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The Washington times., 1930-08-27
WATER WORRIES
ANNAPOLIS

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. q. -
The seriousness Of the water
situation in Annapolis has been
added to, according to a report
of DR.. Fred w. Caspare, Of the
Maryland State Department Of
Health, by persons who during
the last two nights have emptied
chlorinators used to purify the
temporary Streams being used.
The report was made at a meet
ing Of the Annapolis water board.
Mayor Walter E. Quenstedt said
he will ask Gov. Albert c. Ritchie
to call out the Maryland militia
to guard the streams and the
chlorinators.
The mayor said the emptying
Of the chlorinators was "visciouS
and malicious" and ordered the
police to make a thorough in
vestigation.
While it was announced at the
meeting that Annapolis is holding
it's own and getting about 10000
gallons each day from the tenn
porary streams, the board said if
a serious fire started the result
might be disastrous.
To meet such an emergency
the board authorized the digging
of a well that will supply about
1000, 900 gallons a day. Bids
were asked and it is expected the
contract will be awarded within
a few days and the work started.
The well, it was said will be kept
in operation even after the
drought has ended.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27

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awaiting your selection IN tOday's Clas'
Classified Ads.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
Annapolis Finds Man
Owes City $4,000
Water Rent

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 26.-
Another worry caused by the
water shortage was added to
the burdens Of Annapolis citi-
ZenS today.
Officials Of the water depart
ment In checking over the rec
ords discovered $4,000 in over
due water bills. Some Of long
standing, with one man owing
the city $4,000.
Notification was sent to all de-
linquents with the warning that
unless the back bills are paid
within 80 days their water
would be cut off.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
LOudOuEa's Schools
ReODen Sept. 10

LEESBURG, Va, Aug. 27.-The
schools of Loudoun county will
open for the 1930-31 session on
September 10. The teachers in
stitute will be held at the Lees
burg High School on September g.
The number of pupils per
teacher has been increased
throughout the county, according
to the recent school survey. Three
itinerant teachers are employed
this year, combining the one-room
schools Of Clark's Gap, Cool
Spring, Red Hill, Sycoline, Air.
mont, and PaxSor1.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
Kidnapers Ask Cash
Using Carrier Pigeon

NEW YORK, Aug. q d.N.So
Kidnapers who employed the i'm.
usual plan Of using carrier
pigeons in an attempt to gain
$4,000 ransom were sought to-
day for abducting the 15-year-old
daughter of Anthony Favata,
wealthy real estate dealer.
Favata said he had received
two kilograms demanding him to
go to a certain store and ask for
carrier pigeons left for him and
send the money. The child dis
appeared August 6.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
CLIMATE DOOMS
OSTR!CHES

It seems that Washington's
dream Of becoming q great
ostrich.raising center have come
to naught. The birds can't stand
the climate.
Four young ostrichs which were
to become the foundation Of the
great business Of raising ostriches
here are leaving the city. after
they had gained but q scant rs
pounds since last June 9. They
weighed about a pound each
when brought to Schmid's bird
store after they had been Matched
from eggs imported from Cali
fornia.
The birds were placed on exhi'
bition and began life by eating
scarf pins, cuff buttons and other
delicacies from the clothes Of
the crowd which stared at them
On the side they managed to
consume quite a quantity OF
spinach, kale, hard-boiled eggs,
whole oranges and gravel.
But despite their carefully
chosen diet and the attentions
showered upon them, they did
not do we'll. The blame was
placed on the climate. so two Of
the birds will go to the warmth
of the Miami, Fla, zoo, while the
destination Of the other two has
not been announced.
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The Washington times., 1930-08-27
BLACK ANTS
A MOSQUITO

MOSQUITOES drouth j. L. Webb associate
entomologist affecting and animals Depart
Agriculture have dried leaving stagnan
mosquitoes breed happily
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
BURGLARS GET SITS RING

After ransacking the home Of
Lightfoot s. Michigan In the 1900
block Thirteenth st. N. W., thieves
yesterday escaped with a diamond
ring worth SITS.
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12
green ATTACKS
SOVIET METHODS
Labor Leader Places Organize.
ton On Record Against Reds

