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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
WHY MINERS oUsTED HIM

Before Van A. Bittner and Pat
Hanaway were removed from Office as
president and vice-president, respect
lively Of the United Mine Workers in
District 5, around Pittsburgh, in 1916,
a number of things had occurred to
goad the miners to action against
these betrayers.
Bittner was definitely charged with
taking $4,000 bride to end the strike
that had been going on against the
operators; Bittner made strenuous ef-
forts. to call off this strike, as the
appended kilograms show, tho the
strike was later won by the miners
against his will. And Bittner consum-
mated in New York rotten agree
ment which brought chaos to the
Pittsburgh district
Gave Lewis His Chance.
Bittner and Runaway were removed
in some disgrace and strange, as it
may seem now, John L. Lewis and
Phil Murray, now president and vice.
president of the international union,
took part in the move against him.
Altho not actually agitating the de-
mand for the removal of Bittner and
Runaway, they were DESTROYS of hav-
ing the chance to play the parts they
did, for they themselves we're to be
personal beneficiaries of the change.
Murray was to succeed Bittner as
president of the Pittsburgh district,
which he did, while Lewis, who was
comparatively unknown to the mem
bership at that time, but who was
well-known to the local agent of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
.LAFOLLETTE HAS
OPEN SHOPPERS
AID in SEATTLE
Hearst's Scab Paper
Friendly to Senator

Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)
SEATTLE, July 13.-Non-union
printers are setting up columns of
publicity favorable to the LaFollette
candidacy in Hearst's scab Post-In-
telligencer. The unofficial support
which the open shop publisher is CIV
ing the Wisconsin senator is arous-
ing caustic comment from those trade
unionists who followed William H.
Johnston's version Of LaFollette as
labor's candidate.
The Hearst paper which is de-
nouncing both old parties and in effect
supporting LaFollette is at the same
time seeking to crush the aspira-
tons of organized labor in the north
west. It's local managers and Hearst
himself stand fatty behind the new
Post-Intelligencer working policy that
heightened working hours 30 minutes
a day over their competitors and
lowered wages.
The typographical uion in Everett
has just followed the typographical
union Of Seattle in declaring a boy
colt against the open shop Post-In-
telligencer. Everett union men are
instructed not to read this paper
which is fighting the strike of print
ers and which locked out the stere-
typers and mailers who refused to
work with imported scabs.
Resentment against the Cpl" has
reached such a. pitch that solicitors
are turned away from doors as they
ask for subscriptions.
LaFoIIette and Hearst.
Trade unionists are beginning to
associate the LaFollette movement
with Hearst The suggestion is be-
ing made that the senator go on rec
ord against the open shop if he ex-
poets organized labor to back him.
Left Wingers are pointing out that
the LaFollette platform ignores the
open shop issue, that he is making
his campaign mainly on an Honest"
government and small business
rights issue, not as a champion of
the rights of labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
pEFYs RANK AND ElLE

In the following letter Van Bittner
comes out fiat-footedly, and tells
Oates that the calling off of the strike
and the new contract are nobody's
business but his owp. The rank and
file and the working organizers have
no right to inquire about the district
presidents acts, according to Bittner.
Hotel Continental,
New York, N. Y, March 6, 1916.
Mr.. James Oates,
Hotel Kensington,
New Kensington, Pa.
Dear Sir and Brother--I have been
informed that the information l gave
you relative to the strike and with
drawal of organizers from Curtisville
has been conveyed to New York with
out me being informed as to any in
tention Of this being done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
MAC DONALD'S
SURRENDER TO
MORGAN SCORED
Dissension in Laborite
Ranks over Premier

Especial to The DAILY WoRKER)
LONDON, July 13.-Premier Mac
Donald's surrender to Herriot and to
the international bankers has created
much dissatisfaction in Labor Party
circles. MacDonald's endorsement of
the Dawes plan, followed as it was by
a virtual pledge to use the armed
forces of his government to punish
Germany, should she default on pay
ments, has enfiamed the more radical
wing Of the party.
Still another cause for indignation
is MacDonald's suggestion that an
American member be added to the
reparations commission as a repara-
lions arbiter.
The American member would also
be supposed to look out for the in
terest of American investors in the
German loans, but h.s chief import
ance lies in his position as an arbiter
among the various claimants from diff
ferent nations, in the event of Ger
man defalcations.
This means that the so-called Labor
government of England links itself
with the Morgan government of Amer
lea in squeezing the throat of Ger
many and exacting the yearly tolls
provided for under the Dawes brigand-
age plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
RUSSIA TO Give
JEWS FREE LAND
FOR SETTLEMENT
Jewish Organizations to
Aid Development
Especial to The Daily worker1

