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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
13 MINERS ARE HELD
IN DEATH OF DEPUTY
One Of Accused Seriously Wounded.
Unemployed and Officials
in Battle.

BY the Associated Press.
HARLAN. KY, April 1S.-Twelve coal
miners tonight were in jail charged with
banding and confederating and VIII
liam Burnett, seriously wounded, was
in hospital, charged with Staying Jess
Pace. deputy sheriff, following a bat
tie Friday between forces Of Sheriff
j. H. Blair and unemployed miners at
Evarts. 8 miles from here.
-Four of the prisoners, Sheriff Blair
said, were identified as members of a
gang OF 100 men who dragged Charles
Carpenter, an employe of the Black
Mountain Coal Corporation, out Of an
automobile at Evarts Thursday night
and beat him.
The clash Friday afternoon was the
result of the arrest of members Of the
group who are charged with beating
Carpenter.
Sheriff Blair said he was expecting
no more trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
FIRE PERILS COURTHOUSE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, April 18.-Camp-
bell Countys old court house, built
nearly 100 years ago, was threatened
by fire early Friday, but the damage
to the structure will probably not be
more than $1,000 Principal damage
was in the Office Of Robert A. Rus
sell, commemorative attorney, where
the fire started. Besides running q law
library fire destroyed papers and rec
ords which can not be restored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
CHAIRMEN ARE NAMED
o. E. s. Chapter at Vienna Enter
tains Grand Officials of Order.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIENNA. Va, April 18-Harmony
Chapter, No. so, o. E. S.. at its regular
meeting entertained Grand Patron
Harry F. Kennedy, Associate Grand
ConductreSs Nellie Cosdon and Past
Grand Patron Alfred c. Cosdon Of the
Grand Chapter Of Virginia. The worthy
matron, Mrs. Mildred H. Wiclline, ap-
pointed the following committee chair
men to serve for the ensuing year:
Ways and means, Mrs Elsie Bayne;
sunshine, Mrs. Mildred Burner; in
struction OF new members, Mrs. Sadie
Babcock; membership, Mrs. Wilhel-
nina Fox; entertainment, Mrs. Vera C..
Hamiltcn; social, Mrs. Celia Boushee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
LUTHERANS RAP RUM

Repeal Attempt.
CHICAGO, April 10 LP.-The I'LL
nois Conference of the Augustana
Evangelical Lutheran Synod today
adopted a resolution approving prohi-
bition laws and condemning "the at
tempt Of the Illinois Legislature to
nullify the effect of the eighteenth
amendment by repeating the State en-
forcement act"
The resolution expressed the convic-
ton that more intensive and extensive
educational propaganda should be used
TO solve the liquor problem.
The conference embraces Illinois,
Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
Pioneer Music Promoter Dies.

CUMBERLAND, Md, April 10 (Spe-
ciaD .-Ingham Lord, 49, pioneer in
the promotion of better music here, for
90 years choirmaster and organist in
Cumberland churches. died yesterday
after a lingering illness. He was a
native of England, arriving in this
country with his mother when a small
boy, settling in Philadelphia and
coming to Cumberland about 1902.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19

,ACCAKEEK, Nd, April 10 Especially.
THE Indian Head Fire Department ex-
tinguished q forest IRE on the farm OF
Miss Emily Cox near Glymont. A forest
IRE -alsB burned on tho farm OF Mr..
Paterson near Pononkey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19
Judges.

The judges will be three prominent news
paper executives, whose names will be
announced later
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19

First Prize:
This 500 Rin&!
Second Prize, $50 Cash!
Third Prize, s25 Cash!
Ten Prizes, 81, Cash, each!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-19

1t shouldn't be hard to name it'll
It's a handsome ring. with three
blazing diamonds, and it can be yours
if you only think of the name that,
in the opinion of the judges. best
describes it's beauty. There are l3
prizes-enter the contest and win one!
See the ring first. at Castelberg S
see what beauty it is-see what
value it is, too. for only $lO0l Then
it will be easy to name it, and win
prize!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

