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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06


the horse, and then, having put these
instruments in the hands Of a restless
race Of men, he started the protag-
Onists of his tale on their epic of will
DEMONSTRATING. That historian was
Emerson HOugh, and the book was
1.-THE way to the West" published by
the Bobbs-Merrill company of Indian
apolis.
A quarter of a century has passed
and another historian of the frontier
has added one more to the 'instru-
ments of civilization" which a later
race of restless men used in winning
the West, after their fathers had
found the way to 1t. This was the
six-shoOter and it seems particularly
| appropriate that Bobbs-Merrill are
also the publishers of Hands Up!-
| Stories of the Six-Gun Fighters of
the Old Wild West" as told by Fred
q. Sutton and written down by A. B.
Macdonald. AS the title indicates,
this book deals with the final phase
of the frontier era, the days when
D..
westward-pushing white man, had
definitely dispossessed the red man,
established a home of sorts in the
recently-conquered wilderness and
set about putting its own house in
order.
Insofar as some members of that
| household found it difficult to break
away from certain lawless habits ac-
CURED while what Theodore Roose-
Welt has characterized as the "rough
work of conquering continent was
going on, the task of bringing
was done in a primitive fashion. Su-
perfiuous forms were dispensed with,
legal technicalities ignored and the
dealing out of justice was, in the
light of present-day procedure, appal-
lingly simple and direct. For in most
cases Old Judge Colt was the final
| arbiter, and from his decisions there
was rarely an appeal.
Mention the word "gunman" and
one naturally thinks of the gangsters
in our big cities of today. But as
| Tin his 'The Story of the Outlaw'D,
it is exceedingly unfair to the gun
man of the Old West to compare the
killer of today with him. "The one
is an assassin, the other was war
riOr : the one is a bastard, the other
was something of man." said Hough.
who declared that the nature of
some of the crimes committed by the
modern type of "gunman" would
cause a hardened desperate of the
West to blush for shame" And in
that opinion Fred Sutton, who knew
some of those old-time desperadoes
intimately, seems to concur In his
chapter on '"The Border Code" is an
Illuminating exposition of "the I'M
written law of the Old West, which
gave to every man a chance" One
instance is typical:
In a freighters' camp at Wagon-Bed
Springs two men quarreled. and after
they were separated and all of us
thought the fuss was over. one of
them, Arizona Jack, shot and killed
the other without warming We formed
what was called a jack-rabbit court.
Arizona was put on trial for his life
and found guilty. He begged for his
life but the executioner, just before
he pulled the trigger. rebuked him
with
you're not as decent even, as a
rattlesnake. for 1t warns before 1T
strikes"
1t was this same code which caused
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Do Not Force Plants

If a plant has been growing thrift
lily for some time and then begins to
go back, it probably needs rest, and
no amount of forcing will do any per-
manent good. 1t will, says Nature
Magazine of Washington, do definite
harm. During the resting period q
plant is better If left entirely alone
in dry, cool cellar. 1t will of its own
accord, and without any attention of
any kind, begin to put out new green
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Unfortunate Letter

In English the letter sc" occurs most
frequently, says Frank 81. Vizetelly.
the dictionary sharp. But it is the
most unfortunate character in the
alphabet because 1t is always out Of
cash, forever in debt, never out of dan
ger and in hell all the time. 1t has
its bright side, too, for 1t is never In
war and always in peace. 1t is the,
beginning of existence, the commence
ment of ease and the end Of trouble.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Cooking Secret

"At sea level water boils at 212 de-
grees. At 5000 feet 1t boils at POI
degrees" says the Woman's Home
Companion. ''In higher attitudes"
adds the caustic commentator. "house-
wives probably put it into the refrig-
orator to boil"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

threatened them with death? Not Co
herent thoughts these, but chaotic,
bringing panic with them. Almost un-
conscious Of what she was doing, she
reached into the drawer beside her,
secured the revolver there and leveled
it at the door,.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

Without 1t there would be no meat,
no life and no heaven. 1t is the
center of honesty, makes love perfect.
and without it there would besno edi-
tors, no printers, no news. and no an
nOuncers i-Exehange
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Water Publication

