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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
JODLESS COAL
Miners PAYING
S1OO FOR Jobs
Charge Mine and Union
Officials Divide Graft
tspeeIaI to the Daily workerl


w. FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Oct. 10.
As much as 500 is being paid
for jobs by miners at Orient
Mine No. 2, near here.
Grating mine officials-and
-iitt-is~be4iewed- aaat-sezae OF the
union officials are dividing the
loot-taking advantage of UNI
employment, are forcing ig-
norant workers to buy jobs by
the simple process of hiring no
men at the mine.
Many Hunt for Work.
Every morning from 100 to $50 men
"rustle" Orient, No. 2, but no one is
ever put to work unless he shows up
with an order signed by the mine man
ager in Breton.
One man has already confessed to
some of the active union men that
he paid 500 for his job and it is
known that others have done the
same.
Miners who speak little English are
the ones who are victimized and if
they complain they are threatened
with the vengeance Of the Khan, to
which most of the mine officials be-
long.
Careful to Hide Guilt.
The militants here are conducting
rigid investigation and the miners
are aroused but absolute proof is diff
ficult to secure as the transactions are
carefully handled.
Due to this condition and other rea-
sons the Ku Klux Khan is rapidly
losing out in this district. A week
ago, Glenn Young and a hundred
klansmen had planned an invasion of
Orient. The Orient police chief-a
member of the miners union-mobil-
lied 200 miners and planned to meet
Young and his forces at the edge of
town and annihilate them. The in
vasion never came off.
In West Frankfort it is common
talk that 5000 workers have pledged
and armed themselves to wipe out the
Khan forces if they attempt to carry
out any such terrorist campaign as
they did in zeigler and Herrin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

mines, the shoe industry OF Massachu-
sets and the needle trades of New
York City and Rochester is indeed
an achievement and the party is very
proud Of the Italian comrades. He said
that that proved the important role
the Italian federation would play in
America. The field for work is large
and the Italian comrades are going
at 1t in the correct spirit.
The convention concurred in the re-
port Of Comrade Ruthenberg pledging
its entire support to the Communist
program and closer contact ana coop
GRAFTON with the central executive
committee Of the party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
ITALIAN COMMUNISTS DEMAND THAT
SACCO AND VANZETTI BE SET FREE

Demand freedom
convention of the Italian Federation Party
the Hall
Thayer denying new
a for
the release of these political prisoners"
E. Ruhenberg representing
gave report the political
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

refrain from ever mentioning 1t
again.
Can't Keep II Down.
But he has contracted to write a
certain number of "anti-red" stories
for the Chicago Daily News, and his
imagination seems to be somewhat
limited; so we have this discredited,
stupendousIy silly Organization" play
ed up afresh In the form of red ex-
posure."
his nerve is still with him. He treats
the little group as if it were still in
existence.
"One Of the organizations most flag
rant in its contempt for United States
law" he coolly informs us, "goes un-
der the name of The knights of the
Red Star 1t has large group mem
bership located in Gary. To this
group have been traced many pieces
Of literature, advocating the death of
public officials and signed The Group
Of Avengers. This anarchist society,
which has branches in most of the
large cities of the United States" he
goes on to say, is ruled by commit
tee in Boston, Mass, consisting of six
persons, one of whom is a woman.
and any ruling of this body is looked
upon as final by anarchists turnout
the country"
He Uses Imagination.
The writer has had some experienc-
es with anarchists in the labor move
ment, and has yet to find single one
Of them who accepted any ruling as
final! l can't help wishing, in spite
Of myself, that the real, live, fesh-and-
blood anarchists were, at least in
some respects, little like the anar-
chists Of Spolansky's fiction. Then
perhaps Communists might not find
it so impossible to work with them.
Spolansky is certainly drawing upon
his imagination when he refers to the
many branches Of the knights" cover
ing the country like a network
AS a matter of fact there was only
one small group. 1t was organized
in Gary during the great steel strike
Of 1919, in which many thousands of
steel workers, under the leadership of
William 2. Foster, struggled bravely
against overwhelming odds against
the forces of the steel trust. I'm
doubtedly, the chief purpose of the
group was to provide an excuse for
wholesale persecution of strikers, with
view to breaking the strike.
The knights of the Red Star" was
organized by a stool pigeon who went
by the name Of Azotov. When not
busy among the Gary steel workers,
he had private Offices at S. Wabash
Continued on page %
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

