The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 2

~~ from. Hutte, another. Page Two THE DAILY WORKER SENATOS WHEELER HAS THE GOODS ON W. J. BURNS Rival Fink Agency Is Mentioned By CARL HAESSLER (Stal Correspondent of The Federated Press) Proof positive that William J. Burns, Attorney General Daugherty’s chief spy and framer against labor men and radicals, lied to the senate Teapot Dome committee is expected to be uncovered here in short order. Burns had told the committee at Washington that he has had no con- nection with the private detective agency that bears his name since be- coming a government detective. _ But documents now in Chicago in hostile hands show, some of them ever Burns’ own signature, that he has been directing the agency, ar- ranging for new business and using the department of justice, the post- office department and perhaps the de- partment of labor in protecting the copper mining companies of the southwest against A. F, of L. and I. W. W. organization attempts. Even barbers’ union in Arizona drew his fire, in his double capacity of government end private sleuth. Dick In Toils. Senator Wheeler of Montana, who is collecting evidence for another senate committee, is understood to have this stuff on Burns well in hand. Barns is also active in California, articularly in Los Angeles and in lena where he interfered with a talk by Upton Sinclair before busi- ness men about a year ago. But he does not like the layout. His Los Angeles manager, G. P. Pross, thinks the merchants and manufacturers there are “the cheapest bunch of skates calling themselves business men in southern California that I or any other human has ever come in contact with.” This was because the Burns rate of $10 a day was cut by other detective agencies to $7 or $8. How the evidence came into Chi- cago hands is not known except that the Burns’ Los Angges office was robbed of its files some time ago, pre- sumably by a rival agency, which sent the material where it might be used against Burns. The Thiel service is mentioned in some of the corre- spondence. Just as Washington underlings re- ferred to President Coolidge as the “principal” in their messages about him in the Teapot affair, so Burns’ private subordinates write of him as the “governor.” D. of J. Burns & Co. Over 30 copper mining companies engaged the Burns agency to spot union organizers and boosters in Ari- zona. Burns himself obligingly trans- ferred a department of justice agent copper. mining center, to Arizona to cooperate with his private men and the companies. At the same time the Burns private agent had asked the department of justice to step over to the postoffice and stop mail going to active union men so that it might be investigated. A little later the department of labor was to be enlisted to deport an Amer- jean active in the metal workers’ union who “thinks he would be shot if sent back to his own country, This ought to be a good chance to get rid of one red.” These anti-labor revelations show- ing how Burns used government re- sources to help employers in their private fight on the unions will prob- ebly hurt Hiram Johnson’s cam- paign for president. He claims to be & progressive but he is the man who urged Attorney-General Daugherty to make Burns chief sleuth and stood by Burns during the attempt in the house of representatives last year to impeach Daugherty. One of Founders of Ku Klux Held as Mann Act Violator HOUSTON, Tex., March 10,.—Ed- ward Young Clarke, one of the foun- ders of the Ku Klux Klan, today led guilty to violation of the n White Slave act in Federal Dis- truict court here. He admitted trans- porting Mrs. Laura Martin, 21 year « d Houston girl, to New Orleans for immoral purposes. At one time Clarke was acting Imperial Wizard of the Klan but recently had been allied with the William J. Simmons faction in fighting the present administration of the hooded order. Klan Leader Addresses Court. When ores ome i called for trial, R. L. Henry of Houston, attor- ney for the klan leader, addressed the court. The defendent wishes to change his plea to guilty, the attorney said. Henry then asked that the court hear Attorney Westmoreland of the defense, but Judge Hutchinson refus- ed, saying that he knew nothing of the details of the case and asked the prosecution to state the evidence, Not Real Vice Lord. “Tg there any evidence of commer- cial vice in this case?” the court ask- “No,” the prosecutor replied, “It ‘was merely a personal escapade. Clarke was engaged in interstate im- morality.” Cooperation In the Party. NEW YORK, March 10.—The Bronx English Branch of the Work- ers Party have called off the Com- mune celebration and dance they had arranged for Saturday evening, March 15, so as not to conflict with the Commune Celebration arranged Local New York on Sunday, h 16, On Saturday evening, April 5, ge will ingens Nera, A mont and ce at Workers y the Bronx. A TAURI ATI RARER "OMRON eel Battle Royal In the Political Struggle of Workers and Farmers Raging In Minnesota This Week! Minn., March 10.