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III congressman
| NEW TO CAPITOL
Eight Senators and 13 Rep.
reSentatives Must Take
Oath of Office.

Fight men have to take oath at this
81. sion to occupy the Senate seats to
which they have been elected.
Besides James j. Davis, until today
Secretary of Labor. whose immediate
seating may be barred. there are five
newcomers. The Republicans are Nor
row of New Jersey and Carey of
wyoming; the Democrats, Buckley of
Ohio. McGill of Kansas and William
son of Kentucky.
Is New Representatives Seated.
Two members who served by ap-
pointment at the last term had cer-
tiflcates Of election to present this time
and fresh oath to take. These were
Senator Hastings, Republican. of Del
Evening star., 1930-12-01
SEEK SHORTER PARTIES

NEW YORK, December CP).-This
seasons debutantes are continuing the
campaign for prompter and briefer
parties.
In accordance with movement start
ed last year, the Parents League and
the Committee of Debutantes have
again sent letters to hostesses and to
guests requesting their cooperation in
sounding the dinner gong at 8 in the
evening and silencing the orchestra at
3 In the morning.
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LIEUT.. HUGHES NAMED
AIDE TO MAI. ARTHUR
Officer Now on West Coast to Re-
port for Engineering Duties
Here in January.

First Lieut.. John B. Hughes, Corps of
Engineers, on duty with the 9Th Engi-
neers, at Fort Winfield Scott, California,
has been ordered to this city for duty
as an assistant to Mai. Joseph d.
Arthur, the Engineer of1c:r in charge
Of Federal engineering works in the
District of Columbia, including the
water supply system and the improve
ment of the Potomac and Anacostia
Rivers. Lieut.. Hughes will sail from
here for duty the latter part of the
month. He is native of Virginia and
was graduated from the West Point
Military Academy in November, 1918,
and the Engineer School at Fort Hum
phrsyS, Va, in 1921.
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ARMY OFFICER FACING
COURT IN WIFE'S DEATH
Maj. Charles Shepard on Trial To-
morrow in Kansas City, Accused
of Poisoning Spouse.
" the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, KanS., December
1.-Alei. Charles Shepard, Army Med
icai Corps officer. charged with the
mu. Ter Of his second wife, Mrs. Zenna
Shepard. goes to trial here tomorrow
in Federal District Court.
Both the Government and the de-
fense have assembled their witnesses
here for the trial of the 59-year-old
defendant, who was charged in an in
dictment with poisoning Mrs. Shepard
in June, 1929. while the major was
stationed at Fort Riley, Kans. Forty
witnesses were here to testify for the
Government, among them Los Angeles
relatives of Mrs. Shepard.
Harry S. Class, Denver, and c. L.
Kagey, Beloit, Kans., are attorneys for
the defense, while the Government S
case will be handled by Sardius M.
Brewster. United States district attor-
ney, and Dan B. Cowie, assistant
United States attorney.
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BORDER FORCES TO GIVE
RUM SMUGGLERS FIGHT
Four Ships, Carrying 90, 900 Cases
Of Liquor, Anchor Or
Ensenada, Mexico.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December Fed
eral prohibition agents and police or
ganized today to combat alleged in
creased activity of liquor smugglers.
Roger C. Weightnan, commander Of
the Coast Guard base, said his patrol
boats had sighted four foreign flag
shjps, known to have 10000 cases of
liquor aboard, at anchor in rum row"
of Ensenada, Mexico. He said he had
information two additional rum carriers
were en- route to this area.
The sheriff's ONCE revealed special
patrolS>ha been established along high
ways leading from the coast, where
small speedboats were expected to en-
deavor to transfer liquor to trucks.
Coast Guard patrol boats have been pa
trolling close to the shore.
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DRY LAWS EFFECT
FELT BY WOLATORS
Increase in Convictions Is
Shown by Report of At
torney General.

BY the. Associated Press.
Federal punishment fell more heavily
on the bootlegger and the rum runner
in the last fiscal year.
Congress received the tidings today
through the annual report Of Attorney
General Mitchell, which said enforce
ment as reflected in prosecutions i'm
proved over 1929.
Evidently the commercial violator
was having more of his day in court, "
it continued jail and prison SEN
tences we're imposed in 27,709 cases in
1s30-5,I07 more than in 1929. The
average length of sentences increased in
greater proportion than did the number" /"
20 Vessels Seized.
Moreover, 30 vessels were seized for
participating in revival of "the liquor
smuggling business as conducted on the
high seas and in Off territorial waters.
All but four we're British.
The report did not embrace the pro-
hibition units activities, since these
remained under Treasury jurisdiction
until the close of the flscSl year on
June 80
OF the 52,437 prohibition cases
terminated, nearly rs per cent brought
guilty pleas, about 13 per cent were
dismissed and the remainder had jury
trials. The ratio OF convictions by jury
remained constant. 73 per cent.
Assistant Attorney General Young
Quist, in cnarge of enforcement, said the
work had been embarrassed by some
State and municipal officers who, under
the color of their office, are actively
violating the law themselves" Such
officers convicted numbered 95, and IS
cases were pending when the present
fiscal year began.
The years padlockings numbered
8,80l, a gain of 2,498 over the previous
year. A total Of IL, 1882 such cases were
commenced.
Court DOckets Packed.
Mitchell labeled Is unsolved the prob
lem of congestion in some Of the
Federal district courts, particularly In
large cosmopolitan districts" He urged
provision TOR additional judges, and that
steps be taken TO supplement inadequate
forces in the ofilces Of United States
attorneys.
The congestion was illustrated by q
report of the judicial Conference held
last october, written by Chief Justice
| Hughes. It showed that at the close
of the fiscal year there were pending
upon the dockets of District Courts
/ i55, ,730 casey, more than 1000 over the
previous year.
I'VE are also informed" Hughes
| wrote, that In the $3.50 criminal
cases pending on June 80, 1880. there
were included 22,67l cases under the
| national prohibition act"
The Assistant Attorneys General re-
| ported 1908 cases were pending be-
| fore the Customs Court. IS major anti
| trust cases were pending, and 211l
| criminal cases were instituted under
/ the postal laws, 3,50S under the anti
narcotic act, and 532 under the white
slave act.
Prison Congestion Mentioned.
In the Court Of Claims 526 new cases
were instituted. involving claims aggre'
| eating $ll $50, ,928,56l. while 449 were
/ disposed Of involving SIC, ,304. .296, ,sS9.
Mitchell also dealt with prison con-
gcstion, offering as one solution the de-
| Velopment Of q system Of prison camps
Large numbers of prisoners do no
require confinement In walled prisons,
he said. Outdoor work improves then
=.
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Evangeline Booth Returning.

LONDON, December (A9.-Evange-
line Booth, head of the Salvation Army
in the United States, and six other
American Army officials sailed for home
today, having completed their work at
the World Conference of Army Commis-
sioners here. Comdr. Tamanuro, head
Of the Japanese organization, sailed
with the party on the liner Majestic.
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DR.. VAN DYKE DENIES
RAP AT NOBEL AWARD
Quoted as Calling Sinclair Novel
Selection Backhand Compliment,
Not insult, to q. s.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, N. j., December l.
The Daily Princetonian said today that
DR.. Henry Van Dyke denies having
called the recent award of the Nobel
literature prize to Sinclair Lewis IAN
insult to America"
The Princetonian quoted Dr. Van
Dyke, professor emeritus of English at
Princeton University, as follows:
"I never said that the award for the
Nobel prize for literature to the author
of Main Street and Elmer Gantry'
was an insult to America. said 1t was
q back-handed compliment.
This was a mild statement when you
consider the view Of America given In
those books. The authors name was
not mentioned"
Evening star., 1930-12-01
COMMUNISTS THWARTED
Cuba Blocks Attempted Revolution
by Increasing Employment.

BOSTON, December / (H).-Generous
expenditures by the Cuban government
for public works thwarted communistic
efforts to foment a revolution there,
Mayor James NJ. Curley said yesterday
on his return from Havana.
The mayor, back from two weeks in
Havana, said that when he left there
was no indication of unrest whatsoever
in Cuba"
He attributed present conditions to
"far-sighted political leaders," who pro-
vided work for the unemployed. This
move, he said. caused the rank and file
Communists.
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Eight on Barge Drowned.

SAN ANTONIO, Chile, December
R.-A barge carrying 25 passengers
overturned yesterday in the Maipo
River near Lo Gallardo and 8 persons
are believed to have drowned. Orly
three bodies had been recovered last
night.
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Thermometer Plunges.

CHICAGO, December (P.-A new
cold wave swooped into the Centra
States from the Northwest today, bring.
ing the lowest temperatures of the sea.
son 20 the northern fringe Of State,
and frigid prospects to the other areas
It was 10 below zero at Devils Lake
N. D., this morning.
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city, and George S. Coleman of New
York.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock. Interment will be in Abbey
MauSoleum, Arlington County.
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physically and morally and results in Q
substantial saving In expense TO the
Government"
On june 80 there were 77S prisoners
in these camps and before the ersd Of
this year the number win reach 1850.
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Plane Speed Mark Set.

ETAMPES, France, December (R.
Marcel Doret, noted French flyer, yes
terday broks the world record for q
1.o0O-kilometer flight. averaging almost
l79 miles an hour for the 625 miles.
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Prince Heads Air Federation.

PARIS, December R).-Prince
George Bihesco of Rumania today was
elected president of the international
Aeronautic Federation, succeeding the
Count de Ia Vaulx, who was killed in
an airplane accident in the United
States last Fall.
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Ask us to send you
samples and our lot0
factory prices en-
mdde-to-order Lam
ders Washable.
EUeTy color.
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Proprietary medicines made In the
United States last year were valued at
e3I3.764,s74. -
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"The production of general machinery
during the first two years also exceeded
the plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29

RRLAYSOFF 5000
Have Police on Hand to
Quell Protest

CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-On Wednes-
day, September II. the North West
ern Railroad yards announced a
temporary" layoff for a period of
six weeks for it's three thousand
workers. And so in one day three
thousand workers were added to the
unemployed of Chicago.
The Railroad Workers Industrial
League sent a committee to the shop
to distribute leaflets inviting these
workers to a mass meeting. The po-
lice were there, called by the assis-
tant superintendent, J. w. Schroll,
who evidently feared the temper of
the three thousand workers to be
discharged. Nine workers were ar
rested.
When the International Labor De-
Tense tried to secure the release of
these nine workers, who were held on
a charge of distributing leaflets, the
police placed fresh charges against
them. Three of the workers arrested
were women. They were held on two
charges: Disorderly conduct (bail
5000, and distribution of leaflets
(bail $4,000. The six men were held
for distribution of leaflets (bail
$4,000 and vagrancy (bail $1,50O).
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
RED ALBUM TO GREET
USSR ON NOVEMBER I

: NEW YORK.-Workers through
out the United States are collecting
signatures for the Red Album that
the Friends of the Soviet Union, IT'S
Fifth Ave, will send to the work
ers' and peasants republic on the
occasion Of the celebration of the
18th anniversary of the Bolshevik
revolution.
The F. S. U. calls upon the work
ers in the shops and factories to
send international solidarity greet
ings through the Red Album. Each
city will have its own page which
in addition to listing the names of
the militant workers will give a
short history of the industrial strug-
gle of the workers in that vicinity.
To defray the expenses, the work
ers signing will pay a fee of %
cents, and 10 cents for unemployed.
After all expenses are deducted the
balance will be used for the pur-
chase of tract or to be sent to the
Soviet Union with the F. S. U. dele
cation that will go to the U. S. S. r..
next May.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
SCORE LOCAL 50
CLIQUE TREASON
Workers Must Take Over
Their Strike

NEW YORK.-'If you want to win
your strike, you must take it out
of the hands of the officials and take
it into your own hands," says the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union in leaf1et to members of-Lo-
cal SO, International Ladies Garment
Workers.
The leaflet points out that even
before the agreement expired, Sept
Is, the Dreisen- Schlesinger- Du binsky
clique leading the union merely made
promises and speeches and nego-
tiated secretly with the bosses to
surrender conditions, giving up to the
impartial" chairman the right to de-
eide how many workers shop is to
fire when it is "reorganized," etc.
While all this was going on, the
employers were already launching
their attack. Apisdorf, Vorzimer and
S. Forman locked out their workers
and Bergdorf & Goodman gave notice
TO re-apply for jobs, which means
discharges.
Now, after these treacherous I. L.
G. w. officials have given the boss
time to pile up his strength, to finish
orders, and to take the initiative, in
Stein & Blaine. for instance, talking
openly of renewing the 44-hour week,
the Schlesinger henchmen talk of
strike. Fine leaders they would be!
Workers of Local SO should handle
their own strike for the 7-hour day,
5-day week and unemployment in
surance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
Calls Meeting of
Nurses to Fight Speed
Up at Jewish Hospital

The latest attempt of the manage
ment of the Jewish Hospital to in
crease the speed-up and to cut the
wages of the graduate nurses brought
call for immediate action against
this attempt on the part of every
nurse in the hospital by the Medical
and Chemical Workers Industrial
League.
The proposal for eight hours as a
days work is made, together with the
proposal to cut wages in half and to
serve three patients instead of one
This also means that number OF
nurses will be discharged. The
League points out, declaring:
This proposal cannot be accepted.
We must organize ourselves at once
and discuss our demands against the
wage cuts and speed-up.
IAN officer of the Medical and
Chemical Workers Industrial League
will speak at the meeting.
"All nurses should attend the meet
ing"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
WORKER SCHOOL
TO OPEN SOON
Many New Classes Are
Scheduled for Fall

New York - Registration is still
continuing at the Workers School,
while the new headquarters is be-
ing prepared for the opening of
classes.
This year the school has many new
courses to offer. All the courses
have been carefully prepared and the
curriculum is so arranged as to sup
ply the workers with a systematic
training in the theory and problems
of the class struggle.
Every effort is being made to i'm
prove the calibre of the teaching and
student body. Plans have been
worked out which aim at systematic
ing the work of the various classes
and of laying solid basis for the
further growth of the school.
Thousands of leaders, class con-
scious workers trained in the theory
OF revolutionary Marxism, are needed
to organize the American working
man for the struggle against wage
slavery.
Without the solid foundation of
MarXist- feminist theory, this is i'm
possible. All workers are urged to
register at once. The school office, at
so East 18th Street, ninth floor, is
open to discuss the students needs,
and to help him select his courses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
GREEN LIES
ON NUMBER
OF JOBLESS
But Boss Papers Admit
Production Decrease

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.--William
Green is at it again. Helping wage
cuts is just one of his usual functions
for the bosses. Taking unemploys
ment figures is a special task he has
undertaken during the present crisis.
The latest quirk of this fascist is to
announce that the American Fedora
ton of Labor figures on unemploy-
ment dropped one per cent in Sep
TENDER In August, Green also said
unemployment dropped-it was once
tenth of one per cent then.
What did the figures of the Federal
Reserve Bank show for the same
period? The Federal Reserve Bulle-
tin for September said: Factory
employment and wage payments de-
creased further" during July and
August, and were at the lowest level
since 1922" These boss liars don't
hitch in their prosperity" propa-
ganda.
There is something very fshy about
Green's dope anyway. He says build
ing trades improved in employment
by one per cent. The Dodge Cor
poration, leading authorities in this
line, says building activity dropped
Is per cent during August. The drop
continued in September. Green says
that the number of unemployed fell
from SO to 3S per cent. Lies, nothing
but lies!
In some of the details of the Green
statement we find the following: In
the metal trades, representing i'm
portant basic industries, unemploy-
ment increased from 20 to % per
cent. 1t was per cent In 1929.
There was slight increase in the
jobless in the printing trades.
Green took occasion, when he
issued these figures, to help his
masters along by this usual crap
"The figures indicate improvement in
the business situation, at least sea-
sonally."
On the same day the Journal of
Commerce carried a story from
Washington with this headline: "In-
dustraI Output Of Usual Trend"
Seasonal Increase Fails to Appear
Employment, PayrolIs Decline"
Doesn't exactly jibe with Green's
baloney.
Furthermore, while the capitalist
press talks of an increase of 2 per
cent in steel output the New York
Times in Analysing this increase"
shows in its seasonally adjusted index
that steel production shows "a slight
recession to the level of three weeks
ago, the current figure being 1915, as
compared with S46 for the week
ended September 49,"
And commenting on this fact the
financial editor of the Times adds:
mo change of Importance in the
business panorama was shown by the
mid-week surveys of the steel and
railway industries" In short, the
deep crisis still continues with not
the slightest signs of upturn.
The plain conclusion from the facts
-doctored to conform to Hoover's
optimism as they are-is that Green
has deliberately faxed the unemploy-
ment figures of the A. F. of l.. to
fool the workers and to keep them
from fighting for unemployment in
surance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
PLEDGE SUPPORT
TO 100000 FUND
Food Union Writes to Fos-
ter in Jail

NEW YORk.-The Food Workers
Industrial Union. in reply to Comrade
Fosters letter on the Importance OF
the 100000 T. U. U. L. campaign
has sent the following letter:
Dear Comrade Foster:
Il am instructed by the General
Shop Council of the Food Workers
Industrial Union of New York to in
form you that all delegates fully
agree with your letter on the impor-
lance of the 100000 Organize and
Strike Fund.
Ten shops have already con-
tributed over $1,000, and our quota
of $4,000 for New York food workers
will be fully attained. More than
ever do we see the correct line of the
T. U. U. L., and realize the role OF
the A. F. of L. and Amalgamated
Food Workers as a direct agent of
the boss class against the interests
of the workers. The last three in
functions against the food workers
were all issued by business agents of
the A. F. of L. and A. Fl w. locals
and the main charges We're that we
are disturbing the harmonious rela-
tionship between the bosses and their
so-called Union
These takers state clearly that il
took many years of effort to reach
this agreement with the bosses. We
are proud of these accusations, and
we are starting with this Organize
and Strike Fund, a real campaign
among all food workers to smash
those company unions and build I'M
der the leadership of the-T. u. u. L.
a fighting union in the interests of
the workers.
Our greetings to you can only be
the pledge that we will work twice
as hard while you, Comrade Amter,
Minor and Raymond, are taken from
our ranks, and that we Will organize
to the extent that the capitalist class
will not dare to repeat such vicious
frame-ups."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
CRAY'S FUNERAL
SETFOR TUESDAY
Postponed to Allow Mother
to See Body

CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-The mass
funeral for Mitchell Gray, 29-year-
old Negro unemployed worker, muir
dered last Saturday by a Negro
policeman, has been postponed to
next Tuesday in order to permit his
mother to be present. His mother is
now rushing here from Texas. She
has telegraphed friends of the muir
dered worker here urgently asking
postponement of the funeral in order
that she may take a last look at the
body of her son.
The march on the City Hail.
planned as a working class protest
against the increasing murders of
workers and for the demand for
social insurance for the thousands of
unemployed in this city who are
actually suffering the pangs of
starvation, has also been postponed
for Tuesday, and will take place di-
rectly after the funeral
In the meantime, wave of mass
anger is sweeping the Negro work.
ing class section against Congress
man Oscar De Priest following the
expose by the American Negro Labor
Congress which directly links the
Negro bourgeois misleader with the
bosses terror against the Negro
workers. De Priest, while silent on
lynching and UNEMPLOYMENT, has been
busy denouncing Negro workers in
the revolutionary movement, as well
as helping the bosses in their instiga-
ton of attacks on the foreign born
workers, attacks identical with their
attacks against the Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-29
Trenton Police Made
Threats to Arrest Red
Election Speaker

NEWARk.-With the declaration
I'VE have raised the real issues in
the present election campaign and
will exercise the right to speak about
them," the New Jersey Communist
Election Campaign Committee has
answered the threat of arrests made
by the Trenton Chief of Police,
should the speeches be seditious or
the speakers f1aunt the government"
The above threat and the answer
of the New Jersey Campaign Com
mittee has to do with the mass meet
ing to be held on City Hall Plaza,
Trenton, n. j, on Friday night, Sep
TENDER 26. Many failures to get per-
mits from the Chief of Police or from
the Director of Public Safety of
Trenton have resulted in large num-
bers of arrests being made when at
tempts to hold street meetings were
made. In this instance the meeting
will be held at City Hall and the
heads of the riot provoking" Club
swinging" Guardians of Trenton's
peace" have probably been riled by
the granting of permit for this
meeting by Commissioner Page of the
Department of Parks and Public
Buildings.
Today further attempt to secure
permits for a series of street meet
ings has been made by the N. J.
State Campaign Committee by regis
tered letter to the Chief of Police.
Needless to say, the meetings will as
semble whether permits are granted
or not. The Campaign Committee is
determined that every worker in New
Jersey will hear the REAL ISSUES
of this campaign and learn of the
fakery of these Capitalist Parties,
Republican, Democrat and Socialist.
The speakers at the City Hall meet
ing on Friday will be Joseph Wis
niewsky, candidate for Congress in
the 4th District; Elias Marks, State
Campaign Manager, and Thomas My
erscough, representing the N. j. sec
ton of the T. U. U. L.