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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

organizing meetings. collecting
dollar head for initiation and get
ting ready to name the price" for a
second Sell-out to the Kentucky OBJ
orators. To hasten this "conyen-
ton has been called to meet in
Pneville, KY, on Tuesday, May 26.
To this convention" Governor
Sampson has been cordially invited"
to address the miners by William
Turnblazer, the u M. w. A. president
OF this non-union field. Turnblazer
is former progressive" from the
Pittsburgh, Pa, district who sold out
after one of the early fights against
the takers, and was planted here as
provisional agent" of Lewis in the
sell-out of the Kentucky and Tennes-
see miners in 1918 and 1919.
While this trickery is going on the
miners are moving to do things for
themselves, and these mountaineer
miners are known to keep their guns
in trim for usein trim for use. Ac-
cording to our informer. a delega-
ton has gone to Frankfort to pre-
sent demands to the governor and
unless met with favorable action. he
declares that hell will break loose"
They haint gonna make us work
every day 10 and IL hours and still
starye," declared this man who
was able to escape the governors
military dragnet at the time of the
recent Harlan battle which came
as result of conditions that make
S1.5O high days wage"
Today Judge Jones, who is openly
charged with coal connections" de-
MED bail to the men arrested and
charged with murder after the Har-
Ian battle and to one charged with
criminal syndicalism $4,000 bail was
attached. For nine others indict-
ments charging banding and con-
federating" we're returned.
National Guardsmen patroled the
court house today during the hear
ing on a habeas corpus action to
have the arrested men released on
bail, because it is generally agreed
that the miners will attempt to carry
out their threat to Fetch their lead
ers OUT if they are not soon released.
The troops also are still in the town
OF EyartS, where the battle took
place, and miners tug their belts and
grit their teeth, just raring to go.
NO one seems to know if any men
have really gone into the mines. be-
cause there is no outward evidences
that would corroborate the operators
claim that they are steadily return
ing to work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
1,5OO Demonstrate in Ely
Block Traffic; Fight Cops

police chief, Doggy Nankeryis, ar
rested Wiitala and others arrested
Karson section organizer of the Com
munist Party, and Arvo Halberg, sec
ton organizer of the Young Commu-
mist League.
LegiOnnaires Club.
A regular battle started, with the
Legionnaires clubbing anybody they
saw who didn't have one of their
buttons on, and the crowd fighting
back.
Little Bits" Arvo Lapakko led a
charge toward the Jail to protest
against the arrests just taken place,
when he was seized by two bulls and
thrown in. When the melee was
finally over many OF the police had
bruises, and six had ben arrested
Wiitala was released, but the others
were kept in.
The international Labor Defense
called another mass meeting OF pro-
test. TO meet Sunda>
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
PUT I. H. Ii IN
SOLITARY CELL
ON ELLIS ISLAND
Fight for Release On
Appeal

NEW YORK.-With conditions so
vile on Ellis Island where T. H. Ii
is held prisoner pending an appeal
in his case, and the food so rotten
that it is impossible to eat, a spon-
taneous protest demonstration broke
out among the workers detained
there, many workers refusing to
touch the stuff. Immediately after
this, the authorities in charge, seized
Lii and placed him in solitary con-
finement. This is an example of
how the Wall st. government policy
is executed by Doak head of the
U. S. Department of Labor in per-
scouting foreign born and native
workers, heaping every kind of hui
initiation and abuse on workers who
have the spirit to resist and fight
back against the bosses terror
campaign.
Fighting to reverse the govern
ment's decision to send T. H. Lii
militant Chinese student and anti
imperialist, to his death at the
hands of the murderous Chang Kali
shek government in China, the New
York District of the Internationa,
Labor Defense, through its attorney
Isaac Shorr, will file an appeal ir
his case in the federal court to-
morrow "wednesday.
Department of Labor officials, CO.
operating with the Chinese hang
men, continue to insist that Ii must
go to China and refuse to allow
him a voluntary departure to the
Soviet Union. A flood of protests
and mass demonstration on MAY
Is, the day before Lii was scheduled
to be deported, caused Judge Wool
sey of the federal court to postpone
Lis deportation for the present
Only a relentless mass movement in
his behalf can force a reversal OF
the governments decision and the
granting Of a voluntary departure To
Soviet Russia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
War Secretary "Deblores" Red
Exposures of Air Shoev Cost

