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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
FBack to the People"

The powerful capitalist interests are not re-
treating before the assault that is now being
made against them.
The American constitution is reputed to be
a most infiexible document. There is no other
constitution so difficult to amend and which
puts the government at so respectable dis
lance from the influence of the masses. Yet,
while the Teapot committee is busy digging
into kilograms and secret codes the senators
and congressman of both the republican and
democratic parties are joining hands in MAX
ing the constitution even more rigid and more
difficult to amend than it is today. To some
this task may be an impossible one in view Of
the already excessive rigidity Of the constitu-
ton. Nevertheless this is the case.
United States Senator James w. Wadsworth,
of New York. a multi-millionaire republican,
who has inherited millions of dollars from his
father, once one of the leading real estate
gamblers in the country, and who is himself
now one of the notorious bond sharks is the
author of a bill innocently called the back to
the people" amendment. In the house Of rep
resentatives, Congressman FINS G. Garrett, of
Tennessee, democrat, is the sponsor Of this
measure.
The amendment provides for new and slower
procedure for changing the constitution. It is
to be substitute for Article of the constitu-
ton, but will retain the already Objectionable
feature of this article which provides for the
ratification of any constitutional amendment
by "three-fourths of the several states thru
their legislatures or conventions, as one of the
other mode of ratification may be proposed by
the Congress or the Convention" The Wads-
worth Garrett proposal adds to this check
against exercise of political power by the
masses the following dangerous stipulation:
that the members of at least one house of
each of the legislatures which may ratify shall
be elected after such amendments have been
proposed; that any state may require that
ratl1cation by its legislature be subject to
confirmation by popular vote; and that, until
three-fourths of the state have ratified or more
than one-fourth of the states have rejected or
defeated proposed amendment, any state
may change its vote"
This is most dangerous move being made
by the big business interests against the work
ers and farmers. Here we have an attempt to
use the skillful device of so-called "confdence
in the people" and the cumbersome parliament
tary machinery in order to blind the workers
and farmers to the uselessness of capitalist
democracy. The Philadelphia Bar Associa-
ton, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Asso-
citation, the National Security League. and
other reactionary organizations of the EMPLOY
ing class have lined up for this measure. If il
the urgent duty of every organization of the
working and farming classes to resist the en-
actment of this vicious measure to the bitter
end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
The Coolidge Uztimatum

After weeks of wrangling and bitter fighting
the house of representatives adopted tax
measure which was hodge-podge affair. Inc
tax bill as approved by the house reflects very
wildly the chaos, disintegration and confusion
prevailing in the dominant capitalist parties
at this moment.
Observers were wondering what Coolidge
would do with the proposal of the House. He
could not very we'll veto it on the general prln-
ciplo that it would be considered bad politics
to be in any way at all responsible for holding
UP tax reduction measure, no matter what
it was On the other hand the president had
been banking so much on the Mellon scheme
that his acceptance of the mangled house bill
might be looked upon as a serious blow at his
power and prestige
AS was to be expected Coolidge then began
to WELD the powerful club placed in his hands
by a highly centralized government. Coolidge
tried the game played by Wilson during the
days when war fever was raging at its worst.
He sent an ultimatum, clothed as an urgent
request, to congress, demanding 25 per cent
reduction in the 1923 income taxes without
delay. But the reaction of congress to this
ukase from Coolidge was curt and effective
rebuff to his enroachments upon the right
guaranteed by the constitution to the house of
representatives, the right to levy taxes.
The very tone and language of the ultima
tum betrayed Coolidge's motives as solely petty
political. 1t is easy to read in the plea of the
chief executive an attempt on his part to do
some political fence repairing. Congressman
Greene, the republican chairman of the house
ways and means committee, lost no time in
informing the president that there was no
chance to pass any emergency tax legislation
because under the present conditions it would
be impossible to secure the necessary unani-
nous consent for such action. The democratic
leader, Mr. Garner, even cast to the winds all
pretenses at respect for presidential honorable
motives and showed that Coolidge was simply
trying to pose as savior of the masses, while
actually he was trying to strengthen the re-
dictionary republican party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
The Big Cheap-Skate
BY J. o. BENTALL.

