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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, Dominican Gov’t Follows Dawes Visit by IMPERIALISTS SCABS DIE IN LITTLE GET A FURTHER CARIBBEAN HOLD Wali Street Fighting Mexico Labor Sop SANTO DOMINGO, Aug. 12.— ‘At the suggestion cf ambassador Charles G. Dawes 1 xen he headed the commission to ‘his country to | reorgarize its financial system, the Dominican government has sold the ; light | water systems and electric plants at Santiago and Puerto Plata ij an Americar. tirm for $600,000, was announced today. ‘This marks the further penetra- ‘tion of Santo Domingo by Wall Street and gives the direct lies to the p: accounts of the Dawes mission which lauded it for its dis- interestedness. Aside from the profits which the t id pow S-} control of the water and power sy: t dena boigeanon Of tho atnike?? tems represent to American capital, and the considerable undeveloped re- sources of the country, Santo Dom- ingo is strategically important to American imperialism in making the Carribean Sea an American lake with an eye to defense of the vital Panama Canal and further encroach- ments of American interests to the south. * * MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.—G. R. G. Conway, managing director of the Mexico City Light and Power Company, said today that the en- forcement of the new labor laws would mean a yearly increase of $1,- 500,000 in the expenditures of his company. He argued that in its present form the law is detrimental to both capital and labor. The labor law is only a sop, a very slight con- cession by the Gil Government to an attempt to stem the growing tide of militancy of the workers. Wall ) Street intrests are fighting these laws. * Latin American | GINCE By VERN SMITH. 1898 there has been a” feel- ing in the coal fields of Southern Illinois that a seab has no right to existence. Jn that year, the miners’ union had just been organized, was fighting “-r its life, and for the nearest approach to a national con- tract that has ever been achieved in the industry. The coal operators were importing scabs, part of them Negro miners from Alabama. Some ;of these men were taken directly |from the convict mines of that state, North by rich|the woods and escaped. some were lured promises, and in ignorance of the strike in Illinois. Ths Alabama Miners Division of | membered Article 13 --Virden and Herrin test the breaking of the agreement not to ship coal. Of course they knew nothing of the district offi- cials’ t--~son. McDowell turned the machine gun on them as they came up the road, with hands raised, un- armed. Henderson and Picovich were killed, the others jumped into ‘The Virden Tradition. Then the miners of Herrin re- Virden Day, which to the Afro-American Labor and Pro-|them was a real tradition, however tective Association campaigned |hypocritically Farr ajwick might view it. against the strike breaking; erence at Birmingham it passed a borers carried there and retained But the flow of strike-breakers continued. As soon as a carload of Negroes crossed the Illinois line, the car was locked, armed guards posted by railroad and coal companies, and from that moment, the men were ‘prisoners, slaves, unable to quit. | Skirmish at Pana. On September 28, 1928, union miners and 100 “deputy sheriffs” (mine guards) fought a pistol and rifle battle at Pana, with several deaths on each side, and no definite victory. On October 13, the next month, a train load of scabs destined for the Chicago-Virden Coal Co. mine at Virden, heavily guarded in the usual way, was stopped by armed miners at the Old South Mine, near Virden, and a pitched battle resulted with the mine guards on the train, and those behind the stockade at the mine on one side, and the union miners on the other. Seven union miners were killed, and eight wounded. Five mine guards were |killed, and about a dozen wounded. The miners won, co.apletely. The |slave train went back the way it i} | { gton and Fish- Within half an hour, 500 had as- solution: “That we use every ef- | sembled. The attack on the mine did fort to intercept the movement of|not start however, until the next Negro miners from this section to! day. Pana (Illinois), and that we join our| Herrin shopkeepers testified that jetforts and arguments... to re- | committees of miners came and took jlieve Pana mines of ali colored la-|all the guns in stock during the In the trial that followed, evening of Wednesday, leaving or- ders to charge them up to the Herrin local. The miners were arming. The attack on the well-armed seab-her ‘ers at the Lester mine was made with nondescript weapons, col- lected about the country, but it was excellently carried out. The mine was placed under fire from all sur rounding