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

2 «/ »- $600,000 of this was still untouched Thureday, October 23, 1924 JAKE SPOLANSKY FALLS INTO DAILY WORKER'S TRAP WITH HIS SILLY WALL ST. BLAST STORY By MANUEL GOMEZ. Because of a certain unallocated $500,000, which it was be- leved bankers could be scared into handing over to the detective agencies for investigation of “reds,” the lives of 30 people were sacrificed and upwards of 200 were Injured, on Sept. 16, 1920, in @ terrific bomb explosion, one of the most powerful blasts in teed history. The explosion occurred in Wall Street, New York, tween the U. S. assay office and the home of J. P. Morgan & Co. The professional Burns and Thiel “body-snatchers,” with their hired gangs of ‘dicks, finks and stool-pigeons, got the $500,000, and several hundred of all the detectives in the count: thousand, more. Three-fourths ry, both public and private, were employed on the case for many months, Of course “clues” were re- ported every day and “leads” were turned up in unnumbered thousands. But no one was ever brought to trial, or even in- dicted. Blast Still is Mystery. Officially the Wall Street bomb ex- plosion is still a mystery, The only thing the department of justice pro- fesses to know about {t—after all its arrests and bustle of activity—is that it was the work of “reds.” This was. the explanation adopted by the author- ities at the beginning. It was the theory the private de- tective agencies wanted it to adopt. It was the theory that served the pur- poses of ex-Attorney-General Palmer. It was the theory that loosened up those Wall Street dollars. Now the Labor Defense Council, which is co-operating with the DAILY ‘WORKER in the publication of the Present series of articles, has been gathering information on the Wall Street bomb explosion for some time. This information explains why the af- fair remains such a perplexing “mys- tery” to the government “red” hunt- ers. ' It also shows up the latest fraud of that amusing villain, Jake Spolansky, published in yesterday's issue of the Chicago Daily News. As a matter of fact, Spolansky has fallen into a DAILY WORKER trap. .Ever since the beginning of his stories in the News, the DAILY WORKER has been waiting for him to touch upon the ‘Wall Street explosion, and thus give us the most favorable opportunity for contrasting his lies with the real truth concerning this gigantic at- The explosion occured at a time when the force of dicks usually on duty in the financial district was at eofts lowest ebb (a circumstance. which Tadicals could not possibly known, but which must have been well known to everyone in the detective service). J. Pierpont Morgan, for whom the bomb might have been presumed to be in- tended, was sojourning in Europe. His partner, Thomas Cochrane had left town for a few days., The late Henry P. Davison, another member of the firm, was not in the building. No “red” conspiracy has been dis- fovered in connection with the affair because there was no “red” conspir- acy. It was a detective conspiracy, and the bomb was planted by an em- ploye of the biggest private detective agency in the country. Profitable employment for detectives ‘was needed. Immediately following the explosion, the New York Times “* printed testimony by Frank Francisco, one of the investigators for the de- partment of justife, in which he “called attention to the fact that the . @xplosion occurred just one day after the ‘Red Squad’ of the department “was disbanded.” “This squad,” con- tinued the Times reporter, “had been active in running down bomb plots ‘Wince early in the war and the last #0 members were taken from the work yesterday, Mr. Francisco said.” Tolls of Rall Strike. ‘er. ‘The origin of the affair takes us ;, back to the great railroad strike of the previous year. A slush fund of $2,500,000 bad been raised by prom- ‘ {ment bankers interested in transporta- “tion, for the purpose of breaking the strike, not too much being said about the means to be used. More than _when the strike collapsed. It LUTHERANS HAD BETTER HURRY OR THEY WON'T BE NEEDED IN CHINA Lutheran delegates representing . 1,882,003 members of 5,353 united Lutheran churches thruout the Unit- ed States assembled here today for their biennial’ settlement of prob- \» Jems. of creed and conduct in con- . ity with the 39 theses of Mar- in Luther which were nailed to the door at Wittenburg 400 re ago. The questions before the conven- tion, range from the proposal to buy an entire mission fleld In China to the contemplated banning of moving ploture theatre organs in churches and the employment or “jazz” or- ganists to operate them. The atti- tude of the church on pacifism, on the younger generation and on spe- ehureh will be set rea Waa WINTER OF HOWLING BLIZZARDS, SNOW AND : SLEET ON. THE WAY WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.