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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
SHOE FACTORY IN
BKLYN CUTS PAY
Industrial Union In
Call to Strike

NEW YORK.-When the workers
of the Princeley Products Co., 500
briggs Ave, Brooklyn, came to work
Monday morning they were greeted
by the bosses with a wage reduction
ranging from rs to 50 per cent, The
workers have rejected this outrage
Gus proposal of their bosses and have
declared a strike.
The bosses have hired gangsters in
order to intimidate the workers, but
the workers have called this buff
of their bosses and refused to be
browbeaten.
1t is worth while to note that be-
fore the proposed wage-cut the
workers were earning from $12 to $50
for about so hours of work week.
The strikers, under the leadership
of the Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union, is w, 21st ST., are
determined to carry their fight to a
successful finish for the defeat OF
the infamous proposal of the bosses
for wage-cut.
The Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union appeals TO every
shoe and slipper worker to give full
support to the strikers and to help
them in every way in their fight for
decent working conditions and for
the defeat of the wage-cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
Downtown Council to
Greet Turner, Stokes:
Released from Jail

NEW YORK.-A meeting of the
Downtown Unemployed Council will
be held Friday at 81 East 10th ST.,
at p. m, to welcome Clarence
Turnerand Lorenzo Stokes, Red
Builders sentenced to jail for their
activities.
Turner and Stokes were made to
feel the brunt of capitalist Justice
for trying to sell the Daily Worker
in the subways when they received
a sentence of six months
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
WIR Offices Move to.
.799 B'dway. Room GA

Workers International Relief, Ma
tional and New York local offices
have moved to 799 Broadway, Room
Ga.
Registration for children for W.1.R.
Children's Camps will be taken at
this address from 8 am. TO pm.
Food and clothing for relief oil
striking miners should be sent to our
food depot at 240 e. Ninth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
MORE GRAFT IS
FOUND IN QUEENS
B u t " Investigation
Will Whitewash Them

The City Affairs Committee has
again requested the Hofstadter Leg
islative Committee to investigate the
racketeering Tammany rule In
Queens borough. The so-cailed in
vestigating committee is asked to
look into the four latest cases in
which the reactionary politicians are
involved. These include, the Ara
gona Construction Company, the
New York City Airport in which
Borough President George U. Har-
vey and John j. Halleran, Commits
sioner of Public Works are mixed up,
as we'll as Irving Klein, former Supt.
of Highways who is now under in
dictnent, the New York Air Ter
ninals, and Martin Mayer, former
president of the Independent Demo-
cratic Organization, who was caught
in the usual racketeering game OF
selling some one a fat political job.
The whole Queens government In
common with the republicans and
democrats is covered with graft from
top to bottom. 1t lives by plundering
the workers and graft can no more
be stopped in this corrupt machine
than one can stop the ocean TIDE
investigations serve only to cover
up the grafters with.
A Coat of Whitewash-
The only way to get rid of the
rafters is to wipe them out. The
coming election campaign in New
York City is a call to the workers
to expose the Tammany, and repuo-
.l'ncan rats and their socialist sup
Iporters, and to win the workers 1or
|Ihe Communist Party ticket of class
fstruggie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day vn your Job. The worke,
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
Soviet Film ''The Black Sea
Mutiny" at Cameo Friday

The newest Soviet film, THE
Black Sea Mutiny," which will have
it's first American showing at the
Cameo Theatre, this Friday, is an
important film document of the
dramatic days of the Russian Revo-
luton. 1t was in odessa on the
Black Sea where the Red troops
in those tense days of 1918 fought
against the Czarists and eventually
conquered the reactionary white
forces.
Odessa was captured in 1918, after
prolonged and determined fighting
by Ukrainian workers, soldiers and
sailors of the revolutionary forces.
The peasants of the district also had
a part in the struggle, joining the
workers against the imperial troops.
1t was at this ttage that the Gar
lists called upon the French fleet to
assist them in their attack on the
revolutionary forces; but the French
sailors, following the appeal of the
Russian workers, mutinied against
their French officers and refused to
join the Czarist troops.
1.-THE Black Sea Mutiny" Is the
dramatic story of this period. The
picture was produced in the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics and is
based on historic facts and docu-
ments. 1t was written by A. Agala-
rov.
Michael Gold is responsible for the
American titles in this film.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
2 EVICTIONS EAST
SIDE IS FOUGHT
Downtown Council In
Good Meetings

