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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28
The Zeigler Frame-up

in the belly which it goes thru and
lands in Board Member Hindman.
Hargs Shoots Sarovieh.
A few days later Mike dies, suffer
ing terribly all the time But before
he died we asked him who done it and
Mike says: "Alec Hargis done it, look
ing me straight in the eye" Also, the
night of the shooting, Roy Martin, the
states attorney finds Hargis with the
.3S and looks at it and says: Alec
this guns been shot off right recent
There's still powder smoke smelling
fresh from the barrel. Did you fire
the shot?" And Alec says: Il amt
saying nothing.
So the coroner's inquest gave a YER
dict that Big Mike had come to his
death by bullet fred by Alec Hargis
and they held Alec for $4,000 bail.
And Lon Fox puts it up for him. Well,
this looked bad for the reactionaries,
and so they went to work pretty hard
to get out of the hole they were in.
Cobb and Lon Fox swears out war
rants for twenty-six of the boys char
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28
By Max Shachtman

boys in Benton with the coal oper-
ators and the kluxers and Lon Fox
and harrington planning to do every
thing to send them up the road. And
every man in six counties knows why,
too, because they've always been plan
ming to get rid of our boys because
they was always strict and honest by
the men and wouldn't let the company
run the cars fast over the scales, and
because Local 992 was always pro
gressive and lighting Mr.. Lon Fox
and the harrington machine up in
Springfield. And there using the as
sessments and suehlike that LocalIs9
sent in to them to put our own mem
bers into the pen. But they amt
going to.
Terrorize Rank and File.
This is the story in brief. There
have been stories before Of a reaction
airy officialdom terrorizing a progress
sive rank and file But this case is
practically unique. The reactionary
harrington ox-Cobb machine has
combined with the ku klux khan, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-28

Well, no one knows what the old man
said, but Asa Wilson and his brother,
who support the khan, begin hitting
him, and he being well nigh seventy
pretty soon he's on the floor bleed
ing. Oscar Farthing's half out of the
hall when he sees his old man being
beat up and he runs in to help him,
dragging of the Wilson brothers.
Cobb Pulls Blackjack.
Just then Cobb pulls a blackjack
from out of his hip pocket and was
attempting to use it when someone
gets it on him and stops him. The
boys got mad, Cobb trying to use a
blackjack and none of the boys arm
ed, or showing it, and so the fight be-
gun. Some Of the boys got pretty well
bruised and Cobb got couple of
chairs bust on him which wasn't
serious but laid him up in the hospital
for while and no one feeling sorry
about II or sending him flowers.
Anyhow, when the fight was about
over, Alec Hargis come in. He amt
got much standing in the union be-
cause he was part responsible for
Mike Rosko getting away with $11, 900
union funds, and Hargis himself being
found guilty of stealing S67 from the
benevolent society of the union. Well,
Hargis had a .SS automatic in his
hand and just when big Mike Saro-
ich Is going out. Hargis shoots him
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ging them with assault with intent to
murder and conspiracy for same,
when Cobb's the man who tried to
sap up on the men with a blackjack.
And then they get to work pretty hard
and in month or so we find that the
grand jury won't indict Hargis for the
murder Of Big Mike and he's let off
scot free.
Frame-Up corbishIey.
Well, Mike was dead and someone
shot him and they just couldn't turn
Hargis loose without saying someone
else did it. So they indicts Frank
Corbishly for having shot Mike dead
and wounded Hezza Hindman. And
anyone that knows anything about the
shooting knows Frenk wasn't even in
the hall when the shooting took place.
But old man George W. Payne from
Alabama, who we know is a klans-
man, testified that he saw bullying
under Franks shirt which he said he
thought looked like the print of a gun
and Bill Hogan also gave some kind
of testimony. So they picks on Frank
as the killer when everyone knows
Frank was a good friend of Mikes and
never had nothing against him and
wasn't even in the hall when it took
place. But someone had to be the
goat SOS they could turn Alec Hargis
loose.
Well, now they're going to try the
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trict Office all the time. Anyhow, we
were quiet.
Frank Skibinski opened up the
meeting and Lon Fox gets up and
tells the boys to elect new officials
and go back to. work. Cobb and Bah
bington says the same thing too. Then
Corbishly spoke and that was pretty
good for most of US, him showing that
the sub-district officials always did
what the operators wanted. Well, they
told us to elect new officials and go
back to work, but we just sat tight
and didn't. So there was nothing to
do for it, and we adjourned the meet
ing.
klansmen Assault Aged Miner.
There was about seven or eight
hundred miners at the meeting and
when they had most of them lsft the
hall and only fifty or sixty ieft inside.
old man Bert Farthing said some
thing. The old man and the young
Farthing used to stick by the khan but
turned bitter on it in the last months,
and began helping Henry Corbishly,
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coal operators, and the republican
party machine to bring progressive
union members into capitalist courts
on a frame-up of the bureucrats' own
construction. Such a fragrant act of
treason to the miners has seldom been
seen in any labor organization in this
country.
Defend Minersl
The twenty defendants may be rail-
roaded. Determined and INSCRIPTIONS
working class enemies have succeeded
in framing-up on labor when the "evi.
dence" was even more flimsy than it
in this case. Men can still be found
anywhere who will swear to anything
and against anyone. Juries can still
be handpicked and sewed up. The
Franklin county miners are appealing
to labor everywhere to assist them in
this struggle against reaction and to
remove from the shield of the union
the blight of a united front against
the membership Of the officialdom and
the instruments of capitalist Unjust
ice. Victor Cernich can be reached
with money and mail at Christopher,
Illinois.s He is the treasurer Of the
Franklin County Defense Committee.
Or else you can send it to the Inter.
national Labor Defense, at 23 S. Lin
coin ST., in Chicago, which is actively
cooperating in the defense.
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Miner Tells Story.

