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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
AIDE TO COL. GRANT
REPORTS FOR DUTY
Lieut.. Butler to-Take Place of Maj.
Peterson, Who Was Trans
ferred Recently.

First Lieut.. Frederic B. Butler, Corps
Of Engineers, U. S. A, reported here
yesterday for duty as aide to Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant. Sd, director of public build
tngs and public parks.
Lieut.. Butler will take the place Of
Mai. Virgil L. Peterson. assistant direc-
tor, who was transferred recently to
duty in the Office of the chief of Army
Engineers. In his new post Lieut.. But
Ter will have close contact with the
housing of the various branches of the
Government in the shift that is soon to
take place. In addition, he will relieve
Col. Grant of numerous details that
have accumulated in the month that
he has been without an assistant.
Lieut.. Butler has been on duty in
San Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
POLICE BOARD TO HEAR
GRACELY SATURDAY
Postponement Granted Yesterday
Because Crotts' Subpoena Had
Not Been Served.

Granted a continuance yesterday,
SpottsWood F. Gravely, suspended third
precinct detective, will be arraigned
Saturday before the Police Trial Board
on a charge of unauthorized use of his
revolver. The postponement was
granted after attorneys for Gravely ex-
planned one of the chief witnesses in
the case James Crotts, had not been
reached with subpoena.
The case against Gravely resulted
from the shooting of Crotts more than
month ago after he is alleged to have
attempted, with two other men, to ex-
tort money from Rose Marie Foster,
resident of an apartment house in the
1900 block of First street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
GIRLS TO GIVE CONCERT

The Girls Glee Club of Juniata Col
lege at Huntingdon. Pa, is in Washing
ton to give concert program at the
Lincoln Park Methodist Church to-
morrow night at o'clock.
The club also will give similar pro-
gram Saturday night at the Washington
Church of the Brethren.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01

Halitosis (unpleasantbreath)
has broken up many a love
affair and friendship.
Don't fool yourself that
you never have it. Because
you simply cannot be sure of
that. Halitosis never an
nounces itself to the victim.
But it does to others-and
offends them.
Therefore, before meeting
others, rinse the mouth with
full strength Listerine. If
halitosis is present, it de-
stroys it. If it isn't (and you
cannot tell) your mouth re-
ceives the benefit of a re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
didn't want to kiss him

freshing and invigorating
treatment.
Listerine overcomes hall
tosis because it is an active
antiseptic and germicide
which kills germs of all kinds
in Is seconds. Therefore, it
checks food fermentation and
infection-both a cause of
odors. Then, being a power
full deodorant, it gets rid of
the odors themselves.
Keep a bottle of Listerine
handy in home and Office.
Use it often. 1t pays. Lam
bert Pharmacal Company.
st. Louis, Mo-, u. S. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01
WILL GO TO HAWAII
Capt. Stuart to Leave Navy Depart
ment Post Here About MAY 26.

Official announcement made yester-
day in naval orders shows that Capt.
Harry A. Stuart will be detached as
assistant director of the naval petro-
leum and oil shale reserves about Nav
26. Capt. Stuart will leave the NAVY
Department. and proceed to duty as
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
SUN NOW TRIES BLAME
USSR FOR BANK CRASHES

NEW YORK. The New York Sun
yesterday tried to improve on the
fake charges that 1.-THE Reds"
wrecked the banks by a whispering
campaign. 1t ran an editorial at
tempting to irnplicate the Soviet
Union, by remarks like this: Police
and bankers are investigating a re-
port that alarming rumors concern
ing banks have been circulated in
this city by telephone and otherwise
from central agency which serves a
Power inirlical to the political insti-
buttons of the United States"
The capitalization of Power"
would give, and undoubtedly is in
tended. to give, the impression that
some nation is meant, and the Sun
relies on the general anti-Soviet pro-
paganda in capitalist papers to cause
all to guess that the first workers
state is the one pointed at.
The Sun proposes Imprisonment
and deportation for all who in any
way expose the unsound condition of
any bank.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
Chicago Workers
Prepare Foster Meet
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

