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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14
AUTHORITY OF
UNITED STATES
SUPREME COURT
BY John p. Frey
Editor Molders' Journal; President
Ohio State Federation Of Labor;
Author of "The Labor

AQlnOr OF Ine DauoT
Injunction
Whether or nor the trainers of the
Federal Constitution intended that
the Supreme Court should have au-
thority TO declare legislation uncon-
|stitutional, is a question which can
never be definitely decided. There
are, however, Two outstanding facts IN
the controversy which are deserving
of consideration.
Nowhere does the Constitution con-
fer such authority.
Nowhere does the Constitution In
fer, directly or indirectly, that the
Supreme Court should exercise that
authority.
Notwithstanding this fact, which Is
beyond question, the Supreme Court
has exercised this authority, and for
at least a hundred years this power
has not been seriously questioned by
a large part of the public. The tre-
mendous power which the United
States Supreme Court was permitted
to assume, was either overlooked BY
the majority of the people or was
accepted as a matter Of fact by the
uninformed.
Many authorities hold that this al
legged public consent covering long
period of years, is as thorough a
justification for the Supreme Courts
action in declaring legislation uncon-
stitutional as if il were specifically
provided for in the Constitution.
As for the latter argument, public
indifference, consent or. ignorance of
what power authorities may usurp
can have no standing, neither are they
entitled to much, if any, consideration,
for we are governed by written
Constitution, and all of the authority
which the three departments of gov
ernment are endowed with, exist ex-
clusively within the limits of the
written Constitution. The only rule
or measure which Americans can
have, when the question of official
authority or usurpation of power
arises, is the language of the Constl'
tuition itself.
There were members of the consti-
tutional convention who believed il
necessary that council of revision,
consisting of the President aid men,
bers of the Supreme Court, should
pass upon legislation to determine
whether it conformed to the Consti-
tuition. There were other members
a majority-of that convention who
vigorously opposed the thought, hold
ing that such power would be destruc-
tive of democracy, and establish .
judicial power, and make possible q
judicial tyranny which would utterly
destroy f-government.
As a matter of definite history
Madison's minutes of the constitution
al convention indicate that the ques.
ton of creating council of revision
came before the convention on foul
occasions, and that at no time did the
proposition secure the votes of dele
gates from more than three States
In other words, the majority of the
delegates recorded themselves in Wig
orous opposition on each occasion that
the question arose.
When the actions of the constitu.
tional convention were given then
final form and phraseologv by Cow
erneur Morris, he exercised great care
not to infer in the language used
any thought that the Supreme Court
might exercise the power of declar-
| ing legislation unconstitutional. He
took this care because he was evi-
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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14

tributors whether they are willing 10
be impressed with the necessity of
giving more for all charities in the
city than they contribute for one.
The average man gives much more
to charity during the course of wear
than he realizes, unless he comes un-
der the definition of tight-wad and
gives nothing.
The reason the average man gives
more is because of the multiplicity of
requests for aid of various kinds.
He gives without realizing what the
total amount means.
This suggests a fault in the COM
munity chest idea that must be taken
into account by those who solicit for
funds. They must not be content to
receive a mere pittanee, similar to
that which is offered as a contribution
to one organization alone. They
must ask largely, or there will be
much complaint from the various
charitable associations when the
treasurer of the funds begins to dis
tribute the gifts.
One prominent charity organization
in Bloomington recently withdrew
from the organization for the simple
and justifable reason that the chest
could not pay them enough money to
exist on. That is sure to be the case
in Champaign and Urbana if the gifts
are allowed to be too meagre.
Evidence that booze destroys its
victims quickly are shown in the re-
port that John Sulla, Is, became in
toxicated with canned heat at the hobo
camp last Sunday and was compelled
to be removed to hospital for treat
ment.
1t was fortunate that the officers
found him when they did. Otherwise
he would have died. Several men
have succumbed to the effects of
canned heat and poison moonshine In
Champaign within the last two or
three years. Others are sure to go
the same route unless the officers stop
the traffic that has all but taken the
east side, as well as manv sections
of the colored district. Sheriff Gray
is to be commended upon his Jealous
efforts to stop the traffic.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14
Winning Union Shop.

