The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 2

= 2 ey Page Two THE DAILY WORKER Thursday, April 3, 1924 TOE.L.DOHENY BY WITNESS Democratic Chairman Says Ha Lied $40,000 Worth (Speciad to The Daily Worker? WASHINGTON, April 2.— George White, former chair- man of the Democratic Nation- al Committee, today told the senate oil committee that E. L. Doheny contributed $34,900 to the democratic party funds in| 1920 and 1921. White, when questioned about Doheny’s testimony that he had contributed $75,000 said Doheny would have to ac- count for the difference. White said he recalled no contribu- tions from Harry F. Sinclair. Doheny gave him three checks aggregating $9,900, during the campaign in 1920 and in April 1921 contributed $25,000 to- ward the party’s deficit, White! said. New Investigating Agency. An improvised national _ investi- gating agency has been built up to run down evidence for the senate oil scandal vommittee. It is thru this agency that Sen- ator Walsh expects to produce proof that there was a conspiracy to lease the naval oil reserves as far back as the 1920 Republican national con- vention. Here is the way the new investi- gating agency works, ah Walsh de- scribed it today to the DAILY WORKER reporter, “We receive scores of letters each day—some from inmates of insane asylums and some from patriotic citizens who have evidence besring upon our inquiry. Heretofore we have had no method of finding out just what these witnesses would testify. Cofrespondence Sleuthing. “A man writes that some prom- inent man told him there was a con- spiracy at the last Republican cons vention. We have to subpoena both men, sometimes half way across the continent and bear the expense of their visit. And when they get to the stand sometimes they do not tell the story I expect or after con- sultation I learn that they have no direct evidence, only rumors. “Thru this new arrangement I van obtain some one in practically every city in the United States to go to see the man who writes me and find out just exactly what is to be testified.” After hearing White the commit- tee’ adjourned until Monday to give Walsh an opportunity to work over, thri his new investigating agency, additional information which has come to him concerning the story of rumored bribery at the ‘last Re- publican national convention. Bacchus, Wounded In Cicero, Will Miss Time of His Life Pan, the God of music, will have his innings at the Cabaret Dance which will be held tonight in the Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard. Most of the other Gods will be there too, with)the exception of Bacchus who was severely wounded in the Cicero elections and does not want to appear among the goddesses in a battered condition. ; The God of music, however, has promised to make up with sound what may be missed in the way of spiritual exhiliration thru the ab- sence of Bacchus. The Northwest Side branch of the Workers Party in conjunction with the Maplewood branch of the Young Yorkers League are staging this affair in a joint ef- fort to introduce a new innovation to Chicago radicals. It is reported that the idea was imported from New York, which makes it fashionable right off the reel. There will be singing, dancing and eats. Just like a cabaret. It is even rumored that the R. U, R. robots will be there, tho perhaps incognito, their manager being averse to al- lowing the public to gaze on them until they make their official debut in that famous play. But if you are sufficiently curious a member of the Northwest Side branch may intro- duce you to them. Yes, they can talk—sometimes too much. But the funniest part of the show will be the announcer, Who he is, what he is, remains to be seen. will cost you exactly 35 cents to see everything including the announcer. Russians playing mandolins. Others reciting. Two pretty girls, Mabel Neemai and Emma Blechsmidt_per- forming a special dance. hat more do you want? Come! How many of ir shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get them:to subscribe today, weed (Continued from Page 1) the Wright-Martin company, but Daugherty never kept his promise, Crooks Dictated Policy, Scaife wandered into an account of aircraft disasters during and after the war, which he said he considered a good field for investigation. Burns had disagreed with his