The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 16, 1924, Page 2

‘d MEN TAKE PROFIT; WORKERS LOSERS “Poor” Railroads! Big Profits; No Wages! Another railroad closely connected with J. P. Morgan and his financial interests has just announced the cut- ting off a rich mellon. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in its report for 1923\shows the companies net rail- Way operating income—or net pro- fit $42,133,129, an increase of over 18 million dollars, or 77.51 over the pre- ceding year. J. R. Morron, director of the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad, is also director in the First National Bank of the City of New York, and a direc- tor in the First Security of New York, both Morgan controlled banks. Thru these banks the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is connected with the other large railroads, with the United States Steel company, and the Electrical ‘Trust. Paul M. Warburg, another director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is also a director in the Western Un- fon Telegraph company. At the same time the announcement of the immense profits of the Morgan interests was announced, the United States Court of Appeals dismissed equity suits brought by the railroad unions against the Pennsylvania Rail- road for $15,000,000. The shopcrafts union men claimed back pay due them under a decision of the railroad labor board. But when the workers sue for their rights against the Morgan interests the courts iritervene and al- }low the Morgan men to split their , 40 million dollar dividends. International Co-op Exhibition Portrays Spread of Movement GHENT, Belgium, July 15.—The In- ternational Co-operative Exposition, staged in the hall and gardens in which the World’s Fair of 1903 was held, brings together representatives of thirty million co-operators from forty different nations. This remark- able exhibition will continue to Sept. 15. It has been arranged by a feder- ation of Belgian co-operative societies in the most ideal spot possible. There are societies or departments of socie- ties which concern themselves with the newly born, with the feeding and clothing of the people, with the erec- “tion and furnishing of houses, with the education and amusement of people (there is a fully equipped co-operative theater in the exhibition), with the encouragement of thrift by means of labor co-operative banks, with the cur- ing of the sik and the provision of ar- tificial limbs, with the spread of educa- tion by printing and publication of newspapers, and with the recreation of the people at vacation homes in the country and by the seaside. The ex- position displays everything from sample shoes to ships and sealing wax made by co-operative societies scat- tered all over the world. The opening of the international ex- Position marks the fiftieth aniversary of the founding of the Belgian co-op- erative movement. From the little co- operative bakery which Edward An- sele and a dozen poor fellow workmen started in the back yard of an inn has grown to enormous proportions, to has grown to enormous proprtions, to @ quarter of the Belgian population and to furnish the backbone for the progressive trade union and political movements of the nation. American Flyers to Rest. LONDON, July 15.—England is pre- paring to welcome the American round-the-world flyers who will land at Croyden tomorrow, proceeding the following day to Brough, where their planes will be overhauled and pon- toons substituted for the wheel land- ing gear. On July 24, the flyers will hop off for the Orkney Islands off the North coast of Scotland, and then jump across the Atlantic via Iceland and Greenland to Canada, landing in upper Quebec province. Sammy Shut Up. NEW YORK, July 15.—Continued improvement was reported today in the condition of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor who is ill at the hotel Shel- bourne, Coney Island. Gompers’ physl- cian forbade any conferences with la- bor leaders. MORGAN RAILROAD! MEXICAN WORKERS LIKE DAILY WORKER WRITES VERA CRUZ FEDERATION The DAILY WORKER Is helping the Communist cause in Mexico, a letter from Gonzalo Hernandez, ex- ecutive secretary of the revolution- ary Federation of Labor of Vera Cruz, to the DAILY WORKER de clares. “We appreciate getting the DAILY WORKER here,” says Her- nandez, “because of the clear-cut manner it uses In describing the conditions of the working class in the States. it gives our comrades in Mexico a better idea of the eco- nomic conditions in the United States. “We are translating many of the DAILY WORKER articles Into Span. ish, thus helping the cause of Com- munism in both countries. A good beginning toward closer relations between the revolutionary move- ments In Mexico and the United States was made when Jay Love- stone was sent by the Workers Par. ty of America as a delegate to our national convention in Mexico City. The DAILY WORKER is continuing with this work.” Open Shop Gang Pesters Workers With Vote Talk ST. LOUIS, July 15.