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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

HARLAN, n.y., Aug.
19.-The trial of Will
liam NJ. Burnett, one
of the miners charged
with murder last May
before the 35 others were ar
rested is set for Thursday.
The other cases have been put
over until next week, as the
State Prosecutor is demanding
a change of venue because of the
danger of mob violence if the trials
were held here" The State Pro-
secutor does not want the case held
in any mining section and does not
want miners on the jury. He wants
to get a jury that will be sure to
railroad the 35 miners to the electric
chair on the framed-up charges
The motion, said Judge Jones, will
be heard Monday.
M. F. Hall, who is acting attorney
for the defense, demanded that
Judge Jones be withdrawn as he is
closely connected with coal compa-
MES, receiving substantial sums of
money from the same forces who hire
gunner to kill the miners. Judge
Jones said he will try the case, and
from the indications he has already
given, will do his utmost to repeat
the Sacco and Vanzetti case for the
IS miners.
Kentucky Coal Operators Want Blood
(By Special Corresponding
HARLAN, KY, Aug. 19.-Not sure
that their judicial tools will succeed
in taking the lives of thirty odd min
crs who face 1O2 charges of murder.
the coal operators have employed a
veritable army of gunner who shoot
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20

The above check of the Depart
ment of Treasury, State of New
Jersey, is made out of the mistress
of Senator Yates, to buy her dia-
monds and jeweIry. Il comes out
of the model old age and de
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
Trial of Burnett
Opened Wednesday
Amidst Terror
Scores Judge Jones
Kentucky Miners In
Fighting Spirit
BULLETIN.

According to capitalist press re-
ports from Harlan, KY, w. NJ. Bur-
nett, whose trial opened in Harlan
today, refused to accept NJ. r. Hall
as defense counsel because he was
retained by the U. NJ. w. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-20
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Here Is 1919 Check Jobless Did Not Receive

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The daily worker., 1931-07-27
Wanted: Young
Cannon Fodder

But for peace. Oh, yes! We read about it in
the London Daily Herald, known as the organ
of the British labor" party headed by the so
cialist" Macdonald.
In one page we see a long article by Harold
Laski, telling how Macdonald, Lloyd George and
Baldwin leaders Of the three capitalist parties
of England met on the same platform and
Spouted CUFF about mo more war
But on another page of the same paper we
read:
WANTED FOR THE ROYAL NAvY"-in
the headline, and below it:
Boys, bright, intelligent and well educated
boys for training. Age Is years TO Is years and
months Excellent chances of promotion for
sharp boys NOTE: The lower limit of age for
entry of boys has been reduced TO Is
years.
So the "pacifist" Ramsay Macdonald, leader
of the Second socialist International, ha
lowered the age limit to get Is year old boys
into the British Royal Navy!
Do you think it is for peace? Do you see the
lie in the peace" talk? Then out onto the street
August First to protest at the coming impe-
rialist war!
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
More "Socialist' Economics

When we commented the other day on Ram
say MacDonalds speech at the opening Of the
Seven Power Conference, where they adopted
something that nobody can identify, We didn't
tell half.
Now we have before us copy of the London
Daily Herald of July IA, the organ of the Sc
called labor party and semi official organ Of
the labor" government both headed by the go
cialist'' Macdonald
From it we learn one of the reasons why the
British pound sterling has been falling in inter
national exchange. 1t couldn't help doing so,
when world bankers learn that the British pre-
mer puts out such rotten economics some SAM
pies of which we give below.
Some handpicked committee, such as Hoover
appoints and never takes off the payroll, called
the Macmillan Committee, has agreed with
Macdonald that THE rapid fall in prices is one
of the prime causes of unemployment and bad
trade" 1t gees on to razz the devil out Of the
Bank of England, so we learn that the1abor'
government is at outs with the Bank
Further along the Daily Herald editorial says
that:
"It would be disastrous to bring wages and
salaries down to harmony with present price
levels, that it is absolutely essential to raise
long way above the present levels"
This socialist swindler tries to make out
that, first. wages have not already been brought
down; secondly he talks as if raise of prices
is not, of itself, a reduction of wages.
So Macdonald wants the Bank Of England to
do something, it being evident that the crisis is
tearing at the economic base of MacDonalds
political prestige. So he says:
'Inflation-and 1t Is folly to be frightened
by worlds the only possible remedy. Not
mad, but sensible initiation"
Don't go entirely crazy and jump from the top
of skyscraper to the street, but it's all right to
be little off your nut and jump from the top to
down about half way.
That's sensible" isn't it7 No! Well that's 80
cialist' economics.
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
ARTICLE III.

