The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 3

Saturday, April 5, 1924. BIG LEADERS IN BOTH PARTIES FEAR OIL QUIZ All Sprinkled With the Same Oil Brush By LAURENCE TODD ..(Staf® Correspondent of Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Apri 4,—Altho social and personal pressure of the most insidious kind is being ex- erted, especially from within the Democratic ranks in congress, to stop the investigation into the af- fairs of the department of justice, Chairman Brookhart and Senator Wheeler say they are going for- ward to its main object—the expos- ure of the throttling of the enforce- ment of federal law by Daugherty and his staff, For even with the dismissal of the attorney general, the department makes no change in its policy of indifference to the rights of ordin- ary people. If they are to escape the deepest suspicion of betrayal of the millions of voters who now applaud their courage, the members of this com- mittee must take up the non-prose- cution of the 50 federal trade com- mission complaints filed for prose- eution within the past three years. Kirby, Lumber Thief. There is, for instance, the great lumber selling pool case, in which the notorious J, H. Kirby of Texas, rabid wartime “patriot” and mil- lionaire profiteer, is the central fig- ure, Kirby has quit being a Burle- son Democrat, and is now a Cool- idge Republican. He recently is- sued a statement denouncing the muckraking in Washington. Daugh- erty has failed to prosecute Kirby and his associates, The name of Fred Upham, treas- urer of the Republican national) committee, is said to be involved in the stopping of prosecution of another of the big cases which the commission prepared for court ac- tion at Daugherty’s hands. In still another instance, no less than 40,000 letters, proving a nation- wide fraud, were turned over to the department of justice by the com- mission after many months of in- vestigation and study of evidence, yet here again there has been par- alysis in the law enforcing arm of the government, Palmer Messed Up. One of the underground argu- ments capitalized by the democrats —men who are backing Oscar Un- derwood or Ralston for the presi- dency—to, bring Ashurst and Wheel- er, the democratic senators on the committee, into line for a stoppage’ of the inquiry is the fact that for- mer Attorney General Palmer play- ed-much the same game. Palmer defied the laws not merely in arresting the supposed radicals . in the labor movement, and in se- curing lawless injunctions against strikers, and in instructing his spe- cial agents that they must ignore violations of the prohibition law, but in handling the alien property eustodian’s office, in delaying and compromising the {fight with the meat packers, and in handing over vast oil deposits to Standard Oil under pretense of compromise of suits by dummy claimants. Alien property scandals are like- ly to break forth in this hearing, anyhow. Miller of. Delaware, the alien property custodian at present, is a former secretary of the Repub- lican national congressional commit- tee, a member of the DuPont fam- ily combination which secured from Palmer’s man Garvin the chemical patents. Huge sums have been paid by him to republican politic- jans of various states, as “attorney fees”—for which the aliens must pav. Finally, and fundamentally, there is the strikebreaking record and policy of the department of justice to be investigated. Chairman Brookhart is wiling to go thoroly into this class prejudice attitude shown by Palmer and Daugherty and Burns, He ‘considers it the perfect fruit of the system of own- ership of the department by and for the big Rrpesies interests ‘cen- teréd in Wall Street, StatePublishers of Russia (Gosisdat) The Representative in the United States and Canada will fill orders FOR RUSSIAN BOOKS, MAGAZINES, ETC. 12,000 Titles to Select From. Regular discount to dealers and‘ organizations, Write for Catalogue. Subscription accepted for: Isvestia . Economic Pravda... GOSISDAT, 15 PARK ROW, New York City Telephone Brunswick 5991 DR. A. FABRICANT DENTIST 2088 W. DIVISION STREET Cor. Hoyne Ave. CHICAGO, ILL. INTERNATIONAL bi nb gga a Rican’ Blovenian and Hungarfan peoples. ‘ A. BIALKO . BLVD. 1020 80. ASHLAND ca CHICAGO . Trachtenberg Tour Saturday, April 5, 8 p. m., Pitteburgh, Pa., Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St. Sunday, April 6, 2 p. m., Pittsburgh, Pe., Moose Temple, Penn Ave. between 6th and 7th Bts. Monday, April 7, 7 p. m., Bentleyville, Pa., Union Hall, center of the village. Tuesday, April 8, 8 p. m., Canton, Ohio, Schlobach Hall, 421 Market Ave. N. Wednesday, April 9, Youngstown, Ohio, full — to appear later, ‘hursday, April 10, 8 p, m., Warren, Ohio, Hippodrome Hall, High St. 3rd floor. riday, April ‘11, p.m. Cl Ohio, Labor Temple, 2536 Euclid Ave. Sunday, April 13, 2:30 p, m., Cleveland, Royal Hall, 5217, Woodland. Monday, ‘April 14, 8 p. m. Toledo, Ohio, Labor Temple, Jefferson and Michigan. ‘Tuesday, Aprii 15, 8 p. m., Detroit, House of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot Ave, Wednesday, April 16, 8 p. m., D¥troit, House of the Ma: , 2101 Gratiot Ave. (Russian Trade Unions). Thursday, April 17, Grand Rapids, full de- tails to appear Inter. Friday, April 18, Chicago, full details to ar Ts *rBatu jay, April 19, Milwaukee, full details to appear later. Sunday, April 20, Gary, Ind., full details to appear later. JUDGE TRIED TO STEAL MARCH ON SACCO COUNSEL Did Not Notify Lawyers Of His Decision (By The Federated Press) DEDHAM, Mass., April 4.