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in the 40's; Birth of the Future Labor
Leader in 1869; Boyhood Among the Mormons

the top of which is tiny cave that
has been explored by all the adven-.
turous Youngsters of the town. To
the southwest, in the Oquirrh Noun
tains, lies much Of the wealth of
Utah. Here are the mining camps of
Stockton, Ophir, Mercur, and Bing-
ham Canyon, where is the great
Utah copper mine. To the immedi-
ate west is the Great Salt Lake,
whose waters are so dense with salt
that no animal life can survive.
On the islands in the Salt Lake
ere nests of thousands of sea-gulls,
which are sacred in Utah because
of the fact that during a plague of
grasshoppers the gulls fed upon the
pests, eating millions. They would
swallow as many grasshoppers as
they could hold, then spew them up
and swallow more, and in this way
the sea-gulls helped to save part
of the farmers crop, the total loss
of which would have meant starva-
ton for the Mormons.
Salt Lake valley is threaded by
the Jordan River, and to the north
are warm and hot springs. The
grandeur of the scenery ahG the
beauty of the city itself were coun-.
teracted by the bad feeling gener-
ated by the Mormon Church. Espe-
cially was this true during my boy
hood days, when the atmosphere was
still charged with the Mountain
Meadow Massacre, against the de-
struction Of the Aiken party, and
the threats of the Mormons against
the Apostates. These threats were
numbered from the lips of Brigham
Young, Hyde, Pratt, and other
church officials. OF course, they did
not make the impression on ME that
they did on older people, though l
remember distinctly some of the
features Of the trial Of John D. Lee,
who was a leader Of the Mormons
anu JuuldIlS WIN hllicu ucdIIy uutl-
bred arci fifty men, women and
children at Mountain Meadow. The
massacre occurred after Lee had got
the emigrants to surrender their
arms. Lee himself and other Nor
mons had a bitter hatred against
these particular emigrants, who were
from Arkansas and Missouri, where
the so-called Mormon prophet, Jo-
seph Smith, and his brother Hyrum
had been murdered in the jail at
Carthage, Missouri. I remember see
ing a picture Of John d. Lee sitting
upon his coffin before he was exec
uted at Mountain Meadow. The laws
of Utah Territory provided that
when man was sentenced he could
take his choice of the means Of
execution, either shooting or hang
ing. John d. Lee chose shooting, and
was taken from the county seat
! where he was tried, to Mountain
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On the way across The prairies,
my uncle, then a small boy, was
lost. The family did not know what
had become of him. They searched
the long wagon-train in vain. He
was in none of the prairie schoon-
ers, he was not among the stock
drivers who drove the extra oxen,
cows and mules. The train could
not stop and one family could not
drop behind alone to search the
boundless prairies. They gave him
up for lost and went on with the
wagon train, grieving for him. When
they pulled down tEmigrant Canyon,
they saw the beautiful Salt Lake
Valley. The dead sea, Great Salt
Lake, spread out in front of them.
To the right lay the new city of
Zion, which had been founded by the
Mormons in 1S47. Here the family
abandoned the wagon-train because
of sickness and had to wait for the
train following, with the hope that
my uncle had been picked up and
brought along. 1t was but a few days
after their arrival that my grand
mother, walking along the street,
saw her son with basket of apples
On his arm. She gathered him up,
apples and all, and took him home
to his sisters. He had gone with the
train ahead and had reached the city
a week or two earlier.
My grandmother started board
ing house in Salt Lake City. My
father boarded there and met my
mother. He was then very young
man; when they married, he was
about twenty-five and my mother
was girl of fifteen. I was born on
the fourth of February, 1869, be-
fore railroad spanned the cohti-
rent.
! have but one remembrance of
my father. 1t was on my third birth
day. He took me from the house and
set me up on a high board fence,
which he climbed over, lifting me
down on the other side. We went
through an alley-way to Main
Street, then to store where he
bought Sme a new velvet suit, my
first pants. We called on many of
his friends on the way home, and I
was loaded with money, oranges and
candy. NV father died shortly after
ward at place called Camp Floyd,
now known as Mercur. When my
mother learned of his illness she
started for Camp Floyd, taking me
with her, but before her arrival he
had died Of pneumonia and was
buried. When we visited his grave,
I remember digging down as far as
my arm could reach.
Salt Lake City is built in bend
Of the Wasatch range. To the east
the mountains rise high and stark,
l to the north i Ensign Peak, near
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HAYWOOD'S BOOK

