THE BRITISH ELECTION FIGHT OPEN
P., J. Ramsey MacDonald, M.
THE BRITISH ELECTION FIGHT OPEN MacDonald Riddles Baldwin and Dwindling Liberals; Accepts Socialism as the Pivotal Issue The forthcoming British general election- looms as the most important...
...A. I do not know...
...What of his future...
...Pageol, that the simple act of filing incorporation papers had cost the firm $10,000...
...a. I do not know...
...Q. Who keeps the books of v Equitable Company, I mean the pawleal possesbion...
...A. I presume so...
...Q How much cash did J. AB9 Smith of Syracuse put in...
...only, bit of argument will be given...
...This unanimous demand of Socialists everywhere is not only a natural consequence of their policy, but a proof of the spiritual and moral superiority of that policy to the policy of force represented by Bolshevism...
...A. Part of it was, yes...
...testifies'that he had pat S90.M6 or so into the company, but that he had no stock and no receipt to show for it...
...A. (by Fageol) I do not know...
...To win a victory sufficient to give us power, we must double our present strength lr...
...People axe '-^""'t te feel baffled, and yet If these dark ansa and special trades were cut out, the oountry is snore prosperous than ever It has been...
...no evidence of its indebtedness s> i~ a. No...
...So Mr...
...prial...
...A. They did...
...The press ¦Ma ait itself...
...A. The same items have been covered...
...Those conversslSWl the mechanism of The New TsB*a*j recognise In the Equitable the "ggjH of -Tammany corporation" whs* "a been trafficking in ctty luiilietafa ctty fieiii 11ties for many years...
...Prial reminded Fageol that lass, »i eitgineer, had previously testified th* ¦ had been paid his salary resuhrh * almost two years...
...Throughout...
...For this the city paid him a salary of $8,500...
...I do not want to make any promises...
...Fageol testifies that $90,000 was given by him to this company for its use, and when we ask him for evidence, he don't know where to find it...
...It is likely that "the Philadelphia operation" will henceforth become a permanent smoke-screen...
...Never was there such preparations made to snatch a victory, or, if the worst comes, to avert a serious defeat...
...At the last meeting of the aw of Estimate, Mayor Walker sgatt *B» the Equitable to "lay Its cards tof table" and submit to a more tostiW investigation...
...A. Somewheres between $50,000 and $60,000...
...Has the sw^m. f^SeSl7 ^^SZ a&l...
...CHAMBERS I am iSoTs produce some of them...
...Funds of about £1,250,000 are now available for relief, but everybody Is disturbed by the knowledge that this Is no real help...
...Fageol, Mr...
...If you entered into an agreement vat the four men to organize s compenjthe list would be there...
...Our text win be that nationalisation is not only sound as a theory but has been proved to be profitable in practice, and that its profits r- ve been paid not only ss dividends to shareholders, but as advantages to both State and citizens...
...To clarify this sat situation...
...Q. Will the records of the Builuaw Coach Company show how much swag they put in...
...An invoice from the General Tire company noting a charge of $17,500, was numbered 1515 u. The "V' indicates that the invoke was written out of regular order and was made oat at a late date as an afterthought,—or perhaps as a desperate recourse...
...a year and s half later a number of professors and writers were driven abroad in similar fashion...
...go through...
...5—The president of the Company...
...Q. Do you know if they put la as money at all...
...Gladstone's old rnsllliiissg |3 ha thundered sgainst Turkish, staves* and made Europe ring with 53 oassneo...
...You could ask him if any was used...
...PRIAL...
...if allowed, may go ultimately to somebody...
...PRIAL...
...TROTSKY'S RIGHT OF ASYLUM Socialists Demand Arch Foe Be Accorded Freedom To Reside Abroad By Theodore Dan rpHZ fate of Trotsky is still veiled in * darkness...
...Lloyd George by ** sale of honors, but on the bahoh l long list of Liberal candidates sjstt tell in our...
