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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

Major General Hartford has given the Amer
lean Legion orders that its members should be-
ware of demanding the balance of their tomb
stone bonus" in cash. That says the Major Cen
eral, is holding out a lineup"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
THE HARLAN MINERS DEFY
HECOAL OPERATORS
TERROR
TERROR

aAyo amount Of gunman terror, no amount of
II dynamiting, murder charges, starvation,
Kidnapping or arrests is going to stop the miners
in Harlan County, KY, from joining the Ma
tional Mine Workers Union. In other strikes
you have to urge workers to be militant but not
here I predict that by fall a gigantic strike
will sweep across the Kentucky coal fields
This is the opinion of Mrs, Jessie London
Wakefield. % year old Kentucky organizer for
the International Labor Defense, Just released
from the Harlan jail. For five weeks, Mrs.
Wakefield was locked up on criminal syn
dicahsn charge in ward With IS prostitutes.
She was told that Sheriff Blair was going to
keep that woman in Jail till she rots.'
When reporters began to publish her story in
the southern press she was threatened with re-
moyaI to an isolated cell, far back in the noun
tains, q miles from q railroad station. She
was finally released and ordered to clear out of
Harlan County on penalty of q years imprison-
nent for framed up charge Of threatening to
kill Sheriff Blair and Judge D. c. Jones, him
self a coal operator and dispenser Of justice in
the Harlan court.
Imagine go gunner invading small min
ing town saws Mrs Wakefield. Some of these
men have lust been released from nearby peni-
tentiaries because they are hard-boiled thugs
and will shoot to kill They are trained by an
imported Chicago gangster in the use Of ma
chine guns and tear gas When they drive down
the streets, they swerye their cars into miners.
These gunner sWoop down upon miners
homes terrorize them and their families, tear
lIp mattresses smash furniture, sometimes dyna-
mite the houses to pieces. Their special target
is the relief stations One soup kitchen has been
blown up. Two miners operating one kitchen
have been murdered in cold blood, both shot
right at the door of the kitchen by deputies.
1T is hard to believe how rgidly this terror
clamps down on every protest and effort of the
miners to organize. When an investigator or
reporter or organizer comes to town, he is told
at once to clear out and stay out At first you
think they are just joking Then they begin to
shoot-and they shoot straight. The jailer told
me. AS long as you are a member Of your Or
ganization and in Kentucky, you'll be in jail.
What's more we're going to put every member
Of your organization we can find in Jail told
him the I. L. D. was legal everywhere in the
United States. He answered: We'll, I'm the
law here. and it amt legal in Kentucky
Sheriff John Henry Blair is a big flabby man
with perpetual sneer on MS face. When was
on trial, as I passed by him. he sneered Well,
YOU going to give me some of that soup out of
your soup kitchen?' That night the soup kitchen
was blown to splinters by dynamite. I never
escaped the feeling all the while I was in JAIL
living on beans and cabbage that the sheriff,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
The American Legion Conference
to Fight Unemployment Relief

That the order has already gone out from the
White House to officials of the Legion to kill
the demand for full cash payment of the bal
ance of the soldiers bonus is quite evident when
one hears what one of the chief spokesman for
President Hoover has to say on the subject
Emerging from a call he had paid on the "Chef
Engineer" a few days ago, Senator David A.
Reed (F2), Pennsylvania, said
ut is up to the veterans to decide which war
we are going to pay for-the last one or the
next one" Then Senator David A Reed pro-
ceeds to admit that a war looms in the offing
by saying, IF the veterans refrain from asking
any more money from the Treasury 1t would
seem reasonable that we could go ahead and
start building the navy to treaty strength. If
they make further demands they will be de-
feating the very thing-a strong ravy-which
we have been advocating" The senator shows
his contempt for rank and file veterans by re-
marking, ut was great paying the bonus for
the second hand car business and the bootleg
trade
The worker exservice man VIII fight for I'M
employment insurance and immediate relief in
spite of the attempt of the American Legion
officaldom to betray him to capitalism The
soldier sailor and marine will fight shoulder to
shoulder with the workers when the class con-
fiict takes place. Already hundreds of former
service men throughout the country are joining
the only veterans organization worthy of con-
sideration--the Workers EXservice Mems League.
The Workers Ex-servics Mems League raises the
demand for full cash payment of the soldiers
bonus immediately 1t fights for the passage OF
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill,
which would grant the unemployed worker SIS
per week, with two dollars additional for each
l,nt. Co.,
less and their families. The Workers EIservice
Mems League fights against mperialist wars
and for the defense Of the Soviet Union 1t well
comes to its ranks all those former service men
who believe in the class struggle
1t has branches in all of the larger cities in
the United States. An office is being established
in Chicago which will cover the entire Chicago
district, as we'll as Milwaukee Wis; ST. Louis
Mo; Indianapolis Ind, and the Southern Hi
nois mining fields,
Workers who served in any military service
United States or with foreign army, and who
desire to apply for membership in the Workers
Exservice Mems League may do so by addressing
Workers E;iservice Mems League, % South
Lincoln ST.. Chicago, ILL.,; or National Office, 70
E. 10th St,-New York, ~ Y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
Read the PIenum Reports and
Resolutions iii
The Communist t"

