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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-07
Oil Workers Win Strike

MEXICO CITY.-The strike of the
Huasteca Oil Co, (Doheny) ends in
victory for the workers. OF the rs
per cent increase asked Is per cent
was secured with recognition of their
union. The company agreed to take
no action against the leaders of the
strike.
The strike against the Pierce Oil Co
also ended VIGOROUSLY for the work
ers Of the capital. They secured the
disciplining of the foreman who used
to lend the workers money at usurel
rates, the S-hour day, time and a hal
for overtime, 40 per cent increase il
wages for all factory workers, ant
medical care for diseases contracted
on the job.
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little interest in the question before
the chair. The result was that, in
stead of an animated debate on the
subject before the council, the discus
sion drifted into a dispute on the
question of points of order.
Under the group system, the de-
cision is reached after the experts in
the industry have thoroly discussed
the matter. Resolutions Of group
are usually adopted, unless the matter
conflicts with the policy of the coun.
Gil Thus, after a group has debated
a question and come to a decision, the
question then comes before the coun
Gil with the full weight of the group
Council, if. it endorses the recommen
dation, gives to the group the support
of the whole industrial movement.
In Experimental Stage.
The group system is hardly out OF
the experimental stage, but promin
ent industrialists say that they are
favorable to the new method of organ
ization. 1t is claimed that the grouI
system is the first practicable steI
towards industrial organization. Other
labor councils in Australia are pro
posing to inaugurate the same system
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could cut under that arrangement
were too few! The workers marched
around the factory shouting to the
superintendent suntil very late.
Faced Third Wage Cut.
Two of the girls who do the highly
skilled finishing work said that the
wage cut OF Aug. II would have been
their third this year. The first cut
amounted to one-third and the second
to one-eighth of their earnings and
both Of them said that living costs
were high in Waltham zone woman
with three children was paid only
$13, the minimum wage" one of the
friendly neighbors of the strikers
said. The girls estimated that about
two-thirds of the Waltham watch
workers roomed out and that most of
them were girls. They declared that
many girls were barely getting the
minimum wage and they were positive
that they could not live on such low
wages.
Stick is the badge worn by all the
strikers and sticking they are. Pres.
Faulkner says that the company has
got to recognize their collective bar
gaining power and that workers who
have spent 20. 80. 40 years in the
factory can own their homes and their
flivvers as well as he without having
their personal property made an ex-
cuse for cutting their and other work
ers wages. The workers are nearly
all American for generations back, he
emphasizes, and won't stand for this
overbearing management The Pro-
tective uses the old American cry
UNITED We Stand" and is holding its
members to the fight
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Story Sounds Fishy

VALPARAISO, Chile.-"We have
taken over the government only tenn
porarily-until we give our country a
new constitution and until we win the
Masses" is the cry of the military
group that forced Arturo Alessandri
to leave the presidency of Chile. Judg
ing by the proverbial reaction of the
military class of Chile and from such
men as Gen. Altamirano. who is in
the new Chilean cabinet, it is hard
to believe that they have taken power
only temporarily.
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CHICAGO PARTY ORGANIZER BACKS
5000, 1000 DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN
BY ARNE sWAREcK.

We not successful convincing fellow
uniting
solution the problem
he proper approach
many
written
realize Of to Its fullest extent
national office for special
In
the greatest possible number Of workers
will shrk
In activity
a andd distribute millions Of Of literature
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-07
.BLOOR MEETING
AT PEORIA, ILL.,,
is BIC SUCCESS
Party Speaker Gets An
Excellent Response
BY MAX COHEN.
(speelaI to Lac paiIy Workerl

