The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 16, 1927, Page 3

"TALKED OVER” | JESS'S ACCOUNT And All the Evidence | Just Was “Missing” Mal Daugherty, head of the Mid- land! National Bank in Washington | Courthouse, Ohio, was called’ to the | witness stand by the government in | the Daugherty-Miller conspiracy trial | this afternoon to explain the disan- | pearance of certain important ‘records | from the files of his bank. | The records involved are alleged to) show the disposition of money paid to} | MAL DAUGHERTY | ‘the two defendants. Harry Daugherty, former attorney general, and notorious “red-baiter,” and Thomas W, Miller, former alien property custodian, are charged with | sharing in a $391,000 bribe in return | for approving a $7,000,000 German claim for war-seized enemy alien | property. | Little Talk. With Harry. | Mal told of being subpoenaed to ap-| pear before a federal grand jury inj New York with reeords of the. bank. He said he, Harry, and his personal attorney held a conference in Colum- | bus after receiving the subnoena, andj later met again in the Midland Bank, to “talk.” The day after this “talk’| they came to New York for the grand | jury hearing. “Did you bring the requested bank records?” asked United States Attor- ney Emory P. Buckner. | *No.” | “Did you bring a single paper from | the bank with you?” “No,” , “Missing—Missing.” “Do you know the deposit slips of | October 13, 1921, are missing?” | “Yes,” “Do you know the daybook sheets | | of censure on nearly all of Pilsudski’s Forging ani Iron War? German Steel Owners Thr eaten Reprisals BERLIN, Feb. 15.—The German cabinet has decitled to resort to re- prisals in,case America should im- pose anti-dumping duties on Ger- man iron products. The nature of the reprisals will be determined when the details of | the American duties are at hand. At the same time it is expected | the German government will pro- pose a new and impartial investiga- tion of the question whether Ger- man iron imports to the United States really constitute “dumping.” PILSUDSKI AWES SEIM: MAKES IT VOTE HIS BUDGET Appears in. Person and Parliament Succumbs WARSAW, Feb. 16.—Marshal Pil- sudski has again tamed the Sejm, or Polish parliament, He appeared per- sonally yesterday, when the budget seemed’ on the point of defeat, and | with a few brief words to various op- position delegates, calmed their ardor to such an extent that they permitted the budget to go through by a large} majority. During the last few days the Sejm has seemed on the poiht of revolting, and has passed what amount to votes cabinet. Pilsudski ignored that ac- tion. Pilsudski’s strength depends on his private army, a military’ club larger than the regular standing army of the POWERS DECLINE CAL'S INVITATICN “TO LIMIT ARMS \France, Italy and Japan Shy at Trap (Continued from Page One) Naval Minister Delighted. “The note is perfect,” said Min- | ister of Marine Leygues, following \ the cabinet meeting today, which as attended by President Dou- | mergue. M. Briand, foreign minister, who dyafted the note, said it would pro- bably be published late this after- noon or tomorrow. The reply, couched in diplomatic terms and sympathetic in tone, is nevertheless a rebuff for the Cool- idge proposals which may spell their defeat. Squelehes Coolidge. Minister. of Interior Sarraut, the rote says, “points out firstly that dling disarmament problems, and terests all nations, not only the five big powers.” | “France can’t take the problem of disarmament from the League of Nations-—that’ is the gist of the win” enid M, Sarraut. The French reply leaves little in | the way of a loophole for any coun- | .-prposals and in French circles t is generally believed that it spells the end of the Coolidge proposals. Japan Polite—But! Japan is willing to participate in President Coolidge’s, armament. par- Premier Wakatsuki told the gov- ‘vnment peers today, but it is: impos- sible for the government to cancel the appropriation for three cruisers, a possibility now being considered ly the Diet. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED: the League of Nations is now han- | secondly that naval) disarmament: in- | DAY, FEB. 16, 1927 FORD for October 13 and 14, 1921, are| state, and now supported by subsidies ripped out?” |from the government. He has at va- “Missing, you méan.” | rious times demonstrated against the The premier’s statement was made SITS ON HIS before the upper house of the Diet| |and in answer to questions arising ROCKS | i | | | | Page Three CHURCH REPORT BLAMES. JOHN D. FOR BIG STRIKE Shows Greed for Profits Thru, Western Maryland ‘ By LAURENCE TODD (Federated Press) WASHINGTON (FP)—Greed for big dividends on watered stock held by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his friends, was the primary cause of the locking out of locomotive engi- neers, firemen and hostlers on. the | Western Maryland Railroad, and for | the resultant strike which has lasted ] two yeere. That is the verdict of the joint | committee of investigators represent- ing the research department of the | Federal Council of Churches, the so- | cial action department of the Natl. Catholic. Welfare Conference, and the | social justice. commission of the Cen- | tral Conference of American Rabbis, They have been investigating the cause and consequences of this long struggle between Rockefeller’s coal railroad and the train service brother- ‘hood for the past six months. Found Labor Right. In their report, which is divided into 12 sections, each devoted to facts and conclusions on some phase of the dispute, the first joint committee of the American churches to pass judg- ment on a labor battle against aggre- gated wealth has found labor in the right. It finds that the wrkers did everything within their power to avert the conflict, and that the road’s president, Byers, and the chairman of its board, Greer, arbitrarily refused to meet the labor representatives to adjust the points of difference, Be- neath it lay the demand of the man- “Business Conditions in America Are Solid as a Rock,”’—Henry Ford. agement for bigger returns on the | preferred stock, | Against Discrimination. This dispute arose over a demand that the company grant the same slight increase in wages that had been granted by all other class 1 Ford Opposes Ail “Can you give any explanation as| unruly Sejm by troop movements in|:,, the Diet concerning President to the missing records?” |the street, and since his violent over- | wg GENERAL FENG REPORTED TQ HAVE LOST CHRISTIAN: “T cannot.” “noliders's |throw of the previous cabinet, has oolidge’s “proposals. “Did that conference between your | signified his readiness to depose the brother and. your personal attorney |Sejm altogether at any time he can- have anything to do with the missing | not control it. * records?” eae Such a Straight Face. ‘pi ‘ “None in. the wend” aia Maj|/E LUsudski Scoffs at loudly, rocking slowly back and forth Polish Parliament's on the stand, his knees clasped in his V. . ea | ote Against Budget bent and a look of innocence on his | ‘ace, | ; Mal then revealed that although he| WARSAW, Feb. 15.—Again be- did not bring the records to New| traying his love for dictatorship, York, his brother Harry did. | Marshal Pilsudski has utterly disre- “How did you happen to givesyour| garded the vote of the Sejm which brother these original ledger sheets,”| indicated a lack of confidence in his Buckner asked. government: The Sejm completely The premier declared Jepan’s na- al and military forces were at a inimum strength in order to pro- vide. adequate defense, “The government, however,” he said, “has decided to accept Prosi- dent Coolidge’s invitation, because Japan favors any move to preserve veace and to avoid armament com- petition.” Cal Disappointed? It was indicated in Washington that Mr. Coolidge was disappointed at the powers’ decision, and that he expects but little from continued discussions a Geneva under the au- “Because he wanted to see them,”| rejected or seriously altered every/ spices, of the League of Nations. Mal replied in a low voice? “Jess Smith was dead when you turned over the ledger sheets to Harry?” “Yes,” “Went Over” Record. Mal admitted that Harry and he had gone over the “Jess Smith ex- tra” aecount in 1924 and 1925. Tt was at this point that Mal stated that Harry had destroyed the rec- ords. They had gone west again af- ter appearing before the grand jury, and when Mal asked for the papers Harry replied: “I've burned them.” The testimony then turned to the so-called “Jess Smith extra” account in the Midland Bank, which the wit- ness deseribed as a “political ac- Charity; Not Ready Henry Ford won’t part with a penny of his wealth. In a recent in- | terview given aboard his private car | this: modern Croesus explained his views on charity and k The subject of money was quite dis- tasteful to him, but he made a brave} of General Feng Yu-shiang, once the up with the nationalist movemeat he eu vopic relapse. effort to meet the interviewer’s ques- | & ey ® tions. By EDNA BOOKER “Don’t Give Money.” | LOS ANGELE U Feb, 15.