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The Washington times., 1925-03-17
IT'S A LIZ, :
SHEPHERD
REPL| les
BacterioIogist Reveals How
McCIintock's Staying
Was Planned
By CARL w. HARRIS.
InternatIOnaI News Service.

CHICAGO, March ia COM
plete statement confessing that he
and William d. Shepherd had
eonspired to kill William Nelson
Clintock, millionaire orphan"
whose $I,5OO,OOO estate Shepherd
inherited, and divide his fortune,
was made By Doctor Charles G.
Faiman. head Of the National Uni
versity Of Sciences, early today.
The statement covered the
amazing confession made earlier
and repeated in the presence of
Shepherd in the States Attorneys
office, in which details of the
alleged sinister plot to kill the
youth by inocculation with typhoid
germs were revealed.
scientific Murder"
In terms that shocked even the
hardened prosecutors, Injured to
frank admissions Of brutality, the
suave bacteriologist declared he and
Shepherd plotted a scientific
murder which, he said, Shepherd
assured him would never become
known and which would fix both"
Of them for the rest Of their lives.
'I gave him three test tubes of
typhoid bactilli in October, 1923, "
Faiman said. after that we met
from time to time TO discuss the
plan. We held many conferences
in loop hotels.
For more than a year nothing
happened. Then one day last De-
cember, / met Shepherd by appoint.
ment in the Hotel Morrison and
Shepherd said Billy was sick--of
typboid fever"
Gave Him CatI1artic.
Faiman said Shepherd added land
I gave him the cathartic as you ad-
vtsed to hasten our cause"
It was explained. that cathartics
would speed the progress Of typhoid
Ga the human body.
Through all the bacteriologist's
remarkable accusation Shepherd sat,
detected looking, in a chair in State
Attorney Groves office.
Its q He," he succeeded at last
An replying. "I never saw this man
n my life before. You can hang
me If you want to but l am inno-
cent"
Grove plans to give Faiman a
- wA~f during Tua daV and then
- bring him before the grand jury
probably late this afternoon. Fai-
man was to sign an immunity
waiver, but Grove indicated that II
Iaa aids the State al the trial he
may escape prosecution.
Case Solved, says Grove.
Grove Is confident that the Nc
r1intock mystery has been solved.
ia believes another perfect
.,~9roa" like the staying Of Bobby
Tranks by Nathan Leopold, jr., and
pichard A. Loeb mas gone afoul.
T1octor Faiman's confession came
after another long night of grilling
during which he and Shepherd were
Questioned alternately In separate
rooms.
Witnesses Sought.
rotIoging the ordeal. the States
,.+torney's office began a systematic
~.ov,,F,lne of the city for Robert
white. formerly an attache at the
Eafnan laboratories. White, Fai-
nan declared, can verify his stony
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Coolidge WithdraWs Warren's
Name and Submits Substi-
tute to Senate