coal piles, and the water supply cut off. casualties on the side of the miners, even though the machine gun was in use continually, Under the White Flag. Various for...3 of treachcry were tried by McDowell. He raised a white flag over the machine gun nest. John Conroy and Edna Con- roy, witnesses at the trial told of watching from the top of the tipple in another mine, the machine gunner firing rapidly at the miners’ rifle pits in the coal piles with the white flag floating freely above him. Otis Alexander, a night watchman at another mine, told at the trial how he listened in on the phone when McDowell got in touch with Lester on long distance. Lester told Mc- Dowell to hoist a white flag, and get in touch with the union officials, There were few| Junknown,” and “as a result of the activities of the officials of the mine.” Coroner McGowan and Foreman Joe Boringer issued a statement that the verdict of the jury repre- sented the “united sentiment of Williamson County.” Gompers Helps Prosecution. Samuel Gompers rushed to the aid of the mining companies with a published statement: “I regret, yes, resent the resort to violence in the Herrin strike. This strike of the miners is on such a high plane of principle it must depend upon the solidarity of action but need not and ought not t> fall upon physical force.” | The Illinois Chamber of Com- merce howled for the blood of the miners. On August 25 it sent a circular letter to all business men calling for funds to prosecute with. {It got the funds. The grand jury of jbusiness men speedily indicted 38 |miners on four counts. The trial jbegan, Dec, 13, in Marion, with a selected group cf the 38 indicted as |the first victims; they were: Otis |Clark, a local union official; Bert |Grace, Joseph Caranachi, Levi Mann, and Peter Hiller. miner. The others were miners. D. T. Hartwell was judge. Sena- tor Glenn and the Illinois attorney- general, Brundage, headed the prose- ‘eution. Farrington, after fumbling with the case for a time, decided that he had to go through with it, and sent Judge Angus Kerr, the District 12 (Illinois) attorney, as defense counsel. This same Kerr afterwards, while still an employee ;of the U. M. W., was chief prosecu- |tor of the Zeigler defendants. The defense took the stand of the |coroner’s jury, that the coal com- Hiller was | a taxi-cab driver, who had been a for the Herrin prisoners. If the workers of the South, the exploited textile workers, see their duty to their fellow wo: y as the miners of Illinois did in 19 the National Textile Workers Union registers in unbroken ranks the amount of determination shown by the hunJred per cent organization of the miners in Little Egypt, then the verdict wil also be “not guilty” in the Charlotte trial, the Gastonia case | In Herrin they had an old and organization, far as the rank and file were concerned. In the Gastonia case, there is a new and still unfin:_hed organization. On the other hand, the Gastonia case, in which strikers stood at the doors of their own homes to fight, is bette solid 3 legally; there is the old common law that “every man’s house (or his castle.” But the deci come in terms of organization and support by the working class. The fact that the N. T. W may not be strong as the union was in Herrin, must be made up for by in- creased support before the trial for its organization campaign, by creased support by all workers everywhere for the defendants, Introduce Red Baptism for Peasants’ Children in Villages of U.S.S.R. ) MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Aug. 12— |“Red Baptism” has been introduced in several villages of the Volga Re- |publie area. On “Busstag,” the for- |mer day of tonement, while a hand- ful of the population, chiefly sup- \porters of the counter-revolutionary |kulaks, were praying for the for-| giveness of their sins, the parents |of two children in the village of En- ders and of four in Rosenheim, |staged anti-religious baptism with the aid of the local chapters of the Society of Godless. The ceremonies consisted largely of atheistic speech- es, jpany started the battle, and the) miners defended themselves. |same time, it refused to admit that any of the defendants actually on At the | Industrial Delegation from U. S. to USSR TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1929 Handing Over Power Systems in-) trial did any shooting, and forced | welt ky British Tool LABOR TRIES — TO EMULATE BALDWIN cOVT| Reactionary Record a as Bad | We print below a summarized | | | record of the “Labor” govern- ment’s reign of office to-date. The first part deals |with “Labor's record at home. Its foreign policy record will appe-: in an early as ‘i issue. Mahmud Pasha, prime minister Se ne |of Egypt, who aids English imperi- | At