The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 21, 1924, Page 1

_ STARTING TODAY! Michael Gold’s THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD .FOR WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 4. CATCH BURNS CONSPIRING IN OKLAHOMA Judicial Outrage Unparal.e’ed in State, uharged By ERNEST R. CHAMBERLAIN. (Stal Correspondent of The Federated Press) KLAHOMA CITY, Mar. 20. —An application to appear as a witness for impeachment of the supreme court of Oklahoma has been filed in the state house of representatives by Dr. G. F. Border of Mangum al- leging a case of judicial out- rage unparalleled in state his- tory. Border’s case is of special interest to public ownership advocates as it shows the com- bination of the electric light combine and the Burns detec- tive agency in a conspiracy to blackmail the mayor of Man- gum, who was a physician, into calling off a bond election by seeking to induce him to per- form a criminal operation. Milked for Huge Profits. Border had run for mayor on a pub- lic ownership platform following his discovery that the Mangum electric franchise, as a unit in a “parent com- any” in New Jersey, was milking + a A citizens for about 50%, profits on a valuation that was mostly water. Border was elected and called a bond issue for a municipal plant, One night he was informed of a conspiracy by opponents of the elec- tion. A Burns’ agent from Kansas City appeared with sree confede- en from Oklahoma City. phone wag installed and Border sum- moned. He appeared, as chief of po- lice, and took five six-shooters, a bowie knife and a pair of knucks from the crowd, had them arrested and con- vieted of conspiracy. After five years the case finally came before the crim- inal court of appeals where it was found that the county attorney had “misdrawn” the pleadings. The statute of limitations having run, the conspirators went free. Border at the same time filed a suit for damages. The defendants got a change of venue to another county but nevertheless Border got judgment for $62,000. After ten years the supreme court reviewed the case. They found that the court had refused one instruction to the jury. This instruction in sub- stance, however, n L gg in an- other charge, but nonetheless it was sufficient to influence the court to re- verse the case for a new ‘trial after Border had spent $20,000 of atorneys and costs, The court found the ver- dict not excessive and the essential facts to be true. It denied two appli- cations fora rehearing showing the fallacy of the court position. The court, however, did not render a writ- ten opinion citing any authority for their action. . On the bench at the rehearing sat J. D. Lidick, former attorney for the Man Electric Co., who did not dis- aallty himself. One judge, Border says, explained that the court nearly always sustained other members. The judge said that there were two Dem- ocrats and two Republicans and “what yeu ought to have done was to have taken a shotgun and killed the whole bwin push” (meaning the conspir- Prosecutor Is “Retained.” _ The attorney-general, Prince Fre- linghysen prosecuted the criminal eases for Border, has since been re+ tained by the conspirators. The one bright spot in the sordid A dicta- story is the successful ration of the m munici| ht plant. dudge N. E. McNeil, who wrote the decision is, however, expecting the in- dorsement of the ‘Farmer-Labor League at El Reno, Subscription Rate! ight wom-t gery pre THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as panedeangy f matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Hlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH /’21, 1924 te ” 6¢ GIRL PICKETS PROMISED AID AT MEETING Federation Injunction Committee Summoned Four girl garment strikers, right ‘from the picket line, attended the ex- ecutive session of the “Committee of 15” of the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday afternoon and made a blood-quiekening appeal for action by the labor movement in support of jthe strike which they have been wag- ing for more than three weeks After listening to the recital of numerous brutalities by police and ittivate thugs, which culminated last ‘Fr'day in the beating unconscious of |fophie Altschuler, and which have continued without cessation ever since, the committee ordered John | Fitzpatrick, tresident of the Chicago Federation -{ Labor, Viet.» Olander, secretary of ihe Illinois Stute Feder- ation, and Anion Johannsen, chair- man of the “Committee of 15” to call on Mayor Wiliam E. Dever this morning and demand that he curb his thugs. Takes Up Injunction Issue. } The committee also promised to take up the injunction issue with the} injunction committee of. the Chicato Federation of Labor at a meeting Monday. This injunction committee also consists of 15 members, and will deal with the challenge presented by the sentencing of Florence Corn. Plans for action to arouse the peo- ple of Chicago to the challenge of the liberties that the Judge