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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
WORCESTERSHIRE CONVICT WEST
VIRGINIA SHERIFF PILES UP RICHES

orators who wanted extra guards. The
sheriff charged them so much a head
for furnishing extra deputies and
made a neat profit on the difference
between the sum received and the
wages he paid the deputies. In one
month alone these latter transactions
cleared him $4,000.
Chain was sent to Atlanta as ST.
lent partner in the Blue Goose a blind
pig with both eyes open at Barnabus
just out of Omar, big company town
Of the Main Island Creek Coal Co
The operating partner was Tennis
Hatfield who took the sheriff into the
business to get his protection. Ten
mis- was the son of another famous
killer, Devil" Anse Hatfield, the dean
Of all mountain feudists, who killed
McCoys for what he considered his
family honor, as Don Chain killed ag-
itators for business reasons. The
Blue Goose was raided by prohibition
officers at last and Tennis Jailed for
several months.
Partner Spills Beans.
While in prison he was told that
his erstwhile partner was trying to
swindle him out of valuable coal
lands. Tennis struck back, splitting
the beans by producing the partner
ship contract with Chains signature,
and the boss was indicted in the fed
eral court. So U. S. circuit judge
McClintock, though he loved the min.
ers no more than did Chain, as his in
junction record proves, put Don out Of
the way for a while.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
BY ART SHIELDS, Federated Pre-.


LOGAN, w. Va.-(FP)-The Chain
& Jones coal mining company at
Peach Creek near Logan; the big
Chain apartment house, half inter-
est in Logan business block and
! other real estate holdings; two lead
ng drug stores and the Chain Oil &
Gas business-these are some of the
enterprises, paying dividends to Don
Chain, lately sheriff of Logan county,
while he waits out a two-year boot
Logging sentence in Atlanta.
Bootlegging was only sideline with
sheriff Chain. His wealth was gained
by contract with the coal operators
to keep unionism out of Logan county.
He was but bold and needy young
man when he won the Office in 1912
in a campaign that pledged him to end
the Baldwin-Felts mine guard system.
Today he is a millionaire because,
while keeping the letter of that prom
Use, he substituted a stronger gunman
force of his own, by a deputy system
he furnished the badges and author
ity, and the coal operators paying the
bills.
Royalty on Every Ton.
I talked with man who has seen
his books. Don was a high overhead
charge to the coal industry. Not only
did the operators pay him a royalty
on every ton produced-amounting for
time to 1Oc ton-for the mainten-
ance of his army of thugs and other
union fighting costs. but he had, in
addition, special contracts with OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
"Wet" Leader Says
Dry Law Is Making
Citizens Communist
Especial to The Daily worksr)

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Charg
ing congress with Openly pussfyfoot-
ing" on the prohibition issue, Senator
Edward 1. Edwards 3D. of New Jer-
sey, wet leader, today issued a state
ment demanding action on pending
legislation to repeal or modify the
dry law.
"Bootleggers throng the capital, in
toxicating liquors are sold in the halls
of congress and thousands Of citizens
are becoming Communists and anarch-
lists while congress refuses to act"
Edwards charged.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Tax Reduction Law
Al d S Millionaires
Investing Abroad
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, March ia rapid
expansion Of American investments
abroad is anticipated this year as the
result of a provision of the new
revenue act, relieving from double
taxation corporations or individuals
operating in foreign fields, department
Of commerce officials declared today.
Under the old law dividends or in.
comes derived from sources abroad
were taxed by both the American and
foreign governments. American con-
Germs were thus placed at disadvant.
age in competition with other nations,
which do not exercise this discrimin-
atory tax regulation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Auto skIds; One Dead.

LoNGANSPoRT, Ind, March II -
When an automobile carrying six
people skidded and crashed into a
tree here last night, Miss Florence
Walters. IS, was killed and Miss
Katherine Miller, Is, was seriously in
jured. Other occupants Of the machine
escaped injury. Miss Walters suffered
a fracture of the skull. Miss Miller
received serious injuries about the
face and remained unconscious for
several hours after the accident.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
DENY STRIKE INJUNCTION
Judge Refuses Plea of N. Y.
Fur Boss

