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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30

folks biscuits. Any that the edi-
tor feels has sprouted bristles, may
be tenderly consigned to the car
ton. Perhaps we are divulging a
profound secret, but no basket
could be found Of adequate size for
the waste. so paste board carton
stands by to receive the trash which
no doubt explains the retention of a
coal heater in the shop--that is a
heater that will burn coal when
there is a shortage of paper.
Several Of the Homer Gerlach
family have been i'll with grip
Several Of the farmers are SOW
ing their oats, hoping they will
grow wild
Geo. Fox has been having a ser
ious time with one of his eyes. hav-
inc got a piece of steel in it. The
aid of a physician was necessary to
remove it,
We find we are making some mis-
! takes in our cemetery story, and
! some omissions, as in the last issue
We omitted the name of Mrs Ora
Jenkins. one Of the daughters Of
William and Isabelle Campbell Hen
derson. Mrs. Jenkins is our near
est neighbor, where we borrow and
lend. All these things will be cor
rected in the book. and if the Meigs
story is put in book form, we will
be able to add quite bit to it, as in
gathering material for Bristol, new
material is coming to light on
Meigs
VIM. Doyle and wife who have
| been in GAINESVILLE for some time,
are again at home.
Artisan Yauger went to the
home of his daughter Mrs. Sophia
Johnson, Sunday, at Hobson, O.
VIM. Yauger, f. Sines, Earl Rob
erts and EX-Deputy Sheriff -Chas.
Haynes motored there with him, re-
turning the same day.
Our prediction Of last week came
true Stanley Radcliff son Of
Com'r and Mrs. Fred Radcliff, and
Miss Lulu Henderson, daughter o
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30

the Meigs school, the past year, has
had a he mans job, having had
nearly twice as many pupils as the
next largest school in the township
We understand a two room school is
up for discussion
j. +. McGregor is in poor health.
suffering with stomach and heart
trouble.
An all day meeting is announced
for next Sunday, at the Mt. Zion M.
Z. church.
Malta grange players put on a
good play at the hall, Saturday
night, playing to a Hoover house.
Mrs Edith Mcconnell who was in
Bethesda hospital, is improving
slowly, at the home of her parents.
Com'r Fred Radcliff and wife.
Our last week S Offering was held
up in transit We are sending it in
this week, as we feel it is like some
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30
SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS

The accounts and vouchers of the
following administrators, executors
and guardians have been filed for
settlement in the probate court of
Morgan county, Ohio, and will be
for hearing on May II, at 10
O'Clock, a. M:
F. l.. Campbell, administrator of
ely Gladys McPeak estate.
Lee Humphrey, administrator eta
of Asbury Taylor estate.
Ina Tysinger and Forest Jauch-
ius, administrators of Joseph A.
Wood estate.
Kate G. Finley, executor of H. NJ
Finley, who was trustee for Sam L.
Koons.
Any person interested may file
written exceptions to any or all OF
said accounts or any item thereof,
on or before said hearing.
ARTHUR TORBERT,
l6a3 Probate Judge.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30

of SO years ago, Maggie Combs J;
daysong, Way Down Upon Suwan-
nee River" grange; reading, Rock
Me to Sleep Lettie Mcdonald: !:
reading, MY Mothers Bible,'' En-
ma Bell; reading, my Mother /;
Hands," Nettie Brill; other read
ings appropriate for Mothers Day,
Nora Fowler, Bertha Cannon, Laura
Hastings and Viola Grandstaff.-
Xxx.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30
Westland Grange

Program for May s, at 8 p. m:
Song; roll call, What part of the
grange work ! enjoy most; reading,
Bessie Abel; discussion by sisters,
led by Maud McInturf: What are
some helps that serve to make
house cleaning easier; song con-
test, everybody come with the in
tention of taking part; dialogue
Are farm accounts worth while, dis
cussion, led by Bernard Benjamin. !.
Huffman, efreshments.-
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30
Meigs

