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The Washington times., 1930-03-26

These were the conclu-
sions of a final report pre-
sented today before the
House District Committee
by Representative Ernest w.
Gibson, of Vermont, former
chairman of the subcom-
mittee of the District COM
mittee.
For three years this CON-
mittee conducted an inquiry
into the local government
and particularly the Police
Department.
Representative Gibson, in
filing his final report with the
District Committee, asserted in
brief:
I The District Committee of
ls the House should con-
tinue an investigation looking
to a reorganization of the
Police Department Of Washing
ton.
8 That testimony of a year
As ago that approximately
5000 bOotleggers are operating
in the city still seems pertinent.
tinent.
> That there has been a
d. gradual betterment Of con-
ditionS since he (GibSOn) filed
a preliminary report in Febru'
airy, 1929, but that conditions
are still alarming.
1T is my opinion, said Repre-
sentative Gibson, that no organ
lied graft now exists in the Police
Department. but there is what
may be termed individual graft
by certain members Of the de.
partment and this is admitted
by the department itself.
Rank and File Honest
"On the whole, I think that
the rank and file of the police
department is honest. but would
recommend that this new District
Committee, of which I am no
longer a member, continue It's
investigation looking to its re-
organization.
Altogether. there is too much
crime in this city. The number
Of arrests testify to that. Boot.
Logging and gambling still exist
to a great extent.
About q year ago by sub
committee took notice of an
estimate by DR.. J. F. Doran,
prohibition commissioner, that
approximately 5000 boOtleggers
are operating in Washington.
1 do not see today that the
number has been materially re-
duced; / think we may still
say there are between 1000
and 5000 bOOtleggerS here"
At this point Representative
Palmer, Missouri District commit
tee member, asked if the figures
were not exaggerated. Palmer as
serted that he had been in Con
greSs for several years. that he
thought a lot of wet propa-
ganda' was going out to the
country, and that since he had
been In Washington he had not
smelt liquor on the breath Of
any one of his 434 colleagues
in the House.
Accepts Doran's Figures
II know Of no better au-
thOrity," replied Representa-
tive Gibson, "than the prohi.
bitiOn commissioner, as to the
number Of bOotleggerS who are
doing business in this city.
I'VE should have a well
(conttnusd on Page 2, Coz. 81
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
INQUIRY SHOWS 5000
BOOTLECCERSPLY !
TRADE HERE .

Crime is still rampant in the District of
Columbia, and this includes too many
MURDERS some 5000 bootleggers, and too
much gambling
The Washington times., 1930-03-26
TODAY'S SCRATCHES
ST. JOHNS PARK

FIRST RACE-Red Tam, Aga Car
ron.
SECOND RACE-Deviner, Moreover,
Gunther, Manueltta, Acquire Doc X
THIRD RACE-Beverage, Vicente,
Vladimir, Spanish Jack
SIXTH RACE-Colonel Drage, Nor
drom. Tin Hat, Captain Gilbert.
SEVENTH RACE-Pebhles Ja,t
Ruban Rouge.
Weather. lear; track, fast
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
COMMUNIST PARTY OF
DENMARK LEADS IN
MANY CLASS BATTLES
5000 Working Women Go On Strike; Reject
RefOr1nist Leaders
Severe Crisis Grips Denmark; Many Firms
Go Bankrupt

the leading role in the struggle
against the employers and the re-
formist bureaucrats. hume r ~ S
demonstrations in all parts of the
country expressed the sympathy of
the masses of the workers with the
striking women.
The Communist Party in Denmark
is busy adapting its policy to the
changed economic situation lin con-
sequence of the fall in the price of
grain, Denmark has suffered a Sc
we're crisis and many prominent
firms have gone bankrupt. The
open letter of the executive commit
tee of the Communist international
which severely criticized the pre-
vious policy of the party produced
lively discussion and was of great
assistance to the party. The re-
cruiting campaign of the party in
March won several hundred new
members. Over a thousand work.
ers took part in the demonstration
Of the party in Copenhagen on the
9th of March. A fine demonstration
was also held on the anniversary Of
the Paris Commune on the 18th Of
March,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