...j Q. Have you ever had s snaw» stock issued to you...
...Coal To The Fore The mw*'-Hi slsotioa has given us more gain, and so we haw* won the first of the four...
...I personally put up in the neighborhood of $90,000...
...he did not know at first whether his $90,000 investment had been recorded...
...Q. How big an office have they got...
...We ought to have the privilege of checking up statements...
...10,000 for Incorporation It was testified that Pageol, Rose, William O'Neill, of Akron, Ohio, and J. Allen Smith, of Syracuse, were the sole owners of the corporation, though none as yet holds any stock...
...Baldwin's Newcastle speech which, quite frankly and without prejudice, really was a poor affair, occupied columns...
...Revocation ef the franchise by the Board of awtissate, at the Instance of the Mayor, sBqedd not be accepted as the end of the ¦sandal...
...listed certain items of aggers*) which looked bad on their face...
...We shall shirk nothing of the Socialist position and avoid nothing of the Tory challenge...
...It was exhaustive...
...The thing we are talking about, the Philadelphia operation, has nothing to do and no relation...
...Rose put ta 2 related largely to the PhiladelDha ~ ration...
...Except for the addition of an expensive leather binding, there was no substantial difference...
...Q. How much did you put in...
...A. The $90,000 I explained a moment ago went partially into the Wanamaker operation, and partially into the payment of the bills...
...I just listed what you wanted, without making any promises of any kind to produce anything...
...Q All the information that is incorporated in this (White) report...
...It was a Job exempt from the civil service examinations...
...You asked me how much was put into the Equitable Coach Company...
...But we didn't anticipate they would be so much like to putty stuffed with sawdust...
...If he expected she matter to end thus, he was too optimistic...
...A. Let me correct that...
...We point out that the benefits of nationalisation cannot be secured in a hurry, and so we have a temporary program restricting the recruiting of miners, raising the sge at which children may leave school, pensioning the gsVeJaaf on...
...6—Frank R. Rose, another of the four sole "owners" of the company, testified that he had pot SM^et or tse.eee into the company bat had no stock or receipt to show tor it- "—No accounts were kept of the expenditures *f the company, the oaVjaai insisted, despite the fact that tbssfianih ef dollars were handled., City Provided Engineering Dote Through the whole of the investigation, the tactics of the company apeared to be to dodge explanation for all questionable transactions and payments by asserting that these were in connection with the operation of busses between the New York and Philadelphia Wanamaker stores...
...He is a living witness...
...That is a dead horse...
...And second how could we find out whether or not any money was used the way that was suggested over there, . if Mr...
...prial...
...The 'Msaaasde might have gotten away with i reasjf it not been too carelessly greedy ! eVcaah hi immediately...
...I have herniating what i could as fast as i cotiT mr...
...I am going to speak from the same platform on Tuesday and I shall discuss some of his statements: this week end In hundreds of meeting's they are being lorn to shreds...
...Leader of the Labor Party he the British Parliament...
...2—The Ctty (applied the company with the asanas te draw up the extensive engineering reports on which to base a bid for the franchise...
...With great gestures of jBghmanon he urged the Equitable to iS met an investigation and lay its ^sVrdVsc the table, tell where it's flhan'eial seaktog came from and show that B/wes competent to operate the proposed Jam gsaketn...
...The service he performed for the Equitable was to take the data he had prepared while in the pay of the city and use it as pari of the Equitable's bid for the franchise...
...PRIAL...
...A I to at know...
...A. No...
...prial...
...Did the Equitable Coach Company ever have an office of its own...
...Q Where is there any variance that you can pick out without too much delay...
...FAGEOL...
...q How much did you put in of that amount...
...A. The name of the J. G. White Management Corporation is a bigger name in the transportation field than mine, and probably carries more weight with it...
...For that is the characteristic distinction between Socialism and Bolshevism...
...CHAMBERS...
...Lane for the third time prepared a report...
...The "Intelligent Voter's Guide," the official Socialist party campaign hand-book in 1928...
