The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 13, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. Il. No. 125. | AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY 'HE signing of a treaty by a British government without the king’s sig- nature has established a new prece- dent in the diplomatic usage of that country. The departure from tradition was made when the two treaties be- tween the Soviet government and the British government were signed by Ramsay MacDonald for Great Britain and Northern Ireland and by Rakoyv- sky for the U, S. S. R. The incident has caused considerable comment in London circles. Some claim that it means the king is:shorn of another ex- euse for drawing his pay, while others give as a reason the fact that Russia is not governed by one person; there- fore, His Majesty saw no reason why he should set up his signature against a whole country. It is a change, how- ever, and a big one. Had Ramsay Mac- Donald taken such liberties with Rich- ard the III, for instance, by now the population of London, would be ad- miring his noble head decorating the point of a pike and say, “What a glori- ous mustache he must have had when he was alive!” eee ‘HE success ‘of the Anglo-Russian conference is expected to have important political developments. Lloyd George was hoping against hope that the negotiations would end | in a fizzle, thus giving him an oppor- tunity to bring his eloquence to bear adversely on the political fortunes of the Labor Party leaders. Now that the treaty is signed, George is as mad as a hatter and denounces the treaty as a fake. Judging from ar- ticles appearing in the London Daily Herald prior to the signing of the treaty, the pressure that compgiled MacDonald to defy the bankers, dame | from the Trade Union Congress. The following excerpt from an editorial in the Herald is significant: ee te ““™HE British people have a great opportunity before them, an op- portunity to bring the Russians back into the family of nations, to heal old sores and to start on a new path | of friendship. Can a Labor Govern- ment disregard this opportunity? Can it, for the saké-of an excessive finan- cial purism, throw away such a } chance of helping forward world com- radeship, of furthering Britain’s inter- ests and of securing party triumph? If it did so, its responsibility would be heavy indeed.’ The Herald is ) financed by the Trade Union Con- | gress which is considerably to the | left of the Parliamentary Labor Par- ty leadership since the latter with- drew from their positions in the Trade Union bodies on: taking office. Here in the U. S. the fossilized trade union leaders are the worst enemies of Soviet Russia, se 'HE Emir of Kurdestan is charged by the Department of Labor with being a former Chicago book agent, with having no Royal connections and with being an imposter. His .wife, the princess Zeredeschano, still has faith in him. Her efforts in his be- over the charge that he worked for a living even as a book agent and threatens to consider further insults of a similar nature an unfriendly act. “I am just as good as the Prince of Wales,” said the Emir on his release from prison. “I spend more time in my sober senses than my British cousin and I can ride a hobby horse without danger of breaking my neck. Yet the prince is invited to lunch with Coolidge while I pine in a bare cell.” As we already said, the Emir made the mistake of working for a living. =e @ ‘OR undiluted piffle the speech of John W. Davis before the nation- al committee of the Democratic par- ty meeting in Clarksbirg, W. Va., knocks the nomination speech of @al- (Continued on page 6) SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DEPORT REEVE FROM STRIKE 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. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1924 «<<» *” RUSSIA BEARING OWN BURDENS IN VOLGA DROUGHT Organization Meets the Great Food Crisis By ANISE. (Special to the Daily Worker.) MOSCOW, July 18 (By Mail.) —There is serious drought in Russia. There is no use in blinking the fact. The latest figures admit that the general harvest will be noticeably below last year’s very average har- vest, in spite of the fact that very much more land \ was planted. ; The dry winds of the south, coming up from the Caucasus have again caused a total crop failure in six provinces and part of four more along the lower Volga and the northern Caucasian regions. I have just returned from a trip down thru Saratov. The wheat, which should now be almost ready for har- vest, is shrivelled at six inches high. The head of the goyernment Grain Trust of this region told me that in the German Volga Republic, of 600,000 households only 40,000 could feed themselves. Somewhere about 250,000 would have to be fed free of charge, and the rest. would be fed by