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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
Brooklyn Dance
For Training School

Preparations for the Build the
Workers Training School Dance, to
be held Saturday, September 6, at
Lsisve Liberty Hall, corner of
Lorimer and Ten Eyck Sts., Brook
Ign are completed.
A good orchestra for the dancing
couples, revolutionary n g S,
speeches from working class lead
ers and from the Workers Train
ing School students will feature
part of the gala evening.
The tickets which will admit you
to the dance cost only 35 cents and
are now for sale at the Section six,
Communist Party headquarters, 6S
Whipple St., Brooklyn, the sponsor
of the affair. Get your tickets now,
doe ~'iss sneb an affair.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
PASSAIC J0BLESS OUT
SEPT. FIRST AT NOON

PASSAIC, N. j., Aug. 29.-De-
spite the arrest of two workers CIV
ing out leaflets for the September
1st unemployment demonstration
here, preparations are going ahead
for big meeting to be held in the
First Ward Park at noon.
The arrested workers are now out
on bail of $50 each.
Unemployment is severe in this
mill town and the suffering and
misery of the workers grows daily.
Mills are operating with half forces
and even these get short time
three, four days a week. Thou
sands of iobless mill workers are
out of work and vainly look for jobs
that are non-existent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
SECTION | MEETS
RALLY J0BLESS
con to Union Square"
Slogan of Meets

NEW YORK.-In eight successful
open-air meetings throughout lower
downtown Section / of the Commu-
mist Party rallies several thousand
workers for the great September
LIST unemployment demonstration.
More than a thousand workers
Joined in the mobilization meeting
held Friday night at Seventh St,
and Ave. B and pledged themselves
to join the March on Union
Squared" on Monday at noon.
J. Louis Engdahl, the candidate
for lieutenant-governor of the Com
munist Party, was the principal
speaker.
Workers Must Fight.
Workers, both employed and job
less, will join their demand Monday
for the Communist program of So
cial insurance, of relief for the I'M
employed" he said. "They will de-
mand the release of Foster, Minor,
Amter and Raymond, no payment
Of rent by jobless, all war funds for
the voorhees,, as well as fight
against wage-cuts and the organiza-
ton Of the unorganized. Tammany
Hall has given'its reply to the work
ers. Labor will give the final re-
ply to it's oppressors," Engdahl de-
clared amid cheers.
Calling upon the crowd of seafar-
ing workers gathered at South and
Whitehall SITS. to ajoin the great
demonstrations of unemployed and
employed workers for the Workers
Unemployed Bill, speakers at the
Communist Party, Section /, open
air meeting met with the hearty re-
Spouse of the workers.
Cheer Newton.
Henry Williams, Negro seaman,
and Herbert Newton, Atlanta de-
PENDANT, were greeted by the work
ers when they told them about the
need for Negro and white toilers'
solidarity.
Harry Chandler was chairman,
Reports received from other
meetings, still going ON as we go to
press, indicate successful mobiliza-
ton meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30

Five hundred Oriental types were
employed in the Chinatown Sc
quence.
The original story was written by
Tod Browning who also directed the
photoplay. Browning previously
won fame by his direction of more
than twenty of Lon Chaney's mys-
terry plays.
Journeys End" the screen ad-
agitation of the internationally
known play by R. C. Sheriff., will
be presented for the first time at
popular prices at the Roxy Theatre,
beginning today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
Come For Jobs; Sent
Home With Blank Card

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-At the
City's "Free" Employment Agency
a bit of strategy has been enacted
by the bosses who, in order to keep
appearances up and to have things
run Smoothly, work hand in glove
with the police.
The thousands of unemployed who
daily mill about the doors of the
fake employment agency are given
application blanks by the police and
told to go "home" and fill them out.
This minimizes the number who
would normally remain around the
agency. They are getting too num-
erous and too militant for the po-
lice and whenever a group of job
less workers form they Immediately
fan into a discussion of their prob
lens. Another tactic of the bosses
is to send the jobless applicants out
on "wild goose" chases--in quest of
jobs which do not exist. This les
sens the number who would other
wise remain about the place and
among those who are lined up out
side it creates the illusion that
workers are getting jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
Section Six Men,
bership Meeting

