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By International Labor News Service.
Welch, W. Va.—A billion-dollar
coal monopoly which includes all big
mining companies in 18 West Virginia
and six eastern Kentucky fields is
under way. The extent of this organ
ization can be understood when it is
known that the value of coal opera
tions located in the West Virginia
fields alone, most of which will be in
cluded in the new combine, is nearly
$1,250,000,000, and the Kentucky
properties to be taken over have a
valuation of more than $85,000.
The combining of these coal fields
will create a practical monopoly of
low volatile coal, the most satisfactory
substitute for anthracite. Bituminous
operators, it is declared, are taking
advantage of the anthracite strike to
build up a business organization that
can secure control of the bulk of the
easter i fuel business and hold it de
spite any efforts to win back the
market.
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Bituminous Operators Taking Advantage of Anthracite
Strike to Control Eastern JVlarket and Maintain
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$5.50 Trousers, this sale $4.48
$6.00 Trousers, this sale $4.98
$6.50 Trousers, this sale .. $5.48
$7.50 Trousers, this sale .-$5.98
$8.00 Trousers, this sale ,. $6.48
$8.50 Trousers, this sale ., $6.98
$9.00 Trousers, this sale .. $7.48
$10.00 Trousers, this sale. J$7.98
$12.50 Trousers, this sale $9.48
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initiate any movement to return to
the retail prices which obtained for
soft coal before the anthracite strike,
the present price lev^l being one of
the objectives of the organization.
Mine workers' wage increases will be
virtually in the hands of the officials
of the organization, and in the pres
ent unorganized state of soft coal min
ers, the coal barons will have every
thing their own way.
With soft coal now selling as high
as anthracite before the strike, the
low wages of bituminous mine work
ers, and the special rail rates recently
ox'dered by the interstate commerce
commission, there is no reason to be
lieve the new combine will not in
crease the number of millionaires.
STATE UNIONS TO MEET
Jackson, Mich.—The annual conven
tion of the Michigan State Federation
of Labor will convene in this city
Tuesday, February 2nd.
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Check Spread of Recognition
Demand By Business Groups
Apparently Contradictory Situation Revealed, With Prob
~able Explanation, Though Government is Silent—Ex
pediency is Most Likely Answer, Hut it Shows Need
For Labor to Remain Alert.
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT
Washington, D. C.— W hile the
Countess Karolyi and the Parse© com
munist, Saklatvala, were denied en
trance to the United States, there are
now in the country pei'haps as many
as 200 bona fide communists, straight
from Russia.
These Russians, communist party
members, are in the United States as
representatives of Amtorg, the soviet
importing organization. They are
here to spend money. They entered
the country with passports properly
visaed and since they entered with
ihe approval or permission of the gov
ernment they are here legitimately,
the law under which Saklatvala was
barred to the contrary notwithstand
ing.
Here are real Reds, admitted with
out fuss or protest.
But there is a long story back of
this apparently contradictory situa
tion.
Already there are many who are
asking why one is denied admission
while others are admitted. The state
department is silent, but there is an
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Whoa,There! January
Powerful Group of Soviet Agents
Openly at Work in United States,
Despite Drastic Exclusion Law
apparent reason, nevertheless.
The soviets are importing goods.
Inasmuch as they have to pay cash
they do pay cash. The Amtorg agents
in the United States spend this money,
American business men want this
money.* It is reasoned—though per
haps not officially—that if American
business can find matters so arranged
that this business and this money can
be had without recognition of the
soviets they will be perfectly satis
fied to take the cash and let recognU
tion matters alone.
Business doesn't want recognition
of the soviets. Thoughtful business
men realize as well as labor realizes
the disruptive crusade that would fol
low any such move. But not all busi
ness men are wise and not all are
truly patriotic, except on Sundays and
days when wars are declared.