Detroit, Mich, Nov. 1.--As a result
of their organization drive, machin-
lists in this city are securing union
agreements and better working condi-
tions. Scotten-Dillon company has
signed the machinists' contract which
calls for the eight-hour day and SLID
an hour.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14

Tests Of gas in plant Of STANDARD
Oil Company at Elizabeth, y. j., kill
two, craze others.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14

Seven Chinese smuggled into United
States in packing boxes; one dies from
effects Of starvation.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-11-14

= Champaign and Urbana will have a
community Chest. This is considered
On Important move in the charitable
WORK Of the Twin Cities. 1t means
'e4trallzation, and economy.
nut It depends wholly upon the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

Harry NJ. Daugherty, the former labor batting
head of the department of justice threw boomer
ang when he charged that it was the long arm of
Moscow that forced his expulsion from Coolidge's
strike-breaking cabinet.
From the Chicago Daily News to the Wall Street
IN. Y) Journal the bosses press groans under the
terrific blow dealt their anti-Soviet propaganda by
the silly alibi of the pal of the worlds greatest
sleuth, William j. Burns.
The Wall Street Journal states the situation
when it walls that '"The red plea of Daugherty
hasn't helped his case" And it will help make
the "red' hysteria stuff of the employers press
pretty sterile matter in the future.
Daugherty was just another pea in the same
capitalist pod, like his predecessor, j. Mitchell
Palmer, of the Wilson regime, and Mr. Burns,
whose fred plot" exposures have shown big on
the front page of the daily press, without result
ing, however, in single arrest or prosecution.
We suggest that the anti Bolshevik fiction of
Daugherty, Palmer, Burns and the rest, be here
after published as bedtime stories. But we doubt
if even children can any longer be frightened by
them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

skies and he was popularity supposed to have been
above the sordid political struggle.
He is an expert on food supplies and now seems
to have turned that knowledge to good account
in the interest of one of the most vicious corpo
rations that exploit the American workers.
One by one the idols fall. Against their will the
American masses are being shown by brutal facts
that every agency of the national government is
merely an adjunct of the proitmaking machinery
of privately owned industry an instrument of
for use against resentful and disillu-
stoned workers.
Hoover as an aid to counterrevolution in Hun
gary and Russia perhaps little too far re-
moved from the American class struggle for the
full importance to be understood by the American
masses; but Hoover as the protector of the notori
GUS Alaska Packers Association is something that
can be easily grasped.
The exposure Of Hoover helps some in the proc
ess of establishment that is taking place so
rapidly and that is giving the American workers
and farmers clearer insight into the purposes
and processes of American capitalist government
than they have ever had before.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Greetings! Steel Workers!

