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The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Washington Pastor
Named Baptist Head

The Rev. w. H. Jernagin, pastor
of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church,
Third and I Streets Northwest,
has been reelected president of
the National Baptist Sunday
School and Young Peoples Con-
gress, which just closed it's annual
session at Huntington. w. Va.
Approximately 5000 delegates
representing 10000 churches with
a membership of nearly 5000, 900
attended the convention. Among
features of the session was an ad-
dress by w. G. Conley, governor
of the State of West Virginia.
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
USE OF CANE SUGAR IN CANNING
IS NATIONWIDE

Refined cane sugar has long
been the standard of home Gamers
everywhere. 1t insures ideal re-
suits in jellies, preserves, relishes
and all kinds of canned products.
Take advantage of the low price
Of sugar, also the bargains in
fruits and vegetables as they ap-
pear in your market and put up
generous supply for winter use.
These delicious homemade prod
ucts will add healthful variety to
your meals. Canned fruits are
always appropriate for breakfasts
and are complete desserts in them
The Washington times., 1931-07-02
Royal Mail Holders
Extend Moratorium

Shareholders of the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Co. and the
White Star Line have accepted
another six-monthS' moratorium.
The two companies are at
present undergoing financial re-
construction. Lord Kylsant. the
former head, is being tried for
fraud in connection with his
handling the company's affairs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Couple, Unemployed.
Wouldn't Beg: Near
Death from Hunger

M1DDLETOwN, N. Y, Dec. u.s.
On Christmas Eve. here young
couple, living in an abandoned sum-
mer house were found starving. They
had no food for three days. The %
year old wife was so weak from hun
ger she could hardly walk.
The two, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilfred Wild
of New York, has come here hunting
work, after being unemployed for
months. They found no work, were
too proud to beg, and had become re-
signed to merely starving to death.
They were nearly there.
This pair, like others, had not re-
allied that there was another alter
native to begging, namely to organize
with their fellow jobless and demand
relief from capitalism that has fat
tered on their labor when 1t did have
work for them. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
ANY s1.5O OR 81 INTERNATIONAL
PUBLISHERS BOOK WITH ONE
I2-MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO
THE DAILY WORKER
Binkley in Va. Jail
Says Fight Against
Hunger Spreading

NEW YORK. I'VE will fight
against this new offensive Of the
Southern bosses against the work.
ers by increasing our activities
said w. G. Binkley, organizer for
the Communist Party in Danville.
Va, now in jail on q framed
charge of vagrancy and possession
of Communist literature. Binkley
said that his arrest is part of the
campaign of the Southern bosses
along with the Hoover government,
to push through their hunger
program.
There is no criminal syndicalist
law in Virginia, but the state
authorities are turning over the
literature to the Federal authorities
whom they rely on to work out
some new frame-up.
Binkley said that the Connlun-
list Party in Virginia would run q
full ticket IN the forthcoming elec-
lions, rallying thousands Of work.
ers behind a revolutionary strug-
gle against capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
League Admits 1OO,OOO,OOO
Starve, But None in Russia

the American Federation Of Labor
reported only 100000 unemployed,
instead Of the actual 100000. The
ALL. reported to far-off Geneva a
million less than 1t admits In Amer
lea, where Green and his henchmen
say there are 100000.
Government figures, rather nearer
than the A.FL. ever comes, show
there are 5,35o,000 jobless in Ger
many, which is second on the misery
list. The total, also from govern
ment figures and undoubtedly way
below actual fact, for England Is D.
$4,000.
France, last to feel the effects of
the crises now reports, through the
right wing, ultra conservative Gen.
eral Confederation of Labor, 1900 900
unemployed. Little Italy, with tiny
industry. has 100000 as reported by
the fascists, who hardly know the
meaning of the word truth" and
whose interest 1t Is to conceal the
ravages Of the crisis In their domain.
Poland, Austria, Czechoslovak.a and
Hungary report . quarter Of . mil
Lion each. ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. U.s.
On Christmas Eve, the International
Labor Office Of the League Of Ma
tons announced that throughout the
world there were more than 1000 00,-
600 unemployed workers and MEM
bers OF their families facing or en-
dur g starvation and misery.
The same body annouced at the
same time that Of all nations, the
United States has the greatest num-
Der of these starving unemployed
starving workers, and that there were
none In the Soviet Union.
The figures we're based on the re-
ports to the International Labor Of
flee by the reactionary labor bureau
cracy in each capitalist country or
by capitalist governments which show
25,000,0oo jobless throughout the
world. 1t is then considered there
are an average Of four persons in
each unemployed family, and the
grand total Of 1o0,0Oo,oO0 is arrived
at.
How far below the actual mark
these figures arr, is shown by the
statAmant that In the United States,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
u. S. Senator Advises
to Stop. Look, Starve

