The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 6, 1929, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1929 Page Four —_— ily Sag Worker Central Organ of the Workers (Communist) Party SCRIPTION RAT: 1 (in New York only): $4.50 six months ree months By Mail (outside of New York): $6.00 a year $3.50 six months $2.00 three months SRT MINO: Address and mail all checks to eet AINOR-.<- The Daily Worker, 2 Union WM. F. DUNNE Square, New York, ‘A Loan to Rumania for War on Soviet Russia. Twenty-four hours after the announcement that the monstrou corrupt Rumanian government of Juliu Maniu (which replaced the equally corrupt government of Vintila Bratianu) had negotiated a $100,000,600 loan with the inter- national bankers,—i.e. had mortgaged the Rumanian work- ing class and peasantry to international finance-capital for generations, 200 Communists were-arrested in Bucharest. It is no accident that the arrests of the Communists by a government whose crimes against the working class have pierced the thick-walled horror chambers of its fortress prisons, and been the envy of the capitalists of all other na- tions, followed so close upon the heels of the international Joan. The loan and the capitalist offensive against the work- ers and peasants of all countries, and especially of the Soviet Union are closely related. Though capitalists of many nations participate in the international consortium which is manipulating this adven- ture in Balkan high finance, American names are conspicu- ous. Such concerns as Blair and Co. Inc., The Chase Securi- ties Company, and Dillon, Read and Company are prominent. The golden apples for which “Cotzefanesti Marie” juncketed to the United States, and which were to have furthered the already infamous reputation of the Bratianu regime, will now go to bolstering up the political shames of the Maniu clique with the Rumanian bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie. Wall Street, at first so wary, has suddenly grown great- hearted. And not only WallStreet. The catalogue of partici- pants in the present loan reads like a register of interna- tional finance-capital. Scandinavian, French, German banking institutions, such organizations of tremendous money power as the Swedish Match monopoly, the Banque de Paris et Bruxelles of France and Belgium, the huge Deutsche Bank and Disconto Gesell- schaft of Germany have agreed to float this loan. Stabilization of the Rumanian currency is the alleged At 5 p.m. yesterday it was uncertain whether this issue of the Daily Worker could go to press. The financial cr‘zis is at its worst. With the question of the mere existence of the Daily Worker hanging in the balance—and depend- ing each day upon how much money is brought into the office during the day— we have not yet the possibility to consider either resuming the normal size of the paper nor the publishing of Fred Ellis’ cartoons. We are absolutely confident that the militant workers will come to the rescue, that we will pull out of the But send funds quick to Ww crisis and resume the best features of the Daily Worker. ; ‘Ha THE DAILY WORKER, 26-28 Union Square, New York. By WILLI MUNZENBERG (Berlin) Ty perjalist Powers Strengthen Bloc; French Officers Train Troops of Little Entente HE last few weeks have brought | with them an extraordinary sharp- | ening of the international situation | and a considerable increase in the armaments against the Soviet Union. | mobiles and aircraft motors. The}against the Soviet Union must be! The leading British war group, hav- | artillery equipment of Poland is be- ing scored certain successes in their |ing supplied by works in Puteaux, In France, diplomatic intrigues against the} Soviet Union, have now in the last |few months commenced serious mili- | tary actions against the Soviet | Union. The reports on the origin and the |course of the rebellion in Afghan- | istan prove that Great Britain is en- deavoring, by supporting the insur- rectionary movement, to check the | out, a victory of the British war- mongers in Afghanistan would have | had a decisive influence upon the | imperialist war front in the East against the Soviet Union. At the| |same time increasing attempts are | | Bourges, Toulouse, etc. Cherbourg is being used as a naval basis for dispatching machine guns, warships, ete., another such base has been secured in the Baltic and also in Saloniki. secured. On the other hand, all diplomatic intrigues are being increased in or- front, in connection with which the Belgrade paper “Politika” only a |few days ago published sensational |reports regarding the negotiations of, the British Ambassador Kennal ar Alliance Against the USSR |war and military conflicts among the imperialist states themselves, a fact which the Conference of the In- \ternational Women’s League for |Peace and Freedom, which took Copyright, 1929, by International Publishers Co., Inc. BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK Eanes Takes Executive Office; the 1901 Convention; Debs and Hagerty; the Fight for Eight Hours In previous chapters Haywood told of his boyhood among the | Mormons in