War veterans from all countries, YOU have still
fresh in your memory this 18th anniversary of the
World War the long years of horrors hell at the
front The destroyed regions the millions and millions
of dead the millions of muated in the battles the
hundreds of thousands of dead from hunger the suf-
ferngs in the prison camps the thousands of dead in
the military prisons the thousands behind the
front whose names are unknown and the many and
many classified lost, the thousands who died of
starvation in the towns and villages of all the beger
ent countries the millions of undernourished children
who are today the generation and are slated in
the army camps of today the cannon fodder
for The impending imperialist
You remember this all and you know that It was
for the fatherland of the profiteers You also
that thousands thousands of those poisoned by gas
still having daily convulsions the mutilated of the
last imperalist still confined hospitals far
from the eyes of the public hidden to prevent their
nutated bodies, their monstrous faces from showing
the real face of to prevent their appearance in
public from spelling the patriotic carnvals on the
graves of those who perished
Thousands and thousands of you who are physically
ruined crippled by the last slaughter who still carry
bullets in your bodies but longer regarded as in
valds by the governmental medical commissions YOU
who are no longer able to work, who slowly dying
remember all this You ask together with U.s. with the
millions of veterans: What was 1t that we went
through this hell for?" What was it that all these
millions sacrificed for that were killed in the
great either by the slow process of starvation or
by the quick route of a bullet?
We told that we we're fighting to make the
world safe for democracy.
That Is what we're told but what we got was
different We got bloody dictatorship in Yugoslavia
which, during the last years has murdered cold
bloooedly thousands of workers and peasants We got
fascism in italy which is tortrring and numbering the
The daily worker., 1931-07-27

masses OF Italy by the command of Mlssolni We got
dictatorial police rule in Germany which suspends
the constitution in the of the constitution and
got the beastial Horthy regime Hungary. And last
but not least got the liquidation Of the rights of
the workers in America to organize. to speak to as
senbe; we got deportation punishment for partic
patton in strikes; got dictatorship of capitalism
with its Ku Klux Klan. its American Legion, and its
organized underworld used extra governmental in
strllments of terrorism against the
We told that fighting for the self
determination of the peoples.
That is what we we're told; but what we got was
different We got Southern Tyrol under the iron heel
of the Italian fascist dictatorship got oppressed
nnorities in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia; we got
Bessaraba under the bloody control of the Roumanan
landlords; got Ukrainan peasants appropriated and
exploited by dictatorship in Poland We got the
Philippines calling in vain for the realization of PROM
Use for their independence
we were told that we fighting to end all wars.
That is what we told. But what got is
war in permanency. We have the burden of
ornaments than The desire for peace and the
struggle against arnaments is punished by all cap-
talst governments a capital crime
We told that were fighting to establish
equal rights for American citizens The black workers
of the United States led to the slaughter the
battle fields of Europe with the promise tha the dis
elimination against them shall cease.
That is what told; but what got
different. We got more lynchings than ever; these
yncthpgs are augmented by dastardiy frame-ups
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
PARTY LII E
Some New Methods of Building
the Party
BY BEATRICE sIsKTND

THE lack of method with which to dig down
and get the workers is a great shortcoming
in our work. 1t keeps our Party isolated from
tn, masses in many Sections of the country
We have some experiences in District No g
(Minnesota) in our effort to overcome this
Shortcoming, especially in the metal mining
areas
The greatest complaint of the outlying Sec
tions especially was isolation from the masses
no roots among the miners and farmers, and
little organization among them. The District
Buro discussed this, issued instructions, the or
ganization department worked out a plan of
work with a view of focusing the attention of
the Party members by giving them definite
quotas and tasks to obtain for the Miners Union,
and the United Farmers League, but things
proceeded slowly and not at all in some units.
There was not enough incentive to begin.
Prior to the 3rd Annual Convention of the
Metal Miners Union in District No. 9, the Buro
had the prospective of moving the Union head
quarters to Tronwood, and comrade 1rma Martin
was sent into that section to strengthen the
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee, Communist Party, U.S.A.