Meadow, the scene of his crime,
which undoubtedly had been insti-
gated by others higher in authority.
But twenty years passed by between
the massacre and the execution in
1877.
1t was at about this time that I
first saw Brigham Young, the pres
ident of the Mormon Church, on the
street, although 1 had seen him be-
fore in the Tabernacle, and had
heard him deliver his vigorous SER
mons against apostacy. A short time
later he died, supposedly from eat
ing green corn; but rumors were
current that he had poisoned him
self. If these rumors were true, it
was probably because of John D..
Lees conviction and the demand on
the part of the Gentiles, as all nom
Mormons were called, for the arrest
and trial of Brigham Young in con-
nection with the massacre, at the
time of which he had been governor
of the Territory and United States
Indian agent. The Mormons had
sensibly cultivated friendly relations
with the Indians, and they undoubt-
eddy prevented the massacre of an
other party of cmigrants who came
through at about the same time.
The house where l was born was
built of adobe, on First South Street,
between West Temple and First
West. 1t was divided into four apart
ments, two on the ground floor and
two above. The interesting feature
of this house was the family who
lived above US, a woman who had
been widow with two grown daugh-
ters. At the time of which l write
they were all married to the same
man, so that the daughters were
wives of their own stepfather. Poly
gamy has always been a religious
tenet of the Mormon Church.
Some four years after the death
of my father, my mother remarked,
and we went to a mining camp
called Ophir. to live. Ophir Canyon
was steep. On the right the noun
tains were precipitous, broken. with
gulches. On the left were lower hills.
The canyon widened where the town
was built, giving room enough for
two or three streets. Lion hill was
at the head of the canyon. Over the
mountain back of our house was Dry
Canyon, where the Hidden Treasur,
mine was located At this and other
mines of the camp my stepfather
worked. The ridge near the Hidden
Treasure was strewn with great
boulders of copper purites. The
Miners Delight mine was tunnel
with some open works which were
the playground of the boys of the
camp. There we found many beauti-
full crystals which we loved to col
lect.
Mrs Whitehead was my first
teacher. The Ophir schoolhouse was
built at the upper end of the town
and was little more than a lumber
shack. From the windows in the late
winter we could see the snow slides
coming down the mountain side from
which all the timber had been cut.
The first winter a slide filled the
canyon below the town, through
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BILL

This is the first part of "BM
Haywood's Book" as advertised,
and appearing Exclusively in the
Daily Worker, the first publication
an America of the memoirs of
Big BiU," loved by the a0orkers
and hated By the bosses. Literally
tens of thousands of American
1Oorkers kneao Haywood, a0ere con-
vinced by his simple, forceful
logic, folloved him into battle,
loved him for the scars he bore
as proletorian hero an the mar
of the classes. Introducing this
aoork aohich aoill lve both as
history and as proletarian itera-
ture, the Daily,Worker feels that
it does a great service to ats read
ers and to the qohole Working
class.-EDIT0R.
Copyright, 1929, by Imterna-
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rights RESERVED. Republication for
hidden e1cept By permission.
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By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD
PART I
BOYHOOD AMONG THE
MORMONS

