The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1925, Page 2

"Page Two CARPENTERS. LOCALS SCORE _ EXPULSIONS Demand Justice for the Ousted Militants Two Chicago locals of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Carpenters, this week, went un- animously on record for a square deal for the five mem- bers expelled from Local No. 181, in defiance of the union Jaws and constitution. The lo- eals« taking such action are: Local No. 1 and No. 13. During the\week the expelled mem- bers visited other local unions and Were everywhere received in a most friendly manner. It is quite evident that the rank and file are overwhelm- ingly in opposition to the railroading policy of Hutcheson and Jensen. ‘Those who took the fioor at the local unions where the expelled members ap- peared, were vigorous in condemning the autocracy of the “ezar” at Indian- apolis and his local tool, Harry Jen- son. These officials were charged with making a mockery of the constitution and the laws of the brotherhood. Establishing Precedent. One of the officials of Local No. 1, made a plea for the defendants say- ing that if such illegal action against them can go unchallenged similar pun- ishment can be meted out to any oth- er member of the organization who happens to disagree with those in of- fice. Locals Nos. 1 and 13 voted unanimously to send a communication to the general president-asking for a speedy decision on the ruling of the} president of Local 181, which declared the five members expelled without complying with the forms of the con- stitution. The expelled members are deprived of their means of livelihood thru the autocratic action of Hutcheson and his satellites. Morris Rosen, Communist candidate for president of the carpenters’ union, on the left wing ticket, was given cre- dit for 9,014 votes by the Hutcheson tellers. Candidate Brown got over 34,306 votes and Hutcheson counted 77,985 for himself. The vote indicates that there is a strong Communist nucleus inside the powerful Carpen- ters’ Union. RESIDENTS OF GLASS HOUSES | THROW STONE ‘And His Confirmation Breaks Many Panes WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 30.— The embarrassment of the fight over the confirmation of Attorney Genera’ Stone’s appointment to the supreme | court is evid .uced by the long confer- | ence at the White House among the} republican leaders, the attorney gen |for the meeting, but at the last minute eral and President Coolidge. This ambarrassment is not limited land refused to allow the gathering to the White House, for a majority of \take place. It is thought that pressure ae senators who must be depended |2#¢ beem brought to bear by elements NOME, ALASKA, IN APPEAL TO WORLD IN FIGHT ON DIPHTERIA NOME, Alaska, Jan. 30. — This diphtheria stricken city appealed to the world for aid today. Conditions are serious and anti-toxin rushed here by airplane is essential to save hundreds of lives, Mayor George Maynard declared. Conditions in Nome were regarded as critical by Maynard and dispatch- Ing of serum by airplane was re- garded by him as the only course to be taken to save the sufferers. “We are advocating that action be taken immediately,” declared Maynard, “and want antitoxin from Nenana sent by airplane. Conditions are very serious.” CHURCHES EXTOL ALAN MURDER AT YOUNG'S BURIAL Nine K. K. K. Ministers Call Gunman ‘Martyr’ (Special to The Dally Worker) HERRIN, Hl, Jan. 30.—The protestant church took the ku kiux klan to its bosom here yes- terday, when nine prominent southern Illinois ministers preached the funeral services for S. Glenn Young, slain klan gunman, The ministers, all members of the klan, extolled Young as a martyr, and accepted in the name of the klan re- sponsibility for Young’s thirty mur- ders, and pledged that the lawlessness began by Young would be carried on by the Klan. “We want peace in Williamson county,” shouted the Rey. I. EB. Lee, the Baptist pastor here. “But not peace at the cost ef compromise of our convictions.” “As Glenn Young marched into the last battle of his life he carried in his heart the sacred precepts of the klan,” said the William Carlton of Marion. It was a klan funeral; one hundred robed and masked klansmen preceding the body of Young to the Herrin ceme. tery, and twenty-five thousand klans. men marching behind tke coffin. Rev. P. R. Glotfelty, lof the Herrin methodist church, led the services a member of the klan, always carries @ gun ready for use, and his son har been mixed unijiimi: several shootinr affairs in Herrin. The troops have left Herrin. Both