The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 4, 1924, Page 2

THE DAILY WORKER Friday, April 4, 1924 SIGMAN TELLS [District No. 7 United Mine Workers |CROQWE’S FINKS DRESS GPUNTNS | see ee Ae Ea UNION STRONG UNION MEMBERS & | Page Two DAUGHERTY'S *°pcbere in Washington Getting SUCCESSOR IS Cold Feet in Daugherty Grill By JAY LOVESTONE. | (Special to The Daily Worker) i] whom charges of holding dual membership in the Ku Klux Klan have been made by Local Union Number 1704, at Nesquehoning, a ‘ M ‘ 5 will be tried, as provided for under the laws of the United Mine / M 0 R G AN Al 0 we pnceediae wihstddd cake Gin aa eee Workers of America, Thomas Kennedy, President of District elle, | |gation is proceeding without its early vim and vigor. Senator| < * . No. 7, announced: today; ; 4 | Wheeler, of Montana, has lost so much of his pep that he finds {Union Decides To Raise Kensiody. veckatle bie orders to all locals to investigate Were Looking for Them ; ae y,|it necessary to announce publicly that he will go on with the Benefits. members alleged to belong to the Klan and purge the union of Over Week 3 Stone Partner of Morgan $|investigation of the Department of Justice, “despite” the resig- them fu accordance with:the constitution adopted at the ‘last ji {nation of Daugherty. _ (Continued from Page 1) convention. ae Pike Cif lag va hagich Rob- : Brother-In-Law Senator Dill, of (Washington, who prides himself on being piel . pane of the Postal “ one ily stats pete Nee i es |a progressive, has introduced a resolution demanding the resig- SHELDON W. GOVIER. 9th of that they are breathing a little | (By The Federated Press.) jnation of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, because WASHINGTON, April 3.— The firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. is now intrenched in the U. S. Department of Justice. Thru the appointment by Presi-| dent Coolidge of Harlan Fiske! Stone to succeed Attorney Gen-| eral Harry M. Daugherty who| was run out of office by the senate, Wall Street has in- stalled a principal lieutenant instead of a campfollower in this strategic office. Does Morgan’s Dirty Work. Stone has been universally described by the press as dean of the Columbia university law school. His more important of- fice is law partner of J. P. Morgan’s brother-in-law, Her- bert Livingston Satterlee. Sat- terlee has done a great deal of of his part in the Teapot leases, and because of his sending rines to clear the naval oil eserve area for Mr. Sinclair. But, M. Dill has found it ad- viseable to desert Washington for a speaking trip in the West right after he introduced his resolution. Mr. Dill has per- mitted his resolution to be laid on the table. Senator McKellar has proposed that Mellon’s financial connections be investigated, in view of the charge that he is holding the office of the Secretaryship of the Treasury in vio- jlation of the law which incapacitates anyone who has interstate commerce |financial interests from holding this cabinet post. But, Mr. McKellar, who always prides himself on being one of the “vigorous” democrats in the capitol, has allowed his resolution to go the the higher-up dirty work for the Morgan firm. He married the old J. Pierpont Morgan’s daughter, Louisa, 24 years ago. The Wall Street law firm is known as Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. Stone’s law practice amounts to over $125,000 year. Stone's war service consisted Principally in sitting on Secretary Newton D. Baker’s board of inquiry into the war objectors who were held under more or less terrible conditions in the various camps. With Judge Julian W. Mack and Major Richard C. Stoddard, Stone | had the objectors appear before him and decided whether they were to be given objector status or or- dered into the ranks to be court- martialed. | “Irritated” by Objectors. | He is described in , Norman! Thomas’ book, “The Conscientious | Objector In America,” as expressing | “little but irritation” for the college pacifists. A victim of his board de- cisions is quoted in the same book as saying of him: “I believe his questions were more insinuating and less direct than those of Judge Mack.” He became table when former Columbia law students of his appeared before him as objectors, In such cases Stone would urge that objectoring was in bad taste and would reflect on the college. His Morgan affiliations are not expected to whet his desire to un- cover the root of government cor- ruption. * et Look Askance at Stone. (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 3.