The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 2

PAGE F§ TED HERRIN MASSACRE > OHEVISTS | Charge Made by United Mine Workers That Lithuanian Bolshevists Led Riot TWENTY-TWO KILLED Revolting ~Caused and Planned by Communists | Says Mine Writer New York, Sept, 14—Eighty-six Lithuanian Bolshevists led the Her- ssacre of non-union Illinois United Mine Worker 4 charges in gnaking pub- y the third of a series of articles exposing an alleged plot by! (COLLECT FUND “TO PROMOTE. ‘AREVOLUTION {Mine Workers Charge Com- munists with Attempting Revolution in U. S. ALL CLASSES COMBINE Unable to Trace Disposal of Large Quantity of- Funds Collected New York, Sept. 15.--Collection of] funds from American people of high -|and low degree for the promotion of social, economical and political revot- ution has become an ‘organized in- dustry in the last two years, it is charged by the United Mine Work- ers of America in the fourth article of a series which purports to be an THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE OLD, BUT HAS YOUNG IDEAS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1923 tated all of its resources to the end of forcing ‘the union to acknowledge nationalization of the miney as the chief objective of coal workers in this country. A. conference of “Reds”,-whom the author names, Was held at Pittsburgh | last February 10, out of which grew La platform alleged to contain these planks: “|—Establishmept of headquarters at Pittsbyrgh for an aggressive cam- paign to reorganize the miners’ un- ion in accordance with Communist 2—to bring about a gen- e on April 1; 3—to hold a convention of miners’ delegates of the United States and Canada at Pittsburgh the first week in June, when would be launched a new in- ternational organization to absorb the United Mine Workers and eli- minate its international and district officials.” ‘An outstanding feature of this program, which failed of wide ful- fillment, is alleged in the “expose” to have been the unauthorized strike of steel] and coal miners in Nova, Scotia which was ended only after the President of the Mine Workers’ ousted Dan Livingstone, president and J..B. McLachlan, secretary of the district. of Illinois, who has ——_| historical spots and buildings for years, had general charge ¢f repair- ing and restoring the ctructure, which had been changed so much that Lincoln, were he to have seen it, would not have recognized it. The, original lines of the models so often found in New Eng- land and Virginia—portico of four doric columns surmounted by a tcwe and belfry. « But the building which was erect- ed in the forties was remodeled in 1870. Two wings were adied and the portico removed, The old stairway in the rear of the building had been tak- en out’ and an outside | stairway constructed where the portico had been. A There was a photograph of the court house ‘as it originally apneared, but even the memory of the old set- tlers failed to tell L. L. Tobias, state superintendent of construction, what the first floor plan was. He set out to discover the location himself. By carefully examining the walls, he found a place where a partition court- H housé, according to Mr. Martin, were very good. It was built on the classic 4 ‘ { had once been, He tore up’ portion of the floor, and found the hole} boarded up when the stairs had been | removed. What kind of a stairway it was nobody knew. Finally ‘in the t , } ; i “sgemianeone ipa Moscow Communists to gain control | abor in the United! ing ‘anada, stage erthrow the e ernments. The mob leaders—67 of expose of a far reaching pilot to spread the dictatorship of the Com- munist International at Moscow over this continent. a Laborers, society leaders, teachers and well-meaning philan- thropists, ignorant of the menace they are promoting, add millions of dollars annually to the war-chest of the underground workers for revolu- tion in America, it is charged. Qther millions are described as streaming in from Moscow, Berlin and Stock- holm to make a total impossible of estimate. " “The United Mine Workers leatns from an authoritive source,” says the author of the expose, “that the: Re money from abroad is coming in| mot as much trouble, says through‘ the usual international banking channels and that it is dis- tributed to the accounts of various individuals ig different banks after it reaches this country.” Capture of the miners’ union is alleged “to be the first aim of Com- munist agents in this country, as a step toward establishment of the “one big union” principle in all in- dustrial