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THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT \ VOL. Il. No. 17, PAR BANK ROLLS OF GARMENT BOSSES SLIM Pay $50,000 For 5-Weoks’ Use of Gunmen, Thugs Weak-kneed banking ac- counts are forcing the struck garment bosses to cut down on their armies of sluggers and gunmen. This information has come to the DAILY WORKER, carry- ing out the prediction already made in the alleged shooting at the home of the garment boss, | Nicholas Kovler. Cause of Kovler Shooting. | The DAILY WORKER charged | the shooting was the work of pri- | wate detective agencies that were having their men laid off by struck garment bosses who are going | “broke.” | The DAILY WORKER has infor- mation, for instance, that Arthur Weiss & Co., 176 W. Adams street, has laid. off -several . sluggers, the excuse being that they were “lounging about upstairs getting drunk.” It is stated that Weiss and Co, pays its sluggers as high as $7 and $8 per day. Weiss Regular Strike Breaker. Weiss and Co. has been one of the most active bosses in fighting the strikers. Arthur Weiss, him- self, has been in personal charge of the thugs around his plant. He has even taken a hand in superin- tending. the anti-strike activities of State’s Attorney. Crowe’s men alfig So, Market street, a Weiss has also been very offi- cious in directing the four Crowe's men in front of his swn plant. He has also been active in ordering the police to make arrests of pickets, The fact that Weiss is able to build a personal army among the city police and the dicks from the state’s attorney’s office, will no doubt help him cut down his ex- penses, so far as private gunmen and sluggers is concerned, But other bosses, who see the balance in their bank books dropping and dropping, are not in so fortunate a position, This raises the question of just how much the strike is costing the garment bosses, in the hiring of gunmen alone. The DAILY WORK- ER estimates that the cost has al- ready passed $50,000, or about $10,000 for every week of the strug- gle so far. Cost of Strikebreaking Comes High. Have a look at the figures for service offered by the Edward J. Hargrave Secret Service, which has admitted supplying garment bosses with guards and operators, Guards alone come at $7 per man per day, if there are over five guards used; or at $8 per man per (Continued on page 2) =e Relief Administration. eg of the other.. It says that Hughes has not been able to | prove his allegations against Zinoviev, head of the Com- munist International. The paper goes on to say that forget the part played by America paving the administration of the ' mountebank Wilson, in making war lutionary bandits who were to overthrow , their government, ey were still grateful for the te ie ceived during the famine, ey Subscription Rates's, tere anaeentesesineatesressstssinoceinesenennst N SOLD FOR $50,000 THEY CALL IT “EDUCATION’ "IDAUGHERTY’S “on them and aiding the counter-revo-| that it is quite THE DAILY WORKER. leago, by cS by mail, $8.00 per year, mail, $6.00 per year SUNDAY SCHOOL. TINE OF TAE WORLD, Doping the “Potential” President PROSPECT OF AN EARLY STRIKE AGREEMENT SLIM Joint Committee Trying To Make Peace KANSAS CITY, Mo., Conferences attempting to obtain a settlement of the strike of 35,000 coal miners in the southwest in pro- gress here were still deadlocked to- day. Little prospect of an immediate settlement was in sight, according to members of the sub-committee of the joint conference of miners and oper- ators, which is attempting to work out an agreement, Plundered Bankers Form Queue in Court To Squeal on McCray INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 4.— Governor Warren T. McCray had banking indebtedness of a million and a quarter of dollars on March 1, 1923, according to the testimony of seventy Indiana bankers who had testified up to noon today in the tfial of McCray on larceny and embezzle- ment charges, Thruout the morning the procession of bankers continued in the criminal court, each banker telling how much the Governor owed his bank on March 1, 1923, Every new DAILY WORKER reader means a new recruit in the ranks of militant labor. Moscow Paper Says Spies Were - Paid For Work Against Soviets From Hoover’s Relief Millions (Special to ‘The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, April 4.—“Evening Moscow,” the official ongan of the Moscow Soviet, today announced that evidence was brought forth at the trial of the counter-revolutionaries in Kiev which proves that members of their organization were paid for their espionage services with the funds of the American This tallies with the testimony of Captain H. Scaife, former government agent, given before the Daugherty probe committee in Washington. | “Laboring Moscow,” another paper, challenges Secretary | Hughes to state now, in view of these exposures, which ¢0' try, Russia or the United States, had interfered in the could not forget, however, same relief administration pldyed a oereige part in overthrowing i t government of Hungary. Haskell Admits Probable Guilt. NEW YORK, A 4.