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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
MINERS IGNORE
 EDICT OF LEWIS; HSTRKE STILL ON
1f,O0O Workers Vote To aCOntinue WalkOut De- MI~
 spite Threat
(By Associated Press.)

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 29.-The general grievance committee represent ing the 11,O00 anthracite mine workers of the Pennsylvania Coal company to- day voted to continue the strike started early this week in the face of instruc- tions from International President John l.. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, that the men return to work Monday or have the charters of their local unions revoked. The committee announced it would not call off the strike until grievances the men com plained of have been adjusted. In order not to comply with the instruc- tions of President Lewis the grievance committee sad journed until next Wednes- sday.
 ! The grievance committee met in Pitts lpn to discuss the situation and while
 rsession listened to the reading Of
 telegram sent from New Orleans by
 'dent Lewis to D. w. Davis. who
 designated by the union leader to
 resent him in the district. FTTbe telegram stated that he had n- strncted Acting President George Isaacs tolseall meeting of the district ex- ecutive board and utilize the full board of the district organiza ton to terminate the strike. It authorized Davis to act asi the international presidents agent and to direct the district executive board to revoke the charters of all local unions which may not have re- turned to work by Monday, Decem- bersi1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
ELECTED TO ACADEMY
Gabriel Pierne to Fill Vacancy Caused
 y ARY DuhOiS' Death

By Dubois Death
 PARIS, Nov. 29.-Gabriel Pierne. prominent composer and orchestra lead CT, was today elected a member of the French Academy of Fine Arts to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodore Dubois.
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tions are often more important tan

tions are often more important tan he said.
 The following officers were eleted today: Chairman, Dr. Walter H. (on- ley, New York; vice chairman, HAry R. Johnston, New York; secretary, Dr.. H. $. Sheridan Baketel, New Yrk treasurer, Judge William Bayes, New York; educational adviser, Dh n Thomas, Clark, Illinois. Execative committee, Don k. Almy, Jolh J. Kuhn, Robert H. Nelson, A. Bruce Bielaski, Harold Riegelmann, A. A. Sharp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
THE WEATHER

Alabama, Mississippi: Fair Sunday. warmer in north portion; Monday fair and warmer.
 Louislana; Sunday lair, warmer; Mon day fair, light varIble winds on the coast.
 Arkansas: Sunday fair warmer in east portion Monday fair
 West Texas, Oklahoma; Sunday and Monday fair.
 East Texas: Sunday faiS. warmer in east portior Monday fair, light to moderate southerly winds the coast.
 Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia. Florida. Extreme Northwest Florida: Fair Sunday and probably Mon usy; slightly warmer Monday.
 Tennessee: Cloudy and warmer Sunday; Monday partly cloudy.
 Kentucky: Unsettled and warmer Sun day; Monday fari.
 Summary of observations made at sta tions of the United States weather bureau. during the 24 hours ending at p. m.. 9Oth meridian time November 2s. 1924.
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,DOBBS TO GO
 TO MEETING
 OF LEAGUES

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. D. (pecial. )-Physicians attending Johnny Dobbs, manager oft he Birmingham club, gave him permission today to at tend the meeting of the National Pro- fessional Baseball association, which will be held in Hartford, Conn.,, Tues day. He will leave Chattanooga Sun day. He has been very sick, and is still weak, but wishes to engineer one or two deals for the Birmingham club.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGES

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Foreisn ex changes steady. Quotations in cents Great Britain demand, $4.63%; cables $4,62%; 60-day bills on banks, $4.59sI France demand, 5.39h; cables, 5.40;l Italy, 4.33h and 4.34; Belgium, 4.S9 anl 4.S9h; Germany, 23S1; Holland, 40.32 Norway, 14.7s; Sweden, 26.91; Denmark 17.56; Switzerland, 1881; Spain, 13.6Sl Greece, IFS; Poland, 19h; Czechosio valsia, 3.O0h; Jugoslavia, 1.45z; Aus
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-TEMPERATURE- ' D. m., High Low Rain
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LUCATI DAIA the 24 hours ending at p. m.
MINnS

East Gulf Moderate north and north west winds. fresh over south portion weather fair Sunday.
 West Gulf: Moderate east and north east: fresh over south portion, weather fair Sunday.
 Cariben Sea and Windward Passage. Moderate to fresh northeast, weather partly overcast with occasional rains Sunday. aSandy Hook to Hatteras: Fresh north AAst, weather partly overcast Sunday. @Hatteras to Florida Straits Moderate north and nortAwaat. fresh overAgoRtR DOT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
CYCLONE HITS TOWN

