The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1924, Page 3

Saturflay, July 12, 1924 NEW CENTRALIA WITNESSES SHOW LOGGERS’ RIGHT TO SHOOT RAIDING LEGIONAIRES (Special to The Daily Worker) SEATTLE, July 11.—Agitation for the release of the eight Centralia loggers serving 25 to 40 years in Walla Walla peniten- tiary has taken on high speed this week with the uncovering of the most important evidence against the Lagion raiders that has been bared since the famous Montesano trial four years ago. Three eye witnesses to. the Armistice Day battle—all well known residents of Centralia—have broken the veil of silence woven in the days of terrorism that followed Armistice Day, 1919. Their affidavits which definitely establish that the raid on ——________________ the I. W. W. hall was planned and advertised days in advance, show that the defending loggers did not fire a shot until the uni- formed gangsters crashed in the door. Destroy Prosecution’s Case. These affidavits, which destroy the last shreds of the prosecutor’s case were obtained by the General Defense Committee of Chicago. Photostatic copies have been served on Governor Hart, the Lumber Trust tool who re- sist pardon appeals from labor on the pretext that the imprisoned unionists were “murderers” and the evidence is being broadcasted thru the state among the workers and farmers, Prosecutor C. D. Cunningham’s conspiracy to suppress the facts of the shooting are again laid bare with the anonuncement of Mr. Crinnon that he gave the facts to the prosecutor two days after the battle. He tMought at first that Cunningham would put him on the stand, but the prosecutor took good care not to summon jhim. Shatters Frame-up Evidence, Important facts which the three wit- Tel. Monroe 7281 We Serve Nothing But the Beat VICTORY Restaurant and Lunch Room Pronos Brothers 1054 West Madison St. Chicage WHY PAY MORE? 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Extracts from the affidavits of Cecil DeWitte and P. M. Cronion bring out these points with an acuteness that Lumber Trust politicians will not be able to evade in the gubernatorial campaign this year: High School Boy’s Story. “I had been dismissed from high school early that day, it being a holi- day,” says Cecil DeWitte of Novem- ber 11, 1919, “and I went with sever- al other students to City Park, where the Armistice Day parade was being formed. Here | heard a bunch of boys saying that there was going to be a raid on the I. W. W. hall. With several other students, I hurried to the vicinity of the hall, arriving there ahead of the parade. Crash Union Door; Shot. “There was excitement in the air. The man in the ranks seemed ner- ELEBRATES AT SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, Barney Mass will speak. at the Springfield (Ill) Y. W. L. picnic, Sunday, July 20, There will be sports, dancing and other of entertainment. In ad- dition to this, the league orchestra will be present to sooth every com- rades nerves with its exceptionally melodious music. Many other sur- prices are in store for those com- ing. which was adjacent to the I. W. W. hall on the north. Then two other soldiers ran toward the doorway of the hall. The first of these was Lieutenant Warren Grimm, a lawyer, whom I knew well by sight, a man of large physique. The other soldier was of smaller build. Grimm kicked with one foot and then the other at the bottom of the hall door, and struck the upper part of the door with his elbows. The other soldier smashed a window at the right with his elbows. As soon as Grimm and the other man had broken in the door and the window respectively, numerous shots sounded, Shot In Doorway. “I saw Grimm clutch at his stomach with his hands. He stag- gered southward. I had a good view of his face as he came along... . and went down in a heap. The other soldier also was wounded and he also staggered southward, turned the same corner, and went down. Clyde DeWitte’s affidavit is similar. All knew the Legion commander well by sight and are absolutely Positive as to the facts which they now testify to.” Labor Hails News. The new evidence is hailed by the central labor bodies of Seattle, Ta- coma, Everett and the other cities which had members in the “Labor Jury” that acquitted the union log- gers in their unofficial verdict at the Montesano trial. It is hailed by the Farmer-Labor Party of Washington, which is pledged to the release of the class war prisoners and whose can- didate, Joel Shomaker, is making this one of the points of attack in his cam- paign against. the two Lumber trust parties. It adds new exhiliration to the Indus- trial Workers of the World; who have conducted two strikers for the Cen- vous, as if waiting for something to {tralia prisoners and it weakens the happen. I was facing the south. Presently Lieutenant Cromier blew a whistle. When this signal was given, four or five soldiers ran to- ward the hall. Three were close to the door, and kicked the door. While they were doing this, the shooting started; several shots were fired in quick succession, and to me it sounded as if the shooting was be- ing done by only one or two guns, I saw Lieutenant Warren Grimm back out of the doorway. He was holding his hands over his abdomen, and was saying something. Then I ran northward past the Dollar-and- Cent Store, and around to the side of the building out of danger.” Crinion also discloses that the raid had been advertised to him and that he went around to see it. After telling of the soldiers marking time in ry of the hall, waiting for a signal \to charge, he continued Legion Commander Led. “Then I heard a whistle blown nearby. 