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Page Two PROTEST MELLA MURDER AS ACT OF US AGENTS Latin and U. S. Labor Must Unite Forces An enthusis them Latin Amer idience. n workers of DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JAN UARY 29, 1929 BOOKS | Translated by Lawrence RAGEDY OF THE ITALIA, By THE 1 Appleton. $3.00, Reviewed by ROBERT WOLF. ave to be enabled to indulge the emotions of hatred and uch perfect purity as is afforded by the story of the delignt to find the ¢ enemy not merely cruel and spicable, cowardly, and incompetent beyond what one had ily supposed. Decent men and women will spit. henceforth the names of Zappi and Nobile—and yet the whole in- y itself step by step, not as.any mere accident of ue or character, but as preci at it was intended to be—a fee Italia. x techni New York nlauded the per demonstration of the morale of cism, of the capabilities in a ce demonstra- crisis of the Mussolinian man. old ening at the In February, 1928, the little dime-museum Napoleon called I] Duce New Ha’ a against the determined to strut his stuff on that best of all possible stages, the smali murder Mella by Cuban white circle at the top of the world. Humanity, he had decided, should govern ts of U. imper- have a gorgeous exhibition of the moral qualities of fascismo. He got i a resolution of- his wish, as people often do in this world, with a completeness he had ng their determina- hardly expected, and to fill his cup to overflowing, just when he had the fight on Amer- bungied himself and his company into the most appalling and disgrace- m and its Cuban ful disaster, those whom he had cast for the villain’s role stepped in and in which fight saved the day. a victim of Ma- It is difficult to do justice to . drama such as this—it is too perfect, too simple, too conclusive—if it had not occurred in actual reanty, no was Alberto Mor- one would have dared to make it up. And yet there never was a story ish section of the’ wher and effect were more beautifully and logically connected, Anti - Imperialist from the swinish degeneracy of the fascist officers, to the slow, orderly, local branch of which cooperative, and successful operation of the great technical engine of ting. the Sovi U. S. Government Guilty. ‘The dirigible Italia left Milan for the North Pole on April 15, 1928. Robert Minor, editor of the Daily Ic carried, among other dead iumber which in the light of events turned . accented in his speech the| out to be worse than less, a six-foot wooden cross blessed by the , “Not the cowardly gun- Pope, and a fascist general named Umberto Nobile, There were aiso 2 who shot, not Machado, the|in the expedition four other nine Italian technicians miserable flunkey of Coolidge, not and mechanics, and two foreign sc a Czecho-Slovak and a Swede. some lay interest of the On May 24, after some preliminary flights, the airship flew over the United pole and dropped its wooden cross. 1his information was immediately a whole, the U; d radioed to the Roman fascist papers. 30d,” the Tribuna wrote ecstatic- States government itself, is the aliy, “manifestly wishes Italy's glory to be also His own—the banner) pripapel in the murder of Julio and the cross. hour later, God developed static or went to sleep, | and the operator on the Italia was heard from no more. Minor exposed how the Machado, What had happened was that the Italia, incorrectly constructed and government had set out on a propa- yavigated with an eye to publicity rather than to weather conditions, ganda campaign to claim that Mella iq yun headlong into a snowstorm which in a brief period covered its had “insulted” the Cuban flag.| hag with a coat of ice, In a few minutes the airship fell from 1,200 feet Feat en ace Nh to mony 0,80 feet, then it fell again, and the gondola with ten men was wrenchea Coteaailo pepardlis Gb a apt ee : ; of a lost national independence, Of the ten men in the gondola, a mechanic was killed, another had while they hate the Cuban govern.