The use of the ultraviolet ray treat
ment for publication of swimming
pool water is very effective. but it is
more expensive to install and main
tain than some other methods. An
efficient filter must be provided to
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

shoots. When these new shoots show
themselves the plant should be given
thorough watering, a reporting If
necessary, and brought up into its
place in the sun. After it is growing
well 1t may be given fertilizer.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Months Wrongly Named

The last four months of the year
are wrongly named. September, Oc-
tober, November and December mean
the seventh, eighth. ninth and tenth
months of the year, whereas they are
the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

ercised to prevent the accumulation
of scum or sediment in the apparatus.
as this renders the treatment inef-
fectiye.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
Post-Morten, Visit

Dear Old Soul Visiting her very
sick brother)-.I've had very mica
letter from Emily. She says she's SO
sorry she amt able to come and sea
you, but she hopes to be able to come
to the funeral" 1
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06
RaIl-Rearing Lighthouse

A novel ball bearing between the
tower and its foundation is designed
to preserve a Japanese lighthouse
from tidal waves or earthquake.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

Somebody always wants to borrow
what you've got laid up for . rainy
day.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-01-06

nee upon a time a his
torian of the American
frontier set about his task
by listing and describing
the instruments of civili-
zation." He named the
ak, the rifle, the boat and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15

GINA. We could not help smiling
for we knew better!
Religious service attendance and
Sunday school attendance is required
of all except the warden and few
officers They already have the
keys to heaven. During the services
the prisoners are lectured to "by
long haired preachers" who tell how
to be good members of society when
they get out. The guard assured us
that the white boys would not be
corrupted while in prison because
we are going to keep them separa-
ted from the Negroes. Discrimina-
ton even in prison! Three Protes-
tant services to one Catholic service
is the religious mixture served the
prisoners.
The guard explained of the op-
portunities the prisoners get for an
education. On the outside he stated
many were too poor and others did
not have time to get any education.
He spoke the truth for the first
time. Immense library. Good read
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15

only in favor of force as means
of defense.
The resolution was then unani-
mously adopted with the following
final formulation: "It is the duty
of all Socialist parties to exercise
the strongest pressure, even in revo-
lutionary form, upon the govern
ment which refuses international ar
bitration and declare swar."
The final session of the congress
opened under the Craftsmanship of
Vandervelde, of Belgium, and Lans-
bury, of Great Britain. A mani
festo was adopted on the first point
of the agenda, only one vote of the
Independent Labor Party dissent
ing.
Revolutionary Process Ended"
Bauer, of Austria, then declared
that the revolutionary process ended
with the sterilization of capitalism.
The Bolshevists alone hope for war.
The program of the Communist In
ternal increases disruption. A
polemic is necessary against the
Bolshevists in order to convince the
Communist workers that disruption
is a crime. The manifesto is an APP
peal for unity.
Auriol, of France, then approved
the manifesto.
Lansbury, of the British Labor
Party, and Dollan, of the Indepen-
dent Labor Party, then polemized
against the $actics of the second in
ternational toward the Soviet Union.
Panken, of the United States,
stressed the great unemployment in
America.
Henderson, of Great Britain,
thanked the Belgian Socialists"
Vandervelde replied. The congress
then closed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
SOCIALISTS DECLARE
REVOLUTION IS OVER