the masses assumes greater proper
tons than ever before.
Thousands of workers will gather
in the Coliseum to hear the message
Of organization from Comrade Foster
and will there lay the base for the
mass hunger march to the City Hall
on Jan. IL.
The mass meeting will ratify the
delegation which will go from Chi
cago to Washington, joining similar
delegations from many other cities,
to demand, Feb. 10, of congress the
passage of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill, which proposes
to take over the national govern
ment's war funds and use them in
stead to pay unemployment insurance
to the jobless. They will present also
to congress the mass of signatures
which have ben collected from those
who demand unemployment insur-
ance.
Meanwhile dozens Of workers or
CARNATIONS are electing delegates to
the united front unemployment con-
ference to be held here ON Jan. IL
at Peoples Auditorium. This con-
ference will plan increased activity to
collect signatures for the bill and new
demonstrations for the local demands
of the jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
Burmese Insurgents
Fight Sharp Battle
With Military Police

Capitalist press dispatches from
Rangoon, Burma, where a strong,
militant strike struggles was waged
earlier in the year, report an upris-
ing against the British empire far
Their back in the country. British
machine gun troops have been dis
patched to the Tharrawaddy district
where a native insurrectlon has dis
mayed the local police forces.
A British government forest en-
gineer, H. V. w. Fields Clark has
been killed, as also four military
police, in a series of sharp battles
with the insurgent force, which the
police were unable to suppress, and
which is still in the field The police
claim of course to have inflicted
severe losses on the insurgents.
The British round table conference
tried to soothe the Burmese by de-
claring for a separate British admin
istration in Burma.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
LEAVES PAPER BY ERROR,
GETS TWO MONTHS SUB.

Comrade Shoholm, member of the
Red Builders News Club, active in
the house to house work, left a copy
of the Daily Worker intended for one
of his customers in the wrong door
one morning. 1t was the right hall
but somehow he had mistaken the
apartment.
The following morning as he
came upstairs the occupant of the
apartment, tall, husky chap,
turned to him and said: 81 don't
know for whom this paper is in
tended, but don't want to be de-
priving anyone. This paper sure
tells the truth about the rotten
mess of things in general. How
much for months sub to the
paper?"
Shoholm told him the price and
much to his establishment the man
paid him for two mont' Shoholm
is finding that by leaving sample
copies of the paper in selected houses
in his territory he is making a con-
tact with workers which can be fol-
lowed up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
CHINA RED ARMY
MAKES ADVANCE
Lies of Boss Press Elk
ploded by News

NEW YORK. - Gable dispatches
from China to capitalist papers in
an attempt to make it appear that
the Red forces in China are being
defeated, for several days mentioned
only the retreat in several southern
cities of the Communist forces. But
the latest cable reports show that the
Red Army is making gains.
A dispatch to the New York Times
from Shanghai states that "the Reds
in the region south of Hankow and
in Kiangsi and Human Provinces are
registering appalling successes, de-
spite the concerted measures decided
upon at various HankoW conferences
in recent months headed by Chang
Kai Shek.
Several cities have been cap
tured by Communists, includ-
ing Hukow, an important Yangtse
port in Kiangsik, Kinteh, a large
market town where the Chinese
agenG of the Standard Oil Co. was
captured, and Tsingshih in Human,
which was recaptured from the gov
eminent"
This bellies the attempt of the cap
italist press to make it appear that
the Communist forces are routed
The truth is that the Red Army is
rapidly extending its territory, de-
spite the efforts of Chang Kai Shek,
and reported defeats in few places
in the South are countered by greater
victories in other places which to
the capitalist reporters become zap
palling successes"
Meanwhile, the various militarist
factions, backed by the conflicting
imperialist powers are at loggerheads
and threatening new militarist wars
There is a breakdown in the So
called agreement between the Jap
anese- backed General Chang Hsueh-
Liang, and Chang Kai Shek, sup
ported by Wall Street. There is a
new clash brewing. General Chang
is lining up other militarists for a
battle with Marking and the Chang
Kai Shek forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
Economic Crisis Hits
Denmark; Unemploy-
ment Is Increasing

