The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 27, 1924, Page 1

Ss = . THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 350. Subscription Rate! Entered as Second-class matter Outside Chicago, by In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. i i { { \ mail, $6.00 per year ane DAILY i WOR September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Miinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1924 <q «. ” ( \ 4 i KER. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. 10,000 NEEDLE WORKERS $ Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amal, ation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Kussia Price. 3 Cents Leased Wire Gave McLean Dope On Probers 150 SHOPS HIT BY GENERAL STRIKE HERE Ladies’ Garment Workers An- nounce Big Walk Out It is planned to have the gen- eral strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un- ion called this morning. The strike, when called, will affect 10,000 workers, most of them girls and women, working in the dress and waist shops of Chicago. Ever since it was decided to call a strike unless the bosses conceded the demands of the union ‘the workers have been impatiently awaiting the word that would mean. that they would walk out of the shops. The strike will also involve 3,000 cloak makers, all of whom are men. They will goon strike in order to protect the women strikers against the violence of the bosses’ hired thugs. They have already been or- ganized into committees who will protect the pickets and see to it that no violence occurs. They will remain on strike only long enough to assure themselves and the women _ that no... by the bosses. arrangements have been made to taxed care of the strikers. Halls have been rented in the various dis- tricts in which the waist and dress shops are located. . In the downtown district six halls have been rented at 180 W. Wash- ington St. and three halls at 20 W. Randolph St. Workers in the Northwest section of the city will meet at Schoenhof- en’s Hall, Milwaukee Ave. and Div- ision St. Workers on the West Side will meet at the West Side Auditor- ium at Racine Ave. and Taylor St. Leaflets giving the details of the strike arrangements have been printed and will be put in the hands of the shop chairmen of the various shops to give out when the strike is called. All. workers will be in- structed to go at once to the near- est hall and register. ~ The strike will be called after more than a month’s unsuccessful negotiations between some of the bosses and the union. Most of the bosses have refused to take any part in the negotiations. The shops that have union help want to continue the agreement that is now in force for another year but the union demands a new agreement. The union is demanding the five- day 40-hour work week on the basis of 44 hours. They also demand un- employment insurance. The Chicago garment workers wil) have the backing of the International union in their strike. The strike will be in charge of a strike com- mittee recently elected to carry on negotiations with the bosses and cal) a strike if the negotiations fail. The strike when it ig called will be the biggest thing that has. hap- pened to the union here since the gen strike in he industry in 1917. The 1917 strike was called because the conditions in the in- dustry had become intolerable for the workers, Union officials say the same conditions exist today. The union has not the industry organized thoroly, they admit but they are confident that they wiil be able to get all the workers in the trade to respond to the strike call. One of the main concerns of the union will be to protect the work= (Continued on page 2.) DAUGHERTY ON THE JOB JUSTICE PRIVATE Department ’ | Women Deans—The School Suton CONGRESS MAY _. Who Investigate Radicals— Are Assembled AtN.E. A. Convention Hundreds of well-dressed women, master spies by occupa- tion, are gathered in the ballroom of the Blackstone hotel this week, to discuss their problems. of deans of women in the National Hducation department of superintendence is holding its annual meet in REDUCE J. D,’S GIFT BOODLE Tax Escaping Millions Are Due for Cut (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—A gift tax to end evasions of the inheri- tance tax probably will be written into the new revenue bill today by the Democratic-Progressive coalition in the House. Republican leader Longworth said that it is well known that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., now holds $600,- 000,000 in Standard Oil and other securities, presumably gifts from his father. This is the situation the coalition wants to reach by the new tax. At the request of Representative Garner, Texas, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, Chairman Green will revise his gift tax amendment, providing the same rates as the inheritance tax adopted yesterday. Green's amendment provides a one per cent levy on gifts between $10,- 000 and $14,000 graduated to 10 per cent on amounts over $46,000. Garner proposes to start the tax at one, per cent on $10,000, increasing to 40 per cent on $10,000,000. If the gift tax can be disposed of today, the excise taxes will be taken up. A bitter fight impends over the amendment of Representative Clan- cy, Michigan, to cut in hal? the five per cent levy on auto trucks and accessories, Hew many of your shop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get one of them to subscribe today. Chicago. “The National Edugition clair, “is a political machine, maintained by big business to do a certain job in the interest of big business.” Spy Out Radicalism. A very special part of this certain job is performed by the deans of women in the schools. (The art of deaning is spreading to fac- tories employing women workers.) They keep watch over the girls. They are on the lookout for ail sorts of things that may make the college unpopular with the public. A girl with radical opinions may make herself too notorious thereby. She gets a talk on good form from the dean. Perhaps that does not squelch the young agitator. Then the dean may be able to fasten some sex scandal or rumor of scandal upon her and force her into sfience or out of school, Two girl students, one. at Wisconsin, were