We called on perhaps the oldest
man in this section of the state, last
week Jesse Gibbs, of Meigs town
ship, who celebrated his 93rd birth
day April :. Mr.. Gibbs is nearly
blind, but he is chock-full of the
early life of the community, not
only of Meigs, but Bristol as well.
Bristol township schools closed
last week. with basket dinners.
Dwight Stephenson who has taught
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30
Manchester Grange

Mothers Day program for Man
chester grange for May 8: Roll call,
a white blossom by those whose
mothers are dead, a colored one,
by those whose mothers are living:
song, Holy Night" origin Of
Mothers Day, Miner Fowler; com
pare the mothers of today with those
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

Estate of Harriet McGregor, de.
ceased. Ida Little, whose address
is McConnelsville route, has been
appointed and qualified as admin
istratrix of the estate Of Harriet
McGregor, late Of Morgan county
Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 18th day Of April, A
D., 1881.
ARTHUR TORBERT,
Probate Judge of said County
22a2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-04-30

women for the land of their girl
hood; but instead they instilled it
into their children. Mrs. Donmyer
and the whole Bristol bunch at New
Lindimore reunion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

the Communist Party, fascists of the city of
Winnipeg, very likely with the help of the police,
bombed and badly damaged the headquarters
of the Communist Party in their hope to smash
the great mass influence of the Communist
Party and the revolutionary movement in that
city.
The law under which the nine leaders of the
Communist Party are charged was enacted in
1919 in the time Of the famous Winnipeg Cen
eral Strike. The workers of Winnipeg prac-
tically had the city in their own hands for six
weeks. The strike movement was spreading all
over the country; the bourgeoisie were panic
stricken. Prime Minister Meighan of that time
ordered the arrest of the strike leaders. When
the social fascist Minister of Labor Gideon
Robertson wired him, raising the question as to
whether there were any legal grounds for the
arrests, Meighan teegraphed him that he should
carry out the arrests and steps would be taken
to legalize his actions later. Following this,
within forty minutes in the Houses Of Parlia-
ment the present drastic anti working class
legislation was put on the Statute Books.
Threaten 20 Years Imprisonment.
Section SO of the Criminal Code, under which
the comrades are charged, is so broad in its
scope that it can crush by law not only the
Communist Party of Canada but any organiza-
ton that defends or sympathizes with the mem
b9lS OF the communist Party. Inc penalty IN
volved has sentence of 20 years.
The Canadian Labor Deferse League, the
Canadian Section of the International Red Aid,
has been in existence number of years, carry
ing on the struggle for the release of the class
war prisoners but during the course of the
last two years it has grown considerably in
membership and influence AT the last Plenum,
which took place in July in Toronto it was re-
ported that the membership had more than
doubled There are now 5000 individual mem
bers and $4,000 collective members. During the
last year it has intensified its activities, par
ticularly in the Vancouver and Montreal "sedi-
ton" cases, mass arrests in Calgary, in the
struggle against deportation, etc. The mobiliza-
ton Of mass protests from coast to coast hag
pcrula zed The CLDJ among the create
masses Of workers aEd poor farmers.
Canadian Defense Lcpgue Fights.
The Canadian Labor Defense League is con-
Quoting the defense in the present attack 1t
is modifying tens of thousands OF workers in
united front conferences and mass demonstra
tions throughout the country. 1t is making it
clear to the masses that the Communist Party
is being attacscd end subject TO liogality be
cause it has led the masses in their struggle
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
The Canadian Govt Seeks to Out
law the Communist Party

