SUSPICIOUS DEAL WITH MORGAN HOLDS UP NOMINATION OF STONE; D. OF J. CALLED CRIMINALS NEST
SUSPICIOUS DEAL WITH MORGAN HOLDS UP NOMINATION OF STONE; D. OF J. CALLED CRIMINALS NEST Attorney General Charged With "Deliberate Falsehood" in Attempt to Conceal Hit Relations With Money King —...
...It would then be returned to th* House and the Senate and jammed through, by a combination of a reactionary Democrats and Republicans, with no discussion, and (he power trust would win Muscle Shoals...
...free travel on the railway...
...The Paris Government decided to t*ild a plant in the town of Meudon '¦.dispose of the metropolitan gar9fe...
...I predict thst this Wyer pampalet will speedily be- reprinted ia* circulated all over the nation in hug* quantities by the power people or the Big Business interests...
...These accusations, backed by docu-' mentary evidence, are made to President Coolidge, Senator Borah and Senator Brookhart, by It, Momand, an attorney at 120 Broadway, New York...
...Stone Made Flat Denial Among the documents submitted is the copy of a letter written by Stone to Momand on July 22, 1924...
...In garbage there is strength...
...Th* pamphlet* are being distributed...
...j,c ,s th*ikin INDIANA TO OUST PRISON LABOR CONTRACTORS West Virginia Prison Labor Contracts Are Held To Be Illegal...
...Evidence of this alleged conspiracy, Momand says, he laid before Stone as soon as the latter succeeded Daugherty in office last fall, and that since Stone entered office the alleged conspirators, A. T. Seymour and James A. Fowler, have been retained and "are still trusted advisers of Attorney General Stone in the Department of Justice...
...Itoader* who thought we were referring to the World'a financial condition will pleas* stand up...
...C. D. Walcott, Secretary and head of the Smith* sonlsn Institution, who writes sn introduction for the report, in which special attention is called to Wyer's assertions of the superiority of private over public ownership...
...in which Stone "positively denied that he had ever represented J. P. Morgan in any way, directly or indirectly," a denial which he repeated categorically in another letter four days later...
...Senators, Congressmen and other officials are getting them...
...In a year or two you have a wreck of a man...
...His alleged facts about Ontario Hydro are utterly fallacious, misleading and dsmnsble, as will bo quickly be proven...
...INDIANAPOLIS.—The State Reformatory at Pendleton, entrusted with th* car* and correction of the youthful law-breaker* of the State, is itself to be brought to account before Judge Linn D. Hay, of the Superior Court, on th* charge of being a secret violator of the law* which forbid it to traffic in convict labor...
...To make the revolt inevitable, a corrupt and reactionary Congress chose thi* critical moment to enact a law voting to themselves increased •alariea, free meals and...
...Both* Bjtman Zinoviev of Moscow Re platform disguised is uproar would not tor than the jimroes Inkers have raised ¦hington ladies...
...Is Attorney General Stone guilty of "deliberate falsehoods uttered to conceal his relations" with J. P. Morgan & Co...
...5. Other social reform laws...
...That no general revolution was at first intended by the young army men Is indicated by the fact that their first demand upon President Alessandri was simply for th* resignation of some member* of hi* Cabinet But Alessandri did not belong to the Congress majority and was helpless...
...That the A. F. of L. will continue the following statement issuedatLait* fight unabated \. indicated in bor headquarters in Washington: "The bsttls is by no means over...
...rnment...
...The humbler ranks of the army, including many officer*, were driven, by the need to borrow, into the clutches of professional money lender* and of usurious fellow soldiers...
...4. Enactment of a national Labor code...
...Carrie Chapajaa Catt tried hard, but she has fa|*4...
...The National Child Labor Committee has issued the following statement: "The Child Labor Amendment has not been defeated or shelved...
...It is enough to say now that if he is not underwritten by the power trust, he Is a rare and unselfish engineer who is doing Power Trust propaganda at his own *«pense...
...In an injunction suit brought by Lewis Meier and Co., union-made shirt and overall manufacturers of Indianapolis, it is charged that this contract is so drawn as to cloak' the sale of prison labor, forbidden by law, under the guise of a sale of "goods" or "products...
...In conclusion, it is held that Stone "should not be confirmed by the Senate" as a Justice of the Supreme Court, but should be removed as Attorney General and prosecuted for continuing1 the Daugherty criminal conspiracy," which involves "the senior member of J. P. Morgan ft Company, his former clients...
