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BOSSES PRAISED
FOR STORM HELP
OF THE WORKERS
Force Donations to Get
Advertisement
How the large non-union Industrial
corporations are wringing forcible
contributions for southern Illinois
storm relief from their poorly paid
employes, In order to get advertise
ment Is revealed In the story of the
workers in the Pullman palace car
shops', 110th St. and Cottage Grove
avenue.
The Pullman corporation, of which
J. P. Morgan is a director placed con
tribution boxes thruout the car shops,
over which were hung large signs
announcing that the company was
contributing $2,500 In the name of
the employes, and this sum must be
raised.
A Non-Union Bhop
At the end of the day the officials
of the company took down the boxes
and counted up the money. The Pull
man employes are poorly paid. The
company immediately fires all union
men. as soon as they are found. A
general wage cut for all piece work
has just been introduced and the men
have been ordered to "speed up.” So
the men had no money to give. And
the contribution boxes were found to
be nearly empty. Seventy cents were
found in one, a dollar and a half in
another, and so it went.
The Pullman officials were furious.
The next day. the workers report to
the DAILY WORKER, they were told
that every man must work exactly un
till the whistle blew, even tho they
were on piece work. Two men were
reported fired from the carpenter de
partment of the steel shop for quit
ing work one minute before the
whistle blew. The Pullman officials
were “getting even.”
Cheap Publicity
Watchmen were placed thruout the
plant to Intimidate the men. They
were allowed only two minutes in the.
toilets, which were also guarded.
The large corporation thus force
the workers to contribute to any
cause which will bring the company
advertisement, and the papers write
the donation. ‘‘Pullman employes’ con
tribute $2,500.” This has been found
a cheap way for the employers to gain
publicity.
“We don’t mind contributing for the
workers of Southern Illinois,” one
Pullman employe told the DAILY
WORKER, “But we like to do it in
our own name. And these non-union
corporations pay as much low wages
we can’t afford very much.”
BANCRUPTFRANCE
MAY OVERTHROW
HERRIOT REGIME
(Continued from page 1)
Morgan interests, who have been put
ting pressure upon France for some
time to surrender the French nation
to much the same kind of a foreign
financial control as the Dawes plan
now squeezing German workers.
In fact it is in line with the open
hints tfTat there ought to be a “Dawes
plan for France.” made by various
American financial interests in the
last few. months.
Dictatorship of Financial-Industrial
Capital.
But the big thing de Monzle pro
poses is a practical dictatorship of the
big Industrialists and bankers, thru
a “grand council” of these gentlemen
who are to be the collective bosses
over the parliamentary government in
practice by proposing “programs"
which their combined pressure can
force the parliament to approve. This
again is analogous to the control over
the German government quietly but
surely enforced by the closely allied
big industrial and banking interests
of Germany.
It is evident that over these issues
a split Is coming between Herriot and
de Monzle, the latter counting on the
support of the national bloc to force
Herriot out, crushing the socialist
support Herriot and installing de-
Monzle as premier in his place.
“France Is Bankrupt” Says Herriot.
Against this program, Herriot is
fighting by lifting the veil of secrecy
which has hitherto covered up French
bankruptcy. At a speech made at
Fontalnbleau, Herriot declared:
“The tlmo of Illusion la past. Tho
country must know the truth. On the
Internal debt alone the government
owos its citizens 278,000,000.000 francs
($13,900,000,000). Add to tbut tho for
eign debt, whereon wo have held pour
parlers with England. A country pos
seising such a floating debt no longer
holds the entire liberty of its domes
tic policies.” Afraid, however, of
frankly recommending such drastic
remedy, Herriot only hinted at the
need of a on capital.
Oet n nub- make another Com
■atm Ist J
DETROIT CARPENTERS’ DISTRICT
COVNCIL AGAIN UPHOLDS WILLIAM
REYNOLDS AGAINST HUTCHESON
(Special to The Daily Worker)
DETROIT. Mich., April 6. —On Thursday evening, April 2, General Execu
tive Member Potts appeared before the Detroit District Council of Car
penters as the official hangman of the inquisition. Early in the evening he
was granted the floor and read a communication from Hutcheson instructing
him to submit the following proposition to the district council: That the
District Council conduct orderly meetings and that one William Reynolds be
excluded from participating in any of its meetings. It was further stated
that unless the district council voted to accept these conditions Potts was
FARRINGTON’S
TACTICS ROUSE
ILLNI MINERS
(Continued from Page 1)
who are now diverting work to the
non-union mines and closing down
the union mines.
