The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-13
j. S. AIDS
WALL STREET
DOLLAR PLOT
Great Fear Of LabOr'S Growing
Discomfort In Europe

Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes
will preside over the first session of
tue sub-committee Of experts investi-
gazing the German financial situation
under auspices of the Preparations
Commission in Paris on January 18th
The other subcommittee charged
with the investigation of the export
Of German capital will delay meeting
until Jan. 2lst, so as to give Henry
M. Robinson, its American member, a
chance to arrive on time for the ses-
sions.
These conferences to fix Germany's
ability to pay Preparations viii per
haps be the biggest gathering of
fnanciers since the close Sof the war.
Should these bankers fail to prop up
lettering Germany the chances Of D
working class revolution sweeping
Europe will be greater than ever.
Fifteen delegates representing the
financial and industrial brains Of tire
United States, England, France, Bel
GUM and Italy win convene to devise.
ways and means of compelling the
German working masses to pay bil-
lions in separations while at the sam
time continuing to pay heavy tr.h
to the German capitalists and y
lords.
Y. S. Representative ReactiS
9ng the prominent intern
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Reginal,, McKenIa, formerly Bits
Chancellor Of the Exchequer and MOI
Chairman Of the Midland Bank; Mr.
Atthalin, director of the Banqua Paris
ct Pays Bias; and Jean " Parmentier.
one of the managers of the Credit
Foncier de France.
Americas big Three" at the con
ference are typical representatives of
Big Business. They are all out-and-
out reactionaries and uncompromisinq
enemies OF the workers.
Brigadier General Dawes is the one
who sold Mckinley, the first imperial
president, to the American people.
He is President of the Central Trust
Co. of Illinois. General Dawes, often
called "Hell-and- Maria" Dawes. was
Chairman of the General Purchasing
Board handling supplies for the
American military forces, and was
the first Director Of the Budget.
"Hell-and-Maria" Dawes is an OPEN
shopper and an eat-em-alive swash-
buckler whose attitude towards labor
is best summed up in an address he
recently delivered to the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce in which he
said that "the politicians these days
are afraid of the labor unions, mar 4
of which are headed by criminals. w
need men who are not afraid of mobs
who are ready to fight"
Morgan Interests Well Represented
Owen D. Young, the second Amer
lean member, is one of the directors
of the International Chamber Of Com
merce, the United States Chamber of
Commerce, the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, the Bankers Trust Conn
pany, and Chairman Of the Radio
Corporation Of America which was
recently attacked by the Federal
Trade Commission for exercising an
illegal monopoly of wireless trans
mission circuits throughout the world
Mr.. Young was a member Of Wilson's
second Industrial Conference and is
now Chairman Of the General Electric
Co. which has extensive interests in
Europe.
Henry NJ. Robinson, the third
American representative. is Losl
Angeles lawyer and financier He IL
president Of the First National Bank
Of Los Angeles and is prominently
identified with many other fnanciaiI
and industrial institutions Mr.. Ro
binson is closely associated WITH thet
steel and rubber industries power
development companies 10 Southern
California, and the anti-union Amer.
lean Telephone and Telegraph Go.
Thru the appointment Of Owen p
Young and Henry NJ. Robinson the
Morgan interests are well represent.
cd p. R Stettinips and Dwight w
Morrow who are partners of j. r.
Morgan & Co are also directors o.
the General Electric Co. Mr. Robins
son has for many wears been CLOSELY
associated with J. p. Morgan himself
How much Importance our fnan-
ciers attach to these conferences IS
evident fpou, fho fol1o,uifoi. afofor,,onf