The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 31, 1924, Page 2

- Page Two — y Bi ik Protect the Foreign Born! Han thd eee would give a visitor WORKERS’ SCHOOL i 127 University Place (14th St. and Union Square) NEW YORK CITY THE DAILY WORKER OIL CENTER OF BIG STRUGGLE ON IN MEXICO Wall Street Decides Payment of Taxes By BERTRAM D. WOLFE (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press) MEXICO CITY.—Oil has become the center of the military struggle in Mexico. 4 While in Puebla, near the military front, I interviewed a representative of an important American oil com- pany, inquiring especially as to the intentions of the petroleum interests in the matter of payment of taxes. “That will be decided in New York,” he declared. “Not in Washington?” I asked. “Naw, in New York: ” and he laughed at my apparent naivette. “We'll possibly pay taxes to both factions,” he added after a momen- tary pause. ‘“That’s what we've al- ways done. During the revolt against Carranza we paid him so much per barre] and we gave the revolting gen- eral, Guddelupe Sanchez (the same man who is now fighting against Obregon for the same oil fields) a flat rate of $35,000 a month.” “Could you afford to pay two sets of taxes at the same time?” “Cinch. Why, look here friend, do you know what a barrel of oil cost us? And what we get for it? Taxes, expenses, labor and all, we can de- liver petroleum at one dollar per barrel. That barrel represents 42 gallons of products that sell at an average of 60 cents a gaifon. Figure it out for yourself, son.” Idid. That barrel that costs them $1, taxes and all costs paid, delivered at the port, nets them something like $25. I thought the Hughes’ famous note on “confiscatory taxes” at a time when the tax on oil in Texas was higher than the tax in Mexico. When I wrote down the figures in question, the interview suddenly stopped. But I had a new vision of the importance of the battles of Tux- pan, Ciudad, Victoria and Huastecas. The most important center of pasroleum in Mexico is the state of Tamaulipas, whose port of export is Tamnpico. This remains in the hands of the government, but de la Huerta has proclaimed the blockade of Tam- pico, attempting to make it effective with three of the four armored cruis- ers that make up the Mexican navy. He hopes thereby to prevent the ex- port of petroleum from Tampico and the payment of revenue to the fed- eral government. Also, if his block- ade is effective, it closes the only re- maining federal customs house on the Gulf coast. At the same time, he _.,».bas_ issued a demand.on the oil.com- panies that they pay their taxes to him, ceowengge 4 them, first, with not recognizing other payments, and threatening Doheny with the destruc- tion of his oil properties if the taxes are not delivered to the agents of the fascisti government. Russia Free from Teapot Scandals, Says Minister (Special to The Daily Worker) OMAHA.—An inspiring tribute was paid to Lenin and a spirited de- fense made of the Soviet Govern- ment by Rev. J. L. Beebe, one of the leaders of the Progressive Party of Nel in his memorial address for Nis Lenin at Crounse hall last Sunday. “With the rumors that have come to us from Russia, pointing out the alleged evils of that government, there has not been a single explo- sion like that of the Teapot Dome,” the speaker said to deafening ap- plause, “The government of Lenin was held together by love,” said Rev. Beebe. “Under the czars, the gov- ernment was held together by fear.” Lenin’s place in history will rank even higher than that of Washing- ton and Lincoln, asserted W. H. Green. To this Tom Matthews, add- ed when he took the floor: “Lenin has accomplished more than any other man of his time.” A portrait of Lenin, draped in black, stood on a tall pedestal at the right of the spe: Living Cost 73% Over 1913 WASHINGTON, D. C.—Average living costs in typical American cities ’ last month were 73.3 per cent. great- er than they were in December, 1923, the Department of Labor announced today. The costs were also greater by 1.1 per cent, than last September and by 3.7 per cent, than December, 1922. Furniture, clothing and housing showed the greatest percentage of increases, “Proletarian education is a achieve the liberation History of the 8 Internationale: American Imperialism since 1860 Lewis Should Thank Red Flag; When He Stopped Waving It He Was Very Badly Licked (Special to The Daily Worker) TOMLINSON HALL, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 28.