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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

The Arabian Kingdom of the Hezaz,
NeJd, which saw its first automobile In
1926, now has more than 1900 cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
Texan to Be Guest Speaker.

Rev. z. L. Harrison of Houston, Tex,
will be the guest preacher tomorrow at
the Shiloh Baptist Church, preaching at
IL am. and 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mrs. Frank L. Pleadwell, who has
been abroad for some weeks, will arrive
N New York Monday and will be at
the Berkshire there for several DAYS
before coming 10 Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
Other Championships Won ON the Underwood
Az the 1880 international Typewriting Contest

The Worlds Amateur
TypepritiHr Cham
pioHship % on BY
Reno PoElseH, Con.
Recticut. at the rate
Of fiS net words q
minute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

DR.. w. r. Glines Of San Juan, Porto
Rico, b guest at Wardman Park Ho-
Tel Tor few days. Or. 0lines has come
70 Washington for the convention of
the Association of Military Surgeons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
Washington Girl HOnOred by Party
This Eveing In Delaware.

An interesting party will be given
this evening in honor Of Miss jeanette
Hume and her fiance. Mr.. Nathaniel
Clifford. and Miss Mann Fuller and her
1lance, Mr.. Graham. The party will
be given at the Dicmidad Club, near
Wilmington, the guests from out Of
town remaining over the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. Campbell Weir and Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Morgan, who will
be the joint hosts at the dinner dance
tonight. Among those from Washing
ton who will attend the party are Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Exnicious, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Thomas, Miss Loranda
Prochnik, Miss Mary Selden, Miss Eliza
beth Hume, Mr.. William Cushman and
Mr.. Yandes Wheeler.
Mrs. George Emory Maddox and her
daughter. Mss Emily Stuart Maddox,
have returned to their home on Wyo-
ming avenue, after spending the Sum.
mer abroad. Mr.. George Emory Mad
dox, jr., has left for Cambridge, Mass
TO continue his studies at Harvard Uni
versity.
Miss Maddox win return TO her
studies at the National Cathedral
School next week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Chilled sebu meat is to be served in
England.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

A tea in honor OF Gladys Wolter, the
new president Of Tau Beta Phi Sorority.
zeta Chapter, was held at the home OF
Miss Charlotte Lowenthal, 3l8 Taylor
street northwest, on September Al from
TO 8 o'clock pm.
The girls were dressed In becoming
tea gowns fitting for the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. William M. David of
Pnllaoelphia, Pa, are guests ct the
Dodge Hotel for several days.
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ship COntes for 25th Year

4 complete copy
ofhe Official
Records Of tho
contest will be
5 . " { u p o y
request
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mrs. v. g. Lewis of Crawford, Middle
sex, England, has been at the Dodge
Hotel during . brief visit in Washing
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Moore Of 2400
Sixteenth street have as their guests
Mrs r. j. Berry and Mrs. Charles
Wormiey Of Findlay, Ohio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mrs. George Mesta win entertain ut
dinner this evening at the Rocks at
Newport. Yesterday Mrs. Mesta's sister,
Mrs. Robert J. Adams, was hostess at
luncheon. Mrs. Mesta viii close her
Newport cottage In october and win
come to washington about the middle
Of the month.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

DR.. and Mrs. James Alexander Lyon
and their small daughter Elizabeth
have gone to Hot Springs for fort
nights stay. Mrs. Lyon has therefore
discontinued her Sunday afternoons at
home until later in the Autumn. DR..
and Mrs. Lyon are expected TO return
TO their home, Glen View Farm, on the
Rockville road, the middle Of october.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Former Commissioner and Mrs. Sid
ney Taliaferro left washington last
evening for Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr..
Taliaferro will attend the Bankers As
sociation meeting. They viii be absent
for a week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
SOCIETY
Ambassador to Germany and Mrs. Sackett
Left White House This Morning
After Brief Visit.