Faked the Returns.
An arbitrary change in the results
of the vote cast for Thompson in the
union elections is the basis of the
attack on the miners' leader here.
Thompson was duly elected according
to the official report of the sub-dis
trict tellers by a vote of 2,194 to 2,103.
Without granting a hearing to Thomp
son or any other sub-district official,
in fact, denying them a hearing when
they demanded it, the Farrington-con
trolled district executive board threw
out enough votes to elect Walker,
Thompson's opponent, by a vote of
3,094 for Thompson and 3,279 for
Walker. This is one of the most
characteristic acts perpetrated by the
Farrington machine and the miners
here are up in arms against it. The
demand of the miners for a special
sub-district convention is also being
arbitrarily rejected by the Farring
ton forces.
* * •
Thompson Still in Office.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 6—John A.
Walker, tool of the Farrington-Lewis
machine, in its efforts to grab the of
fice of Freeman Thompson, president
of Illinois miners’ sub-district No. 4,
received his second rebuff today when
he appeared to ask Thompson to turn
the office over to him.
Walker appeared at the sub-district
office shortly after Thompson had re
ceived a letter from Farrington noti
fying him to relinquish the office un
der orders of the Farrington-Lewis
controlled district executive board.
Thompson told Walker he had no in
tention of turning the office over to
him. He handed Walker a copy of the
official report of the sub-district tellers
declaring that he, Thompson, was
elected.
Walker was told to carefully study
this report. Walker then left accom
panied, as he had arrived, by his
brother, Lance Walker.
Later Thompson declared: “I am in
office. I shall remain in office until the
membership of sub-district No. 4 tells
me to get out.”
Tom Parry, elected vice-president
of the sub-district with Thompson,
joined Secretary Watt today in declar
ing for a finish fight against this at
tempted usurpation by the Farrington
Lewis machine.
AS WE SEE IT
By T. J. O’FLAHERTY.
(Continued from page Li
was not such a bad job after all.
Which is all to the gravy. But Mrs.
George, perhaps after a few minutes
consultation with her versatile hus
band threw the following neat little
bombshell at the Herald, which you
must admit makes a lot of noise.
• • •
“IF you are curious as to the real
I value of my lost necklace I can
enlighten you. It was not worth one
fortieth and probably not one-fiftieth
of the gift made to your leader when
he was prime minister by one of his
capitalist friends. I have no recollec
tion that at the time of that princely
gift, or since, you have rebuked Ram
say MacDonald as you do Lord Oxford
and my husband. In that transaction
he gave a betrayal of his class and thi
abandonment of the simple tastes ol
his youth.”
• • •
THE lady said a mouthful. “Be
trayal of his class!” That should
sting like a little bag of pismires, but
the political hide of a social-democrat
Is Impenetrable. Wherever they se
cured office, they immediately picked
up everything that was not nailed
down or glued. The London Daily
Herald lives In a glass house and can
not afford to throw any bricks at
grafting capitalist politicians and
their female parasites until It first
applies the rod to Its owu favorites.
T. U. E. L. Meeting In St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 6. —Matters
of vital importance will come before
tho next meeting of the Trade Union
Educational League on Wednesday,
April 8, at 8 p. m. at M. T. C. Hall,
200 South Broadway. Well-known
trade unionists will talk on the his
tory of the labor movumnet. All mili
tant workers of St. Louis are urged
to attend this meeting and are In
vited to take part In the discussion.
►to immediately suspend the district
council pending reorganization and
take steps to amalgamate the various
local unions into one.
Delegates were warned that in vot
ing against this ukase they not only
laid themselves liable to suspension,
but jeopardized their locals.
In reading the communication Potts
said he had no comment to make ex
cept that he wished that some one
else had his job. Evidently even
Hutcheson’s agents find it difficult to
do his dirty work.
Reynolds Makes Statement.
When asked for a statement, Rey
nolds said that the fight was still a
tight to preserve the constitutional
•ights of members and the constitu
ion itself was the foundation of the
Brotherhood. He said that such had
£>een, is and would be his position
until the constitution was restored
regardless of how many or how few
supported him or how long drawn out
the fight might be. He pointed out
that Hutcheson ordered them to
violate the law of the land as out
lined by the court decision which he
(Hutcheson) had "prayed” for.