— Without the “red menace” John L. Lewis would be as helpless as—Sammy Gompers. During the first two days of the conven- tion the principal order of business was waving the red flag and counting the millions of rubles that the Soviet government sent over here to “bring about the destruction of the United Mine Workers of America.” When ¢ clivering the last part of the above excerpt from Mr. Lewis’ many harangues, press fingers slightly against both sides of nasal organ and the effect will be similar to that produced when Mr. Lewis ends a speech with those words. Yes, Mr. Lewis should love every fold of the red flag. Just as soon as he got down to brass tacks and the business of the convention, or what the delegates thought they were coming to transact, he found a different situation. He learnt his trick of diverting attention from real ° : 3 ‘ fi the impression that he was at a labor to imaginary issues from Sam- gathering, and not attending a meet- my Gompers. But while Gom- ing of some chamber of commerce. pers gets away with it at A. F.| Van Bittner continued reading his of L. conventions where a rank Teport without experiencing any con- and file delegate is almost as | siderable trouble until he ran up ecatce as virtue ina bawdy {against article nine, section five, house, in this convention there is a different atmosphere. Most of the delegates are workers. True, there is a powerful and loyal pay roll brigade _here.| From the highest to the lowest they stand like Spartans with the ad- ministration. No charge of ingrati- tude or of “biting the hand that feeds them,” can be leveled against them. But the boys who are more acquainted with the physical prop- erties of a pick, than with the hotel lobbies where many of these or- ganizers are alleged to spend their days organizing the coal diggers, are not always fooled by the tactics of ‘the administration, So long as Lewis dealt with issues that only the more class conscious and politically minded of the delegates could see the value of, he was safe and his “red” fireworks pwere useful. But when the convention got to where the vital every day interests of the coal dig- gers were involved, Mr. Lewis dis- covered that red herrings could no longer avail. Feels Place Full of “Reds” Before Van Bittner began reading the report of the committee of Con- stitution this morning, delegates from Ohio were spreading the report that there were hundreds of men in the convention hall who were not dele- gates, but were taking part in the de- i tAtdlerniclin.cgors cae maar Vpn liberations and voting. One Olio man was heard to say, “We must clean up this convention befére we leave. If we cannot do *t any other ‘way, we must use force.” Ques- tioned what -the trouble was, he re- plied,|that the! place was full of “reds"\and that on the previous night “500 more were shipped from Pitts- burgh. At this rate, unless trans- portation broke down owing to such heavy demands on rolling stock it ‘would only take a little time until the “reds” had things entirely their own way. That the Ohio lad was not “talking thru his hat’? was proved when Dele- gate Savage, secretary of that District made a savage attack on those who “were abusing their privileges as guests” and voting. His motion to go into closed session was carried, ‘When the visitors were ordered to leave the hundreds of “alien enemies” dwindled down to three guests who picked up their hats and walked. The nonsense was for the purpose of influencing the delegates against the progressives and helping to create the impression that the pro-) gressive strength was augmented by foreign armies from Pittsburgh and other enemy territory. This farce being over Van Bittner commenced reading his report. Mr. Bittner is one of the most faithful employees of the International presi- dent and is used to do jobs that most of the hardened payrollers refuse to ‘do. The preamble to the constitution which reads as follows was adopted without change: “There is no truth more obvious than that pwithout coal there could not have been such marvelous social and industrial progress as marks tt day civilization. lieving that those whose lot it is to toil within the earth’s recesses surrounded by peculiar dangers and deprived of sunlight and pure air, producing the commodity which make’ ible the world’s progress, are ‘ent led to protection and the full social f their product, we have formed ‘ United Mine Workers of America” for the purpose of establishing by lawful means, the principles embraced in the body of this constitution.” The miners hear very little of the “ull social value of their product” at this convention from those who are now leading Poe Pid , syllable len from the lips of any one pw pore officials of this conven- formidable weapon to help of the working class.” NEW COURSES beginning week of FEB. 5, 1924 of the American Trade Union Movement.....Solon de Leon of Revolutions (1789-1918) jet Juliet Stuart Poyntz «Ludwig Lore . Chas, Brower ; COURSES CONTINUED—Marxism, Economics, Evolu- “tion, Literature, English—NEW TERM begins Feb. 5, $ 1924.