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4 4 Monday, May 19, 1924 eer ee ere nrm rte renee tne ni sestemamnemeemeracen snemnenre mere fy etubrvcirneeeahygnmra_ fama wens LOVEFORFASCISM,|* COURTS SUPREME OVER PRESIDENT, | JUDGES" RULING Cal’s Bootlegger Friend Must Go To Jail When Judge Landis appeared be- fore the Wheeler senatorial commit- tee in Washington a sort time ago he was as sore as a boil at the president for pardoning a bootlegger who held the worthy Landis in contempt. D. of J. “Seen.” The judge said that he thought he knew more about the case than the president did, and that undoubtedly Grossman's friends had been up to some dirty work or he would not have been pardoned. It developed before the committee that the facts as they were presented to Presidents Hard- ing and Coolidge differed very greatly ~ in important details. This seemed to Landis to indicate that, Grossman’s friends had “seen” some one in the department of justice. Taken to the Can. Judge: Carpenter and Judge Wilker- son discussed the request of Gross- man’s attorney for extension of time or an appeal, and then denied it. Grossman was taken to the house of correction to begin his year’s sen- tence. The ruling of the court established a precedent, as it is the first time in the history of the judiciary that such a decision has been handed down, « Federal Judges Wilkerson and Car- penter told President Coolidge that when he pardoned Phillip Grossman he overstepped his powers. No one has the right to pardon a man sen- tenced for contempt of court. The decision means that the court’s dig- nity is above the president's power. If you kill someone you can be par- doned but not if you step on the dig- nity of the courts. Grossman was sentenced to one year in jail in February of 1921 by former Federal Judge Landis on a charge of contempt of court for violat- ing an injunction to close his saloon. Efforts to secure a pardon for Gross- man were started and the case was brought before President Harding. Harding’s death put a temporary halt te the proceedings. Judges Check President. Several Carpenter and Wilkerson, declared the president could not in- terfere in contempt cases, for to do so would rob the judiciary of its power. Judges Check President. Several months ago, President Cool- idge announced the pardon, and it ~then .deyeloped that. Grossman had never served any Of his jail sentence. Judges. Carpenter and Wilkerson de- clared the president could not inter- fere in contempt cases, for to do so would rob the judiciary of its power. ** 8 WASHINGTON, May 18.—Officials of the department of justice today differed with Federal Judges Wilker- son and Carpenter, who held Presi- dent Coolidge had no right to pardon Philip Grossman, saloonkeeper, sen- tenced to prison for contempt of court, " They said the president had an un- deniable right, and should have it, to exercise clemency in such cases. THE DAILY WORKER MORE THAN HALF ILLINOIS COAL MINES SHUT DOWN THROWING OVER * 25,000 DIGGERS OUT OF WORK By LELAND OLDS. (Federated Press Industrial Editor). The fact that union coal thiners cannot protect their standards unless they share actively in the control of finances and management is revealed in a report prepared for the Illinois Coal Operators’ asso- ciation by its vice-president, L. H. Smith. Smith’s investigation found universal recognition among oper- le a ators of the fact that only well financed and efficiently managed mines will be able to carry on at all during a period variously esti- mated at from one to five years. This, in Smith’s opinion, means that a minimum of 60 per cent of the mines cannot and will not operate competitive conditions continue. while the present wage scale and competitive conditions continue, Clearly a union miner’s job will de- pend upon his employment in a well- managed mine and enormous pressure will be brought to bear upon those employed in ill-managed properties to accept lower wages to enable the owners to succeed in the fight for markets. Half Mines Idle, The report shows that more than half the mines in Illinois are now idle and that approximately 25,000 union miners are out of a job. Out of 397 mines in the state only 197 are work- ing. Of the 200 idle mines 18 are closed temporarily, 27 are idle with policy undetermined, 112 are closed indefinitely and 26 are wholly aban- doned. The 138 abandoned or closed down indefinitely represent 21 per cent of last year’s production and em- ploy 25 per cent of the miners in the state, The report continues in part: “The 197 mines now working pro- duced during the last full coal year approximately 51,000,000 tons. These mines have a potential capacity at 75 per cent work time for the ready pro- duction of 75,000,000 tons a year. These mines during April, 1924, oper- ated at fewer than two days a week. “Adding the 18 mines to be held idle only temporarily and some addi- tional mines whose owners will un- doubtedly feel disposed to take a chance on an improved demand dur- ing the fall and winter we shall, re- gardless of extreme curtailment of production as a result of the large