The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 22, 1925, Page 1

ers’ Government Vol. Il. No. at $ SHAFE¢ een fe R f STH ave. (9% 150 NEW 7 foRK ‘ 2-16-25 * 2U, Stone and Du Pont, Shows C.P. P. A. AS WE SEE IT By T. J, O'FLAHERTY ‘RANCE’S “finance wizard,” Joseph Caillaux is back again in politic- al life. France never needed a finance wizard more than now, The franc is on the tobaggon and it is in the power of the United States and England to drive it below visibjlity. But it is doubtful whether they will do that. The fall of the franc far below where it is now would cause panic in Hurope and none of the capitalist powers are any too sure of their position, As was pointed out in an editorial in the DAILY WORKER a few days ago, the strained relations between Poland and the Vatican and the commercial war between Rumania and Poland as well as the Greece-Turkey imbroglio are incidents in the struggle between France and England that is going on ever since the tremination of the world war, eee AILLAUX was indicted, convict- ed, imprisoned and banished by his enemies only a few years ago. His policy has been rapproachment with Germany, Clemenceau, is now in re- tirement. Poincare is preparing to lead the fascisti and the catholic re- actionaries in an effort to get back into power. Caillaux aims to succeed Herriot as premier. Interesting -de- velopments are due in France. ; One thing is certain, England does Rot relish the return of Caillaux to active public life. 3 HICAGO is getting” better every day, despite the fact that crime is on the increase, declared State’s Attorney Crowe. This tendency would not be welcomed by the average pers- on but Crowe is not. an ordinary citizen, Increase of crime is grist to his mill. There is always the possi- bility of a nice little gallows party, even tho juries are sometimes hard to handle. Robert H. Crowe has not made much fuss about crime since his re- election. Indeed it is well known that his anger is not deeply stirred over petty crime, such as burglary and other deviations of that kind. What he does not like is alleged crimes against the government. *?2- @ T might be interesting to snow that this notorious strikebreaker, State’s Attorney Crowe, is a member of the Clan-na-Gael, an organization that is pledged to overthrow British rule in Ireland by any avhilable methods. According to a series of articles in the Gaelic American written by John De- voy secretary of the Clan-na-Gaél, Ro- bert. E, Crowe, is the ‘son of Pat Crowe, the author of the “dynamite policy” which O'Donovan Rossia, an Irish Fenian claimed credit for. Devoy declares the honor belongs to Pat ‘rowe. The state’s attorney’s father was willing to use dynamite to blast the British government out of Ireland, yet his son’s favorite sport nowadays is filling the jails with union men and women whose only crime is seeking to secure better wages and working conditions for themselves and their fellow workers. Yet John Devoy, praised this strikebreaker as an Irish patriot. Perhaps he is! 4 oe 8 ‘HERE was plenty to drink.” This refreshing news was in a morn- ing newspaper describing a banquet in the Rainbo Gardens, given to a/public officiak and member of the William Hale Thompson political machine. A police sergeant also. got funny and be- gan to shoot at the flies in the ceiling. Another policeman came along and outshot him. Then there was quiet, broken only by the wailing of jazz in- (Continued on page 2) Ford Slaves Work Six Days. DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 20.— The Ford Motor company announced to- fay that it is now operating on a six jay a week schedule. For months five days a week has been the limit of production. The DAILY WORKER Raises the Standard for a Workers’ and Farm- cago, Di a =p SUBSCRIPTION RATES: outstae Ctcaeo, SOVIET RECOGNITION NEAR | johnston and “B.&0O.,’ ads Allies of Bosses Engineers’ Head Begs Aid for Czar of Delaware 7? THE WILMINGTON LABOR HERALD, NOVEMBER 1, BORAH TO HEAD | THE COMMITTEE ON RECOGNITION Resumption of Relations Before End of Year WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 20.— The Uuited States is taking prelimin- ary steps to establish diplomatic re- lations with Soviet Russia. This was learned authoritively to- day when the news that President Coolidge and Senator Borah were in agreement on the methods to be adopted in bringing about normal re- lations between the two countries, was made public. To Appoint Committee, It is quite likely that the president will appoint a committee in the near future with Senator Borah as chair- man, which will'be charged with the task of smoothing out the outstanding obstacfes in the way of recognition. The Idaho senator is going to Europe after the termination of the pres- ent session of congress. It is possible he may have informal conferences with Soviet representatives in Paris before meeting with them as the head of a presidential committee. It is now universally believed that the departure~ef.the Secretary of State Hughes was diréctly connected with “his refugal'to pull in his’ horns on the Russian question. ARREST 14 FIRST DAY INBIGN, Y, GARMENT STRIKE Members of T. U. E. L. Active Despite Sigman (Special to The Daily Wor NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 20 “Locals 10, of cutters; 91, of children and house dress workers, and 62, of the silk and muslin underwear workers, comprising in all about 25,000 garment workers of the miscellaneous trades are out on strike under the direction of a district council of the Interna- tional Ladies’. Garment Workers for demands asking for a wage increase of 20 per cent, renewal of agreement and the union shop. T. U. E. L. Active. Members of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, who are active-im the union affairs.in spite of the expulsion policy of the Sigman machine, are playing a militant part in the strike. Fourteen arrests were made of pickets and union workers the: first day. Nine girls were rounded ‘up in the Jefferson Market court on a charge of “walking three abreast.” The judge decided that walking this way was “one of the inalienable rights of citizens” and discharged them. “Molesting” Scabs. Jennie Fardella and Rose Kirschen- baum were arrested for picketing the establishment of a boss at 44 East Thirty-second. The boss accusing them of “molesting” scabs. Joseph Gervil, Jerry Cosolia and Tony Tra- fano, were charged with entering a shop and trying to persuade the boss that his twenty-flve women employes should be allowed to join the union and given a 20 per cent wage raise. When he disagreed, so the boss says, they broke a window, Strike meetings are taking place in various halls. The U. 8, labor de- partment, as usual,‘ has a “concilia- tor” handy. This time it is T. J. Williams; while the state of New York has another in the form of Mi- chael J. Regan. IMPORTANT SHOP NUCLEI MEETING en ALL PARTY WORKERS WORKING BETWEEN 14TH STREET + AND 42ND STREET, TAKE NOTICE! \f you are a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and if you work in the territory that lies between 14th St. and 42nd St it is your duty as a Communist to attend te very Important m arranged by the party. then ting The meeting takes place Tuesday evening, Feb. 24, at 6:30 o'clock, right after work, at 407 Fourth avenue, ‘near 29th street, Room 1— BEN GITLOW, Shop Nuclei Organizer, FD AAGE per y 4 mail, 46. 00D per year. WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at. Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. ARY 22, 1925 Published Daily except Sunday Sm y THE DAILY WORKiK PUBLISHING»CQ,, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Ill Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy. Price 5 Cents 1924. ' President oe thet of Locomotive Engineers eta m paearen naar vice rmeniceny To All Officers and Members in the State of Delaware. Dear Sirs end Brothers: Note Mr. Stone's Advice: “We Are Sure That You Will Make No Mistake in Casting Your Vote for Him. We Ask That You Do This both in Our Interests and Your Own.” it being impessible for all the UNANIMOUSLY agri that was his understanding. sv Tunnell. Mr, duPont is Chairman of the Imard of Directors of the Empire Trust Company, in which we own a very large interest. with him for the past year and a half, and at any and all times he has done everything humanly possible to make pur work 4 success. Mr. duPont to be a man with vision, a man with-human interests,--a big man doing big things in a big way, and we are sure that you will make no mistake in casting your vote for him, We ask that you do this both in our interests and your own. ’ i Brotherhood of Loromative Engineers ’ 4 Gleseunek cose > ‘ At woonference of the representatives of the Sixteen Railroad Labor Organigations, held in Washington to go over the records of the various candidates for office our ee cake ig pA reported that owing to upon any candidate for United States Senator in Delaware, it-was agreed that every oe would keep their hands off, or at In @ recent issue of "Labor" they have endorsed and requested you This makes it necessary for us to write to you in rests of the Honorable Coleman duPont, candidate for United Sonator, Republican ticket, and we ask, if you feel you can con- ently do so, that you vote for ‘him at the polls on election day. We are making this request not ina spirit of trying to dictate to you as to whom you shall vote for, but because of our intimate knowledge of the man. Wours fraternally, end Chairman of the Advisory Board. Republican Candidate for the United States Senate “We have found Mr. duPont to be a man with vision, aman with human interests, a big man doing big things ina big way” - For the benefit of those who may desire to know how Coleman duPont’s candidacy for the United States Senate is looked upon in labor circles the reading of this letter will prove most interesting: © @ unooust ' Mr: duPont's mame appears in the Republican Party’s column (the second column of the offi- dal ballot). To vote a Straight Republican Ticket, Mark your X in the Republican Party square under the emblem of the Eagle, IF YOU VOTE ANOTHER TICKET, and you desire to vote for COLEMAN -duPONT for United States Senator, draw a line through the printed: name of the candidate for United States Senator in any of the other party columns on the offi- October 22, 1924 mtatives of the Organizations to We have worked We have found President Vote for Coleman duPont for United States Senator—Republican Ticket ---Republican State Committee One of the many crimes committed in name of “C. P. P. A.” Who Is Du Pont? 