The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 5, 1924, Page 1

{ | THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT Vol. H. No. 143. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (0 nie eg nme semen cen An anne ee er tea nee em Ae DAWES PLAN TO BRING NEW AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'}FLAHERTY. ELL AN’ MARIA DAWES de clares the country is face to wet PARENTS KEEP with an abnormal condition because of disrespect for law. We have not yet read in the papers that capitalists are getting tarred and feathered or lynched because of their disrespect for law, Fall, Daugherty? But it is no} “abnormal condition” to learn of a worker being outraged by some self- appointed custodian of the law. Gen- eral Dawes has no: words of condem- nation for the lawless hoodlums who raided the I. W. W. hall in San Pedro causing the death of some of those who happened to be in the hall at the time. He knows that none ofthe cul- prits have yet been arrested, yet he does not protest. ae AWES blames demagogues for the growing disrespect for law and order. Disrespect for capitalist law is growing sure enuf. ‘ But the surpris- ing thing is that its growth is so slow. Radicals have pointed out for decades how this law operates in favor of the ruling class in society. But the masses are skeptical. Once in a while something happened that shook their gonfidence in the capitalist system. But they have short memories. “Con- stant dropping wears away a stone” and thick tho the average skull may be, repeated proof of capitalist con- tempt, for law except when it suits capital, is beginning to produce a heavy crop of skepticism. | ‘HE Harding administration, or in other words, the gang of burglars that moved into Washington with the genial rubber stamp from Marion, did more to convince the American work- ers that the government is simply a gigantic conspiracy against law and'attempt on the part of Superintendent order, except sueh laws “as serve thé) wcAndrew to break up the T purpose of the master class, than mil- lions of Communist leaflets and thousands of speeches from the mouths of “demagogues,” the kind that doesn’t agree with the doughty general of the Minute Men of the Con- stitution. ee HAT opened the eyes of the Gen- eral (We will call him general for convenience sake, tho how he got the title is beyond us) to the great danger that confronts law, was the Herrin riot of 1922 when several mur- derous strikebreakers were disposed of for the good of the community. This got the general’s dander up and he organized the Minutey Men of the Constitution in order to give union men a lesson. If the courts couldn’t send union men to the gallows, why Hell an’ Maria would, But there are too many workers in the United States and only for their passivity and their confounded patience, a Dawes would be hard to find, The General does (Continued on page 6) Ul, S, SHYLOCK TO COLLECT BOND, SAYS A. MELLON Qustion Is: What to Do with Ducats? WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is back after a two months’ tour of Europe. Mr. Mellon was not idle while he, was there. He worked hard putting the Dawes plan across. y Reparations payments’ by Germany thrn the operation of the Dawes plan will make it possible, Mellon said, for the United States to begin the collec- tion of the $6,000,000,000 of war debts owed by European nations, Banks Bursting Yet— Mr. Mellon did not say what the United States intended to do with this colossal sum of money after it gets it. The vaults of the big banks aro now bursting with money, yet 2,000,000 workers are unemployed. Who's going to eat the dough? That is the question. It can be stated right off the reel that not one dollar of it goes into the pockets of the workers, Volstead Breaks Happy Home. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 4.—The Volstead Law is no bar to Edward F, Byett, Fort Wayne, obtaining large . quantities of intoxicating Mquors, ac- cording to a petition for a divorce filed by Mrs. Elfrieda Byett. She charges that her husband finally de- earted her, in Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year, Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year, THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 41, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 8, 1879. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1924 LEB 290 “Big Biz’ in War on Teachers UP FIGHT ON JUNIOR HIGHS (Special to The Daliy Worker) SARATOV, Russia, Sept. 4.