EAST HARTFORD, Conn, May IS.
-Trubee Dawson, whose money was
made by his father, a member of the
House of Morgan, out of the last
world slaughter, in a speech here
took occasion to "deplore" the Com
munist charge that s3,ooO,o0o was be-
ing spent for the air war maneuvers
while not one cent was given to the
unemployed by the government.
Dawson, who is in charge of the
air war show, did not deny the fact
that 100000 or more was being
spent. He tried to make the tax
payers feel that they would not
have TO pay Immediately for this war
preparation.
The fleet Of 672 planes, which for
some reason has been cut down to
500 planes, is now carrying on its
war preparations around the New
England States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

ELY, MINI. tBy Nadia mass
demonstration Of 1900 against the
terror waged here by Captain Ire
IONA and his steel trust city cops
blocked traffic Friday and fought
with police, American Legionnaires
and steel company detectives.
The trouble did not start until the
police pulled down the speakers. The
chief of the Oliver Iron Mining Co.
police. Cloutier, pulled his blackjack
and attempted to slug Karson and
Impe Wiitala of the Young Com
munist League. A sympathizer said
he would kill policeman he saw
using club. as consequence Of
which the police around put their
blackjacks back and also stopped
pulling Wiitala's hair. She got up
on the stand and announced the
purpose Of the street meeting, pro-
test against police brutality in pre-
yious meetings, and pointed to the
examples in this one. The local city
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
4 NEGROES ON
FRAME-UP TRIAL
Call for Demonstration
in Harlem Court

NEW YORK. - Today at 10
o'clock the four Harlem Negro work.
ers, Arthur Williams, William Camp
bell, David Warfield and Sam
Brown, who have been framed up
ncharges of robbery will come up
for trial in the General Sessions
Court, Part 8, 80 Franklin Street
Workers are called by the New York
District of the international Labor
Defense, which is defending the
four workers, to demonstrate against
this vicious frame-up by packing the
court at the trial.
williams and Campbell were ar
rested about two months ago at the
instigation of General Grant, a
notorious faker and one Of the lead
ers of Garvey's treacherous racket
eering outfit known as the Univer-
sal Negro improvement Association.
Grant accused the two workers, who
have been active in the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights in Har-
lem, with breaking into his room
and stealing some Of his belongings.
williams and Campbell were released
on $1,000 bail each provided by the
New York LID.
About two weeks ago Warfield and
Brown were arrested and also charg-
ed with robbery in addition to three
other charges: grand larceny, feloni-
Gus assault and receiving stolen
goods. The frame-up machinery had
evidently improved and exorbitant
bail of $4,000 each was set on War
field and Brown They have been
kept in the Tombs since their ar
rest.
Long prison Terms await these
four Negro militants unless mass
pressure smashes through the frame
up. A courtroom packed with Ne
gro and white workers will go a
long way toward achieving this end.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
Socialist for War Aiming.

PARIS, France, May 25.-Paul
Boncour, socialist deputy, at the So
cialist national convention, now in
session, brought in a report calling
upon the socialist party of France
to unite with other capitalist parties
for full support to ornaments for
war and for national defense" Bon
cour, who is member of the war
department of the French govern
ment, took an active part in the las
war and is preparing the wo.a.-.
who still follow the socialist party in
France to follow the French imper-
ialists in the next war.
President Doumergue OF France
opened the air war show in France
yO.er 100000 people attended. The
air war preparations are being rap
idly pushed in all capitalist coun-
tries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
STARVING HARLAN MINERS IN ARMED HUNGER MARCH
A Sham Battle

