The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 14, 1924, Page 2

‘vault, in a city he will not name, Page UNMASK HOOVER AS AN ALLY OF WORST REACTION Daily Worker Prints the Testimony (Continued from Page One.) Contract Made With Gen. lanoff. “The contract was made with Maj. Gen. Ianoff, chief of supplies of the Russian North-Western Army, but was not carried out, as I received no de- finite answer from Special Commis- sioner Haynes at Helsingfors, to whom I referred the question. “Complaint was made to the Ameri- can Relief Administration and the London office of the Shipping Board, as to “nis contract. It is my con tention that I was sent out to Reval, thru mined waters and in time of war, at the instance of the aircraft profiteering ring in America, against whom I had been fighting, and that they were anxious that I be discted- ited. “[ was also in the position of hav- ing delivered the shipment of trucks to Yudenitch, and that fact was em barrassing to those who gave me my orders.” Martin has offered in evidence, in his damage suit against the aircraft combine in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, a copy of a telegram from one Leach, represent- ing the A. R. R. at Riga, addressed to that organization’s London office, dated Nov. 1, 1919, reading: “Strongly advise in view of dis- closures Cominsky and General Wall regarding conduct Master of Lake Fray that he will be relieved of eommand by next In line. Re- talned In command General Wall thinks unsafe for him to return London to give evidence”. The reference to Cominsky is ob- acure, but two days later another cable from Leach to London said that “German woman from Berlin carried by skipper on Cominsky reports wo- men on board the Lake Fray all night on several occasions.” etc. But the reference to General Wall is clear. Martin shows a letter on the stationery of the Bureau of Opera- tions, signed “General Ernest N. Wahl”, under date of August 15, 1919, at Saint Nazaire, France, as follows: “We, the undersigned hereby ac- knowledge that Captain James V. Martin of the Lake Fray has fully explained the conditions of our resi- dence aboard ship while enroute to Russia. We understand that the Lake Fray has no passenger accommoda- tions and we agree to make the best of conditions aboard ship without ~ —~sompiaint.” Martin describes Wall as a former imperial military governor of Lenin- grad who was chosen as the liason officer between the Russian Whites’ headquarters in Paris and the Yuden- itch forces. Kodlchak, Denikin, and Yudenitch all took their orders from Paris, and back of this Paris bureau were—Martin says he can prove— Herbert Hoover, Winston Churchill and the French government. The Trials of General Wall. «“Hoover sent me word that Gen. ‘Wahl was to travel aboard my ship to Reval,” said Martin. “I asked for as- surance that the Shipping Board want- ed me to do this, because it was in violation of law. Hoover took it up fm London and brought pressure on the Shipping Board office, so that I received official advice to take Gen. Wahi along. This cable from Leach to London shows that they were work- ing confidentially with him, and that he advised them that it would be un- safe to let me return and'testify as master of a ship, as to what I had been doing.” Somewhere in a safety deposit Martin now has a stack of cable- grams, letters and other documents which he says will be produced at the proper moment to show that he was merely doing what he considered his duty as a servant of the American government when he tried to furnish airplanes and machines guns to Yu- denitch for the attack on Petrograd. He says he was intimately acquaint- ed with the White Guard leaders, ana heard from them the confirmation of statements given to him in other quar- ters as to the big political plot be hind the Yudenitch venture, Aid From British Labor. British labor, in Martin’s opinion, had much to’ dq with the fatlure of the campaign to crush the Red Army and stamp out bolshevism in Burope. British labor raised such an outcry that Churchill dared not move the British fleet from Reval toward Lenin- grad as Yudeniteh advanced, and Churchill dared not ship the planes and tanks he had prepared to deliver at Reval. The cautious Finns, having equipped 160,000 soldiers for a march from Leningrad to Moscow, would not stir until the British fleet arrived at Leningrad. And so the collapse came, Photostatic copy of a Bill of Lading for goode shipped by Hoover's Relief