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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-17
(SteeI Trust Politics in Gary.)
BY 3. BoRIsoFF.

by D. DOhtOOTE'
uOW to describe conditions in
IL Gary?
1 spoke to small business men. l
spoke to professional men. l spoke
to workers. They all agree. This
town is run by the Steel Trust" is
their unanimous verdict.
Worse than the feudal SYSTEM
said a professional man. 1 agreed
with him. The comparison is a good
one. Only in place of the castle of
the lord or baron of the feudal times
we have here the steel mills, sur
rounded with water as the feudal cas-
tie was. Instead of the serfs, work
ing for their lord, we have the work
ers working for the steel barons. The
difference is this: The feudal lords
still had some concern for the lives
of it's serfs. The Steel Trust has
none for it's.
TIME Steel Trust can make you or
l. break you,," say the business
men and the professional men. They
talk almost in whispers when they
speak of the trust.
The workers cannot find a trust
worthy lawyer to defend their COM
pensation cases for injuries received
in the mills. They cannot induce doc
tors who sympathize with them to
testify for them before the industrial
board.
NHhnnTynr fnr hn
Trust will lose his credit with the
banks, if he is business man; will
lose his job in the schools, if he is a
teacher; will lose his practice in the
leading hospitals, if he is a doctor;
will be disbarred, if he is a lawyer;
will be thrown out of the mills, If he
is a worker.
TNHE Steel Trust runs the schools;
L it controls the social life of the
people; it controls their politics. Pri-
maries come, candidates are nomi-
mated; there is a contest and fight.
Then election day comes, and no mat
ter who is elected from any of the
two major parties-the elected is in
variably with the Steel Trust. 1t
can't be otherwise.
Let us cite recent example:
A FEW days ago the local news
1A~papers carried the news of the
death of Glen Hentges, one of the
deputy sheriffs Of Lake county. 1t
was up to the high sheriff of Lake
county-Ben Strong-to appoint a
successor. Il did not take him long
to make the appointment. His choice
was Jim Hoffman. This appointment
caused quite a stir among those close
to the political circles in Gary, and
especially among the Negro residents.
For two years ago Ben Strong and
Jim Hoffman were rival candidates
for the Office Of the high sheriff Of
Lake county.
The campaign was a bitter one, and
Jim Hoffman denounced his "oppons
ent" as a klansman. Mr. Hoffman
himself was very evidently the candi.
date Of the steel company, since he
served for fourteen years with the
company, taking charge of It's police
department. When the last primaries
were held Tin May Of this year, a sud
den change took place Mr.. Hoffman
gave his open support to the candi.
dacy of Ben Strong Cfor a nomina.
tom and served as his campaign
manager He has now received his
reward for this by being appointed a
deputy sheriff. lie allied himself with
a man whom he denounced as. a klans.
man.
THIS is n striking demonstration of
4 "Heads--I win. Tails-You Lose"
politics Of the Steel Trust in Gary.
We are supposed to have antisteel
mill administration and the steel mill
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"Heads--I Win, Tails--You Lose"

man is appointed for the job. An al
legged opponent of the khan makes
peace with his rival whom he de-
nounced as a klansman and is ap-
pointed by him to Office. The X. X. X.
issue is just a subtefuge. The politi-
cal power in GarySahd in the entire
state of Indiana, lies not with the
klan-it lies with the Steel Trust.
In Gary the workers are in the ma
jority. If they were united politically
they would rule thegcity. The farmer
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CALL BILL JOHNSTON.

Foreman: Are you one of them
blokes wot drops is tools and scoots
as soon as the whistle blows?'
Worker: mot me. l often as to
wait five minutes after 1 put me tools
away, before the bloomin' whistle
blows" EXCHANGE.
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WITH THE STAFF
Being Things From Here and
There Which Have Inspired
Us to Folly or Frenzy
Dobele or DumbeII?

The following is one of those newe
items that is always welcome to the
harrassed editors Of The DAILY
WORKER as the discovery of little
Moses in the bullrushes was to the
lonely daughter of Pharoah. Moses
came unsolicited and so did this. 1t
is a gem, without comment, yet to
refrain from spelling it would require
almost divine powers of resistance.
Read the headline carefully three or
four times and then write your own
Limerick about it. The winner will
be handsomely rewarded with the pic
ture of coal digger freezing to death
on the fourth of July.
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ECONOMIC DETERMINIsM.