labor groups,, After that nationalization of coal mines under the sq@iet form of rule as a preli- minary’ to nationalization of other industries; then forcible overthrow of the governments existing in the United States and Canada, and es- tablishment of Communism after the Moscow pattern, Since the mine workers’ union was}, allegedly ‘the first object of attack in the fulfillment of this program, solicitation of funds is said to have been most active among the miners, Money usually is asked for some “de- {] fense” dr “relief? cause, the dotiors being Ied to believe “that it was to been going on at least 600 years,|be used in the upbuilding and according to Pierce Bucier, authority | strengthening of -their union organi- on early printing. zation and for other legitimate pur- The Newbeyry contains virtually }poses.” all the originals on the subject of} “One such collection sagency is the, how the Bible should be rendered in| Miners’ Relief Conference,” says thé English, Many of them are sugges-|author, “a Communistjc enterprise tive of the old days when translating | that has been operating in the Pi the Bible did more than cause criti-|burgh, Pa., region since last August. ; -leism of the translators. This conference has been one of ths| Ivania to expand into a great revol-|ment 2 general strike among rail| The first one published in Englist | most important channeis through | Siitidacyisaovement in whichithe ori.) Vorer® last, November, and among was Wiclif's new Testament, 1980,|which money has filtered into the Bigatcduscs| for the cessation of | com miners lnct A pril ne hich also} manuscripts of which are extremely | Communist organization for destruc- work in the mines would be lost) );, eee Eee another ‘one}rare. ‘The only reason that Wiclif |tive work within the miners’ union.” Sight of and an armed insurrection | Pf union’ movement was launched) died in his bed was that he had so| Numerous examples of the methods having for its purpose the establish-| ‘ " Ree a pee tial oe many followers at nobody dared af collection are set forth, but the ment of a Bolshevist dictatorship in| inn, "This camps ana lee hfn, said Mr, Butler. Like |union investigators were able to un-| this country and enforced recogni-'y 0 \tin) in progres ign lis alleged, t| Professor Goodspeed, Wiclif and his | cover few records of sources of ex-| tion of the Russian dictatorship and} \eutorship . a le th ee disciples wanted @ translation in|penditure. “Inspection of the rec-| the Communist International, would! or tne esas Bare oo a ad" every day speech, ords fails to show éven the simplest | be brought about. eat pane tere plore oats an-| This is an explanation from the | forms of bookkeeping in accounting @The plan was ,to have simultan- le ary-treasure 60-page defensé of the plan which |for the mioneys and supplies recei gous uprisings in southern Illinois appeared in later editions: “First it |ed. While considerable sums were ‘and, if possible, in the vicinity of is knowe that the best translation is |contributed by sympathetic persons | Bellaire, Ohio, which also was a hot- out of Latyn «into English, to trans- | who Heeged appeals broadcast over | bed of Communist agitation and pro- late after the sentence, and not|the country, records of the contri-| onelt after the wordis, so that the |butions are found only on scraps of | of the nation’s future. : basement of a private house, cover-, ed with the dust of decades, he found 4 portions of the old banister. From | this fragmentary evidence he recone} 5 LI NCOLN S . structed the stairway as it looked When the legal giants of another age COURT ROOM it to the circuit courtroom.| « State of Illinois -Will Restore D a and Preserve Circuit Court NONATOUAODAEADEDUOUOHOONGS UNEDBGUODEDNADEUNODEUOEOOGH Where Lincoln Pleaded ~ TONIGHT Good music. Spe- | cial Japanese dec- orations, at the HEART RIVER PAVILION. Mandan, N. D. “Prontiersmen,” snapped at Los Angeles, is mak- preliminary to the ’round-world airplane fight to summer by two British aviators. The ship establishes Crew of the ship is made up of ex-navy and army r ving without pay, and donating considerable money them- them—| selves for the expedition. At one time the ship was owned by a Span- OF BIBLE IS TALK TOPIC Communist purty of America, ac) 4 i brotherhoods and 16 unions on| cording to the miners’ article, 19/40 yuilroads, so, “in order to con-| other members of the same party| - z Professor E. J. Goodspeed’s Translation Into Everyday English Criticised trol them as a ‘unit and mobilize} were