The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 14, 1927, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER, Signer of the Perjured Affidavit Blames Burns | (Continued from Page One) tempted with an af it he knew to be false and perjured to frame up} the prosecutors of Sinclair and Fall. It is very plainly intimated by “se ()F 6 0 prosecution that Burns come out bad-| a i ly in this little quarrel between oil | companies. He will probably be} charged with subornation to commit | perjury, in that he eaused one of his} detectives known to him as “Wm. V. Long,” to make the untrue affidavit stating that the detective had fol-| lowed the car of Norman Glasscock, a juror in the Fall-Sinclair Teapot Dome oil graft trial out to a flying field, where he saw in disguise As BOASTS ELECTION Now Exposed By IRVING GREEN. BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. Startled Buffalo readers of the} Jewish Daily Forward” read in the headlines of last. Thursday’s issue of sistant Attorney General H. R. Lamb,| that paper “news” of a sweeping vic- who talked with the juror. Lamb|tory won by the. local socialist party was identified by the physical de-|in the recent municipal elections. “So- ©iption given of him and by his car |cialist Ele¢ted Head of City Govern-| licaase number. ment. Comrade _ Perki Chosen | Hired To Do Perjury. Mayor of Buffalo by Majority of 23,-| The district attorney conducting} 000 votes.” So ran the streamers. | the inquiry into t g” of the | Now it so happens that eed | Burns-Sinclair trial ju now says| Perkins was elected on the republ that “Long” is really Mullan, an ex-army insurance “adjus‘e who in some Bee cexiained, was able to go to), | ried! to resign. fzom the. S, P. work for Wm. J. Burne eon Oct. 18) 35 soon as he ae elected a council- and by Oct. 18 was so well trusted by | an some years ago, fearing that he him that he was hired by th would lose his City Hall job if he ise of a “bonus” to ma Re RENEE ©) remained in the organization. Teports jaror es No Socialist Party in City. he a as ene de: Jaima| Thus the cause for jubilation on which Wm. J. Burns not only claims ||, er : <1) te E ; ‘ ranented to the trial judge the part of | he Forward” is hard to ieee Presented t explain. Especially in view of the but which he actually pre ented, un- fact thatenp auch tline es an orean® der oath, to th id jury, tho he |i 764 socialist party is known to have knew it was absolutely untrue, and existed in Buffalo for many had been drawn up by “Long” in con- cialist party is heard from sultation with Burns and his lieu-| only at election time; even then the tenants to fit the occasion. response is slight (during the last Pinchot In It. state election campaign a number of Ex-Governor Gifford Pinchot of | meetings which were to have been ad- Pennsylvania is involved in the case, | dressed by the national “lions” of the “Long” or McMullan, according to the | socialist party were called off.) governor’s statement, having been| Republicans and Socialist Alike. sent to the district attorney’s office The fact that Perkins was the re by Pinchot during the fi ys of | publican nominee did not frighten the the detectiv Governor Pinchot, who Philadelphia, “Long’s” does not admit with the dete: e visited him and conf he was engaged in—fraud, perjur; frame-up, all ordered by Wm. Burns. Defense Wanted Mistrial. A number of little details were woven into the reports of the detec- tive “Long,” to his superiors, or in- Serted by them after the reports were | made, all creating a case by which | coays . Sinclair and his co-defendant Fali,|*ter of the socialist victory at the secretary of hte interior when the|PO)S. Can De seen by studying the Swudulent lease to Teapot Dome was | (ection results. Of the 74,847 votes ; 7 = : | Which Perkins drew, slighi issued by him to Sinclair, could claim | 5999 were cast Ekta pec ag a mistrial. The government’s decla-| ist ticket, ration of mistrial seems to have| ~«eught the Fall-Sinclair defense ae torneys by surprise, but was wel- comed by them, inasmuch as it was part of their tactic anyway. They| Made no very strong effort to pre- vent the case being thrown out of of a socialist; his only claim to such “distinction” rests on the on affidavit, | hails from |These worthi who home town, | front action with the militant section other connection} of the working class, hastened to en- ept that “Long”’|dorse this republican politician, whose ssed the work |radicalism consists of leading vocal assaults against the “interests” and ting verbally militant. When a test comes, such as the recent Sacco-Van- |zetti campaign, Perkins shrivels up and refuses to speak at a united front |meeting in behalf of these two |martyrs! e J. A Reactionary. A further indication of the char- If the socialist party continues its | policy of making election deals with the reactionary capitalist parties, it may expect further “victories” at the | didn’t boast of the socialist capture of a place on the City Court bench, court, and a new trial orderéd. | when the