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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
The Height of Futilityv

! President McNIahon of the United Textile Work
ers' Union is quoted protesting in Mortified sur
prise at the bosscontrolled antics of one Wood, a
government conciliator, who is doing little strike
breaking in the textile industry.
Brother McNIahon according to reliable reports,
will complain to Calvin Coolidge and the Davis
steel trust department of labor and ask for re-
dress. In the language of the day, we say to
brother Mcmahon, "try and get it,"
How anyone who has been in the trade union
movement as long as Mcmahon has, and where the
oppression of the bosses and their support by the
agencies of the government is as naked and I'M
ashamed as it is in the textile industry can have
escaped absorbing some knowledge of the function
of capitalist government as a super-strikebreaker
is rather hard to understand, but Mcmahon seems
to have accomplished the feat
Instead of telling the textile workers that gov
eminent conciliatOrs are by virtue of their jobs
agents of the BOSSES Mcmahon fools them with the
hope that the removal of clumsy capitalist tool
will aid the workers. 1t is possible that the OBJ
noxious Wood may be cast into the outer darkness
for not being slick enough to fool Mcmahon,
but he will be replaced by another of the ophidian
species who will wriggle a little more elusively
Let President Mcmahon stop worrying about
federal cOnciliators organize the scattered strikes
of skilled and semi-skilled textile workers into
general strike in the industry let him work mill
family for amalgamation of the innumerable feeble
textile unions into a powerful industrial union,
let him abandon the futile hope that the textile
bosses will give anything that the power of the
workers does not force let him recognize the class
nature of the struggle and the fight against wage
cuts and he will get results
Will he adopt and urge such program? He
will not.
He believes in the capitalist system, denies the
class struggle and is therefore the type of labor
leader that complains because a government con-
ciliator does the kind of work he is hired to do
disrupt and demoralize striking workers organiza-
TONS
Mcmahon himself would be federal conciliator,
only he has better pickings the reactonary head
of the United Textile Workers.
The puerilities of the McMahons are sufficient
proof that nothing of benefit to the workers can be
expected from such leadership. The united front
from below of the textile workers, in accord with
the program of the Trade Union Educational
League is the only of escape from the auto
cratic rule of the textile BOSSES
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Anna Louise Strong,
Writer and Lecturer,
Returns from Russia
Especial to the Daily worker)

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-Anna Louise
Strong, under the pen name, Anise,
is in New York after two years. So
journ in Russia and lectured at Com
munity church on Sunday evening on
her observations in the land of the
Soviets, where she lived in everyday
contact with the workers and saw
their rapid progress in field and fac
tory and schoolroom.
,She will tour this country to lee
ture on the John Reed Children's col
cny, one of the most interesting edu-
cational centers in Russia. Her dates
in the immediate future will bring her
to Boston, and New Bedford, Mass,
and to Bloomington, ILL.,, after which
she goes to Chicago, where she lee
lures before the Chicago Women's
club on March IL, and before the Fri
day morning forum in the same city
on March Is. She will return to Rus
STA.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Send in that new "sub' todayl
The Miners Answer LewiS

Sixty-six thousand votes for the left wing slate
in the United Mine Workers election is ample
justification for our claim~that there is decided
revival of militancy in the labor movement.
The Lewis administration was able to poll steal
and otherwise secure a total of 10000 votes and
when we take into account the methods used in
previous elections we can be certain that many
thousands of votes for the left wing were never
Icounted-or if counted were placed to the credit
of the administration. 1t is not beyond the bounds
of possibility that the left wing candidates actually
ran ahead of the administration.
The left wing candidates were practically un-
known outside of their districts and that they were
able, in the face of intimidation and explosions to
roll up $4,000 votes with no campaign except dis
tribution of leaflets, is tribute to the militancy
of the miners and their knowledge of and loyalty to
the left wing program.
The left wing had no money, it could put out no
speakers, it had no press except the DAILY
WORKER which cannot reach all mine districts
effectively as yet and the program was the most
advanced ever put forward by the left wing
There is no other conclusion possible than that
the left wing vote vote for the left wing pro-
gram-not for individuals.
The vote cast by the left, the elements that fol-
low the lead of the Workers (Communist) Party
and the Trade Union Educational League, is the
most important development in the American labor
movement since the left wing began its work.
Picture the situation William Green, as secre-
tary of the United Mine Workers of America, led
the fight on Communists in the American Fedora
ton of Labor as represented by William F. Dunno.
Lewis sponsored a series of antCommunist ar.
tcles that published by the entire reactionary
labor press. Members of the Workers (Commun-
list) Party were expelled because of their afilia-
ton and at the last convention of the union the
administration made the Communists and their
activities the major issue.
In the face of all this the left wing, led by the
Communists, registers the greatest gains ever made
and appears as mighty force in the biggest union
in the American Federation of Labor.
We stop here to give three rousing cheers for
the militant miners who have given the kind of
reply that counts to the lies of Lewis, Murray,
Green and other tools Of the capitalists and the
capitalist state in the American trade union move.
ment
Yes, there is real and rapid growth Of the Com
Lmunistled left wing in the unions. 'fl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Nome Holding Its
Own in Fight on
Diphtheria Plague

