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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09

hoping rollo Will live long
before he gets his
a brother rodent
ivan noffulbil
Check and Double Check
Seems as though all the business
men are getting proud Of the Valley
weather, judging from the num-
Der Of thermometers on display in
conspicuous places along the Main
Stem.
So that the visitor can take a
look, and see how cool IL is In sum-
me- and how warm in winter.
Good idea. too. Ours isn't the
kind of climate that has to be Kept
from people.
And all that reminds us of one
we heard in a restaurant today.
When a customer went to the reg
lister 10 pay her check. she glanced
at the thermometer. one Of those
boxlike affairs that hang on the
wall.
What's that, a thermometer"
she asked.
The clerk, choking back a desire
TO reply that 1t was a bird cage and
those things she saw inside were
goldfish, replied with a smile:
Yes. NAM"
What's In the box?"
The weather"
Hats Off
Bending low and sweeping the
crown of our s1.98 Stetson on the
ground, we remark that Highway
No. II did not kill anyone over the
weekend just past. For which We
are duly thankful, albeit surprised.
The Crash-O -Meter failed to
click-for nee
Ser We
III YOU see something In the road.
and you don't know exactly what IL
Is. we advise you to drive around IT
carefully.
II may be a Baby Austin.
And now that the new cars are
on the American market. Henry
Ford is going TO lose millions. But
not as you think. The sales OF the
Ford will not decrease, but think Of
the free advertising. such as above,
~ Is going to lose.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09

Americans are responsible for much Of South
Americas telephone system and 1t may be that the
revolts down there are all caused by a rumor thai
dial phones are coming.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09

.. > s0.ag 10 g a
regular party. It's Rorimer's night
TO howl. girls. After dinner. Miss
Winter wiz entertain with a rendi-
ton OF a couple Of swell scene from
a swell play, and then we're All
going no 60 places and do thirgs
Right2-
Right" said Mona.
TO Be Continued
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09

A Neponsit. Illinois. man drove his car into a ditch
when a mouse ran up his trousers leg. Possibly It
was one Of those new Tom Thumb cars and the
mouse got into it thinking il a mouse-trap.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09

hoping rolIo will live long
before he gets his
a brother rodent
ivan noffulbil
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-09-09
7M Nam STEM
Intimate Glimpses of the Valleys Alley
BY ]. r.

Along Elizabeth A Humans Natural Desire TO Throw Things
And Bowling Alleys -. Rollo Gets Some Fan Mail -.
Thermometers Right and Left Hats Off
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Convention June IA
to Form Metal Union

Continued from Page One)
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia,
Youngstown, and Pittsburgh. In adj
dition, the League has recently in
vaded the Birmingham district where
the workers are beginning to respond
to its program. A Southern organ
izer has recently been appointed as
we'll as national youth organizer.
More organizers will be in the field
shortly, the board announces.
All Workers Support Needed.
The League is calling upon all steel
and metal workers in territories I'M
touched to Immediately get in touch
with the national office to build new
local leagues and start the campaign
for the convention.
The League further calls upon all
sympathetic organizations, unions,
fraternal and language clubs, and
sympathetic individuals to help fl
nance the organization work before
the convention. All Funds should be
rushed Immediately to the National
Headquarters of the League, GIL
Penn Ave-, Room SIT, Pittsburgh.
The task of organizing five million
workers in this basic industry, which
is also an important war industry,
requires the support of all workers
and workers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Miners Elect JObless
Delegate; Frankfeld
Arrested in Scranton

