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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
KHAN SHOOTING
CONSPIRACY AT
LILLY EXPOSED
Arranged in Advance to
Put Out Lights.

The Daily Worker has just received
the true story of the Khan riots in
Lilly Pa, from coal miner who wit
messed the massacre. He writes:
1T was put up affair thought out
beforehand by the Khan. The Klans-
men made arrangements to have the
electric street lights extinguished the
night of the demonstration. A group
Of boys-not men, as the newspapers
report-got fire hose to play on the
Klansmen, as boys will, and the
Klansmen wrenched the firehose from
the boys and turned it, not on the
boys, but on the people watching the
parade. One Klansman yelled Fire"
and a volley of bullets rained on the
defenseless crowd.
THE citizens were unarmed and
were unprepared for trouble. The
Klansmen were injured by their own
members because they wore civilian
clothes in order to act as guards. In
this way they were undistinguishable
from the rest Of the crowd.
along the main line of the Penn
sylvania Railroad there were found
by citizens of Lilly, nearly a hundred
revolvers which were thrown out of
the special train by the Klansmen.
There are about ten KIansmen who
live in Lilly, but the miners would not
let them demonstrate. The massacre
was perpetrated by Klansmen from
Johnston and Altoona. each about 25
miles from Lilly on the Pennsylvania
railroad.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
The Crisis In The British Mining Industry

ency spread like disease, injecting
most Of the leaders as well as the
men. The suffering of the men be-
came intolerable. Some of the old
leaders, having very little knowledge
Of national or international economics,
and believing the masters would yield
to a human appeal, pinned their faith
in an appeal to the coal owners beg
ging for fair-play and fair conditions.
For over two years numerous meet
ings with the masters and Cabinet
Ministers took place, but the appeal
for living wage fell on dead ears.
Accidents have increased at an alarm
ing rate since resumption Of work af-
ter the 1921 lockout. (See the Re-
port of the Government Inspector Of
Mines.) Safety was neglected-low
wages and increased accidents go to-
gether.
In South Wales and Lancashire,
aggressive action was suggested--the
rank and file had reached the limit Of
endurance. Realizing that the prin-
ciples of the 1921 profit-sharing agree
ment exploited the miners and failed
to give them living wage, the rank
and file demanded the agreement be
ended. "We are starving while work
ing, just as well starve without work"
say the miners. An industry that can
not provide living wage for its work
ers should close down; private own
ership has failed"
For over two years the leaders
pleaded, but every suggestion was met
with a negative reply. The owners
would not listen to reason.
No other course was open but to
give notice to terminate the agree
ment. A ballot was taken and the
rank and file in every district declar-
ed that the Agreement must go. On
January IL, three months notice was
handed to the employers. For sew
eral weeks even then our case was
ignored, but the spirit of revolt
spread. The successful struggle Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Boycott California
Fruit Or Hoof-Mouth
Plague May Get You

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 49,
Nature is aiding the l. w. w. boycott
of California products. DR.. ]. Edward
Carlyle, an authority on the hoof and
mouth epidemic, states: "The peo-
pie of the United States are in grave
danger Of contracting the hoof and
mouth disease by eating California
fruits. Dust from the pastures and
grazing fields of infected animals
blows onto the fruit and can be car
ried out Of the state. California-made
clothing might also catch this same
dust and it is possible to contract
hoof and mouth disease from it."
The l. w. w. boycott is maintained
because the state sends men to prison
for to IA years tor nothing more
than membership in the |. W. w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Australian Labor
Calls For United
Political Front

SYDNEY, N. S. W., April 49,
The Labor council of New South
Wales has issued manifesto calling
for the linking up of all working class
political parties with the Australian
Labor party in order to secure unit
ed working class front.
1--WE realize" says the manifesto.
that the day when all working class
parties are accepted into the Labor
party will be a historic day. The need
Of united working Grass is apparent
TO all.
"The council realizes that only a
united working class can secure a
workers. government. Only a work
ers' government can take the neces-
sary steps for dealing with the imme-
date problems Of the workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
BY A. J. COOK.