republican Judge Peter Say Burns Used Fraud. Maul, endorsed also by the “S. P.” Among other things, McMullan, as|was elected to this position? Also Long, signed reports requested by his|other reactionary candidates on capi- superiors, Wm. J. Burns, Wm. Sher-|talist party slates have received the man Burns, and “chief shadower”| endorsement of this yellow aggrega- Ruddy of the Wm. J. Burns Detective tion of vote-chasers. Meanwhile the Agency, which said that Juror Glass-| intelligent workers of Buffalo are cock was seen surreptitiously reading |Continuing their work in the unions @ newspaper during the progress of 27¢ other working class organiza- the trial, an act which would have justified the defense in asking for a|9akland roadster had already ar- rived ahead of us. Description of driver of Oakland car: five feet nine inches, slender build, 150 pounds, ruddy complexion, shabby suit, old brown shoes, dark brown balmacan coat with cap to match, of a shabby |appearance. He talked with the sub- |ject for about twenty minutes and then got in the Oakland and drove off. “Subject remained till 5:10 p. m., mistrial, as it was strictly against the orders of the trial judge. McMullan now swears that this| part, as well as the rest of the re-| ports he signed and the affidavit used | by Burns, was a mere fiction, that he never saw Glasscock at all, Much Mystery. ¢It is admitted by all concerned,} Burns, McMullan, and District At-| torney Gordon that there are many rather peculiar features about the en- | tire history of McMullan, but the dis- trict attorney denies that he, or Sin- ¢lair’s business rivals planted the de-| tective among Burns’ spies, and in-| sisted that the first that was known| lights downstairs were switched off and the upstairs lights put on, at 9 p.m. These were put out at 9:15 p. m. “I remained on watch till 11:30 p. stay in Washington. | local socialist leaders in the least. | reject united | of him was when he came to Pinchot | and Pinchot relayed him over to the government, which ordered him to “play along” with the Burns men. The Fake Report. McMullan says that a few days af- ter he was sent to Washington by Burns he was told to bring his own utomobile to the city for Wm. J. m., when I discontinued, “Expense $23.70. “Time one and a half days.” Correct Numbers! The car numbers of the two-toned Oakland car are Lamb’s numbers, all right, for the best of all possible rea- sons; according to McMullan, Burns men looked them up, and Ruddy,) to drive about in. He declares Ha he never did any spying on the jurors ‘at all, but wrote his reports to suit} Burns, under his direction. The re-| Port on which the perjured affidavit} ‘was based, and which was intended as corroborative evidence supporting| the affidavit, is as follows: “Washington, D. C. “Saturday, Oct. 22, 1927. “Philadelphia investigator (‘Long’.) Burns’ “chief shadower” watching the jurors, inserted them in the report with his own hand. After the affidavit was Burns suggested to McMullan that he take a ride out to Potomac flying field, “to get the lay of the land.” Whereupon McMullan drove the chief spies out there, and they discussed the false affidavit, “Stick to the Story.” “Continuing surveillance on juror Burns not only testified on the NX4-Glasscock: Subject came ws of | Stand, before ‘the grand jury,, that honse at 7:25 a. m., driving to Four-| this report and affidavit were true, “teenth and C streets, where he park-|t? the best of his knowledge, but or- ed his car and walked to Somerville | 4e7ed McMullan, ie “Long” to “atick Brass Works at Thirteenth and D| the | affidavit” when before the Streets, and entered. grand jury. noontime he drove to his home| After “Long” came out of the | I noticed he was being followed stand jury room, Burns was waiting y a Chev. coupe, license NX U-202,| for him, and asked eagerly about the left his home at 12:30 p. m,,| ffidavit. When informed that “Long” ng to the-works at 1:15 p. m.,| Was still sticking to it, and “hadn’t there I again noticed the Chev. coupe, told the grand jury a thing,” the old ‘At 2:30 p. m. the subject came out|!abor-spy slapped “Long” on the back, ‘drove home, this time being fol-|2%4 declared, “That’s the boy.” by Oakland roadster, license| The “Long” report and affidavit on 1738, At 3:40 p. m. subject|Glasscock and Lamb was disproved d family drove to Potomac Flying | by the testimony of garage mechanics and on arrival noticed that the|and friends of Glasscock. L-36. sists, POF BUFFALD p, MAYOR (Special to The DAILY WORKER) | 13—| Wm. V. Mc-|can ticket (not mayor, but president | sr, a former|of the city council). Perkins is not| fact that | | years. | | | “DOM K. EDWARD! oe KING KIDWELL CLUSTERED ROUND THE TEAPOT DOME By 1 NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1927 en ie ATLEE SHELDON POMERENE CLARK " J.BURNS MASON DAY Albert &. Fall was secretary of the interior when he granted a frauduient oil lease to Harry F. Sin- clair giv The- supreme court si on trial for the fraud, it soon became apparent that the jury was fixed. that he would “get an auto as long as this block out of it.” teen detectives investigating the Mason Day and Sheldon Clark, Sinclhir oil company officials. Pomerene is government counsel in the oil graft case. to do so will incriminate them. iving him about $30,000,000 worth of governmont oi! rights for a nominal sum. ys the lease is a fraud and has canceled it, but when Fall and Sinclair went Juror Edward Kidwell boasted Wm. J. Burns has admitted that he had six- finances of the jurors for the defendants, and that they reported to Both refuse to testify on the grounds that tions, and among the unorganized workers, for a Buffalo Labor Party. Want Own Candidates. Thousands of workers here are dis- illusioned with the old practice of ing their votes to “good men” run- ng under capitalist party auspices and having the go’ nment power used against the workers at turn of the road. They are tired of the outrageous graft an corruption which has reached such extremes in Buffalo. A Labor Party, organized by the workers and fightifig for their demands will soon sweep away from the fakers who claim to be socialists whatever working class support they still have. And the practice of help- ing to elect capitalist politicians and then rejoicing in their victories, will hasten the end of the socialist party which is even now breathng its last. * * * Not only did the New York socialist party make no progress in the elec- tion campaign just passed.’ but it ac- tually lost nearly 4,000 votes as com- pared with the returns in 1926. The |polls. One wonders why the Forward | actual vote of the 62 candidates for Assembly follows: 1925,"44,497; 1926, 54,259. Last Tuesday the S. P. polled 50,994 votes. The socialists made a slightly bette The socialists made a slightly bet- ter showing in their aldermanic cam- paign, but political analysts of all parties are in agreement that this was due almost entirely ‘to the per- sonal popularity of one man, former emblyman Samuel Orr, who polled 3,736 votes for alderman in the Bronx. The results were particularly dis- appointing to the socialist politicians in view of the fact that a remarkably strenuous campaign was made to elect several of their “white hopes,”~es- pecially Municipal Judge Jacob Pan- ken, Samuel Orr to the Board of Aldermen and Charles Solomon to the Legislature as a candidate from Brooklyn, How They Count. August Claessens, secretary of the | New York organization, however, i * . i &S aa . » In- when he drove his family home, the} { sists that the party has made some | gain in the present election, partic-| ularly in one or two districts in Brooklyn. By an ingenious method of calcula- tion Claessens has arrived at the con-| every | At the Women’s Auxiliary } eeting Workers Gather to Aid Greco and Carrillo - (Continued from Page One) “We have looked into the facts of live up to the fascist oath of allegi-| the case being prepared against Greco ancc. and Carrillo, and wish to say emphat- “The workers and liberals of Amer- j ically that unless every friend of jus- ica must rally to the aid of Greco and | tice in this country is shocked into Carrillo and ..ot only free them but|immediate activity, there will be an- stamp out the vicious frame-up sys-|other Sacco-Vanzetti case to stain tem by means of which innocent|the pages of American history. workers are sent to the electric Frame-Ups Must Stop. jat by taking one of the candidates clusion that the socialist party made | a gain of 14,000 since 1925 and 5,000 | since 1926. The figures are arrived chair,” Dunn said in conclusion. Arturo Giovannittii, who took an active part in the Lawrence textile strike in 1912, called up his hearers to “agitate continually until these two innocent workers are free.” A coHection for the défense of the two imprisoned werkers was taken which netted nearly $100. who made a particularly good show- ing in each county and adding the figures together, thus getting what Claessens chooses to call the “figure on the state ticket.” These he com- “These bloody frame-ups must stop! There must be some protection for foreign-born workers. If this is, as we boast, a government of law, we must insist that the fundamental laws protecting accused persons be enforced for non-citizens as well as for citizens. In the Greco-Carrillo pares with the 48,436 which the party’s candidate for governor re- ceived in Greater New York last year, and ten the 39,574 which aspirant for made,| mayor received in 1925, Aside from the other features of this consoling mathematics, the de- vice leaves entirely out of account the personal elements of some of the can- didates, many of whom had all the energies of the organization behind their campaign. May Ask for New Quiz on 1928 Slush Funds WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—The “Progressive” senators are consider- ing demanding a Senate resolution for an investigation of campaign ex- penditures for the 1928 Presidential campaign. A simlar investigation in 1920 greatly embarassed’ the Republican candidates Wood and Lowden, help- ing to make their nomination