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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
LONGWORTH HALTS
la GUARD|A SPEECH
Declares Criticism of Senate
Members to Be "0ut
of Order"

Speaker Longworth, in the House
yesterday. ruled Representative La
Guardia, Republican, New York, out of
order when the latter sought to tell his
colleagues what hethought of Senator
Shortridge of California for what was
termed "smothering' the Shearer in
vestigation, but the Speaker did not
miss the opportunity to criticise Vice
President Curtis for his ruling several
weeks ago that there was nothing in
the rules of the Senate that would pre-
vent Senator Norris from passing such
comment as he pleased upon the
Speaker of the House.
In what appeared to be a pre-ar-
ranged affair, Representative La Guar
dia started the Senate-House hostili-
ties by attempting to make a speech
on the Shearer investigation and to
criticize Senator Shortridge.
Chairman Smell of the House rules
committee made the point of order that
adverse criticism of the members of the
other chamber was improper.
Speaker Longworth Immediately went
into a prepared decision in which he
sidestepped any criticism of the Vice
Presidents ruling, and said that adop-
ton of a practice in the House OF al
lowing members to criticise members
of the other chamber would indicate
poor craftsmanship and would lead to
legislative chaos.
In making the decision the Speaker
OF the House quoted several decisions
both from the House and the Senate In
which 1t was stated until Mr.. Curtis
took his stand that both chambers have
for more than 100 years observed a pro-
addition against criticisms of members
of the other body
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
MRS. MARTHA B. PRICE
DIES AFTER ILLNESS

Mrs. Martha B. Price, wife OF Judge
John w. Price and a well known resi-
dent of Washington and nearby Viz
ginia, died yesterday at the Alexandria
Hospital, following short illness. She
was 81 years old.
A native of Bristol, Va, Mrs. Price
had lived for the past is years in and
near Washington. residing at Grand
View-on- the Potomac, small private
estate overlooking the Potomac River.
Besides her husband. she is survived
by Lieut.. John w. Price, jr., U. 8. N,
recently on duty in Panama. and two
sisters, Mrs. ]. Cloyd Byars OF Arlington
and Mrs. w. p. Tillar of Emporia, Va.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock at Grand-View.
Interment will be in Pohick Church
Cemetery, Fairfax County, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07

today. While there q as yet nothing
definite, the friendly attitude OF the
Navy Department has impressed the
workers, Mr.. Atlas said.
While this modernization program
might not mean that workers already
discharged at the local yard would be
taken back. it Is calculated to stop the
discharge of men. .,,.
The indications are, Mr.: Alifas pc.
lieves that the Navy Department will
suggest to President Hoover that these
three battleships be brought up to GATE.
II President Hoover asks Congress TO
authorize funds for the modernizatlon
of these three vessels, Mr.. Atlas point
ed out, he will be but doing what he
is suggesting that private industry do,
to aid in relieving unemployment.
This modernization program consists
in putting anti-aircraft protection IN
each vesesI by equipping them with
heavier decks and "blisters" to insure
against torpedo firing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
TWO IN TRAFFIC MISHAP

Running from behind parked ma
chine on North Capitol street near
Michigan avenue early last night. Jo-
seph Mari, 4 years old, of 2s11 North
Capitol street was felled by an auto
mobile driven by James M. Connolly,
Catholic University student. The boy
was taken to Sibley Hospital.
Mrs. Dora Leonard, 66 years old, OF
1907 Columbia road was injured when
an automobile In which she was riding
overturned in q collision with another
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
Wants Name Changed.

Isadore Goldstein complained yester-
day to the District Supreme Court that
his name is detrimental to his business
and social advancement. He asks that
it be changed to irving Gould. He Ia
represented by Attorneys Lichtenberg &c
Iichtenberr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07

Marine Corps, will be detached from
duty ct headquarters here on May 10
and will 20 on duty in Haiti. Capt.
Halla will sail about May al.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07

car ct Twenty-second and X streets
late yesterday afternoon. She was
given first-aid treatment at Naval Hos.
pital,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
.JAHNCKE BELIEVED
FOR WORK ON SHIPS
Atlas Asserts Secretary Fa-
vors Modernization of Three
Dreadnaughts.