Calvin Coolidge fails to land in
Bthe White House for the next four
years, vaudeville may be treated to
a long-wished-for novelty in the form
of silence. AL Jolson, the noted black
face comedian, with a troupe Of fun
makers visited the White House, to
shake hands with the president and
advise him that the country was be-
hind him. They did not say how far,
but that what can you expect from
comedians?
n L and his merry companions were
n paid to do this by the republican
national committee, so there is no
hard feeling. 1t was the funniest del
egation that visited the president
since T. v. O'Connor led his labor
takers into the royal presence on La
Dor Day Al Jolson is funny, but the
funniest joke he ever cracked has no
thing on Coolidge.
The Chicago Tribune is again wag-
ing war on Soviet Russia from Vienna
and Riga. The Tribune general at
Trebizond was obliged to surrender
that position owing to a strategic
Turkish move in the rear. He is now
advancing toward the Mediterranean
Cao II q haI4avod tLok &bo ,,osi+iovc
at Riga and Vienna will hold out in
definitely unless the Tribune generals
become infected with the scurvy that
is spreading rapidly among the Gar
list counter-revolutionist
The Tribune gloats over the fab
l ricated reports of burning oil
wells, wrecked railroads, and muir
dered Soviet officials. But somehow or
other Russia energies stronger than
ever from every onslaught, while her
enemies become fewer and more dis
reputable. Even imperialist France
the most hrazen enemy of the Soviet
government is now obliged to begin
negotiations with Moscow. The
Tribune will not make peace with
Russia until it first bends the knee to
the American working class. But it
will be different Tribune then.
|. P. MORGAN is in Paris, looking
- over that part of his kingdom.
His French soldiers are closely guard
ing his royal person. If any untoward
incident should occur during the royal
visit the great man might revenge
himself on the French government for
their carelessness, by hammering
down the French franc Morgan is
busy getting the Dawes Plan to work
The only elements opposing it are the
Communists.
XATE are indebted to t. v. O'Connor,
wv former president of the Interna-
tional Longshoremen's Union, for the
startling information that Soviet Russia
sent barrels of gold rubbles to the
LaFollette treasury via Mexico We
tsooGA y " bhdl IL olCn ID Tie CAST
tler9 viii be a noticeable strain in the
hitherto friendly relations existing
between The DAILY WORKER and the
Soviet Government. 1t was unkind Of
T. V. not to advise us of the coming
Of the treasurer. Had we known of it
in time we could have taken steps
TO intercept it.
e
THE Philadelphia Public Ledger,
| gives the front page to this rub
bish of O'Connor's. The notorious
faker is quite well aware that the
Communists who control the Russian
government know LaFollette to be a
reactionary, tho not as ignorant as T.
V. O'Connor secured his present pc
sition as president of the United
States Shipping Board. by being an
accomplished traitor. He expects to
(Conffnuad an Daoo 0N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

Moscow Reports Earthquake.
MOSCOW, Oct. 19.-An earthquake
vas reported from Taskhent today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

Open Forum, Sunday Night, Lodge
Room. Ashland Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20
TOLEDO LABOR
GIVES foster
Big WELCOME
LaFOHette's Meeting Is
Poor in Comparison

Especial to the DAILY WoRKERl
TOLEDO, O., (By MaiI.)-
William z. Foster, presidential
candidate of the Workers Par
ty, addressed an audience here
many times the size of that ac-
corded Oswald Garrison Willard,
who spoke here recently in sup
port of LaFoIlette.
Fosters meeting was held at
the Labor Temple, the same
hall in which Willard spoke.
Workers Hear Foster.
However, there was a remarkable
dierence in the two audiences, not
alone in size but in the makeup. Eos
ters audience was distinctly working
class, scores of aggressive rank and
file trade unionists were present and
loudly applauded his speech. A large
collection was taken up and much
literature was sold.
Desperate efforts have been made
by some of the local labor takers to
arouse the rank and file to the point
Of supporting LaFollette. The sue
cess of the Foster meeting in view
of the fact that these same takers
have vilified Foster, because Of his
fight for amalgamation of the craft
unions, has had a very dampening
effect upon the pay. roll boys and their
local LaFollette movement.
Plan New Activities.
The outstanding feature of the Eos.
ter meeting was the fact that it at
tracted so many local reds who for
some years have held aloof from all
revolutionary activities. Many of
them became so enthusiastic that
they said: "The time has come to get
into the revolutionary harness again"
Toledo Workers Party is enthused
over the success of the Foster meet
ing and are planning new activities
with an assurance that in this old
time home of the reds Communism
will finally prevail. Fosters clear
cut enunciation of the Communist pro-
gram was a complete answer to the
LaFollette liberals and pussyfooters.
Fosters answer to the dictatorship of
Wall street, was the dictatorship Of
fhe nroletariat
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-20

