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Page Two THE DAILY WORKER tt SHEFFIELD ON WAY WITH BAG OF "EVIDENCE Calles Issues a Decree Regulating Wells (Continued from page 1.) would turn over the country to them. Reports of violence continue to pour fn from all parts of the country but most of them are without foundation. The situation is well in hand and the federation of labor is carrying on a vigorous propaganda thruout the na- tion against the clergy. see K. of C. Appeal. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 9. —The appeal of the Knights of Columbus to the American Federation of Labor urg- ing the co-operation of the labor body with the campaign against Mexico has not made a favorable impression here. Regardless of the personal opinions of ingividual members of the exectuive council on the controversy between the Mexican government ami the church the council as a whole feels ,that any action on its part eifher for or against, would be liable to open @ Yeligious discussion in the federation which might tear it to —: x is pointed out that Terence V. Pow- derly’s relations with Cardinal Gib bons was partly responsible for wreck- ing the Knights of Labor. Loyat But ‘Not So Ready. Many of the leaders of the A. F. of 1, are members of the Knights bg AQokumbus dut it is by no means cer- ‘gain that they are willing to jeopard- tx their organizations even at the Dehest of the church. Self-interest comes. first with most of them. While quite ready to appear in public as loyal children of Rome, they also real- {we that the first attempt on their part to use the unions in the interest of a catholic attempt to overthrow the Mex- jean government would raise such a storm in the ranks of the unions that would either smash the organizations or drive them out of office. Mussolini, the blackshirt dictator of Italy, who has destroyed the Ital- jan trade unions was eulogized at the opening session of the K. of C. con yention. Tho American labor official dom is extremely reactionary it has gone on record against Mussolini. oe London Denies Report. LONDON, Aug. 9. — The foreign office today denied Mexico City reports that Great Britain has made diplom- atic representations to Mexico, pro- testing against the seizure of English owned church properties. + s)2 Mexican Consul Flays Talley. NEW YORK, Aug, 9. — Arturo M. Elies, consu! general of Mexico, issued a sharp rebuke to Judge Alfred J. Talley for the jurist’s rabid attack on the Mexican government, in which he urged the lifting of the arms embargo which would enable the reactionaries to secure weapons and make war on the republic. Senor Elias said: Talley Urged Violence. “It is amazing that in the 20th Century a jurist can be found in a country as highly civilized as the United States who will champion the sending of instruments of violence into a country which is trying to set- tle its internal difficulties by peaceful methods. Does Judge Talley want to help in bringing about another mass- acre.of Saint Bartholomew's Night in Mexico? Is it his desire to bring about another religious war similar to those which bathed Europe in blood during the middle ages? Has not the world already suffered enough from such fratricidal frays? Is this what religion means to Judge Talley and the hierarchy for whom he speaks? On Raising of Embargo. “Does Judge Talley not know tliat if the government of the United States raised the Arms Embargo at this time only one construction could be put upon it by the civilized world? It is significant that Judge Talley is joined in the abuse which he pours upon the present government of the United States by a certain Bishop Kelly, who is now abusing in the press the late President Wilson because he refused to support that notorious scoundrel, Victoriano Huerta, the murderer of the lamented Madero.” Generous For Education, ‘The consul declared that the govern- ment economized in every department except education The amounts spent for education were deliberately increased he said “for our govern- ment understood that a people lack- ing knowledge cannot and will not cherish the spirit of freedom,” Article 3 of the Mexican constitu- tion reads: “Instruction is free; that given in public institutions of learn- ing shall be non-sectariafi. Primary instruction, whether higher or lower given in private inffftutions, shall like- wise be non-sectarian, No religious corporation nor minister: of any rell- gious creed shall be permitted to establish or direct schools of primary instruction. Primary schools may be established only subject to official }aupervision. Primary instruction in public institutiong shall be free.” British Sub Sinks. LONDON, Aug. 9.