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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06

Announcement is made that the two young mil
lionaire-murderers in the Franks case are to be
protected by million-dollar defense fund. The
most brilliant illegal lights" of the bar will com
bine to cheat the gallows of this pair of young
degenerates, in order to get their fingers into the
sush fund. The trial will be contest Of strength
between the private fortunes behind the criminals,
on the one hand and the ambition to make repu-
tation for successful prosecutions on the other.
All in all, it is pretty spectacle to which the
workers will be admitted thru the columns OF the
yellow press each day for few pennies.
Capitalism is served by resourceful scoundrels.
They even take such an example of rulingclass
decay as the Franks murder with all its attendant
peryersion, and twist it into weapon for further
befuddling the minds of the workers. The Franks
case is now being used to turn the minds of mil
lions away from the exposure of graft in the heart
Of government at Washington, away from the ris-
ing farmer-labor movement, away from the ques-
tions of unemployment and falling wages
While the milliondollar fund raised by the
Leopold Loeb families is primarily desperate
effort to save two members of the ruling class from
the results of their crimes of the legal fraternity
to get their fingers into treasures of their masters
of the prosecuting lawyers to make regulations
vet for the capitalist class whole, it is being
turned into million dollar defense of the CAPT
talist system. The Franks murder case is the
modern "circus" to distract the toiling masses
from their real problems. Give the workers lurid
stories of murder, millions and perversion-
coupled with the bread line for the unemployed
and Coolidge will get more votes next fall
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Training the White Guard

Stories in the NeC York Times disclose that
special battalions of police picked for riot7 duty
are in training at Peekskill, n. Y. These nuclei
of the American white guard are irregular, so far
as legal provisions for their creation concerned,
but techncalities of the law of little concern
to those who handle the police of the big cities.
1t is not necessary for them to explain where
the finances come from which is used in such
affairs.
Workers will do well to keep their eyes upon
developments Of this nature. Taken in connection
with the attempts to establish constabulary in the
various states, troops whose special function it is
to break strikes and prevent any movement of the
workers, it shows the aggressive mood of the
American capitalists. They are preparing to
force showdown in their "open shop" schemes.
They are preparing the armed forces necessary to
crush the unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06

That the League of Nations is merely an elabo-
rate scheme calculated to secure the loot of inn
perialist capitalism, was again demonstrated by
the proposed mutual guarantees worked out by
the last assembly of the league In a recent note
regarding these guarantees which were proposed
to Soviet Russia Chicherin pointed this out, when
he said: "The Soviet government absolutely re-
fuses to accept the reservation contained in the
draft treaty which confirms the Treaties of Yer
sailles, Neuilly, St German and Trianon. The
Soviet government took no part in the, conclusion
Of these treaties and maintains entirely negative
attitude with regard to their PROVISIONS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06

indispensable navy the captain de-
clared:
1.-THE spirit Of the age is competition
at home and abroad Modern indus
trialism and modern trade conditions
are driving governments irresistibly
toward keener competition than
ever before Propaganda, commercial
rate-wars, tariffs, concessions, spheres
of interest, mandates, protectorates,
and annexations are phases of inter-
national competition. Back of all these
phases lies peace strategy--both naval
and military, because WAR is THE
ULTIMATE FORM OF COMPETE
TON. (Our Caps)
l shall make no effort to demon
strate to you the necessity for an
American navy second to none"
Must Protect Imperial Empire
1t must not be forgotten that the
United States has control Of big
colonial empire. The various spheres
of influence, protectorates, colonies,
dependencies and investment areas
must be protected against the en-
croachments Of the competitors of
other national capitalist groups.
Captain Mike McNamee, Director of
Naval Intelligence, United States navy,
stated the case for the Yankee i'm
perialists forcefully before the Won
ems Republican Club of Massachusetts,
on January %, 1928. The captain said
in part:
IF one square foot of our territory
was taken from us by force, even in
the far off Philippines, Guam or Sa-
moa, we would have to go and get it
back if it cost the last dollar and the
last drop of blood in the country. -.