miner Tells Story.
This Bell and Zoller Mine No. / has
a pretty big output of coal, being one
of the biggest mines in these parts,
and they have a very complicated
system of weighing. And they run the
cars over the scales so swift that one
man can hardly keep much track of
the weight. It's been so bad that
we've had eight acknowledgment in
two years.
Well, this time we gave the check
weighman an assistant and for con-
siderable more than month he work
ed pretty good and the boys were
satisfied with his work Then one day
: the company refuses to let him into
the mine and we called in sub-district
Vice-President Cobb to handle the
case. That same day the company ran
more than one car over the general
average on the scales each minute
and the checkweighman comes and
tells Henry Corbishly, president of
Local 1872, that he couldn't weigh the
coal right.
Miners Leave Pits.
Henry told him he was under aft
davit to weigh the coal right and that
if he couldn't do it it was up to him
to know what he could do. Pretty
soon the checkweighman walks out
of the scale room and tells Corbishly
that he couldn't weigh the coal and
was going home and for Henry to tell
the miners. And Henry tells them,
and pretty soon all the miners but
few walks out too, no one wanting to
stay in the mine without there being
a checkweighman.
At night the boys got together in
the park and Henry spoke to them for
more than thirty minutes and told
them to go back and let the sub-dis-
trict officials settle the dispute which
they did. Next morning, in comes
Cobb again from West Frankfort and
for four days they hear evidence from
the boys. The company wanted to
have Corbishly, young Farthing, Pete
Blazin, who was checkweighman, and
Steve Meanovich removed. So finally
Cobb and e. L. Berger.-that's the
mine Misunderstanding in deci-
sion giving the company what they
want, and this with only four union
men out of hundred testifying for
the company, and them four being
liars as was proved in the other test
imony.
KIansmen Rally Forces.
The boys were pretty mad about
the decision and they refused to go
back to work SO Lon Fox, our sub
district president, orders a special
meeting of Local 992 to elect new Off
GERS. which he thought we would
Tuesday evening, we see a few car
loads of Klansmen circling around
and driving over to West Frankfort
and then coming back with ID. B.
Cobb. Lon Fox, Darby Darlington and
Hezza Hindman. We kind of felt there
was something coming because they'd
been scheming around in the sub-dis-
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
TEAPOT DOME
SCANDAL NOW
PUT ON DENLY
Sinclair and Fall Try to
Shift Blame