THE DAILY WORKER
RAISES THE STANDARD
FOR A WORKERS AND
FARMERS GOVERNMENT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
NO JUNE LET-JP
 IN BUSINESS SAG, ]. SAYSREVIEW
Bright Spots In Whole sale Trade Cited By
 Reserve Board

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The fed. eral reserve board, in its summary of general business and financial condi. tions for June, made public today, again presents gloomy picture of conditions. As was true in May, the reserve board says that production of basic commodi- ties and factory employment showed Yurther large declines during June. There also was q recession in trade during the month.
 The summary discloses that both wholesale and retail trade decreased during the month and was in smaller volume than year ago. It mentions, However, some bright spots in the whole sale business, but does not give hope for increased trade in any particular section or in any single commodity.
 Mine Per Cent Decline
 On the basis of the boards records, the production in basic industries, ad- justed to allow for seasonal variations, declined about 9 per cent in June, which places it at a point % per cent below the level of the first two months of this year. The most marked cur tailment of activity was shown in iron, steel and cotton misunderstanding indus tries. The decreases were general, how ever, in most other industries.
 The reduction in factory employment, prevalent in April and May, continued in June when further decrease of per cent was noted in the metal, auto mobile, textile and leather industries. Some of the other industries showed large cuts in their working forces.
 Rail Shipments Off
 The slackening in general business was reflected in railroad shipments, which in June were more than 15 per cent less than for the same month a year ago. The reduction in the railroad movements was noted in the smaller loadings of all classes of freight, ex- cept grain and livestock, which con tinued to move in. satisfactory quan- ties.
 Relative to wholesale trade, which on the basis of the reserve board averages was Il per cent smaller in June than in June a year ago, there was reported slightly increased sales of hardware, drugs, shoes and dry goods. Depart mept and chain store sales showed more than the usual seasonal decrease dur ing June and were considerably small CT than year ago. There was, how ever, less than the usual seasonal de- cline in mail order sales, which were almost on a parity with sJune of last year.
 Orders Increased
 The summary indicates that the prin- cipa1 department stores of the country have further reduced, their stocks of merchandise, but increased slightly their outstanding orders.
 The easy money market that has pre- vailed for several months bids fair to continue and in this condition, some of- ficials declare, lies hope for an early return to business activity that would spell increased production and increased employment of labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
Workers At National CnDi;tGL
 By TtEF
By HERBERT COREY

their welcome is worn out, instead of being rotated on to where they are needed.
 ''We should have more complete service of reports from the sea-" said Dr. Marvin.
 The weather bureau now receives re- ports from many ships at sea, and the United States shipping board is con- sidering full cooperation from its ships. When the news comes in from salt water as it does from the land then weather forecasting will more nearly approach the status of an exact science.
 Hopes For Aid From France
 The French realize the, importance of this, and Dr. .Marviniis watching with keen interest the operations of Jacques Cartier, q privately owned merchant vessel. It @ carries fifty or more budding sea officers to be train ed and a competent staff of instructors for the study of weather conditions.
 "Will it ever be possible to predict the sort of weather we will have for an entire season?' I asked. Perhaps for a year ahead?"
 'No scientist can demonstrate" said he, "that long range forecasting is in herently possible. That which is not impossible, must be possible.",e 4iYs
 But that is very far from saying that long range forecasting with accu- racy is certainty of the future Scientists are chary of oyer-Optimism and Dr. Marvin is one of the most chary of scientists.
 Painstaking And Progressive
 He is U man of medium height, solid and compact figure and careful and well considered speech. Perhaps a na- tural tendency away from over-enthu- Siasm was increased by his early occu- patton. When he graduated from Ohio State university, something more than 40 years ago, he took an examination which resulted in his employment in the instrument division of. the weather bureau. The making and use of scien- tific instruments demands the most painstaking accuracy. The man who is content with just pretty good results does not stay.
 Dr. Marvin stayed. The list of things that he has done is too long for publi- cation and few of them would inter- est the non-technical reader. But he has invented or improved all sorts of wind guages and rain and snow gauges. He has devised the means of measuring such unlike articles as sunshine and earthquakes. He is one of the leading investigators of conditions in the upper air. When President Wilson had to name chief of the weather bureau he asked the National Academy of Scien- ces to sngegst three men. Dr. Marvin was the man selected.
 Content, After 40 Years
 What do you do when you are not at work ?" I asked.
 Well" said he, T read scientific books"
 was not able to discover that he fishes or hunts or plays golf. Once upon a time he played tennis, but gave that up. For 40 years he has devoted all his time and thought to science, un- til now he is in point of service almost but not quite-the dean of the corps of government bureau chiefs. It is a notorious fact that the government un- derpays the men in the more responsi- ble positions, but that seems not to have at all worried the chief of the weather service.
 "When I look back" he said, T am content"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
FAKE PASSPORTS ARE PROTESTED
Liberties Union Sends Letter To
 Secretary Davis

