The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 2

Page Two SOLONS’ IRE | AROUSED BY CROOK'S DEFY Grand Jury to Decide On Fate of Oil King (Speciak to The Day Worker) WASHINGTON, Mar. 25.— A formal contempt citation against Harry F. Sinclair was sent to U. S. District Attorney Peyton Gordon here today by Senator Moses, New Hamp- shire, acting president of the senate. This action-was taken pur- suant to,order of the senate yesterday’ holding Sinclair in contempt for refusing to an- swer questions put to him by the senate committee investi- gating the naval oil reserve scandals. Gerdon will immediately present the case to the grand jury here, ask- ing an indictment. The Senate’s citation reads: | “To the Honorable District Attor- ney of the District of Columbia: “Take Notice:—That one Harry F. Sinclair, appearing pursuant to its subpoena before the Committee on Public Lands and’ Surveys of the Sen- ate on 22nd day of March, 1924, re- fused to answer questions before the said committee under Senate Resolu- tion 147 and that his refusal to answer and his failure to testify and the facts in relation thereto have been reported to the Senate all of which will more fully appear by the report of the said committee made to the Senate the 24th day of March, 1924, a copy of which is hereto at- tached.” Congress’ Power Is Issue, The whole question of Congress’ power to ,investigate goes .to the courts today when a federal grand jury here will be asked to indict Har- ry F. Sinclair for contempt of the Senate. Before this question has been settled, a court fight extemding to the highest tribunal in the land, the United States Supreme Court, will be waged, Both the government and Sinclair are determtined to establish their contentions. The Senate in- tends to settle its right to force Sin- clair or any other citizen to answer questions and produce records before investigating committees properly au- thorized. .. Sinclair, taking the position, that the Senate Oil Committee was violat- ing his constitutional guarantees in trying to make him testify, will bat- tle to the finish, it was indicated to- day, to defeat the Senate probers. Indictment Is First Step, The first step in the court fight will be the return of an indickment for contempt against Sinclair—probably on Monday. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chief Senate prosecutor, has dr@wn up a tentative form of the imdictment which he desires to have the federal grand jury return. Walsh has a conference with Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, spe- cial government counsel arranged for today so that the matter may be placed before the grand jury at once. Roberts and Pomerene also will be- gin work today on criminal cases against others who mixed up; in the oil scandal for presentation to an- other grand jury early next month. Indictments against Sinclair, E. L. Doheny and former Secretary of the Interior Fall probably on a charge of “conspiracy to defraud the gov- ernment,” are in prospect. Legal authorities believe it would be extremely hard to make out a strong “bribery” case in view of the evidence. While the conspiracy is a lesser charge, it would be more easily established in view of the facts, it is thought. (Continued from Page 1) N.M, He said the aggregate loaned to Fall in 1922 was $15,000. The balance of the total advances were 23, he said, adding that been testified here that Fall purchased additional prop- erty for $32,000 in 1923, after ht the Harris ranch with the $100,000 he got from Doheny” Walsh said. “Do you know where Fall got that $32,000?” “No sir, I do not.” Daugherty, h Stock Gamble. Thatcher was then excused. Anderson H. Tackett, acceuntant for the federal trade commission, gave the committee a detailed count of the stock dealings of Je Smith, intimate friend of Attorney Tackett is examination of Wesiitetn “brokers, indicated that Ci “Pangherty and Smith speculated os Poke cader the newe of “W. W. Sapid.” ‘The account was closed out } 1, 1928, Tackett said. of the Pom purchase sule of other ney a yg whether accounts specially mentioned vt was, THE DAILY WORKER Wednesday, March 26, 1924 HINT OF MURDER IN DAUGHERTY PROBE IS HEARD IN CONGRESS SHINGTON, March 25,—The mys! surrounding the manner of death of Jesse Smith in Attorney- | General Daugherty’s apartment last | May was never properly cleared up, Representative Oliver, New York, declared in the House today. “His brains were blown out in the Attorney-General’s apartment either by his hand or the hand of another,” said