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Oct. THE
Teapot Dome governmental graft
scandal sprung into a new lease OF
life here Monday when Harry Sine
lair, oil magnate, and Albert b. Fall,
former secretary of the interior,
charged in the District of Columbia
courts with having conspired to de.
fraud the government, filed demurrers
the main contention OF which that
Edwin DENLY, former secretary OF the
navy, and not Secretary Fall, was
responsible for handing the Wyoming
Teapot Dome to Sinclair.
The idea is that Sinclair and Fall
wish to shift the blame from Fall to
DENLY. automatically ending the pro-
secution Of the former two teapotters.
Fall also entered demurrer to the
indictment involving him with Ed
Doheny over the Elk Hills, California,
lease. The first one of these indict.
ments was quashed some months ago
by Chief Justice Mccoy Of the dis.
trict supreme court, on the ground
that the presence in the grand jury
room OF Assistant Attorney General
Pagan was unlawful. This prevented
any arguments on the merits OF the
Indictment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
BESTIAL ROUMANIAN
GOVERNMENT Fearful
OF TCHITCHERIR VISIT
lspseIaI 10 rhs paIIy worksrl

Especial to The Daily Worker)
BUCHAREST, Roumanla, Oct. &
The proposal Of Count skryxlnOSI,
Polish foreign minister, to 90 10
Moscow to pay a return visit to
commlssar Of Foreign Affairs TehIt-
cherin, who stopped In Warsaw on
his way to Berlin, has aroused seri-
Gus apprehension on the part Of the
official governmental clique in
Bucharest. After the world war, I'M
der the domination OF France, the
Polish and Roumanian governments
signed joint defensive military
alliance" to be used against Soviet
Russia.
Recent developments on the Held
Of international diplomacy have
caused Poland to move toward
agreement with Russia, without con-
sultInu RoumanIa. The Bukharest
government wants to know the
meaning Of these visits and wonders
If II Is being left out in the cold.
AS far as the RoumanIan govern
ment is concerned the Soviet gov.
eminent has made it quite plain
that it will have nothing 20 do with
It while the feroeIous suppression Of
Bessarabia continues. Il ls the con-
tentlon Of the Soviet government
that Roumanla has no right to rule
over Bessarabia. VI
This rule has been maintained BY
the most appalling excuses Of vioI-
ence, resulting In the bsstlGI
slaughter Of 1000 peasants a year
ago and at thIs time trials Of 500
peasants are going on for their tax
Ing part in an uprising asaInst the
tyranny OF the Roumnnlan vassals
Of French Imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09

WOFk LOT the 0nlll company LudJ
controls most of the chairs on the
walk.
"Divlding Up"
No wages are paid, tired chair
pusher explained, only a commission
and tips. The company gets dollar
an hour from the patrons--one dollar
for the two persons that make the
standard load. Capital splits this
purse with labor, labor taking the
losers end of 20 cents-and such
tips as are gathered.
Where three persons ride the COM
pany gets $1.25 an hour and labor rs
cents, FIVE cents more for bending the
back lower and showing harder. Hours
are a maximum of from a. NJ. till
one the next morning, but actually
few work that long. It is humanity
impossible to keep such a working
day going steadily.
Workers Poverty Easily Seen.
Chairs were in great demand dur
ing the bankers convention and
sharp contrasts appeared with portiy
and extensively tailored forms in the
seats and ragged Negro pusher be-
hind. The chair pushers bear the
stamp Of their poverty. No natty
uniforms, such as might be expected
on this smart thoroughfare, are fur
nished by the company, the pushers
wearing such clothes as they have.
Taxicabs are not allowed on the
boardwalk and labor men thus are
allowed a vacation from the eye sore
of the Fellows all over the rest Of
the town. The Yellow men work IL
hours a day and are not organized.
1.-THE company wont permit it," a
driver told the Federated Press re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
MELLON OPPOSES
ALL TAXES that
AFFECT BIG BIZ
Wants to Cut Down on
Surtax

