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The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-13
GENERAL STRIKE imminent IN SAN FRANCISCO
REBELLIOUS WORKERS ORGANIZE FOR SHOW
DOWN AGAINST BOSSES AND GENERAL
STRIKE IS AGITATED.
By JAY c. ARR.

itself within the building trades. They
call themselves the Conference Com
mittee of the Building Trades Unions
of the Bay District. They have come
out flatfooted and have challenged
the right of the reactionary labor Of
ficials to control the destinies of the
rank and file. They have issued ~ call
to all members of the building trades
to recognize them as the only ones
capable of turning defeat into victory,
and to date they are succeeding ad-
mirably.
For The General Strike.
Listen to one Of their appeals. 1t
breathes the spirit Of new militant
labor movement in this country.
g. systematically, they (the capt.
alists) have attacked craft after craft
in city after city, and have WON
EVERY ONSLAUGHT.
a.. The attacks have been launched
against every workers organization
by ONE BIG UNION OF BUSI-
| NESS. Against it we are opposing
| our separate crafts one at a time.
AND ALL ARE GOING TO DE-
FEAT. Capitals theirs.)
"Our unions, our only means Of
defense, are hangover in form from
the days Of small industry and isolated
crafts. THEY ARE BEING LICKED
by a MODERN FIGHTING MACHINE
IN ENORMOUS TRUSTS AND
UNITED IN ONE BIG BUSINESS
| COMBINE. We have been sending out
one regiment at time against an
army. That way points to suicide for
| the labor movement.
"our masters are banking on our
division. Divide and Conquer, Is their
slogan. The steel industry, the coal IN
dustry, the railroad workers, the long
shoremen, the builders, the marine
workers--one at a time they have
been cut off from the main army Of
labor, attacked and defeated. Now II
Il San Francisco's turn, and we're
falling into the trap. After the build
ers, the cooks. After the cooks tn
bakers. After the bykers, my union
then YOURS. Isolated. we shall D
whipped and driven into slavery. WE !
l.ALL HAVE TO FIGHT IN TURN
WHY NOT FIGHT TocETHERi Th'
worker who says, Wait I'LL our trad'
/. attacked, is playing into the hand
Continued on page ~
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sia abrogate her laws to suit his,
Hoover's, fancy!
Hoover may forget, and the capital
ist class that he represents may want
to forget, but the workers of Amer
lea will not forget that there are
scores of Russians in American
prisons, sent there because they dared
to assert what Wilson openly but
belatedly said, viz, that the war was
a commercial war for commercial ad-
vantage.
There are Russians in American
prisons who were seized and arrested
illegally. There are Russians who
were brutally tortured and bounded
out of this free land for daring to be
patriotic for their native land!
Nor does the American worker de-
mand that the Relief Commission
shall operate at its own sweet will
and according to it's own pleasure.
Soviet Russia is sovereign state. 1t
is government ofthe workers, with
laws created by and for the workers.
Into the American workers head there
is constantly being hammered the
demand that he respect the law. The
American worker now demands that,
| in aiding the workers of Russia, the
Relief Commission shall respect the
Russian law and abide by the regula-
tions of the Soviet authorities.
Furthermore, although Hoover may
not recognize it, his agreement that
the Relief workers will not engage in
political activity against the Soviet
Government is tacit admission that
their record in this respect has not
been too clean. Facts have incriminat-
ed them too often. The Soviet author
tiles state officially that the "Amer-
leans imprisoned in Russia have either
been convicted Of crimes against the
laws Of the country or are held as
SPIES. Every case Of an accusation is
based on documents given irrefutable
proof of guilt and on the confessions
Of the accused"
In making the second-mentioned
condition, Hoover is well aware that
he is acting the hypocrito. He knows
that the Society Of Friends has been
engaged in relief work in Russia for
some time. They are not molested but
are given every assistance to facilitate
their work.
He knows that all Russians are
working as a unit in this crisis. Party
lines have vanished as far as relief is
concerned. Communists, Cadets, Mo-
deratc Socialists, Tolstoyans, promi-
nent public men Of all shades Of opinion
and literary men have formed a single
body to save the starving children
CONTINUED on page 2.)
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Especial to "The Toiler")

