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essay ete Se j ‘ f i } : 4 # osc Page Two PIT MOUTH YIELDS ONLY DEAD BODIES AS WIDOWS WAIT (Continued from Page One) that 114 men had entered the mine on Monday morning. This was the first time the exact number of men caught in the disaster was made known. “The explosion unquestionably came from gas,” Scott said. “We have no idea how the gas developed hich caused the explosion.” The Benwood mine is an old work- ing and gas has been discovered in it before. There have been three se- vere explosions during the last two years. Scott admits that a small ex- plosion occurred only two months ago. A small army of expert rescue work- ers, recruited from Bureau of Mines cars and mines in the vicinity of Ben- wood, were still groping their way thru the caverns of the earth today searching for the 88 men unaccounted for. While the rescue squads worked un- tiringly, the entire population of Ben- wood—4,773 men, women and chil- dren—huddled on a muddy hillside outside the Benwood mine gate, hop- ing against hope as the hours passed by that their fathers, husbands and brothers might have escaped death. The cause of the explosion is still undetermined. Officials of the scab steel company have refused any in- formation. The force of the explo- sion blew away the earth embankment of the B. & O. railway tracks at the mouth of the mine. Tons of earth and rock caved in on the miners, complet- ing the trap in which they were caught, and making doubtful their sur- vival. Rescue crews from Moundsville, eight miles away, were delayed by taking a roundabout course to Ben- wood. Clouds of gas and smoke were pouring from the mine when the res- cuers arrived, and the entrance to the mine was blocked. SHADY SHYSTER CANNED BYBOSSES STRIKE WINNING (Continued from page 1) warded him with the job from which he has just ben released to cut expen- ses of the weakening association. _ Commenting on the situation vice- president Perlstein said the union and the strike weer strong and the work- ers would carry the fight on until the employers were forced to recognize the union’s just demands and grant the union shop. Association Members Negotiations Several of the association's memb- ers are now negotiating with the union. They are ready to break away from the association to prevent their business from going to smash but they are still holding out for more favor- able terms. Union officials declare that the bosses must yield to full union terms. The fact that the Chicago dressmak- ers’ local instructed its delegates to the coming Boston convention to de- mand support for a prolonged fight here was a factor in weakening the determination of association memb- ers. Solidarity With Expelled. Another blow to the bosses is the interesting solidarity in the union ranks. This solidarity was shown when the Chicago local stood by the expelled members and instructed the delegates to demand their reinstate- ment in the unton. Chicago Labor Contributing. The strike fund drive among Chi- cago local unions is meeting with suc- cess from the start. The laters’ union gave $100; eight-seven dollars was col- lected from Carpenters’ Local No. 181 when strikers made their appeal and much more isexpected from the union meetng next Monday to which every member is specially invited; twenty- five dollars a week for four weeks is pledged by Carpenters’ Local No. 1467. These reports come from the first day of the drive which is expected to bring in thousands of dollars. A May Day dance will be held at the strikers’ headquarters, 180 W. Wash- ington St. in honor of International Labor Day. ! Y. W. L. Juniors Help Luxemburg Branch In Entertainment Over a hundred dollars was raised at a concert and dance of the Luxem- burg Branch, Young Workers League, Sunday night, at the Workers’ Ly- ceum, Members of the Junior Section, who were scarcely more than four years old took an active part in making the evening’s program a success. A very little girl danced—she couldn't have been more than two. And the young} lady who played the piano for the accompaniment to the mass singing of the International was a tiny young- ster of four. The Luxemburg Branch is a young one, only eight months old, but it con- siders itself quite grown-up when it can raise a hundred dollars in one a. and have @ good time about, |STANDARD OIL WINNER WHEN WILSON REGIME FAILED TO PROTECT U. S. NAVAL RESERVES IN CALIFORNIA WASHINGTON, April 29.