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

Page Two THE DAILY WORKER UPHOLSTERERS — APPEAL FOR MEN TAYLOR FRAMED Raise Money to Fight 4 Boycott Convictions ., whe Upholsterers’ District Council of, Chicago announced yesterday it will appeal the case of their four members who wére recently found guilty of conspiracy to boycott for refusal to work with scabs during the strike, The four men, who were all officials of locals of the upholsterers’ union, were indicted thru the efforts| im the Daily News of Chicago that: of Dudley Taylor, attorney for the upholstery’ bosses, and the Illinois Employers’ Association, The unionists were tried before} Judge Hosea Wells in Superior court | and the jury found them guilty and levied a fine of $50 arid $100 on each of the defendants. Fred Jurish, a member, of the painters’ union, was also tried and found guilty at the same time, but the judge later re- versed the finding of the jury in the case and released him. 40 Unions Fight Sentence. Since then the upholsterers have Secured stay of sentence from the| court to permit them to prepare an/ appeal to the Appellate Court. More than forty unions were represented Saturday at a meeting in the offices of the Chicago Federation of Labor where plans were made to raise money to carry the appeal to the higher court. Altho the appeal will cost much more than the paying of the fines would be, the upholsterers feel that to let the sentence stand unchal- lenged would establish a dangerous Precedent on which other unionists would be hauled into court to defend themselves when the bosses failed to _break a strike. x Bosses Use Boycott. Capitalist courts have held in the (Continued from page 1) take particular pride, are the ones which “congratulate” him on his labor indictments and convictions. “Pet” of Employers. The manner in. which Mr, Crowe became the “pet” of the interests is readily and easily disclosed when the history of the state’s/attorney’s of- ficial acts is unfolded. When he was running for office in 1920, he bellowed forth his thunderous threats against Victor Lawson of the Daily News and the McCormick family of the Tribune, He would, he announced, put them in jail if they persisted: in their illegal practices. On October 28, 1920, it is reported I am going to make Victor Law- son observe the law. I am going to try and make Victor Lawson pay his taxes, and if I don’t succeed in doing it, I am going to put an ad- ditional burden on the taxpayers of this state... . I am going to make the taxpayers of this city buy him a ticket on the Chicago & Alton R. R. to Joliet, and I am going to give Victor a free ride, and then we are going keep him at public expense until he learns to behave himself. Lawson: Not. Jailed. Mr. Victor F: Lawson is not known to have changed his ways materially. And yet the taxpayer of this state was not forced to assume any addi- tional burden by buying him a ticket to Joliet. Mr. Crowe was to make Mr. Lawson “observe the law”—and if he failed, he promised to put him in jail, Mr. Lawson is not known to be now observing the law any more than he did then. Has he been put in jail? Has he so much as been questioned, let alone been arrested? Today Mr. Crowe says that Mr. Lawson is a law observing citizen. He quotes him prominently in his own pamphlet. Why? Why is Mr. Law- son’s present opinion commendatory? Because Mr, Lawson feels that the state’s attorney has filled the bill as far as his policy against organized past that when a group of business men decide not to patronize a firm and inform each other of their in- tention, they are within their rights. In the case of the upholsterers, how- ever, the lower court has held that when a group of union men attempt to use the boycott they are subject to the penalties of the law. The upholsterers were charged ith asking union men not to.work with scab upholsterers during the re- cent strike of the upholsterers. That and that only was the thing the state Proved against the union men. __ The Federal court in South Dakota in the case of Montgomery Ward & Co. vs. Mannix, held that people have the right to refuse to deal with any firm or jndividual for any or no reason and having that right they necessarily have the right to iyform others of their intention and the rea- sons for it. But that was a case where two rival commercial organ- izations were asking the protection of the law. Will the law in this state be interpreted in a different fashion when labor organizations try to use the boycott? Federation Unions to Aid. The meeting of union representa- ives Saturday voted to send a letter and a speaker to all local unions af- filiated with the Chicago Federation