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The daily worker., 1931-04-06
.FRAME-UP, NDICT
5 FOR MURDER IN
PATERSON, n. ]
w ork ers Stop New
Sacco-Vanzetti Case

PATERSON. N. j., April 5,-The
frsme-up against five Paterson
workers, which holds the prospect of
being another o-Vanzetti case.
was further perfected today when
the grand jury returned indictments
of murder against Louis Bart. Een-
jamin Lieb. Mrs. Helen GerShono-
witz, Louis Harris and Albert Kataz-
buck.
All these workers are charged with
the murder of Max Urban. a silk mill
boss and bootleggcr who was killed
in brawl with his fellow gangsters.
The five workers we're framed up
because they participated in strike
at Urban's shop.
The International Labor Defense.
which is directing the defense of
these workers. has employed two
leading attorneys in Paterson. Ward
and McGinnes. to defend these work
ers. They will be assisted by six
other l. L. d. lawyers.
Leaflets exposing the frame up
will be issued to all Paterson work
ers by the l. L. D. A tag day will
be held on April IL all over New
Jersey to raise defense funds and to
prevent these workers from meeting
the fate which the capitalists gave
Sacco and Vanzetti.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
, OUT OF 3LEi DIV
BANKS 60 SN 81
Worker DeDoeitors to
Organize Monday

LINDEN N. j., April 5. - Two Of
the three banks in this city went
bankrupt yesterday tying up the
hard-earned savings of the workers
who had anything at all The un-
employed who depending on their
fe-' pennies to keep them from
starvation are now facing stark
hunger.
The two banks to crash we're the
Linden National Bank and Trust
Company and the State Bank OF
Linden. The total assets of the tvc
banks amounted to more than s4,-
100000. Thousands of depositors
were hit, mostly workers and small
business men.
On Saturday the small depositors
organized themselves and have cal
led mass meeting to fight for the
full return of the deposits of the
workers. The mass meeting will be
held at the Workers Center, st.
George and Fern, Monday, April s
at p. m.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Indignant Rank and File Block
Intended Strike Breaking By
CeneralG Grievance Committee
Wages Cut $9,OOO,OOO,OOO
For i. s. Workers in 1880

the slash the standard of living of the
Committee of League
this the United States dropped
Federation of
S10000OO0OOO during 1880 The
the United States said in the first nine
mcnth of dropped S9OO0O0000O
MostO of If it included the
unemployed workers would be at least
STANDARDIZATION that
entire workngcass the crisis millions fac
acute starvation.
workers standard of living the
May Day. the Communist Party
will organize demonstrations part
the against aphasmhungcr
and cuts
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Niagara Falls Protest at City Hall
Today; Mass Demonstrations May |
SHELTON TEXTILE
STRIKERS n E Z D
RELIEF AT ONCE
One Starving, Dies
Rather Than Scab

SHELTON, Conn, April 5. - The
strike of 300 weavers against the
Blumenthal company's wage cut of
IS per cent ana introduction of the
two loom system instead of one loom.
stands fast in the sixth week of the
strike The strikers are resisting un-
usual pressure. They have refused
to listen to U. S. Department of La
Dor "conciliator" Anna Weinstock,
who was here a couple of weeks ago.
Just last week they similarly re-
fused to heed the orders of another
U. S. Department Of Labor Concil-
iator, Brown, sent in after Weipstock
was reburf2d Both these "concili-
atorS" had ordered them back to
work. and had told them the strike
was lost.
The strikers were not moved by
the wild anti-red, anti-National Tex
tile Workers Union talk of an i'm
ported spell binder, the professional
patriot Kampp. Instead. they invited
the NJ r. W. to come in and take
the leadership of the strike, which
it has done.
Between 100 and 200 hired gang
sters we're imported by the company
to serve as armed guards for the
half dozen Scabs the company had
The police gave these guards the
right to carry on three day reign
of terror, but the strikers and SYM
pothizers made the guards hard to
catch, and conducted mass picket
ing operations on the third day.
The strikers have been delugad by
leaflets signed by President William
Green of the A. F. L. urging them
to fight the National Textile Work
ers Union. These leaflets they tore
up right in Weinstocl,'s presence.
The strikers are desperately in
need of relief, however. Stanley Do
zal. aged "a refused to scab He
was driven from home, and denied
food A few days ago, starving. he
committed suicide by motor gas in
a garage,
All workers should rush to the
support Of the heroic Shelton Strik-
ers by sending relief donations to
the National Textile Workers Union,
care of Robert Pace, 366 Coram Ave,
Shelton, Conn.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
PATTERSON TO
SPEAK IN HARLEM
On Unemploymentand
Negro Reformists

