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The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
PIONEER WITH The PIONEERS OF 249

fectly agreed with his determination
that under the extraordinary circum-
stances of your action he had done the
obviously practical thing"
| Also | have read in the public press
your communication to which Judge
Struckmeyer refers. 1t is incredible
I-monstrous. | have read and relead
it with utter and growing amazement.
1t has taken some days to recover my
breath, so to speak, and after this
season of delay, dedicated to self-con-
troll, to calm consideration, to cool
dellberation, am now wondering-it
is the most kindly, the most charit
able Interpretation | can put upon
your action, and | say it in Kindness
and charity-Whether you have not
reached your dotage; whether you are
not losing your mind; whether you
have not become again the pet7. mt
child, crying for it knows not wnae:
whether strain of your unpa alslcd
tenure of the office of governor, ana
the constant effort to centralize in
your person the authority of an auto
crat, with the power of life and death
over your trembling subjects, has not
finally taken its toll of your faculties
paralyzed, those essential qualities of
statesmanship-judgment, poise, Dig
nity-which it must be assumed you
once possessed, and more pathetic
still, bereft you of all that fine sense
of honor, truthfulness and considera-
tion which is the hallmark Of true
greatness.
But genuine as is my uneasiness
over your condition, must admit that
l am more concerned with certain of
the contents Of this communication
which you have given to the press.
With your refusal to counteTs:gn
the warrants in payment for my serv-
ices | have no major quarrel That
matter can be adjusted, if necessary,
through the processes of the law.
though involving expense which |
should not be required to bear. But
being SO trivial, so petty, and SO OBJ
vlously personal matter | shall not
iwell upon it here, other than to of
fer the suggestion that you must very
we'll know that the work | was per-
forming, and in compensation for
which the claims were drawn and ap-
proved by Judge Struckmeyer, who is
20 thoroughly versed in Arizona's laws
hat you deemed him qualified to re-
Use them, does not fall within the
meaning Of the constitutional inhibi- |
ion quoted by you. l feel that you
must know this, else you would not,
within less than 60 days, have signed |
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
RATTLEsNAKE BITE is FATAL

AT Liberty, Mary Thompson, aged
point, Mary EsteIle Thompson, aged
3, kissed her mother good night and
started for a screened room, short
distance from the house, where she
and an elder sister had slept. On the
threshold, the. child stepped upon OF
near coiled rattlesnake, which struck
three times without rafting. The girl
was rushed to Buckeye for treatment
and then was taken to a hospital in
Phoenix. Physicians and nurses work
ed over her for 16 hours, but without
success.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03

Struckmeyer assigns as his reason for
dismissing me the receipt from you
of communication protesting against
my employment, and further explains
that although he is "appreciative of
the fact" that | am "well qualified to
render valuable services in the code
revision work. he feels that in view of
the attitude assumed by you, from
whom ne received his appointment, "a
continuance Of the employment is inn
possible"
Immediately l informed Judge
Struckmeyer, in a letter a copy of
which | hand you herewith, that / per-
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03

other warrants falling within the
same class.
And may | also inform you that
Judge Struckmeyer, careful lawyer
that he is, satisfied himself that there
We're no legal obstacles to my en-
ployment, and SO advised me, while
the question of any possible inn
propriety in it never occurred, so far
as | am aware, to anyone concerned.
Had doubt on the subject arisen in
my mind | could not have been in
duced, by any consideration, to accept
the work
Neither have | any quarrel with you
concerning your peremptory demand
that | be removed from the employ
ment which Judge Struckmeyer gave
me. That is a matter between you
and Judge Struckmeyer, and if you
are satisfied so am l. Besides, the
action might well be excused on the
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
SENATOR WINSOR WAKES
SARCASTIC IN HIS REPLY

With biting sarcasm and deeply re-
fined suggestions as to Governor
Hunts health, Senator Winsor hands
the following letter to the governor
relative to the code episode:
Phoenix, Ariz., June 90, 1925
Geo. w. P. Hunt, Governor,
Phoenix, Arizona.
Sir:
| am in receipt of a letter, under
date of the 23rd inst, from Judge F.
G. Struckmeyer, code commissioner,
terminating my employment under
him as clerical assistant in the work
of revising the Arizona code. Judge
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03
WINDSTORM IN YUMA CAUSES
DAMAGE TO CITY PROPERTIES