The letter from “Czar Hutch” men
tioned the suspension of Reynolds al
tho every previous communication
said expel. The crawfish in Indiana
polis are looking for a hole to crawl
into.
The Evidence.
It developed from the discussion
that the “evidence” upon which Rey
nolds was “expelled” was a letter
from the Workers Party to its mem
bers said to have been signed by
Reynolds. Reynolds is state secretary
of the Workers Party and in that
capacity writes letters to every coun
ty clerk in Michigan and the secre
tary of state. The Workers Party is
running a full ticket in the spring
election and Reynolds is a candidate
for the office of regent of the univer
sity. It is obvious that unless his
political rights are to be curtailed
by Teapot Dome republican Hutche
son, the exercise of his official duties
must not be made the basis of charges
in the The letter
in question has never been submitted
to Reynolds as “evidence” and it is
likely a forgerju,,*
Answer Hutcheson.
After extensive debate a motion to
inform “His Highness” and the G. E.
B. that the district council of Detroit
intended to sustain Reynolds in his
rights of membership and his priv
ilege of participating in the meet
ings of the district council as a dele
gate from his local union, was car
ried by a vote of 23 to 4,
Again Hutcheson has his answer
from the carpenters of Detroit. Some
time it will seep thru his dense dome
that the carpenters insist that the
constitution be restored and observed.
When that day comes perhaps he will
withhold his dumb-bells from Detroit
and settle this issue by quashing his
frameup.
COMMITTEE ON STREET
MEETINGS WILL HOLD
I FIRST SESSION TONIGHT
The committee on street meet
ings, appointed by the City Central
Committee of Local Chicago will
meet tonight at 19 South Llncolri
street, to make plans for the out
door speaking campaign which will
soon open in this city. All members
of the committee are urged to be at
the above address at 8 p. m.
POLISH WORKER
TO TALK ON
TERROR REIGN
(Continued from page 1.)
the polish prisons.
Murder and torture of Polish work
ers who dare to protest against the
ruthless oppression of the government
have become a common occurence In
Poland.
American and Polish workers must
learn the truth about present condi
tions in Poland. Every worker should
help to make these meetings a success.
At every meeting there will also be
well known English speakers.
Meetings in Many Cities.
Meetings will be held as follows:
April 12, Detroit, Mich, (two meet
ings).
April 13 and 14, Cleveland, O.
April 16, Erie, Pa.
April 16, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
April 17, Buffalo, N. Y,
April 18, Rochester, N. Y,
April 19, (afternoon), Utica, N. Y.
April 19, (evening), Fulton, N. Y.
April 20 to 24, New York district
April 25 and 26, Boston district.
April 27, New Haven, Conn.
April 28, Bridgeport, Conn.
April 29 and 30, Chester, Pa.
May 1, 2 and 8, Philadelphia district.
THE DAILY WORKER
CARPENTERS TO
FIGHTJENSEN
IN ELECTIONS
Business Agent Beats
Up Old Union Member
Like desperate gamblers who re
sort to gun play when they see their
winnings being swept away, the
Harry Jensen gang in the Carpenters’
Union, are now resorting to physical
violence against those who do not
support their reactionary policies.
The bullies, however, are careful not tc
tackle carpenters who can give them
a run for their money.. This was
amply demonstrated last week, when
a blustering ex-booze fighter, by the
name of Mark Taylor, business agent
for the district council, struck an old
and infirm carpenter, causing him tc
fall down and being severely injured
The old man who was beaten by
the cowardly bully, Taylor, is Frank
Larson, a member of Local 181, and
a staunch supporter of the five broth
ers who were illegally expelled from
the local by Jensen's lackeys. The
attack was made at the headquarters
of the district council.
Time to Ditch Jensen.
In view of this and similar inci
dents, not to speak of the collusion
of Jensen and company with the con
tractors, the members of the Carpen
ters’ Unions here in Chicago are be
ginning to feel that it is time to
change officials and retire the ex
booze fighters to their favorite haunts
in the corner saloon or the “blind
pig” where they can indulge in their
favorite diversion of fighting old John
Barleycorn, who can stand more pun
ishment than feeble old men. In the
coming elections the carpenters are
determined to let Jensen and his
gang know that they have had enough
of them, and it will take more than
a juggler with figures to return Jen
sen as president of the district coun
cil, if the rank and file revolt against
his tactics means anything.
Turn Larson Down.