— The United States Is due for the heaviest winter In years If the well-known ‘law of averages” works out. In spite of the assertion of the United States wi bureau that long distance forecasting Is impos- sible with the present knowledge of meterology, officials admitted today that an old-fashioned winter is over- due. * ‘ Not sincé 1917 has the country suffered a really bitter cold spell, ac- cording to the records. Following that season there were comparative- ly mild winters which Indicate that December, January and February will be a grand polar celebration. Heavy snow, howling blizzards, plenty of sleet and biting cold waves —those are a few pleasures in store for the country this winter, if the unofficial predictions come tru: mained in the hands of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., who held it in trust for tie joint bankers’ committee. Through activities in connection | with the the strike, William J. Burns, the prosperous super-dick, knew of the existence of that $500,000. It dis- turbed him. He could not rest for thinking about it. And slowly the thought began to dawn upon him that if Wall Street could be scared suf- ficiently, the bankers, with a ready fund at hand, would be eager and will- ing to spend their money for the pur would also fall in, he figured, with the policy of the department of justice; which was at that time whooping up sentiment for its “red raids.” The whole thing finally took shape as a scheme involving Burns, Thiel and several other important detective agencies) The stakes were big and there was room for all ‘3 Information in support of this was presented to the Illustrated Daily News, of New York early in 1921, by Albert Balanow (alias Bailin), ex-fed- eral dick and Thiel operative—the same Balanow who testified to de tective agency frauds at the time of the Michigan Communist trials, in which Foster, Ruthenberg and their comrades were defended by the La- bor Defense Council. The Illustrated News declared it considered that “the accusations of Balanow are of suffici- ent importance to warrant a thorugh investigation by official representaives of the public and of the government.” According to the information given to the Illustrated News, Balanow was informed of a possible Wall Street bomb the day before the explosion. On September 15, 1920, a detective agency manager told him to go to Milwaukee and make a report from that point in writing to the New York chief of police. He was to explain that he had met a Russian by the nafhe of Lechovitsky, an agent of the Soviet Government in this country, and that the later told him he was here to cause bomb explosions and create outrages. He was further to report that Lechovitsky told him that at a certain meeting of radicals in New York city plans were completed to Place a bomb in Wall Street and to cause an explosion there, mt “Balanow gives what he declares is re-/the street number where the alleged ‘fictious meeting was supposed to have taken place,” continues the Illustrated News, “and a list of men of Russian origin who were supposed to have been present at the meeting. He de- clares this meeting was fiction and the man itsky also @ fictious character. at the purpose of the announcement to the police chief was to cause publicity and to stir up ithe country that detectives might be em- ” joyed. Scramble for Wall Street’s Gold. In the scramble for Wall Street money that followed, department of justice operatives did not seruple to play the game of the detective agen- cles.’ There is plenty of evidence ot & mutual understanding all around, The Labor Defense Council is in possession of a facsimile letter, on the stationary of the Thiel Detective Service Co. in which T. J. Cooney, then manager of the “radical de- partment” of the agency, writes to one of his men in as follows: “Please note copy of the attached letter to Mr. Seib, I met Mr. Solb , through Mr. Sculley of the depart- ment of justice in New York. Seib is now in the Intelligence Department and advised me that certain bankers in New York have suggested an in vestigation of the radical movement. “I believe it would be advisable for you to see Mr. Seib and have a talk with him. Don’t tell him too much, but give him enough