Secrecy and Expulsion Now Rule in Minneapolis (Continued from page 1) have conducted their ‘campaign to un- seat members of the Workers Party. Reactionary Intrigue at Work. A\ previous hall had been engaged the management broke the agreement ch to put thru the confirmation adopt. |OPPosed to progress, as no action was ed Senator Borah’s report absolving Wheeler on the same evidence o7 which it is now sought to indict him for conspiracy to defraud the govern ment—the central point of which ap pears to be a letter from a Montanr client to one of the land office officials offering him a share in certain of lands if the client received certain permits he wa: after, 2 letter written while Wheeler was in Europe. Crookedness is Quite Usual. In addition, the very charge brot against Wheeler—the charge of bring ing the claims of constituents to the attention of one or another of the government departments and intro- taken until after advertising had been printed and distributed thruout the city. The fact that the radicals have made arrangements to stage the meet- ing, despite all opposition, caused much consternation among the fakers here. When a T. U. E. L. member handed one of the advertising bills to Paul W. Smith, special envoy of the official- dom of the A, F. of L., another reac- tionary chimed in with, “You've got a lot of guts banding those bills to an official of the American Federation of Labor.” ducing these constituents to the ofic! | Supreme Court for als with whom they have to deal— has been the regular practice of sena- tors and representatives, particularly those from the west. Wheeler’s employment by Gordor Campbell dated from before his ad Monopoly for Power And Light Companies CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan, 30.— The Tennessee supreme court has de- vent as a senator, and his declaration | cided in favor of a monopoly of the has always been that it was for cas in the Montana courts on which pree- tiee there is no bar, even for a sena tor. Charge Republican Scheme, ‘When the charge was made that the indictment was framed up by the re Publican national committee, said that if Wheeler was guilty on the big power and light companies in the state and the smaller bourgeois com- panies will now find themselves forced to see what a workingman's life is as they'll soon be working for a monopolizing trust, The state tried to smash the combi- Borah | nation of the Nashville Railway and Light company, Chattanooga Railway evidence produced before the Montane | and Light company, Tennessee Power grand jury two-thirds of the senate| company and Tennessee River Power Ought to be in jail, company, but the supreme court de- clded that the monopoly in the con- Subscribe for “Your Dally,” trol and distribution of electric power the DAILY WORKER. METAL TRADES GROUP WILL MEET TONIGHT All militants In the metal trades in Chicago are invited to attend a meeting which will be held tonight at 722 Blue Island Ave., at 7:30 p. m. Many Improtant questions af- fecting the interests of the metal workers will be taken up. in the state was legal and authorized under the state laws, Record Snowfall in Japan. TOKIO, Jan. 30.—All Japan was covered today by @ record snowfall, one of the heaviest in many years. All communication waa temporarily blocked by the storm. Telegraph and telephone lines were put out of com- mission and train service into Tokio vas blocked. Service by tram cars ind busses in the city was at a stand- stil, | ipo PALS OF BURNS AND DAUGHERTY FOUND GUILTY Chief Grafters and Red Baiters Escape (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 30.— Gaston B. Means, trusted agent of William J.Burns, when Burns was head of the bureau of in- vestigation of the U. S. depart- ment of justice, was today found guilty of conspiracy to bribe government officials, Are Associates of Daugherty. Col. Thomas Felder, lawyer for Means, and for many years close per sonal associate and partner of Harry Daugherty, formerly attorney general of the United States, was also tound guilty. The sealed verdict, returned in the United States district court here today, recommended “extreme clemency” for Daugherty's friend. The testimony at the trial revealed that Means was a friend of Secretary of the Treasurer Andrew Mellon, and was a frequent guest at the white house in 1922. Means, according to the testimony, was especially friendly with George B. Christian, then Presi- dent Harding’s secretary. Means and Felder were convicted of accepting a $65,000 bribe from stock Swindlers which