The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 25, 1924, Page 2

ige Two UDS AND STRIKE JREAKER URGED AS NEED OF HOUR A. F. of L. Presses Its Claims on Democrats (Continued from page 1.) gladly give generous publicity to the than who held back the outlaw labor tide. Some of the Berry Boosters. Among the Berry boosters there were Martin F, Ryan, head of the railroad carmen’s union; Jacob Fish- er, secretary of the journeyman bar- bers; Daniel Tobin, president of the teamsters’ union; Matthew Woll, president of the photo-engravers; William Green, secretary of the United Mine Workers of America; James O’Connell, head of the metal trades department; Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L.; Edward L. McGrady, Edgar L. Wallace and William Roberts, the last named Gompers’ chief Washington lobbyist and his traveling secretary. The motion to adjourn was a well- staged affair. The band played “Glory Glory Hallelujah” and a hired .opera star lead the delegates in singing it, Bill Bryan rivaled the professional song leader, opening his big bazzo about a foot. When the singing was over a woman delegate made a pre- pared speech and moved that the con- vention adjourn till 11:00 a. m. today out of respect to Wilson. The motion was carried and the fift act of the big circus was over. Send in that Subscription Today. Crowe Tries to Prove Self Fearless Foe of Rich in Murder Case The defense in the trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, confessed murderers of young Robert Franks, are today searching the country to se- cure the services of more brain spe- cialists in an effort to establish that the young millionaire killers are in- sane. This action follows only a few weeks after the announcement by the boys’ parents that they would not use their millions to cheat justice. Already the defense has had two well-known alienists examine the boys to prove them insane. More are ex- pected to be called in soon. This would indicate that the parents of the ——— intend te. nytinn a defense such | as has not been seen since Harry ‘Thaw was put on trial. The million- aire kids who killed the Franks boy out of lack of something better to do are cynical about the rantings of the “justice”-seeking capitalist press. They seem to know that the only in- terest ihese papers have in their case is the opportunity it affords to furnish good “copy.” While the defense is preparing to prove the boys crazy, Robert E. Crowe, who is running for re-election, is bending all his efforts to making a showing in the case between now and election day. The Leopold-Loeb case has been a little message from heaven to him. In it he and his political backers chee the chance of a lifetime to prove that Crowe is the fearless friend of justico, who is even willing to prosecute millionaires. Crowe hopes that this case will wipe from tbe minds of the voters the memory of his anti-labor administration of the prosecutor's office. (Special to the Daily Worker.) IN THE QUIET MOMENTS DUNCAN MACDONALD Farmer-Labor Candidate for President during one of the more quiet moments at St. Paul. THE DAILY WORKER 25,000 Lamps to Light up the Dark Horses in New York By JAY LOVESTONE. (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK June 24.—Twenty- five thousand orange, blue and white lamps linked into a festoon from Washington Arch to Sixtieth street have welcomed the delegates to the city from every part of the country to the 26th national convention of the Democratic party. Fifth avenue is one impressive, immense aurora of light. The street appears to be rather appropriate for the occasion of a big cApitalist party, a great golden way. Wor the next week or two it will be called the “Avenue of States.” Every state in the union has its own block on the proudest thorofare of the biggest and richest city in the world. In the Shadow of Wall Street. The city is all convention. The big- wigs from the donkey party are all gathered here. Within a stone’s throw from Wall Street, in the Madi- son Square Garden, the democratic standard-bearer will be chosen. The atmosphere smells dreadfully of ma- chine oil. Headquarters dot the city. Every sumptuous hotel is occupied by some presidential aspirant. The reputed dark horse, Ralston, main- tains a majestic suite in the Waldorf- Astoria. Doheny’s lawyer, William G. McAdoo, entertains his wealthy friends in the gorgeous rooms of the Vanderbilt. Governor “Al” Smith has his board of strategy quartered in the magnificent Hotel Commodore. The corridors of the principal hotels are cluttered with delegates. The lobby talk is as intense as it is voluminous. Divided Party. The main item of interest, of course, is the choice of a presidential nominee. Here it’s everybody's guess and nobody’s knowledge. The demo- cratic party represents a very sharp contrast to the republican aggrega- tion. It represents one mass of di- visions. It lacks the centralized lead- ership—a national bossism lavish with the patronage of