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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

roads. 1t is evident that they are
just trying it OUT on the Erie. If
they can put over wage cut on this
road with the aid of the Brother
hood misleaders. they will extend
their wage cutting campaign over
their whole system, and the other
railroad owners will join in.
Fight This
The plans of the railroad owners,
whose dividends actually increased
in 1880 while hundreds of millions of
dollars were Topped off the wages of
the railroad workers, can only be
spiked by militant action on the part
of the rank and file. The National
Railroad Workers Industrial League,
with headquarters at Room 8, 702
East 63rd ST., Chicago, Ill, has long
advocated rank and file organization
for the railroad workers, to make
possible a fighting united front
against the railroad bosses and
Brotherhood officials who act as
their agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
UEMPL DYED WORKERS DEMONSTRATE IN CANADA AND RUMAA
US. DEPORTING
1880 MONTHLY
D O a k Devises New
Method of Attack

NEW YORK. 49, The New York
Times boasts that Secretary of La
Dor Doak has devised still another
method of pattack against the for
eig1 born workers in the bosses plan
to scare these workers into accept
ance of wage cuts and starvation, in
other words, to cut them off from
the struggle against starvation, as
part of the boss campaign to force
a general lowering of the standard
of living Of the entire working class
In addition to the 1880 deporta-
tons a month, ga new and rnex-
plored outlet" has been devised by
Doak to deport at least an additional
200 month.
The new plan is aimed at the ul-
employed foreign-born workers --
those who, along with millions OF
native workers, Negyp and white,
have become surplus labor" to be
starved or deported in the eyes OF
the bosses and their government.
They are to be deported as "des-
titute foreigners" under the terms
of what The Times admits is IAN
obscure clause in the 1927 i1n1nigra-
ton law"
This plan calls for the deporta-
ton of even these foreign-born whom
the bosses admit are i'll the country
legally.
While the bosses government has
no money for relief of the ten mill
lion jobIess workers, tens of thou
sands of whom are starving, it has
put 100000 at the disposal of Doak
for the campaign against the for
eign-born.
LOS ANGELES, April Il. $500 More
than 10000 Mexican workers are be-
ing deported monthly, it was reveal
ed today by Rafael de la Collina, To-
cal Mexican Consul, who is in full
cooperation with his imperialistS
masters of Wall Street in this vici-
Gus attack on the Mexican workers
in this country.
Thirty-fivc thousand have already
been deported, it is said, and ,e bos-
ses plan to deport another $4,000 by
midsummer.
Most of the families are utterly
destitute, when they arrive in Mexico
and terrible reports of suffering ant
death of hundreds by starvation have
come from across the border.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
1888 DELEGATES AT
BRITISH CHARTER
MEET; PLAN FIGHT
Organize the Workers
Counter-Offensive
Gable BY Inpreeorr)

LONDON, April 14.-The Charter
convention at Bernondsey town hall
yesterday marked a great advance
in the mobilization of the workers.
There were 1888 delegates present in
Guiding 146 from trade unions; IL
from cooperatives; 1877 direct from
factories; 142 unemployed. Harry
Pollitt in moving the main reselu-
ton declared: THE object Of the
convention is to create an erganiza-
tional basis for the workers counter
offensive, not merely to popularize
the Charter but to secure hundreds
of thousands of new recruits and to
develop a strong opposition, to be-
come the leaders in the workers
struggle
A telegram of the revolutionary
miners union announcing a victory
at the Aitken colliery strike where
the men struck Friday to raise the
minimum wage, created tremendous
enthusiasm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Send May Day Ads, Greetings
Without Delay; Milwaukee
Plans Page in "Socialist" City

