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Show MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1923. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, "WEDNESDAY CI lUIII UI.UIUUU io my aif TD. Mine Workers' Leaders Make Further Revelations of Reds' LAWS MINERS SCORED Attempts on U. S. Government B! BE SUGGESTED NEW YORK. Sept 11. "Through "This revolting. Inexcusable crime, the encouragement of Industrial strife was fomented, promoted snd caused Om.1 trom Fas solely by Communists." says the (Omlit and the breeding of distrust between writer. "It was a oarefuHy planned employers and labor unions." Ameri- affair, schemed with all the diabolic v jj e l iu m can agents of the communist Internacruelty and disregard for law that i availaMussais,If uihisvviliiiivi usiatanc is de- at Moscow have undertaken characterizes the Communist mto iu uBrnmciu in uunnec- - tionale cou aifinpuiipn proojem to gain, control of labor unions as of the William Z. "wwin tMSf union ' idm in Amefka. ths first ste g is ward mvuIuHoh tridf- nig ittw wmier. John Bars Hammond, chairman of the establishment is to alleeed have been the dominat of a opmmunlst Will Obey Edi coal commission, issued a state'Czar the ing figure in events preceding the ment commenting on Governor regime on this continent, the United massacre. recommendation for lower an Mine Workers of America alleges in a sjSTORY OF MASSACRE. of Oklahoma and thracite freight rates. second article of an "extiose" of a The author's history of the mas"The coal commission In Its an J widespread claims have" to sacre foHowa: tnraette report issued July 9 to the uncovered. 'red" plot it "For snore than seven weeks prepAwait Next Election. president and to the congress recomIn carrying out this program the arations had tieen In progress In mended thaithe Interstate commerce communists are as much the foe of Krankiln and Williamson counties . to commission institute an Inquiry on the trade unions as they are of the strikethe about attack upon anthracite coai freight rates." said employers, say the authors of the breakers and armed- guards at the Mr. "The interstate com- miners' document. mine. , Governor Walton Denies merceHammond. commission, on the next' day, "There are persons who charge that strip "The plan' was to have simultafn response to the recommendation of the I'nited Mine a is Workers 'rd' neous uprisings in southern Illinois, coal commission, ordered an in- organization," the document continin the vicinity of He Ever Sought Mem- the and. If vestigation of this question and on ues, "and that it works, sympathizes, Bellaire, possible", hotOhio, which also wm August l fixed September 24 as the cooperates with and Is dominated by bed of Communist agitation a and on which the hearings would be- communists and cdmmunist influ surin and the rr;lon bership in Organization date ences." But the union "has no sym- propaand, gin. Urdontown. P. "The reasonableness of existing pathy with the communist .movement rounding to sent "A local union telegram rales will thus be ascertained as pro- in any of its phases. In fact, com- officials at Herrin by John L Ijpwis, vided by law, but until the Interstate munists recogrjlxo the miners' union of the United Mine Work OKLAHOMA CITT. Okla., get. lL commerce commission renders its de as their strongest and bitterest enemy president placing workers of the strip By the Associated Press.) 'The cision the public will not know wheth- in America. That is why the Mos- ers, In the category of 'strikemines such a tre- breakers,' was invisible empire" laid aside its invisi- er there is ground to expect any re- cow masters put forth twisted and ' shrewdly seize to and crfepie .from this source. The hearing mendous effort distorted, according to boasts of the bility In Oklahoma today, submitting lief will elucidate all the facts, and the the organization." CommontJit leaders at CWcairo, Into forth edict of Governor I. C Walton.. adjustment: RUSS RED AT WORK. if warranted, will nro- an 'invltntkin' to attack the strip way." a,nd the 'workman mMyCOST tmaakej parses and meeting employed It Is asserted lhat e'ght months mtns , TONNAGE" AO members n WbTED. K n of la coal strike Before Kukhiv the the general April there. in the state had orders trom the WASHINGTON, Sept, 11. The cost 1, 1922, Gregory Zlnaviev of Moscow, of "Agitation under the active efforts the Communist continued during errand dragon of the Oklahoma, realm of a ..ton of bituminous coal of the communist Internato a mine president that robes and hoods' must