The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 16, 1924, Page 1

iad Pe ote Tia ea hes was a strong oil THE DAILY WORKER RAISES THE STANDARD FOR A WORKERS’ AND FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT VOL. Il. No. 26. THE DAILY WORKER. Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879, SUPSCRIPTION RATE: In Chicago, by mail, 8.00 per year. Outside Chicago, by mail, $6.00 per year. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1924 Published Daily except Sunday by THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO., 1113 W. W shington Blivd., ¢ ———— Workers! Farmers! Demand: The Labor Party Amalgamation Organization of Unorganized The Land for the Users The Industries for the Workers Protection of the Foreign-Born Recognition of Soviet Russia Price 3 Cents Shicago, Ill. GAL COOLIDGE PREPARES TO “POINT WITH PRIDE” FALL ON JOB GOT $500,000 FOR J. HAMON Hank Sinclair Was to Furnish the Money (Special to the Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 15.— Appointment of Albert B. Fall as Secretary of the Interior was worth $500,000 to him, the late Jake Hamon told H. W. Ballard, Los Angeles oil man, Ballard testified before the Senate oil committee today. “It was to be paid $150,000 down and the balance over a period of four years,” Ballard s7i4 “Who was to furnish the money?” Ballard was asked. : “The. man who got Teapot Dome, Harry F. Sinclair—I suppose,” Ballard replied. Ballard Went to See Jake. Ballard told of an investigation he made in 1920 of reports that Teapot Dome would be leased. Ballard said he had been informed he should go to see Jake Hamon about it. “ft went to Ardmore, Okla. to see Hamon in May, 1920” Ballard said. “IT had a private conversation and of course, he is not here to defend him- self and I hesitate to state that con- versation. You realize that no mat- ter what one may say under these circumstances, he will be called a liar and scapegoat.” The committee directed him to an- swer and he continued as follows: Tells of Wood’s Ambitions. ~ “I met Mr. Hamon,” he said. “Gen- eral Wood had an ambition to be president. He was to get from Wood a promise to have certain men ap- eatgt a crowd in California who would help him to develop Teapot Dome if he got the leases. “He never suggested then there was anything irregular. He said he had the money to swing the convention and that there would be a hard fight ahead.” Fall Brought Like Steer. Ballard said he went to/ California after this conversation, but returned ‘in July and saw Hamon again. “He told me it was all off; that the interests were too strong for him. He said Harding would be elected, that the Sinelair interest had beat him to it. He said he had put it up to Wood, but Wood refused to promise him anything. He said he would be a good loser and fight to elect President Harding. “Hamon said he thought Mr. Hard- ing had been framed—by whom he did not say. The secretary of the In- terior had been picked before the nomination. “He told me Fall had been bought like a steer and thrown into the office.” Hamon said, according to Ballard, that $1,000,000 would be spent to swing Oklahoma for Mr. Harding. “What did Hamon tell you he was disappointed about wnen ue returned from the convention?” Senator Spen- cer, Missouri, Republican, asked. “He said his plan to be Secretary of the Interior had failed at the con- vention. He wanted to get in because there was a movement on foot then to have the naval reserves taken out of the Navy Department and put them under'the Interior Department.” Doesn't Think Them School Boys. “Who was behind that movement?” “None of you are school boy's. You know that Hamon, Doheny, Sinclair and others wanted to see the reserves transferred to the Interior Depart- ment.” : ° Senator Stanfield, Oregon, Republi- can, drew from the witness a state- ment that he had told the Hamon story to a “Mr, Sanger, who is some- where in Texas,” and F. W. Reynolds, an associate in Los. Angeles. Plan to Call Hearst. Senator Stanfield, thereupon said he “expected to ask” that subpoenas be issued for William Randolph Hearst, publisher, and Harry Chandler, pub- lisher of the Los Angeles Times. WASHINGTON, and thrown into office, H. W. Ballard, Los Angeles oil ate oil committee today. to lease Te: MELLON AND COOLIDGE CONFER ON HOW TO ESCAPE INVESTIGATORS (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15. —Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Senator Watson, Indiana, chair- man ofsthe Internal mevenue Inves- tigating Committee, called at the White House and reviewed the whole situation with the President. After the conference Watson said no definite conclusions were reach- ed except that he would reply to critics of the President’s action on the floor of the senate today, if the legislative situation permitted. ‘On returning to the senate from the White House, Watson sald the President had endorsed his speech Saturday in which he said Mr. Coo- lodge was criticizing the internal revenue bureau investigation and no others. He reiterated that the President had none of the other inquiries in mind when he assailed senatorial investigating methods. CHEAPER BONUS BILL 1S OFFERED BY DEMOCRATS Cash, Not | Insurance, Their Scheme WASHINGTON, April 15.