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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
2 COMMUNISTS FREED
IN PENNSYL VANIA AS
ANOTHER is CONVICTED

Israel BIankensteIn was convicted
on the charge Of being the organ
izer Of the Communist Party in the
Pittsburgh territory in May, 1922,
and sentenced to serve from two to
four years in the Western PennsyI-
vania Penitentiary. On May nth,
Comrade Blankensteln was released,
having served his two years. mini
mum sentence. He sends the fol-
lowing telegram to the National
Office Of the Party:
Feeling fine. Ready for work
after short vacation. viii stay
this week at Pittsburgh. Would
like to spend week or two In ST.
Louis or New York. If you want
me let me know where you place
me. Address headquarters. Greet
ings all.
Joseph MartinoWIeh, who was
sentenced to three TO five years In
the Western Pennsylvania Peniten-
tlary on the same charge as BIan-
kenstein, was released a few days
earlier, having also served his en-
tire minimum sentence. Both Blan-
kenstein and Martlnowich are held
on deportation charges by the Fed
eraI authorities, Blankensteln being
a citizen of Russia and cannot be
deported, since permission cannot
be secured from the Soviet authori-
ties for his entering into Soviet Rus
sia, by the United States govern
ment. Martinowich is to be deport-
ed to Jugo-SIavia after sixty days
if the Federal authorities are sue
cessfuI in making their case.
The expiration of the two sem
fences comes Just simultaneously
with the conviction of Tony Kova-
covich at Mercer, Pa, under the
same vicious "sedItlon and criminal
syndicalsm law"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
John Browns Birth
Remembered; Plan
Memorial At Grave

LAKE PLACID, N. Y, May. 49,
Memorial services were held here
Saturday, to commemorate the birth
of the anti-slavery champion, John
Brown, born 124 years ago, by the
John Brown Memorial Association Of
Philadelphia.
In an address delivered during the
memorial services, Mr.. William Pick
ems, Field Secretary of the National
Association for the Advancement Of
Colored People, said:
more than half century afterward
most sane men admit that John
Brown was right; that slavery was
an evil not to be compromised with
but destroyed.
at is familiar history today how
John Browns whole life, from his
birth in New England to his death on
a Virginia gallows, was protest and
warfare against human slavery. 1t
was not the Negro that he loved. 1t
was slavery that he hated. And I'M
like many others, he would not COM
promise with brutal wrong on the
shallow excuse of color. He planned
and plotted and worked and fought
and bled until he made Kansas free,
and then from the mountains of what
was then northwestern Virginia, he
struck a mighty blow at the almost al
mighty slave power. In prison and on
the scaffold he was as steadfast and
Interchangeable as the God IN whom he
believed. He died and his immortal
soul inspired million men to accom-
plish the work which he dared with
handful Of men to attempt
"If John Brown, Of Connecticut, and
New York, had done his magnificent
deed in defense of the fortunate and
the favorites of the powerful, the
shaft to his memorystoday would tow
err up in rivalry to that erected to the
honor OF George Washington, who was
one of the Shareholders OF Virginia"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
Illinois Natives
Lead Foreigners
In Illiteracy