...who Km ta n'ntto...
...So oti January 23 the young army men drove their own Government out of office without firing a ehot, and announced in a manifesto that "we who Were responsible for tho September uprising have decided to depose the National Union chiefs who betrayed our cpntldsnce land TnoJIciously abandoned our program...
...Hemmed in and about to fall...
...A aober aecond thought wil) Be the result where the real fsVtt rVstti theae legislatures " "AdVeVs* action by one or both h»u*M of .thirteen...
...We intend to continue fighting for adequate child labor standards until all American children are protected...
...The others turned •St on condition that while marking ™ ballot with on* hand they had otter hand free—for self defence...
...Favorable action on the amendment has been taken by California, Arkansas and one house of the Montana and Arizona Legislatures...
...That is why I am opposed to the destruction of young manI hood in the prison sweatshop...
...If all the friends of the amendment rally to the cause we shall yet crown the effort with victory snd releas* America's children from their present industrial enslavement...
...A happened in France the other day...
...In fact, it is just beginning...
...Employers of child labor have gone ill" limit In financing thcao campaigns...
...It now appears," Momand charges, "from the record in the Ownbey case, that Attorney General Stone's denials of this relationship . . . were deliberate falsehoods uttered to hide his close relationship with the United Gas Improvement Company, a criminal combination of which K. T. State*bury, a member of the Arm of J. P. Morgan & Company, is s member, and which criminal combination Attorney General Stone has been shielding from prosecution for their flagrant violations of the law since he became Attorney General last fall, as the records show...
...Their proclamation says also that "we wjll call upon tha free majority in Chile to reorganize the nation along constitutional lines, after former President Alessandri has returned from exile and convoked tha constituent assembly...
...It was to be a gathering of ''thoughtful" and "constructive" persons against whom none eouid hsrl the charge "unpatriotic...
...This means that the President of the Senate and the Speaker of tho House could name men on th* Committee favorable to the power -tssjsft thst they could write into the Underwood Bill anything they want to, making it even worse then now...
...prohibition Destroys Liberty...
...His views of the present situation in Russia were accorded a warm reception by the crowded house...
...8. Abolition of political trading by national lawmakers...
...Thank yen...
...Ownbey, and in corresponding gain to the Morgan interests...
...This condition created a bond of sympathy between the army, organised Labor and the thousands of unorganised and impoverished civil servant*, and paved the way for revolt...
...Records submitted by James Ownbey, of Boulder, Col., now "show that Harlan P. Stone represented J. P. Morgan in certain litigation" and that his anions "were grossly irregular and resulted in great financial loss to Mr...
...Proceeds of the sale of The New Leader in tbs theatre were turned over to the relief fund...
...In most of the States where unfavorable action already has been taken there have been organised campaigns of the most despicable nature...
...The impression is at once given t» th* unwary that this is a scientist, employed by th* United States Ohrv...
...But during their four months in office the reactionaries strove only to tighten their hold upon the Government, while ignoring completely the high cost of living, burdensome taxes and unpaid salaries of soldiers and civil servants...
...That action would immediately become a precedent for like disposal of Boulder Canyon, the Colorado River, the Col* iiinIn*, and all other groat power sites...
...League officers pointed out that tha Qfta branch of the Legislature In Texas...
...Even in these thlr ifelt Stales both houses of only four legislator** took definite action against the amendment...
...Oklahoma, South Dakota, Ohio, Washington, Dataware and Wyoming which disapproved the amendment mar reettiaider its action, and that even rejection by both houses ia not . our)usive action...
...oUfteri of the National League for Women Voter* declared in reply to statement* that tha am en il meat had been defeated...
...And the dime novel newspapers from Sandy Hook to the Golden Cite carry the charge in their headissj, Mrs...
...Ho may be devoting all this time and energy—and he spent a week in Toronto recently—for his health, of because of a burning patriotic desire to prevent the people from owning and using their own water-power sites...
...Take a healthy young mountaineer sent up for some shooting affair...
...army men were tricked into giving power to the reactionary National Union party...
...i am J"* Wave Sweeps Nation...
...If you doubt it, consider those "*jdJines from New York dailies: Tjifh Taxes Menace Nation...
...Further charges being rsised agalnat Stent is that he ass joined with former underlings of Daugherty to bring fresh indictment against Senator Burton K. Wheeler, running mate of La Follette in the last campaign...