Especial to "The Toiler")
San Francisco and the Bay Cities
are in the throes Of bitter labor
warfare, a fight that bids fare to an
initiate the aspirations Of one Of the
contending parties. Capital is busy
pushing the "open shop" fight into
the enemy's territory, and Labor is
resisting the attack with the grim de-
termination of one battling for its
very existance.
The fight here has reached crisis.
The marine workers are demoralized.
The Sailors Union has been split wide
open. The vast majority Of the mem
bership, seeing the fruits Of victory
fading into space are sorely disil-
lusioned and are cropping helplessly
in the air for some wise Moses to
lead them out Of the bondage that
they find themselves rapidly slipping
into. Andy Furuseth, their kindly
Moses Of yesterday, has just reached
the city in the vain hope of saving
the pieces, but his task is hopeless
The union has split three ways. the
majority are on the point Of joining
the One Big Union and the /. W. W..
while pitiable minority is staying
with the sinking ship hoping against
hope that its rotten and battered
timbers will weather the storm. Fol-
the want Of militant leader with
vision and ability, to hold the member
shin intact in whatever course Of ac'
tion it takes the unions outlook looks
hopeless.
While the Seamen's strike looks
hopeless and weak, the building
trades lockout is developing a germ
that may spread ruthlessly as plague
and eat into the heart Of the "oper
shop" fight and send the Chamber o. ..
Commerce scattering. A big job, III
AGREE, but lookl TO me the poten
tial .ies are indeed promising wher
from out Of boss ridden organizs
tion a rank and file movement springs
-. = T." A. knakb NJ IL,
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Humanity With q PrOViSO|

Herbert Hoover, Secretary of. Com
merce and head Of the American
Relief Administration, replied to
Maxim Gorky's appeal for aid in re-
lieving the famine that is stalking
through Russia, by assuring Gorky
Of Americas sympathy and promising
help-on certain conditions.
These conditions are of such a ma
ture that when Hoover declares that
the "whole American people" sub
scribes to them, the American work.
ers enter a most vehement protest
against his pretending to present the
viewpoint of the American Workers
at any time and at this time and in
this matter in particular.
The "whole American people" does
not demand the release of the Amer
leans held prisoners in Russia. The
"whole American people" does not
demand that the Relief Commission
shall be given practically free hand
to dispense charity in Russia.
The workers of America declare
that to make such conditions for as
sisting the Soviet Government in re-
lieving the acute distress Of the Rus
sian people, is not only preposterous,
but barbarous.
They declare that any one who
dares make such conditions speaks,
not in the name Of sympathy or
humanity, but with the savagery that
arose during the war and evidently
has not yet vanished.
The workers Of Russia are starving.
After seven years of war and three
years Of blockade, a drought has set
in which has burnt up the crops,
During the blockade years the peas
ants could not procure the farming
machinery necessary to carry on in
tense agricultural work. Millions Of
workers were at the front, defending
the Revolution against imperialist
vultures that were fighting to over
throw the Soviet power. Now, with no
reserve to fall back on, with the soil
gaping from the extreme drought, at
least ten million people are threaten.
ed with famine.
"Release my seven American
citizens or will starve your ten mil.
lion men, women and children" To
Hoover It is quite immaterial that
some Of these imprisoned American
citizens have been engaged in direct
counter revolutionary work against
the Soviet Government. One was .
Red Cross worker, serving under
General Wrahgel against Soviet Rus
sia. Splendid occupation this, for
Red Cross workerl NJ
To Hoover II Is immaterial tha'
! what he demands Is that Soviet Rus
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-13
Relief Will Pave
Way to Recognition
AMERICAN CAPITALISTS DESIRE
FOR SOVIETS' FALL is SEEN AS
ONE BASIS FOR RELIEF OFFER.
By Laurence. Todd
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