— “My business is built on proper, The two outstanding m’ ry figures| of the Nationalists are General Feng | Yushiang, so-called “Christian Gen- | eral,” and General Chiang Kai-shek, | lines and is not dependent on any one individual.” He has made no will, for “I am too busy living.” Asked roads in the eastern traffic territory. To Part With Cent SOUL IN MOSCOW; YMCA Editor’s Note.—The article printed below is liberally ‘interspersed with hokum until we get to the last part of it. interest and. gives the history of the rise and fall of christianity in the soul “christian general” but since he lined votion to the religion of western imperialism, We are in favor of more relapses of this kind. The management replied that higher wages would require higher freight rates. It began dismissing the men when a strike vote—an ordinary pro- cedure in negotiations—was taken. The total wage increase asked was $56,000 a year, and the men would have granted concessions in the rules that would have saved the company $15,000 of this. Controlling Interest. Rockefeller, according to the re- WORRYING, NOT GENERAL We publish it because it is of gets little credit for his former de- Moscow is blamed for Feng’s dent crusader. But during the past two or three years, General Feng’s enthusiastic port, “with what are known as the missionary efforts are said to have Roegve interests, holds about slowed up. He surprised his friends one-fifth of the stock, nearly all ot and those who believed in the gin-| cerity of his conversion and delight- | it first preferred cumulative, with corresponding share in the Davi if he would leave any part of his virtual head of the Nationalist move- | feature of Pilsudski’s budget which| Another Geneva meeting is sched- was presented for the second time] led for next month. yesterday. Next Step—If Any. s Ripe eg A eRe What President Coolidge’s next Ritualistic Dancing step will be—if any—remains to 99 le seen. He could propose, as sug- Resumed in Church | gested a year ago, that Great Brit. Sitadiiask! Heo ak ein and Japan join with the United itualist ‘ancing was resumed in| States in applying the principle of the Rev. Dr. William Norman Guth-| he 5-5-3 ratio to auxiliary ships, ir- tie’s church, the St, Marks in the! ospective of France and Italy, There Bourerie, yesterday afternoon, after a} i, little reason to believe, however, lapse of two years. This ritual was|+hat Great Britain would agree to performed by four girls and six boys}jimit her cruiser and subrharine clad in filmy mantles. The spirit and} «rength while France would be left occasion of this = was bothers free to construct the great unlimited of Christ. pr Guthrie called it “sa-| .marine fleet which French states- ered mime. men insist is France’s potential de- fense against Britain’s greater sea When replying to these advertise- Wealth to a founaation ov similiar en- dowment he said: “Smug satisfac- | tion always follows endowments. Ii) General Feng, because of his spec- | is another form of charity. Both are| tacular stand for Christianity, is| out of date. The easiest thing im| wider known than any other military the world is to give money. Creating| leader in China. He is the Billy Sun- and giving opportunity is the best| day of the Chinese. charivy.” | it was at Loyang, the picturesque | Got Money Somewhere. Fe steht sing ona yh a) | , About seven years ago, 8 rumor’ eral Wu Pei-fu, that 1 first met Gen-| was current that Henry }ord would| eral Feng, | have to come to Wall Street for a} ‘ ‘ oe teen, He was abked about thet.| With bands playing and soldiers) “That was due to a row we had with| (|, = | the minority stockholders, wo | Samara at erga sought court redress because no divi- | plained that on the pace hb: ted bin dends had been paid that year. {) 2 o)q; apt oe never would have paid them a cent.| °° eg inaee abana pone om But I let Edsel handle it, He got| S°sbel ment and in charge of the forces now | marching on Shanghai. singing “Onward Christian Soldiers’ | ed his. enemies and the “I told you so folks” by double crossing his. for- | mer northern allies recently in the intricate Chinese political game. Now a growing rumor has it that Feng has quit Christianity cold. lt that is, true it is a serious blow to | missionary efforts in China. Several months ago Feng gave out to the world that he was going to Germany for a rest cure—a sight- seeing trip—a pleasure excursion. Instead—he headed straight for | Moscow. He spent many months with the leading Soviet officials and, upon his recent return to China, at oncé allied | himself with the Natiohalist move- ment. Many of his old missionary friends Coal & Coke Co, He holds about! three-fourths of the first preferred stock, The