The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 4, 1929, Page 4

Published Daily Ww ay, at , New York Stuyvesant Mail (outside of New York): a year $8.50 six months 2.00 three months Address and mail all checks to The Daily Worker, 26-28 Union Square, New York, N. Y. Colonel Stimson Comes Marching Home Wall Street has whistled and its birds of prey are re- turning to the eyrie. At the very moment when the master brigand Morgan himself is preparing to depart for Paris to dictate the repara- tions terms for the European peoples, Henry L. Stimson, notorious agent of the Wall Street interests, is planning his return to the United States from the Philippiné Islands where President Coolidge in obedience to the command of his Wall Street masters, has deputed him. After his return from this outpost of American im- perialism, menacing the Orient, Stimson, according to the most reliable information will be given the post of secretary of state in the Hoover cabinet. Stimson ong career as a servant of Wall Street in many And his brief interum as governor-general of the a period which he utilized in efforts to thwart land laws in the interest of the American rubber has been a careful grooming for the important he will play in guiding American imperialism’s he Far East. Stimson’s paramount service to Americah imperialism in the last few years was his treacherous purchase, in the name of his masters, of the infamous Nicaraguan “Liberal” traitor, Moncada,—a purchase sealed by the pact of Tipitapa, a purchase which fortuitously had no witnesses. His success as an agent of Wall Street in Central America marked him as one of the indispensible lieutenants of Ameri- can imperialism. Quite as much as a reward for his Nicara- guan treachery, Stimson’s appointment to the Philippines has been a meticulous preparation for future acts of op- pression and plunder against the subject nations of Ameri- can imperialism and for further aggression in the Orient. The announcement does not come as a surprise. has had a situations. Philippines, the Filipino capitalism, role which policies in But the appointment of Stimson has another aspect. Secretary of War under President Taft, Stimson is an old militarist. In the present period when the preparations for war not only against the Soviet Union but between the lead- ing imperialist robbers, the United States and Great Britain, are being openly and furiously pushed. Colonel Stimson can be depended upon to direct Wall Street’s policies against its British competitors to the entire satisfaction of the im- perialists, Familiar with the inner workings of the war department, he can be depended upon to merge the efforts of the state and military ministries of Wall Street in Washington with the perfection which the vast interests and the vaster designs of the American capitalists now demand. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1929 Send help TInsull, Bankers Run Chicago By H. M. CHILDS. | The actions of the newly-elected state administration and the Chicago | aldermanic election campaign, which is now in full swing, have brought forth vital issues and problems con-/ cerning the working class. In analyzing the motive forces or the economic background, together with the political problems and class | relationships and class struggles that take place in Illinois—we see that they are of the same character-as those confronting the working class of the United States nationally. Chi-| cago and the rest of the state of, Illinois is the typical American in- dustrial area, picture of the issues and daily prob- lems of the Illinois workers, we also understand the national struggle of the working class. The actuality of the new imperi- alist war concerns the working class of Chicago who are employed in the basic industries that are essential to the prosecution of modern imperi- | alist warfare, such as steel, rail- way, chemicals, foods stuffs, etc.) |The understanding of these local struggles against the capitalists, | broadens the national and interna- tional political perspectives of ene, workers of Chicago. Corporations Control Illinois. Finance capital and its interlocking corporations determine and control the political policies and machinery of Illinois, control the political par- ties of capitalism; both republican and democratic parties as such, and the repressive organs of capitalism, the state and local governments. | Banking capital continues to solidify | itself. Mergers are the order of the day. Within the last few months we have witnessed the merger of the Continental and Commercial Trust TODAY to Our photoengravers are demanding nearly $1,000 from the Daily Worker for cuts they have made for us in the past. Until a large part of this debt has been paid on account, we cannot begin to print Fred Ellis’ cartoons again. Only the workers who read and depend upon the Daily Worker to lead their struggles can place their paper out of danger now. THE DAILY W 26-28 Union Square, New York. ORKER, ! /Conimunists Denounce Cossack Program; ‘Fight Traction Trust In Aldermanic Elections By having a clear} corporation counsel for the city of} Chicago. In the floor of the Chicago City Council, bankers and the trac- tion trust have