The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 17, 1924, Page 3

Monday, March 17, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Three BURNS’ LABOR SPYING BARED BY LETTERS “D. of J.” and Private Agency Involved (Continued from page 1) Harris, operative W-1, in the Burns agency and Delegate MM-448 in the Metal Miners’ Industrial Union of the L W-W. and Operative J. J. Spear,|_ “7-3”, in the agency, and attive mem- ber of the I. W. W., recommended for a delegate-ship by Haines in a letter to* the headquarters of the union. We find Manager Pross, of the Los Angeles agency, writing Mr. R. W. Barns in New York, under date of June 23, 1923, that the mine com- panies of Arizona are greatly pleased with the work of “W-1” (Haines) and he refers complacently to the stool’s progress in the union as fol- Stool Appoints Stools. “Investigator ‘W-1 has been made an jorganizer and it is only a matter of a week or so when he will be made a general organizer and he will then be in power to make delegates and organizers and he will of course immediately make my other men D. & 0. so as to put them, on the inside. We are work- ing in direct touch with the Dept. of Justice’. ..... whom the Goy- ernor (Burns) transferred from Butte, 2.6.2” That is the game, The under-cover man becomes an official then appoints his own men to posts where they can do the most effective Burns Directs Hi wn, 4. BURNS Spies from Washington Office s Private Labor Department of Iustice Purenn of Investigation Washington, 2. C. ee WBS Mr. G. P. Prose, 634 1. N. Van Nuy@ Bldg., Los Angeles, California. My dear George: I beg to acknowledg of the 10th inst., inclosi idcoaliem throughou my sincere thanks. . May 23, 1933. 6 receipt of your letter ng the reports on rad- Arizona, for which please accept I have just received a letter from Mr.” Dowel2' in which he sugsests that in Arizona cal the Old Dominion Copper Com Arizona, so that they toge suppress some of the activities o: radical on Frank Carlook, Special Agen’ ents of ny, located at Globe, er might be able vo the I. VW. WT, he have two of our He also states that he is going to have you go to Arizona next month in order to familiarize yours self thorough]: and get acquainted with some of the people he would like to have you know. Let_me know what he ig doing in this matter and if you agree with him to Globe Arizona, that I should send a'man You ought to wire me @ night letter on receipt of this letter. With best wishes, I am < Bincerely yours, WHO RAILROADED JIM MCLACHLAN Harris Is Besco Lawyer, Commons Hears By JOHN ROBUR. (Sta Correspondent of The Federated Press) OTTAWA, March 16.—A signifi- cant comment on the conviction of J. B. McLachlan, deposed official of the Nova Scotia miners, who has now been released on ticket leave, has been furnished in the house of com- mons by J. S, Woodsworth, leader of the Labor group, who gave an ac- edunt of the close connection of the judges of Nova Scotia with the Bri- tish Empire Steel Corp. Here is the record as he set it forth: A Steely Crew. Chief Justice Robert FE. Harris— president of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co. before his appointment, Justice Mellish, who presided at the McLachlan trial formerly counsel for the Dominion Coal Co, Judge D, D. McKenzie, formerly local solicitor for the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co. at Sydney. Judge Ritchie ap- peared in cases for Dominion- Coal Co, before appointment, Judge Rogers, formerly solicitor for Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Co. Only two members of Nova Scotia supreme court—Russell and Chisholm—have not been known to be connected with Besco or its subsidiaries, One Particularly glaring case of impropriety was cited by Woods- worth in connection with the explo- sion at New Waterford, Cape Breton, in 1917, when 65 or 70 men lost their lives. The miners charged that the explosion was caused by company EXPOSE JUDGE | Real Estate Shark Brazenly Admits Rapacity Towards Negro Tenants; Segregation Policy Is to Blame The brazen affrontery with which the significantly large real estate companies located in the Negro district are rob- bing the colored residents of Chicago, was manifested every- where to the DAILY WORKER investigator in a canvass of these impudently independent firms yesterday. | The replies given to the DAILY WORKER at the com- modious real estate concern of R. M. O’Brien and Company, 3457 Indiana Avenue, were Sin aa Lael typical in showing just what oor ae to draw a pail of water. the Negroes of Chicago have} , avises Agsinst Loans. g ip Charles Duke, a Negro civil en- to put up with. gineer, who had much to do with the “Rents are unusually high, and , zoning of the South Side, told the flats unusually scarce,” said the ad-|DAILY WORKER that from Wabash vertising manager of the O’Brien |to Wentworth and from 18th to 39th Real Estate Company.” The DAILY | Street, the property is so old and ill- WORKER investigator put ‘the|repaired, that when asked by Chi- charge that the real estate offices, ; t ic