The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 10, 1926, Page 2

. Toad and Page Two ~ INSCAB.COAL * FROMAMERICA 3,000,000 ‘Tons Weekly From West Virginia By GORDON CASCADEN (Special to The Daily Worker) BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 8—Ghil- dren of British miners-are starving be- Cause their daddies are striking against longer hours. But American | capitalists are particularly "happy. They have good reason. Coal companies suffering from over- production and railroads with stocks tumbling are now paying large divi- dends as a result of large shipmemts of coal to break the British miners’ strike, Business men generally, are getting increased profits. Scab Coal Boom, R. G. Dun and company, nationally’ known authority on business ‘condi- tions, in discussing Baltimore trade conditions, predicts that the turnover for the latter half of 1926 will exceed the record established by the corre- sponding 1925 period. Norfolk and Newport News busi- have been broken. The shipment of coal to crush the British mining communities 1s the rea- son for all this “prosperity.” Crocodile Tears, Yet the shipment of this coal to efush the British mining communities is responsible for the shedding, by the Baltimore Sun, of these “crocodile tears:” “Most Americans, regardless of whether they are employers or em- ployed, will think first of the suffer- ing in the British mining districts and second of where the deeply in- volved responsibility for that suffer Ing is located.” This virtuous morning newspaper has not yet started a campaign to raise funds to which employers mak- ing money out of the “suffering in the British mining districts” tribute “conscience money. Baltimore business men, might con- with rail- coal mine shareholders, might top the list. One Month Beats All Last Year. Coal exports from here last month, according to financial reports, reached a “surprising total.” In that one month “tne a higher than the total of all the shipments months of 1925. This country, at all times, sends con- siderable coal to other countries, But in 1925 the total of American coal exports to Great Britain were less than 3,000 tons. In the first month of the British strike, Baltimore ship- ped more than ten times that quan- tity to British ports. The June ship- ments of coal from the United States to Britain reached 465,000, while, ac- cording to a conservative figure, they rose to 1,354,000 tons during July. A Vulture Speaks. The coal business with Britain is now so extensive that J. G. Bradley, president of the West Virginia Coal Association and past president of the National Coal Association, made a spe- cial trip to that country. He has just returned, according to a New York newspaper, “from a six-weeks ,stay in England, where he observed the coal situation and obtained first-hand in- formation regarding it from distin- guished sources. “The force of public opinion,” cording to him, “is largely out of hed pathy with the miners.” He points with pride to the American method of conducting mine strikes, in separate districts, one at a time, instead of on a national scale like that in Britain. While Bradley talks about the situ- ation overseas, former United States Senator Clarence W. Watson, head of the Consolidated Coal company of Elkins, West Virginia, “predicts a steady increase in the volume of or- ders during the next month or s0.” Scab Coal Company Prospers. The Consolidation company is the largest producer of soft coal in the United States. It has reserves suffici- ent for 200 years with production at the average rate of 10,840,000 tons a year. Watson and other coal barons are mightily pleased at tho outlook, for coal prices are also rising. At this time of the year there is comparatively light demand for coal. But coal production in Northern West Virginia reached its peak for the year during the first week of August, It was thought that would end the rise. But each succeeding week has en a breaking of the previous ‘8 record. 3,000,000 Tons a Week. More than 2,250 railroad cars were produced in that one section of West Virginia in a single day, or at the rate of 600,000 tons a week. This brings the total output of West Virginia mines, in conjunction with the output of Southern West Virginia mines up to a mark not far short of 3,000,000 tons a week. Many companies have actually been sold up during August, Very little free tonnage is available. Prices are higher than two months ago and they are rising. during the twelve COIN PROFITS ay COAL SHIPS BY THE SCORE , LEAVING U. S. PORTS TO BREAK THE STRIKE OF BRITISH MINERS 3 By GORDON CASCADEN, (Special to The Daily Worker) Sworrotk, Va. Sept. 8—Many ships every day are leaving Norfolk and Newport News, twin ports of Hampton Roads, and Baltimore, with their ha tehies filled and their decks piled high with American coal to break the British miners’ strike. Many of these steamers clear for Queenstown, Ireland, where they get orders to proceed to English, Scotch, Welsh or other Irish ports. ‘ NORFOLK SA)LINGS, ; Among the boats carrying coal cargoes from here within five days are: Steamship Penhill (British), for United Kingdom with cargo of coal, S. S. Devon (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal, 8. S. Hog Island (United States), for Genoa, Italy, and Marseilles, France, wil'h cargo of coal, S. Torrhead (British), for United Kingdom with cargo of coal. S, Cadore (Italian), for Italy, with cargo of coal. S. Westlea (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. : 8, Tiberton (British), for Avonmouth, England, with cargo of coal. 3 8S. Aglos Adannis (Greek), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 4 UNDER ALL FLAGS. 