Oliver. “No awtopsy was performed; no inquest was held. He was hurried to his grave, “Today Jesse Smith stands re- vealed as a collector of graft from whisky deals and involved in a fight film conspiracy and other pira- cies. He died» when the trial of a great bootleg ring in New York was called. “And he willed his money, de- rived from graft, to the Attorney- General of the United States,” Oliver coneladed, RAID DEFENDANTS IN WILLIAMSON NELSON DOES NOT YET KNOW IF HE WILL ACT TODAY Labor Head Fears to Embarrass Mayor *Continued from page 1.) man there, the strikers say, They hope’ he will speak in an effective way on their behalf. ) Council Meets Today. Today at 2 p. m. the city council holds its weekly meeting. There can be no’ possible reason for Nelson’s not speaking effectively for the strik- ers there. To the anxious hopes of the strik- ers Nelson replies that he may or he may not speak in their behalf at the meeting of the council, Picket In Rain. Yesterday morning in a dreary and uncomfortable drizzle, a hundred girls kept on the picket line, The cops did not make so many arrests as usual, Drivers of the patrol wagons objected to driving on the wet streets. But the streets were not too wet for the pickets. ; Students from the University of Chicago; who are members of the many strikers. One girl student {Liberal Club, came to the picket line. |They were all surprised to see so Promised Immunity by Klan; Doublecrossed (Spewial to The Daily Worker) DANVILLE, Ill., March 25—Several cases growing out of the dry raids in Williamson county last year were dis- posed of in the United States district court here today. Jail sentences were given in two cases, fines in one. Glenn Young was a witness for the state. Klan Promised Immunity. Lawrence T, Allen, special govern- ment prosecutor, informed the Fed- eral court here that he would ask jail sentences for all of the 41 Herring der arrest. defendants who telegraphed a promise to plead guilty here on cS Sa 14. The men were arrested following the liquor raids of two months ago. Representatives of the defendants stated here that the offer to plead guilty was made on promise of im- munity. The overfures, the represent- atives charge, were made by William- son rg 8 klansmen headed by a Marion klan attorney. + oes Anti-Klansman Out On Bail. MARION, Ill., March 25.—Carl and Earl Shelton, brothers, indicted by the Herrin special grand jury for the murder of Caesar Bigts: Herrin con- stable, in the Ku Klux Klan and anti- klan clash over booze enforcement that started a booze war and military occupation of Williamson county, are free today on $10,000 bonds each. They had been held secretly in the county jail here for nearly two weeks, after surrendering to sheriff George Galligan immediately following their indictment. : The sheriff kept the information of the apprehension of the two away from the new set of “law enforcement deputies” who took over field work of the sheriff in the county following widespread opposition from klan circles. Trachtenberg Tour | Tuesday, March 25, Baltimore, Md., Work- ingmen’s Hall, 2509 E, Madison St, Thursday, March 27, Philadelphia, Brith Shoenn Hall, 506 Pine St. Friday, March 28, Rochester, N. Y., Amal- gamated Clothing Workers Open Forum. day, March 29, Binghamton, N. Penn., said to a striker, “We thought that we would be the only persons on the picket line this morning.” Arrests In Morning. Those arrested on the first and last trip of the patrol during the morning before the cops decided to call it a morning’s work were: May Mostt, Sophie Mandelson, Ada Abrams, Eleanor Smahl, Maria Desidero and Alma Jones. Ada Abrams was arrested because several scabs. on their way to work stopped ¢o beat her up. After bdating her the scabs called the cop who had been considerate enough to walk around a corner while they assauted Miss Abrams and he placed her un- When the wagon was called to take her to the police sta- tion the coppers decided they might as well make the trip count for some- thing and so arrested the others. The Poor Fish Says:--I hear the Pope joined the Third International. We have too much red here already, Look at the trouble they are making down in Washington. Now, His Holiness is sending us two more red hats! DOZEN STRIKERS BEFORE SULLIVAN, TWO CONVICTED Crowe’s Detective Lies More Than Boss. Judge “Dennie” Sullivan’s attempt to stop picketing thru the use of the injunction led to twelve more ar- raignments before him yesterday. All of the 12 strikers were charged with picketing in spite of