Large trees We're uprooted, several
wooden structures overturned, and a
number of houses unroofed by heavy
windstorm at Yuma Sunday after
noon.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
done to the pipes at local ice com
pany plant by the gale. A trace of
rain fell during the storm.
The Coconino sun., 1925-07-03

Housewives demand Flagstaff
Dairy products. @
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
MOTHER BLOOR
REACHES COAL
OF LONG hike

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The coast to
coast tour of Mother" Bloor will soon
be completed when she arrives in
New York City, September 9Th, after
travelling for over three months from
Berkely, California. stopping in every
large city on the way Mother" Bloor
boasts that she has not spent cent
on railroad fare, -.and what is more,
she insists she viii mot spend a single
cent on railroad fare. and while hitch
ing and hiking conditions to be so
agreeable to people of sixty years that
will continue to be her way of travel
ling.
Mother" Bloor will be remembered
by her many friends among militant
trade unionists in this city for her
activity on the picket line in the
strike of the Millinery Workers
Union.
At the meetings to be held collec-
tions will be taken and every dollar
raised will go for two months sub
scriptions to the DAILY WORKER
Be on hand.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
Lying About the Riff Campaign

After the world over British correspondent who
decorated for lying about the army book
the title "Now 1t Can Be Told This that the
and good purpose could be by lying longer The
truth would be profitable would
market than false information.
During the followers victory after
victory Every retreat for strategic purposes The
conscience about lying Indeed of their effective
weapons
The capitalist have suffered any impairment
fine art prevarcaon since the the
plainly evident by their the campaign against
the Riffans.
Up until decidedly the best
of the struggle yet of appear daily capitalist
respondent censorship WALL
but for word of truth that reaches the public
follow.
Only few days ago. Spanish troopshp by Rifan
fire One thousand Spanish troopers persisted with the ship The
suppressed by the Spanish and French Morocco
but Paris ked losing his job by putting it
the cables the United States appeared
the great disaster any capitalist daily Evidently
is hoped the public will have forgotten the incident.
We have read of aipanes hurting death Ran
and villages of tribes deserving Abderm Spanish
French cooperation But the truth that ninety per
stories have foundation in fact The Spanish
and French any over the
Ran debace Both governments hope inevitable
by feeding their people on imaginary victories
The workers should think before believing anything
that appears the capitalist press What they
columns propaganda Ninety what
fills the pages the capitalist daies copy by the
thousands of agencies that exist this
particular scheme in support of the capitalist system
know the truth about the in other
countries about the struggle subject peoples against mper
als powers and particularly about Soviet Russia
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
AN ATTEMPT TO KILL THE
UNION.

The present attack on the anthracite miners is
part of the general scheme of the to destroy
every sembance of organization among the coal
miners. The bituminous miners reduced to a
frightful existence by the continuous campaign
that has been carried on against them by the
operators aided by every branch of the govern
ment The owners now feel that the miners and
the organization have been weakened to such an
extent that it will be easy to deal the finishing
blow to the U. Ms W. of A. by smashing the
anthracite miners. y The fight to win the anthra-
cite strike is fight to the United Mine Work
ers of America from destruction.
The attempt Of the employers to break up the
United Mine Workers is only part of a larger
scheme of the whole employing class to destroy
every trace of trade unionism among the whole
working class. The miners are now the center of
attack. The bosses know that if they are success
full in reducing thelminers' wages and breaking up
their union whichtis the most militant section Of
the working class, they will be far on the road to
the accomplishment of their goal to establish the
open shop in every industry in America.
The anthracite strike must be the rallying center
of all trade unionists in America Every working
class organization must to the support of the
anthracite miners in every possible way. The
strikers must be given full financial moral, and
active support in this industrial battle 1t is the
moment when labor thruout America, must call a
halt to wagecutting and union-wrecking cam
paigns of big business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12