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Ever since Superintendent William McAndrew arrived from New York in January, he has been bitterly oppos- ing the teachers organized in the councils and in the federation. He has made repeated efforts to kill the teachers’ voice in the school adminis: vation, even tho that voice has been chiefly one of inquiry and suggestion heretofore and protest under his high-| handed rule. Want McAndrew Ousted. The Chicago Teachers Federation, led by Miss Margaret Haley, demand- ed McAndrew’s resignation, but the board of education shelved the re- quest somewhere and has|shown its wilingness, with the exception of three members, of going along with} McAndrew’s “big business” adminis- tration of the school syrtem. The superintendent and the board have been secretive in their acts all | year. They put over the junior high | school plan without allowing the teachers to learn what it was all about until the whole program was adopted. They were almost forced to allow discussion on the platoon system, which has been much more fiercely opposed than the earlier junior high plan, by the teachers and the representatives of organized la- bor. Big Business Glad. But all along the teachers federa- tion hoped for little consideration from the board of business men and the superientedent. And now with the Chicago Tribune and other cap- italist sheets braying about the ad- vantages of the platoon system the teachers see what they expected| happen. The platoon system in theory is not so dangerous, according to some of the progressive teachers, but the practice is vicious, in spite of all Mc- Andrew and its other advocates say and in spite of the letters of approval forced out of little children in Det- roit. The syestem is adopted to the ready pouring inyof what-ever pro- paganda the bosses who control the school system as well as the indus- trial system and political government choose to spread. Build Skyscraper Not Schools The number of schools which will be put on the platoon plan in the fall has not been announced by the board, but it is understood that rather a large number will be affected. One of the atguments used by the board for the new plan is that it makes for greater use of school equipment, which really means that the board can put MANY ORIGINAL $2.00 a Year SOVIET RUSSIA PICTORIAL, NAME BTREET NO, cooscccccsssssssesee Amalgamated A Monthly Review on the progress of the world’s first workers’ government Made more interesting by Feature articles by internationally known writers on RUSSIA and working class events the world over, SUBSCRIBE NOW! 19 So, Lincoln St,, Chicago, Il. SU vitrvicvcvncaavaevenansnetngnaesicasyicsseecanissec neuen: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 81 East 10th Street, New York, N. Y. THIS IS OUR Nay. EMBLEM An Industrial Organization For All Workers in the Food Industry PAGIFISTS HELP TO PAY | FOR STATE'S VIOLENCE; DON'T HELP REVOLUTION (By The Federated Press) NEW YORK, July 11—The July number of The World Tomorrow, a radical religious monthly, dis- cusses Pacifists and Revolution, Pacifists like John Haynes Holmes, Norman Thomas, Roger Baldwin, Ammon Hennacy and Phillips Brad- ley explain just how far they would go before resorting, if at all, to | either mass or individual violence, or under what circumstances revo- lution by force is likely in America, “The record of aid by pacifists to revolutionary movements is as | barren as the practical technic of pacifism,” Baldwin declares. “Paci- fists suffer in practice from their middie class origins, remoteness from the realities of conflict, fre- quently lack of enough social pas- sion to give them inventive power and their generally critical and un- compromising ethics. It is one of | the curious contradictions of the average pacifist position that it ab- hors violence by revolution and yet stands serenely for the greater violence of the state, participating by the vote and investments in the processes which keep up armies, navies and governmental instru- monts of compulsion.” off building 1 new schools and start in on its proposed downtown office sky- scraper among those of the business men and bankers who run the schools. James Mullenb: J. Lewis Coath, and Mrs. Johanna Gregg of the board voted against the platoon schools. Mullenbach opposed the new plan as| too great nervous strain on pupils,| to the Leopold-Loeb case as an evid-| ence of overstimulat. Hart Hanson, | Julius Smietanka, William K. Fellows, Mrs. W. 8. Hefferan, Edgar N. Greene-| baum, and Charles M. Moderwell vot-| ed for the platoon. Mechanized Education Orgnized labor and the teachers federation have opposed the platoon and junior high plans claiming that they standardized and mechanized education, took away initiative from the students, gave pupils and teachers no personal relations, and made the schools mills for turning out cheap, partly skilled labor into industry—in other words making plenty of good slaves for the big bosses to. fatten themselves on. | politician made an award in faovr of | strength against the bosses in the first jthis time would have been a big fight | SIGMAN SCORED FOR SURRENDER | TO EMPLOYERS Desertion cia 40-Hours Hit by Left Winger | “The reorganization walkout called by officials of the International Ladies’ | Garment Workers in New York city pending the jobbers’ ratification of Governor Smith’s award does not dis- guise President Morris Sigman’s sur- render to the employers,” said Ben Gitlow, a militant needle trades union-| ist to the DAILY WORKER yesterday. “Sigman refused to sanction a strike for the 40-hour week and the} other basic union demands, instead | he turned the organization’s interest over to a commission apointed by an/| old party politician. The old party the employers. Even the jobbers final- ly signified a willingness to accept this award. Sigman’s order just calls on the cloakmakers to stay out until this acceptance takes the form of a; definite contract.” | Can't See Bosses’ Books. One of the points that union officials claim they have gained under the Smith award is a decision compelling contract shops to carry a minimum of 14 machines, thus hitting at the tiny | shops which it was difficult for the} union to control. Gitlow shows that) this decision means little because the union is not given definite authority | to examine the books of employers and thus to find out whether the bosses are keeping the rules or not. 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