THE President and Mrs Hoover
have had as guests for brief
visit. the Ambassador 10 Ger
II many and Mrs. Frederic M.
Sackett, who left this morning.
eche Ambassador was former Senator
from Kentucky.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Miss Julietta Sewer Of sidney. Aus
tralia, has arrived In washington and
is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. II. H.
Shelton, In her apartment In the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

MRS. Elizabeth Northrop, wardman
Park Hotel, left last week for San Fran
CISCO Calf, where she joined party
Of friends for cruise of the Pacific
Ocean on the Malolo On their return
in the Spring they will stop In Honolulu
for several weeks visit, returning to
Washington in the late Summer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27

Mrs Woodbury. Blair was hostess 1t
luncheon yesterday entertaing at New
port, where she spent the Summer sea-
Sor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
WORK AMONG THE FOR
ETGN BORN

spies and provocateurs. In the city of Syracuse,
a patriotic organization with the deceptive
name of the Omitted Order Of Mechanics" has
been circularzing the middle class and the pro-
fessionals as well as employers, boasting of
their work against the foreign-born, citing the
recent discharge of IS workers from the city,
and urging employers to emulate the city. The
Party must come to the fore as the champion
of the foreign born more vigorously than ever
before, developing special forms of approach,
actvizing the language fractions, ETC.
Work Among the Language Organizations
The other phase Of work is work among the
language organizations, and especially those
close to the Party. If the condition il the Ukra-
inian Workers Alliance in Syracuse is true Of
the entire country then sharp reweaial iasa5.
ures must be undertaken at once. Here you eau
find all Of the classical opportunist reg gQs
to the campaigns of the Partg. The USE .a.aH
Party fraction, once as high as fifteea l4e.n-
bers has been cut to four haespsC of Resistance
to shop work, (nucei anG slcr colyra .ttssj
resistance to efforts to break the narrow cul-
tural activities of the organization and to draw
the workers into the fundamental tasks of the
revolutionary movement
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION

In the organization there are sseveratf Gibbs
for children and youths. Efforts to bring the
children into the Pioneers have met with strenu-
GUS objection from the members of the club
The club as a whole voted down the last cons
vention call of the Party and refused to send
a delegate to Schenectady with the excuse that
they had too many concerts to attend to. Such
a state of affairs can be considered nothina
but disastrous. These organizations instead Of
acting as a reserve to the Party, and bridge
to the large masses of foreign-born workers.
serve as buffer to reaching the masses.
Steps to Overcome These Weaknesses
Steps to overcome these Weaknesses nMEa
take the following lines:
1. Vigorous campaign for projections Of She
foregn-born through united front committahsd
mass demonstrations against alien registratiou
and deportation laws, linking the campaigu
with the building of the T. U. u. L.
2. Overhauling the work of the National
Language Buros and the language papers.
9. And above all, make the fractions, from
national committees down to the unit, vital
ferms OF organizational approach to the for
cgn-born workers. Time after time field work.
cc iroul the various national language commit.
Il, have come through without informing the
section executive and the consequent result
from Obs standpoint Of benefit to the party
was Ril.
The 7th Convention Of the Party must clearly
defeat opportunist estimation under the foreign.
born. ----~---+---
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

is still exercised by the religious
reformist labor leaders SILVA Rao,
Girl & Co., who are doing their hest
to keep down the revolutionary tenn
per of the workers. No details are
to hand of the very we'll attended
and successful demonstration held
at Gondia under the auspices of the
B. N. R. (Bengal-Nagpur Railway
Labor Union. At the special meeting
organized by the Perambur Branch
of the M. S. M. MADRAS Southern
Mahratta) Railway Employees Union
the chairman, Govindrajula Naidu,
made speech on the present situa
ton in the country and on the need
for strictly adhering to non-vio-
lence!!! Resolutions were passed
condemning the police for resorting
to shooting and dispensing demon
strators, but also asking for con-
tributions to the Satyagraha (non-
violent) fund!
In Coimbatore, an important in
dustrial centre, meeting OF all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
The average daily wages paid are as follows:

