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10, 1929 rage Three Publishers Co., Ine. BILL HAYWOOD’S BOOK Charlie Plahn Knocks At the Prison Doors; Torture for Refusing to Work; How They Found Guns In Haywood’s Locker All rights rese,ved. Republice- tion forbidden except by permission. “Big Bill’Haywood has told of his quarter century of leadcr- ship in the fiercest battles of the American working class, the ter- rifie strikes of the metal miners in the Rocky Mountain region, and the 1.W.W. strikes at Lawrence, Mesaba Range, Akron, and Put- erson. He has told of innumerable frame-up attempts, including the trial of Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone for bombing a governor. Finally came the trial of the 1.W.W. in Chicago. They had been arrested in a nation-wide raid and were sentenced to long terms in prison by Judge Landis. Haywood got 20 years. He has told of his arrival in prison, after a narrow escape from an agent provoca- teur’s bomb which exploded in the Chicago post office. He has told of life in Leavenworth penitentiary, including a food mutiny by the prisoners. Now read on, ee By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD PART 107. INE day Charlie Plahn, a five-year man of our group, who was working with the road gang outside the walls, got separated from the men he was working with. It was just about quitting time, and they had gone into the prison. Plahn looked around. He could see none of them. When he came to the prison gate, it was locked. Not content with being on the outside, he knocked and hollered for admit- tance.. When the story was found out, all the boys joked him about breaking into the penitentiary. Herbert MacCutcheon was one day told to go to work with the rock gang. He had been employed in the carpenter shop. He protested against the change of work and asked for the privilege of see- ing the Deputy Warden. The Deputy Warden was* not in the frame of mind to argue the question, and he told MacCutcheon that he’d have to do as he was ordered or he would put him ‘in the hole. Mac- Cutcheon told the Deputy Warden that he could do with him what he would, but he couldn’t make him break rock. Herbert was put into the black hole on bread and water, every third day regulation food, and chained to the bars eight hours every working day. He stood this torture for months. He was kept in this condition until I was re- jeased on bail and secured bond for him, One day.the order came: “All you fellers go up to the parole room.” We walked out and every man of the clothing department, storage, and dressing room were lirfed up. We went up-to the parole room, a large cell where there were 20 or more beds, and stayed there not knowing what was going on where we had been at work. We were held there for an hour or more. There was a guard at the door, and how the word got in I could never tell, but it was noised around that guns had been found in my department. Shortly after we were returned to our work. The place looked like a hurricane had struck it. The lockers had all been opened, bags, suitcases and bundles were opened, the suits of clothes thrown around. 0 It took us some time to get things straightened up. Then I leaxned | that some six-shooters with cartridges had been found in the locker used by “Blacky,” “Red” Spain, and myself. I was left to conjec- ture what it was all about. All the other prisoners were saying: “That will mean the hole for them fellers.” I HAD been reading The Star Rover by Jack London, and could ap- preciate how easy it would be to frame up on a prisoner, or how some unthinking person might drop a word about dynamite. It would” be just as easy to bring dynamite into the prison as six-shooters. In fact, the thought of high explosives had already entered the minds of the guards. When they were emptying the lockers, one dropped a bag from some height to the floor, when another said: “For Christ’s sake, don’t throw the stuff around like that! You don’t know what them fellers may have stored around here.” The next morning.I was called into the Deputy Warden’s office. He opened the conversation by saying that there was one thing they ae oa always expected the prisoners to try to do, and that was to escape. He | got up from his chair and walked to a corner to the rear and picked up a short-handled shovel. _He said: “We've just found out that some of the prisoners were trying to dig out under the wall. You know that some guns were found in your locker.” I said: “Yes. I heard of it.” He said: “Did you put them there?” “No, I did not,” I replied, trying