COPENHAGEN.-The world crisis
has come to Denmark, later than to
the other countries, but it is steadily
making itself felt. Unemployment is
rapidly growing. There are many
trades in which 80 per cent of the
workers are unemployed. Over so
per cent of the workers at the ship
yards in the capital have been dis
missed. Three thousand of the H.
900 members of the Metal Workers
Union in the capital are unemployed.
One thousand six hundred of the
$500 members of the Women Work
ers' Union are unemployed. One
thousand one hundred of the $500
members of the two seamen's unions
are unemployed. In addition many
employed workers are on short time
and doing only from to hours
day. Further,sthe wholesale prices
of food-stuffs have fallen consider
ably so that the poor and middle
peasants are badly hit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
Starring, Tries
to Get Bread at
Point OF a Gun
(By a Worker Correspondent

FORT PIERCE, FLA man and
his family was starving here. The
man went to grocery store and told
them he wanted a sack of flour.
They brought it to him. He told
them he would pay for it when he
got work. They would not let him
have it. He pulled out gun and
said You will. My family is starry
ing" They let him have it. They
knew where he lived.
They got the sheriff and went to
his house and when they got there
his wife was making the flour ready
for bread or biscuits. The children
were SO hungry that they couldn't
wait but were eating the raw dough.
They took up small collection for
him and when that was gone he
could starVe some more.
Where I am they raise oranges and
grape fruit. Lots of fruit won't be
picked at all. No market and no
price. Where I was working they
sold their grape fruit for $2.75 a
box. After the robbers get through
with it and everything is taken off
that leaves SO cents clear box for
the growers won't make enough to
pay for the fertilizer for the trees
and lots of farms can't pay taxes
this year, so the robbers (bankers)
will take the farms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
SPANISH LIBERALS
PREFER MONARCH
TO REVOLUTION
Leader Says He Wants
Kerensky Period Only

An interview with Alesandro Leri
rouX, one of the leaders of the re-
publican party in Spain, given tea
Jules Sauerwein, shows that the
bourgeois liberals, fearful Of tie
working and peasant masses, actually
betrayed the revolutionary uprisinga
in Spain. The interview with Sauer-
vein, foreign editor of lie Matin1
Paris, is printed in the New York
Times dec. 30. ?
LerrouX, who though under arrest
is permitted to remain in his home
because of Illness shows that the
Spanish capitalists want to go as far
as Kerensky did in Russia, but nc
further.
I have not the slightest fear that
if a republic were instituted 1t would
suffer the fate of Kerensky regime in
Russia" said Lerroux. People who
say that have no knowledge Of Spain
Her economic and social problems
totally different from Russia's would
make a Soviet regime impossible. We
have neither class hatred nor prep7
aration and authoritative directionl
nor, above all, the discipline among
the masses required for such gov--
eminent"
What Lerroux and his fellow bosses
want is a compromise with the King
and the feudal elements, whereby
advantages will be given to the bour-
geoisie and the position of the work.
ers and peasants will not be bettered.
To overthrow the feudal regime 4
is necessary for the peasants, wife
the support of the workers to takd
over the large landed estates an
church lands; the workers deman.
better living standards and protec.
ton. To this Lerroux and his CO.
horts object and did their best, with
the aid of the socialists to prevent
the workers and peasants from ac-
complishing the revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
FEEDERS MFG. CO.
LAID OFF SEVERAL
THOUSAND MEN
Make Workers Pay for
Embezzlement
tBy a Worker Correspondent