President Coolidge's offer to
give Charles B: Warren, Of Mich
igan, recess appointment as AZ
torney General, in defiance Of the
Senate which twice rejected him,
and Warren's decision not to ac-
cept It, were portrayed today in
letters between the President md
Mr.. Warren. The President then
selected John G. Sargent for the
post, and his name was sent to
the Senate.
Sargent Accepts Post
After Warren had told Mr.. Cool
idge he did not wish to accept a
recess appointment under condi-
tons which could only prove en-
barrassing to them both, Sargent
was reached by long distance tele-
phone at his home in Vermont
and agreed to accept the post.
President Coolidge sent the nomi-
nation to the Senate shortly after
ward.
Letters To Be Made Public.
An exchange Of letters between
the President and Mr.. Warren, in
which the President expresses again
his complete confidence in the
integrity and probity of Mr.. War
rem, also will be made public later.
It is understood that formal an
nouncement of Warren's withdrawal
will be made at the White House
during the day. together with the
announcement of a new appoint
ment.
There were well founded reports
that the new nominee will be either
John c. Sargent, Attorney General
Of Vermont, a long time friend of
the Presidents, or Thomas w.
Swan. dean Of the law school at
Yale.
The Republicans held a confer.
ence at IL o'clock, called ostensibly
to discuss patronage. Senator Cur.
tbs is said to have informed the con-
ference that Warren had declined a.
recess appointment, and that Presi-
dent Coolidge had decided to send
to the Senate a new nominee for
Attorney General.
Senators Curtis and Robinson
we're named as a committee of two
to inform the President that the
Senate was ready to adjourn. They
were to go to the White House
shortly after noon.
Work to be COmnTeted
Administration leaders at the Can.
itol were notified today that a new
nominee will be presented during
the day and that this will complete
the work of the special session,
leaving nothing but adjournment to
follow ratification of the Presidents
second choice.
If there is any hitch in confirma-
ton of the new appointment, adj
journment probably will not take
place until tomorrow, although
Senate leaders said they expected
to wind up late this afternoon.
Did Not Insist.
President Coolidge told callers at
the White House at noon of Mr..
Warren's decision. 1t was stated
that Mr.. Warren probably would
nave dSC0Pt@u a ISCeSS appointment
had Mr.. Coolidge insisted that he
do so, but that the President did
not consider advisable to do so in
view of conditions that could but
lead to embarrassment Of Mr.. War
rem in the conduct Of his official
duties.
President Coolidge is said to be
deeply resentful OF the fact that
none of the Republican "Old Guard"
of the Senate came to the front
for Warren in the acrid debate that
preceded the vote, but left the de.
tense to be carried on by such new
Corners in the Senate as Butler and
GilIett OF Massachusetts, Golf of
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KING GEORGE RECEIVERS
AND PRESlDES AT COUNCIL

LONDON. March liking George
was sufficiently recovered from
bronchitis today to hold pri1y
council.
With Queen Mary, the King is
expected to depart before Sunday
for the South of France where he
will embark on a Mediterranean
cruise to complete his convalescence.
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Wifnesses Sougl1t.

rojlowing the ordeal. the States
..4torney's office began a systematic
eonobIng of the city for Robert
xUhife. formerly an attache at the
Eafnan laboratories. White, Fai-
nan declared, can verify his story
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column %
The Washington times., 1925-03-17
Phone C0npany's Valuation Played by CIayf0
Estimat of Value
of Phone Company

Here tUo estiUsatss Of value # the Chssapsas and
Potomac TeLphOne Company Of December 81 1924 One
prepared BY the telephone company the other BY william Mex
Clayton leading figure in the fight for IOUsr
Phone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11
Famine in ireland

According dispatches terrible Distress
brought famine exists Ireland The restitution longer
due the failure of the the peat supply and the fishing
industry The mdIands stricken. sa.UA II
Children died hunger the largest Tpperar
the fertile spots Ireland But evidently the fertility
of the nothing the children the working class The
that Ireland gov
capitalists directly by English bring
relief to the enslaved Irish workers.
The mayor of Conme said 1T is terrible to listen the tales
of Children have died of starvation and others dying
illness caused by the prevalent lack of food"
suffering the capitalist press and the
conditions workers very bad indeed when the pacemen
government allow the
petty robbers that rule the Irish Free State have attempted
of the situation the outside world The
forts of Communists and proessve the United States relieve
the famine stricken the of Ireland asad by Irish
clergy having
their suppaons their deity did bring plenty
the catholic people of Ireland tho those clergy had hun
ded from their affairs during the days of the Russian famine that
god furnishing the wicked Boshes for denying his existence
While bringing death the doors of the working
Irish paper carrying advertisement
soliciting enable the catholic church send hundred
srappng young rshmen China help the Chinese
their country from the mpeas but the Chinese the
catholic religion
sample hokum peddled starving
Irish workers. Those young students preparing for the priest
hood for China Please help Them They your help BY help
you their sacrifices
Their will be your too We need prayers We
funds following renumer-
alton is offered 1--WE celebrate $500 every year
behefacors living and deceased"
Is any wonder that famine and want dogs the footsteps
people who only cursed with capitalism but with the
cynical cody efficient religious opium joint in the word This
work relieving the deution of the starving Irish workers
propaganda that will also relieve their congested
superstition which helps make them tools Of bgoFy and OPP
preston.
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1t Makes a Difference