...w By JUDSON KING^** WASHINGTON__Bight in the middle of th* fight over Muscle Shoals, an agency of the Government hss jumped In to win that great public property for th* Power Trust, This blow st public ownership, ds» iivered by the Rmlthsonisn Institution, comes in the form of a handsomely printed pamphlet *iitill*j "Niagara Falls, Its Power, Posst* bllltles and Preservation...
...Pressing Reforms Promised by New Chilean Government Revolution in Chile has looped the loop and is back where it started in September...
...Is the Department of Justice, presided over by Stone, "a nest of criminals...
...Back salary payments to school tesfher* and civil servants...
...f^non you are asking rich men HsptheVT buil',lnKR yn" ",lml ^R*y m»n who has made his pile ^¦f^OUnded by getitlem...
...The trustees of the reformatory demurred to the complaint, contending that the facts stated in th* application, even if true, were not in violation of the law, that they were not selling the labor of the inmates, but merely the shirt* produced by that labor...
...D. OF J. CALLED CRIMINALS NEST Attorney General Charged With "Deliberate Falsehood" in Attempt to Conceal Hit Relations With Money King — Senate Presses Probe...
...The judgment in this case was afflimed by the United State* Supreme Court in June, 1924...
...Then the whole admin istration and Congress were turned out...
...cent of the voters •W'dn't stand it last November and f»ysd st home...
...He is a private consulting engineer, who lives in Columbus, Ohio, and for th* past two years has been sending out snti-publie owner* Ship propaganda to farm organise* tions, woman'* organisations and others for distribution la quantity...
...The newspapers have been quick t« herald the** allegations...
...It may take two years instead of six months to secure its ratification...
...C'tarettes Deemed Greatest T*wd Books Corrupt Our Youth...
...Our people are used to open-air and outdoor life," he declared...
...in Russia Tuesday night st the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...It is reported that a repealer, full of jokers, has already been drawn up, and is in the hands of an important Senate Committee which is known to be favorable to the contractora...
...Indiana Labor forces are on guard against a possible attempt by the prison ccntractors, now that Judge Hay has put teeth in the laws, to rush through a repeal measure in the last hours of the legislative session...
...i*u t-r*-— $1,000 Raited to Aid Social.»U Imprisoned By Russian Soviet...
...Senator Underwood has been over on the House side personally, lobbying with th* Republican machine leaders to prevent the bill going to a regular committee for minute examination...
...The great Jearnal founded by the late Joseph Pulitzer is granite in the countingloom, but on the aubject of Child tlbor in the United States it is "a fitlSl come to judgment" for the National Association of ManufacWr _ Jteant be done...
...Every Legislature will vote on the amendment...
...St By PAUL HANNA Ha little parable is,* dangerous Roma words were printed in this ¦¦ss last week about the Munsey ZeUpse" which obliterated both the, gm and the Globe...
...concluded...
...The facts are that Samuel S. Wyer is not an employ* of th* Smithsonian Institution at all, and is not on th* payroll...
...In Oklahoma, where the State Supreme Court ruled otherwise, owing to an emergency created at the State penitentiary by the notorious Jack Walton administration, a petition for a rehearing has been filed by the Attorney General, at the instance of the State Federation of Labor...
...6. Immediate improvement of conditions of Labor in private industry...
...Because they lacked experience in politics, the young...
...Ever since the war, wage earners and the lower middle clan in Chile have been suffering from a very high cost of living...
...lew in America we have not Keeked the Meudon stage yet, but ¦ many precincts the smell is so •tjsag that only the brave deserve Fsrty per...
...FIGHT ON CHILD LABOR GOES ON Adverse Action of Some Legislatures Fails to Kill Amendment—A...
...That program, which never received newspaper publicity in the United States, contained the following thirteen points: 1. Revision of the Constitution and immediate revocation of a big salary grab...
...Catt may blush for shame st the stupidity of her countrymen, but if she does the entrenched gunmakers will see in her crimson cheeks nothing but proof of is alliance with Russia...
...He has never been penned in his life, but here he is put to work at a sowing machine in the prison sweatshop...
...Alessandri, now in Italy, is believed willing to return provided certain conditions of his own are accepted by tha young...
...7. Enforcement of the law which pensions ex-soldiers...
...Nation's Vitality Sapped by Di, ****** Bloc Hampers Progress...