Senator Royal S. Copeland from
New York, speaking at the annual
christmas Party" OF the National
Democratic Club at Times Square
yesterday, warned his audience
against experimenting with radical
legislation" Instead of the workers
struggling for unemployment insur-
ance the Senator suggests both the
country and city man must join
hands together" Senator Copeland
failed to add: ''While the bosses
plumber and murder them"
The Senator admitted Distress Is
everywhere but was annoyed be-
cause 'even tho 1t is Christmas, the
most precious of our holy days, we
hear little else than complaints on
hard times" What terrible heathens
those In distress arel They have the
least respect for the hottest Of days.
Instead of complaints" and slump
cures" for the crisis, Senator Cope
land advises: "Clear thinking" For
relief he wants: "Sane and trust
worthy legislation" Workers ask for
bread. Senator Copeland filings them
empty words.
On the same platform with Sem
ator Copeland was the Police Dep
artment Band and Glee Club which
rendered Christmas carols.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
; Big N. J. BANKS
CRASH; JOBLESS
LOSE LAST CENT
Millions Hit By Wave
Of Bank Failures

ASBURY, PARK, N. j., Dec. u.s.
Three large banks crashed here yes
terday, bringing the total bank fail
ures up to seven within two days.
The banks to go to the wall yester-
day were the Asbury Park and Ocean
Grove Bank, with deposits Of $685.
oS9; the Ocean Grove National Bank,
with deposits OF $1,975,649, and the
First National Bank OF Bradley Beach
with deposits Of s941, 500.
There has recently been a new
wave of bank failures all over the
United States. Big Banks III Boston,
Chicago, and other important cities
have been hit The amount lost In
bank failures Is now over $4,000, 000,-
900 and millions Of workers and I'M
employed have seen their last hard
earned pennies torn from their grasp
by the collapse Of over 1000 banks.
The possibility Of "self reliance u
which the hypocritcal propagandists
Of the bosses talk so much about as
an argument against unemployment
insurance, is being wiped away with
each new bank failure.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
KY. BOSSES
TRY TO STIR
UP SHOOTING
Hold Mass Meeting of
Miners to Aid
Strike Move
Stool Pigeons Active
Relief Is Immediate
Need for Jan. l Strike

PINEVILLE, KY, Dec. "a. - Gun
play was narrowly averted at Carey
where Superintendent Perry previous
ly in an attempt to break up sched-
uled meeting, offered the miners
whiskey to heckle the meeting and
bought the kids fire crackers.
Last night the mass meeting was
held. Perry and other bosses and
their ladies were present. Claude
Wilson known to be company stool
pigeon, drunk to the gills. with a re-
volver in his pocket, menaced Joe
Weber while speaking. Amid mani
fest disapproval, miners wife drag
ged him away, Perry patting his arm
in approval. He came back and
talked with Perry who was former
West Virginia gun thug and then
shouted: you're reds, there will be
no strike January LIST"
One old miner made after him.
Weber continued speaking, exposing
the attempts to intimidate the min
ers and brighten the National Miners
Union from the field and said that
the N M. U. is here to stay just SO
long as the conditions which brought
it here continue and the miners are
flocking into it and want it here, and
let the operators, the superintendent
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
DELEGATES
REPORT ON
U.S.S.R. SUN.
Pledges to Rally U. S.
Workers for Defense
of Soviet Union
To Tell of 5-Year PIar
All Workers Should
Hear Report