Since the publication of the above figures in
later report it is stated that there has been
a small decline in wages, the amount being
per cent in the Jharia Coafield per cent in
the Ranijang, and per cent in the Punjab."
"In the building trades women laborers are
being employed on similar work to that done
by men in Great Britain" Il am again quoting
from Purcell) "Their wages in certain places
average about II cents day; those of male
laborers 18 to 81 cents per day, while masons
and bricklayers get from SO to S3 cents day
of about 10 hours
On the tramways the monthly rate paid to
conductors and drivers range from SO in the
first year to $1,000 after eight years. service.
The pay of the Indian seamen is on the aver
age not more than $40 per month";
The conditions upon the slave plantations of
the Assam tea gardens" is almost indescrb-
able Even Purcell comments that "the story of
the poor laborers in the tea gardens of Assam
is about as sordid one as could possibly be
related" The official statement on wages in
clude many "extras," and even then make a
most miserable show. If the highest figure Is
taken, including all the items named (they are
given plots of land, free fuel, collected by
Themselves, etc., "the combined labor ofshus-
band, wife and child brings this human drinity
only 81 cents per day."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
TheFiirst Of May i'm India

the workers Of the town was held
and the first item Of the programe
was the hosting of the red flag.
Resolutions were passed conveying
fraternal' greetings to the workers
of the world on the celebration of
May Day, and demanding the re-
lease of the Meerut and other class
war prisoners in India. But before
the resolutions were passed the
president of the labor union, RAJ
maswami Aiyengar, declared that
in the existing circumstances the
only way open to India to achieve
independence was by following the
principles of Gandhi and fully imbi-
bling the spirit of non-violence!
After the meeting a procession was
formed which marched through the
principal streets of the town, car
rying the red flag but nevertheless
shouting "Gandhi XII jai" (victory to
Gandhi)!
1t is obvious that the finest den1~
onstrations took place in Bombay,
the city of the revolutionary textile
and railway workers, of the most
advanced section of the Indian pro-
letariat. During the whole day
there were several professions of
employed and unemployed workers,
led by the recently organized Work
crs' Volunteer Corps, wearing red
badges with the emblem of Ham
mer and Sickle. In the evening .
very well attended mass meeting
was held at Parel and from Their.
the workers marched in procession
to Chowpatty. The special MAY
Day number of the Workers
Weekly" the organ of the militaT
working class, published in Bonn.
bay, issued a stirring appeal to thu
oppressed masses of India to make
May Day the symbol of the fight
against Imperialism, against cap
italism, against international refor'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

marked by the strong participation
of the workers Of the city. The
most active interest was displayed
by the railway workers North
Western Railway who turned out
in full force. Speeches were made
explaining the significance of May
Day, condemning capitalism and
calling upon the workers to unite
for the overthrow of capitalism and
Imperialism. The first resolution
unanimously passed was one express
sing solidarity with imprisoned Com
munist workers all over the world
and welcoming the international
brotherhood of workers and Pea
SAINTS.
In Amritsar. the ground had been
we'll prepared by the Naujawan
Bharat Sabha as we'll as by the
Workers and Peasants Party.
Propaganda for May Day had been
made by leaflets and posters in
Urdu and Gurmukhi (the languages
of the Panjab) and the revolution
airy monthly magazine, the Kirti,
published at Amritsar, issued a Mcy
number in both languages contcin-
ing splendid articles on May Day,
on Marx, Lenin, Liebknecht and
Rosa Luxembourg. A mass meeting
was organized by the NaujaWan
Bharat Sabha, and a procession was
then formed which marched through
the principal streets, terminating in
the park Jalianwala Bagb, the scene
of the unforgettable massacre OF
workers and peasants perpetrated
by General Dyer on April 10, 1919.
At the place the Red Flag was
hoisted, and Comrade Ait Singh in
hosting the Flag, exhortod the
large mass of assembled workers "tc
maintain the honor of the flag at
all COSTS"
The reports of the celebrations in
South India show the influence that
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
Che Socialists and India

