The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER BREWER EXPOSES BOND THIEVES; OFFICE RAIDED William J.Burns Breaks into Attorney’s Rooms (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON. — Department of Justice agents broke into the office of Charles B, Brewer, special assist- ant attorney general, and attempted to steal evidence involving high gov- ernment officials in one of the great- es scandals in the history of the American government. The raid occurred after Mr. Brew- er refused to turn over the evidence to Under Secretary of the Treas- ury Winton on the request of As- sistant Attorney General Hollander. Interest in the discharge of 28 employes of the Bureau of Engrav- ing by the Harding administration is revived by the latest scandal. Brewer fearing that desperate measures would be used by William J. Burns to steal the evidence asked for an injunction of the Columbia Supreme Court to prevent this evi- dence from being taken away from him by government officials. He also took the precaution of turning over the key of his safety deposit vault to Senator King of Illinois for safe keeping. Attorney General Daugherty twice discharged Brewer and the latter was reinstated by the late President Harding and again by President Coolidge. The Treasury Department and the Department of Justice re- fused to co-operate with him in mak- ing public the duplication of liberty bonds which has caused the govern- ment a loss of millions. It was presentation of this evi- dence to President Harding that caused the latter to discharge the Bureau of Engraving employees. Brewer had a conference with Pres- ident Harding in December, 1922, during which the president in the presence of Daugherty, Under Secre- tary Gilbert, Commissioner of Public Debt Houghton and Chief Moran of the Treasury Secret Service, dis- cussed the duplication of govern- bonds. Harding afterwards declared in the presence of Mellon that: “They call this man a ‘nut. It takes a ‘nut’ to bring me such things as you see here. They are after this man good and hard and I don’t intend to let anything happen to him.” Since then the destruction of du- plicate bonds has been going on in spite of the warning of President Harding that the administration would need the evidence to clear itself. But the Coolidge administra- tion is now desperate and its slogan -Versenkt.”... Bnt. there is so much graft wreckage lying around that a tidal wave could not dispose of it. The workers of America are now having an excellent object lesson in the putridity of capitalist politics. The so-called upholders of “law and order” who spend most of the time— when they are not busy looting the public resources—jailing radicals, are now exposed in their true colors. Among the conclusions arrived at by Brewer after his investigation, the most outstanding are the follow- ing: There are about 3,000 known pairs of duplicate bonds and 4,000 pairs of duplicate coupons. Duplicates are still pouring in. Treasury officials have made no real effort to trace cause of duplication and duplicates are being held by guilty parties waiting for destruction of the bonds which would prove their guilt. Denials of guilt continue to come from the Treasury Department but the probers continue to probe. A non-partisan committee is drafting a resolution ordering an investiga- tion of Brewer’s charges of 2 $1,000,- 000 bond fraud. The members of this committee are 1a Guardia, New York; Woodruff, Michigan, and Jef- fers, Alabama. tt a tel BOOKSELLERS, NEWSDEAL- ERS, STATIONERS, CIGARS The Tempest Bursts Out of the Teapot By JOHN PEPPER. HE political significance of the Teapot Dome scandal is growing ever bigger. The indignation of the masses against the corruption of the highest government officials is growing more and more bitter. The investigation is in fact only beginning, but already voices arise everywhere in the capitalist camp for closing the investi- gation. Washington is panic-stricken. Everybody is suspected and justly so. Nobody knows today who will be involved in the scandal tomorrow. Democratic politicians began the investiga- tion with the intent of having a good election issue against the corrupt Republican leaders. But the second step of the investi- gation followed quickly after. The Republican politicians in their turn exposed the Democratic leaders. Today we have the unprecedented situation where both Republican and Democratic! “leaders of the nation” at once, stand before the nation with) their clothing of patriotism and respectability torn off and the masses see with horror their naked ugliness and shame. It is an unexampled political schooling for the masses. The scandal is too big. The masses are beginning’ to realize that it is not an accidental corruption of kept men in the gov-| ernment, but that the sickness is in the system itself, and that the United States has a kept government. The New York Times! spoke in the name of the whole capitalist class when it declared: that the Madison Square Garden mass demonstration of tens of thousands of Communist workers is not dangerous in itself, but becomes dangerous thru the occurrences in (Washington, that the real danger lies in the fact that the great masses are losing, their faith in the present system of government. And the New York Times is right. The happenings in Washington, the disintegration of the old capitalist parties, the, disillusionment of the workers and farmers over sacred Amer- ican democracy gives significance to the Communist demonstra- tion, joins the Communist vanguard