...A'ear ef "slush fund" wss raised...
...That * eta makes these questions and assess sound folish...
...You are a practical man...
...However much it may go against the grain with the German followers of Stalin, all the sympathy of the Social Democrats goes out In the present case to the persecuted Trotsky, and they have only indignation and contempt for his persecutors and their hired agents, men who but a little while back were grovelling at Trotsky's feet and now trample upon him in contempt as a theatrical "hero of the Revolution...
...You said you wanted them...
...A. No...
...Fageol decided te "change" his testimony to read that he did net put S9S.se into the company and that he did not know how much he did pot in...
...turned to finances again...
...further developed the case against the Equitable and its Tammany supporter, the" Mayor...
...Now Mr...
...3—An expense of I37.50S for "rental" listed by the Company before the transit company is clearly unjustified and undoubtedly trandslent...
...Have you got them har> MR...
...CHAMBERS WeiLreit tit now engaging in the operation of a* eo/jttable Coach Company of Patau...
...Shuh Fund'* Cry Is Raited Soon the Citizen's Union and other TMblic-minded organizations and individuals took the matter up...
...In it ore bound up is-, sues of war and peace, not alone for the British nation but for the United States as well...
...Tammany's $16,000,000 Bus Franchise Exposed Investigation Reveals Equitable Company Formed To Peddle Franchise...
...However barbarous the method of exile may be, still one thing must not be forgotten...
...Finally, counsel for the corporation Indicated that he would not supply the Controller's office with any of the vital financial records, even if such existed...
...37,500 "Expense'9 For Desk Space The matter of rental revealed at once the "fly-by-night" character of this corporation which Mayor Walker entrusted with a $16,000,000 franchise...
...The right ef Asylum for Trotsky!— for one of the most outstanding representatives of that policy to which Its political opponents deny not only the right of asylum, but the most elementary etete and human rights...
...PRIAL...
...We are all above the age of seven...
...They are all submitted...
...Here are two sheets of paper representing $37,500 that represent nothing in my opinion...
...Whether this to poHtewfty effective or not, it is very expensive electioneer...
...The powerlessness of the Government, the futility of ks ideas...
...The hope that is buoying up our movement steedHy mounts, but It is foolish to shut our eyes to the colossal task which la in front of us...
...There is also a severe visitation of influenza in the district...
...Its agreement [iffp, the BM-T...
...This $37,500...
...i Labors Coal Program This coal situation wffi give us every opportunity to define and apply our socialist conceptionii the failure of competitive private enterprise, the powerlessness of Individualist political ideas, the constructive value of Boezaham...
...Counsel Refuses To Furnish Books MR...
...First note on the record that Mr...
...His desire to "change" his testimony after having sworn he made an investment»,of $90,000 must have taken the investigator's breath awayi Fageol's testimony further indicated the shoddy character of the corporation...
...This being an inter-state operation, the local authorities would thus not have the right to enquire into it and examine the books,— if books exist...
...nor the Canadian National Marine, nor Belgian and German State Railways, and of course the failure of Russia "where you should think all circumstances were favorable" (!) was put on show...
...What else is there for than tea* They must support us and thai sat or support the Tories sad that sjtt or remain neutral and be ssafsat sv They are to run plenty of osaflsssi and they have a great sum of ssaay procured by Mr...
...Merely asking that question is not the way to conduct an investigation...
...Prial then requested that Cbaehu bring the books st the next meant Fageol st this point felt it necesjsr/k offer the following as an explanation...
...I have been very careful to say that I was not agreeing to furnish you with anything...
...The salary was $1,000 a month...
...and you do not know where the records are, because that Is not an answer...
...MR...
...At that time, however, when it was still a question of breaking through the imperialist blockade and securing the diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Government, the Dictators of Moscow were forced to reckon with the public opinion of the Socialist workers of Western Europe...
...That with our gain was the outstanding feature of the election...
