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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13
URGE A. F. OF L. TO MAKE ENERGETIC
DRIVE FOR BRITISH MINERS FUND
BY J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

DETROIT, Mich Oct. H. Tag Days for the British coal
miners now strike in all the large cities land are being
urged In the convention of the American Federation
mere as the result of telegram received from E. pres
dent OF the Minnesota Federation Labor stating had
peen raised in tag day held in Minneapolis recently tele-
gram addressed to Secretary Frank Morrison read:
i sending for $500 for
the benefit of the striking Britain This money
was raised by Saturday and the COM
ee suggests that the country tag
days be inaugurated miners and their families
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13
Our Duty Towards the Daily Worker

the importance of daily organ for
the American working class. 1t is
not a shame that the workers paper
appeals to us. 1t would be a shame,
should 1t appeal to our enemies.
60 It is our duty TO respond to this
~ appeal. It is the unquestionable
duty Of the Party members who should
respond one hundred percent. Also, II
is the duty of all those workers who
realize how important such an organ
in the class struggle as the Daily
Worker is.
Let us all do our dutyi Let us all
build the Daily Worker strong. power
full
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13
Mighty u. S. Government
Can't Dodge Confession
by One of Its Own Agents
BY }. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

Mr.. Weyand says that no evidence
was obtained of utterances at any
meetings which warranted proceed
ings against anybody. The reports
Of the meetings were sent to the
Washington ONCE Of the department
OF justice and duplicates were kept
in the Boston office.
II was under these preliminary
circumstances that the government
took an active interest in the joint
trial of Sacco and vanzetti, with
Mr.. Weyand being assigned to cover
the trial.
Another agent, William ]. West,
who attended the trial for the same
purpose, told Mr.. Weyand that an
italian named Carbone was under
an arrangement with the district at
torney, the sheriff and Mr.. Weiss,
placed in the cell next to Sacco's
some time during the year 1920 for
the purpose Of winning Sacco's con-
1dence in order to obtain incrdmin-
ating evidence against him.
NO EVIDENCE OF THE SORT
WAS OBTAINED BY CARBONE.
The understanding in this case,
Mr.. Weyand says, between the
agents OF the department of justice
In Boston and the district attorney,
followed the usual custom that the
department of justice would help
the district attorney to secure a
conviction, and that he in turn
would help the agents of the depart
ment to secure information that they
might desire. The Boston agents be-
heved that these men were an
archists, and hoped to be able to
secure evidence against them, from
their testimony at their trial for
murder, to be used in case they
were not convicted of murder.
There is correspondence between
Mr.. Katzmann district attorney
and Mr.. West department of justice
agent) on file In the Boston office
of the department, but It is kept in
secret ALI efforts to force it to
public view have failed. Mr.. West
furnished Mr.. Katzmann informa-
ton about the radical activities of
Sacco and vanzetti, to be used in
their cross-examination.
Thus at no time did the prosecu-
ton, bolstered by the U. S. depart
ment Of justice, really believe that
Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty. Yet
with this knowledge, and also with
the suspicion II not actual proof that
the South Brsintree affair was the
work Of the Morelh gang, the police
bloodhounds were called off the real
scent and "12 D. of ]. agents set to
watch the rising protest Of American
labor over the arrests of Sacco and
Vanzetu."
1t will be remembered how Ellis
worth c. Jacobs, the New Bedford
police agent, told how the search
for evidence against the Morelli
gang was dropped with the arrest of
Sacco and vanzetti, altho everyone
connected with the case knew that
Sacco and vanzetti had no connec-
ton with the payroll robbery and
murders at South Braintree.
Powerful and mighty tho the
United States government may be,
1t cannot dodge or sidestep the facts
revealed by its own agent, Fred ].
Weyand.
Tomorrow-The story Of the ex-
department Of justice agent, Law
renee Letherman, supporting the
confession detailed above Of Fred
J. Weyand.
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w the testimony offered by the de-
partment Of justice agent. Fred ].
Weyand, in his affidavit now on fle
with Judge Webster Thayer, in the
Dedham, Mass, court where rests
the power to say whether Sacco and
Vanzetti shall live or die.
Especially American labor must
commit to memory several state
ments by Weyand as follows:
"At one time as many as IL agents
of the department OF justice in
Boston were assigned to cover Sac
co and Vanzetti meetings and other
radical activities connected with the
Sacco-Vanzetti case"
mo EVIDENCE WAS DIsCOv-
Erred WARRANTING THE INSTI-
TIoN OF PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
ANYBODY"
Shortly after the trial OF Sacco
and Vanzetti was concluded, the af-
faint (Weyand) says he told Weiss
(Feri Felix Weiss of the prosecu-
tors staff that he did not believe
that they (Sacco and Vanzetti) were
the men that shot the paymaster lat
South Braintree). and Weiss rephed
that that might be 80, but they were
bad actors and would get what they
deserted anyway"
"Mr. Weyand says that he is
thoroly convinced, and always has
been, that these men had nothing
whatever to do with the South
Braintree murder, and that their
conviction was the result Of oo-
operation between the Boston agents
of the department of justice and the
district attorney"
ut was the general opinion OF the
Boston agents of the department of
justice having knowledge of the az
fair, that the South Braintree crime
was committed by group of profess
sional highwaymen."
These are statements from the
confession of the ex-aepartment Of
justice agent, Weyand, who has at
hast, after six years, unleashed his
tongue to tell what he knows.
Weyand says that he was con-
cerned in the governments activ-
ities against workers called ''reds'
and radicals" including the whole
sale raids made In January, 1920.
This was under the regime OF Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson and Attorney
General ]. Mitchell Palmer, the New
Jersey college professor and the
Pennsylvania quaker.
Weyand says that some time be-
fore the arrest of Sacco and Van
zetti, the names of both of them had
got on the files of the department
of justice as radicals" to be watch
ed, and as followers or associates of
an Italian editor named Galleani.
The suspicion entertained by the de-
partment of justice against Sacco
and Vanzetti was that they had
violated the selective service act,
and also that they were anarchists
and held radical opinions Of some
sort or another.
Shortly after the arrest OF Sacco
and VanzetI, meetings began to be
held by sympathizers, and Weyand
says he was. assigned to attend
those meetings and report to the de-
partment. He says an agent was as
signed, as undercover man, to win
the confidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti
Defense Committee, and that this
man became one of the collectors.
This government stoolpigeon told
Weyand that he was in the habit of
taking as much money for his own
use as he saw fit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13
DOCTOR REPORTS
STRIKERS BADLY
BEATEN BY COPS
Passaic Police Torture
Frame-up Victims

