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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17
Chew on This One

Here's puzzle for you. The crisis has come
about because of over-production, yes? And to
remedy it, the proposal is that the work-week
be cut down to five days. Which sounds good,
logical If the work-week has been six days, to
cut off one-sxth of the production.
The Typographical Journal tells how it worked
out in the drug business of E. R. Squibbs and
Sons Company. Everybody was put on a five-day
week, But, lord bless you! Production Increased
ten per cent over that turned out on six-day
work-weekl
Of course the company reduced wages one
sixth as, of course again, it couldn't be expected
according to capitalist rules, to pay the workers
for six days when they worked five. But they
produced more because the bosses stepped on the
workers tails that five days and pushed the
speed to the limit. But the company got big
hand orNbeing SO progressive" in installing the
five-day week!
The net result is that the workers have less
wages and harder work. while Squibbs has more
profits, providing it can sell the increased pro-
duct. That, dear reader is the fly in Squbbs'
Ointment. AS the capitalist remedy for the crisis
has produced another crisis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17
The Divorce Crisis

The United Press advises us from Reno that
the economic crisis is doing more than Bishop
Manning to slow up what that gentleman calls
the divorce evil" 1t also appears that the sweet
mammas who arrived at Reno ninety or more
days ago to establish residence, have been lis
tening to Hoover, and are awaiting return to
confidence in the market before filing their
divorce complaints, in order to make more adj
vantageous property settlement"
Now property settlements" don't sound to us
much like free" love. Rather does it seem to
be a case for the vice squad" with no frame-up
necessary. More:
Others, who have OF d preliminary nego-
tiations with attorneys by mail from their homes,
have decided to remain with their husbands q
few months longer, SO they can be more secure
IL their demands for alimony"
After such calculated prostitution as this, we
think 1t highly humorous that j. Hamilton Fish.
ct al, get up a fever over Soviet pilots" to
destroy the most sacred institution of AMER
lea, the family"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17

Ject photographing, finger printing and to stop
deportation of the foreign born; and to reject
any form of police supervision, or restriction of
the foreign born
(b) To abolish all restrictions on immigration
which were brought about by the u S. Immigra-
ton Quota Law in effect since July 1, 1929, the
further restrictions which were created by the
presidential decree, and any further restrictions
that may be proposed.
Co To abolish the paragraph of the same law
which discrininates against those who wish to
emigrate 70 the United States on the basis of
their political views when they apply for visas to
the American consuls
I'D To abolish the Harris Act, excluding Mex
leans
(e) To abolish the exclusion of Chinese Jap
anese and Hindus from the United States. We
demand that the Chinese, Japanese and Hindus
be placed on the same quota basis as other ma
tionalities.
"a To abolish those paragraphs OF the I'm
migration Law which provide for the exclusion
of aliens "wlio disbelieve or oppose organized gov
ernment" and the whole article containing this
clause, and the paragraph which provides for
deportation of those who In spite Of the above
provision enter the United States. The bosses
and their government can use these paragraphs
against any worker who opposes wage-cut,
fights against injunctions demands unemploy-
ment relief, ETC.
The entire American working class and par
ticularly the 100000 foreign born in this coun-
try will carefully watch every act of the United
States Congress, especially such action a. may
be tax n on the Blease, Aswell, johnson, Cabel
and Reed bills, and measures proposed by the
Fish Investigating Committee. The action to be
taken through these bills is not directly against
the foreign born workers. but against the entire
working class and is part and parcel Of the gen.
eral attack upon the working class as whole.
We demand that the United States Congress
take immediate action so that all discrimination
against the foreign born workers shall be ended
withou. delay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17
Continue the Fight for the Foreign
Born workers