My father was of an old Ameri-
can family, so American that if
traced hack it would probably run
to the Puritan bigots or the cava-
lier pirates. Neither case would give
me reason for pride. He was born
rear Columbus, Ohio, and with his
parents migrated to Iowa, where
they lived at Fairfield. His brother
and cousins were soldiers in the
Civil War; all of them were killed
or wounded. Ny father, when boy
made his way across the prairies
to the West. He was a pony express
rider. There was no railroad across
the country then and letters were
carried by the Pony Express, which
ran in relays, the riders going at
full speed from camp to camp across
the prairies, desert and mountains
from st. 10, Missouri, to San Fran
cisco on the Pacific coast.
My mother, of Scotch-Irish parent.
uSc, was DOrI III oOulH iAIIicd. one
embarked with her family at Cape
Of Good Hope for the shores OF
America. They had disposed Of ev-
crything, pulled up by the roots,
and left her birthplace to make their
way to California. The gold excite
ment had reached the furthest cor
ners of the earth. People without
the slightest knowledge Of what they
would have to contend with were
leaving for the West. There were
no palatial steamships in those days;
it meant months of dreary, danger
Gus voyage in sailing vessel. The
danger was not past when they land
ed in port; there was still the train
ride of eighteen hundred miles, and
then the long trip across the plains
and mountains in covered wagons
drawn by oxen. There was the con-
slant dread Of accident, of sickness,
and of the hostile Indians, red men
who had been forced in self-protec-
ton to resent the encroachment Of
the whites.
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Tonight At Manhattan Opera
House!

Manhattan Opera House, tonight, will be
the scene of the celebration of the Fifth An
niversary of the Daily Worker, the organ of
class conscious labor, the champion OF the
poor farmers, the energetic representative
and defender of the exploited Negroes, the
women WORKERS, the young workers 1t is
real mile post in the progress of the work
ing class in America.
Tonight the workers of Greater New York,
and all surrounding towns, will be there to
recognize the Importance of the event.
There will be an excellent entertainment
of dancing and music, and also a message Of
struggle, plans of battle for the future. Jay
Lovestone, VIM z. Foster, and Robert Minor,
leaders in the Workers (Communist) Party
of America, will each address the audience
briefly on the way to increase the influence
of the five year old Daily Worker.
At Manhattan Opera House, tonight!
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Mendoza and 1,2O0 Men
Surrender in Mexico;
Was Clerical Chieftain

MEXICO CITY, Jan. Ben
jamin Mendoza, one of the chieftains
called into action by the clerical re-
volt, and who has been holding sec
tons of the state of Morelos for over
a year, today surrendered himself
and 1900 followers.
The men will be pardoned, and
placed on farms. The Mendoza group
has held UP many automobiles along
the Mexico City-C uernavaca road.
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face" under the conditions Of the time and
country. The truth is that the deep, self
sacrificing love of the advance-guard of the
American working class was alienated from
the hypocritical, spiritless, police-minded or
gans of the yellow socialist party. True, it
was possible to transform the Milwaukee
Leader and the Jewish Daily Forward into
openly petty-capitalist business newspapers
and thus to keep them alive and even
wealthy; and even yet the socialist bureau
Gratis hope to get subsidies from ''philan-
thropic' capitalists to re-establish daily
English Labor" paper for the single purpose
of Fighting Bolshevism," but it is no longer
possible for them 10 win self-sacrifice from
the working class.
The Daily Worker became and it remains
the only daily paper in the English language
in the entire world which fights for the work
ing class cause. (Our British comrades will
doubtless soon make tremendous leap for
ward in founding their own daily central
organ) AS the Central Organ of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, Section of the Com
munist International, the Daily Worker has
become the guiding light of every struggle OF
the workers 1t is no eXaggeration to say that
our Party has played leading role in prac
ticalIy every important struggle of any sec
ton of the workers in this country-be 1t
miners, textile workers, needle workers, auto
workers or what not-during the past five
wears during which the Daily Worker has
existed. And this is in no small degree be-
cause of the added strength of the Party by
virtue of it's powerful leading press organ.
The Daily Worker is our main dependence IN
mobilizing the workers to fight the bloody
assaults of United States imperialism IN
Nicaragua, Mexico, and South America, IN
modifying the workers against the war dam
ger for the defense of the Union OF Socialist
Soviet Republics and the Chinese revolution.
What would the American field of class
struggle be like without the Daily Worker?
Even the thought of it is nightmare. Yet
this nightmare comes once in While.
Poverty, grinding, wearing and almost crush
ing, always weighs upon or little fighting
organ. Started with meagre 100000 con-
tributed bysworkers, the Daily Worker has
never in it's five years of history been able
to get away from the edge of bankruptcy.
And vet we enter our sixth year OF LIE
with renewed, unbounded confidence. We
face situation in which the rapid prepare
tons of the imperialist rulers for wars of
conquest promise extremely active and tur-
bulent times for the revolutionary Party and
it's organs But it is for just such times and
the consequent activities that we live and do
our work. We are not an Organization for
times of peace" Therefore we are confident
We fight the battles of the working class with
the full knowledge that the revolutionary
workers will cleave to us through thick and
thin. And when the victory comes to the
working class cause, the Daily Worker will
still b. with us as the mighty voice of the
new ruling class.
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BronxTammanyLeader
N. Y. Secretary State

