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Monday, May 12, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER Page Three DEFENSE. COUNCIL BULLETIN. SHOWS DEBT OF $5000 Date of Ruthenberg Hearing Set The Labor Defense Council has is- sued the following letter to the mem- bers of the national committee accom- panying the financial statement, which is published herewith: To L, D. C. Officers and Committee, Dear Friend: Enclosed is the financial statement for the first four months of 1924, show- ing $13,626.69 raised. This is con- sidered very good in the face of the conditions and difficulties. We have @ little over $2,000 in the bank, which, with what we can raise over the sum- mer, will be needed in connection with the Ruthenberg Appeal. We are in debt $5,000, but see no prospects of being able to pay it off, unless we get some large donations. This is because the workers, from whom the bulk of the money has come during the last year and a half, have given over and over again and cannot be expected to respond to calls this summer, in the face of the delay in the Ruthenberg hearing, the natural summer apathy, competitive appeals for other worthy causes, and unemployment. The delay in the Ruthenberg Ap- peal is no“fault of the defense attor- neys, who have been ready for the last six months. Each month the prose- cution has asked for a delay. Now, however, it seems that things will be speeded up. Judge White has set May 10th as the final date for filing the Bill of Exceptions. In all likelihood, then, the date for the hear- ing of Ruthenberg’s Appeal before the Michigan Supreme Court will be set for early fall. Fraternally yours, Labor Defense Council. ~ (Signed) GEORGE MAURER, Secretary. Financial Statement. First Quarter April Receipts. toe. 1624 Total Bub) Liste... $2,867.12 § 499.63 ——_ joupons pret co 3,689.83 1,698.34 Fraternal Greanizations 916.58 495.25 Local L. D. Couctis 2,011.74 45,88 Tnaividuaisw. 835;20 224.21 Miscellaneo ¥ v Interest yj, eel 480 Slavic bureau 814.10 (other entries) Totals $10,641.08 $2,986.61 $13,626.69 Balance Dec. 31, 1923 in- cluding $250 in bail £UNd....sssss60 1,022.15 $14,648.84 Disbursements Collection er eaten Datape | $1,885.66 ~ 364.06 aay, licity” wore 41.46. 245.13 aiselanesus 204.49 14.60 $2,856.28 inistration Expense Magee a 1,810.00 267,00 pane yas 383.43 65.83 pA my Pa 152.39 18.70 ertst hange .... 31.23 4.50 Miscellaneous 50.00 6.93 $2,290.01 500.00 Legal expenses ... 180.00 1,000.00 $6,680.00 Depos. on Lease 150.00 Bal Refuned .... 250,00 Furniture Bought ..... Totals... Balance April 30, 1924 9.50 $14,648.84 Parade Impair Profits. ST. LOUIS, May 11.— If anybody wants to parade at night or on Sunday in downtown St. Louis, he will be per- mitted, providing big business does not exercise its undisputed pull at the city hall. Otherwise, “good night.” Director of Streets and Sewers Fiske has yielded to the protests of downtown merchants against parades with their accompanying brass bands, floats and decorated automobiles. The merchants’ complained that these at- tractions during business hours have a tendency to attract employes to the windows and away from their work, “to the detriment of efficiency.” No more parade permits will be issued in the restricted district until the invisi- ble municipal government lifts the ban. CROOKS, THIEVES AND STOOLPIGEONS POISON THE WASHINGTON OZONE AS GRAFT CESSPOOL IS PROBED DEEPER By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, May 11—Harry Daugherty, as attorney gen- eral of the United States, put a government secret agent on the trail of Senator Wheeler, with orders to “ of any wrongdoing couid be discovered. tt” Wheeler if evidence hat was the substance of William J. Burns’ testimony before the committee investigat- TO ing the department of justice, KU KLUX KLAN. BIG POWER IN INDIANA POLL Old Party Politicians Planning | Accordingly INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 11.—Out of the wreckage left in the path of Tuesday’s primary election, Indiana Political leaders today were starting to rebuild their campaign plans and try- ing to measure the strength of a new power in state politics—the Ku Klux Klan. From the governorship race down to the contest over local offices, the pri- mary was marked by surprises and up- sets. Election returns did not come in the way politicians figured they were going to. The klan had been to the polls. i Jackson Is Klan Candidate. The klan nominated Ed. Jackson as the republican candidate for gover- nor by a majority of 35,000 over five other candidates when politictans had agreed that a majority was impossible. It left Mayor Shank of