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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
COOLIDGE WRITES
ABOUT NEW TERM
7,000-W Article for May
Magazine 0utSpoken on
Varied Topics.

In a 7,000-word article to be published
In May, Calvin Coolidge has described
his reaction to the suggestions that he
run again for President, or for Senator
from Massachusetts,, along with his
views as an outSpoken and well in
formed observer on the American scene
since he left the White House.
Ray Long, editor of Hearst's Interna-
tional and Cosmopolitan magazine, pre-
dicted in an interview here yesterday
that the former Presidents STORY"
would cause something more than a
Hurry in political circles, particularly
his references to happenings in Wash
ington.
Written in January.
Coolidge wrote the article while he
was in Florida in January. Early in
February the editor received the follow
ing message in long hand:
81 have written a story in which /
touch on prohibition. the tariff, sug-
gestions that I run for Senator from
Massachusetts, and suggestions that I
run for President and the year since
have been at home. 1t has gone home
to be copied. Yours truly, Calvin Cool
idge"
Feeling that the views would be ''im-
portant to the Nation" Long said, he
telegraphed Coolidge, asking him to
telegraph the story and offering to rip
on the magazine forms then on the
presses in order to set the story up in
the April issue.
But Coolidge responded by telegraph,
'No. May is better"
Making no further attempts to in
f1uence the timing of the article, Long
received it several days later neatly
typewriter by Coolidge's secretary in
Northampton.
Although he declined to describe the
Coolidge manuscript specifically, Long
said it contained the former Presidents
views from the standpoint of a citi-
zen, not inhibited by holding Office"
Touches on Washington.
''Of course" he added, ''in dealing
with the year just passed, 1t touches on
what has transpired in Washington. 1t
deals also with Mr.. Coolidge's reactions
to reports that he will seek Office again."
The article will appear in the May
issue OF the magazine, the anniversary
of the publication of the first article he
wrote after being signed up for a story
o month, If he chose to do them.
While Coolidge was visiting California,
after his sojourn in Florida, and when
he was interviewed in New York he
repeatedly said he was not starting
anything now. The new manuscript
already was in the hands of the editor
Coolidge is being paid for the article
at his regular rate" Long said, adding
that all estimates of the figure have
been high" He wrote the new article
without advance notice and without sug-
gestionS from the editor. In fact, Long
said, their most recent conversation had
been about another contemplated liter
airy effort by the former President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

was charged with manslaughter and
failure to stop and give aid.
Poschinger was taken to a districA
police station for questioning. Officers
said they understood Mr.. Dohrmann was
walking along q road near town when
he was struck by an automobile driven
BIZ Poschinger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
CASHIER FATALLY HURT

LOUISVILLE, KY, March "a R).-
Samuel Dohrmann, cashier Of the Sc
curity Bank here, was injured fatally in
an automobile accident here yesterday.
Ten minutes later police arrested F. H.
Poschinger, general manager of the
American Elevator & Machine Co. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

to the company in the financing Of a
minimum Of approximately $4,000, 900
and a maximum of possibly $31 ,0OO, 900
and IN addition allowed the company to
function freely, and to expand and did
not freeze the credit or assets of the
company"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
SOCIETY
CONTINUED From Second Page.)

and are spending few days at the
Cairo Hotel.
Additional patrons for the tea at the
Hay-Adams House March IS, from to
o'clock pm, are Representative and
Mrs. Richard Yates, Miss Katherine
Jacobs and Miss Marguerite Jacobs.
The honor guests are Resident Com
missioner and Mrs. Pedro Guevera,
Resident Commissioner and Mrs Camilo
OsiaS of the Philippines
Many American people who have
formerly lived in the Philippines will be
present.
Hostesses are Mrs. Turin Bradford
Boone, Miss Evelyn Weems, Miss Mer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

r. Garland, the London postman who
has devoted himself to work for lepers,
recently laid at Manamadura, India
the foundation for the third hospital
for which he has raised funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24
COURT ORDER STAYS
| FOX REFINANCE PLAN
Manager Charges Bancamerica
Proposal Would Result in
$4,000, 900 Loss.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 24.-winfield r.
Sheehan, vice president and general
manager of the Fox Film Corporation,
announced yesterday that he had OBJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-24

