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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
They Demand "Free"
Georgia, But Not
India or ireland

At the moment that all the capt.
talist powers and even Fascist Italy
are recognizing Soviet Russia de jure,
the Executive Of the Second Inter
national in Luxembourg passed few
decisions which openly display the
ambition to be even more anti-Bol-
shevist than Mussolini. At the mo-
ment when the international capital
list class is attempting to utilize the
recognition of Soviet Russia for all
sorts of demands upon the workers
and peasants the Second international
deems it its duty to begin energetic
action" in favor of the enemies Of the
Soviet government, in favor of the
Mensheviki and Social Revolution
aries.
The Second international demands
an amnesty for the political prison.
ers in Russia. It demands that the
Russian workers, while facing their
worst opponents, shall give up their
arms, precisely at the moment when
Soviet Russia needs the support Of
all the workers of the world so as to
set at naught the extortive demands
of the capitalist class. The Second
international demands that the gov
ernments which recognize Soviet Rus
STA shall likewise see to it that "this
act shall not hinder the continuation
of negotiations, for the withdrawal
Of the military occupation Of Geor-
gia."
This means that while the capital
list classes of all countries have got
to the point where they are recogniz-
ing the Soviet Russia the Second In
ternational would like to arrange a.
little intervention against Soviet Rus
STA. The question arises whether the
government of Macdonald which had
pledged itself before the English
working class to unconditional recog-
milton Of Soviet Russia will fall in
with these shameful campaigns of the
allies of Macdonald and his govern
ment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26

tiers so simple? Because of bad faith?
We do not believe it. Only the
Mexican Government is not yet a
government of workers and peasants.
In general it is a government,
benevolent towards the workers and
peasants, but a government Of work
ers and peasants-that not yet. And
that is the next task of the Revolu-
ton. That is the program of the
Communist Party. A WORKERS
AND PEASANTS GOVERNMENT /:
that should be the slogan Of the revo-
lutionary proletariat.
Only a government without single
reactionary judge can put an end to
legal chicanery, which blocks the dis
tribution of land to those who work
the land. Only a government with
out single reactionary governor,
without a single reactionary munich
pal president, without a single re-
dictionary chief of police, can put an
end to the Intervention Of the au-
thorities against the workers and
peasants. ONLY AN ARMY WITH
OUT A SINGLE ELEMENT WHICH
is NOT PEASANT OR WORKER.
CAN PREVENT ANOTHER RE-
BELLION AND ASSURE THE PAST
AND FUTURE CONQUESTS OF
THE REVOLUTION.
For Workers and Peasants.
The Communist Party invites the
peasants and workers who wish to
make Of Mexico a government ex-
clusively worker and peasant, to enter
its ranks. The Communist Party in
yites the Agrarian and the Labor
Parties to form a united front to
establish a peasants and workers
government.
WORKERS AND PEASANTS OF
THE WORLD, UNITE! FORWARD
TO THE WORKERS AND PEA
SAINTS GOVERNMENT OF MEX
ICOl FORWARD TO THE WORK
Frs AND PEASANTS GOVERN
MENT OF THE ENTIRE WORLDI
The Communist Party Of Mexico.
Section Of the Communist
international.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
Lock Out Poultry Dressers.

SAN FRANCISCO, March u.s.
Union poultry dressers, 100 in num-
Der, employed in wholesale establish
ments here and in Oakland and Peta-
luna, are locked out by their employ
ers. The lockout took place when the
men asked for cents instead Of Az
cents apiece and for an eight-hour day
instead of the present nine and one
half. The firms Immediately on re-
ceiving the demands killed all stock on
hand, cleaned up and discharged the
dressers outright. The union has
called on poultry dressers in retail
establishments to strike in sympathy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26

lance of $44.85 collected
among the members of that
organization.
This amount was collected by G. M.
Shulth and John Telawske by circu-
lating the subscription list among the
members of the organization mem
toned. Dollars, half dollars and
Quarters subscribed by these miners,
who realize the Importance Of the
struggle for a mass political party
which will fight the battles Of indus
trial workers and farmers, brought up
the total to close to $4,000. Those
who contributed are:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
Circulate Subscription Lists.