Restaurant manager ito orches-
ira conductor) ~ soish you'd dis
play little more tact in choosing
the music. We've got the National
association Of Umbrella Manutac-
turers here this evening, and
yOW'ce just played 1T Amt Gonna
Rain No MOreP"
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labor movement had a promising be-
ginning here, but died out. 1t is the
need of the hour for the workers of
Gary, to raise the standard of indie
pendent political action, and to put up
a united labor ticket in the fall cleo
tons.
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Probe of Mcpherson
kidnapping to End
by Friday Evening

LOS ANGELES, July 15.-Investi-
cation into the kidnapping" of
Aimee Semple Mcpherson is being
continued by the Los Angeles county
grand jury with indications pointing
to completion of the hearing Friday
Evening star., 1926-04-14
LAW ENFORCEMENT
SESSIONS CLOSED
Woman's Committee Re-
elects Officers-Sargent
Defends Prohibition.

Reelection Of the incumbent officers
OF the Woman's National Committee
for Law Enforcement featured the
final session at the Hotel Washington
late yesterday afternoon.
The officers are: Mrs. Henry w.
Peabody Of Boston, national chair
man; Mrs. Roswell Miller of New
York, first vice chairman; Mrs. Cor.
don Norrie, second vice chairman;
Mrs. Frank Shuler of New York, Sec
retary, and Mrs. Hilda L. Olson of
Cambridge, Mass, treasurer. Mrs. w.
L. Darby, wife Of Rev. w. l.. Darby Of
this city. was elected chairman of the
executive committee.
Sargent Speaks.
Two defenses of the prohibition law,
coupled with an attack on violators
and critics of 1t, were placed before
the concluding public session yester-
Attorney General Sargent and one Of
his assistants. Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt. in charge of liquor cases.
The Attorney General held buyers
Of liquor morally guilty of bribery,
and he appealed to the women to bar
from their social circles those who
serve liquor in their homes.
Pointing out that the major source
Of embarrassment" in enforcing the
law rises from the fact that go many
we'll intentioned persons thoughtless-
ly. or following some process Of un-
sound reasoning. Join hands with
those who Intentionally violate the
law" Mr.. Sargent promised that upon
those who foster violations Of the
statute 'the hand OF punishment
Evening star., 1926-04-14
BLAMES u. s. IGNORANCE.

MILAN. Italy, April IA P).-The
Popolo D'Italia, today publishes an
interview with Finance Minister Volpi,
who was head of the Italian debt
funding commission to the United
States, in which he spoke optimisti-
cally of the italian financial situation.
Count Volpi asserted that attacks in
some American newspapers, rather
than being a campaign against the
financial situation, were demonstra
tions of ignorance concerning Italy
similar to an ignorance shown toward
other European countries. Erroneous
notions. he said, also were due to un-
founded news spread in bad faith by
interested persons or Italian refugees.
He explained that the large public
works which had been undertaken
were indispensable in order to supply
means for greater industrial produc-
ton, such as roads, railways and
ports leading to greater prosperity.
The most important problem for
italy to solve, Count Volpi said. was
to improve her Industrial production
so as to be able to export in such
quantities that the exports will exceed
the imports OF raw material.
Evening star., 1926-04-14
CONTINUED from First Page.)

((OnIlnuGQ lISI EA60sp
nesses, he would prefer that that COM
mittee should make the investigation.
been held UP in the rules committee
for three weeks. Then he continued:
Says Prescott Holds Power.
"It is we'll known that Sam Pres
colt is the real boss in the District.
He runs things as far as nnanipula-
tions are concerned. He made Fen
ming. He has made congressman that
I know of. Prescott Is protecting
Fenning through Edward F. Cola
day. the District Republican commit
teeman. would move to impeach Mr..
Tenning, but that would throw the
matter into the judiciary committee,
where the members know next to
nothing about District affairs.
would rather have no action whatever
than a whitewash."
Don't you know that it's a ques-
ton of what the steering committee
of the House wants, and If 1t wanted
this investigation they would tell the
chairman Of the rules committee what
to do and he would do it?" continued
Mr.. Blanton.
The Texas member reiterated his
complaint that the District commit
tee cant get evidence because most
of the witnesses are working for the
Government and their Jobs would be
imperiled. They will not come until
you force them under q subpoena"
Representative Keller, Republican,
of Minnesota, stated that he found
himself in the same position in the
Daugherty matter and the only re-
course is in impeachment. Mr.. Blan-
ton told his colleagues that near
Laurel there is q big sanitarium
operated by q former doctor at St.
Elizabeth's. I understand Mr.. Fen
ming Is interested in that sanitarium.
Some things are being done there we
ought to know about. I want to be
able to subpoena that doctor"
Points to "Public Sentiment"
Mr.. Blanton assured his colleagues
that public sentiment is going to
force All investigation Of this Fenning
Evening star., 1926-04-14

shall fall as often and as heavily" as
possible.
Warning Government prosecutors
not to criticize the prohibition law:
the Attorney General added that II
we go about declaring in speech and
in spirit that the law ought to DE
changed, so that the acts which are
offenses against the law will not be
offenses, we thereby weaken our
causes in the minds of the tribunals
before whom we must try them The
same subject was touched upon by
Mrs. Willebrandt.
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, presi-
dent general of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, told the gather
ing that the security of "our citizen
ship rests on law observance and law
enforcement" and that no law can be
"fouted without serious consequence
to the citizen and to the State"
Evening star., 1926-04-14
Continued from First Fage.)