4 8. 8, Ellaston (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal, 4, 4 8. S. Johannes Maersk (Danish), for Nuevitas, with cargo of coal. . S, Scotland Maru (Japanese), for Queenstown, Ireland, for onderes with roange of coal. 8.\S. Adalla (German), for Antwerp, with cargo of coal. S. S.«Ganymedes (British), for Lands End, England, with cargo of coal, Milas 9909 9: Ness reports ate even more optimis-| << tie, They prove that all previous rec- ords for booms in that community}. S. S.'Melmoreland (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 8.5, Benroch (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal, S..S. Ada © (Itallan), for Genoa, Italy, with cargo of coal, 8.18, Gigilo (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 8.\8, Tregurno (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 8. S, Bourdara¢(British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 8. 8, Savannah (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. « §&, 8. Westlea (British), for United Kingdom, with cargo of coal. 8..S. Vadore;(Htallan), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. ALMOST ALL FOR ENGLAND, S. 8. Sheland | (Norwegian), for Port of Spain, Trinidad, with cargo of coal. S..S, Elna Maru ‘(Japane Yor Hamburg, Germany, with cargo of coal. »8..8. Marstenen (Norwegian), for St. John, N. B., for orders, with carga of coal. &.-S.:Romera (British), for Newcastie-on-Tyne, England, with cargo ofoal. S. S. Professor (British), for England, with cargo of coal. 8. S. Jos Magne (French), for Oran, with cargo of coal. S. S. Treherbert (British), for Santoos, Brazil, with cargo of coal. ‘TO HOLD BRITISH MARKET. 8. 8. Penolver (British), for Pernambuco, with cargo of coal. S, 8. Melmore Head (British), for Puerta la Plata, with cargo of coal. S. S. Benguela (British), for Las Palmas, tbe, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Scoresby (British), for River Platte; ‘South America, with cargo of coal. S. S. Nord Ameriska (Danish), for Cuba, with cargo of coal. BALTIMORE SHIPPING, Here are boats leaving Baltimore with coal cargoes during the same five days S. 8. Medmenham (British), for Dublin, Ireland, with cargo of coal. S. S. Siberian Prince (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Lady Astley (British), for Swansea, Wales, with cargo of coal. S. S. Leersum (Dutch), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S, Anglo Peruvian (British), for ai parnhel for orders, with cargo of coal. “FOR ORDERS” S. S. Nirve (Malian), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S, Lingfield (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. $. S. Admiral Hastings (British), for Port Said, Suez, with cargo of coal. age (Italian), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal, la (British), for Ibicuy, Brazil, with cargo of coal. S. S. Reedpool (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. $. S. Euphobia (British), for Belfast, with cargo of coal. S. S. Corinthic (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. WHAT IS AMSTERDAM UNION DOING? S. S. Sirrah (Dutch), for Birkenhead, England, with cargo of coal. 8. S. Norefjord (Norwegian), for Oslo, Norway, with cargo of coal, S. 8. Seapool (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Manchester Commerce (British) for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Commercial Pathfinder (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. UNENDING AND SHAMEFUL, S. S. Alaska (French), for Havre, France, with cargo of coal. S. 8. Epsom (British), for Alexandria, Egypt, with cargo of coal. S. S, Louvain (Belgian), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Pengreep (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. 