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K (Continued from Page Please tell the membership, on the ures, how much it costs per member members. (8) When you agreed with the Jacksonville, while the contract was being negotiated, that there were 200,000 too many min DID YOU REALIZE THAT MOST OF THE MINERS WHO WERE TO BE STARVED OUT CAMPS WOULD BE MEMBERS OF THE UMWA? (4) Why is it that the great majority of your or- ganizers have been IN THE UNION FIELDS FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS when the union faces the expira- tion of the contract and every miner’s child knows that the life of the union depends on organizing the non- union fields? 5) Ti This lelegates. rict is represented in the Bach ONE of these 166 delegates therefore represents approximately TWO AND ONE-THIRD MINERS. Don't you think it would be better ization work the $20,000—or more—that it cost the union to bring these men here than to FOOL THE MEMBERSHIP into have any more than 377 members in (6) The secretary’s report shows that District 17 has secretary's report shows that District 31, West Virginia, has a total of 377 members. SOME QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT LEW 1) basis of these fig- TO LOSE 129,393 1s TO ANSWER ing one of the fundamental ptinciples of the labor move- coal operators in}ment—the right to ers in the industry, |triet 14 te keep A’ District president OF THE MINING MEMBERSHIP W in the convention? tion of corruption tion Mine contract convention by 166 fields? (10) Why are to spend on organ- |mines? Is it because the to spend it trying believing that you District 31? Is it because you of Wall Street? (12) Why. did MEMBERS represented BY 18 DELE- at the rate of ONE DELEGATE TO IEMBERS. report shows that District 19, Tenn., anh average of 58 GATES, This EVERY THRE The secretar: has appreximately 500 MEMBERS. ur organizers are so successful (7) Why did you expel Alex How jail for fighting for the right to strike Industrial Court law? Why have you denied him his rights as.a member of the union for more than five years w ring charges against him or giving hi with the constitution of the UMWA? Did the Kansas coal operators ever express their ap- preciation of your expulsion of Alex Howat, August Dorchy and other good union men? It is represented in the convention by 48 DELEGATES—ABOUT ONE DELEGATE TO EVERY TEN MEMBERS. Will you please tell the membership, President Lewis, S BUT STILL ARE UNABLE TO ORGAN- UNION MINES AND MINERS? pany unionism big pany are installing theft of $90,000 in lin ORGANIZING | Why? at while he was in| (15) President against the Kansas for yourself. Will ithout ever prefer- | ment expires? m a trial in accord | | bership a 50 per cent raise in salary—$4,000 (16) If $12,00 Oand more than you think your services are worth, do ygu| dergroun | think that an additional $3.75 per day is too much for| ment, low wages and wretched work- miners who are risking their lives underground, while | you stay at the best hotels? strike? Why did you instruct your handpicked officials of Dis- lex Howat’s name off the ballot for in the recent election AFTER HB HAD BREN NOMINATED BY 87 PER CENT. OF THE HILE WORKING AT THE FACE? (7) Why have you not mentioned the Farrington case Is it because you are afraid to raise the whole ques- in the union? (8) Why do you pursue the policy of signing agree- ments with some mines of certain companies while other mines are running non-union, as you did in the Consolida- in Somerset county, Pa.? (9) What is your plan for organizing the non-union Have you got one? you against nationalization of the operators are against it? (11) Why are you against a labor” party? support President Coolidge—the tool you sign an agreement in the an- thracite that does not provide for the check-off? Why did you agree to the “arbitration” clause in the anthracite agreement? What are you doing, if anything, to combat the com- operators like the Hudson Coal Com- in the anthracite? (13) Did you or did you not, aid in covering up the District 17? (14) How much of the miners’ money did you spend to have Powers Hapgood beaten up? Lewis, you forced over on the mem- per year— you recommend and fight for a fifty per cent raise in wages for the miners when the agree- ‘ all expenses is not censidered to be (Continued. from Page 1) total membership participated in the voting or that so big a total vote was cast is obviously impossible. It! is just as obviously impossible and a fake that Lewis got as many