The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 12, 1924, Page 2

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER JOBLESS RELIEF IN GREAT BRITAIN IS CP. CONTRIBUTION Plan of Communists Gets Congress O. K. (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, Feb. 11—The Unem- ployed Workers Committee, repre- senting the 2,000,000 jobless wage- earners in England, and the Council of the Trade Union Congress is initi- ating a great national campaign for relief of the critical unemployment situation. “The Unempoyed Workers Charter”, consisting of the minimum demands of the unemployed and the Trades Union Congress, will be made the issue in the nationa] drive and the campaign intended to have these de- mands embodied in legislation that will become part of the British legal No Workers Spending Money at Miami, Fla.; Parasite Rich Talk of Weather, Bathing Suits and Dogs (NOTE—The winter season is on full blast in Florida as northern states are now devoting themselves to digging out of snow and sleet. Following is the first of a series of stories giving a picture of what’s going on in the winter retreats of the parasite millionaires.) * * * * MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 11.—Aside from the storms and cold weather back home, the chief topic of conversation in the warm and sunny parts down here is the appearance of the new stream-line body feminine bathing suit, finished in bright yel- low, no upholstering and known as the “Florida Special.”’ Making its first appearance on the white sands today, the new “Special” attracted added interest, universal approval and palate lhe estab dalieas ata ai celfoon ea _— well bé classed a knock- CANNON LAUDS HERRIN MINERS’ The skirt consists of a ruffle around the waist, a sort of ab- breviated coping for cute little pantalets and a base for a decollette Jersey—this is all; there isn’t any more. To set it off properly it appears necessary that a naked little dog, code. The demands are: First—Work or effective main- tenance for all unemployed and in- creased Government assistance, to be provided thru the trade unions, ali relief being completely dissoci- out from the poor law administra- Second—Immediate development of Government schemes for em- ployment to absorb the unemployed in their own trades at trade union wages. ‘ Third—Establishment of State workshops to supply the necessary service or commodities to meet the requirements of the governmental departments. Fourth—Reduction in the hours of labor sufficiently to absorb the unemployed workers, the normal working day or week to be regul- ated by the requirements of indus- try. Fifth—Establishment of occupa- tional training centers for unem- ployed workers, with effective maintenance. Sixth—Provision for suitable housing accomodation at rents within the means of the wage earners, These demands originating with the Communist elements jn the British labor movement and given much publicity thru the unemployed committees have heretofore been re- garded as impossible of realization but their endorsement by the Trade Union Congress and the launching of the national campaign for their initi- ation brings them into the field of practical political questions. The Daily Herald characterizes the campaign as an indication of the in- mene Py ses between the e Union Congress and the organ- ized unemployed. ahi, , pitta for wit"ast two been devoting much of its efforts to the ization of the unemployed and a network of unemployed com- mittees has been established all over Great Britain. Frisco Waiters for Obregon and Against Huerta of Great or to The Daily Worker) (Special SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.—The | Sar Francisco neva od union has tele- hed President Obregon of Mex- © expressing its sympathy with him in the counter-revolution and de- nouncing de la Huerta. “We real- ize,” the telegram reads, “that your efforts in behalf of the workers of Mexico are largely responsible for this capitalist inspired revolt, but we are satisfied that right will triumph over night and freedom over slavery.” LOST—A bill fold containing $40.00 approximately at Ashland Audito- lum, Sunday evening. Finder re- preferably a Mexican hairless on the leash, shall accompany the fair bath- er, the dog also wearing a bathing suit, which, be it said, covers more of its shape than the Florida Special does that of the lady. With the tremendous influx of tourists from all over the country, this seaside resort has been turned into a winter version of Newport, Atlantic City, Long Beach and a dash of Coney Island. Thousands of peo- ple