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The Washington times., 1930-11-28
IS DYING,
FATHER 'SPLEA

William F. Nelson, 25, jobless
and broke, received a telegram
today that his only child, a baby
girl, is dying at the family home
in Lynchburg, Va.
Heartbroken and anxious to
reach the bedside of his little
daughter, Nelson appealed to the
Washington Chamber of Com
merce for assistance.
Touched by the mans story,
Secretary Dorsey w. Hyde, jr.,
referred him to George Wilson.
superintendent of the Board Of
Public Welfare of the District,
and transportation was provided.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
5 Men and 2 Women
Held on Rum Charge

The police vice squad has
made 750 arrests in less than
three months, it was revealed yes
terday. Inspector T. A. Bean and
Sergts. Nelson o. Holmes and
George M. Little were in charge.
Seven persons arrested over the
Thanksgiving holidays are to ap-
pear in Police Court today on
liquor charges. They are: Ed
ward Graham, 43, 800 block S
st. N. E.; Sanford E. santmyer,
"a, of Monroe st. N. E.; Cath
crime Anna Payne, AZ, 1900 block
H st. N. E.: Irving Hill, colored,
30, 1900 block Ninth st. N. W.;
Edward Thomas Ward. colored,
400 block w st. N. W., and
Louis and Bessie Hopkins, 1900
block Sixth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Fairfax Jurors GiUe
Seattle RuStler"
Light Penalty
ELIZABETH

Out in the wild and woolly
west where men are men and
the law is ruled by Judge "Six-
Shooter" Norman Herald would
have been sentenced to death.
But alls a Fairfax jury did
was recommend a sentence of
two and one-half years in pris-
on. Herald was found guilty of
cattle rustling, once. the most
serious charge that could be
faced in the west.
He was found guilty of steal
ing a calf from Herbert David
last May. An appeal from the
sentence will be heard today by
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy at
Fairfax.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
FiLiGL Relationship
Is Lecture Tonic

Dads relationship with his son
and the method by which the pres
ent day father may effect COM
panionship with his boy will be
the subject of two lectures to be
given by DR.. Eugene L. Swan. of
the American Social Hygiene AS
sociation of New. York City. on
Monday and 4Uesday nights at
8 p. m. The lectures will be in
the Department of Interior audi
torium, Eighteenth and F Streets
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
CHARITY CLASH
TICKETS OUT

If a policeman stops you to-
day and hands you a ticket, it
doesn't mean that you have to
report to court and tell 1t to the
judge.
The ticket asks you to do your
bit for the unemployed and, at
the same time, see whale of a
good football game in Griffith
Stadium a week from tomorrow
afternoon.
All Given Tickets
For, today, all policemen and
firemen in the city were given
tickets for the Marine Coast
Guard game, to be played for the
benefit of the unemployed relief
fund.
The game, aside from being
one Of the best gridiron contests
staged here this season, will be
one of the most colorful. Mill
tary formations will precede the
play and there will be music by
the service bands.
Want Congress There
All official Washington will be
present, and an attempt is being
made to have Congress adjourn
that afternoon and have the
members of both Houses attend
the game in a body.
Among those making reServa-
tionS today for boxes are Chief
Justice Hughes, Secretary of the
Navy Adams, william Deming, of
the Civil Service Commission;
Carl G. Abbott, of the Smith
Sonian Institution, and William j.
Carr, Assistant Secretary of State.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
HOLd-Up Tale False,
Mail DriUer Admits

After more than Is hours of in
tensive investigation by police,
Arthur Saunders, 27-year-old col
ored mail truck driver, yesterday
admitted to detectives that it was
imagination which caused him to
discharge his revolver at trio OF
colored men and not bandits as he
had previously reported.
After a thorough griling by De-
tectives H. K. Wilson and r. j..
Cox, the mail truck driver said he
became frightened when he was
driving along a lonely stretch OF
road near Boiling Field with a
cargo Of air mail and thought that
three colored men who approached
him afoot were robbers.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Police Rockies Plan
Dinner for Callahan

