The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 2

Page Two T LADIES GARMENT WORKERS READY FOR BIG STRIKE Walkout Is Set For Secret Date Failing to receive any reply from the employers in the ladies’ garment industry to their repeated demands to affect a settlement with the union strike committee of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Urfon has completed organization of ma- chinery to carry on a strike. A strike has been decided on but is be- ing kept secret. Not only the 10,000 girls and women in tho dressmaking industry will be called out but the 3,000 men who are employed as cloak makers will alse walk ont, it was said at the union headquarters. Cloakmakers to Fight Thugs, The cloak makers will remain out on strike for a couple of days to organize for the protection of the women members of the union from the violence that is feared from the thugs and sluggers of the bosses. As soon as the cloak makers are sure they can protect the women mem- bers of the union they will return to work. The strike committee at a meeting Sunday decided to give the bosses till Monday night to answer the de- mands of the union. Up to a late hour last night the u:fon had re- evived no answer. Demand 5-Day Week. The garment workers are demand- ing a five-day forty-hour week with pay for forty-four hours, unemploy- ment insurance, and the setting up of machinery for settling disputes that arise between tl workers and bosses, $94 For the last nine months the union has been conducting an intensive or- ganization campaign. In a letter to the dress manufacturers the union — out that since 1916 there been a steady drift in the dress industry toward the return of the sweat shop conditions that existed before the coming of the union. The only statement the union would make about the date of the strike was that “it will be called in the very near future.” McAdoo Gets the Railroad Wing of Cleveland Conference (Continued from page 1) made to the Senate committee in- vestigating the nava! oil leases. “I should regard any effort to place another progreséT¥a candidacy j effort infthe in- terests of the republican rhrty to divert the public mind from the iniquities of the present administra- tion and as a contribution to the plan of the great interests allied to defeat the former distinguished sec- retary of the treasury. “I am most deeply appreciative that you or any other citizen should deem me worthy of elevation to the presidency, And I thank you and those associated with you most -gor- dially, but am unable to give counte- nance to any movement to that end,” The name of B. M. Jewell, head of the Railway Department of the American Federation of Labor, signed to resolution of confidence, is believed to show that the executive council of the Federation approves of the McAdoo candidacy officially and 2 statement to this effect is expected soon from President Gompers. Marsh Sounds Warning. The only note of pessimism sound- ed at the conference came from Ben- jamin Marsh, national representative of the farmers’ council, who declared that the farmers were disgusted with both old parties and were going to organize a farmer-labor party to con- test the coming elections. Now that the renovating of Me- Adoo has been accomplished to the . lon of his democratic sup- Porters it is planned to intensify the work his nomination that was halted by the posures. Galloway Miners Aid Locked Out Men In Fennelton Field GALLOWAY, W. Va., Feb, 18.— A $200 donation was forwarded by Galloway local of the United Mine Workers to their locked out brothers at Fenneiton, W. Va., and a commit- tee of two miners was selected to in- vestigate conditions that field. The Fennelton miners have been Teapot Dome ex- locked out for three years. They | trial. are fighting one of the worst set of non-union operators in West Virginia. At a mass meeting in Galloway, with 600 miners from three local unions present, resolutions were _ Passed against the Davis bills that would ensiave the foreign born work- ers in America. U. 8. Lieutenant Falls In Attack On Rebel Filipinos MANILA, P. L, Feb. 18.