Daily Worker
March 17, 1924
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fr pS under the Act of Maréh 3, 1879. Workers! Farmers! Demand: the Labor Party Amalgamation tion of | ea ae The Land grad the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of tke Foreign-Born Recornition of Soviet Russia VOU. I No, 36. Entered as Second.clnss + matter : Sone a1, 1 08 ot the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, —_ Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING co.. 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Minois. Price 3 Cents “So eee eree o oe * Py a i %} 7 " WE’VE GOT HIM ON THE RUN Union Picket Plans to Tell Court of Attack Today If the doctor, under whose care Sophie Altschuler now is, will permit her to leave her |, bed, she will go to the S. Clark Street police court this morn- ing to ask Judge Samuel Trude to issue a warrant charging as- sault against Police Offic): No. 3181. Friday night Sophie was beaten so severely by this po- liceman that she has been under the constant care of a doctor ever since. Active on Picket Line. Sophie Altschuler has been one of the most active girls on the picket line.in the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Every day and at all hours she has been on the picket line trying to persuade the girls who are working in the dress shops to quit and come out on strike with the union girls. Aihie She has been. arrested often she BPriday nie ae. wa anvthes rl ‘were Serrired up and down S. ket St., when her old boss, a Mr. Reinhart, a _— dress manufacturer, pointed her out to either Officer Col- lins or Officer Schroder of the States Attorney’s office and told him that Sophie was one of the most active pickets. She was arrested and taken into the hallway of the building at 287 S. Market St., where she was placed in charge of Officer No. 3181. Threatens to Kill Girl. Officer No. 3181 had seen Sophie arrested before and knew her as an active union girl. When he saw her brought into the hall Friday night he | began to swear’and curse at her. . He said that he would kill her. He repeatedly yelled at her, “I don’t want you to live. I will kill you.” He began twisting her arms and fingers. Sophie tried to defend her- self. This infuriated him the more. He then took her head in the crook of his arm and squeezed it. He threw her to the floor and Sephie fainted. She revived shortly after and the policeman began beat- ing her again. He took her to the rear of the hall and threaténed to throw her down the stairs. A couple of plain clothes officers were at- tracted to the hallway by her screams and they called to the police- man ‘to stop beating Sophie. Would Throw Her Down Stairs. The policeman yelled and shouted and’ told them to mind their own business. Théy did not try to sepa- rate Sophie and the policeman. The fiendish brute opened the door to the cellar and tried to throw her down the stairs. She took hold of the door and held with a strength born ot desperation. Then she fainted and the next thing she knew she was be- ing put into a patrol wagon along with Carrie Siever. Carrie Siever says that the police- man who had arrested her and Sophie, it must have been either Col- lins or Schroder, told the officer in charge of the patrol to tell the matron at the police station not to book Sophie and Carrie till after six o’clock. Carrie and Sophie were taken to the S. Clark St., police station and put in a cell in the rear of the wo- men’s quarters. Other strikers were brought in but they were not per- mitted to know that either Sophie or Carrie were arrested. Matron Is No Different. The other strikers were bailed out and still Sophie and Carrie were held without being booked. Carrie called the attention of the matron to Sophie’s condition. The matron said, after looking at Sophie thru the bars of the cell, “Oh, she’s all right. The skin has not ‘been broken.” The matron refused to call a doc- » tor in spite of the fact that there was a city physician on the next floor of the building. with spent = on Wednesday morning, at we “aS i wt te o ae i 3 i ae Lew a4: are . os pb Ragone m tad THE DEMAND FOR MASS PICKETING Johnstone in Strike Plea to Federation The ladies’ garment workers’ strike threw the Chicago Federation of Labor meeting yesterday into the greatest excitement it has seen this year. The meubiliiag came when John J. Johnstone, of the Painters’ Un- ion, threw down a ringing challenge to John Fitzpatrick and Oscar Nel- son, the leading officers of the Fed- eration, to organize mass picketing and to defy the infamous Sullivan injunction as American Federation of Labor conventions have ordered .in injunction cases. | Nation’s Capitol Looks Forward to Another Week of Thrills in Daugherty and Teapot Probes to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, "D. "O. March. 16.—The Capitol is await- ing the developments of tomorrow’ s Daugherty quiz, keen for new revelations. Never in the history of the United States government was there such an orgy of exposures. Teapot Domé until Gaston B. Means took/the witness. stand, sensation Aas followed sensa- tion in quick succession. Any- thing is/liable to break: thru the baryicade of silence now. Worst Yet te Come Sena/ors are to have special seats reserv/d at the Daugherty investi- gatioy tomorrow. It is the _ belief arouad here that the worst is yet to e atterney general is furious, thése in close touch with him admit. feels that he is being made the at. He is now talking of doing a ittle bean-spilling himself. . What Enthusiasm Greets Demand. Ethusiastic cries greeted the de mand from the strikers present a the rank and file of the Federati delegates. President Fitzpatrick 1/se to defend the policy of inaction,de- claring that the Fedetation hag no authority to lead off, that it fould only take such action wh invited by the striking unio Then Anton Johannsen, of the “Committee of 15,” to assist the strike, arosefand de- elared that such a requesf had been made, that Vice-Presidfit Meyer Perlstein, of the Interngional Lad- ies’ Garment Workers’fUnion, had urged the Federation g come for- ward with 70 to 80 pigets. _ Johannsen urged ty necessity of such active support/by the union men of Chicago ay said his only fear had been thaythere were not sufficient men “witf guts” to do the work. He recited the of the 1914 conv ilitant declaration | tion of the Ameri- } can Federation/of Labor held at Philadelphia claring that union men must igyre injunctions abso- lutely and gq jail if necessary in defiance of Jne writs against their freedom aw that. they should not sel to fight injunctions, t their union business éphie lay on the hard bench of the cell from 4:30 P. M. till after 6:00 { (Continued on page 2) ee ee ~~ Johang#en then urged all union | men wl were willing to fight the injunctfn te give their names to the makes, him mad is to see statesmen, who are up to their necks in the same adventures that have gotten him in trouble, getting off with- out even getting their Vandyke whis- kers ruffled while he must bear all the odium., He’s Sore About Means Daugherty is particularly sore on Means. His testimony, bad as it is in itself, is also dangerous in that it took the padlock off the lips of other department of justice ex-agents who have a grievance against Daugherty, and who hate William J. Burns for making the “D. of J.” an annex of the William J., Burns International Detective Agency. Burns is also sitting on pins and needles. Despite his outward calm, he fears that before Wheeler gets thru with his investigation the rela- tion between the Department and the fink agency will be exposed. Burns Sees Trouble Ahead _ In the present temper of the Amer- can workers, Burns can forsee trou- ble in store for him. The most sensational testimony of Saturday’s Say oy was the admission made by F. C. Quimby, New York fight promoter, that a pool of which he.was a member, made $125,000 on the Dempsey-Carpentier fight pic- tures which were transported in vio- lation of the law with the aid of Harry M. Daugherty and his boon companion, Jesse Smith. Of the $125,000 made on the pic- tures, Attorney General Daugherty (Continued on page.4.) ‘ But he’ll ba | Prop ‘athe. Tha eapalt dc ocici” of thé DAILY a appears nning faster 19th. What are you doing to help speed him up? WORKERS HEAR Since the lid blew off the F. F.-L. P. Call (Special te The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 16.~The re- cent oil scandal where prominent politicians, both Republican and Democratic were involved, together with the effort of Congress to lay more on the workers and small farmers, has given great impetus to the movement that has for some time been on foot to ll a strong Labor Party in the interests of the exploited workers and farmers o the nation. The Federated Farmer-Labor Par- ty of New York has called a con- vention for Sunday afternoon, March 23rd, to be held at Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue, where the delegates from many la- ber and fraternal organizations will meet to work out plans for the for- mation of a national Labor Party. In this connection it is worth | while remembering that a national ‘convention will be held in the near future in St, Paul with thousands of workers and farmers organiza- tions participating, for the purpose of organizing such a Labor Party. Every worker must see to it that his union or the fraternal organiza- tion of which he is a member sends delegates to the local convention of the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, Sunday afternoon, March 23rd, at Central Opera House. Organizations of less than 200 are entitled to two delegates, those be- tween 201 and 1,000 to three dele gates and all organizations having more than 1,000 to four delegates. FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION IN N.Y. NEXT SUNDAY Teapot Adds Force fo the burden of taxation more and. _ rs > © > STAGE IS SET FOR UNITY AT JUNE 17 MEET Last Step Taken by St. Cloud Convention By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. . “she last link welding to- gether the farmer-labor forces of the United States for the June 17th convention was forty-minute speech of William Mahoney, of St. Paul, for the unanimous recommendation of the resolution committee, the convention of the official Min- nesota Farmer-Labor Party, without a dissenting vote, en- dorsed the call for the June 17th convention, previously ratified by the St. Paul confer- ence of northwest Farmer-La- bor parties and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation. The climax came after a week of conferences during which the reactionaries in the Minnesota labor movement, aided by Buck, Brown and Gf... _Iinois; ington, D. C., had used every possible method of sowing dis- sension and distrust in an at- tempt to thwart the formation of a mass Farmer-Labor Party by preventing endorsement of the call and splitting away of sections of the movement. June 17th Applauded. Theanswer of the farmers and workers of Minnesota to the disrup- tionists Zid their hysterical denun- ciation of the reds was the unanimous vote at St. Cloud for a call that in cludes every section of the working- class movement which subscribes to the program and purposes of the farmer-labor parties sponsoring the June 17 convention. William Mahoney was constantly interrupted by applause altho he made no oratérical efforts whatso- ever. He told of the work that had been done in preparation for the St. Cloud convention, of the failures and suecesses, of the hopes and fears of those who had taken the lead in the work. “We must”, he said, “go on record here for consummation of our efforts on June 17 that the millions of workers and farmers that we want no fusion with the capi- talist parties, will make no deals with them, but that we are trying to build a powerful farmer-labor party. | “Can’t Depend on C. P. P. A.” “LaFollette will run on this plat- form,” he sai¢, and the convention broke into wild applause. “We can- not depend upon the Conference for Progressive Political Action”, he con- tinued, “That organization is control- led by interpational officials who have never been distinguished for progres- sive principles. We who have ‘taken the lead in this movement in Minne- sota have placed our dependence upon the rank and file and we believe that this confidence is not misplaced.” When the vote was taken the dele- gates rose to their feet, cheering Mahoney and the resolution. State Senator Tay®er of Montana, editor of the Producers News of Plentywood, was called upon to ad- dress the convention and in a short but eloquent speech thanked the dele- gates for the action they had just taken and assured them that they had expressed the sentiments of the workers and farmers of Montana and of the Northwest. The Last Gasp. One Schier, correspondent of the Jewish Daily Forward, who had been co-operating with the delegate from Minneapolis, secured and attempted to attack Mahoney bui was hooted down by the convention. This was the last gasp from the ob- structionists. Had the disruptive elements suc- ceeded in getting as their temporary (Continued on page 2) forged when, following the 4 and; T William V. Mahoney, of 'Wash- who are, watching this convention will know| anti-farmer- | % labor forces in the convention as a}: the floor after the vote had been taken |: fe Beaten by Police Ne ——_ * & & rie wie “Teapot Special” Held up 2 Days; Out Wednesday HE TEAPOT SPECIAL” Edi- tion of the DAILY WORKER has been held up for two days. This will be welcome news, we know, to the hundreds who have not yet managed to get in their orders for this history-making issue of the DAILY WORKER. But there will be no further de- lays. “The Teapot Special” arrives exactly on time this Wednesday morning, March 19, and we can take no orders later than ten o'clock on Tuesday night. . * \ x « * | Flooded With Orders. We had to delay the issue: 1. Because the large number of orders for this edition, received during the week-end outstripped all expectations. We had not an- ticipated such a great demand, with the result that we found our stocks of white pape: were insufficient to run off the full issue. It was im- possible to get a new supply dur- ing the Saturday half-holiday. 2. The great mass of material, exposing the whole history of oil under the American capitalist re- gime, proved to be so great that we felt it could not be confined to a regular six-page issue. a * * % An Eight-Page Issue. “The Teapot Special” will there- fore be an eight-page edition. That ought to be good news, the best kind of news. That will make ‘ot “The “Teapot Special” & ~ veri- table broadside that will awaken the nation. We want to make this the most widely circulated issue of THE DAILY WORKER. Our press is being got into good condition for the big run. Our writers have put the finish- ing touches on their articles. These are being put into type. x * ” oo Will Have Rogues’ Gallery. Our artists have done their best. There are cartoons by Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, Lydia Gibson, Robert Minor and others. Our own cartoonist, Fred Ellis, has gotten up “A Rogue’s Gallery” of all the oily politicians and capitalists in the country. It is a scream. It is daring and provoking. Robert Minor has written the history of oil in a short, terse form, carrying conviction in every para- graph. illiam Z. Foster tells about “Oil and the Oil Workers”. John Pepper tells about the revolu- tionary significance of Teapot Dome, while C. E. Ruthenberg writes about oil and imperialism. Jay Lovestone, head of our research department, has prepared a host, of good material. Did you know, for instance, that they wanted to make the “Oil King” Doheny a candidate for vice-president in 1920? Well, they did! William F. Dunne has written on “Senator Walsh and the Teapot Dome”, He knows Walsh. * * * ve All the Latest News. Then we will have all the latest news, by special wire, about the startling developments before the two investigating committees in Washington, D. C., the oil commit- tee and the special committee in- vestigating Daugherty. This spe cial edition will be up-to-the-minute and up-to-the-last minute, but it will be a document worth preserv- ing for all time, whole oily capitalist system has gone its wey. Are you going to help speed it along? If so, there is yet time to act. The delay of two days will help you get in your order on the accompanying blank. even after the BURNS’ LABOR BY LETTERS D. of u. and Private Agency Sensationally Exposed Proof that William J. Burns, head of the Burns International Detective Agency, lied when he told U. S. Senator Wheeler that he had severed connections with his private detective agen- cy since entering the govern- ment service is given in a start- jling expose of the Burns labor spy in the copper mining indus- try which the Industrial Work- ers of the World are making public. More than 200 confidential letters, written by Burns and the agents and managers of his private agency, and by rep- resentatives of the Department of Justice during the last year, have come into the possession of the union and are being made public thru Industrial Solidarity, its official organ. They bare the record of spigs oper- ating in the Industrial Workers of the Worl -and tie Ain Hieair Feten.