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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
DEFENSE CONFERENCE
IN SEATTLE, JULY 10

SEATTLE, Wash, July 14.-The
Northwest district of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense is making in
tensive preparations for the district
conference to be held Saturday, July
10 at ITO Cherry St., Seattle, Wash
Plans will be laid not only for
the campaign for the release of the
Imperial Valley prisoners and al
working class prisoners, but for the
building and strengthening of the
LID. in the Northwest.
All workers should discuss the inn
portance of the conference in their
unions, clubs and fraternal organ.
izations. They must fight to have
the unions and organizations sup
port the LID. financially.
Send contributions to the district
office, 10 Cherry ST., Seattle
Wash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Mass Dismissals i'm Czechoslovakia

PRAGUE, (nS).-Following the
example of the employers in the
metal industry, the coal owners are
now carrying out mass dismissals
in CzechosloNakia. 1900 miners
have been dismissed at the pits of
the Bruch Company. A further 400
miners will be dismissed in the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
TWO MINERS KILLED
AS CAGE-HOIST FALLS

LEAD, S. D.-As the building
from which a cage-elevator was OPP
Grated burst into flames two min
ers, Scotty East and Sydney Well
man, were dashed to death at the
end of a 2,OOO-foot plunge Jowr
mine shaft here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

tervene. After the last serious
strike of Spanish railway workers
the government, as a boss-tactic to
keep the workers down, trained
large numbers of soldiers for rail
way operation. To defeat the Span
ish workers in their present strike.
the bosses will no doubt use the
soldiers as strikebreakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

het fascist Lewis gand and the
social-fascists, Fishwick and Howatt.
There is also so-called
Belleville rank and file group
which, under the cloak of
opposition to Lewis and Fish
wick, is misleading the miners and
demoralizing them. The miners
must organize their forces and fight
against all of the agencies Of the
bosses, the -Fishwick- Howatt
gangs and so-called Belleville group.
They must have full confidence in
the N. M. U. leadership, Under which
alone they will be able to wage
successful str,'~y'c against the coal
Oh orators and their agencies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

next few weeks. Other companies
are preparing to do the same. Spe-
cial police reinforcements are being
drafted into the mining districts.
Six thousand workers demon
strated June 81 in Vitkovitz under
the leadership of the Communist
Party against the mass dismissals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
New York.


Daily WORKER
In reference to the letter of Com
rade Keller of Chicago in the Daily
Worker of June %.
There is no danger in exposing
shortcomings and errors to the
workers made by the Party. The
Communist Party is not of the same
kind as the capitalist and social
fascist parties, where collisions are
frequently manifested. These par
ties make errors not due to the sus-
ceptibility Of human nature, but to
their wickedness and evil purposes
as regards the workers. They re-
flute candor, discussion and criti-
cism.
All these contrivances are inStru-
mental to them to cover the truth.
Their conspiracy against the work.
ers may sbate their power. Thus,
in such an instance, self-criticism is
unfavorable and dangerous.
fdEJy Ol mdSSeS-
The Communist Party is a party
Of the masses. 1t endeavors and
fights for the interests of the work
ers and farmers, who contribute the
majority of the toiling class. 1t
fights for the economical and social
conditions of the masses and not
OF a minority. Discrimination OF
race has no place in the Communist
Party; secret organizations are in
tolerable to the Communist Party.
Errors are always apt to occur,
due to human nature. Without err
rors we never learn anything, if
they are made unconsciously. We
need the confidence of the people,
hence we must appeal to the masses
for wise and faithful counselors.
Shortcomings must be exposed in
order to eliminate them. They are
due partly to negligence and oppor-
tunism. Thanks to self-criticism
leaders or cadres are checked up
and shortcomings are corrected. The
more self-criticism will be in prac-
tice the more progress will be &C
quired.
Nothing to fear from the foes
because the continued self-critlcism
will drown their flimsy influence.
Long live self-criticism.
SYMPATHIZER.
Editorial Note - "Sympathizer'
correctly points out that the Com
munist Party, as the vanguard OF
the masses, bases its fighting pro-
gram on the immediate and his.
torical interests of the working class
and poor farmers. AS such, it has
nothing to hide, either in policy, tao
ties, method of work, leadership
etc, from the broad masses of the
workers. On the contrary, search.
ing inquiry of weaknesses, throwing
lights in the dark hooks of bureau.
cracy, wins greater and greater con.
| fidence of ever broadening masses in
their vanguard and increases the
capacity of the Communist Party tc
lead the workers through all stages
of fight fof the overthrow of CAPT.
talism and the establishment of &
revolutionary workers government
Errors Are Class Errors.
"Sympathizer" must understand
that the source of errors, made By
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Wage-Cuts For Clerks.

