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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29
NEGRO WORKERS
TURNING TOPARTY
In Revolt Against Super Exploitation, Tired
of Betrayals, Negroes Realizing Need
of Revolutionary Struggle

by the bosses with the open co-opera-
ton of the Socialists" and the JIM
Crow American Federation of La
Dor.
Negroes suffer double oppres-
sion at the hands of the American
bosses. Super-exploited as workers
and oppressed as national minor
ity group easily identifiable by their
color, they pay bitter price for
the upkeep of the vicious capitalist
system. In the past, they have
listened to the high-binders of the
capitalist parties only to be regu-
larly betrayed each and every time.
Negro petty-bourgeois "leaders",
solely concerned with obtaining po-
sition and money for themselves,
have Systematically lead them to
the slaughter. But today there is
growing evidence that the Negro
masses are turning their backs on
the political parties of their enemies
and looking towards the Communist
Party, as the only party of revolu-
tionary struggle against lynching
and other forms of white ruling class
terrorism, against unemployment,
against Jim-Crowism, against i'm
perialist war, etc.
Bosses and Tools Exposed.
The sharpening of the class strug-
gle in the United States is inevitab-
ly forcing the bosses to adopt more
openly fascist methods against the
working class, and especially against
the Negro workers.
The increasing terror against the
Negro masses also inevitably brings
about the exposure of the Negro
petty bourgeoisie as tools and de-
tenders of the very system of Negro
oppression. This has happened time
and again within the last eight
months. The Negro masses are fast
realizing the treacherous role played
by the Negro petty bourgeoisie.
Rallying to Communist Party.
At the same time, the Communist
Party has won the confidence of the
Negro masses by it's relentless strug-
gle against race prejudice and for
working class solidarity of Negro
and white workers, by its fight
against lynching and all forms of
Negro oppression, and by it's rally
ing of the white workers and poor
farmers to the support of the strug-
giles of the Negroes.
By intensifying its activities
among and in behalf of the strug-
giles of the Negro masses, the Com
munist Party will further extend its
influence among them and win them
for the revolutionary struggle and
for the support of the Communist
election campaigns which are steps
on the road toward the revolution
airy overthrow of the capitalist sys-
tenn with its race hatred and lynch
ing and for the establishment of
workers and farmers government
which will, as in Soviet Russia, wipe
out all race lines and abolish all
forms of racial and economic OPP
preston.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29
By CYRIL BRIGGS.

UNEMPLOYMENT, hunger and
imperialist war and other evils
of the capitalist system strike harder
at the Negro masses thar at any
other section Of the working class.
1t is the Negro masses who suffer
most from the attempts of the bos-
ses to solve the economic crisis of
capitalism by throwing millions of
workers on the streets to starve. Ne
gro workers are the first to go.
Disseminated against even in times
! of bosses prosperity, they have the
least reserve against unemployment.
They suffer first and hardest from
any attack on the standards of the
working class. The victims of the
most savage speed-up and bare-faced
robbery on the job, they are jim
crowed into segregated ghettos and
made to pay exorbitant rents for rot
ten accommodations. And, today,
unemployment has forced hundreds
of families to double up" in order
to meet the exactions of the land
lords, with resultant increase in the
already appallingly high death rate
of Negro workers and their babies.
Starving In Midst of Plenty.
Over 100000 workers are jobless
today in the United States. Jobless
and starving in the midst of plenty!
And out of all proportion to the Ne
gro percentage of the population is
the percentage of Negro jobless. In
the South, hundreds of thousands of
Negroes are existing in actual starv-
alton. In the North conditions are
not much better. The most fright
full suffering exists in Harlem and
other segregated areas.
And what are the bosses and their
political parties doing about is?
They answer the demands of the
working class for social insurance
for the unemployed with police clubs
and atrocities. They resent the fact
that the unemployed refuse to starve
quietly! They answer the growing
solidarity of the Negro and white
workers with an intensification of
the lynching terror against the Ne
gro masses. The republican national
administration attempts to conceal
the depth of the crisis and minimizes
the unemployment and suffering of
the masses with a barrage of lying
statistics. Republican and demo-
cratic state and city governments
launch vicious attacks on workers
demonstrations against unemploy-
mentment, savagely prosecuting the
unemployed delegations. The fake
Socialist" party betrays the strug-
giles of the workers by attempts to
divert them into harmless and inef-
fective channels. The Socialist"
city administration in Reading lets
loose its police on the unemployed
workers.
Bosses Continue LayOffs.
And in the meantime, the ruthless
policy of lay-offs, speed-ups and
wage cuts is being rushed through
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29

