The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 1

| | a THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 15. —_—. BIG FINANCIAL AID ASSURED | TO STRIKERS Amalgamated's Treasury To Help 1.6. WU, The powerful Amalgamated Clothing Worker of Chicago is coming to the aid of the strik- ing dressmakers of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers with a large sum of money, it was learned yesterday after the meeting of the Board of Direc- tors of the Joint Board of the “Amalgamated” which author- ized the donation. All that remains now to put the money into the hands of the striking union is the formal sanction of the Joint Board at its meeting today. “Dennie” Railroads Eight, “Dennie” Sullivan was hard at work all yesterday, acting as judge and jury, railroading garment strik- ers haled before him on injunction counts, - Eight workers received prison sen- tences and fines and five others were fined without prison sentences. The strikers are still free and the fines are unpaid while appeal is being taken, Judge Enjoys Work. Victoria Seslakwitz received most of Sullivan’s attention. He sentenced her with evident fleasure to 45 days in jail and a $200 fine. a oie days and a $150 fine was giveh Eva Dorenfeld and Oscar Seims, each. Twenty days and $150 fine was inflicted on Clara Zazarn. Rose Harris, Fannie Goldberg, Rose Goodman and Sarah Schneider all got ten day sentences and $125 fines. Mrs, Rosenstein was the only striker discharged. Mamie Kuntz and Marie Berg- strom ‘were each fined $50 and Clara Miller and Carrie Siever were each fined $150. This sanction will come as a mat- / ter of course, it wag stated at the Amalgamated, because the Joint Board had referred the ‘matter of strike aid to the Board of Directors. Amount Named ‘Today. Until the meeting today the DAILY WORKER is not at liberty to make public the sum, but it can be stated that it is a substantial amount which will be of very con- siderable aid to the workers who have been putting up such a gallant battle against the sweatshop sys- tem for five weeks. This support from the Amalga- mated, an organization unconnected with the American Federation of Labor, is expected to spur unions affiliated with the Chicago Federa- tion into concrete action in behalf of the strikers. Have Aided Many Struggles. The Amalgamated has extended aid to ra workers ever since its inception. It has given not only to its sister organization in the A. F. of L. but has contributed gen- erously to miners, railroad workers and to struggles in many industries and trades. Its own historic struggles in 1915 and 1919 got considerable support from other Chicago unions. The Board of Directors of the Joint Board of Chicago is officered ay Philip Chelemer, as president; . C. Risch, as secretary, Charles Sweatall, dent of the Joint Board, is also a member of the board of directors which numbers 11. “Dennie” Fines Five More. - Judge “Dennie” Sullivan began the day in his court yesterday by soaking fom a five strikers for pic- keting. persons fined were: Bessie Katz, $200; Olga Galitch, Sam Dorf, J itz, and Isadore Kree- ger, $175 each. The sentences will all be aj d. Immediately after “Dennie” had sentenced these five strikers, five others who had been arrested on at- tachments were brought before him for preliminary hearing. They were:' Meyer Kranz, Ida Rubnow, Esther in, Sarah Seidel, Jennie Chan- in and Caroline Witlowska, Their cases were all set to be heard som time next week. ' Then James P. nar appearing for the Francine Frock Co. and other complainants, had 23 strikers brought out and began trying them. e method employed was to get a general (Continued on page 2 “Five Lon Subscription Rate} THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Mlinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924 SHOW ARMY HEAD CONSPIRATOR jae TRYING Outside Chicago, by COLUMBIA LAW DEAN FILLS POST DAUGHERTY HELD Harlan Fiske Stone Is Coolidge Choice (Special to The Dally. Worker) WASHINGTON, April 2.