—If (Nicola Sacco, frame-up victim and labor prisoner, finally escapes the electric chair despite the big busi- ness. interests and legal powers which are determined to get him, he may have his bitter enemy, the capitalist press to thank. Had it not. not been for a stray item in the capitalist press aimed further to discredit the defense, Sacco’s ap- peal might have been lost by de. fault and he would now be prepar- ing to go to the electric chair for the pay roll murder he never com- maitted. Crude Attempt to Get Sacco. The latest developments in the case adds to the devious methods employed by the state’s attorneys and judge. Judge Webster Thayer, of the superior court here, gave a decision March 26 denying the ap- peal for.a new trial, finding that the barrels of the two pistols which h figured as evidence had heen infer- changed. For some mysterious rea- son Thayer failed to notify the defense of the decision. Under the state law notice of a bill of excep- tions against a decision must be given within three days after the decision is rendered, or the rignt of appeal is sacrificed. Thus the Sacco case would have been fost had not the defense attorney discovered the judge’s decision in a ‘newspaper. The discovery was made on ‘the last day of grace, just in time to permit giving notice of appeal. Thayer’s action is inexplicable especially as Defense Attorney Moore talked with him on the day ef the decision and the two days following, tho no mention was made by the judge of his decision. The decision refusing a new trial upholds the state’s contention that the origina] Sacco gun barrel was transferred to another exhibit. The defense holds that the original, which proves that Sacco could not have fired the shot which killed the South Braintree paymaster and as- sistant in 1920, has disappeared al- together. Thayer, whose decision excludes the defense contention, refused in the recent hearings to per- mit Sacco’s lawyers to submit evi- dence proving this point. On this basis the defense will file a bill of ex-| 2! ceptions and motion for a new trial. Prosecution Tampered Evidence. During the hearings tast autumn the disputed guns were examined in court by experts ‘for both sides, Albert H. Hamilton for the defense showed that the fatal bullet could not have been fired from Sacco's gun. Now when he attempts to check up on the exact opposite re- port of the state exverts, he finds not the original but another gun barrel. The new appeal will charge that the exhibits have been tamper- ed with, On ‘alleged framed-up testimony against him and Bartolomeo Van- zetti, Sacco was: convicted in July, 1921, of murder. The case has roused the workers in many coun- tries to protest. Last year Sacco, waiting appeal, was adjudged tem- porarily insane and committed to the Bridgewater Institution. | But last fall he was sent back to Ded- ham jail. Fichman’s Story of Cheap Living Sounds, Looks Rather Fishy NEW ORLEANS, April 4.—Brass check newspapers in this city are spreading a on their front pages for Dr. Fichman, in which the itleman says that a family of ave can live easy on $21 a week provided bad had no rent to, pay. Getting down to brass tacks, the learned Dr. says a single man can spend $2.50 a week for food, one dollar for clothing, 45 conts a week for fuel and lights, and one dollar for incidentals, such as car fare, to get to work and the like, or a total of $5.25 a week, sleep- of course, on the park benches in the summer and the police sta- tion in the winter time, presumably. This ht to be a signal for a luction of wages among patriotic employers of the south. How mi new readers have you secured for DAILY WORKER? Get another a THE DAILY WORKER BIG CONVENTION I$ ENDORSED BY DOWELL MINERS Say It Is Best Reply to Teapot Dome (Special to The Daily Worker) DOWELL, Ill, April 4—Declar- ing that the only fitting reply to the Teapot Dome scandal is the organi- zation of a powerful Farmer-Labor party to wrest governmental power from the capitalist crooks who now control it and battle for a workers’ and farmers’ governmert, Local Union No, 3708 of the United Mine Workers of America at Dowell, Illi- nois, passed a resolution endorsing the national Farmer-Labor conven- tion to be held in St. Paul on June 17, by the progressive forces in the farmers’ and trade union organiza- tions of the United States. The resolution is signed by Carl Diliberto, president, and Mike Ska- rupa, recording secretary, and reads as follows: “The senate investigation of the Teapot Dome oil leases shows that the government of the United States under both repubjican and democratic administrations serves the capitalists as an instrument for looting the nation. Senators, cabi- net officers, have been exposed as the paid men of big capitalist oil in- terests and even presidents are not immune from their