Editors Note: When this article
was published in the Labor Monthly,
London, issue of April, 1924, the au-
thor was a member Of the Executive
Committee Of the Miners Federation
of Great Britain, from South Wales.
A Chicago Tribune dispatch from Lon
don, under date Of April 10th, reports
that Cook was elected as Secretary
of the Miners Federation to succeed
Frank Hodges, weII-known as a re-
dictionary and one of those principal
ly responsible for "5Iaek Friday" in
1921, when the Triple Alliance broke
down and the miners were defeated.
Cook is quoted In an interview as
saying:
"Pm still Red, with all that that
means. take my election as Secre-
tary by the miners as an express
ion Of a desire for a militant, au-
ressive policy. AS the miners we'll
know, ! stand for real live nation
al and international miners organic
alton"
Under these circumstances this ar
ticle, which gives the issues and back
ground of the great impending bat
tie in the coal mining industry of
Great Britain, takes on especial sig
nifcance.)
In 1921, after one of the greatest
struggles in the history of Trade I'm
ionism, the miners were defeated. For
four months they displayed a spirit
of solidarity unequalled in any move
ment. The Triple Alliance failed to
function. AS result Of the defeat
terms were forced on the men that
produced conditions of poverty and
slavery. Our Mighty Organization. /"
the pride of the Trade Union Move
ment, was shattered. The coal own
ers true to tradition imposed such
tyrannous conditions that despond-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
La Toilette and Frazier.

BRENTWOOD, Mont. April 49,
Senator La Toilette FOR president and
Senator Frazier OF North Dakota for
vice president will head the Montana
Farmer-Labor party ticket on the pres
idential primary election in Montana
May n. Delegates will also be elected
by the party voters for the national
convention OF the Farmer-Labor move
ment at St. Paul June II when La
Toilette is expected to be nominated
for president.
The Miles City Trades & Labor as
sembly and two locals Of the Bear
Creek United Mine Workers affiliated
with the party in the past week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

the raiIwaymen and lockers put new
life in our men.
The Executive Committee of the
M. f. G. B. prepared for action and
demanded that the owners should
state their proposals What change!
suddenly, owners, Government and
public became alarmed. AT last at
tention was drawn to our conditions.
On March the same men, who for
two years treated us with contempt,
were now prepared to consider our
case. Organized might had COM
PEELED the owners to move. 1t is a
lesson that we shall not forget. Terms
were offered that meant small i'm
provement in our conditions, but did
not bring us anywhere near 1914 CON
ditions, taking into consideration the
increase of the cost of living. On
March 10, the adjourned conference
met and considered the proposals;
it reassembled on the 14th and unani-
mously rejected the terms Of the own
ers.
Having forty-nine mining members
in the House of Commons, it was de-
cided some time ago to introduce a
Minimum Wage Bill to bring the min
ers' wages UP to q living standard.
Every attempt possible to obstruct
the introduction of the Minimum
Wage Bill was made by the owners
They approached their Liberal and
Tory friends, and succeeded in MAX
ing the Government take the private
members time, hoping to stop the Bill
going forward, but to their surprise
the Government agreed to accept the
Bill as their own measure thus MAX
ing it a Government Bill In one
week both political and an Industrial
crisis arose. The miners are deter
mined, come what may, to secure a
living wage and some clear under
standable agreement to govern wages
and conditions in the future.
IKE great Miners Federation has
been recognized ready for the fight.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
WESTERN PENNSY
KLANSMENF ALL In
TERROR TACTICS
Miners Are Wise To
ROBBED Hypocrites
By rHoMAs MYERscoUoH.