—Register at 127 University Place. which provides that. “He (the In- ternational President) may appoint such organizers, field and office work- ers as may be necessary to conduct the affairs of the International Union.” There were several resolutions on this matter all advocating the elec- tion by referendum vote of all or- ganizers and field workers. Some of the resolutions were rather loosely drawn up and contained charges that :“hundreds” of organizers were wast- ing their time in organized fields while there were none in non-union territory. When Van Bittner was requested to read the resolutions on the mater and give an explanation for his recommendation to non-con- cur, he picked out the most loosely drawn and vulnerable and gave as a reason for the adverse recommen- dation that the resolutions were brought up by “detractors of the ad- ministration.” This statement was stupid and Van Bittner was jeered at and booed from all over the large hall. Popping Ticklish Question Delegate Jimmy Oakes, an old min- er and former organizer, asked Van Bittner if he thought it was right for a man who had six sons, not mqgmbers of the union, but had taken a busi- ness course, that their father, pro- vided he was a district secretary, should have the power to appoint them to office in the union. Van Bittner thought it would be a sorry state of affairs when a father could not put his own sons on the payroll. Many officials looked quite in- dignant at this question and ex- pressed themselves as being of the opinion that the soul of a man who could put such a question, would make an electron look like a moun- tain in comparison. Delegate Oates was showered with official indignation but it fell off his \shoulders like coal dust. He walked back and forth in front of the plat- form while shouts of “sit down” came from the payrollers and he continued to hurl pertinen® questions at the officials on the platform. He had | Van Bittner non-plussed. | What Oates had on his chest was this: William Feeney, secretary of District 4, employed his son as book- keeper tho the boy was not a mem- ber of the union. He received as salary $200.00 a month. The sen- sitive souls of the payroll brigade were deeply wounded over this de- flection of Delegate Oates who cashed his last official check on or tabout January 13, when he was dis- charged as organizer. John L. Lewis declared that a more foul insult could not be leveled against a union man than to cast aspersions on him for employing his own son. John C. Leary, International Board member in Feeney’s district, took the platform and defended the ap- pointment of Feeney’s son declar- ing that he was a good and the international auditors would testify that he was @ good bookkeeper. The auditors, like good fellows, arose and did the right thing. The officials were putting up a united front but the rank and file kept hammering away vigorously. Capellini Gets Floor Again Now, there arose in the convention a man who is getting to be known as “renegade ;” Rinaldo Capellini, presi- dent of District 1, who delivered a jtirade against the reds during the Nova Scotia debate and by the way made an ass of himself. . Capellini tried to do the administra- tion a favor by attempting to rattle Jimmy Oates. “How long have you been on the payroll,” he asked Oates. Oates was so long on ts Pree that he forget how many if centuries it was since he started in, so he grew quite angry and told Capellini that he would not stand any nonsense from an upstart like him. “Capellini, Capellini,” he muttered in disgust. When the tumult and the shouting ceased, Capellini had taken his seat with a very dejected look. William Feeney, secretary of Dis- trict 4, came to the platform in his own defense. He asserted that he was the father of two children of whom he was proud. “I have made a bookkeeper out of one of them and will if I can out of the others. I have not made bootleggers out of them and that is more than Delegate Oates can say for his,” Feeney said, This rally did not have the slightest effect on Delegates Oates. ose who expected to see him covered with confusion were disappointed. “What the blazes could they piped up “when they were work, but bootleg. It was the available occupation open to them,” Delegate Fred Mooney of District 17, asked Oates if his sons belonged to the Bootleggers’ Union, “By God,” said Oates, “If there is such a union and an initiation fee is required the Oates boys will be there to pay it.” Secretary Green remonstrated with Delegate Oates, over getting so mucn moonshine into the record and the convention gradually became less spiritual. Delegate Prentiss of Illinois, a colored man, favored the committee’s report. It developed that he was on the payroll. His argument was, that owing to the prejudice against. the colored miners in the union they stand no chance of being elected to any office in the power of the union to give. It was brought out how- ever, that he was elected from a local with approximately 750 ‘white mem- bers and only 150 colored. He praised Mr. Lewis very highly. Hindmarsh Sticks to Question Delegate John Hindmarsh, of Illi- nois, delivered the only speech dur- ing this discussion that dealt with the question at issue. He said the majority of the union members were against the appointive power