—With the ap- proach of the Missouri primary elec- tion, Aug. 5, the open shop Merchants and Manufacturers’ association is adopting deseperate measures to con- trol the votes of its workers. Posters are being hung in factories and mer- cantile establishments, which urge em- ployes to register and vote. The poster says: “It is your privi- lege, men and women, as American citizens. Register at your voting pre- cinct if you have changed your home address since the last election. Only registered citizens will have the right to vote at the primaries in August and the election in November.” According to the open shop body, ap- proximately 1,000 posters have been distributed and requests for more are pouring in from employers. The poster campaign for registra- tion is expected to be followed by a campaign in which the employes will be taught to vote “right.” Soviet Russia Has Been Recognized By 18 Governments MOSCOW, July 15.—The 18 govern- ments that have thus far recognized Russia are Germany, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Fin- land, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Es- thonia, Turkey, Great Britain, Afghan- istan, China, Persia. Recognition by Japan and France is said to be im- pending. “Hoof and Mouth.” SAN FRANCISCO, July 15.—Not having been able to blame the Cal- ifornia hoof and mouth epidemic on the I. W. W., the police are now mak- ing strenuous efforts to blame them for a number of recent fires in San Francisco lumber yards. Some of these fires were probably incendiary, but there is no evidence to connect the I. W. W. or any other labor or- ganization with any of them. This flimsy excuse may be used as a pre- text for renewed raids on defense and other headquarters. Because of recent raids, the California branch, General Defense committee, should now be addressed at Box 574, San Francisco. Fined For Misusing Label, ST. LOUIS; July 15.—John Baur, a St. Louis manufacturer of advertis- ing novelties, must pay a fine of $200 for misuse of the union label of the Allied printing trades council. Judge Miller held Baur’s use of the label unlawful, Baur misused the label on calenders which he printed for an- other firm. Credit Chains On Mexico. MEXICO CITY, July 15.—The Great Western Smelting & Refining Co., of Chicago and the American Steel Sales Co., are eagerly extending credit to the Mexican government in rolling stock following the contract with the Baldwin works. Send in that Subscription Today. KLAN STATE IS CAUGHT IN WAR THE DAILY WORKER BRAZIL REVOLT MAY BE CIVIL GRAFT CHARGES) WAR OF TRADES Indiana Highway Men Made a Million (Special to The Dally Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. July 15.— Pending the result of an investigation being conducted at Washington, D. C., by members of the State Board of Aceounts to check the shipment and disbursement of more than $1,- 000,000 worth of surplus war materi- als to the Indiana Highway Commis- sion, Governor Branch was expected to ask no resignations today with re- gard to the charges of extravagance and in competency made by the State Board of Accounts against the Com- mission. The disclosures in the Highway De- partment of motor transport whose superintendent, George Bartley, of In- dfanapolis, resigned a few days ago, will be followed by a report on the blanket requisition of thousands of dollars worth of valuable material from the federal government and their disposal thru an Indianapolis firm without competitive bidding. Practically all of the surplus war materials which the Highway Com- misison requistioned and which in- cluded such articles as refrigerators, axle grease by the carload, thousands of short handled shovels and spades, many miles of railroad track, and articles of warfare which could not be used in highway building or main- tenance work, went thru the hands of Bartley disposal and were pur- chased by the one Indianapolis con- cern. The purpose of the State Board of Accounts was to determine the exact amount of the federal property turned over to the Highway Commission and compare it with the amount and re- ceipts shown in the Commission’s records. What Imperial Advice? Woodrow Wilson’s quieter son-in- law, Francis Bowles Sayre, is to be succeeded in his post as advisor to the king of Siam by another American lawyer, Courtenay Crocker of Boston. Crocker is the second Boston lawyer to be appointed in a post of impor- tance by a foreign country. Jeremiah C. Smith has been chosen as advisor to Hungary. In Siam the United States again holds its place among the “three great powers,” since England controls Bur- ma on one side and France has Indo- China on the other. i Great Chinese Flood Again. PEKING, China, July 15.