...The firm did no other work whatever for the $10,000...
...For some Inexplicable reason, desk space was maintained in two offices...
...This Job he held for 20 and a Half months, receiving $24,000 in compensation...
...I was going to say that I do not understand...
...Baldwin's opening shots have left us very happy...
...Do you know of any reason why thy other expert report should be $125,000...
...In the end it will not amount to much, but it will be of some assistance to <Tory critics...
...It is not the first time that the Bolshevists have followed the methods of Mussolini, and got rid of dangerous opponents, who could not well be murdered in cold blood, by the system of "expatriation...
...At least that is what Simpson, Bartlett and Thatcher, a law firm, charged...
...Has the man who once held Russia's fate of his hands become a prisoner in Turkey...
...Are you going to make a promise to produce them...
...50,000 and No Receipt...
...Chambers at this point volunteered the information that the "fifty or gas thousand dollars Mr...
...and therefore long before the murder of Matteotti had had the opportunity of demonstrating his skill in the art of persecution, two dozen Russian Social Democrats (the writer of these lines amongst them) were forcibly expelled from Russia—at first for a period of one or two years: later the sentence of exile was made indefinite in length...
...Although at the time when the "new method" was first applied against the Social Democrats Trotsky was, together with Lenin, in commad of the supreme power, and therefore responsible for this measure, the Russian Social Democrats feel ni joy or triumph over his present fate...
...CHAMBERS...
...Norman Thomas, in his campaign as Socialist candidate for alderman In...
...Prial then dropped thh us* ¦ was apparently a hopeless (ask...
...The Tory drop of between four and five thousand is about ss ""'""T for the government as could be...
...For the moral and psychological attitude of the Social Democrats towards the Bolshevists is determined by their political attitude, which, in contrast to that of the Bolshevists, aims not at the deepening and perpetuation of the split, but rather st the reapproachment and reconciliation of the Communist and Socialist branches of the labor movement...
...lift...
...q. What rent did the General Tire Company pay...
...But even if that were not the case, even if Trotsky were in truth a dangerous opponent of Socialism, as he undoubtedly was in the years when the experiences of war and the post-war confusion still troubled the clear class-consciousness of the European proletariat, and Bolshevism was still supported by a fanatic faith In Its utopjan promises, not yet refuted by actual experience—even then Socialism would have demanded for him...
...Accepts Socialism as the Pivotal Issue The forthcoming British general election- looms as the most important international event of the year...
...Prial then read from provisions of the Equitable contract with the city which gave the controller the right "to require the company to furnish specific answers to questions upon which the Board (of estimate) or the Comptroller may require Information...
...Jaj Q. So for all this amount S|»e| that you gave this company...
...Q. Do you know if any stock has been distributed to Mr...
...Fageol was on the stand, Mr...
...A- I do not know exactly...
...J. Ramsey MacDonald, M.P...
...a. No...
...We want to know what accounts you keep...
...We have declared for nationalization, taking pits over on firm business valuation and devising a scheme of finance which prevent any filching of the public by the employers whose policy has brought us into our present mess...
...At a meeting of the Board of Estimate presided over by Mayor Walker, The Equitable Coach Company was gsanted a franchise to install and operate a bus system to cost over 116,000,000...
...The New Leader has made arrangements for special articles and news letters from men and women foremost in the Labor Party...
...He told us that the Australian Commonwealth Line of ships did not pay...
...Socialists and Trotsky The method of expatriation is undoubtedly both mediaeval and barbarous and arouses in all Social Democrats a feeling of indignation and disgust, even when employed by the Bolshevists against members of their own party...
...Fageol, are you going to make a promise to produce them or cause them to be produced...
...You will find them recorded...
...A. No tangible evidence...
...Sir Herbert asaaM who is anxious to be regarded st a. Liberal leader, having ralacatousUef h authority in the party, hinted -at s. possibility of such an underswawagfc a speech the other day and farad, his surprise that his statement bxagg thunder and lightning on hh keaC m has had to climb down...