Washington, June u GP-The as
sert.on that Communistlc organiza-
lions had been formed in the United
States to overthrow the government
vas made today before the house
committee investigating conmunisuc
activities by William Green. presl-
dent Of the American Federation of
Labor,
At the same time Green placed his
organization on record as "urcom-
promlslng!y opposed to communism
and to the communIstlc philosophy "
The communists have felt, Green
said, that 10 bring about world rev
olution and the destruction Of the
American government they would
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12

passengers off. The Gloucester
brought them here and the Fairfax
with a gaping hole IN her bow and
her port side burned and SCARED
by the flames, came to port severa
hours later.
Tales of heroism, vivid descr1p.
lions of the exploding tanker and
the flaming fire hurled aboard the
Fairfax, accounts of rescue work anG
aid for the injured by nurses and
volunteers and charges of cowardice
against members of the crew in the
hours after the crash. We're told by
! passengers on their return to this
port.
List Dead
The list of those either known
dead or missing today in the Fair
fax Pinthis disaster was;
Passengers aboard Fairfax:
Lieut.. Augustus A, Mulvanlty, his
wife and baby, Nashua, n, H. tBody
of husband and baby recovered).
Miss Georgette Cretton, Boston,
(Body reCovered).
Mrs. William J. Meagher, Milton.
Body recovered and tentatively
identified),
Byrd Constantine. Birmingham
Ala (Body recovered).
Mrs, Ida Berkowitz and baby.
Boston. Died at hospital here).
Mrs, May Dearborn. MAYNARD.
(Dled on rescue boat Gloucester).
Howard n. Rose. Cincinnati. O
Miss Catherine Gardner, Winston
Salem, n. c.
DR., William J. Meagher, Milton.
Joseph B. Walker, kittery, Me.
Officers and crew OF Pinthis.
Albert V. Jones Fall River, cap
tain.
NJ. Schmidt, WATERFOWL, first
mate.
= c Wiesser, Pawtucket, R. 1, sec
ond mate. (Body recovered and ten
tatlvely identified),
F, Anderberg, Fall River chief
engineer.
D. Leeman. Long Pond, Ne.
John Morgan, Fall River,
Fred Ward, Fall River.
John W, Vernon, Fall River.
s Phelan. Fall River.
Theodore Fallon. Fall River.
Dan Ray. Fail River.
SIMON Duffy Jr. Fall River,
Dan Grove. New Bedford
Thomas Herd. Fall River
TIgIl Seigultette, Fall River,
J Copy, New Bedford
T. S. Hughes, Fall River
A Freeman, New Bedford
John Nonteiro New Bedford
Crew Of Fairfax,
Henry Jackson. Jacksonville
Fla. (Body recovered)
James Brooks. Halford Va
= Everett, Jacksonville, Fla
Z. C. IcKenney. Fort Royal Va.
George B,bson, CoSoanut Grove,
Fla.
H Wlmbush Washington. D c.
". Jenkins. Jacksonville, Fla.
George Gray, Philadelphia.
John Lewis, Columbia, S. c.
4 Laborth. Fort Myers. Fla.
". H. Ponder, Baltimore, Md.
T Griffin, Jacksonville. Fla
NJ 4, Seeley Jacksonville Fla,
s. Wilson. Jacksonville. Fla.
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12

Captain Brooks admitted to me
that he did not at any tine send
IN s 0 :. tho Herald quotes Cap
tain sLyons He also admitted that
no attempt 7-as made 10 get Coar-
Guard stations for AID or ask anyone
in Boston to 80 and search for tho.e
overheard
viii Quiz Officers
Captain Brooks. r D Mcneil
vlce president Of the Merchants and
Miners company, who was aboard
the Fairfax, other officers and pas
senger survivors Will appear before
the investigators, Captain Lyons will
direct the investigation.
With none Of the crew Of II sur
wing. the Inflated tanker Pintbls
will be represented by Captain Fred
Cover of the Fall River OIL COM
pany The investigation and hearing
Of witnesses was to begin this morn
Ing
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12

have to overthrow and control the
Federation of Labor He added
there never would be a promise
with the communists
Green testified that there had been
organized in this country the Work
ers' community Party of America,
the Trade Union Unity league, the
Pioneer Youth movement and the
American Negro Labor congress. He
said they were directed from Mos
COW
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12
Detective Back on Job
DESPITE Court Charge

