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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
BEWARE OF THE CRIMES OF THE
PULLMAN COMPANY

THE strike against the Pullman spreading The pluck
and courage of the strikers is growing
spirited struggle the strikers
the crimes that the Pullman Co. is ready perpetrae ITSELF but
shoulder the strikers if effort create preu
dice against the worker.
past uprisings against Pullman shown that
it requires courage out against this huge and
wealthy corporation that has powerful connections in the strong
est citadels of finance and industry
Carroll D. Wright for time United States Commissioner
of Labor in referring the Pullman strike starting May H.
1894 and the railroad strike following said it
probaby the expensive and areachng labor controversy
which properly be cassed among the historic controversies
of this generation"
In order public prejudice against the strikers in
1894 the railroad corporations deliberately ingated the burn
ing destruction of their ey cheap wornout
freight cars and everywhere had thugs and its
emssaries to preach and provoke violence.
In the words used by Gusavus Myers in his History Of
Great American Fortunes the object hreefod usual
throw the upon the strikers of being awles body
give the newspapers opportunity of nveghg with terrific
effect against the strikers and call upon the government for
armed troops shoot down. overawe in other thwart
the strikers.
The Pullman profteers different today
then they thirty years ago.
Rifle squads automobiles today parade the strike
City police invade the homes of strikers and threaten their
children The strikers have dspossessed of
their first meeting hail. thus being denied the right of free speech
and free assemblage.
Inc aclcS OF Pulan crowd present time nave
shown that they capable today of the crimes they committed
in past years. when their workers fighting for their
rights.
The Pullman crowd capable again burning freight
and blaming it the strikers 1t capable of nstgatng its
to make insane speeches and blaming them the strike
organizers and the rank and file spokesman of the workers
Not only the strikers but the workers generally be-
of the crimes that the panic stricken Pullman Company
will commit in the hour that it believes its profits being
seriously threatened.
The issue must be kept clear the ranks of the strikers
be kept unbroken 1t battle wages against high
profits.
1t is battle that the workers must win
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
TRIUMPHAL MAY DAY WILL BE
CELEBRATED IN DISTRICT NEW YORK

The following list of celebrations
New Jersey under the auspices
Open Air Meetings VIII Held
Hsrsm-The meeting will be held M. and
will ~ 7'0
DownownMeeting will be held M. Rutgers So Com
ades Wntsk Baum Siskind Castre Taubenshg
speak w
neutrality-suspicious. ST. following will address
the meeting: Dental, Nesin. Bimba
New York-A be held at Cen
trail House. 9th Street
Epstein will speak Charles Kumbein will
Singing Society will be heard in special May
Bookyn:n Brooklyn Labor
Nesin Bmba will
Aida Chorus Kendel solost
FnnshThe Finnish Party arranged for
concert and meeting May
Street and Lenox Avenue
the number Finnish
NEW
Hoboken:A large meeting be
Grand Street Hoboken German English
and other p M.
concert and mass
meeting the Newark Labor
Thurbert Lewis others will
Meeting will start at p. M -
Eizabsh-Eizabeh win celebrate May First Hail.
So. Park Street, at s p M. W
May Third
Leish will
May ard at s2 D. 7srd st. Charles Krumben and others win
Yonkersyonkers will celebrate May
the Labor Lyceum, % Palisade Ave. at p. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Milwaukee Schools
Stepping Towards
Platoon System

MILWAUKEE,, April 2s.-What is
believed to be stepping stone to adop-
ton in the public schools of the pla-
toon system, plan generally opposed
by labor organization, is the depart
naturalization" of the schools here.
Three more schools are to be depart
mentalized, which means that pupils
will rotate about the building under
several teachers.
At a committee of the board, DR..
j. w. Murdoch voiced opposition to.
the use of textbook on American
citizenship by Scott.
Il have read it carefully" Murdoch
declared, land could find nothing
constructive in it. All it does is to
continually pat the United States on
the back and declare that everything
we do is right. And it contains pic
ture of Andrew Carnegie, which is an
insult to every foreigner who ever
came over here and was robbed in his
steel mills"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
NO ERROR WRIT
ALLOWED SLAVIC
WORKER IN COURT
Steel Lords Sentence
Buksa For w. p. Work
BY J. 4. HAMILTON.