Acting Secretary Earnest Lee Jahncke
sympathizes with the proposal of the
Washington Navy Yard workers to have
the battleships Mississippi, New Mexico
and Idaho modernized, N. p. Atlas,
president of District No. "A of the Inter
national Association of Machinists, said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07
Cant. Halla Ordered to Haiti.

Capt. John Halla, aide to Maj. Gen.
Wendell C.. Neville, commandant OF the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
TO GREET RETURNED
WORKERS FROM USSR

NEW YORK.-The workers of
New York are planning a big well
come for the American Workers and
Farmers Delegation to the Soviet
Union who are now on their way
back to this country. The welcome
will be held Friday, June 81, at 8
p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E.
Fourth St., under the auspices Of
the New York branch of the Friends
of the Soviet Union. The welcome
will also be a combined membership
meeting of the New York F.S.U.
The chief speaker will be Robert
W. Dunn, noted labor economist, who
will speak on "The Fish Fishing Ex-
pedition-An Exposure of the Con-
gressional Red Investiation." The
delegates will also speak and tell
what they saw in the first Workers
Republic. An interesting Soviet film
will be shown. Tickets are 35 cents;
they are on sale at the local F.S.U.
office, 799 Broadway, room AL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24

"Ihe American workers will fight
they are joining the Trade Union
Unity League and the Communist
Party in large numbers as the an
swer to these attacks of the bosses
They are beginning to see through
the sham of disarmament confer
ences, etc. They know what prep
arations for war are being made
in factories, through propaganda,
movies, etc.
I'm the latest decision of the state
department forbidding the exporta-
ton of airplanes which were or
deered. from the Glen Martin Co.
by the Soviet Government, although
they are sold to all other govern
ments except China and Mexico, it
is clear that the United States gov
eminent is preparing for war
against the Soviet Union. This is
accentuated by the unparalleled
achievements in building Socialism
in the Soviet Union.
"These are the issues facing the
working class and not booze, which
the capitalist class through their
parties are raising to the plane of
a first-rate issue, to hide the real
issues.
"The workers must make these
the issues ofSthe election campaign
these are the issues that the Com
munists have raised in the strug-
giles in the shops, in demonstrations
on March 6 and May /; they are
some of the main issues in the COM
ing elections.
"Now is the time to mobilize and
organize the workers around these
issues. Now is the time to form
united front election committees in
the shops, unions, fraternal organ
izations, etc. Now is the time to
reach the millions of workers with
the facts Of their situation and to
interpret them in terms of class
struggle.
CON with the election campaign,
every member of the Party and
Young Communist League, every
militant worker in the revolution
airy unions and left wing (T.U.U.L.)
groups in the A. F. of L., giving
his energy to the mobilization and
organization of the workers. Every
Party and Y. C. L. committee must
make the election campaign the
principal campaign of the Party,
not because the Party believes that
the parliamentary (election) strug-
gle is the main struggle. On the
contrary-but the election campaign
affords us an excellent opportunity
to reach the workers and organize
them for the real struggle.
Forward to the election cam
paign with Communist understand
ing, energy and enthusiasm"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
RAID COMMUNIST.
ANGELES OFFICE.
Prosecutor Makes Talk
to Rouse Lynchers

LOS ANGELES, Cal, June %. -
Police raided the Communist Party
headquarters Saturday and wrecked
them. They arrested three workers
in the office, and one of them, Joe
Rade, is charged with criminal syn.
dicalism and threatened with four.
teen years in prison.
The raiders took all the type
writers and office material. They
broke up the furniture and even
hacked down the partitions in the
offices and some of the walls.
They also raided the Spanish Ian
guage branch of the international
Labor Defense, and took Organizer
Arispe for a fide to San Pedro,
where they let him go, after threat
ening him if he continued his &C
Invites.
This assault on the Party and the
LID. follows the conviction of
members in the Ell Centre criminal
syndicalism case, the effect of which
is to make the Communist Party
outlaw in California. 1t is largely
to check the Party's success in mob
liking the workers of this state in
a campaign to revoke the criminal
syndicalist law.
SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 23.-
The protest meeting held here yes
terday against the conviction of the
Imperial Valley organizers in the
Ell Control criminal syndicalism case
was success, with 800 workers at
tending, at the call of the Commu-
mist Party.
Thirteen workers joined the Party
at the meeting.
Cheers greeted the speeches of
Daniels for the Communist Party,
Rappaport for the Trade Union
Unity League, PREM for the Council
of the Unemployed. The resolution
demanding the end of the criminal
syndicalist law and the freeing of
the nine convicted at Ell Centre and
given sentences up to AZ years was
adopted by accIamation.
Sacramento is the state capital.
BRAWLEY, Cal, June Is (By
MaiD Last night the American
Legion and the Elks held their an
nual flag day celebration on the city
plaza. The principal speaker was
Elmer Head, district attorney of
Imperial County who had just fin
ished prosecuting the nine workers
who were found guilty of criminal
syndicalism. To the $50 present he
shouted:
"The Communist Party is an or
ganization of human rats. They are
a. menace within ourselves that
keeps burrowing and gnawing and
gnawing and gnawing at the founda-
tions of our government"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
John Reed Club to Hold
Debate OnWOrkers' Art