NEW YORK. William Patterson.
Wall-knoWn Harlem militant who
has just returned from a three and
a half years stay in the Soviet
Union, will speak this Friday nigh
at st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. l30th ST.
His subject will be Unemployment
and the Role of the Negro Reform
lists Other speakers will be 1. AM
ter, district organizer in New York
Of the Communist Party, and So
Harper.
The meeting will be under the aus
pices of District 2, Communist Party
of the U. S. A.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
9R Ul5SWTCK MASS
ELECTION nIEET
'oon1,''oi~t Candidates
Soak Wednesday

NEW BRUNSWICK. N. j.. April
A le9flet hes been issued to al
-''0''-Nrs il tl>is city to come to an
"'ection r9uv, Wednesdav April 8th.
at p. m. French and New Street
where the Communist candidates will
speak on unemployment. wage cuts
and how to fight against them.
For the frs, time in the history
of this city the Con7'Urists arc
'o'7ing part in the city elections. The
lcaflet issued to the workers, says;
"As election day gets nearer con-
ditions of the workers are getting
worse. More workers are laid off.
swelling the ranks of the unemploy-
ed in New Brunswick. The workers
together with the rest of the un-
employed and their families are face
to face with starvation. Disease and
sickness is growing among the work
CTS. Our children go to school un-
dernourished and without sufficient
food and warm clothing.
with more lay as have taken
place in johnson & Johnson, with
the closing down of the Armstrong
Corp, speed UP and wage-cuts TAX
ing place in other shops, the need
for unemployment relief, and the
struggle against wage cuts, lay-offs,
and speed up looms up as the out
standing issues in the coming city
elections. What are the candidates
for commissioner doing about the
above issues? Nothing. They are sill
ent. Silence in this case means
agreement with the lay-off, and
wage-cutting campaign of the bos-
ses. Only the candidates of the
Communist Party fight for unem-
ployment insurance and immediate
relief, and against lay-offs, speed uI
and wage CUTS
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Miners Smash Meeting
Traitors Flee Down
the Fire Escape
Opposition Organizing
A;0nal Miners Union
'olds Many Meetings
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, April

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. April
s. Only the tremendous pres
sure and militancy of the rank
and file strikers prevented The
General Grievance Committee
,om carrying out its Obvious pan
% bctray the strike OF the Clen AlGcl
coal miners hc.c at the comm. .ta-s
meeting Saturday. In spite CT re-
peated attempts TO clear the Elieess
out Of the hall, they stayed, ho7'i2g
down, and hissirg all those Who Gc-N
clared in favor OF ending tao t...gi....o,
and he end after tie VOC. s.,..s,l-
ing the meeting and literally caT'h7
out OF a rear entrance and dc~a
fire escape International sFosrJ
Member Kmet9 OF TIC Us d -
or&2"s, and oommits~c mcn wa
yQtcd to break the strike.
Strike, G-cwj.
Instead of the ct,il.c cling. "'.s
: own. f.lday ard e .j:".'c.
zoe mines of the Cl,1 Al
2anne out en- st-i!-o r',>g j
n,ncr5 now striking. 1'-,.2 -:
My one mine still w...iry
is in the Scranton teg;ito.:,.
..:3!,c,ing was attacked BIZ. ..,
police and firencn Who b2f / III
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Senator Wagner Admits Unemployment Crisis Starts
Plague of tuberculosis Which VIII Kill
Youth In Years to Come
Secretary of Labor In Radio Speech Again Les
About Increase In Jobs; Does Nothing
'hlade mia Make Woik" Committee Firing Right and
Left Charities Declare They Are Flooded;
Kind Judge Gives Ten Days

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April = De7eg9te'
of the Unemployed Councils of California,
where there are 100000 iobless, appeared at
the public hearing in the chambers Of the Cali
forn'q state legislature on April and exposed
the schemes of the leaders of the American Federation
Labor and the employers of this state prevent real relief
The legislature has before for fake relief
the Unemployed Councils speakers demanded appropriation
of money slated for anabo purposes extra money
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Bosses Profits so Per Cent in
War; Call for War On SoViets

