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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
Boss Press Admits Police
Aid In Maryland Lynching

not be legal if it was necessary to
call out militia to protect" the de-
PENDANT, the judges decided to &C
ahead with the trial without any pre-
tense of protection for Jones. In the
face of the lynch gang activities cul-
mirating in the lvrching Friday
nieht of Matthew Williams, the boss
court decided there was no danger
of mob violence"
Rich farmers and merchants Of
Worcester County have presented a.
demand on the court that Jones be
BROUGHT to trial on the eastern shore.
Their demand declares that they
respectfully request and expect the
Honorable judges to see that the
trial is held in the Judicial Circuit
wherein the crime was committed,
and that without further delay"
Jones Victim of Vile Frame-up.
Orphan JoeS is accused Of killing
a white farmer and his family. The
accusation is based on no other rea-
son that that Jones once worked for
the dead farmer, and protested
against the robbery of one days
wages at 10 cents an hour.
The National Office of the Inter
national Labor Defense last night
sent the following protest telegram
to Gov. Richie Of Maryland:
eve again protest the murderous
activities Of Maryland gangs COM
posed of business men, rich farmers
and eastern shore officials. Todays
papers report hanging and burning
of Matthew Williams by a gang Of
prominent Salisbury citizens and off,
Gals in answer to his refusal to work
for Is cents an hour. This is part OF
the bosses savage campaign of rob
berry and terror against the working
class and especially against the Ne
gro masses. Your encouragement to
mobs in Orphan Jones and George
Davis cases has borne fruit.
We held you and all eastern shore
officials equally responsible for this
beastly outrage, and denounce your
attempt to virtually lynch Jones and
Davis by trial on eastern shore.
We denounce the courts refusal TO
remove Jones's cases from eastern
shore. We demand cessation Of this
terror against the Negroes. We de-
mand the right of Negro workers
and poor farmers to arm and defend
themselves against these boss-lr-
spired attacks. We demand the irn-
mediate safe release Of Orphan
Jones, George Davis and ali Other
workers framed by the employers
and their courts in Maryland"
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yielding to force. The dispatch states:
'"The Japanese say the situation
is now similar to that of 1915, when
the Picking Government asked
Japan TO send an uItimatum so
1t could plead that il had yielded
to force"
A Moscow dispatch to the New York
Times reports the determination of
Japanese and Chinese workers at the
International Congress of the Red
International Of Trade Unions in the
Soviet capital. fhe dispatch says:
Eat the eight session of the Red
International Congress of. Trade
Unions here a Japanese delegation
followed a Chinese representative
ON the speakers rostrutn, both ex-
pressing the common viewpoint
that China was the victim of i'm
perialistic plots and that the Man
churian conflict was the beginning
Of world war.
"The speeches of the Japanese =.
and Chinese delegates were fire.
quently interrupted by applause
from the Russian members and
from representatives from the
United States, France, England
and other countries.
THE session ended last night
with the adoption of resolution
appealing to the workers of France,
England and the United States to
follow the example of the Japanese
workers and organize mass protest
against the 'imperialists division
of China and to demand the with
drawal of all foreign troops from
China"
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cooperating.
The lynching last Friday night
occurred in the TOW | Of Salisbury, on
the eastern shore. Tt was one of
the most brutal and open lynch muir
ders staged anywhere in this coun-
try. The victim, Matthew williams,
a 35-year old Negro worker, was first
shot down in the Office OF his en-
ployer, where he went to demand his
wages and to protest against the
starvation pay of Is cents an hour in
the factory of Daniel j. Elncott
where he was employed. Williams
was shot in the head and the chest
by Daniel j. Ellicott, Jr.. son OF his
employer. The elder EIhcott was
killed during the firing. The boss
press claims he was killed by VIII
liams. Williams was placed under
arrest and taken to the Peninsula
General Hospital where he was held
under police guard. The younger
Elliott was not even arrested.
Police Stand BY.
The police guard was there simply
to see that Williams did not escape.
When six prominent business men
entered the Jim Crowd ward and
dragged Williams out of bed, the DO
lice made no pretense of protecting
him outside, the six leaders of the
lynch gang, was met by some 300
merchants, rich farmers and hood
lIrns who dragged Williams to the
court house square, i'll the exact CEN
ter OF the city. There they Iynched
him, raising and lowering his body
several times to add to the torture.
After half an hour of this, they
burned the body. During all that
time the police offered no interfer-
ence. The boss press admits this.
The Baltimore Sun in its article on
the lynching, says:
''There were two policemen at
the front door of the hospital when
the mob delegates entered by a side
door. They made no attempt to
prevent the lynching. nor did any
citizen protest against il, witnesses
said"
The Baltimore Sun gloatingly
heads its story:
Salisbury Negro, who shot en-
ployer, hanged on the courthouse
green
Speaks Of Negroes ''Wronginr Whites
In its news story. the Baltimore
Sun dares to prattle Of the wrongs
inflicted on the white boss oppres-
sors by the brutally oppressed Negro
workers. Referring to the frame-up
charges against Orphan Jones and
George Davis, both of whom are in
hourly danger of lynching on the
eastern shore, this boss paper speaks
Of ''the third crime in the last few
weeks in which Negroes have been
charged with wronging whites"
Rejecting the petition of the LID.
for a change of venue to Baltimore
for the trial of Orphan Jones, the
Judge Of Worcester County and the
States attorney have insisted on
bringing Jones to trial in the lynch
atmosphere on the eastern shore.
Following the advice Of Attorney
General Lane that the trial would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