offices—that is so characteristic of the republican party under Coolidge. The multiplicity of issues to be thrown out before the delegates are comparable only to the number of can- didates for the presidency. Tariff, taxation, dryness and wetness, for- eign policy, the Klan, and “honest government,” are among the principal questions to be dangled before the convention. The present inner party situation is much akin to that of 1856, when the last democratic convention was held in Tammany Hall, New York. But all the talk about a pro- longed fight on issues is unfounded. The platform is being written in ad- vance. The delegates will be spared the unpleasant task of amassing platitudes and evasions. There will be lots of soft-treading, in the light of all present indications. A horde of candidates are in the field. But McAdoo, Smith and Under- wood are the leading figures in the run. Then there are at least thirty- odd dark horses. Now that the “on the eve of the battle’ atmosphere is fast disappearing and that the pre- liminary skirmishes are over it looks more and more as if the convention will degenerate into a tug of war be- tween the McAdoo and Smith forces. Yet with such skilled and labyrin- thian politicians as Tom Taggart of Indiana, George Brennan of Illinois, control of all affairs here, much less time will be spent on the choice of candidates than most people believe today. None of the trotting squad- ron in the stable of dark horses is really unknown nationally or has been unforeseen by the powers that be who dominate the democratic par- ty. A glance at the roster of contes- tants in this Kentucky Derby shows that tho the personnel may be dark, no one of these aspirants is really inexperienced or an amateur in the game of serving employing class in- terests. Dark Horse Stable. Among the outstanding dark horses we introduce Frederick Gardner, the millionaire coffin manufacturer; Ed- win T. Meredith, millionaire publish- er of farm periodicals, banker and director of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce; and Owen D. Young, agent of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Radio Corporation of Amer- ica, and a director of the Bankers’ Trust Co. To offset these dark horses of pitch black hue there have been mixed up in the pack of beasts of bur- den in the service of big capital such fraudulent progressives as Senator Wheeler of Montana, who refused to look into the strikebreaking record of Daugherty; Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who quit cold in the Teapot Dome inquiry without uncovering the principal; Huston Tho-..pgson, lawyer and member of the federal trade com- mission, and David F. Houston, for- merly secretary of agriculture, and now president of the Bell Telephone Company Securities. McAdoo’s Big Drive. The convention opening today will be hobbled by a two-thirds rule which has been in force at democratic party national conventions since 1832. Lu || YELLOW EDITOR WARS ON PRINTERS | | IBLLU (Continued from page 1.) gram to Charles W. Doyle, secre- tary of the Seattle Central Labor council, would indicate that you fully approve of the course pur- sued by the Post-Intelligencer man- agement and that your local rep- resentatives were and are operat- ing strictly according to yoor direc- tions. According to your telegram, it appears that ‘the gentlemen in the composing room left their po- sitions and walked out’ in an effort to force you to ‘submit to unjust discrimination’ against your paper. Less Than Rival’s Wages. “Is it possible that you do not know that the ultimatum of your local representatives, submitted to the Seattle Typographical union the day the strike vote was taken, de- manded that the P.-L. printers work for less than your Seattle competitors were paying—less even than the scale of wages in effect prior to January 1, 1924—less even than the wage scale in effect at the very time you advocated, in large type, over your own signature, good wages for printers? To be specific: The 1924 wage scale, paid, and being paid by the other daily papers, provides for increases of 7 1-7 cents per hour for day work and 10 5-7 cents per hour for night work. The ultimatum of your rep- resentatives demanded decreases of 7 13-21 cents per hour for day work and 8 2-21 cents per hour for night work. In other words, you offered to pay the P.-L. printers 14 16-21 cents per hour less, and~- 18 17-21 cents per hour less than your Seattle competitors had been, were and are paying. How accept- ance of this offer could have re- lieved us of the charge of ‘unjust JOBLESS, ASKS, “WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?” SENDS BULLET AS ANSWER By TOM TIPPETT (Federated Press Staff Correspondent) PEKIN, Ill, June 24.