—-Speaking upon the same spot where he was attacked 23 years ago by Imperial cos- sacks and nearly beaten to death, President Rykov of the Soviet Council of People’s Commissars, today predicted that the Soviet government. Mayor Dever Does Not Live Up ) to Pledges By ELSA BLOCH Parents of children who have been forced to leave the Harper school because of its trans- formation into a Junior High school will continue their fight for an injunction restraining the Board of Education from cony of the Saratov theatre, the people of this region. become Europe’s granary. “all capitalist countries” would eventually have to recognize Rykov is making a tour of the famine stricken regions. “Famine is a heritage of the czars,” said Rykov, ad- dressing: sixty thousand peasants and workers from the bal- “Periodically famine strikes We must fight the plague as we fought the enemy on the battle front. thru energy and systematic farming. Russia will We will surely win again Soviet Russia's enemies tried to capitalize this famine and renewed their propaganda and hostilities against the soviets.” _ Saratov is Rykov’s birthplace and he was encircled by WORLD TO RECOGNIZE SOVIETS the peasants, his old time neighbors. Bells were rung and sirens blown. The religous minded prayed in the streets, giving thanks for relief supplies. These supplies of seeds and grain are being distributed thruout the whole famine region simultaneously. It was here that Rykov led an anti-czarist demonstra- tion 23 years ago and nearly lost his life as a result when attacked by cossacks. Rykov disdained acclamations of “Our Savior” and waved aside a military guard that had been provided for him. He drove his horse thru the streets to the home of his sister and other relatives who live in an obscure quarter. Later in the day the President addressed the local soviet in the theatre, saying in part: “All capitalistic countries, like England, will soon re- alize the imperative necessity of normal relations with, Russia. But this can be attained only thru recognition of Russia's revolutionary conquest.” putting its order into effect, when they present an amended bill before Judge Fred Rush of the Circuit court today. Yesterday’s meetitfg of the parents at the school became CORONER’S JURY\Communists Go on the REBELS STEER Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, Ill. + almost a riot, in spite of the fact that they met under the supervision of a detail of po- lice. A gang of children invaded the school grounds and began to throw bricks, breaking sev- eral windows. Members of the Board of Educa- tion, most of whom are business men, almost unanimously approved the re- port of Superintendent William —Mc- Andrew. Fight Against Federation. “This report is nothing but another Federation, to reorganize the teach- ers’ councils so that they will be con- trolled from above, to change the wage scale in such a manner as to drive out rebellious teachers, and to blind the public to the real cause of inefficiency in the Chicago public schools—official graft,” one of the or- ganizers of the Teachers’ Federation told the DAILY WORKER. “It has been the policy of the teach-| ers’ councils to permit no principals or other officials at their sessions, so that the teachers might say what they thought, and not what they are sup-| posed to think. McAndrew’s plan is to reorganize these councils in such a way that some official will be present at these meetings. Tries to Ape Chadsey. “The idea which McAndrew is try- ers’ | | BLAMES KLANFOR HERRIN MURDERS Sheriff Galligan and Aids Exonerated (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HERRIN, Ill., Sept. 4.—The situation in Williamson County became tense this after- . rai y's jury” | the inquest into the slaying of six men in Saturday’s rioting returned a verdict virtually exonerating Sheriff George Gal- ligan and all members of the anti-klan faction involved in the disturbances. Smith already is at liberty under bond, having been arrested on one of nine warrants issued by State’s Attor- ney Delos Duty, Sunday, in connec- tion with the killings. The verdict was a complete surprise as it had been tacitly agreed that the inquest would be more or less of a formality and that the real testimony, would not be presented until the case went to the grand jury in about two weeks. With one exception, the only witnesses heard were listed as pro- Klan and the decidedly antiKlan ver- Ballot in Pennsylvania _ Joseph Manley, Campaign Manager of the Workers Party, received en- thuslastic reports yesterday from the party’s