A special general membership
meeting of Section Six, Communist
Party, will be held Thursday eve
ming, Sept, 4th, at s p. m. sharp, at
the section headquarters, 68 Whip
pie ST., Brooklyn.
Comrade Huiswood, District Ne
gro Director, will report on very
important problems confronting our
section and our Party in general.
Party members are warned not to
make any other arrangements for
that evening and come to the
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
Communist Activities

Dance of Y.C.L.
OF Bronx Unit 4, will be held this
Saturday, August 80. at 400 Boston
Rid. Admission rs cents. at door IS
cents.
Social
Given by the Young Communist
League of Coney Island will be held
Saturday, Aug. go at p, m. at 1901
Mermaid Ave. Admission 25 cents.
ProletaPian Banquet
Given by Unit 6, Section will be
held Saturday, Aug. so. at $3.50 p. m,
at 1908 Brighton Beach. Admission
25 cents.
I.Y.D. Committee Attention!
All members of I.YD. committees
and cast for district are to report
Monday Sept. 1st at rs Union So. i'm
mediately after the demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
ASSIGNS POSITIONS
FOR SEPTEMBER lST

All unions, leagues and groups
have been assigned starting
points from where they will
march to the demonstration. The
following are the starting points:
Needle Workers, 131 w. 2Sth St.;
Food and Shoe Workers, 16 w.
21st St.; Marine Workers and
General Unemployed Council,
Manhattan Lyceum, sc E. 4th st.
All the rest of the unions and
leagues will meet at IS w. 18th
st. on Monday, Sept. LIST, at
10 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30

interviewed at the w. l. r. of the
conditions in Jail where they were
held for nine days before being re-
leased on bail. The small cells, they
asserted, were full of bed bugs and
rats and the food was UNBEATABLE.
However, food was sent them by the
Rochester workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
SOCCER LEAGUE MEETS

The L.S.U. Metropolitan Soccer
league will hold it's first re-organ-
national meeting Tuesday, Sept 2,
1880, 500 p. M, at $50 East 81st
Street.
All managers and paylers are
urged to be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30

Support the Daily Worker Drive!
Get Donations! Get Subs!
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Write as you fight! Become q
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30

Strike against wage-cuts; de-
mand social insurance!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
Crime Record Appalling

THERE are signs, and not in
Il consequential either, that the
system of justice already has
suffered a great deal in this respect.
Such signs are to be found not
only in an appalling crime record,
but in the attitude of criminals who
have drawn inspiration if not more
substantial assistance from the
gentle art of bootlegging.
There never was a time IN Amer
lean history when criminals were
so contenptuous Of the law, when
they were less afraid of getting
caught, so arrogant in the face of
conviction, or defiant as prisoners.
More significant still, there never
was a time when so many people
regarded their activities with in
difference, if not sympathy, and
who can doubt that some of that
sympathy is due to the way millions
have come to look upon the speak
easy and bootlegger?
Thieves, forgers, confidence men,
firebugs and even murdererS have
not failed to take advantage Of the
bootlegger's pull.
The graft he pays for being let
alone has served more than one
crook; the itching palm he has
created soon learns to grope in other
directions, and the political machine
that protects him gradually finds
itself compelled to protect others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
Crossing America

