The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 5, 1924, Page 2

‘Page Two GRILL BURNS AS TOOL OF TEAPOT OIL GANGSTERS Palm Beach Wires in Government Code (Continued from page 1.) eode expert, who deciphered the mes- Sages, read them when the committee this morning resumed its hearings. Here are the decoded messages, which hitherto have not been re- vealed. The contents of others al- ready have been decoded and printed. “January 8, 1924. “John F. Ma care Washington Post, Washington, D. C. Here’s Hypothetical Question, “This is a hypothetical question. John Doe draws a check for $10,000. On the back of the check is written endorsement as follows: ‘John Doe for purchase of house.’ Does bank simply keep a record of the amount of cash drawn or does it keep a rec- ord of explanation written on back of .check?” (Unsigned) “January 28, 1924, 4:37 P. M. “Los Angeles, Calif. “E. L. Doheny, Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, 620 Woodward Building, Washington, D.C. “Compliment you on able presenta- tion Washington. Hiave heard many ftomplimentary remarks and no un- favorable criticism. Cannot resist informing you my opinion that it would be a mistake to offer back lease and an act that could be en- joined by any stockholder. Am per- fectly (word missing) that when resent hysteria is over and if matter weighed in any court proceedings, that you will be thoroly vindicated and (sentence unfinished.) “The company cannot legally be made to suffer for the act of any of- ficial acting unofficially. Everyone here would be pleased to help lift the burden off your shoulders. Hope that your realization the equity the contract will give you aid and comfort at a time when politics seems to be the master. (Signed) “J. A, Y.” The Doheny telegram was sent two days after Doheny revealed to the committee that he had loaned Former + raga of the Interior Fall $100,- Senator Thomas J. Walsh at this juncture read to the committee the correspondence he had with Doheny regarding a proposal that they become associated in a business venture in December, 1923, Investigate Secret Intrigues. Secret intrigues to keep E. B. Mc- Lean off the witness stand in the oil inquiry will have a further airing to- day before the senate oil committee. So" Ween Ra af #teone.step nearer the full inside story of the purpose of these intrigues when it called Wm. J. Burns, head of the Department of Justice Secret Service, to explain how McLean got possession of a code formerly used by justice agents, Burns also was to be asked whether he sent word to McLean at Palm Beach that he was being investigated by the department. The committee is interested in Mc- Lean’s code messages and his unusual efforts to avoid testifying because it believes this indicates that he knows more about the oil scandal than he has told. McLean himself will be put on the stand later in the week and will be asked point blank why he tried so hard to keep out of the in- quiry. All he has told about so far 4s a “loan” of $100,000 to Albert B. Fall, in the form of checks, which both McLean and Fall ‘said, were never cashed. If that was McLean’s only ‘ea in the matter he hardly would have expended such ef- forts to keep from telling about it, senators believe. The: they do not completely believe the story of the $100,000 loan. Further- more, information has been given committee members indicating that Fall did not use the $100,000 given him by Doheny to buy the New Mexi- eo ranch where he now lives. They want to see if McLean can throw some further light on this, Poisonous Painting Machine Protested | | WHO OWNS THE STREETS? fHE DAILY WORKER ‘Wednesday, March 5, 1924 Hho Owns the Streets? is raromige Judge Denis E. Sullivan on the request of attor- neys for the Dress Manufacturers’ Association of Chicago, granted an injunction which prohibits the dress makers who are now on strike for better working conditions from using the streets of the city to peacefully picket the factories whose own- ers have refused them decent working conditions. The DAILY WORKER believes that in issuing this injunc- tion Judge Sullivan and the Master Class of Chicago have issued a challenge to the labor movement of this city which strikes at the vitals of trade unionism. To surrender to this abuse of the courts in behalf of the clothing manufacturers is to surrender the right to strike. $i eae ‘The DAILY WORKER calls upon the striking garment workers to continue the fight in face of the injunction. Ck wee aes. The DAILY WORKER believes they should fight on until victory is theirs. een ape eee The DAILY WORKER further states that it is the plain duty of the Chicago labor movement to at once go into action and throw all its forces into the battle on the side of the strik- ing garment workers and against the bosses and their injunc- tion judges. WHO OWNS THE STREETS? Yesterday the DAILY WORKER charged State’s Attorney Crowe with illegally using the powers of a public office in behalf of the dress manufacturers of Chicago and with having ordered his detectives and police to protect the professional sluggers recruited from the cesspools of the underworld, who are engaged by the clothing bosses to beat and intimidate the striking workers. The DAILY WORKER charged State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe with using