The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1926, Page 2

Page Two Poe momenta wor renee ener INDIANA POLS WON'T LET KLUX CHIEF WARBLE Stephenson Has Pot of Beans to Spill (Cor Governor t d from page 1.) Robinson was to be made senator. Robinson was an Indianapolis. at- kp 1, Ro: @ would pro: the For the @ binson tect forthcomin When t appointm« ‘ests «in Robinson's » upon Gov refused as not Jackson, he is said to and un mccording to 4 oO Tre and “s promised ment. u with the appoint Needed Money. ointed Stephenson The y that S Asher message binson the n told him and would € z day. » called the next day and $5,000, in $50 and $100 bills by Robinson and in return, gave R nson a receipt for the money signed by Stephenson, This, with sums collected from other sour and totalling $12,000, wa taken to Stephenson Ty here Ash Rigdon 2 penitentia- claims, Ralph } ed as a wit- hess for ephe n in the Ober- holtzer trial, was present when the money was handed to Stephenson, ac- cording to er. He says Attorney Remy of Marion County, Ind. also has affidav from prisoners who witnessed the transaction. Pressure on Warden, Stephenson’s message to Asher, he says, mentions the recent resignation of Edward J. the Indiana penitentiary and indi- cates that he may reveal that this was brought about by pressure. Meanwhile, thru the state, bit- terly divided camps have sprung up. Demands have been made upon Thomas Adams, Vincennes, Ind., pub- lisher, to appear here and tell. the story of his charges. Jackson in Dilemma, “I have made no answer yet. I do not know whether I will make an answer. I haven't given the matter any thought as I have only this min- ute received the telegram, I don’t know whether my answer will be made public.” These were the words of Gov. Ed Jackson, here today a moment after he reached his office at the state house when asked whether he would grant the appeal of Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, for an order on Warden Walter Daly that he and his probe committee be permit- ted to interview D. C. Stephenson, ex- grand dragop of the Indiana ku klux klan, now serving a life sentence at the Michigan City prison. Adams Talks. “I will make my own arrangements about appearing before the Indiana- polis city council but I will be only too glad to present plain facts and figures, to them provided they will hear mo at a time when I can. con- veniently be in Indianapolis.” This was the answer of Thomas Adams, Vincennes publisher today to the action of the Indianapolis city “council last night in which that body indicated it would summon Adams be- fore it for further information con- cerning his charges of corruption in Indiana politics. oR . Klan Gets Busy. ANDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 5.—A committee of the city council here was expected to get in touch with Thomas Adams, Vincennes publisher today to invite him to appear before them tomorrow and explain charges that the council is “controlled "by un- savory influences,” following the pas- sage of a resolution at the regular ses- sion last night, demanding that the charges be made more specific. Ready to Talk, The resolution follows charges of corruption in Indiana politics, made by Adams, in which he asserted that D. C. Stephenson, former kleagle of the Indiana ku klux klan, now serv: ing a life sentence for the slaying of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, was now ready to talk, but that high state of- ficials refused to allow the prisoner to be interviewed. DISTRICT 9, U, M. W., 70 HOLD CONVENTION: AT MOUNT CARMEL, OCT. 29 MOUNT CARMEL, Pa., Oct. 4, — (FP)—District 9, United Mine Workers of America, will hold its 22nd constitutional and fifth bien- nial convention at Mount Carmel for three days beginning Oct, 29. Chris Golden ie president of the district, one of the three anthracite r |dress of welcome. Fogarty as warden” ‘of | MEETS WITH By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, (Special to The Daily Worker) GRAYSTONE BALL ROOM, DE- TROIT, Mich., Oct. 5.—The 46th An- nual Convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor is now in session. eee It opened with the delegates stand- ing while a dance orchestra played the Star Spangled Banner, a a ee But the American flag was missing from the decorations. Frank X. Mar- | tel, president of the Detroit Federation |of Labor, apologized to the delegates. He si d this oversight would be remedied immediately, Sure enough! While President William Green was making his opening speech great boxes of “The ars and Stripes” began ar- riving, ee #8 “Peace” is supposed to have been patched between the recently warring ‘labor” elements in the republican |party when Mayor John W. Smith, of Detroit, appeared before the A. F. of L. convention and delivered his ad- Smith who claims that labor votes elected him and who says he is a member of the Letter Carriers’ Association, was on the side of the Governor-Elect Green crowd in the recent internecine strife in the Wayne County (Detroit) convention of the republican party. Frank X. Mar- tel, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor, was with the Governor iroesheck outfit that failed to Capture the convention against their Green op- ponents. The local kept press, thru the appearance