The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1928, Page 2

Page Two ve 2 THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, wEnkeny, Yan Smith and Republicans Maneuver. GRAFT HEARING IS USED AS CLUB BY BOTH PARTIES Data Shows Both Are Equally Involved By ROBERT MITCHELL ALBANY, Jan. 31 | the cover of pre } «ight of the re ontin- ted. Yes- 2 senate | ernor’s tion of the Al Smith In Graft Inquiry sible cooperation. The resolution of the assembly, however, was amended by a “trick” paragraph which will have the effect of giving the republican legislature the final say in the investigation now beginn:ng. The amendment provides that if the governor’s investigation should continue beyond the life of the present legislative session, the data must be turned over io the legislat- ive committee for final disposition. Republican Trick In other words, it is pointed out, the republicans wish to have the last word in what shall be done with the report of Dr. Lindsay Rogers, the gov- ernor’s investigator. Informed observers agree that con- Siderable data has already been un- earthed to prove that the Tammany controlled state labor department is honeycombed with corrup.ion. Smart- ing under various revelations of graft being disclosed by Al Smith’s investigations of republican adminis- tration of office, the Knapp case be- ing one in point, the republicans, in turn, have sought to make public the. existence of graft in democratic ad~ ministration. For this purpose it was attempted several weeks ago to launch 1 wideseale investigation by the In~ lustrial Survey Commission. ife and powers of the commission were accordingly extended by the re. publican controlled legislature. Smith Hits Back. Al Smith’s reply was brief and to the point: “If you attempt this,” he answered by deeds, if not exactly in} words, “I will proceed to rake up a} little mud which you republicans have been wallowing in. # call the kettle black, then the kett tan reply with a few pointed r marks.” Smith’s answer was the ap- pointment of Dr. Lindsay Rogers to tarry on an “independent” invesciga- tion. For over two weeks the republicans were in a quandary as to what atti- tude to take. Discretion was finally decided upon as the better part of valor and the answer was that they would “cooperate” with the govern- or’s “investigation.” Hints at Republican Graft. In the light of these facts the oft- repeated statement of Nogers at the opening session of the investigation on Monday to the effect that the in-- vestigation would not be limiced to the-data unearthed by the republican controlled Survey Commission, is be- ing interpreted as holding a club over the heads of the republicans. Yesterday’s amendment by the sen- ate to the resolution of “cooperation” is the last attempt of th to gain the upper hand i of political football. Ob imasmuch as both have everything. to fear from a real investigation. department all pos-} | The} If the po. begins! itn het 1, 1928 me, to\Conceal Their Political Corruption the fight to extinguish the blaze. Icey Weather Brings New Risks for Firemen The water from the hose froze as it fell when firemen battled a blaze om the Atlantic City boardwalk. The fire fighters found their work extra hazardous when ice and snow drifts added difficulties to { (Continued from Page One) tion that the labor officials have al- ready prepared the ground for the acceptance of the legislation. Under the plan it is proposed to set up a National Industrial Council which by publishing the “facts” in any disputed issue in advance will pave the way for the final decision against labor. This has been the effect of a similar law which has been in operation in Canada for the past twenty years. Labor Fakers Appointed. Heading the A. F. of L. committee besides Woll, are John P. Frey and Victor Olander. Frey, now secretary of the metal trades department of the Federation, is one of the outstanding red baitéts aniong the labor official- dom. Victor. Olander is secretary of the International Seamen's Union and the Illinois Fedeation. of Labor He has-been active in His state and es- pecially in Chicago in drives against the-mrilitants. in-the. unions. ” THe Uctivities: of this group against the militants and the left wing, it has been pointed out, have been used as a méani8. 