The Butte Retail Clerks Union is
confronted with proposition
offered them by their open-shop
employers which includes a sub
stantial wage reduction and other
establishments detrimental to the
already poorly remunerated work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Many Greetings Ito 10th Congress C. P. S. u

MOSCOW, (IPS).-Messages of
GREETINGS were received by the
Presidium of the XVI Congress Of
he Communist Party Of the Soviet
Union from the RoumAnian Com
tnunist Party, the Communist Party
if Norway, the italian Communist
Party, the Yugoslavian Communist
Party, the Spanish Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
100000 Unemployed in Berlin

BERLIN U.P.S.)-Despite the
fact that the building trades and
other out of door seasonal occupa-
tons are now working at high pres
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Copper Miners Pay For Crisis.

When the bottom dropped out of
the stock market, the Anaconda
Copper Mining Co., bought up their
stock as it was dumped on the
market so as to keep the price of
their stock at $4,000 per share. The
continued selling eventually brought
the price of copper from 18c down
to t4c. The wages were cut from
1925 to $500 per day. When the
copper again went down to lie, the
wages were cut to $3.50. Now
copper is on the toboggan again,
and no doubt the workers will SWEET
in the "hell-holes" at another SOC
cut. These conditions are educat-
ing the miners rapidly, which is
evinced by the growing numbers of
applications in the National Miners
Union which has just taken out q
charter for the purpose of regain
ing the conditions which have been
lost in the past while the workers
have not been organized.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
Transfers Face Cut Also.

The Transfers Union contract
with the Silver Bow Employers AS
sociation expires on June %. The
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., is
one of the largest employers of this
craft, and it is rumored that this
company will issue the call for a
reduction of wages as they are
sponsoring the open-shop movement
which was organized in Helena last
spring by the political machine of
their state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

sure, the number of unemployed
workers in Berlin Brandenburg has
again increased by 1880 and totals
100000, which is an almost unpre-
cedented level.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

Party, the Belgian Communist Par
ty, the Communist Party Of Lux
emburg, the French Communist
Party, the Communist Party of
Latvia, the Communist Party of
Esthonia, the Communist Party of
Lithuania, the Communist Party of
Holland. and many other sections
of the Communist International and
revolutionary organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15
START CUTTING WAGES OF COPPER
MINERS, Transfers IN MONTANA
Open-Shop Corporations of Anaconda Owned
State Start Vicious Drive on Workers
Butte, Montana.
To the Daily Worker;


The forces Of Butte have started their campaign of
cutting and degrading the conditions the workers. by driving the first
Machnsts which split off
the machine shops from the fair list representing the auto dealers
that industry The 81 day The firm in
their against the action and have the support Of all other crafts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

Demand the release of Eos.
ten Minor Amter and RIA,
"onf. in prison foi iin
lui uEemp!uy meat INSURANCE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-15

ERICK, Okla, July 14.-White
terror, raging in the nearby town
of Shamrock, over the line in
Texas, was prevalent here last
night also. An armed gang of $50
white planters and businessmen
raided the Negro section of Erick
and drove Is Negro families from
their homes into the open country,
threatening them with death if they
returned.
The agricultural crisis and unem-
ployment has reused the Negroes
to resentment against starvation,
and these mass prosecutions and
lynchings are the white landlords
attempt to brighten them into siib-
mission.
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Continued From Page One.)
done in the last war, only after the
war was declared, except in some
plants producing for the Allies.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Citizens 7 Eli
BUDGET NEED

