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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
RepuISe Attack on International Workers Aid

the capitalist class want to break the
power of resistance of the working
class and one means for doing this
is to fight the International Workers
Relief Committee. The Social Demo-
Gratis do not want to be behind the
extreme reactionaries Of Germany
such as the monarchist government of
Bavaria, which has been arresting re-
lief workers and Selling money col
lected by the International Workers
Relief Committee.
French Workers Pledge Aid.
The Social Democrats are especially
incensed over the tremendous success
of the congress of the German sec
ton of the International Relief Com
mittee in Berlin on March 16, where,
besides the delegates from all over
Germany, there were representatives
of many countries, including Camille
SALES from Paris, who brought the
assurance of solidarity from the
French workers in spite of the i'm
perialist Poincare government.
The Committee for International
Workers Aid, the American branch Of
the International Workers Relief
Committee is making every effort to
speed up it's part of the world-wid',
campaign for the relief of the suffer
ing and battling working class of Ger
many.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
The Buyers" Strike

The Chicago Tribune is conducting an investi-
cation of the economic conditions prevailing in
the middle and northwestern states Its investi-
gator has found that the farming masses inhabit-
ing this section of the country are face to face
with a serious economic crisis.
We welcome this discovery by "the worlds
greatest newspaper" We have seen this sad plight
Of the farmers in evidence for some time, while this
same capitalist sheet was befuddling the minds of
its excessive number of readers with the unfounded
yarns and glowing tales of prosperity in the rural
areas.
Yet, even now that the state of affairs amongst
the farmers is desperate that prosperity" bunk
can no longer be peddled the Tribune takes it
upon itself to resort to the most ingenious devices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

nations if they can agree upon
an adjustment of the points of
difference between their re-
spective governments.
Recognition of Soviet Russia is the
chief obstacle to immediate formal
treaty negotiations. The vladivostok
imprisonment incident, the Noko-
laievsk massacre, and the Japanese
interference in the island Of Sakhalin
are matters that are being carefully
considered by the Japanese and Rus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
Lessons In Democracy

We acknowledge our thanks to the National
Security League. For once this organization Of
watchdogs of the capitalist class has rendered
service potentially useful to the workers. OF
course the achievement was unprecedented and
has totally different object than the lessons that
can be drawn from it.
The National Security League has just published
the findings of an investigation captioned "Gov-
eminent BY Default" This survey is primarily a
statistical statement based on the election results
of 1922
We gather from these findings that democracy,
capitalist democracy in practice, is completely de-
void of one of its most advertised blessings. The
proponents and champions of pure democracy, as
we know it today, under capitalism, have always
maintained that this institution accurately reflects
the desires and opinions of the entire population
The findings of the National Security League
blast this contention into smithereens
First of ALL we are told that most of the thirty
three states investigated show considerably less
than go per cent of the possible voters participat-
ing. In Pennsylvania, dominated by the steel and
coal trusts, Senators Reed and Pepper were elect
ed by about Is per cent of these eligible to vote.
In Massachusetts,, Lodge was elected by only %
per cent of the possible voters. In Mississippi
1t is particularly enlightening to note that in this
banner state of the Democratic Party only per
cent of the possible voters participated in the last
Senatorial elections.
The bankruptcy of capitalist democracy as an
organ for the expression of the wants of the work
ing and farming classes becomes even more pain
fully clear when one considers some additional
features of this system. The fact that the rural
and city masses are compelled to vote away from
the places of their employment and as an amor
phous mass only aggravates the confusion of the
issues and makes it impossible for them to view
the situation as it really is, on a class basis.
The control of the press, the moving pictures,
the theatre, the schools, the church. and sundry
other organs of information and transformation
by the employing class tends to blight the efic-
acy of the present system of suffrage still more.
Add to that the fact of the government machin-
cry, the financial and industrial power, the legal
capacity to restrict and limit suffrage and the
ownership of the workers. jobs being all in the
hands of the capitalist class and you have pic
ture Of the utter nadequacy of the capitalist demo
cratic system as an organ of working and farm
ing class expression in their conflict with the ex-
ploiters
The findings of the National Security League
afford excellent propaganda material for the class
conscious workers. They present indisputable,
authoritative evidence of the holowness of the
principal claims made for the preservation of cap
italist democracy and its superiority over the
Soviet system based on the mass organizations of
the workers and farmers which enables every
worker and farmer to vote functioning, useful,
economic unit in his industry and through his en-
ployment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