NEW Y ORK-In a day Of activ-
ity the Downtown Unemployed
Council replaced the furniture of
two evicted families on the east side
here.
One month in arrears in rent.
Madilon Albarano, mother of 4
year cd child, was evicted upon the
street at 14S Norfolk st. Her hus-
band has been jobless for five
months. The family was forced
TO pay SIS a month rent for three
little unsanitary rooms. The cleo
trio and gas had long been shut off.
Hear of Second Eviction.
Members OF the Unemployed
Council who replaced the furniture
held q meeting on the street.
While holding an open air meet
ing at 7th st. and Ave. B last eve
ming speakers of the Unemployed
Council were notified of an eviction
at 26 Clinton st. Upon adjourning
the meeting the jobless marched
down to the address. Mrs. Rose
Semeren, the evicted woman &C
cepted their aid and the furniture
was replaced. A meeting was then
held at Clinton and Houston Sts.,
where a crowd of 1900 heard the
program of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis against eyictions and for imme-
diate cash relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
|. L. D. Calls for
Emergency Meeting of
Harlem Branch. Thurs.

NEW YORK--The New York Dis
trict of the International Labor De-
Tense is holding an emergency meet
ing of all I. L. D, branches in the
Harlem section. The meeting will
be held Thursday evening at the
Spanish Workers Center. The CUES
ton of intensifying the Scottsboro
campaign will be taken up.
There will be an open air Scots
boro protest meeting tonight at
14oth Street and Lenox Ave. at 8
o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
Talks About Keeping y
Pay Up. Then Slashes

NEW YORK.-How many of the
capitalist takers talk against wage
cuts and then go ahead and slash
wages is exposed in an instance of
a worker applying for job through
a blind ad. An advertisement for a
licensed fireman at $25 a month APP
peared in the New York Times re-
Gently. A worker answered it to
find that the ad was placed by DR..
Frederick M. Allen of the Physiatric
Institute Of Morristown, N. j. DR.,
Allen has made many speeches
against wage cuts, but forces the
rate of firemen from 500 a month
the regular scale, to $25 a month.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
WILTON g. WEBER AND LEW
HEARN ON HIPPODROME BILL

At the Hippodrome, beginning Sat-
urday, Give Brook, Charles Buddy
Rogers and Richard Arlen are fea-
tured in "The Lawyers Secret" Fay
Wray and Jean Arthur play the lead
ing feminine roles.
The vaudeville bill stars Joe Will
ton and Rex Weber; Lew Hearn,
character comedian in a skit by Ed
die Cantor; and Iona Worth. Others
on the program are Emory Manley,
with Mabel Golden and Walter La
Mari; Jay Soiler and Frances Wills
and three Peaches; the Gilbert
Brothers, and the Four Polos.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-17
What's On --