they declared would be used to “fix” Daugherty, Burns, Secretary Mellon, United States At- torney Hayward and others, so that they would not bring in indictments against the swindlers, Burns in Crooked Deals. Daugherty and Burns both took the stand in behalf of Means and Felder, Daugherty acting as “character wit- ness.” Felder was characterized by Senator Wheeler, as “The New York attorney who could be found in one or both sides of nearly every crooked deal that came to light in Washing- ton.” Judge Lindley sentenced Means to serve two years in the Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary, but let Felder, Daugh- erty’s friend, off with a $10,000 fine, and no prison sentence. Means was fined ten thousand dollars in addition to the prison sentence. ‘The government had charged in the trial that Felder, Means, and Means’ stool pigeon, Elmer Jarnecke, “con- spired to bribe, former attorney gen- eral Harry M. “aug , once Fel- der’s law partner, United States Dis- rict Attorney Hayward, his assistant, ‘ohn Holloy Clark, and W. J. Burns,” The defendants told the stock swind- jers they could obtain dismissal) of tho indictments against them, the gov- ernment charged. Jarnecke pleaded guilty and turned state’s evidence against Means and Felder. Only the First Conviction. The conviction of Means and Fel- der is the first conviction growing out of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, the bootleg, war veterans, salmon, and other exposures of corruption and graft practiced by the heads of the United States government. As usual, the tools of the big men have been convicted, and the govern- ment heads have escaped. Former secretary of the interior, Fall, Presi- dent Coolidge, Hoover, Daugherty, Denby, Doheny, Sinclair, and many others who were directly implicated in many graft conspiracies, have not yet been punished. Means has had a notorious career as the servant of Daugherty and Burns as¢ed-baiter, Germany spy, and handy man for bootleg gangs. senate investigation of government graft, Means repudiated his testimony before the senate committee, and later repudiated his repudiation, WEST IRELAND VERY SEVERELY HIT BY FAMINE DUBLIN; Jan. 30.—The west of Ire- land is suffering all the horrors of famine. Not since the crop failure of 1881 have the people living along the the western seaboard suffered so severely, Children go to school without break- fast. In addition to the failure of the potato crop, the continuous rain has destroyed the fuel supply which in the west of Ireland consists of dried peat, Banks Prosper, Despite the prevailing distress the banks show unprecedented profits and pay high dividends while thé people starve, The west of Ireland is sparsely populated, and contains enough fertile soil to support four times the popula- tion, but the people have been driven off the fertile sections to make room for cattle and are compelled to eke out a pitiful existence on barren land. Wants Report on Famine, WASHINGTON,’ Jan. 30.—Timothy Smiddy, Irish minister to the United, today cabled bis government for in- formation on the famine in West Ire-| quate fire land, He said he had received no re ports on conditions except thru press dispatches, Tm the} i tHE DAILY WORKER $4,369,73918 YEAR'S PROFITS OF NOTORIOUS WARD SGAB BAKERIES NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The scab Ward Baking company made a pro- fit last year of $4,369,739, according to the annual tement just made public. It ma 829,236 the year before. ' The company has elghteen plants and will build-the alneteenth In De- troit, to cost $1,000,000. The com- pany expects to begin Its scab busl- ness and filehing of the publile in Detroit on July tet. IRISH LABOR LECTURE THEME SUNDAY NIGHT O’Flaherty Speaks at Open Forum For many years the question of Irish freedom has agitated the entire world. The Irish in America have made of it a question of great politica! importance, and upon all such ques- tions the Communists have a program, an attitude, What should be the attitude of revo- lutionary workers and their organiza- tions toward this question of “Irish Freedom" which does not seem to have been settled at all by the estab- Ushment of the Irish “Free State"? There is a labor movement in Ire- land, and the Communists within it {and the Communists-within the Irish }popuiation in America consider the question of the political position of the Irish workers as distinct from the Irish capitalists of as great an impor- tance as the political question of na- tional independence. Thomas J. O'Flaherty, a