l.,l.a,A. .riAa i.au.s,..i ssrg.r.,.. \

In contrast to the above, the readers of the
DAILY WORKER will certainly appreciate the
thoro manner in which their paper has reported
the conventions of the International Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union and the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers of America, at Boston and Philadel-
phia and now the meeting of the Illinois coal
miners, at Peoria.
Our increasing army of readers is convinced of
the fact that in order to get the labor news from
labor's viewpoint they must rely on the DAILY
WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
ian representatives.

Japan at present controls the north
ern half Of Sakhalin island on which
there is considerable oil. Russia has
given the concession to this oil to
Harry Sinclair, notorious American.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.--Attempts TO
revive The Illinois Industrial Review
which suspended four weeks ago for
lack Of adequate support are unsuc-
cessful so far. The paper which was
edited by Duncan Mcdonald, support
ed the opposition to the administration
group in the Illinois Mine Workers
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

possessionless, homeless, rebellious. !.
But as wage earners go, he is not the
common but the uncommon type both
as regards physical strength and clean
liness and mental alertness. He is
generous to a fault and has all the
qualities Lincoln and Whitman loved
in men,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
wesley Everest,s LAST Stand.

We hear the wobblies discussing
the coming raid.
Il hope to Jesus nothing happens"
said the secretary.
wesley Everest laid down his few
unsold papers, rolled a brown paper
cigarette and smiled enigmatically
over the empty seats in the general
direction of the new One Big Union
label on the front window. His closest
friends say he was never afraid of
anything in his life"
Torn and defiant as wind dashed
reed,
Wounded, he faced you as he
stood at bay
begins Chaplin's great sonnet to Wes-
ley Everest.
1t was hero's death that is describ-
ed in the prose -Everett's
last stand on the banks of the Che
lalis River. The hall had been raided.
Three Legionaires bit the dust. The
mass of invaders broke thru bent on
lynching the union men inside. Ever
est who ran outside, drew the fire on
himself and saved the lives of his
comrades.
Having kept off his pursuers thus
far the boy started boldly for the
comparative security of the opposite
shore, splashing the water violently
as he waded out into the stream
Suddenly Everest seemed to change
his mind and began to retrace his
steps to the shore. Here he stood
dripping wet in the tangled grasses
to await the arrival of the mob bent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
A White Guard Leader.

TELL the boys died for my class, Z
were Everest's last words as he was
dragged out to mutilation and death.
Likewise the four white guard lead
ers who were shot down in the raid
against the workers hall died for their
class-the employing class. This was
recognized last summer by the late
President Harding in one of his last
official acts when he laid a wreath on
the memorial to the four slain Legion
aires, near Centralia.
Chaplin's picture of the commander
of the Centralia post of the Legion, for
whose death Wesley Everest's COM
rades were convicted, would fit many
a young White Guard leader:
Warren O. Grimm came from a
good family and was small town
aristocrat. Grimm was lawyer, a
college athlete and social lion. He
had been with the American forces
in Siberia and his chief bid for dis
tinction was a noisy dislike for the
Workers and Peasants Republic
of Russia, and the l. W. w. which he
termed the American Bolsheviki."
During the 1918 raid on the Cen
tralia hall Grimm is said to have
been dancing around like a whirl-
ing dervish" and waving the Amer
lean flag while the work of destruc-
ton was going on. Afterwards he
became prominent in the American
Legion and was the chief cats paw
for the lumber interests who were
capitalizing the uniform to gain
their own unholy ends. Personally
he was a clean-cut modern young
man."
Chaplin sketches the social back
ground to Armistice Day, 1919, in clear
cut strokes: The millions of fir and
cedar trees straight and majestic,
with green and foam fiecked streams
Ipurling here and there at their feet; "
the lumber monopoly that stole this
magnificent domain from the people,
the lumberjacks who toiled 10 and IL
hours daily until their rebellious
unionism won them some few of the
good things of life and the hatred of
their masters, with it's elimination at
Centralia.
"The lumberjack," says Chaplin,
g.. is the perfect proletarian type
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
Job Sharks Convene.

