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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
DENLY ASSUMES
RESPONSIBILITY
IN OIL LEASES
Says He Didn't Know
What 1t Meant

Continued from Page H.
solve Albert B. Fall, secretary of in
terror, from blame in the case.
Il took full responsibility and made
the leases" he testified. 81 didn't want
10 have anything to do with it-but I
had to anyway" he testified.
Ignorant Of Facts.
DENLY said that he didn't know
much about the whole situation, that
he entrusted the details to his subor-
dinates, and all he did was to sign
the papers" He disclaimed any knOwl-
edge of the huge profits Doheny was
20 get from the leases, and he said
he made no effort to discover what
the leases really meant.
He said he did not suspect anything
wrong when he was urged to transfer
the jurisdiction Of the navy holdings
10 Falls department. He said he was
told the interior department could
handle the affairs better, so he com
piled with the request.
Mrs. Doheny Testifiies.
Doheny, his wife, and son, took the
stand to testify that the 100000
transaction between Doheny and Fall
was purely a private transaction, /"
aud had nothing to do with the oil
I leases. The government contends
that the money was a bride to Fall
Mrs. Doheny explained that the rea
son the note that Fall signed was
1orn in half, one part given her, was
10 protect Fail in case of the death
OF Doheny.
Doheny Tells Of War Scare.
President Harding called the Wash
ington arms conference, at which lin
itation Of naval armament was agreed
upon. because Of the menacing move
ments Of Japan" Doheny declared
from the witness stand.
This information was given him
Doheny said by Captain J. X. Robi
son, VINO assisted in the negotiations
for the naval oil reserve leases.
HE got me very worked up over
IT," said Doheny. 81 still am"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
DEATH list OF
indiana Mine
Blast now Is
Give Up Hope for Three
Still in Burning Shaft

kopeCiat 10 ! ne GdbT WoiNSlA
FRANCISCO, Ind, Dec. 1o.-The
death list from the explosion in Fran
cisco Mine No. stood at rs, four new
victims having been reported Friday
morning.
Charred and blackened the bodies
Of S. ]. Roll and William c. Ratcliff
we're brought to the surface this morn
ing by a rescue crew that had been
searching the passages of the mine
since $50 this morning, under the
handicap of whitening heat from a
blaze that broke out in the south
psssageway.
Orville Slater and Ledford King, two
Of the injured in the hospital at
Princeton, died early today.
Another rescue crew, to replace the
one which brought Rohl and Ratclin
10 the surface, Immediately went back
INTO the mine to search for Claude
Wright, Emory West, and Walter
Thomas, who still are missing.
No Hope For Others.
With the finding of the last two
victims the slight hope that had been
held out for the missing went glim
rering Mine rescue officials told In
Sensational News Service they have
Httle hope of finding the three alive.
Fire which broke out in the south
passageway filed the mine with ter
rife heat that eddied thru the work
ings. The blaze spread, interfering
with the rescue attempts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
SATURDAY, oEcEMeER II.
3 CHILDREN OF INDIANA MINER DIE
AS MINE POWDER EXPLODES In HOME

INDIANA, Pa, Dec. 10.-The deaths
Of three persons in Indiana hospital
brot to light a tragedy in the home of
Isaac Beck, a miner, in isolated hill
district in which four persons were
fatally injured by the explosion OF a
can OF dynamite ignited by a miners
lamp.
The dead included Clair Beck, IS;
Zelda Beck, 8; Marie Beck. Is; son
and daughter OF the miner. who died
Wednesday, and Twila Nelson, grnad-
daughter. who died at the home short
ly after the explosion.
Attic the explosion occurred Mon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
Rescue Crew.