of Labor and ask them to vote con- tributions to help pay the cost of the appeal. The upholsterers explained that their union was not in a position to pay the costs of the appeal be- cause of the long strike which they have just gone thru and the fact that per unaided, paid all the costs of ir trial. They pointed out that they were well abl. to pay the fines levied vy 4 were appealing only be- cause of the trade union principle in- volved. Fight of All Labor. “Unless this principle is fought for other unions will find themselves in court for telling their fellow union- ists there is a strike. This appeal is being mude for the labor movement. If we were in a position to pay the costs of the appeal we would do. it ‘gladly. But we are not. Since we are fighting for the labor movement and in order to protect its rights we ask the labor movement to held pay the costs of the fight,” Thomas O’Shea, business agent of Local No. 111 of the Upholsterers’ Union and one of the defendants said. Wnion contributions should be sent to ‘0 Federation of Labor at 166 W. Washington street. Contribu- tions should specify that the dona- tions are for the Upholsterers’ Ap- peal Fund. Provide For Air Service, WASHINGTON, March 30.—The postoffice appropriation bill contain-|$* ing an item of $2,750,000 for a day and night air mail service from coast to coast was finally passed by both Houses, of Congress, Chicago Young Workers Hold Membership Meeting Tonight A membership meeting of the Young Workers League of Chicago will be held tonight at the Folkets Hus, 2733 Hirsch Blvd. at 8 p. m. A summarizing the work of the icago League will be made P. Herd, the City Organizer. for future activity will also lartin Abern, National Seere- tary of the Young Workers League | of America, will report for the Na- F Executive Committee of the . W. L. on the recent develop- ments of the Labor Movement and thel~ reflections upon the young labor fs concerned. Says Mr. Victor) F. Lawson: Capitalist Editor Praises Crowe. | The showing you made of thirty- six convictions in recent trials of men who have used the good name of labor as a cloak in the perpetra- tion of grave crimes against the social order is most notable and encouraging. I congratulate you. | On July 9, 1920, the Herald & Ex- aminer reports Mr. Crowe to have said: I maintain that the State’s At- torney’s office should he conducted as a law office solely, and not_as a club to punish enemies, political, or otherwise, and that it should not be used to promote political for- tunes of a faction of a party; or used by the incumbent as a step- ping stone for political advance- ment. } average of over $538,000 a year; in | the four years preceding Robert E. | Crowe’s incumbency, the county ap- | propriated $1,513,065.88, ; seen that the appropriations for the And again on September 9, 1921, in the Tribune, in connection with the election fraud cases; Brother in Election Fraud. This respondent (Robert EF. Crowe) is ready, able and willing, now and at all times, to prosecute any person or persons guilty of crime, regardless of the party or faction, with which such person may be identified. On February 19, 1921, the Chicago Daily News cartied a report, repro- duced in part here, exposing various election frauds, in which the name of Sarsfield Crowe, a bro@her of the State’s Attorney, seems to have been implicated, Wag Mrs. Sarsfield Crowe prosecuted? ¥ did Mt. Robert E. Crowe find him entirely innocent? In 1920, both the Tribune and the Daily News were loud in the denuncia- tion of the supporters of Robert E. Crowe. Expose followed expose as to the vice lords that they stated were the backbone of his campaign. A few portions of these crying articles are reproduced here. “Vice, Gambling, Rampant near Home of Crowe,’ “Posters Tell Whom Vice Kings Aid,’\ “Crowe’s Poster in Dives,” and so forth, Who Pays Crowe's Bills? Today, Mr, Crowe apparently has additional advertising facilities, His large posters and advertisements are to be seen on Michigan Boulevard and the Drive. This advertising on a large scale is expensive. Someone must pay for this coStly advertising. Mr. Crowe certainly can’t afford to pay for it out of his salary of less than $12,000 a. year. But contributions apparent- ly are not lacking. Indeed, it would be singular jf they were lacking con- sidering the zeal which the state's attorney’s office is showing in sup- porting the garment manufacturers in the present strike. Squatders County Money, Hts record in the fulfillment, or rather nonfulfillment of the legitimate duties and functions of his office sup- ports no other explanation, In the years 1921 to 1924, inclusive, { Cook County has