A convention of oficials of govern
ment and free employment agencies
will meet at the Hotel Congress be-
ginning tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

Communism will abolish all wars thru emnat
ing the cause Of war; capitalism perpetuates war
because it carries within itself the seeds Of new
wars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
TREATY is
EXPECTED SOON AS RESULT OF
OFFICIAL PEKING CONVERSATIONS
Especial to The Daily worker)

TOXIC Japan, May 20-Russa and Japan be
ing negotiations thru the conversations carried be-
tween L. NJ Karakhan and Ambassador Yoshizawa the official
representatives their respective nations Pekng China Both
have been given power treaty between
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
A Reid Portrait Gallery.

A Rebel Portrait Gallery.
So Ralph Chaplin says in the open
ing pages but he is too accurate an
artist to see the individual l. w. w.
loggers with whom this Centralia
drama deals as types" Each is re-
Elected in his individual contour and
light and shade. There is old Mike
Sheehan, 81 at the. time of the raid,
born in Ireland and a stoker in the
navy during the Spanish-American war
who became a woodsman only in his
latter years; Eugene Barnett and his
sweetheart wife, who had gone into
the timber game just to get some
money to prove up his Idaho claim;
Ray Becker, educated for the ministry:
having ''the zeal of prophet and the
courage of a lion;" o. C. Commodore"
Hand, the father of seven children and
John Lamb, the father Of five; James
Mclnerny, whose neck was stretched
all night by rope while the inquis-
itors tried to make him turn stool
pigeon; Britt Smith, hall secretary,
20 years logger, who slept in the hall
and watched it night and day; Bert
Bland, one of the men who was posted
on Seminary Hill during the fight;
Loren Roberts, the unfortunate youth
whose mind few away during the
night of torture and Bert Faulkner
who was involved in the affair by ac-
cident; Tom Morgan, moral weakling
who succumbed to the terror and turn
ed stool pigeon as Rad Ike Brewer,
one of the defenders of Matewan with
Sid Hatfield.
Elmer Smith,
Elmer Smith stands in a still more
individual light. Not that he is not
heart and soul for their cause now
as he was when he visited their hall
and gave them the legal advise that
they had constitutional right to de-
fend themselves. But because Elmer
Smith is revolutionist without the
wage slave background. He is law
yer-still a member of the Washington
bar in spite of the conspiracy by lum-
Der interests to disbar him-but so
genuine comrade of the boys in
jumpers that not one of them would
think of calling him anything but
ELMER" And physically he is power
full giant who could give almost any
|lumberjack a tussle tho he insists he
would not like to go up against tough
old Mike Sheehan.
The legal analysis of the case is ex-
planned with more convincing detail
than it has been explained before but
this side of the case is of more inn
portance to the outsider than it is to
the rebel who is for the Centralia boys
because they had the CUTS to fight
back against the employers gangsters
and to inflict such signal lesson that
such raiding has ceased in the north
west
After all, as Walt Whitman says:
"How futile are all arguments be-
fore a defiant deed!"
The Centralia Conspiracy, published
by the General Defense Committee,
1901 w. Madison street, Chicago, Ill.
Price, so cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21
ex Arr sHlELps.

Ralph Chaplin, whose battle songs
of the West Virginia miners fur
nished inspiration to the readers of
the old international Socialist Review
ten years ago, deals with another dra-
matte story of the class war in the
Centralia Conspiracy, just reissued in
greatly amplified form by the De-
tense Committee.
The armed defense Of the loggers'
union hall against the Lumber Trusts
white guard is theme that Chaplin
does justice to as probably no one
else could. The author was one of
the first investigators on the scene
after the battle and by revolutionary
Temperament and artistic insight he
was qualified to tell the story with
color and power.
There is magnificent militancy
running thru the 144 pages of Chap
Inns book, without any straining after
effect. The story tells itself. 1t
would have been easy for another
writer, seeking to avoid the sickly
apologetics of liberalism, to have
veered over into penny-dreadful
style. Not so with Chaplin. The bat
tie of Centralia and the class war
background behind it had been
stamped into his heart and mind in
the weeks that he spent going over
the ground, while the White Terror
was still rampant
Chaplin is poet and artist but he
is also one of the boys In fact he is
first of all one of the boys. And he
tells the story of the Centralia fellow
workers in this book just as tho he
were talking to an audience of lum-
Der which in fact he is do
ing, for the book will have it's largest
sale in the logging camps of the
northwest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