afraid of IT. Kill it, I told you.
What towards! AS I though. You'll
be fired for this. Wait, then. I'll
catch it myself, unarmed. (Tke
flea jumps into the Chiefs mas
taches, and the sIeuths driven to
action By the threat, go after it.
They pound has face and head Nth
the bIockjacks, trying to kill the
flea. The Chief falls to the floor.
The sle,.ths are searching for the
flea IN his m,Mstdches. One finds
it. 1t is killed. The professor
makes his enit during the upheavaI.
The Mayor is training his magnify
! ing glass on his face IN small
mirror. He forgets about the raid.
II finds some dust on his nose and
wipes it off auth the sleeve of us
coat. Then he observes that his
face IS not POWDERED. The profess
Sor, passing by, stops and ruefully
scrutimises the MAYOR, s0ho, no,O,
e1citedIy, is searching through has
pockets for the ponder puff. He
fails to find it; jumps to his feet,
much agitated.)
PROFESSOR: Cooking dole}ulIy
at the Mayor A queer creature. It's
pity I have no jar large enough.
MAYOR: My secretary! My
secretary! Where in the hell did
she put my powder puff? (He
stops and peers into the professors
room. Sees the Chiefs corpse on
the floor. He strides in.)
MAYOR: (Standing over ths
Chiefs corpse) Mhu! Such a.
hero! Throw him out! / told him
to resign in the first place. Throw
him out, now, in the second. (TDo
sleuths take the corpse by the arms,
ta0o By the feet and one policeman
by the hair, and carry 1t out to on
ash can, on a0hich, noeo that 1t IS
illuminated, is seen avritten, IN bold
type, "Wanomaker." An acceptance
is flying IoW and maudlin, hOarse
Uoice is heard from it. "You gaze
nc a Job IN the air and I gaze you
place doaon beloa0. SO you're res
paid" Garderias, falling from the
aeroplane, settle on the hands ami
feet, projecting from the ash can
but there is no fragrance. Stenc
of the corpse kills it. The sleuthyj
and the Mayor return to tho pro-
lessons study
ONE SLEUTH: (Holding the
dead flea 'between his fingers
Look, your honor, I got the mis-
creant!
MAYOR: You'll! You are tho
Chief Of Police row. (He pins thS
gold badge on the sleuth. All ARD
nakimg their erit. The professor
meets them at the door. The nea0
Chief is thanking him for tho great
chance. The professor, stupified,
stares at the sleuth, then runs into
his study and begins to search fox
his flea.) ...sx.....
CURTAIN =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29
A play in One Act, One Scene.
By A. B.
Characters:

A play in One Act, One Scene.
By A. B.
Characters:
1. PROFESSOR: A middle-aged
man, aOith elongated, enigmatic
face, long, soft mustaches. Like
any professor of modern capitalistic
Institutions, he is, en,otionally and
ideally, a sluggard; but When he
gros0s enthusiastic over something
getting q political job, for instance
his physiognon,y becomes so corr
torted, that--not being lit q0ith
subtle sapience - his appearance
gives, even to has oWn associates,
the suspicion that he is a culprit.
He as incessantly and zealously e1-
perimenting auth insects, IN prep
dration to assuming the duties of a
psycho-analyst to the prosecutor.
He has not been informed yet that
the testimony is developed and
designated by a prosecutor long be-
fore and is only chnnted from MEM
org.
2. POLICEMAN: A burlg and
TagnGcious Irishman.
3. MAYOR: Dapper, dainty, Of
small stature, Wearing light blue
ouercout, silk, mulberry colored
handkerchief in his breast pocket,
q fedora hat, and carrying Uhite
gloues in one hand and a thin, high
III polished cane IN the other.
A. CHIEF OF POLICE: Brazen,
arrogant, deceitful. Middle-aged,
stature above Average, Nth square
shoulders, red, cropped, heavy mus
tdches.
5. Another policeman, Nth four
crack-detectiues.
The scene takes place on the first
floor of tenement house, on the
Lowest east side of New York, dur
ing the spring of 1880. The time
is about four in the morning, 10hen
everyone is either asleep, sleepy or
subject to fears and mirages. The
curtain opens on the Professor bend
inc over glass Jar. STANDING on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29

