SOUTHERN G. O. P. DELEGATES REFUSE TO STAY BOUGHT; $34,000,000 PATRONAGE WHIP
Southern G.O.P. Delegates Refuse to Stay Bought; $34,000,000 Patronage Whip $1,000 Each Lowden's Scale of Pay—Hoover Recaptures Five Strayed or Stolen Lambs 1£ANSAS City—Southern delegates...
...Was there any conversation with Butter about it...
...When I objected to it, Butler toughed and said the workers of New Bedford would be glad to work for nothing before he got through with them...
...All the Republican votes, he said, were in SS of the 254 counties...
...A. Yes...
...Two thousand children iitiSutBsfl sag gallons of soup and 1.000 loaves of breed today at one of the otoliliullag saattosa, and more than five hundred wore tnraed away...
...While they were classed as radicals by us, it was merely to impress Butler with the idea that New Bedford was filled with radicals and there was great need for the Sherman Service...
...The speakers were Impressed with the relief work being carried en by the Hew Bedford) Textile Council...
...Q. Can you outline the essential subject matter of your conversations with Butter...
...After an aft night search, Greer located the sttostng delegates la an out-of-the-way gin mill...
...Couldn't Fay Rent Mrs...
...Lowden, picking bb a Negro delegate here and there...
...Butler, G.O.P...
...Informed to D. of J "You kept a file of what were known as radicals in New Bedford...
...Where the <7UkP...
...He invariably repeated the conversations he had with Butler to me so that I was always advised as to Batter's position in regard to the operation...
...I went with it end was in-, structed to turn it over to the office of the Department of Justice at the post office and to give the department officials the files...
...The bulk of this patronage to in the postal service...
...Republican Nattonal Committeeman from South Carolina, notable chtefly for never wearing a cravat, to, according to statistics, it te contended, able te control 33d of these offices, with total salaries of »493,J7l, and Walter P. Cohen, a negro official at New Orleans, 284 offices with salaries of about .$614,000...
...A. He was anxious to learn who the active union leaders were...
...The Treasury Department and the Department of Justice also have many offices...
...Nor do they include rural carriers and four-clam postmasters, i It tints wader Civil Service law, but nevertheless forming an important part of the pstronage during the pest nfttaen years...
...Hoover, aad his managers revealed themselves as no novices in this game...
...Five Votes Get Lest The Hon...
...The other counties could not possibly have held conventions because there were no Republicans to hold them, was the harden of hie protest...
...Miller Carnec...
...Donahue years later told Fred Moore, chief counsel tor Sacoo and Vanaetti, the whole story...
...A. Yes...
...sag offices under the Treasury Department, with salaries aggregating tl,373,640, and 355 offices under the'Department of Justice, with tots] salaries of S9M.715...
...uauuBBlly supervises the distribution...
...With my father eat en strike now far eight weeks sB ef say moth it's savings are gene, se I'm going te tat bar haws the money set sense for sty tdsmftea...
...and Bread Son Out By Frank Manning NSW BEDFORD.—With the eahsuttion of several of the local sbMobs* it am uries and the dwindling of the msmmr reserves of the 30,000 strikers of New Bedford, the Textile Council to stead with a serious relief rituatkte...
...Q. In determining policies and the amount of expenditures and methods to be pursued, was Butler the directing genius of this work...
...Mill Workers His Slaves Exploiter of Textile Workers Shares with Mellon Rule of the Republican Convention (By A New Leader Cerreeaoaosat) Kansas City.—Behind the blaring ef tta-herna, the flood ef canned pabtteity ntetesBBBte by contending Repabtfesa poMHctows, the en deem droll of heckneyad "erateca," two men loass as the big booses in the G. O. P. convention...
...Money and pontics...
...Clark Greer, Republican patronage dispenser in Georgia, took no chances with the 11 Negroes in the Georgia delegation of 16...
...Probably 3500 children took soup and a loaf of bread home- yastordaP from the Washington Club alone...
...cash and promises of patronage, an elaborate preconvention drive to round up as many Southern votes as possible,—these are some ef the hanahtesstoaa on which tte solemn Republican duty of picking a president depends...
...Q. Those meetings with Butler were either at the Wamsutta Club in New Bedford or at Butler's office, 77 Franklin St., Boston...