—The Wilson administration failed to protect fully the California Naval Oil reserves, Willard W. Cutler, geologist, charg- ed before the Senate oil committee today. Before the republican adminigtration came into office March 4, 1921, the Government lost $3,200,000 wo*th of oil by failing to drill proper offset THE DAILY ‘WORKER serves, he contended, wells in the California reserves, Cutler said. Adjoining Standard Oil Wells drained out Government oll from the re- DEMAND PULLMAN COMPANY RETURN FARE TO VICTIMS (Continued from Page One) or else his name and hotel will be exposed. When the men from Detroit de- manded their money late yesterday, they were told by J. O’Leary, employ- ment manager for the Pullman Com- pany, “Like hell you'll get your trans- portation money.” Herrin Miner Boost Unionism Henry Jacobs, a miner from Her- rin, Il, answered the ad run there for men. He addressed the strikers yesterday, telling them about the growth of unionism in Herrin. He declared that the men should stick to the strike until it is won. A collection over 30 dollars was donated by the strikers to out of town men who arrived destitute from far off points, not knowing of the strike, and who refused to scab. When the DAILY WORKER re- porter announced to the strikers that the proceeds of the May Day meet- ing next Thursday night would be donated to the Pullman strikers, the strikers cheered. The meeting will be held in Stans Stancik’s Hall, 205 East 115th Street, and many of the strikers declared their intention of attending. Bosses Spread Wild Rumors The Pullman Company is trying to shake the solidarity of the strikers by spreading many wild rumours. But they cannot longer deny that pro- duction is at a standstill. Their il- legal acts in sending out lying labor agents to scour the country for rivet- ers, reamers, buckers, fitters and buckers has reacted against them. The men are arriving by every train from distant points, and many autos filled with out-of-town workers are turning up in Pullman. But as soon as they learn of the strike, these workers leave the plant, and demand their transportation money. The picketing yesterday was better than at any time since the start, and the strike meeting was bigger. More men have joined the union on the ap- peal of John Holmgren, strike leader, and there are plenty of volunteer picketers. Laborers in the plant who are not on strike have been idle for over a week. Yesterday these men were idling about the lawns of the Pullman Company watering the grass and transplanting sod, instead of their usual job of hauling around steel plates. The DAILY WORKER is in big de- mand, in spite of the threats made against those distributing it. Hegewisch Meeting Tonight A strikers’ mass meeting wil! be held in Hegewisch, Wednesday, April 30, tonight, at Ginalsky’s Hall, 13257 Houston Avenue. There are almost as many men on strike in Hegewisch as there are at Pullman. Encouraged by the success of the strikers at Pull- man, the Hegewisch strikers are in- creasing their picketing and strike organization. D. Earley, of the Amalgamated Food Workers will speak to the strik- ers and will tell the progress of the strike. J, Kowalski, the international- ly known lecturer, will speak in Po- lish, The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Hegewisch Strike Committee. Pullman strikers and all men who work in the Pullman shops are also invited. The Pullman strikers are planning to hold @ monster mass meeting to- ward the end of this week. The meet- ing will be definitely announced in the DAILY WORKER as soon as details are arranged. Two thousand copies of the DAILY WORKER, a special edition giving all the latest Pullman news, will be sold by the strikers. Mexican Governor Helps Strikers Win —Cursed by Bosses MEXICO CITY, Apri! 29.—The elec- ricians’ strike in San Louis Potosi, was settled satisfactorily for the workers. They received a 15 per cent increase and obtained the dismissal of the 36 unorganized workers. All reaction is up in arms, They are cursing at this victory and blaming it on the “red” governor of that state Aurelio Manrique, The press now calls him the “un- constitutional governor.” They accuse him of being quite out of his head— of having swallowed a dictionary in his high school days, of using the polite archaic form “vos” even to his servants—and a host of other “sert- ous” charges-—and all because once in a life time a governor has used the state to aid the workers instead of