The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 5, 1925, Page 1

. a Workers’ and Farm- ers’ Government Vol. Hl. No. 71. SUBSGHIPTION RATES: ‘The DAILY WORKER | Raises the Standard for | T in Chicago, by mail, Outside Chicage, by $8.00 per year. mail, $6.00 per year. & o> > ‘etree e v ce £ y § to. py K Sp 7A Oo ; Bi Pl Pall On KE ~ nV AS WE SEE IT By T. J. O'FLAHERTY HE United States government has not yet apologized to Messrs. Fall, Doheny. and, Sinclair and their. aids and abettors for relieving the navy department of its oil supply, illegally and with profit as a forethought. No doubt the apology will come in due time. For the present the gentlemen, above mentioned must rest content with having the indictments charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government, quashed, by a liberty- loving judge who has a penchant for seeing that the individual enjoys his full rights to rob under the constitu- tion—provided he robs according to Hoyle. *?. @ Eigse the great Teapot Dome scan- dal comes to an end, unless there is a reaction in the senate. But the senate has adjourned and will not meet again until November and noth- ing short of a revolution can jerk Coolidge out of the White House for four years. Many thousands of work- ers still are of the opinion that all are equal under the law in the United States. Once in a while, the capital- ists courts render a decision which seems to hit the big fellow, but there is uSually a way out—for the fellow. Nobody could have any doubt that ex- secretary of the interior, Fall, turned over valuable oil properties to Do- heny and Sinclair for valuable con- siderations, something like $150,000 or about as much as Ramsay MacDonald received for securing a title for Sir Alexander Grant. se 8 i ksi democrats came near getting a four-year lease on the White House over the Teapot Dome issue. They very likely would, but for the religious question. The fact that prominent democrats were mixed up in the oil mess did not seem to affect the avail- ibility of those.men. for democratic consideration, as, candidates for the presidency, Calvin Coolidge ‘hid “tke a snail in his shell until the storm abated. He dropped Denby and Daugh- erty frem his cabintt. They were the goats. It must be admitted in fair- ness to. the gentlemen” who. stood at the receiving end of the oil scandal that there ‘was more envy than jeal- ousy in the breasts of 100 per cent Americans over the whole business. Capitalism has such a corrupting in- fluence on society that thousands would gladly see Fall hanged, not be- cause he had committed wrong, but because he was a successful grafter. c+ © HE DAILY WORKER did not ex- pect that Doheny, Sinclair and company would be punished. Why should they? ; This is the government of big business. Those men did what svery other capitalist interest in the (Continued on page 3) tp 4 ee ERROR WA wo Entered as Second-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois under the Act of March 3, 1879. 290 1 dally except Sunday by THH DAILY WOK. PUBLISHING CO,, 1113 W.. Washington Blvd., Chicago, [lL a SWEEPS POLAND val’s Gang Frees the Oil Bandits TEAPOT DOME INDICTMENTS ARE QUASHED Doheny, Sinclair and| Fall Get Away WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3.— Criminal indictments against the three biggest figures in the great oil “scandal”—ex-Secretary of the Inter- jor Albert D. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, and Edward L. Doheny—were quash- ed in the supreme court of the Dis- trict of Columbia today by Chief Jus- tice Walter I. McCoy. Without expressing any opinion on the guilt or innocence of the accused men, Justice McCoy dismissed the in- dictments on technical grounds—the principal one being that the presence of a government attorney: Oliver Pa- gan, in the grand jury room during the taking of testimony, vitiated the instruments. Criminal Consplracy. The indictments had charged the trio with criminal conspiracy in the leasing of Teapot Dome oil field to Sinclair and the leasing of Elk Hills reserve, in California, to Doheny. Justice McCoy decided that when congress authorized the employment of special counsel to prosecute the oil case, Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, it thereby took the case out of the hands of the ordinary legal department of the government. Con- sequently, the court decided, when Pagan, who is the indictment expert ofthe.department of justice, remain- ed in the jury room during the tak- ing of testimony ‘it.made the whole proceedings unlawful and vitiated the indictments. Two Courses Open. In the absence of Pomerene. and Roberts, the special oil counsel,.other government attorneys would make no statement as to the government's future course. It was said, howeyer, that two courses are open—the. gov- ernment can appeal from Justice Mc- Coy’s ruling, or it