Home. \alism in enslaving that country. The | Atmos! immediately after the for-| Lor government and Mahmud are is| malitie: of the King’s speech were | Putting over a fake deal right now, over 2 government spokesman an-| Pretending to end military occupa- nounced to the House of Commons | ‘07, but in reality retaining troops that one of the first acts of legisla-| ong the Nile and the Suez Canal, tion would be a bill to increase the |@%@ leaving the Egyptian workers FOR U, S. NAVY ‘Graf Nearing Europe On Wall St. Flight number of recipients of widows’ pen- sions and to remove certain of the anomalies under the present Act. A week later, at a Durham Women’s Gala, MacDonald an- nounced that this had been dropped because there were “too many diffi- culties.” * “Labor and the Nation” (the La- bor Party’s election program) prom- ised that the unemployed would re-| ceive a more “human” treatment and more adequate benefits. | Recently Margaret Bondfield) AKRON, 0., Aug. While the (Minister of Labor) moved in Com-| Graf Zeppelin is touring the world mittee that the Treasury grants to| under U. S. Navy auspices to dem- the Unemployed Insurance Fund be | onstrate that the industries of Ger- increased owing to its serious dim- | many, mortgaged to Wall Street inution. It was pointed ‘out by/bankers and American industrial Clydeside M. P.’s that this grant/parons, is a factor in the next war, would not aliow increased benefits | work starts on the assembling of the to the unemployed, but that, on the |Jargest and most terrible war dir- contrary, it would only allow for |igibles ever made. benefits being paid at the existing scale for 1,200,000 persons, whereas the number of unemployed is sub- stantially higher ~.an this number. * . * * They are under construction here |works. Each of these new ZRS-4 |type ships will carry half a dozen airplanes, which it can launch in mid Some of the Labor M. P.s de-| air, and will have artillery and ma- scribed it as a “bertyal of the un-|chine guns from end to end. employed.” But, ~evertheless, none | voted against * Everything will be enclosed with- in the gas bag, giving no friction 1: * at the Goodyear-Zeppelin Company! Page Three BRITISH RILED BY ‘GRAF RECORD HOP OVER ATLANTIC Intensifies Imperialist Rivalry FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Aug. 1%— The dirigible Graf Zeppelin will.take off on the next ge of its: Wall | Street-backed world tour early Wed- nesday. Its record-breaking flight across the Atlantic, made possible hy strong winds which blew the war bag along far above its normal cruis- ling speed of 85 miles an hour, has greatly riled imperial Britain, still smarting under the defeat adniin- istered to her as_ self-appointed | “mistress of the seas’ when the Ger- |man liner Bremen set a new mark in transatlantic crossings. Seeing in the Graf hop a new challenge to British commercial prestige, jingoes ir London immed- iately announced that an atempt to better the German air record would be made with the new dirigibie R-100. The British Cunard liner re- jcently sought to uphold the imper- ialist slogan, “Britannia rules the waves,” but failed to make good the | boast that it would eclipse the | Bremen’s time on its last crossing. It was noted that the members lof the crew were unable to eac during the trip from Lakehurst, while the parasite passengers, in- chiding several American million- aires, prospective backers of the Zeppelin service between Germany and South America, gorged them- selves to the gills on the best food available. Many of the passengers celebrated their landing in Germany with wild orgies in the Kurgarten hotel. Eck- ener, commander of the bag which the German social democrats will employ to drop bombs on the work- ers when the coming imperialist war breaks, sneaked out of a rear port | hole as soon as the Graf was drawn into its hangar and rushed off to his home and wife. pretending to negotiate a surrender, | the prosecution to try to identify | while using the time to better for- | them as being among the group that | tify his men; meanwhile Lester|shot the prisoners during their at- | came. Start Return Voyage MOSCOW, Aug. 12,—A majority Briefs : to air, and guaranteeing great speed. ee, In the first three weeks of the : . nee . bi s vn, non-inflam- © New Tabor Government: <2i0m\cuhem: [ace rece mney nen ua Chiang’s New Alimony |mable helium, is used on American Law Gives Him Chance “Virden Day.” National Vice-President John Mit- ployed persons were denied «benefits | \ ) By ALBERT MOREAU The reactionary government of Brazil is again making a terrific at- tack against the workers and peas- ants of Brazil, as a counter-act of the increasing activities of the workers who, in spite of the ille- gality into which