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Our Home Automatic Recording Safe will help you. a saving account opened with $1 or more entitles you to the safe free. .'J per vent, and absolute safety guaranteed. CS BPT 0n SaTin? , And Time ^Ceilt Deposits THE First National Bank OF HUNTINGTON Capital and Surplus $1,000,?00.00 Resources - 3,250,000.00 Trades & Labor Assembly (Continued from page 1);^ "i ceeded to call on varions Senators for their support and interviewed the fol lowing : Cummins of Iowa; Borah of Idaho; Resd of Missouri; Swanson of Virginia; Owen of Oklahoma; Gore of Oklahoma; Hitchcock of Nebraska; Southerland of Utah, and Morris, Clapp and LaFallette of Wisconsin; all these Senators promised their sup port and records attest their truth ful statements. Your close observation will show few Southern Senators mentioned, the reason for this is, these southern gentlemen have a game of their own up their sleeve, to pull off next winter, i. e. the disfranchisement of the negro, and they want the help of certain northern Senators, perfectly willing to permit the white man to suffer to spite the negro; poor politics indeed. ' The California Senators are holding ! back for fear if these precedents are established, will lead to investigation into the Alien land question in their state. Tuesday afternoon Senator Kern reopened his support of his bill and used all the information and data your committea had furnished him, with considerable more he had re ceived. He showed where men had been tried and imprisoned by drum head court trial, deprived of judicial rights; reviewing Mother Jones' case; proved misuse of mails, etc. Showed how children were deprived .of an education on account of $500,000 being spent in maintaining a militia. Not once was the Senator interupted by opposition, but frequently question ed by some Senator who was anxious to gather valuable information for his own benefit. The Senator proved where mail was supressed and. rights to organize stopped. Senator Chilton finished thf. day endeavoring to kill the bill, but his remarks were weak and he continually wandered in his appeal, sympathy was conspicuous for its absence and public sentiment against him. On Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock Senator Goff took the floor in his endeavor to have the bill referred to the committee on education. During his remarks. Senator Goff was cross-fired by such hea\y guns' lie Cummins, Borah. Reed, Southerland. The continual humiliation Senator Goff was put to by these giants of law was pitiful to behold. Time and time again he evaded the question these judicial and constitutional mas ters put to him, and every question showed public sentiment leaning to the Mexicanized West Virginians, who were begging for industrial justice the rights to organize and free speech. White Senator Kern has been grate ful in his endeavor to help the poor suffering West Virginians in exposing, the harrowing conditions in the strike zone, yet organized labor in this state must not over look such true friends to our cause as supporters of Mr. Kern we refer to Senators Cummins, Borah, LaFollette. Reed, Hitchcock and Southerland. While the vote up to this time had not been taken, your committee felt safe in leaving Washington Thursday on account of the optemistic outlook. We left our case in the hands of Messrs. Holder and Fairley who are pushing the good work hard. In summing up our report, we feel it our duty to thank Mr. Morrison for his valuable support and Mr. Wilson of the Department of Labor. A. E. Holder of the Legislative committee of the A. F. of L.. and suggest our Secretary be instructed to write them with thanks for the willing spirit shown towards your committee Assuring you that we executed the duties expected of us to the very best of our ability respectfully submitted. J. W. Swann. Chr'm. ) Harry Wright. > Com. J. W. Holder. ) Another matter of great interest to the Assembly was the bond election to be held Saturday. It took the po sition that if any bonds were issued by the city of Huntington they should be for the purpose of establishing a municipal water plant, and decided to oppose the proposed issue in the election Saturday. A committee was appointed to visit each local that met, during the week and explain the po sition of the Assembly \oward the bond issue and urge their members to vote against bonds. Delegates fr?m the Bakers Union reported that in all probabilities their strike would be amicably adjusted during the present week. An assessment per capitia of 50 was levied to provide a special fund for the Assembly to be used as it might direct in cases of emergency. Next meeting June 8. Debs, Berger and Germer 9 : . : t (Continued from first page) letter the following has been received: Charleston, W. Va? May 27, 1913. E iwin Firth, Secy., Local Huntingtoh, Socialist Party Huntington, W. Va. Dear Comrade:? Your communication of the 25th inst. reached me last evening and has been carefully read. I regret that your members should censure me in my absence and without a htaring and I regrot this all the more because this has been done, presumably, upon evidence furnished by Capitalist news papers. Since our Committee has been in this City a persistent effort has been made to turn our menbers against us and to create discension in our ranks by circulating reports that are either totally