Over $4,000 people in this state
cannot write in any language, accord
ing to recent report of the Labor
Bulletin" Of the Illinois Department of
Labor.
When this startling record is COM
pared with others published by the
same department, the result is even
more astonishing. Figures show that
$3.50 boys and 57,O57 girls under II
years Of age are 'gainfully employed"
in the state. one-third of these are
in manufactures; 10000 in clerical
work; 10000 boys on the farms; 49,
500 in transportation; 5000 in domes-
tic and personal service; $500 boys
in the mines; 1900 in professional
service; and 100 in public service.
immigration Not To Blame.
Over $4,000 Of those employed are
under 16 years of age and more than
$500 are from 10 to 10 years old. A
third Of the boys under IA are en-
ployed on home farms as laborers.
immigration is not responsible for
the high rate of illiteracy in the state
because more than half the children
Of 10 to ID who cannot write, are ma
tive born and of native born parents.
Only children out of every 1000 of
foreign parentage are unable to write,
while II out of every 1000 of native
born cannot write.
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where the Ku Klux Khan is infuen-
tial. All the roads leading to Mer-
Ger were covered with X. X. K. signs.
"The indictment of the defendant
was matter of class persecution.
Justice had nothing to do with it.
Kovacovich is steel worker who be-
ieves in organizing for better soci-
ETY. than the steel corporation can
give his class"
Other defendants coming to trial in
the June term of court are Andy Ko-
vacovich, Andy Dugan, John Saro-
vich, John Radias and Tony Mirich.
Stool, Judge, Prosecutor.
Leading figures in the Farrell, Pa,
prosecution which the Steel Trust or
ganized for the purpose of heading off
organization work among the steel
mill workers are Lennon himself,
Judge J. A. McDaughry, the judge who
tried and sentenced Israel Blanken-
stein on similar charge; Prosecutor
Myers, an ex-army officer, and BIZ
goted upholder Of Steel Trust rule.
Prominent among the spectators
was the Rev. Medic, founder of the
Croatian-American Protective Society,
woeld-be Fascist organization.
Prominent also in the audience were
Steel Trust stool pigeons and ladies
of leisure who came to look over the
"reds" their husbands were framing
up. Numerous and undeterred by the
hostile gazes of the authorities were
crowds of working men and women
who are aroused by the czaristic re-
preston now going on in this district.
Attorney Izaas e. Ferguson for the
defense is filing an appeal against the
conviction. The conduct of the court
bristles with errors.
Labor Unions Back Unions.
Labor unions in the Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio steel district are
supporting the Farrell defense. The
Cleveland central body was one of
the last to join the movement. The
issue effects all labor organizations be-
cause it involves the right to as
,semble, protest against the abuses Of
the Steel Trust and urge labor organ
ization.
The Workers Party has been urging
all steel workers to build up the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, steel and
Tin Workers and make it a weapon
with which to subdue the tyrannical
Steel combine. the same terroristic
organization that it has been since
it was organized in 1901.
Address all letters for the defense
to WILLIAM ]. WHITE, treasurer,
Box SS3, Youngstown, Ohio.
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ment Of pneumonia. It is believed to
be the protective substance or the
"anti-body" against pneumonia, in a
nearly pure state. Injected in human
beings, it gives no unfavorable reac-
ton.
Discovery OF the treatment is the
result Of five years work organized
by the insurance company after the
influenza epidemic of 1918.
The discoverer, DR.. FELTON,, is 80
years Of age and was born in Pine
grove Mills, Pa, spent his youth in
New Philadelphia, Ohio. and was
educated at John Hopkins. He has
been doing research work at Harvard
since 1922.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
Fight Negro Lads Hanging.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People is fighting the electro
cution of a 13-year-old colored boy,
Elias Ridge, in Oklahoma, who would
be the youngest person ever executed
in that state. If sentence is carried
out. The boy was accused of having
killed the wife of white farmer liv-
ing near Pensacola, Okla, in 1922,
was hastily tried and sentenced to
death by electrocution. DR.. A. Baxter
whitby president at that time of the
Oklahoma City branch of the N. A. A.
G. p, became interested in the case,
retained a lawyer, who gave his serv-
ices without charge, to obtain a com.
mutation Of the death sentence for the
boy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
LET RED FLAGS WAVE,
COUNSELS CANADIAN
LABOR ALDERMAN

MONTREAL, May 13.-"I say that
the repeated seizure Of red flags Is
only provocative and leads the peo-
pie from whom they were taken to
wonder If there is such liberty in
Canada as they had been led to be-
Iieve," declared Alderman Jos. Schu-
bert, labor representative, in the
city council, in protest against the
seizure Of red flags by the police in
the Montreal May day parades.
Schubert stated that Premier RAM
sey Macdonald of Britain had for
merIy participated in red flag dem
onstratlons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
COAL COMBINE
UNDER FIRE IN /.
FEDERAL PROBE
Midwest Assn. Wants
Bosses Closed Shop
BY MARTIN A. DlLMoN,
Federated Press staff Correspondent