cago bankers, he could not con-}| ‘vhich seem to prosper in this section, scientiously recommend a loan on with their many-roomed suites all| any property within this section. Mr. covered with gilt letters, have been turning out white tenants, filling their houses with Negroes, and charg- ing much higher rents for the same flats. Duke explained that the eutting thru of Grand Boulevard from 26th to 35th Streets, and the demolishing of over 250 houses to make room for the street had dispos: ed almost a thousand additional Negroes, adding to the distress caused by the pro-+ fiteering landlords. At the South Side Y. W. C. A, Mrs. Lula Lawson, said that it has been increasingly difficult for her to secure good rooms at moderate rates for the young women who come to her. “Many of the houses which were formerly on our list have not only increased their rents to a pro- hibitive degree, but have deteriorated so in quality that they are not fit places for us to send our girls,” Mrs. Lawson said. Sleep in Bathtubs. Inquiries for rooms and apartments have increased at the Soldiers and Sailors Community House, 3201 Wabash Avenue, according to Mrs, Proud of Profiteering. ! “Sure, we do that as agents when the landlords want us to,” the O’Brien representative replied pug- naciously. “Yes, many of them are doing that. Why not, if they can make more money at it? But let me tell you,” he continued, trying to shift the blame to someone else, “That the Negro landlords whom we represent are playing that game much more than the whites. We have Negroes looking for housing accomodations, come in here almost every-day and ask us if we have any flats for rent by white landlords. The Negro tenants themselves would rather have white landlords. than Negro. The Negro landlords are more heartless about raising the rents and it is harder to get them to CERMAN SCHOOL KIDS SHOELESS; NEED DESPERATE Detroit and New York Lead Relief Work (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, Mar, 16.—Striking facts of German misery are brought out by the ort given to the Central Administration of Berlin by Herr Leid, the mayor of the district of Wedding. This report, up to Jan, 4, 1924, covers a decidedly working class section. It shows that 169,189 persons out of a population of 350,400 were supported by public means, About 23,000 school children of the district out of 40,000 lack linen and underclothing and few have a whole pair of shoes. Skin disease, vermin —every corruption of famine condi- tions, moral and physical, is attached to the sorry plight of this section, Discriminate Against Labor, Governmental relief of any coun- try goes thru agencies “where it will do most good.” Seemingly it does most good to feed the opponents of progressive labor. Officials of these egencies—as happened in the case of the American Red Cross in Hungary —openly boast of it, The American relief agency have already established two soup kiteh- ens in Germany and are maintaining them at a monthly expenditure of $2,000 for each kitchen. They are reaching all workers without dis- crimination, selection or bias, A third is being established by the New York branch of the Friends of Soviet Russia. 7 + ° Detroit Bazaar for Germans. a 4 rs "3 McKinney, in charge. “Housi The Detroit Committ f th faeliaance. ” inney, charge ousing e ‘ommittee 0: e qaion biabahing, D gligence. make rie seer tes conditions are frightful in this sec-| Friends of Soviet Russia and Work- ; rector. Raw Stuff. But both white and Negro land-| +5,» we were told by Mrs. Mc-|ers’ Germany are not content with : Turned All Wobs In. : SES The case for the Dominion Coal {lords are raising rents .on colored Kinney, “Several families have re- | only houba-ta- dine campaigning, as Haines was what is known in the : Co. was being prepared in the office |tenants after they have induced the | ported ‘to us that they have been|in other cities, On Saturday and 1 W. W. as ‘« Por igen gi oem THE PROOF THAT BURNS iN LYING Roe ee fon of Melnnes, Mellish, ood petal te dey “ope | forced to take lodgers into their al-. Sunday, March 22 and 23, aftarnaae ie thade the rounds o: e D ulton, and Kenny of Halifax. Whi snswe le i yeni % mining camps of Arizona and his in- the case was in preparation Molt. Negro "landlords not only learned they’ had no place Co ane because | and evenings, a bazaar ‘and dance structions were to make himself solid with the organization by lining up a lot of members. This he did but as fast as they were lined up their names were reported., His let- ters tell exactly who was stamped up with dues stamps, who pasted stick- ers in the county jail, who is work- ing for which mine. They state that certain shifters in the mines will not hire any but members of the I. W. W. and that “Officer Searles of the Police Force’*is an I. W. W. He tells of conferring with mine managers and searching fellow work- ers rooms and teaming up with De- partment of Justice agents. In par- ticular he tells of reporting to “De- partment of Justice Agent Noonan”— his martyrdom. He draws up a let- ter