information to convince him that this service could handle the investigation at New York better than anyone else. You might telephone him and make an appoint- ment, or if you cannot find his tel ephone number, drop him a note, and tell him to advise you how you can get in touch with him. Simply sign it No. 81 and do not give him your name or address. You might give him a@ phony name to write you under. “Please let me know the result of your interview with him.” | Here we have proof of double-deal- ing on the part of government agents Seib and Soulley, who have on the face of it, already taken the first step toward using their positions for priv- ate gain. The copy of the letter to Seib, re- ferred to in the communication print- ed above, is also in the hands of the Labor Defense Council. It is marked “private,” and extracts from it are given below: “I do not expect to be in St. Paul for sometime to come, but if you or some of your connections expect to ‘be in that vicinity soon, please let me know, and I will give you a note to Mr. Baldwin, our St. Paul manager. . . Should you succeed in lining up the Radical work you mentioned, I am inclined to believe that an organiza- tion such as ours, could handle it bet- ter than any other organization, as we are in touch with the situation and have men whom we can depend upon. An arrangement could be made to handle it for so much per day per operative. The rate per day would be ten dollars and expenses. Should the man in New York communicate with you, he will do so by saying, he is No. 81.” During all this time, our friend Jake Spolansky, recently graduated exposef’ of the “reds,” was in government em- ploy, and selling government infor- mation regularly to the Thiel agency at the somewhat startling rate of $25 a day. Jake has always had a keen eye for the shekels. Spolansky’s Latest Explanation. Now Spolansky comes out with the “only reliable solution of the Wall Street bomb,” which is revealed in the Chicago Daily News “for the first time.” His story is simply that some “red” did the job, but the “red” has not yet turned up, although one of his “accomplices” is already under arrest --only the accomplice does not know it. Neither does anyone else, we might add. Some disinterested parties have endeavored to explain the Wall Street blast as an accident, due to the ex- plosion of a powder wagon. But this story appears to the Labor Defense Council to be as without foundation as Spolansky’s assertion that “anarch- ist-communist” (!) bomb-throwers at- tended the Bridgeman convention of the Communist Party in 1922. Powder wagons do not parade up and down ‘Wall Street and explode in front of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s offices. Binghamton, N. Y,, Comrades Report Many Achievements (Special to the Daily Worker) BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Oct. 22—The language branches here, the Czecho- Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian and Lithu- anian report progress in their cam- paign for organizing the unorganized. The Lithuanian branch has mobil- ized its entire membership for red mobilization week. Each member con- tributed 50c to campaign literature for distribution. Other language branches are following up the work begun by the Lithuanian comrades. The Lithuanian branch has also don- ated $10 to the party’s campaign fund. To the party’s call for indus- trial registration our members res- ‘ponded one hundred per cent, Com- rade Sullivan, organizer of District 4, reported at our last meeting. There is a splendid field for work among the Polish and Italian workers which the City Central Committee is taking the initiative in drawing into the party fold, Two new branches, one Polish and one Italian will soon be organized here. THE DAILY WORK O MOONEY STRIKE OPENS FIGHT ON FARRINGTON Faker Hires Sl uggers to Club Delegates By T. J. O'FLAHERTY. (Article Ten.) That Tom ila 4 trade union organizer, was languish- ing behind the prison bars of San Quentin and in danger of Paige sent to the electric chair by the capitalists of California for something he was not guilty of, did not mean anything tc Frank Farrington, president o‘ the Illinois Miners’ Union. Bu the rank and file of the organi zation were as’ much concerne with Mooney, a member of th Molders’ Union, as if he wer a coal digger from Illinois. The class consciousness « the rank and file of the miner went far beyond the boundariec of the state and even of the na tion. While Farrington and hi henchmen were making com mon cause with the coal opera