The Daily Worker Newspaper, April 23, 1925, Page 2

Cte inant Page Two THE DAILY WORKER COOLIDGE AIDED PROSECUTION OF HAWAMAN REDS State Department Sent “Evidence” to Officers (Special to The Daily Worker.) HONOLULU, Hawaii, April 21. — The department of the secretary of state, evidently with the consent of President Coolidge, took part in the prosecution of Paul Crouch, United States soldier sentenced to 40 years at hard labor for being a Communi: details of the court martial reveal. Documents furnished by the state department containing what it was claimed were instructions of the Com- munist International, were introduced as evidence by the prosecution at the court martial, Following the intro- duction of this “evidence,” the prosec- Chicago Labor (Continued from page 1) of the past year and place before the assembled workers the tasks of the immediate future. In 1886 three hundred fifty thousand American workers struck for the eight-hour day, In 1925, the workers of the United States find their wages cut, and are facing further wage-cuts, unemployment, no relief in sight for child laborers, “open shop” campaigns by the employers. Reaction still rules from the office of the White House down to the offices of the labor bu- reaucrats. Militant worke are still in prison. The foreign-born workers jand the Negroes are suffering under | the abuses generated by capitalism to | keep the working class divided. Even \the little children of the schools, in laddition to the doped-up propaganda they receive under the guise of “edu- cation,” are to be given daily potions of religion to ensure their growing up into good slaves for their capitaligt masters. The Dawes plan has enslaved the German workers and failed to keep Plans for May First union unity is steadily marching on more militant class action. are beginning to wake up from their | Coolidge and LaFollette nightmares. labor bureaucracy, the left-wing move- }ment is thriving and growing into a class conscious workers against the WORKERS} SCHOOL IN STATEMENT ON CONFERENCE Refused Seats by the Executive Board (Special to The Dally Worker.) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 21— The refusal of the chair to put to a vote a resolution favoring diplomatic recognition of and trade relations with Soviet Russia, on the ground that it was “extraneous to the prerogative” of the Workers’ Education Bureau, was typical of the reactionary char- acter of that bureau’s fourth national conference just closed here. Opposing Slogans The second typical example of the control exercised by the trade union officials over the organization, was the attack upon. Professor Scott Near- ing because he criticized the speech fof President Green of the A. F. of L. by saying, “Industrial peace is the May Day Calls for Class and holding our great possibilities for the world working class, The British workers show a decided drift towards In the United States the workers Despite increased persecution by the By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. formidable weapon in the hands of the Kj lela the cracks and the holes in the tattered democratic party organization become increasingly apparent, in spite of the mending process that has been energetically pushed since the disaster suffered at last November's elections. The donkey followers couldn't even eat their “Jefferson- ian Dinner,” in memory of the founder of “the democracy,” under the same roof. So “the south” and “the west,” with the Bryan brothers, “Bill” and “Charlie,” as headliners, put on their feast at Kansas City, while “the east,” under the wing of Tammany Hall, gathered in New York City. Thus the democrats, almost exclusive spokesmen for the irresolute middle class elements, since the LaFollette move- ment went into practically complete collapse, are unable to develop unity even when they are on the outside trying to get in. class collaborationists. The possibilities for the coming year are great. Every worker in Chi- cago should come to hear the mes- sages of the speakers to the May Day mass meeting. Good music and sing- ing, in addition to the speaking, are part of the program. Come and de- monstrate! Against wage cuts! Against the “open shop”! Against child labor! Against persecution of foreign-born workers! Against race discrimination! Against religious training. in public | ° WHEELER IN OIL Offered to Influence Interior Department (Spécial to The Dalty Worker.) GREAT FALLS, Mont., April 21.