The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 28, 1924, Page 2

|Make This Hired Man JOHN L. LEWIS - 0, K.'S ANDERSON, INJUNCTION JUDGE Tells Coolidge Author Of 1919 Writ Suits Him (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar, 27.— The fact that John L, Lewis, inter- national president of the United Mine Workers, has sold out body and soul to capitalist politicians was shown today when he told President Coolidge that he would make no ob- jection to the appointment of Judge A. B. Anderson, of Indianapolis, to succeed Judge Francis E. Baker as judge of the United States Circuit Court. Judge Anderson was the author of one of the most vicious injunctions in the history of American labor. His injunction, fssued in the fall of 1919 against the United Mine Workers’ Union, restrained the international union and its branches from using their funds to aid the great coal strike that was then going on and from abetting the struggle in any way. “Cannot Fight Government.” Local miners’ umons ignored the infamous writ and continued their fight until the operators were finally forced to yield them an average in- crease of 27 per cent over their for- mer wages. John Lb. Lewis and his international officials, however, ac- cepted the injunction and laid down to the courts and the employers. “We cannot fight the govern- ment,” announced Lewis. Even Sam- uel Gompers afterwards expressed amazement at Lewis’ cowardice in this crisis. Seeks Vice Presidency. \ Lewis’ surrender to the Coolidge politicians as regards the appoint- ment of this labor hating judge is interpreted as part of his plan to capture the vice-presidential nomi- nation, as running mate with Cool- idge in the fall elections. Chicago Plumbers Win $1.25 an Hour And 44-Hour Week A two-year agreement at $1.25 an hour has been signed with employers by Chicago units of the United Asso- ciation of Plumbers and Steamfitters of the United States and Canada. The $1.25 rate is below the wages paid in a number of other middle western cities. It works out to $10 per eight-hour day. St. Louis plum- bers are getting $14 a day and East St. Louis plumbers $13 per eight- hour day, according to Chicago offi- tials of Local 130. Senator LaFollette Ill With Pneumonia; Condition Satisfactory WASHINGTON, Mar. 27.—Sena- tor LaFollette, progressive leader, has developed pneumonia, it was an- nounced here today, A statement by LaFollette’s doc- tors follows: “Senator LaFollette has developed pneumonia. His present condition is satisfactory. (Signed) Dr.. C. C Marbury, Dr. T. S. Lee, Dr. B. M. Randolph.” Harry Gannes Speaks ‘To Maplewood Young Workers on Scouts Harry Gannes, well-known news- ‘paper reporter spoke last night at the Workers Lyceum, 2783 Hirsch Blvd., on “Who Owns the Boy Scouts and the Y. M. C, A.2” The meeting was held under the auspices of the Maplewood Branch of the Young Workers League. Must Kneel To Orthodoxy. . _ NEW YORK, March 27—Put un- der ban by Bishop Manning, because of barefoot dances performed in de- fiance of his order, wardens and Yestrymen of St. Mark’s-in-the- Botwerie must decide whether they prefer independence of ritual to episcopal visitations administrations. Still Locking for Bergdoll. BERLIN, Mar. 27.—Grover Cleve- land Bergdo!l, who may—or may not —be returning to the United States, ‘was not among the passengers on the boat train that left to make connec- tions with the steamer Deutschland today. He could, of course, board the vessel at Cuxhaven, Japs Drown in German Steamer. DUNGENESS, England, March 27. —Twenty-three Japanese sailors are believed to have been drowned when the German steamer Heimdal struck and sank the Japanese cargo boat Tokufuku Maru in dense fog off the Kanish headland at midnight. Six- teen of the Tokufuku Maru’s crew were saved. Railroads Have Dough. ST. LOUIS, March 27.