The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 13, 1929, Page 1

" THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For « Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor a Party a] D aily Worker Entered as second-class matic: a: the Vont Utfice at New York, N.Y. under the act of Mareb 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $3.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. Sunday by Phe National Daily Worker men 276-26 Union Sq., New York, N. Y. Fol VI., No. 6 ANTEFASCISTI ORGANIZATION IS. NOW WORLD WIDE Berlin Congress Plans| ‘International Fight | on Blackshirts LATHERS UNION Sovzet Union — OFFICIALS RUN. Celebrates the HOOVER SAVING INTERVENTION OFFERED 10 MEN OFF JOBS. 22" 184” OIL FOR COMING GIL. BY U.S. ARMY OFFICER niversary of the overthrow of Czar Complete Conservation itants Expose Waste |;, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1929 _ Price “Assure Peace” the U. S. Army “Would Give Its Life Blood Gladly,” Gil Told | Nicholas II. It w: March 12,! , 1917, that Nicholas was forced to ANMOunced to Press as Permanent Plan give up his throne by the pressure of the rising revolution. Shields Big Oil Barons Sentence Communist Kellogg Says U. S. Will Never Recognize the Rebels; Decisive Battle Expected Police ‘Attack Meeting Billings Honored With | The overthrow of the czar was llowed by the impotent Kerensky | ministry which for a period of eight sue Leaflet on Case months tried to create a \M Is WASHINGTON Department offic nothing cone ng the report from arch 12.—War would y ety bourgeois j Wi aires gan that mach uns are Place on Presidium | : : Pe desoercy Appoints Millionaires; Bee a iaehion | eo ‘(Wireless By “Inprecorr?) | More than 30 workers lost their lives and thoveands faced star | Of Suspended Loca eee SIE aan finally to “Little Cabinet planes for dispatch to Mexico , r-| vation when Constantinople was buried in the heaviest storm in 200 : aon power 20a good and the! Se a ie eS ogee ees cata Peat dee ok che ea : When members of Local 6 of the) state was taken over by the Work-| WASHINGTON, March 12—Di- MONTEREY, Mexico, March 12. nai ion ns cre ers jLaihere Union went. to a” job so | are’, \Péakants’'atd’'Soldiers’ Coun-| rect assistance to. the~ largest’ oil —With a force of at 000 s aac peers eile ; ites wee 4 7 which they were meh Recs led by the Bolsheviks. |companies which hold now. enough diers, General Juan A. Al paidlindecrcguie sat igen PO aN ada union secretary recently, they found! ‘The victorious revoluti PNG. |e agp tke 3 A federal chief in northerr rreeent tron cemanr, 4 trom B20 Cooper Union Rally of —\wiersees scat Tareos| yerneg iesrigu® revolution of No-| i) lands to continue production at catestned tunilgne See ce cs Haeee 20. spe asene sora: - witz, did not belong to the big con-| cialist. Soviet Republics, which to.|® Tate faster than the market can Saltillo and a test of battle with rom Norway, 32 from Britain, Ne dl T; di Vi 1 T di tractors’ trust that is being organ-| gay exte hy ai omar. Wena ie st profitable rebels under General Escobar hold Be a 5 brine | t Ors. 4 ose Dene. OFS |day extends over one-sixth of the @2Sorb it a’ ie most profitable rebe unc zenera cobar hol ppt te aap leg ata cede vade Orrers LO ay [ized a Ren ath 20s Vieni) they| world’s surface and is the only|prices was given by President ing the territory between Saltillo Poland, 5 from Denmark, 5 from * were to be laid off, by thelr union! workers’ government in the world. |Hoover today. He announced that ae adie ERLE ae the United States of America, : PROBATION FOR | A mass meeting of needle trades fui 4 no oil leases at all would be granted phcteinkhre ey ; St 44 PS = worker: J es | The union delegate appeared,| | Calles’ main arm moving un a aap a pie ais, Wanker! Sabla rane ont ae vith a gang of strong arm men, T Y except on orders from Congress. | from ~the ~South, battle will yas Ronnie sae e eae held tonight in Cooper Ohisn Eight |and drove every man from the job. This leaves the government oil sup- wrobably decide whether the rebels Balkan patlenal minorities, “Ainong [St and Fourth Ave. soon after 7/Turcowitz is being punished by the| plies ‘iitaetscxeady stor wan ih ety win or lose throughout the nation. . : Stetocle junion, to aid the bosses form an| : : ; * ‘ the. well-known, persons» present| Meee int |@nti-labor organization, and th ape cconeno wens (ape clones te NOGALES, Arizona, March 12 were: Karolyi, Fan Noli, Miglioli} | The meeting was called to acquaint |@M}~apor orga fobat ents eae | Standard Oil and its friends secure ROG AEE, A noan.: Mant | ee the union membership and the work- |@ion lathers who get jobs only oc- aa : 5 General Manzo, rebel commander in and Ledebour. | 4 2 casionally these days, had to be| from campetition of rivals which Sonora, would not admit alarm at Th idl tmmonsly. New Bedford Workers ers in the trade with the outcome |C@Sionally Fy bares xe . . . : . oH ee spilieeeedels REM a ae ete ie presidium, —_unani y lof the general strike in the dress |PUnished too. Hillmani Thr might buy their way in as Sinclair For writing an editorial attack- the news that 800 rebel troops at pepe he te ot Pala, ee | to Hold Mass Rally lindustry. Speakers wili also report | Progressives Fight. illmanites hreaten did under a previous republican ad-| ing the British constitution which |Naco, on the border, had reverted o ain, » - : #e 2 | pro 5 ” 7 ” g “aadizse. ” > federals. 3 | P a rolyi of: Hungary, Migholi: of Ttaly, | ce y jon the projected general strike the’ Energetic protest is being made| Thug, Police Terror | ministration. agents See Be Seana EO the fedoras n ott musty sae Muensenbergeand Heekert of Ger.| (Special to the Daily Worker) | union is about to organize in the fur |againat euch ‘actions and otven aie, Save Up’ Ot rvs Vaara, editor of ‘the “Wa- | Nogales, Sonora. | However, Manso othera: |12.—Eleven picket captains and |standards instead of the sweat shop |the Progressive Building Trades |of Stolofsky and Hyman, who went in the regular twice-a-week press| , ens plese dy ine x : at Billings on Presidium. The following victims were clected | honorary members of the presidium: | Billings, ‘Terracini, Gramsci, Ra-| kosi, Stefanow, Dobrogheanu,| Marty, Margies and others. On the agenda were: fascism, im-| perialism, war danger, fascist ter- | ror, the situation of the workers, | peasants and intellectuals under | fascism, and international anti-fas- cist methods, | After numerous telegranis of | greeting were read, Barbusse spoke | on the first points of the agenda, stressing the great significance of | the congress and describing fascism as the scourge of humanity. He de- elared the congress had not met. to mourn the victims of fascism, but | to prepare for the practical struggle to destroy fascism. There was tremendous applause for Barbusse’s speeech, Manfred Georg, chief editor of the big daily, Tempo, Karolyi, two vic- tims of the Czecho-Slovakian fas- cism, Doctor Welti of Switzerland and Heckert of Germany also spoke. Britain Not Democratic. | Middleton, a British delegate, de- | clared Britain was no longer a great | democratic country, but that strong tendencies toward fascism existed, for instance, the anti-trade union bill, Mondism, ete. He said the re- formist trade union leaders were as- sisting the government to abolish | the workers’ rights, but that the | revolutionary spirit of the workers | strike leaders of the six-month-long textile general strike which ended here some time ago, were given the same sentence as was received by the 100 strikers tried last week. They were freed but must undergo a six month’s probation period. Five hundred and forty-nine cases are still to be heard and the next batch comes up tomorrow in the Superior Court, Bristol County. By ordering the most active picket captains and strike leaders, bunched for trial together and separated from the other mass of defendants, the impression was created that the Massachusetts judges were prepair- ing to assume their usual function of hangmen for. the mill. owners. The workers believed that a frame- up was in preparation against their (Continued on Page Five) MILITANTS GALL MEET IN LONDON Compete With Yellow Conference, May 11 LONDON, March 12.—In invita- tions sent out by the reformist Gen- eral Council of the Trade Union Congress to appoint delegates to the annual conference of Trades conditions now obtaining in the fac- tories. . | Members of ali departments in the jindustrial organization ~ of needle workers are called to attend the meeting. Socialists Fake “Strike.” jachieved by the new left wing union in improving the standards of the dress workers through the bril- \liant general strike, the officialdom jof the reactionary Socialist Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers | Union, whose prestige suffered not jonly among the workers but among even their friends, the bosses, are trying to recoup their waning for- tunes. They therefore decided. on a plan which will net them a ‘little more “consideration” from the em- ployers: and at the same time line their pockets comfortably. They an- nounced a threatened strike in the cloak trade and, calling