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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06

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WORKERS
PARTY LOCAL
OFFICE:
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Freiheit:
AZ Chrystie Street.
Volkszeitung:
Is Spruce Street.
Workers Home:
SAG East saith st.
Jones' Restaurant.
439 East 10th st.
Jimmie Higgins
Book Store,
127 University Pl.
All w or k e r s
Party b r n n c h G :
have also supplies
both for state and
d LIST riot petitions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06

TO make the startling discovery,
shortly before a reporter for
the DAILY WORKER dropped
in at the headquarters.
Didn't Know II Before
MACEDONIAN confessed that when
making recent speeches attacking the
Dawes Plan he was ignorant that the
socialist and labor politicians in Great
Britain, France and Germany were in
favor of it.
MACEDONIAN denounced the Dawes
plan at the state conference Of the La
Toilette forces, at the Auditorium
Hotel several weeks ago, and last Sun
day, at the socialist picnic at River
view. He called 1t a Morgan plan"
La Toilette had said something to the
same effect.
But at the same time MACEDONIAN
and all other Back to '76" campaign
ers had been comparing La Toilette
to Macdonald and Herriot. What they
will do now is a mystery. Perhaps q
special conference will have to be
called with La Toilette, at Washing
ton, to iron out this new wrinkle on
the Wisconsin senator's political
horizon
MaeGowan Has an Explanation
81 can only conclude" declared Mac
Gowan, recovering from his first panic,
that those countries are so desperate
that they are ready to sign anything
can see no other reason for these
men taking such position on the
Dawes plan. However, 1 cannot speak
for them. can only speak for our
position. Mr.. La Toilette has express
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
Y o un 9 Workers
L e a Q U e Takes
Leading Part in
Campaign

While II is true
that the grea { g r
proportion Of it's
membership is as
yet unable TO vote,
the Young Work.
ers League is new
ertheless taking a
| e a d / n & part in
putting [ h Q cam
palgn of the Work.
ers = ar y before
{ h o workers. In
the n l ons, In
Cont. on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
Trade Unionists
Line Up for
w. p. Ticket

Sam G o m ers
and w. II. Johnson
may have pledged
{ h e ! a b or vot G
TO LaFollette but
they are going to
have a hard time
TO deliver II the
sentiment a m o n e
thetrades unionists
OF many trades in
this city indicates
anything. A strong
rank and file move
ment has been de-
veloplng which Is
r ap / dly swinging
hundreds of work.
ers into the Foster
Gitlow camp. Out
OF the e l e c ii n
campaign a strong
and militant ! e I [
w ! n e movement
will result.
Rank and File For
Foster
Partic ularly
among the garment
workers and the
metal trades work.
ers is the Foster
Gitlow sentiment
manifesting itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
Workers arty
Campaigns for
New Members

II you are n sup
porter OF 4 ost err
and Gitlow. II you
believe in the class
struggle a n d a + q
willing to fight on
{ h G II d g OF the
working class in
other words, II you
are a revolutionary
you belong in the
party OF the revo-
lutionary working
class, the Workers
Party. During Au-
z u Z, September
a n d October. I h g
Party Is campaign =
Ing for new menu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. J. o'FLAHERTY.

supporter of Harry Daugherty in his
strike-breaking injunction activities.
Robert Marion LaFollette lays claim
to being a relentless foe of all those
who stood at the beck and call Of Wall
Street, and during Harding's life in
the White House, his choicest darts
were reserved for the president. But
the following beautiful tribute was
paid to Mr.. Harding by LaFollette
when he heard of his death:
n-THE sad news that the President
is dead came to the passengers
on the George Washington" on Fri.
day. 1t passed from one to another
swiftly and every face gave striking
prooft that the President holds secure
place in the affection of the American
people. 1t was gratifying assurance
Of the stability of our institutions
that regardless of the cross-currents
of political opinion we have a def.
mite and assured respect for the Off.
cial, who embodies in his exalted DO
sition, the sovereign will of all the
people.
nTHE handsome, genial and grac.
ious Mr.. Harding caught the
imagination of the American people
because he knew and followed the
best traditions of American hospital
ity and social grace. Altho he be.
longed to the conservative wing of the
Republican party and we seldom if
ever agreed upon questions of major
importance, he ever accorded to me
that cordiality of personal relation.
ship indicative of his fair and friendly
spirit"
HARDING was no doubt genial
L 4 personality in the little green
house on X. Street with Warrington,
Jess Smith, Daugherty and the other
bandits, bootlegegrs and highwaymen
who surrounded his administration.
The "Ohio Gang" did not find him
wanting in sociability. But the class
war prisoners in Leavenworth did not
find Mr.. Harding so affable and gen.
ial. Neither did the railroad workers
who were on strike when thousands
Of deputy marshals combed the coun.
try armed With search warrants and
guns, filling the jails with strikers.
Mr.. LaFollette's fulsome eulogy Of one
of the most stupid and reactionary
presidents that ever occupied the
White House shows that between La
Toilette and his former friends in
the Republican Party there is only
difference of opinion as to how the
capitalist ship of state should be
steered.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06