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. IA
The afternoon session of the con-
gress of the second international
opened here yesterday with De
Brouckere, of Belgium, reporting
for the commission on political
prisoners. The speaker demanded
the abolition of the death penalty.
He compared fascist Italy with the
Soviet Union. He also mentioned
the prosecuted populations in the
Balkans, Hungary, China, Spain,
Lithuania, the United States, etc.
He concluded that the Socialists"
can only offer the prosecuted moral
support at this time A resolution
for the abolition of the death pen
atty was unanimously adopted, as
was also the report to the commits
sion
No Peace Possible.
Albarda, of Holland, then made
report to the commission on mill
tarism and disarmament. He de-
clared that as long as capitalism
exists there is no permanent peace
possible, but the proletariat must do
everything in order to force the
powers to accept international ar
bitration. A new war can only
bring new chaos and not the revo-
utlion, he said. Only through peace
can socialism" be achieved.
Dalton, of Great Britain, then de-
livered few general phrases. He
said that the British delegation sup
ported the resolution.
Brockway, member of the In
dependent Labor Party, demanded
the organization of an international
resistance against war.
RenaudeI, of France, approved the
resolution. Crispien, of Germany,
declared that the Socialists" are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
GUARD PAINTS
BIG PRISON AS
A REAL UTOPIA
But Walls Hold Class
Fighter 10 Years
(By a Worker Correspondent

(BB a Worker Correspondent
WHEELING, w. Va, (By MaiD
Those who wish to be enlightened
on the joys of prison life have but
to invest a quarter at the Mounds
vile Penitentiary and listen attenta-
lively to the fatherly talks of the
escorting guards Workers remem-
Der Moundsville Penitentiary as the
place where Eugene Debs was first
brought after his sentence and from
local reports l gather that the mill
tant miners of this section made
such protest against his arrest
that it became necessary to remove
Debs to the peaceful South.
The writer and Carl Hacker, Ohio
Secretary of the international Labor
Defense visited the prison when
they learned that Alex Chessman, a
miner, was still behind the bars due
to his activities in the 1925 coal
strike. Chessman was framed-up
on bombing charge and sentenced
to 10 years. He was the most pro-
gressive and active in his local
union and falling him was one way
to silence him and put an end to
his activities. His story of how he
tried and how the lawyers handling
his case have squeezed his earnings
from him show clearly the justice
the workers get from the capitalist
courts. Chessman reports that all
his friends have forgotten him ex-
cept one This friend being the In
ternational Labor Defense, from
which he hears regularly and which
gives him aid. Chessman has been
crippled. having lost an eye and
part of his left arm in mine ex-
plosion. He said he was glad to
hear of the militant fight of the
miners in the present struggle and
asked us to say that he wished he
could help. Fellow workers should
send encouraging letters to such a
militant workers as Chessman who
has spent many years behind prison
bars for his activities on behalf of
the working class.
But more about the joys of prison
life. Going thru with a group of
college students and passing for
such there was an opportunity to
ask few questions of the prisoners.
All of the prisoners complained of
the food. Although the guard
praised the kitchen as clean and the
food as "the kind that mother
makes" we found cockroaches. flies
and cobwebs decorating the kitchen
and the soup kettles. The guard as
sured the college students that
there was no such thing as the third
degree or dungeons in West Vir-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15

ing of course. And all censored too,
of course. Do they play baseball
| should say so. Movies? You can
bet all the tea in China. Everything
that they want they can get. A
Utopia found at last! This is the
impression the guard gives. the col
lege boys. But the lean looks on
the boys inside show that it's not
quite so rosy as it is painted to be.
Although the guard tells us that the
past is forgotten when the gate
closes on prisoner, yet the bows
have a different story.
The guard explained that at pres
ent the place was overcrowded
Holding about twice as MANY as il
originally meant to accommodate. But
he assures US that bill would be
passed soon and everything will be
.. X. in a few years. From this
one is led to believe that a prison
is the only place where a worker
can get an education and good food
Indeed Utopia found at last but
sorry to say that high wall keeps it
from our reach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
HUSH RECORD OF
MOBILE RESCUE
Movies Do Not
Report Deed

by a Worker Correspondent)
l attended one of the Loew's
theatres in this city. The rescue of
General Umberto Mobile, fascist ad-
venturer and loud mouth, was shown
in the Metro-Goldwyn and Mayer
News by the Norwegian flyers.
Not one word was mentioned
about the "Krassin," neither was
there anything shown about her.
l was not at all disappointed for
the failure to give credit to the
Soviet rescuers. What else can be
expected from an industry which
has William Hays, member of the
Ohio gang, at it's head?
Hays and the rest of these gen.
tlemen are badly mistaken when
they ignore the brave deeds of the
Soviet rescuers. The action of the
"Krassin" speaks for itself.
No applause was given when No
bile's picture was shown on the
screen. Some Kissed and still others
booed. The bluffs of the black
shirts "busted" this time.
"You can't hide the truth" for
cit swims up like oil on water" as
the old Italian proverb goes.
The Soviets will have a good
laugh at the fascists this time. All
the workers should laugh with
them.
CASSELL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
Kn0bf and FarnswoHh Plan
FUe Productions This Season