This is the first time that the DAILY WORKER
has really had an opportunity to send its greet
ings to the steel workers in the farung industrial
district that stretches away to the south OF chi
cago and over into the State of Indiana
We are able to send you greetings steel workers,
thru the fact that the rebellion of labor at the
huge plant of the Pullman Company, at Pullman,
has created a great demand for the DAILY
WORKER. all along the furnace-bazirg southern
shores of Lake Michigan. Therefore, just as a
starter. the DAILY WORKER is now on sale on
the news stands of South Chicago and Pullman, OF
Kensington and Calumet, of Hegewisch and Ham
mend.
The DAILY WORKER is the only daily news
paper that is giving the news of the spontaneous
and growing walkouts of the workers In Pullman
and Hegewisch. The whole bosses press is silent
except for the paid advertisements of the panic
stricken employers, calling for strikebreakers.
These "ads" are being carried conspicuously by
the subsidized sheets of the "open shoppers" the
Tribune and the Daily News
The DAILY WORKER is being hailed as an
emancipation by the workers strike in the steel
belt Just as it has been considered by the striking
garment workers in Chicago as their valiant cham
pion The Pullman strikers get large bundles OF
it and dispose Of hundreds of copies among the
workers who SClll remain on Inelr JOUS' Ills 10
the only means of publicity they have for their
struggle. And it is the first time they have had
this daily method of communication.
There is no need now for the workers in South
Chicago, Hammond Calumet and Kensington, not
knowing what is going in Pullman and Hege-
wisch Every day they can get the news OF the
latest developments of interest to themselves. And
they can get it off the news stands in their own
hey can get it off the newsstands in their own
town.
This is new weapon, new power, at the dis
posa of the tens of thousands of workers in this
unorganzed industrial area. We know that the
workers will take full advantage of it. Thousands
Of workers reading the DAILY WORKER, from
South Chicago, all the way down to Hammond,
Indiana, will mean the beginning of a new era,
the beginning an epoch of organization of labor
in this almost untouched non-union territory.
Workers of South Chicago, Pullman, Kensing-
ton, Hegewisch Calumet and Hammond! Again
the DAILY WORKER greets you'll All together
and forward for greater victories for the whole
working class!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Years 1883 1914

bloody fight-a class fight, and not
ably at Fourmy, town of the in
dustrial and proletarian region of the
North. The French bourgeoisie fired
Lebel guns-then the new thing-on
the workers in celebration. This
slaughter contributed to the develop
ment of class consciousness in France
and even to an electoral success of
Paul Lafargue, the son-in-law of Karl
Marx,-the first Marxist in the French
parliament.
For thirty five years the world pro-
letariat has not stopped celebrating
the first of May. Useless now TO
compare one meaning of the proleta-
rian holiday with another. The first
of May is a proletarian reunion. 1t is
at the same time workers holiday,
demonstration of the fight against
capital, an act of international soli-
darity, and of review of our world
forces. The first of May has survived
all the proletarian crises. 1t is cele-
brating at present its first great vic
n NOuhbAy ~ DAS
as France is celebrating the first of
May in the name of the proletariat
in power, by working class which
has abolished Czarism and-let us
hope for ever-has done away with
capitalism. In present day Russia,
the first of May enters into his home,
into his house, and into his strong
hold.
Proletarians of all countries, look
with joy and confidence to Russia.
1t is the country of hope in better
future, which is no longer hope,
but an accomplished fact.
The proletariat there is celebrating
the first of May as victory over
capitalism and the powerful builder
of a new world.
Whose turn is it next?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Before and After

Len Small, glOating over his recent re-nOmina-
ton as governor of Illinois in the republican pri-
maries, and proud of his control of the republican
party machine, last week graciously allowed his
'1abor oficial' following to have an antinjunc
ton plank inserted in his republican platform.
But hardly "a hours had passed after the ad-
journment of the harmony state republican CON
vention, when Circuit Judge E. S. Smith issued an
injunction against union men, ordering them not
to picket the scab moving picture shows of Spring
field, the convention city
The voice of Len Small and his political bench
men have not been raised against this injunction
issued within view of the state house itself Judge
Smith issued the injunction against the whole of
organized labor in Springfield, and then set the
hearing on it two weeks hence, during which time
pickets will not be allowed to let the public know
that strike is on. And during that time the
strike can be broken.
The antiinjunction plank is a good one, no
doubt, for Len Small to buy the support of reac-
tonary labor officials with. 1t is an excellent plank
for him. to use in walking back into office. But
even before reelection this slight pledge to labor
is ignored. The only conclusion then possible is
that it will be completely discarded after election.
An anti-injunction plank in an old party plat
form doesn't mean anything. 1t will only have
value as the rallying cry of class Farmer Labor
Party.
abolition of the Use of InjunctiOns in Labor
Disputes" is one of the slogans of the Farmer
Labor Convention called to assemble at PEORIA H.,
May 18th. All labor interested in a real fight to
abolish injunctions will quit the old parties and
join the united front of Illinois labor that will be
created at Peoria next month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Bughouse Fables
FABLE NO. 2