—With its eyes sharpened to pin points as a result of the scandals investiga- tions, the senate today began to take a long look at Harlan Fiske Stone, the new attorney general. Stone’s nomination was followed by thé discovery that he was for years connected with the law firm of Canfield, Satterlee and Stone, the Satterlee being the son-in-law of the late J. P. Morgan. That circumstance was enough to cause several progressive senators to say today a careful inquiry into Stone’s qualifications and connec- tions would be made. The judiciary committee has the nomination. It will be taken up in a day or two and requests may be forthcoming that Stone be called before the committee. Administra- tion leaders will resist any such step. especially’ irri- | 7 regular route of the Senatorial legis- |letive calendar. This means that Mc- Kellar has signed the dead warrant of his newly born political babe. Democrats and Progressives Quitting, Why this right-about-face on the |part of thet democrats and such so- jealled progressive as Wheeler, Dill Jand Brookhart? Why are these men not fighting for the vigorous contin- uation of the investigations of big business control of government? Why is Wheeler doiig nothing to turn the searchlight on the criminal strike-breaking activities of the De- partment of Justice and the Burns Agency against the trade unions and working class political organizations? The story of the high-handed con- jduct of Burns and Daugherty in the last railway shopmen’s strike alone is sufficient to put them behind the bars for scores of years, even on the basis of the present capitalist law. Yet, Messrs. Brookhart and Wheeler have done nothing to bring this informa- tion before the country. Why is it that the regular and irregular democrats of all stripes are showing signs of wearying of the in- vestigations and falling for, what they know very well to be just plain rot and buncombe, the appeal for “getting down to business and legis- lating?” Why are these democratic hawks and eagles of yesterday becoming owls so soon and refusing to go ahead with the charges against Mellon, Hoover, Hughes and other cabinet members? All Serve Same Masters. There is but one answer to all these questions. The progressives, demo- crats, republicans and capitalist pali- ticians of all stripes regardless of how radical the phrases they mouth may be, are first and foremost con- cerned with the preservation of the fundamental interests of the employ- ‘ing class. The danger signal for the capitalist class is the sign for their stopping these investigations. The revelations have already gone too far in shaking the confidence of the masses in the government. The big employers of labor have felt that these investigations are go- ing just a bit too far. For some- time they have exercised heavy pres- sure to put an end to the senatorial exposures. Now they are beginning to get results. The worm is be- ginning to turn. The democrats are making common cause with the re- publicans in organizing for more laws, in organizing to get what their masters have denounced only yester- day in the most bitter terms. The so-called progressives, the jellyfish backboned radical wind-jammers are IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Harding to Jake Hamon: “Well, Jake, we left eome Hell behind us.” fy (AME Ay WA now giving into the demands of the big interests. of course, their surrend- er is not as openly abject and not as ON THE RIVER STYX +15 aaNet Sr” ‘7 clumsily put over as the regular dem- ocratic party retreat, but, the more skillfully maneuvered, is is neverthe- less complete a betrayal of the in- teres of the masses as_ is the treacherous conduct of the Walshes, McKellars, and other - democratic whips and dark horses. This sudden dimning and cowardly action of the insurgent stars and democratic satellites in the Capitol should not surprise any work- er or farmer. It should not even dis- gust any genuine progressive any real class enemy of the employers. This half-hearted wavering policy of the so-called progressives only adds further proof to the Communist con- tention that, regardless of what kid- ney or ilk he be, every capitalist poli- tician must sooner, rather than later betray the working and farming class. The only point of distinction between the various schools of employing class polities is the degree of soonness with which they play the game of the big- ward, an alderman for seven years, a brass moulder™10 years ago, not now, but formerly a union man. HARRY W, KLINKE, 47th ward, Chicago Photo Engravers’ Union. Local’ No. 5. Member for past 20 years, THOMAS S. BYRNE, 15th Ward, Local 241, Street Carmen’s Union. THOMAS J. BOWLER, 41st Ward, Street Carmen’s Union. PATRICK F. RYAN, 18th Ward, Horseshoers’ Union. JOSEPH H. SMITH, 32nd