m q $ 5 e s o I this
country. N e V e r
has any American
been able to look
back upon a record
80 full of earnest
and able service to
the working class.
Never has the AM
erican W orkin e.
class had a leader
from whom more
could be expected
in continued devo-
ton and able lead
ership . in its inn
mediate and flu
ture s { r u & 81 e s.
That the ablest or
ganizer and m o s I
tireless worker in
the American labor
movement h e q d S
the ticket of the
Workers Party in
the coming cleo
lions is proof a
hundred-f fold { h a I
the only party of
labor VIII enter the
campaign militant
ly and with all the
energy the thous-
ands Of adherents
OF ind e p e n d Q n {
working-class poll
tics can command.
Fosters speaking
tour or the country
has brought each
day new hundreds
OF w o r X n & men
a n d women l n [ o
the fold Of the
Workers p arty
campaign.
A real leader and
organizer OF the
working class, Fos-
ter is an ideal can
didate to head n
labor party politi-
cal ticket. Oe is
no mere formulator
OF y h ra s Q s and
Ideas; Foster has
demonstrated b y
years OF actual cX-
perience n n G
class struggle, that
is not only able 10
point out the cor
rect path, but Is
Continued page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
LaFOLLETTE'S FRIENDS, CLAIMING
KINSHIP TO MACDONALD, DISCOVER
LABOR PREMIER is AID OF DAWES

All commotion yesterday at the LaFoette Campaign
Headquarters in the Morrison Hotel had suddenly
that not only the Macdonald England
the Heo in France and the
cracy supporting capitalist Germany all in favor of
the Dawes plan.
State Campaign Manager Charles MCGOWAN was the first
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06

It h e b i & Madison
) q u a r e Gardens.
| With William 2.
Foster as the prin-
cipal S p e a k E r OF
the evening and a
score Of other lead
ing labor men and
women on the pro-
gram, the opening
OF the Communist
campaign in N . W
York will make the
records OF the capi-
a ! I $ { candidates
fade into insignia
canoe.
Plan Parade
G re a { prepare
tons a re b cling
made to make this
meeting a striking
example and begin
ming for the entire
campaign. Enthu-
siastic m III { ants
have prepared TO
meet Foster AZ the
railroad station up
on his arrival here
from Boston. A
parade h as b cen
arranged from the
station to the hall.
Seats at Premium
Because of tho
known demand for
seats, the commit
tee in charge has
found IL necessary
to permit admit
lance by Z ket
only. Tickets have
been printe d in
sufficient number
10 provide for each
seat in the hall. No
more will be issued.
Those who wish 70
be sure OF obtain
ing entrance % the
hall should secure
their tickets in ad-
vance. They may
be obtained at any
o 7 I h g following
places;
Workers Party
ONCE.
EOS y. Twelfth 81.
Jimmie Higgins
Book Store,
i27 University Pi.
Freihelt:
AZ Chrystie Street
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
Party Campaign
Fund Mounts but
Thousands Are
Still Needed