sug- gestion, thus betraying—Scaife said —that the department of justice policy resulted in “crooks not being investigated unless they were willing to be investigated.” On the day of the disaster to the army airship Roma at Norfolk, Va., in February, 1921, the witness said, jhe had prepared a telegram to the jdepartment’s agent at Norfolk in- structing him to start an investiga- tion, but when it was submitted for |Burns’ signature the latter refused to sanction it because the war de- partment had not asked for an in- vestigation. | Huge Profits. | Taking up the Wright-Martin com- |pany case, Scaife said that the com- |pany’s “minutes” showed that it had been agreed by the directors that 8 per cent would be a fair profit on war contracts for planes, while the audit of the company’s books showed jthat 270 per cent net profit” had been taken. He added that the audit jalso disclosed an overpayment by the government to ‘the company of $5,267,000, | Thomas L. Chadbourne, an attor- ney, got the Wright-Martin Aircraft company its cost-plus contract, Scaife said, as a substitute for an original fixed price contract. “The fees paid Chadbourne for turning the contract into a cost-plus affair,” Scaife went on, “were added to the costs of the company as pre- sented to the government under the cost-plus system.” Expenses Included Everything. The committee identified Chad- bourne as a democrat, and Scdife added “he was a large campaign fund contributor.” Scaife read items from the audit to show that cigars, laundry and similar charges for company officers had been included in what the govern- ment was required to pay for. The cigar item was for $900, and includ- ed a special box for the company president. The witness said he had reported the facts to Mr. Daugherty, and that a promise had been made in bekyif of the department of justice to insti- tute prosecutions. “This case had gone thri every process of audit and review in the war department before it came to the department of justice,” he said. Letters exchanged between Secre- tary Weeks, Hayden and others, in 1922, were read by the witness. Mr. Weeks told Hayden, in one of the letters, that an appeal from air serv- ice officers to himself was possible m the case of overpayments. Another letter from Assistant At- torney General Lovett to William Hayward, United States attorney in (Continued from Page 1) rel of real beer, The beer runners were kicking against the price of $5 on every barrel that passed thru Cicero as well as what was sold there, The democrats would bring booze graft within the reach of the humblest ditizen. ‘The republicans were maintaining a sort of alcoholie Wall Street in the town, Republicans Have Re-inforcements. The republicans, believing in the Napoleonic adage that “God is on the side of the heaviest battalions,” ealled out their armies and made alliance with neighboring war lords in South Chicago, wno sent in rein- forcements. The democrats called in the democratic administration of Chicago, and that powerful ally sent as many spare cops as were not en- gaged in arresting strikers, to aid their beleaguered friends in Ctcero. A squad from the detective bu- reau in an automobile, opened fire careless-like on ‘three men who were seen walking out of a hotel. The three got out their pistols. All the weapons talked simnitaneously. The music was pretty for awhile. Then one of the three threw up his hands, A democratic bullet had found his heart. Another was ar- rested. ‘he third escaped. Where Are the Medals? There were no deaths on the dem- ocratic side but there were several wounded, Gangsters used a garage for a prison, where hostile precinct ecaptaing were held until the ballot- ing and the bulleting was over The Cicero voters are rather glad that elections don’t happen every day. Most of them smelled powder for the first time and do not like it. It takes as much courage to vote for a democrat in Cicero as it does to vote for a Catholic in Atlanta, Had Comfortable Lead. The Chicago Tribune has not yet blamed the sanguinary conflict on the Communists but. no doubt as Mr. Burns is looking for another appropri- ation for his investigation bureau he will swear on the bible that Moscow financed the gangsters. The majorities of the republicans were around eight or nine. hundred. They would have been higher