votes as he claim It is, of course, ob- viously impossible that Lewis has magnified Brophy’s vote. Every min- er knows that Lewis’ generosity stops at John L. Lewis himself and goes no further. The fraud perpetrated, by Lewis & Co. in re-electing them; to office is plain and clear fen to vlindest. ©). An unrestrained «. Violence and terreris; we oof meth- iy Assaults rvimst Powers Hapgood, one of the t and outstanding leaders of the ives at the convention, is of the Lewis machine thug- gery. (). Widespread, wholesale dis- franchisement of progressive dele- gates. Here the cases of Alexan- der Howat, Powers Hapgood and Pat Toohey stand out clearest as most flagrant types of such wanton reck- lessness by the reactionary machine against the most constructive ele- ments in the union. In the cases of Howat and Hapgood the Lewis ma- chine did not even amass enough guts to report their disfranchisement to the convention. That Lewis wouldn’t take a chance even with his padded delegations in these instances is the best proof of the raw deal he is handing out. (5). Flagrant misrepresentation, lying and bogey-raising in order to hecloud the real, pressing issues be- fore the union. Ag usual, the threadbare bogey of Communism is being continuously dragged before the convention. Red seares galore are being manufactured by those labor lieutenants of Amer- ican imperialism now infesting the U. M, W. of A. The sole purpose of this red-baiting is to misinform, mis- lead, cajole and terrorize the dele- gates so that they will not get wise to the black crimes committed by Lewis and Co., to the serious hard- ships to which this union-wrecking crew has forced the United Mine’ Workers of America, But when Lewis raises the red- seares he lies, and he knows he lies. Here are some facts which we chal- lenge Lewis and Co. to disprove: (1). In the late summer months of 1928 the Lewis machine published a| series of articles supposed to be an exposure “nefarious Communist activities.” (2). Ellis Searles, editor of the U. M. W. of A. Journal, bought these articles from a discredited represen- tative of a notorious open-shop lobby ing agency in Washington, D. ©, (3.) Ellis Searles contracted to pay tor this open shop bunk $25,000 in) good, cold cash coming out of the’ treasury of the United Mine Workers) of America, ‘coming out of the pockets} of the hard --pressed, underpaid miners. (4), When Lewis heard of Searles, agreement to buy this bunk at the fancy price of $26,000 he was as sore as w boiled pup. He knew that the! whole “exposure” was a fraud from A to Z. Lewis, then, did not think) that. that stuff was worth so much cash, (5). Lewis then rushed Van Bitt-| ner, one of his most trusted lackeys,| to Washington with orders to have! Searles cal loff the whole deal, with) i tions not to invest such a big) of be | in such evident lies, in’ i outright nonsense. M ¢ of ae a esa tiie (6). When Van Bittner arrived in| Washington he found that Searles) had already closed the deal and signed the contract with the discredited open! shop lobbyist. Van Bittner had come} too late to stop Searles from throw-| ing into the sewer this sum of $25,000) belonging to the members of the min-; ers’ union, Mr. Searles had already! signed and sealed the agreement to} deliver to the open shop agent the $25,000 from the treasury of the) United Mine Workers of America, for| this ridiculous “red exposure.” | (7) Van Bittner immediately re- ported this situation to his boss Mr.) Lewis. { (8) Lewis was now faced with | two accomplished facts. First, Searles | had already bought and paid for this) fake anti-Communist dope. Second;; he himself knew and knew darned| well that the whole “exposure” was worthiess, unfounded and just. plain rot. For instance, the open-shopper’s; “revelations” charged that I had then’ just come back from Soviet Russia/ and brought more than a million dol-| (10) Lewis, proclaiming his sin- cerity in the matter, then palmed off; on the miners in particular and on the workers in general this open shop propaganda, tho he knew darned well that it was a fake from beginning to end. MORAL: (1) We maintain that in all these accusations against and denunciations of the Communists at this convention, Lewis -and his black clique lie and they know they lie—just as they lied in September 1924 and knew they lied when they criminally squandered the mine workers’ $250,000 on the lem- on of an “exposure” of Communists by an open shop agency. (2) In 1928 the vicious open-shop attacks by Lewis