recognized authority on the Irish question, and one who has a record of struggle for |the Irish workers, the, former editor of two Irish publications and editor of the Voice of Labor previous to its amalgamation with the DAILY WORKER, in whieh he conducts his famous column “As We See It”—will lecture to the open forum of the Work ers Party tomotrow evening upon the subject of “The Labor Movement of |Ireland,” : Comrade O'Flaherty is an able speaker and thoroly acquainted wit! the nature and importance of the ques tion of Ireland qnd its relation to thc world gee Ce i The lecture, will be hel ‘ room of the Ashland Auditorium, Van Buren street and Ashlan@ Boulevard and will begin | at 8 o'clock tomorrow (Sunday) eve ning. Take surface cars on Van Bu- ren or Metropolitan “L” to Marshfield station. Militarizing America. \.SHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 30.— Twelve new military training camps, to teach Americans how properly to bayonet their fellow workers, will be opened by the war department, under Coclidge’s edmimistration, this year. Over $2,500,000 will be spent on these new camps, it has been announced. The A. F of L. indorsed the mil- itartzation of America at its recent convention in El Paso, When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER. Party Activities Of Local Chicago City Central Committee meeting, Wednesday, Feb, 4, 722 Blue Island avenue. Red Revel Committee meeting, Tues- day, Feb, 3, 166 W. Washington 8t., Room 307, at 8 p. m. Food Workers’ Executive Commit- tee meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 166 W. Waspington St., Room 308, 8 p. m. Noedle Trades.Party and Y. W. L. membership meeting, Sunday, Feb. 1, 10 a, m,, at Freihelt office, 3118 West Roosevelt Road. A meeting of the enlarged Red Rev- el Committee Tuesday, Feb. 3, 8 p. m. in room 307, 166 W. Washington St. Breaches send representatives. All social managers of Working Are: branches attend, The following matters will be taken up: 1. Distribution of tickets; 2. En- tertainment and program for the dance; 3. Election of various commit- tees; 4. Prizes, ete. See “The Beauty and the Next Sunday Night and very Sun- FIFTEEN FAMILIES FLEE FLAMES IN BROOKLYN TENEMENT NEW YORK, Jan, 80,—Fifteen fam- ies were turned out of their fire trap homes into the cold, and three girls almost to death by a fre that destroyed tenement house at 176 Nostrand » Brooklyn, yes- terday ” ; ‘The firemen worked for hours be- fore quenching the flames. The hous- es, made of wood, and without ade- , were built over twonty five years ago, They were oc- coupled by workers, darge yf Wheat, Flour and Bread Go Up in Price as the Thieves Take Winnings By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL "TODAY, the wheat market is going thru its annual pyro- technics, Not only grain prices are going up; the price of flour and the cost of bread follow. It is the heyday of the food speculators. The board of trade apes the stock ex- ag The gamblers in the necessities of life are in their glory. ** @ @ The mounting prices do not benefit the poor farmer. His wheat was taken from him long ago to satisfy some mortgage, to pay the interest on his numerous debts, or to meet the rent if he happened to be a tenant. Most of the wheat crop went off the land last year at prices at least 65 cents below present quotations. It went into the hands of the bankers, the landlords and the great grain companies that make their biggest money thru speculation. ; The millions of toil worn farmers who sweated in agony to produce the golden harvest of grain, that they were compelled to sell at prices that hardly covered their expenses, now see the board of tradesmen, at ease in their swivel chairs in sumptuous offices reap another golden harvest, the harvest of millions upon millions of dollars. American wheat is “protected.”. A high tariff keeps out foreign wheat. This means that today American wheat is selling in Antwerp at lower prices than in Chicago. Amerl- can wheat can be bought in Antwerp and shipped back to New York and sold cheaper than wheat purchased on the Chicago board of trade and sent on to the metropolis, In Antwerp the American wheat in the hands of the big speculators must still compete with the grain from Russia, India and the Argentine. The difference in prices in Chicago and Antwerp is hardly explained by the “world shortage”. The Chicago price is one that works both way. It gives the speculator his big profit over the low price at which he purchased the grain from the farmer. It gives