but for It} Ga. eee. | They would Rave: been Highs See (mae Tonight—CA BARE T DANC E—Tonight At WORKERS LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. THURSDAY, APRIL 3RD, at 8 O’Ciock Tickets 31¢ pl Auspices: The North-West English lus 4c War Tax Br., W. P. and Maplewood Y. W. L, COME FOR A GOOD TIME RANA AEN A ] Bullets, Not Ballots, Election Story New York, dated Nov. 15, 1921, transmitted war department records jon the Wright-Martin overpayment jcase and directed that recovery pro- ceedings be started. Weeks Stopped Prosecution. |~ In a letter dated Nov. 23, 1921, | Weeks told Hayden he would request jthe department of justice to take no further action in the case until | Weeks had talked with General Man- jager Hoyt of the Wright-Martin com- | pany. | On Aug. 8, 1922, Scaife went on, Guy D. Goff wrote to the attorney for the Wright-Martin company, say- ing that suit was to be instituted, \“The department of justice was |switching the case around from at- torney to attorney,” Scaife said. It was taken back from District Attor- ney Hayward in New York, he said, and tendered to Leon B. Duer, a New York attorney. Meanwhile, Scaife asserted, ‘“wit- nesses were disappearing and the men who made the audits were leay- ing the service.” Senator Wheeler, the committee prosecutor, suggested that “the vol- unteer remarks that Mr. Scaife made as to indictments have no particular place in the record,” but Senator Moses said it was too late to with- draw the testimony, as it had “al- ready gone over the wires.” George B. Chamberlain, counsel for Daugherty, asked the witness why he had no advised also the in- dictment of “the people who made these allowances to the companies in the first place.” Scaife agreed that both groups “ought to be prosecuted.” The com- mittee then’ took a recess until 10 a, m. tomorrow. More Datigherty Frauds. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.-- Telegrams sent to former Attorney- General Daugherty were brought the attention of the senate commit- tee investigating alleged land frauds in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas today by Senator Heflin (dem- ocrat, Alaska), who with the aid of James R, Page of Kansas City, Mo., is prosecuting the inquiry. The committee also went further Annual Lie Orgy In Seeking Graft WASHINGTON, April 2.—Wil- liam J. Burns wants another appro- priation fcr his Investigation Bu- reau, which is a feeding ground for the William J. Burns International Detective Agency. He appeared before a house sub-committee on appropriations recently and part of his testimony was made public here thdu the New York Tribune bureau which is nn annex to the American Defense Society. The noted “defec- tive” is reported to have informed the committee that there are 657 radical papers .in the United States published in 26 langnages. The Sov- iet government was responsible for strikes in the United States, said Burns. Asked if the Third Interna- tional was responsible tor the Her- rin affair, Burns stated that they were connected with it. He was not positive of this, however, as Mr. Ellis Searles, Burns digs up the same old argu- ments every» year when going after the money required to keep his stool pigeon agency in good condition, He did not tell the committee that the Communists were responsible for giving away the Teapot Dome, buy- ing the presidency, or accepting bribes from the Japanese govern- ment. But Burns may get his ap- propriation unless he ig kicked out like his criminal superior, Daugh- erty. Warren Workers Hold Big Meeting On Teapot Dome (Special to The Daily Worker) WARREN, Ohio, April 2—At a big mass meeting here called by the Workers Party to consider the Tea- pot Dome situation John Hamilton, Comrade Lerner, of Cleveland; Kranilovich, of the South Slavic Branch, and Fred Merrick, Pitts- burgh district organizer, emphasized the hopeless corruption of capital- into complaints from purchasers of the property on file in the postoffice department, having ordered Page and George A. Hill, Jr., of Houston, Texas, attorney for R, B. Creager of Brownsville, republican national committeeman from Texas, to make a summary of these letters not al- ready read into the record: Rush D. Simmons, chief of the division of postal inspectors, who has been on the stand since the inquiry began, remained