Pennsylvania, 1920. Approximately
every twelfth worker in the industry
was killed during the 20 years. :
A NTHRACITE is a veritable slough.
= 4 ter-house of the workers. They
are on strike now because the EN-.
ployers want to buy their lives and
limbs for 10 per cent less wages.
while the workers feel the price of
their blood and sweat should rise a
bit. The day must come before long
when the miners, together with the
working class as a whole, will refuse
altogether to allow capitalists to coin
their lives into profits, will take over
the mines and industries, kick out the
exploiters, and turn the workplaces
from slaughter-houses into safe and
comfortable centers for producing the
wealth OF a workers republic.
Until that time arrives, every class.
conscious worker will help all he can
In the struggle Of the anthracite min.
ers to protect themselves partially
against the assaults of coal barons
whose profits are stained with the
blood Of our working class brothers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
The Anthracite Slaughter-House

A report has Just been issued by che
commonwealth of Pennsylvania. de.
partment Of labor and industry, which
deals with industrial accidents in the
state for the first six months of 1925.
from this we learn that in this half.
year period, almost one out Of every
ten workers engaged In anthracite pro.
ductlon was injured, SO out of each
1000 workers injured non-fatally, and
two out of each 1000 killed.
OUT of a total of S9,494 non-fatal
" industrial accidents during the
first half OF 1925, the anthracite min
ers suffered 1861 of them. or 1887
deaths, 296 were of anthracite miners.
In other words, anthracite mining
costs the workers almost twice the
price in life and limb, over the aver
age borne by all workers in Pennsyl.
yanla
And this Is not recent develop
ment. From the year 1900 to 1920,
here were 1902 anthracite miners
silled in the course of their work,
18th non-fatal accidents in proportion.
Report Of Department of Mines of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
Many New Members
Enroll at Duluth,
Mimi, |. L. D. Meeting

DULUTH, Mimi, Sept. 1O.-The /.
L. d. conference and mass meeting
was held in Duluth Sunday, Sept. 6.
Both were we'll attended considering
the two holidays. About rs workers
Joined. The prevailing sentiment was
that this could easily be increased a
hundred fold.
John Soltis delivered an excellent
speech, outlining the aims and organ
ization of the |. L. d. He also dwelt
at length with the history of all PROF
ress in the political field. The audi
ence was in hearty accord of uniting
all elements of labor in the defense
work
The local committee are pleased
with rsults and will continue to hold
meetings often as soon as arrange
ments can be made. We are assured
of powerful movement in this steel
trust mining district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
BY EARL r. sRowDER.

THE 10000 anthracite miners now
L on strike are told by the employ
ers that the industry is so heavily
burdened" that their wages must be
reduced. It is true that the industry
is heavily burdened" by the capt
talist monopoly, in the shape of prof
its Of gigantic proportions by the coal
companies, profits by the railroads,
profits by wholesalers and retailers,
plus royalty to landowners running
from $1.00 to $3.50 per ton. out Of
the current retail price Of anthracite,
$500 per ton, the burden" placed
by wages (employers' classification in
Guiding administration is less than
20 per cent. We shall examine this
angle in more detail later. But what
about the heavy burden" of injury
and death placed upon the workers
by the industry? This is the most
terrible burden Of tbe oal industry
and the workers must jeT it all IN
to their burden Of starvation
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
PGining the Re0ctionary Painters

If Gregory Zinoviev had walked the
Brotherhood of Painters Decorators Paperhangers
tea greater among the
rectonay officials than followed the nomination Stevens
Minneapolis Communist the Office vcpresden in oppo
rition to ]. Fnan of Chicago, professional batter
Fnan (no relation Haddie very much like fish in his
ways has been going around the country lately reading
to the Communists and threatening with expulsion painter
who insisted using his head for something rack
Fnan expected the radicals lie and draw
after the priests the dpensaon placed them index
expurgatoris.
therefore with something of shock
the of the fighting painter of the Twin Cities being
nomination Was not Dan Stevens oud from his position
the Minneapolis Trades Labor Paul
Smith, travelling grand goblin the American Federation
the takers thought that Stevens the Communists going
be inundated by the travelling anissare of grand dukes of
the A. of L. they greatly mistaken And sup
given Comrade Stevens the warn
ing to the reaconae that the fight expe the
the unions is easy but that in complete
triumph for the radicals and ignOmnou euten
ants Of capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12