—Filipino rebels accounted for nine members of Genera! Wood's constabulary in a fight at Bulete, Agusan province. Thirty-five natives were slain. The American constabulary were better armed but the Filipinos defended themselvas hg yg b ag Lieut, les was one 0 it ailesioee ‘soneaiaon Great unrest prevails at the over- ridine of tribal rule by American ee. Madves egy. Rey omer are jpanish oc- Negro Race Movement Given Labor Vision Thru the Constructive Role of Workers Party at Sanhedrin Growth of Workers Party influence among the Negroes is the certain result of the constructive work of its delegates at the big All Race Congress or Sanhedrin held here last week. No one could foliow the Sanhedrin without seeing that the only force fighting aggressively for the Negro race there was the force represented by the Workers Party delegates, th African Blood Brotherhood and several individual dele- gates from other organizations who rallied to their progam. The laber delegates insisted that the only hope of the oppressed Negro Race was in lining up with the op- pressed of other races: that the op- pression of the Negro had an eco- nomic basis and was for the purpose of maintaining him as a voteless and unskilled worker in field and mill. All Workers Party resolutions, in- corporating their race program, had the unity of the black worker with the white worker, as the solution of the race problem. Workers Party Demands. This was shown in their vigorous demand for the elimination of the color line in the unions; in their in- sistence that the Ku Klux Klan could only be fought effectively in ‘co-operation with the foreign bs workers; in their demand that the same schools must be open to blacks and whites because where the races were segregated the Negro always got less attention; in their solution of the residential segregation into “black belts” by the remedy of hav- ing all houses let to first comers at stipulated prices—regardless of the applicant’s color, and in other reso- lutions. Ninety-eight per cent of the Ne- groes are workers or farmers, and when farmers are almost invariably tenant farmers, in many cases in Peonage or debt slavery. Dean Miller—the Deceiver, Dean Kelly Miller, chairman of the Sanhedrin, also declared at the outset of the congress that the Ne- gto group was essentially a labor group, therefore the Negro problem was a labor problem. This was said to members of the Workers Party and other radicals in the effort to throw dust in their eyes. It was said, with the promise that labor would receive full considera- tion in the sessions of the Sanhedrin. Dean Miller never had any inten- tion to give labor any consideration at the Sanhedrin. Nor did he intend to encourage any aggressive race at- titude against lynching, disfranchise- ment, segregation in residential dis- tricts,*schools and Jim Crow cars. against the race. Dean Miller and the organizers of the Congress want- ed to do nothing that would offend the social welfare organizations, white chambers of commerce, Repub- lican Party and any of the other stitutions which supported the lead- ers—tho not the masses,—of the race. Nor would he do anything which wesle offend any vested interests of the 2. Labor knew the Congress would be controlled by conservatives but it was not prepared for the deceitful tactics of the leaders. So when Dean Miller explained that labor would be given a regular place on the program they gave him a chance to make good. Force Labor Committees. There would have been no labor committee at all if the radicals had not insisted. Then Dean Miller ap- pointed a committee of six headed by Arnold T. Hill, an official of the Ur- ban League, a chamber of commerce institution, and containing another Urban Leaguer. One Workers Party delegate, Lovett Fort-Whiteman got on the committee. Other Workers Party delegates and men from the African Blood Brotherhood insisted on getting onto the committee also, Miller evened it up by other con- servative appointments. However, the radicals had the only program to present to the labor com- mittee and most of their program got thru, especially the part calling for the elimination of the color line in the unions and the solidarity of white and black workers. Radicals Get Out Publicity. To the alarm of the conservatives the clear cut resolutions of the two class conscious organizations—the Workers Party and the African Blood Brotherhood, were mimeo- graphed by the hundreds and dis- tributed to every delegate and to visitors, and mailed out. The Workers Party labor program for the Negro race was thus spread far and wide. Aiding the work of the labor dele- gates was the Daily Worker, the only daily paper in Chicago to report the . An average of 200 copies a day was sold to the delegates. As the regular Negro press did not come out until the latter part of the week the DAILY WORKER, with the message it contained, was the daily reading of these delegates from the North and the South, the East and the West. It awakened a sympathetic response in many who were not workers but whose associations were with the poorly paid workers. This was the ease with some of the