ALBANY, Jan. 4 WP). = Thc
senate today confirmed the nomir
ton of Edward j. Flynn of
Bronx for a two year term as S
tary of state.
The nomination of Flynn,
democratic leader of the !
County, was sent to the senate
Governor Roosevelt.
The Workers tCOmmunist) Party
the party of TIE class struggle.
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which a tunnel had to be cut for
the stage to come through, and to
let the water out. At the noon re-
cess Mrs. Whitehead would appoint
monitor who would report to her
how we behaved in her absence. One
day Johnnie O'Neill and I were re-
ported for fighting, and when school
was called to order, he was called
up and given whipping with the
ruler. l ran pell-mell for the door
and home, where told my mother
that | was not going to school any
more because the teacher was going
to whip me for fighting, and there
hadn't been any fight. That night
my mother took me to Mrs. White
heads house and / told them
guessed / knew when I was fighting
and when we were wrestling. The
matter was patched up and l went
back to school the next day. How
ever, Johnnie O'Neill and l had many
a fight, both before and after this
wrestling match.
One morning was going to
school, which was only short dis
lance from our house, when I saw
Mamie Mills across the street pull
his gun from his pocket and shoot
at Slippery Dick, who was walking
just ahead of me. Dick also began
shooting and they exchanged several
shots when Mills fell on his face,
dead. Several people ran up to him.
Slippery Dick blew into the barrel
OF his six-shooter, put it in his pock-
ct and walked away. l followed him
until he went into a nearby saloon.
That was the first time I saw a
shooting scrape. 1t was not the only
one that occurred in Ophir, which
was regarded as one of the widest
mining camps in the West. Another
day | went to the scene of shoot
ing scrapc and saw two members Of
the Turpin family and another man
lying dead on the ground.
TO Be Continued
In the next issue Haywood tells
mere CT the Mormons, Of his boyish
pranks, and how he was bound out
to work on a farm, an indentured
child slave. There came his first
strike. The whole story of Haywood's
rise to an internationally known h.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-02
In CHESS CIRCLES

tween them. Such a match would
prove Of great local interest.
The annual tournament of the chess
unit Of the City Club will begin on
Saturday evening December Z, at 3
o'clock, the winner to be the tourna-
ment champion for the coming year
will be played on Wednesday evenings
commencing December IL.
The match between a team repre-
Senting the District Chess League and
a picked team from Philadelphia, to
be played on Sunday, December 8, be-
ginning at noon. will in all probability
be played at the City Club.
Another chess event of local interest
Is a proposed tournament, to start
probably in January, the winner of
which will hold the title of chess cham
pion of the District of Columbia until
defeated in a match or tournament In
which the title is involved. 1t is pro-
posed to open the doors as much as
possible to entrants and invite local
organizations to send their best players
to participate. Should the number be
large, some method Of elimination may
be adopted.
Martin Stark, youthful Washington
player, Is continuing to advance In his
position as a member of the Harvard
University team. Starting as a fresh
man in the Fall near the bottom of the
line, in his fourth match he had moved
up to second position, which occurred
in the match against the Yale team
In four contests he has scored four
victories He expects to represent Har-
ward in the contests at New York City
during the Christmas holidays.
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Eastern and G0nsaga Prin'ed
For CridirOn Tilt Tomorrow

