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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Near.Catnip to Lure Lions.

Even lions, tigers and other jungle
beasts are being lured by synthetic
liquids. Hunters have discovered that
the animals are attracted by the smell
of catnip, and one man has invented
an artificial mixture which possesses
the potency of the weed in concentrated
form The oil is so powerful that it can
be greatly diluted without loss of
strength.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Scots Hold Colorful Ball.

More than 1000 persons attended the
Royal CALIFORNIAN Ball in Grosvenor
House, London, recently. Nearly all
the men were in Highland dress and
many of the women wore tartan sashes.
The ball was opened with eight six
teen-some reels. Later 81 men and 81
women danced set reels In the ice rink.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Gift to Town Expensive.

Horncastle, England, is trying to fig
ure out way to accept valuable gift.
BY the will of Rev. George Ward the
town has been left Hamerton House,
with the adjoining Poplars Gardens,
which have for years been open to the
public. The problem is how the town
can pay the heavy death duties involved
for the upkeep of the place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
BROKER AND ATTORNEY
FREED IN GIRLS DEATH
Plunge From Window of New York
Apartment Is Held Accidental
by Police.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September deciding
that the death Of Gertrude Burke, killed
in fall from a Second-f1oor window in
East Fifty-f1fth street early today, was
accidental, police released Joseph Cum
mings, a lawyer, and George Jaeger,
a broker, both of Chicago, after sew
eral hours questioning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
BODY TO BE RETURNED
M. H. Dodge, Jr., Auto Victim in
France Will Rest in rs

OAK, France, September / (P).-The
body of Marcellus Hartley Dodge. jr.,
OF Madison, N. j., who was killed in
an automobile accident near Magaso on
the Bordeaux-Bayonne road Saturday
was prepared for return to America to-
day.
The condition of Ralph Apologize, in
jured In the same accident todav was
reported improving. His hurts were
said to be serious but not critical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
$4,000 JEWELS STOLEN
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston, Baltimore,
Report Loss at Seashore.

ATLANTIC CITY, September (P).
Jewels valued at $4,000 were stolen
from the rooms of Mr.. and Mrs. John
E. Johnston of (Charlecote place. Balti-
more In the Ambassador Hotel some
time Saturday night.
Johnston told police that some OF
the gems had been in the family for
generations. adding that the intruders
took all the jewels from q casket, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01

overlooked $1,000 worth Of other jew
elry. He said all the gems were In
sured, including a diamond-studded
platinum bracelet, costing $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Rail Stocks
BY GEORGE t. HUGHES.

tThis is the thirty-seventh of a series
of brief analyses by Mr.. Hughes on rail-
road securities. The intent is not to
recommend the, purchase or sale Of any
particular stock, but to give the in
weston such information as may enable
him intelltgently to chart his own
course
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01
Money to Loan

Secured BY flrst deed Of trust IN rca, s.t..a
Prevailing interest and commission.
Joseph |. Weller 'H s's w. a. /. I 2 a2Ts,'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-01

Africas latest chain stores, similar
TO our five and ten cent places, have a
Doom. They are called "ticky," the
name OF piece of money equivalent to
. cents, and offer goods at that price.
organized to sell novelties, hardware
ana similar small goods, they have been
enlarged to include groceries and meats
making deliveries on all purchases of
81 20 and over. They are competing
with department stores.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
JOBLESS AID STEEL
CAR WORKERS TO
WIN STRIKE IN ILL.
Negroes and Whites Fight Together in Hege-
wish Walkout, and Wage Increase Is Won
Unemployed and Strikers Unite Under Lead
ership of Trade Union Unity League

The significant thing in this strike
is that Negro workers were in the
lead. Out of Al, about cne-third
were Negroes, and a Negrj W1-ker
was chairman of the meeting and
of the strike committee of eight.
After discussing the matter the
committee went and saw the boss,
as they said, for the last time. He
gave in and granted their demands
which were 80 cents for pressers
and rs cents for helpers. The COM
mittee came back and reported. AL
the way they were followed by nine
husky policemen who came into the
hall during the meeting, trying to
intimidate the workers, but iii this
they did not succeed at all.
After the committee had reported
it was voted to go back to work the
next day. However, it was decided
that if the boss did not live up to
his promise or if he Disseminated
against any one of the strikers, they
would all walk out.
The unemployed workers united
with the strikers and many of them
also signed applications for mem
bership in the T.U.U.L.
STEEL CAR WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Government Official
Admits Women TOilers
Have Bad Conditions