a RATHER uncouth criminal was
"A caught the other day who open
ly confessed that he had hired out
to certain business rivals to carry on
a systematic labor of setting fire to
competitive laundry establishments.
His employers had beat down his
wages till now he was getting only
the niggardly sum of $50 a week. l
take it for granted that he was
worth that much to the concern that
hired him, or there would have been
a further cut, as his trade does not
seem to be organized as yet.
The job of setting fire to Iaundries
appears to have been permanent
one. At least that is what the
New York press claims. But that
the journeymen thus hired were on
the regular payroll and that their
stated wage was $50 a week hits
the moral lump Of the metropolitan
editors like "red plot" Matched up
by Billy Burns and sent in hot via
Helsingfors.
The World rolls its eyes and tits
its head as it looks toward heaven
in the sanctimonious attitude of a
gossippy woman that mas discovered
a scandal and says painfully:
whats to be said of creature
we can't call him man-who makes
living by setting fires at the direc-
ton of any other creature who will
pay him $50 a week for the das-
tardly job?"
Why the World goes into hyster-
les over this petty arson affair is be-
yond our ken, unless it considers the
fellow cheap skate for doing it at
that scab rate. Personally / think
he is getting about all that the traf-
fic can stand, especially when l com
pare him with our millionaire tene-
ment owners who set big blocks afire
by sheer neglect that does not cost
them a cent, and when l think of
the thousands of lives that are lost
in factory firetraps and mines, in
tinderlike shops, in schoolhouses, all
over the country. And look at the
fellows who set the whole world on
fire in the great war and who have
kept it burning all since-mostly for
money.
Look at the pilr and piles Of
money-oodles and coolies of graft
and profit they get. They seem to
be making comfortable living at
the firebug business. May l suggest
that the World throw fit in their
direction also some Sunday morning
before it goes TO church.
Upon mature elaboration, how
ever, can easily. see how it must
gall the sensitive feelings Of our
capitalist press to have clumsy
laundry firebug get into the lime
light and dim the lustre Of the gilt.
tering stars in the brilliant heavens
Of civilized arson.
And at only $50 per week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
The Spanish Dictatorship

appears that the Spanish dictatorship of Colonel
all the outrages in the Philippines and Cuba oncs 81
roundiy denounced by our American Humanitarian"
CAPITALISTS, IS due for a serious jolt
This clique of capitalist hangmen who have n,a;,
tanned themselves in power by slaughtering the helm
less unarmed Spanish workers now being buried on
the very held where they had previously scored their
greatest victory 1t was thru their supposed opposition
to the Moroccan military campaign that the Spanish
rascistl came into power Once they seized power in
opaln these Fasclsts pursued the same imperialist
NOW the Rivera dictatorship is about to be over
whelmed by horrible military disaster like the gov
ernment winch 1t overthrow The Rifians have broken
thru the Spanish lines and are pushing thru in wedge
formation The bankrupt Spanish government is rush
ing reinforcements The outlook for the Spanards is
ment's life is threatened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
The Outlook In Japan

Dire political consequences expected in japan as
result of the conflict between the cabinet and the
prlvy council over the question of giving an eighty mil
lion yen loan to the insurance companies
Despite the refusal of the pvy council and the house
OF representatives to sanction the measure Vscount
hyoura IS going ahead with this policy of favortsm
to the big insurance interests Thus the vscount is
following policy contrary to the wishes of every other
branch of the government This dicatoria attitude of
the ruling clique of japan will precpitate decisive
struggles in the Island empire
The working masses of Japan have been showing in
creasng signs of discomfort great struggle for the
extension of franchise is gripping the country The
outcome of this fight for a characterization Of the
Japanese is of tremendous Importance to
the entire Far East.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13