WEDNESDAY
steve Katovis Branch LID.
Will hold an open-air meeting at
D m. at Fourth st. and Ave. B.
sacco-vanzetti Branch LID.
General membership meeting at
1872 Boston Rd. at pm. Plans and
ways and means to make the Seotls-
bnro- Paterson Defense Campaigns
cover wider territory will be dis
cussed
workers Film and Photo League
Meets at pm. at 799 .BroadWay,
Room GA. Immediate matter con
fronting the league is "ProietaTEanls
Photo Week in July and spreparaS
ton for the International Photo Ex-s
hibit, to take place in Berlin in Oc-'
tober. The matter of film and
photo school win be discussed
Mass Meeting In Newark
To hear Juliet Poyntz, just re-
on "a New World In the Making;
My Experiences In the Soviet Union"
at the Workers Center, Belmont
St. at pm.
Alfred Levy Branch Lid.
Open-air meeting at pm. at
Wyona and Blake Ave, Brooklyn. on
Imperial Valley, Scottsboro and Fat
erson cases.
yorkvilIe Hungarian Branch LID.
Meeting at pm. at $50 e. sist
St. on Mooney-Billings and Imperial
Valley cases.
Downtown Unemployed Council
Open-air meeting at Seventh st.
and Ave. A at 1880 pm
Women's Councils @, is and o
Will observe the departure of Com.
tade Garelick for the Soviet Union
at 500 WallaVe Ave, Bronx, at $3.50
pm. All workers are invited to come.
steve Katovis Branch LID.
Will hold an open-air meeting at
s D. m. at East Tenth St. and Sec
ond Ave.
Illustrated Lecture on Five Year Plan
In Williamsburg. The achieve
ments of the Five Year Plan will be
illustrated at a lecture at pm. at
7a5 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, by M.
Sherer of the Workers International
Relief.
Young Defenders No. 8
Meeting at 500 pm: at 257 z. Tenth
st. Myra Page on Mooney-Billings
anu 'AiPSAAoi
sacco-yanzetti Branch LID.
Open-air meeting at $50 pm. al
wilkins and Intervale.
Brownsville Branch LID.
Meeting at s pm. at 11S Bristol st
YorkvilIe Hungarian Br. LID.
o. Mooney, Billings and Imperial
Valley cases will be discussed.
BARRIERS and Hairdressers' League
viii be held at pm. at so z. 18th
St. End floor.
International Labor sports Club
Will meet at it's new headquarters
227 f. 18th St, at 1880 pm.
Printing workers Ind. League
VIII meet and discuss the RILU
resolution at 1880 pm. at 1s w. 21st
Open Forum
To which all jewelry workers are
invited to come will be held at Bry-
ant Hall, Sixth Ave, near 42nd st.
at pm. Subjects What Can the
Unemployed Jewelry Worker Do?"
jamaica Youth Rr. Two. 412
MetIs AT o'oV PIN ~ lvs-zo Unlor
ST Kane on How Bosses Try Il
Control Workers Minds"
Brownsville Branch LID.
Holds an open-air meeting at Hop.
kinson and Pitsin at $50 pm.
B-. sGS Downtown Youth Br. I.w.o.
Meets at 124 e. Seventh st. at 40
pm, Bob Turner will speak or
Soviet Lnion.r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
AID IN ADMINISTERING
WILL ASKED BY WIDOW
Mrs. Annie L. Casey Executor and
Trustee of $475,oOO Estate
Left by Carl Casey.

Mrs Annie L. Casey, widow of Carl
Casey, who died February leaving an
estate valued at $475, 900. today asked
the District Supreme Court TO permit
the National Metropolitan Bank to act
with her in the administration of her
husbands estate. She is named as sole
executor and trustee, but is empowered
in the will TO select co-eXecutor and
co-trustee.
She tells the court that her husband
owned land in Oklahoma, which had
been bought FOR SI.3l750; had stocks
worth S34 900 and bonds of S439, 600
Under the terms of the will, dated
December IT. 1880. a sister. Mrs. Theo-
dora Casey Topliffe, Highland Apart
ments, is Ri'..n $4,000. and the re-
manning estate is devised TO the widow
as trustee, to pay 10 herself the net
income for life. At her death the Ma
tional Metropolitan Bank was named TO
act as trustee during the life of the
sister and directed to pay over 10 her
the net income On the death of Mrs
Topliffe the estate is TO be distributed
three-tenths to James B. Plat, Balti-
more; tWo-tenths TO Landra B. Platt
this city: three-tenths TO Lester b.
Plat, Caldwell. N. J., and one-tenth
each TO r Beach Plat. Boston, and
Anna B. Platt New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
OFFICIALS PROBING
ISSUANCE OF STOCK
BY PHONE COMPANY
100000 in Common
Shares Put Out Without
Approval of Commission.
ACCORDING TO CHARTER,
is FIRMS EXPLANATION
Penalty May Be $1,000 Fine or
Notification of Issue, if Law
Is Violated.

The Public Utilities Commission is
investigating the issue of 50 600 600
worth OF common stock by the Chesa-
peake q Potomac Telephone Co. last
september, not authorized by the COM
mission.
According to a statement from the
telephone company today, the stock was
issued in accordance with the provisions
OF the charter of the corporation as
amended in 1923. This charter. granted
by the State of New York, permitted the
corporation to issue stock not in excess
of $15,00O,O00
The corporation had issued $4,000. 900
previous to 1909. Last year the cor
porstion borrowed 81, 0OO. 900 on demand
notes for construction purposes. It sold
the additional 100000 stock to its
parent company, the American Telephone
q Telegraph Co., at par, and with the
cash thus realized it retired the demand
notes. Dividends on the stock have
since been paid to the American Tele-
phone g. Telegraph
The public utilities act passed in 1918
prohibits the issuance of any stock BY
any public utility corporation doing
business in the District without the ex-
press permission of the commission.
Penalties provided for a violation are
fine of 81 900 or a notification of the
stock issue
The question has been put up to Cor
poration Counsel w. W. Bride whether
the action Of the corporation was prop
er under its charter, or whether It
should have been governed by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission and sought first
the leave of the commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
POLICEMAN IN TIME TO SEE
RIVER DRAGGED FOR HIS BODY
ThompkinS Denies Drowning
as Parked Car Starts
Report.
String of Catfish Proof of Life
During Absence at Four
teenth Street.