Statement of the Committee for the Protection
of the Foreign-Born
THE gas attack at the Capitol building in Wash
ington against the 500 delegates to the Ma
tional Conference for the Protection of Foreign
Born representing organizations with member
ship of over 100000 workers., was not confined
to these demonstrators. This attack found its
expression and support in the newspapers of the
ruling class of this country and was aimed at
the entire working class.
BY Intentionally branding this great national
conference of white mad Negro, native born and
foreign born workers, as "a demonstration of
Communists" the capitalist newspapers delber-
ately suppressed the fact that besides the dele
gates from the Communist Party, which supports
the movement for the protection of foreign born,
the great majority of delegates were from con-
sentative as well as revolutionary unions, from
sick benefit organizations allied to churches,
from cooperatives, from Negro organizations,
from cultural and artists and writer's organiza-
tions etc. the membership of which agrees
Fundamentally on the demands presented to
Congress at the time of the demonstration.
The Seventy first Congress was opened with
gas bomb and police club attack upon a great
representative body of workers protesting against
reactionary legislature. The continuation OF this
ident Hoover to Congress, demanding deporta-
attack was manifest in the message of Pres
ton laws and further restriction of immigration
under the false pretext of solving the unem-
ployment problem" At the same time, the Pres
ident's message contained no real measure for
the solution of unemployment or for unemploy-
ment relief.
The National Committee for the Protection of
Foreign Born, elected by representatives of 300,-
900 native and foreign born White and Negro
workers, continues the struggle for the demands
presented to the opening session of Congress.
These demands are as follows:
I. we demand from the United States Con-
gress:~
ta) To reject all bills like the Aswell, Blease,
Cabel bills, the proposals of the Fish Committee
end such other bills as may be proposed; to re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17
Today in
Workers History

December II, 183O-Simon Bolivar, llbcrator
of South American colonies from Spain, died.
1S71-New York workers held funeral parade
in honor of executed Paris Communards. 1917
-An Russian Extraordinary Commission for
tion tCheka) set up. 1919-New York millinery
workers won 10 weeks strike for 44-hour week
and wage raises. l9i9-General strike in Egypt
in protest against British rule. 1929-Coal ex-
plosion at McAIester, Okla, 81 dead.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-17

Mote: The following article written be-
fore the crash of the Bank of the United
States. The conclusion of this article is
strengthened by the largest bank failure in
the United States)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
SHEA IS AROUSED
BY DRY ACQU|TTAL
BaIkS at Other Liquor Cases
Before Same Jury-Charges
Perjury to Defendant.

Because a jury in Criminal Division
l this afternoon before Justice Peyton
Gordon acquitted Irving Rosenberg of
a charge of violating the Jones-Stalker
law by transporting liquor July last,
Assistant United States Attorney Walter
M. Shea refused to try another liquor
case before the same jurors and pre-
ferred a charge of perjury against
Rosenberg for his testimony.
Justice Gordon committed the ac-
cuSed to await hearing before United
States Commissioner Turnage, from
whom Shea will seek a warrant.
A policeman and a prohibition agent
testified they had followed an automo-
bile into garage at 1927 u street, from
which the defendant alighted and ran.
A quantity of liquor was found in the
automobile. The defendant was appre-
hended, they said, before he got out
of the garage.
No one else was in the car, they
testified Rosenberg on the stand de-
clared he was only passenger and had
accompanied the driver to the garage
on the promise of bottle of whisky.
This statement to the jurors, Shea said,
was the basis of the warrant for
perjury.
Attorney Myron Ehrlich appeared for
Rosenberg, who also is under indict-
ment on conspiracy charge with
Herbert Glassman and 10 others for
violating the national prohibition act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
Conference Accepts Slim
sons Motion to Refer Clio
bal or Categorical Question
to Smaller Group.
ITALY ALONE DISSENTS,
BUT FINALLY GIVES WAY
Tardieu Offers French Compromise,
but No Exact Figures Are Given.
Gibson Outlines Policy of United
States and Recognizes Stand of
France.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 30.-The en-
tire question of how to measure
naval power-whether by total
tons or by tons in separate cate
gories-a problem which has
vexed naval limitation negotia-
tions for years, was put today in
the hands of a special committee
by the London Naval Conference.
This plan of treatment was
adopted on the motion of Secre-
tary Stimson, American delega-
ton head, at a full session of the
conference permeated by a gen.
eral willingness to compromise,
but marked, nevertheless, by
plain reiterations of diverse ma
tional viewpoints.
The Secretary of States pro-
posal was accepted unanimously,
although italy gave notice that
she felt her claim for parity with
France should have had preced-
ence and that she would accept
the decisions regarding limitation
methods only on condition that
she have day in court later.
The italian dissent was presented in
pungent phrases by Dino Grandi, Italian
foreign minister. known by every one to
speak the full determination of Premier
Mussolini. He declared that while the
whole parity question might be left
aside, Italy was willing that the physi-
cal terms of limiting navies be con-
gidered.
In the end, therefore, Secretary Slim
sons motion had unanimous vote.
TardIeu Offers Plan.
The French compromise plan was
presented by Andre Tardieu, the ar
rangement he proposed permitting shift
ing to limited extent Of tonnage from
one class to another to satisfy national
needs within the total tonnage allowed.
Neither he nor any other of this morn
ing's speakers mentioned any exact
figures.
Hugh S. Gibson. American Ambassa-
dor to Brussels and veteran of the abor-
tive Geneva conference, detailed to the
conferees how the United States had
always stood for definite limits in each
category, but now, not to stand in the
way of negotiations nor to impose its
will on other nations, was ready to con-
slider the French compromise.
Under Secretary Stimson's proposal
the original plan of a steering commit
tee of two delegates from each country
was scrapped In private discussions
the preponderance of British repre-
sentation on such committee had been
raised sharply. in view of the presence
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
SNOW FORCED HOOVER
TO TAKE CAR ONE BLOCK
President and Six Members of
Medicine Ball Cabinet Enjoy
Outdoor Workout.