Circulate Subscription Lists.
There are tens of thousands of
workers who will welcome the OPP
portunity to make a contribution to
the campaign fund for a mass Farm
er-Labor Party. The money which is
given to this fund means aid in max
ing the campaign to awaken the
masses of workers and farmers reach
tens Of thousands who are not yet
supporters of the farmer-labor party
movement and the organization of
new groups in support Of the move
ment.
The work done by Comrades Shulth
and John Telawske should serve as an
example for every worker or farmer
who has received a subscription list.
Talk to your shopmates, neighbor and
brother trade unionists about the
June 18th Convention and the need
Of a party to fight the battles Of
workers and farmers in the coming
campaign. Secure their contribu-
tions to the Farmer-Labor Campaign
Fund of the Workers Party.
Help US build a mighty movement
Of workers and farmers to challenge
the continued rule of the capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
Fate of II Girls Is
Subject of Probe
By Woman Doctor

NEW YORK, March 25.-The fate
Of eleven girls, missing within the
past two years from the Letchwork
Village Home, may be entrusted for
investigation to special prosecutor,
II Governor Smith grants a request
of DR.. Anna w. Rockefeller, who has
evolved startling murder theory.
DR.. Hochfelder, assistant corpora
ton counsel, insists that the bones Of
a skeleton found in cave on Cheese
cock Mountain are those OF Lillian
White, former inmate Of the institu-
ton.
No Seuttling Of Oil Probef
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26

To The DAILY WORKER: The
past several months / have been
an occasional reader of "The Work
er" (daily and weekly issues). I
am taking advantage Of your liberal
trial subscription offer and hope
soon to become a regular subscriber
for ], as member Of the printing
trades unions (Mailers No. 10, I.
T. w am in sympathy with the
cause The DAILY WORKER SO elo-
quently represents.-L. c. S., San
Francisco, Calf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
Your Union Meeting
Fourth Wednesday, March 2sth

No. Name Of Local and Place Of Meeting.
Boiler Makers. Monroe and Racine.
Blaeksmiths' District Council. i1s 3.
Throop 81.
10 Carpenters, IL Garfield Blvd.
q Carpenters. western and Lexington.
z4z Carpenters, btl3 S. Ashland Ave
1893 Carpenters. sos s. State 81.
1884 Carpenters, 1888 N. Halsted
st. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec'y.,
2253 Grace st. Irving 1897.
1922 Carpenters. s4It S. Hsisted St.
25o7 Carpenters, 1881 Maple Ave, Evanston,
III.
ISL Cooper. ssol Eseansba Ave.
7o7 Firsmsn and Enginemsn, SSH Archer
Ave.
losss Hair spInnsrs, s44s S. Ashland Ave.
He'd Carriers, 1854 W. Division St.
$50 He'd Carriers. $40 w. Harrison St.
III yanitors. gard and 4sth AYES, Cicero.
81 Janitcrs (Window Workers., ise w.
Washington st.
Jewslry Workers, 10 w. Adams st.
io4 Ladies Garment Workers, S2s ". Van
'I2e Mschinists. ia s. Ashland Blvd.
52l Machiniats, 73s N. Cicero Ave
S75 Maintenance Of Way, AS W. SD 81.
Marine Cooks. S57 N. Clark ST..
Metal Trades Council, 1l9 S. Throop 81.
"a Painters, sherman and Main Sts.,
Evsnstsn, Ill
Plasterers, $40 W. Menroe st.
Railway Carmen Dist. CouAeil, s4lS s.
Ashland Ave.
ss7 Railway Carmen. sd44 Wentworth Ave.
i5l0 Railway Carmen, 5tls Ashland Ave.
40 Railway Trainmen, l26 W. SD st.,
7;3o .. m.
ii Roofers. TIT W. Adams St.
- Sheet Metal. ia w. Harrison St.
ass Sheet Metal, 5324 g. Halstsd St.
7S5 TeAmsters, IT'S W. Washington st.
Ise Transfers Meat, 22O s. Ashland Blvd.
Tee Teamstsrs (Bone), ee5e S. HaIsted St.
1So4s Tuekpainters, sic w. Harrison st.
szk Tunnel and subway Workers. sII W.
Harrison St.
(Note--Unless otherwise stated all neetinrs
are 1t D. MI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26

The Russian Revolution armed its
workers and peasants. Our revolu-
ton was unable to furnish the work.
ers and peasants with arms when they
asked for them. The Government
has not known how, OF has been un-
able to destroy the professional army
and to create proletarian army.
And why so many errors In mat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
THE PARTY AT WORK
Miners Local Gives Fnrmer-Labor
Party Campaign Fund Big Boost

