The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 16, 1925, Page 3

Friday, January 16, 1925 ° LOGATE SECRET MONEY DEPOSITS FROM OIL GRAFT Big Sums Deposited in Canadian Banks (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.— THE DAILY WORKER APPEAL SENT BY A COMRADE WHO SAW RUTHENBERG IN JAIL This morning’s mail brot us the following appeal from a comrade living in Benton Harbor, Michigan who has visited Comrade Ruthen- berg at St. Joseph before he was transferred to Jackson, We print his letter in full: Dear DAILY WORKER: 1 wish you would publish the enclosed no- tice. Dear Comrades: | want to ask Page Thres VICTORY’ FOR BANKERS MAY LEAD TO WAR U. S. Practically in the League of Nations (Special to The Daily Worker) HOW GAN J. P, MORGAN'S | LAWYER BE ‘UMETHICAL’? WE BET HE'S CONFIRMED WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The senate judiciary committee yester- day held up approval of the appoint- ment of Attorney General Harlan F. Stone to the supreme court because of charges of “unprofessional con- duct” filed against him by Col. James A, Owesby, mining operator of Coloradg. Owenby charged Stone was guilty of unethical conduct while repres- enting J. Pierpont Morgan & Co., in FIRST PARDONS GRANTED I. W. W. DEPORTEES ARE HAILED BY THE RED INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—“The effect of the president's recent pardon of Herbert Mahler, William Moran, Pietro Nigra and Joseph Oates will naturally be favorable on the other deportation cases pending,” stated Attor- | ney Isaac Shorr in charge of the I. W. W. cases. Shorr went at once to Washington to get the department of labor’s action in cancelling deportation warrants warcants speeded up. Applied For Pardon, Attorney General Harlan F, Stone recommended that these former polit- ‘FARM CRISIS ACUTE, BORAH TELLS SENATE Coolidge Throws An- other Feed (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. Gompers’ Widow Asks Probate Court to Act Against Sammy’s Will Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special counsel engag- ed by the government to prose- cute Fall, Sinclair and Doheny in the naval oil cases, are track- litigation against him. Owenby filed a record of the case, showing Stone’s connection, and a complaint against elevation of the attorney- general to the supreme bench. 15.—Following Senator Borah's speech in the senate demanding an extra session of congress to provide farm relief legislation you all to write to Comrade Ruth- enberg. It will take you only a few moments time but will do our comrade much good. It will also show the reactionaries of this state that our comrade is not ical prisoners who had served under wartime convictions be pardoned. The |men were first ordered ready for de- |portation on Sept. 18, 1923. Stay of 60 days was granted during which time application for pardon was made. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. — The ex- pected protest against the admission of the will of Samuel Gompers, late president of the American Federation WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—= On the heels of the Kellogg- Churchill agreement in Paris, whereby the United States is to get 21% per cent of the Dawes of Labor, to probate was filed in the probate court here by the widow, Mrs. Gertrude A. Gompers, who was left in the will only the minimum al. alone in this fight. A few letters from each state in the union | am sure will make them take notice. plan annuities in satisfaction of American war claims, there arose here today a marked divi- ing down the secret distribution of a fund of about $3,000,000, raised by the Sinclair and With pardons granted the possibili- ty of ordering deportation as “unde- sirable residents” due to their former promised the farmers by Cool- idge in his campaign, President Coolidge held another breakfast “MELLON BRIBED Standard Oil interests after Fall began to give away the naval oil reserves to Sinclair, Stand- ard and Doheny. ’ Deposited in Fall’s Name They have publicly made affidavit, in the courts of Canada, that $90,000 in Mberty bond coupons from this secret fund have been found deposited to Fall’s credit. It is reported in Washington that another $130,000 has been traced, and that they expect to locate the whole of the $2,400,000 col- lected by a Canadian lawyer named Osler from the dummy oil-purchasing eentract and $750,000 collected from another similar deal. Moreover, it is rumored in financial quarters in Washington that Harry F. Sinclair will presently resign the presidency