his sacred writ and therefore being in contempt of court. “Dennie” gave a decision against Margaret Welsh and Emma Deering, but reserved sentence until today. No decision was made in the case of ten others who will come up again today. They are: Marion Brodek, Charles F. Muller, Louis Sokoloff, Anna Feld- man, Valentine Piesecki, Yattie Ross- man, Silvia Factor, Ida Selkoff and Minnie Sugarman. Swears Boss In Himself. The injunction judge’s eagerness to railroad the strikers was shown when he insisted on swearing in witnesses himself. When Nat Rieback of the Rieback firm at 225 S. Market street More Injunction Arrests, Three more workers were arrested on attachments for contempt of ‘“Dennie’s” writ. They were: Oscar Simon, Kara Seiger and William Wellworth. The judge set their cases to be heard yesterday afternoon at 2:00 o’elock. When the strikers who were ar- tested Monday were arraigned in 8S, Clark police court yesterday they all demanded jury trials. They were: Sam Seidel, Lillian Libbin, Lena Mor- vitz, Dora Ruben, Sarah Orlove, Emma Goldberg, Bessie Isenberg, Tessie Rhode, Idd Gaffin and Delle Muddleman, PICKET DESPITE INJUNCTON: SAYS STRIKE SPEAKER O'Flaherty Flays Dever As Capitalist Tool. Denouncing the use of the injune- tion by capitalist courts in labor disputes, Thomas J. O'Flaherty, associate editor of the DAILY WORKER, addressing a meeting of striking dress makers at 180 West Yo 7:30 p. m., Lithuanian Hall, 271 Clinton St. ‘Sunday, eh 30, at 3 p. m., Utica, N. Y., 714 Charlotte St. , Monday, March 31, Rochester, N. ¥., Hall to be announced later. Buffalo, N. Y., it. Tuesday, April 1 Labor Lyceum, 371 Wednesday, Apri Hall to be announced late Thursday, April 3, Erie, announced later, Friday, April 4, E. Pittsburg, Penn., to be announced later, Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, Pitts- burg, Penn., Hall to be announced later. mestown, N.Y. Penna., Hall to be Hall its attention to bills relating to public lands. On Thursday officials of the Empire Trust Company of New York and Al Jennings, reformed bandit, of Oklahoma, will testify. Heflin Is Wroth, — A threat by Senator Heflin, Ala- bama, to carry the in igation of alleged Texas land uds to the floor of the sena temporarily halted the senate postoffice com- mittee’s probe today. Heflin, under whose resolution the inquiry is being conducted, veherh- ently objected to the interruption of the presentation of evidence by Washington street yesterday, de- clared that strikes are won or lost on the picket lines, “It is true that injunctions can- not made dresses,” he declared, “but scabs can, and if you cannot keep these scabs away from the struck shops you cannot win, You must stay on the picket line, injunction or no injunction, until you have won your fight.” roid Mass Picketing Wins, Comrade O’Flaherty told how mass picketing worked in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where the workers in thousands marched to the gates of the woolen mills at 7 o'clock in the morning and during the hours when workers usually go to the shops the numbers so im- pressed the bosses that they dared not put any sluggers into operation. “If the workers of Chicago used their heads during the last munici- pal election and put forward a mayoralty candidate on a working class ticket who would represent their interests instead of the inter- ests of the bosses, the clubs of the Chicago police would not now be descending on your heads,” said the speaker, He said Robert E, Crowe and James R. Page, counsel for “land Texas, counsel for R. ill interrupted Page’ amination of Chief Postal Inspector Rush D. Simmons to ask several. permitted Hill to proceed. the filing of aga net him.” of to disbarment proceedings that,” Simmons ‘replied. “This be killed,” Heflin declared. should everything that Hill has | asked true it is no defense office ent.” victims” by George Hill, Houston, | capitalists of Chicago and that the Creager. questions and despite vigorous ob-| fact that the city council was meetin, Jections by Heflin, Chairman Moses | today and that an official of organize Hill asked Simmons if he knew | ferring to Oscar Nelson. He demand- that Page was “a fugitive from jus-/ed that protest be made at the council tice in Texas and left. there upon | by labor's representative against the the return of cight indictments and |tactics of the city police, I had a general knowledge |in spite of the rain, responded to the investigation is not going | cheers. the allegations in the com-| America’s “round the world tions filed with the post-| flyers watched with interest tod Mayor Dever were just tools of the workers. were really to blame for cross ox. their being in office, Action in Council. O'Flaherty called attention to the labor was sitting on the council—re- The strikers who attended the meeting were very enthusiastic and jeall to go on the picket lines with Watch British Start, SEATTLE, Wash, March 25.