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} mon ’Arris, sunerintendent of the | _DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, sk — Page Three _ “TELLS OF EARLY, MINERS? UNION Western Federation of Miners Story Told | Continued trom | Page One having the sole rights for serial pub- lication reserved from the holders of the copyright, the International Publishers Company, Inc. Repub- lication in English or any other language by other publications is forbidden. Haywood, who in the last years of his eventful life sought refuge from persecution by American im- r rialism in the Soviet Union, wrote ive shortly before he died et Moscow last May ‘Those who wish to follow these articles from the rt are urged to rush in sub- ms at once. No worker should migs such an educational fea- ture. “The old Indian buck was one day sitting on a sack of charcoal at the coor of the half dug-out cabin which we used as an assay office, I went eut and sat down beside him, asking him how his squaw and papooses were.” — From Haywood’s Rook,” telling of his life among the Indians in Nevada’s eazly days. . * . “Then I saw the Negro hanging hy the neck in the wagon shed. His face was ghastly, and, although he was light colored, it was turning Llue, with the eyes and tongue stick- ¢ out horribly. I looked at the ging fieure and thought over and over, ‘What have they done— what have they done?’ It was as though a weight of cold lead settled in my stomach.”—From “Bill Hay-| wood’s Book,” telling of his impres- sion when a boy at seeing a lynch- ing. + * * “The saloons were typical of a miming camp and were well patron- | ized. Usually a long bar ran the! Iength cf one side, with two or | three tables in the front and a card room in the rear. Faro and poker were the fevorite games. i was | standing at the bar in Louis Engel’s seloon one night when the barkeeper said: ‘Bill, take a look at that group | at the faro table.’ There were eight men and one women. Every one of them had killed from one to six nen.”—From “Bill Haywood’s Book,” telling his own life story of the days of the Old West. Se aa “Dear Lord, dost thee know Sim- Poor Man Mine? If thee know ’en, we wish for thee to take ’en and put ’en in ’E!, and there let the | buemer frizzle and fry.’” “Bill Haywood’s Book,” te a Cornish Jdaho camp } “This squat specimen of human- | ity cert ly did not personify the | membership of the American Fed- | eration of Labor. Sam was very | short and chunky with a big head that was bald in patch r i » child suffering with rm. He had small snapping eyes, a hard cruel mouth, wide, with t! ing lips, heavy jaws and jow's, A personality vain, conceited. petulant end vindictive."—From “Bill Hay- | woods’ Book,” describing his impres- | sion of Gomrers. hee * “It was in this cross-cut, four thousand feet from the pears that | I turned off the air on drill for the last time. It was sthxes | | o'clock in the morning. I left for | the convention that was to be held | in Denver, on the stage the same | morning at six o’clock.”—From “Bill Haywood’s Book,” telling how ke left the mines to take leadership of the union. + * “There were to be no parleys. ‘Ouit work. Quit now. Strike!’ That was the order. It was obeyed | on the instant. The bosses were in a hurry. ‘Keen up the fires! The | furnaces will freeze!’ But their or- | ders were not obeyed. The strikers | shouted as they hurried about in| ‘ flare and shadow, ‘Strike! Strike | while the iron is hot!’”—From “Bill Haywoods Book,” telling of a smeltermen’s strike at Denver, inj 1903. Bea aaa “Wherever trouble broke out against the miners, Mother Tones | went there, When a bridge was | patrolled by soldiers, she waded the | yiver in winter; when trains were being watched, the train crewemug- gled her through. She always went where she wanted to go.”—From “Bill Haywood’s Book,” in tribute to Mother Jones. Influenza Epidemic Recedes Slightly | WASHINGTON, ‘ON, D. Cc, Jan, 1 (U.P).—Reports on spread of influ- enza epidemic to the United States | Public Health Service today indi- cated the disease is beginning to re- cede somewhat in western and southern states. Figures for 26 states showed a total of 90,000 new cases in the week ending December 29, as com- pared with 168,000 new cases report- ed by the same state the previous week. These official figures, however, are believed to represent but one- | which it is received. =, HE Some of the puppet presidents who hold Latin America inscrvitude for Wall St. Siles, of Bolivia, who is doing h attempt to seize the Chaco oil lands for Wall Street; of Venezuela; Leguia, of Peru; Argentine staff for Ameri Washington Luiz, of Bra Left to right, Gomez an imperialism in the and De Alvear, of TAX WORKER, EXEMPT\ N R LIS EMPLOYER ON BONUSES che 0 th A decision yesterday by Frank K Bowers, collector of internal revenue, | states that workers receiving bo- nuses from employers, even at Christmas time, must pay income tax on the bonus, whereas the em- ployers need not pay this tax. The decision makes the fact that the em- pleyer asks for tax exemption oa the bonus the deciding point as to whether the worker is forced to pay. | The decision says: “It may be stated as a general proposition that employees receiving such payments are receiving income in the nature of additional compen- sation for services rendered tneir employers, and that the