The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 23, 1926, Page 2

Page Two 1A THE DAbLY WORK ) JESSE SMITH A CROOKED AGENT FOR DAUGHERTY So Charged Senator Hef- lin in Speech “Jesse Smith was the crooked ag- ent of Harry M. Daugherty,” Senator Heflin (D), Alabama, said to the sea- ate in his attack on the Fall-Doheny verdict. “He collected this money from bootleggers. It was stated just | after his death that his share of this | loot was $309,000. And it was said} he got nervous over his acts and had | made up his mind to make a clean | breast of it. But he never lived to make a clean breast. “That's one of the reasons Ww they wanted to get Mid of Jesse) Smith.” | Heflin said he made this explana- tion in response to reports thet Dis-| trict Attorney Buckner, of New York, | had written him a letter asking what he knew about Smith’s death Heflin also again paid his respects | to the acquittal of former secretary | of the interior, Albert B. Fall and B.| jl Doheny. om he branded as “thieves.” Senator Bruce, (D), of Md., rose to ; say that he did not agree with Hef- }lin’s attack on Justice A. A. Hoeh- ling, who presided over the trial “J don’t care,” the Alabaman re- torted, “Hoehling was appointed by President Harding, Fall was appoint- ed by President Harding, Harding's name was brought into the case, and | Hoehling shouldn’t have sat in the case.”, The Alabamian closed with a de- mand that all future trials of govern ment officials be held outside the District of Columbia. “Unless the system changes,” he! asserted, “the citizens of the United States will all turn bolshevik- “You can’t have law and order| when the big criminals in the capital are stealing away the very founda- tions of government T.U.E.L. Frolics New | Year Despite the New | Drive of Bureaucrats The Trade Union Educational League ‘of Chicago, against which has been directed the campaign of right wing fascist reaction in the needle trades uinons, is nevertheless taking time to furnish a joyous New Year to all who come to its sixth annual New Year’s Eve ball, which begins Friday night, December 31, and will last until 2:30 a.m, New Year's day. This annual affair of the T. U. E. L, is a Chicago institution, which always attracts a big crowd. This year, as be- fore, there will be many diversions, be- sides dancing, and prizes are to be given for masquerade costtimes, tho you don't have to masquerade if you do not want to. There will be other games, too. This New Year's Eve ball will be held at the Italian Hall, 643 N. Clark street. All workers are invited. The program insures all a happy New Year’s Eve. | Union Record New Pr (Special Cable to The Daily Worker) MOSCOW, U, S. 8. R., Dec. 21.— of the Communist International held on Dec. 18 elected the following presi- dium: Bucharin (Russia), Gallagher (England), Haken Prukhniak (Poland), Semard (France), International), Sillen Slovakia), Thaeimann (Germany), Ta (Germany). The following were elected as candidates to the presidium: Bogutsky Humbert Droz (Switzerland), * Maggi Schoeller (Germany), Treint (France), In the session on Dec. 20, the above presidium elected a political “secre- | tariat consisting of the fOllowing: Bucharin, Cremet, Kuusinen, Manuilsky, Remmele, Roy, Smeral, and Ercoll with Pianitsky as alternate, ! (Russia), Geschke (Germany), (South America), Kun (Hungary), nitsky (Russia), ELECTRIC BELT IS PIE CARD FOR SOCIALIST FAKER. ‘Health Department Hits Fraud in Seattle SEATTLE— (FP)— Gaylord ‘Wil- shire, former much edvertiséd So- has exposed by (evening daily faker in connection with the L-ON-A-CO cure-all electric belt which he is promoting After W: ilshire had been operating | in this city for several months, oc- cupying an expensive suite of rooms and spending much money for bil! | board advertising, the Union Record began to make an investigation. A statement from the Commisioner of Health and a committee of elec- trie engineers was secured declar- ing emphatically that a thorough ex- cialist, been amination of Wilshire’s electric belt | disclosed it to have no healing vir tue, other than the mending of its inventor's lame finapces. This committee stated that the wholesale cost of the device would approximate $5 and that anybody could make one. Wilshire’s price of $65 indicates the tremendous profit he is making. a Wilshi literature abounds in scientific sounding terms and he uses the name of such men as David Starr Jordan, Bernard Shaw, and others to create the impression that his “horse collar” has their endorsement. Ben Wilson, another ex-socialist, has also been using th “horse-col lar” as a life preserver. He special- izes in I-ON-A-CO lectures over the radio. Some time ago he was on the promotion staff of the Brotherhood of Engineers’ Bank. J.