8. San Guiseppe (Italian), for Venice, Italy, with cargo of coal. 8. S. Buckleigh (British), for Queenstown, for orders, with cargo of coal. S. S. Beta (Itallan), for Cartagena, Italy, with cargo of coal. S. 8. Sydfold (Norwegian), for Havana, with cargo of coal, i , Chinese Smash Imperialist Foes among the Chinese workers and stu- dents, (Continued from page 1) sunk two small boats of troops of General Yang-sen. The troops seized two ships of the same company to hold them for compensation. When Canton Warns British. - HONGKONG, Sept. 8, — In reply to “| windows in a restaurant where cus- the British sent their gunboats, the Cockchafer and the Widgeon, and a converted merchant vessel the Kiawo, loaded with marines, to rescue the ships, the Chinese repulsed them with heavy losses not yet reported in detail. Because of shallowness of the Yangtze at this point, the British are unable to send larger war vessels further west than Ichang. British Atroolty, It is reported that in the battle the British shelled the city of Wanhsien, which has a population of 150,000, without regard for the non-combatant women and children and the civilians generally, who had taken no part in the action of the troops, British and French marines have landed at Hankow in the center of the conflict and are barricading with barbed wire and other material the British and French concessions and the Hankow bund. All communication has been cut off between the native and foreign settlements. Guard Shangha At Shanghai, 80 strong has been the enthusiasm among the Chinese at the advance of the Cantonese, the foreign imperialists have taken alarm an have called out 2,000 foreign volun teers to suppress any siga of revo! the British aggression against the Chinese at Shameen in the Canton foreign settlement, where the British arbitrarily declared that all strike pickets would be “treated as pirates,” the Canton government has written the British consul general demanding the immediate withdrawal of British marines from the jetties, which are Chinese property, the cessation of British interference with river traffic and a retirement of British gunboats to their usual anchorage. The British had previously taken up a position openly hostile and arrested Chinese strike pickets for “piracy,” brought their gunboats up to the wharf covering the bund and occupied the jetties with marines. This action of the British is supposed to be the result of a policy to open active war to overthrow the Canton government. Hostilities may break into the open at any hour, The Cantonese armies which have ‘aken Hankow, have warned General Sun Chuan-fang, who occupies Shan- shai and some of the lower Yangtze ralley, to withdraw his troops from Siangsi province into Kiansu and hekiang provinces or the Cantonese ‘ill attack them, Sun has so far been aable to get his troops to fight the antonese, altho he is an ally of Wu stfu, yh yh Heo “WLTOW STIRRED BY STRIKE WAR Constabulary Charged With Bratality (Continued from page 1) 1922, in the textile strike in the Paw- tucket valley; the féuith time was also in 1922, during September, ina street car strike. <§ The list of wounded in the night of battle now number eight, besides those suffering from tear gas bombs Fare s Workers Must Learn Now How to Aid| I$ SLOGAN AT T was pointed out in this column recently that the organized American labor movement ought to contribute $5,000,000 in aid of the striking British coal miners, It was shown that it could do it and hardly miss it. At the time this demand was made, the workers of the Union of Soviet Republics had raised their total to about $2,500,000. “es thrown by the state trogpers and dep- uties. Many of these gassed victims are women, girls and boys, who were in or near the scene when the state Police egan hurling the poison gas oversthe throng of about 2,000 people. Young Workers Lead. The youthful working class ele- ments among the crowd took the lead in battling, following the provo- cation by the troopers and deputies. Almost all of the civilians wounded are boys of from 17 to 21. Aram Au- clair, 17, an electrician and nephew of the Woonsocket mayor, was sitting in @ machine parked a quarter of a mile away, when struck in the jaw by a bullet from the troopers, firing at ran- dom. Mike Lamaki, 17, a textile bleacher, Was shot in the leg by three different bullets. He is a striker, Victor Rage- otte, 27, a butcher, was shot through the shoulder. Armand Pontbriand, 15, was shot twice in the leg. John Ry- manski, 21, had two fingers shot away. Provoked Crowd. Shots from the troopers shattered tomers were eating. Another volley went directly into the crowd and wounded three. So angry was the crowd at the unprovoked attack, that it met the advance of the troopers and Police with a rush of its own, led by young men of 17 or 18, who forced themselves right into the bullying of- ficers’ faces, throwing; stones and hurling imprecations, What had angered the crowd par- ticularly, was the tear. gas bombs, tossed at random, choking many girls and women, some of. them clerks in stores in front of which they fell. One of the proprietors had to be carried out unconscious, Population Resentful, The population is highly resentful of the conduct of thetforer Even the pastor of St. Ja; church, the Rey. Lessard, said: “According to the law the troopers had no right to shoot at the people. It is terrible.” The Providence News, in an edi- torial, scathingly denounces the state constabulary, and points out that it behaved illegally. Moreover, the mil- itia were illegally called out. The editorial, entitled, “those who admin- ister