swarm the beaahes. Colors of costumes dazzle the eye. All clothes are summery—filmy and vari-colored. At the height of the bathing hour the beach resembles a carnival. Prevailing styles for men are white flannel trousers, soft shirts and sport coats. Straw hats and caps }are worn. Any one appearing in a | fedora is suspected of taking a nasty crack at the climete. The streets of Miami are so | crowded it’s hard to get around, and |not only the leisure class are favor- ling the resort this year. Thousands of so-called middle class folks are \ spending their vacations and money among the milliopaires. But their are no workers here with money to spend. Women Workers Are Waging War on the Rent Profiteers (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—An organ- ization called the United Council of Working Class Women, with the ob- ject of protecting the interests of the workers, was formed here re- cently, Forty-six working men’s and working women’s organizations are affiliated with the council, ti and support forthcoming. The first problem to which the new organization devoted itself is that of housing. The rents in New York and other cities are exorbitant and tenants have no_ protection against gouging landlords except thru their organizations. In an appeal sent out by Mrs, Kate Gitlow, secretary-treasurer, from the offices of the organization at 137 University Place, New York City, declares “it is the duty of organ- ized labor and.all other workin, men’s and working women’s organi- jzations and all friends of the work- ers to support morally and finan- cially the United Council of Work- ing Class Women.” Not Like the Movies. As George Dodd, manager of the Valentino Inn, cabaret in the center of the downtown district, prepared to deposit Saturday and Sunday’s re- ceipts in the bank today, three ban- dits entered the place, took $2,000, and escaped. Dodd and four em- ployes were bound and gagged by the turn to Daily Worker office and receive good reward. bandits. The money was in Dodd’s inside pocket. STRIKE AT KLAN Calls K.K.K. Enemy of the Foreign-Born “I am glad to see that the miners of Williamson county are striking as a protest against the treatment the foreign-born workers of Williamson county are receiving at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan,” James Cannon, chairman of the Workers Party of America, said in a statement made yesterday. “When the native born American workers stand shoulder to shoulder with the foreign-born workers to protest effectively against the anti- foreign-born and anti-union activities of the Ku Klux Klan the K. K. K. will soon be forced to stop. “The lawless activities of the K. K. K. are but another expression of the same attitude that tries to have all foreign-born workers registered and made safe for the bosses. The workers who protest against the’ treatment accorded foreign-born workers by the K. K. K. should re- member this and fight all attempts to coerce and intimidate foreign-born workers whether made by the K. K. K. or discriminatory laws,” Newdick Is Shoe Arbitrator. NEW YORK, Feb. 11—The Shoe- workers’ Protective union at Haver- hill, Mass., has concluded a two-year agreement with the Shoe Manufact- urers’ Association, providing for a permanent committee of arbitration. Edwin Newdick, New England repre- sentative of the Labor Bureau, Inc., was selected to head the arbitration board at a $10,000 annual salary. Bedacht at Workers Lyceum. Nicolai Lenin, His Life and Work, is the subject of the lecture to be delivered by, Max Bedacht to the open ‘mestiig of Northwest branch ot the Workers Party at the Workers Lyceum, 2733 Hirsch Boulevard, to- night (Tuesday). The meeting is open to all who care to come, Homeless From Flood. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 11.— Thirty thousand people are home- less from the flood of the river Pa- rahyba which yesterday inundated the city of Campos, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, according to advices here today. Floods also are reported from many parts of North Brazil, owing to recent heavy rains. How Did It Happen? MADRID, Feb, 11.