Washington notification
by Herbert Hoover to Walter l..
Brown, European director of the
American Relief Administration, to
proceed from London to Riga to open
negotiations with the Russia govern
ment for American famine relief
work in Russia is assumed here to
mark the turning of the tide of Amer
lean official policy toward Russia.
Thus far the American government
has attacked Russia's working class
republic from without. It's attacks
have resulted only in the unification
of revolutionary Russia behind the
Communist administration to defy all
foreign invasions.
Now comes the great opportunity
to undermine the Communists from
within Russia, through the distribu-
tion Of food and medicines to millions
of famine sufferers through Amer
lean agents.
Whatever the plans Of Hoover, his
following contains great numbers Of
people who count upon him to some
how spring surprise attack on the
Moscow government which will de-
stroy the only non-capitalist regime
in any considerable country on earth.
However, it must be assumed that
Lenin and Kameneff are likewise
bearing in mind the political work of
Hoovers organization, and are pre-
pairing to see that Hoover's pledge to
abstain from propaganda against the
Russian government is faithfully OBJ
served.
Beginning of Good Will.
Vast quantities of American food
stuffs and medicines and clothing will
now be gathered by the American
Relief Association and shipped to
Russia for distribution. Appeals in
the name of common humanity will
be issued, the effects Of years Of pro.
| paganda Of inhumanity and hatred
toward the Russians must Bs 5vSf'
come, and gradually the whole-heatred
American nation must be modified
to give to save the Russian people
from a calamity which could easily
have been met had not the United
States and its allies blockaded the
Russian people for the past -four
years.
The quick release of American
prisoners in Russia, when the request
for their release took on an 0fficia
character through the visit of Senator
France and the note from Hoover tt
Gorky, has made a favorable impres
sion in Washington. There is grow
ing body of opinion that the resump
tion of trade relations with Russi'
and final recognition Of the Russian
Socialist Federated Soviet republi
will develop from the better under
standing which must follow the deal
ings Of the relief administration witt
Moscow.
But there is no division of opinion
on the main issue-that America
capitalism will fight to the last, b,
force or by trick and device, to de
stroy the Russian socialization of in
dustries. 1t will lose no opportunit,
to discredit and slander the Russia
system, whose success would imperia
4 capitalism everywhere.
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-13
Works
For SOviets.
TANTALIZING CONTRACTS
INVITE SCANDINAVIA TO
GRANT RECOGNITION.
By HELEN AUGUR,
Federated Press Staff Correspondent.

Stockholm, Sweden (By Mail). -
Norway and Denmark will soon sign
trade treaties with Soviet Russia, it
is confidently expected here. By
skillful application of the famous
Chicherin tactics Russia now has the
three countries eating out of her
hand.
The big business press is at this
moment demanding recognition of
the Russian government along the
lines of the Russo German treaty Of
two months ago. If recognition is not
accorded contracts now placed here
for 250,000,000 kronen (about $685.
000,000) worth of goods will be div
erted to German and British manu-
facturers, says Russia. Just to
dramatize this threat Russia has in
fact for two months been diverting
contracts.
P. M. Kergentzeff, president of the
Russian trade delegation in Stock
holm, looks as if he were here to stay.
The mission has the impressive sta
bility Of the Standard Oil Company,
but Swedish manufacturers with con-
tracts to negotiate must sit under the
searching gaze Of Lenin, Marx, Trotz-
ky and even Zinoviev. They find Ker-
gentzeff not disconcerting at all, but
a keen, jolly man with the intellectual
breadth of the cultured Russian.
Sure of Treaty.
He traced briefly the years trade
developments in Sweden.
"In May, 1920, working agree
ment was concluded between the two
countries which enabled us to do busi-
ness to the amount of about 60,000,-
900 kronen," he said. "We bought here
mainly rolling stock and various rail-
road supplies. In June, two years after
we had won recognition from Eng
land and Germany, we requested
lsbsxs tssatz Inn Sweden, sys
favorable trade conditions were ac-
corded US here our business would
have to move on"
eyes, we'll no doubt get the trea-
ty," said Kergentzeff, "and due to the
delicate interrelationship of the three
| Scandinavian countries we expect to
sign simultaneous treaties with Nor
way and Denmark"
Russia, Of course, hasn't much to
buy from Norway and Denmark but
fish, electrical appliances and agri-
cultural machinery. But the adjoining
northern coasts of Russia and Nor
way have from time immemorial been
peaceful frontier like that between
the United States and Canada. And
while Russia waits for the United
States to make an economic alliance,
every European factory must work
for her-even Czecho-Slovakia is
manufacturing locomotives for Rus
J sia.
"There are two chief things that
only America can supply u.s." said
q
Kergentzeff, "great quantities Of
farm machinery, electrical apparatus,
automobiles, shoes, clothes, rolling
stock-and second, the energy and
technique to build up great industries.
"Russia geographically is like Amer
ica--once developed she will be a
completely self sufficing country. But
in order to bring about this economic
independence we must go through a
period of borrowing business and
engineering skill from the United
States and Germany"
The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-08-13
TO ESTABLISH MINERS
PAPER.

Topeka, Kan.-A weekly publica-
tion, moving pictures and stumping
tour throughout the state will be used
by Kansas labor in its drive against
the Industrial Court within a short
period, according to W. E. Freeman,
president of the Kansas Federation of
Labor. The weekly paper is expected
to be established at Fort Scott with
Alexander Howat and Jake Sheppard,
his attorney, as editors. The moving
pictures will be confined to visual
descriptions Of conditions in the Kan.
sas mines. -
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Antonio QUIDGLEY.

