The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 23, 1924, Page 3

Monday, June 23, 1924 ANDY MELLON CALLED INTO MEANS’ TRiAL Democrats Can Watch Bootlegger Squirm (Special to the Dally Worker.) NEW YORK, June 22.—Andrew Mellon, secretary of the treasury, and Arthur Sixsmith, Mellon’s. secretary, have been subpoenaed to appear as defense witnesses in the trial of Gaston B. Means and Elmer W. Jar- necke. Mellon and Sixsmith probably will appear Tuesday morning, Colonel Thomas B. Felder, defense attorney, said. Means and Jarnecke are being tried in the federal court on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. Hiram C. ‘ Todd, assistant general attorney, rest- ed his case today after calling three \ witnesses. Official Bootlegging. A plot to make Gaston B. Means a dry chief in the Department of Jus- tice, so that Means could get and re- lease from warehouses liquor he want- ed to sell, was the charge placed by Jacob Stein at Mean’s hearing here. Secretary of the treasury Andrew Mellon’s name repeatedly -has been brought into the history of shady liquor deals. Production of evidence which, ac- cording to Thomas Felder, Mean’s attorney, would have connected sec- retary of the treasury Mellon with il- legal liquor transactions was cut short when the court upheld the gov- ernment’s objections. Mellon Cut Ford’s Pie. Previously a witness Wad charged that money that was to be paid to Means for withdrawal of liquor was to be applied to repayment of a loan of $1,700,000 made by Mellon to the Republican Party for financing the de- feat_of Henry Ford’s presidential as- pirations. Stein said that Means broached the matter of releasing liquor from ware- houses to him. “Means suggested that if I knew any persons who were in- terested in getting out bonded whis- key I might bring them around and he would arrange for the release,” said Stein. “The idea was to start the liquor out of a bonded warehouse on the supposition that it was to be moved to a concentration warehouse. In transit it was to be diverted.” Polish Biz Barons Ask Government Aid for Longer Work Day (SAW, Poland, June 22—The industrial barons of Upper Silesia are getting “nervier” every day. They have now appealed to the government to sanction a twelve-hour day and the reduction of wages by 18 to 30 per cent, so they can run their plants at a greater profit. The government is playing into the hands of the bosses to the extent of granting the demand for reducing wages. That is, the government arbi- trator awarded such a verdict, which must be voted upon by both sides to the controversy. The workers unani- mously turned the award down. They are now preparing for the hottest strike that the heavy industries of Upper Silesia have witnessed since the territory became Polish. FUMIO LI LALLA LLL BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Hurry, Hurry, Hurry Here i is Your Chance to Make Money this Summer Boys making application now for DAILY WORKER territory in Chicago will be given all the present subscribers and a good commis- sion on all paid subscriptions secured by them and also'paid Ic a copy on copies delivered to subscribers in their territory. That sounds good—doesn’t it, Boys? Out in the fresh air making money—Sure—and build- ‘ing up a live and growing business of your own at the same time. Grow with our growing daily paper. Build up a paying route, This can be done—and you can do it this summer. This is a chance of a lifetime. Make your application today. wait. Fill out the blank and return it to u: will tell you all about how to make money all the year round working less than two hours a day. | Circulation Dept. THE DAILY WORKER, \[ 1118 W. Washington Blvd., | City. Name Address: Telephone: ...... I want to make some mone; to know more about what I w fa i A SAA MA APS aN | BIG BUSINESS CRAMPED FOR ELBOW ROOM ROAMS WORLD FOR NEW SOURCES OF GRAFT By LELAND OLDS (Federated Press Industrial Editor) A return to full prosperity with good employment is not ex- pected by big business without more foreign markets and more foreign financing, according to a weekly review of the financial situation in the New York Jour finds ground for expecting that further. nal of Commerce. The Journal the present slump will go even It adds that this view of the case is growing more and more prevalent among the financial authorities. Outlining the fundamental problem which must be met be- fore prosperity and steady em- ployment can be assured, the Journal says in part: Bosses Need Markets. “Even if the Mellon plan itself had gone thru as desired it would not, so many