Party. The Party needed to be yanked out of
the Finnish hall, to be orientated to the needs
of the miners and farmers, to the constant
shutting down of the mines and the resultant
increasing unemployment and desperation among
the miners.
In her effort to turn the Party in the direc-
ton of organizing and working among the min
ers, comTade Martin has taught the Party many
valuable lessons. She has taught the Party how
to utilize contacts, how to aproachp and work
among the miners who are under the vigilant
eye of the steel spy system.
The first thing she did was to investigate if
any of the South Slav and Italian workers were
readers of the Party press. A list secured of
the language papers disclosed some readers of
the Radnick, etc These workers were inne
diately visited After several meetings to which
the readers of the press brought other reliable
workers. a good number joined the Miners
Union. The comrades tell how the delighted
workers were to have organizers come 10 them.
Also they took special note of the fact that the
organizers we're ever cautious not to expose the
miners they came in the evenings and made
themselves as inconspicuous es possible. The
miners in order to keep their jobs must outwit
the spy system.
With the information secured from these
workers, the PaIUy unit III fonWoou ISSUED, 1of
the first time in its history, mine bulletin.
The bulletin was so rich with experiences of the
workers in the mines and their conditions, that
it helped bring both the Party and the Union
before the workers in sharper and clearer form
than even the house meetings did.
This work started in the early part of March
continued steadily. With the help of the bull
1etin further contacts were gotten thru the
workers already in the Union. " have sue
ceeded in forming two groups inside the mines
which will develop into Mine committees with
consistent work.
Let us see what this method of work did to
the Party: The Party in the Ironwood Sec
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
A WAR VETERANS CALL AGAINST WAR

willing to sacrifice their lives limbs for the pocket
books and profits of their rulers The years of suf
fer1ng in the the establishment after the
the hungering of the "war heroes the bread lines
while the war profiteers are enjoying the fruits of
their war business have transformed millions of vet
erans into revolutonsts If they take up again,
they will longer direct them against their brothers
on the other side of the capitalist frontier They will
make common with these brothers against the
capitalists Millions of veterans have learned from
their experience that to defeat cannot the
weapons OF pacifisnl. To defeat the weapons of
war must be used These weapons must be used to
make an end of the many capitalist fatherlands and
establish IN their places world union of workers
republics.
All the war veterans must organize to fight against
tHe approaching new mperia1ist On August First
they must join the marching batalions of the work
ers ant-war demonstration They must help fighting
against contemplated war against the Soviet Union
They must resist the efforts of the patriotic profiteer
and their army officers to whip up spirit
in the parades of legions with and medals All
OF these veterans must demonstrate to tell the new
generation about the horrors of the about the de-
ception of the makers and about the duty of the
worker in uniform.
All must come out to throw into the face of the
bourgeois the challenge of their determination to fight
against any imperalist These veterans must
march at the head of the demonstrating batalions of
workers and farmers the First of August Together
with them they will form day the detachnents of
workers army in the capitalist countries This
workers army will defeat the imperalist war by trans
forming it into struggle against capitalism for the
overthrow of the capitalist system and for the establish
ment Of the proletarian dictatorship That alone is
guarantee for world peace That alone guarantee for
the worlds freedom That alone will establish the base
for the building of socialism society without
without exploitation, and without oppression
The daily worker., 1931-07-27

ton was sectarian Party, composed exclusively
of Finnish comrades, who devoted their major
activity to the Finnish club and Cooperatives.
This work although valuable and a necessary
form of mass work, was not utilized sufficiently
to bring the workers of the clubs into the Trade
Union Unity League and to lead the unem-
ployed workers into struggle The Party unit in
Ironwood was not a political body working
among the workers of all nationalities but
fraction of the Finnish mass organizations
The method of going to the homes of the
miners of all nationalitieS and bringing them
into the movement proved to the Finnish COM
rades better than a thousand resolutions could
have that their alibi that "Finns cannot work
among other nationahties" is all wrong. 1t made
tremendous step forward in breaking the iso-
lation of the Party and in putting the Party
forward in the steel town Of Ironwood IS the
leader of the struggle Of the E:.,-,cc.--.
The culmr alton point of this correct method
of approach was the successful May Day de-
monstration in Ironwood, which saw 1000 work
ers of four different nationalities the streets
demonstrating under the banner of the Party
Prior to the demonstration two more shop bull
letins were issued and eight new South Slav
miners joined the Party during the denonstra-
ton. The Union was considerably strengthened
note -orthy lesson can be drawn from the
May Firf Demonstration in Ironwood and that
is that i.e campaign was not only linked up
with the foreign born campaign against the
Allen Registration Bill' in Michigan and the
local iscres of the miners but the visiting of
the miners, the distribution of leaflets the house
meetings With miners, were all preliminary to
the May Day demonstration while building the
Party and the Union. The turnout May
Day was elimination and a result rather than
an accidental beginning, as is the case with
many of our demonstrations, when the COM
rades are surprised to see the turnout and allow
them to disperse without organizai ional results.
The daily worker., 1931-07-27

against black workers Jim Crovisn reigns as supreme
in the South as ever it did before the The Negro
masses are as oppressed and as exploited they
we're before the
The World War taught something 1t taught
to die, ut1flinchingly But it also taught that
when the capitalists call upon to die for high
sounding ideals, they really want to die for their
profits
We not against sacrifices We not afraid
to fight; we have learned to fight We face to
face with death long enough not to be frightened bv
its But the experiences of the last taught that
if to sacrifice if are to fight if we are to
the interests of the the pocketbooks of
the few capitalists.
That is why the of veterans look with con-
tempt upon those few who allow themselves to be par
AIDED and used to whip up new spirit. The Of
ficers and capitalists who organize and lead these
parades know the only through field glasses We
have suffered in it, have given blood in it; we
do not want another except it be war defending
interests.
On this 18th anniversary Of the World War, the
coming August First the millions of war veterans and
especially the crppes and victims of that must re-
memberl But also the gentlemen of the bourgeosie
must remember They must remember that millions of
have been steeed for struggle in the suffering
and in the horrors in the last war; they must remem-
ber that these not afraid of anything; they
must remember that these have used for
years and know how to use them They must remem-
Der that they have learned the true worth of their
socalled fatherand in the last and longer
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
which domains above all?

which domains above all?
In the struggle against mass Unemployment
which has assumed enormous proportions in most
capitalist countries, and IS bound to grow still
more. The majority of the CT Sections have
not yet displayed much activity in regard to
the organizations of the unemployed movement
which has rather developed quite spontaneously
One of the first conclusions which every indi-
vidual Communist Party should draw, from the
political resolutions of the ECCI Plenum is, that
it must work out Immediately concrete meas
ures capable of strengthening its work in this
domain.
ITO BE CONCLUDEDD
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
&2A:~.4-
He ''Does Not Choose" to
By JORGE

Do you recall, gentle reader, how the world
especially the well-known heart of the world"
turned over on it's back and moaned with sor-
row when, late in June, it was announced that
Calvin Coolidge would no longer contribute
column every day to tell the waiting universe
that which he thought was good for it's soulP
You surely recall his column assinine from
the opening letter to the last period Alas that
amusement is no longer with us Cal told us
that Brains need a vacation" But whose
brains?"
All, there's the little difficulty Because 10
and behold! 1t turns out that Coolidge never
wrote his" column at all! The fellow who did
write them is named Herman Beatty, who was
former capitalist newspaper correspondent in
Washington to whom Coolidge took a fancy
Just tell that to any of the Goof brothers who
ate up Calvins stuff. And tell them that not
we Communists, but the capitalist paper, the
N. Y. Mirror of July %, says So
How did the vacation for brains happen?
Why did the Coolidge" articles stop? Well
tell you that also. And also from the same
authority, which says; "The reason why they
were stopped is not that Mr.. Coolidge needed
holiday, but that Mr. Beatty and Mr.. Coolidges
stenographer were too romantic to please Cal"
So! The sinners were "carryin' on" right un-
der Gals Vermont nose! The nations morals
were at stake, somebody's morals anyhow Thus
Mr.. Beatty had to co. and Coolidge has to look
around for a safe guy like the sultans of Turkey
used to keep around to wash the windows
But We'll bet that he'll look far and wide be-
fore he can find any other guy that can break
all records by writing stuff that Is so dumb that
nobody knows that Coolidge don't write it him
self
The daily worker., 1931-07-27
District, Section and Unit
Literature Agents

Do you have your supply Of AUGUST
FIRST PAMPHLETS?
Only few days left!
See that you are supplied with the following
pamphlets at your August First Demonstrations
Anti-Sovie Lies and the Five Year Plan 10c
by Max Bedacht
Soviet Dumping Fable, by M Litvinov &c
Revolutionary Struggle Against War VS..
Pacifism, by Alex Bittelman Sc
Life in the U. S. Army, by Walter Trumbull 1oc
Don't fail TO act at once to get your literature!
CENTRAL AGTTPROP DEPT.
The daily worker., 1931-07-27

One way of defending the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers "Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker., 1931-07-27

This is the last articles differ
he writer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
On zhe Ar z;o-day
ROPER TO
 GIVE TALK

&z1s Roper, formerly head foot &NII coach ak Princeton, will be Ae8Rd over WABC and the Colurn- &iA network tonight on the Fa- faDus Coaches program, 10:so to 3Ds4s o'clock.
 Roper always has been regarded Aa something of a rarity in foot bah, a coach who followed the pr0- xsssion purely for the love of the game. A graduate of Princeton and . successful attorney, practic- zng in Philadelphia, Roper's only excuse for deserting his office sev- eral months out of each year was fhe thrill he found on the football neld.
 His talk Is one of . weekly ser- seB, presented at this same time each Friday by the outstanding football pilots of the universities Throughout the country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
MEXICAN TENOR
 TO BROADCAST

Boler0, a typical dance of Spain and South America which has in- spired the work of many past and modern composers, will be musical ly described by Tito Guizar, Mexi- can tenor and guitarist, during his program, assisted by Vincent Sorey's orchestra, to be heard over the WABC-Columbia network to- night from 10:46 to 11:OO o'clock.
 The complete offering of color full Latin melodies foilows:
 Cancion de Flor de Majo, Tito Guizar and orchestra; Bolero, vo- cal with guitar; Reeuerdo Lejano, orchestra; Typical Air, vocal with guitar; Capullito de Aleli, Tito Guizar and orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
...... #. WEAF x,,.:,. :ss
New York

6:00-The Lady Next Door. 5:30-Dorothy Connolly, songs. 6:45-Mountainee music. 6:00-Empire Room orchestra. 6:30-Ray Perkins, songs. 6:45-Stebbins Boys-Sketch. 7:00-Major Bowes's Family. 7:30-Alice Joy, contralto; Van
 Loans orchestra. 7:45-The Goldbergs-Sketch. S:e0-Concert orchestra; Cava-
 Hers quartet; Jessica Drag
 onette, soprano. 9:o0-Reser's orchestra. 9:2O-Reisman's orchestra; Irene
 Bordoni, songs. Flute-Sketch. of the Air. Harris, songs. 11:15-Lopez orchestra. 12:p0-Calloway orchestra. orchestra.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20
Hartford
New York

Francis Sisson. vice president of the Guaranty Trust company, will speak in behalf of the annual Red Cross Roll Call over NBC-WJZ facilities Monday, November 23. at 3:15 p. m., E. s. T.. under the auspices of the New York Chapter, American Red Cross.