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ccaaencaaaiainitieeeahiacatetdeaeete SE | MCDONALD VOTE FRAUD QUIZ TO AID GROWE GANG County Commissioner Raps Whitewash Probe The special Cook county grand jury quiz now being conducted by Special State’s Attorney Charles A. McDonald, who is also vice-president of the Foreman Trust and Savings Bank, was bitterly assailed by Charles N. Good- now, one of the Deneen county com- missioners, as an attempt to white- wash end help put over the candidates on the Crowe-Barrett-Thompson slate in the republican primaries, Five Deneen republicans opposed granting $50,000 to McDonald to con- duct the quiz. The board of county commissioners, by a vote of 10 to 5, voted to transfer the funds. Tho the law governing appropriations states that twelve of the fifteen votes must ‘ba cast before the proposition can be put into effect, Anton Cermak, head of the board, ruled that State’s At- torney Crowe could transfer the $50,- 000 placed at his disposal to force the collection of real estate bonds for- feited in criminal cases to the quiz sponsored by Crowe to whitewash his henchman, Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph P. Savage. “I would not be averse to eppro- priating $500,000 to carry on this work if it would disclose the rottenness that Teports seem to indicate exists in Cook county, and once for all give us clean elections free from the suspicion of fraud,” declared Goodnow, ' “What is the real purpose of the in- vestigation? What is the motive back of the call for this special grand jury? “Is this jury and special prosecutor appointed, destined to play the role “of a political whitewashing machine? In other words, is the purpose, the motive, the effects and results to be obtained in this investigation, on the square?” He asked, why the application for a ~ special grand jury quiz was not made immediately after the April 13 pri- mary when, “charges of fraud were Printed In all the newspapers and was the topic of general conversation‘ on the streets of Chicago.” “I know that the McSwiggen grand jury investigation, which followed almost immediately after the murder and, as one might believe, before those responsible for it could cover up thetr tracks and silence witnesses and destroy evidence, cost the coun- “ty many thousands of dollars, and I also know that, so far as its report shows, it got nowhere except to il- legally criticize certain citizens and issue a clear bill of health to others. “It is open to suspicion when the man who asked for this special grand jury investigation is head of the po- litical organization that has entered into the bipartisan combination that controls the treasurers of three of the largest government bodies in the county, whose brother-in-law is treas- ~urer of two of them, and all these funds are deposited in the bank from which this prosecutor comes.” Walter Schmidt, borther-inlaw of State’s Attorney Crowe, is treasurer of the forest preserve and Sanitary District funds, which are deposited in the Foreman banks, Commisisoner “Goodnow pointed out. McDonald is vice-president of the bank. The June Issue of the American -Worker Correspondent ie out! Get a bundle to sell at the picnic! THE DAILY WORKER “rm gh, WOTKCL FORD WORKERS NOT FOOLED BY HIGH WAGE LIE Wage Cut and Lay Off “Pay” for Speed-Up By Ford Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich., June 25. — Con- trary to Henry Ford's hypocritical story entitled, “Today the Greater To- morrow,” now running in the capital- ist press, in which he claims to pay as high a wage as possible, the wages of the Ford workers are actually cut. Production is so speeded up that where formerly the welders used to turn out 1,100 pieces in 24 hours, they now turn out 3,500 pieces in eight hours, Ford An Ordinary Liar. One not familiar with the Ford workers would naturally come to the conclusion that Ford raises the men’s wages when so much more work is thrust upon them, Instead, what do we see? We see that he increased the speed of production go that the workers pro- duce as much in five days now as they formerly did in six days, giving them a layoff of one day—but without pay. Seeing that he was making hun- dreds of thousands of dojlars daily at the expense of the workers, he de- cided to increase still more the un- believeable speed-up of production, un- til today the workers are producing six days’ products in four days—and getting paid for only four days, be- sides doing it with less men employed than before! Four weeks ago the foreman of Department 22 came around and un- folded a generous plan. This is what he said: Only “Providing.” “We're going to raise the men’s wages.” “That's all right with me,” replied a worker. “Providing,” hastily added the fore- man, “that we get out the same pro- duction with 25 less men than what we had previously. And nobody will get this raise unless we (the foremen) think you are getting out the produc- tion. ‘To those who don’t get out pro- duction, we will cut their pay or get rid of them.” No More Illusions, Well, since that time two paydays have passed and not a sign of a raise. Since that time we were put on only four days a week, so we must have gotten out production. Ane thing about the workers here, they know what to expect, They no longer believe the fake promises of the bosses. A monthly paper, “The Ford Worker,” has dispelled all their illusions. They are keenly watching developments, “The Ford Worker” in- forms them in advance of any move Ford is going to make to further lay on the speed-up whip to increase his profits and their miseries, Mellon Gets Another Decree. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 25.—Sec- retary of the treasury Andrew Mellon and Sir Arthur Curries, principal of McGill University, received the hon- orary degrees of doctor of laws and 1625 degrees in courses—the largest number in the history of the univer- sity—were conferred today at the Harvard University’s 290th commence- ment, Fifth Annual JULY 4TH PICNIC Held on-Legal Holiday MONDAY, JULY 5 Chernauskas’ Grove, 79th St. and Archer Ave. Large Dance Floor Refreshments Speake: C. E, Ruthenberg and Alexander Bittelman. ADMISSION 60 CENTS. Auspices: Workers Party of America, District No, 8, ATTENTION, WORKERS OF NEW YORK! Just opened a new bargain store by the name “Popular” Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Wear. wholesale prices. Still further special reductions for work- ers presenting this advertisement. REMEMBER: 236 £. 23RD ST. “THE POPULAR” Good Music Games Will sell below ZELIOT. JUNE ISSUE OUT! (wee as you Figftt S AMERICAN WORKER. a CORRESPONDENT Magazine By and For Workers in the Factories, the. Mines, the Mills and onthe Land Price § cents Subscribe! Only 50 Cents Per Year! Become a Worker Correspondent! AMERICAN WORKER CORRESPONDENT, 1118 W. WASHINGTON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL. Pauline By R, KATZ, Worker Correspondent. 'VERYONE in the shop knew Pau- line, because Pauline was not a new face in the shop. She came to work in the shop about nine years ago when Alfred, Decker and Cohen was a small shop, and so she grew up with the shop, the only difference being that while Alfred Decker and Cohen grew richer and richer, Pauline’s fam- ily grew poorer, and that was the rea- son Pauline had to work so hard to help her parents, ‘HEN Pauline was 12 years old she had to leave school and go to work, but she never gave up the idea of getting a better education. She used to toil the whole day long and go to school at night, and she really was the most intelligent and broad-minded girl in the shop, You could not say that Pauline was not what you call a lively girl. On the contrary, she was quite jolly and full of pep. But her studies in school kept her back from many of the pleas- ures that young girls enjoy. She very seldom had time to go to dances, pic- nics, ete, N one Tuesday afternoon Pauline approached the foreman and asked him if she could come in a little later the next morning, since she was going out that evening, a thing that doesn’t happen very often, and she would be too tired to come in on time. The foreman, a man that cannot forget of the time when a girl used to work 10 and 12 hours a day for $12 a week, stared at the girl and told her in com- manding tones: “You be in to work tomorrow on time, if you want to avoid trouble. I must have the work, that’s all.” NN Wednesday morning Pauline woke up when the hands of the clock showed 7, She jumped from the bed and started to dress in a hurry. She knew that no matter how much she would hurry she would not come to work on time, but if she would only be late 10 or 15 minutes the foreman would not make a fuss about it. So she washed herself quickly, drank a glass of milk in one swallow and hur- ried to the elevated that would bring her to the shop, The elevated was a few blocks away from the house. Of course she could take the streetcar, but that would take her so much longer, so she ran to the elevated with the command of the foreman, “you be in to work tomorrow morning on time” ringing in her ears. It was 7:30, in 15 more minutes she is sup- posed to be in the shop. She would not be so late after all. Now she just had to cross the street for the ele- vated. She made a dash across the street, but she saw a machine coming in her direction. She made a quick retreat, not noticing a truck that came right behind and knocked her down. HE was taken to the hospital un- conscious, with a fractured skull, and never recovered consciousness again, _ When the news arrived in the shop later in the day the workers were shocked. They could not believe that Pauline, who just yesterday was so jolly, today was no more alive. The news of her death went thru the shop like an electric current. Immediately a group of workers gathered in a cer- ner and decided that the only thing they could do was to elect a commit- tee of five which would express their sympathy to Pauline’s parents, and $100 was collected for flowers to be placed on the grave to be sent with the committee, and to help pay the expenses of the funeral. UT the foreman would not stand for any of that “sentimental stuff.” If five workers missed a day from the shop the work would not move so smoothly, so he would allow only two to go as a committee to the funeral, The shop chairman and as- sistant were appointed to go, and the rest of the workers continued to work. and at 11 o'clock, at the time when Pauline was buried, all of the workers paid their respect by