to Lee Tulin, secretary of the Metal Mine Workers Union ‘at Butte, and shows this letter to “Assistant Managers H. A. G. and R. C. W.” for their approval. It cleverly fol- lows the harrowing jail experience story with the request that Tulin ut; “an old time fellow worker”, J. i Spears (Z-3) on the, organizers’ roll. “Dear Sir and Fellow Worker”, he begins: “I will drop you a line, to let you know where I am now for a while, as things got hot in Globe, Miami, and Superior, Ariz. On the BIG N. Y. TEAPOT DOME MEETING AT COOPER UNION Manley, “'Gitlow and Lore Will Speak was put on the bench, and his first important work as judge was to pre- side over this trial, while his former partner, Hector McInnis, was chief counsel for the company. Woodsworth further stated that E. M, MacDonald, minister of national defense, who sent the troops to Sid- ney last summer, has been, if he is not still, a solicitor for the coal com- panies, Schenectady Labor Declares Itself For Labor Party they had no place to stay except on| the streets. Sleeping on floors and| in the bathrooms is a common oc- curence in this locality. Rents are so high that children are forced to leave school in some cases, and go to work in the lamp shade factories. In all my years in this neighborhood, I don’t remember a house going up around here. They are all old houses on which no repairing is done.” These conditions prevail not be- from the whites the game of goug- ing Negro tenants, but they are go- ing white landlords one better in their gouging and in charging a high rate of interest.” As far as the large, scrouging land- lords are concerned, the DAILY WORKER finds, it does not matter whether the landlord is white or Negro, the Negro tenants are being discriminated against just the same. The DAILY WORKER came across a cause the Negroes are used to a low- er standard than whites, nor because they like to live in uncomfortable inadequate surroundings. The Ne- groes are poorly housed because they are forced by the whites to live in restricted areas, because the land- house at 49th and Champlain, where a white landlord forced a white ten- ant who had been paying $60 a month to move out and installed instead a Negro tenant, charging $105 per month for the same flat. will be given in the House of the Masses, corner Gratiot and St. Aubin Aves. The campaign for relief which goes toward maintaining soup kitchens for the starving and give aid to enable the German worker to help himself, has received the support of labor and fraternal organizations who will co- operate in giving this bazaar. The admission charge for each day is only 25 cents and the bazaar will end with a dance to be given on Sunday evening, March 23. U. S. Labor's Food Stations. Further stimulus has been added by the fact that the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ bic (Com- ‘ 2 ittee for International irtment | reas (Special to The Daily Worker) « to The Daily Worker) Many Fire Traps lords of both colors take advantage ™! * Jon tee ee tl, Sone tak apenas teak & tae YORK, March 16—The reat| SCHENECTADY, N.Y... March |,9jrnese, houses where the rents are of the present housing shortage, and 200): vena Uentet eae ‘The + s " rat-infested hole, those stoolpig- |™22™ingz of ome exposes |16.—The Trades Assembly over’ tions in the city. Along Federal and| oooue ‘hey have not up until the first, called “American I,” was e | ean: ier ers sap tl to| ons of the damn Copper Co, are — bye home to a largs au-|whelmingly endorsed the organiza- South Dearborn Streets, south of |Present time organized to protect [tt | in ike Nenana estab- i stop United States mails. Note this letter from Haines to Pross, June 19: It refers to halting as active as they can be... . . “(None should know this better than Haines!) , “I made an old time fellow work- c per Union, Thursday evening, March 20, at 8 o'clock by Workers Party speakers, Joseph Manley, tion of a labor party. Delegate Ver- hagen introduced resolution: “All the actions of the government the following themselves against profiteers. The Negro workers are learning that there are parasites in every race. They know, now, that the loyalty of 32nd Street, the DAILY WORKER investigator counted 26 broken front windows which had been patched up . st part of Berlin, Petersburger Platz No. 8 and has even a gymnastic hall. The sec- ond, “American II,” is located in WH- c f 3 national secretary . with boards or burlap, in two blocks. ° r mersdorf, Paretxerstrasse corner, the Snaila and mragests action against er, J. J. Spear, a member again, Pei the Federated Farmer-Labor par- ied snacks ne or th Aged Fike Not one porch on these streets as Sk ok Seva eas cae Aachnerstrasse. 