the law must observe the law,” speaks in part as follows: Deliberately Brutal, “In the first serious test to which it has been subjected, the new state constabulary behaved at Manville last night exactly as its bitterest enemies predicted it would behaye. It proved itself to be a body not only contemp- tuous of the people’s civil rights but utterly incapable of keeping its head in a crisis. Without warning, with- out a reading of the riot act, as pro- vided by statute, the troopers took to their guns, firing first by way of in- timidatton, and wounding one person as a result, then firing with deliberate brutality into a crowd which their pre- vious conduct had exasperated. That the casualties were as light as they were—though they are no light matter to the wounded and their families— can be described only as providential. Not Justified. “For the methods and acts of the state police their command must bear full responsibility. That command cannot maintain that last night’s war- like demonstration was justified as a means of protecting the Manville mill, Earlier in the day loomfixers had ac- tually been in the mill and removed their tools. They had done this in an orderly legal way, making no attempt whatsoever to injure the mill or any- thing in it. Had they been inclined to destructive action that would have been the time for it. Strikers Denied Their Right, “The bridge at Manville which was the scene of last night's fight is part of a public highway. It is the sole avenue between the homes of hun- dreds of the strikers and the mill in whose neighborhood they desired to exercise their legal right to picket peacefully, When Col. Chaffee and his men denied the strikers the use of this public highway for a purpose which the law recognizes as proper, they were usurping a power which the statutes of Rhode Island do not give them. “That was not the only instance where the law was ignored by the state officers last night. The calling out of the state militia was also ac- complished in an illegal fashion, Officers Break the Law, “It 1s of the highest importance to the people of Rhode Island that the public peace should be preserved. It cannot be preserved it officials charg- ed with administering the law do not themselves scrupulousig respect every pt aa a AOE Ae AEE SE LE AN ES eC et OT I AO AE PO LEN REIT PE RSE! I ha a SE th A a ST ae enc SORA en TER a IO SO RD Pen Repth ORES A Aa Bie il Ri oe tl detail of it.” ls * = R= American labor with its boasted flivvers, radios, victrolas, cottages in the suburbs—"the working class with the highest standard of living in the world”—ought to do at least twice as good. Five million dollars might be expected from about 40,- 000,000 of workers “receiving the best wages on earth,” to quote the speeches of the officialdom of the American Federation of Labor. That means an average of about 12% cents per worker, the price of a good cigar, a couple of packages of chewing gum, less than the price of the cheapest movie, the most of half a gallon of gasoline, But the American working class has signally failed to make good. Its total contributions so far will not reach half a million dollars, per- haps not much more than $100,000, eek 6 E In the meantime the workers of the Soviet Republic have pressed forward more and more. They are now close to’$5,000,000 in their to- tal of contributions to the British strikers. They have just sent 3,000,- 000 roubles more ($1,500,000) to England to help the strikers battle hunger, the weapon of the mine owners and Baldwin tory rule, The Soviet workers are gradually lifting their standard of living out of the depths in gvhich it was held under czarism. They pause tempor- arily to give their British comrades a helping hand in the struggle which, if lost, gives aid and comfort to the developing czarism in Great Britain. The Soviet workers are conscious of the class war and all its implications, “* All the time American labor: slumbers, doped by the sweet chloroform of honeyed phrases. La-»' bor Day oozed it wholesale. America is fed on phrases. The constitution and the declaration of independence are overflowered with them. Meaningless phrases. Empty words, The prostitute press gushes sugared praise. There ¥s no work- ing class, it says. The workers, if there are any such, belong to the middle class, with its car and its cottage, facing the future carefree and contented. So argue the enemy employers and most of the labor officials. eee Of course, the facts prove some- thing entirely differen. But even a slave or a serf may be lulled into semi-contentment, The collections for British strike relief have proved that this is so in America. The American Federation of La- bor is going thru the cheap formal- CURRENT (Continued from page 1) Time has proven the contrary and the liberals who were scratching Far- rington’s back a few years ago are now branding him as a traitor. poe socialists have formed a dual anti-fascist league in New York for the simple reason that the parent body