Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1923, Page 9

" SPANISH SOPRANO .| DEADLINE FEATURE Benorits Comin Sings at Semi- Monthly Dinner of Be- porters’ Club. SENORITA JULITA COMIN, nish soprano. Members of the Deadline Club of Washington newspaper reporters were entertained at their semi-monthly dinner meeting at the Ebbitt last night by Senorita Julita Comin Spanish singer who recently in this count She is a dram soprano and res d to the ins ent demand of newspaper with selections h inclu Dawning,” an aria from Rusticana,” and several French and Ttalian ngs. Senor de Huarte also sang, accom- panying himself on the piano. Joseph B: secretary of the Spanish 'was the guest of the club gt ecital men Spanish, Stuart Hayes, divisional director of | information of the Chesa Potomac Telephone Company the local newspaper men to s of the compan at broadcas nig t 8 o returns of the Demp will be received. ke and invited be the when the -Firpo fight SECRETAI’!YV HUGHES RESTING|) Secr ington tion at Hot first period o d Mrs. Hughes left Wash- night for a_two weeks' v ngs, Va., marki rest the Secreta; taken for more than mines would be c | sacre, HERRIN ASSARE PLOTAGANST Lithuanian Bolshevists Seek- 1 ing Overthrow, Blamed by Mine Workers. By the Associated Pre NEW YORK, September 12.—Eighty- six Lithuanian bolshevists led the Herrin massacre of non-union Illinois miners, the United Mine Workers of Amoriea charge in makigg public to- day the third of a eeries of articles exposing an alleged plot by Moscow “eommunists to gain control of organ- ized labor in the United, States and | Canada, stage a revolution and over- ,throw the existing governments. The mob leadprs—sixty-seven of them—were members at Herrin of {the bolshevist Lithuantan branch of the communist party of America, ac- cording to the miners' article, nine- teen other members of the same party were imported as agents to foment the attack on the strip mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Company which ‘ulminated in the violent death of twenty-two men in June last year. his revolting, inexcusablé crime ented, promoted and caused says the er. “It was a carefully planned aftair, schemed with all the diabolic cruelty and disregard for -law that characterizes the communist move- ment.” Willlam Z. Foster, promoter of the “one big union” idea in America, is ged to have been the dominating re in events preceding the mas- numbering among his aid |Jack 'Carney, Chicago editor of the | radical Voice of Lahor; Nick Dozen- {burg, Carney's businéss manager | Arne Swabeck of the central execu- tive committee, communist party of America; Oscar Larson of the Young | Communist Leagu us Fraenckel, “red” worker among rail employes: Charles Krunbein, district communist official. and Nels Kjar, convicted in Chicago courts for conspiring against the government during the war. Weeks of Préparation. The author's history of the mas- sacre follows: x | “For mofe than seven wéeks prep- jarations had been in progress in { Franklin and Williamson counties to bring about the attack upon strike- | breakers and armed guards at the £trip mine. Violence and disorder hwestern Penn- groups in New rk, Cleveland and Chicago were ac- tive 'In their efforts to cause the strike in s stern Pennsylvania to expand into a great revolutionary movement in which the original yses for the cessation of work in lost sight of and e jal i fig EARLY FALL SALE Fur and Fur-Trimmed Cloth Coats Our Cloth Coats hand tailored in our own workrooms from the finest materig genuine Furs of Zirkin Qual obtainable and trimmed with ity. @ For this event we have marked each.garment exceed- ingly low. Group One—Strictly tailored coats of the finest imported tweeds, with beautiful collars and cuffs. of beaver, caracul, opossum, raccoon and badger; no duplicates. Values up to $150. For this sale— $65 to $95 - Group_ Three—The finest Group Two—The season’s very newest models, fashioned in velmaras, panvelaines and velours. Huge collars and cuffs . of fox, wolf, squirrel, badger. and caracul. Coats that could not_ be tailored under $100 to $175. 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Martin Wagner Co., Baltimore First Aid to Hunger Steam Qven Blended an armed insurrection, having for its purpose the establishment of a bel- shevist dictatorship In this country and enforced recognition of the Rus- slan dictatorship and the communist international, wquld be brought about. “Tke plan wae to have simultaneous uprisings in sputhern Illjno‘s and, if pogaible, in the vicinity of Bellaire, Onlo. which aleo was a hotbed of comypunist agitation and propaganda, andn the region surroundin - L ding Union: “A telegram gsent to local union officials at Herrin by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Work- ers, plading workers of the strip mines in “the category of ‘strike- Breakers' was shrewdly twisted and distorted, according to the boasts of the communist leaders at Chicago, {nto