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE third
mass picketing demonstration Of fur
strikers passed quietly like the first
instead Of with the police interfer-
ence of the second big march thru the
fur district. The application of Ka-
balkin, Zaita & Green, small manu-
facturers, for an Injunction against
the International Fur Workers Union
was denied Green was member
of the union up to last December.
The judge criticized the union but
said he could not oblige the little
manufacturers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
OFFENSIVE REMARKS
ABOUT MUSSOLINl GET
ENGLISHMAN into JAIL
tspeeIaI to rhe Daily worker,

ROME, March IT, Complications
between Italy and Great Britain
over the application of the new
fascist law penaIIzlng criticism Of
MussolInI appear possible as the re-
suit of the conviction Of VIM. ELI
son, an English citizen residing at
Florence, for having uttered "offen-
slve remarks" about the premier.
The court declared that the law
which was just passed by the parIia-
ment applies to foreigners as we'll
as natives. Ellison was sentenced to
eight months in jail and fined 1900
lire ($6o.oo).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Federal Employees
Fight Gag on Civil
Service Workers

MELBOURNE FP)-B Because CT
vii service employees of the federal
government supported the Australian
Labor Party at the last elections, the
government threatens to apply the
muzzle. The men will fight against
the gag.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
DEMOCRATIC FOE
SHOWS COOLIDGE
ECONOMY is MYTH
1927 Government Cost
Is Millions Over 1926
Especial to The Daily worker)

WASHINGTON, March IL. The
famous Coolidge economy" was sub
jected to a democratic bombardment
in the senate today when debate up
on an appropriation bill revealed that
the administration of the government
will cost the American people $780,
100000 more in 1927 than this year.
This advance in the high cost of
government was blamed upon the
president by democratic spokesman
while administration leaders held con-
gress responsible. The democrats
backed up their attack with statistics
showing the cost Of maintaining the
White House had sharply increased
under Coolidge's administration as
compared to the last year of Woodrow
Wilson's tenure.
An Expensive Figure Head.
Senator Pat Harrison called atten-
ton to the executive appropriation
bill passed by congress in the last
year Of Wilson's administration. This
measure appropriated $7S,5S0 for cleri-
cal employees in the White House and
1900 for upkeep Of the executive
mansion and grounds. This year, the
same appropriations were $92,76O for
employees and $4,000 for upkeep
while in 1927, the same items will
cost $95,26O and $4,000, Harrison
announced.
Smoct, The Jesuit.
1.-THE president is no more to blame
for increased expenditures than the
man on the street." replied Senator
Smoot, republican Of Utah. 81 agree
that the cost of operating the govern
ment is increasing but the blame must
rest upon congress for authorizing the
increased expenditures"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
Moseleys Return to
Their English Estate
Especial to The Daily wOrkerl

N0PeU'dI 70 the DaIIy WorkeFJ
NEW YORK, March II After
having studied labor conditions in the
middle west, Oswald Mosley, labor
member Of parliament. and Lady Gym
thia Mosley, prominent socialist. sail
ed for their home in England late
today.
The Honorable, don'tcher know"
couple may write book on labor con-
ditions in America upon their return,
having been down in one coal mine
and out TO the Chicago Stockyards.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
seeks pebs, cItIzenahIn.

WASHINGTON, March 17.--Social.
list lobbyists in Washington express
he hope that President Coolidge. rep.
resentative Of the big business inter-
ssts, will restore Debs to full citi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

See the motion picture Of
class war prisoners aid in Eu.
rope and America at the Inter
national Labor Defense com.
memoration of the Paris Com.
mune at Ashland Auditorium on
March 10.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
smcct. The Jesuit.
Two Firemen Killed.

TOUCoING, France, Mar. 1.-Two
firemen were killed and fifteen injured
while fighting fire which destroyed
a cotton goods warehouse today. The
damage was estimated at 500. 900.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

The Last Day Of the Paris Com
mune. See it dramatized at the
international Labor Defense COM
memoration March 10 at Ashland
Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Put a copy Of the DAILY
WORKER in your pocket when
you go to your union meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Watch the Saturday MGgGzine
Section for neIo features every
'oeek. This is a good issue to give
to your felIoto icorker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19

Don't waste your breath, put II on
paper. N
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-19
{. W. RIECK LUNCH ROOMS

