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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
1T she met Diamond in a night

morning, no matter if they cost a
buck apiece. l never eat so much
good food since | started trouping."
"Margot Nelson: | didn't know
they was such guys as this towns
got, Talk about swell times. Say
we never do come home till morn
ing"
"Viola Burns: | amt a bit afraid
to ride around in my boy friends
car, because it's all lined with steel
At first was a little afraid when
he showed me one Of those machine
guns in the back seat, but when
he explained it was in case anyone
attacked us, felt better. And pres,
ents! Baby, he's liberal"
"Carol Boyera: Me and my guy
has split because saw his picture
in the paper as gangster, Ane
in way I'm sorry | gave him the
air, as nearly all the girls are go
ing around with gang guys"
'Helen Ackerhow: Fellow, if this
show will have year run in thi'
lousy burg I'm set for life. l got
a John who comes in the morning
with dough sticking out of his ears
and most of it is century notes."
Irene Gray: All my life I've beer
looking for break like this
Look-ey! Them's real stones ant
that watch keep time. Worth two
grand, and I've only known Johnnie
three weeks"
Norma Watson: III tell you this
boy and me is awful close, and the
only reason why I'm sticking with
him is because he's got plenty Of
sugar and he spends it. ! don't
know or care if he is in the rack
cts"
Peggy O'Day: No girl can be
blamed for trying to advance her.
self"
No, indeed! Only this is capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
SOCIAL FASCISTS
STEAL C.P. VOTES
Refused Recount By
Bourgeois Judge

(Esperanto Worker Correspondent
BERLIN.-We have in Germany
the largest extent of democracy,
i. e., during the elections everybody
has the right to vote. He or. she
deposits his or her vote with the
name of the party he or she is vot-
ing for. The voting is done Secretly.
Those who do not believe it have
seen an illustration of it during the
last election of the factory coun-
ellis. l am quoting this as one Of
the numerous examples which ex-
pose our democracy"
Steal Votes.
In the mine shafts of Shamrock
there are 5000 miners, the majority
of whom sympathize with the Com
munist Party and over 400 are sub
scribers to the Communist press.
However, a miracle took place DUR
ing the election, when it was an
nounced that the Communists re-
ceived only $40 votes and the social
fascists 1900.
The workers were indignant when
they heard about it. What's to be
done? The comrades Immediately
circulated lists collecting names of
those who voted for the Commu-
nists. The result was TOO sigma
lures. The workers went trium-
phantly with this undeniable evil
dence to the judge, but they forgot
the class nature of the judge. He
refused to recognize these sigma
lures; for him. they had no meaning.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

club last March, that he had pre-
scented her with diamond ring -
the stone was as big as marble
that he had paid her $50 whenever
he called, and last Thursday had
given her 500 to buy a coat"
The girl, of working class par
entage, drawn into the night club
and show girl life, into prostitution
by the lure of the dollar, by capital
list emulation, paved over by gang
sters and now by their equally saw
age allies, the police.
Capitalist emulation! Get the
money! Get it for yourself! In
Soviet Russia there is socialist
emulation; Try to surpass others in
doing something for the happiness
of all.
Legs" Diamonds "girl" is only
one. Look how capitalism openly
encourages prostitution of chorus
girls and gangsters. Before me is
the October 8 edition of variety,
the widely read theatrical paper. In
an inch and a half headline across
the top eOf the front page it says:
CHORUS GIRLS HEAVEN.
Then smaller headline: cts Chi
cago and the Boys-Racketeers
Squander Their Dough on Out-of-
Town Class-Jewels for the limiting
Fur Goats Before Christmas -
Johns that Always Say Yes"
Below list Of twenty-eight
names--"changed a bit to protect
the girls"---gives individual testi-
testimony of how it pays to be a
prostitute for Chicago gangsters.
Read few samples and see for
yourself:
Theresa Meridthean: Baby, they
are honeys. You ought to see my
swell apartment. I'd take you up,
only joey, that's his name, might
bump yah off, he's that jealous.
Boy we have honeydew melon every
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