YORKvILLE, Ohio, April 28.-Johr
Buksa, member of the Yorkville South
Slavic Branch of the Workers Party
has been refused in the Circuit Court
at Wheeling, W. Va, a plea for writ
of error in respect to the sentence OF
three months in jail and fine he re
ceived May IL, 1923, on charge Of
violating the Unlawful Publications
Act" He was distributing the Pro
gram Of the Workers Party on troll
ley car in Wheeling, in March, 1928
when arrested. A further appeal Is
being made TO the State Supreme
Court, one Of the points at issue be
ing the constitutionality of the Act.
One of the flock of criminal syn
dicalism" laws produced by the wal
hysteria, was this West Virginia Act
passed in 1919. 1t reads: at shall be
unlawful for any person to speak
print, publish, or communicate, by
language, sign, picture, or otherwise
any teachings, doctrines, or counsels
in sympathy or favor of ideals. insti
buttons. or forms of government hos
tile, inimical, or antagonistic to those
now or hereafter existing under the
constitution and laws of this state OF
the United States, or in sympathy OF
favor Of the propriety, duty, or neces
sity, Of crime, violence, or other up.
lawful methods of terrorism as q
means of accomplishing economic OF
political reform, or in sympathy OF
favor OF the overthrow Of organized
society, the unlawful destruction OF
property, or the violation of law.
"steel HAND Against Huksa.
Buksa is afflicted with progressive
paralysis and for six years has been
unable to work at his trade of min.
ing. He is Trustee of the Miners
Temple at Bellaire, elected by vote
Of the miners in Eastern Ohio.
His present trouble really dates
back to the strike in the Yorkville
Tin Mill, owned by the Wheeling
Steel Corporation, early in 1922, dur
ing which company guards shot to
death one of the strikers. The widow
succeeded in forcing the Company to
pay $33,33s.3S damages. One Of the
principal witnesses was Mike Buksa.
one Of Johns sons. The informant
who secured the arrest of John, hap
pened to be superintendent Of one Of
the mills of the Wheeling Steel. The
jury was mostly mill workers, and in
spite Of having to assimilate the I'M
lawful publications law. and the
Workers Party program in order to
be able to render an intelligent YER
dict, it stayed out but bare five min
utes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
STEEL WORKERS
SEDITION TRIAL
STARTS APRIL 80
Six Farrell, Pa, Defen-
dants Face Jury

MERCER, Pa, April 2S.-The Mer-
GER county grand jury returned true
bills against each of the six Farrell
defendants charged with having vio-
lated the sedition law. The trials will
start Wednesday and will continue for
about two weeks.
The defense has retained three of
the best attorneys in Mercer county,
and is prepared to wage battle
against the steel barons
Mercer, where the trials are to be
held, is small country village nest
ling on the outskirts of the steel belt,
and the inhabitants, mostly rural
folks, for weeks have talked nothing
but the cases of the six steel workers
and their coming trials.
The farmers surrounding Mercer
are all preparing to leave their spring
blowing and journey to the county
seat to hear the trials. They will find
that they have much in common with
the six defendant steel workers, who
have been pulled away from the glow
ing furnaces where steel rules and
rushed into the Quietness of this lit
tie rural town, now all astir over their
arrival.
Sedition will be defined by the pros
ecutor, and the easy going rural folks,
with first and second mortgages on
their farms, will realize how near they
are to prison when they protest
against the system which spends mil
lions Of dollars educating them on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
INDIANA'S GOVERNOR PUTS OK.
ON FORGERIES AND HIGH FINANCE

INDIANAPOLIS, April 2scontnung admission Of
n a he
mall
Atho plainly the
Is bal
While a
ability according evidence
were worthless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
CAR WORKERS! STAY
AWAY FROM PULLMAN!
STRIKE is NOW ON!

All car workers over the country
should take notice that there is a
strike on in the car shops of the
Pullman Company, at Pullman, III.
Agents of the Pullman Company
are trying to recruit strike breakers
thruout the middle west in an ef-
fort to fill the places of the car
workers who have gene out against
wage reductions.
Hundreds Of these workers, ignor-
ant Of the strike at Pullman, upon
arrival, have Immediately returned
to their homes. In order not to put
themselves in the position of strike
breakers, and to avoid needless
expense,
Car Workersl
Stay away from Pullman!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Strikers In cheerfuI Mood.