Utah; young manhood as miner and cowboy in Nevada; of years in the mines of Silver City, Idaho; his advance through the | union to Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners. He has been ordered to visit Idaho and try to obtain a pardon for Paul Corcoran, imprisoned Coeur d’Alene strike leader, and prepare to move to Denver to take up his duties as head of the W. F. M. All rights reserved. Republica- tion forbidden except by permission. * * * By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. there was nothing more that could be done, I went directly to Silver City, which was only sixty miles away. The last half of the journey was by stage. I found my wife and babies had gotten along nicely while I was away. The next day I went up to the Blaine mine . | and was there when the shift came out at noon. The A der to align Yugoslavia in the war} place a few days ago in Frankfurt, | |was bound to overlook, as the con- | ference consisted mainly of bour- | geois women intellectuals, the ma- | jority of whom belong to the social democratic party. This explains | why conference rejected the pro- | posal of the convener of the confer- ence (a pacifist who is sincerely striving for peace) to appeal to the | governments to examine and to con- | sider the peace proposals of the} they went back for more. have tightened up,” take a look.” “No,” I said, “thank you. men congratulated me on my being elected secretary- treasurer, and wished me much success. After dinner when they were getting ready to go in, I saw Harry Palmer carrying an armload of drills out of the black- smith shop. His partner had another load, and then I said to Harry, “It must You never saw anything like it,” he answered, “Tt’s harder than the hubs of hell. Come on in and I’m not going under- In addition the armies of Poland, | Rumania and the Little Entente are being trained by French officers and One can gain an idea of \influence of the Soviet Union and|the number of French officers and make itself master of the situation. | generals in the different states when In connection with the military prep- |one remembers that in the year 1920 arations on the Indian frontiers, |the.French military staff in War- which are already practically carried |saw consisted of 1,000 officers, in- generals. cluding 40 generals and marshals. Provocation. These armaments and the support | of the war preparations of Poland and Rumania by France are clearly the revealed in the attitude of in Belgrade with the Croatian na- tional peasant party as to the latter supporting the anti-Soviet bloc. In the night of Jan. 5 and 6 King Alex- ander, under the influence of Great Britain, carried out a coup d’etat, abolished Parliament and set up a |fascist dictatorship. Great Britain |has thereby firmly aligned this state lin the anti-Soviet bloc. Strengthen Bloc. At the same time pressure is be- ing increased upon Czechoslovakia in order to force through a more Soviet government. The social-dem- ocratic majority of the conference deleted this proposal from the reso- |lution. Pacifist Attitude. The Frankfurt Conference of the |Women’s League for Peace and Freedom has again confirmed the fact that in spite of the good will of individual intellectuals and pa- cifists it is hopeless to expect a se- rious action against the danger of war, and in particular the war against the Soviet Union, from these ground for a year. So long, boys!” It took only a few days to get my affairs straightened out, and pack up all that we wanted to take with us. We left the house and furniture in charge of a friend, not knowing but what we would be re- turning after the next convention. With my wife, who was then able to walk, my little girl Vernie, and the baby Henrietta, we left Silver City to make our home for a time in Denver. We rented a furnished house near the mint. It.was within easy | walking distance of the new office, which was in the Mining Exchange Building. There we had splendid quarters on the sixth floor, There were four rooms, one of them extra large, and two big vaults. In mov- | ing the office by freight from Butte, a lot of work had accumulatec. | There was mail for nearly three months that had not been opened. The accounts for this period had not been entered in the books. James | Maher, my predecessor, had given me some good suggestions, but here was the work itself piled up in front of me, There were hundreds of letters to answer. We got two stenographers and in a short time we had cleaned up most of the correspondence. Shortly afterward Boyce and his wife left for Ireland. I caught their boat at Queenstown with a cable that read, “Paul pardoned.” I thought it a good beginning. _ being made by the British to equip | tench cabinet to the Soviet Union's and make ready serviceable Chinese peace proposal to Poland. Immedi- auxiliary corps in the war being pre- ately after the publication cf the pared by Great Britain against the | soviet Union’s note to Warsaw with | Soviet Union. the offer to sign the guarantee War Alliance. |treaty of the Kellogg Pact, the Paris British policy has succeeded in the ;cabinet did everything