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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
BY SAMUEL A. HERMAN

Chicago is becoming enYeloped in
an artificial fog of ballyhoo, spread
from out of the Administration Build
ing of the Century of Progress" Ex-
position.
The sponsors Of the Fair" are try
ing their best to Great the illusion in
the mind of the workers that the Ex-
position is purely scientific" one
meriting the support Of all persons
This scientific" Fair is supposed tc
be entirely divorced from the class
struggle and completely devoid Of any
political aim.
But among the large nations Of
the world, only the Soviet Union was
not invited.
A Capitalist Line-Up.
1t may be well to look into the Off
Gals of the Worlds Fair. Among the
eighty names listed as the Board Of
Trustees of the Fair, are the follow
ing: Rufus c. Dawes, Edward F
Swift, Samuel Insul, Col. Sprague, D
F. Kelley, George w. Dixon, Genera
Abel Davis Potter Palmer, Col. R. r
Mccormick, etc. a veritable Who's
Who of the ruling class Of Chicago
There are also listed the names of 6
few nationally known capitalists Oh
their henchmen such as Edward N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
FREE RENT? FREE F0OD COPS BATTER JOBEss NEGR
Workers Cell

altogether in my whole life.'
His oldest sister, he said, gave him
lessons at home.
"WHEN did you first get to realize
W that a Negro worker ought to
fight side by side with his white
brothers?" 1 asked Snipe.
1T was in 1929" he replied. zone
day in Harlem-along Lenox Ave-
there was meeting on the corner
and they was talking about John H.
Wilkinson, a Pullman porter, who
was pulled off the train and lynched
down in Georgia. So stopped. 1
knew what they was saying was true.
After the speaker got through, they
invited us up to their headquarters.
Later, joined the Unemployed
Council"
Describes Police Attack
did you have any experience with
the police before last week. 1 asked
Snipe.
'"They arrested me once before, /"
he answered. ut was at the Charit-
able Organization Society, a Negro
organization, about 80 months ago.
I went there with a woman as a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
The Morgan Empire
Billion Dollars of Capital Investment Controlled by
Small Financial Clique

The hearings have brought from
the Morgan firm statement that
they hold about 10 directorships in
American corporations. This is less
important than the unmentioned fact
that these banks and corporations in
which Morgan partners are directors
had on January /, 1882, about s25
billions Of assets according to study
just completed by the writer. But
even this is only one small part Of
the story.
Practically as close to the House Of
Morgan are the companies linked by
cross directorships with the First
National Bank of New York and with
Bonbright a. Co. First National Bank
has been closely allied with Morgan
for more than fifty years After the
Pujo Committee hearings, Morgan
and partners resigned from the board
Of the bank, but three of them sit
tight on the board Of the First Ma
tionaTs Siemese twin, the First Sc
curity Co. Morgan control Of First
National is unquestioned. Bonbright
e. Co. is a private banking house
which has grown rich and powerful
in recent years as part Of the Nor
gan apparatus in the profitable field
Of public utilities.
Connections Of First National and
Bonbright add another s25 billions
to the assets of corporations domi-
mated by the Morgan group. Beyond
these $50 billions which represent al
most one sixth Of the corporate
wealth in the United States are other
billions brought within the sphere
Of Morgan influence by Morgan men
outside Of the Morgan firm, the First
National Bank and Bonbright g. Co.
If all their connections could be fol-
lowed through, it would probably
show an outer circle representing an
other so billion dollars operating
within the Morgan sphere Of influ-
ence.
Morgan is deliberately playing
down the extent Of his empire. Di-
rectorships are only one way Of
welding power Floating of secyri-
ties and granting Of loans to corpo-
rations is quite as important. Here
Morgan has power far beyond the
billions that pass through the hands
of his firm and his inner ring Of
banks. There are rival bankers, Of
course, but few survive any attempt
to buck up against Morgan and put
over concerns and policies to which
Morgan is actively opposed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27