— The defense began its fight in federal court here today to free Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler, democrat, of Mon- tana, of charges of misusing his office by receiving a fee to represent a ollent before the Interior department. ‘With more than 15 witnesses ready to testify, the defense planned to o@n- sume at least two days in completing its case. Because of the sensational testi- mony of George B. Hayes, New York attorney, and surprise witness of the government, Wheeler's lawyers today Solidarity of Labor in/GRAFT, SURPRISE / War Against Capitalists| WITTNESS SAYS ution asked for a “sentence that will ‘ . y. ' “, ” a, ” tottering French capitalism steady. | schools! slogan of the bosses. Industrial war The strategy of “the democracy” of “the west” seems | abandoned plans to move immediately site gon sor army and teach @| Dy borate preparations are being} Against militarism and imperialist | must be the slogan of the workers.” to be unfolding in the trial of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, | for an instructed verdict of acquital. e Oe aa made by all the capitalist powers for} wars! These signs of reactionary controi| at Great Falls, Montana, where his chief defender, Senator | Hayes testimony, coming as a com: Takes Nothing Baok. “T had no wild schemes for the im- mediate overthrow of the government such as have been printed in the cap- italist press,” Comrade Crouch told the court martial. “The bulk of my propaganda was efforts to combat the lies about Soviet Russia which ap- peared in the local press. new wars on a grand scale. Some rays of light pierce the dark- ness of this picture. Soviet Russia is stronger than ever and is steadily im- proving her internal conditions and her foreign relations. The labor move- ment of the eastern countries is as- suming definite form and conscious- Against the Dawes plan! For amalgamation! For shop committees! For freedom of class-war prisoners! {For International Red Aid! ! followed the refusal of the executive board of the bureau to seat the dele- gation from the Workers’ School of New York City, and the refusal of the board to consider that school's ap- For world trade union unity! plication for affiliation. Compelled to For recognition of Soviet Russia! appéal to the delegate body by circu- For a workers’ and farmers’ goy-|iars distributed at the final session, Thomas J. Walsh, of the same state, who was chairman of _ last year’s national democratic convention in New York City, announces new “oil exposures,” a new “oil scandal.” The democrats are going to try to smear some more oil on the republicans. If the “oil stuff” had gone over, politically, it would have shown its effect on the election returns last November. But plete surprise, sent Wheeler’s counsel into a conference that lasted until early today to map out new methods of combatting the government's evi- dence. Involved In Oll Millions John L, Slattery, United States at: torney, called Hayes to sustain his ! “Cal” j rr inainal’ it a) te {hard labor |2¢88. The movement for world trade ernment! the workers school issued the follow- Cal” Coolidge, as “the principal,” linked closely with the | charge to the jury that Wheeler pro- Ai pint look “he & ‘very bright ing statement: oil ee” familiar with the robbery of the Teapot Dome | posed an agreement to “make mil- at ” * * . 4 A Statement by the Workers’ School} and Elk Hills reserves, at the time the looting took place, | lions” out of oil lands obtained from future for me,” Comrade Crouch sid Five Fighters of Salt Anti-Klan Candidate icuen s The g Bee’. | eeide Gaeeita after the sentence was imposed. “But I had rather serve every day of it than be a traitor to the working class. So- called constitutional rights do not ap- ply to the Communists in the army. Such was the real meaning of the ver- dict which sentenced me to forty years at hard labor for belief in Communism and my efforts to combat lies about Russia.” Prosecution Attacks Foster. During the cort martial, the prosecu- tion made a bitter attack on William Z. Foster and other Communist lead- Lake City, Utah, in Walkout as Protest (Continued from page 1) hearing, at which they presented over- whelming evidence to justify Bywat- er’s removal. The fire chief did not dare to take the stand to oppose it. But the scabby city attorney frothed around about there being a union in the fire department, and stated the usual excuse that all the trouble was due to “union labor agitators.” was kept in the White House. reat mass of voters, the workers, saw both capitalist parties smeared equally thick with oil graft, but picked the political agent of the big- gest thieves, the strikebreaker occupant of the White House, cause they were fooled, by republican gold carefully dis- tributed, into believing that their jobs would be better insured under a continued Coolidge regime. * * * . at “ Favored to Win in “The application of the Workers’ Herrin’s Election} 84°! for affiliation to the W. BH. B. and for representation at this confer- ence has been denied and rejected by ebpeciel Ao. Tne Pe eee the executive board of the W. E. B. HERRIN, Ill., April 21—Herrin went | The credentials committee refused to about its mayoralfy voting withadoc-]act on our credentials. The affilia- ile placidity today that contrasted | tion committee likewise refused to act strangely with the heated campaign of |on our application.’ the last few months that saw bombing| “Altho the conférence has already squads and private riots in action. almost run its Course, the executive A record vote was forecast in Her- | board haé not givén its ‘supplement- rin’s mayoralty election today with po- | ary report’ to the conference as was The New York World, court organ of “the democracy,” backs up Walsh’s threat of new scandals, in this menacing tone, “In court or out of court—and the oil industry might as well reckon with the fact—this business will be si to the bottom.” Hayes declared he met Wheeler in a New York hotel lobby on March 10, 1923, a day before Wheeler sailed for Europe. The conferefce was arrang- ed by telegraph by Edwin S. Booth, former solicitor of the interior, Hayes said. “We discussed permits of Gordon Campbell,” Hayes testified. Wheeler is accused of representing Campbell, & Montana oil operator. “Wheeler said he would split his fee with me if I would handle Camp- bell’s troubles before the department,” ers, and declared that the principles litical workers feverish in the klan | promised on the opening day, which The oi siness w ifted unde: vel: 0 vi cf Walter ‘Trumbull, who was sen-| After the hearing the men waited |anq anti-klan race. Betting favored | would bring our ease before the body] Whey, ssi Oil adiocg. ined by “na kogope eo dein ie Hayes added. “He said he was a tenced to 26 years, and Crouch were| a week, then sent a committee to May-|+n. anti-klan mayoralty candidate of the conference. Our delegation has der Wheeler's Investigati h es he Srde of th Id United States senator and could not similar to those of Foster. or Nelsen, who refused to do any-|marghall D, McCormick, whose groc-|found itself gagged and blocked at er ler’s Inve: —s ion when, in the words of the World, | himself appear before the department. The prosecution, during the court martial, declared Esperanto to be the “Bolshevik language,” because Paul Crouch was a teacher of the interna- tional language. “Esperanto is pre- judicial to good order and military dis- cipline,” the prosecutor said, “and all who have engaged in the study of it city employes would take,common ac-) arly voting had brot no violence| upon three counts; One of declared, “I was very foolish because may be suspected of revolutionary] tion in a general walkout fora raise Ts eae eemperes toe r ical 4 afRastio (iotaahs Pane sine. ish provesdings heey, oon L would: have. very little to do; that ~ propaganda. Tn Wages FOr” eas ‘ i mn Soores of | 30-day tilt, cS iby pte + Southwest, and ‘e (Booth) would keep me advised Cards Stacked by Officers. Previous to the trial of Crouch, the thing. The resignations followed, giv- ing the legal week's notice, The fire fighters are more than half convinced that altho the statement.about there being a union in the fire department was a lie, they wish that it were true and that the other departments of American Troops “one year, two months and 26 days ago Edward L. Dohen e! sently bombed. McCormick | every turn to present its case before { ! nei diaoe hipisi rctery : admitted under oath that he had sent $100,000 in a blac' was formerly a klansman, he explain-| the assembled delegates as well as |pected always a menace. ed in his campaign speeches, but left | © Participate in, the deliberations of the Klan following Glenn Young's | ‘he conference. violence. Refused On Three Counts McCormick was opposed by Thomas; “Affiliation hasbeen denied us, we Welty, klan candidate. are informed. by Secretary Miller, nder trade union te citizens of both factions were | our school is not tale auspices. We maftain that the W. satchel to Albert Fall,” as secretary of the interior, with all the accompanying details, that dragged in not only Sinclair, but also the head of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, who recently fled to Mexico and South America to avoid testifying at the trial in Wyoming. But the investigation is all that remains is the court persecution of Senator Wheeler out in Montana, with another indictment returned in the city I think Wheeler stated the fee would run to a very considerable figure, I think he mentioned millions.” Hayes declined the offer, To Represent Wheeler After this talk, Hayes said he went to Washington and saw Booth, who ibout all of Campbell's \ransactions, and would help me.” Ff ie president of the court martial, de- clared that Crouch was “a very dan- gerous person.” It was this man who was to give Crouch a “fair trial.” Creque, who had been arrested as a member of the Hawatian Communist A League, has been released without| The heel of American imperialism trial. Lieutenant Colonel John B.