their hench- jinen together, passed a unanimous motion to tax each member_belong- jing to the right wing union $10 apiece. That the threat to strike is a fake one can be seen in the fact that all assistance they received from the employers hitherto in fighting the left wing unions, was given because they aimed to replace the militant struggle policies of the left wing swith their no-strike policies of their scab union. While these. mythical “strike threats” are polluting the atmos- phere, the left wing is busy organ- izing their forces for duplicating |; Due to the remarkable successes | ‘Group, Lathers’ Section, which |charges directly that this Turco- | witz incident is but one of a series, ja general policy of class collabora- tion with the largest and strongest employers, In addition to this, the progres- |sives charge in leaflets they are dis- |tributing, the union officials waste |the money of the local, to the point where it was suspended by the in- |ternational.. The officials are also \plainly charged in these leaflets with demanding graft from prospec- tive members, and with making pri- vate agreements with the bosses, for an unknown consideration, to leave certain jobs non-union. The officials against. which “the progressives bring these grave (Continued on Page Two) WIN MILL STRIKE 'New Union Gains Fast Victory for Weavers NEW BEDFORD, Mass., March 12.—A quick victory was the reward reaped by the 50 weavers in the Achushnet Mills, who walked out on strike yesterday under the leader- INNEW BEDFORD out on strike in defiance of orders to the contrary issued by the Hill- man machine in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, will be compelled to face an anti-picketing terror this morning,.if the plans of Follander, Hillman henchman, do} not go astray, | | In answer to this probability, | |whigh was openly threatened by the | “trade manager” of the Hillman | |regime at a shop meeting of the| | workers, the fighters in the shop and | |the Executive Committee of the Shop | | Delegates Conference, organized as | many strike sympathizers as pos- sible for a picket demonstration exurly this morning. Would Fire “Lefts. The strike broke out in this shop after the plotting of the Hillman of- ficials with the bosses, hatched the dismissals of two left wingers the union wanted to get rid of, and two other workers the boss wanted to get rid of. When the strike took | |state three of the workers provided the fourth, the leading left winger, be ousted from his job. The work- ers revolted, demanding the rein- statement of all. Hollander, at the shop meeting, tried to frighten the workers by de- claring that he would send a “big committee” (of paid thugs) to allow anyone that desired to return to work. It was also learned that the Industrial Squad of the Police De- partment would be there to lend as- place the officials agreed to rein- | conference today, as follow: “There will be no leases or dis- posal of government oil lands, no| matter what category they may lie | in, of government holdings or gov- ernment control except those which may be mandatory by Congress. In other words, there will be complete conservation of government oil in this administration.” President Hoover today appointed Ernest L. Jahncke, of New Orleans, to be assistant secretary of the navy | to succeed Theodore Douglas Robin- | son of New York. | Patrick J. Hurley, of Tulsa, Okla., was apoointed assistant secretary of | war.- He succeeds Col, C.-C: Reb-| bins, of Jowa. Two Millionaires. Jahncke is a millionaire yachts- man from New Orleans . He owns the Jahncke dry docks there, and a shipp ag service. He led such re- publican forces as exist in that southern state. Hurley is the leader of Hoover forces in Oklahoma. He was a lieutenant colonel during the world war, and will have charge of indus- | trial mobilization plans in the com- jing war. He will also have much to say about the valuable contracts ‘let by the goveinment even before the war. There is much profit in the proper handling of these con- tracts. LENINGRAD MEET | of Canada, was sentenced to six his family across the line as well. | months in jail and a fine of $1,000. a 8 In default, he will be compelled _ El PASO, Teas, March 12.—A to serve two extra years in jail. thinly disguised offer to President An appeal by the Canadian Labor Gil of Mexico to invade Mexico with Defense has been rejected. United States troops to aid Gil sup- SEE TAs a aa -—~ —<+— press the present rebellion, was made today by Brigadier General course of an “unofficial” exchange of telegrams: the U. S. troops massed on the bor- — der ready to act in case the Gil Finn Communist Editor government may desire, th the sup- posed function of doing no more Must Serve TORONTO, Ont., March 12.