Sergt. Harvey C. Callahan, in
structor at the Police Department
Recruit School, will be feted at a
banquet to be given in his honor
by "a rookie" graduates next
Saturday night at the Y. M. c. A.
Police Commissioner Crosby and
Major Pratt are scheduled to
speak.
The committee on arrange
ments includes Patrolmen M. G..
Randell, E. C. Darby and S. H.
Hartung,
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Colonial War Group
To Banquet Tuesday

The thirty-eighth annual meet
ing of the Society of Colonial
Wars will be held at the Willard
Hotel, Tuesday, beginning with
a banquet at 7:30 o'clock. Guests
of the society will include Daniel
Richard Randall, deputy gov.
ernor general and representa-
tive Of the society in Maryland;
Gen. Louis H. Bash, U. S. A, and
DR.. J. R. Sizoo, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Parked Automobile
Crashes Into Store

An empty automobile, owned
by Foy o. Beach, 1921 East Cap
itol Street, last night, standing
on slight grade, backed from
it's parking place in front of 800
Seventh st. N. W., crossed the
street and crashed into the plate
glass window of the Majestic
Shoe Shop on the opposite side.
Beach had left the car only a
moment before to look at some
furniture on display in window.
He failed to notice it when the
car rolled gently backward d.
Gathering momentum, it swerved
across the street and into the
show window of the shop.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Phone Your Tips
To Times Folks!
$50 in Prizes

Phone The Times when
anything happenS-ring the
News Tip Editor between
$50 a. m. and 6 p. m.-tell
him of any new happenings
in your neighbOrhOod. 1t
may mean cash to you.
Fifty dollars in cash is di-
vided each week among 10
people who "tip off" The
Times on the best news
stories. Save your news for
The Times. A business mer.
ger, an accident, a rescue, a
fire, an important discovery
or anything that you think
might be of interest to the
public may net you some
spending m o NJ ey, If you
phone the News Tip Editor
at District $3.50.
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
Taxi DriUer Gets
10 DGys Suspended

"1t's hard enough to get a
job these days without losing
1t that way"
So stated Judge Given yester-
day when he decided to suspend
Today sentence against Frank
Simmons, taxicab driver, who
was found drunk by Policeman E.
E. Ditto the night before.
Judge Given had first ordered
the man committed, but extended
leniency when he was told Sim
mons had three children to sup
port and had suffered from
tough luck" TecentlyA
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
ROBBED OF $715

Naming several suspects, Louis
Johnson reports to police that he
had been robbed Of SITS in bills
and change while he was asleep
in the rear room of a barber shop
in the 1400 block H st. N. E. yes
terday. .....
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
KIDS
DODGE WISE
POLICE
Sergt. George Little Explains
How BootieS Cut Expenses;
Collegiate Cars in Service