silver man and publicity =, Of
fered to read the statement Of the
committee on the floor of the SEN
ate. The delegation promptly re-
fused this offer.
To COngress-NOt individuals.
"We didn't come all the way here
to see an individual" the commit
tee declared. "We came to present
the demands of the unemployed
workers to the congress that is sup
posed to represent the people of the
United States"
The committee of three returned to
the vast crowd before the capitol, and
Bill Dunno, raised on the shoulders
Of unemployed workers, reported to
them, while senators and congress-
men stood on the great white steps
and looked on.
DUNES Report.
"YOur committee was refused ad-
mission to congress-" stated Dunno.
"They would deal with the repre-
sentatives of the Unemployed
Councils speaking in the name of
100000 jobless only through pO-
lice forces. We were not allowed
to enter, or even to present our de-
mandS for the Workers UnemplOy
ment Insurance Bill. .Vice-Presi-
dent Curtis, who presides here to-
day, has by his refusal TO listen to
what we have to say, expressed the
attitude of the entire Hoover hun
ger administration. This admin
istration is causing suffering to
millions of unemployed
Then, in a shouting column of
tours, with the band playing at their
head, the National Hunger March
ers, followed by thousands OF other
workers, swept up the avenue toward
the White House.
Hoover Hides.
At the gates of the white house,
Richard Jarvis, head of the white
house secret service, met the march
ers. He spoke to Benjamin: "You
cannot see the presidential you can
do is present whatever petition you
have"
Benjamin refused here, as In the
capitol, to deal with the police. He
declared that if they were barred
from the white house by force, they
would go to Lafayette Park, nearby,
and make known the attitude of
Hoover to the masses and the rep
resentatives of the job1ess.
While this was going on, Hoover
was feasting Mark Requa. his old
associate in the days Of the Hoover
food administration, when between
them they helped starve millions to
win a capitalist war, and undoubt-
edly making plans for tn enext war.
Requa is mining engineer, hooked
up with both the copper and petro-
leum trust, and adviser of Hoover
when the man who is now president
ran mines with forced labor given
him by the empress of China. and
the Gar of Russia.
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might see in the Chinese debacle
her chance to recoup. And France,
already in possession of territory
torn from South China, would not
be averse to acquiring little
more"
Sees huge exploitation of China
After peddling the bunk that Am
srican Imperialism which has ground
Haiti, the Philippines and other col
onial countries under its iron heel
would be too alutruistic to "join in
pcking PROSTATE China'S bones, "
Simms says:
TRADE experts in this country
and Europe recognize in China the
worlds greatest market opportunity.
With upward of 45O,O00,OO0 popula-,
lion, her requirements will be end
less as soon as improved living
standards permit her people to buy
something besides the barest neces-
sites"
The imperialists continue their sec
ret conferences in Paris, striving to
subordinate their conflicts of inter-
ests to the main task Of crushing the
Chinese Revolution and war on the
Soviet Union. The Paris secret con-
ferences are being supplemented with
secret talks between the French pup
pet ssates on the western border of
the &lyiet Union. A dispatch to the
New York Times from Tarnisiora re-
ports o. secret conference in that city
hetwnsn King Carol Of Rumania, and
Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen,
former Hungarian Premier, and the
French and Italian ministers to
RunlanIa.
The war in Manchuria is proceed
ing, with the Chinese workers and
peasants rallying in increasing num-
bers to the fight against the Japanese
invaders and the Kuomintang be-
trayers of China. Figuring broke out
yesterday in the vicinity of Kung-
taipu, southwest OF Mukden, and at
Tieningtai, near Hsinintun, between
Japanese and Chinese workers, pea
ants and soldiers. Japanese airplanes
were used to bomb the Chinese of
whom 300 are reported killed.
A Japanese force attacking the
walled city Of Changtu was repulsed
by a force Of 5000 Chinese workers
and soldiers. A Japanese detach-
ment is marching on the village of
Tsailopu, between Sinmin and Chiu-
nuho. The village is held by Chinese
irregulars, made UP of peasants and
disbanded soldiers.
Marking Troops Attack Workers
and Students
Fighting between Marking troops
and Chinese workers and students
occurred yesterday in Marking. fol-
lowing an attempt by the Marking
government to suppress the anti
imperialist, anti-Nanking demonstra-
Mons of workers and students in
that city. The students beat up the
secretary of the National Central
university, and wrecked the offices of
the university. DR.. Chu Chia-hua,
president of the university has been
forced to resign.
Marking government officials in
duced the students to disband with
q fake promise that the government
intended to resist the Japanese seiz-
ure of Manchrria. As soon as the
Students disbanded. the police began
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08
MASS FIGHT AGAINST INIPERIALISTS
SPREADS ALL OVER CHINA