—A number of women and girls from some of Ma- drid’s most aristocratic families were caught when police raided a secret gambling club—for women only, Boost for 8-Hour Day. The United States Railroad Labor Board has again upheld the 8-hour day and time and one-half for over time in a decision t issued. The decision will affect 60,000 workers of the American Express company. Lincoln and the Working Class By JAY LOVESTONE Ps cy ALL our presidents to date Lincoln has been the one most entangled in a maze of mythical tradi- tions. At this moment when a strike- breaker is at the head of the govern- ment and when the country is in the midst of the unfolding of the worst tale of plunder in its odious annals of the looting of its wealth by the capitalists, it was not our task to un- rave] these mythical mysteries. A few words about Lincoln’s relation- ship with the working class in the le to abolish chattel slavery in the United States will be appropriate. All ideals, social attitudes, politi- eal and economic rights, take root in the material conditions at hand and transmitted. In these material con- ditions the economic conditions are the dynamic force, the changing in- fluence. Lincoln spoke and reflected the ideals ef the lower middle class who with the farmers made up the decisive majority of the population of the United States in 1860. It was in this role that Lincoln was #t the helm in the fight against cotton cul- ture. The weakness and the wavering of this social class, in so far as they manifested themselves in Lincoln, counteracted by the hey: Seay influences of the working c! an the enslaved class of Negroes. In the story of the Civil War the part layed ty these factors cannot be over-estimated. We recall how Frederick Douglass, the Negro ad- visor to Lincoln, sized up the early inst chattel slavery in oe oe : “I reproached the North fought with one hand, while bend cn Pe more effectively two; that they fought with the goft white hand, while kept the 3 bey realigi hand chained ehin em; that they fought effect while they protected hat omaha and said that the Union cause would never prosper until the war assumed an anti-slavery attitude and the Negro was enlisted on the side of the Union.” Lincoln was very well aware of the fact that the heart of the English popular sentiment for the North was the working class of England, Lincoln called the conduct and the attitude of the suffering textile work- ers of Manchester towards the North whose blockade of the Southern ports was responsible for the shutting down of the British mills “an act of sub- lime Christian heroism which has not been surpassed in any age or any country.” Charles Francis Adams then in + pnt of the American legation in London replying for Lincoln to the address of the General Council of the International Workingmen’s As- sociation of which Karl Marx was at the head declared: “They (the United States) derived new encouragement to preserve from the testimony of the workingmen of Europe.” The United States would never have been able to pull thru the revo- lutionary crisis of the Civil War if the workingmeit of Europe had not rallied whole heartedly to the fight against Negro slavery, tho the im- mediate economic advantages dictated them to favor the Southern cotton barons. It was only the heavy hand of the International Workingmen’s Associa- tion that stopped the British capital- ists and their government from lin- ing up with the South in order to have the South independent with tariff regulations of its own enabling and helpless England to have “undisputed free trade.” Famine fever, as Marx called the hunger typhus, starvation, wage cuts, jails, and poor houses were the lot of the English workingmen who did so much to make possible Lincoln’s victory over chattel slavery. The suffering of the Eng- lish workingmen was so deplorable that committees were formed in New York “for the purpose of collecting money for the starving weavers in the North of England and thus allevi- ating their misery.” This far-sightedness of Lincoln in appreciating the decisive importance. of the working class in the st le was crystallized in his address to the New York Republican Workingmen’s Association in which he said: ‘None are so deeply interested to re: the present rebellion as the workin; Lo ple. Let them beware of rad ‘ice, working division and hostility among themselves. The most notable feat- ure of a disturbance in your city last summer was the hanging of some working people. It should never be so. The strongest bond of human sympathy outside of the family rela- tion, should be the one uniting all working people of all nations, and tongues and kindreds.” The splendid international soli- darity and sacrifices of the English working class in the Civil War and these memorable words of Lincoln take on redoubled significance for the American workers today. These heroic deeds and true words should remind our working men of their great need for solidarity at home against their common capitalist, enemy and for international unity with the workers of the other