...You have not got tha today...
...Essential points will be left out...
...A. I think they dti Q. We ought to get s fair sosfw...
...CHAMBERS...
...PRIAL...
...I want to say that to Equitable Coach Company has rem gone further than a preliminary sjaa Undoubtedly the Equitable CceAOsspany has never been a going oases* It is purely preliminary...
...Since President Fageol is best fitted to tell about his company, we shall let him speak for himself at some length...
...Q. Tell us how much Fageol put up...
...Since that time the weapon of exile has only been employed in individual cases—not that the Bolshevist Dictators realized the barbarous character of this "new method," but because the political activities of the exiles, even when carried on in other countries, had become disagreeable to them, so that they preferred to let their political opponents perish hi prison, on the Solowetzky Islands, or in the remotest corners of Siberia and Turkestan...
...j Sees Liberalism Owing},*, In the MVflotirtan election, to*, candidate was a bad third...
...a. (by Fageol) i do not knot...
...His Job was to prepare a report for the Equitable, as client for the White firm, on the bus routes...
...It affected Midlothian...
...Smith...
...It would therefore be pure hypocrisy on the part of the bourgeois governments to base their refusal of the right of asylum to Trotsky on the ground that their legal moral and political sense forbids them to encourage in any way the barbarous practice of expatriation...
...Q. How much cash did WBkw o'Neill put into this Equitable Oszpany...
...You have not got USB today, and yeu agreed to protoe them...
...Q. Now, what evidence have you from the company for this investment of $50,000 or $60,000 evidence of indebtedness or whatever you choose to call it...
...The visit of the Prince of Wales to the coal fields of Durham and Northumerland has stirred the country afresh to an interest in this awful problem...
...Tjie Mayor st last took notice of the nsowtog protests...
...Although the Party has gained a great deal by refusing rff liation to the Communists, It is undoubtedly the fact that we are hampered by thoughtless statements made by lndividualisUcally minded members who are leaders and parties In themselves...
...About the Philadelphia operation I am not talking...
...If you had people to bursing as much ss thousands <* *rl lars, certainly there ought to to saw books— _. j MR...
...If $37,500 were allowed and ultimately paid for...
...After doing some odd Jobs for Fageol, Lane said, he went to work for the Board of Transportation in November, 1924...
...The Tory attack will be but sorry stuff and will be directed to rouse 0 quivering fear, and it slone win be adequately published in the press...
...The reply came from Mr...
...His conscience clear, the Mayor went on an expensive tour of Europe...
...Chambers...
...I scurried to get all of these things...
...A. I presume the money that was used for the operation of the Wanamaker line Is...
...I do not cart snytBn about that...
...He spent a year drawing up plans and specifications for a bus system in Manhattan and the Bronx...
...Q. Your report was received by the city at an expenditure of $8,500, covering your entire time...
...a. I do not knc...
...With the Communist Parties of Europe threatening to break up everywhere, Stalin could not afford the sadistic luxury of leaving Trotsky to die a lingering death, and was forced to grant him the "favor" of exile...
...Accepts Socialism As Issue It was one of the most appalling speeches ever made against Socialism, and the muddle of figures, the lack of definition of terms used, the mistakes in statement of fact, and the avoidance of any experiences, however conspicuous they ere, which do not fit Into Tory assumption*, all went to show that the Prime Minister did not know what he was *anrtT»y about but was reading from a Brief which had been put into bis hands...
...As long as there was a typewriter and a piece of paper, jou might as well have made it $137,500," Prial was led to declare...
...I wil change my answer to say that I did not put $90,000 into the Equitable Coach Company...
...mr...
...We bars s ssetnW misting population and we ban w % st home or abroad new nehtv etas* it eaa labor...
...I kept sttU i wanted you to ask me for everyttss you wanted produced...
...the General Tire and Rubber Company, > Columbus Circle, received $17,500...
...Q. Can you approximate...
...I was going to get it as fast as I could...
