The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 7, 1924, Page 1

fA A HARDING KIN DOPE TRAFFI THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. II. No. 18. Sub THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the PostOffice at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879, scription Rate; CAN'T BREAK STRIKE WITH INJUNCTIONS Ghicago Labor Delegates Told It Won't Be Allowed i “The injunction against picketing cannot under any circumstances be permitted to destroy the garment workers’ strike, and it will be carried thru to a finish in the face of continued police brutality,” Meyer Perlstein, vice - presi- dent of the International La- dies’ Garment Workers’ Union, told the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday. Who's the Goat? A Mayor William E. Dever has informed the ‘Committee of Fifteen” that if they can pro- duce eye witnesses to the police brutality he will have any offi- cer thus ‘exposed dismissed from the force, but meanwhile the injunction is costing the unions thousands of dollars} and the “Committee of Fifteen” reports it does not know what further action it will take. “We will show Dudley Taylor and Judge “Dennie” Sullivan that the garment strike cannot be broken by injunctions,” said Perlstein. “In all my long strike experience I never saw such police brutality in any city as T have in Chicago in this strike. This is not an ordinary strike; it is a very bitter struggle—a war.” ~. Fight Thru Season. Before the week is out over $100,- 000 will have been put up on appeal cases alone, according to Perlstein. “The season ends in a few weeks and a slack period of six weeks begins,” he said, “but we have decided to carry the strike thru the slack season if we have to. We cannot permit, un- der any circumstances, the injunction to destroy the strike.” The mayor has been presented with many instances of specific police brutality, the “Committee of 15” re- ports. He has been confronted with the names of strikers badly beaten up, the names of the offending offi- cers, the location and time of the manhandling, and the committee has | Workers! Farmers! Boycott the Primary Election of the Capitalist “Parties AGE earners and farmers of the state of Illinois should re- fuse to yarticipate in the selection of candidates for thé capitalist tick- ets at the primary elections, Tues- day, April & men, are nothing but the servile tools of the bosses. They are mem- bers of the gang which looted the resources of the nation, exposed thru the Yeapot Dome oil scandal, the aircraft scandal and the veter- ans’ bureaw graft scanda!. They are the upholders of the present corrupt system of government, run- ning on a program to maintain that system, ‘They have no program for the industrial workers cnd mort- gaged farmers, Workers and farmers of Illinois, these candidates are the chosen rep- resentatives of your enemy class, whether they be under the special protection of the Chicago Tribune or the Hearst papers. To pledge your support to any of those is to help maintain reaction, to help maintain the vicious system of anti-labor in- junctions und to drive the farmers from the land, Inconsistency of Labor Fakers. The inconsistency of some of the labor leaders who ‘today support Small for governor defies descrip- tion. Four years ago when he was elected governor he was on the -un- fair list by action of tho Central Labor Council of his owt home town. Kankakee. John H. Walker, president of the Illinois State Fed- eration of Labor, at the time stumped the state-in am effort to show that Len. Small was an anti- labor. e, That he used all the tricks knewn to him to loot tf state treasury, is a well known fact —-here we orly need to mention that but 2 per cont of the allotted 10 per cent of the pocking house bonds went into’ the state treasury. The difference between Len Small and those exposed thru the Teapot Dome oil scandal is only a ditference of degree. Certainly the Illinois work- ers and farmers can have no nrefer- ence for this candidate as to any other capitalist candidate: The treacherous labor leaders may “have their own yersonal interests | at stake, Nothing can be gained by, the workers and farmers of the stete of many eye-witnesses to these inhuman. |Jllinois in tomorrow's capitalist pri- In Chicago, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6,00 per year a These candidates, be | they so-called “good” men or “bad” ; MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1924 cao ‘Homestead, Pa., Steal Mill Worker, Wages Too Small, Forced to Give His Three Children Away (Special to The Daily Worker) HOMESTEAD, Pa., April 6—Andrew Kartez offered to give his three small children away because his meager part time wage as a laborer in a mill ig not enough to keep them in comfort, é Kartez attempted to place an advertisement in a paper here reading: | “Three fine children to be had for the asking by any person who will promise to provide for them.” ; 0 | Since the death of Kartez’s wife, the father has been