and his ilky against sume of our most loyal and militant workers,. the Communists, cost the miners $26,000. Today, in 1927, such! attacks by Lewis and his ily against the Communists ahd progressives are just as much inspired and supplied by open shep agencies as in 1928.) But today such attacks are much more costly from every point of view to the union, . (3) Will some honest mine? page Lewis in his swell hotel—this means What are you doing to help August Dorchy fight his case now that he has been sentenced to jail for uphold. THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1927 Labor’s Inactivity Ally of Employer Vengeance on Sacco and Vanzetti By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. JUDGE COMMENDS OFFICIALS WHO BEAT UP HAPGOOD Reactionary Appalled at Progressive Ideas By JACK KENNEDY. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan, 30-— Progressives may he slugged at will by Emperor Lewis’ plug-uglies. Open authorization has been given them by Judge William Faust of the local bench. He told three high administrative officials, who beat up Powers Hap- good here in a hotel room Sunday be- fore last, that they were justified. He dismissed all charges, including one against Joe Angelo for gun-toting, on the ground that murderous assaults HE Massachusetts supreme coutt ; has taken the appeal of Nicola | Saceo and Bertolomeo Vanzettt’ for a new trial under advisement. It promises to bring in a decision within a month. Attorney William G., Thompson told Judge Webster Thayer, at Dedhani, Mass., that the case is so simple, it ought to be possible to reach a decision in five minutes. Thayer took several months to deny the new trial demanded. Now the state supreme court says it needs } on progressives are “internal union fights.” Patton and Turnblazer, Hapgood’s 2a month, For what? Perhaps to hand down another false, vicious document excusing the putting to lars of Soviet gold to the United! only to take a chance on being slug- States. The fact is that it was not ged by the machine’s thugs—and ask other assailants, denounced him to the court as a radical and a friend of the Soviet Union. Hapgood in a 30 min- ute speech, told the court that in his world-wide tour of the mining indus- try, he had found that in Russia alone do the coal diggers enjoy the six hour day, safety regulations and de- cent working conditions: The ‘court, jammed with interested spectators, listened with rapt attention to the young miner’s comparison of Amer- jica’s ruthless slaughter of miners un- d, of widesprend unemploy- ing conditions with standards in the Soviet Upion. + Judge Faust saw in Hapgood’s speech only justificaton for the pay- rollers’ charge that he was “preach- ing Communism,” and turning to ‘them, commended them warmly for their “resentment.” Even Angelo, with a gun in his pocket when he at- tacked Hapgood, was freed although in many states assault under such circumstances results in penitentiary sentence, Lewis Jams Thru His | Policy of Expulsion (Continued from Page 1) Bittner’s plea for the salary grab when Emperor Lewis quelled the dem- onstration against him by introduc- ing Green, former secretary of the | miners’ union, | Begs Operators to Be Fair. Green denounced the violation of the Jacksonville agreement by the oper- ators in West Bp es and Pennsyl- vania as the . ving piece of perfidy and dishonor since the sign- ing of the Declaration of Independ- ence. “We maintain our dignified po- sition and honor our obligations,” he added, and call upon the operators to do likewise. He restated the A. F. of }L. position that workers’ wages are dependent, not on their degree of or- ganization, but on their willingness toward self expluitation through more ‘vied out the dictates of the National | until nearly twé years after this! $25,000 “exposure” that I had been in! Soviet Russia for the first time.