Especial to The Daily Workerl
PEORIA, ILL.,, Oct. 6.-The destruc.
ton of posters placed on walls,
fences and on the windows and doors
of the hall in which she was to speak
did not stop Mother" Ella Reeve
Bloor from delivering her address in
Peoria as scheduled. We conducted
an open air meeting instead She
spoke before crowd of over 800 that
filled the huge walk in front of the
court house to overlooking.
Mother" Bloor is a great drawing
card. 1t so happened that an "old
time" socialist was making use of the
speakers platform as Mother" Bloor
and the committee came to the scene.
He was talking incoherently about the
workers getting together and voting
for LaFollette. At first there were six
listeners, then two, and when these
got restless, he was informed that a
lady was preparing to address the
meeting.
"Mother" BIoor Gets Crowd.
He was kind enough to introduce
her to what was left of the audience,
shouting that "she represents the
Workers Party, which is against all
parties and l will not be responsible
for what she says!"
Before Mother" Bloor had spoken
two minutes the crowd had grown SC
big that the people were asked to come
nearer the speaker in order not to
congest the sidewalk.
In her speech Comrade Bloor as,
sailed the assumption of leadership OF
the two contradictory groups of mon
eyed men and labor by LaFollette, and
came out directly for a government
of workers and farmers as against the
control of the means of production and
distribution by and for a few.
There is class dictatorship" she
declared, "and it is question of choos
ing between the dictatorship of CAPT
talism in the interest of few or that
of the working class for the benefit
VI Tic piOuuCCAb VI ali WCdllu.
She also told Of the progress being
made by Soviet Russia in the recon
struction of its economic and educa
tional systems.
Many Questions Asked.
The audience gave close attention
and asked numerous questions at the
close of the splendid address.
The "old timer" seized an opportun-
ity for come back" before the crowd
had dispersed, declaring that I'VE in
the United States are not ready for
revolution therefore we will have
nothing to do with Soviet Russia"
Little wonder that the socialist
party Cor what is left of it, is going
to the dogs when their membership is
so ignorant as to assail the first Work
ers' Republic on earth, while even
their misleader, LaFolletter, is favor.
able Of the recognition of Soviet Rus
qfaf
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CARRY SACCO,
VANZvETTI Fight
TO HIGH Court
Five Separate Appeals
for New Trial
Especial to The Daily WORKER


DEDHAM, Mass, Oct. g.
The complete text of the de-
cision of Judge Thayer denying
five motions for a new trial
asked by the two italian labor
leaders Nicola Sacco and Bar
tholomeo Vanzetti became pub
lie today.
A great part of the comment
on the motions is taken up with
an attack on Fred H. Moore,
chief of defense counsel and a
defense of the frame-up tactics
of the district attorneys office.
Shift Scene Of Fight.
The decision of Judge Thayer will
merely shift the scene of the fight to
save the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti
from the court in Dedham to the state
supreme court.
The first thing that will be done is
to appeal to the supreme court asking
a new trial on exceptions taken by
defense lawyers to certain Of the de-
cisions of Thayer during the trial
If the motion for new trial is de.
MED by the higher court then the SUI
pfeme court will be asked to pass on
the judges decision denying the five
motions for a new trial. Each motion
will be made the basis of separate
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Bloor Meetings