The strikers are cheerful over yes
terday's meeting. There will be
monster gathering later in the week
and the strikers have arranger to order
two thousand copies Of the DAILY
WORKER which will contain an ad.
evrtisement Of the meeting.
Two members OF the Young Work
ers League, Sam Green and John Har-
vey, were on the Job early yesterday
morning selling the DAILY WORKER,
and turning prospective scabs away
from the shops. They were intimidat-
ed by the police and threatened with
violence unless they desisted.
Some Police sypathetTe.
A detective approached the young
workers and informed them that the
Captain" had issued orders to arrest
anybody selling papers. Some OF the
police are friendly with the strikers
and 1t is amusing to see the efforts OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
HIRAM JOHNSON
NOT WANTED BY
LAFOLLETTE men
Newberry And Mooney
Issues Kill Him
tspeelaI 70 rhe paIIy Workerl

NopeCtdi TO INC Odlly WoFHeTl
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-In Hi
ram Johnsons latest threat to sever
all connection with the Republican
party some observers see a bid for
the third party nomination But to
this suggestion the leaders of the in
dependent movement are returning an
emphatic negative.
Johnson's refusal to vote to unseat
Newberry for buying his way into the
Senate from Michigan has killed his
progressive" following. And the left
wing labor movement, which controls
the balance of power in the insur-
gency against the old parties hates
Johnson for his refusal to pardon Tom
Mooney and Billings and other Cali
fornia workers imprisoned for life on
Chamber OF Commerce frameups.
The political future of the Califor-
mia senator, therefore, bids fair to be
comparable to the fate of that mar
who had no country. He has won the
enmity of the regular Republicans,
and has not gained the trust of the
liberals. He seems to be fated to pass
finally from the ranks OF those who
figure materially in national politics
Wanted LaFolIette's Place.
LaFollette's name will be- on the
ballot in from seven to dozen states
unless he keeps it off by main force
The political power he represents to-
day is uncomputed. because uncertain,
but it is very great. But not even La
Toilette could transfer it to Johnson
even if he wished to, which he does
not.
johnson might stand in better re-
pute with the progressives had he not
during the early days of the Harding
regime, put himself in the position of
trying to appear regular" by failure
to vote on Newberry and his support
of the tariff. This phase of his polit-
ical development was succeeded by a
gradual breaking away from the adj
ministration, that break eliminating
in the announcement of his candidacy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

robs them of the crops after tnes nave
raised them.
Recalls chatteI Slavery Days.
In this locality, when the abolition.
lists of Civil War days opened their
doors to the runaway black slave and
arranged for his journey farther
north, a new slave from the masters
steel mills arrives to be placed on the
block, and all the arguments used
against the black slave will be used
against his modern brother, the wage
slave.
The greatest trials in the history OF
the Pennsylvania labor movement, OF
far reaching importance, will be held
in this little town of Mercer, and the
six sturdy steel workers facing the
wrath of the steel barons for daring
to voice a protest against wage slav.
cry face the future realizing that the
masters lash always strikes hrst
those in the front ranks.
One can but admire the cool cour-
age of the defendants. All the injus.
tice heaped' upon them in the cen.
turtles past has schooled them in how
to be cool when under fire, and with q
grin ripping over their Slav features
and a shrug of their broad shoulders
they await their turn before Jury OF
their alleged peers.
Ready to Go to Prison.
One of the defendant workers ex.
pressed their views, when interviewed
by the DAILY WORKER correspond
ent. He exclaimed that when one
speaks for the working class he
must be prepared to go to prison.
The working class have every rea'
son to feel proud OF their brothers
now facing their masters court al
Mercer. Upon such backs and shout
ders does the burden fall, and the
thousands of rebellious steel slaves
will await the outcome of this battle
knowing that their own welfare de-
ponds upon same.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
EXPLOSION BURIES
.115 WORKERS IN
WEST VIRGINIAN
(contlnued from PAGE onel

