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VOL. 53—NO. 17. OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1923.* SUA".V. V,;,,z..V?i ‘^"K-bT«■"’& TW0 CENTS '• VT^
FARM-LABOR PARLEY SPLIT WIDE OPEN
Ruhr Peace
Up to Berlin
Government
Withdrawal of Support to Pas
sive Resistance Campaign
Held Key to
Settlement.
People Willing to Pay
By MARK SULLIVAN.
Cologne, July 3.—Ever since the
French set up their demands for ces
sation of passive resistance in tlie
Ruhr as a condition precedent to an
swering the last German note, the
question has been just what degree
of cessation was meant by the French
and how it would work out in actual
practice In the Ruhr.
If by cessation of passive resist
ance France meant merely that the
central government in Berlin should
^^Jsithdraw Its ordinances calling for
resistance and its financial support
of resistance, it is felt that Britain
might find a way to make an infor
mal suggestion to Berlin that this
be done.
Blit If the French meant that the
German government must go farther,
must actually help the French army
in its efforts to keep order and make
the population go to work, that is re
garded as a different matter.
Idle MosUof Time.
In the Ruhr, the fact is that the
people are working roughly about one
fifth of their capacity. The rest of
the time they are idle. To provide
them with food they are receiving re
lief money from private sources. If
-he financial assistance of the Ger
man government were withdrawn,
the amount of relief from private
sources would be insufficient. The
Ruhr population thrn would have to
go to work or starve.
It is possible, indeed it has been
discussed here, that in the event the
German government should withdraw
its financial assistance the popula
tion might follow the example of Bel
gium when the Germans occupied it
and refuse to work under hostile
bayonets. The end of that process
would be an appeal to America for
food on a basis analogous to our fur
nishing food to Belgium during the
war.
The best judgment here, however,
; is that if withdrawal of the ordi
0^' stances and financial support fot pas
sive resistance by the rentral Berlin
government ns part of or followed
closely by a general reparation settle
ment. then the people would go to
work and the region would Quickly
become economically productive to a
normal degree. "
Kager to Pay.
The people here are perfectly well
iware that Germany must and ought
to pay reparations They are not only
willing, but eager to pay it. If they
were told that Germany must pay a
certain fixed sum anil that so soon
as It was paid the occupying army
would be withdrawn, and Germany
freed, then in that event they would
go to work and pay.
Under those conditions the pres
ence of the French army. Vvith a defi
nite known limit of its presence,
would soon cease to cause violence or
much resentment. It is not the pres
ence of a foreign army that causes
trouble. Where there is a British
army there is no trouble at all. The
people fraternize with the soldiers.
It is the fear that the French mean
to stay forever, mean to try to disrupt
Germany, that causes the trouble. A
deeper cause of the whole trouble is
that same thing that has been an in
herent vice of the Versailles treaty
for four years, failure to make rep
arations a fixed sum.
Because the amount was left inde
terminate, 99 out of every 100 people
uere sincerely believe that no matter
how much Germany pays, it will be
""'•’C'jfiuiredto pay still nt -re: and they
believe also that the French will re
fuse to be satisfied with any amount
:>{ money whatever, but really enter
•»in a policy of disrupting Germany.
fCopyright. 1923. >
Scout Executive Is Off
to New York Convention
John H. Piper.,regional executive of
'.he Boy Scouts of America, left last
night for New York to attend the
Pith annual meeting of the national
council of the Boy Scouts of Amer
ica.
The conference will he held July 9
and 10 and will be followed by a na
tional meeting of the 12 field men of
the organization, lasting two more
days.
Piper w ill net urn to Omaha tow ards
•he middle of the month,
England Will Not Cut
Armament, Denby Announces
By International News Service.
Blsley, Knglund, July 5.—England
will not reduce its armament furth
er, the Karl of Derby, secretary of
state for war, declared In an address
here today.
The n;argln of safety at present Is
■‘extraordinarily small,’’ lie said.
Four Die in Hotel Firr.