IISBON. Nov. 29.-Cabecao. to;;--;;. in lflprthern Portugal, was swept by a (yclone of unusual violence today. Trees kerei uprooted and chimneys and roofs
 rried away. No casualties were re.
 rted.
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EDITOR CHEW DIES
At 92 He was Oldest Active News.
 nanar Chief

XENIA, Ohio, Nov. %. - Ames Parker Chew, 92, the oldest active newspaper editor in the country, found- CT and editor of the Xenia Daily Gazette, died of infirmities of old age today. -I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Farm Thrift and Education

The Department of Agriculture has for some
time been investigating the conditions of the
farming population of the country. In one of
its latest bulletins on this question we find the
following marvellous discovery: Average
school grades reached were found to be di-
rectly related to efficiency in accumulation"
In other words the best money savers had the
most schooling.
If this were the whole truth one would be
able to say safely that the department of agri-
culture has at least been able to solve the
crisis that has overwhelmed the farmers. We
would like Secretary Wallace first of all to
tell us how farmer can save money when he
not only does not earn any, but continually
loses on his produce. We wonder how can
farmer save money when he gets less for
bushe of wheat than it costs him to produce
one. How is it possible for farmer to save
money for his own and his children's education
when he is unable to pay his taxes, to meet his
mortgage bill, and to pay the interest de-
manded by the bankers for loans advanced to
him? How can one talk about saving money
to a bankrupt farmer?
Before farmer can be expected to save he
should first of all be provided with security of
income. Only those farmers who earn more
than they need to get along on can be expected
to save any money. Thus the department of
agriculture is deliberately misleading the
farmers when it tells them that their educa-
ton is dependent upon their thrift, their saw
ings account. The truth of the matter is that
the education of the farmer, like the education
of the average worker exploited by the en-
ploying class, is limited by his income. It is
natural to find less education amongst the
lower paid workers than amongst the higher
paid workers. The workers receiving lower
wages can hardly meet their most elementary
demands. These workers cannot afford to at
tend schools themselves or send their children
to the higher institutions of learning. The
same holds true for the farmers.
This report issued by Mr. Wallace's depart
ment, is typical of many of the misleading re-
ports circulated amongst the farmers in order
to blind them regarding their present suffer-
ings and the true role Of the government in
the agricultural crisis. The farmers have had
too much experience with such agents of the
packing interests as Mr.. Wallace and with
such help rendered them by the government
to put the slightest faith in these reports.
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Mr.. Lenroot Quits

