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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
The Long Roll of Suicides
Shows Despair of
Unemployed
By MYRA PAGE,

Another suicide! "Mrs. Ella
Kiertwehm of Chicago, who cannot
face any longer her three small
children for whom she cannot OBJ
tain food, ends her life by hanging
herself to a BEAM" "Jobless and
starving worker in New York City
ends life by jumping in front of
truck" Sales clerk in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, unemployed, was found
in the park last Sunday, dead from
self-poisoning. Father, in Rich
mond, Virginia, SIS years old, shoots
self when fired from job he knows
will be his last. Middle-west farmer,
losing farm, hangs self in barn
with cow rope.
Suicide! Day by day the grim
toll mounts, tragic evidence of the
straits to which unemplo' nent and
the present crisis are driving men,
bers of the working class and
farming poor, in all parts of the
country.
Despair.
In few words the story is told:
No work, hunger, worry, fatigue,
leepless nights, muscles and nerves
that cry for rest. Tramp, tramp.
Searching the Help Wanted" col
umn, knocking at factory doors.
Gas and light turned off. Children
crying for bread. No shoes for
Mary to start back to school in.
Tramp, tramp. "Please, mister, I'll
do any kind of work" Turned out
by the landlord, so where will his
kids sleep tonight? Tramp, tramp.
Fighting in line, to get near the
boss, the powerful boss who holds
the magic Of life in his hands.
Kind boss, my wife's milk run
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
Organize; Fight; the Boss Laughs
at A Worker Who Kills Himself!

since the war they have had to sta
ton special guards along the Dan
ube and other rivers to prevent if
they can the daily suicides by
drowning.
Suicide is the final act of men
driven insane by their plight and
the misery of their loved ones. Ig-
norant of tie ways of meeting cap
italism's ruthlessness, they take
this way of escaping in one last
act of revolt. At the same time
larger and larger numbers of la
boris ranks, harrassed by the same
conditions, are having their desper-
alton directed into organized and
constructive channels of revolt.
"Don't starve-fightw says the
Communist Party. Don't kill your
self. Kill the capitalist system
You mike everything that is OF
value in the world, and it belongs
to you. Organize and take it,"
1t is cowardly to seek death
while millions of workers are be.
ginninf to revolt. If you are still
employed, organize and strike
against wage-cuts, against long
hours, against speed-up. That pre-
vents more from losing their jobs
If you are jobless, organize in the
Councils of the Unemployed. March
on the seats of capitalist govern.
ment. Demand work or wages. De-
mand imme Late relief from the
city treasury. Demand no eviction
for non-payment of rent. Fight for
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill to guarantee every jobless
man at least $25 week insurance
The bosses tr-- to throw the bur-
den of the crisis due to their owl
exploitation on your shoulders. Or.
ganize and fight them! To die
willingly is just what they want Of
you when they have no use fol
YOU.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 13.-Mrs.
Alma Graether, jobless Ind penni-
less, aged SO, was rescued here to-
day by gro worker when she
attempted to end her life by drown
ing in the Detroit River. Mrs.
Graether is now in the hospital,
DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 13.-The
body of George H. Campbell, s.
years old, was found hanging from
a rafter in the garage at his home
here today. He had been brooding
over inability to find work, his sis
ter told the police.
These are the acts to which mis-
cry and desperation is driving I'M
told member of Americas laboring
masses. In New York City alone
the suicide rate for 1929 was over
1900, higher by nearly three hun.
dred than it was for 1927, while
the rate for 1880 viii lDe by fai
the highest in its history. Soon il
America it will be like it is il
Austria and Hungary, where ever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
ELLA MAY MEET
TONIGHT, 8 P. N,
Noted Speakers To Be Pre-.
sented at Memorial

The Ella May Memorial meeting
in New York City opens tonight
at S p. N. at Irving Plaza Hall.
A notable program arranged for
the occasion by the District Office
of the international Labor Defense
includes amo !; the speakers Anna
Burlak, in New York for the day
only, preparation to going on trial
IN Atlanta, Georgia, where she
faces death sentence for leader
ship of Southern workers; Moissaye
j. Olgin, editor o. the Freiheit, and
j. Louis Engdahl, general secretary
of the international Labol Defense.
Arteff will present its members
in Sacco-Vanzetti declarations and
recitation of water Boy"
Under the direction Of Schaeffer,
the Freiheit Gesangs Fercin will
sing new groups Of revolutionary
songs.
! A member of the John Feed Club
will deliver some Of Ella Mays
poems.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
SOCIALISTS SUP
PORT BRUENINC
COVER n NE N 7
War Danger Sharpened by
German Election