in order to last year in winning France for an | bring about a sharp and brusque re- |aggressive action against the Soviet |jection by Poland of this proposal. The military plans of the imperialist powers for an in- | Union, a success on the part of The view of the French government shi Pe |Great Britain the effects of which | was expressed in an official leading vasion of the Soviet Union indicate Rumania as their base of lare expressed most concretely in the |article of the government newspaper | circles. It is characteristic that a speaker | could declare, amidst applause of the conference, that, if there is to be war, ther at least there should not be a gas-war. It was pointed out by Communist delegates at the conference that to the worker it is of small importance whether he is to die by gas or whether he is to lose his life by a shell, and that, on the other hand, what is of im- rapid and stronger support of the bloc against the Soviet Union. Acting on the orders of the im- | perialist war-mongers and military groups, white generals and military commissions, and particularly immi- grants from the Ukraine, are al- | ready preparing practical military |measures for the invasion of the |Ukraine. A congress of these | Ukrainian emigrants is to take place in the middle of January in War- concern which has stimulated international finance-capital to the sudden interest evidenced by the loan. What Marie and Bratianu failed to secure, Maniu has succeeded in securing. But it is no profound confidence in the stability of the Maniu regime of rich peasants, shopkeepers and professionals which has motivated the international bankers. There is a far pro- founder motive. * * The absence of Boyce increased the work. Night after night I stayed at the office until the small hours of the morning. I replied to all the letters that came addressed to Boyce as well as to all my own correspondence. I had to edit and write artices for the Miners’ Maga- All this when I was more familiar with the operations against the Soviet Republic of Ukrainia. The French general Le Rond, whose conferences in Bucharest with Marshall Pilsudski, Polish fascist dictator, are common knowledge, is credited with the elaboration of these plans, He is also credited with recommending (France, Great Britain and their allies among the Little Entente have concurred) that the proposed invasion of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic be made simultaneously from southern Poland and the eastern Rumanian frontier. For its share of the imperialist plunder Poland has been promised large regions to the south and east. Rumania is to get territories adjacent to Bessarabia. But first comes the loan. For the immense contracts granted recently by the Maniu government to the Czecho-Slovakian Skoda Munitions Works must be paid for. Oh yes, the Rumanian currency must be stabilized! The French and Central European munitions capitalists, who are already reaping fortunes from the war plans of the Euro- pean imperialists against the workers and peasants republic, must be paid. And it is the Rumanian peasantry and working class who will pay them, while the Maniu regime, masquerading as peasant party, bleeds them of their harvests and wages thru tithes and taxes, as it will bleed them of their life-blood if it can force even one battalion of peasants or Rumanian work- ers to march against the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics in the bloody war the imperialists have plotted to unloose upon the wheat fields of the Ukraine. But the Rumanian Communists stand in the way of the conspiracy of international capitalism. The Communists are to be rounded up and thrown into these deep Rumanian — from which the greater number may never emerge alive. It is no accident that the consummation of the loan and iad beginning of the new persecutions are separated by hours only. AN ANTI-COMMUNIST PAPER DIES. For many years the socialist labor party, thanks to its old paper “Arbetaren” had a certain support among the Scandinavian workers in _ this country. For 34 years that paper existed. At its earlier time it ‘was revolutionary. After the split in the Scandinavian Federation of the socialist labor party its influence began to vanish. At that time, 1920 to 1921 a majority of its members split with the clearly opportun- ist group then and now leading the remnants of what formerly was the socialist labor party. The group that split away came closer to the Workers (Communist) Party, and now most of its one-time members are either members of the Workers (Communist) Party or among the -Party’s closest supporters and sympathizers. “ There was hardly any paper in America that went so far in its attacks against the Communists as did Arbetaren (“The Worker”). That was even the reason why the Scandinavian workers generally called it “Motarbetaren” (The Anti-Worker). Year after year its sup- port grew smaller. Especially its attacks against our party paper, our Scandinavian weekly “Ny Tid” (New Age) had very bad conseque: It ended in a sharp fight between these two papers, and now Ny Tid is the triumphant