stopping work for two minutes and facing east with heads downward, ‘This ends the story of Pauline. But no sooner was Pauline buried than her sister, Frances, took her place, to continue the stream of profits into the coffers of Alfred, Decker and Cohen. POLISH WORKERS PLAN BANQUET TO WELCOME 1924 STRIKE PICKETS Polish Local No. 60 of the Inter. national Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, Pollsh Local No, 830 of the International Association of Machin- ists and the Polish Workers’ Club are planning to arrange a banquet for the Polish International Ladies’ Garment Workers 1924 strike pick- ets as soon as Mrs. Eleanor Sad- lowskl, who Is serving the longest sentence of the group, is released, DETROIT JOINS FIGHT ON SCAB RUSSIAN DAILY Pass Resolution Against Chicago Sheet By a Worker Correspondent. DETROIT, Mich., June 25.—In spite of yery hot weather, several hundred Russian workers turned out at a meet- ing here arranged as a protest against the scab Chicago Russian daily paper, Russky Viestnik-Rassviet. John Simmons, secretary of the De- triot Typographical Union, spoke in English, and M. A. Stolar, represent- ing Chicago’ Typographical Union No. 16, spoke ing Russian. Simmons jpealed to the working class loyalty"of the audience to aid in the fight \¢@Minst. the Chicago. paper and explained how the wages of the organized workers affect those of the unorganized. ° Scabs Masquerade, Stolar exposed the counter-revolu- tionary nature of the paper which refuses to recognize the union, in spite of claithing to be published by so-called Russian trade unions, The sheet has been parading as representative of the “Russian Trade Unions.” Stolar showed that it was controlled by a combination of an- archists and monarchists and was anti-labor not only in the plant but in its columns as well. Disruption Fails, A half dozen monarchists came to the meeting and attempted to disrupt it. Their demonstration had no effect however, and they left in disgust. The rest of the audience eat calmly and listened to the speakers. After the reports were heard a live- ly discussion ensued for some three hours, A resolution was then passed condemning the fakers who have been calling themselves “Russian trade unionists” and calling upon the work- ers to expose the monarchist sheet and fight against it at every opportun- ity. In the meantime, Typogrpahical Union No. 16 of Chicago will continue the struggle to organize the shop and force the paper to recognize the union and institute. union working condi- tions, A membership meeting of the Young Pioneers of Chicago will be held on Sunday, June 27, 10:30 a. m,, sharp, at 1902 W. Division St. All Pioneer leaders, assistant leaders and com- rades drafted for Pioneer work must be present. WYOMING. MINERS SEND THEIR BIT T0 ASSIST BRITISH MINE STRIKE SUPERIOR, Wyo., June 25.—(FP) Responding to the appeal of the United Mine Workers of America, Local 2328 of South Superior hi forwarded $200 to Indianapolis to be added to the relief fund for the lock- ed out British miners, The British have been out since May 1 and there is no immediate prospect of settie- ment the mine operators will not take back their notice tting lon- ger hours and lower pay. LOS ANGELES CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL DEMANDS NEW TRIAL FOR SACCO AND VANZETTI » LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 26.—The Los Angeles Central Labor Counoll "Sacco and Bartolomeo y . nana anne goin { \ unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that a new trial be given Nicola Vanzetti, ae — CROUCH DENIED APPEAL BY U.S. CIRCUIT COURT Soldier Must Serve Out Full Term (Special to The Daily Worker) SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 25.— An appeal for a writ of habeas corpus against the decision of the lower court in the case of Paul Crouch, former soldier in the U. S. Army division stationed in Hawaii, has been denied in a decision just handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit. There was no dissenting opinion, Judges Gilbert, Hunt and Rudkin arriving at a una nimous view. I, L, D. Lawyer, ‘The appeal was argued by the well- known labor lawyer of California, Austin Lewis, who was retained by In- ternational Labor Defense. Circuit Judge Gilbert, in rendering the decision of the court, held that Crouch was triable by a general court martial and that the court had juris- diction over him. The decision re- fused to recognize any of the points raised by the defense for the appelant and declared that all that had happen- ed was as it should be, and that Paul Crouch must remain in Alcatraz Mill- tary Prison to complete the three year prison term to which he was sentenced in Schofield Barracks, Hawail. : Arrested With Trumbull, Paul Crouch was arrested together with Walter Trumbull in their quart- ers at the U. 8S. army post in Hawali. Both of them were regular soldiers in the army, but they haved been active in the formation and conducting of the Hawaiian Communist League, which had some seventy-five soldiers in its ranks, Altho this organization held regular meetings openly in the barracks, and its letterheads and envelopes were printed in the army print shop under the direction and with the knowledge of the officers, Crouch and