MURDERERS OF BARKOSKI GO SCOT FREE
Murderers Of Barkoski Go Scot Free )fe8o« Police-Thugs ? Found Not Guilty—Pro*. ',, ecation is Only Perf uneJTSBXTRGH <FP).—"We And the not guilty." So said the foremm el the band-picked...
...And out in Illinois and in Indianapolis, Lewis's headquarters, and down at the A. P. of L. in Washington, there is genuine consternation over the daring exposure of the "Miner...
...that Ohio is working under a five dollar scale and that only BOO dues-paying members out of the original 45,000 are left in the union: that in Kansas where there Is a five dollar scale only 2,000 dues-paying members remain from 12,000 and that the only place where the Jacksonville scale is being psid is in the offices of Lewis, who by the way is drawing down 112.500 a year...
...Including bond" interest and staking fund...
...Now it nomes out into the open and Oscar promisee more to come...
...It was felt that the work of the C. P. L. A. cannot be accomplished merely by negative criticism but that practical measures which win tie up wage earners with the progressive cause should be attempted...
...It gave an opportunity for those interested to learn of the activities of all...
...The southern textile situation, he pointed out...
...was > test case of the A. F. of L.'s ability to organise basic industries and from the results thus far attained he feared there Is little hope for the future...
...The latter have been used as a means to defeat the purposes of trade unionism for the past fifty years...
...N.Y...
...Illinois Miners Line-Up For Finish Fight Oil Lewis...
...Before the meeting adjourned an Executive Committee of eighteen was formed which Is to plan a program for winter activities...
...Walter J. Lyster...
...go such lack of enthusiasm was shown ar the defense...
...Fwmer-Labor Party r Endorses K vale's Son MOWlf VIDEO, Minn...
...sv Pennsyl¦zaat buy, an American soldier boy in Ranee, that he is not guilty...
...taster, who murdered another miner •mug toe 1922 coal strike, swore that he k«| never touched Barkoski except to Bt ate from the floor for treatment by os doctor...
...They have been used as an industrial army which employers would not use at other times but luring times of strike or periods of excessive industrial exploitation...
...In the discussion which followed, Mcailster Coleman, Justus Ebert, Leonard Bright, J. B. S. Hardman, Edward Myers, [. Laderman, Henry Morris, Charles Web9er, Louis Stanley, Dr...
...In addition a 3S pec cent redaction in water kills was allowed for the three nunmst months for paying on or before the 10th of toe month...
...Ho backward step," has led his dtwitniyKirfa...
...Job For Brother Storm-point Failure of Union to Back Denny Lewis Behind John L.'s Wrath, Amer> infer Charges JOHN L. LEWIS, President of the "* United...
...that a list of volunteer workers for picket duty and leaflet distribution be drawn up and that greater efforts be made to draw larger numbers of workers, organized and unorganised, into the movement...
...In closing the meeting...
...So said the foremm el the band-picked jury that sat hi Tor first-degree murder of Coal 2 Won Policemen Lyster, Watts, and -§,¦«¦ the three thugs of the Mellonj-jj^l Pittsburgh Coal Co., who hut Febfmfi best sad kicked John Barkoski isjauty" miner, to death...
...I tm perhaps more interested," he said, "because of the stand C. P. L. A. is taking with regard to the Negro workers...
...Oscar Arneringer is one radical who never gets tired...
...Lewis O. K.'d Wage Cut A Lewis man named Samuel Pascoe precipitated the events that let "the cat out of the bag" by making a speech last Labor Dsy in which he attacked Flshwick and the other Illinois officials for making a district agreement providing for a wage scale of $6.10 a day...
...Abram L, Harris and others took part...
...Enthusiasm was shown in expression it views about the functions the group should be engaged in and many valuable suggestions were presented as a guide to the newly elected executive committee in mapping out its program...
...When Lyster and Watts sswjwi and contradicted themselves on sm stand, and their flimsy story seemed asset to collapse he abruptly dismissed ! tken Without further cross-examination, lb ¦sntton of the death penalty was ¦adi hi his concluding speech to the Urj, although he perfunctorily demanded hit dsjiw convictions against Watts and {aster, second degree tor Slapikas...
...As much of the moral support came from Jie same sources...