organizers, Abram Jakira, at Philadelphia, and Israel Blankenstein, at Pittsburgh, stating that the peti- tions had been filed for all Communist candidates... Hundreds of signatures, more than those required, were turned in, the report, stated. This means that not only the national Communist ticket, William Z. Foster for president, and Benjamin Gitlow for vice-president, but also the entire ticket goes on the Pennsylvania ballot. This means that in this steel and coal trust state, home of the coal and iron police, for the first time in history, a Communist Party will take part in a great election struggle. first in the list of states to put the Workers Party on the ballot was the “wheat-growing state of North Dakota. Now comes the second, the Thdustriatared in tile world: ~The massage of Communism is indeed, becoming a reality both on the land and in the industries. COL. HASKELL (CHARGE SHADY URGES SOVIET | BANK DEAL 10 RECOGNITION CALVIN'S MATE (Special to The Daily Worker) By LAURENCE TODD. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.,| (Federated Press Staff Correspondent.) Sept. 4.—Colonel William N.| WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.— Haskell, chief of the American|Charley Dawes’ record in the Relief Mission to Russia from} >anking game grows worse and | SHY OF LEAGUE, SAYS M'DONALD Labor Premier Ignores| Workers’ Cause (Special to the Daily Worker.) GENEVA, Sept. 4.—‘Russia believes in revolution instead of evolution, therefore it is. un- derstandable why the League of Nations is not attractive to Russia,” declared J. Ramsay MacDonald, labor premier of Great Britain, today in a speech before the League of Nations! Assembly. MacDonald urged that Ger- many be admitted to the league without _ reservations. The strained relations between Eng- | land and France could be seen running like a thread thru the British premier’s speech. Despite the friendly relations that outwardly appear to exist between Herriot and MacDonald, the clashing interests of the two rival powers can- not be composed by good fellowship. Hands Lemon to U. S. Communist Candidates For President: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. For Vice-President: BENJAMIN GITLOW. Price 3 Cents WAR BRITISH LABOR CONGRESS HEARS SOVIET LEADER Tomsky ‘Attacks the Dawes Plan (Special to the DAILY WORKER) HULL, England, Sept. 4.—M. Tomsky, Chairman of the All- Russian Council of Trade Un- jions, addressing the British Trade Union Congress, at- tacked the Dawes Plan which, {he said, “seizes the German |proletariat by the throat.” “The Dawes Plan will prove jan apple of discord for Europe jand it will mean that England will erect a tariff wall. The world will then return to the vicious pre-war system.” Another fraternal representative to |the British labor congress was Peter Brady, representing the American ]Federation of Labor. Brady and Tomsky are as far apart as the poles in their opinions and in their life his- tories. U. S. Faker Talks. Brady in a stupid speech tried to cater to’the nationalism which he ex- pected to find in the congress by say- ing that America did not win the war. The United States was opposed to Bol- shevism and all other forms of “isms” which do not mean democracy, de- clared the American labor faker. Peter Brady is a Tammany Hall hack politician, who has lived and grown rich at the expense of the work- ers. His position of chairman of the Allied Printing “Trades Council of New York has enabled him to secure a good price for his Tammany Hall services. Political Grafter, He holds down a sinecure in New York City as editor of the City Record, a little booklet which gives the names and addresses of the city, state and government offices located in the city. Tomsky on the other hand has de- voted his useful life to the service of labor. He spent 15 years in Siberia as a prisoner of the Czar and was a member of the Soviet delegation that signed the Anglo-Russian treaty. GOVERNOR STAYS INDIFFERENT TO dict is a complete upset of predic- ing to put over in changing the scale | tions, of salaries so that®teachers will be Klan Threatens., promoted on the basis of efficiency! Anti-Galligan factiohs this afternoon and not of seniority was held by Su-ywere discussing the verdict in little perintendent Chadsey, who had charge} groups about the streets and muttered of the Chicago schools two years ago.