of the Sinclair Consolid- @ted Oil Co., and that a vice-president of Standard Oil of Indiana will like- wise step down. A Canadian court &as ruled that Olser, who formed the dummy Continental Trading Co., Itd., in his office, must disclose the names of the persons to whom the secret WITH BURNS AND HARRY,” CHARGE NEW YORK, Jan. 15. — Testimony at the trial of Gaston B. Means, “right jhand man” of former Attorney Gon- eral Daugherty and William J. Burns, formerly head of the investigation bureau of the department of justice, charged with conspiring to bribe the attorney general, was that a $65,000 bribe was to be split three ways by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Mellon, Burns and Daugherty. Samuel Goldblatt, of Chicago, testi- fied that Alderman Joseph A. Kostner of Chicago acted as lawyer for the Glass Casket company officers, who were caught selling fake stock. Kost- zer is a member of the law firm of 4ostner and Herr in the Ashland block. Kostner is now in the St. Anthony hospital in Chicago, Altho Attorney Hiram C. Todd, special at- party this morning and enter- tained his special agricultural commission. The commission, which was ap- pointed to report to Coolidge on Amer- ican farming conditions, with recom- mendations for emergency relief, in its first report made no recommenda- tion which would aid the farmers. Coolidge is opposed to an extra ses- sion of congress to consider relief of the farmers, so that the recom- mendations of his commission, ap- pointed for election campaign purpos- es, cannot be acted upon. The commission advised that the agricultural credits act be amended, eliminating the provision which pro- hibits rediscounting by federal inter- mediate credit banks of loans nego- tiated by federally chartered agricul- tural credit agencies. Until this le- gislation is acted upon by congress, the report of Coolidge’s commission is so much waste paper. Coolidge is, therefore, holding up even the work of his stupid “economists” by prevent- ing an extra session of congress. Address: C. E. Ruthenberg, care State Prison, Jackson, Mich. 1 visited our comrade the day after he was put in prison. 1 took him over some good things to cat, quested me to bring him the daily papers, but when | got over there the next morning he had already been taken to Jackson. Comrades, we must do everything we aan not only to liberate Com- rede Ruthenberg but all political prisoners. {| am not in a position to help much but | am sending $1.00 and | wil send more. ers’ goversiment. Gustave Glade. Support of Old Party Bosses Doesn’t Mean (By The Federated Press) Yours for the workers’ and farm- Much for Children COLUMBUS, 0.—Despite even the endorsements of Maurice Maschke conviction was removed and for that reason Shorr hastened to get the de- partment of labor’s cancellation of de- portation warrants which would be- jcome effective January 17. also the DAILY: WORKER. He re- oe © Red International Committee Pleased. CHICAGO.—"Every adherent of the Red International of Labor Unions will be glad to learn that the Amer- jican working class is not to be de- prived of these revolutionary workers be®n rousing the workers of many na- tions,” said Harrison George, chair- man of the Red International commit- tee of the I. W. W., when informed of the pardons granted in Washing- ton. “Some months ago,” he continued, “when deportation of Mahler, Nigra, Oates and Moran seemed impending, the Red International Affiliation Com- mittee requested of Fellow Worker Morris, then the secretary of the I. W. W. defense, the complete data upon the cases so we might carry on a world-wide propaganda thru our inter- national connections. lowed her by law. She would not have been left less | old Sammy, unless he had divo: her, so he cut down his widow's p to as little as possible under the law, and willed several hundreds of lars away to various lodges to buy American flags. By a previous will dated Sept. 21 1921, Mr. Gompers left the bulk of his estate to the widow. will by writing across its face and he then tore it almost in half. Samuel J. Gompers, son of the labor leader and executor in the later will is charged by his step-mother with having unduly influenced his father into revoking the first will and exe- cuting the second. Either the son, or some one unknown to the widow, ex- orted the undue influence, the widow's caveat asserts. Mr. Gompers was 71 when he mar- ried a second time and his bride was in whose behalf our committee has/ Isle of Pines Up in Senate. dol He revoked this sion