clergymen present, Daily Worker Gains. Incidently, the DAILY WORKER gained considerable circulation in the Chicago, during the progress of the |Sanhedrin—which means many more Party influence, Suspicion was soon aroused that Dean Miller's til the close of the convention, ai then adjourn without having do: an; in their behalf. This sus- Ete Heth to be correct, | Negro district in the South Side of (persons subjected to the Workers strategy was to kid the working class aaaeke along un- | Bascom Slemp, to Emergency Hospi- | Dean Kelly Miller. Dean Miller, chairman of the Negro All-Race Congress, is profes- ser of sociology at Howard Univer- sity, Washington, D. C. See Radicals Revolt. Thursday afternoon the radicals re- volted openly. The revolt came at the end of a series of speeches on inter-racial relationships in which Labor, the one sure tie between the Races, had been ignored. Applause which the audience gave Otto E. Huiswoud, of the African Blood Brotherhood, a union printer, when a charge that labor was an out- east at the Sanhedrin as it was out- side showed the majority of the dele- gates did not agree with Dean Mil- ler’s conception of the Race Move- ment, as a gathering of business and professional men. So hot was the discussion, by Houis- |woud, Fort-Whiteman, and other dele- ‘gates, the chairman was unable to | stop, that the half promise was made that labor would be given attention the next morning. Miller's Slick Move Fails. Next morning it was shoved aside gain. At noon when labor delegates took the floor Dean Miller smoothly announced that “those interested in | labor” could adjourn to the assembly room while the main body continued in session to hear the report of the or- ganization committee. This slick move would have gotten rid of the radicals while the Rac tant report on the constitution was being adopted. Here Miller lost control of the con- vention for 40 minutes. Speakers not affiliated with the Workers Party and the African Blood Brotherhood followed their delegates lead in Ppoint- ‘ing out that labor was the supreme issue before a Negro congress be- cause the Negroes were workers and farmers basically, not preachers, bankers and lawyers. Black Capitalists. The auditorium rocked with ap- plause when Gordon Owens of the Workers Party declared that a black capitalist was just as obnoxious as a (white capitalist“and a black real es- | tate shark as dangerous as one of the other color. Men in ministerial collars clapped their hands at this,)but one brother of the cloth tri‘g to rise “in defense of capital,” to greeted with the ery “Are you one of those black capi- talists?” S. V. Phillips and Lovett Fort2" Whiteman of the Workers Party made telling speeches, and so did Otto E. Huiswoud. Miller squirmed under his charge that he had been sabotaging labor. When Miller finally got back the floor the entire audience realized that there was a body of men there fight- ing for the 98 per cent of the Race who were toilers, we ‘Solidarity With White Workers. The Workers Party was seen as the movement fighting for solution of the Race Problem by organization of the black worker with his white brother, in contrast to the policy of ing from the white rulers that the lead- lers of the Sanhedrin stood for, | It will be impossible for the Negro bourgeoisie to develop a race move- ment that is isolated from the labor movement, The radical Negroes will not let them. Coolidge Prodded to Action by Bullet that Plugged Greene (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Presi- dent Coolidge has taken personal charge of an investigation of the pro- \hibition enforcement situation Washington as a result of shooting of Senator Greene, Vermont, by a stray bullet fired in.a battle between dry agents and bootleggers. The President sent his secretary, C. tal to get from Mr. Green the circum- stances of the shooting. Join the Workers Party. \ ' in} HE DAILY WORKER |UPHOLSTERERS’ TRIAL BEGINS IN BOYCOTT GASE Bosses’ Lawyer Handles | Case for State Dudley Taylor, lawyer for the Il- itinois Employers’ Association, will be the captain and chief mate in the Prosecution of five union workers be- fore Judge Hosea Wells in county ‘court, it «was revealed yesterday | {when four members of the Uphols- terers’ union and one member of the Painters’ union came up for trial for activities in the upholsterers’ strike. The five union men are Thomas O'Shea, business agent of local 111 | of the Upholsterers’ union; Michael J. McKenna, business agent for local 110 of the Upholsterers’ union and secre- tary of Upholsterers’ District Coun- ceil; William Riordon and Gus