and were Immediately arrested and
bundled into waiting police car.
Over hundred police were mobilized
around the hotel long before the del
egation arrived.
Hundreds of unemployed workers
gathered there were dispersed and
made to keep moving" by the spe-
cial cordons of police who surround
ed the hotel. A special detachment
of mounted police pushed and jostled
the workers around, refused to per-
nit them to picket the hotel, took
away the signs and banners and
rode their horses to the workers to
keep the sidewalks clear.
An unemployed Negro worker, ex-
hausted by hunger fell to the side
walk, unconscious, the blood flow
ing from his mouth. The wagon
took him to the city hospital, but
the workers reported that he was
already dead when the ambulance ar
rived.
The workers are not being fooled
by this fake conference of bankers,
bosses and their tools and henchmen.
They do not expect any relief from
this conference" other than more
flop houses, and slop. They are or
ganizing behind the demands of the
Unemployed Councils and T.U.U.L.
in the fight for real unemployment
insurance and will demand that the
delegation to see Emmerson be i'm
mediately released.
The International Labor Defense
Of Chicago is on the job securing
bail and lawyers to fight for the re-
lease Of the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the action
of the British labor government in
the present Imperial Conference,
the Daily Worker here prints an
article by R. Paine Dutt, analyzlng
the significance Of the imperialist
gathering.
"For the first time labor gov
eminent represents British capital
ism at an Imperial Conference. its
line of British capitalism is sup
ported by the entire capitalist
press" writes Comrade Dutt.
"This unity is expressed in the
joint manifesto of the Federation
of British Industries and of the
Trades Union Congress on the Is
sues of the Imperial Conference,
which has been stated to represent
also the views of the labor gov
eminent.
s'This unity, which is thus laid
bare at the Imperial Conference, is
the most powerful exposure OF the
real character of the labor party
asa party of capitalism.
Capitalism's Spokesman.
The labor party on the platform
claims to represent an alternative
to the capitalist parties; on the
platform it speaks of socialism and
denounces the other capitalist par
ties. But as soon as it comes to
action, and above all as soon as II
comes to the larger issues of the
empire, India, etc., what is re-
vealed?
"The labor party acts as the di'
rect spokesman of British capital
ism, in unison with the other CAPT.
talist parties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
Hegewick Jobless
to Form a Council

HEGEWICH, Ill.--Most of the
workers here are about at the end
of the rope. In the shops that sur
round us, most of them are work.
ing on very low short time, some
of them are almost completely closed
down (this is Hoover,s prosperityD
And yet--somehow these work.
ers do not participate in revolution
airy activities of red workers
party, that is to say. the Commu-
mist Party. Of course ! hear that
we have branch of the |. l.. D.,
but the number of workers in this
branch is very small-very small
compared to the number of work
ers here. Now, having this in view,
l think that the opportunity is here
to organize an unemployed coun-
Gil, which is the only workers or
ganization that is really fighting
for unemployment insurance.
UNEMPLOYED.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
RR COMMISSARIES
MEANEST OF ALL
Graft Much and Feed
Rotten
(Ba Worker Correspondent)

(By Worksr Correspondent
LISBON, Ohio.-There are graft
ers of all kinds that exploit the
workingman, but in my estimation
the worst and lowest of the bunch
are the railroad board and commits
sary outfits.
This gang of belly-robbers sit in
their offices smoking cigars and liv-
ing off the fat of the land and the
sweat of the workers. They feed
the men (call it feed) at So cents
head and charge them $1.35 day
for board, and what board.
The stuff they send out is the
worst, especially the meat. When
a farm bull gets so old that he can't
earn his pasture they kill him and
throw him in cold storage for ten
years and then send him out there.
When l think of the garbage ! used
to eat there it makes me wonder
how ] stayed well.
Toughest part is that man can't
even back himself. He is compelled
to eat this rotten chuck or lose his
job. The fact proves that the rail-
road authorities not only know
about these damn conditions, bu,
support them.
Comrades, these conditions will
not better themselves. We've got te
better 'em, and to do that we must
organize, and the one organization
in this country that specializes ir
this and works for the interests OF
the working class is the Communist
Party. Forward under the hammer
and sickle. j. N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
Negro Ioilers
Being Won for
C.P. Platform
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Dear Comrades:
l am writing my experience in
the Detroit Tag Days which were
held on Saturday, October 18th and
Sunday, October 18th.
Starting Saturday from house to
house giving the message of the
Communist Party to the workers
where it is eagerly accepted.
In the colored district the work
ers were afraid to open the door.
When I explained my purpose the
workers said the doors of their
homes were open to the representa-
tives of a working class party.
At First Hesitant.
The Negro workers still are
timid and told me that they We're
fooled so many times that they are
afraid of white men who speak of
organizing all workers, black and
white into one organization.
After discussing the problem
with them they agreed that the c.
P. is the party for all workers. The
worker wanted the Daily Worker
delivered to him. During the two
days I received 8 weekly readers
of the Daily and distributed leaf
lets and collected so cents.
I am sure that our successes
would be greater if all comrades
went from house to house instead
of donating five dollars and that's
all. No one knows about the c. P.
or the election campaign except
the party member himself.
SAM M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

list emulation! And capitalist So
ciety is based on the robbery and
misery and starvation of the work
ers, who are tired of slavery and
poverty and mean 10 put an end to
this degenerate system with its
prostitution, it's Fish Committees,
fascist labor takers, Legs" Dia-
monds, Haywood Brouns, Texas
Guinans, Hoovers, Tammanys and
capitalist newspapers that glorify
prostitution and strike-breaking!
The workers, the working class,
the class that is useful and pro-
gressive, lnust turn, is turning, to
Communism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

starving? HI e IL, no!
They are interested on
Iy in keeping them
from uniting for revO-
luton. Which is the
only reason they speak
regretfuny once in a
while about unemploy-
ment and lie about
something being done"
or better times ahead"
In the Legs" Dia-
mond case the capitalist
papers are interested
in using it to make "the
public" interested in il
to cover up the starv-
alton of the workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

aroused the whole neighbor-
hood On the question and or
ganized a council of the neigh
bors to watch this home and
protest the eviction if carried
out. The women were very mill
tant.
Tuesday the workers thronged
about this steel plant all day, as
they had advertised for applica-
tions. 1t is estimated that 1900
workers were there. One, Joseph
Kutas, was killed in the mad rush
to get in the employment office and
another broke his arm and another
his leg.
DEATH AND STARVATION.
Yet they say we are buns and
don't work. This same day three
miners were trapped in coal
mine at Dalton, west of here, and
all three were killed by carbon
monoxide gas. Death and starva-
ton everywhere for workers.
Today, Wednesday, hundreds Of
workers again assembled at the In
ternational Steel even after the fat
officials finally said they would
hire no more for at least 4 months.
The Unemployed Council had been
holding daily meetings there and the
bosses and police finally showed
their terrorism by grabbing three
comrades, Douglas, Yubase and
Stewart.
Start Canvass.
The Unemployed Council is now
preparing to start campaigning for
signatures for social insurance, in
an intensive house to house census.
We have decided to issue in one Sec
ton of the city at time the Social
Insurance Bill (the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Billy ques-
tionnaire and propaganda leaflet,
following up with personal contact
and talk with the workers while col
Letting signatures and question
naires.
Plan Fight.
The latter we have drawn up 10.
cally and contain such questions as:
Are you facing eviction? Can you
supply your family with bare neces-
sites? Do you favor social ipsur-
ance? Did you donate to the Com
munity Fund? Did you ask them
for relief? What did they say?
Are you aware of the misery facing
workers this winter? Will you fight
or starve? etc. We feel that this
plan is bound to be successful.
"A. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
CITY BUDGET
OVER BILLION
Wanamaker Gets Mil
lion Graft
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page u
profit to them of almost two mil
lion dollars.
The city, according to the budget,
will spend $150,000,000 next year in
condemnation proceedings for lands
supposedly needed for schools, sub
ways and parks. At least S65,000,-
900 of this $16o,O0O,O0O will go in
excess payments for lands which
Tammany politicians have acquired
in advance. Sixty-five million dol
lars for Smith and Walker and Curry
and McCooey and Flynn and every
exploiting friend they have, but not
cent for the relief of New York's
starving, for those whose weary
learch for a crust of bread often
ends in suicide or insanity.
More Machine Guns and Tear Gas.
1t is not literally true that the
budget-makers were not thinking of
New York's working class when they
drew it up. They were, decidedly.
The police department has been al
more armed thugs and strikebreak-
lowed on $8,000,O0o increase over
last year, from $53,000,000 to $751;
100000. Eight million more for
prisons, where the ruling $50" hope
to be able to put those workers who
are militant enough to fight rather
than starve.
However, the budget does include
the salary raises which Mayor
Walker and his "poor friends" ,oted
themselves a few months ago. And
it does include the salaries that are
paid to thousands of Tammany
gangsters whose work consists only
of mutilating ballots at election
time.
But the budget makes no mention
of the thousands of individuals who
are granted rebates in taxes which
in the long run are paid by workers
in the form of rent. Let US look at
a few of them.
First of all there are the news
papers in New York, whose taxes
are millions less than the city char
ter demands. The Daily Worker
has mentioned the exact figures on
this matter before. Then there are
Rodman Wanamaker's unoccupied
lands on Riverside Drive, upon which
Grover Whalen's employer saves
several hudred thousands a year be-
cause of fraudulently low tax as
sessments.
Rockefeller Gets Tax Reduction.
Again, there are John D. Rookie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
BRIEFS FROM
ALL LANDS

BERLIN.-In the first half OF
September the number of unem-
ployed workers in Berlin-Bran-
denburg has grown considerably.
The number of workers registered
as unemployed is 100000. During
the last two weeks there has been
an increase of 100000 throughout
the Reich.
The Institute for Investigation
Into Economic Variability says un-
employment is only beginning in
Germany.
PARASITIC French Communist
Party is conducting an energetic
campaign in the by-election in the
Goth Paris District. In the first
vote, the Communist candidate,
Thorez, defeated the socialist rep
resentative. Another election is to
take place to decide who will be
elected.
MADRID.-The unrest in the
Spanish province of Galicia is in
creasing. In Santiago de Compos-
tela, Orense, Pontevedra and La
Cruna a general strike has been
declared, In Luga also the gem
eral strike is being continued, al
though the capitalist press reports
"all quiet" In Pontevedra clashes
occurred between strikers and po-
lice, several persons having been
injured, In Vigo a general strike
for AZ hours was carried out,
JOHANNESBURG, Afric "A
report in the working-class paper,
"Umsebenzi," states that Comrade
Elliot Tonjeni, a leader of the At
rican people, was placed under ar
rest. He is charged with having
violated the race discrimination
laws against Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
Boss Press Uses LEGS" and "Kikl" to
Cover Ub the Starvation OF the Masses

Ian animal as cruel as any savage, involved in
forty murders, more anti-sociaf than any can
nibal. Heroized! His miserable carcass held
lup as the one thing in which everybody should
lbe interested!
LEGS" Diamond was shot. How he is near
death. Crowds of reporters with pencils poised
hang upon his words. What he was wearing
Whether he was smiling or in pain. What he
says about others and what others say about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

lliIH.
Never mind about
the starving workers!
The daily list of jobless
suicides! The thousands
of worried workers,
driven insane, pouring
into the a s. lu m S !!
workers? They don't
count so long as they
don't go Bolshevik
Then we'll applaud for
law and order black
jacks, tear gas and ma
chine guns!" Such is
the stuff the capitalist
press is made of.
Even Legs" Dia-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
CANTON JOBLESS COUNCIL TO MAKE
CENSUS TO ENLIST ALL WORKERS IN
BIG DRIVE FOR WORKERS BILL
Worker Killed in Rush to Get Jobs at the
international Steel Co. Here
(By a Worker Correspondent

CANTON, Oho.-Workers have been gathering at the
International Steel Co. German capita who supposed to
hire 200 Monday morning about 800 there
and 100 to the Workers Unity Center where great dis
cusson held and the entire bunch then went to 9Th and
Rowland Ave workers home and turned the and
electricity which had been shut off
Act On Eviction.
From there they went to Correl Ave- where worker
had been served with eviction notice. These workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
JOBLESS REDS
JAILED in CHICAGO
Governor Holds Fake
Conference

CONTINUED from Page u
woman worker, and an unemployed
young worker, entered the lobby of
the hotel demanding to enter the
conference room and plac their de-
mands before Governor Emmerson,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16
Vote Communist!
By HARRISON GEORGE.

by uANNISO1N uTONUI1s
&c NURSE held the morning newspapers
"A close to the sleepy eyes of the patient
("Legs" Diamond) to show him how much pub
lie interest there was in the prospect of his
death."-N. Y. Telegram.
"Public interest" in the capitalist newspap-
crs? Impossible! Are they interested in the
fact that millions of workers are jobless and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

public mind off the that THE issue the working class
capitalist that the Communist Party leading
the fight of the working class
doing this what and rotten capitalist society
exposed gunman
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

led K photographed the front interviewed
glimpse of the unspeakabe
rottenness of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-16

BUENOS AIRES.-The Uriburu,
prevail Street regime has arrested
38 working-class leaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-05-07
NEW TIP SPURS
HUNT FOR
SLAYER
Police Hopeful That Solution
of Baker Case Mystery
Lies in Suspects Capture

Continued From Page ~
bill unpaid, and threats Of arrest
u he didn't pay it.
During his tenure there he Is
said to have made love to q fel
low-boarder under the representa-
ton that ne was single and ia
have borrowed" $50 from her
with which he made a down
payment on an automobile.
On April 10 he obtained O. job
at Oak Crest as q house painter
with a well.known contractor Of
that place. On April II he went
to work at Oak Crest, worked
all day and Is alleged to have
ransacked the house on his de.
parture. A fellow-worker made
him return q considerable amount
Of loot.
Arrested Next Day
He was arrested the next day
and held in the Arlington county
jail. His employer refused to
prosecute and he was released q
week later. He boasted that,
while in jail. he was one Of four
men in the lineup at the taii
when q worker on the Highway
Bridge picked out Mervin SissOn,
Of Warsaw, Va, and laid that
Sisson had attempted TO sell him
q watch on the night Of the
murder. SiSson was completely
exonerated Of the crime and the
mans Identification" ignored.
Although he claimed to be .
wounded veteran Of the World
War drawing compensation from
the Veterans Bureau. which fact
his employer said caused him to
relent when the Arlington county
grand jury met, War Department
records show that he was dis
charged from the regular army
at Fort Jay, N. Y, nearly two
years ago. after serving for q
time at Boiling Field. his army
record was clear and lacked long
periods in the guard house Of
which he boosted.
Confession" Doubted
Virginia police place little Gre
dence, they declare, in q confes-
sion Of the Baker murder made
by a man arrested ct Manassas
yesterday on q bad check charge.
While being brought back to
Remington, Va, by q deputy
sheriff he is said to have con"
fessed the Barker murder. Later,
police say. he said he did this
to "give the arresting officer the
thrill Of his life"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-05-07
Tilted Pianist Asks
S512.OOO Damages

RACINE, Wis. May z uN.S0
Suit for $4,000 charging
breach Of promise has been
brought against Mrs. Robert Gal.
loway, wealthy widow Of Mem
phis, Tenn, by Leo Tecktonious,
concert pianist Of Paris. France,
according to a complaint on file
here today.
Mrs. Galloway's change Of
mind. the plaintiff alleges, has
caused him great embarrassment
and humiliation. both In America
and abroad.
Announcement Of the engage,
ment was published in Paris, New
York and Chicago, the complaint
says. TecktoniouS. a member Of q
prominent Racine family. has
been visiting his parents here
since January, whence he came
from. Paris, he said.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1930-05-07
END. 1OF NOISES
IS SOUGHT

(csHtinusG From Page -
creased 80 per cent In the last
10 years In eur big cities.
For three generations the
maxim family has manufactured
war material-Maxim machine
guns, smokeless powder and
Maxim Silencers. Maxim's father,
was Hiram Stevens Maxim, in
ventor of the Maxim machine
gun, and his uncle was Hudson
Maxim. inventor and developer
Of many high explosives.
Sees New Era
But, Maxim said today, the
London naval conference marked
the beginning Of a new era" So
his company Is going in :or the
manufacture Of peace-time de
vices.
He asserted:
''War is out Of date. The
next IS years will not be any
thing like the last. We believe
that war win be = very remote
possibility then. OF course
there win be wars between the
smaller nations, but between
the major natlons-nO!
'"The London naval confer
ence was . great advance in.
the cause Of humanity"
Mr.. Maxim said he is opposed
to war. but an advocate Of reason
able preparedness.
He thought it was "a signifi
cant fact" that the Maxim
Silencer Company is now devot
ing its perfected apparatus for
noise abatement. He declared II
is q simple matter to make use
of inventions that have to do
with the silencing Of firearms and
make them apply to all forms OF
noise that come out Of pipe. A
gun Is q pipe. he pointed out.