appropriated for his] th, office no less than $2,133,786°47, an a yearly average of about $378,000. It is thus present State’s Attorney were 41 per cent greater than for his predecessor. In spite of these colossal increased appropriations, criminals of the most vicious sort continue their depreda- tions in Chicggo practically un- molested. The February 12, 1924, is- sue of the Journal carries the item that altho there had been committed 270 murders in Chicago, there have been only nine convictions, Chicago Graft Ridden. On October 6, 1923, the Herald & Words of ‘‘Mother’* Jones Spur Pickets to New Efforts Today The striking garment workers will go to the picket line this morning with the speech of “Mother” Mary Jones, de- ree says the following editori- ally: Chicago is graft ridden. Had there been no bribery, there would have been no beer murders, But we still await in vain a word or act that would indicate an ‘igation of corruption by the state’s attor- ney’s office, a call for or a sugges- tion of a special grand jury, or any other official movement to put the grefters in Joliet. Tribute of $140,000 a day!—and nothing doing in the criminal court building. Again, on March 5, 1924, the 'Trib- une quotes Chief of Police’ Collins to the effect that i A nation-wide syndicate of cri- minals has made its’ headquarters in Chicago. The most dangerous of gunmen have collected here. The old arson ring, the pickpocket trust, and confidence men’s alliance and the late beer running crews were just office boys compared to the present aggregation, Busy Hounding Strikers. But Mr. Crowe is at present too busy hounding striking garment workers to pay any attention to what is fast becoming a desperate criminal situation in Chicago! When he was prosecuting the so- called “labor cases,” which arose out of the “Dailey Commission’s inquiry,” he Was on the lookout for special and expert assistance, And he had no difficulty in getting it—he simply ap- pointed one of the Tribune lawyers. When the recent Duffy murders were committed, and the “probe” was hay Pe and all indications, which even a layman could discern, seemed to point to the fact thgt desperate gangs of criminals were apparently operat- ing in Chicago with immunity, did Mr. Robert E. Crowe loo# around for “special and expert assistance?” He did not. He put part of the respons- ibilty of investigating and prosecuting this case into the hands of one of his youngest and most inexperienced as- sistants. The job of unraveling the evidence in this important case was entrusted to a young man who step- ped out of the class room and into the state’s attorney’s office—a young man who had just been admitted to e bar. If Mr. Crowe was really serious in his efforts to clear Chicago of what Chief of Police Collins calls a “Na- tion-wide syndicate of criminals,” would he have assigned a person just out of school to tackle the problem? Dudley Taylor the Boss. Mr. Crowe has other matters that seriously concern him. He has to “deliver” to the employers’ and manu- facturers’ associations before election. He has to prove that he will “go along.” In the upholsterers’ trial it was clearly brought out that Dudley E. Taylor,the attorney for the employers’ association in that case, and the at- torney for the garment manufacturers at the present time, had no difficulty in having the upholsterers* union of+ the third mass trial and mass ac- quittal that has occurred in Trude’s court in three days, Strikers who were: inspired by the speech of “Mother” Jones to go to the picket line Saturday in the pour- ing rain met with yreat success. The bosses were unable because ot livered to them Saturday afternoon, still ringing in their ears.|the rain to get cabs tor the scabs. “Mother” Jones, who is on her way to California from|Rainy days mean good business for New York, stopped over in Chicago long enough Saturday to speak to the strikers. “Mother” Jones, veteran of a thousand strikes and hun- ‘ : dreds of jails, talked to the strikers, most ‘of whom are girls, |compelled to walk in the rain and not as a labor leader, but as woman to woman. In spite of the fact that “Mother” Jones is well past eighty she spoke with the pep and punch of youth. Joined to the pep and punch was the wisdom of innumerable years of experience. This Strike [s War. “This strike of yours is war. It is damned real war. You girls are fighting and I want to tell you to keep: on fighting. “Don’t care about police in or out of uniform. Don’t care for jails, courts or injunctions. Picket, strike, fight. “Don’t let anything scare you. You ara right in demanding decent wages and conditions. Remember that and keep your courage up. Don’t let