it, remembering the experience of
the Czecho-Slovak mutiny and the
Kolchak time. The Communists
were still alien to him, and he did
not believe the things they wrote
on their red flags, and for the sake
Of which they so devotedly died.
But, since the people, the workmen,
the Red Army soldiers--those
peasant lads in soldiers coats-for
so many years had obeyed them,
these preachers of the Interna-
tional, obeyed this revolutionary
sect that was in composition only
half Russian, then, perhaps, they
were indeed bringing with them
some sort of vital truth. Perhaps
if he had tried working with the
Bolsheviks. Perhaps then he
would have found this truth Of
theirs. But he had lain on his sofa
and read his books in their fine
bindings and eaten them. =. &.
He read funeral service over his
past life.
And as soon as one company re-
turned to the monastery and it be-
came known that the revolt had
been suppressed, Konstantin Petro-
witch asked Zhourbin for leave to
go to the town for the day, to
change his worn out boots, and at
the same time, as he decided phi
vately, to go to the Popeduc (Popu-
lar Education Department. and to
ask if some work could not be
found for him. Besides he wanted
to look with new eyes on the loath-
ed little town that had eaten UP
all his life, and on the unloved but
familiar Margarita Scmenovna,
than whom, after all, he had no one
nearer in the world. And so, from
the morning, under that thin
drizzle that was falling, beside the
slow carts that were taking fuel
to the town, Konstantin Petrovitch
had trudged, listening to the talk
Of the peasants and the Red Army
soldiers who were conveying the
carts: talk of the sowing, of how
1t was time to be ploughing but the
Anti-Christs, the Bolsheviks, were
making them carry wood in the
thaw; of how there was no seed for
the sowing; of how the Commun-
lists were swindlers, promising
goods in exchange for food and
then sending to the country not
nails, iron, crockery or calico. but
starched collars, powder and lip
salve. -.
ugh, the Anti-Christsr' said
peasant. s-- -.
cts some one purposely putting
spokes in the Wheels replied a
shy, crimson-faced Red Army man.
"The Cheka ought certainly to be
told of it. ="
The peasant shook his head
hopelessly:
"The Cheka won't help. There
are COMMUNISTS there, too, and
they stick by each other"
But another Red Army man was
explaining to group Of peasants:
"This wood you are carrying is
for the railway, and by the railway
we are to bring the seed. For
the sowing, suppose. All
this Spitsyn told US, the Political
Instructor, good comradc !.
and / read It in the paper. -
(To Be Continued friday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
Another War Brewing

Germany is getting ready for the next war!
Capitalist correspondents in Berlin send this
prophecy to their papers as hot stuff. But why
wonder at it? There is not a government in
the world strong or weak that is not preparing
for the next war.
The best brains of every capitalist govern
ment in Europe are devoted to the task of pre-
pairing for the next reign of carnage. This is
capitalism. And yet we are told that Com
munists believe in violence. Communism
alone can save the human race from this sui
cidal mania for war and self-destruction
The last war was supposed to make another
war impossible. So said the American war
mongers. But to say that another war must
not be, today, is to court the dungeon. The
United States is preparing for the next war.
Germany is preparing for war Of course.
Today she can place 100000 men in the field.
In few years more she may have 7500
Her chemists have perfected the most deadly
forms of gas. How splendid!
And France! Victorious France totters
under the weight of her victory. The franc
slips; panic seizes her rulers dictatorship
of capitalism is threatened. Surely beauti-
full prospect
Meanwhile Soviet Russia proceeds calmly
building up new order, abolshing the causes
of war and offering hope to the workers of
the world who are slowly building up their
Communist organizations that will abolish
capitalism and its evil Accomplishments, the
most terrible of which is war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
Are You Reading "A Week?

