The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 29, 1924, Page 5

RETR. -», velopment. Thursday, May 29, 1924 ' CENTRALIA WHITE GUARD “HONORED” BY GRAFT EXPOSE Collectors Got All The > Monument Money By Defense News Service. CENTRALIA, Wash, May 28.— Hiindyeds of persons who contributed money to the fund for an American Legion memorial to the four legion- naires killed in the Armistice day riot- ing here in 1919, have finally learned {| what became of the $16,500 collected | by the Centralia Memorial associa- tion, Inc. It was all spent for salaries * and expenses of those who promoted the project. This was revealed in a law suit brought against the association by A. D.°Tasker to recover judgment on an assigned claim for service. The as- signed claim was that of Frank Jack- son of Seattle, who was under con- tract with the association to conduct a@.subscription campaign at a salary of: $6500 a week and expenses. One- half of this salary was to be paid weekly and the balance when the pro- posed fund of $250,000 was raised, Go-Getters Got It. Jackson was advertised as a g0- getter, “and the drive started early m 1922 amid.a blaze of glory. Big. busi- ness in’ various parts of Washington nodded its approval. At the head of the memorial association’s general committee as chairman was Col. C. B. Blethen, editor and publisher of the Seattle Daily Times, while Lieutenant Governor W. J. Coyle was vice chair- man, and the head of the executive committee was C. D. Cunningham, then state commander of the Ameri- can Legion. Cunningham was one of the special prosecutors who sent eight I. W. W. members to prison for 40 years for defending their lives against a mob of legionnaires on the Armistice day in question. Four of the five incorpo- rators of the memorial association were lawyers, one being Lloyd Dysart, who headed the man hunt in which the I. W. W. members were rounded up in the vicinity of Centralia after the riot. Publicity material about the cam- paign was sent in Colonel Blethen’s name to hewspapers all over the coun- try.° "This matértal inctutfed*a sketch of the projected memorial building, which was to have been 135 feet wide and 130 feet deep. Toward the erec- tion of this edifice the American Le- gion’s national convention of 1921 ap- propriated $10,000. Of the money col- lected by Jackson, the first $500 was supposed to go for a site and other local expenses here. Raiders No “Heroes.” Gathering in that $250,000 looked easy to the promoters at first. And for a little while the going was easy. But after a month or so they struck snags. Several Legion posts in the easter part of the state refused to A DAINTY MORNING FROCK. 4722, Housework seems lighter when one can attend to its various duties, arranged in a dress made from Pattern 4722. Percale in blue and white, or green and white plaid ‘gingham would be an attractive de- This style is also good for linen, inene and sateen. The Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. A 88-inch size requires 5% yards of 32-inch materi: The width at the foot is 2 yards. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in silver or stamps. Address: The Daily Worker, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Ill, Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING AND OUR DAILY PATTERNS A a INFLUENCE OF DAILY WORKER IS BIGGER THAN EVER AT PEORIA AFTER OUSTING OF ITS REPORTER PEORIA, Ill., May 28.—The ousting of the DAILY WORKER reporter from the Illinois mine workers’ convention, which was accomplished by means of a stolen vote, had a strong reaction in favor of the militants and the DAILY WORKER and against Farrington. The sales of the DAILY WORKER increased greatly since the expulsion, Over two-thirds of the delegates bought the DAILY WORKER every day, and* 85 of them have it mailed to their homes as well. The DAILY WORKER sales were greater than all the rest of the other papers sold at the convention combined. For almost,a week prior to the ex- cluding of the DAILY WORKER. rep- resentative, either Farrington-or one of the speakers invited by him, had bitterly attacked the DAILY WORK- ER. The reason for this was obvious. The DAILY WORKER was not only in favor of the progressive program of the rank and file delegates, but the delegates were regularly reading the paper. . Frank Farrington, stung by the severe whipping administered to him by the progressives on the Howat re- solution, instituted a campaign to in- cite the delegates against the DAILY WORKER reporter. ‘When this me- thod failed, because the progressives solidly stuck by their paper, Farring- ton put up one of his appointees to vote for the expulsion of the DAILY WORKER. Everybody Lies But Farrington. Every newspaper representative at the press table, with the exception of a local Peoria paper, had been called a liar by Farrington. Farrington at- tempted to control the press table by his tyranny as he was attempting to control the delegates. He had no suc- cess in either direction. But Farring- ton’s continual harping