their sluggers and hired thugs frighten you. “Some of you workers are mo- thers, Talk to those police and sluggers and gangmen as you would to your children. You may show ‘them you are right. Fought Gunmen for 5v Years. “I have seen gunmen and slug- rs in every state in this country. I have fought them for more than fifty years. I know that they can- not do anything but kill you and if they do that you need not worry. I have been in jail more times than anyone can remember and I am still here and I am good. for another twenty years. “If IT am here for another twenty years I will still be fighting. They can’t keep me still. They can’t shut me up. “And I am damn sure they can't scare me. If you etrike with that idea in mind they will. not be able to make you lose this strike. And always remember you can strike again and after that strike you can strike again, “T will see all the posses and their hired lawyers and other lack- evs in hell before I will stop fight- ing. Girls I am with you and with you strong. Tells of Miners’ Struggles, “You girls should get the entire labor movement of this town behind workers of this country. | ... members must attend this They can help you. Get them to do it. “Don’t think that this strike is a even {f you do have to ; ‘ bia fight. Remember the strikes of the miners. I have seen miners strike when they had to leave their homes the taxi drivers and tney don’t have to wait around for orders. Pickets Talk to Scabs, The scabs leaving the shops were the pickets had a good chance to talk with them. The police were not brave enough to come cut in the rain and risk wet feet end so the when the strike began and live in pickets worked undisturbed. Not a terits, up to my waist to get to miners’ camps to talk to them because the bosses owned all the roads and other land. But I went and I talked. And I have faced machine guns and! soldiers and bayonets to go and talk to strikers. But I always got there) and I always talked, | “Don’t be atraid of jails or courts or judges or police or gunmen or lawyers. Don’t be afraid of any-| thing on earth or in hell.’ Strike and_ strike hard.” : When “Mother” Jones had fin- ished her speech the strikers cheered her till they were hoarse, To many of the strikers who had recently joined the union and saw this fine old woman who after more than fifty years of continual hard fight- ing was still full of spirit and de- termination she was a revelation. Talk Is Inspiring. To see a woman old and appar- ently feeble start to talk and while alking lose all consciousness of her- elf and regain her youth and ‘trength was inspiring. After she yot well under way Mother Jones ould pound the table and deliver) rer message in the same way she id_when she began, “If she could fight for fifty years you kids should be able to strike for fifty weeks. Save some of the pep ‘Mother’ Jones gave you for Monday. Then take it out and go to the picket line. Before ‘Mother’ Jones spoke I said that the begin- ning of the fifth week of the strike would find the strikers without much enthusiasm but with a lot of de- termination. ‘Mother’ Jones has given you not only renewed deter- mination but a lot of enthusiasm. Take it on the picket Lne Monday,” one girl striker told the meeting after “Mother” Jones had finished, We don't give the yiri’s name be- cause Sullivan would have her ig court for encouraging violation ot his injunction if we do. Trude Discharges Twelve More, Earlier in the day twelve strikers | were discharged by Judge Trude in So, Clark St, police court when the police wore unable to show why{ they had arrested them. This was I have had to walk in water single arrest was made all day Sat- urday. Not because there was any lack of pickets on ‘the streets, but because it was too wet for the police, Many scabs after being talked to promised not to return to work to- day and the pickets promised to be on hand to see that they kept their promises. Cases Continued to Tuesday. olfoday the strikers, who have been arrested for contempt, will have a respite from attending Judge “Dennie” Sullivan’s court. All pend- ing cases have been set to be heard tomorrow and the twenty-six strik- ers who were last week fined and sentenced to jail will have bonds set then. When the strikers’ cases were called Saturday Attorney Leo Le- Bosky read to the court from the DAILY WORKER to. back up his request that all che strikers sen- tenced to jail be sent there at once and not be admitted to bail. “I want to read to your honor from a paper that the strikers read, what they have to say about the way the respondents took the sen- ‘tences you imposed,” LeBosky be- gan. Reads from “Daily Worker.” Then