alien property. custodian holds for the German Bank some 70,000 shares of stock, most of it common, These two interests togeth- er hold over 25 percent of the stock and 43 percent of the stock that was voted at the 1925 stockholders’ meet- ing about half of the stock, and about 73 percent of the amount voted in | 1925, is held by 20 individuals, finan- cial groups or brokers . ; Not Poor Road. | “The financial condition of the | Western Maryland now puts it in @ position where it cannot continue to plead poverty as a reason for not ad- | justing wages. The fact that no die vidends have been paid does not in- power. | Soldiers” and “Hark the Herald An-| callod. He was not at home. He has! dicate insufficient i i s DA WORKER. & ra” and “ , A ; | ent earnings in rela count. | ments mention The DAILY RKER | May End Farce. a womewhere and bought them gels Sing.” Feng believes them to| been giving them the cold shoulder! tion to operating cost costs . p iE SEA a WE TN Ee me pth ————| The British at Washington in J be the best marches he knows to put/to such an extent that it is feared! “The conflict is not between a | 1921-22 declined absolutely to under- | any auxiliary limitation unless | included France and Italy, and Pvitish opinion is understood not to | j have changed on that point. | Some belief prevails that President | Coolidge will take no further step {“pep” in his men and to buck them up when on a long forced march, General Feng requires his soldiers |to read their Bibles, attend prayer | meeting and church service and in most cases to be baptized in the that Feng is turning against mis-| sions due to the Soviet imziuences, It was gone farther than this—for | the question is being asked in China) today—‘Has General Feng renounced | his Christianity?” But Feng is silent) wage settlement and bankruptey, but between & wage settlement and divi- dends on stock. It is specifically a conflict between a wage settlement and dividends on the first preferred stock which has the first claim on Farm Bioc to Rush Vote on Keliet Bill (Continued from Page One) ated by the bill would be $790,000, | Christian faith. bake DAILY DI | | Secured by a SECOND MORTGAGE OF ‘THIS: SQUARE BLOCK of the First Workers Cooperative Colony - Bronx Park East and Allerton Ave. Consumers Finance Corporation SUBSIDIARY OF THE UNITED WORKERS COOPERATIVE 69 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 14th St. ¢gip “lo VIDENDS at this. time toward a new naval | ngreement, in view of the French re- | jeetion. Administration officials _ pointed out that the American gov- |emmment is now in the position of | having proclaimed to the world its | willingness to further curtail its |navy, and that esponsibility for |eontinued armament has been placed |now on France and her coritinental ‘allies, and the way is clear for the | administration to cease its bluff of “economy” and start building war- ships in quantity. Workers College in Tokyo Is Popular Tokyo has a labor college, which reports that in the two years of its existence it has graduated 250 pupils from its halls. This college is gov- erned by the Tokyo Labor Educa~ tional Association. Night Classes. Lecturers who are recruited from labor’s ranks and universities give courses in the following topics: Eco- nomics, sociology, politics, history of the labor movement, history of social thought, philosophy, laws, labor le- vislation, social history of Japan. These classes are organized for four nights a week for six months. The classes have attendance averaging about forty pupils. The college is maintained by do- nations from the various labor or- ganizations and by student fees. These fees are 50 sen,a month (25 cents), The officials of the college are M. K. Asano, That collection of the equalization; Feng’s first contact with Christian- fee would require a trained body of ity was during the Boxer rebellion. governmental specialists as investi-| Aithough only a young student at the gating agents, which might be com- time, he was greatly impressed with pared with the present force of reve-| the fortitude with which Chinese and hue agents of the internal revenue | foreign Christians met their deaths dis | hundred persons have been killed in uge-Slavian earthquakes, | cording to the latest reports received bureau. | That the collection of the equaliza-| tion fee would be difficult and “the | impossibility of the collection of | every cent of the equalisation fee is| apparent.” That the collection of the equaliza- | tion fee from any one of the three} mediums provided by the bill—trans-| portation, processing or