Pittsburgh. July IS.—Four persona
Aitvere burned to death today when fire
swept through the Schmidt hotel si
McKeesport, near here. The bodies
of two men and a woman have not
been Identified Six guests were In
jured, two seriously.
Offers $100,000 Prize
for World Court Plan
Qtp’W&ni w BokC .:*SLJ
Here is the latest photograph of
liilwaril \V. Hole of Philadelphia, who
has offered a prize of £100,000 for the
American citizen who brings forward
the best practical plan for the co
operation of tile Inited States with
the other nations in attaining and
preserving world peace.
Woman Dope User
Hangs Herself in
Detention Ward
Mrs. Bessie Baker, Kansas
City, Crazed by Want* for
Drug. Ends Her Life.
Crazed by lack of drugs, Mrs. Bes
sie Baker, alias Bessie Butler, Kan
sas City, Mo., ended her life by bang
ing Thursday afternoon in the deten
tion ward at he city Jail. The woman,
who had been in jail for a week, had
made no complaint until half an hour
before site committed suicide. Khe
cried for drugs and was given a small
quantity nf aspirin.
After Miss Mabel Wright, police
nurse, gave Mrs. Baker the aspirin
she was left alone. A short time later
Miss Wright heard a noise in the cell
block and on Investigating found Mrs.
Baker hanging from an overhead heat
pipe by an improvised rope made of
bedclothing.
Mrs. Baker was arrested a week ago
Thursday when officers raided an
alleged "dope den” on the banks of
the Misourt river near the water
works. She was one of seven ar
rested and was in company with her
husband, Sam Baker, who made a
sensational break for liberty last Fri
day when he was in the chief of de
tective*’ office for questioning. Baker
was removed to the couny Jail after
his capture, where he Is being held
in default of a $2,500 bond on a
charge of attempting to steal an auto
mobile arising from an effort to steal
a car during his escape.
Lincoln Prisoner
Saws Way to Liberty
Lincoln, July 5.—Working with his
bare hands a few Inches of a broken
hacksaw blade, W. D. Mathews, 18.
held at the city jail' on a charge of
automobile theft, sawed his way to
freedom early today through two
sets of steel liars.
The prisoner sawed two bars In
the roof of his cell .then tore away a
heavy wire netting and removed
most of the bars from a window high
In the wall.
Apparently lie made a straight
drop of 20 feet from the Jail roof to
the concrete driveway. No one
knew of the escape until several
hours after the prisoner had gone,
according to t'apt. Walter Anderson
of the police department.
I
Japan's Thre<‘-Pow<‘r Arms
Pact Not Favored Ity t . S.
Washlnslon. July 0. Ja|«tr» bur
gestion for a three-power armament
agreement with Great Britain and the
I nlted State* a* a substitute for the
five power treaty signed at tito Wash
ington conference and still awaiting
ratification by France, has met with
small favor in high naval circle*. Not
only would such a pact defeat its
own purpose, according to tin* opin
ion of some naval experts, but in or
der to be even of moral value it would
have to involve at least a tacit often
slve and defensive alliance between
the three signatories, viewed ah im
probable of congressional approval.
$15,000 Fire Sweeps Store
of Omaha Fur Company
Damage estimated at $15,000 was
(aused by a fire which swept the of
ffree and storerooms of the Omaha
Hide and Fur company, TOO South
Thirteenth street, early Thursday
morning. Origin of the flic is un
known. Alairn was turned in by
someone who was passing the build
Ing at 3:20 a. m. and observed th»*
flames.
Indictmnip at Coohc Crook.
Houston, Tex . July f» Seven more
indictments, charging assault with »
pistol, were returned this morning by
the Harris county grand Jury inves
tigating whippings at Goose Creek, an
oil town near here
P r e 8't
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E v fy. f k s
for Alaska
First Slop Schedulgd for
Ketchikan Friday or Early
Saturday—First Chief to
Visit North Territory.
Realizes Long Ambition
Ity Anyoriutpi] PrrM
Tacoma, Wash., July 6.— In the
midst of the blaring of bands and the
farewell cheers of thousands of Ta
coma citizens, President Harding sail
ed today for Alaska, the first chief
executive of the nation to visit that
territory since it came under the
American flag 50 years ago.