tors and their political lackey: in the republican party, the min- ers who actually dug the coal looked beyond the national boundaries and followed with interest and sympathy the great struggle of their brothers in Russia to defend their Soviet Republic against the combined forces of the capitalists of the world. Fear Rebel Spirit. It was fear of this growth of class solidarity behind Mooney and the erystallization of the rebel spirit in the Illinois Miners’ Union that was one of the determining causes behind the plot of the coal operators and Far- rington to crush the revolt before it became too powerful. The fining of those who stopped work in behalf of Mooney was the pretext. The miners were enraged over this action of the coal operators and de- manded a return of the fines. But the coal barons only laughed at them. They knew that they had a powerful ally in Frank Farrington, head of the miners’ union, who would use all the resources of the organization to crush the very men who filled the treasury out of their hard earned dollars. Big Meetng Held. The miners of the Nigger Hollow Mine, No. 2, at Belleville called a pro- test meeting and from that moment the rebellion was on in real earnest. A mass meeting was arranged early in August at Priester’s Park, Belie- ville, and Farrington was advised of the arrangements by Board Member, Wilson. The “Czar,s” reply is typi- cal: “With reference to your telegram of ist (August) I have instructed Reynolds, Dobbins, Myers, Schaeffer, Thomas, ‘Walker and Mason to attend meeting to be held at Priester’s Park Sunday afternoon and use every influ- ence to curb the rebellious movement in the Belleville District.” Farrington’s henchmen were at the meeting but their speeches served only to infuriate the miners. A reso- lition was unanimously adopted call- ing for the abolition of captalism, and another voting to continue the strike. Paid No Heed to Faker. The meeting adjourned after ar- ranging for another mass meeting the following week. This meeting was to be held in the open but rain forced the miners indoors. Only about one- sixth of the jainers managed to get into the small hall. Secretary Treas- urer Nesbit of the district office was there and’ used all the arts of the politician to bluff the miners. But the audience listened to him and went on with their business as if he never «xisted. It was plain that Farrington PLENTY OF TRANSIT PLANS BUT PROFITS ARE STILL IN THE STRAPS contains the following proposals: Mayor Dever’s subway building plan which is now before the city council A subway in Clark street, from Chicago avenue to Polk street, and extending west in Chicago avenue to Orleans street and west in Polk street to Jefferson street. - An “L” line.on Milwaukee avenue to Irving Park boulevard, connecting with the subway. An “L’ line in Blue Island avenue, connecting with the subway at Jeffer- son street. } Numerous later extensions of the “L” line, ‘ Construction of initial part of sys- tem with the city’s $40,000,000 trac: tion fund. \ The Insull Plan. Forty miles of extensions to the present “L” system. Would have city build subway under downtown dis- trict and if it does not desire to do this the "L” company cffors to do it, TT Proposal for consolidation of “L” and surface lines—one city-one fare under long term or indeterminate grant. Proposes that city build two subways under central district, one | for north and south traffic, and one leading west for surface lines. Maj. R. F. Kelker, Jr., the commit: | tee's engineer-expert, submitted a plan for eighteen miles of rapid transit lines with forty-six miles of track in the initial construction period, all of which can be financed, he claims, from a Labor F Page Thres aker’s Trail MANY CHURCHES IN christianity. asking for cash to. put the protestant churches of Europe on their feet again. “For on these much-tried churches of Europe has fallen blow after blow.” Many of the churches backed the wrong horse in the war, particularly in central Europe. They nad been supported by the government for whom they shouted in wartime, and hose governments went down’ before lefeat and revolution. The state tax- s from which the pastors Grew much if their living were withdrawn. “Over- sight,” the bureau reports, “their in- ome ceased or dwindled to almost othing.” They tried to rely on the ad completely lost control over the ank and file. The mass meeting elected a policy ‘mmittee of fifty men and drafted 4 atement to be sent to all the miners \ the district. It decided to send »mmittees all over the state