| broken a leg, Malmgren, (tae Swedish scientist), had an arm broken, ment which has made Cuba ‘a Yan-| #24 Genera! Nobile was siightly injured. A tent was set up, and the wireless apparatus put in order. Goa and the Italian base-ship, however, kee plantation’.” By so doing, Machado hoped to shelter his mur- der of Mella behind a screen of “pa- triotism.” Imperialism Headed Toward War. Clarence Hathaway, editor of La- were unabie to get in touch. But on June 2, a Russian peasant named Schmidt, an amateur radio fan, picked up a faint signal, and a littie later communication was established with these survivors on the ice. In the meantime, many governments had fitted out relief expedi- tions. The French government sent a warship with a seaplane and Koald| | hor Unity, official organ of the Amundsen, who haa volunteered for the service although he had quarrelied Trade Union Educational League,/With Nobiie on a previous trip to the north. ‘his gailant expedition compared the terror against the! sailed off into the sky on June 18, and was never heard from again. workers in Cuba to similar imper-| The Italian base-ship, the City of Milan, attempted to steam towara the jalist attacks on the workers in all | castaways, but although this poat had been refitted to be an ice-breaker, colonial and semi-colonial countries, it proved not able to break any ice. A combined Italian and Norwegian | such as Colombia, Nicaragua, India, expedition started off with dog sieds, but only succeeded in getting into! Egypt, ete. The U. S. imperialists) @ position where they had to be rescued themselves. And finaliy the | were bribing governments in so- Soviet government, equipping the ice-breaker Krassin, the most powerful | called “independent” countries, get-|Ship of its class in the Arctic, sent it out with planes and aviators on ting control of power and material | the mission which finally met success. resources through these lackeys, In But before this outcome, one man had indeed been saved. On June Latin America, the aggressive role 24, a Swedish aviator succeeded in landing on the ice near the party, and of U. S. imperialism was in grow-|the brave fascist general, Umberto Nobile, contrary to every rule of ex- ing sharp conflict with the position) ploration and the sea, allowed himself to be saved before his men. there of England, and from this and In the meanwhile, also, another equaily interesting event had oc- other’ rivalries a struggle is devel-| curred, Food was running short among the survivors. Captain Zappi, oping ssi will soon culminate in’ therefore, the second in command, proposed an expedition composed oi a new. world war between these im-' himself, Captain Mariano, and Dr. Maimgren, the Swedish scientist, to perialist babes OO try to reach land on foot. Malmgren, aithough with one arm broken, Hathaway emphasized that the had shot a bear which was left behind for the other survivors, ‘These only reliable leadership in the anti-|three then started out together, carryin: rtai 1 imperialist struggle was the revo-) the ice-field. . BAIR | ® BIE REBEL T ae 20H OVEE lutionary proletariat of both the countries oppressed by imperialism! and the imperialist countries them- selves, united with each other and|‘". ; : 4 A with the exploited peasantry in| with the unconscious Mariano, and minus Malmgren, he said that Malm- ie ty >, gren had fallen under the ice. But since he was wearing Malmgren’s | silevada bis ban Seay. nite of) Slothing, this tale would hardly do. Later, accordingly, he statea that ikke foreee for vesiktance-t0 U. 8A Malmgren, finding himself too weak to push on, had asked to be aban- imperialism. The present Assembly doned, voluntarily surrendering his clothes, his compass, and his share of Workers and Peasants in Mexico °! the food. What is certain is that Zappi, when eventually found, was was a great step forward, and a conference in May at Montevideo wonld unite the great mass of Latin American unions against imperial-| ism and its lackeys in the labor movement. As to what occurred on this forty-two day march, covering in all fourteen miles, we have only Captain Zappi’s testimony, and Captain although the character of that food remains unknown. Dur Teske ta U8. Even if the worst suspicions are justified, however, there is still no fe shy Halal tates, he certain proof that Zappi acted in any way contrary to capitalist codes. ~ i . % ‘S, Ne’ To be sure, he was wearing Mariano’s stockings, and Mariano’s fect were said, our duty lies most heavily in| hare and frozen to the ice. But it is quite possible that he secured these the organization of the unorganized,| garments by honorable purchase—as the stronger, he must have been most exploited Workers, the build- carrying more than his share of that common supply of food. Very bier? of new militant unions imbued likely he traded a certain portion of this unexpected resource to Mariano | with