6f distracting attention from their own betrayal of the labor move- ment. be Official Betrayal. * In its report to the last A. F. of Li conventien at Los Angeles, the exec- utive council of the Federation gave jan account of the events leading, up {to the announcement of the present | proposed “arbitration” formula. The |teport states: | - Incontinuation of cordial and helpful | conferences..between . representatives of the American Federation of Labor and the Committee on Commerce of the American Bar Association, the president of the American Federation of Labor sent a leiter to the Denver meeting of the American Bar Associa- tion, expressing Labor’s desire to es- tablish cooperative relationships, The president of the American Bar Association sent the following tele- gram to the Detroit convention of the | Federation: Hon. William Green, Preident, American Federation of Labor Con- vention, Detroit, Michigan: | Permit me as president of the erican Bar A ge to our conventivn at Den- Will not your convention au- the appointment of an appropriate committee to cooperate with our Committee on Commerce e Woll Admits Support | of U.S. Anti-Strike Law in drafting legislation on lines laid down in that committee’s report. CHARLES S. WHITMAN, President, The American Bar Association, The following committee was ap- pointed to meet the committee of the Bar Association: Matthew Woll, chair- man; John P. Frey and Victor Olan- der. Mr. Woll attended the first com- mittee meeting held in New York on March 23. A sub-committee of the Bar Association Commerce Committee was appointed to conter with the Federation committee and to develop a legislative program. The sub-com- mittee consisted of Julius Cohen, Hol- lis R. Bailey, and Thomas W. Davis. The first conference was held in New York, April 25 and 26. The lederation’s committee found an attitude of genuine desire to con- sider facts and find a constructive plan for adjusting the difficulties that arise in industrial relations. The dis- cussions of the joint committee have thus resulted in agreement on pro- cedure, The report of the Standing Com- mittee on Commerce to the American Bar Association meeting held in Buf- falo, beginning August 31, 1927, con- tained the following: ... The sub-committee reports that it believes that progress has been made in a better understand- ing of the difficulties of the prob- lems involved, but that it will take some time to give full consideration to all the questions that will have to be discussed, both of law and of policy, before a full report can be made. It feels very much en- couraged and believes that the time is now opportune for arriving at an understanding. It believes that, in addition to the representatives of Labor, it will be necessary to confer with employers throughout the country, and it hopes, if the com- mittee is permitied to continue its work during the coming year, to have a‘more definite report to make next year. We recommend that the Federa- tion’s committee continue this most important work. FIND LOST SUBMARINE. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31— The navy has at last found its missing submarine S-3, sister ship of the S-4 which sunk off the coast of Massachu- setts, of which nothing had been rd for a couple of days. The ship discovered cruising at random in the direction of Cuba, with wireless gone. Wives and children of the crew been kept in suspense while naval officials looked around for the mis- placed beat, Forged “Ruthenberg Letter’ Approving Fake C. I. Instruction Remind Ser. d 98S D adsorstad Lots Gaede Ceromrnadtss Wee. VW ABVB Ads Wonka Poti Arve oo Lumdormenkal, CBR. GREET LEADERS FROM WHOLE U, S. TO PARTY SCHOOL * 20 Students Will Take Intensive Training Twenty Eat arriving from every district jof the country National Day Training Course of thr | Workers School. will be official's welcomed at the concert and mas |meeting next Wednesday, Februar: 1%, at 8 p. m., at Ar \Irving Pl. and, 1fth St. The Workers” Party is preparing t- establish new districts and extend ‘tts influence among new sections of the American working class. From every section of the country, leading com- rades have been called from their du- ties as organizers or agitprop direc- tors, to be given a three months’ full | time intensive training course in the Workers School, and practice in the methods of conducting party work by actual participation in the C. E. C. and District Committees’ activities. These comrades will receive tui- tion, text books and supplies free of charge, and during the period of training, they will be maintained at the expense of the Party and the Workers School. In return, they have pledged themselves to devote their life’ss work to the eee Tt will tax the financial resources of the Party and the school to the ut- most, but the importance of the job eannot be overemphasized. It is also an indication of the strength and vi- tality of the movement and its un- shaken determination to achieve its destined aim, The meeting at the Irving Plaza is expected to bring together the lead- ing elements of the Party. An excel- lent concert program is being ar- ranged and the best known Party leaders in addition to several of the students will speak. USED FORGERIES