kOpGGidi " AfN GNlNJ WgfhSI@
MOSCOW, July 13.-"The economic
situation Of the Jews in the Pale of
settlement has always been critical.
Now, with the development Of govern
mental industry and trade, and the re-
striction on private enterprise, the
Jewish situation is growing worse
daily" declared Comrade Smidovitch,
First Assistant Secretary to Kalinin,
the president of the Russian Socialist
Federated Soviet Republic, in an in
terview. The Russian statesman COM
mented upon the Jewish question in
connection with the plan to start Jew
ish colonization in southern Ukrainia
and northern Crimea.
Land Free To Users.
For the puropes Of relieving the sit
uation of the toiling masses, Smido-
witch further stated, the Russian Gov
eminent intends to settle $4,000 Jew
ish city dwellers on 100000 desiatin
of government land in the neighbor-
hood of the Jewish colonies of the
Ukraine and Crimea. The land will
be given to the settlers not as con-
cessions, but for termless, free usage.
The soil in northern Crimea is good
for different kinds of agriculture, hor-
ticulture, gardening and tobacco rails
ing.
The only obstacle in the way Of
realizing this scheme is the lack Of
means Of the government. While the
government is ready to grant transmit
grafton and taxation privileges, and
is even ready to pay the cost of par
ceiling the land and building artisan
wells, it is unable to carry thru the
entire project. The Ort, and other
Jewish organizations from abroad
have offered to provide the funds ne
cessary. The money thus supplied
will be at the exclusive disposal Of
.ocal legalized societies, which will in
clude representatives Of the foreign
organizations. The same societies will
also take part in the organization
work.
special Soviet Committee.
A special government committee
will be formed to take care Of the en-
terprise, and a decree concerning it
will be published in the nearest fu-
ture by the Soviet Government. This
governmental committee will not in
terfere with the financial affairs of
the plan.
AS to the plan for establishing an
autonomous Jewish republic on that
territory, Comrade Smidovitch stated
that when the Jews will have settled
and will have expressed their desire
for autonomy, the Russian Socialist
Federated Soviet Republic will grant
it to them, as it has granted it to
the other nationalities in the Union,
according to their desire.
Eat the present time, there is no
such territory in existence, and conse-
quently there cannot be such a ques-
ton raised" concluded Smidovitch.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

U. s. Steel corporation, was to be
groomed for the International Presi-
dency.
Lewis Steel Friend.
1t is charged that this steel agent,
who is also a large non-union coal
operator and whose name is A. r.
Hamilton, had told a gathering of or
ganizers in District (seems strange,
but he controls them) that he, Hamil-
ton, was going to make Lewis the
next big-time president of the miners
union. One who was present at this
meeting has told how Hamilton said
it would be brought about, that John
P. White, who was then President,
would be put on S1.0O a year job
as adviser to the Fuel Administrator,
while the miners would pay him his
regular salary; that Frank J. Hayes,
who was then International Vice
president and who would automatic
ally ascend to the presidency, would
be gotten rid of and that Lewis, who
would in due time start up the lad
der of ascendency, would then be-
come the International President.
Soft For White and Lewis.
White returned to the miners pay
roll as a special representative, but
very few know the circumstances.
Hayes is now a gold mine operator,
after being ousted from the official
family of the U. M. w. Of A. He went,
as promised by Hamilton and Lewis,
who went to Pittsburgh in 1916 to
officiate at the obituaries Of Bittner,
is now the big Cheese" But Bit
ner who was removed from the presi-
dency of District 5, on gross charge,
is the chief representative of the In
ternational Union when there is dirty
work to do; witness Alabama, Kansas
and ETC.
The following kilograms from and
to Bittner, also the one showing Muir
rays surprise when BTttner's action
was brought to his attention are
worthy of note now since the Lewis,
Murray and Bittner trinity has
worked so much to the disadvantage
Of the membership of the United Mine
Workers of America.
New York, February 9th, 1916.
James Oates,
Confidential,
New Kensington, Pa,
Settle up strike Curtisville imme.
diately as continuance will interfere
with settlement for mine run.
VAN BITTNER.
Board member Oates answer to
above telegram reads as follows:
Believe telegram is fake"
JIM OATES.
New York, February 10Th, 1916.
James Oates,
Confidential, Hotel Kensington,
New Kensington, Pa.
Telegram o. K. call strike off and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
FOSTER-RUTHENBERG
MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS

William Ruhenbers will address the member
Of following
cities:
overwhelmingly July H. House Of the Masses afo craot
Ave, at p.
BuFFALo-FrIday July 49, Engineers Hail. SO Huron St,
p m.
BosToN-ssurday July 10, Dudley Dudley
st, Roxbrsy at 1880 p.
NEW HAvEN-JuIy 22 g. p. NJ, Labor Lyceun, SO Howe ST.
NEW YORK cTY-Wednesdsy July 49, stuyvessnt Casino 142
Second Ave, at 8 }.
observation-disclosures July "a,
st, at 8 p.
PiTTsBURG-Frdsy, July 25
cLEvELANp-saturday July 2e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
JAPAN MAY WITHDRAW
TROOPS FROM SOVIET
SAKHALIN OIL ISLAND

TOXIC, July 13.--K. Yoshizawa,
representing the foreign office, has
been ordered to proceed to the
Island of SakhaIln to devote two
weeks to investigating ACCESSIBILITY
Of withdrawing Japanese troops
from the island.
Japan occupied the island immedi-
ately following the Versailles peace
coference, causing widespread con-
troversy, particularly with Soviet
Russia, who owns the island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

The strike at Curtisville was called
off, as 1 informed you by telegram, in
the interest of mine run in the Pitts
burgh district. One of the most prom
inent operators here and probably the
largest factor in negotiating wage
contract for our district, which means
the entire competitive field, asked that
this be done in the interest of getting
a contract for our district, and / did
not think it was absolutely necessary
for me to report all my movements to
our organizers, as l have failed to find
anything in the constitution of the
United Mine Workers of America TINT
compelled me to report to the organ
izers, but l do think our law is very
plain relative to the organizers report
ing matters pertaining to the organiza-
ton to the president
hope to be able to explain the en-
tire situation when see you and clear
up any mystery that might seem to ex-
list relative to the matter.
Please wire me an explanation i'm
mediately.
With best wishes, remain,
Yours very truly,
(Signed) VAN BITTNER,
President.
Oates reply by telegram to the
above letter:
THAT women and children thrown
out on public roads by state troops,
and will explain matters to you when
we meet"
New York, March 8, 1916.
James Oates,
Hotel Kensington,
New Kensington, Pa.
District executive board has decid-
ed to call off strike and withdraw or
ganizers from Curtisville. This order
must be obeyed without further delay
Explanation will be made when we re-
turn to district.
VAN BITTNER,
f. P. MURRAY,
ROBERT WOOD,
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Send In that Subscription TodayI
Can't Cage These Birds.

Terry Druggan and Frank Lake
multi.milllonaire brewery owners
were today sentenced to serve a year
in jail and pay fines OF $1,000 each
for contempt Of court in violating a
federal Injunction which had ordered
one OF their establishments closed for
year.
Later writ Of supersedeas was
granted stating execution OF sentence
until September 1, when the federal
circuit court OF appeals will hear
arguments to set the sentence aside.
The men were allowed their liberty
on payment of $4,000 bonds. Drug
gan paid the cash with twenty thou.
sand dollar bills which he stripped
from the roll he carried.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Flores Faction Plot
Revolution to Upset
Mexican Gales Vote

MEXICO CITY, Mex, July 49,
General B. Elias Gales ran far ahead
of General Flores in the presidential
polling in Mexico City. The count was:
Gales, 41,455; Flores, $780,
Government officers said today they
had reasons to know that certain of
Gen. Gales enemies are preparing to
stage revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14