—A battle royal to de- termine whether the Farmer-Labor Party of ‘Minnesota shall be MINNEAPOLIS, constructed on class lines and the working farmers and industrial workers, or whether it shall become merely a “progressive’ Party, will be waged at conventions of the farmer-labor ele- ments of the state on March 12, 18 and 14. On March 12 a convention of farmer and worker groups will be held in Minneapolis for plan of a farmer-labor federa- tion evolved last ‘September. This is an attempt to found an organized, dues-paying party of the real producers controlled by the rank and file and com- posed of constituent economic and political groups. Climax Reached. On March 13, the Farmers’ Non- Partisan League will convene in Minneapolis for the purpose of de- ciding its stand in relation to present and proposed movements. It will de- cide the momentous question of its attitude toward the proposed federa- tion. The Federation convention in connection with the League conven- tion intends to name and indorse candidates, ; On March 14, the framework of Farmer-Labor Party imposed upon the workers by a hostile and reac- tionary legislature for the purpose of destroying the class character of the party, will meet at St. Cloud, Minn. The promoters of this convention will attempt to supplant the Farmer- Labor organization of the party with the legalized form which is identical with that provided for the Republi- cahs and Democrats and would result in a party controlled by a legailzed machine. These three conventions are the climax of the most vital political struggles going on in America at this moment. The outcome will have a most important bearing upon the way the whole Farmer-Labor movement of America will swing this critical and promising year. Minnesota is one of the few states where the industrial and rural workers in great numbers have developed a tendency toward political class action. This develop- ment has reached the point where a well organized state-wide party based clearly on the interests of the workers has become possible. If such a party results from these conventions, Min- nesota will go into the national Farm- er-Labor convention this year as a force calculated to produce historic results. On the other hand, the elements opposed to a real Farmer-Labor Party were never more conscious, or more vocal or better prepared to achieve their ends than now. They are go- ing into the convention at St. Cloud, as the legally recognized “Farmer- Labor Party, and with the law behind them to back up their decisions. Legal Hindrances. The law in question as amended up to date by the last legislature pro- vides that the state cqatral committee f the various political parties shall be appointed by the winning candidates in the primary election. The princi- pal candidates appoint one state com- mitteeman each. The appointee of the candidate for governor becomes tate chairman. These appointees re- main in office a full term altho the candidates appointing them may be defeated in the general election. They cannot be removed by the rank and file of the party. The only way they can be removed is by death or volun- tary resignation. The party has no control over them. They have full control of party affairs. They are the party. They have full power to ba the party or not as they see it. Prior to the passage of this law the city and country workers had been satisfied to function politically thru wo leagues—the Farmers’ Non-Parti- san League and the Working Peoples’ Non-Partisan League. . Reactionary laws, however, made it necessary a few years ago to construct a bridge between these two constituent work- ers’ organizations called the Farmer- Labor Party. This Farmer-Labor Party was nothing more than a bridge, but that bridge was controlled by the leagues of the workers. Then came the vicious piece of legislation aimed like a dagger at the farm-labor movement—the law imposing the framework of organization on the various political parties. This law suited the Republican and Democratic standard bearers splendidly. It in- creased their facilities for perfecting machines. But it imposed the funda- mentals of a machine upon the work- ers against their will. Confronted with this menace, the the real farmer-labor leaders called a convention for the purpose of welding together the two leagues into a single dues-paying rank and file organization of the farmers and city workers and their allies. The federation plan was the result. Obstacles Placed Im Path. In the meantime, this vicious law had saddled upon the party a verit- able white elephant in the shape of a state chairman entirely at variance with the farmer-labor idea and deter- mined to shift the party from its cl: basis. That chairman was F. A, Pi a lawyer and democrat, of many ye standing. Supporting Chairman Pike in his departure from the farmer-la- bor policies established by the leagues were several other state committee- men with half-baked ‘political and unbaked economical ideas, or with