grabbed me by the neck. And they
all started beating me again,
"THEN the guy that takes the finger
kprint5 walked in and he said,
Just minute now. that's wrong
that's no way to beat a prisoner with
blackjacks and clubs. This is the way
to beat him He picked up a
chair, and that's the time he
hit me across the shoulder and he
knocked me down. There was a table
so slid underneath the table. So
he took the chair and beat me with
the chair. I was stretched under the
table and they kicked me until they
knocked me out underneath the table
Then they got a bucket of water and
threw it in my face. But I didn't
move anyway, because 1 knew if I
moved, they would beat me up some
more. Then they put my head down
in the water in the sink They put me
on chair, and said This guy is
dying We better call an ambulance. ;
The ambulance doctor came about
five minutes later. He said, I be-
lieve this fellow is in very bad shape,
We better get him to the hospital
as quick as possible. Just then
woke up. 1t was good thing, be-
cause If this guy took me TO the
hispital, would never get out any
more. I figured they would give me
something and kill me. When / woke
up, they didn't take me to the hos
pital. They took me and they locked
me up all alone in the cage until
the patrol came to take me dC>l
to the central police headquarters
on Center Street.
when we got there, I laid down
on the bench waiting until they took
some more pictures of other fellows.
And when they got ready for me,
this cop came over to me and he
jagged me and he said, Get up, you
bastard This cop never saw me be-
fore. He only did 1t because I was
Negro. They took my picture and
they went upstairs and asked the
captain whether I could stay down
there that night. They told them,
yes. So they locked me up.
Il ran into some OF the white com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
legion Officials

to Barre from miles around to see
the soldiers and find out what was
going on in our City; the crowd did
lot attack or modest the soldiers in
any way or manner, the people we're
just standing about watching the
soldiers.
"At about 4:30 pm. an officer of the
National Guard came into Main st.
opposite the entrance to Granite st.
and facing in general northerly
direction ordered the crowd to dis
perse, he at once turned toward the
southeast and repeated the order to
dispense; Immediately thereafter and
without giving the crowd any time
or opportunity to dispense the Of
ficer blew his whistle and a group
of about seventy-five soldiers who
had been previously drawn up across
the entgEnce to Granite ST., at once
charged the crowd with fixed bay
onets, cutting, wounding and tearing
the clothing of men, women, and
children Unfortunately The crowd
taken completely by surprise by such
brutal and cowardly assault fell
back and scattered as rapidly as
possible. The officers and soldiers
not content with their vicious and
unnecessary bayonet charge then
proceeded in squads to drive the
people into stores, up alleys, and
along Main st. at the point of bay
onets; officers fourished automatics
in the faces of men, women and chill
dren. In several instances threaten
ing business men on their own pro-
perty with death if they did not get
inside their stores and close their
doors
Greatest Provocation"
'"The only thing that prevented the
situation from becoming q bloody
holocaust was the remarkable self
control, tolerance and good nature
of the people under the stress of the
greatest provocation. At the same
time these acts were taking place
near Granite Street a truck load of
soldiers was unloaded near the fire
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
Legion Members Hit Use of
Militia in Vermont Strike
Resolution Scoring Terror Adopte Barre Post Heads
Legion Officials

BARRE, Vermont, May 26. - The
strike of the Barre quarry workers
now in it's eighth week remains I'M
shaken although not only police ter
ror and brutality but also the armed
forces of the state have been mobi-
lized against them. The struggle Of
these workers becomes more deter
mined in spite Of all attempts by
the bosses. the courts aSd the gov
eminent to break it. The workers
are on strike against a wage cut.
The following resolution which
describes so wildly the actions of
the National Guard was adopted by
the local American Legion Post over
the heads of county and state of
ficials of the Legion who tried to
quash it, The local press refused
to print it. Space does not permit
the full reprint of the resolution but
we are republishing sections of the
resolution as follows:
Resolution
WE, the members of the Amer
lean Legion, Barre Post No. 10, and
Ex-service men of the City of Barre,
Vermont, in special meeting, as
sembled this 18th day Of May, 1888,
for the purpose Of informing the
people of the State of Vermont and
the United States of America of the
abominable acts and conduct of the
officers and soldiers of the National
Guard in our City and to protest
against the presence Of the National
Guard and the acts of those respon-
sible for sending it into our City,
do state that on Tuesday, May 9th,
soldiers OF the National Guard, with
out any warning, threw gas bombs
amongst crowd of men, women and
children assembled near Granite st.
THAT on May 18th about pm.
a crowd of about one thousand
people gathered on Main st. OPP
posite the entrance to Granite St.;
it was good natured crowd Of men.
women and children, it was COM
posed of curious individuals goodly
proportion of whom had driven in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
By A. ROCHESTER