Before leaving Moscow, after an
extended tour, the American workers
delegation pledged to the Interna-
tional Committee of the Friends of
the Soviet Union and the representa-
tives of the Russian trade unions that
they would help build mass organ
ization of the F.SU. upon their re-
turn, of at least 10000 members by
the first of May, in order to have a
real basis for the election of the 80
delegates, for May delegation, and
to have a fighting organization ade-
quate to expose the lies of the CAPT
talist press.
The capitalist press announced the
arrival of Prince Theodore, nephew of
the Gar, on the same steamer as the
delegation. This is probably the we'll
dressed gentleman, accompanied by
his painted consort who, while the
delegates were posing for picture
on the pier. offered to pay the ex-
penses of the delegation if they want
ed to return to the Soviet Union
When the delegates expressed their
unanimous desire to return after they
had reported upon conditions in the
Soviet Union and carried out their
part Of their pledge-he fled.
The delegates will report in full at
meeting arranged for them this
Sunday, December 81, at 2 pm. at
the New Star Casino, 107th ST., near
Park Ave. The meeting is under the
auspices of the Friends of the Soviet
Union.
They are also going on National
Tour which will include Kentucky
and the West Coast, and the South,
to hear the report of these American
worker delegates, Negro and white.
Various workers organizations
have sent their greetings to the re-
turned delegates. The following greet
ings were received from the Interna-
tional Workers Order:
"The New York City Committee
of the International Workers Order
greets the returning American
Workers Delegation. We call upon
all of our members and workers of
New York City to welcome the
delegates and hear the report of
the coal miners, steel and marine
workers who witnessed the No
vember IA celebration on the Red
Square Of Moscow. Delegates come
from all parts of the country, San
Francisco, Youngstown, West vir-
ginia mines and New York, etc"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

The State Hunger March Commit
tees and the Unemployed Councils
have answered Rolpf. pointing out
that there was nothing tentative
about the arrangement, that the
Cancellation" is rejected by the hun
dreds of thousands of hungry I'M
employed workers in California, and
announcing that the California State
Hunger March will proceed to San
Francisco Jan. IL, where they will
demand that Rolph appear, and
where they will hold state con-
vention TO make further plans for
struggle. The State Hunger March
will then go on to Sacramento, the
state capital, and place its demands
on January 10.
The telegram to Rolph reads as
follows:
+" our telegram dated December g
received and given most careful con-
sideration In g full meeting of our
committee we have thus far met
every objection you made to the ar
rangements for the conference. Our
joint arrangements we're not tenta-
tive as you now say but clearly made
as final both In a personal meeting
between yourself and our representa-
tives and in q letter over your own
signature. Failing to defeat the con-
ference by technical evasion, you nov
announce your proposal to conceal
it. BY unanimous vote of our COM
nlittee In consultation with local
committees throughout the state and
in the name Of hundreds of thou
sands OF unemployed workers in Cal
ifornia definitely reject your can
collation.. The workers and farmers
of California will understand that
your decision is dictated by big bust
ness interests who fear our demand
for unemployment relief and unen-
ployment insurance at the expense
Of profits.
~The Hunger Marchers will arrive
January IL in San Francisco for q
hearing on the demands submitted
by our committee as per arrangement;
agreed upon by yourself to relieve
the Unreasonable sufferings nov
prevalent throughout the State. We
demand that you meet the State
Hunger Marchers' delegation, fol-
your refusal to do so, you will be
held strictly to account by the people
Of California"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

illusions l can be freed by any
other means than through the
mass pressure of the working
class.
Let it be well understood.
The bankers and industrialists are in
a quandary. They fear the workers
will rise en- masse and demand my
pardon. That is why Governor Rolph
states it will take four months to
study the record
Plan to Fool Workers.
The plan is to fool the workers,
during the worst part of the winter
months, into believing that shall be
freed. With millions unemployed and
starving the next few months appear
critical to the plutocrats who rule
this country. They do not want any
disorders" that will result from
mass demonstrations this winter.
They want to wait until spring be-
fore giving a decision; probably be-
lieving that in a few months condi-
tons will improve. They want to sep
arate my case from the struggles OF
the workers this winter. And. of
course, in four months another ex-
cuse will be found not to give clear
answer to the demands of the work.
ers for my pardon
RoIph's Corporation Adviser
Discussing some OF the probable
tactics of Rolph, Tom continued:
The workers must understand that
the advisers appointed by the gov
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIyEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Donegian Being Held
for Deportation Is
Beaten in E. Boston
Special to the Daily Worker

