The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 27, 1924, Page 3

COOLIDGE DEALT BLOW BY CLEARING OF OIL PROBER More Evidence Comes On Framing of Strikers By LAURENCE TODD. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) WASHINGTON, May 26,—Adoption by the Senate, by a vote of 66 to 5, of the majority report of the Borah committee, holding Sen. Wheeler of Montana, to be innocent of any viola- tion of the letter or the spirit of the law, in the technical frameup indict- ment brought against him in Montana by the Daugherty-Coolidge-Lockwood political organization, involves these consequences: 1, It deals a terrific blow to the Re- publican National Committee and to Coolidge, in whose interest the indict- ment was brought. 2. It smashes the drive of the ad- ministration to stop the investigation of its crooks and crookedness by the Senate and House. 8. It establishes a warning to fed- eral judicial machinery, to keep hands off the work of legislative bodies in future. Senators who ventured ‘to vote with the administration on one or the other of the three rollcalla taken on this is- sue of the Wheeler plot were Curtis of Kansas, Moses of New Hampshire, Phipps of Colorado, Reed of Pennsyl- vania, Spencer of Missouri, Stanfield of Oregon, Wadsworth of New York, Warren of Wyoming and Willis of Ohio. Framer of Strikers At Bay. In The most tumultuous session of his investigating committee yet held, Wheeler had prefaced his own vindi- cation by bringing to bay in the wit- nes chair the man behind the recent shadowing of the committee and es- pionage upon Gaston Means, and his callers. This was Hiram Todd of New York, a hard-boiled, loud-voiced, sneering individual who boasted of his effectiveness in jailing railroad strik- ers at the direction of Daugherty. He reveived $1,000 a month for that job, undertaken “when we found that public sentiment in the west was turn- ing against the strike.” Some months ago. Daugherty assigned him to prose- cute Gaston Means, and meanwhile, as Wheeler showed, Todd has been let- ting great numbers of bootleggers slip thru the hands of the law after their indictment in New York. Never Prosecuted Bosses. ‘When Toda bragged of having con- vieted the railroad brotherhood men who stopped some trains, at ‘the ex- pectation of a strike, at Needles, Cal., Sen. Brookhart asked if he had ever convicted any railroad managers or business men—the DuPonts, for in- stance, or ahy of the other war fraud criminals, Todd replied that that had not been his job. Wheeler suggested, after a series of clashes in which they ran a risk of blows, that Daugherty never put this go-getter on any case that he “didn’t want to have prosecuted.” Then he produced a letter from one Gilchrist, clerk of the federal court in New York, to Judge Killits in To- ledo, a notorious reactionary, notify- ing Killits that Todd wanted him as- signed to New York to try Means. Todd, when pinned down to declar- ing that Gilchrist had not told the truth, refused to deny that he had named Killits as the judge he wanted. Earlier in the day he had denounced Means as a “crook,” thereby disquali- fying himself as a fair public prose- cutor of Means’ case. The disclosure that he had tried to pick his judge merely rounded out the impression he had already made—As a typical Daugherty agent. ——— HOWAT § Extracts fron Ales Alex Howat's great speech ‘to the convention of Illinois miners are given below from the of- ficial convention records. In contrast to the petty bickering with which Frank Farrington tried to discredit Howat, both Howat’s original speech and his reply to the heckling of Far- rington go straight to the heart of the rank and file miner, Howat’s speech is @ defense of the coal-digger against the pay-roll official. It opposes the ob- structive attitude that nothing can be done and presents the constructive program of the Progressive Miners’ Committee. Said Howat: “TI refused to go down the line on certain things and incurred the en- mity, of President Lewis. That is the reason I was kicked out of the miners union two years and seven months ago without a trial and without the least justification for it. When we were in jail President Lewis never sent a telegram or letter; he never sent a man down there to see if we had carried out the instructions of the convention. He never sent a tele- gram asking me if I had ordered the men back to work. No. When we were engaged in a fight against the Industrial Court Law, President Lewis got on our back with Governor Allen and kicked us out of the miners’ union, Farrington Misled. “I concede the right of any man in this country to support any man he pleases; I take that right for myself, but I feel that President Farrington has been misled in some way and that he did not have a just cause for not going down the line with us. “I suppose if I had told President Lewis that I would go down the line with him, right or wrong, that I would be with him, thru thick and thiny no matter what the fight was, and if some strong man ran against him for president at some time I would be with him, I suppose I might still be president of the Kansas miners. I did not do that, and I am not going to smother my principles for any man. Iam not going to be a member of the miners’ union by sacrificing my prin- ciples as a man, Howat Goes the Limit. “The Kansas miners will testify whether I have always gone