EDWIN H. KNOPF and William P.
~ Farnsworth, whose production of
THE Big Pond" by George Middle
ton and A. E. Thomas, comes to the
Bijou Theatre, August, 81, with a
cast headed by Kenneth MacKenna,
Doris Rankin and Reed Brown, Jr.,
have formed the firm, Knopf and
Farnsworth Productions, and will
offer number of plays this season.
Following the premiere of "The Big
Pond" they will commence work on
new play by George Middleton,
tentatively called an Memoriam."
Other productions definitely sched-
uled for this season are Friday
Afternoon" by Mr.. Knopf; "The
Correspondent" by Andre Picard,
author of "Kiki," and a costume
play called "Heliogabalus," by Mar
eel Duvernois, a French journalist.
The title of the latter play will be
changed, as Henry l.. Mencken and
George Jean Nathan are the authors
of one with the same name. There
is also possibility that the firm
will produce a revue called "The
First Revue" for which Mr.. .Knopf
has written the dialogue and lyrics.
Elmira Lane, who played in "The
Desert Song" and the lead in
Sunny" on the coast, has been
made the understudy to Evelyn Her.
bert in 1.-THE New Moon"
Barbara Brown will play the
leading feminine role in the forth
coming production of Relations"
that opens as the Masque Theatre,
August 20.
Clark Silvernail, who returns
from Europe this week, will rejoin
THE Silent House" at the Shubert
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
H 0 SIERY FIRM
BOSS GUARDED IN
SOCIALIST TOWN
Armed Strikebreakers
In Reading

by a Worker Correspondent
READING, Pa, Aug. 13.,-The
Ininitiated should come to social
list" Reading to learn how the bosses
may secure real protection in a
strike. Gunner, armed strikebreak-
ers, professional finks and stool
pigeons, deputy sheriffs used by the
employers-these are advantages in
our advanced" city quite as they
are in the company owned mine
towns.
When the Noe-Equl princess
Royal Hosiery Company decided
to use direct methods to defeat its
workers, now on strike, it apparently
was not at all concerned that we
have a workers government"
here.
No Fear of Socialists.
Mr.. Cummings, one of the owners,
did not seem to fear that the work
ers' police force would be called
out against him, lust the opposite,
he was able to get. some Of the
deputy sheriffs to do his dirty work.
And 50 we find that the company
has modified a young army of
armed thugs, guards" carrying
loaded shotguns promenading the
roof and premises of the company
plant. In addition, the company i'm
ported certain Howard Walker,
one of the most notorious profess
sional strikebreakers in the indus
try, to help along and take charge
of the good work. Walker had the
indiscretion TO get drunk and run
into a socialist" policeman, other
wise he would still be at large MAX
ing a record in this Socialist" city.
Harsh Words.
The Reading Labor Advocate"
the organ of the socialist bureau
Gratis, complains of the danger to
the community" The gang of
strikebreakers, it says, SIS a seri-
Gus menace to the peace and secur-
ity of the law-abiding citizens of
this community" The bosses, the
paper further charges, are not help
ing to improve "the moral tone"
of the community by importing
"such as Walker and his like into
Reading"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
Jax Emmett Federal Hosiery Mills Still Strike Correspondent Reb0
ANdOnT