A few- minutes after 2. the sched
uled hour of departure the United
States naval transport Henderson,
which for the next 20 days will be in
reality the White House, got tinder
way, circled the harbor and steamed
past the Tacoma stadium where a
few minutes before the president and
Mrs. Harding had received the god
speed of Governor Hart of Washing
ton. and where the president had de
clared for an American merchant ma
rine second to none.
As the big transport swung by the
stadium, those who assembled there
to hear the president speak stood and
cheered. Mr. and Mrs. Harding ac
knowledged the cheers, waved fare
well*from the bridge until distance
made them only Indistinct figures to
those on shore.
President Happy.
The president as he boarded the
vessel was in an unusually happy
frame of mind, pleased by the recep
tion given him in Tacoma, glad to
obtain a few days of rest after the
16-dn.v transcontinental trip, and
overjoyed by the prospect of releas
ing the ambition he has held almost
everwince he entered the White House
—an ambition to visit the great north
ern territory and obtain first-hand
information wdth respect to its prob
lems.
Two days of steady sailing lay
ah®ad of the party when it left here,
up through the inside passage of
British Columbia and Alaska. It will
not be a monotonous voyage by any
means, for the boat will pass through
narrow winding channels with moun
tains rising directly from the water's
edge.
The first stop will be made at Ket
chikan. either late Friday or early
Saturday, and after a stay there the
Henderson will go on to Wrangell,
arriving there to spend Sunday, ac
cording to the tentative schedule. The
arrival at Juneau, the territorial capi
tal, has been fixed for July 10 and
(Turn to fore Two. Column One.)
Others May Face
Charges of Fraud
Federal Grand Jury Expected
to Return Indictment*
Citing Conspiracy.
The federal grand jury will meet
again till* morning to hear evidence
In booze, dope and other cases.
The government Jurors spent nil
yesterday hearing the evidence In
only \hree eases. It was reported.
It is known that a large number
of itooze and dope selling cases will
be presented, but rumors were per
sistent in the federal building yes
terday that there would he some more
Indictments in eonneetion with the
promotions of recent business enter
prise*.
A number of indictments against
prominent Omaha business men were
made by the last grand Jury, alleg
ing conspiracy to defraud. Some
more of these Indictments may be
expected, it Is reported.
The grand Jury, according to Dis
trict Attorney Klnsler. will make its
return Saturday noon.
Our killed. 1't Hurl
When l lull Slaml Kalis
Sail I.ake Cjty. Inly 5— One person
was killol and 4.. injured, several se
liously. hen- Iasi night when a tempo
rary grandstand, loaded with hun
dreds "f person* watrhing a Fourth
of July celebration at liberty park,
gave way and crashed to the ground,
burying under the wreckage many of
the injured.
Ruby Hoderbury. #. lost, her life In
the crash, dying of a broken neck at
the emergency hospital. Most of the
Injured suffered broken limbs, body
abrasions or head Injuries.
The crash occurred after thousands
had gathered at the park to watch the
fireworks display. More than 30,000
were in the park when the accident
occurred and pandemonium reigned
among a portion of the crowd neat
est the grandstnnd. causing hindrance
to rescue workers In their effort! to
extricate those buried under the
twisted mass of wreckage
<*irI Allarketl
H.f Intmintloniil .»wi M»Ipp.
rhicajrn. July f» VrcxpUn* H tUU'
from thi **• xtianRt* youtlui In nn auto
mobllr. Mary Knx. 16. wax to
x lonMv bit of foirxt pifxri-vp nml nt
«nonllnw to tin* ■tory slm toM
|ioli» i> today uftxr H* \vnx found wan
flaring nmoiiR ih»* ir**«'*. Il^i • nndi
lion lx Mxjlnux.
Auto for Every Five
Persons in Nebraska,
lotva, South Dakota
Everyone in Nebraska, Iowa and
South Dakota could hop in automo
biles and move out instantly, with
out leaving anyone at home and
without having to make a return
trip.