At the last meeting of Local 181, a
Hutcheson lackey made a motion that
Inar Larson, the- lying recording sec
retary of the local, and the new
president be given a trip to Indiana
poll? to view the installation of “Czar”
Hutcheson. This was in a nature of
a reward for Larson, the gentleman
who faked the records during the
mock trial, of the. flye “eayielled’,’
members and who turned himself in
to a prosecutor, Jury and judge. The
mover of the motion thot it was good
strategy to Include the newly elect
ed president, homing that he would
carry Larson along. An amendment
was made, howeveg, excluding Larson
from the trip and insisting that the
president only be sent. The amend
ment was carried almost unanimously
only three members voting to give
the miserable tool Larson a junketing
trip to Indianapolis.
If Larson Is to receive any reward
for his dirty work in Local 181, it
must come from the “czar” himself.
It is quite evident that Local 181 is
thru with him.
* 8. L. P. Man With Fakers. •
Local carpenters are commenting
on the united front between Charles
Sand, secretary of the district council
and the Jensen gang. Sand is a for
mer S. L. P. man and a foe of “re
formists.” But he Is reported to be
pulling along nicely with Harry Jen
sen who Is looked upon by the car
penters as a labor tool of the contrac
tors who use him to put low wage
scales across on the membership. So
the carpenters think they will give
Mr. Sand his walking papers pretty
soon.
There is a general feeling among
the rank and file that they have the
votes to get rid of Jensen and his ma
chine. But they know from experi
ence that hard work is required to pry
these fellows loose from the treasury.
From now on until the elections take
place, the progressive elements In the
Carpenters’ Union are going to be
very busy. They want a real fighting
leadership, that will fight for higher
wages and better working conditions
for the membership and not a set
of officials who spend their time ex
pelling good trade unionists.
Seattle Workers to
Hear Symposium on
Heresy Hunting
SEATTLE, Wash., April 6.—On
Saturday. April 11, the six Commun
ist delegates to the Central Labor
Council against whom charges have
been preferred by reactionaries will
conduct a symposium on “Heresy
Hunting in the Beattle Labor Move
ment" at the Workers Party Foruin,
in Painters'Hall, Union Record Build
ing, 1915 First avenue, at 8 p. m. In
view of the interest aroused by the
illegal expulsion of those comrados
from the central body, the forum is
expected to be unusually well at
tended.
Comrade Norman Tallentlre, dis
trict organizer for, the Workers Party
will speak at the‘forum on April 17
and 24. His subjects will be, “The
World-Wide Assart on Communism”
and "The on Communism In
the Labor Movement."
There Is no charge for admission
to these leotures.
End of the Teapot Dome
Scandal Is Good Display
of Capitalist Solidarity
By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL.
TODAY, the Teapot Dome scandal is wafted out of sight
as thin smoke into the air. The “black satchel” in which
Edward L. Doheny, Jr,, carried the SIOO,OOO bribe to Albert
B. Fall, secretary of the interior at Washington, in the steal
ing of naval oil reserves, is carefully put away in the skeleton
closet of American capitalism. The kept courts have spoken.
• • * «
With all the solemnity of American judicial harlotry,
Chief Justice McCoy, of the District of Columbia supreme
court, at Washington, proclaims that since Oliver E. Pagan,
an assistant attorney general, appeared in the grand jury
room while the indictment was being returned, therefore
the legal attack on the oil profiteers must fall. Mind you,
workers, this Pagan was an indictment “expert” in the pay
of the department of justice, presumably fulfilling the duties
of his office. The two special oil prosecutors, Owen J.
Roberts and former Senator Pomerene, had actually invited
Pagan into the grand jury room. But the judicial mounte
bank, McCoy, says, “No! Pagan should not have been in
the grand jury room." So the whole legal attack on Fall,
Doheny, Sinclair, Doheny, Jr., and the rest, breaks its frail
lance on the stonewall of legal technicality that offers 100
per cent protection to capitalist crooks in their own courts.
* • • •
It well for workers to remember that it was this same
“indictment expert,” Pagan, who drew up the fraudulent
charges against the political prisoners of the working class
during the world war. Pagan was lauded by the yellow
press as the cleverest expert on indictments in the land. He
would surely leave no loop hole thru which the worker-war
prisoners could escape. He didn’t.
