The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 24, 1925, Page 2

Page Two ~ © TGSTRIKES AND f LOCKOUTS RAGE IN STEEL MILLS Union Journal Is Trying to Forget Them By WALLACE T. METCALFE. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 22.— The average outsider, and most labor leaders, believe that all is serene in the steel and iron industry and that the workers are beaten down, In so far as organization is concerned, this is true, for only a small percentage of the steel and iron workers are or- ganized. The Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Workers repres- ents the organized workers in the in- and their Journal for June 11, ts sixteen strikes and lockouts now going on at the following places: Two Lockouts in West Virginia Wheeling, W. Va., Lodge No. 8, lock- ed out by the Wheeling Steel corpo- ration. Lodge No. 19, locked out by the same corporation, Lodge No. 26 locked out by the same corporation. Marietta, Ohio, Lodge No. 141, the Hudson Tinplate Co. refused to sign the scale—keep away. Parkersburgh, West Va., Lodge 16, strike at the Parkersburgh Iron and Steel Co. Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, Lodge No. 146 locked out by the Wheeling Steel cor- poration. Yorkville, Ohio, Lodge 83, locked out by the Wheeling Steel corporation. Beech Bottom, West Va., Loage No. 28, locked out by the Wheeling Steel corporation. Portsmouth, Ohio, Lodge 82, locked out by the Wheeling Steel corporation, Washington, Pa. Lodge No. 87, strike on against the Washington Tin- plate Co., for wage signature. Steubenville, Ohio, Lodge 52, on strike against the Wierton Steel Co. at the Pope plant. Reading, Pa. Lodge No. 99. Locked out May 2, 1919. Strike still in force. Keep away from Carpenter Iron Works Long Struggle At Burnham, Pa. Burnham, Pa., Lodge 97, declared a strike Dec. 28th, 1918, against all de- partments of the Logan Iron and Steel company for recognition. Tho strike is still on. Newport, Ky, the third district exe- cutive board has legalized a strike for Newport Lodge No. 5, Campbell coun- ty Lodge 15, Monmouth Lodge No. 16, Brighton Lodge 17 all of Kentucky against the Newport Rolling Mill Co., Andrews Steel Co. and Globe Corru- gating Co. The determination displayed by these workers in maintaining their struggle against uneven odds on this far flung battle front shows plainly that the rank and file in the steel in- dustry are militant and wortny fight- ers. Ope of the strikes dates back to 1918 and another back to 1919 over a period of 7 years, Still In the Trenches These lodges passed thru the great steel strike and even after tne smoke of that great battle has died down we find them still in the trencnes. So to Some etxent the steel strike is still on. This is the background of the struggle now going on in the steel in- dustry where thousands of workers toil and sweat. Also to some extent it reflects the new leadership rising in the A. A. of L. S. and T. W. who have risen up during the struggles in the past and who are battling alongside of their brothers engaged in the present struggles. To this rank and file leadership belongs the future of the A. A. of I. S. ana T. W. and side by side with these militants mar- ches the unorganized steel and iron workers. The key to the organization of the steel and iron workers is in the pos- session of the militants tn the A. A. of 1. S. and T. W. and once the door is open king steel will face the combined strength of the thousands of slaves now waiting but the word. The A. A, of I. S. and T. W. owes It to these sixteen embattled lodges to gather its forces for a general organization cam- paign of the unorganized. Try to Bury Many Battles The militant in this unton desire this but the reactionary leaders op- pose it consequently the greatest struggle the union is engaged in comes in for % of a column on page 23 in the Amalgamated Journal, The difference between a Communist jour- nal and a “Journal” presided over by pious labor jornalists. Communist jornalists enter into the struggle as part of it while pious faced editors of labor papers enter into the struggle to bury it. Keep this strike calender and warn all steel and iron workers to stay away, Chicago Meat Shops Are Unsanitary, Says Recent U. S. Report WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22.