bido producer los vivos concentrates que
ha producido en- todas las esferas, pues
tanto el senior Moledo como Ia sehorita
Noa han despertado siempre honda sim
patia y profuHdos afectos, el uno por
caballeroso Y active en- OF mundo mer-
cantil, donde ha conquistado una envi-
diaOle posici6n, la gentil dana por
sus bondades y sus virtudes, que sirven
de aureola a su belleza.
AL comunicar tan grata noticia
nuestros lectores, nos completeness en-
enviar nuestro buen amigo el senior
Moledo v a Ia bella y admirada sefio-
rita Noa, los mas efusivos parabienes.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-21
DON GERARDo MoLEDo

Segnn nos informa una dana de ex-
traordinsrio valer en- nuestros cfrculos
sociales, es un hechO, que ha sidO muy
favorablemente comentado en-. San
Juan, el compromise amoroso concerta-
do por el excelente y dignisimo joven
don Gcrardo Moledo, socio dc la impor
tante frma de Gonzalez Padin", con
la encantadora y gentil sehorita Betty
Eoa, perteneciente a una de las mas
selectas famihas de la pOblaci6n.
La noticia, como es natural, ha de.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-21
BoDA EN- NUEvA YORK

Ha contraido matrimOnio en- la ciu-
dad del Hudson la bella Srta. Jesusa
MOrillo con el estimado joven Juan Ru-
fno Rodriguez.
Les deseamos eterna luna de miel,
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-21
JUAN B. HUYKE.
AaEED1o A UNA NURSE

Mariana Hernandez, sirviente del
Hospital municipal agrcdi6, en- mo de
los pasillos del Hospital a la nurse Sc
fiorita Rafaela Gonzalez.
Denunciado el hecho la Corte 10 i'm,
puso 80 dias de carcel.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-21
Los TURcos Sc RETIRAN

-ATENAs, julio 19.- La retirada de
los turcos hace esperar que los griegos
rodearan Ia region de "Koutaia''. En-
el Sur los griegos cooparon numerosos
militares enemigos, v, entire. eilOs el Co
mandante de la cuarta division turca.
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LEA ESTO

Una casa que su valcr es de $500.
81 me la compra seguido Sc la doy
pOr S4,s5o. d. Diaz Alexandra, telefO-
no s24 azul santurce.
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La pena de n1uerte

Maria cue venia reclinada sobre los
hombros dc Javier. vic la silueta de IN
hombre que avanzaba sobre ellos, y an
tes que pudiera gritar, hUndi6se en- el
ccraz6n del mozo una sica miserable. i
Cay6 ell cuerpo del apuesto joven al sue
10, Maria corrl6 consternada hacia su
hormano Carlos, cue tuvo alientcs Y
energias para luchar cuerpo a cuerpo
con el rufian maldito, hasta que ell ar
ma homicida cay6 al suelo ensangrenta-
da; y al recogerla ell joven osden, hugo
el cObarde asesino y SO inferno en- la
selva.
Indeseriptiblo cuadro. .,.l
Un cadaver, un herido, una joven des
fallecida. y una aldea nena de luto
y espanto. L.egaban hasta el sitiO del
sINIEsTRo AsEsINATo, uno por
uno, todos los mozos y las mozas de la
aldea, = sollozaban aterrorizadcs todos,
y todos nenos de justo coraje clamaban
por la presencia del victimario para ven
gar el crimen. icuien ha sido a
preguntaban los intimos de Javier, apro
ximando sus pupilas consternadas la
hrmanidad sangrante y cadav6rica del
spuesto convecino. Y Maria, desgranan
d sohre el inerte cuerpo las perlas re-
lucientes de su lantO, gritaba conmo-
vida: -iTrompeta. Trompeta.
FUE Ell AsEsINol"
7 les paiiuelos bordados ricos de las
contritas campesinas, caian sobre las
horidas de Carlos, el valionte Carlos, que
ofrend6 su vida en- holocausto del honor
dc su hermana.
Y, on tanto, SO ola repetir en- La cam
pima ell grito cspOntaneO que Sc esca-
paba de todos los labios:
"iTRoMPETA FUE. - iCoJAN-
LEI iMATENLEl
LQu6 hubieras hecho I'll, lector, en- 81
tuaci6n igual?
Y despu6s de esta escena de dolor in
nenso, dc luto y de espanto, de crime
mes audaces y dc inicuo maldiciente
salvajismo. D.. cierra esta pagina y bus
ca en- las colrmnas periodisticas algo
ore sIGNIFIoUE sIMPATTA Y AD-
HESToN A tn DoLoR: abre ante II
un peri6dico cualquiera de los que Sc
publican en- tn pals, y encontraras las
jeremiadas abolicionistas:
LA vida es inviolable La PENA
de MUERTE" solo puede aplicarla
DIoS. La sociedad debe odiar el cri-
men pero debe, ESQ 81, compadecer
al criminal, al asesino 20 81, al ase-
sino vulgar que ha derramado tOda la
baba de su passion innoble sobre un To-
gar dc sublimes bellezas, llevando do
lor y espanto donde fulguraban Ia paz
la virtud. Trompeta /. ST el heroe
dc los abolicionistas, debe ser defen-
dido por los paladines modernos de Ia
libertad dc la inviolabilidad de la exis
tencia
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-07-21