international solidarity to; in, return for his trousers and sox. And even if murder and cannibalism | counteract the treacherous role of ‘i i ; ; é was committed, this repr ti | the Pan-American Federation of La-| ves; or'tye at, ‘epresents merely one more instance of the sur- bor led by the A. FE. of L. reac- tionaries. The Trade Union Educa- tional League is the organizing! foree behind these new fighting) unions, and the need for such is shown by the imperialistic actions) i : N of the recent A. F. of L. conven-| Volume itself. Here we see the typical Soviet institution at work, func- tion, which endorsed the cruiser tioning with a serious, steady, easy-going good-humor, which, if one has | bill, and asked the exclusion of Mex-| been fortunate enough to watch similar units in operation, brings recog: | jean, Filipino and all Asiatic work. Mition with a gleeful laugh. ers from entering the United, The government officials, the technical experts, the dare-devil avia- States. | tor, the committees of the crew, even the newly constituted Party nucleus, Harriet Silverman of the local | all interacting, solving their problems together, with a great deal of talk, Anti-Imperialist League, pointed | but a minimum of ritual and formality—earnest, jocular, self-sacrificing out that the murder of Mella was | 4nd persistent, and crowned with success in the end, part of oe whole stag oo Ns | It is difficult to restrain, one’s enthusiasm for Maurice Pari, ror. such as seen in Argentina, narrative, and Lawrence Brown’ Liberia, China, Cuba and elsewhere. ; elth enh Soult een loge Our task, she emphasized, is to build bonds of unity between the exploited of the United States and those of Latin America, through trade unions, workers’ organiza- tions, anti-imperialist leagues and all other real forces genuinely anti- imperial Our new work must emphasize this need toward Latin American workers and peasants, _ Latins Expose Frame-Up. Here vides a typical instance of capitalist morals on a laboratory scale, To turn from this scene of squalid and filthy demoralization to a! |ine’s book is chiefly filled, would be much more agreeable, but my space! janine’s r : jon—all one can do is to recommend it, or wish one could quote it in full. As for the second book, the Italian semi-official narrative, it is quite ommissions, it confirms every statement that Parijanine has made. Imperialists Sell Illinois Bosses Call Indian Girls Into —_—on__ Legislature to Slavery in Arabia| Fight Labor Demands CALCUTTA, India, (B: il). Luiz Martinez of the Spanish sec-| Thousands of Moplan bot py Mets a Tamm A a tion of the local Anti-Imperialist |ing sold into slavery in Arabia by °!® Manufacturers’ Association has League, addressed the meeting in| agents of the British paves |forwarded a serie: of “whereases” Spanish, as did also Leon S. Ruiz who promise the girls good jobs in|to the General Assembly in which of the Spanish Bureau of the Work-| Arabia, and thus induce them to|‘#larm” is expre.sed at the de- ers (Communist) Party, who re-|jeaye southern India. The slave|mands of organized labor, The reso- viewed the activities of Mella and traffic is being conducted by| lutions class the eight hour day for exposed the attempt by ,Mexican Po- | wealthy Arabs, backed and protected|Women workers as revolutionary, lice to frame up Mella’s own com-|by officials of the Anglo-Indian|and the open shop is called “the rades in order to cover the escape! government, it is charged. highest expression of American in- ‘of his assassins. | dividualism.” The manufacturers Karl Reeve of the International express confidence that the legisla- Labor Defense, spoke on the hun- tors will “uphold American ideals” ger strike of Mella and how the I. by heeding their resolutions. L, D. had roused American labor to/ STANDSTORM IN CANARIES. such a protest that Mella was re- LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands leased. The ceaseless persecution of Mella by imperialism and _ its} (By Mail).