of opinion as to whether the achievement at Paris repre- sents a victory or a defeat for American imperialism. While it is true that the American representatives at Paris forced the al- lied powers to agree to American claims and compelled them to grant equal participation in the German payments, the net result of such an agreement, it was pointed out in sen- atorial quarters, is that for the first time since the war the United States is thus made a direct party to the coalition of powers seeking to com- pel Germany to pay. The United States now has a direct stake in the reparations controversy, amounting to 2% per cent, or some $600,000,000, and in this respect, the American position now is no differ- ent from the position of Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy. Ta this connection the question was raised in senate circles: “Suppose Germany defaults in her payments now, and the allies agree to impose punitive measures such as further occupation of German terri- tory—will the United States become an active participant in disciplining Germany Can we again conscript an army of 4,000,000 and make them torney prosecuting the case, calls Kostner a “co-conspirator” with Means and Col. Thomas B. Felder, on trial with Means, he admitted the Chicago alderman has not been indicted. Kost- WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The sen- ate today began normal consideration of the Isle of Pines treaty under which the United States would cede own- ership of the island to the Republic fund was paid, and the identity of the client who instructed him to form the dummy company which bought oil at $1.50 a barrel and resold it at $1.75 under most suspicious condi- Borah, in his senate speech, declar- ed that Coolidge received a large far- mer vote on the strength of his prom- ise of immediate legislation for gov- ernment direction of the co-operative and Burr Gongwer, political bosses of the republican and democratic parties,| it is not certain that the Ohio legis- Avail we Gid uot: receive all the lature will ratify the child labor |#%8i8tance desired and expected, we amendment. Both bosses take the at-|W°Te given enough data upon which “An Example of Yankee Justice.” believe it is a war for democracy?” to begin a militant campaign to|o0f Cuba. The treaty would settle a The state department, however, is z ner, who is supposed to be ill, has re- marketing movements. Borah said the |titude that legislators should abide! . e state dep: a tions. Pee ceived many visitors at the: hospital.|Dawes’ plan would never be a success |by the platforms of their -paties but | Stimulate a protest of these deporta- ar kd oll after the Span-| i; nosed to regard the Paris agree- The P mt of cht Means was given the money in re-|as long as Germany is dominated by |powerful influences of the Manufac-| ‘08 by foreign workers on the basis : ment as a decisive diplomatic “vio- ie omerene-Roberts affidavit, : filed in the Canadian court in the ef: fort to secure an order that Osler must talk, set forth that Sinclair and Standard set up Osler as buyer of the oil, and then had their own com- panies pay him for doing nothing and Osler drow. $2,000,000 in this way until on May 26, 1928, when the senate inves- a ligotion. was seen to.be serious, the contract was surrendered for a cash sottlement of $400,000 in place of the $6,000,000 which was guaranteed on At the same tame another contract brought Osler a® additional $750,000 on oil purchassa taking no risk of any sort. fature deliveries of oil. at $1.20 and resold at $1.45. Conceal Ownership. Qmestions the federal investigators will try to push in court are: Did ®msiatr and Standard Oil of Indians amange for the creation of Osler’s tummy company, which concealed its ownership by a system of stock war- wants? Why were all records of that company destroyed by Olser? Did Fall eg all of the $8,150,000? If not, who got it? Qsler in identified by Pomerene amd Roberts as a director of the Mid- wes Kedaing Co., a Standard Oil sub- ‘Weary, Commemorating the Death WM. F. DUNNE J. LOUIS ENGDAHL ADMISSION ” A Memorial Pageant ‘LENIN MEMORIAL DAY Wednesday, January 21, 1925, 8 P. M. Ashland Auditorium ASHLAND AVE. AND VAN BUREN ST, Speakers: EARL R. BROWDER GORDON OWENS Music by, Young Workers League Orchestra. Auspices: Workers Party and Young Workers League, Local Chicago turn for promised immunity from in- dictments in the stock selling fraud. Rosenblatt said Felder admitted thru his counsel, Frank P, Walsh, that he was a personal and business