— ports of the start of the British army AE DEERN E a IMPEACH COOLIDGE! came up to testify against Margaret Welsh and Emma Deering, Sullivan took the task of swearing them in out of the hands of the court clerk and did it himself. Rieback and his confidential clerk, Fred. Justine, admitted under At- torney Peter Sissman’s cross-exami- nation that they had not seen either of them near their factory since they had been scrved with injunction notices. Both of them are constantly on the lookout, too, Fink Schroedér Lies. \ Detective. Schroeder, of State’s Attorney Crowe's office, theh volun- teered to testify against the girls. As proof that he had seen them since the injunction writ he pro- duced his note book, The evidence, when Sissman made him show _ it, was nothing more than a peficilled notation, with the girl’s names after the pencilled date “March 12.” On this lone evidence, contradict- ed by defense witnesses, Sullivan eagerly convicted the girls. Schroeder, by the way, had a hand in the beating up of Sophie Alt- schuler. Freda Reicher, Ida Abrams and Rose Boldag were arrested on the picket line late in the day by the police. They were taken to the 8S. Clark street station, bailed out and will appear in court this morning. ‘Minute Men’ Worry About Pacifist Speech That Allison Made Brent Dow Allison’s speech against capitalist wars to North- western University students hag set the “Minute Men of the Consjjtu- tion” by the ears. These panicky gentlemen will meet “inthe Hotel La Salle today ‘fd¥' the express purpose of talking about Allison’s case and to planning what can be dene to win k Te- spect for the American eagle, Sunday Lieut. Corlis Griffis will tell Northwestern students at the Patten gymnasium on the campus what they ought to do. Griffis, he self, has proved to be a very suc- cessful fighter, falling down in his plot to kidnap Bergdoll and ending up in a German jail, ‘ London Bus Men Expect Raise. LONDON, Mar. 25.—London bus men are pein an early settle- ment of their strike with an inerdise a breve ‘an iy wi Prime inister MacDonald is supporting a bill for concentrating bus and toes traffic under an advisory committee set up by the minister of transport. —_————_—_ nor Railroad From Russia. PEKING, Mar. 25.—French pres- sure causing China to turn er sicersinct that the Chin- rm Railway, which connects Viadivostok id BURNS MUST GO! North Side Branch Y, W. L. Sydney Borgeson’s lecture, which n given at a eevee meetinf of the North Side Branch of the come Workers League, had been nd will now be delivered i, March 26, at the same place, Imperial Hall, 2409 N, Halsted street, city. Watch Oscar Today! Oscar Nelson is an alderman. Oscar Nelson is an official of labor. Oscar Nelson is a labor lawyer. ; This should have put Oscar Nelson on the firing line in the City Council for the striking members of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. % * Ed * But four weeks of the strike have passed. Oscar Nelson has not spoken a single word for the garment strikers on the floor of the city council. | He has not denounced the brutality of the police. ' | He has not exposed the use of private thugs. He has not brought what pressure he could to bear upon the rapacity of the garment bosses, who refuse to deal with the strikers, * * % * Oscar Nelson has an opportunity to break this blackening record of silence at the meeting of the city council this afternoon at 2 o’clock in the council chambers at the City Hall. Yesterday he told the DAILY WORKER he did not know what he would. do. He had not yet decided to raise is voice for the strikers on the floor of the city council, to demand an investigation of police brutality, to demand that ways and means be found to force the garment bosses into a settlement of the strike, ca * a * Hundreds of striking garment workers ought to jam the galleries of the City Council chambers this afternoon at two o’clock to watch Oscar Nelson in action, They ought to be there. to watch Oscar Nelson, the alderman, thg labor official, the labor lawyer. Oscar Nelson can do much, if he will, to aid the gar- ment strikers. He can do much in the City Council this afternoon. BUT WILL HE DO IT? ‘WATCH HIM, WORKERS OF CHICAGO! eS ee HE WILL “CLEAN UP" WASHINGTON CALL FOR DAILY WORKER A call for the DAILY WORKER has just come from Odessa, leading Aged Banker Sore on Grafters port on the Black Sea. (Special to The Daily Worker) The call comes from J. Statzem- WASHINGTON, March 25.