members of the community now admit, have met the fundamental problem that the business world has to face. This is the question of find- ing markets for goods and so keep- ing plants running and avoiding par- tial idleness which of. course tends to reducé profits and by keeping fac- tories running on short time cuts wages and prevents demand from growing. Tariff Issue Coming. “A sharp division of opinion has made itself evident, one group of the community now being convinced that the only thing to be done is to keep a strict and exclusive hold of the do- mestic market by getting the tariff raised and so cutting out foreign goods to the uttermost while the other is inclined to the opinion that the best thing to be done is to get rid of some of the extreme rates of the tariff, undertake foreign financing on a larger scale and thus seek to give our business a much better footing.” Towards Imperialism. This review shows that events are substantiating the analysis of the in- dustrial situation from the point of view of the worker repeatedly em- phasized by the Federated Press dur- ing the first months of 1923 when a brief industrial spurt tended to con- ceal the basic problem. The F. P. has repeatedly asserted that produc- tion in this country had passed the domestic demand, that the workers were producing a greater surplus than could be profitably consumed in the country under the present system, that the revival which depended upon unusual demands from the railroad and building industries had nearly completed its course, that industrial activity in the future depended upon expansion of foreign trade in com- petition with other nations and upon foreign investment, in short that ex- cess of industrial plants without cor- responding gain in the purchasing power of farmers and workers was driving the country toward economic empire. It is upon the working out of problems arising out of this situa- tion that jobs, wages and the condi- tion of the farmers in the future de- pend. Railroad Worker Killed. ST. ALBANS, Vt., June 22.—One man was killed and two injured when the New York-Montreal express crashed into a freight train 110 miles south of here today. The man killed was William Forbes, St. Albans, fireman on the passenger train, We are not goin, it once an we this summer and want have to do to make it. ABO t ster he enheeeaeengeeasaensenncey CHINA'S CABINET CHAOTIC-AS BOND ISSUE IS PASSED Feeling Rises Against Foreign Influence (Special to The Dally Worker) PEKING, China, June 22.—The min- ister of finance, a protege of Presi- dent Tsao Kun, has already resigned and the situations of other cabinet members is uncertain. The recent acceptance of the German bond issue has increased the chaotic conditions prevailing in this republic. It is not clear yet whether the premier had resigned and returned after the finance minister went out, but the affairs of government are ex- tremely unsettled so that one can scarcely say from day to day who is in and who is out. Anti-foreign feeling is increasing as it did» before the’ Boxer rebellion. France and the United States, obey- ing the dictates of their controlling capitalists, have both been exerting as much influence as possible to prevent China’s further friendliness to Germany and to Soviet Russia. Out- side pressure succeeded in delaying China’s recognition of Russia for a short time in spite of the strong feel- ing of the Chinese people for normal relations with the Soviet government. Civil Liberties Will Aid Mass Strikers to Meet Despite Cops Special to the Daily Worker. NEW YORK, June 22.—Following the refusal of the Dover, Mass. police to grant permits to the one Big Union for street meetings of striking textile workers, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that a free speech test meeting will be held in Dover, Saturday night “to assist these workers in maintaining their consti- tutional rights of free speech and as- semblage.” The meeting will discuss the ques- tion of the Pacific Mills reopening without discrimination to the former working force, it was announced, but the Civil Liberties Union will back the meeting “solely on the ground of free speech.” The police commission- er of. Dover has been notified of the test meeting in a protest requesting him to “support this effort to pre- serve American traditions of civil li- berty.” The meeting will be addressed by Bert Emsley, organizer of the One Big Union; Mary Henderson, a tex- tile worker and by a representative of the Civil Liberties Union. All thru the strike the textile work- ers had met free of charge in the Strand Theatre, the Civil Liberties Union declared, but pressure had been brought to bear upon Mrs. Dolan, manager of the Strand, to prevent fur- ther meetings. Yellow-eyed Boobs Attack Japanese in Syndicalist Calif. (Special to the ‘Daily Worker.) LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 22.