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THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS’ AND
FARMERS’ GOVERNMENT
VOL. 11. No. 15.
SHOW ARMY HEAD COHSPRATOR
BIG FINANCIAL
AID ASSURED
TO STRIKERS
Amalgamated's Treasury To
Help I. L. 6. W. U.
The powerful Amalgamated
Clothing Worker of Chicago ia
coming to the aid of the strik
ing dressmakers of the Interna
tional Ladies Garment Workers
with a large sum of money, it
was learned yesterday after the
meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of the Joint Board of the
‘‘Amalgamated” which author*
ized the donation.
All that remains now to put
the money into the hands of the
striking union is the formal
sanction of the Joint Board at
its meeting today.
“Dennie” Railroads Eight.
“Dennie” Sullivan was hard at
work all yesterday, acting as judge
and jury, railroading garment strik
ers haled before him on injunction
counts.
Eight workers received prison sen
tences and fines and five others were
fined without prison sentences. The
strikers are still free and the fines
are unpaid while appeal is being
taken.
Judge Enjoys Work.
Victoria Seslakwitz received most
of Sullivan’s attention. He sentenced
her with evident pleasure to 45 days
in jail and a S2OO fine.
Thirty days and a $l5O fine was
given Eva Dorenfeld and Oscar
Seims, each. Twenty days and $l5O
fine was inflicted on Clara Zazam.
Rose Harris, Fannie Goldberg, Rose
Goodman and Sarah Schneider all
got ten day sentences and $125 fines.
Mrs. Rosenstein was the only
striker discharged.
Mamie Kuntz and Marie Berg
strom were each fined SSO and Clara
Miller and Carrie Siever were each
fined $l5O.
This sanction will come as a mat
/ ter of course, it was stated at the
Amalgamated, because the Joint
Board had referred the matter of
strike aid to the Board of Directors.
Amount Named Today.
Until the meeting today the
DAILY WORKER is not at liberty
to make public the sum, but it can
be stated that it is a substantial
amount which will be of very con
siderable aid to the workers who
have been putting up such a gallant
battle against the sweatshop sys
tem for five weeks.
This support from the Amalga
mated, an organization unconnected
with the American Federation of
Labor, is expected to spur unions
affiliated with the Chicago Federa
tion into concrete action in behalf
of the strikers.
Have Aided Many Struggles.
The Amalgamated has extended
aid to striking workers ever since
its inception. It has given not only
to its sister organization in the
A. F. of L. but has contributed gen
erously to miners, railroad workers
and to struggles in many industries
and trades.
Its own historic struggles in 1915
and 1919 got considerable support
from other Chicago unions.
The Board of Directors of the
Joint Board of Chicago is officered
by Philip Ohelemer, as president;
M. C. Fisch, as secretary. Charles
SweataU, president of the Joint
Board, is also a member of the board
of directors which numbers 11.
“Dannie" Fine* Five More.
• Judge “Dennie” Sullivan began
the day in his court yesterday by
soaking fines on five strikers for pic
keting. The persons fined were:
Bessie Katz, $200; Olga Galitch, Sam
Dorf, Joe Kravitz, and Isadore Kree
ger, $175 each. The sentences will
all be appealed.
Immediately after “Dennie” had
sentenced these five strikers, five
others who had been arrested on at
tachments were brought before him
for preliminary hearing. They were:
Meyer Kranz, Ida Rubnow, Esther
Richman, Sarah Seidel, Jennie Chan
in and Caroline Witlowska. Their
cases were all set to be heard some
time next week.
Then James P. Hyde, appearing
for the Francine Frock Co. and other
complainants, had 23 strikers brought
out and began trying them. The
method employed was to get a general
(Continued on page 2)
“Five Lonely Scabs”—A Story of the Garment Strike—On Page Three
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An Overworked Alibi.
COLUMBIA LAW
DEAN FILLS POST
DAUGHERTY HELD
Harlan Fiske Stone Is
Coolidge Choice
(Special to The Dally Worker)
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Harlan
Fiske Stone, New York, former Dean
of Columbia Law School, has been
selected as attorney-general of the
United States by President Coolidge.
Official announcement of the selec
tion was made today and Stone’s
nomination was sent to the Senate for
confirmation.
Opposed Palmer’s Raids.
He will take office as successor to
Harry M. Daugherty as soon as the
Senate confirms him.
He was President Coolidge’s guest
at breakfast at the White House this
morning. Several senators were there
also and tho Mr. Coolidge did not tell
any of them that Stone had been
selected, they got the impression he
wa» to be the new attorney-general.