Flying the flag in front and placing
Bible inside of every school in the
CHARTERS Valley section of Washing
ton County, Pa, is the answer of the
Ku Klux Khan to the organization Of
the workers and their wives and chill
dren by the Workers Party, the
Y. w. L. and it's Junior section.
These knights of the Nightie," whose
pretense at being sanctimonious, and
who seriously believe that they are
keeping their identities concealed,
are known for what they really are
to those who comprise the popula-
ton in that section Of Western Penn
sylvania.
A certain miner Of Houston, Pa,
puts the case right when he says:
'I'll bet half of them are afraid to
let their wives know that they belong
to the Khan, because of the dual lives
they live, while the other half belong
to it, so as to provide an excuse to
their wives when they are out trying
to worm their way into the conf
dence Of the vamps and fiappers
they meet, while innocent wife
thinks they are saving America from
destruction at the hands of the Reds"
Another one says: "Why, know
them so well that / could tell their
hides in a lanyard" Yet these bud
ding "Kleagle and Wizard" hounds,
who wait until darkness comes to put
on their robes and "step on the gas"
to get to some hillside, there to burn
their fiery crosses, think that nobody
is aware of their membership in the
organization that was founded, or at
least revived, by white SLAYER.
Company Tools Unite.
All elements, not necessarily klans-
men, but who are opposed to organ
lied labor, are united in their efforts
to break up the Party and Y. w. Ia
branches in that section. They have
even gone so far as to have con-
stable, better known as Seldom So
Der Rathbone," go to the homes of
some of our foreign language miners,
threatening them with Jail or placing
their children in an institution for
incorrigible children, if they refused
to drop their membership in the
Workers Party and compel the chill
dren to quit the Junior section.
The answer to these efforts on the
part Of the khan and its wiling dupes
is-more organization. The party of
the workers is in this section to stay,
and neither its petty small business
men nor the Industrial lords above
them, with the aid of the two by
four" constables, are going to scare
the workers of Washington County
into submission to them any longer.
F. Eel. p. Meet Scheduled.
On April 9th they are to hold
convention of the County Federated
Farmer-Labor Party, and the chances
are that Constable Rathbone will be
looking for his first real work in
many moons after the next election.
The Washington County Federated
Farmer-Labor Party is planning to
care for big crowd that day, and in
dications are that the representatives
of the rank and file will be out in
large numbers. The convention will
be held in Canonsburg and much is
expected in the form of constructive
action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Party Activities Of
Local Chicago

JAMES P. CANNON will speak be.
fore the South Slavic Branch, No. 1,
of the Party Thursday, April 18th, s
P. NJ, on the Labor Party Policy OF
the Party. The meeting will take
place at the c. S. P. S. Hall, 18th
and May Streets.
ALEXANDER BITTELMAN will
speak before the Douglas Park
Branch (Jewish) on the Recent Con-
vention of the Jewish Federation and
the Labor Party Policy on Wednes-
day. April 10th, 8 P. NJ, at Liberty
House, 1920 West Roosevelt Road.
Comrades and outsiders are invited
to attend these meetings.
MAX SALZMAN, Member N. E. C.
of Y. w. L., addressed an open meet
ing of the Greek branch of the w. P.
at the Hull House on the question of
Protection of Foreign Born Workers.
Over hundred were present at this
meeting.
THERE WILL BE a meeting of the
DAILY WORKER subscription agents
of the Party on Monday, April 81, s
P. M, at 166 w. Washington Street,
Room 307.
UNITED FRONT MAY DAY CON.
FERENCE meeting will be held April
2Srd, Wednesday, at $50 w. Washing.
ton Street, Room 200. Letters have
been sent to unions in Chicago, as
well as to fraternal societies, inviting
them to participate in the United
Front May Day Conference.
WILLIAM f. dunno, EDITOR
DAILY WORKER, will speak Thurs
day, April oath, 8 P. NJ, before the
meeting of the Englewood Branch of
the Young Workers League at 6357
s. Ashland Avenue, on the subject of
Anti-Militarism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Trachtenberg Tour

Wednesday, April IS, 8 p. m. Der
troit, House Of Masses, 21o1 GratIcl
Ave. russian Trade UnoIns.)
Thursday, April II, Grand Rapids
full details to appear later.
Friday, April 10, g p. M, Chicago,
North Side Turner Hall, 800 N. Clark
St.
Saturday, April 10, Milwaukee,, fun
details to appear later.
Sunday, April 20, Gary Ind, fuIi
details to appear later.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Oklahoma To Have
Bona Eide Farmer
Labor Party Soon