Pronounced sue
cess has been met
in the efforts made
both | o c ally and
n a I o n ally to
finance the Foster
Gltlow campaign.
While Big w all
Street is producing
the coin for Cool
idge and Davis and
Little Wall Street
is forking over the
necessary funds for
La Toilette, the
wage workers who
have a head for
I h o u & h { and a
heart for fighting
are digging deep TO
make the Commu-
mist c a m paign
possible. Coolidge
campaign manag-
ers are planning a
c h G a D campaign
this year and ex-
pect to spend less
than $40, 900, 900. 90.
Davis will have 70
struggle along with
ev e n SIS than
that. while LaFol-
! e { I e spokesman
believe { h ey c an
swing the country
for a paltry $4,000,
NNNsVNs
A ainst these
Workers Party is
war c h ests the
swinging einto the
field nothing but
it's nerve TO begin
on and with the
h o y e s that mill
tants will. produce
the huge amount Of
500. 900 10 convince
the workers OF this
c o u n try 20 the
party program.
bers. and milltants
W h o ca n qualify
are welcomed into
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
FOSTER SPEAKS In N. Y, FRIDAY
IS MEETING HERE SUPPORT OF WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN
GREAT CROWD EXPECTED
AT OPENING MEETING OF
COMMUNIST ELECTION DRIVE

ever be Thst Is sxDeced to be Of greatest meetings
oealy IT'S election campaign here mas mestin1 az
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06
COMMUNIST PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE HAS LONG
RECORD OF SERVICE
TO LABOR

William 2. Foster, candidate on the
Workers Party ticket for president of
the United States, needs no Introduction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-06

bers. and milltants
W h o a n qualify
are welcomed into
the ranks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
CO-EDS INJURED
 BY CAR DRIVER
Negro In Automobile Strikes
 Two Pedestrians

Mildred and Olivia Basenberg, sisters and cO-eds at Howard college, were knocked down and run over by q negro driving an automobile at Seventy seventh street and First avenue during the height of Birmingham's snow storm Thursday afternoon.
 Olivia, the younger or the lar, IS believed to be internally hurt, although the extent of her injuries have not been determined.
 The older, Mildred, thrown partially clear of the machine by the force of the collision, was more fortunate than her sister. receiving On;y minor bruises.
 They were both taken to their home. 16S Fifty.first street, north, where the family physician has taken charge.
 Garfield w. Hewett, alleged driver of the car which struck the girls as they attempted to- cross Seventy seventh street on their way home from afternoon sessions at the college, was arrested by C. F. McCombs and G. NJ. Bragan, city detectives, shortly after the accident occurred. His story at this time was to the effect that he could not zee the girls through the falling snow.
 Witnesses of the accident are said to have given authorities q different tale. While not running at a high rate of speed, they said Hewett was not watch ing the road. and was looking back at the time fo the mishaM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
FALL OF SNOW MARCH RECORD
 FOR MAGIC CITY Is Over Two Inches Deep, Hampering Traffic
 And Wires MANY ROADS ARE MADE
 IMPASSABLE THURSDAY No Danger Of Rivers Rising Unless Heavy Rains Follow.
 Trains Unhampered

Automobile traffic was badly delayed and made extremely dangerous, tele- phone lines, both local and toll, were broken down; country roads were made impossible and all local business was severly hampered Thursday afternoon by the heavisst snowfall ever to visit Birmingham during March.
 Starting about II o'clock, the snow- fall steadily increased, until at 2 o'clock vision was hampered because of the denseness and size of the flakes. Approximately four inches of snow fell up to 6 o'clock Thursday evening, ac- cording to E. c. Horton, local weather man.
 Although up to Thursday evening Birmingham was not entirely cut off from any outside points, Col. Walter E Bare of the Bell Telephone con- pany said the snow had caused great damage to toll lines in all directions from this city. If the fall continued as heavy as during the mid-afternoon, it was considered likely that total breaks would occur on several toll lines. Reports from branch exchanges told of heavy damages being sustained by them. The most sever damage was suffered at Tuscaloosa and Bessemer, the reports stated.
 Hits Telephones
 Local telephone service was badly handicapped Tlrlrsday afternoon by the breaking of several "cut-in" lines to private phones. So far as could be determined, however, no complete cables, or groups of wires, had given out. An extraordinary rush of calls was noted on the main local switch boards. From 12 o'clock until 3 o'clock, officials of the company said, the num- Der of calls increased rapidly, until a '75 per cent above normal overload was recorded. Offers of service from a number of operators off duty relieved this rush to a large extent.
 Although several reports were made of breaks in their lines, officials of the Postal Telegraph company felt confi- dent Thursday evening that unless the storm grew steadily worse no serious damage would be suffered by any Of their lines. Western Union officials declared that no reports of breaks in their system had been made.
 Railroad trains up to [ o'clock were able ito maintain their schedules, but any large additional snow would slow them considerably, in the opinion of local officials of the various lines run ming into Birmingham.
 Motor communication between Bir- mingham and outside cities will be hard hit, according to heads of the Birming. ham Motor club. The Montgomery high way, between Birmingham and Calera, will be impossible, they declared, as will be the two-mile detour stretch im- inediately past Warrior, between that town. and the old l.. & N. roadbed.
 Indications late Thursday were that the snowfall would continue in an abated degree through Thursday night, according to Horton.
 Everything points to a continuance of the present unsettled condition" he
 CcsatIaued sn Page I've. Column Thrss)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
FATHER ESLAIN
 BY GIRL TRYING
 TO BANISH DEVIL
Ordered By Mother To Stamp His Life Out,
 She Declares
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
 JAILED AFTER KILLING
Tore Up House And Fell Out Window At Woman's Order,
 Officers Are Told