he read the beginning of the sto: from Saturday’s DAILY WORKER which told how the strik- ers took their sentences, “These people boast that no one is in jail, They also vall for strik- ers to to the picket line in the next column. They urge the strik- ers to flout the order of this court assuring them that no one has yet gone to jail for doing it. “I think it is time the court sent | tp, these respondents who have been sentenced to jail to go to jail to show that the orders of this court cannot be diregarded,” LeBosky also pointed out to the judge that he was criticized by the DAILY WORKER. “I have been criticized before, I suppose I can stand that,” “Dennie” said, Before incident of ‘the read- ing ot. toe DALY WORKER the r Attorney Peter 3 ) ; ‘ Strike- Buster Crowe Exposed by ficials arrested and Las in by po- lice officers attached to the state's at- torney’s office, without any warrant of law, and then and there questioned and examined them. The “courtesy” of the state’s ai torney’s office was thus turned over to this Dudley E, Taylor, He could interrogate any union official at will, and examine such union records as he pleased by merely sending forth pres officers and having them rought in, Taylor Runs Crowe's Office, The vast ramifications of the con- trol of the state’s attorney's office which this Dudley E. Taylor exercises can hardly be overestimated. His hand is seen in practically every official move which Mr. Robert E. Crowe has made in any “labor case.” Mr, Dud- ley E. Taylor has acted as the attor- ney for the notorious Citizens’ Com- mittee to Enforce the Landis Award. The Citizens’ Committee in dbout two years of its existence has collected a fund, according to press reports, of no less than two and a half million dollars to carry on its fight against organized labor, Mr, Taylor is the legal representative of the employers’ associations, and the manufacturers’ associations, and he is the attorney that has been instrumental in taking out the present injunctions for the Chicago Garment Manufacturers, Arrests in Garment Strike, It is therefore not at all startling, in view_of these facts, to find Mr. Robert E. Crowe (1) Swelling the ranks of the privately hired gunmen by detailing some fourteen police officers for duty in connection with the gar- ment workers’ strike. These police officers are attached to the state's attorney’s office to assist him in the preparation of cases. They are . in no wise to be used for ordinary police duty nor are they to be loaned to any employers’ or, iza- tion for the purpose of breaking a strike. Altho there were about 100 uniformed police officers assigned for duty in the strike zone by the police department, they made but 10 per cent of the arrests, while the fourteen police officers from the state’s attorney’s office in the same area, je about 90 per cent of the arrests; (2) Making these wholesale ar- rests by his officers in an attempt to injure the morale of the strik- ers; and (3) Permitting on the part of his police officers ital conduct to- wards the striking Ladies’ Garment Workers, the vast majority of whom, are women. Hates Organized Labor. These facts, as stated, are not startling, Mr. Crowe has disclosed his bitter prejudices against organ- ized lahor on numerous occasions. His “poorhouse or jail’ speeches, and his “keep them busy defending them- selves” speeches are clear and concise condemnations of himself, from his own mouth. ; ee Monday, March 31, 1924/ On May 2, 1922, the Chicago Daily News reported that, in a speech be- fore Rotary Club members at the Hotel Sherman State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe warned defendants in recent labor trials that he was going to put them either in the poorhouse or the pen- itentiary. ‘I understand that the Quesse defense fund is $90,000, but I will put him, either in the house or the penitentiary. ery indictment will be tried.” Promises War on Labor. And, again on August 22, 1922, the Tribune reported that labor cases still pending in the criminal courts are to receive Crowe's immediate attention, and quoted him as saying: ‘We now have an unprecedented building boom going on in the city and I am going to keep these men so busy defending themselves that they will have no chance to kill building. If further proof were needed that Robert E. Crowe is an unquestioning tool and willing agent of the “Citi- zens’ Committee,” it is provided by the report of February 5, 1924, which appeared in the Tribune. The es- sence of this report is reproduced, It describes a banquet held at the Union League Club, and stated that Plates Laud Crowe. The prosecator (Robert E. Crowe) was a guest at a luncheon given