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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
MEANS DIARY
GONE; BURNS
FACES GRILL
Loss Aids Gripping of
Daugherty Probe

WASHINGTON, April 27.-
The Senate investigating COM
mittee's searchlight was turned
on the mysterious disappear
ance of CASTOR B. Means fam
Gus collection of little black
books"
Without the minute by min
ute' diary and the documents of
the former department of justice
agent, upon which much of the
case against the former attor-
ney general Daugherty has been
built the committee will be
seriously hampered and Oy
means win be spared, chairman
Brookhart said, to recover the
missing papers.
Means, himself, was to be the first
witness Of the day, Senator Wheeler,
committee prosecutor, said. After he
has related the story Of the alleged
theft of his documents by a clever
ruse by two mysterious strangers
claiming to be officials of the Senate,
the committee plans to call a Depart
ment of Justice agent.
William ]. Burns, director of the
bureau of investigation, may be
called.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
cautious CAL"
IS FACING CRISIS
SILENT AS USUAL
immigration, Bonus Bill,
Taxes, Big Action

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Decis-
ions which will have a bearing on
his own political fortunes and on the
nations economic and political future,
will shortly confront President Cool
idge. Congress is preparing TO
put before him three pieces of legisla-
ton, all of which involve tests for Mr..
Coolidge. These are the immigration,
tax reduction and bonus bills.
1.-The President is faced with pos
sible loss of support in California and
other Pacific coast states should he
veto the Japanese exclusion immigra-
ton bill. On the other hand, If Mr..
Coolidge signs the bill and no other
attempt is made by the government
to allay Japan's consequent displea-
sure, ill-feeling between the United
States and Japan may follow.
2.-On the soldiers bonus bill, the
issue is stability of the nations fin
ances versus the governments oblig-
ations to the soldiers. Secretary OF
the Treasury Mellon is expected to
urge a veto.
3.-The issue involved in the tax
bill is regarded as one OF insistence
upon adoption of the administrations
tax-program as against tax relief in
some degree Of different form. AL.
tho the senate finance committee
has reported the Mellon program, the
measure finally to come from con-
gress is expected TO be more nearly
the compromise measure passed by
the house.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
DAUCHERTY'S CRY
OF C OMMU MIST
PLOT FALLS FLAT
Grating Harry Still
Must Explain Loot
Ry LAURENCE TODD.

(staff Correspondent Of the Fed. Press)
WASHINGTON, April 27.-This
time the announcement by Harry
Daugherty that he has full proof of
a "hellish conspiracy" of soviet agents
to overthrow the government of the
United States, has failed to evoke
more than weary smile in Washing
ton.
The first three OF four times that
this bolshevist menace was discov-
cred by the former Encouragement
-on the approach of the railroad
shop strike and the anthracite coal
strike-he was applauded by large
section Of the reactionary press. But
now that he is out of office, and uses
this assertion as a defense of his re-
fusal to permit the senate to inquire
into the files of the department of
justice, he fails to gain any approval.
Even the White House is disappoint.
ed that he employed SO discredited a
DOGGY.
"Where Did You Get That Cash"
Senator Brookhart OF Iowa, one OF
the Soviet sympathizers" assailed by
Daugherty in his Columbus speech,
replied: "All his talk of hellish Com
munist plot does not answer the ques.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28


They vow they will not move
and that they will not sign
leases for rents advanced more
than 100 per cent during the
last six years.
Plan Centralized Organization.
Trade unions, Workmen's Circle
branches, Workers Party and Social
list Party branches, the Jewish Moth
ers' League, and other organizations
are combining in this threat to the
apartment monopolists.
The groups are planning central
organization and expect to procure
legal aid in their fight. The squeez-
ing landlords will be battled right thru
the courts.
Mass Meeting Wednesday.
A mass meeting will be held We'd
nesday evening, april 80, at Venetian
Hall on Douglas Park Boulevard at
the corner of Ogden and Kedzie. Plans
for the Tenants League will be com
pleted then and May Day strike tao
ties discussed.
Mrs. S. Blumin, Mrs. N. Tatarsky,
and Mrs. L. Levin of the Jewish Moth
ers' League, are actively working for
the blow against the landlords. They
claim that and 4-room flats which
rented for SIS month, six years ago,
are now $40 and that the weekly in
come of most of the families in these
fats is $28 to S35. If the rents are
increased again this May, these fami-
lies will have to move to poorer plac.
es or join the Tenants League in pro.
test and defense.
Check Up on Evictions.
Cases of eviction are being checked
and will be advertised for propagan
da purposes. Reports of landlords
negIigencies will also be recorded and
used against rent raisers.
About 100000 families are moving
this May in Chicago because of expir
ing leases. The Northwest side groups
want to ward off the excessive ex
pense and Inconvenience of changing
residence and have formed their Ten
ants League. They claim that rents
should not be increased this year be
cause of the extensive building Of
apartments during the last season.
According to ]. Richie Patterson
in an address before the Women's
City Club, coal is no higher, janitol
service no higher, labor no higher
and taxes no higher; so landlords
have no reason for being rent-hogs
and raising rents now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
May Day Rent Strike Threat
Among Hundreds Of Chicago
Tenants Against Landlords