There is a car lor every five
persons in those three states, ac
cording to figures just compiled by
the bureau of publicity of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Iowa ranks second In the I'nited
States -with 4.8 persons per car. and
Nebraska and South Dakota tie for
third with 5.1 persons per car. In
('"'•fnrnia, the leading state in the
union, there is a car for every 3.8
persons.
Other slates in the country run
up as high as 16.1 per car. The
average in the whole I'nited States
is 8.8 persons per car.
Steel Industry
Promises to Drop
Twelve-Hour Day
Manufacturing Official;
Pledge Support to Shorter
Hours, in Correspondence
With Harding.
By Aunrtotnl frm
Tacoma, Wash., July 5.—President
Harding'made public here today the
correspondence between himself and
the directors of the American Iron
and Steel Institute and. in a state
ment incorporated as part of his ad
dress here, said "the large majority
of the steel manufacturers of Ameri
ca have undertaken to abolish the
12-hour day 4n the American steel in
dustry at the earliest possible mo
ment that the additional labor requir
ed shall be available."
The "pledge" of the steel manufac
turers. the president said, "would be
welcomed by our people as s whole
and would be received as a great boon
by American workers."
The letter to President Harding,
signed by Elbert H. Gary, John A.
Topping, W. A. Rogers, W. II. Don
ner. W. J. Filbert. E. A. S. Clarke,
James A. Farrell, E. G. Grace. Willis
iii. King. James A. Burden. I,. E.
Black. Severn P. Ker, J. A. Campbell,
A. C. Dinkey and Charles M. Schwab,
directors of the American Iron and
Steel institute, follows:
"Careful consideration has been giv
en to your letter of June IS by the un
derslgned directors of the American
Iron and Stel Institute, comprising all
of those whose attention could be se
cured at this time.
Pledge Shorter Day.
I'ndoubtedly there Is a strong sen
timent thrdughout the country in fa
for of eliminating the 12 hour day.
and this we do not under estimate On
account of this sentiment, and espe
cially because It Is in accordance with
your own expressed views, we are
determined to exert our Influence for
a shorter day at the earliest time
practicable. This means the employ
ment of large numbers of workmen
on an eight-hour basis and all others
on a iiasis of in hours or less. With
out an unjustifiable interruption tq
operations, the change cannot be ef
fected over night. It will involve
many adjustments, many of them
complicated and difficult, but we
think it can he brought about without
undue delay when, as you state It,
'there is a surplus of labor available.'
"Tiie iron anil steel manufacturers
generally of the I’nlted States, out
side of the directors referred to, are
expected to concur in the conclusion
reached by the directors a« above stat
ed."
Text of Harding’s Letter.
President Harding’s letter, address*
e<l to Judge Gary, follows
"I lmve now had an opportunity of
reading the full report of the com
mittee of the Iron and Steel institute
on the question of the abolition of
the 12-hour day in the steel industry.
As I have stated before, I am. of
course, disappointed that no conclu
sive arrangement was proposed for de
termination of what must be mani
festly accepted as a practice that
should be obsolete In American Indus
try | still entertain the hope that,
the*f questions of social importance
should be solved by action inside the
industries themselves. f«*» it is only
such solutions tHat are consonant
with American life and institutions
“I am Impressed that fn the rcas
onlng of flie report great weight
should he attached to the fait thutj
in the present shortage of lalsu It
woud ( ripple our entire prosperity if
the change were abruptly nmde In
the hope that Mils question could be
disposed of. 1 am wondering if it
would not be possible for the steel
industry to consider giving an under
taking before there shall be any r«
Auction in the staff or employes of
the Industry through any recession
of demand for steel product or at
any time when the^e is a surplus of
labor available. that then the
change should he made from the
two shift to the three shift basis. I
cannot hut believe that such an un
dertaking would give girnt satisfac
tion to the American people ms a
whole and would indeed establish !
pride and confidence in the ability
of our Industries themselves to
solve mallei n which are ho con
chtsivclv advocated to* ; lie public'*
Helen to Merchant .Mai ne.