1--WE have a foreign fruit trade of
$5O,OOO,0OO in imports, largely built up
around the old Boston Fruit company.
Without Special Service Squadron in
West Indian and Central American
waters, where the bulk of this fruit
comes from, a few revolutions would
wreck this business, as well as bust
ness of 100000 annually in sugar
and petroleum.
uC tAulC 10 approaching WHCu Jul
prosperity will depend largely on our
ability to compete in the international
market with manufactured goods. All
history shows that war is but an ul-
innate form of economic competition.
If we are to compete on equal terms,
we must have a navy able to protect
our trade. He who controls the sea
controls the world That is Mahan's
dictum."
To Crush Revolution at Home.
The navy, like the National Guard
and the army, has been employed by
the bosses to crush attempts made by
the working class to setter its condi-
tions. In the same address Captain
McNamee made it clear that the army
and navy would come in handy to the
capitalist class in preventing the or
ganization of the working class for
victory over its exploiters thru probe
tartan dictatorship.
II wish to say word about false
propaganda against the army and
navy. l am repeating no idle rumor
when 1 tell you that much of this
propaganda has sinister foreign
source-its object, the overthrow of
cur government and the ultimate dicta-
torship of the proletariat. A logical
step in the procedure of these foreign
gentry is the elimination of the forces
Of law and order-the army and navy"
From the above explanations given
by the most important men in the
United States navy it is clear why the
American capitalists are today work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06

The House of Representatives has
/ just passed a bill aiming to give
the United States a navy second to
none. The measure authorizes the
constructor of eight scout cruisers,
six river gunboats, and big improve
ments in six battleships. The cost of
these provisions will total approx
mately 111,000.
Besides this sum, about twenty
million dollars will be spent on con-
Yerting six coal-burning ships to oil
burners and $12,0DO,0OO on gun eleva-
ton.
This bill is the first fruit of the Wig
orous campaign for preparedness re-
Gently launched by the American mill
tarist and navalist juntas. The pres
ent strained situation in the Pacific
arising out of the controversy with
Japan over the immigration question,
the increasing interest of the Ameri-
can manufacturers and bankers in Sc
curing complete trade and investment
hegemony in the Latin-American coun-
tries, the plan to put over the Dawes
scheme for turning Germany into an
American sweat shop have all been
seized upon as immediate excuses for
strengthening the Iand and sea fight
ing forces of the United States in the
name Of national security.
OF course the above events are only
the present manifestations of con-
dition inherent in capitalism. These
imperialist ventures, in their pres
emily aggravated forms, have undoubt-
eddy precipitated the re-opening of
the preparedness campaign. But there
are certain organic reasons for the
capitalist class seeking to maintain
powerful navy and army at all
times.
In view Of the fact that the question
of building up navy greater than any
afloat is today pre-eminent in the
minds of the ruling class of the United
States, the reasons given for the main
tenance of such a huge armada are es-
pecially timely. The authoritative
statements following were gathered by
the writer to show, specifically, the
role Of the navy in the development
of American imperialist policy and just
why our capitalists are anxious to
saddle the country with the staggering
costs of naval upkeep.