...Parliament...
...1927, first began to develop a body of facts on the franchise...
...It was all put in together...
...Fageol kept dodging pertinent questions by dragging in the Philadelphia operation...
...The first case of exile—the above-mentioned case of a group of Russian Social Democrats who had gone on hunger-strike in the prison of Butyrki to protest against the banishment with which they were threatened—was only carried out because their protest was supported by the Socialist Parties in other countries...
...eh* "BtM.T.," to take over operation of .the bsates under the franchise...
...Deputy Controller Prial thereBjaan spent a number of profitable days SgSsng the president of the Equitable gM others of Its officers and employees...
...What a Partial investigation Showed From the testimony of the Equitable's •rfK**'* and employees, it was adduced: 1—The Equitable Coach Company was organised for the express purpose af handling the franchise...
...Fageol, as president of the Equitable, was a particularly important witness and a most surprising one...
...Yet the Equitable listed as a further "expense" $125,000 for the White report...
...While Mr...
...If either of these companies were so hard pressed, they might have put in a bill for a thousand dollars each...
...Prial and Fageol then became involved in the $37,500 rental charges...
...I assumed that we would be called upon to cover this carefully, and then to show by witnesses or otherwise, give the comptroller the opportunity of showing that there wss no money of any kind paid out to anyone for any purposes other than those set forth in the papers here...
...They sets put the cash in...
...There Is no sign of g jaS revival, but there is danger of a tsstS Tory understanding...
...jjssu In the meantime, enough eriowsetwj been found to show the nature efWl Equitable Coach Corporation...
...favor and it will eenasg not brighten Liberal prospects...
...Lane left the Equitable in 1927 to go to work for the J. G. White corporation...
...A. I do not know that...
...Aadsa is Mr...
...J. Ramsay MacDonald is writing a series of special articles for The New Leader on the progress of the election, the first of which The New Lead ex presents this week...
...wjhp Mayer hurried the franchise through without giving opponents present an iipi'etoiillj to be heard...
...Prial asked...
...And not to make i farce out of it, you ought to 8011* directly...
...Q. What books will we find it recorded in...
...The British Labor Party, one of the great links in the International Socialist movement, will put up the battle of its existence for victory...
...Neither of these amounts have actually been paid, but would be should the merger arrangement with the B.M.T...
...It says you have a contract with the City of New -York under which the Controller has power to ask you under oath to explain certain facts and you cannot say in answer that you put $90,000 In...
...The gentlemen who comtijbea the Bquttshle agreed to an invesetiassbn...
...somebody would have $37,500 to give away...
...BALDWIN made a speech last weak at Newcastle which virtually opened the Tory rfirnr-'g" From his atotfnrm wires ran to several towns in aha district where people fathered to hear what he had to say...
...Confirmation of this came ssoantfey when the Equitable announced B had marts arrangements with the BBBChtya-Manhattan Transit Company...
...The Liberal leaders, however> wag, I think, approve of such an urskeuwaV ing...
...under the conditions prevailing in Soviet Russia this punishment is not only regarded by the Bolshevists as an extraordinary favor, but it is actually an unusual privilege enjoyed by important persons whose permanent Imprisonment or banishment is undesirable from the point of view of the Bolshevist authorities out of respect for the opinion of the outer world...
...PRIAL...
...I presume tawssm MR...
...At this point Priol asked for the records...
...Q. How much was given to the Equitable Coach Company...
...MR...
...j at Aside from the development m m fact that the Equitable had espaw" some respectable sums on creating r~ lie support" for its franchise, thaw **| the salient features of the mvesttesa* before the deputy controller...
...There is no difference of opinion...
...PRIAL...
...have reached the stage wbsue Mayor syeiii i and the Tammany sakssffnatreStoa fet New York City may soon be glad to revoke the franchise as the price of ctasmg the matter...
...The Bight ef Asylum It Is the same with regard to Trotsky...
