The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 30, 1924, Page 3

\ OF BEAD V IES Bon Datcher MINERS ; PROBE DEMANDED Rescuers "Fight Way Thru Gas and Water Are Due fo (Continued from Page 1) madé inst members of ‘his inher- ited cabinet are not yet “sufficient for, serioits.. consideration.” i Denby’s Head Demanded. One ‘resolution, however, has al- ready been introdced, demanding the resignation of Secretary Denby. Senator Walsh is scheduled to take ty and Denby _— r the Discard Upon the suggestion of Senator Walsh, it was decided that physi- cians who have bean attending Fall will appear before the committee to- morrow to give an opinion as to when Fall’s health will permit him to appear. Oil Dome Twins, ’ their 49 fellow workers. missing. (Special to The Daily Worker) SHANKTOWN, Pa.—Groping thru gaé filled corridors with the water sloshing about the boots, rescuers are dragging out one by one the bod- ies of the victims of the blast ex- plosion that took more than forty lives in the Barnes and Tucker Coal bec ae irty-six bodies have already been brought to the ~surface and stretched out in an emergency morgue at Star Ford, near here, Re- 5 a of the bodies has been delayed by the almost insurmountable difti- culties in which they are working. Four May Be Buried Alive. Possibility that four other men are still entombed and alive is arous- ing the rescuers to the most deter- mined efforts, tho they are exhaus- ted by 12 hours of exhausting toil, broken by meager periods of rest, Officials of the United Mine Work- ers, Distret No. 2, are demanding a probe of the disaster that will un- earth all the facts of the gas condi- tions that snuffed out the lives of t State mine inspectors are expected to start their, inquiry today. 7 * © & Hold Inquest Today. JOHNSTON CITY, Ill—The cor- oner’s inquest this morning into the causes of the deaths of the min- ers who lost their lives in the ter- rific gas explosion in the east mine of the Crerer-Clinch Coal company is eagerly awaited by the popula- tion of Williamson county. Witnesses will be called to tell of gag conditions immediately pre- ceding the disaster. It is charged by miners that mining laws have been ignored by the company in the past. Men who escaped uninjured will appear in person at the inquest and depositions will be taken sur- vivors who are confined to their hos- pital cots by burns and the effect of the gag fumes. Rescuers are still penetrating the shattered workings of the 280-foot level in the hope of recovering the bodies’ of six men still said to be Johnston City is wrapped loom over the awful disaster. Near- every family is connected by ties of friendship, if not of blood, with the victims of the catastrophe. West Frankfort Miner Killed, WEST FRANKFORT, Ill.—Vernon Burton, 80, died in a hospital-here, a few hours after he was caught under a fall of coal in mine Eighteen of the Industrial Coal company, He| Zevely. had a wife and one child. ao eee THE MICHIGAN DEFENSE NEEDS = $15,000 BY MARCH 1 Send all contributions to the LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL, 166 W. Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. . 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THE DAILY WORK further direct action against Denby As. a consequence, Senator Cara- way, for one, is prepared to turn the guns. directly upon the White House. - Mr. Coolidge. wag the. first vice-president to sit with the cab- With the-attack shifting from for- mer Secretary of the Interior Fall to Mr. Coolidge and two members of his cabinet—Secretary of the Navy Denby and Attorney General Daugh- erty—there were indications that the inet, Senator Walsh has called the| administration was preparing to senate’s attention to the Fall letter) strike back at those critics who are of J 1922, in which the then sec-| trying to fasten responsibility on the retary mentioned that the oil leases were discussed jat, cabinet meetings. “Where was Mr. Coolidge’ while the cabinet’ was discussing the le- gality of the Teapot Dome lease?” Caraway intends to ask. The investigating committee re- fused this morning to accept an in- vitation to go to Fall’s house to question him, Washington’s Greatest Sensation By LAURENCE TODD. (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C.—F. L. Doheny, confessing his un- secured “loan” of $100,000 to Secretary of the Interior Fall— given in cash and sent to Washington in a satchel carried by Doheny’s son, at a time between the planning of the disposal Coolidge regime for what happened in the late President Harding’s term. Mr. Coolidge will not at present ask either Denby or Daugherty to resign, despite formal demands in the senate that he de so, it was stat- ed at the White House, after tho president had conferred for two hours with a ore. of senate leaders he summoned last night, lof the naval oil lands and the making of the lease of the two California naval reserves to his concern—was the first of the major characters in the Teapot Dome scandal to face Senator Walsh’s committee after the McLean and Roosevelt disclosures. Doheny is a former mining prospector—weak and flabby of appearance, and given to protecting himself by boasting that he ig “Jost an: improvident, 12-|——————— tor,” of generous impulses and | smiles quietly as he hears Doheny ready to lend a hundred thou-| Protest that the naval reserve lease sand or a million of his ready cera fe nag oa Ba apres money to an