rent strike is the May Day of thousands Chi
Cages tenants to their gaspng landlords these robbers at
tempt to raise the again.
Over forty organizations have associated Tenants
League to protest the crushing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
MINERS ENDORSE
AMALCAMATION
AND LABOR PARTY
Sub-District No. 4 Meet
Supports Howat
BY THOMAS MYERscoUGH,
Secretary, Progressive Miners Com
mittee.


mittee.
AUBURN, Ill, April 27.-As il in
one voice, the "ayes" rang out Friday
in favor of both amalgamation and the
Farmer-Labor Party at the convention
of Sub-district 4, Illinois, in session
here. Both measures were recon-
mended in President Thompson's re-
port to the convention.
In Vice President Parry's report is
contained brief review of the Kan
sas situation. A Springfield delegate
named McGlennon, who was a Howat
supporter before the marriage" Of
Lewis and Harrington, arose to oppose
the recommendation of Vice President
Parry that special international CON
vention be called.
Antidote for Poison.
McGlennon is an old man whose af-
fiictions are many, and include deaf.
ness and tendency to assimilate all
the poison news distributed by Editor
Ellis Searles of the Mine Workers
Journal. There was clamor among
the delegates for the first opportunity
to show Delegate McGlennon how ig-
norant he was OF the facts in the case.
A delegate named Shymanski used
the miners journal to quote some OF
Van Bittner's "spew" at the recent
District convention at Pittsburgh,
Pa. This brought Delegate Jones to
his feet. and he spared no words in
denouncing those who opposed Howat.
He stated that he knew Howat well
and that he came from the Southwest
field, and that as long as Howat lived
Continued on Page Two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
MORE SUPPORT FOR CAR BUILDERS
HOLLAND WILL YIELD
SOVIET RECOGNITION
TO GET RUSS TRADE.

AMSTERDAM, April 27.-HoIIand
will grant de jure recognition to
Russia within short time, it was
forecast authoritativeIy here Thurs
day. Russia, according to this in
formation, has made recognition by
the Dutch government a condition
for resumption of commercial reIa-
tions between the two nations, and
Holland has agreed.
Negotiations between Dutch and
Russian representatives will be re-
stunned forthwith in Berlin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
STREET CAR MEN IN PITTSBURGH,
Pa, TAKE STRIKE VOTE TODAY

Especial to The
PITTSBURGH Of the
Pittsburgh
The traction trs,
informed Increase
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
MINERS SEE PRESIDENT
HARRINGTON RIDING
IN A SCAB TAxICAB

AUBURN, III, April a. AItho
a bitter battle is raging in Spring
field, III, between the union Taxi
cab drivers and those of the yellow
Cab Co. Frank harrington, Presi-
dent of the Illinois Miners union
patronizes the scab concern.
While driving from their homes in
Springfield, to attend the. Sub-Dis-
trict convention here, Freeman
Thompson and Joe TumuIty, ae-
companied by five other miners,
sam harrington enter the yellow
Cab in front of his home on South
Grand Boulevard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
BIG JEWISH
UNION BODY
AIDS STRIKE
Garment Victory Seen
ByL.L. G. W. u. Head