— Demo-} crats laid their bonus plan before the Senate today, proposing an out-| right cash bonus, which they claim | will cost only half as much as the Republican “insurance policy” bill. Senator Curtis presented the Re- publican bill from the Finance Com- mittee thus formally opening the way for action tomorrow. His bill, which will be given the right of way in the senate, under an agreement among Republican mem- { | 1 | | | bers of the } ‘ittees, provides a Ree ae ae insurance policy in- stead of actual money. $1 For Each Day. The Democrats then presented their bill, which would give $1 for every day of service after tue first sixty days cond in amounts up to $500, ‘ke money for the Democratic konus would be raised hy a treasury bonl issue. Experts say only $1,- 509 00,000 would be necessary for the Project. Republicans say their's will cost $3,654,000,000. Under the Democratte scheme, the bonds would bear five per cent in- terest and would be retired within sixty years with redenfptions of not more than $25,000,000 yearly. Senator Royal S. Copeland, of New York, who drew the Democratic hill, believes there are enough votes on the Republican side to help put the cash measures over. Wants to Please Everybody. Copéland thinks veterans will be more pleased with a cash payment instead of an insurance policy and that the public will be better pleased because only half the gum would be spent for his bill, in comparison with the Republican bill. The tax bill will rest upon the Sen- ate calendar until after some bonus bill is passed. Chairman Smoot who is in charge of the bonus, believes it should be disposed of within ten days. Coin Copper Money. LENINGRAD, April 15.—The Lenin- grad works have received orders for coining ten milion roubles’ worth of copper money, to he delivered in in- stallments beginning this month, the|™°’S Organizations and with union| was released on a parole in February, issue of total amount being completed | *™!#l8 relative to women in indus-|1924, signed by Daugherty and H. H. try. A union official told the DAILY | Votaw, WORKER that Gompers was here act-| prisons. by the end of January, 1925. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER, Get one of | Convention that the American Fede-|in a Position to get liquor out of bond them to subscribe today. BOSS YIELDS’ TO STRIKERS IN LOOP SHOP F ederation Calls On All Unions To Aid The courageous battle of the garment strike picketers for better working conditions was rewarded yesterday when the Colonial Frock Company, 322 West Van Buren street, met the terms of the Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and signed an agreement identical to that of the other shops which have settled. At the same time Anton Jo- hannsen told the strikers at a mass meeting that a Federation “Committee of Fifteen” will send a Call to all unions in Chi- cago, both in and out of the Federation asking them to aid the strike morally and finan- cially. Mayor William E. Dever has in- formed John Fitzpatrick that the strikers have been denied permission to parade, since it was announced at strike headquarters. The - matter of granting the permit for a parade has been hanging fire since last Thur.. Fitzpatrick was told by the Mayor thatthe permit was denied because of the congested traffic in the loop. Per- mission has been granted, however, to run float thru the loop advertis- ing the struggle of the strikers for decent living conditions. Will Run Float Thru Loop. “The ‘Committee of: 15’ plan to run a large float one half of which will show working conditions in the shops before the union existed, and the other. half. showing. the higher dard enforced by the union.” Meyer Perlstein, vice-president of the I. L. G. W. U,, said something definite would be announced on this latter.” The matter of getting scabs out of the shops who are related to union men was mentioned by Anton Johann- sen in his speech to the strikers at yesterday's meeting. “I hope we will soon be able to get these scabs ex- posed,” Johannsen said. 15 More Pickets Seized. Thirty one strikers who appeared yesterday morning at ten o'clock be- fore Judge Charles Foells charged with violating the picketing injunc- tion, were told to report at two o’clock in the afternoon and — were later dismissed for the day to appear in court at ten o’clock this morning. Fifteen more garment workers were grabbed on charges of picketing yes- terday. Jannie Levitt, Fanny Jacoby, Sara Wood, Sophie Rosen, and Rose Cohn are to appear before Judge Sul- livan on April 23. Those who come up before Judge Foell today include the following ten picketers arrested yesterday: William Simon, Phillip Hauser, Edith Abrahm, Lonice Brzes- ki, Frances Jazenska, Agnes Jani- szewski, Christine Schmidt, Lottie Bonchefsky, Fridie Sucht, Joe Wais- brat. Sam Gompers Has Left Us. Samuel Gompers seems to have left our midst. He checked out of his room No. 1114, in the Hotel Morrison, and was immediately superseded by a shoe salesman. From the best avail- able information, Gompers was in Chi- MANNINGTON, INMATE OF “K STREET” HOUSE, FIGHTS SCANDAL PROBE WASHINGTON, April 15.