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a Thursday, February 21, 1924 KEENEY GOES TO TRIAL IN COUNTY OPERATORS OWN). Venue Change Denied to Miners’ Defense FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va., Feb. 20. —-Frank Keeney, president, District 17, United Mine Workers of Amer- iea, is on trial here charged with the murder in connection with the so-called armed march of miners in the summer of 1921. The original plan of the prosecution was to try William Blizzard again, District 17 subdistrict president, whom they have failed to convict in the two pre- vious trials. The reason for the change, according to the prosecution, is because already two terms of court have passed since Keeney was indicted. McKell Owns County. The defense moved for a change of venue. The motion wag based on the belief of the miners’ lawyers that William McKell, multi-millionaire non-union coal king and avowed enemy of organized labor, dominated the life and thought of Fayette county. _McKell owns 26,000 acres of coal lands and is said to have 15,000 more under lease. Railroads and banks are also listed as his* seer erty. Ten thousand. men are in hi employ, His control of the local republican party is absolute, His field marshall is, Osenton, a demo- erat and a national committeeman. Osenton’s sway of the democrats equals McKell’s republican influence. The change of venue was denied. The Prosecutors. In the courthouse here on Lin- coln’s birthday Frank Keeney made the following charges to show that the operators are the “state”: “Sitting there at the prosecuting attorney’s table is Charles W. Osen- ton, chief counsel, William McKell coal interests, representing the state; with him is Alfred Belcher, hired by the Logan County Coal Operators’ Association, There be- side Belcher sits Emmett Keadle, employe of Don Chafin, sheriff of Logan county; at least until a few months ago he was drawing his pay from the Logan coal operators. At the same table is J. E. Thur- man, millionaire coal operator of Logan county; S. A. Scott, presi- dent, New River Coal Operators’ Association; M*? L, Garvey, Mary- land New River Ass’n. Standing near the portals of the courthouse is William Gray, a Logan thug, who has been implicated in several disorders in Logan and Kanawha counties, And with Gray is James Scott. James Scott is the paymas- ter employed by the Logan coal operators. He is the man that went to the witness stand in Lewis- burg, where Blizzard was tried several months ago, and admitted he paid state witnesses money to testify against Blizzard. Steel Trust Stronghold, “In MeDowall county the steel corporation has several large opera- tions. In Logan county the same organization has large holdings. Thru interlocking directorates the steel corporation and the Pennsylvania railroad control more than 40 per cent of the mines in the southern fields, “The steel éorporation,” said Keen- ey, “hopes to dominate the coal mar- kets of the nation by making West Virginia fields nonunion. That is why the fight is so bitter. It is not that the coal operators think I inspired the miners’ uprising in 1921. They know that is ridiculous; that I was doing everything in my power to turn the men homeward. “They have set out to crush the United Mine Workers, and I am sim- ply incidental.” Friend of Ku Klux Klan Is Leading in Louisiana Poll Sa ORUEANS. La, ined 20.— lenry L, Fuqua lay led up a heavy lead over Hewitt Ronatdinat in the race for nomination for gov- ernor in the count of ballots Tuesday’s Sa Returns from the entire city of New Orleans and 465 out of 1,082 count precincts gave a vote of, Fuqua 81,3852; Bouan- chaud 63,649. Attorney General A. V. who proeeente the famous Mer inve: the murders of saeco of Watt. jel and T, F, Richards, has apparently been defeated for re-elec- ion by Percy Saint, Bouanchaud accused Fuqua of be- ng Sein to the Ku Klux Klan. ctically the entire Fuqua ticket was victorious with the exception of Hate auditor: who ls'in's igus rece rt auditor, w! is in a tight race with T. O, 8. ie 's election was a run-off Hines Is Called On Carpet In Probe of Vet’s Bureau ( to The Daily Worker) EE oP erans’ Bureau which was sto) at direc- what steps the Veterans’ Bureau has taken to remove hard boiled fe to ex-service men Here’s Another Installment of “A Week” What Do You Think of “A Week” By IURY LIBEDINSKY Published by THE DAILY WORK- thru special’ arrangement with B. W. Huebsch, Inc., of New York City. Coyprighted, 1923, by B. W.