victor. The social democratic “Arbetaren” is dead, Ny Tid goes forward to new victories. There is now not a single social democratic paper in this country in any of the Scandinavian languages, nor any other labor paper except Ny Tid. That means that Ny Tid now is the only workers’ paper in “Scandoamerica.” Its ‘victory over old adversary and enemy is a victory for our Party, and consequently the American working class. Let us hope that our Scandinavian ~ gomrades now will understand to use this victory ina correct way. The socialist labor party slowly but surely goes toward its death ‘even as a sect, there is now hardly anything of it left, except a national bureau and a handful of old members. The Central Committee maintains that the economic crisis in the United States which has been long due has been delayed. We give three rea: for this: 1) The industrialization of the South; 2) The intensi- on of the exploitation of Latin America; 3) Increased foreign particularly with Europe and Asia, These three reasons may wrong, but let the Opposition come forward. with its own reasons. Why doesn’t the Opposition give them to us? It is because they haven’t ‘They don’t know any and can’t understand the economic situation. an article by Jay Lovestone, “Some Issues in the Party ’ in the January-February issue of The Communist. Polish-Rumanian war alliance of last year and in the Ukrainian policy | paper writes in a most provocative |manner against the offer of the | Comrade Cachin recently submit- Soviet Union and urges with cynical |ted new and important evidence to | candor the necessity of rejecting the of Poland, Rumania and France, ‘the French chamber. Already in the | year 1920 France undertook and car- |vied out the equipment of the Polish larmy of intervention against the |Soviet Union. The Polish govern- |ment of 1928-29. is continuing this \policy. As in 1920, the French gov- ernment is today supplying Poland, |Rumania and the countries of the Little Entente with large quantities of arms and munitions. The firm of |Schneider in Le Havre is manufac- \turing artillery parts for Poland; |Renault in Billancourt is supplying \“Le Temps” of Jan, 4, 1929, joffer. It declares: { “The aim of the Soviet govern- ment in making this proposa! con- tained in Litvinov’s note to Patek is to divide Poland and Rumania, who are allied by a treaty, or to provoke a rejection of the Rus- sian formula which is unaccept- | able to any power, no matter which, having connections with other nations.” In other words, the war pact be- tween Poland and Rumania must be This | saw. | Information has been received from Prague in the last few days that weapons and military trans- ports from France to Poland have become thore numerous in the last few weeks, Up to the present the German government has not given any an- swer to the interpellation of the Communist deputies in the Reich- stag regarding the increased pro- duction of munitions and armaments in German factories. The rapidly increasing danger of war against the Soviet Union must be clearly recognized. This danger is today more immediate and more maintained, the Polish Rumanian |directly threatens many millions of them with tanks, machine gun auto-|sector of the general war front | human lives than the danger of gas portance is not to die in imperialist war at all. The course of the Frank- furt Conference has again proved that a serious action against the new criminal war which Great Pritain and France are preparing against the Soviet Union can only ensue if the working classes in all countries found fresh Communist Party groups, form Committees of Friends of Soviet Russia, which are a hundred times mere valuable as a vaeans for preventing war than dozens of conferences such as that held at Frankfurt. The lesson to be drawn is: strengthening of the proletarian de- fensive front against the threaten- ing war and for support of thi Soviet Union. : weg By CYRIL BRIGGS Eight strikes at Negro colleges in \vecent years are evidence of the re- volt of Negro youth against the ef- forts of white college presidents to turn out future “Uncle Toms” to) succeed the crop now fortunately | | dying out, | That “benevolent despotism” of | white college heads or trustee boards is teaching “pacifism and servility” | is showr. by John P. Davis in an article in the January “New Stu- | dent.” Davis is a graduate student | jat Harvard and a former Bates Col- lege debater. Every moment of the student’s time is scheduled, his clothing prescribed, even down to his underwear. He is compelled to attend chapel and is put to bed every night at ten o’clock. Espe- sially is his reading censored. In many colleges and schools in the south even the magazine of the wob- bling and fearful Du Bois is barred. Latest. books on the race question are absolutely taboo. Strikes 2 Howard University and Fisk resulted in resignation of Pres- idents Durkee and McKenzie, both of them white arbiters of what Ne- groes should be taught. Davis notes other strikes as follows: Hampton, Kittrell, Knoxville, St. Augustine and two additional outbreaks at Howard University. Minor revolts have