The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-31
PUSHING WEEKS,
M ON into
! The MAELSTROM
Daugherty's Exit Can't
Save Coolidge
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slSeplHB hours OF prominent Srd1C-
ers in the Republican Party.
William j. Burns will soon follow
Harry Daugherty out into the cold
world. William J. Flynr, Burns
predecessor, is in close touch with
the situation in Washington and is
assisting the I'D. Of j." investiga-
tors hoping that in the event Of
a Democratic victory that he will
be back ON his old Job again. But
the workers have no more reason to
love Flynn than they have to love
Burns. Both are among the most
contemplate creatures that ever
trod the earth and should be behind
the bars for their many crimes
against the working class.
The guns Of the probCrs are now
levelled at Secretary OF the Treas
ury Mellon and John W. Weeks,
secretary If war. In fact the be-
whiskered secretary Of state, Mr..
Hughes, has finally been dragged
into the quiz. A startling story
the most startling since the inves-
tigation opened--was told last Sat-
urday by Captain H. L. Scaife, for
mer Department Of Justice inves-
tigator. He stated on the witness
stand before the committee investi-
eating the Department of Justice
that high government officials were
involved in a plot with the Japan
csc government and big manufactur-
ers to defraud the government Of
which they were members.
Blames Crooked Politicians.
Captain Seattle declared "as re-
suit of my Investigations into the
aircraft and other cases I became
convinced that our government is
being overthrown not by BoIsheviks
but by crooked politicians"
This testimony has created ter
ror in the ranks Of the big capital
lists who own both parties. At the
very moment when the Department
of Justice was com5ing the country
for radicals, smashing labor unions
and trying to fasten the Dupont
Wall Street explosion on the Com
munists, the government was, thru
its department heads actually en-
gaging in illicit commerce with
spies of the Japanese government
and with agents Of grating con-
Germs who were robbing the govern
ment of hundreds of millions Of dol
lars.
The effect of these revelations
are of course fraught with danger
to the present two-party system by
which the ruling capitaljsr class Of
this country maintains its political
equilibrium. Already, frantic ap-
peals are being sent out from Re-
publican headquarters calling for a
let up on investigations, else there
is danger that neither party can win
out in the next election with the
result that the election may be
thrown into the house. A bill has
been introduced which would permit
congress to meet Immediately after
election and the inauguration Of the
president to take place on January
8 instead Of March, as hitherto.
Among the sensations in the tes-
timony Of Captain Seattle was the
charge that the Bosch Magnetic
Company, a German owned corpor-
alton was sold to the firm of Horn
blower and Enthusiastically of
War Weeks concern-for over two
million dollars less than it's stock
was valued at.
The captains testimony was, in
brief. as follows:
1. That Attorney General Daugh-
erty was connected with a plot to
defraud the government in the
BoAnh Magnetic case. T. B. Fielder,
law partner Of Daugherty, assured
Seattle that the attorney general had
come to terms with the company.
Fielder offered Scaife $4,000 for his
silence. Fielder made the agreement
with. Daughrty on May s, 1922.
Chat was three months before he
raided the Communist convention il
Bridgeman on a charge that it was
engaged in a plot to overthrow the
governmcnt.)
The sale of the Bosch Magnetic
Company was financed by the bank