The response to the call Of the Workers Party for
pagn fund to be used in the fight for organization of
Farmerabor Party thru the June 18th Convention at ST. Paul
is increasing in volume-from day to day.
The biggest boost given the fund Union
No 1902 of the United Mine Workers of America in remit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
America and Reputation Of State Debts

ton of the Congress. The State
Congress has upheld this point of
view and in fiery speeches demanded
to stand by the constitution. The
main supporter of this point of view
was Jefferson Davis, who was after
wards elected President of the
Southern States which have separ-
ated from the North.
1.-TWO other states-Pennsylvania
and Michigan-followed the same ex-
ample.
estate bankruptcies in the form Of
reputation has taken place in the
following twelve States-Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana,
Arkansas, ennessee, Minnesota,
Michigan and Virginia. These bank
ruptcies belong to two periods-to
the Fourties and the period between
the Seventies and the Eighties. In
all of these cases with the exception
of two, the States attempted to
justify the annulment of their debts
on legal grounds. They were trying
w PAOfC tttdJ IllC lOdilS WCIC 4itdOt III
contradiction to the laws, or if thew
failed in this, the claim was made
that the law itself was unconstitu-
tional. And when even this excuse
could not be used some minor viola
tons of law were found.
However, even the bourgeois au-
thors justify the bankruptcies of the
Fourties and emphasize the fact that
reputation was demanded not only
by the representatives of the State
Congress, but by the entire ropula-
ton, who refused to pay taxes to
cover those debts. Menas justifies
this by saying that all these debts
were imposed upon the States by
firms-swindlers. AS far as the
other State bankruptcies are con-
cerned, so they have been mainly the
results of civil war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
Where Is Daugherty NouU?

Graft, fraud and corruption are not new in
American politics. But once in while there
is a big leak, the poor public learns too much
about the inner doings Of the government and
the leading officials are compelled to work
overtime to hide this ugly phase of the class
character of the whole business of government
The exposure of the rottenness in the Veter-
ans Bureau headed by Col. Forbes is an ex-
ample Of this sort. The fraud and conspiracy
in the criminal mismanagement of the Vet
erans' Bureau constitute some of the most sor
did chapters yet written in the history of our
'pure, democratic Institutions" There is no
question about the Veterans Bureau steal be-
ing the worst case of blacklist corruption and
darkest graft in the last % years
Yet where is the Honorable Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty, whose task is to protect the
innocent and punish the guilty? With more
than 1000 pages of evidence before him, why
doesn't Handsome Harry" take steps to pun
ish the big fellows who committed this scandal
lous and outrageous holdup on the countrys
treasury? Why does Daugherty show so much
energy and determination in putting innocent
workers in jail for violating infamous uncon-
stitutional injunctions, but do absolutely no.
thing to punish the capitalist crooks who are
engaged in wholesale robberies?
There are many explanations for this Grim
inal conduct on the part of the strikebreaking
Attorney General. Some say that Daugherty
refuses to prosecute in the Forbes case because
too many men high up in the administration
are involved For instance, the Thompson, Kel-
ly Co., of Boston, is mixed up in the deal, and
Boston is the home town of Secretary of War
Weeks and close to the heart of Coolidge.
Others say that Daugherty knows that too
many people have the goods on him and there
fore dares not proceed against others.
These reasons are undoubtedly correct. But
the real explanation for Daugherty's protect
ing the rich criminals and failing the innocent
workers is this: Ours is government of, by,
and for the capitalist class, and Daugherty is
simply carrying out his duties to the employ
ing interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
TouUord Fnscisn1!