— Chicago butchers are unsanitary, the department of agriculture’s latest statement report: The six other cities whose meat shops fall short of sanitary conditions are New Orleans, Birmingham, Oklahoma City, Balti- more, Washington and Detroit, Needless to specify these unsanitary conditions have been found in meat shops in the poor districts of the city, + SCORE OF COMMUNISTS IN GOURT TODAY 10 A score of Communists will ap- pear this morning before Judge Allegretti at the Chicago avenue pollee station, Chicago avenue, and Clark street, to defend their right to address open alr meetings on the streets of Chicago. The cases of Barney Mass, act- ing natlonal secretary of the Young Workers League, and Karl Reeve, of the editorial staff of the DAILY WORKER, who were arrest- ed last Saturday night on the cor- ner of North avenue and Orchard street, were continued until this morning. They will be heard together with the cases of seventeen other Com- munists arrested on the same cor- ner the previous week. The prose- cutor asked for a continuance on the ground that the city attorney was not present. The Communiss are charged with violating ordinance 3703, which re- quires a permit to speak on the streets. However, the ordinance has been declared unconstitutional. PROGRESSIVES FORGE LEE 10 CALL OFF MEET Class Collaboration Feast “Postponed” By ALFRED WAGENKNECHT (Special to The Dally Worker) CLEVELAND, June 22.—“Bill” Lee’s white flag of surrender is al- ready down to half mast. It may be completely out of sight with the pas- age of a few more days. We now learn that the gecent Brotherhood of Train- men’s convention, held in Cleveland, gave Lee and his brother reaction- aries a few jobs, the carrying out of which will not be conductive to a closer friendship with the railroad magnates. The Lee class peace plan meeting has been postponed. A will be re- membered, Lee went all class colla- borationists one hundred points better in proposing a plan for permanent rail peace at the convention of the B. R. T, All railroad executive and Railway Union heads were to gather in solemn conclave to abolish the class struggle. The initial meeting of the cats-and mice ‘was to have gecur- red ih this city on June 29. It is not going to be held so soon if at all. “Hot Weather” for Bill Lee One excuse given is the hot wea- ther. Another is that many railway experts are going to London to the international railway congress. But these are just excuses. Every sane worker knows that neither weather nor London would keep either rail- way executives or such a first class bosses’ lackey as Lee away from a nice conference held for the purpose of abolishing strikes, wage demands and general opposition to the gang of coupon clippers. The underlying reason for cancel- ling the class peace meeting is be- cause the delegates refused to behave Lee—like at the B. R. T. convention. The wonderful scheme of Lee's for truce and peace must not have been acceptable serum for inoculation to the delegates. The convention was a closed door affair. The several pro- gressive delegates on the inside were eventually discovered and thrown out. Everything was done to give Lee smooth sailing. However, big things’ seem to have happened inside. Something Busted Inside The world now learns that the con- vention delegates demanded a nation- wide movement for wage increases. The chairmen’s association of the B. R. T. were instructed to take up with the general chairman of the Order of Railway Conductors’ Union in meet- ings beginning November 1. Present agreements expire December 31. The wages increase to be demanded is 12 per cent. So now Lee’s harmony meeting has been delayed, because of hot weather says Lee. ‘What we hope is that the rank and file in the B, R. T. will continue to make it ever hotter for Lee by con- tinuous demands of better working conditions, more wages, amalgama- tion, international trade union unity, so that the white flag of Lee will never again float over the unton’s front, but instead the red flag of strug- gle. SECOND ‘PROGRESSIVE’ SENATOR DIES AS LA FOLLETTE |S BURIED MADISON, Wie., June 22—While Senator LaFollette was being bur- led here at Forest Hille cemetery, word came that another senate “progressive” Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, had died in Balti- more, Md., of kidney trouble and neuritis. LaFollette’s coffin, as It stood In the capitol rotunda, was draped in the flag that had flown from the battleship Wisconsin, his associates seeming to find it consistent to add this military touch to his services. The public was not admitted to the funeral services, =~ 4 PARIS CHINESE bereno Fae sPéccH || GIVE SLEEPY ENVOY A PUSH “Sign on Dotted Line”, Say Students (Special to The Daily Worker.) PARIS, June 22.