Ward, | Blacksmiths? Union. Demand Action. These are only aldermen now in the city council-who claim to have some sort of labor affiliations, Of course, during election campaigns, all candidates for aldermen, as for all jfolitical offices, claim to be labor’s friends. This is probably the greatest pos- sible indictment that could be lev- etled against these so-called “friends of labor” in the city council, that gest interests openly, one hundred per cent, and sabotage the needs and demands of the laboring masses. The Lesson. they have remained silent during the five weeks of the garment strike, besuse, in the words of their spokesman, the. garment bosses have not feared that the “police pro- The way in which the sundry in-| tection” given by Mayor William E. vestigations are now being liquidated, | Dever’s police force and State’s At- drowned and sunk to the very bottom} torney Robert E. Crowe's dicks of the troubled political seas, by all| would be withdrawn, shades of capitalist political panhand-| Vice-President. Meyer Perlstein, lers teaches the working and farming|of the International Ladies’ Gar. masses of the United States at least}ment Workers’ Union, in charge of one worth while lesson. Out of the hasty retreat that the democrats are beating from the field of struggle and out of the weak-kneed, feint effort that the progressives are making in exposing the plunderers of the coun- try’s natural resources and the strike- breakers and union-smashers. There arises more painfully clear than ever the unquestionable urgent need for the organization of the workers and poor farmers into a national class WORKER that he is planning to get Alderman Nelson, who is also an attorney for the union, to take some action ‘in the city council. Nothing has been done, however, ultho plans may ve BA yeep for the next meeting o: e city council on x Wednesday. ef ee May Be Issue at Meeting. The matter, no doubt, will come up for the strike, hag stated to the DAILY | 000. Weeks ‘In’ On $12,000,000 Fraud (Continued from page 1) in repayment of claims in connec- tion with the “war fraud cases.” Volandt admitted taking tne pa- pers and giving them to Weeks’ but claimed they “were official records of the department.” Volandt admitted he had ordered Lane to “stay away from the Daugherty investigating commit- tee.” “1 told him to wait until he was subpoenaed,” Volandt said. Volandt said Weeks crdered the Lane papers turned over to him. Lane was suspended last Satur- day. “You suspended him the day he told you he was’ coming before the committee?” Wheeler asked. “Yes,” said Volandt, Unprecedented Procedure . The action in subpoenaing Weeks is unprecedented in congressional investigations. Usually a’ cabinet officer is merely “respectfully in- vited” to appear. The papers were records in in- vestigations by Lane in connection with Bosch Magneto, Standard Afr- eraft and Wright-Martin war fraud cases, Lane in his testimony, assailed A. Mitchell Palmer, former alien Property custodian, for sale of the Bosch Magneto property for $4,150,- “Tt should not have been sold for $12,000,000,” said Lane. Daugherty “‘Studied’’ Case of Land Robbers; Fired Investigators (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 3.—Here is a fragment of evidence Lane said he took records in the Bosch case to Assistant Attorney General John W. H. Crim and Crim said it was the “rottenest” case he ever saw. Crim, he said, promised immediate action on “this great fraud.” - The witness said the department of justice had done nothing to this} day so far as he knew. His Bosch magneto records were among those taken from him by Captain Volandt, Lane said. x oe om Daugherty’s Troubles Not Over. WASHINGTON, April 8.—Fur- ther inquiry into the alleged failure of former Attorney General Daugh- erty to press prosecutions of Okla- homa Indian land fraud cases was to be made by the senate Daugh- erty investigating committce today. Senator Wheeler planned to put witnesses on the stand to substan- tiate the story told the committee Tuesday by former U. S. District Attorney Peck of Oklahoma that Daugherty directed him. to delay court action against the Miller Brothers, who were charged with having obtained $500,000 worth of | Oklahoma Indian lands by fraudu- lent means, If the committee cleans up this line of its investigation today it is planned to put Gaston B. Means on the stand again for further exam- ination, {not try to hide, farmer-labor party separate and dis- tinct from the two old parties of capi- talism and the plague of hybrid capi- talist progressivism and employing class progressive-ifs. Quaker City Trade Unionists Invited to Hear Communist Speak PHILADELPHIA, April 3.