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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
MUSSOLINI JOKE
PARLIAMENT TO
Be DISSOLvE
Fascist Have Scored No
Successes in Power
(By The Federated Press,

ROME.-Italy's next election has
been fixed for April 6 and pariia-
ment-the parliament which Mus.
solini and his fascist friends have
reduced to a flimsv joke-will be dis
solved in a few days.
The election is a mere formality,
calculated to lend the seal of re-
spectability to the Black Shirts die
tatorship. It has already been de-
cided by the arming Of a strong fas-
cist militia and the elimination Of
all non-fascist elements from the inn
mense civil service.
Suggestion by Moderate Socialists,
that the opposition would unite to
boycott the election has been. an
swered by threats from the fascist
war council. The issue is between
an armed horde Of Black Shirts and
the un-armed millions Of workers,
peasants, small traders and shop
keepers.
A small clique within the middle
class, consisting of bankers and
heavy industrialists, are paying the
black shirted pipers. The bulk of
the middle class is itself in the role
of Cinderella.
Gradually the truth about the
much-heralded fascist successes ID
leaking out. Their only actual at
tainment has been to adapt them
selves to the old system in existence
when they grasped power. They have
succeeded only in damaging the
prestige Of the Italian state by such
barbarous acts as the slaughter of
children in the Italian bombardment
CT Corfu. They have abolished the
workers May day, proportional rep
resentation, the inheritance tax and
all those meager social reforms
which previous liberal governments
had instituted.
Little is said today of fascist
Economics" of which we heard so
much during Mussolini's earlier days.
Prior to the fascist government, the
states deficit was being reduced at
the rate of two million lire annu-
ally. Financial reports for 1928
show that the fascist rulers failed to
continue this saving. Their budget
shows a static deficit.
One institution is thriving under
Mussolini's rule; that of corruption.
The disclosure Of illicit sales Of rail-
road material, remaining from war
time, has resulted in the persecu-
ton, not of the guilty fascist official,
but of the non-fascist general who
revealed this scandalous affair. Re-
port tells of an underling in the
state department, who, having slept
II
a special train to be made up for
his special use.
Hostile criticism Of the govern
ment is more widespread than ever,
tho it is seldom heard above whis-
per. The reign of terror and the
castor oil regime-tho its political
and economic policy have proved
fiasco-remains strong behind the
military force which it has conjured
up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Shades of Burns,
u. S. Secret Service
Nabs Fake Dollar

WASHINGTON.-A poor Greek
refugee rug-weaver in Anatolia made
a rug on the pattern of an Ameri-
can dollar bill. He sent the rug to
friend in Akron, o., who finally
sold it to a dealer, Mr.. Lord, who
put it in his show window.
But the secret service OF the De-
partment of Justice was on guard
over the republicl
Detective Morris Manasse seized
the four-foot wooden imitation of a
dollar bill, and quoting Section $50
of the penal code, he sent it to
Cleveland, from which place it was
forwarded to Washington. 1t was
a counterfeit!
, Lord wrote his congressman,
who appealed to w. H. Moran, chief
Of detectives at the Treasury. After
long parley it was decided that
the crime of initiating real none.
had been committed, but that if Mr.,
Lord would keep the rug in his own
home and never display it in public,
he might get it back.
Moran said there were lots of
precedents for the good job done
by his subordinate in nabbing this
fake dollar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
THOUSANDS SHOUT
FOR RED REPUBLIC
IN CHICAGO HALL

The drive for the recognition of
Soviet Russia and the relief of the
starving workers of Germany is being
pushed with more vigor than ever in
Chicago. That is the result of
meeting held Sunday night at Ash
land Auditorium by the Friends of
Soviet Russia and Workers Germany.
More than three thousand workers
crowded the hall. to voice their de-
mand that the United States recog-
nize the Russian soviet government.
Speeches by Robert Morse Lovett,
Max Bedacht and Max Sillinsky were
cheered and the crowd expressed its
delight by the singing of Russian folk
songs by /. Karlash and moving pic
lures of Russia and Germany.
Robert Morse Lovett, who is one
of the editors of the New Republic,
made the star speech Of the evening.
"The investigation of the Borah SEN
ate committee into the question of
Russian recognition has proven secre-
tary of state Hughes a credulous i'm
beetle, he said: "The death of
Lenin is a great blow to the Russian
people, but because they have other
leaders who match him in sincerity
and loyalty If not in other ways, it
will have little effect on their govern
ment."
At the opening Of the meeting after
the Freiheit Singing and Mandolin
club sang the Russian Funeral March
the audience stood for a moment in
silence out of respect to the memory
Of Lenin.
Max Sillinsky pointed out that the
United States did not object to car
rying on of diplomatic relations with
the relationships in. Italy and Spain
but they did object to recognizing
a workers government which dictated
in the name of eighty million work
ers and peasants.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
LEGION CUNMEN
RAID MEETING IN
HONOR OF LENIN
Vice-C Commander takes
Charge In Person
special to The Daily worker,