J. Dahl, members of Upholsterers’ union, and | Fred Jurish, a member of local 637 | of the Painters’ union. ,They are all charged with “eonspiricy to boycott” | on an indictment of six counts. If | found guilty they can be sentenced | to from one to five years in prison on each count. ) Taylor Is Real Prosecutor. The evidence on which the indict- ments were based was gathered by Dudley Taylor. States Attorney Crowe “extended the courtesies of the office” and the assistance of spe- cial police to Taylor to enable him to gather the evidence. Michael. Romano, assistant states attorney, is nominally chief prosecu- tor, assisted by Assistant States At- torney Cherviat, but it is well known that Dudley Taylor prepared the case for Romano and is instructing and as- sisting him in presenting it, The defense attorneys are Oscar | Nelson, one of the vice presidents of the Chicago Federation of Labor; Joseph Ricker and Robert Daniel. Tavlor Chief Witness Also. Romano announced that Dudley Taylor would be the chief witness for the prosecution when the tentative jury had been sworn. The jury panel is composed largely of clerical work- ers and small business men who seem to have an open shop psychology. It looks as if it will take at least two days to get a jury that will satisfy both the defense and the prosecution. Court sessions yesterday were taken up with the questioning of jurors, The defense and the prose- cution both have ten peremptory chal- lenges. The questioning of the jurors re- vealed that the prosecution is anxious to get men who have never had any connection with labor organizations. The defense is anxious to. en of broad experience who are out prejudice «against organized labor. The indictment charges that the | unionists “did wrongfully and matici- ously conspire to injure, damage ana | destroy the business” of certain up- holstery concerns by hindering them from execution of their contracts. They are charged with having done this by attempting to make the up- holstery bosses employ only members of the union. Trial Is Strikebreaking Plot. . Michael McKenna, one of the de- fendants, told a reporter for the DAILY WORKER that the prosecu- tion of himself and the other defend- ants was the result of the failure of the boss upholsterer to break the strike of upholstery workers which began last May, “The bosses failed to get any men who were mechanics to return to work, The men who did scab were anvthing but uvholste: they were hod carriers when it came to laying carpet. With the assistance of Dud- ley Taylor of the Employers Associa- tion they had us indicted. We are charged with conspiring together, We fellows who are upholsterers never saw ‘or heard of Fred Jurish before we were al indicted. Yet we are charged with conspiring with a man we didn’t know existed,” McKenna paid, - Jurish refused to work on the # me job with scab upholsterers and be- cause of that he was indicted and is being tried for attempting to damage and destroy the business of the up- holstery bosses. At the close of the court yesterday four ivrors had been tentatively ac- cepted by both sides, The prosecu- tion had used 11 of their 50 peremp- tory challenges, challenging every juror who is now or ever was a mem- ber of a labor union, A contractor who was not doing j work under the Landix award was challenged by the proaeeution. defense has usec only four of the'r challenges, Two o urors were ‘passed to the defens» as acceptable Congress Killing | Tax Program of Andrew Mellon Frocial to The Defly Worker) WAST" ministration’s tax program seemed doomed today when a two-hour ton- ‘ference between house republican jand progressive leaders failed to j break the deadlock on income tax ‘rates, | No further conference has been | arranged and administration leaders concede defeat for their program un- | leas 5 compromise is made before peas ives stood pat for a 50 eusives pat for a cent cut in the normal ii rates but republican leader Long: worth refused to budge from ition that the lower a fundamental change lon program. rate would in the Mel- YTON, Feb. 18---The ad- (Continued from Page 1) of the navy dirigible Shenandoah. When the president ordered plans for the flight stopped he struck at Den- |by’s pet project and thus clearly his. usefulness as a cabinet member had been impaired by hig connection with the leasing of the naval oil reserves and the consequent demand by the senate that he resign. As he left the navy department shortly before 11 a, m. today, Denby said: “This is my birthday. I am 54 years old today. I am going home. I have absolutely nothing to say. I won’t say. I have resigned