The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 2, 1926, Page 2

es Page Two MAGNATE HAZY IN DAUGHERTY BRIBERY TRIAL Graft Bonds Traced to Daugherty Bank (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Sept. 30.— Richard Merton, German financier ‘and one of the principal witnesses in the con- spiracy trial of Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, was recalled to the stand today in federal district court. Merton, who came here as a g0v- ernment witness, previously had testi- fled as to the manner in which he brot about the government's approval in 1921 of the $7,000,000 claim of the American Metals company for prop: erty seized during the war. Merton was a hazy witness this morning The government traced $40,000 more of the Merton-King bonds to show that in November, 1923, this block was in the physical possession of the and Nationgl bank of Washington Court House, 0, am in- stitution of which Mal. Daugherty, brother of the former attorney gen- eral, was and is president. Juggling The Bribe. On Nov. 17 of that year, the $40,000 block was sold by Otis L company, kers of Cleveland, at Mal Daugh- rders, and brot net proceeds A certificate of deposit” € amount was then entered herty’s personal account. Vera ‘V assistant cashiery in ibing procedure, testified Mr. Daugherty, in effect, loaned his amount to the bank for three to six months at 4 per cent interest, but the money was subject to call in Mal Da this ally whenever Mr. Daugherty wished Bank Paid Mal. On the following Dec. 21, Mal Daugherty “called.” The bank “paid’’ the certificate he held against it, and | deposited cash to his account in the} amount called for in the certificate— | in other words, $39,335.56. On the same day, the bank records then showed, a second certificate of deposit appeared for $49,165. This $49,165 “certificate,” or bank obliga- tion, was entered in the persona! ac- count of Harry M. Daugherty. Made Up Total. The Daily Worker at Detroit! /COOLIDGE must © OTHER daily newspaper In the land will cover the American Federa- tion of Labor convention that opens in Detroit, Monday, as carefully and thoroly as The DAILY WORKER. : In addition, The DAILY WORKER, however, will report the convention from the viewpoint of the growing militant section of American labor that is In continual clash with the’ reactionary officlaidom that will dominate at Detroit as in previous A, F. of L, conventions. Every issue of The DAILY WORKER during this convention should be of great and absorbing interest to every thinking worker In the land. J. Louls Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, left last night for Detroit, to send in reports on the usual preliminary gatherings, the meetings of the building trades, the metal trades, mining and union label trades depart- ments of the A. F. of L. With the opening of the convention Monday, a'com- plete review of the annual report of the executive council will appear In Actually, this $49,165 represented nine smaller certificates, which, taken together, made the total amount. But the amount was dis- eussed on bloc as though but one certificate. Redeeming this obliga- tion, the bank “paid” Harry Daugh- erty on this certificate, on July 17, 1924. By that time interest charges of $1,174.51 had brot the total value of the $49,165 certificate up to $50,339.51. The bank, its records showed, liqui- dated this obligation to Harry Daugh- erty by entering in his account five fresh “certificates” of deposit of $10,000 each, or $50,000. Make Protest Against Forced Negro Labor in Miami Reconstruction NEW, YORK, Sept. 30. — (FP) — Protest against conscription of only Negro workers in Mianii, Florida, and against “unwarranted shooting of Negroes by U. S. Marines” in that dis- trict, was telegraphed President Coo- lidge, Attorney Genera] Sargent and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur by James Weldon Johnson, ‘secretary of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People. The telegram reads: “Press dispatches from Miami, Fla., report ‘state troopers, deputy sheriffs, and police were sent to round up all Negroes of workable age and to put them to work clearing debris in all parts of this county. They will be put to work under guard.’ If true this con- stitutes virtually peonage for colored residents of that. county in view of the fact this order applies only to Negroes. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People re- spectfully asks investigation by U. S. departments of justice and the navy of conditions alleged in press dispatch and, if prevalent, that prompt action be taken to end violation of federal statutes and constitutional guarantees, Press reports also indicate unwarrant- ed shooting of Negroes by U. 8. Marines.” " Switch Responsible for Wreck. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—A defec- tive switch was responsible for the derailment of a passenger train on the Long Island railroad at Calverton, N. Y., on Ang. 13, resulting in the death of seven persons and the in- jury of 28 others, according to find- ings made public today by the inter- state commerce commission. ckets in Advance 50¢ Scandinavian Council for the Protection of Foreign-Born Entertainmentand Dance 4 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 8 P. M. : at WORKERS’ LYCEUM, 2733 Hirsch Blvd, Good Music and Refreshments. Tuesday's issue. Get a bundle of each day's Issue of The DAILY WORKER and distribute among non-readers, Order now at the rate of 2 cents per copy; $2-per 100. Address: The DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, III, WASHINGTON FARMER-LABOR PARTY NOMINATES CANDIDATE FOR UNITED ) STATES SENATOR SEATTLE, Sept. 30.—The Farmer-Labor Party has held a convention here as required under the state laws. The convention was only formal in its mature as a previous convention of delegates from the organizations sup- porrting the Farmer-Labor Party had been held during the month of August. The convention nominated A. L. Freeman as a candidate for United States senator. In addition, nominations for candidates for state legislature will be made thruout the state. + Polled 50,000 Votes. The Farmer-Labor Party of Wash- ington polled nearly 50,000 votes in the last presidential campaign altho the LaFollette ticket was on the bal- lot in opposition to the Farmer-Labor Party ticket. A campaign has been initiated in the state of Washington to build up the Farmer-Labor Party thru securing the affiliation of trade unions and farmers’ organizations on ‘a’ larger scale than heretofore, Secret Conference Between Mussolini and Chamberlain (Continued on page 2) from the battleship. British lines of communication to India are no longer guaranteed by the Gibraltar fortifications and the Cy- prus base. New methods of warfare, such as the airplane and the sub- marine ‘ave pulled the old watch- dog’s teeth. The Mediterranean is'no longer a British lake but a trap. Italy's gestures towards an alliance with Spain, and support of the lat- ter’s claim to Tangier was instru- mental in forcing England to come to some agreement with Italy. It is now likely that Spain will be asked to drop the Tangier claim in return for some other consideration, perhaps a British loan, as Spain is at the end of her colonial rope, and finds her colonial possessions as much of a white elephant as her tangoing king. A Complete Change. The MussoliniChamberlain confer- ence will go completely into the ques- tion of complete reorientation of the diplomatic map. Not only will the two powers discuss Tangier and Abys- sinia, but the Balkan states that are now under British control will be call- ed into conferences after Chamber- lain gets thru with Mussolini. Already the Bulgarian foreign minister has been invited to Rome and a sharp struggle is taking place in Greece be- tween Britain and France for the con- trol of that country. Bulgaria is a dependency of the British govern- ment. Should the» Franco-German nego- tiations fructify into a treaty between the two countries, Europe would be divided into two hostile camps, led by England and Italy on one side and by France and Germany on the other. The FrancoGerman combination would undoubtedly be the strongest from the military point of view with the Anglo-Italian combination domin- ating on the sea. But diplomatic alignments are subject to change at a moment’s notice, in these days of capitalist decline and nobody knows what new alliance the morrow may bring. turrets of the conference Soviet Influence. It should not be forgotten that the Soviet Union wields a tremendous in- fluence in the chancellories of Eu- rope and cannot be left out of con- sideration. People are asking what will happen to Poland if the Franco- German deal goes thru. It is reported that Mussolini in- tends to lay Italy's demand for more territory before the league of nations accompanied by a subtle threat to seize what he wants unless the league hands him-a chunk of soil somewhere. A joint loan to the government of Abyssinia is said to be the favorite solution of the British and Italian governments of the Abyssinian mud- dle. At the Door 75¢ Welcome, i PANI BOUNCED BY CALLES OUT OF MEX, CABINET Finance Minister Was Tool of Church (Special to The Dally Worker) MEXICO CITY, Sept. 30.