Y un Juez compasivo, que oye la re-
comendaci6n del Jurado, impone al HE.
ROE Ia pena do 80 amos de presidio, pa
ra cumplirse ell dscimo mes del segundo
sfio del proceSo. -.
z los ancianos Osden, perdieron ia
vier, nervio de sus iniciativas agrico-
las y aliento do dos almas que Sc apa-
gaban lentamente. Y deja Trompe-
ia indtil, enfermo, delieado. casi per-
dido para toda omprcsa de propulsion
muscular, a Carlos . Y Maria, virtud
acrisolada por el fuego calcinante que
Ia envolvio en siniestra inolvidable
Y fatidica noche, deja sus rezos diaria-
mente en- el riistico cementerio donde
reposan para siempre los restos sagra-
dos del hermano fenecido. -
Y todo este ha sucedido cuando los
rotativos de San Juan, de gran circu-
laci6n, daban al pueblo la espeluznante
nueva, alentadora para los asesinos, dc
habOrso abohdo la pena do muerte en-
esta isla.
Todo este es NADIA, 81 SC compare con
oil deeantado derccho innate que tie
nen los AsESINos que Sc les respe-
te en- su vida de iniquidad y salvajis-
mo, pero sin que Sc les pueda obigaI
por ley precepto alguno humane que
NO ESGRIAIAN LA sICA ALEvosA
Y RUFIANESCA.
SHaremos asi una patria libre7 NO
no defendamos los asesinos, porqus
con los precedentes,, acsso involun
tariamente, asesinamos las personas
virtuosas.
Habria que repotir aqui la hermosa
romanza: SPeR QUE .PoR QUE
TEMBLAR. 49,?
5Por que tiemblan los hombres ante
81 tenor de la pena de muerte? 81 la paz
la tranquilidad social no exijen su
aplicaci6n, pueden dOrmir tranquilOs,
en- no interrumpido suefio, los asesinos
Los unicos abolicionistas eficaces de Ia
pena de muerte en- el mundo, han sido
los principles % moral social aplicados
obedecidos eli el continue batallar de
Ia vida:
EEL ORDEN .... LA LIBERTAD.
"sIT UTERo TUo UT ALIENUM
NON LAEDAs.
L. SANTIAGO CARMONA.
Julio de 1924.
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(Dedicado este trabajo al genial
escritor Crist6bal Real)
(Amigo lector: FL autor dc este
be.lisimo trabajo, insiste en- que apa-
rezca tan disparatada dedicatoria,
que es, por sLpuesto, 10 cinico dis
paratado de 81. Yo lie complazco, por-
que Sc que til, siempre ben6volo, me
haras La merced dc reirte. a mi cos
ia, de tan pr6digos caliaca'isc1.
C. R.)
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ia pasado un periodic largo de in
vestigacion. Trompeta ha sido reclui-
do. - Jurados que han merecido las
violentas califcaciones de Gar6falo, han
creido que Trompeta debe sufrir una
pena dc 80 amos, y dicen en- su inhuma-
no veredicto:
Declaramos a Trompeta culpable dc
asesinato en- segundo gRdo y pedimOs
clemencia.'
The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1921-09-29

ment for the Baptist Parsonage to
be built Just north OF the church on
the same grounds.
w. %. Lance arrived Thursday
from Lincoln, Nebraska, and will
stay at the II. p. Nokes home while
he takes care OF his apple crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Swansan were
Sunday dinner guests at the 70. p.
Nokes home.
Leo Howe is giving his house a
fresh coat of paint this week.
Harry Powell is back at his place
in the Payette post office after his
operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Henry and
family we're Sunday dinner guests
at the A. T. Bishop home.
Mrs. Cosie Branthooner arrived
home from Weiser Monday, where
she has been employed this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Smith, Nor
val and Margaret, and Polly Louise
Todd, were Sunday dinner guests at
the John Tackett home.
Mrs. Ellen Holbrock arrived FRI
day from Croswell, Michigan for an
extended visit at the home of her
son, Arthur Holbrook.
Graduation exercises were held at
the Methodist church Sunday even