—Carrying banners saying “Hands Off Chinal” and “Down with British-American Inter vention” over 100 Chinese students in Paris picketed the Chinese embassy here yesterday and twenty of them conducted an unwelcome interview with Ambassador Tchin Lu. Time To Protest Is Now “It is no good,” said the leader of the party, “to try to telephone. We have cut the wires of your office phone and the phone in your private apartment is well guarded by mem- bers of our party. The janitor and other European servants are our pri- soners for the time being. Let us waste no time. “You have never protested the send- ing of French warships to China, You had better do it now.” The puzzled minister was presented with four documents which he was compelled to sign. One was a note of protest to the French government as- serting in wundiplomatic language China's right to live as an independ- ent country and peremptorily demand- ing the withdrawal of the French warships from Chinese waters, Nudge Negligent Ambassador The second was a cable message to a Shanghai republican paper, express- ing unequivocal approval of the revo- lutionary deeds there and urging the students, working men and other pa- triots to fight to the bitter end. ‘The third was a proclamation to the Chinese people urging them not to give up the fight against tne Buropean capitalist. It said: “To the Chinese people:-; Present events in China Prove our: people are now entirely awakened. and have decided unre- servedly to. combat imperialism.” A Letter to the Cops The fourth document was a letter to the French police, informing them that all who had come to visit the minister in the delegation were most welcome guests and asking the au- thorities not to bother them. When tliese various documents had been signed, the leader of the visiting delegation bowed deeply and followed his fellows out of the building. The Puzzled Police At the gates the intruders were met by a@ large force of French police, who, of course,.could not enter the legation grounds. When the inspector of police wanted to investigate what had been doing the leader of the delegation pre- sented him with Minister Tcheng Loh’s ,safe conduct. The party was then permitted to withdraw without interference. The, police were greatly puzzled. They had been informed by passers-by that there was a riot in the Chinese embassy. One of the Chinese patriots, who had been posted as a sentry in the janitor’s room was forgotten when the other members of the party left. He HE DAILY WORKER FASCIST DICTATORSHIP COMPLETED BY PASSING OF DECREE MEASURES (Special to The Daily Worker) ROME, Italy, June 22.—The fas- cistl have begun a three-day nation- al congress of their party, follow- Ing the passage in the chamber of the bills which empower Premier Mussolini to make laws by Issuing decrees, and which make provisions for censorship of the press. Exellent Picture of Capital in the Age of Imperialist Monopoly (Continued from page 1.) division, in co-operation with the {flo mestic commerce division of the de- partment and with the shoe industry itself. The normal and maximum capac- ity of the country’s shoe industry is not definitely known today and defi- nite figures’ as to consumption in this country are also lacking. It is gen- erally assumed that the per capita consumption of leather boots and shoes in this country is about three pairs a year. The retail shoe trade is preparing to assemble” statistics which will indicate consumption. Export Trade Falling Off. Many countries that formerly im- ported American shoes have practi- cally ceased buying here. Govern- ment export gures point to the fact that these countries have been im- porting shoe machinery and are now producing practically all their shoe supply. It is the general belief in shoe cir- cles that with the compilation of the necessary statistical data and with the aid of the various governmetal departments, a general amalgama- tion campaign will be carried on in the entire industry from tanning fac- tories to retail shoe stores. Such phenomenon is manifest at the present time, but slowly and without much noise., Retail dealers will be. pushed out of business by hook or crook. Thesame will apply to tanning factories: and shoe shops either by merging or by being forced out. of business thru other competi- tive methods. In this war of big fish eat little fish the government is at the service of the big ‘fish. Centralizing and Combining. The Dunn, Green. Tanneries of Hudson, Mass., and the R. H. Long Shoe Co., of Fri sham, Mass., both old established firms, that employed many workeres hayg; been sold at auction the early of this month. Many more shoe ‘Teather estab- lishments are either, merged with a stronger one or forged out of busi- ness. In the meantime the profits of the combine are increasing. An ex- ample of this phenomena may be seen in the expansion of the G. R. Kinney Co., Inc. This company operates one of the largest chains of general shoe stores. Its 222 stores are located in 84 cit- ies and 31 states. company also ewns or controls cp airy stock of the following factories: Goodyear Shoe Co., Bedford Shoe Co., Johnson- Baillie Shoe Co., J. Landis Shoe Co., and the Perry-Norvell Co. A little history ofp, this company will prove to the most ignorant per- was arrested. British Mine Owners Attempt to Cut Wages and Lengthen Workday (Continued from page 1) proposals for a new wage agreement next Tuesday and the Miners’ Execu- tive committee will debate it next day. The basis of the proposed settle- ment is five days of eight hours, with six hours on Saturday, making a total of forty-six hours weekly, instead of forty-two as at present. In addition the mine owners pro- pose a wage cut, giving as one ex- cuse that the 14 per cent increase granted in the past was granted only on the, basis of making up the wages for a shorted work day. Now that they propose lengthening the work week by four hours, they also want to cut the’ 14 per cent off the wages, The old agreement expires on June 30. The mine owners, as usual, plead that they are all going in rags and tatters, making no money at all, in fact, losing money, and that the wages at present keeps the prices of coal ‘too high, Defense Lawyers » Confer on Scopes Trial at Dayton DAYTON, Tenn., June 22.—-The de- fense attorneys in the trial of John R. Scopes, to take place here July 10, were in conference here today, headed by Clarence Darrow. Scopes will be tried for teaching evolution in | son how the working class fs being robbed incessantly while the profits are piling up and up, Pouring In the Water. In January, 1917, the business was incorporated in New York state with an authorized capitalization consist- ing of $1,500,000 of 8 per cent eumu- lative preferred stock and 30,000 shares comon stock without par value, In the following year the au- thorized preferred stock was in- creased to $2,500,000. and in Novem- ber, 1919, the capitalization was in- creased by another million dollars, This latter increase,of stock was used for the purchase of the Johnson- Baillie, J. Landis, Perry-Norvell and Bedford Shoe Companies, for which an aggregate of $2,014,000 in stock, not cash, were paid. In December, 1921, the authorized preferred stock was increased to $8,000,000, and an issue of two and one half million dollars in seven and one-half per cent notes was sold to provide funds for an extensive ex- pansion program. Up to December 81, 1924, the company had squeezed out shareholders by either cancelling or repurchasing notes to the tune of $669,500. In October, 1928, the first Goodyear factory was acquired and in 1924 a second factory was erected, both operations being financed out of earnings, in other words, out of the profits, and not by putting up a single cent, The Triumph of Monopoly. In 1921, the G. R. Kinney Co., had 102 stores; in 1924, it had 207 stores. In 1921, profits amounted to $588,267; in 1924, profits amounted to $1,220. 719, The merging of factories, addi- tion of stores and the rise of profits, the Rhea county high school, in vio-|ig the history of this company which lation of the state's recently passed |is typical of what is at present tak- anti-evolution law, Shepherd Case Nears End, The trial of William D, Shepherd for the alleged murder of William Nelson McClintock, his foster-son, wound its way toward its final chap- ters as the defense prepared to pre- sent its closing witnesses includ the defendant hims"7 ’ ing place in the shoe industry. The results of the government’s action in this industry will be felt by the tan- nery workers, shoe workers, and even by the shoe salesmen and the “two by four” shoe dealers, whether they be jobbers or retailers. The level- ling of the masses goes on by this process of capitalist development on the basis of bix fish eat little fish. Socialists Also Join in Effort to Make “Great Man” of Sen. La Follette By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ODAY, strenuous efforts are being made by the friends of Senator LaFollette to lift him to the pedestal of “a great man.” The noisiest among these LaFollette boosters include many “socialists,” altho the “socialist” party at its last convention resolved to break with the LaFollette third party movement, some belligerent delegates even de- nouncing the treason to the class struggle committed by crawling unreservedly aboard the presidential. bandwagon of the late Wisconsin senator. * * Human “greatness” depends on who writes history. It is sure that the histories written by the capitalist writers of today, who will give LaFollette honorable mention, will be , Scrapped on the morrow when labor comes into power. The czars, the grand dukes and the grand duchesses thought they were “great” in their day in Russia. But Soviet Rule has finally placed upon them their true value. Capital- ism today lauds its military heroes as much as any ruling class in the past. But workers will live to learn that Spar- tacus, the rebellious slave, is more to be honored than the Roman Caesars; that all down the pages of history there are hidden away obscure mention of lowly agitators, pro- pagandists of and fighters for the new day to come, whose names will loom big as the Napoleons, Bismarcks, Welling- tons and their whole breed, to the present day, are