—Ten mil- lion dollars worth of equipment, in- cluding 25 locomotives, 50 steel pas- ' senger cars and 4,250 freight cars, have just been purchased by the Southern Railway for delivery inthe next few months, it was announced Our Advertisers help make this Paper possible. Patron- ize our Advertisers and tell them saw their Ad in ‘The Daily Worker. THE DAILY WORKER Friday, March 28, 1924 Get On the Job LDERMAN OSCAR NELSON, vice-president of. the Chicago Federation of Labor, did not raise his voice for the striking garment workers in the city council on Wednesday afternoon. Alderman Nelson said that the DAILY WORKER could not make him speak. He declared he was not taking his orders from the DAILY WORKER. Alderman Nelson said he would get his orders from Meyer Perlstein, vice-president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, in charge of the strike. It is said there are three kinds of servants. The efficient servant knows what to do and does it. One not so efficient has does it. to get his orders and then The third kind not only waits for his orders but has to be watched while he is carrying them out, otherwise he would fail to do what he has been told to do. Oscar Nelson is some kind of a servant of the working class. Otherwise he has no business in the labor movement. We believe that the workers are finding out just how Oscar Nelson is, or is not, serving the workers in this strike. If Oscar Nelson were a good servant of the workers, in this case the striking ladies’ garment workers, he would, as alderman, not have waited for any kind of orders. He would have gotten busy, instinctively, the first day the strike started. But Oscar Nelson did not do that. So he is not the first kind of servant. - * * * If Oscar Nelson were the second kind of servant of the working class, he would have gotten busy in the city council at the first suggestion, no matter what the source from which it came. But he is even a bad second kind of servant. He not only is balky at the DAILY WORKER’S suggestion. He even resents them. Oscar Nelson thus shows himself the third, or worst kind of servant, the workers could have in the city council. He must be kicked into doing anything, and he must be watched while he is doing it. * * Oscar Nelson, as attorney, is employed by the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. He is under the direction of Meyer Perlstein, in charge of the strike. Perl- stein is his boss. Perlstein can make him get on the job for the strikers in the city council. At least Alderman Nelson says he will take Perlstein’s orders. * * Perlstein’s duty is clear. ia. Let him give Oscar Nelson orders to put up a fight for the strikers in the city council. Let Perlstein get around to the city council and see that Uscar Nelson carries out the orders given him. Make this hired man, Oscar Nelson, get on the job. Striking Miners of West Virginia Need Clothing and Food (Special to The Daily Worker) WARREN, Ohio, March 27.—The city central committee of the Work- ers Party had a letter from the United Mine Workers of West Vir- ginia appealing for shoes, clothing and canned goods, They have been on strike there for some time, so that help would be weieome there as soon as possible. I hope every one answers this appeal, and gives what they can, when you all know what it means to them. The different branches of the Workers Party here will try and do their best in this case, and I hope everyone wil try and help them to succeed in their efforts. Most of you know what it means to stand in a strike and fight for your rights, altho great poverty threatens you. And what it means to receive help when all hope is al- most gone. This little help will give these comrades more fighting ability to continue their fight to a victorious end. So once more—do your bit to help these comrades to win this fight. Pope Crowns Two of His Trusted Agents With Red H eadgear ROME, March hirano a foe ‘orgeous splendor and pageantry o! Sara Catholicism, Cardinals Hayes and Mundelein today received from Pope Pius XI the red hats that sig- nify their elevation to the rank of princes of the church. St. Peter’s, where the ceremony was performed, was jammed with a tremendous throng, including hun- dreds of Americans privileged to watch their countrymen, who start- ed together as poor boys on the lower east side of New York, re- ceive the highest honors within the power of the pontiff to bestow. Cardinal Mundelein received his red hat at 10:42 a, m., Cardinal Hayes his at 10:4) Don’t Believe Huerta Is Back. NEW ORLPANS, March 27.