NEW YORK. - The German
Social Democrats have told Chan
cellor Bruening that they will
give him their indirect support
or benevolent Neutrality, so that
he is assured of the needed ma
jority for his various measures
when these are submitted to the
new Reichstag." The main items
under the so-called various mea-
sures" of the Bruening program
with financial and economic mea-
sures, including the cutting down
of employment doles, etc., which
brought about the dissolution of
the last Reichstag.
By this cirtuitous route of sin
direct support or benevolent neu-
trality," which will no doubt as
sumo the for moi open colition
the German social-facists hope tc
avoid a sharpening of the class
struggle in case the Fascists
should form the government
Since a sharpening of the strug-
gle between the Communists and
Fascists will place before those
millions of workers still support.
ing the Socialists" the clear cut
alternative of Fascist Germany OF
Soviet Germany the socialists
are trying their best to prevent
such development in short, are
Continued On Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
CARPENTERS
HIT W0LL'S LIES
Mass Demonstration Sun.
days Sept. 18th

Carpenters Local 2090 unani-
mously voted to accept the Friends
of the Soviet Union Resolution
adopted at the recent conference of
the F. S. u, calling for Defense
and Recognitions of the Soviet
Union. According to a statement
just issued by the local secretary
Of the F. S. u, Harriet Silverman,
the action taken by Local 2090, an
A. F. of L. local, is a fitting an
swer to the brazen lies of che fas-
cist Matthew Vol regarding
forced labor" in the Soviet Union
and an indication that the rank
and file of workers are against the
SANDER campaign of the fascist
leadership.
Local 2090 pledged it's support to
the F. S. U. in spreading the true
facts about conditions in the U. S.
S. r. to forge the bonds of inter
national working-class solidarity
between the working class here and
the workers and peasants of the
Soviet Union. All working-class or
CARNATIONS are expected to take
favorable action of the resolution
and to turn out for the mass DEM
onstration, Sunday, Sept. %, at the
New Star Casino against the Fish
Committee, which renews it's "red'
batting investigation in New York
a day or two before the meeting
of the Friends of the Soviet Union.
Speakers at the mass emonstra-
ton Included Max Bedacht for the
Communist Party, and NJ. ]. o.
gin, editor of the Freiheit. Tic.
kets for the meeting are 35 cents
in advance and so cents at the
door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18

The U. S. Post Office is being
put on a "sound business basis"
and Americas Ga are satisfied
little bit.
The Postal Inspectors Survey
and Speed 'em up Commission by
Postmaster Gen. Brown last Spring
to introduce economy, efficiency
and sound business methods" in
the Department, is producing re-
suits in hurry, even before they
barely get started. Already re-
ports are reaching the Department
from all parts of the country, in
dicating that lick-spittle local post
masters, anxious to curry favor
with their superiors, are cutting
their carrier, clerk and laborer
forces to the bone. The remain
ing force is speeded brutally. The
mail service schedules are cur
tailed on week-ends and in the poor
residential districts, one daily de-
livery and a collections on Satur-
days and Sundays being dropped.
This affects the poor working
masses only.
Thus, some 400 letter-carriers
and as many clerks were laid off
in New York, $50 in Grand Cen
trail Station alone. Half as many
were laid off in Brooklyn, some in
Philadelphia, Baltimore and so on
throughout the country. AL! this
in anticipation of the Commits
sion's visit, so as TO impress them
favorably.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
SPUR FIGHT ON
drive AGAINST
FOREIGN BORN
Conference, Sunday. Sept.
81, 66 E. Fourth St.

