The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1927, Page 6

TH Page Six THE DAILY WORKER WW IF GOMEZ “i Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING CO. Daily, Except Sunday 83 First Street, New York Phone, Orchard 1680 c s s: “Daiwork’ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail (in New York only): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months $2.50 three months ke out checks to Street, New York, N. Y Address THE "J, LOUIS E WILLIAM F. BERT Bntered a Another Chapter in Oil Corruption. After the decision of the United States supreme court in the Edward L. Doheny case that deprived him of the Elk Hills re in California that had been obtained by fraud and corruption it was only a matter of course that the same verdict would be ap- plied to Harry F. Sinclai The unanimous decision of the su- preme court upholds the de and cancels the Teapot Dome oi The decision is even mor , secretary of the inte inet, than v the Doheny c ion. The <tre ion by whic Mr. Fall received from the oil magnates sonte $230,000 in liberty bonds is condemned “confirms the belief, generated by other circumstances i 1 that he was a faithless public servant.” The court a sees “persuasive evidence” of a piracy between Fall and Sinclair to defraud the United States. While i notorious w cision of the U ipreme court, v on of the Eighth Court of Appeals 1] land leases in Wyoming. emphatic in denouncing Mr. Albert r in the Warren G. Harding cab- F , Sf mit that th le condemni at the ne time yually guilty, who for cupied 1 some of whom still occupy positions much h that attai of the interic American political life. > court properly br nents that enabl y is there no mentio conferences where thi more pr does not Harding for consumma DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1927 AND WALL STREET WIN IN MEXICO > the entire cat dies were d who, as ‘v attended the Harding cabinet meeting a Either C bout these criminal conspiracies or he there was that elt, Then als the blaterskite Teddy Roosev young’ Thecdore, ¢ tant secretary of the navy, was smeared from head to foot with Elk Hills and Teapot Dome oil. Why is the court decision silent on this leader of the hosts of purity now crusading to protect the morals of the hinterland from} p Je doy the pollution of Tammany Hall? ng miners and their wives and ee é 5 fs children when they broke up a Sa The decision in the Teapot Dome case is clearly an attempt| Vanzetti protest meeting at: Cheswick to whitewash two administrations—Harding’s and Coolidge’s—!on August 22nd. Over 200° people and make the goat of Albert B. Fall. Let no worker be deceived pen si hens ee ane of them the is is. 6 a ig i jis rfidv. sth are In danger 0: eath, that this miserable whelp is alone in his perfidy. “a ithe nesting: wae takiti place teanes Furthermore, in connection with the disposal of these CABES, |euity in am orchard several undead it is always essential to keep in mind the fact that thievery and| yards from the main highway when corruption is not essential to capitalist class government, though |the police appeared, surrounded the it seems to be one of the prominent features of such government, |crawds and Hage Pla AS a matter of fact the recovery of the oil lands is a military DO: | eae ah a kn OR n pene highway y. Capitalism will stand for almost unlimited corruption | near the scene of the attack and it is on the part of its political puppets, so long as it does not endanger | claimed that this man drew a pistol the power of capitalism. But when a bunch of irresponsible |and Killed eli trooper. ee Bets: Ake eR £ eee re | e capitalist press ignoret e flunkeys forget the necessity of (ee ES inviolate 8 ccoscions-auoauita ofthe palteenen ok tate machine with tremendous military reserves in man-|the mine people—forgot to tell of well as material equipment, they have to be checked. It/|scores of bleeding and gas-poisoned was not so much the brazen stealing that determined the court|wome:.“and children screaming for verdicts, but the fact that Elk Hills and Teapot Dome were naval|™ercy and not getting it—of inof- A ae ri | fensive people hounded over the fields reserves and 2 ravaging of these by private speculators endan- gered the predatory military machine of the greatest imperialist | of the trooper was the only thing they more stupid t torch-bea ENNSYLVANIA | state troopers and battered down brutally. The death power on th. found worthy of note. They printed The e no objections on the part of their masters to the| that and ignored ot cade 7 nhj 3, To iy iy: govern hing themselves, but their first duty OW tlie skudpeekeion Ob ther coal interests of the imperialists as a class against | When ambitious individuals or corporations en- s they must be halted in their the supreme court decisions r of Teapot Dome and Doheny of Elk Hills. is to defend ti their enemi danger the inter greed. That is that dep facts amounted to a deliberate lie is proved by the foliowing statements of victims and eye-witnesses which |were taken down verbatum by a spe- cial investigator and which are being made into affidavits to be kept on ile for whoever wishes io use them. Mrs. Mary Gates, a grandmother, whose menfolks have always worked in the mines, and who lives at Har- The Communists and Judge Panken 2 rke wmunist) Party of New York, after ap- | marville, Pennsylvania, said: proval by its n n, has offered to ac Jacob | Panken, andidate in 1917 to the office of municipal judge in the Second New York District, as a united front candidate in the forthcoming