The Poor Fish says: The country
will feel terribly unprotected now
that Daugherty and Burns are out.
The only people who will be glad are
the reds and these common people
who have nothing that is worth steal
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-21

The Centralia Conspiracy, published
by the General Defense Committee,
1901 w. Madison street, Chicago, Ill.
Price, so cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
MELLON s ACTS.
UNDER FIRE
IN HOUSE
Congressman Rainey Backs
Up MilIer's Charges and,
Asks for Investigation.

Democrats in Congress yesterday
seized upon the attack of Ccl.
Thomas w. Miller, the Alien
Property Custodian, upon the Treas
ury Departments opposition to the
soldiers bonus and demanded an
investigation of the official acts Of
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon.
Congressman Rainey Dem.) Of
Illinois backed up and repeated
Miller's charge that the Treasury
Department had ''juggled'' official
figures to show that the Govern,
ment's finances would not permit
the payment Of a bonus. He ac-
cused Mellon Of deliberately far
nishing Congress with figures that
were wrong, in that deficit was
indicated, whereas there actually
was q surplus in the Treasury.
''There are too many Daughertys
ana Denbys-well, not Denbys any
more" Rainey said, 'but too many
Daughertys in the Government and
too many Andrew w. Melons.
''The Secretary of the Treasury
maintains an arrangement in his
department so he can get figures
at any time to prove any side Of
any question. The time has come
to investigate the effort of the Sec.
rotary Of the Treasury tos defeat the
soldiers bonus. 3 ~
Rainey's remarks on the Mellon
Miller bonus row were made during
the debate in the House on the tax
legislation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
OF WAR
SHOWING ON VETS NOW

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. 19.-
InvestigAktNn by the municipal de.
partment Of charities, under which
IL operated the bureau Of veter-
ans relief, discloses that insidlous
effects Of the devices of war are
now. at their height.
The report, made public by
Commissioner Leon D. Dexter,
states that during the last year
there has been an increase in the
number of abandonments of
wives and children by veterans OF
the world war. The reason for
the increase is given in the
statement that the real effects of
poison gas and shell shock are
just now becoming more actually
apparent, causing the victim to
perform actions he would not
ordinarily do. Commissioner
Dexter asserts incidents recorded
almost daily give substantial SUM-
port to his belief.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
Says His Prescription
Has Powerful Influence
MR 80
Over Rheum atism
For Relief Take Allenrhu

Mr.. James H. Allen suffered for
years with rheumatism. Many times
this terrible disease left him help
less and unable to work.
He finally decided, after years of
ceaseless study, that no one can be
free from rheumatism until the &C.
cumulated impurities. commonly
called uric acid deposits, were dis
solved in the joints and muscles
and expelled from the body.
With this idea in mind he con-
suited physicians, made experiments
and finally compounded a prescrip-
ton that quickly and completely
banished every sign and symptom Of
rheumatism from his system.
He freely gave his discovery, which
he called Allenrhu, to others who
took It with what might be called
marvellous success. After years of
urging he decided to let sufferers
everywhere know about his discov-
cry through the newspapers He
has therefore instructed druggists
everywhere to dispense Allenrhu
with the understanding that IL the
first pint bottle does not show the
way to complete recovery he will
gladly return your money without
comment.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
PARIS PAYS MORE FOR
TIPS, COFFEE AND APERTlFS