Senile socialist party could be
ID to sympathize with the eff
If the corrupt American Fed
of Labor breaucracy in
ping out once and for ALL the
unist influence in the trade
as, a thing which, theoretically
as already done several dozen
IS. Bill Green is as liable to
rp out the Communists as a
I'D man is to wipe out the Japan
q beetle with an air rifle. The
.ilwaukee Leader editorially says:
THE American Federation of
Labor executive council has our
sympathy in it's denunciatiOn of
he Communist pests who would
disrupt the trade union movement
md play into the hands of the
employers"
In four paragraphs the editorial
sfers to the Communists as pests
ali a dozen times. ms irritation
i the part of Victor Berger is
ask for a well-known mental
analysis. But even so a pest is a
CHER form of existence that the
lngus-like plant life represented
' members of the socialist party.
The National Progressive Chiro-
rActic Association in convention in
o5 Angeles is sponsoring a contest
" the perfect back" This can
NY be found in the U. S. S. r. Its
,e one that has managed to shake
IF the exploiters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
WORKERS PICKET
tho MISLEADERS
REFUSE TO ACT
Officials Advocate
Company Unions
by q Worker Correspondsntl

by a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, (By MaiD.-
The hosiery workers strike here at
the Ajax, Emmett, Federal Mills, is
still on. The strikers picket the
mill every day. The mill is filled
with scabs.
The Ajax mills moved to Phoenix
vile and is an independent" union.
Pieketing has not yet been alto
gether outlawed here and the la
bors misleaders don't feel partic-
ularly anxious to organize mass pic
keting. Picketing before the scabs'
homes is not prohibited but the
bureaucrats haven't even thought
about it.
Mitten would never commend the
writer, because he is a Communist,
as he would the labor misleaders
who preach cooperation with the
bosses to the workers. Why, these
misleaders went even to the extent
of advocating the organization of a
national hosiery manufacturers as
ISOLATION and other ways of betray-
ing the workers. They commended
the acknowledgement company
unions which are interested in the
problem of the destruction of the
union.
This is done at a time when the
workers are engaged in a bitter
strike against the hosiery barons;
fighting against wage-cuts, speed
up, and union conditions being
smashed by the bosses.
The bosses very cody send work
ers, who are paid miserably in the
south, to the north where the strike
is taking place in order to replace
the strikers. They do this without
fear because they know that the
will not say a word about
it, that. they will never put real
fight against them. They do this,
of course, to break the union and
build up their own class collabora-
ton company union"
The bosses feel very conscious of
the fact that they must break the
workers union if they intend to put
over a wage-cut and to continue the
speed-up. The misleaders also know
this but do nothing about building
the union because they are afraid
of losing the patronage of the
bosses. So they give the workers
Cooperation with the bosses" bunk
and kill strike by not advocating
mass picketing and, in general, a
strike.
Fearing any growth of or SYM
pathy to the strikers after the 100
per cent walkout on the Ajax Mills,
the bosses moved the company to
Phoenixville. They thought they
would kill the strike by moving, but
they didn't count on the great mill
fancy of the rank and file; they
thought it was enough to have the
labor takers on their side.
The present Worker Correspon-
dent was threatened with being
beaten up by the Mitten scabs be-
cause he wanted information of the
strike in order to have it published
in the only true labor paper in the
country in the English language,
The Daily Worker. But the rank
and file saw that the Correspondent
was actually one of their own, a
worker like them, militant against
the bosses, and so they gave him
news of the strike which he has
here put in writing.
W. c. P.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15

A musical comedy, tentatively
titled Business is Business" book
by Madelaine Monroe Hansen and
William Lennox and lyrics by Will
lam Lennox, has been bought for
immediate production by Frank L.
Teller, producer of Lady Do" Mr..
Teller's plans also include a com
edy, titled "All Right" with Maude
Fealey as the featured player,
which will open at the Cort Theatre,
Chicago, on September 2.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-15
Lfnperialist British
4 World Radio Planned

WASHINGTON, Aug. Ia (UP).-
A British around-the-world wire
less service was proposed by the
British Imperial Wireless Commit
lee recently in recommending in
stallation of a super-power radio
station at Canberra, Australia,
United States Trade Commissioner
q. c. Squires at Sidney advised the
Commerce Department today.
The new station, with a radius of
5000 miles, would complete chain
IF British stations around the
world