The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 18, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT . | Vom. Noa Subscription Rate; In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Fi Recognition of Soviet TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY >“ PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St. Chicago, Mlinois. cstaearininisieeprsipamenliaanecisetiuitnnnclaieiammannane DAUGHERTY AND BURNS, CROOKS ade tae Price 3 Cents Picket! Defy Injunctions!-Says A. F. of L. ‘REMEMBER SOPHIE ALTSCHULER!” STRIKE GAINS WITH PICKETS UNDAUNTED Remember Sophie Altschuler! Girl Militants Cry Hundreds of pickets pa- trolled the skirt and dress- making zones. in the Loop, Northwest and West Side dis- tricts and many scabs took | notice and stayed away. The strikers have decided that they will stand by the de- cision of the conventions of the American Federation of Labor that injunctions shall “be wholly and absolutely treated as usurpation and dis- regarded, let the consequences be what they may.” (1916 con- vention.) They know that the strike will be won, and won only by militant Picketing. | Drunken ‘Sluggers.” i A small army of police and pri- vate “sluggers,” some or them reek- ing with the liquor supplied by the ses’ and most of them flying Sreen gorgettes, or shamrocks, tried in. vain to crush tho militancy of the, The ‘sluggers” flocked to the dis- trict in the yellow taxicabs c6nvey- ing the scabs the bosses were able to get, nnd as soon as they had got- ten past the picket line—where that was possible—the “sluggers” themselves around the factories and ie pickets, Yesterday was the beginning of the ) . third week of the po poh the strikers considered it the crucial day. They considered that the picket line would be the test of the spirit of. the strikers. The picket line was filled by strikers and in addi- tion scores of members of the Work- ers Party and the Young Workers League were also on the line. Still more pickets are needed. Remember S-phie Altschuler. “Remember Sophie “Altschuler!” was the slogan of the pickets as they marched past the blue-coated slugger friends of Officer 3181, Only two arrests of girls were made in che morning by the offix cers who seemed awed by the in- dignation with which the Chicago labor movement has been flaming since the girl striker was beaten into a helpless condition. The girls arrested were Lena Moritz and Lil- liam Libbin, on S. Market street be- low W. Adams Sophie Still In Bed. “Remember Sophie Altschuler: Long live Solidarity!” cried Miss Moritz to the other pickets as the police were hustling her into the pa- wagon, Sophie Altschuler was not on the picket line. Her doctor would not ee her to leave her bed. She as not fully recoverel from the efects of the beating that Oficcr $181 gave her Friday night. She hopes to be able to go on the picket | line this morning. f Arrest Cloakmaker Official. H Morris Bialis, manager of the cloak makers’ ag was arrested by detectives from the state's attor- ney’s office. He was taken to the of the state’s attorney where 2 ab ovina gee to wi assistant state’s a ; questioned, He had been arrested because one of bosses on Market street had pol: him out to the detectives jind said that he was a Wader of che strike. Bialis’ uniof is not in- volved in the strike. - Bialis Released, When word was taken to the un- jon that the state’s attorney had Bialis in custody, Oscar Nelson was instructed to go at once to court and j +t a writ of Habeas Corpus de- mand ng his release. te Nelson went before Judge Walter q Steffin sitting in the criminal branch of the superior court. Steffin issued a writ returnable at 11:30 and the ata’ attorney released Bialis at 11 Crowe's men knew they had 1 no right to arrest Bialis and were | (Continued on page 2) draped the doorways of began jeering at J censbentnstenglonessspeenapsguieeionsiypendissesessnescensiemsise os |____ “REMEMBER SOPE 6 MORE BOSSES YIELD TO UNION, ARRESTS LESSEN Labor “Committee of 15” Meets Thursday. Six more Chicago garment bosses surrendered to the. International Ladies’ Garment Workers yesterday | afternoon and negotiations are going on with several more who are weak- ening. More than 70 employers have now settled with the union since the walkout to enforee union conditions was called. The bosses who yielded are Bleck- er, Arnold and Engelberg, 237 S, Market St.; C. H. Eisenstein & Co., 884 S. Market St., Perfection Skirt Co., 1011 Roosevelt Road; Broadway Dress Co., i2 N. Market St.; Karlin and Munvers, 308 S, Market St., and Du Fine and Krelstein, 334 S. Mar- ket St. It will be remembered that at the peace conference called by Miss Mary McDowell and the citizens’ com- mittee that Blecher, Arnold and En- gelberg were represented and de- clared that they were desirous of a settlement with the union and cer- tain other companies were also. * Message to Mayor. The special sub-commitee of the citizens’ “strike