caring for Jennie, !11, Andrew, 7, and Mary, 4. Wheeler, Weeks, Ryan and Standard Oil By WILLIAM F. DUNNE | 1 maries. They shculd stay away from the polls and as a next step unite their forces for political action in- dependent cf the old bosses’ parties. The existing 'armer-Laber Parties should be compelled to unite with the other forces of labor to put up a united Iubor ticket for the stato elections Nov., 1924, and for the es- tablishment of a real class farmer- Laber Party which will unite with scenes. But the mayor, according to the report, submitted to the Chicago Federation of Labor by Chairman An- ton Johannsen, of the “Committee of | 15,” has asked that these eye-wit-/| nesses be produced and then he will | dismiss the officers involved. Cut Out the Sabotage! It is not known what or who is back of the fact that these eye witnesses, who are very willing to testify to po- lice eruelty, have not been produced. The fact remains that the names of the eye-witnesses demanded by the mayor are in the hands of the “Com- mittee of 15,” by their own admis- sion. It is also a known fact that the police are daily breaking the law at the instance of the garment bosses. “We told the mayor that we had the eye-witnesses,” Johannsen re- ported for the “Committee of 15,” “when the proper time comes that that kind of witnesses are wanted we can produce them. I don’t know what ection will be taken.” Mayor Dever admitted to the “Committee of 15” that he had very little control over his force, and it seems that the demand for the pro- duction of eye-witnesses to police brutality is just an excuse by the mayor to stall the strikers off until the strike is over. It seems that the “Committee of 15” has fallen, will- ingly or unwillingly, into the trap. “You know it is not easy to en- force police discipline,” Mayor Dever is reported by Johannsen to have said, “The average cop has a peculiar idea that my administration or any other administration is sympathetic to the employers.” “And you can appreciate if you have ever been thru a strike,” Jo- hannsen added to the mayor’s admis- sion, “where the mayor this idea of partiality to the employers.” >» Plenty of Evidence, “Go down on Market street,” Jo- hannsen said, “if you want to see the police breaking the law. They do it every day about 4:30, when the pickets ave herded into a waiting pa- trol wagon so that the scabs can come Continued on page 3) Ou the forces of workers and faxfhers meeting in a national convention in St. Paul, Minn., June 17th. Labor Must Rule. Labor must thru its own instru- ment place its own representatives in power and control the actions of such -representative, _ Labor must stop eurrying favors from capitalist politicians—their common enemies. The Workers Party of America is firmly commitied to such program of unity of action and wil! work ceaselessly for its realizaté@oni Stay away from tomorrow's capi- talist. primaries! Help unite the forces of indus. trial workers and farmers thru a representative class Farmer-Labo? Party, This is the only consistent and effective protest to the present gov- ernmental corruption, to the injunc- tion laws and to, thé P pean “Cos- sack” State Poljee—District Execu- tive Committed, District No. 8, Workers Party of America, Arne Swabeck, District er, Daugher (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 6.—Dan- er of real split in the party faced aschibce leaders today as a re- sult of the increasingly bitter cai between former Attorney Daugherty and Senator Pp of Pennsylvania. laugherty has issued a state- ment lashing Pi in vigorous, fighting words for his Maine IT was involved when he was discov- ered attempting to conceal docu- ments representing five years of investigation and containing demn- ing evidence of theft running into hundreds of millions of dollars if the aircraft department, is the most dangerous exposure for the Ameri- can plunderbund of those made to date. John D, Ryan, conda Mining Company, of the- board of directors Montana Power Company, director of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company—all subsi- diaries of the Stardard Oil Com- pany—was head of the Aircraft Corporation during the war. A billion dollars was spent and of the 247 airplanes built and sent to the western front nct one was serviceable, Edward Rickenbacker, well-known American aviator, now head of the Rickenbacker “Motor Company in a series of syndicated articles written shortly after the armistice, characterized these air- planes as “flaming coffins.” in which Secretary of War Weeks HE army aircraft scandal head of the Ana- chairmar of the But—the Chicago, Milwaukee and | fr St, Paul Railway Company, got for a song $8-miles. of standard road- bed, built with government mon:2y, by the labor of army engineers, offi- cers and enlisted men, running thru the heart of the richest belt of spruce timber in the srate of Wash- ington. The road was built osten- sibly as an emergency outlet for sprice timber but not a foot of timber was hauled over it