The chief »-xrcui iv»* » «• «f«ired
to the merchant marine ihe Amen
can school system ami I lie social
(Turn to I'NRr Two. ('Hlmmi I wo.i
Tracking Up the House Faster Than He Can Clean It
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Thirty-Five Dead,
in
Celebrations
Ten Person* killed in Ohio—
Missouri Leads in Number
Hurt M ith 51—Illinois
Second M itli 28.
Chicago. July C>.—Thirty five deaths
and 1U injuries were raused by fire
work* *nd Fourth of July celebra
tion* thi* year, it was shown tonight
III j I ♦ ' k Ilf rasunltit * reported from
all parts of the country
Firework* and firearms were re
sponsible for a large penentagt! of
the deaths, although automobile acet
denrs and drowning* In connection
with Independence day celebration*
helped to swell the total.
M»*t of the death* reported were
in the east. Ohio leading the list of
fatalities with 10, while Pennsylvania
reported fl\e and New York state
three. Thirteen death* were reported
in the middlewest and four were re
ported In the south.
In accident* resulting in Injuries.
Missouri reported til. but many of
them were minor Illinois was second
with J8 injuries, many of them seri
ous. ,
Following i' a table of reported
deaths and Injuries In the various
stales:
State Dead. Injured.
Ohio. K»
Illinois .. ••• *> 28
Pennsylvania. . >
Minnesota . l 8
! Mirhigan . 4
! New York . 3
Louisiana . 3 11
Alabama . 1
Missouri . 61
Nebraska . *» |
Iowa . 1 1
New Jersey .. ..
Wisconsin .
Total*.3a 134
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Hear Admiral Plunkett Sa\>
Leviathan Will Lum1 Money
New York. July * —The steamship
Leviathan. reconditioned by the gov
ernment at a coat of more than
$8,000,000 and now on the high seas
on It* lust trip under ihe American
flag In the transatlantic paaaenger
service, "never made money and never
will." Kgar Admit til Charles IV
Plunkett, commandant nt the Brook
lyn navy yard, declared In an address
before ihe Brooklyn Itotary cluh. The
great liner, like the British Majestic
and Beroiigatla, is too large and e\
pensive for practical oiieration* ho
said.
(»o\oriiment <>l I nrkey
Ki'i'alliiip Mon to (iiilom
111 Intern** tons I Nf«« VrOrr,
London, July f* ■ The \ngora gov
eminent Is reonlling mm to the
color* and laying plan* for defense
of the DmUi lin« . sail! a dispatch to
day from Comitantinofde The re
port*'I niilitary activity I* due. the
dispute)* said, to imports that the a!
I lie* tire going to maintain their oc
'cupatlon of Constantinople
Milk for Babies
Is a Moral Duty
Proper Nourishment Is Life
and Death Matter for
Infants.
Some of os mt Invent in tax fiee
securities and thus avoid paying a
■ retain amount of taxes without feel
tng any qualms of conscience.
Hut we simply cannot ignore the
needs of tiny hahies who sufTer dur
ing the hot summer months in the
poorer homes of our city. At least
our consciences can't be entirely fire
if w e do. «
For th<* question of milk and h e
is a l.fe and death matter to scores
of these tots, whose mothers are
without the nieans of furnishing them
Willi proper nourishment.
Now that the h‘g holiday !« over,
lli- Free- Milk and Ice fund should
gr. w raptdly. It must i-cai h the
11.000 mark by August 1 If the Visit
ing Nurse association • to have
enough funds to carry on the work
of mercy which it is now doing
These nurses are finding new and
more pitiful cases each day. They
look with confidence to the support
ers of this fund to enable them to
purchase the ice-cooled, sweet milk
which means so much to the hahies.
VVe must help. Send contributions
to the Free Milk and Ice fund, car*
of The Omaha Bee.
