The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 19, 1924, Page 3

~~ __< election, Agi gh June 19, 1924 SUCCESS SECRET LIES ON THE HIP OF BILL J. BRYAN “Hips Not Heads Will Win,” is Slogan (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, June 18.—When the Democratic conclave meets here next week Bill Bryan's well-known frock coat will cover a powerfully loaded hip from which he will produce a flask of drinks for all and sundry of his enemies, the wise ohes say. That will be the keynote of the Jackass Jockeys, Peace and Harmony. The Catholics and Klansmen will lie down in crowd- @d hotel rooms together. The only passes made will be toward the other fellow’s rear. The mere fact that the meet will be staged by Tex Rickard, the well-known Picker of knockers out, and will be staged in his Madison Square Garden where Rickard exhibits these Ks, 0., has nothing to do with nothing. May Fight For the Moon, The only fights will be between the delegates and the New York cops who have said they will not allow any peddlers of splintered moonshine to come near Madison Square. The bet- ting’ is that the delegates will win the decision in the’ first round. Oscar Underwood who was against the ‘Klan and was defeated in every state where the Klan was against him will indicate his willingness to ap- point Grand Dragons to cabinet posts and janitorships in Washington if he gets the nomination. Third class postmasterships will be Feserved for Jews exclusively if Doc- ‘et Evans, head of the fiery double crossers get the honor of the vice- presidency. Real Peace Propaganda. The leaders of the peace at any price faction have been doing clever work, everybody says. They have con- fined their talk exclusively to who will get what job when the Jackass is turned loose in the lush pastures of ‘Washington. Then they pointed out he would never arrive unless all the Democrats agreed to stop fighting. They stopped. People who bought ring side seats for the convention a few days ago at $100 a shot expecting to see a grand free for all battle royal, are rioting in Madison Square and surrounding ter- ritory demanding that the backers give them back their money. Choruses of hundreds of voices can be heard at all hours yelling, “Foul! Gimme my money back.” The Democrats promise refunds from the U. 8. Treasury after ane nntmenee “Music in the Air.” The news of the fights in the G. O. P. comes as sweet and solemn music to the Democrats. Couriers, tired and ragged but with a happy gleam in their eye come nearly every hour from Washington with news of the latest insults Slemp is hurling at Butler and Butler is hurling at Lodge and Lodge is hurling at Slemp and Slemp is hurling at Beveridge. The Dems are all for everybody who is battling somebody in the G. O. P. Tammany Overlooked Bet. Tammany is just a little piffed be- cause they didn’t think of having Charley Murphy buried by a rabbi as @ peace offering. Bernard Baruch at- tends mass regularly at St. Patricks. The first time he attended he knocked down a plate passer with the gener- osity of his contributiom to the Peter's Pence Fund. Women Ask Donkey Party for Plank Against Hysteria (By Federated Press.) NEW YORK, June 18.—A plank “to abolish in the war department the campaign of espionage and vilification carried on since 1922 against the na- tion-wide crganizations of women who have co-operated to imprové legisla- tion in congress and in the state legis- latures” has been proposed to the Women’s Democratic Platform com- mittee by the National Consumers’ league. Maud Wood Park, chairman, Women's Joint Congressional commit- tee, says in a supporting statement: “It is a sorry picture. Men of wealth, economic and political pow- er, men of military rank and prow- ess, screaming aloud in fear of wo- men voters, hissing ‘Bolshevist’ thru chattering teeth at every woman prominent in public life.” The equal rights constitutional amendment of the National Woman's party and a plank urging prohibition enforcement have also been put be- fore the Democratic platform commit- tee here, ‘ NEW YORKERS, ATTENTION! Rain or Shine For a Good Time Come to the MONSTER ALL-DAY OUTING, PICNIC AND ae District No. 1, Combined Locals — SUNDAY, JUNE 22nd, 1924 at ASTORIA CASINO, form. Schuetzen Park Steinway Avenue and Broadway, Astoria, L. I. THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTING WASHINGTON LAWYER RESISTS DISBARMENT PLOT—HE ADVOCATED THE GENERAL STRIKE (By Defense News Service) OLYMPIA, Wash., June 18.