can accept the rul- ing and obtain new indictments on the same evidence, taking care to ell- minate the irregularities which led to the qverturning of the present in- struments, on a convenient technical- ity. The opinion was returned in the case of the two indictments against (Continued on Page 4.) + (COMRADES Baginsky and Wierezorkiewicz, Working. class prisoners of the white-guard government of Poland, were assassinated by the police whose prisoners they were, while approaching the border of Soviet they were being taken under for some Polish criminals. ussia where agreement to exchange them This cold-blooded murder which mu8t arouse the anger and indignation of every class conscious working man is a part of the systematic white terror in Po! the Polish bourgeoisie hopes to keep the wo pressed. It is the logical product of the poli * government, which is a lickspittle and_ satel imperialism, exploiting the workers of Polant d, by which i ¢ class sup- 0 the Polish for the profit of French of the Polish bourgeoisie and again for the profit of French imperialism. It is a part of the same wh F terror which shoots down strikers, and which revoked the parliamentary immunity of Comrade Lanzutsky and placed him on trial for his life beeause of a speech made in behalf of striking workers. Baginsky and Wierczorkiewicz, together Communists had been sentenced to death truction of the arsenal of Warsaw. tion had to admit that no proof whatever é explosion was not caused by explosive arsenal. The only evidence brought against th HERRIOT DUMP FINANCE CHIEF; SAVES HIS NECK But Damocles “Sword Hangs Over Him (Special to The Daily Worker.) RARIS, April 3.—Herriot secured a vote of confidence from the chamber of deputies by throwing his Finance Minister Clemente! to the wolves and surrendering to the vatican on the catholic question by taking Anatole de Monzie into his cabinet to replace Clementel. The vote was 530 to 26, the Communists alone voting in the opposition. It is not expetted that the Herriot ministry will survive the present crisis which has only been temporarily relieved by the compromise with the vatican. The socialists who strongly supported the break with the vatican voted confidence in Herriot after he appointed de Monzie finance minister. Senator de Monzie is a close pers- onal friend of Caillaux as well as of (Continued on page 2.) -AN IRRESISTIBLE POWER fith five other alleged des- the prosecu- ed that the within the accused. was The fol OVERNMENT OF WHITE-GUARD POLAND! | their propaganda and activity in behalf of the oppressed masses of Poland. The judicial conspiracy against them was so obvious that the president of Poland was forced to commute the sentence of death. But thus deprived of its victims the polish bourgeoisie hired a petty police official to carry out with an assassins’ weapon what they did not suc- ceed in having done by an official firing squad—the murder of fearless spokesmen of the workers. The Workers (Communist) Party of America calls upon all working men to demonstrate their disgust and ab- horrence toward this murder Wierezorkiewicz, and toward of Comrades Baginsky and the government which is re- sponsible for it. Let the Polish white guard know that the workers of the entire world know their crimes and pledge aid to the Polish workers in replacing the rule of bourgeois murderers with a rule of the working class and farmers. Down with the murderers of Baginsky and Wierczorkie- wicz! Hail the coming government of Polish workers and peasants! Hail the Communist International, leader of the work- ing class struggle against the white terror all over the world! Central Executive Committee, Workers (Communist) Party of America. AMERICAN SECTION, INTERNATIONAL RED AID, CALLS FOR STRUGGLE AGAINST THE POLISH REACTION statement was issued today by the American section of the International Red Aid thru its national secretary, George Maurer: ¥ * * 1B sessions the felease from immediate danger (there’are still rumors that Lanzutsky 8 not completely out of danger) of the Polish Communist’ Deputy Langutsky under pressure of world-wide working class protests and vehement threats of reprisal on the part of the Soviet govenment. the Polish white terror 1 The stofy. of of two exchange bordersis, news, ~ Information hes just ‘eome “to us that in addition to Lanzutsky, three other deputies ‘of .the . Polish diet, Ukrainians have also been deprived of parliamentary ‘immunity that they may be prosecuted»-for speeches made in August, 1923. At that time they urged their con- stituents to oppoge the military colo- nization of East Galicia by Polish ex- soldiers. The same or a similar fate that awaited Langutsky will now like- ly be the lot of the three deputies, Wassilehuk, Chuchmay and Kozitsky, who represent the oppressed Ukrain- jan peasant minority in the Polish diet. Along with all