amount of such bonuses constitutes taxable in- come to the recipient and must be returned as such in the year in This general | rule is subject to its limitations. | There may be cases in which an em- ployer makes a payment purely as a gift, and without regard to the re-| lationship o of employer and employee. | Boss Decides. instances are rare. They are largely to be determined by the attitude of the donor. If, for instance, a donor would attempt to deduct the amount of such a gift in his return as an ex- pense of doing business, such an at- titude would negative the idea of a pure gift. “It is immaterial whether the bo- kind so far as they constitute tax- able income to the employee. If em- ployees receive a percentage of sal- ary, or a flat sum is distributed to employees, such undoubtedly consti- tutes additional compensation for | services rendered. “But if payment is made to a re- tired employee the same would be taxable. It will be observed that Bowers shows a reasonable skepticism of the generosity of employers, but is de- termined to make the worker pay, | anyway.” AIL RATE CASE IN HIGH COURT |Shippers Fight Rosds| Blazine: Trinidad Well Over Valuation WASHINGTON, J Jan. 1. — The U. S. supreme court is opening the year by taking up a billion-dollar law suit, the O’Fallon Railroad val- uation case. Arguments will be) heard, starting probably late to- | morrow and continuing through the | |next two days, on this persistent | | effort of the railroads to change the | system of valuing rail property. On this case involving a tiny rail- | j NEGRO WORKERS DIE IN OIL FIRE | Kills Fifteen SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad. (By Mail). —Fyzabad Dome Oil*ields caught fire here recently and fifteen | | Persons, most of them Negro work- ers were trapned in the flames. Ten were incinerated, four crawled out to die the following dav. and one has jnot been seen since. In addition, a jpumpman on the Apex oilfields ad- jeining was overtaken at work by road with only $255,000 at stake,|the snreading conflagration and is now in a critical condition in the | : | service. hang billions of dollars. Several other factors complicate the case and make possible a de- | cision by the supreme court with-/ out a eating on valuation, if the |court sees fit. Hinges on Vatuation. Stated simply, the valuation question is this: Is the Interstate | ;Commerce Commission to set a val- uation on a consideration of how | much it would cost to rebuild the ‘road at 1914 prices (which is ap- proximately the same as original cost) and also the value of lands} and “epreciation of property from 1914 to the time the valuation was made in 1921? The railroads contend that the re- production cost of 1921 should be} used, and that they should be al- ‘lowed to earn six per cent on this | inflated capitalization. The commission has warned the| yailroads that the other industrial capitalists will not stand for it, as} they pay freight and -hreaten to force more drastic control, even hint |at government ownership to save | their own interests. Big Capitalist Lawyers. Former Attorney-General George | W. Wickersham has been retained by Attorney-General Sargent to rep- resent the goverment; former Sec- retary of the 4nterior Walter L. | Fisher, 6f Chicago, is special coun- | sel for the commission, and the rail- road is represented by a legal staff | including Frederick H. Wood, New York, Robert H. Kelley, Houston, Tex., Leslie Craven, Chicago, and Daniel N. Kirby, St. Louis. In addition to the government, the commission and the roads, Donald R. Richberg, general counsel of the National Conference of Valuation of Railrozts, of which Senator Norris of Nebraska is head, has been granted permission to ‘ile a brief and argue the case as “a friend of the court.” He takes the position that rate-making is a legislative power delegated by congress to the commission, and that under the con- stitution the judiciary has no right to revise or alter the commission’s valuations. Cal’s Son to Get Army Swivel-Chair Post Soon CALS SON ... HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 1. “John Coolidge, learned son of Cal, will be major on the staff of Governor John H.Trumbull, according to an announcement Trumbull issued last night. A bill will shortly be introduced in the legislature, which convenes Jan. 9, and rushed through under suspension of rules, adding another member to the staff, representing a military organization. John Cool- idge, the governor insists, is eligible San Fernando Hospital. Well No. 3 was a new one. About five o’clock on the afternoon this well came in ctrone beads, the roar of which could be heard some con- | Siderable distance away. Control devices were put in, and shortly afterward the driller left to attend | | a dance at Port-of-Spain. the capital | of this island-colony. He was not long gone before the controls gave way end a hurried call was sent through for him, Suddenly there came a terrific ex- tower of flame and the crowd about “It is believed, however, that such | ses given the employees are in| CUNARD MAN LIAR Imper ‘alist 8 Ss hi ipping Row Grows WASHINGTON, Jan. acrid shipping war launched for con- trol of the New York-Havana p senger traffic by the U. S. Shi who openly express their intention to drive British inter field, has its lighter moments. Yesterday, Director T. V. O’Con- Ashley Sparks, general agent of the British Cunard line in New York, released correspondence between them which sounds like the comic | supplement version of a backyards quarrel. Pass the Lie. O'Connor accuses Sir Ashley of | ying when he says that the Ship-} ping Board head called the Presi- | dent Roosevelt a “fighting ship,” when it was loaned to the Ward) company. O’Connor’s fine distinction shown by a paragraph from his let- ter: “When you (Sir Ashley) called | Roosevelt a ‘fighting ship, and I| | replied, ‘Call it that if you want to.’ You used the term, ‘fighting ship,’ not I.” #P. 8. | Robert H. Blake, while the letter I received was signed by you?” New York offices of the French | Line and the Japanese Nippon Yu- sen Kaisha Line state that they are} |plosion, the well belched forth a! | it turned in panic-stricken flight. In | less than a minute after the explo- sion they were lost to sight, and only the calcined remains were found the next morning. The dead are: Ralph | Sammy and his wife and daughter; | Claude Doodeen, a brother-in-law Mrs, H. A. Assee; Ruport Diaz; Rober Wade, Harry Stewart, Eric | | Laing, Partap Bunsee. C. Brown is issing, presumably dead., while the | following four died later in hospital: Ragoonanan, Gabriel, Sookoor, and Harry Iles. Cornelius’ Thomas, pumpman, is in the hospital yet, The Workers (Communist) Party demands unemployment insurance, the nmount of compensation te be full wages for the entire period of unemployment, the administration of this insurance to be in the hands of the workers, the cost to be borne by the state and the employ- ers. York-Havana route this year. How- ever, a dispatch from the Cuban state department yesterday insists that the head offices of the Japan. ese line has notified Havana that it will place four vessels in this | It would seem that the battle is still localized between British and | American imperialism, with a prob- able entry of the Japanese later on. The Japanese liners are freight rather than passenger car- riers, ‘Zeppelin Stowaway Ends Fight Over Publicity Spoils ZEPPELIN STOWAWAY ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1—Mrs. Edna | Hall, sister of Clarence Terhune, the 20 year old youth who was boosted as a stowaway on the Graf Zep- pelin for publicity purposes, was ousted as Terhune’s guardian. Ter- hune who has made thousands in a vaudeville contract, sought his sis- er’s removal when she purchased a $2,000 automobile, which he said was above her means, Santal Midy Effective-Harmless Sold by All Drugeists| Greet TH Help DAILY WORKER ON ITS 26-28 UNION SQUARE. because of his “training” at Camp ~t FIFTH BIRTHDAY SEND IN A DONATION SEND IN A GREETING Today NEW YORK CITY. 1. — The '5” ping Board and American companies | out of the} nor of the Shipping Board and Sir Line by the U. S. to ruin the British | is | | me on the telephone you termed the| visit his palace to look at his royal | May I enquire why the | letter given to the press was signed! runs silly things like this: not placing any ships on the New largely | "LEAGUE INVITES ROOT TO WORK ON COURT RULES Part. 108 ‘Intrigue for Imperialist Power Wall Street os GENEVA, Jan. 1.—The League of Nations has invited Elihu Root, | American expert on tricky intrigue | under cover of international law, to assist it in remodeling the statutes of the League of Nations World | | Court, The invitation is taken here as an samission of bankruptcy by the eague heads ‘1, their attempt to en- Hie the U. S. membership of the world court in such a way that it |will be subordinate to League au-| ——————___— Militant workers who have Machado terror mysteriou against the militant work Nobel Brandon Judah, U. & right of Cuban secretary of sly disappear. of C ambassador to Cuba, state Ortiz, been thrown into dungeons by the Directing the terror reign Wall Street, own above oft of uba, as agent of is to and to the | Machado, thority, U. S. Wants Privilege. The Coolidge Administration is | | willing to enter the world court, with a certain proviso, called “No. (of a list of lesser provisos.) This “No. 5” states that no decision shall es pe be binding on U, S. unless accepted | _ (Special to the Daily Wor by the U. S, State Department, and| WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 places the Wall Street empire in the |@trangements are moving position of having full rights to dic- | for the great Lenin memorial meet- tate thru the court to other coun-|ing in New York January 19 and in tries, but unwilling to accept any dic- ies under the aus tation itself, (Communist) The appeal to Root is taken as a| 284inst the growing war danger, request for further negotiation, and | Pe! ; elise perhaps the beginning of diplomatic | Plans for actual conflict with a quarrel which,many strengthen the | tUnding swiftness. The militari position of the League in the opinion | /¢aders, for the most part, threw lof European populations, overboard all pretense and are worl ing openly and brazenly in their preparations for the next King of England Will |Get Better If He Does Already the way has been cleaved to rush through the War Depart |Not Die, Says Report im- ist forces here are going about ment appropriatioy. bill. This bill is to be given precedence over all other legislation, with the exception of the first deficiency bill, according to the present plans of the House leaders. So far as the War Department bud- get is concerned, the leaders of both the republican and democratic par- ties are fairly well in accord, KING OF ENGLAND THARD— | LONDON, Jan. 1.