AGAINST RAKOS! ‘Ruthenberg,’ ‘Pepper’ Letters Faked (Continued from Page One) ing places for arms, etc., which will be printed in tomorrow’s issue of The DAILY WORKER, were also used. The first Jetter under the fake letterhead of the Communist Interna- tional, signed “J. P.,” and supposed to be-from dchn Pepper, is about t erudest of the two and very obviously was manufactured in the United States. Aside from the falsity of the contents, this letter marked “Moscow” has for its letterhead a cu} lifted from the old English edition of the official organ of The Communist Interna- tional, in its old form as a monthly magazine. The Ruthenberg Letter. The second short note signed “C. FE. R.” bears a very crudely copied seal of the “Workers Party of America,” and was purported to have come with a long document, also obviously forged, which went into imaginary de- tails as to the procedure that the Hungarian revolution should follow, including all kinds of fantastic in- struction about the organization of armed revolts, ete. The clumsy hand which forged this long letter of instruction, has set the precedent of having such instructions first sent “to the American Party for approval.” Another little slip was made, by Nosowitsky and his gang when they forged the seal “Workers Party of America,” the name of the Party be- ing changed to “Workers (Commun- ist) Party” at a convention some months previous to the date on the letter. This, added to the crudeness of the faked handwriting and signa- ture meant for C. E. Ruthenberg, makes the whole job a pretty poor one. On the back of one of the letters passing between the Kron Detective Agency and Nosowitsky are a few handwritten words which give further proof of the connections between the Horthy regime and this forgery mill in America, The handwriting reads: “Attention Nosowitsky, I must again ask you that the shipment of the M. G. be attended to without un- due delay.” " The Horthy government, hard up for evidence on which to convict Rakosi and his comrades, was press- ng his agents in America for the forged letters which were soon forth- coming. Such forged documents have been flowing from the United States into Hungary in a steady stream, with the Hungarian minister in Washing- leaders of the Workers |% for the, three month:’ |§ ing Plaza Hall, |3 Teamsters Undergo Great es The teamster’s job is not an easy one at any time, but the heavy winter snows make his lot doubly hard. Above is a scene in a New ‘York street during the heavy snow storm which hit the East several days ago. Teamsters in a recent strike in New York had the entire police depart- ment ready for action against them, Haverhill Strike Is Great Triumph for Militant Labor HAVERHILL, Mass., Jan. 31.—The) Emergency Strike Committee, a Haverhill Shoe Manufacturers’ Asso-| special committee of rank and file ciation acknowledges complete defeat | members which organized and directed in the general swike which has been going on here since January 18. After an all night conference the manufacturers gave in to the workers on every demand, (1) full 1927 prices; (2) back pay for money deducted on the last pay day; (3) a joint commis- sion of manufacturers and members of the union to study conditions in the industry; (4) a joint committee to recommend amendments to the working agreements. This brings to an end the general strike instituted by Haverhill shoe workers of the Shoe Workers’ Pro- tective Union against a wage cut handed down by the “impartial” chair- man of the Haverhill arbitration board. More than 9,000 workers were called out of the shoe factories by the the strike. A compromise proposal suggested by the citizens’ committee, a body composed of priests, ministers, busi- ness men, and city officials, was un- animously rejected. Every important hall in the city was jammed with shoe workers where they delivered the ultimatum, “No compromise! 1927 wages or nothing!” The strike itself was in complete defiance of the “peace pact,” or work- ing agreement, and in defiance of union officials. _The emergency committee is plan- ning a victory ball, probably for the end of the week. The largest halls in the city will be engaged and every shoe worker will be admitted free Be we presentation of his union dues ook, Pershing Loud for Class Collaboration In Interests of War DETROIT, Jan. 31. —: “A: soldier. talked about peace. The stately lead- er of America’s armies in France talked neither of war nor prepared- ness. His message was-of industrial peace and prosperity.” Thus writes a Detroit Times corre- spondent of General Pershing who ad- »| dressed 700 civic and industrial rep- resenta.ives in the main ball-room of the Book-Cadillac Hotel. And peace he spoke, that “peace” which means misery, oppression, war and slavery