—Refusal of the state board of law examiners to grant a jury trial to Elmer Smith, Centralia attorney and radical, who is facing disbarment for cri icism of Superior Court Judge John M. Wilson, has been carried to the State Supreme Court by George F. Vanderveer, counsel for Smith. Lengthy argument before that court has just been concluded. Smith was charged with cast- ing aspersion upon the judiciary when he publicly assailed Judge Wilson for his conduct of the Centralia Armistice Day trial at Montesano in 1920. The objec- tionable language specifically laid to Smith was a characteri- zation of Judge Wilson as “‘a tool of the lumber trust.” He Helped Strike. Another accusation against Smith was that he helped a general strike in the lumber f&dustry to compel Gov- ernor Hart to liberate the eight I. W. W. members who are serving long terms in Walla Walla prison in con- nection with the Centralia rioting on November 11, 1919. Last October Smith was tried before the board of law examiners at Cheha- lis, the trial lasting several days. Finally, the board recommended that Smith be disbarred, declaring that he had made false charges against Judge Wilson, and had violated his oath of office in counselling a general strike. Offered Proof. During Smith’s trial before the law board, the defense repeatedly offered to prove the truth of all of his public declarations. Affidavits presented to the supreme court with the record of Smith’s trial show that two members of the law board, expressed belief that Smith was guilty before his trial. WVander- veer argued that the two examiners had prejudiced the case, and thus their findings were biased. Vanderveer pointed out that Judge Wilson, in advance of the Centralia trial, had made speeches eulogizing the three American Legionaires who were killed when they attacked the I. W. W. hall; that Judge Wilson once agreed that a fair trial of the I. W. W. defendants could not be held in Grays Harbor county, but subsequent- ly ruled that the trial must be held in that hostile locality; that thruout the trial be prohibited the defense from introducing any evidence to prove that 100 business men conspired to raid the I. W. W. hall, or that there had been a previous raid upon the I. W. W., but permitted the prosecution to introduce freely all ete calcu- lated to shi the W. W. con- S| tof pon the “Armistice Day parade, ~~ Lawyers Praise Bosses. The law board found that Smith vio- lated his oath of office in advocating a general strike in the lumber indus- try to compel the liberation of the Centralia defendants. “If his counsel were acted upon,” said the boam, “the lumber industry in the Northwest would be demoralized. We know how large an element the lumber business is in the industry of the northwest. It is an obvious fact of which we may take judicial notice that the larger number of employers of labor in the. lumber industry treat their employes fairly and justly.” Vanderveer pointed ouf to the su- preme court that wherever good work- ing conditions prevailed in the lum- ber industry of the northwest, it was largely due to years of struggle by the I. W. W. to obtain decent condi- tions in the’woods. x Send in that Subscription Today. NEGRO BABIES AT TEXAS ‘PEN’ WITH MOTHERS Family. Claims lanocence of Assault Charge (Special to the Daily Worker.) HOUSTON, Tex., June 18.—Three little Negro babes-in-arms don’t real- ize yet that the farm they have just moved to is the State’s and that their mothers, three sisters and their grand- daddy are supposed to be criminals. They don’t know either that the two “men” of their family, the 12 and 14 year old brothers, Eugene and Nath- aniel, were sent to the “reformatory.” They wouldnt understand, if they were older, any more than their moth- ers understand, why the Sheriff and his deputies invaded their farms and sent them all away, charging that they had fired on his force with shotguns. Emma Sue is seven months old; May Lou, eight months; and Bobby Cloud only three months old. Their mothers, Bertha, Levy and Mandy Wells, and their grand-dad Luke were sentenced to the State Farm for two to three years. “We ain’t done nothin’,” one of the Negro mothers said. “These white folks said that we had to go and they wuz nobody to take the babies so they had to come ‘long, too.” | aaa Party Activities Of Local Chicago * BRANCH MEETINGS. Thursday, June 19. South Side English, 3201 S. Wabash Ave. 31st Ward Italian, 511 N. Sangamon St. llth Ward, Italian, 2439 S. Oakley |, Blvd. Russian Branch, 1902 W. Division St. Scandinavian, Hirsch Blvd. Friday, June 20. Polish, North Side, 1902 W. Division St., Chicago, Ill. Lithuanian No. 5, Milda hall, 3142 8. Halsted St. Greek branch, 722 Blué Island Ave. Karl Marx, 2833 The third annual picnic of the Workers party, Local Chicago, will be held Friday, July 4, at Stickney Park Grove. A very elaborate program has been arranged, consisting of speakers, of whom Comrades James P. Cannon, assistant executive secretary of the Workers party, will be the ‘main speaker; dancing, music, games, re- freshments, etc. To get there, take any car to end of the 22nd St. line. Then take a Lyons- Berwyn car to Stickney Park Grove. Admission is 35 cents and 50 cents at the