Denis Sul- livan injunction, and the poli ug- | sent, are being made. action is contemplated which the committee for strategic reason does not wish to make public at this time. “We Will Win!” Girls Cry. “We are going to win this strike,” declared Miss Freda Reich- er, the spokesman for the girl strikers. “We are going to win this strike in spite of injunctions and police.” If the strikers submit to the man- dates of Judge Denis Sullivan, they told the “Committee of 15,” the strike is lost. If they maintain their right to walle the streets in front of the scab shops the strike will be won. “The strike will be won,” they re- peatedly declared. Anton Johannsen, chairman of the committee, declared that Miss Reicher made a” splendid presenta- tion of the strikers’ -case. Want Daily Strike Reports. The tale which the militant girl strikers told the committeemen there on the sixth floor’ of the Fed: eration building was ¢:o harrowing that even the most lethargie could not fail to have been aroused. At the end the committee told the girls and Vice-President Meyer Perlstein, who was present) that daily reports of police brutalities and the progress of the strike should be presented to them so that they might take prompt action. reda Reicher was followed by Margaret Welch, Mary Goorvitch and Eugenia Schlacter—all of them courageous and untiring pickets and all of them many-times pris- oners of Mayor Dever’s and State’s Attorney Crowe’s police. The appeal for solidarity from the rest of the trade union movement here, for aid in this fight for union life and for human liberty, aroused a protracted discussion ag to what measures should be adopted in the strikers’ support. A minority of the committee was for mass action by the Federation on { the picket line in spite of Denis Sul- livan and his outrageous. injunction. This minority w effective support In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year VANDERLIP TO & CHICAGO FIRES INJURE 3 WOMEN AND 4. FIREMEN Wet Snow Saves Lives, Fire Laws Ignored Three disasttous fires raged in Chicago yesterday, injuring four firemen_and three women. Scores of lives might have been lost in the conflagration that de- stroyed the huge Glaman Furniture warehouse at 1302 Newberry avenue and 882-36 Maxwell street in, the heart of ‘the Jewish tenement house district had the wind been different and wet snow not been falling. Fire Laws Ignored. The tenement houses, fire-traps where the city fire regulations are violated many times over, are clus- tered about the four-story warehouse that was blazing away. Flying sparks settied on buildings as far as three blocks away and Jewish people who were celebrating the Purim feast rushed out into the streets while firemen, aided by the wet snow nally puc out the start- ing flames. ‘ , Another furious fire roared thru the State Bank building at Madison street and Ashland avenue. Capt John Coffin of Engine Company No. 78 was caught in the debris when the roof of the building collapsed. His skull may be fractured. Three other firemen were carried from the burning building, overcome by the smoke and cut ‘by flying glass.’ Aged Woman_ Injured. Mrs. Catherine Cunningham, Wt) that the most|years old; Mrs, May Lambert and ‘ould be given by|her daughter Dorothy. were over- As a sideli¢ht on the court custom) ining up on the picket line, side by|come by smoke in a fire that ‘broke of usually sustaining one another is side with the girls, who were threat- out in the Woodlawn district ‘at 63rd the decision on the ‘validity of the| med with the 80-day sentencos that (street and Stoney Island avenue. wtate warehouse bill asked by the co- operative organizations of farmers. In this case the bill was held uncon- Sullivan had just handed out to Flo- rence Corn. y felt that if the pdlice were going to beat up on any One hundred and fifty flat dwel- lers were driven to the streets. Dam- age at each of the fires was esti- stitutional by a decision in which|™ore pickets that men from the tradé| mated at apvroximately $250,000, three members who were seeking re- n this fall found the bill con- union movement Chicago should hear the brunt of ft as well as the atitutional while the balance who will|itls. either retire or seek other appointive be found the law invalid. One of is to be made U. &. district for eastern Oklshoma. He is the Frank Keanemer whose name was temporarily held up while Senator wal et directng the idepaction a of the ome @ Jodroahiy ght tere brie! perioas™ Nelson Stayed Away. Alderman Ovcar Nelson, vico-pidal: dent of the Federation and member | rp, of the “Committee of 15” sta away from the meeting but er }conservative voices booby raised against direct action of this kind. It ;was finally decided that the issue was (Continued on page’4.)' ’ 4 BURNS. MUST GO! 3,000 acres of O, Indian land on which oil rig vers ights were auction- id ed here brought a total of $14,123,800, The record p :. for sa sone Bc Hoses OF ema section in the Burbank -field. 4 & & Committee of 15”? In Strike Action IKE ot nth, o He Crows for the Bosses. “THIS STRIKE DETAIL- THE POTATOES,” SAYS ONE BULL TO ANOTHER “This strike detail is the pota- toes: two bucks a day and a lot of drinks.” This. fragmént of. conversation between two bulls in the S. Clark St. courtroom where 35 girl pickets and a DAILY WORKER reporter were awaiting arraignment plains a lot. Two bucks a day and the drinks!, boss gets uniformed thugs cheaply. The regular “sluggers” cost the boss more for he has to pay their wages. When the city sends policemen to arrest his strik- ers they cost him nothing but the side money and the drinks, Russia’s Victories Abroad Put Home : Issues to Front (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 20.—Comment- ing upon the recognition of the Union of Soviet Republies by Britain and Italy, the Pravda, in an article called “A Turning Point,” writes: “Our immense proletarian Power” —further says the organ of the Rus- sian Communist Party—“has now been openly recognized as a legal Power. However, the consolidation of our external position lays new obligations on us and—paramount among them—the obligation to carry on’ our internal construction with ex- ABO soe o te MOSCOW SEES TROUBLE WITH CHINA OVER PACT Repudiation Is Due to Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER . PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. HE LID OFF WASHINGTON > Workers! Farmers! 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 N.Y. FINANCIER, STUNG BY. CRITICISM, PLANS REAL PROBE OF BIG SCANDAL (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 20.—Frank A. Vanderlip, New York financier, has organized a big investigating agency to get evidence for senate scandal investigators. Aroused at the criticisms directed at him for relating rumors, Vanderlip has opened his great financial resources for organization of what he calls a “Federal Research Bureau” to investigate the conduct of federal departments and bring the truth before the public, ° Conscious of the extreme enmity against him, Vanderlip has taken out a persc 1al accident insurance policy for $1,000,- 000 payable to his wife and two men associated with him in the Research Bureau, John Pearmain and Boyd Fisher. His headquarters ‘are at the Shoreham Hotel where agents come to him with documentary evidence which is stored in the largest safety deposit vault in Washington. REGULAR BANDIT |r vers T0 TESTIFY AT Round-the-W orld (Special to The Daily Worker) $1) LONDON, March 20.—Great Bri- tain’s effort to beat the United States in the first flight around the world will start next Tuesday from Calshott } with three planes piloted by A. S. C. MacLaren, squadron commander, and pilots W. N. Plenderleith and Ser- geant Andrews. The flight will be from. west to east along the same route followed by Jennings May Tell of The Presidency Bribe WASHINGTON, March 20th.—Al 2 sal Jennings, once a regular bandit, now previous British efforts. reformed Dut evidently still moving |The British fliers, if successful, in shady circles, will be called to the should’ cross the air trail of the witness stand by the senate commit- American aviators at Delhi, India, tee investigating the leasing of the from where the British airmen will Teapot Dome and other oil proper- continue along the coast to Alaska, ties of the navy department, by the thence to New Foundland and either present republican administration. direct to Ireland or via the Azores This isthe first: time ‘that “a -real;toPortugal. OE Se highwayman got thixed up in the oil : scandal; to date those involved hav-|_ VANCOUVER, Wash., Mar. 20.— ing control of the legal machinery Headed by Major Frederick L. Mar- wnile. highwaymen and hold-uy-men tin, the three round the world army like Jennings who operated as out» Planes hopped off from Vancouver laws were at a decided disadvantage. Barracks here at 10:15 a, m. today Jennings was supposed to have re- | bound for Seattle, Washington. f d but it s that he | eo pence apa atended' the Republican National Graft Abounds in convention in Chicago in 1920 andj & Washington; It Is Hard to Miss It jassociated with such characters as WASHINGTON, March 20.—Graft 'Jeke Hamon, Harry Daugherty and other modern criminals. Jennings is supposed to know about the offer made to give anybody the presidency oi hedge who would guarante to give a friend of the Hamon gang the sécretaryship of the Interior. Harding was their man, Unless the big crooks threat- en Jennings with his past, he is ex- pected to create something of a sen- Anti-Soviet Powers (Special te The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, March 2U.—vhina’s re: | sation. pudiation of the signature of her| Senator Thomas Walsh declared to- foreign minister Wang, on the Chi-| day that his committee was approach- no-Russian recognition agreement} ing the end of its labors and would signed recently at Pekin, is unjusti-| begin to write his report unless some fiable and liable to lead to the most | unforseen necessity for further inves- serious consequences for which | tigation rose. China will, be responsible, it was| There is a general feeling in pro- declared in official Soviet circles to-| gressive circles here that the oil day. barons are “getting away with mur- The Russian government was pre-! det.” It will be noted, as the DAILY pared to ratify the agreement which WORKER correspondent has already her emissary, Karakhan,®signed with pointed out that when the accusing ‘ang and had demanded that China fitger was pointed at President Coo- ¥ likewise: within three days. Up lidge in the famous “principal” tele- ‘until today the Chinese cabinet had withheld ratification. The agree- ment provid] for recognition of the Soviet government by China. Pres- sure from imperialistic nations, enc- mies of Soviet Russia, is believed re- sponsible. Poincare’s Rule Hangs on Voters’ Decision in May PARIS, March 20—The French — utmost energy. Thus, we must learn | cabinet today decided to hold the na- to be more efficient in commerce and industry; the very “tempo” of our life and work must be made strong- er.” This—the Moscow paper con- cludes—is an imperative demand of our days. Jap Sub Goes Down. LONDON, March 20.—Foury offic-| i ers and forty men have gone down in a Japanese submarine which col- lided with a warship off the port of Sasebo on the west coast of the Island of Kiushiu, 30 miles north of Na- gasaki, according to a dispatch hero recently. McCray Jury Picking Slow, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 20,— Little progress toward selection of a jury to try Governor McCray on charges of eny was apparent to- day as attorneys resumed tioning of “LIFE ir ques- } tional elections May 11. Snowstorm Aids Robbers. . EAST ST. LOUIS., March 20.— As Mrs. Joe Andruska stepped off a street car in a blinding snowstorm at noon today, three robbers held her w on the street and escaped with $1,100 in cash, i The woman, who runs a groce: store, had the money to cash pect of packing house employes. gram and the nation was on tip toe waiting for the storm to break around the head of the huddled-up strike- breaking president !n the White House. The Walsh committee, in- stead of following the culprit to his lair began to draw in its horns. Since then there has. not been a word about the “principal.” A story that Sinclair oil money paid off part of a $1,00,000 deficit of |the Republican party, resulting from ‘the 1920 campaign, will be sifted by the committee. |. Will H. Hays, former head of the Republican natiogal contmittee, and now “czar” of the movies, will face the committee Saturday to tell whether he got* 75,000 shares of oil stock, or any liberty bonds, from Harry Sinclair, to help wipe out the 1920 party deficit. Hays was sub- Ppoenaed after the story was told to the committee in private. G. D. Wahlberg, a former Sinclair employe, one of those whose testimo- ny first.opened the secrets of the oil scandal, was to go on the stand to- day to tell what he knew about this hewest sensation, but did not appear. Senate Asks War Department to Tell of Arms Sales to Mexico WASHINGTON, March 20—By unanimous vote the Senate toda, resolution introduced by Senator Walsh, Montana, chief prosecu- a tor of oil committee, directi: the Sentta all information OF JOHN BROWN” Turn Secretary of War Weeks to transmit to the sale of arms and ammunition to and @shonesty have been common in the prohibition unit during the pest three years, Charles R. Nash, assist- ant commissioner of internal reve- nue, told the Senate Investigating Committee investigating the Interna! Revenue Bureau today. Approximately half of the em- Ployes discharged by the bureau for dishonesty during that time have been members of the prohibition di- vision, he said. Grand Jury Trying To Get Goods on Two Congressmen WASHINGTON, March 20— Cashiers of three banks in Pikesville, Ky., today were called before the fed- eral b aiypad jury, investigating charges against two congressmen. Pikesville is the home town of Rep- resentative Langley who in a recent statement said he had heard reports conecting his name with a Chicago grand jury investigation. The cashiers represented the Day aid Night National Bank, the First National Bank and the Pikesville Na- tional Bank. 14 Men Entombed Alive in Sunken Jap Submarine (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKIO, March 20,— Fourteen men are believed still living in the engine room of the Japanese sub- marine No, 40, which was sunk yes- terday in a collision near Nagasaki. Crews sent to salvage reported that at 7:40 p. m. yesterday they were amazed to hear shouts coming Hua the interior of the sunken veneered Bergdoll Makes Promise, WASHINGTON, March 20.—Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, draft dodger, now in Germany, has definitely ised the American Legion, he will return to the United States within a month to rare ie Ne orgie we os foie Legion islative headquarters an- nounced here today. * t To Page Six J