—Offi- tials of the Obregon government here today placed little credence in the widely circulated report that Adolfo De LaHuerta, revolution: landed here last night after fleeing from Mexico, The report was cir- culated following the docking of the Mexican steamer San Francisco. New Yorkers In Hike. NEW YORK, March 27.—Harlem English branch of the Young Workers League is holding a hike to Palisades Park this Sunday morning. Comrades should assemble at 9 a, m. at Fort ‘Lee Ferry. In the evening a social will be held at our headquarters, 2042 5th avenue (Finnish Co-opera- tive Hall), corner 126th street. A good time is promised all. HIRAM NOSES CALVIN OUT IN 5, D. PRIMARIES Teapot Cabinet Head Claims Victory. (Special to The Daily Worker) SIOUX FALLS, Mar. 27.—Hiram Johnson is forging ahead of Cool- idge in the primary contest for the republican state delegation to the national convention in Cleveland. The last returns from 1,469 out of the 1,825 state precincts show John- son to be leading Coolidge by the narrow margin of 298 votes; 36,585 for the Californian senator against 36,287 for the president. Hostile to Coolidge. The Johnson supporters are claim- ing the victory because their white hope has come from behind and nosed out Coolidge. The returns now coming in are distinctly hostile to Coolidge: These precincts cover the furthest fural counties of the states where the farmers are dis- gusted with the government and |i, seeking to give vent to their dis- satisfaction in every way possible. Already the Coolidge supporters are preparing excuses to explain away the impending likely defeat. Bascom Slemp, the president’s po- tical wire puller, now his private secretary, and other active Coolidge workers have already announced that the South Dakota results will not matter either way us the Cool- idge nomination at the republican chieftain, | }, convention is only a matter of for- mality. They are Soasting of the fact that the reactionary clique dominating the republican party has to date succeeded in lining up for the Teapot “principal,” the chief ex- ecutive of the country, more than enough delegates to secure his nom-| be ination on the first ballot. Restoring Johnson's Shine. The Johnson supporters are jubi- lant over the chances of success they have here. They are especial- y anxfous to restore the losses suf- ered by Johnson in North Dakota, The defeat in North Dakota has done irreparable harm to the Johnson oom. These managers of the fake progressive from California are looking forward anxiously to a vie- tory in South Dakota to restore some of the shine on the boom of their candidate, Observers here feel convinced that no matter who wins the republican nomination, it will not be much of a victory for either. The great mass of farmers and workers are utterly dissatisfied and thru with the repub- lican party, H many of hop-mates read the DAILY WORKER? Get ‘one of them to subscribe today, 40 STRIKERS FACING PICKET GHARGE, FREED Arrests at Lowenthal’s Prove Boomerang (Continued from Page 1) on the chest knocking her down, Then he had her arrested for assault. Helen Tippy and Thomas Holland, who witnessed the assault, both resi- dents of Hull House, were among those discharged by Judge Trude yesterday. Keep the Courts Busy. The entire morning session of Judge Sullivan’s court was taken up with hearing the testimony of Nat Stein and Abraham Heller, dress manufacturers.’ Eleven respondents were on trial and Nat Stein said that he saw all of them on the picket line since they were in court the last time. He said that he had not known them before the strike but got to know them from seeing them on the picket line. He said that he himself did not go in the street but stood in the door- way of his wn at 328 S. Market street and from there saw them, Stein Gets Rattled. Under cross examination by Peter Sissman, attorney for the unionists om trial, Stein grew rather rattled. He was not so sure that he saw all the respondents on the picket line. Then he admitted he didn’t know which ones he had seen and which enes he had not seen. He was insistent that he had not left his doorway to watch the pickets. Then he said that he had seen some of the strikers on trial at Jackson and Market streets which is a little way from his factory. “But that was all right,” said Stein, “I was there passing on my way to the factory.” ‘ Poor Stein did not seem to realize that Dennie’s injunction was not for the purpose of preventing bosses from walking the streets, Dudley Taylor hai neglected to tell Stein that the writ only tried to keep workers off the streets. Not So Sure After All. Heller testified to the same effect. Yes, Heller had seen all the respon- dents on the picket line. Yes, every day of the strike, That is every day but Sunday, Yes, he saw them there yesterday. He was sure about that till he was told that the strikers on trial had been in court the day before till 4:30 in the afternoon. Then Heller was not so sure about what he had seen. He said it might walkers were. in coast a sy ‘tues. were in yy Tues- day. Weill, well, he must be mistiwfken but he had seen all of them on S. Market street at various times. Often, sure! After a morning spent in hearing such testimony Sullivan adjourned court. Dudley Taylor's efforts to connect the strikers on trial with picketing in the strike district came as a surprise to everybody in court after his furi- ous attempts to build up a conspiracy charge against all strikers the day before. Many persons thought that he let the conspiracy angle drop in order that the defense might not get a chance to put him on the stand and ask him a few pressing questions about the bosses and their conspiracy to get all the workers in the gar- ment industry who are on strike into jail. May Put Dudley on Stand. If Taylor attempts at any future time to try to make a conspiracy case out of the contempt trials it is ex- pected that the defense will have him take the stand and try to get from him what he knows. They expect that he will fight every attempt to get at his knowledge because he knows much more than he is willing to tell. Everybody knows that if a con- spiracy exists among the bosses little Dudley is the brains and backbone of Now Use Conspiracy Charge. Dudley Taylor, attorney for labor- hating employers generally, and for the open shop garment bosses in par- ticular, today showed that nd his paymasters are using the same tac- tics against the garment strikers as were used recently against the men bers of the upholsterers’ union. Arrested about 1:00 a. m. yesterday morning, William aint Harry Rosen and Oscar Simon—st ment workers—are to be arraigned ‘in the Dexter avenue police court and char, with “cons . to violate an injunction”’--the injunction in guaran being the one issued against the International Ladies’ it Workers Union, its officers and mem- rs. The three strikers were taken to the office of State’s Attorney Crowe, estioned, and sent back to jail. When the attorney for the union ap- ared with a request for a writ of as corpus the state’s attorney sent notice over that conspiracy charge had been filed. Labor Charges Conspiracy. aan arrest of the oe strikers and @ appearance 4 racy charge in the war against Peg ripe Garment Workers Union followed the statement made iy by Ric ded that “a read to violate the injunction.” is a conspiracy,” say union officials, “but it is a coi on part of the state’s attorney, ment bor and their legal to railroad beck wt as the uphol- sterers were railroaded.” OUT WITH DAUGHERTY! Neo Seuttling ef Oil Probe! — — Jos. FIGURES SPEAK READING, PA., leads in the drive for 10,000 new subscribers by June 15th having reached 27% of the quota assigned to it. Warren, Ohio, follows close behind with 24%. Brooklyn with a quota of 200 follows having reached 21.6% of its quota and Patterson, N, J. follows with 20%. Cities with larger quotas show a much smaller percentage, due to the fact, no doubt that they have not yet been able to muster up all their forces for the drive. However, many of the larger cities must immediately put more force behind the campaigns in their territories if they hope to reach the meee assigned to