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 10.--Ten nom.
bers Of the crew of the schooner Edna
NJ knight OF Boston, wrecked in a
storm 100 miles of tho Virginia coast.
were landed here today by the British
steamer Kamoolo. after being rescued
st sea by the British steamer Radno,s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
| WCFL. Radio Program

Chicago Federation OF Labor radio
broadcasting station VIGIL is on the
air with regular programs. 1t is
broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length
from the Municipal Pier.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER n.
300 o. m. 20 300 a. m.--orand Opening
Special Program; Paul Ash and his aan1i
artists from radio statlonsi acts from
downtown shows.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER Il.
400 p. m.-Wloker Park Lutheran
Church, Rev. S. p. Long.
7;45--6elden Ave. Baptist Church,
Rev. j. w. Hoyt.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
BROPHY ISSUES
STATEMENT TO
VOTING MINERS
Assails Lewis Failure to
Save Union
Continued from Page i


needed goal that can be reached if
the United Mine Workers gets behind
1t. Three union conventions have en-
dorsed It and a naturalization re-
search committee, which | headed,
made a careful report on the pro-
gram, but President Lewis opposes
it. He opposes it today, tho in 1921
when he ran against the late Samuel
Gompers for president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor he asked for
support on the basis of his belief in
the larger program.
One thing is sure: unless the coal
industry is reorganized-and the work
day shortened-it will continue to be
cursed with unemployment.
For Labor Party.
Along with naturalization we stand
for a Labor Party. Our union con-
ventions have favored the idea but
President Lewis ignored the spirit
OF the membership and in 1924 pub
lcly supported Calvin Coolidge fer
president when the labor movement
was officially backing its candidate,
Senator Robert M. LaFollette.
The opposition to President Lewis
is based then on his failure as a trade
union leader and his blindness to
wards progressive policies. But along
with this is another reason for the
/ resentment against his leadership.
No Union Freedom.
Lewis denies democratic freedom il
the union. Beginning with the expul
sion of Alexander Howat, president Of
the Kansas miners in 1921 when he
was in jail for opposing the indus
trial court laws, Lewis has been from
time to time expelling or otherwise
discriminating against political oppon
| ents. Howat today, tho member o.
the union in good standing, is barred
from running for Office. Tho the large
majority of the Kansas miners have
endorsed him for district president
Howat is barred from serving them.
The "Save the Union" movemen
represents the widespread opposition
in this largest American union to it
administrator tactics. But it is no
merely an opposition. 1t has a mill
tant constructive program for no
merely redeeming the union from th'
open shop drift but leading 1t to ;
greater future.
Honest Election.
December IA the polling places o
1000 local unions from Washing
ton to Pennsylvania will give the min
! ers the opportunity of new deal. al
we ask on that date is honest cleo
tons. On that date the issues
have outlined will be tested by othe
candidates besides President Levi
and myself. The other Save the UT
ion" candidates are William Stever
son, running for vice-president agains
Philip Murray, administration man
and William ]. Brennan, for secretar
treasurer against Thomas Kennel
Stevenson is now international boar
member from Michigan and Brenna
was formerly district president of tn
Scranton Wilkes-Barre field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
St. Louis Behind Move
For Passaic Relief;
Picture There Sunday
Especial to Tn. Daily worker)

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 1O.--"The Passaic
Strike" motion picture depicting the
struggles of the textile workers, will
be shown here Sunday, Dec. IL, at
Unity Hall, Grand and Page, at and
8 o'clock. The picture is under the
auspices Of the st. Louis Passaic Re-
lief conference organized on Dec. IA.
The entire labor movement is get
ting behind the picture. The hall was
donated by the Painters district coun-
ell. Charles Bloom, president of the
Metal Trades council, is chairman w.
j. Fitzmaurice, vice-president of the
central labor body is secretary-treas-
urer. VIM. Brandt, president OF the
central labor body is chairman of the
publicity committee.
The elevators union has donated
500 to the relief fund.
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day night, the mother, Mrs. Isaac
Beck, badly burned herself. was UNI
able to summon aid until Tuesday,
when she made her way over hazard
Gus paths to the home OF a neighbor.
Doctors were unable to reach the
Beck home till late in the day.
The mother told of the heroism of
Clair, the son, who altho battered and
bleeding, struggled to the door of the
kitchen in which the explosion oc-
CURED, and made his way to pump,
where he filled pals with water. and
managed TO put out the flames which
followed the blast,
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He Would Battle the ArIstocracy.