AS the result of a discussion going
on in the New Masses on the sub
ject of Proletarian Art, Michael
Gold and Joshua Kunitz will debate
this Friday evening at the John
Reed Club, 1O2 W. 14th st. "The
Proletarian Writer in America"
Since its inception, the members
of the John Reed Club have con-
stantly discussed the problem of the
revolutionary writer and artist in
America and their relation to the
,abor movement. At the various
symposiums held at workers clubs
in connection with exhibits spon-
sored by the John Reed Club lively
discussions have been held on the
same subject. The manner in which
they can best serve the revolution
airy movement has become upper
most in the minds Of an increasingly
large number of writer's and artists
in America.
After the debate a general discus
sion will take place.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
80. 600 Ex-soIdiers Say NO to BossesWar Plans

RIGA QPS)A Of Lavan exsoders took place here
All sections from the left trade unions
the Lavan nonas 10000 eoers represented the
resolution containing energetic criticism of the
unanimously adopted general revolutionary spirit
dominant the and expressed itself particularly during the
he criminal policy of the etth Generals Radnch who wished
plunge La further military adventure All the speakers
Radnh and his friends that the Lavan exders
to be had for against the Soviet Union and that they
would permit little irresponsible politicians diplomats
and mlitarists to play with the fate of Latva
resolution cOndmnng these the spirit expressed in all
the speeches then forward but cooperation between the social
democrats and Lan nationalist prevented the vote being taken n
order split the congress- In the discussions clearly
that the overwhelming majority of Latvan ex-sod
to what political party they belong deermnedy opposed
form Of mpast and particular armed nterven
ton against the Soviet Union aa the orders of the western European
caDtalist powers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
BOSSES EXPECT CRISIS
TO LAST A LONG TIME

A wave of the darkest pessimism
has gripped the boss class of Amer
lea. Wall street has been flooded
with whispers that the depression"
may last five and even ten years.
The coupon-clippers have finally
been overwhelmed by the realiza-
ton that the whole crisis is more
than a mere midsummer nights
dream and that the goose that lays
the golden eggs is going to be sick
for longer time than they ex-
pected.
The latest stock crash registered
this realization. The bourgeoisie has
lost whatever desperate faith it did
have in Hoover's program of "busi-
ness sterilization" Events have
compelled them to recognize that
it's total effect was actually to
worsen the crisis.
An editorial in yesterdays New
York Times, entitled Official Opt
mism" reflects this sharply and
clearly. The president and his cab
met, the editorial states 'surely
have had very bad luck in the mat
ter of undersigned condolences.
Even Secretary Mellon seems to
have lost his former magical power
over the stock market. On the very
day after his rosy assurances, Sc
curities scrambled away, commodi-
ties fell further in price, and even
wheat-the especial pet and pro-
tege of the Washington Administra-
tion-fell to the lowest quotations
for many years. The next day
Secretary Lamont of the Depart
ment of Commerce spoke his duti-
full piece about the great benefits
which the new tariff is going to
confer upon the country and again
the response was further slump
in securities. The diet of false en-
couragement upon which they (the
bosses) have been fed for three or
four months past by Government
statements is gettiig pretty thin"
A resolution introduced in the
House yesterday by Representative
Howard of Nebraska further re-
veals the attitude of the bourgeoisie
toward Hoover's prosperity pro-
phecies. Towards resolution asks
the House to pray with the presi-
dent and with Mellon to be pleased
"to refrain from uttering any more
prophetic warnings that the bejew-
elled goddess of prosperity in her
ship with silken sails is in the Off
;p0v
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
ION TO THE Ell CTION
DRIVE" AMTER URGES
WORKERS FROM PRISON
Jailed Leader of JObless Scores HoOver-Green
Fraud, Tells of Communist Aims
Tariff Cuts Living Standard and Bosses Cut
Wages; Now Is Time to Show Real Energy