imported as gents to foment | NE On a as Pen aca riratcniaing) or the| mem Wit: the “Totter -ons-unton SUBJECT CRITICISED school : | BS ciaiien “te Me mnbany| single ‘departmental industrial un- d i: ve ion’ was evolved.” death of 2 men in June last year. [oy ee on oti his revolting, inexcuseble crime | eee ee eee a caxicek was: fomented, promoted and caused ag SRE MTR See ciad solély by Communists,” says the | Jective DADE Biel TC Sait writer, “It was a carefully planned | demonstrated what the miners bes id affair, schemed with all the diabolia) 40 if property BC Le cruelty and disregard for law that] Pian now wae to i ill Aap el Shattecises the Communist move-|Warter, preferably n vital railroad Seater ; heenter like Chicago or Pittsburg a William 2, Foster, promoter of the | Similar outbreak among rail workers ligties big union” erent merica,| The shop crafts were then on strik msde Rave Ween therdominat-| “The convention of agents of the ing figure in events preceding the | ‘ ommunist Internati 1 and leade massacre numbering among his aides | °F Esha meieae Ae ee Jack Carney, Chicago editor of the | vi vittd one of the’ greatest conspit radical VOICE OF LABOR, Nick . pabeh sce a ah tat tee Doxenburg, Carney’s business man-/2cics in the history of the United ager, Arne Swabeck, of the central| ot Boa MLO Wenger i i Bi ABH tor 5 See scemica, Osear Larson. of “Iitent upon promoting the gen- tha Young Commanist League, Gus|¢f! uprising of all coal mine, rail- Poenckal’ “Red” worker among rail|fo%4, marine transport and farm creeyea’ Charles Krumbein, dis-| Workers and carrying their aim to a gieerconmuniat © official) and Nels| success! ion before the Hee eerie in, Chiergo, courts |Col and railroad strikes could be ee ‘cceniting against: the . govern-|*cttled, their revolutionary sittings Medic the war, 7 ‘were cut short by the appearance of heetegt the county sheriff, ate of the mass-| «rhe raid upon” that convention 4 History of Massacre was one of the greatest blows the Forme een senc recks pre-|Communist organization in America| evidence that the same controversy parations had been in progress in|CVer, received. tte members | were th Franklin and. Williamson counties "to! Pir theiy nn ae bring about the attack upon strike|) 04; A ena Uda aden Pear apont a named guards at the| motion of industrial revolution to oer ad lence Sand disorder| © rtising of money for bail and naa ie pant in, southwestern | Preparing ay defense in an effort, to Pee ncylvaule, Cocwantae. geoorasin| Cones imprisonment under Michi- Rew ‘York, Gleveland and CHieago|°2 criminal syndiealism law: were active in their efforts to cause]. 0) lt areHeryy dg chon Ont the rike in southwestern Pennsy- munists,tried unsuccessfully to fo- After nearly a hundred years of pipe smoking, Chief Many Tail hers, one of the old Blackfeet Indians on the Glacier National Park rvation, ‘has taken up cigarets. He even “rolls his own.” It’s tthe chief, and he gets more smokes a day. ERECTED IN 1840 have continued. without interraption|and the magnet for attracting the| Restored by Very Brief De- since the strike of last year. In the| miners has been ‘government owner- first. two months of this year these | ship of the mines.” scriptions and by a Few efforts centered on bringing about| It is pointed out that the union ‘ Sn outlaw strike on April 1; later to|has not approved or adopted any Old Pieces drive a wedge into the United Minc| plan for nationalization, although a Workers through sdvocacy of the|committee to study the subject was expediency of government ownership | appointed two years ago with in- Sf mines. William Z. Foster, indus-| structions to submit a report and trial organizer of the Communist! recommendations at the international International, has been at the head{convention next January, “Notwith- of the enterprise. The principal| standing this fact that the union is Scene of action has been southwest- | seeking to reach a conclusion on this ern Pennsylvania. The vehicle has| proposition in an orderly way, the been the Miners’ Relief Conference | Communist organization has concen- Springfield, Ill, Sept. 15.