Communist Party were arrested Carr and
Bruce were brought to Toronto from Vancouver
and charged with being members of an "un-
lawful association" while three other comrades,
Popotich, functionary of the Canadian Labor
Defense League and one of the leaders of the
Ukrainian mass organization Golinsky of the
Political Bureau of the Y C. L., and Casio, were
subsequently charged. These comrades were
finally allowed out on bail to the amount of
$4,000.
Yellow Press Calls For Suppression.
The raids and arrests took place amidst sea
of yellow journalism ard sensationalism. The
Toronto Mail " TT Pre- official organ of the
Conservative party Of Ontario made clear the
purpose of the attack.
"Massing his forces on three fronts, AttOr-
ney General Price last night launched an Of
fensive designed to wipe out of existence the
Communist Party of Canada Assisted by the
Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Minister of Justice at OF
tawa, Col. Price struck at the very roots of
the organization. Nine raids all timed stimuli
taneously for o'clock, began campaign that
may last for weeks or months, in which the
government will seek to prove in the courts
that the Communist Party is an unlawful as
ISOLATION" email G. Empire" Aug. IL, 1871
The Attorney General himself made a state
ment clearly outlining the purpose and the yell
low journals throughout the country have since
written savage hysterical articles calling the
Communists "slavering rats" and demanding
the Party to be declared illegal This has been
followed by speeches in the same vein and what
practically amounts to melting to lynchings by
the leaders of the Canadian Legion and other
fascist organizations.
Terror Grows.
Prior to this mass attack upon the Commu-
mist Party, the terror against the workers had
been growing throughout the country. Whs-eas
in the year 1880, 200 arrests had taken place.
since this January there have already been over
$50 arrests Technical charges have given way
to charges of "sedition' unlawful assembly"
and "inciting to mutiny" and a number of
workers are serving Jail sentences from one year
down for various charges.
In the city of Toronto, the home of Canadian
industrialisrn for the last three years freedom
of speech has been completely destroyed BY
police edict. open air and indoor meetings have
been banned and a reign of terror been insti-
tuted During 1880 over 1000 workers have been
deported from Canada more than half of whom
were deported to the British Isles. The matns-
ity of these workers we're deported simply be-
cause they were unemployed. Since January
of this year tie deportations have been enor-
nous, hundreds of militant workers have becn
deported to fascist countries and the bourgeoisie
have instituted system in the various local.
ties whereby Immediately upon worker recsiv-
ing relief he is subject to deportation, and
where, furthermore, foreign born workers (Bri-
fish included are forced to sign voluntary de-
portation slips before they can receive any re-
lief or work
Closely following the arrests of the leaders of
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against hunger, war and exploitati \ and that
if the powers that be are successful, any work.
ing-class organization can be dealt with ike
WISE
Linked up with this campaign the Canadian
Labor Defense League has inaugurated Bill OF
workers rights and anti-deportation and is col
lecting hundreds of thousands Of signatures.
The campaign calls for fund of $4,000, 10000
new members and 5000 new readers of the
Canadian Labor Defender" its monthly illus
trated magazine. On Sept 30 national mass
demonstrations will be held and on the day OF
the trials (the date of which has not yet been
set) national mass demonstrations, accompanied
in many places by 24-hour strikes, are being
planned.
Workers Demonstrate.
That the working class of Canada will ener-
getically fight against this attack is shown by
the mass response that the Communist Party
and C. L. D. L. are receiving in this campaign
When Comrades Bruce and Carr were brought
from Vancouver to Toronto by the police, large
masses of workers demonstrated in the Calgary
and Winnipeg railroad stations. Since then,
many mass demonstrations have taken place.
hundreds of resolutions of protest have been
sent money for defense is coming in daily. The
miners have responded splendidy and many of
the refornlist union locals have expressed their
protest and solidarity. Mass meetings of in
dignation have been held by seamen lumber
workers and many other industrial workers
Farmers Resent kstack
In the farming districts the feeling of res
sentiment against the government and its poll
ces is growing rapidly. In one small farming
area Edmonton district, during the last few
weeks, over 40 protest resolutions have poured
in. All this is indicative Of the broad mass
movement that is developing as result Of the
government attack.
AS to be expected, the social fascists of
Canada are playing their usual despicable role
in this struggle. Tom Moore, the president of
the Canadian Trades Congress, and A. r.
Mosher OF the All-Canadian Congress Of Labor
have already contributed their rabid diatrbe
against Communism to show the authorities that
thew stand with them But the rank and file
Of the trades unions and number of Trades
and Labor Councils have already expressed their
indignation not only with the actions of the
authorities, but with their own leadership
The forthcoming trial of the leaders of the
Communist Party will be the greatest historical
political trial in Canda yet held and will have
treat influence in the DEVELOPMENT of the reyo-
lutionary movement in this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
BY BECKIE BUHAY.