—Frank co, secretary for the Industrial A. Vanderlip has opened here a Workers of the World at Butte, Montana, in 1921 in a letter to the “laundry” with which he is going to help “dry clean the government.” National Office of the Workers Party in which he sends his regards to W. F. Dunne and T. J. O'Flaherty of the DAILY WORKER Sta®. He “Some of my friends have sug- gested that I have gone crazy,” said Vanderlip when he was asked to dispel a certain air of mystery with Before qdisbanding, the Citizens’ Committee, which has been seeking to negotiate a settlement of the »| garment strike, made public its cor- respondence with the Chicago Asso- ciation of Dress Manufacturers. asks that the paper be sent to the workers reading room in Odessa, which his operations since coming to ARBITRATION OF Washington recently have been cloak- ed. ‘Well, I'll tell you what I’m do- id ing and you can judge whether I’m crazy or not.” First, Vanderlip insisted, any ac- count of his activittes here must make it plain that he is, for the time be- ang, Daag the isan of Senator ’ eeler, the aggressive “prosecutor” Rag md of the Senate committee investigating 78 Have Signed Al- Attorney General Daugherty. si “Wheeler and I are working in close/ ready, Pleaded Citizens co-operation,” said Vanderlip, The Citizens Federal Research Bureau, ,which he has just opened here—is a cheerless office only half furnished as yet. “T invented this research bureau,’ euié out a Pei get bed the oe ican people the facts about conditions , im the FoverUmemE,' cs te. |states.tbet already 78 firms’ employ- gether and send them to 1,000 news-| ing 1,200 workers have signed agree- papers. Out of the 1,000 somebody,| ™ents, reads as follows: somewhere along the line, would be Ask Bosses to Arbitrate. sure to crack the ar, and then the “As you may know, a commit- rest of them would have to follow} tee made up of citizens vitally it, interested in the well-being of New Possibilities. both employers and workers has “But the Wheeler investigation] been appointed to inquire into the gave me another channel, causes of the strike in the dress- . “The bureau here is befng incorpo-| making industry of Chicago and rated as a permanent agency, en| to assist in every way possible in I started it I planned to have 25 of} bringing about a fair set@#ement. the most distinguished men in the] The information which the com- country associated with me. But I| mittee has obtained thus far, in- abandoned that idea for you can’t get] dicates that a majority of the 26 such men without finding some sore| workers in the industry are mem- toes. So I am going to have 25.hard-| bers of the International Ladies’ boiled, cold-nosed young men instead) Garment Workers’ Union; that —men with no pasts. I'm not going Fie to have a ‘No ‘thorofare’ sign Sine Pa ie AM yt LON oe 9 on any path I want to follow.” “What gave you this dry cleaning idea—-what made you think the gov- ernment peed dry cleaning?” V: ip sked. in the McKinley administration,” he said, “T was assistant secretary of the trensury. know things about Washington. ° “Then I went to the National City Bank, That organization, as a big holder of government bonds, » keeps in touch with Washington, I built Ry a secret seryice of my own here it has been functioning for 20 years. I know my Washington, Got His Goat, “When this personal’ machinery of ibs rns et velopment ene me repo! what was on , id i persuade them and the fight is on b; EA 15 eign fo Y Oitisean organized labor to force them. bi re; rently, sudden! i va the whole thing in ts sppailing| Prevent Meeting bY When Cal Is Called yeh pe as te Ply mor vege byl i Benedict Arnold (Special to. The Daily Worker) y ress the ul [aos of alone the story. ‘5 no ‘eapot Dome pelt was stop- government. ped by police intimidation, Seems to me one wa: that is} In advertising the meeting Presi- inform t's was compared with at Minin bi! Benedict Arnold. On account of this signed agreements with the above named union, During the life of these agreements any differences that may arise will be submitted to arbitration. " “Are you willing to agree to arbitrate the demands of . the workers before a joint committee of Chicago citizens appointed by the parties at interest and headed a chairman appointed in the manner? ‘ ‘Please be poogen to send your reply so that will reach the committee not later than Fri- afternoon, March 21, 1924.” bosses acknowledged the let- ter but refused to arbitrate. So the committee has given up trying to police threatened the is rege ‘ MINERS’ DISTRICT CONVENTION ON IN SMOKY CITY Fakers Ready to Spill ‘ The Red Paint ‘ (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March’ 25.