im- possible. The progressive senators are now opposing Lowden and sup- porting Senator Norris, and would not be averse to an other “investiga- tion” if it seemed that it would tend to handicap rival candidates. yt case the injustice being done is ag- gravated by the fact that it is in- stigated from abroad by the fascist dictatorship. “Is Mussolini, after Judge Thayer, going to be the next symbol of Amer- ican justice? Are his seexet agents _to be allowed to use American courts and American district attorneys to punish its political opponents? Urge Defense of Workers. “This case is as serious as the Sac- co-Vanzetti case. It means the lives |not only of two innocent workers, but ifs Mussolini To Be erp boe a ferment hyper geo i . of hundreds of thousands 0! alians Symbol of US. Justice? who have sailed to America to escape Ask Labor Dramatists | Messolini’s rule. If the dictator is jallowed to rup the American courts, | In an appeal addressed to the Amer-| Ot only Italians but Americans who ‘ican working’ class, Michael Gold, | OPPose him will be in serious danger. author; John Dos Passos, novelist;| “We intend to stand by Greco and and John Howard Lawson, dramatist, Carrillo until they are free. yesterday issued a joint appeal for| “We refuse to be silent in the face Greeo and Carrillo, It read: jof this new frame-up. We urge every “We wish to join our voices in pro- radical and liberal who fought for test against the frame-up of Greco | Sacco and Vanzetti to awake to the and Carrillo, We were deeply aroused like importance of this case. Mus- by the similar frame-up of Sacco and |S0lini must not be allowed to frame- Vanzetti, and were among those ar-|UP Workers in America. rested while picketing the state house Michael Gold. in Boston as a protest against the John Dos Passos. murder of the two innocent men. John Howard Lawson.” _ Yesterday at the Belmont oHtel, | Clarence Darrow who is heading the | legal battery on behalf of Greco and Carrillo, conferred with his assistants, Arthur Garfield Hays, Isaac D. Schorr and Newman Levy, on the policy to be pursued in exposing the frame-up. Filippo Greco, brother of one of the men and secretary of the Greco-Car- | rillo Defense League, was present at the conference with the lawyers. * * . 1,000 Colorado Miners On New March (Continued from Page One) have a bad effect on peace and good order in the state. “From reports received by the com- mittee it would seem that this radi- cal socialist work is being carried on | under very intelligent direction and | is most effective in its results. The Mexican Church War. “In 1926 it seemed to be conducted as a sort of a ‘Help Calles’ move- ment. Much personal work was done and small but frequent group meet- ings were held outside the towns. At these meetings the attendance of loyal Catholics was not encouraged. “Parts of Colorado were and are now being used as a breeding and | feeding ground for radical socialism | among these pegple. “This is not a local prolem, as many assume, but inter-state. Be- |cause of the frequent moving, this Red Socialist propaganda, like a |poisonous leaven, is carried and |spread by the new converts, from place to place in Colorad6 and other states. Trying to Win Them Back. “While interest in their religious welfare has increased and greater efforts are being put forth in their behalf, the number of Mexicans have greatly increased and the conditions and influences adversely affecting |their religious faith have also in- creased and are more difficult to cope with. It is doubtful if more than ten per cent of the migratory workers in | Northern Colorado, at least, have any contact whatever with the church.” As a warning to the employers that | their slaves are finding conditions too hard for them, and are becoming re- bellious, the Catholic Council relates some of the facts about bad living conditions among the poorly paid | Mexican immigrants: Housing conditions are very bad, says the report, the Mexicans become the prey of justices of the peace who exact fines out of all reason for minor offenses, so as to gain the re- sultant fees. Crowded Shacks. | Excerpts are quoted from ‘the re- |port of the National Child Labor | Committee, which found that in some | district “families of five, six, seven, years work in the beets” and that “forty-five per cent of the children did their first beet work before they were ten years old.” This report also showed that “more than one-half of the contract families slept in one or two-room shacks” and that in one dis- trict “families of five, six, seven, nine and eleven persons lived in one room and that 102 families with six, seven, nine, eleven persons per family slept in one room.” Harmorville Laborites Have Hard Struggle (Continued from Page One) ily on many families, the fight goes on without a let-down. Company Builds Tunnel for Scabs. Fire-bosses, machine-bosses and the rest all came out with the other miners, though in many places the mine bosses are acting as deputy sheriffs and Coal and Iron police for the companies. The picket line