the flour; miller and the bread maker an excuse for increasing the price on the products they sell. This in spite of the fact that grain companies, mills and bakeries are often controle? by the same individuals, making new profits for themselves at every transaction. The city worker commisserates with the plundered farmer and then finds that he is also being robbed, Cheap wheat prices for the farmer and high bread prices for the city worker go hand in hand under the clever workings of the capitalist system, that spells “get richer quick” for the few, and “get poorer. quick”.for the many. Most of the speculation is being done in May wheat. May will be the last big chance to get rid of the old crop. The figures for July and September wheat, when the new crop comes on the market, tell a different story. July wheat is even, now. selling 317-8 cents ynder May wheat, and September wheat is 47 conts under the figures for May. In other words, when the grain grower, the farmer, must sell his crops to meet new debts, to cover the interest due on mortgages. pending or farm implements purchased, or pay the rent, then the prices wil be down to rock bottom again. at Is the vicious cycle in wheat prices one year after anisthad Be his crop tee or small, the farmer is hit just the same. Prices are low when the farmer must sell; they are high when the grain gambler wants to cash in on his stealings. It is the way of capitalism. It will continue just as long as the city workers and poor farmers stand for it. That shouldn't be very much longer. BURLINGTON R.R. |U, S, COLD MOVES MAKES 20PGT.ON| TO GERMANY T0 Men Force Than Rail CHICAGO.—The ability of the Chi cago Burlington & Quincy railroad to pay the wage increases won by engin: eers and firemen in recent negotia tions is indicated in the preliminary statement of the carrier showing 192+ profits of $22,000,000 after taxes and interest on its bonds and notes. This means a profit of $12.80 on every share of the $170,839,100 capital stock. The 1924 profits really mean a re- turn of nearly 20 per cent on the cap- ital stock as it existed before the $60, 000,000 stock dividend issued in 1921 The road is paying regular cash div- idends of 10 per cent which means 16 per cent on the original stock. The Burlington now joins the list of western carriers on which the en- gine service brotherhoods thru their economic strength have obtained « better settlement than that awarded by the railroad labor board, World Trade Feared (Speeial to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. ment departments, during the last six months. the economic world, Strikers Provide Free Buses. DAYTON, 0. ur thousand Day- ton passengers each day are guests of the sfriking streetcar men who have provided free bus transportation to fight the Dayton Railway Co, Al) passen; are insured against injury. So great have been the inroads inte the company’s business that many cars have been laid up, while strikers are preparing to handle 30,000 pas- sengers a week, By a vote of 224 to 2, the Typo grflaphical Union donated $100 to the streetcar men’s union to carry on the fight. Expel Patriarch in Greece. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan, 30,.--The ecumenical patriarch was arrester to: day, He will be expelled to Greece at once, it was announced, “Eeumenical patriarch” is the title serve all international cash for further exploitation. dulce Instead of Rope. chase @ chair, ‘ } CAPITAL STOCK) REAP BIG PROFIT Better Pay|Competitive Power In il Board 30. — Ger- many'’s economic comeback is under- going a close study by several govern- chiefly to deter mine the permanency of her newly es tablished eredit rating and the compe titive power of the nation im world This was made known today in con- nection with the information that in addition to $110,000,000 loaned to the government by American bankers, pri- vate industrial and commercial cor porations in Germany have borrowed in exgess of $200,000,000 in New York A number of important industrial loans are contemplated within the next few months. It was agreed that confidence has beon restored in Ger- many’s ability to resume her place in OMicials said that conditions in Ger- many with the 8hour day destroyed by the Dawes’ plan and the unions crushed by socialists, have warranted the export of a considerable volume of wealth to that country and that as long as Germany is in the hands of the capitalists, who promise to ob- agreements cap, italists of the United States will con- tinue to furnish a liberal supply of WASHINGTON, Jan, 80.