This belief was confirmed some
what later.
Stone was a classmate of President
Coolidge at Amherst College and the
two are old friends.
Stone's nomination is expected to
be approved by the Senate immediate
ly. Stone will return, to Washington
after putting his personal affairs in
New York in shape and take over the
duties of the Department of Justice.
Stone is known as a liberal in hi*
views. He opposed the “red raids”
conducted against radicals in this
country by A. Mitchell Palmer, at
torney-general under the Wilson ad
ministration.
Refused To Comment.
President Coolidge’s decision to ap
point Stone came after a long study
of many “possibilities.”
Stone was bom in New Hampshire
October 11, 1872. He was admitted
to the bar in 1898 and ever since he
has been a lecturer on the law. In
September, 1920, he became Dean of
the Columbia University school of
law.
His firm is Canfield, Satterle and
Stone and he is a director in a num
ber of enterprises.
Stone lives in Englewood, N. J.
He married Agnes Harvey of Ches
terfield, N. H., in 1890.
President Coolidge’s appointment
of Harlan Fiske Stone as attorney
general means that the Department
of Justice is to be tnaen out of
politics during the Coolidge admin
istration, it was said at thfe White
House after Stone’s nomination was
sent to the senate today.
After Stone’s name had been pre
sented to tho senate, most Demo
crats refused comment on the ap
pointment.
VI don’t know him and never
heard of him," Democratic Leader
Robinson said.
IMPEACH COOLIDGE!
Entered as Second-cUuu matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3. 1879.
'WILL STAY IN RUHR,
DESPITE EXPERTS,’
POINCARE DECLARES
'Special to The Dally Worker)
PARIS, April 2.' —Speaking in
the chamber of deputiea thia after
noon, Premier Poincare indicated
that France will not accept the
findinga of the commiaaiona o( ex
perts investigating Germany’s ca
pacity to pay reparations, if it in
volves abandoning the Ruhr.
"We will not give up our occu
pation of the Ruhr whatever the
experts may propose," the Premier
said.
TRADE~IiONS IN
STEEL DISTRICT
FIGHT DAVIS LAWS
Kluxers and Royal
Riders Standing Alone
By WALLACE METCALFE.
(Special to The Daily Worker)
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., April 2.—The
Mahoning County Labor Congress
went on record opposing the selective
immigration laws sponsored by Secre
tary Davis now before the powers
that rule in Washington, D. C.
Resolutions were adopted and pub
lished in both of the daily papers as
well as in the Labor Record, official
organ of the labor movement in this
section, condemning the passage of
the immigration laws.
' Seated By Labor Body.
Three delegates from the Council
for the Protection of “Foreign-Bom
Workers were seated by the Mahoning
County Labor Congress as fraternal
delegates and will co-operate -jjvith
the labor movement in combatting
passage of the laws. ,
About the only organization favor
ing* passage of the immigration laws
in this section of the steel district is
the Ku Klux Klan and its suckling
called the “Royal Riders of the Red
Robes” whose members lately were at
tendants at a meeting of the Knights
of Lincoln, the colored Klan, who’s
imperial wizard, known as Rev. Rus
sell, departed for parts unknown af
ter his record in a N. Y. state prison
was made known and after he had
victimized several score members of
his race.
The only thing left behind by the
very Reverend Russell was a photo of
Lincoln and a bad taste in the mouth
of his dupes.
Negroes Are Invited.
Negro organizations have been in
vited to send delegates to the Council
for the Protection of Foreign-Sorn
and at the next meeting several or
ganizations will be represented.
La Follette Out Soon.
WASHINGTON, April 2.—Senator
La Follette is gaining in strength and
if his condition continues to improve
he will be able to get back to work
this month, his physicians said today-
THURSDAY, APRIL 3,1924
BULLETS NOT
BALLOTS MARK
CICERO ELECTION
Capitalist Politicians
Shoot It Out
Force and violence and other un
lawful morns meant more than a
dry legal document stating reasons
why Communists should be sent to
jail for several years fer trying to
overthrow the government with
typewriters, mimeographs and bur
ied barrels of literature, when dem
ocrats and republicans buckled on
their armor, took out their shooting
irons and turned the little town
of Cicero into a miniature Mexico,
while the voters of that Chicago
suburb were trying to decide who
should collect the graft from the
bootleggers for the next few years.
Republicans To Get the Graft.