officers tried to find the leaders. !"
Court-martials. Death sentences.
We see these first sacrifices in the
death cells, before the firing squad.
The Emperor makes speech of
sympathy to the working classl
anyone who strikes is scoundrel
we must stick it out. Garry onl
Hold our tonguesl"
But the ruling class was unable
to rule in the old way; and the
working class was unwilling to live
and to die--in the old wayl The
crews were deceived The fleet was
ordered to war. Maneuversp No!
They found from the tell-tale wind
that the fleet was moving north
westerly! Against England"
1t was the hour of action. Orders
were given, but not from the bridge.
Out of your hammocks! To the for
ward battery! All hands to the for
ward battery"
The officers pretended that the
enemy fleet was in the offing. CLEAR
for action All hands to battle sta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

a Review by HARRISON GEORGE
mo more parties! We are all
Germans and only Germans! Our
Army! The Navy Hurrah!"
These were the cries of the Ger
man masses on those first days of
August, 1914
Between these words which are
given to the opening pages Of enc
Of the rarest of war books c"The
Kaiser's Coolies" by Theodor PHI
vier) and the last lines Of the book,
is tremendously graphic picture Of
how irnperiahst war is transformed
into civil war. The last lines are:
"The Emperor's flag was lowered.
The Red flag was hoisted. All the
ships yielded without struggle"
No revolutionary worker who
wishes to understand the feminist
conception of the transformation Of
an inperialist war into civil war
can afford to be without this realis-
tic picture of the process-we re-
peat, the process and not the act
by which such transformation is
carried on.
Compared to "All Quiet on the
Western Front" by Remarque. THE
Kaiser's Coolies" is in every way
superior to the book by Renlarque,
which is only hWnanist rubbish by
comparison, which ignores the masses
and magnifies individual characters.
Plivier's book, on the contrary,
takes the German masses as a whole,
the tremendous significance of the
war to these masses, and only upon
this basis does he follow the individ-
ual characters through the war from
its beginning until its revolutionary
close. Thus, the whole perspective
is altered from an individualistic out
look to a. class outlook.
This is the great contribution
which Plivier has made particularly
to the youth of today who did not
see the war, who did not feel the
horror Of the war, who have not in
their experience the perception Of
how war affects the lives of the
toilers and how and Why civil war
arises out of imperialist war.
Here we see the German Iner-
chant sailors taken by force from an
old tramp steamer as it enters a
German port in the opening days Of
the war and dragooned into the ma
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
"THE KAISER'S COOLIES"

soles were advertised and dried milk
and unrationed meat substitutes.
Professors and diatetic specialists
had discovered that the turnip was
an excellent and nourishing food for
the populace. Coffee made of tur-
nips! Turnip soup! Boiled turnips!
Every naval officer was allowed
twenty bottles of wine a month.
Three times a week banquets were
held"
Then came mass protest. The men
refused their rations. The grand
gold-spangled gentlemen in the Of
ficers' quarters called them swine"
Murnurs arose in the fleet.
THE workers ashore are begin
ming to understand. They can't
carry on either with empty bellies.
1t IS beginning everywhere. That
Is why they make us do so much
infantry drill If the workers
strike we are TO fire on them"
This is the beginning Of the end.
On mad adventure the German
fleet commanders were attempting
desperate things. To order the fleet,
as the sailors knew, into another
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

announced that the girls, would have
to work an hour overtime.
"Of course you're paying us extra, -
said Helen.
Are you lightning with such non
sense aga4n9" said the boss sharply
See you tomorrow morning" She
walked to the cloak room and left.
THE next girl who does that. III
fire on the spot" shouted the boss.
Pointing toward the cloak room he
said. ''if Helen wasn't such good
worker I'd fire her tight now. Alright
get to wcrg come on!"
The girls returned to work, and the
contractor continued, don't worry
you'll hear something more about this
whole business"
The next morning Helen returned
to her machine. The boss said moth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