refused to be dominated by them. This news {s taken from a socialist or- gan in New York which is edited by James Oneal. The same journal tells us that a fellow by the name of Cohen won a suit (not a suit of clothes) and $25,000 against the Joint Board of the Furriers’ Union. We are inclined to regard Cohen with suspicion since this neat sum was awarded him by a capitalist court. OCTOR NORMAN THOMAS of the socialist party is rather angry with Congressman LaGuardia because the latter has returned to his fodder- bin in the G, O, P. He always be longed there, but the socialists are so willing to grab any political slut that makes eyes at them, that “Brother LaGuardia” was readily accepted as a bedmate of the Reverend Norman | good Thomas and sundry other socialists and near-socialists during the LaFol- lette boom, LaGuardia did not espouse socialism, He didn’t have to, All he had to do was to say nasty things about the House of Morgan and his words had made him whole, CTOR THOMAS believes that ‘Farrington’s removal from the presidency of District 12 of the U. M. W, of A. is not an unmixed blessing. For one thing the temporary admin- istration is less “progressive and courageous” than Farrington’s and, holy Moses! “it will not let Adam Coaldigger continue to write the best editorials in America in the office of the Illinois Miner,” ‘Adam Coaldigger is none other than!Oscar Ameringe: pot-boy of Farringtom But what can ae man 4 a 4 4 Begs af ity of sending out another circular letter to affiliated unions, “Received and filed!” is the usual sentence pronounced upon these circular letters unless followed by an active campaign. There has been no such active relief drive directed from the A. F, of L, headquarters in Washington, Secretary Frank Morrison of the A. F. of L, refuses to make public the total of relief contributions received so far. Is the total really so small that it cannot be submitted to the light of day. If it is small, it should be a spur to greater activity. .If is large it will be an inspiration toward the same end, The executives of the 21 Associa- ted Railroad Labor Organizations put their names to an appeal ad- dressed to the Railroad Workers of America. Not one of these organiza- tions, however, some of them rich as Midas, have dipped into their own international treasuries, so far as is known. It is reported that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers has sent individual letters to its 88,500 members. That is some- thing. Acting President L, G. Grif- fing includes an appeal for the British miners on his page in the September issue of the Locomotive Engineers’ Journal. It is a thin thread of international solidarity, indeed, almost cut in twain by one of the concluding sentences in the acting president’s labor day message proclaiming that, “Behind our loyal- ty to America stands out loyalty to the Universal Brotherhood of La- bor.” Pretty far behind when not a single one of the numerous bro- therhood banks can be forced to disgorge some of the unfon’s funds for British coal miners’ strike relief. i Bah beet It should, therefore, be hardly necessary to repeat to the rank and file of American labor that the of- ficialdom, reactionary and really satisfied with things as they are, has passed the challenge of the Russian workers on to them. It is the rank and file in the shops, the mills, the mines and factories, that must give the answer, eee It was promised that the workers of AChicago, under the guidance of the Chicago Federation of Labor, would give $50,000, They gave less than $17,000. The United Mine Workers of IIli- nois gave $25,000 in a lump sum. Not even one among the many other district organizations of the United Mine Workers of America has given as much, or anywhere near it. eee The British mine strike is now in its fifth month, The fall is here with its threat of approaching winter, with all its misery. The appeal of the American railroad workers’ organizations truly says: “These marvelous coal diggers (of Great Britain) know how to die but they do not know how to surrender,” The workers of America have yet to learn how to give, Now is a good time to learn. EVENTS you say to a man who considers a $25,000 a year servant of the Peabody Coal company progressive and cour- ageous? Yet the Reverend Norman Thomas is looked on as a wild-eyed leftist in the socialist party! ‘ORK is not what it is cracked up to be as Osborne C. Wood, son of the governor-general of the Philip- pines, alias “Ivory Soap Wood” found out to his cost. Only a tew days ago we were reading of the gallant fight young Wood was making to learn an honest business by starting in at the FREE THEM ALL!’ , Striking British’ Miners|| |. LD. MEETING By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, ||Enthusiastic Gathering Hears Noted Speakers “We must weld our forces together 80 that at the next annual conference! of International Labor Defense wei shall have on this platform not only | Charles Cline and Albert Weisbord but | also Sacco and Vanzetti and Tom; Mooney and Warren K, Billings and! the scores of other working class fight-« ers who are in prison today,” said Elizabeth Gurley Flynn at the mass rally of International Labor Defense held at the Ashland Auditorium fol- lowing the adjournment of the con- ference of the organization. The sev- eral hundred workers gathered at the meeting stood up, cheering and ap- plauding this declaration, Chaplin Speaks. Ralph Chaplin, himself a former class war prisoner in the famous 1 W. W. cases during the war, was the first speaker to be introduced by ckairman James P. Cannon. Chaplin spoke of the impoztanca of the Inter- national Labor Defense and the suc-: cess attained at the conference. Chaplin was followed by B. K. Qe-/| bert who pictured the persecution of | workers and peasants in Poland under ! the regimes of Witos and then of Pi!- sudski. A resolution demanding gen- | eral amnesty in Poland was adopted | by acclamation, Negro Workers’ Support, A. L. Isbell, chairman of the Chi- cego American Negro Labor Congress, who spoke next, pledged the support | of increasing numbers of Negro work- | ers to the cause of labor defense, The imprisoned soldiers of Houston, Tex- + as, who had asserted their rights fol- lowing the war were a part of the pris- oners of American big business, and the pergecutions of Negroes that are | still going on made it necessary for | them to unite with the white workers for common defense. Paul Bucha, a thirteen-year old de- fense enthusiast from Hammond, In- diana, told of the activities of the chil- dren in that city for the I. L, D. and! that the police there were not only afraid of the children “overthrowing the government” but had actually ar rested four of them, The audience laughed and applauded as Bucha told how. the children outwitted the Ham- jmond police, Cline Cheered. Charles Cline, a free man for two weeks after serving a thirteen-year term in a Texas prison for participat- ing in a Mexican revolutionary expe- dition, was given a tremendous ova tion by the audience. Cline told the Story of the events leading up to his arrest and exposed the manner in which he and his Mexican comrades had been framed up by the Texas bourbons. He reiterated his faith in the power of the working class and called for continued support in the struggle for the release of all class war fighters. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was ap- plauded when she told of how her doubts as to the efficacy of Interna- tional Labor Defense had been rap- idly removed in the last year thru the work done by the organization. “We must not allow our fellow workers to be snatched from the ranks of labor by the capitalist class and imprisoned in their dungeons. We must unite our power and our solidarity will-make it difficult indeed for workers to be so easily seized and buried alive,” she said. Ruthenberg Speaks, ‘C. B. Ruthenberg, who is awaiting decision on his Supreme Court appeal, urged all workers to unite in the In- ternational Labor Defense to free those who dared to challenge the might of the ruling class, “Shield and Sword.” Novel Binding © siisety ant, bs Bestaal to be tee $1.00 POSTPAID bottom. He was working in a fac- tory and lived like an ordinary worker on the very plebian salary of $125 per month. Now the poor fellow is in an hospital and the doctors kindly re- frain from telling us what's the mat- ter, They say: “There are certain cases in the medical profession in which we do not wish to make the diagnosis public, and this is one of them.” Now that we know Osborne has tonsilitis, isn’t it time to reflect on the hazards that are strewn in the path Ne a fellow who wants to make A contrast to Charles Cline, just re leased from prison, was Albert Weis- bord, facing the courts next month on charges arising out of his activities in the Passaic strike which he led. Weisbord was given another tremen- dous ovation by the assembled work- ers. “Not only must the I. L. D. be a shield of defense but it must become a sword of offense against our com- mon enemy,” said Weisbord, A good collection was taken up for the I, L. D, THE AWAKENING OF CHINA By Jas. H. Dolsen. An unusual book A record of China’s past and present which has brought about the upheaval of over four hundred million people and the birth of a great Labor movement. With many maps, illustrations and original documents. rps 1s what I call tough luck: “Mexico City.—The constitutional reforms, proposed ‘by the catholic episcopate, are pigeon-holed in con- &ress today because no deputy or sen- ator has been found who {s willing to sponsor these proposals for reform. An employe of the episcopate deliver- ed the proposals to the congress and they were immediately tabled.” The suspicion has suddenly dawned on us that Calles had something like this in mind when he generously suggested to the hierarchy that they appeal to con- gress for succor, But it appears that @ sucker was not available. In a crisis like this a holy ghost would come in "2