the bosses. How many of your shop-mates read THE DAILY WORKER. Get ene of them to subscribe today, | i MONSTER MASS MEETINGS. WILL MARK MAY DAY Hundreds of Thousands To Celebrate The exploited working ciass thru- out the world will meet on this May Day to celebrate the growing power of labor, to take lessons from their defeats and prepare for future. bat- tles. In every capitalist city in Europe where the labor organizations are not crushed under the heel of Fascisti dictatorship, monster gatherings of workers will take place. In London, Hyde Park, will be the rendezvous for the greatest throng of revolution- ary workers in the history of the radi- cal movement in that country. In Russia, now the “land of the free”, gigantic demonstrations will be held all over the country at which government officials will speak, and Red Army chiefs will tell the workers that the Soviet power has built it- self a weapon that will protect the workers’ revolution until world Com- munism relieves the Soviet of all dan- gers from more capitalist attacks. In the United States, the stronghold of imperialist reaction, the workers will meet at hundreds of meetings and listen to speeches urging them to greater efforts in the future to build an organization that will be the lead- er and the backbone of the movement to throw off the yoke of capitalism and establish the rule of the workers in America. The slogan at these meet- ings will be “A class Labor Party on June 17.” The eyes of thousands of workers will be turned in the direction of St. Paul, where the great convention to establish a national class Farmer-La- bor Party will be held. Thus the American workers are laying the ground-work for the gigantic task ahead of them. May Day will be celebrated in the United States in the following meet: ings: Chicago— Northside Turner Hall. 820 N. Clark St., 8 p. m. New York City. Harlem—il0th Streer Ave., 2 p. m. Downtown—Rutgers Square, 2 p. m. Williamsburg—Grand Stree: =xten- sion, 2 p. m. Central Opera House, 67th St. and Third Ave., 8 p. m. Brooklyn—Labor Lyceum, 949 Wil- loughby Ave., 8 p. m. New York Finnish Branch—Harlem Casino, 116th St. and Lenox Ave., 8 Dp. m. New York Lettish—May 3rd, 321 E. 78rd St. 8 p. m. New York State. Yonkers—May 4, Labor Lyceum, 23 Palisade Ave., 8 p. m. Buffalo—Temple Theatre, 376 Will- iam St., 8 p. m. Rochester—Monster parade starts 1 p. m., ends at Convention Hall. New Jersey. Hoboken—110 Grand St., 8 p. m, Newark—Labor Lyceum, 704 So. 14th St., 8 p. m. Elizabeth—Lutwin’s Park St., 8 p. m. New England Meetings. Boston—Tremont Temple, 8 p. m. Providence—Painters’ Hall, corner Washington and Mathewson Sts. 8 p. m. Norwood— Lithuanian Hall, South Norwood, 7:30 p. m. Gardner—Casino Hall, 65 Main St., 7:30 p. m. Maynard—Waltham Street Hall, 7 Pp. m. Concord, N. H.—May 3rd—Central Labor Union Hall, 8 p. m. Peabody—May 4th, Polish Hall, Lit- tle’s Lane, 8 p. m. Lawrence, May 4th--2:30 p. m. Haverhill, May 4th—7:30 p. m. Worchester, May 4th—54 Belmont St. 7 p. m. i Roxbury—Otisfield Hall, Otisfield St. and Blue Hill Ave., 11:30 a. m, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia—Lulu Temple, Broad and Spring Garden Sts., 8 p. m., Philadelphia—May 1 to 3—Interna- tional Workers’ Aid Bazaar, Kensing- ton Labor Lyceum, 2nd and Cambria Sts. Pittsburgh,May 4th—Labor Lyceum, 35 Miller St., 2 p. m. Wisconsin. Milwaukee— Freie Gemeinde Hall, 8th and Walnut Ste., 7:30 p. m. Kenosha—German - American Club House Auditorium, 665 Grand Ave., 8 p.m. Racine—Union Hall, 8 p. m. Superior, May 2nd—Workers’ Hall, corner Tower and N. Sth 8t., 7:80 p.m and Fifth Hall, 69 So. Mineola, Rockford—Lyran Hall, 1115 Third Ave., 8 p. m. 6.0, P. GOVERNOR GOES TO PRISON FOR SWINDLING Indiana Republican Pick McCray’s Successor INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29,— Warren T. McCray, Governor of In- diana, was a prisoner in the puii pen of “federal row” at the Marion Coun- ty jail today. Stunned by the verdict of the jury in federal court finding him guilty of fraudulent use of the mails, the Governor was ordered to jail by Judge Anderson to await sentence Wednes- day. The governor spent the night in a room with eighty-four other prisoners. From the moment he heard the reading of the verdict until the prison doors closed behind him, McCray re- fused to make any comment on the ease, or to indicate whether he would resign from the governorship. Emmett F. Branch, of Martinsville, Lieut. Governor of