political axes to grind. On the other side were committeemen sincerely de- sirous of building up a movement rep- resenting the interests of the workers and controlled by the workers, This situation has resulted in a racg to organize the state by the op- posite factions, Chairman Pike's ithe Federation plan or some other shall represent the interests of ” party of the people, a-Third the purpose of acting upon the plan of proceedure in this work is to appoint district chairmen, who in turn appoint county chairmen, who in turn appoint local chairmen. The re- sult is an organization of officials im- |posed from above. The advocates of the federation, with limited means at their command, have been organizing farmer-labor clubs and obtaining with great success the indorsement for the federation plan by labor organiza- tions, co-operative societies and ad- vanced political groups. To date the race has been very much in favor of the party, based on the economic interests of the workers. Active labor has bodily indorsed the Federation idea. The labor delega- tions to the Federation and Pike con- ventions can be counted upon to stand practically solid for it. ‘Khe enthu- siasm of labor for this kind of or- ganization has been unrestrainable. The Fourth, Fifth and Eighth con- gressional districts embracing Min- neapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, will send almost solid delegations for the Farmer-Labor Federation. Organizers of farmer-labor clubs, have encountered unexpected enthu- siasm for the Federation among the farmers. The practically unanimous report from almost every district visited is that the farmers consider that the Non-Partisan League has ful- filled its mission and should give way to a constituent organization of farm- ers and industrial workers: In every part of the state where the old league members have had an opportunity they have joined the clubs supporting the federation. The Ninth district farmers and workers called a conven- tion several months ago and un- animously indorsed the federation. Fifty delegates out of 60 in this con- vention were farmers. Pike’s Convention at St, Cloud. Mr. Pike called a convention in the Seventh district in January, for the purpose of turning the tables on the federation advocates. The convention did exactly the opposite to what he | desired and turned the tables on him. There are ten congressional districts in the state. Six of these, at least seem sure for the federation idea. ! The Federationists have at least an equal chance in the other four. If there is anything like fair representa- tion and conditions in the conventions constituent organization of the real workers will surely result. But fair and equal on conditions are just what Chairman Pike has guarded against in his convention. When Mr. Pike announced his inten- tion of calling the Federationist com- mitteemen and leaders conferred with him for the purpose of having the proposed conventions at the same place on consecutive dates, so that the question of the organization of the Farmer-Labor Party would be settled once and for all. Pike seemed to accept this challenge. He readily consented to consecutive dates and then after the Federation supporters and Non-Partisan League leaders had announced the place as Minneapolis, suddenly announced his place ot meeting at St. @loud. St. Cloud is 80 miles from Minneapolis. Mr. Pike undoubtedly feels sure that hundreds of delegates cannot be moved intact 80 miles in one night. Discriminating Against Workers. This is not all. Pike has announced in this call that the basis of repre- sentation shall be one delegyte in each county for every 1,000 votes east for Magnus Johnson and one delegate-at-large. There are 83 coun- ties in Minnesota predominantly rural and three predominantly industrial. In the three industrial countieq at least two-fifths of the population is centered. These counties under the Pike plan will send only 97 out of 379 delegates. There are more wage earners in Minnesota than farmers ac- cording to government statistics, but Pike would give the industrial work- ers only about one-fourth of the dele- gates. The rural counties will send 33 deelgates at large, while the in- dustrial counties will send only 3 delegates at large. It is palpably a plan to oust labor and its “radical” theories from the “progressive” move- ment of Minnesota, Despite these handicaps, the lead- ers of the real farnier-labor move- ment of Minnesota are confident that their forces will appear even in Pike’s convention in sufficient strength to carry the day. More Prospects For State’s Att’y Crowe’s Strike-breaking Force KANSAS MINERS DEFY LEWIS TO DEBATE HOWAT Convention Dumps the Autocrat’s Laws By TOM TIPPETT “(Stall Correspondent of the Federated Press) PITTSBURGH, Kan., March 10.