Greet the Daily Worker on May
Day! This year, the Daily Worker
expects to receive hundreds of greet
ings from Party members, sympa-
thizers and their friends csc a
name). Unions, fraternal organiza-
tons, workers clubs should be visited
for May Day advertisements, these
to be accompanied with SIS, $40, $25
sums for May Day. Solicit ads from
shopkeepers at So per column inch.
Units, sections and districts: send
collective greetings, and tack a gen.
erous sum on to it. Greetings and
advertisements for the May Day edi-
ton which reaches thousands Of
workers in the U. S. and the Soviet
Union, must be received by the Daily
Worker by the following dates: April
90 for Pacific Coast (Dists. IL, Is,
Is, 49,; April % for Midwest (Dists.
7, 8, 9, 10, II, 10; April "a for East
ern: Dists. /, 2, upstate N. Y. only
3, 4, 5, 6, Is, 16; April 25 for New
York City edition.
District Page to Rap Socialist Party
Milwaukee sends meaty articles
for Chicago page on betrayals in
so-called socialist" city. Expects to
establish special Milwaukee page,
meanwhile contributes to Dist.
by District decision. Milwaukee's
wide awake to use Of weekly Sec
tion page for rapping Socialist"
Party, counteracting their lies in
the daily Socialist" Milwaukee
Leader. Send your articles earlier,
Milwaukee, and order that special
page soon!
Seattle district should follow Mil
Yankees open-eye example since,
according TO Ira A. Roberts Of
Spokane, "the Socialists with ex-
Senator Mckay and wooblies here
are sure buckling us" Roberts expects
to go in for little buckling him
self by rounding UP Red Builders, get.
ting Club started. Continuing dis
trict pages: Pittsburgh units under
orders to contribute short, snsppy
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

trenched, receiving 100000 pesetas
year. All the forces of the church
and the landed aristocraey, plus a
strong feudal element in the army
are the basis on which King Alfonso
and his hackers depend for a coun-
ter-attack.
At the same time, to prevent a
real revolutionary outbreak with the
masses taking matters in their own
hand, the provisional government is
maneuvering with proclanations and
phrases to forestall the appropriation
of the landlords and the crushing
of the power of the church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

please those whom we are working
for. The deep appreciation shown
for this is when the boss or foreman
come to us and tell us to do better
Cmeaning more). When those who
are working realize the condition Of
the unemployed and what it means
to them they will begin to organize
a union that will make these capital
lists and bosses come to terms and
make them pay a living wage. so
that everyone will have an equal
chance and conditions viii be bet
ter. Woman Laundry Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
FASCISTS KILL
YOUNG WORKER
Gable BY Inprecorr)

BERLIN. April 14.--Collisio1s oc-
cured at Chemnitz yesterday evening
between workers and Stahlhelm
(steel helrnet) fascists. The fascistS
shot young worker, Bake, dead.
At Neumuenster, similar collisions
between fascists and workers took
place. The fascists fired revolvers
at the workers. Five were wounded
and two were sent to the hospital
The police arrested worker.
Saturday the arbitration author
tiles announced a binding decision
providing for wage cuts for the Berlin
building trades workers. The re-
formist trade union leaders accept
ed the decision and appeal to the
workers to return to work on Tues
day.
The revolutionary leadership calls
for continuation of the strike de-
spite the binding arbitration decision.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
VAN SWERINGENS PLAN
20 p. C. WAGE CUT FOR
ERIE RAILROAD MEN
Big Magnates to Enlist Aid of Brotherhood
MisTeaders to Put Over Slash
Railroad Workers. Join the National Rail-
road Workers Industrial League for Struggle

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Rumors that 20 per cent wage
cut for train and engine service men is being demanded by the
Erie Railroad current in Cleveland where the roads head
quarters shortly to be moved to be closely under
the eye Of its owners the Van Swerngen brothers The
pany reported to be negotiating its demand with the conf
mittees of the transportation brotherhoods.
The rank and file of these supposed arisocrats OF labor
the engineers conductors fremen and ranmen fighting
mad at the of this brutal demand of the company Their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Neevs Briefs
Church Statistics.

The church statistician of the
Christian Herald says that churches
in the U. S. gained 1880 in 1880
compared with 242,748 in 1929 and
more than 100000 in 1928. F'ifty-five
sects are listed apparently 2 varie-
ties being missing with total mem
bership of 50,037,245 nlisled by 225, 800
preachers, a gain Of 1851 in 237, 282
churches. gain of 821. The Baptist
gained most, the Methodist lost most,
and things look bad for the Disciples
Of Christ, who lost 1857 members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

Of the struggle for the freedom OF
India.
"The campaign for the release Of
the Meerut prisoners on April 10 has
been initiated by our British section
with the request that Apr1i 10 viii be
observed as Meerut Day also through
out India. The cause of the 81 Nee
rut prisoners is not only the cause
of the Indian and British masses.
1t is the concern of the anti-imper-
ialist movement throughout the
world"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
1000 DEFY Police.

