The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-18
Ky. Sheet Calls
For Killing Reds
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has been slated TO argue the murder
case in the name of the defense.
Kentucky people say that Robson
has questionable" political charac-
ter. Although William Burnett, whose
case will be heard first, was mem
Der OF the UM.W.A., Robson, the
UM.W.A. attorney, failed to appear
at the first hearing
On the night before the first hear
ing, the coal miner, Burnett, framed
up on a murder charge and facing
trial for his life, found himself with
out any legal counsel, although James
Price, representing the Wobbly's Gen.
eral Defense Committee, was in Pine
vile at the time and had often Wis
tied Burnett in jail The I. L. D.
representative, who was in Harlan jail
herself on q criminal syndicalism
charge, then retained for Burnett the
attorney who represented him the
next morning.
Robson is now clearly showing that
he is acting as an agent of the coal
operators. He has declared that
should the red" issue be raised
against these militant miners, he will
col,demn the reds" and ask all the
defendants to repudiate any red"
beliefs or connections.
Tied up with Robson is Captain
Ben Golden, attorney TO rthe I.W.W.,
who accepted fees from the Inter
national Labor Defense and then at
tempted to prevent Franklin Rey-
nolds, LID. attorney, from enter
ing the case.
Working with both Robson and
Golden will be w. Bridges White,
Mt. Sterling lawyer, who is said to
be an insult utilities henchman.
White, who is connected with the
Kentucky Utilities Co. Qnsull inter
estS) and the g. & o. Railroad q. P.
Morgan, both operating coal mines
In Harlan, will, according to Golden,
select the jury which is to try Bur-
nett and the Mt. Sterling defendants.
In this way the coal operators will
have a direct hand in even the legal
defense of the cases arising from the
struggle of the miners against coal
company deSpotism.
Motion has been made in the Mt.
Sterling Court to remand the muir
der trials back to Harlan County,
since the penniless miners cannot pay
to transport witnesses 200 miles to
testify in their behalf. Furthermore,
editorials in the press of Mt. Sterling
to which the cases we're shifted be-
cause of the solidarity of the miners
with the defendants-have been call
ing for the death of all militant
workers.
1.-THE sooner such culprits are
shot at sunrise, the better off the
United States would be-" says the
Mt. Sterling Gazette. ut is use
less TO send men of the stripe of
the Harlan agitators to the peni-
Tertiary. They would be much
safer in pine box under six feet
of ground"
e. A leaflet calling upon the miners
to fight both against the frame-up
by the coal operators courts and the
by the UMWA, and the
I.W.W. is being issued to the Harlan
miners by the LID.
The miners months ago asked the
I. L. D. to defend them in court, but
Golden and Robson, with the help
Of the Harlan authorities, we're able
to prevent I. l.. D, lawyers from en-
tering the murder cases.
After having worked from the first
to secure cooperation for the best
interests of the framed-up defen-
dants the I. l.. d. declares that it
must warn all workers that the case
is being handled as Sell-out, and
that the I. l.. D. cannot and does not
in sell-out defense. The