—With rainfall averaging two inches daily, the whole or northern Chihli plain was today threatened with a more dis- astrous flood than devastated that sec- tion in 1917. The American consul at Klagan to- day reported that city flooded, with hundreds of houses demolished and property loss already of $1,000,000. Two of the railroad lines entering Pe- king have been flooded out. The cabinet met today to plan fur- ther relief for four flood stricken provinces. > Negro School Teacher Meet. DALLAS, Texas, July 15.— Negro and white teachers assembled here at the twenty-first annual convention of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools discussed the prob- lems of Negro schools. The special Amer‘can Negro musical evening ar- ranged by Mrs. Mary McLeod Be- thune, president of the organization, with R. Nathaniel Dett, composer, was one of the pleasantest programs. Ran From Accident. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 15.—The anxiety of two young girls to avoid newspaper publicity caused them to urge their driver companion to speed away in an automobile after the car had knocked down and _ thrown Charles Cahill beneath the wheels of a street car, according to the story told police today. Russia Seeks Coal Market. MOSCOW, July 15.—The Donetz Basin Coal Trust is negotiating with foreign manufacturers, recently ar- rived at Kharkov, regarding the sale of a large party of Russian coal. A representative of the Trust is going abroad, too, to explore all available possibilities in the way of selling Rus- sian coal and anthracite in foreign markets. Coffee Magnates Have Favored Secession (Special to the Daily Worker.) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, July 15.— The Brazilian revolution, which has centered about Sao Paulo and Santos, the coffee capital’s seaport town, is spreading and threatens to become a national uprising. A strong rebel army is reported to be marching on Santos and a battle is imminent with the federal troops guarding the city. The feeling of revolt against the cen- tral government has been increasing for months. Three additional states of the Bra- zilian republic are threatening to join the revolt—Matto Grosse, Para and Rio Grande do Sul. They are among the larger states and contain a popu- lation of approximately 3,500,000. In the past few days the federal army besieging Sao Paulo has been increased to 40,000, and an intermit- tent bombardment of the city is con- tinuing. An especially heavy fire has been concentrated on the town of Braz, a suburb of Sao Paulo. 7 2* ¢ Turns Down “Crown.” RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15.—The Brazilian government announced to- day that Colonel Fernando Prestes, vice president of the revolting state of Sao Paulo, had refused the offer of the rebel commander-in-chief, General Isidor Diaz Lopez, to make him presi- dent. Coe e Some Federals Change Sides. LONDON, July 15.—Wireless mes- sages picked up here today from the steamer Andres as it was leaving San- tos, Brazil, said the situation in the revolutionary area of Santos and Sao Paulo was) “most serious.” The captain of the Andres said the rebels were within eight miles of San- tos and that he had been told by refu- gees from Sao Paulo that some of the federal artillery forces had joined the rebels. The federal troops, the mes- sage said, were continuing to bombard Sao Paulo in an effort to dislodge the rebels, who hold the city. Activities of Polish Section. Open Air Meetings. Thursday, July 17—At corners Gross and Ashland Ave. Polish Speaker, M. Marek. Also English speaker. Saturday, July 19—At Dieson and _Divi- sion St., near Milwaukee Ave. Polish speaker, M. Boruta. Also English speak- er. PE sr hmaat July ETE ipo 118 St. and gan Ave. By or= ski and Jednaki. Also ish speak- er. t Friday, July 18—Branch meeting at 1902 W. Division St. Comrade Boruta will lecture on the “Situatfon of Work- ers Party Presidential Campaign.” “Not Guilty,” Pleads Albert B. Fall, Who Raped Teapot Field. EL PASO, Texas, July 15.—Albert B. Fall, Cal’s former secretary of the interior, who was indicted following testimony to the effect that he had ac- cepted bribes to give Teapot Dome to Harry Sinclair and the California na- val oil reserve to Doheny, pleaded “not guilty” when arraigned before United States Commissioner A. J. W. Schmid. Marine Engineers Renew. WASHINGTON, July 15—A new contract has been signed by the ship- ping board with the Marine Engineers and the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ union, on terms substantially as in the existing agreement which was made following the defeated strike of 1921. He Was Hopeful. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 15.— Dan D. McGillvray, well-known attor- ney, who died two weeks ago, placed $1,000 in trust in a local bank to be. invested for 120 years, at the end of which the proceeds are to be used for a home for aged women. Notice to Mid-City English Branch Members. Owing to the mass meeting at Doug- las Park Auditorium tonight, the Mid- City English Branch membership meeting will be held Friday night. All members are supposed to attend the Foster meeting tonight. “Ten Years ina Co-operative Colony” Mlustrated leeture by MR. WALTER CONLIN Friday, July 18th, 8:30 P. M. Radical Book Shop, 826 N. Clark St. ApoE _ Western Europe. Morgan Plans New Victory By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL House of Morgan plots today for new victories, The scene is in London at the gathering of the Inter- allied Conference that will consider the so-called Dawes Report. e e ° e The House of Morgan triumphed at the republic&h con- vention at Cleveland, The House of Morgan was the winner at the democratic convention in Madison Square Garden, New York City. At London today the House of Morgan also plays for big stakes. Representatives of ten nations await its orders. And the Wall Street Journal is very confident of the results, an- other victory for the House of Morgan. * * ° ° The Paris correspondent of the brokerage firm of Dow, Jones & Co., has just had a talk with “one of the members of the Reparations Commission,” evidently Owen D. Young, Morgan’s man. In the correspondence published in the Wall Street Journal, on Monday morning, it is declared that “opin- ion is optimistic here because it is obvious that the new Radi- cal Government (Herriott) has staked its whole future on a speedy reparations settlement, and because it is not believed possible that Germany will pursue a policy‘of obstruction.” In other words, the publicity agents of Morgan, at Paris, are just as sure of the surrender of the French and German governments to the Wall Street financier, as the big bankers were of the capitulation of the two old political parties in this country. . ° * * The German capitalists need the loan that Morgan has promised in order to safeguard their position against the ris- ing discontent of hungry and jobless workers. And the French want the Germans to get the loan so that they, the French, can get their hands on a good chunk of it. The Her- riott government needs the money to help it cut down taxes, a campaign pledge. Morgan's man, Young, is polite in refraining from caus- tic remarks on the grip that the House of Morgan has on His soothing words are: “We must wait for the Interallied Conference in London to register the formal adoption of the scheme by all concerned, Including Ger- many. Germany must then draft the requisite legislation on the basis of the reports of the various technical committees which are now pretty well thru their work—I mean those on the new bank, on the railroads, and on the industrial debentures. That legislation, if all goes well, should ‘be thru the reichstag in August. We can then get things started in earnest. But anyhow, the world’s markets are not likely to be ripe for German loans, including the initial $200,000,000 one, untill September or October.” a‘ * ° * . What Mr. Young should have said would sound some- thing like this: “The House of Morgan, with the richest nation on earth, the United States of America, at its feet, stands ready to finance the capitalist nations of Western Europe against the rising tidé of the Workers’ Struggle for Power. “But this will mean that the House of Morgan must extend its dollar rule over these nations, safeguarding its loans, and compelling the workers and farmers of Western Europe, at the point of the bayonet to pay to the last cent. “The House of Morgan will have the support of the ‘United States Navy and Army to carry out the work of its collecting agency.” . ° . * If the Europeans would doubt these crude words that Mr. Young ought to have said, the Wall Street emissary would only have to refer to Haiti. United States marines have slaughtered 3,000 natives of Haiti for struggling against the rule the House of Morgan now plans to extend over Western Europe. “Today 2,000 U. S. marines direct and “protect” the Haitian Govern- ment, elected under their supervision; where an American financial adviser exercises absolute control over finances, collecting customs and making loans which the United States government guarante thus assuring its continued occupancy of Haiti, and whére, moreov