PrfiloHnlr Hrltnnnl^diftl contribu
tion* Mld.1*
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Prow l» I' Roonr. Nrb S.M
M *o
Boy Loses I numb and
Eye in Celebration
^
sprrial I< h In THf llmahn Bee I
Soottsbhiff, Neb . July 5 —The most
serious Fourth of July aecident **e
ported in thin region wai that of Karl
Well*, 12. Mitchell trnji. who lout hi*
left thumb ami the night of hi* left
eye.
lie placed a caution cracker in a
cap pistol and lighted it. The explo
sion shattered the pintol, piece* of the
steel tearing off hi* thumb and en
tering hi* eve
Omaha forger Senlcnri-d
to Michigan Penitentiary
II) l!it«»ntMtioitnl New* vnlrf.
I ip I ml t. Mich.. July 5. — John
Murphy, Omaha, pleaded guilty
today to forging t hork« totaling $71)0
and was sentenced to serve from 5
to 14 year* in Jbeknon prison. Murphy
told the court lie is a counin of Ed*
ward Fudnhy■. millionaire ihlcago
packer, and that hi* family ha* npent
$40,000 in th« last year to keep him
from being convicted for other for
get |e*.
Man l ined on Charge of
Touring Down "Old (.lory '
■lost pit HUrli. filH South Twon
I If III ,IWft, w i s tliiril Jli.M* in
iiitinii ipnl oouft. Hr wm ollocod
to l»:«> «• lorn down a tl.it *1 Hio
lioinr of Min. .I.iiiioi lloy it. fc.’lt
Soulli IHglifi'Oittli *lioot. Ho mid
ho only foil .1 guilt if I ho fl.ig. mid
wm Hying lo pul it hm I. up
Four Dead Six Hurt
When Flames Trap
Guests in Hotel
Part of Biieiiice* portion of
McKeesport. Pa.. Ihreat
ened by Morning
Blaze.
Bi International Vfw. vnirf.
McKeesport. Pa . July 5—Four
jiernons were burned to death and six
others injured, four seriously, when
fire of undetermined origin swept
through the four-story Hotel Schmidt
here early today and for a time
threatened a part of the business sec
tion of the city
The fiames starting in the liase
nient. spread through the budding
with great rapidity, trapping occu
pants of the upper floors in their
room*.
Fame within and without the hotel
followed. M'lnle policemen rescued
women and eh ldren. scream* from
other occupriVtts. caught on the up
per floors could lie heard blocks awa>.
William Keenan. 45, and two un
identified men and a woman are dead.
The seriously Injured are John
O'Hara. 45: Hen Coleman. 26; Matthew
Krast and Stanley Stokman.
Just as the building bu; *t into
flames. Miss Minnie Werry. night
head nurse at the McKeesport hos
pital. chanced to look out of a hos
pital window, she rushed ambulance
and internes to the scene. The fire
victims were taken to the hospital.
One man jumped from an tipper floor
and died in a few minutes.
Police officers assisted Tony Wrw xe
neck of Weirton. \V. V.t . his wife
and their four children to safety.
Dr> l.aw Repeal Movement
Is l.aunelkeil in (Georgia
It' Intrrnattanal New* wnirr
Atlanta Ga., July 5 An echo to
Now York's repeal of the state pro
hlbition enforcement law was heard
In the Georgia house of represents
tives today when Representative
fra I* Arnold intr>Hlut ■ 1 .1 :11 n ■■! ■
mending a tepeal of the Georgia
liquor restrictions. Ills lequest that
the hill be referred to the committee
of the whole was defeated and the
measure was sent to the commit re
on temperance.
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Platform
Described
as Too Red
Secretary of Organization
Scores Proposals Said to
Come From Branch of
Communist Parly.
Adjourn to Avoid Bolt
Ry .\%«oeiated PrcM.