It is indeed welcome tidings to us to learn
that Senator Lenroot, chairman of the public
lands committee, investigating the oil scandal,
has at last quit.
We are not particularly interested in the
reason for Mr.. Lenroot's resignation which was
long overdue Mr.. Lenroot's excuse for quit
ting is illness. Perhaps Mr.. Lenroot is telling
a political truth for change. 1t is not out of
place at this juncture to state that the workers
and farmers have long ago been sick of Len
roots crooked maneuvers on the public lands
committee in behalf of the Dohenys and Sin
clairs. We know full we'll that Mr.. Lenroot's
primary reason for beating hasty retreat
from his Office is that he has at last realized
that it would be suicidal for him and his oil
friends to continue in this important position.
Turnout the investigation Mr.. Lenroot has
hobnobbed with the oil thieves The junior
senator from Wisconsin is an old-timer in the
alley politics of Washington and Wall Street.
He enjoys the back-door confidence of every
big capitalist magnate in the country. Mr..
Lenroot IS man of no mean ability. Yet at
no time in the sessions did Mr.. Lenroot show
the slightest intention or make the faintest
effort to uncover the facts of the case revealing
the control and outright ownership of the
government by the powerful financial over
lords. We are not surprised at this conduct
on Mr.. Lenroot's part Mr.. Lenroot came to
Washington as a progressive. He sold out
completely to the reactionary clique. While
he was on the public lands committee he con-
tinued to render services to his masters with
unfailing regularity.
Now that Lenroot has quit it is high time
that Mr.. Smoot, whose record is at least as
crooked as that of the Wisconsin senator in the
oil investigation, should also get out of Office.
Indeed, we would adjudge Mr.. Smoot the win
ner in a contest with Mr.. Lenroot for services
rendered to Doheny The presence of Mr.
Smoot on the public lands committee makes a
joke out of the whole investigation. AS long
as this 'Latter-Day Saint of the Mormon
Church" stays on the committee there will be
no real investigation. Everybody is well aware
of the fact that the Utah senator has had in
innate connections with the "apricots and
apples" in the Geographic dispatches between
Mclean and his Washington friends from the
White House down.
The pressure of the masses and their dis
trust in the investigation, in some of its execu-
tive sessions, has forced Mr.. Lenroot out. Our
next task is to get rid of Mr. Smoot. He should
go in double-quick time.
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Sir Oracle Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge, the Massachusetts
senator, has for a score of years been adver-
tised as the wisest statesman of the country.
Many reactionary republican leaders have
oft told us that Mr.. Lodge is a prophet and
seer who can read the future even without the
aid of a deck of marked cards or crystal
globe. AS the leader of the republican party
in the senate, Mr.. Lodge has won the title.
from many of his blind followers, of "Sir
Oracle Lodge"
Thus, when this great historian and prophet
speaks let no poor, unlettered proletariat dare
question the truth of his findings. In the days
when events were not dated in Washington
B. f. (before Fall) and A. F. CATER FalD
Henry Cabot Lodge wrote a letter, Feb 22nd,
1921, to Mr.. Herbert Welsh President of the
Indian Rights Association, regarding the pres
emily dishonorable Albert B. Fall. Said the
historian Lodge:
'In my opinion he (FalD is exceptionally fitted
TO be secretary Of the Interior il is gener-
ally understood, that he will be appointed TO that
post. Senator Fall is thoroy upright and high
minded man. and UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF
USING HIS OFFICE FOR HIS OWN FINANCIAL
INTEREST. which | regret to say is implied by
some of the expressions Of your letter"
And in the debate on the Colombian treaty,
Senator Lodge in eulogizng Falls knowledge
of South American conditions declared on
April 18th, 1921:
"His (Falls) patriotism and far-sightedness are
conspicuous as his knowledge, and am sure the
Senate will give attention and weight to what he
has TO say in regard TO this pending treaty, with
which he has been largely concerned"
In view of the recent endeavors of Senator
Lodge to proclaim his holiness and his COM
pIete lack of connections with the oil scandal,
and in view of the resolution introduced into
the senate the other day to investigate the
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Fixing Facts For Farmers

When is a farm owner an absentee
landlord? Is a farm owner not
an absentee landlord when he stays
on the farm all year as a retired
farmer doing nothing but becomes
an absentee landlord in the eyes Of
the secretary Of agriculture and his
coterie Of high priced lawyers when
he does not live on the farm and
comes himself or sends his agent
once or twice year to collect rent
and interest?
In our opinion any farm owner,
whether he calls himself a retired
farmer or not, as long as he is not
engaged in actual farming, in work
on the farm, as long as he is absent
from farm work, is an absentee land
lord for whom other people must
work to keep him alive. Thus, ac-
cording to the findings of the de-
partment of agriculture itself, nearly
two.thirds Of the farm owners are
really absentee landlords. 1t is this
owning group, one-third of whom
are bankers, merchants and profess
sional men, for whose support the
mass Of farmers are forced to work
from sunrise to sunset. This is
dismal fact which no one can deny.
When the Wall Street farm experts
blink this situation they are only
helping to perpetuate the present
acute distress of the farmers.
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of it for the sorely pressed farmers.
Mere nominal paper ownership of a
farm does not mean thing to the
farmer when the land is heavily
mortgaged, when the average mort
gage debt per owner-operated farm
practically doubled for many of them
in the last ten years, when the
freight rates are still at least IS
per cent above pre-war level, while
Canadian and Argentinian rates have
gone back to or even below the 1913
scale, and when practically % per
cent of the farm-owners have lost
their farms thru bankruptcy in the
wheat belt alone.
What wonderful blessings nominal
legal ownership brings to the farm.
ers are best evidenced by the fact
that in one year, 1922, almost per
cent of our entire rural population,
100000, fled from the country in
a great exodus to the city, and that
in the two-year period 1920-1922, the
number of habitable farmhouses
abandoned by the farmers almost
doubled.
Then the report goes on to say:
"More than one-third (of the farm
owners) are themselves engaged in
agriculture. Nearly one-third are re-
tired farmers. The remaining third
are in non-agricultural occupations"
Here we have the tragic admission.
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NIALL STREET and its govern
w ment are working overtime
trying to make the farmers believe
that they are earnestly endeavor.
ing to end the present agricultural
crisis. Big business and it's expen-
sive rural experts" have been play
ing for many months with all sorts
of fake farm panaceas while the
farmers have been sinking more
deeply in the slosgh of bankruptcy.
To date, these self-styled friends, in
reality the most dangerous enemies,
of the farmers have spent most Of
their money and energy in fixing
facts for the farmers, in circulating
misleading, fraudulent, unfounded re-
ports amongst the farming masses
to make them believe that they are
actually getting along splendidly,
that the conditions on the farms are
steadily improving.
One of these reports just issued
by the department of agriculture an
nounces "that in 1920 not more than
10 per cent of rented farms were
owned by absentee landlords"
Great scott What has this to do
with the misery of the farmers? But
let us be charitable and analyze this
statement in order that we might
get the greatest relief possible out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-14
Communists and the Teapot