NOME, Alaska, Feb. S.-This far
northern isolated city is holding its
own in a fight against diptheria.
No new cases have been officially re-
ported and DR.. Curtis WEIGH, Monies
lone physician, declared today he thot
rushing of antitoxin here by airplane
would assure complete checking OF
the plague. 9l1a
Work of making the trail from Ne
mana to Nome for the aviators was
started today by signal men.
Ekimos Suffer.
A pathetic story was related by the
authorities today when an Eskimo
family was discovered with one child
dead, and five other children suffering
with the disease. The father was
found making crude coffin from
scrap lumber in the same room
where the five victims were critically
i'll.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Herrin War Heritage of Fight on Miners

the state administration is perfectly
willing to let the khan run the coun-
ty. The last reports from Spring
field state that Sheriff Gallagan has
agreed to leave the state. Gallagan ia
in conference with the governor and
committee of klansmen sent by the
county board Of supervisors, all of
whom but one, is a klansman. Gala
gan has agreed to let Deputy Sheriff
Parks take over his office. But when
4 saw Parks this afternoon, he said
he would not under any circumstances
take the post of acting sheriff.
.a Miners Quitting Khan.
Many miners have recently quit. the
khan. They are beginning to get
their eyes open. There are very few
miners in the khan now, altho at first
a great many flocked in. II any lead
ers spring up there are some terrible
battles ia store for Williamson. The
miners are being hard hit in more
ways than one. Most OF the mines
are not working in southern Illinois.
The reason is that coal orders are be-
ing concentrated in the non-union
fields OF Kentucky and elsewhere.
Three more mines have shut down in
the past few days. II this condition
keeps up and It is further aggravated
by outside support to the anti-labor
khan forces. as will probably be the
case. the Lester mine massacre will
DO skirmish compared to the battles
that will follow on such conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
From the Other Side

The Chicago Tribune occasionally publishes
editorials from the DAILY WORKER under tn,
caption "The Other Side"
We herewith reciprocate in some measure by
Publishing a news story from the Sunday Tribune
headed "Pleads For Fine So He Can Get In Jail
Granted":
"a white haired man, 50 years old, was SEN
tauced to pay fine Of 500 and no costs or
sepve ninety days in the home at Oak Forest
yesterday by Judge Howard Hayes. And the
old man thanked the judge with tears in his
eyes.
'srhe octogenarian is Pat Kelly, no address,
he walked into the central police station to
beg aims and was arrested for vagrancy
Judge Hayes looked at him and said: "Dis-
charged"
"Please fine me- begged Kelly. haven't
any place to go and it's liable to get cold again.
Fine me enough so I'll have to go to jail"
Our only comment is that we are indebted tc
The Tribune for this further proof that capitalism
has only jails for those who survive after being
thrown on the scrap pile of capitalist industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
lALUABLES IN
KIEv MONASTERY
ARE DISCOVERED
Counter Revolutionary
Plot Brot to Light
(special to the nalIv Workerl


KlEV, Feb. Sin his interview
with the Pravda representative, Re
tau, the chief of the Kiev state intelli,
gence department, Comrade Ivanov
stated that already last spring, his de-
partment got to know that part of the
church treasures which ought to have
been given up in 1892 during the
famine, were concealed in the Kiev-
Pechersk monastery Most Of these
valuables were buried in the ground
and sealed up in cellars.
On Dec. 16, the state intelligence de-
partment began the search for these
valuables which lasted several days
and nights. There were brought to
light $50 carats diamonds, so carats
uncut diamonds, scores of carats of
rubies, sapphires and pearls, one and
half pools gold (oRes pood SO Eng
fish lbs.) 1 pood ducat-gold, 40 pools
silver, etc.
Search Reveals Church Plots.
Among the things which were found
there was also considerable number
of various church property: priests
vestments, covers, altar vessels and
two bags full of bonds. It is charac-
teristic that the monks did not pay
heed to the "sacredness" of the OBJ
jects: gold patens were buried in lat
rines, cups were hidden in box con-
tanning gold drain-pipes, panagies Jim
ages worn round the neck by bishops)
and diamonds were found buried in
the garden of the Kitaev Soviet farm,
25 verts from Kiev.
Among the things which were found
there was also a voluminous counter
revolutionary correspondence with the
Patriarch Tikhon and other prominent
opponents of the Soviet government
such as Antonious Khrapovitsky.
Monks Starve Midst Wealth.
These treasures were hidden by
Archimandrite Clement, the monas-
try's business manager. His helpers
were-the Archimandrite Macarius
and the Abbot Eustratius. Fifteen
people, belonging to the upper
stratum" of the monastery have been
arrested.
The ordinary monks did not know
anything about these misdeeds of the
monastery Soviet" They expressed
their profound indignation when the
treasures were brot to light, for ac-
cording to their accounts, some of the
inmates died last year Of starvation,
while their superiors had everything
in plenty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
GOOD EATS SURE
FOR CLEVELAND
BANQUET FEB. Is
Especial to The Daily workerl

Especial TO Inc Daily Workerl
CLEVELAND, o., Feb. Sunday,
Feb. 10, 600 p. m, is the time; the
place is the Pythian Castle, 1924 East
55th, between Payne and Superior;
the occasion, banquet and entertain
ment by local Cleveland, Workers
Party
The committee has secured the
services of experts in the cooking art
who promise to prepare meal which
will be fit for true fighter in the
struggle for working-class emancipa-
ton. Following the "eats," there will
be a general good time, with after
dinner speeches, music and some ex-
ira surprises in the line of entertain
ment.
Sympathizers and friends of the
party. as well as members are expect
ed at this affair. To insure reserva-
.tion the Office should be notified no
later than Wednesday, by calling Ran
dolph 4065. or dropping a line to 1928
Euclid Ave., Room 10.
In the afternoon, before the ban
1uet, general membership meeting
will be held, at the same location,
starting at 2 p. m. All party members
are expected to attend this meeting
whether they are able to remain for
the banquet or not. Alfred Wagon
knecht, district organizer, will take up
the united front campaigns now being
conducted by the party; and Herbert
Benjamin will report on the shop
nucleus; following which the meeting
will be open for discussion on the ex-
tremely important question of party
reorganization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
PRESIDENT MAY
FIRE Wilbur IN
AIRCRAFT ROW
Has Long Been at Outs
with Navy Head

WASHINGTON d. c., Feb. 8.-That
President Coolidge may take advan-
tage Of the quarrel over aircraft now
going on between army and navy Of
ficers, to dismiss Secretary Of the
Navy Wilbur, is being rumored here
today Coolidge has not forgotten
that Wilbur went against the Coolidge
tactics toward the southern Negroes
on a speaking tour some months ago.
At that time Wilbur was hastily recall
ley by Coolidge, after the navy secre-
tary had declared the republican
party champion of the southern Ne
gro. Coolidge has followed Harding's
policy of agreeing with southern
democrats that the Negroes should not
have social equality.
A weeks ago Wilbur appeared before
the congressional committee investigat-.
ing the war machine of the country,
and declared it "untenable and ridicu-
lous" to think that an airship could
destroy battleship. Wilbur told the
committee that Coolidge was opposed
to an independent, and larger air
service.
Coolidge, however, refused to con-
firm Wilbur's statement, and intimat-
ed that Wilbur went too far" in
speaking for Coolidge.
Now that Brigadier General Mitch
ell has created row by charging the
war and navy departments with ineffi-
cheney, Coolidge may take advantage
of the probe and dismiss Wilbur.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
CLEVELAND HOLDS.
MASS MEETING
TUESDAY NIGHT
To Talk Fight Against
Bosses Offensive

CLEVELAND, Feb. 8. - A mass
meeting against unemployment, wage
cuts and open shop drives has been
called by the Cleveland Workers Par
ty for Tuesday, Feb. 10, at s D. m, in
the Cooks and Walters Union Hall,
21S2 East 9th st.
Jobs are scarce in this city and the
employment agencies and offices are
crowded daily with men seeking a
chance to make some profit for the
boss in return for the price Of meal
or two; but the chances are few and
far between.
Not All Rosy.
The building industry is fairly busy
Dramatic League, the Modern School
have been unable to connect with a
job for weeks at time. The cloth
ing manufacturers have taken advant-
age of the poor state of the market in
order to wiring concessions from the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, both
in the way of increased output, and
actual reduction of pay.
A Danger to All.
To those fortunate to have fairly
steady work, and to those whose CON
dition is better because of the pro-
lection of their union, unemployment
is vital problem because no work
er is sure of escaping longer or short
er periods of no work; and because
the existence Of large army of un-
employed constitutes danger to or
ganization and a great handicap to
the maintenance and improvement of
living standards.
Under the slogan of "a United
Front Of Labor Against the Capitalist
Offensive" the Workers Party of
Cleveland, calls upon the workers of
Cleveland, employed and unemployed,
to join in this meeting of protest
against the unemployment situation;
and of action towards the meeting of
this great evil of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10

ing, the miners are on the way to be.
ing made the victims of whole sale
campaigns by klansmen in complete
control of the county.
In conversation with some min.
ers in West Frankfort, in Franklin
county, next to Williamson, the
DAILY WORKER was told: ANY
time the men in Herrin need any help,
we're all ready" One prominent min
err in West Frankfort said, IF Sheriff
Gallagan would send out a call to
morrow he could get six thousand men
from this county to go in there and
help him. 40 y, cf,e
Young's Successor.
The killing of Glenn Young and Ora
Thomas by no means settles the issue
in Williamson county. Things are like
ly, IL anything, to be far worse than
before. John L. Whiteside, the new
khan leader, told the reporter as he
sat at his desk in his garage office,
Just because Glenn's gone, don't
matter" He was playing with a big
colt automatic and was surrounded
by a half dozen not so nice looking
characters who smirked when he said
II.
The fact that Governor Small was
supported by the khan in Williamson
county and that many reputable peo-
pie here say with assurance that Adj
iutant General Black is klansman,
would indicate the reason why troops
have not been sent here. IL appears
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10

en-. But Young was obviously pos
ing when he said he came to clean up
the county. The mere fact that his
immediate following was composed
for the most part, of thugs and old
time boozers makes his expressed in
tentions ridiculous. And more than
one miners wife was known to have
complained about the good stuff" her
husband got in Glenn Young's soft
drink" parlor on w. Madison street,
Herrin.
Gods Army With Young.
Whoever sent him to Herrin sent
him to make trouble. He made plen-
ty. He got the whole riff-raff OF the
county behind him. And in addition
he got the preachers. With the ex-
ception of one or two and the catholic
priest, every man of god in town was
preaching klanism from his pulpit and
making hero Of Glenn Young. I'm
der Young's leadership the khan man
euvered into every Office in the coun-
ty except the sheriff's. They are try
ing to get that now. II they do, there
is no telling what will happen to the
United Mine Workers.
While the most OF the miners and
especially the foreign born miners
are belligerent enough against the
khan in Williamson county, they have
no leadership. Their own officials are
either klansmen or spineless. With
Ora Thomas gone and the sheriff 4,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
PREFERENCE SHOWN FOR
U. S. DOLLARS IN FIGHT
FOR so. AFRICAN MINES

CAPE TWON, South Africa, Feb.
"a diamond war between AmerI-
can and British interests was seen
today by mine owners in the re-
ported offer Of an American syndi-
cate to purchase the entire output
of the Debeers' Premier Diamond
mines. J. p. Morgan, the New York
financier, was said to be Interested
In the American syndicate. Hereto
fore the output of the Debeers'
mines has been sold to an English
syndicate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
DEROUNCES POLICEMAN
FOR BRUTALITY, EDITOR
is THROWN into PRISON

VIRGIN ISLANDS, Feb. s.--Roths-
child Francis, editor of the Enamel
pator was convicted or criminal
libel on Jan. 10 and sentenced to
80 days in prison for the publication
Of an article denouncinu an I'M
named policeman for brutality.
Francis was tried without Jury by
Judge Washington Williams, whom
Francis has opposed politically.
The case will be appealed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Cell on Liberals to
Pack the c. P. p. A. In
Chicago on Feb. FL

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Two hun
dred individual liberals have been in
vited to take part in the national con-
ference for progressive political ac-
ton in Chicago on Feb. 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Hamilton Finally Arrives.

LONDON-The aviator Hamilton,
who was reported missing following
his attempt to fly from Milan, Italy,
over the Alps, has arrived safely at
st. Moritz, Switzerland, word from
there said today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Transport Workers Released.

ALABAMA, Feb. S.--The 10 seamen
arrested during the raid on the hall of
the Marine Transport Workers at Mo-
bile in November have been released
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Movies for Workers

South Bend, Ind.-White Eagle
Theater, 1125 w. Division st., Feb. IL
st. Paul, Minn.-444 Rice St., Feb.
20.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Pabst Theater,
March z.
San Francisco, March 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10

Coolidge and Hoover have another plan to "help
the farmers" Our advice to the farmers is to see
that the chicken coop and granary doors are locked
every night.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
phase Of Glass; struggle.

EUdoC " Oidooh otTuHHiCs
Taken by and large, the khan and
counter-klan fight in Williamson coun-
ty can be said to be merely phase
of the class strugglelf Without ques-
ton, Glenn Young represented inter-
ests who were chatting under the
strain caused by the solid organiza-
ton Of the southern Illinois miners.
Even the mine union officials, referred
to above, who talked with the utmost
caution, said there was ground to be-
lieve an under current of wage cut
propaganda is at work here. They
wouldn't talk about the khan. They
merely said that miners who are men,
bers of the khan are expelled as soon
as their membership comes to light.
They make no effort to find out who
are members and who are not and
they haven't, they said, taken any Off
cial position regarding the khan. Diff
ferent sources that the DAILY
WORKER came in contact with al.
legged that even some Of the officials
were members OF the khan.
Precisely what particular interests
sent Young to Herrin cannot be prov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
AS WE SEE 1T

Continued from page u
is sitting precariously on his throne.
The fact that the left wing vote was
cast for men barely known outside
of their own districts is proof that
the vote was a real left wing vote
for the left wing program and not a
tribute to some popular leader, as
might be said had Alexander Howat
been running.
THE old Minneapolis Trades and
1 Labor Assembly is abolished. This
is the only way the Communists could
be gotten rid of, as The DAILY
WORKER pointed out when the fax
ers failed to GUST Dan Stevens in their
first attempt. But the Communists
are not easy to get rid of. The capt.
talists have learned this to their cost
and the labor takers will not be any
more successful. Paul ]. Smith, the
dictator from Washington, has not yet
granted the new Minneapolis Central
Labor Union a charter. The funny
thing about the situation is that Robly
ID. Cramer, who led the successful
fight to GUST Dan Stevens is now GO
ing to be repaid by the takers with
the loss of his job just as soon as
Smith succeeds in putting the bosses
stoolpigeon, Lewis Harthill, former
chief of police under Van Lear, over
as editor.
THIS is the usual reward of the
1 renegade. Cramer played with the
radicals until he saw his meal ticket
ieopardized. Then he went the way
Fitzpatrick and Nockels in the Chica-
go Federation of Labor went, and E.
B. Ault, of the Seattle Unio6 Record.
When two fakirs want the same lob
there is liable to be trouble. Hart
hill, who is now editing scandal
sheet called Minnesota and acting as
stoolpigeon for the employers in de-
nouncing every radical worker in
Minneapolis to the bosses, wants to
edit the Labor Review. Harthill is
working with Smith. One of the
clauses in the new constitution provid-s
es that the editor of the Labor Review
shall not act as an officer of the Cen.
trail Labor Union or act as a dele
gate from that body. Cramer is get
ting the reward of his treachery sud-
den and sure.