The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 3, 1924, Page 2

Page Two N.Y. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE KEEPS J. P. Morgan is Leader of the Collection NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—Portrait gal- leries of America’s political rulers are | many. The chamber of commerce of New York is now displaying, in its great hall at 65 Liberty St., a portrait Ballery of the rulers of finance and industry. Here are some of the men our big business body thus honors: Junius Spencer Morgan, founder of the House of Morgan, and J. Pierpont | Morgan, his son; Theodore A. Have- meyer, once head of the American | Sugar Refining Co.; James J. Hill, railroad king; James De Peyster Og- den, first president, New York Life; Amos R. Eno, who founded Second National bank; Commodore Vander- bilt, projector of New York Central and founder of an illustrious line of idle descendants; John Jacob Astor who had the forethought to buy up the upper part of Manhattan island; Andrew Carnegie, steel king. A notable group—the real rulers of America—more powerful than — the smaller men who ride into the white house on a slush fund tide and ride out again while thess remali. ADMIRAL HORTHY USES VIOLENCE ON DEPUTIES Prime Minister Chucks Them Out on Street (Special to The Dally Worker) VIENNA, Dec, 2.—The forceful ejection of fourteen members of par. liament at Premier Bethlen’s instiga tion evoked extreme bitterness from the masses. The police have prohib- ited mass meetings and strong police and military detachments armed to the teeth are on the streets to en- force the anti-free speech edict. Thousands of workers are impris- ioned in Hungary. As in Italy, while the dictatorship was imprisoning and executing Communists, the social democrats and liberals were silently acquiescing or openly aiding in the reign of terror. So reactionary is ‘the © present regime in Hungary that the Horthy government is bribing correspondents of the Chicago Tribune and other pen prostitutes to send cables to America branding the Countess Karoyli, bour- geois liberal, as a Bolshevik. Unless some big capitalist nation gives an- other money grant to the Horthy regime, its fall in the near future is not unlikely. Senator Borah Heads Senate Committee on Foreign Relations WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-—-Senator William ©. Borah, republican, of Idaho, was today promoted ‘to the chairmanship of the senate foreign relations committee by the republican conference on senatorial assignments. The chairmanship of the judiciary committee went to Senator Cummins, republican, Idaho, and the chairman- ship of the immigration committee to Senator Hiram Johnson, republican, California. These vacancies were caused by the deaths of senators Lodge of Massachusetts, Colt of Rhode Island and Brandegee of Connecticut. The committee assigned - Senator William M. Butler, of Massachusetts, spokesman for President Coolidge, to membership on the ommittees on judiciary and naval affairs. Brookhart Protects His Vote. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia., Dec. 2.—The first of a number of injunction suits which Senator Smith W. Brookhart has announced he will file in various counties of the state to preserve ‘the records of votes cast in the recent election, was on file in Benton and Marshall counties here today. Brook- hart wishes to keep the vote record for use when the election contest of his opponent, Dan F. Steck, is heard at Washington. MUSSOLIN'S LETTER TO FASCIST CAPTAINS IS GUE TO SURRENDER ROME, Dec, 2—The mysterious letter which Mussolini instructed his local fascisti to read at black- shirt meetings Is not a call to arms; it is a further surrender. He appeals to his supporters to maintain order to dissipate the bad impression created in the public mind by recent events, As Mus- solini’s power was built upon violence and not on mass support, that power Is now tumbling down when his bayonets are no longer sufficiently numerous to maintain it against the increasing opposition of the masses. (Continued from Page 1,) DAILY WORKER and the Trade Un- ion Educational League to create dis. sension within the United. Brother. hood of Carpenters and Joiners of undoubtedly due to the fact that these | jdebased takers have discovered that | the DAILY WORKER as well as the | | Trade Union Educational League have | constantly been active on behalf of jthe rank and file workers opposing jany attempt on the part of the offi-| |clals to force down their throats such outrageous agreements which are word for word the Landis award. Larson Heads Inquisition. Larson who became the prosecutor in the case conveniently got himself | engineered into the position of the |secretary of the trial board. The) members were questioned before this board. All were asked if they had ever been inside the Workers’ Lyceum, on; 2733 Hirsch Blvd. where pictures of | Lenin and Trotsky hang on the walls | This little hall happens to be. the place of general congregation of Scan. dinavian workers and so even some of the accused members could remember of being at this hall at lodge meet- ings and on various other occasions. The local officials succeeded in in- ducing three members out of the five on the trial board to sign the repor’ which was made to the local meeting last Monday. The report fraudlently stated that all