upon the news- papers was aimed at the DAILY WORKER from the first. The delegate who made the motion to ask the DAILY WORKER to with- draw, William Sage, a Farrington ap- pointee holding down a fat job on the scale committee, was obviously coach- ed. The charge upon which Sage based his motion for expulsion, was the phrase, “Farrington. machine,” but Farrington himself admitted,. “I ————— contribute; it was said: that the Ya- kima post’ would give nothing. And the collectors found that’ many citi- zens were skeptical about the slain legionnaires being heroes. So the great memorial project hit the rocks., Jackson quit his job at the end of 11 weeks; the law suit was for the remaining half of his salary for that period. In defending the suit, the Centralia Memorial association pleaded that it was without funds, and when judgment was returned against it, the organization moved for a new trial. This motion was granted by the King county court in Seattle, and its decision has just been affirmed by the state supreme court. Ai balife li! A PRETTY FROCK FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 4708. This model is nice for the new prints, as well as for wool crepe, mohair, pongee or gingham. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 4, 6, 8, and 10 years. A 6 year size re- quires 2% yards of 32 Inch material. For yoke and sleevebands of contrast- ing material % yard is required. Blue and tan figured crepe would be a pleasing development, with yoke and sleevebands. of blue sateen. ~ Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 12c in.silver or stamps. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, Tl. Send 12c in silver or stamps for our UP-TO-DATE SPRING & SUMMER 1924 BOOK OF FASHIONS. , Established 1899 ‘JOHN B. HESSLER SHOES FOR MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN 2720 North Ave, — CHICAGO have a machine, and it’s a good one, too,” The Hickory Stick. The only other thing which Sage interpreted as “an insult to the con- vention” was the statement, “An old grand-dad waving a hickory stick in one hand and a DAILY WORKER in the other, called out, ‘Is this the pa- ped?’ Farrington said, ‘Yes’ and the machine delegate said, ‘Then let's throw the reporter to hell out.’” Sage was either entirely absent from this session, or else he was sit- ting where he could not observe what was going on. Sage called the story about the old grand-dad a lie. But the absurdity of Sage’s whole case against the DAILY WORKER was apparent when the delegate with the hickory stick himself got up and admitted to the convention that the DAILY WORKER story was true. This veteran was a little mixed up and excited when he spoke, laboring under the impression that the DAILY WORKER wanted to throw him out. He walked up to the front of the plat- form and waved his cane aloft. “Yes, I’m that old grand-dad that the DAI- LY WORKER spoke of,” he shouted, “and I say it’s a shame to want to throw an old man out of the conven- tion. Yes, I’ve got a hickory stick,” he added, waving it. menacingly at the press table, “and’the DAILY WORKER reporter better get out of here or I'll use it, too.” Yes, It Was Hickory. Examination afterward proved that the DAILY WORKER statement was accurate to the minute detail of the naming of the wood. The old grand- dad’s cane was made of hickory. When the vote was taken, the press representatives drew closer together and discussed the DAILY WORKER reporter’s chances of staying. There was a common bond of sympathy. Practically every man had been at- tacked by the thin-skinned labor fak- er, Farrington, Less than a hundred stood up in favor of removing th DAILY WORKER reporter. taken up his hat and coat and papers but when: approximately two hundred stood up opposed to asking the DAI- LY WORKER to withdraw, the press representatives all said, “You've won, you'll stay. Put down your hat.” Vote Larceny. Then the vote was announced—234 in favor of withdrawal and 169 op- posed, and shouts of protest went up from the progressive delegates. Twen- ty of them were on their feet at once, protesting a stolen vote and demand- ing a roll call, but when Farrington’s tellers took the vote on a roll call, two hundred men were counted as 114 and the roll call was denied. It takes 125 votes to secure a roll call vote. As the DAILY WORKER reporter was leaving the hall, Farrington ruled the still protesting progressives out of order. “The only thing that is be- fore the convention at this time, is the resolution on compensation.” “Well, why didn’t you rule Sage’s motion out of order?” called Freeman Thompson. “Because you didn’t, ask me to,” said Farrington, with his characteristic, satirical grin. Then the DAILY WORKER‘ sales began to boom. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS ven Places 62 W: Van Buren | 42 W. Harrison 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State 234 S. Halsted PHONES, HARRISON 86 Ww. ost ffee and Bak - Com! ery 1612 Fulton St. Phone West 254! RUBBER STAMPS AND SEALS IN ENGLISH AND IN ALL FOREIGN LANGUAGES INK, PADS, DATERS, RUBBER TYPE,Erc, ‘NOBLER STAMP & SEAL CO, 73 W, VanBurenSt, Phone Wabash 6680 HUNGARIAN RESTAURANT 215 S. Halsted Street WM. FRIEDMAN CO. PROP. MEETING PLACE FOR THE NEEDLE WORKERS Strictly Home Cooking , and Baking He had. 9 jever tried.” E DAILY WORKER TEACHERS WANT FACTS ON NEW JUNIOR HI PLANS Fight Education Board for Say in Adoption The elementary teachers’ councils are hot showing as much wrath over the high-handed methods of the Board of Education in jamming thru the pro- gram for establishing junior high schools in Chicago as do the forces of organized labor and the members of the city council. The teachers, while Tnot losing their fine fighting spirit, look forward to the open hearings to be held by the board of education June 3 with less expectancy than the other forces attacking the board's ac- in, Board Ignores Teachers. According to Teachers’ ‘federation officials, the board has passed the re- port for the adoption of junior high schools, and all the talk allowed now will probably not budge them. Super- intendent William McAndrew is sup- porting the board of education and the junior high program and both he and Charles M. Moderwell, president of the board, have taken a “go-to- hell” attitude toward their opponents, chiefly the members of the Teachers’ federation. The board of education ignored the request of 34 elementary teachers’ councils for further information on the junior high proposals except for the invitation to attend the June 3 hearing. The board passed the reso- lution for the junior high plan at the same meeting at which the teachers’ request came up. Pass the Buck. The board of education, with the exception of J. Lewis Coath, failed to appear before the city council’s school committee and instead asked council members to attend the princi- pals’ meetings now being held at Lane Tech high. Teachers of the school were denied admittance to the meet- ings at which the junior highs were discussed. -Forces of organized labor, led by Victor Olander, are bitterly opposed to the adoption of the junior high plan, which they claim is practically the Gary plan under a new name. They maintain that the new system will break down their careful appren- ticeship training in the unions by giv- ing pd Many youngsters industrial training before they’ are 16, when such training should normally start. Some Union-Busting Tricks Explained By Chicago Employer “It’s not always easy to keep union men out of your factory,” says the owner of a large machine ship in Chi- cago. ‘Blacklists and company spies help some, but card holders slip by just the same. “The scheme we finally adopted after much experimenting by our em- ployment department works almost 100 per cent. When we need men we interview each applicant carefully. We ask him whether he belongs to a union or belonged in the past. Of course the man thinks we are anti- union and he says ‘No, I don’t belong to a union.’ “We tell him that’s too bad because what we want is union men. If he is a union man he’ll usually tell you that he did belong once and can get his card renewed. Sometimes he will actually pull out his card. Then we take his name and address and prom- ise to notify him when he is needed. “But the fellow who walks out of the office when we say we want only union men is the man we are after. When he gets to the doorway we call him back and say maybe we can make room for him temporarily anyhow and we send him into the shop. “The other fellow whose name and address we took down is S. 0. L. We Baked lrorgot all about him. This is the best scheme for weeding them out we've PITTSBURGH, PA. _DR. RASNICK " DENTIST Rendering Expert ental Service ter Page Five FINGERPRINT FORGERY MAKES LABOR FRAME-UPS EASY IF ALIEN IDENTIFICATION BILL IS PASSED In view of the proposed immigration measures which advo- cate taking the fingerprints of all aliens entering and living in this country, Albert Wehde’s discovery that fingerprints can be forged becomes tremendously significant, especially when it is congidered that identification “experts” will not profess recogni- tion of the discovery. The menace of fingerprint forgery is that once a man’s fin- gerprints have been taken, whether he has been convicted of any crime or not, the prints may be duplicated, may be placed on an object at the scene of a crime, at any time the authorities want to frame-up the fellow for a new offense or merely for activities hostile to the status quo. If aliens were fingerprinted, the pos- sibilities of charging them with?