How war will be extremely profit
able to the big industrial lords and
bankers and would at the same time
aim to wipe out the workers republic
in the Soviet Union is contained in
a series of news stories in the Sun
day editions of the capitalist news
papers.
The huge profits Of the bosses
that come of war we're brought out
Saturday in a trial for division
of such profits between the U. S.
Steel Co. and the Bethlehem Ship
building Corporation, taking place
now in Philadelphia.
Testimony was given today"
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

PARIS, April 2.-The plans of the
French militarists for an attack on
the Soviet Union took another step
forward today when the Chamber of
Deputies voted $1.400, 100000 for ma
tional defense" purposes.
OF every dollar that the French
government exacts from the pockets
of the workers, 25 cents goes for this
next war. Debts incurred by past
wars take up the major proportion of
the remainder.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Birmingham PoliceShoot Doavn
Negro Workers in Cold Blood

BIRMINGHAM, April 5.-Because
his hands were loaded with pack
ages and he could not get them in
the air quick enough when police or
dered him to, Babe Dawes, Negro
worker was filled with load of
buck-shot which ripped his arm and
side to hell. A piece Of his coat was
shot two inches doep into q telephone
post. The worker lost over gallon
of blood.
Then the police found out that they
had shot the wrong man. This is a
regular practice of the bosses police
down here in Alabama when dealing
with MeHo ypgksSS. II thsy get the
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Unite in Gigantic Demonstration On
MayP, Says Trade Union UnityLeague

Urging all workers to join in the
May Day demonstrations through
out the country, together with the
workers throughout the world, and
especially in fight on unemploy-
ment and wage cuts, the Execu-
tive Board of the Trade Union
Unity League, has issued the fol-
lowing call:
Workers: Unite in a gigantic dem
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

wrong man, they say that it was a
good lesson anyway for the "niggers." ;"
The police we're looking for another
Negro who lived in the same house as
Dawes. Last week a Hill Grocery
Store was robbed and cop shot
These robberies take place every day
nav as starving workers get desper-
ate and do not realize that they must
organize and fight in mass move
ment against starvation, instead of
merely robbing stores. The police
had set out to grab and beat up un-
employed Negro workers in order to
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

writes the New York Times, "that the
United States Steel Corporation made
profit on wartime contracts Of
more than SO percent" While the
American workers were slaughter
ing their fellow workers of other
countries in the last world war, Nor
gan, Rockefeller, Gary, Dawes, Nor
row, Hoover. and the others who get
the profits from the big corporations,
we're making so to 500 per cent
profits.
Now they are preparing for another
war, more drastic than the last,
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
RED BUILDERS CLASS

NEW YORK.-At a class on the
fundamentals of Communist or
ganized by the Red Builders Club of
he Daily Worker. which met for the
FIRST time Sunday afternoon, April
5, 10 applications for membership to
the Communist Party we're made.
The class is being conducted by
Comrade Pullman and meets every
week.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

through a great offensive against us.
They are starving the unemployed.
They are slashing the wages of the
employed and speeding them beyond
human endurance. They are carry
ing on horrible lynching campaign
against the Negroes. They are sys-
tematically prosecuting the foreign
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The daily worker., 1931-04-06

to be raised by taxation of huge in
comes, to be put in a fund to pay
weekly cash relief to the jobless.
They demanded that the funds be
administered by the unemployed and
employed workers through their
elected committees. The Unemployed
Council speakers receiYed the hearty
applause of the workers who heard
them and of those they reported to.
after exposing the fake hearings"
Demonstrate in Niagara Falls.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, April s.
Leaflets of the Unemployed Council
here distributed at breadlineS and in
working class parts Of town, and to
those getting the relief" work, call
FOR a demonstration tomorrow at 2
p. m. at the city hall against failure
to furnish relief to most of the starv-
ing unemployed, and against cutting
the wages of those given emergency
relief work.
City Manager Robbins has just Or
dered the wages of those on relief
work cut from so cents an hour to
40 cents. The appropriation of $25,000
for this work was forced from tbs
Niagara Falls city government only
by mass militant demonstration on
Feb. "a. 1t is necessary to fight to
'-eep even what was won then.
The city is using the unemployment
situation to cut wages of employed
workers, and the A. F. L. officialdom
is helping the city administration to
do it. Recently when 60 carpenters,
plasterers and plumbers walked off
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The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Cartoon Strips
to Best Sellers