—Arvo than..“guarding the border,’”..to en- force the embargo on arms and air- planes ordered by Hoover. |Vaara, editor of “Vapaus,” daily |newspaper of the Finnish section of | the Communist Party of Canada, President Gil at Mexico City had sent a telegram thanking an Ameri- | must serve a sentence of six months ,©@7 amy officer for giving @ blood |and pay a $1,000 fine or, in default, transfusion in a vain effort to save |serve two extra years in jail, was the life of a Mexican officer wound- the decision of the Second Appel-!ed in the battle at Juarez. Mose- jlate Court at Osgoode Hall, in re- Jcy’s broad hint that the U. S. Army |Jjecting the appeal of the Canadian | ould enjoy being asked by Gil to Hessae eg Defense League. come in and “assure peace” | Chargéd with sedition, Vaara was | worded as follow jarrested for writing an editorial on for its callous indifference to the of the ed See ee plight of the British unemployed, | Would gladly give of their life blood | The defense appealed on the grounds |if permanent peace, prosperity and |that the judge failed to state to the happiness could be guaranteed to all | jury material facts in the evidence |the Mexican people.” This, of course, |favorable to the accused, and espe-|j< {cially prejudiced the jury by was “Speaking personally and unoffi- men ing more nor less than an of- is i vorld | mis- ai i aa: ist ship of the Mill Commi |sistance to the Hillman underworld | : y_mis-|fer to intervene with arms in the was unbroken, The great reception | Councils in’ London on May 11, there ip je Meal Commition. Of the |e linen: stating the evidence of Ahlquist and . Board of Aldermen; Deputy Street given the marching unemployed, the (Continued on Page Three) | MAY STRIKE ALL CITY BUILDING Carpenters Head Says Council Chiefs Bribed | | The District Council of Carpen-; ters met last night at 120 Madison St. to vote on a resolution to de- mand in the Building Trades Coun- cil a general strike of all carpen- ters on all subways, school build- ings, and other city construction. Contractors on these projects are paying under the union scale of ‘wages. President Charles Johnson of the dock and pier carpenters accuses the Building Trades Council officials of being bribed by the city admin- istration with jobs. “The influence of the City Ad- ministration in the Building Trades Council can be seen readily by looking over the appointments of delegates to important city posi- tions,” said Johnson. “Francis X. Sullivan, chief coun- wel of the Building Trades Council, has been appointed a member of the Board of Transportation. Others are County Clerk Thomas M. Far- Jey, William Kennedy, democratic district leaders and member of ‘the Cleaning Commissioner James. J. Nugent and John Halkett, head of the council, who was appointed by Gov, Smith to the State Housing Commission. These men have not been doing their duty because of their affiliations with the city and for fear of embarrassing the city administration.” MOVIE OPERATORS STRIKE. ALTOONA, Pa. (By Mail).— Thirty-two operators at the Capitol, Olympia and Palace Theaters went is an intimation that no “person as- sociated with the National Minority | Movement” is entitled to be a dele- gate. The Minority Movement has sent a letter to all Trades Councils tak- ing up the challenge of the General Council and calling its own national conference of Councils for May 12 to which all delegates are invited to join in the fight of the militant rank and file of the British labor movement against the reformist trade union leaders. Council Despises Workers. The complete contempt in which |the General Council holds the rank and file and the local Councils was shown at last year’s cor.ference when a resolution was carried against the platform by a big majority. Conley of the General Council merely re- marked that it was not to be as-| sumed that it would go into effect because the conference carried it— the General Council had the last word in the matter. FALLING LOG KILLS WORKER. READING, Eng., (By Mail).