieutenants of capital- |ism there must be no other gods |but him. The statement of the |McAdoo faction threatened the |Democrats with a Third Party junless their favorite was nomi- |nated. Gompers In Rejoinder. | As soon as this statement was given |to the press, Gompers, who is Chair- man of the American Federation of Labor Non-Partisan Committee, imme- | diately called together his 350 sueuten- jants, hanging around the convention jas “labor spokesmen,” for a special | Session at the Hotel Aberdeen, the headquarters of this committee, Gompers lost no time in declaring that: “No one has the right to speak for the American Federation of La- bor.” sir, Gomipers himselt was not present at the Aberdeen sessions. His overwork in lobbying at the resolu- tions committee has worn him out a bit and he was compelled to go back to the Lenox Hill Hospital for a rest. While Gompers was seeking the per- mission of the democratic bosses to say a few words to them, he was ac- companied by a nurse from this hos- pital to watch his health and to im- press the donkey leaders with hig earnestness, Gompers minced no words in de (Continued on page 3) The Daily Worker Is Sending C. E. Ruthenberg to Cleveland July 4th. He Will Tell You _ the Story of the Meeting of the LaF ollette Conference for Pr f, a rogressive Political Action ”