A certain Mr. Marvin conducts department
against Reds Communists, Bolshevlks" and
DANGEROUS citizens of all descriptions in the
columns of the New York Commercial. ms
organ of finance calls itself 'the national busl-
ness paper" We therefore, assume that what
it says is the gospel insofar as Wall Street is
concerned.
In recent issue of this mouthpiece Of
Lower Broadway, the charge is made by Mr.
Marvin that the real forces back of the attacks
on Coolidge, DENLY, Daugherty, and the rest
of the oil thieves is the "proletarlan revolu-
ton" Mr.. Marvin charges that the Commun-
lists are directing an onslaught on Burns and
such other friends of labor by pursuing their
dangerous tactics of "boring from within"
This time it is within the government.
Apparently Mr.. Marvin has overshot his
mark. We Communists have never hidden our
purpose which is to get rid of this present
government of the employing class and sub
stitute for it workers and farmers republic
We wonder whether Mr.. Marvin is such
high-priced propaganda because he is skilled
in selling his clientele the ridiculous notion
that the Communists are responsible for mis-
leading the masses about the corrupt character
of our government. His customers know better
than to accept such buncOmbe. The matter-ot-
fact proof is thatit is the Marvins, the Daugh-
ertys the Burns, the Denbys and McAdoos-
the link between the stock exchange In New
York and the puppet show on Capitol Hill IN
Washington-who have been trying to be-
fiddle the minds of the workers and farmers
as to the real character of the government
while they were using the governmental
powers to protect and serve the big banking
and manufacturing interests.
The Teapot Dome scandal, the Veterans
Bureau fraud and corruption, the Mellon tax
steals, and the countless other instances OF
graft and corruption arise not in the minds OF
the Communists, but out of the conditions
under which the government machinery, and
the means of production and exchange socially
used are privately owned for private profits.
No, Mr. Marvin the Communists are not bor-
ing into the government. But the Communists
will not hesitate to make it clear to the work
ers and poor farmers that the Teapot Scandal
should unite them for action which will bring
about a complete change in the political and
economic class relations of today. We propose
to do away with Teapot politics forever The
only way to uproot Teapot politics is to estab-
lish workers and farmers government which
will control all the natural resources of the
country in the interest of the great masses and
to organize industry in such manner as will
insure the collective ownership and social con-
troll of the means of production and exchange
the Communist system. The lies and frauds
of the Marvins can't stop Teapot scandals.
Only Communism can.
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Are You Reading "A Week?