associate of former Attorney General Daugher- ty. He denied accepting the bribe in his law office. “Isador Padorr of Chicago told me if I went with my associates to Wash- Ington we would get the trouble wiped out,” Rosenblatt testified. "He said there was a deficit in the 1920 re- publican national campaign fund and they were trying to make it up. Jar- necke, Means’ man, at first objected to a lawyer when we met him in Wash- ington. He said the reason he did not want a lawyer was that they iad a deal with Morse to get him out of Atlanta for a certain consideration and when he was out he told Means to go to hell.” Finally, however, Jar- necke said Means agreed that Kostner was im on the deal, Rosenblatt said. “We went to New York about Oct. 16. We wet Jarnecki. He said he had just left Means, who was with Daugherty and Burns at the Waldorf, and they were watting for Sccretary Mellon. He told us to go to Felder’s office. We wanted to know why there was another lawyer in the picture, and Jarnecke said that Felder and Daugherty worked together.” Means told the Glass Casket men, who operated out of Altoona, Pa., that his superiors were Daugherty, Burns and Mellon. They paid the money, but the in- dictments against them were finally is- sued, in spite of their bribe. of the Great Working Class ARNE SWABECK 26 CENTS, *|lem is not changed at all and better foreign governments. He did not di- rectly attack the Dawes’ plan for throttling Germany, however, but said it should be supplemented by deter- mination of the final amount Germany must pay the allies. ; “Those who believe that the farm question in this country has been set- tled either by the crop failures abroad or the Dawes’ plan alone have made a serious mistake in attributing to temporary relief that which we would ultimately hope might become perma- nent relief,” Borah said. Borah inferred that Coolidge had decided upon his farm policy on ad- vice from the U. 8. chamber of com- merce. “I wish the chamber of com- merce would take to the president some of the country weeklies thruout the great agricultural regions of the west,” Borah said, “in which three or four pages are devoted to tax gales. In my opinion, the fundamental prob- conditions in some localities are due. to transient causes.” The government aids the manufac- turers by fixing a protective tariff, Borah said, and lends the railroad magnates money when they get into trouble, but the farmers seem to be on the outside of the power which con- trols the government, looking in. Borah gave figures to show that the farmer is practically bankrupt as a class, the profits on his crops being made by the railroads, the middle- men and the industrial capitalists. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, in an address to the N. 8S. chamber of commerce here advised business men as to how they can make more profits, Hoover spoke against any legislation for the better- ment of the farmers. “Betterment of the farmers’ position in the national economic structure can be accomplish- ed by voluntary co-operation in indus- try and commerce without govern- mental regulation,” Hoover said. turers’ Assn. and state employer bodies are being swung into the fight of an exposure, as we termed it, of ‘an example of Yankee justice.’ against the children. ment. Nevertheless because of th Massachusetts referendum. Patronize our advertisers. Movies for Workers reigns! Cleveland, Ohio, Engineers’ Audi. torium, St. Clair and Ontario streets, ning, Sunday, Jan. 18, evening only. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Jan. 19, Brockton, Mass., Jan. 19, 1318 Walnut St. Jan. 22. Galloway, W. Va., Miners’ Theater, Jan. 28, Zeigler, Ill., Jan, 28, b. 6, continuous 7 to 11 p. m. Ad mission 50c. Which means in plain English, that now that the campaign is over, the farmers can go to hell, as far as the Coolidge administration is concerned, When you bu P for the DAILY t an “Ad” ORKER. Hearty Response to Pittsburgh, Pa., N. 8S. Carnegie Hall, Feb. 7, afternoon and evening, South Bend, Ind., Feb. 11. St. Paul, Minn., 444 Rice 8t., Feb. 20. Milwaukee, Wisc., Pabst Theater, Mar. 7. San Francisco, Cal., March 21. Subs for Prisoners Harlem English Branch Leads Again. sub drives for the DAILY WORKER, T ippeal thru our pages a few days ago to pay for subs to class war prisoners has met with a prompt response. inch of New York, which played a leading role in all the New York The Harlem English rushes in again at the head of the procession with money to pay for a sub which has been applied to Teddy