The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 14, 1924, Page 1

wisps 2) — ses erasure te He THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No. 364. COMPLETE FARMER-LABOR UNITY Contemptible Judge Hears Contempt Cases Our Own STRIKERS IN COURT FIGHT FOR RIGHTS But It's Hard to Get Justice Before Dennia Sullivan Three garment strikers will be brought before Judge Denis Sullivan this afternoon to show cause why they should not be held in contempt of court for alleged violations of the in- junction he issued on behalf of the Graceline Dress Co., 302 S. Market St. They are Morris Kravis, Eugenia Schlacter and Minnie Seidel. ‘ They were all arrested yes- terday by deputy sheriffs and brought to the court of Judge Sullivan for preliminary hear- ing. They had not been served with notices to appear in court to show @ause why they should not be held in eontempt as is usually done. They were scized and hurried off by the deputies. They were not Mei a chance to consult Attorney eter Sissman, who represents the union in the injunction proceedings, ‘and who appeared for the defendants, «Sissman pointed out. to the ceart- that he objected’ to any questioning of the people arrested on the grounds that they had not been properly served with notice to appear. and since they had not had a chance to consult counsel they might incrimi- nate themselves. Judge Gets On High Horse. His objection was overruled. Judge Sullivan told Sissman that since he had not filed in writing notice of his appearance as counsel that he (Sul- livan) would not recognize him. Sissman countered by saying that he had had no notice of the proceedings in time to file notice. The judge, without saying so directly, finally recognized. Sissman as attorney for the strikers. Sissman repeatedly pointed out to the court that any questions ad- dressed to the defendants were illegal, because they had not been properly notified in the contempt pro- ceedings. “But, Mr. Sissman, I am only try- ing to find what is going on in the district covered by these injunctions,” Sullivan said. Wants Judge to Obey Law. “I object most seriously to your getting that information except as is provided by law,” Sissman objected. Hig objection was overruled. hin Attorney Taylor, who rep- resents the Graceline Dress Co., and appeared in the role of chief prosecu- (Continued on page 3) Daily Worker Makes Offer to New Readers One of the most attractive features | of the big 10,000 new readers cam-| paign now waged by THE DA'LY WORKER is a trial subscription which entitles new readers to secure the paper for two months for the small sum of $1.00, Thousands of readers thruout the country who have not yet even heard of THE DAILY WORKER, can be brought into the fold in this way. It is safe to assume that once a worker secures a copy of this fighting work- ing class paper that he will stick to it. No better way of building up the ORK- Jabor movement can be_ thi it than to spread THE DAILY: ER among the bral in be shops and factories. will Bag ack : thinking pedal It i sup; the now discontented wage arco with the knowledge of their class position which is essential to a suc- cessful organization of workers. There will be no agents commission paid on the trial subscription. An announcement on page 4 gives fur- ther particulars. : Subsoription Rate] B.cesraeby meth $60 por yea LTT He epee age CARNE HIME E are going to move into our own home. We are today proudly publishing a picture of it above. The home of the DAILY WORKER will be the center of activity for those class conscious American workers who have gathered under the banner of the Workers Party to senceren te poreice of Jones te tit eqsern: fee she. Gayet battle against industrial slavery. y fis lg maar fy ye Damrcgrtngs wer ee owing signs of rot and decay even in the od ‘Betes pane: Mang of this are fortunate that their Daily is firmly established and in a Lara par to fulfill its mission as the mouthpiece of the vanguard of American-Labor. jWhat can you do now? That is what you ought to be asking yourself today. We maria Toe eos ale: be Salada ay Pig op subscribers Ten thousand WOWHAT bO YOU iat THE DAI DAILY ome NONPARTISAN LEAGUE JOINS FEDERATION Unity of City and Land in Minnesota Complete BULLETIN. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 18.—The Non-Partisan League Convention have voted to join the Farmer-Labor Federation despite everything the league’s own offi- cialdom could do to prevent this result, There was a scene of wild en- thusiasm in the Farmer-Labor Conyention when the result was announced by the negotiation -com- mittee. This is the last step in unity of the economic organiza- tions of farmers and workers in Minnesota. * 7 8 & By WILLIAM F. DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Mar. 13. —Obstructionist leaders of the Non-partisan League, who are trying to hamper the build- ing ef a real Farmer-Labor Party here, have run into a snag that presages the downfall of their leadership. Fol the use of the names: f Johnson’ and Hendrick Shipsted, the two U. S. senators from Minnesota, by Thomason and Gilbert, non- partisan league officials, as op- posing joint action with the Farmer-Labor Federation he- cause of alléged Communist domination, the following tele- gram signed by Henry Tiegen, secretary ta Magnus Johnson, William A. Schaper, of the Farmer- Labor Federation’s arrangement committee; James Manahan, repre- senting the Equity Cooperative So- ciety, and R. L. Harmon, secretary of the Farmer-Labor Federation, has been sent to Senators Johnson and