they were driven by the dictatorship, have succeeded in ‘establishing numerous revolu- tionary organizations. During the month of July, the federal police force conducted a raid upon fifteen workers’ organizations, wrecking the interior of the buildings and making over 700 arrests, In the in- dustrial center of Rio de Janeiro, Recife, San Pablo and others, the raids were made without any war- rants. Mary leaders were giyen the third degree and put in jail. What is the underlying cause for these new persecutions? Brazil has a revolutionary working class and peasantry. The recent strikes which took place in that country have a deep political character. Un- der the dictatorship of the Wall Street president, Washington Luis, the Communist Party as well as all working class organizations were ruthlessly crushed. Nevertheless, the workers persisted in maintain- ing their organizations. They have created a militant Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc and many branches of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, The further conquests of American financial capital are wor- asning the cconomic status of the wormers, vinging their already starvation wages into an unbcara- ble lower siate. The strike of the 7,600 printers in San Pablo openly challenged the dictatorship of the government. 7 police and mili- tia forces were used ruthlessly to break the strike, go’ as far as entering the houses of the workers, emasning the furniture and mis- handling the wives and children of the strikers. The recent strikes, the revolutionary activities of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc, where- En the Communists are very active, together with the deep-growing crisis of Brazilian csrpitelism, have put the veactionary forces in. an open conflict against the workers aad peasants. The movement will go on, as the Brazilian workers have learned much by the past events and know how to organize and strike back. 28rd of August, Day of Struggle Against Imperialism. On the second anniversary of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti, Au- gust 23; the oppressed and exploited masscs of Latin America will dem- onstrate against imperialism and especially against American impe- rialism. In Mexico and all South American count=!es, the revolution- ary workers and peasants are pre- paring for the anti-imperialist day. At these demonstration will partici- pate the recently formed revolution- ary Trade Union Centers, sections the Anti-Imporialist League, 4 kers and co-operative organiza- tions and the Communist Parties. “Justicia,” the official daily of the Communist Party of Uruguay, will appear ia a special issue with arti- eles disclosing the horrors of the fascist dictatorships in Latin Amer- ica,‘ acting undc the orders of American imperialism. Long live the struggle against the home bour-: Eeaisias ang imperialism! chell and District Secretary W. D. Ryan of the U. M. W. A. were in Pana when the Virden battle started, they came immediately to the scene, and were arrested and held under $200 bond each for “inciting to riot.” There were a few other arrests. Nothing came of them; the coal operators compromised with the union, giving substantial gains to the strikers, Illinois fields were 100 per cent organized, and stayed that way until 1927, when the union was smashed by Lewis’ betrayal. There were strikes again, but never any scabs. And every year, the miners of Southern Illinois celebrated with parades, brass bands, speeches and festivity, on October 18, “Virden Day.” The commemorated their dead, and promised each other that what these dead had died to win should never be lost. District Presi- dent Farrington, and his successor, Fishwick, were usually speakers at these celebrations. But things were happening under Farrington was selling out. might mouth phrases about the battle of Virden but he was making an agreement with certain mine owners, the Peabody Coal Co. which was later exposed as paying him a $25,000 a year bribe, and according to Lewis, when Lewis and Farring- ton had one of their periodical spats dan told on each other, with other mining companies, particularly the Lester Strip Mines, near Herrin, Williamson County. When the 1922 strike came on Walter Lester, owner of the Herrin mines felt he had authority to pro- ceed to make big money, and break the strike. He had openly received permission from Farrington to use union men cnd strip the coal, to break it and pile it on the surface. He had, according to Lewis, who ought to know, secret permission to ship the coal. Imports Gunmen. As soon as he had 600,000 tons ready to ship, he fired the union men, brought in 45 scabs supplied by the Bertrand scab agency, and 25 thugs as mine guards, supplied by the Hargreaves