° Stitt Wilson, former socialist mayor of Berkeley 1s his brother. Christmas in Youngstown. YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Dec, -21— Chrismas here will be the occasion of a Package Party, under auspices of the International Labor Defense, for the benefit of class war prisoners. The Manag is er’s Corner THESE Comrades Have Been NAMED —YOU Ma y Be Next. The letter printed below has been sent to the following comrades: mil Honegger, Rochester, N. Y. J. Peterson, Stratford, Conn. Leo Hofbauer, New York, N.Y. Louis Touby, Viand, Fla. Emil Niva, Frederick, 8. Dak. William Deitrick, Denver, Colo. George Bloxam, Spokane, Wash. . EB. Resetar, Woodlawn, Pa. A. D, Boreff, Juneau, Alaska. H. F. Mina, New York, N. ¥. E, EB, Ramey, Pocatello, Idaho. Theodore Suderland, Berkeley, Cal, P. Lukachie, Clevelantl, 0. | Herbert Newton, Rowbury, Masa. David Milgrom, Philadelphia, Pa. Geo, Rupert, Elko, Nevada. : Waino Mellin, Waukegan, TM. H. Hagenen, Houston, Tewas. Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1926. Dear Comrade: YOU HAVE BEEN NAMED! You have been chal- lenged to let us know at once just what you have done in the last few weeks to Keep The DAILY come the present financial crisis, WORKER, and help it to over- The members of the party and the supporters of The DAILY WORKER want to know what you have done during this serious emergency to keep our organ going. You have been given ten days to answer this request, Your an- swer will be published for the information of the comrades thru- out the country. days, this fact will be published. Should we fail to hear from you within ten However, your reply will entitle you to challenge in turn another comrade from your district. Let us hear from you at once. for the cause. Let us have your Let us know what you have done challenge, 40 that we may know what others in your district deserve the name of revolutionary worker. Fraternally yours, BERT MILLER, Manager, al ae Communist International Elects Crement (France), Duncan (U. S.), Ercoli (Italy), (Czecho-Slovakia), Kolaroff (Bulgaria), Kuu- sinen (Finland), Lozovsky (Russia), Manuilsky (Russia), Murphy (England), Remmele (Germany), Roy (India), Ruthenberg (U. $.), Samoun (Indonesia), Katayama (Japah), Schatzkin (Youth (Czecho-Slovakia), FOR LONG TERM the | here) | esidium and Secretariat The session of the enlarged executive Stalin (Russia), Smeral (Czecho- n Ping Hsiang (China), Clara Zetkin Cordavilla (Italy), Molotov (Russia), Plat- ‘COACH CO, ASKS FRANCHISE HERE | Flirts with Committee of City Council That the city may gfant’a franchise to the Chicago Motor Coach Co. for a longer period than 20 years, or for any length of time that a court might hold reasonable, or that it could even grant a terminable franchise, were points brot out at the meeting of the | transportation committee on Tuesday. These facts were pointed out to the |committee by James G. Condon, at- | torney for the coach company. He | said that the limit of 20 years applied | apectieatiy in the law to street car companies, 4 Condon stated that’ the position of the coach company was that the city had no right to bar it from the streets and no power to force it to apply for a franchise, but that the city in its business capacity could make almost any agreement with the company it wished, subject only to the powers of the Illinois Commerce, Commission in those fields where it had jurisdiction. How About Taxes? The question was then brot up as to the proportion of-the taxes which the coach company was now paying| to the amount it damaged the pave- ments. Condon, in reply, safd that they paid a city vehicle tax of $30 and a state license of $150 for each coach. If they put into service the number contemplated it would aggregate $140,- 000 a year to the city and $702,000 to the ‘state. He then pointed out the injustice of the state’s claiming so | much tax for vehicles which did not use the state roads but were operat- ed wholly within the limits of one city, and said that, in many states, cities had induced the state authori- ties to expend the amount of such a tax within the city limits. He of- fered to work with the city engineers in estimating the amount of wear the coaches would inflict on the pave- | ments. The members of the committee ex- Pressed surprise to learn that, with- out further legislation, they could | Srant a terminable franchise to