| Huebsch & Co, | es ¢ *¢ © (WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE) The Russian Communist Party branch is governing this frontier city and fighting the counter- revolution. Earlier installments tell of the fuel shortage that pre- vents seed grain from being fetched on the railroad, The Party meeting decides to send the Red Army far away for fuel, at the risk of leaving the city open for bandits and counter-revolutionists. It also decides to conscript the local bourgeoisie for wood cutting in a near-by park. Varied types of party members are flashed on the screen: Klimin, the efficient president of the branch, who still finds time to have a sweetheart; Robeiko, the consumptive, whose devotion is killing him; Gornuikh, the brilliant youth of 19 on the Cheka, and now Matusenko, the luxury loving place hunter. (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.) * * CHAPTER III. (Continued) HE last time he had seen her was in the street in Winter. Out of the white, glittering curtain of falling snow, Mer trim figure had suddenly jappeared; there, close, close to him was her face, snow- flakes in her hair, her subtle al- mond-shaped black eyes. She had seen him: joy burned in her eyes, and then they clouded over with_ gloom, and she passed by, and in remembering her, loved and alone desired, he murmured words of affection, and these words, heard by no one, fell irrevocably, like pearls into the dark water of a deep well. ey had lived like this a whole year in the same town, separated by a few blocks of houses, near and at the same time far away. . And now when he came to his lodging, he looked out of the wit- dow and tried to see, over there on the hill, where the bulk of the old church was clearly visible, the house in which she lived, and he imagined her cozy room, hung with beloved engravings, and, in the corner, in the old image-case, the dark, stern pictures of the “HE DAILY WORKER The DAILY WORKER wants to know what its readers, think of the first serial novel it offers to its readers. We have already published three installments of tis gripping story. Another appears today. What do you think of the story, its. setting, its characters, as far as we have gone? We want our readers to let us know. Write down your views and send them in to the DAILY WORKER, 1640 N. Halsted St., Chicago, Ill. We will publish as many of these letters as we can find space, for, Don’t delay. Write today. saints. Martuinov came home mechani- cally, threw off his coat, and, as if he were waking up, looked about him. A bed, a bare table, with crumbs of bread on it. Books lying on the chair, and general emptiness and untidiness, as if in an uninhabited room. And for a whole year,,im- mersed in his work, Martuinov had lived inthis room. The sight of the room was uh- pleasant to him. “Shall I go out somewhere?” he thought aloud, “but whither, and to visit whom?” For, in spite of his devotion, to the revolution, in spite of his intimate work with them, he had no friends among the Communists. Once ony during the Winter, Martuinoy had visited Matusenko, who had almost taken him home with him by force ... Martuinov had spread yellow, creamy butter on white household bread, had greedily drunk perfumed, sweeten- @i tea with cream—he had had nothing so tasty for a long time, and he was naively surprised: “How did Matusenko come to have these things?” And round-faced, attentive Matu- senko, had smiled affectionately, blinked his tiny little eyes and respectively, but all the same with a certain tone of house-keeping pride, had entertained Martuinov. “Take a little honey, Comrade Martuinov. My wife works in the Food Committee, so they give her a very good ration. And do take some milk, from our own cow.. .. A family man can provide himself with everything. I am an econom!- eal fellow, and why should I kill myself with hunger? Nothing is said about that in our Programme. Industrial Accidents Cause Loss of Four Times As Many Working Days As Strikes, Declares Olds “By LELAND OLDS. — ‘(Staff Correspondent of The Federated Press) © The struggle between capital and labor has cost the Amer- ican people $12,522,203,356 in the last eight years, according to exaggerated figures made public by Secretary Noel Sargent of the National Association of Manufacturers’ Industrial Rela- tions committee. ; But this employers’ one big union, representing billions of dollars of capital solidly lined up against the trade union move- ment, does not add that on their basis of calculation the}, cost of industrial accidents is more than four times as great. And if the unions could control conditions in industry these in- dustrial accidents would be largely eliminated. 227,169,970 Days Yearly—Accidents. Strikes and lockouts, Sargent states, have involved an average loss of approximately 53,000,000 working days a year since 1916. But the U. S. bureau of labor statistics computes the annual loss on account of indus- trial accidents &t 227,169,970 working days not to mention the loss of 21,- 232 lives which can hatdly be ade- quately valued. Sargent’s figures divide the total cost of the industrial conflict as fol- lows: Cost to wage earners, $1,740,- 403,522 in lost wages; cost to em- ployers, $478,610,969 in. lost profits; and cost to ted a gi $10,808,188,865 in lost production. The ‘following table shows for each year the number of working days lost ba account of Ledhorth and lockouts wages as comput it. He figures the loss to ca Regi per cent of the wage bill and the public’s loss in terms of products worth six times the total loss in Total wages lost. $ 96,451,136 67,083,820 eye 1922 ...., 62,420, 1928 ..... 