| threats were made with little attempt Chadsey had a long record of firing] at concealment. It is generally con- experienced teachers who had been in|ceded that if any of Galligan’s men the service for years, and who there-| again attempt to arrest Smith, trouble fore commanded high wages, and ofj|will start and Williamson county is substituting young and inexperienced | girding its loins and waiting: teachers at a low wage. Those teach-| No further action has been taken ers whe stayed were, of course, those|by Capt. Bigelow, in charge of the willing to swallow whatever the schoo}|militfa detail here, but he is sched- board told them. uled to address members of the Klan “The teachers of Chicago managed |tonight in furtherance of his “peace to have Chadsey fired. Now McAn-|Plan” for Williamson county and both drew is trying to put the same thing factions late t}is afternoon were ap- over on us. parerftly awaiting results of this con- ference, He's Superintendent for Business. | Tne verdict finds that Bud Allison, “McAndrew was brought here from}a Galligan deputy, came to his death New York by the business intersts of|at the hands of “Green” Dunning, a Chicago. His first act,was to address|Klan sympathizer, that Dunning was the Chamber of Commerce and to ask|killed by Allison; and that Chester for instructions on how to run the|Reid, a brother-in-law of Dr. J. H. schools. He was told, of course, that! Black, head of the Herrin City Hospi- greater efficiency in penmanship and /|tal, was killed by John Smith, owner in arithmetic was needed. “McAndrew's report stresses the need for greater efficiency in the “three R's,” Officials of the Chicago Teachers’ Federation refused to make any state- ments concerning the action to be taken by the union. It was intimated, however, that the Federation wag dis- apointed in the failure of Mayor Dey-\ er, for whose election Margaret Ha- ley, business agent of the union, fought last spring, to take action against the graft and corruption that are widespread in the school system. Held For Shooting. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 4.—Paul Cadirakis, 25, a Greek, was arrested and placed in jail here today in con- nection with the shooting of Mrs. Efteas Vatikes, and James Multi- kis, 38, the woman’s former husband, who were found dead on the Vatikes farm, two miles south of Briso, Wed- of the garage started. It recommends that:Smith be held for the krand jury on a charge of mur- der. In the case of Otto Roland, Dewey Newbold and Charles Willard, the lat- where the shooting ter two alleged members of the Klan, an opén verdict fixing no responsibili- ty for their deaths was returned. of @ Glenn Young Indicted. DANVILLE, Ill, Sept. 4—S. Glenn Young, imported dry raider of Will- Jamson county, was named in five of seven indictments returned by a fed- eral grand jury here today charging members of raiding parties with im- personating government officers. Those indicted, including Young, who now is believed to be in At- lanta, Ga., will be tried at the No- vember term of the federal court, which will sit at East St. Louis. Warrants for the arrests of those (Continued on page & 4 1921 to 1923, advocated a con- ference between Russia and the United States looking toward resumption of relations between the two countries, in a lecture at the Institute of Politics here. His lecture was entitled “Rus- sia and its Problems” and was a flat contradiction of the lies peddled by Boris A. Bakhmetieff and the socialist stoolpigeon John Spargo, who delivered vicious attacks on Soviet Rus- sia a few days ago before the same body. Haskell was supported in his posi- tion by Arthur Ruhl, noted author and war correspondent, and by Elmer G. Burland. Messrs. Bakhmeteff and Spargo had portrayed present day Russian Policy as suicidal to Russia and also inimical: to our, present. civilization. Spargo was particularly incensed be- cause the Soviet government opposed the Dawes Plan. . Slammed Renegades. Y Colonel Haskell was not easy withthe two renegades. He was to Russia many times during the Czar’s regime and is in a position to compare the conditions that existed then and the conditions under which the workers and peasants live at the present time. (Continued on Page 6) BROTHER OF KU KLUX FAVORITE JUMPS. ON LA FOLLETTE WAGON NEW YORK, Sept. 4—Maicolm M, McAdoo, brother of Wm. Gibbs McAdoo, today put himself solidly behind the campaign of the LaFol- lette-Wheeler presidential ticket and was elected treasurer of the progressive party organization in Naw Wark phate more astonishing as it is un- covered. But it does explain why Dawes was sent to Europe, and why he was later nomi- nated by the republican