influence, Fall, Denby, McAdoo, Daugherty, Lane, Roosevelt; these are the names which the workers and farmers of this country have been asked to honor but now they are all covered with, the slime of corruption and graft. “The Teapot Dome exposures only prove again on a larger scale what has been proven in this country hun- dreds of times; that the government of the United States serves the in- terests of a privileged class and is the enemy of the workers and farm- ers who produce the wealth of the country. It proves again that not one among the high and mighty of the old parties is immune from the cerruption, grafting and locting thru which the capitalists take for themselves the wealth of the nation. It proves again that the existing system of industry and government ad|is part of one system of special privileges and exploitation thru which the workers and farmers are robbed of what they produce. “There is only one answer to the Teapot Dome and whole system of Teapot Domes, which is capitalism, the organization of a Farmer-Labor Party and ‘the struggle for the workers’ and farmers’ government. Only a Workers’ and Farmers’ gov- ernment will end the looting of. the nation by the capitalists, A great mass Farmer-Labor Party must carry on the struggle to establish that workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment, ~ “Whereas, A convention has been called for June 17th, 1924, at St. Paul, by the Farmer-Labor Party ‘of Minnesota, the Federated Farmer- Labor Party, the TF'armer-Labor Party of Washington, Montana and South Dakota, and other organiza- tions for the nomination of a Farm- er-Labor candidate for president and the adoption of a national plat- form, and this convention gives the opportunity to create the mass Farmer-Labor Party which will carry on the fight for a Workers’ and Farmers’ government. “Therefore, be it resolved, That we, Local Union No. 3703, U. M. W. of A., Dowell, Illinois, endorse the June 17th, 1924, convention; nd “Be it further resolved: That a copy of this resolution be sent to the “Illinois Miner,” Federated Press and the DAILY WORKER.” Chinese in Second Big Demonstration To Honor N. Lenin (By Rosta News Agency.) CANTON, April In pursuance of age-long Chinese custom, Kuomingtang Party again paid honor to Lenin’s memory-—a month after his death, A huge popular meeting was held there in the town garden, making an indelible impres- sion by its dimensions and organi- zation, There were distributed thousands of specially written pam- phlets on Lenin asa friend of the oppressed nations in their struggle for their rights, his portraits with national and revolutionary inscrip- tions on them, and leaflets explain- ing Lenin’s importance as a leader of all oppressed and toilers, > Various Kuomingtang organiza- tions, trade unions, army units, and students—each and all pnssed before a platform, decorated with Lenin’s | portrait and placards bearing appro- | priate texts, bowing three times as ee passed ye . Sun Yat Gen, the Central Committee of the Kuoningtang and the high command of zhe various armies stationed at Canton took part in the meeting ani the official procession past the platform, The speeches that were made on the oc: casion were distinguished by the sincere, cordial and enthusiastic feelings . imbuing them—testifying to the great and deep influence of ee on the national movement of “hina, ‘ Catholic Paper Goes Open S! SEATTLE, Wash., April the Catholic Northwest” Progress, for- |. merly printed in a Seattle union shop, is now appearing from one of the most h anti-union shops in the city. No reason was given. for the change, Beer With Kick Is Favored by Gompers Say Brewery Workers CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 4.—The International Brewery Workers have declared for a modification of the Volstead Act, in a letter to all mem- bers of the Brewery unions, indorsed by Samuel Gompers, The letter ad- vises friends of organized labor to bring pressure to bear on the Sen- ators in their districts to vote for pasiiar of Senate Bill 1524, which as for its purpose changing the al- coholie content of beverages from the present less than one half of one per cent to 2.75 per cent, PORTO RICAN WORKERS HAVE NAUGHT TO SAY Secretary Weeks Fears Workers’ Rule (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, April 4.—Porto Rican self-government is henceforth to be conducted on a strictly class basis, the working class being ex- cluded from participation, according to men who have studied the mysteri- ous negotiations centering about Sec- retary of War Weeks and the Bureau of Insular Affairs since the hearings on the bill providing that the gov- ernor of the island shall be elected by the people. The workers, organ- ized in the trade union movement and the Socialist Party, are to be shut out by a coalition of the Unionist and Republican parties in the island. It appears that when Gov. Towner and the various party leaders con- cluded their testimony before House and Senate Committees here last month, the hearings: were re-openad for the purpose of writing into the bill the definite guaranty that Ameri- can sovereignty in the island should not be questioned. This was due to the