SIX Places
1869 N. Clark 11s S. CLARK
sc w. Washington 1877 N. State
~ w. Harrison 2s4 S. Halsted
PHONES. HARRISON sc1s-7
speeiaItles; E. w. Rieek Boston Baked
Beans and Brown Bread
Fine Soups ard Fresh Made Coffee
Commicsary and Bakery:
1872 Fulton 81. Phone West 254g
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
new ORLEANS
CARMEN Reject
0PENSHOP PLAN
Matter Will Now Go to
Arbitration

NEW ORLEANS-FP)-By vote
of 900 to 65S the street Garments
union rejected the contract offered by
the New Orleans Public Service, Inc,
which would permit the company to
employ nonunion men alongside the
closed shop men. The only question
at issue was the open shop clause, the
union having indicated it's willing
ness to renew the old contract,
The contract submitted by the com
pany provided that new employees
could Join the union or not at their
own discretion; old employees could
continue membership and the. union
could function as at present. Ed VII
Ion, president of the union, denounces
the proposed contract as a direct step
toward the open shop.
E No interruption is anticipated in
the traffic department and the matter
will be referred to arbitration. For
the past year the New Orleans Public
Service, which controls the transporta.
ton and lighting system of the city,
has been selling stock to its en-
ployes on the easy payment plan in
addition to life insurance policy,
which ceases on the termination OF
employment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
u. S. Bets It's Workers
$500 Each They Can't
Stand Pace 80 Years

WASHINGTON, June 20.-Members
of unions affiliated with the joint con
ference committee on civil service re-
tirement pensions have received from
their chairman, r. H. Alcorn, a state.
ment Of the changes in the new law
as compared with the old. Pension
Commissioner Scott has issued similar
information to the heads of all depart
ments.
Laborers who formerly could not re-
tire on pension until 20 years of age
will now be pensioned at IS. EN-
ployes engaged in hazardous occupa-
tions, and those who have served 10
years in the tropics, will be pensioned
at 81. Sea post clerks and village let
ter carriers will be eligible for pen
sions at So.
How small will be the pensions for
workers in the lower grades of salary
by the official tabulation. Employees
whose average annual pay for the
final ten years Of their service has
been 5000 will get only $4,000 annual
pension, If they served only Is years
II they stayed on the job 30 years
they will get s999.96 a year.
Those getting 5000 a year salary as
their final ten-year average will get
pensions of from $500 to $500 accord
ing to their years of service. Those
drawing $1,000 a year average for the
final ten years will get from $4,000
to S999.96 annual pension.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
Hoover and Mellon
Fear a European
Economic Boycott

WASHINGTON, July 20. -(FP)-
With Secretary Hoover advising
American manufacturers that they
will hurt their market IL they label
their product made in America"
when producing goods for export,
and with Secretary Mellon asserting
that America has been more lenient
with France in the debt settlement
than England has been with France,
Washington is beginning to realize
the extent TO which Europe is show.
ing resentment at the New American
Imperialism.
Hoover is looking to just one
thing-expansion OF American bust
ness in the foreign market, and ex-
tension Of American investments in
the foreign field. II labelling Ameri.
can goods will hurt their sale, he
would keep the label of. But at
every suggestion from France that
the Washington government is a shy.
lock, Secretary Mellon becomes nerv-
Gus and begins to repeat his denials
He is terribly afraid that the plan of
the Federal Reserve Bank group TO
become receivers for bankrupt France
and Belgium and Italy, and incident.
ally Poland and Roumania and Czech.
oslavia, will be spoiled by foreign
sentimentalism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22

inspiration to organize to millions
now unorganized.
Wages Cut.
Thousands of textile workers of
Lawrence, Mass, have admitted that
the militant Passaic strike prevent
ed wage reductions in many Law
renee mills. It can be readily seen
that If Passaic loses, wage reductions
will take place generally not only in
the textile industry but in other in
dustries as well.
The citizens committee failed to
fool the strikers. 1t will not succeed
in fooling the rest of organized la
Dor. The committee first appeared
onathe scene with mask of friend
ship. In an attempt to discredit
the union and the strike leadership
and fool the striking textile workers
into going back to the mills on the
bosses terms the committee express
ed the deepest love for the strikers.
But as soon as 1t became apparent
that the strikers were wise to its
game, the committee threw off it's
mask of friendship and with a snarl
of rage came out openly as the strike
breaking organization it really is.
That diabolical Strike is Lost" ad-
vertisement showed how wild and
impotent was the rage of the citizens
committee.
The desperation of the bosses is
the cue of the workers. The more
desperate the bosses get the near
er is the hour of victory. The boss
es are terribly desperate just now.
This ts the crucial period of the
strike. The bosses know it. They
know, too, that If the American labor
movement continues its splendid sup
port of the striking textile workers
the strike will be won for the work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
1000 Textile Mill
Strikers Stubbornly
Fighting. a Speedily