Spurred on by Governor Roose-
velt's recommendation, urging dis
elimination against employment Of
foreign-born workers, the First
District Conference called by the
new Provisional National Commit
tee for the Protection of the For
eign Born will open at 10 a. m.
on Sunday, Sept. 81, at the Man.
haitian Lyceum, 66 E. Fourth ST.,
prepared to discuss the increasing
number of problems facing the for
eign born workers in this country
today.
The conference will lay the basis
of national organization and pre-
pare for a national conference to
be held in Washington within the
next few months.
Delegates to the conference will
represent organizations of Hungar-
ians, Roumanians, Russions, Ukran-
ians, Lithuanians, Italians, Jews,
Films, Japanese, Scandinavians,
Bulgarians, Slovaks, Esturians, Ar
menians, Chinese and Let's.
Many Trade Union Unity League
and American Federation of Labor
Unions will also send delegates, as
we'll as the international Labor De.
Tense, he Authority League, and
other national organizations.
The committee declares that
President Hoover's suggested new
measures to restrict immigration a.
a remedy for unemployment is
simply means Of distracting the
attention Of workers from the rea,
source of unemployment, creating
enmity between foreign born ant
native worker without solving any
thing.
The organization will launch 6
nationwide campaign to combat
registration and finger-printing Of
aliens which would place foreign.
born workers in the category OF
criminals, and will fight against
the measures being advocated by
Hamilton Fish to remove so-callec
undesirable elements" back te
their native lands. thus placing the
alien worker at the mercy of every
prejudice.
! Working-ciass organizations who
have not yet appointed delegates
are urged to do so at once and in
sure their representation at the
conference on Sunday. Delegates
credentials may be presented at tn.
conference hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
Greet the Communist Party
Election Gains IN Germany,
Central Opera House, Friday

The Communist victory in the German elections will be the
for demonstration the workers of New York Central
Opera House, Friday evening.
The outcome of the German elections, where the Communist
Party poed four and half million votes gaining 100000
of elections securing
Rechag instead of the 81 previously held has shocked the
tast world has overd with the revolutionary workers
world
expressed their rejoicing and fighting spirit through demon
In the United States the Communist
a
of the German elections.
The Central Opera start at 1880
sharp Friday evening Max Bedacht representing
the Central Committee of the Communist the U.
Engdah Communist candidate LeuenantGov-
of New York State, will be the main speakers.
the Bring of shop
Central Opera House Friday evening right
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18

for the purpose or cutting down the
operating expenses. All engines
that should have zone to repairs
are now being piled up and such
men as are allowed to return will
be put on piece-work to speed them
up-until the next lay-off.
The shopmen had been working
on 4-day basis. Section hands on
the same railroad are working only
three days a week, the first time
this has occurred in twenty years.
WHEELING, W. Va.-The Ben
wood mill of the Wheeling Steel
Corporation has completely sus-
pended all operations and thrown
over 1900 workers into the streets
for an indefinite period.
Hoover has shown himself to be
a liar on many occasions. He is at
it again. In March, when 1885, 900
workers fought under the leader
ship of the Communist Party for
work or WaPes," his lie factory
worked overtime trying to dispel
the truth about the economic crisis.
The efficiency engineer is now
using his efficiency TO lie some
Continued On Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
Vote Communist!
Post Office Brutally and Illegally
Speeds and Discharges Workers

younger clerks, carriers laborers,
substitutes newly-appointed 2 or
3 years ago, are not promoted to
regular positions as vacancies &C.
cur through death, retirements and
removals from the service, or
through increasing the staffs with
the increase of the country's popu-
lation by 20 million and the re-
sultant increased volume of mail.
"These vacancies" Brown declares,
will be permitted to lapse" con-
trary to the Civil Service Law.
These men are continued as sub
stitutes for years at the hourly
rate of 65 cents per hour and are
given l or hours work a day,
though they are compelled on a
time card to hang around their
stations 10 and IL hours a day
without pay, in shifts determined
by the will or willfulness of their
supervisors. Or else, they are
put back on the list of those ELI
gible for appointment and are fur
loughed'-told to shift for them
selves-as was done recently with
$50 letter carriers in Philadelphia
and with so in Baltimore. Similar
conditions prevail in other cities.
Young regular employees, with
or Z years, are reduced to TEN.
porary regulars. something the
Civil Service # mover pprovided
for.
Letter cares delivery routes
Continued On Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
MASS CONFERENCES FOR
RED CAMPAIGN
Women Delegates Meet Saturday.

