The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1924, Page 1

THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT IT ARRIVES a THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class mateer September 21, 1998, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illincis, ender the Act of March 8, 1879. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents Subscription Ra 1 Wotaide Enicege, by mati, 98°00 Peseax: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19,1924 gp = PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St, Chicago, Ilinols. PLOT 10 CHOKE OFF OIL QUIZ Coolidge Treasurer, Mellon, Graft Witness: | Show British Government Financed Doheny VOL. II. No. 2. : | ‘amination of brokers’ books HAD JOB TO SUPPLY JOHN BULL'S NAVY Made Head of Association For Irish Republic (pecial to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.— Edward Doheny, who always had his checkbook ready for the politicians, was put on his feet in 1919 by a large sum of money paid him by the British government, when the Amer- ican magnate signed an agree- ment to give all the oil he ob- tained, as royalty from United States reserves to British con- sumers. This was managed thru a British subsidiary com- pany. The testimony was given be- fore the Public Oil Lands com- mittee investigating the grant- ing of oil leases by Henry Woodhouse, of New York, a sixth owner of the Chester con- cession in Turkey. Witness Sure of It. “I know it was money furnished by the Rritish government at the time the contract was signed that ¢ Doheny back on his feet,” Wood stated. Doheny was elected president of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic in 1921 at a convention held in Chicago on the instructions of Eamon De- Valera and thru the efforts of Mary MacSwiney, another Irish republi- tan representative. The delegates to the convention opposed Joheny on the ground that he was an im- perialist whose hands were stained with the blood of the Mexican peo- ple but his election was allowed to go over on DeValera’s insistence. The oil magnate is said to have iven $50,000 to the Irish Republican ind, while at the same time carry- ‘ng on negotiations with the British government thru Lord Pirrie, British betagin | baron, to supply the British vavy with oil. President Coolidge’s secretary, C. Bascom Slemp, the attorney-general, two senators and: four congressmen speculated in Sinclair and Doheny sil stocks before and after the gov- ernment signed over naval re- serves to these two big interests, This was the revelation made be- fore the Teapot Dome committee to- day by Lewis Bond, accounting ex- pert, who completed a month’s ex- and submitted his repor. today when the investigation was resumed. ere eee 1e 0} - W. Slemp,” unidenti- fled in the records,” Daugherty. urned his over in the name of “W. \", Sapicy” partner of (Continues' on page 2.) OUT WITH DAUGHERTY! | | TWO SICK ANIMALS ~ | PROBERS 10 They Partook Not Wisely, But Too Well. ear Use Teapot Dome and Daugherty to Organize ____By WILLIAM Z. FOSTER. EAPOT DOME, the Daugherty investigation and the scandal in the Veterans Bureau, have given positiye proof to theories the mili- tant workers have held relative to the unscrupulous methods by which mammoth fortunes are amassed and the wage earners in all indus- tries deprived of all voice in govern- ment, The oil industry pays its workers a starvation wage; it works them ten and twelve hours per day and it fights organizatfon with every weapon from bribery to the black- jack. In Texas, Oklahoma, Califor- nia and Wyoming, the oil interests during the war were protected by the department of justice and recent evidence in the Daugherty investi- gation shows that this spying upon and persecution of labor organizers, the penetration of labor orguniza- tions with spies, the framing of criminal charges against active workers, has been carried over into peace time and is now a recognized function of the Burns-Daugherty de- partment cf justice. A The cost of production tn the ofl industry is low and from the Tea- pot Dome scandal we learn that the natural resources from which fabu- lous profits are made cost the ex- ploiters nothing but a few cheap bribes. To protect this stolen own- ership the whole mgthinery of capi- talist government was used and only because of the conflict. vetween rival groups of capitalists and the gen- eral economic breakdown did tho fla- grant nature of the thefts become known, ThYre is the greatest indignation among the workers, farmers end the lover middle classes a result of the exposures; an indignation that is being expressed in political re- volt. Undoubtedly there will arise not only a third party movement di- rected against corruption. in govern- ment, but a class farmer-labor party directed against capitalist govern- ment as such, Something more is needed. The disillusionment of the workers in the oil industry—the key industry for capitalism in the event of war—must be utilized to build permanent and rful economic organization; in the oil fields and in the oil refineries a "Beste organiza- tion campaign should be launched. In_ the agricultural districts the awakened farmers must turn their efforts not only to the political or- Usgprdalsa for election campaigns it they must begin to build class- conscious economic organizations of exploited fermers, the entire labér movement Order A Bundle We are printing « few thousand extra copies of this 1 Tea) Edition of the DAIL Orders will see B. Halaaed St., bposueg Ae ices — cents copy; $1.00 Haga yma ea the Teapot Dome scandal and the actual and indisputable proof of the connection of governmental agencies with the terroristic activities of the oil and other employers must be used to arouse the workers to the need for 100 per cent organization of American industry. ¥f the Officialdom of the American Federation of Labor was alive to the opportunity and not living in the past, 1924 would see a powerful po- litical movement of the workers and farmers based solidly on the eco- nomic organizations of the two groups, P As it is, the mVitants’ will have to redouble their efforts and by add- ed industry, with the Teapot Dome and the Daugherty investigation as their text, strive to make up fcr the incompetency, cowardice and igno- rance of vhe officialdom of the Amer- ican labor movement. It is entirely possible that in the new farmer-labor movement that will crystallize June 17 will be found the weapon that combining economic and political organization. will sweep from power not only certain agents of capitalist governments and bring 3 new alignment of political forces but that will\also dethrone the offi- cial misleaders of organized labof and open the door for a period of militant’ endeavor and worthwhile victories. fe Ne The Prince of Wales does not mind so much breaking his neck but he does not relish the idea of migs- ing his w! » So long as the gul- let can other mishaps will not be considered serious, QUIZ WEEKS AND MELLON All Suspected Crooks Will Be Grilled (Bpectal to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 18.— Secretary of the Treasury An- drew W. Mellon and Secretary of War John W. Weeks were included in a batch of sub- poenas issued today by the senate committee investigating the criminal acts of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, his associates and eubordinates. Gaston B. Means, who Will- iam J. Burns declared, was the most reliable investigator in America, declared in his sensa- tional testimony that he was sent to New York in 1921, by President Harding to “get the goods on Melion” who \was then alleged to be doing a land office business selling liquor permits, The enforcement of the national prohibition act is under the jurisdic- tion of the treasury department. Mellon Is Slippery Guy. Means testified on tne witness stand that the first time he was sent after Mellon the latter slipped thru his fingers, but that he caught him the second time. The world is anxious to know what graft ihe steel and coal mag- nate was engaged in wher ius foot slipped. Secretary of War Weeks will } called on to tell what he knows of the $100,000 bribe given to Daugh- erty and company by the agents of the Standard Air Craft company, in return for withdrawal of prosecution for mulcting the government out of $3,000,000. Secretary Weeks with- drew the case from the department of justice after the $100,000 bribe was turned over. Call Fight Film Bad. Jap Muma, master mind of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films, and general manager of the Ed. Mc- Lean newspapers will be given a chance to slap himself «= the back in front of the Daugherty committee and tell of his close friendship with William J. Burns before very long, it was announced here today. Muma was on such close terms with President Harding that the lat- ter called him “Jap.” Mr. Muma was at one time in great dread lest he should be sent to Atlanta for violating a federal statute, hut after McLean got in touch with Daugherty and the latter got in touch with Burns, he went back to New York with an easy conscience. Muma occupied a swell apartment. in the Ansonia Hotel in New. York, which is owned by the mill{ionarie Mr. Stokes of divorce court fame. (Continued on page 2) IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Fe McADOO The most expensive pawnbroker in capitalist politica. Stop Scuttling of Oil Investigation S the DAILY WORKER “Teapot Dome Special” was going to press, news from Washington was to the effect that the Public Lands Committee, with Senator Thomas Walsh, of Montana, as its prosecutor, is about te call off the investigation, at the very moment when im- portant revelations seemed about to be disclosed. The Teapot Dome investigation unearthed the most appalling evidence of government corruption that ever_ startled this country. Every capitalist politician in Amer- ica realizes its implications. The workers of the United States are watching the Teapot Dome investigation and they are losing confidence in the capitalist government. Therefore the scandal must be buried. Already the capitalist press is starting a counter-offen- sive against the results of the investigation. The yellow journals of that arch prostitute William Randolph Hearst are already on the way with the preliminary campaign. His cartoonists are picturing the whole affair as a storm in a teacup, not a Teapot. Soon the Hearst press from coast to coast will be in full cry for a stop to the investigation. The Chicago Tribune, exponent of American imperial- ism and fomenter of revolution in the oil soaked Mexican Republic, in a two column editorial blast in its issue of March 17 raves against the investigaters, branding Senator Wheeler a friend of war objectors. -It calls for an easing — up of the investigation and a withholding of judgément. It declares Gaston B. Means is a crook and insinuates that Roxie Stinson is an immoral woman. But Means was as much of a crook when he was hired by Daugherty and Burns, as he is today and if the moral character of Roxie Stinson is not up to Tribune standard, the blame for her alleged direliction should be laid on those with whom she intimately associated, the late Presi- dent Harding, Harry M. Daugherty and the Ohio ring of the republican machine in Washington. It is no accident that such widely differing interests as those behind the Hearst press and the Chicago Tribune should simultaneously open fire on the Teapot Dome ex- pose. These scandal sheets of capitalism know that the various probes now going on are rocking the capitalist government itself and exposing both republican and demo- cratic parties as two thieving gangs who rob this country and its resources under the protection of the American flag. As this counter-barrage is laid down against the Teapot investigation, Senator Thomas Walsh, intimate friend of the Doheny family, announces that the investiga- tion is nearing an end. A few days ago it was stated it had barely scratched the top. The Teapot Dome investiga- tion is quitting without letting the world know that the “principal” mentioned in the McLean Palm Beach tele- gram was no other than Calvin Coolidge, president of the United States. For the sake of capitalism the presidency must be covered with a cloak of sanctity, therefore, the accommodating committee halts its probe at the moment it was about to lay a finger on the ringleader. The DAILY WORKER urges the workers and farmers of this country to take immediate action and flood the senate with telegrams calling for a new committee to con- tinue the Teapot Dome investigation. The DAILY WORKER urges Senator Robert M. La Follette, who introduced the Teapot Dome resolution, to step in now and make a real investigation. The DAILY WORKER believes that evidence of official corruption yet unrevealed to the public would warrant the ignominious expulsion from office of prominent members of the Coolidge Cabinet, yet untouched by the investigation, and that it would lead up to the impeachment of the president himself—CALVIN COOLIDGE, THE SILENT TOOL OF WALL STREET. GREGORY A friend of Wilson who has too much oil in his system. Th M1 Rion fi lame je railr attorney duck—a Coolidge appointee.