— The lying Times has again raised the Japanese scare to such a pitch in southern California that a bunch of rowdies, in the day time good business crooks, invaded the home of W. Kawa- moto, a Japanese living in Belvedere, dragged the inoffensive man from his bed and threatened to coat him with tar and feathers, ‘Ten women and six men made up the attacking mob, which was only stopped from finishing its violent arrival of deputy Resentment against the successful Japanese business men and workers has always been fostered here by thi vicious anti-labor Times and Hearst's “Examiner,” How many of yl shop-mates read THE DAILY WORK Get one of them to subscribe tod. in the future, that past interference in the conduct Promptedshysalteulstionmetives. THE DAILY WORKER WORKERS DEFEAT PLOT TO STIFLE TORTURE PROBE (Continued from page 1.) the evil mo matter how long it took or who was hit by the facts brot out. The failure of Walter Wilson and Mott K, Mitchell who charged Lieu- tenant Grady and his squad with beat- ing him to appear before the commit- tee was used an an excuse by the councilmen opposed to the épyestiga- tion in their efforts to kill the probe. It was finally agreed that the commit- tee would meet again as soon as Wil- son and Mitchell could be induced to come before them. Both men are out of town during the vacation period of the Harvard School where they are employed. After reaching this decision the committee heard a Mrs. Collins who told how a roomer in her house com- plained against a saloon keeper in the neighborhood, Instead of investi- gating the complaint Captain Mullin of the Warren Ave. station locked up the complainant on a disorderly con- duct charge. When he was being taken to the cell room he was struck and kicked by the secretary to the captain. Captain’s “Collector.” “I see why the secretary was in- terested in the tase,” Councilman Al- berts said. “The secretary to a cap- tain is the collector for the district in most cases. But you don’t need to worry much about the cafe. The man will be fined $1 and costs so as to protect the police department. This is only another case of a man com- plaining against a law violator who is in with the police and getting the worst of it. Nothing unusual about that.” Gunman Intimidated Witness. Richard Pendergast who had testi- fied before the committee on Monday was there again. He said that gun- men had come to his home to attempt to intimidate him into dropping his complaints against the police. “I will fight them from hell to breakfast be- fore I stop,” he said. At this point Councilman Alberts threatened to go into court himself and with the assistance of Pendergast get warrants and have arrests made that would give a thoro airing to the whole question of police brutality if the committee blocked efforts to get at the bottom of the question of po- lice rottenness. It was then decided to go ahead. Jackass Convention Halts Probe. Many of the councilmen on the com- mittee are delegates to the Democrat- ie convention in New York and will be out of town for more than a week. The probe will not continue till they come back. W. K. Russel told how he had been held in the detective bureau for seven days without being booked and then charged with transporting a stolen auto from here to Milwaukee. He told of having seen men struck time and time again. Beating Prisoners. “I knew Captain Schoemaker when we were boys. But I must teli you how I have seen him strike suspects and prisoners. Many times he did it out of idle ill will. He would take hold of a prisoners tie and ask him where he got it and then strike him in the face or on the head,” Russell said. “Handling” Labor Men. “I saw the way they handled some labor men they had there, it was an outrage, it was a shame.” Chief of Detectives Michael Hughes was an interested spectator at the hearing. His impassive face never changed expression as Russell told his story. He was asked if he had ever seen any one struck or beaten in the detective bureau. He replied that he had not. Garment Strike Brutalities. Dr. Ralph Girard a resident of Hull House who was at the committee meeting to tell of police brutalities during the garment strike was not heard because of ‘the pressure of other witnesses. Witnesses will ap- pear at the next