The scab steel corporation, which
consumes the total product Of the
mine and attempts to take the min
ers, too, announced that 1O4 men had
received their Checks" yesterday
morning. The explosion occurred
within half an hour and cut off all
communication and exit The tele-
phone connection between Benwood
and Moundsville, w. Va, was broken
by the terrific mine explosion.
Crowds of women and children gath
cred anxiously at the Browns run
opening of the mine, awaiting the re-
turn Of rescuers. Clouds of black
smoke poured from the mouth of the
mine, and the fire apparatus was
called out. No fire has been found
yet. Rescuers found air circulating in
the mine passages and expressed hope
that all the men might be taken out
alive.
The Wheeling Steel Corporation be-
gan it's career as an exclusive holding
company for eight subsidiary coal,
iron, coke, bridge construction and
transportation companies in May,
1928. 1t was first incorporated in
1920. The companies it swallowed up
and the Wheeling Steel itself have
been viciously anti-union and have
held their workers in the most COM
plete bondage.
improvements in the mine are never
made until disaster such as the pres
ent one forces some sort of action.
Even then the minimum compliance
with the law is offered by the COM
pany. Human life is cheap for it, so it
continues to sacrifice workers year by
year.
Await Pittsburgh Rescue Cars.
Rescue workers, volunteers from
among the miners, and members of
the Bureau of Mines penetrated into
the mine to depth of 1000 feet be-
for the first two men were found.
They found much debris piled in mine
corridors as a result of the explosion.
Mine rescue cars had to be brought
all the way from Pittsburgh before
rescuers could enter the mine at all.
This delayed the work considerably
and may result disastrously for the
imprisoned men.
The barony of this particular indus
trial concern includes 1000 acres of
real estate" plus 10000 acres of coal
lands and proven iron ore properties.
Over this territory the Wheeling Steel
Corporation rules in feudal manner:
owning all the towns, houses, build
ings, everything on the land, and keep
ing the miners in perpetual debt to
the company for every move they
make, every scrap they eat Serfs Of
the middle ages were no worse off
than the non-union miners of today in
these West Virginia fields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
PULLMAN SCAB
HUNTERS CURRY
WOODS FOR help
CONTINUED from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
here that this man, Jansen, may be
run out Of town by their friends back
home.
The following telegram was sent by
the Infatuated workers Of Iowa to
friends in Bettendorf.
"Jansen, labor agent for Pullman,
should be run out of town. There is
strike on at Pullman. Tell boys not
to come here"
The DAILY WORKER reoprter went
into the employment office ana found
2 men waiting for work, sitting on
benches. He stood in front of them
and advised them to walk out as
there was a strike on. AS the reporter
left company fink came in. He was
armed to the teeth.
The men walked out and thanked
the reoprter for the information. A
member of the Boilermakers' Union
will address the strike meeting tomor-
row and will bring officials of his
union with him. He will try to get
financial aid for the strikers.
PULLMAN, April 2S.-John Holm
germ, speaking here today to large
gathering of striking workers of the
Pullman shops told his audience tina
Florence Pullman, also Mrs. Frank o
Lowden keeps what is known as an
ideal farm where cows, pigs
horses and other animals are treated
ideally" in a manner that would
cause the slaves of the Pullman car
shops to grasp with establishment
iLowden got the title of the gentle
man farmer" from this farm and ex
poets to rope in the votes of the bank
rupt farmers of the Northwest thru
his nodding acquaintance with the an
finals who are so ideally cared for
The speaker said, that when a Low
den pig is indisposed the best special
list Immediately rushed to the animals
bedside, while the workers in tn,
shops-who pile up the Lowden mil
lions-and their wives and children
could starve without interfering will
the serenity Of the Lowden-Pullmar
conscience.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

the bosses to induce those sympathe-
tic officers to drive the pickets away
from the gates.
John Holmgren, General Vice Presi-
dent of the Brotherhood Of Railroad
Carmen and leader of the strike,
speaking before the big strike meeting
yesterday announced that the dicks
were prevented from entering the
homes Of the strikers thru the efforts
of Alderman Govier and that Captain
Pat Wheeler of the 9th ward was ms
structed not to allow his men to enter
homes of strikers without warrants.
Hits Frank Lowden.
Frank o. Lowden, candidate for
the vice presidency of the United
States on the Republican ticket, thru
his wife Florence Pullman owns most
of the stock in the Pullman Company"
said Holmgren. Besides that" be
continued, "he owns hundreds of COM
pany houses. The money that is made
by Lowden thru Florence by this
wage cut and in the recent raise in
rent is enough to buy her husband the
vice presidency and leave something
over to purchase couple of cabinets
as Doheny and Sinclair did"
"They say the high cost of living Is
reduced, hence a reduction in the
cost Of living. This is a lie, as the
latest Department of Labor report
shows an increase in living costs.
Rents have gone up from 10 to 100
per cent. The company takes away
from the workers. by means OF the
wage reductions, enough money to buy
the presidency.
Holmgren showed in his speech that
the workers have nothing to gain by
supporting the democrats and repub.
iicans who are jointly the agents of
the Pullman company and other big
trusts. II the workers could see this
and organize politically in a class
Farmer-Labor Party, they would not
be beaten on the heads during strikes
and thrown into jail by the demo.
cratic and republican tools OF Big
Business.
The Brotherhood Of Railway Car.
men is the union to which William z
Foster the great strike leader, be-
longs. Foster Is the man who brought
almost half million steel workers to.
gether in the great organizing cam
paign OF 1919. His name is greeted
with expressions of confidence by the
steel workers thruout the country,
while he is held up as DOGGY man TO
the workers by the steel trust and ali
the big corporations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Some Police sypsthetIe.
DETROIT CARPENTERS UNANIMOUS
FOR ST. PAUL MEET, JUNE 18TH
(speeIaI 10 the paIIy Worker)

