The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-27
COOLIDGE DEALT.
low BY CLEARING
OF OIL P R OBJ { R
More Evidence Comes
On Framing of Strikers
BY LAURENCE TODD.

(staH Correspondent Of the Fed. Pressl
WASHINGTON. May 2S.-Adoption
by the Senate, by a vote Of Sc to 5,
Of the majority report Of the Borah
committee, holding Sen. Wheeler Of
Montana, to be innocent of any VIOLA
ton of the letter or the spirit Of the
law, in the technical frameup indict.
ment brought against him in Montana
by the Daugherty- Coolidge-L Lockwood
political organization, involves these
consequences:
l. 1t deals terrific blow to the Re-
publican National Committee and to
Coolidge, in whose interest the indict-
ment was brought.
2. It smashes the drive Of the adj
ministration to stop the investigation
Of its crooks and crookedness by the
Senate and House.
8. 1t establishes warning to fed
eral judicial machinery, to keep hands
of the work of legislative bodies in
future.
Senators who ventured to vote with
the administration on one or the other
OF the three rollcalls taken on this is
sue of the Wheeler plot were Curtis of
Kansas, Moses of New Hampshire,
Phipps of Colorado, Reed Of Pennsyl-
vania, Spencer of Missouri, Stanfeld
Of Oregon, Wadsworth Of New York,
Warren of Wyoming and Willis of
Ohio.
Framer Of Strikers At Bay.
In the most tumultuous session Of
his investigating committee yet held,
Wheeler had prefaced his own vindi-
cation by bringing to bay in the wit
mes chair the man behind the recent
shadowing of the committee and es-
pionage upon CASTOR Means, and his
callers. This was Hiram Todd Of
New York, a hard-boiled, loud-voiced,
sneering individual who boasted of his
effectiveness in falling railroad strik-
ers at the direction of Daugherty.
He received $1,000 month for that
job, undertaken when we found that
public sentiment in the west was turn
ing against the strike" Some months
ago Daugherty assigned him to prose
cute CASTOR Means, and meanwhile, as
Wheeler showed, Todd has been let
ting great numbers of bootleggers slip
thru the hands of the law after their
indictment in New York.
Never Prosecuted Bosses.
When Todd Dragged Of having con-
victed the railroad brotherhood men
who stopped some trains, at the ex-
pectation of strike, at Needles, Cal,
Sen. Brookhart asked if he had ever
convicted any railroad managers or
business men-the DuPonts, for in
stance, or any of the other war fraud
criminals. Todd replied that that had
not been his job.
Wheeler suggested. after a series
of blows, that Daugherty never put
this go-getter on any case that he
didn't want to have prosecuted"
Then he produced letter from one
Gilchrist, clerk OF the federal court
in New York. to Judge Killits in To-
ledo, a notorious reactionary, notify
ing Killits that Todd wanted him as
signed to New York to try Means.
Todd, when pinned down to declar-
ing that GiIchrist had not told the
truth, refused to deny that he had
named Killits as the judge he wanted.
Earlier in the day he had denounced
Means as crook" thereby disquali-
flying himself as fair public prose-
cutor of Means case. The disclosure
that he had tried to pick his judge
merely rounded out the impression he
had already made--as a typical
Daugherty agent.