PASSAlc, N. j., Oct, 11.-StrIke
headquarters Issued statement this
morning that the union physician, Or.
Tellmsn, 225 President Street, who
was sent yesterday to visit the men
held In the county jail, Haekensaek,
in connection with the bomb throwing
in Garfield, reported finding the men
in very bad physical condition. One
of the prisoners, Paul Kobaes, plainly
showed agns of a terrible beating,
Or. TeIlman is said to have found this
man In plaster and bandages and to
have reported back to the union that
he had several ribs fractured or
broken and that altho the marks dis
appeared from his body it was clear
from the mans internal condition that
he had been maltreated. DR. Tellman
also found that Tom Regain, another
Of the prisoners, had had one Of his
teeth knocked out
Deak's Statement.
Gustav Deak, chairman of the strike
committee of Local 1903, United Tex
tile Workers, in making. public the
report Of DR.. Tellman, declared this
report by the unions doctor substan-
tiates the statements of the men now
out on bail that they had been sub
iected to the worst sort of police bru-
atty and third degree methods in
me effort to force them to sign con
LESSONS" they were not allowed to
read More and more it becomes
clear, until today even the uninitiated
in police methods must realize the
truth, that the arrested men are vic
Tins of a police plot to break the
strike by arresting and attempting to
discredit the leaders of the strike
But we want to tell the police
again that this latest attempt will go
the way Of all the others in miserable
failure. Not only that, but this fan
tastic plot win react as a boomerang
against the mill owners whom the
police are so assiduously trying to
serve. These plots only help to
make the strikers more determined on
victory. They serve also to arouse
public opinion thruout the country
against the. industrial autocracy that
has made the city of Passaic and the
other cities of the strike zone, the
symbol of industrial oppression and
police corruption thruout the civil
ICED world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13
ILLINOIS FLOOD
WATERS RECEDE,
PEAK REACHED

BBARDSTowN, Ill, Oct. IL
Steady declines1n the gauge readings
at Peoria, while the river here re-
NAMED stationary at a water mark
OF 1924 feet, today aroused hope N
this flood-ridden city that the rioting
Illinois river has reached its peak.
The water now is over foot higher
than at any time in past history.
Active relief and rehabilitation
work will get under way today with
the expected arrival of Paul DettmeE
new director OF Red Cross relief
work.
Railroads are operating day service
trains into this city altho in many
places the tracks are covered.
The results OF the food now are
becoming apparent as sheds, garages,
steps and other debris float thru the
streets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13