a militant represen- taive in Alderman Oscar F. Nelson, vice-president of the Chicago Fed- eration of Labcr, outstanding cor- rupt labor bureaucrat. Thus we see complete political control by capital- ism from the government down to the reactionary labor bureaucracy. | Fakers Help Bring in Cossacks. A .cction of the labor bureaucracy | supported Louis L. Emmerson for governor of Illinois in the last elec- tion. In his inaugural address, the new governor showed his “gratitude” jto labor by asking for the creation, of a state constabulary. This is the pet i:easure of the Illinois Manu- facturers’ Association. The workers of Illinois have been fighting this vicious cossack bill for years, know- ing full well the meaning of such a) | force. The state police are to be used/ against the workers of the indus- trial towns of Illinois in time of | strikes and particularly against the miners. The labor fakers and social- | ists profess to be very much “indig- jnant” because of this proposal of Governor Emmerson. in his inaug- | ural address, Emmerson showed his | | contempt for the working class. He} | did not even once mention the word! | “labor,” let alone touch any prob-| lems that confront the workers of | | Chicago, | | The mining crisis in Ilinois is still | 'acute. The mechanization of the ‘ing the Hoover, Stimson, Morrow, Young:—in the period when with the Illinois Merchants Trust,| mines and the speed-up, coupled forming a billion dollar bank—sup- with the betrayal of Fishwick, is vital issues confronting the workers. The crocodile tears and “indigna- tion” as expressed by the labor fak- ers and socialists will not be taken seriously by the workers of Illinois. | The class-conscious workers and their political party, the Workers (Communist) Party, are not at all surprised or “indignant,” knowing full well that Emmerson is a spokes- man for capitalism and that these same bureaucrats are responsible for putting Emmerson into office by the policy of betrayal which is expressed in “reward your friends, and punish your enemies.” Only by organizing the working class politically under the banner of the class struggle can we fight the Emmersons, Insulls, and their labor lieutenants, Johnny Walker, Victor Olander, etc. Our Major Issues in the Chicago Aldermanic Election Campaign. The outstanding issues concern- working class must be brought forward in the February aldermanic elections. The capitalist class in Chicago, expressing the wishes of the bosses, are demanding an increase of 5,400 more police. In other words, the doubling of the police force. This demand of the employers has already found organi- zational expression in the resolution of Alderman O’Toole in the Chicago City Council. As an adjunct of the employers, the police department of Chicago has always been ruthless in the suppression of strikes and the smashing of picket lines. Every time the workers of Chicago go on strike or participate in any strug- gle or demonstration of the work- ers : 2-Chicago, they meet this strike- |an increase of pay, the street car) workers were given a fake insurance scheme. The officials of the Street Car Men’s Union are working hand in hand with the traction trust. The franches of the transit com- | panies have expired. The companies | are demanding a “perpetual fran- chise.” In other words, the handing over of the transportation system | and the streets of Chicago to the) traction trust for an indefinite pe-| |viod. The corrupt city administra- | tion, with the help of the labor fak- jers, Nelsc and Bowler, all work for the Insull, Blair and Busby traction magnates. | The city of Chicago has a car fund amounting to about $64,000,000. | This fund is supposed to be used for | | improvements and extension of trac- | tion facilities. The transportation | |system in the working class neigh- borhoods is rotten and crowded. In many cases, the workers have to/ | pay double fare, and no extensions or improvements are attempted. In recent disclosures, it was found that |this money was turned over to the big banks who control the transit lines, at the interest rate of 2 per| cent, the banks in turn using and| loaning this money at rates from 7} to 12 per cent. | Many other important problems, such as corruption, graft, padded} payrolls in the city administration, | crowded schools and the platoon sys- | tem in wezkers’ districts, ene | jof the teachers’ union, unemploy-| |ment, injunctions against workers, jdiscrimination and terror against | Negroes, etc., are the issues in this | | campaign. | | The Chicago labor bureaucracy is| jpart of the capitalist political ma-| \chinery. The Chicago Federation of | | Labor, in its meeting of January 6, | adopted a resolution introduced by} John Fitzpatrick, begging capitalists | to look more kindly upon the reac-| Copyright, 1929, by Internation Publishers Co., Inc. BILs. HAYWOOD’S BOOk Previously Haywood wrote of his early life as a boy among the Mormons in Utah; youth and young manhood as miner and cowboy in Nevada; mining at Silver City, Idaho; in the Western Federation of Miners; delegate to two conventions; elected on Executive in 1899; the great strike that year in the Coeur d’Alenes, northern Idaho; his mission to Butte, Montana, Now