settlement” commit- tee met yesterday afternoon and sent a message tothe mayor, The contents of the message were not announced hut it is known that the commitee has taken the stand that the mayor must stop police brutal- ity at once or face a publicity cam- ign that will be disastrous to him. beating of Sophie Altschuler, aroused keen indignation. Arrests lessened somewhat yester- day. Sophie Young,.a picket, was arrested yesterda: n, being seized on S. Market St., below Adams and charged with assault by employers’ pug uglies. She was taken to the S. Clark St., bailed out and appears in court this morning. Other arrests yesterday, the three mentioned on the front pare, were of Fannie Batt, Ethel rager, } GARMENT BOSS KEEPS POLICE AND SLUGGERS SOAKED WITH LIQUOR “Sluggers” and city ‘policemen used by Stein & Seiden, are kept constantly soaked with alcohol by the two bosses of that firm, declare strikers who have been picketing the building at 212 S.° Market St. The girls say that both members of the firm, are constantly escort~ ing the thugs up to fhe offices on the second floor for liquor. “Come on boys, have .a drink!” Stein and Seiden say. right in front of the pickets, The “sluggers” and policemen come down a little later, flushed and bulldozing and ready for any act of brutality, such as the beating of Sophie Altschuler. The same kind of evidence was given the citizens’ committee at Miss McDowell’s conference last Thursday regarding the firm of Arthur Weiss on W. Adams street, These drunken bullies are the creat- ures Mayor Dever considers fit to preserve “law and order”. Fortu- nately they arouse only the con- tempt, not the fear, of the strik- ing girl garment workers. Annie Welcher are working in shops which have settled. They were ar- rested when they stopped to talk with friends on the picket line, All will be arraigned in S. Clark St. police court this morning, They are out on bail. sy Federation Picketing. The committee of 15 of the Chi- cago Federation of Labor will hold an important meeting Thursday at which the issue of mass picketing by the Federation itself will come up for decision. Meanwhile members of the labor unions affiliated with the Chicago Federation are acting on the announcement of the chair- man of the Committee of 15 at the Federation meeting Sunday after- noon and are volunteering their in- dividual services to the Garment Workers’ Union for the picket line. Fire Wipes Out Family. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 17.— Mrs. Susie Stoval, 41, Negress, and sides | her five children ranging in age from two months to 14 years were burned Shirley Id, Anna | to death today in a fire which de- Welcher, Ida _Siekoff, Simon | stroyed the house in which they were Batt and ‘sleeping. \ OIL COMMITTEE TO END THE TEAPOT QUIZ “Principal” Mystery Is Still Left Unsolved WASHINGTON, March 17—As the capitalist press thruout the country is limbeting up for a campaign to sidetrack the oll investigation on the ground that it is destroying con- fidence in the government, it was announced today that the committee is approaching the end of its labors. Already the Hearst press is feat- uring inspired cartoons, insinuating that no evidence has been produced so far nothing in fact but a large crop of rumors, Whitewash Coming Soon! There is a general belief that the refusal of the committee to definitely fix the “principal” telegram on Cool- idge, and the ease with which Ed. McNeal was let down, indicated that the probers had reached the limit of their usefulness. “What will LaFollette do when the Walsh investigation quits, leaving the men higher up unsmirched?” is the question now asked in Washing- ton progressive circles. It was La Follette who introduced the original / oagbed Dome investigation resolu- tion, The aco iaaete of the Teapot ae committee to date are as fol- lows: May Institute “Court “Action.” 1.—TInstitution of court action to cancel the leases and promise of criminal proceedings against at least three of the principals. 2.—Resignation of Secretary of the Navy Denby who signed the leases and investigation of the official acts of Attorney General Daugherty now under way dy a separate senate com- mittee. 3.—Testimony showing that A. B, Fall, who leased the reserves, got big loans from B, L. Doheny and, later from Harry F. Sinclair. Women’s Peace Conference May 1-7. WASHINGTON, March 17.—The first international peace conference to be held in America since the world war will be that of the Women's In- ternational meeting here Mi Jer ta tn tour tonstal Songrean,*” 4 a Attorney General and Pal, Both ' Identified as Ringleaders In Great Picture-Graft Conspiracy (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 17.—Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty was identified as the man behind the plan to ex- hibit Dempsey-Carpentier fight films in more than a score of states, by Jap Muma, one of the promoters of the plan, G. O. Holdridge, former agent of the Department of Justice, testified today before the Senate committee investigating Daugherty. Holdridge said under oath that Muma told him Daugherty and William J. Burns, head of the department’s secret service, | were both involved. One More Day, | cenera wi being the tert Then Our Teapot’ Special Arrives |the conspiracy and Burns with jaiding and abetting it,” Hold- i ridge testified. | Holdridge also brought in the }name of E. B. McLean and related a story Muma told him of the occa- |}sion on which the fight pictures F® ry nook and corner of | were given a private showing at the United States letters stream | in Washington, in clamoring for “The Teapot Spe- |Muma said, according to Holdridge cial” of the DAILY WORKER, |that at that time, in the reabnee er which will appear tomorrow. The | «Cabinet members, diplomats and workers are impatient. They want | Congressmen,” there was a general us to rush their orders, not to lose | discussion of the law against ship- @ moment, | ping figh: films in interstate con:- From the mountain communities | merce and it was agreed the law was | of Kentucky, where the native-born | »j))od primarily -t pictures of to.| American workers are _ illiterate | Jeffries-Johnson fight. even tho America is eupposed todo |” ‘Thinks They're Both Crooks a lot for it » from the min- | " ing fect Bo spite Pi |_ Holdridge declared flatly he thinks | way down Florida (not Palm | Daugherty and Burns are “crooks,” Beach), from the big cities of New He never reported to them the re- York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cin- | sult of his investigation of the fight cinnati and the rest, from the two | film “conspiracy,” he said, “because coasts, from the Middle West, from |I had never heard of a precedent | local unions, from unemployed min- | where an agent would have to oA ers, from every part of this vast | his chief, the attorney-general of country, there is a flood of orders | the United States, Burns, or any- and with them warm messages full | body else that they were crooks,” of eagerness and enthusiasm. “Do you think they are?” Banter | The workers and farmers over | Ashurst asked Holdridge. the country ar used. They are “TI certainly do,” he’responded in- expressing the’ ignation. goed stantly. whale tna. “They tn seg glingcad Thomas P. Dowd, manager of the the full truth about this enormous | Postal Telegraph, Washington office, corruption within the rotten gov- | Submitted to the committee copies ernment, and they know where to |°f telegrams that passed between get the truth. The DALY WORK- | Gus T. Jones, former department of | Benak Bre Wee et te Gealby fee ee ae carey of Pers ef Interior Fall, E. L. Doheny and | for it'is the enemy of the govern Hatry F. Sinclair at San. Artonio, ? id capa eae gr send bag picsinss Texas, from December .1, 1928, to| March 7, 1924. In a few hours our presses will be working beyond capacity turn- The telegrams were asked for in ing out the enormous “Teapot Spe- | Connection with investigations of an al? edisien. alleged conspiracy to run guns, and Never before was such enthusi. |“ ™™unition into Mexico, asm aroused among the masses. By Wheeler Charges Conspiracy. | their great demand for “The Tea- Holdyjdge said he investigated the pot Special” the masses are demon- | pictures of the Dempsey-Carpentier | strating against the criminal lack- | fight about November 1, 1921. eys of the capitalists, against the Wheeler read a letter which noti- whole robber capitalist class, | fied department of justice agents that “there was an apparent con- against the whole rotten system from top to bottom, against the spiracy” to show the pictures in various states, capitalist government honeycomb- fe, “Keep a careful lookout for any ed wih graft, sold to the million- aires, serving its rich masters and | violations and attempt to ascertain crushing the workers and farmers. | evidence thet may be used to prose- From Denver, Colorado, we re- | cute a conspiracy charge,” the letter ceive a letter which sa: “Rush | dated November 16, 1921, stated. (1000) one thousand copies of th: “The department is looking for | “Teapot Dome Special”. We h this evidence so that further show- expected to ing of the ‘ilms may be stopped.” for 5000 copie: From Ruskin, Flori: “Here ore $2 for 100 of the oil edition. You are making a hit in this nook of the world.” From Livingston, Ill: “Enclosed please find $1 check for 50 copies of The Teapot Special and let me express my opinion that if we had this DAILY WORKER for many years, it would be close to the tumble of this existing system of today.” And so the letters read one after another, all of them exp their confidence in the Wor! Party whose organ the DAILY WORKER is, expressing solidarity with the Communist movement. The Workers Party is carrying on the fight against the oppressi: capitalist government, and one of its mightiest weapons is the DAILY ) WORKER, The workers and farm- ers of this country are beginning to realize who is championing their cause, and they are turning to us, they are eagerly grabbing up the DAILY WORKER, which is their paper, and which fights against their enemies, Workers and farmers of the ‘United States get aboard the “Tea- ee Special” and take a trip to ‘ashington and elsewhere to get a close view of what the exal government of the grand old talist democracy is up to! Wire Orders will received up until 10 this evening. Send wire orders to DAILY WORKER, 1640 N Halsted Street. pi- The letter was signed by William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of in- vestigation of the department of justice. “Prior to the receipt of that let- ter had the pictures been exhibited in Albany and in other New York cities?” Wheeler usked. “Yes, sir.” Wheeler asked him to describe. a visit he made to New York after re- ceipt of the letter. “In New York I met Spellacy and he told me that we ought to see a (Continued on page 2) VANDERLIP PREDICTS EVIDENCE THAT WILL “SHAKE THE NATION” WASHINGTON, March 17,—Evi- dence yet to be brought forard in congressional investigations “will shake the nation” Frank A. Van- derlip, New York financier, said in a formal statement here today, Declaring that most of the charges of corguption so far made are proven, Vanderlip said “there are departments other than the department of justice about which there will be shocking revelations.” _ Vanderlip took issue with state: ments that the country is in a state hysteria as a result of disclos- avs tat te le Mas yet oat al ina state of coma.” D. OF J. TOOL OF PRIVATE BURNS’ FIRM Letters Show How Labor Spying Was Divided How William J. Burns used his job with the Department of Justice in Washington to drum up trade for his private detec- tive agency with the copper companies of the Southwest is told in the letters from G. P. Pross, manager of the Burns Los Angeles office, to the head office of the agency in New York. These letters are among the 200 Burns labor spy letters which have fallen into the hands of the Industrial (Work- ers of the World and which are now being made public thru Industrial Solidarity. They constitute one of the most startling exposes of the labor spy published in years. Getting In With McAdoo. In one of the letters we read how Burns was planning to hold his De- partment of Justice job § Y Me” Adoo win the White House post. In another letter, which follows the Los Angeles manager fells how the expenses of the B«rns labor espionage is pro-rated among the various mining companies and how the agency is aided by Department of Justice operatives. “Getting Line” On Radicals, The letter is dated Los Angeles California, May 19, 1923, and is ad dressed to William Garven, Manager New York office, Burns Detective Agency. Extracts from it follow: “I am enclosing some reports of one of my investigators, who is making a tour of all mining camps thruout the State of Arizona. This tour is being made so as to get @ line on the radical movement thru the entire State, and our clients are all the big mining interests of Arizona, they having formed an association, and I am to do all the work for the Association, Costs Are Pro-Rated. “Since - the first investigator (whose reports I am enclosing) left, we have added another man to start from the southern end of Arizona around Tucson; then on the 5th of this month I am to start a third man, etc. What one in- vestigator misses the others ought to pick up, and still it makes the investigation very cheap, as the charges for time and expenses are to be pro-rated between the dif- ferent companies, and there being some thirty odd companies you can readily see that the investigations will not cost them more than two or three dollars a day each. Burns Drummed Up The Trade, “All arrangements on this oper- ation were made while the Gov- ernor (Burns) was here in Los Angeles, I am also sending copies of each report to him so that Department of Justice will have full records of all going on; and, in fact, the agent in charge of the Department of Justice in Arizona is to work in conjunction with our investigators so that should any- thing in particular come up, that would need immediate attention, the agent in ché¢ge will be ready to go with us. See The Guggenheims, “TI will keep sending these re- rts from day to day as they come in so that you will be thoroly con- versant with this radical situation, and it may come in good stead for fon in New York City, as you well iow the Guggenheimers and other big interests are always in- terested; and it may lead to your being able to obtain some work which we can handle for you.” Then on June 23, Pross wrote to Mr. R, J, Burns, Prest., care of the New York office as follows: Mine Managers “Pleased”, “My Dear Raymond: Since May al by have had car oe -1, tied up on an investi for the Mining Interests ag re zona... the mine of (Continued on page 3.) vert Y