The Morgan financial network.
surprising in its ramifications and
power, any money empire that has
ever existed, reaches every industry
and bank in the United States. A
special study just completed by the
author conclusiyely shows that the
Morgan partners and directors hold
key places in firms with total assets
Of $25,00O,000 900.
But this is not the whole story.
The Morgan company is closely al
lied with the First National Bank
and the Bonbright Company.
The First National Bank and the
Bonbright Company control another
S25, 900, 00O 900 of assets.
In addition, the Morgans exercise
powerful influences through other
channels on companies totalling,
probably, at least another s50000,-
100000.
The aggregate Morgan Empire is
the colossal wealth Of over one hun
dred billion dollars
Unlike the Morgan hearings in
1912, the present grand show in
Washington is making no pretense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27

delegate from the Unemployed Coun-
Gil to get relief for her. She had
three little kids and they were put
ting her off for months and never
gave her anything. SO a delegation
of six went there and demanded that
they give this woman relief, that we
wouldn't leave until they did. Well,
they refused to give her relief. In
stead, they called the police. They
put us in Jail and charged us with
disorderly conduct. We stayed in
jail only about 8 hours, though. The
Social Director of the organization
came down and said she didn't want
to press any harges."
CNIPE told of the Harlem demon
" stration last week. When the crowd
gathered and they put the leader
up to speak, the cops called me, and
said, Come here, Snipe.' SO I walk
ed up here. They said, Whose lead
ing the delegation T said I don't
know anything about whose running
the delegation. They said, Move the
meeting down the street I said
I am not running this meeting, SO
/ can't tell them. Later they called
the reserves. They jumped out and
commenced to jug the crowd with
the clubs, and they tell me, Back
up was standing near the curb
A cop was Juggling me in the stomach,
telling me to back up. Well, was
backing up as fast as / could. Then
one of the investigators said, Get
that guy over there He is on parole
now for one year This was a lie
My case had been dismissed. SO
they arrested me.
Beaten BY Cops
Before they arrested me, z cops
beat me until they knocked me out.
They beat me with bilIies and black
jacks. They beat me all over. They
took me away and put me in the
reserve wagon, me and another color
ed woman. The inspector said, Take
that guy in my car and take him
down to the police station SO they
put me in the car to carry me to
the police station. And these COPS,
while we were going along the road,
they hit me a couple Of times in
the face. They took me over TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27

Of uncovering the extent Of the Nor
gan power. Twenty years ago a SEN
ate subcommittee, headed by Sen
ator Pujo, hired Samuel Untermyer,
who had been attorney for some
anti-Morgan interests, to delye into
the power Of the Money Trust headed
by j. P. Morgan.
The elder j. P, who died the fol-
lowing year. was crisp and defiant.
But Untermyer got into the record a
lot of interesting facts. Some laws
were passed which looked as If they
might make it harder for Morgan to
hold such tight grip on his inner
circle of New York banks, but no
thing really happened. Smart law
yers were ready to tell Morgan how
he could do what he wanted to do
and the past 20 years have seen an
enormous increase in the Morgan
power.
Today the present J. p. is suave
and ready to answer. He knows that
Pecora is not attempting to show him
up as the real top No. boss Of the
United States. Also, he knows that
courts and government are more sol
idly behind him than they were in
1912
Uncertainties about the U s. Stee.
Corporation and the Supreme Court
were bothering Morgan in 1912
Standard Oil and the Tobacco Trust
had been compelled to break up into
groups Of apparently competing CON-
panies, and a case against u. S. Stee
was pending.
Now the smiling agent of Wal
Street in the White House is put
ting through an emergency Indus.
/ trial Recovery Bill which frankly
abandons the principles of the anti.
trust law and sets up legal apparatus
for open monopoly for the duration
of the present emergency. Roosevelt
is preparing the fascist period wher
| the government becomes openly {
dictatorship in the interest of thu
capitalist class. Nothing could be far.
Their from the essential trend thar
Frank Palmer's mailing in the Fed
Grated Press a transfer of power from
Wall Street to Washington. Wal
Street is more securely than ever il
control at Washington, and Wal
Street is dominated by the House o
Morgan. The little circus at the Sen
ate Office Building is useful il
throwing the petty bourgeois critic
of Wall Street off the scent Of tn,
main trail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
BY SENDER GARLIN