The october issue of The Communist contain
sions of the recent Plenum of the Central Com
nlittee will appear in a few days. The following
articles on the Plenum will appear:
The N Plenum of the Executive Committee of
the Comintern
Extracts from report to the 18th Plenum of
the c. c.. c. P, US.A
BY william w. Weinstone
To the Masses-To the Shops! Organize the
Masses!
Extracts from the Report of the Political Bu-
reau TO the C. c. Plenum.
BY Earl Browder
Tasks in the Struggle Against Hunger, Repres-
sion and War.
Resolution of the 18th Plenurn, Central Com
mittee on the Main Tasks in the Organization
of Mass Struggles Against the Offensive Of
the Capitalists.
Resolution on Work Among the Unemployed.
Adopted by the 18th Plenum, Central Com
mittee, c. P, U. S. A
Besides these articles this issue contains an
excellent article by Conrade A. Landy, entitled
Cultural Conpulsives or Calverton's New Carl
cature of Morxism
No Party member or revolutionary worker
should fail to read this issue of The Communist
Order from your literature agent or send direct
to The Communist P. o. Box 148 Station D.
New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

relief the bosses are giving the workers who
have made them rich by trusting in god and
staying away from those Reds that are trying
to undermine our government" Workers of the
world, unite Overthrow this rotten system of
which the "Y' is such a good lackey Form a
Workers and Farmers Government Join the
Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils
Of the T, U. u. L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
FIGHT STEADILY FOn RrLIGTl

Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight
for Unemployment Relief. Organize the
Unions. Mobilize the Employed ar!
Unemployed for Common Strug-
giles Under the Leadership of
the Trade Union Unity League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21

Shocking, amazing, Supplying, paralysingI
And what's worse STILL 1t violates tradition
Listen at this patriotic horseradish, taken from
the news:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
king WILL RESIDE
AT FONTA|NEbLEAU
To Establish Seat Of Exile Near
Paris; Will Go to England
Tuesday
(By the Associated Press,

Alfonso Of Spain will establish the
seat of his exile at Fontainebleau, q
little more than Is miles from Paris,
putting up his family at the Hotel
Savoy there for the time being.
He will go to London on business
Tuesday, perhaps motoring down to
Calais for the Monday night boat.
Among other things he will arrange
to place the infante Juan, his son, in
an English school near London, and
other business will keep him in Lon
don for a few days.
The queen is leaving for Fontaine-
bleau Tuesday and Alfonso win join
her and their children when he comes
back from London. These arrange
mentS were disclosed Monday by the
Duke of Miranda. chief Of the Span
ish royal household.
The last of the Spanish royal fam
lily was on its way into exile Monday
aboard q train from Madrid to Irun
and the French frontier where they
will change for q Paris train.
The refugees were the infantaS
Isabella and Beatrice, the former 80
years old and an invalid, the latter
the wife of Don Alfonso OF Bourbon.
cousin Of the king. She stayed At
Isabella's bedside to take are Of her
when her kinspeople fled from
Madrid.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
SEIZURE And SALE
TEST CASE IS FILED.
Thatcher Asks Supreme Court to
Rule on Right to confis-
cate Fixtures