NSpeclat 10 tne DaiIy hOFker1
BOSTON, Dec. "a. A stool
pigeon, posing as a deportee at
East Boston immigration detention
home, beat the political prisoner
Donegian who was held to the
floor by guards. Donegan had
taken active part in the recent
Lawrence strike.
All the political prisoners who
are being held for deportation
there rallied to the support Of Do
negian and gave the stool-pigeon
terrible beating A riot call
brought the police.
The political prisoners we're
threatened with solitary confine-
ment. No visitors are admitted to
them. A sailor with seriously
injured kneecap is being refused
medical aid The International
Labor Defense has acted at once
to protect the rights of the poll
tical prisoners and to procure me-
dical aid,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
DEMAND CUT IN
PRICE OF BREAD
Brooklyn Workers Are
Organizing

NEW YORK.-To force down the
price OF bread in Brooklyn where the
boss bakers are reaping profits by
gouging the workers, a conference
has been arranged in the Brighton
Beach section OF Brooklyn for Sum
day, Dec. 81. pm, at lao Neptune
Avenue.
Plans will be drawn up to fight
for lower bread prices. On Monday
December % mass meeting will be
held at 1904 Ocean Parkway to or
ganize all the workers in the neigh
borhood against the robbery of the
baking bosses. All workers are in
vited to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
SOCCER TEAMS
TO CLASH AT
DYCkMAN SUN.
Labor Sports Union
Arranges Three
Games

NEW YORK.-The Metropolitan
Workers Soccer League, affiliated to
the Labor Sports Union, again proves
its colors as workers sports organ
ization by arranging soccer carni-
val for Sunday, December 81.
The proceeds of the game will be
turned over to the Young Worker,
which is soreiy in need Of funds. Ev-
eryone should be at Dyckman Oval
on Sunday where besides witnessing
some first class soccer teams in ac-
ton, they will contribute their share
towards establishing the Young
Worker as regular weekly publica-
ton.
There will be three games. The first
game starts at II in the morning with
the Prospect Workers Club engaging
the Red Sparks A. G. This game
should be exciting all the way because
both teams are well UP In the "C'' di-
vision of the league.
One O'Clock will bring the Sparta
Gus and Italian American together.
The Italian Americans have an ex-
cellent opportunity of ousting the
Spartacus from their second place
berth in the "a" division
In the night Neckwear A. g. and
Tico A. c. will come to grips in an
other fast and exciting game. Both
teams are evenly matched with Tico
having had more experience in league
competition.
All three games are regular league
games so that good soccer fare may be
anticipated. Admission is IS cents. d.
rections; Take the IR.T. Broadway
Seventh Ave. subway to Dyckman st.
Station. Walk two blocks north to the
field.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
U. S. Employment Service
Admits No New Jobs in Nov.

Conditions In the Iron and Steel
industry generally remain unsatisfac-
tory" says the report mildly, in des-
cription Of month of disaster, In
which steel production dropped from
80 percent Of capacity Nov. I, to Is
per cent. at the end of the month.
Part time schedules are reported
in many Of the textile mills" says
the report, and activities in the boot
and shos industzs aoezsased Some
what
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Jobless to March on
Sacramento, Jan. Is
Reject Governor Rolph's Cancellation of His
Promise to See Them In San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec Is. The Cal
ifornia State Hunger Harch to demand i'm
mediate relief for the jobless and unemploy-
ment insurance and to prepare for the National
Unemployment Day demonstrations, Feb. 4, is
going through Governor Roph who had previously granted
the demands of the State Hunger March Arrangements Com
ee that he receive the delegates in San Francisco
H. just sent telegram canceng everything and claim
ing that his previous promise "ony tentative"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

WASHINGTON. D. c., Dec. 25.--
The monthly survey of Employment
Service OF the U. S. Department of
Labor issued yesterday, dsres not
claim any improvement in the stu
alton. 1t conceals the increase in un-
employment during November, but
admits, "there was no improvement
over the low level OF the preceding
months" and further admits, "A large
percentage OF the workers employed
ers On o part time bassV
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Daily Worker Readers
Meet In Passaic Mon.