—Comment- tho the Russian workers could not|ing on the revelations made in the Moscow paper, Col. William N, Has- kell, former director of the American Relief administration, declared today ible a few of those employed by the A. R. A. in Russia were spies and provocateurs, “It ap- it the prosecution has shown Way had such connections”, he said. Aprit 41 BRITISH I, L. P, TO DISCUSS ABOLITION OF PARLIAMENT (By The Federated Press) LONDON, April 4.—Abolition of the British parliament will be de- od by the Independent Labor arty annual conference at York April 20 on the motion of the Lon- don central branch. The proposal is to substitute for the ae houses .of lords and commons four- separate chambers, One would be elected to deal with criminal law, civil contract, and the like. An- other would consist of representa- tives of vocational interests along lines of the present trade union congress, and would deal with all industrial matters. A third body would consist of representatives of consumers, and the fourth would be a cultural chamber. A supreme council would coordinate the four and conduct foreign affairs. Premier Ramsay MacDonald and other leading cabinet officials are members of the Independent Labor Party. GERMAN MONEY KINGS REVEL IN RIOTOUS LUXURY Millions. of Workers Are Starving BERLIN, April oabstgrlaeag taken drastic measures to curb lavish expenditure by her © millionaires abroad. Hereafter passports and ex- tensions of the same will cost $125 and other difficulties will be thrown in the way of German “nouveau riche” who want to go to French and Lo Italian resorts to spend their money.’ Inland hotels and resorts are glee- ful, believing the new regulations will turn a flood of profiteers and “schiebers” who itherto have tet on the French and Italian rivieras to home resorts. German resort prices are now above those elsewhere, while in Berlin they are asking from $6 to $9 for seats at a show in which Fritzi Wassary, Vi ese star, is playing. Paytriotic Dentists Fill Soldiers’ Traps With Junk: Not Gold (By The Federated Pres) NEW: YORK, April 4—Seven e gra jury here in connection with the probe of U. S Veterans’ bureau corrup- tion, They are charged with col- lecting money from for work the: did. not perform. Twenty-eight dentists were inves- tigated. Six hundred ex-soldiers opened their mouths while the ex- perts determined the worth of sun- dry crowns and bridges. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! } ah e rovernment | hee SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924 WALSH PROBE IN PROMISE TO GET BUSY NEXT WEEK Subpoenas Are Issued For More Witnesses WASHINGTON, April 4—A halt dozen new withesses dug up by the new national investigating agency of Senator Thomas J. Walsh will be brought before the Teapot Dome committee next week. Walsh expects them to give tes- timony concerning a reported deal of oil men to select 2 “complacent” secretary of the interior, who would lease the government naval oil lands. Three subpoenas were issued to- day for: Call Hamon’s Friend. H. W. Ballard, Los Angeles, Calif, said ‘to be a former friend of the late Jake Flamon. Jack Smith, Paris, Texas, who is said to have had a conversation with Hamon after the last republican election. J. F, Baughan, Harlingen, Texas, said to have been a friend of Ha- mon, These three witnesses were sub- poenaed by Walsh in connection with his! announced intention of proving that there was “a conspir- acy before the election” to lease the naval reserves, fs © 6 Democrats Blame Republicans, WASHINGTON, April 4,—-Ke- publicans are conducting an unethi- cal political campaign of misrepre- sentation to “cover up” their own deficiencies, Senator Robinson, dem- ocratic leader, charged in the senate lay. Robinson spoke in answer to Sen- ator Pepper, Pennsylvenia, and Rep- resentative Longworth, Ohio, who charged that the democrats were delaying legislation for the purpose of making “scandal investigations.” | “Republicans are merely attempt- ing to discredit the work the inves- tigating committees are doing,” Robinson |said, Naval Bookkeeper Who Swiped Boodle May Be Suicide LOS ANGELES, Calif. April 4. —Officers rus! to Venice, Calif, today seeking to identify the body of a suicide found there as Lieut. Ervine R. Brown, naval officer who disappeared while $120,000 short in his accounts, “Ervine is | no criminal,” Mrs. Brown said today, “He always has mn the finest hushund in the world to me all these five years since we first met and were mar- ried in England, “But since the Point Honda dis- aster when his ship, the destroyer Somers, hit the rocks along with all the other destroyers, he has not been the same.” BO ves PROBES BARE GRAFT TRAIL Showing Connection With The Department of Justice (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 4.