—The Canary ISslands are under a cloud of sand, blown, servants had shown the need of a it is believed, from the Sahara manent and militant labor de- Desert, 600 miles away. The concerted attacks of the Y of the U. S., the bringing of old cases to trial. such as the Some of the ports on the islands have been closed. Buildings are completely eovered by the sand. ick, Mineola, Woodlawn, Os- SYDNEY, Australia, (By Mail). ~—Hundreds of dock workers at the Cockatoo Island Dockyard have been laid off. The unemployment situa- tion in the harbor is serious. cases; the attacks on all working class organizations, is directly con- nected, Reeve declared, with the at- tack of U. S. imperialism on the Latin American toilers, and is a part of the preparations for a new imperialist war. and New Bedford consyfracy is limited, and for the details I hope readers will refer to that excellent | Latin-America; unimportant, except that by its assertions, and its equally significant | POLICE PREVENT | LENIN MEMORIAL MEET IN LYNN Surround Halls in Lynn Thruout Evening » Mass., Jan. —~All halls mill owners’ were guarded by police last night in an effort to prevent the Workers (Com- munist)’ Party from holding a Ler’ Memorial Meeting. Lasters Hr! had been hired by the Party nm "ttee in charge, and Alex Bail, anizer of the Boston District of the Party, and Robert Zelms, an- other leading Communist in Massa- chusetts, ware there to speak. The police locked the doors of the hall Jong before the meeting was scheduled to open, and a cordon sur rounded the hall on all sides, Large crowds of workers had gathered io participate in the meeting in memory of the fifth anniversary of the death of the great leader of the world revolutionary movement. The police drove them away again and again. Those who came later and gathered in front of the hall we-e also dispersed. All other halls in the city were guarded by the police throughout the evening in order to prevent the workers from holding a meeting elsewhere. It was in this center of reaction that Communist meetings were broken up even during the last Presidential elections, at a time when capitalist democracy is often on dress parade. The police pre- vented Chester Bixby, candidate for governor on the ticket of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, and organ- izer of the shoe wrkers, from speak- ing, and drove lim out of town. Meetings, to unionize the shoe work- ers were also broken up. MELLA MURDER IS PROVESTED Cleveland Lenin Meet Denounces Wall St. (Continved from Page One) lynching discrimination and for final emancipation, was adopted with another rousing “aye.” Frank Henderson, of the Young | Workers Communist League, and Nathan Hurvitz, of the Young) Pioneers, were the other speakers. A revolutionary pantomime in three scenes, arranged by Sadie Van | Veen, with the assistance of the |Young Workers Communist League, ‘and the Young Pioneers, lent fine color to the splendid meeting. | The resclution on Mella follows in part: “American imperialism, with its this | victim. “We charge the Washineton im- story of having been kidnapped by | \perialist government with the |murder of Mella. Coolidge, the \strikebreaking president of the im- |perialist masters of this country, mobilize the sentiment of Latin-| | America. ‘compelling the native bourgeoisie of Latin-America to follow his bidding, The workers and peasants of Latin- America will not accept the orders of American imperialism. | “The workers and peasants of Photo shows some of the passengers men of the Garfield and the slave-driven 12 hours a da S. , are given rotten food and Inset below shows some of these seamen baitling to bring passengers ashore. GATHER DATAIN Starving, Ill-Paid Seamen Slaved to Save Their Lives Pan America. rat-infested ‘Scotch ‘Foundry Workers on Strike Against Wage Cut saved from the President Garfield of the Dollar Line, by sea- The seamen of the Garfield and Pan-America are q ‘MCPHERSON CASE GLASGOW, (By Mail).—The Scottish foundry workers employed in the production of rain-water goods | have decided not to accept a 5 per cent wage cut and to go on strike. About 2,000 men, mostly working in the Falkirk area, are affected. |The vote for the strike was 1,866 for and 89 against. FRENCH PAPERS ‘Good-Will’ Offering Is Investigated LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 (UP).