WlLkESBARRE, Pa.-Excitement
is rife in this mining community at
an armed invasion which the Amer
lean Legion made ON a Lenin Memo
rial meeting held under the auspices
Of the Workers Party. With guns
in their hands the Legion men rushed
into the hall followed by the city
police and drove hundreds Of men,
women and children out into the icy
streets.
The raid was under the direction
Of William B. Healy, national vice
commander of the American Legion,
who took charge in person.
Crowd Boos Legion.
"Hurrah for Lenin!" the crowd
shouted, as they were kicked and
showed into the street. They greet
ed the gunner with boos. The gum
men cursed them and cursed the de-
ceased proletarian leader in whose
honor the meeting had been called.
Orders to salute the American flag
which the gangsters and police had
furnished by their conduct, did not
fit in with the mood Of the crowd
at that moment. Laying his hand
on his rifle one Of the officers
of the white guard insisted that
one of the women who had just
been showed thru the doors should
do homage to the u. S. emblem. She
laughed in his face, telling him she
wasn't learning patriotism from a
gunman. Red ribbons were torn
from members of the crowd.
No arrests were made by the
police, tho Harry Winitzky and Com
rade Benjamin, who were to speak
at the meeting, challenged the police
chief to arrest them.
Alliance between the Legion and
the Department of Justice, so often
proved before, was again shown
when pamphlets and newspapers
seized at the meeting by the raid
ers was taken in charge by Healy,
national vice-commandcr, who said he
would turn it over te the secret
service.
The Legionaires were deputized by
Mayor Hart, who has been working
hand in hand with Wilkesbarre en-
ployers in open shop movements.
Free Speech Fight Coming.
Winitzky and Benjamin have
served notice on the mayor that
free speech will not be destroyed in
Wilkesbarre. A free speech meeting
will be held next week in spite of
illegal opposition.
The Legion's unpopularity has
grown immensely as the result of
this incident. Most Of the rank-and-
file service men who came in four
years ago have dropped out and it is
little more than a society affair COM
posed of former officers, many Of
whom never saw the trenches and
carried no heavier weapon while in
service than the wrist watches they
wore at their clerical duties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

pening in the shops and factories
and in the party in their locality.
This paper is the paper Of the work
ing class because the working class
not only owns it and manages it but
also writes it.
For THE DAILY WORKER to
live and grow it is necessary above
all things that the business machine
function properly. The militant men
and women who secure the sub
scribers for our paper, who do the
real propaganda and organizational
work in their constant efforts to in
crease the circle Of DAILY WORKER
readers are the ones who feed the
business machine with fuel. They
are the ones who really make the
wheels of the presses turn. They are
the ones who really supply the power
of THE DAILY WORKER. In this
column twice a week, every Tuesday
and Friday will be discussed the
problems Of these militants who make
THE DAILY WORKER possible.
That is why it is called THE POWER
COLUMN.
Starting with this issue and con-
tinuing on Friday and every follow
ing Tuesday and Friday this column
will contain suggestions for the bet
terment of the management of the
business end of THE DAILY
WORKER. The column will be open
to anyone who has contribution to
make to the others who are partici-
pating in the task of building up
THE DAILY WORKER circulation.
If there are some who have a novel
or particularly successful way of
securing new readers for THE
DAILY WORKER we want to know
about it and so do a thousand other
DAILY WORKER boosters. If there
are some who have made extra good
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Continued from Page u