20,551,1 Total . 424,329,008 $1,740,403,522 1919 Strikes Hottest. These statistics a eine This was the year in ven their wages ¢ cent of the pr The bear cost al ras figured 308,801,102 1922, the period | first campaign of the forces developed the total | ~ ep pea ilenets rican pessoas break the strength of organized labor. During 1923 there was a compara- tive lull in the conflict,’ Sargent’s figures show that strikes and lock- outs cost only $703,839,575 during that year. Bosses’ Statistics Exaggerate. The industrial conflict forced upon workers by injustices of the present industrial order is enormously costly but these figures of Sargent include at least one gross exaggeration. The actual value produced by the aver- age wage earner does not represent six times the wages paid. Two and a half times the wage bill would be a fairer figure to use in estimating the actual loss to the public in terms of the value of the production with- held. On this basis the total cost of strikes during the six years amount- ed to approximately $6,000,000,000 or half Sargent’s estimate. And a certain proportion of the loss com- one on this basis is not real loss use days lost on account of a strike would in many instances have been otherwise on account of ee revine’ ai ing this figure, however, it is evident that strikes” and lockouts have occasioned an average annual loss of something under $1,000,000,- 000 as compared with an annual loss of approximately $4,300,000,000 on account of industrial accidents which can be traced in measure to the negligence or deliberate evasion of responsibility by employers. Furuseth Officials Allowed on Boats of Shipping Board WASHINGTON, Feb. 20,—An- drew Furuseth, for the International Seamen’s Union of America, an- ‘sounces that Admiral Palmer, new resident, Emergency Fleet Corp., as granted passes into the port premises of the government mer- chant marine for officers of the This is a point over which the un- ‘ion and the shipping board fought ‘or three years, and upon which turned the decision of the scamen to go into the great strike of 1921. At that time {t appeared that the board was determined (o cut off the ships’ craws all contact with their organization on shore and and lockouts amount- jhareby break up the strength of the w BalLy rite for Ha, ha! isn’t that so, Comrade Martuinov?) Ha, ha! Why are you taking nothing? Grusha, en- tertain the Chief . . .” jokingly but sternly he said to his wife. Martuinov caught the eye of Matusenko’s wife, a full-breasted, rosy blonde; he saw the gold lights in the blue depths of her pupils and those eyes of hers spoke of the sweetness of love, of the pleasures of the senses that Martuinov had not yet experienced. And show- ing her white teeth in a smile, Matusenko’s wife pushed towards him white butter-cakes, spread with saccharine essence, and said, “Pray, help yourself. .. .” And Matusenko, in his thin voice went on wheedingly dropping into Martuinov’s ear mawkishly sweet, tidy words, like the butter-cakes spread with saccharine. Martuinov had looked. round Matusenko’s room, curtains on the windows, little round tables, a Chinese screen, a divan, a carpet, and ftemembered the past, so re- cent, the well-fed life in the com- fortable rooms of his own house, now occupied by a Children’s Home, and it had been as if he were regretting all this. . .. Martuinoy knew that he had no- where to go, and that even in the Politdep he would find no one, that there was nothing there but empty chairs and barefooted women cleaning up, washing the dusty linoleum. Martuinov lay down on his hard bed and stuck his face into the pillow, s0 as not to see his slovenly room. And again he remembered his .past hfe---not recent times, after the revolution, wher political con victions had taken him and his family by different roads, but his childhood long ago, games of hide and seek in warm rooms, the affec- tion of his dead mother, a Christ- mas tree, and all the endless stream of that quiet happy life, with its plentiful dinners, suppers and morning teas. ... Had there really been such a life? And from under the pillow he pulled out a blue knitted waist- coat, the only thing left to him from his home, the waist-coat in which, jingling his skates, he used to run to the rink,—there, on the skating rink, he had made her ac- quaintance. .., . O bitterness, “Pray, help yourself. . . .” He put on his coat and went out into the street. It had grown dark; a few stars were showing, and tho the air was keen, yet, for this night, the Spring had stayed in town; the freezing puddles glittered, but streams were bubbling in the dark gutters. Martuinoy walked with quick steps, and thought now of nothing at all, but heard all together, the bubbling of the streamlets, the dripping of water from the roofs, the rustling of the bare twigs, and the whistles of the locomotives in the station. But now al! ‘these sounds were covered by another, low, disturbing,—the siren was howling at the Power Station. Martuinov, not understanding was