Hence, there is a strong feeling
that the state department, in allowing
Red purchasing agents to enter the
United States, did so and continues to
do so for the purpose of soothing busi
ness and keeping it in a state of satis
faction so that it will let governmen-
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tal policy alone. Those who under
take to say why the state department
probably adopted its present attitude
are of the opinion that if this flow of
trade were to be shut off there is a
certain element in the business world
that would be cheap enough and
thoughtless enough to fall in line with
the soviet propagandists, the Borah
type of politicians and others who
favor soviet recognition.
That is the explanation offered by
those in Washington who think it is a
logical explanation of an apparently
inconsistent and contradictory policy.
They say this policy, while it looks
twisted, was designed to serve the
best interest of the country, all
things considered. It is quite likely
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By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—The appellate court of
the state of Illinois has ruled that
suckling babes must go to jail if their
mothers do strike picket duty against
the orders of Superior Judge Dennis
E. Sullivan and other Chicago injunc
tion judges.
At least that will be the outcome of
a recent decision of the appellate
court unless the judgment is reversed
by the supreme court, to which an ap
peal has been taken.
Ninety members of the Interna
tional Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union have been fined or fined and
sentenced to jail for acting as pickets
in the great dressmaking strike which
was inaugurated here in February,
1924, and ended the following July.
Forty-seven of the pickets received
jail sentences of from 10 to 60 days
each, besides being fined. Of the 47
sentenced to jail 35 are women, many
of them with babes at their breasts.
Several of these women have three
and four children and invalid hus
bands. The county authorities are
figuring on plans for the establish
ment of a nursery in connection with
the county jail in the event that these
women are finally imprisoned.
Women who buy finery made under
sweatshop conditions in Chicago
the correct explanation of the situ
tion.
The Amtorg agents are allowed to
enter the United States for limited
periods and the staff is constantly
changing for that reason. It is said to
be holding aloof from any open propa
ganda, but only children and some
politicians beileve that any soviet
agent will fail to indulge in quiet
propaganda whenever possible.
While the presence of these com
munist agents shows that Secretary
Kellogg can only partly stand on his
New York statement as to why he
shut out Countess Karolyi, in which
he said the law must be enforced,
there is a strong feeling that his
seeming expediency is justified by the
demands of the situation.
Only recently a group of these
soviet Amtorg agents gave a dinner
in New York to a group of bankers
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To Jail If Appeals Fail
Judicial Friend of Dawes Sentenced Thirty-five in Picket
Case and Prison Officials Contemplate Nursery If
Women Must Serve Terms.
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The constitution of the United
States and the constitutions of the
various states prohibit the enactment
of post facto or retroactive laws. The
court cases growing out of the 1924
dressmaking strike here arose a year
and more before the injunction limita
tion act became the law of Illinois.
who were very glad to be thus enter
tained.
Revelation of the situation, prob
ably here presented for the first time
in anything like its true light, sheds
interesting light on the continued im
portance of the whoie recognition is*
sue and the continued necessity for an
alert and determined attitude on the
part of American labor. Labor is now,
as in the past, the first line of Ameri
can defense against communism and
the only line that can be depended
upon from start to finish.
10 HOURS FOR UNORGANIZED
Sheboygan, Wis. Unorganized
workers in chair and furniture fac
tories have been placed on the 10
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should know what they are doing and
should also be informed that the help
less mothers suffering under these in*
tolerable conditions may also have tSo
languish in perhaps the worst prison
on the North American continent b$»
cause Charles G. Dawes, vice presl^
dent of the United States, and his
wealthy and influential business and
political friends insisted that Denis IS.
Sullivan should occupy the bench of
Cook county, Illinois. When Dawes
and his friends put Sullivan on the
bench they knew he was a labor hater.
This recent decision by the appel
late court does not affect the injunc
tion limitation act, passed by the Illi
nois general assembly last June.
The Communist Daily Worker of this
city, official publication of the Rus
sian soviet government in America,
makes the flat statement that the
appellate court decision nulifies the in
junction limitation act, but the editors
of the Daily Worker know that they
are not telling the truth.
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