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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
The Geneva Farce

preparatory
armament forgotten
held but think that this is
era and complete disarmament which
tional disarmament conference OF nations
At each session. however the delegates
submitted for complete disarmament which embraced every branch
military auxiliary but these summary re-
proposals been submitted by the capitalist
nations On the contrary the Geneva sessions he @
instead leading disarmament have only
building navies bigger armies apnes
The present session is no exception to the rule
though interesting precisely because not
eh o t Id N disarmament" Conference held last spring
will remember the claim made that the naval race
by virtue of the claims
the achievements of the London conference Now the
according the New York Times correspondent
brought out the fact that
limiting only the quantity of the three
then only by setting this limit far above the
size of existing stopped
ton and left the door wide open another form Of mps
ING THE UTMOST TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY PER TON
Furthermore beginning first with the United States each OF the
the London treaty categocay refused to consider
any be spent in building the ships
provided in that treaty The correspondent says:
The United flat refusal to close
effect that these circumstances
must the door to unlimited expenditures as ar
navies concerned"
These statements clearly of the present
agonisms These plainly decaa-
intentions speed the naval armament race to spend
ornaments 1t is an indication OF the speed at
world is heading for new imperialist war
For workers important from two angles First
mperias planning will called
do the ghnand dyng order that the wealth. profits foreign
the capitalists
while the United States billions dollars battle
other which
paymions of starving with
insurance and relief
workers. therefore
catastrophe
fight eliminate the suffering which
insisting the of the billions of dollars
jobes They
They organize fight
mediate unemployment insurance.
a
the unemployment insurance.
employment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
BY R. WOODS
Secretary of Unemployed Counci

(Secretary of Unemployed CounciD
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 16.-Peter
Stankass, unemployed for several
months was evicted from his home
on 1921 Moran, for not being able
to pay rent for two months, He i'm
mediately notified the Unemploy-
ment Council, 3014 Yemans Ten
minutes later fifteen members of the
Council were on the spot, while the
furniture was still being moved orc.
John Mari, secretary of the Council
calle dthe unlocking workers together
and asked them if they we're going
to let the landlord get aawy with
these evictions without putting up
a fight, The answer of the workers
was action. They Immediately went
up to the door which the constable
was just looking and smashed it
open. Despite threats that he was
going to shoot the workers they
brushed the constable aside and pro-
ceeded to put the furniture back in
its place. Two scout-cars with police
came around but when they saw the
militant mood of the workers they
did not dare interference.
Hold Meeting
After the job was finished a meet
ing was held right from the porch
OF the house. Mari, Mary Himof
and other members of the Council
spoke and urged rs to 100 workers
to join the Unemployed Council.
While the meeting was going on, a
moving van came around to take the
furniture to storage. But the
workers told the movers that what
they put back stays put and the van
drove of empty
Put Back Per Day
While this was going on Ferry Hall
Council was putting back another
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
JOBE1El7SS FIGHT
EVICTION TODAY
Save Home for Worker
Out of Job For Year

NEW YORK.-Unemployed work.
ers, especially ex-service men, and
militant employed workers are called
by the Councils of the Unemployed
to struggle today in Brooklyn
Max Kaplan, an ex-Service man,
a shoe worker with a wife and child.
but no job for about year owes two
months rent on his family's lodgings
at $50 Saratoga Ave.
The boss, Wiezenthall, who owns
this building and another next to it,
and has 26 tenants in $50 alone has
notified him that he will be evicted
today.
The jobless, led by the Council of
the Unemployed, will demonstrate at
553 Saratoga Ave. today at noon, and
will picket all day A second demon
stration will be held at $50 p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17

terrible beating when seen in the
picket line. The cop who dubbed
him into mass of bruises had to be
restrained from beating him up again
right in the court room during the
hearing. To justify this brutality,
the police have decided to fasten the
charge of breaking the zelgreen cafe
terra plate glass window on Hari.
They falsely accuse him of throwing
a rock at it, and charge him with
"felonious assault because the police
beat, him UP.
Alex Hanarian, arrested with the
original SO, was not picket but be-
came involved when he passed by and
saw police beating up men and
women. He tried to intervene, and
was himself attacked and arrested.
His denunciation of the police bru-
tally was so vivid that the Judge
tried to exclude him from the defense
by dismisstng the charge.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Harry Eisman Is
Greeted Here, Will
Speak at Passaic