Shipsted: “Hon. Magnus Johnson, Senate Office Building, Washington, - Cs “Thomason states in telegram sent you yesterday that sixteen Communists dominated Third Party conference in St. Paul Monday and that same men are now dominat- ing new Farmer-Labor Federation (Continued on page 4.) GREAT SIGHIFIGANGE OF MINNESOTA EVENTS IS HERE SUMMARIZED Complete unity of the Farmer- Labor forces in Minnesota’ has been achieved. This is the mean- ing of the St. Paul and Minneapolis conferences just held that have a national significance, First, the St. Paul Conference that voted, in the interests of unity, to postpone the National Conven- tion from May 30th to June 17th, at the same time, however, taking a decisive stand against the July 4th gathering of third party ele- ments to be held at Cleveland, O. What Is Taking Place in Minnesota. Next came the conference of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation, the left wing of the Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota, Then followed the convention of the Working People’s Non-Partisan Political League (City Workers) that voted to affiliate with the Farm- er-Labor Federation, Then came the Townley Non-Par- <> (Special to The and Jess Smith, his friend, “put today. She said Smith told her of that had claims in Teapot Dome. oil committee, but has not been pentier fight could be trans- ported from state to state with- out prosecution. They were to make $180,000 by Daugherty’s agreeing not to prosecute, she said. Mrs. Stinson told about hearing a conversation in New York soon after} the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, be-| tween Smith and Joe Weber, of Weber and Fields, about “getting a parole} for Weber’s ‘brother-in-law, a man} named Solomon, who was in the peni- tentiary. I can’t relate it verbatim, but it was about fixing it with Daugh- erty.” | Mrs. Stinson said Jess Smith told | Weber “we are working on it now.’ “He told me later ‘he’s awfully) cheap but I think we will do some-| thing for him.’” Several bitter clashes took place between Daugherty’s attorney and presecutor Wheeler. The-latter-ac- cused the attorney-general defenders | with attempting to block the investi-|. gation, One of the most startling pieces of testimony was that on the night prior to the suicide of Jesse Smith a secret meeting was held in the White House, at which there were: present, Presi- dent pees, Attorney-General Daugherty, E, L. Doheny and Harry Sinclair. / When the Hearings Resumed Today. Senator Wheeler and Attorney Howland at once got into a row. “This gentlemen comes here every day trying to bring up matters to get them into the newspapers,” Wheeler said. Senator Ashurst took up the cudgel in Wheeler’s defense. and charged that Howland had insulted Wheeler yesterday and should apologize. Howland asked for information re- garding subpoenas issued for the head bookkeeper of Daugherty’s bank at Washington court house, Ohio. Senator Wheeler said that either the bookkeeper must come here or the committee would send an ac-| |countant to examine the books rela-| |tive to deposits since November 1, 1920. Wheeler resumed his questioning | of the witness by asking about the “K” street residence here in Wash- ington.” “What do you know with reference to the K. Street residence ”, “I would rather not answer that, I consider is purely personal. “Had it anything to do with the Attorney General?” ‘Year Questioned whether Jesse Smith and Daugherty met at the K. Street house, the witness answered in the affirmative. She said Daugherty and Attorney General Dickers With Smith For $180,000 On Forbidden Fight Films sition out west,” with a man named “Colonel Darden,” Stinson told the senate committee investigating rolls WORKER. Entered as Second.class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOMfce at Chicage, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ©O.. 1640 N. Halsted St., | | | | Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 13.—Attorney General peta $2,400 apiece into an oil p’ vet the. transaction. James G. Darden is an official of the Mutual Oil Company . He is under subpoena by the} located. She also disclosed that Daugherty and Smith were con- sidering an arrangement whereby films of the Dempsey-Car- Chicago, Mlinois. Workers! Fasmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents UNITE FARM: LABOR FORGES INMINNESOTA Working People's League for Farmer-Labor Federation By WILLIAM F, DUNNE (Special to The Daily Worker) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Mar. 13.—The Working People’s | Nonpartisan League in session |in Richmond Hall here has en- ‘TEAPOT SPECIAL’. HAS AROUSED A FURIOUS DEMAND Cal’s Pirate Crew Will Be Exposed The “Teapot Special” is sizzling "land bubbling with the scandals that are going into its pages and when March 17, comes and the 8- page special is on the streets there will be an explosion that will destroy what little peace of mind is left to Daugh- erty,.Fall, Denby andthe -rest “of Cal’s ‘thieving crew. Comrades are rushing their orders in by the one to five hundred lot: they are getting them in early so they won’t be turned down at the last moment with the news that it is all! sold out ahead of time. For the Farmers. Says George F. Partridge Rochester, Minnesota: “Send me 200 copies of the “Tea- pot Special.” I want to help the workers and farmers learn the real meaning of these great revelations | against the social system that is op-} pressing them.” Three hundred copies are ordered from the séeretary of the City Cen tral Committee of the