coun- tries in the against world im- perialism and ist reaction, HISTORIC NEGRO ALL-RAGE MEET SEEKING UNITY Labor Seen as Big, Dominant Issue (Continued from Page 1) the African-American’s Relation to Worldwide Race Movements, Frater- nal and Benevolent Organizations of the Race, the Religious Question, In- ter-Racial Co-operation, Agitation against Lynching, Segregation, Dis- franchisement, Peonage and other racial abuses, will act as advisory bodies striving to unite the efforts of the various organizations attempt- ing to handle these issues and un- dertaking special jobs at the request of the affiliated organizations. The tremendous problem created by the migration of a million Ne- groes into northern industrial ‘life in the last few years will form the basis for a large part of the work of the committee on labor. The convention is greatly interested in finding who will go on this commit- tee; which will play an important part in Negro life after the conven- tion, Middle Class In Majority. The majority of the delegates are from the middle class and include editors, small business men, clergy- men and others, but there is a con- siderable proletarian element also. Even the middle class representa- tives are far more cognizant of the labor question than a similar rep- resentation from the white'race, for the persecution of the Negroes from the days of slavery to the present policy of maintaining the Negroes as a voteless, unskilled labor force has so obviously its roots in the in- dustrial system. Informa) discussion among the del- egates reveals a more aggressive attitude than that likely to be ex- pressed on the floor. This from a ie lawyer from Washington, . Cus “When they started killing Ne- groes in Washington a few years ago the Negroes fought back better than our enemies, That’s why they haven’t tried wholesale lynching again. If the Negroes of America hadn’t resisted in Washington and other places there would have been massacres all over the countf-y.” Saving the Race. “The Basic Importance of the Phys- ical Stamina of the Race” will be the subject for speakers at tomorrow mornings session and will furnish much opportunity for scoring the in- dustrial conditions responsible for the diseases that are racking the poorly paid workers, Bt aid work day in. the tee] indurtef/pwhere so many Negroes are employed; the adulterated food, sold to industrial workers and the lack of medica] at- tention given to the producers on southern plantations; all these will be dealt with by able speakers; in- cluding Dr. A. M. Curtis, ex-president of the National Medical Association; Dr. Algernon L. Jackson, director School of Public Health and Hygiene, Howard University, Washington, D. C.; Dr. A. Wilberforce Williams, Chi- cago and Dr, U. G. Dailey, Chicago. The Fight For Education. “Our Educational Program” will be the topic for the afternoon, and the bitter truth of the southern educa- tional systems, which allow Negro schools only a fraction of the funds ae for whites will be exposed. s atic policy of maintaining the Negro as an unskilled worker. The educa- tional efforts of racially conscious Negroes will be explained in answer. Speakers will include: Prof. Gilbert H. Jones, Dean, Wil- berforce University, presiding, Prof. Garnet C, Wilkinson, Assist- ant Superintendent, Public Schools, Washington, D. C. eat, John M. Gandy, Principal, ‘al and Industrial School, Peters- burg, Va. Prof. John Hope, President, More- house College, Atlanta, Ga. Rev. R. C. Woods, President, Vir- pte Seeny and College, Lynch- . a. Combating Race Hate. The Negro Press, which is resist- ing the vicious propaganda of race hate of the American capitalist dailies will be dealt with at the eve- ue sessions at Wendell Phillips High School, 39th strcet and Prairie avenue. Speakers include Mr. Robert L, Vann, Editor, Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh, Pa., presiding; Mr, R. S. Abbott, Editor, Chicago Defender; Mr. Carl J. Murphy, Editor, Afro- American, Baltimore Md.; Mr. Claude A. Barnett, Director, Asso- ciated Negro Press, Chi IL; Rey. W. J. Walls, Jditor, Zion, Charlotte, N. C. Discussion will follow all talks, A full list of organizations partici- pating in the congross will be in tomorrow’s paper. Rum Runners Take Coast Guards? | ued “hiding be! NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Five men|cade of legal technicalities.” of the United States coast Tuesday, February 12, 1924 McAdoo Held Job Until He _ Was Smoked Out by Doheny (Continued from page 1) control of an adequate supply of| knew Fall well. He knows the lat- petroleum. ter’s rns