The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27

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Material and Immaterial.
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Judge Elmer McDeavitt in Duluth
on Tuesday did his part most efficient
" in helping seven Communists TO at
tain the martyrShip crown they have
been seeking for some time. Judge
McDeavitt in sentencing seven to fines
and Imprisonment for conducting red
flag street meetings in Duluth last
week said IF you want to be martyrs
and that's all you do want-to en-
nance your standing so you can be
leaders among your kind, I will help
you"
Maurice H Powers a st. Paul di-
ciple of the anti-American cult, the
principal speaker at the meeting where
the arrests were made and where the
police chief received bat in the eye
during the process of placing the seven
out of circulation, received the hard
est sentence. Powers wanted to be a
hero in the eyes of his deluded fol-
lowers when he made the statement
that those on trial would not get
justice because the Judge presiding
was the head of the National Guard,
"a strike-breaking organization" Judge
McDeavitt further remarked, when
you say that, Powers, you are a liar"
and after court had adjourned offered
to take Powers out in the back yard
and prove it to him. 1t is needless
to say, that the challenge was not
accepted A Communist does not be-
lieve in being in the ranks as fighter
and especially with such men as Col.
McDeavitt whose record as soldier
is of the Al order.
Powers was handed a straight eighty
five days at the work farm on one
disorderly conduct charge and 500
and costs and sixty days on another
charge. This will probably keep him
inactive for some time and will give
some of the other leaders a chance
to collect a defense fund, which like
funds of a similar nature heretofore
gathered, will be used to tide the
leaders over the winter while Powers
fulfillS his martyr desire at the work
farm. Fred Ward will keep him busy
grubbing stumps Snd clearing land, a
punishment of exceptional severity for
leaders of his stamp whose principal
aim in life is to work the worker"
and not work himself
Five others of the party which es-
sayed to tell how America should be
run on the street corner for which
they had no license, received sentences
of severity while one was let of on all
the charges brought against him.
These sentences VIII in all probability |
dampen the ardor of the reds in Du-
luth and now that the authorities |
have made this beginning, it is to be
hoped that they will continue until
that unsavory nest of reds IN Duluth |
and Superior has been cleaned out.
We will renew our suggestion made
several weeks ago: Send them back
at government expense to the country
they are using as a pattern as the
Utopia where milk and honey flows
freely and no one has to work except
the capitalist and plutocrat. A better
and cheaper plan: Have the govern
ment give each few hundred dollars
in cash. We have noticed that as soon
as one of the rabid kind get few
hundred dollars ahead they lose all
desire to divide the wealth Of the
world. This would probably be much
cheaper than placing them in jail and
feeding them at the expense Of the
taxpayers At any rate, buy them a
one-way ticket across the ocean to the
land OF their eulogy. Then lock the
gate tight to all who come over here
to prove to us that We are benighted
nation under the heel of every one
who has dollar more than he actually
needs and does not believe in using
that dollar to feed up lot Of un-
grateful anti-American reds. Judge
McDeavitt is to be commended.
We have carefully read over thel
text of the petition filed by the Du-
luth, MisSabe & Northern to lease the
Duluth & Iron Range road and fail
to find therein anything to be alarm
ed about on the part of the residents
of the range towns touched by the
two roads. Senator George Lommen
seems to feel that all is not well and
has called a meeting at Virginia for
next week to look into the matter and
has issued invitations to the towns to
attend and join a movement to dis
lodge the niger from the woodpile.
we may be dense and cannot see
things in the light as reflected by
Senator and Attorney Lommen IN the
application In fact neither could the
state railroad and warehouse commits
sion who are charged with the task
of keeping their eagle eyes on the
doings of the railroads pertaining tol
the interests of the common people.
No opposition to the lease developed in
the range towns and even Proctor and
Two Harbors, the two cities most
likely to be affected were satisfied and
seem to believe the move a good one.
Whether Mr.. Lommen has discover
ed something between the lines as
printed in the document, we are not
prepared to say. AT any rate he seems
to think he has discovered a mares
nest and Will spill the beans at the
meeting next Tuesday at Virginia. 1t
is to be hoped that there will be a
good attendance and that the matter
will receive the closest attention II
there is a catch TO it, we want to
know it but if it is only a political
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