—With the turn of the new year, the king of Eng-| land is beginning to wear out the | patience of people who like some- | thing decisive. The doctors who Increase War Forces. There is also a move under foot to increase the present “peace-ti | standing of the army and na |:ds indicated by the salary increase proposals for officers and enlisted ! men now being taken up by the Sen- ate. tee is “investigating” the pay prob- lem under the leadership of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania. He has himself sponsored a resolution for appointment of a joint congres- sional committee “to consider the problem.” Leading militarists here lung, and are paid enough for just | once to keep a starving British min- | er’s family in food for a year, have| | nothing definite to say. therefore, “It is hoped he will survive if his general strength does not give out.” Which means that the head of British im- | perialism lending the fiction of “di- vine right” to the exploitation of 465,000,000 people, will get better if he don’t die. That’s “news” to the! capitalist press. The capitalist press, if The Exclusive Rights to the Serial Publication of eee HAYWOOD'S BOOK (A STORY OF DRAMA AND STRUGGLE OF DECADES) have been received by the DAILY WORKER Publication Will Start With the Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker Order your Copy Now from your Newsdealer Subscribe to The Daily Worker! Rates Outside New York: $6.00 per year; $3.50 6 months; $2.00 3 months. 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GOVERNMENT IPREPARING FOR WAR are in favor of incre and dropping all leg’ ing to retirement. ing the pay tion pertain- One of the most daring war prep- aration measures now pending be- fore the House military affairs com- mittee is that to permit the Secre- tary of War to pla ith private manufacturers educational orders for ments during peace-time These “educational” orders consist of artillery ammunition, bombs, gun carriages, searchlights, airplane bomb sights, etc. As a blind by sponsors of this legislation, it is claimed that these peace-time “edu- ational” orders would keep the “art of manufacture alive.” In reality, it is another move cn the part of the imperialists to mobilize more centers for the speedy production of death- dealing engines and keep ready in anticipation of the next war. MORGAN ENLARGES FIRM. Addition of five new partners an- nounced by J. P. Morgan & Com- They are Henry Sturgis Morgan, Thomas Stilwell Lamont, Newhall, and Edward Hopkinson, Jr. The latter two have been partners inthe Philadelphia firm of Drexel & The Senate military commit- Company We demand the immediate re- moval all restrictions in| all trade ons against the member- ship of Negro workers and equal opportunity for employment, wages, hours and working condi- Hons for Negro and white workers. production of arms and arma- gs Great Britain Puts Two ‘oi Her Rankest pe ee on Dawes Plan Experts Board EMPLOYERS, 10 FIX REPARATION Tough Old War Makers Face U. S. Empire LONDON, Jan, 1.—E most appointed two of the nounced imperialists, big bu men, and enemies of the Union, on the committee of e to consider the revision of Dawes Plan. When the expected clash with the U. S. ban comes out more uncompromising de British predatory interests, now menaced by U, ist invasion, could have been selec The Baldwin cabinet yesterday appointed Sir Joshua Stamp and John Baring, second Baron Revel stoke. Trained In Empire. mp is an old graduate the British civil service, steened in bureaucratism and imperial policy, He owns banks, is a capitalist eco- nomics theoretician, author of num- erous books defending the pr al system and England’s ial policies. He is chairman of London Midland and Sco I director the Imperial al Industries, Ltd., and was y and director of the Nobel Industries, Ltd,, from 1919 to 1926. per the of Inherited Baring inherited | Ik. s father’s half st in the Baring Bros. and Co. bankinghouse. He is a director of the Bank of England, member of the Council of the Prince of Wales, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middle- sex and has been Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall since 1908. He is chairman of the “Interna- tional Committee to Protect the In- terests of Russian (Czarist) Bond- holders,” a bitter opponent of the government of the U. S. S, R., and partly responsible for the breaking off of diplomatic relations with the US. . by the British govern+ ment, Fight Over Loot. The U, S. interests conflict with Pritish chiefly in the matter of who gets the “reparations” loot. The British government objects to Dawes plan arrangements that will merely make England a collector for the U. S. and proposes that the German reparations debt be funded by loans ‘from Wall Street. CUT OUT THIS RLANK Put Your Name on This List of GREETINGS! THESE NAMES ARE TO Birthday Edition of the WHICH IS TO APPEAR JANUARY 5, 1929 Name BE PUBLISHED IN THE Amount Remit to Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York Cit EE TMI EET COLLECTED BY: 3 NAMB oocccscssccscccvccvevccscccecssseet*onecoeseccccscsseseseiil STREET ... Rates: $1.00 per name. All names must be turned in by December 29: eT