number of mines closed, have an am- ple capacity to produce 80,000,000 to 85,000,000 tons of coal which is sub- stantially in excess of any probable requirements, Big Ones Survive. “Among the large number of oper- ators from whom information was sought there is apparent universal recognition of the fact that only those companies that are excellently fin- anced, that have coal of representa- tive character for their districts, whose management is alert and effi- cient, whose coal preparation is con- stantly maintained at a high stan- dard and who finally enjoy a large and dependable clientele earned by many years of high class merchandis- ing methods, can expect to carry on at all during an indefinite period vari- ously estimated at from one to five years.” The report calls attention to the fact that in the previous most ex- treme depression in the coal indus- try at the end of the period 1911 to 1915, 110 Illinois mines closed down or were abandoned leaving 280 in a position to operate. BLANKENSTEIN RELEASED FROM PRISON OFFERS TO WORK FOR THE PARTY Israel Blankenstein was convicted on the charge of being the organizer of the Communist Party in the Pittsburgh territory in May, 1922, and sen- tenced to serve from two to four years in the Western Pennsylvania Peni- tentiary, On May 11th, Comrade Blankenstein was released, having served his two years’ minimum sentence, He sends the following telegram to the National Office of the Party: Feeling fine. Ready for work after a short vacation. Will stay this week in Pittsburgh. Would like to spend week or two in St. Louls or New York. If you want me let me know where you would place me and | will arrange vaca- tion opposite end. Address head- quarters. Greetings all. Joseph Martinovich, who was sen- tenced to three to five years in the Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary on the same charge as Blankenstein, was released a few days earlier, hay- ing also served his entire minimum sentence. Both Blankenstein and Martinovich are held on deportation charges by the Federal authorities. Blankenstein being a citizen of Rus- sia cannot be deported, since permis- sion cannot be secured from the Soviet authorities for His entering BRITISH RADICALS CONDEMN PHILIP SNOWDEN’S BUDGET WHILE LIBERALS AND TORIES PRAISE IT HIGHLY LONDON.—Conservatives, liberals and right wing Socialists greet the first Labor government budget, prepared by Philip Snowden, ¢hancelor of the excheq as a satisfactory tax measure. “It is not a Socialist budget,” declares George Lansbury who represents Poplar, a radical London slum area, Bob Smillie of the miners wished the land tax question, Snowdédn had been more advanced on The president of the London chamber of commerce is glad that the “Labor government is as determined¢#———_——____________ as either of the older parties to main- tain the financial stability of the country.” bie \ Austen Chamberlain, former con- servative chancellor, assured the Im- perial Commercial association that “the chancellor is eminently conserva- tive.” The lUberals approve of the budget in every detail. They congratulate themselves on having allowed Labor to take office. The budget is not revolutionary. It is for the most part a logical succes- sor of former budgets. But it furthers free trade by abolishing, August 1, Formerly With Mandel Bros. UPHOLSTERING done in your own home very 6006 SO. KOMENSKY A’ Call REPUBLIC 3788 ne Spaulding ASHER B. PORTNOY & CO. corators Se PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST — Rendering Bxrect Dental Service 7th AY note nAs FELD: = the tariff duties on autos and other commodities imposed war meas- ure in 1915, ‘Phe tax on inhabited houses is abol- ished. It had hit the poor much hard- er than the rich, since the poor spend a far larger part of their earnings on housing than the rich. The discussion among members of parliament after Snowden had made his speech turned chiefly on whether the government would have money enough for its social reform policy. With over $130,000,000 slashed from government revenue, there will be less than $20,000,000 surplus to spend on housing, greater unemployment re- lief, widows’ pensions, etc. Doheny, Jr., Excused © From T i On Order Of Court WASHINGTON, May 18.—Edward L. Doheny, Jr., son of the lessee of naval oil reserve No. 1, today was ex- cused from testifying before the spe- cial oil grand jury here, by a court order, ‘When young Doheny refused to tes- attacking his transactions with Albert B. Fall and claimed his testimony might incriminate him. Despite the argument of Atlee government counsel, that ‘Surgeon Pomerene, ro? Crawfora 2655/he would be given immunity, Justice {to 0 p, m,| Hits ruled that he need not testify. into Soviet Russia, by the United States government. Martinovich is to be deported to Jugo-Slavia after sixty days if the Federal authorities are successful in making their case, Hoover’s Russian Relief Testimonal Hangs Prominently (By The Federated Press) WASHINGTON, May 18.