- tion of Labor. Direct From Washington. One of these letters is reproduced in this issue of the DAILY WORKER over, the signature of William J. Burns itself. It is on the official _ Sta- tionary of the Department « “ustice and is directing his private cetective agency from Washington in a drive on the I. W. W. and radicalism in the Arizona section of the copper indus- try. You will notice that Burns orders G. P. Pross, his Los Angeles manager, to send two men to Globe, Arizona, to do some labor espionage for the Old Dominion Copper Com- pany and he offers to dispatch a Department’ of Justice. operative to assist in the work. Still Runs Agency. This shatters Burns story that he has severed conections with the Wil- liam J. Burns fink outfit since enter- ing the government service for he not only is directing its stool-pigeons activities but he supplies it with the additional services of an Uncle Sam operative. That means that Burns uses government spies, paid by the government, to assist his agency in the labor smashing work for which it is paid by the copper companies. Raw graft, of course! But the graft is the least evil as far as the work- ers are concerned. The evil is the formidable alliance between the gov- ernment, the copper companies and the most powerful labor spy agency in the world. This is only one letter. There are some two hundred letters in the pos- session of the perse@uted, union. There are confidential letters exchanged be- tween the operatives and managers of Burns and the Miami Copper Min- ing Co., the Tom Reed Gold Mines Co., the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., the United Verde Exten- sion Co., the United Eastern Mining Co., the Old Dominion Copper Co. and others still to be made public. Two Stools Exposed. Two Burns operatives have been uncovered thru the letters and ex- pelled from the union. They are “Fellow Worker” Fred Haines, alias (C ontinued on page A , dnd A i hl CORRIMMINS Pr ew es errs? 9 POD AAD DD AY os + “cs “*% i nl inl Get Aboard “The Teapot Special” 7 7 ; THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., % Chicago, Illinois. Z Send ‘me..............-. copies of “The Teapot Special” | % Edition 6f the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Wednesday, March 19, at the rate of two cents per copy; $1 for 50; $2 per 100. I want to help the workers and Seibheaita learn the real meaning of these great revelations against } the social system that is oppressing them. J ES See SR RISE Ey, Yee eet ; COPE EE EHR CEE ERE OHO ESRC EH CO HE Oe HE ee ee eee ee : | SPYING BARED
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a ‘ip ~ TE lnseplecnnttlth. © “eighiibi ~* RUSS COMMUNIST ARTY GETS NEW 100,000 MEMBERS Nation Winning Fight on Illiteracy — (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 16.—The Com- munist Party is enrolling ten of thousands of new members. 100,000 hew mempbers—all of the workers in the factories—is the goal set by the party. Twenty thousand, eight hundred and forty-six applications for mem- bership have reached the party up to Feb. 11, from factories in the govern- ment of Moscow. Eighteen thousand applications were counted in Leningrad. Pravda says that 57,7561 workers in provincial cities have applied for the membership in the party. The 100,000 mark set by the party is almost reached but still application are pouring in. ; Liquidation of [iliteracy. An all Ukrainian Congress for liquidation of illiteracy held on Feb. 11, in Ckarkov, has mapped out plans for ihstructing 4,000,000 illiterates during the coming three years. Seven hundred thousand will receive instructions until May 1, 1924. It is being reported from Odessa that of the 1,1182 schools scheduled to be —- in 1924 in the village for the liquidation of illiteracy and of the 334 intended for the city, 1,130 are already operating in the villages, 291 in the city with a total of 42,600 pu In Kiev, a large net of schools for the same purpose is being established. Wheat Acreage at Normal. The sown acreage of winter wheat has reached the figure of 1916 in the Ukraine. Crop prospects are favor- able. Wages in some industries of Odessa have reached the pre-war level. The leather .workers pre-war wages equalled 48 rubles (monthly), the present wage—60 rubles. Metal workers’ pre-war wage—38 rubles, at present—-36 rubles. The average wage in Odessa gov- ernment equals 86 per cent of the pre-war average. Grooming a Dark Horse to Jockey Democratic Jackass William E. Dever, the know noth- ing-about-the-strike-mayor of Chi- cago is now touted by Democratic boss George E. Brennan of Illinois as a dark horse presidential candidate for the presidential nomination on ‘he. Democratic ticket. ap oeinagsrnel ‘This announcement was made by George E. Brennan, member of the Murphy, Taggart, Brennan machine in the Democratic party. Mayor De- ver will be boosted as a “man of the people.” No doubt Brennan did not make the announcement until he came to the conclusion that there was no oil in Dever’s system. If Dever happens to get elected, @nd in view of the lack’ of honest candidates in the Democratic ranks the idea is not to be sneezed at, the striking garment workers are of the opinion that if Mr. Dever shows as little interest in what is transpiring in Washington as he has in Chicago events, he might wake up some day in the White House and find every- thing stolen, not even excepting the bedclothes. Mayor Dever will run on his rec- ord as a warrior against violators of the prohibition laws. That he did this while openly sympathising with the anti-Volsteadians is proof that he 4g a man who never lets his personal inclinations interefere with his duty. So say his friends. With know-nothing Mayor De- ver running on the Democratic ticket and Silent Know-nothing Calvin Coelidge on the Republican ticket there would be a real opportunity for a Farmer-Labor candidate to make ‘his voice heard. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. SAVE MONEY! Best Make Sewing Machines $10, $15, $20 5 year guarantee—City wide delivery 970 MILWAUKEE AVENUE Today Sees Crucial Brave Struggle of Garment Toilers Hour in the garment workers know it. If the strikers manage to then all ig lost. There is not a striker who be- lieves that the picket line will not be well filled today. In every strike the third Monday following the calling of the strike is the test day. Today, the third Monday following the calling of the strike, finds the unionists filled with confidence. Saturday night when the pickets started home they were all assuring each other that today would find them at their old places on the picket line. Want Strikers to Forget. Saturday was the first day of the strike that passed without’ the police arresting anyone for picketing. Just why no one was arrested the strikers have not been able to find out. They don’t think, however, that Democratic Mayor William E. Dever, or Republican State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe, change of heart toward the strikers and ordered the police to be more decent. They are rather inclined to be- lieve that the police are hoping that the union will be led to forget the beating up of Sophie Altschuler Fri- day mght if no arrests were made the day following. The union oni- cials have said that this is a vain hope. Saturday four more strikers were arrested by deputy shé@riffs and brought before Judge Denis Sullivan to prove to him that they had no contempt for the court he repre- sents. They were: Martha Giese, Isaac Greenberg, Lewis Rosenthal and Hyman Thaler. After a preliminary hearing their cases were set to be heard. Wednesday morning at 10:00 o'clock and they were released on their own bond of $590 each. Charged With Injunction Violation. They had all been arrested for violating the injunction obtained by the Graceline Dress company. Dud- ley Taylor questioned them, assisted by the judge who tock every possible occasion to lecture them. This time the judge ‘spent more time in tell- ing the workers that the dignity of his court would not be violated by any workers. He did, however, per- mit Dudley Taylor to violate the dignity of the court by the way he questioned the workers who had been hauled into court. ie Imagine the scene. Here is Dud- ley Taylor, rich, influential, learned in the law and the use of words. Able to make words mean what they were never intended to mean. He is questioning Martha Giese, a woman who has worked all her life and who has never been in a court before. But all the dirty, cheap tricks} Le could perform for money could not confuse Martha Giese. Several times “Dennie” had to say, “This woman is @ woman of intelligence.” But Dennie said it reluctantly. Miss Giese told a simple straight- forward story. She told how she had gone on strike for a decent liv- ing and decent conditions under that Taylor Today is the crucial day of the strike. . All the striking They intend to act accordingly. keep the picket line well filled on all fronts then the strike is won, if the picket line is deserted oat which to work. She told how the injunction, which was intended to stop the strikers from talking to the workers who were not on strike, had not prevented the police from swearing at and cursing the strike “The police swear at us. They use vile language. They try to make fools of us,” she said. right? Is that lawful? Doesn’t that violate the injunction?” Doesn't Hear Questions. The questions were addressed to Dudley Taylor but he didn’t “hear therh. | Once when Miss Giese tried to ex- plain her answer the judge inter- rupted, “I don’t want any speeches here today.” Some of the other workers who have been hailed before “Dennie” had a suddenfhave taken the opportunity to give him an earful and he, wus not anx- ious to get more. But Miss Giese had her say and said it well. When the other three workers had been sworn, the judge tried to ques- tion them. He was evidently afraid of hearing part of the workers’ story. He rushed the job of ques- tioning them and set their trials for next Wednesday at 10:00 a. m. ' When the questioning of those workers had finished the cases of Mollie Friedman, John Cohn and Rose Lewis should have been called, The judge had told them to be ready Saturday morning to show cause why they should not be pun- ished for contempt of court. But it was too late for the @ver-worked judge. It was almost 1:00 o’clock. He set their cases over until Wednesday morning. No matter how much the court’s dignity is smirched he does not intend to work overtime worrying about it. Discharge Daily Worker Reporter. Victor Zokaitis, a reporter for. the DAILY WORKER, and Abe Harris, who was arrested with him, were discharged Saturday when they were arraigned in §S. Clark St. police court. Their “trial” lasted one and a half minutes. “What were you do- ing in S. Market street yesterday?” Judge Trude asked? “Tl saw this officer slam a _ girl wicket up against a wall and I asked his number,” Zokaitis said. “I am a reporter for the DAILY WORKER and I was sent there to see how the | police treat the strikers.” “Discharged,” the judge yawned. All the strikers who were arrest- ed Friday and arraigned Saturday asked for ‘jury trials. Pete Herd and John Harvey, both members of the Young Workers , who were arraigned «in Boys’ Court, Saturday, were told to come back today and bring their parents. Both boys were arrested for walking along S. Market street, Fri- day. When a bull asked them what they were doing there, they said they were out to ‘see some of their friends who were on strike. They were taken to jail. Girl Striker Brutally Beaten (Continued from page 1) P. M. without being able to get even a bit of water to bathe her head. Finally at 6:30 o’clock she was booked and bailed out at once, by the union. She was rushed to the Mor- rison Hotel, where the union has a office, and she was given’ emergency treatment by Mrs. Sophie Rodriguez because the hotel physician could not be gotten. Sometime after she had been given this emergency treatment the house physician of the hotel, Dr. James F. Maltman, was called and after his ex- amination and treatment in a written report said: Statement of Doctor. “T attended this evening Sophie Altschuler who had been seriously beaten about the head and face. Her wrists were twisted and are badly swollen.” “Signed JAMES F. MALTMAN.” This report was made out five hours after Sophie had been beaten. Sophie was kept in the hotel under the care of Doctor Maltman Saturday and Sunday. It is not known if the Phone Monroe 4630 doctor will permit her to go to court At f 371 W. JACKSON BLVD. | Long Distance Banking Convenient and Easy Thru the Worker’s Mailing Department : Amalgamated CHICAGO’S ONLY LABOR BANK Resources More Than $2,500,000.00 OPEN YOUR ACCOUNT BY MAIL ) 4 f the Trust & Savings Bank , CHICAGO rn Ss _ a Sa | this morning to answer the charge of disorderly conduct that was placed against her or not. When she does go to court to answer the charge she will ask that a warrant be issued against Officer No. 3181, charging assault. Saturday the union, thru its at- torney, Oscar Nelson, took steps to bring Officer No. 3181 before the trial board of the police department and to institute the same proceedings against the matron who refused to call a doctor to treat Sophie. Nelson was also instructed to look up the law to see if Sophie could bring. civil suit against either the ‘officer or the city or both for dam- ages. ’ d The officer is said to have made the defense that he was struck by Sophie. That is obviously a lie. Even if it were not, it would still not be justifi- cation for his beating her the way he did. Discard 3rd Degree Testimony. ST. LOUIS, March 16th—Police third degree methods of compelling suspects to confess to crime was jolted again by a St. Louis jury, when Leslie Houston was found not guilty of highway robbery. The jury deliberated five hours and a half. Houston repudiated a_ so-called signed confession which he testified he signed after police torture. He said the police knocked him down and beat him until he signed the confession to escape further tor- ment. Without the confession, the state’s case was decidely weak, de- pending on the testimony of the vic- tim of the holdup, who testified Houston “looks like” the robber. Workmen’s Compensation. ; ALBANY, N. Y., March 16.