to catch his eye, which was a difficult thing to do. The Deputy Warden, whose name was Fletcher, was a shifty-eyed person. “Do you know who did?” “No, I do not,” was my answer. “I guess that will be all, today,” he said. I went back to my place of work. The prisoners asked me as I passed them: “What happened, Bill?” I said: “Nothing, so far.” I worried a good deal about those guns being in my locker, until one day the man who put them there told me about it, and said with a grin on his face: “As I was carrying them across the yard, the paper with the cartridges in it broke, and I was dropping them at every step. Had to go back and pick them up. any one found out I had those guns, corner.” Members of the I.W.W. were tortured in the Leavenworth peni- tentiary. Some of them were in isolation in the prison within a prison. Some were in the black hole. Others were being strung up to the bars every day during working hours. Many of them had been cruelly beaten. It was in this hour of stress that the Mexican delegates at the Pan-American Labor Conference at Laredo, Texas, raised their voices for the release of all political prisoners. Samuel Gompers, backed by ether A. F. of L. officials, including Charles H. Moyer, one time Presi- dent of the Western Federation of Miners, rejected the appeal of the Mexican workers. but there are snitches in every "4 ia behalf of those of us who had been convicted in Chicago an appli- cation for a new trial was filed in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, It was supported by a voluminous brief and argument by Vanderveer and Christensen, Judge Landis in the meantime made a visit to the Leavenworth penitentiary. We never knew just why he came, unless it was to gloat over his victims. The I.W.W. case was the last one of note over which Landis presided, as he shortly after resigned the judgeship to get as baseball commissioner at $45,000 a year, which has since been fncreased to $60,000 a year. They put the dollar sign on him and he quit. Our trial had been a great hardship on the Judge, because during that season his time was much occupied and he could not go to as many ball games as had previously been his custom. When Landis was at Leavenworth, he did not take a place in the gallery over the music stand where the visitors usually sat, but stuck his head in the door and looked furtively over the prisoners. He probably wanted the satisfaction of seeing for himself that we were veally there. * + + ® In the next issue Engdahl’s conviction is mentioned, and Hay- wood tells of the “prison blues.” You can get a copy of Bill Hay- Wood's Book free by sending in one yearly subscription to the Daily Worker. IN CONVENTION NEW DAWES PLAN 12th National Meeting Belgians Also Opposed | | in Dresden to Young Scheme | GERLIN, April 30 (Delayed).— LONDON, May 9.— eat Britain The Central Executive Committee of will reject the Young reparations the Communist Party of Germany proposals, and thus probably smash has convoked the 12th National Con-|the American debt plan, according 4-10, to opinion current in Bi , sden in the huge Municipal! paper and government circles. vention of: the Party for May in Di Exhibition Hall. The agenda of the convention is as follows: | 1. Report of the Central tive Committee. (a) The Part | tivity since the 11th Convention, | porter Heckert. (b) The work the Young Communist League, re- porter, Halbich. (c) Work among working women, reporter, Overlach. 2. The political situation and the E 3 ac- re- _ Snowden and Co., denouncing of for the rejection. DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY BRITAIN TO FIGHT oa: ritish new: Bri- tain refuses to be the goat for Wall + and with the elections coming on and the labor party imperialists, the Tories for their bad bargain with Germany, there is an added reason The scoial democratic chief of quarters. Tey entered the homes find those who participated in the Absolutely Unacceptable. Winston Churchill, chancellor of the Exchequer, declared in the House of Commons today that the Berlin Police Attack Workers’ Homes FALL OF CANTON LOOMS IN CLASH Kwangsi Army Moves in New Maneuver CANTON, May The capture of this city by the Kwangsi mili- tarists possible within a couple of days. The central bank has closed down on special payments, and a spirit of panic prevails. One Kwangsi army has captured Shiuhing, only 50 miles to the west of the city, and is advancing toward Samshui, while another has entered Kwangtung (the province in which Canton is located) from the North and taken Yingtak. The British gunboat, Tarantula, is