NEW YORK. - Two thousand
workers and workers children gath
cred in New York Sunday to greet
Harry Eisman militant young fighter
who was released from Hawthorne
Reformatory on Saturday. The
workers cheered enthusiastically
when Harry got up to speak Among
the. other speakers were 1. Amter,
member of the March 9Th Unem-
ployed Delegation, Tyler, Negro
worker, for the LID, Minerich for
the Vel. and a Pioneer speaker.
Harry will sail on Wednesday night
for the Soviet Union. In the evening
a farewell concert has been arranged
for him at the Unity Cooperative, at
1900 7th Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Building Workers to
Hear RLU Delegate

NEW YORK.-The delegate of the
building trades workers in U. S. to
the Fifth World Congress of the Red
International of Labor Unions will
make a report on the congress to a
mass meeting Saturday, Nov, %, at
1 p M, at Irving Plaza Hall. All
building workers are invited.
Harry will speak in Passaic at 25
Dayton Ave, on Tuesday, at p. m.
and in Paterson the same night at
Union Hall, 205 Paterson ST., at
730 D. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
BIG GROWTH
IN JOBLESS
DURING OCT.
1000 Wait Hours in
Line For Jobs in
Cleveland
2 Collapse; Starving
More than 100000 Lost
Jobs During Oct.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov 16.-Nlore
than 1000 unemployed workers
waited in line here for hours to "reg-
lister" for temporary work which the
city has promised. On a previous
occasion nearly 10000 workers ap-
piled for these temporary jobs and
only few hundred were taken on
at very low wages and for a few
days.
Hundreds of police guarded the
lines as the mass of workers began
to troop in during the early hours OF
the morning hoping to get ew dol
lars to keep them from starving to
death.
Two workers collapsed of hunger
while waiting to register. One was
Frank Minnich, 30 years old. He
had not eaten for number of days.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-One day
after the Department of Labor had
issued statement, widely published
in the capitalist press, that employ
ment remained stable" during Oct,
figures published by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of the very depart
ment show huge increase in unem-
ployment in all industries for Oc-
! tober.
In manufacturing industries alone
there was drop of IA per cent in
workers employed This does not
cover the hundreds of thousands who
We're put on part time employment.
Payrolls we're cut heavily also.
In other places, excluding indus
tries, there was drop of IL per cent
in employment. Decreases for the
most important sections of industry
We're as follows Manufacturing, IA
per cent drop; metal mining, IL per
cent; quarrying "a per cent; tele-
phone and telegraph, "a per cent;
power light-water O.4 per cent; hotels
20; while in canning there was a
1872 per cent decrease.
The Labor Department index of
employment which in Oct. 1929 stood
at 3 was, at the end of october,
/ 1880 at 1876; payrolls last october
we're 1923; the present index for
payrolls is 727-a drop of 294!
The Department of Labor figures
are not an accurate guide to the
tremendous growth of unemploy-
ment, as they cover specially select
ed factories, and the reports are
handed in by the bosses at their own
will. Yet even with these juggled
figures the bosses cannot get around
the fact that more than 100000
workers we're thrown out of work
during october alone, adding to the
ranks of the 100000 who were with
out jobs before Oct. According tc
the Department of Labor figures
since last October, nearly 20 per cent
of the workers have lost their jobs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
ZELGREEN PICKETS
HELD TO SPECIAL
SESSIONS TRIAL
Workers Will Continue
to Violate Injunction