the limit during the years I had the honor to represent them in standing for their rights. I would rather go to jail fight- ing for a principle than to surrender a principle in order to stay out of jail. I would rather go to jail fighting for the rights of the miners than to stay out of jail by giving away their rights. I would rather be put out of my official position and out of the miners’ union for standing for the rights of the men than to give away their rights and stay on the job and stay in the organization as a member. “Of course, I could have got along more easily if I had permitted the coal operators to impose upon the men, but when I was elected president of that district I said I was going to (Continued From Page 1.) further reports at intervals since then. No suit has yet been filed.” U. S. Strike Breaking Proved. Representative Lineberger of Los Angeles, banker and former civil en- gineer, who entered the committee room after Rice had told of the strike- breaking contribution by the ship- ping board, vouched for the reliability of F. C. McDonald, general president |” of the California State Building Trades Council, whom Rice cited as lad: ae Y bi dodastedhcsniodel dS OUNDS CALL FOR MILITANT UNIONISM see that the men received justice at the hands of the operators. I have tried to carry out that policy in the many years I had the honor to repre- sent the Kansas miners. After Howat finished speaking, President Farrington, in an effort to counteract the tremendous effect pro- duced upon the corfvention by Howat's speech, said in part: “Since this convention has been in session one delegate has gone out of his way to say the president of the Illinois Mine Workers was guilty of an act of treachery towards Alexail- der Howat. Do you believe that, Alex?” Why Did Farrington Quit. Mr. Howat: Mr. Chairman, I could not say it in those words. During the sixteen months we were in jail Pres- ident Farrington and the Illinois min- ers made a splendid fight in our be- half, and some time later on, after I got out of jail, President Farrington, for reasons of his own, wrote me and advised me that he could not go with me any longer. I realize that the fight he was leading had a tremendous ef- fect, and when I received his letter I was sorry that he did not feel he could go along with us to the end of the fight. “While you were in the fight, Pres- ident Farrington, you made a good fight and I was sorry, of course, when you felt you could not go along with me. I felt it would have a bad effect upon some of the officials in other parts of the country who might be disposed to go with me. I felt that you had been misled in some way and did not have a just cause for quitting the fight before it was won.” Admits Lewis’ Guilt. Mr. Farrington: “The Chair wants to say this: I don’t believe there is anyone in this convention who have said as many times as I have said it that there was no warrant under the laws of the miners’ organization that would sustain President Lewis in do- ing the things he did to Alexander Howat. I have said that in season and out of season, by word of mouth and by pen, in the presence of Presi- dent Lewis and in his absence, and I say it here and now again—there was no warrant in the laws of the miners’ union that would sustain International President Lewis in doing the things that were done to Alexander Howat and the Kansas mine workers. Tries to Explain. “I suppose the convention is inter- ested in knowing why I wrote Alexan- der Howat and told him I could not go any further with him. “IT had reasons for telling Alex I could not go any farther with him. We have a dual movement in the min- ers’ organization now known as the Miners’ National Progressive Com- mittee, I think, It has been pro- nounced as being dual to ‘the United Mine Workers of America by the In- ternational Executive Board of our union. It fs headed by W. Z. Foster, who has openly declared that he is going to ileanllcalaign bh fe oc dtd cd gM a Mt dene aot POD lac the present trade close friend of Secretary of the Wilbur. Rice then testified that McDonald furnished him with a list of the con- tributors to this $1,200,000 fund in support of the illegal attempt to union movement if he can. any fight with Foster but I am not going to associate myself with him. “This so-cailed progressive commit- tee had a meeting in Pittsburgh dur- ing the month of June last year. W. Z. Foster was one of the leaders in that movement. Alex went down there and participated in it. He will not deny that, I think. They made plans in that meeting to capture the miners’ organization and run it in their way. And Foster, a man who is not a miner or @ member of the organization at all, was one of the chief actors in that meeting. Alex Refuses Machine's Command. “Alex went down there against our advice and he identified himself with that gang. When he did that I wrote him a letter and told him that, so far as I was concerned, I was done, that I did not propose to align myself or identify myself with W. Z. Foster and @ lot of other I. W. W. and Commun- ists who were trying to destroy the United Mine Workers of America. Isn’t that what I told you, Alex?” Mr. Howat: “Yes.” Hindmarsh Boils Over. Delegate Hindmarsh: “Will chair submit to a question?” President Farrington: ‘When I get thru, yes. We have their agents in this convention; they have. been with us ever