PASSAIC, N. IA conference Of
all the Daily Worker readers of Pas
sale and vicinity will be held De-
cember %, at 203 Monroe St, at
pm. Plans will be laid out to draw
in the readers of the Daily Worker
behind the present subscription drive
All readers Of the Daily Worker are
invited to attend this important con-
ference to help build the Daily
Worker to reach the quota Of 5000
new subscribers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Seattle Police Burn
Shacks of Unemployed

SEATTLE, Wash, Dec. 25.-Police
have burned two colonies of shacks
on city property, part of the old Skin
ner g. Eddy shipyards site, where
total OF about 100 unemployed men
meant to spend the winter.
In the first raid those turned out
to freeze we're given nothing what
ever in the way Of recompense. Such
a storm Of criticism was raised over
this, that when the second colony was
burned out q few days ago. tickets
allowing few nights in the city flop
house and few cheap meals we're dis
tributed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
CORRECTION CHICAGO BANK
STORY

A report on Chicago bank failures
published in the Daily Worker a few
days ago said that Oscar Nelson.
state auditor connected with closing
the banks, was an A. F. of l.. leader
This is incorrect.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Japanese Peasants Demand
Withdrawal from Manchuria

Secretary of State Smson continued yesterday to exert
diplomatic the Japanese to discourage the jap
threat against Wall Streets hegemony in Kuomntang
China and to keep Japan within the agreement the spear
head in the armed attack the Soviet Union The plot to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26
Says Bankers Hope to
Quiet Mass Demand
for His Freedom
Mooney Gives Interview to Daily Worker Cor
respondent; Bankers Fear Anger of Masses
Especial Interview to the Daily Worker)

SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Calf, Dec. 25.-"Agitation
protests demonstrations by the workers the world
that my only hope So declared Tom Mooney exclu-
ve statement to the correspondent of the Daily Worker The
latest action of Governor Roph should destroy forever
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

aSSasslnate the Japanese AM
bassador in Moscow was no
doubt a part of this diplomatic
pressure" whether the United
States was directly responsible
or not.
"A memorandum" presented to the
lCANTINIIEn ON PACE EIYEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

Roll up thousands Of Daily Worker
subs in the fight against wage cuts
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

Rsl Bsildsr& hsls sss ssbscsiptasas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

GATHER WITH YOUR SHOPMATES IN
FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORK
Err" GROUPS.
READ, DISCUSS, GET SUBS FOR THE
DAILY WORKER"
ENTER SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN
DRIVE FOR 5000 DAILY WORKER
SUBS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

president Hoover I know very well. One day at
the Department of Commerce, had an intimate talk with
him. The subject of Russia came up
Hoover said TO tell the truth Marsh, the ambition
of my life is to crush out the Soviet Russia.
st said Even if you starve the women and children!
Hoover said Yes '-From statement by Ben
ain c. Marsh secretary of the Peoples Lobby in Wash
ingon Published in San Francisco Daily News Aug 10,
1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-26

CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-29
FIGHT IS PRESSED
FOR HALF HOLIDAY
U. S. Employees Seek Reversal
of Budget Bureau Order
on Deficit.

The National Federation Of Federal
Employees is enceavoring to obtain a re-
versal BY the 5udget Bureau of its order
against any branch of the Federal serv-
ice mourning a deficit In order to put
into operation the Saturday half holi-
day for Government employees autho-
rized by act Of Congress.
Field employees have notified head
quarters here that they are appealing
direct to their Senators and members Of
Congress many of whom have promised
to cooperate in the effort to put the
half-holiday law In effect Luther C.
Steward, president Of the federation, is
hurrying back to Washington from Cali
fornia to take charge of the situation
and Is expected to reach here tomorrow.
In the meantime Miss Gertrude Nc
Nally, Secretary-treasurer Of the fed
GRAFTON, has made a formal appeal on
behalf Of the organized Government
workers to Col. j. Clawson Roop, di-
rector of the Budget Bureau.
Certain large units Of the Govern
ment workshop have formally request
ed authority to incur a deficit, so that
they could grant Saturday half -holi-
days noticeably the Secretary Of War.
It was the Budget Bureaus reply to
the Secretary of Wars request that has
caused the employees federation to
make its appeal to the Budget Bureau.