...Our answer to the campaign of nnst»pr***ntetion, whloh has hindertd speedy ratification of the children's* amitadment," eaid the statement leened by the organizations far the ratification of the ehiM later amendment "ie an Immediate tBeading up of activity, with tha object of eecuring ratification by the thrrty-thre* States which hare not yet aetae) and reooneideration in the Mates where one or both beutat have rejected...
...I have seen some of these wrecks come I home...
...Attacks Ontario System Significantly enough, th* greater part of this pamphlet is given over to diatribe against the publiclyowned and operated hydro system of Ontario...
...States on the prorysed child labor amendment to the i nrintlftjtion does net signify defect...
...Further unfavorable action will simply postpone present consideration of the amendment...
...Cart Sjjdn't —Vote* and Garpage - Unci* Sena Doomed -The Skin They Love i to Touch...
...Judge Hay, by overruling the demurrer, has brought the issue into the open, where it will be fought out in his court next March...
...And even the' porid has begun to wobble," the HKJbJb...
...We are again at the initial point of our movement," the young army meh say, and they are calling upon the very man they droVe out of office in September, former President Alessandri, to come back and administer their original revolutionary program...
...The Daugherty charges against Wheeler were called utterly groundless by a committee headed by Senator Borah several months sgo...
...The adverse vote of the Legislatures is not final, and we expect aix of the States which have been hurried into adverse action to go on record in favor of the children when they discover that the present scare of a ¦uper-Socialism is groundless...
...Stone, formerly desn of the Law School of Columbia University, is at this moment the Coolidge candidate for a seat on the* Supreme Court Bench...
...Are "criminal acts and practices being carried on with the full knowledge of Stone and President Coolidge, if not under their direction," as formally charged...
...Absolute and permanent eaelu! lion of army and navy men from politics...
...bootlegging Undermines Govcrn¦tnt...
...Favorable action by the other house will bring immediate reconsideration...
...Thi whole iltuatlon calls for a Congressional investigation of the most serious character...
...2. Increased pay for private soldiers and non-commissioned soldier...
...State Senator Harry H. Darnall, who is pressing a bill for the abolition of the contract system, which has been an open sore in the State for many years, is determined that the prisoners shall be given a chance at outdoor work...
...f*m«n Attack National Socureminent divine *nd college ¦got in Philadelphia savs there Ej'y forty dishonest millionaires T^fOMir, the United States...
...Th* seal of reliability i* put upon Wyer's statements by Or...
...Out of the twelve Legislatures taking adverse action to date, only eight registered action in both houses...
...New electros were called...
...Her anti-war conference at Washington was carefully handfjtked to keep out all those militant fritads of peace who might be termed "red...
...The immediate issue is the legality of a contract which the trustees made last April with the Worthy Manufacturing Company, a Chicago concern, of which Max Cowen is president...
...I do not lay that h* is financed by the power, people...
...The pamphlet i* written by one Samuel S. Wyer, whose title U gives as "Associate in Mineral Technology, United State* National Museum...
...The ruling was rendered in a suit brought by Neely and Lively, the law firm of United States Senator Neely, on behalf of a taxpayer named Jolliff, who contended that the State Treasury was losing enormous sums through these "secret and collusive contracts," whereby the labor of hundreds of ablebodied men ib sold for as low as seventy cents per day to a subsidiary of the notorious "convict Labor trust...
...MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., Janu ary 27...
...Now if both gentlemen will resume their sest* we will add that their error—perfectly natural so leag as Munsey survives—is quite groundless...
...said Secretary Morrison of the Federation...
...Meudon rebelled and its adBistration resigned...
...Crisla in Congress The Underwood Bill was passed by the Senate and sent to the House last week...
...Ml* Sam, Columbia, Pillars of wernment and everything else we Wd dear are going plumb to the •Jril...
...army men...
...F. of L. Renews Fight...
...The funds collected in this country are forwarded to Berlin, where they are applied to practical relief work among the Russia n Socialists in Soviet jails...
...Just A Word fjmtjs, Not Finance—Mr...
...9. Immediate resignation by Ministers of Justice, Finance and War...
...GOV'T ISSUING POWER TRUST" PAMPHLET Smithsonian Institute Attack* Ontario System of Public Ownership...
...It will come because it is now being rejected from a foolish fenr that all labor will be prohibited and all chores forbidden, rather than from adequate reasons...
...The light oujht to be let in on the methods thmt have been employed and that art bains employed to bringabout the continued emlmmtil of children in indue try...
...There has been no hesitation about resorting to gross misrepresentation nor about engendering all kinds of prejudice...