no loafer tionale, began secretly Instructing his May ana June. 1 ne strise are in operator ranges between 11.20 and American agents "to foster and en- southern Illinois was camfully exbe worn in public. "riot. The unmasking of the klan left $2.80, the coal commission courage the threatened breach be- amined and the points where mlsrnx , i. ?.... i and the mine violence or armed insurrection to President Cooiidge today, reported submit-tia- r tween, the operators the latest installment of its workers." laying his plans "with -the he started were charted and (' i(l in ni. war An wwl nmn uaon to industry in compliance strategy of a field marshal.;' tiun. to which h attributes flogalnsThe mine workers' chronicler cond other mob outrages, but it was with instructions from cowrreas. The RED CHARTER FORMED. y Kot-studwas based on statistics tinues: not without violent nrotest that slate the local Lithuanian miners "In .this troubled situation the com- as"With klan officiala decided to bow to his from 2W mines located In four states a nucleus, a Communist party was to Bod .covered operations In 1918, which, munist group of America ultimatum. was organized in Herrin, selected because condition create a condition within the strike chapter Grand Dragon V. C Jewett made it was eliminate the ho hi ins meetings secretly In the Lstn- throughout that year were consid- which would eventually union plain that only the governor's threat ered enuanian hut taking Instrucand language, miners' of the officials uniform. of martial law for communities approximately in to extend the strike tions from agents of Doseoburg in which masked demonstrations were Examining in detail the various fac- able the 'reds'Industrial of Kearney st Chicago. inoffices the a Into which upheaval, tors for made great difference in held led to the decision to discard stealthily they worked cost of coal delivered at the mine volving, as they hoped, air labor unions Quietly and idle robes-- and 'hoods in public." miners at Herrin. among the and all industry. A kian meeting near Bristow last mouth, the commission listed steadiarmed of attack upon the strip Mine Workers preaching ness of operations ar.d certainty of . "Thus the United night was the first to unmask under car trans. underan was attacked America as by supply important. the governor's orders. that Union 'strikers at Herrin inquired The advantage and economy of full ground enemy at the same time con-teBall 'E. Newton of Atlanta, a naof President lye wis the status of the in a tremendous operation is clearly indicated." It waswithengaged coal tional lecturw for the klan, who de- time was nonunion miners who continued workIt the operators. "As between twirl livered the principal address, declared the report said. the strip mir.e while the natwo the ing coincidence that a eacn significant Having a cost of that khuismen in Oklahoma would "Hilar mines, was in progress. In a elements should attack the miners' tional strike of $2.60 per ton if worknot resist the "cxar," but would sat- production on June 20 he classified time." same the e telegram at union twenty-fiving days per month, the them as Bolshevists x strikebreakers. isfy themselves with action at the jnine Lithuanian Sighty-siwhich enjoys the best working next election. "This twlegmm was pounced noon led the Herrin massacre of nonunion " A reward of $100 for any person lame under conditions' of car short 1? ommuiW ' aigerrt'- SotT dls--1' WWit :t1rMM(RW'"-tfof e,jind an excuse for nn attack tickin into torted of America, charge make wilt larger profits because an application for membership in the of lower .the or of a series upon the strin mine." continues the under conditions of ing public today the third cost; Kuklux Kian was offered by the exworkers there were narrative. "The an plot alleged of articles exposing market, one may undersell the and. under the leadership ecutive, last night. Klan officials had poor and realize a profit, because tiy Moscow Communists to gain con- captninrd made public what purported to be other of the nineteen Communists in the labor agents. 