ought to await the report he will
appoint to 60 into the scandal which
has shaken official and political
Washington as they have not been
shaken for a generation.
Senator Walsh, Montana, who has
taken the leading role in investigat-
ing Teapot Dome said in statement
that Mr.. Coolidge's sudden announce
ment that he had decided to appoint
special counsel to prosecute eivilly
and criminally, the oil lease cases
was made after a confidential deci-
sion Of the senate public lands COM
mittee had been reported to the
White House.
Coolidge Stools on Committee
Walsh intimated that some men,
bers Of the committee had hurried to
Mr.. Coolidge and advised him to
cheat the committee and the senate
to it" with the idea of .staving off
senate action today on the Walsh
Caraway cancellation resolution.
Walsh, however, intends to go on
today with his effort to get the can
collation. resolution adopted. If it is
blocked, he pointed out, everybody
will know the reason.
Mr.. Coolidge may today appoint
the bipartisan legal commission he
announced would investigate and
prosecute either civil or criminal
wrong in connection with the naval
reserve leases.
John w. Davis, former ambassador
to Great Britain, Henry L. StimsoR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
FIOgger viii Tell
the Names of Ten
in X. X. X. Riot
Especial to The Daily Worker,

NEW York;. E. MacBride.
one Of the mob which logged James
Holland and John Murray, /. w. w.
organizers, at Port Arthur. Texas.
during the Ku Klux Khan riots of
June 80, will divulgc to the grand
jury the names of ten men who par
ticipated in the f1ogging fray.
The American Civil Liberties union
here terms MacBride's impending
statement "a victory for traditional
American freedom Of thought and
expression" MacBride's disclosure
to be made on Feb. 4 in Galveston
county, is expected to strike a Sc
we're blow to the klan's lawlessness.
Nation wide attention was drawn
to the Port Arthur events when the
klan's persecution of Wobblies evoked
an /. W. w. campaign to invade
that Texas town.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
WORKERS AND FARMERS
IN SOLID OPPOSITION
TO MAY 3OTH DELAY

the Machinists District Council and
secretary of the Working Peoples
Non-Partisan Political League, de-
clared the proposed postponement to
be a menace to the entire farmer
labor class movement. at would be
the greatest folly" he said, "for the
rank and file class movement to gam
BILE its whole future on the prospec-
tive future action of political adven-
turers in the ranks of the capitalist
parties. This is precisely what the
postponement means. William Ma
honey has made a serious mistake in
allowing politicians at Washington to
induce him to even consider such an
idea. / am sure that he will with
draw the proposition when he sees
how strongly the rank and file feel
on the question"
]. Emme, delegate Of the st. Paul
Labor Assembly to the A. F. of L.
Convention, said: 81 am fatty against
any suggestion of postponement. We
want class party. Let us 60 ahead
on May Both and organize for it. If
anyone does not come with us it will
only be because they dD not stand
for the things we stand for. 1t will
hurt US to go along without such
people"
Statement by Marley.
Joseph Manley, secretary of the
Federated Farmer-Labor Party with
headquarters at 800 North Clark
street, in a statement to the DAILY
WORKER on the action of the Dem
yer Farmer-Labor conference, said:
"The clear-cut statement of the
Denver conference in opposition to
any postponement of the May Both
convention and its decisive action
against the exclusion of the FEEDER
ated Farmer-Labor party and other
more radical elements is, of course,
very gratifying to US. More than that
l think that our organization can
truthfully say that we are in a large
measure responsible for the rapid
crystalization of a bona-fide move
ment Of workers and farmers for a
class political party.
"That is what we stand for and
work for and our members In South
Dakota, Montana, Washington, Min
nesota, Illinois and other states can,
/ think, be proud of the successful
efforts made by them to halt any at
tempt at postponement of the May
Both conference, engineered by poll
ticians who wanted to wait to see
what the democrat and republican
parties would do. We know that they
will do-give just enough considera-
ton to the problems of the workers
and farmers to attract the support of
uniformed and discouraged toilers
who still believe In spite of the proof
to the contrary that their exploiters'
parties are going to lift the burden
of low wages and farm mortgages
from their shoulders.
"The Federated Farmer-Labor Par
ty believes that the action of the Den
yer conference constitutes an EN-
phatic Reputation Of middle-class
leadership and indicates that the
workers and farmers political move
ment is ready and able to stand on its
own feet"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
The Power Column

THE DAILY WORKER is great doube-powered ma
chine rather combination great machines
Coming into existence for the purpose of building up great
militant labor movement in America
To accomplish this purpose THE DAILY WORKER must
be real Labor newspaper full Of news militant and inspiring
and besides THE DAILY WORKER must have behind it vast
Of mtants to push and to to it that gets
into the hands of ever more and workers.
That is why it said THE DAILY WORKER is double
machine each dependent the other the the
machine with the editors the mechanics the other the
distributing machine with the business the Office staff its
the editorial machine product
supply
the activity
That is why the editor Of THE DAILY the
columns the for the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Strike Of Filling Stations.

