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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Kentucky Miners Learn About "Law"

to carry concealed weapons or machine guns, and
kill under the guise of enforcing" the law. In
fact, 80 per cent of the deputy sheriff's in Har-
Ian and Bell counties are hired and paid by the
coal companies. They get from So to $40 for
every National Mine Union member they arrest
and charge with some "offenses" This was
Sheriff Blairs testimony. He said being a depu-
ty sheriff was just a side job for the company
gun thugs 80 they can pick up little change
on the Side'
How this system works with the miners was
told by dozens of witnesses. Suddenly several
car loads of law" in the shape of gunner armed
with machine guns and Brownie automatics,
appear on the scene They surround miners
shack, ush in the door, and yell, "Were looking
for booze and red propaganda" Each group
carries warrant signed in blank by Judge
JONES' The warrant is not shown to the raided
miner. But in case of trouble" or if miner
Is bumped off in the process, the "due procedure
of the law" is complied with by filling out the
warrant afterwards to suit the occasion.
Sometimes the machine gun tripods are set
up a few dozen feet from the house Trunks
are broken up. Beds and cupboards are torn
apart. Every scrap of paper is searched and it
the Daily Worker or National Miners Union
membership cards are found the occupants of
the house are arrested. All arms are taken,
though it is legal to possess arms in your home
IN Kentucky and nearly every resident has a
rifle, shotgun revolver The coal operators
want to disarm the miners so they must face the
company machine-gunners empty handed
Sometimes, as in the case of Jim Grace Debs
Moreland, Tom Myerscough and dozens of others
the men are loaded il the cars and taken for
ride" They are dumped out over the county
line, slugged and shot at In one case they hung
miner with barbed wire on Ivy Hill
When the miners are taken in tow. thrown
into Jail, then Judge Jones and Attorney Brock
Tor the Commonwealth of Kentucky, do their
share. Jones talks" to the miners He has his
own third degree methods. The procedure is to
get the miner to say he will not be active in the
NMU or II he refuses, offer not to press charges
against him if he leaves the county Blair and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
'&A$:'..~
Onward Christian Soldiers"
BY JORGE

Inc IacG tflaG Ihere is Polish military OBJ
server" monkeying around in Manchuria should
remind all hands that Poland is a French fort
ress with guns aimed at the Soviet Union
All that has the supreme blessing OF the Pope
who in 1920 sprinkled holy water on the artillery
then being used to invade Soviet Ukraine, The
Pope was then archbishop of Poland
Lots of funny things were then pulled off
ABOUT that time. For example, there is nothing
exceptional about the way Valentine Konopinski
was gyped out OF his life's savings of $3.50, the
only thing rare is that he thinks he ought to
get it back.
Along in those happy days of 1919 to 1921.
when the counter-revolutionary ours of Poland
were allowed to steal everything loose in the
holy causeof shooting Bolsheviki, Poland was
milk ng money out of unsuspecting Poles in
Am RIGA by the trunkful. Incidentally, it did
banking business in those years without pay
ing income tax, and grabbed sum estimated at
$3oo,O0O,oo0 from Polsh-Americans foolish
enough to give it.
Konopinski happened to be one OF them. and
turned over his cash in American money to the
Polish consul to deposit in a supposed "cooper-
atlve bank" in Poland. He has never yet been
able 10 figure out how that American money
disappeared. Poland then was using marks
and his $2,e5o got changed into marks at about
2U0 marks to the dollar as we recall but LATER
the mark fell to about 100000 to the dollar.
The dollars, of course, went into somebody's
pocket, and according to Konopnski the pockets
were in the priestly gown of one Father Adafn-
sky who, though he started out poor managed
by such means to become today one of the rich
est men of Poland, promoted by the catholic
church to the dignity of Bishop and the real
boss in that cooperative bank which gathered
in Konopinski's kale.
There were plenty of others who got the buns
rush the same, but Konopinski tried to get his
back For carrying a banner saying: 1.-THE Polish
Consulate cheated me out of my Ife's savings"
IN front OF the consulate, he got arrested The
Judge, good Irish catholic of Tammany stripe.
had talk with the Polish consul and then wrote
on slip of paper, 1.-THE Bankers Trust Co, IA
Wall Street" and told Konopinski to "go there
and get your money" Which was way of get
ting rid of the old man, because the bankers
gave him cold stare when he asked for his
money. Now he's trying to get pinched again.
so ne can bring up the case.
Anyhow, this is an example of how the Polish
church and state united to swindle those who
had more money than brains And 1t shows
what kind OF capitalist interests are arming the
Christian soldiers being fattened up along the
Soviet border for the coming war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Notes from the Famine Region
of the Northwest