for the peace, Said Pershing: “The promotion of harmony between employer and em- ployee has done more for law and or- der and general welfare than any- thing that has taken place in the in- dustrial world in the last century.” U. S. GUNNER KILLED. SAN PEDRO, Cal., Jan. 31—Henry L. Wixted, 25, chief gunner’s mate on the U.S. S. Virginia was killed by the explosion of a gun during rifle prac- tice, yesterday. Misleaders Labor | By W. Z. FOSTER | i A ruthless exposure of the graft, thievery and \“eachery of the of- ton acting as an intermediary, These papers were not only used in the case of Rakosi and the 42 comrades prose- cuted with him, but some 50 other workers were atrested on ‘the same grounds, Tomorrow we will: print a forged map which was used as the most. dam- aging evidence against arrested workers in Hungary, ficialdom of ths American Fed- eration of Labor, Paper $1.25 Cloth $1.75 Order from Workers Library Publishers _ 89 East 125 St. New York. working-class—industrial | NOW ECONOMIZE ON FLOOD RELIEF WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Almost a year after the Mississippi Valley was devastated by a flood due to in- sufficient government protection, the House Flood Control Commission is reported to be in the process of draft- ing a bill calling for the expenditure of $600,000,000 for flood control of the states affected. While this is an increase over the $296,000,000 plan recommended to Congress by Presi- dent Coolidge, the House Flood Con- trol Commission has evidently re- jected the $775,000,000 plan called for by the Mississippi Valley Commission. Hardships in Bizzare BROTHER OF VICE PRESIDENT 1S IN TEAPOT SCANDAL Standard Oil Too Moves Darkly in Background WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 31. — “he reopened Teapot Dome oil fraud nvestigation before a Senate commit- .ee had not gong on for more than two hours today when some big names become hopelessly entangled in the story of a maze of graft and high finance surrounding the strange transaction of the Continental Oil Co.,\ the Sinclair dummy corporation, } whose Single and sole act of business in its whole career was to sell to other Sinclair companies oi] (which it did + not have at the time) for $3,000,000 more than the market price. Dawes “Sick.” The most prominent of these names was that of B. G. Dawes, brother of the vice-president of the United States, who had been subpoenaed to tell what he knew of the strange deal, which accumulated money part of which has been traced to the private bank account of Secretary of the In- terior Albert B. Fall, at the time when |he granted the fraudulent lease of ‘Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry F. Sinclair. Dawes didn’t testify. He was re- ported sick. Standard Oil’s Part. Another name was that of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Standard Oil of Indiana, whose part in the mysterious “sale” of oil was until recently unknown. He is supposed to testify tomorrow. Already correspondence of the Continental Oil Co. shows that both Sinclair and Stewart weré active promoters of the deal. It is suggested here that part of the $3,000,000 slush fund was to bribe the Standard of Indiana into a position of “hands off.” Other sections of the Standard Oil have undoubtedly been active in get- ting the Sinclair lease’ revoked, and criminal proceedings against the Sin- clair-Fall partnership started. It was also brought out by the tes- timony of J. D. Clark, President of the Midwest Refining Co., that H. S. Osler, president of the Continental (the dummy company) was a trustee of the Standard Oil of Indiana, hold- ing the voting stock certificates in a deal in which the Standard bought the Midiand. Such a Memory! J. D. Clark, and A. L. Carlson, sec- retary of the Sinclair Crude Oil Com- pany, were on the stand but both de- veloped faulty memories when ques- tioned on important angles of the deal. Carlson’s memory failed after he told of signing a $90,000,000 con- tract with the Continental that was going to cost the stockholders of his company $3,000,000 more than if the oil were bought direct. He could not explain this contract, constantly de- claring he could not remember. Clark claimed that the officers of the Midwest Company knew nothing about the Continental deal — even though H. M. Blackmer, then the Mid- west president, helped to negotiate it. Blackmer since fled to Europe to es- cape testifying in the oil cases. Opposite Bronx Park Zz APARTMENT. ROOM Opposite © Bronx Park | 2 Blocks of Cooperative Houses are being built in the ‘ Co-operative Workers’ Colony by the UNITED WORKERS’ COOP. ASS’N Come right now and select an 2-3-4 Airy, Sunny, Spacious Rooms Office: 69 5th Avenue, corner 14th St. TEL. ALGONQUIN 6900. apartment of ee ‘