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) THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. I. No, 366. Subscription Rate} THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of Marth 3, 1879. Girl St OFFICER 3161 BEAT SOPHIE ALTSCHULER Union Picket Plans to Tell Court of Attack Today If the doctor, under whose care Sophie Altschuler now is, will permit her to leave ker bed, she will go to the S. Clark Street police court this morn- ing to ask Judge Samuel Trude to issue a warrant charging as- sault against Police Offichr No. 3181. Friday night Sophie was beaten so severely by this po- liceman that she has been under the constant care of a doctor ever since. Active on Picket Line. Sophie Altschuler has been one of the most active girls on the picket line in the strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Every day and at all hours she has been on the picket line trying to persuade the girls who are working in the dress shops to quit and come out on strike with the union girls, Altho she has been. arrested often she has not been charged with assault which: proves that.she has.done her. picketing in a peaceful manner. Friday evening she and another girl were walking up and down S. Market St., when her old boss, a Mr. Reinhart, a dress manufacturer, pointed her out to either Officer Col- lins or Officer Schroder of the States | Attorney’s office and told him that | Sophie was one of the most active pickets. She was arrested and taken into the hallway of the building at 237 S. Market St., where she was placed in charge of Officer No. 3181. Threatens to Kill Girl. Officer No, 3181 had seen Sophie arrested before and knew her as an active union girl. When he saw her brought into the hall Friday night he began to swear and curse at her. . He said that he would kill her. He repeatedly yelled at her, “I don’t want you to live. I will kill you.” He began twisting her arms and fingers. Sophie tried to defend her- self. This infuriated him the more. He then took her head in the crook of his arm and squeezed it. He threw her to the floor and Sophie fainted. She revived shortly after and the policeman began beat- ing her again. He took her to the rear of the hall and threatened to WORKERS HEAR THE DEMAND FOR MASS PICKETING to Federation The ladies’ garment workers’ strike threw the Chicago Federation of Labor meeting yesterday into the greatest excitement it has seen this year, : The excitement came when John J. Johnstone, of the Painters’ Un- ion, threw down a ringing challenge throw her down the stairs. A couple of plain clothes officers were at- tracted to the hallway by her screams and they called to the police- man to stop beating Sophie. Would Throw Her Down Stairs. ‘The policeman yelled and shouted and’ told them to mind their own business. Théy did not try to sepa- rate Sophie and the policeman. The fiendish brute opened the door to the cellar and tried to throw her down the stairs. She took hold of the door and held with a strength born ot desperation. Then she fainted and the next thing she knew she was be- ing put into a patrol wagon along with Carrie Siever. Carrie Siever says that the police- man who had arrested her and Sophie, it must have been either Col- lins or Schroder, told the officer in charge of the patrol to tell the matron at the police station not to book Foyee and Carrie till after \six o'clock. Carrie and Sophie were taken to the S. Clark St., police station and put in a cell in the rear of the wo- men’s quarters. Other strikers were brought in but they were not per- mitted to know that either Sophie or Carrie were arrested. Matron Is No Different, The other strikers were bailed out and still Sophie and Carrie were held without being booked. Carrie called the attention of the matron to Sophie's condition, The matron said, after looking at Sophie thru the bars of the cell, “Oh, she’s all right. The skin has not ‘been broken,” . The matron refused to call a doc- tor in spite of the fact that there was a city ician on the next floor of the, pe fe. hie lay on the hard bench of the cell from 4:30 P. M., till after 6:00 ' on page 2) to John Fitzpatrick and Oscar Nel- son, the leading officers of the Fed- eration, to organize mass picketing and to defy the infamous Sullivan injunction as American Federation of Labor conventions have ordered in injunction cases. Enthusiasm Greets’ Demand. Ethusiastic cries greeted the de, mand from the strikers present ai only take such action wht, invited by the striking unio: Then Anton Johannsen, of the “Committee of 15,” to assist the strike, arosefand de- clared that such a requesf had been made, that Vice-Presidgt Meyer Perlstein, of the Interngional Lad- ies’ Garment Workers’/Union, had urged the Federation come for- ward with 70 to 80 pigets. Johannsen urged t¥ necessity of such active