for further questioning. The telegrams to Daugherty were brought out by Senator Heflin as in- dicating an effort to influence the former attorney-general to have cases against Rio Grande valley land companies dropped, Creager has been accused by Senator Heflin of being a party to the alleged frauds and also of using influence in Washington in an effort to stop investigations. the intrusion of Mayor Dever’s army. It was a great victory for democracy. In other sections of the United States the elections were comparative- ly free from bloodshed, but the stakes were no%always as high as in Cicero. Klux Helped Socialists, istic government and tlie importance of the Farmer-Labor Party move- ment. . Merrick urged on the workers the need of unity between foreign born and American workers and brought out the fact that the American born workers has made gallant fights against oppression and can be ral- lied to a program for solidarity with the foreign born, Chicago’s Retail Clerk’s Union Wins $4 Raise A flat raise .of four» dollars a week is granted organized retail clerks of Chicago in an agreement signed by officials of Retail Clerks Local No. 195 of Chicago at a con- ference with the Merchants’ Asso- ciation of Cook County and the Max- well Street Business Men’s Asso- ciation. The agreement will run for two years, Business Agent Harry Win- nick and Samuel R. Cooper, presi- dent of the local, represented the union at the conference, Eight-Hour Day Daniel W. Hoan, socialist mayor of Milwaukee, was reelected with a ma- jority of about 8,000 votes over the so-called non-partisan candidate David S. Rose. A La Follette-Socialist unit- ed front was evidént. The Ku Klux Klan also declared for Hoan tho this support was repudiated by the socia- lists and branded as a ruse on the part of the enemy. As the Klan is supposed to be “dry” and Rose is an avowed “wet” the night shirt brigade may have been in earnest. It is also stated that a goodly per- centage of the former membership of the Socialist Party in Milwaukee is now in the Kljan. This is true of Indiana and Ohio, LaFollette is leading in the Bad- ger State for the delegation to the Celebrated By United Mine Workers The United Mine Workers of America celebrated the anniversary of the winning of the eight-hour day thruout the jurisdiction of the or- ganization. In some districts they celebrated it by a strike, their con- tracts with the coal owners having terminated and the bosses refusing to sign a new wage pact. One hundred and fifty-five thou- sand miners in the anthracite regions quit ‘work, only the engineers, fire- men, pump runners and others re- maining at work. The miners of Illinois celebrated or'| thé? day as a holiday. republican convention and Governor! Al Smith of New York 1s ahead in the democrat primarics, Smith has a comfortable lead over McAdoo, In Peoria, Ill, it is reported that the demOcrat victory was a defeat for the Ku Klux Klan. Young Teddy XKilected. Theodore Roosevelt was elected preferential delegate to the New York . State Republican convention, defeating his independent opponent. Unqualified endorsement of Jona- than M. Davis as Kansas’ choice for the democratic presidential nomina- tion was assured today as the state party convention went into session to choose delegates to New York convention, Prince Quits Riding But Takes Up With General Trotter (Special to The Dally Worker) LONDON, April 2..—The Prince of Wales, traveling as the Earl of Chester, went to the continent to- day, en voute for Biarritz, where he will recuperate from his revent accident and do no hard riding, Gen- eral Trotter sccompanted the prince, Browder Speaking Tonight. Ear! R. Browder, editor of the Labor Herald, speaks tonight at the head- eariers of the Amalgamated Food orkers, at 214 N. State street, sec- ond floor. “The German Labor Un- ion” will be his theme. The Amal- amated holds open forums every hursday ing. BURNS MUST GO! Forty thousand miners in the Southwestern states were on strike, the 1923 contract having expired. Eight thousand miners in Western Canada struck when the coal oper- ators refused to sign a new contract. The strike promises to be the hard- est fought in the history of the union, Balloting at Nelson British Col- umbia, showed an overwhelming vote for a walkout. Boom for Ralston Begun by Hoosier