in his honor at the Union League Club. W. R. Abbott, president of the Hli- nois Bell Telephone Company, pres- ided, and there were between thirty and forty leaders in Chicago's busi- ness life present. A motion to endorse Mr. Crowe was made and passed unanimously. Among those who spoke were T. E. Donnelley, chairman of the Com- mittee to Enforce the Landis Award; Jas. A. Patten, also an active supporter of that movement, and Ezra Warner of Sprague, Warner & Company. Other speakers dwelt upon the history of Crowe’s prosecution of labor cases. Before the meeting closed, there was a general agreement that those present would do everything in their power to aid in State’s At- torney Crowe’s primary and elec- tion battles. Dudley E. Taylor, secretary and attorney for the As- sociation, was directed to keep the aes ion on its toes during both campaigns. Your committee respectfully sub- mits, therefore, that the facts cited in this brief report conclusively prove that Robert E. Crowe’s numerous ne- farious practices brand him as one completely subordinated to the will of those who have been and still are waging a bitter fight against organ- ized labor. ‘ And, your committee further re- spectfully submits that this report, if acceptable, be given the widest possi- ble publicity, to the end that the best interests of the community in general, and labor in particular be promoted. Meyer Perlstein Charges Crowe’s Men Fired Shots At Kovler Home Vice-President Meyer Perlstein, of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, charges that the shooting at Nicholas Kovlen was a frame-up by the state’s attorney’s' office and employes. “TI believe the shooting was done by agents of the staté’s attorney’s office and the em- ployers in order to scare those bosses who are thinking of yielding to the union,” he said in a statement to the DAILY WORKER. Taylor's Provocateur Methods, “In every strike Dudley Tayior is connected with these provocateur acts occur. The plan is to frighten employers and to prejudice the pub- lic and the court. Newspapers come out with big stories against the strikers on such a pretext and boss- es’ lawyers make an issue of it in court. “The Ladies’ Garment ' Workers’ Union had nothing to do with the affair. All the violence in this strike is on the side of the employers and the sluggers and police.” Dudley Taylor could not be reached by the DAILY WORKER yesterday. curity for the appearance of the|the dining room, and the. serving strikers after their appeal had been|maid was standing by, when two heard. bullets crashed,thru the window, fly- Sullivan Refuses Sissman’s Bonds.|ing between Mrs. Kovler and the The judge refused to accept Siss- | maid. LeBosky the|stories continued, and all union of- that |ficials and business agents were to failed to|be hauled in for inspection by a wo- he would be reluctant to|man witness who had been standing man’s bonds after “tender hearted” told the court if any of the strikers show w collect, io Sissman. Police. were on the job, the in the street and saw two men run- Sissman assured him that all the |ning away. strikers would be on hand to an- This sounded exciting, so the swer after their appeal has been|DAILY WORKER asked Mr, Kovler decided and he was pertectl: ing to pay up if the improbable pened and a striker was missing. Sullivan turned down Sissman’s offer agreeing that it would pain him immoderately to be compelled to ask Sissman to pay if a etriker failed to appear, . ‘the strikers who cecalled the un- provoked tirade which Sullivan let loose on Sissman last week smiled |C¢Pt the serving of the gent with | catnen at the hypocri the tender ‘dignity, Foul Press Tale Of ‘Union Shooting’ Is Shot to Pieces (Continued from Page 1) 726 S. Cornelia street. Some of these stories appeared in the Chicago Tribune and the Her- ald and Examiner. No, he didn’t see any union men at e scene of the shooting, he ad- mitte: the DAILY WORKER, Union Never Threatened Him. No, the union had never threat- ened him. No, he had never had any nal quarrels with any of the union men or women who were on ha eee union must have done it, Tribune's Pack of Lies, ; ing Tribune issman as #® his wife and child were all NBS obj will-}about it Sunday, after his im a- hap- | tion had had time to cool. 148 Kovler Contradicts Tribune. Then he said that: He was not in the room where the bullets entered: His wife was not in the room: His baby was not in the room: None of the family were there ex- maid, Mrs, Elia No, he did not think they ed to kill the maid. It might have just been an attempt to scare him, he said. Z No Arrests Made, The detective bureau meanwhile | said they had not made any arrests and didn’t propose to do so. The intimated that they regarded Kovler’s story as fishy, “Committee of 15”? PAY-ROLL VENTS ITS WRATH -ON JIMMY" “OATES Veteran Is In Bad for Exposing Padding. (Special to The Daily Worker) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 30.