PARIS, Dec. 1O.-Elaborate swim.
ming pools for the aristocracy,
equipped with artificial sun, breezes
and sand, are advocated by Maurice
do Waleffe. He fears the French
upper classes are becoming effete from
too much cato life and Charleston
,dancip-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
See New Jury Panel
for MelIett Murder

CANTON, o., Dec. 1o.-PossibiTity
of drawing a new panel of jurors in
the case OF Patrick e. McDermott, on
trial here in connection with the muir
der OF Don R. Mellett, murdered Can
ton publisher, looms.
Altho ten jurors had been tenta-
lively seated and twenty-eight mem.
bers of the original panel of 62 still
unquestioned, It was predicted that
peremptory challenges would exhaust
the entire list.
WRITE AS YOU EIGHTI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-12
Let the Drive for the
Five-Day Week Develop
Turnout All Industry
BY j. ENeDAHL
BY J. LOUIS ENeoAHL.

THIS afternoon, at Schoenhofen's
4 Hall, the membership Of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union will gather to celebrate
the substantial victory just won
over the employers banded together
in the Chicago Cloak and Suit Max
ers' Association.
The sweeping nature Of the
triumph just achieved may be judg-
ed from the fact that the basis was
laid for the establishment of the
five-day week in the industry, wages
were increased and the conditions
Of labor were improved. These
needle trades surely have something
to glory over in their celebration
today.
Unlike the scarehead publicity
given the establishment Of the So
called five-day week in the Ford
plants of the automobile industry,
the victory of l. L. G. w. U. is per-
mitted to pass barely noticed by the
employers press. This is merely
repetition of what happened when
the furriers won the flve-day week
as result of their strike in New
York City.
The kept press of the master
class falsifles the Ford five-day
week, putting 1t in favorable light
while 1t is silent on the flve-day
week won by workers thru the pow
er they have built as the result OF
unity achieved in their trade un-
ions on the job.
1t will be well to point out to
the needle workers, gathered in
their celebration, that the Ford flve-
day week means the performance of
six days work in five days. Only
then will the Ford wages remain
the same for the five-day period.
This is one of the bitterest phases
of the speed-up, driving the worker
to the utmost to maintain his stand
ard of living. II the five-day pro-
duction falls short of the pace de-
manded for six days then wages
fall. This only means that those
unable to keep up with the faster
pace set will be gradually weeded
out. Youth" and Speed" at com
paratively low wages, is demanded
by the Ford system. When youth
fades as the result of sweating both
mentally and physically meaning
that his speed begins to slow up,
then the worker is thrown on the
scrap heap, with no organization to
protect his interests. That is the
flve-day week lauded by the capital
list class.
1t is a different flve-day week WOE
by the members of the international
Ladies' Garment Workers Union in
Chicago. They win the shorter
work-week and GET AN INCREASE
IN WAGES, of from So to SO fol
the different classifications, the
highest percentage of increase goins
to the lowest paid workers. There
is no room anywhere for the boss
to speed production to make up fol
the time that the workers have
taken from him. The employer
hasn't the right to freely hire ant
fire." The union dictates under
what conditions this shall be done
The members of the union are pro
tected in their rights. This is {
real five-day week to protect tn
interests Of the workers, not Eve
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CURRENT EVENTS
BY T. J. o'Flahsrty.