...N. Y. Executive Elected A suggestion by Mark Starr, organizer for the National Council of Labor Colleges of Great Britain and visiting instructor at Brookwood Labor CoUege, that the C. P. L. A. urge President Hoover, as a compliment to Ramsay MacDonald during his visit to the United States, to use his Influence to obtain a pardon for Mooney and Billings was adopted...
...A. J. Muste, national chairman of the 0. P. L. A., as chairman of the meeting, was the opening speaker...
...And again It was Lewis with his persistent "red-baiting" who was responsible for having Powers Hapgood and other progressives thrown evt Of the PSdoB...
...Suggestions were made that a speakers' bureau should be organized...
...To punish Flshwick...
...I believe we can form an organization among Negro workers and build up certain groups of people who are interested In progressive labor action and through these Individuals influence workers...
...asks»t an overwhelming mass of unJZgti eye-witness testimony—1majnaast parts of it presented by fellow jpfisyss* who knew the killers persou,jaj flr Pittsburgh Coal Co s defense gjfaBjtyi opposed only the simple denial at dai eaal and iron cops, two of whom base criminal records...
...All city taxes was* therefore suspended...
...Green was treasurer of Lewis's union which was at the time of the death of Gompers, the strongest in the Federation and Lewis had a lot to do with seeing to it that Green succeeded Gompers...
...It's a WUd CatOscar heads this, "Now the Cat is Out of the Bag and It's a WUd Cat...
...He did not explain why the Bxapsny doctor and other witnesses testiist isuslnq him by name—that he took oh had m brutally beating and torturfcg the dying miner for four hours...
...he concluded, it is advisable for local groups to form organisations of their own to carry on progressive work within their districts...
...a decided recession from the old Jacksonville scale but a better agreement than Is now in force in any other soft coal state...
...XI Lewis's regime Is seriously threatened, progressives in the trade anions everywhere max take heart...
...All has* ken admitted to bail...
...He outlined the matters of importance that progressives win be interested in...
...COLBY, gstfa—OP) Because Cosby has tteanngs wfth the poSrsr trust its residents a* %lea#«ssi •sew'tar another year...
...Sept...
...The expensive power trust propssasnda that swalrilnsj ownership kt always and everywhere a failure gets a horse laugh in Colby...
...Muste enumerated the many activities in which the C. P. L. A. was enraged in and felt satisfied with the reception the progressives were receiving...
...town expenses...
...200 Men and Women Lay Plans to Advance Cause of Progressive Trade Unionism ^rOOOOT to become active m the progressive labor movement about two hundred men and women met at the Labor Temple, Second avenue and 14th street, Friday...
...In the eoal and steel industries, the basic industries, many Negroes are employed and if the labor movement is to be successful, It must go into these basic industries...
...The Mansfield bill, passed *f tb* last legislature as a stop to labor osssnd for their abolition, in no way Bssts the thugs' powers: it merely tapes* their name to "industrial post" Unionists agree that the shameM court white-washing now administers' to the murderers will incite comr*sy eops throughout this section to furlawlessness and violence against May, as on the day John Barkoski wat Bartered, there is nothing to- keep sag end iron police from breaking into • sjsner's or steel worker's company•sked house at any time of the day or skfct, doing whatever they wish to him Awe, arresting him without taking him **|» s magistrate or a police court, takkchkn to ieir own barracks, and subv ketBaj him there to whatever treatment •te/ wish, confining him as long as they Van even murdering him as brutally as *e» wish—as brutally as they did murQsol Miner John Barkoski...
...Usui flu li ii, Judge Gray,in his charge ?> ths jury, made a verdict of flrst-depei Border virtually impossible, stress - kg si length the tremendous power wskd is the coal and Iron police, and ark* that though hired by the coal eoau»«»sl they were licensed by the state sad had powers equal to those of city pass* kt New York, Philadelphia, Pittsstsgx etc Ss curbing of the powers of the coal Oat ben police has resulted from the Barsuakl ease, in spite of the widespread »sllsjiiilk.«i it aroused among laborites sat sberato...
...The special elec¦ tokes place Oct...
...The story of the looting of his local treasury by Denny Lewis has been common knowledge among the mining camps for years...
...It is Lewis, too, with his support of Harding and Coolidge, who represents reactionary political policies...
...Good ruck to a courageous pen...
...President of the Federation...