...More than that it revealed a most strange item of expenditure.—$37,500 for the use of desk space for three years...
...Lane with a staff of ten or 12 assistants...
...I didn't suppose that we are going into that old operation here, because they closed that out...
...1 mr...
...Then, by co-ordinating both the working of the fields and the marketing of the coal, the industry will be put once more upon an economic footing...
...Q. About the money you gave the Equitable Coach Company: Is that of record in their books...
...but most of it, has already been reported on in similar form, the same figures, both to the Board of Transportation and the Equitable Coach Company...
...tell us that...
...For your report covering a period of almost two years for the Equitable Company, the pay was $24,000...
...Mr...
...Therefore exile Instead of banishment was decided on In the esse of this group of Russian Socialists, and this as a special favor, not to be shared by Socialists in later years...
...We took it stem MR...
...I have SS got many of the other things...
...That the company was created at city expense was brought out in the testimony of Frederick Van Zandt Lane, an engineer...
...Q. Was that given to the Equitable Coach Company...
...Q. $90,000 and no record of it...
...There were reeossva that time...
...O'Neill or Mr...
...Considerable of that money was consumed two or three years ago In the operation of the interstate line between New York and Philadelphia...
...fageol...
...The charge was that the TahuriaMe was merely a dummy organization fhrmed to peddle s $16,000,000 frsnoJBwsround...
...Here Wilbur W. Chambers, of Counsel for the Equitable, intervened: MR...
...It kept no books, he thought...
...CHAMBERS...
...ne and shows the vast and swollen money bags which the Tories are to empty to try and keep them m office...
...It was an interstate line...
...Fageol Changes His Answer Taking his cue from Mr...
...This Edmund L ate* counsel for the company, mawaj'j promise...
...In the meantime the raw character of the Equitable franchise was beginning to leak out...
...Fageol has not answered my question...
...American Socialists will want to follow the election in England tlosely...
...By J. Ramsey MacDonald, M.P, LONDON...
...CHAMBERS...
...It was all given directly to the Equitable Coach Company or used directly in payment of obligations for the Equitable Coach Company...
...Lane went directly from the city's employ to work as engineer for the Equitable Coach corporation...
...The weather of the polling day was, moreover, one of the worst on record, and In a widely scattered constituency this prevented many from voting...
...as you said, including your retainer...
...FAGEOL...
...Bound this point the heaviest fighting during the next four months will take place...
...that the first bases Its hopes, not on the use of force against those who disagree with it, not on the chance combinations of the hour, not on the skill and power of striking personalities, but on the conviction that the growing confidence and Independence of thought of the workingclass itself will cause it to gather round the Socialist banner and bring the final victory in historical battle for the freedom of the workers...
...As we expected.' he is to Are anti-Socialist shells...
...This contract has no mention of a Philadelphia operation...
...4—An expense of $125,606 listed by the company for an engineering report submitted to it by the M. G. White Management Corporation Is likewise completely—unjustified...
...I do not want n make any agreement, one way or tht other...
...The Twin Coach Company, 120 Broadway, received $20,000...
...You uk2Z the Minute Book, "¦»¦$» >,„^R_PRIAf' 1 B,ean eccount hoot . ~you 804 account bootaf mr...
...If Stalin has decided to exile him instead of letting him die by Inches in Alma-Ata, it is because he Is farced to this course—net so much out of respect for the Russian supporters of Trotsky, as by reason of the protests which have been raised above all by the Communist workers of Europe against the unworthy manner in which one of the foremost Communist leaders has.1 been treated...
...Fageol, or Mr...
...On the contrary, Trotsky In' his present state, is more likely to give the death blow to the Communist Movement outside Russia, torn by inner conflicts, and Influence the Communist workers to return to the Socialist ranks, than to strengthen any of the Communist parties or In any way endanger the Socialist movement...
...Frank R. Fageol...
...Touts are abroad raking In the money...
...PRIAL...
...And now it is the turn of Trotsky himself...