Indiana, will be- come governor of the state within 48 hours, and MeCray will resign, it was made known today. Goes to Atlanta. McCray will not appeal his case, but will serve the sentence to be imposed upon him by Judge Anderson Wed- nesday morning, it was stated. Plans are to take him to the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday by United States Marshal Linus P. Mere- dith, With these events the curtain will fall upon the final act in the turbu- lent administration of Governor Mc- Cray. Chances of appeal in the federal court case were regarded as slight. son City, Benld, Livingston, East St. Louis, May 2; West Frankfort, May 4; Valier, May 4, Missouri. St. Louis, May 4; Kansas City, May 4. Indiana. Hammond—Announced locally. Gary—Croation Hall, 23rd and Washington St., 7:30 p. m. South Bend—Workers’ Hall, 1216 W. Colfax Ave., 8 p. m. Michigan. Detroit—House of the Masses, 2101 Gratidt Ave., $ p. m. Colorado. Denver—Celebrated on April 27. California, San Francisco—Golden Gate Com- mandery Hall, 2137 Sutter St., 8 p. m. Los Angeles, May 3—Russian Gala Ball, Hollenbeck Masonic Temple, first and Chicago Sts., § p.m. “Washington. Seattle— Finnish Workers’ Club, 13th and Washington St., 8 p. m. Ohio. Cleveland, Toledo and Dillon- vale. Minnesota. Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth. Besides these meetings announced here, there are many small and large demonstrations in more remote parts of the country, making a grand na- tion-wide celebration of this Interna- tional Labor holiday, May Day. FRANCE TO KEEP MILITARY GRIP ON THE RUHR Poincare May Wieck the Dawes Plan PARIS, April 29.—The reparations commission met today and considered the replies of the allied governments on the experts report and discrssed whom they should nominate on the reorganization committees, It is believed the commission will be forced to mark time as far as act- ing on the government’s replies is concerned, until the results of nego- tiations by Premier Theunis of Bel- gium with emhiers Poincare of France and MacDonald of Great, Brit- ain become known. Will Hold Ruhr. Despite secrecy as to details of yes- terday’s Franco-Belgian conversations, it has leaked out that Poincare and Theunis agreed in principle upon a compromise which will permit a con- tinued united front by these coun- tries as far as the Ruhr is conocerned. Military occupation will continued in some form even tho experts plan is put in operation, It is understood Theunis urged that occupation eventually be modified to- ward “invisibility.” He proposed oc- cupation of vital centers only in case the Germans executed the plan with good will, The Belgian premier is believed to have secured promises of concessions from Poincare which will enable him to bring the French and British view- points appreciably closer when he has @ talk with Premier MacDonald over the wek-end. NEW YORK, April 29.—Charles G, Dawes announced today on his arrival from Germany that his plan has ended @ five-year guessing contest. He ex- pressed fear that unless the plan was immediately accepted, the German Pullman—Stansics Hall, 205 B, 116;rentenmark would break and chaos, St., 8 p. m. the precursor of revolution would en- Toluca, Christopher, Zeigler, John- gulf Burope in disaster, COST OF LIVING AND WAGES’ TRAVELING FAST IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS; WORST YET TO COME —— CHICAGO, April 29.—The cost of living continues upward and will be much higher during the next 10 or 15 years than it is today. The agricul- tural depression, excessive production of foodstuffs and the flow of the agri- cultural population to the cities are combining to push prices upward, the foundation said. “City populations are coming to thing,” the foundation declared. “Coil when prices reach the higher levels. nishing and cities which have had the advance of low price: higher incomes compared with 10 or “Once pric long time to restore the new generation of farm yo matur for agricultural produc’ ricultural population to normal. look upon cheap food as a normal mplaints will be loud in a few years Agricultural output is gradally dimi- for food and 18 y ago will suffer. e increased it will take a Not until a ‘es will the deficit be made good. WAR MONGERS IN MEET THANK GOD FOR SAM GOMPERS (Continued From Page One) of the Rev. Selden P. Delaney, an Episcopalian rector of New York, was read. In his letter he declared: “In the case of a war for national de- fense, we