gate. GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE. DAILY WORKER KNOCKS ELECTRIC TRUST SPEED-UP PLAN ON NOODLE The DAILY WORKER exposure of the conditions in the Western Electric plant has the company officials and company secret service guessing. While C. H. Gerding and his squad of stool pigeons are comb- ing the plant to find out whether or not another DAILY WORKER reporter has slipped in, and while most of the men away, and hir- ing only a few and then with great precaution, men high up in the administrative branch have been calling on the DAILY WORKER and giving the paper the inside dope. “You are doing great work,” an of- fice man employed in the Western Electric for the last nine years told the DAILY WORKER yesterday. “You are educating a lot of workers who never thought along those lines be- fore.” Spies Fight Unionism. “C. H. Herding, head of the West- the employment office is turning: sealer ARGS A PAE an Taw PN RE ern Electric secret service, who has offices in room 704, Tacoma building, told me himself what his idéas are on unionism. Gerding says that the Western Electric will not tolerate the inroads of unionism in any form into the Western Electric plant, and he turther says his force, which is said to be composed of one of every ten men in the Western Electric plant, is going to fight all forms of unionism.” “Gerding declares,” the office man continued, “that he is anxious for the DAILY WORKER exposure to blow vover. He believes that at this time if the American Federation of Labor put one million dollars into the organiza- tion of the Western Electric, the complete organization, of the plant could be accomplished, But Gerding does not fear this very much, he says, because many of the Federation of La- bor officials are obligated to the large industrial plants and are afraid to put on an aggressive unionization cam- paign,” Controls Cicero Police. “You can’t ride on a street car, or talk to a passer-by without meeting a man who has worked in the Western plant,” another man said to ‘YY WORKER. Practically MUSIC BY ORIGINAL ORIENTAL HARMONISTS every man I meet in Cicero is either Tickets 50 Cents t the 65 Cents || working in the Western Blectric now, BOWLING—DANCING—SPORTS Wr ‘has wo! ipa ep hig gat ye Sahay ay lation Bookshop, 121 Univorelty ei Sewstor Gla city; and Administration of the town of Cl- + a ices! Trust Pockets ‘Death Benefit’ (Continued from page 1.) fend Morgan’s millions in bloody 1918 Morgan’s open shop firm also found { worth while to employ Petropulos for fifteen years and to promise him a $2,000 death benefit for his dependents -—but they were not considered good enough to receive it. Western Electric Tuberculosis. Petropolus worked at his buffing job until fifteen years of fine rubber dust inhalations from the hard rubber telephone appliances, ruined his lungs sion hospital on July 28, 1922, age of 33. He had entered the com- pany’s employ while still a boy, you see, and stayed with it until he was rewarded by death. Then the only ones who did thing for him were his fellow bu 5 and finishers, who clubbed together JANUS P Fought in the world war under the fi slave-driving system of the and he died in the Columbus Exten-| at the} -|and whic! a month, sent them by a United States Government pension fund, subscribed to by Petropolus when he was a |soldier in the war for democracy, Pappageorge, however, proved per- jsistent. He dogged the heels of the | Welfare department of Western Elec- | “Twenty people from the West- | tric. ern Dlectric have come in to see me about the pension,” said Pappageorge |to the DAILY WORKER. “Then one day they sent for me, and I went up jand talked to Mr. Hinrich, in the Wel- fare department.” | Not a Dog’s Burial. “Hinrith asked me how much, I had paid for Petropolus’ funeral expenses. I told him between five and six hun- dred dollars. This did not count the tombstone which I erected for him cost several hundred dol- lars more.” “ What,’ Hinrich said, ‘what did ETROPOLUS jag of the United States; killed by the Western Electric Company. and sent to the funeral a floral wreath worth sixty dollars. Petropolus had been the sole sup- port of on aged mother and two orphaned sisters, and since Petropolus had a Western WBlectric employes death benefit policy, good for two thousand dollars, he was not afraid to die. Petropolus called in his cousin, Poppageorge, made him admi ra- tor of his affairs and died a short time laters Company Wished Him Luck. Petropolus had no qualms about his family because the Western Electric officials sent him word before he died that they wished him all kinds of luck, and hoped he would get well soon. The victim of Western Electric tuberculosis entered the company’s employ when he was fifteen years old, and since that time until his death was an’ employe of the company, except during his service