Administration on the United States Shipping Board vessel “Lake Fray”, commanded by Captain James V. Martin, from Bassens, France, to Reval, Esthonia, for the Central Supply Commit- tee of the Russian Counter-revolutionary armies commanded by General Yudenitch. orm C a, B/L Ne CONDITIONS Osted at BASSENS MANCR KKK AVOUT Gagne * Received, at good order and conditions, from AMERICAN YELIEP ADMINISTRATION for shipment ‘in and upon hip of the (including hartered o¢ hired (or the purposes of the Line of working by arrangment or 19 conju alled the LAKS FRAY and bound for, REVAL (calling at any ports oF plac seadet, 10 land or embark mails, passengers, ‘Tve tock, and/or argo, oF (oF any other purpose) GOODS ORE PROPERTY, ns Gescrided by the shippers and suid 10 De marked and numberedas under, and are to be delivered from the Ship's deck, (where Ne Ship Owener's reapemastility shall cease) in the like apparent good order And condition, abject to Uhe exceplions and reuirictions of w Ne fer mentvo forsed ond marginal clawses) at the above named Portof REVAL s0P #0 near thereto as REPRESEN TIVE ORNTRAL SUPPLY OOMMITTRE or to dis or their asmgns, he or they p vithout any allowance of eredin or discount, om the i on verification of same at port of destination. Cost Weight, Quantity, Measure. Gauge, Quality, Condition, Brand, Contents, Condition of Contents of Packager, and Value Unknown, the Shipowner is not accountable for the same. Maras ood Nuotere Number of Packages and Description } QoM.0, CLASS 2 (LIBERTY) TRUCKS. Srzet, $403 9.4.0 ; a Oma HUNiaaD Piper (280) eT WWBRICATING ‘THRER (3) BARRELS GRIASB OBB THOUSAND (1,000) DRS GASOLINE 420,000 aa ARE PARTS POR G.U.Ce CLASS B TRU 7. * « « o eo me od . - Aprasees Chorgen Totat ree tm Witness Whereof, ihe Master ur Agent of the asld Steamship hath slfirmed to G (itis £6 tading, alt of thie tener and date, one of which being accomplished, the others to sland void. Deed AVOUT S, 2919 Trip for Czarist General This letter shows how the United States Shipping Board pro- vided Czarist General Wahl with trip for Yudenitch front during offensive against Leningrad: ¥ 1M DUPLICATE’ REPLY TO DIVISION OF OPERATIONS UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION WASHINGTON April 26, 1920 Mr. James V. Liartin, 1007 13th St., mW. Washington, D. Dear Sir:- Confirming verbal conversation with you recently relative to charges net you while in command of the SS LakB FRAY, you are hereby advised that all agents of the United States Shipping Board and Sea Service Bur have been informed under date of April 21st that these charges are un- founded and you are now subject to nt as master é& of United States Shipping Board ves: otive.April 2lst. Yours very truly GZORGE EGGERS Asot. Director.— Operating Dept. By RE. . i 7 LLOYD P. GAILES, Chief Clerk. LPG:1R Martin Relieved of Blame Bureau clearing him of all possible charges involv: played In the Yudenitch drive on Lening DIVISION OF OPERATIONS UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION U0. S. 8. "LAKE FRAY® Saint Nazaire, France, August 15, 1919. We the unders hereby acknowledge that Captain James V. Martin of the Luke Fray has fully explained the conditions of our ‘esidence aboard ship while enroute to sia, We understand that the Lake Fray jas no passenger accommodations and we to make the best of conditions abcard ip without complaint. Signed: Oparad Sneek db 300 CLEVELAND STUDENTS THREATEN STRIKE AS CENSORSHIP PROTEST Hoover Delivers the Goods. THE DAILY WORKER WHEELER HITS CAL COOLIDGE AS ‘INCAPABLE’ Senator Says. President Is Only Politician Senator Burton K. Wheeler, leader of the senate Daugherty investigating committee, in Cheago, accused Presi- dent Coolidge of being “incapable” and “looking at everything with pure- ly a political standpoint instead of the welfare of the people of the nation.” Wheeler, referring to the senatorial investigations, said: “The President's lack of action in all these matters has shown the coun- try he is incapable of dealing with the situation, which demands a force- ful leader that will drive from office in Washington all those who have been guilty of corruption or have taken part in the gigantic conspira- cles carried on in the last few years Copy of letter sent Captain Martin by United erage Shipping © ie ness. > Forgets Welfare of Many. “The trouble with Coolidge is that he is looking at everything with a accept the Dawes report. Chancellor Marx to communicate A meeting of the state premiers is