on its way here to exert pressure on develop- ments Zo iebel, sent these heavily armed police to the proletarian of the workers, s nashed furniture and upset the rooms in an effort to demonstration. police, Mobilize For Defense. Party’s tasks. (a) The decisions of / Young plan was absolutely unac- . ig . . The Cantonese militarists have the Sixth World Congress of the,¢eptable, and he is backed up by F t Z iG if Fi Mm mobilized all their forces against Ganmunlet International. (a) Poli-| the bulk of the British press. The OY Vv OUYr tan ar S in the Kwangsi attack. They are re- tical situation and problems. Re- British claim that under the Young ported to have sent up the West porter, Thaelmann. 3. The revolutionary fight against imperialist war, the defense of the figures they will get nothing from the German reparations payments, since they will have to pay out all River to Shuihing some 30 gunboats, and a dozen airplanes equipped with Operation in Soviet Union they receive. POLICE VICTIMS Soviet Union and the armament pro-| gram of the German Social-Demo- fee ee = cratic Party. Reporter, Remmele. Belgians Also Opposed. Arrested After Clash | 4, Industrial struggles and revo-| PARIS, May 9.—The Belgian 4 eee 3 Baa |lutionary trade union policy (the| press is also very much excited) With Austria Fascists problem of the unemployed and so-|against the American reparations) cial-political work). Reporter, Mer-| plan, which they claim not only re-{ (Wireless By “Inprecorr”’) ker. duces their share of the reparations! VIENNA, May 8.—Austrian fas 5. Resolutions and elections. by $204,000,000, but leaves open for|.:.ts returning from their St. Poel- The convention will be followed|future negotiations between Ger-|~ 4 e aoe by a National Women's Conference| many and Belgium the matter of reg}t Parade, where they made a,dem-| and a Conference for Municipal Pol-|imbursement for paper marks issued | "Stration in uniform against the icy. during the German occupation. This|W°Tking class, collided with work- |also opens up the possibility of Ger-|€S in Loebersdorf and Stockerau. many attacking the Versailles treaty |The police rushed to the aid of the hy claiming the restoration of towns | fascists and arrested workers. The | given to Belgium under the treaty. |™asses of workers mobbed the po- cleared away in Berlin, while Com- German Reservation. |lice station where the arrested men munist ,demonstrations of protest] The German delegation, headed by|Were being held and threatened to ‘against police slaughter of workers! Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, was today pre-|Storm it and release them. The po- are being suppressed, and the social-|pared to put into wr'ting its atti- lice then released their victims. democratic ministers are ordering | tude toward the Young proposals.| The next morning the workers in ‘the dissolution of the Red. Front Its chief reservation is said to be Loebersdorf, Stockerau, Pottendorf Fighters all over the country. |the adjournment of reparations pay-|and Guenzeldorf struck work in or- Ernst Thaelmann is well known| ments if Germany should find her-)der to drive certain fascists from as the head of the Red Front Fight-|self unable to make payments. |the factories. RELIEF DRIVE ON DEBENTURES ‘ever since the days of 1923. N. Y. Working Women |Hoover Gang Says Bill Fritz Heckert has been one of the Party’s chief spokesmen in the Push Tag Days jens Come from House The United Council of Working ewenn ee | nae , ; |. The convention of our sister Party in Germany meets before the smoke of the police machine guns has leaders of the Party’s trade union activities. He is a building worker by trade and has been expelled time and again by the reformist leaders of the Building Workers’ Union for his uncompromising revolutionary | stand. The pressure of the rank and| file has always forced his reinstate-| ment, however. Reichstag and has been one of the WASHINGTON, May 9.