SCRANTON, Pa, March 19.-At
meeting of the Russian Mutual
Benefit Society, held Sunday, March
16, Com. Frankfeld, organizer of the
Communist Party, spoke on the I'M
employment problem, and called for
the election of delegates to a Con-
ference that will be held on Wednes-
day, March 26, in Scranton.
This conference is part of the
whole series of conferences planned
and organized by the T.U.U.L. and
Communist Party delegates to the
National T.U.U.L. Conference that
will be held in New York City on
March 80, will be elected at the local
conferences.
The society accepted the proposal
unanimously, and elected delegates.
While the meeting was still on, Com.
Frankfeld began selling the Coal
Digger. At this point, the police
broke into the meeting hall, began
to question the workers present, and
then arrested Frankfeld.
No specific charge was placed
against him. He was detained for
several hours in the station, and
then permitted to leave.
The miners present to the meeting
greatly resented the intrusion of the
police, and the arrest of the Com
munist Party organizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
NO MORE STARVING,
BUT FIGHT, WRITE
NEGRO WORKER S
Victimized by Bosses Landlords, Charity,
They Find Out Meaning of Class Struggle
They See Their Children Starve, and Realize
They Must Organize
By a Worker Correspondent

by a Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Am an un-
employed Negro worker. l went to
the charity for help and went sew
eral times, when my husband was
sick in the hospital for three months
and home sick for three more
months, listen, 1 would go on the
streets and pick up that which was
thrown away and a friend that lives
down stairs in the same tenement,
her girl and my girl we would send
them every Saturday to the Central
Market to get the stale meat they
don't want.
The landlord said at that time l
had to move, SO l went back to the
charity again, the charity man said
that they would pay one month and
no more. He said that l and my
boy could take care of the rent and
other expenses, when my boy was
sick himself, but they tried to make
him go out and work, he was just
able to sit up in bed and around the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
COMMITTEE OF
100000 WIRES TO
WASHING TON
The Jobless Refuse to
Starve; Will Fight
Continued from Page One)

(Continued from Page One)
we suggest Friday, March II.
Please wire answer"
In elaboration of the delegations
action VIM. z. Foster, yesterday
stated:
"This Senate Committee now in
session is making a pretense at in
vestigating unemployment. Nobody
in America can speak more authori-
tatively in the name Of 100000
unemployed workers than the repre-
sentatives of the mass demonstra-
tions of March 6. If we get to this
hearing we will undertake to present
the demands Of the unemployed for
work or wages, to expose the wage
cuts and speed-up and part-time
schemes being put over on the work.
ers to force them to bear the burden
of the economic crisis of capitalism.
And we will expose also the fakery
of the capitalists and their social
fascist flunkeys in the A. F. of L.
and the Socialist party in lying
about the conditions and protecting
the bosses from the demands of the
working class"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
LONDON MEET DEBACLE
SHOWS HEADLONG RACE
INTO NEW WORLD WAR
Whole Fabric of Fake Peace Meet Falls; Slim
son Scolded by Macdonald for Trick on Japan
All Imperialist Powers Rush War Preparations;
Secret talks" for Attack on Soviet

LONDON, March 19.-There is no
Five-Power conference. All attempts
of the imperialist bandit powers to
come to agreements" for increased
war ornaments was smashed on the
rock of growing imperialist rivalries.
Macdonald and Stimson are hang
ing on in order to attempt to fool
the masses as to the real nature of
the race-for-armamcnts meet when
it first convened.
Yesterday in the House of Com
mons, Commander J. M. Kenworthy,
one of MacDonald's collaborators,
blurted out "The conference is a
terrible failure. 1t would be better
to close up the conference now"
The conference closed down long
before Kenworthy discovered the
failure" business.
All imperialist powers are rapidly
cushing their naval war building
programs-in fact, this was never
interrupted by the quarreling and
quibblings at the Five-Power meet.
Today the House of Commons
passed an increase air-force burget,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

house in a chair. Still the charity
man said that he could go to work,
they don't care how sick we are,
they want us to go to work.
But where will we go to work,
every place they said, no help need
ed, no help needed, what are we
going to do? The charity is only
a bunk, just wait and see what they
did, had to go there again, because
the visiting nurse comes around and
makes us go there. Then what hap
pens, take my baby with me be-
cause he is the one that needed
help, he needed good milk, well,
when / go to the charity doctor 1
have to pay the doctor 10 cents for
a visit, and then 10 cents for bottle
of milk, i would like to know where
the charity part comes in. All they
want to do all the time is to rob
the poor workers, and us Negroes
more because they think we are
dumb, but they are mistaken, we
are going to fight these bosses.
NEGRO WORKER, NO JOB.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