fact that the Unionist party, which represents the ruling reaction- ary element, had favored the idea of independence at one time. Sen. Bar- cello, its leader, had been suspected of wanting to make himself dictator of an independent Porto Rico. Barcelo is reported to have agreed to the American sovereignty pledge, if Weeks and the administration here would give guarantees against radical control later on. Governor Towner suggested an amendment to the bill, providing that an elected governor should be removable at will by the president. This was rejected by the Senate committee, whereupon Weeks and Towner arranged with Sen. Tous Soto, Republican leader, that Barcelo and Tous Soto should get together on a plan for requiring property qual- ifications for voting on the governor- ship. As the question of property quali- fications was the fundamental issue upon which the long struggle for Porto Rican territorial self-govern- ment was won, under the Wilson ad- ministration—the qualifications being rejected and the working class of the island retaining the ballot—this auda- cious move by the propertied interests had to be planned carefully and ap- proached only after considerable de- lay. ‘The delegation went home, and it is reported that the two leaders now contemplate a special session of the legislature in order to modify the} governorship bill to the extent sug- gested by Weeks and his advisers. Assurances were likewise given the sugar, tobacco and other American exploiting companies in the island, that the coalition of the Unionist and Republican fozces would safeguard Porto Rican holdings of thes: com- panies for a long time to come; the Socialist party would he excluded from any chance of power. Finally, Weeks told the newspapers that he opposed the grant of an elec- tive governor to Porto Rico because of the danger that a Socialist to that post, since the Socialist strength is steadily increasing. This statement is being used in the island to spur the logislature to appeal to Congress to require special qualifications for voj- ers on the governorship. Local Farmer-Labor Exchange Marketing Honey and Prunes The Farmer-Labor Exchange has been successful in marketing to the labor union consumer, farm products from many sections of the country, the DAILY WORKE: is informed by C. F. Lowrie, secretary of the organization, which has offices at 166 W. Washington street. “We have marketed over 12,000 pails of Idaho’s honey directly to the Chicago trade unions,” Mr, Lowrie said. “We are now marketing Big Idaho prunes at $4.50 for a 26- pound Bice delivered anywhere inthe city. We are also delivering fresh eggs from the organized farmers of Iowa, which we detiver in case lots of 80 dozen each at market prices. We are also selling union label goods to both farmers and organiz- ed labor, oy ee coffee, ‘the only union labed coffee on the market. “Fevery local is asked to select a cooperative committee to extend this work. We are proving that or- ganized labor and organized farmers can co-operate, in spite of the pre- diction of their common enemy that they could not.” M JEWISH TENANTS THREATEN WAR ON LANDLORDS Organize ‘to F ight the Greedy Rent Hogs The Jewish tenants, whe have been hard hit by the general increase in rents this spring, organized in pre- paration for an extensive rent strike, at a well attended mass meeting in Division Hall, 2448 Division Street. The Jewish Mother’s League, which has been in existence seven years, is leading the movement of the Jewish tenants, who especially on the North- west Side, are faced with rent in- creases ranging as high and higher than $85 per month. Mrs. Blumin, of the League expressed interest in the Negro Tenants League, and told the DAILY WORKER that at the next executive meeting of the Mother’s League, steps would be taken to unite all the organizations into one militant body to fight the rent hogs this spring. Jewish families have had. their rents increased outrageously this year, it was stated at the Jewish Charities, 1800 Seldon Street, No one has had their rent reduced, and almost every flat has been increased, generally without apparent cause, it was seid. There was some sentiment ex- pressed at the mass meeting for the building of co-operative apartments, but the majority of speakers con- tended that immediate relief is“need- ed, and building additional houses would not help matters now. It was stated by Mrs. Blumin that the most effective method of reducing rents, and of preventing an unwarranted raise, is a rent strike such as was successfully carried on in Browns- ville district, New York last year. Mrs. Blumin advised the tenants to refuse to move and to refuse to pay an advance of rent. If the Jewish tenants take concerted action, she said, the landlords will not dare to evict them. Unions To Own Bakery. SYDNEY, N. 8S. W., . Bakery workers in New South Wales who have been on strike as a_ protest against the attempt by the employ- ers to reintroduce night baking have practically won the strike. Three or four baking establishments are still on night work, and the unionists are now directing the fight against these. 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