—Harlan Fiske Stone; New York, former Dean of Columbia Law School, has been selected as attorney-genera] of the United States by President Coolidge. Official announcement of the selec- tion was made today and Stone’s nomination was sent to the Senate for confirmation. Opposed Palmer’s Raids. He will take office as successor to Harry M. Daugherty as soon as the Senate confirms him. He was President Coolidge’s guest at breakfast at the White House this morning. Several senators were there also and tho Mr. Coolidge did not tell any of them that Stone had been selected, they got the impression he was to be the new attorney-general. This belief was confirmed some- what later. Stone was a classmate of President |, Coolidge at Amherst College and the two are old friends, Stone’s nomination is expected to be approved by the Senate Wesiteee| ly. Stone will return to Washington after putting his personal affairs in New York in shape and take over the duties of the a Justice. | Stone is known as a liberal in his views.. He opposed the “red raids”) conducted against radicals in this, country by A. Mitchell Palmer, at- torney-general under the Wilson ad- ministration. Refused To Comment. President Coolidge’s decision to ap- point Stone came after a long study of many “possibilities.” Stone was born in New Hampshire October 11, 1872, He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and ever since he has. been a lecturer on the law. In September, 1920, he became Dean of Ee Columbia University school of jaw, His firm is Canfield, Satterle and Stone and he is a director in a num- ber of enterprises, , Stone Tives in Englewood, N. J. He married eT Harvey of Ches- terfield, N. H., in 1890. of in Fiske Stone as attorney general means that the Department of Justice is to be tanen out of ities during the Uoolidge admin- Teaton, it was said at the White House after Stone’s nomination was sent to the senate today. After Stone’s name had been pre- sented to the senate, most Demo- crats refused comment on the ap- pointment. ‘ “I. don’t know him and_ never heard of him,” Democratic Leader Robinson said. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! President Coolidge’s appointment hi In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. ely Scabs”---A S mail, $6.00 per year ‘WILL STAY IN RUHR, DESPITE EXPERTS,’ POINCARE DECLARES “Special to The Daily Wo PARIS, April 2.—S; volves abandoning the Ruhr. “We will not give up our occu- pation of the Ruhr whatever the experts may propose,” the Premier said, TRADE UNIONS IN STEEL DISTRICT FIGHT DAVIS LAWS Kluxers and Royal Riders Standing Alone By WALLACE METCALFE. (Special to The Daily Worker) YOUNGSTOWN, 0., April 2.—The Mahoning County Labor Congress went on record opposing the selective immigration laws sponsored by Secre- tary Davis now before the powers that rule in Washington, D. C. Resolutions were adopted and pub- lished in both of the daily papers as well as in the. Labor Record, official organ of the labor movemént in this section, condemning the passage of the immigration laws. ’ Seated By Labor Body. Three delegates from_the Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Workers were seated by the Mahoning County Labor Congress as fraternal delegates and will co-operate with the labor movement in combatting passage of the laws, , ; About the pif igri i. ings passage of the immi tion. laws in this section of the steel district; Chat the ae et called the “Royal,Riders of the: Robes” whose meihibers lately were at- tendants at a meeting of the Spies of Lincoln, the colored Klan,: who’s imperial wizard, known as Rev. Ri parted for parts unknown: ter record in a N, Y. state prison was. made known and’ after he had victimized several score members of 8 race, The only thing left behind by the very Reverend Russell was a photo of Lincoln and a bad taste'in the mouth of his dupes. be Negroes Are Invited. Negro organizations have been in- vited to send delegates to the Deane! ign’ for the Protection of Forei and at the next meetirig several or- ganizations will be represented, La Follette Out Soon. _ WASHINGTON, April 2.—Senator La Follette is gaining in and if his condition continues to in . wor! provi he will be ‘able: ta. gakcuack to tig aout iephyeteiate esiA, toda. TO ESCAPE Me BULLETS NOT \agunt says dess smith and BALLOTS MARK CICERO ELECTION Capifalist Politicians Force and ‘violence and other un- lawful means* meant. more than a dry legal doeument stating reasons| Japan were made before the why Communists should be sert to jail.for several years for trying to overthrow the government with typewriters, mimeographs and bur- ied barreis.of literature, when dem- ocrats and republicans their armor, took out their shooting irons and turned the little town of Gicero into a miniature Mexico, while the voters of that Chicago suburb were’ trying to decide who) coliect the graft from the} should bootleggers for the next few years. Republicans To. Get the Graft. When the smoke of batile cleared away and the dead and wounded taken ito the undertaking ‘parlors jand hospitals, the republicans were vietorious. Thomas