washington, April D-tR-A test
case. to enable the government to lay
down q policy with regard to the SELF
ure and sale Of fixtures and equip
ment Of saloons, cabarets ana otneT
places where intoxicating liquors were
kept for sale, was filed Monday IN the
supreme court by Solicitor General
Thatcher. 80
Emphasizing the many suits
brought by the government to forfeit
such fixtures and equipment ana the
confusion Of rulings In lower federal
courts, the petition said it was highly
important to prohibition enforcement
that the highest court should pass on
the subject.
The case, used O. q test. was one
in which the government sought to
~confiscate the fixtures and equipment
Of the soft drink parlor operated at
2lo South Arizona street. Butte, Mont.
by George Anderson. II was raided
in February, 1890. The government
insisted that liquor was sold on the
premises and the fixtures and equip
ment could be confiscated under the
internal revenue laws.
The ninth circuit court Of appeals,
contrary to rulings elsewhere, held
that the Internal revenue laws auth
orig. the forfeiture only Of fixtures
ana equipment where Intoxicating
liquor Vas unlewfully manufactured
and not where sold
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
OFFICIALS PROBE
EDGELEY AFFAIR
Prosecutor Considering Counts;
Mysterious Circumstances
Unexplained

Edgeley, N. D.. April 20.-R-
Charges Of degree burglary
likely will be placed against Ernest
Jennings and Henry Roth, held IN
the La Moure county jail following
their arrest here early Saturday In
connection with an attempted bank
robbery, A. q. Porter, states attorney
Of La Moure county, said here Mon
day.
Fred B~rossart. third member Of the
trio which surrendered when Roth
was wounded by DR.. L. B. Greene.
Edgeley physician, probably viii be
charged with conspiracy to commit q
felony. Roth has recovered SUI
ficiently from his wound to be taken
to the jail at La Moure.
Porter refused Monday to disclose
what he meant Saturday by mystic
rious circumstances" surrounding the
affair but that q searching investiga-
ton was being continued Monday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
TO HOLD VAN HORN
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Associates Of Pioneer Bismarck
Architect Will Act as
PaIIbearers

Funeral services for Arthur w. Van
Horn, pioneer Bismarck architect who
died here Saturday from heart dis
ease, will be held at Perry's funeral
chapel at $3.50 p. m. Tuesday. Rev.
Walter E. Water of the McCabe
Methodist church officiating.
Burial will be made at Fairview
cemetery.
The body will lie in state at the
Perry Funeral Home after Z p. m.
Monday.
Relatives announced Monday that
honorary pallbearers will be D. y.
McGillis, John Philbrick, George M.
Register, Henry Richholt, e. s. Allen,
Harry Thompson and Henry L. Reade.
Active p~allbearers will be Paul Wach-
ter, F. e. Hedden, John l.. Larson, A.
Gussner. r.. A. Ritterbush and
Henry Murphy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
UNCLE SAM SENDS
ships TO PROTECT
AMERICAN CITIZENS
Rebels Are Led Against Four
Important Seaports by Gre
gorio Ferrara
UPRISING BEGAN SATURDAY
Policy Adopted Toward Mica
ragua Last Week Brought
Into Force Again
UPRISING BEGAN SATURDAY

Washington, April 2O.-E)-Revo-
luton has burst forth again in Gen.
trail America, this time in Honduras.
Its Nicaraguan difficulties as yet
unsettled, the United States Monday
met q new problem or the north
coast Of Honduras. Revolutionary
forces under General Gregorio Fer
rara. q former minister o. war, were
reported advancing toward the coun-
try's four most important seaports.
To protect American lives, the
United States Immediately dispatched
three fighting vessels to Honduras.
The cruisers Trenton and Marblehead
were ordered from Guantanamo.
Cuba, base of the scouting fleet, to
Trujillo and Puerto Cortez, respec-
lively. Another cruiser-the Mem
phis-left Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
on a schedule which put her at La
Ceiba, Honduras, at 8 q. m. Monday.
Trujillo. which has q population Of
about 1000, is in almost the exact
center Of the northern Honduras
obtain control of the ports before adj
vancing o Tegucigalpa. United
States Minister Julius q. Lay official
ly reported the uprising had begun
on Saturday, insurgents apparently
intending. to center their initial eff
forts along the coast.
Although major interest conferred on
the United States con-
tinued to watch Nicaragua. The gum
boat Asheville moved go miles from
Cape Gracias a Dios to Puerto Cabe-
zas, taking The post left vacant by
the Memphis. Before the Memphis
departed. however, she debarked an
officer and Is sailors with machine
guns, a force believed sufficient for
needs. The aircraft car
rier Langley also was on her way to
Puerto CabezaS from Guantanamo.
At Bluefields the cruiser Rochester
had taken post. The gunboat Sacra-
mento already was at that port and
had thrown ashore a detachment Of
81 men. Since activity in the Cape
.racias a Dios area had subsidized after
the killing of eight American civilians
Confined on page Six)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
WEEKEND M|SHAPS
NORTHWESTERN
LIVES OF 7 PERSONS
North Dakota Man and Woman
Killed in Moorhead When
Struck by Automobile
5 CHILDREN M0THERLESS
Five Minnesotans, One Wiscon-
sin Resident Die; Man Hurt
at Valley City
S CHILDREN MoTHERLEsS