old-time friend | Doheny testified a month ago that like Fall. He chokes back a| he ought to clean up $100,000,000 on sob when he speaks of Fall’s| ‘he deal. hard financial luck—“after he Doheny’s Poor Memory. * Pact) " Wal: th has tried all his life, like my- sot Stood feet Nen wake te self, to acquire money.” ‘he sent $100,000 from New York to Washington in cash, and by his own Committee Room Hounded. Senators and congressmen son. Doheny cannot remember whe- ther that wag his own idea or Fall's. and scores of newspaper cor- And about the date of the loan, with reference to the date of negotiating the lease, Doheny began by saying that it was long before the lease, and his company knew nothing of the loan, and hence could not have been in- fluenced by it, and that there was positively no relation between the two thi tee room, listening for every word. Gavin McNab, lawyer to Doheny and “Iron Boss” of Demo- cratic os itics in California, sits be- — ry gor apacrgrg waiting ings. put in a helpful word as to secret} Walsh reminds him of Admiral name in New eigen with} Robinson's testimony, showing that aoe ped to Pi sey atone made 4 the whole scheme for getting rid of hing ine Mrvetate’ eny talk) the naval oil reserves was decided things over with er: td gg upen in the council of the navy de- seh “greyed th ¥ spt En ae: partment at about this same time. bi jon to the unmasking 0: Spectators gain a sense of impend- ing climax when Walsh asks Doheny whether he has conferred with any members of the senate committee since reaching town, and then de- mands the contents of a note which Senator Smoot has handed to Do- heny. The note reads: “I want to see you in my room.” Smoot laughs uneasily. . Suspect Daugherty. Senators whisper back and. forth. They remember that Walsh has told the senate that Attorney General Daugherty is “under suspicion” in this case, and that Walsh has not said that Daugherty is the only sus- pect. They smile when Doheny’s offer to return his oil lease is read by McNab, The thing is hung on # proviso that a special commission to be named by the president shall first find that the lease was improperly secured. In other words, that/ the senate shall ‘surrender the inquiry into the hands of the administration to which the suspect bel . Daugh- erty is to be questioned with regard to his stopping of federal suits in- volving title to oil lands now held by Doheny. ‘Women’s Minimum Wage Test Case. SAN FRANCISCO.—The fate of the minimum wage for women in California may depend on a case now before the supreme court, in- volving the Golden Gate Canneries Co. of this city. The first victory of the controversy lies with the can- nery, in a recent decision by Attor- ney General Webb of this state. Should Be Success To THE DAILY WORKER: I think that THE DAILY WORKER is full ST! t. re is no reason the world why it should not make a suceess.—Benjamin C. Chass, Pitte- burgh, Pa. : i British Actors Win Case. Member of Congress, Founder of Seamen's JAY LOVESTONE, Author right to to contracts with the plaintiff, the pro- ducer of a revue. - ‘i Syndicalism J Deadlocked. Cathe “Jory in dicalism of Oscar deadlocked. The jury dismissed before t membership in th x except mi e Turkey Goes Back to PLE — e w. Men, Mi, <8 and MotioM.at the Coal Miners’ Convention ———one The afternoon session was quite | tame, Mr, was in a jovial mood. He once, and ‘he | effect on the audience was electrical. Later on the great man descended from the stave and shook hands with | &@ miner. Several delegates were | seen taking notes, No doubt this! will be considered of sufficient im-| portance to report back to their local | unions as an outstanding event. | Delegates to the convention stood | in silence for one minute at the con- | vention to express their sorrow for | ‘the victims of the mine blasts in| Johnson City, Dlinois and Shanks- | town, Pa. The miners are ac- customed to such incidents, approxi- mately ten lives being sacrificed | daily to the greed of the coal barons who hesitate to apply the necessary precautions to guarantee safety. It was learned today that the local union in Johnston, Ill., which had jurisdiction over the illfated mine, called the attention of the state min- ing inspector to the unsafe condition of the mine, No attention was paid to this request and many lives are now sacrificed for this criminal negligence. On recommendation ‘of the resolu- tions committee one thousand dollars was voted to the defense fund of the Tom Mooney Moulders Defense Committee, Rena Mooney addressed the con- vention briefly and was given an ovation out of respect for the brave man who is behind the bats in Saint Quentin. It is a pardonable digres- sion to say here, that the Mooney case is a standing indictment of the American labor movement. Had the reactionaries who control that movement taken any real interest in his case, the capitalist government of California would have been com- pelled to release him long ago. The radicals saved him from the gallows and organized whatever was done to bring his case before the public. Now, the labor lieutenants of capi- talism from Gompers down, donate a thousand dollars occasionally for his defense, as a sop to’ public opinion. It the labor leaders were half as interested in freeing Mooney as they are in crucifying workers who violate the “sacred contract” with the boss, under exceptional conditions, Tom Mooney’s friends would not be obliged to depend