as part of the general war prepare
tions of British Imperialism. The
estimates approved provide for an
expenditure of $S9,250,000 for war
naval craft alone. While Macdonald
spouts peace, he does not hesitate to
act for war by giving the imperial
lists money to build their war ma
chinery.
In the United States, work is
rapidly proceeding on the ten 10000
ton cruisers, several of which will
be launched soon. French imper-
ialism is rapidly carrying out its
naval war building program, nor are
the italian and Japanese capitalists
backward in this respect.
While the conference is closed,
maneuvers go on privately. That war
maneuvers against the Soviet Union
form the chief subject of CONVERSE
ton at these secret and private in
formal meetings of the imperialist
bandits is beyond question. This
fact that the boss press tries to
keep as quiet as possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
More Letters to Boss
Press Favor JObless

Continued from Page One)
ment on Friday. Opposed as I am
to Communism, l must say that the
wisecracking Jimmy Walker at last
found his match. Messrs. Foster
and Minor made those two gay boys,
Jimmy and Grover, look like 80
cents.
Along the same line, Frank Owens,
wrote to the New York Telegram,
saying:
"Your editorial p1aising the
mayor for his method of handling
the Communists at the Board of
Estimate meeting betrays your inno-
cence of what really took place.
II saw the whole show, and while
l am out of sympathy with Com
munists am sorry to say
that they behaved better than Hiz-
zoner.
<ht PfoyOoO q year COulQ DflQR
back a hundred dead ones to put up
a better show"
Not only do the regular capitalist
dope sheets attack the leaders of
the unemployed workers, but even
the outright capitalist gambling
press takes a hand in this trickery.
A worker writes to us saying:
Just ran across an article that
was written to please the parasite
class of America. And, of course,
it's about all one could expect to see
in a racing paper" The peanut
gamblers on the New York Press "a
racing sheet) agree perfectly with
the big guys they try to ape in
Wall Street when it comes to at
tacking the leaders of the unem-
ployed workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Providence JObless Organize.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Mar. 49,
A meeting of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis was held at Providence, and a
State Executive Board was elected,
also delegates to the National Con-
ference at New York on March 90.
A decision was made that a state
demonstration be held in the near
future, the State Executive to begin
preparations at once; that in the
next few weeks meetings and demon
strations be held in Central Falls,
Woonsocket, Pawtucket Valley and
other cities, and that a halliday
strike be called for the next demon
stration.
The State Executive decided to
call a State Conference on Sunday,
March %, in preparation for the
National Conference of March %,
end to protest the arrests and other
attacks on the unemployed move
ment throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
.TOILERS PROTEST
FALLING J0BL.E SIS
Demand the Release Of
N. Y. Delegation

Continued from Page One)
against the revengeful capitalist
class justice that now seeks to let
loose its terror upon the leaders of
the fight for Work or Wages
Minneapolis Workers Demand
Release.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 19.-Over
300 workers met here at Humboldt
Hall on March 18th and passed a
resolution demanding the release of
the delegates representing the no.
600 workers at the New York I'M
employed demonstration The reso-
luton said:
"We workers here assembled
pledge our support to the jailed and
prosecuted March 9Th fighters for
the unemployed. We demand their
immediate liberation. We demand
freedom for Foster, Minor, Amter,
Raymond and Lesten, the members
of the New York Unemployed
Workers delegation. We see in this
capitalist class vengeance against
the March 9Th fighters for the I'M
employed the growing attack of the
boss class to outlaw the class strug-
gle organizations of the working
class.
"We pledge ourselves to join in
the defense of the 113 workers now
facing 1105 years in prison under
the criminal syndicalist and 'sedi-
ton laws, While these laws are
now being used to attack the Com
munist Party, the most conscious
and militant section of the working
class, it is under cover of these at
tacks that the boss class develops its
attack against all demands of labor.
1--WE demand an end to race dis
elimination in every form. We
pledge ourselves to fight against
the growing wave of lynching of
both white and Negro workers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
How A. F. L. "Solves" Unemployment
Blames the Women Workers