of the working class with the hitherto backward masses of the working class. The Teapot Dome scandal will advance and hasten the dis- integration process of the old capitalist parties. The Third Party movement has received a new impetus. The spokesmen, of the lower middle class utilize the discrediting of the political leaders of the big capitalists to snatch the farmers, small busi- ness men and workers away from the old party politicians and! to unite them in a Third Party. Hearst’s New York American writes in connection with the oil scandal: “In fact the public mind is in such a temper that if the predatory financial interests played their old game and captured both party conventions for ‘safe’ candidates, NOTHING WOULD STOP THE POPULAR REVOLT AND THE ELECTION OF AN INSURGENT THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE.” Victor Berger, the petty bourgeois Socialist, has made a public appeal to LaFollette calling upon him to form a Third Party, promising that Victor Berger and all other petty bourgeois elements would follow him. It is an undisputed fact that millions of farmers and lower middle class elements today no longer belong to the old capital- ist parties. If the consolidation of these elements into a Third Party advances so slowly, the chief cause for it, apart from inertia, is the betrayal of the “progressive” politicians in Con- gress who are still sticking to the old capitalist parties. We must not forget that as long as these so-called “progressives” remain in the old capitalist parties, they help to maintain the unity of the capitalist class against the workers, they assure for the capitalists the necessary mass support by keeping in the camp of the old capitalist parties, not only millions of farmers but also millions of workers. We must, therefore, utilize the Teapot Dome scandal to denounce all these “progressive” sena- tors and representatives before the masses as traitors and as indirect accomplices of the corrupt capitalist politicians, as long as they remain in the Republican and Democratic parties. We must help to stir up a mass indignation which will force the La Follettes and Wheelers to step out of the Republican and Demo- cratic parties. But our main task—as I stated in my previous article on the Teapot Dome scandal—is to deepen the wrath of the work- SINCLAIR FOR COLD MILLION BLACKMAILED|STRONG DRIFT To February 9, 1024 Fi-L, PARTY IN N. P, CONVENTION Big Minority for Mora- Denver Post Editor Gives} °° in League Meet Probers Thrill (Contineed from page 1. . ) wise fail the republic as he has| for the new part: failed it,” Walsh attacked Senator Lenroot, chairman of the committee, for at- tempting to draw McAdoo into the controversy, saying: “It was reserved to the chairman of the committee who has repeatedly from the floor lectured other mem- bers for giving to the investigation a political color, to travel outside the realm of examination into the leases of the naval oil reserves, by the reso- lution to inquire into the employ- ment by Mr. Doheny of counsel in matters unrelated thereto for the perfectly obvious possibility of ruin- ing the prospects of the leading can- didate for the Democratic nomina- tion for president. Harsh Words, Senator. “Mr. Denby says the wool was pulled over his eyes. His testimony discloses that it wasn’t much of a trick; that he is one of those who, having eyes, see not and, having ears, hear not the things that con- cern their temporal, however it may be with their eternal salvation.” Resolutions calling upon the State Department for all available infor- mation concerning oil leases made by nine nations was introduced in the Senate today by Senator Dill, Wash- ington, Democrat. One resolution calling for corre- spondence concerning leases made by England, Holland, Portugal, Persia, Venezuela, Cheko-Slovakia and Mex- ico, and data concerning Russian oil activities. A second resolution calling for information concerning Colombian leases. _* * WASHINGTON. — Fred G. Bonfils, publisher of the Den- ver Post, told the Senate Com- mittee investigating the oil scandal today that he has a secret Teapot Dome contract with Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of that naval reserve. Sinclair already has paid him $250,000, Bonfils said. Under the contract Sinclair must soon pay $1,000,000 if he wishes to drill certain acreage in Teapot Dome! » © “Some time after the Teapot Dome lease was signed an acquaintance of mine, Leo Stack, showed me a con- tract he had,” Bonfils said, “He claimed it was a prior contract and that the Sinclair lease had been granted over his head. “I fhad my attorney look over Stack’s contract and thought it legal. “So I entered into a contract with Stack under which we were to give him the first $50,000 and we would divide the remainder between my partner and my attorney. Story Never Published. “I heard a good many rumors so I concluded to send a man to New Mexico to investigate. “I sent Mr. Stackelback (a re- porter) and he came back with an ers and exploited farmers and to turn it into an opposition to the capitalist governmental system. We must show the workers and farmers that our democ- racy is nothing but the rule of finance capital. We must prove that this scandal is not an accident, but is of the essence of the present governmental system owned by capitalism. )We must show that it is no remedy to drive out the corrupt “statesmen” and to elect “honest” statesmen, because it is impossible to separate corruption and exploitation of the masses from the capitalist