NEW YORK.-"One of the
cops said, you want free food !?
and kicked me in the stomach.
The next cop said, You want
free rent?' and hit me in the face.
Another said, You want free gasp
and struck me in the back of the
head. Blood was running from my
mouth. 1t was in q small room in
the back of the 126th st. police sta
ton"
Hamnlie Snipe, 28-year- old Negro
worker told this TO the Daily Work
er after he had recovered sufficiently
to be able to talk coherently. His
arm was in sling, his shoulder
broken with possible internal in
iuries-his head battered and his
body covered with welts.
Only Snipe's powerful physique
he weighs 1856 poHnds-saved him
from death at the hands of the
police. He is now free on bail fac
ing trial on charge OF simple
assault"
The attack on Snipe took place
last Friday after he had been ar
rested with other hungry Negro and
white workers before the Harlem sta
ton of Home Relief Bureau.
Snipe, who is married and has a
six-year-old daughter has been out
of work for nearly 20 months. A
manhole builder, he earned as much
as s42 week in recent years.
Came From South
Before coming to New York sin
1898, when Hoover was elected, -
Snipe had worked in a grading camp
in Texas and at cement-finishing in
various parts of Florida and in Bir-
mingham, Ala.
Born in st. Matthews, so. Carolina
the son of sharecropper, Snipe
early became conscious of the
whole system of peonage in the Black
Belt. I'VE had six in our family
and we never get anything out OF
our labor. BY the end of the year,
when the crop was made, always my
dad owed the landlord
Six months schooling is all Snipe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27

126th st. Station. When got over
there, the captain asked the police
What have you got this guy for?'
He said, Can you imagine this dirty
mug fighting a cop?' That's what
the policeman said TO the captain.
The captain said, Why didn't you
kill the black son-of "a itch?' He
said, The trouble is with these dam
niggers in Harlem, they come up
here from the south and they got
too much freedom. You ought to be
down in Alabama and get hung with
the rest of the damn niggers.'
II said I did not hit the COP. I
said the cop was beating me up and
by me trying to keep the blows off
my head, I put my hand up. He
said AN these reds ought to be dead
anyway He said i was red and
I ought 10 be dead And so the
captain asked the police, What you
going to charge him with?' The
police said, I don't know The
captain then said, Suppose we
charge him with disorderly conduct.
And at the same time, a plainclothes
cop walked up and he said Charge
that guy with disorderly conduct,
he'll! Charge him with felonious
assault. He's on parole anyway for
a year They took me into room
where they take fingerprints. And
the guy who takes the fingerprints
said, I am not ready for him yet.
Take him ever to the sitting room.
They took me to the sitting room.
There were six plain clothes men
waiting for me.
Third Degree
80 hey sat me on chair like
this, and they got all around me and
sat down. And one OF the cops said
You want free food, ehp' and he
kicked me in the stomach The
next cop said, You want free
rent and he hit me in the face.
Another one said, You want free
gas and ne kicked me. They kept
this up, repeating the words all the
time. Then the police inspector, a
short fellow, he walked up and said,
When I told you to move in front
OF the Home Relief Bureau, why
didn't you move, you son Of q bitch,
and he said, IN kill you and he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
In the Pay OF
Morgan