Individual citizens today had an
opportunity to plead for inclusion
of particular items in the Dis
trict appropriation bill for the
coming year.
Hearings on the bill went into
the second day before the Dis
trict subcommittee Of the Senate
Committee on appropriations.
Nearly a score of residents were
on hand to plead for inclusion
in the bill items left out by the
House committee in reporting
the measure.
Lieut.. Col. U. s. Grant 3rd,
Director of public buildings and
parks appeared before the COM
mittee to explain items dealing
with the park system of the city
He outlined particularly phases
Of the bill dealing With recrea-
tional activities which come under
the direction Of his office.
Matters affecting the Federal
and local courts here are also due
for explanation today when sew
eral of the judges are expected
to testify before the Bingham
committee.
Officers of the local govern.
ment have virtually concluded
their presentation Of evidence
dealing with the bill. Several
however, still remain to be heard.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
c. Of c. PLANS
NEW AIRPORT
Times Staff Photo

The Bingham airport plan for
the District will be the subject
Of further discussion tonight at
the meeting Of the executive COM
mittees. Of the Washington
Chamber of Commerce, at 8
o'clock in the offices of the
Chamber.
Lieut.. Walter Hinton, chair
man Of the aviation committee of
the Chamber. will report and gen
eral discussion Of the airport
problem will follow. The chamber
has opposed the suggestion ad.
vanced by the Joint Congress
sional Commission, headed by
Senator Hiram Bingham, that
the District borrow $2,500, 900
without interest from the Fed.
eral Government for purchase of
Washington Airport and Hoover
Field as a consolidated flying
field, and has held out for eStab-
liShment Of a port at Gravelly
Point as the logical site for a
flying field.
In addition to the airport prob.
lem, the executive committee is
expected to approve the plan for
the annual outing Of the chamber,
as formulated by a subcommittee
OF the House Committee.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
HOUSE GROUP
0. KS TRACTION.
MERCER BILL

At the end Of a protracted
executive session today the Public
Utilities subcommittee Of the
House District Committee recon-
mended a favorable report on the
long pending street car merger
bill with two important amend
nnents, one affecting the reduced
fare for school children and the
other limiting the time in which
the merged street railways may
ask for q general increase in
adult fares.
On motion sof Representative
Mcleod, acting chairman of the
District Committee, the Public
Utilities Commission was author.
lied and directed to require a
2 cent car fare for school chill
dren en- route to and from school.
At the same time Representative
Mcleod put through an amend
ment that the original merger
bill be changed to stipulate that
inst -ad of the two year prohibi-
ton any application for an in
crease in adult fares at this time
be reduced to Is months.
This was the compromise pro-
posed by Mcleod and accepted
by the subcommittee, whose re-
port will go to a meeting of the
full District Committee tomorrow.
1t was understood that the vote
on the Mcleod amendment was
a divided one but members of
the subcommittee. after the eX-
ecutive session, declined to make
public the lineup.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
CENSUS ADVICE
To en- IN AIR

The last word to 10000, 900
Americans on what they are ex-
pected to do when the census
taker comes around will be put
on the air tonight by William M.
SteuaIt, director of the census, in
a nationwide broadcast over the
National chain.
In a heart-to-heart talk with
t..4~ radio audience, Steuart will
explain the plans of the Census
Bureau for the decennial enum-
Grafton and urge that someone
be at home prepared to give the
enumerators the correct informa
ton when he or she calls.
Wednesday morning the 1907
900 ellumerators will start out on
the count of noses in their pre-
scribed territory, continuing at
the job throughout the month.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Lovette's Works Are
Given by Group Here

The musical compositions OF the
late Thomas S. Lovette, Welsh
pianist, pedagogue and writer,
were presented last night at a
musicale held by the Interna-
tional Association Of Arts and
Letters of Washington in Pierce
Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard SITS.
N. w.
These compositions of the Welsh
writer included piano numbers,
violin solos, vocal numbers, and
several chorus numbers. They
were arranged by the musicians
former wife, Eva Whitford Low.
ette-Lowe, who sang many of the
solos. Victor Russell presided.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
HARNONS READY
To FILE SUITS

Papers in civil suits seeking
$4,000 damages as a result of
allegedly illegal entry of the
apartment of Mr.. and Mrs. E!eck
Harmon, in the 1900 block S st.
N. W., have been prepared, Rob
ert I. Miller, counsel for the
HarmonS. said today.
The defendants named are
Sergt. o. j. Letterman and de
tectives r, j. Cox. j. A. McStyn
and F. A. TruScott. members Of
the police vice squad which
raided the Harmon home With
out a warrant last week.
Miller said the actual filing of
the suits would be withheld until
it is determined whether police
heads will take disciplinary ac-
ton against the officers involved.
but stated that whether or not
such action is taken. the suits
are to be filed.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Wife Says False Ages
Given, Asks Annulment