save her lace. Il had no idea the need was so
great" she murmured. Come to the office to-
morrow and you will get ON the list again. The
next day everyone VINO had been dropped went
to the Red Cross Office and was reinstated. Mill
tant mass action had won something at least.
However, the farmers are not satisfied with this
paltry dole after years of paying heavy interest
to bankers and heavy taxes to the bankers gov
eminent. So they visit the county commissioners
at their regular meetings. At Stanley, Mountrail
County such meeting was held at the county
court house on october 6. The entire town was
full OF farmers who packed the court house to
overlooking. Their committee went to the room
where the county commissioners were meeting
and told them ito come into the court room to
meet the farmers Of Mountrail County" The
commissioners looked scared when they saw the
hundreds of hungry farmers assembled A reso-
luton and list of demands had been unani-
mously adopted by the farmers (There was one
lone exception, frost-bitten man who was
afraid that his taxes would be raised" The
farmers yelled at him. what do taxes mean to
us? We cannot pay any taxesD These demands
were presented to the county commissioners who
were forced to discuss them with the farmers for
hours. Finally, the commissioners pleaded for
more time ITO consider"
The entire crowd then adjourned TO the street,
where mighty mass meeting was held. 1t was
addressed by Comrades Omholt and Bloor for the
Omitted Farmers League, and by Comrade Mabel
Husa for the Farm Youth. ~ sss q eg; r. ~
The demands presented to the county commits
sioners were as follows: ~ Two doctors or more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
BY HARRY CANNES.

Nv.
"A wagon-load of law to the Harlan miners
means the deputized company gunner who rep
resent the mine owners rule in this Kentucky
coal territory.
Wearing deputy sheriff stars and iarrying high
powered rifles and machine guns, these company
gunner roam the countryside in automobiles
With them goes the authority of the courts, the
sheriff, the Commonwealth attorney-the whole
machinery of capitalist government in the
county.
When the Dresser Committee first met at the
Pineville, KY. Continental Hotel, Judge D. D.
CBaby) Jones hied himself post haste to the
committee, offering to open his heart to them
His conduct, he said, was above reproach. He
wanted nothing more than to reveal it to the
world. Then he left. The next day the coal
operators rallied him in and, without doubt,
told him the error of his way He was told OF
the embarrassment he would run up against
trying to explain how he Jailed hundreds OF
miners without warrants; or how large an In
terest he and his wife had in exploiting coal
miners through owning coal company stock;
or why he kept the jury selection wheels in his
private office, and effectively kept miners off
Jur1es; or why he fined a defense lawyer for
contempt when the lawyer mentioned the
judges connection with the coal operators; or
why hS c6llcu NllIleTS lTOIu tQe county Tor De-
longing to the National Miners Union; and lastly
why he threatened to wipe out,-through the use
OF terror and the courts the strong organization
OF the National Miners Union In Bell County
The result was Judge Jones disappeared dodg-
Ing the committee, preparing his sex frame-up
against Theodore Dresser and criminal syndi-
calism idictments against the rest of the COM
mittee.
Sheriff Blair and Prosecuting ATTORNEY Brock
took the operators cue and did not show up
at all But the committee went to Sheriff Blairs
once Only when he was driven into corner,
when refusal to answer questions would newt
ably show him up. did he grudgingly consent to
speak.
He didn't know" how many company gun
thugs we're deputized by him, though he person.
ally supervised the job. Reports from the miners
indicate there are more than 400 of these author
lied murderers. The law OF Kentucky accord
ing to Sheriff Blair provides that any coal COM
pary, II it needs deputy sheriffs merely forwards
the names of its company thugs to the sheriff
He gives them a star. They then have the right
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25