MR the American Federation of Labor is having
~ glorious time
carrying pretest
of the drtiest sham battles of recent years.
we'll reported press
met at breakfast the White House To all who
yond the of diapers will be that
scoundrel did limit their the exceency
Eoovers cook But the capitalist later limited that they talked
about cuts
charged in conspiracy to reduce wages.
passing strange that Mr. Green could not have OBJ
tanned the friendly offices of his host breakfast the President of the
United States to have these onspao indicted
a
is legal or not At least it is when workers unite to strike for higher
pronouncement. o F. of
L. there indication
already taken Everything forward there
cuts but hatthey about to begin.
Why this? compelled something
about the workers resisting the striking
why
should not strike against the ones they have already suffered E
IDENTITY Green did action
ignored by him spite the fact that February
had said;
Workers per level
factories and 2 per cent below railroads cuts
continue will limit ability to pull quickly from this
preston" New York Times February 28hl
Why the President of the L conspiracy
until recently the workers resisting
scale presentbu strikes
throughout and the three gentlemen breakfast
White something
conspiracy-was
generally pious empty
words hoping they would not decline the future PLATE
washes his hands.
member
simply something family resembling
Statement"
warned against cuts.
He said this his capacity Secretary of Labor And such he
that employers would
justify the demanding
industries"
field find the
of building workers of 81 advised
nothing like demand On the he
with the officials the involved
talking arbiatona method of help
the employers
concretey by
publicly with Bill head of the
A. F L effect
alright They do to cut
compelling their
will No employer will without being forced to Go
terrible
dividing capitalist class between good
bad wishes protect the capitalist class whole For
the bad bankers without inuing
their good" employers?
bluff A. of L, against
SUITS worth thin dime! the in cutting wag
prevent strikes against cus
than the a. of And in
increasing turning
leadership organizing
revolutionary explain the sham
battle Of Creena Co the to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
Toledo Workers Cheer Moore
in Spirited Scottsboro Rally

TOLEDO, O., May 25.-A spirited mass meet
ing of over 400 white and Negro workers held
last night under the auspices of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense at the Roi Davis Hall,
protested vigorously against the attempt Of
the Southern bosses to legally lynch the nine Scosboro Negro
children framedup charge of rape The meeting one
of hundreds being held throughout the country mobilize
Negro and white in the fight the lives of these
innocent boys
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
UNEMPLOYED
BREAK into
CITY HALL
Throw Out Mayor In
Lake Wis. and
Silence Cop
Defeat Graft In Jobs
Socialist Sh eriff Is
Exposed AS Tool

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, May Is
Thursday evening, May 81, over rs
workers and poor farmers, all resi-
dents and taxpayers of the town of
Lake, Milwaukee County assembled
at the town hall to demand work.
Jobs were being allotted by COM
mittee in the town hall The doors
were locked and the supervisor,
Brodde, who with the rest of the
committee was acting behind these
locked doors giving jobs to one or
two of their cronies and leaving the
rest of the workers out in the cold
The workers outside insisted on
coming in, but the politicians would
not open the doors, So the rs work
ers battered in the doors and filled
the small town hall
One motorcycle policeman was
there and he interfered, but the
workers soon silenced him and threw
him outside Several approached
Brodde and demanded an explana-
ton of the locked doors, accusing
him of giving jobs only to those who
bought Whiskey at the speakeasies
run by his friends.
Throw Supervisor Out.
The crowd demanded Brodde get
out of the town hall. He would not
go, SO worker grabbed, him by the.
throat. and, after a little rough
handling. Brodde was thrown out of
the town hall with the policeman.
The workers then locked the doors
and said they were going to run
things themselves. The supervisors
assistant got up and made a smooth
speech, telling the crowd that there
could be no jobs given out that
night; it was necessary to wait until
the town council met the next Tues
day. He asked the workers to leave
peaceably and wait patiently till the
next Tuesday night, when he would
do all in his power to see that they
got work
Ready for Struggle.
The workers went home knowing
that they had thrown healthy fear
into the hearts of the politicians
But they realize the bosses of the
county will try to make trouble for
them and avoid giving them work
next Tuesday. So all through Tippe-
canoe, st. Francis and the other
parts of the town of Lake the work
ers and poor farmers are organizing,
preparing for the town council meet
ing.
With socialist sheriff in Nilwau-
kee County (Al Benson) it is abso-
lutely necessary that the workers and
farmers be ready to fight on such
issues as those raised in these last
few days.
1t was a socialist sheriff, Buech,
who furnished the deputies to muir
der two men in the Cudahy packing
plant strike in 1919 Many of the
workers and poor farmers who bat
tered in the doors of the town hall
took part in that strike and heard
the socialist bullets whizz past their
ears So they will be ready to fight
to the last ditch to make the town
and county governments come across
with relief or work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
(By Special CORRESPONDENT