| Then, of course, it is unfortunately) untrue that I never in my life saw) or heard the slightest sign® of this! phantom Moscow million. (9) Having been fooled into this very bad bargain through Searles”) stupidity Lewis decided to make the! Mr. Lewis why he doesn’t spend the] intensive productivity and efficiency. union’s money he is wasting on at- tacking militant workers to organize the unorganized. At the convention Mr. Lewis is talking so much about his interest in organizing West Vir- ginia. Here is a chance for Mr. Lewis to show that he means what he says this time for a change. But to expect anything construc-' He cautiously advocated a shorter work week when public opinion ac- cepts it but failed to commit himself on the five-day week and six-hour day in the coal industry. “Be Content.” Advising the anthracite miners to be satisfied with their wretched five- year agreement, Green passed on to a condemnation of Communism. “We best of it, Between repudiating open-| tive for the labor movement: from] i) give th ; shop lies against Conimunist and| Lewis and his henchmen is the worst bit Pecatt sbgelagie ole een 4 be militant workers and making an un-| warranted vicious attack against the, Communists and progressives, Lewis,| as was to be expected, choose to stand with the open shoppers. Lewis de-| of stupidity. shouted. “just as the United Mine We challenge Mr. Lewis to deny the} Workers will deal with them here. above facts, Lewis dates not answer. not answer, Hitherto they have carried the battle He can-/to us but I intend to reverse the order and carry the battle to them until cided to use the open-shop thrash| We are hopeful. We are sure that] they are wiped out of the labor move- which he all the time knew fully well! the miners will yet find a way to/ment. Administration delegates were to be a plain hash of lies. of the U. M. .W. of A. Journal were) seen reeking with this anti-labor filth; bought from the open shoppers for! $25,000 of miners’ money. The colums! clean Lewis and Co. out of their] worked to a frenzy by Green’s melo- | splendid fighting organization which} dramatic appeal for the extermination has the best and most militant tradi-jof the left wing, A howling turbul- tions in the American trade unionjent mass rose to acclaim him. Ad- movement. MASSES OF MINE WORKERS TO REPUDIATE LEWIS INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 39.—The} miners’ convention enters its second week here with fundamental prob-| lems as far from solution as ever, No program has been worked out for | the organization of West Virginia, the key to the union’s critical condition. The Lewis gang with its fatal record of losing 200,000 members to) the union in two years, has a firmer grip than ever on the machinery thanks to its stuffing of the conven- tion with payroll delegates from dead | or moribund locals. The progres- sives, with their practical program to save the union, have been savagely) assaulted and beaten down by ruth- less machine tactics. | Emperor Lewis has cut the heart} out of the Miners’ Union by banning the most militant elements from membership. In a black attack on the miners’ best fighters, he has car- Civie Federation, the National Cham- ber of Commerce and their servants in the A. F, of L, bureaucracy. But Emperor Lewis bas stirred the vank and file into open warfare by depriving them of all voice in the union’s financial affairs, From now on they are required to stand by while the administration plunders their pockets to build up Lewis’ personal machine of a hundred organizers averaging $5,000 a year, Even such a cautious progressive as John Hind- marsh, declares the miners. will pe 4 auch unbri lemand a housecleaning. + ls We EN nt Bien \dynamie distriet organizations. | with Lewis dominating every district journment followed with payrollers clustering .on the platform to shake the big boy’s hand. Grab Succeeds. After this, the fight went on, When the vote came, the opposition roar The fight in the mine workers has|yos0 as loud as that of the adminis- now crystallized itself into a strug- gle for democracy in the union against the dangerous centralization imposed by Emperor Lewis. The sec- ond struggle will be for more autonomy in the districts. The Min- ers’ Union was great when it drew its strength from a score of pes Now with his own high-paid international representatives, undermining union strength, expelling left wingers and deliberately taking over entire dis- tricts which disagree with him, the | Miners’ Union is being sapped at its roots, Progressives are rallying for a des- perate fight to save the union from extinction ih the central competitive field. They see that Lewis has suc- eeeded in breaking the union in West Virginia and the south. Now they are wits ing his steady progress in weakening the union dangerously in Pennsylvania, with Ohio the next stronghold to fall. During this week they will fight stubbornly and with all the resistance a powerful minority can exert to save the union. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28,—China views with suspicion the action of the powers, particularly Great Bri- tain, in sending large detachments of sto to inte ad min r, ie tration, but in a demand for a roll call, the tellers counted only 262 votes, less than the required number. The piety gvab became an accomplished ‘act. Blaine Late Secretary | Of State Knox for Nicaragua Intervention WASHINGTON (FP), — Scandal touched the name of the late Secre- tary of State Knox and Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, formerly stationed at Mexico City but accredited to Rome, when testimony as to the se- eret of American armed intervention in Nicaragua in 1909 was given be- |fore the Senate foreign relations sub- ‘eommittee on Jan, 26, by Thos. P. | Moffatt. | Moffatt was American consul to elpecir. u, when Knox was over- throwing liberal presidents and set- ‘ting up Adolfo Diaz as dictator, In the official record of the calling of American warships to the coast of | Nicaragua to overawe the liberal ma- ‘jority, his name frequently appeared. Moffatt, promoted to the Nicara- guan-American Mixed Claims Com- mission, was ouéttd by Franklin M. Gunther, a political henchman of Knox, secretary of ion at Man- petra f of the division f irs in the state de- of Meni death of these two militant work- ers. ea hae Thompson brought before the supreme court of Massachusétts an array of additional facts to prove the frame-up against Sacco and Vanzetti, It was again shown that the prosecution in the name of the “Commonwealth of Massachu- setts,” in league with the murder agents of the department of justice, did everyhing possible to hide all evidence that would tend to prove the innocence of the two Italian workers. It is very evident that this “suppressed evidence” would have “wrecked the state’s case,” which is the big reason why the judicial wing of capitalism in Mas- sachusetts is fighting so energeti- cally against the granting of a new trial. It has succeeded for nearly seven years, during all of which time both Sacco and Vanzetti have suffered all the tortures of the capitalist dungeons in which they have been incarcerated. 2 # 8 In addition to the endless parade of witnesses who have already been marched before the Massachu- setts courts, testifying to the inno- cence of both Sacco and Vanzetti and the baseless charges against them, there now comes a Pinkerton | detective Henry Hellyer, now in } the service of the Travellers Insu- tance Co. The Pinkertons are sup- posed to be the hardest boiled of them all, The Pinkertons were the first aggregation of human blood- hounds that open shop employers set upon trade unionists. They are a vile aggregation, shown not only in the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone case, when these officials of the Western Federation of Miners were placed on trial for their lives in Idaho, but in many a labor strug- gle thru many sections of the land. ‘they introduced spies into the trade unions on a large scale to disrupt and destroy the unity of the workers. PE Boa: This Pinkerton was loyal to the | traditions of the private detective | agency he serves in helping to “trame” Sacco and Vanzetti. Every fact, every word that might help save the lives of these workers was carefully concealed. Some of these facts are now coming to light af- ter more than six years. Some of the truth that was concealed, as brought out by Attorney Thompson before the Massachusetts supreme court, was as follows: That several of the govern- ment’s identification witnesses in his (Hellyer, the Pinkerton) pres- ence had previously identified a certain criminal as the man they afterward identified as Sacco. “That two women brought by him (Hellyer) to the district attor- ney not only had declined to iden- tify Saceo and Vanzetti, but had’ given a description of the driver of the murder car absolutely ex- cluding the possibility that it was Vanzetti, as claimed by the district attorney. CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS No free speech in the Miners’ Journal, This is the ukase of the lewish crowd. A mild resolution ask- ing journal space for discussion of political and economic ideas held by the minority and condeming the pa- per’s practice of chucking critical let- ters into the waste basket was de- feated. John W. Windmarsh de- nounced the use of the journal as an exclusively Lewis organ, containing long enlogies in the recent campaign while Brophy was unable to get the simplest statement in its. pages: the other hand Lewis extolled editor Ellis Searles of red scare fame as a& Christian gentleman and a man of high ideals