a mild criticism. If the workers
should desert the labor party in a
body, Maxton, with a new labor
party, beginning where the old one
did years ago, can prepare them
for fresh betrayals in the future.
The International executive of the
labor and socialist international
(the revised Second internationally
being, on the whole made up of
those who have either found or ex-
pect soon to find themselves in the
position of Macdonald, have a real
problem, and straddle the fence.
They do not criticize MacDonald's
blood letting in India very much,
for they have either themselves
done exactly the same, or expect
to do it, for their own capitalist
masters. But, as representatives of
other than British imperialism, they
have their duty to criticize a little,
and they also take the opportunity
to placate their own honest rank
and file, by pointing out that social
ism after all has objected in the
past to imperialism of a ruthless
sort. They then advise Macdonald,
from the wealth of their own ex-
periences in Africa, Indo-China, etc.,
that more use can be made of Gand-
hi, as a camouflage for imperialist
policies.
Would Like To Betray.
Then we come to the socialist par
ty of America, one of the most I'M
fortunate of all the socialist parties.
1t is doing its best to serve cap
italism, but has not the mass basis
of the European parties. 1t is in
the position of a vendor of stolen
goods, who has not yet stolen the
goods. 1t hopes to win members.
Capitalists are, the recent election
campaign shows, ready, with eau
ton and within reason, to help it.
Things looked better for it before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

Here again naturalization has been intro
duced, increasing the number of looms in the
charge of the workers and terrific speeding
up, and reduction of wages has occurred since,
for Purcell and Hallsworth say, after few per-
sonal inquiries in the woollen mills, that "At
one fairly large mill a strike was in progress,
conducted by Union formed few months
previously, and it was stated that daily wages
ruling there were, for men, from II to % cents
women, IL cents, and children. cents
In the jute industry, of which India has prac-
tically monopoly, the jute workers obtain the
following rate of wages: Men, from % to about
45 cents; women, from 10 to 81 cents and boys,
10 cents per day. The jute lords increased the
hours of work last July from 81 per week to
co. This has produced a chronic crisis in the
industry; as at Dundee, short time and loss of
time has been experienced.
In March about $4,000 struck work against
the 60-hour week and the leaders were refused
permission to address meetings.
Al the same time Maggie Bondfield, the
Minister of Labor, decided that she would not
be justified in declining to confirm the decision
of the Jute Trade Board to reduce rates in the
trade by about per cent An order making the
reduction will be made forthwith A. nice way
of saying that the Dundee jute workers were to
have A per cent cut in wages.
In the. coal mines most terrible method
Of family work is still employed, reminiscent of
the 1880 period in Britain
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

sage from Hollywood Palace las he
did on May 19) and advocate "the
white mans burden" slogan of i'm
perialism. Macdonald said on that
occasion: "In the course of imperial
expansion, we have not only planted
colonies and founded nations, but we
have undertaken the care of people
who could not take care of them
selves. They were doomed to- civil
war or systems of government
which cut them off from the bene-
fits of civil civilization. We have
duties regarding them. We must
see, so far as we are able, that
weakness on our part or too ready
withdrawal from the guardianship
we have assumed does not abandon
them, so that they relapse into the
conditions from which our interven-
ton rescued them"
So Macdonald bombs villages,
kills men, women and children, i'm
prisons, beats, tortures, and sends
more and more troops ito India to
preserve capitalist imperialism
there-the 90 cent wage and the
II hour day.
All he finds it necessary to do
is to promise IAN ultimate partner
ship on free and equal terms
sometime little capitalist govern
ment of its own for india, but not
even that just now.
The lower ranks of the labor par
ty bureaucracy in England, then
finds its position very uncomfort-
able, and the Maxtons, etc., start
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
BY vERN SMITH.