the convention.
After the debate on the Workmen's
Circle policy, the election of the bu-
reau Of the Jewish Section was taken
up. pa
Comrade c. E. Ruthenberg, the rep
resentative of the Central Executive
Committee, took the floor and made
the following proposal:
II propose, as the representative
of the Central Executive Committee,
that bureau consisting Of an equal
number of representatives of both
groups be elected. The basis for MAX
ing this proposal are the following
reasons:
First, this convention has come
very closely after the national con-
vention of the party. The result of
the work Of the national convention,
and particularly the viewpoint of the
Communist International transmitted
to our convention, was not before the
membership Of the Jewish Section
when the elections took place. These
members had no opportunity to take
into. consideration the work of the
convention and the view of the Com
munist International in electing the
delegates to the convention.
Second, the report of the creden-
tials committee leaves in doubt the
relation of forces in this convention.
Eleven delegates of the majority were
elected by only rs members, having
been elected by proxy to represent
branches of five or six members.
There are discrepancies in relation to
the elections in Detroit, North West
Jewish in Chicago where extraordin-
airy dues stamps purchases were made
during the last months of July, and in
the case of Detroit particularly no
stamps were purchased for the
months of'April, May and June. This
and similar instances opens the ques-
ton Of whether number of the dele
gates in the majority at this conven-
ton actually represent the majority
Of the membership.
my third reason for the proposal
is the debate on the report of the
Central Executive Committee. This
debate showed in the statements Of
the former members of the Loreist
group that the majority group Of this
convention entered into caususes, al
liances and arrangements with the
Loreist group even as close as two
weeks before the national convention
and that its attitude toward the Lore
group Of the Jewish Section was en-
tirely unprincipled and completely op-
portunistic and the minority in this
convention, on the other hand, took a
definite and consistent position Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
wilson TRIED
FOR ALLIANCE
WITH KAISER
Wilhelm Charges Col.
House Approached Him

Especial to The DaIlN WorkeFl
BERLIN, Germany, Sept. to.-ln a
signed article in the Deutches lei
tung, Kaiser Wilhelm exposes the fact
that Col. House, acting as President
Wilson's representative, attempted to
form an alliance between Germany,
England and the United States, just
prior to the world war.
The kaiser, writing from Doom, in
an effort to place the blame for the
war on England, reveals that Viscount
Grey, then British foreign minister,
went to Kiel to discuss the probable
tiles of such an alliance with Col.
House and German representatives.
Wilhelm quotes letters from Col.
House expressing satisfaction with
Berlin negotiations between himself,
the ex-kaiser, and Admiral Tirpitz,
relative to the proposed alliance.
Great Britain killed this attempt at
an imperialist alliance by attempting
to conclude a naval treaty with Rus
STA instead, Wilhelm declares. He
states that Britain was fearful that
Wilson's negotiations for an alliance
might cause CONSERVATION to French
and Russian imperialism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12

discussion, the speakers pointing out
that the policy pursued was not that
Of revolutionizing the workers in the
Workmen's Circle and our policy must
be directed towards winning these
workers ideologically for the revolu-
tionary struggle against capitalism.
The lack of preparation in relation to
the national convention of the Work
mems Circle was also criticized as
well as the methods used in constitut-
ing the Left Wing Actions Committee
after this conventiong
Supports C. 4 Viewpoint.
The resolution supporting the report
of Comrade Costrell was adopted
against resolutions by the minority
crfticizing the report. The voting on
this resolution brot the first break in
the alignment in the, convention, when
Comrade S. Glauberrpan, delegate from
Los Angeles, who had supported the
majority group in the convention voted
for the minority resolution and made
the following statement:
81 have been supporter of the ma
jority group in the party altho have
believed that both groups were good
revolutionary groups. I have how
ever strongly criticized the methods
used by the former majority group in
their attack upon the minority group,
for instance, the majority in its eau
Gus voted to refuse to join in the
demonstration when Comrade Ruthen-
berg, the representative or the G. T..
c., entered the hall. Now that the
Communist International has stated
its position in relation to the two
groups, | support the viewpoint of the
Communist International, cannot fur
Their support the group which have
been supporting. therefore take my
position in support of the present C.
y. G. Of the party.'
The statement OF Comrade Glauber-
man caused a great demonstration by
the delegates and the three or four
spectators who attended at
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12