enjoying the lively music of these sounds. The streets were ompty, the little houses were quiet, and only when he came to the Red Army Club, Martuinov met a man with a coat thrown on in a hurry. ‘The man came right up to Mar- tuinoy and looked him straight in the face. They recognized each other—they had often met at the meetings of the Party. “Sounds like the alarm signal?” said the man. “Alarm? Why?” Martuinov was surnrised, but whie he «skea understood already the meaning of that roar, close by and loud, sent out from the Power Station, It was as if some one shouted, threatened, called for help. . . . “Do you hear?” said the man, “Two breaks. .... Let’s hurry along to the Communst Company.” For Martuinov the quiet comfort of the Spring evening had some- where disappeared, and everything had become secret, dark and hos- e Page 1. * tile. The hundreds of silent houses were like enemies hiding weapons the folds of their wide dark clouds. ... “Well, we are on a war-footing today” Martuinov thought aloud, and it occurred to him that at that moment beside this alien, taciturn man, he was going, with quick steps, to suffering, to death which was hanging over the silent little town and at any time was ready to submerge it. The siren went on booming over the town; it was echoed from the railway station by the powerful chorus of the locomotives and the whistles at the Depot, and the sum- mons of these inhuman voices rolled far beyond the town, over the speechless snow-covered fields, among the quiet villages and ham- lets. The summons was stronger than the fear of suffering and death and from all parts of the town, hun- dreds of people gathered towards the Communist Company, making their way thru the malicious wind- ing lanes. And Martuinov also came into the broad lamp-lit court- yard of the Communist Company. Hurriedly, group after group, the Communists poured in, and formed quickly into platoons and so squads. Martuinov also stood in the ranks and dressed by the right in his file. There was no fear. It had re- mained outside this bustling court- yard, there, in the empty streets. And Martuinov was ready to kill himself for the ideas that had taken possession of him a few minutes before. He stood on the left flank, near the gates, and those coming into the yard passed by him, and the lamp flung light on their faces. Some of the faces were per- plexed and intent, others quietly thoughtful, others unrestrainedly nervous, while in others burned the powerful splendid flame of en- thusiasm, burned clearly, like a bonfire on a windless Summer night. Women and girls came too; some had not yet chased from their faces coquettishly sly amusement, others, forgetful of themselves earnestly sought some one with their eyes, others laughed, nervous- ly and loudly. (To Be Continued Friday) COOLIDGE FORCED | COAL PEACE ON -PA.MINE OWNERS Fears Coal Strike Dur- ing Presidential Fight (Special to The Daily Worker) JACKSONVILLE, Fila., Feb. 20.— That the Coolidge administration had a direct hand in the signing of the three-year truce between the coal diggers and the mine owners was learned today by THE DAILY WORKER correspondent. The Pitts- burgh coal barons came to Jackson- ville with instructions from Wash- ington that they must sign any sort of an agreement rather than add a coal strike to the oil troubles of the Coolidge administration. It ig an open secret that the cab- inet officer who carried the White House instructions to the coal plutes from the smoky city is none other than Herbert Hoover. Another cab-| inet officer was appointed to keep in Ontario Labor Asks British Premier to Keep Jobless Home By ROBERT SCRAEFTER. (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Pross) TORONTO, Feb. 20.—The British policy of solving the unemployment | menace in Great Britain by subsidiz- | ing emigration to the colonies, espe- cially Canada, has aroused wide- spread protest on the part of Can- adian labor faced by. unemployment here. Speaking for_the organized labor movement of Ontario, the District Trades and Labor council has tele- graphed to the new British Labor premier, Ramsey MacDonald, asking that “everything be done owing to prevailing unemployment here to counteract the immigration campaign of the Ontario government in Great Britain.” The unemployed workers in To- ronto have organized and presented the following demands to the local authorities: “Relief work, a hall for meeting a letter protesting against further emigration to be sent to Premier Ramsay MacDonald, that the stigma of labeling material given for touch with Lewis. For racial_and) other reasons Mr. James J. Davis) was considered the proper man to! show John L. Lewis the advantage of being reasonable and not make wage demands which the operators would not grant. | Everything came off as planned. The Pittsburgh coal barons, until pow the “die hards” among the’. owners, were quite tractable at Jack-| sonville, and signed on the dotted line after a little stage play to throw” off suspicion that they came in-| structed by the Republican