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.-secrstary
Of the Treasury Mellon has been in
vited to appear before sessions Of the
house ways and means committee
which meets October 10, to present
his ideas on the 1925 revenue act.
Mellon recommends repeal OF the
publicity clause of the revenue act;
abolition Of the federal inheritance
tax, repeal Of the gift taxes, legisla-
ton to curb tax exempt securities, and
reduction of the surtax to maximum
of 15 or 20 per cent.
With the request from chairman
Green Of the ways and means commit
tee that the treasury take an active
part in the new tax legislation, a big
corps of experts has been put TO work
compiling the necessary data on which
congress must base its new law.
Strong pressure has been brought to
bear for repeal of the automobile sales
tax, the tax on automobile bus trans
portation and motor accessories. Ex-
Derts at the treasury favor the auto
mobile tax, which last year yielded
$15O,0O0,O00. Elimination OF the &C
cessories tax probably will be agreed
to. Other nuisance taxes" the repeal
of which is demanded in some quart.
ers are on the following:
Sales by dealers Of art works:
cameras, Photographic firms. use Of
pleasure boats, fire arms and shells,
smokers articles, slot machines, jewel
ry. bowling alleys. pool rooms, shoot
ing galleries, riding academies. admis-
sions and some Of the documentary
stamp taxes.
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porter when interviewed on the curb.
A small Independent union has mem
bers in the independent cabs and
each of the latter hacks-that are
Observation-Disclosures card of greet
ing to the A. F. OF l..
DuPont's Dynamite Exhibit.
Diagonally across from convention
pier the luxurious exhibition rooms of
the DUPONT chemical products fronts
the boardwalk and gives vivid i'm
preston of the amazing development
Of this industry since the war put the
ball and chain on German chemicals
The Dupont display at Atlantic City
is richer and more varied than the
one they gave at the recent chemical
exposition in New York.
There are literally thousands of
chemical products; explosives Of all
kinds, dyes, artificial silk, artificial
leather, tortoise shell and ivory imi-
tations and a whole series of other
fancy, hard surfaced synthetic prod
ucts; toilet articles, automobile var
nishes, and so forth. All produced on
the open shop plan.
mo Lucky Strlke for Craftsmen.
Two hundred yards down the line
is demonstration room where Lucky
Strike cigarets are turned out by the
hundreds of thousands with the same
machinery used in the factory. Youths
and girls tend the machines. The ma
chine displaced the old fashioned
tobacconist craftsmen with the hand
operations. The human hand does
not touch the tobacco from the time
it falls into the hoppers till it comes
out as a finished tailor made"
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pool This was the end of Purcells
plea for world trade union unity for
the time being. Fraternal Delegate
Ben Smith, members of the British
Transport mad General Workers I'm
ion, used his speech to explain attacks
made in the capitalist press against
British workers, especially as regards
the dole system of unemployed bene-
fits. He said the settlement of the
british coal strike was a subsidy of
profits not of wages.
He said British workers were idle
as a result Of the war and the huge
stream Of goods pouring in from Ger
many. ''2sN .
1--WE are told that we are following
Communist doctrines" said Smith,
"but all that we want are the things
that should be ours"
Tells Of Fascism.
While making no criticism of Com
munists, Smith urged constitutional
action at the ballot box, but explained
how the British fascist movement was
growing up planning to use force to
keep the workers in submission thru
the suppression of their struggles.
Smith said the British ruling class
was bent on taking its pound of flesh,
but the reply of the workers was, "if
you take your pound of flesh it will
be with every wheel stopped" Smith
closed with a plea for closer attention
by the organized labor movement to
the young people of the world.
Fraternize with Mexican YelIows.
A. F. of L. efforts to cater to the
Gales Mexican government is re-
peatedly evident in the convention.
Green outdid himself in presenting
Roberto Haberman, one Of the frater-
nal delegates from Mexico, who used
his speech in comical attempt to at
tack the DAILY WORKER, the Com
munist parties of both the United
States and Mexico and Soviet Rus
STA
Haberman is an emigre Mexican
who spends most Of his time in this
country. The regular delegate, Var
gas, however, accepted Haberman's
speech as his own.
The two British delegates are plan
ming to continue their trip to Mex
leo, where they can get information
first hand. One of Haberman's sal
lies for instance was as follows:
There are few honest souls in Rus
STA. We hope they do not read the
DAILY WORKER but the official re-
ports Of the American Federation of
Labor"
Donald Dear, fraternal delegate
from Canada, said that unemployment
was also growing across the north.
ern border.
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Representatives of
France and Germany
Deadlock Conference