untrue or are but half truths which are at times even more mis chevious than downright lies. I have made no statement that could even be tortured into that for which you have passed censure upon me, and I think your members-should know me well enough io know that I would be incapable of such betrayal of a trust by my Comrades as I am seemingly charged with. A deliberate falsehood was sent out from here in reference to what I said after our interview with Governor Hatfield and I am satisfied that its purpose was just . such as it reported in your communication, viz, the turn ing of our members against us and their loss of confidence in us because of our alleged betraval of our trust in siding with the enemies of our fellow workers. That any member couid en tertain such an unwarranted charge against us in such light regard, is in deed a matter of pain as well as a sur prise to me. Yours fraternally, E. V. Debs. Following their last day of investi gation in the Paipt and Creek terri tory the committee sent the following telegram to Senator Kern: "It is imperative that the Kern reso lution pass. Conditions have im proved considerably but there is no doubt that the federal constitution was set aside in the coal regions. The fundamental rights of citizenship were denied, papers were suppressed, and postal laws ignored. Under the guise of law aod order, the military and civil authorities substituted mob law for constitutional government. "Armored trains with machine guns poured deadly fire into homes of de fenseless men, women and children. The senate owes the nation a search ing investigation of the long reign of lawlessness in the mining region of West Virginia. Ohio's Governor Answers Goff During a two-days speech in the United States senate in opposition to the passage of the Kern resolution, Senator Goff became embroiled with numerous senators of other states by comparing industrial conditions in West Virginia with those in other com monwealths. Whenever the senile Goff insisted that West Virginia compared fovorably with some other state, in varably a senator from the state thusly libeled arose in his dignity and hotly resented the slander. In the course of his remarks Goff attempted to point a moral by using the Cincinnati streetcar strike as a horrible example. "The governor who will not call for the power of the state if civil courts are not able to keep the peace." said he, "is not worthy of the aame of governor. If the governor of Ohio would take a lesson from the governor of West Virginia concerning this situation where strife has prevail ed and insurrection in fact exists, and issue his martial-law orders there would be peace in the great city in the valley of Ohio." Goff's advice that he should follow Hatfield's example so enraged Gover nor Cox. of Ohio, that he answers the senator in asizzling letter which has been incorporated in the Congression al record. After pointing to the fact that when the Traction Corporation of Cincinnati found that he would not frraish them the state soldiery to be used as strike breakers, it settled the difficulty with its employees,. Govern or Cox pays his respects to Goff and the state from which he hails, in the following scathing arrangment: "This was in marked contrast to' the scenes so familiar to the senator from West Virginia that one can easily understand his resentment against a civilized aud humane industrial con dition that might sweep eastward over the Ohio river and wipe out a situa tion that has been a disgrace to the republic for 20 years. "In Ohio we court the intelligent | criticism of our sister states, but we looked with pity rather than resent ment upon the lamentations of one whose political and industrial stan dards grew out of a condition ffiade ab horrent in memory by the brutal tyranny of government over human rights." A knowledge that there will be many beautiful flowers heaped on my grave won't pay my current grocery bill. ?! " $1 ' " "Fight 'Er Over Again" Say Paint Creek Miners By Sigurd Russell. "We will have to fight her all over again," is what the Paint Cabin Creek boys are saying today. But the next time they are going to win. And to win they are willing to starve, to freeze and fight again. They well know that if they had held out a few more days, that they would have bettered their conditions. They well | know that they were betrayed and sold out at the lafet ditch and they will never forgive or believe again those who stood as their leaders and who lead them back to work under conditions worse than beiore the strike. They can never forget the threats made by a United Mine Work er Union official on the 3rd of May 1913 at Hollygrove. when he came there with Moore, who represented the Governor, and said to them. If you do not return to work we will take down the tents from over your heads." Nor will they ever forget the letter they received two days after, tellinff them that, "if they did not go back to work thai iheir supplies would be cut off." Governor iiatfield cannot fool them again, Tom Haggerty and Joe Vasey they now know. And even the militia cannot keep them from winning their next strike. General Elliott told me a few days ago that all the men had returned to work. That the miners were satisfied and that their conditions had been bettered. That the Mine Guard had been ousted from the coal fields, and that the men were committing num erous acts of sabotage, such as burn ing mines and tipples and that they were secretly damaging property in general. I asked him to put some of his statements on paper over his signa ture and he refused to do so. Where upon I decided to go up the Creeks to find out the facts of the situation myself. 