go on reading. All rights reserved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. * The Butte Mines; Off to the Battle Front: Borah and His Early Victims; “The American Bastile” PART XXVI. By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. UTTE Miners’ Union Number 1 of the W. F, M. was at that tim the largest union in America, with a membership often as high s five thousand. It was the greatest single social force of the workin class in the western part of America. The tremendous power of th big union was not always used to the best advantage; it nearly always allowed itself to be divided on ques- tions of strategy, tactics, and political issues, Other- wise it could have been the directing energy of the entire state of Montana. The Miners’ Hall was commodious but not nearly large enough to accommodate the membership. Boyce, Williams and I attended a meeting of the union. When I spoke, it was to compliment the union highly on the splendid work that it had done. In Butte were the Engineers’ Union and the Smeltermen’s Union, both parts of the Western Federation. The men organized in the Engineers’ Union were 1 machinists but the engineers who ran the hoisting engines and othe engines about the works. Some of the engines were “first motion The men who ran these got six dollars a day and were at that tin the highest paid men in the organization, | It required a clear mind an a steady arm to operate these engines, with which they pulled the me thirty to thirty-five hundred feet out of the mines. More responsibilit rested upon the engineers than upon any other men around the min It will be recognized that speed was essential in hoisting the men an the ore. In some mines there were double and even triple decke cages. Most of the mines of Butte are very hot, but the fellow wi named the Never-Sweat mine did not know that it would be the hotte of all. is The work in the Butte mines was all underground. The veins a worked through deep shafts, with tunnels or levels running from tl! shafts usually one hundred feet apart. The ore is worked or stope out between the levels, dropped down chutes to the level below, and rv to the shaft in small cars and hoisted to the surface. At present tl ore is not burnt in the open but taken direct to the smelter. ee. Jt was decided by the meeting of the executive board that Jol C. Williams, board member from Grass Valley, California, and I shou go to the Coeur d’Alenes to convey the greetings of the W. F, M. to t) strikers and to report conditions as we found them in the strike-bow district, which was then under martial law. We left Butte and caught the Great Northern at Missoula. Bur’ was to be our first stop. That part of the Rocky Mountains where t Coeur d’Alenes mining district is situated, is scarred and gashed wi gulches and deep canyons. The mountain sides are rugged, with clif There are old and rotten stumps of t tionary fakers and to extend class | and outcroppings of rock. posed to be the “world’s largest bank | throwing thousands of miners out) collaboration. The resolution de-| even Morgan himself has dared to come out in the open ‘ itali ‘ js a pen and under one roof.” Also the mergers|of work. The miners, in spite of the} breaking agency of capitalism—the| trees that have been cut for mining timber, railroad ties and firewoc reveal himself as the uncrowned tsar of American im- perialism, it is natural that his lieutenants should be fulfill- ing the most important governmental functions. Wall Street is the American government,—incarnate in these men and in their countless corporals. Stimson, the military man, may very appropriately be- come the dictator of the Washington government’s foreign policy at the present time. The foreign policy he would have to direct will be a war policy. Stimson, the professional bull- dozer of Latin-American and Oriental peoples, would be a logical director of a foreign policy directed toward the mil- itary conquest of Latin-America and China. The suggestion of this colonel as secretary of state should act as an electric spark to stir the American workers up to the imminence of the war danger. American workers should mobilize their strength to make Mr. Hoover’s war an unsuccessful war—a war in which the Wall Street govern- ment is defeated. of the Central Trust of Illinois (con- trolled by Dawes) with the Bank of America; the Union Trust and the State Bank of Chicago; the forma- tion of the Insull Utilities Invest- ment Trust; the acquisition of the Peabody Coal interests by Insull; the consolidation of the traction in- | terests under the Illinois Merchants | Bank, Harris Trust, and Insull, etc. These capitalist interests come forward openly as the political rul- |corrupt leadership, are fighting | | back, as witnessed in the wild-cat | strikes which occur daily. Just the) lother day, 500 miners struck work | | at Franco Mine No. 1, Johnston City, | | linois, against the speed-up and| unemployment that followed. The |miners see the only way out in strug- | |gle and the building of the new miner.’ union. | Unemployment. The unemployment situation in police. The workers of Chicago recall the role of the police department in the stockyards strikes; argo, garment strikes, Sacco-Vanzetti demonstra- tions, etc. The bosses foresee the trend of development leading to sharper and greater class struggles and therefore demand strengthening of the police forces. The Workers (Communist) Party points out to the workers the necessity of struggle against capitalism. The workers manded that labor be allowed to par-| ticipate in civic committees on an equal footing with the capitalists. | | Fitzpatrick cumplained that, “labor | |has been wholly overlooked when) these committees were formed and I | believe that this is unfair. Labor |should }~ granted equal representa- |tion on these committees.” The Wage Earners’ League of Cook County is again being re-| vived in this election in the interest ‘of the capitalist Thompson adminis-| ers of Cheago and of Illinois. They | Chicago is not so bright. The build-| are no longer satisfied to rule thru| ing industry in the month of De- some intermediate political group.|cember, 1928, as compared with the, This was best illustrated in the de-| mand of Silas Strawn, big corpora- tion lawyer, in his demand to ap- point a business men’s committee to/| | supervise the City Council, plan tax | rates, etc. In the primaries of April, 1928, Frank L, Smith of Insull fame was “defeated” for the senate, but Insull and the power trust is just as well same month in 1927, showed an 11 per cent drop. There has been no noticeable increase in employment in Tilinois over last year, according to S. W. Wilcox of the state depart- iment of labor. In a view of pros- pects, he (Wilcox) forsees more un- |employment during 1929, especially |among the building trades workers and agricultural workers. Free em-| must organize their own defense | traton, or, as one paper put it, the corps for defense against the fascist| Wage Earners’ League “is being methods of the employers, work for | picked out of the junk-heap with the the overthrow of capitalism and the Prevent Threatening War represented in the senate by Glenn; | ployment offices throughout the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. Another outstanding issue is the traction problem, This is not a new issue, but recent disclosures show the intimate connection between the bankers, city administration, traction companies. The profits of the traction interests are increasing | daily. The traction workers on the and | idea of sending it into action as the leader of the Thomp8on movement in the aldermanic campaign.” In this aldermanic election cam- paign, the Workers (Communist) Party is the only working class party. Standing squarely upon the class struggle, fighting for the in-| terests of the working class and) against capitalism, putting forth aj) |list of Communist candidates in the Everywhere bushes and shrubs, wild strawberries and other wild frui grow in abundance. Where the forests have not been depleted eith with the ax or with devastating fires, there are bear, deer, and oth game. In the cold, clear streams are mountain trout. The Coe d@’Alenes lake is like a transparent gem in the rough setting of t mountains. It is delightful place for a summer outing, but a frightf place to live during the long winters, with the continual fear of sno slides, the digging out of the snow-bound houses, the floundering and from work through snow waist-deep. The railroad runs arow the mountains, through tunnels, across deep chasms on skeletons steel, up and down narrow canyons where there is just room enough f the roadbed. Before the coming of the jron horse, the burro was t only means of transportation, the hunter, the prospector and the Indi were the only inhabitants. Dutch Jake, with a partner was rambling around these mountai) One day they picketed their burro and we gouging around the rocks and crevices, looking for “pay-dirt” or a ve of ore. When they got back, they found that their burro had got t yope he was tied with tangled in some shrubs and could only move foot or two. They went to untangle the rope, and found that the donk: stamping and trampling the ground, had uncovered a ledge of 1 lead ore. Here they located the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, wh became one of the richest producers in the Coeur d’Alenes distri Dutch Jake made some money, and in later years he bought. a buildi in Spokane in which he ran a saloon. There he had a fine painting the burro that had found the mine for him and his partner. maybe forty years ago. At Burke we saw Mrs. Paul Corcoran, and gave her the greetir ‘and one of his attorneys, Roy O./state reiterate the statement that of the W, F. M. We assured her that we would do everything in ¢ | West, has just been confirmed as farmers are taking fewer and fewer) following proletarian wards: 3 (E. | elevated and surface lines are suf-| Against the Soviet Union! The Pilsudski government has re- plied to the serious proposal of the Soviet Union to sign, along with Poland and Lithuania, a treaty of non-aggression as a means of se- curing peace, with increased arma- ments and support of the Ukrainian war-mongers. The English imperialists have made a further advance in India. English agents organized in Afghan- istan, along with the backward strata of the country, an armed re- bellion in order to align