SUDBURY, Ont, April 16.--A DEM
onstration of unemployed workers,
numbering, according to the capital
list news services about 5000. demon
strated here yesterday, and were at
tackled by Sudbury and Copper Cliff
police. Firemen also drenched the
crowd with two streams of water for
Is minutes, the crowd stubbornly re-
fusing to leave. Many were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
G,OOO Out in yYinnepeg.

WINNEPEG, Man, April 16.-Six
thousand jobless demonstrated here
yesterday in support of the demand
for insurance, and fought with the
police. Six were seriously injured
and many more less seriously hurt.
(The figures are from the capitalist
press-Editor)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Soviet Industry Booms.

Reports from capitalist correspon-
dent in Moscow state that branches
OF industry which we're behind sehe-
dule are rapidly catching up, coal
production rose from 10000 tons a
day last September to 10000 now;
rail transport is improving, steel pro-
duction increasing and new construc-
ton booming. Many industries have
completed the year plan in half
the time. Large numbers are join
ing the Communist Party,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Delegation TO Premier

OTTAWA, Canada, April 16--A
delegation Of 35 workers, elected from
every city in the dominion appeared
yesterday before Premier Bennett and
demanded unemployment insurance.
At the same time, mass demonstra-
tions to support the demand took
Place in half dozen cities.
The premier took a hard boiled
attitude, and declared that mo dole
will be issued to put a premium on
idleness while I am in office" He
further insulted the starving jobless
with an intimation that they were
not unemployed but just lazy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Demand Release Of 81 Moerut
Prisoners, Jailed By the British
Lab3or Govt for Building Unions
Most of Them Are Young Workers, Charged
With "Conspiring Against the King"
and Imperialism

BERLINAn appeal to all workers to rally to the strug
gle for independence of India being carried by the
Indian workers and peasants has been issued by the nterna
onal Youth Seceariat of the League Against Imperialism
The appeal addressed to the youth Of all countries exposes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Roumainian Demonstration

BUCHAREST, Rumania, April 10
A battle between the crowd of job
less assembled before the town hall
at HodmeXzvevs shelly and police who
charged them with drawn sapers took
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Thousands Battle Police in
Streets; Stones, SaberS Used
Nationwide Delegation Demands Insurance
of Premier Bennett; He Refuses; Prepare
Greater Mass Demonstration May LIST

Mass demonstrations took place
Wednesday in Canada and Roumain-
ia, of jobless workers demanding I'M
employment relief and insurance.
These are a fortaste of the huge world
demonstrations on May First.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

place yesterday. The unemployed
workers were demanding work or
bread, and hurled volleys OF stones
at the sword swingers. Many were
injured on both sides.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Robbers Reforms"

For the 57th time Theodore Roose-
welt, by the grace of Hoover, the i'm
perialist ruler of Porto Rico, is CAB
bling about reforms" He is insist
ing now on economies in municipal
administration and the happy family
Of Yankee over-seers and Porto Ricarl
socialists" who hold many offices
without working is likely to be dis
turbed. Exactly 10 times the ma
tional wealth of Porto Rico has beer
taken out of it for Yankee profits
and this is why the masses are
starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17

London reports say that the new
naval parley between England, France
and Italy scheduled for Tuesday was
not held because the French were
absent and the Tory opposition" did
not "embarrass Arthur Henderson by
asking questions" The New York
Times dispatch adds, There is SYM
pathy for him in all parties" Be-
cause his "peace" plans are being
''flouted by the French"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Demonstrate in Montreal.

MONTREAL, Que, April 1e.-Dem-
onstrations took place in many parts
of the city yesterday, all attacked by
the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
No Wage Cut For Bosses.