of both Mayor Smith and Martel on the platform at the opening of the convention, declare that “peace and harmony” has again been re-established within the Wayne Coun- ty republiean party, the republican party that is dominated by the Coo- |lidge-Mellon crowd that speaks thru |the Detroit Free Press that threatens fhe delegates to the convention not to |tamper with the “satisfactory” work- ings of the American Plan alias “Open Shop” Plan in the city of Detroit. It is sufficient to quote the old saying, “Politics makes strange bedfellows”. “e # @ Morris Hillquit, the New York so- elalist, was one of the early arri jon the first day, Monday. He was in | Detroit, Sunday, for a lecture and 46th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR NO FLAG IN SIGHT stayed over for the start of the con- vention. Hillquit was busy presenting Tony Sender, the socialist woman member of the German reichstag now touring this country, to the various delegates, o oe ce Christian M. Madsen, former social- ist state legislator in Illinois, is in the delegation of the painters’ union. He promises to remain quiet. se ee William Brandt, St. Louis socialist, is here as a delegate of the §t. Louis central labor union, Frank J, Weber and Henry J. Ohl, Jr., both Wisconsin socialists, are here for the Milwaukee central labor union and the Wisconsin state federation of labor. *e @ Frank Duffy, of the carpenters’ un- fon, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, and not First Vice-President James Duncan, of the Granite Cutters, who has for years performed this ceremony, presented the report of the Executive Council. He gave merely a summary, however. The 60-page report, in printed form, was turned over to the delegates. Statistics as to the number of dele- gates who actually read =the report would no doubt furnish interesting dent William Green with an inkstand. He said it was the gift of the workers in the British railway imdustry who have just been celebrating the 101st anniversary of the running of the first steam train in the British Isles, This ls the Bromley who received rough treatment at the hands of coal miner delegates to the recent British Trade Union Congress, who charged he had aided the employers’ attack on the strike. It was only after an adjourn- ment and a reconvening of the con- gress that Bromley was able to get the floor and make his address. ie ak a Rabbi Stephen L. Wise, of New York City. is coming to Detroit to address the delegates on the Passaic textile workers’ strike. He has taken an active part in this struggle. Ellen Lawson, one of the Passaic strikers, will also address the convention. (Continued from page 1) Brownlie and his Colleagues with’ tis this morning.” It was far different last year at At lantic City when Fraternal Delegate Pureell threw down the gauntlet to the A. F. of L. delegates on the question of international labor solidar- ity including the workets of the Union of Soviet Republics resulting in @ lengthy and bitter speech by Green in reply. ° Will Smother Mexican Issue. The regular fraternal delegates to the A. F. of L. from Great Britain, Canada and Mexico will make their speeches tomorrow. Efforts are being made to smother any controversial issues that the Mexicans might raise, German Urges Unity. Joseph Siemann of the German Shoe Workers Union who is in this country studying conditions for his organization also addressed the con- vention urging greater unity be- tween the workers of the world. “We must unite together internationally to get better wages and conditions,” he said. Vernon E. Ziegler, a law student from the University of Chicago, an- nounced as representing the federal council of the’ churches of christ, pleaded for a better understanding between American student elements and the working class. Students Interested. He said there is a growing number of students in the colleges and uni- versities of the country who are show- ing &@ genuine interest in the prob- lems of labor and industry. He said special efforts were being made to persuade students not to allow them- selves to be used as strikebreakers, The first bid for next year’s A. F. of L. convention h jome from St. Petersburg. ~When the’ invitation was read off by Secretary Frank Morri- son no mention was made of the state, “Is that St. Petersburg, Russia?” called out Delegate Max Hayes of the printers’ delegation. Ask Andy, He Knows. “Oh, you're behind the times, Max,” chimed in Andrews Furuseth, the head of the seamen’s delegation. “Don't you know that St, Petersburg, Russia, has been changed to Leningrad?” This voluntary information from Furuseth put the convention in an up- oar of jaughter. The invitation was from the Rotary Club of St. Peters- burg, Florida. Porto Rico Labor Has Strike. Greetings were received from the organized workers of Porto Rico call- ing attention to the two months’ trike of 6,000 tobacco workers on the | sland, Many Resolutions. Resolutions ‘have been introduced ailing for ald to the Passaic textile trikers; also for assistance to the yxtile workers fighting the wage re- SUPPORT TON. Y. CLOAK MAKERS A. F. OF L. CONVENTION VOTES , labor chautauqua to assist organizing work in the south; denouncing - the company union menace; reaffirmin; protest against modification of federa