—Alberto J. Rant, finance minister in the Cal- les ‘cabinet will dfop his portfolio next week. Owing to serious diffet- ences with Calles over the policy to be adopted towards the catholic church and the American ofl and min- ing interests Pani has been slated to go for a long time. Church is Defeated. While the catholic agitation was at its height and ‘the ‘attitude of the American government was still in doubt, Calles hesitated to give Pani walking papers. Now that the church has suffered a complete defeat and the Washington policy towards Mexi- co is definitely one of non-interfer- ence on the religious question, Cal- les is in a position to force all those who are at’ loggerheads with his pol- icy, out of the government. That Pani was a secret tool of the church inside the cabinet is indicat- od by the fact that he is being talked of in clerical circles as a possible candidate against Calles in the 1928 elections, ° i British Strikers ~ to Win If They Can Hold Out to November (Continue from Page 1) sion in London, has voted to refer all questions of settlement to the districts and report on next Thursday. The government is backing. the mine owners in their demand that the union settle by districts, thus break- ing up the national unity of the min- ersgand opening the way for their fur- ther defeat one district at a time. This and the union’s counter claims will be discussed by the districts. Cook Accuses Government, A. J. Cook, secretary of the Min- ers’ Federation, left by airplane before the session adjourned to attend the convention of the Miners’ Interna tional at Ostend, Belgium. In a speech to the delegate confer- ence before he left Cook said that starvation had forced a few of the miners to weaken in their determina- tion, He accused Premier Baldwin of open backing of the mine owners. But he also pointed out that only a small per cent, 150,000 of the 1,000,000 strik- ers, had returned and production was but 10 per cent, or 500,000 tons a week, of the 5,000,000 tons normally produced, I. W. W. Suspends Its Monthly Magazine; No Money to Keep Going The Industrial Pioneer, for many years an I, W. W. illustrated labor monthly, has temporarily suspended publication for lack of fund: magazine, it is the intention of the general executive board (of the I. W. W.) to publish ft again as soon as the “Real- izing the educational excellence of the ‘ 14 THE Deity WORK BE SAVED BY POSTMASTERS Instruction Is Issued by Chief Harry New By LAWRENCE TODD, Fed. Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.— That Postmaster General Harry New has in fact sent out to 15,000 postmasters a “brazen invitation” to “get busy po- litically” to save congress for Coo- lidge, is the charge made by the Na- tional Civil Service “Reform League. In its official organ, Good Govgrn- ment, the league analyzes New’s re- cent circular on the restrictions ap- plying to political activity, by federal employes. “While accurately stating the poli- tical prohibitions applying to em- ployes and officials of the post office department,” gays the league, “the postmastér general so interprets these restrictions and so emphasizes ER : that Blasts By J. LOUIS HE United States government was never able, according to its own ageg@s, to get enough evidence to deport Nicola Sacco and Bartolo- meo Vanzetti to Italy during the red- baiting years following the world war, It did not dare put them on trial because of the working class prin- ciples that they espoused. It, therefore, charged them with murder inorder “to dispose of them.” It built up a carefully woven tissue of lies, forced witnesses to- perjure themselves, twisted the stories of others, in order to create the asserted ‘political rights and pri- vileges’ of postal employes thru the use of italics, as to nullify the plain intent of the law.” Harry Is Old Hand. Harry New is an old and seasoned Indiana machine politician, and his manipulation of «postoffice appoint- ments and postal personnel legisla- tion has been so tricky as to bring down upon him at ntervals the wrath of the civil service reform or- ganization. Thus Harry New announces that ordinary civil service employes in his department must refrain from “public activity and management of political campaigns,” but that post- masters appointed by the president “are allowed to take such a part In “political campaigns as Is taken by any private citizen.’ Now watch your postmaster in the congressional campaign. AIMEE’S MOTHER COLLAPSES; SO DOES HEARING LOS ANGELES, Sept; 30. — Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, collapsed at the preliminary hearing today of ther daughter on charges of manufacturing false evidence during the reading by District Attorney Keyép'jof the evan- gelist’s testimony ‘before the grand jury, in which she described her kid- napping and detention for ransom. The collapse of the. evangelist’s mother broke up the session and court was postponed several hours in order to give her a chance te Tecover. Cold Towels Applied. When Keyes, reading the transcript of Mrs. McPherson’s testimony before the grand jury,‘reached that part in which the evangelist said she prayed to god that she might be able to re- turn to Angelus Temple, Mrs. Ken- nedy uttered a low moan and fell trom her seat. Cold towels weré applied to “Mother” Kennedy’s head and she was taken to the temple to regain her strength, Detroit Republicans Require Small Army to Keep Peace for Them DETROIT, Sept. 30— Surrounded on all sides by police, the Michigan republican state convention got un- der way here today in an orderly manner, The delegates filed thru lines of mounted and motorcycle po- lice on the outside and members of the riot squad were stationed on the inside of Cass Technical high school to prevent a repetition of the free for all fights staged at the Wayne county meeting a week ago. Supporters of Fred W. Green, re- publican nominee for governor, were in control. Trouble had been antici- pated over the seating of two rival delegations from Wayne county. Frank Martel of the Detroit Fed-| eration of Labor is supporting Groes- beck in the name of organized labor. Poison Gas ded for Bugs Is Cause of a Child’s Death CHICAGO, Sept, 30 — Indications that poison gas used:by a commercial Insect Exterminator. company had caused the dyath of; Mary Catherine Brennan, 10 months old baby of traffic policeman James J. Brennan, caused a continuance of an inquest into the child's death, pending further investi- financial situation permits,” the offic- ial announcement reads, “We should be adding to our propaganda instead of cutting it off, but it takes money to run papers.” ~ N. Y. Democrats to Renominate Smith SYRACUSE, N, Y., Sept. 30—Gov. Al Smith was in complete contro) of the democratic state convention which was to get under way here at 1. gation today, Another child, John Michael, is still dangerously {ll and four members of the-family of James Garrett, who oc- oupy a flat in the rear of the Brennan home, also are sick, % Many Die in China Storm. LONDON, Sept. 30.— Steamers coming into Hongkong reported that they had picked up numerous fisher- men found clinging«to their wrecked craft, The Chinese were so thick in the raging sea that one steamer launched ‘its lifeboats ten times to bring wboard battered and the frame-up connecting these two workers with the payroll holdup and murders at South Braintree, Mass., April 15, 1920. i ee © Glancing back over the newspaper clippings of years ago, I find such headlines as the following: “Sacco Gun Main Defense Point"; “Sacco files New Appeal; Excepts from Ruling that Pistol Barrels Were In- terchanged”; “Faked Photos Framed Sacco”; “Pistol Barrels Exchanged in Sacco-Vanzetti Case; Interchange of Parts Used for Comparative Pur- pose Admitted by Defense Expert— Without Effect on Motion for New Trial, Says Court.” So it has been going for six ydars. Instead of a fight over principles—working class principles—it has been a struggle for the identification of bullets, guns, automobiles and a question of the number of witnesses that could be won to support the lie that they saw Sacco and Vanzetti at the scene of the holdup. sae This, whole fabrication is now ef- fectually shattered in the affidavit of Celestino Madeiros, a Portuguese, who tells the real story of the South Braintree hold-up and blasts sky high the frame-up of the govern- ment. sf Madeiros, now facing death for the Wrentham bank robbery, tells his story in detail in the lengthy af- fidavit filed with Judge Webster Thayer, at Dedham, demanding a new trial. ose @ Attorney William G. Thompson, » who is now making the legal fight for Sacco. and Vanzetti, visited Madeiros in prison on Noy. 20, 1925 after Amleto Fabbri, of the Sacco- Vanzetti Defense Committee, had brought to him the confession of Madeiros smuggled to Sacco by a runner in the Dedham. jail reading as follows: “I hereby confess to being in the South Braintree. Shoe com- pany crime, and Sacco and Van- zetti was not in the crime, Celestino Madeiro fe @ (Signed) Here is the story, therefore, of oné who actually participated in the crime that the United States govern- ment charged against Sacco and Vanzetti. Madeiros says the event- ful day, April 15, 1920, began for him at four o’clock in the morning. He says he was picked up at that time at his boarding house, 180 N, Main Street, Providence, Rhodg Island, by four Italians who came in an open Hudson touring car. soe Then the story proceeds. With the Italians, Madeiros says, he drove from Providence to Randolph, and there changed to a Buick car which was brought by another Italian, The Hudson car was left in the woods and. was taken again after the rob- bery had been done. The Buick was left'in charge of a man who, Madei- ros understood, drove it away and left it in another part of the woods. After the job at South Braintree, and after changing into the Hudson car, the party passed thru Randolph, and was seen by a boy named Thomas Former Investigator in Hall-Mills Murder Case Is Under Arrest NEW YORK, Sept. 30.