bination will be used long by the Blue
and White.
strayer has assembled a bunch Of
sturdy tosSers and likely will make the
going interesting for Central.
Letters will be awarded members of
the 1929 Western High foot ball team
at an athletic assembly December %.
A captain for the 1880 eleven also is
expected to be elected at the same
time.
Forney, Davidson, Fisher, Lewis, Ca
bell, Sutton and Kelso are among can
didates who were listed TO appear to-
day for the first assembly of basket
bail candidates at Emerson. Several
stalwarts have been lost to the quint
because they are more than 81 years
old.
Emerson's foot ball eleven, which
closed its season Saturday with a IT.
TOT victory over Baylor School OF
Chattanooga, Tenn, in Griffith Stadium,
probably will 60 to Chattanooga for a
return game with Baylor November z
Of next year. Emerson Is considering a
four-year home-and-home contract
with the Southerners.
Dewitt is favored to take the measure
OF Gonzaga in their foot ball game Sat
urday in Grifhth Stadium, but the Pur-
pie has an eleven Of proved power, and
Is expected to offer stubborn opposition.
Devitt's impressive 19-to-0 victory over
Central last Wednesday has given the
stock of the Upton Street cholastics a
decided boost, though they have dis
played strength throughout the season.
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BIG TEN TO TACKLE
IOWA TANGLE AGAIN
Rumors Rife as Athletics
Committee Prepares to
Hear HaWkeye Plea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
" H1cAGo, December with
the foot ball season over and
the basket ball season only In
~ the preliminary practice stage,
what will become of Iowa" is
the big topic Of discussion in the Big
Ten.
Iowa's petition for reinstatement to
compete in the Western Conference will
on athletics when the group meets in
Chicago Friday and Saturday.
Out Of the discussion of whether Iowa
will be reinstated have grown numerous
rumorS. One says that Iowa will not be
forgiven and taken back into the group
as an athletic opponent, because ath-
letic directors of three universities, A.
A. Stage Of Chicago, Fielding H. Yost
Of Michigan and George Huff of Illinois,
are opposed to readmitting Iowa. But
no reasons have been given why Yost,
Huff and Stagg should have aligned
themselves against Iowa.
Another report, also lacking substan-
tiation, says Iowa will be returned to
good standing because several other
schools are equally guilty and that the
whole matter will be hushed UP.
The converse of this rumor says that
at least three other schools will join
Iowa. This report was aired at some
length last June after Iowa was ex-
PEELED from athletic competition. but
nothing happened to any other schools
Prof. James Paige Of the University
Of Minnesota, chairman Of a special
committee to investigate the athletic
conduct of other schools in the Big Ten,
has announced his committee will not
have a report and may not be ready to
act on Iowa's case. But Iowa has its
petition ready and will seek to show
that there are no subsidized athletics
there. that a "slush" fund does not
exist and that the eligibility of It's ath-
letics is bona fide and that it has earned
readmission.
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TEXAS CHRISTIANS
HAVE FINE RECORD
New S. W. Champions Score
SO Points, Hold Foes to
SO in Five Games.
BY GAYLE TALBOT, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

~ ALIAS, Tex, December 2.-De-
prived Of a claim to the ma
tional foot ball title, but de-
~ liriously happy in possession Of
their first Southwest Confer
ence crown, the Texas Christian Univer-
sity Horned Frogs were content today
to rest upon their laurels.
Unless an attractive offer Is received
within the next few days and is met
with the unanimous approval of the
Purple athletic council the mighty
-jerseyed team that swept through
10 games this year without a defeat has
been in action for the last time. AS 1t
is, the Frogs have perhaps a stronger
claim to national recognition than any
team the conference has produced.
BY virtue of their TT deadlock with
Southern Methodist in Saturdays Bit
ter battle at Fort Worth, the Christians
finished their schedule with nine VIC
tories and a tie. Their puissant scoring
machine, featuring Cy Leland and How
ard Grubbs, chalked up 249 points.
Their stout line, built about the bat
tering Mike Brumbelow, held the opposi-
ton to SO points.
Jake Wilson, Baylor quarterback, won
individual scoring honors with IL touch
downs and one extra point for total of
IS points. Leland had 10 touchdowns
for 70 points. Miller of Arkansas took
third place with IL touchdowns, u
points. Seventy-two players got their
names IN the scoring record. There was
not field goal all season.