an ‘invitation’ to attack the strip mines and the workmen employed !he(r]e. “Ofoials of the United Mine Work- ers had no intimation that an attack was contemplated, or that a conspir- acy within the communist party of America existed at the time to pre- cipitate a tragedy uch as took place the day after the telegram was re- ceived from President Lewis. Strike Area Exi¥ained. “Agitation under the active efforts of the communists continued during May and June. The strike area in southern Illinois was carefully ex- amimed and the ypoints where riot, violence or armed insurrection might be started were charted and c: ta- logued. In the Iist of these places were Christopher, Zeigler, ‘Sesser and Herrin, “With the local Lithuanian minérs As a nucleus, a communist party chapter was 'organized in Herrin, holding meetings sccretly in the Lithuanian language but taking in- structjons from agents of Dozenburg in the offices of Carney at Chicago. Quietly and stealthily ~ th, worked among the idle miners at wHerrin. preaching armed attack upoen the strip mine.” 4 Union strikers at Herrin of President Lewis th non-union who continue working p mine while |hg pnational strike was in progres a telegram on June them as strikebreaker: “This telegram by the torted inquired e status of the pounced gents an excuse for upon and dis- an attack communist into 1-Day Bargain Corner Made of genuine serpentine crepe, in préttiest of figured designs and beauti- band trimmed Back to School $1 0.00 Boys’ _remarkable 1 terns, ors—ivith two pairs Corduroy pa on _ suits, hndes biue Pretty brown, green. 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The miners also were “one big union,” ripe for capture by the Mos- cow agents. DBut there were four big brotherhoods and sixteen unions on the rallroads, so, “'in order to con- trol them as a unit and mobilize them into the Foster one-union scheme, the ‘Mignesota plan’ for a singie ‘depa mental Jindustrial union’ was evolve Raflroads Objective. ‘The railroads became the next ob- jective. The Herrin massacre had demonstrated what the miners would do if properly chaperoned. The plan now was to bring about in some C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923 quarter. preferably a vital raiiroad center like Chicago or Pittsburgh, a similar outbreak among rall workers, The shop crafts were then on strike. “The convention of agents of the communist international and leaders of the communist party of America t Bridgman, Mich., last August con- stituted one of the greatest con- spiracies in the history of the United States, the ‘mine workers' narrator continues. “Intent upon promoting the gen- eral uprising of all coal mine, rail- .road, marine transport and farm workers and carrying their aim to a successful realization before the coal and railroad strikes ceuld be settled, their revolutionary. sittings were cut short by the appearance of the county sheriff. “The raid upon that convention was-one of the.greatest blows the communist organizatioh in America ever recelved. 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Gigantic Savings---Dress Silks---W oolens---Domestics Costume Velvet $'1 98 Blankets A small deposit reserves your purchase. . 64x76 Double Blankets Heavy, thick fleece,, s .98 Pair 66x80 Plaid Blankets Lovely double 33 49 large beautiful Thick, Pair 70x80 Part-Wool Blankets Of half wool, extra s 50 Pailr in Some are from handling, ' $7.50 Part-Wool Beautiful in bound: with Size 66x80. o= t under Michi: syndicalism law.” Since then, it is charged, the com- munists tried unsuccessfully to fo- ment ‘& genernl strike among rall workers last November and among coal miners last April %, which also failed of execution. Another “One big union”. movement was launched among -transportation workers, how- ever, from an office in St. Paul, Minn. This campaign is alleged to be sti in progress, wwler the @irectorship of G. He Kennedy, head of the nrganiz tice, anG 0, H. Wangerin, secretary- treasurer. . —_— An English raflway company once performed the feat of building & loco- motive and tender complete in nine hours forty-seven minutes. escape i gan’s criminal ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS - FOR SCHOOL ESSAY TEST Highwsy Education Board Provides Five Hundred Prizes for Winners _in Competition. Plans of - the highway education board for conducting its third annual essay contest for school children were announced tod; Five hundred prizes aggregating $6,500 will be awarded to the winners. Training _children in habits of highway safety is the principal task of the 1923 safety campaign, it is sald? but through the children it is oped that the principles o regulation and safety education will be impressed upon adults, both pedes- trians and drivers alike. The third annual safety campaign takes the form of two contests, oae among plementary school pupils and another’' amoni ~elementary school teachers. 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