or that I haven't or that I intend to, I hope you will let me alone on my birth- day. If you see me at four o'clock I may have some statement to make.” Photographers snapped Denby as he was leaving the navy department. “What will the caption be over that picture?” Nobody replied, “Well,” said Denby, “don’t use it right away if you are going to make it ‘resigned’.” At the White House it, was stated that there was no announcement forthcoming regarding Denby and that anything that was to be said would come from the navy depart- ment. Denby Successor Unknown, Secretary of the Navy Denby’s suc- cessor will “not be a man from Michi- gan nor a man now connected. with the navy,” it was said by an Official close to President Coolidge this after- noon. This was taken as disposing of the possibility that Charles B. Warren, Detroit, would be appointed. Warren was believed to have the inside track as Denby’s successor, Denby Quits March 10th, At the White House it was stated Denby’s resignation probably would be effective March 10. _ Denby first discussed his resigna- tion witlf Mr, Coolidge on Sunday at the White House, it was learned. Nothing was decided then, however. Denby then talked it over further with his friends, the understandin being that if he would quit the cabi- net, his friends would organize an effort to vindicate him, It was sug- gested today that he might run for the senate. Roosevelt May Also Go: Denby this morning called up the President and told him he had decided to quit. Mr. Coolidge at once said he would accept the secretary’s decision and release him. Roosevelt, it was learned, offered his resignation but Mr. Coolidge told him the question need not be dis- cussed at this time. The assistant secretary is under- stood to have told the President he Was ready to stap out if his connec- tion with the Denby regime in the navy department had hurt his con- tinued usefulness, Roberts Second Oil Broker. Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, was confirmed as second oil counsel by the Senate today, His confirmation, coming by an overwhelming majority, completed ac- tion of the Senate toward bringing the leases into the federal court. Court Action In Scandal. Court action in the Teapot Dome oil scandal is due within 48 hours, If the senate todav confirms Owen J, Roberts, Philadelphia, the repub- lican member of the president’s spe- cial counsel to prosecute the oil cases, nothing will then stand in the way of an immediate application for an iniunction to stop Harry Sinclair and E. L. Doheny from withdrawing more oil from the government oil reserves, That will be the first step to get back the oi] leases and to punish any guilty of fraud or corruption in connection with the leasing. Confirmation of Roberts by the renate was belli by administra- tion leaders to be certain, after con- siderable criticism from Senator La- Follette and others, Additional counsel may be selected by the senate. Senator Pittman, member of the investigating commit- tee, believes that Roberts and Pom- erene ought to have some capable assistance. He wants to propose that a call of the nation’s greatest lecal authorities might offer their assist- | ance. Grand Jury to Convene. Atlee Pomerene, Ohio, who was confirmed Saturday night by the senate, said today that as soon as ‘Roberts is confirmed a statement will | be issued, outlining the procedure the special counsel will follow. Pomerene indicated this will con- Tho sist, first. of the iniunction suit to ing Al stop further pumping of oil ihe reserves and application for re- ceivers to take care of the interests ‘to the prosecution when court iosed, | of the government and the lessees that: as earl; {until the cases are finally decided; Second, suits te abrogate the cnses. Jand finally, convening of a federal ‘grand jury to return indictments ‘arainst any deemed guilty of erim- inal acts in connection with the leas- ine, Immediately after Roberts is con- firmed, the senate i to disnore of ‘he resolution appronriating $100,000 for court action, This already has passed the hours wnd its adaption hw the ‘senate will provide funds for employment of assistants by Pomer- ‘ene and Roberts, ; With these steps taken, the Tea- ;Pot Dome scancdal will definitely pass ifrom the realm of investigation into that of action, At the same time, however, the committee will keep close contact with the special coun- sel Le new developm when the inquiry is resumed will be constantly side reh to ie lawyers for suc! ion a® ma: necensary. "Seamer Welsh, Mertane, aioe tn. 4 indicated to the navy secretary that | Teapot Oil Scandal Forces Denby