support/by the union men of beeses red said his only been tha fellcions men “witf guts” to do the work. recited the filitant declaration of the 1914 convgtion of the Ameri- can Federation/of Labor held at Philadelphia @claring that union men i igi injunctions abso- lutely and gqto jail if necessary in defiance of writs against their that. they should not even pact e sel to fight injunctions, but go alt their union business without rgard to them, JoWansen Urges Action. en then urged all union Males were willing to fight the injui to give ir names to the In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year Johnstone in Strike Plea MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1924 ( But he’ll be running faster after ‘The Teapot Special” of the DAILY WORKER appears on Wednesday morning, March 19th. What are you doing to help speed him up? Nation’s Capitol Looks Forward (Speci WASHINGTON, D. new revelations. Teapot Domé until Gaston B. Means took/the witness stand, sensation has followed sensa- tion in quick succession. Any- thing is/liable to break thru the baryicade of silence now. /Worst Yet to Come Senafors are to have special seats reservéd at the Daugherty investi- gatiof tomorrow. It is the belief arouad here that the worst is yet to ‘fhe attorney general is furious, th/se in close touch with him admit. feels that he is being made the at. He is now talking of doing a ittle bean-spilling himself. . What makes him mad is to see statesmen, who are up to their necks in the same adventures that have gotten him in trouble, getting off with- out even getting their Vandyke whis- kers ruffled while he must bear all the odium, He's Sore About Means Daugherty is particularly sore on Means. His testimony, bad as it is in itself, is also dangerous in that it took the padlock off the lips of other department of justice ex-agents who have a grievance against Daugherty, and who hate William J. Burns for making the “D. of J.” an annex of the William J., Burns International Detective Agency. Burns is also sitting on pins and needles. Despite his outward calm, he fears that before Wheeler gets: thru with his investigation the rela- tion between the Department and the fink agency will be exposed. Burns Sees Trouble Ahead In the present temper of the Amer- can workers, Burns can forsee trou- ble in store for him. The most sensational testimony of Saturday's session was the admission made by F, C. Quimby, New York fight promoter, that a pool of which he was a member, made $125,000 on to Another Week of Thrills in Daugherty and Teapot Probes ial to The Daily Worker) C., March. 16.—The Capitol is await- ing the developments of tomorrow’s Daugherty quiz, keen for Never in the history of the United States government was there such an orgy of exposures. Since the lid blew off the FARMER-LABOR CONVENTION IN cent oil scandal where prominent politicians, both Republican. and Democratic were involved, together with the effort of Congress to lay the burden of taxation more and, more on the workers and” small farmers, has given great impetus to the movement that has for some time been on foot to form a strong Labor Party in the interests of th exploited workers and farmers o' the nation. The Federated Farmer-Labor Par- ty of New York has called a con- vention for Sunday afternoon, March 28rd, to be held at Central Opera House, 67th street and Third avenue, where the delegates from many la- bor and fraternal organizations will meet to work out plans for the for- mation of a national Labor Party, In this connection it is worth while remembering that a national convention will be held in the near future in St, Paul with thousands of workers and farmers organiza- tions participating, for the purpose of organizing such a Labor Party. Every worker must see to it that his union or the fraternal organiza- tion of which he is a member sends the Dempsey-Carpentier fight pic- tures which were transported in vio- lation of the law with the aid of Harry M. Daugherty and his boon companion, Jessz Smith. Of the $125,000 mado on the pic- tures, Attorney General Daugherty (Continued on page 4,) it Central Opera House. tween 201 and 1,000 to three dale gates and all organizations having | ceeded in getting as their temporary more than 1,000 to four delegates. ——— N.Y. NEXT SUNDAY delegates to the local convention of | delegate from Minneapolis, secured the Federated Farmer-Labor Party, | the floor after the vote had been taken Sunday afternoon, March 28rd, at| and attempted to attack Mahoney but Organizations of less than 200 are | This was the last gasp from the ob- entitled to two delegates, those be- | structionists. > STAGE IS SET FOR UNITY AT JUNE 17 MEET Last Step Taken by St. Cloud Convention By WILLIAM F. DUNNE. ‘she last link welding to- gether the farmer-labor forces of the United