sIeuths. At this jatncture, or 9Chen
all are looking sIspiciouSIy through
the aUindoaU, the professor is bend
ing lou over the jar, his mttstGches
hanging doaOn and eUen touching
the VaU of the gar. The flea is still
seen fleeing the professors pursuit.
1t finally lands IN his n1ustaches.
Apparently, 1t bites him, for his
face becomes utterly distorted. He
a0rithes IN agony and begins to leap
up, his right hand IN has matstaches
and the left in the air.
CHIEF OF POLICE: Sure,
copy! He is as crokoed as anybody
l ever clamped my wicked eyes on.
And he feels my presence, too. Look
how he jumps around! He is fright
ened. Beat it in, cops! (They all
rush in. The Mayor takes O seat Ia
the hallway, close to the professors
door,
CHIEF: (To the professor)
You're a crook!
PROFESSOR: |. |. /. e. AL!
HE stops bobbing about and scYe10s
his eyes on the Chief in grim per-
plerity).
CHIEF: Yes! You! And
amt seen nobody as crooked as you
in coon's age! (The professor
begins to leap up, aorithing IN pain,
his hands aUaUing in the air.
PROFESSOR: It's a-fIea! It's
o-flea! liza flu! Otza flu! Utza
flu! (He ganbOIS about, scratchin1
his back aUith one hand and has
upper lip a0ith the other.)
CHIEF: Mhu ! He flew!
From where you flew? Uhm hui!
He is a jail bird, too! Catch him,
cops! Pinch him! Print his fling
ers! Yes! Thasha main thing!
The printed fingers. (AU the
sleuths surround the professor and
take ont their bldckjacks. The
Mayor sits IN his chair, nonchalantly
observing the raid. He takes ont a
small tortoise trimmed magnifying
9 ass Dith q handle, trains it on his
sleeve and searches for dirt. He
finds q speck of duSt.)
MAYOR: Phew! Such a squalid
den! l don't Sc how anybody can
stand it here, in this country, where
each and everyone's got equal OPP
portunity,-to belong to Tammany
Hall. HE takes from his pocket
a dainty, little brush and brushes
himself off. Then he trains his
magnifying glass on the cane,
searching for dust.)
CHIEF: ITO his sleuths) Pinch
him! I told you!
PROFESSOR: (Stin hopping
abouo Utza flu! Otza flu! ). :.
Huy' Don't pinch me! /. i. !. yae!
All! Oh! Oil Ouch! Ugr. r. +.
h. h! His lips protratde Way out,
and he is ~. ina to the white aoall,
'ole ,y, the aas J'nst alighted2
CHIEF: <ill it! Kill it! Don't
catch it ali,.i (He appears to be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-29
By FRANK HENDERSON.

By FRANK HENDERSON.
THE recent Labor Sports Union
Detroit propaganda meet of July
IL, 10, was a huge success from a
plain sports point of view. But did
it fulfill its main purpose-to spread
propaganda for a workers sports
movement? Categorically, no. The
L.S.U. arranges open meets for the
direct purpose of bringing closer to
the L.S.U. and the working class
movement generally, those worker
sportsmen who are still in the ranks
of boss-controlled organizations. The
Detroit meet did bring some worker
sportsmen closer to the L.SU. but
not from the class point of view.
The comrades in the lead of this
meet committed one serious error
which is objectionable in the ranks
of workers, an error which may lead
! to serious illusions among many of
the worker sportsmen who partici-
pated. Therefore with due credit
to the comrades in charge of this
meet for their success in bringing
worker athletes from all parts of
the country, including Canada, to
participate in this affair, we must
severely criticize them and point out
their mistake.
Comrade Heimo and others of the
Arrangements Committee, lacking
an understanding Of the fundamen-
tails of workers sports, appealed to
banking institution to donate for
this meet. The bank, being on the
alert to show that it is the friend"
of the workers, donated fine cup.
This cup, spattered with engravings
advertising the bank, was made the
highest award at the meet. Some
comrades of this committee even
wanted to go further. They insisted
that during the distribution of
prizes, speech be made in behalf
of the bank, thanking them for their
donation.
This idea was rejected without a
class explanation and therefore led
to further and graver error. In
the August End issue of the Eteen-
pain, Finnish workers daily, there
appeared report of the meet, which
in part stated as follows:
championship Cup. This was
given to the club which got the
highest number of points. This
beautiful prize was donated by the
Highland State Bank where workers
deal. The prize is the best ever CIV
en- to worker sports clubs in this
country. We should lift our hats
to the bankers and particularly to
the bankers in the Finnish depart
ment Of the bank. Mr.. E. Karson."
Obviously the Detroit reporter for
the Finnish Press is saturated with
petty-bourgeois ideas, otherwise he
would not have written such a re-
port. The Eteenpain as a revolu-
tionary workers paper must be sew
erely criticized for allowing such
material to creep into its pages. If
the reporter is a staff reporter of
the Eteenpain then he should be re-
moved and comrade with an under
standing of the class struggle placed
in his position.
What is the danger Of such reports
and particularly such prizes?
Firstly it misleads the worker
into thinking that a bank is his
"friend" and that it is donating the
"prize" to help the worker sports
men. Secondly it tends to turn the
eyes of the worker sportsmen to
look for support of the L. S. U. not
] to the revolutionary unions and the
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
COUNTY GAMING
QUIZ IGNORED