—Em- ployers and vested insurance inter- ests of New York appeared/in full array to crush the proposed /reforms of the workmen’s compensation bill in the legislature here. The amend- ment, which especially ingensed the feudal gentry, would, give the state fund a monopoly in wovkmen’s com- pensation insurance. Charge Big Liqyor Steal. Evidence is in the’ hands of Fed- eral Operatives here; incriminating a former high prohilition official for the district inclucing Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. in a 91,000,000 “liquor steal,” i¢ was made known to- day. i ; sf f owe pickets, . : SHE DA ILY W OBR 6 mma neee | “Is that | sessio tet Eto ei ee 4 Tei - a Salts Yale sg Bee AD cd RG he ie ee P| i 1 AR be hl . ee OR Cg Re pee ee or, - e 4 ‘ mi ‘ ne hs ) / + ‘OR. 4 x ' A, Bae he eR el oon Be ~” — eRe ky 9s A Ps if on 3 » RE 4 ‘e " : er | f . = : iat * STAGE IS SET FOR UNITY AT JUNE 17TH MEET Last Step Taken by St. Cloud Convention (Continued from page 1) ehairman Boldus of the Nonpartisan 5 Fe 7 ? postponing the endorsement or even in splitting the convention. The progressives were on guard however and the attempt did not succeed. The reactionaries had planned ‘labor the terms of the i ion it is il- legal to speak, whisper or bid the time of the day to a striking dress- maker, But even Recosal ym pers Surely or out the United States as “progres- sive” are at least as courageous as This strike would have been won in the firat week but ity of the officers of Crowe’s and. Dever’s offices. Dever is respons- ible for the conduct of both. But the “Committee of Fifteen” after listening to John Fitzpatrick read a letter.charging Crowe with abuse of office and getting its picture taken, yg pe a sub-committee to see t ag | and the matter ended there. ‘understanding ‘was to Jogn English, a member of the committee, that in the event of further police brutal- ities, the committee would hold an- other gene meeting. Does the committee ire a couple of mur- ders before it takes action? The DAILY WORKER again urges the “Committee of Fifteen” to get busy, call a mass meeting, organize the trade unions of this = behind the strike, issue pub- licity concerning the strike, dwmand that the Mayor appoint trade unionists to preserve order in the strike zone, raise a strike fund and eall for volunteers from the trade unions te protect the girls who are picketing the scab shops. The workers of Chicago have watched this inactive committee long enough, They are suspicious that partisan or factional capitaliss politics is the cause of its inactivi- . If the committee does not in- tend to do anything it should promptly quit and leave the way open for a committee that will act. e fortunes of the slaves in the factories, the safety of the girls on the picket lines are more im- portant to the ;ank and file than the continuance of any friendly re- lations that may exist between Pe icians and certain offi- cials of Cook county. Dever and Crowe Real Culprits. The DAILY WORKER claims that officer 3181 is not the real cul- prit. The men who should be held responsible for his acts are the of- ficial heads of Cook county, Mayor William E. Dever and state’s at- torney Robert E. Crowe. They are the men who should be brought be- fore the bar of organized labor. Again we ask the “Committee of Strike are illegal and cannot be car- ried out. Of course, according to of the Workers (Communist Par- ty.) The chronic croakers and their forecast in There is no lonelier tmndividual in the Twin Cities today than the one who said that the Communists were the greatest obstacle to unity of the workers and farmers. As a matter of fact, this is not only a victory for the farmers and workers of Minne- sota, but a tremendous victory whabe importance cannot be exaggerated for the Workers Party of America, and the Communist movement of the world. Any hostility toward the Communists that was in evidence before the action of the Non-parti- san League Convention plugged the last gap in the working class poli- tical movement of this state has disappeared. The Workers Party of America and its members who have given their time, money and energy to the building of a class farmer-labor party based on the economic organizations of both groups are now givea the credit that is due them for \heir unceas- ing devotion to the cause of the workers and farmers ané also for their organization ability which con- tributed so much to the resvlt. The path has not only beer cleared for the Farmer-Labor paty in Minnesota, for a splendid mas; class organization in this state, bu for the national converition on \June 17th, and for the farmer-hbor movement of the entire northwest. The Farmer-Labor Federation, con- posed now of all farmer and work, er organizations in the state, ha; adopted into the declaration ot principles, the program for the’ June 17th convention, adopted by the St. Paul conference of Northwest Farmer-Labor parties last Tuesday, and which did so much to influence the decisions made by the Farmer- i Labor Federation and Non-partisan League conventions. There Is No Division. There is no division in the ranks | of the workers and farmers of Min- nesota today. They are around a common program and or- ganizationally as well. They have escaped the pitfalls dug for them by reactionary leaders, the yellow traitorous elements and the © self- appointed advisors clustered around their movement. The work that haa been done for unity in the past week, which was preceded by months of careful preparation, is something for which the _ labor movement owes those who did it a debt of gratitude. It should be a source of pride to the Workers Par- ty of America that in a task which at the outset seemed a super-human one they have played a leading part. The last doubt that this year will see the beginning of a nation-wide political movement of the workers and farmers has been removed by the events of the last week here. From now until June 17th will be a period of intense organizational and educatio sota, North “Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Ore- never join an organization of work- ers in whose ranks were members gon and all other states where eco- nomic pressure is forcing workers ' united | 1 activity in Minne- | Already the | onde n Cities is June 17th Fifteen” to act in behalf of the thousands of striking dressmakers. - and farmers to think and organize. Prepare for June 17th. ‘movements of preparing for the : “without question it will bé the largest and most representative gathering ever assembled in the United States. It will be an assemblage of workers and farmers who are thinking poli- tically, representing great masses who are learning to think politi- cally. The workers and farmers of Min- nesota and of the (Airthwest, by sinking their minor difference,in the interests of a common objective, have, during the past week, deliv- ered the greatest blow to American capitalism that it has yet received. Russ-American Trade Despite Hughes. NEW YORK, Mar. 16.—The Rus- sian-American Mining and Engi- neering Co., an American concern formerly known as the International Mica Co., has been granted an im- portant concession of mica fields in Siberia by the Moscow government. No Compromise Thinkable. NEW YORK, Mar. 16.—Attempts by the Shubert interests to mediate in the theatrical conflict here met with the Actors’ Equity Associa- tion’s steadfast insistence that no compromise on the Equity shop isste is thinkable. Reed Now Distrusts People. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Sen- ator Reed of Missouri, Hearst’s can- didate for the presidency, comes back from his defeat fh the Missouri presidential primaries with a deep distrust of the people. : wn Ly Pe Deer f Lays cee ; i iy. h #y ‘ ve a ae Ph er “~ ae a eee “os fae 3 oho) a, ier Lara coat : bee, ee a % i on oy ei #° yaa ty ae mi BOWE RAIA. A BON LM RRR ES PR 48 ya tee Re OS a va Bray : ' the brutal- _ at. é Beda et :* pew x. : of (he Sy Ma OP Oe Le ‘ere eR ’ ge ty 2 ee oe i RRS ae, a Ue Soe + “« ae Lo By T. J. O’FLAHERTY. Arthur Brisbane knows a little bit about ing, even about the Standard Oil sagen 6 He seems to be on the inside of Wall Street. The French frane tottered . ously for a few weeks, gee p hengg* 8 hundred uillion a loan to France Arthor said you so.” St aschedine Wesull Wadtentions is ill ge The Irish Free State was presented by certain officers in the army with an ultimatum, which told. the Cos- nto their .own hands. some iy He the Free State government swallowed its chagrin and decided to make the best of a bad situation, The /mutineers are still their guns along the firing squad would have delivered a verdict by now. * *- ss Father Seidenberg, of the commit- tee of citizens investigating the dressmakers strike, is in sympathy with the workers, but he thinks that the unionists get too personal at times. He interviewed Mr. Weiss, /the notorious hard boiled gentleman who refuses to deal with a union organizer. Mr. Weiss showed him a leaflet which the union got out deal- ing with the conditions under which the employes of Mr. Weiss labored. The circular happened to mention the boss’s name so it wounded the sensibilities of that retiring indivi- dual and also earned a rebuke from Father Seidenberg, “That is personal,” declared the Rev. Father, “you should not mention pis. name.” _ Mr, Weiss, beat up pickets. It is even said that yin ordkr to keep the sluggers at the 1 ge pitch of exaltation and ‘spiri- tual excitement, he provides them with booze with a high alcoholic con- tent, after partaking of which the sluggers mentally transport them- selves back to the reign of Attila and imagine they are carving their way to wealth, thru hordes of weak, civil- ized human beings, who stand be- tween them and affluence. This is their frame of mind toward the pickets. Of course the strikers can- not see things the way Father Sei- denberg dues, but we have reason to believe if the (holy man got smashed over the head by a club wielded by an alcohol-guzzling fink that he would not consider it beyond the limits of propriety to mention the name of the gentleman responsible for such attentions. Father Seiden- berg was good enough to go on the picket line, and whenever an enraged policeman was about to bring his club down on‘his head he had only to show his priestly garb and apolo- gies came. Unfortunately the strik- ers are not priests or even rabbis. ok * oe * Harry Daugherty has done noth- ing that the Republican national com- mittee should be ashamed of. He only employed Jess Smith to black- mail criminals and hold them up for graft. Ordered investigation of sen- ators who introduced resolutions to investigate robberies of government lands. Instructed his agents to.stop arresting bootleggers. Helped to start revolutions in Mexico. Violated the Interstate Commerce law against the illegal transportation of fight films, etc. Harry is a good fellow. He is not a communist. Wales Again Unhorsed: Gets Face Scratched LONDON, March 16.—Riding in the Arborfeld Cross-Country Steeple- chase, the Prince of Wales was thrown from his horse yesterday, with such violence that he was ren- dered unconscious and had to be car- ried from the field on a stretcher to a first aid hospital. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. ° ». -_ + ‘ ADAPTED TO THE SCREEN BY tn te a a cas ad “POLIKUSHKA” LtO TOLSTOY’S IMMORTAL STORY OF SERFDOM 3 ‘ 4 % 3 ee % ¢ ' MOSCOW ART THEATRE $ $ A Starring + 4. | $ ¢ \VAN MOSKVIN_ : $ \ Coming to é. od ¢ ORCHYSTRA HALL, MARCH 19, 1924 % The Kiends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany, 7 3 \ Room 307, 166 W. 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—=_ wre ft re ~ o o> ° "se onsiee o*. oe oe * > eetee *. 7? Rad oegnepeteste sepeteto see a ae Sa 4XXXKARARRARAANMIF + =~ wt hee ee his eyes. _ Hear his lament to Manager Pross: eee Mater By Piles ew he ih eee eM at whit aa f } tg WAS RE Py ca SAA Bebe s i rn Mes apg hia le se: SB py Ti eS Pel ae wy a ee, f ‘ Pie Ay , woh: a Ay tt Lie r ee: 2 Le 7 . >. che . oe es ain ay Recent Ss ee ee en Se caer ee ee Ee s "es y 2 - es * + gee et soe SERS HER eter 5 RPE WON a em - i J | Burns Directs His Private Labor Spies from Washington Office "DE, of J.” and Private L WrW. and Operative J. J. Spear,|. “Z-3”, in the agency, and active mem- ber of the I. W. W., recommended for a delegate-ship by Haines in a letter to” the headquarters of the We find Manager Pross, of the Los Mr. R. W. under date of stool’s progress in the union as fol- Stool Appoints Stools. appoints his own men to the: where they can do the most union smashing. Turned All Wobs In. Haines was what is known in the I. W. W. as a “traveling” delegate. He made the rounds of the copper mining camps of Arizona and his in- structions were to make himself solid with the organization by lining up a lot of members. is he did but as fast as they were lined up their names were reported. His let- ters tell exactly who was stamped up with dues stamps, who pasted stick- ers in the county jail, who is work- ing for which mine. They state that certain shifters in the mines will not hire any but members of the I. W. W. and that “Officer Searles of the Police Force’ is an I. W. W. He tells of conferring with mine managers and searching fellow work-| ers rooms and teaming up with De- partment of Justice agents. In par- ticular he tells of reporting to “De- partment of Justice Agent Noonan”— this in ‘his letter to manager Pross, June 19, 1923. dn ke oie ls Stopping U. S. Mail. Burns agents even have power to stop United States mails. Note this letter from Haines to Pross, June 19: It refers to halting the mails and suggests action against a good fellow worker, “T am sure that Matthews is wanted either in Taft or Bakers- field, Calif., I am to get in touch with D. J. agent Noonan upon my return to Globe, for further infor- mation, you should put a stop on all mail at Prescott, for John Gra- ham and Matthews.” That radicals mail is not sacred is nothing new. The DAILY WORK- ER’S mail has been opened too. But we wonder what explanation the arch dick will make when Senator Burton K. Wheeler asks him on the witness stand what authority the dgents of a private detective agency—which he is shown by his own letters to be still directing—had to stop United States mail, If Burns lies again the agen- cy’s letters will be at hand to burn a Two days later on the 21st of June the stoolpigeon’s report is a wail: A crude policeman at Superior, Arizona, took him for an honest-to-god I, W. W. and threw him into a vile can. In the Course Of Duty. “In about an hour officer R. L. Wilkinson came in the jail with officer Pat Gorham, and they searched me and took all my papers and books, and then took my key and went thru my room, and such a ragging I got, there was no drinking water to be had, and I was sick at the time, high fever and dyssentery. . . «... “Officer Poole stated he would hold me 48 hours, for investiga- tion, and so I was up against it, no light in the jail, and it was in- fested with dozens of mice, bed bugs, and lice, and I was utterly exhausted, and fell on the old cot, and while lying there the mice would crawl over me .... I dis- continued at 12 Midnight, in jail.” But W-1 finally got word to Noon- an, the Department of Justice agent and they got him out. He was ym sick from one night in the jail that he spends his lifetime trying to rail- road workers into, and many letters between the managers of the Burns agency refer sympathetically to this poor stoolpigeon’s experience. Exploiting Martyrdom. The stool pigeon makes the most of! nd _-— a», SS. * & +. s+ «+ »* » » BY LETTERS, roll vn eer ag a is We, 4. BURNS DIRECTOR WBS Mr. G. P. Prose, 624 I. N. Van Nuys? Bldg., Loe Angeles, California. My dear George: I beg to acknowie of the 10th inst., inclos 4calism throughout Arizona my sincere thanks. ‘ Department of Justice Purean of Investigation Mashingtox, 2. C. -_ May 23, 1933; , receipt of your letter ng the reports on rad- ,» for which please accept I have just received a letter from Mr. Dowell’ in which he in Arigona ca the Old Dominion Copper © —~ a ste that he have Th on Frank Carlook, two of our Agents Special Agent of y, located at Globe, Arizona, so that they bin 4 er might be able vo ress some of the ac r coals, He also states that he is goi vities o the I. Ve We to have you go to Arigona next month in order to familiarize your~ self thoroughl and get acquainted with some of the people he would like to have you know. Let.me know what he ig doi and if you agree with him to Globe Arizona, in this matter that I should send a')man You ought to wire me @ night letter on receipt _ of this letter. With best wishes, I am "THE PROOF THAT BURNS 1S LYING *SBinoerely yours, Director. his martyrdom, He draws up a let- ter to Lee Tulin, secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Union at Butte, and shows this letter to “Assistant Managers H. A. G. and R. C. W.” for their approval. It cleverly fol- lows the harrowing jail experience story with the request that Tulin t. “an old time fellow worker”, J. . Spears (Z-3) on the, organizers’ “Dear Sir and Fellow Worker”, he begins: “I will drop you a line, to let you know where I am now for a while, as things got hot in Globe, Miami, and Superior, Ariz. On the 6-20-23 I was arrested at Superior, rat-i1 8 wg > gh eons of the damn Copper Co. are as active as they can be. ,.. .” (None should know this better than Haines!) . “IT made an old time fellow work- er, J. J. Spear, a member again, and he is an old time miner. I would suggest you make him a working delegate, as he is situated so as he can do good work around Globe, Miami, Superior, as Mat- thews and [| are away, Fellow Worker Spears, is about the best person you can get now, and knows the game.” New Stool Busy. We soon find Spears sending in re- ports on Case 5900, and signing self “7-3.” : : We also find a letter dated July 20, sent from G. P. Pross, Los An- geles Manager of the Burns Detec- tive Agency, to Mr. Jack Noonan, Care of Department of Justice, Phoenix, Arizona. (Note once more the close connec- tion between the Burns agency and the Department of Justice). The letter says: “My Dear Jack: I have another under-cover man named J. J. Spear. He is at nt at Prescott Hotel, Prescott, Ariz., and will wait there until you call to see him, or you instruct him where you want him to come to meet you. Any instruc- tions you may have for him will be carried out. Let me hear from you once in a while. “With kindest personal regards, and best wishes, Yours very truly, G. P. P., Manager.” Getting Radical Shot. The adventures of Z-3, and _ the further disruptive tactics of othe include an attempt to get an Austrian i fellow worker sent back to Europe where he would be shot for leaving the beaten Austrian army. Z-3 says, “This ought _to be a good way to get rid of one Red.” They also tell the story of Burns’ detectives deliberately ereating violence, and advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The object was to fasten this gospel of individual acts of violence upon the I. W. W., to create evidence for use in criminal syndicalism trials. + * * € The story of how Burns used the Department of Justice to build up his private agency will be continued tomorrow. The record will also show his pull with Doheny’s McAdoo. jail, a elton, || BIG N. Y. TEAPOT DOME MEETING AT COOPER UNION Manley, “Gitlow and Lore Will Speak —————— Joseph Manley, national secretary of the Federated Farmer-Labor par- ty, which is holding its New York convention three days later, will open the attack on the oily thieves and he will be followed by Ben Git- low, editor of the Freiheit, and Lud- wig Lore, editor of the Volkszej- tung. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will act as chairlady. “The Teapot Dome oil scandal,” begins a statement of the Workers Party-announcing the meeting, “has Lbecéme an act of ‘discussion thruout the country among all classes of people. The great masses of the people are beginning to realize that it is an individual or a set of indi- viduals that is guilty in this crime but that the entire capitalist system and the government that protects it are the cause of the Teapot Dome scandal, As in the past it is a con. spiracy of the ruling class and the of its resources. “In this scandal there is not a member of the government that can lay claim to ‘innocence. The Con- gress, the Senate, the president and his cabinet must bear the responsi- bility of this act. “The Workers Party Local New York is anxious to bring the truth of this affair before the vast num- ber of workers against whom this crime has been committed. To re- veal the many acts of our kept gov- ernment that the capitalist press has seen fit not to publish. “There will be an _ admission charge of 25 cents to help defray the expense of the meeting. . “Come and learn who owns the government,” Employe’s Insurance. SAN FRANCISCO, March 16.— A new development in the + la in the group insurance plan for em- ployes worked out by the Industrial Association of San Francisco. The result of the plan will be to attach. thousands of employes to a group of employers rather than to a sin- gle contractor or plant in such a way that the employers of this city will alway have a labor pool to draw from. hs tae tm 2.F [2 ee ol ey « at Mos ‘ ¥ Pe “of “DAILY WORKER ea) Wie’ 5 ies she i ] re vp ar erent Hee ne aoa fh wed le - P) [been released on ticket leave, has (Special to The Daily Worker) ¢ to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 16.—The res CTADY, N. Y¥., March of the "Teapot Polis ervlnee es ~ ‘Trades Assembly over- will be driven home to a large au.|whelmingly endorsed the organiza- dience at Cooper Union, Thursday | tion of a labor party. 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“4 Ay T 7 —_ 7 ™ & A — = ee x Poa ' ~ THE DAIL oe eT ME, A + » ef * My ‘pire esha To, i Aa 4 mam - *% + » Seti AA Te he way : en gpiagdle the Federation wg Be the fight against wines he enesied on : Federation. Individuals cannot do much by themselves, they must act in an organized manner.” * Fitzpatrick — ye erage " a tzpatrick. greatly agitate broke in and decried Johnstone’s de- mand as “bunk,” and repeated his previous assertion that the Federa- tion had to be asked. He said that Johnstone knew the trade union movement as tRoroly as any one there, and ought to know his demand Was wrong. Alderman Nelson, the ocorpulent lawyer, formerly a postal clerk, came to Fitzpatrick’s rescue with the argument that the discussion was “out of order.” Then forgetting his own ruling he began a tirade against Johnstone. “Fosterism,” he shouted, his big shaking. He charged Johnstone with being the lieutenant of Foster with playing into the hands of le bosses by going on the picket line without authorization from the union. 4 Johnstone had earlier told of po- lice brutalities he had seen while on the picket line, and Nelson seized on his statement to make the point that picketers who acted without authorization from the union were a disruptive force. He continued to sneer at Johnstone because he “had net been arrested.” He alleged that the radicals had disrupted the garment workers’ union and cried out in rhetorical in- dignation, “Don’t scuttle the ship of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union tunity to “age Page of these Nes for orderly Gament Pickets of ; The Highest Courage Determined to Win Toa reporter for the DAILY WORKER. who called at the Hotel Morrison to inquire about Sophie Altschuler, the picket who was black-jacked by a police thug Fri- day afternoon, and is still confined to bed, Vice-president Meyer Perl- stein said that the girls were show- ing the highest courage and that police brutality was not able to step them from deing what they believed to be their duty. Two more employers were set- tling, said Perlstein. The girls whe are being arrested wholesale know their .devotion is not in vain. He told of twenty-five girls being ar- rested at a time, day by day, some of them beaten, but they ave un- daunted. Their idea is that it is better to work for the success of the strike, even the they are ar- rested, than to sit at home and let the strike be defeated and find themselves going back to werk at ‘the vicious sweat shop scab condi- tions they have determined to end. Nation’s Capitol Looks Forward to (Centinued from page 1.) and his associates got $65,000. Daugherty advised “Jap” Muma, Ed. MecLean’s representative in the fight picture deal, when the pictures were shown te the Harding administration in McLean’s house, to see Attorney Alfred R, Urion of Chi , formerly lawyer for Armour and Company for methods to dodge the law. Little Profit in Chicago The pictures were shown in Chi- cago, but so heavy was the rake-off that there was very little profit. The scheme, hatched by the Daugherty Department of Justice crowd, was to show the pictures, pay a fine of $1,000 and continue to ex- hibit them pending, further interfer- ence on the part of the Department of Justice. Captain Baldwin, former depart- ment of justice agent, testified that he was forced out because of his activity against law violators. Un- der attorney generals Palmer and Flynn, the department of justice car- ried on the same policy as under the present administration, he claimed. Agents who took their tasks seriously soon found themselves out in the cold. Since Daugherty came into office, he was warned by the attorney general te cease his activities in in- vestigating federal district attorneys and other department of justice offi- cials in Texas. Baldwin was finally forced out. Captain Baldwin told how William Hanson, a close friend of Albert B. . Fall, went to the Mexican border in ae naan Ai. suceeed in get- | 3922. to. foment revolution. Han- before the house the fact tison is now immigration inspector the volunteer pickets who have Been working with him were acting under the erders of the Ladies’ Garment Worker? Union, and strike com- mitee, whose rs was Deora , one of the expelled ck of Lewyer’s Dope. Nelsen’s nofsy cfies of “Foster- ism” the disgusted respense from N ar. a carpenters’ dele- gate, who took the floer and said he was sick of having the issue sifde- tracked with this talk about “Fos- terism.” He challenged “Lawyer” Nelson and the president of the Fed- eration to do something for the gar- mem workers by going on the picket line. Wederberg, another carpenter, sald t this “Old Stuff,” as he called Nelson's personalities, would not him anywhere. Jonnstone’s original speech, calling for militant mase action by the Fed- eration led by its officers, was the feature of the session. Cites Howat’s Fircht. “Tf Alex Howat had on’! appealed to the country, the Kansas slave laws would have been repeated all over the land,” he said. “Rut Howat led a militant strike against the court and went to jail for 16 months —and the court was killed.” The Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was facing a batle for its life here, he urged on the delegates, and it must have militant support. The union was not strong enough by it- 5 self te smash the injunction, the en-: tire labor movement must aid it. Johnstone pointed out that the in- junctions were coming more fre- quently, that sooner or later the life of the Chicago Labor movement as a whole would depend on their mili- tant resistance to these infamous writs and he declared that the Fed- eration had better begin now. Gompers Says “Defy.” Samuel Gompers himself had in- sisted that injunctions must be dis- obeyed and the authority of Amer- ican Federation of Labor was benfnd that. He demanded that the Federa- tion, led by its officials, go out to smash the injunction issued by the “notorious” Judge Sullivan. The cheers which greeted his call for action gave enthusiasm to the Strikers who were present, tho they nomplussed the do-nothing forces on the conservative side. - Volunteers on Picket Line. Many volunteers from the Chicago “labor movement will be on the picket line this morning and there is rea- ion to believe that the Federation thru is Committee, may line up for y 8 action for the strikers, whame it will do the most good, on : picket line. a “Commitee of 15,” in its re- to the Federation, told only of the official acts of the committee in 0 one meeting and then seeing ‘mayor, week before last, but in- members of the committee are a disposition to force action on the strike line, not merely in the politicians’ offices. | y along the border and is still busy aiding Mexican counter-revelution- aries, Baldwin continued. Joseph Klingsbury, a political boss of Texas, wanted Baldwin to make an investigation with a view to black- mail of those involved with Dr. Cook of Fort Worth in the oil fields, but Captain Baldwin refused. Federal agents were told not to pay any attention to violations of the liquor laws aleng the Mexican bor- der, testified Captain Baldwin. He even caught a dry agent selling a still to a bootlegger. F. C. Quimby, the New York fight picture promoter, testified that Jesse Smith, Daugherty’s crime partner, had an interest in the contract be- tween Tex Rickard and others for the distribution of the pictures. Rickard vigorously denied that he had any- thing to do with the pictures a few days ago. ; - Captain Baldwin told of a raid de\ on a whiskey cache by mem- bers of a whiskey ring in Dallas, Tex. The bodtleggers began to fight among themeéives. They complained to the arteries general who happened to be “red-hunter” Palmer. Nothing came of it but there was considerable drinking around the Federal Build- in oe Sack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and Jack Kearns may be subpoenaed, Senator Wheeler announced. Chicago Federation Parades to Labor Film, ‘New Disciple’ Business done, the Chicago Fed- eration of Laber marched, with brass band pealing, all the way from the Musicians’ hall on 175 W. Washington street, to Aryan Grotte, at 8th street and Wabash avenue, to witness the “New Dis- ciple”, the labor film which is run- ning for two weeks in Chicago. Strikers who saw Jehn Fitzpat- rick and his fellowers, marching with measured steps to the tune of the musicians’ union band, hepe to see the same labor officials and the same brass band, parading for the cause of the sweated garment strikers before it is too late. As one put it: “The ‘New Disciple’ is just the picture of a strike. Down on S. Market street, there is a real strike, where ‘these labor marchers are much more sorely needed.” Concert for Novy Mir. The Chi¢ago Russian branches of the Workers Party with the assist- ance of the Society for Technical Aid and two other Russian organi- zations, Zvukee Rodini and Leera, will give an interesting program on Sunday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock, and Sunday evening, March 23, at Schoenhoffen Hall, Milwaukee and Ashland avenues, for the benefit of Novy Mir. Tickets 40 cents; at the door, 50 cents. Bunch of Thrills $8,000 FOR EACH WORKER IN U, S.: Did You Get Yours? Is Economist Query By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) Do you own $8000 worth of prop- erty with at least $3400 of it in stocks and bends? If not why not? That is your share, as one of the 40,000,- 000 gainfully employed persons, of the country’s total wealth. And if you haven’t got it then someone else must be holding back your share. _. The wealth of the United States, according to the latest estimate of the United States census bureau, amount- ed to the huge sum of $325,000,000,- 000 on Dec. 81, 1922. This repres- ents an increase of 73%4% since Dec. 31, 1912, when the total wealth of the country was figured at $187,739,- 000,000. _ But as the wealth of the country increased an ever larger share was getting into the hands of the capital- ists who own stocks and bonds which facilitate the absentee ownership of property. The proportion of the country’s wealth controlled by stockholders and bondholders increased from, about 33% in 1914 to mere than 43% in 1924... The following table shows the wealth represented by the New York stock exchange in 1914 and in 1924: CLASS OF SECURITY 1914 1924 (Last column of ciphers left off.) Stocks (with par value) $18,178,436 $18,828,080 Stock (no par value) ieeawe 6,253,638 Corporate bonds .... 12,894,233 18,430,624 Wer DORE 9 Wei es 14,584,000 Total ...$26,072,669 $58,106,342 This huge mass of capital never stops growing. During the last 12 months: it increased by nearly $3,- 000,000,000. And every increase means an added burden of interest and dividends for the country to carry. According to the Wall Street Journal: Greatest Wealth In World. “The New York stock exchange represents more wealth than any in- stitution in the United States. An evidence of this is shown by the fact that total interest payable on all bonds not including liberties amount- ed to $896,216,000 annually on Jan- uary last compared with $856,345,- 000 on the corresponding date of last year, a gain of $35,871,000. “Including the war bonds annual interest payments t of approximately $1,500,000,000. These heavy annual interest payments give one a good idea of the great nmount of money available for inter- est at the end of each month, per- ticularly on January 1 and July 1. It is probable dividend and interest payments on securities listed on the New York stock exchange aggregate a total of between $2,000,000,000 and $2.500,000,000 annually.” But, according to the Journal, even this enormous flow of money to the owners of stocks and bonds does not fully reflect the wealth and prosperity from corporations, many of them Standard Oil companies, interest on municipal and state bonds, notes, etc., not listed would add heavily to the stock exchange total. Income Without Work. As a matter of fact the U. S. de- partment of commerce reports total dividend and interest payments dur- ing 1928 at $3,587,844,000 while the total amount represented by stocks and bonds is estimated at $136,000,- 000,000. This is the medern embodi- ment of power. It gives owners the right to require a certain amount of income, i. e., goods and service from the country each year without furn- ishing any service in exchange. And direct the work of an ever larger }portion of the popiilation, that is, to govern. Revolutions Don’t Stop Oil Gushers By ELLA G. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of Federated Press) MEXICO CITY, March 16.