recently expelled for marrying while still in school. “Not because they married, but because they elopad, which we do not approve of,” one dean explains, Deans Use Stoolpigeons. How the deans get hold of their information was a secret jealously guarded at the convention, At last a former dean at Northwestern Uni. versity broke the ice by admitting that she used all information brought to her by volunteer spies among the students. It was freely admitted that the dean of men at Pennsylvania (Continued on page 2.) DAILY WORKER Greets the Striking Garment -Workers T HE DAILY WORKER, on behalf of the Workers Party, expresses its solidarity with the 10,000 striking members of the International Garment Workers Union and pledges its aid in hringing the strike to a speedy and successful conclusion. Nothing will please the DAILY WORKER better than to be able to record in the near future the compiete defeat of the bosses, the organization of the opem shops and a 100 pe? cent victory for the union.” / “ayeNa f They constitute the division Assn., whose Association,” says Upton Sin- Burns Assistant Too Ill for Trial as Crook, He Says NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—If Gaston B. Means, former right hand man of William J. Burns, and _ special} agent of the department of justice, is! really too sick to appear for trial before Judge Learned N. Hand in federal court on four counts for us- ing the mails to defraud he will have to convince physicians whom Hand will send of his disability. Means’ attorney says he is posi- tively too sick to appear but govern- ment counsel charges that he has been walking the streets. The erstwhile sleuth has had a checkered career, spotted with his early activity as a Burns executive and his relationship to the propa- ganda of the imperial German gov- ernment. Wild Flarry in Senate as Teapot Dome Probers in Secret Session Peruse 100 Wires Sent Fall and McLean in Florida WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—A hundred telegrams sent to former Secretary of the Interior Fall and Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, during their December stay in Palm Beach, Fla., were presented to the Senate Teapot Dome Committee today. : H. T. Taff, general superintendent, Western Union Telegraph Company of Washington, gave the committee a bundle of records from files in his office and the committee immediately went into secret session. The telegrams were called for in the committees efforts to learn the source of suspected “leaks” to persons involved in the oil scandal. Taff protested against sub- mitting the telegrams on the ground that they were confi- dential communications and that his company had no right to make them public without consent of the persons who sent them. The committee, however, decided unanimously to go into all records and Taff agreed under protest. In executive session the com- mittee then began perusal of the messages to determine if any government officials had advised Fall or McLean as to what course they should pur- sue. Reason for Executive Session. Before the committee went into| session, Chairman Lenroot made the following statement: “The chair will state that the ses- sion is to enable the committee to determine which of these telegrams are tand-which are not; Those which are found to be relevant will be read in public session later.” Before the meeting Walsh said he had no present intention of summon- ing Attorney-General Daugherty for questioning about his dealings in Sin- clair oil stocks, Lenroot indicated no move would be made in this direction until after the examination of brokers’ books had been completed. / Walsh also announced he had no intention of subpoenaing Will H. Hays, former postmaster general. Walsh said he had=told his clerk to issue a subpoena for G. D, Wahlberg, former private secretary to Harry F. Sinclair and that he expected Wahi- berg to appear tomorrow. Wahlberg will be questioned about references he made in previous testi- mony to a “Mr. Hayes.” The com- mittee took it that the “Mr, Hayes” was an employe in the Sinclair office but because of recent developments they wished to make certain of his identity. Wilton J. Lambert, attorney for McLean, appeared at the committee room, saying he intended later to con- fer with Walsh. Senators Frightened. Action of the committee in exem- ining the telegrams behind closed doors caused excited comment among the hundred or more_ spectators crowded in the hall outside, because of recent reports that two members of the committee might have been authors of some of the big stack of messages to Fall and McLean. All Wire Records Asked, In a further effort to trace reports that government officials guided the course of former Secretary Fall after the “scandal” disclosures, the Senate $$. Two-thirds McLean Messages Related Had Leased Wire Installed Day Girl Conviet Strangies Matron. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 26.— Gladys Ellis, 26, an inmate of the Indiana woman's prison here, early today strangled and beat Mrs. Lou- ise Richards, 10, matron, to death and escaped from the prison, police announced. Urge Daniels for President. RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 26.—The state democratic executive commit- tee meeting here is expected to en- dorse former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels for the presiden- tial nomination at the coming demo- tee considered the evidence cratic national convention, Blaze Origin Is Myst DECATUR, IIL, Feb, 26,—Officials | reer.” are still at a loss to determine the origin of the $750,000 blaze which| committee in executive session gutted the Wabash today. of official intrigue is expected to be revealed. shops here early} trace connections between high of- ficials and former Secretary of ALL EDUCATORS ATTENDING THE PRESENT CHICAGO GATHERING OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIA Read What World’s Greatest Educator, Quiz Him; WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The name of a ment—was drawn into the oil into telegrams of Edward B. he is, a new sensational story One member of the commit- might prove sufficient to “wreck another political ca- Telegrams were examined by the