We toiU send sample copies Of
The DAILY WORKER to your
friends--sepd Us name and ad-
dress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-13

Your nefghbor win appreciate
the favor--gfve him this copy OF
Ia DAILY WORKER. .s.aI...-
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Fear "The Radical"

On the day following the sale of
1000 copies of the Special Ford Edi-
ton Of The DAILY WORKER, at the
Highland Park plant of the Ford
Motor Company, all the delegates to
the American Federation of, Labor
visited the institution. Many officials
Of the A. F. Of L. have been Issuing
statements on the Ford plant and the
tive-day week ever since. It has be-
come a sort of nightmare with them
They not only heard of the distribu-
ton of The DAILY WORKER, but also
of the shop bulletin, The Ford Worker,
published in a 10000 edition for Oc-
tober. The statement of A. ]. Ber-
ries. ecretary-treasurer of the Metal
Trades Department of the A. F. Of
L., typical of the rest, is as follows:
"The constant monotony which the
men in the Ford plant, which we
visited this afternoon, are subject to,
added to the tremendous pressure
which these men labor under, means
that within a comparatively few years
these men become another addition
to the human junk heap and their
places are taken by newer arrivals.
So long as new men can be constantly
added to the force, such a plant can
run, but no longer.
Instead of tending towards help
ing these men and making them bet
ter Americans, this system provides
men who cannot help but being good
material for the radical and the dema-
gogue 10 work upon"
But II Is only the radicals who take
the fight Of the auto workers serious
ly and carry on the struggle to or
ganize them.
The delegation Of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union has
introduced a resolution against Citi-
zens' Military Training Camps. They
did the same last year but failed 20
put up a fight for II. Delegate r. d.
Barry, OF the Pennsylvania Fedora.
ton Of Labor, has also introduced an
Rnti-C. M. 7. G. resolution under in
structions from the state convention
OF his organizations.
The 40-hour work.week in all IN.
dustries Is also urged In resolutions
introduced by the Cloth Hat. Cap and
Millinery Workers delegation, as well
as the modification OF immigration
laws ia favor Of political and religi-
Gus refugees
The l. l.. @. w. U. delegation has
also introduced resolution fayoring
he lifting OF immigration restrictions,
10 that the doors OF America WIN ha
opened TO the oppressed and perse.
'uted workers OF Europe" Another
esolution by this delegation urges
district organising campaigns"
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Held Illegally.

PASSAIC, N. J., Oct. 11.-Claiming
that it is illegal, improper and un-
constitutional to hold the group of
strikers now in jail in Patterson I'M
der bail so preposterously high that
they can never possibly secure it,
John Larkin Hughes, attorney for the
strikers, presented arguments this
morning before Judge Joseph A. De-
laney in the Passaic Court of Com
mon Pleas for the lowering of this
bail, now standing at SS75,OOO for six
men.
Bail Too High.
Bail should be just enough to Sc
cure a defendants appearance before
the court for trial. 1t should be based
upon a mans financial circumstances"
said Mr.. Hughes in his plea for lower
bail. ITO place it so high that it
can never be raised is practically the
same as holding the men without
bail.
THE indictments on which these
men are held were secured on alleged
confessions which they were forced to
make when third degree methods
were used on them. We claim that
these men have been badly beaten.
Confessions secured under asuch cir
cumstances are worthless"
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VIII Discuss Relief.

JACKSONVILLE, H., Oct. II. -
Flood relief work will be discussed
here tomorrow by r. A. Cowles Of the
Illinois Agricultural Association and
a.. "A bureau representative OF flooded
counties. Farm bureau chiefs esti-
mate that 100000 acres OF corn now
are under water in Cass. Brown,
Ccott. ssngamon. Green and Morgan
e0us 20
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Thsy AZ stIII WaItInn.