...Last year the town tax wutborittes arsvmripsdjthwt-tho p*ont raw* the publicly owned water and light plants was enough to meet all...
...aa* these three men stand acquitted af warder and now face only a technical chars* of involuntary manslaughter...
...27th, to organise a local New York branch of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...Mine Workers of America, Who, using the slogan...
...The action sf the Toronto convention of the A. F. if L. on the injunction, the tariff, independent political action and international relations will have much to do with C. P. L. A. activities...
...Now...
...Clunk's fsafksiftir of the defendants was of the adkket sort...
...This year sasther good profit was shown by the publicly owned system and the city council again announced No Tax...
...Arneringer goes further and in an editorial on the front page of the last issue of "The Illinois Mlner,'r says: "And the reason why the officials of District 12 declined to campaign for the meal-ticket of brother Denny is because they felt that a man who aided and abetted and participated In the looting of his own Panama local of the United Mine Workers was not the person to be entrusted with the safeguarding of the health, limbs and lives of our members...
...FP) — The ••baer-L&bor conference for the Sev**> Ctegressiorial District indorsed *. Kvale as the party candidate to •*se4 hta father, the lone Farmer*** representative in the present conf...
...Contracting with the high-priced de|p— attorneys' rigorous cross-examlaaSjaa of...
...A special attempt to get the young people interested was necessary...
...This revolt against Lewis has base brewing ever sines test mstmsr when he suddenly sent a swam of organism with their "per litems'' and their briefbegs mto the only organised district in the soft coal fields to undermine the administration of Prsstdent Harry Fisbwick...
...In the interest of the white workers the Negro workers must be organized...
...No regular charges were brought against the ousted officials and in spite of the fact that they obtained an injunction against Lewis, the latter was successful in having the injunction vacated...
...Alfred Hoffman, the strike leader, is a member of the C. P. U A. C. P. L A. Activities Listed Mr...
...John L.'s brother, for the retention of his position as Director of the Department of Mines and Minerals of Illinois...
...The challenge sb Lewis's dictatorship comes rom the one district in the Central Competitive field which still retains any semblance of organisation—flMnoai In the last Issue of "The Illinois Miner," the only progressive publication in the miners' union, edited by the veteran Socialist and "Dean of Labor Editors," Oscar Arneringer, the charge is openly made that Lewis is attempting to wreck the Illinois District (District 12) because its officials refused to endorse the candidacy of Denny Lewis...
...Both Judge Gray and Him "I" Clank—the obscure assistant dkttfct attorney who had sole charge sf szpaecnting this front-page murder assr-phiyed directly into the hands of 6je defense...
...A. J. Muste pointed to the value of such a gathering...
...Judge Alas Defense fjasj teamwork between judge, prosejgBjB, and defense made this amazing naajt possible...
...Eighty per cent of the money that went into the Marion and Clinchfleld strikes, he said, same from Norman Thomas' Emergency Strike Relief Committee, gathered from progressives in the labor movement...
...sm of the ablest attorneys in Western saBBayrranla, is locally known as "Melloci criminal lawyer...
...vsb was burned to' death in his pjaw hosse recently...
...Prltchard...
...Branch Organized By C.P.L.A...
...the smut—or to Prank Farrtngton...
...For Lewis is generally supposed to be the man behind the throne of William Green...
...Harris, who is assistant professor of economics at Howard University, brought a message from the negro workers and progressives which was enthusiastically received...
...army from one disastrous and hdmllhrtafg defeat to another, has the fight of bis life to maintain bis boss rule of the coal-diggers...
...Arneringer points out that Lewis approved the agreement...
...the Lewis organisers raided one of Fish wick's strongest districts in the south of the state, Sub-District 9 at Frankfort, and by legal hocus-pocus, managed to oust the regularly elected officials and set up one of Lewis's "provisional governments...
...Flshwtek had balked at supporting Brother Denny Lewis tar a job which he originally hoot-licked out of the notorious ex-Governor Len Small, who got his start in politics by selling blankets which be is said to have stolen from inmates of the Illinois lunatic asylums...
...This was the purpose of the meeting...
...Their address to the key took over two hours, closing with attorney Charles Pritchardls eloquent fac-varlng: "I ssk that you,say of my caaat, Lieut...
...prosecution witnesses...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 9