them, and we are sure that no city will feel justified to fall below the quota assigned to it. .,, With the DAILY WORKER firmly established in its own home and with three months of successful existence, under energetic and intelligent guidance of the city or branch agents, there should be no difficulty for any city in which we have a DAILY WORKER connection to reach the pio assigned to it and with a little extra effort to go far beyond the quota, The DAILY WORKER is here to stay. It has become known to the workers of America.” It has already taken part in major struggles of the workers of America as in the United Mine Workers’ Convention and now the great International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ strikes in Chicago and other needle tradeg centers. It has boldly and unflinchingly told sil there is to be told about the great Teapot Dome exposure. It is the only real workingelass newspaper in America. You know what the DAILY WORKER means to you. You know what possibilities it offers to our movement. And now it is up to you, up to every reader of the DAILY WORKER, every branch and every city agent, every militant worker, to enlist their fellow workers and shopmates into the strong army of DAILY WORKER readers. With the special offer of two months for a dollar to new sub- scribers, no one, who calls himself a militant, can fail to secure several new readers, To the DAILY WORKER city agents, we say: Look over the Honor Roll. Look at the percentage of quota reached by your city, and if it is not in proportion to your forces, set about immediately to remedy any defects or laxity which may exist in your organization. See that the branches in your city have elect%d their agents, Be always on the lookout for new ways of carrying on the work, of making the work more interesting and productive, Exert all your efforts to by June 15th. WHAT PART OF THE QUOTA WILL YOUR CITY HAVE REACHED BY NEXT FRIDAY? MAKE IT HEAD THE HONOR ROLL NEXT TIME WE PRINT IT! Send us news of your work! BUT ABOVE ALL SEND US SUBS! get the 10,000 new subscribers * * s * PROVERB from one of our hoosters: “Inclosed please find one almighty for a 2 mos, sub. Hope. to get many more, I realize subs are tacks or nails for the capitalist coffin that won’t rust.”—E. Grassenbacher. : * . * *” No. of Percentage City Quota new subs reached Reading, Pa....... 15-.. 27% Warren, Ohio ..... 50 24% Brooklyn, N. Y..., 21.5% Paterson, N. J..... 25 .. 20% Springfield, Tll..... 25.. 15% Milwaukee, Wis. .. 100 .. 13% Kansas City, Mo... 50 .. 12% Rochester, N. Y.... 50... « 10% Gary, Ind. ........ 50 8% Detroit, Mich, .... 400 6% % Boston, Mass. ..... 200 .. 6% Pittsburgh, Pa. ... 150 .. 6% Elizabeth, N. J.... 15 .. 6% Duluth, Minn. .... 50 . 6% Los Cal... 100 * 5% jieago, TM. ......1000 f 54% Philadelphia, Pa. .. 200 be 5% New York City.... 500 . 4.2% Toledo, Ohio ...... 125 . 48% Grand Rapids, Mich. 25 ‘ 4% Johnson City, Ill. 25 = 4% St. Louis, Mo..... 125 . 3.2% Youngstown, Ohio. 30 le 3.8% Cleveland, Ohio .. 250 ; 2.4% St. Paul, Minn.... 100 : 2% Seattle, Wash. ... 60.. P 2% Minneapolis, Minn. 200 .. of ¥ 1% * * * * HONOR ROLL of those who sent in subs since last Power Column was published: BROOKLYN, N. Y. KANSAS CITY, MO, Chas. Kral .... Ny, BOPONI0D 08s ooh css ove ted 3 A. Bimba ...... WARREN, OHIO Herman S. Scherer “ Chas, Schwartz .........0.+5 C. O. Peterson ... snes es COELLO, ILL. CHICAGO, ILL, Anne Haudeguard ....... eee R. Specter .....+..+ SCRANTON, PA. §. T, Hammersmark. Isaac Lajarevitz .... id, Falick .-... V. Turanskas ........ , MILWAUKEE, WIS. DULUTH, MINN. Robert Shapiro .........+0+++ ST. LOUIS, MO. Wm. H. Johnson........+..++ GENEVA, N John Koheler .........--+40 4 MT. VIEW, CAL. N. G. Nicholas.............++ IRONWOOD, MICH. ee Soe et ee ee re) 3 8 2 ae | 2 2 2 2 2 5 . Frank Nurmi .......... oeese k Geo totier a fla il gal ILL. 7 Vinee BUFFALO, N. Y. Jos. Lapidus ... Carl Johnson . 1 A. Omholt ... MOREN: I, Rebelsk: J. 1 Itschuler Bror Afierson ...... 1 ney en 1 SNAKE RiVER, Ch yherson .. 1 1 SAN) NE, ; 7 1 Eteenpain Co-operative . 