and unexcelled character. * » @ “That Captain Harry Proctor (then head of the state police) had informed the district attorney the crime was committed b¥ profession- al criminals and that.in his opinion Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent.” | The “professional criminals” mentioned, the court was advised, were members of the infamous Mo- relli gang of Providence, Khodé Island, Kae See These facts are sufficient in them- selves to reveal the real nature of the frame-up against Sacco and Vanzetti that has the approval of the Cvolidge regime in Washing- ton in that the capitalist govern- ment refuses, thru its attorney-gen- eral, John Garibaldi Sargent, to re- veal the contents of files of the department of justice containing all the facts damning this case as one of the worst frame-ups in the whole history of the employers’ war aginst the working class, 7 * * I have never seen Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, who has just sentenced nearly a score of garment strikers to jail and prison. But 1 imagine he is the same type of employers’ judicial lackey as Judge Thayer up at Dedham, Massachusetts. Rosai- sky does the dirty work of clothing bosses, while Thayer is the lick- spittle of the shoe and textile barong, both just as servile and slimy, There is no doubt that there ave Rosalskys on the Mass- achusetts supreme court bench, ‘They wouldn’t be there if they were not the obedient creatures of the { master class, It is claimed that this offal of humanity, clothed with the author- ity of the capitalist law, has a so- called “code of honor.” Attorney Thompson, in reviewing the nature of the frame-up, advised the Mas- sachusetts high court that: “The canon of the American Bar Association is plain on this point. It reads, ‘The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecu- tion is not to convict, but to see that justice is done. Suppressing facts of secreting evidence which might be of assistance to the ac- cused is highly reprehensible.’ ” ‘ * * * But that is evidently intended merely for consumption by the gul- lible. It doesn’t apply to workers, whether they appear before Thiay- er, in Massachusetts, the unspeax- able Rosalsky, in New York, or the infamous “Dennie Sullivan, in Chi- cago. For workers there is only one question on the lips of the capi- talist courts and that is, “How can they be railroaded the quickest and easiest to jail, to prison or thé death chair?” . ” * * Assistant District Attorney Dud- ley P. Ranney, who seeks the lives of Sacco and Vanzetti, declares that use of underhand methods by the police are necessary and justifiable “as one way of disposing of radi- cals who they could not deport.” There speaks the capitalist “jus- tice’ that js seeking to murder our two comrades, When the working elass begins to realize this conditioh under the capitalist system, then there will be hope for Sacco and Vansetti, thru the afoused mass protest of labor, and for the prisonets of the class war here in New York and in other sections of the countty. If it is not aroused in time Sacco and Vanzetti will die, the victims alike of working class inactivity as well as ruling class determination to rid itself, even by judicial murder, of its most courageous foes. | | KELLOGG. OFFERS CHINESE. PARLEY, NOT RECOGNITION Borah Approves New Nationalistic Spirit WASHINGTON, Jah. 30, — Con- flicting reports are current here as the exact meaning of Kellogg’s memo- randum on the Chinese situation, Kellogg spénks of being willing to negotiate with representatives of the verious factions, knowing quite well that oil and water mix better than éould the elements supporting Chang- Tso Lin, the former Manchurian bandit and the revolutionary Canton- ese forces through the koumintang party. No Encouragement. Kellogg refuses to recognize the Cantonese government which controls over two-thirds of China, the only power that is capable of unifying the nation, Despite the outward appear- ance of friendliness to China that characterizes the document, the fact vemains that Kellogg offers no prac- tical encouragement to the Chinese revolutionists outside of his refusal to make a united front with Great, Britain in crushing the movement. Withdrawal of Warships. At the same time it is reported that the state department is in full agree- ment with Senator Borah’s demand that the United States withdraw its warships from Chinese warships and that Americans leave China at once. One excuse given by the state de- partment for its refusal