Indianapolis, the anti-klan candidate, trailing 130,- 000 votes behind in second place. Anti-klan strength in the democratic party lifted Mayor Durgan of Lafay- ette from thé obscurity to which the old guard leaders had consigned him and put him second in a field of eight running for the nomination for gov- ernor. Neutral Candidate Defeated. The split of strength among the can- didates prevented the nomination of Dr. Carleton McCulloch, backed by Tom Taggart, democratic boss of In- diana. McCulloch had a substantial plurality, but not the necessary ma- jority and the nomination will be made in convention. McCulloch was neutral on the klan issue. Some Child Slavery Facts Admitted In Bosses’ Conference NEW YORK, May 11.—Half of the child workers between 14 and 15 years of age in the United States are unprotected by law. Half of the fac- tories of the country are working their employes longer than 48 hours a week. These are some of the points brought out by a report of the em- ployers’ National Industrial Confer- ence Board, New York. The report states in part: “Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia have fixed an 8-hour day as the maximum for children, while in Virginia 44 hours is their maximum work week. In 19 states the weekly period is shortened so that children may attend parttime school, and in a few such cases the working week for children under 16 is only 40 hours during the school year. “The workday for women is held down to 8 hours by law in only 8 states. Fourteen permit a 9-hour day and in 18 states 10 hours or more are permitted. Altho the customary legal limit of work for men is 10 hours a day, in special occupations it is set at 8 hours.” In agriculture which has 46.6 per cent of all working children, accord- ing to the report, there is no legal protection. Nor are‘the many chil- dren in domestic service safeguarded by law. Woman Teachers Draw Equal Pay. ALBANY, N. Y.— Women teachers in the public schools of New York state will receive equal pay with men teachers as a result of a bill signed by Gov. Smith, effective Sept. 1. of Russia’s Late See Birth Main Floor and Balcony 75c. 1825 S. Loomis St.; Vilnis, 241 w. Room 307, 166 W. Washington St. CESSES SASS SaaS SSS aaa See Russia and Germany ‘A TALE OF TWO REPUBLICS Eight Reel wonder Film shows stirring scenes from the life and Death of Labor Governments In Saxony and Thuringia COMING TO ORCHESTRA HALL, MAY 14th At 7:00 and 9:00 P. M. Only Night Only Tickets for sale at Room 307, 166 W. Washington St. TICKETS FOR SALE AT—Radical Book Shop, 824 N. Clark St.; Horsley’s Book Shop, 1688 W. Madison St.; Walden Book Shop, 307 Plymouth Ct.; Brady’s Book Shop, 3145 Broadway; Ceshinsky’s Book Store, 2720 W. Division St.; Benson's Cigar Store, 1151 Belmont Ave.; Biondi’s Candy Store, 4937 W, 14th St.; Daily Worker, 1113 W. Wash- ington Blvd.; Liberator, 1009 N. State St Room 214; §; 3S. Halsted St.; Division St.; Fretheit, 1145 Blue Island Premier—Lenin. Gallery 50c, Boxes $6.00. vedinost, hool, 1902 Box Offfce; Technical Ave.; ‘when the head of the detective bureau of that department was recalled to the stand on May 7. Burns was in one of his worst-hu- mored moods when Wheeler drew this admission from him. His attempts to browbeat the Montanian failed, however, to break down the smiling persistence with which Wheeler un- covered the conspiracy against him- self that led up to his indictment by one of Daugherty’s federal grand juries, Burns Lies Again. Ralph Hately, who died at about the time of the indictment, was the Burns man who was sent out to “get” Wheel- er. Burns, said Hately was ordered to go first to Washington Court House, Ohio, Daugherty’s home town, to see a man who was supposed to know something of Wheeler's past. Arriv- ing there, he reported that the man had gone to Nashville, and he was ordered to Nashville. Burns indig- nantly denied that his own private detective agency had been involved in the matter, or in the combing of Mon- tana for bits of evidence that Wheel- er had ever broken any law. He in- sisted that Hately was a purely gov- ernment detective, travelling on gov- ernment miledge and with a govern- ment expense account. Hately failed to get anything “on” Sen. Wheeler from the Nashville trip. The man he met was an old friend of the senator, as Wheeler has testified, and he reported to Wheeler that Hate- ly had asked him whether there were not something somewhere in Wheel- er’s career “that he would not like to have known.” He was answered in the negative. Fink Trails Fink. Burns added to the evidence of cynical intrigue in the department by saying that a detective has been sha- dowing Gaston V. Means, one of Burns’ former pals who now is aiding the Senate committee. He denied that this man stole the records which Means has lost. Howard. Mannington, who lived in the Little Green House on K. Street, and who denies that he received money for his “pull” with Daugherty in the matter or whisky re- moval permits and other evasions of law, is another of Burns’ confessed “old friends from Columbus.” Burns knew Of his close association with FILIPINOS FIGHT TO REFUTE TIES OF U. S. PLUTES Imperialist Poison In Washington WASHINGTON, May 11.