con- vention. Dawes is the boy who threw into a receiver’s hands the great Globe bank in Boston, twenty- five years ago, and forced the sale of its assets, including cer- tain copper stocks which would determine control of the Ana- conda properties in Montana, in the midst of a desperate fight by Augustus Heinze to prevent Standard Oil from gaining that control, The stocks were sold by the reeciver to Standard Oil. Anaconda Copper be- came an asset of Standard Oil. And/trance of the United States MacDon- Dawes afterward organized a small) ald urged that an international arms bank, into which Standard Oil prompt-| conference be held in Europe. Eng- ly delivered a deposit of $5,000,000,)1and would stand by the league con- which remained there and enabled} ventions, he declared. Dawes to grow rich. The latter was a Go back to the Boston newspapers|which desires a military alliance of Dec. 22, 1899, for the story of the/against Germany. England having sudden closing of the Globe Bank. Its|disposed of Germany as a rival for president, Cole, was obliged to resign.| the domination of Europe, and also as Afterward he was sent to the peniten-|a commercial rival, has picked on tiary for misuse of funds. But when/France for her next victim. Hence the bank was first closed it showed a|the jockeying of Mr. MacDonald to let surplus of $120,000 and assets far|/Germany down as easy as possible, above its liabilities. Dawes, then (Continued on page 3) comptroller of the currency, had been tinanciers, who had heard of his inten-| | ATTEMPT TO MAKE LEN SMALL COUGH UP MILLIONS NEARS END tion, and had offered to put many mil lions behind the institution. The Bos: SPRINGFIELD, IIl., Sept. 4.—Clos- ing arguments in the civil suits The British premier, in a very diplo- matic and clever speech, made a plea for a reduction in land armaments and pointed to the Washington conference which resulted in Britain retaining her naval dominance, as an outstanding event in the movement for the out lawing of war. That the Washington conference has not prevented the nations that participated in it from increasing their armaments was not admitted by Mac- Donald, but everybody here knows that it was a farce. the League of Nations, but until the powerful United States enters it with both feet, it will be only a plaything. For World Court. In order to pave the way for the en- m at France liam Coolidge, associates of Cole, put up $1,000,000 to cover any shrinkage in the value of the copper stocks clers save t! ank. He sent Inspec-| Briggle here today. A. &. Campbell, tor Daniel Wing to Boston and had a] assistant attorney general, opened reciver appointed. for the state. The arguments were England is the principal backer of} |be pardoned, ton Clearing House did put up $3,500, 000, and Edward A. Clarke and Wil- which the bank had been buying against Gov. Len Small were begun Dawes refused to let the Boston finan:| before Master in Chancery C. G. Now, Dawes’ chief, Lyman J. Gage, (Continued on Page 4.) expected to occupy six or seven days NEW TESTIMONY Hart Ignores Affidavits in Centralia Cases (By Federated Press.) | SEATTLE, Sept. 4.—Governor Louis | Hart of the state of Washington re- |mains calmly indifferent when con- |fronted with affidavits of three eye- witnesses of the raid by the Ameri- n Legion on the I. W. W. hall at Centralia, Wash., on Armistice Day, 1919, according to the general defense | committee. New Testimony Confirmed. Cecil DeWitte, a high school stu- |dent, one of the new witnesses, tes- tifles that he saw Lieut. Grimm, for whose murder eight members of the I. W. W, were sentenced for life, lead the attack on the hall before a shot had been fired. This story is con- firmed by P. M. Crinion, who adds that he gave this information to the prosecuting attorney two days later, but was not summoned as a witness at the trfal. It will be recalled that recently six of the 12 jurors have made sworn statements that intimidation led them into voting a verdict of guilty. The unsavory features of the Cen- tralia trial, which mount higher as the years slip by with the victims still in prison, have led to caustic cOmments by such papers as the New Republic and by such writers as William Allen White. Papers Demand Justice. The Oklahoma Leader says: “These eight workers, imprisoned for life for attempting to defend their clubhouse against a mob of lawbreakers, should The state of Washing- ton can ill afford to bring upon itself the odium which California's treat- ment of Tom Mooney has brought up- on that state,” i