Navy Is ImperlaIist Cornerstone
On January 20, 1928 Assistant Sec
rotary of the Navy, Theodore Roose-
welt, delivered an address on Main
tenance of the Treaty Navy" before
the National Academy of Political and
Social Science. Among the many
frank and significant remarks made
by Roosevelt we find the following:
"At this time our naval vessels are
stationed from the Mediterranean to
Asiatic waters. At this time we have
ships cruising near Central and South
America. Our vessels are spread over
the seven seas. They are the tangible
evidence of the power of the United
States. Behind all the pronounce
ments of our state department rests
the power of our navy. 1t is the navy
that turns these announcements from
simply unsupported statements into
matters that must be given the grav-
est consideration by all nations. OUR
POLICIES, IN TRUTH, ARE BASED
ON THE NAVY. INDEED, THE
NAVY is THE CORNERSTONE ON
WHICH REST THE MONROE DOC
TRINE AND THE POLICY OF THE
open DOOR," (Our Caps)
Watchdog of Foreign Markets
Admiral R. e. Coontz, Chief of
Naval Operations, United States Navy
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broadcasted over the radiophone be-
fore the American Association Expo
sition at New York on November Q,
1922 speech which is masterpiece
for its boldness and for the informa-
ton shed on the usefulness of the
navy to the capitalists. In the course
of the address the Admiral dropped
the following sentences which are
highly appropriate at this juncture:
"The Navy also thruout its entire
history has been great developer of
foreign markets and of American bust
ness The navy maintains patrol
force of gunboats on the Yangtze
River, and this Yangtze patrol guards
our interests for some 100 miles up
the river, right into the heart of China.
1t costs the navy some $3,OOO,OOO
year to guard our interests in the Asia
tic. In this connection it might be of
interest to note that our exports to
China in 1920 were valued at over.
$145, 900.
NAVAL FORCES ARE MAINTAIN
ED THRUOUT THE CARIBBEAN
SEA FOR THE PURPOSE OF KEEP
ING DOWN REVOLUTIONS, protect
ing life, and protecting our commerce.
Our trade could hardly exist thruout
the West Indies, but for the protection
given it by our Special Service
Squadron" Our fruit trade turnout the
West Indies is enormous. In 1921, we
imported fruit valued at nearly
$50,O00,000 and a great part of this
came from the countries bordering the
Caribbean The result of this whole
West Indian patrol so safeguards our
trade in the Caribbean that bananas
in certain Central American countries
can be sold on the fruit stands in New
York cheaper than apples which grow
in our own very backwards. The sail
ors doing duty in this squadron have
dubbed these ships the banana boats"
1t costs the navy some S3,000,O00 to
maintain this patrol thruout the West
Indies. (Our Caps)
"The navy gives direct returns to
business interests in other ways as
WELL"
Capitalism Rests on Violence
Addressing the National Republican
Club of New York on January 20, 1928
Admiral Hilary P. Jones Of the United
States Navy made lengthy argument
on the need Of keeping our house in
order" One of the points brot home
by the admiral was illustrated by a
story purporting to convey to the au-
dience what Turkish delegate at
Lausanne said to one of the American
observers. The Turkish tale which we
quote here shows the real basis of
capitalist politics as it is played today
Said the Turkish delegate:
owe are very much interested in
the views of the United States. If you
should send an army Of 100000 men to
Turkey, we would discuss matters with
you; if you should send an army of
zoe, 900 men to Turkey, we would kiss
your hands and say to you that you can
have your way; but in the present cir
cumstances we will pay no attention
to you"
The Admiral went on to clinch his
argument with this choice conclusion:
"This illustrates the value of having
force available, and of willingness to
use that force"
Ultimate Form of capitaIism-War
Captain Frank H. Schofield made a
rather instructive speech on incidents
and Present Day Aspects of Naval
on March 3, 1928 before the
Army and Navy Institute Of New York.
Building up his case for our ruling
class possessing an unsurpassed and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06
Why They Want A Bigger Navy . ~ 1.,....
By Jay LoUestone

ing SO feverishly to become the worlds
greatest naval power
What are the exploited workers and
dispossessed farmers going to say
about it?
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MOSCOW, May 5.-(By Mail) THE
Italian embassy at Moscow has con
veyed an invitation to the govern
ment OF the union of Soviet republics
to take part in the agricultural fair to
be held at Padua north italy, in
May-June. 1924.
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When California, Minnesota and New York
came under the wire the same day for the st.
Paul June 18th convention, it showed conclusively
that the demand for class Farmer-Labor party
has gripped the workers and farmers of the whole
nation IL is not sectional affair. 1t has spread
from coast to coast
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Let LaFollette console with the socialist con-
gresham, Victor j.. Berger. Victor ordered all
the Communists out of the Socialist party, with
the result that Victor is practically the whole
Socialist party. LaFollette will also find himself
shortly isolated by all thinking workers and
farmers.