From his prison cell, where he
and other members sof the New
York Delegation representing no.
0cq unemployed workers at the
March demonstration have been
flung by Tammany judges, Israel
Amter, district organizer of the
Communist Party, has written a
letter addressed to all members of
the Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League, urging the
workers to throw themselves into
the work of organization as they
nave never done before. The letter
follows:
"Never in recent decades did the
workers face such acute conditions
as today. Unemployment, wage
cuts, sharper speed-up, war prepara-
tons, danger of an armed attack
on the Soviet Union, these are prob
lens facing the workers all over
the world. 4.
William Green may whisper into
the willing ear of Hoover that EN-
ployment is growing but his own
journal declares unemployment
still seriousv Green may babble
about there being less than 3,000,-
900 unemployed but the facts are
different. Steel, auto, railroad, tex
tile. garment, shipping and mining
are in slump-and this is intensi-
flying. The drop in the past few
weeks has been phenomenal and
continuousI
''ln the meantime, congress will
not even pass Wagner's bills for
studying and taking new census
of the unemployed-which viii let
the unemployed continue to starve.
The building construction program
which was supposed to relieve I'M
employment is even below last
years! This is what the capitalists
call unemployment relief
"Wage cutting is a daily practice
of the bosses. Every class of
worker is affected by it. Speed-up
is being keyed up-which means
more unemployed! The bosses
pledged Hoover they would not re-
duce wages-this is how they carry
it out!
"On top of it, congress has just
passed a tariff that will add hun
dreds of millions to the workers
cost of living, cut down the stan
dard of living-and stuff the peck
cts of the capitalists still more.
Germany has given the Ameri-
can bosses an excuse for this vicious
campaign against the American
workers, by cutting the wages Of
100000 by ~ per cent. The
army of 100000 will grow, speed
up will tax the last vestige of
strength of the American working
men and women. Wage-slashes will
pile up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
LATIN WORKERS REUSED
TO IN DIAN REVOLT

NEW YORK.-The support of
the Latin American masses of the
Indian revolution is directly con-
nected with their struggle not only
against British imperialism in their
own countries but also against the
murderous American imperialism.
The Latin American workers in
the United States will participate
in a mass demonstration in support
of the Indian revolution under the
auspices of the anti-Imperialist
League. This mass meeting will be
held on June 9th at New Harlem
Casino, 100 West 18th Street with
the active cooperation of the Cen
tro Obrero, Anerc, and the Asocia-
cion Obrera Revolucionaris Portor-
riquena.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
ELECTION ISSUES
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Communist Candidate
Gives Party Policy

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 23.-
Exposing all other parties as enc
mics of the working masses, the
Communist Party will participate,
for the first time in its history, with
a full ticket in the coming congress
sional and state elections.
A Ratification Convention has
been called for Sunday, July 10, at
Reading, Pa, where delegates from
workers and farmers organizations
will ratify the platform of the
Working Glass Against the Capt.
talist Class and will endorse the
candidates.
Besides those running for con-
gress, state senate and general as
sembly, the following are the main
candidates. Pat Cush, steel worker,
Pittsburgh, for U. S. senator; Frank
Mozer, building trades worker,
Philadelphia, for governor; Samuel
Lee, Negro longshoreman, for lieu
tenant-governor, and Fred Siders,
miner, Pittsburgh, for secretary of
internal affairs.
Frank Mozer, candidate for gov
ernor, issued the following state
ment on the aims of the Communist
election campaign: "Our campaign
is not based on personalities, nor on
the issues of prohibition or graft
inherent to the capitalist system.
We want to turn the workers at
tention to the present economic
crisis of the Hooverian prosperity,
to the seven or eight million unem-
ployed in the country who are not
getting any relief from the govern
ment, while billions are spent for
the Army and Navy and the profit
of the big corporations amounts to
tens of billions.
"Wage-cuts are the order of the
day, while the fascist leaders of the
A. F. of L. are assisting the bosses
in these attacks, acting as strike
breakers in the struggle. Whilst the
candidates of the other parties-in-
GLIDING the yellow sociaists-keep
quiet about the danger of imperial
ist war, we want to point sharply
to its imminence. The workers must
fight against imperialist war, for
the Defense of the Soviet Union
and for the liberation of the colo
NAL masses in India and China.
eve are fighting for a 7-hour
day, 5-day week, social insurance,
work or wages for the unemployed
and full social equality for Negroes.
We demand the abolition of the
state constabulary, the coal and
iron police and the repeal of the
Flynn sedition law.
1--WE participate in the elections
to mobilize the workers for the
struggle, for the building of mill
tant unions and of a mass Commu-
mist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
ALABAMA ALL. FAKERS
SOLICIT BOSS BRIDE