cedeS Gloria and Miss Roselmira Colo
mo. Guest tickets may be obtained in
advance or at the door.
DR.. and Mrs. M. N. Greer of Pitts
burgh, accompanied by Mrs. M. e. Dill
Ion, are at the Dodge Hotel while max
ing visit in Washington.
DR.. and Mrs. H. w. Graham of Mount
Morris, Mich, recently motored from
Mama, Fla, where they spent the Win
ter, and are now stopping at the Cava-
lier before returning to Michigan.
Miss Christine Lindbergh Levin has
just returned from New York, where she
was the guest of Capt. and Mrs. William
Graham Reynolds, on Riverside Drive.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
NURSES WORK
LONG HOURS
Bad Conditions for
Hospital Workers

by q Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK.-The workers in
the hospitals, nurses and all other
workers, are very much exploited.
Long hours, low wages and many
other miserable conditions are very
common factors. Hundreds of men
and women are paid $45 or $50
month, with miserable, scanty
meals and dirty and dark dormi-
tories to sleep in. The workers are
hired and fired whenever it pleases
the authorities, without giving any
hearing or investigation. The con-
tract which has to be signed is that
they are not responsible for any in
jury which occurs in the line of
duty; they can also discharge when
they feel like it. The hospitals are
training" hundreds of nurses in Ia
borious and mental tasks for three
years. In reality, their training
does not amount to anything. The
hospital simply exploits them, thus
having two or three years of free
help, giving them after diploma
with which they hunt for work.
Work is rather scarce, for the hos
pitfalls cannot employ them all. They
are thrown on their own resources,
seeking employment, nursing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
SHORE GANGS" GET
So A DAY; GOT $6 IN
1920; GRAFT IN IT?
British Ex-Navy Man Calls for Unity Between
British and American Seamen
Shore Gang" Workers Should Join Marinei
Workers Union for Fight Against Conditions
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, n. VI whether the Atlantic
Line subsidiary of the International Mercantile Marine
bine Pier &c. g. Co. 18th Avenue
they only their shore gang" three dollars for days
of eight hours?
was hired this gang last Thursday pretty hard
board the MINNKAEDA
for the the
ice flour vegetables beef sacks of sugav
of mutton and pretty
carrying these things aboard the ship almost a
not get in their daily food the good things gang
aboard.
The Shore is Casual job every
weeks and lasts three
who work at it nearly all who
therefore destitute Of they not organized
The three dollars for days pay told pay" e.
the the
Existence would be better But should
get shore since living ashore
live at shore prices For instance bugnfested
home West Street costs fifty and
below it costs around forty
Perhaps the International people pay three
dollars the suppoion that the
at sea" as far reorganization concerned,
the shore six dollars day
graft behind their system When
at the LINN office noticed that nearly
the table armed with the paymaster
because became impatient waiting the three pay
seemed to me more like hOldup than graft"
The Daily Worker the only champion workers.
which takes
VIII be better until they together with the the
and farmers have decided system cap
aism into of Communism.
-Ex-Sevce Navyman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
The Food Workers Industrial Union.
By STEVE NELSON.

THE unemployed question in many instances
! is being neglected by our Party. Because
of this many comrades thought that our or
ganizational plan, worked out previously, was
not good one. They prove this by the fact
that there are very few unemployed councils
in the country functioning properly. Others
say, What's the hurry, we'll have 100000
unemployed next winter. Some even go so far
as to say that unemployment is decreasing,
that workers have gone out to farms, ETC. They
quote, GAS the crisis fluctuates, the mood of
the masses fluctuates." This theory has been
expressed by Tallentire which of course was
Immediately rejected by our comrades in the
district. He even went so far in his argument
as to say that the reason we have so few un-
employed workers in our May Day demon
straton was because they had their heads
cracked on May and they got nothing in
return for it. In discussing our plan on I'M
employment activities where we stressed the
necessity of having our councils doing demon
strating work, Tallentire objected to that and
said that we weren't going to build the unem-
ployment movement through such activities.
This theory of course must be combatted by
our Party and the point of demonstrative work
must be further stressed at our coming Party
Convention
Building The T.U.U.L. Through Our Unemployed
"a Work
The idea of abolishing our present councils
is entirely wrong The present councils could
be utilized to build the T.U.U.L. Unions-not
by abolishing them, but by making them func-
ton properly. The idea of organizing the I'M
employed into separate departments Of various
industries will not work out. First of all, our
industrial leagues are at present so weak that
they cannot give decent leadership to the shop
committees that exist in their respective in
dustries Secondly if we organize unem-
ployed section of the union then it really will
become Union of the Unemployed This is
something that we must guard against. l think
hat it is wrong to have this intermediary
organization. The way to build our revolu-
tionary unions is along the following lines
Attempt to Organize Stockyards Workers.
As our work in the Chicago district has
proved, this is about the best way of getting
results. Our food workers league has made
an attempt to organize the stockyards work
ers They have issued some 10000 leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
Next Step on Unemployment

Yes, forty thousand and they were unable to
get even a half dozen workers to a meeting,
while the unemployed council in that territory
put out small throw-away calling a meeting
of the unemployed, and about 40 unemployed
stockyards workers showed up to the meeting,
and about seven employed stockyads workers.
What does this example mean to Communists?
Doesn't this mean that if the members of our
Stockyards Workers League and the Party
members were active in that council they
would have had an excellent opportunity to
build shop committee in certain factory
where few employed workers that turned up
to the meeting are still working? To make
up for quota in the T.U.U.L membership drive
by drawing in lot of unemployed workers
would not mean very much in actually building
the T.U.U.L. 1t would simply be the self
satisfied attitude on our part that we have
reached our quota. 1t would not be what the
RIL.U. wants the TU.U.L. to be-that is
rooted into the factories That is why I think
by having our councils function as first at
traction to the unemployed and employed work.
ers in general, carrying on anti-eviction demon
strations and general factory work, we could
get the best elements into our industrial unions,
build our shop committees and lead the strug-
giles that the working class is faced with in
the United States.
OF course the main line in building the T.U
U.L shop committees is through incessant
daily activities in the shop and link them up
with the building of our industrial leagues
However, the experiences in the district show
that through the unemployment councils they
can and must be utilized in building the various
industrial leagues
Another point that is worth while mention
ing is that at the above mentioned meeting
of the stockyards workers, five or six metal
workers also showed up. What does this mean?
Doesn't this give our Metal Workers League
an opportunity to build shop committee
where these workers employed? In the
case Of the Metal Workers League they too
issud thousands of leaflets and the results have
not been satisfactory. Yet we get metal work
ers at unemployed meetings. | maintain that
the councils shall remain, but that the members
of our industrial leagues become active in these
councils and bring the best elements into the
industrial leagues. This does away with the
danger of building unemployed unions and it
doesn't take away the political functions that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
More Attention to the Pioneer
Groups
By BILL JORDAN.

THE thesis and resolutions for the 7th ma
tional convention of our Party says prac-
tically nothing on this all important question.
The only place the children are mentioned
at all is on page 80 point 81.
Street nucleus sos, sec. 5, Dist. s, has had
the following experience with pioneer group
organized by the members in 1927.
The nucleus selected one of its own members
to lead the group. We were informed little
later that the Pioneers was part of the Young
Workers League and that they would furnish
a leader From then on it was left to the
League to handle the Pioneers.
From experience we find that the League is
not able to furnish real leaders Many have
been assigned to this group-some are not at
all capable, and none of them were at all
prompt in opening and closing the meetings.
At times no leader would appear for the
meeting and the children would be left to shift
for themselves Saturday night is night the
young folks stay out late enjoying themselves,
and that seems to be the reason for their alb
sence and hardness on Sunday morning, which
is the best time for this group to meet.
Time and again we have complained about
this to the League in vain. Certainly under such
conditions we cannot expect sympathizers to
send their children for training and teaching
Furthermore it appears as though the Central
Committee has done nothing whatever to have
childrens' books published which could be used
for study in their meetings.
To give these children something to think
about and also to study along communist lines,
together with their actual participation in de-
monstrations, ETC., is of the utmost Importance
for the maintenance and growth of these
groups.
Let US hope that the Pioneers will be given
more attention in the future.
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the councils should perform. 1t must be clearly
understood, however, that the councils exist
only as a gathering center for the unemployed
to be kept these permanently. The councils
should be FORT of bridge over which the
unemployed will come into our industrial
leagues.
Another point worth while considering is,
if the council is active and carries on demon
strating work many Negro workers may join
our Party and the T.U.U.L. Through council
No. 3, for example, we were able to get as
many as 80 Negro workers directly into the
Party. Why was it possible for this council
to take in so many workers? Because our
Party comrades have given this council a real
leadership. When one of the workers came
home and found the door locked because he had
not paid rent for a few months, this council
organized demonstration in front of the house,
broke through the door and removed the work.
ers' furniture. The workers that were gathered
clearly understood our slogan, Fight against
eviction-No Work, No Rent. The slogan on
paper became an actually reality. Tears were
rolling down the faces of some of the workers
there and no one dared to say, "they are
bunch of Russian Bolsheviks" The sympathy
for the unemployed council was tremendous at
this demonstration. The reason | mention this
incident is because even leading members of
our Party think that this is the kind of work
that will attract the unemployed and build up
our organization.
In conclusion wish to summarize my opin-
ion as follows:
l. We should not build unemployed sections
of our industrial leagues, but should bring
the unemployed G.-ectly into our industrial
unions.
2. The council d be sort of gathering
center that will over its members gradu
ally to our leagues.
3. The leading body of the unemployed in
the city should be the City Central of the T.U.
UL. All the unemployed councils should have
two delegates to the City Central, thereby
combining tie employed and the unemployed
A. The comrades responsible for the latest
change overlooked the following important
points: They lose sight Of the political aspect
of the work among the unemployed. They
overlooked the weakness of our industrial
leagues and narrow down our entire scope Of
reaching wider section of the workers-par
tcularly the workers in the A. F. of L. unions
who would join the unemployed councils much
sooner than they would the industrial unions
of the T.U.U.L.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
USE TRICK TO
LAYOFF LOCGE:RS
Establish New Record
by Speed-up Work
(Bg Workes. CORRESPONDENCE

wy " ~ ~ wv wv 60 POIttNCHCs/
SEATTLE, Wash.-I was work.
ing for a few days in a logging
camp few miles out of Port An
geles. They established a new rec
ord in this camp for loading logs
and about week later part of the
camp closed down, throwing some of
the loggers who helped to increase
the profits of the boss out of work.
Now, we amt got the job, while
some of the stiffs are having plenty
of time talking about how the bosses
speeded US up and increased pro-
duction, while we are travelling
from place to place in boxcars or
on foot looking for another job,
while the bosses go on pleasure
trip for few weeks vainly wait
ing for the market to stabilize it.
self.
This camp is known as the Cres-
cent Logging Co., which is owned
by fellow by the name of Irving,
who was at one time a partner of
Governor Hartley, but for various
reasons, mostly political, Hartley's
name is never mentioned in connec-
ton with the logging operations.
This camp is about like the average,
so far as logging camps go. The
living conditions are nothing to
boast about. They have what they
call an eight-hour day here, and
this is it: The loggers get up at
six in the morning and leave camp
at $50. Some of them take lunches
which at most times are very poor,
and some come in for dinner, and
they have to ride about six miles
on logging tram. Those who come
in take an hour and a half for lunch,
all on their own time, and when they
get back into camp at night it is
after o'clock. A person might as
we'll say that he has to put in never
less than eleven hours and some
times twelve. This is what they
call an eight-hour day in the ma
jority of the logging camps on the
Pacific Coast.
We have listened to some of the
National Lumber Workers Indus
trial Union men and read their lit
erature, about the Trade Union
Unity League and real red, fight
ing unions like the old I. w. w.
days. This is what we want here.
The I. w. W. is no better now than
the A. F. of L. outfit, and now l
am for the Trade Union Unity
League. / just snapped my I. W.
W. book for the T. U. U. L. and the
National Lumber Workers Indus
trial Union.
ONE OF THE FIGHTING
EXT. w. WIS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12
The Problem of Future Street
Demonstrations
Bv ABRAHAM NACHOWITZ


HINDER the leadership of the Communist Par
Uty and Trade Union Unity League, the work
ers are learning the methods of organization
and struggle against capitalism. The ire
mendous March and May 1 demonstrations
as we'll as the daily struggles of the workers
have proven again and again the correctness
of the Comntern decisions on the radicaliza-
ton of the masses. The intensified attacks
upon the revolutionary movement, the Whalen
forgeries, the Smell Bill to investigate the Com
munist Party and the Daily Worker, the prohi-
bition of demonstrations, ETC., are indicative of
the determination of the capitalists to sup
press all working-class organizations Of re-
voutionary character
1t is this general situation which brings to
the fore new problems of great significance
for the Central Committee to consider and act
upon. The threatened refusal of Union Square
to the workers, the refusal of the streets to
the workers of Stamford and New Britain,
Connecticut, make the question of the POSSIBLE
ity of future demonstrations, especially in
small industrial company owned towns of great
Importance.
The May LIST occurrences in Stamford, Conn.,,
and the horrible consequences that followed,
Whereby thirteen comrades were arrested,
beaten and mercillesy slugged, despite our
tactics of placing several groups of speakers
in different parts Of the square to address the
crowd at intervals and also to divide the forces
of the police AS is known, the leading ccm-
rades are constantly traced by detectives on
every step and move, and all their doings are
known to them (police testimony at the triaD.
This situation makes it almost impossible to
carry out street demonstrations without con-
siderable harm to the leading comrades who
are left to the mercy of the police hangmen
and guerrillas, once they get comrade into
their clutches.
The Central Committee should consider this
problem in all its phases, give instructions and
advise to the lower executive bodies, because
the future of our activities are to large extent
dependent upon the advise and instructions
which the Central Committee will be able to
render in regards to the above-raised question.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12

baking plant. Here many Italian
women workers are employed VIII
receive So to So day for an eight
hour day. The clay pieces are in
spected piece by piece and bake
and sprayed with liquid green pain
that is constantly inhaled by tn
workers. The heat in this shop i
terrific. The men, Polish, Italia
and SIovak, throughout the ella
shop earn from S. to 81 at the mod
cling machines, where they weig |
the clay and set the machine at tn |
same moment, in order to be read
fer tbs machine action at the RICH
second.
The speed-up at the machines
MOHs{rous. Eacn worker is an auto
nlaton and an integral part of tn
machine. All the work is piece
work, in order to give--so the com
pany declnres--men and women
chance to earn according to thei
ability" 1t means that every sec
ond counts, and to lift the eyes fror
the machine or to go for a drin
costs money; worse than this, tn
speed-up is so terrible that a mo
ton on the part of finger, arm
foot at the wrong fraction of a sec
ond can cost the loss of limb or life
The same is true of all the big powe
plants throughout the country.
rs. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-12

ing get extra? No. 1t goes to tn,
bosses pockets. And, then, many
men are compelled to work over.
time, while others are laid off anc
not able to keep their family in bare
existence.
Naturally the bosses point oui
that there are many unemployed anc
thus they hire skilled men at lower
res and scare the others.
All this is caused by the fact thai
we are not organized. But we hav,
a weapon to fight the bosses with
and this is the Trade Union Unity
League, the only union whose lead
ers are workers from the variou.
shops. The T. U. U. L .unites u.
in one solid group, where we car
put our demands. Workers of tn,
Burk Leather Co., get united ant
fight for our demands.
--BURK LEATHER co. SLAVE.