election. \ Contrary to opimions expressed in some quarters, this offer carries with it no endorsement either of Panken or the socialist party. On the contrary, the Workers (Communist) Party, while knowing that the defeat of Panken by an ope representative of | capitalism would strengthen reaction at this time, has no illusions | about Panken being a representative of the workers. It is clear} that if Panken had used his office to strengthen the labor move- ment and to show that the government machinery is the instru- ment of the capitalist class, he would not have been accepted by the republicans who now support him. | Panken has by his words and acts served to strengthen, not | the labor movement, but the illusion that capitalist sais ag | can be molded into an instrument of the working class. The socialist party leadership as a whole seeks to perpetuate this illusion and against the socialist party the Workers (Com-| munist) Party in this election will carry on the most energetic! campaign. | The Workers (Communist) Party will run candidates whose | campaign will make clear to the workers the demoralizing role | played by the socialist party leadership but in the Second Muni-| cipal District, where the votes received by its candidate might | vesult in the defeat of Panken and the election of a black reac-| tionary of the character of Rosalsky, it will unite with the socialist party for the defeat of capitalist party candidates. The Workers (Communist) Party offers to the socialist par- | ty a program containing certain minimum demands listed in its) letter to the socialist party. These demands make clear to work- ers the position of our party in the united front it proposes. | It is the opinion of the Workers (Communist) Party that the defeat of Panken for an office he now holds would be used by) the capitalist press to show that reaction is gaining in strength| and that the working class in New York is losing its consciousness and militancy and becoming supporters of the capitalist parties. The Workers (Communist) Party will not follow a course on inf might be interpreted as ‘weakening the front against reaction in RS. C. H. HA ; JIPLE of this particular case. © hs ( “ bed, gassed and rode down 1,500 | Sketched® trom: iife. bys Die Brown | MPSON OF HARMERSVILLE, PA,, CRIP- IN CLUBBING’BY COAL AND IRON PO’ ve ne “I arrived at’ the park about 11 |o’clock. I was there when the chair- man began to talk. When he began to talk about Sacco and Vanzetti, a state trooper spoke up and said: ‘There will be no meeting today.’ A man in the crowd called out: ‘Why can’t we have a meeting? Is this what-you call liberty?’. Another raised. an Amer- ican flag and called out: ‘We fought in the war and we have a right to meet under this flag. It gives us lib- erty!’ “A state trooper grabbed the flag away from him and pointed to his belt’ of cartridges and pistol and said: ‘This is your liberty! I am your lib- erty!’ He took the flag and stuck it under his arms all wadded up. The pole dragged on the ground.” * * * RS. GATES was later knocked down by a trooper and another wo- to safety was struck in the back and injured so seriously that she is not expected to live. “T went to the meeting with my little girl. Soon after we were there, shoot. Their horses would rear up and paw people down and the troop- ers would hit people with clubs. The women and children were running and (screaming, and the gas was all over |them like a big cloud. The troopers would hit them with their clubs, and | the blood was all running down peo- ple’s faces. It was, awful. I was run- | ning when 1 saw Mrs. Gates was i knocked down. I thought I better drag a, man, Mrs. William Mitchell, who at-| tempted to pick her up and drag her | Here is her story: a the police began to throw bombs andj The “Coal and Jron” Terror in Pennsylvania | \ her away. When I bent over I was hit in the small of my back with a club and I fell too. I was later taken to the hospital and tater in the night I began to bleed internally. 1 bled so much that Tuesday a week ago the doctor said I would die. It worried me so much to be in the hospital, away from my husband and children, and they having nobody to care for them, that the doctors at the hospital de- cided I would be just as well off at : i home, They say a blood transfusion imight save me but we can’t pay for | none.” RS. C. H. HAMPSON, of Harmar- ville is sixty-one years old. She is ithe wife of a veteran miner. now in- jured and incapacitated and is the mother of seventeen children, several of whom are also miners. This is her | story: “T was sitting on the front porch of my house, which is near the orchard when the pienie was held. I was first jattracted by handelapping in the park, I called to my daughter and said: ‘Let’s go to the picnic.’ Then I heard | Shouting and people screaming. There jwas the sound of explosions and a |big cloud began to roll across the or- chard. I heard more explosions and shooting and screaming and people be-, gan to run in every direction. Then 1 saw the state troopers running af- ter them, clubbing them and riding their horses into them, Some of the troopers were on foot, the man got on his knees and tried to grab the baby, the trooper hit him over the head with a club, and he didn’t move anymore while I was looking. “Now, just a couple of minutes af-. One of them |" was running after a man who had al” baby in his arms. The man stumbled}. and fell and dropped the baby, As}: MRS. WILLIAM MITCHELL, WORKER’S WIFE, DYING FROM POLICEMAN’S BEATING. ter that happened, seven state troop- ers'came down the street past my porch, As they approached, I got up out of my chair and was about to ask them what the trouble was when one of them said, ‘Don’t you move!’ I said, ‘Why shouldn’t I move?’ Then one of them struck me across the hips so hard it paralyzed me ail over. Then another trooper spoke up and said, ‘Shoot her!’ But another spoke up and said: ‘Let the old lady go!’ Then I got up and limped into the house be- cause my-hips were hurting. me quite badly.” (To Be Continued). Young MillionaireShows Taste for Punishment The rich Mrs. Darby Day, Jr., who threw acid on her husband, is now re- leased after a short sentence in San Quentin prison, and will return to her well scarred spouse. [bani president who embezzled $400, contemporary, - Arthur gives us a good reason nited States and England all never go to war with one an- The two countries have all ; they want and indeed more than they UR wise | sh | other. want. Why should they fight, any |more than Ford, Rockefeller, Baker |and Mellon, the four richest men in {the world, should fight Sure, Art. There is no reason to expect that they | will, any more than there is to sus- | pect the designs of a corpulent bed- |bug on the person of a peaceful | slumberer without a suit of armor. | * * * UTSIDE of the fact that both countries are building battleships against each other and that the preachers and statesmen of the two empires are talking peace in the same language, there is reason for the be- lief that peace between the United States and England will degenerate into a permanent condition. Such a close friend of John (dime) Rocke- feller as Arthur might have heard {about the lively scrimmage that is going on between the British and American oil companies. Great powers |have gone to war for less reason. | What we would like to know is what does the United States want the big- gest navy in the world for, unless to battle for naval supremacy with Great Britain? * EVERAL corporations have given their approval to the proposal to place our year on a thirteen month basis instead of twelve, and to switch Sunday to Monday. As far as we are concerned they can do as they Please with their capitalist year, tho | we doubt if the section of the popula- jtion that observe the lord’s day on Saturday wjll be as pleased. And it will be hard for a devout catholic to convince himself that he would lose his immortal soul by absenting him- self from mass on Monday. If the corporation officials suggested the reduction of the working year by a few months without a proportional reduction in wages we would be more interested. * * * PRINCESS Helen of Roumania who fell from the good graces of crown prince Carol, the wayward son of queen Marie, will devote the rest of her life to the reclamation of fallen girls. Of course the princess is not one of the fallen in the spiritual sense. The form of prostitution practised in upper class and royal cireles has the sanction of church and state, whereas a love union that does not pay toll to priest or parson is cursed with bell, book and by candle- light. And should you wonder what Mr. Rockefeller does with his surplus cash, you are welcome to the news that John encouraged the ‘princess to establish a school for nurses in Bucharest. Praise the new god Oil from whom those dollars spring! * * * | Mecemenee ¥. SCOTT, the condemned murderer who committed suicide in a Chicago jail while awaiting a new sanity trial is the author of sev- eral business text books. He was one of those pep engineers. In 1923 he was head of a $30,000,000 interna- tional sales corporation and his own personal fortune was estimated at $2,000,000. He landed in a prison cell after having murdered a Chicago drug store clerk. Now scientists want to examine his brain to learn why he committed suicide rather than take his chance on dodging the gallows. Perhaps, remorse for have written the text books, 1 * * . Mat United States supreme court has come to the conclusion that A, B. Fall was a faithless servant, We thot so right. along. Had he served the G. O. P. as faithfully as° he served his oil kings it might not have deserted him in his hour of trial. Fall comes from a lone-hand state where the man with the steadiest hand brings home the bacon. When Fall got into the department, of the interior, he felt as elated as a white-slaver in an unprotected harem, Many of his co-workers took, everything that was not nailed down, Fall walked away with the lan 5 * * 8 qae oil kings were a little;‘belated in their looting enterprise. They also lacked political acumen, else they would know that oil is sudh a vital necessity for governments jrith com- mercial and war vessels nowadays that even a respectable cabinet can- not be permitted to embezzle the na- |; tional supply with impunity. Fall) | and Sinclair are going on trial soon, \ on a charge of conspiracy. It would | be funny if they landed in jail. It would indeed. * (Pe reason for Coolidge’s refusal to ™ be a candidate for the .presidency in the coming national election is said to be nasal trouble. He may have pido the affliction while hiding in the white house during the T Dome scandal. es * * F A. B. Fall had died serving his country as looter of the interior his surviving colleagues might now be building a monunent in his memory and his painting, done in oils, might hang in the hall of congress. Hard- ing was not such a dub after all. * * * pe fellow who was given a life sentence for having a pint of g parked on his hip is said to | worried over the fate of the Illinois tbe. * /