The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-18
Khan and Church in MineOla
Both Anti-LabOr
By MARGARET LARKIN.

In the great, paatia county court house in Mineola
Ben Gold and of his comrades, fighters in the
guard Of labor, standing trial. They denied
a change Of venue to another community Supreme
Court Justice Calaghan thinks that they will get Gus
tice" in Nassau County
Mineola and Rockville Center, where the original as
sault supposed to have occurred months ago.
are curiously dead deserted villages. They are the
bacwash Of the office buildings of New York. Clerks
and petty managers, bookkeepers who have married
stenographers, three thousand dollar year who
hang the frnges of Big Business, and little bust
men, form the bulk of the population of Nassau
County
They Commute.
They have moved to Long Island bought one of the
standardized houses put up cheaply by real estate de-
velopment corporations, and settled down in the good
air to bring up their families. Small storekeepers
garage men, beauty parlor operators and ministers of
the gospel have followed them to for their bodies
and souls.
There is little industrial life in the county. The peo
pie all glad that they do not have to work in fac
tories risk their lives in the building trades their
lungs in the fur shops. They are getting up in the
world and they very much in favor of the
quo They cOntented with their homes, their jobs,
their committing schedule their babies, and their auto
mobiles purchased time. The provincial air of these
villages. down between garbage heaps only forty
minutes ride from New York, is incredible
In Mneola the people have real American ideas"
They vaguely alarmed at the talk that there
courthouse. The real estate and insurance who
helped find the courthouse shook his head sadly
the situation Il guess there's lot of this radical
stuff around in the country now he grieved. 81 tell
you what the American people has to protect their
selves from that bolshevism We aren't going to have
anything like that going on here in Mneola. l guess
old Lou Smith will to it these fellows get what's
coming to them
Catholic Community.
The fat toothess catholic priest and his smart young
ass were If nouch he
they prove they're Socialists it'll go hard with
them hm'? he queried The assistant explained that
the community strongly catholic and the relative
size and Importance of the catholic real estate holdings
seemed to bear him out although this is not always
indication since the priests better business men
for the Lord than the protestant ministers dare
to be.
In Rockville Center as well as in Mineoa there is
much vague talk about the Ku Klux Khan. Although
the general opinion among priests, protestant minister's
lawyers radio experts and doctors be that the
power of the Khan has declined in Nassau County as
well as in the nation at large, there is doubt that
i holds some of its old prestige in some villages.
Burn Fiery Cross.
There periodical meetings in fields, fiery cross
is burned and then, Jewish garage owner had
received threatening letter months ago. Mineola
witnessed Khan Konkave and parade The Khan seems
dormant now, but mostly believe, because in that
exemplary, hundred per cent community there is
rot sufficient evil doing to sustain the interest of the
members. 1t is not inconceivabe that the trial of
that bunch of Communists" might kinde the spark for
a vigorous demonstration
All Hate The Union
Even if the actual membership of the Khan has de-
clined, it has left behind it a residue of prejudice
hatred and anSemitc and ant-radical sentiment that
cannot fail to operate against the furrers 1t is sig
nifcant, that of the fifteen or twenty solid
citizens whom | interviewed ready to state that
Khan influence might affect the fate of the men
trial The priests declared staunchly that the Khan
NEARLY dead" but think that they were whstlng
in the dark