in the American ar- my during the world war. But when Petropolus had been buried in Elmwood cemetery, and death cut him off for all time from the blood sucking Western Electric com- pany, the attitude of the corporation to which Petropolus thru most of his life had been so loyal suddenly changed, Company Put off Paying. When Pappageorge, as his‘ cousin's administrator, went to the Welfare department of the Western Hlectric company to arrange to have the $2,000 sent directly to his cousin's mother, the Western Electric officials put him off, Pappageorge declares. First they said there was no proof that Petropolus had a mother and two sisters in Greece. Then, after Pappa- george went thru his cousin's papers and took the documentary proof of Petropolus’ dependents to the Wel- fare department at the Hawthorne plant, they still glung to their money. They told Pappageorge that there wag no proof that Petropolus was sup- porting his three relatives. Pappa- george immediately got on the job, and at much expense collected from the American Express company, the First National Bank of Chicago and, or|several other banks, receipts for drafts ranging from 50 to 500 dollars which proved that Petropolus had been sending his family money. And He Was a Veteran. But the Western Electric, realizing that Petropolus was dead, and there bigs no chance to get more work out ot him, refused. Pappageorge the money for the family, which is twenty rang ”| company. you do, give him the burial of a mil- lionaire’s son?’ ‘No,’ I told him, but I did not want to bury my cousin like a dog.’” Finally Not a Cent. “Then Hinrich offered me $150.00 as a final and complete settlement of my consin’s pension account with the I told him I would not take the hundred and fifty but wanted the two thousand dollars which my cousin’s policy .calls for. Later Hin- rich told me, ‘We offered you $150.00 ;and you wouldn’t take it. Now we have decided not to give you a cent.’” “The Western Electric claimed they had no proof that Petropolus was sending money to his family every month, They said: ‘We only pay death benefits to employes’ families when they need it very bad.” Pappageorge showed the DAILY WORKER the bank account of the dead man, and showed the bills he had paid out in funeral expenses. There was nothing left over, but Pap- pageorge sent two hundred dollars to| his cousin's relatives. Promoted—to Death. “IT have placed the matter of collect- ing the money due my cousin's family from the Western Electric in the| hands of Attorney Devine, in the Reap er Block building,” Pappageorge told the DAILY WORKER reporter. “I had repeatedly tried to get my cousin to leave the Western Hlectric and go-in- to business with me, I knew his work | |was killing him, But Petropolus said, ‘No, I have been here so long, and I have made so many friends here that |I can’t leave. Besides, if I stay here a little longer, they are promising me a promotion.’ dust Wouldn’t Pay. they gave my cousin an insurance po- licy for two thousand dollars if they didn’t intend to pay it. But they said they would not pay. Pappageorge showed WORKER reporter a sworn state ment by Petropolus that he had orphaned sisters and anaged mother whom he was supporting. He ¢ showed the DAILY WORKER Petro pulos’ honorable discharge from the United States army, where he served during the war in the 62nd infantry. Thus Employes Are Tricked. the DAILY Thus the Western Electric tricks its | employes while living with fake prom-/| ises of sick and death benefits, and when they die, with the life blood] wrung out of them by their work, leave their families destitute starving. Another Electric pension fund will appear to- morrow. BIG ELECTRIC EXPOSE BRINGS NEW FRIENDS TO THE DAILY WORKER Subscriptions to the WORKER from Cicero have begun to pour in, expressing appreciation of the expose of the Western Elec- tric slave-driving, low wage system. Here is a typical letter just re- ceived by the DAILY WORKER, If you have any more news of the Western Electric scab practices, send it in or call up the DAILY WORKER. Don't forget to send in a subscription to the DAILY WORK- ER today. The letter follows: “Here is a two months’ subscription to the DAILY WORKER. | got the paper from one of my work mates who was interested in the Western Elec- tric exposure. “| have worked there myself, so | know that you are telling the truth in the DAILY WORKER. Every young worker | ever met in Cicero has also either worked at Western Electric or has close friends who work there. They are all interest- ed in your expose and admit that what you say about conditions there is the actual truth. “You are doing good work. Go the limit. In appreciation | will try to get a few more subscribers for you this week. “Yours with appreciation, “CICERO FRIEND.” Political Prisoner Will Talk on “Free America” at Picnic Jim