forgot- ten, or remembered only as hideous offspring of a barbarous age that is gone. LaFollette was not a “leader” in the sense that he was the standard bearer of some new cause. The agitator, who is hounded and jailed by the rulers of today, is he who ed- ucates and organizes the workers for the overthrow of the capitalist system. Walter Thomas Mills, the “socialist” who secured some rominence as the author of “The Struggle for Existence,” n the days before the war, rids himself of some super-bun- combe when he declares: “The country has lost the greatest man in its history. LaFollette was the leader of the masses, and history will place his name along with that of Lincoln and Washington.” Altho Lincoln led in the fight for the overthrow of chattel slavery, there came before him John Brown, martyred in the cause of the black slave’s emancipation. Washington led in the war against England, but it was a war of the property owners of the colonies, who had slaves both white and black, and who worried little about the human mankind. rights of oppressed ‘DETROIT LABOR | FEDERATION FOR UNITED DEFENSE Send Delegate to the June 28 Conference By CYRIL LAMBKIN (Special te The Daily Worker.) DETROIT, Mich., June 22—Imbued with a spirit of class consciousness such as has seldon been evident in the Detroit Federation of Labor since the late Sam Gompers handed them his ultimatum two years ago thq Detroit Federation of Labor at their last meeting took favorable actlon on the call issued by the Labor Dew fense Council for a National Confers ence to be held In Chleago Sunday, June 28. They elected Wm. Moolen. hauer, delegate from the Muelciane® Union, as thelr representative to this conference. Mbdiienhauer won over John T. Taylor, former president of the Detroit Federatlon by a vote of 27 to 26. The delegates also declared them< selves vigorously against the imper. ialist depredations in China ané against the conviction of Pablo Mansy lapit the leader of the striking cane. field workers in Hawaii. The following resolutions were adopted unanimously and ordered sent to the president of the United States, Resolution introduced by delegate Mol lenhauer: WHEREAS, Pablo Maniapit, leader of the striking canefield workers in Hawalt has been convicted and sentenced to from two to ten years at hard labor for his activities in the strike, and WHE! , Maniapit is a man of slight physique and such a sentence ig equivalent to a death sentence and has been imposed because of his standing in the strike of the cane w therefore it Fed. \¢ orkers, Be It Resolved, That the Detro! eration of Labor demands the tional pardon of Pablo once. Moved and supported t the tion be adopted and a copy be sent to president of the United States. Resolution introduced by Delegate Mol< lenhauer: Recall U. 8. Troops! WHEREAS, The cotton mill of Shanghai, Chine, struck for ao wages, better conditions and the right to organize, and WHEREAS, Chinese students wi ruthlessly shot down by police under thy at Ud * @ 8 @ control of the so-called. foreign conces+ But LaFollette has led no fight. He showed himself a | sionaties, ten being killed and many =» ° clever politician to be sure. He sided with labor sufficiently EREAS, The government of the = | to get the suppers of the trade union aristocracy. He lifted | [int States nas, beon ® Dare et. his voice for the farmers, but only loud enough to get some | Shangha!_ municipal counell one tee i ef thelr en ioe ‘he developed presidential aspirations | tis Eiki/polie whe are under the con: | @ disowned the Negroes, fearing it might hurt him amon, WE Se petit. am | those who Pre Baten the ballote in the South, the pore ing of gunboats ‘to. Chinsee, waters. ¢3 / LaFollette definitely and ‘decisively showed where he stood | *!4 '2 suppressing the strike are threats i in the | tera class war when he denounced the Farmer-_| therefore, : | Labor enteratins, of June 17, 1924, in St. Paul. When | cretion of Leben'demande the immediate | workers and farmers rise to power they will not forget. The | Tecall of American warships from Chin- | historic retrospect of the years to cone will show little dif- | extra territorial rights in Chine now held i| ference between Coolidge and LaFollette. Both champion Baars wren ee ecm ee. 7 i] the system of private ownership, Coolidge for the big own- Moved and supported the resolution be i] ers, LaFollette for the little owners of private property. All |3f°RiS"diited Sixten cersiea ment 1} that divided them was the fact that Coolidge ruled for cap- eee i| italism in the White House, while LaFollette was trying to Letter From Workers Party. } ~ it up in the senate, instead of seeking to destroy it. The following letter from the | here are whole flocks of LaFollettes on top, in many nations {Workers Party calling for a united i| today, and they are