law. excluding aliens ineligible to citi zenship; request for appointment oi American members of joint commis- sion.to consider problem of Mexican immigration to this country; covering the jurisdiction struggle between the painters and electrical Workers; pledg- ing support to the bakers’ union in its war against the bread trust. May Help Porto Rico, Others proposing creation of a com- mission by congress to investigate conditions in Porto Rico; to favor the transfer of government administration of Porto Rico from the bureau of in- sular. affairs to a civil government, and to continue assistance to organ- ized labor in Porto Rico, Further resolutions are proposing that women’s label leagues have equal representation with trade unions in central bodies; proposing amendment of existing laws to require that con- tracts for work done for the United States shall provide that American cit izens be given preference to employ- ing labor at the scale of wages, hours and working conditions prevailing in the community within which the work is performed, this being an attempted blow at the employment of non-union alien labor, Ask 0, K. for Smith, Delegate J. M. O'Hanlon of the New York State ‘Federation of Labor in- troduced a resolution urging endorse- ment of Tammany Hall Governor Al Smith for election to the presidency of the United States. Other resolu- tions oppose any further increase in postage rates on printed matter, con- tinued effort to secure enactment of longshoremen’s and harbor workers’ compensation act, reaffirming adher ence to the principle of an inhert- tance tax and opposing legislation for the registration and finger printing of aliens. Workers Party Candidate Only One For Masses (Continued from page 1) or struck in the candidacy of the Workers (Communist) ‘Party, thru Louls J, Engdahl, who has collected enough names to entitle him to get on the ballot provided the names look good in the eyes of those who have the power to say yea and nay, If the names of Louis J. Engdahl appears on the ‘ballot, then the voters ‘will have the opportunity to vote for a man whose palms have not been either in- sullated by Insull or rosined by Rot enwald, All the other candidates, wet or dry, pure or sullied stand’ for the uction inaugurated by the American ‘hread Company of Willimantic, /oun.; urging the establishment of a capitalist system, Engdahl's program aims at the overthrow of the present social order, THE DAILY (ota Bh tna BAKERY TRUST HEADS SON FOUND ON*COAST _ AFTER LONG SEARCH revelations. ee ee John Bromley, one of the fraternal delegates from Great Britain, got the floor on the first day to present Presi- years ago he was implicated in a braw! that resulted In the death of a sailor. He is also given to mys- terlous disappearances. This last time he vanished in New Jersey several months ago and has only now been found disguised, with his halr dyed, and wearing tortoise shelled alagees Ora” on the Pacific coast. WALTER S, WARD, PLUTE BAKER, IS HIDING IN WEST ndicted Years Ago for Killing Sailor NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Walter S. Ward, missing millionaire baker's son, is living in hiding on the Pacific coast, aecording to a copyright story in the Daily Mirror. He is wearing shell-rimmed glasses and has dyed his hair, the story says. Detectives located Ward thu clues given by a beautiful Broadway blonde, Phyllis Ann Keenan, who had been seen in his company, according to the story. WALTER 8S. WARD. Walter S. Ward, son of William B. Ward, “bakery king,” has al- ways had more money than he knew what to do with it. Several 1 When Ward Disappeared. Walter Ward disappeared . five months ago. His automobile was found abandoned at Trenton, N. J., with the windshield broken and a stone found in the car.\ It was feared by his relatives at the time that he had met with foul play and a constant search has been made for him. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from page 1) is not content with making life miser- able for the girl but insists that she must grab off everything in her im- mediate vicinity that ds not natled down. This is what a London cor- respondent has to say about, this re- markable girl: “When Eleonore is Present, {t is said, money disappears mysteriously from peoples’ pockets and rings from their ‘fingers. Some- times they do not return. The girl herself however is the principal suf- ferer. Needles from near-by work- baskets are reported to stick them- selves in her arms and hands and even in her face and ‘her cheeks are sometimes smeared with color from red or blue pencils, **¢ @°@ HERE is a lot more to this but enough for the nonce. -Hleonore got @ trip to London out of it and a corps of bewhiskered scientists’ are analysing the phenomena. Let us hope she is good-looking. Again we say that the opportunity to make good in this world is no more tare today that one hundred years ago, In fact it is quite the other way, In all probability if Hleonore lived a few hundred years ago the evil spirits would be saved the trouble of stick- ing needles in her anatomy. Some she was in open and remunerative competition with the ‘state god, oy Rip Fi to do to- ‘Convict Rejects Offer of U.S. to Aid Betrayal of Sacco and Vanzetti By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ~ | frame-up agents—the BRIBE! Here was Kelley’s threat and offer: “Now, If you do this (sign the af- fidavit), you know what it will mean to you,” declared Kelley. “As | un- derstand you, you have never been mixed-up In any serious crimes, only hauling whiskey or bootlegging. YOU HAVE EVERY CHANCE FOR COMMUTATION OF YOUR SENT- ENCE.” It will be rememfered that Weeks was sentenced to life imprisonment. Here was a chance to join the frame-up gang and win his liberty. But Weeks showed that there is more honesty and decency among convicted criminals that among the frame-up agents of the department of justice of the United States gov- ernment, and its allies and lackeys. eee Weeks showed this when Kelley, the prosecutor, seeking to win-his favor and weaken his opposition, gave him (Weeks) a cigarette, and then asked whether anything had been offered Weeks for making a statement. Weeks defiantly replied: “No, not as much as this cigarette has been offered to me by anyone concerned in the Sacco-Vanzetti case.” Even that didn’t floor the frame- up agents. Weeks said that Mr. Kelly and Mr. Fleming threatened him that if he signed a statement, it would put the state and the police to plenty of trouble, and that he himself would be in a fine fix if they were to indict him for being on the South Braintree job in 1920, and also indict him as an accessory to the shooting of the woman in the North End of Boston, of which Ma- deiros had told Weeks. It has not been shown anywhere that Weeks had anything to do with the South Braintree affair. Weeks retorted to the government officers that he could easily prove where he was On both of these occasions. He said Fleming then remarked that he, ‘Weeks, was inside and that Fleming was outside; that Fleming could look up plenty of things and that Weeks would have a fine time trying to prove where he was. In other words, the police threat- ened to’use the frame-up against Weeks, the convict, as they had used it against Sacco and Vanzetti, to advance the interests of the cap- italism that they served. eee In a further attempt to puncture the affidavit of Weeks, the police officers asked Weeks if ‘Madeiros had ever told the story he had told Weeks in the presence of others, and Weeks replied that Madeiros had told about different parts of the affair inthe presence of Steve Ben- kosky at Lime Rock Inn, six miles outside of Providence, Weeks said Joe Morelli owned various cars, in- cluding a large Cole. It was a Cole car that carried the license plate at New Bedford, a few days after the same plate had been attached to a Buick car in South Braintree, a Buick car having been used in the South Braintree crime. Thus the visit of the frame-up agents with the convict, Weeks, in the Massachusetts’ state prison came to nought. Will they succeed elsewhere? ¢ HE frame-up of Nick Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at its pres- ent stage is like a sinking ship. It has been shot thru and, thru with broadsides of repeated «disclosures that have revealed to the world the rotten hulk of the case manufactur- ed against these two Italian work’ ers by the United States govern- ment, thru its department of justice, in collaboration with the local pros- ecutors in the “Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” This frameup of the capitalist government was again raked fore and aft by the terrific attack of 63 truth-telling affidavits presented in one cdurt by Attorney William G. Thompson and supported in argu- ments by him before Judge Webster Thayer at Dedham, Mass. The truth is so overwhelming that even a six-year-old child could con- fidently declare for the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti, not knowing one word of the law. But not so the court and the lawyers for the prose- cution, bolstering the rule of the electric chair against the working class, eee The prosecution has not run up the white flag of surrender. It does not admit the very evident nature of its frame-up. It is still struggling to put Sacco and Vanzetti to death. It is carefully and deliberately pro- ceeding with the task of plugging up all the leaks in its frame-up, fighting off the ecuttling of its case as best it may. It clings to its charge of “guilty!” against Sacco and Vanzetti, It still seeks their lives, fr @ These tactics of the prosecution were well revealed in the insidious efforts made by the prosecution to get James H, Weeks, the pal of Celestino Madeiros in the Wrent- ham National Bank robbery, to re- pudiate his admissions made to the Sacco-Vanzetti lawyers, in which he corroborated many points brought up in the confession by Madeiros that the South Braintree job was the work’ of the Morelli gang of Providence, Rhode Island. It was on May 27th, this: year, that Attorney Thompson visited Weeks in prison, where he is serv- ing a life sentence. Weeks told Thompson that after making an af- fidavit for Sacco and Vanzetti on May 26th, and before signing it, he was visited by Michael Fleming of the state police and Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Kelley, of Norfolk county, with a stenographer. , This was the frame-up supporting trio. Mr. Fleming, Weeks said, first talked with him alone, saying he un- derstood that Mr. Thompson had ob- tained from Weeks a full confession in regard to the South Braintree hold-up. Weeks told Fleming that he had made a statement but had not yet signed it. Fleming, the cun- ning, asked if any indueement had been offered and Weeks told him “NO!” Fleming and Weeks were then joined by the others, see Mr. Kelley, the assistant prose- cutor, part of the staff organized to put the frame-up over, asked about the statement and finally said, “Mr. Thompson will be out shortly with an affidavit and will ask you to Place your signature on it.” Then the spokesman for the hang- men of the working class in Mass- achusetts used the familiar lire of AIMEE SWITCHES |HOOSIER SCRIBES HER RADIO ONTO PUT ISSUE UP ‘GOD'S ENEMIES’TO THE GOVERNOR LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5.