Yesterday thousands of workers
all over Greater New York at
tended the numerous Red Campaign
meetings held in the various dis
tricts. The Communist slogans
about unemployment, wage-cuts,
sped-up and other burning prob
lens, were met with great re-
spouse by the workers surrounding
every Communist speaker.
The working masses of Greater
New York are being modified for
the Communist Campaign. The
conference of working women is
called for Saturday, Sept. 20, at
Irving Plaza Hall. In every shop
and factory, office and department
store the women workers must be
organized to send delegates to this
conference. Another conference, in
order to organize the Negro masses
around the Communist ticket, is
called for Sept. % at 308 Lenox
Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
EXILE WORKERS.;
SH|EL D TAKERS
Fake Evidence on One; Let
Other Break Law

NEW YORK.-Deportati to fas-
cist hangmen abroad for militant
foreign born workers, even if the
evidence of violation Of immigration
laws has to be faxed is a policy Of
the U. S. government. Deliberate
overlooking Of actual fragrant viola
ton of these same laws for foreign
misleaders and parasites, and for
government stoolpigeons, is part of
the same policy.
RadeRadecovitch, Jugo Slav work
er has been deported. Guido Serio
is on Ellis Island, waiting deporta-
ton to the fascist murderers in Italy,
from whom he has been given the
castor oil torture several times al
ready and by whom he is already
under sentence. Frank Vikukel, on
$1,000 bond, has been told to "hold
himself in readiness for deportation"
to the merciless Horthy In Hungary.
There is no evidence against any
of these workers except that they or
ganized labor inthe United States. In
Serio's case, the witnesses utilized
by the immigration officers In their
deportation case all swear that they
did not say what the officials claim
they did
Dopester Safe.
On the other hand, in Oklahoma
City, Gregory Anyschenko, religi
GUS dope peddler, priest OF the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who ad
mits coming here illegally. is to be
allowed to stay; he'll tell the work.
ers not to strive, he Is the kind OF
foreign born the capitalist govern.
ment Of the United States likes to
have here.
At the Fish Committee hearings
In New York, perjurer for the com
mittee and against the Soviet Union
was publicly assured by Fish that
"The U. S. government will protect
YOU when he admitted that he came
to this country Illegally.
Meetings protesting the deporta
ton of Vikulel and Serio have Der
held in New York. New Brunswick
Newark. Perth Amboy. Bridgeport
land Fairfield under auspices of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
Pencil an X
Over Monday

Al Capone, bad hOmbre Of
Chicago, is itching for the ten
times sweeter millions Of the
N. Y. gin act, but he has no
more chance of grabbing the
marbles than a ark Ave. boy
in a Y nth st. free-fOr-all.
Read how Bill Dryers per-
sonal pugs draw pictures OH
the walls of their hcadquar-
tiers in Watt st. garages with
As 'iber hip-pocket cannons.
Secrets Tammany paid mil
lions to keep out of the boss
press start Monday in the
Daily Worker; IS cents a
month Manhattan and Bron1,
by mail; so cents elsewhere.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
Irregularity Of
Daily Yorker Due
to Moving

The Daily Worker is now in
the process Of moving from rs
Union Square to so East 18th St
This will require a couple OF
weeks. During this time the
paper is written In one place, the
type is set up ard the mats made
In another and the paper printed
in third. Lateness and irregu.
larity of delivery are unavoidable
during this period because the
Daily Worker cannot afford to
pay thousands of dollars extra
to make the chane IN the most
efficient and most expensive man.
ner.
The Typography of the paper,
blurred spots, etc, must also be
pardoned as due to the same
causes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18
5000 MORE LAID OFF
in R. R. SHOPS; FIGHT
FOR INSURANCE BILL !!
l 800 Fired From Steel Mills Hoover Urges More Elk
ports; Leads to World War
Trade Union Unity League Calls for Support for Tn
employment Conference, Sept %

ELZABETHPORT N j. SPIT Notes have been posted in the
Central railroad shops that another off will
until the month Three thousand
dree effected.
One official moment
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18

LID. and Anti-Fascist Alliance. FIT
teen more will take place in various
cities next week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-18

Why did Supreme Court Justice Sherman have to
Sneeze up $l50,000 for his judgeship when the
Regular store price is S75C00 cash and
carry, with $4,000 on bargain days no
exchanges? Stand in line at your
newsstand Monday and sec Tammany
cracked open.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28
Play Ground Exhibits
Go To Victoria

"Fly with the birds to Victoria"
is a catchy slogan and the local
Kiwanis club took notice OF it to
the extent that it decided at its
weekly luncheon Tuesday to send
an exhibit Of the activities OF the
local playground, which it is spon-
soring, to the district convention
of Kiwanis International, which
meets at Victoria, B. c. September
1920.
Notice was also taken of future
football activities and a commit
tee was appointed and a small APP
preparation made to help in relev-
cling the present football field so
that it can be flooded by irriga-
ton water from the city park.
The matter of trying to secure
railway mail service on the Union
Pacific trains between Walla Wal
la and Yakima was brought up and
the club passed resolution favor
ing this move and voted to give
aid as it was possible to the Walla
Walla Chamber of Commerce in
its efforts to secure this service.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28
Richland News Items
Residents of Richand invited the district greater
publicity informing the correspondent of the happenings OF
the community.