meeting of the com- mittee to tell the story of the police brutality in the garment strike. Where's Union Label League? TRENTON, N. J., June 22,—Inter- state exchange of prison-made goods was the main subject of a two-day con- ference ha@ld here at the invitation of’ Governor Silzer. Twenty-seven insti- tutional heads attended. The Gov- ernor explained. how successful the “state consumption” plan had been in New Jersey and how advantageous the co-operation with Virginia had been. “Development of markets” holds the key to further expansion of “State use.” CHINA TELLS AMERICA TO STOP HER “ALTRUISTIC” INTERFERENCE (Special to the WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22—China has told the United States to mind its own business and stop all Interference with relations between Soviet Russia and the Chinese republic, in a note to Secretary of State Hughes. China virtually sald that other nations no longer have the right to deal with the question of the Chinese Eastern Railway line, in view of the new agreement between Soviet Russia and China. the exclusive control and management of the railroad by these two countries Dally Worker) This agreement calls for The state department expresses surprise at the Chinese note, claiming of the Chinese Eastern Rallway was (Continued from page 1.) the defendant steel workers and along with these letters of encourage- ment comes letters of condemnation from “open shop” organizations and insulting letters from stool pigeons. One heroic soul sent a copy of the life of Henry Ford—a gift to the steel workers now battling for their liber- ties before august representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The defense is maintaining a close watch on the white guards to see that no konklaves are held on the hill- sides during the coming trial and to see that the symbols of hooded Amer- icanism are not used to terrorize jury- men into forming their verdict be- fore the defendants have been tried before the jury. Trial to be Historio. What Harpers Ferry was war against @hattel slavery, Mercer, Pa., will be in the crusade against wage slavery. It behooves the out- side world to rally to the defense of these workers. Mass meetings should be held and resolutions of protest should be passed and sent at once to in the the governor of Pennsylvania. This Siberia of America. under the sway of the steel and coal trust, fully intends to stamp out and grind into the dust every rebel who dares pro- test against the wage slavery exist- ing in the mills and mines, I. E. Ferguson, of Chicago, aided by W. G. Barker, of Mercer, will handle the defense, and the flunkies of the steel barons know that ar will be no points of law overlooked by this brilliant young attorney for the de- fense who so ably defended the first steel worker tried and whose appeal is now being prepared by Mr. Fergu- son. There is no such thing as con- stitutional rights in any community where the American fascisti and its hirelings rule and the successful de- fense of the Farrel steel workers will do more to break the rule of the steel and coal trust then any other move made hy labor. Go to Mercer The Labor Defense and Free Speech Council cordially invites all believ- ers in American democracy to spend the week beginning June 23rd in the WORKERS LURED INTO OPEN SHOP TRAP BY 6. OF 6. LOS ANGELES, June 22. — The painters’ strike in Los Angeles, which is now in its thirteenth week, is the fight against the “open shop.” It is the immediate result of the newly launched organization campaign con- ducted by the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants’ and Manufac- turers’ Association to destroy the la- bor unions. It is the campaign of the builder, banker and the real estate shark, who are the only profiteers by cheap labor in the building industry. Bankers Crush Contractors. To accomplish their goal, the Cham- ber-crowd are conducting their so- called organization campaign, which is in fact a campaign of coercion and intimidation. The painter-contractor expects his credits to be cut off, the delivery of matorials to be refused, his contracts to be under-estimated and his financial standing to be ruined by the revenge of those who consider themselves stronger than the law itself. This disruptive campaign was pre- pared and is continuously supported by misleading publicity all over the country all year around. In all the employment offices of the big cities, e will always find California “help wanted” notices posted on the walls, calling for immediate employment in forty different trades at good wages and steady