Workers Par- ty in Youngstown, a steel baliwiek ' where the party is gaining new strength since the DAILY W ORKER, began coming into the town. From far and near big advance or- ders are coming in from enhusiastic ;comrades who see a chance of sup- ‘plying all their fellow workers with the most vital information of the year. of Under No Wraps. This Teapot scandal has -laid bare jthe class control of government as has nothing that has broke out of Washington this century. Capitalist papers, realizing this, confine their reports as far as possible to the bare . official. proceedings except where some political end is served by further expose of rivals of the other party. But the DAILY WORKER is under no wraps in telling the story. And the “Teapot Special” of March 17—next Monday—will give all the facts:—tell who the thieves were, what they stole and why they did it. For a comprehensive as well as in- teresting story of the Teapot and Cslifornia oil steals and the rest of her former husband had conferences the titanic looting and for revelations with several people, including sena-|of employers control of the Burns- ‘|tors and others who were trying to | Daugherty outfit YOU MUST get the land jobs for their friends with the |‘Teapot Special.” government. It seems that Daugherty was gen- eral employment manager in the} SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, March 13.— Harding clearing house. It was a! One fireman was killed and an engi- favorite hangout for oil men and|neer and brakeman were injured Freight Goes In Ditch. others who were trying to get in on| when a Detroit, Toledo and Ironton | the ground floor in any good proposi-| freight train went into a ditch inside | tion that was up. the city limits here today. Daugherty was definitely entangled |dorsed the Farmer-Labor Fed- eration and voted to become |part of that oganization. The decision was reached with but little debate and that chiefly on details of the organ- ization plan. William Ma- honey, of St. Paul, is chairman, and Fred Siegel, of that city, is secretary. The Farmer-Labor Federa- tion delegates, who met yester- day and perfected their organ- ization, are meeting with the Work- ing People’s Nonpartisan Political League and the organization is now the Federation of Workers and Farm- ers. The Townley organization ‘is also meeting today end-has- 5 any delegate suspected of desiring to have the organization follow the example of the Working People’s Nonpartisan Political League and be- come part of the Federation. é The negotations committee appoint- ed by the Federation yesterday was denied the opportunity of conveying the message of the Federation to the conference of the Townley organiza- tion and this has resulted in a clean- cut division among the Nonpartisan League delegates. Numbers of them are now demanding that the Federa- tion committee be heard and are | threatening to leave the League con- ference and meet with the Federa- tion. The rank and file wants unity and is going to have it in spite of the officials, SENATE DEFEATS BILL THAT SOUGHT TO GIVE AID TO THE FARMERS WASHINGTON, March 13.—The Senate today by a vote of 41 to 32 defeated the Norbeck-Burtness bill, which would have appropriated a fund of $50,000,000 to be loaned to aid farmers in the Northwest te diversify their production, Believe Kenyon Has Accepted Post That Denby Has Vacated WASHINGTON, March 13.—Wil- liam §. Kenyon of Iowa is believed to have accepted the post of secretary of the navy in President Coolidge’s cabinet. Busses Win Another Victory. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 18,— Motor busses have driven another electric railway to the wall, accord« ing to an application filed with the — Illinois Commerce Commission today — !by the Dekalb Sycamore Interurban | Traction Company, which operates in and between the cities of Dekalb and Sycamore, asking the commission permission to cease operation, in the oil scandal when Mrs. Smith in reply to a question, stated that the attorney general and her former husband were involved in an oil deal tisan League (farmers) and also voted to affiliate with the Farmer- Labor Federation, ‘The amalgamated organization will now attend, thru its re: ee the convention of the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota at St. Cloud, It will demand that state candi- dates be nominated, so that the party weal go into the stive primaries as a unit. Strike Story on Page Four, The story of the agg strike ena called by Miss Mary Me- | was Dowell, of the Bureau of Public Wel. ‘fase, will be found on Page Four, with Colonel Darden of the Mutual Oil C 5 Senator eler took up the ques- tioning: “Did Smith ever tell you of any deals between Daugherty and Dar- i den?” “Yes. Jess Smith gave Colonel Darden $2,400. I asked him, did Mr. Daugherty give the same amount.| here with the adoption by the He said, ‘yes.’ They had a deal on an oil proposition out west. “That was what Colonel Darden was interested in. Celonel Darden convention. (Continaed en page 9) a Industrial Workers and Farmers of Minnesota Accomplish Unity; — Workers Party Praised For Aid By WILLIAM Bad DUNNE, (Special MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. March” 13-—Unity between the farmers and workers of Minnesota was definitely accomplished vention of the basis of representation at the state and county Characteristically enough for a gathering of toflers unity had for yeare been trying to get|came without dramatic flourishes and without many really” Farmer-Labor Federation Con- om page &) 4 actin ni