Thompson, ex-political prisoner, who has learned about freedom in the United States while serving time in Leavenworth, for union act: ies, will speak at a picnic of the I. W. W. to be held at Zahora Grove, Julye4. Thompson will tell the story of the 11 I. W. W.s who are in prison in the state of Washington because they fought the American Legion to a standstill in defending their hall dur- ing araid. To get to Grove, take 22nd street car to Western Electric, trans- fer to Berwyn-Lyons and go to end of line. Send in that Subscription Today. Reproduction of Money Order sent by Western Electric victim to hi , “T asked the Western Electric why and | article on the Western} DAILY | i BOSSES BOOST ‘CLUB CAMPAIGN — TOFOOL WORKERS |But Hewthorus Politics Can’t Hide Expose | “If Cicero were Russia these work- ers would be electing the president of their company, not the president of @ Sunday school picnic and baseball club,” said an observer who stood out- side of the Western Electric factory, watching the parade of candidates for offices in the Hawthorne club for emir ployes (including all “higherups”). Company officials who decided that they weren't going to spend more than the usual $100,000 of the works ers’ money this year for red, white and blue streamers, for autos, for hand-shaking contests, for brass bands and for pamphlets to rouse the workers to a pitch of nervous enthi- siasm over the question of who is to head the ice cream supply committee for the coming year, changed their minds when they found that the great- est attraction for the employes during the past two weeks has been the sale of the DAILY WORK , with its only too true expose of the slavish methods used by the Western Electric com- pany. The parade, with its long line of autos, expensive campaign cards, patriotic costuming and racket, is a small item in the campaign, which is in full swing for two weeks every year. Bosses Subsidize Club. The Hawthorne club counts among its members every worker, man OF |woman, factory or office slave, It jalso counts large numbers of bosses, |salaried company officials, who ate jexpected to see that things go “right” jin the club. It is these bosses who {control the nominating committee, | which practically dictates who is to |be elected. Extreme noisiness as a substitute for action is the principle on which |the Hawthorne club is run, The club reading matter is carefully worded to |give the impression that this club is jan employes’ organization for promo- jtion of social and recreational activi- ties. It is subsidized by the Western |Electric company, which necessarily then controls the club. Workers Want Expose. Touted up as it was, the campaign parade was met with extreme apathy by the workers who crowded the streets of Cicero at, lunch time. Workers hurried up tg_ay the paper {for themselves and ft “frients im the factory. You -neodn't bs afraid-to-buythee— paper, Bill,” said one man to a friend ;Who looked on with his hands in his pockets. “Everybody’s reading it now. No wonder the company arrest- ed Reeve. They never bumped up against anything like this before.” “We want to join the organization that gets out that sheet,” said a group of workers to Jack McCarthy, sales manager. “It will be a hard job, for one out of every ten men in Western Electric is a stool pigeon, but a mem- bership drive by your party would raise the roof off this place in a month.” jonly Send In that Subscription Today. This Lifer Might Have Been Sent Up After “Goldfish” JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 18— The so-called truth serum, a drug said to cause persons suspected of crime to tell the truth under its influence, was tried out with surprising results on Martin Hulbert, life termer in the Mis- souri penitentiary here. He was con- victed of murder. The experiment was made at Hulbert’s request. The work was performed by Dr. E. House, Fer- ris, Tex., who has specialized in these Under the drug, Hulbert answered promptly and intelligently. Te ho did you kill?—I didn’t kill any- Send in that that Subscription Today. TECHNICAL AID-FREIHEIT PICNIC POSTPONED 10 JUNE 28—TAKE NOTE The picnic planned for June 8 by the Society for Technical Ald to Soviet Ru ind by the Freiheit was postponed on account of the bad weather to June 28, at Stickney Park, Lyons, Ill. Those who had tickets for June 8 can use them on June 28, Those who have not yet procured tlekets may get them at the Soviet School, 1902 W. Division St.; Rus- sian Coop Restaurant, 1734 W. Division St.; Freiheit office, 1145 Blue Island Ave.; Cheski’s Restau- rant, 3124 W. Roosevelt Road. FOR RENT. rurnished house for a couple or two girls for the summer. I am leaving for the country, Could spare room if desired after my return, Rob- < 2703 Potomac Ave., Armitage PARTNER WANTED sady canvasser with $25,00 lg some experience in Ladies’ Ready