2 8 £0 . and he is an old time miner. I |*Y, which is holding its New York \the aire peiggnaeD a ow that pen J¢ | far south as 40th was in good repair. higher rents to the Negroes, that the __At the same time this affair will be Gs I on ee Pg ibis eg would suggest you make him, a |COnvention three days later, republican and democratic adminis-| Rotting boards, cracks in what few field, Calif., I am to get in touch with D. J. agent Noonan upon my return to Globe, for further infor- mation, you should put a stop on all mail at Prescott, for John Gra- ham and Matthews.” That radicals mail is not sacred is nothing new. The DAILY WORK- working delegate, as he is situated so as he can do good work around Globe, Miami, Superior, as Mat- thews and I are away, Fellow Worker Spears, is about the best person you can get now, and he knows the game.” New Stool Busy. We soon find Spears sending in re- will open the attack on the oil thieves and he Will be followed by 2 Git. low, editor of the Freiheit, and Lud- wig Lore, editor of the Volkszej- tung. Juliet Stuart Poyntz will act as chairlady, “The Teapot Dome oil scandal,” begins a statement of the Workers Party announcing the meeting, “has trations alike the existing govern- ment is the agency of Wall Street, and the specially privileged class, using its power to aid in the exploi- tation of the farmer and industrial worker by this privileged class, and “Whereas, the exposures in con- nection with the Teapot Dome naval reserve oil leases,” it adds, “have lust for the dollar'by wealthy classes of all races can only be successfully combatted by the organized power of all races of the workers. Moscow Issues Text of Agreement brick houses there are, littered steps, were noticable on every house. Not one house was freshly painted. Alleys back of these streets are strangers to rubbish collectors, Huge piles, of junk, sawdust, rotten mattresses, manure, ashes, garbage, add their de- pressing aroma to the air, which is clogged with the cinders and smoke given in Detroit, the New York branch that has already established the third kitchen in Berlin—which it is maintaining itself—is holding a tag day, Theatrical Bosses Offer Compromise ; ; Be, ; i ij ’ id vad et cclan nercr soar ports, on Case 5900, and signing self pigs act, of iseussion thruost thee sir to Prisg ot ae. one Brot 8 adjacent With the Chinese To Actors Union dick will make when Senator Burton| “°- y ig all classes of | tools of the privileged interests for kc: ;. Fenes (Special to The Daily Worker) ad K. Wheeler asks him on the witness|. We also find a letter People, ‘The great masses of the the looting of the nation, and these |; cio fre own by renders tOW, March 1 : (By, The Federated Presa} stand what authority the dgents of a private detective agency—which he geles Manager of the Burns Detec- people it is ay viduals are beginning to realize that nm individual or a set of indi- exposures have involved men of both parties, including so-called “good MOSCOW, March 16.—Text of the broken down, rain spouts fallen to u os ; “3 at Chino-Russian agreement by which the ground, many porches are so NEW YORK, March 16.—Signs that the theatrical managers’ offen- ; ds i A fallen in that only one entrance in| China grants full diplomatic recogni-| sive inst th hore’ ‘ A is shown by his own letters to be still Tae Ager, bl ie 4 ating but rales, pl opel ba sags crime} men” and “bad men,” thus proving the house can be "hid. From 3100 | tion to Russia, was made public here soutien Ge Teiieeiie cay ae \ directing—had to stop United States] pote > ‘Aen om "land the Hat protetem|the utter hopelessness of the work- | on Federal and Dearborn Streets, as | today. ¥ ‘ mail, If Burns lies again the agen- 4 letters will be at hand to burn 8 eyes. Two days later on the 21st of June the stoolpigeon’s report is a wail: A crude policeman at Superior, Arizona, took him for an honest-to-god I, W. W. and threw him into a vile cai Hear his lament to Manager Pros: In the Course Of Duty. “In about an hour officer R. L. The stool pigeon makes most of | - BE SURE TO SEE |The New Discipl Labor’s Own Photoplay (Note once more the close connec- tion between the Burns agency and the Department of Justice). The letter says: “My Dear Jack: I have another under-cover man named J. J. Spear. He is at present at Prescott Hotel, Prescott, Ariz., and will wait there instruct him where you want him to come to meet you, Any instruc. tions you may have for him will be carried out. Let me hear from you once in a while. “With kindest regards, and best wishes, Yours very truly, G. P. P., Manager.” Getting Radical Shot. The adventures of Z-3, and the further disruptive tactics of othegs include an attempt to get an Austrian f worker sent back to Europe where he would be shot for leaving the Lapoes pene army. ingen “This ought to be a good way to get rid of one ” They also tell the story of Burns’ detectives deliberately creating vi and advocating the overthrow Felt cone by force and violence, object was to fasten this gospel of individual acts of violence upon the I. W. W., to create evidence for use in criminal ism trials. “ewe The story of how Burns used the his private agency will be continued frolb iy The Secord will also his pull with Doheny’s McAdoo. until you call to see him, or you |, Department of Justice to build up| sl ‘a show will government that protects it cause of the Teapot Dome scandal. As