MobiIizing of the funds of the
trade union movement of Chi
cago for the benefit of the strik-
ing garment workers begins this
evening when strikers commit
tees start their drive on the
unions.
The raising Of the big strike
fund was authorized by the
Chicago Federation of Labor
and it has the enthusiastic back
ing of the Jewish "Gewerkshaft"
or United Hebrew Trades, which
has between 80 and 40 affiliated
local unions in the Chicago
district.
Hebrew Trades Help Eagerly.
/ The "Gewerkschaft" voted unanim-
ously to support the strike at it's meet
ing when Vice President Meyer Perl
stein of the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union laid the dress
makers cause before them. Speakers
from the Jewish organization will ac-
company strikers delegates on the
rounds to all Of the Gewerkschaft
locals and it is expected that thous-
ands of badly needed dollars will be
speedily raised for the fight on South
Market street
I'VE are going to win this strike"
Morris Rappaport, secretary of the
Chicago Joint Board enthusiastically
told the DAILY WORKER yesterday.
With support from the Chicago labor
movement and from the International
we can finance the strike right thru
the dull season until the Summer
rush"
Visiting All Unions.
Anton Johannsen, chairman of the
Committee of Is" of the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, has laid out SEIZED
ule of Chicago trade union meetings
and it is planned to cover every one
of these meetings with speakers from
the ranks of the strikers.
Checks for $4,000 each were receiv-
ed from the cloakmakers' local earlier
in the strike and from the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers-the last
union not connected with the Fedora
ton of Labor. The drive this week
will be for the purpose of coming the
sympathetic expressions of Federation
unionists into something that will pay
strike benefits and legal expenses en-
tailed by the injunction persecution.
The strikers are hopeful that sub
stantial contributions will be made by
building trades locals. Building trades
workers have been enjoying higher
wages than most trade unionists and
it is believed that when committees
of girl strikers face them and tell
them the dramatic story of the strug-
gle with "sluggers" and police on So.
Market street that they will aid gener-
Iously.
43 Injunction Cases Wednesday.
The injunction cases are coming to
a head this week. Next Wednesday
43 cases come before Judge Charles
F.. Foell in Superior Court. All the
evidence has been heard in thirteel
Of these cases and they are waiting
to see whether Foell will follow in the
footsteps of Sullivan and infiict Jail
and fine sentences, or whether he will
realize the Indignation Of the workers
at this unconstitutional overriding OF
their right to walk the streets and dis
miss the cases.
O.. O.. Ill 4. A.
girls brought before him. declaring
that they mad no right to picket
Continued on Page Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
DETROIT MACHINISTS VOTE TO SEND
DELEGATE TO ST. PAUL. JUNE 18TH
Especial to The Daily Worker)

Especial to The Daily Worker)
DETROIT, Mich April 2A
national Association Of Mscss decided delegate
meeting May COMMITTEES sppoHsd dsy
expenses Of deera
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28

Workers. Farmers! Demand:
The Labor Party
Amalgamation
Organization Of Unorganized
The Land for the Users
The Industries for the Workers
Protection of the Foreign-Born
Recognition Of Soviet Russia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
Revolt of Housing Victims

"The workers Flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our honored dead;
And ere their limbs grew stiff and
cold
Their life blood dyed its every
fold"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-28
.ImperiaIiSt Plot Near Completion
Morgan Uses $1OO,OOO,OOO
Loan Club to Force Western
Europe to Accept His Plan
(speciaI to The Daily Workerl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
NEW YORK CITY, April 27-WaI Street is satisfied with
the progress being made Pierpon Morgan in Paris in fore
ing the MoganDawes plan upon the nations Of the Versailles
peace.
The familiar Wall SreetMorgan club of oan in this case
Germany help her fulfill her obligations under
the plan is being used with good effect
the big nations of Western Europe refuse to accept the
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VOTE FOR HON. CALVIN COOLIDGE
AND FOR BRIGADIER GEN. CHARLES
GATES DAWES, FOR PRESIDENT
AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES, TUESDAY, NOV. 4
Predicts Negroes VIII Aid Coolidge in Coming Presidential
Election
Hon. William c. Matthews Asserts 80 Per Cent of Vot
Race VIII Be Republican
West Virginia is Claimed. Ohio Oklahoma Kansas Montana
and Indiana Also Expected to Go for G. o. r.

tions of colored voters, for which
have striven from the time Of my ap-
pointment, has been remarkable. It
is true that the coiored voter was dis
turbed at the beginning Of the cam
paign BY the desertion Of the Repub-
lican Party by such men and women
as William Henry Lewis, Alice Dun
bar Nelson and others, but time has
revealed to him the folly Of following
such radicals.
Sees Negro Vote Republican
Il am satisfied today that the bulk
of the colored vote will be cast for
Coolidge and Dawes on election day
This is indicated by reports from all
the states where the colored electorate
has the balance of power, even in In
diana and Missouri. We expect by the
help Of the colored vote to even de-
feat Senator Walsh in Montana.
AT recent meeting in Milwaukee,
Halle @. Brown, director Of colored
women's activities spoke to an enthu-
siastic audience of nearly 500 colored
voters. The following night a La
Toilette meeting was held for the Ne
The broad ax., 1924-11-01

