The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
ANOTHER "SMOKE-FILLED ROOM
(From The Daily Worker

Colonel Osler just walked in and forced Colonel Stew
art to take $759,000 in bonds. Colonel Stewart didn't
think he entitled to the money and protested 81
don't to have any of these profits" But Osler
firm He budozed poor Stewart, president of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, and tyrannically
compelled him to receive the three quarters of million
dollars in bonds. Stewart did not think to ask Osler
where the funds came from, and he didn't give re-
ceipt for them. He didn't make even a memorandum
Of the date which he received the bonds-n fact he
didn't open the package, and when afterward he
wrote document pertaining to the subject he did it
with pencil not to have to trust stenographer
But there couldn't have been anything dishonest about
it because Stewart didn't ask where the three quarters
of a million came from.
This diotic tale is the explanation which Thomas j.
Walsh, Standard Oil Servant from Montana is now
putting publicly to for the huge corruption
by which Coolidge holds office and which affects
his entire cabinet participants accomplces to the
swindle
John D. Rockefeller Jr, who is the owner of Senator
Walsh, and who is clearly as deep in the affair
as Harry Sinclair (but who is bigger and therefore
"holier" than Sncair), is being protected from the
investigation by the investigators" Rockefeller was
put the stage by Walsh to trke holierthan thou"
pose, and the capitalist press bowed down to worship
Rockefeller as the outstanding representative of
honesty in business" Rockefeller publicly "dsapprov-
ed OF Stewards refusal to give information as to the
whereabouts of the three-quarters of million of Con-
tnental oil graft-but few days later saw to it that
Stewart elected chairman of the board of directors
of the Rockefeers Standard Oil Co. of Indiana While
Rockefeller taking the holy pose on the witness
stand and while Walsh, his servant and head of the
investigation grovelng before the sanity Rock
efener, the threequarters of million in graft funds
were lying in the safe of Rockefeers Standard Oil Co.
of Indiana. For public consumption Rockefeller scoded
Stewart then in private permitted Stewart to be elected
TO head the Rockefeller properties in the Indiana cor
OTofIO ff0nO s~a1,
framed-up trial, Rockefellers Stewart comes
forth with his childish tale as an explanation of the
gigantic government graft
And Walsh himself stepped over the heads of the
other members of the committee to provide Stewart
legal way out" from the danger Of prosecution for
his earlier refusal to testify
Of course the tale that Walsh is fabricating through
this manipulation of the investigation is intended to
protect all the bribegvers, brbe-takers and general
swindlers well as the chief of the oil ring. Calvin
Coolidge
Of course the committee of senators is fabrcatng
huge historical lie of childish righteousness
The investigation" farce has reached new stage.
1t is quite evident that both the republican and the dem
ocrac parties to be protected and have agreed on
this swinde to the high and mighty grafters both
pohtlclans and corporation heads. How could it he
otherwise with both Andrew w. Mellon and John D
Rockefeller Jr., involved? The political servants of
the different groups of corporation interests have
to an agreement under the orders of Rockefeller and
Mellon Walsh, Rockefeler's servant, has stirred up
nothing but whitewash
The corruption which the senate pretends To nvest
gate had its starting point in the famous smokefied
room IN Chicago hotel at 2 a.m"-at the conference
by the aid of which Harding Coolidge Sinclair Jess
Smith, Harry Daugherty, Jake Hamon Albert B Fall.
Andrew w. Mellon and Rockefeller started these two
wonderful administrations of the government of the
United States.
l0OV fbo
end in another smoke-filled ROOM in the senate bld
ng The agreement reached there is just as foul with
corruption as the huge swindle of 1920 through the
proceeds of which Harding and Coolidge bought their
election
This is capitalist government. This is the rule of
tne capitalist class The servants Investigate" their
masters and find them innocent