Corporation, both of Chicago. Lester had a loan from Gary, head of the steel trust, to be used in breaking the strike. As commander of the guards, and superintendent of the mine, Lester chose a certain one-legged mercen- ary, C. K. McDowell. A machine gun was mounted on the highest coal pile; shotguns, rifles, and pistols were issued to the guards, and to the office force. The mine lies on the road from Marion to Herrin. This public high- way was blocked by the guards, truck loads of armed thugs patrolled it within and without the barriers, stopping all passers by, searching, insulting and robbing them, The sheriff came down and com- mented on the presence of so much loose ammunition around the mine, which violated the Illinois explosives law. McDowell said: “This ammuni- tion is for shooting ducks. I’ve broken strikes befcre, and I’ll break this one.” The first scab coal was shipped on Wednesday, June 21. George Henderson and Joe Picovich, with four other miners, came as an offi- cial delegation from the Herrin lo- cal, U. M. W. A,, to the mine to pro- cover, in the Illinois Miners Union. | He} | St SR Og tithe would have troops sent to the mine. The end of the battle at the mine is described by Joseph O'Rourke, commissary clerk supplied by the scab agency as follows: “I don’t blame the miners for at- tacking us, for we were knowingly being »sed as dupes (sic) to keep them from their jobs. We were given arms when we arrived and a machine gun was set up in one cor- ner of the mine. Guards were with us all the time and most of the miners climbed upon the coal piles and earth, embankments, and we were unable to see them, The guards kept firing but most of us hid. When the miners blew up our pumping} station, we had no water, and the food supplies were in a car in the hands of the miners. About sunrise we put up a white flag, and the miners, poured in, and we sur- rendered our arms.” The machine gunner was lying dead across his weapon, About 25 armed miners marched | much more than their own number of scabs, and guards, with Mc- Dowell and his assistant superinten- dent, down the road. The Shooting. These guards were professional killers, many of them from the coal baronies in West Virginia. To be taken prisoner by the miners, whom they were taught to despise, whom they had spent years arresting, beat- ing, framing up, murdering in cold blood or in armed war, did not at all fit into their idea of how things should go, perately bad mistake of attempting to overpower their guards and es- cape, when some confusion resulted from the procession bunching up at a wire fence. Nobody but a couple of the sur- vivors ever testified as to what hap- pened then, and their evidence is necessarily biased, but thé next day, 14 dead scabs were picl:c1 up at the fence. Four were found shot in the woods. Six were re-captured, tied together, and taken through Herrin. When they reached a cemetery, something happened again, and they were all shot. One, a professional scab and mine guard, survived. He left a new scab job in a neighbor- ing state to testify at the trial, and said he was shot twice at the fence, five times at the cemetery, and then that somebody cut his throat with a pocket knife. He did have a scar on his throat, but it seemed to be older than the Herrin events. Mine Doctor’s Story. The only other witness who ac- tually testified to the shooting at the cemetery, was a doubtful char- acter, a professional company doc- tor, O. F. Shipman, who insisted that he followed the procession through Herrin, and that the miners let him stand by while they shot the six men without provocation. He admitted he had represented the coal operators and helped defend them from miners’ damage claims in “about ©.00 cases,” but declared that he “wasn’t prejudiced against the union.” The jury didn’t believe him, The coroners’ jury sat on the cases of George Henderson, and 19 scab and guards, and found that Henderson, “came to his death murdered by bullets fired by Mc- Dowell, the mine superintendent,” and thai the scabs and guards, | “came to death by gunshot wounds at the hands of pa (ies to this jury a | tempt to break away. The specific jof the United States industrial mis- air ships. The United States has a They made the des-} | |death for which they were tried was|sion to the Soviet Union will start | \that of the mine guard Hoffman, | their homeward journey Wednesday. ‘killed in the cemetery. |The delegation arrived back in Mos- | “Ordinary Murder.” |eow Saturday. It covered 15,000 | The prosecution’s argument was |Miles in 16 days. Members of the) that this was an ordinary murder, delegation told the United Press the | done through a conspiracy of union |delegates were greatly impressed miners inflamed by a speech by | with Russia’s industrial progress. Clark, and that the dead union men | really fell during their “criminal at- | ¢¢ |tack” on the mine. The prosecution | |witnesses were practically all of [them scab survivors of the battle : | (four) and business and professiona| Consul from Spain men of Herrin. The defense witnesses were al-| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 12.