becausé it placed too much power in the hands of the president who no matter how benevolent he may be was sub- ject to the temptation of using that power to build up a machine to per- petuate himself in office and use it against his enemies, He notieed that with hardly an exception every appointed delegate to the convention stood solidly with the administration on every issue. Whether they did this consciously or not he could not say but it was a fact and it had a demoralizing effect on the union. They were opposed to the dictator- ship of any one man, no matter who he was. When Delegate J. J. Watt of Springfield, took the platform it was expected that he would speak on the question, but instead he moved a closure on debate which was carried. ‘What the result of the roll call may be cannot be predicted at this time, but the administration forces are Jeaving no stone unturned to secure victory. The progressives are equal- ly confident. Charge Hoover Does Not Enforce Act to Protect Seamen (By The Federated Press) do,” he | worker refused PeTide?, ESTiEERS. SHEL TGEHE, ©. & BEETF. SOpESOSEOGO Cg SESSHEHE Oe" ¥Eay BH A flr WASHINGTON.— Senator LaFol- lette has re-introduced his bill pro- viding for a continuous discharge book for seamen, and for other im- provements in the condition of sea- men of the American merchant ma- rine. Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's union, has reported to LaFollette that diserim- ination against union men in the ports of the United States has made a dead letter of the seamen’s act, and is reducing the men once more to & condition of slavery. Administration of Wjelsetimen"t et } is under the direction of the depart- ment of commerce, headed by Her- bert Hoover. This is the same Hoover who recently has been culti- vating the friendship of officials of the American Federation of Labor, and of progressive senators and con- gressmen. Coolidge Agrees With Gary that Consumer Is Goat (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Coolidge was politely advised today by Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of the United States Steel Corporation, that elimination of the 12-hour day in the industry had in- creased production costs 10 per cent. Chairman Gary’s report is contrary to the findings of the presidents of the independent steel companies who last October announcecd that intro- duction of the 8-hour day in their plants had not resulted in increasing the cost of production. President Coolidge advised that the added costs, desired by Mr. Gary, should be borne uncomplainingly by consumers and the poor ultimate con- x in “view of the benefits to e workers.” Soviet Russia to Get 18,000 Fords on Yearly Contract (Special to The Daily Worker) COPENHAGEN.—The delivery of 18,000 Ford cars to Soviet Russia has been contracted for by the Danish agent of the Ford Motor company, ld Lanfikier, thru the signing of an agreement een the company representative and the representa- tives of the Sovie + government in aris, The length of time covered by the contract has not been made public, but the purchases of cars this year under the contract ions will amount to $3,750,000, iveries will be Deli made from the Copenhagen plant. Landlords Jailed and Fined NEW YORK—Hirsch Uren, lessee of the 85 family tenement, No. 816 Hast 9th Street, was fined $100, with thirty days as the alternative, by Magistrate Cobb in Municipal Court esterday, after an inspector testified Bren had failed to correct defective fire escapes end unsanitary walls isting since last July. ex- January 31, 1924 COAL MINERS! Talk To Your Convention Thru Daily Worker Coal Miners! Your convention is on at Indianapolis, Ind. It will be responsive to your needs if you will talk to it, talk to it in loud and emphatic tones. You can do this thru your paper, THE DAILY WORKER. You can do it every day. You can make yourself heard. Every day THE DAILY WORKER goes to the convention at Tomlinson Hall, at Indianapolis. The miners’ delegates are reading it, from first page, first column, to last page, last column, If you will write to THE DAILY WORKER, telling your needs, the delegates will read your letter. One of the big things you are interested in is unemploy- ment. If you don’t work there is no pay envelope. If you don’t work, there is nothing with which to pay the landlord, the grocer, with which to buy the things your family needs. How do you get along? How do you make both ends meet? What do you demand? Tell it to the delegates at Indianapolis. Teli it to your highly paid officials, whose salaries go on the whole year around, Write about all the other great prbolems confronting the coal miners of this country. Your letters will be published in THE DAILY WORKER and read by the delegates at your con- vention at Indianapolis. Write to 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill the Editor, The Daily Worker, le JOBLESS FROM eee os. CAMP. AND FIELD RUSH TO CHICAGO Migratories Work Here