since we have been in session proselyting among the dele- gates. They have no business here, Some of them are voting on ques- ions that come before this conven- I haven't the tion, even though they have no right to do it. Their paper is distributed here every morning, their representa- tive sits at the press table, and each day he is misrepresenting the pro- ceedings of this convention—everybody is a thief and a crook and a reaction- ary. Everything your president does has an ulterior motive behind it, ac- cording to their version of things. And I say to you that if they were in any place but a miners’ convention and they would say the things about the presiding officer of that conven- tion they have said about the presid- ing officer of this convention, they would be thrown out of the conven- tion. “I have publicly declared on numer- ous occasions, from the. housetops, if you please, that, in my opinion, Alex- ander Howat had been done an out- Tageous injustice. But if W. Z. Fos- ter and that gang are going to straighten out Alex’s troubles, I am going to let them do the job and I don’t propose to have anything more to do with it. Always Apposed Dual Unionism. In a masterful reply, Alexander Ho- wat tells the meaning of the Pitts- burgh conyention of the Progressive Miners’ Committee and refutes Far- rington’s statements that the progres- sive miners stand for dual unionism. Mr. Howat: “Lest a wrong impres- sion be left, I want to say I am not striking at the vitals of the United Mine Workers. “IT have advised the miners in all SHOW UNCLE SAM STRIKEBREAKER |\SEX SLAVERY ON =| PLANTATIONS UP TO BRITISH LABOR break up the building trades and all empaienty B Prostitution other unions in California. Lineberger asked whether Califor- nia business had “officially” taken part in this anti-union war. He asked concerning the part played “officially” by the Bankers’ Association, On Islands Continue By W. FRANCIS AHERN. MELBOURNE, Australia, May 26.— the | Will the British Labor government his informant with regard to the ship-|Chamber of Commerce, the Mer-|tolerate the manner in which native owners’ contributing to the building |°M@"ts and Manufacturers’ Associa-|janor {s exploited by the French au- trades war in San Francisco. Line- berger said McDonald is “no fire- brand,” and Rice added that he is a "600,000 Miners Locked-out In Germany 7,000 Workers In German Prisons Shall the wives and children of these class-war victims be permitted to starve? Or shall we come to ae rescue in the spirit of SELF HELP AND IN TERNATIONAL WORKERS’ SOLIDARITY Today It Is Germany. Tomorrow It May Be America. Sign that German Relief Brigade List ‘ THEY ARE CALLING! ee | 119 So, Lincoln St., Chicago, Il. Enclosed please find : agar courts rll aarh meray aca rattan: pecan F mmittee for International Workers’ Ald, \Committee for International Workers’ Aid isis, tion, and the Better America tion. Rice did not know about the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation of Los Angeles, but safd that the officers and members of the other groups had helped in the drive to destroy union labor, Lineberger then asked that McDonald’s list of con- tributors to that fund be produced for the record. O'Connor Tells of Scab Pledge. board testified that, at the time of the 1919 strike on the Pacific coast, he went out there as head of the Long- shoremen’s International Union, altho the strike was an unauthorized one, fund an assessment based on the dead-weight tonnage of their ships. About $500,000 was raised for the maintenance of “hiring halls” where the anti-union pledge was exacted of all applicants for jobs on ships. Rice testified that ex-service men were » Expose O'Connor's Treason, Answering questions by Represen- tative Cooper, Rice testified that O’Connory after he became chairman of the board, wrote a letter to Dis- trict Director Simms, ordering him to disregard clause 3 in the contract made with operators of ships, thereby permitting the hiring of men thru these union-seeking agencies. O’Con- men for government or not. district director for the in a rej ren, dg not say whether the anti-union rule/the navy. still prevailed on government ships|the sinking of the Australia, the prime Federa-|thoritios in the New Hebrides islands (South Pacific ocean) and women are handed over by the French for com- mon use of the male workers? Independent investigations show that the position of women on French plantations in the islands in intoler- able. The women are illegally taken, and “illegally kept beyond their time. They are used by the planters to de- coy men. They are married or di- Chairman O'Connor of the shipping | yorced at the will of the planter, ‘and are given over to the promiscuous use of men. In other words, enforced prostitution seems to be the order of e day. The British government, which with The shipping boards had joined in |the French government exercises joint paying into the shipowners’ strike | intro) of the fslands, has acknowl- edged that these conditions exist, but protests its inability to put a stop to the practices, From .what The Federated Press is able to gather from traders and mis- sionaries joint control of the islands has failed to protect the natives or to settle a single land dispute. Now that a labor government is in control in Great Britain, it is urged that steps be taken to secure complete control of the islands by the elimina- tion of the French, whose ideas of colonization in the New Hebrides are not in line with civilized standards. Profitable Disarmament SYDNEY, N, 8. W.