MOSCOW, July 13.-The Russian
freighter Tchatyzdag, which had been
brought away from Odessa by the
French and then, as she was stranded
not far from that port, had been
abandoned and purposely damaged by
the captors, has been fully repaired
and put on the Odessa-Jaffa (Asia
Minor) line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-14
Miners Fired Bittner As Betrayer;
Chief Lewis Strikebreaker Now

every man is to be given his job no
discrimination; will explain later.
VAN BITTNER.
New Kensington, Pa, March 2. 1916.
Philip Murray,
New York,
Bittner has ordered organizers out
of strike zone. Do something; tele-
graph Dobbins.
JIM OATES.
New York, March 2, 1916.
Francis Dobbins,
2OO7 First National Bank Bldg,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Can't believe that Bittner called off
the strike, as he never consulted any
of the Board Members; will take up
the matter with Bittner later.
r. Wood,
P. MURRAY.
New York, March 8, 1916.
James Oates,
(ConfdentiaD, Kensington Hotel,
New Kensington, Pa
Withdraw organizers from Curtis.
vile. VAN BITTNER.
Oates did not withdraw organizers,
but informed him by telegram that he
did. "Will explain matters when we
meet"
New York, March 6, 1916.
James Oates,
New Kensington, Pa.
Under no circumstances hold any
meeting at Curtisville. Don't fail to
obey this order VAN BITTNER.
New York, March 6, 1916.
Francis Dobbins,
2007 First National Bank Bldg,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Have taken the matter up with
President Bittner at board meeting
and said he did not call strike off at
Curtisville. (Confidential)
P. MURRAY.
The Washington times., 1924-08-15

CoOlidge's Platform
Outlined in Speech

The foOins excerpts PRECEDENT CooHdses speech
Of dccePtance last night gOs his attitude Of the chief
sSuss Of the campaign:
Government Ownership favor the American system Of
individual enterprise and opposed to any general
extension Of government ownership and control
Economy believe not only in advocating economy in
public expenditure but in its practical application and
actual accomplishment.
Taxation-r believe in reduction and reform Of taxa
ton, and shall continue my efforts in that direction
Tariff am in favor Of protection
Peace and War-I favor the Permanent Court and
further limitation Of ornaments am opposed to aggres
sive war.
Europe shall avoid involving ourselves in the pot
cal controversies Of Europe, but shall do what
encourage American citizens and resources to assist in
restoring Europe with the sympathetic support of
government
Agriculture and Industry want agriculture and in.
dustry sound basis Of prosperity and equality.
General Domestic PoliCyI shall continue to strive for
the economic, moral and spiritual welfare Of my country
international Conference the Preparations plan
in operation shall deem it appropriate time to ap-
proach the great powers with proposal for another
ference for further codcaton Of international arma
ment
The Washington times., 1924-08-15
A DAYS
WALK
-With JIM RING.

From Reporter to Movie Star.
Chapter xxx. On the Heights.
One Of the principal penalties of
fame is the interview. Since my
last starring venture with Thomas
Meighan, in 1.-THE Alaskan"O, I
have been constantly haraSBed by
visiting cards, telephone calls, and
invitations to lunch. Few, indeed,
do I accept.
Yesterday, however, I could not
choose but pay fitting tribute to
the ingenuity Of one who sought
me ought. had refused his card
seven times. On the eighth time
he sawed a hole through the CELL
ing. Of my den, and literally
dropped in.
"Well, here / amir he exclaimed,
proffering his card again.
/ laughed down my defeat, and
read the familiar name: OSCAR
SCOW.
"What IL it you wish?" 1 asked
this shining example OF gall.
Just an interview" said he,
and invited him to sit. "
"You no doubt are acquainted
with my skill at costume parts
and makeup" began. II learned
makeup on newspaper. After
years Of bitter struggle-and there
were so very len days, tool be-
came SO proficient in the art that
l often scared my director into
fits, and / had to be kept away
from the studio animals, ever
since a lion, observing me in the
costume and makeup of a visitor
from Mars, broke bounds and ran
away, mad with fright"
"How interesting" said Mr..
Scow. "You must have q great
deal of mail"
st do. / get letters returned for
postage, sale ads from Hecht's
and Radio Joe Kaufman, maya
zine from Ralph Lee, The National
Republican, the Birth Control Ad-
vocate, handouts from the Post
office Department, bills"
Enough he cried. Now tell
me Of your first starring expert
ence."
"Mr. Meighan and I are both
temperamental," said l." If there
aren't two cameras for the Capitol
scenes, we cuss out Director Flash
Sutherland from a safe distance.
We both insist that our support.
ing cast keep up the Illusion re-
quired by the play. Mr.. Meighan
informed that that in one minor
scene Of The Alaskan in which
I did not appear, thousands of
feet Of film were destroyed because
one of the women members Of the
cast smiled"
That's not very interesting"
said Mr.. Scow." could tell
much bettery story"
The Washington times., 1924-08-15
JIAAElE. BIApe yAoto