Chicago, July 5.—The platform of
the propos-d federated farmer-labor
party, described as "to red, commun
istic and bolsheviki" and "too radical
for enn the radical state of Wiscon
sin” to accept, split the conference
wide open t'day and it recessqjf for a
night session, in order to stave off a
threatened bolt of some farmer labor
delegates ostensibly in their own con
vention. The recess was taken o i>cr
mit a farmer-labor chamber of com
merce to determine their furthur par
ticipation and action. At that time
the workers' party of America, which
('. K. Ruthenburg, one of Us group
leaders, said was a brace hof the
communist party, was in control of the
conference. Jay G. Brown, national
secretary of the farmer-labor party,
> efused the platform for his organiza
tion.
The organization committee, com
posed nf delegates representing indus
trial workers, farmers and minority
political parties, reported out a plat
forru through Joseph Manley. N«*w
York, another workers' party dele
gate. which Ruthenburg said was
signed by 26 of the 29 members.
It was immediately attacked by the
Illinois farmer-labor unit, but it mi
John Fitzpatrick, president of the
• 'hi< igo Federation of Ijabor, who d»
livered the severe arraignment.
Stoore® orkers Party.
' Th*? farmer-labor party called th:s
invention in good faith with a de
sire for political unity," Fitzpatrick
•aid. but other croup* inv.'ed hero
have taken advantage and injected a
platform that, if adopted, will kUl
the farmer-labor party and mean
death to the ambition* of the working
class for 10 years.
"A" soon as it becomes known that
the workers' party, a communist
branch, is identified with the move
ment, It will be used as the batermg
ram again«t us all. / If William L.
Foster. Kuthenbuig, Manley and ti e
others believe they can attract union
men and women to this platform they
are mistaken. If these men really
want to serve the cause they can <K>
it best by picking tip their tent an 1
t*e on their way. The delegate* who
framed tins platform were gaggtei
and delivered to "the organisation
committee."
Too Radical for Wisconsta.
Cheater C Platt of the nonpar- sat.
Wisconsin delegation, said that Wis
consin "was the most radical state in
the I'nlted States." but the platform
suggested, "drafted bv a party which
I am told is a branch of the third In
ternationale." if put to Wisconsin
organizations "would not be touched."
“And if you cannot suit-the radical
state of Wisconsin, voiiwcannot suit
another state in the union,” he added.
Foster was given the biggest ova
tion of the dav when he spoke for
the platform, but it was a brief talk
and confined to an urging that it be
adopted. The principal oletructiote to
the goal of the class movement was
Samuel Gompcrs. president of th®
American Federation of l,abor. he as
serted. Brown accepted that part of
the program which declared the prin
(Turk t» Tuff T»«. ( «>lnmn
40.000 Rrili'li Dock W orker>
on Sit ike: Famine Menaces
l*' Internal tonal New* vniet.
London, July 5.—With itiort 'hnn
4O.0UO dock worker* on strike
throughout England today aiul many
of the strikes unauthorised. * barges
were made by the Daily Express that
communists were the power behind
the strike
Seven thousand men struck in
Manchester in defiance of their lead*
ei> Two thousand u med the strike
in London and many walked out i*t
Liverpool.
Litton leaders who have giver
strike orders denied the charge of
communist .ispr.ation .to-i «lcvla:ori
the Issue was strictly one of protest
against high living costs.
The strike rapidly becoming a
menace Many section* are theraten*
e<l w ith. food shortages and Londons
supply )* estimated to b* Afticiem
only for a week. %
Three Die in \
H» Internaiteeal
Vancouver. Wash
men were i
were Injured
IcmoWh In
plunged off ■
Battle tlround and Hei«si
near here
The dead are
Mike Schilling, fid.
' n.s M nu*l 4" ■ r.
Kiank l'eagle. 4.'>. timtltgfpt \
Oil l ire Haaes on ^1 oa»|.
l<ong Beach Cal.. July ^—-S:y rigs
of the L 1' O group \ovlrt I'nlen
Oil com|«nv, are tutrnlng and the
whole of Signal Mill i.« threattned by
the rapidly spread mg dames.
ihl lu MOrage caught Are and thia -
a tided to the menace.
The l<ong Beach fire drpartuteat
responded and nil worker* assisted
In lighting the die
Your S Day “Want”Ad Phoned to At. 1000 Today Will Be in The Big Su nday Bee
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