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SRP. a THREE HUNDRED MORE Le DIN TEXTILE°WORKERS IN { CALL FOR AUNITED FRONT OF ||) vie: wa Page Five SKYPILOTS HIT HARD WHEN OILY _ BUBBLEBURSTS = RICAN IMPERIALISM About 300 workérs employed at In- ternational Worsted Mills on day on. . | i ini: if La 8 and night shifts are striking against Houghton: Puts Screws R K | Baptist M ve aL i.” posted wage reductions. Wool and on Despite Yowls Blame on “Bad Luc By ALEX REID worsted workers in three New ci — | | PARIS, Aligust 16—Suspicion gnd | frank hostility were apparent today in the French attitude toward the inter- vention of American Ambassador Houghton in the Franco-German par- leys in London over the German secur- ity pact. So outspoken are the criti- cisms of a section of the French press that further’ diplomatic denials may be expected»from embassy circles in | the British capital. Kilkenny Cats at It Again. Both the political enemies of Pre- mier Painleve and M. Briand, the for- eign minister, as well as those critics who correctly attribute to the United | States money making as the sole mo- | tive and moving force in American England milis are now on strike against the widespread wage reduc: tions announced seyeral weeks ago. ONLY A FEW DAYS MORE NOW! IT WILL BE READY BY THE END OF THE WEEK. To all Builders we bring the glad news! The book RUS- SIA TODAY will be ready for shipment by the end of the week! Work on the book has progressed speedily and the last forms are being put on the presses now. To all those who have ordered the book, and to the many others who have sent in new subscriptions for the combination offer, the good news can now be told: You will get “RUSSIA TODAY"—IN ONE WEEK! y | Now is the time to get orders from other workers for the book alone—or, better still, for the book and the DAILY WORKER in the combination $5.00 offer. Both for a duet of propaganda for the world's first» workers’ government ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 16—Revy. Wil: | | (Secretary of the Progressive Miners’ Committee:) | liam E, Rutledge, retired baptist min- | | The situation in the coal mining industry thruout the coun- try has reached a crisis, and ah industrial. battle is looming, which | if not immediately settled satisfactory may have serious and far | reaching consequences. The anthracite miners are demanding| an increase of wages with a change in working conditions, and are determined to fight for their demands... The living conditions of the hard coal miners in Pennsyl- vania-are deplorable, and the operators of the anthracite have repudiated the meager demands of the coal diggers. The gravity of the’situation in the hard. coal fields has its counterpart in the bituminous fields, and a joint struggle of gigantic proportions is [ looming and due to break on September 1, 'Thé'démands are an ister and editor of a St. Louis church organ, is alleged to have drawn some Ss 2,000 of the nation’s ecclesiastical brethren into a half million dollar oil fraud bubble, today attributed his ore- dicament to “bad luck” in denying that his petroleum company had been or ganized with the ultimate purpose of fraud. Under $3,000 bond, Rev,’ Rutledge S was exceedingly downcast over the collapse of his enterprise, the Econo my Oil Company of Kirkwood, Mo. His arrest came yesterday within a few hours after his return from San Aptonio, Texas, Federal inspectors Building Boom Is Still On, Claim of City Commissioner If building in Chicago keeps up its present pace the record of 1923, when permits were issued for $329,- 604,312 will be exceded by: at least. $25,000,000, Commissioner Frank B. Dougherty said. He gave out the figures for the first seven months of this year as in¢rease in wages, change in* —- working conditions, and the THOUSANDS OF COTTON enforcement of the Jacksonville agreement. Government Strike Breaking Ahead. The government is reported to be considering intervention, and force ar- bitration of the dispute. From very rellable sources we are informed that John L, Lewis may join the hard ¢oal and bituminous issue should arbitra- tionof the question be foréed on the miners, The social conditions of the miners are ‘almost beyond description, their wivés and families thruout the field covered by the Jacksonville agreement are starving as a result of long un- employment, which in turn is a direct result of the Jacksonville agreement itself, which Lewis saddled on the necks of the miners without their consent. Plot Against the Membership. The agreement forced on the miners at Jacksonville is for a term of three years, for no other reason than to give the coal operators, collaborating with the union officials, time to squeeze out of the industry the mili- tant left wingers who were repudiat- ing the false leadership of the Lewis machine. Lewis clearly saw the pro- gressive miners were not going to sub- mit tamely to the treason of the gang any longer; and the three-year, agree- ment was necessary to enable Lewis to expel the militant miners in as dip- lomatic a manner as possible. It is a well known fact that Lewis and the coal mine operators have joined hands to squeeze 200,000 miners out of the industry, and in the squeez- ing process the militant miners who have been fighting against the Lewis machine (because of his refusal to fight for nationalization of the mines and a, militant program in behalf of the miners), are the particular ones to be squeezed out. Proof of this is found’ in the ‘expulsions of the pro-" gressive miners in Illinois, Pennsyl- vania, Nova Scotia, Alberta, and in fact all over the country, Betrayal After Betrayal. The militant miners have very good reason to know the present tactics of Lewis in the anthracite, permitting the coaLoperators to hold up the joint scale negotiations, and tolerating the demand for arbitration, is a forerup- OUR DAILY GROWERS 10. STRIKE IN INDIA NEXT MONTH NEW YORK, August 16. — A strike of thousands of Indian cotton mill workers is expected when wage cuts of 114 per cent become effec- tive as posted for September 11, the assistant trade commissioner at Bombay has cabled. $225,917,650. In 1923 for the same period the figures were $204,887,112 and last year $179,510,270. Dougherty’s estimate of a total of $350,000,000 for the year is based on data showing that more than 60 per cent of the total is issued during the first half of the year. Put a copy of the DAILY WORKER in your pocket when you go to your union meeting. ner of the same kind of treachery that the miners received in December, 1919, when Lewis said: “We cannot fight our government.” The miners well*remember the coal operators were defeated in the strike of 1919. The evidence was found in the fact that the Railroad transporta- ation system was demoralized for lack of coal. Factories were closed down also for want of coal and transporta- tion, and in fact the miners had vict- ory practically within their grasp, and that victorys was acknowledged on every hand, when Lewis surrendered to Judge Anderson (to save his co- wardly person from detainment) and forced the miners to forego the fruits of their well fought battle. Coke Miners Sold Out However that was not the only in- stance of his contemptible treachery to the miners, we well remember his treachery to the coke miners in Penn- sylvania. Here, as in many other. places the miners were the victims of his treason. In 1919 the coke field coal diggers came out on strike to support the United Mine Workers, who were on strike at that time, and when the strike was settled, and the union miners went back to work, Lewis refused to recognize the coke miners and by his refusal todo so, aided the Pennsylvania coal barons-to defeat-the men -who .made- possible the victory of the United Mine Work- ers in that strike, ‘ The Nova Scotia, Alberta, and West, Virginia miners, and in fact the min- ers throughout the whole mining in- dustry have been betrayed in similar a manner, | Always Oppose Arbitration At all times the coal, diggers have bitterly fought arbitration, knowing from experience that arbitration has PATTERNS FOR STOUT FIGURES WITH SLENDER HIPS. 5183. Bordered or figured. silk, printed. voile or crope would be. nice for this model. The collar may be omitted as well as the full, portion of the sleeves. ‘ sate This. 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An outstanding case occured a couple of years ago in Pennsylvania, and when victory was practically within the grasp of the fighting colliers, their officials joined hand with the coal operators, agreed to arbitration, and were defeated, The present maneuvering of Lewis is indicative that another treacherous, move is on foot and the Progressive Miners Committee point to the fact, that if John L, Lewis was sincere, and desired to aid the bituminous mi- ners, he would not need to link up or tolerate the Jacksonville agreement with any suggestion of arbitration of thé Anthracite question. Move That's Suspicious The fact that Lewis is even tolerant of such’ Suggestions have put the min- eré'on their guard. It was and is now the duty-of Lewis to call out on strike every miner to force the coal opera- tors ,toj\live, up to the Jacksonville agreement, and in view of the fact that, the hard coal-operators are re- fusing the miners their meager de- mands, a more logical time could not be found to bring out on strike; the whole of the miners in America, and fight to a finish for the demands of ‘the ‘American miners as a whole. The impending struggle of the min- ers must be broadened, and made a National strike as the fight for wages andeconditions all over the American mining fields is the same and nation- alization,.of the mines is the battle cry, of, the miners even in spite of John L, Léwis. The miners are also demanding Government relief for the unemployed, and a bitter fight will be made for this in the coming battle. ‘Where Progressives Stand It is very noteworthy that the Pro- gressive Miners ‘Committees have pointed out the fact that the Jackson- ville agreement had ceased to exist a long. time ago, but John L. Lewis has repeatedly and continuously misled the miners on that score. Lewis now admits the truth of our assertion that the Jacksonville agreement is being violated at will and practically admits the coal operators have destroyed it. The Progressive Miners Committee demands that Lewis join the issue of the hard and soft coal miners, and go into the struggle with a solid front of the coal miners in America, in the fight for their present concrete de- mands. RAIL STRIKE IN INDIA LOST, ALL LEADERS FIRED (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, August 16—-(FP)— Three thousand leaders of the strik- ing 15,000 workers on the North West- ern Railway of India are blacklisted from employment as the strike ends, reports reaching Indians in-New York indicate. Poverty and lack of outside aid helped the company beat the work- ers who stayed out over two months. ern | The workers are very poorly paid and live most of the time on one small meal a day. The workers belong to the union of India railwaymen. Grafting Governor Will Be Released; Why Not; He’s G. O. P. ‘ WASHINGTON, Aug, 16.—Attorney General Sargent today started an ex- haustive study of the case of former Governor Warren T. McCray of In- diana, serving a term at Atlanta pen- itentiary, who asked for a pardon, McCray’s case will be taken up in detail by the pardon attorney's of- fice at the departinent of justice, ac- cording to Sargent: / It was ingilated)that a delegation who met Sargent,vesterday relative to MrCray's ‘pardgi made a favorable impression, ad oT diplomacy, Have seen their opportun- ity. The fagtithat Ambassador Hough- ton is reported as having told M. Bri- and that the:United States favors a bi-lateral pact with Germany is being used with telling effect. Of course the settlement of the French war debt to the United States comes in for heated discussion and the Midi advocates a combination of the European debtor nations to resist payment to Uncle Sam. The Echo de Paris, ultra-nationalist organ of the naval and military cliques, declared that “Germany mobil- ized Ambassador Houghton to make the French agree that the pact should can declare war against France with- out the sanction of the league of na- tions.” “A League of Debtors.” “Hoguhton’s role along the Thames bank is obvious because of his long stay along the ‘Spreebank,’” was the ironical comment of L’Action Fran- caise, the royalist organ, which hates everything fa¥oring of democracy, and adds: “Houghton, who was associated with the Dawes plan, is well prepared to lead in the subjection of European debtor, countries.” Headlining “When Do We Organize a league of Debtor Nations?” the Paris Midi declared that the war debts were incurred cdllectively and payment should be disetissed collectively. 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Both Avene. 19 be bi-lateral, meaning that Germany | ation—an KLUXERS USE " TEAR GAS IN NEW ENGLAND Pitched Battle Watched By Hundreds READING, Mass., Aug. 16—Clashes between 400 hooded klansmen and 300 antis began last evening at the hour set for the klan meeting on the Smith farm at Franklin Junction, on the main automobile highway to Andover, Between 200 and 300 men and women, who watched the gathering of the klan from motor ‘cars parked on the highway, left their ‘automobiles and stood in the street, Suddenly a volley of shots was fired in the direction of the watchers, police say. The crowds in. the road sought cover. Telephone calls to the. state police were immediately sent,out. Meanwhile, the battle between the klansmen and antis began in earnest. The klansmen retreated to a circle in the center of the farm. Soon a cry of alarm (arose from those in the highway), Tear gas bombs, such as used’ in«the) world war —apparently a new weapon with the j klansmen—had been released, For a short time it, seemed. as if the | Automobilists moving along, the high- 4 way felt the tear gas but sped on to escape. The antis moved hack from the field. The antis, however, recov- ered from the effect “of the tear gas and resumed the attack. Stones and clubs were hurled at the klansmen. Reading police, with drawn revolv- ers, rushed in between the two fac- tions. A truce was ordered under pen- alty of death. Other police, from near- by towns, joined the Reading police- men. At this point in hostilities, four mo- never before equalled in this country. Hundreds of letters of appreciation and praise for the DAILY WORKER have been pouring in to the office because of RUSSIA TODAY. 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His son’s clothing was nearly torn from his body. Police ar- rested Watson on a charge of carry- ing a revolver but he displayed a state permit and was released. Morask and Davidson were arrested during the battle about the klan cars, As the automobiles backed up into the klan meeting field, the two forces ~—klan and anti-klan—began drawing up in battle array. State troopers began coming up on motorcycles from barracks as far away as Framingham. They joined with the Reading police in forming a lane thru which the klansmen’s cars were allowed to leave the field. In the confusion attendant upon the get- away there were many automobile col- lisions. The two prisaners were hurried to Police headquarters here and placed under guard. State troops were de- ployed about the building and all ap- proaches were guarded. 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Child Tells of Her Slavery, 16 Hours a Day in Bean Fields NEW YORK, August 16—(FP)— How children work with their parents in American bean fields is told by an Italian girl now 17. “Kver since I can remember I have spent every |Summer in the bean fields,” she be- |gins. She says her mother used to carry her around in her apron. “It was hard for the children be- cause many mornings they had to go to work without any breakfast be- cause they couldn't get any milk. . . At the begining of the season we be- gin, our days’ picking about 7 o’elock in the morning to seven at night. But during the middle of the season we had to work about 16 hours, from 4:30 in the morning ... One of the hardest things was to carry the bag of beans to be weighed. “I remember of a little boy about 13 years old carrying on his back about 110 ‘pounds of beans. He just about could walk. 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