States for the June 17th convention was forged when, following the forty-minute speech of William Mahoney, of St. Paul, for the unanimous recommendation of | the resolution committee, the convention of the official Min- nesota’ Farmer-Labor Party, without a dissenting vote, en- dorsed the call for the June 17th convention, previously ratified by the St. Paul confer- ence of northwest Farmer-La-| bor parties and the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Federation. The climax came after a week of conferences during which the reactionaries in the Minnesota labor movement, aided by Buck, Brown and Rodriguez, of.. Iinois, and. William V. Mahoney, of 'Wash- ington, D. C., had used every possible method of sowing dis- sension and distrust in an at- tempt to thwart the formation of a mass Farmer-Labor Party | by preventing endorsement of the call and splitting away of sections of the movement. June 17th Applauded. | The»answer of the farmers and workers of Minnesota to the disrup- tionists Zid their hysterical denun- ciation of the reds was the unanimous vote at St. Cloud for a call that in- cludes every section of the working- class movement which subscribes to the program and purposes of the farmer-labor parties sponsoring the June 17 convention. William Mahoney was constantly interrupted by applause altho he made no oratorical efforts whatso- ever, He told of the work that had been done in preparation for the St. Cloud convention, of the failures and suecesses, of the hopes and fears of those who had taken the lead in the work, “We must”, he said, “go on record here for consummation of our efforts on June 17 that the millions of workers and farmers who are, watching this convention will know that we want no fusion with the capi- talist parties, will make no deals with them, but that we are trying to build a powerful farmer-labor party. “Can't Depend on C. P. P, A.” “LaFollette will run on this plat- Teapot Adds Force to F. F.-L. P. Call (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, March 16.—The re- form,” he saig, and the convention broke into wild applause. “We can- not depend upon the Conference for Progressive Political Action”, he con- tinued, “That organization is control- led by interpational officials who have never been distinguished for progres- sive principles. We who have taken the lead in this movement in Minne- sota have placed our dependence upon the rank and file and we believe that this confidence is not misplaced.” When the vote was taken the dele- gates rose to their feet, cheering Mahoney and the resolution. State Senator Taylor of Montana, editor of the Producers News of Plentywood, wag called upon to ad- dress the convention and in a short but bag “csp speech thanked the dele- gates for the action they had just tal and assured them that they had ssed the sentiments of the workers and farmers of Montana and of the Northwest, The Last Gasp. One Schier, correspondent of the Jewish Daily Forward, who had been co-operating with the anti-farmer- labor forces in the convention was hooted down by the convention. Had the disruptive elements suc- (Continued on page 2) Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. MINNESOTA GUARANTEES ‘JU riker, Is Brutally Beaten by WE’VE GOT HIM ON THE RUN Held up 2 Days; Out Wednesday 6s"I“HE TEAPOT SPECIAL” Edi- tion of the DAILY WORKER has been held up for two days. This will be welcome news, we know, to the hundreds who have not yet managed to get in their orders for this history-making issue of the DAILY WORKER. But there will be no further de- lays. “The Teapot Special” arrives exactly on time this Wednesday morning, March 19, and we can take no orders later than ten o'clock on Tuesday night. ‘ee * Flooded With Orders. We had to delay the issue: 1, Because the large number of orders for this edition, received during the week-end outstripped all expectations. We had not an- ticipated such a great demand, with the result that we found our stocks of white pape were insufficient to run off the full issue. It was im- possible to get a new supply dur- ing the Saturday half-holiday. 