Iindbergh crosses the American continent in
fourteen hours forty-1ve minutes and thirty-two
seconds. This brings to mind comparisons with
earlier crossings from Columbus to our own day
How has time evaporated in this field OF human
achievement?
The first person TO cross the American continent
was Balboa the discoverer Of the Pacific. 1t required
the whole month of September of the year 1913 1or
him to cross the Isthmus Of Darien
Our colonial fathers never attempted the feat OF
crossing the continent 1t took them from four days
20 two weeks TO get from New York to Boston by
packet and stage coach.
The next crossing was that of Lewis and Clark.
Their Journey to the Pacific was one of exploration,
so the time element would not be significant But
they made the trip home rapidly as possible 1t re-
ouired lust six months in the year 1906 for them to
come from Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia
river, to St. Louis.
Next we have Marcus Whtnans famous ride from
Walla Walla Wash. to Washington, D. G. 1t took
him the five months from Oct. 3, 1872, 10 March s.
1913 to complete the Journey under many hardships
After the Mexican war we took California we
needed rapid mail communications with the coast.
It took twenty-five days to send mail from New York
70 California by the way Of Panama. Therefore the
uony express was established to from ST. Joseph,
NO. to San Francisco.
Stations we're twenty-five miles apart and each
rider was required to make seventy-tlve miles day
The regular schedule was eight days The fastest
TIN on record was made in delivering LincolnS
inaugural address-seven days and seventeen hours
Then came the railroad age, with the completion
Of the Union Pacific railroad in 1869. The fastest
train trp across America made in special train
CARRYING Mrs Alfred Smith, wife Of the president
of the New York Central lines. The trip from Los
Angeles to New York was made in March, 1924 and
required sixty-nine hours and seven minutes.
The automobile soon pressed the railroad close
for supremacy In speed Cannonball Baker driving
a Franklin car. made the record trip from New York
to Los Angeles in si&ty-nine hours and thirty-one
minutes This is far faster than the best train sched-
ules and but hair short Of the record with special
train
Next trains and airplaneS were linked in trans
continental service and the crossing time was cut
down to forty-eght hours.
And now comes Indy, pairing the time to less
than fifteen hours.
The feat of Lindbergh is symbol OF the triumph
Of our mechanical age We save time. What do we
do with the time We save?
This is a social and cultural problem Of more
ultimate import than any aviation record matter
what the personal bravery of the individual aviator
Do we live more nationally then ancestors who
took a year to crawl across the country in
covered wagon?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30

for the horny-handed toiler in factories mines and
shops But liberal infusion Of good old "alky" is
essential to the profitable distribution OF his products
This is true of small and big business alike. In a
small Pennsylvania town Mr.. Sprague found the lead
ing hotel maintaining pretentious bar room on the
main street without the slightest effort at conceal
ment. Mr. Sprague approached leading merchant
for an explanation This the answer:
Our town depends one large factory which
has countrywide trade. Anything that affects the
factory affects all of us, working people merchants
and property owners A lot of buyers come here to
place orders
There are competing factories in Philadelphia
and Scranton Those are bigger places and buyers
would rather go there, so have to offer them
something special This old-fashioned bar with a
brass rail helps lot Maybe some Of the people
around here don't like it. but they know better than
to say anything"
The bar was passed daily by the ministers OF the
five local churches but these practical men
and they held their peace.
If booze helped this little Pennsylvania factory
town. it is not less useful to the great business enter
prises The larger the concern, the more money it
can spend on alcoholic entertainment to the dsad-
vantage of its poorer competitors:
partial prohibition is beneficial to big business.
Entire prohibition is not The reason lies in the fact
that with liquor fairly high priced and with good
quality liquor sometimes hard to procure, the large
corporation can afford to spend the necessary money
to entertain its customers when such entertainment
would be beyond the of its smaller competitor
Thus it goes. In spite Of the efforts OF the
wizard of the fivver and the committee OF one thou
sand to induce big business to go bone dry, Mr..
Sprague concludes that:
everywhere even in the drest Of political terri
tory there seems to be an informal agreement that
the eighteenth amendment must not be allowed to stand
in the way where important business enterprises
on foot"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30

LstTItlet.i
EANN(VER$ARYI
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THE FIRST INAUGURAL
April 30