the members charged had pleaded guilty and that the three members of the board therefore found that they had violated the con- stitutional section mentioned. When as a matter of fact none of the mem- bers had pleaded guilty but all had stated that criticism of the agreement contained in the resolution was in their opinion justified. Upon that report one of the former officers of the local, Thorkelson, pro- ceeded to interpret that part of the constitution applying to the genera) president as vesting full authority in the local president to proceed to pro- nounce sentence. Gavel’s Sentence Thru. One member of the union succeeded in obtaining the floor and reading the constitution which specifically pro- vides that at such trials the defend- ants as well as the prosecuting wit- ness, either personally or by repre: sentative, shall be allowed to, state their side and that it shalf require two-thirds vote of the members pres: ent to convict the defendant and affix such legal penalty as they may deem proper. _+* America, This alleged conspiracy is | sentence. The stupid officials knew that they could never even muster. a majority vote against the accused militant members and therefore in complete violation of this constitutional clause, the president proceeded to pronounce He banged his gavel and stated that five of the accused mem- bers were suspended and the other five reprimanded. The two members of the trial board who had refused to sign the falsified report of evidence attempted to get the floor but to no avail. The meeting turned into an uproar. The members demanding that the accused be granted a hearing and that the local union decide the case, The president ordered the sus- pended members to leave the hall. They refused and challenged the president to throw them out inasmuch as no legal trial had been obtained Members Charge Rallroading. The uproar turned into bedlam The overwhelming majority of the |members shouting to the officials that they had railroaded the case and that they were the ones that were destroy- ing the union. The president apply ing the celebrated czarist methods o the labor fakers adjourned the meet ing, and thus succeeded in making the railroaded case stick, at least for the time being. The members of Carpenters’ No. 181 are determined that no matter what accusations are made against any other member that at least the con- stitution shall be complied with and a regular trial be granted. Call for Membership Protest. They must, however, voice an en ergetic protest and spare no effort until such a trial has been granted. It would be well to remember that these are precisely the methods which have been pointed out by the Trade Union Educational League that the labor fakers will in all instances re sort to in order to keep their jobs and remain immune from any criti cism. Even tho when they, as in this case sell outright, the whole mem bership to the bosses. Other members of the United Broth- erhood of Carpenters should join their voices with those of Local 181 in de- manding fiat the officials according to the Constitution of the brotherhood place this whole case before the mem- bers of the local and let it decide, be- cause there can be no question of a doubt that the same fate of railroad- ing will befall all militant tember: who dare to stand up for true union principles. MILITANT CARPENTERS SUSPENDED INOW WE'RE GOING) "Sins. Bic’ Chance TO REDISCOVER A CONSTITUTION! Ancient Code Cited to Aid Brass Checker jal to The Daily Worker) KANSAS Git¥ Mo. Dec. 2-~The question of whether newspapers have the right to publish income tax re- turns will go directly to the supreme court of the United States from the United States district court for the western district of Missouri. Judge Albert L. Reeves today sustained the demurrer of attorneys for the Kansas City Journal-Post to the indictment of Walter S. Dickey, publisher, and Ralph Ellis, general managing editor. ‘The Kansas City case was the first of government test cases in several cities to go to a judge. Judge Reeves held the indictments, which charged illegal publication of income tax payments, violated the first amendment to the constitution which guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press. Coolidge Builds Up His Machine with Faithful Followers WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—President Coolidge. today sent the following nominations to the senate for confirm- ation’ T: be secretary of agriculture, How- ard M. Gore, of West Virginia. To be assistant secretaries of state, Wubur J. Carr of New York, John Van A. MacMurray of New Jersey. To be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, James R. Shef- field cf New York, to Mexico, Edgar A. Bancroft, of Illinois, to Japan, May Grill Kluxer Again. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The sen- ate committe on priviteges and elec- tions today decided to reopen next Monday hearings on the contests. to oust Senator Harle B. Mayfield, demo- crat of Texas, from the senate. CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 2—Two mem- bers of the Egyptian cabinet formed by Ahmed Ziwar Pasha at the resigna- tion of Zaghlul Pasha, resigned because of Egyptian acceptance of the terms of reprisal for the assassination of Sir Lee Stack, it was reported today. * For Graft in Army Elias Mortimer, star witness in the trial of Col. Charles R. Forbes, former head of the U. S. Veterans’ Bureau, now proceeding in federal court, charged that Forbes held a $100,000 position with John W. Thompson, a St. Louis contractor, in a crooked deal between the two. Mortimer gave de- tails of an alleged deal whereby the cost of three Western Hospitals was to be boosted $150,000 apiece. This surplus was to be split three ways, Forbes, Thompson, and the Hurley Ma- son company, a firm for which Forbes previously worked, each to receive $50,000. These hospitals were at Livermore, California; Camp Lewis, Washington, and St. Cloud, Michigan, Mortimer testified. This fifty thousand dollars was in addition to the 35 per cent of the profits on awards to Thompson and Black which by a previous ar- rangement he and Forbes were to split. They Sit Up Nights Thinking of Ways to Give Resources Away WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—A_ brand new proposal for disposing of the gov- ernment’s huge $100,000,00 water pow- er project at Muscle Shoals, Ala., was sponsored in the senate today by Senator Oscar W. Underwood, demo- crat, of Alabama, on behalf of the congressional group that formerly supported the offer of Henry Ford. The Underwood plan, under alter- native proposals, would direct the secretary of war to lease the project to private interests before July 1, 1925, or then organize a $50,000,000 government corporation to operate the plant for the manufacture of fer- tilizers. su Mormon Church Used As Blind to Shield Polygamist Practice WASHINGTON, Dec, 2.—“Absolute- ly absurd and untrue.” This was the reply today of Senator Smoot, republican, of Utah, to charg- es of Mrs. Lulu Loveland Shepard before the national association in Pittsburgh that polygamy was being practiced in Utah under the guise of Mormonism. Smoot ig one of the high officials of the Mormon church, TOMORROW |. There will be published, fomerrow, in the Baik WORKER, the absolute minimam § district, federation, ci t brat KER for 1925. Watch for it! Read it! Tomorrow! i ; ‘ M4 SSS insure the DAILY W THE DAILY WORKER MINNEAPOLIS FL. F, BOSSED BY ATTORNEYS Daily Star Forces in the Saddle at Meeting By LESLIE R. HUNT. (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 2.— Out-man- euvered in their attempt to unseat Communist delegates or sympathizers, reactionaries in the farmer-labor fed- eration meeting held last night offered a resolution to deny representation to political parties other than the farm- er-labor party. The sponsors of the resolution ad- mitted frankly that the action was di- rected at the Workers (Communist) Party. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 25 to 11. Last night’s meeting looked more like, a convention of lawyers, doctors and professional men than a farmers’ and workers’ gathering. In the news columns of the Daily Star yesterday, an appeal to the conservative element was printed urging them to attend the neeting. It was clearly an attempt Lo take the control of the farmer-labo- federation out of the hands of worker and farmers and place it in the hand of professional politicians by packing the meeting with this element which is plentiful in the local movement. Attorney Introduces Resolution, Gustaf Drake, @ local attorney open: ed the proceedings by presenting « resolution demanding the unseating oi delegates who held Communist view: or who were not citizens of the United States. Irving G. Scott, labor's fighting al- derman in the city council, who was chairman, promptly ruled the resolu- tion out of order. This took the pro- fessional politicians by surprise and it took them some time to rally. Doctor Henry L. Wuerzinger appealed from the decision of the chair, but after much debate the chair was sustained —85 to 6. “Red” Cramer Turns Yellow. It remained for R. D. Cramer, editor of the Minneapolis Labor Review, rat- ed as a progressive until his “pie-card” was threatened, to function as a pro- gressive fig-leaf for the reactionaries. This time his tirade was not delivered against the bosses but against that part of the workingclass that fights the bosses uncompromisingly— the Communists. Cramer showed last night that his spiritual leader is not Lenin, but Gompers. He predicted dis- aster for the local movement if the resolution was not adop! Jack Bradon in replyiig to Cramer, pointed out that the only two candi- dates on the farmer-labor ticket that did not repudiate their Communist support—Olson and Holmes—received the largest vote. ‘Bradon stated that the drive against the Communists did not spring from the rank and file but from the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor. Reactionaries Brought Defeat. “There are some silly persons,” he said, “who seek to blame the Commu- nists for the defeat of the state ticket. They know that to be a lie. The de- feat of the farmer-labor ticket in Min- nesota was directly due, not to the Workers (Communist) Party, the most active workers for the ticket, but to the sabotage of the right wing ele- ment in the labor movement.” “They permitted LaFollette’s hench- men to run the campaign to the almost total exclusion of the candidates on the state ticket. After all, there isn’t mucp to be accomplished by the work- ers going to the ballot boxes. If the time ever comes in this country when the workers and farmers are able to put over a sweeping nation-wide vic- tory at