New London, June u (UP)-
Detective Sergeant Nelson S. Smith,
who faces superior court trial on
charge of killing Gordon Simms, re
turned to active duty today.
A letter from Police Captain
Charles A. Penney to City Manager
and Police Chief William Holt was
understood to have resulted in rein
statement of the veteran officer.
who was charged with involuntary
manslaughter when he shot Simms
during an attempted arrest
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12

The Fairfax. with II passengers
aboard. bound for Norfolk. Va. and
Baltimore. coN!ded With the tanker
IN dense fog Tuesday night off the
Scstuate shore, 3 miles from this
port. Laden with gasoline. the Pin
this caught fire and exploded. sink
ing within 20 minutes.
The Fairfax vas engulfed in flam-
ing oil with fire starting on the top
deck and one side. The clothing of
several passengers and members of
the crew caught fire and some leap
cd overheard, OIL on the surface of
the ocean burned all day yesterday
off the Scituate shore. grim me
moral Of the tragedy
Antenno Melted
Although the radio antenna was
soon melted and burned away. tho
set was repaired and few hours
later the Gloucester, a sister ship of
the company, came up and took the
New Britain herald., 1930-06-12

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
Filipino Misleaders
Betray independence
Movement in Manila

MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 29.-
The Philippine Independence Confer
ence, which is run by the same pet
ty-bourgeois politicians who are CO.
operating with U. S. imperialism in
Washington, opened yesterday with
5000 delegates.
Among the delegates We're many
who are willing to fight for inGe-
pendence, but the leaders of the
conference favor cooperation with
Quezon, Roxas, Osmena and OH er
large land-owning politicians who
have betrayed the independence
movement.
One delegate who tried to point
out the fake nature of the leadership
was shouted down by the leaders. He
demanded that the chairman be
elected by the delegates instead of
by small slique of petty-bourgeois
politicians as was done.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
Mass Picket Tomorrow
i'm the Garment Section

Continued from Page One)
same long hours and increased ex-
ploitation as needle trades workers"
the statement points out. eve
have the same enemies-the bosses
associations, the Whalen Cossacks,
and the A. F. of L. scab union lead
ership, allied with the worst forces
of the underworld.
Women workers especially must
join the demonstration, the call con-
tinues. "Today, two of our women
food workers are held in prison un-
der $4,000 bail each because they
dared to protest against the police
brutality dealt out to striking work
ers at the Monroe and Benrod Cafe
terias. These girls, Nina Speaker
and Rose Kaplan, write from their
cells of vicious beatings given them
in the name of capitalist law and
ORDER"
Demonstrate against police and
guerilla terrorism" the call con-
cludes. "Form workers defense
corps! Join the NTWIU demonstra-
ton Tuesday as part of the fight
for the 40-hour week, better condi-
tons, and the building up of pow
erful industrial unionism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
Greet PORTER
THURS, FEB, &c
Served Time for Strike
Activity

John Porter, in prison for his ac-
tivity in the New Bedford textile
strike for over IS months, will be
released from Governors Island,
where he is at present on Wednesday
morning, February 26, at 8 a. m.
He will arrive at the Battery Park
Governors Island ferry, at $50 a. m.
The Young Communist League
and the Communist Party of New
York are arranging a welcome
demonstration for John Porter.
Appeals have been sent out to all
youth and adult organizations to
participate at this particular time,
the demonstration is of especially
great Importance in view of the
preparations for attack against the
Soviet Union.
A statement issued by the Young
Communist League:
"The capitalist courts sent Porter
to prison for his militancy, in strug-
gle, for the working class. When
still under 16 he joined the army,
and when he found that it was used
against the workers, he left. Later
on he struck together with thousands
of other workers in New Bedford.
He proved to be one of the most
militant young workers in the strug
gle, was arrested many times on the
picket lines. The police knew that
he was once in the army and threat
ened to put him in" if he kept up
his activities. In spite of this threat
Porter kept on fighting in the strike
for the workers and against the
bosses. He was arrested, turned
over to the military authorities and
sentenced to prison for two years.
A few months before his arrest Por-
ter joined the Young Communist
League in which he was the leader
of the working youth.
"John Porter will arrive at Bat
terry Park at $50 a. m. on Wednes-
day, February 26. The Young Com
munist League of New York appeals
to the working youth to demonstrate
geeting John Porter. The John Por-
ter demonstration, an answer to
preparations for war against the
Soviet Union, an answer to the
forces of black reaction, an answer
to attack as manifested by the ap-
peals of Manning Of Lutheran
Church, of the Jewish sinagogues. :"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
HANDCUFF, JAIL
zINICH ON BOAT
Mistreat Deported
Worker
BULLETIN.

A radiogram to New York
newspapers from Captain Ziegen-
bein of the Bremen admits that
Zinich was kept under guard
until the ship left the dock, but
alleged that he Is now released
and placed in the third class.
-
Steve Zinich, handcuffed, and in
the damp brig at the bottom of the
luxurious ocean liner, Bremen, was
exiled from the country yesterday,
while Federal authorities and the
ships officers refused to permit any
of the workers friends to bid him
farewell
Representatives of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense and friends OF
Zinich were given permission to
board the ship, locked on Pier 4
at 59th St., Brooklyn, but the work
ers who came to see Zinich off were
sent from officer to officer.
1t is unknown whether he will be
permitted to leave the dark, un-
healthy hole during the trip even
though passage was paid for his
trip by the international Labor De-
tense.
And so Zinich was sent out of
the country, shackled, alone, in the
dark brig of the ship, while his
friends were refused to even say
good bye. He is going to the So
Wet Union, exiled from the U.S.A.
because of his working class ac-
tivities. He was editor of Radnik,
Jugo-Slav workers daily. Mass pro-
test of the working class, fostered
by the LID. saved Zinich from be-
ing sent to his death in Jugo-Slavia,
after long, hard fight for his right
to remain in the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
Meet Tonight to Fight
SouthernLynchingPlan

Continued from Page One)
Harper, Negro worker, member of
the Southern District Committee of
the International Labor Defense and
Trade Union Unity League Organ
izer in the South since December IL.
He goes on trial Feb. 26 with others
arrested at Washington unemploy-
ment demonstration. Harper stated
to the Daily Worker:
"The lynching of Negro workers
is a passtime and pleasure of the
Southern bosses and means of ter
rorizing the workers. While 4,330
lynchings have been recorded during
the past thirty years, the Interna
tional Labor Defense will expose
hundreds of unrecorded lynchings
which have taken place, many Of
them under the guise of "unidenti-
fled Negro found dead" The Inter-
national Labor Defence Anti-Lynch-
ing Committee has already uncover
ed two such cases within the past
few months, one the Willie McDan-
iels case near Charlotte committed
by Mel Grier and a gang of wealthy
planters, and that of Laura Wood,
mother of four sons.
"The Negro workers in large cities
and towns like Winston Salem, N.
c., Chattanooga, New Orleans, At
lanta, etc., are becoming too mill
tant for any open lynching and even
in Charlotte, N. c., ! doubt if mob
would visit the Brooklyn section to
lynch Negro or white union organ
izers, am sure they would not make
such an attempt in the working class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24

gro and white workers must be
stopped by organized committees Of
Negro and white workers ready at
all times to rush to any place where
a prospective lynching Of union
organizer or Negro worker is state
of fact. The Trade Union Unity
League, National Textil4 Workers
union and unemployed councils must
continue organizing their defense
committees"
Among the speakers at the meet
ing tonight will be George Siskin,
New York District Organizer, T.
U.U.L., and Sam Nisin, District t'r-
ganizer of the international Labor
Defense, and others.
Volunteer and unemployed work
ers are requested to call at 33d
LenoX Ave, at 10 a. M, today, to
help distribute unemployment and
anti-lynching meeting leaflets.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
Metal WORKERS
FIGHT spEEDUP
District Convention in
N. Y. March |

The New York District of the
Metal Workers Industrial League
of the Trade Union Unity League
holds it's convention March / in con-
junction with the T.U.U.L. district
convention called for the same date.
Important information on the
rapid organization of the Metal
Workers League was furnished the
.T.U.U.L. National Executive Board
at its last meeting by A. Overgaard,
national secretary of the M. W. /. L.
Overgaard painted word picture
of extraordinary naturalization
speed up and substitution of lower
paid women, young and Negro
workers for the old skilled hands.
The new machinery constantly APP
pearing also drives many workers
from their jobs. He told how the
Central Alloy Co. in Youngstown
has started using machine for NOV
ing scrap lat Immediately elimi-
mated 25 common laborers. In Bir-
mingham and Charleston the work.
ers are mostly Negroes. In the
North one-third of the workers are
Negroes.
Criticisms made by Overgaard
were, not enough attention to the
basic industry, steel, as in Chicago,
Pittsburgh, etc. There is also, as
in Cleveland, a tendency to under
estimate the necessity Of working
inside the ALL, particularly the
Machinists' Union. Revolt is grow
ing in the machinists. A strong sec
ton of the league membership is
from rank and filters who rebelled
when progressives were expelled
from the Machinists' Union.
The report criticized certain right
wing tendencies which have been
found, showing an underestimation
Of the results to be expected from
attentive organization work, and
consequently carelessness in getting
the work done, and hesitancy to
affiliate progressive groups and
other organized bodies to the T.U.
u. L. Wherever the membership
has had chance in these bodies, as
in the jewelers., to decide, they have
been overwhelmingly in favor Of
affiliation with the T.U.U.L., and
good results have followed at once
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
LAUNDRY T0ILERS
LOOK TO 7. U. U. |.
FOR LEADERSHIP
Illness, Speedup; Wage
Cuts, Every Day

A good example of what it really
means to be organized and left to
the mercy of the bosses the work
ers in the laundries. Here is the
best example of highway robbery by
the laundry bosses who make big
profits and who live in luxury on the
sweat and labor of their Negro and
white slaves.
In these laundries young and
grown up women (who are the alb
solute majority are forced to work
81 hours a week, at a miserable
wage of $12 to $14 a week. Neither
the bosses nor the city sanitary in
spectors (whom you seldom see in
these laundries) bother about the
health and safety of the workers
Wet floors, no sunshine, bad odors
dampness and when an electric ad-
justment was broken in the Mott
Haven Laundry last year, it has not
yet been replaced. The results of
these conditions are pale faces, faint
ing spells, fast undermining of the
health, a shorter road to the come
terry.
It is not for nothing that the
bosses do not want to keep their
workers too long on the jobs. The
hire and fire system is hanging like
a sharp sword over the heads Of
these workers, and the bosses are
using the lay-off as a weapon to
speed up more and more. The boss
es do not bother too much about
safety devices to protect the work
ers from accidents.
The Cleaning and Laundry Work
ers Industrial Union fights for the
following demands:
1. S-hour 5-day week.
2. Standard minimum wage scale.
3. Equal pay for equal work for
men and women, Negro and white
workers.
A. Against the speed-up.
5. Elimination of chemical in
juries to our health.
6. No discharge, no lay-offs,
sharing of work.
The unorganizer laundry workers
have to follow the good example of
those laundry workers who have
already elected shop committees and
joined the Cleaning and Laundry
Workers Industrial Union.
The unorganized laundry workers
have to respond to the call of the
New York Trade Union Unity
League district convention, which
will be held Saturday, March IL, at
Irving Plaza, Irving Pl. and 18th st.
This convention will discuss all
the grievances of the workers in the
N. Y. area, and will map out plans
to fight more intensively the cause
of the workers in the shops and on
the jobs. 1t is the duty of these un-
organized laundry workers to get
together and elect delegates to this
convention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24

sections of Atlanta and Winston
Salem"
while in Atlanta the xxx.
staged a parade under police escort,
they c.. short plans for a second
efter the members of the Comm a.
mist Party held defense committee
meetings among Negro workers.
"In Charlotte few weeks ago,
when a whispering campaign was
being conducted to work up a local
lynching, the Communist Party held
an open-air meeting in the white
working-class section, and several in
the Negro and border-line sectiocs,
and the International Labor Defense
Committee made preparations to
break up any mob that might have
attempted to take Negro w7~',er
out to lynch him from the Charlotte
Jail.
"The lynching and mobbing of Ne
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-24
WORKERS SCHOOL ADVISORY
COUNCIL MEETS THURSDAY.

A special meeting of the Advisory
Council of the Workers School will
be held on Thursday, February q,
at $50 p. M, at the Workers Gen.
ter, rs Union Square, to hear gen.
eral report for the school year,
1929-30. In addition, number OF
important items will come up for
discussion. This will actually be
the first meeting of the council n
| the history of the school.