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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Burns INDUCES In
Annual Lie Orgy
In Seeking Graft

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Wil-
liam ]. Burns wants another appro-
priation fer his Investigation Bu-
reau, which is feeding ground for
the William :. Burns International
Detective Agency. He appeared
before house subcommittee on
appropriations recently and part of
his testimony was made public here
thu the New York Tribune bureau
which is nm annex to the American
Defense Society. The noted "defec-
tive" is reported to have informed
the committee that there are SGT
radical papers in The United States
published in 26 languages. The Sow
let government was responsible for
strikes in the United States, said
Burns. Asked if the Third Interna-
tional was responsible tor the Her
rim affair, Burns stated that they
were connected with it. He was not
positive Of this, however. as Mr..
Ellis Searles.
Burns digs up the same old argu-
ments every year when going after
the money required 20 keep his stool
pigeon agency in good condition. He
did not tell the committee that the
Communists were responsible for
giving away the Teapot Dome, buy
ing the presidency, or accepting
brides from the japanese govern
ment. But Burns may get his APP
preparation unless he is kicked out
like his criminal superior, Daugh-
erty,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Warren Workers
Hold Big Meeting
On Teapot Dome
tspeeIsI . The paIIy workerl

WARREN, Ohio, April AT a
big mass meeting here called By the
Workers Party to consider the Tea
pot Dome situation John Hamilton,
Comrade Lerner, of Cleveland;
Kranilovich, of the South Slavic
Branch, and Fred Merrick, Pitts
burgh district organizer, emphasized
the hopeless corruption Of capital
istic government and tile Importance
of the Farmer-Labor Party move
ment.
Merrick urged on the workers the
need of unity between foreign born
and American workers and brought
out the fact that the American born
workers has made gallant fights
against oppression and can be raj
lied to program for solidarity with
the foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
lie is PASSED
TOE,L,DOHENY
BY WITNESS
Democratic Chairman Says He
Lied $4,000 Worth
tspeeIaI % The Dale wo.ksrl

knpeclU 10 Inc nAuI W0sAeA@
WASHINGTON, April g.
George White, former chair
man of the Democratic Nation
al Committee, today told the
senate oil committee that E. l..
Doheny contributed $34, 300 to
the democratic party funds in
1920 and 1921.
White, when questioned
about Doheny's testimony that
he had contributed $4,000
said Doheny would have to ac-
count for the difference. White
said he recalled no contribu-
tions from Harry F. Sinclair.
Doheny gave him three checks
aggregating $4,000, during the
campaign in 1920 and in April
1921 contributed $4,000 to-
ward the party's deficit, White
said.
New Investigating Agency.
An improvised national investi-
eating agency has been built up to
run down evidence for the senate
oil scandal committee.
It is thru this agency that SEN
ator Walsh expects TO produce proof
that there was a conspiracy to lease
the naval oil reserves as far back
as the 1920 Republican national con-
vention.
Here is the way the new investi-
eating agency works, a5 Walsh de-
scribed it today to the DAILY
WORKER reporter,
eve receive scores of letters each
day-some from inmates of insane
asylums and some from patriotic
citizens who have evidence bearing
upon our inquiry. Heretofore we
have had no method Of finding out
just what these witnesses would
testify.
Correspondence Sleuthing.
"A man writes that some prom
inent man told him there was a con-
spiracy at the last Republican con.
vention. We have to subpoena both
men, sometimes half way across the
continent and bear the expense of
their visit. And when they get to
the stand sometimes they do not
tell the story l expeet or after con-
sultation I learn that they have no
direct evidence, only rumors.
Thru this new arrangement
can obtain some one in practically
every city in the United States to
go to see the man who writes me
and find out just exactly what is
to be testified"
After hearing White the commit
tee adjourned until Monday to give
Walsh an opportunity to work over,
thru his new investigating agency,
additional information which has
come to him concerning the story
of rumored bribery at the last Re-
publican national convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