Take the attack, for instance, on the Industrial Work
ers of the World. Scores of lawyers, many of them not even
sympathetic to labor, confessed that the testimony brought
against the I. W. W. was of the flimsiest character, certainly
not warranting a conviction. But Pagan's indictment
against these workers not only stood as adamant, but a
conviction was returned upon it by an ignorant and pre
judiced ury.
The oil profiteers have never spent a minute in prison.
The I. W. W„ like other workers, were thrown into a foul
jail immediately they were taken into custody under Pagan’s
indictment, the legality of which the courts never Questioned.
After their conviction and while the case was under appeal,
these workers were sent to the Leavenworth prison, In Kan
sas, that is like all other prisons in that it has never held a
Rockefeller, Gary, a Fall, a Doheny, a Sinclair, or anyone
else of the criminal rich. Prisons and jails are built for the
working class.
* # * •
Look again, Workers! Judge McCoy, who found the
legal loop hole thru which the oil millionaires escaped, is a
democrat, appointed by Woodrow Wilson. The looting of
the oil reserves took place under Harding's republican ad
ministration. Fall was a republican, secretary of the in
terior. Thus a democratic judge comes to the rescue of his
fellow thieves in the republican party; blood brothers in
crime under the profit-plunder system. The sham political
twins of Wall Street here stand naked.
* * # •
One more look at the “black satchel” and the SIOO,OOO
bribe. That little incident took place November 30, 1921,
more than three years ago. The capitalist courts have what
is called the “statute of limitations,” which means that if the
capitalist crooks can keep their crimes hid long enough, time
makes them immune. There was a three-year limit on the
“black satchel.” But when workers are brought to trial,
their whole past is raised against them in the hunt for
something incriminating. Unless they are good and docile
slaves it is even a crime for them to have been born.
* # • •
It is predicted that the civil suits in Wyoming will fall
on a technicality just like the criminal proceedings in Wash
ington. The most important witnesses did not even take the
trouble to appear in the Wyoming trial. They took special
care to stay away, including Robert W. Stewart, chairman
of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. He was off
in Mexico and South America arranging for Standard Oil’s
purchase of Doheny properties in these parts of the world.
Why bother about an oil scandal at home!
• • • •
Yet in February gasoline production was the greatest
in record for the United States averaging 22,800,000 gallons
daily. Stocks on hand now stand at the collosal total of
1,50,000,000 gallons. Yet that represents merely a 17-day
supply.
The cry goes up over the world for “Oil!" It was for
oil that Rockefeller’s “Standard” opened commercial rela
tions with Soviet Russia, grfeasing the way for recognition
by the United States government itself. It was for oil that
Japanese imperialism recognized Soviet Rule. It is for oil
that the American, British, French and Japanese imperialisms
growl at each, heralding the onrush of the next world war.
thru the overthrow of capitalism itslef. That way his labor’s
Tho wiping out of the Teapot Dome scandal shows the
solidarity of American capitalist impernalism in its struggle
for world empire. Against that well-organized enemy the
workers of the United States, like labor everywhere, must
consolidate its powers under the standard of the Communist
International —"The International of World Labor’s Vic
tory.” The way to triumph over the Teapot Dome profiteers
leads thru the overthrow of capitalism itself. That way lies
labor's struggle.
West Virginia
Strike Still
In Dispute
(Continued from page 1)
yet feel that without militant tactics
already condemned by Van Bittner,
and without any real aid being given
the non-union miners by the U. M.
W. of A. to organize them and aid
them to fight the double foe of hun
ger and tho company and state gun
men armies, little of permanent bene
fit will result.
Tho rank and file union miners are
appealing to Van Bittner for real
backing to unionize the non-union
fields.
Why Limit the StrlksT
The rank and file of the miners who
are now organized point out the folly
of oulllng out the non-union men in
only the ten counties, and say that
if Van Bittner wanted to win any
thing he would have called out the
whole state and district.
They feel that under such reaction
ary leadership as Van Bittner, a fail
ure of this strike may destroy what
Is left of the U. M. W. of A. In this
field, and open the way for the new
company union, which goes by the
name of the Mine Workers’ Associa
tion. They are resplved to prevent
this company union getting control.
Wadsworth for War Poatf
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 6.
Admirers of Sen. Wadsworth of New
York, the "perfect tory of the son
ute” are proposing him as successor
to John Weeks as secretary of war,
when Weeks resigns this summer,
Wadsworth has been told that Gov.