—— baffling crimes or of railroading them to prison or out of the country for alleged participation in labor “offenses” would be enormously increased. Burns’ Pride Exposed. When the king of stoolpigeons, Wil- liam J. Burns, quit his job (by re- quest) in Washington, he boasted that he left after having perfected the bu- reau of identification of the depart- ment of justice. He bragged that his bureau of identification had become recognized thruout the world by its work of identifying suspected crimi- nals. William J. Burns has an interna- tional reputation as a champion frame-up man. His record was made chiefly on the frame-up of men in- volved in labor cases. These are things well known. A great aid to the framing-up of any individual would be the forging of his finger-prints. William J. Burns supposedly never knew that finger- prints can be forged. The head of his bureau of identification, A. V. Renoe, however, was aware that finger-prints can be forged. When Burns, asking a “candid opinion,” wrote to Renoe who then conducted his bureau at the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan-| sas, Renoe had his secretary reply that finger-prints could not be forged. At the time Burns wrote for infor- mation, Albert Wehde, an American citizen who had acted as a German agent and who had unfairly been rail- roaded to the Leavenworth prison un- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis dur- ing the-war hysteria, had proved con- clusively by his experiments that fin- ger-prints could be forged and he suc- ceeded in. baffling . so-called _ finger- print experts with his purposely forged prints. Simple Proce: ‘Wehde, from his experience in en- graving and photography, experiment- ed in a laboratory of the bureau of investigation and worked out the method by which finger-prints can be forged. The process is generally speaking, Wehde says, identical with the making of line etchings. A sen- sitized metal plate is exposed to the light under a negative taken from the finger-prints to be forged. After de- velopment the plate is slightly etched. A paper transfer like jewelers use for transferring designs is made and a perfect replica of the original finger- print is put upon any object capable of holding a genuine impression. Wehde, by the way, is the author of a most engaging autobiography en- titled “Since Leaving Home,” in which he sketches his prison experiences and the work he did on finger-print forgery experiments. He and John Beffel, a nationally known publicity man, have a book to be called “Finger- prints Can Be Forged,” about to go on the presses. Wehde deals with finger- print identification and the ways of forging prints while Beffel gives the history and significance of the use of finger-prints. Wehde says in “Since Leaving Home”: “The process is so simple that there is no good reason to sup- pose that conterfeiters-or other shady characters, or private detectives with a little knowledge of laboratory work, cannot and do not readily apply it.” Men Hung on Finger-Prints. On the second anniversary of his re- lease from Leavenworth the other day, Wehde asserted that men have been hung on finger-print evidence alone, which makes more necessary the correct public appraisal of his dis- covery of the possibility of forgery. Thomas Jennings was hung for murder in Chicago on February 16, 1912, and one of the jurors in his trial ‘stated that “it was the finger-print evidence and that alone which con- vinced us Jennings was guilty.” Wil- liam Y. Mills was hung April 16, 1920, AVES ehony Teh “Aye. for killing two men and the chief evi- UNCLE WIGGLY'S TRICKS dence aaginst him was finger-prints, According to Wehde, very few fin- ger-prints taken from objects touched during a “job” are complete enough for really accurate identification. When a print is taken by police of- ficials or by the bureau of identifica- tion, a firm pressure is insisted upon to give a clear impression of the whorls of the finger lines. The in- adequate prints taken from the scene of crime can be touched up and worked over by engraving and photo- graphing processes. Wehde saw an Oklahoma official do this very thing in the Leavenworth identification laboratory and later read of the con- viction of the men on whose case the official had been working. This inci- dent started him upon his experi- ments. “Experts Cry Fraud.” ‘Wehde addressed a letter to the Illi- nois Identification Association just prior to its convention in October, 1923, asking permission to explain the finger-print forgery discovery to the experts. Al Dunlap, president and also editor of the detectives’ trade paper published in Chicago, made a. tele- phonic request for a demonstration before Wehde be given the floor. Wehde permitted Dunlap and six others to. attend while he showed them the process. Only one of the six was a laboratory expert and after the demonstration, when the rest were holding a chilly private conference over the prints, he said to Wehde in the hearing of a witness: “I know it can be done, but for Christ’s sake don’t give me away.” The other men were, detectives. Dunlap wrote Wehde afterwards that he was a fake and that he would not -permit him to exploit his “fraudu- lent and preposterous claims” by ad- dressing the identification “experts.” The association went ahead with its convention at Champaign, Ill. con- gratulating themselves as most con- ventions do. They were afraid to ad- mit Wehde’s discovery. Finger-prints had always been taken as infallible evidence by the public and the dicks could not afford to lose the prestige their meagre knowledge of identifica- tion gave them. Toledo To Save By Prisoners’ Scabbing In City Park Work (Special to The Daily Worker) TOLEDO, Ohio, May 28.