Annulment of marriage is asked
in a suit filed in equity court by
kathryn Keyser Rice, 10, 900
block F st. N. E., against Grafton
Hamilton Rice. HOO block Six
teenth st. N. W., based on the
marriage of the pair at Annapolis
on August IS, 1928. on the alleged
fraudulent representation on the
part Of the husband that they
were both of legal age.
The petitioner is represented
nv Attorney Louis L. Whitestone,
and filed her suit through her
father, Carl B. Keyser, as next
friend. She informs the court that
neither she nor her husband were
of legal age nor understood the
responsibilities of married left
when they went to Annapolis for
the ceremony. y
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
MANY ANSWER
BLOOD APPEAL .

Scores of volunteers came for
ward last night following a radio
appeal for blood for Mrs. Helen
White, 33-year-old mother of II
children who is at the point of
death in Sibley Hospital.
The young mother gave birth
to her twelfth child six weeks
ago and for a time both she
and the baby did well. Later
septic poisoning set in and she
was transferred to the hospital
where she already has had one
TRANSMISSION.
The blood necessary for the
operation must conform to a
certain type. Any who wish to
volunteer should communicate
with Or. Oscar Hunter in the
george Washington Medical
School between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth Streets on H North
west.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Group Denies Potomac
Park Development Will
Cost U. s. 500. .OOO, 900

The claim that the development
Of the shores of the Potomac
River viii cost the people $780,
000,00 If the project goes forward
is denied vigorously by the Ameri-
can Civic Association in a state
ment made public this afternoon.
Attention is called by the aSSo-
citation to the fact that a year ago
the estimated loss, through lack OF
power development. amounted to
SAC, ZOO, 900. Any actual loss the
association holds will be more than
repaid through collection of taxes
on land adjacent to the develop
p1ent which will materially appre-
ciate in value.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
April Fool Jokers
Swamp Zoo With
Phone Calls

The telephone company was
swamped with April fool calls
today, so much in fact that
several numbers were put under
supervision. The principal one
was that at the Zoo. which for
years and years has been the
pet hobby of persons who take
April l to. be a little sillier than
any other day in the year.
Several persons who called
the Zoo on business today were
informed by the telephone COM
pany operators that this was
April Fools Day, and asked to
be positive that it was the Zoo
they were calling,
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Teachers of District
To Hear DIR. w. C. Bagley

DR.. w. C. Bagley, of the teach
erS' college of Columbia Uni
versity. will address the teachers
institute Of the District public
schools on April 10, it was an
nounced today by DR.. Frank w.
Ballou. Superintendent of Public
Schools.
DR.. Bagley will speak on Red
Letter Lessons" He will address
teachers of divisions one to nine
of the public schools at 3:45
o'clock in the auditorium of Gen.
tral High School, and will speak
before teachers of divisions 10 to
Is at 8 o'clock that night in
Armstrong High School Building.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Convene
In Capital Thursday

The Progressive Education AS.
sociation will meet at the willard
which is Stanwood Cobb, presi-
dent of National Education ASso-
citation; James Wilson Teachers
College: National Educational AS
sociation, National Geographic So.
ciety and the Pan-American Union
Hotel from Thursday to Saturday.
Plans have been made for visits
to the elementary and high
schools, including the Chevy Chase
country school, the director of
The Washington times., 1930-04-01

lawyers will be retained 20
straighten out the tangles they
have helped to establish. But
when an attorney appears as
a witness before a committee of
which Glass is a memberA he is
in for a hard and somewhat
embarrassing time.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
YSTERY GIRL" MAKES SECOND ATTEMPT TO END her LIFE
NARCOTIC RING
MENTIONED
BY POLICE