—Uncle Sam has a real nose for oil. That explains his very friendly interest in Mexico. You push a button in Mexico and out comes an oil gusher. On the oil lands belonging to the Transcontinental Oil Company, in the state of Vera Cruz, a new gusher was discovered on Feb, 21. It has a depth of 564 meters and an initial daily production of 477 cubic meters. On the lands of the Corona com- was discovered on Feb. 19. It has a depth of 860 meters with an initial daily production of 15 cubic meters. This is only a sample day’s report. In the United States there is con- companies here have stopped produc- or that the revolution production impdssible. teriorating, has made lowering of the 400,000,000 barrels of oi] now in the United States. Probe Gasoline Prices. general here today. THAT'S HIS SHARE what is more it gives them a right tq In Mexican Republic pany (Holland-Mexivan) a new gusher stant talk of the fact that the oil tion, also that the oil fields are de- This is probably an ‘attempt to raise oil prices and counteract the price Probe of gasoline prices, ordered some time ago by the National At- torneys General Association, will be continued at a closed session of the executive committee of the attorneys ; Be deal fom wet — ~ . J 4 mF id , PR ne ee “4 7 See Pa PR eta Le ar BY nS ee Sa ra, BIT days the National party branches: With the call for the National the Twin Cities on June 17th now organizations tions the work of great task which the that the Farmer- than 25 members. Act quickly to collect your W orkers Party Is Busy Raising The call for a $15,000 Farmer-Labor Campaign Fund issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Workers Party is bringing an increased volume of support from the party units. During the past few has received remittance from the following Lithuanian Branch, Zeigler, Ill.............. $10.00 Russian Branch No. 1, roit, Mich........ . 15.00 English Branch, Linden, N. J........... bb 000’ Le English Branch, Utica, N. Y................. 5.00 Northwest Branch, Chicago, Ill...... 12:00 ansburg, New Mex., MAL............. ++. 1.00 ussian Branch, Pittsburg .................. 12.00 German Branch, Lawrence, Mass............. 25.00 English Branch, Superior, Wis.... . Wee as wen . 5.00 . Russian Branch, Milwaukee, Wis............ . 9.00 ree navian Branch, oo che dvawe ku 19.00 reek Branch, Canton, Dc bicabhb VAs bb06 6 - 10.00 Finnish ranch? Mc oF Pum ar ees «+«+ 10.00 Lithuanian Branch, Wilkesbarre, Pa......... 6.00 Ukranian Branch, No. 1, Chicago, Ill.......... 1.00 City Central Committee, S SEs os ta . 5.00 Farmer-Labor P out, the campaign Convention in, r the Farmer- Labor Party Fund becomes of even greater importance. There must be built up in every state of the union Farmer-Labor ing the next three months. National Farmer-Labor Convention will not have. great results. There must be zations which will do the necessary . work to build the election machinery and to carry on campaigns. Up To Our Party. A great part of this work falls on our Party. It is to meet the Without such organiza- now and June 17th gn ted. Every party unit must raise its quota for this fund—$10.00 from branches with less than 25 members, $25.00 from branches with more If we can d¢ our full duty in the Farmer-Labor wore this year the workingclass movement will make the greatest st the history of this country. That is the opportunity we have before us. de forward in of the fund. Every branch of the quota ? party should send in its contribution before the end of March. TRAITOR EBERT EXTENDS RULE OF TYRANT GENERALS “State of " Emergency” Continued 15 Days By LOUIS P, LOCHCNER. (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) BERLIN, Mar. 16.—Dictator Hans von Seeckt, has decided that Germany no longer needs to be governed by generals. In a letter to President Ebert he states that the “state of emergency” which officially existed since Sept..26, and is given i pee. \ the appointment of Seeckt as dictator on Nov. 8, is now over, . “My mission has been fulfilled,’ says the general; “the authority of the state has been so established that the recovery of our civic and indus- trial life, initiated during the state of emergency, can now take place with- out the latter.” What the Generals Did. Under the “government by gen- virtually made a myth, the trade un- ions Twenty per cent of the population are suffering from unemployment due to the “recovery” process of dismiss- ing employes right and left. The Communist party has been made ille- gal, likewise the extreme nationalist Voelkische party. And capitalism is enthroned in Germany as it has never been before, as the dictator says: ““Miy mission has been fulfilled.” Nevertheless President Ebert, who still counts himself a Socialist despite the fact that his own trade union has excluded him and that his district has moved his exclusion from the Social- ist party, will wait 15 days before allowing the suggestion of the general that the:.state of emergency end im- mediately. Too Much fo. Vorwaerts._ This is too strong medicine for the Berlin Vorwaerts, organ of the Ma- jority Socialists, which has hitherte defended Ebert thru thick and thin. | The Vorwaerts comments as follows: ‘“The cancellation of the military istate of emergency is long due and ‘overdue. It should have taken place ‘just as soon as it became apparent that it was ineffective as an instru- ment against the Bavarian reaction. Ebert on his part has sent an ef- fusive letter of appreciation to the general, thanking him for “reestab- lishing safety and security in the | fatherland.” The one thing for which the whole military action was ostensibly set in motion, namely as an antidote to Bavaria, has failed miserably. The monarchistic and nationalistic ele- ments of Germany still find Bavaria their haven of rest. General von Lessow, who openly defied the federal government and even tried to per- suade generals in other. districts to mutiny, still continues to draw fed- ing the state of emergency decreed by pone Bavarian government for the state,-is defeated over the votes of the Democrats, Socialists and Com- munists, Crazy Poet Made Prince. ROME, Mareh Italy, has been made @ prince. tenevodso. For Recognition of Soviet. Russia! erals’’ the eight-hour day has been |p), have been made powerless. | ER eral pay and the Bavarian state as- sembly in which the motion for end- 16.—Gabrielle D’Annunzio, romantic poet-warrior of King Victor Emmanuel teday bestowed up- on him the title of Prince Men- Another Effort Will Be Made to Unite ~ Building Councils _ The executive council of the Build- ing Trades Department of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor will hold a meeting today with five representa- tives of the two building trades coun- cils and officers of the international unions in an effort to bring peace tc Chicago. The Building Trades Council was divided in June, 1922, over the ques- tion of obeying the Landis building award. Various efforts to bring them together since have failed. New York to Lift Lid of Oily Teapot , The Teapot Dome oil scandal will be stirred into and clarified at a mass meeting in New York City, on March 238, at 1 P. M., at the Educational Centre, 62 E. 106th street, under the a, of the Harlem section of the or, ~ iu Party. speakers will explain that be- hind the surface manifestations of graft is the canker of profit which is the core of the capitalist system. e names of speakers will be en in later issues of the DAILY WORK- Join the “I want to make THE DAILY WORKER grow’ club. Round the World Flight Will Start Tomorrow Morning SANTA MONICA, Cal., March 16. —QOne hundred airplanes among, them the four scheduled to start to- morrow 1r/orning at dawn on their globe-encircling flight, participated today in one of the greatest air car- nivals ever staged in the United States. Avjators performed every imagin- able feat, close formation, military formation flight, exhibition of sky writing, exhibition of formation fly- ing, exhibition flight, Martin bomber and aerial smoke screen. How many of your shop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get ene of them to subscribe today. No Teapot Dome Oil For Mussolini; Benito Is an Oil Specialist ROME, March 16.—Premier Mus- solini has broken off oil negotiations with Harry F. Sinclair, the Ameri- can magnate involved in the Tdhpot Dome seandal, according to rumors in diplomatic circles here. It is understood that Mussolini has decided to deal with Perrone Brothers, an Italian syndicate, in- stead, Don’t be a “Yes, But,” supporter of The Daily Worker. Send in your sub- scription at once. the warring factions in the ‘city of |” — : tS i 3 a Msp. =e eee ; '¢ ‘ 7 me | ‘ ed SLL if In Distress | JESSICA SMITH. ff Gute ro (Sta rrespondent MOSCOW, March 16th.—Notwith- standing her great personal grief, and the intense strain she has under- gone during the past few weeks, Krupskaya, Lenin’s wife, has not only remained at her post, but thrown herself with more vigor than ever into the educational work of the government. She is giving her life to caring for the thousands of homeless chil- dren who still ride back and forth over: Russia smuggled away in trains or wander from villege to village, or throng the streets of the cities— wild little creatures who have gone thru the unspeakable scenes and events that accompany war and fa- mine, and who, if they are not cared for, become hardened little criminals, opium fiends, child bandits. In accordance with Krupskaya’s re- quest, money that would have beer gathered instead into a fund to egre for these children. In her latest .article Krupskaya speaks on the necessity of adequate material help for these children. But the material help is only the begin- |ning. They must be taught, she says to live well, to feel themselves rea citizens of the republic. The ag to study and to work must awakened in them. With the little children the prob- lem is not so difficult. Better chil- dren’s homes must be established for them, and special attention must be directed toward making them strong and healthy. J | But with the older children whose lives have been shattered, who have developed into independent little hooligans, some begging, stealing, and knocking about, the problem is more complicated. It is difficult to win their ‘confidence, to confine them to a regulated existence, and it has. been almost impossible to keep such children satisfied in the regular in- stitutions. The way in which Krupskaya is urging that this problem he handled is first of all, to provide shelter and night lodgings, community homes, general dining rooms, not with the idea of forcing them into institutiena, but where they will come of their own free will, Then around these lodgings and dining rooms all kinds egular courses will be built up, where the children will be able to learn a trade, along with the ele- mentary education most of them have missed, At the present time most of the work of caring for the homeless chil- dren in Moscow is being carried on by some 2,000 students of the peda- gogical courses, who receive no pay at all for this work. Many more workers in this field are needed. In order to make it possible for these children to earn their living, Krupskaya suggests that special co- operation is needed from the trade unions. Metal Trades Workers To Hold Dance and Entertainment Soon The Chicago Metal Trades group of the Trade Union Educational League has arranged an entertain- ment and dance at the Workers Ly- ceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, Satur- day evening, March 22, in order ta raise funds for the publication of the Metal Trades Amalgamation Bulletin. The Bulletin is publishéd by the National Committee for the Amalga- mation of the metal trades. is again promises a large attendance. A big variety of entertainers is guaranteed. A Henry Moss Jazz band will furnish the music. All militants in the metal trades organizations are invited to be present. Die In Mine At Taylorville. TAYLORVILLE, Ill., March 16.— W. E. Baker, this city, was electro- cuted and Martin Paccotti, a fellow worker, was seriously injured when the engine which they were riding while at work in a coal mine, became shorted. Efforts to revive Baker were futile. Paccotti was uncon- scious for four hours. He is in a local hospital. Thaw Still Seeks Freedom. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 16.— Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, 82 year old mother of Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White and former husband of Evelyn, Nesbit, today admitted that she would aid her son to obtain his freedom from the Pennsylvania hos- pital for the Insane at Philadelphia. _ HOMELESS KIDS: { Thousands of Orphans |*? ; ac | decrees without ratification by ef The Federated Press)’ vg food for tlese youngsters, by way of tal gh ahe wee F W é op Sygate al Sd 4 ree ‘ f rth Ra dia a ta «2 ‘iis child erat ona Re re Ee ws oe * i : : 4 e Sisk Rae Te ST ie, Dy i sgplacage waehe's Tae a RM, itinscmn A dante cea Licuaice oe rel, ED agit an ' Foe of POR +t - ‘ a, <P Set Pep a) 56 : ts ys res re Eas or , COs x Rees aN aoe ad Reppewtecs Nal PB ARO te ° i Yeas FT - y e Sl Ce % iS, March 14.—The $100,000,- é fiscal measures by Poineare is now facing the fight of his life in the senate. The opinion in government circles is that he will win a majority of five or six his supporters are gt g him. It is believed f ear have p Engage a hee - ranc. av y a temporary ef- fect, and that the hundsed million dollar loan was made on the assur- ances that he would win in the se nate, _ That the Poincare forces have li hope of victory,”~ however, is denced by their estimate of a victory with only four or five votes to spare, Poincare stated to the senate that the Ruhr occupation last year netted French business 650,000,000 francs and this year would bring three bil- ‘lion francs. Of this France would take 52 per cent; the rest would ge to the Allies. | that General, Poincare — boasted spent on memorials to Lenin is being® Dawes, of Chicago, one of the Amer- ican experts, justified the Ruhr oc.- cupation, and he expressed hope that the reparations committee would bring about a settlement. He also praised Ramsay MacDonald’s attitude of loyalty to France. The Belgian franc is very nervous and King Albert has signified his willingness to head a society for the port of the Belgian franc. Euro- change is contracting the ady* that sent the mark to perdi- tion, even the Danes being obliged to take heroic measures for the de- ‘fense of their currency. Negro Has Scorn For “Leaders” Who Opposed Unionism To The DAILY WORKER: .The Negro Press Association at its re- cent convention, held at Nashville, Tenn., passed a resolution, backing up Coolidge and calling upon the negroes in the United States to re- sist all forms of unionism and econ- ae radicalism, and to support capi- In other words these negro leaders advised their Race, of whom 98 per cent are wage workers and poor farmers not to form unions or other organizations to fight for g wages, shorter hours and to improve re 38 economic and soci al status, but submissive slaves to the Amer- _ ‘cowardly and treacherous ac- tions of the frock coated Charlatans and gum shoe politicians is without precedent. | Even the capitalists themselves must look upon these bended knée, flattering tongued.and crying soul fake negro leaders with scorn and contempt.—Gordon W. Owens, Chi- cago, Ill. Workers School and T. U.E.L. to Hold Ball at Tammany Hall NEW YORK, March 16.~- THE WORKERS’ SCHOOL and _6 the TRADE UNION EDUCATIONAL LEAGUE are running their first an- nual Spring Festival and Costume Ball at Tammany Hall on Friday evening, April 4th. The noted Clef Club Orchestra has been engaged to furnish appropriate music. Other attractive features which will be announced later, are being arranged to afford a variety of entertainment. Here is an opportunity for you and your friends to have a real good time. and at the same time contribute directly to the support of these most necessary working. class organiza- tions. Big Grain Harvest In Black Sea Area Of Russia Reported CHARKOFF, March 16.—The har- vest last year in Ukraine permitted to put on the market 215,000,000 poods of grain. Seventy-five per cent of this amount was collected in the states closer to the Black Sea: Odessa, Ekaterinoslav and Donetz Gubernies while the other twenty-five per cent were collected in the states of Charkoff, Poltava, Kieff and Po- dolsk. The states of Chernigoff and Volynsk have not been touched at all. There is a big demand abroad for Ukrainian rye. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! DR. ISREAL _FELDSHER Physician a rgeon $808 ROOSEVELT RD. : Crawford 2655 Hours: Morning, until 10 a. m Afternoo ns, 1 to 8 and 7 te 9 p. m. TheRobots AreComing toChicago! Watch for Rossum’s Universal Robots (AUSPICES LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL) — } — —_ —v — — — —