An original Ryan Walker
cartoon strip will be awarded
by our popular staff artist TO
the three best Daily Worker
sellers Of tho week. whether a
Red Builders News Club, a
unit or an individual. These
strips arc mounted on a stiff
backing and can be hung mp on
the wall to great advantage.
In addition, an original car
toon will be forwarded to any
unit. club or worker who in
creases his order by at least
10. Ryan Walker has agreed
TO award these strips as an In
seutivo to mass circus~*icr.
tsixty thousand ascakssscn
tlps on psse thrcc.S
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

Smash the anti-labor laws Of the
bosses!
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

Against evictions, for rent reduc-
lions!
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

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CONTINUED ON rAHn Tuauu,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
TWO RADIO STATIONS
REMOVED FROM AIR
Newark and Jersey City Broad
casters Silenced by Com
mission.

The supreme radio penalty Of removal
from the air has been meted out to two
more radio stations by the Federal
Radio Commission In its determined
campaign to clear up the ether waves
Stations VIM. Newark, and WkBOi
Jersey City. both 250-watters. we're
ordered silent and their hours of opera
ton on the l.450-kilocycle channel as
signed TO Station WHOM. Jersey City.
The action follows the drastic step o.
the commission of about a week age
ordering the deletion of Stations W1bO
and WPCC, both in Chicago. TO MAKE
way on their jointly occupied channel
Tor WJKS Of Gary. Ind. Appeals al
ready have been taken to the Court o.
Appeals Of the District of Columbia TINS
week by WHO and WPCC. and q STAY
oroer 70 permit the stations to conLinue
IN operation during the tendency OF the
hugation has been requested.
Inc commission sustained the recon-.
menoanonS of Examiner Elmer w. frat'
In deleting the two New Jersey stauons
station WHOM had requested fun time
on the frequency. but the commission
approved three fourths time 70 IT.
with Station wBMS. Hackensack. re-
tanning its one-fourth time with <oO
watts.
Thus the commission has moyec
swiftly in trying TO alleviate congesuon
In the two sore spots of broadcaSting-
Chicago and New York. The great con-
centrations of stations in these area
nave been the cause Of serious com.
paint stnce the commissions cfeauon
ko1x yeag1 acnA Both acttD0a N -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
JAPAN AUTHORIZES SEVEN
NEW RADIO STATIONS
500, 900 Set Owners May Soon Get
Programs From 90 Broad
casters.

Plans for the construction of seven
new broadcasting stations to widen the
service furnished by the Is existing sta
tons OF the Japan Central Broadcasting
corporation have been approved by the
Japanese Department of Communica-
tons, according to a report to the De-
partment Of Commerce from the as
slstant American trade commissioner at
Toxic. H B. Titus.
"A monopoly under government aus
pices. With the Department of Com
munlcationS having the power of Gen.
sorsnlp over programs. runs the radio
system OF Japan. Owners of radio sets
OF whom there are nearly SOC. 600, pay
Q license fee of yen (about so cents
per month for the listening privilege
Advertising is barred.
Most Of Japan's radio manufacturing
industry consists of the assembly of sets
from imported parts. Tubes also are
largely imported. though there are sew
eral tube manufacturers, the largest an
american subsidiary. Mr.. Titus reports
that there are at least 100 makes of
radio sets. including American. British,
German and Dutch, manufactured or
assembled and sold in Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
BROADCASTERS RAP
PROGRAM ABUSES
Detroit Session Told Con-
gress May Have to Curb
Ads and Spicy Stories.
BY ROBERT MACK.