NEW YORK.-Thirty- arrested
at the zelgreen cafeteria. where on
Thursday hundreds of workers and
jobless demonstrated in mass viola
ton of the injunction, are in jail
waiting trial before special sessions
court on charges based on the no.
torious Paragraph 60o' of the New
York penal code which provides a
prison sentence for violation of an
injunction. One case out of the orig
inal SO was dismissed.
Meanwhile active organization of
even bigger demonstrations against
the anti-strike and anti-picketing in
functions go on. The Trade Union
Unity Council leads the struggle to
win the right to strike through its
special Smash the Injunctions Com
mittee."
Trial without Jury.
When the SO came up for hearing
before Magistrate Jessie SHERMAN in
Jefferson Market Court, the attorney
for the A. F. l.. union Locals 302 and
Walters No. 1, tried to have them
first tried there for Contempt of
court" figuring to get them a double
sentence by having them tried later
under Paragraph 600 After an argu-
ment between the A. F. L. attorney
Jonah Goldstein, and Jacques Butt
enkant for the International Labo,
Defense, representing the SO, the
judge threw all the cases with one
exception over to special sessions for
the Paragraph 900 trial They will
come up Tuesday or Wednesday. Be-
fore special sessions, they do not get
a trial by jury. but only by a battery
of Tammany judges. The court seems
to be a unique New York institution
and has given so and go day SEN
fences to many pickets on the charge
these workers face.
Beat japanese Worker.
A second charge has been made Of
Katsuo Hari, Japanese worker who
was singled out by the police for &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17

able but which sannot pass the test
of absolute necessity" he said.
In fact, the public works building
program is being cut to the bone, and,
instead of aiding the unemployed sit
uation, as Hoover so Enthusiastically
told the workers, it is increasing un-
employment. The same situation is
true in all cities, where the bosses
are demanding tax reductions and not
increases to finance any building pro-
grams to aid unemployment.
In the federation government bill
lions are being spent for war pur-
poses and the building program is
being slashed to save the bosses
taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Boss Press Fails to
Report Hundreds
of Others

NEW YORK.-Because her two
babies we're hungry, her husband
having been out of work for long
time, Mrs. Irene Elliott, "a years old,
attempted to kill herself and her two
children Wednesday. She put her
babies, Stuart, 3, and Doris, 10 months
old, to bed and turned on the gas.
George Elliott, the father, returned
from fruitless search for work and
discovered them in time to have them
revived by a pulmotor squad. He
has been out Of work for year.
NEW YORK.-Morris Appeal, AZ,
construction engineer, poisoned
himself when he could not find work
and faced death by starvation. He
had been unemployed for number
of months. All attempts to find
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Detroit Unemployed Council
Deties Cops, Stops Eviction

colored family on Hastings street.
In this manner two and three and
sometimes five families a day are put
back in the house by the unemployed
councils. AS a result the councils
are growing fast. A campaign is now
being prepared throughout the city
to develop rent strikes. The councils
are sending committees from hpuse
to house to prepare the workers for
a real struggle for free rent for the
unemployed and lower rents for the
employed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
BLDG. PROGRAM
HOAX SMASHED

BUFFALO, Nov. 16.-The hoax Of
a speeded-up public works building
program was smashed here when
Mayor Charles E. Roesch ordered a
slashing of all building projects to
save taxes for the bosses.
At meeting of the City Planning
Commission, Mayor Roesch declared
that the main principle was ito keep
down taxation" I'VE have no lati-
tude for expenditures of municipal
funds for projects which are desir-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
sPEED-UP TRAPS WORKERS

POTRERILLOS, Chile.-Terricic
speed-up and faulty, cheap construc-
ton caused the death of one worker
and seriously injured twelve others
in the mines of the Chile Copper Co.
Saturday. The immediate cause of
the accident" was a rock slide
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
POLAND GETS ANOTHER LOAN

WARSAW, Poland. - Negotiations
have been almost completed here
with the Swedish American Match
Co. for loan of s3o,oOO,ooo, accord
ing to statement by the minister
of finance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-17
Challenges Fly
In 10000 Drive

AL Smith, unwittingly gives
a 100 per cent expose of cap
italist bankruptcy in the fol-
lowing remark culled from a
full column of grade A blah:
The great trouble is that
when a crisis of this kind
comes upon us we seem to run
around in circles"
The boss stampede is in
tedsd to give the jobless a
picture of excited activity for
relief to stave off real work.
ing class action.
Hasten the mobilization
with 10000 circulation for
the Daily Worker. The air
is full of new challenges.
Campaign news page 3.
Evening star., 1930-12-14
How Long Is IS Years?