ST. LOUIS, May 13.-The Midwest
Coal association, charged by the fed
eral trade commission with being an
unlawful combination in restraint of
trade, is undergoing hearing before
the commission at st. Louis.
From the testimony, it appears that
coal dealers not members Of the COM
bine are driven out of business or
into the association. Pressure is
brought on mining companies to re-
fuse coal to independents, with the
yelled threat that established" deal
ers dissertation members) cannot
purchase coal from mires which do.
e. J. Wallace, st. Louis coal dealer
and commissioner of the association,
admitted efforts against independents.
He holds he was within his legal
rights.
Mining Companies Approached.
The commission supports its COM
plant by letters written by Wallace
to coal companies. The documents
were admitted in evidence despite OBJ
jections of counsel for Wallace, who
commended they were taken from his
files under duress. Most of these let
tiers were written in 1921 and black
listed two or three Chicago dealers,
others in Iowa and st. Louis. In the
letters Wallace contended that these
dealers were not recognized by the
combine and should not be recog-
nized by mining companies, to whom
the letters were written.
No one anticipates serious penal
ties in the case. The accused COM
bine will fight to finish in support
of the boycott as a means of forcing
closed shop of organized business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
House Suspects
$4,000, 900 Profit
OF Shipping Board

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 13.-
Where did the Shipping Board get
that $2O,OO0,000 net profit registered
for the operations of the last four
years, the House investigating COM
mittee is asking? The treasurer, T. L..
Clear, didn't make clear why the
grafters hadn't absorbed the huge
profit, nor why the profit is at all
when the Board has been claiming a
loss in operation. His testimony is to
be continued under the prosecution of
Representative Davis, Democrat from
Tennessee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
Oil Promoter Runs
Against Farmer
Labor Candidate

ROCHESTER, Mimi, May 13.-Run.
ming against julius ]. Reiter, Farmer
Labor candidate for congress from
this district, is an oil promoter, Oscar
C. Ronkin. The oil candidate is also
an attorney and Y. NJ. c. A. director
Ronkin's bid for votes is his finan.
cial record as county attorney, an Of
flee he held until year ago.
He brought $4,000 into the treasury
in fines paid by bootleggers at 500
per. There are said to be 300 men
and women following the bootlegging
trade in the county at this time, so
they got off easily.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
CITIZENSHIP PAPERS
GRANTED TO SWORN
ANTI-BOL SHEVIKS ONLY

MERCER, Pa, May 13.--The adj
joining courtroom in Mercer, where
Tony Kovaeovleh, steel worker, was
being convicted for "sedltion," was
crowded with prospective American
citizens being examined for final
citizenship papers. A small but au-
tocratic examiner from Pittsburgh
was firing away questions. The
prize question was: "ARE YOU A
BoLsHEvIK, ANARCHIST OR I.
w. W? Do you believe in these
thIngs| Out Of several hundred
examined no reds were discovered.
All read the local town scandal
izers, loved their family and boss,
never were arrested and opposed
the reds.
The one principal qualification re-
qulred by the commonwealth Of all
future citizens is that they love
their master and oppose his slaves
daring to think out loud.
Mercer X. X. X. Holds KonkIave.
Large white letters were painted
on the roads surrounding the Mer-
Ger county courthouse, where the
"sedltion" trial was being heId-aIl
roads leading into Mercer were
painted up with these large white
letters. These three letters were
X. K. X, announcing that an all
day county konkIave would be held
Saturday, May 10, the day Steel
Worker Tony Kovaeovieh was found
guilty Of sedition.
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pealed.
The Commonwealth Of Pennsyl-
vania, homeland of the hberty-loving
Quakers, has received its proud pound
of flesh and vindicated the coal and
steel barons.
The fight has just started and the
defense with forces intact prepares
for the trials of the other five steel
workers to be tried in June prepared
to fight to the last ditch. The prose
cution will launch its campaign
against all worker organizations and
Pennsylvania promises to become the
battle-ground, picked by the capitalist
class, to make nationwide drive
against labor.
Let it be remembered that the la
Dor movement of Pennsylvania is on
trial and the iron heel will be pressed
down hard upon all other labor or
CARNATIONS daring to organize or as
semble as workers.
Unless the labor movement and
supporters rally to the support of the
remaining five steel workers, yet to
be tried, the fight will be almost
hopeless and in this forsaken spot
tucked away in the hills, the curtain
will be drawn down on the labor
movement of Pennsylvania.
The defense committee who have
placed their resources, funds con-
tributed by labor, back of the first
case, have a very difficult task ahead.
Defense funds are urgently needed
for the defense of the remaining five
workers.
Verdict Against Working Class.
The Workers Party, and all other
working class organizations, will
cease to exist legally in Pennsylvania
unless the battle waged by the de-
Tense is continued. The verdict
against Steel Worker Tony Kovaco-
vich is a verdict against the working
class of not only Pennsylvania, but
the entire country. Other states will
apply their sedition and criminal syn
dicalist laws against labor, whether
its organized or not, and the master
class mad from victory will crush out
of existence and jail all workers dar-
ing to raise their voice in protest.
Are the workers Of America ready to
battle the coal and steel barons Of
-nnsylvania for the right of workers
to organize and assemble peacefully
as workers? The six Farrell steel
workers await your answer.
1.-THE conviction of Tony Kovaco-
vich for 'sedition and criminal syn
dicalism' in the Mercer county court
was not based on evidence, but sheer
prejudice" said defense Attorney
Isaac Ferguson, who has returned to
Chicago to prepare the appeal.
1--WE are confident of obtaining
Kovacovich's release" continued Fer
guson to the DAILY WORKER. Elm
every case thruout the country high
er courts have been discharging men
convicted under these syndicalist
laws.
K. X. X. Prejudice.
1.-THE prosecution confessed the
weakness of its case when It found
that the Workers party program
could not prejudice the jury sufi-
GENTLY, and It laid emphasis on pro-
grams of earlier parties. The whole
technique of the prosecution was an
annual 10 preiudica in n community
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14
NEW TREATMENT FOR PNEUMONIA
DISCOVERED BY HARVARD STUDENT
is FIFTY PER CENT EFFECTIVE