during the war. Ryan’s Mussolini. John D. Ryan. appointed Colonel Disque, a former warden of a Michi- gan penitentiary, as labor director --a miniature Mussolini, By his orders war was waged on labor uniorf§ in the limber indus- try and it was under his direction that the timber-baron owned Loyal Legion of Loggers was organized. Colonel Disque played no favorites. He fought the remnants of the Tim- berworkers Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and the Industrial Workers of the World impartially but as. the latter organization was by far the strong- est and most militant their member- ship suffered the most, A reign of terror, organized with the military forces as a basis, was instituted. The military, directed by Disque, cooperated with the gun- men of the timber-barons and more than one organizer of the Indus- trial Workers of the World disap- peared mysteriously in the wilder- ness of the Pacific Northwest, to! say nothing of the dozens that were; beaten and. jailed. The timber-barons were jubilant. Ryan and Disque warred on wages but not on profits. Spruce timber that was being laid) down in San Francisco for $14 per thousand be- fore the aircraft corporation was formed, jumped to $114 per thou- sand and kept going up. The wild- est orgy of profit-maxing that the Pacific Coast had ever seen—not even barring the period of the Klon- dike rush—was the result. Paying His Tools, The looting was openly conducted and a matter of public knowledge, John D. Ryan was the target of the criticism from a dozen sources speech and warning G. O, P. lead. ers that he does not intend to be the butt of criticism’ for Republi- cans or Democrats, . | Hears more speeches like Pep- per’s would “sound the death knell of Republican success in the com- ing elections.” traced P. Py omnia rly «apple is refusal despite the censorship and President Wilson was forced to write a letter commending him to quell the storm. Richard Kilroy, now editor of the Anaconda Standard—a__ peculiarly appropriate name for a copper-trust oil-trust sheet—was the publicity man for yan during the spruce orgy.. To keep his mouth shut he was then given his present position at a Salary of $1,200 per month with a five: year contract. A short time ago he was iired by some minor offi- cials of the Anaconda Mining Com- pany. He got Ryan in New York by long distance telegrapn and in ie minutes was back on the job. It now) develops before the com- mittee of which Senutor Wheeler of Montana is chairman that Sec- retary of War Weeks was a mem- ber of the law firm of Hornblower and Weeks that sold $2,000,000 worth of government securities for the Bosch Magneto Company. Most of the documents that Secretary Weeks had purloined by an army officer re- lated to frauds in the production of aircraft, The value of the loot is estimated by Lane, the investigator ‘om wi the records were stolen, at $206 a eee jard Oil Lackey. John DD, Ryan was in complete | charge of aircraft production during the war and it is logical to suppose that the ‘trail of corruption leads straight to the head office of the) Anaconda Mining Company, Chicago, “Mitwaukee and St. the Paul Railway Company and the parent! company, Standard Oil. It was the Anaconda Mining Company that was the head and forefront of the persecution of labor and radical organizations in the Rocky Mountain states during the war; that hounded Wheeler himself and tried to kill him politically and physically. Wheeler knows that Standard Oil owns the copper, coal, oil and timber of Montana. It was John D. Ryan and his! chief gunman, Colonel Disque, act- | ing for the lumber barons, who led | the war on Jabor in the Pacifio| Northwest und who sent to prison: from Oregon,’ Washington, Idaho and Montana members of the I. W. W. for bringing, thru organization, | mighty improvements in the inhu-! man conditions under which the tim- ber barons had forced the lumber- jacks to lsbor. The Centralia raid, the torture and murder of Wesley Everest, the railroading of seven lumber workers to a living death in Walla Walla penitentiary, the smo- thering to death of 164 miners in the Speculator mine, the hanging of Frank Little in Butte, the deporta- j tion of 1,400 metal miners from (Continued on page 2) RESUME STRIKE CONFERENCE IN KANSAS TODAY No Agreement in Sight Over the Week End (Special to The Daily Worker) KANSAS. CITY, Mo., April 6— Conferences attempting settlement of the strike of 35,000 coal miners in the southwest will be resumed Mon- day. No agreement was in sight when representatives of the union miners and employers recessed for the week end. Liquidate Last — Remnants of the Mexican Fascisti MEXICO CITY, April 6.