IN other" Bloor's Dates In District Eight.
Dowell, Ill.-Wednesday, Oct. 8, Rex
Theater. 7 y. m,
Ukrainian Hall, 1920 n. 9Th ST., D. m.
PARLIAMENTARY Oct. 10. City Hall.
1880 p. m.
Bellevillo. Ill.--saturday. Oct II.
seyEss Hail s ana WaaIso Uct ~
y. m
ST. Louis. Mo.--Sunday evening, oct.
u, Hagerdorn's Hall, 18th and Benton
Streets.
Livingston. nl-Monday. Oct 10. city
Hall, y. m.
ollinsyille--wednesda Oct. Is, City
Hail. $3.50 D. m.
Benld--Thursday Oct. 10.
Taylorville--Friday. Oct. II.
Nokomis--Saturday Oct. IS, Old Berger
Hail. Coalton. ILL.,. y. m.
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be done. The station master init
mated that hundred pools of grain
left at his home would strengthen the
bridge miraculously. Yet he could not
pay graft-it might have compro-
missed his whole concession if it were
found out. So he notified the Cheka
and that night the CRATER "disap-
peared." A business conscience is an
elastic thing.
After a little squeamishness he be-
came accustomed to seeing beggars
die in the streets during the famine.
But he attended Christmas party at
which there were also "rank-and-file
Communists" present, and everybody
gorged and got drunk. He was very
sad over it the next day. Others have
felt that way. But he explained that
the big leaders did not do these
things, as far as he knew. Lenin
lived strictly on the rations. They
also fed the speculants on rations, but
he lost twenty pounds. There had
been plenty to lose.
The government was not workers
and peasants government he thot.
There was no use going into a Com
munist court to sue the Soviet gov
ernment All Communists stuck to.
/ gether, they were soldiers and just
obeyed So, failing to find the "spir-
itual environment" he had anticipated
would follow a revolution he had come
back to the United States.
Crowd Razzes Nepman.
Four members of the audience
availed themselves of the chance to
make fve-minute speeches, and many
more would have liked to only for the
lateness of the hour. These meetings
begin at ten and last until midnight.
Every one of the speakers from the
floor took exception tn the speakers
conclusions. One of the four stated
that it was precisely such speeches as
this that were turning him from an
anti-bolshevik into supporter of the
present Russian order. 1t was clearly
shown from the floor that credit
rather than blame must attach to a
proletarian state that has just EN-.
erged from the revolutionary over
throw of one of the oldest and rotten
est autocracies in the world, and that
was fighting at one time the most ter
rible famine of history and the invad-
ing counter-revolutionary armies OF
the whole imperialist world. The food
rations complained of were absolutely
just and necessary, and a CRATER at
such period was traitor to the new
order and had to be dealt with as
such.
The speakers only answer was that
those who now defend the Bolsheviks
would be among the first to be shot in
the event of an American Bolshevik
revolution. 1t is expected that the
next speaker will be a traveller re.
Gently returned from Russia who ia.
vors the present regime.
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trades industry; the manufacturing
group is composed of unions engaged
in the manufacture of commodities in
factories There are other groups.
Each group meets separately and
transacts the business that comes
within it's own ambit. They have
power to make recommendations
which are sent on to the open council.
This method of organization allows
the different questions arising to be
assigned to the group most vitality in
terested, which results in keen inter
est being taken in matters that come
before the respective groups.
Gets Better Results.
Also, the matter when it comes be-
fore the group is more freely discuss
ed as the standing orders are sus-
pended to allow full discussion. 1t
would be impossible to allow the same
freedom of debate in open council as
in a group meeting, because of the
rules governing debate.
Before the group system was organ
lied matters were brought before the
council which a great number of dele
gates either did not clearly under
stand, or as the matter did not inter
est their respective unions they had
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-07
Claim Tide Eaxors Freedom

SAN FRANCISCO.-A swing toward
sanity in California is noted by the
defense office of the Industrial Work
ers of the World in San Francisco.
During the first nine months of 1924
70 |. w. w. have faced trial as polite
al offenders under the criminal syn.
dicalism law. OF these As were dis
missed or acquitted, 16 got hung juries
and were convicted.
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MAY Discard ttanaInn.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. s. = The
Anti-Capital Punishment league of
California has been organized in San
Francisco to secure an anti-hanging
law at the next session OF the legisia.
ture. A majority of the nominees for
election are pledged in its behalf.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-07
Help! Help!

A campaign for Increasing the cir
culation Of the DAILY WORKER
has heaped loads Of work on our
force. We need Help-NoW-
QUICKLY. Comrades wishing to
assist report at the DAILY WORK.
Err office any day this week during
the day or evening. We have work
to spare. We want volunteers
qulckly.-HELP! HELP!
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LABOR COUNCIL is
DIVIDED INTO INDUSTRIAL GROUPS
by w. FRANCIS AHERN.
Federated Press staff Correspondent

SYDNEY,
South Wales the council divided
groups unions having
a which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-07
Justice Works Slowly.