HARLAN, Kentucky, May 21-"No foolin',
we'll get satisfaction or they'll have civil war
on their hands" are the words uttered by de-
termlned looking Kentucky miner who declared
that the men are tired of eating beans, beans,
until they unable to longer suffer the consequences
when we asked him questions today regarding the situation
here.
U. NJ W. A. Prepares for Se-Out
And seeking to capitalize their mseries the II M w
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
ANOTHER BANK CRASHES

CHICAGO, Ill-Making the fourth
to fail in less than ten days, the
Montrose Trust & Saving Bank was
closed today. On the north side
alone there are two banks closed to
one open and those still open are
lettering on the brink of the de-
preston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

= The main address was made by
Richard B. Moore, national Negro
work director of the International
Labor Defense, who is now touring
the country in connection with the
ScottSboro cases. Comrade Moore
stressed the need of broad united
front in the fight so save the boys
and smash the murderouS frame up
against them. He pointed out that
while the 1. l.. d. was doing every
thingp possible to defend the boys
in the boss courts of Alabama. every
body knows that the Negro cannot
get justice in the courts of Ala
bama and tina tonly the mass pres
sure of millions of workers and SYM
pathizers in organized protest can
stop the planned legal lynching of
these boys and force their uncondi-
tional release.
Moore Denounces Boss Tools.
The meeting had been originally
arranged for the Frederick Douglas
Community Center, but at the last
minute the Negro misleaders in con-
troll OF the center refused to permit
the workers to meet there to voice
their protest against the Scottsboro
outrage, Comrade Moore sharply
denounced this vicious effort of these
cowardly tools of the white oppres-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
FORCE MAYOR TO GIVE
CARLOAD OF FOOD; REAL
WAR LIKELY ANY Time
Bail Denied to Arrested Leaders By Coal Operator Judge
While State Militia Patrol Court House;
Miners Pledge Release
Turnblazer, U. NJ. w. Faker, Cordially In
vites" Governor to Convention

SUI armed miners from Harlan marched
boring CITY, more than week demanding
was forced to them starving children
paraded in Harlan demanding food
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26
To All Comrades

In order to prevent the suspen-
sion of the Daily Worker which
is facing its most critical few
days, and to ensure all funds COL
lected reaching the Daily Worker
Office in the shortest possible
time, all comrades are instructed
to turn over all money to their
unit Daily Worker representatives
at Unit Meetings tonight. The
Unit Daily Worker Representa-
tives must turn this money into
the District Daily Worker office.
35 East 18th ST., 5th floor as
early as possible Wednesday
morning and only this haste will
save the Daily. A few dollars re-
naming in the pockets of Party
members may be sufficient to
cause the non-appearance of the
Daily Worker.
District Secretariat,
Daily Worker Management
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-26

Defend the Alabama boys from
legal lynching.
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE,
Smyrna times., 1931-09-09
Famous Notes of "Taps"
Originated IN Civil War

The air for Taps" was com
posed by Gen. Daniel Butterfel6.
One day in July of 1862, when the
Army Of the Potomac was in camp
at Harrison's Landing on the James
river, Virginia, General Butterfield
summoned his hugler, and after
whistling some new tune, asked the
bugler to sound it for him. This
was done, rot quite to his satisfac-
tion at first, but after repeated
trials, changing the time of some
of the notes, which were scribbled
on the back Of an envelope, the
call was finally arranged to suit
the general. He then ordered that
it should be substituted in his
brigade for the regulation Taps"
C"EXtfnguish Lights'0, which was
printed in the Tactics and used
by the whole army. This was done
for the first time that night. Some
time later permission was given to
substitute it throughout the Army
of the Potomac for the time-hon-
Ored call which came down from
West Point. In the western armies
the regulation call was used until
the autumn of 1868. One Of Gen
eral Butterfeld's reasons for chang
ing the call was that he considered
the old ''FItinguish Lights y non
musical and not suggestive of sleep.
Washington Star.
Smyrna times., 1931-09-09
Buttons Now Obsolete
Once DID Real Service