WASHINGTON, D. c. Samuel
Gompers, labor chieftain and honorary
president of the Father Matthew Tota
Abstinence League, created sensa
ton here a few days ago when he
threatened to lead a revolution If the
wet forces succeeded in modifying the
provisions of the Volstead act, to ALLOW
beer containing 2.75 per cent alcohO
to be manufactured in the United
States. Interest switched from the
Daugherty quiz to the little room il
which the booze committee was hold
ing it's sessions. Starting in low
tone that was almost inaudible, the
old man gradually developed fire unit
finally in voice trembling with emo
ton he shouted: Rather than see thl
young manhood and womanhood d
this nation degenerate into whisky
guzzling, beer-swilling disciples of Sa
tan, would have this proud country
for which l have sacrificed so much
sink under the waves forever. Mucl
tho / detest bloodshed, even advisini
the workers against strikes lest some
innocent person might get injured, !
warn all concerned, and the liquol
forces in particular, that l will raise
the banner of revolt and lead the em
battled forces of prohibition in anoth
er civil war to attest the truth of tn,
immortal Lincolnian axiom that 'thii
country cannot exist half drunk and
half sober" Gompers carried bottle
of milk in his hip pocket, from which
he was given an occasional sip b
Chester M. Wright, former editor 81
the New York Call.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
BY CHARLES RAPPAPoRT

Thirty-five years! l had the good
fortune to take part in the first Con
gress of the second International at
Paris, where the transfer from Anne
RIGA to Europe of the celebration of
the first of May was voted on. AS
always, those who proposed it could
not have foreseen all the consequence
es of the revolution. Some presented
it as a holiday of labor. Others look
ed on it as a pledge of international
solidarity of proletarian brotherhood.
Still others did not wish to see in the
first of May anything more than an
occasion for renewing the memory
of according to public authority, by
legal and correct proceeding, the
formulation Of the workers demand.
May Day Issue
1t is interesting to notice that it
was precisely in France, where the
Congress took place which introduced
May 1, we could take hand in this
paradox The French Marxists, the
Girondists, good theorists and excel
lent propagandists, but mediocre men
of action, typical representatives of
the Second internationally is to
say, revolutionists in theory and op-
portunists in practice, the French
Marxists at Paris, to celebrate the
First of May by impeccable steps, ac-
cording to public authority where the
program Of workers demands was
laid down.
In revenge, the revolutionists, those
who followed Allemane, one of the
militant members of the commune
thought that the first of May, not
summoning to arms, did not have
revolutionary value.
The historical truth.-and France
ITSELF jeers at both (ideas)
The First of May of 1890 witnessed a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Hoover Also Hooked

Herbert Hoover appears a little late upon the
stage where is presented ''Washington Scandals OF
1924" but it is no small part that has been as
signed him. Supposedly buried in the department
of commerce Hoover has been neglected by all but
the Communist and left-wing press; his use of
American famine relief funds for subsidies to the
counterrevolutionary army of Yudenitch has
aroused no great indignation among the middle
class elements prosecuting the Teapot Dome and
Daugherty Investigations but now Hoover is found
to be closely connected with wholesale theft of the
fabulousIy rich salmon fishing rights in Alaska
These preserves appear to have been given out
right to the Alaska Packers Association name
that carries in Alaska all of the odious significance
that attaches Standard Oil in the states.
Hoover has been engaged, as secretary of the
department of commerce. in giving first aid to the
enterprising American babbittry who with his sym
pathetic assistance, have been acquiring such
proft-making fields we're easy to grab and as yet
unassimilated. Hoover has been carrying out the
pledges made during the Harding campaign and
has been giving away, in conformity with the pro-
gram of businessman government" sundry valu-
able natural resources.
The Alaska salmon fishing fields exceed beyond
calculation the wealth of the naval oil reserves
that we're given to Doheny and Sinclair. Their
wealth is inexhaustble and consists of food sup
ply that has become staple diet of millions.
The Alaska Packing Association is an employer
of slave labor-its contract system means just
this 1t fosters the lowest forms Of vice and takes
profit from them; for years its activities during the
salmon season have been scandal but have been,
given publicity only in labor and radical papers.
Herbert Hoover has been the petted darling Of
the liberals; his efficiency has been Landed to the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