— John L. Lewis, international presi- dent, United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, was telegraphed an invitation to appear at the convention of the Kan- sag district of the miners’ organiza- tion in session here to debate the Kansas case with ex-president Alex- ander Howat, of Kansas, who was deposed from office by Lewis in 1921. Howat attends the convention daily as a visitor. The appointive power was taken away from the officers of this dis- trict and a new clause written into the constitution providing for the direct election of all field workers. This action followed a lengthy de- bate and carried py an overwhelming majority vote. Constitution Re-written. This district constitution is being re-written by this convention. Such action is wiping out laws that were enacted at a convention two years ago At that convention there were GO delogates after more than 20 pro- Howat men men had been unseated. Van A. Bitner presided us a repre: sentative of the international union. The district membership at the time was between 3,000 and 4,000. No delegate has been unseated at the convention now in session here and there are 145 seated representing a membership of approximately 9,000. The provisional convention did away with the old Howat constitution and legislated new laws. The present convention is undoing the work of the former meeting. Howat Men Eligible. A proposition enacted two years ago preventing men who worked dur- ing the 1922 strike from holding local office or from being a pit-committee man or conyention delegate for a period of three years was repealed. Another that called for six years continuous membership in the union to enable a candidate to run for office was killed and a six months proviso put in its stead. The significance of this action is that all the Howat men will now be eligible to stand for office in the coming election. Howat, him- self, ag well as the other deposed officials can run if their membership is brought about stx months prior to the next election, which is in De- cember of this year. The vote on these measures was practically unan. imous. A new sub-district was added to the district; The Negi iay capaiietes avere. given.the ri ‘a aglect three men Ps watch the tabulation of the official vote. The district executive board was taken off the scale com- mittee. Six men elected from con- vention floors together with the dis- trict president and secretary will hereafter constitute the scale and conference committees. Expense Accounts Probed. The power of the district execu- tive board to Jevy assessments was limited to two one dollar assessments ver year. Further assessments must be submitted to a referendum vote with the assessment amount printed on the ballot. Personal grievances are to be taken to conventions for final settlements instead of ending with the executive board as the law formerly stood. A convention committee of five was elected to investigate and examine the expense accounts of the district officials and report to the convention. All the above passed by the usual overwhelming vote. Action was deferred on a Tom Myerscough resolution and on one dealing with the Nova Scotia case. Final action will be taken on them before the convention sxajourns, In- ternational Board Member Watkins (Iowa) was voted the right to de- fend the international union’s posi- fon dufing the discussion of these questions. A previous vote of the convention denied the international men who are here the right to the floor without a majority vote of the house, Colored Unions There, Spectators in the convention hall outnumber the delegates at many in- tervals during the sessions, ‘The vis- itors’ section is segregated from that of the delegates. The extra chairs are filled early and a huge crow files in and out all day. Among them are the deposed officials of the dis- trict and women who participated in the famous march. Here and there among the crowd is a colored miner, A real coal digger tinge is given this convention when the men from the mines stop in on their way home with pit clothes on and dinner pails under their arms. The visitors take part in the applause and laughter which is a vital part of this unique gathering, The rank and file of Kansas are having their day in court and they are making the most of it, As one international representative put it to the writer—“this ig free JOLIET, Ill, March 10.—Three of| speech with a vengeance,” the five convicts who last night es- caped from the penitentiary here after sluggin; ard, were captured T3! at Homer, Ill., sixteen miles east of here, today. The three men _ captured—Joe Moran, Williams Jones, and Clarence Langford—were surrounded in a, field by penitentiary guards and a posse of citizens. They surrendered with- out a fight, the report here stated. The other two convicts are still at Jarge, Venizelos Goes to Venice. ATHENS, Mar, 10.