1T is evidently a little risky for a
capitalist system to put socialist
party in power. Not that there is
any danger of socialist governments
establishing socialism,! When and
where has there been even a whisper
of that? From Noske, Zoergiebel
and their superiors? From Wander
veldt the friend of King of Bel
GUM? From Macdonald? 1t is to
laugh. "i%
But the function of a socialist
party in our modern world is not
to establish socialism. 1t is to make
the workers think that if they are
good boys, socialism can be estab-
lished in some distant future, with
out any revolution; if they think
that they won't turn Communists.
1t s usefulness to its capitalist mas
tiers would be much interfered with
if the workers begin to realize that
it is the third Cor in Europe the
14th maybe) party of capitalism.
So when a socialist administra-
ton is put in to check the rising
tide of revolt, a certain contradic-
ton arises. 1t is not a contradic-
ton in the policies of the cabinet.
When his majesty's labor takers
become his majesty's government,
the" are his majesty's agents, and
CO.. @ar themselves so, even more
thy when they were his majesty's
or zion. Macdonald, confronted
wi the problem of openly and
fl ently violating every principle
us q by his party to win workers,
OF e. failing in the slightest detail
to -ance the interests of British
f. .lism, unhesitatingly sides
ritish imperialism. If this re-
he efficiency to capitalism of
list party, we'll, it is the
of two evils.
Donald can broadcast a mes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

mism and social fascisnn.
While the aforementioned facts
show to some extent the solidarity
that was displayed by the Indian
workers with the international rev.
dictionary working class, it should
also be remembered that solidarity
with the Indian workers constituted
one of the central features of the
May Day demonstrations OF the
European and American proletariat
One of the outstanding slogans OF
the mass demonstrations in London
and New York was "for the indie.
pendence of India and support fol
the Indian Revolution" 1t is tbs
most important immediate task Of
the workers of the world to carry
these slogans into action and to
organize the widest possible moral
and material support for the work,
ers and peasants of India in theil
heroic struggle against foreign and
native enemies for their national
and social emancipation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
By DAVID DWOFSKY

With the attacks against foreign-born work
ers assuming ever more vicious, diversified and
fascist FORMS the campaign for the protection
of the foreign-born must be raised to higher
political level and made one of the major tasks
of the party as we'll as one of the major issues
in the Forthcoming election campaign. In the
past this work was generally undertaken by
auxiliary organizations such as the w. l. R. or
the !. l.. D., without general mobilization of
the Party as whole. This practical under
estimation of work among the foreign-born was
fostered by the Lovestone leadership of the
Party, who in their various theses created an
artificial distinction between American and
foreign-born workers.
Government Attacks
The attacks of the government and bosses
occur along political and economic lines. Econo
mically, the fdfeign-born workers employed by
the municipal governments are struck the hard
est The action of the Detroit municipality in
discharging all foreign-born workers is already
we'll known. In Syracuse the same action was
taken by the Mayor, who discharged three
weeks ago, thirty eight foreign-born workers.
Some of these workers had been employed as
long as rs years. One worker, Spanish, lost three
fingers a few weeks before he was discharged,
while laying a sewer for the city. This policy
of economic discrimination is gradually being
extended from the city governments to the
shops. Various patriotic organizations are as
sisting in collecting the information, acting as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18

the Indian situation came along
The Socialist Party had identified
itself completely with the labor par.
ty rule in England. Circular cam.
paign letters Zone was published
recently in the Daily Worker) tel
of "our comrades who rule the
greatest empire in the world" etc
But to win votes from the work.
ers, the brutal slaughter in India,
MacDonald's police firing point
blank into crowds of pickets, pick
citing itself declared illegal by Mac
Donald's viceroy there, and more
and more troops sent by Macdonald
to support the police, is not good
argument.
Thomas Is Embarrassed.
Norman Thomas, who has a cor
rect Musteite approach, is very
much upset He quickly saw the
political difficulties being aroused
by the socialist" order to shoot In
dian workers and peasants.
In the New Leader april 26) he
pointed this out. After telling OF
]. H. Thomas advocacy of capitalist
naturalization as bad for the pro-
paganda of the socialist party, he
states: "But none of these things
seems to me to be SO serious in
their possible effect on international
socialism as the governments pol
icy, or lack of policy, in India" And
he too boosts for Gandhi-the per-
feet camouflage of Empire.
AS the situation grows worse
from a propaganda point of view,