DURING the last few years, the Canadian
bourgeoisie has gone through a great i'm
Tserialist development. The Bennett Conserva-
tive Government since its advent to power, has
adopted drastic fiscal policies and shown that
it Is an active agent in the war front, against
the U. s. S. R. by imposing a complete embargo
on all Soviet products. In the face of the grow
ing economic crisis it has put into operation
Budget that places heavy taxes on the necass-
ties of life, while lowering all forms of taxation
on the rich
With the tremendous growth of unemployment
in Canada, which now, according to figures
given out by the Minister of Labor amounts to
nearly 100000 (this out of total population of
less than 10 million people,, the Canadian bour-
geoisie, refusing to grant any effective relief
through social insurance has inaugurated
forced labor camps on the basis of the most in
tolerable conditions. This move the bourgeoisie
heralded as a solution of the unemployment
crisis.
Only very small percentage of the hundreds
Of thousands of unemployed can be placed in
these camps but the ruling class Of Canada seek
through this means to smash the Unemployed
Workers Association and the militant spirit of
the hungry masses.
The crisis has also hit hundreds of thousands
of poor and middle farmers Both workers and
farmers under the leadership of the Communist
Party and the Workers Unity League have
shown great fighting spirit The Unemployed
Assoc. now numbers nearly 10000 The cam
pagn Of the Workers Unity League for non
contributory unemployment insurance met with
tremendous response throughout the country,
over 100000 signing the bill for signatures and
series of huge mass demonstrations being held
from coast to coast which, in many instances,
were yeritable battles with the police
The answer of the Bennett Government to
the growing nliiitancy Of the workers and poor
farmers and their demands for relief has been
increasing terrorism against the masses. At the
close Of the last Session of Parliament legisla-
ton was passed authorizing Government by
Order in Council" and giving Bennett BLANK
cheque" for "relef. peace order and good gov
eminent"
Government Plans Raids.
Closely following this legislation, the Attorney
General of Ontario, in close collaboration with
the Federal Government, staged an attack upon
the center of the Communist Party and the
revolutionary mass organizations On August
18th. the national offices of the Communist
Party. Young Communist League Workers
Unity League, THE Worker and the Friends
OF the Soviet Union, as well as the homes of
leading Communists were raided by the Federal,
Provincial and City police. Carloads of mater
ials and documents, including personal belong
ings were taken away The offices and homes
os the leaders OF the Communist Party presented
r picture Of the pogrom times of Czarist Russia,
{ trades Buck, Even Carr, Bruce, Boychuk and
H. members OF the Political Bureau of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
On the Carrying Out of the
18th Plenum Decisions
"THE LINK THAT GUARANTEES THE COMMAND OF
THE WHOLE CHAIN (Lenin)