—L. Evans, a fog signalman, was killed when a falling log fell on him, breaking the worker’s neck. HINESE OUTWIT POLICE their brilliant accomplishments in the dress trades with the coming fur strike. Intensification of the strug- gle for better conditions in the cloak industry are also on the order of the day, M. J. Olgin to Discuss (Race Problem Question Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, will speak at the Workers School Forum this Sunday evening on the subject “Workers and the Problem of Nationality.” Though |the Workers School Forum was not held last week because of the con- vention of the Communist Party, a session this week will take place | without fail. The attitude that revolutionary workers must take on the question of nationalism in oppressed coun- tries will be made clear by the lec- turer. |Otto Huiswood, Ben Gitlow, will |speak at the School Forum. ovement is the ndent movement jority.——-Karl Marx ‘The pro | self-conscious, of the immenne (Communiat Mant Put Up Communist Posters in Singapore A number of Communist posters were found by the British police on November 7 in various parts of the town of Singapore, says the “Straits Budget,” Singapore paper, and two Hylams (members of a Chinese workers organization of that name) were arrested while putting up post- ers in Queen Street. They are be- ing detained for “inquiries.” The difficulty that a Chinese worker going about with a pot of gum and brush would soon fall on strike for an increase in wages.|tnder police suspicion is now got| plantain is remarkable. ever in a clever manner by Hylams engaged in putting up Communist posters, A plantain (a plant with a very sticky sap) with one end sliced off is used. Directiy a convenient spot is reached, up comes an accomplice varrying the leaflets, the end of the plantain ‘is rubbed up and down the nearest wall, and the poster is af- fixed. i Police officers who have torn down Communist posters say that the ad- hesive quality o fthe juice of the (= alten, at School ForumSunday | In the near future Jay Lovestone, National Textile Workers Union, in a demand for a raise in wages. The superintendent was compe!led to come and negotiate with the heartily disliked (by the bosses) |mill committee of the ieft wing |union, and agree to give in to the demand of the workers that they be given a raise in rates that is equivalent to $2.50 per week. Altogether the strike lasted only a few hours old. The weavers met. with their com- taittee and with the N. T. W. Local heads and decided to picket the looms from the inside, so that no seabs can be brought in to take their places. It was then that the boss approached the committee for a set- tlement, This is by no means the first strike for improvement of conditions | which the National Textile Workers | Union Local here has waged since | the end of the big general'strike in- | volving about 30,000 workers. Other single strikes have been called, near- ly every one of which ended in either gaining a raise for the workers or preventing the installation of some regulation that lowered the workers’ standards. 'U. S. Gives Ships to | Grab Trade of Latins WASHINGTON, March 12.—The U. S. Shipping Board today re- ceived four bids for the Gulf Brazil River Platte Line, of which the $2,695,672 offer of the Munson Steamship Company of New York was the highest. Thirteen steel cargo freighters operating between the gulf and South American east coast ports are included in the line which is now cperated by the Mississippi Ship- ying Company of New Orleans. The Shipping Board has been try- Munson Line for competition with England for South American trade. ing for some time to strengthen the | Open Revolt. The strike in this shop is the first open revolt against the administra- tion of Hillman which has made of the A. ©. W. a company union and which has destroyed union conditions in the trade. This was done by a frank policy of collaboration with the bosses for the instalation of speed up systems such as “standards of production,’ and “piece work.” The Executive Committee of the Shop Delegates Conference is the action committee of a conference of rank and file shop representatives which met recently and launched a moyement which has as its aim the ousting of the Hillman gang from ecntrol, Ladies Tailors Will Hold Protest Meet in Bryant Hall Tonight While the workers in other crafts | of the needle trades meet at a big mass meeting under the auspices of the new Left wing union, the work- ers in the small ladies tailor shops— members of Local 38 of the reac- tionary International Ladies’ Gar- ment Workers’ Union, will hold a mass meeting tonight in Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St., as a protest demonstration of the re- |moval of 20 Left wingers from the jballot by the Right wing clique in jcontrol of union machinery. In a printed appeal to the mem- bers of their trade, the Left wing- ers removed from the ballot have issued a call to the workers to come to the meeting and begin a cam- paign to drive the union wreckers from their hold on the organization. The appeal is signed by the 20 workers, whose activities for the welfare of the organization, has been union since its beginnings, Most of union since its beginnnigs. Most of thoe removed. EARTH SHOCKS IN GREECE. ATHENS, jo¢ minor earth shocks have been, felt at Corinth, Nemes and Athens.) FOR PARTY LINE Approves Voroshilov’s| Attack on Right Wing | (Wireless By “Inprecorr’) MOSCOW, March 12.