should fight to repel the in- vader. During the last war the U. 8. flag was never exhibited in our church of St. Mary, the Virgin. We believe that the fundamental cause of war is the capitalistic system which domin- ates the world today, and which the N. C. F. is doing so much to defend. We would suggest that much more could be done to avoid war in the future if capitalism could be restrict- ed in its greedy competition for the markets of the world so that it could no longer plunge innocent people in- to bloody warfare to enrich a few mil- lionaires, Brig. Gen. Leigh R. Gignilliat of In- diana, declared that the country need- ed 150,000 officers to take charge of an army of three million men, the number which would be necessary ip “a major emergency”. Pacifist propa: ganda in the schools and colleges wa: making it difficult to get sufficient vel unteers for the Reserve Officers Training Camps. The R. O. T. C, were not militaristic; they inculcated disci- pline and respect for authority which are the chief aims of education. Pacifist propaganda was having a very bad effect on the numbers at- tending the Citizens’ Military Train- ing Camps, warned Wheeler P. Blood- good of Wisconsin. It was taking the energetic efforts of a press gang of 70,000 members of the C. M. T. C. Association to induce young men to attend these camps. In 1921, the arm- ed forces of the country almost dis- solved thru lack of volunteers. Very few employers are willing to give their employees time off for this pur- pose. Employers must co-operate for “what would banks, insurance and business amount to without a military force to protect them?” Wisconsin Socialists were not so bad, declared Bloodgood. A prominent Socialist there, speaking to him privately, in regard to the National Defense Act of 1920, said: “When the time comes, T'll do no different than you. I can- not approve of this act publicly, but I won’t oppose it so strenuously”. The speaker ended with a laudation of Samuel Gompers, who was in the audience. “If Gompers and nis friends didn’t. approve of the Defense Act, our voices would amount to nothing. Thank God, we're getting co-operation from Organized Labor! Thank God. for Gompers!” Gompers For Fascist Unions. Samuel Gompers endorséd the prin- ciple of the company union as the new industrial policy of the A. F. of L. Ex- plaining the term “industrial democ- racy” as used by the A. F. of L., he said: “Disregarding the question of selfish motives, we see employers or- ganizing company unions in order to convey the idea that industrial democ- racy prevails in their plant. In prin- ciple, we want this- industrial democ- racy, but instead of having tt by each distinct company, we would have it by association or trust. We wish to have employers and employees all members of one association”. Supports Trusts, Mr. Gompers spoke in a low, weak voice and seemed. to experience men tal difficulty in passing from one sub- ject to the other. The A. F, of L., un- der his leadership, he declared, had always been in favor of giving, com- merce, business and industry, com- plete freedom to combine and trusti- fy. He attacked the Sherman anti- trust law as preventing the fullest development of capital thru consoli- dation. This law also hindered the combination of capital and labor along lines of Johnson's Baltimore and Ohic scheme, and thus curbed the develop- ment of peace between capital and labor. This new policy of Gomperr is nothing less than an organic al- liance between Big Business and th: bureaucracy of organized labor to crush the middle class and to reduce the working masses to a state of in- dustrial serfdom. Wright Treated Like Dog. Chester Wright followed his chief with a talk on the subject “From Mos- cow to Broadway”. The auéience ex- pected a treat in the way of an ex- pose revealing Moscow's control of The Great White Way and the use of the movies and cabarets to overthrow the government. But Wright handed out the stale stuff about Moscow's in- citing the Communists here to vio- lence and the labor party. In Bh Bh the speaker asserted: “The delight- ful thing about the Communists is, te y i) they tell the world what they propose to do.” He then described the various innocent looking organizations creat- ed by the Communists as a camou- flage and cover for their activities. “We shall watch events at St. Paul,” he added, “realizing, as the Commun- ists do, that before that defense. is eliminated they can’t get any