Democratic Chiefs ; (Special to The Daily INDIANAPOLIS, organized effort to bring about the nomination of Senator Samuel Ralston for the preaidener ae started today at a meeting of the democratic state committee, and leaders of the party in Indiana. Wy DOESN'T the state’s Taylor? Why doesn’t Why Not Third Degree Taylor? attorney’s office kidnap Dudley State’s Attorney Crowe put Dudley Taylor thru the third degree? Why isn’t Dudley Taylor stuck in a stinking police station cell overnight? These are serious questions. They should have an answer. * * * * It is charged that the “assassination plot” at the home of the struck garment manufacturer, Nicholas Kovler, was a frame-up of the state’s attorney’s office and its bloodhounds. Lawyer Dudley Taylor, legal light of Chicago’s biggest open shop bosses, works hand in glove with the courts and the state’s attorney’s office against the workers. It is charged that in every labor struggle, Lawyer Taylor is connected with’ some such shooting event as oc- curred at the Kovler home. Lawyer Taylor can be connected with these provocateur acts in every strike. Yet, Dudley Taylor is not third degreed. * * But it is Morris Bealis, the head of the strikers’ joint board, who is kidnaped, who is questioned, who is thrown into a foul police station cell, who is kept all night incommunicado, who is only released the next day with the sleuths of capital- ist justice confessing they do not have an iota of evidence against him. * . * * Nothing during the garment workers’ strike has so clearly exposed the close alliance between the open shop interests and their political tools in public office as the kid- . naping of Bealis. Every kept First, as it charged, the sheet in town is silent about it. state’s attorney’s office enters into a frame-up against striking workers, and then, of course, it must protect its pals in crimes against the workers. _ Taylor will not be arrested and third degreed. Instead his suave arguments will get a respectable hearing from the “honorable” courts. The heads of the private detective agencies furnishing thugs and gunmen for the struck garment bosses will not be troubled. While Dudley Taylor and his legal allies in the capitalist courts continually yell “conspiracy” before the judges against the strikers, no mention is made of the actual conspiracy of the Chicago Association of Dress Manufacturers against the welfare of the workers. * * * * This garment strike, like all previous strikes, has shown that the bosses are solidly united. They stand together. They fight together. They win together. Let the workers profit by this garment strike by develop- ing a little more solidarity, a little more unity. Let them learn to stand together a little closer, fight to- gether a little better, victories. IF THEY WILL DO TH and win some bigger and ever bigger IS THEN THE SACRIFIC#S ' OF THIS STRIKE WILL NOT HAVE BEEN IN VAIN. (Continued from page 1) statement from several witnesses about conditions in the strike area and then try each case separately by calling witnesses to testify against certairt strikers. 23 Real Unionists. The 23 strikers put on trial in one batch were: Sophie Yoong, Vic- toria Seslakiz, Fannie Goluberg, Rose Harris, Mrs. Rosenstein, Emma Rosenberg, Rose Goodman, Sarah Schneider, Mammie Kuntz, Clara Miller, Carrie Siever, Clara Zazaon, Evelyn Dorenfield; William Went- worth, Oscar Simon, Victor Power- man, John Swiekoski, Matthew Ar- gadskas, Albert Dobie, Ben Stein, Alphonse Graham, Albert Ferguson and Morris Ulitzky. William Leonard, manager of the General Service Co., a detective agency that hides behind a harmless sounding name, was the first witness called to tell of conditions in the strike district. He said he was hired by several dress manufacturers to guard their workers and “for other services.” Fink Saw 52 Pickets. Leonard said that yesterday morn- ing he had seen 52 pickets on two blocks in the Loop strike district, thus unwittingly paying a compli- ment to the solidarity of the strikers who picket in spite of injunctions, policemen, private sluggers, an spies. t tevhatd said thet his men had served more than 100 pickets with copies of the injunction and told them to stay away from the strike district. He did not refer even once to any of the 23 strikers on trial. Fink Is Asinine Witness, Under