ApEn OU
ON April 80, 1889, George Wash
" ington, after a triumphal trip
northward from his home at Mt
Vernon, was inaugurated first Presl-
dent of the United States on the
balcony of Federal hall, New York.
Washington was elected in jan
uary and was supposed to have be-
gun his term from March 4. But
there was such a delay in forming
quorum Of congress that the votes
of the electoral college were not
counted until early in April. when
they were found to be unanimously
in favor of Washington.
The delay apparently pleased
Washington, for he wrote to Cen
eral Knox: THE delay may be
compared to reprieve; for in con-
fdence I tell you that my move
mentS to the chair of government
will be accompanied by feelings not
unlike those of culpriJ, who is 60
ing 10 the place of his execution;
so unwilling am I, in the evening
of a life nearly consumed in public
cares, to quit a peaceful abode for
an ocean OF difficulties, without the
competency of political skill, abil-
tiles and inclination which are nee
eSsary to manage the helm"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
Important but Delayed

Certainly neither the prosecutor nor the
grand Jury can overlook the declaration OF a
county commissioner that he can tell the peo-
ole about wholesale thefts and corruption IN
public Office.
That this particular "foe of Cofinism"
has remained silent until the small matter OF
clerk at election became matter OF I'M
portance should, of course, warn the people
that not all those who are now decrylng the
unpopular boss have any different ideas than
he possessed about public office.
If this county commissioner knows about
corruption in office, he should have taken the
matter to the prosecutor. If he has no such
knowledge, he should be forced to resign.
The people are not greatly concerned
over the naming of clerks and judges of cleo
ton. as long as those officials do not commit
frauds at the polls. All that any one desires
is an honest count of votes and it IS quite
unlikely that there will be frauds this year.
A congressman is to be named.
One of the obstacles to the crusade
against Cofinism is the character of some OF
those who fasten themselves to the move
ment. There are many who have been put
into power by Coffin who now oppose him.
They discredit what might have been a
real movement of progress by their uncon-
scious revelations of lack of real SYM
pathy with decency in Office.
If. for instance, this particular county
official knows of crime by officials, he should
have been at the office of the prosecutor, not
brawling with some underling.
Perhaps the incident may serve to warn
the people that not every aspirant for office
nor movement attempting to obtain support
by denouncing boss who has lost his power
is to be trusted.
IF there is to be real "new DEAF it
should be complete. And it can not be OBJ
tanned by delivering public Office to those
who have quarreled with Coffin over spoils.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
REASON By Ff zzHDfS

MO matter how thirsty the country may be, this
IN proposed wet party will not get anywhere in a
presidential election but it might scramble party al
legiance until the elephant or donkey would make
terms with it, and this probably Is the end in view
Political parties have changedAsin industrial
expansion and our conversion to materialsm they
longer are armies of eager volunteers, bent adven-
In dealism; they are business institutions with
enormous assets and far-reaching alliances.
SO while political leaders may shout wet they will
not abandon their political holdings for new party
any more than they would abandon a share in any
other profitable business because their partners were
for the eighteenth amendment.
TT is easy of course, to hip hurrah and get
Il some volunteers who think they are the whole
country to rally around a new standard matter
what it means but an effective abiding national po-
tical party is not accomplished BY mere ehervescence
To create such party it is necessary to have
actual physical existence all the country, to have
enthusiastic candidates for all offices in township, city,
county. state and nation, and along with these
thorough organization and to bring all this about in
wolves much labor as the building of the pyramids
OFF course lot of fellows will enlist for the joy
~ ride. since various rich gentlemen impatient
to let loose for vet party.
That's he beautiful thing about politics-if you
want to put lot of money into circulation there
always are obliging gentlemen who will cooperate
with you.
And in return they will furnish the most crafty
ing reports.
They Will drink one mint julep and report that a
state has gone their way: they will take second
mint julep and everything east Of the Allegheny
mountains, then a third mint julep and make it
unanimous from Maine to California
But when II comes to election day results It's diff
ferent
Political leaders these days not crusaders; they
are business in perfect control of their emotions
SO. don't put your money new third party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30