this, thousands of workers are rotting in jails without trial or being hurried thru farcical court procedures. The bloody Polish regime is performing well its duty as a puppet of western imperialism and as a military buffer against the work- ers’ and peasants’ republic of Russia. The International Red Aid continues its fight against the Polish reaction and calls upon all workers and sym- pathizers of the workers’ cause to pro- test the brutal and ruthless regime that rules Poland and suppresses the workers and the national minorities with mailed fist. We are in receipt of telegrams and letters from Upton Sinclair, Professor Harry Dana, Ellen Hayes, Roger Bald- win, Rev. David Rhys Williams, and Edw. C. Wentworth, pledging their support in protesting the excesses of the present hopelessly Teactionary re- gime in Poland. 16 German Workers Killed. BERLIN, April 3.—Sixteen work- men died today under the ruins of a chimney which collapsed at the Boehlem works in Leipzig, according to dispatches, SOVIET SENDS. SHARP NOTE TO POLAND ON MURDER OF PRISONERS ic ial to TheDaily Worker.) MOSCOW, Russia, April 3.—For- eign Minister Chitcherin yésterday re-enforced with a vigorous note his verbal representations to the Polish government concerning the murder of the two Polish revolutionary sym- phathizers. The communication declares that the failure of the Polish government to observe the agreement governing the exchange off»these prisoners gives the Soviet-government a free hand to deal with the Polish sub- jects who weretto “have been re- leased from Russia.. The foreign min‘eter demandsethat Poland take adequate measures to punish those connected with crime. ‘ lies its attacks on the Polish workers and their leaders. ie .cold-blooded and obviously officially instigated murder joners who were on their way under guard to the Russian on GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS | IN SOVIET RUSSIA OVER THE POLISH MURDERS (Special to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 3.— Demonstrations over the murder of two revolutionary prisoners by their Polish police guard who were sup- posedly taking them to be exchang- ed according to agreement with Sov- iet Russia at the Polish-Russia bor- der, have caused the Soviet authori- ties to post strong protective guard over the quarters of the Polish mis- sion here. Mounted troops patrol the streets around the Polish consulate in Len- ingrad, great crowds of demonstra- tive workers gathering in angry masses listen to speeches hour after hour on the white terror in Poland. The Polish priest Ussak, convict- ed and sentenced to death by the Soviet government for sexual sad- ism, and scheduled for exchange for the murdered revolutionary pris- oners, was concealed on the way to the border by the Polish consul at Minsk. The foreign commissariat has protested this crime to the Po- lish mission in Moscow, and the Minsk consul, Karchevsky, has had his exequater annulled by the Sov- let government and his immediate withdrawal asked. WILD SCRAMBLE FOR POWER BACK OF PARLEY TALK (Special to The Dally Worker.) WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3— President Coolidge is pushing a new conference of world powers, in order to force payment of a part of the seven billion dollar war debt to the United States government, it was said here, is owed by France, Club Over France. The Morgan loan to France, with the necessity of continual large in- terest payments, and the debt to the United States government, give the American imperialists a strong hold on France. This will be used as a club to force France to enter a new “disarmament” conference, which would discuss not only limitation of armaments, but payment of the war (Continued on page 2) GET A SUB AND GIVE ONE! Four billion dollars of this debt | ABRAMOVICH IS RECEIVED IN LOS ANGELES Eight Workers Jailed and Beaten (Special to The Dally Worker.) LOS ANGELES,.Cal. April 3— Raphael Abramovich, counter-revolu- tionary emissary of the menshevik Second International, held, or tried to hold, a meeting at the Labor Temple here, The hall and its approaches were packed with police and detectives, resembling a fortified position. Over one hundred workers trying to gain admission were not permitted to en- ter. Many Workers Protest. Nevertheless, in the small audience many workers who protested verbally when Abramovich began to repeat his discredited lies against Soviet Russia, and the brutal violence used upon them for so doing, kept the meeting in a continual turmoil, and the result was a flat failure so far as Abzramo. vich raising any sentiment against Soviet Russia was concerned. Eight workers whose vocal protests |disturbed the infamous professor of prevarication, were arrested, badly beaten up and held for trial under bail of $100 each. Raise $1,000 Bail Money. Demonstration of the excluded workers took place before the hall where $1,000 bail money: advanced by sympathizers was collected from the crowds. The capitalist press, running along. side the yellow socialist gangsters and | the capitalist police summoned by the petty bourgeois socialists, publish hair-raising “exposures” of “a plot to kill Abramovich.” The Los Angeles workers, however, have given their greeting in their own way to the slimy agent of counter-revolution against the workers’ and peasants’ republic. Ford Wants Control of R. R. NEW YORK, April 3.