used it, for it wasn't laboratory
used by others.
What Is the function OF the
pituitary gland?" asked Bachrach.
Il don't know"
"Oh, you only know the chemis.
try Of its contents?"
II don't even know that"
Well, what do you know about
it?" shouted BachrAch.
Doctor Woodyatt replied that he
knew what 1t looked like, had
examined many Of them, knew part
OF its chemical content, knew it was
related in general to the growth and
development Of the individual, but
that was all. And his plain infer.
ence was that that was about as
much as any one knows definitely.
Bachrach sarcastically demanded
IL the expert knew what the mind
is"
81 do not" replied Doctor
Woodyatt fatty. And again the
inference was that no one knew
precisely what the human mind is.
Examination Hasty.
The defense, with something like
100, 900 words of testimony already
in to show that Babe" and "Dicky"
were mentally diseased" and 'emo-
tionally inferior" had to content it.
self with showing that the States
doctors reached their conclusions
in a hasty, superficial examination
that was conducted in part by the
States attorney himself.
The States experts decided they
were normal by an abnormal ex.
animation, conducted in an abnor-
NAL way" That Is the defense
contention.
And the State counters by asking
its doctors whether or not they
took into consideration In reach.
ing their verdict, all of the fan.
tastes, the Teddy bears, the child.
ish reveries, the distorted philoso.
phies, and the pineal, pituitary,
thyroid and other glands, and all
of the discoveries made by the de.
Tense psychiatrists. The States
doctors say ''yes," they took all
that into consideration, and still
Leopold and Loeb are mentally
o. X.
Slayers UnmOved.
Some times silent, sometimes
giggly spectators at their own life
drama, Dicky and Babe appear to
be the only persons in Judge
Caverly's court room whose nerves
remain unragged as the time draws
near for States Attorney Grove to
make his final plea to send them
to the gallows. The trial runs the
gamut OF human emotion, so far as
the lawyers are concerned any way,
but in fair weather. or foul, the
young slayers maintain the attitude
Of bravado that has marked them
from the first.
The Washington times., 1924-08-15
Something About Him
No Woman Can Resist
Says His Eighth Wife


KID McCoy'e Eighth Wife.
written exclusively for International
News Service.
Los ANGELES, Aug. 16.--Norman
Selby is the most lovable man in
the world.
There Is something about him
that no woman can resist. When
I met him at the age Of nineteen,
] gave my heart to him wholly
and, strange as it may seem, love
him today with the eager trueness
that a woman gives to her first
lover.
did not leave Norman. He left
me three weeks after we were mar.
Eied. The anguish of that moment
haunts me still and it was my
great love for him that caused me
to divorce him. I really had no
grounds. ! realized, although only
q girl at the time, that Norman
was the type Of man who should
not be encountered with wife.
So 1t was my love for him that
made me- seek divorce five months
later and set free the one great
love Of my. life.
It was this love Tor him that made
nae refuse to remarry him when he
came hurrying back to me after
he had been served with the
divorce papers and pleaded with me
to continue our honeymoon with
him.
I met Norman in 1920 when I
was a boarder In tine home Of his
sister, Mrs. Jennie Thomas. had
heard a great deal about him as a
nghter and a philosopher and a
gentleman.
That first meeting with Norman
sealed my fate. He took me to
dinner and then to the beach at
Venice, Cal.
We sat there on the sands talk.
Ing about my career. I was very
ambitious at the time and Norman
knew all OF the people I wanted
to know. 1sadora Duncan, Maurice
Maeterlinck and great people whom
wished to know. We. were talk.
ing Of my future and how / Just
must succeed. Suddenly Norman
took me in his arms and said.
Child, want to marry you.
You are sweet and pure and in.
nocent. But you arc. ambitious.
II you marry me will make you
famous. We will found a school
Of dancing and some day you will
be greater than Isadora Duncan,
them"
That settled me. I said Eyes"
right then and there. But Norman
tired Of me. He left me. 1 do not
censure Norman. He was just
built that way.
I do not bsIieve that Norman
Selby shot Mrs. Mors. He never
was cruel. Never meant to be
cruel to any woman. That was
his greatest charm, his gentleness,
and tenderness for women. His
love was fierce but what woman
resents an enthusiastic lover?
They are ideal lovers, the kind
that sweep you off your feet and
will not take no for an answer.