with by an: to conserva- pect tion, Fall’s record in the senate was igs Da eee ns wat) } one of consistent opposition to and as Mr. Doheny, enjoyed an enviable were paca hob earuoes Hecke ja 3 reputation when he called on me in “It will be recalled that Denby in 19. addition to turning over the naval oil , “His companies were the outstand-| reserves to Fall also turned over to ing independent oil companies fur-| him the naval coal reserves in Alaska. nishing ‘the required supply of Mexi-| When he did this he knew and must can fuel oil to our industries along|have known that was Fall’s purpose the Atlantic seaboard. They were|and desire immediately to transfer also the only strong companies offer-| these reserves to private interests for ing competition with the so-called] private exploitation, “oil trust” in the United States, “So, “although, the President must “When Mr. Doheny therefore, asked| bear his full measure of responsibili- my firm to act for him professionally| ty. He was aware of the policy of in trying to prevent the confiscation| 0th Denby and Fall in dealing with of his valuable petroleum properties the naval oil reserves and other pub- in Mexico—representing several hund-|ic property long before the present red million dollars—it appealed to me| investigation called public attention because of my general knowledge of|to their conduct. the oil industry and of Mexican and Latin-American relations and because it was in line with the of ‘the administrations American properties against confis- cation in Mexico, “Public Service”. “I believe the opportunity was pre- sented to render a genuine service, outside of my professional work, in promoting Latin-American commerce and was particularly interested in the rotection of all American rights in exico from retroactive and confis- catory effect to Article 27 of the Mex- ican constitution.” President Wilson filed .a strong protest against Article 27 in 1918, he pointed out. The Harding adminis- tration also opposed it. There were more than 500 spec- | tators packed into the room as Mc- Adoo took the oath and began read- ing his statement. Senator Walsh, Montana, brought out that McAdoo quit as secretary of the treasury Dec. 6, 1918, as di- rector general of railroads Jan. 11, 1919, and entered the law business in April, 1919, “When did you first become attor- ney for Doheny?” “T think it was Nov. 80, 1919.” “Did you have anything to do with him before that?” * “I had met him but once before that.” McAdoo was asked explicitly what , duties he had performed for Doheny. | “I was merely his special counsel,” McAdoo said. “I think I may say | that if he had sought my advice | about this matter he would not be: in his present difficulty.” McAdoo went tb Mexico for Do-! heny in January; 1921, remaining ten days or two weeks. He gripped i both sides of the witness table as he answered Senator Lenroot, Fall “Not Equally Guilty.” “If it be true that an ex-cabinet member has betrayed a public trust do you consider Mr. Deheny equally guilty?” Ballin, siven |brought about Republican defeat and “Not equally—but it appears he is guilty of a very grave matter. Of course I don’t intend to pass judg- Shows Coolidge Connection. “When I introduced the senate res- declared policy olution authorizing and directing the to protect investigation upon which the public lands committee is now conducting into the subject of leases upon naval oil reserves, the vice president, now the president, was then in the chair. This was on April 21, 1922. When that resolution was called up for discussion and the whole subject thor- oly gone into on April 28, 1922, the j Mr. Coolidge, now mt, was then in the chair and heard the discussion, At that time the revelations were foreshad- owed which have since been publicly made, “So, altho the President must cial bear his own responsibility, Let there be no whitewashing, no vicar- ious atmosphere. Says Denby “Morally Abnormal.” “I say it with shame and morti- fication, but 1t is unfortunately true that the political party of which I am a member, as represented by those in control of the machinery of the party, has played as sorry a part in this investigation as it did in the Ballinger investigation. The action of the leaders of the Republican party in the Ballinger case as much as any other one thing discredited the Taft administration and drove the Republican party from power. “It would seem as tho the Ballin- ger case should have taught us a lesson, but apparently it has not done 50. LaFoliegte termed Secretary Den- by “intellectually and morally ab- normal” and “not fit and