fur- ther’. Mr. Wright was treated very shabbily by the chairman. Several millionaires at the back of the room had to strain to hear the speaker. The chairman interferred several times and peremptorily let the speaker know, as one would a hired man, that he had better speak louder. Government agents are covering meetings of pacifist organizations. This piece of information came from Dart of the Army Intelligence Department, who made a sorry mess trying to explain the details of organ- ization of the women’s peace associa- tions and their relation to Commun- ism. The N. C. F. adopted a proposal of the captain to organize inner groups in alumni associations who would impress upon their college pres- idents that “this stuff of radical propa- ganda and speakers in tne colleges has got to stop or we will withdraw all moral and financial support. The alumni have got to téll the undergrad- uates what they can do”. Matt Advises Plutes. The two major parties were called apon by Mathew Woll to hinder the success of the Farmer-Labor Party movement by throwing a few sops at the eleventh hour to the farmers and wage earners. He called for “direct concessions” for the workers. He did not specifically mention Lewis’ and Berry’s candidatures for the vice- presidency on the capitalist tickets. It was his belief that the abolition of the Rail Labor Board with a return to voluntary agreements would keep railway labor away from a labor par- ty. The Gompers officialdom, he de- clared, oppose the founding of a labor party because such a class party to justify its existence, must sooner or later fight for the abolition of private property, that is for Communism. Priest Admits Workers’ Rule. Dr, Edmund M, A. Walsh, Vatican representative for Famine Relief in Soviet Russia, did his best to give his audience what they wanted on the “somber tragedy of Russia”. How- ever, he tacitly admitted that the pos- sibilities for trade were good, and de- scribed the predominance of the work- er-over the business man in govern- ment, in the shop, in business, in economy and in education and reli- gion. In answer to questions, he stat- ed that the churches were all open to the people “‘at this time,” and that Russia should be met halfway in the matter of recognition. The only speech broadcasted was that of John Hays Hammond. This millionaire capitalist apologist ex- alization of industry, The N, C. F. has rendered a great service by win- ning the co-operation of these leaders. The number of tenant and mortgaged farmers had indeed increased, declar- ed Mr. Hammond. He interpreted this fact as a promise of greater prosperi- ty in the country. He did not specify for whom. His speech, in fact, sparkl- ed with gems. Business ethics are higher now than ever. Two per cent of the people do not own 65 per cent of the wealtn, they own only 30 per cent. ete. Several resolutions were adopted embodying the thoughts of the vari- ous speakers. Mathew Wotl presided at this session. The poor are getting richer, Baby’s Funeral Stopped By W. Va. Barons’ Police By TOM TIPPETT. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) A labor injunction now in force on Cabin Creek in Kanawha county, where the coal miners are on strike, provides among other things six months in jail and a fine of $50 for a striker caught “speaking with” a strikebreaker. West Virginia mount- ed police infest the creek to enforce the court order. o* The same injunction prevents the strikers from trespassing on company property. Last winter a baby died in a tent, colony, occupied by strikers, Arrangements to bury the body were made in the regular cemetery—owned by the coal company. As the funeral approached the graveyard it was haulted by the police. No amount of pleading could melt the order from the courts, The mourners were turned back, The body was finally interred on a bleak hillside owned by a farmer. plained the wonders of capitalism in America. Some of these wonders were the result of the fight carried on by the labor leaders against the nation- After the union was established on Wednesday, April 30, 1924 TENANTS WILL STRIKE AGAINST RENT INCREASES Monster Protest Mass Meeting Tonight Driven to desperation by the greedy exactions of the landlords, a mass meeting will be held tonight under the auspices of the Tenants’ League to make-plans for the organization of the May Day Rent atrikd. The meeting will be held in Vene- tion Hall, Douglas Park Blvd. at the corner of Ogden and