Mr.. and Mrs. Cash Van Fossen
came from Boomers Ferry Tuesday
and will spend few weeks at the
B. Van Fossen's. They will work
in the apples at John Erickson's
Miss Day, the county nurse
spent Tuesday and Wednesday IN
visiting the schools and looking
after the health of the children
Mrs. Cecil Pattee and Mrs. C. S
Butchart weighed and measured
the children.
Mrs. Lou Miller and son, James
came from California Sunday il
time for James to enter school as
a freshman. They will live at the
home of I'll. F. Yedica.
Miss Lucille Falkner is supplying
in the 7th grade for her brother
who found that he could not be
here for two or three weeks. Miss
Falkner is an experienced teach.
er and the pupils are glad to have
her for even short time.
Robert Wooden came Sunday
and will be principal of the high
school. He is rooming at j. NJ
Breithaupt's and takes his meals
with Mrs. Curtiss.
Ed Compton was surprised on
Sunday morning when Mr.. and
Mrs. Forbes and friends Of Wapa-
to came for breakfast and spent
the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. o.. Smith Of Ken
newick and G. O. Fades of Grand
view spent Sunday at the G. r..
cClendon home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van SICKLE, Miss
Mozelle Van Syckle, Mrs. Thorsen
and Cecil Combs went to Walla
Walla Sunday. Coming home they
had supper with Sid Noble.
Miss Olive Hawley is staying
at the hotel with Mrs. Porter. She
viii be a junior this year and will
remain here when the family move
to Kellogg the last of the week.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28

Fred Young Of Yakima was q
business visitors Tuesday in Rich
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sloan of Seattle
stopped off on their way from
Troy, Montana and spent Sunday
with Mrs. Nola Sloan.
Mrs. Hackney, Miss Helen Hack
ney, Mrs. Fletcher and Miss Alice
Chalcraft left Monday for Kenne-
wick, where they will work in the
apples.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28

rheumatic pains in my arms and
legs were awful. | was nervous
and restless and it seemed like |
grew weaker and more rundown
every day. Four bottles of Sargon
relieved all my troubles and my
friends are amazed at my wonder
full improvement.
sSince taking Sargon Pills my
liver and bowels act with perfect
regularity Mrs. Rose Hamilton,
22O John St., Seattle.
Vibber-G Clifford Drug Co., agents
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28
Gard of Thanks

We wish to thank the doctors,
the power boys and our neighbors
and all who tried so hard to save
our little boy; also all those who
have been so kind and helped so in
our bereavement and for the flow
ers and sympathy.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ketchum,
and Billy and Margaret,
R. C. Bremmer family.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28

FOR SALE 20-acre farm near
Benton City, mostly in alfalfa;
fenced and with good set of small
buildings, with electric lights, at
$4,000 on easy terms. Interested
parties write George A. Bremen,
Jerome, Idaho. 26c
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28

FOR SALE-R. /. Red Cockerels,
these are fine birds from select
stock. Pullets from the same hatch
layed at five months and u days.
Phone 1888. C. F. Winkenwerder.
23p
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FOR SALE-20 acres near Tur-
lock, Calf. In irrigation district.
Ample water less than So per acre.
No buildings on place, Might con-
slider trade. For further details
write ]. r. A., Rt. 1, Box 80, Ken
newiek or call 2261. 22p
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SEE US-For dairy and poultry
feeds. We carry full line and
we deliver. Chalcraft Produce Co.,
phone 1881, Kennewick, Washing
ton.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1930-08-28

SWEET Potato and other veg
etable plants now ready. Order
Mary Washington asparagus now,
fall delivery. Supply limited. The
Home Nursery Co., Richland, wn.
Phone $50. 5tf