making wholesale arrests of workers
and students. Martial law was de-
clared in Marking by the Marking
government which announced that it
has discovered evidence that the
student invasion of the capital had
ben inspired by Communists"
Chinese Paper Scores League,
Praises Soviet Union
In the meantime, mass resentment
is flaming up throughout China, and
even the Chinese bourgeois press is
being forced to take a more militant
stand against the imperiaist moves
for the partition of China. The
Chinese newspaper, "Tungpac" de-
clares:
Recent events have completely
exposed the League of Nations as
far as China is concerned. 1t is
becoming more and more clear to
the Chinese people who are their
friends and who their foes. Japan
csc Imperialism is spreading I'M
truthful reports concerning an al
legged interference on the part of
the Soviet Union, in order to cover
MP its own tracks. The fact Is,
however, we can observe the troops
of almost all the powers in the
world on our soil, only not the
troops Of the Sviet Union"
In Japan, police raiGed q meeting
OF the League against imperialism in
the suburb Of Suginaimasi and ar
rested 20 persons. The police report
declares that this organization aims
at wrestling the Japanese colonies
away from Japan. All the arrested
are reported TO be members of hte
Toxic organization and to have plan
ned to undertake joint action against
the Manchurian operations together
with other revolutionary organiza-
lions.
Woo Yu-tsin, the leader of the Press
Department of the Central Commit
tee of the Chinese Communist Party,
who was arrested a short time ago,
has been murdered by the Marking
authorities.
Chinchow Attack Held Up BY Fear
OF Revolutionary Movement
The imperialists continue their
ma f1piivere a,,H eeorot ,,.ao+i..~s s..s-
the question of the so-called neutral
Chinchow zone. Pending the out
come Of these manouvers, the jap
arese are reported to have held up
their proposed attack on Chinchow
Back of these manouvers and the
Japanese insistence on their right to
invade the Chinchow zone is the
spector of the growing revolutionary
movement in China.
The imperialists openly express the
fear that Japanese success in driving
the Chinese troops of the Chinchow
zone would result in the further
spread of the revolutionary movement
in China, and might even throw the
dislodged troops into the arms of the
Chinese Revolution.
In t. meantime. the Japanese
have apparently agreed to mark time
in the expectation that the Marking
authorities will be able to give fur
Their aid to the plans of the inn
perialists for the division of China.
A Toxic dispatch to the New York
Times indicates that the Japanese
may help the Marking authorities by
creating situation which would per-
nit them to further betray the
Chinese masses under the excuse Of |
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-08

