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Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-07
coRNERING COUSINS

Senator Cousens, of Michigan-tor mer partner of Henry Ford, eX-mayoI of Detroit. a multi-millionaire him self-sCoffs at the concern which is being manifested over the issuance ol of more than $11 100000 900 in tax free securities in the United States In an address in the senate the other day he referred to the discussion as tempest in a teapot for the reason that the total taxable securities of the country amounts to $120,OOO, 100000 That is only about or e-tenth of the aggregate issue is taX-eXempt.
 Later the senator challenged Sec retary Mellon, who favOrs reduction of the sur-tax rate from 50 to 25 pel cent. and the abolition of tax-tree SC curities to a joint debate on the sub feet. The reply of thesecretary o the treasury was so complete that Il is worthy of Quotation:
 If, as you say, high surtaXes
 are immaterial," the secretary
 wrote, it would be interesting to
 know what influenced you in your
 selection of taX-eXempt securities
 to the exclusion of all others Tt is reported in the newspa- pers that all of your capital IS
 now in taxexempt securities, and 1 1 have not seen any denlal rom
 YOU. This means, if anything,
 that you pay no income tax Now,
 ii is a most unusual thing that
 man of wealth and business eX-
 perience should put his entire for
 tune into one class of securities which some change in the law might render much less valuable. I Tt has usually been considered
 prudent that investments be dl-
 versified and you might have sell ected. as well as tax-exempt secur- ities United States government and sound public utility and 1n-
 dustrial bonds, the care of when would bring no more business worry than tax-exempts.
 Tt is not to be doubted that II surtaxes had been reasonable at
 the time you invested your wealth : you would have done the prud- ent thing and diversified your in- vestments, taking part at least ln securities, the income from which is taxable.
 Must a system of taxation
 which permits man with an in-
 come of over s1,000,000 a year to
 pay not one cent to the support f of this government remain unal- : tered?"
 f The reason why such men as Sen f tor Couzens are investing their mo g ey in tax-exempts is illustrated by I contemporary which points out that l. man with an income of $1OO,OOO }. year can get s45 900 from $1,0O0,O'
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-07
RAISE THE TAXES

Without entering into the merits of
 the contention over the fisheries res erves, we wish to call the attention of Alaska to the attempt on the part of big cannery interests to evade the case tax imposed by the Territorial legislature. Without this tax Out side cannery companies would do bus
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-07
IAkING SENSATCNALISM CUT
 OF EVANGELISM

The majority of the churches of Salem have voted against proposal hat Billy Sunday, the evangelist, be invited to conduct a $10000 "revival' in the Oregon capital. One of the min
 tors in open church voiced his i'm i,atlencc with sensa ionali sm ih trl:rch ..olk and others by thei, votes ,na' :" nc opinions equally emphatic. The mayor cf Salem joired iu the chor'% a,sl,ns. tho Sunday met''od of conver- sic. a.,,' evangelism, saving it "is 52s
 < n <,rden1 nation and play on fhe
 motions" And 4pr>pos of Ill this
 un2s . statement I|.':'ie a! Tacom>
 IS week by Bishop William o Shep-
 rd, of Portland in which he told 2
 1eeting of representatives of the Epis opal church that the day of bringing ,dults into the church on a flood of motions is past, and the salvation of he church now lies in bringing and -eeping children in the church organ zation. He gave as his reason for the nding of the era of the religious re- vival meeting the better education and increase in individual thought of the 2verage man, making it more difficult to move through oratory than it was a generation ago. That the trend with in the churches against this old-time "revival' method, with it's fire and birthstone accomplishments, denotes an improvement is not to be doubted
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-07

That Seward is overlooking an op- portunity for much free advertising may be stated, when one consults the weather reports published daily in the Outside papers. Practically every town in Alaska Is given prominence in this report, but Seward does not ap pear. If we had meteorological sta tion here, Seward would be before the Outside world at least once a\ day As 1t is now our beautiful weather would throw the other reports so far in the discard that our competitors fear fo1 Us to make them.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-02-07

Having tried out an Englishman and a Welshman, England has placed a Scotchman in the saddle as premier There is one consolation, if Mac holds to the traditions of his race the Ma tion will get 100 cents in value for every dollar spent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
COOLIDGE GANG
IS Lined Up ON
RUSSIAN ISSUE
ErStwhile Liberals Are
Silent on Recognition