doctrinaries. The mere sight of
the Soviet posters in the streets
upset him, and he hardly left his
house even in day time, shrivelled
up, let himself go, started drink
ing homemade spirits, quarrelled
over nothings with Margarita
Semenovna, and for whole DAYS on
end either played patience or lolled
on the sofa and re-read the books
Of his diminishing library.
The Czecho-Slovak revolution
destroyed his hopes Of return of
the old order of life. He saw then
the abuses, robbery and bribery Of
the governing bourgeoisie, the ig-
norance, stupidity and senseless
cruelty Of the officers. He was
sorry for the Whites and contemp-
tuous of them, behaved towards
them with the feeling of a father
for a drunken idle son who had not
justified the hopes that had been
set upon him. The life " people
in this world began to seem to him
a miraculous absurdity, and he was
visited by misanthropic dreams of
the destruction of all mankind.
On the day of the revolt, from
morning on, vague rumors went
about among the townsfoll, who
had been modified for the getting
of fuel. When in the evening. after
a preliminary roll call, they had
been shut up in a big dark room
and heard from the courtyard the
disturbing, warning roll Of the
drum, malice and fear, joy and
anxiety, filed the room with laugh
ter, shouts and rumbling, angry
murmur. And then Karaulov HIM
self, accompanied by two respect
full silent figures, came into the
room, and threw the light Of an
electric torch on the now quieting
crowd. Under the thin light Of the
torch he saw on all those faces, old
and young, beautiful and ugly,
clever and stupid, on all of them
glee, hope and terror; he UNDER
stood, and said. not loudly, but so
that all could hear, addressing the,
Commander Of the Third Company,
Zhourbin, dark, well-made, with a
slight squint, standing respectfully
at attention, who was to be left
with his company to guard the
monastery.
"In case Of anything in
stantly. =. You understand"
"Just so, Comrade Lommlssar,-
replied Zhourbin and smiled boldly,
squinted at Karaulov, squinted at
the silent crowd Of townsfolk and
seemed to them a devil with fiery
powerful body, smoky face, the
crooked glance Of cruel, handsome
eyes, and the satanic horn Of Red
Army helmet.
During that dark, nervous night
in the big, close room, no one
slept; they whispered, whispered,
whispered and went thru the names
Of the Communists with glee, re-
Numbering their mistakes, and
hoped, hoped, hoped.
And Konstantin Petrovitch also
did not sleep, but lay on narrow
hard bench, covering himself with
his coat, turned from side to side
and thought continually. He did
not believe in the success Of the
revolt. and did not sympathizs with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
BY Jury LIBEDINsKY


Published bv THE DAILY WORK
Err thru special arrangement with
3. w. Husbsch, Inc, of New York
City. Copyrighted, 1928, by B. w.
Huebsch & Co.
(WHAT HAS GONE BEFOREl
The Russian Communist Party
branch is governing this frontier
city and fighting the counter
revolution. Earlier installments
tell of the fuel shortage that pre-
vents seed grain from being
fetched on the railroad. The Party
meeting decides to send the Red
Army far away for fuel, at the
risk of leaving the city open for
bandits and counter-revolutionists.
1t also decides to conscript the
local bourgeoisie for wood cutting
in nearby park. Varied types
of party members are flashed on
the screen: Klimin, the efficient
president Of the branch, who still
finds time to have a sweetheart;
Robeiko, the consumptive, whose
devotion is killing him; Gornuikh,
the brilliant youth of 10 on the
Cheka; Matusenko, the luxury
loving place-hunter and Stalmak-
hov, a practical workingman revo-
lutionist. Gornuikh, disguised as
a peasant, overhears talk in the
market place about plot Of
Observation-Disclosures to seize the
town while the Red Army is away
getting wood. The Communist
company is summoned but, perhaps,
too late. Robeiko is dragged out
of his house and shot, Klimin's
sweetheart is butchered and Klimin
and Stalmakhov are overpovered
and hurled into a dungeon. The
Observation-Disclosures are in pos
session Of the town, with the Red
Army away. Klimin and Stalmak-
how are butchered before the Com
munist company led by Gornuikh
can arrive. The Red Army ap-
pears at last with great reinforce
ments and the big battle begins
with Karaulov, a rough Cossack
revolutionist, in command Of the
Red forces.--(NOW GO ON WITH
THE Story.
a FTER all, one had to live. "On
principle" he had not gone to
work in the Soviet school, he knew
no trade, and his stores and saw
ings had soon been eaten up. From
week to week, from month to
month, from year to year, he had
lived al thru the Revolution in the
hope that the bloody, hated, incom-
prehensible power Of the Bolsheviks
over his country was on the point
Of falling, and that the old real
life would return. He had hated
the Bolsheviks ever since the first
threatening thunder Of the October
Revolution; they were entirely
strange to him; there had no. been
any Of them in his past life; their
doings, behavior and speeches,
we're for him alike Incompetent
sible and full Of contradictions. The
Bolsheviks seemed to him low and
brutal and at the same time devil
ishly cunning, lying Jesuits and
at the same time narrow, infexibls
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13