on the tender mercies of some hypocritical political \faker who may happen to have the power of liberty or servitude over that gallant battler for the workers’ right. A long resolution favoring more playgrounds, another in favor of the Kelly Bill now before Congress in behalf of better conditions for postal @erks' and a diluted resolution against injunctions finished the re- port of the resolutions committee. A resolution demanding that mem- bership i “the miners’ union be limited to miners’ sons and those in unorganized: territory was voted down. The wage scale committee is said not to be in agreement over the demands to be made on the opera- tors when they meet in Florida next month. John L, Lewis is known to favor a long term contract with the present wage scale, while the six hour day is recognized as a matter of principle. If the 20 per cent wage increase is pressed at the out- set it is considered merely as a counter to-the silencing of the de- mand for the six hour day. A resolution was passed urging the withdrawal of all troops from oceupied Seshasy. The German (workers were entitled to political and economic freedom, under capitalism of course. The fight on the part of the ad- ministration forces to refuse Dele- gate Perkovitz a seat at the conven- tion revealed the capitalist psy- chology of these individuals. The chairman of the committee is from the north of England, and while the writer does not. hold him personally Tesponsible for his physiognomy, John Mossop, the individual referred to, bears a striking resembalnce to the hale and hearty John Bull, whose icture appears on a certain brand of itish cigarettes. A typical Bogtsh squire, he never expresse i] slightest concern, for the miners | whose livelihoods were involved in| the decision of his committee, but he , fell backwards in his extreme con- sideration for the interests of the And he did this without Lewis vigorous person, hates capitalism and those wh profit by it. Why request any further information? Frank Farrington declared that Delegate Perkovitz was discharged once for loading “aggravated im- purities” and again for something else. It was quite difficult to learn whether Nick had more to fear from the coal company or from some of the union officials. His local union, the men who worked with him, stood solidly behind him as did the con- vention delegates. They were un- able to wave the red flag at him, which probably saved him from walk- ing back to Dowell. A report to Secretary Green for the delegates to the American Fed- eration of Labor conveytion at Port- land, concluded the session. Dele- gate Watt, speaking on the report showed by the records of the Port- land convention that the A. F. of L.,/ lost. over a million members during the past year. MINER MILITANTS ARE ORGANIZED FOR FIRST TIME Foster Talks About the Big Convention (Continued from Page 1) movement in the end, regard- less of minor victories the ma- chine may win thru its payroll vote. “The Indianapolis adminis- tration,” continued the secre- tary of the Trade Union Educa- tional League, “stands before the labor movement at this convens tion ey, bankrupt of all plans for the salvation of the union in the present desperate crisis. The only plans for the strengthening of the union thru organization of the strat- egic open shop fields and closer co- operation with the rest of the labor movement came from the left wing opposition. “Middle of the road progressives are strewn by the wayside,” declared Foster, “Only the left wing is lined up in opposition to the reactionary administration. S. P. 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Protection of Foreign-born Theses Letter from Communist Inter- workers Language Press national Statement by Chicago Delegation Agricultural work Shop Nuclei Industrial report, by William Z. Young Workers League Foster Class war prisoners Minority resolution on Industrial Negro question report Program for 1924 Amendements to Constitution Resolution on C. L. American Imperialism, Report of Daily Worker Cam- by Jay the office holders who might otherwise be sympathetic have been whipped into line by the machine. But the left wingers have the machine so worried that they are the one sub- ject of discussion,” Foster traced the old Socialist Party opposition within the union and its lack of a definite program and he pointed out how thig Socialist Party opposition had been shattered by the process of driving out the sincere ones and absorbing the others into the machine. Big Sentiment for Howat, “I was much impressed with the sentiment for Howat. There are so many delegates lined up for him that he may conquer his way back into the union in spite of John L. Lewis. “Lewis is not so strongly en- trenched ag some radicals think, An organized progressive movement can clean out the international union and put thru its own policies. That is the big thing about this convention. ‘The progressives are organized and they are on their way to victory. x may take time, but they have ken the initial steps necessary.” LENIN ABOUT MAC DONALD “You cannot stop a revolution. . . altho Ramsay MacDonald will try to at the last minute. Strikes and So- viets, If these two habits once get hoid, nothing will keep the workers from them. And Soviets, once start- ed, must sooner or later come to su- preme power.” Protect the Foreign Born! Lovestone paign, by J. J. 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