1,'nited of trol organized more days worked the cost will an application showing that the ex- with according to Dnxenburg. had fts,tes and Canada, stage a revolu- who., be lower. of been for the ecutive had been "obligated" In the govthe purpose and overthrow imported existing tion "Taking again a base of J2.S0 per ernment. klan on February 13 last. starting insurrection and revolution, ftwentv-fiv- e ton for full dovs) were men Governor Walton denied that he operation .it istime down."" shot the BRANCH. LEADERS OF found thst when work-ins- ! had ever sought membership in the REDOUBLE ACTIVITIES. a wert), days (five o' The mob leaders klan and declared that he had refused theretwenty work-inwas no difference:days when were members at Herrin of Freshly encouraged by this success, them to Join the organisation after being sixteen days (four days a week). the Bolshevist Lithuanian branch of the Communists are said to have reurged for more than a month. Hie difference was neglijrthle, 2 the Communist party of America, doubled activities among railroad, 1b a formal proclamation I he excasts a ton: when working twelve according to the miners' article. marine, transport and farm workers. ecutive ordered all state and local dsys (three days a week), differ- Nineteen other members of the same The seamen already were organized the authorities to disperse masked ence was 10 cents a ton, and when party .were imported as acents to as "one big union.," so the miniworking eight days (two drays a foment the attack on the sirm mine mum of effort was necessary In that week), the difference was 13 cents a of the Southern Illinois Coal com- direction. The miners also were "one ton. One day .1 week brought the pany which culminated in the vio- bii7-- union." ripe for capture by the FLOGGING CASES ON difference up to 40 cents a ton. There lent death of tweirty-twmen in Moscow agents. But there were four is thus no notable difference in unit June last year. TRIAL IN GEORGIA cost big ibrotherhoods and sixteen unions of production caused by short on the railroads, so. "in order to whether time this broken control them as a unit and mobilize operation MACON, Ga., Sept. 11. (By the Astime be due to lack of transportation twenty years the soft coal mines have them into the Foster C. sociated Press.) The cases of Or. or lack of market. The real differ- worked an average of but 220 dajs or scheme, the 'Minnesota plan' for a A. Yarbrough. J. E. Bloodworth and ence enters into the reduction in the pibout 72 per cent of fuH time. if single 'departmental industrial union' J. JD. Patrick, charred with riotinr ba the price paid by the consumer wire was evolved." cost, which can and otiite called for trial by Solicitor Roy is reduced in times of inactive cost of production or a direct funcThe railroads became the next obMoore In the city court today. dVmand. tion of cost, then the anyer would jective. The Herrin- massacre had ormer governor 1 nomas w. nara- "Tt mav be renuired, in view of th be that the total cost to the country dcmorrMrated whet the miners would was among the witnesses whose factor of cost of idle time, whit ef- was about more than it. do if properly fhupwimM, The- plsri ner names were caued. heen" if fewer mines fectcomtry' crtal WIT' trW woirkTfullhave Continued on Pif. Fourteen time had produced this coal." Yarbrough. Bloodworth and Pax fact mar have had that In the naFt il rick, the latter a former deputy sher-iff in municipal court, are' charged .. .with participating In the wnipplnJof R. F. Mills, who, sines he was flogged twice In 1922, has moved away from "Macon. Mills was In court. Mrs. Mnwood Bright of Atlanta was nmrmr the witnesses called. Her hus- - ROBEANDMASK Foster-promot- of Pin-cno- -- -- ai k u . 11 . re-i- ort - - tty-'the- sixty-seve- n s; o n v R . t - wen-kin- mr-th- (MINERS . (OsstisM fna Baby Day Special Fats Ose.) daxion. no violence, nor the borrowing of rifles .from sheriffs lo arm gunmen;, no gunmen fomenting trouble In order to secure at nubile exDenss na nere was a tional guard service, mutual recognition of the rights of the operators as well as of the miners. There was no refusal to right wrongs. Arbitration or conferences to adjust grisTsnoes and settle differences are the methods there employed. Why should this enlightened policy he refused by the Utah operators?" The letter of the southern Wyoming operators, commenting upon this quotation, goes on to say: T MJv.i, It ' Special f-- t r EKaxmst-i.