—Chal- lenging the constitutional authority of the senate to investigate former Attorney General Daugherty, How- ard Mannington, once resident of the “Little Green House on K. Street,” today flatly refused to ap- pear before the investigating com- mittee. In a letter to the committee, de- livered by his attorney, Mannington refused to testify on the ground that he could not give a fair hear- ing in view of charges against him made on the floor of the senate by Chairman Brookhart. DAUGHERTY GANG SHOWN IN HUGE BOOZE SCHEME Investigators Are Told Sensational Story WASHINGTON, April 15.—A sensa- tional story of a gigantic liquor with- drawal plot alleged to have been en- gineered by Ohio politicians at Wash- ington, was related. before the Senate Daugherty, Investigating Committee today, by Cecil H. Kerns, of Colum- bus, a paroled federal prisoner. Kerns named Howard Mannington, once resident of the “Little Green House on K Street,” Ralph Cole, for- mer member of Congress and Abe Ungerleider, Columbus broker and William Haley, as the men who fur-| nished the political influence to ob- tain withdrawal permits, Get All Permits Wanted. Abe Ungerleder told him, Kerns said, that he had contributed $50,000 to the Republican campaign fund and that he had an understanding that if he gave this sum “he could get all the liquor permits he wanted _ 2 diaper permis be wanted om.ge Kerns said the alleged liquor deal was first broached to him by H. S. Adair, president of the Consolidated Drug Company of Columbus, Ohio. Adair was interested with William Halley, he said. “It has been brought out here that Jesse Smith was sending telegrams to Halley,” Senator Wheeler interjected. “I was referred to Abe Ungerleider about obtaining liquor permits,” con- tinued Kerns. Ungerleider Gave $50,000. Ungerleider told him, Kerns said, that he contributed $50,000 to the Re- publican campaign fund. “He said that he had an under- standing that if he contributed $50,- 000 he could get all the liquor per- mits he wanted or get his money back,” said Kerns. Kerns said that 15,000 cases of liquor had been taken from ware- houses in Ohio with the approval of Prohibition Drector Russell of Ohio. “I was told that Russell was ‘bought and paid for,’” he said. Kerns said he employed John E. Todd, former law partner of Harry M. Daugherty, in 1921, because he had influence with thé attorney genral. He paid Todd $500 a month during his employment. Todd, he said, went to the Department of Justice and “saw certain high officials” to get infor- mation he wanted. Served More Than Year. The witness said that he was con- victed of conspiracy to violate the Prohibition law and sentenced to two years in Atlanta penitentiary. After | cago conferring with officials of Wo- ing on the decision of the Portland (Continued on Page Two.) CALL IN TROOPS IN EFFORT TO AWE COAL MINERS IN KENTUCKY FIELDS LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 15.—1 coal fields are in the grip of strikes the miners of the Liberty Coal & —Both the eastern and western Kentucky with troops on duty in Bell county where Coke Company are out. , A strike order calling out 10,000 men h son, president of District No. 28, United Mine Wotvern et i Lonnie Jack- includes all the western Kentucky fleld. The order followed fruitless confer- f ences of a month to agree on a wage scale. The miners’ insisted on the Sinclair Bought Fall Like Steer April 15.-Former Secret ary of the Interior Fall was “bou i apot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair, the late J: man in 1920, according to Ballard’s testimony before the Sen- America, which Jacksonville scale. The o; wanted a 25 per cent reduction. like a steer ¢ Hamon told serving a year and three weeks he superintendent of federal “Ungerleider told me that he was and that he had power and influence at Washington,” the witness contin- ued, The liquor, Kerns said, was to be handled thru the Aramand Candy and Drug Company of Cleveland. Kerns said he sold Ungerleider 500 barrels/of liquor which he had in bond. The payment for the liquor was handled thru a man named Grossburg, who was later indicted, but escaped to Canada, “The liquor was to be made ayail- able for the bootleg traders in Ohio,” Kerns said, Permits Cost $17 Per. The permits the liquor, he said, were sold to Ungerleider for $1.15 a gallon. William Barnett of the Consolidat- ed Drug Company informed him, Kerns said, that he could get liquor out of bond. The permits were to cost $17 a case, he said. Howard Mannington and Ralph Cole were named by Barnett as his “associates” in the liquor deal, Kerns said. GERMANS ASK MORATORIUM, PARIS HEARS But Bow Their Necks To World Bankers (Special to The Daily Worker) BERLIN, April 15.