District Number z, the
Michigan district, announces
that the Daily Worker Com
mittee of that district has
called q, conference Of all
working class organizations
to discuss the campaign for
5000 Daily Worker 12-month
subscriptions. This confer
ence will be held next We'd
nesday evening, Dec. 9, al
1880 p. M, at Ferry Hall,
1343 E. Ferry Ave.. Detroit.
What About Other Districts?
The Detroit district is so
far the only district that has
sent i'll detailed, satisfactory
reports on the plans and pro-
gress in the Daily Worker
subscription drive. But we
must hear plans from ALL
districts. We must hear
from all districts so that we
can unity the drive all over
the country, conduct social
list competitions for filling
quotas, exchange methods,
and let the workers know
that they are not isolated in
the drive for subscriptions
but are in a vast workers
army.
What About Other Districts?
What about the readers
conferences in other dis
tricts? What about the quo
tas for each unit, section
nd mass organization?
What about plans for issuing
Daily Worker leaflets ex-
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Daily Worker Subscription
DriVe Conference to Be
Held in Detroit on Dec. 9

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Importance of the Daily
Worker? What about spread
ing the movement for the
Friends of the Daily Worker
Groups? What work has
been done on organizing
neighborhood squads an d
house to house canvassing?
Are you advertising the
premiums offered with sub
scriptions?
Friends of the Daily Worker
Again we repeat, what
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ment for Friends of the Daily
Worker Groups? TIL csc
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spreading the influence of
the Daily Worker and in
helping in the subscription
drives. They are informal.
Members can meet in work
ers' homes. No dues need be
paid. News items in the
Daily Worker can be dis
cussed. We have worked out
a program for a first meet
ing of a group which we will
send you if you ask for it.
Workers correspondence can
be organized. Entertain
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then. And regular carrier
routes for the Daily Worker
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bers. These carrier routes
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SURROUNDED BY WOLVES

The Dawson Weekly News re- ports the following interesting, if not dangerous experience of Ed Holbrook, of the Holbrook Dred- ing Company, who, while mushing with his dog team on one of the high and barren hills lying be- tween Dawson and Miller creek, was met and surrounded by a pack of wolves, who dogged his every step for about a mile and a half, at times coming within 30 feet of the driver and his dogs. Holbrook says that hunger could not have been the reason for the wolves following him be- cause caribou could be seen only a short distance from the trail
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MUST REDUCE COSTS

Arthur I. Ellsworth of the Far west Fisheries, Inc, states in the Pacific Fisherman, that prepara- tions are going forward in a nor nal way to run the plant at An chorage, which is in line for a good percentage of high-grade fish; but he is convinced that costs of production will have to be reduced to a lower basis than for some years past. The only important points at which such a reduction can be effected, he says, are in labor and the cost of fish; and he believes it will be possible to adjust these items on fair basis.
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FUR TAKE SMALL

The fur take in Southeast AL aska this season has been one or the lightest in many years' ac- cording to Frank DuFresne, Ter ritorial game warden, who return ed to Juneau recently after an official trip covering the larger part of the district. Low prices for all species, which discouraged the trappers, rather than any ao- normal shortage of the furbear- CTS are said to be the prime fac- tors in the small take says the Juneau Empire.
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JAPAN'S WOMEN RUN
 MINES, RAILROADS

WASHINGTON, Mar, 6, (P}- JapaneSeS women are emerging from the fan and cherry blos som tradition into the field of industry and are helping run mines and railroads.
 The department of labor says that of 4,774,047 persons employ ed in Japan at the end of last June 1,534,314 were women. Less than one-half of them are em- employed in factories. About one tenth are engaged in transpor- tation and communication. About One-fifth work in mines.
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LAST PREHISTORIC BEASTS WERE SEEN BY
 EARLY AMERICANS