...O'NeaU sad ssetta toilaefjjl wag...
...It wffl be expensive and Sgd cfaxumstanoes...
...It was astonishingly similar to the two previous reports...
...1 picious "expenses" indicate wa*y H changed hands...
...So our battle-field wffl he the platform asm the pufettc meeting, end It wm be heavy work for those of us who will lata the Party, battle...
...Q. How much did you put into the shown in the records...
...Prial dwelt on this matter of the abnormal rentals, and the use of desk space by the corporation...
...ss for all persecuted political opponents, the right of asylum...
...The city also provided Mr...
...q Even if it went Into operation of this line from New York to Philadelphia, it must have been deposited with the Equitable Coach Company and their records will show such deposit...
...Prial maintained the charge was ridiculously high...
...and the disastrous results of its interventions on behalf ef the ejutau/sts, become more and more apparent...
...U horn Is the Equitable Holding the Bag For...
...I won't say all...
...Rose is the president of the American LaFrance Poamite Corporation, an open shop company which manufactures fire engines, and which is being bitterly fought by the International Association of Machinists...
...CHAMBERS...
...Our vote It down, hut the intervention ef a Lateral and Scottish Nationalist candidate accounts for that...
...A. I do not know...
...CHAMBERS...
...10*g refusal of the company to predate books, Prial found it hopeless si'M Unue...
...A. I do not know...
...Expense" Items May Be Slush Fund By Edward Levinson JJsWII > I ri.im of the Equitable bus asanas...
...Q You did put some moneyJeto* Did you ever get any receipt tor »w> from the Equitable Coach Ceases...
...though the Equitable balked at anSSJjSVing all questions and refused to supggg he financial records, enough lnforSshtion was adduced to warrant the conessston that the granting of the tl6.•wO.OOO franchise to the Equitable was a ssandelous procedure...
...The important sweatees Is: wMS behind the ¦ejawssbhrf Far ewjsfj the Tesasaaay Imliiii are »jaj Bese...
...This and the engineering reports prepared at city expense were its only qualifications on past experience for receiving the franchise to run buses in New York City...
...The eyes of the workers of Europe are turned towards the East...
...He told how the Equitable had operated lines between the Wanamaker stores but had "lost money" and discontinued the service...
...If not in the Equitable...
...He felt Justified in calling the Equitable a "phoney" corporation, without money, without standing and without responsibility...
...PRIAL...
...A. I cannot pick out any just now...
...Q. Is the stock pledged, is that one of the reasons they have not got it...
...Fageol Comptroller stated that we wouM £ to have here today the account hah and the check books and the cancelled checks of the Equitable oB Company...
...You did agree to other night...
...CHAMBERS...
...FAOBOL...
...the New York Philadelphia route...
...Fageol countered with the answer: "The Wanamaker office had an office of its own...
...J*J Walker and his board of esthasto tojl convicted of having entrusted $lM**n franchise to a fake organisation...
...PAGEOL...
...Rose gave the interesting information, later verified by Mr...
...In the beginning of 1922...
...o Record of FageoFs $90,000 "Investment" Mr...
...none of trie replies will get more than three-quarters of a column...
...CHALMERS...
...We are out to do it, and we shall fight for it until the last voting paper has been (Lopped into the ballot-box...
...And the Socialist workers will most certainly reject the plea that Trotsky may carry on "harmful'* political activity, which has always served and continues to serve the reactionary bourgeois governments as an excuse for denying to persecuted revolutionaries the right of asylum.' The Communist Inner Strife The Socialist Labor Movement has nothing to fear from the political activities of Trotsky...
...All of the accounts, check books and cancelled checks of the Equitable Coach Company...
...A. I know I did not get mine, and I have every reason to believe they did not get theirs...
...Q. Do you know how much mootf A No...
...I thought we were here to see if any moneys—if anybody received any moneys that he ought not to have received,—moneys or unjustifiable payments...
...ROSE...
...Under pointed examination Mr...
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