WASHINGTON, May 26.-Secre-
tary Of the Treasury, Woodin, got a
letter from J. P. Morgan & Co. say
ing I'VE are thinking of your The
letter contained an offer to Woodin
of quick. safe, and easy stock mar
ket profits.
John j. Raskob, chairman of the
National Democratic Committee ALSO
got one of these letters from the
Morgans. Writing from Palm Beach,
Raskob wrote, II hope that the fu-
ture will give me the opportunity to
reciprocate.'
The following is partial list of
leading capitalist politicians who
were being Thought Of" by the Nor
gans, and who, no doubt are willing
ito reciprocate".
OFFICIALS OF THE ROOSEVELT
GOVERNMENT.
VIII. WOodin, Secretary of the Treas
ury. Close personal friend of
Roosevelt.
William G.. McAdOo, Senator from
California. Political and f1nan-
cial adviser OF Roosevelt
Norman II. Davis, Chief Delegate at
the Disarmament Conference at
Geneva. Roosevelt's adviser on
foreign affairs.
Owen d. Roberts, Associate Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court
FORMER GOVT OFFICIALS.
Calvin Coolidge, former President OF
the United States.
Charles G. Dawes, former Vice Pres
ident of the United States. All
4 thor of the Dawes Plan for Ger
man Reparations.
Charles Francis Adams, former Sec
rotary of the Navy
John w. Davis, former Ambassador
to Great Britain, Democratic
Candidate for President in 1924
Morgan's lawyer.
Newton ID. Baker, former secretary Of
war, leading politician in the
Democratic Party.
Bernard Baruch, former Chairman
of the War Industries Army.
Frank L. Polk, ex-Assistant Secretary
of State.
Robert e. OIds, former Under Secre-
tary of State.
NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS.
John ]. RaslEob, Democratic Nationa
Chairman.
Joseph n. Mutt, Treasurer of the Re-
publican National Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-27
100000 A Year in
s1Graft on Waterfront
TAnmany and A. F. L. Leaders SWindle N Y.
Longshoremen in Job Selling Racket

Brooklyn. All delegates of the lila.
collect. This runs into hundreds Of
thousands of dollars yearly.
Tammany Hall sells Jobs on Mum
son Line! In order to work on the
Munson Line one must go to a demo-
cratic club in Brooklyn and get a
card for three dollars. This is work
for day or two If more than SIS
is made on the job. two more dollars
must be paid to the democratic club.
There are many other petty rackets
that are worked by the stevedore
bosses, who are like the delegates of
the LILA, also getting a slice of the
juicy plums of profit collected from
the workers. Just last week one Of
these stevedore bosses, a Mr.. MARITIME,
who works for Castillino Brothers
Stevedoring Co., on Pier 19 in Brook
Ign was exposed as the leader of the
biggest crimp system ever heard of.
Mr.. Marine doesn't shape-up the
men at the pier. He hires men thru
chain of boarding houses in Brook
Ign. Mr. MARITIME is a bootlegger who
has organized these boarding house
owners to buy his wine In return
he hires men from the boarding
houses who are assured that they will
be able to collect rent. But there
are not enough jobs and so there is
competition between the boarding
house owners. Mr.. MARITIME hires the
most men from the house that buys
the most wine and the man that buys
the most wine from the boarding
house owner gets the jobs.
ButtOn- Selling
In order to be member of the
| LILA. man must join the union and
receive book. This used to cost $50
but now the delegates will sell books
for So and So for the button. But
then one does not have to have a
book, a button is all it takes to get
jobs.
In face of these facts, which every
| longshoreman on the waterfront
knows. do you think Mr. Ryan, you
can go down on the docks and con-
vince these longshoremen that there
are no rackets when due to these very
same rackets the conditions have be-
come so unbearable that longshore-
men are beginning to revolt.
What happened last week in Brook
Ign will take place again and again
until the whole system of graft and
/ corruption has been driven away from
/ the waterfront and the rank and file
members will take possession of the
LILA. and will force the steamship
owners to give them decent living and
working conditions on the docks. And
no smoke-screens of lily-white trade
unionsism will be used in order to
cover up your vicious attacks against
the standard Of living of the workers
within the American Federation of
| Labor