PITTSFIELD, Mass, July 20. = For
the fourth week the 1000 workers of
the Berkshire Cotton Mfg. Co. of
Adams are holding firm their strike
against speeding up. speeder tenders
refused to operate three frames IN
stead of two. Under leadership of
the Polish Weavers' union the work
ers quit. James Tansey, of Fall Riv-
er, president American Federation of
Textile Operatives, told strikers in
mass meeting that the speeding up
would mean 80 per cent increase
In their work and only a doubtful 10
per cent raise in their earnings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22


the HilfeTs' letter on the Passaic
strike.
Strikers Refuse Judas Kiss.
This page advertisement first ap-
peared in the papers, Saturday, July
10, two days after the textile strikers
in huge mass meeting at Belmont
Park, Garfield, N. j., had given an en-
thusiastic vote of confidence in the
leaders of their union, and crushingly
repudiated the Judas friendship
which these parasites had offered in
another page advertisement address
ed to ''our fellow citizens, the textile
workers of the Passaic Industrial
zone"
Bosses Desperate.
This deliberate lying on the part
of the bosses TOOLS. and their use
of the Hilfers' letter to support their
falsehood, show to what limits the
textile bosses are driven in their des-
peracion.' This is the crucial period
Of the big strike. Faced by the solid
arity of the 10000 textile strikers and
the splendid support given by or
ganized labor, the bosses see them
selves defeated unless they can de-
wise some means of crushing the
strike.
Police mob-law, judicial tyranny
absurd frame-ups and vicious lies
against the leaders of the strike, hav-
ing failed to affect the solidarity of
the strikers, the bosses are now at
tempting to isolate the $4,000 heroic
strikers who are struggling against
the open shop and company unionism.
The other bosses are chipping in to
help the mill barons. All the bosses
realize that the success of the strik-
ing textile workers in holding out
against the mighty mill barons is
stiffening the morale of organized
labor and giving encouragement and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
Pope Disturbed by
Loose Money Stolen
from Vatican Desk

ROME, July 2O,-Great excitement
prevailed in the Vatican today when
it was learned that an Office of an Off
cial of st. Peters Cathedral had been
burglarized and $500 stolen. The Ro-
man police were called in to investi-
gate.
The Pope, it is understood, is great
ly annoyed by the laxity in caring for
funds, which was exposed by the bur-
glary, the stolen funds having been
taken from desk drawer, which was
easily opened.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
"CITLZENS COMMITTEE FAILS IN
ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE UNITY
OF 10000 PASSAIC TEXTILE STRIKERS

PASSC N J., July 2OThe textile baon starvation
been defeated by the splendid
striking
relief Asoundingy impudent the mill
Jected themselves into the American labor
The textile barons
They far too clever for that newly
breakers, calling itself the Citizens
And this committee paunchbeled
from Henry Hfers their
Strike
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
5000 MINERS
ON S TRIKE IN
WEST VIRGINIA
Picket Lines Seven Miles
Long