ana dentist to be Immediately placed on the
county, one for the northern and one for the
southern part OF the county. ca rem carloads Of
nour TO be ordered from the state mill at Grand
Forks to be distributed by the United Farmers
League Relief Committee. go No tax sales M
evlctors ~ The full cooperation of the coun-
W commissioners in getting immediate action on
feed loans. Further demands WERE the cancel
lation OF all farm debts; the vast stores Of wheat
held BY the farm board, and all war funds to be
turned over for the use Of jobless workers and
poor farmers; free feed and free seed
AT the beginning of November, Comrades om-
holt, Taylor and Boor, of the United Farmers
League, held meetings among the farmers of Red
River Valley, near Grand Forks North Dakota.
The League is trying not only to force capitalists
to give relief, but to get the starving all possible
food independently. This valley had bumper
crop of potatoes for which the farmers are now
getting the miserable price OF ten cents per
busllel
Nhese farmers we're only too glad to donate all
the potatoes that the United Farmers League car
arrange to have dug loaded and distributed The
United Farmers League has collected in towns
and villages enough r'eney to buy gasc;s,le oil.
and food for men and trucks to 60 after the
potatoes
They are now In the valley giving all their
strength to get as many carloads as possible for
their starving neighbors sleeping under the stars
eating what and when they can, and lighting to
get the same consideration as the Red Cross from
the railroads, namely. free transportation for ths
potatoes. r. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-25
Make Way for the King!

since some 100000 American boys left their
bones in France to make the world safe for
democracy" the bureaucratic apparatus of Amer
lean capitalism has waxed fat and arrogant
ANY snob in uniform can push civilians Off
the sidewalk and does it. The other day we saw
U. S. Army car, with couple of officers
brazenly and for no reason at all other than to
show off, plant their car across pedestrian
street crossing when the light was against them
just for the glory of making the people on foot
trouble to get around them
The other day Governor Roosevelt took it into
his royal Bengal tiger head to go to a show.
When the show was over, his excelency had his
way cleared to his car by the Tammany COPS.
and the N. Y. Post of Nov. 10 tells what hap
pened.
Inspector Cornelius O'Leary was called to
Police headquarters today to explain a charge
that on his orders a mounted policeman had
ridden into fashionable crowd last night in
front of the Imperial Theatre to clear a way
for Governor Roosevelt to enter his car"
There was big fuss because it was "a fash
lonable crowd" and the article further ex-
presses anger because: Men and women in eve
ming clothes were reported to have been forced
back against the closed doors of the theatre and
some were bruised
When it is NOT fashionable crowd, but
workers. then the Post can afford to be ocular
about 1t and praise the cops for treating 'em
rough. lot OF these evening dress" gazaboes
nave mad lots OF laughs about workers getting
slugged by cops, SO we feel no sympathy But
Whoe mess OF folks who have imagined that
cops are created to preserve order and "protect
society Will learn, if they haven't that COPS as
a species are about the most anti-social animal
extant
lhey become more SO as the bureaucracy of
tle capitalist state, in fear of the masses. urges
ever more brutality. And on the dawn of revolu-
ton the livery of a cop will bring a shower of
stones from many a hand which TODAY Is raised
IN respect toward an Officer"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
KILL CUTWORMS WITH
POISON BRAN MASH

Shortly after spring gardens start
growing is the time that cutworms
begin their depredations. The Di-
vision of Entomology at University
Farm says that these pests may be
killed by the use of a poison bran
mash. Sprays are impractical as the
worms feed at night and only on a
small portion of each plant.
It has been found that cutworms
are very fond of bran and molasses,
and a mixture of these with paris
green attracts them very strongly.
This mixture should be broadcast in
the garden around the plants late in
the evening after shutdown. To one
quart of bran, add one teaspoon of
paris green and one-quarter of a tea
cupful OF molasses, adding just
enough water to moisten.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30

skilled labor is to be used but after
May / a great deal Of in inexperienc-
ed men will be hired.
For remodeling the canning factory
at Winthrop the Minnesota Valley
Canning company will spend $50, 900
in improvements.
At Window a public school build
ing will be constructed. General con-
struction bid was 1910, awarded to
G. Schwartz and company of st. Paul.
Governor Olson signed the bill pro-
viding for an addition to the State
Public buildings at ST. Peter, $780,
600 was appropriated.
Bids will be opened April "a for a
new 1000 capacity grandstand for
the Nicollet county fair association.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
BUILDING ACTIVITIES
GENERAL EVERYWHERE

An industrial review of this terri
tory indicates activity along building,
repairing and construction develop
ment this spring and summer.
Information is from the exchanges,
and lists items showing investment of
capital, employment of labor and
business opportunities.
Redwood Falls to distance four
and one-half miles east of Franklin
will be paved. Northern States Pow
er company is erecting high line be-
tween Franklin and Granite Falls.
Grading of trunk highway No. z
from Golden to Lamberton. Two
bridges to be constructed on this
highway. State to give $50 miles of
gravel road the bituminous treat
ment.
In Marshall sos, 900 was allotted for
a new post office building. Work has
started on a $17,25O sewage plant.
Pipestone was allotted 100000 for the
construction of postoffice building.
Long Prairie was assured $4,000
for a postoffice building. Wadena
was assured $4,000 for a new post
office.
More than $12,OOO,OOO is to be
spent by the Northern States Power
company and Minneapolis Gas Light
company in an expansion and i'm
provement program in and near Min
neapolis.
A total of so miles of track on the
H. & D. division of the Milwaukee
road will be improved through Mon
tevideo, Granite Falls and Glencoe.
RELAXING Of tracks and ballasting
will furnish employment to several
hundred men. To begin with much
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
HORSES GETS ATTENTION

That periodic attention to horses
teeth is possible as important as that
attached to the teeth of humans was
demonstrated in Lamberton recently
when horse was taken to DR.. Van
Duzee of that city, with a tooth on
its lower jaw that protruded fully an
inch above the others and kept the
horse from masticating it's food. The
doctor attended to the horse with a
big affair that looks like the instru-
ment the blacksmiths use for biting
off bolts and after little filing with
a rasp the horse was as good as new
again.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
BUILDINGS BURN AS
HIGH WIND FANS FLAMES

Famed by the high winds of last
Sunday, all the buildings but the
house and granary were RACED by
fire on the August Wendt farm, at
the junction of T. H. No. 4 and Z
near Sanborn.
Travellers saw the smoke and aid
ed in getting the livestock out of the
barn. The family was at breakfast
when the blaze was discovered. In
cluded in the loss were besides the
barn, silo, corn crib, hog house, chick
en- house and a shed.
In thirty minutes the buildings
were reduced to ashes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
Industrial Arts
Detectives Cited
Mr.. Cushman Explains Practical
Aims of Department in
Public School

A practical department of the pub
lie school is that of Industrial Arts,
where students are trained in the
uses and methods of handling tools
and equipment.
By actually working with tools and
shaping projects students gain prac-
tical knowledge which comes in handy
to boys in later life whether it may
be the beginning of vocation or the
inspiration of an avocation.
Over one hundred boys are enroll
ed, F. A. Cushman informed a Gazet-
tie representative as various divisions
of the department were pointed out.
Four grades are represented.
Detectives Of the course is to guide
the energy and enthusiasm of the boy
so he will want to create something
useful, either for himself or others,
to the best of his ability. To obtain
some knowledge of tools and tool
processes, physical training and the
ability to work together, and to in
still right habits of work so that they
will be of greater help to themselves
and others, said Mr.. Cushman.
Mechanical drawing was stressed
during the last semester, especially
in the ninth and tenth grades. All
projects now made are constructed as
planned and drawn up in the class
room. Each pupil selects his own
problem or project, for in this man
ner greater interest in the work re-
suits.
Drawing teaches several things, ex-
planned Mr.. Cushman, in that it gives
the student better idea of the pro-
ject before it is commenced, and
makes for neatness, accuracy, elm
mating guess work, and calling forth
the reasoning faculties of the indivi-
dual.
A representative list of projects
drawn and made follows: kitchen
stool, book shelves, bread board, box
with partitions, poultry feed bin, ia
bouret, medicine cabinet, towel rack,
chest, wall cabinet, home desk, nail
box, ink stand and envelope holder,
end table, trellis, modernistic table,
pedestal, book ends, floor lamp, ma
gazine container, benches, and wise
jaw.
Carefulness and consideration of
the other fellow is one of the first
laws of the shop. Instructions in the
operation Of power tools such as
saws, lathes and grinders, must be
observed, and to remind the student
of dangers involved unless rules are
observed, printed signs are placed
near the equipment.
Enrolment by grades follows: sew
enth, section A, 16; section B, Fl;
Eight A has II and B, 9; II in each
A and B in ninth grade and tenth
grade has students.
Students cited for excellency in
mechanical drawing were: project,
"'bracket," Erwin Schreiner, A; Tom
Tyson, Jim Inglis and Thomas Flath-
er, B plus; "bench hook" Jim Inglis
and John Felepeh B plus, and Harlan
Otto, B. A clever piece of workman
ship of modernistic design exhibited
by Mr.. Cushman was a baby chair by
Joseph Nogaj with the sides pattern
ed to a comic cat.
Several changes in arrangement
have been made in the manual train
ing shop for convenience, tool access
Utility and checking of the placement
of tools and equipment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
DOES NOT OPERATE
OFFICE: SAULPAUGH HOTEL,
MANKATO
Office Hours from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m.


DIR. J. E. Doran has to his credit
many results in disease of stomach
Especially ulcers), glands especial
ly goitre), ailments Of women, dis
eases of liver and bowels, as infected
gall bladder, gall stones, appendicitis,
chronic constipation, colitis, auto-in-
toxication and rectal ailments, circu-
lation disturbances as high or low
blood pressure, heart and blood dis
orders, skins, nerves, bladder, kid
neys, bed-wetting, weak lungs, ton
sis, adenoids, metabolic disturbances
such as rheumatism, sciatica, leg ul-
GERS and chronic catarrh.
Medicines are prescribed and pre-
pared for each individual case in his
private laboratory, also special at
tention given to diet as to proper bal
ance and selection of foods.
For this service and examination
nominal charge is made.
Married women must be accompan-
led by their husbands.
Office: Saulpaugh Hotel, Mankato.
43-1t.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
STARTS CRAWLING JOB

VIM. Schottenbauer, Redwood Falls
crawling contractor, was awarded
the job of crawling a fifty mile
stretch between Hector and Litchfield.
The detour of T. H. No. Ia will fol-
low this route. Mr.. Schottenbauer
started last Monday. He will use II
trucks to start crawling with.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
LAMBERTON HIGH HAS
BASEBALL NINE

Games on the schedule of the Lam
berton high school baseball team in
clude Window, Sanborn, Comfrey,
and Springfield.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30

Once we kicked about taxation
without representation and now we
are getting too much of both.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30

Failure is what happens to . man
when he achieves and then sits down
to enjoy it.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-04-30
Free
Consultation
DR.. Doran
Specialist
Specialist

Extends his Free Consultation offer
Monday and Tuesday of each week
Until Tuesday, May 26.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-29

stored and sold, and the potsntialtttes
for trouble are practically unlimited, he
said. 4,re41t.
Some Of the causes for expiipsskiosr,.s s VII
never be eliminated, he said. One of
them resulted when q garage workhnhn
lit cagirette In a basement room in
which a number Of overalls. cleaned II
gasoline. were hanging UP to dry. But
before November /, when licenses for
gas stations are renewed. he said that
his Office would make a thorough check
Of all Of the stations to see that the
rules Of the building inspectors ONCE
and the Fire Department were rigidly
observed.
Will Require Sprinklers.
Changes In the District building code,
relating to construction of public ga
RACES. were adopted Yesterday by the
District Commissioners on recon-
mendation of Building Inspector John
w. Oehmann. The changes are de-
signed to decrease FIRE hazards in these
structures.
All public garages Of three or more
stories and all basement garages are
required to be provided with automatic
sprinklers, and in all new garages there
must be stairs inclosed in such q way
that they can serve as fire escapes.
Changes IN the code relating to the
thickness and other features Of inclos-
ure walls were also adopted. They deal
with technical matters on the subject
Of attaching the walls to beams and
Orders. and are an attempt to clarity
the rules, which were In dispute at the
time of the crash of steel framework
at the new Roosevelt High School.