Orders to line up a la Hughes
on the issue of Soviet recogni-
ton have undoubtedly gone out
to so-called liberal republicans
who have shown a tendency to
waver on the side of the Work.
ers' Republic.
Both Raymond Robins and
William Wrigley, Jr., now
staunch supporters of the Cool
idge-Dawes campaign, but for
merly champions of the cause
of Soviet recognition, refused
to discuss this issue when ap-
preached by the DAILY WORK
Err.
Hughes Raises Issue.
The issue of Soviet recognition has
been raised again by the campaign
material combating Soviet recogni
ton furnished by Secretary of State
HUGHES. that viii be circulated as of
ficiai matter by the republican cam
paigners.
I'VE would like to quote your views
on the hostile material furnished by
Secretary Hughes" a reporter for the
DAILY WORKER opened up on Mr..
Robins.
Nothing doingl" said Robins, clos.
ing the interview before it had hardly
started.
Robins was a. Bull Mooser" in 1912
with Roosevelt. This year, it is said
the LaFollette forces tried to get him
to run on the Back to '76" ticket for
governor of Illinois. But he has come
out for Coolidge. Robins visited So
Wet Russia and wrote articles very
favorable to the Soviet government.
'WrieIey Dodaes Issue.
Efforts to get in direct touch with
the Chewing Gum King failed. But
the interview was carried on thru his
assistants.
First efforts were greeted with, "Mr.
Wrigley is very busy" Then finally,
But I'll ask him." The final decision
was:
"Mr. Wrigley will not issue any
statement to the press on the subject
of the recognition of Soviet Russia"
Wrigley was formerly one of the
chief hackers of Senator Hiram John
son, of California, in his primary race
for the presidential nomination. But
he deserted the Californian and the
national republican campaign head.
quarters is now housed in his Chew.
ing Gum Palace on "Boul Mich"
6orah Escapes.
Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho
who has urged recognition of Soviet
Russia, and who is this fall in the
Coolidge camp, could not be reached
before he left for the west last night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Subscribe for ''Your Daily
the DAILY WORKER.
MAC DONALD LEARNS
that ODDLY men HAVE
ONE HELLUVA Time

ABERDEEN. Scotland, Sept. o.
sour common aim and aspiration
should be to promote good will
among nations and establish peace
upon EARTH" said Premier Ramsay
Mcdonald today, In accepting the
freedom Of the city. "When we put
our hand to this work, however, we
discovered how difficult are the
minds OF men. Peace, security, CO.
operation-what do they mean?
There are men Of critical minds
who can prove beyond the POSSIBLE.
lily Of a doubt that any scheme pro-
duced will not work."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
STRIKE STILL ON
IN BELLEvILLE;
union AID SLOW
Determined Workers
Get Small Assistance
BY BARNEY MASS.
Especial to The Daily Worker)


BELLEVILLE. Ill, Sept. "a COM
mittee of three, cosisting of Alice
Jones, Lucille Boyce and Arthur
Renfro, Negro, who are the secre-
tary, president and sergeant-at-arms
respectively, of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Local in Belleville,
H. and are now on strike, left for
Chicago to solicit the aid Of the gen
eral Office for support in their fight.
This committee left Sunday night
after a meeting of the locals execu-
tive board, which authorized such &C
ton.
Committee Still in Chicago.
Up to last night the committee had
not returned from Chicago. The reason
for this action on the part of the
strikers is due to the hesitant man
ner in which the union representative
of the Amalgamated is handling the
strike. Many of the pants makers live
on their own resources and the strike
has entered its seventh week. 1t is
unnecessary to say, that scabbing for
these determined strikers is one out
of the question. In spite of the laxity
Of the union officials, the workers are
set on winning their own strike.
After appealing for aid to Mr.. Blum
berg, organizer for the Amalgamated,
time and again, the strikers decided to
take things in their own hands, and
the committee of action resulted. When
speaking to Alice Huber, one of the
girls fined $4,000 for violation of the
injunction, also a member of the ex-
ecutive board, she said: Winter is
coming and we will need clothes, but
we would rather die than go back
defeated to that boss" This was made
in reference to Chas. Meyer, owner
of the factory. Out of IS workers so
are on strike.
The chief complaint of the strikers
against the union is the failure on
its part to pay the girls who are in
destitute circumstances. why doesn't
Blumberg do something instead of
sitting all day long in soft cushion
chairs in the Belleville House? He
merely kids the strikers when APP
preached for assistance, was the ac-
.cusation made by the girls inter.
viewed yesterday.
Rumors Of Settlement.
Rumors are current of settlement
to be reached within few days. Mr..
Blumberg refused to make any com.
ment on this. Efforts to call a con.
ference between the operator and the
union representative were made by
Dan Thomas, president Of the Belle
vile sub-district U. M. w. of A., but
IL was Of no avail. The greedy boss
refused to even see anyone repres
enting the strikers. He is bent on
crushing the union.
Luke Coffey, vice-president of the
Belleville sub-district U. M. w. of A.,
has contributed largely in helping the
young pants makers. The question
has been raised, why the aid OF the
miners is not obtained? Why doesn't
the whole Central Labor Union of
Belleville get behind the strike?
When asked these questions, Blum.
berg replied, these people know
nothing OF an injunction and how to
fight it, It comes with i'll grace from
anyone to insinuate that miners don't
know how to fight injunctions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
FOE OF BOXING GAME
CRABS CASE or PAMPA
BULL BY The HORNS