this coun- try also in the anti-Soviet front. The revelations made by Comrade Cachin in the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the organizing C.Y. I. Greets ‘Weekly Young Worker’ Drive The National Executive Commit- tee of the Young Workers (Commu- nist) League, which is conducting a campaign to convert the Young ‘Worker from a monthly to a weekly paper, has received the following cable from the Executive Committee of the Communist Youth Interna- tional. “The Communist Youth Interna- tional greets enthusiastically the campaign for a weekly ‘Young Worker” The American League stands more than ever in need of kly organ in its militant fight working youth. Every mem- must give full support in suc- concluding the of the war of aggression against the Soviet Union, the conclusion of the secret agreeménts, the delivery of war material to the Border States, show the dangerous situation and the determined will of the French government to attack the Soviet Union. In the German Reichstag there was recently exposed the secret arm- ing of the bourgeoisie and the pro- duction of war material on a large seale; the construction of the ar- moured cruiser, ostensibly “for the defense of the Baltic,” shows that the new German imperialism is also taking its place in the anti-Soviet front. The establishment of the open | military dictatorship in Yugoslavia jis a further step towards the exten- sion and completion of the aggres- \sive front against the Soviet Union. | Workers of all countries! Friends \of the Soviet Union! | All these facts show the exceed- \ingly menacing war danger against |the Soviet Union. A war against the Soviet Union is a war against the workers of all countries. It is the duty of the working class to prevent this war by every means. The friends of the Soviet Union must organize the defensive front in the factories and workshops and in all workers’ organizations. Factory. meetings, mass demon- strations must be held in order to onlighten the workers regarding the threatening war danger. Committees in factories and trade unions must conduct the mass fight against war preparations. Down swith the imperialist war- Bs “iad Live the Soviet Union! LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF SOVIET. RUSSIA. |secretary of the interior in Cool- idge’s cabinet. Samuel Ettelson, per- sonal attorney for Samuel Insull, is | workers. fering from the worst kind of ex- Governor Emmerson in his ad-| ploitatior. The speed-up is becom- dress touched upon none of these! ing intolerable. Instead of receiving 10 (M.| 40 (Ham- |L. Doty); 9 (G. Gugich); 85 (Maruer); Lerian) ; | mersmark); 43 (Hirschler). (Special Correspondence) ; JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 3.—Details cf one of the most horrible outrages perpetrated against the American working class by the capitalists and planters of Mississippi, the burning at the stake of Charlie Shepard, escaped Negro prisoner, are begin- ning to seep through the southern press. y The mob murder was advertised in the columns of the capitalist press seven hours in advance, enabling a crowd of 6,000 in 3,000 automobiles to get to the scene in time for par- ticipation in the favorite sport of the southern capitalist class. Details of the horror were shame- lessly printed in the local capitalist press, and gloated over. Four hundred state troops, which aided in the three-day hunt, made no effort to use their gas and phos- phorous bombs to disperse the mob anl save Shepard, “T was thirty miles away when I was told at 1 o’clock that the mob had the Negro,” said General J. M. Hairston, “and I made no effcrt to find it.” He had immediately or- dered the soldiers home. Many of was described with gusto and the Negro workers warned that a sim- ilar fate would overtake them un- less they “stayed in their place.” Shepard was then carried to the gates of Camp 11. Here, with the same leisurely methodical precision which had marked their actions, the business men and planters, who acted as leaders of the mob, un- loaded dry wood for the cremation, built their pyre, bound and strapped Shepard and poured upon him gaso- line which had been carried for the eecasion. Lest he might die too quickiy as a result of inhaling gas fumes, Shep- ard’s mouth and nostrils were partly filled with mud before the match was touched to his body. It was clearly the intent of the mob to make their helpless victim suffer as long as possible. Ears Cut Off. Advertise in Advance Burning of Negro evidently women of fhe southern ruling class, were in the crowd and their shrill, excited shouts made a cueer accompaniment for the agon- ized shrieks of the burning Negro, who twisted and fought at his ropes, shrieking out curses at his captors and white people generally. A newspaper correspondent who witnessed the murder estimated that it was 45 minutes before the power- fully built Negro worker finally quit his convulsive twitching and agonized fighting at the ropes. Shepard, who boasted a powerful physique, fought his white captors to the time he was thrown, hog- tied on the bier, and he fought at the ropes and his torturers until the last breath of life left him. Even while he lay on the pile of burning wood, his wrists