Policeman Larney Thompkins, cat
fish expert of the eleventh precinct, was
never so embarrassed in his life as
when he learned today that a police
boat was dragging the river for his
dead body.
Policeman Thompkins parked his au-
tomobile at the foot of Fourteenth
street, near the river, this morning and
'entured forth in quest of his favorite
Potomac fish, in company with Po-
liceman Paul E Berger of the ninth
precinct, who also knows his cats"
Parked Car as Clue.
1t happened that Policeman Thomp
kinS parked his car at exactly the same
spot yesterday morning, while on an
other catflshing roundup, and Sergt
Omar Reese. of the Park Police, noted
it at that time. When Sergt Reese
passed again this morning and saw the
same car there, he grew suspicious and
investigated. Fin ing Policeman
ThompkinS hat, overcoat. inner coat
and night-stick in the car, he notified
police headquarters.
1t seemed plain to all that Policeman
Thompkins had thrown himself in the
river. perhaps in a hand-to-hapd en-
counter with a catfish, and the police
boat, Maj. Sylvester, swung into action
with rescue crew armed with grap-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
ROAD AND DISTRICT
FUNDS PUT IN BILL
Senate Approves Money for
Mount Vernon Boulevard
and BiCentenniaI.

Funds to complete the memorial
boulevard to Mount Vernon, to defray
the expenses of the District of Columbia
George Washington Bicentennial Com
mission and to provide for the depart
ment of vehicles under the new traffic
law were added to the second deficiency
appropriation bill on the floor of the
Senate yesterday afternoon.
For finishing the highway along the
Potomac, from the Arlington Memorial
Bridge to Mount Vernon, the Senate put
in the $2,700000 authorized by the bill
passed Tuesday.
Commission Gets $1OO, 600.
Fer the local Bicentennial Commission
the Senate allowed the 100000 from
District funds, which was recently
eliminated from the District appropria-
ton bill because at that time the en-
abling authorizat ton had not passed.
For personal services in the new de-
partment of vehicles the deficiency bill
contains $34, 300 and provision stating
that funds in the District appropriation
act for next year for the existing Traf-
fic Bureau will be available for the de-
partment Of vehicles.
Amendments Approved.
The Senate also approved the follow
ing amendments put in the deficiency
bill by its Appropriations Committee:
To make a start on a new building in
Washington for the Court of Claims
the final cost of which will be 81 ,225,-
600; to erect two experimental radio
stations for the Bureau of Standards,
$4,000; to eliminate fire hazards in
the Senate wing of the Capitol and
Senate Office Building 100000; for
expenses of the Pan American Com
mercial Conference to be held here this
year, $4,000; for expenses of the Dis
trict employment service, $4,000.
The bill contains various other de-
ficiency items for the municipal govern
ment, put in by the House and approved
by the Senate. The Senate may COM
plete work on the deficiency bill and
send it to conference today or tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
S1,163,O59 LOW BID
ON MEMORIAL ROAD
TO MOUNT VERNON
Georgia and Maryland Firms
Offers Cover Whole Route
of Boulevard.
ALSO MAKE MINIMUM
ESTIMATES ON SECTIONS
Contracts for Work Not to Be Let
for Some Time-Total of AZ
Bids rendered.