—After tramping the strests of Pekin and Peoria for weeks in a futile search for employment Emil Lemoine, a 21-year old bridegroom, blew his brains out with a 38 calibre revolver, ‘When the inquisitive newspaper men wanted the cause of the suicide, Lemoine’s 17-year old bride of two months, pointed to a worn note book in which the dead boy had recorded daily his faifure to find a job. The dairy furnishes mute evidence | ter despair. of mental anguish and disappoint-/am I going to do?” he asks; and then Pi ccleirieninientarnnieeclemahinniindelitlacerdisbnnitaices The last aiary entry, June 20, the day he killed himself, indicates his ut- “There is no work, What answers his own question with a bul- a few days,” | let. en he adds,| There are thousands of unemployed | Clothing Workers at the St, Paul pet name Or ad-| miners and other workers in Pekin| vention, They did not speaks nelthér and Peoria, discrimination’ is not, at this time, quite clear to us. Thought Hearst a Friend. “For months union representa- tives fruitlessly tried to induce the P.I. to agree to pay the 1924 wage scale. It continued to pay 50 and 75 cents a day less. Time and again they appealed to you—and received kind and courteous re- plies. The commonest expression among us then was: ‘Don't worry; we're working for Hearst, our friend. Some day he'll understand the situation and pay us every cent due us under the 1924 wage scale.’ Imagine our amazement and cha- grin when confronted finally with your ultimatum refusing longer to Pay even the 1923 wage scale, and ‘offering’ to pay a wage scale which, the circumstances consid- ered, no union could accept and remain a union. Had Scabs Ready. This astounding ‘offer’ was made after your non-union crews had ar- rived in Seattle and were ready to take our positions. They in- cluded printers, stereotypers and mailers, and took charge at once. “Your former friends, “STRIKING PRINTERS AND LOCKED-OUT MEN.” Sailors Killed by Explosion. NEW YORK, June 24.—Seven mer were injured and two others are miss ing as the result of an explosion o naphtha aboard the steamship Egre mont Castle, lying at a Brooklyn pie today. Fire followed the explosion ‘Two men were believed to be trappec in the hold, Send in that Subscription Today! [rHe SILENT DELEGATION| One of the members of “The Silent Delegation” of the Amalgamated did they vote on the convention: McAdoo's machine, which is very well oiled and is working at a fast clip, seems to be pumping furiously. Considerable McAdoo money has been coming in for the last few days. His leutenants are emphasizing with the blare of brass bands the strength he will marshal at the Cleveland Con- ference for Progressive Political Ac- tion, But the indorsement of Al Smith by the New York State Federa- tfon of Labor is being used by his Opponent to counteract all of Mc- Adoo’s claim to the trade union vote. Despite the fact that his progres- sive record is full of holes, McAdoo is making a big drive for the goal. A few weeks ago his star was setting. Recent days have seen it increase its distance above the political horizon. Just now this lawyer for the Bank of Italy, the eighth biggest bank in the country, is the pacemaker. But very few observers expect him not to break his political neck before he reaches the two-third post marking the nomination goal in the democratic convention. The McAdoo managers boast that they control 614 votes in 32 of the 54 state and territorial delegations. They expect to roll up 440 votes on the first ballot, of which at least 29 are in- structed. Seven hundred and thirty- two votes are necessary to nominate. But the McAdoo boosters that in the history of the Democratic party it has happened only twice—in the case of Champ Clark and Van Bu- ren—when a presidential aspirant failed to get the nomination after hav- ing secured a majority. Against Two-Thirds Rule. McAdoo has been conducting a quiet poll on the two-thirds rule among the delegates. His agents are trying to do away with it. They re- alize the present unbending opposi- tion of the Underwood and Smith forces, which will make it impossible for him to secure the necessary vote. Therefore, there is every likelihood that a strong effort will be made to change the rule. The McAdoo dele- gation leaders contend that the two- thirds rule was really abolished at the 1920 San Francisco convention when it was decided that the gathering should be governed by the rule of the house of representatives. Congress is governed by majority and not by two- thirds rule. Thus McAdoo’s chief of staff, Judge Rockwell, has declaréd: “Regardless over the majority rule and the ques- tion of whether it still exists, the fact is that when Mr. McAdoo receives the vote of a majority of delegates he declare | of all the debating there has been! will be the Democratic nominee for the presidency.” Smith's Strategy. Tho Al Smith has the support of George Brennan, the Illinois boss, who is today the most powerful leader in the party now that Charles F, Mur- phy is dead, the New York native son is up against a hard battle. His only hope .lies in a union of all the anti- McAdoo forces. Doheny’s counsel boasts of having control of the rules, resolutions and permanent organiza- tion