A stockholders meeting of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp. has approved
the bonus plan for the company Of
ficials which has given them $685.
100000 in IA years and paid Eugene
Grace, president, $1,625,753 in one
year, besides salary. This was de-
Tended by Charlie Schwab.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-17
Alabama Bosses
Intend To Burn
9 Negro Youths

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE>
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-26
History OF Colored Printers In The
U. S. Government Printing Office

for publication is given to a col
ored monotype key board operator
who turns in the perforated spool
of paper to the. desk. 1t is then sent
up to the casting room where a col
ored caster operator transforms the
spool of paper into type. The type
is then placed on galleys and taken
to the proof-press where proofs are
taken and sent to the proof-room
to be read and all errors marked.
The proofs are sent to the Mono
type Section where a colored hand
compositor corects all errors marked.
The type is then made up into pages
and imposed in steel chase. and
a colored laborer rolls the chase to
an elevator, where it is sent to the
press-room to be printed by a col
ored pressman.
The printed sheets are sent to- the
folding room where they are folded
and stitched by colored young wo-
men, and finally the folded and
stitched pages are placed in the
hands of colored bookbinder, who
puts the cover on and completes the
job.
Visitors to the National Capital
should not fail to visit the Govern
ment Printing Office.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-26
BY Wilson jefferson

Those large electric welcome"
signs over some Nordic churches
don't always mean just what that
word implies.
One Sunday morning | went down
10 one of these Nordic churches in
the central section of large eastern
city. Through the newspapers there
was an invitation to the public to
come to this particular church to
hear the pastor in charge preach a
special sermon on racial and relig-
ious tolerance.
| arrived early and took an incon-
spicious scat well to the rear of the
edifice.
The sermon was tame, academic
affair, and | am sure that it was
meant for people already saved from
part-time jobs and no jobs and saw
ed from the Cummings of the rent
man and the installment collector.
Nobody got happy and shouted !;
nobody seemed spiritually militant
and aroused.
After services the preacher came
straight down the aisle to where |
sat. He was so glad to see me pres
ent. He sincerely hoped
would come again sometime. His
church always welcomed strangers
So glad to meet me. The
beautiful weather! Do come
again! And then he started off on
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Census Figures
Show Increase
In Population

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Negro
high shool enrolment has increased
177.8 per cent during the decade.
according to the findings of sta
tistical study announced by the Of
flee of Education.
An advance of 1913 per cent in en-
rollment of Negro children 5 to II
years of age was also made during
this period, it is shown by David T..
Blose, assistant statistician and auth
or of the summary which is publish
ed as Pamphlet ID, 1880, Statistics
of the Negro Race, 1927 -2S."
In 10 Southern states more than
100000 Negro children are re-
ported in schools. Public schools of
the Northern and Western states en-
roll about 100000.
Negro college attendance is also
greater than in the past. Although
Houston, Tex. is the only city re-
porting public Junior college for
Negroes, there are II land-grant in
situations and teacher training
schools. North Carolina College for
Negroes, at Durham, is the only col
lege for Negroes supported entirely
at State expense.
Atlanta, Georgia, it is announced
by the census, has population of
270,366 of which 180,247 are whites
and BOOTS are Negroes. The white
population increased 42,462 or 30.8
per cent, and the Negroes 27,279, or
43.4 per cent.
The greater increase in the. Negro
population jumps the per cent dis
tribution of the Negroes is the total
population from 31.3 to 1913 per
cent, thus forming exactly one
third of the population of the city.
Of the BOOTS Negro population
1890 are under five years of age !;
1914 five to nine years; S499, 10 to
Ia years; 957S, % to 10 years !;
10,S57, 20 to "a years; 1886, 20
to 30 years; 7S43, 80 to 81 years;
1928, 35 to Al years; 1889, 40 to
81 years; 1912, So to Ga years; 1865,
SIS to IA years; 635, rs years and
over; and "a of unknown age.
Population of Florida Increases
102,341
The population of Florida as re-
turned by the 1880 census, as 49,
211, of which 1882 are whites
and 431,S2S are Negroes. The white
population increased 397,052, or
62.2 per cent, and the Negro popu-
lation 1902, 341, or 81 per cent.
Of the Negro population lS1 ,OOS
are q years of age and over, form
ing 300 per cent of the population
of voting age.
llliteraey of Connecticut Decreases
Connecticut Negro population
which increased from 2l,046 to 49,
354 or 1915 per cent shows the fol-
lowing marital condition.
Of 1886 males, Is years of age
and over, S457 are single; 6425 mar
ried; 555 widowed; los divorced !;
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and Fl unknown. OF the 1852 fe-
males 15 years of age and over, 2385
are single; 6507 married; 1886 wild
owed; 1876 divorced and nine of I'M
known marital condition. OF the
males 1927 per cent of single and
Co.'s per cent married. The females
show 22.6 per cent single and 61.5
per cent married.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-26