governmental system. A great opportunity presents itself for showing the masses astounding story. He was cautioned especially not to disclose his identity er to quote those from whom he obtained the story. “The managing editor, Mr. Shep- pard, and I talked it over with Mr. Bottoms, my counsel. We decided the articles should not we printed because they were libelous. “We then ran a long article at- tacking the Sinclair lease under the most conspicuous caption we had. “Mr. Zevely (Sinclair’s attorney) came out to see us and invited us to New York to see Mr. Sinclair, It ~ the only remedy—their own rule, the workers’ and farmers’|was about July 4, 1922, when we government. Never yet was there such a fine chance before us| ¥@"t to see Mr. Sinclair. AND TOBACCOS People are judged by the books they read. All the best books, old and new, can be obtained from Morris Bernstein’s Book Shop, 3733 West Roosevelt Road. Phone Rockwell] 1453. Btationery, Music and all Periodicals. Come and get a Debs calender free. WORKERS, ATTENTION! We carry Union made Cigars and Tebacco, Pipes, Toys, Magazines, Confectionery and Stationery. Buy Your Herald and Daily Worker Here. CHAS. RASMUSSEN 2621 W. NORTH AVENUE Phone Armitage 0366. When in the FEDERATION BUILDING patronize the CIGAR STAND in the lo! We handle Union Made brands. Pederation Cigar Stand 166 W. Washington St. CARL WIRTHMAN 1787 CLYBOURN AVE. Manufacturer of High Grade for fashioning the instrument to this goal—the independent class party of farmers and workers. LESSONS OF THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL WITH OUR CAMPAIGN FOR THE CONVENTION OF THE FARMER. LABOR MOVEMENT ON MAY 30, IN ST. PAUL. An active political mass party of the workers and farmers is possible only if we succeed in focusing the eyes and interests of the workers and farmers upon government and Congress. It is the most important Communist duty to do that; and to that end, we must utilize every event of political life, every indus- trial struggle of workers, every strike movement of unions, every misfortune of bankrupt farmers. Seldom before did polit- ical history offer a better opportunity for doing this. Senator Reed characterized the Sinclair and Doheny leases as “The most gigantic steal of history.” And he cried, out with fear: “The federal government has often faced great dangers. It has not hitherto experienced so great a national shame.” We must utilize the most gigantic steal of history to set in motio:y the most gigantic workers’ and farmers’ movement of our his- tory. The great indignation of the masses against the great national shame must be converted into solid organization. We must do our utmost to have the capitalist federal government really face the greatest danger. We must stake everything upon making the demand of workers’ and farmers’ government the irresistible demand of the masses. Fur Workers’ Union Wins Two-Year WE MUST TIE UP THE} so we went back to Colorado. “Mr. Sinclair told us brompely, ‘I don’t know why you came here,’ “In the meantime we had_ brought suit against the Midwest Oil Com- pany and other companies to carry out our contract with Stack, “Later we met Sinclair in Okla- homa City and made « contract by which he was to pay us $250,000 and give us 320 acres of land in the Teapot Dome. This was because of our claim thru the Stack contract. $1,000,000 Deal. “Sinclair said later he would op- erate our acreage because he didn’t want anyone else beside himself ~ bea there. We refused to do “So finally we decided to let him have 18 months to decide whether he wanted to pay $1,000,000 to us for our share, “He paid us the original $250,000 of which $50,000 went to Stack, ‘ot $43,000 and my partner got 000. Mr. Schwartz, our attor- ney, got about $15,000, Then Stack got $43,000 more for his pro rata share.” Bonfil’s statement accounted for $194,000. He did not say where the remainder of the $250,000 went, “The 18 months will expire March 15th, this year,” he continued, The Stack contract with Edward L. Doheny, by which Stack claimed Union Made Cigars Wholesale and Retail Box trade a specialty LEVINSON’S BOOK STORE 3308 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago Phone Van Buren 3651 Agreement Approved by Rank and File (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK.—A new agreement between the Associated Fur Manufact- urers, Inc., and the International Fur Workers’ Union, replacing one which expired Jan. 81, has been ratified by the rank and file of both tides, The agreement covers a period of two and grants the union a few concessions. Ratification was delayed on agcount of fostility towards it by certain manufacturers. Union officials claim that in a referendum vote 92 per cent of the membership voted for ratification, priority, was read, Then the Stack contract with the Pioneer Oil company, releasing Do- heny from the first contract, was pees f Under its provisions the Pio- neer Oil company was to be given some privilege to drill offset wells. ————————. “If it can be done by THE DAILY WORKER can do it”. (Continued from page 1) each congressional district was also elected. There is tremendous enthusiasm and all the sin- cere members of the non-partisan league are getting in. The Federated land program adopted pleases the delegates and they feel Prat it will be a real foundation on which to build an organization that eannot be stolen by self-seeking politicians who prate of political expediency. Present at the conference that formed the Farmer-Labor party were members of the state