in Vain Thousands of unemployed workers from out of town are coming into Chicago to look for work, the Salva- tion Army hotels and the Illinois free employment agency. reports. Most of these men make West Madi- son and South State streets their t stamping ground. For the most part they are mi- gratory workers who have worked on farms and in lumber camps and on road building gangs in the country and, since winter set in, have started their migration toward Chicago. Earning low wages and paying high prices for board and rooms while at work, they land in Chicago broke or neary so. Snow Shovelers Not Wanted, The municipal lodging house on North Union street is visited by many of them during the course of the winter. Thomas W’ Allison, man- ager of the lodging house, said that this winter has been a particularly,) hard winter on the migratory work- ers who make Chicago their winter headquarters, One of the chief rea- sons given was that this winter has been bitterly cold and almost snow- less. Usually, migratory workers get a few days work quite often shov- eling snow. This winter only 400 ex- tra men were employed by the street cleaning department shoveling snow and then only for a ho of days, The manager of the Salvation Army hotel on West Madison street said that about 300 men a night sleep of town. They are all looking for work, he said. Employment Offices Closed A large number of the offices of the labor agents, which used to line West Madison street, are closed be- cause no one is hiring workers. A few shipments are being made to the ice fields, but the few jobs offered are soon snapped up-~ Factory owners are not willing tg employ migratory workers, since they will leave in the spring and new men must be broken iy, So the migratory workers wander the streets, sleep in| © thé municipal lodging house when| 8! they can, or “carry the banner” all ae it only to wander the streets next y. a It ais Work pe love ion” given rejected admirer to awoken affection caused United Mine Workers’ are warned to fight the reactionary leadership of the organization and to make no compromise with the be- ta W. Va. Delegates West Virginia delegates to the convention Tayers of the 1922 strike in a mes- Look for; sage sent thru the DAILY WORKER by members of local union No. 2999 in Wendel, W. Va. reads: The message To the Delegates of U. M. of A., Indianapolis:—Our convention has just started and we miners from fest Virginia say in loud and emphatic tones to our delegates to fight and struggle for our benefit. _ We want to clean out the reac- tionaries out of the United Mine Workers’ organization. Don’t com- romise with anybody who was a trayer in the U. M. W. of A. We have suffered enough from crooked leaders and we have no more confidence in them. We. cannot forget the strike of 1922 when we were sold out, los- ing many good members from our organization. We oppose dis- crimination against men who lead the working class towards better conditions. So we advise you dele- gates thru the DAILY WORKER. Charges Ku Klux Klan Would Build | for U. S. Monarchy KANSAS CITY, Mo—If the Ku Klux Klan is allowed to continue as at present, it will create a monarchy in the United States, E. Y. Clarke, former imperial wizard, declared in speech here last night. Clarke was appealing for all Klansmen to attend the National Conference in Atlanta, Feb, 26, at which over-throw of the | resent regime and a reorganization there, and most of them are-from ‘ be bea ty sys ‘5 Clarke said the Klan is “100 per cent Un-American.” Hull Battles Ford. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 30.— Provi- sions of Henry Ford’s offer for Musele Shoals were attacked pastor od presentative repub- lican, member of the house milftasy in a goblly here today by lull, Iowa, ‘airs committee. The statement, evoked by Ford's refusal to appear before the commit- tee and explain certain details of his LEWIS REFUSES AID TO MINERS IN KENTUCKY HELL Appeal to Convention Sent Thru Daily Worker To the DAILY WORKER: sponse to your invitation to miners to make themselves heard thru the columns of the DAILY WORKER, by the delegates at the convention of the United Mine Work- ers of America, now in session at In- dianapolis, Ind., I am asking permis- sion of a little space to present the case of a few thousand wage slaves who belong to a coal field that is not Tepresented at that convention, due to the fact that it has never been or- ganized. The coal field I am refer- ring to is Eastern Kentucky’s. It would be impossible, within the space to which I feel obliged to limit myself, to give anything like an ade- quate description of the miserable, deplorable and degrading conditions of the poor coal miners in that sec- tion. Wages are shamefully low, con- ditions in the various mining camps where the miners live are filthy and unsanitary beyond imagination, and the tyranny of the autocratic coal operators would make Judge Gary's steel mills seem like a pure