—The British sub- arino S29 sank late today in the Dovenport dockyard basin with six- Most Powerful Machine on Earth The photo shows the main part of one of the turbo-generators of the new East River power station of the New York Edison Co. being lowered into place, a capacity of 80,000 horsepower, which Century Limiteds at once. Edison Co. stock. (Continued from page 1) cerely,” we further inquired very ecar- nestly, ‘do they really mean to fight?” “T think so, I know Iydo,” he replied unhesitatingly. Milltant Giris, We went up to Lowell the next morning and met with the strikers for the first time. We found that nearly all present were girls. Young girls rather light hearted, agog with cu- riosity, and the thrill of the novelty of the thing. We spoke to them in a serious way, calling forth from the girls the seriousnes that is in them. “Do you mean this now?" we asked emphatically several times. They re- plied that they did. That they were ready to make a real fight of it, for better conditions of work, and for some kind of organization. ~ We were (at least I was) still skep- tical. Nevertheless we went ahead with the selection of a strike commit- tee. The next morning we met with the strikérs again. . Strike Machinery Organized, In two days we had the strike ma- chinery organized. Picket captains, Picket squads, hall chairman, hall sec- retary. Registration of strikers, vis- iting committee, and publicity com- mittee. We have since organized a very efficient relief committee. The workers are very amenable and sensi- ble. They made practical suggestions, and readily accepted practical propos- als. I who have had-a directing part in many strikes among clothing work- ers where every other man is an ora- tor, and a labor strategist, missed the usual harangues and confusion, 100 Per cent Strike, The strike is now on 100 per cent strong. Girls who are yet too young to know the sternness of life, many of whom have never seen a parade, let alone participating in any public af- fair, are picketing, carrying placards with seriousness and discipline. They don’t know what the words “class struggle” mean. But they feel the struggle, and act it. It did not re- quire any oratory to make them un- derstand that $14 a week is not enough to live on. They understand that it is not written in any book good or bad that with the temperature over 90 de- This great machine, service is privately owned and grinds out huge The generator, complete, weighs close to 2,000,000 pounds and has means that it could pull 47 Twentieth used primarily for public dividends for holders of CUES Stat IE Re Mtge SP Unorganized Silk Workers of Lowell, _ Massachusetts, Go Out on Strike be shut tight. In their natvette they teel that there ought to be tables at which to eat their lunches, and that while it may be good etiquette for the Japanese over in Japan to eat sitting on the floor, it is not customary in America, especially when mice and rats ‘are playing tag all over the floor, Older Strikers Not So Eager, There are men strikers, too. The nen attend meetings and picket also. The men are older though, and pretty much used up by life. And there are ‘ome grown up women from far off Eastern Europe. The men and these women are good strikers also. But their grasp for a little more life is not 30, eager. The conseiousness of power has now come over the strikers, They have taken the offensive. They have formu- lated demands, A week ago the strike committee met the mill agent, Mr, Gal- lant ,and presented their demands in writing. Mill Agent Astounded. The Mill Agent could hardly believe his eyes. He was flabbergasted. “BOLSHEVISM, ANARCHISM, the end of the world,” he cried out. “No grees the windows in the mill should Sir, No Sir, I am boss here. G— D— how dare you. There is the mill go to your work.” He grabbed the sheet of paper containing the demands and crumppled it up. On second thought he put it back on the table and smoothed it out. “You and You and You,” he pointed menacingly to sev- eral members of the committee, “you are trouble makers, you are no weay- ers, I am going out to lunch.” As he walked out he growled back, “I'll shut up the Mill all together.” Giving the Boss a Fight. The next day the committee re- ported back to the strikers on the conference with the boss, “Begorra it its a foit he wants, he'll have two foits,” exclaimed an Irish woman striker. “Ye jolly well bet e’ll ave it,” put in the chair lady from Lancashire England, And it is a fight such as Mr. Gallant was not expecting that 250 silk weav- ers and loom fixers are giving the Lowell Silk Mill of the New Market Manufacturing Co. And what’s more a permanent ORGANIZATION of these workers will come out of this fight. | WCEL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length trom the Municipal Pier, TONIGHT. 