the | coach company, while yet barred from doing so with reference to the sure face lines. CORPORATIONS TO SEEK SLICE OUT OF U.S, TREASURY |now in the employ of the city, CITY THREATENS TO DITCH WORK. OF MAINTENANCE Aims Blow at Electrical Workers John P. Miller, commissioner of the | department of gas and electricity, backed up by Mayor Dever, is threat- ening to turn the work of maintefiance over to a private concern to thwart Local No, 9 of the International Bro- therhood of Electrical. Workers. There are 432 members of the union and they filed with the commissioner a new wage agreement, calling for an | average increase of $14 per man, The city has refused to sign the agree- ment, Now comes the threat to nego- |tiate with a private company to take over the work of maintenance, The supply of electrical current is not in- volved, as that is already supplied by the sanitary district. “It is at the bottom a scheme to eliminate a large number of old em- ployees, under the ciyil service, who are getting toward dnyge when they would be retired under a pension,” said I, Knott, organizer for Local No. 9, “A good many ofthe younger men in the union would undoubtedly be retained by any concern that took over the work for the city, but it means ‘pay day’ for a lot of the old man. That is what is behind the move. Fake Economy. “On the face of it,” continued Knott, “the city could show to the news- papers and the tax-payer that a saving would be affected by ditching its own employees and letting an outsife con- tract. The company signing such a contract could easily afford to lose a couple of hundred thousand dollars at the start. Then by any number of easy methods the cost to the city can be jumped up, so that in less. than a year, the private concern would be getting its own pfice for the work. The thing is easy; afiyone at all fami- liar with the maintenance of electrical equipment knows how to do it.” The maintenance of gas equipment is already in the hands of a privately owned company, the American Devel- | opment Co., which is said to be a sub- sidiary of the Welsbach Co. of Phila- delphia. This move on the part of the city ad- ministration is not only a threat to the electrical workers but, to other classes of city employees, It is prac- tically to say: “Be good thro your unions, or we will wipe out your de- partment and let the work to outsiders who can dea) with you in any way they can.” And in this case, the city is aiming largely at a large number of old and faithful employees, nearing the pension age. It is to protect these men that Local No, 9 is putting up a stiff fight, SMITH ACCEPTS APPOINTMENT T0 SERVE OUT TERM Fran L. Smith, senator-elect from | Illinois, has accepted the appointment | to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sen. McKinley for the pres-| ent session of congress, it was an- nounced by Gov. Small in Chicago Tuesday. In accepting the appointment, Smith has disregarded the warnings | of republican party leaders in Wash- ington that should he’ appear in the | senate this session he will never be| seated. Smith will present his cre-| dentials from Small in the senate im-| WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The big corporations, thru the United States chamber of commerce, are Preparing to stage a tax raid on the government. The chamber has issued a statement in which it announces its opposition to the pian of the republican majority of ‘the house ways and meang com- mittee to block all tax reductions this session, The corporations are demanding that corporation taxes be reduced from the present 13% per cent to not more than 10 per cent, They declare that the expected surplus in 1927 of $400,000 would make corporation tax reduction “safe.” It is not neces- sary to reduce taxes generally, they declare, but they claim the present rate of taxation on corporation profits is “unfair and tends to mit expansion of business,” Because of the great surplis that the treasury will show it is no longer “necessary” that corporations should pay such @ heavy tax, they say, and for that reason they should be af- forded “relief from the excessive bur- den,” Boston Woman Will Lecture in Passaic PASSAIC, N, J., —— A talk of espe- cial interest to women will be given Sunday,"tle 26th, at four o’clock, at the Workers’ Home, 27 Dayton Ave, The speaker will be Eva Hoffman, or- ganizer of Mothers’ Clubs of Boston, on the subject, “Message from Europe to Women of America.” | It will be il- lustrated by lantern slidés, The meeting is'h er the a apices of the Working Women's - y cils, All workers are welcome, until hetp arrived, ' ’ mediately after the Christmas recess, it was said. eee Senate Prepares for Fight. WASHINGTON, Dec, 21.