scheduled for today in Berlin, After this session formal an- nouncement of the German de- cision will be made public. The international financiers are pin- ning their hopes for European recon- struction on acceptance of the Dawes report by the French and German governing groups. The report of Ger- man acceptance has already its favor- able effect on trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Small gains were scored by certain rail, steel and industrial stocks. German Capitalists See Chance. Opposition from German industrial and financial centers was avoided be- cause the Dawes report provides help for the German capitalists at the ex- by crooked: politicians and big busi-;pense of the workers in many ways. This has made the German capitalist leaders favorable to the acceptance of the report. One of the great advantages ac- purely political standpoint instead of|corded the German capitalists by the the welfare of the people of the na- tion.” » Wheeler attacked former Attorney General Daugherty “as a man entirely unfitted for the office he held.” He painted Daugherty as a poor man when he entered office three years ago and now as “a man dealing in Sin- clair and steel stock and owning stock in the Wright-Martin Airplane Corporation.” Hits Viclous System. ‘Wheeler reiterated that the senate Daugherty committee should continue because “the country demands, I think, that our committee show up this vicious system that has grown up in Washington of using the de- partment of justice as a collection agency.” Wheeler charged that “the Colum- bus, Ohio, gang became rich along with Harry Daugherty.” Commenting on his sub-committee hearing at Washington Court House, Ohio, from which he is returnig to Washington, Wheeler said that Mal Daugherty, brother of the former at- torney general, whom they have been investigating at Washington Court House, would be “before the bar of the senate” Monday when hearings are resumed. “If he doesn’t testify we can put him in jail,” Wheeler said. Wheeler will leave here for Washington. see Pinchot Refuses to Comment. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 13.—Gov- ernor Pinchot today refused to com- ment, when asked if he had suggested appointment of Francis J. Heney, Cal- ifornia, as counsel to aid the e committee investigating the books of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. Responsibility for causing “the most momentous political battle since the senate resolved itself into an in- quisitorial body” was placed on Gov- ernor Pinchot in a story under a Washington date line, published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger today. The story pointed out that Governor Pinchot had charged Secretary Mel- lon with laxity in prohibition enforce- ment and that shortly afterward Sen- ator Couzens, Michigan, who has bit- terly opposed Mellon, succeeded in having Heney appointed counsel for the Mellon investigating committee, which he headed. Couzens was said to have frankly admitted that it was Governor Pin- chot who had urged him to engage Heney. " aa ic eleeies Daily Worker Gets Some Bouquets From Dawes report is the provision for tak- ing away the railroads from the Ger- man government, and turning them over for a very low price to private capitalist interests. Ever since the end of the war and the crushing of the German Revolution, the Thyssens, Stinnesses and other captains of Ger- man finance and industry have made efforts to grab the efficient and high- ly organized railway system of the country. The recommendations of the Dames commission offer them this op- portunity. ‘ Another provision of the Dawes re- Port satisfactory to the German cap- italists is the plan to terminate the French railway management in the Ruhr and other occupied regions of Germany. This measure is necessary BIG ANTILABOR UNION FORMED BY ST. LOUIS BOSSES Goal Is Open Shop In Building Trades By MARTIN A. DILLMON, (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) ST. LOUIS, April 18.