— Documents bearing upon the Re’ Aimee McPherson “kidnapping” case were being assembled today by a special state legislative committee of five members which will open an inquiry tomorrow into the accept- ance of a $2,500 “good-will” offer- ing by Superior Judge Carlos Hardy | \before the committee Monday. for the evangelist. The documents, which will be con- sidered by the committee, include letters which were submitted to the grand jury more than two years ago in the investigation of the dis- appearance and return of the evan- | gelist. Cancelled Check. Photostatic copies of a cancelled voucher check, signed by Mrs, Min- ie Kennedy, the evangelist’s mother, and endorsed by Judge Hardy, will be considered. The check is dated Aug. 12, 1926. A letter to Mrs. Li ine Wise- man-Sielaff, who confessed she tried to offer an “alibi” for Mrs. MePher- sen, will be before the committee. Judge Hardy probably will be called He may refuse to testify on grounds that his testimony might incriminate him, as he did when the Bar Asso- ciation committee sought to interro- gate him. * Charge Keyes Bribed. Rev. Aimee McPherson, while run- * * € fs ving an enormous church in Los An- | Zappi has told two different stories, When he was first rescued, along | bloody tools, has again found a eles, disappeared for several days | and came back with an improbable Mexicans. Charges were made that she really spent the time secretly ‘ith a man friend in a cottage at ie jthe seashore. She was arrested and | wearing three suits of clothing, his own, Malmgren’s, and Mariano’s;| Morgan, Rockefeller, Young and /q case against her was prepared by | that Mariano, the weaker, was lying on the ice nalf naked and aimost| Mellon, has his puppet in office in pistrict Attorney Asa Keyes, now | frozen; that Mariano in a later delirium pleaded with some invisible | Cuba, who does his master’s bidding. 5 trial for bribery in another case. murderer not to be killed and eaten; and that the contents of Zappi’s: Hoover in his trip to Central and judge Hardy is accused of taking intestines showed that he had had food more recently than he admitted, | South America has endeavored to 9,500 bribe money in the case and Keyes has been accused of taking Hoover may succeed *1 | 960,000 bribes from Rey. McPherson | to get the case against her -dis- missed. USSR PEAT OUTPUT GROWS. MOSCOW, (By Mail).—The peat SLAP WALL ST. “U.S. Vultures Seizes All World’s Gold” PARIS, Jan. 27.—A strong note of hostility to the United States and to Americans is again creeping into a portion of the French press, be- | cause of a clash between Wall Street imperialism and the French, with particular reference just now to the dispute over reparations. The conservative newspapers, gen- erally, are still very friendly to | America, although the semi-official “Temps” does, from time to time, devote columns to violent criticism of U. S. imperialism. But the cri- \ticism and hostility are’ especially no- ticeable in other newspapers. | Land of Crimes. | Crime news tends to show Amer- ‘icans in an unfavorable light. Rob- | beries, murders and other crimes are | said, editorially, to have been com- mitted “a la American.” These pa- pers reprint, from the English press, news which holds Americans in ridi- cule. An instance was the publication at the top of a column on the first | page of the “Paris-Midi” of a story ‘dated from New York which bore the headline: “In the land of pro- hibition, mounted police were called out to keep the drunkards in hand.” | It was a story of how New York | observed New Years’ eve and gave | French readers a word picture of |New York citizens fighting in the | streets in a drunken orgy. “La Rumeur” crusades regularly against “the American peril.” In this noon newspaper, Frederick Davidson, said in an editorial note to be a Canadian, wrote a two-col- |umn exposure of the U. S. empire, a |Latin America are mobilizing their output during the 1928 season has) “new peril to civilization.” forces against American imperial- P ‘ ; ism. The Havana Conference, from i Zappi was pressed to extremes, that is all—he PrO-| which the voice of the workers was | Production. Production of peat in- with its symbol of the spread lexcluded the Pan-American Confer-|‘reased considerably over the pre-| eagle?” ‘he wrote. “It has turned ence at Washington, which adopted | contemplation of the achievements of the Krassin, with which Parijan-|a fake agreement to end warfare | 8' between Yankee imperialism and | the outbreak of hostilities between Bolivia and Paraguay, indicated first of all that the imperialisms of the United States and Great Britain are strug- gling for control of South America, and secondly that U. S. imperialism is making use of such murderous tools as Machado, Mancada, Gil and other tools in order to gain control of South America, “We stand together with the work- ers of Latin-America against brutal American imperialism! “You may murder many Mellas; | you may destroy many labor