When the smoke of battle cleared
away and the dead and wounded
taken to the undertaking
and hospitals, the republicans were
victorious. Thomas J. Buckley was
elected collector. If there ever was
anything in a ijame, it is in the col
lector’s in Cicero. It i s stated that
n man who cannot save $200,000 in
four years as collector in Cicero
should be in a homo for the feeble
minded.
The republicans have ruled Cic
ero for years and are running it
as a wide open town. In the past
they have divided the spoils with
the democrats. This year the dem
ocrats decided to place an independ
ent ticket in the field and the shoot
ing bega.i.
The democrats ran on a more
liberal ticket than that of their op
ponents. They promised a reduc
tion on the protection rate per bar
continued on page 2)
McCray Wanted
Money in Batches ,
Bankers Testify
(SpMltl to Tho Dolly Worhor)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ipd., April 2.
Efforts of Governor McCray to se
cure a $600,000 loan from Indian
apolis banker* last summer to pay
back $155,000 of the funds of the
state board of agriculture were to
be aired today at the trial of Mc-
Cray on charges of larceny and
embezzlement for his use of the
board of agriculture’s money.
Frank D. Stalnacker, president of
the Indiana National Bank, and
.Elmer W. Stout, president of the
Fletcher \merican National Bank,
told of rejecting McCray's urgent
plea for a loan last summer to
“meet pressing obligations.” They
said McCray mentioned the $166,-
000 of the ! oard of agriculture as
one of the sums he must have. They
said they # told him that Ihe Indian
apolis banks could r.o longer extend
him credit because of the precar
ioue condition of his finances.
804
WEEKS, DAUGHERTY,GOFF, HAYDEN IN
$5,000,000 AIR PLANE DEAL, SAYS SGAIFE
(Special to Th« Daily Worker) , . , r
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2.—Declaring that Secretary pf War John Weeks, head of
the United States Army, still a member of the Coolidge cabinet, ought to be indicted for con
spiracy, Captain H. L. Scaife today told the Senate Daugherty Investigating Committee that
Weeks “called off” a suit against the Wright-Martin Airplane Corporation for recovery of an
overpayment of $5,000,000.
Captain Scaife included among the conspirators, in addition to Secretary of WarlWeeks,
former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, Guy D. Goff, one of Daugherty's assistants, and
Charles Hayden, President of the Wright-Martin Airplane Corporation. Scaife also charged
that Daugherty, tho he had all the facts in the case, failed to bring suit. No suit has ever
been hied, Scaife said.
This is the same Captain Scaife who, ,on Saturday, charged that Secretary of Commerce
Herbert Hoover had diverted $1,000,000 of Soviet Russian Relief funds to the white counter
revolutionary armies, in an effort to overthrow the Russian Soviet Republic, as he had success
fully overthrown the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
The exposure of Secretary of War Weeks shows that the effort so knock out additional
members of Coolidge’s cabinet of grafters has not yet come to a complete halt.
NEW LIGHT ON
DAUGHERTY’S
MITSUI DEAL
•
Agent Says Jess Smith and
Daugherty Knew Facts
(Special to The Daily Worker)
WASHINGTON, April 2.
Charges that the Standard Air
craft Corporation, a Japanese,
financed firm which built air
planes for the United States
during the war, communicated
American aviation secrets to
Japan were made before the
senate Daugherty investigating
committee today by Captain H.
L. Scaife, former Department
of Justice agent.
Scaife submitted reports by
naval intelligence officers pur
porting to corroborate his
charges.
Scaife Investigates Fraud.
Scaife’s charge was made during
his testimony alleging that the gov
ernment had overpaid Mitsui & Com
pany and the Standard Aircraft Com
pany more, than $6,500,000 for air
plane construction and that Daugher
ty had failed to recover the money.
Gastcn B. Means recently told the
committee that he received 100 SI,OOO
bills from a representative of Mitsui
& Company for Jess Smith, Daugh
erty’s close personal friend.
The committee examined Scaife in
detail concerning his investigation of
the aircraft corporation, which he
previously charged were blocked by
officials of the Department of Justice.
Senator Wheeler, Montana, read in
to the record impeachment charges
•gainst Daugherty in the House in
1922 relating to his alleged failure to
prosecute the Standard Aircraft Com
pany.
Daugherty Got Report.
Scaife said that Daugherty was
given a personal report on the alleged
fraudulent transaction of the Stand
ard Aircraft Company.
“Who was present?” asked Wheeler
"Jess Smith.”
"The same Jess Smith who got the
$100,000?”
Paul Howland, counsel for Daugh
erty, objected to the remark and
Wheeler withdrew his statement.
Taking up the Roma disaster at
Norfolk, Va., Scaife said he con
sidered this accident • good held for
investigation by the Department of
Justice.
Scaife then read an audit which he
said showed an overpayment of $5,-
000,000 to the Wright-Martin corpora
tion.
"I think that we should have these
men indicted by a grand jury," said
Scaife.
“What men?” asked Moses.
“John W. Weeks, secretary of war;
Charles Ilayden, president of the
Wright-Martin company; Harry M.
Daugherty, ex-attorney-general, and
Guy D. Goff, his assistant,” said
Scaife.
, Daugherty Refused to Prosecute
Replying to questions by Senator
Wheeler, Scaife said that he had laid
all of his reports and charges before
Daugherty who promised to prosecute
(Continued on paga 2.)
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It Goes Badly With
Cal’s Crooked Gang
DISCLOSURES that Secretary of War John M. Weeks is
involved in a $5,000,000 airplane scandal, creates inter
est in the present status of Cal Coolidge’s cabinet of political
crooks. The standing is as follows:
CONE!
Edwin Denby, former Secretary' of the Navy, who turned
over the navy’s oil reserves to the oil robbers.
Harry M. Daugherty whose crimes are too numerous to
mention.
GOING!
Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, who got
caught in the million dollar booze scandal. He is a big whisky
distiller and chief prohibition enforcement officer. One of his
many jobs is helping rich dodge their taxes.
John W. Weeks, Secretary of War and banker who pur
chased the stock of the Bosch Magneto Company, a German
concern, for over three millions less than the stock was worth.
Now caught in $5,000,000 airplane scandaL
TOGO!
Herbert Hoover, Secretary' of Commerce, who diverted
one million dollars of the American relief funds to aid Czarist
war on Soviet Rule.
Charles E. Hughes, agent of the Standard Oil Company,
in plot to prevent the recognition of Russia and to grab oil
fields in the Near East.
Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, Wall Street
tool and enemy of the farmers,
Hubert W<yk. Secretary of the Interior, who succeeded
Albert B. Fall, and hid the criminal acts of his predecessor.
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, also Pittsburgh
banker, author of the scheme to finger-print the foreign bom •
workers.
Calvin Coolidge, President, champion strikebreaker of
America and ringleader of the cabinet of crooks.
THIRTY-FIVE
THOUSAND COAL
DIGGERS STRIKE
Operator# Refuse New
Agreement
(Sptclsl (« The Dally Wark*r>
, KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 2.—ln
' structions for all coal miners in the
| southwest to remain on strike were
sent out by union leaders here today
, following failure to reach an agrcc
j ment on wages in negotiations with
mine operators. About 35,000 men
are affected. Union leaders placed
. the burden for the strike on the mine
; owners because of the latter’s refusal
8 to keep the 1923 contract which ex
{ pired March 31 in force until a new
} agreement could be reached by arbi
-1 tration.
New York Autos Kill 76.
r NEW YORK, April 2.—There were
i 76 fatalities from automobiles in the
i city during the past month compared
> to one death caused by a horse drawn
vehicle.
Workers! Farmers I Demand:
I i<e Labor Parly
Amalgamation
Organization of Unorganized
The Land for the Users
The Industries fol the Workers
Protection of the Foreign-Born
Recognition of Soviet Russia
Price 3 Cents
SAGE OF EMPORIA IS
URGIN6 CANNING OF
TAX DODGER MELLON
(8p«-U! to The Dolly Work*r)
EMPORIA, Kans., April 2.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
will be the next cabinet officer to
“walk the plank" William Allen
White, editor of the Emporia Ga
zette, said in his paper today.
“If he stays aboard he will sink
the ship,” W hite said.
“The roar that forced Daugherty
and Denby will be a whisper com
pared with what Mellon will get
when the country knows what he
has done, following his personal at
titude, toward the laws which are
entrusted to him.”
White said that Mellon belonged
to that wing of the party which did
not believe in the prohibition law
and “time and again he has scoffed
at the law, ignored the law and bent
it to uses which were questionable.”
Mellon also belongs to that wing
of the party which believes that
taxes should be paid largely as
possible by a per capita average,
and that the rich should not be
taxed according to their great debt
to the government for protecting
their wealth and aiding them in its
accumulation, the editorial said.