1 started on the day Parsons went home after 101 days of imprisonment in various dungeons and Bull Pens. It was holiday up Paint Creek. Miners ! were at each train to meet him. Men, women and children, young and old, rejoiced at the coming back of the comrade who had made the first speech on Socialism up the Creek. They were greeting their blacksmith, their lawyer and their fellow worker who had shown himself true blue. It was the happiest day that they had lived since the sell~out-settlement. Most of them simply said "Mighty glad to see you back" or "You know how I stood, that's how 1 stand now. We will have to fight her over again." I found that many miners had been discharged because they were social ists or because they were strong union men. That many nad been refused jobs, and that many refused absolute ly to go back to work under present conditions. As far as the Mine Guards go, though they are not committing as many murders as before, they arc as much in evidence as they ever were and their daring :-.nd tyranny is still beyond description. As far as baing satisfied goes, no men who have to work under star\ ing conditions will ever be satisfied. They are disconted with the mine owners, the Guards, the Governor and the United Mine Workers Union. To them the socinlisi s are the only foice that can save thtm i-nd that is will ing to stand by them through thick and thin. And they wave the banner of Socialism higher than ever before. Soon they will strike again and no force on earth can hold them from victory. Arvilla Girls Making Hit At The Placade The Placade is making the hit of its existence at present .in presenting The Arvilla Girls, headed by Sue Goodwin, in Musical Comedy. The girls are drawing packed houses and nothing but praise for their ex cellent work is being heard. The entire program is changed twice a week, and on Friday nights when the local amatuers hold forth the fun reaches its climax. A special summer schedule of prices. 10c and 20c, has been put into effect, and will continue throughout the season. A splendid orchestra of UNION musicians render the latest melodious strains, and is in a great measure responsible for the tremend jus success being attained by the cozy little theatre. Remember the Placade when in search of real pleasure. "Slug Tin and Jug 'fin" Motto Suggested by Debs By J. L. Engdahl. \ Charleston, W. Va. May 19. ? "Slug 'em and jug 'em!" That is the new motto suggested for the coat of arm of the sovereign state of West Virginia by T ugene V. Debs. The veteran Socialist, who is again back in the blackest spot on the United States fighting for the rights of the rising workers, feels that that is the insignia that ought to float over the Duchy Elkins-Davis. until present conditions have been radically chang ed in favor of the working class. When wage slavery has been abol ished and the last bit of feudalism driven from the state, then it is con sidered early enough to restore the present state motto ? "Montani Sem per Liberi" ? meaning "Mountaineers are always fee men." "The reigning policy in West Vir ginia at the present time," declares Debs, who has come to the state to investigate conditions in the Kanawha war zone as the special ambassador of the Socialist party, "is to drive all union men from the state and to beat up, jail, and imprison the organizers of labor. For that reason the motto of, "Slug 'em and jug em" would be especially appropriate." Deb's last visit to the state was during the presidential campaign of last fall when he spoke in this city in spite of the refusal of the authorities to permit the Socialists to use a hall and in the face of efforts to stop the meeting altogether. The coal czars of West Virginia have heard of Debs before. As long ago as August. 1897, he invaded the state and was met with the first anti labor injunction ever issued, this form of judicial tyranny at that time blossoming into popularity with the rulers of West Virginia. Debs was accompanied by William D. Mahon.now the international presi dent of the street car men. They would not pern j ir him to go near the mines. It was said, however, that his words were like "ride shots" and the men in mine after mine left their working places and came out on strike. In one part of the state the miners held their meetings under a large tree, all indoor meetings having bjjen forbidden. The coal barons be came so incensed over these meetings that the tree was dynamited out of the ground. All that now remains is a large hole in the ground. The fight of the West Virginia coal miners has been a long fight. It is be lieved that the present opportunity will result in the complete organiza tion of the entire state. There are at present about 20,000 union miners in the state with about 60.000 still out side of the organization. West Vir ginia' is one of the strategic points in the nation's coal mining situation from the workers' standpoint. This is especially true insofar ns it pertains to the miners of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, whose products come in direct competition with the output of