8 1 *PITTSBURGH, P : 8 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 6 oa 1 1 1 1 1 i R. Bi 1 1 Polke i P Bs a a calapiaaeeg MASS. @ PERRYSBERG, N. Y. ‘ 'D RAPIDS, MICH, | L. F. oLTOR, ceqeccoscocevee @ DAUGHERTY GETS ‘BRANDED AS AN AID TO CRIMINALS Unmask His Family as Nest of Crooks (Continued from page 1.) he would get behind me and I would be elected. We took a few drinks of four roses. I asked him what was behind his mind. He said ‘I’m going to be the biggest man in the (United States.’ He said something about $100,000 for a campaign for me. He mentioned Harry Sinclair and some other oil men.” ; “What else did he say?” “He said he had already been East and talked with Boise Penrose and that he could name the next presi- dent of the United States. “He said Harding would be the nominee of the convention, ‘Money talks and I’m going to put up the money,’ he said.” Jennings charged that Will Hays and Attorney General Daugherty each got $25,000 in the “deal.” No Collateral Needed. Reversing its announced program, the committee today called Leroy W. Baldwin, president of the Empire Trust Company of New York, as the first witness. Baldwin brought records of trans actions between the Republican Na- tional Committee and his bank, He said the bank made a loan on Sept. 9, 1920, of $100,000. On Jan. 9, 1921, $5,000 was paid. In April $10,000 was paid. On December 3, 1928, the bank was paid $85,000. On April 5, 1923, the bank again loaned $166,- 620.85. That loan was paid off De- cember 14, 1923. “What collateral was there for this loan?” Walsh asked. “We never had any collateral for any of these loans. Some govern- ment bonds were, I believe, delivered in the first instance, altho it was not used entirely as collateral. They had a par value of $75,000.” “From what source did the bonds come?” “I think they came from Mr. Hays.” “Did you know about any payment of Le wa by Harry F. Sinclair?” “No,” Baldwin was then excused. Al Jennings was called to the stand. Jennings said he lived in Venice, Cal. He lived in Oklahoma 20 years and was an intimate friend, he said, of Jake Hamon. He attended the Republican National Convention in Chicago in 1920 with Hamon, The rattle of movie cameras startled Jennings and he turned to the press table and remarked: “Td rather face a batter of sheriffs.” Names Pirate Crew. teat his story, Jennings sald: “Hamon told me Harding would be nominated the next day and it would cost him a million dollars. He said Penrose was to get $250,000. “It had been agreed that day, Hamon told me, by Will Hays, Harry Daugherty and somebody else that Hamon was to be secretary of the in- terior.” ue “Has the information Hamon gave you come true?” Spencer asked. “Pretty well.” “Did Hamon tell you what he was going to do as secretary?” “Yes, he said he was going to get pail oil lands the democrats had eft.” “Who did Hamon give money to in connection with the convention?” “He said he gave ge to Daugherty , $25,000 to Will H. 4 $250,000 to Perfrose and $75. to a man named Manning— or something like that—form Ohio. “Hamon believed that money would buy everything. It seems to have been pretty well founded in some instances, “Hamon Lacked Ideals.” “T liked Jake Hamon in spite of hi ‘ack of ideals. He was tespear ta on yer in La’ Okla., who extended a helping hand te me when I came out ete " N @ expected to resid the United States some day.” wee’ “On what ticket did you plan to run for governor?” Senator Bursum, New Sakiee, asked. uy 3 “Wy did Ha “Why ‘amon want fener in O eine ¢ much di ce f What did Hamon or want jpg Al Boreas 4 rh ig % le want Democratic bate pit pou carry the state for carting, Well I didn’t fe pe aa) ‘a _ ling did carry a mt 4 half a million aot Mies “Wasn't Hamon for Wood?" “No. He never liked Wood,” wae then excused. r afternoon that he had issued. sai ry poenaes for Wilbur M. treasu: jocratic National Commit. ee Goes te eorge harman of oot Drriocratic Fm Senator Walsh, and 8? Pewee act Doheny, oil Heats who admitted he a Fail Foar Y, lave, ATHENS, March 27.—Despite the _|denials from Bel sist that 50,000 Teeter ree cluding cavalry and artillery,’ concentrated in the Kenal pan tor Macedonia in case Greece tecoume's ~ RLS Laat