adminis- tration not to kick over the coal bin. | It should be remembered in con- nection with this that Lewis is a dyed-in-the-coal Republican even tho his organization has platonic con- nections with the Conference for Pro-| gressive Political Action, a non-par- tisan outfit. | The delegates to the Jacksonville conference who have been here since Feb, 11 have left for home to report the results of their work to the mem- bers of the union. The agreement provides for a meet- ing in Miami, in 1927 to consider drafting of another contract. “No mote strikes” is the new slogan of John L. Lewis. The agreement to meet in 1927 is mandatory. Immediately following the signing of the agreement, unions in all dis- triets outside the central competitive field, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and ico Pennsylvania, Pog te ordered proceed at once to m: new agree- ments on the basis of the old wage There is very little hope that agree- i vio ies alte Keni 01 One hundred %o mined each year in West Virginia and with the mines in operation in the o! states this agreement can be at by the operators me can shut pibrcaged ap. hye open . 6 no clause In the on ora nr al ES a ae en a a a an Ann nS OI SR agreement to compel to keep Lee . relief from the house of industry be stopped and that some place better than a police station be provided for the sleeping accommodation of the unemployed.” Mayor Hiltz agreed that immigra- tion should be stopped until those out of work are absorbed in industry and pledged himself to take the necessary steps with the state authorities to accomplish those results. He prom- ised relief whereby work shall be provided for at least 500 men until May. The “right to work” was asked for by 300 unemployed assembled in an open meeting at Queen’s park, Reso- lutions were passed demanding either work or full maintenance by the fed- eral provincial and municipal govern- ments on the basis of union wage rates. A parade to the Labor Temple was prohibited by the police. Canadian Clergy _ Ask Meal Tickets for Unemployed) Fer Recognition of Soviet Russia! | is (Special to The Daily Worker) HAMILTON, Ont., Feb. 20.—Aid for the unemployed and issue of meal tickets were the demands presented to the city’s relief department by ao deputation of clergymen here, Criti- cizing the treatment of the unem- ployed by the city authorities, the deputation suggested the recruiting of voluntary helpers to handle emer- gency ca: The Hamilton Trades and Labor council recently sent a letter to the new British greg} of state for home affairs in the MacDonald cabi- net, Arthur Henderson, asking him to check the flood of British immigrants expected here in the spring. The letter states that “it is absolutel, hopeless for fitters, turners, mill- writs, brass finishers, die sinkers, id ae bo Rpg come to this 0 ani e to e and. that fhe io is work at their trade,” unskilled and semi-skilled market more crowded than the akilled, FLAMES QUICKLY BURN CHEAPLY BUILT TENEMENT 13 Charred Bodies Are Laid Out in Morgue (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 20,—Thirteen charred bodies, victims of one of the worst tenement fires New York has experienced in years, have been laid side by side in the Twenty-sixth Street morgue here, while sorrowing relatives attempt to identify them. After extensive investigation, po- lice and the fire marshal’s office abandoned their first theory that the fire which broke out early today and swept thru the tenement house with ne fury, was of incendiary ori- in, War Vet Epileptic Released. Lewis Schoenfeld, ex-soldier, an epileptic, arrested as he was fleeing from the blazing house, was re- leased. Patrolman Michael Huesline, who discovered the blaze, told a graphic story of the disaster, “I saw smoke pouring out of the building,” he said, “and then a man (Schoenfeld) running away. I caught the man and held him until help came and then rushed into the build- ing. “It was terrible. The flames were roaring up thru a sort of natural flue formed by the stairways of wood. All Is Over Quickly. “I managed to rouse some of the people and. help them to safety. “There was a little girl in a crib. I took her in one arm and carried her with me as I ran thru the halls beating on doors with my night stick and shouting. The girl's clothing caught fire and I had to stop once to beat out the flames.” Firemen said the flames burned themselves out in a few minutes, eating thru the cheaply built old house with lightning rapidity, Union Teachers Ask A. F. of L. to Visit May 30 Convention (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb, 20.