—Secretary Hoover's testimonial from the Russian governfnent, which he proudly dis- Plays, framed, on his office wall, bears in richly illuminated and embellished Russian text this message: Mr. Herbert Hoover, Chairman Amer- ican Relief Administration, Wash- ington, D. C. Sir: Whereas, in the period of a disastrous national catastrophe, the people of the United States, represent- ed by the American Relief Administra- tion, readily responded to the needs of the population, already emaciated by foreign intervention and blockade, in famine stricken parts of Russia and confederated republics; Whereas, the A. R. A. did organize, on a most extensive scale, the supply and distribution of food products and other articles of prime necessity; Whereas, due to the boundless and entirely unselflish efforts of the A. R. A. millions of people of all ages were saved from death, and entire localities, including many towns, escaped a threatened fearful calamity; Wheréas, at this time, with the ces- sation of the famine, the magnificent relief work of the A. R. A. is being concluded; Be It Resolved by the Council of the People’s Commissars in the name of the millions of people who have been saved, as well as in the name of the whole working people of Soviet Russia and of the Confederated Re- publics and before the whole world, to this organization and to its leader, Mr. Herbert Hoover, to its represent- ative in Russia, Col. Haskell, and to all the workers of the organization, to express the most deeply felt senti- ments of gratitude, and to state that all the people inhabiting the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics never will forget the aid rendered to them by the American People, thru the agency of the R. A., holding it to be a pledge of the future friendship ‘of the two nations. Acting President of the Council of the People’s Commissars, Kaminev. * Chief of the Administrative Depart- ment of the Council of People’s Com- missars, N. Grburov. Secretary of the Council of People’s Commissars, L. Fotiev. Soviet Exhibits Please Vienna. MOSCOW, May 18.—In connection with the Vienna exhibition, important deals in petroleum, turpentine, ga- loshes and home manufactured arti- cles have been concluded for a total CoG of over 15,000,000 gold rou- The Austrian press is unanimous in stating that the Soviet exhibits con- stituted the most interesting section of the Vienna fair 5 FEAR OF RUSSIA, IS U. S. POLICY Hughes Likes. ‘Minority’ Rule Of Mussolini (By Intl Workers Aid Service.) Cordial relations between the Unit- ed States and the Italian Fascist gov- ernment have been undisturbed by the recent pronunciamento against bourgeois democracy made by Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, who in a speech at Palmero on May 6th said, “You cannot lead nations without the mailed fist.” This is in line with other utterances of his in the past, notably his statement: “In Italy it has been demonstrated that it is possible to govern outside, above and against all liberal ideas. We, the Fascisti, are a minority, but we know what is best for the major- ity; and impose our will upon them,” There was never a moment's hesi- tation on the part of the United States to recognize the bloody dicta- torship of Mussolini, while on the matter of recognition of Soviet Rus- sia, Mr. Hughes, the secretary of state, declares he will not consider recognition of Soviet Russia because it is ruled by “a minority.” Russia’s Claims for Damages. A drive against recognition of Rus- sia, or at least against the granting of credit to Soviet Russia, was launched in every country by groups of financiers who are insisting on the payment of old Russian debts. For instance, the Association of British creditors, which is most directly in- terested in the outcome of the pres- ent negotiations between Russia and England for the establishment of credit for Russia, did its utmost to cause the Anglo-Russian conference to collapse. But Russia had counter claims against the claims of the British, Russia put in claims for damages for the British participation in the Denikin, Kolchak, Wrangel and other white Russian attempts at counter-revolution which were in fact instigated by the British government. And already the British creditors of Russia are backing down. They have abandoned the demand for the return of confiscated and ruined property and are willing to accept compensa- tion in the shape of concessions. Recognition Inevitable. Russia must have foreign credit in order to be able to purchase neces- sary products abroad. But all kinds of hardships are put in the way. It was easy for Kolchak to obtain credit with the Am government. Re- cent revelations shows that 198,833 rifle and 13,594,026 rounds of ammuni- tion were sold by the American gov- ernment to Kolchak, the counter- revolutionists, July 30, 1919, “for de- livery to Siberia.” These arms were supplied to Kolchak on easy credit. Only greed of capitalists for foreign markets can overcome the hatred for the Russian workers’ republic. Amer- ican exporters and investment inter- ests are growing restive because of the United States Department of State policy, especially: since the re- cognition of Soviet Russia by our next- door neighbor, Canada. The greed of the capitalists and the pressure of the laboring masses from below will force the capitalist governments to come to terms with Soviet Russia. Soviet Agent Warns Against Fakers Who Issue Fake Passports (By The Federated Press) MONTREAL, May 18.