been staged at nearly every Dixie college. At Hamptonewhite faculty mem- bers were accused of rnembership in the Klu Klux Klan. They ate at tables separate from the Negro teachers, At Fisk, Howard and Hampton the faculty also tried to intimidate the students. Students’ mail is opened by the faculties of most of these colleges; especially is mail from the north scrutinized. Students’ mail goes through two classes of censorship, first at the post offices, where all mail of Negroes is carefully watched, and again at the hands of the fac- ulty. At Storer College and Touga- loo College the faculties reserve the right to dispose of “objectionable” mail “in any way desirable.” At A. and T. College, Greensboro, |vis points out. uth Fight College Despotism jand women. Nothing is left to their | own initiative. White College Heads Teach Servility; Reading) “such conditions as these exist By EUGENE LYONS. (United Press Staff Correspondent) MOSCOW, Feb. 4 (UP).—A mil- lion human lives, among them 300,- 000 infants, are saved every year by the Commissariat of Health, its head, Dr. Nicholas Semashko, claimed in an interview given the United Press. In support of his claim he cited the reduced death rate in the Federated Socialist So- viet Republics—21 for every 1,000, against a pre-war rate of 27 per thousand. Dr. Semashko started his profes- sional career as a country doctor in the Volga region. Now, chief of one of the most important branches of the Soviet government and re- sponsible for the health of 140,000- 000 people over one-sixth of the earth’s surface, he still retains the air of a country doctor. Cheerful, rather rotund, with a professional- looking pointed beard, he is un- doubtedly one of the most charming men in the Soviet government. But under Dr. Semashko’s charm one senses a hard unsmiling ear- nestness. As he speaks there emerges a picture of his enormous, almost disheartening task. In a country which for generations has accepted the most fearsome epi- demics as a matter of course, a country for the most part still steeped in the darknest sort of su- perstition, a country almost devoid N. C., as at Hampton and Tuske- of modern mechanical sanitation, his Censored; Autocratic Rule “Regulation uni-|rooms; playing cards and tobacco forms are required; matrons rule|are strictly forbidden on the cam- men’s dormitories; students are for- | pus. bidden to entertain visitors in their | “universal robots” out of grown men Everything is done to make Soviet Health Bureau Saves | Millions of Lives Yearly troduce the latest preventive medi- cine. “Evil Eye” Feared. “In thousands of villages,” he said, “one of our serious problems is the ‘magician.’ The ‘evil eye’ is still credited with more diseases than the bacillus, and cures are still expected from the local witch instead of the local hospital.” Nevertheless, Dr. Semashko is convinced that great progress has been achieved, hospitals, more dispensaries, more sanitoria, more of everything that conduces to health, he pointed out, and it is only a question of time before Russia will be brought to a par with other European countries in the matter of health, The general level of health, he declared, is undoubtedly higher than before the war. He credited this to two chief factors. First, the peasant now has land and therefore eats more and better food. Second, the general cultural efforts both in city and country have led to great- er cleanliness. Deaths Decrease. As a good indication of the popu- lation he produced interesting fig- ures about the army and the navy. Drawn from the same sort of peo- ple substantially as before the war, the statistics offer some basis of comparison. For every 1,000 officers in the army, in 1913, ease 6.85; for died of dis- eyery thousand sol- “gee, there is compulsory chapel, Da- Commissariat is attempting to in-| diers, the death spte was 3.06 in the zailroad industry easier. There are more| |generally in practically all of the | Negro colleges in the south. They jare based on two fallacies: 1. That the Negro student is not prepared for the exercise of free will. Back of this is the fear of the white edu- cator that if the Negro is .allowed the exercise of liberty he will be- come too dangerous to live in the southern white community. Every | effort is made to teach servility and Pacifism, “But the Negro student has long since given up the motto of his pre- decessors in college: ‘Take the world and give me Jesus.’ He is only willing to share Jesus if the white man will share his world.” Davis also points out that the col- leges headed by Negroes suffer from the same fate because they are de- pendent upon white capital. So long as capital, white or black, dominates the Negro colleges, so long will they be institutions of “pacifism and ser- vility.” same year. The corresponding fig- ures in 1925 were 1.81 officers and 2.50 soldiers; in 1927—1.19 officers and 1,21 soldiers. 5 Deaths from disease in the navy: per 1,000, in 1918—6.37 officers, 2.35 sailors; in 1927—4.21 officers, 1.03 sailors. Make One Trust Out of New York Central and Its Leased Railroads WASHINGTON (By Mail).