The DAILY WORKER Raises YORK the Standard for a Workers’ AJEW and Farmers’ Government EDITION ■ I • ■» Entered at Saeond-class matter September 21, 1923, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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' . » l I IB ■ British Coal Barons or British Miners, WIN FIGHT FDR Where English Strike Hits Hardest! Labor's Iron Battalions President William Green? Balk British Government; Public opinion, in Great Britain, might support the workers in their demand for the redress of just griev- FRE SPEECH IN Discipline Solid ances whereas it would solidly support the government Union in its efforts to maintain the control of the government. By W. N. EWER. Foreign Editor, London Daily Herald. .... We express the hope that those qualities delibera- of PITTSBURGH, (Cable to Press) PA. Federated tion and judgement which have always characterized the British people in every crisis will so assert themselves as LONDON, May 9.—Very good evidence of the moat complete to bring about an immediate settlement of the causes of Court Frees Engdahl industrial tieup is afforded by the strenuous efforts of govern- the strike and to avert the dire consequences with which ment propagandist* to claim that things are going well from the people of the nation are threatened. and Jakira their point of view. “Vital services improving,” says a big head- fine, but —From the in this morning's British Gazette. This sounds statement of William Green (Special line President to The Daily Worker) on find all they are able to cl vital on the British strike. PITTSBURGH, when you read you ( Pa., May 8. By services of food, milk, light, power are being r.nain- Mail)—J. Louis Engdahl, editor of Trade William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, The tained." As these are precisely the services which trie DAILY WORKER, and Abram amounts to end the executive council, have now an opportunity to show if, in Jakira, Pittsburgh district organizer Union Congress ordered uninterrupted the claim just some forgotten crevice of the magnificent building which houses the of the Workers (Communist) Party, nothing at all. were today freed of all charges filed Outside of this the only comfort the government organ is A. F. of L. in Washington, D. C., paid for by the subscriptions of the against them by the police following able to offer “Loyalists” is that a few passenger trains are run- trade unionists of America, there remains enough of the fighting the of break-up the International May ning on the main lines and the London tubes and that eighty out iraditions of the early American labor movement to bring a ringing Day demonstration here last Saturday London General Bus Co. busses on streets under night at Carnegie of five thousand call to the wealthy international unions urging generous and un- Music Hall. the result of the much vaunted volun- The cases against Engdahl and police guard. That is net grudging financial support to the British strike. London \\ est End Jakira were dismissed by Judge teer organization. And though it may impress President Green is a member of the United Mine Workers of Thomas J. Ford, in common pleas suburbanites thinking mainly of their own convenience it leaves America. The British Trade Union Congress called the general court, in one of the wierdest judicial ATLANTIC — 1 the economic situation entirely* strike in support of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain which, acrobatics known to even Pittsburgh’s tA:rw^ unaffected. far-famed system. like the United Mine Workers here, is the of the trade court oceAN Industry at Standstill. backbone Judge Ford held that the police buses and trains is not union movement. Riding in MIEN were perfectly justified in breaking up staple indus- MARTIAL exactly one of Britain's The British miners are fighting for the right to live. the meeting and arresting the speak- /,jf / E3 industrial mca; tries. The essential fact of the situ- i Last year they were able to earn less than 50 shillings (|l2) ers. Nevertheless, he waved City Bgwwl*s ation is that all productive industry is ; per week. Solicitor Randolph aside and, after