Moorhead, Mimi, April 2O.-R-A
man and a woman who apparently
we're walking together were instantly
killed early Sunday here when struck
by an automobile driven by three
youths.
They were Thorgrim Kjensrud,
about IS, Hatton, N. D., and Mrs.
Sedenius Vikjord, Fargo. wife of q
carpenter and mother of five small
children.
The woman was 80 years old and
had been a resident Of Fargo or the
last three years. having come here
from Crookston, MIMI, where she had
lived most Of her life.
She was born In Red Lake county,
Minnesota. her maiden name being
Lydia Ortloff.
Officials were puzzled over her
identity for almost SO hours until she
was identified at noon Monday.
She leaves five children: Emma,
IL: Glenn, nine: Lester, seven: Har-
vey. five; and Luella, two. The fol-
lowing brothers and sisters also are
left: Alice Ortloff. Duluth; Mrs.
Esther Ogaard. Crookston: Mabel, in
Red Lake county; Amanda Ortloff,
st. Paul; a twin brother, Henry, re-
siding on the farm in Red Lake coun-
ty where the woman was born.
A coroner's jury Monday found the
accident early Sunday in which Kjen-
srud and Mrs. Vikjord met death was
unavoidable" The youths who had
been held were released.
Automobile mishaps took five other
lives over the weekend in the north
west while a sixth victim succumbed
Monday to injuries suffered when
struck by q hit-and-run driver a week
ago.
The dead:
Allan Lawrence. "a, Hopkins, Mimi,
killed early Monday when his truck
crashed into q concrete traffic sema-
phore.
c. w. Bouscher, IS, killed while
walking on highway Sunday near
Proctor, MINI.
Clarence Boland, %, Glencoe, Wis,
Continued on page Nine)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
BOILING LYE
AND WATER ON trio
Husband and Two .Stepsons
Are Badly Injured by Act
Of Jealous Woman

New York, April 20.-R-Boiltng
I've and water were poured on Samuel
Aisenson and his two sons. Harold. IL.
and Martin. II. as they slept early
Monday in their Brooklyn apartment.
Police arrested Mrs. Minnie Aisenson,
stepmother Of the boys. whom they
found In q nightdress Ia q court yard.
Detectives said neighbors informed
them the stepmother had been Jealous
Of the boys. a year ago she married
Aisensou, who Is "a and . printer,
bringing to his house her own child.
now four.
Aisenson,s body was badly scared.
The two children were almost Is bad
" burned. II addition they had been
beaten with . hammer. Mrs. Assem-
son was arrested At Coney Island
hospital physicians said Aisenson WIS
burned from head to waist and might
not recover.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
ROBERTS SUFFERS
RELAPSE SATURDAY.
Veteran Weather Bureau Head
Had Been Recovering From
Heart Ailment

o. w. Roberts. head Of the federal
weather bureau who has been recover.
Inc from q serious heart ailn1ent at
his home, suffered a relapse satur-
day and attending physicians de-
scribed his condition as critical Nom
day noon.
Roberts has been i'll for about .
month. His condition was regarded as
critical up until 10 days ago when ne
began to show marked Improvement
and doctors two days later pronounced
him out of danger.
Since his relapse Saturday. ne mas
been rational only part Of the time,
his physician said.
Franklin Roberts, q son, left SAT-
urday for his home In Los Angeles.
He stayed at his fathers bedside as
long as possible, relatives stated, but
business matters made 1t imperative
that he return to California. He WILL
charter q plane at Butte to complete
the last part Of. his trip.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
dam CONTRACT IS
SIGNED BY Wilbur
Construction Of Boulder Dam
by Six Companies, Inc, to
Begin Immediately