Continued from page ~
the French insist that there can be no
question of bargaining away treaty
rights.
Revive Belgian Neutrality
The request of stresemann to know
the future status "a the Franco-Bel-
gian treaty and military. alliance with
relation to the Rhgzal &nszpact brought
to light the intention to revive the old
1889 treaty guaranteeing Belgium
neutrality, which the Germans are
charged with regarding as scrap of
paper" at the outbreak of the world
war in 1914.
The role of Britain, if the Rhine
pact is completed, and the treaty of
Belgian neutrality is revived, will be
that of guarantor of both the agree
ments.
In view of England acting as guar
antor in the western pacts, France
claims that no objections should be
raised regarding her acting guarantor
of agreements on the question of the
eastern frontier of Germany, involving
the proposed German7Gzech and Ger
man-Polish pacts. France raises this
question now because In case of ag-
gression by Germany against Poland
or Czecho-Slovakia they want the priv
! ilage of marching troops thru the
neutralized and demilitarized zone of
the Rhineland.
The Germans say that when Ger
many joins the league of nations this
will be sufficient guarantee against
any aggression of q military nature.
With this proposition the British are
incline to agree.
Stresemann Treasures Russia
Out OF the maze of diplomatic in
trigue that is going ON, officially and
unoficially, but one thing stands out
clearly at this time and that is the
new assurances of Germany to Russia
that no pact will be signed calling for
military aggression against Russia
and that under no conditions will Ger
many accept the proposal that France
act as guarantor Of eastern frontiers.
This assurance was officially sent to
the Russian foreign office by the Ger
man foreign minister, which shows
that thus far the efforts of the i'm
perialist and fascist bandits of Europe
to create a pact for the purpose eff
endeavoring to stage a new drive
against Russia is doomed to fail.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
Titles to Stick In
England; Their Sale
Fills Empty Golfers

WINNIPEG, Can, Oct. t.. Titles
VIII not be abolished in England. A
they were in Canada, because the
sale Of titles often replenishes the
empty Golfers OF the political party
in power.
Hugh Martin, parliamentary editor
OF the Daily News, and member OF
the British press delegation touring
Canada, said that Lloyd George rails
ed over 100000 pounds sterling.
thru the sale of titles, during his re-
gime as premier.
Barter for Titles. W
Tho at present it is crime 10
barter for a title, one can still buy
title for 10000 pounds sterling.
Another correspondent in the dele.
CATION said the only way political
parties ever get rid OF the useless
timber in their parties is thrs naakins.
lords OF them and then sen61ng them
to the house of lords.
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British Fascist Join
Police to Suppress
Strikers, Communists
CONTINUED from page y

AAOhA RcbC -
seriously to challenge this new men
ace that, under governmental sane.
ton, is likely to assume menacing
proportions. Already fascist groups
in Manchester are preparing to follow
the lead of the Liverpool movement
into the ranks of the police force.
Hicks Again Assails Communists.
LONDON, Oct. For the second
time this week, Sir William JOHNSON
Hicks, home secretary, assailed the
Communists. In an address in Liver
pool last night he asserted: 1.-THE
destruction of the Communist menace
in England is a matter of life and
death"
Lord Derby, who presided, de-
clared that widespread efforts are
now being made to "Russianize Eng
land"
THE Communist Party my be small
in England" he said, but 1t is pow
erful and is definitely allied with
Russia. Men like Saklatvala, Harry
Pollitt, Purcell and GALLAGHER re-
ceive their orders from. zinoviev."
The Liverpool conservatives were
properly impressed with these sol.
emn warnings, from Sir Hicks, who,
next to Ramsay Macdonald has be-
come the principal red-baiter in the
British Isles. 4es
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
ENGDAHL TO TELL PHILADELPHIA
WORKERS HOW "FAT Boys TIED
WORKERS TO BOSSES APRONSTRINCS
tomorrow
Especial to The Daily Worker,

PHILADELPHIA Pa, Oct 7The Phadpa will b..
hear how the a boys Of the American Of tied
down the American workers the
Infamous Dawes plsn meeting held at Grand
Hail. 1925 Arch St, Sunday evening" October H. o'clock
Louis Engdahl WORKER and observer a. tb
convenon will tell Of American
worked In shoots to thinking TO make fat Jobs
Tor themselves and how the British delegates up
the bankers Of America snsv only Germany
o nations. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09
A. EsOF L. CONVENTION CITY A..
SCENE OF SLAVERY ILLUSTRATING
WEAKNESS OF AMERICAN UNIONS
BY ART SHIELDS
Federated Press staff Correspondent

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct THE
Steepechase where American
ancient times
boardwalk travellers vehicles avail
able chairs pushed by patient beings.
convention
story tough
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09

Take this copy of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
tomorrow, g. aahf
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09

Wrap your lunch in a copy Of
the DAILY WORKER and give
it 1.-THE DAILY WORKER, not the
lunch) to your shop-mate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09

Take this copy of the DAILY
WORKER with you to the shop
tomorrow. BE
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