his office and the forces at his command to make the streets of the city unsafe for peaceful workers en- gaged in the legitimate task of peaceful picketing, while mur- derers, panderers and robbers roamed the highways and com- mitted crime with impunity. The DAILY WORKER, however, did not believe that State’s Attorney Crowe would go so far in his desperate effort to smash the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ Union as to forbid the use of the streets to citizens having no connection with the strike and furthermore to have them arrested, thrown into jail and held as prisoners in the factories of the scab manufacturers while waiting for a patrol wagon. The arrest of Thomas Holland, Labor Manager for Hart Schaffner and, Marx, and of Attorney Martin S. Gordon, dis- interested citizens who happened to be in the vicinity of the factories which Mr; Crowe’s hirelings are guarding together| with the injunctions issued by Judge Sullivan, indicate that the officials of Cook County. from the judges on the bench to the police on the streets are in a conspiracy against the workers. WHO OWNS THE STREETS? “Injunction” Denis Sullivan prohibits the striking dress makers from picketing the shops owned by the clothing bosses of Chicago. State’s Attorney Robert strikers, protect sluggers, drive citizens off the streets in the vicinity of the dress factories and arrest people who do not move quickly enough. E. Crowe uses his office to arrest do not disguise the fact that} Denis Sullivan, | WHO OWNS THE STREETS? The DAILY WORKER wants to know whether Judge State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe and the dress manufacturers own the streets of Chicago or whether the work- ers have a right to walk on those streets. ss 8 6 The DAILY WORKER warns the entire organized labor movement of Chicago and the working class in general that unless they take action to stop this unwarranted abuse i power on the part of the elected officials of Cook County, thd usefulness of labor unions to the working class will be seriously * The DAILY WORKER +. « urges the president of the Chicago by Workers in N, Y.| Federation of Labor to proceed speedily to the task of organ- NEW YORK, March 4.—Employes of the rad Destructor plant here are working with spray painting machines without any protection from the izing the committee of fifteen which he was instructed to form last Sunday by the Chicago Federation of Labor and, bring such pressure to bear on the state’s attorney and all the other satel- lites of the capitalist class of Chicago that they will realize Sine. The destructor plant destroys | that labor cannot be crucified with impunity. ; ** © 6 forces. Both the paint spray employes of the workers who use ce are in constant fuse ap one by the city garbage and the other The DAILY WORKER also declares that the action of the officials of this caunty who were elected by the votes of the danger of serious diseases from the| workers is another argument in favor of a labor party and use of the spray The Workers’ tested against the practice to the joard of Health. must join in this effort. Chicago, Ill. ins. freaith Bureau has Coming! The Teapot Special! The DAILY WORKER announces it will issue a Special Teapot Edition, dated Monday, March 17th. This will be the first attempt on a large scale to get the real meaning of the oil scandal before the American working class. [Hundreds of thousands pf copies of this issue should be distributed. Party members and sympathizers, alike, / This special edition of the DAJLY WORKER will contain articles analyzing the investigation that is taking place in Washington. The facts will be marshalled in orderly array, so that all labor will clearly understand the meaning of this far-reaching political explosion. There will be smashing cartoons and sketches by Robert Minor, Fred Ellis and our other artists. This edition will be the biggest effort we have yet put forth. Send $ in your orders today for this special issue to THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., another damning indictment of the non-partisan policy which| 2 has placed the enemies of labor in office in Chicago on the tickets of both Democratic and Republican parties. DENIS SULLIVAN OBEYS ORDERS OF GARMENT BOSSES Grants Writs Without Hearing Workers Injunctions written by Dudley Taylor, infamous anti-labor lawyer, and Leo LeBosky, attorney for. the dress manufacturers, were issued by the nation’s labor baiting judge, Denis Sullivan, before he had heard the defense of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, against whom the injunctions were issued, One injunction _ petition was brought by the Chicago Dress and Skirt Manufacturers association thru Leo LeBosky and the other came from five firms represented by Dud- ley Taylor.’ Peter Sissman repre- sented the union. Right To. Picket Denied. The injunctions prohibit the un- ion and its members from, “picket- ing or maintaining any picket or pickets at or near any of the build. ings,” of the firms who applied for the restraining orders. The injunc- tions also prohibit the union from picketing “along the routes used by persons in going to or from the places of business of the complain- ants,” which means the streets where the shops are located. The second count of the injunc- tion prohibits the union or its mem- bers from “watching, following, stopping, assaulting, beating, tnreat- ening, menacing, intimidating, har- assing, molesting, or interfering with anyone employed by” the nrma named in the injunctions, Talking To Scabs Forbidden. The third count of the injunction forbids anyone connected with the union from “calling upon or talk- ing to any of the employes of the complainants and from calling upon or talking to any member of the family of such employes.” The fourth and fifth counts of the injunction forbids anyone from “so- liciting or inducing any person em- ployed by any of the complainants to quit such employment.” Deaf Ear To Labor. Peter Sissman for the union asked that the injunctions be not issued until the court heard labor’s side as well as the employers’. Dudley Tay- lor and Leo LeBosky demanded the injunctions be issued at once. The judge asked if the union was inter- fering with the firm applying for the injunctions. Sissman said that since the union had called a strike and the strike had been effective he supposed that the firms asking the injunction would say the strike was interfering with them. The ‘judge’ then thid tifat he would sign the injunction at once. Sissma biked that the injunctions which had been written by Taylor and LeBos- ky be changed #% read that a single person be permitted to picket the shops. The judge denied the re- quest on the ground that in the state of Illinois all picketing is ille- gal. Blow At Unionism. Sissman then asked that the fifth count of the injunction be stricken out on the grounds that it would. be impossible to hold meetings and make talks on trade unionism with- out being in contempt of court. This was also denied and the motion of the defense to dissolve the injunction was put on the contested motion calendar. This means that it may be weeks before the union will have a chance to re- ply to the charges put forth in the affidavits on which the injunctions were issued. The firms for whom the injunction was obtained by Taylor are‘ Grace- line Dress Co., Singer and Nudel- man, Inc., Goldrich Franklin Co., University Frock, Inc., and Elias ann. Your Union Meeting First Wednesday, March 5th, 1924 No. ‘Name of Local and Place of Meeting. 38 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 1564 Robey St. » Stone Derrick, 18) W- St. jeration, 624 and Halsted. Briek and Clay, Village Hall, Lansing. Carpenters, 12 Garfield Blvd. Carpenters, Western and Lexington. Carpenters, 5443 8, Ashland Ave, Carpenters, Blacker’s Hall, Lake Forest Carpenters, 180 W. Washington St, Carpenters, 505 8. State St. 1784 Carpenters, 1638 N. St. H. Fehling, Rec. Sec’y., 2253 Grace St. Irving 7597. Carpenters, 641 St. Are. 8S a es pong 9130 randoms mm, Hed Carriers District Counell, 614 W. Harrison St, Janitors (Mun.), Kedzie and Belmont. Garment Workers, 328 W, Van Buren W. 55th St. che A rr Sng 728 Toamoters ( 220 8. Ashland Blvd. Teamsters, 22 Ashland raphieal, 5015 No Oiek ny ‘ Wai Fae Crafts, Chleage and) Wests 7. (Mote—Uniess otherwise stated all meetings are at 8 p.m) if Phe Holland, Labor Manager, Hart Schaffner & Marx, Arrested by Crowe Officer; Case Dismissed That the office of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe is entirely at'the service of the clothing manufacturers of. Chi- cago in their effort to break the strike of the dress makers, is further proved by the indiscriminate arrest of anybody seen standing in the vicinity of shops whose employes are on strike. While Thomas Holland, Labor Manager for the men’s clothing firm of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, was standing on the corner of Adams and Market streets on Monday evening, at 5 p. m., conversing with some friends from the Hull House he was approached by a man who rudely told him to move along. Mr. Holland was not participating in any way in the strike, nevertheless he was promptly &rrested by officer Gentile of Robert E. Crowe’s office without warrant or charge and taken to the lobby of the Arthur Weiss & Company dress factory at 315 West Adams Street and held there for two hours until the patrol wagon came. He was shoved into the wagon and taken to the South Clark Street po- lice station, where he was again held for two hours until he was bailed out in the sum of $400, Mr. Holland appeared in -court yesterday morning and his case was instantly dismissed by the judge who declared there was not the slightest ground for holding him. In _a_ statement to the DAILY WORKER, Mr. Holland expressed in- dignation against the attitude of Robert E. Crowe. ‘ “It is quite evident,” he said, “that state’s attorney Crowe's office in- stead of being concerned with punish- ing violations of the law has placed his officers at the struck factories to collect evidence against the strik- ing dress makers. Mr. Crowe appears tu be particularly interested in the firm of Arthur Weiss & Company. He uses the lobby of the factory as INA DAEN SINGS FOR TECHNICAL AID AT MARCH STH CONCERT INA DAEN, Soprano of the Russian Grand Opera She will appear with other artists at the Concert Sunday, March 9, at 4 P. M., at Schoenhofen Hall, corner a temporary police station, “While in court this morning another citizen had the same exper- ience that I had and his indignation was intense. I request the DAILY WORKER