—The Ger- man government's surrender to Hell-and-Maria Dawes and the international bankers will be forwarded to the reparations commission in Paris without de- lay, the United States is in- formed. German industrialists will seek to obtain slightly better terms in favor of a absolute mo- ratorium but the acceptance note signifies surrender to the essential phases of the Dawes- Wall Street plan. The Big Bosses Agree. At the same time a dispatch from Dusseldorf said the Franco-Belgian industrialists had agreed to prolonga-| tion of the so-called “Micum” agree- ments for two months and that docu-/| ments were ready for signature. The party leaders were conferring with the government today on the form in which Germany’s acceptance shall go forward to Paris and it was expected the document would be ready soon. é Minister of Justice Quits. Meantime it was announced that minister of justice, Emminger, has tendered his resignation to Chancellor Marx owing to inner party differences, presumably not connected with the reparations question. The chancellor : “ ion and probably ‘will assume the port- folio of justice himself for the time being. The decision of the State Premiers to accept.the Dawes recommendations was unanimous. Even the national- istic leaders, Von Knilling of Bavaria and Brandenstein of Mecklinburg, ac- cepted the majority opinion without serious argument. e+ * Germany Wanted Absolute Moratotium. PARIS, April 15.—Germany is sur- prised that thé Dawes committee of experts did not recommend her an absolute moratorium, Herr Schacht, German Financial expert, is quoted as saying in an interview printed in the Echo de Paris today. The newspaper’s Berlin correspon- dent quotes Schacht, who has repre- sented Germany in various negotia- tions here, as declaring the Dawes recommendations over-estimate Ger- many’s capacity to pay. Schacht’s utterances may be con- sidered as especially important, the correspondent says, because he par- ticipates in all the meetings of the German Ministerial Council. oe Extend Micum Agreements. PARIS, April 15.—Premier Poincare presiding at the‘cabinet meeting to- day, confirmed reports that the ac- cords between the Franco-Belgians and German industrialists in the Rubr (the Micum agreements) have been extended for two months. see MacDonald Is Satisfied. LONDON, April 15.— The British Government 1s entirely satisfied with the Dawes report on German repara- tions, Prime Minister MacDonald said in the House of Commons this after- noon. Great Britain will support the Dawes recommendations in their en- tirety, provided other parties concern- ed adopt a similar course, MacDonald said. . There is universal interest extensively published in the DAI We are, therefore, sure that of the two resolutions on party published on Page Five today. the Central Control Comm This was unanimously adopte: Central Control Commission. Tu What Did the Russian Communists Decide? thinking workers especially, about the decisions of the Ru munist Party growing out of its recent discussions, which have been The first of these is the Resolution of the Central Committee of in Concerning the Party Structure. Bureau of the Russian Communist Party and o' TOMORROW: The Immediate Tasks of the Economic Policy. HEARST KNEW ABOUT PLOT 10 STEAL TEAPOT |, | AT6.0. P. CONVENTION | WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15.— “It was generally known that there was a conspiracy at the Republican | national convention to select a nominee who would lease Teapot | Dome,” Ballard testified, adding | that he believed this was the domi- nant issue at the convention. Asked if he would name three re- sponsible citizens who would bear out his statements, Ballard named Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, E. L. Doheny and “Mr. Hearst,” who he said he believed would tell the committee | the same story. | | | MINNESOTA STAR, TRAITOR TO LABOR | CAN'T GET BUYER, Even Hearst Refuses To! Bid\On It (By The Federated Press) i} ; MINNEAPOLIS, April 15.—The Minnesota Star, founded as a Farmer- |Labor daily in 1920, and now describ-| |ing itself as “independent,” failed to| interest possible purchasers when the| time for opening bids came in district | court here. Sealed bids had been; |ealled for, but none were received. | | The daily, which has been in re- | ceiver'’s hands on motion of a creditor |paper company, was valued at $2 -| |000 in a verbal bid for all the assets |by the attorney for Thomas Van |Lear, present editor, John Thompson, | {present business manage,r and A. B. |Frizzel, who handles Great Northern | railroad advertising. The receiver, a |Minneapolis advertising man, refused | |to consider the offer. Another bid of $100,000, made for the same interests, | \carried with it the pledge to keep the Daper.going and pay the creditors out jof the earnings. This was also re-| jected. | Dropped Labor Policy. | Altho the circulation of the Star) has slowly climbed until it is now ap-| | proaching 60,000, this has been at the} expense of practically all the features | \that formerly distinguished it as a| farmer and labor daily. Appeals to these elements to buy the paper and make it once more