Campbell Mccarthy Negro sentenced to be hanged on
the 10th of Ocobre for the murder of Pnkeron detective
1t self according the condemned The
presiding judge refused the Negro trial According to the
testimony NegrO-and reutedboh drew
their guns the Mccarthy quicker the draw
There money raised defend the Negro and unless
miracle happens he will forfeit his life the gaOws
1t is significant commentary the anNegro prejudice
vang this city that the people condemned to suffer
the death penalty Chicago during this only two Negroes
the of rope Cook county jail Yet the capital
lists tell that all equal under the law.
the convicted Negroes with that of Russell
Scott who declared legally insane by jury last week Scott
hanged by money raised by wealthy people
his life counsel was retained and old law
exhumed gave the right sanity trial
being executed The plan worked and Scott
insane asylum instead of to the gallows.
people particularly colored people not equal
capitalist will take considerable searching of the
where wealthy has paid the
penalty Thousands of Negroes turnout the
country every year without arousing the smpas
of the bourgeoisie.
desire defenders of murdere
criminals that type We claim that crime is the product
society that based injustice We hold that successful
attempt abolish crime society that dominated
BY greatest history the capitalist We
that the taking of life lives by the only
drop the bucket compared the wholesale murder by slow
methods young workers employed in the slave bells of the MAI
health destroying conditions Only when capitalism
abolished will the evils flowing from be eliminated OF those
evils the least is and color discrimination
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of the working class, betrayed the
revolution by demoralizing the mas
SEES in the struggle. The present OPP
position in our party to policy Of
maneuvers and struggle is only a
faint forecast of the tremendously
increased opposition of the same
character that will come from the
mensheviks in the period of the re-
volution.
THE Loreite right wing in our party
4 covers up it's fear of struggle by
the use of many high sounding revo-
lutionary phrases. This is also an
orthodox tactic of the right wing. In
1905, in Russia, when the question
of the organization of provisional
revolutionary government stood be-
fore the party, Lenin advocated par
ticipation Of the party in this govern
ment. The mensheviks, on the other
hand, animated by their fear of the
workers assuming leadership in the
desperate struggle, bitterly opposed
such participation. And character
istically they did it under the cover
of revolutionary phrases. They de-
nounced Lenin as opportunist and
condemned his policy as in opposition
to that formerly enunciated by the
Second International, which discoun-
tenanced the participation of social
lists in bourgeois governments. They
pretended not to see any difference
between participation in a bourgeois
government during the pre-war period,
and participation in a revolutionary
democratic government engaged in
death struggle with Czarism. Their
real aim was not to preserve holy the
principles of the Party, but to avoid
the struggle. Their cries of "opportu-
mist" at Lenin were merely cloak for
their own timidity and lack of faith
in the Party and the working class.
IN our party we have had classical
illustration of the same tactics
by the right wing. This was in the
case of the proposed third party al
lance The Loreites denounced this
in all keys. The burden Of their song
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all this time to AVOID decisive strug-
gle which will almost surely wreck
the organization. 70
3. Husband the resources of the
organization carefully; admit mem
bers only after long probation and
after careful scrutiny; making each
move with the idea that the struggle
is being waged against immense odds,
in hostile territory, and against skill
led generalship.
4. Expand the organization and its
work slowly; taking no step that will
unnecessarily expose it to destruc-
zion; making no move that will en-
able the enemy to deal a crushing
blow.
OUCH a program, which is a true
~ expression of Loreism, has moth
ing of Communism in it. 1t is based
upon great underestimation of the
power Of our party and the fighting
spirit of the working masses. 1t be-
trays complete lack of faith in the
revolutionary movement. To put it
AAhO WOuAUs sDC u COuu6Hu OuI
party to isolation from the masses and
to a life of sterile sectarianism. Op-
position to party maneuver7, that is to
party struggle, is the sigL manual of
menshevism. 1t is the high road to
class collaboration and the eventual
reputation of the revolution.
But the comrades Of the Lore tend
ency hasten to assure us that their
opposition to maneuvering by the
party relates only to this epoch when
our party is young and weak. This
is a sophistry. The fact is the further
we go along the greater their opposi-
ton will become to the party partici-
pating in the struggle. Our imme-
date tasks will constantly become
greater courage and more Communist
daring will be required to fulfill them.
The opposition of the right wing will
become keener and keener, and it
will eliminate in it's utmost bitter
ness at the supreme "maneuver" Of
the revolution. These comrades say
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-11