employment. Suckers Answer Ads. In response to these promising op- portunities 7,000 people are coming to Los Angeles every day. Deceived and betrayed by the misleading propa- ganda in the East, the credulous work- ers are flocking into California, only to find their hopes vanished and their plans ruined, They fill up the br¢id lines and are frequently arr dy or vagrancy and confined to jail. ng helpless and hopeless, these unf tu- nates are compelled by extreme! ov- erty to work for any price and? der any conditions offered, The emj yer is thus able to put on ten times as much “help” as he really wants. He is laying them off without any rea- son every hour of the day and is cut- ting wages continually. Homeless and penniless, these unfortunates are com- pelled to sell themselves as strike- breakers during the labor troubles which drag here for :nonths and months. Dollar a Day Cut. Only recently a dollar was ordered taken off from the daily pay of the men employed at the new Chamber of Commerce building on Twelfth street. The workers had to acct’ “+ without even a protest made, These workers on the Chamber building were getting from three to five dollars a day less wages than they would have received in other cities for the same kind and class of labor. Men with families were already receiving as little as $3.50 per day. The Chamber of Commerce leads the way and others already are being forced to follow in its footsteps. Sharp reductions in wages in all lines have ae town of Mercer, Pa. It invites the leaders of the labor movement to see American imperialism at play. Spend the week in Mercer and whatever de- lusions you are suffering under will be cleared away. Because of unemployment, defense funds are coming in very slowly and are not sufficient to meet our obliga- tions and for this reason the defense committee urges that contributions be so rushed to the Labor Defense & | Free Speech Council, W. J. White, treas., P. O. Box 883, Youngstown, O. who have charge of the cases. Act Quick Readers of the DAILY WORKER and all labor and sympathizing organ- izations are urged to act promptly so) that no effort will be spared to wage the labor battle in the history of| Pennsylvania against forces who have millions at their command. Elizabeth Gurley Fiynn of the American Civil Liberties Union has been arousing the workers to action in behalf of the Farrel steel work-| ers andthe defense committee is re- ceiving the hearty cooperation of this mighty force in backing up the fight! made by these workers for their con- stitutional rights. Trial expenses run into hundreds of dollars each day and the defense committee knows that their appeal for aid will not go un- heeded by the rank and file. AL'S CUTIES GET MC ADOO’S GOAT AS BIG DAY NEARS Dry Pupicks. May Be Laid Up for Repairs (Special to The Dally Worker) NEW YORK, June 22.—William G. McAdoo, candidate for the democratic nomination for president, is in the same position today as was Champ Clark just before the opening of the democratic convention in Baltimore in 1912, Clark came to the convention with a good sized block of delegates, He jority. Then the bosses of democracy jority. Then th ebosses of democracy recessed over Sunday. In the mean- time things were fixed so that the delegates got telegrams from all over the country calling for Wilson.. Then on Monday Wilson walked away with the honors. Indications are that McAdoo will establish close to a majority at the first ballot and then crawl up to over @ majority. But that won't neces- sarily mean anything. Little old Ikey Two-Thirds Necessary will be on the job. Shapely Cuties Worry McAdoo. There are enough determined anti- McAdoo men to cause a deadlock. But McAdoo’s strength lies in the fact that his opponents can’t agree on a man. They are merely against him. They are certainly not for Al Smith. Finally nine-tenths of the McAdoo delegates are dry as dust. Another thing that worries McAdoo is that the bright lights and the cute legged girls of this gay city may dis- tract the attention of the delegates from their duties. The drys are es- pecially susceptable to the lure of the siren shaped sisters of sin. No Danger of Jall. The boys from the sticks have been furnished with special police passes which means they can carry on with- out any chance of getting in the hoosegaw. Of course these courte sies will be passed out by the back- ers of Al Smith. A delegate would be very ungrateful if he got drunk and went out with a nice cutie all thru the help of Al's friends and then refused to slip Al a vote. The police have been handing out