TAMPA, Fla, March 13.-Confined in separate parts of the Hillsborough county jail, Mrs. J. E. Winchester and her daughter, John Eva, told today the story of the killing of Mir. Winchester near Seffner, Fla, a village ten miles east of here. The women are charged with murder and were placed in sepa- rate cells at the girls request, after she expressed fear that her mother would harm her.
 They were arrested at Seffner early this morning by Sheriff W. 6. Spen- cer. The girl, stout and auburn haired, told her story without emotion but frequently expressed regret and deep love for her father.
 My name is John Eva. l am 16 years old," she said, "and am in the ninth senior grade at school at Seffner.
 Mother had heard of healing man at St. Petersburg who was holding a revival. My father had been sick since we came to Florida, so mother thought the man at St. Petersburg could heal father. This mans name is Richie.
 Taken To Healer"
 'I had friend named Robert Sum- merall at Brandon. He took us to St, Petersburg Sunday. My parents stayed but Robert and I came back home Sun day night. Mother and daddy stayed until Wednesday.
 ''The man healed daddy and mother was so happy that at times she shouted. Yesterday afternoon she was worse and daddy had physician come to see her. He gave her hypodermic. She objected but daddy held her arm. It quieted her. About 10 80 last night daddy got up out of bed. Mother also got up and began screaming: The devil has got to get out of here She called daddy the devil and said he was the meanest man on earth.
 "She said we had to put him out and that I would surely die if didn't help. We took him outside and he fell to the ground. He was very weak and I be- lieve he had another stroke. Mother called me then and went back to the house leaving daddy lying on the ground. Mother repeated that we must get rid of him, or be lost. She said we must tear down the house and she took to breaking everything up. She said had to do it or she would threw me out.
 Fell OuC W1n0OW
 After we broke up things she said she would burn the house if necessary. She said must fall out the second story window or Jesus would never love me again. So I fell out."
 At this point the girl showed a deep cut in her ankle caused by the fall. Mother said we would have to go to daddy" she continued. Daddy was lying there grooming. She said if I didn' t stamp him to death she would kill me. So l got on him and stamped him until the breath left him and mother still called him the devil. I stamped my father fully 30 minutes. After I had killed him we dragged him to the house. Then we walked to Brandon and con- tinued to Roberts house, where I told him what had happened. We came home in his car. The officers came at day light and we were brought here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
SOUTHERN PAYS COMMON STOCK
 $l.25 DIVIDEND
Declaration Is First Since 1894-To Be Quar-
 terly Issue