—Henry Ford will make a group of stockholders in the Detroit, Toledo and Jronton rail- road an offer to buy their stock at $102,00 per share, at the annual meet- ing this ‘month. Ford paid $5.00 a share on preferred stock and $1.00 per share on the common stock when he took over the road five years ago. ~ CENTS Including Saturday Magazine Bection. On all other days, Three Cents per Copy, Re Price 5 Cents TWO COMMUNIST SOLDIERS FACE DEATH SENTENCE Follows Brutal Murder of Two Prisoners (Special to The Daily Worker) LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R., April 3— All information reaching here indicates that a new terror wave is sweeping over white guard Poland. The day following the brutal murder on March 29, of the two exchange prisoners, Baginski and Wierezorkie- wicz, the Polish courts, thru Judge Krakéff, condemned to death the Com munist soldiers, Segal and Diffetski charging that they had issued revo- lutionary proclamations. This development indicates that there is to be no let up in the many killings of the murder regime thru which the Grabski government main- taing itself in power. Only today are all the facts being learned concerning the carefully pre- mediated murder of the two prisoners destined for return to Soviet Russia According to a signed agreement between Soviet Russia and Poland, the two Polish revolutionary army of. ficers, Baginski and Wierczorkiewicz, were to be exchanged for a catholic priest, Ussak,a member of the Polish government mission, here arrested by the Soviet power for a capital crime—sexual sadism. Baginski and Wierczorkiewicz, in Poland, were condemned to death for revolutionary activity on behalf of the starving and oppressed masses of Poland, and the indentity of their in- terests with the workers’. and peas- ants’ government of Soviet Russia. Victims of Frame-up. They were later commuted to life imprisonment and then to 15 years Ot prison because they were plainly vic- tims of the frame-up so far as formal charges of crime against them were concerned. At the border station where these two prisoners of the Polish white guard regime were held, and only one- half an hour before the time fixed for delivering them to the Soviet autho- rities at the boundary line, Baginski and Wierczorkiewicz were cruelly tor: tured and then killed by Polish police officers inside the railway car as it stood at the border. | The day after, Segal and Diffetski |were condemned. | This is the regime of the Polish jcapitalists and landlords, the pets of both French and American imperial jism. This is the “democracy” and |“civilization” of capitalism. Russian Masses Protest. Thruout Russ ers and peasant protest meetings the Polish consulates. From all over the world |the cables and wireless dispatches tell of the anger of the working classe: of the world at the awful barbarism of white guard capitalisi Poland. | From all countries come news of |great mass protest meetings and de- monstrations of hatred for the white \terror ferocities of capitalist Poland. + 2h " Meeting in Chicago. Chicago workers gathered last night in a great mass meeting at’ Shoen hofen hall, corner Ashland and Mil | waukee-avenues, in ‘protest demon- | stration against the brutal murder of | Baginski and Wierczorkiewich, © The | meeting was scheduled at too Jate an hour for the DAILY WORKER to give @ full account of it. Russia Will Raise Own Cotton. WASHINGTON, April 3—Russia in- tends to plant far greater acréages of cotton and sugar beets next. year than it did in the past season; the depart- ment of commerce annountes, of work & gigantic before | UTICA TEXTILE STRIKERS ARE TRICKED INTO “ARBITRATION” AND ROBBED OF STRIKE VICTORY (Special to The Daily Worker) UTICA, N. Y., April 3.—The textile strikers of the Utica Steam and Mohawk Valley Cotton mills have been betrayed at the moment they were upon the point of victory. The old game of “arbitration” combined with the usual treachery of the union’ officials, United Textile Workers, has done its going back yesterday, in this case Joseph R. White of the slimy work well. The strikers began Frederick Gillmore, mayor of Utica, after seeing that the strikers were winning and that the mill owners needed help, appointed an “arbitration” committee, J This fine bunch of appointees consisted of two lawyers, one of (Continued on Page 4.)