govern- ment loans thru the German Repub- lic’s own co-operative bank, secured by chattel mortgages on cattle. Drought Like 1921. He reported that thru all this: south- ern region, the drought was.as-bad.as 1921, the year of the great famine. However, the sown area was very much larger, and even this poor six inch grain is good for making a kind of bread, half grain, half straw, But, on the dark side of the ledger, the population is poorer to start with, as they sold all they had in the last fam- ine, and are only now struggling to their feet. So, for the districts af- fected, all the officials I met said con- ditions were worse than in the year of the great hunger, and that means for many millions of people. But.there will be, everyone says, no appeal for foreign help. For Russia herself, thruout the length and breadth of her land, is in infinitely better con- dition. The drought, bad as it is, has not affected her entire crop, but only one large and important region. Her transport is no longer a wreck, but a well organized system.’’ Her taxes are coming in with regularity. Russia Handling the Relief. So she is bending to the task of handling the job herself. And she will do it. On the train with me back to Moscow came the head of the State Grain Trust for that district, on his way to a conference of all other dis- trict heads called in Moscow. He will have charge. of large grain dis- tributions. The Central Co-operatives and the Farmers Co-operatives are al- go stripped for action. Seed in vast quantities is already on its way to the stricken regions. Lo- cal organizations from village Ispol- coms up to provincial Ispoleoms have already the lists of the persons to whom grain is to go. Food wifl fol- low next as the winter advances. Wherever possible, it will not be a free gift, but a loan, thru government banks and co-operatives, secured byj| tems by the Nickel Plate railroad was (Continued on page 5.) REPORT AMERICANS ROBBED U. S. ARMY MUNITIONS FOR SUPPORT | OF REBELLING CHINESE FACTION ‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) MANILA, P. |., August 12.—The large quantity of munitions stolen from the United States Army warehouse here in June, has been taken to China in a Submarine chaser which was sold to local Americans, according to a story published by the Manila Daily Bulletin. The manifest showed oil in- stead of munitions despatch said the bo: the boat cleared, it was declared, was now there and that harbor authorities had re- A Shanghai ceived a request from Manila for the arrest of suspects. It is rumored that the munitions were intended for the support of. one of the factions now fighting for control of China and being backed by one of the imperialist financial powers, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, U. S. PLANS TO SEND | TROOPS TO HONDURAS FOR AMERICAN CAPITAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— It is being intimated In high government circles here that the United States is definitely considering armed in- tervention in Honduras. It is pro- posed that American armed forces be sent out ag&in, ostensibly to pre- s@rve the lives of “Americans and Toreigners,” but actually to safe- guard American export property and put Honduras under the same complete American capitalist con- trol as Haiti or Santo Domingo. The country is being torn by a struggle between three revolution- ary leaders, none of whom is recog- nized by the State Department. American imperialism will pick a safe puppet to look after its finan- cial interests as soon as it has drowned a batch of natives in their own blood. FRAME-UP IS CHARGED BY MARK GARVEY Accuses Republicans of Trying Come Back By ROBERT MINOR. (Staff Writer, Daily Worker.) NEW YORK, August 12.— Here in the Black City inside of the jim-crow city of New York, is a festival. Flags galore are flying on cords that stretch across the great wide Seventh avenue, and across 1 street ind Tor many ploeke done are ox avenue, over the heads of crowds that are cheering from the sidewalk or - surging in great currents and eddies after the imposing white-uniformed brass band. A wagon, bearing a huge sign “Picnic at....Grove.... Come All; No Color Line,” gets in the way of the black proces- sion, and the strong current swerves and almost crushes the onlooker. “Welcome, U. N. I. A.!” say the signs in the windows of restaurants, soda fountains—that is, those here in the inner Black City where Negroes can enter restaurants and soda par- lors. “Garvey Again Indicted!” shrieks the three-inch type of the headline of the Amsterdam News, a Negro weekly newspaper. Every black in- habitant is talking Garvey, Garvey, |" Garvey. The Universal Negro Improvement Association, of which Marcus Garvey is founder and president, is in full blast with its “fourth annual interna- tional convention of the Negro peo- ples of the; world.” “Pgoh! (Nothing but that faker, Garvey,” gxtiaim most of the intel- (Continued on page 3.) Wisconsin Messiah Should Raise Yelp ‘About Rail Merger DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 12.