TT TAKES Nature generations 10 create a stately
l shade tree. But owing to entirely preventable
- causes, it takes man but ten to fifteen years TO
destroy Americas finest city residential sections in the
name of commerce and progress
Proof of the latter statement abounds in statistical
form. Or better yet-pause and reflect-where and
what are the fine homes-the splendid neighborhoods
of Washington's yesterdayse
Those who know assert that Washington is today
one of the worlds most rapidly developing cities And
apartment, the monotonous row house, non1escript
architecture and other disturbing influences wholly
at variance with the fine ideals of American home
life
Where then may a man find protection from the
encroachment of and haphazard residential
developments. Where may he find haven
with the certainty of permanent community character
Strathmeade-the Planned ity-embodyng
the best knowledge obtanable today is the solution to
his problem. For Strdthmeade completely meets the
present day demand for closer association of resi-
dence and recreation school and play, beauty and
utility, under conditions at ideal practical and
permanent.
Here in Strafhmeade one can buy and build wholly
confident that the integrity of his home and neghbor
hood will always be protected Here home ideals will
always be supreme for you-your chidren-your chill
drens children.
The outstanding features of Strathmeade are many
and varied. They have been planned expressly for
you and yours-not for fifteen years fifty
years-bnt for generations. For time-proven safe
guards protect every rathmeade home regardless of
its cost.
The 1911 broad acres of Strathmeade embrace more
than two square miles of gently rolling wooded coun-
tryside in Fairfax County, Va, Is minutes from the
White House. on the historic Lee Highway. The
elevation varies from 280 to 385 feet above the Po
tonnac.
A Typographical model showing the complete com
munity plan in miniature is now on display at the
Srathmeade General Offices. Here, without obliga.
ton importantly to by you will receive descrip-
tive literature and other enlghtenng information on
Strdthme0de- the Planned Community with "Added
TGlue."
The Washington times., 1930-06-13
No Saturday Half Holidays for
Year Round for Some Time

Yearround Saturday half holidays for civil service workers
may not be provided by Congress for some time
The proposition made headway in this session Of Congress
but its of passage faded through objections of Repre-
sentative CramO who said the President wished study
the subject in detail.
The bill received favorable attention from the House Civil
Service Committee the broad principle that half holidays
are desirable in all lines Of work.
That principle has long been recognized by Presidents
through the issuance Of executive orders giving Saturday
halhodays for the months workers in executive
establishments
There should not be concessions the part civil service
workers to obtain yearround Saturday holidays The scheme
proposed in some quarters is that to get aheyear half
holidays the working hours in Government service should be
heightened for five days in each week
Saturday half holidays good for all workers
fits from 1t in the public service would be valuable
industry and business The idea that workers refreshed
from good rest period efficient returning to
their employment.
The President will take the matter up with departments
and bureaus and the bill before Congress will probably
have official approval
The Washington times., 1930-06-13
Definition and Punishment of
Vagrancy in This City

The police department Of Washington will disappointed
Congress fails pass legislation that will enable the depart
ent to reach and punish large numbers idle and vicious
people who have visible Of support in
tionabls manner
Senator Capper introduced into Senate measure den
ing and Furnishing vagrancy, and similar bill pending
the House.
distinct weakness in District laws is the absence of
statutes that will permit the police and to handle
loerers with bad records At present Is difficult to hold
suspicious characters Definite charges be made against
them.
The vagrancy law proposed by Senator capper would be
vsancy charges pending investigation into their past his
tories.
The Capper proposition is somewhat sweeping in its defni
ton Of what constitutes vagrancy and in punhments provided
for conviction Included known criminals and others
able to give good accounts Of themselves ewd those
living idly able to work. and refusing work. loterers without
employment absboded beggars keepers of gambling houses
and others engaged in unlawful callings.
The Washington times., 1930-06-13