organi- zations you may prepare your im- \perialist war against the Soviet \Union. Led by the Communist In- ,ternational, the workers and pea- |sants of the world will fight your jimperialism, We will fight against | American, British, French, Italian ‘and other imperialisms. We will fight against any butchers’ im- | perialist war that you instigate. The | Weapons you give us we will use in | behalf of the workers and peasants. | “Your imperialist war, we will \turn into civil war and free the workers and peasants of the world |from imperialist tyranny, “We stand together with the workers the world over! “Down with the murderers of the working class! “Down with the instigators of im- perialist war! “Hail the Proletarian Revolution —the Revolution for the freedom of |the workers!” | | \ | WOULD INCREASE HOURS. LONDON (By Mail).—The Great | Western Railway has appealed to the Coal Trimmers Board to increase i been estimated at 5,197,000 metric | tons, ‘12 times the pre-war ceding year. As the result of the rowth in output peat is being util- ized to an increasingly great ex- \tent by various industries. The Shatura power station, with ja capacity of 92,000 kilowatts, is ithe largest of the power plants built during recent years to use peat fuel. Ne sooner ix the exploitation of the Inborer by the manufacturer, so far at an end, that he receives hin wages in cash, then he in set upom by the other portions of the ) the shop- keeper, the pawn ete—Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto). “What has become of the United | States, once the hopes of the world linto a vulture, Its claws seize all |the gold in the world. Gold and business form the religion of the American today.” Much of the editorial temper has {been aroused by the forthcoming | meeting of financial experts to re- tothe: the Dawes plan of war repara- | tions. | The British and Amercan naval parity problem is attracting atten- \tion in France, due to President- \elect Hoover's forecast of a Wash- jington naval conference and the ispeech yesterday of Sir Austen LABOR DEFENDER FEBRUARY ISSUE JUST OUT JULIO A. MELLA, Cuban Communists Leader, writes on “Dollar Terror in Cuba.” Mella wrote the article, probably his last one, especially for The Labor Defender, a few days before he was shot down in cold bl: by the tools of American I “MINEOLA.” fur workers, two of whom in Sing Sing, “FULLER DID IT”, an article with criminal libel, “TERROR IN RUMANIA,” by $1.00 per year THE LABOR DEFENDER $0 BE. 11th Street New York, N, NAME. STREET work at the Cardiff, Bar oe Docks on Rey unt pm : CITY cc seerreeenceerneereweeneenees ood in the streets of Mexico City imperialism. A vivid story exposing the frame-up of the nine are already serving long terms by MOISSAYE J. OLGIN, Editor of the Hammer by HARRY CANTER, charged “THE PROTEST AGAINST BALBO”, by MICHAEL SALERNO. E. E. WELTER. MAXIM GORKY, CLARA ZETKIN, IGNATZ WROBEL, and others on unusual important working class problems, Striking photographs illustrate all the articles, SUBSCRIBE — 10c per copy STATE | | | | uarters, and receive starvation } OSWALDO GASE [S DISMISSED Deportation Charge on 3 Italian Workers PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 27.—The “Oswaldo case,” a deportation case | against three Italians, anti-fascists, | which has been in the federal courts for eight years. has at last been dismissed, according to the Interna- tional Labor Defense, Philadelphia | branch, which has been defending | these workers. | During the Red Raids, Oswaldo, a member of the Italian bureau of the Workers (Communist) Party; Bruni, a Party member, and Balldassare, an anti-fascist, but not a Workers | | | i i ! Generals CHINESE TROOPS MUTINY, MARCH; GENERALS MEET War-lords Vote Fake Disarmament Meet; Vote Fake Disarmament SHANGHAI, Jan. 27.