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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
PENNSY PRIMARY
PUTS PINCHOT OUT
OF The RUNNING
Mild Progressive Fails
To Hold Workers.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24.-Gov-
ernor Pinchot's disaster in the prim-
aries grows worse with later returns.
With more than half the states dis
tricts yet to be heard from, Ralph
B. Strassburger, his opponent in the
race for delegate at large to the
Republican National Convention has a
majority af 2O4,7S2 and it is predicted
that the Old Guards candidate will
register majority of 100000 when
all districts are heard from.
Workers Deserted Pinchot.
The fact that Allegheny county, an
iron and steel county, defeated him
by $4,000 votes indicates that the
workers who turned the tide in his
favor in the gubernatorial primary
race of 1922, are disgusted with his
failure to restore civil liberties.
Workers are still kept in prison on
political charges and Superintend-
ent Adams Of the Mounted Police has
not been removed from office in spite
Of fact that Pinchot's supposed OPP
position to the constabulatory's meth
DDS caused the miners to vote solidly
for him, resulting in his nomination
by bare majority.
Dry Hobby Annoyed Politicians.
On the other hand Pinchot as an
aggressive dry and as critic of An
drew Mellon, the wealthiest man in
Western Pennsylvania, has the Old
Guard politicians against him. His
mild progressiveness had little to at
tract the worker, after it had been
demonstrated, but much to annoy the
machine politicians, so Pinchot was
defeated by more than two to one.
His defeat is believed to eliminate
him as a dafr-horse candidate for the
presidency. Pens5 a delegates are
sewed up in Coolidge's est pocket
now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
RABBIT FRIEND
"SANE," FREE TO
ENJOY MILLIONS
Negro Juror Insisted
Thaw Was Crazy.

PHILADELPHIA, April 24-With
the price of millions of rabbits under
his control Harry Kendall Thaw, pro-
nounced sane by jury, is free again.
His first act, he announces, will be to
go to New York and fight the charges
pending against him for perverted as
sault upon young Freddie Gump of
Kansas City. After that he will be
free to enjoy his fortunes.
He planned to give bail here and
then appear before the district attor-
ney in New York, confident the charge
never will be pressed because Thaw
millions already have removed the
scars from the Gump boys back.
disgrace" says Evelyn
Mrs. Mary Thaw has her boy back
again and Evelyn Nesbit loses. The
latter, who interviewed in the case in
behalf of her son Russell, born when
she was Harry Thaw's wife, was bit
terly resentful of the jury's verdict.
tits a disgrace" she exclaimed.
There was only one white man on the
jury"
Negro said Thaw was Crazy
She explained she referred to one
OF the two negro Jurors who was re-
ported to have held out for more than
six hours against the others who were
Immediately for Thaw.
Harry, in a rambling statement
which he picked out himself upon a
typewriter while awaiting the verdict,
announced he would probably make
some provision for his former wife.
81 don't want his charity--his dirty
money" Evelyn snapped, when she
heard about this. Il interviewed for
my boy, who's entitled to inherit his
fathers estate. But Mrs. Thaw has
her son now and suppose she dosen't
care"
The total Thaw estate amounts to
s1O0,000,0OO. Harry's share is between
five and six million dollars. His for.
tune has increased five times in the
last seven years while Harry was in
the insane asylum.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
American Dollar Diplomacy in Action ....,s5.:

OF Commerce say in HIS last 1928 re-
port: There are number Of neces-
sary raw materials for the supply of
which we are predominantly depend
emit on imports from foreign countries.
Possibly as a result Of the war, but
more particularly during the past Is
months, there has been growing
tendency for producers Of these COM
modities to combine in control Of
prices as against the American mar
ket. This is particularly the case in
nitrates, tanning extracts, quinine,
rubber, sisal, tin, cork, mercury,
tungsten, and various minor minerals. /"
Under authority OF Congress, the
Secretary's report says, an exhaustive
examination Of such combinations was
undertaken by the department before
the close of the fiscal year to deter
mine first, the character and extent
Of the combinations themselves; sec
ond whether alternative sources of
these raw materials could be stimulat-
ed and there natural competition in
duced; third, what relief could be OBJ
tanned by stimulation Of synthetic or
substitute materials within our own
borders; and fourth, what protective
or retaliatory legislation could be un-
dertaken?
Our employing class is preparing
for a show down on alf'fronts in its
struggle for imperialist supremacy.
First Of all the joint congressional re-
organization committee is planning to
submit to Congress a program aim
ing at complete reorganization of
the government machinery. The out
standing features of this plan are an
increase in the Capitalization of pow
er particularly in the hands of the
executive division of the government.
This obvious purpose Of such propos-
ais as giving the president an official
assistant and consolidating the army
and navy into one department of Ma
tional Defense is to enable the govern.
ment to function more swiftly and
surely IN case the working masses at
home will display any restiveness over
our new imperialist ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Besides the General Staff OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25