NEW YORK May 13.-Medcal circles here today were dis
cussing with interest of new treatment
LOT pneumonia with the potential power saving to
1000 lives year in the United States alone
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-14

Do you want TO help the DAILY
WoRkER7 Then get a new sub
serlber.
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K. X. X. Prejudice.

"The prosecution confessed the
weakness of its case when 1t found
that the Workers party program
could not prejudice the jury sufi-
GENTLY, and 1t laid emphasis on pro-
grams of earlier parties. The whole
technique of the prosecution was an
appeal to prejudice in a community
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-30
Passing the Test

1t was a real trial Of the quality of the men,
pioneers in the FarmerLabor party movement in
Minnesota, who have Joined in making the June
18th Convention in ST. Paul. when they were faced
with the outrageous statement of LaFollette
against that gathering. These men had accepted
LaFollette as the standard bearer OF the new
movement not only because they shared the popu-
lar illusions about him, but principally because
they wanted to unite the broadcast possible masses
in the revolt against big capital. When LaFol-
lette tried to knife the great gathering called to
lay solid foundation for the revolt of the workers
and farmers the leaders of the ST. Paul Convention
Committee had to make fundamental decision.
They did not hesitate. With cheering unanimity
and in unmistakable terms, they told LaFollette
where to head in at. They served notice on him
that he has been "leader" by courtesy only, and
that June 18th is not the property of any man,
that the movement will determine its desti-
Mes If LaFollette does not like it, he knows
what he can do The statement issued by William
Mahoney and G. A. Hathaway for the committee
on arrangements is historic document in the
development of a class party Of workers and
farmers.
Mahoney's statement is not Communist docu-
ment. While it calls for clean break with the
capitalist parties and for an allinclusive combina
ton of class elements for that purpose Things
which have the unqualified support Of all Com
munists in America) it is still permeaed with the
illusions of democracy" and the expectation of
achieving fundamental changes without serious
social conflicts. Communists do not share these
illusions. That is one of the reasons why the
Workers Party maintains its separate organiza-
ton. These illusions only be shattered thru
the workers and farmers, acting class, getting
into the political struggle and thru long process
of experience in the political struggle Therefore,
the Workers Party supports the formation of a
farmer-labor party. The capitalists of America
will force the growing farmer-labor movement more
and more to the Communist position, So can
afford to give heartiest and most complete CO
operation to the next step in the class struggle,
for which Mahoney and his associates stand
June 18th and the class party.
The Minnesota movement has proved that it
cannot be dominated by any vacillating politician
of the middleclass type 1t has resolutely asserted
its independence. The test is passed in splendid
fashion.
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Decoration Day