—Support- ers of the seating of Frank L. Smith, slush fund senator from Illinois, are beginning to rally their forces as a result of the announcement that Smith has accepted the appointment to fill out the short term session. Sen, David Reed of Pennsylvania, re- actionary republican, has been select- ed to lead the Smith forces. 30 Jobless Drown Due to Overcrowding » (Continued from page 1) servers of the catastrophe discount this, It was, they say, plainly a case of the boat being over-loaded—ot at- tempting to get too many men Across the bay at the same time. Shortly after the launch drew away trom the landing, it started to careen. Listing first to starboard, the frighten- ed passengers naturally made a rush for the portside. Then, balancing for | a moment, the craft careened heavily | to port, The port gunwales went un- der, it shipped icy water and those on deck were into the river. , Only haif of the men/in the crowded cabin could make their way thru the narrow entry to leap for it, Half of those in the cabin were trapped and drowned like rats, Only 32 Si Of the sixty-two wo} ed, only 32 were fin workers died in tile ers who board- saved, Thirty in or were un- ER Job Fight Breaking Up Wreck of Nonpartisan League in North Dakota By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ISINTEGRATION is rapidly de- veloping in the Frazier-Nye- Sorlie wing of the republican party in North Dakota, just as it is des- troying what is left of the LaFollette movement in Wisconsin. “The biggest shattering factor is the struggle for jobs,’ with every loyalty to principle thrown complete- ly overboard, se 6 In Wisconsin the LaFollette move- ment, under the “Bob” LaFollette- Blaine leadership, commonly dubbed “the Madison gang,” has scuttled the middle class LaFollette pro- gram, with which it attracted work- er and farmer elements, and has put place-seeking first upon the order of the day. The same is true in North Dakota that gave Gerald P. Nye to the United States senate as a non-parti- san league senator, Nye has not startled the nation with any fight for the workers and farmers, He revealed his real-political character, however, when he descended on Coolidge in the White House and de- manded he be allowed to appoint the United States marshal for North Da- kota as part of his political machine, see After the death of the elder La- Follette, the LaFollette family made its alliance with Governor John Blaine. It was a compact based on the distribution of jobs, “Bob” La- Follette, Jr., was to be allowed to fill out the unexpired term of his father, Blaine was to be promoted to the senatorship, thru the defeat of Lenroot this year. The program thus far was carried out to the let- ter, The break came over the gov- ernorship. Fred Zimmerman, secre- tary of state, originally a LaFollette follower, broke with “the Madison gang,’ came out as candidate for governor and defeated the La-Fol- lette-Blaine candidate, Attorney Gen- eral Ekerm. The result will be that the foe of “the Madison gang,” Zim- merman, will occupy the governor's chair in Madison next month while LaFollette and Blaine are marooned down ‘in Washington, far from their home political fences, It is not dif- ficult to foresee the disaster that will overtake those fences, ir *-2¢+ © The divisions within the Frazier- Nye-Sorlie section of the republican party in North Dakota, that styles itself the nonpartisan league, are also based on the senatorship fight, forcing civil war between the Fra- zier and Sorlie factions. The sen- atorship is a much more desired plum than the governorship. Both Frazier and Nye have always considered themselves republicans, but they spread their nonpartisan league sails to catch the discontent of the farmers with the republican tule of the bankers, landlords and graim gamblers. If the protest had been: strong enough and crystallized itself ultimately in a farmer-labor party, they would doubtless have gone along, only to betray the move- ment at the most propitious mo-, ment, Four years ago, in Washing- ton, at the’ first conference of the People’s legislative league, organized by the. late Senator LaFollette, I asked Senator Frazier what he thought of the prospects of the farm- er-labor movement in North Dakota. “Let us wait and see,” was his an- swer, The late LaFollette, himself, took practically the same position, yet it was he who issued the state- ment in June, 1924, bitterly