—The re- port that plans are being made for the largest railroad merger in history thru the absorption of four other sys- verified here today by Frank H. Al- fred, president of the Pere Marquette, which is included in the proposed com- bine. “The announcement as reported is true,” commented President Alfred. “The matter has been referred to practically all of the 15 Pere Mar- quette directors, and it is my under- standing they all are favorable to the plan of consolidating from both phys- ical and financial standpoints,” Florida Floggings. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug, 12,— Mayor Alsop has aroused the police force to a campaign against the mar- auding bands and kidnappers who have been terrorizing the community. More than six men were flogged with- in a week, LAFOLLETTE’S RECORD SHOWS HE'S FOR BiG BIZ Makes Pledge to Stand by That Record By JAY LOVESTONE. (Second Article.) “LaFollette talks ten times as radical as he actually votes. How many truly radical meas- ures has he ever introduced or even supported on the floor of the Senate? In fact, LaFol- lette’s radicalism has been evi- dent more in opposition than in support. ... Unless you class the Railroad Valuation Act— one of the best legislative things that has ever happened to the railroads—or the Seaman’s Act as radical, his name is identified aationally with scarcely a single law that truly goes to extreme. “And most of the legislation he Promoted in Wisconsin is no longer classed as radical.” LaFollette a Safety Valve. This is the way LaFollette, was sized up several months ago to Aaron Hardy Ulm, the correspondent of the reactionary Barron’s Financial Weekly, by one who has been working inti- mately with the Wiscongin Senator in many of his advocacies. The above estimate of LaFollette is, in the main, accepted not only by the rankest conservatives but also by some of “Battling Bob’s” supporters. We are told by the well-known Rich- ard Barry in Hearst's International of August, 1922, that the reactionary Senator | ot New Hampshire, ‘high ‘ih thé ‘coitnetis of Coolidge, said ‘to him of. LaFollette: “T disagree with his later policies, but I am frank to say it would be a grave error for Wisconsin herself to defeat LaFollette. . . .” Barry then goes on to say that a New York supporter, after hearing Continued on page 3) Oklahoma Kluxers are Licked by Walton in Stiff Primary Contest (Special to the DAILY WORKER) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 12. —Any contest of the apparent nomi- nation of J. C. Walton on the Demo- cratic ticket for United States sena- tor will be met with a demand for a state-wide investigation of alleged frauds in the August 65th primary, F. E. Riddle, chief counsel for the ex- governor, announced today. Riddle’s stétement is in reply to Congressman E. B. Howard, runner- up in the senatorial race, who an- nounced yesterday he would file a contest of Walton’s nomination, al- leging irregularities in 15 counties. Howard said if defeated in the State Supremer Court he wo6uld carry the fight to the U. S. Senate Commitee on privileges and elections if Walton is successful in November. Today Walton's lead is around sey- en thousand and he claims to have been defrauded out of close to forty thousand votes. Bank for Peasants. MOSCOW, Aug. 12.—The Bank of Agriculture, which has been estab- lished with a view to supplying the peasants with cheap and broad credit for the restoration of national agri- culture, has started operations in Moscow. LABOR DEPARTMENT IN EFFORT 10 WALT BIG PETERSON SILK STRIKE (Special to the Daily Worker.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— The Department of Labor today ordered Commissioner of Conciliation John A. Moffett to attempt to prevent the threatened strike of silk work- ers in Patterson, N. J., scheduled to start tomorrow. About 15,000 workers are involved. —_—_———- Send in that Subscription Today. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Il. ZONE U. S. WILL NOT CHANGE POLICY TOWARD SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN SPITE OF ANGLO-RUSS TREATY (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, August 12.