peasants, at the grey town, the
purple-brown distance of the fields,
the misty day, his heart wept for
that form of life which was grow
ing still forever, wept in time
with that complaining ringing Of
bells, which with dejectedly lower
ed wings fioated over the town in
that inexpressibly simple hour
when the sun, like dull white
spot, had long passed noon and
was throwing the pale semi-circIe
of the rainbow over the purple
brown, distant fields.
The Red Army men frowned,
looking at the mouzhiks crossing
themselves, and then one, the
youngest Of all, said mockingly,
"Well, well, we've prayed, let's
get along. And you, Mister,
don't lag behind" he added, to
Konstantin Petrovitch. The train
of carts moved slowly forward,
and Konstantin Petrovitch saw
how from all parts of the town,
across the broad square, people
were coming together to the Circus
Building, walking singly and in
groups, young and old, men and
women. Different faces, smiles,
gestures, gaits, and yet there was
something common to them all, as
if one and the same distant, morn
ing sun was lighting them all. And
Konstantin Petrovitch guessed that
these were the Communists, gath
ering for the Party Meeting.
This was the first Party Meet
ing after the revolt, and, for the
Communists, the church bells
sounded like the blowing of an
enemy trumpet, an insolent re-
minder that the struggle was not
yet over, that the enemy had re-
tired but had not been broken;
each one heard it, and blinked, but
then remembered that a victory
had been won, that after all the
revolt had been put down, and each
one shared his feeling Of joy with
his comrades. And together with
the others, Lisa Gratcheva went
OlIllOLOuoAH W JltC UiCCGillSg CdillC
to the entrance of the Circus, but
could not make up her mind to go
in. In vain Lisa sought in the
crowd for faces that she knew. 1t
was as if all of them had been kill
ed during the revolt, but there, see,
in a clean great-coat, a Commun-
list star on his breast, Comrade
Matusenko himself, secretary of
the Politdep, drawing out of his
pocket his clean ticket of member
ship, and showing it to the young
secretary of the District Commit
tee, who was sitting in the en-
trance to the Circus and register
ing those who came to the meet
ing. -.
"Comrade Matusenko, Comrade
Matusenko. i. You at least are
alive, Comrade Matusenko.
You at least they have not killed"
And Comrade Matusenko smiled
with self-satisfaction.
"Why should they kill me
am a small figure, unnoticeable,
and have no enemies among my
neighbors. My wife and l did not
hear the shooting or anything else.
!. Just quietly slept thru 1t m
our beds, hee hee. :. In the
night she woke up and said, lii
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usha, it sounds like shooting. >
Enough, Grusha,' says /, go to
sleep, you're dreaming hee, hee.
-. And in the morning / listened
and there actually was shooting.
/ waited at home till they stopped
shooting and then went to the
Office. There was no one but me
in the Politdep, but it's not for
me to neglect my duties. :"
whats to happen now, Com
rade Matusenko? Comrades Sim
kova and Martuinov, both killed.
=. !" Grief and affection on the
face Of Matusenko: II am orphan
ed, orphaned altogether. There
it is, popular ignorance and sapag-
cry. (. And why are you here,
do you intend to join the Party 2"
he asked Lisa patronizingly.
rs that why you have come to our
meeting? ?" And, hearing the sound
of the bells calling to the Satur-
day evening service, Lisa thought
of how she had not gone to church
today, to Mass, but to the Party
meeting. And in general
she would not go to church
even at Easter because there
was no God.
And, occupied with these new
ideas, she replied absent-mindedly
to Matusenko:
"I have business with Comrade
Karaulov. promised to meet
him here"
Karaulov rode up on horseback
to the Circus Building, jumped
lightly from his horse, and tied it
to the horse-post, while he kept
looking down the road, watching
far away the black ribbon Of the
train of carts. Some one laid
heavy hand on his shoulder and,
looking round, he saw Gornuikh,
broad-faced and calm, with a
slight touch of WEAKNESS in his
eyes, and his lips firmly pressed
together:
"Are they bringing it," Cor
nuikh asked shortly, pointing
down the road.
"They are bringing it," Karau-
Low as shortly replied. And both
were silent. They were remember
ing the twenty-eight comrades who
were lying in their collins, under
the red flags, in the yard of the
Extraordinary Commission, await
ing solemn burial.
'I'm sorry for the lads," said
Karaulov abruptly. "Died for
nothing. And you and l were
right. x. The battalion ought not
to have been taken out of the
town."
Gornuikh was silent, thinking,
and then said, speaking as if he
were piling heavy, uniform stones
into a solid wall:
mo, Karaulov, we were both
wrong. You see, there, they are
bringing the wood. You just
think" he added, with rare anima-
ton for him, "that wood gives US
seed-corn! And corn, for peasant
revolts, is like water for fire. Not
for nothing the comrades died. i.
Just now am holding and enquiry
and see :. the revolt was. COM
ing anyhow. :" And Gornuikh
began briefly to tell him of the
results of the enquiry.
ITO Be Concluded Saturday,