— About 250 delegates, representing approximately 88,000 miners assem- bled here today in the district No. 5 convention. Altho little was done in the opening session, it is expect- ed that lively debate will be the order, Progressives Go to Bat. This was promised when Jimmy Oates arose immediately after the preliminaries and demanded that a report of the credentials committee be submitted before any business was transacted. Oates declared that he was opposed to any aye or nay vote deciding things, until the con- vention was organized and it was fully determined who was. entitled to cast such votes, Oates also opposed the selection of John Tuck on the rules and or- der committee, declaring that the local Tuck is representing, is of the non-existant variety. However, the protests were ordered made in the proper place. and a bitter battle is expected when the protests reach the convention floor, David. Hicky, president of the Pittsburgh Central Labor Union, opened the convention. He then in- troduced to the convention the Rev. J. J. Hughes of Hills Station, Pa., who invoked the convention with prayer. Father Hughes played a very prominent part in the strike of 1922 and when the Pittsburgh Coal company began tts eviction of the miners from their homes at that place, he opened up his church :n which to store their furriture. Green to Sling Red Paint. At noon adjournment nothing but a partial reading of the report of the executive board had been heard, in addition to the protests of Jimmy Oates. - It was announced that Interna- tional Secretary Green would ad- dress the convention at the after- noon session. Green, it was stated, is on his way to New York to attend a meet- ing of the Mitchell Memorial Com- mittee, and this was his only chance to address the convention. The progressives are expecting a flow of Red Paint. F Boo, Hiss Green. Referring to the “Old Testament” to discover the word “Ass”, Billy Green, International Secretary-’ urer, in addressing the convention of District 5, United Mine Workers of America, today used the name of the occupant of the stable at Bethlehem, and applied it to the delegates who booed and hissed him when he was in- vited to the platform to address the convention. Referring to the Progressives as, “Advocates of a new, strange and un- tried philosophy”, Green declared that they should get a hall of their own and expound their ideas there and not come into conventions of the miners to spread such poison and attempt to destroy the United Mine Workers of America. < _He further stated that the progres- sives were like the Presbyterians who were fomenting trouble in the Metho- dist and Baptist churches by endeav- oring to get those of these faiths to desert their own and to accept that advocated by them. Declaring that, “Instead of going out to the sinners of the world to seek new recruits, they were more contented in the work of corrupting the Saints”, “Why don’t you go into the fields of West Virginia and Western Ken- tucky,” he yelled, “and if you can establish your ideas and philosophies there, then we will be ly to accept your plan.” Pleading for harmony in words and driving it away in action, Green made a poor showing among those who have some understanding of the Labor movement, Murray Vents His Spleen, Vice-President Phil Murray follow- ed with a speech of like tone and was so vicious in his remarks that a dele- gate who admitted that he was a friend of both Murray and Green pro- tested against his tactics, Of course they ined from mentioning the things that organizers of the district and international union are spreading in every district where the Union has jurisdiction. Outside of the speeches there was little done. “The report of the Executive Board was read and re- ferred to a committee for action, after which it will be discussed by the dele- gates, BUNCO PARTY AND : DANCE. GIVEN BY — ' United Workers Sunday Schools of Chicago SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 1924 ae ey PRUDENTIAL HALL Comer NORTH AVE. and HALSTED ST. Bunco Party 3 P. M, Dance - - - 7 P. M. +