trustwor- thy man for the office.” MINERS WAGE SCALE PARLEY OPENS IN FLA, ment upon anyone before you com- plete your investigation.” Senator Dill, Waqhington Demo- erat, questioned McAdoo as to the money he had received. McAdoo said he himself got $50,000 in two annual retainers of 325,000 each and that his firm got $190,000, “Did Doheny deliver it in a sat- chel?” Dill asked. “He did not, sir. form of checks.” Chairman Lenroot then ordered the committee into executive session. The nominations of Silas Strawn It came in the After being in session two hours the committee adjourned without taking any action on the nomina- tions. They will he considered again tomorrow, altho no additional wit- nesses are expected. Three railroad brotherlood repre- sentatives appeared in opposition to Pomerene. Weeks Is Hardboiled. “T do not expect any resignations from the cabinet teday—or soon,” Secretary of War Weeke said today, on leaving the White House after 4 extended conference with the prés- lent. Weeks said adontion by the senate of a resolution calling for Secretary of Navy Penby’s resignation “would make no difference, as the senate has no jurisdiction over the cabinet ex- cept to confirm it.” At Denby’s office it was said to- day he had no intention of resign- ing, no matter what action the sen- ate took. LaFollette Warns G. 0. P. Forecasting “defeat and possibly ruin for the Republican rty” as a result of the naval oil reserve scandal, Senator LaFollette today declared in a speech in the senate that President Coolidge was in part responsfble, LaFollette declared “the adminis- tar of [tration of President Coolidge is em- ploying the same tactics in this case that the administration of President Taft employed in the Ballinger case.” He asserted the linger case prophesied the same fate for Coolidge administration if it contin- hind 2 paper ba: LaFollette demanded the resigna. are believed today to have |tion of Secretary of the Navy Den! been captured b; erating off the of “Rum Row.” Worried About Gold Fish. - Gold fish and alligators, frogs and monkeys and canaries and sea lions led a tough life year, the Illinois Humane ported in its annual statement. Amalgamation means strength! | ‘ot | responsibility mane Sooty se |done,” said LaFollette, rum runners op-|and scouted all arguments that ig Beach section | was not within the proper of the senate to ask for it. “Albert B. Fall must bear the re- sponsibility for his conduct, but he must not be made the scape-goat so that others may be allowed to evade ‘or what they have Page Strictly Accountable. 5 panty pont yo be held { Lewis Wants Easy Sail- ing for Four Years (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 11.— The wage scale pirley between the coal operators of the central com- petitive field, comprising Ohio, Illi- nois, eastern Pennsylvania and In- diana and the representatives of the United, Mine Workers of America opened this morning at 10 a. m. The present agreement expires on March 31 of this year, Unlesg an agreement is reached that is satis- Nine delegatets from the Pitts- burgh Coal Producers Association are here. This group broke away from the Cleveland agreement which was signed in 1922. The conference is expected to last in; for two weeks. The Lewis admin- istration is understood to be sat- isfied with the present wage scale but insists on a four year contract. The scale now in ihe bituminous mines is 94 cents a ton for machine mining and $7.25 to $7.50 for day labor. ’ The mines in the four states pro- duce 86 per cent of the 500,000,000 annual tonnage of bituminous coal. That the coal operators are glee-. ful over the manner in which John L. Lewis held his power at the Indianapolis convention by riding rough shod over the rights of the progressives is demonstrated in the current issue of Coal Age, consid- ered the most representative and au- thoritative magazine of the coal in- dustry from the operators’ stand- point, P It states that Mr. Lewis and his supporters are taking the right stand. It is with the coal op- erators not to attempt a reduction in wages, fearing that the govern- ment might step in and take over the coal industry. “Let us keep the hands of Con, off the indus' by going qui about our busi- ness, lest the public try to make it their’s,” an editorial in the Coal Age says. The Coal Age also gives Secretary of Labor Davis’ anti-alien speech in full and tells of the handshaking incident when Davis called Lewis “|“the greatest president the United _|Mine Worke ever had.” Burn to Death, DES MOINES. Towa, ebe 11 Fr » 10" ’ eb. —_— province | Two small children of C. E. Brown, a carriage worker, were: burned to death and their mother fatal.y in- fired in a fire which destroyed their me here today. LONDON, Feb, 11.