BELLEVILLE, H., Jan. 28-Strik-
ing labor and striking capital today
met in an attempt to effect an agree
ment which would allow Belleville to
have gasoline and oil.
All gasoline filling stations here
closed Saturday, and most of them
remained shut Sunday and today,
following a strike Of union oil wagon
drivers. Non-union filing station
owners joined the men who en-
ployed union drivers in closing, and
not even the motoiist who drove
after his gas could get It.
Operation of business will be i'm
paired badly il the filling station
strike continues, business men said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Train Man Is Killed.

DALLAS, Texas, Jan. pa train
man was killed and several persons
were injured when a passenger train
and freight train on the Interna-
tional Great Northern railway col
lided near Overton, Texas, today, ac-
cording to dispatches here. The fire
man on the passenger train was in
stantly killed, the advices said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Japs Fight Exlu.ion Act

WASHINGTON-Japan is fighting
Congressman Johnson's proposal to
bar all japanese from America. Am
bassador Hanihara is making vigorous
representations to the state depart
ment protesting against the johnson
clause to the immigration bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Young Worker Wins Debate

SAN FRANCISCO = Ebe Bassi,
member of the local Young Workers
league carried off the honors for the
affirmative side in a debate between
high school teams on the subject,
Resolved that the Criminal Syndi-
calist Law Should be Repealed" The
judges decided for the affirmative.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
WORKERS PARTY
FORMS MIDWEST
JE WISH BUREAU
Plans Active Fight for
Foreign-Born

The naiddie-west branches Of the
Jewish Federation of the Workers
Party held a two day conference IN
Chicago which finished its work Sum
day night. The conference organized
a Middle-West organization bureau
Of the Jewish Federation which will
have headquarters in Chicago, and
laid plans for an intensive organiza-
ton campaign and the strengthening
Of this branches Of the federation.
The Middle-West Bureau Of the
federation will be in charge of the
city central committee Of Chicago and
a representative Of each Of the in
cluded states acting as an executive
committee. The executive committee
was authorized to employ perma-
nent organizer who will tour the
middle west and organize new
branches of the federation and help
branches already organized to carry
on their work. A special organiza-
ton fund to be made up by the
branches of the federation will fin
ance the work. The bureau was in
structed to call another conference of
the branches of the federation in the
lllQUAc WGSL Mtbuln year VI bAAC
organization of the bureau.
Wire Sorrow For Lenin
The conference opened with the
passing of a resolution of sorrow at
the death of Lenin and the sending
of a telegram to Moscow expressing
the condolences of the Jewish work
ers Of America to their Russian
b,.o41,o,,- =. that. lose of n o~,soof
leader.
The national executive committee
of the federation made a report Of
the work of the federation for the
year and called on the conference to
take action on several important
questions facing the federation.
These questions include the treat
ment of the foreign-born workers,
and immigration, the recognition of
Soviet Russia by the United States,
the organization of a Labor Party
and strengthening of the branches of
the federation.
A. Loonin, national organizer of
the federation, reported on his work
for the past year and David Rubin,
manager Of the Chicago Office of the
Freiheit, reported on the work of his
Office.
To Organize Jewish Youth
NJ. Levin of the Jewish Young
Workers League called on the con-
ference to urge the branches to help
organize the Jewish youth of Amer
lea.
- Resolutions were passed against
restrictive immigration and registra-
ton of foreign-born workers and the
conference outlined a plan to carry
out the policy of the conference for
the defense of the foreign-born
workers.
Resolutions pledging the support
Of the federation to the Friends of
Soviet Russia and Workers Germany
in their drive for funds for German
relief were passed. The resolution
also called on the Jewish Workers
Relief organization to get behind the
f. S. K. and w. G. drive.
The following resolution greeting
the DAILY WORKER was passed:
Eve greet the appearance of the
first Communist daily in the English
language with great joy and promise
our full support and cooperation and
we trust that the DAILY WORKER
IS but the first of many Communist
dailies in English in this country"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Chicago T. u E. L. to Haze Report
on Miners Convention, Wednesday