struggles and strikes but they give
them answers to their questions of
unemployment and the problems that
are confronting them.
The A. F. of L. is a company union
and cannot be expected to tell the
workers the truth, when they are
representative of the bosses. Mar
ried women in Cleveland are work
ing because the husband was either
out of work or that he did not make
enough wages to keep the family in
food and clothing. Married women
would not go into the factories for
$40 or SIP a week only because they
wanted silk stockings or "pin"
money. Women workers, join the
Communist Party and the T.U.U.L.
Cleveland Woman Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Starve or Fight for This Negro Working
Family-They'll Fight

job, they merely look at me and
say don't want any one, and now
my husband happen to get job
and only make three dollars and
twenty cents a day and we are not
in much better shape than we was
before he started to work. My hus-
band make such little money he
can't hardly feed us and pay back
bills. Will you please tell me how
to pay back bills and support my
children out of 1920 a day?
Only thing l see is organize. Am
a Negro and my husband found A..
F. i. won't take him in. Commu-
nists does, he says. So Negro work.
ers ought to join it and fight.
NEGRO WOMAN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Sentence Powers to
3 Months Chain Gang
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) +.
workers into uproarious laughter
when he answered a question wheth-
er he believed in god, by stating:
ST don't believe in the kind of gods
they have around Winston Salem,
capitalist gods like R. j. Reynolds
and P. H. Hanes. believe in science.
(The Reynolds company is the man
ufacturer of Camel cigarettes-ad-
mits 100000 profit last year,.
Al Tells of Soviet Union.
Gerson then went on the stand
Lhd remained there almost an hour.
He was questioned on the N.T.W.U.,
on the Union Of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics, on alleged persecution of
religion in U.S.S.R., on conditions
in the Soviet Union. He used the
opportunity to explain the conditions
in the Soviet Union, particularly
low the seven dour day prevails, and
unemployment is banished, with con-
ditions growing better every day for
the workers, and he told how, in
stead Of religious persecution, the
workers and peasants of the Soviet
Union are daily in masses abandon
ing the church, and demanding that
the buildings be used for useful pur-
poses.
The Judge asked Gerson the usual,
"Why don't you live in Russia?" and
Gerson pointed out to him that
America was his native country, and
he had right to stay here and tell
the workers to organize, besides
pointing out to them what the work
us of the Soviet Union had done.
n Judge Watson also asked Gerson
Whether he thought there could be
a world without capitalists, and the
worker answered by pointing out the
example Of the U.S.S.R., and telling
the interested audience of workers
in the court room just how it could
be so.
Workers Hear Facts.
The solicitor finally realized that
hundreds of workers were finding
out the true program and it's prac-
ticability of the Communist Party,
the N.T.W.U. and the T.U.U.L. The
line of the questioning quickly
changed then, and went into techni-
cal matters.
Powers was questioned only a
short time, the prosecution trying to
prove that he was paid by the So
fet Union instead of the Commu-
list Party Of the U.S.A.
The solicitor practically refused to
question Totherow, fearing the young
Southern mill workers testimony
would have too great an effect on
the Negro and white workers pres
emit.
Powers bond is set at $500 and
the case will be appealed.
Slap New Charges Against Powers
and Carr.
ATLANTA, March 19.-George
Powers and Joe Carr were arrested
in Atlanta in the unemployment
demonstration and charged with
throwing "tear gas bombs" More
serious charges have been made
against them as reported to the In
ternational Labor Defense, "dis-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Socialists" Smell of Oil

The Soviet share of the German oil
imports in 1924 was 1.S per cent,
but in 1929 it had risen to 1913 per
cent and was still rising rapidly
to the discomfort of the international
oil magnates.
The oil barons, Deterding and
Teagle, had now found reliable allies
in their struggle against Soviet oil
the German social democracy. The
social democratic minister Hilferd-
ing arranged the Swedish match
monopoly, and the German govern
ment under the social democrat
Mueller would undoubtedly do its
best to arrange the oil monopoly.
AS with matches, so also with oil,
the monopoly would result a con-
siderable increase of prices.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
favor of granting a jury trial.