amohg the worst oppressors of labor. {front campaign in the munictpal elec- | Take Millerand, Briand and Viviani in France, who were big a cea porate adil runt | éven “socialists” in their earlier days. Osdiaitteb ot the Padhernticn, li In the Chicago Federation of Labor, the “socialist,” Tune 9th: ae: Kt Christian M. Madsen, former member of the state legislature, Pasi Nederation of ara Aen i ‘4 : |X, Martel, Pres., Detroit, Mich. + introduces a resolution declaring LaFollette “a champion of Brothers: The municipal elections ' human freedom.” Many there are who have uttered words at ehish petit will be elected for for human freedom. But LaFollette and his following in |four years and a city council for twe congress wouldn't even make a fight for free speech durin; years are rapidly approaching. The the war. American labor has been smothered with political {working class of Detroit 1s and must fi pr-artened and still staggers under this narcotic influence. _|be vitally interested in the elections aFollette was an excellent utterer of phrases. But every |of the officials of a city in which it | call for action found him wanting, even for his own middie _|constitutes a majority of the popular class; once when he failed to join the Roosevelt break with | tin. the republican party in 1912, and again after the war when the. Workees Party, Sane 2) tee he delayed the organization of his so-called “progressive” ping theesiip dba) eae I 8 forces into a third party movement because he thought, “the bo igre 4 psig ‘aseaheal | people are not yet ready for the’ working class, it’ ‘nevertheless Ch ge Ne , considers the elections of great im- When the Communists in the New York Conference of rtance as they offer the opportun- the American Labor sb | last Saturday refused to stand in te of psviiaice workin, class tribute to the memory 91 LaFollette, they were bitterly as- [strength for safeguarding the gains | sailed by the “socialists,” who revel in their idolatry for this |elready made and for making further middle class hero, If homage must be bludgeoned on behalf | gains. | of LaFollette in the days that his corpse is being buried, small Call for United Front. chance that he will long hold:a niche in the memory of to- | The Workers Party which is a po- \ day’s rising working class, that will win power in spite of _ |Jitical party of the working class in- such misleaders as f,: ; tends to enter the campaign. It has _ no faith in politicians of either of “@ Y. W. L. Activities ——— GROUP LEADERS, ATTENTION! Today, June 23, Comrade Barney Mass, acting national secretary of the Young Workers’ League, will address the Chicago group leaders. ‘The sub- Ject of Comrade Mass’ lecture is, “The Chinese Situation and Its Relation to the World Labor Movement.” Place: 2613 Hirsch Blvd, All group leaders must attend this lecture, as the Chinese question is one of the most important today, and the group leaders must know how to bring this question before the eyes of the children. The lecture will start at eight o'clock sharp and all those that are not there at that time will miss part of a very interesting talk, All group leaders should attend, and all outside comrades that are inter- ested in this subject are invited to come, Heten, and partake in the dis- cussion. Getting a DAILY WORKER sub or two will make a better Communist of yor , Foreign Exchange NEW YORK, June 22,—Great Bri- tain, pound sterling, 4.85%; cable 4.86%. France, franc, 4.64%; cable 4.65. Belgium, franc, 4.61%; cable 4.62, Italy, lira 3.74%; cable 3.75. Sweden, krone, 26.74; cable Norway, krone, 16,97; cable ‘16,99. Denmark, krone, 19.18; cable 19.20 Germany, mark, not quoted. Shanghai, tael, 77.25; cable 78.00, the old parties because the old ties are parties of the em class. It believes that the int of our class can best be served if working class organizations, labor unions, political, and others, will join in united front for the purposes of the campaign and will put forth a . Joint program, The Workers Party of Detroit fra- ternally requests you to communicate with us by the 20th of this month. Fraternally yours, Workers Party of Detroit, Edgar Owens, Sec’y, IRTHDAYS in July of political, class-war prisoners, confined In tha various state and government institutions of America, are announced by 1» as, follo AT REPRESA, CALIFORNIA—-FOLSOM PRISON, me duly & Warren Billings; July 26, James Price AT SAN QUENTIN PRISON, SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA, duly 17, Frank Baily, No. 37647; July 26, H. R. Hanson, No. 38114; Juty 80, Joe Varela, No. 38133; July 30, Wm. Minton, No, 38124, ff Cora Moyer, Secretary, invites friends and sympathizers to send birth- day cards and letters (money Is advisable for gifts) to these political prison. ers: Books and publications to°bé Gent directly from the publishers, " u)