WASHINGTON, July 27.-The de pertinent of labor has been using flake passports" to deport Russian com munists, it is charged by the American Civil Liberties union in a protest to Secretary Davis.
 These Russians cannot be deported legally in the absence of diplomatic re- lations, the union contends in letter, signed by John Haynes Holmes, acting chairman, and Roger N Baldwin, di- rector.
 An investigation has revealed that the labor department has been securing passports from a so-called "Ukrainian diplomatic mission, an agency not recog- nized by the United States or by the Ukrainian government" the letter says, and that the passports are so worthless that aliens deported with them are re- turned to the United States.
 The charges was made also that the flake Ukrainian passports have been used to deport alien radicals to Switzer- land, Rumania, and Austria instead of to Russia, as called for in the orders of deportation" after Germany had refused to honor them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
PETITIONs IN BANKRUPTCY

s. J. McGaughy. Montevallo. Ala, July 22, 1928, No. 2ls41 Liabilities. $s,2164s; assets, $500. Attorney. none.
 semer, Ala, July 22, 1924. No. 2134O. Liabilitiess s44; assets, $25.
 B, July 2s, iSs4, No! 5iais. LlabiiitieS, $1,300; assets, none. Attorney, Roe and Henderson.
 Louis Hockholzer, Irondale, Ala.,. July Sss; ss; 1924 No; ?1s4s: Liabilities. $500; as- mer. Ala, July sS. is21, No. 2is4l. Lia- Westward iron sSS copsnS sO AttorRRsS. RsSsea nons
 K A: Landers, SAY First avenue, citSs July 2a. 5s24,. No 21s45. Liabilities ideal Laundry company. Attorney. none J. E cowley, care of Caswell hotel. city July 2s. 1924 No. 2134s. Liabilities, A: c, S. Hallway company, Attorney, W.
 sam T. whitner. 1sO5 North Sixteenth Liabilities. sssS. 4s; assets, ss7.sO, wages Employed by St. Louis and San Francisco Railway company. Attorney. A. G.
 G. D: Morris. care of Collins and com pany, Birmingham. Ala, July 2S, 1924, No. 21s4S. Liabilities, S15s.64; assets none. Attorney, Coleman, Coleman, Spain
 Lon Logan, 2O25 Church street, Pratt City, July 2s, 1924 No. 2al49. Liabilities, S1s5; assets, ssO.OO. Employed by the T.
 viii eRI Phiiips ss''GTosy ss MoSn shsft T e. I. company, July 2s, 1924. Liabilities, SIS; assets, $25, wages; employed by T. c., l. company. Attorney F. s.. Address. company. July 2s, 1924. Liabilities, Si1O; assets, $25, wages. Employed by T. C.. I. company. Attorney, F. S. Address.
 shugerman Produce company. 1911 2ls5s. Involuntary. Attorney. R. D.
 orisnd F. Parks. R. F. D. No. 8. city. ss!eoO; assets. none, Attorney. R. F..
 John Dial, soo4 Railroad avenue. Pratt City; July 24, 1924, No. 21s54 Employed 6inties, SPA; assets, 12. wages. Attorney,
 A. Nickersham. os2 South Fourteenth Dlties. Si17sSs assets. 1as aOne S 1iSt RttOrasy Powell and Powell
 Frank McPhinips. s1OO First avenue July 94, 1924, No 21s56. Liabilities, $61O; U. e: Peerman. P. Q. Box s2i. city. July 24, 1924. No. 213B7. Liabilities S1,653.s5; ; assets $50. Attorney, Lange and simp-
 s. Y. bowman. ss1s Falls Hills, Besse- mer. Ala. July 25, 1924, No. 2I35s Lia- bilities, S1O4.95: assets, real estate. ss0O wages. ssS, Employed by Woodward Iron
 8. P. Smith. 2101 Avenue E, city, July 25, 1924, No. 213b9. Liabilities, $3,104.51 assets, $1oO Attorney, DominIck and ', Harrison Howell. Route 2. Box sos. Bessemer. Ala. July 25, 1924, No 21s6O. Liabilities, s4,S7S.S6; assets, $3.76B. Att torney. Douglas and Parsons.
 city, July 25, 1924, No. 2136i. Liabilities. &2,l2i; assets, none. Attorney. Mrs. 1to9VAA NH@A' -.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
PAYROLL BANDITS
 QUICKLY CAPTURED

NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 27.- Charges of grand larceny and carrying firearms were filed against Walter Hendricks, Fate Etheridge and Henry Grady, who were captured by Nashville police within fifteen minutes after they had robbed the Hartford Hosiery Mills of a payroll of $4,O0O anh fled in an automobile. An additional charge of violating the prohibition law was filed against Grady, who was found with bottle of liquor, which, he said, the robbers had drank to stimulate cour- age for the robbery.
 Grady is said to be wanted in Louis vile for the recent robbery there of the Strand theatre and in connection with q series of Piggly Wiggly store rob berries. Hendricks and Etheridge are also said to have police records.
 Police were informed of the robbery as soon as the bandits had left and after short chase overlook them at Hyde's Ferry bridge. Grady drew his gun, but when the two officers levelled sawed-off shOtguns and ordered him to drop his automatic, he did so and sur rendered. All of the loot was re- covered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28

Tampa, Fla, are the guests of their sis ter, Mrs. Cleve Houston.
 Misses Hattie and Edith Gibson and Otis Gibson have returned from Falk- vile, where they visited relatives.
 Mrs. Joe Lacey is the guest of her sister, Mrs. John Eagan. She will leave the end of the week for North Carolina, where she will visit other rela- tives before returning to her home in Avonpark, Fla.
 Mrs. J. R. Northrupp end son, Jack, of Maplesville, Ala, are the guests of Mrs. Andy Lipscomb.
 Miss Lucille Hudson of Cleveland, Tenn, is the guest of Mrs. J. c. Lewis in this city.
 Mrs. George Ryan returned Friday to her home in Montgomery, after q ten days visit to Mrs. D. c. Davis on Clarendon avenue.
 Mrs. J. c. Pope and children and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
WOMAN OF "A BOBS HER HAIR
 FOR 9TH MATE

ID ILOXI, Miss, July 27.-Hav- ND ing her hair bobbed for the
 ceremony, Mrs. Mary Sand CTS, "A, and A. J. Fuller, 96, both inmates of the Confederate Soldiers home here, were publicly married in the presence of several hundred per- sons today. The. groom was the eighth husband of Mrs. Sanders.
 Although we'll past the half cen tury mark, the bride set n new pace when she eagerly had her hair bobbed for her eighth matrimonial adventure, and local persons have distinguished her as the oldest bob bed hair enthusiast in the United States.
 Rev. Abner Jones, a Methodist minister, and also Confederate vet eran, performed the ceremony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
2O-CENTS-A-llTLE
 PROVES TO BE HOAX
New York Taxi Men Introduce
 New Form Of Trickery

NEW YORK, July 27.-New forms of trickery have popped up with the new 20-cents-a-mile taxi fare introduced in New York by several companies.
 Two reporters started out to see how the system worked and after glancing at the windshield of m Independent cab on which was large 20-cents-a- mile sign, they went on q cruise.
 The taxi meter read $1.20, so the re- porters started to pay One-half in ac- cordance with the new system. The driver pointed to the sign, which read :
 '1The driver of this car cannot afford to drive 1t at 20-cents-a-mile and keep his family."i
 The deceptive "20-cents-a-mile" was in large letters. The rest of the sign could not be read except by close scrutiny. ro4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-28
TWO NEGRO WOMEN
 BURNED TO DEATH
House Is Destroyed Ant-, Victims
 Pinned In Bed :

Annie B. Greer and Adele Winston, negro women, 1912 Fifty-first street, East Birminghams were burned to death when the house in which they lived was destroyed by fire about 2 o'clock Sun day morning. Alarm that the dwell ing was in flames was given so late that the building was virtually destroy ed before the fire department could re- spond. The women were burned to death in the beds in which they had been sleeping. Officers W. F. Wo- wack, Walter Williams and Sergeant c. R. Rogers investigated the, case, and Coroner J. D. Russum conducted pre- liminary investigation Sunday morning. The body was given in custody to Dav- enport & Harris, negro undertakers.