to recognize the Cantonese government is the fear that the northern forees would then begin to commit outrages on Amer- icans. Coming Into Their Own. “The most magnificent scene in the world is to see a great people after years of turmoil and strife and oppression by outside powers coming into thei own,” said Borah. “The na- tionalistic spirit, in my judgment, is unting these people and I look to see them ultimately accomplish their com- plete redemption as a great power and take their rightful place arnony the family of nations. I thoroughly 1 Shes with what they are do- ing. “Bat I see every indication upon the part of the Chinese at the pres- ent time to protect the lives and prop- erty of foreigners to the utmost of their ability. The only thing which, in my judgment, may change that program will be just such things as the sending of fleets and armies to China with « view of crushing this spirit through ferce. Entitled To Tariff Autonomy. “China is entitled to he rid of the old antiqyvated, unjust and unilateral ties. She is entitled to enjoy tar- iff autonomy. She is entitled, in my judgment. to be rid of extraterritorial tights. I venture to express the be- } { \ ; lief that she will achieve these things. Tf the nations do not assist, do not voluntarily aid, in bringing it about. we shall likely see the same thing accomplished through the desree of the Chinese people. “The United States tate to announce her it, be necessary to do so. Our inter- ext and the interest of justice de- mand a free and disenthralled China and our policy skould look to that achievement,” * zhould not hesi- own policy, if e. 8 British Trops In Shanghai. SHANGHAI, Jan. 30.—Four hun- ‘dred and thirty-three Punjab troops, the first contingent of the 16,000 to 20,000 British troops which Britain is sending to China, arrived today from Hong Kong aboard the S. 8. Glenoble. . Except for the legation guard main- tained at Peking and Tientsin since ‘the Boxer rebellion, these were the first, British troops to be landed in China since the Boxer uprising. A message fi. 1 Calcutta announ- ced that the second battalion of the Durham light infantry sailed from there today for Shanghai. The machine permitted the demand that Dominick Venturato and Charles Cialelia, class war in Moundsville penitentiary, West Vir- ginia, be freed. The resolution paseod unanimously. The international executive board will consider the request of Indiana strip miners for special representa- tion on the board. ee A modest tequest that the anthra- cite agreement of 1926 he allowed ty come on the floor foy discussion was—-, Well, you know. what the Lewis crowd would do about that. m of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers sent warm fraternal greetings to Emper- or Lewis, Two of a foather! * ow President Si, Lewis snorted against requests from | Reports of delegates to the Inter- the anthracite miners that the inter- national énforce the check-off clause in the 1926 agreement. It’s a deud letter, they claim, * The vesolutions committee substi- tuted a pious expression of opposition to child labor in place of a vigorous demand for an ant atus int uslen t ‘ting warfare against the curse, m aay So iN OT i Ta national Miners Federation congress: @s teviow the wretched conditions in Europe, and the superior conditions here due to the “inspired leadership of that great citizen and labor leader, John L, Le. . . « ete.” The United Mine Workers official- | a ported progress.” = =~ * @ President Fishwick of Illinois is a frank sort of fellow. Says he: “Why, God damn it anyway, there isn’t any tolerance or impartiality anywhere. Why expect it in the Miners Journal?” Frank Perch, retaliated by asking what's the use of holding the conyen- fion, First, there’s no free speech in the Journal. The next step is no free ypeoch in the convention, already par- tially achieved, he declared. * * Vice-president Philip Murray reads the Coal Miner, theNeft wing paper in ‘tho Minevs’ Union, He talked about tt for half an hour, recounting how “a certain individual of a certain or- ganization” got Frank Keeney to edit it. He professed to see horns of Albert Coyle, editor of the Locomo- tive Engineers Journal and) Verne Smith, a labor editor, in connection with the Cont Miner * * Lewis gave delegates a breathing spell by reading 4 2,500 word state- ment on the urtfair freight rate struc- ture which favors non-union fields against the union districts, He charged the Interstate Commerce fi tem sto g al ’ assent.