Mchy April 2sMsmbers Of Carpenters Local No 24o
fighting political
has endorsed the call for the June i7th convention IN ST. Paul
organization There adverse discussion and the
2f4o the beginning Of intensive campaign
TO
sentiment
oncladom
to Of political parties.
Will locals financially able
the Of ds1sA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Let's Victory
In French Vote
Looks Likely

PARIS, France, April 2S.-The left
wing politicals are massing their
forces for the coming election of May
IL and stsnd good chance to win, &C
cording to reports. The leaders are
men like Edward Herroit and Paul
Painleve and are far from the ''radi-
Gals" they are pictured by their con-
servative opponents.
President Millerand is expected to
resign if the lefts make their victory.
Judging from the recent by-elections,
the lefts will gain at least $50 seats,
or the same majority that the ma
tional party has now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
PULLMAN STRIKE EXPOSES THE
"COMPANY UNION" AS AN ENEMY
OF WORKERS. BEST INTERESTS

standard of living Of the Pullman
workers. They are tired of interfer-
ence with their interests by the Pull
man Company and are thru with all
organizations run by the Pullman
Company which are formed to increase
crease profits by further grinding
down of the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

How many Of your shop-rnates read
THE DAILY WORKER. Get one Of
them to subscribe today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29

The following list Of celebrations
New Jersey the auspices Of United
Open Air Meetings VIII
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-29
Honest-to-cod Union.

The Brotherhood of Railway Car
men, Just organized by the riveters.
reamers. buckers, filters and other
steel workers, is out to raise the
The Washington times., 1924-11-25
Goings-On

NATIONALr-F'lora LIE Breton.
English star, in Lass O. Laugh
ter"
RELASCO A new play,
Badges" with Gregory Kelly
and Lotus Robb.
POLLS Eddie Buell. in THE
Belle Of Quakertown."
kEITH'S-McIntyr and Heath;
Harry Webb; others.
STRAND-Vaudeville and films.
\ GAYETY--Jean Bedini's Peek
a-Boo."
MUTpAL-"Miss New York.
METROPOLITAN - Richard
Barthelmess in Classmates"
RIALTO-Reginald Denny in
1.-THE Fast Worker"
PAI4ACE-Peter the Great, dog
star, in 1.-THE Silent Accuser."
COLUMBIA--Ru Rudolph Valentino
in "A Sainted Devil"
TIVOLI-"Her Marriage Vow"
AMBASSADOR - Richard Bar
thickness in Classmates"
CENTRAL+-Marion Davies in
"Yolanda."
SAVOY4"Behold This Woman.
AVENUE GRAND Harold
Lloyd in Girl Shy"
APOLLO-Bebe Daniels in Dam
gerOus Money"
YORK-Marion Davies in To
landa." ~.
The Washington times., 1924-11-25

mild one. Hence the company had
to 60 North for its Ice. They
went to PIatteburg where the town
of Trenton, for Photographic pur-
poses, was reproduced by building
fortyssix houses and two streets
about 800 feet long.
The river war frozen to a
depth Of about three feet, but
under the Ice was what Is called
anchor ice. AS soon ae hole
was blown in the top ice the soft,
i1ushy anchor ice would fill the
opening. One hundred men work
ed in three shifts burroWing q,
road to a dam by which to float
away this soft ice. They plowed
a channel with dynamite about
800 feet long and 500 feet wide.
Blocks of ice had to be hauled
over the dam. and on more than
one occasion horses slipped into
the frozen water.
The company had 1.1000 men.
in boats and came to q full rean-
zation OF the task that had COM
fronted Washington. It was
necessary to use dynamite con-
family to keep channel in the
river open. In order to get men
to go into the freezing water five
or ten minutes the company had
to pay them 500, EACH All of
them were husky lads. Never
theless. one tainted on his way
back to the hotel. Twelve cam
eras, mounted on boats. photo
graphed the scene, which is said
to excel in dramatic power any
ever filmed. y