J. Buckley was elected collector. If there ever was anything in a name, it is in the col- lector’s in Cicero, It is stated that a mar who cannot save $200,000 in four years as collector in Cicero should be .in-a home for the feeble- minded. The republicans have ruled Cic- ero for years and are running it as a wide oj town, In the past they have divided the spoils with the democrays. ‘This ‘yeartthe dem- ocrats decided to place an independ- ent ticket inthe field.and the shoot- ing begaa. The democrats ran. cn a more liberal ticket: than that of their op- ponents, promised a reduc- tion on the’ protection ‘rate per bar- (Continued-on page 2) McCray Wanted Money in Batches, Bankers Testify (Special to ie Oo Worker) INDIANAPOLIS, ‘Ind., April 2.— Efforts. of Governor McCray to se- cure a $600,000 loan :from Indian- apolis bankers. last summer to pay back $155,000 of the funds of the state board of agriculture were to be aired today at the trial of Mc- Cray on of larceny and embezzlement for his. use of the board of agriculture’s. money, Frank D, Stalnacker, president of the Indiana National Bank, and Elmer W. Stout, president of the Fletcher American National Bank, told of rejecting McCray’s urgent or a loan last summer to “meet pressing obligations.” They said MeCray mentioned. the $165,- 000 of the toard of agriculture as one of the sums he have, They said they. told that the Thdia apolis banks could ro. longer extend im. credit of the precar- ious condition of his finances, tory of the Garment ‘ WY buckled on! Published 306 PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N, Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. Workers! Farmers! Demand: ine Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries fot the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recoenition of Soviet Russia Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER Price 3 Cents IWEEKS, DAUGHERTY, GOFF, HAYDEN IN $9,000,000 AIR PLANE DEAL, SAYS SCAIFE WASHINGTON, D. C., A the United States Army, still a (Special to The Daily Worker) pril 2.—Declaring that Secretary of War John Weeks, head of member of the Coolidge cabinet, ought to be indicted for con- spiracy, Captain H. L.’ Scaife today told the Senate Daugherty Investigating Committee that Weeks “called off” a suit against the Wright-Martin Airplane Corporation for recovery of an overpayment of $5,000,000. Captain Scaife included among the conspirators, in addition to Secretary of War Weeks, former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, one of Daugherty’s assistants, and Charles Hayden, President of the Wright-Martin Airplane Corporation. that Daugherty, tho he had all been filed, Scaife said. This is the same Captain Scaife also charged the facts in the case, failed to bring suit. No suit has ever Scaife who, on Saturday, charged that Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover had diverted $1,000,000 of Soviet Russian Relief funds to the white counter- revolutionary armies, in an effort to overthrow the Russian Soviet Republic, as he had success- fully overthrown the Hungarian Soviet Republic. se The exposure of Secretary of War Weeks shows that the effort to knock out additional NEW LIGHT ON DAUGHERTY'S MITSUI DEAL Daugherty Knew Facts (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 2.—| Charges that the Standard Air-| \eraft Corporation, a Japanese financed firm which built air- for ‘the United States during the war, communicated American aviation secrets to 'senate Daugherty investigating | committee today by Captain H. |L. Scaife, former Department (of Justice agent. Scaife submitted reports by naval intelligence officers pur- porting to corroborate his | charges. Seaife Investigates Fraud. Scaife’s charge was made during his testimony alleging that the gov- ernment had overpaid Mitsui & Com- pany and the Standard Aircraft Com- pany more than $6,500,000 for air- plane construction and that Daugher- |ty had failed to recover the money. Gaston B. Means recently told the committee that he received 100 $1,000 bills from a representative of Mitsui & Company for Jess Smith, Daugh- erty’s close personal friend. The committee examined Scaife in detail concerning his investigation of the aircraft corporation, which he previously charged were’ blocked by Officials of the Department of Justice. Senator Wheeler, Montana, read in- to the record impeachment charges against Daugherty in the House in 1922 relating to his alleged failure to prosecute the Standard Aircraft Com- pany, Daugherty Got Report. Scaife said