—Warning against wnauthorized persons in the United States and Canada claiming to represent Russia is issued by Yasik- off, official agent of the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics, Montreal. His official statement follows: t “In view of the information I have received that various parties in Can- ada and the United States calling themselves Russian and Ukrainian representatives are deceiving unin- formed persons by issuing to them various documents and visas for the entry within the boundaries of the union which are not accepted by the representatives of the union abroad, I wish to announce that all questions regarding the rights of Soviet citizen- ship and entry within the boundaries of the union must be addressed to the official agent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 212 Drummond street, Montreal, Que., Canada.” Communist Attacks Czech Government For Carpathians MOSCOW, May 18.—Mr. Gatty, a member of the Mohekho-Slovakian Parliament and Communist deputy for the Carpathian Russians, bitterly at- tacked the government, in his speech in Parliament, for not having up to the present granted the region he repre- sents the autonomy provided by the Treaty of St. Germains, Mr, Szmeral, leader of the Parliamentary Commun- ist faction, proposed that the admin- istration of the Carpathian Russians be handed over to the Councils of Workers and Peasants’ Deputtes. Fearful of the Communist succeses in the elections in Carpathian Russias, and in an attempt to prevent Com- munist propaganda from penetrating into ‘Roumania, the authorities have LONDON, May 18.—Soviet whether it wants a loan or not, according to statements made to a Daily Herald reporter by Litvinov, assistant Commissar for For- eign Affairs, and Sokolnikov, Commissar of Finance. The bankers who thought they could strangle Soviet Russia by choking off credits are now waking up to the fact that they were barking up Russia is progressing and doesn’t care who The Daily Herald story follows: “There is only a danger of arriving too early in Russia, one can certainly never be too late,” seemed to have been the comfort- able theory on which the policy of the the wrong tree. knows it. West in dealing with Moscow was based. A theory like this is too trif- ling and unreal to be true at any time, but if the incessant efforts of the Sov- iet Government in the past few years to attract the co-operation of the West lent the maxim of “Never too tate,” a resemblance of plausibility, realities today disclose the absurdity of the fallacious attitude of comfortable wait- ing. The impression one gets in Mos- cow today reveals that the optimists who predicted the possibility of a Rus- sian revival without the help of the West were essentially justined. The most striking indication of a change in the situation is the remark- able turn of public opinion towards a foreign loan. Only a few months ago the problem of a loan loomed large, and seemed to be the sole hope of salva- tion for internal reconstruction. Very soon recognition appeared but a step- ping-stone towards obtaining a loan. All eyes were turned to Lombard street, for without its intervention the revival of Russian industry, transport, and agriculture seemed to be impos- sible. Then canie a change, and there is now not only an incomprehensible feeling of difference, but a practically negative attitude towards a foreign loan. A Loan Unnecessary. Replying to my question as to what terms would be required for the im- pending loan, Litvinov surprised me by saying, “We are _ considering whether we would accept any loan at all. The situation is no longer what it was at Genoa or The Hague. A big loan certainly we are unable econom- ically to digest, and a small one we hardly need.” And Tchitcherin said, “We don’t contemplate a big loan; we can use a loan only for productive pur- poses such as would be commercially profitable and would pay interest and sinking fund.” This unexpected and surprising attitude among statesmen I found reflected in numerous talks with business men and private citizens everywhere. People who were most set upon the hope of getting a loan are now so struck with the progress that the country has made that many are loudly protesting that loan is un- mecessary and dangerous to sound progress. Sokolnikov, Commissar of Finance, one of the most prominent of Soviet statesmen, in a long interview today, made clear the reasons for this sur- prising change of attitude. “Two years ago,” he said, “we had the choice of two courses. Theoret- ically we could have secured a speed- ier recovery of the country by the in- flux of foreign capital. But the un- friendliness of the West compelled us to take an alternative course, the slower, but steadier and surer develop- ment of our resources, The results of two years’ efforts is evident in the