PASADENA, Calif., Mary 6, (4) Perhaps prehistoric bea sts roamed the Rockies not so long ago.
 Their skeletons, found in Gip- sum cave, Nevada, along with evidences of human beings who were their contemporaries, have revealed this possibility.
 Either these early America men lived a long time ago, says Dr. Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology, or else the animals did not die out in such remote antiquity as gen. erally believed.
 The Gipsum cave deposits, Dr. Stock says, may answer this question. With the skeletons are dried fragments of cacti, and com. parison of these remains with the known history of plant evo- lution may provide a clue to the time when the cacti grew
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MILD WINTER HELPS

The mild winter prevalent this winter in Southeastern Alaska has been highly beneficial to deer in the entire district, MT. Frank Du- Fresno, Territorial game warden said in the Juneau Empire. These animals, normally forced down to the beaches at this season. are we'll back in the hills, where scant snow cover has left abun- dant feed for them.
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SEA MORE: IMPORTANT
 AS GROWTH INCREASES

LA JOLLA, Calif., Mar, 6, H The sea becomes more impor- tant as population increases and the demand for food and other natural products becomes more exacting, says Prof. w. E. Allen of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
 The assistance of experts in handling marine products, he adds, is going to be needed to furnish the margin of safety in estimating marine productivity and the trend of good or bad in- fluences on marine life."
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TRAPS A HOWL"

A few coytes have been bowling about Homer lately reports the Seldovia Herald, but one howl at least has been silenced. John Doo- dash, the we'll known Seldovia trapper, trapped a howl and along with it an oversize coyote, the first of it's kind ever taken at Homer. The animal was of such dimensions that some believe it was crossed with a wolf. Rabbits are beginning to reappear in that section and doubtless the mar auders are on their trail.
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Japan is becoming more and moro popular with winter travellers. and nne new steamers are constantly being built to accommodate them. One of the latest additions to the trans Pacific fleet is the new 26.000-ton Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan the largest and fastest vessel on the Pacific. which makes the run from Vancouver. via Honolulu. to Yokohama. in 14 days. thence pro- ceeding to Kobe. Nagasaki and other Oriental ports. The Empress of Japan holds the blue ribbon of tho Pacific. recently wrested from her running mate. the Empress of Canada, for the fastest rc4;,g time from Yokohama to VaE:Il.t,.
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CHICAGO |s DRY TOWN
 REVEALS STATISTICS

CHICAGO, Mar, 6, F-Con- sumption of illegal beer in Chicago amounts to 25.Oo0,OOO pints week. ly and money available to Al Ca pone's syndicate for protection is S2,OOO,OO0 per week, according to figures made public by Colonel R. Randolph, president of the Chlca- 20 Chamber of Commerce.
 And that's prohibition"
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narrowed threats. By this means,

narrowed threats. By this means. nothing larger than healthy sardine ever goes down the birds throat. The fishermen go out in light boats. each manned by a team of two men. One handles the boat while the other looks after the diving birds. A cormorant tender handles up to dozen birds by strings attached to the birds necks. precisely as marionette artist works hls puppets. Cormorant fishing is usually done at night. but as the fish dislike moonlight, dark nights are chosen. and the fishermen work oy torchlight. The exact date of the origin of this style of fishing IS un- known. put 1t is believed to have ex- isted . thousand years ago.
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NEW PARIS DRESSES
 LOOK LIKE COATS

PARIS, Mar, 6, P)-Snart Europeans are wearing dresses ike coat%a vogue which pro- nises to continue this spring.
 The new models cross in front n double breasted fashion, are fitted at the waist and may be worn with or without belt.
 Dark colors in soft wools or heavy silks are the most popular shades
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 Fishermen in various lands use all s0rts of methods in their trade. but probably the most original and inter- ss.,ne h that of the fresh water hshsrfnlk of Japan. the Land of the 1istne Bun. These enterprising peo- pie @m.,,.cy trained cormorants-queer long necIed black birds capable Of diving to great depths-%and they see .s.ar their teathered fishers are con- r::.-tly bungry so that they will show r-~,pe- zea! :n seeking their prey To prevent the birds from swallowing the ash. their necks are bound by rings. rc that only the smallest specimens c.c pass through their artincially-