Washington, April 20.-(F-Secre-
tar Wilbur Monday signed the 49,
500, sos contract for construction Of
Boulder dam by Six Companies, Inc.
The secretary's signature was the
final touch needed to start the giant
project under way.
Notice immediately will go forward
authorizing the contractors to start
the work. The construction camp has
been established and engineers al
ready are on the ground.
The work Is expected to take about
six and one-half years.
The power line which Is to furnish
energy for the construction, extending
$50 miles from San Bernardino, Calf.
Is expected to be completed May 20,
q month ahead Of contract time, per-
hitting that much faster start on the
actual construction.
The railroad lire already has reach
ed the site Of Boulder City on the
Canyon rim and freight Is being
moved to the spot.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
Warned to Cover
Budding Flowers

Prediction that the tempera-
ture may drop as low as "a or q
degrees above zero was made
Monday by the federal weather
bureau which, at the same time.
warned Bismarck residents to
cover tulips, peonies and other
perennial flowers which now are
well above the ground.
The thermometer dipped below
the freezing point for . brief Pc
Rod Sunday night. the minimum
being 81 degrees. but no harm was
done. The minimum temperature
reported Sunday night Ia North
Dakota was a ct Bottineau and
Crosby.
Local nurserymen said shrubs
and most percnnials probably
viii not Be harmed BY the cola
map but that tulips and pecniss
should b covered Il ahove tn
ground. Irises need no further
protection. according 70 theee An
thor1ties.
ons result Of the sxpec1gd
freooe, Il Uns ooid. may = ~ IN
The tree seed Tor the current veey.
IN m0ot caoog Ne 1rooe -
III U u h10on1n - eBooGn
Nould I'M ~ Uood.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
KILLS wife
AND WOUNDS THREE
ON Wild RAMPAGE
Awakes From Nightmare Act
ing Crazy; Slayer and An
other Victim May Die

Houston, Tex, April 20.-(F-A
negro porter killed his servant wife
and wounded three white persons in
q fashionable residence section here
late Sunday night before q self-in-
flicted shotgun wound ended his
rampage.
Sonny Reed. 81, the negro, who was
shot again for resisting arrest, and
Lola Reed, %, his wife, died early
Monday. His other victims were
David Harris, 35-year-old attorney,
Mrs. George Leach, As. who was host
ess at a card party, and Miss Janet
Arendale, her niece. Their condition
was critical.
Unable to. determine q motive for
the attack. police accepted the dying
statement Of Reeds wife that he was
subject to Nightmares from which he
awoke acting crazy"
Reed shot his wife three times in
the abdomen as she lay in bed in the
home Of Louis Wagner. next door to
the Leach residence, and then fled In
night clothes to the basement.
The negro fired on Harris, Mrs.
Leach and Miss Lrendale with q shot
gun when they rushed out to demand
that he surrender. A single charge
struck all three. Harris receiving the
bulk Of 1t in his chest and face. Hos
pital attendants said his chances for
recovery were slight.
Reed, barricaded in the home, shot
himself when detectives appeared.
Dangerously wounded, he seized q
pistol from the belt Of Detective r. H.
Sullivan in an ambulance on the way
to q hospital. The detective said he
knocked down the pistol a. Reed fired
and shot the negro twice In the abb
doSnen.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-04-20
COMPLETES
DEFENSE ATTACKED
BY ANOTHER PARTY
Latest Criticism Comes From
Committe Of National Re-
publican Club

New York, April ~20.-(R-Mayo-
Walkers defense of his adlninistra-
ton was ready for delivery to Cover
nor Roosevelt Monday. but scarcely
had it been finished than he found
himself subjected to attack from a
new quarter.
The latest criticism anne from the
city affairs committee of the National
club. which charged
breakdown and decentralization of the
city government" The first bill Of
filed with the governor
that to which the mayor has drawn
up his reply-originated with the city
committee, q group which has
no relation to the Republican club
a similarity In names. Both
call upon the governor to remove the
mayor from office.
The report Of the committee of the
club attacks the mayor In
his private life rs well as In his of.
fetal position. There have been two
troubles with Mayor Walker" the e
port reads. I'm the first place he has.
as the world knows. given little time
or attention to his job.
HE has joked, junketed TO race
sat up all night at wild par
ties, entertained Hollywood and ig-
nored the city's problems. We have
20 concern with Mayor Walkers pri-
vate escapades except in 50 far as
they interfere with his public duties.
The mayor Of New York has no right
to allow the vagaries Of his private
life to interfere with reasonable at
to the responsibilities Of his
great office"
The second objection the report
said, is that the mayor Us an integ-
raj part of a political machine which
Is interested in building up its own
power and filling the pockets Of its
members rather than in governing
The city we'll"