The motion for a new trial which
the Judge has just denied have been
before the court at intervals since
1921. The first motion denied by
Thayer was one based on affidavits
that Walter Ripley, foreman of the
jury which tried Sacco and Vanzetti,
had on his person at the time of the
trial certain bullets very much like
bullets introduced in evidence in the
case. Ripley it is charged by the de-
tense used the bullets in his possession
as a basis of comparison with those
introduced in evidence. He thus VIC
lated the constitutional guarantee of
the defendants that they must be
faced by all evidence brot against
them.
If the state supreme court decides
against granting new trial to the
two labor leaders this motion will be
used as the basis for an appeal to the
U. S. supreme court.
The second motion made on the
strength Of affidavits made by persons
who saw the holdup and murder for
which Sacco and Vanzetti face death
and in which these witnesses say that
neither Sacco nor Vanzetti were
among the bandits was dismissed by
the judge as weak. unsatisfactory
and unconvincing."
In denying the third motion for
nauy trial rTbavar haoar n chou hic
prejudice against Fred Moore whose
brilliant fight to save the lives Of his
clients often brot him into conflict
and under the displeasure Of the
Judge. The third motion was based
on information that one of the star
witnesses used by the prosecution was
nothing less than a common horse
thief and that at the time he was
called by the prosecution they knew
his character and his criminal record
In an affidavit made for the defense
by Goodrich after the trial he tells
that he was under indictment for lar
ceny at the time of the trial but that
when he volunteered to testify against
Sacco and Vanzetti the district attor
ney had him given a suspended sen.
tence in order that he might try to
swear away the lives of the Italians.
The judge in his decision on this
motion says that Moore frightened
Goodrich into swearing something
that was false against the district at
torney's Office"
He Wanted All the Graft.
The testimony of Mrs. Lola And
rews, chief witness for the prosecu-
ton, who has told five different stor.
les about her part in the trial OF
Sacco and Vanzet.i was the basis of a
fourth motion. In denying this mo
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Dunne's Dates

w. Frankfort. Ill.-October l6.
Christopher. Ill.-October II.
Du Quoin, Ill.--October IS.
Madison. Ill.-October 10, afternoon.
st. Louis, Mo.-October 10. evening.
Belleville. Ill.--October 20.
Collinsville, Ill.-October %
Springfield, Ill.--October %.
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ton Judge Thayer charged Moore
with using duress in obtaining an affi-
davit from Mrs. Andrews. OF the
charges against the prosecutors that
they had intimidated Mrs. Andrews
the Judge said nothing.
The fifth motion was based on long
technical testimony Of various bullet
and firearm experts given to the court
after the trial had closed and while
the motions for new trial were be-
ing argued
The long fight for the lives of
Sacco and vanzetti of which the decis-
ion of Judge Thayer is the latest de.
velopment grew out of the red hys.
terra of 1919 and 1920. They were
arrested and questioned as radicals in
May. 1920. A few days after their ar
rest they were charged with having
committed a payroll holdup and muir
der in South Braintree, Mass. on
April Is, 1920.
When brot to trial a long line Of
government witnesses whose testi-
mony has since been proven to be
false by the defense identified"
Sacco as one of the pay roll bandits.
The framed testimony against Van.
zetti was weaker than that against
Scco but it was easy to get the jury
to return guilty verdict as both adj
mitted they were radicals and had
fed to Mexico to escape the draft dur.
ing the war.
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Ten Million Protest.

When the trial was over and the
men were awaiting sentence the
workers in nearly all the countries of
Europe and South America held huge
demonstrations protesting against
their legalized murder. 1t is estimated
that tens of millions Of workers de-
clared their belief in the innocence of
Sacco and vanzetti The demonstra-
tons had the effect of delaying the
carrying out of the sentence of death
which was expected to follow the YER
dict and so gave a chance to the
lawyers to continue the legal phase
of the fight to save the condemned
men from the gallows.
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THE CAMPAIGN FUND CAMPAIGN
Five million leaflets TO five million work.
ers II you'll send In the money.
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He Wanted All the Graft.