2, The great mass of material, exposing the whole history of oil under the American capitalist re- gime, proved to be so great that we felt it could not be confined to a regular six-page issue, * ¢ & 4 An Eight-Page Issue. “The Teapot Special” will there- fore be an eight-page edition. That ought to be good news, the best kind of news. That will make ot “The “Teapot Special’ “a veri- table broadside that will awaken the nation. We want to make this the most widely circulated issue of THE DAILY WORKER. Our press is being got into good condition for the big run. Our writers have put the finish- ing touches on their articles. These are being put into type. se * # Will Have Rogues’ Gallery. Our artists have done their best. There are cartoons by Fred Ellis, Maurice Becker, Lydia Gibson, Robert Minor and others. Our own cartoonist, Fred Ellis, has gotten up “A Rogue’s Gallery” of all the oily politicians and capitalists in the country. It is a scream. It is daring and provoking. Robert Minor has written the history of oil in a short, terse form, carrying conviction in every para- graph. illiam Z. Foster tells about “OiP and the Oil Workers”. John Pepper tells about the revolu- tionary significance of Teapot Dome, while C. E. Ruthenberg writes about oil and imperialism. Jay Lovestone, head of our research department, has prepared a host of good material. Did you know, for instance, that they wanted to make the “Oil King” Doheny a candidate for vice-president in 19202 Well, they did! William ‘F. Dunne has written on “Senator Walsh and the Teapot Dome”, He knows Walsh, a ee All the Latest News. Then we will have all the latest news, by special wire, about the startling developments before the two investigating committees in Washington, D. C., the oil commit- tee and the special committee in- vestigating Daugherty. This spe- cial edition will be up-to-the-minute and up-to-the-last minute, but it will be a document worth preserv- ing for all time, even after the whole oily capitalist system has gone its wey, Are you going to help speed it along? If so, there is yet time to act, The delay of two days will help you get in your order on the accompanying blank. Chicago, Illinois. $2 per 100. learn the real meani THE DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Workers! Farmers! Demand: ‘the Labor Party Amaigamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of tke Foreign-Born Recornition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents al vy - ice a Po “Teapot Special” | BURNS’ LABOR SPYING BARED BY LETTERS D. of uJ. and Private Agency Sensationally Exposed Proof that PWilliam J. Burns, head of the Burns International Detective Agency, lied when he told U. S. Senator Wheeler that he had severed. connections with his private detective agen- cy since entering the govern- ment service is given in a start- ling expose of the Burns labor spy in the copper mining indus- try which the Industrial Work- ers of the World are making public. More than 200 confidential letters, written by Burns and the agents and managers of his private agency, and by rep- resentatives of the Department of Justice during the last year, have come into the possession of the union and are being made public thru Industrial Solidarity, its official organ. They bare the record of spigs oper- ating in the Industrial Workers of the Worlf-and the Aina teat Feaers tion of Labor. ~ Direct From Washington. One of these letters is reproduced in this issue of the DAILY WORKER over, the signature of William J. Burns itself. It is on the of tionary of the Department « and is directing his private < agency from Washington in a drive on the I. W. W. and radicalism in the Arizona section of the copper indus- try. You will notice that Burns orders G. P. Pross, his Los Angeles manager, to send two men to Globe, Arizona, to do some labor espionage for the Old Dominion Copper Com- pany and he offers to dispatch a Department of Justice. operative to assist in the work. Still Runs Agency. This shatters Burns story that he has severed conections with the Wil- liam J. Burns fink outfit since enter- ing the government service for he not only is directing its stool-pigeons activities but he supplies it with the additional services of an Uncle Sam operative. That means that Burns uses government spies, paid by the government, to assist his agency in the labor smashing work for which it is paid by the copper, companies, Raw graft, of course! But the graft is the least evil as far as the work- ers are concerned. The evil is the formidable alliance between the gov- ernment, the copper companies and the most powerful labor spy agency in the world. This is only one letter. There are some two hundred letters in the pos- session of the persetuted,union. There are confidential letters exchanged be- tween the operatives and managers of Burns and the Miami Copper Min- ing Co., the Tom Reed Gold Mines Co., the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., the United Verde Exten- sion Co., the United Eastern Mining Co., the Old Dominion Copper Co. and others still to be made public. Two Stools Exposed. Two Burns operatives have been uncovered thru the letters and ex- pelled from the union. They are “Fellow Worker” Fred Haines, alias (Continued on page 3) Send me................copies of “The Teapot Special” Edition 6f the DAILY WORKER, to be dated Wednesday, March 19, at the rate of two cents per copy; $1 for 50; I want to help the workers and farmers ig of these great revelations against the social system that is oppressing them.