—With Forty-four giant farms are already in operation in different parts of the Soviet Union as part of the plan announced last fall to organize a special chain of government farms to produce grain. Last autumn 17,- 740 hectares were seeded, and this spring 142,468 are being planted, from which a harvest of over 140,- 000 tons is expected. So seriously is this new program for la: scale, mechanized agricul- ture, being taken, that a special “Committee to Aid the Growth « Large Grain Farms” has been es- tablished under the Central Execu- tive Committee of the Soviet Union. This committee met in Moscow re- cently, under the chairmanship of Kalinin, president of the Soviet | Union, to consider plans for carry- ing out the production program for 1929. Mr. Kalmanovitch, chairman of the Grain Trust, which is developing the chain of government farms, re- ported that according to the pro- gram, 1,700,000 tons of grain would be produced by the new farms at the end of five years. By the end of ten years, it is expected that the government farms will cover from 10 to 12 million hectares. They will be operated on a com- pletely mechanized basis, and not only white, rye, barley and oats will be grown, but also rice and other grain and non-grain crops. These farms will also be used as bases for the development of cattle breeding seven-hour day.. Special arrange- ments have been made to supply the workers with the necessary pro- visions through the cooperatives, and to give them medical service through the Department of Health. A great deal of attention is being paid to the preparation of the per- sonnel to carry out this work. Spe- cial courses have been organized for directors and technical personnel, and students from the technical schools and universities will go to the farms for practical training during the summer months. Indus- trial farming departments have been organized in six agricultural col- leges. Students will be sent to America, and a number of American special- ists are being invited for consulting and permanent work. A special ex- perimental farm is being organized in the North Caucasus, which will be used as a model for the others. | This farm will be run according to | the most up-to-date technique, under the guidance of American special- ists. Spanish Dictator Has Many Communists and Other Workers Jailed HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- der, May 9.—A large number of Communists, revolutionary syndical- ists and other radical workers were machine guns and bombs Behind this warfare is the strug- gle between the Nanking govern- ment and Feng Yu-hsiang, with whom the militarists of Kwangsi have a_ secret alliance against Chiang Kai-shek. When Nanking started its drive on Kwangsi recent- ly, the governor of Kw ed a declaration of favorable to Nanking. Solid Bloc in South China. But important militarists in Can- ton are favorable to Kwangsi, de- spite their supposedly favorable declarations toward Nanking, and this makes the capture of Canton by the Kwangsi troops not improb- able. Should this occur, there will be a solid block of the four South China provinces, Kwangsi, Kwang- tung, Kweichow and Hunan, against the, Nanking government. Chinese firms in Hongkong have angtung is- neutrality, suspended shipment of cargoes to Canton, awaiting developments. ee Chiang “lected.” NANKING, May 9.—The hand- picked central executive committee of the Kuomintang has elected a central political council of 24 with Chiang Kai-shek its chairman. He thus virtually becomes president of that part of the country which ac- knowledges his dictatorship. | WORKER KILLED IN CRASH LONDON (By Mail).—Ernest |Yabsley, crane driver, was killed and two railway workers seriously in- I don’t know how | Overlach has been one of the lead- ers of the German women workers in Berlin for years and now is in the Party’s National Women’s Sec- retariat. Remmele has been a pupil and as- \Sociate of Klara Zetkin for years. He has been a member of the Par- ty’s Political Bureau for almost ten years and is one of the leaders of the Communist group of Reichstag deputies.—Editor. GIVE SINCLAIR MORE PRIVACY ‘Continue to Pamper Oil Grafter WASHINGTON, May 9.—Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil swindler, enjoyed the seclusion of a bank pres- ident for the third day of his three months’ “sentence” at the district | jail today. The continued comfort of the new guest was apparently the only con- cern of Georges S. Wilson, director of the Public Welfare Board of the District of Columbia. To prevent the Teapot Dome grafter from being jannoyed by newspapermen, Wilson last night iesued a ukase excluding reporters and the public from the jail while Sinclair serves his term.) | Irritable complaints were directed against Wilson’s edict from the floor of the senate today, when it was charged that Sinclair had been |shown favoritism by city officials. “If it was a poor boy who stole a loaf of bread, he would not be treat-| the kiln for firing when it ed like that,” it was stated. Vague hopes were expressed for lieved to have caused the accident.