Capitalism in Europe is badly in need of a
saviour. The French france is jogging along
pleasantly in the wake of the German mark.
General Dawes and his bankers are trying to
bring Germany back to normally. The British
Labor Party has taken over the reigns of gov
eminent in England. The situation is serious.
What is to be done about it?
Is a dictatorship the solution? While our
capitalist apologists have poured the walls of
their wrath on the Soviet government of Rus
STA because of its workers dictatorship it has
nevertheless smiled on the dictatorship of the
Fascist in Italy which was in behalf of the
capitalist system That the Italian lire main
tains its equanimity while the franc fiutters
and gasps and lurches toward destruction en-
dears Mussolini still more to that section of
society which lives on the toll of others.
The day of bourgeois democracy has reached
its eve. The workers of Russia have estab-
lished their dictatorship until the capitalist
system is supplanted with the new order of
Communism. The capitalists in the rest of
Europe are chafng at the restrictions of dem
ocracy and are anxious to follow the Italian
lead. The class-conscious workers look for in
spiraton to Moscow. The question is: Which
dictatorship?
Frank A Vanderlip, the noted financier,
stated that unless the British Labor Party
arises to its responsibilities, help capitalism out
of the hole-that it would be faced with the
probability of a fascist movement There is
no danger from the leaders of the British La
Dor Party, he declared, but there is from the
rank and file. And he stated further that the
Mussolini of England would rise out of the
liberal-labor combination which has Ramsay
Macdonald as its standard bearer.
In the stormy days following the armistice,
Ill
labor leaders and yellow socialists. Again to-
day as doom yawns before the robber system
its leaders look for aid and comfort to the
same tribe who have made of socialism hiss
ing and by-word Fascism looks mighty good
to the bourgeoisie today. The race to dictator
ship is now on between the workers and the
capitalists.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23

"Still more interesting and in
structive is the legal practice of the
States which prohibit the suing Of
the government for debts incurred.
Georgia has in 1874, even passed a
law imposing death penalty against
those persons who sue the govern
ment for debts. This was directed
mainly against the English clear
illustration of how the North Amer
lean States, having gained freedom
from England, have dealt with their
smutatis mutandis' with their
"Czarist'' debts. State after State
have even incorporated in their con-
stitution clauses prohibiting anyone
from suing the government for
debts incurred. Wisconsin and Ne
braska clearly state in their con-
stitutions that the State can never
be sentenced to pay government
debts. The laws of other States
formally do not have such restric-
tons, but they have other clauses
which in reality make is impossible
to sue the government for debts. :
"The practical result, according to
Prof. Manas, is that every State Of
the United States is given free
hand to deal with its debts in its own
way. In other words they have the
right to declare their debts void, to
annul them. (page 1922.
eve arc rot talking at all about
South America. Not a single State
has there been in the 10th century
in South America which did not de-
clare itself bankrupt. Many of them
go bankrupt not once, but every T.
II years. They are in a position of
chronic bankruptcy, as Columbia, for
example.
"After all this it seems unfit for
Mr.. Hughes to appear as a Don
Quixote of the petit bourgeois NOR
ais. People in glass houses should
not throw stones.'"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23

"Izvestia," official organ of the
Russian Soviet government, of Dec.
%, publishes an interesting historical
sketch by F. Kupelinsh, on the ques-
ton of reputation of its debts by
the American Government. We
publish a translation of that remark
able article in full in view of it's
timely interest to all Americans who
are interested in Recognition of
Soviet Russia. -.''s
"Mr. Hughes has again saddled his
pet horse and in his relation to us
plays the part of a defender of the
capitalist morals" it. says. "He is
disturbed by the annulment of the
czarist debts by the Bolsheviks, be-
cause, of, so to say, the principle in
voIved
"Let us see what America did with
its own debts.
"In judicial science open annul-
ment of state debts, the broadcast
form of state bankruptcy--is usually
called Reputation, which is a
purely <AmcElCdn tcTms \Ott ALOls
Manas' Estate Bankruptcies" Berlin,
1919. Germ. Edition, Page 57). This
term was first applied in 1841, by
the Governor of Mississippi. This
happened after the Cotton Crisis of
1889, which brought tremendous
losses to the Mississippi bank and its
proprietor, the State itself. The
payment of interest and debts of
Mississippi State was then stopped.
Replying to one of the principal
creditors, Holland bank, Mr.. Mott,
the governor of the State declared
the State debts annuled and refused
to make any payments. The reasons
given for this action were-the gov
eminent is not obliged to recognize
loan made by it in an illegal man
ner, namely, without the authorizes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
When Humanity Is In Flower