to give this evidence of abuse of office on the part of Robert E. Crowe the widest publicity.” Chicago Workers to Flay Corrupt and ‘Oily Government ¢ “The workers of Chicago are a ing to have an opportunity to give voice to their protest against the | corrupt, dil-be-spattered government of this country at the mass meeting this Thursday,” said Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party to a representative of the DAILY WORKER. The mass protest meeting, under the auspices of Local Chicago, Workers Party, is to take » place Thursday, March 6, at 8 p.m. at Wicker Park Hall, 2040 W. North Aye. The editors of the DAILY WORKER, J. Louis Engdahl and William F, Dunne, are among the speakers. By virtue of their posi- tion which places them in close con- tact with oe actual facts of the oily scandal, a complete expose and analysis of the entire affair is as- sured, Arne Swabeck, Chicago. district organizer of the Workers Party, will present the viewpoint and program ! of the Workers Party. A promi- nent member of the Young Workers League of America, which ig par- ticipating in the campaign of ac- tion on the Teapot Dome scandal, will also speak on the phase of the affair which exposes the world | struggle for oil and the probability of the United States becoming in- volved in another world war in the interests of the oil and financial powers of this country. Feeling against ‘the present ad- ministration, against both the Dem- ocratic and Republican parties, has risen to a high piteh due to the ex- posures in the Teapot Dome scan- dal, and it is expected that large masses of workers will fill up Wick- er Park Hall this Thursday to pro- test against the corrupt administra- tion of the government by the Wall Street bankers and the oil and steel magnates, Hear Miss Strong and Donate $130 to \ Starving Germans (Special to The Daily Worker) DENVER, Colo., March 4.—Anna Louise Strong spoke to a large crowd at the First Baptist church on “Russia Today,” under the auspices of The lends of So- viet Russia and Workers’ Ger- many. All of the copies of Miss Strong’s new book. : hand were sold at the meeting as well as over 100 copies of Survey highs fae which contained an article by Miss Strong. The sum of $130 was realized for German relief, The meeting was a success in every way and the mem. bers of the Workers Party in Den- ver. feel elated. Denver local has ordered 10,000 be of the new leaflet entitled: “The Kept Government and the Tea- pot Dome,” written by John §S, Pe) per, and will distribute them to the workers, Local Denver has secured a number of applicants for mem- bership during « past month, Camp Cooks Organize. SEATTLE, Mar. 4.—Cooks in log- ing and construction camps are ‘orming locals of the Cook’s union. One local has been ished in ion is pro- read the DAILY one of them to subscribe today. of Ashland and Milwaukee Aves. The Concert is arranged by the Society for Technical Aid to Soviet Russia. Machinists Reject “Co-operation.” SEATTLE, Mar. 4.—Metal trades unions here are discussing the Wm. H. Johnston co-operative plan, now being considered by a special com- mittee. Under this plan union offi- cials guarantee efficiency of work- men and product while the ma:@ ge- ment guarantees a union wage and conditions. Machinists here re- jected the plan, preferring to con- tinue the class struggle. Express Is Derailed. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 4,— Traffic on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad was delayed several hours today when the Broad- way Limited, New York to Chicago, was derailed at Bellevue, just outside this city. FRANC FALLS TO LOWEST RECORD, 24,75 TO DOLLAR Slump Gains Headway During Day PARIS, Mar: 4.—-The franc fell to a new low record, 24.75 to the dol- lar, 106.80 to the pound, before noon yesterday, The market opened with the franc at 24,10 to the dollar and 105.50 to the pound sterling. . A government financial authority declared the continued fall of the franc was due to world-wide specula- tion, “Many are selling short of franca, They are likely to experience heavy losses soon,” he said, Other’ financiers claim the latest slump is due to the month-end need of industrialists for foreign cur- rency. Poincare’s critics say his Ruhr policy is to blame. North Side Workers Plan Novel Social on Friday Evening The members of the ‘North Side English Branch, Workers Party, will have open house in their headquar- ters, Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Halsted Street, on Friday evening, March 7. The world is invited to come and partake of the mulligan stew. Be- sides this material refreshment, a unique program, the contents of which are to be a surprise to all those fortunate enough to attend has been arranged, A varied and interesting evening is anticipated. There will be no charge for ad- mission, —_—__O Fur Workers Win Strike. NEW YORK, Mar, 4—A 14. months’ strike by fur workers against the Gabbe Fur Works: at Norwalk, Conn., has ended in a set- tlement, The agreement concluded stipulates a closed union shop, lim- itation and regulation of apprentice- ship, feduction in hours, increased wages, adjustment of overtime and establishment of a board of arbi- tration. The agreement will be valid for. 4 years, 9 months. 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