attack- ing the national farmer-labor move- ment. The period of waiting had come to an end and the action taken was as expected, * 8 8 In North Dakota, as in Wisconsin, the LaFollettes and Blaines, the Fra- ziers and Nyes, are now completely repudiated by all honest farmer-la- bor elements, who turn their backs on the fraudulent effort to “purify American politics inside the old parties.” They are learning that bad bankers’ and wicked railroads, rob- ber landlords and bandit grain cor- porations cannot be made “decent” thru legislative enactment under the capitalist system, * ae a Thé Minnesota farmer-labor party has had its many experiences with similar elements, It will be compel- led to do battle against these disrup- tionists and betrayers in the future, many times, An encouraging note tor independ- ent political action is sounded, how- ever, in Minnesota, in the call for the farmer-labor conference to be held at St. Paul, Jan. 17-18. It is declared: “The state campaign of 1926 was the most critical in the history of the movement and put it to the real test. It has come thru purged of disrupting and antagonistic elements and is now unhampered by political traders and self-seekers.” It is significant that the name of the fatmer-labor senator from Min- nesota, Hendrik Shipsted, who is charged with succumbing to the wiles of the Coolidge administration, does not appear upon the. liist of those signing the conference call. The statement that the Minnesota farmer-labor movement has been freed of “political traders and self- seekers” is somewhat. overstated. Such elements flock about every movement of protest like files around a sugar barrel. Rather should the city and land workers in Minnesota pride themselves on the fact that they have been fairly successful in combatting such ele- ments in the past and resolve to do even better in the future. The Min- nesota experience should help teach the workers and, farmers in Wis- consin, North Dakota and other states, where splendid opportunities await the struggle for the independ- ent political action of labor. WEALTHY MORON ADMITS MURDER OF CHICAGO BOY Another heinous crime has been added to the list committed by scions of wealthy Chicago families by Harold J. Croarkin, who has confessed to killing: 6-year-old Walter Schmith in a riding stable here at 2100 Devon avenue. Croarkin is the son of & wealthy loop flour broker, A striking similarity between the murder of the boy by Croarkin and the murder of Bobby Franke by two other sons of rich Chicagoans, Leo- pold and Loeb, is seen. Croarkin hds confessed to enticing little Walter into the stable barn and forcing him to submit to indecent at- tentions. He said he struck the boy with a hammer and killed him to pre- vent him from telling of what hap- pened, Other Offenses. Croarkin had been under police sur- veillance for some time because of approaches he has made to young girls and other boys. He was ar- rested once before, but released, charged with inducing a 12-year-old girl to go horseback hiding with him. Five lawyers have already been re- tained by his family to fight the de- mand of the state's attorney that he be hanged. | WCEFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the gir with regular programs. It 1s broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Munteipal Pier. able to keep afloat in the frigid water TONIGHT. ‘ 6:00 p. m—Chicago Federation of La- bor Hour. * B ort Concert Trios John Miller, Billy 8. E le Orchestra, 11:00--Alamo Entertainers, SMALL SAYS SMITH IS SURE TO TAKE SLUSH SEAT IN THE SENATE “Lam positive that Col, Frank L. Smith will not refuse my appoint- ment as successor to the late Sena- tor William B, McKinley,” Governor Small declared today. é “| have not received an accept- ance as yet,” sald Governor Small, “but from the many talks | have had ‘with him | believe he will accept.” CHARGE TRICK IN CAL'S AGREEMENT ON NAVAL POLICY soaps - (Continued from page 1) committee that the budget did not in- clude provision for the construction of three,ships authorized by congress. _ .. Navy Below Others, u The committee hag pointed out to Coolidge that the ,United States navy is exceeded in strength by great Brit- ain and Japan, and that both of these countries have extensive shipbuilding programs in operation, Many of the congressmen fee! that Coolidge will remain obdurate in the matter, and unless the navy group can sufficiently excite congress over the situation and win over administra- tion leaders Coolidge will have his own way. 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