—After a re- cess over the week end, during which time Aimee Semple McPherson, wo- man evangelist! the aid of her followers at Angelus Temple, ‘ por- trayed the “March of the Martyrs,” a tableaux of religious persecution, which & parallel to her the preliminary hearing of the evangelist, her mother, Mrs. Min- nie Kennedy, and Mrs. Lorraine Wise man-Seijlaff, all charged with conspir- acy, was scheduled to get under way again today. An overflow crowd was on hand last night at Angelus Temple to watch and applaud Mrs. McPherson as the principal character in the various epl- sodes depicting “religious persecu. tion.” oe © Tomorrow:—Other attempts by the prosecutors of Sacco and Van- zetti to keep the frame-up ship afloat. VINCENNES, Ind., Oct. 5.—Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher and chairman of the probe committee of the Indiana Republican Editorial As- sociation investigating the political control alleged to have been exercised of the repyblican party in Indiana by D. C. Stephenson, former grand serving a life sentence in the Michi- gan City prison, today appealed to Governor Ed Jackson for special per- the state prison, Demand on Governor. Adams the following telegram to the governor: “As of the probe commit- tee 1 appeal to you for a sweeping order on Warden Walter Daly of the Michigan City prison for the privilege of a confidential or public conference with D. ©, Stephenson: I desire to take with me six senators whom I had before me Saturday and the six mem- bers of the probe committee, Mr. Stephenson has indicated to me that he desired to ce! the newspaper men represent, It aw Corn Ruined by Flood, DANVILLE, Ill,, Oct, 5.—More than 1,000 acres of sugar corn had to be abandoned in the flelds by the Mil- ford Sugar Corn Co. on account of the rains and water which) has covered the flelds. The corn eater anctal the stage ‘when it is fit peer ~My dragon of Indiana ku klux klan, now], mission to interview Stephenson at is no attack on jus- ‘ INVITE A. F, OF L, TO MEET LF. T.U. AT MEXICO cry | AicsetetdasAlpos ‘Crom’ as Intermediary By LAURENCE TODD, Federated Prese. WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. — (FP)— Through the Mexican Regional Con- federation of Labor ‘(the Crom), the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has been invited to meet the representatives of the Tn- ternational Federation of Trade Un- fons, in Mexico City late this month. : Negotiations for the re-affillation of the A. F. of L, with the I. F. T. U., whose headquarters are in Amster- dam, have been carried on with vary- ing prospect of success for the past sixty years. Pan-American Federation Announcement. Announcing the Mexican invitation, the Pan-American Federation of La- bor says that President Green is asked to send a full delegation “to great the representatives of the National Fed- eration of Labor from Holland, Eng- land, Belgium, Sweden, France, Den- mark, Austria, Poland, Germany, Italy and Spain who are going to meet in, Mexico City:the latter part of October, The Mexican Federation of Labor is very anxious to have the American delegation in said gathering, which is not in any sense a labor conven- tion or congress. Various Unions Re-Affillat. Three years ago John Brown of the headquarters staff at Amsterdam visit- ed the Portland convention of the A. F. of L, and then went to Mexico. He made a report urging that efforts be made to get the Mexican labor movement to affiliate with the I. F. T. U. Later, when Ramsay MacDonald took a hostile attitude toward the Obregon government in Mexico, Brown stood by the Mexicans, In recént months the Brotherhood of Carpenters have affiliated with the Wood Workers section of the I, F. T. U.\ and the machinists have re- newed their affiliation with the Metal Workers’ Federation of that interna- tional. The United Mine Workers are affilfated with the Mine Workers’ Fed- eration and various other bodies in the A. F. of L, have begun or re- . sumed relations with other sections of the Amsterdam group. A. F, of L. Reservations, The two main points on which direct, negotiations between Amster- dam and the A. F, of L. have failed are the matter of per capita tax and national autonomy. The A. F. of L. has refused to pay as large a per capita tax as the Europeans demaha. And it refuses to} agree to obey any order—such as that for a general strike or the circulation of an appeal, to which ft may be opposed—that the majority may favor. It an A. 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