Jersey City, N. j., Sept. o.-In a.
last minute effort to stop the fiaht
between Luis Firpo, "Wlld Bull Of
the PamFs," and Harry Wills,
scheduled to be held at BoyIe's
Thirty Acres on Thursday night,
Herbert Clarke ellison, attorney for
the Society for the Prevention Of
Vice and Promotion Of Public Nor.
ais, today announced he would seek
a restraining order.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
For Soviet Recognition.

WHEREAS, The Russian Soviet
Government, for a period of almost
six years, has withstood all attacks
launched against it not only by en-
emies within its own boundaries,
but also from outside hostile gov
ernments, thereby demonstrating
that it is a stable organization and
has the support of the Russian peo-
pie; and.
WHEREAS, Many European and
other governments have established
diplomatic and commercial rela-
lions with the Russian government
that have proven profitable to all
such countries and are also enab-
ling the Russian people to secure
access to the foodstuffs, medicines,
machinery and other commodities
and supplies so vitality needed in
their great work of reconstruction;
and
WHEREAS. The present admin
istration at Washington, by thus far
failing to give recognition to Soviet
Russia, has greatly injured that
country as we'll as our own, and
WHEREAS, Many labor unions,
in common with liberal minded peo;
pie generally, such as Senators La
Toilette, Borah, Wheeler, Brook
hart, Shipstead and Johnson are de-
handing that this belated recogni-
ton be granted Russia, therefore be
it
RESOLVED, That the Illinois
Federation of Labor in its Forty
SECOND Annual Convention, in the
name Of solidarity with the First
Workers Republic, join this pro-
gressive movement and call upon
the American Federation Of Labor
to extend all efforts in order that
the United States government shall
give full and complete recognition
to Soviet Russia.--TOM PARRY,
Delegate, Miners l.. u. No. lac.
Organize the Unoreanlzed.
WHEREAS, Only a small per
centage OF the working class mass
es are as yet members of the trade
unions, great numbers being still
(routfuuad nm nara ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
FALLS foes
STUB TOES ON
legal JOKER
Oil Thief's Operations
Are Privileged
lspeeIaI to The Daily workerl


WASHINGTON, Sept. o.-The
new grand jury probe into pri-
yate oil business conducted by
Albert B. Fall when he was a
trusted member of the Harding
cabinet is positively insulting,
in the official opinion of Justice
Siddohs of the Washington
Supreme Court. The Judge gave
it to understand that business is
business even if it involves cash
in satchels and ranches and
COWS and other desirable things.
When Fall fell from grace after his
relations with Doheny and Sinclair
came Il to light, the average citizen"
thought his goose was cooked. Per-
haps is was, tho Fall prefers chicken
a la Do. Anyhow, Fall employed a
battalion of good lawyers who know
capitalist law pretty thoroughly and
Fall is learning that it is as easy to
beat tie la.4 IS It Is 70 break q.
provided there is plenty money to do
the job with.
Red Foe Is Fall Friend.
A fellow by the name of Littleton
was very active against the Commun-
lists. in 1919 on the ground that they
were out to smash American insti-
tutions by force and violence" The
same gentleman is now helping Fall
to violate the laws of the United
States.
The U. S. government gave Atlee
Pomerene and Owen ]. Roberts the
job of lighting a fire under Fall. They
had plenty of oil but no matches.
They went to the court for a permit
to carry lighting material and the
Judge looked at them like a pair of
arson bugs.
BY the time the Fall case is over
and done with, we may have a Soviet
Republic here, that is provided
Samuel Gompers joins his fathers.
Sam says the Workers Republic will
be established over his dead body. So
be it. Amet.
Fall May Head Oil Trust
The last we heard of Fall was that
he was one of the attractions at a
party given Mr.. Doheny. Fall is
republican and Doheny is democrat,
yet they did not quarrel with each
other.
The report that Fall is slated for
president of the Standard Oil Com
pany has not been confirmed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
LEFT WING URGES ACTION ON BIG
PROBLEMS FACING LABOR AS PEORIA
STATE CONVENTION GETS UNDER WAY
lspeeiaI 70 The DaIIy w0rksrl

