The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-22

Treasury. 1t is to be remem-
bered when Vanderlip takes
credit for having collected evil
dence of the skeletons locked
in the Mellon closet, when the
whole power of the kept press
and of President Coolidge and
the republican national commit
tee was modified to shield that
closet door.
VANDERBILT Just Felt Hurt.
If the kept press and the national
committee had not been so ugly and
personal in their resentment, at the
time Vanderlip made speech reflect
ing upon the integrity of Mr.. Harding,
Vanderlip would not have established
a research bureau to justify his
speech.
Had he not founded this bureau,
and secured rich returns in short or
der for his investment, President
Coolidge would not have had to rush
to the Senate with frantic denunci-
alton of it's investigation plans.
Jim Watson, Of beef trust scandal
notoriety, would not have had to take
the Senate floor to denounce Senator
Couzens and Francis ]. Heney for
seeking to learn the secrets of Mel
Ions Office.
For it was Vanderlip who assem-
bled the evidence which induced He
ney to say he would take the job of
counsel to Couzens' committee for in
vestigation of the treasury.
All of these things are profound Sc
crets in the capital; nobody but the
men who are watching the agony of
the administration over the threat
ened investigation of MELONS coarse
work could give you the details off
hand. But from them you may learn
that the most famous graft prosecutor
the country has ever produced has
seen the evidence in these 80 cases
and has declared it to be 'the biggest
thing" he has ever tackled.
Wall Street Gets Scared.
Wall street does not want the treas
ury examined by Francis ]. Heney
just on the eve of a presidential cam
paign. 1t does not want the nature
of capitalist management of politics
to be indecently exposed at so critical
"a time. If there has been wholesale
violation of the prohibition law in ev-
cry direction, and under organized
control, and for a price paid, the men
in New York who run the real gov
eminent do not want that fact used
to the possible disturbance of the
stock market.
Besides, there is the Mellon tax
plan to be considered. It has been
badly dented already, but if Heney
discovers half the rottenness in the
internal revenue bureau that the
stencil indicates, that plan and its
sponsors will be not merely found out,
but utterly discredited for all time.
The country has already observed
the press bribery involved in MELONS
scheme of untaxing the rich, and has
seen that bribery effective in support
of the bill in support of Mellon as an
individual accused of shielding graft.
Yet the plan has not gene over" as
the financiers hoped. Another big
drive must be made.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are
at stake. If Heney gets one weeks
testimony into the record, a protest
amounting to a revolution which will
cost the millionaires several times
the amount they hoped to grab by the
plan" will be inevitable. Hence the
filibuster on Heney.
Strike Blow at Seamen's Act.
A blow has been struck at the sea-
mems act, in the immigration bill
which has just passed the Senate and
is going to conference of the two
houses. 1t is contained in the pro-
vision which authorizes the bureau Of
immigration to regulate the time and
conditions under which alien seamen
may remain in American ports.
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
International Seamen's Union, was
able to persuade the senators in
charge of the bill to strike out the
clause drafted by Secretary of Labor
Davis, under which Davis department
could demand a cash bond of these
alien seamen who might quit their
jobs in American ports in order to re-
ship at American rates of pay.
The bond scheme would have nulli-
fed the emancipation of seamen. But
even without the bond feature the bill
may be used by an anti-labor official
such as Davis to defeat the whole pur-
pose of the law which Furuseth
worked 20 years to get. II alien sea-
men are to be watched and bedeviled
in their attempts to get living wage
from shipping masters in our ports,
then the LaFollette seamen's act is
substantially repealed.
This man Davis is a bad actor"
as his three mischievous years in
charge of the department have demon
strated. Maybe some day an investi-
cation of his business affairs can be
had.