that Daugherty was given a personal report on the alleged fraudulent transaction of the Stand- ard Aircraft Company. “Who was present?” asked Wheeler “Jess Smith.” “The same Jess Smith who got the $100,000?” Paul Howland, counsel for Daugh- erty, objected to the remark and Wheeler withdrew his statement. Taking up the Roma disaster at Norfolk, Va. Scaife said he con- sidered this accident a good field for investigation by the Department of Justice. Scaife then read an audit which he said showed an overpayment of $6,- one to the Wright-Martin corpora- tion. “I think that we should have these men indicted by a grand jury,” said Scaife. “What men?” asked Moses, “John W. Weeks, secretary of war; Charles Hayden, president of the Wright-Martin company; Harry M. Daugherty, ex-attorney-general, and Guy D. Goff, his assistant,” said Scaife. , Daugherty Refused to Prosecute Replying to questions by Senator Wheeler, Seaite said that he had laid all of his reports and charges before Daugherty who promised to prosecute (Continued on page 2. of grafters has not yet come to a complete halt. Tt Goes Badly With Cal’s CrookedGang ISCLOSURES that Secretary of War John M. Weeks is involved in a $5,000,000 airplane scandal, creates inter- est in the present status of Cal Coolidge’s cabinet of pelitical crooks. The standing is as follows: GONE! Edwin Denby, former Secretary of the Navy, who turned over the navy’s oil reserves to the oil robbers. Harry M. Daugherty whose crimes are too numerous to mention, GOING! Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, who got caught in the million dollar booze scandal. He is a big whisky distiller and chief prohibition enforcement officer. One of his many jobs is helping rich dodge their taxes. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War and banker who pur- chased the stock of the Bosch Magneto Company, a German concern, for over three millions less than the stock was worth. Now caught in $5,000,000 airplane scandal, TO GO! Herbert Heover, Secretary of Commerce, who diverted one million dollars of the American relief funds to aid Czarist war on Soviet Rule. f Charles E. Hughes, agent of the Standard Oil Company, in plot to prevent the recognition of Russia and to grab oil fields in the Near East. Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Wall Street tool and enemy of the farmers. Hubert Wark. Secretary of the Interior, who succeeded Albert B. Fall, and hid the criminal acts of his predecessor. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, also Pittsburgh banker, author of the scheme to finger-print the foreign born - workers. Calvin Coolidge, President, champion strikebreaker of America and ringleader of the cabinet of crooks. THIRTY-FIVE | SAGE OF Emporia Is THOUSAND GOAL | tax povsey wetiox DIGGERS STRIKE Operators Refuse New Agreement (Special to The Daily Worker) EMPORIA, Kans., April 2.— Secretary of the Treasury Mellon will be the next cabinet officer to “walk the plank” William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Ga- zette, said in his paper today. “If he stays aboard he will sink the ship,” White said. “The roar that forced Daugherty and Denby will be a whisper com- pared with what Mellon will get when the country knows what he has done, following his personal at- titude, toward the laws which are entrusted to him.” White said that Mellon belonged to that wing of the party which did not believe in the prohibition law and “time and again he has scoffed at the law, ignored the law and bent it to uses which were questionable.” Mellon also belongs to that wing of the party ‘which believes that taxes should be paid largely as possible by a per capita average, and that the rich should pot be taxed according to their great debt to the government for protecting their wealth and aiding them in its accumulation, the editorial said. (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 2.—In- structions for all coal miners in the southwest to remain on strike were sent out by union leaders here today following failure to reach an agree- ment on wages in negotiations with mine operators, About 35,000 men are affected. Union leaders placed the burden for the strike on the mine owners because of the latter’s refusal to keep the 1923 contract which ex- pired March 81 in force until a new agreement could be reached by arbi- tration. New York Autos Kill 76. NEW YORK, April 2.—There were 76 fatalities from automobiles in the city during the past month compared to one death caused by a horse drawn vehicle, Strike—-On Page Three . La P