There were those among the dele
gates who said on last Friday that
the omission Of DR.. Sherwood Eddy's
speech on his European tour was
omitted from the proceedings due to
lack Of time required to set it up in
type in the printshop. They declared
it would surely appear in the minutes
issued in Saturday. But the printed
record OF the proceedings, issued dali
ly, appeared Saturday and still no re-
port Of Dr. Eddy's speech, aItho
the speeches of Miss Anna Fitzgerald.
fraternal delegate of the Woman's In
ternational Union Label League, ap-
peared in full, as did the address of
Miss Rose Schneidermann, fraternal
delegate of the National Woman's
Trade Union League. This will no
doubt be rather rude shock to the
believers in the so-called democracy
with the A. F. of L.. under the Green
Woll-Duncan regime.
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The 40-hour work.week in all IN
dustries is also urged in resolutions
introduced by the Cloth Hat. Cap and
Millinery Workers delegation, as well
as the modification OF immigration
laws in favor Of political and religi
Gus refugees
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tIesIUVuL Nreen mas tried to con-
done the small amount Of financial re-
lief sent in aid of the British miners
by the A. F. Of L., by declaring that
it isn't the amount sent, but the spirit
in which it is sent. There are those
who believe, however, that money
talks louder than words in this case.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-22
Augusta Girls Club
Members Interested
In Washington Trip

Enthusiasm is being manifested py
some of the members of the CLUB,
who are interested In the trip to
washington. D. c.. which will be IN
May. This is biennial convention.
al Of the National League OF Girls
Clubs, of which the Augusta club Is
member. The trip will be one OF
sightseeing and will be both educa-
tional and pleasurable. Each club OF
good standing Is privileged to send
two voting delegates and as many
other members as wish may attend.
The headquarters of the members,
who will be in Washington from May
to 9, will be at the Grace Dodge
Hotel. Registration will begin March
1, at which time the convention fee
Of $3.50 must be paid. This includes
registration. banquet and program
fees.
The approximate cost Of transport
tation from Augusta will be between
$65 and SIS. Further information
may be obtained at the club, where,
on the bulletin board, one may find
pictures and pamphlets concerning
the trip,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-22
County Real Estate
Transfers on File
Registry of Deeds

Inc following deeds conveying real
estate were received and recorded on
thursday at the Kennebec county rep-
istry of deeds:
Augusta-Edna H. Roderick 10 To-
seph n. Roderick, land on Eastern ava
nue. ave-
Belgrade-Albert Furbush to Mavo
Richardson of Smithfield. land on tho
Hore Point road
Chelsea-Charlotte McLaughlin 70
hattie Z. Pierce, land and buildings nm
the Rockland road.
Clnton-Levi W. Steward Of Boston
TO Blanche o. Fletcher of Boston mart
OF a parcel of land known as the sam
uels wood lot; Levi w. Steward to
bianche y. Fletcher, part Of a parcel
oI iahd on the shore Of the Sebasti-
Iooh river ana part of parcel of land
in Burnham.
L1tchfeld-Harold r. Alden ton
White. land and buildings at 1itcb.
field Corner; Mabel Bowie to the I,itcb-
held Mariners Club. land now used a c
trottlng park and fair grounds.
mount Vernon--Edward A. Cottle n
Elmer E. Parkman of Augusta lana
on the shore Of Ingham Pond. Elmer
Z. farkman to Frank A. Dolloff. land
on the shore of Ingham Pond.
Oakland-Sarah l.. Wheeler, Oral r.
wheeler and Lottie NJ. Wheeler to Par.
Ton and Helen NJ. Wrigley, land and
buildings on the Fairfield Center road.
oral L. Wheeler to Barton and uaI.n
"rigley, land known as the bog lot.
Readfie1d-Frank Q. Hackett to war
rem w. RAYMOND and Fred p. RAYMOND
1and and buildings on the Kents Hill,
I.eadneid Corner road and other par
cells of land pal
on,ty Piantation-Lewi w. Stewar
parcels Of land. '"o
Winslow-Zilphia J. WING IN Aro.,.
G. Rhoades. land and buildines "a, .i,e
BaSsett road. vi tue
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-22