New York, dated Nov. Is, 1921,
transmitted war department records
on the Wright-Martin overpayment
case and directed that recovery pro-
ceedings be started.
Weeks Stopped Prosecution.
In a letter dated Nov. %, 1921,
Weeks told Hayden he would request
the department of justice to take no
further action in the case until
Weeks had talked with General Man
ager Hoyt of the Wright-Martin COM
pany.
On Aug. s, 1922, Seattle went on,
Guy d. Golf wrote to the attorney
for the Wright-Martin company, say
ing that suit was to be instituted.
"The department of justice was
switching the case around from at
torney to attorney" Scaife said. 1t
was taken back from District Attor-
ney Hayward in New York, he said,
and rendered to Leon B. Duer, a
New York attorney.
Meanwhile, Seattle asserted, wit
lnesses were disappearing and the
men who made the audits were leav-
ing the service"
Senator Wheeler, the committee
prosecutor, suggested that "the vol
unteer remarks that Mr.. Scaife made
as to indictments have no particular
place in the record" but Senator
Moses said it was too late to with
draw the testimony, as it had "al-
ready gone over the wires"
George B. Chamberlain, counsel
for Daugherty, asked the witness
why he had no advised also the in
dictment of "the people who made
these allowances to the companies in
the first place"
Seattle agreed that both groups
Sought to be. prosecuted" The COM
mittee then took a recess until
10 a. m. tomorrow.
More DaGgherty Frauds.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April e.
kilograms sent to former Attorney
General Daugherty we're brought n
the attention of the senate commit
tee investigating alleged land frauds
in the lower Rio Grande valley of
Texas today by Senator Hefiin (dem-
ocrat, Alaska, who with the aid Of
James R. Page of Kansas City, Mo-,
is prosecuting the inquiry.
The committee also went further
into complaints from purchasers of
the property on file in the postoffice
department, having ordered Page
and George A. Hill, Jr., of Houston,
Texas, attorney for R. B. Creager
of Brownsville, republican national
committeeman from Texas, to make
a summary of these letters not al
ready read into the record: Rush D.
Simmons, chief Of the division of
postal inspectors, who has been on
the stand since the inquiry began,
remained for further questioning.
The kilograms to Daugherty were
brought out by Senator Hefiin as in
dicating an effort to influence the
former encouragement to have
cases against Rio Grande valley land
companies dropped. Creager has been
accused by Senator Helm Of being a
party to the alleged frauds and also
of using influence in Washington in
an effort to stop Investigations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Financial Aid Assured Strikers
Continued from page u