the West Virginia coal miners, just as the products of the non-union Alabama mines compete with the union mines of Pennsylvania. The unionizing of the West Virginia mines therefore means a closing of the ranks in the forward march against the power and the resources of the American coal kings. It means that the membership of the United Mine Workers of America will soar above the 400 000 mark making of this militant labor organization the largest body of organized workers on the American continent and is only superseded by the metal workers' union of Germany. The Western Comrade. June number just sizzling olT the press. Full of Socialist ? making propa ganda. It's the one best. In-t in the Socialist magazine world. Buy single copies; buy it in bundles; buy it NOW! j About Jack London What do you know about Jack Lon don? One of the stories in this num ber tells you some intimate things about this great Socialist author. Emanuel Julius has written the story. It's a jim dandy. Anna Maley, R. A. Maynard. Stan ley B. Wilson, Chester M. Wright and a half dozen other star writers have made this magazine a regular maga zine-gun number. You can't miss with it. We have "put it across" in this number. Send a dime todav for a single copy; send a dollar for a brist ling. sizzling, whooping, sunshiny year of the best Socialist magazine in the country ? The Western Comrade. Box 135, Los Angeles, Cal. A 12-Inch Bar of Floating V v Rememeber on every article Shand's Cut ? 221 Ninth Street The Store That Brought V on Sale 48c we save you money Medicine Just Off .Third Avenue Prices To Huntington And God Said -"Let Ti'here Be Light." By P. C. RijssELL. Why should turning on the light sjo affright If there's no awful sight, or feariVuil plight, To be hidden from public observation? 'ijuceri hern ^discrimination? Ji] Why are facts firmly sealed and If nothing can be revealed in thd That would show a reign of inf To thoroughly investigate, cannot Why should Kern, cause such co Unless its feared he learn or dis Some foul scheme or system o J^arefuliy concealed, coal .field Hmous intimidation'.' harm the state, But. may legally terminate .and forever relegate A system of hideous, criminal i ntoleration. So, all the sickening cant of the sycophant, Who is paid to rant by the cormorant, Will not lessen the demand for an investigation. A business that is right, need no$ fear the light, Only intolerant might, which is nitver right, Stands in fear of redressful, leg'pi regulation. (By Covington Hall.) Rebellion comes, hope's sacred fire, To Freedom's son from Freedom's sire: A soul-breath swordsmen cannot kill. Nor gold, nor cross, nor rifle still. Wilh Lucifer it marched on God And broke Jehovah's scourging rod: i It stood with Christ in Pilate's hall And doomed the Caesars to their fall. If sent Gautama on his quest, Him Asia calls her light and blest: With Quetzaleoatl, long ago, It stirred the heart of Mexico. With Moses it for freedom sought; Wilh wild Mahomet, too, it fought; It gave Zoroaster all his fame. Confucius his deathless name. With Cromwell's legions, grim and cold It trampled 011 the statutes old; Willi Voltaire. Murat am! St. .lust, It raged 'till Europe rose from dust. ; It called Abe Lincoln from the plains. Set Marx and Ferrer breuking chains. And hovered o'er the Commune when It fired the souls of workingmen. 'Tis that which stirs the race today ? lis that which makes truth's light nings play ? 'Tis Revolution in its birth ? The st >11 1 of Freedom ? the light of earth ? REBELLION! Contentment may be better than riches, but riches might help conside rably toward contentment. To be popular, be an appreciative listener and if forced to say anything say what your hearer wants to hear. Socialist State Com mittee Meetim Ifiie state committee of the S Pnfyy met fit Parkersburg Sunday, with thi? following commitU'e!iu|i present: Smith, Kenzer, (>illesjii<;, Kirj|endii and Secretary Hoii^mi. Coniradej Houston tendered his n -.ii; natton aa Secretary, to tako c fleet Junta lsfj which was accepted, ami L ' H. Jj^inzer appointed by the < ora mitl^^qiil^i'the vacancy until \ refei^ejj^^eiection can be called e pjh'cipal thing of interest jfi ormiittee was the situation' in Kaiiiwha county and the persecution of Socialists and the. confiscation of Socialist newspapeis by the military i government. Resolutions endorsing the Kern resolution looking to a l'etiu ral investigation of West Virginia were passed and copies sent to members of the Senate. A; message was sent loth'* National Socialist Committee urging it to center the support of the entire purty in it:e ? West Virginia struggle. Resolutions commending the elTnrts ! of the United Mine Worker:- of j America in organizing the miners of J the state, and pledging them tb* active support of the party, v. ere | pas 1 amendments to party s lstitution v; ere proposed a:.'! j iferred to referendum it f?-r: j ilurphy, of Parker. sburg, : state Correspondent. and will j irge of the Woman's On^ri 4 Pork, I Si stat will M elef hav zati It^Basier to be honest to oilers than^H one's self: we are alway ???!! ing '^Htelves a gold brick. Lai nd your subscription >r Star. ? m INSIST OK BOTH LABELS Our label and the Union Label together stand for the best in tailoring from modern, sunlit, air swept, well-paid shops. (WITHOUT THE VEST $13) ' New Woolens Arriving Daily. ORDER NOW 326 Ninth Street i 4- -