— Startling secrets of the, blocked first investiga- tion into the Hall-Mills murders are expected to ‘be revealed today, when Harry L. Dickman, former New Jersey state trooper, is questioned by in- | Vestigators at Governors Island here, Dickman, who was quoted before he vanished four years ago as saying “he had solved the case,” was brought east as an army prisoner from the military prison at Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, by the war department at the request of Governor Moore of New Jersey. , Continued to Probe Mystery. After other investigators had been withdrawn in the first investigation, Dickman cgntinued to probe the mur- ders. He subsequently enlisted in the army and deserted, and is n0w serving fime for this offen: Dickman will be asked whether he received @ large sum of money to| Shores, every babbit, from Buzzard’s disappear, investigators, sald, SEND IN A TODAY. TO THE] tf. "DAILY WORKER, shen Madeiros Tells Truth Frame-up > of Sacco and Vanzetti ENGDAHL. Pride and his sister, Madeiros says he became acquainted with the boy four years later when he came to live. in Randolph with his pal, James F, Weeks, on the same street. When the party started from Proy- idence at 4 a. m. on the day of the robbéry and murder, it went first to Boston, then back to Providence, then back to South Braintree, ar- riving about noon. The men spent some time in a “speak-easy” in South Braintree, two or three miles from the place of the crime. see On the visit to Boston a stop was made in Andrew Square. Madeiros remained in the car while the others went into a saloon to get informa- tion, as they told him, about the pay- roll money that was to be sent to South Braintree. Madeiros said he had never before been in South Braintree. These four men had persuaded him to go with them twovor three nights previously, in a saloon in Providence. Two were men from 20 to 25 years of age, one was about 40, and the fourth about 35. Madeiros was then 18, which means that he is now only 24, see Two men did the shooting, the oldest one and one other man, When the party broke upyit was agreed that the others should meet Made- iros in a Providence saloon the next night to divide the money (more than $15,000 was taken) that they had obtained. Madeiros went to the saloon but the others did not come. Madeiros said that during the pay- Toll robbery he remained in the back ‘seat of the automobile; that he had a Colt automatic pistol, but did not use it. He was told that he was there to help back the crowd in case a@ rush was made. vse Madeiros says that two of these men lived on South Main Street, and two on North*Main Street, in lodg- ing houses, and that he had known them three or four months: The oldest man was called Mike, another one was called William, or “Bill,” and he did not remember what the others were called, but _ that their nates did not amount to any- thing because they changed their names frequently, Madeiros again reiterates in his affidavit that Sacco and Vanzetti had nothing to do with this crime, that it was entirely “put up” by the old- est of the Italians in Providence. In an antotation later in writing on the margin of his affidavit, Madeiros claims that he knows the last names of all four of these men, but that he refuses to disclose them. oe & This is the simple story of the South Braintree hold-up and mur- ders, admitted by one of the parti- cipants. It is’a repetition ‘of the story of hundreds of similar hold- ups and sometimes murders in other sections of the country, with which labor has ‘had as little to do as Sacco and Vanzetti were concerned in the South Braintree affair. Sacco and Vanzetti are still in prison .sentenced to death in the electric chair. A capitalist judge is pondering whether he shall grant them a new trial on this new evi- dence disclosed. Labor over the land must thunder its demand, not only that Sacco and Vanzetti be granted a new trial, but that they be unconditionally freed on the ground that the government’s frame-up has been