I'm my time have heard many
IL queer and strange uses Of the
word ''Bolshevist," as applied to
some person who happened to be
on the other side Of a controversy,
but Warden Thomas of the Ohio
state penitentiary certainly is en-
titled to the championship. He has
scored for both height and distance
in putting the sixteen-pound cpl
tibet.
"I felt" the warden is quoted as
saying, chat when Prosecuting At
torney Chester asked for my sus-
pension he was giving encourage
ment to the 'Bolshevist' element.
More than 300 dead! Men burned
to death in steel cages! Guards who
refused to unlock the doors! And
if anybody dares to complain OF
this and to say that there was Grim
inaI negligence upon the part OF
some one in authority, he becomes,
in the eyes Of Warden Thomas, a
red.
But not so red, I think, as the
flames which licked the roof above
the heads of the poor, covering pris-
oners.
Nero burned Christians. Ohio
burns criminals. This does not seem
to me to mark any great amount OF
progress in the march down through
the years.
Indeed, it is difficult to keep
faith in the general decency of peo-
pie when one reads, as I did this
afternoon, a letter from a sub
scriber about the Columbus catas-
trophe.
Let's just call the correspondent
x. Possibly he himself may be
shamed back to civilization by read
ing in cold type his colder words.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
1t Looks impossible

THO sum it up, President Hoover
L merely is telling us that more
statutes, more trials, more prisons,
more guards, and, of course, more
money are needed to enforce pro-
hibition.
But what good would all that do,
unless there is more sentiment to
back it up?
The breakdown of this law goes
back to public opinion-the same
public opinion that hoped for
better results ten years ago, that
has put up with a great deal to
get them, and now is changing be-
cause they appear impossible.
Fanatical prohibitionists go on
shouting that those opposed to the
law are moved by appetite, but
that is not the case.
It may not be true that there
are as many nondrinking vets as
there are drinking vets, but, even
so, they amount to millions.
Liquor has ceased to be the
primary issue.
What worries the American pub
lie more than all else is the fear
that open and notorious violation
of the prohibition law gradually
will lead to such disrespect for all
laws as will demoralize the whole
system of Justice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
M. E.. Tracy
What Good Would More LGaCs,
More Prisons, More Money
Do for Prohibition Unless
There Is Sentiment to
Back 1t Up?
SAYS:

DRESIDENT HOOVER says that
i congress must pass five bills
"if I am to perform the high duty
which falls upon the executive of
the federal laws"
AS might be expected, these five
bills center around prohibition.
l. The President wants prohibit
ton enforcement transferred from
the treasury department to that of
justice.
2. He wants court congestion re-
lieved, though no one seems to
know how to do it.
3. He wants more prisons, which
is an obvious need, since the fed
eraI government now Is taking care
of nearly 10000 in institutions de-
signed to accommodate fewer than
1000.
4. He wants more effective Dor
der patrol.
5. He want an adequate prohi-
bition law for the District of Co.
lun1bia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

eases, such as the major venereal
diseases, in which it is of the great
est Importance that the patient be
properly informed how to protect
his family and his associates against
secondary infection.
Certainly, it is desirable that the
person with tuberculosis protect
those who surround him against his
disease.
However, it also must be realized
that the person with tuberculosis
may have such disturbed mental
state that the mere knowledge of
the fact that he thus is afflicted
might cause him to wish to end his
life or to take measures which would
mean sorrow to many of those who
might be close to him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-30
Law Has Failed

TIME wisdom of any particular
4 law can not be measured by the
particular object it was meant to
serve.
Social order, the ideals of Justice
and the question of how far person
al conduct should be regulated to
serve the common good, all go back
to a comparatively few basic prl1-
ciples.
In so far as prohibition embodies
the desire to suppress a beverage
which has done men more harm
than good, it is all right, but in so
far as it presumes to develop per-
sonaI purity through mass regula-
ton, it is all wrong, as the record
proves.
While the prisons in other coun-
tries are growing empty, ours are be-
ing overcrowded, and that, too,
though we are unable to apprehend
and convict as large a percentage
of offenders.