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The capitalist press on the whole does not like
the senator from Wisconsin. That is because he
talks about the people and the capitalist press
stupidity wishes all politicians to serve them
openly. But as the Nev York Times consoles it
self "still there is this to be said of the Badger
Boss; His bark has always been worse than his
bite"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-06

June 18th holds the spotlight in the center of
the political stage while July 4th is slipping more
and more into the background and out of sight
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The Poor Fish Says: The Japanese
began praying to Holy Buddha after
Calvin Coolidge signed the exclusion
law. What can they expect from
Buddha7 He is as mute as our presI-
dent and a pacIfist. II they had a
fighting God like ours they might
have some chance Of winning In a
scrap. Alta boy, Jehovahl
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King George of Great Britain, Ire
land and a goodly portion Of the rest
of the earth, is SO years old. He eel
ebrated the occasion by going to Ep-
som for the opening of the races. Ac-
cording to custom the King has long
list of birthday honors, but no new
peerages are created. T. p. O'Connor
Clay Pay), Irish nationalist, is made
privy councillor. The capitalist papers
print the usual laudatory drivel about
the King, who is tolerated for dec
orative purposes.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-20
GDCas Gossip
So

| high caliber statesmen as Wfoten
Hundley Motor Company employs
should be able to catch fish and sell
Dodges at the same time.
Two recent additions to sales and
office forces of the Nevelow Tire and
Accessory Company are NJ. Eisenberg
and C. L. Boyd. Mr.. Eisenberg for
merly was tire and accessory man at
Fort Worth. Mr.. Boyd is from Bal
linger.
L. A. Brown, service manager OF
the Houston branch of the Ford Motor
Company. was visitor TO local Ford
dealers last week, inspecting the work
on Ford batteries and other branches
of the service for local Ford owners.
Tuesday and Wednesday were I'M
usually good days for Oldsmobile
sales, according TO report received
from the johnson Supply Company,
who sold six new Oldsmobiles during
those two days.
The first Dodge Brothers automobile
to be delivered in San Antonio is to
be driven in the automobile parade
to be held Tuesday at 4 80. This is
a 1915 model touring car, and was
delivered to San Antonio in the latter
part of January that year. Jack judi
son, salesman. says that this was early
delivery considering that the first
Dodge Brothers automobile was man.
ufactured in November 1914. This
car still has all the original equip
ment, with the exception OF the tires
and is still in good running order.
The Southern Equipment Company
has introduced in San Antonio, the
Dreadnaught tire chain made by the
Columbus McKinnon Chain Company
of New York. The Dreadnaught chain
comes packed in a cardboard box.
which is an entirely new method of
packing tire chains, most Of them be-
ing packed in cloth sacks.
r. r. Wilkes of the Auto Supply
Company of Laredo, spent last week in
San Antonio, and expects to be here
for the Fiesta.
F. A. Searle, vice president OF the
Landers, Frary and Clark Company of
New Britain, Conn, and V. Quick and
S. ]. Bradford, representatives of the
Universal Cutlery and Hardware divi-
sion of this company are in San An
tonic visiting the Southern Equipment
Company. Mr.. Searle and his wife are
touring the South.
The Schebler carburetor is attract
ing a great deal of attention all over
the state, reports l.. B. Weber, with
Gene Roth and Company. One GUS
toner even drove all the way from
Canadian to have one installed. "A
600-mile trip just to get Schebler
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carburetor is going some,' says Mr.
| Weber, even if this customer is going
to stay here for the Fiesta"
W. II. Bell, sales manager OF the
Kelly Springfield Tire Company of
New York. and Maurice Switzer, vice
president and advertising manager, and
j. L. Bogue. Dallas branch manager.
Kelly Springfield dealer. They are
all optimistic about the business out
look for Kelly Springfield tires.