soundness of our finances, which has been so strikingly demonstrated that it is unnecessary to dwell upon them; while the revival of industry and trade is obvious to every unprejudiced per- son. Our Budget is still only two- thirds of the pre-war Budget, but we can proudly point out that it is the only purely productive Budget in Burope today. A Pacifist Budget. “Our pacific policy and the repudia- tion of militarism, navalism, and im- perialism are already having financial resylts. Our entire expenditure under fhibke headings is trifling in compar- ison not only with the Tsarist, but with most European Budgets. In addi- tion there is a saving of a hundred million gold rubles (£10,000,000) a year in expenditure on the Church Synod and the Imperial Court. Poor tho we are, we have spent in the last few years two hundred million rubles on the development of industry, and we are certain to increase the amount next year to 500 million. “To understand our careful and ‘timid’ attitude to a foreign loan you must realize that foreign loans are usually given not for productive, but for military and strategical purposes. We could absorb practically unlimited resources for new strategical railways and for restoring the armament in- dustries and enlarging the army, navy, and air fleet, but we refuse to con- template, and we don’t expect our new friends abroad to contemplate, any such things. For productive purposes alone the use of borrowed money is strictly limited. Imdustrial revival is a slow process, and must remain slow to be sound. “I for one shall certainly refuse any attempt to undermine the steady growth of our financal and industrial revival by the influx of foreign gold. Our Budget is assured, This is un- doubtedly a slow process, but since it reflects exactly the growth of the productive forces of industry and the increase of the area under tillage it constitutes an assurance of national and economic health.” Do you want to help the DAILY WORKER? Then get a new sub- scriber, 9| ’ Wy OREIGN BANKERS LOOK SMALL IN THE EYES OF SOVIET CHIEFSTODAY | AS PROSPERITY GROWS IN RUSSIA| Page Three cetera et ernie HI REARS AOA Reece eA Im Russia is not so darned sure PEASANTS PLEAD SOVIET ACTION FOR UKRAINIANS (By Rosta News Agency.) MOSCOW, May 18.—At the session of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets at Kharkov, an interpolation was made by a group of peasant deputies as te what steps have been adopted by the Soviet Gov- ernment to protect the Ukrainians op- pressed in Galicia and Bessarabia, reference being made, in particular, to the obligations undertaken by Po- land with regard to the Ukrainians in the Riga Treaty. Following the explanations given by Mr. Schlichter, Commissioner of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Af-| fairs, a debate ensued, in which many peasant deputies took part and which resulted in the adoption without a dissention vote of a resolution urging the Government to “find ways and means to alleviate the conditions of our ultra-frontier brethren, as would be up to the interests and national dignity of the Republic.” Workers’ Aid Meet In New York Sunday For German Relief Work NEW YORK, May 18.—The second conference of the International Work- ers’ Aid of New York has been called for Sunday afternoon, May 25, at 2:30, at the Labor temple, 243 East 84th street. The conference is to hear the report of the activities to date in the $100,000 campaign and to plan further activities on behalf of the German workers. Delegates have been invit- ed from all labor organizations. The New York section of the Inter- national Workers’ Aid has been MAC DONALD KILLS NATIONALIZATION OF COAL MINES Betrays Interests Of British Miners (Special to The Daily Worker) LONDON, May 18.—The house of commons today rejected a private member’s bill for nationalization of mines by a vote of 264 to 168. The MacDonald government took care to announce before the vote was taken that it was not back of the bill The left wing of the British Labor party is exceedingly angry over the latest exhibition of duplicity on the part of the so-called Socialist govern- ment. They are now more firmly convinced than ever that the price paid by MacDonald for the premier- ship was an agreement with the Lib- erals that he would oppose the na- tionalization of mines and kill the capital levy, the two main links in the Labor party program. The British Miners’ federation, with over 1,000,000 members, is pledged to the nationalization of the mines. Its new secretary is A, J. Cook, a left winger. In a statement issued exclusively to the Workers Weekly, Communist organ, he stated that he was in favor of everything he stood for before his election—which is not usual—and among the things he stood for was the bill repudiated by the MacDonald government. While MacDonald is carrying out his agree- ment with the Liberals and the busi- ness elements who are supporting his government, he is violating his own pre-election stand and betraying the intérests of the workers who made it possible for him to live in 16 Down- ing street. Mr. Frank Hodges, former secre- tary