is run efficiently. After a few months of picketing the company built a tunnel under the road where the pickets are stationed to let the scabs get through from the stockade to the mines. They scurry under like rats, and the pic- kets bend over and yell to them. Since the cold weather set in, a couple of women assigned by the Auxiliary are on duty at the picket line at five each morning to give the men sandwiches and hot coffee. Stories of the Fight. Every time you stop around the Harmarville picket-line there is some new story of the fight. The other day it was George Bingula, picket, shot in the foot by one of the Coal and fron police. An argument had started between John Smelka, striker, and a couple of scabs quartered next door. Two Coal and Iron police Smelka. The scabs took part and be- gan beating Smelka. up. Bingula came to Smelka’s aid. One of the Yellow Dogs drew his gun, shot Bin- gula and ran. Bingula—The Battler; War On Women Last time I heard of George Bingula was when the Ladies Aux- iliary had to wait till eleven o’clock to get him to play for their dance be- cause he first had to be got out of jail where he had landed after he had a run-in with one of the deputy sher iffs on the picket line, and finished the argument by spitting in the came over and grabbed hold of} BIG-TIME REALTY MAN JAILED FOR DETRON FRAUDS Planned to Mulet 500 Automobile Workers DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 13.—A per- iod of eight months was what the po- lice of this city required to discover that one of the most gigantic “build- ing project” swindles in years was being consummated here. The whole- sale fleecing of a large number of local business men and several hun- dred automobile workers from Pon- tiac was averted with the arrest here yesterday of Charles V. Knightley, who since his arrival in Detroit has maintained a sumptuous set of offices in the General Motors building and bas fraternized with some of the lead- ing business men of the city. A Pillar of Society. Representing himself as a spokes man for the Eugene Du Pont inter ests, Knightley was planning to net at least $1,000,000 within the next two months. He had even gone thru the formality of having several prominent architects make the plans for some of the mythical buildings and had been welcomed socially by the city’s “elite.” Part of Knightley’s program called for the erection of 500 homes for au- tomobile workers in Pontiac, options already having been secured by him tor the purpose, Artificial Rubber Is Made By Germany FRANKFORT-ON- MAIN, Ger many, Nov. 13.—Sythetic rubber, so nearly like the natural produce and so cheap to produce that it may soon ap- pear on the markets as a world come modity, in competition with real rub- ber, is being developed by German chemists, according to statements of Dr. A von Weinberg, a director of Farbenindustrie, German dye syndi- cate, at a recent meeting of tha Chemical Indusrialists’ Protective Union. Make Synthetic Drugs Also. New synthetic medicines, such as ammonia, camphor, and petroleum, may be produced by electrolytic pro- cesses, and at a lower cost, it was predicted. The German chemists are attempte ing to re-establish the international contacts between the chemical ine terests of different countries, which were broken by the war, according to Dr. Von Weinberg, who appealed for “fairer treatment at the hands of tha Americans.” SYSTEM CLEANSER HERB Laxative is the only DIGESTIVE HERB used as FOOD ADDITION which is none habit forming. Does not gripe. Corrects all troubles orig- inating from weak stomach and clogged intestines. % Lb.—2-400 protions—for $1.50 sent free of any other charge on receipt of amount. No C O D's. Bath additions for every trouble. BESSEMER CHEM. CO. Natural Remedies Dept. B. 101 Beekman Street NEW YORK, N. ¥. Revolutionary POST CARDS — BUTTONS MEDALLIONS — PHOTOS - R your correspondence—w) not use a revolutionary post- card? friends for propaganda purposes! ‘They are cheap enough even to send deputy’s eye. Then another recent happening. A miner’s wife passing scabs escorted by Coal and Iron police, on their way to the mine. “You're taking the bread out of my children’s mouths.” The Coal and Iron walked over and |knocked her down. The force with | which she was thrown on the rough | ground ripped the skin from her side. Eviction Next. Eviction is the next thing ahead for the Harmarville miners, Their cases are pending before the Phila- deiphia courts. The men have no il- lusions as to which side the decision will favor—company constable of company courts are the same thing. PARIS, Nov. 18.—American “intel- lectuals” are leaving the Bohemian quarters: of Paris, and emigres from Russia and eastern countries are tak- ing their place, according to figures published by the prefecture of police. as notices for your branch meetings on special occasions: 6 CARDS FOR 5 CENTS Each card different: LENIN RUTHENBERG (at the age of 16) (memorial card) LENIN STATE SEAL OP (memorial card) SOVIET RUSSIA. 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