BUFFALO, N. Y.--One of the hell
holes of Buffalo is the Feeders Mfg.
Co. makers Of auto radiators. Run
ming at full capacity, this company
employs about 1900 men in it's three
plants Continued lay-offs have re-
duced the working force to a few
hundred. Feeders has always been
notsd for low wages, even in the best
of sir.i. Now, in the main plant,
workers are only getting 2 and
days week, short days at that.
The cashier of the company made
away With a couple Of hundred thou
sand, which is being recovered by
further wage-cuts. Although the
Feeder Bros. gave story Of making
up the deficit out of their own peck
cts, it Is clear that the burden of the
conlpany's loss is being placed on the
workers. In some departments the
men have ben forced to work over
time until 8 and 0 p. m. at straight
time. There is plenty of discomfort
among the workers.
The workers in the plants of this
company, as in every other factory,
are realizing that only through Or
ganization in the TracS Union Unity
League can they fight V better con-
ditions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
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Eogewater squatters, falling apart,
smelling Of decay, lie askew on the
mud-flats off the beach-a perfect
symbol of the decaying capitalism
that is in fair way of making squat
tiers Of many millions of the Amer
lean working class.
The boat-dwellers take their lives
in their hands every time they cross
the flimsy bridge that connects their
homes with the river road. The lit
tie one-room shacks they have con-
structed are as thin and scrawny as
the faces of the children who sit on
the cramped decks, gazing listlessly
at the ferry boats gliding between
the city of skyscrapers and the ferry
house nearby.
Rotted planks buttress the shacks
from all angles, giving rise to the
fear that the shacks will crtmple up
at the first hint of strong wind.
Perhaps some do. Pathetic attempts
have been made by the squatters to
make their homes hvable. Flower
pots can be seen through ragged cur
tains and attempts have been made
to paint the ratings around them in
different colors-although not always
successfully. Not one of the shacks
is fit to be used as an clubhouse, yet
none is empty and the squatters pay
81 to some parasite who has no COM
junction about evicting them if the
rent isn't paid. Where do the squat
tiers get the money that goes for the
rent?
Surrounding the squatters ON all
sides are huge factories, for all the
world like criminals lowering over
the scene of their crime. Occasion
ally, like o feudal lord granting a
loaf of bread to starving serf, the
factories dole out few days work
AiAS ouppOoSNiJ SlFiilASu pr dJCo
who own these factories make Edge
water the symbol of capitalist Amer
lea that it is. Directly opposite the
squatter colony, and less than so
yards distant, is the aluminium plant
owned by the Honorable Andrew
Mellon, Esq, than whom no greater
thief ever acted as secretary of the
treasury of the United States. MIR.
Mellon, it must be remembered, is
the gentleman, so-called, who is the
most important, if not the sole stock
holder of the worlds aluminium trust,
the greatest bootlegger in America,
and one of the leaders of the capt.
talist war-dogs who are bowling for
war against Soviet Russia. Mr.. Mel
lon is worth somewhat more than
five hundred million dollars.
A few hundred yards south of the
Tdsewater squatters lies the largest
Ford plant in America. Ford has
scrapped his huge plant in Kearney,
about ten miles distant and moved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
Jobless Storm City Jail in Texas as
Bitter Frost Arrives; Plan to March

natures have already been collected
for the bill
In Stamford, an Unemployed Mass
Meeting will be held Tuesday, Dec.
80, at the Workers Center Hall, 40
Pacific Street, under the auspices Of
the Trade Union Unity League.
DEMINGO-SUN.
In Detroit there will be a mass
demonstration Jan. 9, at Grand Cir
Gus Park, followed by a parade to
the city hall to demand immediate
relief. On Jan. Z a delegation O.
the jobless will present their de-
mands at the opening of the state
legislature in Lansing. On Jan. II,
mass meeting with Foster as main
speaker will be held in Danceland
Auditorium, Detroit. .
Activity Increases.
A whole series of hunger marches,
and mass meetings has been ar
ranged in many cities. Today in
Milwaukee a hunger march starts at
Haymarket Square and proceeds to
city hall to support the committee
of the jobless presenting demands
FOR unemployment relief at that time
on the Common Council.
On Jan. there will be hunger
march on the Cleveland city hall
Cleveland jobless and workers hold
their mass meeting with Foster as
main speaker on Jan. l at p. m
at Slovenian Auditorium, GAIT st
Clair Ave. On Jan. they hold their
econd united front conference at
South Slav Hall, SCOT st. Clair Ave
The Pittsburgh hunger march is
Jan. 6.
On the same day. Jan. 6. workers
and jobless in North Carolina will
send delegation to Raleigh to de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
new COMMISSION
IN JISSR TO PUSH
5-YR. PLAN DRIVE
Will Control Practical
End of Work
Gable by Imprecorr)