tied securely, he reached out after small pieces of wood, which he threw at members The flaming torch was again withheld as a well-dressed business man, intent on further torture, leaped from his «ar atop the pile of wood, straddiod ihe Negro’s body and cut off his ears with a pocket- of the mob. When, before the pyre was lighted, the mob member climbed over him and cut off his ears, he cursed and spat on the white fiend. He made a last final attempt at escape even as the flames whipped about him. Shepard twisted end rolled in the flames and knife, Wrapping the gruesome sou- venirs in his handkerchief he tossed finally rolled off the pile of flaming person them into the bottom of his Cadill At about 7:15 the flaming torch was applied to the gasoline-zoaked mass of humanity and wood and a shout went up from the circle of ctators as the gasoline flame shot in the air, licking with a thou- . tongues the tortured worker. hdre: stovewood. He tried to rise to his feet, and rose as far as the ropes binding his legs to his hands would allow. Members of the mob quickly reached for their guns, as if afraid that this single, hog-tied Negro white cowards present. However, mob leaders quickly knocked the guns down and advised against kill- ing the victim outright. Shepard was then seized and thrown back into the fire and more gasoline was then poured upon him, and his en- tire body drenched with oil. Legs Drop Off. Because the legs and feet had been saturated with oil first, these members burned away first and dropped from his torso even before Shepard twitched his last. At the coroner’s inquest, which followed this worse than medieval torture and murder, a verdict of “death from unknown causes” was given by “justice of the peace” Smith. FLIES FOR IMPERIALISM PARIS, Feb, 3 (UP).—Dieudonne Costes, famous French aviator, an- nounced today that he would start Feb. 19 on a flight from Paris to Hanoi, French Indo-China. He plans to stop at Constantinople, Bassorah, Karachi and Calcuta, hoping to make the entire span in three days. He will be accompanied by another pilot, a mechanic and a passenger. REVEREND HAS STRANGE _ “URGE.” OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 3 (UP) —Rev. Frglerick R. “Kid” Dodge, former professional boxer, was in the Highland Hospital here today “an che twins off the air drill for the last time, power to secure Paul’s release from the penitentiary. Mrs. Corcor was a young, black-haired Irishwoman with two beautiful childr | While martial law prevailed in the Coeur d’Alenes, Paul Corcoran, sec tary of Burke Miners’ Union Number 10 of the W. F. M,, had be tried on a charge of murder for causing the death of one Bartlett S clair on the day of the big explosion. Paul Corcoran was in no responsible, His arrest and the charge of murder against him w: because he was secretary of the strongest union in the lead distr The companies that manipulated the state legislature and defeated eight-hour law, the companies that intended to cut wages, the cc panies that could at their mere request have federal soldiers and mari law in the district, were the companies that employed a special pro cutor to conduct the trial of Paul Corcoran. He had been convic and sentenced to seventeen years in the penitentiary at Boise, Ida The special prosecutor was William A, Borah, now United Sta senator for the state of Idaho. He is still a responsible mouthpiece the exploiting class. We stopped at Mrs. Fox’s boarding house at Burke, which v well known to most of the mines of the West. I have heard mt stories of her-warm-heartedness. A miner coming to Burke was alw: welcome to a meal At her place: She caused much amusement amc her boarders. One time when new cabbage was just in, the old ]: had cooked up a lot. It was just what the miners were longing for: they kept asking for more. Bringing up the last plate full, she said: “Take that, ye sons of batches, and I'll bring yez a bale of hay the marnin’,” z Burke’s one street was so narrow that there was just room enci for the railroad track. When the train was in, a wagon could not p on either side. The canyon was so deep that the sun had to be nea at zenith to shine down into the town. At Mullen we met Patty Burke and a few other members of union. Our activities were of necessity under cover, because of district being under martial law. We avoided the hang-out of soldiers. Our purpose was to get word of encouragement to the mer the bull-pen. We wanted them to know that we had come to the Co” d’Alenes to bring to them the sympathy and the united support of organization, in the interests of which they were enduring the degra tion of imprisonment in the vermin-infested hole. The miners in bull-pen had gotten some gcantlings and long planks, and had lifted end of the roof and hung out a sign that they had painted on she It read, “The American Bastille.” This got under the hide of Gen Merriam, who seemed to think that his up-to-date bull-pen was appreciated. . * In the next instalment Haywood will tell of the horrors of t bull-pens in the Coeur d’Alenes under martial law of the U.S, fede: troops; gunmen imported to break the strike; the “rustlin, system of blacklist; back to his drill in the Brain mine sat Stoo, ‘i -