Into the Discard GAPITAL RIFE WITH RUMORS LINKING THE WILSONITES WITH OIL (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—In Spite of Doheny’s denial that Bainbridge Colby, the last secre- tary of state under the Wilson administration, got any of his money, the capitol is buzzing with rumors which link Colby with oil, and with the non-recognition of Mexieo while he was at the head of the state department, Doheny’s denial is understood to refer to the rumor that $500,000 was the price of protection of American oil interests against recognition of Obregon at that time. Colby will be remembered as the secretary who excluded The Federated Press representatives from his “news” conferences, be- eause they called attention to his attempts to irresponsibly color the press dispatches from Washington dealing with the Russo-Polish war and the chance of American aid to Poland, in the summer of 1920. night for Pinehurst for a brief rest and no more witnesses will be ques- tioned until he returns. Wheeler Replaces Walsh. Senator Wheeler, Montana, demo- crat, who is not a member 6f the in- vestigating committee, is leading the new trial during the absence of Sen- ator Walsh of Montana. Sa Edward B. McLean, millionaire Washington publisher, who was sub- poenaed from Palm Beach, Fla., has arrived in Washington. Senator Walsh previously said that McLean was called to tell what he knew of re- ports regarding existence of a so- called slush fund and other matters. The books of the brokers are ex- pected to be in Lenroot’s hands by tomorrow at the latest. Lenroot said no meeting of the com- mittee had been called, but the matter will be placed informally before com- mittee members. Lenroot refused to confirm or deny that subpoenaes were issued for Harry Payne Whitney, associate of Harry F. Sinclair, Elmer Smathers, J. Philip Benkard, Harry B. Benkard and also the order clerk and office manager of J. P. Benkard and. Com- pany of New York. * * * * Calls MeAdoo Jury Packed. NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—“The vital point, which the American - public mind has really grasped,” says the Wall Street Journal, editorially deal- ing with the case of McAdoo, “is that Mr. McAdoo’s connection with Mr. Doheny was not primarily legal, without prejudice to his abilities as a lawyer, or even as a financier on his record at the treasury. “It. was clearly and nakedly po- litical, and the distinction is vital, He ‘took to Mr. Doheny, some months after he relinquished office, i ence and information which he could only have had‘as a consequence of his t ition in the very inside of the Wilson cabinet.” Referring to McAdoo’s call to his supporters .to meet and discuss the situation the editorial states “that nothing that his packed jury could do wou'd make any difference in the public view of his relations with Doheny.” ** e The Alaska Steal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—John E. Ballaine of Seward, Alaska, and Seattle, has laid before President Coolidge his proofs that Secretaries Fall and Denby stopped the develop- ment of the aged naval coal deposits in Alaska—the coal involved in the Ballinger scandal and other coal held for the use of -the navy—since Denby turned these coal lands over to Fall at the tirgs of the transfer of the naval oil reserves. Railway Unions Aroused. Ballaine ‘has the support of the railroad brotherhoods in this matter, since he has convinced them that Fall-Denby policy has been one of deliberate sabotage of the govern- ment’s railroad in Alaska and the dis- crediting of government ownership and operation of railroads. e has shown that the administration has cut Alaska off from the rest of the United States by refusing to furn'sh steamship connections between Seattle or San Francisco and the terminus of the railroad at Seward. The Guggen- heims control the only shipping, and they charge freight rates several times as high as formerly were paid. The Guggenheims are slowly strangl- aka They hope to get hold of its best mineral deposits, Conspiracy in 1921. Ballaine says the records will show as July, 1921, Fall be- gan negotia' for the transfer of the Matanuska coal field to his con- trol, and for a lease of this coal to rivate parties for 60 years, The never was made, but during the negotiations and since that time “mis- lending anncuncements, contrary to the official facts” as to the quality of the Matanuska coal have been given out the offices controlled by Ad- miral Robinson and by Director Bain of the bureau of mines, Another Ship Goes Down. MARSHFIELD, Ore., Feb. 18,— The “graveyard of shi; another gallant vessel, lumbia, today. saved, liner Co- All aboard | were Winter Wheat Dama, SPRINGFIELD, 11, Fob. t-—Bome central and southea: stern counties of the sate are ie semi- damage to winter wheat in the north|has moved to new potathyan. Al reported in Sotcaer sere | ii experi- |; | ” claimed | oj] Tuesday, February 19, 1924 HERRIN WORKERS SAY “NEUTRALS” MASK K. Ki KS Vigilance Committees Are Part of Plan (Special to The Daily Worker) HERRIN, Ill., Feb. 18.