democ- Tracy, In re coal Defied “Yellow Dog” I was born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, and’I am here in Chicago today because it is impossible for me to find a job in any of the coal mines along the Kentucky river, owing to the fact that I have been blacklisted because I wouldn’t lock my mouth to keep from thinking out loud about unionism, because I denouncéd some of. the slavish conditions to some of my fellow wage earners, and because I refused to sign an infamous pledge known as the “yellow dog contract,” which all the coal companies in East- ern Kentucky shoved in the faces of their employes about a year. ago— because I refused to sign that in- famous pledge and persuaded others to refuse to sign it. The coal miners of Eastern Ken- tucky resent these conditions, They would like to organize and thus be able to make a successful fight against their tyrannical masters, I receive letters almost every day from friends down in that section. One of the letters, which came a few days ago, gave the information that the coal miners at Mayking, a little camp about fifty miles of Hazard, Ky., the center of the coal field, had gone on strike, unorganized as they are, in protest against a 25 per cent wage cut. They are rebellious, and would like to break their chains, but the in- ternational officials of the United Mine Workers of America sit calmly back, with dolded. hands,, and.efer them no assistance or encouragement whatever. Lewis Deaf to Miners’ Calls The international union cannot plead ignorance of the situation in Eastern Kentucky, For months a constant stream of letters.has been pouring into the international offices and into the office of the provisional president of that district, at Ash- land, Ky, President Lewis treats those appeals with quiet indifference, while Samuel Pascoe, provisional president of that district—district 30 —treats them with insolence and con- tempt. Pascoe has held his present aaggreea) to which he was appointed y President Lewis, for more than four years now, and during that time has made no effort to organize the coal minérs in his district. Conse- quently, the coal miners have nearly all, quite naturally, arrived at one of the following conclusions: Whose Collar Does He Wear? 1, -Mr. Fastos byfoiivels rg us present position as provisional presi- dent a long a possible; he knows that as soon as the coal miners in that ffer, assailed “ambiguous provi- ions” of the proposal. Work Daily for “The Daily!” Boost Jap Exodus to S. A. TOKIO--Organization of a com- pany capitalized at $14,000,U00, to foster Japanese emigration to South the death of Mrs. =e Baesttrup,|America and to establish Japanese , Police believed y. The woman!colonies on that continent was an- died from poisoning. nounced here today. 1844 Pitkin 764 40th Monday, Feb. AUSPICES LENIN MEM! LENIN MEMORIAL MEETING TICKETS ON SALE AT THE FOLLQWING PLACES WILLIAMSBURG Laisve .. cecseseceseseeeseeee 46 Ten Eyck St. 715 Broadway BROWNSVILLE BORO PARK AND ALL OTHER PARTY HEADQUARTERS MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 27th Street and Madison Avenue, New York City MUSIC BY RUSSIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MODEST ALTSCHULER CONDUCTING SPEAKERS IN ALL LANGUAGES » Admission, 25¢ and 50c University Pl. 208 E. 12th St. Avenue Street 4th, 7 P.M. | COMMITTEE district are organized, a district presi- dent must be ELECTED from the ranks of the coal miners; therefore, he believes it to be to his own per- sonal interest to delay oragnization just as long as he possibly can; or 2. Mr. Pascoe is in a secret con- spiracy with the coal operator in that field to delay organization of the men as long as possible, Are the_men right in their conelu- sions? It is up to the international officials to exonerate ‘themselves, and to force the district officials to ex- onerate themselves in the eyes ef Eastern Kentuc! coal miners by giving those miners an erie! to enter the ranks the Unit. ed Mine Workers of Ame! Appeals to Convention In behalf of the thousands of coal miners who dwell in the rugged valleys of the Kentucky and Sandy er who are daily grinding away their lives for the heartless monsters of greed, without gratitude sympathy, for a mere starvation pit- tance, whose prayers to the powerful organization of the United Mine Workers of America, have thus far been completely » and for whom no voice can be raised in this convention by their own authority, be- cause they have no delegates there— in behalf of those men and their ais Sie eee act whom sicken ai ie typhoid and other itestsen ta on by the unsanit conditions in which they are fo: to live, I ap- peal to the delegates of this conven- tion to give to Sen and their needs the consideration that has been denied them by the executive officers of that organization.—Alonzo Wal- ters, Illinois. Bury Mine Victim. PETERSBURG, Ind.—Six hundred miners attended the funeral of John “Big Tex” Burt, known bi ‘shot or tb