might be moro advantageous to every
one."
The latest decision Of the District
Commissioners, however, was inter-
preted in some quarters today as
another blow at the Office of the Di-
rector of Traffic. In the opinion Of
some. 1t will serve further to confuse
conditions in Washington.
Five decisions multiplying the power
OF the traffic director on important
sections of the traffic code have a.
ready been handed down in Police
Court. The first and most spectacular
of these was the ruling against the
authority Of the traffic director to
regulate pedestrian traffic on the
downtown thoroughfares, handed
down by Judge John p. Mcmahon on
Janu,.ry Z. From this decision the
Commissioners did not appeal.
Dismissed for Disregarding Light.
Four others followed, all embarrass.
ing to the traffic director. The Sec
ond was q case In which the Judge
dismissed the first man arrested for
disobeying the traffic lights on Six.
teenth street on complaint Of the de-
fendant that since there were lights
on all four corners Of an intersection
he did not know which to obey. The
third was dismissal of q motorist ar
rested on a charge Of not stopping at
a boulevard or stop" signal street
for making q right turn into the
boulevard street.
The fourth and fifth challenged the
authority Of the traffic director to re-
duce the speed Of vehicles In danger
Gus places. In the former the driver
of q motor truck arrested on Bladens-
burg road for exceeding q special
speed limit Of Is miles an hour was
exonerated, the court holding that
the speed law Of the District set a
maximum of % miles an hour. The
fifth case occurred only few days
ago and involved the arrest Of the
driver Of q Capital Traction Co.
motor bus on the Klingle Ford Bridge
on Connecticut avenue for failure to
give right OF way to a police car and
speeding across the bridge. The court
held that the bus could not pull over
to permit the police car to pass be-
cause Of parked cars and was not
bound to observe O. special speed law
on the bridge when the general speed
limit Is 20 miles an hour.
Gard Plan Rejected.
Several months ago Mr.. Eldridge
drew UP a notification card. or warn
ing Of improper equipment. to motor
lists, which was to be tied to the steer
ing wheels Of automobiles. 1t pro
vided simply a warning to motorists
found with improperly focused lights.
lights out, hidden or dirty tags and
Evening star., 1926-04-14
ACTION ON FENNINC CHARGES
is SET FOR FRIDAY In HOUSE
Rules Committee Consideration Causes Postpone.
ment of Hearing by District Croup-Hammer
Says He Has Proof of Illegal Action.

matter, as sure as you live" He said
that IL he was a member Of the Re-
publican party he would do as Chair
man Zihlman of the District commit
tee had done and say to Mr.. Fen.
ming. You've got to ask for an in
vestigation." It behooves the Repub-
licans when there is something rot
ten in the administration to clean 1t
up" Mr.. Blanton advised. 'If you
Republicans protect rottenness in
your party and shield crookedness.
you will not have competent officers. ="
he said.
Mr. Hammer said that he LIS con-
vinced that Mr.. Fenning had co-opera-
ton of officials in other Government
institutions and expressed the belief
that when you investigate Fenning
you are going to have to deal with the
most powerful influences in Washing
ton" He expressed the belief that
even the judicial authorities, II pos
sible, would assist Mr.. Fenning.
Mr.. Blanton asked the committee If
they knew that the man who got the
Evening star., 1926-04-14
ELDRIDCE ASKS PUBLIC'S AID
IN REDUCING TRAFFIC LAWS
Begins Study to Cut Large Numbers of Arrests for
Minor Violation-Ban on All Downtown
Parking Suggested.