—Dip-| |most all miners and farmers, eye |lomatic silence was still being main-| witnesses, The defense brought |tained here today over the arrest overwhelming evidence that Hender-|Saturday of Fernando Gonzales |son and Picovich were killed before|Arnao, Spanish Charge d’Affairs. any fighting started; and that the|After his immediate release when | mine guards had set up a reign of |his identity was es* lished Arnao terror in the vicinity. The prosecu- | Protested to the Foreign Office. No} |tion avoided this point as much as |Statement has been issued. | | possible. | There was a clear cut class divi- FRENCH PUPPET VISITS. |sion between the prosecution and de-| PERPIGNAN, France, Aug. 12. fense witnesses, so much so that the | Bao Dai, the boy emperor of An- newspapers and the Associated Press |nam, otherwise known as Cochin- | were forced to admit it, though bit- | China, in Southeastern Asia, has ar- terly prejudiced against the defen-|rived here for a vacation of several |dants, and whooping up hatred for weeks. Annam is a French “protec- them throughout the country in the | torate,” and Dai a French Hoal. | approved frame up style. The verdici, rendered January 19, 1923, was “not guilty.” The other} | charges were dismissed, | The capitalist press simply went wild with enraged hysteria. Brun- dage issued a statement that the | verdict was due to “a condition of | terrorism in Herrin.” John Lewis, international president of the union, \vefused to comment. He had already | begun to issue his string of slanders | ‘and villification of “The Red.” Offi- \cials of the U. M. W. A. hastily} bought out the Lester interests for |twice what they were worth, and| with Lester thus stopped from ex- posing his intrigue with these same officials, Lewis began to declare more and more plainly that the whole “Herrin Massacre” was caused by the Communists. He did this | even while some of the defendants | were still under indictment, | If ever workers stood at the edge | of the gallows, these Herrin men} |did, with treason all around them in | the offices of their union. They won because of the hundred per cent or- ganization of the miners of Southern Illinois, and because these miners had militancy, and the fighting tra- dition. There were no stool-pigeons. Spies had very little chance to oper- | ate, The jury was made up of farm- | ‘ers, who knew the miners, and knew | who to believe on the witness stand. Like Gastonia. The Herrin case shows many re- semblance to that in Gastonia! the company’s reign of terror; the | striking back of the workers in open battle; the consistent treachery to the workers of the A. F. of L. offi- cialdom; the defense which is the right of self defense; the automatic grand jury of business men; the des- perate attempt of vengeful employ- ers to drag to execution a selected list of workers, without regard to | whether they were the ones actually doing the shooting or not; the hue and cry through the capitalist press for conviction; and, let us hope, the solidarity of the working class com- |munity with the defendants. | This last was what won the case be 9 Diplomatic Silence” in Mexican Arrest of MARINE PHENOMENON, CASTRO, Chile, Aug. 12—A ma- rine phenomenon alarmed the pop- ulace here recently when the tide rose so high that the wharves and the lower portions of the city were flooded. IMPERIALIST AIR TOUR. ROME, Aug. 12. — The trans- | Atlantic monoplane yellow bird ar-| rived at the Littorio Airport from | Marseilles at 3:45 p. m. today, con- | tinuing its “Good-Will” tour of Europe, to boost the U. S. imperial- | ist air forces, off the Centra 10c. lief in the distressed areas affected, | but are to continue the policy of the On The Road To Bolshevization with an introduction by the pr €SS La handbook for every ‘American Communist (1) Important excerpts from the Sixth C, I. Congress (2) The Open Letter to the Sixth Convention (3) The Address to the Membership WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS, 43 East 125th St. NEW YORK CITY DISCOUNTS OFFERED ON QUANTITY ORDERS! on the grounds that they were “not | genuinely seeking work.” This | clause, in its present form, was 4 framed by the last Labor Govern-|Reformists Order apis _ British Woodworkers : ; to Break with USSR mand remains as it was under the Tory government. 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