and de- lared that the miners in Sub-District ‘o. 7 would remain on strike until a ew agreement was reached and a liv- ng wage granted the coal diggers. Denounce Fines. The statement held that the pres- omt agreement expired when the United States Fuel Commission was abolished, and that all fines collected from the men since July 1, 1919 were not collected under a bonafide agree- ment. A special convention was de- manded and the mass meeting pro- posed that the movement for the de- mands above stated be made state wide. % ; Farrington and his gang were not idle in the meantime. They viewed the rising tide of rebellion with undis- guised alarm. While the miners were carrying on their propaganda peace- (fully, to impress their views on their fellow workers thruout the state Far- rington was busy organizing an army of thugs from the underworld. The human vomit of Joliet prison, the pimps and murderers, came in handy to Farrington when it was considered necessary to smash the heads of the rank and file delegates who were seek- ing to better their conditions. Uses Fink’s Jargon. On August 8, Farrington sent a warning circular letter to the mem- bership. “Our union is facing a cri- sis,” he wrote. “The elements of de- struction are at work. The issue is: Shall the forces of defiance and rebel- lion prevail and stab our union to death, or shall an orderly procedure dominate the affairs of the United Mine Workers of America.” Noté the cuttlefish tactics of the arch-faker! The issue was indeed clear. It was: whether the miners’ union should be an instrument for fighting in behalf of the miners or an instrument to be used in behalf of the coal operators for keeping the miners working on starvation wages FINAL RED NIGHTS IN NEW YORK CITY 10 . LIGHT UP EAST SIDE (Special to the Daily Worker) NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 22.—The two final red nights in New York City will be held on th and in the down town day evening, Oct. 24, and Saturday, Oct. 25. On Friday night the Red Night will be in the 14th congres- sional district with a series of 12 meetings with a final grand windup at 10th street and 2nd avenue at 10:30 p, m. At this meeting many prominent speakers wil dress the ing. Some of the speakers will be, Ludwig Lore, candidate for con- gress In this district; Carl Brodsky, candidate in the 8th assembly dis- trict; Harry M. Winitsky, candidate for corigress in the 12th district; Rugin Saltzman, Moissaye J. Olgin, Boris Liphehitz, Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Fannie Warshafsky, Alex- ander Trachtenberg, Rebecca Grecht and many others in Jewish and English. This will be one of the big- gest red nights held by the Work- ers Party a it is expected that many thousands of workers will be reached by this red night. REMEMBER THE DATE, FRI- DAY, OCT. 24, main meeting, 10th St. and 2nd Ave, Meetings in the 14th Congressional bf District. Houston Second &St., o 7th St., corner 2nd Ave. 7th St., corner Ave. A. 5th St. corner Ave. B. 7th St., corner Ave, C. 9th St., corner Ave. C. Houston 8t., corner Ave. C. Houston St., corner Pitt St. FINAL WIND UP MEETING, 10th the city’s $40,000,000 traction fund, | St. and 2nd“ ; i. \ EUROPE BET ON WRONG HORSE IN WORLD WAR AND ARE NOW VERY MUCH BROKE WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—The war-mad churches of Europe, whose pas- tors blessed bloodshed and consecrated slaughter as they egged on the young into the world war are now feeling the belated effects of their betrayal of “It' ig here in the religious heart of the nations that the hurt of the war is tragically felt today,” declares the Central Bureau for Relief of the Evan- gelical churches of Europe, which is ¢— great middle classes but these also were hit by the war they had loyally supported. In Hungary some pastors of city churches have seen their wages de- cline to $2 a month. Many of them in Hungary and elsewhere had to go to work in offices, on farms and even in mines to keep their families go- ing. The annuat output of religious liter- ature has suffered. In one country alone three quarters of the retigious periodicals, accordivg to the relief bu- reau, have suspended and of those that remain half the subscribers have discontinued. $$ $$$. and under a system of autamatic pen- uties that robbed them of every shred of protection. But Farrington used the jargon of the stool pigeons, and set up a cloud bank of smoke to obscare the viaion of the miners. He used the same tac- tics that William J. Burns used when trying to jimmy a larger appropria- tion