No immediate action will be
taken on the complaint Of
Charles B. Calvert. attorney Of
Mt. Rainier, Md, that a large
gambling establishment was
operating in the vicinity Of
Bladensburg and graft was preva.
lent among county officials, the
Prince Georges county commits
sioners decided yesterday.
The county heads, after re.
ceiving a second letter of com.
plant from Calvert, decided they
had taken adequate steps for the
present by referring the matter
to States Attorney j. Frank
Parren and Sheriff Charles S.
Early for action. Upon receipt
of Calvert's first complaint,
Parren announced he would sum.
mon the complainant and all wit.
nesseS before the county grand
jury in October.
TheSattorney also requested the
county commissioners to conduct
an inquiry into the bonding situa.
ton in the county.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
G.P.O. VETERANS
BACK CARTER

Charges of discrimination on
the part of Public Printer George
H: Carter against former service
men in the Government Printing
Office were denounced as
malicious Misrepresentation OF
the facts" by members Of the
Government Printing Office Unit,
No. l. United Veterans of Amer
lean Wars. yesterday.
Carter had been charged in
resolutions adopted by the Vincent
B. Costello Post, American Legion,
with dismissing former service
men without cause. and other
unjust treatment. The resolu.
tionS singled out the case of one
man who was dismissed who was
the father Of five small children
and was paying for a home.
This was denied by the Printing
Office veterans, who said that
only two probationary former
service employees have been
dropped this month and that
neither had more than two chill.
dren.
The veterans declared that
these men were discharged be.
cause they were unable to meet
the usual requirements of the
office, and declared that Carter's
treatment Of veterans is fair
and generous" Following a brief
discussion the resolutions were
unanimously adopted and signed
by Ernest WickStrand, commander.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
WIFE, 35, ENDS
LIFE BY GAS

Huddled over a table in the
kitchen of her home in the 1700
block Twenty-fifth st. S. E.. a
pencil grasped in her lifeless
fingers, the body of Mrs. Ruth P.
Connors, 35 years old, was found
by friends who forced entrance
to her home late yesterday when
she failed to answer the phone.
The house was filled with gas
and she had been dead about an
hour according to members of the
Fire Department Rescue Squad
and physicians from Casualty
Hospital.
Two notes, so badly scrawled
as to be unintelligible, were found
on the table. They were taken
in charge by headquarters de-
tectives.
Leo Connors, known in local
sporting circles as Chuck" could
ascribe no motive for his wife's
act declaring that two hours :
fore her body was found she
seemed in excellent spirits and
that there had been no domestic
trouble between them.
Coroner j. Ramsey hewitt issued
a certificate of death by suicide.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
Lurdy Crop Loss Is
Estimated S7lO,OOO

LURAY, Va, Aug. 27.-Accord-
ing to figures compiled by ]. R.
Seakford, former justice of the
peace of this county, there will be
a total loss of $4,000, due to
the drought destruction of corn,
hay, potato, tomato, apple, and
huckleberTy crops.
Seakford places the loss to the
corn crop at 100000; the hay
crop, 100000; the fruit crop,
100000; the potato crop, $75, 900;
the tomato crop, $4,000. and the
huckleberry crop, $4,000. Mr..
Seakford bases the losses on aver
age crops for the last 10 years.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27