gone to a nearby bank to pay the
rent on the place. About Is minutes
later when he returned to the res
taurant the keeper was gone.
Later the witness had seen the
keeper and had been told that
Blackington had relieved him. Isaac
son had not been in the restaurant
when Digman was released.
Denied Promise of Bond
The next morning he had received
a telephone call from Blackington
to come to his office and had done
so. There he had found Backing
ton, Erwin and Digman, and Black
ington had asked him If he did not
had answered that he did not and
that it was not by his authority that
the keeper. had been removed. In
the presence of the other two men
he had said that he did not make
such a promise and that IL Backing
ton felt he had been misled in any
way he would consent to having the
keeper put back in the restaurant.
He testified that the cash register
had later been attached and re-
moved and still later had been re-
turned. He had started to fore
close the mortgage before he heard
of the attachment.
On cross examination he said that
he went to see Blackington first be-
tween 1.30 and 2.30 on the afternoon
of April 1. Blackington was NOT
with him when he went into the res
taurant and talked with Digman late
In the afternoon.
Mr.. Martin declared that he was
one of the original Stockholders of
the Colby Lunch and had since
bought the mortgage at a cost of
about $SOOO. He was told of the
attachment the forenoon of the day
ne and lsaacson went to Wateryille,
or the day before, he could not tell
which. They got to Waterville about
noon or 1 o'clock and the trans.
action was carried. out by Isaacson
as he was empowered by Martin to
look after his interests and had been
representing him in the mortgage
matter. He said that he had re-
fused to give Blackington the bond
although the Waterville lawyer had
asked for it.
Mr.. Digman and Mr.. Blackington
testified in rebuttal that Mr.. Isaac
son had been present when Mr.. Dig
man was released from his duties
as keeper and Mr.. Blackington de-
clared that the defendant had not
been in his office but once on April
l. Mrs. WEIGH recalled declared
that he came into the office late in
the afternoon. remaining there with
Mr.. Blackington for a considerable
length of time and that both men
went out together near the regula r
closing time. Isaacson had not re-
turned before she left the office lust
before 8 o'clock.
Inc defendant also pleaded a stat
utofy defense, saying that according
10 the statute of fraud, even if he
mad made such an oral agreement
ne was not liable, as he had received.
no remuneration for his services
criminal Docket Today
Inc jury was out about Is min.
utes on this case and court was then
ad1ourned until this morning at
9.5o o'clock, when the first criminal
case, that of State VS.. Stanley Wa
shau of Waterville, charged with as
sault with intent to kill upon the
person of Deputy Sheriff Harry
Plnkham, will be taken m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-22
Girls Club Notes

"The Broadcaster", a monthly
paper issued by the Massachusetts
League of Girls Clubs, in its January
number givees accounts of two
birthday parties. The Girls City
Club Of Boston celebrated its seventh
birthday recently, by party held
in its own club-rooms. Mrs. Eva
Whiting, speaker of the evening,
emphasized the important place the
Girls City Club holds in the life
Of Boston Town, and the space
which would be vacant in the COM
munity were 1t not for the club.
The other birthday party was in
celebration of the twenty-fifth BIRTH
day of the New Century Club. The
banquet was held at the Plymouth
Cordage Auditorium, with seventy
seven present, twelve of whom We're
charter members. After the banquet,
with it's several speeches, came dane
ing upstairs with many balloons and
much confetti to add gaiety to the
affair.
Many happy returns to both these
clubs, and may the Augusta Girls
community Club live and prosper
until it can give the account of its
seventh and twenty-fifth birthdays!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-22
Kennebec County
Probate Court for
Week of Jan. 16

The following routine business v,s
transacted at the probate court tbs
week of January IS. 1926:
Guardians appointed-Of Marjor;.
ana Hope Moulton, minors, Of Rsn.
oolph. Katheleen Moulton, Randolnh
guardian; of Evelyn M. WiIlett 81 .Is
minors, OF Clinton, George A. Hodedon
OF Clinton, guardian.
trustees observation-disclosures r. Sfur.
gls OF Augusta. trustee under the viii,
or Elizabeth S. Haynes, late NJ A.
susta, Tor benefit Of Rebecca Sturei.
ct ais, StursiS
inventories f1led-In the estates 90
Dorothy A. Meigs ct al. milors "
augusta; Harriet L. Smith. Iata 70
west Gardiner; Nancy N. Smith at 81
minors, of West Gardiner: EIIsworth
wilson, late of Sidney. - :"
Papers filed for notice-WiII ana ~.
t1tlon for probate thereof of Sarah
harlow WEIGH. late of Augusta. neti.
tlon for administration of the esto+a
OF FRANK III. Woodbury., late of Gard,-
ner; petition for license to sell real &C.
tate OF Nancy N. Smith ct al, minors
OF west Gardiner; petition for admin.
istratfon of Sarah A. Sherburne Iat.
OF Readffeld; first and final account IN
the estate of James L. GoodaIl at ais
minors, Of Litchfield; petition for II,
.cense to exchange real estate OF Mar
Jorie and Hope Moulton, minors. Of
randolph; petition for license TO cell
real estate of Marjorie and Hope MouI-
ton, minors, of Randolph; forcing will
and petition for probate thereof Of
Amanda, M. Chase. late Of Dedham.
Mass.