PURSGLOvE, w. Va, July 20. -
The call issued July s by the. United
Mine Workers, District 81, including
twelve counties of northern West Vir-
ginia and affecting 10000 miners,
marks a deciding turning point in
this important coal section.
For more than three years this sec
ton has been the scene of continuous
! strikes. In 1928 it was close to 80
per cent organized with more than
$4,000 miners in the United Mine
Workers of America.
open-shop Drive.
In April, 1924, the coal operators
started this open-shop drive and in
June the Bethlehem Steel Corporation
broke its agreement 1t was followed
by the Consolidated Coal Company,
which controlled about 60 per cent Of
production Of the entire field. From
this date until April, 1926, every
strike has resulted in the defeat of
the union. u ~.
On April 1 the James Paisley in
terests, which operated the three
mines with over 1000 men, broke
their agreement, and were followed by
the Pursglove Mining Co., with 1000
men. This was later followed by the
Gilbert Davis Co, with 500 which was
the last union mine In the SCOTS
Run section.
1917 Scale.
The companies had worked for two
years under the Jacksonville agree
ment. On April 1 they posted notice
of a 20 per cent reduction, which
meant the 1917 scale.
Miners Strike.
To this the miners responded with
strikes which completely tied up pro-
duction. In the three months up to
July the operators, with non-union
miners, reached less than 20 per cent
of production. With the strike of
July 5 this production has been re-
duced to per cent. g.u,
Non-Union Mines.
In the mines that were operating
as non-union 1t is conservatively esti-
mated that by July IS the strike will
become more than IS per cent eff
fectiye as hundreds Of miners are
joining the union daily.
Mass Picketing. III,
It is a real strike with only 5000
men with women and children on the
picket lines, The picket lines at
times reach seven miles--the' entire
length of the field.
The spirit of determination Of the
miners is good. These miners realize
that they must win now or be COM
pletely driven from the field
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
new YORK LABOR
GREETS PASSAIC
Strikers TOTS
Police Bar Youngsters
from Mass Meeting

NEW YORK CITY, July 2O!-(FP)--
Passaic youngsters took New York
without a blow. Building workers,
truckmen, warehouse men, bakers
eating their lunches outside the big
National Biscuit Co. plants, street car
men, wives Of workers at the win
dows of their tenements, and work
ers' children in the streets-all cheer
ed the bus-loads of Passaic young
sters as they passed. The band boom
ed and the kids sang strike songs.
Sandwiches and ice cream at the
Hotel Workers Cafeteria were passed
around by union members. The buses
and trucks of children and parents
over 500 all told-called at some of
the union offices from which help has
come: Joint Board Of Dress and
Cloakmakers; Joint Board of Furri-
ers which is taxing each of its 10000
members 81 for Passaic; Amalgamat-
ed Clothing Workers; Amalgamated
Food Workers; and then to the labor
papers.
Barred From Mass Meeting.
But the youngsters couldn't come to
the big meeting at the end in Union
Square. New York police didn't want
them exploited "-even for their own
milk and bread fund! So the groups
started on their different ways for
glorious vacations; some to the In
ternational Workers Aid camp at
Bernardsville, N. j.; some to Mohe-
gan Colony, Peekskill, N. Y. some to
the Modern School Association camp
at Stelton, N. j.; and others to Chat
ham Camp, Floral Hill, N. ].
Have you ever been in the country
before?"
A bashful little Italian girl shrunk
smilingly against her older sister,
the CLEAN of her eyes telling how
eagerly she was looking forward to
camp. The older girl remembered the
city. The family had lived here be-
fore father began the terrible work
at Lodi dye works. The older girl
looked Is, thin pale and tired, should
ers slumped forward inviting con-
sumption.
One tiny little boy in freshly iron
ed blue shirt stood among the group
going to Mohegan Colony up the Hud-
son. When his back was turned, you'd
guess he was four or five. But when
he turned his old little face to you
and told you Eight years old" it was
a shock!
A bright blonde-haired, brown-eyed
Slovak girl who looked nine or ten
said she was IL! And SO it was
around the group. The youngsters
were lively, seemed to have great
endurance for they were still singing
and cheering as they started the last
lap of the journey with Harry Kelly
and the attentive, fatherly striker
who marshalled them about.
The Passaic youngsters are suffi-
cient answers to the so-called Citi-
zen's Committee, to Passaic health Of
ticer DR.. John N. Ryan, and any others
who deny that the strikers children
need bread and milk-are undernour-
ished. Even a random group of the
kiddies shows many of them under
weight, undeve Hoped, suffering
from malnutrition and anemia. They
need bread and milk and sunlight and
fresh air. They are living testimonials
of their parents starvation wages"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22
Benld Miners Give
$1,000 to British

BENLD, ILL.,, --(FP)-Wholehearted
support to the striking British miners
was given by Local 730 of the United
Mine Workers at Bend. IL voted a
$1,000 donation to the British relief
fund and in addition concurred in the
recommendation OF the executive
board of Dist. 10 TO make contribu.
ton Of $4,000 from the district
treasury, rrT v'n>-g r-Ss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-22

ITO be continued.)