the polls, don’t you suppose that capitalism is going to fight against seating these representatives? What was done in Jtaly by Mussolini ond his blackshirts when the workers ‘ook over the factories? “Let's quit kidding ourselves. If you men and women vote tonight in favor of the resolution endorsed by Cramer, which is directed against the Workers (Communist) Party, you are fighting the most progressive and militant wing of the labor movement.” Mahoney Present. Gunnar Olson, wearing an American Legion button in his coat lapel and who was recently defeated as a can- didate tor the legislature, made an at- tack on the Soviet government, and defended the resolution. When he had finished he came over to the corres- poudent of the DAILY WORKER and shouted; f “Put that into the DAILY WORKER again, will you?” William Mahoney and Ralph Har- mon, leader of the farmer-labor feder- ation, sat in the session which lasted several hours. Sulphur Mine on Fire, CALTANISETTA, Sicily. — The greatest sulphur mine, suppling the large sulphur refining works here was afire today. Other efforts to extin- guish the flames having failed, the mine was ordered tightly closed to exclude the air, New York Workers’ School. Register Now—208 E. 12th St. Gompers’ Agent Sides With Mine Owners In Minnesota Disaster By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. "TODAY, the widows and orphans of the 41 miners who lost __ their lives in the Milford mine disaster, near Crosby, Minn., Feb. 5, are told that the mine owners are not to blame for the tragedy. The investigation committee, that now makes its report after 10 months, and absolves the mine barons, was headed bs mip E. McEwen, of Duluth, ‘typical Gompers’ labor faker. “Steel Czar” Gary could not have rendered better service to the ruling class than McEwen has done. * * * ° McEwen received his appointment at the hands of the republican governor of the mine owners, Mr. Preus, who has been fought most bitterly by even the most reaction- ary elements of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party. He has been attacked by the most conservative elements in the trade unions as the worst enemy of labor. But McEwen not only accepted this appointment at the hands of Governor Preus, but proceeded to bootlick the capitalist interests of Minnesota, McEwen learned to do this in the best style as editor of a Gompers’ labor sheet publish- ed at Duluth, the metropolis of the Northern Minnesota’s iron country, where the steel trust has located one of its largest mills. ° * ° e It was while the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party was strongest that McEwen joined its ranks. His nomination, however, for congress on the Farmer Labor Party ticket in thte Duluth district, was bitterly fought by the Communists, urging a revolutionary working class program. The Com- munists, waged a magnificent campaign that almost re- sulted in the nomination of their candidate, J. O. Bentall. * * * * But the workers and poor farmers in Minnesota, in the final elections, gave their votes to Coolidge, the strike breaker, for president, and turned the state government of Minnesota over to the republican machine of the mine own- ers, the big bankers, the grain gamblers, the rich farmers and the landlords. This reversal finds McEwen treading softly back into the republican camp, using the Milford mine disaster as the basis of his treason. oe * * The miners knew the danger that threatened them. They were forced to blast and dig out under Foley Lake. Daily their work places drew nearer the waters overhead. They protested, as the DAILY WORKER pointed out at the time of the disaster. But no heed was given their protests. If they didn’t like their jobs they could quit. There were other workers waiting to take their places. They had no union. Many brilliant strikes on the iron range had been broken. The workers were cowed. Then the day of death came—Feb. 5, 1924. * * * The lickspittle McEwen, in his report, argues that the waters might have rushed in when the men were not at work. Or the mud and the muck and the lake water should just have oozed in slowly, philosophizes McEwen, so that the miners could have escaped. But it didn’t happen that way. McEwen turns his eyes skyward and says this in his report: bs “But some power deci that this arch should break thru in the middle of the afternoon of 5, when all of the men were peacefully working in their places and expecting nothing out of the usual routine of their work.” , ° * * * Thus McEwen proves a bulwark against any real pro- tection of the lives of Minnesota’s miners for the future. His committee merely recommends the usual mine safety commission to propose the customary safety legislation; $5,000 for safety educational work; permission for mine in- spectors to attend safety conferences, and that an assistant be provided mine inspectors in counties where there are more than 50 operating mines. : This hackneyed report, however, offers several opportu- nities for Governor Preus, or his successor, the republican, Christensen, to appoint McEwen to some soft job where he can wait on deathiien to determine the time and the place for the next mine disaster. * * * * This is the type of Gompers’ agent that spends most of its time trying to drive the Communists out of the unions. It is the brand of American Federation of Labor machine