telling of the formation of their new
industrial union. They were sing
ing "Wave Scarlet Banner" at this
point. Placards scored Burkhard
Pollock and Yellin, food takers.
A whole swarm of workers clubs
came afterwards-Bronx, LONGER
Downtown, Williamsburg, Browns.
vile, Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish
Ukrainian, and many others. With
them were the Independent Work.
mems Order and the left wing
branches of the Independent Work
mems circles.
Free the Pris0nersw
The International Labor Defense
had strong delegation, with Otto
Hall, Negro organizer, and J. Louis
Engdahl, the National Secretary
marching at the head. Their slo-
gans on placards and banners de-
manded the release of class war
prisoners, called on the workers to
carry on the militant struggle. Then
came the Friends of the Soviet
Union, with their call to workers
everywhere to defend the Workers
Fatherland, and then more workers
clubs and more banners and pla-
cards.
A series of militant unions were
next; Independent Shoe Workers,
National Textile Workers, Office
Workers, Councils of the Unem-
ployed marching with them. United
Council of Working Women were in
line, the Building Maintenance
Workers Union, the Cleaners and
Laundry Workers League of the
T.U.U.L., the BARRIERS and Hair
dressers' League, the Paper Work
ers League, the John Reed Club and
the Red Dancers, the Anti Imperial
ist League.
At the rear of the procession was
one of the several decorated trucks
that went with it, and, following
that, 30S police, on foot, by actua
count and three "riot wagons" with
tear gas and machine guns, trailing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The
printers conducted an energetic
campaign for the 7-hour day. The
reformist leaders succeeded by a
hairs breadth in rushing through a
new tariff which grants a portion
of the workers the 71-2-hour day
and insignificant wage increases.
The reformist proposal was adopted
with 1900 against 1,450 votes.
In the sugar producing industry
and in the cement industry the
new tariffs concluded by the re-
formist leaders with the employers
were adopted with small majorities.
The policy of the reformists suf-
fered a collapse where the 5000
working women in the metallurgical
industry were concerned. These
women workers stood the reformist
evasions and sabotage for some
time and then they broke off the
negotiations on their own and went
on strike. This strike is of very
great Importance, first of all be-
cause it is the largest strike that
has taken place in Denmark for 8
number of years, and secondly be.
cause it gives the working women
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
WOULD STIFLE
hlAGHINISTS
Detroit Rank and File
Getting Sick of It

DETROIT, Mich-Local 81 Of the
International Association of Machin-
lists in Detroit, held one Of the most
interesting meetings on Friday,
April 4. AS it is known this local
is controlled by such reacdonaries
as Green, Vol, Wierton and other
fat boys of A. F. Of L. So it hap
pened that on this meeting, Harvey
Brown, vice-president of 1. A. NJ.
was present to deliver a lecture, but
instead this labor faker turned to
the executive committee and rebuked
them for not following the rules laid
by organization about 10 years ago,
and is among others not to allow
somebody from outside to make a
speech for a cause remote to the la
Dor movement. Of course, this sound
ed good to evrey worker but this adj
monition of highly paid labor
'leader" was directed quite a diff
ferent way.
Beal Too Much For Faker.
Two weeks ago, Fred Beal, the
leader Of textile workers, was al
lowed to make a brief speech on be-
.falf of striking workers in the South.
This was too much for H. Brown
who received letters from other can
didates for fat jobs from this local,
so he hurriedly left his Ohio territory
and came to this local to tell it's
membership how dangerous it is to
let communist propaganda spread in
the local. But despite his so-calIed
sincerity for the labor movement, he
received the cold shoulder
Something Wrong.
Members of the local, with small
exception, are realizing that there
is something wrong with such an
organization which sticks only by its
constitution which is long overdue
for a change. SO it was decided that
those who plead for Labor Unity
should be allowed to express their
views, and only by exchange Of ideas
there progress could be made. This
labor faker at last took the floor
and complained for lack Of courtesy
on the part of membership
BY a subscriber of Daily Worker
for the last years.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Bosses Are Organized; Workers Must Organize
To Fight Them
(By a Worker Correspondent)

PROVIDENCE, r. IA molder,
carrying card, dropped into the
headquarters Of District 3 National
TEXTILE Workers Union. Said he
was attracted by the Daily Worker
in The window. Was directed to
noiaers' Tciou address. Came back.
An unemployed member of our
union directed him to an open shop.
He succeeded in getting job. Gave
his right name. After working a
few days he was called into the Of
flee and the super showed him 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
From A Moscow Woman Factory Worker

We beg you to inform us about
conditions of life of your women
workers. Are they equal to men
as regards wages? Here, in Soviet
Union men and women get the
same wages. We have organized
at our factory a bureau for help
and advice for some villages, and
200 people Joined it from LIST of
January till the 1st of February.
Our bureau is attached to the CEN
trail bureau in Bucharin park. Up
to now, the work has been going
on rather slow. We sent only 3
people TO a collective farm and
some money, that is all.
/ hope, comrades, to hear from
you soon, and meanwhile am send
ing you my best proletarian
wishes.
"A Worker of the Bread Fac
tory N3, Klavdia Kondratieva.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Woman Worker Tells of Slavery at Briggs
BIZ Cofrespnrdent(

she returned to her machine and re-
manned until quitting time.
The bosses arc SO greedy, that moi
satisfied with getting the last pen.
ny's worth of work out of us, they
give us dirty machines to work on
They will not spend the money to
have them cleaned. The foreman
gave us strict orders to oil the ma
chimes every hour. AS the machines
are so dirty, the oil leaks right out
getting all over our clothes, even to
our stockings and underclothes. Any
woman knows what oil does to
clothes. When we complained to
him, the foreman's reply was: 81
can't help it. We haven't any men
to clean the machines" But this did
not stop the machines from leaking.
We are not even allowed a rag to
wipe the machines.
"A WOMAN WORKER.
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Dear comrades.
We have heard that in your
country mills and factories are be-
ing closed down and the workers
turned out. In the U.S.S.R. we
have quite different phenomenon,
the industry is rapidly growing
and the number of men and women
workers is being increased.
There is a new bread-factory,
N3, built In Moscow. The machin-
cry was sent from abroad and
your engineers told us that the
output Of bread would equal 1884,
900 kilos a day Chat is for II
nours).. We produce more than
that the American engineers told
as. The daily output is 100000
l77,000 kilos.
The factory has been working
for 10 months; there are $50 work.
ers and about half of them are
women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

Dear Editor:
was told that you are a friend
of oil workers, and / believe it. I
nave been working even when my
husband had job in order to make
ends meet. Now he is out of work
since last Ocotber, and don't ask
how we get along on my miserable
earnings.
We used to work ten hours day.
Then the bosses cut the day to 8
hours, and we had to produce just
as much work as in 10 hours to keep
up our few pennies. Lately we have
been cut at different times to as low
as five and six hours and still pro-
duce more work than formerly.
Yesterday one of the women, over
come by the terrific speed, caught
her finger under the needle. The
finger tip was split in two, but she
evidently could not afford to go
home, for after having it bandaged,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

Trade Union Unity League, acting
in place of William 2. Foster, gen
eral secretary, now serving three
years with the rest of the commit
tee of the March 6 demonstration.
Many times, as the workers marched,
they broke out in yells, eve want
Foster" "We want Minor" (also in
Jail with the March 6 committee for
three years., eve want Harry Els
man." shouted IN a great chorus
of the Young Communist and Young
Pioneers marching in their place in
Iline-which was at the head of the
procession.
Dwarf the Jing0es.
One single section of the process
sion, the Needle Trades Workers
Industrial Union, with nearly 1900
strikers and unemployed in line,
nearly doubled the entire parade of
the fascists and city employees
forced to go with the fascists.
Most of the marchers carried arm
bands of the Communist Party or
of the unions they belonged to.
Most of them carried Red remnants
of the Communist Party. Occa-
sionally they yelled at the tens Of
thousands watching them from the
sidewalks, the hundreds of thou
sands leaning from tenement house
windows: "Come to Union Square"
Many did come, but were stopped
by the police blockade.
Over the Young Communists and
Pioneers were cartoons, drawn by
members of the John Reed Club,
enormous figures representing cap
italist liberty--a bag with social
list party torch in one hand; the
church, bag Of dollars with crosses
on it; the capitalist press, a reptile.
Back of the youth came the La
Dor Sports Union, in uniform; the
Hungarian Workers Club, with a
banner showing Whalen, marked
Bargains" Then came the eX-
service men, with their placards
pledgihg no war on the workers
and no war on the Soviet Union.
This section was led by a United
States naval sailor in uniform. He
was arrested and beaten up by po-
lice when the procession entered
Union Square.
| 5000 More For N. T. w. I.U
Then came the Anti-fascist or
CARNATIONS, the Building and Metal
Workers Leagues of the T. U. U.
L., the N. T. W. I. u, marching at
salute with clenched fists and a
banner pledging 5000 new members
by June. Many needle workers
marched behind them under the ban
ners Of their shop committees.
| A sign read, "The socialist party
is the third party of the Bosses y
Another read, "Free the Workers
Leaders"
The marine workers marched next
with the big banner of the new
union, and another for the Seamen's
Clubs. With them came a great
cartoon of an A. F. L. fat boy smok
ing a cigar.
The Food Workers Industrial
Union had the largest sign of all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

along, hoping for a chance to kill
some workers.
The procession marched around
Union Square and filled the space
at the North End. Only those in line
were allowed in, but the workers,
held back by solid lines of police,
cheered and shouted to them.
They marched past a reviewing
stand with Max Bedacht, represent
ing the central committee of the
Communist Party, on it, and delega
tons from unions.
Many Speakers.
Sam Darcy was chairman of the
Union Square meeting, which lasted
till 5 p. m. Speakers were Eng
dahl, Biedenkapp of the shoe work
ers; Schoen, Moore, Negro organ
izer; Hyman, Fred Beal, Gastonia
defendant Benjamin, Doom Ping.
Harvey of the Marine Workers
Union Wagenknecht of the Daily
Worker Schmies, John Williamson.
Rose Wortis of the N. T. w. I. u:
Alexander, the Negro organizer; a
young Pioneer, Potash of the N. T.
W. |. u; Pat Devine, national sec
rotary of the Councils of the Unem-
ployed; George Siskind, Trade Union
Unity Councils; Sam Weisman of
the Food Workers Industrial Union.
and c. Hathaway, speaking for the
Central Committee of the Com
munist Party.
Enthusiastically cheering, the great
crowd adopted resolution demand
ing the release of the March 6 del
egation, and the other class war
prisoners. 1t adopted and sent to
the revolutionary workers of the
world, by way of the Comintern, in
its own name and the name of the
hundreds of thousands who were
prevented from entering Union
Square, a telegram of greetings, n
pledge to fight on for the workers.
and to fight against any attack on
the Soviet Union.
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necessary that the cultural work
keep pace with the revolutionary
progress being made in the economic
constructive work for the building
up of socialism. In accordance with
the demands of broad masses of
workers and peasants, the Central
Executive Committee has now de-
cided to extend the Five Year Plan
of cultural work in order that it
may not lag behind the Five Year
Plan of economic construction. In
particular the introduction of COM
pulsory schooling in the Soviet
Union will be accelerated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Congo Workers Fight Imperialism

BRUSSELS, Belgium (IPS).-As
an answer to the security measures
taken by the Belgian authorities
against native demonstrations in
Leopoldville, a great demonstration
Of natives took place last Wednes-
day in Brazzaville in the French
Congo on the other side of the river
Congo opposite Leopoldville.
A Negro named Andre Grenard
had organized an Association for
Mutual Aid" which possessed over
100000 Francs in it's treasury. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Increase Cultural Activities In U. S. S. r.

MOSCOW, IPS).-The Central
Executive Committee of the Soviet
Union has issued an appeal to all
toilers and to all labor unions, CO.
operatives and other organizations
calling upon them to render in
creased support to the mass cultural
and enlightenment work. The ap-
peal registers the undeniable sue
cesses achieved in the work to salts
fly the cultural demands Of the toll
ing masses and to develop the cul-
ture of the various formerly OPP
pressed nationalities in the Soviet
Union, and declares that it is now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
N. Y. Central Sends Out Of Town For
Cheaper Labor

secretly importing labor from vari-
Gus cities to work for 25 and 80
cents an hour. They know that they
can get them without the Syracuse
unemployed knowing.
There are hundreds of unemployed
begging for jobs every day but they
will hire no men of this city. Every
day the police are there to break up
the workers who are seeking for EN-
ployment and send them away cold
and starving. That's the rotten sys-
tenn of the bosses.
-Jobless Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Says A. F. OIL. MisIeaders Won't Pay Him

although he has pretty good pro-
perty, and he chased me out of his
place when / was there to collect
my credit and calls me "Bolsheviki.
Now, I don't have any proves out
side of having worked for him and
where to go and to collect my money.
Now I am penniless.
Building Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

authorities raided the house of the
treasurer and confiscated $4,000
Francs which they found there.
Grenard has now been sentenced to
8 years imprisonment to be followed
by 10 years Punishment, and the or
ganization has been suppressed. a
demonstration of 1000 negroes as
sembled before the Town Hall made
efforts to storm the building with a
view to releasing four prisoners.
The police were driven off and
troops had to be used against the
natives.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Stand. Oil Plant Spraying System Lays-off Men
(BA . IYo,ter Corrsspondentl

(By u Worker Correspondent
BOSTON. Mass..--At the Cam
bridge maintenance shops of the
Standard OIL Co. where its trucks
and tsnks are repaired and
painted. s;xty painters were laid
nfs within the las. two weeks. The
company t4esa!let the spraying
ssstem with feu: operators taking
the place Of the sixty men.
The paint is shipped in large
drums from the factory, an air
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
by a Worker Correspondent

(by WdfKeT C0TTeSpUHueHt.I
SYRACUSE, N. y The New
York Central Railroad has been
planning for the last year the build
ing of a new elevation in Syracuse,
N. Y.
There are over $4,000 unemployed,
some of whom have been looking for
ward to this opportunity to obtain
work. The contractors who now
have the right of hiring laborers
are supposed to pay the city en-
ployes as and 30 cents an hour for
their work. But the bosses are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

hose is connected to the drum in
addition to the spraying attach
ment ard four mer displace sixty
including the stocaronm workers
and pain! rixors.
One of the victims is a man
sixty years old who had worked in
this place for fifteen years. He
promised to help to make the May
Day Demonstration or Boston
Common a success.
boston Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

list Of the strikers at Stuvesant
plant with their addresses and the
number of children they had. Point
ing to his name he said: "That's you,
we don't want you here. Get your
money" He looked on the wall and
saw the charter Of the Foundry
mems Association" the bosses
union. He came back to our hall,
talked some more and went on his
way promising that he was convert
ed to revolutionary unionism.
Tex. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
(Bp a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK CITY, have been
working for a certain Anthony
Auells, president of the Local Hold
Carrier Union Of Montclair, N. j.,
for the last IL months and he owes
me s440 on wages plus $124.93
loaned-him out of my pocket. Now
this gentleman refuses to pay me,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Start Irish Workers Paper

Irish proletariat is workers re-
public, complete independence from
all imperialist robber states and. the
unity of ireland under the rule of the
toilers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
Hudson ratiot Plant Is Fire Tran
(By a Worker CoyrespondeuD

Workers report that in the event
Of Duco fire at the Gratiot plant
of the Hudson there arc not enough
fire escapes and the cedar wood
blocks in the floor would be a death
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
100 ONCE WORKED
IN UNION IRON CO.,
800 WORKING NOW
This Is Typical of Hoover prosperity" in San
Francisco; Wages Are Way Down
Production More Than Doubled Owing To
Terrific Speed-up; "Join the T.U.U.L."
(Bu a Worker Correspondent)

SAN FRANCISCO GAIA shop committee visited the Union Iron
Works today the following conditions prevailed:
$4,000 employed Today find
thar 500 employed and these working steadily Owing the
terrific Of the speedup SYSTEM the production than
doubled than in previous times,
the necessity of organization and
willingness Join
FRISCO WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

DUBLIN, Ireland (IPS).-Several
weeks ago the first number of The
Workers Voice appeared here. The
aim of the new fighting organ of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02

dealing fuel. It is reported also tina
the paint superintendent, Fl. Schrock
plays every contemplate, lousy triel
he can.
HUDSON WORKER.