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Page Two COAL OPERATORS CHEER TALK ON WAGE ‘NORMALCY’ Associated Man Also His Public Ownership {Special to The Daily Worker} CINCINNATI, May 18.—“Normalcy” should be the objective of the work- ers in the coal industry, said Melville Stone, former head of the Associated Press, in an address to the National Coal Association’s convention. Stone quoted Harding’s phrase with great approval. The phrase was coined by Harding when he was as- sisting the wage cutting plans of the big employers. Praising the co-operation shown by the heads of the United Mine Work- ers with the plans of the operators and the, government at a recent con- ference in New York City, Stone went on to declare his opposition to any policies of ownership of the coal fields by the government. Applaused fol- lowed. Some time ago Senator LaFollette exposed the assistance Stone had given the gouge plans of the National Coal Association, thru Associated Press despatches. Stone sent out a Statement, on the authority of the A. P., declaring that coal prices were going to rise—at a time when there Was no market reason why prices should rise—and urging consumers to buy promptly and buy heavily. Directors of Bosses’ Union. The convention elected the follow- ing directors at large: P. J. Quealy, Wyoming; Phil H. Penna, Ingiana; W. H. Cummingham, West Virginia; BE, D. Douglas, Eastern Kentucky. These district directors were chosen: W. E. Tytus, Ohio; L. C. Madieria, Ill, Pennsylvania; George B. Harring- ton, Illinois; Walter Barnum, Wash- ington; C. E. Bockus, Virginia; Ira Clemens, Kansas; M. L. Gould, In- diana; W. H. Huff, Colorado and New Mexico; W. F. Mageath, Montana and Northern Wyoming; T. F. Farrell, West Virginia; J. G. Puterbaugh, Ok- Jahoma, Arkansas and Texas; C. W. Taylor, Western Kentucky; S. L. Yerkes, Alabama and T. W. Guthrie, Pennsylvania. | 100,000 UNION MINERS. By TOM TIPPETT. (Staff Correspondent of the Fed. Press) PEORIA, Ill, May 18—The mem- bership of District 12 has reached the 100,000 mark, according to a report ‘to the convention by Walter Nesbit, secretary of the Illinois Mine Work- ers. This is the largest membership the district has ever claimed and con- stitutes about one-fifth of the interna- tional organization. This number is double any other U. M. W. A. district. There are 560 delegates attending this convention representing 351 local unions in Illinois. Twenty-three delegates attended the first district convention at Springfield in 1896, There were but a few hundred mem- bers in the union at that date. The state is 100 per cent organized today, the union having jurisdiction over 374 shipping mines. $1,449,057.79 In District Treasury. Nesbit’s report shows there was paid into the district treasury last year $1,449,057.79. The average dues paying membership during that pe- riod was 98,865. The average amount paid per member for the 12 months Was $14.66 or $1.22 per month. Out of this the running expenses of the district were paid, including officers’ salaries and expenses, field workers’ Salaries and expenses,.relief and aid, death benefits, strike benefits, print- ing, postage, telephone and telegraph, delegates’ wages and expenses to state cenventions, legal department and the district paper. The district publishes an official Paper, “The Mitnois Miner,” an cight page weekly devoted to topics of gen- eral interest, edited by Oscar Amer- inger. Its subscription list numbers 63,000 (one paper to each miner’s home). The cost of publishing and distributing this paper is $1,586.70 week. This includes all expense the paper, including editor’s salary. The contract for printing “The Ilinots *" has been given to the Okla- Leader Publishing Co. The “Illinois Miner” is a member of The Federated Press. Coolidge Name Is Sacred Cow in U. S. Printing Offices WASHINGTON, May 18.—Just as the czar of Russia’s picture never ap- Peared on postage stamps, to prevent mutilation of his sacred image by cancelation, so President Codlidge’s mame must be devoutly handled in the government printing office. When the word Coolidge comes at the end of a long line the printer is not al- lowed to rate it into Coolidge second syllable on the “Orders have been given at the government printing office to avoid in all cases the breaking of the name,” announces E. Y. Clark, secre- tary at the white house. NEW YORK-—Max Wilson, apart- ment owner, had a private graft be- sides hiking rents. He sold the ico concession in his apartment building to one iceman for $150. That's busi- nen as 4 Robert Minor, Editor of The Lib- erator, the official monthly publi- cation of the Workers Party, was given an enthusiastic reception at the convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Philadelphia. The remarks of Pres- ident Sidney Hillman, in present- ing Minor to the convention, and the address of Minor, were as fol- lows: RESIDENT SIDNEY HILLMAN: The Chair takes pleasure in in- troducing to the convention one whom I regard as a real frrene of our organ- ization. Our organization takes pride in having drawn to it the interest of people outside of our own industry and in receiving the co-operation of institutions and individuwis. During many years it has been our custom to hear from them at conventions. While