—The final remnants of the Fascisti up- ning will be crushed within a short tim®, Minister of War Serrano said today on return from an inspection of the military front in the south- cast. The government now is preparing to send troops to occupy Frontera, Progresso and Chipas, Tabasco, Campecht and Yucatan, Serrano said. No resistance is anticipated, “All the petroleum regions are free of counter-revolutionists,” Ser- rano said. “Meany supporters of General Ca- yazos, who has been leading guer- rillas operating along the border of Hidalgo and Queretaro, are surren- dering.” Cal Coolidge Still “Proposing” Aid to The Wheat Farmers WASHINGTON, April 6—Presi- ident Coolidge has proposed to the ‘recently created $10,000,000 agricul- ‘tural eredit corporation in the north west that it make loans thru the war finance corporation to aid north- western wheat farmers to diversify their crops, In a letter to C. T. Jaffray, Min- neapolis, chairman of the credit corporation, he advocated such pro- cedure as an “effective service to agricultural interests of the central northwest” and asked for an expres- sion of the corporation’s views on the subject, Radio Fans Will Have .To Pay More for Sets; Solons Decree WASHINGTON, April 6.—Radio fans and Mah Jong addicts will have to pay something for the privilege. Senate tax makers have cut taxes on automobiles and candy, but put 10 per cent levies on radio and mah jong sets. All radio sets costing $15 or more—which means most of those {that are sold—will bear the 10 per | cent tax under the provision inserted by the senate finance committee, All mah jong sets worth $5 or more must pay 10 per cent. It will just be added to the price, because the manufact- urer or importer is to pay it. IMPEACH COOLIDGE! Bryan and Other Imbeciles Told Majority Vote Can’t Kill Truth ANN HARBOR, Mich., April 6.—William Jennings Bryan, arch £ of the evolution theory was "assailed as “prehistoric” by pieseenee Stuart P. Sherman, of the University of Ilinois, in an address at the student con- vocation here. “Mr. Bryan wants to put religion on its feet,” Professor\Sherman said. “How does he propose to do it? By calling’ for legislative suppression of the most fruitful scientific theory of modern times, call takes the shape of mass meetin, And the answer to that gs of 60,000 benighted bible students passing resolutions against the doctrine of evolution. “A church or a university which attempts to suppress vote is not moulding characters but nursing hypocrites te recommend the senator for solic- itor general. He said that Pepper was unable to secure the endorse- ment of either the late senators Penrose or Knox of Pennsylvania for on office, Sticks to Speech. PHILADELPHIA, April. 8. — “Everything I said in my Portland, Maine, speech was said after care- ful thought and consideration. 1, have seen no jopments since to truth by a majorit; and imbectlen.” f ty-Pepper War Splits the Republicans cause me to think it necessary to add anything to it. I stand by everything I said.” . This was the statement of Sen- ator George Wharton Pepper here today, arding former Attorney Geasvel Hasey M. Daugherty’s at- tack on him last night in Washing- ton, because of the Senator's speech before the Republican convention in the Maine City. As to Daugherty, Senator Pep- Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Mlinois. Workers! Farmers! Demand: © wabor rarty Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recornition § of Soviet Russi» Price 3 Cents CA Votaw, Brother-in-Law of the Late President, May Be Called in Prison Drug Probe WASHINGTON, April 6.—Heber H. Votaw, superintendent of federal prisons and brother-in-law of the late President Hard- ing, may be subpoenaed by the senate Daugherty investigating committee, in connection with testimony of William J. Burns and J. S. Dyche, former warden of Atlanta penitentiary, that he blocked an investigation into the drug traffic at the prison, it was said at chairman Brookhart’s office today. Votaw probably will not be subpoenaed until after the com- mittee cleans up some of the “leads” on which it is now working but committee members said they expect eventually to summon him to explain why he stopped the drug investigation in the face of pleas by both Burns and Dyche that it be permitted to con- tinue. : About 650 convicted violators of the narcotic laws were in At- lanta penitentiary at the time Heber Votaw, superintendent of prisons and brother-in-law of the late President Harding, had the warden, J. E. Dyche re- moved, acgording to Dyche’s testimo- ny to the Senate investigating com- mittee. Mr. Dyche had repeatedly urged Votaw to send inspectors to work under cover and stop the “dope” traffic in the federal prisons. Was His Palm Greased? William J. Burns finally sent three detectives to work at Atlanta and their work resulted in the indictment of four guards for selling dope. Two other guards resigned before they were called on the carpet. Attorney- General Daugherty dismissed the eases of two of the indicted guards and the other two cases ended in jury disagreements. Votaw came to Atlanta at the time, as Dyche’s testimony shows: Senator Wheeler—Now, about the time that these indictments were fourid, did you see Mr, Vo- taw? Mr. Dyche—He came down there. Senator Wheeler—And what, if anything, did he say to you with reference to the