The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 28, 1925, Page 6

‘Page Six THE DAILY WORKER Published by the DAILY WORKER PUBLISHING ‘CO. 1113 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, Til PI Monroe 4712 | sh? Died Rohde = rhc SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mail (in Chicago only): { By mail (outside of Chicag): $8.00 per year $4.50 six months © | ‘$6.00 per voar $8.50 six months $2.50 three months $2.00 three months Address all mail and make out checks tu THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Bivd., Chicago, Mlinois J, LOUIS ENGDAHL WILLIAM F. DUNNE (""" MORITZ J. LOEB....... Entered as second-class mail September 21, 1923, at the postoffica; at Chi- cago, Ill., under the act of March 3,.1879. wenvenesaeenegernsscanenes Editors Business Manager. ‘Advertising rates on application, Se 290 ———- The Capitalist Press and Our Party The enemies of the Communist movement are ready. to seize upon every isenssion’ within the ranks of the Communists .tocexaggerate | them into splits and disruptions of our movement. Every: discussion | within the Russian Communist Party was hailed by the ‘capitalist enemies of the Soviet Union as the beginning of the end of the work-| ers’ and peasants’ republic. During the. discussion of Tyotskyism, the capitalist préss crowned Comrade Trotsky with the. imperial helmet of Napoleon and pictured him. as’ ready to use the whiff of grape-shot thru which-Bonapart.came into power. Recently some imaginative correspondent has found'a new! factional struggle going on in Russia and has drawn-inferences of the same character. The last few days have developed something similar in the cap- italist press in relation to our party. Some half-witted correspondents of the New York ‘World heard some rumors in regard to the inner party life and dressed them up in his own fashion and palmed them off on his paper as a realistic account of what is supposed to be hap- pening in our party. According to this story, the party is now run by a “dictator,” Comrade Foster is in Moscow and Comrade Ruthen- berg “is hastening there close upon his heels.” All this is, of course, nonsense. The capitalist newspapers and their correspondents are unable to understand the inner life of a Communist Party. They judge it by the methods and practices of capitalist organizations. To them it is inconceivable that there may be sharp divisions of opinion as to tactical problems within a Communist Party, but that after a thoro- going discussion of these problems a decision is reached and that all the members of the party, irrespective of their previous viewpoints, unite to carry out the policy decided upon. There is a bond which unites in an unbreakable unity the mem- bers of a Communist Party. That bond is common loyalty of the members of a Communist Party to the principle that) the; workers must organize as ‘a’ Class and“carry on a revolutionary struggle to establish the workers’ dictatorship and to overthrow the capitalist system. The bond that unite’ the members of a Communist: Party is stronger than any division over questions of tactics amdimethods, of achieving the end for wliich the party is striving. The wish is father to the théught in the case of the:napitalist prophecies of a split and disintegration of a Communist, Party. "That the New York World correspondent imagines Comrade doster’s leaving the Communist Party is ‘an expression of a natunabatesire on the part of those who are opposed and fighting the Communjxt Party. to have members leave the party. The New York Worldsnerrespon- dent could write such stuff, just as other correspondents:.could imagine Trotsky with the imperial crown of Napoleon »arhis head, because they cannot conéeive from their capitalist viewpeint of .a group of men and women submitting to an iron discipline, and sub- ordinating their personal views, in order that they may unitesto, carry on the struggle against the eapitalist state and the capitalistrsystem. The Communist International is also a mystery to the servants of capitalism. The world Communist Party is beyond theiroconcep- tion. That the national sé¢tions of the Communist: International bear the same relation to the executive committee of the Communist International that the sections’ bf the Communist Party of. America bear to the Central Executive Committee of the Workers) (Commun- ist) Party is something that cannot be understood in» :¢apitalist circles. That is a Communist viewpoint. For Communists it is just as natural to have the Communist International decide a contro- yersial question within the Workers (Communist) Party as it is for the Central Executive Committee of the Workers (Communist) Party to decide a controversial question in one of the districts of the party in this country. ‘The representatives of the Workers (Communist) Party, serving in‘ commissions of the Communist International, help to decide questions of -policy for the German, French and Italian parties just as the representatives of these parties help to decide questions of policy fer the Workers (Communist) Party. The cap- italist reporters ¢an only view:such an action in terms of individuals, of “dictators” and others who are being “ousted,” not in the terms Of organization and policy. The New York World story, which has. been widely copied thru- but the countryy may be. swallewed by the credulous readers of the capitalist press as so-many red stories are swallowed, and considered as facts. But to the Communists it will merely serve as an, illustra- tion of the iguerance and mendacity of the capitalist press,, . : ; Peace Prizé for Dawes : A United News dispatch from Stockholm, Sweden; states that tlie Norwegian parlfament plans to award.the Nobel peace prize to ‘Vice-President: Charles G. Dawes. Presumably because of the Mor- ywanized plam whereby the ited States and Britain Gnibined to establish “indystrial stability” in Germany. + ten Swedish statesmen must be shortsighted indeed if they imagine the Dawes plan guarantees peace, even’ between the two! great im- ‘perialist powers involved. Britaiw entered into the scheme because she hoped to stifle German industry, by. compelling it ,to, bear the burden of debt payments, while the United States bankers wanted a place to invest money. Their interests are opposed in Germany, uitho they co-operated in imposing the plan upon that nation. Wall Street has one motive, Britain another. Aside from the merits: or demerits of the plan, the very per- sonality of Dawes makeg ridiculous the awarding of the peace prize to him. Dawes is the personification of arrogant militarism and fascism. Like all @pitalist class militarists he is exceedingly ig- norant and swears a great deal. It is a known fact that those who indulge in unrestricted cursing do so because their voetbulary is so limited they cannot find other words with which to express them- selves. é * Still, we cannot claim it is inconsistent to award the prize to the ‘clownish vice- -president, when we recall the fact that Mr. Nobel, the founder of the prize, was a inauvfacturer of dynamite. ep wonder Greece was backward about going to war with: Bul- orkers who werezyoti ty to take all HE session which has just con- cluded of the plenum (full session) jof the Central Committee of the Com- |munist Party of Russia tok place on |the eve of the new. economic year. For this reason the work of the plenum acquires special importance. It is true the prospects of the new }economic year now commencing are |not yet sufficiently clear. The basic |tacts however, the good harvest which will bring with it a special advance in }all jour national economy, are no | longer in doubt. In spite of the delay jin the purchase of corn, in spite of the unusual movement in the price of cereals this year, in spite of the short- | age of industrial goods and the fall- | ing off of the revenue from taxes at! |the beginning of the economic year, we have no reason for rejecting those | calculations for the commencing eco- nomic year which are contained in| the so-called control figures of the In- stitute of Planned Economics. basis for our calculations will prob- of the party congress of the R. C. P. Developing Industry Most Important. As regards the next tasks, all speakers were agreed that a large- scale regulation of the purchase of various It was emphasized that between the is necessary. the approaching period is the neces- sity of developing industry. by increasing the industrial output will we be able to cope with the short- age of goods and to induce the peas- antry to sell their grain. Special em- phasis was likewise laid wpon the re- sponsible role which the co-opera- tives are called upon to play. The co-operatives must, in view of the prevailing shortage of goods, become the chief sources for suppying the villages with industrial products. This The | ably ‘be quite clear by the end of| December, at the time of the holding | corn, the prevention of competition | buying organs | one of the most important tasks of | Only | THE DAILY WORKER { must be done by nibene of reasonable | | prices and without that speculative | raising of prices whjch private capi- tal practices under fhe present rela- tions of supply and demand. Developing Foreign Trade. | | | ASED upon our economic revival, foreign trade is gaining greater | importance every year. Upon the de velopment of foreign trade depends | the further extension of agriculture, as well as the development of indus- try, as_a portion of the surplus of | agricultural production can only be | placed upon the foreign markets, and | industry requires the import of plant |and machinery, raw materials, etc. In | the course of the current economic | year the turnover of our foreign ‘trade | will show a consideFabié increase as a result of the good Hafvest. After the acceptance of the report of the cen- tral control commissfoti'on the organ- i izing of foreign tradé,‘the plenum re- | corded the fact thatthe monopoly of foreign trade had"produced magni- | ficent results and nitist remain in the future one of the inflekible principles of the Soviet state. “At the same time | there was emphasizedy:the necessity | of a greater elasticity-and a greater specializing of the rapparatus of for- | eign trade, a “Closem.eonnection pe- tween this apparatus and the inland economic organizations. ‘i Trade Unions Grow: Stronger. With the growtli of our industry | and the. increase of the number of | workers the importaipéé of the trade | unions will become dontinually great- | er. The central eommittee of the plenum records an - indisputable strengthening of the trade unions, which finds expression in the increase of the number of members and in| the development of numerous branch- es of work among the masses (clubs, relief funds, physical culture, ete.), but also in the improvement of the trade union apparatus. The plenum declares, however, that now, as a re- sult of the higher economic and cul-' tural level of the masses, the Wureau- cratism which has not yet been ‘en- tirely overcome in the trade unions, and their “administrative” and “eco- nomic” shortcomings, as well as the insufficiently deep and all-around con- nection of the trade unions with the masses, are making themselves felt more acutely than ever. Meanwhile, the trade unions must especially now, when the activity of the masses not only in the towns but also in the villages is growing, when we are set- ting ourselves the task of developing Soviet democracy, carry out their chief slogan: “into the masses” and become real organs uf workers’ de- mocracy. A RUTTLESS fight must be conduct- ed against the methods of exces- sive administration, of direct interfer- ence by the party organizations in the current work of the trade unions (questions of conditions of work, of wages, and of collective agreements). The exercise of the leading role of the party in trade union work must be much more elastic. The trade unions must devote far greater at- tention to the fulfillment of their chief task, the protection of the economic interests and the raising of the level of culture of the working masses. The trade unions must do still more for the development of the activity. of the masses. They must do everything in order that every non-party work- er shall regard the trade union as. his organization, an organization whose duty it is to furnish him with reports and which he can control. Only un- der these conditions can the trade unions fulfill their function as “schools of Communism.” Raising Wages Next Task. One of the most important ques: tions for our party is the question»of | raising the standard of living of the | working class. The plenum geclares that the revival of industrial and agri- cultural production offers the possi- bility of taking a further step in rais- ing wares, of course, only so ‘far as our Sconoinic possibilities permit and in accordance wi the productivity of labor. The party must devote special attention to im- proving the position of the transport workers and of the workers in heavy industry, as well as in other branch- es of production in which wages are on a relatively low level. There is hardly a single meeting of our party at which the question of the relations of the party to the peasantry is not raised in one form or another. The XIV party conference which too.. number of decisions which assure the development of peasant economy and the strengthening of the alliance of the proletariat with the middle peas- ants, and adopted various measures for supporting ‘and organizing the vil- lage poor. 'Thesimproyement of the relations betweem‘the proletariat. and the peasantry, the.growing confidence of the peasantry;in; the Soviet power and in our. party, jhe fact that the best elements’of the village poor and of the village peasants are rallying to our party—all this proves the cor- rectness of the line’ ‘lata down*by the XIV party conte¥erice, all this proves ; that, the party ‘is following the cor- rect path and ‘that it must continue to follow this path as HIS year's,,g9ed harvest, the in- erease in the means.at the dispos- al of the proletarian.state, and at the same time the+inereasing differenta- tion in the-village whicgh is partly pro- moted by the.goed. harvest, has induc- ed the central committee to undertake a number of ‘further practical steps to. support the. yillage poor. Without losing, sight of the. central task of strengthening the alliance of the pro- letariat: with the middle peasantry, the party is at present adopting vari- dus practical measures in order, upon the basis of the decisions of the XIV conference, to. render it possible for | the village poor, to participate prac- tically in the co-operatives and to support their undertakings, on the the increase of! Place a few months ago adopted a} The Central Executive Committee of the Russian. Communist Party Meets basis of the decisions of the XIN party ‘conference, by granting cheap credits. On the other hand the in- creasé in the activity of all secttons + of the peasantry and the development ofSoviet democracy in the village has caused the party to devote greater at- tention to consolidating the organized influence of the village poor in the co-operatives, at the elections of vil- lage Soviets, in the relief committees ete, The increasing activity of the big peasants, their attempt to create a united front with the middle peas- ants, must be opposed by our party organizations by establishing organ- izations of the village poor and cre- ating a bloe between the village poor and the middle peasants. Soviet Democracy. OTH the trade union question and the question of the organizing of the village poor are links in the chain of development of Soviet democracy. One of the fundamental conditions for realizing Soviet democracy, however, is' the strengthening of inner party de- moeracy, | One cannot combat bureat- cratism in the Soviets and in the trade unions, if the bureaucratic de- generations in the party - organiza: tions which condtct the-work: of the trade unions and of the Soviets are not’ overcome. The plenum, of , the central committee has therefore de- cided to. issue an appeal to all. party organizations, and to call upon them to build, ‘their entire work upon the basis of the principles of inner party democracy laid down by the- party. The XV _ party conference whieh meets in December, must be prepar- ed in the spirit of these principles of party democracy and of the Leninist unity of the party. The party confer- ence must be preceeded by a careful discussion jn the various party organ- izations of all the questions placed on the agenda, and the elections must be carried out in such a manner that the congress constitutes the most exact and complete /reflegtion of the, views and the mood of the entire party, (Continued from page 1) among them ‘had of the good inten- tions of many of their self-appointed | triends. One of the local papers states; sae . the lines have hardened and the deadlock remains un- changed. Headlines carrying promise of early peace in thé Industry have not been borne out. Their promises have not and cannot be fulfilled. The truth must be faced. The region confronts a most serious situa- tion. The above sentiments are in strik- | ing contrast to the optimism which has characterized the local anthracite press till now. No Picnic, After All, Among the miners there is also a/| feeling that they are in for a desperate struggle. At district headquartérs the statement has been made that relief will week. This is a complete reversal of the official policy which has been to poohpooh the necessity for any action savoring of acknowledgement A 3 a real strike situation. As in Scranton, the need tor prepar- in the increasing attendance at local union meetings, now held regularly. Local 289 is an example of this. With a membership of 1,500 the usual attendance has been about 50 or 60. At the last meeting more than 300 were present, A resolution calling for a broadening of the strike was in- troduced. It was discussed, no one spoke against ,it, but it was neither defeated or passed, the excuse being that if sent to the officials they would “I Got Your Letter,” Says “Cal” to Lewis (Continued from page 1) tionists that labor must obey all capi- talist laws, or, if not, labor would have to be Bolsheviks who strike re- gardless of capitalist laws. Greén and Morrison were both sum- moned to conference with Coolidge before the laconic “reply” to Lewis was written, and when they emerged from the conference they’ both refus- ed to discuss what. was said, but Green would not deny that the Lewis hint of a general coal strike had been discussed. ‘Don't Take John Seriously. ‘Government officials close to Coo- lidge say he does not take Lewis’ “threat” very seriously, since he is confident that the coal operators’ as- sociation have, in conjunction with the Lewis machine in the union and often with its assistance, allowed union territory to be lost to nonginion conditions and non-union fields to re- main unorganized. This has gone on to such an extent that Coolidge administration officials openly boast that Lewis does not scare anyone, because over 65 per cent of the soft coal output is mined by non-union miners, producing 8,000,- 000 tons a week, and that if the union calls a strike and does not get the non-union mine’ also, the non- union mines able to handle the rock-bottom! industry had a splendid effect in that it has | embittered the strikers and: shaken the confidence which some elements { machinery is being set up and that it | begin to function during the) ation for a fight of the union is seen | | Pay no attention to #!anyway. Since the meeting, however,” the resolution has been discussed*@mong many of the members and théitopinion is now that it should be pakééd and sent to the press and other Bical unions, In Delicate Position. The sentiment ‘agdiist Cappelini is | quite strong here. It is so strong in \fact that the progtéssiye elements |among the strikers h¥e in a delicate | Position, Sp flagrant“have been some of Cappelini’s actioi®’ that they “have ‘resulted in weakentk ’ the morale of |some of the strke¥s./Jijbeal 532, for’ in- |stance, paid out itéMhole treasury for relief and Cappelliii, according to | Miners, sent the I officers a letter threatening them with prosecution ‘for embezzlement. FolloWing this’ some |sentiment for a retuff*to work devel-! | oped among the more backward ele- {ments of the local, 'f 1° | In a situation of tilis kind the pro- | gressive elements to conduct | their agitation for a®militant strike | with great care in of@er not to make Cappellini the min issue and strengthen the less eéhseious workers in their desire to end‘the strike. Complications. The situation is ci licated for the left wing by the tack that as one min- er stated openly, “All the washeries in the valley are working.” Some of the miners reason that if others get permission to work there is no rea- son why they should work as well. Washery Number 14, owned by Judge Maxey, before whom the case of Bren- nan versus Cappellini arising out of the last district eleetion, will come, is especially odious because it is, ac- cording to the strikers, a clear in- stance of Cappellini catering to the economic interests .of Maxey in or- der to get the ear of the court. A mine near Keystone is also work- —————- SSS — and home consumpti6n of soft coal. So the governmett' attitude is that if Lewis has complaftits of violations of contract, let hiti*#o into the capi- talist courts for redress, where the complaints will gathersdust and mold for a dozen years while the miners’ union is being smashed. +i - AutomobileciMerger. NEW YORK, No¥, 24.— Clarence Dillon, of the bankfig’ firm of Dillon, Read & Co., bankets for the Dodge Brothers Motor company, confirmed today the reported "purchase of Gra- ham Brothers Truck Manufacturing company by the Déllge concern, for cash. Roy A. Graham, ham Brothers, general man- ager of Dodge "8, Joe B. Gra- ham, and Robert C, Graham, of Gra- ham Brothers will Become directors of the Dodge concern. tary of Gra- “Close” Booze Dens, Federal Judge Adam -C, Cliffe of Chicago granted seventeen permanent and s'xteen temporary liquor injune- Uons in the drive to “close” booze dens, The injunctions inoluded a “per- manent” one against Edward Zine, owner of the Silver Leaf Inn at Lyon: who was killed o1 ‘his home last week after attend the funeral of one of the Genna gays. That worker hext door to you may not have to do to night. Hand him : + acd the| sion, fearing Reality of Strike Dawns ANOTHER RUMOR THAT . NEGOTIATIONS ARE 10 BEGIN IN ANTHRACITE PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 25.—Sig- nificant developments today in the anthracite coal miners’ strike sit- uation indicate that negotiations — probably will be resumed between the operators and miners, accord- ing to several coal men here. i" Major W. W, Inglis, chairman of the anthracite operators’ scale com- mittee, has been summoned to Har- risburg to confer with Governor Gifford Pinchot on the strike prob- lem late this: afternoon. ing—tirat is, coal is being run thru the breaker and eight big trucks are busy hauling coal all day long. The pretext for this violation of the strike rules in favor of a mine owned by a mine inspector, is that the coal is needed for a school. But the strikers, who check up on every detail of these transactions with a scrutiny of the most painstaking kind imaginable, have noted that the coal selling agency with which the mine inspec- tor is connected, has lately had no dif- ficulty in supplying its customers. Incidents of this kind could be enu- merated almost endlessly. - Officials Petty Graft. They are apparently sources >of cheap graft to some of the officials, they are destructive of strike morale, causing interminable bickering, dis- sion and distrust, but actually have little effect on the strike situation as a whole. As a rule only small com- panies and independent operators are involved in these deals. The big concerns are idle except “Ma” Ferguson Fears Impeachment Moves (Special to The Daily Worker) AUSTIN, Texas, Noy. 25.— Thirty- two names have been affixed to two petitions by legislators of Texas who demand that a special session be call- ed by the governor or the speaker of the house. Petition in Special Session, In one petition addressed to Gov. “Ma” Ferguson, the legislators de- mand a special session to amend the highway act. In the other petition addressed to the speaker of the house, Lee Satterwhite, it calls upon him to convene a special session for the pur- pose of impeaching the state high- way commission for the “misuse” of public funds. Hand Out Juicy Plums. Tho “Ma” Ferguson was elected governor, her husband # the real gov- ernor, During her * administration millions of dollars worth of contrac! have been let to contractors, who in- stead of submitting the lowest bid, submitted the highest bids and favors in the forms of well-padded contracts have been handed out to those who are line with the Ferguson gang. Fear Impeachment. ‘The legislators insist upon a spe- cial session being called, If ere sn Ferguson does not call a 8] cla sae [eee the speaker will on Coal. Miners the chins. men, but the charactér.’ At© the:sPaines mine the superintendent @haimed. that only 40 men were on thé payroll but an in- vestigation bythe *strike committee disclosed 97° 44t the Loomis, Wood- ward‘and Truesdate mines, scab jron- workers are ipuitting up huge struc- tures withoub«,,word of protest from the district officials. Protests ¢ Fro ‘the local unions the men way, led Off for a short time but inva 7 so the washery or breaker or new construction work is again going. A member of the gen- eral assembly of the union in this sec- tion is the,aythority for the above Statements. 6 6554 41. Reorganize, Left Wing. The most hepeful development of the strike is‘the;reorganization of the left wing forcesi ‘Perhaps reorganiz- ation is too strong a’ word for what is actually takingplace since the on- slaught of the union officials co-oper- ating with the ‘local authorities and the departments of: justice upon left wing miners’-meetings which culmin- ated in the arrestof, Reid and Toohey and their being railroaded on a “va- grancy” charge. °°’ The..progressive groups are recoy- combination of operators, Wall Street banks and the government, with which the union is. faced. The most advanced section of the progressive miners understand that the history of the strike struggle ‘ts so setting the stage that upon the ac- tivity of the militants depends the life of the union in the anthracite and probably in the soft coal fields. as well. At present the miners are wonder- ing what is .going on behind the Scenes but of one thing they are cer- tain, and of which many of them were not certain heretofore: That the main line of the strategy of the operators is to smash ‘the union, “ Slipped a Cog. Most of them (that is the minérs with whom I talked and whom I judg- ed as representatives of the most alc- tive strikers) are of the opinion that a cog has slipped somewhere in the relations between Lewis and Coolidge. Most of them are inclined to the be- lief that Lewis, because of his stp- port of Coolidge, had been promised some aid which would serve to boost his prestige in labor circles without hurting the operators; that Coolidge had agreed to not interfere in the strike and to persuade the coal bar- ering from their defeat and recent de- |} ons to grant some minor concessions. velopments, notably the proposal for a.tive-year contract with a no-strike clause, the unyielding attitude of the anthracite operators, the disruption of the union and the violation of the Jacksonville agreement in the soft coal fields, which Lewis has now ad- mitted, are giving them a solid basis for their work in building up strike morale, waging a militant struggle for the preservation of the union and pre- paring the ground for a general strike in the industry as an answer to the for amount of new!work being done and the repairs miatte «are of an extensive beg erred lmegen ‘will “be made. BI ‘Klan: Not Graft. AUSTIN Texas, Noy. 25.—Breaking her silence for the first time since she announced the resignation Mon- day of two of;len appointees on the state highway commission, Gov. “Ma” he demand for a spe- ie Texas legislature “yumors of graft in toes as a “move by the tb disereait her admin- the early morning;hours, held posses- sion of the tewn three hours, firing citizens while they attempted to blow the vault of the First National Bank. «To Amend’ Constitution. NEW YORK; Nov. 25.—An attempt, is to be made by United States Sen- ator Wadsworth and other “wet” re- publicans to amend the constitution and the Volstead act to allo wevery state the right to decide whether alcoholic beverages are to be sold within its boundaries, - . Badly Hurt In Accident. DANVILLE, Il, Nov, 25.—With 37 " left side of her “which required 72 sur- osalie Woodrom aged | n holds a new) vitals, The wounds automobile CASSOPOLIS, Mich., Nov. 25—Five bandits, who, invaded Cassopolis in % \ ot The opinion now is that Coolidge has handed Lewis the doublecross, \that the operators are detrmined to starve the miners out and that nothing, but pulling out the maintenance men will alter this attitude. § « Pulling out the maintenance men will bring either a settlement or war. The left wing is getting ready to fore- stall a bad settlemen: and to wage a winning war by rallying the mass strength of the whole union if. the operators decide on open warfare. _ Virgin Islands Editor — Appeals Court Verdict (Special to The Daily Worker), WASHINGTON, Noy. 25.--The ap peal of Rothschild Francis of the Vir- gin Isldnds from his conviction for criminal libel and contempt. of. court will, be heard before the. United States court of appeals at) Philadel- phia early in January. Francis was convicted by a local judge who. was his political enemy and who’ tried the ‘ise without a jury. The appeal will be argued by A. A. Berle, Jr., of New Ye David Wallerstein of . Phila- délphia, appears on the brief with 'Mr. Berle and will assist in the te scores. of shots’ and terrorizing | ‘It is expected that the decision’ the case will largely determine the rights of natives in relation to the United States naval administration of the islands, against which ‘a cc stant agitation has been conducted. native lea@ers. Francis is a member of the colonial council, editor of ce Emancipator and president of American Federation of Labor Us at St. Thoma: “Goodbye God” . DANVILLE, Ill, Nov, 25,—The | William A, Shelley, , cowboy, winner in Chico, Cal., ‘Boise, Ida Miles City, Mont., has putt from the pulpit of the first church ana here, He poe, that he might. | “Goodbye to god and go to | ——— { i| he ig said to be contemplating the real estate business, om