|came down on the republic of Hon- Murphy, assistant chief of staff, G, 2,) duras when 16 marines were landed i Hawaiian division, said to Creque: “I| from the United States eruiser Denver | piity of removing the town hitching} we say, is a fund jentally false out- wish I could stick you, but I haven’t}in the port of Ceiba. ‘The landing | posts made obsolete by the flivver to} look. In the fieléf social sciences the evidence to take you before a| was ordered by Captain W. N. Jeffers, | propositions involving changes in tax-| one must of necesty either have and court martial and do it.” commanding the Denver, after George | ation and methods of conducting the} develop a pro-worlr or pro-capitalist Corporal Eugene Fisher, principal} P. Walier, American cousul at Ceiba, government were being settled at the | viewpoint. : witness against the Communist sol-] requested the troops. polls today in hundreds of towns and “The Workers’ Seputized and patrolled the astrests, “I was merely to represent Wheeler on Campbell’s claims,” Hayes de clared. Wheeler announced today he “never made any such proposition to Hayes.” Defense Recalls Hayeé. Opening its fight to acquit Senator Wheeler, the defense attempted to smash the testimony of two of the government's witnesses. As it’s first move the defense re- called George B, Hayes, and H, C. Glosser, former secretary to Camp- bell. of Washington. E. B. constitution fakes provision for the affiliation of werkers’ study class- es, with nothing bgng said about the necessity of theirhuspices being ex- clusively trade in, “The third poinjis that we prop- agate particular ctrines, and the Questions ranging from the advisa-} W. H. B. is againstiuch a policy. This, Land in Honduras to Menace Natives | Illinois Cities Hold Municipal Elections in Rain _ Wheeler believes in the capitalist system. He not only fights Communism, but makes war on every developing symptom of class consciousness of the workers and poor farmers. His trial will not turn him against capitalism, any more than the facts brought out in the oil scandal made him revolt against Wall Street rule. The indications are that the attack on him will only serve to beat him into line for the money power he hypocritically denounces, just as the carefully directed capitalist attack against LaFollette, has blunted the edge of the Wisconsin senator's so-called radicalism” and kept. him in the republican party, even as WASHINGTON, D. C.,, April 21.— ool is a bona-fide diers, and official stoolpigeon for] The announced -siaig oe be geri incorporated cities thruout nome. heir Boni - gee a Wheeler remains in the democratic party. Pionero prncegumnyy- | ‘ Jared at Crouch’s court] ing was to “preserve foreign lt The state legislature adjourned to} strictly wi ig dss in student New oi and soon were fair! Murphy, declared ai Soae sak te foes dh Bhovcory jw oil scandals, new attacks on Wall Street, new ex- | shouting questions and answers. Fin- martial that “Col. Murphy told me to| property.” A revolution headed bY] \ormit its members to take part in get evidence against Crouch, and to} Gen. Ferrera, defeated candidate for use any method I considered desir- president, has been making consider- With a heavy rain, which started able.” able headway in Honduras. In the}. .t1y after the polls opened, falling Trumbull Had Good Record. past eight years every presidential in a wide path across the state, many dishonorably discharged, has been in tinually menace’ and intimidate the been very satisfactory with conduct Wed., April 29, 8 P. M. for a commission. Trumbull, who was sculptor, The man who was his eral group will be held Wednesday, of oriental languages, and formerly a} An interesting series of reports on ply clerk in the 21st infantry. He has be given. All militant and progres- journalist in civilian life. Walter Trumbull, who was sen-| election has been attended by a visit sections reported a light vote. the army for nearly three years, and| workers of Honduras. above the average. Trumbull was only in the 2ist infantry band, in civilian] The regular meting of the Chicago guardian is the chiéf custodian of the April 29, at 8 p. m., at North West professor at Harvard University. the progress of the militants in the deen intersted in the radical move-| sive trade unionists are invited to at- Crouch should be addressed: Paul | ease of corruption cannot interest the workers and poor ‘armers except as they are followed by definite action. Fhat action will never come from the republioan arty, the polit- ical expression of the greatest capitalists; from the demo- crats, torn to shreds in their efforts to speak for conflicting middle class elements, or even from isolated “third p elements wandering in the political wilderness, fearing the slightest touch of the class struggle infinitely more than their feigned hatred for all the h - ~ soe igr rofes e@ heaped-up crimes of capital it has been in exishce for two years. {t has several hunted registered stu- dents, and functis all the year around, For Class Struggiand Revolution “We are