destroyed homes, ruined places of
busine ss and scattered families to the
four winds.
Yet there are people, who claim to
DC leaders in social, financial and po-
liticsl affairs, that bow the knees to
the God of Mammon and pass up the
needs Of humanity to others. They
think that money is all there is in
this world. They do not know that
the love Of money is root Of all
kinds Of evil.
Go into the secret meeting, Of the
pot-boiling money kings, who mold
candidates for public Offices and furn-
ish the brains to raise campaign funds
from the workers, and note the play
ing Of the game. There is no such
word as people, for the masters in the
art Of politics, hold all.
Men and women having the right
of franchise, are told to vote the right
ticket And woe unto the one in the
employ of Capitalism If that COM
mand is not obeyed. For another
winter Of unemployment might add
many new graves to the long row of
starved bodies. meath mounds. of
earth, In tho cities Of the dead.
Capitalism seeks mon Of outstand-
Ing public Importance to deliver nom
nations, on silver platters. That
means the men sought must have
passed muster in the school Of Cap
italism, thru the push Of money and
the pull Of politics. They must be
successful politicians and have the
power of accumulation.
How different from the plans Of
the people who work--they who build
the railroads, plant and harvest the
crops, put che city walls IN place and
make Il possible fer Capitalism to live
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23

NEW YORK.-You can't make a
silk purse out Of sow's ear. So
they say. Speaking before the Silk
Association, Senator Copeland de-
clared that he favored tax reduc-
ton and a soldiers bonus. He was
Kissed for several minutes and re-
ceived a rather hostile reception
"They Kissed and booed, blatted and
squealed like a barnyard filled with
geese, cattle and swine," said SEN
ator Copeland. cit Is a most inter-
esting example Of mass hysteria.
nsvsr mere enjoyed Q slinio IN mem
tai nsxwzs 4isessess
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
BY JOEL SHOEMAKER.
State Chairman, Fsrmer-Labor Party
of Washington.

There is sound of revelry. Bells
are ringing out the old and Ginning
in the new. Lackeys in livery stand
to attention. Men and women of
wealth saunter along the gilded halls
of select hotels. The clans are gather
ing for the grand opening march in
the pageant Of Capitalists Clowns.
1t is the beginning Of the political
campaign of 1924. The call for one
million dollars has gone forth. HUI
man brokers are falling over each
other trying to get in on the ground
floor. Checks do not have to be certi-
fed. Bankers take them as sight
drafts. They know the signatures.
Yes, the campaign has started with
a rush. The old bell-ringers are back
at their stations. They viii send out
the glad tidings that another safe and
sane man has been found to sit on the
throne of Comercialism. From ocean
to ocean and from the lakes to the
gulf they win sound his praises.
just a plain man Of this world
might be coaxed, by his own inquis-
itiveness, 20 ask why all this wild,
crazy and extravagant expenditure Of
money in Presidential Campaign?
Then his friendly brother, or sister,
in the arena Of hard work, might
answer in one long word--CAPITAL-
ISM.
Capitalism Is the great enemy of
humanity. It never builds but always
destroys. IL never sleeps for it is
drawing more and more interest in
tho dark. n has no friends, except
n ths daSx a6 guyshinA. 4py a has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23

We have heard Of the man who "came to
scott and remained to pray" but women do
things differently. A Swiss lady burglar came
to prey and remained to take a BATH On lar
ceny intent she climbed into we'll furnished
room but fell under temptation of porcelain
foored bathtub. She has discovered that
cleanliness may be next to godlness but is a
poor excuse for taking liberties with private
property.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
The Role of the Foreign-Born.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-That the
foreign born workers are in the ma
jority in many industries. is made
known in a recent statement issued
by the American Bankers Associa-
ton calling for increased quotas.
The statement declares that the
proportion Of foreign-born in the
various industries is as follows:
Sugar refining, IS per cent: siYk
dyeing, 70 per cent; clothing, 72 per
cent; cotton goods manufacturing.
SO per cent; oil refining, 81 per
cent; leather manufacturing SO nor
cent; copper mining, 65 per cent: BIZ
luminous coal mining, 62 per cent:
agricultural implements, go per cns.
and iron and steel manufacturing,
SO per cent.
these industries became promin-
ent during tho greatest periods Of
immigration--1S90-19f0," Il contin-
ues. "In that same span of years
the prosperity Of the country In
creased materially. Immigrants
helped build up our industries and
msde others which they brought with
0sn the forspsst In the vssl1s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23

for they are not seeking outstand-
ing big men to nominate for public
officials. They want men and women
Of honor, integrity and ability, who
are not tainted with the germs Of
Capitalism.
Humanity will be in flower when
a desire to serve the people stands
head and shoulders above the INDECENT
specimens of Capitalistic Push and
Political Pull. And the day is coming
as sure as the ides of November.