The testimony Of Mrs. Lola And
rews, chief witness for the prosecu-
ton, who has told five different stor.
les about her part in the trial OF
Sacco and Vanzet.i was the basis of a
fourth motion. In denying this mo
Evening star., 1924-03-28

who seemed capable Of taking up and
carrying on the program which Poin.
care has forwarded SO relentlessly. M.
BRAND would have been the natural
selection for premier, had the Poin.
care defeat in parliament been genu.
inc overthrow of government. NJ.
BRAND is an able statesman and a
man of most amiable disposition, but
under his premiership in France Eu-
rope drifted away from instead Of to-
ward settlement of postwar problems.
His very amiability was his greatest
handicap. The problems which con-
front Europe. especially the problem
OF German reparatiens, are not such
as yield to good-natured negotiation.
The mailed fist was needed to bring
Germany to her senses, and it was the
mailed fist Poincare used, without
stint or any softening OF the blows. At
times it seemed as if he might plunge
Europe into a new war. but on the
other hand was the abyss Of economic
ruin. and Poincare had the courage
to hold steadfast course.
But France needs Poincare even
more in domestic than in International
affairs. His drastic program of in.
creased taxation and government re.
trenchment. brought through stormy
conflict almost TO success, is the bit
ter. but necessary. medicine France
must take to restore her financial
health. 1t is doubtful if BRAND or any
other possible successor in the premier
ship could have completed the course
OF treatment.
Evening star., 1924-03-28
National Gallery Building.

In the last few days two public
men have spoken plainly in favor OF
the construction OF a building for the
National Gallery Of Art. Plans for
such a building will soon be drawn,
and the information has been given
out that strong sentiment exists in
the Senate and House favorable to
making the necessary appropriation
that the governments art collection.
now valued at several million dollars,
and growing rapidly, shall be fittingly
housed. Valuable paintings are stored
in the basement and in hooks and
crannies OF the natural history build
ing OF the National Museum, and
space occupied by that part Of the
art collection on public exhibition is
needed by the Smithsonian Institution
for exhibits Of archaeology and anthro-
pology. Recently Senator Medill Nc
Cormick of Illinois, who is member
Of the board OF regents Of the Smith
sonian. which is the custodian OF the
National Gallery of Art. said that
ed public buildings at Washington
and there is great need for such struc-
tures-should include a building for
the National Gallery of Art" Repre-
sentative Newton of Minnesota. who
was recently appointed by Speaker Gill
lett as a member Of the board Of re
gents of the Smithsonian. expressed
himself as believing that "one Of the
greatest needs of the Smithsonian In
stitution is for suitable fireproof
building, specially designed, in which
the National Gallery Of Art may be
properly displayed for the education
and pleasure of the hundreds of thou
sands OF persons from every state in
the Union who visit their National
Capital annually" He said that two
Of the fine collections in the Smith
sonian-the anthropological collection,
covering the history of man, and the
art treasures. which are worth some
| IS 900 ,000-are now crowding each
other into the basement rooms and
dark corridors. 1t is his opinion that
"for scientific as we'll as artistic con-
siderations the proposed new art gal
lery building should be erected as soon
as possible"
Practically the whole of the national
collection OF art as 1t stands today
has been given to the people or the
United States, and additions to the
gallery by gift are being made at a
gratifying rate. The $4,000 required
for the making of plans for a gallery
building was subscribed by persons
who believe that the United States
should have one OF the worlds great
art collections at Washington. and
that the collection should have an ap-
propriate building. With a creditable
art gallery building the collection
would no doubt grow at greater
rate than it has in the past.
Evening star., 1924-03-28

car to a car stop or for one thing and
another. 1t is against the law, but a
large part of our populati lion has come
to believe that it Is all right to violate
law. With few arrests and little
punishment for breaking the speed
law, and with few police to enforce
the law, many drivers are Indifferent.
We will come to the time when a man
before being allowed to drive q car
must prove that he is sound in mind
and body. that he reacts normally and
that his eyes are good.
In the matter OF pedestrians they,
too, will be regulated. Jaywalking
will be made illegal, and jay-walkers
will be punished. At appointed cross
ings there will always be many pedes-
trians who are old and infirm, and at
crossings the responsibility for safety
must be borne by drivers. AT a num-
ber of street intersections in Wash
ington We are perhaps not far from
the time when overhead or under
ground crossings will be necessary for
people afoot. 1t is q serious situation,
and is rapidly becoming more serious.