Today the propaganda foxes of capitalist patriot
ism will congregate in packs to commemorate the
heroism displayed by the lighting forces Of the
United States in all its wars. Wreaths will be
placed on the graves of the Blue and the Gray
the Spanish-American War will not be forgotten.
Eulogies Of the dead of the World War will be
delivered from coast to coast
The graves Of the poor workers and farmers who
gave their lives in these wars monuments to
past that the working class of today should
again face. These lower -bedecked tombstones are
stern warnings to the future of the city and rural
masses of the CHASTITY lot that capitalism has or
dained for them.
The workers, from the northern industrial cen
tiers, who fought to~end chattel slavery have died
in vain. The bounding and lynching Of Negroes
and the ravages Of the Ku Klux Khan in the south
the degrading working conditions and abject wage
slavery Of the steel and textile workers Of the
north are a sad commentary on the tragic cOnse-
quences of this struggle for the exploited masses.
The ruthless imperialist policies pursued by our
capitalist government since its victory in the
Spanish have been made possible only at the
cost Of the lives of thousands of workers and
farmers who died the battlefelds in the tropics
or who were killed by the poisoned beef sold the
country by the profteering packing trust The
present plan to turn Europe into coolie colony of
the American capitalists is the logical outcome of
the workers and farmers being msled into fighting
to make the world safe for fraudulent employing
class democracy.
While the hired patrioteers and hundred per
cent capitalist Americans are engaged in hypo-
critically lauding the workers and farmers of yes
terday who gave their all that the present system
might endure, the workingmen and poor farmers
of today should resolve to make impossible the
currence of such capitalist wars. Let us think of
the graves of the thousands of workers who are
killed annually while grinding out profits for the
bosses, of the graves which ls-er decorated by
the exploiters and their apologists. Let us think
of the workingmen who have been slaughtered by
the strikebreakers in and out of uniform of the
hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers
whose death was brought on prematurely by the
misery and starvation visited upon them by the
bosses who own our industry and the government.
Above all let resolve to end the vicious capitalist
system that drives workers and farmers to murder
their brothers of other countries that shoots down
striking laborers that drives the farming masses
into bankruptcy and ruin, and that permits
! the very class that murdered our comrades and
brothers to desecrate their graves with the flowers
of dishonest homage and hypocritical cant.
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Kan the Khan

Condemnation of the Ku Klux Khan by the
miners convention Of District II, Illinois, again
draws attention to this budding organ of Fascism
in America. Like other Fascist bodies the world
over, the Khan is attempting to permeate labor
organizations, not to make them stronger fighting
organizations against the employers, but to weaken
them, break up their class lines and serve the CAPT
talist class.
The poor tools who make up the rank and file
of the Ku Klux Khan do not, of course, understand
what they are doing. They are stupid and igpo-
rant and elevate these qualities into the virtues of
100 per cent Americansm. Taught to believe that
this makes them the natural rulers of the land,
they become willing accomplices in the most
atrocious crimes at the direction of the sinister
forces behind the scenes directing the affairs of
the Khan.
Rumor has it that some of the rag-tag and bob
tail of the Chicago labor movement is being lined
up in the Ku Klux Khan. Certain it is that the
organization is boring within the United Mine
Workers of America, where in few backward
villages they control the locals. But the wizards
and kleagles can never flourish in the soil of the
labor movement. Union men will be on the watch
to kan the Khan.
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Y. w. L. Group
! Will Give Program
in Concord, N. H.
BY HILMA PAANANEN.

WEST CONCORD, N. H., May %
The Junior Group of West Concord,
N. H., will hold an entertainment in
Oak hall, West Concord. Saturday,
May 81. The leading number of the
program will be speech given by
Bloomfield of Worcester. There will
also be poems, singing exercises and
show, 1.-THE School Struggle" all
given by the Junior Group. Every one
is invited to this entertainment.
On Sunday forenoon Bloomfield will
attend the Junior Group meeting, and
he will instruct them. All parents, in
spite of nationality, are strongly
urged to send their children, and all
parents are invited to attend also this
Junior Group meeting to find out what
this group in reality is for.