total defense cost. In the same period,
moreover. the number Of citizens un-
der training not as members Of the
army Of the United States, has In
creased as follows: In the citizens
military training camps from 0 to 81
900 and the reserve officers training
corps (Which corresponds to the
unorganized military schools Of the
pre-war period) from 31,O28 to 101, 129.
The total of individuals under train
ing has thus increased from 24S.S65
to 5O4,01O. From April Is. 1910 to
January /, 1920, the persons in mill
tary and naval service stations abroad
rose from 55,6OS to 117,238."
The national Defense Act of June
4, 1920, provides for one huge army
consisting of the regular army, the
national guard, and the organized
reserve including the officer reserve
corps. The country has been divided
into nine territorial areas to carry
this scheme into effect. This policy
strives for a mark in militarism never
before attempted. 1t proposes to or.
ganize an army Of two million in time
of peace, the creation of a distinct
and permanent military propaganda
caste thruout this country. The duty
Ct this caste is to stimulate militarism
Under this policy the Regular Army
is to be used to garrison overseas
possessions, the Coast Defenses, and
instruct the National Guard and
organized Reserves. The organized
reserves twill be available for emer.
gencies within the United States OF
elsewhere"
The Department of Commerce thru
its Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce and its Foreign Trade staff
abroad, and the Department of State
thru its diplomatic and consular
staff abroad vie with the departments
Of War and Navy in rendering services
to our imperialist exploiters. Con.
gress has acted to help American cap.
italists find new sources of raw mate.
rial needed by them in their manu-.
facture and especially. those sources
Of products now controlled by foreign
interests. Thus we find the Secretary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
Rope Them In

NEW YORK, April PA new ad
vertisement has appeared in the street
cars and trains. 1t reads as follows
"Adventurel Healthy sports Win
ter and Summer, with HE BOYS
Competent leadership. Post forming
near you.
"U. S. Junior Naval Reserve, II w
Goth st. BOYS IA to 81 ELIGIBLE. 4"
The poster is gay and carries the
picture of 14-year-old che boy in
sailors MILDLY and cap, the picture OF
health and smiling from ear to ear,
He seems to be saying: Come on!
Let 'em rope us in, boys; the bilge
waters fne!"-R. P. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25

Deport ThemI"
The 'perfidy" of these workers
weighed heavily on the two fat piutes
who grunted out their woes in the
smoker. What the hell can be done
about it," inquired one of the other
as he chewed corpulent cigar.
Il will take the matter up with the
Department OF Labor at Washington, !"
replied his companion, "but Congress
is so damn busy digging up scandals
that it can do nothing constructive.
But these birds that jumped on me
forget that they can be deported"
This observation seemed to OFFER
balm to the wounded feelings of the
mine owners, and they vented their
wrath on the workers who toiled for
them. They put them in many cate
gories, some lazy, others dishonest,
and last but least came the Commun-
lists, who were bad eggs" and made
trouble Just for the fun of It. When
they got as far as the Communists the
two plutes looked quite ferocious and
glared at rather babbity salesman
who was meekly putting a cigarette in
a corner of the smoker.
Some time ago the trade unionists
OF Hancock, tired Of depending on the
Republicans and Democrats for polit-
ical salvation, decided to do something
for themselves. They organized the
Progressive Farmer-Labor Party. It
was under the auspices of this organ
ization that was scheduled to speak
on Sunday, April 20.
On my arrival in Hancock was met
at the station by a Finnish lawyer and
an Irish barber. Between them they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
Atterbury Wants
Shoals Power For
~ Pennsy's Steel Cars

WASHINGTON, April 24.-W. W.
Atterbury general manager of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, is associated
with the General Electric interests in
the Hooker bid for Muscle Shoals,
which is sponsored by Senator Wads-
worth of New York.
Atterbury has informed the Senate
committee in charge of the bill that
the electric power TO be generated at
the Shoals can be used to produce
steel cars by new process, cheaper
than any now employed.
The company is unfayorable to any
Of the private bids, and is likely to
block the sale or lease of the power
plant.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
ARTICLE ~.
Growth Of MIIltarIsrn.

The rule Of dollar democracy by
our financiers and industrialists at
home has been translated into a
regime dollar diplomacy abroad and
in our vast colonial possessions. Amer
lean democracy now truly rests upon
a monarchy Of gold and an aristocracy
of finance.
In order to maintain control of our
growing imperialist empire and sphere
of influence and in order to serve
American investors abroad the Amer
lean government has been steadily
developing and strengthening its mill
tary and naval machine. We have in
vested over $4,000, O0O, 900 in our navy.
The aim of the American navalists is
to secure a navy second to none. The
1928 report of the Secretary Of the
Navy DENLY demands a further in
crease in the American fighting ships,
gunboats, submarines, and fast cruis-
ers are specially recommended. From
December 81, 1912 to December 81,
1922, the value Of the American Navy
has increased from 1902, 352,O0O to ST.
445,9e2,0OO or an increase Of 1894 per
cent.
The extent to which the United
States has been miIitarized is clearly
portrayed by the report of the Secre-
tary of War for 1923 in the following:
During the past ten years, while the
cost of national defense has been
doubled, the regular army has increas-
ed its actual total strength from 3d.
0S5 to 1884, the national guard from
10000 to 16O,598, the organized re-
serves from to 1888, and the total
OF the army of the United States from
$4,000 to 371,770. This increase alone,
considered in relations to the decrease
in value of the dollar and the change
In character Of the army, (including
addition of such elements as motor
transportation, tanks, aviation, and
chemical warfare service) would ap-
parently justify a doubling Of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
$32, 900, 900 Debt
May Be Saddled On
Gree" Philippines

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Report
OF the Philippine independence mea,
sure to the House within two weeks
is forecast by members OF the com
mitee. which is about 10 take action
on proposed amedments TO the Cooper
bill. These amendments reserve "a
the United States the Cavite naval
station, Corregidor military base, and
a requirement OF guarantees OF pay
ment Of Philippine government bonds
outstanding, to the net value OF about
s32,000,000. The date of liberation
named in the bill is Immediately
No action by the Senate committee
is in sight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
BY JAY LovEsToNE

War Department has prepared tenta-
tive plans to mobilize over four hun
dred thousand officers and men at
their home stations some time after
the 1924 election. Army men are
banking much on this maneuver which
is the first of a series to be put over
under the National Defense Act. This
mobilization will be the first grand
show of military force in the country
since the armistice.
From reliable sources in Washing
ton, have received a report which
discloses the plan Of our big indus
trial and financial magnates to end
the present choas characterizing the
administration OF our colonial af-
fairs. The capitalists and bankers are
sick and tired of having the authority
over our insular possessions and GUS
toms collections in Central and South
America divided in the hands Of the
War Department, Navy and Interior;
Haiti. the Philippines, Porto Rico, and
the customs receivership OF San
Domingo Zone are in the hands OF
the War Department; while the Virgin
Islands and Guam are run by the
Navy Department
The people closest to the stock ex-
change and the White House have
worked out plan whereby the entire
administration Of insular affairs and
protection of all American interests
abroad will be centralized in the
hands of one administrative head
bearing the title Of Colonial Secretary
and holding membership in the cab
met.
This move is an outright notice to
the American workers and farmers
that our big business interests are
ready for a flyer in Imperialism. In
other words, the American workers
are face to face with the situation
which will inevitably, sooner than
later, lead this country into new war,
Hard hit as England, France and
Japan may be at present, no one
seriously expects them to allow Amer.
lea to ride roughshod over their own
imperialist plans.
ITO Be Continued Saturday,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
Billiards Playing
Havoc With Arrny's
World Air Flight

CORDOVA, Alaska, April 24.-Con-
tinuation Of the American round the
world airplane flight today, awaited
the arrival of Major Frederick L.
Martin at Dutch Harbor, Unalaska, to
join the other three flyers who are
there.
Martin, who is ready to make the
flight from Kanatak to Dutch Harbor,
in his plane which has been repaired
since being forced down week ago,
was delayed by bad weather. The
worst blizzard of the year swept the
Alaskan coast Sunday and Monday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25

eternal da 'tion, admitting, how
ever, that CID Nick used good judg-
ment in selecting his Irish henchman.
The audience listened very atten-
lively to speech exposing thf CAPT
talist parties and urging them to get
in line with the great farmer-labor
movement that was to hold its con-
ventioh n st. Paul on June II. This
was no River of Doubt, like the July 4
conference of the C. P. P. A., the
speaker explained. The workers and
farmers who were going to st. Paul
meant business. They were going to
organize a class party and lay the ba-
sis for movement that would lead
the exploited workers and farmers in
to a struggle against the capitalists
for control Of the country.
Excellent Results.
After the meeting was over, large
number waited to greet the speaker
and to declare that they were strong
for Independent working class polit-
zeal action and for the st. Paul con-
Ivention. The attacks of the local
priest did not affect their ENTHUSIASM
for the Irish People, which has done
good work in offsetting the pernicious
propaganda of the Irish World, an
Irish bourgeois Catholic paper, which
is defending the oil pirate Doheny. It
finds Doheny pure because the Pope
honored his wife for her contributions
to the Catholic church in Mexico.
The church in Mexico, Of course, was
friendly to the oil barons and the will
ing tools of the counter-revolution
aries against the progressive forces.
Nationalism has a strong hold on
the Irish workers and those who had
denounced Doheny turned around and
praised him after they saw a full-page
eulogy of him in this Irish sheet,
which, by the way, has a radical
policy in Ireland and supports canon
De Valera. The only antidote to this
pernicious dope is the Irish People.
The curses of the priest had no effect
on those sturdy trade unionists, and
every copy of the Irish People offered
for sale at the meeting was disposed
of.
There was real determination there
to get down to brass tacks and do real
work. In that stronghold of the Cop
per Trust, the workers had no other
concern than to organize against the
common enemy, the capitalist, and for
their own emancipation thru Farm
er-Labor Party as a first step.
The little branch of the Workers
Party, with only eight members, is
doing splendid work. Tho small in
numbers, they WELD a big influence
among the workers Of Hancock. In
handling the local situation they have
displayed tact and good judgment, and
as result have secured the leader.
ship of as promising a labor political
movement as any locality can boast
Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
WORKERS IN HANCOCK, MICHIGAN
{ ORGANIZE FORCES FOR LABOR RULE:
WILL GO TO ST. PAUL ON JUNE II
BY T. j. O'FLAHERTY.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

Hancock Michigan little town of 1000 Inhabitants
situated on an island in the northern State
rounded by the waters OF Lake Superior the
copper country Here located the famous Heca
copper properties that have enriched the Agassz family
Boston, absentee owners 1t the of great strike in
1910 which left reign of terror in its that practically
crushed every vesge of trade union organization
any radical movement from lifting head for several
There are twenty-five thousand living within radius of
two miles of Hancock. ~ -
The industry that On the train
to Hano two methods of
operating their properties in order
cung that necessary evil labor Germans
were imported from the Ruhr magua
paid their transportation which
developed that these any means and
when they thought they had given the
boss in return for their
selves favorable copper region
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
Thirty Killed In
Swiss Rail Wreck;
Cars Catch Fire

BASLE, April 24.-Thirty persons
are dead and so injured as the result
of the disastrous railway wreck near
Bellinzona, according to railway re-
ports reaching here. Two cars of one
of the trains caught fire. The Italian
minister in Copenhagen, Signor Della
TORE, was a passenger on one Of the
trains.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25
Nothing Else TO Do.

Forty University of Chicago stu
dents are off today in a mustache
race. In three weeks the winner will
be picked ION the quality and length
of hair"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25

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Evening star., 1924-10-12
HGH-uP U. S. CITIZENS
NAMED IN RUM TRADE
Identities Kept Secret at Trial in
France Of Alleged Liquor
Pirate phan.

By Cable to The Star and New York World.
Copyright. 122A.)
BREST, October 11,-More names of
highly placed Americans. said to be
involved in rum running and even in
piracy along rum row, were told at
the hearing Of Max Jerome Phaf be-
fore a French maritime court. He is
accused of boarding and looting the
French rum carrier Mulhouse.
None of the names were allowed to
become public. Phaff, himself, how
ever, has told Capt. Fournier. presid-
ing at the court, that the interests of
the French and United States Gov
ernments do not correspond in these
matters.
The Phaff case seems to be becom-
ing a more or less occult warfare be-
tween bootleggers and liquor pirates
and their hackers higher up. At the
same time powerful liquor interests
in Europe are fighting for their
trade. But the case against Phaf
himself is weakening, and it is
thought may be dismissed soon, for
Capt. Fournier declares, II am con-
cerned only with piracy and am not
interested in smuggling"
Evening star., 1924-10-12

own interests, but rather to accept
the verdict of the power set up by
the community of nations. in reality
a super nation standing above party
strife and watching the real values
of human culture. This power. like
others, may be misused, but not SO
easily as a power of similar func-
tions set up by popes. Those reject
ing 1t because Of the possibilities Of
misuse would have to fight democracy
because it encourages demagogics
against prohibition because it en-
courages alcohol speculation.
New ideals are arising In civfliza-
ton. The question is whether Amer
lea and the New World will remain
apart in frosty mistrust from the at
tempt at a new world order, or
whether her material power and
youthful ideas shall add to it's success.
1t seems to the writer that the aues-
tion is only to be put this way. Then
it would be plain that already the
first ship which brought American
warriors over the Atlantic was even
then giving the answer.
(Copyri9ht, 1921
Evening star., 1924-10-12
INTERIOR
. TROUBLE GROWING
Fall of German and French
Regimes May Be Expected
to Follow England.
BY WILLIAM BIRD.
By Cable to The Star.


PARIS, October 11.-At a time when
international reluations throughout
western Europe, thanks largely to the
Dawes report and the assurances 1t
implies Of American participation are
better than ever, progress Is checked
by the weakness of individual govern
ments in their own countries.
Macdonald has fallen, Marx is tot
terinE and Herriot stands on the
shifting sands of the unstable franc.
Consequently, Europe must mark time
yet awhile until it's internal difficult
ties are solved
Herriots troubles, though not yet
acute, are the most profound of all
and may bring sudden ministerial
crisis at any moment. The budget
question. which. of course, is the most
important in every country, but par
ticularly in France, now comes before
the franc, after several months of
stabilization, appears to be slipping
dangerously. 1t is known that the
government is intervening vigorously
to save it, but such operations are
costly and cannot be continued in
definitely.
Taxes Increased.
The French budget this year satis-
fies nobody, and least of all Herriot's
own DackerS. Flnance Minister Glenn
entel has ignored his election prom.
!ses 20 reduce taxes, which Premier
Poincare increased against the oppo-
sition of NJ. Herriot last year, and has
actually increased them further. More
over, he has failed to provide increased
pay for government employees. which
was one of the principal pIanks Of the
bloc des Gauches' campaign. There
fore 1t will not be surprising to see a
largo part of the bloc desert him
when the vote comes.
On the other hand, the budgets great
merit and talking point is that, unlike
preceding postwar budgets, 1t balances.
But as the budget is necessarily calcu-
lated In paper francs, II is obvious that
decline in the purchasing power Of the
franc would quickly unbalance 1t, and
thus this merit would be lost.
For these reasons BRAND and LOU
cheur are already warming up behind
the grandstand getting ready for the
time when Herriot is knocked out Of the
box. Between them they already con-
troll enough votes to upset him.
Soviet Behind Troubles.
the English and French situations, may
operate to keep Herr1ot in. Although
the English premier was overthrown on
the question Of Campbell, the Commu-
mist editor whom Macdonald refused to
prosecute for preaching army dis
obedience the real reason for IAbor's
fall was the Soviet treaty. But Herriot
and his followers are also pledged to re-