and-audacious trick-on the cap
tain's doorl
Sparing nothing, Plivier takes us
to the homes of the sailor folk in
the German cities, where women
with their lungs wasted away and
great sores on their bodies from the
chemicals in the nlunition plants,
greet the eye, along with the beastly-
treated Russian prisoners of war,
and every sailor finds that in his
home his children are starving, his
wife weakening under the terrible
hunger and war work and worry.
In the chapter devoted to the Bat
tie of Jutland is the most graphic
picture Of the hell Of the battle that
this writer has ever read. And it is
not given without its political back
ground and the ambitions OF the
commanders of the German and
British fleets, Jellicoe and Scheer.
And here, too, is the individual
tragedy Of one Of the impressed sail
ors, who, floating on a life-saving
belt from a su1lken battleship, half
crazed, reaches over towards a float
ing sea mine. which he takes for a
Hamburg waterfront prostitute. and
touches off an explosion in the
middle of the North Sea.
Plivier brings In, in the most art
full manner. the coming books of the
commanding officers which, like Per-
shing's memoirs, are to serve as
propaganda for the next war. These
officersl How they gable about
strategy and pretend to be interested
in the lives of the seamen! Plivier
tears the mask off these pretenses.
He shows that those rare and ex-
traordinary officers who had even
the remnants of human feeling to-
ward the men they sent into hell,
were ostracized and even deliberately
sent into situations from which the
military clique expected they would
never emerge alive.
The first nlutterings Of nlutiny
are here developed into the preludes
for mass action. The seaman who,
refusing to obey orders. yet not
counting upon support OF his COM
rades, stoically nails his own hand
to the table with his knife, is an ex-
ample; and Plivier matches this at
once with the following
In the German newspapers steel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Seen by The Compass
y = VI
BY MARTIN FEINsTEN.

BY MARTIN FEINSTEN.
Rouse me with the winds Of harvest,
Wake me with the song of steel ships
that plough the seas to new harbors.
o bold seamen, be bold, fort the seas
hold new mysteries of anchorage,
The seas are older than men.
The seas are colder than the traves-
ties of pain.
Slain sea-serpents, carcassed Msby
dicks, writhe In memory again.
Sailors, which way shall We. turns
The east Is red.
The west is red,
North and south are no longer point
Of the compass, but great towers
Of red that pelt the seas darkness.
Gangway, for the new masters Of the
ships, s3FJAif
They have won new harbors,
Gangway for the men who have
known the seas coldness- q.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
fering working class and the crash
ing tones of the Internationale.

This book is tremendously human.
Nothing in a sailors life is omitted,
from dipping into the wine cargoes
Of the old freighter to "short-arm
inspection" in the navy. No detail
is left out which goes to picture
either the hilarity or the hardness
of a sailors life.
The characters Of the story are
brought forward just as they are,
whether noble, cowardly, loyal or
traitorous to their class. Here we
see the bureaucratic officer class and
the development of the spirit of
mutiny with which the war was
ended.
In this book, THE Kaiser's Cool
les, we see where the common sailor
is not only brutalized but robbed by
the officer class and sent to instant
death by the thousands in order to
crafty a military ambition. Here
are the first signs of the storm that
is coming. the ribald verses scratched
on the layatory doors BY the sailors
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

toni" The trick failed. One after
another me greyhounds of the Ger
r--an High Sea Fleet fell out OF line
The firemen had put out the firesl
The officers, from the heights Of in
science, came to vain entreaties.
Armories were smashed in Crow
bars, hand-spikes. side-arills! OFF,
GERS trampled under footl. Others
barricaded themselves under the
arnlored deck. ~
Five thousand naval officers had
sworn loyalty to the flag, The up
roarious banquets. raising glasses
filled with champagne. They had
repeated again and again that they
would stake their lives for their flag
and Emperor-only three defended
the flagl' a, a..
On the flag staff, v,here.,f for four
and one-half years the symbol OF i'm
perialism had Haunted, was the red
flag
e.,
This Is a very, very had look 10
send to your friends In tho navy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
The |DajJy' Saues
A Workers Life.
BIZ An EX-SERVTCEMAN.

my papers and then said! Your REQ
ord does not allow me to take yoL
back"
I asked him, "WhyP There was
no answer. The Waterman showed
me the door. I-SzU
It was then 3 p. m. T-found my
self outside of the Ford plant for
ever. It was very cold day. was
hungry, freezing, no money, no Job,
my wife and three children waiting
for me for something to eat must
poy up my three months back rent.
I owe $3.50 to my neighborse :
got home at .. m, Did you
get job?" from my wife, Pop,
when are we going to eat" from my
children. After awhile came the
landlord: well, did you get a job?"
When he heard the news, he said.
1--WE been too good to you for three
months. But. now you've gotto get
out Of here" My neighbors asked
me for the return of their, money.
My wife and three children were cry
ing. There was no way, out for us
but to die Of starvation and exposure.
That night I secretly. decided to
commit suicide, so that somebody
might take care of the family. And
SO, waiting for the time When~I could
kill myself, I took out the Daily
Worker In it there was an article
about war. I read it very carefully.
However, I did not understand IL
very clearly. But what rgrealized was
this: I am an ex-servioenlan and
fought in the last World War, While
was fighting in France and risk
ing my life. Mr.. Ford was making
millions of dollars. Today this sans
gentleman" told me that my record
was no good, and so by this he mans
that I, my wife and children must
die of starvation in the midst OF
plenty. 3,
I accept your words, eDont starve.
fight" 7 shall not commit suicide.
But I'm going to feed myself on the
breadline and in whatever way 1
can. I'm going to be a Red and
fight as a Red can fight, to the Ut
most. tes'
Yours for the abolition Of this sys-
tenn of robbers and starvation. On
with the fight.
An Ex-SerYiceman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11