- r . frer dor 27 inches All sizes, silk and wool. square. ANSWER OF OPERATORS. ' f'.'hy should this 'enlightened pol refused by the Utah operators'? icy Ws 1 an think of one excellent reason, our own unfortunate experience. "AS a result of contractural relations with the United Mine Workers of America, we, the southern Wyoming operators, have been constantly handicapped by Increased costs ami limitation of outtut through arbitrary union rules, decreased production efficiency through lack of control over our men, the wage differential against us as referred to In- - w brief 10, 1923, and the strikes called by the absentee directors of our workers in Indianapolis i lor auaesvar Which we. have no control. "To be sure, during the 122 strike we had only a few watchmen and guards and there was no violence. Why? Because we were absolutely prohelpless and made no attempt duce coal. Tie nonunion Utah ,mines, aad continued operations-.however, supplied the desperatelyour needed coal customers to Wyoming and to, elsewhere. We infer that thai action upon the part of the Utah operators was responsible for the violence, "When the miners' officials advised us that, even if we did accept the demands, our mines Indlanapotis until would not be permitted to work settlement had been Teached- - in the east. w considered the possibility of up onr mines Independently starting and we asked the governor if he would give us protection. Some of the operators thought that If we had sufficient protection, part of our miners would return to work at a scale that might be agreed upon. But the governor did not think it was policy at that time and in this we finally concurred. selves and our workers to the violence which has always occurred when operations have been carried on conof the Unittrary to the' strike orders In a ed Mine Workers of America. district, such as highly unionized we would have south Wyoming. been even more exposed than the operators and- - miners of Utah, and we would have required relatively a greater number of guards. "As a result of the 'enlightened policy we have lost approximately 40 per cent of our customers west of fitter to purWyoming because they chase from operators who are jiot subfor labor to .stoppage periodic ject" We troubles east of the Mississippi. wish to say bluntly that the absentee labor leaders In Indianapolis sacrifice the Wyoming miners as they sacrifice us. and that they are mistaken when they claim the national scales and strikes to-- be for their benefit. "Our losses are losses to our miners. The less orders we receive, the leps mines can operate. Today Jays our still we face greater losses from the competition of fuel 011. Specifically, at our (resent labor costs, fuel oil will steadily tsse away our- - markets, and,, if the- - 'enlightened policy' continues a few more years, the Wyoming miners will have their -- Art Gallery of Miniature Fall Fashions - Stofk Shop ' Wednesday Is Baby Day Cunning new $lip$ of finest needletcork, all made by expert needle-womedainty gertrudet to go with them, adorable little bonnets and hand edge and coats of exquisite loveliness, them. of scalloped, many velvet coats, velvet hats New fall styles for darling 2- - to with a bit of a plume tip, quaint taffeta frocks all frill and color. n, hand-embroider- A Few of the New Arrivals HAND EMBROIDERED OR PLAIN "JAPANESE SILK CARRLUjE' ROBES variety of patterns pink or blu $3.50 to $5.93 at hand Embroidered Japanese SILK PADDED or white JACKETS--pin; k, blue ,$3.50 to $5.95 HAND EMBROIDERED JAPANESE white to $7.50 HAND EMBROIDERED JAPANESE SILK MOCCASINS pink or blue, $5.95 ......... at SLIPS-fi- nainsook-dain- ty ne $3.50 " There was a mutual recognition scale, but they will have no work. the rights of the operators as well "It Is true that in Wyoming Were of as of the miners. There was no rerelations and 'were cordial friendly Arbitration or fusal lo right wrongs. mibetween operatorsajid existing to adjust grievances and conrecentrf ners'that Is, compared toother methods Since the first year c-- our settle differences are the fields. here (In Wyoming) employed. Why contracts we haTfmade the best uld this enlightened policy ds ra We have no quarrel bad situation. obsed the Utah Our operators?" by with the district officials. "There never has been a recogni jection Is directly against the control tion on the ipart of the United Mint of "the International officials at Inrules, Workers' officials of the Wyoming dianapolis and their --arbitrary which neither ws nor our. minera. can operators' rights. . There, never has been any arbitration In Wyoming. The modify. officials of the United Mine Workers "Consider the following: have presented their demands, and we; the south Wyoming operators, have had the privilege of accepting them er of ceasing operations. In the end ws have always accepted. Ws have had to accept. The United Mine Workers' officials have consistently refused even to consider arbitration. "They refused it in 111. They refused it utterly la 1121. "Perhaps these things may explain the uiapopulartty of organised labor Af lh. XTmltA nn n nini that he did not put " lM nanus ana was gxrucK again. Soon after this, the party came to a car standing beside the road, up he testified. lie said Dr. took him out of the ear. Yarbroogh Ha said Lii ana anoxner ' wvrva man held his arms while another man He said .there were whipped him. five or six men in the party. All wa masks, he said, and he told tjfkrn be could whip any Individual Jn'tbe crowd If he would unmask. ORGANIZER CHARGED. J. P. rmrkee. organizer in Macon "f tfts Kttirlux Klan, was charged by Mills with having himself as a detective in represented helping to run down the flogging cases, miii. CV declared he recognised Dr. c. A. Yar-- 1 E. and J. Bloodworth mem-as rough Brs of the party which flogged himI in January lasx year. Mills testified that Dnrkee told htm he had been sent in response to a letter the. witness had written the then Governor Hardwlck. which the state contends never reached the gov. ernor. Mitchell Has Narrow Escape From Death WOTJNTXTvTLLE, W. Va., Sept. 11. General William assistant chief of the United Mitchell, Suites service, "ad narrow escape from air death this afternoon when the plane he and Pri-t- e J. S. Woodruff were flying to MoCook field O., fell ino ne Ohio fiver.at Dayton, Neither w&s n .General Mitchell experienced trouble when several miles from Moundsvllle flying field and attempted lo return but was unable to the distance. When directly above the Ohio river the plan fell, diving Into the water. It was wrecked. DISMISSAL MOTION DENIED. FORT SMITH. Art. Bept. Frank A. You mans. In the United B tales district court hers this afternoon, overruled a motion to dismiss the suit of the Coronado Coal efmpany against the United Mine r.'orkers of America, In which Judgment is asked for (2.222.O00 as a result of labor riots In the Hartford valley of Sebastian; oounty..Arkansaa. la - JAPAN! To the Citizens of Utah: -- 10 noia uuMr.wmMillsmmsaid ID) MINUTES MEAN LIVES Some man, some wo-ma- n, some little child will live if you answer his call today. Send as much as you can, and at once. One of the greatest disasters in history has fallen swiftly upon a large section of the Japanese nation. Earthquake and fire have destroyed their homes and stores, obliterated their communication and transportation and left the living in a scarred and seared land. They are in stark need and, unless relief in tremendous volume is hurried to them, they must perish by thousands from hunger, thirst and sickness. be should Checks drawn to the order of American Red Cross and sent to John C. Cutler, Treasurer, Deseret National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah. President Coolidge, answering this urgent call to our common humanity, designated American Red Cross as the agency through which help shall go. A m ERIC AN RED CROSS JAPAN RELIEF COMMITTEE udce UI. This t4vertisemtmt paid for by W. W. Armstrong, John F. Bennett, Henry N. Byrne, Louis S. Cates, A. C. Ellis, Jr., A. L. Fish, Z. 0. Howard, John " Johnson, Milton E. Lipman, John T. MacLane, C. . Pearsall, Geo. 0. Relf and Wm. S. Wallace. C. Ulu Wn.ltN with Its central onllmlted cheek-eft.- " nave neen victims hi patt- erns.; i Dr. Yarbrough, Patrick and Bloodworth assaulted R. F. Mills. The specific charge against Dr. Yarbrough In this case is rioting. Solicitor Moore sought to ask the jurors if they were or had been members of the Kuklux Klan. John P. Boss, attorney for Yarbrough, objected to this question, asserting that the Kukluk Klan was not on trial. Judge Gunn overruled the objection and the solicitor proceeded to question the talesmen. MILLS TESTIFIES. R. F. Mills, a chiropodist, the first witness, testified that on the night of January 13, 19!?. the telephone In his home rang and he received a message calling him out. He went to College and Appleton avenues to meet a car that was to take him on a call. As he reached the corner, a small car drove up and he and his i2 year-old son, who was with him, got into the car. There were two men in the car, he testified, but later a third man got Into the cor and all were driven to a point on the Columbus road. On the way out, he said, he saw ear which later he recognised as Dr. Yarhrough's car. Asked to tell what Mr. stills said that a tallhappened, man In the ear hit htm on the head with a nlstnl ,...$L25 HAND EMBROIDERED PHILIPPINE ", ox xne Hoggings.-Solicit- or Moore announced that Dr. C. A. Yarbrough would be tried first. Dr. Yarbrough pleaded not guilty. 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