6:00 to 7:00—Chicago Federation of La- bor Talks and Bulletins, 7:00 to 7:30—WCFL Ensemble, of Elena Moneak, 30—-Little Joe Warner, ch: singing; Al Scott’s Harmony Kin: jans; Norman G. Harte, baritoi 8:30 to 9:00—Elena Moi nd orchestra, music from Musical Comedy Shows. 9:00 to 9:30—Harry Dream Daddy Davis, Popular songs; Vella Cook, contralto. 9:30 to 10:00—WCFL Ensemble in popu- lar music. 10:00 to 11:00—Dance music from the Municipal Pier Auditorium, Chas. Cook's Orchostra, under Ford Circus at St. Paul. ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 9.--The first plane of the Edsel Ford relfability tour in which 24 planes are entered arrived here from Milwaukee shortly before 10 o'clock. The plane piloted by Ray Collins, referee of the tour, and Piloted Charles Wiesley, took off from Milwaukee at 7 a, m, Rubber the Reason for Bacon Bill, Say Filipinos in Paper WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Represent- active Bacon’s bill for separation of the rich rubber lands of the southern half of the Philippine Islands from native control is the target of many articles and arguments in the current issue of the Philippine Republic, organ of the independence mission in Washing- ton. Rubber is declared to the “first, foremost and real reason for the Bacon bill.” Other reasons are named —cocoanuts and copra, lumber and hemp. The magazine suggests that Bacon, in his three speeches in behalf of separation of the islands, strangely fails to mention the fact that the Washington government stands pledged to grant independence to the Philippine ‘Islands—not simply to a part of them, This, it says, all na- tions and races know. They watch America which made the pledge, Five dollars will renew your sub for a year; if you send it in MINE UNIONISTS REVOLT AGAINST RULE OF MOYER Demand a Convention and No Assessment (Special to The Daily Worker) BUTTE, Montana (By Mail).—At the regular meeting of Butte Engin- eers’ Union, No. 83, held July 14, the following preamble and resolution was adopted: Whereas, President Moyer and ex- ecutive board has submitted a ques- tion to the membership of assessing themselves $2 for the purpose of hold- in a convention in September next, and Whereas, the constitution of the In- ternational Union of Mines, Mill and Smelter Workers, Section One of Arti- cle Two, reads plainly that conven- tions will be heldia the first week of the month of August, and there are no provisions in said constitution giving the general officers power to set aside the law, evade their plain duty and attempt by asking the membership to vote an assessment, knowing full wéll such an unpopular thing as an assess- ment would defeat all attempts to hold a convention, and thus evade a proper and much needed investigation as to how the said officers have per- formed their several duties and ex- pended the funds of our international since the holding of the last conven- tion some six years ago; and, Why the Ass nt? Whereas, the quarterly reports, such few as have been sent out by the gen- eral office, indicate and show that Locals No, 16, 83, 117, in Montana alone have sent something like $20,000 yearly, or for the past two years be- tween thirty-five and forty thousand and with the added thousands of dol- lars from other locals paid into our general office, furnishing a treasury easily in excess of sixty thousand dol- lars or more, and with only two men and two women in the Denver office as the permanent overhead expenses, we fail to see the necessity for an as- sessment to meet a regular indebted- ness such as a convention, provided by law is, certainly it cannot be some- thing unexpected, or the creation of an emergency indebtedness, such as an assessment must be levied to sat- isfy, the investigating by a commit- tee, reporting to a convention of the condition of our financial affairs in the Denver office will appeal to everyone as the most important business con- fronting our organization; and, Demand Moyer Comply With Union Law. ‘Whereas, the genpral official duty, is to at once notify all locals that the biennial convention will convene in Denver on the date fixed by the con- stitution for the performance of their duties. Therefore be it Resolved, that Butte Stationary En- gineers’ Union No. 83, I. U. of M. and S. W., herewith protests the action of the officials of our international organ- ization to evade their plain duty as laid down by the constitution, by the subterfuge of “passing the buck” to the membership in the form of a $2 assessment instead of calling a con- vention to meet in August next, and Local No. 83 refuses to participate in this unlawful procedure, and con- demngs the failure of the general of- ficials to comply with the laws an at- tempt on their part to perpetuate themselves in their offices, and thus avoid a proper investigation of how they have performed their duties sin the holding of the last