Continued from page u
statement from several witnesses
about conditions in the strike area
and then try each case separately by
calling witnesses to testify against
certain strikers.
% Real Unionists.
The % strikers put on trial in
one batch were: Sophie Yoong, Vic
toria Seslakiz, Fannie Goldberg,
Rose Harris, Mrs. Rosenstein, Emma
Rosenberg, Rose Goodman, Sarah
Schneider, Mammie Kuntz, Clara
Miller, Carrie Siever, Clara Zazaon,
EVELYN Dorenfeld, William Went
worth, Oscar Simon, Victor Power
man, John Swiekoski, Matthew Ar
gadskas, Albert Dobie, Ben Stein,
Alphonse Graham, Albert Ferguson
and Morris Ulitzky.
William Leonard, manager of the
General Service Co., a detective
agency that hides behind a harmless
sounding name, was the first witness
called to tell of conditions in the
strike district. He said he was hired
by several dress manufacturers TO
guard their workers and "for other
services"
Fink Saw 81 Pickets.
Leonard said that yesterday morn
ing he had seen So pickets on two
blocks in the Loop strike district,
thus unwittingly paying a compli-
ment to the solidarity of the strikers
who picket in spite Of injunctions,
policemen, private sluggers, and
spies.
Leonard said that his men had
served more than 100 pickets with
copies of the injunction and told
them to stay away from the strike
district. He did not refer even once
to any of the 20 strikers on trial.
Fink L. Asinine Witness.
Under cross examination by Peter
Sissman, lawyer for the strikers, he
said he was employed by the Fran
cine Frock Co., Mitchell Bros. Ar
thur Weiss and Co., and Katz and
Dolinsky. He would not tell on what
basis he was paid. Leonard seemed
little vague as to just where the
guards assigned under him worked.
He had testified that some of them
worked in the shops guarding the
scabs and the bosses and then said
that some Of them had served copies
Of the injunction on pickets. His
testimony was literally sprinkled
with long drawn out Ahsl He was
constantly playing for time in which
TO frame his answers. When he
stepped of the stand he was nervous
and walked out of the court room at
once.
Patrick j. Collins Of the states at
torney's Office was the next witness
called. He was called to testify
against Sophie Young. He said that
ne had seen her around the strike
district often and had arrested heI
March 18th for assault. Then Will
liam Schroeder, another Grove dick
was called. He said that he, too, had
arrested Sophie Young on March
18th for assault.
Dicks Quarrel for Credit.
On cross examination IL developed
that Sophie Young had only beer
arrested once en- that day and thai
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Continued from Page u
rel of real beer. The beer runners
were kicking against the price Of
IS on every barrel that passed thru
Cicero as well as what was sold
there. The democrats would bring
booze graft within the reach of the
humblest citizen. The republicans
were maintaining a sort Of alcoholic
Wall Street in the town.
Republicans Have Re-inforcements.
The republicans, believing in the
Napoleonic adage that "God is on
the side Of The heaviest battalions,"
called out their armies and made
alliance with neighboring war lords
in South Chicago, VINO sent in rein
forcements. The democrats called
in the democratic administration of
Chicago, and chat powerful ally sent
as many spare cops as were not en-
gagged in arresting strikers, to aid
their beleaguered friends in Cicero.
A SQUAD from the detective bu-
reau in an automobile, opened fire
careless-like on three men who
were seen walking out Of hotel,
The three got out their pistols. All
the weapons talked simultaneously.
The music was pretty for awhile.
Then one of the three threw up
his hands. A democratic bullet had
found his heart. Another was ar
rested. The third escaped.
Where Are the Medals?
There were no deaths on the DEM
ocratic side but there were several
wounded. Gangsters used garage
for a prison, where hostile precinct
captains were held until the ballot
ing and the bulleting was over The
Cicero voters are rather glad that
elections don't happen every day.
Most Of them smelled powder for
the first time and do not like it.
It takes as much courage to vote
for a democrat in Cicero as it does
to vote for a Catholic in Atlanta,
Ga.
Had Comfortable Lead.
The Chicago Tribune has not YET
blamed the sanguinary conflict on the
Communists but no doubt as Mr.
Burns is looking Tor another appropri'
alton for his investigation bureau he
will swear on the bible that Moscow
financed the gangsters.
The majorities Of the republican,
were around eight or nine hundred
They would have been higher but FOL
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
NewLight On Daugherty' Deals
(cOntinued from Pace D

Continued from Page y
the Wright Martin company, but
Daugherty never kept his promise.
Crooks Dictated Policy.
Scaife wandered into an account
of aircraft disasters during and after
the war, which he said he considered
a good field for investigation.
Burns had disagreed with his sug-
gestion, thus betraying-Scaife said
that the department of justice
policy resulted in crooks not being
investigated unless they were willing
to be investigated"
On the day of the disaster to the
army airship Roma at Norfolk, Va,
in February, 1921, the witness said,
he had prepared a telegram to the
departments agent at Norfolk in
structing him to start an investiga-
ton, but when it was submitted for
Burns signature the latter refused
to sanction it because the war de-
partment had not asked for an in
vestigation.
Huge Profits.
Taking up the Wright Martin COM
pany case, Scaife said that the COM
pany's minutes" showed that it had
been agreed by the directors that 1
per cent would be a fair profit on
war contracts for planes, while the
audit of the company's books showed
that go per cent net profit" had
been taken. He added that the audit
also disclosed an overpayment by the
government to the company of
$5,267,000.
Thomas L. Chadbourne, an attor-
ney, got the Wright-Martin Aircraft
company its cost-plus contract,
Scaife said, as a substitute for an
original fixed price contract.
"The fees paid Chadbourne for
turning the contract into a cost-plus
affair."" Scaife went on, "were added
to the costs Of the company as pre-
sented to the government under the
cost-plus system"
Expenses Included Everything.
The committee identified Chad
bourne as a democrat, and Scaife
added "he was large campaign fund
contributor.
Seattle read items from the audit to
show that cigars, laundry and similar
charges for company officers had
been included in what the govern
ment was required to pay for. The
cigar item was for 5000, and includ-
ed a special box for the company
president.
The witness said he had reported
the facts to Mr.. Daugherty, and that
a promise had been made in beh If
of the department of justice to insti-
tute prosecutions.
"This case had gone thru every
process Of audit and review in the
war department before it came to
the department of justice" he said.
Letters exchanged between Secre-
tary Weeks, Hayden and others, in
1922, were read by the witness. Mr..
Weeks told Hayden, in one of the
letters, that an appeal from air serv-
ice officers to himself was possible
n the case of overpayments.
Another letter from Assistant At
torney General Lovett to William
Hayward, United States attorney IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Chic0go's Retail
Clerks Union
Wins 81 Raise