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, April Is.
"A Farmer-Labor party convention to
be held in Oklahoma City May 9 and
10, will form a new party, distinct
from the Farmer-Labor Progressive
league which Endorsed candidates and
adopted a platform at FL Reno. The
league is a political organization with
in the Democratic party. The Farmer
Labor party is to be new political
party.
The Farmer-Labor party meets two
deficiencies Of the league. II pro-
vides for the placing of La Toilette
electors on the presidential ballot and
provides a set OF state candidates
should league candidates be beaten
in the Democratic primary.
It is necessary to procure 5000 sig
natures TO petitions in order to place
Farmer-Labor party in the field
Once in the field there need be no
primary contest. One vote for the
Farmer-Labor ticket at the primary
will assure II a position on the bal.
lot for November.
The proposed platform includes pub
lie ownership government banking,
public control OF all natural resourc-
es, restoration OF civil liberties. aboli-
ton OF injunctions in labor disputes,
-etention and development by the gov
eminent ownership Of a super-power
system TO connect into one system
all public electric power projects.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Had Too Many Relatives.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 49,
"Too many relations" was the explain
alton given by bank ex9miners today
for the downfall Of John M. Moore
bank president accused OF having do
falcated 100000 from the Fidelity
National Bank and Trust Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
]. BALTRUSAITIS,
new POLITICAL,
FRAMED BY DICK
Civil Liberties Union
Shows Up Injustice

NEW YORK, April 15.-An applica-
ton for the pardon of another politi-
cal prisoner who has just been sent to
Leavenworth under the wartime Es-
pionage Act will be made this week
by the American Civil Liberties Union
thru its Washington represen-
tative on the ground that he goes to
prison for a wartime offence "six
years after the Armistice, three years
after the suspension of the Espionage
Act, and three months after the re-
lease of the last of the federal poll
tical prisoners by order of President
Coolidge"
The Military Again
The prisoner is Joseph Baltrusaitis
OF st. Louis, Mo-, who was sent to
Leavenworth on March 18th, after
months of delay of the case in the
courts, on charge of attempting ito
cause disloyalty in the military forces
of the United States" by distributing
Communist leaflet.
The Civil Liberties Union. in a
statement on the case, styles it zone
of the most fragrant and inexcusable
political prosecutions on record" The
statement reads:
This case of Baltrusaitis is
striking injustice, not only because
he has gone to prison so long after
the war under law long since sus-
pended, but particularly because
his prosecution was wholly inexcus-
able. The undisputed facts are:
'lnterfering With Recruiting
Il. He was charged with inter-
fering with the recruiting and en-
listment of soldiers in November,
1920, when soldiers were no longer
being recruited.
%. The only charge was handing
to detective who visited him at his
place of business some copies of a
Communist leaflet entitled "ProIeta-
rian Revolution or Wage Slavery"
%. The leaflet made no reference
whatever to the war or military
service. 1t voiced the usual Com
munist political ideas.
=. He was sentenced to two
years in prison on Oct "a, 1921, on
an indictment brought on May 3,
1921, after the Espionage Act had
been suspended.
SIX Years After Armistiee
"5. He went to prison on March
18th last, six years after the Armis-
tice, three years after the suspen-
sion of the Espionage Act, and three
months after the release of the last
OF the federal political prisoners by
order OF President Coolidge"
IL is expected that President Coo
lidge will act favorably and prompt
" on the application for pardon filed
by the Civil Liberties Union on behalf
OF Baltrusaitis, in order to accord him
the same treatment as to other prison
ers convicted for belief and opinion.
The Civil Liberties Union also
points out that there is another war
time case on appeal in the United
States Supreme Court which may re-
suit IN twelve more persons being sent
TO prison for expressions OF opinion
against the war. This case involves
twelve socialists from Cincinnati in
dicted in 1917 for opposing the draft
act. II is planned to file pardon ap-
plications on their behalf in case the
Supreme Court afiirms the conviction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Greeks Vote For a
Republic; Martial
Law Is Proclaimed

ATHENS, April 1.-THE Greek
electorate have voted for a republic
by a huge majority. A government
bulletin just issued announces that
the result of the plebiscite indicates
that the overwhelming majority IA
voring a republic in Athens and 9TH
er large cities makes the result GER
tain.
The government announces also
that martial law has oeen proclaim
ed but no reason for this drastic &C
ton is given.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
uNIrEp srArEs TODAY.