investigation? Mr. Dyche--Well, unfortunately, senator, as I thought at the time, the matter kept getting into the papers and Mr. Votaw’s objection seemed to be the publicity. He gave as a further reason that it dis- organized things in the institution, of course. But there was nothing to that. Passing the Buck. William J. Burns also testified that Votaw had blocked the “dope” in- vestigations in the federal prisons because the “higher ups” were about to be exposed. Burns testified that he had conferred with Daugherty at the time, but had not mentioned Vo- taw as the man who_was responsible for stopping the inquiry. Burns ex- plained that he could not produce the files of the narcotic investigation be- fore the Senate committee because of “confidential” statements contained in them. He testified as follows: Senator Wheeler—I understand you think it is the paramount duty of the government to clean up the dope situation and the trafficking in narcotics in these federal peni- tentiaries? Mr. Burns—I certainly do. Senator Wheeler—And the in- vestigation in Atlanta into the nar- cotie situation was suspended over your protest? Mr, Burns—Yes. Senator Wheeler—Who stopped you in the investigation? Mr. Burns—Well, my agents stated that Mr. Votaw stopped them. Senator Wheeler—Now, did you take the matter up with the attor- ney general when he stopped you? (There was a long pause.) Mr. Burns—There was some con- ference with the attorney general. I think the attorney general sent for me and asked me about the situation. Senator Wheeler—Yes, and did you tell him what a bad situation it was? Mr. Burns—I told him what our agents had accomplished. What's that, “Billy”? Senator Wheeler—And you told per declared he had nothing to say. Regarding the rumor circulated in Washington that D: hi di 1 ator Pepper declared that the for- mer attorney-general is possibly in &@ position to know what certain men might do, but indicated that he had no knowledge that impor- litical leaders are allied with jaugherty in such a move, tant Mr. r First Article by J. T. Murphy on “What’s Doing in England” on Page Six Today him that investigation had been stopped by Heber Votaw, the super- intendent of prisons? Mr. Burns—No; I don’t know that I said that. I supposed he knew that. Mr. Votaw saw the at- torney general. The deputy warden of Atlanta had sided with Votaw in opposing the “dope” investigations, but the United States attorney, Clint Hager, wanted to continue, Dyche stated during his examination. Votaw’s orders won and the Burns’ men left the _peni- tentiary. Later Dyche was called to the capitol by the attorney-general and criticised- severely about the “publicity” attending the “dope” in- quiry. Dope Traffic Still On. Dyche said that he got the impres- sion that the Washington “higher ups” wanted to “cover up.” He stated that 8 or 10 should have been indicted. Leavénworth prison has 1,000 addicts, according to Dyche, and nothing has been dotie to stop the traffic, Morgan’s Big Bribe Fund Gives Poincare New Lease of Life PARIS, April 6.—The chamber of deputies gave Premier Poincare’s new government another vote of con- fidence, 827 to 201 this afternoon, this time on the subject of the proposed pensions bill. It was an adverse vpte on this measure by the chamber, that. de- feated the last government and caused Poincare’s resignation. Today’s vote was the chamber’s second expression of confidence in the new government within 24 hours, MacDonald’s Police Shoot Down Hindus In Strike in India CALCUTTA, India, Apyil 6— Four mill hands were killed ana 34 wounded in a serious riot today at Cawnpore, The workers were en- deavoring to enforce their demands for an increase in wages when the police fired a volley into the mob. JESS SMITH BEGAME - NERVOUS WREGK WHEN HARRY MADE HIM GOAT WASHINGTON, April 6—Roxie Stinson, ex-wife and paramour of the late suicide, Jess Smith, part- ner in crime of Harry M. Daugh- erty, in an interview with Julian Street, declared that her ex-hus- band was all shot to pieces when he realized that the ex-attorney in- tended to unload the booze scandal on him. Speaking of Jess Smith, Miss Stinson said: “When he came back from the convention at Chicago, he told me and my companion how Harry Daugherty got the nomination for Harding, going at two in the morning to a room where a secret conference was being held and strong-arming it thru. “In April Jess came home to Washington Court House and I saw he was in a highly nervous condition, Once, apparently under great stress, he exclaimed ‘they've passed it up to me.’ “IT knew what he meant. Some six months before there had been started quiet? inquiries, instigated by politics, intended to involve the attorney-general and Jess in liquor frauds. “Jess was terribly concerned about it, but Harry, with his usual coolness in big emergencies, let it slide off his back, Subsequent pressure ‘tnd realization of what Harry Daugherty’s attitude to- wards him would be, was the real cause of Jess Smith’s suicide, iti¢ te xe le aw 7 re