The depth of the snow between the
White House and the State, War and
Navy Building, where the executive
ONCE is temporarily located, caused
President Hoover today to make the
trip in an automobile, despite the fact
that the distance was barely one block.
The snow did not prevent the Presi-
dent and six members of his medicine
ball cabinet from enjoying their Gus
tomary morning workout. They played
on the rear grounds for about 10 min
utes and then went inside to the cloak
room on the basement floor of the
White House, where the medicine ball
court has been marked out, and played
for about 20 minutes. Those who played
with the President today were Associate
Justice Stone of the United States Su-
preme Court, Alexander Legge, chair
man of the Federal Farm Board;
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Hope, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Jahncke, Walter H. Newton. one of the
Presidents secretaries, and Lieut.
Comdr Joel T. Boone, the Presidents
personal physician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
AGREEMENT SEEN
NEAR ON CLASSES
OF NAVAL VESSELS
Five Types Probably Will
Range From BattIeships
to Below 1000 Tons.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

By HaC1o TO Inc star ana Cn1caGo DAILY
News. Copyrisht, 1880.
LONDON, England, January 30.-To-
days full meeting Of the five-power naval
conference, which was public, took the
important decision of referring to q
committee, on a motion by the Ameri-
can delegates, the question Of how war
ships shall be classified and what trans
ferS shall be permitted from one class
to another and whether global tonnage
shall be the basis of limitation. This
means that an agreement on these
points is now presumably near.
The committee method will mean q
great saving of time, because the pri-
vate conversation method. hitherto fol-
lower, has entailed separate meetings
by each delegation with every other
delegation on every point, or 10 distinct
meetings per point.
The classification which will prob
ably be adopted is as follows:
/. Capital ships.
2. Aircraft carriers.
8. Ten-thousand ton cruisers.
4. Cruisers and deStroyers under
1000 tons.
5. Submarines.
Tonnage transfers will probably be
allowed only within class four or pos
sibly between classes four and i've.
The purpose of the transfers is to make
it easier for the small naval powers
not represented here to enter an agree
ment when the general Disarmament
Conference is held at Geneva.
There is now reason to believe that
the plan for a naval settlement, which
was revealed yesterday, is OF American
origin, has the approval OF the Ameri-
can delegates and was fully discussed
in Washington some weeks ago.
This plan has not yet been laid for
mally before the other delegates, but
in private conversations 1t is now the
all-engrossing topic. The plan can be
summarized as follows
l. It provides for one f1ve-year, i've
power treaty covering all categories OF
ships.
q. 1t contains no ratios, but merely
a statement of building programs In
all categories.
These programs would naturally be
carefully adjusted with one another
and would be based on considerations
of tonnage built, building or appropri-
ated in each category at the present
moment. For example, application OF
this plan would seemingly, and barring
! possible readjustments or compromises,
give the United States 10 big cruisers
Great Britain, Is; Japan, IL; France,
8, and Italy, 6.
So far as can be learned today France
while preferring its own plan of limita-
ton by global tonnage with transfers
| between categories, is much interested
! in the American plan and is ready to
/ consider it sympathetically. Japan pre-
/ fers not to discuss it until it is officially
| proposed. Great Britain does not sum-
marty reject it. but is not favorably
CONTINUED on Page 3, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
TO BACK
HOWELL DRY BILL
Senator Says He viii Support
Measure in Hope of Re-
duCing Crime Here.

While the Howell bill to tighten pro-
hibition enforcement In Washington was
awaiting consideration by the Senate
District committee at an early date,
Senator Cole Blease, Democrat, of South
Carolina. declared on the floor Of the
Senate that he would vote for the
measure If 1t offers any hope Of reduce
ing the crime which he believes exists
here.
Senator Blease, a member of the Dis
trict committee, arose to take issue with
newspaper reports chasing him as
among the "wets" on the District COM
mittee.
81 notice In one Of the Washington
papers," Senator Blease began, that
the District committee Is divided on the
prohibition question, and 1t put me on
the side of what they call the vets. I
thought had made my position plain
on this question. II those who are OPP
posed to this bill expect to defeat it
with my vote they are mistaken"
Senator BleaSe said that If those who
selected him for the District committee
had any idea that he could be classed
as wet he would take great pleasure
in reStgning from the committee"
Recalls Recent Speech.
The South Carolina Senator recalled
the speech he made recently, in which
he expressed the hope that the drys
would get whatever amount Of money
they deemed necessary and any legisla-
ton regarded as essential to enforce
ment. He said at that time he did not
expect to vote for anything that would
deprive a person Of the. right Of trial
by jury.
Senator BleaSe said that no matter
what his individual opinion might be
toward prohibition, the people of his
State were in favor of it and he re-
garded 1t as his duty to carry out the
will Of his people.
When q man does not know where
his State stands it is his duty to do
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
WASHINGTON NOTE TO CONGRESS-
DATED 1889, FOUND IN LIBRARY
Rare Book Expert Discovers Letter Acknowledge
Notification of Election.

Washington Of his election. He arrived
at Mount Vernon shortly after noon,
April II.
The letter follows:
Mount Vernon. April IA, 17ee.
Sir: had the honor to receive
your official communication, BY the
hand of Mr.. Secretary Thompson, about
o'clock this day. Having concluded
to obey the important and fattering
cali of my country, and having been
impressed with an idea Of, the expedi-
ency of my being with Congress at as
early period as possible, propose TO
commence my journey on Thursday
morning. which viii be the day after
tomorrow.
Il have the honor to be with setti-
mentS of esteem,
"Sir,
"Your most obedient servant,
&c. WASHINGTON.
The Honorable Jno. Langdon. Esq"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
SQUIRRELS AND BIRDS IN PARKS
FACE STARVATION, DUE TO SNOW
Failure of Acorn Crop Prevents Hoarding of Food
Supply for Bad Weather.

DR.. PAUL Reddington, chief of the
Bureau of Biological Survey Of the De-
partment Of Agriculture, issued the fol-
lowing appeal:
THE snow has cut on the food sup
ply of hundreds of Woodpeckers, car
dinals and juncos, not to mention
starlings. Many Of them are facing
starvation. Cracker crumbs, ground
peanuts, sundower seed and suet should
be placed where the birds can find
them"
The condition Of the squirrels in
Washington is made much worse this
Winter, according to Vernon Bailey Of
the Biological Survey, because Of the
failure of the acorn crop in the parks.
They have no horde of food laid by for
bad weather, as Is the case most Win
ters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
0kLAH0MAN KILLS
SLAYER OF FATHER
Youth Shoots Man in Barber Chair,
Then Surrenders Himself
to Authorities.
By the Associated Press.


TEMPLE, Okla, January S0.-Hav-
ing avenged the staying of his father
with q gesture reminiscent of old-time
mountain feuds, Jim Graham is in
the Cotton County jail at Walters, held
without bond pending arraignment in
connection with the killing of Harry
Adair. convicted killer of young Ora
hams father.
The elder Graham was slain last
April In pool hall after he had or
dered Adair to leave the place.
Convicted Of manslaughter and SEN
fenced to 40 years in the State peni-
Tertiary, Adair was at liberty on APP
peal bond.
Yesterday he was in a barber shop
here, his face covered with a towel
when Jim Graham, the son, stalked
into the shop, waited until the towel
was removed, and then, without a word
pulled a pistol, fired fve times and
strobe from the room. Graham later
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
By the Associated Press.

by Lae Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA, Calf, January
30.-E. A. Connoughton, rare book and
document expert, today announced he
had discovered in q library here the
letter George Washington wrote to
Congress acknowledging notification Of
his election as the first President of the
United States.
The letter was dated Mount Vernon,
April II. 1889, and was addressed TO
John Langdon, an officer Of the Con-
tinental Congress. Washington was
President pro TEN when the votes Of the
first electoral college were counted on
April 6. 1889, by the United States Con-
gress In New York Charles Thomp-
son, secretary of the Continental Con-
gress, was dispatched from New York,
where Congress was meeting, to inform
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30

Lovers of wild life in washington were
quick to respond today when it was
learned that hundreds of birds and
SQUIRRELS were facing starvation as
result of the snowstorm.
T. 8. Palmer, president of the Dis
trict Audubon Society, sent $25 to Maj.
Henry @. Pratt. superintendent of po-
lice, to be used in buying food for birds.
Mai. Pratt sent SIS each to the seventh,
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and four
teenth precincts, with orders that 1t be
used TO purchase food TO be distributed
by mounted policemen.
Scores of workers bound for down.
town ofnces paused long enough In the
parks 10 leave food for the squirrels,
(Which are facing q critical food situa-
&cn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30

SAN FRANCISCO. January 80 Dr.
Mrs. Sarah Elaine Byrnes, poetress-wife
If John Jockey" Byrnes, widely known
figure in sports circles, was found dead
in an apartment here Tuesday with
three gas Jets open. A letter to her hus-
band said she was In great pain and
feared insanity. A search for her
started when she disappeared from her
home Monday. Mrs. Byrnes' latest poem
was lust on the press"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
CHURCH BELLS SILENCED.
Soviet Acts as Workers Claim
Sleep Disturbed.

MOSCOW, January 80 R).-Moscows
40 times 40' churches, which for a
thousand years have pealed their
bells, no longer bill be heard. The gov
eminent today ordered them silenced
forever
An official statement explained the
action as taken in response to 'the
mass demands" from workers that the
bells be hushed because they disturbed
their peace and sleep and created other
nuisances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
GLIDER TESTS DELAYED.

LAKEHURST, N. j., January 30 Up
-Unfavorable weather conditions to-
day caused postponement of the sched-
uled test launching of a glider from
the naval dirigible Los Angeles.
The airship was to have fioated At
about 5000 feet while the glider. -.
its underside, was released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30

neglected problems and Of new problems
which call, in his opinion, for commissions
composed of men and women specially
equipped to search out the facts.
The Constitution of the United States,
under the heading of Duties of the Presi-
dent" says:
"He shall, from time to time, give to
the Congress information on the state of
the Union"
Desires All Information.
The Hoover administration differs from
all its predecessors in the Interpretation
of those words. The President considers
it his duty to get all the information he
can on matters of national concern. Be-
cause of the increasing completely of ma
tional life, he feels that extra governmental
agencies must be used in a greater and
greater degree, especially when the subject
is technical or when it has aroused many
points of view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
URGED FOR NOBEL PRIZE.
Premier Macdonald Choice of Nor.
wegian Socialists,

STOCKHOLM. January 80 DIT
was stated here today that the Socialist
party leaders, Peralhin, Hanson and
Moeller, have proposed that the Nor
wegian Storting give the Nobel peace
prize to Ramsay Macdonald, British
prime minister.
The Socialist or Labor party has a
stable plurality In the Norwegian
Storttng.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
" ALVA JOHNSTON.


major political development the three probably
next President facorShper believes
that both administrative and legislative problems
solved accumulation