THE breath of life of every Com
munist Party is a policy of strug-
gle, of maneuvering against the cap
italist class. In the Communist sense
maneuvering means fighting, it means
to attack the enemy, Communist
Party must grow by fighting Thru
the actual struggle it establishes its
dates its own ranks, develops it's
spirit of discipline, and links it's in
tellectual life closely to the actualities
of the class struggle. Without this
policy of struggle, of maneuvering, no
party can be a Communist Party in
the real sense of the word.
It is an unfailing characteristic of
the right-wing in every Communist
Party to shrink from the Communist
policy of unrelenting struggle. The
Lore tendency in our party sharply
manifests this characteristic. thereby
demonstrating clearly that it is op-
portunistic and menshevistic. On all
sides the comrades following Lore ex-
press their opposition to party man.
euvers. Lore himself has stated this
opposition many times. Now comes
Comrade Askeli in his article and
says the same thing. But the point
of view of these comrades regarding
maneuvers was perhaps best stated
by Scott Nearing in his letter a year
ago dealing with the policies of our
party. He proposed the following
program, as against our policy of
"maneuvering"
1. Realize that its 1.-THE Workers
Party's) available CLIENTELE together is
small, no thought of leadership of the
masses, and highly localized, and rem
dered in part ineffective by its foreign
admixtures.
2. Aim to hold this chenille toge-
Their at all hazards; to preserve its
morale and efficiency; 10 train it in
effective and cooperative activities; to
teach it to trust itself; to try it and
discipline it until it becomes a really
effective working force; and during
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Loreisnn and Maneuvers 1v@zzsa