Arinski, serving time in the Moundsv! iile, W. Va, jail for his part in the famous “March of the Miners” in 1922. ‘ In the same mail a remitttance from Anton Kratofil of Norwalk. Ohio, pays for the sub to both the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly for Frank Bodo, another of the militant miners in the Mounds- ville jail. In addition he sends five now calling for funds. lars for the Labor Defense League An anonymous friend of our comrades in jall contributes his share which pays for the sub of Chas. C Moundeville. lallelia, another militant miner in Clara Knappe, of Milwaukee, sends a remittance to gover subs for the DAILY WORKER and the Workers Monthly for Ernest ikon, imprisoned at San Quentin, having learned our comrade is most anxious to receive both. These are expressions of class solidarity that will serve to brighten the tong days of the militant claes war prisoner, = & ” ‘i a ‘aon The State Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Federation of Labor and every progressive body in the state is bringing pressure on the legislators, especially those from the farm coun- ties, to act favorably on the amend- opposition of the State Grange and the farm bureau federation, friends of the amendment fear the best to be ob- tained will be an order for an ad- visory referendum vote, similar to the You, who read the working class press for the truth about the workers’ cause—go to working class motion pictures for further enlightenment anc entertainment, and at the same time help along one of our dearest causes —Relief for the captives of capitalism in every land where white terror “The Beauty and the Bolshevik,” and “Russia in Overalls” will be shown at: Boston, Mass. Symphony Hall, Jan. 16. Saturday, Jan. 17, afternoon and eve- Cincinnat!, Ohio, Labor ‘Tempta'f’ Union Chicago, Ill, Ashland Auditorium, “This exposure consisted of incon- vertible proof that the federal govern- ment itself was flagrantly violating not only the federal constitution’s plainest provisions, but also the treaty rights | of foreign-born residents of this coun- try. The deportations, if the govern- ment had dared to persist, could have been carried out only at the expense of further disillusioning further great masses of workers in other countries as to the hypocritical claims that America is a land of ‘democracy.’ R. 1. A. C. Articles Widely Published. “American imperialism which has its own game to play against the gov- ernments of Europe, very much likes to have the impression that America is a ‘free country’ remain in the minds of European populations. The articles sent out by the R. I. A. C. thru its international connections were pub- lished widely in hundreds of papers and in all countries by the Commun- ist and Red International publications. The publicity and protest evoked evi- dently had a great bearing on the gov- ernment’s decision to issue a pardon— the very first pardon granted any of the I. W. W. imprisoned by the scores during the war. “In addition to this international campaign, the Workers Party and the Trade Union Educational League car- ried on a special campaign in this country, making the deportation of these four workers an issue in the A. »| #. of L, and iniependent unions, the T. U. E. L, getting out a special reso- | *|lution on the cases, which was taken | up in local unions.” When you buy, get an “Ad” for the DAILY WORKER, Are You Going to the Open Forum Sunday Night? BAT LLL LLL L. Siminow & Son “The Reliable Furniture Dealers” tory.” When you buy, get an “Ad” Datuse Tee ast, Worker por M25 SELL Reliable Furniture AT Reasonable Prices Cash or Credit 0315-17 BROOKLYN AVE, LOS ANGELES, CAL Open Evenings. for the DAILY WORKER. COME ON OVER! JUST FOR FUN—— And at the same time to relieve us of having to worry about it so much. Our small force is snowed under by a pile of work and if you have a little time to spare—come over to help us out on the work that will help to build our paper. JUST FOR FUN—— COME ON OVER! RAILROADED! FOR WHAT? FOR BEING COMMUNISTS! RUTHENBERG IN JAIL! MINOR CALLED FOR TRIAL! THIRTY OTHERS IN DANGER! TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS NEEDED FOR THE LEGAL DEFENSE BATTLE! Get a donation from or a collection taken in your Party or League branch, union, fraternal society or shop and have it rushed to the Labor Defense Council. Send YOUR OWN contribution. Use the blank below: ACTION COUNTS! To LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, 166 W. 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