On my way back from Edgewater
New Jersey, I met Daily Worker
newsie. Buy the only workers
paper" he cried.
"I've got no money" I answered,
He gave me a free copy. I never
read this paper before. I found that
if every man out of work would read
this paper, we would be able to put
an end to all our misery in very
short time I thought I'd write in
and let you know my story.
July, 1880, was laid off from the
Ford plant, where I was working, on
account of cut-down production
Since that time I have been looking
for any kind Of a job. one that any
body could do. But I got no job at
all.
In January, 1881, I made up my
mind to stick to the Ford plant, and
for two and half months I went
there every day, spending 40 cents
a day for both fares, freezing from
8 a. NJ to p m.
Only yesterday March 81 at
about II q. m. was I picked out for
a job. A thousand men waited in
line. OF course, each and every one
wanted to be in the front. Police
clubs brutally held them back.
About an hour was taken to pick
out 20 men. I was among them
and We were again put into line
and were asked all sorts of questions
Then we were put into line by tWos
and marched to the employment Of
flee.
At the employment office we got
in one at time. Signed the applica-
ton card twice and our name ano
address on another piece of paper
Then we were taken to the doctor
where all sorts of questions were
asked again We undressed. The
doctor examined our heart, lungs
hands, eyes. I nlisspelled some let
tiers. The docto rsaid: Don't you
know how to read English7' Next
I was asked when I arrived in this
country, date, name of ship, city
married, children, citizen, how long
out Of work, and so on.
Finally, we we're taken to this di-
rector of the employment office anc
again examined. He looked at all ot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
On the Picket Line

Picket line, picket line,
Picket every day
Until Mr.. Hickey will change his mind
And give us back our pay.
Wen sing you a song,
Wen not make It long;
Wen sing of our children
In the children's club;
They're young and they're bright
They're surely all right;
They're learning to fight very hard,
Jing ling ling,
Jng ling ling,
Yo no no no
We are still kiddies, but some day
well grow,
Jing q ling, jing ling ling, Yo
he Ylo no no
Young kiddies are we, don't you
know, 20 no.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
Rv IoSFPH YOGEL

EWO SlIIS VIII WOtECA olOC ny 0llC
in q dress contractors shop were
temperamentally as unlike as red and
blue; but they happened to be good
friends. Mary was a radical Helen
harbored in her breast the most
bourgeois of bourgeois aspirations,
Both were strong willed, but Mary
was quiet, serious, whereas Helen was
loud, with an ironic tongue.
As the machines whirred Helen
talked in a continuous stream,
whether the boss was behind her or
not. you listen to me, girls, some
day this baby is going to get a fur
coat for herself, and a rich guy, and
you know what else? You won't catch
me working all my life in a dump
like this"
so this place Is a dump, eh?'' said
the boss, upon overhearing her, well,
if you and your friends worked har-
der 7 could afford to make q. palace
out of it,
Yeah, and you'd give lis all fur
coats for bonus, wouldn't you?" said
Helen.
please talk more respectful to your
boss" said her employer, and he
walked away,
Helen whispered loud enough for
the girls around her TO hear: "some
day, when he tells us 3 hard luck
story about what he'll do for us If
we work harder, honest, I'll spit in
his ear" The girls giggled.
During the brief lunch hour Mary
tried to reason with her obstreperous
friend. Helen, if you would only use
y5ur nerve and tongue to help make
conditions better in the shop, to help
LIS organize so we can get higher
wages, you'd accomplish something
real, not only for yourself, but for all
of us"
ooh, you and your revolution" said
Helen mockingly. why should I
bother my head about the other girls?
I've got my hands full taking care of
myself"
How foolish" said Mary. 1.-THE
boss won't give you alone a raise in
salary, since that would make the
rest OF us protest. Only when all OF
us demand a raise can we make him
come across"
Just watch me, kid" explained
Helen. see if I don't make him give
me a raise before the end of this
month"
always thinking of yourself" said
Mary, hopelessly,
They returned to their machines, to
turn, twist and render imitation silk
into the latest styles from Paris.
Two months later the rush season
began. The girls had no time now
to talk while at work. The contrac-
tor did not hire extra hands, COM
planning that he could not afford to,
business had been so bad all year
that he would be fortunate to break
even at the end Of the season, and
such good luck never happened to
me yet" Helen no longer laughed
and told stories; at the end of the
day she could scarcely rise from her
chair to go home.
On the other hand, IT was Mary
who now talked to the girls at every
opportunity. The boss is speeding
up his machines and he isn't paying
us cent extra Don't let him fool
us by saying he'll appreciate it if We
cut down our lunch hour few min
utes. If he wants to show any ap-
probation, he can do it in salary"
One day the boss surprised the girls
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going to pay us for overtime?" asked
Mary.
The contractor looked at her as If
she had gone crazy. How much III
pay YOU for overtime? Listen to me
you should be glad to have a Job
these days, and you should thank
God don't cut your wages now that
business is so bad and I'm losing
HUNDREDS of dollars a week"
Say, how can I work when you
make so much noise2" shouted Helen,
turning around in her chair,
The boss opened his mouth to re-
ply, but changed his mind and walked
away.
"Dou you still think you'll get a
raiser" whispered Mary to her friend.
And after several moments, during
which she watched Helen face, she
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-11
BY JOSEPH vOGEL.

/ ing to her. In the afternoon he tap
ped Mary on the shoulder and told
her to stand up. I'm sorry have
to do it, but I'm getting too many
complaints about your work. Your
stitching falls apart before the
dresses are even delivered. Don't
worry. I won't take my losses out Of
your pay, but I'll have to let you CO."
"You know that's lie" said Mary
You're firing me because you want to
get rid of me so you can exploit the
girls still more"
well, If you're so frank" returned
the boss heatedly, I'll be frank too
I'm firing you because your mouth is
too big. You're putting crazy ideas
into the heads of my girls, and it's
for their benefit that I get rid OF
you So never mind arguments. Go
ON, get out"
Now I like thatl" said Helen,
standing up at the side Of her friend
so you're firing Mary because her
mouth is too big, heyp You don't
like her ideas, is that it2 And you're
doing it for our benefit, eh, big
hearted boy2 Well, take q good load
OF this L she goes, I go tool Now
make up yoHr mind quick!"
The boss threw his hands to his
| head, whats happening in nv
shop? Are you crazyP Don't you
realize this is my rush season and I
can't afford to break in new girls?
What kind of crazness do you call
this2"
III say it's rush season" said Helen,
resuming her old nocking tone. 'But
I don't see you rushing to pay us for
our extra work
ooh, III go crazy in another min
ute" shouted the boss. She wants
to suck the last penny from my pock-
ct, He turped upon Mary. You
see what y"-r crazy ideas did to a
fine girl ike Helen2"
Not my ideas, but overtime with
out pay" said Mary.
We'll, are you taking us back2"
said Helen e., with an apology and
time and a half for overtinle2"
The boss grew wild. God in heav-
en-, she wants to suck the last drop
of blood out of me. What does she
want from me2"
ooh, go suck lollypop," exclaimed
Helen. Come on, Mary, we'll find
another job in a better dump than
this one They walked out, leaving
durnbfounded boss behind them
You certainly surprised me-" said
Mary, after they had walked a, ways
up the street Il never expected such
splendid solidarity from you"
Helen said nothing. Suddenly she
stopped stockstill and exclaimed,
1 well, III be damned"
Whats the matter?" asked Mary.
Can you beat it7 We forgot to
take the rest of the girls out with
us"
Mary was startled. She had never
thought of it herself, and she, of all
people, had let an opportunity like
that slip by! We'll. the next time
Wen know better" she said.
The next time" said Helen. well
have the girls so organized that when
the boss tries to put something over
on us well all get up like one person
and strike"
Why, you surprise me-" said Mary
amazed at the Transformation Of her
friend
Listen" said Helen 'Ths little
girl is surprising nobody more than
herself. What do you say? Let's gol'