was that we who advocated this al
lance were the opportunists and
that they who opposed it were the
real Communists. The facts OF the
matter were these: The Loreites OPP
posed the third party alliance not be-
cause they were too good Communists,
but because they we're not good
enough. The basis Of their opposi-
ton was to be found in their opposl-
ton to maneuvers in general. Their
revolutionary phrases were so much
camoufage. Their position was not
sustained by the Comintern. They OBJ
posed the alliance because of opposi-
ton to maneuvers in principle. The
Comintern opposed it because 1t was
the wrong kind of maneuver.. Bet
ween these two points of view there
is a broad ocean of difference, the
difference between menshevism and
Bolshevism.
We must defeat the Loreistic tend
ency in our party which opposes ma
neuvers and our general policy Of
struggle. Our party is fighting or
ganization. 1t must live and grow in
the battles of the working class. This
does not mean that we shall have a
reckless policy of maneuyering On
the contrary, the greatest skill will
be necessary to steer our party be-
tween the left Scylla and putchism
and the RICH Charybdis of opportun-
ism. But fight and struggle we must
to the best of our ability Our party
cannot postpone it's active partici-
patton in the class struggle to some
far off day when. by a policy of care
full education and organization. as the
Loreites propose. it might have as
sembled sufficient strength to make a
showing in the struggle. Communist
parties are not built that way. That
is the way to build menshevik par
ties. Our party must fight today, to-
morrow, and every day. That is the
only way it can become in fact as in
name the vanguard Of the proletar-
lat.
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our party is not strong enough and
well enough disciplined to make a
real fight at present. And if we leave
it to them to decide it never will be
strong enough. Their policy will al
way be as it is now, SO long as they
remain Loreites, to shrink from the
struggle.
A BUNDANT revolutionary expert
"A ence demonstrates this fact. In
the Russian movement before the re-
volution of 1905, the mensheviks OPP
posed every effort of the Bolsheviks
to really put the party at the head
of the growing revolutionary uphea-
val, and arguments were always es-
sentilly the same as those of the
Loreites now, that the party was too
weak, that the workers were UMPIRE.
pared for struggle. They stabbed
in the back the men who made the
heroic uprising in Moscow. In 1917
their policy was the same. They did
not hesitate to take up arms against
the Bolsheviks who were determined
upon real struggle against the cap
italists. With their constant policy
of Understanding the strength of
party and of the working class as
whole, they maintained, and their po-
sition was that of the whole Second
International, that a proletarian re-
volution was impossible in Russia. In
Germany, Brandler, again undestimat-
ing the forces making for the revolu-
ton, shrank from the struggle and
brought the whole movement to
disastrous debacle. In Italy in 1920,
when the workers, during the time
of the metal workers strike, were
ready to deliver a final blow at cap
italism, D'Aragona and the other
menshevik leaders were on hand to
tell them that they were not yet
well enough organized and educated
to take over society, and that if they
attempted to do so their effort would
be drowned in blood Then these
mensheviks. in the name of more
complete organization, better disci-
pline, and more thorough education
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Amalgamation

While reaconay labor officials invoking all their tricks
block the amalgamaon of the craft
industrial unions the capitalists proceeding their
dusc in the interests of efficiency and larger profits
The outstanding of this development in big
is the magamatOn of independent steel Gary
districts Those total value of
Instead Of the competition which formerly existed between those
ancs there will he unity of direction and undertaking will
This makes for dollars in the pockets of the owners
When will the workers the United States take in the
amagamaon their The capitalists
where idea FROM whether il be Moscow Atlanta
Georgia. provided feasible them The superiority
industrial Organization the craft form obvious
body. The day Of craft inionism is raw
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reached unaninmity. On only ten oe-
casions involving is motions dealing
with our Labor Party policy did any
differences manifest themselves while
the party was pursuing the comintern
policy. towards the Labor Party cam
'psion.
The writer has made no effort to
defend the position of the c. E. C.
Minority against the attacks of the
Majority Of the c. E. c, First of all,
these attacks are of non-serious me-
ture. Secondly, the best defense and
criticism of the Labor Party position
taken by the Minority is already to be
found in the decision of the Commun-
list International. The Minority of the
C. E. c. has fought for this decision
before the comintern while the Ma
jority of the c. E. c. was fighting
against it. The Minority of the c. E. c.
has forced the Majority of the C. e. c.
to consult the Comintern on the Labor
Party tactics before a convention and
thus spared the party the, possible
overruling of its convention by the
Communist International
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nFakesv and Faxes.

If there is anything at ell in the
fake" Labor Party accusation hurled
at the Minority of the c. E. c. by the
C. E. c.. Majority group, the Foster
group shares this blame equally with
he Ruthenberg group. The two groups
have made Jointly nearly all the Labor
Party policy mistakes which were
made by the party during this period.
The two groups have voted the over
whelming number of times unanimous
ly on the application of the Labor
Party policy while the C. E. c. Ma
jority permitted the party to have
Communist pro-Labor Party policy and
not sectarian anti-Labor Party pol
icy.
If the C. E. C. Majority insists that
it's application of the Labor Party pol
icies cannot be characterized as
fake" then, in the face of theuabove
analysis, the application of the Labor
Party policy by the Minority equally
cannot be characterized as fake.