The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-07
End of the Teapot Dome
Scandal Is Good Display
Of Capitalist Solidarity
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the Teapot Dome scandal is waited of sight
thin smoke into the air The black satchel in which
Edward l. Doheny J carried the 100000 bride to Albert
B. FALL secretary of the interior at Washington in the steal
ing of naval oil carefully put away the skeleton
closet of American capitalism The kept courts have spoken
With all the soemnty of American judicial harIotry
Mccoy of the District of Columbia supreme
at Washington procIaim that since oliver E Pagan
room while the indictment was being returned therefore
the legal attack the oil proteers must fall Mind you
workers. this Pagan indictment expert in the pay
Of the department. of justice presumably fulfilling the duties
Of his office The two special oil prosecutors, Owen j.
Roberts and former Senator Pomerene had actually invited
Pagan into the grand jury But the judicial
bank Mccoy says mo! Pagan should not have been in
Doheny Sinclair Doheny Jr and the breaks it's fra
lance the stonewa of legal technicay that offers 100
per cent protection to capitalist crooks in their own courts
1t we'll for workers remember that it this
indictment expert" Pagan who drew up fraudulent
charges against the political prisoners Of the working class
during the world war; Pagan was Iauded by the yellow
the ceverest expert indictments in the land He
would surely leave loop hole thru which the workerwar
prisoners could escape. He didn't.
Take the attack for instance, on the Industrial Work
sympathetic labor confessed that the testimony brought
against the W. W. of the fsiest character certainly
not warrantng conviction. But Pagan's Indictment
against these workers not only stood adamant but
conviction was returned upon by an ignorant and pre-
JUDGED ury. Ik64ts
The l. w. w., like other workers. thrown into foul
jail Immediately they taken into custody under Pagans
Indictment the legality Of which the courts questioned
After their conviction and while the under appeal
these workers sent to the LeaVenworh prison. in Kan
sas that like all other prisons in that has never held
else of the criminal rich. Prisons and ias built for the
working class hI1
Look again, Workers! Judge Mccoy, who found the
legal loop hole thru which the oil mIIonaires escaped is
democrat, appointed by Woodrow Wilson. The footing of
the oil took place under Hardngs republican ad
mnistraton Fall was republican secretary of the in
terror. Thus democratic Judge the of his
fellow thieves republican party; blood brothers in
crime under the profp plumber system The sham political
twins of Wall Street here stand naked. sa
bribe That little incident took place November 3d. 1921
than three years ago. The capitalist have what
is called the statute of limitations which that the
capitalist crooks keep their crimes hid long enough time
'bIack satche" But when workers brought trial,
their whole past raised against them in the hunt for
something discriminating Unless they good and docle
slaves it is crime for them to have been born.
1t is predicted that the civil suits in Wyoming will fall
on techncaIy just like the criminal proceedings in Wash
ngton The most important witnesses did
trouble to appear in the Wyoming trial They took special
of the board of the Standard Oil Co. Indiana He was off
in Mexico and South America arranging for Standard Oils
purchase OF Doheny properties in these parts of the world
Why bother about an oil scandal at home!
Yet in February gasoline production the greatest
in record for the United States averaging 22ooooo gallons
daily. Stocks hand stand the colossal total of
15O0O0000 gallons Yet that represents merely 17day
supply.
oil that RockefeIIers Standard" opened commercial ea-
tons with Soviet Russia greasng the way for recognition
by the United States government itself It for oil that
Japanese imperialism recognized Soviet Rule It is for
that the American British, French and Japanese mpeams
grow at each heading the onush of the world war
thru the overthrow of capitalism tsIef way his abors
The wping out OF the Teapot Dome scandal shows the
solidarity OF American capitalist imperialism in its struggle
for world empire Against that weIorganized enemy the
workers Of the United States like labor everywhere must
consolidate its under the the Communist
international The international of World Labor's Vic
leads thru the overthrow of capitalism itself That way lies
labors struggle