...Abont $1,000, which will go for tha aid of political prisoners in Russia,' victims of Soviet suppression of .Socialist opponents, waa realised at the result of a theatre party held by the Society for Relief of Political Prisoners...
...All of these "criminal seta snd pracUcea . . . are being carried on with the fall knowledge of Attorney General Stone and President Coolidge, if BOt under their direction, an I have abundant iec ord proof which I am prepared to submit," Momand declares...
...He wants a special rule passed to permit this bill to be sent direct to a Senate and House Conference Committee...
...Watch for it...
...More pay for gendarmes, police and rank and Ale of srmy and navy...
...He'visit hi of the i income tax law...
...In South Dakota, North Dakota, Delaware and Wyoming, only one House rejected...
...Despite exultant announcements of the "defeat" of the child labor amendment by the National Association of Manufacturers and such Senatorial stand-patters as Senator Wadsworth of New York and Gray of Delaware, the National Child Labor Committee and the American Federation of Labor believes the amendment is far from lost...
...Agitation against the sweat shops in the State penitentiary has gained fresh impetus because of a ruling handed down yesterday by Judge P. D. Morris, of the Circuit Court, according to which the present contracts are declared illegal because they have been made secretly, in evasion of the law which requires four weeks' advertising for bids in at least two State newspapers...
...Bobbed Hair Pollutes Modesty...
...illst the same, there are times •ksa the right, left and center in politics can and do stand together...
...In New York State a majority of the legislators are pledged in favor of the amendment by both party platforms...
...While voting that salary grab, member* of the Congress dared to abuse some young army men who had gathered in the galleries to witness the stealing...
...Railway workers and other Labor groups executed a big strike against tho usurpers hs December...
...Says Coolidge Knows Facts In consequence of this conduct by Stone, it is charged, "the United Gas Improvement Company and its officials have been permitted to dismiss the indictment against themselves and dismiss the suit to dissolve that criminal combination...
...3. Payment of back wage* due the rank and file of the army and, if funds are available, to non-commissioned officers...
...Momand holds that "a criminal conspiracy in the Department of Jua1 li-f" was begun under the administration of former Attorney General Daugherty to dismiss indictment found against the United Gas Improvement Company in New York two years ago...
...There is a rebellion in the Senate against his elevation to the highest court in the land, and a growing interest everywhere in the question whether he is a man capable of "deliberate falsehoods," officially uttered, and is harboring "a nest of criminals" in the Department of Justice...
...Mquor Dealer* Defy Authorities...
...No good legislation osn be permanently scared into defeat...
...But the source of the** figures I* not liven...
...For f charge, "heads a i the United States similar to that which led to the ?lUblishment of Soviet Russia...
...jP™ the only time on record W*ly man has vouched for the jP™te honesty of 4,000 other men...
...Conservatives, Milt all, Socialists and Communists Jkyeetted the polls en bloc, and there is today nobody in office to carry out Ik* Pari* order...
...Similar efforts to circumvent Stato laws have been ruled out fay the Stato courts of Utah and Arkansas, and by a Federal Court in Kentucky, in the famous Bromwell case...
...Rafael Abramowits, one of the leaders of the Socialist opposition to Bolshevism, spoke between the acts...
...The Society for Relief of Political Prisoners in Russia was organized about two years ago and is one of njore than a score of similar organizations throughout the world, federated through international headquarters in' Berlin...
...The progress of the case will be watched with keen interest not only by the Labor forces of Indiana, but by all prison reformers and others interested in social legislation throughout the country, as the Worthy contract is typical of many others which have recently been made in those States where public opinion no longer permits the open, snd generally corrupt, contracting or leasing of prison labor as such...
...I do not assert, because I bars not the facts to prove in court as this juncture, that Wyer Is sn undercover propagandist for the power combine...
...Since then a voice over the tele ¦Else assure* us that the World has Bajajaasd its advertising a whole ieTand that its owners have really at thought of selling the paper...
...The young army junta, which put a dictatorship in force, now denounces that dictatorship for "delivering the country to an oligarchy" and have thrown it out...
...The World's wobble—to be quite simple—is not iasncial but moral...
...There are more ways of taking a* joy out of a newspaper than by tilling it to Munsey...
...Figures are given to show that the enterprise is not solvent, and that its management has deceived the public and that as a mat* ter of fact, it Is $10,147,014 short of the actual cost of th* service fur* nished by it—which cost future ta» payers will have to make good...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 5