favor of granting a jury trial.
But nobody talked much about
technicalities, and the conversation
was practically confined to the
judge and the prosecutor, once the
real problem (from a master class
point of view was flung into the
open by Ford. 1t is clearly up to
the workers to so conduct them
selves that the biased court that
tries this will see it advisable to
release the five on trial.
Even if a jury trial is granted,
only the mass pressure of the work.
ers can be relied upon to win the
release of their elected delegates.
Police Commissioner Whalen ap-
peared Tuesday at the dinner of the
Mems Club Of the Central Congrega-
tional Church, and boosted Of police
beating up pickets of the Indepen-
dent Shoe Workers Union. Previ-
ously he had stated that he inter-
vened in the shoe strike at the re-
quest of the U. S. Department Of
Labor, Commissioner Wood of the
department of labor ordered the bos-
ses to break their contract with the
union because it had Communists in
it. Wood also day or so ago praised
Whalen for his attack ON the Union
Square demonstration.
81 hope soon to put Foster in jail
for good" said Whalen.
He claimed that he was able to
inspire a congressional investigation
"of the Reds"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
(By a Worker Correspondent

by Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio.-While the
Communist Party and the Trade
Union Unity League are leading the
unemployed workers and the en-
ployed workers in fighting for re-
lief, the representatives of the Am
erican Federation of Labor have
been speaking recently on the public
square; informing the people that
women are the cause of the present
unemployment situation. They say
the married women are taking the
jobs away from the men, and there
fore the men are thrown out of
work.
1t is very typical of the A. F. of
l.. to take such a stand. They are
misleading the workers not only in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

Tie above photographic reproduction of of the
letters given by the American Legion IN NeO York to its MEMBERS
(which entitled them SIS for appearing at the Union Square
unemployment demonstration March to help Whaens ossac
Many OF the unemployed LegOnnaes WhO S. help slug
jObSS demonstrators told the Legion HE'LL that they
unemployed themselves would the bosses dirty
uOoer member of the Legion turned the above letter
the Daily Worker b exposure the tactics of the American
Legion behalf of the bosses Presumably Mr. ONe mentioned
in the letter charge of the charged with carrying
this fascist mission
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
by q Worker Correspondent

by o. Worker Correspondent
CLEVELAND, o., Ohio.-The
times are terrible in Cleveland. I
hear of and see so many people suf-
fering. My husband has been out of
work more times than he has been
in work. I have six children, three
go to school and the others have to
stay at home. My children don't
eat any breakfast, never because /
can't afford to give them breakfast,
dinner and supper. only give my
children when my husband is work
ing. Our meals are as cheap as l
can make them.
| have to walk the streets from
place to place asking the bosses for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
Nnprecorr Press Seruice)


MISUNDERSTANDING to the ne
gotiations between the German gov
eminent and the Shell and Standard
Oil concerns concerning the estab-
lishment of an oil monopoly in Ger
many in the hands of these con-
Germs, the "Pravda" writes that the
efforts of international capitalism
to form an economic ring against
the Soviet Union are becoming
clearer and clearer.
Having succeeded in squeezing the
cheap Soviet matches off the Ger
man market, they were now at
tempting to do the same for oil. The
great successes of the Soviet oil
industry represented a thorn in the
side of international capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

account, instead of putting it in a
bank to the credit of the Tennessee
River Improvement Association-the
name of the lobby organization in
which he and Col J. W. Worthington
were partners. He was then asked
whether he had talked recently with
the Union Carbide people.
At first Huston declared he had
not seen them since receiving the
money, in the spring of 1929. Then
he corrected himself, saying that he
had talked lately with Mr.. Squier, Of
Cleveland, who is associated with the
Union Carbide interests. He ex-
planned that Squier is a member of
a law firm representing the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers.