The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 1

\ THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1924 GB ves NET MELLON IN $200,000 GRAFT WITNESS TESTIFIES PAYING Students Ignore Court Writ CLARASMITH, JAKE HAMON'S KILLER, HAD FATE OF HARDING, DAUGHERTY AID BIG SUM FOR BOOZE GRAFT PROTECTION ra CAL COOLIDGE, IN HER RAND THE DAILY WORKER Cents neludin, RAISES THE STANDARD Sautaay Magesine FOR A WORKERS’ AND Sections FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No.5. Subscription Rate} On all other days Three Cents per Copy. i Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Minois., In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year Planning to ignore Judge “Den- nie” Sullivan's contemptible in- junction, University of Chicago students prepared last night. to come out on the picket line early this morning in behalf of the brave girls who have been holding the fort with little outside assistance. The student picket squad was brutalities and vicious injunction rulings which the bosses are using against the workers from, the sweatshops. , ‘The students have been active in the special citizens’ committee or- ary od by the Chicago Church ‘ederation to work for a strike Associated with Miss Terbush in the leadership of the movement are Miss Maida Bacon and Alexander Nelson. Several dozen students have been lined up and a good force is expected out this morning, with a larger group Monday morning. The special citizens’ sub-commit- tee meete this morning in the of- are to The Daily Worker) ‘ a r i ial Oklahoma mur- Thomas Holland reported the police ’ the lines. Caoliaied en:céke 2.) ‘When Clara Smith Hamon, the genia aho: WASHINGTON, March 21.—In an amazing recital that \deress, goes on the Teapot Dome stand before the senate com- CHOKING THE INJUNCTION SNAKE dovetailed into the investigation of Jesse Smith, Harry Daugh- erty’s friend, a man who acted as go-between for New York mittee in Washington she will give the following facts if she bootleggers today told the senate committee investigating tells the truth. Some of them are of court record, others have Daugherty that he had paid $200,000 to two men with ‘‘influ- since been independently corroborated and, the vital ones are vouched for at first hand by a former associate of Jake Hamon ence in Washington” to get permits for withdrawal of 50,000 eases of liquor from warehouses.and distilleries, one of which who kept out of harm’s way and unlike the late oil magnate is was the Overhold distillery, at Pittsburkh, owned by Secre- DUTY TO SMASH INJUNCTION, SAYS STRIKE SPEAKER Garment Workers Hear Engdahl Flay Writ J. Louls Engdahl, editor of the DAILY WORKER, addressed a spi- Fited mass meeting of the garment strikers yesterday afternoon at 180 ‘W. Washington St., declaring that ‘it was not only their tight, but_ their duty to violate the contemptible in- junctions issued by the courts, in- cluding that of the labor baiting Judge Denis Sullivan. Engdahl declared that the only wish of the DAILY WORKER, in fits fight for the garment strikers, was to bring about unity of all work- ers thruout the city in support of Get Fitzpatrick Out. . “Let us get John Fitzpatrick, Victor Olander, Oscar Nelson, all the members of the ‘Committee of 15’ and of the Injunction Committee of the Chicago Federation of Labor, out on the picket line”, urged Engdahl. “Let us get Alderman Nelson active in the city council. Let us get the~ whole Chicago labor movement back of this strike. Then we'll win it easily”, “Conventions of the American Federation of Labor have repeatedly gone on record, demanding that workers violate the injunctions of the enti-labor courts”, said Engdahl. “That is on paper. Let us translate these paper resolutions into action. That is our task at the present time in order to win out big.” Union Built By Fighting. Engdahl told of the big strike of the men’s clothing workers in 1911, out of which grew the present power- ful organization of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. He said there was no better time than now to organize the ladies’ garment industry 100 per cent.” The strikers, who have been keep- ing the picket lines intact in spite of Sullivan’s writ applauded the re- marks enthusiastically. Gary Contractors Plan to Wipe Out Organized Labor GARY, Ind. March 21.—Forty- seven steel trust contractors have declared. war on organized labor in Gary, Ind. In a full page advertise- ment. inserted in the Gary Post- Tribune the following statement is made signed by the forty-seven steel lackeys: “We the undersigned building con- tractors, electrical and painting con- tractors, hereby pledge ourselves not to pay any increase in wages during the coming year.” With this noble pledge as a basis, the anti-labor contractors of Gary, Ind, appeal to the me for sup- port against the striking painters, who went out in a body this week. The contractors are unable to show that they cannot pay $1.50 an hour which the painters are demanding. building boom in ry reached unprecedented Leights last spring when jthe steel trust was im- porting Mexicans‘ and Negroes b; the carload. The building contrac- tors at that time put up flimsy shacks to house Gary's vassals, Besides a wage boost, the build- ing trades worlers wno are ized 100 per vent, demand a 40-hour week, They are confident of win- ning before the depression sets in, BURNS MUST GO! Michael Gold _| which itary of the Treasury, Mellon. Goroni, of New York. He said he paid the money to Will Orr and Orr’s partner, Owen Mur- phy, for permits, which, he al- leged, “Orr sold at $15 a case.” Orr has already figured in the inquiry considering Dempsey fight pictures. Goroni brought in the name of William J. Flynn, former head of the Department of Justice Secret Service. Flynn, Goroni said, sent him to Thomas B, Felder, a lawyer, when he wanted to engage counsel. The wit- ness said Felder got back $40,000 or more of the $200,000, when certain permits “did not go thru.” Orr told him, the witness said, that he had influence in Washington and knew Jesse Smith and Howard Man- nington well. Mannington has also been referred to as one of the visitors to the “green house on K, street’ where Daugherty and Smith used to meet. Of the $200,000, Goroni said, $150,000 came from a John Lynn, who “went into the liquor. business” took his last: ae iey general named L’Es- perance,” got fifty cents out of each $15 paid to Orr and Murphy. L’Es- perance, Goroni said, was in the of- fice of United States District Attorney tin New York as “Assistant United ‘States Attorney.” A moment later Goroni testified that Orr told him part of the $15 was “split” with Jesse Smith. Harry F. Sinclair today won a re- spite from the senate oil committee which had called him to testify. After heated argument of two hours be- tween the committee and Martin W. Littleton, counsel for Sinclair, the committee postponed decision on Lit- tleton’s demand that Sinclair be ex- cused from testifying further. Ad- journment was taken until tomorrow, when a decision will be made. A majority of members of the committee indicated strongly that they would vote to compel Sinclair to submit to examination. Littleton presented a lengthy legal argument to the committee that it did riot have the power under the constitution to compel his client to testify? The committee, as a whole, did not seem impressed by Littleton’s argu- ment, but upon the request of Sena- tors Spencer and Bursumi, Republi- cahs let the matter go over until to- morrow. Spencer and Bursum said they wanted more time to consider the question. Senators Walsh, Dill, Adams, Ken- drick and Chairman Ladd _pro- ‘nounced themselves unqualifiedly in favor of forcing Sinclair to. submit to examination. Littleton sought to keep Sinclair from the stand on the ground that evidence that he might give would tend to incriminate him. Agriculture Dept. Tool of Packers Is Charge of Probers (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, March 21.—In- vestigation of tures in the Department of A, Iture is about to start in the House. This is the first step to review publicly Secre tary ’s violation of the Pack- ing-House Control Law and the plac- of numerous pro-packer employes ¥ | on the staff of the Packers and Stock- yards Act Administration. iry will also show to what extent this hotles sonnel hergt oa bend to obstruct the passage jorris- Sinclair Bill for the relief of farmers and consumers. Backers of this bill have long been suspicious as to the nich. ‘proviies for a goverument s for a aaeuitn corporation. ‘ The go-between was John) atified that “a special as- am Labor Is Powerful Enough GELATIN LORD WILL FACE QUIZ IN BIG BRIBE Sinclair Oiled Republi- can Machinery (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, March 21.—Will 'H. Hays, $50,000 a year, Czar of the movie world is on his way to the Capitol today to tell about the hap; jdays when he was chairman of the Republican National Committee, the days when oil barons were generous and Harry Sinclair the ele- phant’s trunk with 75,000 shares of oil stock valued at $1,875,000. Hays has not denied the truth of the allegation but has been busy. consult- ing lawyers, expert in the art of evasion, who may seek to convince the oil scandal committee that Will |H, Hays, is as clean as a hound’s |tooth. It is freely stated around the Capi- tol that Hays will make an breast of the gift. ‘What about it?” ‘will be Hays defense, those in a posi- _tion to know claim. We confess that | this Polity might throw the probe committee off its guard; witnesses to date with the exception of a few who | spilled the beans on Daugherty, be- ing in the Ananias class and top larry Sinclair jue to appear be- fore the committee today. lieved that he will refuse to on the ground thag anything he might into 4 it is be-}It is now clear that there is to Crush Its COLORED GIRL PICKETS PUT STEIN AND SEIDEN BOSSES ON THE RUN Stein and Seiden, scab garment bosses, looked with angry eyes at three colored girl pickets, mem- bers of the Ladies’ Garment Work- ers’ union, who were patrolling the snowy sidewalk in front of No. 212 S. Market St. “Move on!” shouted these new- fangled hundred percenters. “We won't stand for any colored pickets!” The girls laughed at them and the two bosses retreated to their shop where eight untrained scabs are trying to do the work of 30 expert workers who are striking. Stein and Seiden are ly scared, Strikers tell with amuse- ment of Brother Stein leaving his shop at night with a police body- oct to protect him inst frail ttle girls. Stein huddles into his automobile and a takes the wheel and drives him home. If you want more information page Officer 390 who acts as chauffeur for the boss, with his blue uniform changed for the civil-- ian coat of Stein's clerk. say would incriminate him, He has end reason for taking that position. nly a few weeks ae, on his arrival from Europe, Sinclair jauntingly told newspaper men that he would take the witness stand and tell everything, Wiser counsels prevailed since then. @ con- spiracy on to run the investigation the grou , Enemies. LAFOLLETTE 10 _ SPEAK TONIGHT AT AUDITORIUM Sticker Campaign Pui Hiram in Rear Senator Robert M. LaFollette, who introduced the original Teapot Dome resolution, is scheduled to speak in the Auditorium theatre tonight. Thie speech will be La- Follette’s first extended declaration on the oil graft exposes. The the- atre’s doors open at 6:30 pi m. eee Dakota Vote Sensation. (Special to The Daily Worker) FARGO, -N.’-D., March 21.—The remarkable race made Senator Robert M LaFollette ws ¢ primar- ies here, on a sticker paign, has created a sensation, not alone in this state but-in:the capitol. ‘The LaFol- lette campaign fe, only a last min- ute effort. The -fact that he led Senator Hi Johnson of Califor- nia, who carried on a vigorous speak- ing campaign indicates that the ex- ploited farmers in the Northwest are sick and. tired of the two old parties and have lIpst all hope in them, LaFollette beat Johnson™ by al- most 4,000 votes with 226 precincts yet to make returns. The vote stood: Coolidge, 47,947; Laollette, 84,096; Johnson, 30,253. pt f ~ be } -)since a’ suicide.--“Phe fourth man in still alive and active in Chicago ean politics. And the politics; then as now were of oil. A few hours before Warren G. Harding was nominated for presi- je dent at the 1920 convention in Chicago; Jake Hamon, who held the Oklahoma delegation in his vest pocket, told his friend and former co-workers that Harding and Calvin i would be the Republican nominees and that Albert B. Fall and Hamon himself would be in the new cabinet. Then he entered the famous Blackstone hotel con- manipulated by Harry Daugherty. Only One Yet Alive. The nominations went off as scheduled and in due time the front porch campaign began at Marion, O. Among newspaper photos taken at the time is a fine group of smelly | beauties flanking the late president. | On Harding’s immediate right is} Hamon, since murdered in a sex tri- angle. On his left is Jesse, Smith, seller of Administration influence, the group is Harry M. Daugherty, probably the least respected man in public life today. Fall made the cabinet as secretary ef the interior but Hamon’s expected appointment fell thru. Fall made good for the oil crowd and then was ditched by them and left public dis- grace as a bribetaker who got caught. Clara Was Stubborn. Hamon might have been in the same position but for his private life. He was enjoying what theological au- thorities. call “living in sin” with Clara Smith Hamon—his one lawful | wedded ‘wife notwithstanding. This was all right in Oklahoma oil circles, | but was hardly the thing for a pros- pective cabinet man. The word went} to Hamon to ditch Clara. He tried} to but Clara refused to drop. The quarrel ended fatally for Jake. The trial ended happily for Clara who is now living in Los Angeles with an honest-to-God husband instead of an oil millionarie as a soul-mate. Jake's Death Saved Harding. The unpleasantness also ended happily at the time for the Republi- can administration. The grasping Jake with his promise of a cabinet job was out of the way and Clara thad her court acquittal of murder as ithe price of her silence. If she had been convicted her squealing would have put the indelible stain on the Harding-Coolidge regime two years earlier than it actually became visi- ble. The Teapot Dome and other gushers would have flowed their de- vastating way long before Harding descended to the grave. ‘The story as here given is known to Hamon’s former business manager tas well as to Clara Hamot and the Chicago friend. It is understood to be in the hands of the senate investi- gating committee for use when two of the trio take the oath to testify. World’s Temporal Lord Will Receive Yanks in Throne Room ROME, March 21.—All Americans in Rome are to be received by Pope Pius in public audience in the throne room of the Vatican after the con- sistory at which Archbishop Hayes and Mundelein are to be elevated to the cardinalate. Archbishop Hayes made this an- nouncement following his private audience with the Pontiff in the pri- vate library last night. “TI found his holiness in excellent health and with a most alert mind,” Hayes said. “Reports that his health is bad are sheer nonsense.” IMPEACH COOLIDGE! BROWN?” In Magazine Section Today |District Attu Laus oil circles today. Harding Hamon’s Protege. Clara shot and killed Jake. republican politics and she was acquitted because of republi- She killed him because of SLEUTHS TRAIL MUMA, CHIEF FILM PLOTTER Belief He Is Hiding in Daugherty Office (Special to The Daily Worker} WASHINGTON, March 21. — Scouting parties were out again to- day looking for Jap Muma, bosom friend of the late President Harding, end self stvled “master mind” in the criminal conspiracy under the auspices of Harry M. Daneherty, Jess Smith, William Burns and others to violate fedpal laws: by {legally transmorting the pictunea-am — <~ the Carpentier-Dempsey fight films from state to state. It appears that Muma was the connecting link between Daugherty and the other certmtnals, which causes his testimony to have an added interest. It is exnected that Edward McLean’s business manager will prove a reluctant witness, but the web of testimony is so securely, woven around him that any attempt on his part to lie his way out of the mesh of intrigue into which his erookedness has led him, will only result in whetting the appetite of Senator Wheeler for the truth. If the sleuths who are hunting for Muma fail to locate him—it was ru- mored here yesterday that he was hiding in the Denartment of Jus- tice building—Roxie Stinson will take the stand in a mood that bodes ill for the attorney general. The efforts of Mal Daugherty, Harry’s brother, to rob her of her share of Jess Smith’s fortune, did not hurt this woman’s feelings half as much as the attor- ney general's besmirching 4! er character when he stated publicly, that Smith’s ex-wife was on intimate terms with the Ohio grafter,. long after a divorce was secured and that she recently registered in the Hol- lenden i Cleveland, with a man by the name of Fink, both occupy ing the same room. Senator Wheeler placed tn evi- dence today a batch of telegrams from and to Jesse Smith, Daugherty and McLean. These messages, ac- cording to members of the commit- tee, showed what powerful influence Smith wielded at the Department of Justice und gave new ramificas tions of his dealings with the attor- ney general. Blame for Beer Murders on Police Falf of Chicago’s policemen were necepting bribes from breweries un- til federal, authorities drove the breweries out of existence, District Attorney Edwin A. Olson charged today. “The federal government took the police department out of beer by taking the beer out of Chicago,’ Olson said. With thugs and gunmen runhing the breweries, corruption si spread in the ranks of ating tae it threatened to engulf the entire department. Beer was flooding the city, he said, and many of the mur- ders of the past two years were directly attributable to the ‘traffic, Sixteen breweries have been shut down in this district in the year, Olson said, OUT WITH DAUGHERTY!