—Is there to be an attempt to form a nation-wide one big union of contractors to at- tempt to slash wages and establish the open shop in the entiré building industry? An amalgamated organiza- tion of all contractors recently was formed here to fight the building trades unions. It calls itself the Asso- ciated Building Interests of St. Louis. In Illinois has been formed a com- bine patterned after St. Louis and calling itself the Four City Joint Con- ference Board, comprising, its boost- ers say, contractors and subcontrac- tors in Granite City, Belleville, Ed- wardsville and Collinsville. This O. B. U. claims nearly 10 per cent member- ship in the four cities. The first meeting was held at Ed- wardsville. The president and secre- tary of the St. Louis group attended and expounded the virtues of amalga- mation for employers. The two groups will exchange fraternal dele- gates. The declaration of each of the two organizations says the lineup is for “halting the demoralizing wage demands of the unions,” The St, Louis Real Estate Ex- change is fraternally represented in the local one big union of bosses. St. Louis is becoming notorious for high rents. On instance is cited where a group of flats rented in 1922 ru. $10 Class War Prisoner ° fo the DAILY WORKER: I am receiving the DAILY WORKER reg- ularly and I very highly appreciate it. I am sure the DAILY WORKER is championing the cause of labor, and is in the fight to stay. Your paper has many able men on its staff and I believe this is the first step to make @ workers’ paper what it should be. The change in our entire social system that we are all trying to bring about must be brought about thru educational channels and I am sure the DAILY WORKER will do its part in this struggle. We have been in need of just such a pi in the past. 1 feel confident that the workers will support it and make it a world-wide labor daily. The Butte Daily Bulletin was the first step toward such a paper, but the workers had not reached the Point at the time to see the need of such @ paper. The workers now real- ize the need and will therefore sup- port the DAILY WORKER. The DAILY WORKER will reach the homes of many wage earners @ month and now rent for $zv. ‘len- ants say less than $50 has been spent in repairs during that period, which renders it difficult to lay the blame on union labor, . Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Warns Of Fascist Menace NEW YORK, April 13.—The Fascist menace in America is a growing move- ment which must be fought by work- ers’ organizations, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn convinced her audience at the Civic Club here. The speaker de- scribed the similarity between the Fascisti, the Ku Klux and the Ameri- can Legion, and said it is possible they may combine in the end. The Fascisti have two papers in New York, one each in Philadelphia, Bos- ton and Cleveland, and are organizing in all Italian-American colonies, The U. 8. government is doing nothing to curb the movement, she said, GERMAN PLUTES SWALLOW DAWES PLAN; OFFER OF RAILROADS MAKES THEM FORGET ROBBERY OF NATION (Special to the Daily Worker) BERLIN, April 13.—The German government has decided to Delegates will soon be sent to Paris by this decision to the Allies. in order to enable the German capi- talists to take over the rest of the railway lines of the country and run them in an efficient centralized way which will insure the collection of the maximum receipts from the roads. Some Revision Sought. \ Tho the Marx government is ready to accept the report as it is, its emissaries to Paris will be instructed to seek some revisions to help the German capitalist groups. Among the changes to be proposed by the German delegates are: 1, The evacuation of the Ruhr by the French and Belgian troops, and 2. Some revision in the total sfim of reparations to be fixed in ad- vance. French Also Have Reservations. The acceptance of the Dawes plan by the Reparations Commission was announced as unanimous. Yet it is re- ported in well-informed circles that Louis Barthou, representing France, made some reservations in accepting the report. Poincare’s instructions have been to that effect. These French reservations in the main are reported to be as follows: 1. The report must be completed and safeguarded by a definite sys- tem of control and guarantees, 2. Definite, specific penalties are to be agreed upon and provided for should Germany break her prom- ises, , Commenting on this phase-of the reparations controversy, Pertinax, the leading critic of the influential Echo de Paris, declared: “It is the duty of the Reparations Commission to fix the system of control; it is for the gov- ernments to decide upon the penal- ties.” DINING GENERALS MOURN GROWTH OF PEACE SPIRIT Also Sob Over Exposes X : In Washington (By The Federated Press.) NEW YORK, April 13.