— use he forced the removal of “Billy” Feeney’s son from, the pay- roll, by showing that he wag hired at $200 a month, while neither - the International or the Provisional Dis- trict 4 (Coke Regions) pay-rolls showed any account for him, the machine in -the Pittsburgh District intends to vent its wrath on ‘“Jim- my” Oates. This man Oates, despite his many years of service for the organiza- tion, is made the butt end of all the jibes that the machine henchmen ean cast in his direction, One of the oldest men in the dis- trict, in point of service, and not very far behind in’ years, having tramped all ever the district in the old days when courage was a very necessary asset he is now made the goat by an unscrupulous set of men as ever pulled on a pair of shoes. He, Oates, is the man who is re- sponsible for the establishment of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica in many of the mining towns in the Pittsburgh district. When Van Bittner was forced to resign as pres- ident of this district in 1916, it was alleged that he, or others, had re- ceived a bribe of $5,000 and it was then that Oates won for himself the enmity of the machine. Bittner sent him many telegrams, and ordered that he withdraw the organizers from the Allegheny Val- ley, but Oates refused to do so and he finally succeeded in organizing the places where he was at. Murray Turns to Furope. Declaring that “Soviet Russia ap- points all its leaders, in order to increase its efficiency,” Phillip Mur- ray made a grandstand plea for retention of the appointive power at the convention of miners in session here. This after all the attacks that he personally directed against the first Workers’ goverpment, both here and at the Indianapolis fiasco last January, He also stated that the officials of the British Miners’ Union en- joyed the appointive power, but when his statement was chalJenged, by a delegate who has net been away from the old country long enough to lose his decided “Scotch” dialect, he’ took the challenge without re- buttal, ‘ No opportunity is. being lost by the machine to- inferences. that this and that resolution “came from Chicago.” Lies and insinuations, backed by the overwhelming number of pay-rollers, are ruling this con- vention. Nothing is being over- looked to link everything of a pro- gressive nature to Soviet Russia, thru its “agents” in Chicago, and the need of salvage for “our splen- id organization” is an urgent one. Defeat Howat Resolution. The hard skinned delegates from the picks get little consideration ‘|from the soft-hand tribe with the glib voices in this convention, The Howat resolution was defeat- ed with machine-like precision and the resolution ,on appointive power was rushed thru in like manner. Van Bittner, as the principal de- fender of the International. Union, in its action on expelling Howat and the rest of gg mae oe proud he was e ie Workers of America, e He described it as the greatest organization in the whole world, and John L, Lewig its president, as the greatest labew leader in the world. He was followed by Vice President Murray and between them they con. sumed more than three hours de- spite the fact ‘that, according to the rules, each speaker was limited to ten minutes. ; Murray attacked tha author of the resolutions and demanded to fox ae had vesrated them, The lea of anyone at ing great- est labor leader,” as a termed Lewis, was more than he could al- low himself to comprehend, He said that the New York and Philadel- phia papers attacked Lewis, had cartooned him, with his head to, the tail of a snake. Someone in the convention among the machine henchmen, when Mur- Tay was a who pre) the resolutions, yell out, * come from Chicago.” Someone else also yelled “They came from Moscow” and Murray answered, “Yes, Gom: rade Myerscough came with from Chicago. : Turn Down Labor Party. 7 clear And after ‘all the yarns have ace] tho complished their rpose, for the manufacturer, ey spread false i mos te nice which is - e way inn! ‘igher wages shorter hours fort the girls he works| in his sweat shop at 837 S. Market St. Oregon Farmer-Labor Party. PORTLAND, Ore,, Mar, 30,—The newly organized -Labor party of m indorses the na 1 Farmer-Labor convention to be held in St. June 17, The Oregon party officers are Otto Newman, cha‘ in; Frank Rusmisel, secretary A. L, Karnopp, state or- BURNS MUST Go! treasurer; paniser, sedition i | | |