—In conformity nor made no direct reply, but said|With the Washington peace pact, the that he had tried to see that the “hir-| battleship Australia, formerly flagship did not exclusively furnish|of the Australian navy, was sunk in ships; he could|the prpsence of the other vessels ot On the evening following minister announced building two new Rice stated that the fact of pay-|cruisers—the combined tonnage of ment of the $163,000 to the scab-en-|which would more than equal that of fund was certified by BH, W.|the vessel sunk. which Rice for-| Every new subscriber increases the t of justice.| influence of the DAILY WORKER, parts of the country that, no matter what grievances they had or how dis- satisfied they mtight be with their officials or the way their organization was run, to stay in the United Mine Workers of America, and if they had any differences, to fight them out on the inside and not on the outside. I have advised the miners in my own @strict to do that. That is my ad- vice now. If I was trying to disrupt the organization I would not expect President Farrington or any other man who had the welfare of the min- ers at heart to be with me, but I be- lieve President Farrington and the miners of this country know I am not trying to disrupt the miners’ union. I have always tried to do my part to make the miners’ union stronger, and that will be my policy in the future, no matter what may become of my case. Whether or not I will be put out of the union again, I will always advise the miners to stay on the in- side and fight out their differences. Farrington A Quitter, “President Farrington wrote the let- ter referred to neurly a year ago. It is true he told me he could not go along with me any longer. I felt that he did not have a just cause for quit- ting me in the fight. I had not done anything to justify his action and that President Farrington had been misin- formed by somebody. About Pittsburgh Conference. “Some of the best men, in my opin- ion, we have in the miners’ union were in that meeting. I was not a member of the United Mine Workers at that time and felt I had no right to take a part in their proceedings because the meeting was composed of members of the union. I knew that some of the men there had been thru the fight years ago to establish the miners’ union in this country. Progressives The Best Fighters. “Regardless of what the Interna- tional may say about that meeting, the men there had no mofe thought of establishing a dual movement in the miners’ union than you men in this convention have today. I knew most of the men who were there, I had known many of them for years as some of the best fighters in the orga- nization. I was not a delegate, I had no part in the meeting, ang I have no hesitancy in saying here that if I-had been a member of the miners’ union, if I had been president of District 14 at that time, I expect I would have been a delegate to that convention, but not with any thought of disrupt- ing the United’ Mine Workers of Amer- ica, not with any thought of doing something that was detrimental in any way to the interests of the min- ers’ unfon or to the interests of the coal miners of the country. I would have been there with the thought of making our organization better and stronger, better able to do more for the rank and file of the coal miners than the International Union is doing at the present time. “One of the things the miners there had in mind was to draw up a plat form demanding certain things the miners of the country wanted. If that platform had been referred to a re ferendum vote of the members of our union, I believe they would have vot ed 95 per cent to adopt it. There was no thought on my part or on the part of the men who attended that conven- tion to do anything that would be de- trimental to the best interests of the union, One of the things they had in mind was to try to get the coal min- ers of this country organized among themselves to go into the Interna- tional convention and fight for some of the things they helieved would be for the best interest of the miners. Rank and File Agree. “One of the things they wanted the miners to stand together for was the six-hour work-day, another was na- tionalization of the mines and another was reinstatement of the officials of District 14. I believe a majority of the delegates here read the platform adopted at that meating, and J have not heard one word Gf condemnation here or on the part of any miner in the country of the platform adopted in the Pittsburgh meeting nearly a year ago. Why Farrington Quit. “I felt that President Farrington had been misled by some of my ene- mies who had told him things he did not mention in the letter. “If President Farrington had gone along in the fight it might be over now. It is true, as he says, that I have never heard that he said any- thing against me, and I hope if he can- not see his way clear to go along with me in the fight until it is over after hearing my explanation, that he and none of the other officials will put anything in my way to make the fight harder. It has been a long, hard fight, but I have always had faith in the United Mine Workers of America, and I feel when they know the truth