Youth of the high school age,
both sexes, has joined the legion
of rum-runnerS in the Capital
and is the most elusive in the
profession"
This situation is PROBABLE
result of the widespread indus
trial depression, which has not
only affected the legitimate busi.
ness man, but is taking it's toll
in the ranks of illicit liquor
dealers.
The authority for these state
ments is Sergt. George Little,
commander of one of the police
liquor squadrons, who knows the
ins and outs of the liquor racket.
Wise to the Tricks
Sergeant Little's squad is as
signed to road work"-guarding
the avenues to the Capital against
rum-running from neighboring
communities-and as a result he
quickly becomes cognizant of the
latest racketeer wrinkles in the
dangerous business of rum-rur1-
ming.
Says Sergeant Little:
eyes sir, the latest thing the
boys in the liquor racket have
gone to is having kids around
the age of high school students
drive liquor into the Capital.
They supply these kids with
small cars, cOupes, roadSterS
and the like, and have them
make four and five trips day,
bringing in possibly five or six
cases at a time.
Some of Them Painted
"They principally come over
the road from Baltimore, just
as innocent as you please, since
what is more natural today
than a young high school kid
and a flapper riding along the
road in q car.
"Oh yes, some of their cars
are painted and decorated with
pictures and wisecrackS like .
lot Of the college cars you see
around town. And the tough
part about the whole PROPOSE
tion Is that there is very little
you can do about it."
Sergeant Little explained that
the smallness of the automobiles,
the lightness of the load OF liquor
conveyed and the natural ap-
pearance of a youth and q
flapper in such an automobile is
far from probable cause for
stopping the automobiles and
searching them. He declared:
Must Have Tip.
"UnIeSs you have a tip that
a load is coming through or
some such evidence that would
give you cause for stopping
and searching the car, where
would you be If you stopped
every car that came over the
road with a kid and a flapper
in it? You'd be in a mighty
deep mess"
Sergeant Little declared that
employment of these juvenile rum
runners probably resulted from
the business depression. The
boys and girls, he pointed out, are
of the age of youngsters who used
to occupy part-time positions In
drug stores, clothing shops and
similar establishments, when jobs
were more or less plentiful.
Regarding the depression in the
liquor racket, Sergeant Little de-
clared:
"All the boys are singing the
blues today. Why, just drop
over at Police Court any day
and you'll find that out.
Whenever we bring in one Of
the boys, you'll see him ap-
prOach his lawyer and ask for
credit and he even has to put
the bOndsman on the cuff.
Don't Mean Maybe.
81 don't mean these small
time fellows, who hardly made
dime in the liquor business.
mean these fellows who used to
always have a roll big enough
to choke a horse a few years
back. Boy, / mean they're
really singing the blues"
The Washington times., 1930-11-28
NEW BUSINESS
AVOIDED IN
PLANNING
Utilities. and Gas Mergers
Prominent; Taxi Regulation
Expected to Be Delayed

I Senator Arthur Capper of KAN
gas, chairman of the Senate Dis
trict Committee, today was in
formed that the Public Utilities
Commission is preparing and will
Save ready within a few days a
program of legislative recon-
mendations for the coming short
session of Congress.
Harleigh H. Hartman, vice
chairman of the commission, in
letter to Senator Capper, an
3ounced that the commission is
now at work on the legislative
program and that it will be ready
for submission in a day or two.
Avoids New Matter
The program, it is understood,
will deal principally with matters
now before Congress and will en-
deavor to avoid the introduction
of new matter, because OF the
ShortnesS of the coming session
and the complicated legislative
situation which is abound to rise.
Leading subjects on the utll-
ities legislative program will be
merger of the washington Rail
way Electric Company and the
Capital Traction Company; mer-
ger of the Washington and
Georgetown Gas Light compa-
MES; a bill limiting the jurisdic-
tion of the courts on appeals
from the decisions of the Ut1l-
tiles Commission, and bill pro-
Viding two-cent carfare for school
children.
While the tangled taxicab sit
uation is engaging the attention
of the Utilities Commission, it is
possible that the commission will
not embody in its program any
legislation dealing with this mat
ter.
Wants Power Known
The commission is known to de-
sire the enactment of legislation
clarifying and extending its au-
thority over the taxicabs, but 1t
is doubtful that such contra
versial matters could receive fav-
orable attention during the ses-
sion starting Monday.
There is pending a bill which
would require taxicab operators
and owners to establish liability
insurance. The commission is
understood to have under con-
sideration a more drastic regula-
tion than that embodied in this
bill. but it is regarded as un-
likely that efforts will be made
to push the matter in this ses-
sion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