— A photostatic copy of a letter purporting to be from Charles Vincenti, of Baltimore, to Elias H. Mortimer setting forth an agreement whereby Mortimer was to get Vincenti’s 18 month sentence in a federal prison commuted for $50,000, was in- troduced in the record of the Senate Daugherty investigating committee today. Senator Wheeler said he would show later that the matter “was connected with the Department of Justice.” * Mortimer was chief government witness before the grand jury that indicted Charles R. Forbes, former director of the veterans’ bureau and Representative Langley of Ken- tucky. Introduction of the letter came during testimony of J. S. Dyche, of Oklahoma, former wardcn of At- lanta penitentiary, concerning al- leged dope traffic at the prison and the method of. pardoning federal prisoners. Wecks Disgorges Letters, When the committee convened in offen session, ‘Chairman Brookhart announced that. Weeks had-sent all the records desired by the commit- tee at this time and that Captain Volandt would be examined in ex- ecutive session later today, Brookhart also announced that the committee had decided to hold hear- ings in the near future at Washing- ton Court House, Ohio. to examine the records of the Midland National Bank of which M. 8. Daugherty, brother of the former aftorney gen- eral. is president. The decision to go to Ohio to investigate the estate of the late Jess Smith was made to relieve the bank of the embarrassment of de- ing deprived of its records for any great length of time, Brookhart said. Mal Daugherty refused to bring them to Washington or per- mit the committee’s examiners to inspect them. Volandt Guards Testimony. Secretary of War Weeks today transmitted to thé senate Daugh- erty investigating committee al! war department records in aircraft cases which the committee demand- ed_ yesterday, Weeks sent them to the commit- tee by Capt. W. F. Volandt, assist- ant chief of the finance section of the air service and requested that all but one of them be considered by the committee in secrecy, Want Documents Kept Secret. Weeks said the. records were of great imptortance to litigation al- ready in the courts or about to be taken to them, that the sum of $42,000,000 was involved and that if (Continued on page 2) PEP IN DAUGHERTY'S REPLY TO PEPPER MAY START FIRE LATER (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 4.—For- mer Attorney General Daugherty will refuse to be “made a goat,” he and his friends said emphatical- ly today as Daugherty prepared to issue a statement in reply to Sen- ator George Wharton Pepper's re- ference to Daugherty in his Port- land, Maine, “keynote” speech. Pepper said appointment of Daugherty was a grave error in judgment. Instantly Daugherty shot out a statement in which he said: “I do not propose to be made an issue in the eat campaign ex- cept for the benefit of the repub- lican party as a beneficiary of my administration of the public busi- ness in the Department of Justice,” ‘This brief retort to Pepper is but an indication of the tenor of a carefully prepared statement which Daugherty intends giving out later, perhaps. today, his friends said, Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1928, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Minois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, —_——— Cents Including Saturday Magazine Section. On all other days Three Cents per Copy. Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N.. Halsted St., Chicago, Dltnots, Facts Blast Hoover Denial of Aiding Anti-Soviet War; Show He Aided Yudenitch By LAURENCE TODD (Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) ‘WASHINGTON, April 4.—In answer to Secretary of Com- merce Hoover’s denials that the American Relief Administra- tion gave aid to Yudenitch in h is attempt to capture Petrograd from the Soviet Republic in 1919, Captain James V. Martin of the-Shipping Board vessel Lake Fray has shown to The Fed- erated Press four documents that are likely to force Hoover to do a great deal of retracting or high grade explaining. They seem to prove conclusively that Hoover was behind Yudenitch—that the American government made war on Russia thru the $100,000,000 relief fund, voted just’ after the armistice, to save the lives of starving women and children in central Europe. Photostatic copies of these documents are in the possession of The Fed- erated Press. Here Are the Facts, First there is a bill of lading, dated at Bassens (near Bordeaux), France, Aug. 6, 1919, reciting that the master signing below, Jas, W. Martin, has “received in apparent good order and condition, from American Relief Administration,” for shipment on the Lake Fray and bound for Reval, yoods or property as described below, to be delivered in like apparent good order and condition at the port of Reval to “Representative Central Supply Committee of the Russian Armies. These were the counter-revolution- ary forces, The list of goods M. C. Class Is: “Sixty Q. B (Liberty) trucks, 3- ton cargo; gross pounds 810,000, gross © metric tons. 867.413. One hundred fifty drums lubricating oil; gallons 7500, Three barrels grease, gallons 150. Orie thousand drums gasoline; gallons 50,000. Spare parts for Q. M. ©. Class B trucks (Liberty).” Carriés Revolutionary General, Next is a letter on the stationery of the division of operations, U. S. shipping board, emergency fleet cor- poration, dated “U. S. S. Lake Fray, Saint Nazaire, France, Aug. 15, 1919” which reads: “We, the undersigned, hereby ac- knowledge that Caf James V. Martin of the Lake Wray has fully explained the conditions of our resi- dence aboard ship while en route to Russia. We