forced} make our case known to the delegs in this fashion because we can! ik in the con- vention. Ours is growing, function- ing school which$clares for such working class edjtion as will fit the workers to on the class struggle on all fie for the emanci- pation of the wows, th lition Portsmouth Still “Central” Ft a WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21—] There is no dtitutional provi- The interstate commerce commission | sion on ‘doctrined’o make this a today denied the petition of the Re-| reason for our pn is to discrim- tail Merchants association of Ports-| inate against our pol. mouth, Ohio, to place that town in “We emphaticalprot the Eastern standard time zone in-|the treatment stead of the central standard zone. school by such executive, and ¢ Prince Calls on Rubber Slaves bled delegates to ANTWERP, Apr. 21.—Crown prince | move to accept ally, able to draw little from Hayes, ‘ Walsh excused the witness. Glosser, who previously testified Wheeler promised Campbell “to fix up things in Washington” followed his previous testimony, remained unshak- en. Tom Stout, ex-congressman and chairman of the state democratic com- mittee, next was called by the de- fense. He testified that he conducted the negotiations leading to Wheeler's employment to defend a receivership for Campbell, in Montana courts only. Got Ten Thousand a Year. “Wheeler agreed to represent Camp- bell at a retainer of $10,000 a year,” said Stout, “Wheeler stated flatly that it would have to be understood + that his services would apply only to i ii the elections. Looks For Bread: Brick Instead. ST. LOUIS—Peter Kelcher, 18- year-old bricklayer and one of St. Louis’ many unemployed, was prob- ably fatally injurde by a falling brick at a large construction job where he had applied for a job. Action can only be secured under the leadershi America’s Communist forces organized into the Wor fe (Communist) Party. All class conscious forces of labor, in the industries and on the land, find their logical place under that leadership. It is a good thing for workers and poor farmers, the nation over, to —_— this situation with the rapid approach of International May Day, the world holiday of labor, when mighty millions over the face of the earth demon- strate on behalf of the class interests of the oppressed. It ig a good time to join the swelling Communist ranks to wage , victorious class war against the whole front of the capit social order, from the Coolidges, the Butlers, the Morgans, at one end, to the LaFollettes, Wa and Wheelers, at the other, including the dollar's faithful labor lieutenants with work in Montana courts and would be unable to represent Campbell in any public land affairs.” New French Premier ¢ pon the assem- the convention Yorkers’ School Leopold of Belgium embarked for the |into the W. EB. Had instruct the tenced to 26 years at hard labor andj of American battleships, which con- it was admitted that his services have T. U. E. L. oval Meet recently recommended by his officers life’ had been a wood carver and] Trade Union Educational League gen- museum of fine arts, Boston, a master | Hall, corner North and Western Aves. Paul Crouch was a regimental sup-| Chicago trade union movement will ment since childhood. Crouch was a tend this important meeting. Make Arrests in Attack on Kato Crouch, care Police and Prison Officer,| TOKIO, April 21.—Three additional r a ovth Infantry, Schofield Barracks,| arrests were made today in the plot|Congo today. King Albert, Queen | executive accordiq’ their copious supply of class-collaboration poison. Only thru Reads His M. Hawaii, It is requested that news-| to assassinate Premier Kato. Omichi, | Elizabeth fas cates agi so . ble ne h ‘4 ft its class might can labor conquer. Every ‘developing phe- to Noisy C 5, le fi held as head of the conspiracy was|were at the pier to wis! ie executly is to serve the nomenon unde j papers, books, letters and magazines | he Workers’ Wduesiiltarsial Ase the der capitalism prevee this Communist declara- saber y voyage. tion . be sent to him at that address. } arrested yesterday. (Continued on page 2.) of the interallied debts which weight heavily on our policy and our credit.’* ors future is compos rer, presideat State Federation @bor, who is to be president of au and Spen- cer Miller was r@ted secretary, while the executPoard is hand picked by namingin Kennedy of the U. M. W. of Apmas Burke of James H. Mau- Pennsylvania British March in Concord Celebration. Boston, Mass., April 21—The parade at Concord, part’ of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the battle of Concord, reviewed by Vice-Presi- dent Charles Dawes, comprised a big detachment of veterans of British wars, led by Major General Sir Archibald MacDonald, sent by the governor-general of Canada, SAN FRANCISCO REDS HOLD FOURTH ANNUAL PIGNIC APRIL 26. 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