acquisition | by sale—‘“has so many disadvantages that it is not possible to say which would be the least difficult.” Bill’s Friends Answer. Backers of the pending measure, driving steadily toward its enactment, took direct issue with Mellon’s siate- ment that collection of the equali-| zation fee that is to finance the sur- plus control plan, would be difficult and costly. They also denied his statement that the federal treasury would not get back every cent of the $250,000,000 revolving fund because no government could collect taxes in fa: The farm bloe prepared for its first real test in the house today on a rule substituting the senate bill for the pending house measure. Oppon- ents of the bill will try to vote down the rule, and make possible a fili- buster which could be kept up unti) the end of the present session, 600 Killed By Qaakes. VIENNA, Feb. 15 (INS),—-Six the Ji ea ae here. at the hands of the fanatical Chinese mobs. A few years later at a Young Men’s Christian Association meeting in Peking, Feng was converted to Chris- tianity. He became at once an ar- on the subject. | Feng is a remarkably clever mili- tary man and is a tower of strength to the Nationalists. He commands the forces in the north and if the control of China comes to a show- down—it will be up to Feng to fight his former allies. the fate of Shanghai. If the Cantonese are victorious— there is little doubt that the Nation- alist army with the aid of Feng can take Peking. . LITHUANIAN WHITE TERRORISM CONTINUES WITH MANY WORKERS AND PEASANTS ARRESTED KOVNO, Feb. 15.—Despite the dec-; larations of Pajaujis in the Seym and, the statements of the Lithuanian am- bassadors in Paris and Berlin that no} Communist danger exists, the Lithua- nion government continues to speak of preparations for a Communist in- surrection. Without a doubt it was the inten- tion of the government to hand still more workers over to the courts mar- tial and have them executed, but the numerous protests of the workers in} western Europe and in the Soviet Union caused Lithuania to postpone its plan. However, the danger is not yet Scores of arrested workers and ants are in the hands of the military. The murders will be continued as soon as international public opinion has ealmed down. and peasants would be handed over to a court martial. Dynamite Story a Lie. The statement that dynamite was found when the prisoners were ar- rested is a lie, The weapons which were actually found at certain places belonged to the workers and served them as means of defense against the fascists. The military authorities have informed the press that for the moment no one has been handed over for trial by a court martial. Only a continuation of the protest action on the part of.the working masses can save the lives of the past. | threatened comrades, Suit Against Lord Dismissed. LONDON,.s Feb. 15.—The suit of Miss, Louise Owens, former secretary In reply to a question put by the |to Lord Northcliffe, seeking to re-open seven a the old workers’ leader, Dr.| action against Lord Rothermere and Domashkovitch, Lithuanian Smetona the president of| others on the aera that] managing the Domashkoviteh would not be executed, | cliffe’s property, was di but that 80 of the arre: workers! day. Much depends on | the net income of the road, and which, after the extraordinary’ bond issue, stands as the next financial barrier to normal dividend-paying prosperity. The situation from the standpoint of the economist shows financial structure. . . Could Pay. “In the last year the company could have paid the interest charges } and over 5% on its capital stock is- | sue if all stock were on the same » | footing. As it was, it paid interest {on the bond issue and had left for unpaid ‘indicated earnings’ 11 1-8% for the first preferred, 7.77% for the second preferred, and 0.75% for the common stock.” : Rockefeller, in other words, got | over 11% last year, while fighting the brotherhoods. He and the other firet-preferred stockholders also re= | ceived $326,000 a year since: June, | 1922, on the coal properties given _ them with their rail stock. z But the $40,000 a year to train erews was an impossible burden, | Nicaragua Liberals | Fear Americans Will | Interfere in Battle | PUERTO CABEZAS, Feb. 15.— With liberal forces in control at Mata- Le and . mettle with the tice re impen ing, fears were expre! at liberal adwuasters here that th United States marines might inter~ vene. oss are a score of Americans at Ba xt and it ‘is reported they have asked for protection. ‘The liberal bamnpation of M p 7 fighting jn outetel is Samad as ye hier ment, \