PARIS, Feb. 19.-The German
merchants remarkable facility in
marking up prices as the mark
fen taught the French retailers
the tricks Of the trade and the
public now is getting taste of
modern methods in the feverish
changing Of price tags, as many
stores, anticipating the proposed
2 per cent, increase in taxes, are
showing up selling figures from
10 to SO per cent.
Fortunately the heaviest of
these increases are mostly on
small items and luxuries, but
the hardest blow to the French.
man has been the higher cost of
his periodical aperitif. Coffee
also has been raised from four
to SIX sous glass in the small
cafes and from fifteen to twenty
sous in the better places. Tips
likewise have gone up SO that
the time honored 10 per cent,
frequently brings a look Of dis.
dain from the waiter.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
PORTO RICO IS SEEKING
STATUS OF STATEHOOD

Congress was urged yesterday to
grant statehood rights to, the people
Of Porto Rico by a delegation ap-
pearing before the Senate Insular
Affairs Committee.
Led by Gonzalez Mena,s Repub-
lican leader in the Porto Rico
house, the delegation requested en-
actment Of bill giving the island
people the right to elect their own
governor.
Mena told the committee the
granting Of statehood rights would
weld the people of Porto Rico to
the United States by inseparable
bonds"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
FIVE MEN IMPRISONED IN
SEDAN WHEN ICE BREAKS

BRooKFIELD, Mass, Feb. ia
FXvs men were imprisoned in a
sedan under four feet Of water
when the car broke through the
ice at lake Quaboag.
The men We're driving the car
toward favorite fishing haunt
when the ice suddenly gave way.
The top Of the car was obove the
water and the men, realizing their
only avenue of escape was through
the top d the sedan, smashed q
hole through the roof with whenches.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
ALLENRHU
Reduce Those Danger
Gus Swollen Veins
Doctors Recent Discovery
ALSO Heals Boils, Carbun-
. cles, Assesses, and Open
Sores in a Few Days.
USE EMERALD OIL

Physicians are prescribing and
hospitals using a new and harmless,
yet very powerful germicide tina:
not only causes enlarged or vare
cose veins and punches to becom-
normal, but also reduces goitra. -,
larged glands and wens.
Ask any first class druggist for
an original two-ounce bottle of
Moone's Emerald. Oil full strength)
and refuse to accept anything in its
place. It is such a highly ,concen.
trated preparation that two ounces
lasts a long time and furthermore
IL this wonderful discovery does not
produce the results anticipated, you
can have the price refunded.
It is not wise for anyone to allow
swollen veins to keep on enlarging.
often they burst and cause weeks
of pain, suffering and loss OF en-
ployment. Start the Emerald Oil
treatment as directions advise and
improvement will begin at once.
Get It at Peoples Drug Stores.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
SETTLERS LOSE CLAIMS
FOR DAMAGES BY FLOODS

Settlers along Calaveras river,
California, reDresenting seventy
claims for damages against the
Federal Government because Of
overflow of water on their lands,
the claims aggregating $500, 900,
have lost in the Supreme Court
Of the United States their appeal
for reversal of on adverse decision
by the Court of Claims.
The lower court decision was sus-
tanned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
TWO MEN PICKED UP AFTER
~ HOURS IN MOTORBOAT

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-TWO men,
adrift since Saturday night in a
disabled motor boat from Freeport,
N. Y, were picked up in an ex.
hausted condition 20 miles south Of
Fire Island by the steamship Ply
mouth, bound from Boston for Nor
folk, according to a radio message
received from that vessel.
The men, whose names could not
be learned, will be landed at Nor
folk.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19

spent his last hours cost 81, it
was revealed.
The inventory Of the dead mans
estate was filed in Probate Court
yesterday. Charles E. Miner Of
Louisville, KY, who claimed the
estate as common law son of
the millionaire, was charged with
being an imposter by attorneys rep
resenting the estate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-19
Cited for Bravery in 1899.

SYRACUSE. N. Y, Feb. 19.-
Twenty-Five years ago Col. Orrin
r. Wolfe, chief of staff of the
Ninety-eig Division, took part in
several actions against insurgent
forces in the Philippines.
Orders citing. him for gallantry
In two such actions were published
by the War Department. Colonel
Wolfe was then q first lieutenant
In the Sixty-second Infantry.