What is the nature of this change? Is it merely
a repetition of slogans that we emphasized so
much at the 18th Plenum? No. At the 18th
Plenum we said that the immediate link that
we must grasp in order to control the whole
chain of developments was-immediate demands,
less high-falutin' phrases, more simple every
day work This is no longer sufficient COM
rades. We have developed, still inadequately
still only in its beginning, but we have certain
positive experiences in the application of the
main slogans of the 18th Plenum. But these
experiences also bring us face to face with the
problem that these slogans are 10 longer SUI
fcient to solve the questions that are before us,
that must be solved before we can take the next
steps forward; penetration of shops, building Of
the Party building of the revolutionary unions
We have got to find now what is the link at the
18th Plenum that we must seize upon and put
in the forefront as that link which must be
grasped at this moment in order to move the
entire chain, to move the wagon the next mile
along the road,
I think that we have to say, as the resolution
before you says that this main link now is
finding the proper methods of mass work and
organization, that the main obstacle to this is
lack of faith in the masses. Within our move
ment in our methods of work this expresses it.
self in the form of a tendency to bureaucracy,
to bureaucratic methods, bureaucratic practices
and relationships in the mass organizations espe-
cally-an of them flowing out of a lack OF
faith in the masses and reliance upon spon-
taneity. This fear of the masses is opportu-
nisn, poisonous opportunisn no matter what
form it may assume In some cases it tries to
show itself as very cleft" hoping thereby to
cover its opportunism You can hear quite often
in our movement the representative have no
forces, all of our comrades are backward, I'M
educated they don't know Lenin, they can't
quote from the decisions of the 18th Plenum-
we mustn't give them any responsible work"
Is this exceptional attitude in our Party?
Our experiences in the national Office indicate
to us that this is disease that penetrates the
Party from top to bottom. In the Central Com
mittee and in the Polburo and in our depart
ments in the national Office we constantly find
ourselves hanpered and hemmed in by the lirli-
tations of our own methods of work and our
own approach to the problem, which distorts
the leading work of the Party-a tendency to
have no faith in the forces of the Party except
those that have been tried and tested over long
years the fear to draw in new forces. This fear
has existed in the Central Committee; it has
existed in every district committee, in every sec
ton committee and in every unit. And in the
units it takes the form of resistance to recruit
ment to the Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Union Movement

creating factory groups in the factories and
shops and developing the work energetically,
the revolutionary trade unions will be in po-
sition to better prepare and lead the coming new
economic struggles.
1t is necessary to draw in workers Of differ
ent political tendencies and broad strata of
non-partisan workers. But it is not enough to
recruit new members, we must know how to keep
them with us. 1t is therefore necessary to slim
ulate and encourage the initiative and activity OF
the new strata of workers, to nominate them
for the elected organs and also for leading posts
to insure a sufficient number of non-partisan
proletarans in the various organs elected by the
workers.
At the same time It is necessary to carry on
among the new members systematic work of
enlightenment by means of reports, the organ
ization of group and individual discussions, to
attach new members to the old and more expert
enced members for the purpose Of cultivating
the new members, and the assignment of con-
crete tasks to the new members, tasks first of
all, dealing with the work in the shop. The new
members as well as the old must report regu-
larly to the respective organs regarding the
work assigned to them
1t is advisable to carry on the recruiting
campaign on the basis of an established quota
for each union and the application of revolu-
tionary competition among the various organ
zations of the given union, to publish the pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
BY RALPH SIMONs

This is the sixth in series of articles OF
this important subject, of vital necessity fo
revolutionary Workers.-Editor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Fundamental Conditions for
feminist Tactics

"It is not enough to be revolutionist and a
follower of socialism, or generally Communist
we must learn to know how to find at each
moment that particular link in the chain which
we must grasp with all our might in order to
hold on to the entire chain, in order to prepare
firm transition to the next link At the same
time we must remember that the order of
the links their formation, their connection,
their distinction one from the other, as histori-
cal chains Of events, are not as simple as the
usual chain made by smith
from Lenin in his 1.-THE Current
Tasks of the Soviets," written in 1919
1.-THE whole art of politics lies in finding the
link that can be least drawn out of our hands,
the one that is most important at a given
moment, the one that guarantees the whole
chain, and having found it, to cling to that
link as tightly as possible"
-C'What Is To Be Done?" Published
in 1902 English Edition Just appeared
and has been published by the Inter
national Publishers, price so cents)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
&4~.
Hospital Graft
Ry IORnR

We see as how in Mexico the federal govern
ment has removed a state governor because he
spent $1,000 on monument that fell to pieces
in three days.
New York City has better monument than
that to the Great God Graft. And here's how:
Were you ever confined, refined, cut to pieces,
mistreated and starved in the NJ Y. City hos
pitfalls? Do you think that the treatment you
got cost the City $4.56 for each day you were
being banged around there? Well, that's what
the hospitals say 1t costs them Our idea is
that swarm of Mayor Walkers relatives will
be found on the payroll. ETC.. etc.