cross examination by Peter Sissman, lawyer for the strikers, he said he was emp es by the Fran- cine Frock Co., Mitchell Bros., Ar- thur Weiss and Co., and Katz an Deélinsky. He would not tell on what basis he was paid. Leonard seemed a little vague as to just where the rds assigned under him worked, Worker) a April 2—The first |fe had testified that some of them worked in the shops guarding the «Iscabs and the bosses and then said that some of them had served nruie of the injunction on pickets. ‘is testimony was liberally inkled with long drawn out Ahs! He was A committee was named at a meet-| constantly playing ‘for time in which ing of the state committee to present the name of Ralston to the nation as ne Ear a presidential possibility, Pilgrim Ship Afire. LONDON, April 2.—The British % i“ steamer Frageston, out of Bombay beni office was the with 1,200 pilgrims for Jeddah, is answers. When he ped off the stand he was nervous and walked out of the court room at once. Patrick J, Collins of the state’s at- witness Bophie Young. He sald thet inst ie Young. sal he had sont her around the strike a fights desperately to check /district often and had arrested her cas for Port Sudan, while the el ing fire in the vessel's cargo of cotton, accordi ing to a message Lloyd's. | was called. eae ee era ates - er, another Crowe ‘wes called, Hie sald that he, Yoo, had arrested Sophie Young on March Every new DAILY WORKER reader|17t} for assault. means a new recruit in the ranks of militant labor, i IMPEACH COOLIDGE! — Sintatad” once on that di Dicks 1 for Credit, On cross port neta it deveined, nm ) Financial Aid Assured Strikers jthe apparent difficulty was that Schroeder didn’t want Collins to walk off with all the credit. Collins on the other hand didn’t want Schroeder to get any of the credit for the glorious work of arresting little girls. When the matter of the proper dis- tributing of credit had been settled Schroeder said, “We ave partners. If he arrests them or I do its all the same.”” “Dennie” Plays Cat. It was now 12:20. Befor2 passing sentence Judge Sullivan amused him- self by discussing with the lawyers the proper sort of punishment for Miss Young. He tried to play the cat, with Miss Young as the mouse. “I pity any man who gets that young lady for a wife,” hizoner ob- served. He didn’t explain what that had to do with the case on trial. The judge continued his gentle sport one eye on the clock. Promptly at 12.30 he sentenced Miss Young to 25 days in the county jail and $200 fine. Then he adjourned court for lunch, ‘ Poor Comfort for Bosses. _ The Journal of Commerce, in a signed story in yesterday's issue; tries to cheer up the manufacturers by telling them the strike is on its last legs. The basis for the assump- tion seems to be that since the bosses djare still refusing to concede the un- ion demands; therefore, the strike is being lost. In the course of the story the Journal of Commerce says that Sullivan’s “Injunction halts picketing,” and in thé next para- graph they say, “Thruout its course the union pickets have constantly pa- trolled the streets. of the clothing district.” The worthy Journal admits that: if the strike is called off by the union that there will still be a good union d bar Nog the workers. se self contradictory state- ments are the sort of/thing that the bosses are using to keep their spirits up, union officials said yesterday. Peoria Klansmen Fail to Reward Republican Friends RTA to The Daily Worker) PEQRIA, Ill., April 2.—Republi- cans elected seven out of nine alder- men here yesterday but lost on su- paifeind the Democratic candidate for supervisor and 11 out of 15 as- sistant supervisors winni e Ku Klux Klan endorsed the ublican candidates for supervisor pa roused an opposition that wiped out part; ng and carried candidates to de en i Cuban Rail Strike Ends, HAVANA, April 2.