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rin i cae eo ae F 1 END LABOR BOARD } Bers mame conciliation, and, in \ .s7e ' 4 ‘ . hat | es J | ‘FUN fel § , ea } Be Aad : Le ‘ pe uk a ; + , x _ bas a - » a> : * ° e% 2 - tl _ Get Measure _ (By The Federated Press) | WASHINGTON, March 16.—Sena- tor Howell of Nebraska and Repre- sentative Barkley of Kentucky have introduced in the senate and house the proposed railway labor act, pre- pared and indorsed by the 16 railroad labor organizations, the American Federation of Labor, the Longshore- men, the Marine Enginers and the Masters, Mates and Pilots’ organiza- tion. The Seamen afte not supporting the measure because they have nvv yet advanced their wages to a point where they can afford to accept the decisions of an arbitration board. ast extremity, the arbitration of ma- jor disputes between workers and em- ployers in the transportation industry is the purpose of this bill, which makes peaceful effort at adjustment of any dispute a duty upon both par- ties. Repeal Esch-Cummins. | 1. Repeal of the labor provisions of the Esch-Cummins law. 2. Abolition of the railroad labor board. . 3. HDstablishing as a duty upon both parties to a dispute that they “exert every reasonable effort to | make and maintain agreements concerning wages and working con- ditions. 4. Settlement by conference if possible, and sending of disputes not so settled to an adjustment board, in which the two parties have equal representation. 5. Creation of four such adjust- ment boards—(a) train service, (b) shopmen, (c) clerks and mis- cellaneous, (d) marine workers. 6. Changes in agreements only after this machinery has been used to bring them about. 7. Board of conciliation, to act only when both parties have agreed to accept the award. 9. Challenge and appeal of award on grounds of error and fraud. Adjustment Boards. _ The adjustment boards will not handle wage changes, but are relied upon, by the railroad and marine workers’ union, to handle most of the disputes which may arise. Direct con- ference between spokesmen of the railroads and of the nationally organ- ized crafts has all along been favored by rail labor as the best means of maintaining industrial peace. This bill provides that the members of these boards shall be made up of an equal number of men from these’ elements, to be nominated “to the president, appointed by him and con- firmed by the senate, to serve three- year terms at $7,000 a year. Deci- sions will be made by majority vote, and must be rendered within 90 days. The conciliation board .is to be made up of five “impartial” members| named by the president, their salaries to be $12,000 and their terms seven years. They are not to be connected with the industry. If they fail to bring peace, the dispute may go to an arbitration board of three or six persons, and the decision must deal only with the is- sues submitted in writing.. While the parties are to accept in advance the award thus made, it is specifically provided that the award shall not be construed to prevent any employe from quitting work. People are judged by the beoks they read. All the best books, old and new, can be obtained from Morris Bernstein’s Book Shop, 3733 West Roosevelt Road. Phone Rockwell 1453. Stationery, Music and all Periodicals. Come and get a Debs calendar free. +; PITTSBURGH, PA. ' DR. RASNICK DENTIST Rendering Expert Dental Gerviee fer 20 Yone 645 SMITHFIELD S8T., Near 7th Ave. i627 CENTER AVE.. Cor. Arthur 5%. Phone Spaulding 4670 ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. Painters and Deeceraters PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES .|terested themselves in organizing in- Estimates on New and Old Work 261° MILWAUKEE AVE., CHIC Milas. Mie LaSalle paste irik: ages at - , - $ ' i ; “a hes 4 " er i = wee ~ yh ie : ( DAILY WORKER ea FF pr org the last install- me the sate maruag delivered discussion closely. pee that Trotsky had a bp opinion over party pilnd. son ‘with Zinoviev and give them the opening to rush in their war dogs and lap up the blood of the eman d 7 work- ers. Trotsky’s speech begins on « * 7. * * ZINOVIEV CONTINUES: ND now to the ‘difference of age among the members of the Party. is is again one of the most important and interesting prob- lems. What is the preserit state of affairs? The Party can look back upon a history of at least 25 years, and even if we only calculate from the Second Party Congress, that is, from the time of the decisive split of the Party into Mensheviki ayd Bolsheviki, still we have 20 years to look back upon. But nine-tenths of the persons composing the Party have not 25 years of Party membership behind them, but only two to three years since the year 1920, This is the main mass of our Party: This is a really | remarkable phenomenon. Other par- | ties, formed uhder conditions of a | peaceful parliamentary atmosphere, Wave developed in a more staid manner. ‘ Three Important Strata. In these parties the development was as follows: The party was form- ed, worked for one, two, three, or five years, and gradually gathered around it a personal party staff. In our case the process has been re- versed. The main mass of our Party did not stream in until after we had overthrown ezarism and Kerensky, and, therefore, happens that a Party whose history extends back over 25 years has nevertheless an extremely young personal staff. It has one group which has taken over the work of the last twenty years, and which incorporates the traditions of twenty to twenty-five vears; it has another group incor- Zorating the five or six years old ating 0 Deg traditi has crea an exceedingly charac- teristic and peculiar situation, which cannot be ignored. holding the ether, is worthy of the hest p is our esteem, but it is small, it is dying out, and it Has not kept up with life in every respect, is not entirely competent for present Rise of a New Stratum. A new stratum is arising from the other side, ready to attack broad questions and responsible work with greater rapidity n the old; often it has a perfect right to do this, but often it is insufficiently prepared. It is one of the most intimate problems of the Party to find out the required golden mean for accomplish the useful amalgamation of our mental stratum, incorporating the history of twenty-five years, with the new stratum, brought into being by the Party during the civil war. It is imperative that the right basis of mutual relations be found, for these twenty-five years of ex- perience must not be lost to the Party, the gigantic political capital accumulated by the Party durin this ate must not be squandened in vain, and on the other hand it is equally important that this group of old members throws no obstacles in the way of those young members who are striving for more active participation. It is the task of the old group to transmit its political expérience to the young, to further participation in the work under their leadership. General Situation and Tasks. Let us now strike a balance. In regard to the working class our cause is in no bad position; the sit- uation has improved. Confidence in our Party is growing among the working tlass; if we do not commit very glaring economic mistakes, we shall gain the working class. In any case, there is an increase of confidence in the Party on the whole. The dissatisfaction brought about in Summer by the economic situation has proved to be merely an episode. Those organizations which were not able to deal com- petently with the discontent and | characterizing the present moment, rand can do much towards the solu- confidence of the}not permit the discussion now start- ai. eS ee DE & > d neal Y- , ’ ¥ 6 nt, ‘a as ¥ and strengthened by us. with the peasantry . mea The peasant | emselves eliminated unsuitable elements, and are better position than before. Tespect to the rest of the , there is something new _There is a great stream pathy for the ideas of the power from among the intel- lower and higher alike, and nes 4 oe of the student only among our own but from the ranks of other This is the new element z- i g 3 i 1 * pH for this was not the case two or three Rc ago. . Co-Operation. ecessary It possesses one extremely positive side. These are people who can set our schools upon their feet; the scholars can lend positive aid to our higher tional establishments, me of that problem raised by Com- Trotsky in his letter to the savants: It is war which rules chem- istry and aviation. Our tive gain lies in the fact that we obtain the support of cul- tured and semi-cultured strata which can bring us that which we are lack- ing. nd the attendant minus is that we shall be enveloped in the predominately petty bourgeois influ- ences of these strata, which wil! take effect upon our party thru a thous- and channels unseen except to the most watchful observer. But we are Marxists and we must be able to observe phenomena at the very moment when their germ is beginning to break the outer husk. @ point out these new phenomena to you, and say to you: here is a fresh stream of mass sympathy from the intelligenzia, from. the student youth, from the teachers; this sympathy bears witness of our strength; accept it and utilize it for our ay and tasks. But do not forget t it possesses its nega- tive aspects. Be on your guard. I am of the opinion that we must ed to assume the forms of that dis- cussion before the Party Congress, when Comrade Lenin was obliged to write that the Party had been at- tacked by a fever, and that the tem- pearture must be lowered. We can ne longer allow ourselves _ this . lectstinsiuttandthatioeie nee necessary; we shall pass matured resolutions on the question of the intensification of Party work and the inner Party nani resolutions. We shall put the workers’ democ- racy courageously into actual prac- tice, Everything which can and must be done will be resolved upon and put into execution without de- Aawtr areaaw - TOBACCO LORD eae MADE GREATEST PROFITS IN 1923 R: J. Reynolds Happy lay. And we cannot allow our- selves this luxury, in the second | place, because the international sit-_ uation is full of tension and respon- sibility. Each week may bring fresh surprises. The White Guard press is naturally seizing eagerly upon our discussion. Surprises may await us in the in- ternational situation. This must not be forgotten. And then we have the inner Party question. At the time before the Tenth Congress we seri- ously pushed the matter to an ex- treme. / But at that time we had some one whose opinion was absolutely decisive for the whole Party. This was Comrade Lenin: At the present time Comrade Lenin is still so ill that he cannot take any part in our discussion. This throws an even heavier responsibility upon the rest of us, The Central of our Party, which is composed of a group of Comrade Lenin’s scholars, has to make the most responsible decisions. At pres- ent it is only possible for the Cen- tral to work, to carry out responsible functions, to alter the course when circumstances require it, to remove evils in the Party, and to maneuver on the international front, when it is conscious of possessing the full- est confidence of the decisive fun- damental strata of our Party. Importance of Central. We can and will, accomplish the realization of the principle of elec- tion. We must effect a number of improvements in. the spheres of trade union and economic work, and correct a number of mistakes. Our Party Central must remain the army staff of the Party. It is only such a staff which is capable of lead- ing the Party during the period of proletarian dictatorship. Here we must consider everything twenty times before acting; every decision must be accorded the most careful thought, and then finally made with that maximum of deter- mination and that maximum of Inner Party Democracy: strikes in the Summer are now being In the first place it is entirely un- unanimity which is characteristic of our organization. Detroit Workers Party Finns Have Fine Labor Temple _ By LEMPI SIMONSON _ (Special to The Daily Worker) DETROIT, Mich., March 16.—The Detroit Finnish Branch, with mem- bership of about 500, has achiev suceess ‘of building a $150,000 Labor Temple just com-| pleted. The building has one of the finest gymnasiums in the city, as well as an aduitorium, seating 1,000 peo- ple, together with a modern and an up-to-date stage. Besides these large halls there are numerous smaller rooms, stores and offices, equipped with all modern improvements. Since the dedication of the building, over- flowing crowds have been attending all the entertainments and meetings. In the three business meetings that have been held in the new hall at least 100 new applications for mem- bership into the party have been re- ceived. The meetings are generally attended by at least two or three hundred members and seem to in- crease from time to time. Enthusi- asm and interest in party matters runs high and a very successful and a prosperous year is expected. One of the most important decisions made by the branch is the arrangement of a two-weeks’ lecture course to be held in the evenings. The lecturer Comrade K. Tuominen, is a very able speaker and lecturer, and we are sure that these lectures will be large- ly attended. The Finnish branch also boasts of having organized one of the largest YWL Circles in the city, whose mem- bership already reaches 40, and the drive hasn’t even begun. The Circle is holding an entertainment Monday evening, the 17th, at the gym, which is free to all. A large number of the members being Auto Workers, have also in- to the Awte Workers’ Union, a mass meeting hdving been held Sunday, the 9th, wherein a number joined. The Land for the Users! \ Aad ma LARGER High Standard Articles This photo, 8l4xTh, FREE with each yearly subscription. $2.00a Year Official Organ Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany IN SIZE More Interesting Photographs Picture without subscription, }basis for. a vast experience, and it National Conference of By HARRY GANNES AY 30, 31 and June Ist, are the datés set for the Mid-Convention | Conference to be held by the Young, Workers’ League of America at Chi- cago, Illinois. The last convention of the Young Workers’ League was held in May,’ 1923, and a number of resolutions on the many matters confronting the league, were passed at that gather- ing. Since that time, the Communist youth organization has grown to al-’ most twice the size reported at the last national meeting. The league has spread to many parts of the country which heretofore had never heard of a communist youth organ- ization. The many new resolutions such as the shop nuclei plan, the economic struggle (which includes trade union work), anti-militarism have laid the is the end of the Mid-Convention Conference to gather the loose ends of the organization together on the basis of the work done. Pecause of the wide stretch of territory, the N. E. C. of the league deems it ad- visable not to wait for the iime of the. next convention. The constitu- tion of the YWL provides that a con- vention shall be held four months b a W. Lito Consider Immediate Problems of Youth Organization after the Congress of the Communist International. The next Congress of the YCI will be held in September of this year, Young ‘and that would put the next Young Workers’ League convention in Jan- uary. It is very evident that some sort of national gathering should be -held before that in order to benefit from the experience of our various districts. To those who have _ studied the problems of the working youth in the United States, it is unquestion- ed that there is no need for chang- ing the policies of the YWL. There is much need far detailed enlarge- ment of the work; for specific dis- cussion of local problems and the application of natidhal policies in the many different sections of the coun- try. The districts must be broveht closer to the national organization. Especially does the shop nuclei mph need clarification on the basis o experience. The proposed conference is ex- pected to jump right into the real} tasks of the YWL. The representa- tion will be somewhat smaller than a convention, which lends itself better to detailed work. More articles walh The Tale of a Ship. BALTIMORE, Md., March 16.—A tale of a ship which had been bat- tered by storms for three days sud- denly turning over and going down with her captain lashed to the bridge, her engineer and his assistants down in the hull and the crew scrambling for the boats, was told by 10 sur- vivors of the Ward liner “Santiago” when they arrived here recently. ! At $23,039,876 By LELAND OLDS. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Prves) Profits of $23,039,876 made by the Reynolds Tobacco Co; in 1923 prom- ise common stockholders the largest return in the history of the company. In fact, these profits are the largest ever shown in the history of the in- dustry which fattens on its ability to overstimulate the nicotine habit among the men and women of America. These profits are equivalent, after ‘preferred dividends, to $6.76 a share on the 3,200,000 shares of common stock which have a par value of $25. This means a return of 27 per cent for the year. But if we take into account a 200 per cent dividend in 1920 and a 33 1-3 per cent stock dividend in 1922, it appears that stockholders now hold four shares for every share originally purchased. In. other words, the real rate of profits for 1923 is over 100 per cent. Four Times As Many Fags. The extent to which these huge -profits are based on tne increase in the cigarette habit is shown by fig- ures compiled at the U. S. depart- ment of commerce. Four cigarettes were smoked in the United States during 1923 for every one smoked in 1913. Such is the effectiveness of the huge advertising campaigns which aim constantly at increasing the number of cigarettes smoked each year. The number smoked dur- ing 1923 reached the surprising total of 64,450,680,000, while nearly seven billion cigars were .consunied. During the year 1921 the coun- try was induced to spend more for cigars and cigaretes than spent for butter and’ sugar combined. Expen- proximately one-half as much as the entire country spent for the purchase of automobiles and 30 per cent as much as for clothing. The total ex- penditure amounted to $806,748,865. The country’s expenditure for the benefit of cigarette millionaries dur- ing 1923 probably exceeded one bil- lion dollars. Camel King Swelis Profits. Profits of Reynolds Tobacco Co. have more than doubled since 1919 and have increased eight-fold since 1913. During 11 years this company has rolled up $117,878,212 in profits out of which it has paid cash divi- dends totaling $48,281,250. The re- maining $69,596,962 has been stored up as undivided profit for the benefit of common, stockholders. diture on this habit absorbed ap-|. * Spur Philadelphia — Workers to Fight Vicious Davis Bills PHILADELPHIA, Pa. March 16. ~-The conference called to organ- ize a Council for the Protection of Avenue, had forty-two delegates rep- resenting twenty-five. political, frat- ernal and labor organizations. Great indignation Was voiced by the delegates at the proposed bills to further discriminate against the foreign born workers. The union delegates particularly pointed out that the legislation was aimed at the trade union movement with the ob- ject of hindering the organization of foreign born workers and eventually crushing the labor movement. A program of action was adopted and all delegates volunteered to visit labor organizations with the object of pointing out the menacing aspect of these bills and to ask for dele- gates to the Conference. The Res- olution is enclosed. A provisional executive committee was elected consisting of the following delegates: Baker—Local No. 159 Int. Ass’n of Machinists; J. Wackshell— Local No. 1073, Bro. Carpenters and Joiners; H. O. McClurg—Local No. 587, Bro. Painters and Decorators; J. Stemple—Local No. 1039, Bro. Painters and Decorators. A. Bail was elected provisional secretary. A motion to endorse the DAILY WORKER for the splendid fight it is maxing against these bills, was unanimously carried. The next Conference wil! be held on Morday, March 31st, at 521 York Avenne. SLIP COVERS Including Labor and Material 3 Davenport - - $9.50 Chair - - - - $5.50 Satisfaction Absolutely Guaranteed Also a wonderful selection of imported Coverings at «a tre- medous reduction due to our wide experience in the making of Covers, enabling us to give you superior quality. Save 30% on your Automobile covers. Order direct from— GOLLIN BROS. Formerly With Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very reasonable. 6006 SO. KOMENSKY AVE. Call REPUBLIC 3788 DO YOUR WORK AT J. KAPLAN’S CLEANERS AND DYERS EXPERT LADIES’ AND GENTS’ TAILOR 8546 ARMITAGE AVE. Albany 9466 Work Called For And Delivered You Are Responsible FOR The Daily Worker UCCESS Work For Plan to Get Sacrifice For appear from time to time on the coming YWL conference. Actors’ Strike Vote Carries by 16 to 1, Managers Weaken By FREDERICK KUH (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) NEW YORK, March 16.—Sixteen hundred against two. This is the vote in favor of a strike on June 1, to enforce the demands of the Actors’ Equity Association un- less the Producing Managers’ associa- tion yields before that date. When the actors’ organization met at the Equity Theatre here, Hugh Frayne, national organizer, American Federation of Labor, arose to give renewed assurances of the solidarity of the trade unions with their stage colleagues. Word has reached the Equity that the Shubert group which controls 70 per cent of the leading New York playhouses, is weighing the possibility of breaking away from the Produc- 25 CTS. EACH. j{) Black or | brown. $1.00 Six Months SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL Brown........:. | 82 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, Il, ne sa ake 1640 N. HALSTED sT.| CHICAGO, ILL. 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* * os Y gh a ~_-e-~-. -—-- lished by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., | 1640 N. Halsted , TL (Phone: Lincoln 7680.) SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail: $6.00 per year $3.50..6 months By mail (in Chica $8.00 per year $4.50..6 months Address all mail and make out checks to THE DAILY WORKER ae 1640 N. Halsted Street Chicago, [llinois J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ees Editors WILLIAM F. DUNNE MORITZ 2, MES Bink 6 ce ce wks Business Manager Entered as second-class mail Sept. 21, 1923 at the Post- Office at Chicago, Ill., under the act of March 8, 1879. -_* Advertising rates on application. Get Daugherty The investigation of the Department of Justice and Attorney General Daugherty have only begun. The disclosures have already revealed evidence of crookedness and cor- ruption on the part of cabinet officials which are far more grave than those brought to light in the Teapot exposures. Everybody knows that the worst is yet to come—if it will be permitted to come. One tends to get suspicious nowadays whether the whole truth will be allowed to come out about the strikebreaking head of the Department of Justice. Such suspicions and misgivings are especially warranted in view of the gentle treatment accorded McLean by Senator Walsh when the former was given a chance to get away without telling the committee who is the “principal.” These investigations must be pressed to the limit. The workers and farmers have a vital interest to go all the way down the line in these investigations. The workingmen and poor farmers are the only ones who are gen- uinely interested in getting to the botfom of the whole rotten affair. Obviously, these ex- aminations will dwindle into nothingness un- less the workers get on the job and force things a bit. | First of all, the' workers, particularly the organized workers, the railway organizations, the Executive Council of the American Fed- eration of Labor, and all other agencies of the trade union movement should immediately arrange to come before the Senate Committee and tell the whole country about the conduct of Attorney General Daugherty in the shop- men’s and other strikes. Alongside of the crimes and outrages committed by Daugherty and his gunmen in strikes against the work- ingmen and poor farmers all the infamy and all the blackness already fastened on Daugh erty appear angelic. | The whole story of the Daughertys, Mellons, es will never be told unless the workers force the telling. Regardless of polit- ical or other differences, all workingmen ought to line up in one mighty effort to get Daugh- erty, to get rid of the most brutal enemy of the workers and farmers. The first step in this direction is the disclosure of the crimes of Daugherty against strikers and other workers. March 17th Saint Patrick was one of the most useful saints Ireland ever produced. He is worth the weight of his tomb in gold to the American politicians. Democrats and republicans who get their knowledge about Ireland’s long struggle against British domination from the caricatures in the so-called comic weeklies and from the burlesque stage, show an intense in- terest in Ireland on the 17th of March, which is set apart as Ireland’s national holiday for what reason the Gods alone know. They do this for very good, soynd political reasons. The capitalists realize that there are millions of Irish workers in America, who, like all the other national groups here, are very interested in the events taking place in the land of their birth. The politicians capitalize this interest and by pretending a great love for Ireland, and giving an occasional twist to the lion’s tail, manage to get the Irish votes on election day. But while the Irish-American capitalist lackeys honor a dead saint and seek to hold the Irish workers in America at the tail of their political chariot, there are thousands of Irish workers. spreading Communist propa- ganda among their fellow workers. They are teaching them that the question of freedom for Ireland can only be solved when the capitalist system is overthrown in Europe and thruout the world. They are tell- ing them that the duty of Irish workers in America is to join a fighting party, the Work- ers Party, that believes in and works for free- dom in all lands and for all peoples. A Forbidden Path The capitalist press, particularly the financial and industrial newspapers, have been commenting exten- Sively on the rapid growth of the German merchant marine and shipbuilding industry in recent months. They have been pointing out repeatedly that is was the eheapness of German labor that has enabled the capi- talists of Germany to forge ahead and that the employ- ers of this country ought to take their cue from the German capitalists. We are giad to announce that the German workers oppressed by their own capitalists, social patriots and @ g ; > $2.00. .8 months aad 7 . .8 months _ allied imperialists have declared a general strike in the shipyards of Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and Stettin. We feel sure our capitalist masters wiil no longer ask us to follow the path of the German workers. It is plain that only that which brings profits to our bosses is meritorious. ge JOIN THE WORKERS PARTY “@@ PUK CSR oe eyte. » Er rer ag Rae VF NS Se Few wae oe : Se ee i ee ee eo Ignorance of the Law _ In the courts controlled by the capitalists, ignorance of the law is officially and formally banned as an excuse or a reason for immunity frome punishment in case of legal violations. But this rule is applied in true employing class fashion only when it hits the workers and poor farmers. Whenever the bosses are concerned, this method of legal procedure is dropped either outright or lost in one of the many winding dark alleys of the intricacies of legal technique. The utter hypocrisy of the pleas of the em- ployers and their apologists regarding. their courts and law being based on principles of absolute justice above all economic classes is obvious. The wealthy who make the laws and who have professional legal experts at their disposal are the ones who have all the chance on earth to know what the law is. For them ignorance of the law is inexcusable. The poor, the workingmen and expropriated farmers, who have to slave away their lives piling up profits for their employers and the bankers and manufacturers, have neither the time nor the money to acquaint themselves with the ponderous statute books. For the workers and farmers ignorance of the law really should be a reason for freedom from punishment under the law. Yet, what do we find under our capitalist class dictatorship, under our present legal system based on the supremacy and perpetua- tion of private property interests? Here is the Honorable Secretary of State Hughes, whose latest claim to distinction is his nightmare in which he saw a red flag being hoisted over the White House, pleading ignorance of the law in order to be excused for taking in the Carpen- tier-Dempsey prize-fight picture show which was run in violation of the law. Mr. Hughes surely has gall. Does he really think that the masses will fall for this bun- combe? How comes it that one of the leading jurists of the country and a former member of the United States Supreme Court is ignorant of so elementary a law as that involved in the vio- lation of a federal statute thru the bringing in of these fight films? , Yes, ignorance of the law is no excuse for the the violation of the law—when a workingman or a farmer is to be punished. It is, however, a good and sufficient reason when a capitalist, an employing class spokesman, an ex-member of the United States Supreme Court and one of the leading lights of the American Bar Association, is involved. What better evidence could we want for the capitalist class character~of our government and laws? What more eloquent proof do the workingmen and dispossessed farming masses want before they get on the job to get rid of the present government financiers, industrial magnates and plunderers of the resources of the country and establish a Workers’ and Farmers’ Republic in the United States? Funny But True There is a silver lining to the black clouds of capitalist corruption and filth that have been hovering over the national government in Washington. - Occasionally a ray of humor pierces the stifling atmosphere saturated with the revelations of sinister and heinous crimes against the masses. The other day, Senator Moses, known to be the clown of the august upper house of the government, remarked at the Wheeler com- mittee investigating Daugherty that it would be better to ask Gaston B. Means, the former Burns agent, what senators he has not inves- tigated instead of asking him for those he has gone after. This was a highly practical sug- gestion. We are pleasantly surprised that a man of Mr. Moses’ mental and financia] caliber could offer such valuable advice. Much to our regret the committee did not adopt the Moses plan for leading the hearings out of the wilder- ness of shocking testimony. Then, Mr. Longworth, the multi-millionaire floor leader of the reactionary republicans ifi the house of representatives made another commendable suggestion, humorously of course, but nevertheless very much in order, that “‘the rules of the House should provide that when the roll is called that, instead of members responding ‘yea’ and ‘nay,’ they should answer ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty.’ ” Both of these suggestions were made in a light vein. They may be funny, but they are very much in place and necessary just now. These proposals have much more in them than the levity accompanying their release. In ef- fect they would surely tend to afford a true and accurate index of the condition of the government today. Funny as these remarks of Moses and Longworth may be, their very birth reflects fundamental change of a state of mind, of attitude towards the whole govern- mental system of the country that is rapidly being assumed by increasing numbers of the great mass of the population. Fighting For Morgan The democrats will make a desperate effort to dis- place the agent of the Boston bankers, Coolidge, with an agent of J. P. Morgan and Company at the White House. ' Should the democrats succeed in this attempt it will not be the first time in the history of their party, or the country, that an attorney of J. P. Morgan & Co. shall have-been president of the United States. In the four-year interval between his first and second term Grover Cleveland was working for the Morgan law firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russel; and was especially picked to be the elder Morgan’s personal attorney. John W. Davis, one of the prominent demo- cratic presidential aspirants, is now connected with this Same firm, ed “ —— feats 5) ait Seka aes saaey. ~ s if Ee et Re aes a STH.) PET * Pa RES siege raps aR seine PS aoe a ie ai TNT cc 3 Be * sf) iy! Pee Pte re Marta ee ; ) ta ee 2 OE es Be “See ay | oa : P Pal , ‘he Se rl + by > 5 vy ’ / ~“ q / . . ye May Aa os 42 ot le : mm PG a . ‘ & “Tt 'y : a al Fay s’ Committee is really in striking : ne ' F\ THE sub-committee of the Citi- zen pif hee | wey “Union” ‘and You're Fired. _ Mrs. in investigating the ent| big shops, Arthur Weiss, Francine workers’ denials of the p er Frocks, Mitchell Bros, 2 Lipson Pea | z in my shop Con-| Bros., if a girl even says the word ditions fine. one working!” let | “union s . Mrs. Bock them call on A. Bock, 4300 | worked six weeks at Arthur Weiss’ N. Ri ys to testify. Shejand discovered that the girls in the and her , M G. Williams,|shop all favored izing but for formerly at Mitchell Bros. Shop, at-|fear of losing t jobs took no Mary McDow- | action. ae turned out to be for all but a -— of bosses and the union officials, who met in private with a few “citizens,” these eager workers were practically ignored. a, Contrary to the bosses’ statement that the girls work 45 to 50 weeks in the year, Miss Williams found that in six months’ employment at Mit- chell Bros. she worked barely ten full weeks. ' Exploiting Married Girls. “We have to go and sit in the shop every day, even if we get only one garment to work on,” (piece work plan) Miss Williams, told me,, and when we propose a shorter week so that the work will by more evenly distributed, the boss says the girls would rather sit around his shop than home alone. When two thirds of the girls are married, you can guess how glad they are to let their household duties slide while they sit unem- ployed in the shop.” “Five girls got married during the time I worked at Mitchell’s, con- tinued -Miss Williams, “and within three weeks each was back at work. Before they were married they say they don’t have to join the union be- cause they’re pps. to be married and then they’ll work for too little afterwards hecause they are only sup- plementing their h nds’ meager timacy between the girls. “A year or so ago Miss Grossman, the manager, took a vote of the girls for or against unionizing,” explained. ‘Mrs. Bock. “The girls were all in favor, but Miss Grossman, contrary to her promise to accept, their deci- sion, took ‘two weeks to think it over’ and has never done anything more. “Yellow Dog” Contract. “T was disc ed after two and a half days at union affiliation,” said Mrs. Bock. gs the third day two other girls and I were asked to sign the ‘yellow dog’ individual contract by Mr. Mc- Lain, the manager. When we asked leave to consider it over our half- hour noon, Mr. McLain became an- gry. It looked to the other girls in the shop as tho we had refused to sign. en I came back from lunch he told me to go, because they had found out who I was.” The vicious individual contract calls for two weeks’ notice to the boss if the girl decJles to join the union and states that the employer will give the same notice if he, in- tends to sign up with the union. It demands that none of the girls even speak to a union representative. It offers protection in case of “trouble.” “One of my friends was discharged from Mitchell’s because she was seen giving her address to a union girl,’ exclaimed Miss Williams. “And the boss even discourages any sort of in- He gets itchell’s because of. in ibback’s said that he-could send the dresses to the This was at . ‘farmer’ girls at Freeport who were glad to work tor less while they were ‘learning how to make their own clothes!’ I. found at Freeport that there was no farmer girls em- workers as in the larger cities. $15 Maximum Wage. “Fifteen dollars is the maximum wage guaranteed the girls in Evan- ston now,” remarked Mrs. Bock. “And they average yearly they say $18 to $20. That is for the old-timers. And when they are busy and make as the morning to 8:00 at night, and sit at their machines thru lunch!” At Lipson Bros, ten to fifteen col- ored girls are employed, according to Miss Williams. One of the brothers personally supervises the girls and on the pretext that the colored are not so efficient, he discriminates in distributing the dresses. When a white girl protested against this practice, she was offered five dollars to keep quiet. elleweleisce at a Price. when I asked the girls here what, ‘ployed, but just the same type of | ° high as $35 they wor’: trom 7:30 in} 7 y *) . 4 7 a 4 . ira - my = = 3 « ae : : J Tes ; + all ee 2 ¥ 2 "% > ? 5 7 ” a » " ie ad a eae ore . - _ = bs r W oy z E 3 A 4 fi : was associated with Jewi ers, he replied that that ent. é “IT have never worked 2 Miss Williams oT Both she and Mrs. Bock have been active in the yn, Miss W liams at Cleveland, efly. Mrs. Bock was in the movement twenty years ago for ten years and has been back only the last year and a half after ten years outside. She with as before, altho shop conditions kave been considerably improved. — Mitchell has written to married girls who seabbed during the 1917 “The boss brags of his benevolence strike to help him out again now. Boys Nee A rid the country of crime. Give the boys a hero! This divine plan was given the world by Supreme Court Justice James C, Cropsey, about. two minutes after he had_ sentenced four young men to be killed in the electric chair during the week, beginning April 7. Morris Diamond, Joe Diamond, John Farina and Anthony Pantano are the four boys who were convicted in Cropsey’s court of the murder of two bank messengers in Brooklyn last November. The four bandits were evidently trying to imitate oth- er more prominent members of the robbing fraternity and were less lucky in covering up their exploits. So they were caught, tried, found guilty, sentenced to die. It is not so often that # bunch four comes before a judge at same time to get the death penalty. Even a hardened judge feels a bit creepy about an episode like that. The occasion, however, furnishes him with a text and his sermon is likely to be printed. The judge took ad- vantage of it and told the anxious race that crime must be’ stopped at once and that the way to stop it is to give every boy a hero. Which so softened my little heart that I limbered’ up immediately and gave in to the holy impulse to assist the good judge in placing the desired galaxy of most famous heroés face to face with the tender saplings ‘of our growing generation and help them see the good ways of heroes. One of the nicest heroes I have ever met was Saul, an early king of Israel. I thot hegwas about as good as they make them, for he had killed of the | piles and piles of people and God had blessed him in his labors and the story of his reign is still a source of inspiration to every Sunday school boy in Christendom. But one Sab- bath morning our preacher shocked me atly by reading the beautiful song of the lovely women in the Bible who, sure enuf, liked Saul, but had also begun to make goo-goo eyes at an even greater hero, who was said by himself to be a man after God’s own heart, and finished up their adoration by singing, “Saul has slain his thousands, but David has slain his tens of thousands.” : These heroes should help the kid considerably to keep the finger off the trigger. But that is a little off, perhaps. Let tis come closer in time and space. Here is our own exalted national hero whose monuments will adorn parks and courthouse squares and whose yellow stripes will decorate telegraph poles along the highways from coast to coast from now on till the Bolshevik revolution, that great man with the big stick, Roosevelt, gone but not forgotten. How proud we were of him when he donned the. Rough Rider rags and led his brave on the run away from the perils in San Juan, and how gloriously he shot a fleeing Spaniard in the back. How thrilled we. were when Teddy came back from Africa and told us the glad story of how he had shot a fe- male monkey in her breast and de- scribed how the little animal had put her hand over the hole from which flowed a steady stream of blood, and brought grand applause as he re- marked, “how cute it looked.” This hero was such a fine example jyouth. Even at. Wilson’s funeral to his brood that one of his offspring became honest and upright enough to stick up the public oil messengers in the dark and get enuf grease to lu- bricate his transmission gears for several decades. Maybe this lad hero and his hero dad will help the kids to keep the finger off the trigger. A later and even more heroic hero, who lied so gently, and kept us out of war, so lovingly, by plunging us into the prettiest little murder game that an envious history has ever be- held, must also be kept in front of the erring youth until the day of the 'bolshevik revolution. How amateur- ish. Nebuchadnezzar and Herod and Nero and Ivan minute Ameri pears upon the’ scene. we have the great dril ’s war president ap- Here: at last er of our : we were told that never before in the history of the world have so many young men been instructed in so short a time and made perfect mur- derers as under the éfficient leader- ship of the gigantic hero of the world war. It was Wilson who marshalled the four million men of our country and taught them the beautiful art of killing. It was this hero who inspir- ed the churches and the Y. M. C. A. to force all the ferver of religion in- to the hearts of the soldiers and promise the mthe flow of God’s bless- ings in. proportion to the human blood they might be able to spill. It was under the moralizing influence of this arch hero that the song of hate reverberated -thruout the whole world and made every brutal instinct in the human heart respond to the impulse of murder on a large eale. Beside him the kaiser became a piker Terrible look the d Hero--Get Electric Chair === almost unworthy of the name, hero. This war president hero should help the kids considerably to keep the ‘finger off the trigger. ‘ Then we have thé heroic heroes in the Veterans’ Bureau who served a dying multitude of deluded soldiers with nice pieces of thievery out of the hospital larder, and the heroic he- roes of the teapot fraternity who seem ta have avoided the formality of toil in connection with getting their living, just as the four boys who robbed the bank messengers, at- tempted to do. Line up your fine, lgreasy American heroes before the eyes of the boys—Denby, : Fall, Roosevelt, Doheny, Sinclair, McLean, Coolidge, Dougherty, Palmer, Burns. ‘Fine heroes, these. “ They should help the kids consid- erably to keep the finger off the trig- ger. | - And shall we not add the hero who sentenced the four young bandits to the electric chair, to our exalted list? Had not his action and demeanor at these trials been brazen and arbitrary enuf to cause the comment of even the most reactionary of our news- papers and the keenest lovers of ven- geance? Were not his rulings so contrary to constitutional provisiogs that even the case hardened attor- neys stood aghast The papers said: *Motions for new trials, based on many grounds, were made. Justice Cropsey’s actions during the trial of the men were specificaJy attacked. But the judge sat staring ahead with- out any emotion whatsoever. When the lawyers had finished he quickly spoke: ‘Motion denied’ ” This buddjng hero should help the kids considerably to keep the finger off the trigger. By JAY LOVESTONE. HAT the class struggle today is international in its fundamental éatures is clearly evidenced by the historical events that are taking ployers and the workers in the vari- ous countries of the world In Russia, in Italy, in Spain, in Germany, the social-patriots, the renegade socialists, had at one time or other been fighting the commun- ists because, we were asked to be- lieve, that the proponents of the Soviet system were opposed to “pure” democracy without which the working anl farming masses could never get along. Yet it was invari- ably found that these renegade so- cialists always lined up solidly for an iron vapitalist dictatorship ovcr the workers when the latter made uny attermpt to assert their politics! power to check the aggression of their exploiters. In France we are about to be treated to a Fascist escapade in or- der to save “pure” democracy of capitalism. A dictatorship unlimited in ruthlessness is proposed. The Comite des Forges, representing the powerful iron and steel ring that has been throttling France, is the dyna- mie force behind this move. M. Lau- rent, a former ambassador to Berlin, one of its members, declares that the safety of France lies only in “sus- pending constitutional rights and es- tablishing a dictatorship in the Ital- ian manner.” “Reforms” are being demanded which in effect mean a dic- tatorship of the banks over the workers and lower middle class, The usual preliminary steps to an ‘open attempt at the establishment of ithis dictatorship are “now being taken. Gustave Herve, the ex-social- ‘ist, who, during and since the war, has become afflicted. with a hatred of the working class and its aspira- place in the conflict between the em-- A FRENCH MUSSOLINI tions for freedom comparable only to his love for unrestrained capital- ist tyranny under the guise of “nure”’ democracy, has come for- ward with the probable program of the French Fascisti. Herve, who has fought with assault and battery, with lies and calumny, the Workers and Farmers’ Republic of Russia be- cause it) denies the exploiters of la- bor the right to decide the fate of the poor workingmen and farmers, is now, a la- Mussolini, coming for- ward with a program of Fascist “reconstruction” aiming to chain the masses like gallery slaves to be ores of their imperialist masters, the capitalists of France. Mr. Herve’s plan for a capitalist dictatorship in France demands that there be levied a tax on bread and sugar; there be issued bread cards; | that the government monopoly on matches, tobacco, railways, graphs and telephones be _ relin- quished and that these industries be turned over to private capitalist ex- ploiters. Mr. Herve advocates the immediate abolition of the eight- hour working day in order to help the French capitalists tow over the critical period in which they now find themselves financially. Mr! Herve demands the organization of a cabinet consisting. solely of capi- talist experts, business specialists, who will be able to’rule the country with an iron hand. In short, Mr. Herve who was so much in love with democracy when the interests of the capitalists were endangered by the rising power of the workers is now the first one to throw overboard the most elemen- tary principles of . his much-beloved democracy when these interests can best be served by a capitalist regime of construction offered by Herve is the most dangerous program of en- Slavement of the workers that any imperialist has dared propose in France to date, tele- | Mr. Herve is acting true to the policies that the socialist renegades of all countries must logically fol- low once they fight thé attempts of the workers to become the ruling class in society. The form in which Mr. Herve’s Fascism manifests it- self may be somewhat . different from the form it has appeared in Italy in the person of Mussolini. Only the difference in the local con- ditions prevailing in the two coun- tries is responsible for this outward | difference. In essence Mussolinism and Herveism are the same. They both arise out of the policies of so/ cialist betrayal pursued by the ‘apostles of the Second Internation- al. In times of stress the capital- ‘ists of every country have called on these socialist renegades to’ save their political and financial necks, (to save them from the wrath of the revolutionary oppressed and ex- ploited masses. Gustave Herve may not be the one to be chosen the French Mussolini but it will be the program of Herve and the spirit of Herveism, at its worst, that will be the driving force in a French Fascist government once it is established. The workers of the world have a miserable object lesson in the devel- opment of Herve and ‘those who stand with him. Mr. Herve ths rendered considerable injury to the working class of France and at least as much service to the French im- perialist plunderers. But if the workingmen of France and the other countries shall have learned from this case of high treason against the proletariat that in the final instance, in the decisive mo. ment of struggle between the ex- ploited and the exploiters there is no middle of the road, there can be no golden mean and that only the organization ‘of a proletarian dicta- torship can save them from the in- calculable suffering and misery at- tendant to the only other alterna- tive, the capitalist dictatorship of Fascism, then they shall have learned a most valuable lesson from this costly experience of theirs with | the Heoerves, the Eberts, and the capitalist darkness. Mussolinis, the lesser lights of “FRACTION” NOT “FACTION.” In the article “Shop Nuclei—Only Road to a Mass Communist Party, by John Edwards, appearing in Satur- day’s issue, March 15, 1924, the word “faction” should read fraction.” MILL DOORS. 5 can sanonine You never come back. I say good-bye when I see you going in the doors, The hopeless open doors that call and wait And take you then for—how many cents a day? How many cents for the sleepy eyes and fingers? I say good-bye because I know they tap your wrists, In the dark, in the silence, day by day, And all the blood of you drop by drop, And you are old before you are young. You never come back. geasted mamma? * _ ne et tee seen : vO EE TF Ae i awe er = ak GR SLT EE RET ET ORE AL PU YT be CPOE POI ere Es ase ne = - — - — at 3 . . h