to McLean, publisher of th: The identity of the politici t defini ‘bikie P the ab - ician was not definit Teapot Dome committee called for all telegraph and telephone records. Senator Thomas J. Walsh took this step when informed Fall had received advice from men high in the govern- ment and even, perhaps, some mem- bers of the investigating committee. Strong indications were given that some definite information along’ this line had been discovered in the files of telegraph companies, The committee wants every tele- gram addresed from Washington to Hall and Edward B. McLean, his host or to any of McLean’s attaches— |during their sojourn in Palm Beach jin December and January. General managers of the local telegraph companies were summoned for this | purpose. Additional subpoenaes were served today upon telephone officials for records of long distance telephone calls from Washington'to Palm Beach to Fall or later while he was in New Orleans. These subpoenaes are re- turnable tomorrow. To Quiz McLean, Sinclair. A subpoena also was issued for Service upon G. D. Wahlberg, former secretary to Harry F. Sinclair. When Wahlberg was last on the stand he mentioned something about giving bonds to “Mr. Hayes.” The commit- tee thought at the time “Mr, Hayes” was probably an attache in the Sin- eair New York office, but Wahlberg will be asked about it when he re- turns. Demands have been made upon the committee from certain sources to have Will H. Hays, former postmas- jter general, summoned to tell what he knows of the charges made by |Senator Heflin of Alabama that the |leasing of the naval reserves was the |result of “a deal’? made in the Black- tone Hotel, Chicago, before the late |\Preident Harding was nominated as | presidential candidate. Subpoenas probably will be issued |Loday or tomorrow to bring Sinclaiy and McLean to the stand later in the week, This move is Walsh’s final trump card and he does not wish to play it, until all other “leads” have been followed to the end. The survey of brokerage books for records of stock transactions may open up the way for renewed in- jquiry. A report from the experts |who have been conducting the exam- jination is expected to be completed | by tomorrow. Karl G. Schuyler, Denver attorney, who represented J. Leo Stack in the Denver Post, who obtained 3$1,000,- 000 for claims to Teapot Dome, is to take the stand. Schtiyler is re- ported to nave some “sensational correspondence” relating to the deal. Daugherty Saved Again. For the second time in two days Republican Senate leaders this af- ternoon thwarted Democratic aims to begin a probe of Attorney-General administration, while Daugherty’s President Coolidge and his cabinet advisers sought vainly for a solution of the curious situation, during sev- eral conferences at the White House. Immediately upon the opening of the Senate session, Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, asked for unan- imous consent to take up immediate- ly the Wheeler, ~eealution authoriz- ing a special com....ttee to investi- gate Daugherty’s conduct of the jus- tice department. Senator Lodge, Republican leader, promptly object- ed, so consideration of the resolution which was reported favorable from the Senate contingent expenses com- mittee today goes over until to- morrow. o Coolidge Statement. While this action was taking place in the Senate, President Coolidge, af- ter the regular cabinet meeting, conferred first with Daugherty, Sen- ator Weeks, Postmaster-General New and Secretary of Labor Davis. Daugherty was the first to leave this session, declaring there was nothing to be said on the subject of his remaining in the cabinet. Later, Weeks, who was the last to leave-the White , incicated to new development in the would occcur immediately. This was confirmed when it was officially stated at the White House on behalf of President Coolidge that there would be no statement from the president on the Daugherty case today. Secret Sessions Till Thursday. Tomorrow the committee will ex- amine files of the Postal Telegraph Company. Open hearings will not be resum- ed until Thursday when al§ the tel- egrams relating to the inquiry will be made public. Some of the telegrams to McLean were in code but these related espe- cially to McLean’s finances and bus- iness. The committee does not in- tend to go into McLean’s finances except that evidence which might tend to indicate he did not have $100,000 at the time he said he wrote checks in that amount for Fall. “There is a difference of opinion as to whether the telegrams could be considered ‘sensational,’” Senator Adams, Colo., Democrat, who sat in - the hearing, said. Colima State, Mexico, Again Open for Trade with Outside (Special to The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26.—The state of Colima will be reopened for trade on Wednesday, Feb. 27, accord- ing to a statement made today by a government official, In this district the Obregon forces are proceeding without a hitch to clear out the coun- situation ter-revolutionists, who are every- where in a state of demoralization. ———— (Special to The 9g Solin lease scandal when to Oil Mess; Walsh Went to New Story of Crooked Intrigue Bared ig politician—not an official of the govern- the Teapot Dome Committee ie Washington Post. ely established in the telegrams, but if he delved today terior Fall, who was a_ guest of McLean in Palm Beach when the lid was first torn off the scandal sur- rounding the leasing of naval oil re- serves, ke ae 4 Disclosures, Perusal of the telegrams by the committee also revealed: 1.—That Fall, thru McLean, was in intimate touch with every thought and action of the investigating com- mittee which was sitting in Wash- ington, i. 2.—That the day Senator Walsh, In- leading investigator, arrived in Palm Beach, to seek evidence from McLean and Fall, the former put in a leased wire from Washington to Palm Beach, 3.—That of the hundred or more telegrams sent to McLean and Fall, two-thirds of them were considered “pertinent” to the oil scandal inves- tigation and will be made public la- ter. 4.—That no member of the inves- tigating committee comunicated by Western Union with Fall or McLean. 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