CONTINUED from Page IL
mental agony he endured when he
was bounced ANONYMOUSLY out of
office.
"nON'T forget our disabled soldiers
- at Christmas time" is the title
over an editorial in one Of Hearst's
Chicago papers. The disabled sol
diers, like the poor devils that the
Salvation Army lives on, are conve-
niently forgotten by those for whom
they laid down their lives all the rest
of the year except Christmas. HE
roes" of the world war are reported
in the capitalist press frequently as
having committed suicide thru the
spondency because of want of en-
ployment and consequently of susten-
ance. This should not be forgotten
by our cannon-fodder when the recruit
ing sergeants come around.
CENOR ADOLFE DE LA HUERTA
~ is plotting against Mexico from a
town on the American border, and on
his own admission is keeping the
United States department of justice
informed on all his activities. In an
interview with q New York Times
correspondent Huerta predicted that
the Gales government would soon fall
and that the cause of the Yaqui In
dian rebels is his cause. 1t is viva
de la Huerta." Huerta's predictions
remind us Of the prophets who fore
told the fall of the Soviet government
with monotonous regularity until
even the most gullible of the capitalist
press refused to take them seriously
THE working class in France were
4 hit in the pocket when the franc
fell. Now that the franc is rising
they are getting it in the belly. With
the fall of the franc they saw theil
savings wiped out. On the other
hand, as the franc goes up they FIND
unemployment and hunger staring
them in the face, since their wages
| in defaulted francs, during the period
of industrial prosperity was so meagel
that they were unable to save any
thing out of it. The French govern
ment is not concerned about the in
terests of the workers and peasants
The banks and Industrial concerns
/ that control the government see to i
that they get theirs coming and going
/ THE Turks are contemplating chang
l. ing the name of Constantinople t
one of Renal Pasha's four names
Since the republic consolidated itsel
the government of the republic hal
waged war against the old supersti
tons that helped the Sultanate keel
the people in subsection. Kema
Pasha threw a shock into a nation
when he threw his fez into a sewe
and appeared on the streets wearing
derby Next he got the women t,
drop their wells, which no doubt TIL
women had no objection to doing
He is not thru yet, as may be gath
cred from his interview published Il
the papers a few Sundays ago in rel
erence TO league Of Asiatic people
in opposition to the league Of nations
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day week to develop greater "ef-
ficiency," at reduced cost, which
means increased profits for the EN-
ployer coming directly out Of the
health and happiness Of the work
ers.
The victory Of the I. L. G. w. U.
has not been an easy one. It is the
result Of many years of struggle.
The fearless and ceaseless march of
the picketA, in long strikes, in the
face of police clubs and the guns Of
private thugs, bears fruit. The days
and weeks spent by scores of jailed
pickets behind prison bars this past
year, under sentences imposed by
hostile courts, have not been in
vain.
Injunction Judge" Dennie Sui
Ivan used the power of the courts,
to the utmost, to break up the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union. But in vain. The fight
ing qualities Of the union defeated
his purpose.
Mayor Dever's police served the
employing interests to the best of
their ability, but the courage of the
workers, especially of the women
and girls, successfully combatted
their foul purposes.
The union stands stronger today
than ever. The victory agreement
has been unanimously accepted by
the members OF the joint board and
Of the executive committees of all
the local unions. An encouraging
milestone, Greater strength for the
workers, which means an increasing
weakness of the position of the
Bosses" has thus been reached on
the road to greater power for all
labor. 1t heralds the way to greater
advances.
What the Chicago ladies' garment
workers have achieved, the workers
in other industries can also win.
But let them remember this: that
only in the two centers of the /. L.
G.. w. u, where the left wing is in
control, in New York and Chicago,
has the five-day week been won.
The shorter work-week has long
been on the program of the advance
elements in the United Mine Work
ers' Union. It is on the order OF the
day at the elections Tuesday, Dec.
IA, for only in the triumph Of an
administration that dedicates its ef-
forts to advancing the interests of
the workers, will the miners union
make progress in the organization
of the unorganized, in overcoming
wage cuts with wage increases and
establishing the shorter work-day
thru actually writing the six-hour
day and the five-day week into wage
contracts. The mining industry
should have first furnished the i'm
petus for the five-day week. Since
| it failed to do this, the members OF
the miners union must determine
now not to trail too far in the rear
but rather to give encouragement 10
workers in other backward indus
tries, to labor in the steel mills, the
textile and shoe industries, the rub
Der industries, and even on the rail
roads
In this sense the celebration thi;
afternoon Of the members of the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Work
ers' Union will be clarion call tt
new efforts by all American labor.
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day week to develop greater "ef-
ficiency," at reduced cost, which
means increased profits for the en-
ployer coming directly out Of the
health and happiness Of the work
ers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
KIRK WILL PRESIDE
AT WORKERS MEET
Baltimore Pastor to Head An
nuaI Conference at East
NorthfieId, Mass.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
EAST NORTHFIELD, Mass, July
"a. - The General Conference Of
Christian Workers will hold its forty
fourth annual session here from July
81 to August 16. In the absence
abroad of w. r. Moody, Rev. DR.. Har-
ris Z. Kirk, pastor Of Franklin Street
Presbyterian Church of Baltimore,
will preside.
The list of conference speakers is
headed by Rev. DIR. James Moffatt,
professor church history at United
Free College at Glasgow. Other
speakers to take part in this years
session, whose participation in other
general conferences has been re-
sponsible in no small measure for
their growing power and success, in
clude Rev. DIR. James /. Vance, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church OF
Nashville, Tenn: Rev. DR.. John
Gardner, formerly minister Of the
New England Church Of Chicago and
since 1921 minister of the First Con-
gregational Church of Riverside,
Calf: Rev. Melvin E. Trotter, super
intendent of the City Mission of
Grand Rapids, Mich; Rev. DR.. George
A. Buttrick, minister of the First
Presbyterian Church of Buffalo; Mrs,
Henry w. Peabody, internationally
known for her leadership in world
missions, and Rev. DR.. j. C. Massee,
pastor Of fremont Temple, Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24
BIBLE SCHOOLS ENDING
SUCCESSFUL COURSES
Most Of Vacation Studies to Be
Finished July 30-More Than I
1900 Attending.