'HOMAS COLEMAN DUPONT is listed in “Who's Who” as a manufacturer and banker. He was employed as a civil and’ mining engineer from 1883 until 1893 with the Central Coal and Iron company, when he became general jer of the Johnstown Co., at Johnstown, P: extensively con- nected with the development of coal and iron mines in Kentucky, the scab coal state, since 1896, (one of Warren S, Stone's scab«coal mines located in Kentucky) and with the construction and development of street railways. In 1902 he was elected president of the DuPont de Nemours company, which position he occupied until 1914. He is deeply interested financially in a string of New York hotels, among them the MacAlpin, Waldorf-Astoria, and in the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia and the’New Willard in Wash- ington. He controls the Euitable Life ineurance Societyiand owns the great Equitable ‘building at 120 Broadway, New York. He ie ghairman of the board of directors of the Empire Trust company, which is part owned by Warren S. Stone and the Locomotive Engineers, DuPont id a member of the repub- lican national committe. He was appointed to the United States senate by the governor of Delaware in 1921. He is a member of the leading clubs in New York, Washington and Boston, Trusts and Corporations Owned or Directed by Coleman DuPont Thomas Coleman DuPont is director of the following concerns: DuPont and Dunham, incorporated, vice-president and director; Empire Safe Deposit company, director; Empire Trust company, chairman of the board of direc- tors; Equitable Office Building corporation, chairman of the board of directors; General Refractories Co., director; Greeley Square Hotel Co., vice-president and director; Hotel Claridge, incorporated, director; Industrial Finance cor- poration, director; Morris Plan Bank, president and director; National Surety Co., director; Thompson-Starrett Co., director; Three Hundred Park Ave., incorporated, directer; Waldorf-Astoria, incorporated, director, ALL UNIONS HIT BY ‘B. &0. BILL'S PLAN Road Starts Drive on Each Craft The DAILY WORKER Is in possee sion of a secret circular sent out by the Brotherhood of Railroad Telegra- phers dealing with the conspiracy on the part of the railroad company te put the “B, & 0.” plan originated by “B. & O. Bill” Johnston, president of the International Association of Ma- chinists, over on the Transportation Brootherhoods, Should, “B. & O, Bill” Johnston be defeated in the coming elections in the Machinists Union for internation- al president and should the committee for progressive political action (prov- ided it still breathes) decide to have one who is not politically embalmed at the head of it, “Bill” should not have any cause to worry about his future in an economic sense unless the railroad companies are the most ungrateful institutions in the United States, Good For Company Formerly this plan was fastened on the shopmen on the Baltimore and Ohio Ratiroad, but it has. been so profitable for the company that it is now being put into operation on every classification of rail labor. Already the B. & O. has started organizing among the-telegraphers. In the Pittsburgh region the com- pany has selected its own chairman and committee. The committee to repres- ent the telegraph department are the station agents of the largest stations in the district. The members of the Telegrapher’s Union are up in the air over it. The chairman of the unions are being ignored and non-union mem- (Continued on page 2.) STONE ENDORSED POWDER PRINCE FOR U. S. SENATE | Done Under Policies of the “C. P. P. A.” On this page, today, the DAILY. WORKER reveals one of the many crimes against the workers and poor farmers that has been committed in the name of the conference for pro- gressive political action. Under the form of “political action” sponsored by the “C. P. P. A.” it was possible for Warren S. Stone, presi- dent of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, to endorse the candidacy of the multi-millionaire enemy of la- bor, T. Coleman DuPont, for re-elec- tion as United States senator from the unorganized “open shop” state of Del- aware. Backbone of the “C. P. P. A.” In this conection it must be re- membered that Stone is not an un- Important, isolated member of the “C. Psa.” It was Stone, more than anyone else who helped start and run this organ- ization. It was Stone’s publication, The Locomotive Engineers’ Journal that proudly proclaimed in a recent issue, that the railroad brotherhoods were and are the backbone of the |“C. P,P. A” Stone, with William H. Johnston, president of the International Associa- tion of Machinists, was most respon- sible in putting Senator LaFollette into the running for president on the so-called “progressive” ticket, at the same time declaring relentless war against the Communists and the Workers (Communist) Party. Their Wall Street Connections, Perhaps the most revealing part of Stone's letter endorsing DuPont’s can- didacy is the sentence that reads: “Mr. DuPont is chairman of the board {Continued on page a) — nce aan meee