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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Piano Recital.

The pupils of Mrs. Harry c. Newgord
gave piano recital on Saturday at
tended by large number of the
parents and friends of the pupils. The
following took part in the program:
Joan Rikhus, Leone Johnson, Gerhard
Aho, William Mills, Mary BONNER, Lucy
Bouska, Alice Newgord. Kathleen
Bouska, Alice Merhar, Marjorie Rikhus,
Evelyn Thompson, FL Lorraine Brouil-
lette, Mabel Lampi. Twenty-Five num-
bers were on the program and each and
every one met with the approval of the
listeners.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
1. o. o. f. and Rebekah
Memorial Services

The Ely Odd Fellows and Rebekaf,
lodges conducted Memorial services at
the cemetery on Sunday morning. A
large number were present.
The Rebekah Memorial team, under
the direction of Mrs w. Brobin, had
charge of the services and performed
the ritualistic rites very impressively.
In addition to the Memorial work Miss
Lucilla Bridson sang two vocal selections
in which she was accompanied by Mrs.
Otto Sarkipato on the violin.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
S. MP. PICNIC
SANDY POINT
Lodges to Celebrate the 3Oth
Anniversary of Their Or
ganization Sunday.

The s. N. p. ]. Lodges will celebrate
the 30th anniversary of their organi-
zation with picnic at Sandy Point on
Sunday to which all are invited.
The 8. N. p. j. group includes lodges
108, 26S, and 636 and a fine program
has been arranged for the day with
addresses by prominent speakers. Gov
ernor Olson is scheduled to address the
gathering and others have been invited.
John Kobi of Duluth will talk in the
Slovenian language for the lodges as
their principal speaker.
Refreshments and lunches will be
served and Alderman Ivan Tauzell will
act as master of ceremonies.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Ely Republican Club
Met on Wednesday.

The newly organized Republican Club
met on Wednesday evening to further
the organization plans. An expanding
executive committee was named to con-
duct the affairs of the club. This COM
mittee consists of the officers of the
club, A. w. Nelson, president; Anton
zbasnik, vice president, and Ray
Hoefler, secretary and treasurer, Mrs.
Clarence Chinn and Mrs. William Jones.
The committee will be enlarged at
future meetings to consist of about
fifteen members.
The next meeting will be held on
Wednesday evening at 7:30 at which
also instruction on the method of voting
the new primary ballot will be given.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

The Mesaba range will be
invaded next week by the
walloping Congressman Shoe
maker accompanied by Chas.
Johnson, candidate for railroad
and warehouse commissioner
on the FL. ticket. Knowing
the range people as we do, it is
our advice to the belligerent
congressman to pull his
punches while on the range or
some of those hard-hitting
miners may make an impression
on Congressman Shoemaker
which only good surgeon can
remove. He will be at Eveleth
at 10 o'clock and at Virginia at
noon on Monday. That after
noon he also appears at CHS
holm, Hibbing, Grand Rapids
and Hill City.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
Officers Chosen for
Odd FeLlOlUs LOdge.

At the last meeting of the Ely Lodge
No. go, I. o. o. F., the semi-annual
election of officers to head the organi-
zation were chosen as follows:
N. Crank Schuster.
v. CD. Williams.
Trustee-John Nordstrom.
The installation will take place at q
meeting later IL the month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
POPULAR ELY
COUPLES WE'D
Recent Weddings Join Several
Popular Ely Young People
in Matrimony.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The Rev. II. R. Browne on Saturday
morning at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Hoefler, pronounced the rites that
made Miss Marian Mitchell and Andy
Jacobson, man and wife.
The attendants were James and Sarah
Mitchell, brother and sister of the bride.
Only immediate members of the family
were present. Following the ceremony
wedding dinner was served at the
Hoefler home after which the couple
left for short wedding trip.
The bride is the daughter of MIR. and
Mrs. James Mitchell and has been en-
gagged as teacher in the Ely schools for
the past several years. The groom is
manager of the Pure Oil Company in
this city and has held the position since
the company established their station
in Ely.
Both have a large circle of friends
who join in wishing them all possible
happiness.
HEIKKALA-BRAGA
Saturday evening the Rev. Browne
again performed the marriage rites, this
time for Miss Sylvia Heikkala and Carl
Braga. The marriage ceremony was
performed at the parsonage of the
church. Miss Martha
Heikkala, sister of the bride and Joseph
Braga, brother of the groom, attended
the couple.
Following the ceremony the couple
left for wedding trip which takes
them to Des Moines, Iowa, and the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. On their re-
turn they will be at home in this city
where the bride as resided since in
fancy and where she has been engaged
for the past several years as a teacher
at the Savoy school. The groom is one
of the popular employees of the Rikhus
& Vertin store where he is in charge
of the meat department.
Their many friends join in wishing
them all possible happiness.
PEARSON-SWANSON
Miss Ethlyn Pearson of Tower and
Ralph Swanson of this city were mar
parsonage by the Rev. H. r. Browne
after the ceremony the
couple left for wedding trip to Min
neapolis and the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs j. Pearson of Tower and we'll
known among host of friends in that
city where she has lived all her life
MIR. Swanson is one of the managers of
the Opera House in this CITY, Friends
of the couple join in wishing them
MADDERN-KOTZIA
Miss Ellen Madden, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Madden, and John
Kotzian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kotzian, were united in marriage Mon
day at the Catholic church, the Rev.
Frank Mihelcic reading the service.
Both are we'll known in this city
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

In another place will be
found an ad for R. A. McOuat
of Grand Rapids, candidate for
Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court. Mr.. McOuat has
the solid endorsement of his
home town for the position and
endorsements have been ten
dered him from neighboring
communities. The Iron News
of Coleraine says she has the
naturally judicial mind, thinks
clearly and does the right thing
when it comes to making a de-
cision."
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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
On This
Occasion
just . few thoughts by the Editor
On things Material and Immatorial.

Stick for Ely and its people.
This should be a rule in
business as well as politics.
Take an inventory of yourself
and see if you are doing it?
What we are trying to get at
is the fact that we have Ely
men, products of the Ely
schools, in the political field for
several offices on the ballot.
AS good citizens, we should re-
cognize this fact and do all in
our power in accordance with
the loyalty for our home town
and its people, to see that these
candidates get our support.
Each and every one of the
Ely men seeking public office
are capable of filling the
positions with credit to them
selves and their constituents.
We refer to Jacob L. Pete for
sheriff and Alvin C. Schaefer
for county auditor on the
county ticket and Jerry A.
Harri on the Eighth Congress
sional ticket. The first two are
on a no-party designation while
Mr.. Harri is on the Democratic
ticket.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

Considerable complaint is
being registered over the con-
dition of the highway known as
Fl, running south out of Ely
and No. z between Tower and
Virginia since the same were
removed from the jurisdiction
of the commissioner of the
Fourth District and placed in
charge of the state department,
These highways were added to
the state system by the hast
legislature and the excuse is
made that funds are insufficient
to maintain the roads in the
customary manner character
istic of the Fourth District
roads.
Good Roads" meetings have
been held on several occasions
recently on the ranges and Ely
failed to have representatives
present, hence it was the
opinion of the highway authori-
ties that our roads were in good
condition and that we were
satisfied, otherwise we would
have sent representatives to
these meetings and stick for our
rights. In this we are all to
blame and the oversight can not
be laid to any particular group.
The other range communities
were represented and many of
them profited by placing their
claims before the highway de-
partment. Good roads en-
thusiasts feel that a mistake
was made when the trunk
system was enlarged by the
state legislature in the face of
diminishing funds while others
maintain that the system will
profit by the change as soon
as economic conditions become
normal.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08
NORTHUMBERLAND

Miss Ellen Madden, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Madden, and John
Kotzian, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Kotzian, were united in marriage Mon
day at the Catholic church, the Rev.
Frank Mihelcic reading the service.
Both are we'll known in this city
where they have host of friends who
join in well wishes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-06-08

tContinued on Page Four,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
DID YOU KNOW

That Roosevelt, under pressure
Of mass protests and increasingly
bad conditions, has asked Congress
next winter-tO consider some
social insurance-tO be paid for by
the workers, not the bosses?
That the National Young Com
munist League convention opens in
New York June %.
That Bridgeport, Connecticut, with
relief strike of 5000 workers
looming in the near future, was
forced to back the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill?
That between March and April
1884 CALIFORNIA; number of unem-
ployed on relief rolls increased by
third?
That Roosevelt's drought relief of
$5Oe,OOO,OOO will be of aid chiefly
TO the wealthy farmers in the
drought area? Cattle will be pur-
chased, slaughtered and canned
with labor paid for at soc an hour.
The wealthy farmers are about the
only ones having any cattle left
to sell.
That. there are bread lines in De-
trOit, for that would be bad public
ity for Ford?
That he simply has his brother
in-law, the mayor of Dearborn, or
der the police to take the older uu-
employed out to the Eloise de-
tentiOn home, where they are kept
under the greatest conditions of
poverty?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Around The World
In Three Minutes
ImperiaIists Prepare for War

" ar
During May, thirty-twO scrap
iron cargOes were shipped from the
L. s. to Japanese ornaments manu-
facturers. Japan is now one huge
armed camp. All travellers are in
speCted like captured criminals.
They are followed by regular spies
when they leave their hotels, and
in going from one town to another
they have to secure police permits.
Already more than 1000 young
Japanese have been killed in the
war on the mainland.
During the last two months many
United States armed vessels of the
navy have been surveying" the
Alaska coast to determine whether
the shifting ship channels are a
menace to actually
surveying for naval bases.
More than $15,O0O,OO0 is to be
spent on armamentts in Cuba dur
ing the next year. Cuba would be
able to fight only one enemy-her
own working class. -
Already, the manufacture of var
iOus types of airplane engines is
largely in the hands of women. In
the gun factories, women are doing
practically all the work on import
ant guns.
Rising Tide of Revolution
All China would go Soviet over
night if it weren't for imperialist
forces in the land, according to
Frazier Hunt. famous capitalist
journalist. In the Soviet areas ma
terial conditions OF the people are
so much better than in the rest of
China that even bourgeois journa-
lists always write of it with aston
ishment.
A five hour political strike in
Oslo, Norway, of 100000 railway
men on June s, and the continued
strike of over one million agricul-
tural workers in Spain are high
points in strike news.
Nazis have been forced to order
military roll calls in German fac
tories to terrOrize voters to vote
NaZi tickets.
Five years of Social Democratic
government in Denmark avail the
workers nothing. Since 1882 the
Communist Party increased its vote
five fold.
Where Workers Rule
There have been many recent de-
velopments in Russia that are of
great interest to the workers of the
world. For the first time in his
tory artificial rain has been actu-
ally produced by super charging of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
LID CELEBRATING ITS
9TH ANNIVERSARY

The lid is now celebrating its
ninth anniversary. On June %,
1925 it was established, and by
october 1926 there were SO
branches; by November there
were l06; by December 11S. To-
day there are over 800 branches.
The first issue of the Labor De
fender, official organ of the LID,
announced that the organization
was handling 1O6 cases. In 1928
the umber was 1000. Last year it
hadled over 1000 eases. The
Labor Defeder Is making very
effective use of many fine photo
graphs of scenes from the class
struggle to illustrate its articles.
This is making the magazine a
powerful vehicle in the hands of
the workers of America for the
building of a better world.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Save ThdeLnan!

Back and forth before the con.
sulate of bloody Hitler, New
York workers keep a constant
vigil. Hour after hour the pick,
cts keep up their tireless march.
I'VE are here until you free
Ernest Thaelman."
To millions of German work
ers ground down under the heel
of fascism that name is magic.
As they fight back against the
.Nazis, Ernst Thaelman is to them
the embodiment of their indy
ing struggle for final emancipa-
ti0n of the German working
class. ......
Tortured and beaten in Nazi
dungeons, while fiends prepare
how they shall put him to death,
Thaelman means to millions of
the worlds tOilers exactly what
he means to the German workers
Fight Against Fascism!
In the Northwest, in Seattle
and in Portland, German consul
lates calmly do their business,
even to fragrant dissemination
of faseism propaganda.
On May First, marching work
ers in Portland forced that con-
sulate to remove for the day its
insulting NaZi banner. In Seat
tie the place was closed.
But since May First weeks have
gone by, weeks of quiet for the
representatives of Hitler in the
Northwest.
A flood of protest must engulf
them! Ernst Thaelman, leader
OF the German workers, head of
the heroic German Communist
Party, is one Of us. By letter, by
telephone, by committee, by
demonstration, by picketing as
they are doing in New York. we
must demand his freedom!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
DeadLine

Zero hour for Initiative %
comes Monday. BY that time
the headquarters OF the drive to
put the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill on the ballot In
the State OF Washington must
,be in the possession of 10000
signatures of bOna-fide register,
ed voters.
No more Immediate task faces
all workers than to see that this
campaign goes over with a bang.
Ranks OF the jObless masses
actually swell as NRA bubbles
crack.
Relief not only remains low.
With mighty lever OF lower re-
lief and rising prices the admins
tration prizes millions over the
brink of starvation.
Real unemployment insurance
is provided only by the Workers
Bill.
To guarantee safety and sus-
tenanc to the nations families,
real unemployment insurance
must go through.
Hundreds of petition lists for
Initiative75 are still out. They
must be sent to the State Comm
ittee of Action, Howard Build
ing, Seattle) Immediately.
And be sure thep are checked
by the proper county officers be-
fore they are sent in.
Final going over the lists, gett.
ing them to Olympia. completing
the work on the bill, takes
money. Organizations and indi
viduals who can help should
rush funds at once to drive head
quarters. Checks may be made
payable to c. +. Malone, chair
man of the Unemployed Citizens
League. And the address again,
is Howard Building, GA First
Avenue, Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Good Choice

The Communist Party will run
two members of the Voice of Ac-
tiOn's board for the two most i'm,
pOrtant political positions open
in the State of Washington in
the fall elections:
George Bradley for United
States Senator and James Muir,
ply for Congressman.
Tried in the fire of strikes. un.
employed demonstrations, hun
ger marches, and the day to day
labor of building workers organ.
izations, these two men have
risen to positions of trust.
When the Washington State
Committee of Action was formed
in Olympia year and a half ago
delegates from more than a
hundred unions, unemployed
leagues and councils. veteran
groups, farmers organizations
and Indian Tribes were unani.
nous in their choice of George
Bradley as the committees chair.
man.
The first national convention
of the National Lumber Workers
Union did got hesitate to put
Jim Murphy in the key position
OF union secretary.
Bradley and Murphy were
picked as the Communist Party
always picks its standard bear
ers- because of over, a period
OF years thep have proved devo-
non and ability in the struggle
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

;he air of the locality with electric
ity. This has been done success
fully by the Artificial Rain Insti-
tute.
Industrial production in pig iron
has Increased so per cent and in
coal mining 30 per cent over 1888.
Six times as many autos are now
being made as last year. Produc-
ton of consumers goods has in
creased 80 per cent over last year.
Soviet newspapers are leading the
world with 900 newspapers, a cir
culatiOn of SO million, and publ
cation being done in so languages.
A large synthetic rubber indus
try is now in full operation, making
rubber that is 20 per cent better in
wearing qualities than natural rub
Der.
Moscow is rapidly becoming the
worlds most prominent art center.
The worlds most prominent artists
have exhibited their work in Mos
cow during the last year, nearly
every important country being re-
presented. Many of Americas most
talented artists had their work
there.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

The policeman grunted and fell ant
old bitch" and the next thing
knew I was in the patrol wagon.
They talked to me something aw-
full at the police station but I an.
swered back the best way I could
and told EN- I couldn't do no differ.
ent when things like that happened
| right under my own eyes. They told
me I had killed the policeman and
was most dead with fright wher
about eleven o'clock that night they
come and let me out and brought
me up before q police judge. Tom
and Mile was there and Tom
grabbed me and kissed me and
says, like he was mad only could
see he warnt. You damned old
fool, what are you trying to do?"
The LID
Well il seemed / hadn't killed the
policeman and that the lid (that
means International Labor Defense)
was goin on my bail. Remember ]
asked YOU what LID meant the
time Mile wrote me about them
getting her and Tom out of Jail
Well it's an organization that looks
after workers that get into trouble
with the law while carrying on the
Class Struggle. The class struggle
is a fight that is going on between
those who Cypress the workers and
the workers, like the struggle that's
supposed to he goin on between
, Christians and the Devil.
The next morning all the papers
told about the riot and said the
police fired over the workers heads
to quell the rioting. The idear!
latter I saw people fall and heard
them scream with pain from them
bullets!
That's another thing I found out
since I been here in Chicago. No
| body believes anything that's in the
papers anymore. They read what II
says and then have discussions
trying to figure out what really
happened from what they know
about who owns each different pa
per. Tom says a department store
owner could commit rape at State
and Madison and it wouldn't be In
| any paper. = 60
So I Cant Come Home
Well parson, now you know why
| can't come home in time for the
revival In spite Of all yon say about
how necessary il is for me to be
there and help. Well my case comes
up on the 18th of the month and
IL you follow your usual lines the
revival will be over before then. II
wont take you more than a week TO
convert all the usual drunks and
take a whack at neckin and short
dresses. There Is one thing Won
could do though IL you really want
me there to help You before the
revival 1t over. I'll guarantee that
II you open up and start hootin at
Deacon Avery for evictin his share
troopers and keep hootin, that the
revival win stili be goin strong long
after my case comes up here In
Chicago. OF course, n You do that,
You know and / know that you
will be In a big jam by that, time
but II does seem to me that II those
Goddess Reds can do so much here
I'm Chicago. that IT'S about time a
peep was heard out OF some Chris
tians about the crimes which have
made this country a Hell and be-
sides can bring the. lid saions
with me when ] come. e7
From your eomrade IN Christ.
y r"s'9a 5(Ths End) 4lsssss
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

81 LABOR AIT Orney
idle for years while similar con-
ditions exist in prisons at East
ern and Western, Pa; Auburn
and Clinton, N. "; Walla WaIla,
Washington; Colorado, Maryland,
Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Utah
Wisconsin. 80. 80. 80. ... {.
There Is mass treatment. Norma
inmates are confined with tuber
cular, insane. venereally diseased
feeble minded, drug addicts, sex
peTvert. aged, feeble.
There is little educational ac-
tivity. Some prisons, including
Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Geor-
gia, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,
South Carolina, Mountain prison
in Tennessee, Michigan prison at
Marquette have no educational
program Whatsoever.
There 10 little medical attention.
Out Of one hundred prisons where
records were available sixty had
part time physicians only and
forty full time physicians con-
Quoted private practice outside.
There is rule by brutality.
Columbus, Ohio, prison places
inmates in a semi circular cage
in which they cannot move about.
Nevada prison confines inmates
in solitary on restricted diet and
handouts to door. Oregon prison
locks inmates in dark and damp
solitary cells for more than two
years. Rhode island prison uses
straiehtjacket. Saltwater, MINI.
prison uses the silent system.
Virginia prison handouts inmates
to bar about the height Of the
chest, shackles the legs and
straps them.
Boloff is dead. The victim of ruth,
less jail and prison discrimination
OF a 7barbaricH prison regime with
dts medieval buildings, insufficient
lair, lack of sanitation, overcrowd,
ing. idleness, mass treatment, den.
ial of education, of medical atten
ton, brutalities.
" itiiit lhS oItSOH pIlSOn Wnefe
Bolof was once confined is Theo-
dore Jordan, innocent young Negro
worker, sentenced to hang. Within
the Georgia prison is Angelo Hern-
don. innocent young Negro worker
sentenced to twenty years on the
chain gang. Between the 1000 miles
or space separating Jordan and
Herndon there stands this. barbaric
prison regime as a tombstone over
dying social system. Confined
within are increasing numbers of
militant white, Negro, Foreign born
workers. Living evidence of the in
creasing intensity of the class
struggle. Mooney, Mcnamara, in
San Quentin. Becker in Walla Wal
la. ScottsborO boys in Alabama, not
to mention hundreds more. How
are they treated, these political
prisoners? Let the case of Ben Boil
off serve as a partial answer to
the question.