—Despite the recent recognition of the Russian Soviet government by Great Britain and otheg world powers, the policy of the United States toward Russia has undergone no change and there is no present indications of negotiations looking to the re- sumption of diplomatic relations between Washington and Moscow, It was announced at the state department today. At the same time, however, it was ¢ stated that President Coolidge is de- sirous of establishing closer political bonds with Russia and is hopeful that the time is near at hand when nego- tiations may be possible. “Loan” Business Rehashed. The chief stumbling block is said to be the refusal of Russia to recog- nize her international obligations, which include, according to the wise- acres of the State Department, the $233,000,000 debt of the Russian Ker- ensky republic, which was squandered by its “ambassador,” Boris Bahkmgt- ieff. There is also, the hitch in the way of establishing political relations “so long as the Soviet maintains its ac- tive spirit of enmity to our institu- tions.” This is the Russian policy formu- lated by Hughes under the Harding regime and continued under Coolidge. Leave Loophole for Action. A loophole for backing down is be- ing left by the U. S. in the statement that it has been watching develop- ments and considers that they are “encouraging” altho they still need considerable improvement. The negotiation of the Anglo-Rus- sian treaty has whet the appetites of the American capitalists and there is a good possibility that they will soon cause their Washington states- men to act in accord with their wishes. ILLINOIS COAL DIGGERS HEAD FOR LAFOLLETTE Already! Committed to Small for Governor SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 12.—Immedia- tely after the decision of the Illinois La Follette campaign committee to support governor Len Small in the state elections, Frank Farrington, pres- ident of the Illionis Miners’ Union who had already made a deal to support the governor willy nilly, announced that he would support La Follette for president and do his level best to con- vince the miners to give the Wisconsin senator their votes. Farrington took a slam at the social- ists, practically excusing himself for being found in the same political cor- ral with them. This seems to be the favorite sport of labor fakers these days. But the poor socialists display an admirable Christian meekness by maintaining a discreet if not dignified silence in the face of the insults hurled at them by_their allies. The decision of La Follette to back Small may be the means of putting former mayor Thompson off the re- servation. In his anxiety to punish Fred Lundin, Mr. Thompson was will- ing to back an independent candidate for governor against Small. As the si- tuation stands now, Thompson is all dressed up politically and has no place to go. Newton Jenkins, who ran for senator as a La Follette independent in the Il- linois primaries is waiting for the call to do it again, but “Bob's” strategista are telling him to lay off as there are some more deals in the offering. It is reported that Hearst's is laying off on the La Follette crowd. At first he was inclined to jump on the band- wagon, but La Follette is a jealous god and wanted no other god before the American peaple particularly a deity with several daily papers. $18 For Cigarmakers. TAMPA, Fla., August 11.—Skilled PUSH DRIVES FOR SUBS AND NEW MEMBERS W. P. Merit Stam s in Great Deman Re-enactment of the exciting days of last January when the DAILY WORKER was adding two and three hundred new subscribers to its lists every day, seems likely as Workers Party members everywhere are beginning. to respond to the Communist Merit Campaign being waged for new members for the party and new sub- scribers for the DAILY WORK- HR. Comrades from east and west are sending in their sub- scriptions in fulfillment of their obligation % secure each, a new subscriber and a new member. ‘The efforts cf the in- dividuals are uniting to build into the whole a party of virili- ty and action, a daily paper of strength and influence. While it“is too soon ‘to estimate the results of the campaign with regards new members, the subscription drive for THE DAILY WORKER is already showing marked success. Mainly by reason of the increased subscriptions due to the drive, the income of THE DAILY WORKER which has suffered greatly during the summer months, is now again on the upgrade giving promise of a healthier financial con- dition as well as a healthier circula- tion. Three featyres ofthe present drive are receiving special attention. At no previous time since THE DAILY WORKER was founded has it received so great an organized effort from the Party. While hundreds of communists have devoted their time and energy to THE DAILY WORKER, still their efforts have in the main been the ef- forts of individuals. For the first time the entire party, every member, is drawn into the campaign for DAILY WORKER subs. It is the organized feature of this campaign which paints the future of THE DAILY WORKER in such glowing colors. Stamps in Great Demand Unique in the methods of our party are the special Communist Merit Stamps which tHe Party gives in re- cognition of Communist work well done. For the first time Party issues stamps which cannot be purchased, which can only be earned. What Com- munist: will- rest eontent until the two little stamps, one for a new Party mefnber, ong for a new DAILY WORK- ER subscriber have been earned? “My. dues book is up-to-date” will have a new significance from now on. For no member of the Workers Party will be entitled to such a claim until the Communist Merit Stamps are there. Is it any wonder that the Communist Merit Stamps are in such great de- mand? Send Tammany Hall Faker as U. S. Labor Delegate to Britain (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, August 12.