—Restor- ation of the old courthouse at Me- tamara, Woodford county. last re- maining building in which Abraham Lincoln pleaded cases in the old cir- cuit days, with Adlai Stevenson and Robert Ingersoll, has just been com- pleted. ‘ E. S. Martin, supervising arehitect 5 . | scheme, the ‘Minnesota Plan’. for a Southern linois Coal All Translations Subject to ere Criticism Accord- ing to Records ‘Defiant Italy’s Challenge o-Fifty-two Nations _ Itely’s drastic demands upon-Greege after the murder of the Italian members of the Greco- Albanian boundary line, her bombardment and seizure of the unfortified Greek Island of Corfu, and her denial of the right of The League of Nations to intervene in cie resultant crisis, American editors agree, have given the League its “first real test”—a test, “on which it may stand or fall.” The New York Evening Post insists that “the challenge so roughly flung down by ithe Fascist dictator must be picked up by the representatives of the fifty-two nations now assembled .at Geneva,” and argues that “fear that-the League may fail to vindicate its authority against the defiant Italian government ought’ nat to enter into consideration.” Read this article in THE LITERARY DIGEST this week. It not only~ presents the gist of public opinién im America, but also in Italy and‘Greéce: - Causes and Effects of Greatest / Disaster in History , A survey of Japan’s destruction and a forecast Chicago, Sept. 15.—While minis- ters and laymen are discussing the translation of the new testament by Professor E, J, Goodspeed, Univer- sity of Chicago, into every day Eng- lish, a long row of ancient Bibles at at the Newberry Library here offers Mexican Recognition .| A’Spur to Business , How a large volume of trade is expected to flow in both directions across the\border. Where Our Navy Is “Ridiculous” os Chinese pirates very properly consider our fleet. in this light because Americans in China must rely for protection of their lives and property up- on part of the old fleet captured from the Spanish in Hi The Liberal Side of the Religious Controversy , Proposals made by Liberal Protestants to offset , the tactics of the Fundamentalists. . Bobbed Hair Is Tabooed in Eng. paganda, and in the region surround- —— sentence be as opin, either openere,| Paper or in the original letters of e ing Uniontown, Pa. London, Sept. Bobbed hair] s “A telegram sent to local union| Which is rapidly passing out here is}in English as in Latyn, afd go not the donors.” The Communist are al- fer fro the lettre.” leged even to have solicited and re- “+ Bolshevik Craving for American Recognition The great consideration being shown to dis- tinguished American visitors in Russia, some ob- servers believe, is a carefully staged performance to impress the American people.~ that while Communist agents were appealing throughout the nation for money for the relief of ‘starving miners,” they also were holding} mass meetings “to collect from these ‘starving miners’ money to remit to the Labor Defense Council at Chi- | cago.” Other correspondence allegtd to have been seized by authoritigs in raids on revolutionary headquarters || is quoted to show that: the American Civil Liberties Union of New York City, of whigh Roger Baldwin is ex- ecutive secretary, loaned the Com- munists money from the Charles Garland Foundation Fund, entrusted to the union by the, North Carver, Mass,, man who refused to keep a $1.600,000 legacy inherited from his father, How a considerable portion of money collected by tite Communists e coal regions w i i recited aa follows; “Efforts of the Communists to control of the United Mine Workers Motor Poison in City Streets How the poisonous sgases in motor exhausts may be rendered less harmful*to the people. Other Interesting-News in this Week's Digest Methodists Combating Catholic Faith in-'Rome—The Klan “ a College—Dead, the Last Survivor ‘of’ the Staff of “Stonewall” Jackson—Alligators, How to Keep Them Down on the Farm—Tracking the Gorilla—Bird Bootleggers—Artificial. Gotton—Com parative Rewards of Farm Work and Factory Work —The Monroe Doctrine Our Own Business—To End the Tiresome Coal Squabbles — The Free State palag dd in Ireland—Topics of the Day—Many of gneve ; ing news-features: are {illustrated with re- productions of interesting Photographs and the best of the Cartoons. September 15th Number—On Sale To-day—All News-dealers—10 Cents, . ‘ ~\ {In the Theaters—“FU N from the PRESS” . ‘ig a mark of distinction, For nearly to generations The : Literary Digest has been.a symbol of refinement ani7 taste | inthe literary appreciation of the American public, “Ani | fidence so rigorous!; ined ‘will never ‘be 1 ‘There is ze ceyatint ai fe ‘di ‘ing | The Literary Digest. FUN from the PRESS produced by ‘Phe Literary Digest. Distribused by W. W. Hodkinson officials at Herrin by John L. Lewis, | getting a few tips to help it along. president of the United Mine Work-|The latest comes from Manchester Ancient