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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-11-24
Chapter VIII
POWERS OF THE CITY AND OF THE COUNCIL.

SECTION 1. GENERAL POWERS OF THE
CITY. Without denial disparagement of other
powers held under the Constitution and Laws of the
State the City of Ely shall have the right and power
Cd PUBLIC BUILDINGS WORKS AND INSTI-
TUTIONS-To acquire by purchase, condemnation
or otherwise, and to establish, maintain, equip,
and operate libraries, reading rooms, art-gaeries,
museums, parks, Fairgrounds, places of recreation,
hospitals charitable Institutions ails warehouses,
morgues, mausoleums, cemeteries, crematories, alb
batoirs, garbage collection, disposal and reduction
works. street cleaning and sprinkng plants and all
other public buildings places, works and institutions
necessary for the good of the City,
(2) WATER, LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER
To acquire by purchase, condemnation otherwise,
and to establish, maintain, equip, own and operate
water works, gas works, light, heat and power works
within without the City, and to supply the City
and sell to its inhabitants and also persons, firms
or corporations in territory adjacent to the City,
water, light, heat power, and all products of any
public utility operated by the City.
(3) TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH AND TRANS
PORTATION.-To acquire by purchase, lease, con-
domination otherwise, and to establish, maintain,
equip, and operate telephone and telegraph
systems electric other railways or transportation
service of any kind.
(4) LAND FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES-To ac-
quire by purchase lease condemnation or otherwise
within without the City, such lands or other
property may be necessary for the establishment,
maintenance operation Oh pubic utility ana
for any other public purpose and to SELL
vey cucumber and dispose of the for the benefit
of the City.
90 UNIFORM STAGE OF WATER IN LAKES.
The City shall have the same power under this
Charter as is conferred by law Counties, under
Sections 65886594 inclusive, Mason's Minnesota
Statutes, 1927 and laws amendatory thereof and
supplementary thereto.
CO.. REQUESTS AND DONATIONS.-To re-
ceive requests, gifts and donations of all kinds of
property to hold the in trust for charitable
and other purposes and to do all acts necessary to
carry out the provisions of such requests, gifts and
other donations, with power to manage sell, lease
otherwise dispose of same, in accordance with the
terms of the bequest, gift trust, absolutely in
case such bequest, gift trust be unconditional.
SECTION 2. DIRECT LEGISLATION BY THE
PEOPLE The qualified voters of the City shall have
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partment of Comptroller, State Commission of Ad-
ministration and Finance who shall examine the books

records and reports of all officers and employees, who
receive dsburse moneys and the books records and
reports of such other officers, employees and depart
ments the Council may direct and make duplicate
reports thereof, and present to the Council, and
file one with the City Clerk, and a summary of the
report shall be published in the official paper All
officers, clerks and employees of the City, shall give
information and assistance, and submit for examination
such books and papers may be requested The
Council shall provide for the payment of such ac-
countant
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PAGE TWO
sECTToN 4 SUPERVISION OF PUBLIC UTII-


ITY COMPANIES. The Mayor and City Council shall
be charged with the general supervision of all public
utilities except otherwise provided by this Charter
so far as they subject to Municipal control he shall
keep himself informed to their compliance with the
law and shall that all franchises granted by the
City faithfully observed
The Mayor and City Council shall cause to be nsti-
tuted such actions or proceedings may be necessary
to prosecute public utility companies for violations of
law and to revoke, cancel annul all franchises
granted by the City to any person. firm corporation
which have become forfetable illegal and void.
The City Attorney when ordered by the Mayor and
City Council shall institute and prosecute the
actions to enforce the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 5. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. The
Mayor shall be member of the Council and ex-officio
member of all standing committees with the right
to vote Aldermen.
SECTION 6. ADDITIONAL POWERS AND
DUTIES The Mayor shall exercise such other powers
and perform such other duties may be prescribed by
law and Ordinance.
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CITY ENGINEER.