convention; and be it further Want Convention at Once. Resolved, that Local No. 83 demands that our general officers call the sev- enth biennial convention to convene in Denver on the date set for same by the constitution, so that said conven- tion can by proper investigation de- termine the condition of the financial and other affairs of the organization. Green Promises U. S. Aid to British Labor (Continued from page 1) strikers, is so small in amount per family that it does not even provide a minimum of the plainest food, It leaves nothing for clothing, shoes, shelter or fuel. The strikers and their families must have food and clothing. From the Russian trade unions they have received $2,500,000, and have spent it in their soup kitchens. From their own trade union funds and from other British sources they have receiv- ed and expended $40,000,000 in main- taining some 5,000,000 for 14 weeks of industrial war. Now they ask Amer- ican labor, which has sent them a total of about $150,000, to really become in- terested in their struggle to maintain civilized standards of wages in Europe.| may care little for those he leads. He Mean to Fight It Out. Miss Wilkinson and Tillett told Green that there was no chance of immediate settlement. The miners’ delegates confirmed this view. Brit- ish mine owners are determined to break down the wage scales and to crush the union, The strikers have no thought of surrendering the ground won in past years at heavy cost, Instead, they propose to put their case before the trade unions and the liberal public of the United States, in union meetings, in conferences and in mass meetings in the cities. Miss Wilkinson will specialize on women’s organisations, Mos' It’s Blue Monday for the Menshevik and Capitalist Enemies of Soviet Rule By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, j T is “Blue Monday” morning so far as the blackguard capitalist press is concerned in frantically develop- ing its hysterical anti-Soviet cam- paign. All that is new consists of. repeated denials from the Soviet government at Moscow of the flood of “shameless fakes” that ebbs and flows with each new edition. Thus Hearst's International News Service starts the week with several hundred words of rehash, every word being mere repetition of what appeared over the last week-end. ‘6 & Definite denials, however, come from Moscow for those capitalist sheets that care to publish them. It seems that the Soviet govern- ment didn’t bother much about the original fakes, It doubtless took it for granted thet the world had been fed up on these lies and that they would quickly sink into oblivion of their own weight. But the capitalist press knows no depths of infamy, we Denials of the fraudulent reports originating in all the emigre cap- itals along the Soviet border, from Bucharest to Riga, come from four sources. These are as follows: First:—An official denial by the Soviet government at Moscow of the reports circulated “thruout the world,” in the words of the Interna- tional News Service, “that” revolu- tion has broken out in Leningrad or that there is a mutiny in the Kronstadt garrison.” Second:—Another denial from the Soviet foreign office at Moscow, “declaring,” in the words of the United News, “that rumors of mutinies and revolts among its troops are absolutely false. It cate- gorically denies reports of rebellions in southern Russia and elsewhere, and asserts that the recent rumors of such trouble result from the anti- Soviet campaign started abroad.” Third:—An announcement by the Soviet embassy in London that it had received a message from Mos- cow this morning (August 9) reiter- ating the government's denial of the report that a revolt was taking place. Fourth:—Then there is the re Port of the anti-Soviet Baldwin gov- ernment in England. The announce- ment was made at London that the “official dispatches received of the British foreign office (Chamberlain) today failed to carry any confirma- tion of the report of revolts in Rus- sia.” The foreign office announced that it is discounting @ll reports of Russian disorders, One of the most wretched exhibi- tions incidental to this anti-Soviet campaign is offered by the delapidat- ed anti-Sovietist, Isaac Don Levine, who tries to boster up the Hearst attack with the passing reputation that he earned during a brief visit to the Soviet Union and the writing of a book on the Russian situation. But even Levine is forced into mak- ing statements that kick his care- fully written endorsement of alleged “disorders in Russia” into the gut- ter where grovels the press for which he writes, He confesses: “There is nobody outside the Communist Party in Russia capable of initiating a serious insurrec- tion,” “Trotsky is too disciplined not to follow the orders of the central com- mittee of the Communist