—The Phil- ippine Press Bureau, which is in con- stant touch with every detail of the campaign for special funds for inde- pendence in the Philippines made nec- essary by the suspension of ‘the regu- lar independence fund by the Ameri- can insular auditor with the support of the governor general, denounces as an attempt to defame the Filipino people for the purpose of defeating their just aspirations to become a free and independent nation, the spe- cial dispatch of Walter J. Robb ap- pearing in various newspapers in the United States charging that a scand- al of large proportions has developed in connection with the sending of a third parliamentary mission to the United States to work for the inde- pendence of the Philippines. To provide for:fund for propaganda in this direction all of the 50,000 civil service employes have been asked to contribute annually one-fifth of their} monthly salaries. If all contribute it is estimated that the fund thus raised will amount to about $2,000,000, and that secret pledges written on white sheets intended to be destroyed as soon as read, are made by the em- ployes. To prove that this dispatch is a mere fabrication, out of the total of 270,000 pesos (in dollars half that amorut) already subscribed and paid up to April 25, the proportion coming from government officials and employ- ‘es is less than 5 percent. Robb May Have Beén Dick. Walter J. Robb was formerly an em- ployes of the Philippine Press bureau and in the past tried to win the favor of Senate President Quezon and other Filipino leaders and is now paid by the American Chamber of Commerce, well known as opposing with all its might the political aspirations of the Filipinos. Personally and as secre- tary of that body he is conducting, as he has always done in the past, a campaign of defamation and misrep- resentation in the United States pap- ers together with other American cor- respondents such as Norbert Lyons and Russell Zeininger. Walter Robb has published many articles in Ameri- can magazines here illustrating them with photographs of practically naked non-Christian tribes of the islands for the purpose of giving the impression that the majority of the Filipinos are uncivilized. We denounce Walter Robb as a man paid by interested parties to poison the hearts of the American people against the Filipi- Daugherty. He knew, also, that Jess nos. Smith was an intimate associate of Daugherty. Burns has talked with Lockwood of the republican national committee, too, during the period of Lockwood’s most violent attacks on Wheeler and the other progressives who have probed the corruption of the Coolidge administration. And Burns’ confidential secretary, afterward a special agent, was the wife of the pri- vate secretary to Ned McLean of the Washington Post and Cincinnati En- quirer—the McLean who falsely de- clared that he lent the $100,000 to Fall. Burns on Vermin. Attorney General Stone has made no move, so far as is known, to rid the department of Burns. He has, ac- cording to Burns, ordered that the list of dollar-a-year special agents, which included McLean, Fred Upham and other big politicians in the Daugh- erty gang, be cancelled. Yet Burns seems extremely anxious that his pri- vate detective business shall not get involved in the scandal which he as a public official, has waded in. He denied, over and over, in a loud voice, any connection between the Burns agency and the attacks on senators or the defense of the administration. “A lot of these lice around here have been trying to make you believe those things, but they are false,” he shouted. Ladies Demand “Bucket of Blood.” WASHINGTON, May 11.