—The strike of union workers on the Santiago divi- sion of Cuba railroad was ended today and train service was resumed, only Prensa day 204 that | No deeds were even ee , FITZPATRICK NOW UNITED TO WORST POLITICAL CROOKS Deneen-Lundin in Small Machine He O. K.’d Not only have prominent mem- bers of the Cook cwounry Farmer- Labor Party come out fer the nom- ination vf Governor Small in the April 8th primary, but in so doing, the very founders of ‘that move:nent have aligned themselves with De- neen and Lundirj, .the ‘most reac- tionary and crooked bosses in Chi- cago politics. The’ latest move of Fitzpatrick, Nockels, Clay, Wills, Harry Scheck, MeVey and other. Farmer-Labor Party leaders in affiliating with this reactionary combination, means a complete shake-up in the leaders of the Farmer-Labor Party, and in the trade union circles of Chicago. Fitzpatrick, Nockels and the others, as the result of their latest move have rejected the McCabe type of Farmer-Laborite and definitely climbed on the band wagon of Gom- pers, as represented by Oscar Nel- son and Victor Olander, With Nelson and Gompers, At the same time, these men, ex- ecutive board members of the Farmer-Labor Party, have formed a new front with the Farmer-Labor Party of Illinois, which is reported to be backed by Nelson and the Gompers machine as a dual organ- ization formed for the express pur- pose of disrupting the original Farmer-Labor Party, The new line-up is Fitzpatrick; the Gompers machiné; the Illinois Farmer-Labor Party backed by Os- car Nelson; Len Small, the disrepu- table old party politician; Fred Lundin, Chicago's boss, who has so often been implicated in graft charges; Charles S. Deneen, who has made a dicker with Lundin in the coming primary; Newton Jenkins and Kent Kellar, democratic poli- ticians, Thus Yitzpatrick, Nockels, and the other founders of the Farmer- Labor movement in Chicago, have Shifted from supposedly progressive advocates of independent political action to the clan’ of the Gompers machine and the unscrupulous poli- ticians with which it is associated. May Throw Fitzpatrick Out. It is doubtful whether or not the progressive element of the Cook County Farmer-Labor Party will let the Fitzpatrick .group remain in their organization §n fhe face of this betrayal, The McCabe faction, despite the enormous pressure brought to bear from Fitzpatrick and the other reactionaries, is de- termined to take some action against the Farmer-Labor Party leaders who have violated the con- stitution of the Party ard also dis- obeyed the instructions of the ex- ecutive voard of the Farmer-Labor Party, advising the members to keep out of the primary fight. C. F. Lowrie, secretary of the Farmer-Labor Exchange of the Farmer-Labor Party, declared to the DAILY WORKER that “Some ac- tion will undoubtedly be taken by che executive board of the party, which will lead to independent po- litical action in the future. The party membership will undoubtedly ‘ake action and it will be in the in- ‘erest of 2 united third party.” When asked if he did not think she Farmer-Labor officials are . vio- lating their party platform, which declares against alliance with any other political parties, by endorsing Small, Lundin, Deneen, Jenkins and Kellar, Lowrie answerea, “What's a constitution more or less between friends.- You know inconsistency is a beacon to wise men and a scare- crow to fools.” Lowrie admitted, however, that the direct violation ot the Farmer-Laber platform would cause some decisive action on the part of the rank and file advocates of independent political action.. Small Machine's Dicker. The Small machine, endorsed by Fitzpatrick and other original founders of the Farmer-Labor Party, has made a dicker with the old city hall faction led by Fred Lundin, who has been so particu- larly odious to labor and presum- ably to the labor officials who have now. into his camp. Dei and pon geod united in tnvaing a joint with men cf both fac- tions. marked ballot, which advises the voters, “Mark your bal- lots for the men listed below,” con- ‘ains the names of both Deneen and Lundin followers. For state's attor- | ney, George B. Holmes, a Deneen man, is recommended and for circuit clerk, William E. Defer, Lundin man, So it down the ballot, Lun- din and men combining to complete the new combination com- prising Fitzpatrick, Gompers | ma- ney and Small and Lundin. Fitzpatrick Won't Comment. John Fitzpatrick refused today to make any statement as to whether or not he would resign voluntarily from the Farmer-Labor Party, or pred, for the action of the executive oard, has entered the ary endorsii disteputable politicians, He still thinks the situation a logical one, kine phe tae 4 ittoe 287 South ins campaign comm: Dearborn street, that " N Shins ho rpaaa” prt primary,