Born and rocked in the cradle of liberty and justice
grand old state Of MASSACHUSETTS whOe sympathetic heart
beats unison with all those struggling In this
land Of the free and the home of the brave the
dent Of the United States.
The broad ax., 1924-11-01

Hon. Charles Samuel Deneen, who
is in the public eye to greater extent
than the vast majority of his fellow
men in this country and whose splen-
did, untarnished public record will
continue to reflect honor and glory
upon him until time shall be no more,
Republican candidate for United
States Senator from Illinois, who viii
be elected on Tuesday, November 4,
to the United States Senate, was born
At Edwardsville, this state, May 4,
1868; is the highly honored son Of
Samuel H. and Mary F. (Ashley)
Deneen. He received his Abb. at Nc
Kendree College ID 1852. taughtschooi
about 4hres years and Nay 10, 1891 he
was happilg united IN marriage to Miss
The broad ax., 1924-11-01

groes and II luke-warm supporters
turned out. Lewis and other Demo
cratic leaders are advising colored
people to vote for anybody but Presi-
dent Coolidge. They are discovering,
however, that the coIored voter, for
the most part, has a deep-dyed an
tipathy for the Democratic ticket.
Congressman L. c. Dyer Of Mis-
souri, author of the Anti-Lynching
law, said recently at the Abysinian
Church in New York that the West
Virginia campaign OF William Henry
Lewis and Ferdinand Morton, Civil
Service Commissioner of New York,
was fiat failure. The colored people
in many sections Of the state have
even refused to give them audience.
In West Virginia there are $500 col
ored voters. There is no doubt but
that the Republican candidates will
carry the state by majority of 10000.
The West Virginia Negro population
is outstanding in its economic and civic
importance. More than in any other
one state the colored people there play
significant part in political affairs.
The broad ax., 1924-11-01

White House are DR.. Robert II. No
ton, President of Tuskegee Institute;
DR.. Coleman Porter Hood, Minister
and Consul General to the Republic
of Liberia, now in America volunteer
ing his services to the Republican
cause; Emmitt Scott, Secretary and
Treasurer Of Howard University,
Washington, d. c.; DR.. Ernest Lyons,
ex-Minister to Liberia; DR.. George
Cannon, who seconded President Cool
idge's nomination at the National Con-
vention; Arthur G. Froe, Recorder of
Deeds for the District of Columbia;
Henry Lincoln Johnson, National
Committeeman from Georgia; the Rev.
William A. Byrd of Newark, N. J.;
Percy w. Howard, special assistant to
the United States Attorney General;
John w. Schencks Special Assistant
District Attorney. Boston; Charles E.
Mitchell, President Of the only Negro
bank in West Virginia, not to mention
the dozens of other educators, editors,
ministers and successful business men
from all parts Of the United States. -
The New York News, October "a,
1924.
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elected governor Of this state in 1908
serving as such until Jan. /, 1913 from
that time he has been successfully en-
gagged in the practice Of law to the
present.
It is stated in a recent new cam
paign pamphlet published in behalf
Of Hon. Charles ;. Deneen that his
family tree can Be traced back in this
state for liz years in illinois and It
also renews the brilliant record Of
Mr.. Deneen as Legislator, States At
torney Of Cook County and as Gov
ernor of Illinois.
Among accomplishments Of The De-
neen state administration listed are:
Payment Of $s0o,l6s interest on
tCOntinued On Page a
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Gov. SMALLBACKED FOR
RE- ELECTION ON RECORD
Executive Work for Hard Roads and
His Stanch Americanism Entitle
Him to Votes, Is Plea

Resolutions setting forth reasons
why Governor Len Small should be
reelected have been adopted by audi
ences at half a dozen meetings ad-
dressed BY the Governor in the past
week
At these citizens meetings the fact
is being emphasized that the Chicago
Surface Lines franchises expire Feb
ruary l, 1927; that over $2O,OOO,0OO Of
surface lines bonds payable at J. P.
Morgan & Co. fail due January /,
1927, and that the Illinois Commerce
Commission has great power in the
regulation Of rates and service Of the
traction lines.
1t is also pointed out that the rec
ord of the opposition candidate as a
legislator shows he was the consistent
friend Of special privilege and voted
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HON. CHARLES S. DENEEN
Republican Candidate for United States Senator