A fiat raise of four dollars a
week is granted organized retail
clerks of Chicago in an agreement
signed by officials of Retail Clerks
Local No. 1876 of Chicago at con-
ference with the Merchants .Asso-
citation Of Cook County and the Max
well Street Business Mems Asso-
citation.
The agreement will run for two
years. Business Agent Harry Win
nick and Samuel r. Cooper, presi-
dent of the local, represented the
union at the conference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
BGcchuS, Wounded
In Cicero, VIII Miss
Time of His Life

Pan, the God of music, will have
his innings at the Cabaret Dance
which will be held tonight in the
Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard.
Most of the other Gods will be there
too, with the exception of Bacchus
who was severely wounded in the
Cicero elections and does not want
to appear among the goddesses in q
battered condition.
The God Of music, however, has
promised to make up with sound
what may be missed in the way of
spiritual exhiliration thru the alb
sence of Bacchus. The Northwest
Side branch Of the Workers Party
in conjunction with the Maplewood
branch of the Young Workers League
are staging this affair in a joint eff
fort to introduce a new innovation
to Chicago radicals. It is reported
that the idea was imported from New
York, which makes it fashionable
right off the reel.
There will be singing, dancing and
eats. Just like a cabaret. 1t is even
rumored that the r. u. r. robots
will be there, tho perhaps incognito,
their manager being averse to al
lowing the public to gaze on them
until they make their official debut
in that famous play. But if you are
sufficiently curious a member of the
Northwest Side branch may intro
duce you TO them. Yes, they can
talk-sometimes too much.
But the funniest part Of the show
will be the announcer. Who he is,
what he is, remains to be seen. It
will cost you exactly 35 cents to see
everything including the announcer.
Russians playing mandolins. Others
reciting. Two pretty girls, Mabel
Neemai and Emma Blechsmidt per-
forming a special dance. What
more do you want? Comel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Peoria KLansnien
Fail to X e ard
Republican Friends

PEORIA, H., April 2.--Republi-
cans elected seven out of nine alder
men here yesterday but lost on su-
pervisors, the Democratic candidate
for supervisor and III out Of Is as
sistant supervisors winning. The Ku
Klux Khan endorsed the Republican
candidates for supervisor and reused
an opposition that wiped out party
lines and carried candidates to de-
feat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Cuban Rail strilke End.

HAVANA, April 1.-The strike Of
union workers on the Santiago divi-
sion Of the Cuba railroad was ended
today and train service was resumed.
according TO dispatch TO La Prensa.
No details were given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Boom for RdLstOn
Begun by HOOsier
Democratic Chiefs

INDIANAPOLIS, April 2-The first
organized effort to bring about the
nomination Of Senator Samuel M.
Ralston for the presidency was started
today at meeting of the democratic
state committee, and leaders Of the
party in Indiana.
A committee was named at a meet
ing Of the state committee TO present
the name Of Ralston to the nation as
a presidential possibility.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Browder Speaking Toniaht.

Earl r. Browder, editor of the Labor
Herald, speaks tonight at the head
quarters Of the Amalgamated Food
Workers, at 214 N. State street, Sec
ohd floor. "The German Labor I'm
ion" win be his theme. The Anal
gamated holds open forums every
Thursday evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Prince Quits Riding
But Takes Up With
General TrOtter

LONDON, April q. The Prince
of Wales, travelling as the Earl Of
Chester, went to the continent TO-
day, en- route for Biarritz, where
he will recuperate from his recent
accident and do no hard riding. Cen
eral Trottcr accompanied the prince.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03
Pilgrim Shin Afre.

LONDON, April 2.--The British
steamer Frageston, out Of Bombay
with 1900 pilgrims for Jeddah, Is
rushing for Port Sudan, while the
crew fights desperately to check a
roaring fire in the vessels cargo Of
cotton, according to a message to
Lloyd's.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-03

Every new DAILY WORKER reader
means a new recruit in the ranks of
militant labor.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-01-23
n ceslxoslovenska.


Sokolskym kivotem. Letosni
Vanoce byly We znameni pro-
deje. losi pro Tyrsay dun, a
SHREK pro clenstvo zahranic-
Mich jednot sokolskych. Zahra
nicni zupa sokolska venovala
velky peniz ma vanocni nadil-
ku ceskym d6tem svych clen1
" zahranici, cimz projevila
bratrskou lasku k oddanym "a
'stancdm v6ci sokolske v CHI
ne. ~ v brzku budou zahaje
my valne hromady sokolskych
zup a jednot. teka tn cinovni-
ky velka prace We vsech srne-
rech. - ZamySleny velky "a
|jezd do Parize v r. 1924 u pri
lezitosti olympijskych her ko
nan nebude, pres to, re zajem
byl skutecne veliky vsestran
fny. vybor G. O. S., ktery v
|Praze. zasedal, obdrzel navrh
lnavstevy Strasburku T.. 1926 a
|navstevu ParHe. X Olympic
skym hram vyslou Sc zavodni-
lei, Zajezd do strasburku ma
lvyznam daleko hlubsi a moz-
| no Sc ma tento dobre pripra
lviti i lspory v Gas skladati. -
Predsednictvo G. O. S. bylo u.
lpozorneno, ze clenove jednot
sokolskych, ktefi byli We sluz.
be vojenske, pc SVEN navratu
z vojny nelcastni Sc iiz TAX
horlive cinnosti v Sokole, jake
pred odchodem ma vojnu, ba
re nekteri prechazeji do sdru
zeni nepratelskych. z toho dt
lvodu zaslany vsem SO zupan
dotazniky, z nichz 45 odpove
delo. Je potesitelno, re odpo
Iyedi vsech zup soustred'uj 81
|v tom, ze prevazna vetsina So
kolu vraci Sc q vojny S pre-
Isvedcenim nezmenenym, bs
ldve zupy dokonce prohlasuji
re n6kterych pripadech cha
rakter cleni, ktefi Sc vojn,
Ivratili, byl upevnen a soko
Isky posilen. ,Pripady, kdy jed
notlivci vratili Sc presvedce
MIN zmenenym, jsou ojedine
Ile a sice jen osna pfipadu, kite
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-01-23

re pficitaji Sc tomu, re We VOL
sku provadena je agitace ko-
munisticka, lud'acka, orelska
a pod, ze casio hovofi Sc o po
litickem a tffdnim boji, kterez-
to agitace nepochazeji z ven-
ku, ale provadeny jsou jedno-
'tlivci vojaky. Je proto zapo-
tfebi, aby jednoty .sve cleny
ma vojne dlici zvysily peel,
tfeba ze slouzi v jinych mis-
tech, - Urazovy zaklad 6. @.
S. zabezpecuje nejen rychlou
pomoc nestesti, ale rozsifuje
svou pusobnost i ma obor zdra
,votne humanni. Zamysli I'll
diti sokolskou ozdravovnu, ku
kteremuz ucelu shromazdil
castku 260 tisic Kc a krone
toho bude vysflati v nedaleke
dobe bratry a sestry ma lece-
nj k mofi nebo do hor. - No
w rok bude We znameni Gle
agitace pro tisk sokolsky a
pro zvyseni pece o vychovu
mladeze a dorostu sokolskeho.
Ma tomto poll ceka Sokolstvo
mnoho jeste tube prace. -
Lyzarstvi v Sokolstvu Sc vybor
|ne osvedcilo. Vanocni svatky
'prozilo clenstvo mnohych jed
not sokolskych v Krkonosich
ma sumave, kde usporadany
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-01-23

pracoval delnik 28lety Vaclav
Cisty. Phi prehazovanf stareh0
zeleza vybuchl ukryty tam
granat, utrhl d6lnikovi levou
ruku, vazne jej zranil ma kr-
ku. Pfednosta zachranne sta
nice MUDr. Kotab pfevezl Cis
teho do vseobecne nemocnice.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1924-01-23

zayody sokolske nebo kursy
lyzafske. Druzny duch bra
trsky j tn ukazal prostredi So
kolske vychovy We vsech sme-
rech.
Deinik zranen pri vybuchu
granatu. We slevarne kovd
Karla cisteho V Hloubetine