—Union teachers in New York are favorable to Third Party action by labor. At the regular meeting of Local No. 6 of the American Federation of Teachers at the Ethical Culture School, 2 W. 64th street, the teachers voted to ask the Executive Council of the A. F, of L. to send an observer to the May 30th, Farmer-Labor con- vention, $ Abraham Lefkowitz, leading mem- ber of the so-called “American La- bor Party,” raised the only voice in dissent. f . reed the DAILY. WORKER? Gen ene af them to subscribe today, FARM-LABOR OF NEBRASKA HOLDS STATE MEETING Widespread Discontent Making Itself Felt (Special to The Dally Worker) GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb. 20,— The widespread discontent amongst the farmers of the Northwest is making itself heavily felt in Ne- braska, The state is now in the throes of political developments of great di- mensions and no one is ready to state definitely what new steps the farm- ers and workers are planning to take for the next campaign. Call Gets Big Support. A call for a state-wide mass con- vention of the farmers and. workers to find ways and means of striking the heaviest blows at their political enemies in the coming elections has just been issued. The call for this indorsed by more than 75 active members of the Progressive Party and the former Non-partisan league. This group is representative of the most populated sections of the state. It is the intention of those be- hind this call to get together on a program and to build a working political machinery to enable the farmers and workers of the state to agree upon, not only state can- didates, but also national candidates. Opens Washington’s Birthday. This convention will open on Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22, at Grand Island, Neb. It is significant that the call reads in part: “Certainly, a program for union with the Minnesota Farmer- Labor movement and similar groups elsewhere in a national movement should be adopted, and desirable presidential candidates considered and recommended.” Most of the Nebraska congressmen | are lawyers or business men, not at all representatives of the dirt farm- ers of the state who have been hit hard by the economic depression that has struck the agricultural areas of the country. This dissatisfaction with the elee- ted officials of the state is hitting both the Democratic and Republican parties alike. The Democratic con- gressman, John Henry Morehead of Falls City, is a spokesman of the big farming, mercantile, banking and business interests of the state, An- other Democratic congressman, Ash- ton C. Shallenberger, is the presi- dent of the Bank of Alma and is jengaged in cattle raising. The Re- publican congressman, Willis G. Sears, is a prominent lawyer, and Mr. Robert E. Simmons, another Re- publican congressman,is the commander of the American Legion. Dirt Farmers Not Satisfied. The dirt farmers of Nebraska feel that these men do not represent them in congress and are bent on organizing to change the present un- satisfactory conditions. The dissatisfaction of the farmers and workers has been seriously ag- gravated by the attempt of the Democrats to swallow up the Pro- gressive Party organization here. A traitor in the ranks, Mayor Elisberry of Grand Island has been prevailed upon to start a movement in the ranks of the progressives to turn the tide to the Democratic fold. He has just filed a petition at Lincoln placing Governor Bryan’s name on the Progressive primary ballot. The farmers of the state are very sore over this maneuver because this is the second time that an attempt is being made to trick them out of their political games. In the 1922 gubernatorial campaign, the progres- sive candidate, Mr. Ray, was pre- vailed upon in the midst of the elec- tion contest to withdraw from the race in order to throw all the pro- gressive strength to his Democratic opponent, the present incumbent of the Governor's office, Mr. Bryan, This betrayal had a demoralizing effect on the ranks of the dirt farmers and working men of Nebraska. They are now determined not to allow such a surrender to occur again. The Progressive Party which has been able to gain considerable strength in the state, is an organ- ization of the farmers and workers who after the breakdown of the Non- partisan league, refused to accept Townley’s balance of power scheme in politics. Fight Democratic Steal. The leaders and most active work- ers of the Progressive Party are now marshalling all their forces to prevent the Democratic clique from stealing their organization. If the convention at Grand Island sufficiently representative and strong enough, there is a likelihood of its even gaing to the length of organizing a state Farmer-Labor party in order to end the present political muddle and nullify the at- tempts of the Democrats to file can- didates in every congressional dis- trict on the party ticket. Among the most active workers behind this move to thwart the Democratic politicians from mislead- ing the farmers and workers of Nebraska are Wm. Repley of Grand Island, D. A. Kircheck of Cha y convention is C. W. Wagner of Indianola, BE. J. Desmond of Bartley, Belle of Merna, J. M, Paul of Har Guy Farmer of Inland, Morris Burkhart of Clay Center, Wm. in of North Platte, John 0. ‘gate of Wahoo, J. W. Behrene of Yutan, Otto Ulric of Winside, John Havekost of Hooper, Fred Panko of Perry J. Green of Tild son of Wellfleet, David Cow Tom Matthews, ty ve L of and Edward Ih cele » state. —