MOSCOW, Dec. 27.--The Central
Executive Committee of the Soviet
Union has decided to create new
Executive Commission parallel with
the Council of Labor and Defense
and the State Planning Commission.
The following were appointed on this
Commission: Molotov, chairman;
Andreyev, ce-chairman; Postychev,
Schvernik, Jurkin, members. The
new commission will control the
practical carrying through of the
directives of socialist construction
work by state and economic organs
and conduct a struggle against bur-
eaucracy in order to maintain the in
creased tempo of socialist constructive
work set for 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
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surance Bill, to hold mass ratification
meetings for the bill and elect dele
gates to carry the measure and the
signatures demanding its passage to
Washington to present to Congress.
In Peabody some 5000 jobless de-
mand unemployment relief, without
discrimination as to race, creed, sex
or color, to amount to $l2 each, with
So more for one dependent and So
more for each child additional.
They demand that the city turn
over for an unemployment fund 10
per cent of tn city income, all city
money now being used to pay inter-
est on city loans, and increased tax
alton for the fund on all property
valued at or more than $4,000, with
a city loan in addition if this is not
enough. They demand that the
money for the jobless be handed out
by a workers and unemployed work
erS commission to be set up at a
city conference of these workers and
jobless.
The Trade Union Unity League has
already held a number of unemployed
mass meetings in New Haven, Bridge
port, Hartford, Springfield, and Wat
erbury during the month of Decem-
Der. At all these meetings members
we're enrolled in the Unemployed
Councils, and local unemployed dele
cations were elected.
A series of section unemployment
conferences will be held in January
in Stamford, Bridgeport, New Haven
Hartford. and Springfield, where
delegates win be elected to go to
Washington with the national dele
cation for the Workers Unemploy.
ment Insurance Bill. Over 1000 sig
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
o9Water, N. Mirror Of the
Poverty and Misery Of us. Toilers

/ to Edgewater to take advantage of
the waterfront and some new ma
chinery that could drive his wage
slaves q little bit faster, a little bit
harder, SO that now in the Edge
water plant the workers jump around
at their jobs as if the floor were made
of red hot iron plates.
A little to thenorth of the squat
tiers is terminal of the Public Ser
vice of New Jersey, a Morgan con-
trolled corporation that has, as allies,
most of the politicians and labor
leaders of New Jersey, as will be ex-
planned in more detail in future ar
ticles. Thus Mellon, Ford and Nor
gan make up three sides of the CAPT.
talist prison that encloses the squat
tiers, symbols of the American work
ing class.
Directly across the river-narrow
at this points the fourth side of
the prison-really the fourth side and
the roof. This fourth side is the
Riverside Church built by John D.
Rockefeller at a cost of several mil
lions. Rockefellers church is expen-
sive opium for the masses, but he
can afford it. His companies, not
including his Edgewater inseed plant,
recently paid dividend of more than
two hundred million dollars.
Here then, SO close to their victims
that they almost crowd each other,
are the four master capitalists, not
only of New Jersey, but of the United
States. Their grip on New Jersey
has made it an open-shop paradise
just as it has made it hell for the
vast majority of workers. But this
grip is in the process OF being loos-
ened.
For less than half mile from the
fourth wall Of the Edgewater capt.
talist-prison is the headquarters of
the Communist Party of the United
States. Did we call Edgewater a
prison? Then the Communist Party
is the only key that can unlock it
and free the workers of America. And
the workers are learning it of their
own bitter experience.
The writer spoke to one of the
squatters, tall, gaunt, native-born
worker. Yes, times were bad, he adj
mitted. Were they ever better? he
was asked. Well, really not very
much, or he would have been able
to save for rainy day. IF only
that man Hoover could be thrown
out Of the White House."
Would than alone really make any
difference? he was asked. He didn't
answer for a half minute and then
turned his eyes away as If to hide a
thought that scared him. He finally
looked up and said, a little defiantly,
as If he was half afraid he was talk
ing to n stool-pigeon: by Christ, If
1t doesn't, there's got to be a reyolu-
| ton. there's got 70 be-. - rsu0ss.u