—Patriotic ladies of the vintage of 1812 led by the valiant Mr. Noble Newton Potts, have raised the standard of American- ism against the insidious advances of pacifism, which under cloak of chris- tianity is permeating the life of this country with the red flag of Bolshe- vism tucked away in its inside pocket. ‘The venerable ladies held a protest meeting here and selected for the tar- get of their wrath the very innocuous aggregation of females listed under the general heading of the “Womens’ International League of Peace and Freedom.” After listening to blood- thirsty advocates of bigger, better and bloodier wars, wade metaphorically in gore, the patriots summed up enough energy to howl down two speakers who tried to insinuate that the organ- ization above mentioned was not en- tirely unconcerned with national ef- forts culminating in bloodletting; that they would help to bandage the wounded and serve doughnuts to the heroes on the way to their graves. Resolutions were passed urging Con- gress to stop investigating such pa- triotic citizens as Harry Sinclair, Har- ry M. Daugherty and Col, Charles Forbes but to run down the source of revenue that finances these pacifist movements. A committee was ap, pointed to go on a handshaking ex- pedition to Pres. Coolids t ' Filipino Bill Before Congress. An offer of a constitutional repub- lican government to be known as the the latest proposal of the United NO. N-MAGNETIC LABORATODY BUILT BY YOUNG SCIENTIST AT ALPINE, N. J., ON THE PALLISADE HEIGHTS ALPINE, N. J., May 11.—Where the sheer palisades rise 500 feet above the glistening Hudson at Alpine, a strange, red, mush- room-like monstrosity of architecture struggles in a tangle of young trees and underbrush. The “Mystery Castle” is a non-magnetic research laboratory. The builder is Dr. John Clawson Burnett, a youthful, sandy- haired, dynamic idealist who} haw-hawed heartily as he show- ed the correspondent about the place. Not a Commercial Enterprise. “Nothing in life is so constant as change,” he said, in explanation of his theory that all life is moving in cycles and that thru his elaborate instru- ments for stimulation of that change he can prolong and make happier ex- istence for every one. The laboratory and the little cluster of wierdly built buildings about it, are not part of a commercial enterprise, Dr. Burnett insisted. The doctor, who is 38, is a man of independent means. His wife, a former New Jersey heiress, Cora Timken, designed the unusual group of houses. The most important discovery which the doctor had to announce from among a maze of elaborate and ex- pensive machinery with which he had equipped his laboratory, was proof that the oscilloclast, a device invented by the late Dr. Albert Abrams, of Cali- fornia, actually gives off energy. “I am not yet making any claims as to the effect of this treatment by the oscilloclast upon the human body,” Dr. Burnett said. “But we have prov- |, ed beyond doubt that the machine gives off regulated energy, in direct contravention of what Henry Ford’s scientists said.” The non-magnetic laboratory is the only one of its kind in the world. There is a non-magnetic laboratory at Wash- ington, D. C., constructed upon some- what different lines. Even Paint Non-Metal. There is not a scrap of magnetic metal within 200 feet of the ungainly red building. Huge beams of long leafs pine, covered with fire-proof lathes and plaster, are the foundation of construction. Where nails and screws were necessary, they are of copper and brass. The radiators are brass; even the tiny screws in electric light fix- tures have been changed. The very paint on the walls is non-metal. A sunken platform within the main room of the laboratory goes down to the bedrock of the Palisade Cliffs, so that only an earthquake can shake it. In every way, the doctor has designed his plant by and for the most delicate instruments known to science. Dr. Burnett and Hallberg demon- strated an elaborate device that throws a motion picture of your heart beats on a scene, while another ma- chine measures the amount of air you breathe and what comes out of what goes in. They showed how a little conduetor; how a live twig, AUSTRALIAN BANKERS PROFIT ON WORLD WAR Country’s Debt $900 Per Head By W. Francis Ahern. (By The Federated Press) MELBOURNE, Australia.— The money power in Australia is raising the interest rates on loans. The first shot was fired in March when the money trust ‘forced the Australian government to convert a-5 1-4 percent bond issue into 6 percents free of in- come tax. The loan was to meet war bonus bonds issued to the soldiers in 1920, to the amount of approximately $100,- 000,000, now falling due. The govern- ment has no money to meet them. All appeals to “patriotism” fell on deaf ears. To the money trust this loan is! equivalent to a net return up to 8 percent. The bankers were able to squeeze the government because since 1920, when the bonds were issued, the fin- anciers have been quietly buying them from the war veterans. Hav- ing got the equivalent of 8 percent for government bonds, the trust is not likely to lend money for any other purpose at less. Farmers whose mortgages are awaiting renewals will, many of them, be unable to pay increased interest. Manufacturers and other industrial concerns are likewise penalized. Australia has also issued its first inflated currency and though the issue of inflated money is small—$21,000,- 000—it is a start in the direction that has sent other nations towards bank- ‘ruptey. Australia is carrying a combined war and domestic debt equal to $300 per head of population. Taxation has reached the limit and cheap loans are a thing of the past. BRITISH LABOR BACKS RUSSIAN DAMAGE BILL Rap Bankers’ Move Against Parley, LONDON, May 11.