—Prisoners from Workhouse Farm, Whitehouse, are to take the places of the regular workers in the city parks, Welfare Director Newcomer announced. The move is made in the interests of econ- omy, the city being too poor to con- tinue paying labor for park unkeep, according to Newcomer, who also di- rects the park work. The prisoners will be allowed to live at home in the city, if they ac- cept the park work, Newcomer pro- mised. The men will work unguard- ed. They will be paroled to the Welfare Department. If they fail to appear each day for work at the parks they are subject to return to the Work- house Farm to finish their sentences. Norwegian Iron Workers End Long | And Bitter Strike CHRISTIANA, Norway, May 28.— After a bitter conflict lasting over a year, the strike. and lockout of all sec- tions of the iron workers’ union in Norway ended yesterday when the men returned to work. The strikers had persistently refused to submit to the decisions of the “court of indus- trial. arbitration.” The terms upon which the men returned to work have not yet been learned. GRAFTERS GET SHORT SHRIFT IN SOVIET RUSSIA Robbing Workers’ Re- public Poor Indoor Sport LENINGRAD, M 28.—Unless the executive committee of the United Soviet Republics commuted the sen- tences imposed on seventeen forme® high officials of the administration of the New Economic Policy, the lat ter will have paid with their lives for their faithlessness to the trust re- posed in them. The charges against the condemned seventeen and thirty-one others who received sentences of from ten years imprisonment to deportation, were: exploitation of the state organization in their own interests, plotting with others to combat state capitalism in favor of private enterprises and giv- ing information secretly to former capitalists who are now abroad. The prosecutor in summing up de- clared that the Soviet government must uphold the rights of the people won thru the revolution. Tha revolu- tion demands that those who betray the trust reposed in them. be merei- lessly dealt with. said, to waste a single red army bul- let on such contemptible traitors. Over one hundred Czarist officers and stool-pigeons are now on trial in_ the same court for espionage and counter-revolution. A majority of them are charged with complicity in anti-Soviet plots hatched by ex-Czarist War Mifister Savinkoff and giving aid to Poland against Soviet Russia. Two directors of the state textile trust were denied a new trial by the high court of appeals. They are con- demned to death for corruption. Quick Response to the Urgent Appeal of German Miners The first response to the appeal for the 600,000 miners locked out im Ger- many was a ten-dollar bill handed yes- terday to Rose Karsner, national sec- retary of the Committee for Interna- tional Workers’ Aid, by a young wom- an comrade who desired her contribu- tion to remain anonymous... _ What workers can do if they get gether and make a combined effort is well illustrated by the following let- ter from Bessemer, Pa. dated May 21, received by the Committee for In- ternational Workers’ Aid: “Dear Comrades—Here is a bunch of young men willing to help the working people whenever possible. We read in the working class papers about the bad need of help for the German workingmen, women and chil- dren. We Jugoslavic workers got in contact with Finnish workers and had a good time together, and did some- thing for our comrades across the ocean. We held a dance on May 10, and we raffled a lady's wrist watch, from which we cleared $38.50. To- gether with the admission, which was $44.85, this made $83.35, which was sent directly to the Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany. We appeal to all the rest of the workers to do their share and help till it hurts, Fraternally yours, A Worker.” Surely what these workers can do others can also. The locked out min- ers of Germany are fighting against longer hours and lower wages. It is the same fight which the workers all over the world are waging. A victory for the workers. of Germany is a vic- tory for all workers all over the world: All contributions are to be sent to the Committee for International Workers’ Aid, 19 South Lincoln St, Chicago, Ill. Trotsky Talks to Unions. MOSCOW.—Trotsky, back in. Mos- cow, is making many speeches before factory organizations, workers’ meet- ings and party assemblies. He is eas- ily the most popular man among the rank and file of Russia. His recent utterances show that those who ex- pected him to lead in a split were en- tirely wrong. Light Reading in Russia, MOSCOW.—The recent thick vol- ume of the new constitution of the Union of Soviet Republics, issued at a cost of over four gold roubles ($2) has reached a sale of over 45,000 copies, A LAUGH FOR THE CHILDREN It was a pity, he. *