our time is limited, I still feel that the convention will surely appreciate @ message from one of our good friends, Brother Robert Minor. (Pro- longed applause.) BROTHER ROBERT MINOR: Brother Chairman, Brother and Sister Delegates: When any one receives an invitation from your union to be a@ guest at one of its biennial conven- tions, one cannot but feel a tremen- dous thrill of joy and pride. There is something about the spirit of the Amalgamated Union which is associ- ated in the minds of workers thruout the world as connected in some man- ner with the great ultimate destiny of the labor movement. wanen we hear the name “Amalga- mated,” we think immediately of what I believe to be now the incontroverti- ble fact that the destiny or the labor movement is to rule the world. There is a certain breadth of solidarity about the way in which the Amalga- mated does things. Just the other day I was being told about a great tragedy out in Western Pennsylvania. One of your speakers here had just told about how free speech is not al- ways to be found in this supposedly free land, and the subject was brought up of certain workers m West- ern Pennsylvania who are now about to be sent to the penitentiary for ex- ercising their right of free speech THE DAILY WORKER and political organization, I felt very much depressed, and someone men- tioned that it was the Steel Trust, that was bringing about this perse/ cution. And immediately my mind flew back to that great event which is mentioned on this poster, that great gesture of solidarity when the Amal- gamated Clothing Workers came so nobly to the rescue of the steel work- ers in 1919 and '20 against the Steel Trust, And then when I thought of this same enemy attacking the right of free speech and political organiza- tion for workers in Western Penn- sylvania, I said to myselr, “The Amal- gamated’s old enemy, the Steel Trust, is behind this attack aud Tf think the Amalgamated is going to strike a blow again for the benefit of those workers.” (Applause.) There are many things the Amal- Jeamatea does that are assoctated ir- revocably with its name, showing its broad spirit and the militant way in which it acts. Recall to,mind the 44- hour week. Recall to mind the fact that the 44-hour week is a beginning, not an ending—there is better com- ing. Some of us are very much touch- ed by the singular fact that the Amal- gamated Union manages to have a 100 per cent celebration of that great International Labor day, May Day, every year. The mere ract tnat the Amalgamated is able to get away with that, making May Day a holiday in ac- tuality and a day of celebration of International Labor solidarity is a thing which somehow typifies the spirit of the Amalgamated every- where where the name is known; and we all know it is known in every country in the world. In another thing we have to pay our homage to the Amalgamated. I remember at your last biennial con- vention in 1922, the Amalgamated committed itself to independent poli- tical action. That was a great pio- neer step. Political action is the great issue of the present time and the Amalgamated is looked upon by the workers everywhere as being neces- sarily obligated by its own high rep- utation to take a pioneer step m that, direction. It is hardly necessary to say that the singular activity and initiative of the Amalgamated in stepping to the (Continued From Page 1.) to John Young and Herbert Hall, who are now seated in this convention when they should not be allowed to be seated,” shouted out Freeman Thomp- son, while Farrington continually rapped the gavel, calling Thompson out of order. “You're seating men you've no right to seat,” Thompson added. “What kind of stuff are you trying to put over here,” called delegate Hindmarsh. “If the delegates to this convention know there is a direct vio- lation of the rules ef seating dele- gates, is the convention to sit idly by and see the constitution violated.” Chosen Contrary to Law. Delegate Gus Fritz pointed out, “It is true, according to the ruling of the chair that the constitution provides that contests of delegates’ seats must be filed six days before the convention and for that reason, perhaps the rul- ing of the chairman that discussion of these contests is out of order is a correct one. But, however, it seems the local unions have elected dele- gates who have been illegally reited in the conventicn. Chairman Farring- ton says that if the local union elects these delegates, the convention should be satisfied. But if the local unions overlook the law, it is the duty of the convention to set that thing right.” How Machine Tricked Them. The fact was brought out by Joe Tumulty of Springfield, that the dele- gates had little opportunity to file pro- tests om delegates six days before the convention, because they didn’t know who the delegates were until the con- vention started. “The first day of the convention, I asked for the report of the make-up of the delegates be presented 8 hours before the seating of the delegates. It is not Yair for the delegates to be kept in the dark on these matters. I would like to ask the credentials committee if it is their intention to allow William Wall and James Box of Collinsville, to be seat- ed?” The credentials committee answer- ed