-The Anglo-Rus- sian conference is proceeding normal- ly, despite inspired reports to the con- trary. An international conspiracy to sabotage the relations between Brit- ain and Russia exists and it never worked harder than at’ present. The Daily Herald is exposing the enemies of the Soviet government and publish- ing articles from progressive labor leaders who declare that the bill for damages presented as a counter claim to Britain is thoroly justifiable and moderate. The Soviet government, thru, its representatives, demands, according to reports, the sum of $20,000,000,000, for damages caused by its armies and other hirelings in Russia during the period of active intervention. The British claims against the Soviet amount to about one-quarter this sum. The heaviest single item in the Soviet claim against England, is $12,- 213,000,000, for British support to Ad- miral Kolchak. London bankers pre- tend to laugh off the Soviet claims, but “he who laughs last laughs best,” and it is conceded that tho the bank- ers may have laughed without re- strictions up until now, the hour is approaching when they may be more inclined to pray to their Sterling God than to laugh. While British governments not ex- cepting the present one, have made loud cries about Bolshevik tyranny, it is a well-known fact that England ig inciting rebellions among the Mos- lems against the Soviet Republics. While the success of the uprisings are greatly exaggerated with the alleged instability of the Soviet power during the Anglo-Russian conference, much {loss of life is caused thru the plotting of the British imperial government. That MacDonald has not called a halt on this devilish work shows what a dyed-in-the-wool imperialist he is. The Communist Party of Great Brit- ain in a statement.demands the with- drawals of all claims against Soviet Russia. Immediate appointment of a Trade Unionist ambassador to Mos- cow, who shall be nominated by the General Council, conclusion of an eco- nomic treaty and the granting of cre- dits to the Soviet government. FAMOUS DEFENDER OF CAMERON DAM WHO KILLED SHERIFF DIED OF DROPSY IN MILWAUKEE, WIS. MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 11.—Scores of morbidly curious “Commonwealth of the Philippines” is | pith ball proved the earth a positive | People today swarmed thru the home of John Dietz, 63, for a when | last look at the “Defender of Cameron Dam,” one of the most States Congress as settlement of theJcrushed, gave off electrical energy; | picturesque characters in the history of Wisconsin. troublous Philippine affairs. The United States would retain complete control, however, for thirty-four years which provision will undoubtedly, make the Filipinos skeptical of this latest suggestion of their American exploiters. x The Bill. The bill providing for the republi- can government was proposed in the House of Representatives by Chair- man Fairfield of the committee on in- sular affairs. It provides for the hold- ing a constitutional convention, “the members of which shall be elected by the qualified electors for the pur- pose of drafting a constitution for the commonwealth. The convention shall provide for the submission of a con- stitution to the aualified electors for their ratification or rejeetion at a referendum to be held within three months or not more than five months after the adoption of the constitution by the convention.” rete “The constitution shall provide for a republican form of government with the executive power vested in the gov, ernor, the legislative power vested in the legislature, composed of a Senate and a House of Representatives, and the judicial power vested in one dy- preme court and such inferior courts as from time to time may be estab- lished.” A bill of rights including the fol- lowing provisions revocable only by the United States Congress is pro- vided: How Much Freedom? “All citizens of the commonwealth shall declare allegiance to the United States. Citizens of the United States shall have