struggle against the Lore tendency
even as it has in this convention altho
a number of former Loreites are now
supporting the minority. The facts
as shown in the debate on this ques-
ton indicate the need of a strong ele-
ment of the minority in the bureau in
order to carry out the decisions and
eliminate Loreism from the Jewish
Section.
Equal Responsibility.
"My fourth reason for my proposal
is the decision of the Comintern in
regard to our party. This decision
put the responsibility for conducting
the party work upon the present ma
jority of the Central Executive Com
mittee in the reorganization of the
party, the bureau of the language
fractions becomes more than ever an
instrument Of the Central Executive
Committee and it is necessary that
there be a bureau of the Jewish Sec
ton which will be responsive and car
ry out the decision Of the Central
Executive Committee.
"My fifth reason for this proposal
is the need for achieving the unifica-
ton of our party. It is necessary that
the two leading groups in the party
and in the Jewish Section be united.
This can best be achieved by electing
a bureau consisting of equal represen-
tation of the two groups"
Comrade Minded, for the majority,
proposed a bureau of eleven represen-
tatives of the majority group, and
seven representatives of the minority
Iof the convention. Comrade Minded
asked whether the proposal of Com
rade Ruthenberg was an instruction
to the convention to which Comrade
Ruthenberg replied:
"The proposal have made is a
proposal to the convention as the rep
resentative Of the Central Executive
Committee of the party. Naturally /
am responsible to the Central Execu-
tive Committee for this proposal. The
bureau elected, no matter how It is
constituted, is subject to the approval
Of the Central Executive Committee"
The vote on the two proposals be-
fore the convention resulted in SO for
the Minded proposal and Al for the
Central Executive Committee pro-
posal.
Paterson comintern Communists.
During the vote on this question
the delegate from Paterson, New
Jersey, who had been supporting the
majority rose to the floor and made
the following statement. "Our Pat
erson branch has always been good
Bolshevik organization. My branch
has not instructed me to vote against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
Col. Mitchell Again
Charges Washington
with Airship Deaths

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 10.-In
another statement on the inefficiency
of the army and navy heads at Wash
ington, Col. William Mitchell declared,
''Non-hiers indulge in mental gym
nastics in Washington in an attempt
to evade the truth by whitewashing
boards, alibis, and suggestions for fix
ing the blame for disasters on the
dead commanders, when they know
that they themselves were respons-
ible." ~.n aa
The war department is expected to
court martial Mitchell, with the re-
suit that he will be dismissed from
the army. Sas6t .s 1888
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-12
ALL MINERS MUST STRIKE!

In the great industrial struggle now centering
in the anthracite region the employers will be fully
united against the workers. The anthracite op-
orators will have the full support of the coal bar
ons in the bituminOus fields. The press, the state
and every institution of capitalist control will be
on their side militantly. In this situation the
workers must display equal solidarity and class
The bltumlnOus miners must not stand aside and
allow their brothers in the anthracite to be cut to
pieces The mineGsin the soft coal fields have been
practically idle for the past two years due to the
coal operators attempts to break the union The
latter have practically ignored the Jacksonville
agreement and have held the U. NJ w. of A. in
scorn and contempt gradually destroying it in
every organized district.
Now is the time for the bitumnous miners to
retrieve their position and standards of living
They must make common cause with the hard
coal miners. The bitumnous miners must Join
hands with the anthracite miners and bring the
whole mining industry in America to standstill
in general strike until the autocratic employers
are forced to recognize the workers rights to or
ganize and to concede their economic demand
Failure of the bituminous miners to strike at this