a line of bunk that they were driving the shapely houri from the city. To say that they are corraling them and that they will be used as army au- thorities sometimes use them would be nearer the truth. McAdoo is rather riled at these low- down tricks of Al’s friends. Particu- larly as there is no chance of his using them himself. Oily imperialism? Or Rubber-necking? (Special to The Dally Worker) AMSTERDAM, Holland, June 22— An unnamed American business group, possibly part of the oil trust, is considering participation in a scheme for exploration and exploita- tion of Dutch New Guinea, Hast In- dies. The plan was devised by Duke Adolf of Mecklenburg, brother of the Dutch prince conso! nd Herr Haltfe- rich, brother of the late German sec- retary of state. It would give 30,000 Germans a five-year lease in the Dutch far east province and 10 per cent of the prot ould be given the Dutch Hast Ihu.sn government. SO. 1¢ A Rival? THE HAGUE, Holland, June 22.— A British ofl syndicate with millions of florins capital has been granted “in principle” its application for a permit to bore for oil in Dutch New Guinea, paying a stipulated royalty on production, if oil is found. Private or leasors will be paid part. Page Three rrr STEEL WORKERS ON TRIAL TODAY TOWN OF MINE BATTLE IN ARMS AGAINST OWNER Charge Operator Brady with Murder The DAILY WORKER has just re ceived the following interesting letter jfrom a young woman in the little | West Virginia mountain town of |Brady, where the mine guards started evicting striking miners at midnight and started a battle that lasted hours jand resulted in the calling in of state | Cossacks, Mine Owner a Murderer. Lowesville, W. Va., June 19, 1924. |To The DAILY WORKER: ¢ Brady is in Monongalia County, West Virginia, is a small mining town | which is on strike and the people have {been thrown out of the company’s |houses for not going back on the 1917 scale. Sam Brady, the owner of Brady mine, is held for murder which oo- curred when he threw the people out and had guards put on to work, A woman was sick in bed and Sam Brady’s guards would not allow her husband or the doctor to come in to see this woman. One of the babies died when born and another one lived three days and died. People Sue Operator. County Judge found out about this and wrote a letter to Sam Brady to let the husband and the doctor in to this woman immediately but it was too late. Also not to stop the children from going to school. The people of Brady sued Sam Brady for $65,000 damages and the County Judge took this case up, too. Brady mine is scabbing and work- ing day and night. Have seven guards with high-power rifles. Fired twenty-seven Negroes that were scabbing for laying off one day and brought white scabs in place of black, Scab’s Can't Mine. About a mile from Brady another small mine, Francisco Coal Company, Lowsville, W. Va.has started an open shop. When this mine was run by the union it had seventy-five men work- ing and every day loaded seven and eight cars a day and up. But since it started scabbing they have over sey- enty-five men working and can hardly load two or three cars a day and are working day and night. The machines that are used to cut coal are broken and also the motor and fan. The people of this mine had one notice to get out at a certain time, but before the notice was due an Italian man’s name is Henry Cinchenelli. He stands good for the working men. The people have to stay in the houses until {he trial comes in October. Give Her News! I know some of the people around here read The DAILY WORKER. I am a young girl and cannot go around with every man to find out the news, but if the readers around my neighborhood will tell me the news I will report it to THE DAILY WORKER, because if I go around and ask them for the news some of them make fun of me. They tell me I have no business sticking my nose into their affairs. They all know who I am and can help me out a little by letting me know any news that is of importance |to report to The DAILY WORKER. Yours very truly, MISS MARY WATKIVICH. Your Union Meeting Fourth Monday, June 23 ,1924, Name of Local and No. Place of Meeting. 89 plan deets 123 N. Clark St., 1 9°, ‘and Structural Iron Work~ 0 W. Monroe St. 94 and Shoe, 1939 bald Av 598 Butchers, Hebrew, 3420 W. Roose- Bohemian, 1870 Biue @ Dyers, 113 S. Ashland Workers, 1710 N. Winches'r M ‘a0 Sherman Ave, rs 180 W., Washington 8t 505 S. State St. ., 1457 Clybourn » West St., Wau. box» | North Ave. s fon Ave., 7: Engineers: ; 311 , 180 8. " pagomotives erty 8. 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