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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

through federal aid, because we
have no security, and give the I'M
employed men work to do. Crops
are all harvested and the money is
all spent. Fifty per cent of the
farmers are, without food, feed and
clothing"
Bankers point out that the smash
ing of the cotton price and the fail
ure of so banks in the state recently
have wiped out savings and stopped
the farmers income are
starving and unable to secure en-
ployment."
All agree that the Red Cross is
not doing anything and does not
propose to do anything
A man from Cash, Arkansas, winds
up a letter telling of starvation of
himself and family of eight BY say
FIG: IF the government can furnish
s25 100000 for chain of banks, it
looks as though 1t could help the
starving people of Arkansas"
But the government is not planning
to help anybody but the rich. The
farm relief program is a joke, Just
a scheme for loans that will add a
burden of mortgage and debt to an
already hopeless situation
Against this cold blooded exploita-
ton of the farmers. robbing them
while they have been knocked down
by the crisis, by the bankers and farm
machinery makers, and further in
jured by the drought the farmers
must organize. The United Farmers
League calls on them to organize by
townships and counties, and to fight
against taxes, interest on mortgages,
foreclosures and for cheaper supplies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BOB MINOR TO
SPEAK DEC. 26
At Meet for Defense
of Soviet Union

NEW YORK. - on Friday evening,
Dec, 26, the Friends of the Soviet
Union will hold a mass meeting at
the New Star Casino, lis E. 1o7th ST.,
in defense of the Soviet Union against
the threat of Intervention as exposed
in the Moscow trial of eight wreck
ers
Robert Minor, one of the Unem-
ployed Delegation which was Jailed
by the bosses for demanding relief
for the unemployed, will make his
first public appearance since his re-
lease from prison at this meeting.
Lem Harris, newspaper correspond
ent, who has just returned from the
Soviet Union where he travelled ex-
tensively. will give a first hand re-
port of his experiences in the land
If the Soviets.
Message Olgin, editor of the Fret
heit, will be one of the speakers. Bob
Dunn will act as chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

tens Of thousands Of workers and get
their support to build the Daily
Worker.
Thirty-two stations will be open
throughout the city on Saturday aud
Sunday. where volunteers will get all
their supplies. boxes. credentials.
Communist Party units throughout
the district are getting voluntary do
nations to save the Daily Worker.
Section /, Unit 8, pledged $50. of
which $1,000 has already been turned
in. one unit has made loan of $50
for the emergency campaign. The
Laisve, Lithuanian Communist Daily,
collected at concert $l1040 for the
Daily Worker. A Ukrainian club do
mated $25, Polish Workers Club Sc
Many donations are already coming
in from the international Workers
Order branches, and Jewish Workers
Clubs.
All workers organizations that have
not as yet taken up the question of
the Tag Day, and want to get ma
terial, should phone. Algonquin SLOT
District, Daily Worker, 3s East 18th
Street. ....
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

stone renegades vainly tried to get
an audience for their fake proposals
of unemployment relief"
Musteite and Lovestone renegades
peddled the Revolutionary Age" on
the outskirts of the Unemployed
Council meeting, while the police
tools of the bosses tried in vain to
help them by attempting to dispense
the Unemployed Council meeting
The jobless workers, however, re-
sisted both the attacks of the police
and the lures of the betrayers.
Norman Thomas, Music and Lud-
wig Lore spoke to a handful; Lore
declaring that the police and the
bosses are not to be blamed, that it's
just smiling Jimmy Walker" while
Music, after calling off the proposed
march" to City Hall, because the
police refused a permit. said that
when the workers had the CUTS to
fight they would get their demands.
Spakers at the Unemployed Coun-
Gil meeting we're Nesin, Stone and
CONTINUED ON PAGE TwOb
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

went up. We were assured that this
was the proof of the essential sound
ness" of American capitalism; j. P.
Morgan, Herbert Hoover, and Jay
Lovestone. all assured us that the
depression" had not touched the
heart of the capitalist system, for
the banks and bond values" were
listed higher than ever before.
Now the banks and bonds join the
general debacle.
Perhaps Messrs. Morgan, Hoover,
and Lovestone will now explain that
it is not banks and bonds, but some
thing else, which is witness to- the
transitory nature of the crisis.
More than 40 million people have
been cut off from their usual source
of livelihood. Millions of them
thought they had safeguarded them
selves by saving for a, rainy day."
but their savings are being wiped out
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
j. s. BAN K
CONDITIONS
VERY BAD
Small Depositors Must
Organize or They
Will Lose Out
Fake Loans Fool Few
State Examiner Tries
to Cover Up Mess
BUHLETIN.

All worker depositors Of the
Bank of U. S. called to a meeting
tonight at p. m. at los Thatford
Ave-, Brooklyn. At this meeting
plans will be worked out for a fight
for the return of the workers full
deposits.
NEW YORK.--Out of 100000 de-
positors of the wrecked Bank of the
United States only $500 were fooled
by the fake promise of SO per cent
loan on their deposits. Most of them
expect the return of the full amount
they put into the bank.
However, from reports that have
been published about the condition
of the bank, the grating, the mix-up
in fake real estate deals and the
very fact that the bank could not be
saved by the combined efforts of the
leading Wall Street banks shows that
unless the small depositors organize
and demand the return of their full
deposits this will not take place.
The further fact that the other
banks promise only so per cent
loans shows they do not think, at
the most, that the depositors will
ever get more than half of what they
put in.
A provisional meeting of 800 de-
positors of the Freeman st. branch
of the Bank of the United States was
held on Tuesday night. The small
depositors chose a Worker Deposit
ors Committee of Is to carry on the
fight for the protection of the in
terests of the worker depositors.
The committee is calling mass
meeting Of all the worker depositors
and will take the necessary steps to
protect themselves. According to re-
ports made at the meeting, the de-
pcsitors who surrender their books
do not receive As per cent of the de-
post, but through some Manipulation
or other it amounts only to 35 per
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

"a week to each of the job1ess,
the National Campaign Com
mittee for Unemployment In
surance e West 18th ST., New
York; announced yesterday.
The committee states that sigma
ture lists now in the hands of city
campaign committees, the Trade
Union Unity League local organiza-
tons and workers organizations of
all categories are being speedily dis
tributed to workers and members for
q quick and steady collection of sig
natures in the shops, mines and mills,
in working-class neighborhoods, on
the bread lines, at job agencies and
wherever unemployed and employed
workers are to be found.
The demand for signature lists is
widespread, Orders for $4,000 addi-
tional signature lists are on hand
and being shipped out as fast as the
press can print them, Demands for
lists are coming through from sur
prisingly wide area-from the South
and West, from workers in small
cities and industrial centers where
no form of worker organization ex-
lists, even from the farms, states the
committee.
The drive for collection of huge
number of signatures is coupled with
the preparations for united front con-
ferences in all important cities. The
National Committee urgently insists
that the smaller industrial districts
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Babies Are Going Hungry AN
Over This land OF PROSPERITY"

overnight. Hundreds of thousands of
small business men, who thought I'M
employment was not their concern,
and who fought against unemploy-
mept insurance because it might
raise their taxes, are now themselves
being suddenly appropriated" by
bank crashes.
One of the outstanding signs of
the depth of the crisis is the tremen-
dous drop in the consumption of
milk. The babies are going hungry
all over this land of prosperity. "
The soup lines lengthen; the flop
houses overflow, while the ware
houses pile ever highed with unsold
goods, more and more houses stand
empty, and millions of tons of coal
are heaped up while millions of
workers shiver in the zero cold.
Only the Communist Party points
out the iimple road to solution, the
only possible solution.
Open up all the empty houses to
the people, free of charge; and move
the freezing women and children into
the palaces of the rich!
Break open the warehouses, and
distribute the food and clothing
among the starving and freezing peo-
pie!
Seize the great stores of milk and
distribute it among the children of
the workers!
Open up the great stores of coal
for the free use of the massesl
The crisis enters a new stage! The
winter winds grow colder! The peo-
pie must find a new path
That path, the only one possible,
is the path ito Communism!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
NEEDLE WOR KERS
MASS PICKETING
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Foreshadows Strike

NEW YORK-In line with the
coming strike of the dressmakers to
end the wage slashes and win union
conditions, the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union members and
other militant workers are mass pick
citing Lorbreen Dress So, Foremost
Sportswear, Banner Skirt Shop and
Modern Sportswear.
The two last are contractors for
the foremost.
During the demonstrations four
more we're arrested at the Lorbreen
shop. 36 West Oath st. Two previ-
ously arrested, Harry Greenspan and
Sophie Rubin are held for trial on
Dec. &c. They are on bail
March on Contractors
The demonstrators before the Fore
most, 1885 Broadway, marched on the
Banner at 1877. w. Seth st. and de-
clared it on strike Some in the shop
came out Immediately and joined the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Campaign Lays. Only 1919
Of $4,000 Total Raised in Month


The Daily Worker $4,000 Emergency Fund Campaign
month DID, 1t has brought response to date of only
$3,197 o. ABOUT TEN PER CENT OF THE SUM THAT
MUST BE RAISED IF THE DAILY WORKER is TO CON-
IINUE At the rate would take about year get
together the that the workers paper must have i'm
nediately to insure it's existence.
Tomorrow the complete figures will be published show
ing the response from each district They will reveal that
Detroit has sent only $26062 Chicago only $14119 What
does this show?
It shows axness and Indifference. 1t shows that the
workers in these districts not organizing behind the
campaign. Laziness must be overcome.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Big SUPPORT FOR
DAILY TAG DAYS
Saturday and Sunday
as Many Workers Aid

NEW YORK. - Individual workers
and workers organizations are rally
ing in large numbers to the support
of the Daily Worker, the central or
gan of the Communist Party. "A work.
err who until recently was member
of the socialist" party came in to the
Daily Worker office, stating that he
was convinced of the treachury of the
socialist" party, and gave donation
for the Daily Worker also promising
to get other workers to donate.
Workers organizations throughout
the city are mobilizing their member
ship to go out on Saturday and Sun
day with collection boxes to reach
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

The Daily Worker the workers paper While capita-
st papers are discussing the latest development of the pro-
hbltlon issue and Hoover discusses unemployment the
ay worker bringing the true issues of the increasing
depression before the working aiding the workers
to organize for the struggle.
THE DAILY WORKER CAN CONTINUE ONLY WITH
THE FULL MASS SUPPORT OF THE WORKING CLASS
There are some signs of hope "Laisve" Lithuanian
Communist Daily sends $10 the Lithuanian Workers Liter
airy Society sends S25 But this enough There must
be immediate ORGANIZED mass support
Use the Red Shock Corps coupon page g. Rush con-
trbutons to the Daily Worker so East 18th St. New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
BY EARL BRoWpER.

A new stage has been reached IN
the economic crisis. 1t was signal
liked in the past few days by the
crash of the Bank of the U. S., by
the crash of hundreds of smaller
banks over the country, and by the
sudden drop III the bond market. The
crisis has reached into the very heart
of capitalism-the most sacred alters
of finance-capital are being en-
quilted in the general catastrophe.
1t is true that the case of the Bank
of the U. S. is complicated by the
most complex network of chicanery,
Tammany politics, and "get-rich-
quick" legalized robbery of the
masses, which makes even the more
conservative capitalists blush as it Is
revealed bit by bit. An effort is be-
ing made to explain the whole bust
ness by the exceptional GRIMM
ality of those who controlled the
Bank of the U. S.
Without denying any of the
charges made, it is necessary to point
out that this is only incidental,
What the Bank of the U. S. was do
ing, the entire banking system of the
country was doing, more or less. 1t
is only a question of degree. The
whole system is sliding into the
abyss.
Consider the question Of bond
prices. Bonds are the gilt-edge secu-
rites of capitalism, they are the in
nermost protected values" they are
the foundation of the entire f1nn-7cial
system. When last year, stocks took
their first big tumble, bond prices
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Jobless, Ignoring Musteites,
Rally to Unemployed Council
Support Demand for Immediate Relief and
Insurance Bill-Boss Press Admits That
Takers Only Drew Handful

NEW YORK.-Over 5000 unem-
ployed workers in front of the city
fake employment agency yesterday
heard speakers of the Unemployed
Council for four and a half hours
expose the viscious starvation poll
cies of the bosses and the betrayal
of the struggles of the unemployed
by the Musteite and socialist"
takers.
Across the street from the Unem-
ployed Council meeting the Musteites
and socialists" aided by the Love
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

hard hit IN great areas by
drought and hit still harder
everywhere by the crisis,
hunger too.
Teachers in England, Ar
kansas rport 200 children il. their
schools dull and numb from semi
starvation. The letter that reported
this declares: Thousands of our
people will not be able to subsist for
another 80 days"
S. H. Mann, county relief chairman
at Forrest City, ARK, writes that his
own investigation "convinces me. that
one third of the population is in ac-
tual want of food and the other two
thirds are not able to help"
y A Round Pond (Ark.) grocer
wrote: Conditions are rapidly get
ting more serious: Stores are be-
ing broken into and held up: banks
are being robbed; cows and other
animals are being killed for food by
thieves, and the only way to stop il
is for the farmer to get money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
SPERRY GYR0-
SCOPE WAGE CUT
Relief for Needy" Is
Made an Excuse
(By Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK. - Sperry Gyroscope
Company will put into effect Satur-
day wage cut of one per cent under
the pretense that it will be given
voluntarily" by the employees to the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle fund for the
"neediest" in the borough.
1t has been made very clear that
the company wishes to extend this
wage cut for period of "18 weeks. :"
However, the workers in the plant
know very well that it will continue
forever if possible and most likely the
company will give more wage cuts
under other pretenses in the future.
The speed-up system in til eplant
has placed hundreds of our fellow
workers who we're employed in the
plant few months ago out on the
streets to starve and neither Mr..
Redding, the bosses appointed presi-
dent of the "Sperry Industrial As
ISOLATION" nor any of the manage
ment has said word about them.
We, the workers of Sperry demand:
Cd No wage cut be given to any
workers under any pretense. (2) We
further demand that the Sper1y
Gproscope Co. is to pay full wages
to all those workers who were fired
and laid off during the year of 1890
We want the workers of Sperry to
write to us and express their opinion
about this wage cut Write to the
Sperry Workers Organizational Com
mittee, 81 Graham Ave, Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Cops Attack TOiler in
Place Over Zelgreen

NEW YORK. A Greek worker
named Constantinedes entered the
Greek restaurant over Zelgreen cafe
terra recently and laid his Daily
Worker on the table while he ordered
coffee.
The owner Immediately called three
police. and the cops beat up Constan-
tinedes viciously, and falsely accused
him of breaking an electric fan be-
longing to zelgreen cafeteria.
The mass violation of the injunc-
rion campaign has centered around
the zelgreen joint.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

demonstration, and the most of the
others came out later.
A strike has been won at Mollin
and Grey at 241 West 23rd St Here
miserable conditions prevailed with
pay below the scale, and discrim-
nation against the Spanish speaking
girls. After two hours stoppage,
the boss surrendered. giving an in
crease in wages and agreeing to union
conditions.
Today at 6 p. m. there will be a
meeting of dress cutters at 131 w.
28th st. to mobilize for the great
dress strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
LISTS IN CIRCULATION
FOR 100000 NAMES
DEMANDING INSURANCE
Orders in From Trade Union Unity League
Organizations, and Many Local Groups
for $4,000 More Lists for Jobless
City United Front Conferences Formulate Local
Demands and Plan Hunger Marches
Whole Sections of Country Not Touched by
Drive Before Are Swinging in; Misery APP
palling in Farming Regions, Small Towns

NEW YORK-Enough signature lists are already in cir
cuaton to allow the collection of two million signatures
employed and employed workers signatures that demand the
passage OF the Workers Unemployed Insurance Bill take the
funds of the national government and them TO nav
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Maniacs, Babes
Voters in NJ.

A man who votes only once
in Atlantic City elections
is regarded with suspicion.
Among those who voted in the
last election we're found dead
men and maniacs, the ma
MACS, for the most part vot-
ing republican.
The last time they counted
the ballots in Atlantic City
they found the number of
votes cast was greater than
the number of inhabitants in
GLIDING babes In arms and de-
partment store dummies.
Startling tales of boss graft
and labor rackets in the Daily
Worker soon. 100000 news on
PATE 81.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18
Starvation Sweeps Arkansas;
Call to Farmers to Organize
Senator Makes Public Pitiful Letters; Bank
Crash, Drought, Price Smash Spreads Ruin;
Z. United Farmers League Urges Struggle

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec IT, - Actual starvation, just
plain dying for lack of food and slow starvation thousands
reported to Senator Caraway from Arkansas frantic letters
from his state made public by him today.
AS the millions of obess hunger the cities the farmers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-18

Speed the Signature Collection Campaign
for the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Unemployment Insurance Must
Be Won Nowi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-17
THE D.

who are making their first visit to
Washington in the light of their newly
acquired education. These men and
women, varying in age from Is to so,
have been attending the far-famed
moonlight schools of North Carolina
and with great effort have mastered the
rudiments OF reading and writing. At
the same time they have been taught
something of the history of the coun-
try, and this trip to washington Is the
rounding out of their schooling.
The North Carolina Federation, of
which Mrs. Edward M. Land is prest-
dent, has taken a leading part in the
education Of the mountain people, and,
under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth
C. Morriss, especially fine work has been
accomplished in Buncombe County.
Woman and man leaders in adult
education in the Nations Capital have
been invited to meet this interesting
group and an informal musical enter
tainment will be furnished during the
luncheon. Presiding at the table will
be Mrs. Edward M. Land, MIS-. Edgar
B. Merritt, president of the District Fed
Grafton; Mrs. Earl w. Chaffee, vice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-17

not only in social circles. but also for
her excellent Workmanship.
Mrs. Robert Collyer Noere of Hart
ford Conn, who is IN Washington for
the D. A. r. Congress, was hostess at
dinner last evening in the crystal room
of the Willard in honor of Mrs. j
William Bailey of Middletown, Conn
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Woods. Pitts
burgh, Pa, who spent the Winter in
Charleston, S. c., are occupying their
suite in the Hotel Grafton, and will
rcmain indefinitely.
Mrs. L. r. Carton has motored from
her home in Towson, Md, and is at
the Carlton for a few days, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Eugenia
Carton, and Miss Marguery Wanpole.
DR.. and Mrs. Franklin Martin of New
York are again in town at the Willard
during their visit.
DIR. and Mrs. Henry Ami, Ottawa
have returned from the South and will
make prolonged stay in Washington
at the Hotel Grafton.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Richardson
Va WOA Mdsso.s dAC PcOoAlS CO1l1G
time at the Carlton.
The board of managers of the Christ
Child Society has issued invitations to
the annual meeting of the society,
Monday evening, April 20, at o'clock
in Meridian Mansions, at 2400 Sixteenth
street. The Most Rev. Michael j
Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore. will
address the meeting, and an exhibition
of the work of the relief and settle
ment departments will be opened at
1880 O'Clock.
Mrs. Charles w. Allen, national
registrar of the National League OF
American Pen Woman, will entertain at
the annual authors breakfast of the
league Easter Monday at the Willard
Hotel, wheE she will have with her Mrs.
Peter A. Drury and Mrs. Gwynne Gard
liner.
Mrs. SADIE Catharine Coles will have
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Underwood &
Underwood

New costumes, new DAYS Of
Spring - every one is looking
brighter and more beautiful than
ever.
1t is an excellent time to have
your picture made, while looking
your very best-for during the last
few pre- Easter days when social
activities are more or less at
standstill every one has been busy
completing their Spring wardrobe.
While you are doing your shop
ping on fashionable Connecticut
Avenue-why not stop in the
Underwood and Underworld
studio and have your pictures
made while you are feeling "tip-
tor?
Portraits in street costume are
more and more becoming the
popular pictures.
But while YOU are there be sure
tn ask the artist to make a few
of the lovely velvet-draped pic
lures. They give the effect of an
evening gown, but the indefinite
ness of style does not "date" the
portrait-and it is as a result the
most lasting of photographs.
Studio portraits begin at $40 the
dozen.
Decatur 400.
1880 Connwticut Avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-17

DAIREN (P)-As evidence of their
confidence in the future of this Japa-
nese leased territory, the local admin
istration appropriated $4,000 for a city
planning commission, which is to visual
ize place of 100000 inhabitants.
four times the present size. Japan
holds the city and vicinity under a 90
wear lease, expiring in 1897.