in the past it is a con. spiracy of the ruling class and the kept government to rob the nation of its resources, 4 “In this scandal there is not a member of the government that can lay claim to innocence, The Con- 88, ee Aeoates Ben president and is cabinet must x the responsi- bility of this act. “The Workers Party Local New York is anxious to ing the truth of this affair before the vast num- ber of workers against whom this crime has been committed. To re- veal the many acts of our kept gov- ernment that the capitalist press has seen fit not to publish, “There will be an admission charge of 25 cents to help defray the meeting. . are the expense of the “Come and learn who owns the government,” Employe’s Insurance. SAN FRANCISCO, Ma A new development in the ¢ of industrial feudalism has a in the group insurance plan ployes worked out by tl 16,— rogress peared for em- Industrial Association of San Francisco. The | ri result of the plan will be to attach. thousands of employes to a group of employers rather than to a sin- gle contractor or plant in such a that the employers of this city alway have a labor pool to draw from. Py ers and farmers of achieving any- thing for themselves by voting for ene on the old party tickets, an “Whereas, the only means thru which the sxproltes farmers and in- dustrial workers can secure relief from we evil gaat sich they are subjected to by the capitalist, ex- ploiters is by organizing their Sanh. cal power in a Labor Party and fighting their own political battles thru such a party; “Therefore, be it resolved, That the Schenectady Trades Assembly declares itself in favor of the o anization of a Labor Party and i ioaindeck political action by the in- dustrial workers and farmers, and “Be it further resolved, That a conference be called of the different unions, workers’ political parties, and other organizations who believe in independent political action, in order to form such an organization in this city. Troons Leaves Herrin, SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Ma: Removal of all troops from William- son county with the exception of eight men under Major Powers, De- eatur, who will be stationed at Her- was ordered today by Adjutant General Carlos Black. The order went into effect im- mediately and it is expected that the departure will be completed this af. ternoon, ‘ Get unity thru the Labor Party! Shows the activities of organ- ized labor in a true and un- biased light. Opposes the so-called Amer- ican plan and the open shop. far south as the DAILY WORKER investigator walked—about a mile— all the toilets are back privies. What little plumbing there is in the houses is so rusted and broken that in many eases the roomers have to go next Real Estate Sharks Profiteer on Negroes A canvass of the real estate offices on the South Side Negro District shows how openly profiteering is going on against the Negro tenants. The entire area around Indi- ana Avenue and 35th Street is dotted with large, luxuri- ous real estate offices, both white and colored. All replies to inquiries are—‘Rents are unusually high and flats un- usually scarce.” This would not be the case if the work- ers who are forced, in some cases, to sleep on the floor or in the bathroom, would demand that flats be rented to Negroes for the same price that is charged whites. Negroes are living in the worst houses in the city, while the wealthy real estate profiteers of their race are com- Diplomatic relations will be re-) sumed immediately. The Dantzig Free State’ also has recognized Soviet Russia it is announced, Work Daily for “The Daily!” fortably situated on Michigan Boulevard. Read tomorrow what the DAILY WORKER says about joining the newly formed NEGRO TENANTS LEAGUE. Matinee and Evening % | { / | | ' from an unofficial offer which has just been made to the actors’ union, The informal offer suggests an “80 per cent Equity shop.” In other words, the managers would be pared to recruit four-fifths of casts from the organized actors, viding they might draw the other fifth from non-union sources. The Equity, according to the Federated Press’ information, will not consider this proposal. Either the Shop, or nothing, is the organiza- tion’s policy, IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Keeney Is Acquitted. FAYETTESVILLE, W. Va., March 16.—C. Frank Keeney, president s in on i district 17, United Mine Workers America, was acquitted by a jury Fayette circuit court here today a charge of accessory in the murder of John Gore, deputy sheriff of Lo- gan county, during the armed march of miners in 1921. The jury was out one and one-half hours, . Many Die In India Train Wreck, LONDON, March 16.—Between forty and fifty passengers are re- ported to have been drowned when train crossing a bridge three miles B63 ca} from Bareilly, India, was struck by cyclone, according to a news dispatch from Delhi. Every new DAILY WORKER reader means a new recruit in the ranks of 8th STREET and WABASH AVE. With the Approval of the Chicago Fed. of Labor ¢ Now Showing Daily sll agency . — ) |