that they had decided against Wall and Fox. Hindmarsh brought out the fact that the “delegates have no means of finding out the legal or illegal status of the delegates six days before the convention, not in fact, until the con- vention meets and looks over the re- port of the credentials committee. After a vote to close debate had carried, the report of the credentials committee was adopted. John Walker on Defensive. John Walker attempted a defense of the charges in the DAILY WORK- ER that he is a renegade socialist and ex-champion of independent political action of labor. Walker's speech to the convention was an attempted jus- tification of his desertion of the Farmer-Labor movement in favor of the republican “good roads” gover- nor, Len Small. Walker was asked by a delegate if he would use his influ- once against a socialist who is a un- ion member of the United Mine Work- ers in favor of an old party politician, He declared he would if the old line Farrington Fighting To Hold Power Politician had a chance for election and could be used in the interests of labor. The delegates were not overly enthusiastic over Walker's anti-labor party address. The convention adjourned at noon today to convene again Monday morn- ing. Farrington on Defensive. Frank Farrington was forced on the defensive thruout last week’s ses- sions. Unanimously Ilinois miners’ dele- gates passed a resolution demanding that the union use all its power at the next state federation convention to bring industrial unionism into be- ing, with one union for each industry. The resolution flayed the craft un- ion system, which divides the workers and weakens their resistence to the employers. Applause For Howat. Applause rocked the convention hall when Alexander Howat’s telegram was read, announcing he would be in their midst. The charge that the militant Kan- san leader had been deliberately and cowardly deserted by Frank Farring- ton and his machine at the Indiana- Polis convention, was made by Dele- gate John Hindmarsh of Riverton. Hindmarsh told how Lewis and Far- rington had buried the hatchet in the last two years. Farrington on Defensive. Farrington, in his reply, declared: “A paper is being distributed to the. delegates here that is not telling the truth. It assumed the authority to brand me as the most despised man at the convention. It prints scanda- lous and infamous falsehoods.” Bill Deach, Taylorsville, said: “Farrington is always getting out of order.” Applause followed. Hindmarsh took the floor and made @ protest against the chairman mak- ing speeches without yielding the chair to the vice-chairman. About That Strike Time Pay. Resolution No. 20, instructing the district to pay expenses of delegates to local unions was adopted. A reso- lution saying officers must pay into the treasury the five months’ pay they received during the 1922 strike was voted unconstitutional, but in debate Walter Nesbit, district secretary, ad- mitted a letter had been sent to the sub districts telling of the decision of the executive board not to draw salaries. Many sub-district officials took no pay, later finding that many district officials drew pay despite the executive board’s decision, A Weak Defense, Farrington put up a weak defense that after the decision not to take salary during the strike he found the decision unconstitutional, so many officials drew their pay. The facts are that notice of the de- cision not to draw pay appeared in the capitalist press and the Illinois Miner, but no publicity was given to the fact that some later drew back Day. Boost The DAILY WORKER. you are a worker, it is your paper, t fore and going to the rescue of the first workers’ Republic on earth, Sov- iet Russia, (Applause) ts an act which is written forever upon the roll of honor of the world’s labor movement. It 1s singularly happy we can be here, in 1924, to look back at the results of your noble act of solidarity at a time when the first workers” republic of Russia was in a terrible plight and the Amalgamated came to the res- cue. In 1924 we can say with pride that the Soviet Republic of Russia is absolutely established as the most permanent, the most solidly grounded government in all of Europe and Asia. (Applause) Over one-sixth of the sur- face of the earth files the banner of [the Soviet Republic of revolutionary Russia. It has réeachee a condition where we may say that out of the chaos of Europe now there is one place of comparative prosperity on the continent of Europe and that is Soviet Russia ruled by workers. (Ap- plause). We notice that even the ene- mies of Soviet Russia are beginning unwillingly to recognize, not a friend- ly willingness for Soviet Russia to live, but an unfriendly willingness to give up the struggle to crush Soviet Russia. The great capitalist reac- tionary power of France is typified by Poincare, It has been forced, af- ter changing its administration, the directing personnel of that govern- ment, has been forced tu come to the conclusion that it must recognize the permanent rule of Russia by tne pres- ent rulers, the working class. (Ap- Plause). England, Italy, France, Ger- many and then—the United States? We trust, Brothers and Sisters, that you are going to do something about that. While we see over there the tre- mendous fact that the rute of the earth by labor is beginning, clarify- ing our view of the future, we must also look closer home. What do we see in America? Brothers and Sis- ters, within the last few days I have been looking over some statistics and we find great labor unions in Ameri- ca slowly crumbling to preces. We see many of our unions actually go- ing down in membership to a mere fraction of what they were. We find that the very right to organize is slowly being taken away from many COOLIDGE VETO OF BONUS BRINGS ANGER IN HOUSE “Hand Of Mello~” Seen By Insurgent (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, May 18.