the same civil and political rights as citizens of the common- wealth. Every officer of the common- wealth shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, declare, among other things, that he recogniz- es and accepts the supreme authority of the United States and will sup- port and defend the constitution of the United States and that of the commonwealth,” ‘The bill of rights is to allow abso- lute religious toleration and tax ex- emption to all church property. At the end of the thirty-four year period the Filipinos are to decide by referendum whether the common- wealth should continue or complete independence should be theirs. So far, there has been no announce- ment of more important details of the Fairfield bill, Filipinos are wonder- ing how much authority will still be left in the hands of the Governor? and how two lights counter-act one another and produce darkness. Daugherty Will Be Compelled To Take The Witness Stand With members of his family at nis bedside—those who had yelped in the five-year battle against the state and the lumber inter- ests—the famous pioneer Badger died in a hospital last night from dropsy. Twenty years ago Dietz started farming a piece of land beside the WASHINGTON, May 11.—Hearings | Thornapple River, near Cameron dam. on the petition of former attorney gen- He managed to wrést a bare living from the farm, when lumber interests eral Daugherty’s suit for injunctions | decided to tear down the dam on the panies f, public his personal and official tele- to prevent the senate Daugherty com- | Dietz property for the purpose of float- mittee and the local telegraph com-|ing logs over the farm. Then a five- rom obtaining and making |¥ear battle started. When the sheriff and his deputies came with a writ or- dering him to move, Dietz and his grams, was deferred until May 9, when |family locked themselves in their the case came up in court today. opportunity to cross-examine Gaston Wheeler, prosecutor for the D..of J. investigating committee. The hear- s will continue thruout the month. “Phe ex-attorney general will also be given opoprtunity to testify and if he does not come willingly he will be dragged into the witness chair by force, said Senator Wheelér. “Daugh- erty is the man we want to get on the witness stand,” said Wheeler. “The hearings would not come to an end without giving the big grafter an op- portunity to make his speech. It is expected that senator Wheeler will get a clean bill of health from the Borah committee investigating the charges made against him by the Re- publican National Committee. That outfit is now pretty well discredited and their statements are no longer given any credence. . Frank A. Vanderlip hag organized a posse of investigators and prominent lawyers to run down crooks who are defrauding the government. His or- ganization is, called “The Citizens Federal Research Bureau.” He has engaged J. Weston Allen, former At- torney General of Boston, Edward J. Abbot Jr. and Albert Hurwitz to pros- ecute the culprits when caught. Mr. Allen made a reputation in Boston for convicting District Attorney Pelletier, Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus and several prominent at- torneys of blackmail. He also convict- ed Ponzi and Thomas Lawson. The fact that so many Massachusetts men are on the job in Washington bodes ill for Coolidge in the opinion of press reporters here. Efforts to idetrack thé investigations are still going on, but the powers that be, dare not come out too openly fearing an explosion and the creating of more suspicion. cabin and with rifle and revolver Counsel for Daugherty will be given |fought back the invaders. For five years Dietz and his fam- B. Means, declared Senator Burton K. |ily held off all attempts to evict them. On October 8, 1910, Dietz and his HAVE family were captured after a fight in which Deputy Oscar Harn was killed. Dietz was found guilty of murder in the first degree, while his wife and son Leslie, also charged with murder, were freed. Dietz was sentenced to life, but on May 13, 1921, he was par- doned. Weavers Walk Out. WATERVILLE, Me.—More than 400 weavers at the Wyandotte Worsted Mills, Waterville, walked out in an ef- fort to block the speeding up sys- tem. One worker is expected to op- erate four of the new automatic looms. Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- scriber. YOUR PRINTING DONE IN YOUR OWN SHOP. From New, Clean Type On Our New Presses 7 ANYTHING IN THE PRINTING LINE from a card to a newspaper can be printed in the shop of THE DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING COMPANY. 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