—Trade unionists are especially invited to the lecture, on Sunday, April 6, of A. Jakira, district organizer of the Workers Party, which will be given before the Philadelphia Open Forum, [21 York avenue, Comrade Jakira’s bject will be “The New Trend in the American Labor Movement.” There will be a discussion after the lecture. There will be no admis- sion charge. The lecture on the following Sun- day will be on “Independent Unions,” given by Comrade Baker. Socialists and Liberals. SAN FRANCISCO, April 3—A call has been issued to California liberals and labor men for a con- vention here under the auspices of the Farmer-Labor party June 1, to f discussion at the Sunday meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor, when, the “Committee of 15” and the “Injunction Committee” of band ag see will bring in the report of its activi in ai py ities in aid of the It bey announced a_ week ago ~ Plans were on foot to brin; President Gompers, of the ‘hehe can Federation of Labor, to Chicago for a mass meeting in’ aid of the strike but 80 far no date has .been set for the ®athering. It was stated that .Gompers’ speech would deal especially with the use of the in- junction in labor disputes, Pik ag Speaks to Strikers. Morris Sigman, president o: - ternational Ladies’ Garmant Workts nion, at a meeting of strikers held at 180 West Washington street yes- terday announced that the union has Mayer aise strike benefits from 37 an a wee! alle k to $9 and $12 a In making the announcement Sig- man pointed out that this decision to Taise the strike benefits came at a time when the bosses are charging that the union is on its last legs. “I know that you will be glad to hear that the strike benefits will be raised. T also know that you will be glad not because it means a few dollars a week ‘more to you, but because it effectively | the Miller brothers, operating the 101 Ranch, defrauded the before the Wheeler committee, as to enforcement of law when Ponca Indians in Oklahoma out of 10,000 acres of land, worth appoint cclegates to the July 4 con-|answers the statements that the un- vention in Cleveland. It has the co-|ions is weak. We are able to make operation of the Socialist party, jthis raise in strike benefits without as- which has agreed to put no candi-|sistance from any other organization. dates of its own in the state field, Amalgamated Helps. and will not be opposed by the A.| “The Amalgamated will probably F. of L. and the railroad brother-|vote to give us a substantial sum at hoods, the next meeting of the Chicago Joint o Board and that will be the first as- 15th “Canned Heat Victim Dies. | sistance we have been given by any TOLEDO, 0O., April 3.—The fif-}rganization not a part ef the Inter- teenth victim of canned heat and de-|national ae nal, natured alcohol orgies, James McFad¢}/0‘tWhile the bosses are trying to tell den, 45, died here at 3:40 p, m. yes-|the strikers that the union and the terday, while two others are in a/|strike is on its last legs they are fight- serious condition. ing like cats and dogs among them- selves. The big bosses are being ac- cused by the little bosses of trying to eliminate the smaller firms. The lit- tle fellows charge that the big bosses are trying to drive them into the poo house and thus gobble up their busi- ™ ess. “The big fellows who run the As- sociation of Dress Manufacturers are afraid of calling a meeting of th: sociation, They know only too that the little fellows will be at their throats. Serap of Paper, \ “The members of the association on joining were required to sign a note for $1,000 that would be col- lected if they settled with the union. That note is not worth the paper it is written on, but the big fellows are threatening to drag the small fry thru the courts if they settle. ‘In the meantime the bosses are busy telling each other and trying to tell the strikers that the union is los- ing. It is not. We are as strong to- day as we ever were. We are as good fighters today as we were on the first day of the strike, Arrangements have been made to have the National Security Co. go bonds for all strikers arrested for injunction. tribute, Workers in the Monarch Shoe Co., @ non-union shoe shop at 913 W, Roosevelt road, brought $26 to the union office yesterday. The committee which brought the mone that it was collected in tl the to take care of the { well “ vaike But the committee traded at the Miller ranch store, and who ran into debt to the store, sign certain papers which were actually deeds to land which had not yet been allotted. The Indians thought these were merely notes or mortgages. An enemy alien, “farmed out” during the war to Miller, discovered the frauds