The regular monthly meeting of the Chicago group the
T. u E. l. will take place the Wicker Park Hail. 2O40 w.
North Ave-. tomorrow "wednesday, 8 p. M
William T. Foster will the developments the
Miners Convention. This meeting will also have a report
the last the League Chicago by
Officers of the League for the coming will bs elected
this meeting Every militant trade unionst should
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-29
Catch Cal and All His G. OPP.
Gang in Teapot's Oily Mess

former secretary Of war, and Samuel
Untermyer are being mentioned as
among likely selections.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-02-06
CLEVELAND UCTf PAMAT-
KU WILSONOvU VsEOBEC-
NYM KLIDEM.

o tfetf hodine odpolednf,
kdy We Washingtonu ulozen
bude We chramu sv. Petra a
Pavla ma Mount st. Alban BY
valy president Wilson k vec-
n6mu odpocinku, venovana bu
de zesnulemu posmrtni vzpo-
mfnka p6timinutovou pfestav-
kou veskere cinnosti V meste,
jak narizeno bylo pondelnf re
solucf mestske rady. Zastaven
bude obchodni ruch. We sko-
ZACH ctena bude smutecnf pro.
klamace presidenta Coolidge
pffpis Newtona D. Bakera
resoluce skolni rady.
FederAlni soud zastavf WI.
bee odpolednf cinnost a vlaj
XIV ma spolkovych budovacf
znstanou po 30 dni stazeny dc
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-02-06
&, kRvAvY WJEv Y cIRKusU.
MUz vYPOMAHAJfCf PRI FILMOvANf
QUO VADIS" ROZTRHAN LVICf.

Rim, 5. nnora. Podrazd6na lvice dnes roztrhala
smrta areho ltaa Augusta Palombiho jenz vyponahal
hereck6 spolecnosi pro pohybve obrazky p fimovani
Quo Vads". Celia spolecnost byla svedkem tragedie.
N6kolk vd lvc bylo pfvedeno do areny cirkusu jez
bya zrzena chvane pro fovani obrazu. Jedna vice
vse nadan preskoca zabradli vrha Palombiho
ktereho jala Sc trhati svymi obrovskymi tapami.
Herci herecky drektofi, fotografove pomahaci u
prchl zdesen areny meztm dravec rva svoji obe
Jedine hlidaci vu zachova duchapTitomno podafio
jim zahnati lvici eji mfsto uvnitf areny
kdyz nekolkrate zranili strebou svych revoveru
Palombi skona ceste do nemocnice. Poicie zatkla
drektora fmove spoecno ezto pry nem6 zadneho povo
leni pouzvati lvG arene.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-02-06
VERA CRUZ VYKlIzENA REBElY.
KONEC MEXICKE REvOLUCE IDA Sc
BYTI BLfZKY.

Tampco, Mexiko, 5. lnora Vera Cruz byla dnes Wy
kizena rebeskym vokem die redn depese zaslane Ira
puato presidentem Obregonem federanmu vetel
sdentova depese mi:
MAN cest sdeti vam re byl sem uvedomen telegraf-
MIN fadem Vera Cruz re pritav by vykzen zrad
ze De La Huela spole6nos jnymi dobe znamymi
rebelskym vGdci vsed parn jehoz ell cesy nen znam
Gen. Gutierrez pred svym odjezdem rovnez obdrzel
zpravu potrzuc re meto Vera Cruz bylo ykzeno rebe
Washington, s. dnora. - Ones bylo uTedn6 oznamenp
odborem tu re mexcke pfistavn mesta Vera Cruz byo
vykzeno povstalc Zprava tom smysu byla obdrzena o
americkeho konsua tamtez Rebelove by porazen odde
Martineze jsou zmatenem teku smerenl Tuxpa-
mu Puerto Mexico Federaln vojsko zvitezo vsech
vetsich bvach konec revouce zda byti bzky Amer
lcky kznk Rochester kovi pravu Vera Cruzskem za
stane tam, pokud kid nezavadne.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-02-06
STAVKA RADNICNfCH TE-
LEFONISTEK.

Reditel mestskych parka a
majetkd Harmon jmenoval no.
YOU telefonistku 81. f. Kohle-
rovou, coz y neobjasnenych
dosud pricin vyvolalo nelibost
hlavni operatorky pf. r. N
Walaceove, ktera zanechala
prace a v stavce teto byla ma
sledovana Gtyfmi telefonistka-
mi ostatnimi, tax re radnice