--Former Pre- Tories Re-clect Baldwin, mier Stanley Baldwin has been strict| unanimously re-elected leader of the . He) Tory party. z MINERS STRIKE. AT HERRIN TO OUST THE KLAN Troops and Klan Are Patrolling the Streets (Continued from Page 1) the Illinois Militia, and promptly took over command of the situation, just as a coroner’s jury began an inquest into the death of Constable Cagle. Adjutant General Carlos’ Black in- dicated just before the arrival of the Chicago troops, that Young would be ousted from control of the city very soon, The coroner’s inquest, held on the second floor of the city hall, was closed to all save jury men, witnesses and newspapermen. The stairways to the room and all doors of the building, were guarded by soldiers, All who were author- ized to enter the jury room, even the jurors, were searched for concealed weapons. Arrest Former Mayor. A. T. Pace, former mayor of Her- rin, was arrested on a,charge of com- plicity in connection with the murder of Cagle. The warrant, sworn out by Young, was served on Pace just as he was being sworn in as foreman of the coroner’s jury. “ Jack Rowse, 23, one of the wit- nesses at the inquest, described the attack upon Cagle. He said he met a group of men in the downtown dis- trict Friday night. They were, all brandishing guns, he said. “Get out of the way,” the men shouted. ‘ Rowse got out, he said, thea fob lowed the men to the Jefferson Hotel, where they. commenced to shout, “There he is,” and surrounded a man. The man, who was Cagle, a mem- ber of the Herrin police force, reach- ed under his armpit as if for - the revolver that the participants in the Klan and booze war all carry. A man in the mob hit Cagle on the head with a shotgun. Cagle dropped, Rowse said, and three men stepped forward with drawn revolvers and fired. Cagle was instantly killed. , “I knew two of the three men,” Rowse said. “One was Ora Thomas, and another was one of the three Shelton brothers. I can point him out if you bring him here.” Thomas is said to be a leader of the anti-Klan forces, capable dates QUAKER PRISON SEES CONVICTS IN LIBERTY FIGHT Gas Explosions Precede Freedom Dash (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 11—Two prison officials were killed today when 100 convicts at the Western Peni- tentiary made a dash for liberty fol- lowing two gas explosions in the lower end of the institution. The dead are: John A, Pieper, as- fitant deputy warden of Beechview, and John T. Coax, yard sergeant of North side, Pittsburgh. Rioting broke out in the Western Penitentiary today and all available police and detectives and deputy sheriffs were rushed to the prison, — Crowds gathered outside the peni- tentiary walls and saw windows be- ing broken by stones hurled by rebel- lious prisoners. Hoarse cries and yells mingled with intermittent fir- The last outbreak at the peniten- tiary occured about three years ago when several of the rioters were kil- led and many, wounded. About five hundred prisoners are lodged in the penitentiary at the present time. First reports said two of the pris- oners were shot and killed. About ne of Ah ye orig mee running loose in ie penitentiary yard, attacking the guards and police- men with clubs, pi 8 and stones. The battle reached a terrific stage at 10:30 a, m. and all police were called from their beats and rushed to the prison in taxicabs, A call was sent to the central police station for more guns and ammuni- tion and these were sent in a patrol wagon, Like the riot of three years ago, the fighting today broke out follow- ing outbreak of fire in the main pris- on building. The convicts, many of whom were reported armed, dashed into the yard, fighting madly in an effort to more Superinte: t of police John Brophy led a second squad to the prison, armed with tear gas bombs. The fire department was called out and streams of water were played on the rioters. aking gas mains caused the ex- plosions, and officials of the prison said there was no evidence that any of the convicts was responsible or that ‘the explosions were a part of a plan of the prisoners to escape. Teamsters May Strike. A strike of 8,000 teamsters will be- in this morning, officials of Leal 731, of the Teamsters’ Union, an- nounced last night. The teamsters want an increase in pay of $1 a day and an 8-hour day. \* sters affeeted haul building, material, asphalt, and garbage, * “He who believes in another world ginore oS somos e A 18 | } : | od