—Peter J. cigarmakers in Tampa are getting $18 | Brady, Supervisor of the City Record, @ week, it is stated at cigarmakers’|New York, and trade union official, headquarters. A committee has been appointed consisting of two workers |to represent the American Federation | from each cigar factory to agree on ajof Labor as a fraternal delegate to} will sail on September 1st for London committee of ‘five which will meet!the British Trades Union Congress. . with a like number from the employ- ers. This equalization board func- tioned until 1921 when the manufac- Send Salt to Italy. MOSCW, August 12.— Kharkov, turers broke it up by refusing to sub-|Foreign Trade Dept., as reported from mit disputes to it, Send in that Subscription Today. Kharkov, is arranging for the ship- ment of considerable amounts of Rus- sian salt to Italy. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents DAILY WORKER MAN RUN OUT OF HEGEWISCH Bosses Admit Strike Is More Effective After an interview with the employment manager of the Western Steel Car-and Foundry Co., P. H. Conlan, and the sec- retary to the plant manager, Rudolph Johnson, in which |they made unguarded state- ments concerning the strike-of the car builders in.the Hege- wisch shop, Karl Reeve, re- porter for the DAILY WORK- ER, was trailed by four police- men, and finally run out of the town. The cops took him to the suburban depot where they demanded his name and address and asked what his busi- ness was in Hegewisch. When he showed them his reporter’s card, they took him, back to the plant and con- fronted him with the two petty bosses whom he had interviewed. ‘he result of this meeting, was a warning to Reeve to “get the hell out of this town as quick as possible and don’t show your face here again.” Both Conlan and Johnson seemed chagrined at having admitted to Reeve that the strike was very suc- cessful from the workers’ point of view. During the interview they tried to arrange with Reeve to get the men to go back to work, altho Conlan ad- mitted that the men would stay out until they won “in spite of what the leaders tell them to do.” Stool Pigeon on Joh Johnson, secretary to Mr. Buckley, the manager of the plant, told Reeve that he had been approached by vari- ous employment agencies which of- fered to get the men to go back to work for a consideration from the company. He also confessed that he was seriously considering the hiring of strikebreakers and that he was in close touch with the strike thru an under-cover man, that is a stool- pigeon. Strike Is Effective. From an inside investigation of both the struck plants, the Western Steel Car and Foundry Co., and the Ryan Steel Car Co. plant which ad- joins the former, it is evident that the strike is practically 100 percent effective. Production is nil and the bosses are losing thousands of dol- lars on unfilled orders. Numerous pickets were on the firing line this morning in an attgmpt to pull out the few remaining men and to prevent any scabs from going in. Edmond Hogan, organizer for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, Barney Mass of the Young Workers League and Jack McCarthy of the DAILY WORKER addressed this morning’s meeting of the strikers. 42-Hour Week In England. LONDON, August 12.—The 42-hour week is worked by 800,000 British workers, according -to the British Trades Union congress. Over 3,500,- 000 unionists, out of 4,688,609 for whom their unions sent in reports, work 48 hours or less. The 40-hour | week is worked by 24,300 unionists, it was found. EGYPT AND BALKANS THREATEN 10 BREAK UP PEACE OF EUROPE (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON—.Ten Egyptians and soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a clash with British at Abtara, said a dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, today. * ee LONDON.— It is reported in Athens that Bulgaria has ordered all Greeks to leave the country within 20 days or face expulsion, said a dispatch from Athens this afternoon. a GENEVA.—The Macedonian Na- tionalist Committee has established headquarters at Vienna to foment a movement for a separate Mace- donian state in the Balkans, accord- ing to reports reaching here from Vienna today. —