understand that the Lake Fray has ro pessenger ac- commodations and we agree to make the best of conditions aboard ship without complaint, “(Signed) Gen. Ernest N. Wahl.” Martin testifies that Wahl was the former imperial military gov- ernor of Petrograd, who was sent on his shop to join Yudenitch at the request of Hoover. Third in the series is a certificate dated “Reval, Sept. 4, 1919,” and having attached to it a medal of gilt, with four silt imperial eagles between the red-enameled arms of a Greek cross. The certificate is signed and reads: “Sir—I have the honor of deco- rating you herewith by the Ensigns of the Order of St, Stanislaus, 3d Class, as a sign of Cees. apprecia- tion of the work you have rendered to the Russian North-Western Army. (seal) N. YUDENITCH, “General and Commander in Chief of the Russian Forces of the North-Western Front. “Captain Martin, U. S. A. “Capt. Jas. V Martin.” This date, Sept. 4, 1919, follows the delivery of the cargo to the Russian Whites at Reval. Cleared of Hoover Charges. Fourth comes the Ictter of April 26, 1920, on the stationery of the division of operations, U.S. ship- ping board emeryency fleet corpora- tion, at Washington, exonerating Martin of false charges by the Hoo- ver organization: “Dear Sir: Confirming verbal con- versation with you recently relative to charges against you while in command of the S. S. Lake Fray, you are hereby advised that all agents of the United States ship- ping board and sea service bureau ave been informed under date of April 21 that these charges are un- founded*and you are now subject to re-employment as master of United States shipping board ves- sels, effective April 21, Yours very truly. “GEORGE EGGERS, “Asst. Director, Operating Dept., by Lloyd F, Gaines, Chief Clerk.” Hoover says that Martin’s ship 'D. carried “food and medicines” “civilians” at Reval. to J. T. Murphy’s Articles on “What’s Doing in England” Start in the DAILY WORKER Monday BROADCAST CALL FOR THE JUNE 17 FL, CONVENTION Meeting at Auditorium in St. Paul, Minn. (Special to The Daily Worker) ST. PAUL, Minn., April 4.—The National Arrangements Committee charged with the work of organizing the National Farmer-Labor Progres- sive Convention, June 17th, has be- jgun the work of sending out the fifty jthousand invitations to trade unions, co-operatives, farmers’ organizations jand labor and farmer political groups, Accompanying the call for the con- |vention, which is printed in pamphlet tform is the following letter from the National Arrangements Committee: To All Progressive Organizations, GREETINGS: Enclosed you will find the officiak call for a great Farmer-Labor Progressive Convene tion, which is to be held in St, Paul, Minnesota, beginning June 17, 1924, The purpose of this convention is to accept a platform and nominate can- didates for president and vice-presi- dent. The farmers and workers of Min- |nesota, and of the other Northwest states, who issue this call, have al- ready united into powerful Farmer- Labor parties. They realize, however, that exploitation by the financial in- terests can only be stopped when na- tional unity of these groups is at- tained. The success of the farmers and workers in the northwest states is a guarantee that the June 17th Convention will be the largest gather- ing of workers and-farmers ever held in America. We invite all progressive groups te elect delegates, We want real national political unity. We will leave the door open to the Conference for Progressive Political Action and all other groups who wish to break away from the two old parties. If they do not see fit to come to our convention, but express a desire to nominate in- dependent candidates, we will ¢o-op- erate with them. The workers and farmers want action now and the only way to assure that action is by sending delegates to the June 17th convention which is definitely com- mitted to the formation of a new na- tional independent political move- ment, Do not hurriedly pass over this communication. Take your share in building this movement. Elect your delegate at once and then lay plans to finance his trip. Do more than that, carry on an agitation among the other organizations in your locality to popularize this great gathering of producers. We have sent out fifty thousand copies of this call. The ex- pense of this undertaking has been a burden on our movement. Much more money must be spent before June 17th. We would therefore urge that your organization contribute what it can afford and send Ht in at once. Above all get your delegate to the convention. Fraternally yours, NATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE, (Signed) William Mahoney, Chairman, C. A. Hathaway, Secretary. The following compose the commit- tee in charge of the arrangements for June 17: William Mahoney, chair- man, 158 East Third Street, Saint Paul,. Minn.; Wm. A. Schaper, vice- chairman, Minneapolis, Minn.; Tom Ayers, Mitchell, S. D.; R. H. Walker, Yueea, N. D.; C. A. Hathaway, sec- retary-treasurer, Labor Temple, Saint Paul, Minn.; John A. H. Hopkins, New York City; H. G. Teigan, Washington, . ©.3; BR. D, Cramer, Minneapolis, Joseph Manley, Chicago, IL; W. H. Green, Omaha, Neb.. \ —-