committees. These committees *|consist of one from each state. Hence it is the strategy of Smith to join in a move to abolish the unit rule by which delegates are required to vote according to instructions given them by their state conventions and to op- pose to the limit the effort of McAdoo to abolish the two-thirds rule. Bight- een states apd the Canal Zone are af- fected by the unit rule, and the Smith forces are figuring on grabbing off some of the McAdoo delegates if this |rule is done away with, Besides, this will weaken McAdoo’s grip on the committee. However, the biggest obstacle to Smith is his religion. The Klan will have at least 100 of its members dele- gates to the convention. In many cir- cles it is said that Pat Harrison, the Mississippi senator, who will be tem- porary chairman and keynoter, is him- jself a Klansman. Furthermore, the south lacks only 12 votes to attain the |two-thirds total necessary for nomi- nation. .Consequently the fact that Smith is Catholic militates against his chances decisively. Likewise it is hardly imaginable that the Demo- cratic party will do anything more than evade the Klan issue. Come what may, McAdoo, who is the best financed of all the candidates, will last about ten ballots. If he is turned down, Smith and Underwood will go down with him. Of course, this estimate does not take into con- sideration thg maneuvers and trick- ery and deals, now unforeseen, that may be entered into and resorted to by the big bosses. Progressive Pretensions. One thing is certain about the con- vention. A desperate effort will be made by the Democratic leaders to appear progressive. Senator Walsh, despite his being Catholic, will be per- manent chairman. This step has been taken by the national commit- tee in order to focus attention on the Teapot _ Dome scandal. Samuel Gompers has brought fresh from the Cleveland Republican convention his corpse of 15 demands in behalf of la- |bor. June 24 is set aside as “Labor Night.” One hundred labor leaders will make merry at Coney Island. FARMERS PLAN THREE PICNICS IN $0, DAKOTA Farmer-Labor Men Will Lead Discussion (Special to the Daily Worker.) SISSETON, South Dakota, June 24. —The three mammoth Farmer-Labor picnics set for June 30, July 1, and 2, are drawing the attention of work- ers and farmers from far and near. The prospects of hearing about the re- cent national Farmer-Labor conven- tion in St. Paul and discussing the na- tional, state, and county issues before the farmers and workers appeal to many. A. L. Putnam, Farmer-Labor candi- date for governor, who attended the St. Paul meeting, is one of the speak- ers listed for the serious part of the picnics, the talks; and Steve Hender- son, Farmer-Labor candidate for state senator is the other. The first picnic will be held at Ben Reisdorf Grove, five miles south and one and a half east of Browns Valley, eight miles east and one mile south of 2eever; ten miles northeast of Wil- not. This is the June 30 picnic. On Tuesday, July 1, the fun will be 1eld in W, H. Malory Grove, five miles iortheast of Ortley on the Meridian road and eight miles northwest of summit. The last gathering, July 2, will be n Halvor Oien Grove, three and a ralf miles south of Hammer, and ten miles north of Sisseton on the Ham- mer road. Refreshment stands will supply good eats, but the old lunch-basket standby will not fail to please. Farm- ers and their families are waiting to come and enjoy the day off. Send in that Subscription Today, Coast to Coast Air Mail. Beginning July 1st, the Postoffice Department will inaugurate a 36-hour Coast-to-Coast air mail service, it was announced yesterday. The country has been divided into three air mail zones for this special service, ‘They are New York to Chicago; Chicago to Omaha, and Omaha to the coast. The special service will cost 8¢ an ounce for each zone, That is a letter to Salt Lake City from New York for in- stance, will cost 16c, while one to the same place from Chicago, will cost 8c. Special red, white and blue mail boxes will be used to collect the air mail, Send in that Pip gaan Today, Peter J. Brady, president of the Fed- eration of Labor bank, will be the chief entertainer at a special beauty contest arranged for the occasion. Swallowing LaFollette. Everybody here is trying to placate LaFollette and prevent him from launching a ticket of his own. The McAdoo forces have announced their readiness to stand for a program suitable to the Wisconsin senator and are prepared to accept a vice presi- dential nonrfnee satisfactory to him. This. is particularly important in view of the possibility of the election of the president being thrown into the house of representatives. The anti-McAdoo forces are pursu- ing the same policy toward LaFollette, Edward Moore of the Ohio delegation, one of the leading opponents of Mc- Adoo, has come out in favor of accept- ing many of the planks of the LaFol- lette program. Huston Thompson of the federal trade commission and Senator Cope- land of New York, who are supposed to be in favor of LaFollette, are being groomed as vice presidential possibilities in an effort to swallow what is left of LaFollette. The Dem- ocratic machine men point with pride to the success they have had in co- operating with the so-called Repub- lican progressives in the last congres- sional session. The Democratic Dilemma. Still the Democratic party is up against it in this maneuver for sham progressivism.’ Its outstanding pro- gressive, Mr. McAdoo, has served as a lawyer for such big business inter- ests as the Doheny oil corporations, the Republic Iron and Steel company and the Morse interests. At least nine- tenths of the campaign funds expend- ed by both parties come from Wall Street. Hence the program cannot be made too pink. Pale progressivism is the goal of the Democratic powers here. Al Smith, who does make a somewhat popular appeal, is anything but a progressive in politics and is disqualified because of his being a Catholic. This is not the year to ex- periment with the religious issue. The political wiseacres expect the Democratic machine to pursue a pol- icy aimed at garnering every possible vote in November. Every subterfuge, every trick of the game, every sleight-of-the-hand, every political artifice will be employed at the Democratic convention to appear progressive, to assume a liberal tinge and at the same time to satisfy the non-partisan interests of Wall Street that the donkey party is at least as safe and conservative for big capital as the elephant party. HEARST’S ATTACK ON SEATTLE PRINTERS LIES IN EVERY LINE; FRIENDSHIP FOR LABOR A MYTH Hypocrisy stares out of every line of Hearst’s telegram regarding the strike and lockout in the Post-Intelligencer composing room in Seattle. Below Hearst’s telegram to Charles W. Doyle, secretary of the Central Labor Council, is given, claiming that he always paid good wages, was friendly to union labor and never locked out anyone. In the parallel column are the real facts, showing the Hearst wages were less than on other papers, that he has been unfriendly to labor and locked out stereotypers and mailers as well as printers. ee HEARST’S FAIR WORDS. “There has been no lockout on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. There -has never been a lockout on a Hearst paper and never will be one. The plain facts, as you surely must know, are that the gentlemen in the composing room left their positions and walked out. W ewere compelled to get out our paper wtihout them, much to our regret, but there was no other course open to us. You say that I have always advocated good wages. I think you might fairly add that I have always paid good wages, and have always been considerate of the just demands and requirements of employes. That does not mean, however, that I should or shall sub- mit to unjust discrimination against our papers, or that I consider such injustice a generous return for the long-established policy of fairness and friendIness which our papers have consistently maintained. I am exceedingly sorry that any dis- agreement has taken place, but I cannot believe that my reputation will be blasted by standing by what PSNR CNerE on ee Noreen RN ae I honestly believe to be right. “WwW. R. HEARST.” HEARST’S UNFAIR ACTS. He refused to pay the wage scale paid by the Seattle competitors since January 1, 1924, for five months compelling the men and women in his composing room to work for 50 cents a day (day work) and 75 cents a day (night work) less than their fellow-unionists on the other Seattle daily newspapers were receiving. In response to repeated appeals of local and international unions to him to rectify this anomalous con- and continued to assemble non- union crews in Seattle, printers, stereotypers and mailers. By fair professious he postponed a showdown until his nonunion crews had been sufficiently marshal- ed and instructed to get out his pa- per without union printers, stereo- typers or mailers. Then he issued his ultimatum to Seattle Typographical Union, offer- ing to CONTINUE to pay the print- ers 50 and 75 cents a day LESS than his competitors were paying, IF they would work for him half an hour longer each day. Threat Letters Sent Rich May Be the Work of Police Are the police of Chicago using the recent Franks’ murder case to scare the wits out of the millionaires of Chicago? That question was being asked by many people who have heard of the great number of threats that have been sent to rich Chicagoans recently. The police have been known to use a well-advertised case for the purpose of frightening the public before today. The bombing of the Chicago Postoffice after the close of the famous I. W. W. trial threatened to put a few detec- tives in the army of the unemployed is famous, Altho dozens of threatening letters have been received by the millionaire colony of Chicago, no one had been arrested in connection with the send- * letter was Edward Hines. The let- }ter demanded $20,000 and the writer claimed to be dying of tuberculosis and threatened death to Hines unless he put the money in a cinder heap de- scribed in the letter. Altho Hines lives in Evangton, the police of Chicago have assigned a squad of men to guard him. Floods in South of China Menace Many; River Min on Rampage (Special to the Dally Worker.) SHANGHAI, June 24,—Many peo- ple have been drowned and property already damaged thousands of dollars by the most disastrous flood in the history of the Min river, according to advices here today. The city of Fu-Chow, a treaty port and capital of the province of Fokien, 35 miles up the Min from its mouth, is three-quarters under water.’ The warehouse district is sub- Tuesday, June 24, 1924 KING APPEALS FOR PEACE IN CHAOTIC ITALY ° Cominniste.. s Preparing For Revolution BULLETIN. ROME, Italy, June 24.— “Fascism has been shaken, but re will only lose its miry dregs,” premier Mus solini confessed in parliament to- day. The blackshirt leader said that he could not consider tne ais- solution of the Fascist militia and repeated that his government must remain in power. (Special to the DAILY WORKER.) ROME, Italy, June 24.—For the first time since 1859, and for the first time’, of Savoy will make an appeal to the people of this country to maintain peace and public order. King Victor Emmanuel will respond in parliament to the address to the throne with a message to the nation that is so near the precipice of revolution. Mussolini and the king are schem- ing to stave off the advance of pro- letarian revolution, which has been greatly aggravated less by the kid- napping and brutal murder of the So- cialist deputy Matteotti, than by the disclosures of .tremendous Fascist grafting which Matteotti had intend- ed to expose. “Peace” by Force Again? Even the strict house-cleaning which the blackshirt premier is at- tempting is scarcely expected to save the situation, and Mussolini himself realizes it; so that he has called for his Fascist supporters thruout the country to rally for a great offensive against the opposing forces which de- mand his resignation and the end of Fascism in Italy. Mussolini is to make a statement today to the people and he is expected to offer some explanation for his con- centrating of Fascist militia in Rome and to say what course he intends to follow. in United Italy, the head of the house & Nobody Betting. The financial market was very much affected by the events jof the last two weeks. There was a terrific fall in all government bonds and stocks on the Bourse. The exchange market also was subject to great de- pression, The market is by no means certain yet, as no one seems willing to bet much on the next day’s events, to say nothing of anything beyond that. The opposition -parties. are to @ great mass meeting on June 27 in which the government will be de- clared remiss in its failure to imme- diately pursue and prosecute the kid- napers ‘and murderers of Matteoti. Events have shown that Mussolini and his Fascist police knew of the plot to get Matteotti out of the way for the parliamentary session that was to ap- prove the Sinclair oil concession and arranged to let the conspirators es- cape. The premier did not act against» the criminals until he was forced to by the uproar against him and his, Fascisti. Demand End of Fascist Militia. The dissolution of the Fascist mi- litia is to be demanded by the opposi- tion parties in their June 27 meeting. It is not expected that Mussolini will pay any attention to this decision of the opposition, and because of nis the * Communists are continuing to cry the overthrow of the whole blac! regime, including its “dictator, has almost completely lost the « dence of the people, Filippelli and Marinelli, two of Fascist conspirators against the cialist deputy, still claim that t orders were exceeded when Matt« was murdered. The testimony of ti Austrian “adventurer,” Otto Chirs seems to bear this out. It is differ however, to determine whether Duin’ is trying to shift some of the wei, of blame against him onto his sup riors, or whether they are trying to dodge their real guilt as instigators of the horrible crime. < Plot Defense? Rossi, former head of the press bu- reau of the interior department, vod questioned for six hours after his rival at Regina Coeli prison, nD word of his statements has been g out. The former Fascist given special privileges and stents in jail, Ministerial deputies haye Teen ¢ dered by Mussolini to go into provinces and arouse the “rank, file” of the Faseisti for a great sive, which, the premier if paralyze the opposition. have been put about the dence of the king, The leaders of the cept for Socialists have been called in Victor Emmanuel. conferring with the king, Sig. Federzoni, new minister of ti interior, is not a Fascist already more friction bet' Mussolini, who was quish the portfolio of | which he took after With word of these latest ments leaking out, public op Mussolini and ancy more than ever im ch. oe te i a. ae, «