...The wealth of the chairman of the National Republican Party to, based on his vast holdings hi New Bedford cotton mills...
...That both should Intesmingle to natural...
...One thousand dollars each was the market price, and Lowden almost 'picked up five of them at that price...
...Congressman Wurxbach appealed for the seating of a roster of anti-Hoover delegates from Texas, said that the "state convention" at which the Hoover delegation had been named was "illegal, fraudulent" and a number of other crimes in the Republican repertoire...
...Carries, new af Chicago, has been rwtthng far Mr...
...Hired Labor Spies Butler's record in those years has been bared by A. M. Donahue, hired by Sherman Service, expert labor espionage concern, to head a crew of union wreckers to operate in New Bedford at the behest of the Manufacturers' Association just organised by Butler...
...Nevertheless that out-of-luck quartet, Lowden, Curtis, Dawes and Watson who modestly took the name of the "Allies", after the aggregation of nations who fought in that minor battle known as The-World War, never gave up hope of capturing a few of the Negro delegates' votes...
...Bread b Phhgmltd Mrs...
...They ware taken to the soup kitchen of the WerfcIngmen's Club where they saw MOO attic children line up with their pells aad go away with warm, nutritious pea soup and bread...
...Not ten of the 254 committees In Texas had held legal conventions, be said...
...Tusday arrived and the five'wave not to be seen...
...gtreagth Lies In the ten South Atlantic and Gulf States, where patronage to handled under the "referee" system during Republican Administrations, Important office* not classified under the civil service now number a few more than 4,000 and carry total salaries amounting to a little more than *8,300,000 annually...
...A. 3...
...These figures do not embrace prohibition offices now to promts ef classification under the crvfl service, which number 479 in the South and pay total salaries of $845^60 annually...
...Consequently every presumption points to the conclusion that Butler's ideas of how to fight his workers are much the same today...
...Q. As I understand, you continued to see Butler approximately once a month during the course of the years 1918-31...
...another speaker...
...He Immediately suspected hb comrade Republican and former Georgia co-worker...
...At tunes of strike we were to encourage those who were striking to return to work and those who were not striking to stay in...
...His anti-labor policies have remained unmodified...
...Moore asked Donahue...
...Massaehaaetts...
...Hb says that when a needy ease to caBed to his si ton tion, be sees to it that Blasts guts gate that particular palL These nates error etuy a gBaajse hiss the grim poverty wtotoh Is ohttossag iltes...
...Bto said...
...John Tan Varenewyck, President of the Massachusetts state PedrratWwi ef labor was...
...Fred Duckett, president of the cTgsntmttrm...
...Fair-headed Anglo-Saxons along with curly-headed olive -shinned Portuguese and French tetasmd the aha of striker's children...
...Who the radical element were and the extent of their activity and the seothaent at large in the city regarfding wags reduction...
...I am a congressman," he complained, "but when it conies to patronage I seem to be a discard...
...There are 3,188 offices under the Postoffice Department with salaries totaling SC.148,860...
...Mltchel wee unable te pap her rent last week and it to bsneved that the died from hunger...
...34,000,000 Patronage Whip $1,000 Each Lowden's Scale of Pay—Hoover Recaptures Five Strayed or Stolen Lambs 1£ANSAS City—Southern delegates who win not stay bought, open bidding for their votes in exchange for coo...
...The woman was test seen alive test Friday...
...Already them bad been two or three reductions varying from 10 to 12 1-2 per cent, and another 20 per cent, on top of it would be too much...
...Q. Sid you have any specific conversations with Butter relative to wags reduction...
...Friedman and Rose JB+msktarman were told how the cooks, shBuws themselves, have to get out of bed before daylight to get the 75-gallon kettles filled...
...She was Alma Mltchel of 741 Snath Water St...
...Greer sounded the alarm...
...At one time I objected to a as per cent, wsge reduction because I felt from the reports of the men that it would bring about a strike...
...The state convention was a gathering of "postmasters and federal office holders", the Congressman shouted in a burst of virtuous indignation...
...The capable and clean engineer, Mr...
...A woman about 70 yearn osd...
...RepubUcen National Oeennuttesmaa R B. Creager, by wag af reply to Wurxbach and "Gooseneck BUT challenged thorn tc teU how tbetr delegates had been elected Creager won...