Trumbull were suddenly called out of the ranks, and arrested for having organized a “secret society,” which is a violation of the laws of Hawaii, Court-Martial. ‘The declaration that the league was not a secret society, but one which was known to exist by almost every- one in the barracks, was of no avail, and the court martial sentenced Paul Crouch to forty years imprisonment and Walter Trumbull to twenty-six years. The protest of American workers and labor organizations, caused the officials of the army to reconsider their savage sentences and they were soon reduced from forty years to three years, and from twenty-six years to one year. Served His Year. ‘Trumbull has already completed his year of imprisonment. In his tour from coast to coast thousands of work- ers gathered to greet and cheer his courageous work and unflinching stand for the rights of soldiers to organize clubs within the army to counteract some of the anti-labor propaganda which the army man is subjected to. If the decision of the circuit court of appeals is the final legal resort, it means that Paul Crouch must remain in Alcatraz Prison until February 1928, when his three year sentence ex- pires. 2) ae Co-operative for Sacco-Vanzetti NEWBERRY, Mich., June 24. — The meeting of the members of the New- berry Co-operative Association of this city today went on record for Sacco and Vanzetti and urged the granting of a new trial demanded by common justice. The resolution was forwarded to the governor of . Massachusetts, Alvan T. Fuller. Literary Society Protests Frame-Up of Sacco-Vanzetti EASTON, Penn., June 4. — The Lithuanian Workers’ Literary Society of America, Branch 13, has gone on record for a new trial for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. announces its secretary Felix Urba. The resolu- tion has been sent to Governor Fuller of Massachusetts. Pilsudski Suppresses Peasant Revolts; Also the News About Them MOSCOW, June 8.—(By Mail.)— According to a report of the reaction- ary Warsaw newspaper Gazetta Poran- na, the movement amongst the poor and landless peasants in various parts of Poland is growing. In the districts of Opotschin and Vlochoy in Kelzy the peasants commenced to fell the trees in the woods of the large land- owners and to confiscate the animals, The peasants beat the landowners, disarmed the police and only retreated before the arrival of infantry regi- ment from Warsaw. In the Lidsk district in Novogrudok peasants armed with scythes and stones raided the estates of Schol- udek and drove the owners away. In the Bielostok and Lublin districts the peasants are refusing to pay taxes and have beaten and driven away the tax collectors, Several hundreds of Peasants have been arrested. For pub- Ushing this report, which has been corroborated from other sources, the newspaper has been confiscated, | Every Worker Correspondent must be a subscriber to the American Worker Correspondent. Are you one? ‘ 4 A NEW Glon Sinclair (Continued from page 1) ocean front, and looked it over, and went back to the office and signed a six month’s lease for twenty-five hundred dollars. Outside, this house was plaster applied to chicken-wire, or something that looked like it; inside, it was shiny like the home of Mrs, Groarty, only it was imitation mahogany instead of im- itation oak. There was a big entrance hall, and a drawing room on one side, and on the other a dining-room, with elaborate up- to-date “built-in” features. To these the owner had added fur- niture regardless of expense or period: spindley-legged gilded French things, done in flowered silk; mid-century American black walnut, with roses and rosettes; black Chinese teak-wood, carved with dragons. There were statues of nude ladies, in highly pol- ished marble, and also a marble clergyman in a frock coat and a string tie. Upstairs were six bed-rooms, each done in a different color by a lady from the best department-store in town. Some. people might have found the place lacking in the elements of: home, but Bunny never thought of such a thing—he had learned to be happy in a hotel room, with the use of the lobby. All his life that he could remember, home had been a place which you rented, or bought with the idea of holding it as a real estate speculation. As the Indians in the Hudson Bay country kil a moose in the winter-time, and move to the moose, so Dad started an oil-well, and moved to the well. First came Mr. Eaton, the tutor; he was used to getting a telephone-call, informing him where the carcase of the moose was to be found. He would pack his two suit-cases and his steamer-trunk, and take the train or the motor-bus to his pupil. He was a rather delicate young man, very retiring, with pale blue eyes, and pockets that bagged because he put books in them. He had been engaged with the express restriction that oil was to come before culture; in other words, he was to teach his pupil at such times as Dad was not doing it. Dad was not quite clear on the subject of book knowledge; at times he would say it was all “bunk,” but at other times he would pay it a tribute of embarrassment. Yes, he was a “roughneck,” of course, and Bunny would have to know more than he; but at the same time he was jealous of that knowledge, troubled by fear it might be something