—President Coolidge today signed @ bill abolishing the ancient punishment of hanging in the District of Columbia. Hereafter death sentence will be imposed by electrocution, congress having madc« tho necessary appropriation to pur taken by the head of the Greek church] When you buy, an “Ad” 2 Constaninopia for the DAILY WORKER. pees : oot pee yy ei aay eG WANTS TO GRAB SHARE OF GOLD STOLEN IN WAR Senate to Pounce on French Debt (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30— Emile Daeschner, the new French ambassador, presented his credentials to President Coolidge today. This routine bit of formality attracted unusual interest in Washington because of the un- derstanding prevailing in ad- ministration circles that Daesch- ner will speedily follow it up by undertaking some serious nego- tiations with this government for the funding of the $4,000,- 000,000 French war debt, The Insistent Senate. Unless he does do so, it appears certain that the senate will take formal and brusque notice of the French palicy of delay before it goes out of business on March 4, and pass @ resolution directing the state depart- ment to undertake immediate negotia- tions. There has been a marking of time in the whole situation until Daeschner, fresh from Paris, presents his creden- tials. The interim has been filled with assurances from Premier Herriot and other French officials that France does not intend to “repudiate” her signa- ture. Want Part of Stolen Money. The insistence in the senate over collecting from abroad was further exemplified today by a resolution in- troduced by Senator King, democrat, of Utah, instructing the president to make immediate representations to the allied governments for a share of the $28,000,000 Turkish gold seized by the allies during the war and subse- quently split up by them in the Lan- sanne treaty of violence. It is Senator King’s contention that the money really belongs to Armenia, having been taken from that country by the Turks. Consequently, King contends that the money, being Ar- menian, should go to discharge the debt of $20,000,000 Armenia owes the United States. If this claim is disal- lowed, then King contends the United States should share equally with the allies in its division anyway, for the United States is a party of the Lau- sanne treaty. Build the DAILY wURKERI Split Local No. 5 of “The Amalgamated” in War on Left Wing (Continued from page 1) oomplete new staff of workers would be sent into the shop to take their places. This treacherous action against the rights and interests of the rank and file was deeply resented by the executive of Local No, 5. The Jocal published a leaflet explaining its action, that of the New York joint board and the manager, David Wolf. in this case. For publishing and dis- tributing this leaflet charges were pre- ferred at the meeting of the New York Joint board against Local No, 5. In the attack upon Local No, 6 Sid- ney Hilman, the president of the Am. algamated, supported David Wolf and the New York joint board. He war present at the meeting or tne joint beard and bitterly attacked the left wing movement, the Communists and the Workers Party in particular, At that meeting of the joint board the five delegates of Local No. 5 were ex- pelled from the New York joint board. Following the expulsion of the Local No. 5 delegates an investigation com- mittee was elected to find out who was responsible for the publication and distribution gf the leaflet. The recent action of the board of directors to splitting Local No. 5 follows as a result. For fighting in the interests of the toilers against the bosses who now want to reduce their staffs, further speed up production and aggravate the inhuman conditions in the shops,’ the officialdom of the New York joint board wants to punish those who would protect the rights of the work- ers. Tho board of directors is cer- tainly serving tho interests of the bosses when it proceeds against the champions of the workers in Local No, 6 by attempting to dislodge them from the local and eventually trom the organization, Klan’ To Start PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan, 30.—The ku klux klan is trying to start @ series of murderous raids on the homes of unfon men here as wat done under the leadership of Glen» Young in Herrin, IMlinois. Paul M Winter, head of the Phila, lan, an nounced that “the klan will descen¢ on law violators.” Director of public safety, Butler himself a “man-eating "an nounces that he will not tolerate klas interference, - etn sine. ’ é