of the miners’ federation, now first lord of his majesty’s navy, while an official of the union urged the min- ers to rely on the house of commons and not on their industrial power for the solution of their troubles. Now that he is a member of the govern- ment, he advises the miners that they can gain nothing the house of com- mons, but must pin their hopes on the power of their union. While MacDonald and the right wing Socialists leap from one be- trayal to another the influence of the Communists is growing. The best evidence of this is the increase in cir- culation of their official organ, the Workers Weekly. Young Brazilian Is hig Out For Title Of ,, ly praised -by-tire -metionet-commri ee as Being the leading section in the er ~.. Lountry. country in raising funds for the Ger- man workers. To date it has realized $33,000. The International Workers’ Aid in Berlin has written the New York com- mittee that its funds have been of great service in the strike on the Hamburg waterfront, as well as the chemical workers’ strike in Ludwigs- hafen. The conference will plan further ac- tivities and approve the plans for the summer months and early fall and for the fall and winter campaign. All organizations are urged to partici- pate and elect delegates to the confer- ence, All organizations that have not set- tled for their subscription lists and tickets to affairs are asked to settle at | once before the conference begins. Norway Fascists Copy Our K. K. K. Grafting Methods (Special to The Daily Worker? CHRISTIANIA, Norway, May 18.— The Norwegian Fascists are using the methods of the American K. K. K. in order to build up a strong treasury. In circular letters they send out they stress the fact that they are against Communism, for Militarism, and re- quest contributions in order to buy colors, flags, and banners. Like the K. K. K., regular Fascists must buy the regulation uniforms from the reg- ular fellows who help the organization along. Then they ask another con- bution in order to send the circular letter to other people. They miss no bets. 5 Soviet Ice Breaker Rescues Norwegian Sailors In White Sea CHRISTIANA, May 18.—The So- viet ice breaker Sobbotnik arrived at a Norwegian fishing port with thirty Norwegian fishermen rescued from small fishing vessels wrecked in a White sea ice jam. Sudden storms of great ferocity almost wiped out the entire Norwegian and Russian fishing fleets. The ice breaker Sobbotnik is so named because it was It by Pe- trograd shipbuilders volunfarily on the unpaid “Communist Saturdays” in force two years ago. Boost The DAILY WORKER. you a worker, it is your paper. If JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil, May 18.—A young fellow, eighteen years and one century, and the father of 48 children, has just announced his betrothal to a lady 95 years his junior. Vincente Henrique Ferreira, the happy bridegroom, is happy to be the survivor of four such adventures as the one he is now about to embark on. Malthus never had a more dangerous and persistent enemy than Vincent. His last partner in the attempt to carry out Noah’s order to the cargo of his ark, presented him with two heal- thy Brazilians only a few years ago and unless he runs up a record of 50 before he reports to St. Peter, he will consider his life’s ambition un- fulfilled. The man who is almost entitled to the title of “The Father of His Coun- try,” is as black as the ace of spades and served three masters before slave- ry was abolished. Only six of his chil- dren are girls. His male descendants are prevented from carrying arms for fear they might take it into their head to overthrow the government, When asked how many grand-children he had, he referred the reporter to the Bureau of Vital Statistics and the bible. Vincent's latest female acquisi- tion is pretty and is fond of children. Which, taken in connection with Vin- cent’s record, speaks louder than words. Dollars For Dolls Needed By Wife Of Steel Strike Victim The wife of the steel strike victim, Jacob Dolla, who is still serving out his unjust term in prison, is appeal- ing for aid from friends among the readers of the DAILY WORKER. Mrs. Barbara Dolla has written again to express her thanks for the dona- tions she has already received and informs us that she is in need, “for here the work is so slack and getting from bad to worse; three days a week and six hours a day.” “A Dollar for Dolla” is a slogan we used some time ago to solicit help for the unfortunate worker who was im- prisoned by steel trust operatives for his participation in the strike of 1919, It is a good one to keep alive, so that his widow may not suffer thru neg- lect. Contributions may be sent in care of the DAILY WORKER, or directly to Mrs. Barbara Dolla, Lebanon, Pa, MOUNT VESUVIUS IS GIVING ITALY A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION NAPLES, May 18.—Mount Vesuvius burst into activity dur- ing the night, flames which were visible for miles reddening the sky over the crater of the great volcano. It is believed the erup- tion will continue for several days, but no danger is anticipated, nels