far the successors of Lenin in all
countries must go to have his clear
understanding of the revolutionary
movement and the intimate contact
with workers.
List Of Fine Features.
The activities of the United States
government industrial and money
lords) in Honduras are recounted by
Bertram d. Wolfe. Alexander Bittel-
man again explains the vicious bills
now in Congress, which threaten the
lives of the foreign born. Robert Mi
nor's cartoon of Secretary of State
Hughes Japanese ''jingoism" and flag
waving to hide the Teapot Dome gov
eminent from workers is a graphically
strong emphasis on the current situa-
ton in America.
Floyd Dell concludes his "Litera-
ture and the Machine Age" which has
found many eager readers, and the
book reviews are more interesting
than usual in their brief characterize
lions.
Liberator fans" young or old, par
ty members or not, will find the May
issue we'll worth their attention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
AS WE SEE 1T

But even in defending his beloys y
liquor, Gompers proved himself I
champion of law and order. Asked i
he said that there would be revolu
ton if the American workingman die
not get his beer he replied that he Il
not in the habit of making intemper
ate statements. "But you headed I
parade which carried placards with
the inscription, No beer, no work'?'
inquired member of the committee
THE American workers do not dc
things that way" said Samuel Well
the American workers can no longer
say that they are not led They are
if only 2.75 per cent.
John Fitzpatrick and the local
Farmer-Labor Party leaders who Gin
jeeted" themselves into the Small
campaign for the Republican nomina
ton for governor of Illinois, have sue
ceeded in bringing about a United
Front between Small, Thompson and
their enemies. The hatchets that tn
rival factions hitherto buried in eaclA
others political necks may now bf
hurled simultaneously into the anato
mics of the working class. Fitzpat
rick's strategy in urging the workers
to go to the polls for Small on pri
mary day, in order to defeat the Chi
cago Tribune and States Attorney
Grove, "enemies of labor" which theJ
are, of course, had the result of clos
ing the ranks of labor's enemies ant
leaving the ranks of labor divided.
William Hale Thompson and Robert
E. Grove, formerly enemies, now
agree on the same state supreme court
judge, certain De Young. Is he an
injunction judge? He is capitalist
judge, and therefore an injunction
Judge. The labor takers were de
nouncing Grove as an enemy of labor
and boosting Small as a friend. Nov
these two crooks unite when it suiti
them, leaving the workers with theii
fingers in their mouths. Did the la
Dor leaders know what they were do
ing? Perhaps. The Chicago Tribune
no longer uses it's best cartoonists I'd
draw caricatures of Small, nor does il
use it's most vulgar editorial writer
to pillory him as a public thief. The
Daily News has called off its dogs
The fight is over and only the poor
betrayed workers are bitten, as usual
Ebert H. Gary, head of the Steel
Trust, likes Calvin Coolidge. He is al
strong and as silent as the Rock Of
Gibraltar, declared the steel king
Yes, as silent and almost as ignorant
tho not quite so strong. We never
could get that Samson slant on the
little lad in the White House. He al
ways looks to us like little boy aftel
taking a pill. The Chicago Tribune
believes that Judge Gary should BE-
| muzzled and prevented from eulogiz
ing Coolidge, else the voters might
think Calvin is actually a friend OF
Big Business. This should form the
basis for good bedtime story.