blasted to bits with the truth after six long years of delay: Working class justice for Sacco and Vanzettl! ee ‘Tomorrow—The affidavit of James F. Weeks, pal of Madeiros, who cor- roborates the affidavit made by Ma- deiros, CURRENT EVENTS By T, J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) feeling between our “better clawses” who hail Calvin Coolidge as the head of the nation, and their Buropean “not 60 good” prototypes who have plenty of titles and “atmosphere” but U. §, SHIPS "GARRY COAL TO ENGLAND Shipping Baard Boats | Enter Scab Traffic (Continue from Page 1) says that he ‘has also conferred with J. Harry Philbin, of Baltimore, vice- president of the Emergency Fleet cor- poration, Senator's Letter. Here is a letter he has written Philbin: ‘ “Due to the coal strike in England there fs an unusually great demand for American coal at’ this time. Our coal mines are wholly adequate to meet the demand. The only difficulty Nes in transportation, It is within the power 6f the United States Ship- ping Board to remedy this, and I shall be more than grateful to you than -I can express if you will look into the matter promptly and bring about much-needed relief. “The greatest danger probably lies in the rapid advance in rates which the scarcity of vessels is causing. “Interest of Labor” to Scab. “If the shipping board would place twenty-five to fifty boats in this trade for prompt loading they could be readily chartered and prompt dis- patch given. “In taking this matter up with you I am bearing in mind not only the interest of the mine owners and coal dealers, but also the miners, rail- road men and other workers, who are vitally affected in that many of them are laid off when the mines are not working full tim Hampton Roads Bids for Ships, .Hampton Roads, according to in- formation received here today, will also ask for the use of government- owned ships in transportation of coal from Norfolk and Newport News to the British Isles. : . “This should mean a great thing for Hampton Roads,” W. A. Cox, of Nor- folk, director of the State Port Author- ity of Virginia, declared in comment- ing on General Dalton’s announcement that the government will now solicit business for its ships. Capitalist Government Alds Scabbing. Boats leased or owned by the gov- ernment are now loading at Norfolk for shipment of coal to break the Brit- ish miners’ union, The first ship flying the United States flag to leave Norfolk for the Sinan tae tateonstown, Walaa, or 6a “for wn, , for orders, the other day. She was the Sudawsonco, of the: Trafismarine line, and her captain boasted that she was manned by “a complete crew of Un- ited States citizens,” Many U.S. Boats Ready. “This boat, which had more than 7,000 tons of “scab” coal as her cargo, arrived at Norfolk from Newark, N. J. in ballast. Atleast twelve more ships of the same line, all of which have been tied up for a considerable time, will be placed in this coal-carrying trade. The commercial Pathfinder, a Moore and McCormack (commercial) line ship, which was purchased from the United States government for a very small sum, carried 6,508 tons of scab coal from Baltimore to Queenstown, Treland, for orders, on Aug. .28, Seyeral ships of other United States lines have ‘also carried part cargoes of coal from Norfolk and Baltimore. Fill British Foreign Market. The Saucoa, a shipping board ship, as far back as July, Jeft Hampton Roads, with.a part cargo of coal for Genoa, Italy. The American Republic line, which is owned by Moore and MeCormack, is taking part cargoes of coal to South American ports while the American Export line is carrying part cargoes of coal to Mediterrdnean ports, The Union Sulphur Mne, another United States company, according to reports current along the Baltimore and Norfolk watrfronts, may soon en- gage in transport of coal from this country to smash the British miners’ very little money. That's what the queen is coming here for and maybe she will get it, She might drop in on John D, Rockefeller and peddle a|kitchens regularly every day. few oil wells, “We also thank the Co-operative oe. 2 68 hear our capitalist politicians talk of “republican institutions” on national holidays and during labor frtals. Those boys express their willingness to give their lives to pro- tect these institutions, But whenever some scion of a bankrupt European royal taimly or a drunken prince of a fairly insolvent line, visits these Butchers of Paterson, N. J., for thetp splendid support in sending in. thei weekly contributions of fresh meat for the children’s kitchens, These com tributions have made ft possible to feed so many children for such a Jong the statement added,