Washington's mystery girl"
VINO last December chose a church
pew as q place in which to drink
2 quantity of poison in an at
Tempt to end her life and later
SAID that she was the dupe of
2 narcotic ring. re-entered police
circles yesterday, following a
lengthy conference between In
spector William S. Shelby and a
Memner OF. the Episcopal clergy.
Antolnette Brewster Ruggles.
Ine daughter of Rev. George
Brewster, of Selma, Cal, is at
present taking a mental cure at
Saulnger hospital, following G.
ssscono suicide attempt in the
nome Of friends.
Police. although withholding de.
Salls, intimated that the confer
ence had something to do with a
dope" ring Of some pretensions
~ IS thought that the woman
may sometime be able to shed
nght on the Virginia Mcpherson
mystery death, as in her doped
stupor in the hospital she often
muttered about "knoWing some
thing" in connection with the
scandal, which rocked the police
force and led to{ two grand jury
Investigations.
Since she was released from the
hospital after her suicide try in
the auditorium of st. Johns Epis
copal Church. at Sixteenth and H
SITS. N. W., the young woman has
been taken care of by interested
friends. The second suicide try
did not become public until late
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Senate District Body to Decide Power Plan in Week
WASTE IS SEEN
IF PARK BILL
IS PASSED

Decision as to whether the mat
ter Of power development at the
Great Falls Of the Potomac is to
be definitely incorporated in the
Cramton 100000 park and
playground purchase bill, is ex
pected to be reached at meet
ing Of the Senate District Com
mittee to be held either late this
week or early next week.
Powerful arguments in favor OF
developing the potential power
resources Of the Potomac have
been presented to the committee
during hearings on. the Cramton
measure, and Senator Arthur
Capper. and other members wish
to go into the subject thoroughly
before reaching a decision on the
final report to be made on that
bill.
Power interests contend that IL
the Cramton bill passes in its
present form it would, virtually
bar forever development of the
power resources. The bill pro
yides for establishment of a low
level" park on both sides of the
river from Mt. Vernon to Great
Falls. to be known as the George
Washington Memorial Park.
Those advocating power de-
velopment declare fully as beautis
full a park would be available
under power plans as would be
created under the Cramton bill.
They further assert that there
would be a tremendous economic
waste if the area were developed
as a park and no attention paid
to it from power angle.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
D. C. Government Topic
Of Talk by Schmeckebier

"The Government of the Dis
trict of Columbia" will be the
subject of a talk tonight at 8
o'clock by L. F. Schmeckebier,
author and student of govern
ment, who will address the Co
lumbia Heights Citizens Associa-
ton. Az
Schmeckebier has written sew
eral books dealing with the
government of the District. The
association meets in the base
ment of the church at 1435 Park
Rd. N. w. III
End your rental worries by consult
ing the FOR RENT columns of tOtlRy's
Times Classified Ads.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
]. ID. Parker Rounds Out
so Years u. S. Service

John D. Parker, chief clerk in
the office Of the Inspector Gen
eral Of the War Department, to-
day rounded out so years Gov
ernment service.
Parker first entered the service
as an enlisted clerk in the
weather Bureau, which at that
time was under the Army Signal
Corps. He won several pro-
motions, and in October, 1888,
was made a civilian employe. He
has served in the present position
since 1891.
Parker was born in Culpeper
county. Va. May 8, 1850.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
Major BOcOck Receivers
From Physical COLLAPSE

Major Edgar J. Bocock, super.
intendent Of Gallinger Municipal
Hospital. Is at a Virginia Beach
resort conveleScing from a phySi-
cal breakdown, suffered more
than six weeks ago.
III from overwork at his duties
at Gallinger, and worried over re-
cent attacks on the institution,
Major Bocock was taken to Rich
mond, Va, and placed under care
of DR.. Finley Gayle, in st. Luke's
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
TRADE GROUP MEETS

Changes in District corporation
and foreclosure laws will be con-
sidered by the law committee Of
the Washington Board Of Trade
tomorrow at 1890 p. m, in the
Raleigh Hotel, it was announced
today by Joseph A. Burkart,
chairman.
The Washington times., 1930-04-01

islatiye mat
he Vir-
ginia Senator
seems to have
the idea that
all lawyers
are after
W b e n they
seek to have
bills passed
or amended
is to make
them conpli-
Gated. Th e
next step is
obvious. the
The Washington times., 1930-04-01
BANK STATEMENT

Washington Clearing House,
SIS, 5,628, ,870.94.
New York Clearing House ex-
change, $2,211, ,000, 900.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $218, ,0O0, 900.
Treasury balance, $S68. .S4S'-
699.92.
Customs receipts. $4O,692. 1873 .SS.