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June 23.-
The open alliance between the Amer
lean Federation of Labor official
dom and the manufacturer of this
state is shown by the proposal by
the latter that the bosses help them
distribute literature attacking the
militant union organizers.
Paul J. Smith, representing the
state federation of the American
Federation of Labor, together with
two representatives of the Birming-
ham Labor Advocate recently visited
leading manufacturers, it has been
learned from reliable sources, and
suggested that the open shoppers
pay for at least 5000 copies of the
Labor Advocate
The current issue of the Labor
Advocate has an article headed ere
move the Organizers, which calls
for violent action against the mill
tant Negro and white workers which
is creating a lynching spirit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
Director OF "Chima Express"
Paints Picture Beyond Story

In the "China Express" now play
ing a return engagement at the
Cameo Theatre, the director, nya
Trauberg, is agitated by the basic
political contradictions of the times.
He is not concerned with conflicts
between individuals now with typi-
cal events within given envioron-
ment. His main theme is the strug-
gle of masses of humanity, the con-
flict of basic social ideas. In "The
China Express" the real theme, ly-
ing beyond the apparent plot, is the
domination of the Orient by the i'm
perialists world and the fierce strug-
gle of the Colonial peoples.
Trauberg escaped the danger of
falling into mere congratulations,
mere abstraction of an idea. His
images are alive and communicate
to the spectator tremendous emo
tional charge. The idiom of "China
Express is simple and severe.
"The Cock-Eyed World" is the
current attraction at the Fifth Ave
nue. Playhouse. Beginning Wednes-
day the program will consist of,
"The Divorce" with Norma Shearer
and Free and Easy" with Buster
Keaton.
The weekly change at the seth
Street Theatre, has Bill Robinson,
colored dance star of "Blackbirds"
on a vaudeville bill that includes
Irwin O'Dunn and Mary Daye;
Johnny Mills and Tim Shay, Armand
and DeVorce, Alma and Roland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-24
DEMAND USE OF
MT. VERNON SITS.
To-Day Sentences For Six Young
Communist; IL Already Jailed

NEW YORK Another farcial
was held in Mount Vernon, Mon
day the 23d. Six members of the
Bronx Section of the Y. C. L. were
convicted, five of whom were sent
to Jail for ten days, while the other
received suspended sentence. They
were convicted for the "crime" of
distributing leaflets calling upon the
workers of Mount Vernon to pro-
test against the previous railroad
ing of the eleven Y. c. L. members
who were arrested at an open air
meeting on Friday the 18th.
The prejudice of Judge Bernstein
was clearly shown. when discussion
on the part of the I. L. D. lawyers
was shushed with "Too bad, too bad,
twenty-five dollar fine or ten days"
"The state of mind of the defend
ents, claimed the judge, "is one of
not caring for law. Permit or no
permit they continue to hold meet
ings and distribute their circulars"
The judge admitted that if they
had been business men illegally dis
tributing advertising circulars they
would have been fined 81 or SO.
The workers sentenced were George
Horschoff, Herbert Sebner, Samuel
Freeman, Stanley Kunchewski,
Robert Young, and Joseph Klein.
Marion Stamler, also convicted, was
given a suspended sentence, and
protested vigorously their discrim-
nation. Klein, a 16 year old boy
was arrested for distributing copies
of The Young Worker. The fact
that it was paper with second
class mail privileges did not mean
anything to the judge.