Buttons placed on the underside
Of mems coat sleeves, says a CORE
spOndent Of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, were there to fasten the
long lace cuffs while the wearers
rode horseback or had occasion to
reach across the table for another
helping Of journey cakes. better
known as johnny cakes. For sim
liar reasons, namely, to fasten up
the lace, buttons were placed along
the sides of knee breeches to fa-
cilitate ease in horseback riding.
Buttons placed in the general Vi
cinity of the small of the back on
coats were there to fasten the
coat tails while horseback riding.
Throughout Connecticut there are
still to be found some of these
old Colonial coats and knee
breeches with the lace and coat
tail buttons still intact. 1 have
seen coat tails made with button
holes, beautifully sewn. This bears
out the coat-tail button theory, and
! have also seen beautiful lace cuffs
with adequate buttonholes worked
in. / have not seen knee breeches
lace with buttOnhOles worked in,
but it is quite logical to believe
that such lace exists or existed.
Smyrna times., 1931-09-09
Coed Reason Found for
Giving Youth a Chance

1t is hard for parent to realize
that youth can solve some of the
problems and make some of its de
cisions without adult interference.
The inability of adults to give a
youth a chance to assume respon-
sibility is of old standing. Most
of US are unable to note the grow
ing maturity of boy. We keep on
cOddling him and fathering him
far beyond the point when he can
make some Of his decisions.
Thackeray found the same con
ditions in his day. and out of the
accumulation of wisdom gained in
his study of mankind, wrote:
we should pay as much rever-
ence to youth as we should to age,
there are points in which you young
folks are altogether our superiors !;
and l can't help constantly cry
ing out to persons of my own years,
when busted about their young peO-
ple-leave them alone; don't be al
ways meddling with their affairs,
which they can manage for them
selves; don't be always insisting
upon managing their boats, and
putting your oars in the water with
theirs"
Smyrna times., 1931-09-09
Modern Maiden's Hands
I.arrer Than Ancestors

The hands Of the women Of to-
day-are they larger than the hands
Of their grandmOthers? There is no
exposition Of old-style costume, says
the Matin of Paris, which does
not reveal, at least by the diminu-
tive gloves. the exquisite smallness
Of our feminine predecessors. both
living and extinct. Few women
of this generation, moreover, are
able to wear the wedding rings,
the other rings or bracelets of their
ancestors.
One is able to conclude. certain
IL, that these souvenirs of the past
were chosen in accordance with
the fashion and requirement, and
not merely curious legacies left to
us as something most precious and
most rare.
It would be only honesty, rather,
to avow that the activity Of mod
ern women has done away with
much of the delicate slenderness
of former times. The hand which
controls the flying machine and
which Wields the racket and the
oar cannot, Of course. remain as
small and graceful as the one which
had but to hold a handkerchief of
lace
Smyrna times., 1931-09-09
Seaman Is Remembered
as Rescuer of CruSoe

William Dampier is one of the
most extraordinary figures in the
story Cf exploration. He was a
great navigator and a great eXplor-
er; but he was also a buccaneer
with reputation for cruelty. His
name is remembered for two rea-
sons. First, because he was un-
doubtedly the first English seaman
to set eyes on Australia and the
first explorer to do any hydrograph-
ical surveys there. Secondly, while
buccaneering he took part in some
of the most amazing exploits of the
sO-called Brethren of the Coast,
crossed the isthmus of Darien and
was present at the sacking of
Santa Marta. Twice the govern
ment sent Dampier to the South
seas. The second time he returned
poor and i'll, wrote a "Vindication,"
and lived to sail again on the IA
nous voyage that thrilled the world
by the rescue of Alexander Selkirk,
the sailor who was marooned on
Juan Fernandez island and became
immOrtaliZed as Robinson Crusoe.-
Montreal Family Herald.