he would disapprove of. He was right in this, for Mr. Eaton told Bunny quite shamelessly that there were things in the world more important than oil. Then came the family limousine, with grandmother and Aunt Emma, driven by Rudolph, who was a combination of chauf-: feur and gardner, and would put on a frock coat and be a butler at parties. Beside him on the front seat rode Sing, the Chinese cook, who was too precious to be trusted to motor-bus or train. Nellie, the house-maid, could be more easily replaced, so she brought herself. A truck brought the trunks and miscellaneous belongings—Bunny’s bicycle, and Aunt Hmma’s hatboxes, and grandmother’s precious works of art. Old Mrs. Ross was seventy-five years of age, and her Ife had been that of a ranch-woman, in the days before automobiles and telephones and machinery. She had slaved in poverty and raised a family, and seen one daughter die in child-birth, and a son of typhoid in the Spanish war, and another son as a drunk- ard; now “Jim” was all she had left, and he had made a fortune late in his life, and lifted her to leisure at the end of hers... You might have been a long time guessing what use she would make if it. Out of a clear sky she announced that she was going to be a painter! For sixty years, it appeared, she had cherished that “ dream, while washing dishes, and spanking babies, and drying apricots and muscat grapes. So now, wherever they lived, grandmother had a spare room for a “studio.” A wandering artist had taught her the handling of crude and glaring colors. This artist had painted desert sun- sets, and the mountains and rocky coasts of California; but old Mrs. Ross never painted anything she had ever seen. What she was interested in was gentility—parks, and lawns, and shady, avenues with ladies in hoop-skirts, and gentlemen with wide-bot- tomed trousers. Her masterpiece was six feet by four, and al- ways hung in the dining-room of the rented home; it showed in, the background an extremely elegant two-story house, with two- storied porches having pillars on which you could see every. curlicue, In front ran a circular drive, with a fountain in the middle, and water which was very plainly splashing. Around the drive rolled a victoria—or maybe it was a landau or a barouche —with a lady and a gentleman being driven by a Negro coach- man. Behind the vehicle raced a little dog, and playing on the lawn were a boy, and a girl in wide skirts, having a hoop im her hand. Also there were iron deer on the lawn—you never got tired of looking at this picture, because you could always find something new in it; Dad would show it to visitors, and say: “Ma painted that; ain’t she a wonder, for an old lady seventy-five?” . Agents who had come with leasing propositions, or lawyers with papers to be gone over, or foremen coming for orders, would examine it carefully, and never disagreed with Dad’s judgment. Aunt Emma was the widow of the son who had died a’ drunk- ard; and to her also prosperity had come late in life. Dad set no limits—the ladies charged anything they wanted, and even draw! checks on Dad’s account. So Aunt Emma went to the fanciest | shops and got herself raiment, and went out to uphold the pres- tige of the Ross family in the town or city where they were ing. There were ladies’ clubs, and Aunt Emma would ai their functions, and listen to impressive personalities who rose and said, “Madam Chairman,” and read papers on the Feminine Element in Shakespeare’s Plays, and the Therapeutic Value of Optimism, and What Shall We Do for Our Youth? Once every month the two ladies gave a tea-party, and Dad always to be “spudding in” a new well, or seeing to a difficult job of “cementing off” on that afternoon. Aunt Emma particularly patronized the drug-store counters where they sold cosmetics, and she knew by name the fashion- able young ladies who presided there; also she knew the names of the latest products they handled, pronouncing these names in quite naive and shameless American—“Roodge finn dee Theeayter” and “Pooder der Reeze ah lah corbeel flurry’—which it must be added, was the only way she could have got the sales ladies to know what she meant. Her dressing-table was covered with rows of delicate little boxes and jars and bottles, containing paints and powders and perfumes and beauty clays and enamels, and she alone knew what else. One of Bunny’s earliest memories was of Aunt Emma, perched on a chair, look+ ing like an enlarged parokeet in a harness. She was only half dressed, paying no attention to him, because he was so little; so — he observed how she was laced and strapped up in armor—tight corsets and dress-shields and side-garters and tightly laced little — boots. She sat, erect and serious, putting things on her cheeks | and eye-brows, and dabbling herself with little puffs of pink and white powder; and at the same time telling Bunny about her husband, deceased many years ago. He had had many virtu in spite of his one tragic weakness; he had had a kind heart, sweet and generous—“yes, yes,” said Aunt Emma, “he ' good little man; I wonder where he is now.” And then, she was patting the tears away from her cheeks and them pink again! ; "(To be continued.) = =” oo ig

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