NEW YORK, March 13.-Directors of the Southern Railway company today declared m initial dividend of $1.25 on the common stock.
 It was officially announced that it was the purpose of the directors here after to give consideration quarterly to the matter of preferred as well as com mon dividends.
 Todays dividend was announced as a quarterly payment on the common stock. The directors also declared today the regular semi-annual dividend of 2h per cent on the preferred stock.
 The dividend is the first to be paid on the 100000 common shares since the reorganization of the road in 1894. Beginning 1897 dividends on the pre- ferred stock have ranged from l to per cent annually.
 Earnings Put Back
 Meanwhile earnings of the road con stantly have been put back into the property, building it into the sixth largest railroad system in the United States. Soon after 1890, program of expansion was undertaken, which car ried its lines into every important sec- tion of the south.
 Capital expenditures on the property since 1906 alone, according to Fairfax Harrison, president of the company, have totaled $145, ,0O0,O ,O00 in addition to more than $5O,000,000 derived from sur plus earnings. In the three years be- fore government contol and since that time the Southern railway has carried to surplus about $32 for each share of common stock. Its surplus from 1922 operations was $7,323, ,797.
 Unanimous Action
 "The unanimous action of the board initiating a dividend from the common stock of the Southern Railway com Fpany,v said MT. Harrison, '.fs q ground of pride to the management for it Is the achievement of an ambition towards which we have worked steadily, through many vicissitudes and disappOintments.
 For nearly thirty years the stock holders have waited while the property has been built up and the capital &C., count has been secured. Meanwhile ev- cry other interest in the property public, employees and bOndhOlders-has shared in the fruits of the industrial re- generation of the south.
 Ut was time that the patient stock holder had the consideration which is justified by the operations of the past two years and the prospects for the fu- ture. It is confidently hoped that the stock on the dividend basis will attract an increasing number of investors in the prosperous territory served"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
STEEL INDUSTRY CONDITIONS FINE,
 STATES FLNDLEY
National Authority On Metal Manufacture
 Visits Here

Conditions in the steel industry are unexpectedly good. The industry as a whole now is running S5 to 90 per cent of capacity.
 "One disturbing factor is the appar- ent willingness of both parties in Con- gress to get partisan advantage out of the oil scandal rather than to pass promptly tax reduction bill which the people have unmistakably called for and which industry must have if our prosperity is to continue on pres ent scale."
 These are high points in an inter- view given The Age-Herald Thursday by A. I. Findley, of New York, editor of The Iron Age, who is in Birming- ham for several days to tour the indus trial district and study conditions gen erally.
 "The Birmingham district" Mir. Find ley. saidy Ifs having it's fuil share of the growing volume of business in both pig iron and steel. It would not be surprising if a new high record in steel production is made here during the month of March
 Outstanding Figure
 MT. Findley has been wintering in Florida and will return to New York Sunday. He is recognized as one of the outstanding industrial figures in the United States. The magazine which he edits is widely read and quoted in Birmingham as well as in all other industrial centers.
 Conditions since January 1,"' de- clared MT. Findley, have been be- yOnd all expectations of induakxfal lead. CTS. Our production of steal in Feb ruary was but little under the high mark reached in 1923.
 ''The year 1923 hung up next to the best record ever made in steel produc- tion. If the present rate of produc- tiOn were kept up for a year it would mean an output of 43, 100000 tons of ingots.
 Little Forward Buying
 "The outstanding feature of the sit uatiOn in steel is that there is very lit- tie forward buying. In the first few
 (conSIsusd en Paae Tve, Column Twv)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
BAKED
 IN RUSSIAN FIELD
Japanese Authorities Stop Sur
 veyOrs-Hint Issue

TOXIC, March 13.-Japanese mili- tary authorities have frustrated an at tempt by J. F. Mccullough and D. F. Mclaughlin, American surveyors rep resenting Sinclair oil interests, to en- ter the northern section of the Island of Saghalien.
 The authorities have taken the two on Japanese gunboat from Saghalien to port of Otaru, in Hokkaido, it be- came known today.
 The Japanese press took occasion to comment on the possibilities of grave issue between America and Japan over the valuable oil fields.
 Northern Saghalien nominally is Rus sian territory, but now is under Japa- nese military occupation. Powerful Japanese interests are planning oil ex- ploitation there under the auspices of the Japanese navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
REICHSTAG OUSTED
 AFTER TAX ROW
Emergency Powers Are Bone Of
 Contention In German Body

BERLIN, March 13.-(By Associ- ated Press. s.)-President Ebert dis solved the Reichstag today. His action is in consequence of the determination of the socialists to insist on revision of the speclal emergency ordinances pro- mnlgated by the government, notably tax regulations.
 Backed by the nationalists, the social ists insisted upon bringing up amend ments to the special emergency powers act of last October which enabled the government to function without Par liament. Under its decrees the govern ment enacted important legislation which Chancellor Marx contended was necessary to safeguard the Reich from total collapse.
 After a short discussion today the government parties realized that further efforts would be unavailing, and Chan cellOr Marx read decree by President Ebert dissolving the Reichstag imme- diately.
 Before the decree of President Ebert was read the deputies adopted bill fOstered by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, presi- dent of the Reichsbank, providing for the establishment of new gold dis count bank in Germany,