Curtis Fenton is the first to buy
Lafayette from the Jack Neal Nash
and Lafayette Company. This car is
graceful sporty looking torpedo
model. 1t is forr-passenger open car.
The Jack Neal Nash and Lafayette
Company recently delivered Nash
six and four to Sam III. Smith, Nash
dealer at Beeville.
w. G. Hundley and G. +. Wroten
have gone to Fort Worth to attend
the meeting of the Texas Automobile
Dealers Association, and while up In
that region will go to Dallas TO visit
the factory representative of the
Dodge Brothers Automobile Com
pany, George S. Sill.
Smith Motor Sales Company, To-
cal Chevrolet dealer, is making sew
eral improvements and engagements
in the service and parts departments.
New benches have been installed in
the shop, and a flat rate established
for all repairs and requirements on
hevrolets. The parts department has
been enlarged and a larger stock of
parts is being handled.
Gene Jordan of Jcrdan-Ivers Mo-
tor Company found his Ford coupe
which was stolen last week. 1t was
on the Castroville road about seven
miles out and had been most thor
oughly stripped. The thieves had re-
moved all the tires and rims, includ-
ing the spare, the seat cushions, the
battery, the motormeter, the lock
steering wheel, and in fact, every
thing of value that could be removed
was taken off. At any rate, Mr.. Jor-
dan has the chassis. the engine and
the body. He will have to put in a
set of spark plugs, however.
The latest addition to the sales
force of the Jordan-Ivers Motor
Company is o. X. Brundage of New
York City, who formerly was in the
hotel business in New York. Mr..
Brundage says that he had rather
sell Fords in San Antonio than run
hotels in New York, even if San An
tonic is comparatively small town.
He has purchased one Of the new
"Baitybuilts" in Highland Park.
SCOT nothing to complain about
this morning." said j.. J. Jordan Of
the Jordan-Ivers Motor Company,
Friday. ave have already sold six
new Fords so far this morning and
it is now Just 10 o'clock. Three
fourths of the day yet to come Jor-
dan-Ivers sold twenty new Fords
last week.
George Goldman, the manager OF
the Kansas City branch of the North
east Electric Company. visited S. y.
Callahan this week. The Northeast
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Electric Company is a manufacturer
of starting, lighting and ignition
equipment for Dodgt, Reos, Frank
Inns and Others. All of. these prod
ucts are being handled by s. Y. Gala
han.
The Clifton George Motor Com
pany, local Ford and Lincoln dealer,
sold a Ford touring Deluxe to l.. o.
johnson of Lyle. This car has all
on Ford cars as well as balloon tires.
manager, Mr.. johnson is more than
pleased with this car.
Mickey MacBride, now in Louis
vile, Ky, is in San Antonio visiting
the Straus-Frank Company, by whom
he was formerly employed while he
was here in San Antonio. Mr.. Mac
Bride says that he is glad to visit
San Antonio again, and is pleased to
see the way it has grown since the
last time he was here.
DR.. J. f. Beall, Maxwell Chandler
dealer at Pearsall. was in San An
tonic Tuesday, and left an order with
the Guarantee Motor Car Company
for a Chrysler phaeton.
Ben Brown, president OF Brown
and Burris Motor Company, Max
well dealers at Karnes City, visited
the Guarantee Motor Car Company
last week and drove home a new Max
well touring.
The Orsinger Motor Company, To-
cal WHY'S Overland dealer, announces
the sale of Willys-Knight tourings to
o. A. Rhea and Herbert Spenser,
both of San Antonio.
Guenther Orsinger has gone to
Kansas City, Mo-, and expects to stop
at Fort Worth on his way back to
attend the Texas Automobile Dealers
The new eleven-foot sign is now
up, and working, on Main avenue, in
front of the office of the Orsinger
Motor Company, Willys-Overland
dealers.
The johnson Supply Company, To-
cal Oldsmobile distributor, has re-
ceived information to the effect that
the highly priced old relic. an 1898
model one-cylinder Oldsmobile has ar