—The Interstate Commerce Commission has granted the New York Central Railroad permission to effect an op- eration merger of itself and roads under lease by it, including the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (the “Big Four” line), the Michigan Central, the Cincinnati Northern, the Peoria and Eastern and the Kankakee and Central. The T. C. C. has been very friendly to mergers lately, and has introduced a bill into congress which has the backing of both Coolidge and Hoover, to make trustification of the zine. I posted the books. stormy end of a number two shovel than I was with a pen! When Boyce returned they lived at our house. He took up the work ¢f the organization again in earnest. When there were matters of importance to discuss, we would sit down at his desk or mine and go over every angle of the situation carefully. When we had arrived at a mutual understanding he would say, as @ rule, “Well, we are agreed,” or “Let us agree on this.” So the matter would stand. I never had to worry about a change of mind on his part. There would never be a reversal of plans or strategy, without mutual understanding. Boyce asked me for a photograph of our baby, Henrietta, and ran it as a frontispiece in the Miners’ Magazine, over the caption “our mascot.” Eleanor Boyce had been a school teacher in the Coeur d’Alenes, and | was “grub-staking” her father and brothers who were working on @ claim called the Hercules. One day she got a telegram saying that they had struck the ledge. It has proven to be one of the biggest mines of the West. She had become overnight worth more than a million dollars. Boyce said little or nothing then about his plans for the future. He had previously announced his intention to quit the presidency at the next election. I said to Boyce one day at the office that, while Denver was a fine city for the headquarters, we could not stay there unless the thousands of unorganized smeltermen there and in surrounding towns were brought into the organization. It would be necessary to give that part of fhe organization work our immediate and most energetic attention. An eight-hour law had been passed in Colorado, similar in detail to the Utah law, but it was declared unconstitutional by the state supreme court. The efforts of the W. F. M. and other workers had been directed to securing an amendment to the Constitution, which was carried by the overwhelming vote of 46,714 majority. The American Smelting and Re- fining Company, the United Reduction Company, with other smelters and milling plants of the state, simply ignored the provision and con- tinued to work men in eleven hours day shift and thirteen hours night shift. I devoted much of my time after office hours to organizing the men employed in the Globe, Argo, and Grant smelters. In this work I was ably assisted by Max Maelich, Joe Mehelic, E. J. Smith and other old time smelter workers. The 1901 convention was held in Denver. We had Eugene V. Debs and Thomas Hagerty present, and arranged for them to address a meéting in the Coliseum during the convention week. We got rooms for Debs and Hagerty in a little family hotel called the Imperial. I re- member one evening when Debs had got into his pajamas. He was long and lanky and bald-headed, and sat in the middle of the bed with his feet crossed under him and n pipe in his mouth. He was spinning yarns about his past experiences. Hagerty was a Catholic priest, a big man physically, a good scholar, and a fairly good speaker. We expected him to make a strong appeal to the workers of his religious belief. ° . . Debs was already well known to the delegates, as he had helped the W. F. M.. as a speaker and organizer when the Cloud City Miners Union had been on strike at Leadville in 1896. He was known to all of us as one of the finest orators in the labor movement. We all knew his weaknesses and some of us knew of his pathetic letter to John D. Rockefeller appealing for funds for his colonization scheme. In spite of these things we all liked him. He was a genial man and we ad- mired the fight that he had led for the American Railway Union, Debs was then a socialist of some years’ standing, and Boyce and I had joined the Socialist Party in Denver that year, after the Unity convention in Indianapolis. The principles of socialism were adopted and a vigorous campaign of education was advocated at this convention of the W. F. M. We were to form a bureau of education and our first move in the educational line was to arrange meetings for Debs and Hagerty, who was also a socialist, through the mining regions. I had talked over with both of them our plans for continuing the eight-hour fight. Charles H. Moyer +ras a smelter man from South Dakota. He was a member of the executive board, and this convention elected him presi- dent of the Western Federation of Miners, John C. Williams was elected vice-president, and I was re-elected secretary-treasurer. * * In the next instalment Haywood writes of the Telluride, Colorado Miners’ Union, the report of ite president Vincent St. John, who later was head of the 1. W. W.; of the Citizens’ Alliance and the tragedies. *