If you want the Patronage of
Colored People who buy first
class things and lots of 'em. Ad-
vertise in The Northwest Enter
prise.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-26

Rev. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of
New York's leading Baptist church,
frequently makes you do lot of
thinking.
Maybe, as some say. 1t is not often
that you really think.
You can't read behind man like
Rev. Powell, able, courageous, deep
ly religious. without gaining inspira-
ton and lifting your head above the
creek.
A little while ago, as you read the
papers, you wondered what had
come over Rev. Powell when he urg-
ed your ministers to share part of
their salary with the poor.
Some of your gentlemen of the
cloth, particularly that crowd which
is long on talk and short on acts.
got hot under the collar and shot
some steaming bolts at your great
est preacher
One important thing about Rev.
Powell: he doesn't claim to be doc
tor of anything. despite the fact
that he is probably the outstanding
NEGRO minister of this country.
1t is not titles. as you under
stand, that make men: it is the gray
matter behind the ears, the mercy
growing in the heart and the manly
COURAGE dancing in the bones.
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EASTER SPECIAL -
Suits made to measure.
SD. x::g.50, Pants $685..
IS, $3.50. Fashion-Crnft
Tasiors and Pants Spec
ciaiists. Store. 1927 Bird
Ave-. opposite Postoffice'
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about your preachers.
Rev. Powell being preacher nat
urallv didn't like it. But he didn't
act like some of us when folks saw
things we don't like-get angry and
begin to curse and swear that here
is man opposing God Almighty.
Listen to a part of Rev. PowelPs
argument:
"Mr. Mencken says that he be-
lieves that Negroes are superior to
American whites in more ways than
one. To Justify this belief he places
special emphasis upon the extra
ordinary decency' of the race.
"Had Mr.. Mencken gone a little
farther, he would have discovered
that the average Negro is also super
Tor to the average white American in
long suffering, patience, meekness,
veracity and love. The Negro has
always DESTROYED the white mans
ethical standards, and especially his
sense of veracity.
when | think that the Negro
was brought out of jungle religion
in Africa. into a worse jungle Ameri-
can Christianity; when | recall that
the Negro was not brought here by
racketeers. but that he existed for
two hundred and forty years in the
most damnable racket known to the
United States, and that he has lived
for the past sixty-five years in the
racket of peonage. chain gang labor,
and lower wage for the same work.
it is miracle that he has made any
appreciable progress toward genuine
"A greater miracle still. is that the
Negro believes in any sort of a re-
ligion or any kind of God present
ed to him by the white American.
Had it not been for his ignorance he
would have cursed God and died"
Word comes from Jamaica that
Mr.. Marcus Garvey plans to sell out
and depart for London.
Mr.. Garvey, very interesting,
sometimes wrong, more frequently
right. may never live to see one of
his ideas become a reality.
But mark you, the Negro, as Mr..
Garvey has said, can never hope to
step high in this world until he be.
lieves fully in himself, builds his own
business in order to employ his
youth, gets plenty of money and ma
tcrial wealth and some guns behind
him to talk big when folks NEEDLE
him.
MIR. Carney, a West Indian, taught
you in some respects as soundly as
some of your American orators who
talk aplenty but hardly ever say any
thing.
A favorite method of your orators
seeking station and political honors
is to brag on the women, quote the
Bible and tell you the power OF
prayer.
Mr.. Garvey in England may be
less harmful to your orators here
but he will still be close enough tc
keep your mind conferred on youl
great problems.
Good news to those worried about
unemployment.
Col. Arthur Woods. chairman OF
IFeSlueHl HOoNeI emergency Noin
mitteemen for Employment, say.
that his field agents report a. gradua
Improvement in employment condi
tions throughout the country.
Although industry is speeding .uI
slowly, Col. Wooas said, "there i!
widespread and maintained dis
position for employment condition.
to improve"
Many areas, including several il
the south. showed some improve
ment. The spring weather is sale
to be aiding the situation coDsider
ably.
Another aid TO the employment
condition is public works. Last weel
contracts for more than $4,000. 0Ot
ssere let by the government.