A1 Smith will beat him If he runs
again next year. The senator has
not agreed to the scheme.
iTOOLPIGEON OF
EMPLOYERS BUSY
IN GREAT FALLS
Revokes Big Federal
Unions Charter
GREAT FALLS, Montana, April 6.
With the aid of contractors, the
agents of the Anaconda Mining com
pany and wild cat stock promoters,
Paul Smith, pie-card artist extraor
dinary and official (dis) organizer of
the American Federation of Labor,
struck the first blow against the la
bor movement here when he ordered
the lifting of the charter of Federal
Union No. 17,767, because the mlli
ants in control of the union refused
o obey the orders of the Anaconda
Mining company stoolplgeons and the
peddlers of fake oil stocks into whose
lands Smith intends to place the des
tinies of the trade union movement
of the city. •
Smith, fresh from a victory in
Minneapolis, where he succeeded in
lifting the charter of the trade coun
cil with the aid of the notorious Citi
zens’ Alliance and the denizens of the
underworld, arrived in this town with
a fanfare of trumpets. He was cor
dially greeted and fulsomely praised
by the Anaconda press and having
thawed out under the benefleient rays
of the copper barons’ benevolence, the
disrupter loudly threatens to make
the labor movement of Great Falls
safe for big business.
Picked Confidence Man.
Looking around for some conve
nient collection of confidence men,
that could be trusted to do the dirty
work of the employers, his eyes rest
ed on the notorious purveyor of
worthless stock in fictitious oil wells,
Herbert Gallagher, secretary of the
Smeltermen’s Union, an auxiliary of
the Anaconda Mining company.
This fellow, Gallagher, is as wel
come In the labor movement here as'
a pole cat at a picnic, but he smells
alright to the seasoned nostrils of
Paul Smith.
After laying down the law to the
membership of the Federal Union,
Smith wired to Washington urging
revocation of the charter. The com
plaisant “progressive” Frank Morri
son, complied with the request and
the charter was revoked. Now, Smith
is visiting the local unions in Great
Falls urging them to send delegates
to the 'Cascade Trade and Labor As
sembly who will support the reac
tionaries. The assembly Is now un
der the leadership of Tom Logan and
the progressive elements.
The Federal Union is composed of
workers in many trades, who are
banded together for greater protec
tion into one organization rather than
split into 57 crafts as Smith desired.
Naturally the members refused to
commit suicide and wired to Secre
tary Morrison that they would not
divide and be conquered. The revo
cation of their charter followed.
If the members of the Federal Un
ion do not Join their respective crafts
declared Smith, it means that "their
sympathizers are with the ‘one big
union’ principle as espoused by Fos
ter, Ruthenberg and Dunne of the
Workers (Communist) Party.” Smith
shows his colossal ignorance of the
labor movement when he confuses
the trade union policy of the Work
ers (Communist) Party with the sec
tarians of the gambling concession,
known as the O. B. U. that operates
from Winnipeg, Canada.
Smith goes around flashing instruc
tions from Jerry Sullivan, secretary
treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant
Employes’ International Alliance, au
thorizing him to chaperon any stray
bartenders he may find into the fold
of the per capita shark.
Seat Employer* aa Delegate*.
Two contractors were seated as
delegates to the central body after a
long discussion during which the pro
gressives pointed out that the Cas
cade Trades and Labor Assembly was
a body for workers and not for capi
talists. Smith, however, believes
that the capitalists are the best
friends the workers have and must be
considered brothers. The two con
tractors were sent as delegates by
the Carpenters’ Union and Smith said
It was up to the local that sent to
determine tlielr fitness to represent
them. This would be logical if they
were workers, but It is strange thut
Smith did not apply the same kind of
logic to the Minneapolis situation
where he expelled several Commun
ists from the trades assembly after
their locals had elected them repeat
edly. But Communists fight the bat
tles of the workers against the capi
talists. It is much nicer for the labor
takers to have capitalists run the cen
tral body. This plan avoids strife,
and also helps to line the pockets of
the fakers.
The local labor movement Is arous
ed over the actions of the Imported
dlaruptlonlst and a bitter fight is in
prospect. The militants do not in
tend to allow the trade unions to be
smashed by the stoolplgeons of the
employers, now led by Smith.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April «.
Turkish operations against the Kur
destan rebels were hampered today
by snowstorms. The government
troops have occupied Prlanlpalou ami
Boullnlk and the are moving against
SUvan.