—The Le-| ningrad conference of the Commun-| ist Party of the Soviet Union, after | hearing Voroshiloy, member of the} Political Bureau, report for the Cen- | tral Committee of the Communist | Party of the Soviet Union, adopted | @ resolution on the report, approv- ing fully the political and organ-| izational line of the Central Com-| mittee, | The resolution demanded that or- | ganizational measures be taken) ainst the Right wing, the concili- ators who support the Right wing, | and against factionalism. | SPEEDUP KILLS MINER. HARRISBURG, Pa. (By Mail.)— William Cawthorn, a coal miner, was | instantly killed when caught in an| undercutting machine and thrown jagainst the coal face at Eldorado. ;The speedup of coal miners is Hill, co-workers with Vaara in the present civil war. | Czech workers to Ecuador planta- Two members of the border patrol | were shot and wounded by a group When A. W. Roebuck, who ap- of men, supposedly gun runners try- peared for Vaara, asked that the|ing to get munitions to Mexican fine be cancelled, Justice Riddell de-| rebels last night near this city. clared: “Let him go to the execu- tive and say how sorry he is. Let “Nn kK him be a8 for his ‘orton. He Naven: Kellan to: Rete doesn’t appear to be sorry a bit.” WASHINGTON, March 12,.—Sec- Protests demanding the uncondi-|retary of State Kellogg has an- tional release of Vaara are being nounced that the “Mexican rebels sent to Attorney-General W. H. would never be recognized as bel- Price of Toronto by the Canadian jigerents by the United States. This Labor Defense League and by work- outs them off not only from recog- ers'-organizations ‘throughout Can- ition as a government, but deprives them as well of the possibility of a | quasi-political recognition with the (Continued on Page Three) Finnish section of the Communist Party. * * * CZECHS STARVE IN ECUADOR. IQUIQUE, Ecuador (By Mail).— The Czechoslavak government is planning to send thousands of “a FIGHT TRAITORS ~ IN CZECH UNION ‘Communists Call Labor tions. there, Starvation wages MINERS BURNT IN BLAST. BELLEVILLE Ml. (By Mail).— Joe Sekoski and Jack Coffman, miners, were severely burned in a confined powder explosion while at | work in the St. Louis and O’Fallon | to Oust Liquidators (Wireless to the Daily Worker) (By Mail).-A number | | blamed. 1 { HIT GHEREA TORTURE | Worldwide Protest, Led by ILD, Grows The storm of working class pro-| The Rumanian Workers Club of test directed at the Maniu regime|New York also sent telegrams of |¥gainst the arrest of Alexander Dob- | protest to the Rumanian ambassador rogeanu Gherea, leader of the Com-|and to Julio Maniu, Rumaniat munist Party in Rumania, who has|frremier. been on a hunger strike since Jan. International Protests. 26 and is near death, is growing.| Workingclass organizations’ from Yesterdey the New York District of | all parts of the world are storming tke Interhatonal Labor Defense sent |the Rumanian government with pro- a telegram to George Cretzianu, Ru- |tests and demands for immediate |manian ambassador in Washington, 1clease. The International Labor protesting against the white terror | Defense is leading the struggle for in Rumania and demanding the im- the veleace of Cherea and othe: mediate - lease of Gherea. jclass war prisoners in Rumania, Go, mine No. 2 near here. PRAGUE, March 12.—The oppor- tunist liquidators at the session of the Central Committee of the Red Labor Union Federation, which is affiliated with the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern), have carried out their disruptive inten- tions, The opportunists defeated the col- lective leadership which had previ- ously been at the head of the Fed- jeration. The Trade Union House jand the Central Council Secretariat x ein the hands of the disruptors. | The Central Committee of the |Communist Party of Czechoslovakia has appealed ot the workers, mobil izing them against the disruptors. FIREDAMP EXPLOSION VIENNA, Austvie, Marci 12. - Nine miners were kilicd in aa ex- wosion cansed by fire-damp in a nine near Starazagora today, a dis- beck from Sedia, Bulgaria, said.’