—Militarists are becoming alarmed at the spread of anti-war sentiment. In connection with the mobilization practice on the anniversary of Wilson’s war message, various and sundry generals have been brought to New York to warn the country against “the menace of pacifism.” “The tide of pacifism was never higher than at this moment,” Maj- Gen. James G. Harbord told the offi- cers of the 77th division at a dinner at the Hotel Astor. “It is significant that the prime minister of Great Bri- tain at the moment happens to be a pro-German pacifist and that’ the con- trol of congress lies in a state where there is the largest German vote, led by a man (LaFollette) whose senti- ments during the war were well known and were such as to raise a question whether he would not lose his seat in the senate. It is signifi- cant that 10 per cent of the college yote went for Debs in the last elec- tion.” Harbord lamented that con- gress was not making large efough appropriations for the military estab- lishment. wails Investigations. “The investigations in Washington are giving the propagandists a new handle for their old arguments,” ad- mitted Brig.Gen. William Weigel at the same dinner. “They are saying the militarist crowd and the capitalist crowd are uniting to work against the interests of the common people.” At the famous B. Y. O. B—bring your own booze—dinner of the war- time purchase, storage and traffic di- vision, general staff, U. S. A. Har- bord spoke again. Bernard B. Baruch, chairman war industries board during the war, outined the plan he has pro- posed to congress for industrial mo- bilization and conscripting labor at army wages in the next war. Former Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell described the use of gas which will make the next interna- tional unpleasantness short and sweet. The next day Brig. Gen. Peter B. Traub, in a characteristically heavy military manner attempted to satirize the anti-war position at the annual dinner of the American Defense So- —L BACHMUT, DON BASIN, — Since the death of Lenin 19,000 applications and farmers who have never before had|/ MOSCOW, APRIL 18, — The cen-|for membership in the Communist tral Union of, the Russian Cooperative Party have been received in the Don Monaay, April 1924 SULLIVAN IN FAREWELL TO THE STRIKERS He Pitdes < Capitalist Courts Good Thing (Continued from Page 1) Smoke Him Out. Gompers refused to state whether or not he would take any interest in the garment strike during the re- mainder of his stay in Chicago. When it was gently suggested to Sammy that the garment strikers’ Picket line was a good place to study women in industry, and he was asked whether or not he intended to side with the strikers, Gompers’ only reply was a denunciation of the aid given by the DAILY WORKER to the strikers, Gompers was a pitiful object as he sat, seemingly in the advance stages of senility, in his hotel room, sur- rounded by half a dozen of his fat- bellied henchmen. When asked what he had done for the strikers since coming to Chicago, Gompers could not point to one definite act in their be- half. , He kept mumbling in a way which might be excused on the grounds that his recent illness had affected him mentally. “The DAILY WORKER is trying to break up the garment strike. I have been standing by labor and will continue to defend it.” But when asked for particulars, Gompers was at a loss to name anything he had done for the strike, Minor Speaks to Strikers. “Bob” Minor, well-known cartoon- ist and Workers Party member, told the strikers at a large meeting that their demands were extremely just and should be granted at once by the employers, “The garment workers of this city have not been getting enough pay,” said Minor. “Their demands for a forty-hour week and the closed vhop are also very reasonable. One oun- dred years ago in England, they used to cut off the workers’ ears and brand them with irons if they dared to join a union or go on strike. This was be- cause the bosses in those days wanted to continue to exploit the labor of six- year-old children, making: them work twelve and fourteen hours a day. “Judge Sullivan, with his damnable injunction, would drive you back to those conditions if he could. He would cut off your ears at the demand of the employers whose tool he is, if he could, He does as much harm as he can to labor by imposing large fines and heavy jail sentences. You must laugh at the injunction and con- tine to defy it, It is a necessary step in the struggle of the workers for emancipation. Famous People Have Been in Jail. “You remember the drunken lout of a stool pigeon who met a striking