—Former Premi- er Venizelos departed today for! Pennsylvania fers oil “ 4, Venice, ! Teapot Scandal Does Not Hinder Rise in Price of Oil (Special to The Daily Worker) FRANKLIN, Penn., March 10,—A raise of 10 to 20 cents in the various grades of crude oils, except Pennsyl- vania was announced by the Seep Purchasing Agency here today. New prices quoted are corning $2.15, up 15; Somerset light $2.50, up 16 and Ragland $1.10, up 10 cents. was quoted « Strikebreaker Holdom Is Endorsed by His Pal, Strikebreaker Crowe "THERE is a united front of strikebreakers on in Chicago at the present time from the “Injunction Judges” on the bench to the underworld criminals to slug the striking dressmakers for a few dollars a day and perhaps immunity for murders committed in the past. _ Judges, the state’s attorney, the mayor, the chief of police, the detective agencies and the gangsters are stand- ing shoulder to shoulder with the bosses against the workers, They must hang together or separately, “Injunction” a decree prohibiting the dress makers from functioning in their own strike. aided by “Cossack” Alcock, Mayor Dever’s subordinate, and divers finks from the city’s crime dens, enforce the Denis Sullivan issu injunction’s terms with their Another character in the judicial anti-labor ring, in the person of the notorious “Injunction Judge” Jesse Holdom, came out yesterday with an endorsement of Robert E. Crowe for re-election. ; Judge Holdom was feeling rather lonely. He had not issued any injunctions for a couple of weeks and he wanted to keep his hand in. So he for the office he now holds. now coming to close, you have shown your ability to cope with crime.” In what way, union men, convicted on Chamber of Commerce manufac- tured evidence prepared by Chamber of Commerce lawyers? The slayers of the Duffys have not yet been apptehended. Robert E. Crowe has officially declared it a mystery. The “Beer War” murders are not solved. The countless violations of law in ished, but the ability of Mr. unequalied. That is what “Injunction” Jesse Holdom had. in mind of course. The Committee of Fifteen appointed by John Fitz- patrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, to investigate Crowe’s office should now be ready to make a report. The resolution authorizing the committee to be appointed was passed on March 2. This is March 11. Time Presses. The dress makers are still on the battle-line. The strikers are not drawing wages, The bosses are not worry- ing about approaching hueger. are anxiously awaiti i from the Committee of Fifteen. ‘s sania tae The workers of Chicago Crowe’s sluggers clubs and blackjacks. boosted strikebreaker Crowe He said: “In your first term, Judge Holdom, unless to jail the city of Chicago go unpun- Crowe to arrest strikers is It was not appointed for the purpose of asking Mayor Dever a few questions and. then waiting results. The workers expect that the com- mittee will sift the charges made by John Fitzpatrick and others alone Crowe’s office, Police be investigated against State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe. workers expect, as the DAILY WORKER urges, that not but that of the mayor and chief of and that unholy alliance between the The officials of Cook County and the judiciary backed’ - ized greed wiil be exposed to the workers of tala Ae aa The Committee of Fifteen cannot afford to let this golden moment slip by without exerting itself to throw a flood of light on Chicago. |>-~ "The DAILY WORKER believes the truth concerning the cons; of the clothing manufacturers in be the best propaganda possible. the capitalist conspiratorial ring of that the publication of racy of the political tools office in this county would Let us have action. THE WORKERS ARE WATCHING THE “COMMITTEE OF FIFTEEN.” Mayor Dever (Continued from page 1) (Trude) says they have violated, He said Miss Corn should give her evi- dence to Judge Suilivan when the in- junction is heard. Protect Strikers? No! The police have no orders to pro- tect strikers, So a bunch of Chief Collins’ men told 20 employes of the C. H. Lowen- thal & Co., skirt firm at 224 S. Mar- ket street when they asked for pro- tection while they went past the ein- ployers thugs to collect their pay. Lowenthal refused to pay the girls the money due them when the shop chairlady of the union approached him, He threatened the chairlady and told her to get out. All 20 employes came to the en- trance of the shop then and asked policemen, Nos, 5208, 1470, 3587 and 2314 to protect them while they went up to demand their money. The cops replied that they had no orders to protect strikers. Nive before in the history of this country have so many in- vestigations of the conduct of goy- ernment been launched. What is it all about? Is it merely because there is an election this year? Nothing of the sort is true, There are investigations and investiga- tions, The plague of investigations that is afflicting Washington today is indicative of the turn the class divisions and struggles are taking in the United States. There are now scheduled or in session from twenty-five to forty-three investi- gations of government corruption, political influence, and fraud, that the worst scandals in capitalist control of All of these scandals are an in- dex of what control of the means of production and exchange and the govern: by the capitalist