—With lit- tle debate, the House passed the Sol- diers’ Bonus bill over the President’s veto. A number of members who voted for the bill originally, switched on the vote to over-ride, but they did not affect the result which was a fore- gone conclusion. The vote was 313 to 78, or 53 more than the necessary two- thirds of those present and voting. The senate will act either Monday or Tuesday and will very likely follow the house in disregarding the veto of Coolidge. The Hand of Mellon. The strong language of the presi- dent’s disapproval awakened no no- ticeable response in the house among members who voted originally for the soldiers’ bonus. “The voice was the voice of Cool- idge, but the hand was that of Mel- lon,” commented Representative Nel- son, leader of the insurgent Repub- licans. Money for Graft, Not Bonus. Very few here would take the re sponsibility for convincing their con- stituencies of the soundness of the Coolidge veto. The president’s argu- ment of government poverty will be accepted by very few, especially be- cause the recent scandal revelations have made it clear that huge sums of money are of practically no concern to the government when the same has to be turned over to big business groups. Nor do many congressmen feel that they can get their voters to accept the obviously hollow noise made by Cool- idge in behalf of pure patriotism. The records of the war profiteers, closely allied with the administration, are too well known to too many people to permit any appreciable acceptance of the white house idealistic eruption. The representatives are plainly anx- ious to get home and repair their po- litical fencés, Many regular Repub- licans view the Coolidge attitude, which is even harsher toward the bonus than was Harding’s, as distinct- ly detrimental to their chances of re- election. Quinn Confident. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. May 18.—~- of the workers. We find injunctions issued which deny the inherent right of labor organization. We find that they go so far as to forbid union offi- cials to transact the business of un- ions, or union members to meet to consider questions of economic ac- tion. Everywhere it is the governmental power that is used against labor. There are many of us who are firm- ly convinced, and your union is offi- cially committed to the belief, that the things which will revitalize the labor movement, will save it from this crumbling process, will protect it from the club of capitalistic govern- ment action for destroying economic organizations, that the means by which the labor movement can be given a new rebirth, a new hope, a new vision and a new courage to fight, is to enter the struggle as an inde- pendent political factor contending with the employing class for the right to exercise governmental power over the land. (Applause). Political action. What is political action? Political action is action which looks toward this taking of the power to control a community, to say who shall feel the blow, the heavy blow of the community’s legal arm. In this question of political power there are various views. There are some who think that the same rep- resentatives in political office can speak for both workers and employ- ers. That is like a view which we find in the economic field, like tne view of company unions, the idea jthat the same union official in a com- pany union organized by the employ- ers can act both for the workers and for the employers. “We find that the Congress of the United States is giving a large por- tion of its time directly to controlling the struggle between capital and la- bor, always in the interest of capital. Then there are those who tell us, “Send good men to Congress,” and I answer, a good Congressman is like a good employer—there are none. Un- less the Congressman is solely the spokesman of labor he cannot speak for labor at all, You can‘ no more have a Congressman who represents both capital and labor than you can have an arbitration board where the (Continued From Page 1.) es, the police and the injunction judges. In spite of the hatred of the Jewish Daily Forward-Sigman machine for the Communist paper, it looked doubtful if the machine would dare to thwart the wishes of the Chicago workers who were the best judges of the serv- ices of the DAILY WORKER. It was known by many of the dele- gates also, that vice-president Meyer Perlstein, one of the arch supporters of the machine welcomed tne support of the DAILY WORKER to the strik- ers during the darkest days of the struggle, when the workers could not get no other newspaper's aid in Chi- cago. Perlstein was not backward at the time of the