...In which carrots, potatoes, beans, OBSOns, cabbage and bits of meat Joined lavas Is make the hungry spectator* month water...
...A I received word from Butler some tune in 1920 to go to him and bring my index file...
...Two pay snps of the Potomsks mm were found among star effects...
...A. So much that the last year, 1921, I got orders to cut my office down so that the total cost to the manufacturers would be less than $60,000 for that year...
...Greer is resourceful in such matters, however...
...Moore, of the Sherman office, saw Butter more frequently than I did...
...Q. Did you ever have conversation with Butler about the so-called list of radicals...
...They said they bad been offered II.tee apiece to eaaert Hosier and join the noble cause af the "AWes...
...Gooseneck BUI" McDonald, Texas Negro end at the present writing anti-Hoover, supported the Congressman...
...At noon when the pushing has of children assembled with tbetr petto sad saucepans and basins to be filled with soup, the' big copper kettles at the Wtsli ington Club and the Worklngmen's Oaths were sintering with a rich vsgitsbii soap...
...One to Andrew W. Mellon, the bigger of the two bosses, aad the ether to Wltttam M Batter, Massachusetts millionaire, and Republican national chairman...
...pert were ecesxdctety gaae bbbe the I talked with a young bteh ssgtobl student today...
...fM,eeg te the Mayer "X believe you mentioned that you were offered the position of chief of police by Butler, Kerwin and Zxter (mm owners)," asked Moore...
...I cut it down and he was satisfied...
...T bad teat about enough caved up to ge b» casV lege next year bat st looks bad new...
...He made careful plans to collect the other five the minute they stepped off the train here...
...An Earful of Dirt A lot of dirt cams out to the wash before1 toe >n el nflele eommittee where opposing Southern delegates represented their claims to seats at the convention board...
...But I'm willing te do R te swap whs this strike...
...I personally conferred with Butter at that tune and showed him how it could be done by eliminating certain operatives who were not holding executive positions...
...Her rmourots consisted of half a loaf of bread, hup or six potatoes, a little ostraetl aad two pennies...
...Chairman, Employer of Labor Spies...
...The strikers are brave ami detrfmmed, but they mate saws eatetdo New Bedford Textile Caanssl tteanf Fund, P. O. Bex *7...
...When the unfortunate com found that the food was gone their dtosmwdistment was very evident and one attte girl burst into tsars...
...Be has been an expert hi Negro delegates at many a gathering of the Grand Old Party...
...Esther Friedman, Socialist Lecturer and Rose Schnetdenaan, President of the National Women's Trade Union League spoke to the saghusakstts gatherings and brought ¦aunagss of cheer from New York City...
...A. Yes...
...Most of the Southern delegations came to the convention already "in the bag" for Mr...
...He brought six of them along with him to Kansas City, though not in the same car, of course...
...forestr worker in the Potomsks Mm, was found dead in bed at her home bat wVesang...
...Including these nth net with those first mentioned, the total patronage bt the Southern Republican field amount to 34;557 with salaries of s*,*B»ft24...
...His tory sympathies are far more notorious now, that he is principal adviser to President Cooildge, than they were in 1918...
...Lest Five Negro Delegates Pledged to Hoover...
...A. $250,000, my own estimate of It, which I was in a position to figure to a penny because I knew bow many men were working at all times and the length of the job...
...Joseph W. Tolbert...
...nib were paid," Donahue related, ,-to discourage those who were members of the union, so they would not tote, and to breed into the minds of the union men that they were simply being Imposed upon by a bunch of professional labor organisers who were getting a good living out of their hard labor in the mills...
...Two women speakers sddressed lbs Nbrth End and South Bud mam meetings of the 80,000 New Bedford textile strikers Monday...
...Q. Did you know how much the Manufacturers' Association paid the Sherman Agency for industrial work in New Bedford...
...Grim Poverty Brings Crisis To Strikers More Than 500 Cbfldren Go Hungry Wlien Soggf...
...Now Bcchwrd...
...Yes", responded the ex-Sherman chief who had quit the business when interviewed^ by Moore...
...Contests against "his delegations went by the boards in practically all instances...
...Butter has two prime Intercsto in hfe...
...Had SU Operatives % At that time bow many men did yon have there...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 26