other minor infractions Of the trafhc
law, but would also make, a record OF
, the warning in the Traffic Bureau. An
arrest would follow on the second or
subsequent offense.
The proposal was rejected by Maj.
Hesse on the ground that 1t would
set up ''rogues' gallery" of motor
lists in the Traffic Bureau. Late IN
February, before the Police Court
ruling on the Sixteenth street lights,
Mr.. Eldridge sent to the Commission.
ers a regulation intended to clarity
the system of turning at traffic lights.
It was held up for nearly three weeks,
while in the meantime the judge ruled
against the traffic director in holding
that motorists did not know which
light to obey.
Friends Of the police chief declare
that Maj Hesse is bound to enforce
the regulations of the traffic director
to the letter, a claim that they de-
clare was borne out early in the Win
ter. when Eldridge made statement
In a letter to Senator Capper, chair
man Of the Senate District committee,
which was interpreted as charging
the police were not cooperating with
him in enforcing the traffic regula-
tions. Immediately after publication
Of the letter the number OF arrests
began to mount. They reached their
peak in March, and the direct re-
action came yesterday, with the sug-
gestion that some of the regulations
might be withdrawn.
Against Scrapping Regulations.
The traffic director is openly not
enthusiastic about scrapping some of
his regulations. He bases them all
on ample precedent in other cities
and from a first hand and extensive
knowledge of the local traffic situa-
ton. Mr.. Eldridge defends the num-
ber Of regulations in the traffic code
by declaring that the courts will not
permit a blanket regulation. such as
that applying to left turns, to be
applicable in the entire city. Each
point covered by a special regulation
must be so listed in the traffic code,
he says.
While the new move by the Com
missioners and today's request fol
suggestions by the traffic director may
result In simplification and clarifica
ton Of the traffic code, 1t Is also ex
pected to bring to q showdown the
strained relations between the traffic
head and the Police Department.
Mr.. Eldridge today cited numerous
cases OF arrest and fine Of motorists
In the city, where a warning would
have served the purpose. The in
timat!on remains, friends OF the traf
fic director say, that 1t Is the intention
OF the Police Department TO embarrass
the traffic head by making unneces
sary arrests and bringing the regula
tions into disrepute.
Evening star., 1926-04-14
EARLY DEBT VOTE
/ SOUGHT IN SENATE
Smoot to Urge Final Action
on Italian Pact
This Week.

A vote on the Italian debt settle
nent pact before next week Is the aim
of Senator Smoot, Republican, OF Utah,
chairman of the Senate finance com
mittee. 1t is probable that an eHort
will be made today or tomorrow 10
reach an agreement or g. time Tor the
vote. .,,,
Although a number of Seators still
desire to speak on the question, tne
debate is nearing an end and should
be concluded within few days.
Attack Brings Protests.
Premier Mussolini of Italy con
tinued the storm center of DEBATE
Yesterday. An address opposing the
settlement and bristling with attacks
on the Italian prime minister was
delivered by Senator McKellar' Demo
crat, Tennessee. 1t brought proteStS
from both sides of the chamber.
Characterizing Mussolini as a
"despot," Senator McKellar said he
was "the greatest evil that has be
fallen the Italian people In a hundred
wears" adding that the King was
putty in his hands" and that the
royal household has been bought OF
by large appropriations for their use.
Then bringing 10 specific indict-
ments against the Fascist leader, the
Tennessee senator declared he ndu
dstroyed constitutional government in
Italy; abolished free speech; muzzled
the newspapers: in effect had abolished
both houses of Parliament and had
established an "autocratic rule" as
complete as that of the bo1shevists in
Russia
A protest against the speech was
voiced by Senator Reed, Republican.
Pennsylvania, who declared no Sen
ator should make such an address
about a friendly government. He
added that one reading the Senator's
remarks might conclude that they
were preparatory to a declaration of
war.
"I want 1t understood that the SEN
ator is speaking for himself and not
for the rest of the Senate" declared
Senator Reed His statements are
bound to wound the feelings Of the
Italian people
Senator Copeland, Democrat, New
York, added his voice in protest, de-
claring that if the people Of Italy
want a dictatorship by Mussolini
that's their business"
Evening star., 1926-04-14
PARAGUAYAN ENVOY QUITS
POST IN WASHINGTON
Minister Ayala, Absent From
Capital on Leave, Resigns to
Enter Private Business.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, April H.
DR.. Eusebio Ayala, Paraguayan Min.
lister to the United States, has re.
signed to enter private business. He
returned here recently on leave.
DR.. Ayala came to Washington as
Paraguayan Minister in 1924. He re-
nained here for about a year before
leaving last September for Europe on
a special diplomatic mission for his
government. During his absence DIR.
Juan v. Ramirez. charge d'affairs,
has served as head of the Paraguayan
diplomatic mission here.
Evening star., 1926-04-14
PROBE OF KILLINGS
IN HERRIN STARTS;
TROOPS ON DUTY

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1926-04-14
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improper for him to act on the in.
vestigating committee. Mr.. Underhill
replied, "Eminently unfit to act as
judge or jury, but eminently qualified
to act as prosecutor. If we are going
to have a trial, want Mr.. Fenning
to go out of the committee having
had fair opportunity to present his
case before an impartial jury
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