DETROIT, October 28 (CP.A).-
Tainted testimonials and spicy stories
being injected into sponsored network
programs have aroused the wrath of
independent radio station owners, who
foresee an uprising Of the public and
the adoption of q mailed-fist policy
by Congress against blatant advertis-
ing blurbs. Exploding in the midst
Of the Ninth Annual Convention of
the National Association of Broad
casters here, many Of the outstanding
programs on the air we're openly criti-
cized as violative Of good ethics and
decency. Names Of advertisers and
products were the targets as the 400
attending broadcastefA warmed UP to
the situation.
Net Programs Hit.
It occurred during the late after
noon OF yesterdays session, when DR..
Frank w. Elliott, Davenport, Iowa,
broadcaster and chairman Of the as
sociation's Ethics Committee. criticized
as objectionable certain Of the nett
work programs. Mentioning SPECIFIC
nouncing the reading of cigarette tes-
timonials by women and Of risque
stories told by stage comedians in reg
ular programs Stations should refuse
to take these programs from the net
works and should guard against orig
mating programs Of that character,
he insisted.
Amid the babble and confusion that
followed the gavel Of President Walter
j. Damn of Milwaukee, sounded. An
nouneing that DR.. Elliott had touched
of the fuse. President Damn agreed
with his views. He said he was risking
the connection of his station, WTMJ,
with a national network, but that it was
q fact" that more time is given to ad-
vertising than to program merit.
Bounding to his feet, Thomas Patrick
Convey, owner Of KWK, st. Louis, adj
monished the convention for the men
ton Of specific names Of advertisers,
who have made us so happy and pros
porous" Broadcasters have the privil-
ege of checking the merit Of products
advertised over the air, and can refuse
them, he said.
Congress Action Threatened.
The issue did not die off, however.
DR.. Elliott said that unless some concen-
trated thought or policy Is adopted to
hold q restraining hand on programs,
Congress viii force program regulation
down your throatS.". His words were
greeted by applause. and were construed
as indicative Of definite program reform.
Henry A. Bellows, vice president Of
the Columbia Broadcasting System and
chairman of the associations Legisla-
tive Committee, called attention to the
warning of Senator Wallace White.
Representative of Maine, who had
envisioned dire legislative results I'M
less broadcasters corrected existing
evils. Radio is the target for more at
tackS than any other industry, barring
none" he asserted. Everybody seems
to be after our scalpS. If we don't get
together, we are going to wake up some
morning and find that We don't have
our radio stations"
(copyright. le3l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
TAX ON RADIO SETS
/. ESTIMATED At SIS
Broadeasters Appraise Cost
of Levy Proposed In U. S.
10 Support Programs.

n the so-cAlled British system Of
maintaining radio by listener tax
rather than through sponsored pro-
grams were invoked in this country.
Il would cost the set owner from t20
70 cas- per year. That was the esti-
mate made by the National Association
Of Broadcasters, which has Just con-
cluded its ninth annual convention in
Detroit.
Determined 10 combat efforts being
made to have the Government take
over control Of American broadcasting,
the association has delved into the
realm OF mathematics to prove its
theory that, aside from the other fac
tors, the American people would not
brook adoption Of the British system.
Epgiish Ray $s.5o Per Set.
In most European countries, and. in
fact. the rest Of the world, the expense
OF broadcasting Il met by licensing the
owners OF receiving sets. Last year the
English people paid over 5000, 900 in
license fees. 81 the rate of $3.50 per
set, which sum was used to defray the
cost Of maintaining its entire broad
casting structure. Under this system
all programs are planned and pre-
sented by q government agency and
In all but a few cases the same pro-
gram II broadcast simultaneously by
all stations
In the United States, however. pro-
grams costing about SIS ,0O0, 900 q year
are presented. This figure includes all
around maintenance, just as the British
total embraces gross costs. This revenue
Is provided by program sponsors buy
ing time over the networks and the
stations, as well as an appreciable
amount Of money invested" for good
win purposes by many Independently
owned stations. Although broadcasting
progress has been meteoric, about one
still are In red Ink, charging off their
losses to goodwill for other enterprises
In which they may be engaged.
Hoover Appraisal Heartening.
1t was on this basis that the N. A. 3.
arrived at the figure of $40 to $25 per
year license fee in this country, II the
English system were resorted to and
the same program quality maintained.
Heartened by the words of President
Hoover, who, In opening the conven-
ton earlier this week, appraised Ameri-
can broadcasting as the best In the
world, the association believes thor
| oughly that the industry has yindi-
Gated itself Of charges banded about
that II Is inferior TO the government
systems of other nations. The Com
mercial Committee of the association.
declared:
Despite the great progress and high
standards OF American broadcastinr.
criticism has been directed against cur
rent practices. Such critics have no
concern for the welfare OF the co.
100000 people In the United States
who constitute the radio audience nor
for the effect that their hostility may
have on the broadcasting structure OF
| the United States
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