Party.” And much more to the same effect. Even this “bought and paid for” scribe must admit that the mighty power of the Communist Party in the Union of Soviet Republics stands unchallenged, a a One of the elements that finds great joy in the avalanche of malicious falsehood that is being Spread over the the earth is made up of those Russian emigre men- sheviks who pray for the return of “democracy” in the Soviet Union, much as catholics are praying for the return of “religious freedom” in Mexico. They seek the “demooracy” and the “freedom” that will enable them to stab Soviet rule in the back, if they can, much as they sought to overthrow the rule of the workers and peasants in Soviet Georgia. But they met with miserable faflure there, Every new attempt will also fail, Alexander Kerensky, who tried to betray the Russian. workers and peasants into the hands of the Ver sailles allies in the last war, shakes off the cobwebs and emerges in vain from his retreat in Paris. His call to the forces of the “white terror” to rally against Soviet rule is no threat to the Bolshevik power. os © As has already been pointed out in these columns, whatever differ- ences there are in the policies pro- posed by Stalin, Trotsky and Zino- viev, will be given careful consider- ation in the future, as they have been in the past, in the councils of the All-Union Comunist Party, The party will arrive at its decision and enforce it. The party builds the Soviet Front against world capital- ism, That menshevik socialists and great capitalists should try to find some comfort out of alleged “disor- ders” in the Soviet Union is in- evitable. They are both enemies of the social revolution. Behind the barrage of infamous misrepresenta- ton laid down by the capitalist world against the Soviet Union, the workers and farmers may behold the enemies of their struggle for emancipation. In bringing this knowledge to forefront the present incident will develop some good for world labor. CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. —— (Continued from page 1.) leads of international unions have wilt up powerful machines thru this method, John L, Lewis of the mine workers has scores of loafing organ: izers on his payroll, not to organize the unorganized but to bring in the delegates at international conventions so that John can continue in office, Capitalists, their henchmen and capi- talistically minded people in general are convinced that every person has a price, They operate on this assump- tion, ee ie F course it must be admitted that every human being, being what he is, is driven by an impulse to- make himself heard. This is far from being a calamity. Ambition is a powerful dynamo. Even when leaders quarrel over office in a working class organiza- tion, tho their moti may not al- ways be altruistic, the struggle is usually productive of good. No leader will admit that he is out for leader- ship because he likes it. He usually has a platform, which he succeeds in enlisting his followers to fight for. It the policy is correct the personality of the leader can be discounted, He serves a useful purpose, even tho he is the servant of progress. C2 HE epithet of “caregrist” is often applied to individuals in the radi- cal movement who seem to regard organizations as vehicles for their own personal aggrandisement, There is a world of difference between the man who fights for leadership on the basis of a definite policy and the thimble rig- ger who employs the art of jugglery to make people believe things are not what they are. The careerist is usually a demagogue and hurls verbal thunderbolts at his opponents without regard to reason, but with consid. erable attention to sound. This type GINSBERG’S Vegetarian Restaurant 2324-26 Brooklyn Avenue, LOS ANGELES, CAL. 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Bren- nan’s contribution to the B. G. A. dur- ing the last election fight over the state’s attorneyship of Cook county. Robert E. Crowe, catholic, ran on the republican slate; Michael Igoe, catho- lic, was on the democrat slate. Hope Thompson, protestant, ran as an inde- pendent. The latter was supported by the B. G. A. which looks on the cath- olic church as an instrument of the devil. But George E. Brennan contributed money to the B. G. A. treasury in the belief that a vote for Thompson would be a vote lost to Crowe and as good as a vote for Igoe, Refuses to Show Books, Now comes the news that Senator McKinley donated $13,500 to the Bet- ter Government Association in the re- cent primaries. This story has not yet been confirmed as the superin- tendent of the organization, E. J. Day- is when on the stand at the slusn fund investigation was not asked if he received any gifts from senatorial aspirants. 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