mother who was suporting two chil- dren, The thug asked the striker if she wouldn’t be ashamed to tell her children when they grew up that, she had been in jail. : “But every famous person has been in jail. Jesus’ and Columbus were in jail. The only reason George Wash- ington was not jailed was that his horse ran faster than the horse of the British sheriffs. “You garment strikers have become famous people. Everywhere thru- out the country the workers are talk- ing about your gallant fight against the injunction. In New York and Cleve- land and San Francisco and every- where labor is rallying to support you in this fight when it is necessary. They are doing this because they re- alize that your fight for the right to strike for a higher standard of living is made in the interests of the entire working class. Part of Labor Drive. “This strike is part of the drive of the workers of the entire world to gain the political power. The work- ers are determined that they—who produce all wealth—must decide who shall go to jail and who shall stay out, instead of the decision being left to a corrupt judge who licks the boots of your employers. “You must win the strike, for you hold the strategic position in the struggle of labor for world suprem- acy. If you lose, then it will be a set- ‘back, but if you win, the victory will help all of us. It will prove to the bosses that they cannot keep dowh wages by bribing the courts to issue illegal injunctions. That is why the workers in other trades are to help you, and why you must win even it strike is a long one,” Not Sunday at Home. Judge Sullivan was not at home Sunday to enlarge on his vacation Plans. His wife, however, declared’ that “Sullivan was just taking the in- Junction cases out of accommodation.” Sullivan has been very obliging to the garment bosses in handing out sen- tences which are unparalleled in their MOSCOW, April 13.—Roumania ts reported to have declared a “state ‘of’ emergency” thruout Bessarabia. Recent annexation of Bessarabia by Roumania, with approval of the Little Entente, stirred up some indignation im Russia, which would have pre- THE DAILY WORKER. them to subscribe today. nude—dancing girl. The story, itself also prankishly faked, intimated that the highly re- prc a spected professor was more interest- ae Ph oeea e in the “ae plus ultra”. cof the maiden than the fourth dimension or How many of your shop-mates read | 2instein theory. The suspended students are James Get one of Johnson, editor; H. H. Clarke, busi- CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 13.—Nearly 300 members of the Case here threaten to strike Monday as protest against the suspendion of five students on the staff of “The Case Tech,” the school publication., The suspension resilted from a “scandal sheet” issued Wednesday, which pictured a member of the faculty seated with a thinly-vetted—almost Coat ness manager; J. H, McDaniel, K, M. Eicher and A. W. Fritz, Petitions are being citculated calling on the stu- dents to strike Monday. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY RKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. ® real working class . unjust Fri y, er Organizations (‘Centrosoyus’) bought|Basin, Already 14,000 have been ac: not bbc ame PB yeingiew tom R. W. Minton, in the United States $410,000 worth| cepted. In January there were only] “The cases against tye strikers San Quentin Peattentiary,|Of agricultural machinery including|8,000 members in this district and tractors and ploughs, have been coming in so fast that it has been @ physical impossi- bility to handle them,” said Mrs. Sul- livan, “The cases rightfully belong in Judge Foell’s court anyhow.” _ Were They Slugging Pickets? Judge (to victim of hold-up)— ‘While you were being relieved of your valuables, did you call the police? Victim—Yos, your honor, every. ‘thing I could think of \ 4,000 candidates. 100,0000 SHIPYARD WORKERS IN ENGLAND THE VICTIMS OF LOCKOUT LONDON, April 13.—One hundred thousand ship yard workers toda: are idie as a result of a national lock-out which went into effect last mide night. : striking Southampton ship yard SIMONSON TALK WEDNESDAY. The Mid-City English Branch, Work- ers Party, will hold an open meeting on Wednesday, April 16, at Emmett Memorial Hall, Ogden and Taylor Streets, Comrade Paul Simonson will speak on “Social Forces in American His- tory”. Every member come and bring @ friend, The lock-out resulted from a refusal of workers to accept employers’ terms.|