senate and for- mer members of the non-partisan league state executive committee. The best fighting material in the old league is either in the new party or has signified their intention of joining. See Hand of Coolidge. _ The hand of the Coolidge Admin- istration and the influence of the powerful Republican machine were plainly visible in the first sessions of the State Convention of the Non- partisan League of North Dakota. An attempt was made to have ‘he convention indorse the nomina- tion of Senator LaFollette for the presidency. After a spirited debate the delegates adopted the majority report of the committee on this ques- tion. The majority report did not propose the endorsement of Coolidge. No delegate here would dare to ask that openly at this convention. But the report recommended that no ac- tion be taken at this time by the Nonpartisan League on the question of presidential nominees. i Seek LaFollotte Indorsement. The minority report was presented to the Convention with the reading of two letters to the delegates from Congressman Sinclair and United States Senator Lynn W. Frazier. Sinclair, who has for a long time been closely associated with LaFol- lette in Washington and who is con- sidered as the Wisconsin Senator’s right hand man in the state, specifi- cally asked endorsement for LaFol- lette’s candidacy. In view of the conference held last Saturday in Washington by many active Democratic and Repub- lican progressives, and its decision to urge LaFollette to accept the nomination of the Presidency on a third party ticket, this open appeal for the presidential nomination of | the Wisconsin Senator is significant. It is the most open bid LaFollette has yet made for the nomination. Dirt Farmers Welcome Ayres. Tom Ayres, of the Farmer-Labor Party of South Dakota, was given round after round of applause when he appealed to the Convention to line labor movement to build a big polit- ica] party of the workers and farm- ers, independent of the present re- publican and democratic parties, of the bankers and railroad magnates. Ayres made an eloquent speech to the delegates to take the first step in this direction by organizing a strong State . Farmer-Labor Party with a real program, the five-year moratorium on farm mortgages, and the land to the users of the land. The dirt farmers gave Ayres’ speech a great reception, while the bankers Pe office seekers who were delegates sat in marked silence. ‘The Executive Committee of the Farmer-Labor Party of Montana wired to the Convention to take ac- tion similar to the program outlined by Ayres, Strong Sentiment for Class Party. After a vigorous debate on tne question, the convention defeated the minority report of the committee ad- vocating a five-year moratorium by a vote of 43 to 25. The strong showing made by the advocates of the moratorium and in- dependent farmer-labor political ac- tion was unexpected and lent great encouragement to the radical dele- gates. Many militant farmers and old league members watching “No Firetraps,” Says Brazen Report of Board of Education) Statements made in the DAILY WORKER that the inspection made by the board of education of fire- trap school buildings was a fake- idbewaah lag affair were true when the in tors made their report to the building and grounds committee of the board yesterday. They re- ported that in their opinion there were no such things as fire trap schools. They did not make a single rec- ommendation that would cost the board of education any money which is what the board wants, it was in- dicated. The comfete d@ails of the inspection were not made public. More than thirty schools were visited by the inspectors, Myerscough Is Speaker. First-hand information of the stormy sessions of the big miners, up with the great national farmer-|!¥' proceedings were much heartened by the great strength rolled up by the insurgent farmer-labor elements and saw in the result of the vote a posi- tive evidence that the petty factional- ism and fights among the would-be old party office holders now strang- ling the League are approaching their end very rapidly. Delegates May Act. Present developments tend to indi- cate that there is littie likelihood of the convention being swung over to the immediate organization of a State Farmer-Labor Party, convention held recently in Indian- apolis, will be given in Chicago Sun- day evening by Thomas Myerscough, national secretary of the Progressive Miners’ committee, who will speak at the Workers Party Open Forum, Capitol Bldg., 159 N. State St., (17th floor), Myerscough was present at every session of the Indianapoli® conven- tion—one of the most important con- ventions in the history of the United Mine Workers of America. Myers- cough was there, not as an idly curious spectator, but as one vitally interested in the outcome of the debates. Dunne Speaks for Sunday Class. William F. Dunne will give an esti- mate of “The Revolutionary Outlook } in America,” Sunday morning, at the weekly class conducted by the Work- ers Party, Local Chicago. The class meets every Sunday at 10:15 a. m., at 1902 W. Division St. Previous instructors included James P. Can-| non and Max Bedacht. The subject | for the Feb. 17 session will be “The | War and the Second International.” Racine Dance For Daily Worker. RACINE, Wis.—Robert Minor will| speak at a grand concert and dance at National Hall, Racine and 18th St., Sunday afternoon. The program starts at 2:30 p. m., and dancing will continue until mid- night. 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