—Word veaches here today that 5,000 Chi- nese trocps under General Liu Kai- fai at Lungkow, Shantung province, have revolted and under their own |committees are marching southward toward Wei Thsien. Failure of the military leaders to pay the soldiers is considered at least a contributing cause to the revolt. The conference of militarist lead- ers at Nanking closed yesterday. It aid to have arrived at a general ion 1o disband about half of the various armies, to save the cost. The agreement, which has ail the earmarks of a partial disarmament treaty between independent powers, \\will probably not be enforced, as each general, supreme authority in his locality, is interested in getting all other generals to disarm, but anx- ious to keep his own military strength intact for the struggle for power which is certain to come soon. Uprisings Sure. The present forces of all the gen- erals number about 2,000,000, The decision of the conference formally approves of a national standing army of 800,000. Practical difficul- ties in the way of disarmament if actually meant, which no one be- lieves it really is, would be enorm- ous, as the soldiers are mutinous be- cause of lack of pay, and to be thrown out of the armies where they at least get rations would probably cause uprisings. MINE EXPLOSION Party member, were arrested and slated for deportation to Italy and death, Bruni has a sentence of ten years against him in Italy. He has six chidlren, who would be deprived of his support if he were killed in a eee fascist prison. Baldassari is sick - " j ji i bed \Lack of Organization Were Active Workers. Drove Men to Death The only evidence against any of these men is that when they were! KINGSTON, W. Va. Jan, 27.— prrested in a private house they | Rescue crews had not even today were folding circulars advertising a | found two missing bodies of four- meeting. Originally 88 workers'| teen coal miners killed by a terrific were being held in Philadelphia for | gas explosion in the mine of the decoration, Two were actually de-| Kingston Pocahontas Coal Co, here, ported to Italy and their present | Friday. s whereabouts is unknown, | The mine extends for a mile and The next case up is that of three a half under the mountain, and has central Europeans, Pajor, Snyder | an entrance on each side. Sixty-nine end Dauerbach. They took out na-/| men were at work near the main en- turalization papers, and are charged trance. They protested against the not only with fraudulentiy obtaining gas in the mine, but no precautions citizenship, but with perjury in were taken, and the workers had their application for it. no organization on which they could The law firm of Francis, Fischer | rely for protection against dis- and Kane is defending these last charge if they refused to go to three. Kane made the statement | work. that he thoroughly disapproves of Blew Over Buildings. the attempt to ship out of the coun- The explosion was so hard that try not only these three, but those | mine buildings outside, at the mouth in the Oswaldo case, and was will-| of the main shaft were demolished ing to take the witness stand in fa- iby the concussion. Fifty-five men vor of some of them. |worked their way out an entrance ————______ | opposite the main shaft, and walked Chamberlain, British foreign secre- | for miles around the mountain to tary, at Birmingham, which is in-'the company office. Two of them terpreted here as tantamount to} giq not get out unaided, but were British admission of equality on the found badly gassed from after damp seas with the United States. by the first rescue crew. The semi-official newspaper, “Le Bodies Mangled. Temps,” said: | Pe maaner ce? “When Senator Borah asks for a} Twelve bodies, fearfully burned conference to establish the principle 8nd mangled, were taken out late of freedom of the seas, he knows Yesterday, soon after the explosion. well that he is proposing the most | Two others have not been found, complex and delicate problem be- and may have been blown to bits. tween England and the United! Workers in this vicinity are dis- States. Equality in all categories of | turbed by the great increase of mine ships, such as the Americans pro- accidents lately, and the district pose, must in reality put England in will be a fruitful field for recruiting an inferior position. ‘into the National Miners’ Union. | | | Imperialism in Latin America The papers are full of news from Latin América, such as the crushing of the strike” of Columbian workers, slaves of the United Fruit Co., the threatened war of Bolivia against Paraguay in the interests of Amer- ican oil imperialists; Hoover’s trip as a super-salesman for big business—at this time the books listed below are of special value to the militant leaders of the work- ing class, who need to be equipped with facts in order to more effectively fight im- perialism. tie Revolutions in Latin Aruerica—A new pamphlet by Bertram Wolfe wep en Se Americans in Santo Domingo— stp fi aM 7 Bankers in Bolivia—M. A. Marsh........, Our Cuban Colonies—L. A. 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