—The state- ment made a day or two ago by Glenn Young, deposed dictator, that “someone would pay for the murder of Cagle” has been followed by a quarrel between the anti-klan ele- ments headed by Ora Thomas and the klan forces now under the lead- ership of Chief of Police Ford, The situation is tense. The grand jury has returned ten counts charging larceny and robbery against Young and his bail h fixed at $20,000. Klan leaders say they expect. Young to return to Her- rin about the middle of the week. The plans of the citizens commit- tee, alleged to be composed of indi- viduals who remained neutral dur- ing the recent conflicts, includes the formation of local vigilance commit- tees and the resignation of Sheriff | Galligan, who is known to be sym- pathetic towards labor and the anti- klan forces, Labor men charge that the citi- zens committee is merely a new camouflage for the klan elements and that impartiality is impossible in a situation in which the klan insists on violating all constitutional guar- antees in its war on its opponents, Four companies of militia are still quartered here and in Marion. It is believed that they will stay until Thursday when the county supervi- sors meet to consider the program mapped out by the citizens’ com- mittee, Birth of a Nation Operators Will Be Tried Next Week Having been accused of being both a Jew and a member of the Ku Klux Klan Judge Henry Walker announc- ed in Municipal Court yesterday that he did not think he wanted to try the cases of two men arrested in connec- tion with the showing of the “Birth of a Nation.” anti-Negro, ture, the “ then transferred to Judge J, J. | Rooney who issued the warrants on which the movie operators were ar- rested. The case was set for trial a week from next Wednesday. Big Anthracite Strikes Threatening. LKES BARRE, Pa., Feb. 18.— Two general strikes are threa' in this district which will involve over 40,000 miners unlese a settlement is reached by next Monday. 1,800 men were called out today. In addition, eleven thousand miners threaten to quit unless grievances of long stand- ing are speedily redressed. The entire working force of the Glen Alden Company will quit next Monday unless their grievances are adjusted. A meeting of miners’ re- presentatives will be held Saturday night to determine whether the call will go out for a Sega strike. On the same night representatives of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre and Hudson coal companies numbering 25,000 miners will meet to receive re- a from their grievance commit- ees. 1,800 men at the Woodward Col- liery of the Glen Alden Company went on strike on Feb. 14, because of the employment of a man who scab- bed during the rail strike. Just as soon as he entered the mine the entire force walked out. Cheats the Gallows. NASHVILLE, Il, Feb, 18,—An hour before the gallows trap was to have been sprung, Circuit Judge lows Banreuter grantel a stay of execution to Walter C. » slayer of his wife and mother-in-law at Belleville, : Passenger Service to Russia. THE HAGUE, Feb, 18.—A group of British, Canadian and Dutch ship- ping companies have entered into an agreement with the Soviet govern. ment for the development of - senger service to Russia, according to well-informed circles here. panwwinihastonadl asec Costly Procedure. PARIS, Feb, 18,—The war on Sov- jet Russia has cost the French gov- ernment rly two billion francs. This does not include ‘any expenses sal infeneaty Se Sle a sonally |, bu is onl it] credits advanced to Lace states, vig Meet at Dixon, DIXON, Ill, Feb, 18— every phase of farm lite wit ba ai cussed by appre speakers at the twenty-ninth. annual session of Illinois Farmers Institute and partment of Household which opens here tomorrow, Margaret Sanger Is Bride, NEW YORK, Feb, 1 ret Sanger, world famous toe: chemes advocate, for the 18 months been the bride of Noah H. Slee, mil- lionaire president of the Three-In-One company. News of Mrs, Sanger’s second marriage came out only today. pilare eritmaid New Headquarters in Philadelphia, The District Office of District Three (Philadelphia) of the Workers i communications to the ld be th 4 daha, as “Feat Avenve Panga } =