the nation’s constitution was rewritten to permit the acquisition of land by United States companies.” ree * ve ° The Germans, and other European peoples, will find the above paragraph in an article by Samuel Guy Inman, in The Atlantic Monthly, a perfectly respectable magazine. In that paragraph they will learn what Morgan has pre- pared for them. There is only one alternative—a workers’ revolution that will overthrow Morgan rule, nationally and internationally. Morgan remembers that it was he who made the first war loan to the Russian czar, the war that ended when the First Workers’ Republic rose out of the blood and agony of that great conflict. Today. as the bloody imperialists meet again in London, under Morgan’s thumb, the workers of Western Europe, under Communist inspira- tion, also have their eyes on Workers’ Rule, the rule of the All-European Soviet ee that is to be—IN SPITE OF THE HOUSE OF MORGAN. Wednesday, July 16, 1924 DEATH OF ITALIAN FASCIST VICTIM STIRS ERMANS See Same Black Forces Menacing Them By LOUIS P. LOCHNER (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) BERLIN, July 15.—The murder of Matteotti, the Socialist, in Rome has caused a deep stir in Germany. Peo- ple see that it was kindred fascist spirits who murdered the German foreign minister Rathenau two years ago and now the Italian deputy. Whether fascism is a good thing is much discussed in the papers, and the general trend of discussion is that fascism has not proved a boon for Italy. That the radical press should take this attitude is self-evident, but a large part of the conservatives are doing likewise. se 8 Someone in the ministry is lying awake nights trying to think up new means of putting the radical press out of business. A decree over the signature of President Ebert declares that periodical publications may be forbidden when their contents invite or incite disobedience to laws or measures by the authorities within their jurisdiction or when they incite force against people of different politi- cal or economic views. The government holds that in re- cent times the radical press of both sides has urged the people not to obey certain laws or measures. * 2. @ Bavaria continues to run a little monarchy within the republic of Ger- many. On June 16 the Bavarian mon- archists held a grand show over a memorial to the Ruhr fighters, at which the Bavarian crown prince Rup- precht appeared in full uniform and received homage just as though he were again the ruler of this former kingdom. The federal government is unwilling or unable to do anything. Party Members In Amalgamated Meet This Friday Evening To all Workers Party ahd Young Workers League members in the Amalgamated. Comrades: The next meeting of the Party and Y. W. L. members of the Amalgamated Clothihg Workers has been called for Friday, July the 18th, at 2733 Hirsch Blvd. A The matter of re-adjustments in the industry will be the chief topic to be taken up, a matter which effects every member of the Amalgamated direct- ly and upon which we must have a definite policy. In addition we will further take up again the matter of organizing shop nuclei in various shops. Your union does not meet this Fri- day, so there can be no excuse for anyone failing to show up at the meet- ing. If you have any Workmen Cir- cle or similar meetings scheduled you are to cancel it for this meeting on Friday. The meeting starts prompt- ly at 8 P. M. BE THERE. Fraternally yours, WORKERS PARTY—LOCAL CHICAGO Martifi Abern, Secretary. Italian Prince Runs From Fire Into Fire; From Rome to Brazil (Special to The Dally Worker) BUENOS AIRES, July 15.—The Italian crown prince Humbert is hay- ing a hard time finding a safe place to stay. Just now he is on the high seas enroute to the stormy country of Brazil. Humbert jumped out of the hot frying pan of Italy where revo- lution over the fascist crimes seemed imminent to the fire of actual revolu- tion in Brazil. At that the Italian situation was worse, because Humbert would have been in the hot oil of a proletarian revolution before long while in Bra- zil the disturbance is only a compar- atively isolated political flame. Hum- bert is on the San Giorgio cruiser Which he boarded in Naples at the first of the month. Two to Fifteen Years for 28 Cents, LANSING, Mich, July 15.—For stealing 28 cents, Charles White and A. B. Crisser, both of Dimondale, must serve two to fifteen years in Ionia re. formatory. A T Douglas Park Auditorium OGDEN AND SO. KEDZIE AVES. ST TTT Will Speak on “RUSSIA IN 1924” | Wednesday, July 16, at 8 P.M, Auspices: Workers Party, Local Chicago, and Trade Union — Educational League TO-NIGHT! Wm. Z. Foster Chairman, Workers Party bi Admission: 25 Cents Just Returned From Soviet Russia