NEGRO and white workers are robbed and OPP
pressed worse than in any other part of the
United States our Party has been firmly estab-
lished.
In the coming congressional campaign our
Party will play an important role. We have
conducted more or less formal work in presl-
Dental elections in some sections of the South
in the past but for the first time our Party
will have candidates on the ballot who have
been identified directly with the mass struggles
of Southern workers and who come from the
ranks of the Southern workers.
Trade Union Work.
The national industrial unions of the Trade
Union Unity League are carrying on intensive
organization work in textile, steel and metal,
mining and marine transport. Many confer
ences have been held in these industries The
program of the revolutionary unions and of the
Trade Union Unity League being popular
led Progress is being made organiZationally.
In the work among the Negro masses our
Party has made probably its most important
advances The demand for full social, political
and economic equality has been put forth I'M
compromisingly and our Party stands forth
today before the working class as the leader of
the struggles of the Negro workers and farm
ers The demand for self-determination has not
been emphasized but this is being corrected.
Our work IN the South mas 1ufnlSneu the
most convincing proof of the correctness of our
estimates of the extent and rapdity of the
rehabilitation of the American working class.
1t has disproved completely the pet capitalist
theory that native born American workers
iect and will always reject the program of the
Communists and will not engage in militant
struggle
The struggles of the Southern masses, organ
lied and led by our Party have been of the
most militant nature and have quite often had
definite revolutionary characteristics.
Valuable Experiences.
1t was in the South, in connection with the
heroic battles of the textile workers organized
in the National Textile Workers Union, that
the fundamental issue of self defense against
the capitalists, their armed government forces
and fascist bands arose in the most concrete
form and gave direction to the class struggle in
other industries.
In the fight against the fascist Musteites,
operating in the South through the United Tex
tile Workers of the American Federation of La
Dor, our Party gained experience which has
been utilized to determine correct policy in
other sections of the country and in other in.
Enthusiastically in Illinois in the coal mining
industry.
AS result of our activity thousands of
Southern workers have seen the fascist lead
ership of the A. F. of L. exposed as the in
struments of the class enemies of the masses
in both economic and political struggles.
The Capitalist Offensive.
The offensive of the capitalists and their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

minimum wage of $40 for all young workers,
free house rent, free lights and water.
The workers continued to hold mass meet
ings and picket lines every day in front of
the Loray Mill. Then on April 10 mob of
mill owners thugs came to the union heal
quarters, smashed the hall, destroyed the
Workers International Relief store, and threat
ened to lynch the organizer
But this did not stop the strikers. They
built new headquarters and continued to hold
mass meetings and mass picketing every day,
until June 7.
Raid on Strikers.
On the night of June Z, the chief of police
and his gang came to the union headquarters
and fired into the union hall and the strikers
tents in which they were sleeping. The
strikers defended themselves from being shot
down in cold blood. They won the battle.
The several workers were arrested, At the
end of the trial seven workers were given
twnty years in prison. The appeal comes up
on April Is.
All workers must organize and fight against
the capitalist courts and the bosses. Organize
in the Trade Union Unity League and the Com
munist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Union Drive Breaks Down
Racial Barriers
BY G. w. CARTER.

The significant thing about the Gastonia
strike was the fact that the National Textile
Workers Union was the first labor organization
to advocate the breaking down of racial bar
riers and to organize Negro workers side by
side with whites on the basis of equality.
Chattel slavery was abolished legally in 1868
by the emancipation proclamation. They raised
the cry of the black menace and thus were able
to mobilize the white workers to keep the Ne
gro in his place" ;. slavery. Since the white
workers were fighting their fellow workers
they were not strong enough to arise above
themselves. This is why we find the miserable
conditions in the Southern mill villages and in
dustrial centers.
The Loray workers revolted against this
slavery. Spread this revolt. On with the
fight against slavery and race discrimination
For the unity of the workers of all races
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Gastonia Strike Was Revolt
Against Conditions
By X. o. BYERs.

Defendant in the First TriaD
One year ago, on April !, 1929, the first
strike was called in the South by the Ma
tional Tetile Workers Union. Two thousand
workers came out on that Monday, under the
leadership of the N.T.W.U. On the first day
of the strike the workers elected strike
committee and mass picket lines were formed
around the Loray Mill.
When the bosses saw that they could not
fool the workers and scare them back to work,
they hired thugs and the Ku Klux Klan to
beat up the strikers on the picket line. But
the workers would fight the police and their
feow-gunmen when they were attacked by
the police and the thugs
Evei the capitalist press, the Gastonia Daily
Gazette would say to the workers: "You are
citizens, don't strike, go back to work" But
the workers answer was: eve have been
shaving long enough, we are on strike for bet
ter conditions" Their demands were: Equal
pay for all young workers, no discrimination
against Negroes, for the eight-hour day, a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
How the Workers Learned of
Revolutionary Unionism
By LOUIS MCLAUGHLIN.
(Scntenced to IL to Is Years.e