they will give me a square deal. “Any time I can fe of service to the miners here or any place else, wheth- er I am a member of their union or not, you will always find my voice raised for the miners and the work- ing class. Not a Job Hunter. “I appreciate as much as it is pos- sible for any human being to appre- ciate anything, the way you have stood with me in this fight. I believe the rank and file of the miners are overwhelmingly in favor of seeing us reinstated in the miners’ union. “I am glad at least the rank and file stayed with me even tho nearly all the officials of the miners’ union heave been against me all the way thra the fight, with very few excep- tions. “If the time ever comes that I have to vote to crucify some poor devil to uphold the International President in order to stay on the pay-roll, I hope some one will blow my head off.” FORD PLANNING FIVE DAY WEEK AT HIGHER SPEED AND LESS PAY; WOULD SAVE $30,000,000 YEARLY By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) To swell the profits of the Ford family by another $30,000,- 000 a year, workers in the Ford automobile plants may be asked to produce as much for 5 days pay as they now produce for six, according to the Detroit bureau of The Wall Street journal. Henry will recall his continual advocacy of the five day week on the eee ground that the extra day of rest would enable workmen to turn out as much in five days as he now turns out in six. tion from a five-day week as he now gets from six days, profits on this year’s basis would be swelled to approximately $112,000,000 on the in- But in the industrial system, in|vested capital totaling $435,000,000. which profit is all important, the en- tire gain from such increased produc- tivity belongs to capital. Ford pays more only when it means greater pro- ifts. $82,263,483 Not Enough, Ford’s profits of $82,263,488 for the year ended February 29, 1924, are not considered satisfactory particularly as they represent almost no profit on the 2,200,000 cars turned out during that period. Actual profits from car sales were only $4,113,488 or less than $2 a car. As remarked by The Wall Street Journal, Ford Motor Company is now selling automobiles practically at cost. In the previous year the sale of new cars netted $56,000,000 of the $119,000,000 profits realized. This year’s profits came almost en- tirely from sale of parts, from exces- sive freight charges collected on, au- tomobile shipments, from by-products and from interest on the cash re- sources of the concern. Working 7,000,000 Ford Owners. It is estimated that each of the 7,000,000 Ford owners buys about $40 worth of parts a yi of which the Ford company’s share is $28, The com- pany’s profit takes about $4.20 of this or $29,400,000 a year, The difference between the freight charged to the customer and the freight paid by the company to the railroads is estimated at $16 a car, adding $32,750,000 to the last year’s profit column which is shown with that of the previous year in the following table: Ford Profits 1923 1922 $29,400,000 $ 25,500,000 6,000,008 8,000,000 32,760,000 22,500,000 10,000,000 == 7,432,000 483 55,866,862 «$82,263,483 $119,298,862 From freight... From by-prod. From new cars 4,1. It Ford should get the same produc: ‘| Workers Made It All. It the workers ere asked to sacri- fice one-sixth of their wages, about $12 per car, to make up this satisfac- tory return the question whether this enormous investment is not in reality the investment of the employes during 20 years becomes pertinent. The or- iginal capital from which this huge concern developed was $28,000, Sur- plus profits provided the rest. Surplus profits at the end of the year had accumulated to $442,041,081 or $2,560 per share of stock, This was produced by the most scientific ex- ploitation of workers yet devised. This result of the worker's increased productivity exists as an excuse for larger profits rather than as a basis for shorter hours without reducing pay showing how small ié the work- er’s stake in industrial progress s0 long as it is dominated by private in- terests. ments will be accepted. Frankenstein, 4501 Ellis Ave., Telephone oo... Most convenient nights.. Page Three JAP ENVOY MAY LEAVE AS BAN BILL PROTEST Or Stay If Coolidge Vetoes Exclusion Act WASHINGTO. 26.—Masanao Hanihara, Japanese moassador to Washington, will resign his post here if President Coolidge signs the im- migration bill providing for Japanese exclusions, it was learned authoritive- ly today. Action by the president on the bill is expected momentarily. Should Hanihara quit, the two coun- tries would be without ambassadors in their respective capitals at a time of somewhat strained relations, Cyrus E. Woods, American ambassador to Tokio already has resigned. Hanihara, it is said, feels that his usefulness here would be over if the immigration bill is signed. He feels, however, that the situation would be different if the president vetoed the measure. Oust All Traitors F rom Parliament, Australians Demand By W. FRANCIS AHERN (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) SYDNEY, N. S. W., May 26.—Recall of renegade labor representatives in parliament and the five day, 40 hour week for men and women workers with streetcar fares paid by the employer are the principal planks in the New South Wales Labor council program. 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