and informed the govern- ment. District Attorney Pee... who secured the indictments, was ready to try the cases at Oklahoma City on criminal; charges in May, 1921, when Daugherty called him off, pending “study” of the case by Daugherty. ‘The letter informing Peck of this sudden change in plans was sent direct from Daugherty’s own office, and not thru the regular channels, George Washington a Piker. The special agent who had inves- protested so vigorously that the offi- cials took the money so as not to offend the workers, “That little xc- tion of the workers in that shoe shop shows very effectively what the work- ers of Chicago think of the strike,” Meyer Perlstein said. “It is not the money but the sentiment involved that means something.” Cop Beats Girl. Gussie Kessel, a striker, was as- \saulted by police officer No. 2034 yes- terday afternoon on §. Market street near Van Buren street, A bunch of scabs were going from a shop and Miss Kessel and other strikers were standing nearby when someone shouted “‘scabe ” The cop- per grabbed Migs Kessel and twisted her arm behind her back and dragged her into a doorway, ‘ Even after the copper had Mis: Kessel safely in a doorway he con- tinued to twist her arm. Miss Kessel screamed from the pain and other strikers were attracted to the door- way where Miss Kessel was being held. _ Esther Lowell, a reporter for l|/the DAILY WOKKER, went into the doorway and demanded to know why iss Kessel was being arrested. She was shoved out of the doorway into the street with considerable violence and cursed at. The union will bring the assault on Miss Nessel to the attention of Mayor Dever thru the sub-committee of the Committee of 15 of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labor. The sub-committee Lieberman who was assault- ed last week by Frank Fuller, very muc! rprised to see ler take the witness stand against her. day in Judge ,ullivan’s court. leberm rant charging assault against him th day following Fuller's attack on her. She thought that he had been ar- rested. Arrest the rateencee. Yesterday Miss Lieberman went to the S. Clark St. police court to see happened to the warrant, She was told that the police had it. So St, police station aske @ warrant. she vim that the $500,000, for agricultural purposes. this stolen land, in two places, since the Millers got it: George L. Miller, his two brothers, an office man and a field operator were indicted for having caused Indians who was | t ad sworn out a war-| of Oil has been struck on easier, Altho tke persons arrested are not the persons who did the Daugherty killing or the boys who tried to kill Hirshie Miller or any well |known criminals still the state’s at- torney’s men have made a capture, Page Mr, Freud, Last week eight members of the International Ladies’ Garment. Work- ers Union were indicted for con- spiracy and malicious mischief. Ever since then the dicks have been look- ing for them. The eight men did i They went about their business as usual and the dicks looked for them. The dicks looked in vain, Maybe the dicks of the state’s attorney had developed a fatal- istic attitude and thought they could not find any one. So someone at the state’s attorney's | office got @ bright idea. Why not ask the lawyer for the union where these men were? So yesterday morning, some one from the state’s attorney’s office called R, J. Rickert, lawyer for the union and asked where they could find, Sam Ross, Adolph Rodinowitz, Hyman Goldman, Bruno Bontwisky, Joe Galler, Dan Glassman, Harry Martin and Charles Roof, the men wanted. Rickert after finding out what they were wanted for agreed to deliver them to the state’s attorney’s office within an hour. Rickert kept his promise and as soon as the men were taken to the Criminal Courts building had them bailed out, Men Appear Voluntarily. The men are all charged with en- tering the shop of Blum & Templer at 178 W. Adams St., on Feb. 27, and getting the workers there to go out on strike. Feb, 27, was the first day of the strike. It is understood that the indictment against the eight men was returned on Thursday, March 27, and that the police have been look- ing for them ever since, The seriousness with which the in- dicted men take the case against them can be gauged by the fact that they all agreed to go to answer the indict- ment when they were toll they were wanted. There is no indication when their case will be tried, Yesterday the picket line on S. Market St., was as well filled as dur- tigated the case, was let out. Spe- cial Assistant Attorney General Bell, who had studied the case, was dismissed, Peck was asked for his resignation. Sen. Harreld forced Daugherty to