class brings to the working and farming masses. Whether it is General Wood's imperialist maneuvers in the Philippines, or Daugherty’s manipulations in the Mexican mess, .or Sinclair's holdup of Teapot Dome, of these capitalist ven- tures simply different forms of the same brand of T: politics, But what is Teapot politics? “The What Is Te Is Waking Up Several more police refused: fin- ally Officer 1843 onsented and ie much blustering C. H. Lowenthal got out the motiey, Lowenthal has an injunction against the strikers. This morning each received a copy of the injunction from him but they were not too awed to ask for their money, ————— Where Is Crowe? i Federal operatives believed today they had completed a chain of evi- dence that links the murder of John Daugherty, alias Duffy, to the flood of counterfeit $:0 bills which heve been y assed in whulesale lots thru the midwest. elie inernlgeeentns $25,000 Fire at Freeport. FREEPORT, Ill., March 10,—Fire, discovered today in the Galena build- ing, a five story business and apart- ment building here caused a loss estj- mated at $25,000 and for a ti threatened to become a conflagration, Teapot Special” of the DAILY. WORKER will answer this We will tell what Teapot politics means to the workingman and the farmers in their day to day grind. We will tell what the working and farming classes can do to end all Teapot politics, =~ Get your order in today for “The Teapot Special.” We have put on ERKANKNNS Get Abo Chicago, Illinois. Send me............... ies wi the social system that is NAME: .... apot Politics? THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., ee) +) Special’ the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Monday, at the rate of two cents per copy; $1 for 50; Sain vaso wocalag abtieewecie tercbosteny tere? oO! t agai cppreseing t them, Tuesday, March 11, 1924 RUMOR MORGAN IS DIVING TO RESCUE OF FRENCH FRANC | Paris Grabs at Hope of Bankers’ Dough (Special to The Datly Worker) LONDON, March 10.—The French franc opened somewhat stronger here today at 115 francs 50 centimes to the pound sterling as reports were circulated in banking circles that the Paris government had determined on drastic measures to stave off financial disaster. One report to the Financial Times from its Paris correspondent said it was rumored in the French capitol that an American syndicate, headed by Morgan and Company will offer the French treasury a credit of fifty million dollars for three months at six per cent interest. .* “Drastic Measures.” PARIS, March 10.—The franc opened at 27 francs 65 centimes to the dollar today as the French gov- ernment strove valiantly to bolster up its falling currency. The franc im- proved in the first hour and a half of the market, reaching 26 francs 90 centimes to the dollar at 11:30 a. m. The council of the cabinet met at 10 a. m. in the Quai d’ Orsay to dis- cuss drastic measures to halt the de- cline of the franc as envisaged yes- terday in a conference at the Elysee Palace. Francs continued unsteady thruout the day and closed at 116 francs 50 centimes to the pound. Discuss Reparations. Experts Commission Number 1, in- quiring into Germany’s financial con- dition with reference to her ability to pay reparations, today began dis- cussions preliminary to drafting its report. A number of vital points still re- main unsettled, including the proposal for international control of German transportation and certain other phases of industry. It is doubtful whether the experts’ full report will be ready to submit to the commission of reparations before March 22. Disabled Service Men Unfit for Work When Turned Out of Schools WASHINGTON, March 10.—Dis- abled service men are being turned out of gavernment training schools incompetent to fill jobs for which they are supposed to have been fit- ted, Thomas Kirby, legislative agent of the disabled American veterans }told the. house veterans committee today. As a result unemployment is spreading among them, Kirby said. He appealed to congress to provide funds with which to give govern- mentally trained men a half year's placement training in positions which require experience before they can be satisfactorily filled. Wreck Gamblers’ Express. LYONS, March 10.—Four persons were kill ind twenty-five injured, when the Ri express was de-railed near here today. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Send in Your News The Daily Worker urges all members of the party to send in the news of their various sec- tions. Every Party Branch should appoint its own correspondent and ‘f make him responsible for the news that ought te be sent in to The’ Daily Worker. The Party Page should be the livest page in The Daily Worker. Help make it so. Address all mail to the Editor, The Daily Worker, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. an extra staff to handle the num- erous big bundle orders that are pouring in on us from every city and from many farm centers of the country. 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