April l, 1880, is the first anniversary of the
Gastonia strike. There is great difference
in the minds of the Southern workers today
from what there was before the strike Before
April l, 1929, the workers did not know of the
Communist Party, the National Textile Work.
ers Union or the International Labor Defense.
What they knew is what they got out of the
capitalist press. What the capitalist press saws
of the Communist Party, in the South is that
it is a man that has a sword in his mouth and
a gun and a bomb in each hand But when
workers really learned Of the Communist Party
and the NT.W.U., they struck with the move
ment
When the police aud thugs tried to destroy
the second headquayters on June z, at Cas-
tonia after they had destroyed the first, the
1rorkers then defended themselves. So the
capitalist court put the ones then could on
trial. IT 1t acas not for the acorkers pro-
testing aohi'e the trial was on, ,ve avould
haze been put IN the electric chair.
So when April 6 comes, which starts Gas.
tonia protest week, by the LID, all workers
must make their protest felt Protest straight
on through.till the 18th Of April, and it will
force the courts to listen.
The appeal of the workers comes up in April.
so all workers must demonstrate In mass pro-
test on April to April 10 and show to the
world What the CAPITALIST class is doins to the
Southern workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01
Communists Make Great Gains
in the South

to 80 cents (per hour for skilled workers.
Children from IA to IS years of age
can only work II hours day.
Huntsville, S. c., boasts as follows:
Wages, 16 to 20 cents per hour; hours
worked 10.
W. C. Denmark, secretary of the Goldsboro
Chamber of Commerce, sent out publicity
matter reading, in part, as follows:
Children between ages of IA and 16 that
have gone through the fourth grade of
school may work 10 hours Children that
have not gone through fourth grade work
hours Adult female hours, II per day.
Attract Northern Capital
These examples are typical of hundreds like
them which have been collected and could be
cited They serve to illustrate the point.
Like the slave merchants in the market place,
the Southern Chambers of Commerce are
shouting their chief stock in trade-highly ex-
plotted labor. With such arguments as these
they are inducing northern capital to close
shop in their established localities and to
move South.
Their efforts are not without avail. Manu-
facturers, particularly textile mill owners,
are engaged in furious trek to the Piedmont.
Between 1923 and 1927 about 100000 of
New England mill capital migrated south
ward. Since then the movement has been
gaining increasing momentum.
years activity of the Communist Party
in these sections have severely shattered the
illusions concerning the docility and submis
siveness Of the southern workers But labor
still remains cheap. When the cost of main
tanning the mill villages, variously estimated
to cost from sl.5O to $4.36 per operative per
week, is deducted from the wage savings of
The cotton growing states. the South still has
dfferential in manufacturing costs Of about
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-01

20 per cent-even as high as 80 per cent for
some classes of pro lucts. In one computation
of the costs of producing pound of an iden-
teal print cloth in a Massachusetts and a
southern mill, the Arlwright Club, manu-
facturers organization, found the Massachu-
southern mill was 19.9064 cents. Of the
sets cost to be 2S.0303 cents; that of the
S1249 cents difference between the two
1874 cents, or rs per cent, represented saw
ings in labor costs.
Southern Organ Needed.
The above story has been told largely from
capitalist sources. 1t becomes At prime neces-
sty of the Party at this time to establish,
among other things, southern press. The
southern revolutionary masses have no paper
of their own in which to discuss their prob
lem, keep abreast of activities in other south
ern centers and reach the other broad masses
who can not be reached directly. Comrades
recently returned from the South tell how
every copy of the Daily Worker is passed from
hand to hand until it falls apart from sheer
wear. But the "Daily" does not and can not
devote major emphasis to southern problems
of organization, tactics ana struggle. What
the revolutionary masses of the South need
and want is press Of their own. The Party
must meet this pressing and vital nesT