out of congress for his stool pigeons; the kind that Gompers used when pressed hard at conventions and the kind that all the labor fakers use when their crooked careers are threat- ened by the militant leaders backed by the rank and file. Urged Patriotism. Farrington charged the progressives with “demagoguery” fanaticism and treason. He sad the “Mooney fines” were penalities for “their defiance of their accredited leaders and the laws of their unions.” consider that the country was after going thru a war and that they must sacrifice with the rest of the nation. He did not specify what sacrifices the coal-operators made during the war. He did not tell them of the number of millionaries thrown up dur- ing the struggle, which left 100,000 men on the “bloody battlefields of Eu- rope, the victims of # war in which they had nothing to gain end every- ching to lose no matter which side won. The only concession made by Far- rington to the miners was the prom- ise of a National Convention. He scouted the possibility of a separate agreement. The “Czar’s” letters ix which he described the leaders of the strikers as “vested leaders” and ‘demagogues” only served to increase the wrath of the insurgents. Arranged For Thugs. Farrington decided to take extreme steps. Nothing less than preparing to wage war with gunmen and scabs on the union members who were fighting the bosses was his decision. On August 9 he wired his lieuten- ants as follows: “Consider this your authority to temporarily employ at the expense of the district organization all the local men your Judgment tells you is neces- sary to influence the men in your dis- trict to return to work and help you control the rebellion that prevails. Keep me informed as to develop ments.” The kind of “influence” that Far- rington used against the militants war not of the intellectual kind. Farring ORDER! and others. The November 1st issue all Nov. 7 meetings. a success, 1113 W. 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The members of the committee were slug- ged on the streets of Springfield. The names of the men who did the slug- ging are: “Jack” Brown, or J. W. Brown, a notorious character and boss for the Peabody Coal company, who was keeping company with a woman who ran a house of ill repute. Ac cording to reports, she is still engaged in the same line of business. Brown's name will appear again in a subse- quent article. The other members of the slugging committee, sent by Farrington to “in+ terview” the rank and file delegates are: Edward (Red) Maher, who is now running for legal investigator, and William Wall, alias “One-eared Wall,” also a candidate for inves- tigator. The day after the committee war slugged a great mass meeting was held in Springfield and David Reed read the following telegram from the platform: 4 “Collinsville, Ill, 8-8-1919. “Frank Farrington, “Farmers Bank Building, “Springfield, Il. “Two delegates left at six a m. for | Springfield. They will arrange for mass meeting tomorrow. Will arrive at about ten-fifteen. “Moses Johnson.” j{ Silence Showed Guilt. iy President Farrington, who was prex ent at the meeting, was charged by Reed with the responsibility for the siasging of the Collinsville delega- tiom, He did not deny the charge. The téelegxam was sent by a Farrington stoolyyxeon in Collinsville, and was the sigyal for the sluggers to be on the watcil. The Springfield miners were not then enthuaiastic over a strike for a Hew contract, but when the Belle- villé committee told of the treatment they suffered at the hands of Farring- ton’s sluggers, they voted to go on strike and to “remain on strike until jobs.” The next article will follow up this very interesting part of Farrington’s history. The evidence will convince any fair-minded mine worker that the president of District 12 is not alone an agent of the operators, whether paid directly or indirectly by them, but that for sheer brutality he can hold his own with the worst speci men among the American labor fakers. An Analysis by Wm. Z. Foster of the political and industrial situation in this country, Read “The Workers Party to the Fore.” in the November (first issue) of the new Workers Monthly A mib blank is in this issue of the Daily Worker if you wish to subscribe. E. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS Seven Places 62 W. Van Buren ( 42 W. Hai 169 N. Clark 118 S. Clark 66 W. Washington | 167 N. State | 234 S. Halsted ? PHONES, HARRISON 8616-7 W. Rieck Boston Baked Bread NO copy a copy will carry advertisements of ~\ Chicago, Illinois