politician that joins the capitalist class in its red-baiting drives in every political struggle. * Some measure of safety on the job under capitalism can come only thru workers’ control. Every mine operation in Northern Minnesota, as everywhere else, should have its Communist nucleus. Communist will fight for the safety of the workers. Communists will make war on every danger that threatens the workers. For Communists wage the only struggle that hits at the vital interests of the bosses; all of these interests being Opposed to the welfare of the workers. * * * In the hour that the great mass of labor unites in a peer of the Communist struggle, not only for the day’s needs, ut for all power; then McEwen and his capitalist friends will not speculate about what power it was that decreed their downfall. They will know that it was the power of the workers united against all their oppressors. Let the miners of Minnesota, as they read the Judas’ findings of the Gompers’ agent, McEwen, resolve to work harder than ever to build that class power of their own. Lenin Meeting in Philadelphia HILADELPHIA Young Workers League, Workers Party Branches and friendly organizations take notice! The Philadelphia City Central Committee of the Workers Party has arranged to hold the Lenin Memorial Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 8 p. m., in the Lulu Temple. : . Please arrange no meetings or affairs on that date. Philadelphia City Central Committee. ranch of the Workers Party in the quota for every campaign to Wednesday, December 3, 1924 | SACCO-VANZETTI PROTEST MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA (Special to The Dally Worker) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2-—— A tremendous Sacco-Vanzetti protest demonstration will take place in this city Sunday morning, December 7, 9:30 a, m., at the Labor Institute (for- merly Musical Fund Hall), Highth and Locust Sts. Comrade H. M. Wicks, of New York, who is well-known to the Philadelphia workers, will speak in English and Comrade M. Baldini, also of New York, will speak in Ital- jan. Addresses will also be delivered by several other prominent speakers, All workers of Philadelphia and vict- nity are called upon to come and de- monstrate their solidarity with these two victims of the brutal class war. The meeting is held under the aus- | pices of the Sacco-Vanzetti Protest Committee. Admission is frée, ** * Philadelphia Young Workers Wii! Dance. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 2.—No young or adult workers of this city must miss the great party and dance given by branches 1 and 2 of the Young Workers’ League of Philadel- vhia, Saturday, December 6, 8 p. m., it Franklin’s Studion Hall, 723 Poplar St. Admission including wardrobe on- ly 35c. Splendid union orchestra; pleny of refreshments; exhibition dances by professional dancers. eee International Workers’ Ald to Meet. A special conference of the Phila delphia Branch of the I. W. A. has been called for Friday, December 5, 8 p. m,, at 521 York Ave. Plans for the campaign for Inter: national Red Aid will be mapped out, Delegates from all organizations are invited to attend. Morones, Mexican Labor Faker, Gets in Calles’ Cabinet MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2—Gen Plu- tarco Elias Calles, newly inaugurated president of Mexico, has announced his cabinet as follows: Secretary of foreign relations— Aaron Saenz (incumbent), } Treasury—Alberto Paul (incum- bent). Interior—Deputy Romeo Ortega, who has been subsecretary in charge of the department. | Communications and public works— Adalberto Tejeda, governor of Vera Cruz for the last four years. Industry, commerce and labor— Deputy Luis Morones, the labor leader, who was wounded in a shoot- ing affray a fortnight ago in the chamber of deputies, Agriculture and development —Luis Leon. Education—Senator Jose Puig Casu- rano. War and navy—Gen. Joaquin Am- aro, subsecretary in charge of the department. Ramon Ross is re-appointed govern: i or of the federal district. N. Y. Mass Meeting Protest Against Mass Arrests in Germany (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Dec, 2.—A mass pro- test meeting arranged by the Workers’ Party and the International Workers’ Aid in New York will be held at La bor Temple, 243 BE. 84th street, Dec. 5 at 8 p. m. \ The meeting will voice the protests against the terror used by the capi talists of Germany as the tools of the international bankers to introduce the Dawes’ slave plan. The meeting is called in response to an appeal sent here by the German workers, + In the past three months the work ers’ press of Germany reports ot 2,000 workers being sentenced to a to- tal of 1,360 years in prison for alleged political offenses, There are now a total of over 7,000 worekrs languish. ing in jail. Prominent speakers will address the meeting. Red Youth Night In the Bronx Saturday ’ NEW YORK, Dec. 2—The Workers League, Bronx 12, has set aside Saturday ‘out Ye i ; 3 : 28523 & A a g 23 ade i a2 Be a: 5% if 2 ie of price. Everything promises Sa‘ day night to be the biggest night the Young Workers League and W: ers Party members, friends and sym- pathizers. se aie can be obtained at 208 Bast street, or at the Jimmy Higgins / Book Shop, 127 University Haoe, t ee5 Moor Takes German Legation, TANGIBR.—Maj, Mohamed Bushrin, known as Mendub, the sultan of eeraconren: