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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
POLICE ROUT TAXI
DRIVERS IN SESSION
Meeting Called to Protest
Refinancing Scheme of
Checker Cab officials.

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June IA stormy pro-
test meeting of 800 Checker Taxi Co.
drivers against what they termed un
fair tactics OF company officials in a
refinancing scheme broke up early to-
day with so policemen, under Capt
Joseph Palcsynski, on guard,
Police were called after 5rivers found
i've carloads of brickbats piled in the
street near the meeting place. The
drivers also told police several hun
dred members we're driven away by
Every one who applied for admission
was searched for credentials and pis-
tolls, and police roped off the street for
q half block on either side to help keep
order
The drivers said they opposed plan
to sell the company to an Eastern firm
and called the meeting to elect new
officers.
Each driver voted to subscribe to a
fund to retain counsel to seek an in
junction against the officers refinancing
plans.
A long list of murders, bomblngs and
lawsuits has marked the history of the
company in Chicago. Outstanding was
the killing in 1925 of Joseph Wokral,
who sought reelection as president,
and that of Barney J. Mitchell, treas
urer, last January. On his death bed
Wokral named Eugene Red" McLaugh-
lin as his slayer McLaughlins body
was found in the drainage canal last
week His brother. Robert McLaugh-
lin, is president of the company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12

Feng Yu-Hsiang, Northern general,
has approached President Chang Kali
Shek offering to surrender and express
ing willingness to attack troops of the
ShanSi government.
Feng was said to have demanded in
return that the Nationalist government
pay $4,000 900 for the reorganization of
the Peoples Army, Of which he is
leader.
Chang Kai-Shek was stated to have
refused the offer, demanding that Feng
first attack Shansi as demonstration
of his sincerity.
In the midst of the vigorous drive
which Yen Hsi-Shan, governor of
Shansi. has been making on Chang
Kai-Shek, chief of the Marking Ma
tionalist government, reports that Feng
Yu-Hsiang was planning to turn against
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
AIR MAIL REVISION
SAVES 100000
Annual Reduction Seen on Five
Routes, Glover Tells Appro-
priations Subcommittee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A saving to the Government of more
than 100000 annually on five air
mail routes alone was the result Of the
recent revision of the air mail contract
system described to the House appro-
priations subcommittee in hearings on
the second deficiency bill.
Appearing in support of a request by
the Post Office Department for a def
cheney appropriation of $l,700,000 for
air mail transportation, which is in
clcded in the measure, Warren Irwin
Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster
General, said the revised system had
not yet been placed in effect with the
other air mail routes.
The five lines referred to were the
Boston-New York, ChicagoFort Worth
Dallas, Chicago-St. Louis, Salt Lake
Pasco, and Los Angeles-Salt Lake. The
new contract rate system approved re-
Gently by Congress. provides for space
mileage rate, as compared with the old
straight poundage basis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
Derr to Head Pathe.

NEW YORK, June IL up. -Directors
of pathe Exchange. Inc, Tuesday elect
ed E. B. Derr president; c. j. Scotland,
executive vice president Lewis Inner
arity. vice president and secretary;
Arthur B. Poole. treasurer. and r. S.
Delehanty. assistant treasurer. Joseph
B. Kennedy continues as chairman Of
the board
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
Owner of Barrel
Forgot Its Gas,
Havoc Results
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CARLETON. Mich, June 12.-
Harry Parish brought a steel bar
rel to the local blacksmith shop
Tuesday for some welding. He
needed the barrel to go home in.
Seth Roberts, the blacksmith,
applied the welding torch and
the barrel blew up, half of it
going through the roof and the
other half through a wall A
police dog was blown out of the
window. Ed Harpst, a farmer,
was Knocked Unconscious. Rob-
ertS skinned both his knees in
the cinders near his forge, and
Parish lost his shoes and several
other pieces of clothing.
Parish remembered later that
he had used the barrel to store
gasoline.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
THREE u. S. ENJOYS
WILL MEET IN PARIS
Sackett, WHY'S and Edge Will
Confer on Policies in Eu-
ropean Affairs.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June II. - Three American
Ambassadors soon will be in Paris for
a discussion of European affairs and the
application of American policies to
them.
The ENJOYS are Frederick M. Sackett,
from Berlin, and John N. WHY'S, from
Warsaw, meeting with Walter E. Edge
here.
Mr.. Sackett came with his family for
visit, but in utilizing the opportunity
for q discussion of general conditions
with Mr.. Edge.
The Paris embassy yesterday had not
been informed of the coming of Mr..
WHY'S, but considered he also probably
was bent upon a general talk, as he re-
Gently took the Warsaw post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
HENRY MARTIN, CHICAGO
FLOP HOUSE BUM, DEAD
Burial Delayed In Hopes wealthy
Sisters viii Keep Him From
Potter's Field.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, June H. old Henry
Martins dead, though probably his
name wasn't Henry Martin at all.
He was a South State street bum. :"
Not over so years old, but he looked
much older. Not a flop house on South
State street that didn't know him.
Sometimes his wealthy sisters would
come down in their fancy automobiles
and buy him new clothes I'LL his pockets
with money and ask him to come home.
But he never would go.
He died Tuesday, but they are de-
laying burial, believing the sisters viii
chance back soon, seeking Henry Martin.
His pals are sure Henry's sisters
wouldn't want him buried in potters
field
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12

University Park Citizens Association,
meeting in Hurst Hall last night
After the business session lDf.i S. "A.
Varielman gave an illustrated talk on
the Beauties Of the National Parks"
This was the last meeting of the season,
the next meeting to be held in October.
Thomas E. Lodge, president, presided
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
ZONING CODE CHANGE
SUBJECT OF PROTEST
A. U. Park Citizens Oppose Pro
posal in Resolution--Hear Talk
on Park Beauties.

Opposition to the proposed changing
of the coming regulations to grant au-
thority to the zoning Commission to
make alterations In certain zoning clas-
sifieations at its discretion was voiced
in resolutions adopted by the American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
PRINCE TOKUGAWA SAILS
President of Japanese House of
Peers Leaves for Canada.

Peers Leaves for Canada.
YOKOHAMA, June IL (P.-Prince
IyeSato Tokugawa, president of the
House of Peers of the Japanese Parlia-
ment since 1908, sailed today for Van
couyer, British Columbia, on the liner
Empress of Russia.
Other passengers on the liner in
cluded Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood,
famous golfers, who have been touring
the Orient
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE.

SHANGHAI, June IL (P1.-A strong
force of Communists is reported to
have seized the town of Tayeh in the
Province of Hupeh.
q Numerous atrocities were reported
from the place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
CONVICT MURDER RUMOR
BRINGS AUTOPSY ORDER
Birmingham Prisoner Dies After
Three Hours Confinement in
Tortuous "Dog House"
ny the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June Ia
Coroner j. D. Russum has ordered JET
ferson County authorities to open
grave yesterday and permit an autopsy
on the body of John A. Marshall, a
convict, who died after three hours
solitary confinement. in small cell
known as the dog house"
Prison physicians ascribed Marshalls
death several days ago to heart trouble.
Since then, however, reports have per-
sisted that he was struck on the head
with q hammer a. short while before he
died.
The "dog house.. ordered abolished
by the Jefferson County Board of Rev
enue soon after Marshall's death, was
small, boxlike cell which permitted
prisoner to stand erect but was so small
that he could not sit down, stoop nor
even turn around. Two small auger
holes were the only avenues for fresh
air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12

Yen, his erstwhile partner in the revolt
against Chang, suggest the possibility
of a new lineup in the already compli-
Gated Chinese situation.
An oficial denial was issued during
the day OF a report that Chang Kali
Shek was contemplating retirement.
1t was stated that he was going by
airplane to Hankow to direct opera
lions against the Northern troops.
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-12
FENG WOULD JOIN
FORCES OF CHANG
President Refuses Offer, Demand
ing Demonstration of His
Sincerity.

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING, China, June 12-Official
military reports from Hankow state
that because of lack of ammunition
and food, a representative of Marshal
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
CALL SLIPPER WORKERS
TO MEETING TOMORROW

"The conditions in the slipper
shops are becoming worse every
day.
"Wage-cuts, long hours, discrimi-
nations, security schemes, and yell
low dog contracts, as we'll as the
speed-up system is prevailing
throughout the trade.
1--WE must fight against such con-
ditions. We must act together!
Now is the time to organize and
build the Independent Shoe Work
ers Union, the only organization
that fights militantly for the bet
terment of our working conditions"
This is part of a leaflet issued by
the Slipper Workers Organizational
Committee of the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, calling all in the
trade to mass meeting tomorrow,
at $3.50 p. M, in Manhattan Lyceum,
66 East 4th St., to plan organiza.
ton for improved conditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
BRANDS MOTION AS king
PIN OF UNCLE TOMS" AND
Favored SON" OF BOSSES
Chicago Negro Paper Says Tuskegee Head
Perpetrates Negro Oppression
Whip" However, Continues to Betray Negro
Masses Struggle

the fact that the exploiters of the
Negro workers ian dit is out of
economic exploitation that the addi-
tional racial oppression grows) are
the white capitalists who are at the
same time exploiters and oppressors
of the white workers, Thi 81 con-
sistently and clearly pointed out by
thl Communist Part (which unites
the black and white workers on the
basis of joint struggle against the
common oppressor and for the over
throw of the oppressive capitalist
system.
The Whip, like other organs of
thu Negro ourgeoisie, is not inter-
ested in the abolition of the econo.ni
exploitation of the Negro masses,
but simply in winning for the Ne
gro bourgeoisie greater participa-
ton in that exploitation. For this
reason, the Whip does not point out
the economic nature Of Negro OPP
preston, nor designates the capital
lists as the oppressors of the Negro
workers. For this reason, the Whip
land the rest of the Negro bour-
geois press) is careful not to align
itself with the class enemies of the
capitalists, but seeks instead to d.
rect the resentment of the Negro
masses against the white race as
whole instead of concentrating that
resentment against the white OPP
pressing class.
Only the Communist Party unites
the black and white workers against
the oppressors of both white and
black workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
ILLUSIONS CRASH
AS CHI. NEGRO
BANK Goes under
The Binga Bank Has
Frozen Assets

CHICAGO, Aug. 5.-The Binga
State Bank, Negro bourgeois in
stitution which has been extensively
utilized by the Negro petty-bour-
geois misleaders in building up the
illusion of escape through capital
ism for the Negro masses, has failed
here because of shortage of cash,
caused by frozen assets.
The institution, which represented
one of the biggest attempts of the
Negro bourgeois to participate in
e exploitation of the Negro an
hite toiling masses, started as a
private institution and became a
state nix several years ago. In
April of last year Binga was granted
charter to do business as a ma
tional bank. Associated with him
in the national bank, which was to
action separately from the stat
institution, were DR.. U. G. Daley.
Charles S. Jackson, Rev. Harold M.
Kingsley, Carl G. Roberts and T. C.
Windham.
By operating the national bank
separately it was possible to utilize
the good will" built up by the state
institution without sharing the prof
its which this made possible with
the small shareholders in the state
institution. 1t was also possible to
so juggle the affairs of the state
bank as to effect a thorough shear.
ing of its unsuspecting small share
holders. And with the failure of
the state bank people are asking if
this is not just what happened. In
ny event, the small shareholders
are burnt up, while Binga and the
other directors have suffered little
or no loss.
The directors of the state bank
included such bourgeois betrayers
Of the Negro masses as Robert S.
Abbott, editor of the Chicago De-
fender; DR.. U. G. Daley, John R.
Marshall, W. A. Robinson, C. H.
Clark, A. W. Williams, C. N. Lang
ston and the -boving million,
aire congressman, Oscar DePriest,
Binga is tied up with the Chicago
politicians, DePriest and others. He
also carried on wide speculations in
real estate, promoting Jim-Crow de-
velopments, then working up race
scares to keep the Negro workers
in the zones of his development.
Many stockyard and other workers
had invested money in his state
bank.
The Negro masses are rapidly
learning the real worth of these illu-
SONS of escape into capitalism, an
escape impossible for the vast ma
jority of Negro and white workers.
and are turning to the revolutionary
.ruggle as the only effective means
against capitalist oppression of the
masses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
STARVING SHOE WORKER
TOO WEAK TO ESCAPE

NEW YORK.-Living in a strange
city on $50 for three weeks, without
food for two days, sleeping in the
parks and in alleys, Clayton Hart,
an 18 year old shoe worker stloe
two bathing suits and a sweater
from a department store Monday
and fled, hoping to sell them for
food. He was so weak fom hunger
that he fell after understanding the
detectives, and was captured. He is
held to special sessions, where there
is no jury trial and will surely be
convicted.
Hart came here from Revere on
July Is. He had been out of work
for a long time. He hoped to find
thin letter in New York but Com
missioner. Wood and the bosses have
seen to it that there are swarms of
unemployed shoe wokers here, al
ready.
The Independent Shoe Workers
Union calls on the many who are
about as desperate as Fart to unite
their forces. Join the union, and
the councils of the unemployed.
Special provision is made for jobless
workers. Join the fight for social
insurance for unemployed workers,
and the end of the speedup and low
pay which casts thousands on the
street to starve!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
PUT COMMUNISTS
ON The BALLOT
New He a dQuarters
Open; All Must Help

NEW YORK.-The signature
drive to place the Communist Party
on the ballot is beginning to gain
real momentum However, in order
to place candidates on the ballot in
all the proletarian sections of the
city of New York and vicinity, it is
imperative that all members of the
Communist Party and all sympa
thetic workers must be modified for
this task.
The Campaign Committee of the
Communist Party originally in
tended to close the signature drive
on August Is, but has extended it
to September l, in order that every
section of the city will have cand;-
dates on the Communist Party
ticket.
The committee has established
headquarters from which these sig
narures can be collected at:
Manhattan-27 E. Fourth St.,
1179 Broadway, 26 w. 115th St.,
$50 E. 81st st. and 308 Lenox Ave.
Brooklyn--68 Whipple St., 1856
18th St., los Thatford St.
Bronx-569 Prospect Ave.
Queens-2628 Jackson Ave.
These headquarters are open
every night of the work. All sym
pathetic workers should come and
help get the necessary signatures to
place the Communist Party ticket
on the ballot.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
ONE A,F.L,LOCAL.
SCABBING ON
ANOTHER One
Bakers 507 Lengthens
Work Day of Local LA

NEW YORK.-The amazing cor
ruption and anti-labor action of the
International Bakery and Confec-
tionary Workers of America "a. F.
of L. appeared anew in the case
of bakery at 750 Berg Ave, Bronx.
The place was controlled for five
years by Local 144 of the above
named union. When new bosses
came in recently, they made an
agreement with Local 507 of the
same international, which in compe-
tition with Local 144 offered IA
hour actual working day instead of
ten hour day, with no legal holt
days instead of ten claimed by Local
144.
The boss then on August /, fired
six workers belonging to Local 144.
Unable to get any help from the
A. F. of L., these six joined the
Food Workers Industrial Union and
the place was picketed.
Business was paralized, and Mon
day the boss called for a conference
with the F.W.I.U. All six workers
we're there, and declared their deci-
sion to stick with the F.W.I.U., a
real union, and have nothing :" do
With the A. F. of L.
The boss was about to agree, when
BUSINESS Agent Meierson of Local
507 came in, assured him he could
have a lot more favorable conditions
from Local 507, and that Local 507
would get him an injunction against
the F.W.I.U. and his old employees.
The boss walked Out with Meier
son to get the injunction. The F.W.
III. will carry the strike to a sue
cessful conclusion-with no 14-hour
day in it.
Isadore Schwartz, arrested Satur-
day for picketing at the 5S17 Church
Ave. bakery, where the faker Feigen
has an injunction, is still in jail,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
RULERS STIMULATE new
WAR ON INDIAN CREEDS

Capitalist press dispatches, coli
ored to suit the British imperialist
censors, tell of communal rioting"
in Ballia, United Provinces, India.
Communal rioting" is the name
given in imperialist slang for the
religious wars which the govern
ment finds SO useful in maintaining
its rule. The imperialist policy is
to pose as the savior Of whatever
group happens to be weakest in any
particular part of the country, and
to formally prohibit fighting be-
tween Hindus and Mohammedans,
while doing everything possible to
provoke it.
In Ballia the police fired indis-
criminately on Hindus and Moham-
medans and generally carried out
Strong government" program.
The anti-imperialists campaign in
cessantly against religious rivalry,
and the religious chiefs on each side
are uniformly against the inde-
pendence movement, or try, as does
Gandhi, called by his followers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
Toe Cook Star IN Rain or
Shine" at Globe FRIDAY

Joe Cook, the noted comedian of
the legitimate and vaudeville stage,
makes his motion picture debut in
the Columbia film version of Grain
or Shine" at a special performance
at the Globe Theatre on Thursday
evening, at 1890 p. m. The regular
showing of the picture begins on
Friday.
Joe Cook is a new and decidedly
distinctive acquisition to the cinema,
and his own original type of humor
will undoubtedly duplicate on the
screen the success it has already at
tanned on the stage. He has earned
for himself the unique title of "the
one-man show" based upon his ver-
satility.
Frank Capra, who made Sub
marine" "Flight" and Ladies of
Leisure" directed the stellar cast
which includes Joan Peers, Louise
Fazenda, William Collier, Jr., Alan
Roscoe and Adolph Milar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06

Branding DIR. Robert r. Motion as
the most dangerous misleader of the
Negro race, the Chicago Whip, it
self an organ of the treacherous Ne
gro bourgeoisie, in a feature editor
ial this week describes Motion as
the king Pin of Uncle Toms" and
''the favored son" of the imperialist
oppressors.
Motion, says the Whip, "perpetu-
ates segregation, Jim Crowism, dis
REIMBURSEMENT and augments the
white man in thinking that we are
'undesirables, unfit and inferior"
Dealing with Moton's trip to
Haiti, undertaken as the head of a
Jim Crow Commission to whitewash
the educational policies of the U. S.
imperialists in Haiti. The Whip
says:
"He was Jim Crowed on the way
back on the SIS. Christobal, but
put on his minstrel show singing
spirituals for the whites from the
Canal Zone while the distinguished
and erudite Mordesai johnson re-
cited poems in dialects. Thus DR..
Motion plays his role of race leader
par excellence"
While the Whip quite rightly, if
belatedly, exposes the traitor Motion,
the Whip itself continues to betray
the Negro masses into impotent and
reformist channels of struggle by its
effort to conceal the class nature of
the Negroes oppression by attempt
ing to bunch together the entire
white race, deliberately covering up
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
Firetrap Burns Third
Time; Kills Three Men

STAMFORD, Conn, August g.
A blaze which swept the paint and
oil saturated plant of Richards &
Co. today claimed the lives of three
workers, and put several more in the
hospital, in danger of dying, The
three dead were trapped trying to
reach a fire escape which had been
cut off by flames. The factory has
always been a death trap, having
burned out twice before, in 1927 and
1928. The dead are George Mar
shall, Frank Amarozo, and Frank
De Marco. Majk Kernyehnyn is ex-
pected to die.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
NEEDLE WORKERS MEET
TONIGHT TO PLAN STRIKE

NEW YORK.-There are two i'm
portant meetings for needle work
ers today. A special meeting of all
delegates, active members, contacts
and shop committees working in
District No. A Oath st. to 39rd St.,
west of Broadway will be held
right after work at the offices of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, 131 West 28th st. The
purpose is to prepare for a shop
conference in the fur trade and for
dress strike this coming season.
A regular meeting of the execu-
tive council of the Industrial Union
will take up the drive in the dress
trade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
OWEN DAVIS MBLODRAMA
OPENS ON FRIDAY

A. H. Woods opens his :, Of
town season on Friday night with
THE 9th Guest" a new melodrama
by Owen Davis. which will have its
try-out performance at the Castle
Theatre, Long Beach. The produc-
ton will be moved to the Fox Play
house, Great Neck, for one perform
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Nearly
two million American workers are
injured annually in industry, and
more than ten thousand are killed,
states the U. S. Labor Bureau in
figures issued recently. Accidents
increased in exact proportion as
speed-up is intensified. The bosses
always fight safety-laws, and where
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06
13 More Radium-Dial Painters Die

The horrible outcome of the labor
exploiting policy of the U. S.
Radium Corp. is a classic example
of the attitude of the bosses. The
worker, under capitalism, is broken
by the speed-up and rotten condi-
tons in industry and when he can
no longer function is thrown on to
the scrap pile to die. Disregarding
the health and safety of the work
ers, the boss pursues his vicious
system of making profits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06

WASHINGTON.-A survey pub
lished by the U. S. Children's Bu-
reau, reveals the fact that children
under eight years of age are en-
ployed in American canneries today.
In nearly all canneries visited,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-06

While all other industries show
severe slumps, the airplane indus
try, manufacturing war planes, re-
ports an increase for 1880. The
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce,
reporting on its activities Tuesday,
stated So major aircraft manufac-