a militant daily or- gan of the producers in Minnesota and the northwest have failed. The liabilities were considered too great. With about half of the circulation of the older dailies in Minneapolis, the department stores and other firms were willing to pay the Star half the standard advertising rate. Hearst in- terests looking into the Star plant de- cided not to buy because the only chance of its becoming a going con- |cern, in their opinion, was to make it a spirited third party organ, which they are not now willing to do. Van Lear-Townley Fight. Bitter quarrels between Van Lear} jand A, C. Townley, Nonpartisan League chieftain, who usually con- trols a majority of the proxies at stock-holders meetings, have marked the recent history of the daily. Van Lear in 1922 ousted the original editor, Herbert Gaston, whom he now charges with some of the responsibi- lity for the extensive investment in plant made in 1920. Gaston has shown that Van Lear was on the board of directors at the time the important decisions were made. Has Beer Come Back? Police captains were called before Chief Morgan Collins today to refute, if they could, rumors that “beer is back” in Chicago. The chief is in- sistent that the beer war continue and that station captains carry their share of the burden in eufdrcing the dry laws. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get one of them to subscribe today. thruout the United Stat LY WORKER. there will be an extensive reading policy, the first of which is being lion of the Political he Presidium of the rn to Page Five and read it today. PICK HUGHES TO FRAME THE CAL PROGRAM G.0.P. To Stand On “Record” (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, April 15.— In selecting his running mate and writing the platform of his party this year, President Cool- idge will refuse uncompromis- ingly to try to please the La Fol- lette liberals or any other group outside the regular conservative republicans. The President is understood here to have very definite ideas about both the man who will occupy the second place on the ticket and the platform on which he is to run. To Be Born in White House. The platform undoubtedly will be drafted at the White House, with the President and Secretary of State Hughes taking a leading part in writ- ing it. This subject has already re- ceived general consideration so that it is well understood that the strike- breaker President wants the platform to do these things: 1. Express the party’s purpose to punish all wrongdoers in official place: This will be done without in any way cringing under criticism, or accepting all the blame for conditions revealed by the scandal investiga- tions. Don’t Like “Blocs.” . Pledge the party to uphold “ma- jority rule” in the conduct of the gov- ernment, as distinguished from rule by coalitions or blocs, In otheg. Or the platform will constitute an at- tempt to rally voters anew around the party standard and restore the broken down party system. 3. Point with pride to Republican chievements and promise a corstruc- tive program of legislation and gov- ernmental economy, providing the country-will give the party a working majority in Congress. Urge Someone “Steadfastly True.” The President wants a running mate who is a thoroly staunch party man, who has been steadfastly true to the regular wing of the party and who will not, if elected, be likely to “play with” the various blocs and groups in the Senate. Salmon F iehete A Rebel; Coastwide Strike Is Likely, (By The Federated Press) SEATTLE, April 15.—When the ship Libby Maine signed up a non- union fisherman crew for salmon can- nery work in Alaska, union sailors quit here. Efforts are being made by the packers to ignore the Alaska Fisherman’s Union as well as the Sailors’ Union in outfitting cannery boats for the summer season. Re- cently the packers announced they had reformed and were banishing ob- jectionable features from the “hell ships,” Workers find condtions worse this year than last. eee SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.—The Alaska Fishermen’s Union has called a meeting to propose an ultimatum to the Alaska Packers’ Association, which, if rejected, will probably pre- cipitate a coastwide strike. The fish- ermen claim that the packers have practically established a lockout by putting their ships to sea with non- union crews. There is no trouble over wages or hours, but the discussion centers around working conditions and recognition of the union. Three Killed On Fascisti Dirigible Which Broke Away ROME, April 15.—Three men were killed today when the newly coi structed army dirigible N-1 brok® from its moorings during a wink? « squal and was whirled away. The men—two soldiers and a meci#* anician—were holding ground ropeat and failed to drop in time as the bij! airship bounded into the air. They were carried high in the air and dashed to pieces as they fell on the hard field when unable to cling to the ropes any longer, The skeleton crew aboard the air ship finally got it under control and brought it back safely to its hangar,