PEORIA, ILL.,, Sept ASSURANCES that strong left wing
fight would be progressive labor at the
the Illinois Federation of Labor found in
resolutions being presented action by the annual gather
ing of Illinois labor.
These resolutions covered other subjects those of
amagamation organization unorganzed recognition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
SCHOOL BOARD
in TRICKY AID
TO NC ANDREW
Teachers Declare Fight
to the Finish

Superintendent William Nc
Andrew, waging war on the
organized teachers of Chicago,
may find unexpected help when
a sympathizing school board,
on whose action the calling of
the teachers councils depends,
decides to ignore the entire con-
:roversy until the time for the
sachers' meetings has passed.
In that case, the teachers are
repaired to take more drastic
.ction against the superinten-
ent of schools, and fight the
hing out to finish, Ely F..
)owney, president of the high
jchool teachers council, init
mated yesterday.
Expect Action Today.
The executive board of the high
school teachers of the city, whom Nc.
Andrew has refused to call together
for the regular meeting scheduled for
next week, decided yesterday to post
pone further action until the matter
is taken up in the meeting of the
board of education today.
Meanwhile, copies of McAndrew's
statement have been sent out to every
member of the councils, so that the
teachers may be prepared to act after
the decision of the board has been
made.
That the board may fail to bring up
the question for decision until after
the date set for the teachers meeting
lin this way settling the question in
their own favor by default was dis
covered yesterday when Charles M.
Moderweli, president of the board,
told the DAILY WORKER that he
did not expect the matter to come up
today.
ModerweII Backs McAndrew.
President Moderwell. who is presi-
dent of the Moderwell Coal and Coke
company, and of the Mordue Collier
les company, mining company To-
Gated in West Virginia, as well as
being president of the board that
runs the affairs of the thousands of
teachers and the hundreds of thou
sands of school children in Chicago,
expressed himself as being in COM
plete sympathy with the action of
superintendent McAndrew in refus.
ing to call together the only school
organization in which the teachers
have voice.
I'VE are going to settle once for all
the question of whether the board is
running the schools, or whether the
teachers are running Them" is the
way Moderwell phrases it.
When Superintendent McAndrew
last year attempted the same thing
he is trying to do now, Margaret
Haley, Of the Chicago Teachers Fed
GRAFTON, preferred charges against
him. The school attorney proved that
McAndrew has no right to refuse to
call councils together. In spite of
that fact, he is trying the same trick
this year." Mr.. Downey told the
DAILY WORKER.
Not Tempest In Teapot.
"If it we're not that there is really
something more to this controversy
than the simple question of whether
the teachers are to meet on their own
or on school time, the whole thing
would seem like tempest in tea.
pot"
No action has yet been taken by the
officials Of the Chicago Teachers Fed.
GRAFTON, and no indication has been
given that the Federation will take up
the fight, in spite of the fact that. all
of the teachers of the city are looking
to the Federation for help.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
MILITANTS Push PEORIA FIG
We Co on Massachusetts Gallo

secured atho only 900 required place
the candidates the ballot Great enthusiasm prevails
for the oow meeting planned for Sunday afternoon
in the Scenic Auditorium.
MASSACHUSETTS is the third state put Communist
H candidates the state ballot The first North
Dakota the second Pennsylvania and the third Massa
chusetts. WHO Is NEXT?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
AS WE SEE 1T
BY 7. J. o,FLAHERTY.