Preliminary reports from the %
Daily Vacation Bible Schools conduct
ed in the churches of Washington and
vicinity show a total registration of
more than 1900 children, with five
denominations represented, according
to the vacation school department of
TIE Washington Federation Of
Churches. Rev. Il. o. Clark, director
for the federation, has visited the
schools and reports a successful ses-
sion this year.
While craftwork, such as basketry,
sewing, fiower-making, woodwork,
ETC., is taught to inculcate lessons Of
thoroughnesS in character and de-
Velop ability. it is stated the essen
tial purpose of the schools is the mem
DRY work in the Bible and Christian
hymns and Bible stories. There
are three community schools which
especially have been fostered and as
sisted by the federation. which are:
Clarendon Community School, Falls
Church Community School and the
Foundry-Covenant Community School.
Among the most successful schools
from the accepted standards of length
OF term and efficiency attained are
the following: Central Presbyterian
Church. DR.. James H. Taylor, direc-
tor; Calvary Baptist, Miss Mothers
head, principal; the Clarendon Com
munity School, Mrs. Israel, principal;
Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church
South, Miss j. L. Brimer, principal;
Eastern Presbyterian School, Mrs. l..
A. Van Doren, principal, and Foundry
Covenant Community School, Mrs.
Kirby Smith, principal.
The closing exercises of most of the
schools will take place July 80 in
their respective churches and the pub
lie is welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-24


we We're young. For that matter, of
course. things never were.
/ imagine that the writer of the
book of Proverbs, were he living to-
day, would be among those who feel
very badly about this younger gen.
Grafton" 1t has been chronic, that
viewing-wi business, since the
days of Adam, and before. 1t is com
forting to older people to have some
one to look down upon. 1t stiffens
ones self-respect and gives one sense
of great goodness.
This younger generation" is doing
a great deal to shock the people who
have settled down by their firesides.
1t seems that they enjoy amusements
and go to the theater and dance.
Some of these theaters are bad, and
some of the dances are worse. So it
is argued. Therefore youth must be
going to the devil
Yes and no. Things are probably
just about as they always have been.
There are bad people and good ones,
and good many of the bad ones
think themselves good. 1t is a mix
up world. and only God can be quite
certain as to which are bad and which
are good. / doubt whether even God
knows.
This younger generation is hard
to understand. 1t is noisy, fiamboy-
ant, restless. 1t fails to respect peo-
pie and institutions simply because it
is ordered TO. 1t carries hip TASKS,
and hobs it's hair, and smokes cigar
cites. and laughs at the wrong places
1t drives automobiles too fast, sits up
too late at night, goes to entirely too
many shows. 1t experiments with
tried and tested conventions and gen.
orally disturbs the peace.
SO it is charged. Some of the
charges are serious and some exag-
gerated. Critics always eXaggerate
other peoples sins.
But this younger generation" is
honest. Sometimes it leans over back
ward in order to stand up straight in
this matter of honesty. It is q part
of the recreation from the silence of
the Victorians, a silence which was
half reticence and half sham.
The proverb is perfectly sound. One
lives by escaping folly. The business
of discriminating between folly and
sense is the business of lifetime. 1t
cannot be learned in a month or a
year. 1t is costly business. The tui-
ton of life comes high. Age cannot
coerce. Youth will find its way as it
always has, by the hazardous process
of trial and error" There are no
short cuts.
Age can. in the meantime cultivate
patience, a saving sense of humor, and
refresh it's memory. BY doing so it
may possibly resurrect it's waning toll
erance and indulge in a little saving
charity.