The lowest bids on the construction
of the new Mount Vernon Boulevard
were submitted by the MacDougal Con-
struction Co. of Atlanta, Ga, and the
Roberts Paving Co. of Salisbury, Md.
1t was learned today at the Bureau of
Public Roads
Estimates on the project were taken
on the work as a whole and on the
two sections into which it had been
divided. The Atlanta concerns bid of
$605, 619.25 was the lowest offered en-
section /. while the Salisbury COM
panys estimate of 1857, 44020 was the
lowest submitted on section 2. Their
bids totaled $1,163, 05945 for the entire
work
IL Bids on Entire Work.
The highest estimate on the project
as whole was 81 ,658, $685., while the
highest bids on the two sections to-
tailed $1.724, 84025.
Altogether II estimates on the entire
work were offered, while the number
OF bids on Sections l and 2 were Is
and 20 respectively.
Section l consists of the paving of
the highway from Columbia Island to
the. southern end of the hydraulic fill
over Hunting Greek, south of Alex
andria, distance of 1857 miles.
Paving of the boulevard from the
hydraulic fill to Mount Vernon, a dis
tance of 1874 miles, comprises Sec
ton 2
Difference in Pipes.
The Salisbury concerns bid provided
for the use of concrete pipes. An alter
nate estimate of $557 ,298.70, based on
the substitution of vitrified pipes, also
was submitted by the company.
Bids on the project we're advertised
January 20 and were opened yesterday
at the Department of Agriculture
Nearly three hours elapsed before all
the estimates had been opened and
read fluctuations were started i'm
mediately.
Contracts for the work probably will
not be awarded for some time. it was
said at the Public Roads Bureau. The
estimates. it was pointed out. are mere
~ proposals and must be given con-
sideration before the awards can be
madn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
VIOLATION OF "U" TURN
RESULTS IN FINE OF So
Judge to Follow Lenient Policy I'm
til Autoists Are Conversant
With Rule.

Judge Ralph E. Given, in Traffic
Court today after hearing a mans de-
Tense based on Ignorance of the law"
meted out a lenient sentence for viola
ton of the latest addition to the Dis
trict traffic regulations-no ~" turns
on F and G streets between Fifth and
Fifteenth streets.
The TRAFFIC Court judge, after ques-
tioning the officer in the case closely
relative to the display of the signs pro-
hibiting ''U'' turns, said he would assess
minimum fines for violation Of this new
ordinance for the time being, but that
eff these violations continue after mo-
florists have had a reasonable length of
time to acquaint themselves with the
law. then the fines must be increased"
The case this morning was that of
James c. Brown. colored, 43 years old,
of 1923 First street, who was arrested
last night by Policeman v. V. Vaughan
of the Traffic Bureau for making a COM
plete turn in front of the Fox Theater.
He was fined 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
DOCTOR GOES HOME
DESPITE INJURIES
John A. HornSby Returns to
Charlottesville With Broken
PeIvis and Hip.

With startling display of fortitude,
/ DR.. John A. Hornsby, SO, superintendent
of the University of Virginia Hospital
carried out plans for his return to
Charlottesville yesterday afternoon de-
spite painful injuries suffered when run
down by an automobile short time
before his train was due to leave Union
Station.
DR.. and Mrs. Hornsby had been visit
ing their daughter, Miss Edith NJ.
Hornsby of 2423 E street, for the past
three days, and the former was down
town completing few business mat
tiers before making his departure when
the accident occurred at Fourteenth
and L streets.
At Emergency Hospital Dr. Hornsbys
injuries were diagnosed as fractures of
The pelviS and left hip. Raymond F..
Robertson, 81, of the 100 block E street,
driver CT the car, was released by sec
ond precinct police.
The auto victim was advised to re-
main at the institution for further at
tention after first aid treatment was
administered, but he expressed a pref
erence to be taken care of at his own
infirmary and insisted he could stand
the long train ride.
The physician was carried to the sta
ton and placed aboard the 3 o'clock
train for home. He was accompanied
by his wife and son, Hubert, who is in
the Department of Agriculture. DR..
Hornsby served in the Medical Corps
during the World War.
Stepping out of a safety zone at
Thomas Circle last night, Theodore
Sheba Willis, 20, of 1408 Massachusetts
avenue, was knocked down by a hit
and-run taxicab and suffered bruises of
the left leg. She was treated by pri-
vate physician at her home.
Georgetown Hospital physicians treat
ed Mrs. Edna E. Proctor, 1927 Van Ness
street, for shock yesterday afternoon
after on automobile she was driving
overturned in a collision with another
machine at Volta place and Thirty
fourth street. Police said Julian B.
Jacobs, 1701 Sixteenth street, was the
driver of the second car.
Two motorists, Frederick F. Chesley,
19, of 1913 Cliffbourne street, and Lloyd
H. Roberts, &c. of 908 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast, were arrested by police
after crashes in which pedestrians es-
capped with slight hurts.
Chesley, charged with reckless driv-
ing, demanded a jury trial today and
the case was set for March 26.