The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-06
RAILROAD SOLON
ASSAILS WHEELER
AS LABOR FRIEND
Bad Daugherty Prober,
He Whines
BY LAURENCE TODD
AN Correspondent Of The Federated Press,


(stam Correspondent Of The Federated Pressi
WASHINGTON, March 5.-Every
little while the real issues in Amer
lean political life smash thru the
wells of speech, in congress or in
print, and we get breath of honest
fresh air In the house-of-make-be-
lieve.
So it was when Baltimore a
Ohio" Bruce, the new corporation
senator elected on the democratic
ticket from Maryland by the aid Of
the entire Harding Coolidge admin
lstration, arose to denounce the
"propriety'' of Senator Wheeler, &C.
cuser of Attorney General Daugh-
erty, going on the special committee
which is to investigate Daugherty's
violations Of his trust.
Everybody knows" said Bruce,
Chat he (Wheeler) is closely afilia-
ted politically with elements in our
population which have peculiar rea.
sons Of their own for subjecting Mr..
Daugherty, to investigation"
Those Naughty Workers.
When Senator Walsh insisted that
Bruce explain this remark, the rail
road senator said that "of course
| meant the labor element"
This was frank enough. Wheeler
has always been identified with or.
gained labor's struggle in Montana,
and Bruce knew that Wheeler kndC
of Daugherty's warfare upon the
railroad shop strikers in 1922. He
knew of Daugherty's insolent lie:
I'VE have a carload of evidence
against them, that is being sent out
to Chicago under armed guard
referring to the striking shopmen
against whom he secured the most
lawless and oppressive injunction in
the history Of the American labor
movement.
peculiar reasons of their own" for
wanting an investigation of the sin
lister influence of railroad corpora.
lions in the present regime Of the
department of justice. Bruce stands
guard for the railroad corporations
in the senate, as he did while an
official of Maryland, so many years
that the title "B. & O." became at.
tached to him.
Lauds Big Business.
Wheeler's reply was to ask Bruce
about his railroad connections. Bruce
denied that he ever had received a
cent from a railroad, but boasted his
affection for them, and especially the
Pennsylvania and the B. & o.
6E1,Orr, ono avd 80 4oA -
other" he almost chanted, 1--WE are
at peace with our large business
The more rich men that
are sent to us from the west, pro.
viding they are not the Doheny OF
Sinclair order, the better pleased we
shall be- He predicted that in time
the people of the west would be bet.
ter friends with big business, ''bui
they will never do it by shifting the
railroads of the country from the
basis of individual to the basis OF
ownership"
Here again was confession: Bruce
saw in an investigation of the crook.
ed attorney general only one solid
fact-a chance that private owner.
ship of railroads would be exposed
as another corrupt conspiracy along
with the oil conspiracy and the job.
getting graft.
Whines at Brookhart.
Next day, however, the voice Of
Tess of Ohio, who was chosen By
the railroad workers of his state
in 1922 as the least Of two evils
Pomerene being the other-was
heard demanding that Brookhart Of
Indiana be not placed on this same
because Brookhart "hal
For years been connected with Ger.
tain drifts in industry that make
certain acts of Mr.. Daugherty very
offensive to him." The drifts" are
The farmer-labor movement, and
Daugherty's acts are his anti-labor
activities in violation of his oath Of
,ffice and the statutes.
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