Sullivan injunction against the picketing in asking the Communist paper to “put in big head- lines” in behalf of picketing. Will Continue Fight. In spite of these facts, the conven- tion leaders jammed thru a counter- resolution attacking the DAILY WORKER and the Freiheit as mis- leading the workers. Undisturbed by the machine’s hos- tility, the representatives of the two papers who were present, declared that the Communist papers would con- tinue to fight shoulder to shoulder with the needle trades workers against the employers. Endorse Russian Recognition. Recognition of Soviet Russia could not be prevented by the machine tho the chairman of the resolutions com- mittee took occasion to attack the Russian government. It was signi- ficant that only the militants applaud- ed the passage of the resolution. The administration, however, succeeded in preventing a resolution instructing delegates to the Copenhagen Inter- national Federation to vote for affilia- tion with the all Russtan needle trades’ workers on the grounds that it was affiliated with the Red Trade Union International. Counter revolution in Russia was endorsed when $200 was voted to the Russian anarchist Red Cross and $1,000 relief to the anti-Soviet prison- ers in Russia. Hatred of Soviet Russia, Hatred of the machine for the work- ers and peasants’ government of Rus- sia flamed out in a lengthy speech by President Morris Sigman in which he said it was “not worth while” to com- municate offictally with the Soviet Re- public. Sigman’s attack on Russia was pat- John R. Quinn, national commander |terned after the speeches that, Samuel of the American Legion, this after-|Gompers makes before Civic Federa- noon issued a stat confidence that congress will pass the mt expressing |tion and other employers’ groups. It came in connection with u resolution soldier insurance bonus bill over|fathered by Socialist party cliques President Coolidge’s veto, Senate Probes K. K. K, Records. asking Russia to release the prisoners held there for opposing the Soviet system. The resolution passed, WASHINGTON, May 18.—The sen-| Delegates favoring Russia were not ate investigation of the election of |permitted to speak. The suppression Senator Mayfield, Texas, adjourned |of the pro-Russian forces was even after a brief session today until Tues-|more outrageous than at the Portland day. Opposing counsel proposed the|convention of the American Federa- recess to give them additional time to|tion of Labor, where five speakers in examine the financial records of the|behalf of Soviet recognition succeed: Ku Klux Klan brought here from At-|ed in getting the floor before Matthew lanta, Woll and Gompers cut off debate and a Tt ae ane A LS Ne We 5 RR AL rt nd Minor Speaks to Amalgamated Convention arbitrators are representatives of both capital and labor in the same representative. Brothers, I must not take much of your time. I must let the Chairman get to business. It is necessary be- fore I give way and sit down to men- tion the great convention which is to occur on the 17th day of June in the City of St. Paul. The convention of the 17th day of June in St. Paul is going to be a step toward not merely “progressive” political action for put- ting nonedescript “good” Congress- man into office, but the convention of June 17th in St. Paul is a step to- ward a labor party. (Prolonged ap- plause). June 17th is a convention which is going to give July 4th something to do. June 17th is a convention which is going to perform the only acts that are going to be performea for the definite crystalization of independent Political action by the only means that is possible, the foundation of a broad mass labor party, representing workers and farmers, and workers and farmers only. A class tnat is without a mass party to speak for it in politics is a class without a vote. A labor party, a Farmer-Labor Party independent of all capitalist parties is the thing which today must be the next step of organized labor to revitalize itself and to save even its economic organizations, and the only event in the immediate future which can bring it about is that convention of June 17th. That convention is a united front convention open to all who are of labor and of the farm. That con- vention is the convention which rep- resents the movement for clear-cut independent political action, and Brothers and Sisters, the more defi- nite that we and you can bé in go- ing to that convention, with abso- lutely definite fixed plans, that we will not leave it without independent political action thru a Farmer-Labor Party on the united front basis with all within it, the more definite we can be, the more we can be assured that the campaign of 1924 shall not pass without being utilized at last for the hearing of the great voice of la- bor roaring thruout the land—‘We want power, we workers!” (Prolonged applause). GARMENT UNION ORDERS STRIKES The began their lengthy harangues. I. L. G. W. U. action—bearmg the hall mark of the Forward and Samuel Gompers, is in striking contrast to that taken by the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers in session in Philadel- phia.* Morris Sigman was re-elected presi- dent of the I. L. G. W. A. William F. Dunne came up for Sig- man’s abuse in connection with his at- tack on the expelled members. He assailed Dunne for opposing the Gompers’ forces at Portland and praised the Portland convention for unseating him. This attack threw the convention into turmoil. The rest of the Sigman machine was re-elected. The convention ad- journed. K.K. K’S ROBBED OF ROBES IN NOTRE DAME; FEAR RIOT Catholics “Deny They Committed Outrage (Special to The Daily Worker) SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 18-— Bight Ku Klux Klansmen who were shorn of their nightshirts and masks here yesterday are still hunting those valuable garments. The K. K. K.’s were doing sentry duty on downtown streets here when a g: who didn’t realize or didn’t care that Klan robes cost a lot of jack, came up and tore the nightshirts from the sentries, There is to be a Klan konklave here, thereforé the sentries. The Klan officials charged that the disrobing act was done by students of Notre Dame university (Catholic). This the worthy fathers of Notre Dame deny, saying that their stu- dents were all in bed when the K. K. K.'s were disrobed. The Klan also charges that the po- lice refused to give them protection after the attack. Tho klan want to hold a parade, but the police refused @ permit. The klansmen say they will parade anyway. The police fear @ general riot, they say, They say that the boys who attend Notre Dame are a bunch of hard-boiled micks and are likely to give the klan “what for.” Thousands of the nightshirt mob were gathering here yesterday and to- day from northern Indiana, southern Michigan and eastern Illinois, H. W. Evans, imperial wizard of the klan, is here from Atlanta, Ga., to lead the festivities. To Fly Across Siberi; MOSCOW, May 18—The Russian aviator Rossinvky contemplates to un- dertake the fight between Moscow and Vladivostok on a Junkers machine. If his experiment proves successful, this alr-route will be regularly established. —atetctaeennnpestieeenseinecennniemncpei TAXI!! Patronize the 100 per cent Union Prairie Cab. CALL NORMAL 0028, Monday, May 19, 1924 MACDONALD HITS THE FAKERS FOR LABOR TREASON Miners’ Ex-Secretary Hits Walker, Farrington (Special to The Dally Worker) PEORIA, Ill, May 18,—Duncan MacDonald, former secretary-treasur- er of the Illinois miners’ union, flayed Governor Small and the labor fakers who sold themselves to the Republican party at the opening meet- ing of the state convention of the Farmer-Labor party of Illinois to an audience that packed the Labor tem- ple to the doors. He lashed Frank Farrington and John H. Walker for their treason to the workers and farmers of Illinois‘ in lining up with the crooked politician who is now governor of the state. He was particularly bitter against Walk- er, who was once held in high esteent by the miners, but is now in the same category as Samuel Gompers and his crafty henchmen, like Victor Olander, the dry land sailor, and Oscar Nelson, the half-baked lawyer from Chicago, who is tickled to death whenever Mayor Dever allows him to act as mayor for five minutes to represent the city at some labor gathering. These lackeys of the capitalist class, or “labor lieutenants,” as old Mark Hanna used to call them, were shown up in their true colors by Mac- Donald. They appeared at the min- ers’ convention to block the move- ment for a labor party. Whether they are getting paid for this work out of the treasury of the Illnois Cham- ber of Commerce, or whether they are merely scabbing on the open hire- lings of the capitalists, the fact re- mains that this tribe of labor leeches are not alone sucking large salaries out of the bodies of the workers, but also destroying the workers’ power to resist the encroachments of their masters and preventing them from uniting politically for the purpose of ultimately organizing a government of workers and exploited farmers, MacDonald denounced Farrington’s plan for cheaper production thru elec- trification. This plan would mean more profits for the capitalists but not more pay for the workers. Any la- bor saving device under capitalism can only help those who own the means of production and distribution. The capitalists are interested only in making profits and evidently that is what Frank Farrington is also inter- ested in—making profits for the coal operators. Arne Swabeck, district organizer of the Workers Party, declared that the Workers Party stood for the imme- diate organization of the workers and farmers politically in a national Far- mer-Labor party. The labor fakers were frantically trying to stop the tide flowing in the direction of- St. Paul on June 17th. The reactionaries were marshalling their spellbinders to confus: the workers and try to con- vince them that more could be gained by making deals with the old parties than by the workers organizing their own political party. This may be true in the case of the leaders who were given good fat jobs for selling the la- bor vote, but the condition of the rank and file today was worse off than even after years of non-partisan poli- tical activity, Alexander Howat, deposed presi- dent of the Kansas miners, who is here on the invitation of the miners’ convention, will address the Farmer- Labor convention tomorrow. Your Union Meeting THIRD MONDAY, MAY 19 89 Barte: 4 123 N. 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