John Bull published London prints this picture Uncle
SAM ON one sde beating the big drum to advertise selling
his goods to all the world.
John Bull on the other side his drum SILENT he inactive
Three things are necessary in business First have what
the people want second let the people know you have it.
Third develop production that you can depend on big
sales rather than big prices.
It ism only lack of enterprise that nterferes with British
industry It is also lack of industrial efficiency.
Three workers the United States turn out more steel
than ten iron workers in Britain The American workers
do not work as British workers but their machinery
is better.
Ten men in the United States turn out more AUTOMOBILES
in year than hundred English workers could turn out
The American worker stands in place and his work
comes to him.
The British worker runs all the factory like an Old
fashioned wagon maker in wheelwright shop =
picture like this ought not to make us satisfied with our
selves; quite the contrary
We are not doing so REMARKABLY well, just now, with
our lack of employment and socalled depression
had in our hands most magnificent prosperity 10 oe con-
ceived and as nation decided that the proper way 70
enoy it was to plunge headlong into stock gambling
We did that and now we are paying Tor H.
The Washington times., 1930-06-13
2O.OOO,OOO Soldiers Now
In 1918 There Were Only $4,000, 900.

When the war to closed in 1918 Europe had about
13 600 900 men under arms.
Today twelve years later Europe has 2OOOoOO men IN ~
standing armies reserves.
That 100000 than when the armscs was signed
The increase is interesting.
The new armies equipped with implements OF destrue
n that make the old armies of 1914S look like savagss
armed with bows and arrows.
Ever since the Of perpetual peace was usnereo IN
has been busy in laboratories discovering devices
for slaughtering mankind
Some of these especially the gases are known to the
public Others, considerably more deadly are OF course
secrets iealousy guarded in offices
Air fleets grow bigger and each year. except in the
United States ..ooo ~.
Soviet Russia has the largest army of a-1Oooooo with
the colors 100000 more in reserve.
Behind all the peace talk all the leagues Of nations ana
league and Kellogg pacts and similar scraps OF paper
there are twenty million in Europe trained armed and
equipped to fly at another's throats.
This is seven million more than in 1918.
Do you want to get mixed up in that mess?
Figure it out for yourself.
The Washington times., 1930-06-13

Emotions are difficult to un-
derstand, even psychologically.
We pay a lot OF attention to
the intellect, but practically no
attention is paid to the emo
tions.
Emotion can undermine the
strongest intellectS.
An intellectual giant can be
rendered ineffective through q
quarrel or misunderstanding
with his wife or sweetheart.
ContrarywiSe. the man or wO-
man who understands his or
her emotional life may make a
remarkable career in the world
with only a limited amount Of
education.
Fear is the greatest under
mining emotion there Is.
Thousands are harassed by
it.
That is why fear and its
mechanisns have received so
much scientific attention.
Prof. William James enUA'
ciated a theory many years
ago that upset old notions
about how the emotions worS.
In effect, James said:
you do not run away be-
cause you are afraid, but, on
the contrary, you are afraid
because you run"
Should you suddenly and un-
expectedly be confronted Dy a
wild animal in the woods your
first impulse would be to re-
move yourself as far as posi-
BILE from danger.
In other words you would
turn about and run.
Then, finding yourself run
ming, you would realize that
you might be attacked and
fear would follow as a result
of this revelation.
The Washington times., 1930-06-13

so quickly that 1t seems both
happened simultaneously. The
same holds true of all emotional
reactions.
Another interesting mechan-
ism in connection with fear is
the fact that when we become
afraid the nerves carry mes
Sages to the adrenal glands
(situatel over the kidney and
these. through over-Secretion,
then draw stored-up sugar
(glycogen) from the liver.
This sugar stimulates the
muscles so we can protect our
selves from the offending object
that caused us fear.
Often through the operation
of fear over a long period-even
a mild fear reaction extending
over many years-the adrenal
glands may be more or less de-
pleted. with the result that the
other glands of internal secre-
ton may also be affected.
In such cases the .adrenalS
need attention most of all, and
perhaps other glands, like the
thyroid, as well.
Anyone who suffers from fear
should try to overcome it.
Often the services of nerve
specialist are required to re-
move the mental causes and
get the glands in balance.
But once an individual is OBJ
Sessed with fear, be he ever so
strong mentally and physically,
fear will render him helpless.
A certain amount of fear is
natural, and, in fact, protective.
For it may stop an individual
from doing rash things.
It is too much fear. however.
or fear without logical basis In
fact, that does the harm.