Manuscript. ceived 25 cent assessments per mem- | Although this ancient manuscript |ber, from United Mine Workers’ ‘lo- mines inghe- category of ‘strike | ordered to allow their hair to grow. breakers’ was shrewdly twisted and|In the future no young lady with|the next man who tried his hand at radicalism.” It is asserted that most what he calleg “plough boy English” | of the bail money and trial lawyers’ the: Cammunist leaders of Chicago, | af r the patients. e info an ‘invitation’ to attack the} Many Lond sta and de-|death for his act. Not the least of |Taid was subscribed .through “Labor | e issued sjmilar| the criticisms made against him was | Defense Councils” and the Miners’ ployed there, | notices. “Officials of the United Mine) dear to the hearts of the clergy. The author of the expose says Then came Myles Coverdale, 1537, attack was contemplated, or that a|Saken in Spain for football. y conspiracy within the Communist} ______jthe authority of the king and with the beloved. térms replaced. Two ‘to precipitate a tragedy such as took| GREAT CAPACITY place the day after the telegram was Bible. - r ‘| There are many other Bibles in Agitation By Communists “Agitation under the active efforts vigorous criticism, The Bishops’ Bible, 1568, pleased as a translation, May and June, The strike area in| southern: Illinois was carefully ex. Leda with her swans sprawled actoss a page, and a cut of the Earl violence of armed insurrection might | be. started were charted and catalog- | Babee was considered somewhat jubious, were Christopher, Zeigler, Sesser and: Herrin. é Protestant refugees after the acces- sion of Queen Mary, still befrs the ‘asa nucleus,.a Communist Party | | chapter was organizedein Herrin, cauge in the story of Adam and Eve | the first man and woman are said to Lithuanian langyaze but taking in- structions frorf agents of Dozen- | figleaves. The Douai Bible was print- ed by English Catholics in. 1609-10, go. Quietly and “stealthily, they ied among the idle miners at § id to be an almost literal trans- ers, placing workers of the strip|hospital where all nurses have been}. is not at the Newberry, the Bible of | cals in the so-called “hot-beds of distorted, according to the boats of|Shorn locks will be allowed to look 1s William Tyndale, who later met | fees for men seized in the Bridgman strip mines. and the workmen em-| Pai d : that he eliminated various terms|Relief Conference by such methods, Workers had no intimation that an| Lure of the bullfight is being for- who got out an English-edition with Party of America existed at the time| years later came the so-called Great received from President Lewis, ce the Newberry collection that recai of the Communists continued during but the pictures shocked the devout amined and the points where riot, of Leceister, whose relation to the ued; In the list of these places The Geneva Bible, translated’ by “With the local Lithuanian miners | ‘name of “The ‘Breeches Bible,” be- holding meetings secretly in the |have made themselves breechés ftom burs in the ‘offices of Cartley at Chica: refugees in their turn, This version |. Hetrin, preaching: armed attack up the PRESS.” It is ani ace of amusement, ’the cream-collec- « tion of the farce and tun from the press of the world—a mirror of the happier hours of life. In leading theaters everywhere. Watch for it weekly. It bears the seal of | lation of the Latin Vulgate. ‘en’the strip mine.” \ | Rosin Bible. | Gnion. strikers at Herrin ingalyed é | _ It is' sometimes known as.the “ros- _of President Lewis the. status of the : in Bible,” be cre familiar line, non-union. miners who continued “There is no balm in Gilia orking the strip mine while the na- translated “There is no rosin in strike was in progress) In a Giliad.” In another version the con- Jegram on June 20 he classified ' struction is “There is.no treacle in as strike-breakers, e | Gilied.” . Pounce On Telegrams | - AN translations should be made ‘is telegram was pounced pon into every day English,” Mr. Butler |{ nd. -dis- said. “Modern scholars know that se for attack | the Greek of the new testament is the strip mine,” continues the ; Vernacular Greek, that is, theeGreek ive, #The workers there were of the people, not the literary nd, under the leadership |lahguage. Why, then should not |f ‘9. Communist agents who, ac- English transtatiors be in homely D , had: been im- levery day speech?” + atrons of the cinema art who. Gesire robust spontaneous | ‘The Lit iruthor, free from all taijit, may ever niSy “PUN. trem, | Corporation.