THERE is a gentleman in Chicago
known in polite society as Mr..
Joseph We'll, and among his cronies
Of the underworld "The Yellow Kid
He is a successful businessl man tho
in pursuit of it he sometimes finds
himself on the wrong side of peni-
Tertiary But Mr.. Well is not radi
cal and his prison terms are only
slight interferences with his business.
Quite recently 1.-THE Yellow Kid" was
eoasting about the Chicago boule-
wards in slick limousine and ran
into a young lad who was sent to the
hospital for repairs. Mr.. We'll ap-
peared in court the following day
with his lawyer. informed the Judge
that he had settled with the wounded
man who was perfectly satisfied with
the settlement, declared Mr.. Well
The Kid" was released. Yesterday
the wounded man appeared in court
snd had a talk with the Judge. What
THE Kid" told the court was a pipe
dream. The cops are now looking for
MIR. Well.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Condemn Ku KIux Khan.

WHEREAS, We see plainly that
there are different kinds of illegal
organizations thruout the world APP
pearing under different kinds Of
masks and names; and
WHEREAS, We see all thru ex-
perience that every one of those or
CARNATIONS has the same aim-to
destroy the labor organizations
and
WHEREAS, We see one of the
bosses organizations-the K. K. X.
existing in this country and daily
torturing the people, especially or
ganized labor, as for instance at
T7errip, Zeigler, Christopher and
Doweil, and brutal murder right IN
the courthouse of West Frankfort,
and etc; therefore be 1t
RESOLVED, That we, condemn
ing the illegal X. K. K. organiza-
ton, also call on our brother dele
gates to the Forty-Second Annual
Convention of the Illinois State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor to adopt this reso-
luton and demand that the Illinois
State Federation of Labor promote
a series of anti-Klan mass meetings
and demonstrations in the State of
Illinois, especially in the southern
part.
< L. U. 1908, U. M. w. of A., at
Dowell. ILL.,, and many other local
unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Wash Streets For First Time.

JoHANNESBURGH, South Africa.
Sept. o. Earth tremors here today
upset huge watts in soap factory and
streets in the vicinity were flooded to
a depth Of three feet with the boiling
soap.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
BY JOHN j. BALKAN
District Organizer, Workers Party
(speelaI to Lac palIy Workerl

BOSTON, Mass, Sept Collectors for the Communist
candidates. William z Foster for president and Benjamin
GitloW we'll the entire state Communist ticket have
been placed on the Massachusetts, state ticket here
fall elections Petitions carrying 1241 certified signatures
have been filed with the secretary of More
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
Vote Communist This Time!
RIFF TRIBESMEN CUT RAILWAY
LINE WHEN FOES AREN'T LOOKING
Especial to The Daily Worker,

GIBRALTAR Sept et rebeIous RIH
besmen fighting oulno
the railway line from csuts Tanaers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10
ITALIAN fascist PLANNING BIG
COUP AS DAY OF RECKONING NEARS

IONUoN Sept sThe Daily today quoted the corna
Rome asserting that
nayns as its object the opposition leaders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

WHEREAS, Only a small per
centage OF the working class mass
es are as yet members of the trade
unions, great numbers being still
Continued on page p
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

Soviet Russia, the Ku Klux
Khan, Defense Day, and the
vital issue of unemployment.
These resolutions are published
in full as follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

EEISS AMERICA of 1924 who won
wi the beauty contest at Atlantic
CITY may be sound in the body but
Judging from g telegram she sent to
Calvin Coolidge she is reasonably
safe from brain fever. She hasn't
any Here is the telegram: "The
crown of honor of being Miss Amer
lea was bestowed on me in the ma
tional beauty tournament in Allan
tic City last Saturday night. To be
worthy of this honor, l will endeavor
10 live the principles and traditions OF
!. real American lifs +" Which does
not mean thing. The lady also ex-
pressed her desire for the red blooded
type of man." We are not aware of
any blood that is not red tho the
Prince Of Wales gore is supposed to
be blue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-10

FORMER Secretary of the Interior
i Albert B. Fall, is dead set agains
certain witnesses who may appear be
fore the grand jury which is seekini
further evidence in the "oil cases.
1all is one of the associates of Charles
Evans Hughes who was running away
with "out institutions" while Hughef
md Gompers were burning the mid
right oil getting the goods" on So
'et Russia If Fall had little more
me to finish the job, Sam and Char
lie would have to use electric illumi-
Lation. AS it is he put quite a hole
il the oil supply.