SPRINGFIELD, III, March 49,
William Jennings Bryan and Senator
Simeon d. Tess Of Ohio, are among
the speakers who will address the
South Central Division Of the State
Teachers Association in annual meet
ing here March 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13
The Trial of Forbes

The trial Of Charles r. Forbes, former Director Of
the Veterang Bureau is scheduled to open in Chicago
March 18th, before a federal court
On the eve of his trial Mr.. Forbes feels confident
One of the clubs he is swinging is a threat to name
the "higher-ups IL serious effort should be made TO
visit punishment upon him for his crookedness in adj
minstering the affairs Of the Veterans Bureau. In
who is defying the Senate the House. the President
and the whole country simply by threatening to tell
the truth about number of leading figures in the
Government.
Mr.. Daugherty u today without question the most
powerful man in the Government for this very
Perhaps Mr.. Forbes is the next powerful because
he is the next most crooked in capitalist politics
Under these circumstances don't expect much from
the Forbes trial.
Disarmament must wait, says Ramsay Mac
Donald, until-the pigs begin to fly. Disarma-
ment will wait until the capitalist system is
overthrown, say the Communists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-13

A storm is threatening in the Coolidge cabi-
net that will soon burst with a violence re-
sembling an earthquake. 1t appears that the
silent man was in caucus with Mclean. This
BODIED i'll to the friends of Harry Daugherty
and other big guns in the republican party
The White House wire Of the principal" to
the big Bear" at Palm Beach was a surprise
to others besides the Public Lands Committee
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-07
GORGE
EXCURSI0
HAVE FINE TRIP

y goodly number of Ell Centre
people took advantage of the oppor
tunity offered yesterday by the San
Diego and Arizona railroad company
to go by rail to Jacumba through
the beautiful Carriso Gorge.
The day started auspiciously with
the usual valley sunshine and the
westward journey was dclightful.
Wonderful effects of light and
shade were seen as the train ap-
preached the mountains due to the
many fleecy white clouds which fire.
quently cast their shadows over the
ridges and ravines. The train did
not stop in the gorge as had been
planned but passengers obtained
splendid views as the engine puffed
up the many grades, through tie
series of tunnels. Many of the queer
desert plants were blooming and
the brilliant bits of color showed
well against the drabness of the
rocks. One passenger was heard to
comment that these mountains must
have been the orginial Crock
piles" for the breakers of the law
i'll bygone ages.
At Jacumba the sight-seer in
spectel the new bath-house and
hotel and some had dinner. Walk
ing about the town and over the
Imperial Valley press., 1924-04-07
Racer Loses Life
at Death Turn on
Ascot Auto Track
BY United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, April 7.AAscot
dirt speedway had chalke9 up
against its record today second
death since the track was opened
two months or more ago.
Earl Wilson, racing under the
name of Rocky Kansas, is dead as
a result of fatal skid into the
rails of the famous "Death Curve -
at the south end of the hazardous
course, yesterday afternoon.
Spinning around the track in his
first race here, Wilson S ear careen-
ed into the upper guard rail, but did
not plunge through. The impact
threw him almost out of the car,
and on a second rebound against
the fence, his skull was crushed.
The racer died half hour later
on the operating table at the Gen
eral Hospital.
Wilson s wife and family live in
Houston, Texas. He was national
lv know as dirt track racer.