re-employ him as a special prosecutor when the case finally approached trial. On the criminal indictments the three chief crooks pleaded guilty when prom- ised that they would. merely be fined; the federal jidgc saying that civil suits would restore the land to the Indians. On that assumption he made the fines very light. Daugherty has never prosecuted the civil cases, The Millers still hold and enjoy the 10,000 acres and the oil wells, stolen from the In- dians in return for a few hundred dollars in store goods, trict Miss Lieberman went. There she was told that they had never been sent a warrant to serve on Fullen So back to the S. Slark St. court went Miss Lieberman. The old story, “Sorry, but we don’t know what hap- pened to that warrant. You'll have to ect another, it seem to be lost.” night Miss Lieberman_ said that she will go before Judge Trude and swear out a second warrant against Fuller and see that it is served. England Is Torn With Big Strikes In Main Industries (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, April 3.-—With one million and a quarter unemployed workers and strikes spreading like wildfire thruout the United King- dom, the MacDonald government ia facing the supreme test in its goal ests of capital and labor and abolish the class, struggle. All the main industries are fac- i upheavals. Jn fact, there are so many strikes on now that only the very important ones receive any attention, ; The government inaugurated a court of inquiry, but the workers were not satisfied with this flimsy errangement which” always favored the bosses. They prefer to rely on eir own power to force concessions thru the strike weapon. Work on the British Empire Ex- hibition was paralyzed thru a strike seven thousand employe A special police force was organized te protect scabs, The workers only demanded a mensly four cents an. hour increase but this the bosses would not gia aE RENe Roumania Stubborn Against Soviots VIENNA, April, 3,—Roumania has so far stubbornly refused to co- 0} ite with the Soviet delegates in|or Russo-Roumanian conference 8 gov ites insist cin Province. to harmonize the conflicting inter- fr count for each slate of dele ing the first week of the strike. Twelve pickets were arrested on at- tachments, charging contempt of court. They were all taken to Judge Sullivan’s court. The girls arrested did not get a preliminary hearing before lunch and were held till afternoon by the sheriff. Catherine Fisher Maltreated. Catherine Fisher a member of the National Women’s Party, who has been interested in the strike of the arment workers was on S. Market t., when some of the girls were ar- rested on attachments. After find- ing out where they were being taken she went to Judge Sullivan’s court and asked a bailiff for permission to talk to the girls. Permission was granted and Miss Fisher went into the jury room where the girls were. She had no sooner gone in than another bailiff told her to get out She was leaving when the bailiff grabbed her by the arm. The door to the court room was open and Miss Fisher cried out because of the pain. Sulli- van ordered her brought before him and gave her a lecture on manners in court and ordered her to leave the court room and not come back. Say Communist Plot To Oust Coolidge’s Cabinet Is Bared (Continued from page 1) He recited the number cf publica- tions, organizations, and the finan- cial resources with which the com- munists carry on their work. “There are 200 organizations carrying on Communist propaganda in the Unit- ed States,” he declared, Get Out Checkhooks, In a peroration which was de- signed to touch the check books ot his hearers he appealed to them to << to the Prcapseueiey ff Boehm lemocracy which was in ly il om the onslaughts of the Gen: munists “directed by a system of in- terlocking directorates, leading into the Kremlin, at the heed of which looms the sinister ro of Greg- ory Zinoviev, who the strings, that make his puppets in every sub- versive American organization from the underground Communist party to the Conference for Progressive Political Action, dance to his tune.” Marvin was almost out of breath ape he concluded but ne managed ing the importance of cash in ing the Communist peril, —— Wisconsin May Not Be Has No Stomach for MILWAUKEE, Wis., Ap?til Swator Robert M LaFollette today itq@eased his lead over President Goelidge in the Wisconsin primary rere than 80,000 in the returns from 1,192 of the 2,674 precincts. The tes H henge 150,109; Coolid, ee In the Democratic returns Govern- Al Smith had a lead of pod tely 13,000 over William Gibbs al Hl the ore pa from ahi, count: Smith, ; McAdoo, 24,932. it It enough wind for emphasiz- meet-_