Thus is headed the Program Of the
Workers Party of America. 1t is a
keen analysis of the class struggle,
the social forces organizing and fight
ing for power, etc. 1t is mastery
document and every worker should be
familiar with the contents of this leaf
let. 1t is illustrated with several ap-
propriate cartoons. 100000 is already
sold. Send for supply to-day. COO
per 100, $500 per 1000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
WHY EVERY WORKER SHOULD
BE A COMMUNIST AND JOIN THE
WORKERS PARTY?

This is an SPACE pamphlet with
forceful illustrations and cartoons.
The reader of the pamphlet is con-
fronted with a picture of actual con-
ditions as they are in the United
States and if he is true to himself it
will lead him to thinking and joining
the forces Of class conscious workers.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
Money Wins Again.

Motion to quash the indictments
against w. E. D. Stokes, New York
millionaire, and FIVE others indicted
with him on charges Of framing"
evidence to blacken the character of
his wife, Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes,
is scheduled for hearing before Judge
w. M. Cook, Of the criminal court,
today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
slx pead-lnvestIaate.

DANVILLE, ILL.,, April 1.-two iMs
vestigations were started today 10
determine the blame for the railroad
crossing crash here last night in
which Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson
and four of their six children were
killed Their automobile was struck
by an express train on the Wabash
railroad crossing at West Lebanon.
Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
LET THE MINERS RUN THE
MINES,

Tbs leaflet speaks of the nationali-
cation of mines; the establishment Of
workers control and a Workers Co
vernment. What applies to mines, ap-
plies to other Industries. Help advo-
cate: LET THE MINERS RUN THE
MINES. 25c per 100, $3.50 per 1000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
New York for Al Smith.

ALBANY, N. Y, April 15-The
name of Governor Alfred E. Smith of
New York will be formally presented
to the national Democratic conven-
ton in New York next June as New
York's choice for the Democratic
nomination for President.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16
WORKERS PARTY
ISSUES VAL LIABLE
SET OF LEAFLETS
Help Distribute These
To The Workers

A list of leaflets now being issued
by the Workers Party of America
from the National Headquarters at
1909 North State Street, which are for
free distribution or sale follows. The
leaflets are Issued to enlighten the
workers and farmers of the United
States as to their own class interests.
The Kept Government Of the United
States.
This leaflet, 2 pages, tells briefly Of
the Washington Teapot Dome scan
dals and who are the people involved
and why. Not only individuals are
guilty, but the whole system is guilty.
The Government of the United States
is kept government. You should
help tell others this truth. Acc per
400,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

All local members should watch
this column for news of all rou-
tine and special Party meetings.
Martin Abern, City Secretary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 15.-Diph.
iberia is on the increase in Illinois,
according to the weekly report Of the
State Department OF Health.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-16

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JUST OUT!

Book--1ei page Poem, well bound,
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Read--"War Twixt God and the
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Learn true cause OF "war-Lord's
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And drenched this world in blood and
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Baptize a child in human gore.
Prepared for WAR forevermore.
rho based upon His Holy Word."(2)
Vicarioua punishment is absurd.
Teach youth that blood is essential,
For a Hcavenly-Home" crodentlal
All WARS were right--the clergy's
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II WARS we're wrong on them's the
blame.
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Stand Fast for the Farmer-Labor
Party.

Party.
This is a statement issued by the
Central Executive Committee Of the
Workers Party, giving brief history
Of the developments for independent
political action of the working farmers
and workers of this country, appealing
to the readers to work for the success
of the June 18th convention of the
Farmer-Labor movement. 4Oc per 100,
$3.50 per 1000. Four pages.
Fight Registration of the Foreign
Born Workers.
Laws before Congress propose to
enslave Foreign Born Workers and
consequently the American Born
Workers. These laws will aid the
employers in fighting unions and re-
ducing wages. The selective immi-
grafton, finger printing, just like cri-
minals, photographing and other fea-
lures of these laws if adopted will
make the workers worse slaves than
they are now. The leaflet tells all
about it and shows how to fight these
proposed laws. Every worker should
be interested. soc per 100, $3.50 per
1000.