7 SECTION IL. QUALIFICATIONS. The City
Engineer shall be duly licensed engineer and com
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security at any time they deem best to do So either
security for temporary purposes and may
reduce such temporary security will best the
interest of the City, and may for the same
for such bond shall be paid by the City.
CITY ENCINEER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
BENES THREATENS
WAR0VER TREATY

PRAGUE, April 26-Foreign Min
lister Benes warned the revisionist
powers Of Central Europe that "they
could expect trouble if they persisted
In their efforts at treaty revision" in
q speech In Parliament yesterday. Be-
mes said that he had recently told
Sir John Simon, British Foreign Sec
Rotary, that "Czechoslovak territory
could be taken away only by war"
Warning Mussolini against the
Italo-G German plans for territorial re-
vision, Benes added: ITALY under
estimates the power against which
she sets herself. She forgetS we also
can reckon on the expansion of our
youth" He added that the Little En-
tente would refuse an invitation to
the Four-Power Conference for treaty
revision, saying that he would refuse
to attend q directors meeting Of a
concern that he had not aided In
founding"
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-.
;',a,,o,. 49,. Co,o.iei' mas lieiu many
- Oe'iiU eU t,1l AlIi4env poSCs' AS
80 80 " Vlio 'elliit,eilO AlauS-
&c. .l u. =, ilo m"H Pleoeu IL d POSI-
$500 Uro.L ~ i1eii' 'iie eldiiiiS Oh 6rlVlSil
WI
2caD Csnpsisn
fnay ., 1890 as tfle general
--aS..assi ~ 'lie GleaC western tSaiI-
,',aS, VI 0LeaI britain, ne warned tne
~, Soi s,e, u " nun tnat tney Wouo
lneu - Ulley ualeu 10 give aSSls-
eeiioe " llilileIs blieh on sulKe. Call
ing VI. CiAe railrodo men 70 move coal
nlllleo Dy scrlkeDreaKers, the chair
man Oh metropolitan Vickers said
fss'iieiiioer CiiaC your means OF living
Gnu your personal interests are In
Eolseo' mus you nave a skeleton
p1S.ule Vi sun announcer man, VINO mas
ullioiany weicoilleu nome ms under
lungs eApeleo from Vne Soviet Union
1oI uaStaruly crimes
~ must noe ne thought for an IN
swami tllSe Prosecutor Flsninsky did
MOI nave Iuil knowledge OF the type
W men oenind the Metropolitan
Vlchers company ana behind the ex-
poSeo engineers, But IL was Vishin-
sEy > luhctloi1 10 try the engineers,
Sllo Were caugllt req handed, and not
tile COMPANY. V@1lnsky subsequently
1 psito ,s , ms outies with . mastery
Ui'ss Moll MN Worldwide acclaim.
Nel1lier sliouio 10 pc conJectured for
Z tliolileno tnat tne SOVIET Union was
10! 10y cosilizan1 OF tne cainre OF men
neg c v YIN, Wy si ts company. In
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
NAILS DESPERATE
FIRST OF MAY
Workers Will Use 1t to
Protest Nazi Rule

BERLIN, April 26.-The Nazis have
announced that May First, traditional
holiday Of the revolutionary working
class, will be celebrated this year I'M
der Nazi auspices as the Day Of
German Labor, rescued from Marxists
and Bolsheviks7
This Nazi attempt to perYert the
meaning Of May Day, founded in
1889 by the international proletariat
as q day when the workers demon
strated their strength and their de-
termination to advance the class
struggle, may have all the armed
forces of the government behind it,
but it viii not be able to prevent the
militant workers in Germany from
observing May Day in their way-as
a day of mobilization for the revolu-
tionary struggle, for the overthrow of
the Fascist Nazi regime.
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Hungary was furiously hostile, mag
much as it was q direct challenge 20
the French alignment in Europe.
American imperialism will certainly
try to utilize the situation brought
about by the Observation-Disclosures
conversations to reach an agreement
with France against Britain.
Involved in this maneuver, how
ever, is the difficulty Of devising some
formula that will avoid driving Italy
closed to the sphere of British inl-
per1alist policy, inasmuch as for years
the United States has been striving
to align Italy behind its attempts to
take the leadership Of world reaction.
Silent On Soviet Union
No reports thus far have men
toned the Soviet Union, but that by
no means indicates that the victori-
GUS advance Of socialist construction
and the brilliant victories in facing
difficulties from within and without,
has not given rise to attempts at
new plots toward war and interven-
ton. On the contrary, the fact that
Roosevelt deliberately excluded the
Soviet Union in his invitations to the
Washington conversations shows
clearly that the discussions were not
intended seriously to take up the
world economic situation because no
such thing is possible without con-
sider1ng the Soviet Union, and that
the failure to invite the Soviet Union
was an invitation to all the powers
to try to reach some basis of agree
ment for q new antt-Soviet drive.
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T,vo British Generals and Secret Service
Officer Head Firm That Sent Spies to Moscow

gigantic intrigue. It is no wonder,
then, that the exposure Of the Ogpu
sent the British imperialists into a fit
Of hysteria.
Two British Generals
Directly behind the operations of
the Vickers organization are two
British army generals and colonel of
engineers, besides G. S. Richards of
the British Intelligence Service,
whose name YVES mentioned frequ-
emily in the course Of the trial.
These generals and colonel not only
share responsibility for the plot, but,
as it happens, they are vehement
enemies of the working class and for
many years fought labor in their own
country.
One Of the prime movers in the ac-
tiyities Of the Metropolitan Vickers
Company is General Sir Herbert A.
Lawrence.
Lawrence has received medals from
the King and Queen of England for
his services in helping to enslave the
workers Of South Africa and Egypt.
In the late stages of the world war,
Lawrence was named chief Of the
general staff of the British army in
France. After the war he became q
director OF British railroad and of
the Vickers Company. So distin-
guished q nlilitarist is he that the
Wall Street government has honored
him with Z medal
Fought Coal Strikers
When in the Fall of 1925 England
was faced with general coal strike
In the fight on starvation wages,
Lawrence was appointed O. member of
the Royal Commission to intin1idate
the workers and arrest the militant
movement Of the miners.
His aVaricious appetite for war and
more personal riches at the cost of
workers lives ran amuck during
March, 1928, while he was chairman
Of the Vickers Company. About this
time the capitalist press was flooded
with the same hypocritical talk of
disarmament that even today has sent
President Roosevelt and Macdonald
into huddle at the White House.
Lawrence unwittingly let the cat
out of the bag by announcing the
plans Of the Vickers Company, the
same concern whose engineers were
paid to iniure the Soviet Union.
Refusing 10 curb the manufacture OF
munitions, Lawrence announced that
despite any development in our
commercial business which We can
bring about, the result OF more re-
duction In armament orders would he
1ei1r1ls ~ ths ergrrs.y shr-sy sss
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from the shelves OF every German
university, to be nailed to a pole Of
shame" erected on every campus
May g. Kiel University students yes
terday confiscated over 1000 books,
truckloads Of Marxist pamphlets, and
the works of 2S professors whose
busting they demanded.
On May 10 all ''Marxist books and
those by Jewish authors" will be pub
licly burned in solemn bonfire In
every city in Germany. Belle-Alli
ance-Platz has ben selected for the
book "auto-da-fe" in Berlin. Thou
sands of books, including the works
of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg,
Lenin, Magnus Hirschfeld, Thomas
Mann, leasing, Emil Ludwig, Meh-
ring, Kautsky,
Jewish Students Limited.
The Nazi law for the limitation Of
Jewish students in high schools and
universities to per cent of the total
enrolment went into effect yesterday.
Twenty-six Jewish professors we're
dismissed from their chairs in Prus-
sian universities yesterday by the
Nazi Rust, Minister OF Education.
The forty-two professors already ex-
PEELED are officially called merely
the first installlnent In q general
Arysn housekeeping.
Taxore's Son Jailed,
The Munich police announced res
terday that the Hindu arrested Non
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
BY JAMES CASEY

Writing under crushing Dip
lomatic setback at the hands OF the
Soviet Union, the British imperialiSts
made a new and feeble effort the
other day to drown their chagrtn and
shame by staging noisy reception
for the three convicted engineers,
upon their arrival in London.
The bankers and war mongers Of
Great Britain had laid out an Ella
borate program TO weaken and dis
integrate the workers and peasants
Republic, the fatherland of the world
proletariat. But through the inexor-
able vigilance Of the Ogpu and the
superb expose Of Prosecutor Vishin-
sky, this criminal scheme was kicked
full of holes.
And now, added to the official
statement issued by the Soviet Union
on the Moscow trial, it is appropriate
to shed more light on the militarist
activities Of the Metropolitan-V ickers
Electrical Company. Il was through
this organization, as the trial re-
vealed that Great Britains imperial
lists operated 10 wreck machinery
brlh5 Counter-re Yolutiousry poltroouS
and promote general espionage in the
Soviet Union And for their purposes
the in1perisltsts felt they he'd chosen
wisely
Makes War Attnaments
As :, unit of the Associated Com
paniss, Ltd. tbs Vickers concern is q
largs manufacturer of war arm
annents. 1t IS quite natural for Of
ticials, whose capitalistic business 1t
Is to make money out Of human
slaughter, to be interested in the
defensive and offensive facilities" Of
the Soviet Union. It is also quite
natural for these officials to express
confidence" in their engineers in the
face Of the outright confessions of
Mcdonald and Thornton and the
self-convicting admissions of the ex-
PEELED defendants.
It must be brought out here (the
whole capitalist press has, up to this
writing, painstakingly concealed the
fact) that the principal directors Of
the Vickers company have held the
highest ranking posts in the British
imperial army and are in closest
touch with the affairs OF the Mac
Donald government.
In warmly welcoming home the
convicted engineers these directors
not only furnished additional proof
that their underlings worked under
Instructions from above" but also
tl1st leading figures Of the British
government were fully swsFs OF the
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fore this announcement, the Vickers
Company had declared an s per cent
dividend TO its shareholders.
Demanded Wage Cut for Miners
On March II, 1923, Lawrence aimed
another blow against the living
standards Of the coal miners Of Great
Britain. Speaking for the Royal
Commission, he recommended a re-
duction in wages. AS an excuse for
this reactionary brazenness, Law
renee said the commission favored g
wage cut to save from dismissal hun
dreds Of thousands of men. Either
take a wage cut, or lose your Job, was
Lawrence's injunction to the workers.
And this pronounced enemy OF the
masses of toilers has helped to direct
the operations - the convicted en-
gineers.
One Of Iawrence's close colleagues
III directing the activities of the Wick
ers Company is General Sir Phillip
Nash. This man is the managing
director Of the company. Nash, who
during the World War served as in
spector general of transportation in
the British army, also is 2 violent
foe Of the workers. In England he
has callously fought against relief for
the 1obless and the starving
On 4 visit to New York several
years ago he was asked to comment
on unemployment conditions in Eng
land. Nash said ernphatically that
the unemployed should not receive
help from the governmnt, and he
particularly denounced the thousands
upon thousands Of veterans who had
risked their lives for British i'm
perialism. These young men," said
Nash, referring to the veterans, "have
become too lazy to get out Of their
own way"
Just as Roosevelt today Is driving
unemployed youths into military
camps, SO Nash at that time favored
the rounding up and shipping of
unemployed British workers to South
Africa and New Zealand.
On APP ril 81, 1881, Nash made an
agreement with representative of
the Soviet Union for the manufacture
of machinery in the plants of the
Al-Union Electro-Technical Com
bine. Certainly, Nash did not hint
at that time that he would have
confidence in engineers, who we're
found guilty Of espionage, bribery and
conspiracy to perpetrate machinery
break downs.
the present chairman OF Metro
poiitan-Vickers is another faithful
servant I'd British imperialism. SIR
SsnE rrls. rhp slsv snNys lhs miH.
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Cuba Police in Panic
Mix Their "A-B-C-'s"

HAVANA, April 25.-The hysteria
of the bloody Machado regime caused
the arrest of the editor of bour-
geois Cuban weekly, "Carteles," yes
terday. He was sentenced to incom-
municado Imprisonment in Principe
Fortress because the weekly published
the Audit Bureau Of Circulation GER
tiGicate, stating its net paid circula-
y. flio initials OF the bureau are
the same as that OF the secret ter
rorist organization. and the hystefical
police refused to accept proof to the
contrary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

P5gill, Illinois,
April Is, 1893
Daily Worker
Dear Comrades
I worked in the workers father
land. Soyietland, from April 1881 till
March 1888, two years I knew Ike
life of the workers. When l came
back to help support my father, who
wes blinded while was away, I
passed through Riga, Latvia. There,
in an interview. told Donald Day,
Chicago Tribune correspondent for
the Baltic countries and for USSR,
something of Soviet life.
I mentioned hunger, free medical
service for workers, rising employ
ment, yearly vacations with pay for
workers and for pregnant mothers
before and after childbirth, workers
access to all culture and education,
measures in industry to strengthen
discipline, crowded living quarters,
scarcity and high cost Of clothing.
The interview as published in the
Tribune made no mention of free
medical treatment for workers, of va
cations for workers and mothers, Of
the spread of culture and education
through the entire working masses
Of city and country. Tho interview
chose only the dark colors from So
Wet life, emphasized them end omit
ted my explanation of the causes be-
hind them.
IT is an example OF the deception
common in greater or less degree to
all bourgeois newspapers, II is de
certicn ATTEMPTED On the YuiseiS To
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Forty Communist
Meetings in Week
in | Berlin District

PARIS, April IA. (By MALL -
More than 40 meetings Of Commu-
mist locals were held in Wedding,
working class district Of Berlin,
during the first week OF April, ac-
cOrding to the Berlin correspond
emit of "Humanite."
The Berlin correspondent Of q
bourgeois London paper, quoted
by "Humanite," states that ut Is
absurd to think the resistance Of
the German workers has been fin
sily broken as Goering asserts"
He adds that the Nazis do not feel
safe in working class districts, and
that at is q mistake to think that
Hitler has uprooted Communism"
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Police Radio Communist
Homes i'm Malta: Jail 6

MALTA, April 25.-Ihe police OF
this tiny British colony in the Medi-
terrsnean yesterday raided the homes
Of nine Maltese suspected Of Cornrnu-
mist activities The raids were made
under a Governors warrant based on
the sedition ordinance, The police
made six arrests, including the secre-
tary Of the Malta Labor Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

day ION suspicion Of plotting against
Hitler's life" was Somnyandra Nath
Tagore, son Of the world-famous poet
and Nobel Prize winner, Rabindra-
nath Tagore. Young Tagore was ar
rested at the Tyrol border and
brought to the Munich Jail, charged
with being Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27
Tribune
Caught in VeryAct
of Slandering USSR
Correspondent Donald Day Falsified News
Given Him By Returning Worker, Who Now
Repudiates Days Account of the
Interview

The Daily Worker is printing herewith photographs
letter from Floyd Barnwel American worker just
turned from the Soviet Union after working there two
years, which speak for themselves.
The deliberate omissions and distortions of Barnwers
story by the reptile correspondent in Riga another instance
how consistently the capitalist press twists per-
verts all from the Soviet Union julien Bryan noted
raveogue lecturer tells from the lecture platform that travel
ers from the Soviet Union approached by bourgeois
journals and magazines who ready print anything they
write eff only it is against the Soviet Union"
The Chicago Tribune owned by the multimiionaire Nc
Cormac family of the foremost vfiers of the Soviet
Union We able to catch it edhanded in its lies this time
4HE
ELsLW.
Ar+| iS.HJ3
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Macdonald Leaving.
With Anglo u, S..
Tension Greater.
Economic Conference Set for June IL, Just
Three Days Before Debt Payment Is Due

WASHINGTON, April 26.-Discussions between Prime
Minister j. Ramsay Macdonald Of England and President
Franklin Roosevelt ended Monday and today Macdonald
for New York where he will embark for London The only
thing definitely known to have been agreed upon that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

old and q drafts
man employed by
the General Mo
tcrs Truck corpo-
ration, found a
lea fet of the SO.
cialist Ls1ar psr-
ty outsIis his
door. EsrnEeu.
whose hons was
at e25 Keep ave.
Aue, Eigin, NJ,
became Interested |
In radical dcc
t,ines. He 6isccv-|
cred tbs program
or the labor party
was not strong
enough for him,
SOY. he began tol
afudv ror,,,,,,,i.4
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lgbieaeo ... pa.i5lu -! qribnaae

the Chicago masthead
the which published
photograph
left picture by him with
letter to the Daily Worker epudsn the lies by Donald
VS. view with him.
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Huge Burning of Books May 3
in Germany: Nazi Culture!

BERLIN April 26Nazi the
of books the Inquitn ercica
the Middle the
dria, Egypt than n thousand
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-27

'orhe Chicago Mooney Congress,
Ars4l 80 to May z, will he big step
tswssS! 10y freea-ss. S-'rv,s Mcener
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IAN ILLINOIS BOY |
FINDS RUSSIA MOTT
Jas ADVERTISED
Eluin You'll, Comes Out
PenniIess and Hungry.
BY DONALD DAY.
ICtlesra Tribune Press Servlct.N

RIGA, Latvia, April Q. "a little
more than two wears ago, Floyd Barn.
well, then % years
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nislead them, to split their RANKS,
to weaken their confidence in them
selves as class, to weaken their con-
fidence in their leader, the organizes
Of the world revolution, the Commu-
mist International.
The American working class Is
right in believing that Soviet work
ers are fighting stupbornly through
to the new CLASHES society, to Sc
curity and happiness under the lead
ership of the Bolsheyks, their Cen
trail Committee, and its leader Com
radc Stain.
Conlradely yours,
ls,gneo) FLOYD HAEMu-Nt.