|New York-Havre service of the the time “when millionaires who violate the law will be treated like dlesex County, assigned County De-| tidue. Maritime tonnage in France others.” “Let him wear stripes too. refused to tell the truth, Now we read of the leisure he enjoys jail.” At a safe distance from the com- plaints—made as political maneu- vers in the House—the new prison guest played idl) with a few pills at his new job of “prison dispenser.” He chatted with G. T. Sanford, his He conducting the “inquiry.” i * evans. | “progress” since the war, "India Militia Murder bw | Class Women tag day drive to raise every possibility that the senate funds for the striking textile work-| would pass the farm bill with the ers of the South will end on Sunday. | debenture plan included, the stra- It has been going on since May 2, tegy of the administration congress- and has been participated in by|men was said today to be to de- hundreds of militant women mem-jclare it is a money bill and there- bers of the U. C. W. C. W. The|fore must originate in the house. tag day drive is being held in con-|This would throw the bill into con- junction with the Workers Interna-| ference, perhaps for weeks, and give | tional Relief drive, the funds col-| the Hoover machine time to work lected to be turned over to the! over the more shaky of the senators Weeks |favoring debentures, or those most | An appeal was made yesterday to | likely to be influenced by such sub- collect as much as possible before | stantial and profitable arguments as the drive ends Sunday midnight.| the Hoover financial backers can “All working women,” it Says, | suggest. “should devote all day Saturday and | The senate, after its big fight yes- Sunday to collecting funds. The|terday, in which debentures were riking textile workers are being approved, settled down today to driven out of the company owned | minor details of the bill. shacks. Tents must be purchased | in which to house the workers. The Slap at Borah. strikebreaking activities of the mill|,, A" attempt to punish some of owners must be answered by the | the pro-debenture senators is seen solidarity of the workers! All out | °Utlined in a letter written to a/ for the tag daz! Help the striking | friend in Ohio by Senator Simeon (ills wees Ca Fess and made public today. In the | letter Fess characterized Borah as| | a traitor, who had persuaded Hoover tf y to call a special session on farm leg- islation and then deserted him. Fess said, “Borah and his crowd are only 5 pseudo-republicans,” which may ate, or to block them in the next e Z elections. | Start Whitewashing of ; N. J. Brick Co. |Seamen’s Strike Still | SAYREVILLE, N. J, May 9-/ies Up French Harbor “Investigation” has already been) 4 | authorized which will seek to exon-|.,91: NAZAIRE, France, May 9.— %, m up the harbor here. Failing to re- injury of six yesterday. 'Guadfloupe were unable to sail. Portes A ring. Minister of Public Works Pierre The | thee were “anaide Pit cols | ForReot presided at the launching Careless construction is be- | of the new liner Lafayette, for the them out of committees in the sen- erate the Sayre and Fi : Brick| The seamen’s strike continues to tie lapsed. Prosecutor John Toolan, of Mid-| Compagnie Generale Transatlan- ‘ A \had increased a million tons since tect hi I the task of Ree The: Herat tee [AOTG atidwad. now. 8,800,000.t008; hol declared in a euology of French) 12 Natives Resisting pprrorr tie ain Stereo. Brutal Police Attack jwpers have won increases in their jnew wage scale, The new rates are LONDON, May 9.—Bombay dis-| $9.40 a day for day work and $9.80 patches received here today stated|a day for night work. | jured in a crash between a freight train ard a passenger train near |Newton Abbott. The injured men may die. and other branches of agriculture. | arrested in Madrid yesterday and By this summer, it is expected |troops were held in their barracks, that 2,800 tractors will be in use on| according to advices received here the farms, and 15,000 at the end of /from the Spanish capital. five years. It is planned to have| ‘The Madrid newspaper Heraldo the tractors work in two shifts, and| was suspended by the dictator, experiments will be carried on of|Primo di Rivera, until it pays a fine working in three shifts, with a of about $10,000. For a Six-Hour Day for Under- ground Work, in Dangerous Occu- pations, and for the Youth Under 18! Blindfolded, He Can Tell— NLY what he is told. He takes everything with his eyes shut and sees only what the boys who put on the blinders want him to see. Why wait until the house is on fire before you begin to “think you smell something”? 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