Kedzie. The members of the Tenants’ League will pledge themselves not to move or ac- cept unreasonable rent increases. “Innumerable children are under- nourished and poorly fed, even in the better residential districts, directly be- cause of the profiteering of heartless landlords,” states Mrs. Mary E. Hol- land who has just finished a 6-months’ investigation of renting conditions and reported to the Woman's City Club. The landlord takes most of a man’s income nowadays, according to Mrs. Holland. As a result many children are given “only a dry crust of bread and perhaps only a sip of milk” each morning. This requires the schools in many citiés to supplement the home diet with special cracker-and-milk feeding of markedly under-nourished children. Chicago has some militant tenants, of the 300,000 that ordinarily have to move each May, who ure planning a vigorous stand against the greed of the landlords this year. As one investigator remarks, “to what purpose is all this moving? There is only a reshuffling of ten- ants ...the unhealthy tenements re- main fully occupied.” In the shortage of housing facilities of reasonable rent, many workers are forced to live in single room “apart- ments.” Often a family of three or four, including small children, are forced into one room and consider themselves lucky to get a landlord who will take children. One reporter remarks that only once has a sign been seen “Children Wel- come” and that was on a wretched old house in which the neat but shabby interior was trying to belie the ex- terior becmudged by Chicago soot. Many little children are scarcely permitted out of their limited quarters, especially in winter. In summer they are allowed the freedom of a filthy street for a few hours. Their mothers have to lock them up when they go marketing. Building reports for Chicago indi- cate a boom season, but most of the buildings have been apartments along the lake front or big bank buildings downtown. Builders aren’t interested in the profits of the landlords of smaller flats. As a consequence, work- ers are forced to accept dwellings that have long since been cast off by the “better classes” in their retreat to the outskirts of the city. Where the work- ers are able to rent a modest fiat, the landlord is sure to neglect to repair it and then soak them an increase in rent when the lease runs out. It is to attempt to prevent some of these evils that the tenants of the Northwest side are rebelling. They realize that if enough of the tenants refuse to move, the rent-hogs will not be able to cheat the workers this year. It is only when everyone submits to the landlords’ decree that he can raise rents all around. If tenants do not offer to pay increased rents and refuse to move, the landlord is stuck. He cannot attempt wholesale evictions in a city the size of Chicago. A correspondent informs us that taxes have increased three times dur- ing the last year, correcting the state- ment of J. Ritchie Patterson who claimed they had not increased. University of Chicago students are joining the fight against increased rents in the dormitories. It was pro- posed that 20 per cent rent increases in rentals be made in the students rooms. The students protested at once that Hyde Park rents gonerally were being raised only 12 per cent. The President of the University has promised to make a statement be- fore the end of the week. Cabin Creek in 1912 peace reigned and a church was built by the miners. The Christian coal operator “donated” the ground. All the officials of the church were union men, Services were continued uniterruptedly until 1922 when the present strike occurred, When the strikers appeared the first Sunday in the strike for church ser- vices, the door was locked with a new padlock. Armed guards were on duty to prevent services. The church remained closed until it was recently opened for the strikebreakers who at- tend church regularly to hear the com- pany minister preach. The church was built and is owned by the union men. But the operators’ thugs keep them away with a gun, Wm. Blizzard, who was tried for treason and mur- der in connection with the armed march, attended this church, His father was a deacon of the church in the union days. A. Negro woman, wife of a strike- breaker, revealed an economic angle of the race question to me when I asked her why her husband had left 4 plantation job to work in the mines. “Hundred’s of miners are killed every week in the mines,” \ —