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 19-Mary
Anderson, director of the Women's
Bureau Of the U. S. department of
labor, in a speech dealing with con-
ditions among women wage earners
in this country, said that one Ameri-
can woman out of five is wage
Garner, and one wage Garner out of
five is woman.
The approximately 80 reports al
ready published by the bureau" she
said, "stress the fact that thousands
of women still fail to receive liv-
ing wage, and that thousands still
toll more than eight hours a day
and AZ hours week, many as much
as 10 hours daily and 60 hours a
week, and some much more. In too
many instances women are forced to
work in crowded, poorly ventilated,
dirty work rooms, to strain their
eyes because Of glare or insufficient
light, to stand all day or sit con-
tinuously in cramped posture, to
have their safety menaced by I'M
guarded machinery and their health
jeopardized by lack of comfort and
sanitation in plant service equip
ment."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
GERMAN POLICE PLANT
"EVIDENCE" AGAINST
COMMUNISTS IN RAID
Day of Battle Before Liebknecht House While
Police Search Communist Party Offices
Fake Religious" Drive Not Enough, So Seek
to Frame-Up Hair-Raising Sedition Case

exchange formed a parade and
marched to the building whereupon
the police furiously attacked the
workers. Severe collisions ensued
during which the police started to
shoot, however, killing anybody.
Many arrests were made.
The collisions continued through
out the whole day. Spontaneous
protest meetings and demonstra-
tons took place outside many fac
tories. The shop councils adopted
resolutions, protesting against the
raid and the new police brutalities.
The Red flag was raised on the
Liebknecht House during the raid,
and greeted by the workers with the
singing of the Internationale.
The Communist Deputy Dahlem
declared in the Reichstag that the
police refused to give detailed list
of the confiscated material which is
required from them by law, and de-
propaganda among the masses to
file in the building, containing I'M
known material, which points to an
intended frame-up against the Party
based on forgeries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Union Invites Women
Cafeteria Workers to
Celebrate at It's Dance

celebrate with the union" is the
call being issued this week by the
Women's Department, Hotel, Res
taurant and Cafeteria Workers
Union to all women cafeteria and
automat workers, inviting them to
a concert and dance Saturday night,
February %, at the Food Workers
Home, 16 West 21st st. Women
workers in the Senate cafeteria in
Brooklyn and in the Pennsylvania,
West Gath St., both of which recent
ly granted union conditions after
noon-hour strikes, will be the honor
guests.
Women workers are urged to join
the union so as not to lag behind
the men workers in the fight to
change the miserable open-shop, job
slavery. The concert and dance next
Saturday is expected to attract many
women new corners to the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20

whom live in Elizabeth, stormed the
hospitals to see if their breadwin-
ners were still alive. Police rough
ly handled these mothers, wives,
daughters, and sons of the workers.
Every so often someone from the
hospital would appear and read the
names of some of the dead or dying
workers. Shrieks from the workers
womenfolk rent the air as each name
was read.
The Elizabeth hospitals didn't
even have enough medical supplies
on hand to treat the horribly injured
workers-they were only workers.
The workers of the Bayway re-
finery showed many examples of
heroism, running to the scene at the
first blast to rescue fellow workers
whom the Standard Oil, which en-
shaved them all, had MANNED.
Lew Wages, Dangerous Work.
The Bayway plant is located in
Elizabeth and Linden. 1t includes
"efineries for gasoline, crude oil,
and also manufactured medicinal
oils and insect spray as well. All
these products are highly inflam-
mable, and low wages are paid for
this extremely dangerous work. La
borers in the Bayway plant told the
Daily Worker of barely averaging
S25 week, some getting as low as
500.
The workers are forced to join
the company union, the Works Coun-
ell, under which the workers are
spied on and prevented from fight
ing for decent conditions and for
safety protection.
Reduction of forces, making the
remainder of the workers do the
work Of those laid off as we'll as
their own, has brought the number
employed in the plant down to 5000.
Accidents due to company neglect
and lack of safety protection for
the workers are very frequent.
Lack of fighting organization,
such as the Trade Union Unity
League, has, as worker at the re-
finery describes it, put the workers
at the mercy of the Standard Oil
Company, which is notorious for its
greed for profits, caring nothing
for workers lives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Slavery in the Coal Dumps

to get out hiking.
My employment ticket, read in
part, union dues deducted" / in
quired what kind of union the coal
mixers have which permits such mis-
cradle conditions to prevail.
But the workers said that the
union is no good and that their
condition has become worse since the
union came into coal yards, they
didn't know who the officials were,
doubted if the union had any charter
and expressed their opinion that the
coal company pays their dues" to
some labor takers who have agreed
to keep the coal yard workers dowa.
l worked in this coal yard week,
the last two days my turn" didn't
come, so myself and several others
were simply starved out of a job.
My earnings amounted $1,000. Of
which $1.75 was deducted for a
shovel, and the job cost SO, leaving
$6.05 to the good.
COAL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Young Pioneers Give
Answer tOWade; Will
Sharpen Activities

The Young Pioneers of the New
York District have issued state
ment replying to superintendent of
schools, John Wade. The statement,
in part, reads as follows:
eve, the members Of the Distr' t
Executive Committee, of the Young
Pioneers of America, hereby register
our protests again~t the state cent
issued in the capitalist press by
superintendent of schools, John
Wade.
"The Young Pioneers have been
carrying on work among the work
ers' children of New York for the
past few years, and at present are
more active than they ever were.
The statement by Superintendent
Wade, saying that "Communistic ac-
Invites among the school children
have been checked so far as the Pab-
lie Schools are concerned" is just
another attempt by the bosses and
their tools to hide from the working
class the activities that the revolu-
tionary working organizations
are carrying on among the working
class.
"This statement was issued be-
cause the bosses know that now
with the present unemployment, he
workers children, am The whole
working class are rallying more and
more to the call of the revolutionary
workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
by q Worker Correspondent

HEGEWISH, III. - Wednesday,
February IL, the press department
walked out Of the Pressed Steel Car
Company shops in Hegewish. They
Immediately organized and elected a
committee of eight to present their
demands to the bosses.
Thursday morning a committee
saw the bosses and told them their
demands. They tried to get them
back into the shop and I missed to
talk the matter over and settle it.
But the workers were not fooled at
all. They refused to go back unless
their demands were granted,
Speakers and organizers of the
T.U.UL. appeared on the scene and
spoke to a number of unemployed
workers gathered at the comra ~
employment office. They sked tn I
not to apply for work, in UGH as
one department was on strike. The
unemployed workers went, together
with the strikers, to a hall 'wo
blocks away, where the T.U.U.L.
speaker addressed the crowd and ex-
planned our form Of organization,
which was accepted with applause.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20

BERLIN, Feb. 19.-Yesterday's
raid on the Karl Liebknecht House,
Central Headquarters of the Com
munist Party of Germany, was con-
Quoted by several hundred uniformed
police detectives, who occupied the
building from 10 a. m. till p. m.
They searched the cupboards and
desks, broke into the typists' hand
bags, ransacked everything and con-
fiscated some material.
The names and addresses of ev-
eryone in the building were taken
and IA arrested. The purpose of the
raid was to discover the origin of
the Communist leaflets that were
distributed among the police force
and the army and navy. The bour-
eois press, however, admits that in
his respect the raid was unsuccess-
Bul. A
The news of this latest attack of
ZoergiebePs social-fascist police on
the Communist Party spread like
wildfire, and the square in front of
the Liebknecht House was soon
filled with indignant workers. The
unemployed from the nearby labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
NATIONAL. BOARD
OF UNITY LEAGUE
SCORES FISHW|CK
Urges All to Fight In
Ranks of N. M. u.

Continued from Page One)
of unbroken treachery and corrup-
ton behind them. They have sold
out innumerable strikes. They have
lried to drive 100000 unemployed
miners out of the industry. The
Fishwick machine has shared in all
lLewis's betrayals of the miners. Be-
tween these elements they have
wrecked the once militant and pow
erful U.M.W.A. The miners have
nothing to expect from either Lewis
or Fishwick except further sell-outs
to the bosses. A union headed by
Fishwick would be just as rotten as
the present UMWA.
"The most insidious and danger
Gus aspect of Fishwick's move for a
new company union is the support
being given him by such elements
as Howat, Brophy, Tippet, Angelo,
Watt, etc. The role of these fake
progressives and Trotskyists is to
cover up the utter treachery of Fish
wick and Harrington with phrases
about establishing honest unionism.
Their contemplate task is to act as
the fig-leaf Of the black reaction
aries Fishwick and Harrington,
which means for the Illinois coal
operators. These fake progressive
Elements are the most dangerous of
Ahe enemies of the miners.
" The Music Front.
"Howat, Brophy and Company are
members of the so-called Music
group, or fake progressive wing of
the A. F. of l.. The role of this
group is to sugar with radical
phrases the strike-breaking schemes
Of the A. F. of L. Their policy is
basically the same as that of the
A. F. of L. collaboration
with the employers and violent OPP
position to all militant struggle
They are the bitterest opponents of
the Trade Union Unity League. Pas
sale, New Bedford, Boston, Gastonia
and many other scenes of working
class battle testify to their insidious
role as practical strike-breakers. In
the recent strike in southern Illinois
they unblushingly lined up in the
|united front of bosses, labor takers,
troops, gangsters, police, capitalist
politicians, etc., against the striking
miners. Their opposition to the
formation of the N. M. U. when it
was clear beyond doubt that the
u. M. w. A. was hopelessly reac-
tionary, exposed the hollowness of
their progressive" pretenses. Their
present alliance with the agents of
the Illinois operators, the Fishwick
machine, and their attempt to lure
the miners into the new company
union is the logical climax Of their
whole treacherous program.
"Fishwick is of the same reac-
tionary kidney as Lewis. Both are
social fascist agents of the bosses.
The miners must repudiate them.
The r. U. U. L. calls upon the min
80 to quit the Lewis organization
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Alliance Mil Boss Insults Girls

bosses the girl winders at the ALI
ance Processing Mill, has a nice lit
tie game of feeling" the girls as
they work. Of course, they recant
his rottenness but individually they
can do nothing. To protest would
mean to lose the job.
This is only small example of
what the working girls must stand
for, but they must realize that in
dividually they cannot combat this
stuff, but must organize in a real
textile workers union, the National
Textile Workers Union that will
force such hounds as Wilgoose to
stop his insults, give them decent
working conditions, shorter hours
and living wage.-H.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA. - The Alliance
Processing Co. is one of the mills in
the Kensington area. We have in
this mill a disgusting sample of
what the working-class girls must
undergo in order to earn scanty
living.
1t isn't enough to be torn away
from school at II to Ia years of age
and placed on the slave market. 1t
isn't enough that the girls are vici-
ously speeded up, and underpaid and
exhausted at the end of the days
work.
In addition to all this they must
stand for insults and humiliation
from the boss. Albert Wilgoose, who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
(Bu a Worker Correspondent


CHICAGO.-I saw an alluring
sign decorating the window of an
employment shark, can all-winter
job" "coal yard" piece work, can
make S. to SO a day, pay every
night" This looked like real pros
perity, so several other destitute
workers and myself grabbed this
job. We were assigned as coal
mixers and shovelers, and the en-
ployment ticket stated the rate at
Is cents to 60 per ton. The place
of work was H. N. Lund Coal Co.,
1740 North California Ave.
Upon presenting our letter from
the employment shark to the boss,
we were herded into little shack
which was filled with go to 20 coal
mixers, and were told to wait for
our turn.
The company had about 20 trucks
hauling coal, therefore, all of the
mixers didn't have chance to get
out in any one day, no matter how
busy the trucks were, but were kept
waiting all day long for their turn
in the crowded little shack with TO-
bacco smoke. Those who were lucky
enough to be called out averaged
between 81 to So day. The trucks
started out at z in the morning.
But every morning the coal mixers
lined up before the office window
outside at o'clock in the bitter cold
waiting for the timekeeper, who ar
rived at $3.50, to take their names,
in hopes that being first at tie win
dow will give them better chance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20

der by the Standard Oil Co. of II
workers and the manning of scores
more. There was a series of three
blasts, the first one occurring in the
alcohol building. Roars were heard
for miles around, as the blue flames
swept thru the building.
The workers nearby, many Of
them building workers at work add
ing another story to the building,
were thrown many feet from scat
folds by the force of the blast.
Scores of workers at once became
human torches. Four were killed
outright. Scores of workers lay on
the ground, unconscious. Many,
blinded, began to seek some way of
escape, but unable to see, ran into
the barbed wire fences which sur
round the Bayway refinery, as if
to shut the workers in a prison.
After the victims were removed
to the hospitals, the latter joined in
aiding the Standard Oil Co. in main
tanning secrecy as to the cause of
the blast by refusing to allow the
victims to be seen. Workers how
ever, told of the leak in the naptha
gas line, which the company had
kept unrepaired
The injured workers were horrible
sacrifices to the greed of the Stand
ard Oil for profits. Some had their
arms or legs blown off. The flesh
of some workers was cooked on their
bodies-just charred meat and bones.
The eye sockets of many of the
injured workers are empty-their
eyes blown out in the explosion.
Workers asked to be put out of their
pain. One begged some one to shoot
him.
The tragedy was heightened when
hundreds of members of the families
of Standard Oil workers, most of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Some Carolina Mill Towns That Need NTWU

In Hikh Point, N. c., the workers
are talking union. The mills there
closed down to three days a week.
Over in Albermarle, N. c., there
is II big mills, and the wage scale
runs from 81 to $11.50 a week. Some
of the workers get up at 3 a. m.
and go to work, about IA hours a
day.
The National Textile Workers
Union is needed for the mill work.
ers in these towns.
N. C. MILL WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
AND THEY LAID IT ASIDE

PARIS, Feb. 19.--Edward N. Hur-
ley's Suggestion" that the world in
dustrial leaders unite to prevent war
by refusing to supply belligerent
nations with essential raw mate.
rails was "laid aside" by the execu-
tive committee of the International
Chamber of Commerce. The presi-
dent of the chamber artfully said
that it should have been sent &c
the American committee" of the
chamber.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
A Stunt to Fool the Jobless Workers

nice reading for the bourgeoisie in
their relaxation.
They had one of the ragged ones
say "To hell with the Reds, give
me the good old U.S.A." An auto
mobilist went by and threw out a
cigarette butt, and the jackass that
let himselm be used by the bosses
against his fellow workers picked it
up and smoked it.
Unemployed workers, let's organ
ize. The Reds are our friends, the
only ones to lead us, and fight for
us.
New Haven Jobless Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
The Party Organizer
1890

February the Party is published
issue is the second will appear March
CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY ISSUE:
/. How to Organize Agitprop Work in the Units
2. Fractions in Trade Unions
3. Organizing Shop Committees
4. Issuing Shop Papers
5. The Basic Units of the Party
6. international WOmen's Day
7. WOmens Work in the Shops
should
every Organization Department
Subscribe! S1.OO per year-1Oc single copy.
the February
subscription Department
mee 45 East 25h St, New York City,
the District Committees should soliciting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-20
Foes of German Communist Party Hit
by Workers

BERLIN (By Inprecorr Service).
In Offenbach on the Main, one of
the strongholds of the right wingers,
the party C yanized mass meeting
which was attended by 1900 work.
ers. Comrades Heinz Neumann and
Will Euenzenberg spoke amidst
great applause. A resolution was
unanimously adopted condemning
the right wingers and promising the
support of the Offenbach workers
for the party in the coming strug-
giles.
A n1-.-- meeting of the Communist
Party is Dusseldorf was broken up
by the police 20 minutes after it
had commenced, on the ground that
The assembled workers had welcomed