Bina Day Maloney Of MT. Carroll, IlIi-
nois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Deneen are the proud
parents Of four children, namely,
Charles Ashley, Dorothy, Frances and
Viola Bina Day Deneen.
Mr.. Deneen was admitted to the bar
in 1886 and he has met with great
success since entering into the prac-
tice of law IN this city from 1890 to
1904 and he was born natural poll
tician- He served Is member Of the
legislature Of this state in 1892, as at
torney for the Sanitary District Of
Chicago 1895 70 1896 elected States
Attorney Of Cook county Ii 1886, re-
elected States Attorney in 1900,
elected g0vern0r Of Illin0is II. 1904, re-
The broad ax., 1924-11-01
SAVE THE CONSTITUTION

The American people for IS!
years have enjoyed Happiness, Prog
ress and Prosperity under the Con
stitution Of the United States. The
Constitution established our form o.
Government in 1889, and secured fol
all time our rights to "Life, Liberty
and the Pursuit Of Happiness" pro-
claimed to the world BY the Declara-
ton Of independence.
Under the protection Of the Con
stitution we have become the great
est nation in all recorded history.
The Constitution Guarantees tc
Every American
Freedom Of Religion. Of Speech, b
Thought and Of Education.
The Equal Protection Of the Laws
No Discrimination, Based on Race
Greed or Color.
The Right of Home, Work ant
Prosperity.
These Rights Guaranteed BY tht
Constitution, are enforced by the Su-
preme Court Of the United States.
Men falsely styled progressive
now propose to destroy the Supreme
Court and the Constitution and tc
establish a government by Congress:
with absolute and autocratic power
The Constitution and the Supreme
Court preserve our American De
mocracy and protect our individual
rights. Destroy them and the door
is open to Socialism or Dictatorship
See the record Of history and The
example Of Europe today.
Which is best for you and for youl
family; the peace and prosperity o.
America, or the chaos and misery d
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Successful international banker who gaanty fought the
honor and glory of his country the bloody
France and the VcePresident of the United States

They are strong industrial factor;
educated, welI-to-do, and thoroughly
abreast of the times. Their powerful
vote will make itself felt on election
day.
Expects Ohio to Be for Coolidge
"Ohio is another state where the col
ored electorate holds the balance Oh
power and will carry the state for the
Republican ticket with majority Of
10000, the total Negro vote being 165,-
600.
"The Oklahoma situation among
colored voters is unique. Ex-Gover-
nor Walton, now candidate for the
United States Senate, though Demo
crat, viii carry the Negro state vote
of $1,000 because of his strong fight
against the Ku Klux Klan. The ma
tional vote, however, will be Repub-
lican.
Kansas is available territory with
its $4,000 colored votes. The fight
raging there gives the Republicans a
good chance Of carrying the state.
Indiana has $1,000 colored votes;
Maryland has 1910 most Of them
centered in Baltimore; Oregon only
about 1,50O but they will prove sig
nifcant in the election. The Repub-
lican colored field workers of the
Western States are confident of car
rying Minnesota.
"In summing up the situation nu-
merically, of the $4,000 colored
votes in the United States, at least 90
per cent will be cast for Coolidge and
Dawes. New York State will cast its
colored vote for Theodore Roosevelt.
Among the prominent colored men
who are bending their energies toward
keeping President Coolidge in the
The broad ax., 1924-11-01
BY WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD

This is the first Presidential cam
paign in the history of the United
States in which all matters pertaining
to the Negro electorate have been
directed by one of their own race. At
the request of the Negro voters
throughout the country, Chairman
William Butler Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee appointed William
Clarence Matthews National Colored
Republican Organizer. Born in Mont
gomery, Ala, he is graduate Of Tus-
kegee Institute, Phillips Andoyer
Academy and Harvard University. AT
the latter he won distinction as short
stop on the varsity baseball team.
Completing his law course at Boston
University Law School in 1907, he was
later appointed by President Taft as
Assistant United States District At
torney in Boston.
In an interview yesterday regarding
the situation among Negro voters of
the country, Mr. Matthews said:
"The cooperation of the various fac
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for the Yerkes- Crawford bills, which
would have given the gas and traction
monopolies strangle hold on Chicago
streets for ninety-nine years.
The resolutions are as follows:
Whereas, in the primary and cleo
ton contests four years ago, Governor
Len Small submitted platform Of
principles wherein he made certain
promises to the people of the state of
Illinois; and,
Whereas, Governor Small has faith
fully carried out these promises; and,
Because he secured the repeal of
the old public utilities law under which
the price Of gas, telephone and local
transportation had been increased dur
ing the term of his predecessor; and,
Because he appointed the Illinois
Commerce Commission, which ordered