Carter is said to be an A-No.
cook.
Do you think you know some
one who can fill the qualifications
of Typical Washington Girl even
better than this young lady? II
you do, nominate her at once.
It is necessary to accompany
the nomination blank with a
statement of the entrants quail
fications and a good picture Of
her. But if a good picture is not
available. don't be worried. ALI
that is necessary is for the en-
trant to drop into the photog-
raphic department of The Wash
ington Times, fourth floor Of the
Hearst building, 1917 H st. N. W.,
any day between $50 a. m. and
p m, and have a studio photo
graph taken. There is no charge
at all.
Not a Beauty Test
Every average, normal girl has
a chance of winning this free trip
to Paris as the guest of The Wash
ington Times and Gloria Swan
son, famous screen star. For no
one knows what the board of
five judges will regard as the
Typical Washington Girl.
Girls may nominate themselves
or be nominated by relatives or
friends. They will not be paraded
in bathing suits, or anything of
the sort This is not a beauty
contest, but a serious search for
the girl possessing those sterling
qualities that make up the ideal
young womanhood of today.
The girls selected in October as
the best qualified will meet some
evening at a big hotel and will
be interviewed individually by
the judges.
That's all there is to it.
Nominations are still in order
and will be until the end of Sep
tember.
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
WOMEN BAT TIE.
SCHOOL RULE

EMMITSBURG, Md, Aug. 27.
Women of the International Fed
Grafton of Catholic Alumnae in
biennial convention in this city
were urged yesterday by Miss
Agnes Regan. chairman OF lcgls-
lation, to take an active interest
in national, State and city leg
isIation.
She said the dangers confront
ing the country today were the
tendency to centralize power in
the national Government, as in
the case of the Federal education
bill and passage by States OF eu.
genie legislation. She said:
eff we oppose, as we do. the
establishment Of a department
of education because Of the
great danger we see in the con,
troll of education drifting grad.
uaIly from the States to a
central government, it behOOveS
us to interest OurSef in edu'
catiOnal legislation in the vari
Gus States.
Urges School Representation
THE fact that we maintain
our own educational system
should not prevent US being
deeply interested in the great
public school system in which
many of our Catholic children
must of necessity be included
and where thousands Of Cath
olic teachers are employed"
Miss Regan also said the
women should be enough inter
ested in the welfare Of public
school children to have represen-
tation on local boards Of educa.
tion.
She warned against the pas
sage of laws in the different
States providing for the steriliza-
ton of the mentally deficient,
so-called incorrigible criminals
and incurably insane.
Segregation Approves
She said the segregation of
such persons was the only really
justifiable method and that the
best mental hygienists are du-
bious as to the results of Sterili-
zation methods. She said that
even for great social benefits
Catholics could not acquiesce lin
setting aside Gods law"
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
Rules Governing Quest
For 7 ypical Girl

I Every girl eligible who
1s is 18 years of age or
over, Is unmarried or a wild
ow. is employed in some gain
full occupation in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, has been
employed in the present posi-.
ton for at least three
months, and resides in the
District or within tell miles Of
the District Line.
8 Entrant must be formal
Il ly nominated by herself,
a member of her family, or
a friend. Nomination blanks.
to be printed daily. must be
filled out and sent to the
Typical Washington Girl Edi.
tor. The Washington Times,
Washington. D. c.
9 Nominations m ust be
Os placed in the mail prior
to midnight on September
80. 1880.
A Nominations must be &C.
He companied by a good
photograph Of the entrant
Photographs will not be re-
turned.
r Entrants under 81 years
y Of age must give advance
proof that If they win. they
will be accompanied by a
parent or legal guardian,
who must bear his or her
own expenses If a girl un.
der 81 wins and does not
report with a parent or legal
guardian for her companion
The Washington times., 1930-08-27
Intense RiDalry Marks
TwicaL Girl Quest
MRS. BOOTH

The quest for the Typical
Washington Girl is getting more
exciting every day.
Rivalry has sprung up. Gov
ernment employees, school teach.
ers, typists. stenographers, private
secretaries, telephone girls, sales
ladies. and filing clerks are vylng
with each other for the honor of
Abeing chosen by The Washington
Times as the Typical Washington
Girl and receiving a wonderful
free trip to Paris as the reward.
Among the first girls to be
placed in nomination for this
honor was Miss Ethel Carter. 81
years old, of 115 Twelfth st. S. E.
Judging from the qualifications
listed by the woman friend who
nominated her, Miss Carter is a
strong competitor.
A,NO. 1 Cook
Miss Carter has been employed
for six years by the Western Elec-
trio Company. I'LL North Capitol
st. She is the picture of health,
of good physique, fine character,
and strong personality. She has
had two years in high school.
She can swim, play golf and ten
mis-, drive an automobile, ride
horseback, and play cards. She
has played leading parts in vari-
Gus amateur performances given
by the Girls Friendly Society, OF
which she was president. And
last, but by no meanc least, Miss