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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Hold New JERSEY
Election Meetings
Open Air Gathering in
Many Cities

NEWARK, N. j., May 5. The
following open air mass meetings
viii be held in the election campaigns
now going on in this state:
Wednesday, May 9th, in Elizabeth at
Singer Sewing Machine Co., at IL
noon.
Thursday, May 7th, in Elizabeth at
7:3o p. m. at corner Magnolia Ave,
and E. Jersey st.
Thursday. May It'll, in New Bruins
wick, 1880 p. m. at corner French
and New.
Friday, May Sth, in Jersey City, at
7:30 p. M, at corner Newark and
Jersey
Friday May 9th, in Newark
Unit Monroe and Downing st.
at 7;30 p. N.
Unit 2-Montgomery and Broome
St., at 7:3o p. m.
Unit and 5--Wsverly Ave. and
Hillside Pl., 1880 p. m.
Saturday, May 9th, in Newark, al
pm. at corner Boston and Hamp-
den st.
Saturday, May 9th, in New Bruins
wick, at p. m. at corner French
and New st.
Saturday, May 9Th, in Perth Amboy,
7:30 p. m. at corner Smith and
Elm st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Collections Sat. and
Sunday For Defense
Smash Scottsboro and
Paterson F'rame-Up

NEW YORK.-Thousand of dol
lars will be necessary to defeat the
conspiracy of the capitalist class Of
the North and South-with the mil
lions they have at their disposal
to send nine Negro and five white
workers to the electric chair. In an
effort to raise part of these defense
funds the New York District of the
international Labor Defense has de-
cided to hold statewide house-to-
house collections this Saturday and
Sunday, May 9 and TO-
Only two months remain till July
10, the date when eight of the nine
Negro boys in Scottsboro are sched-
uled to burn in the electric chair
on the brazenly trurnped up charge
of rape. While the five Paterson,
N. j., textile workers who have been
framed on first degree murder
charges have not yet come to trial,
ii is certain that the boss courts will
try to emulate their colleagues of
the South in putting through a
quick trial and conviction unless the
workers build up around them
defensive wall that will defeat the
efforts Of the Paterson silk bosses
to send them to the grave. Sue
cessful house toulouse collections on
Saturday and Sunday will 60 long
way toward smashing both these in
famous frameupS. Volunteer collect
ors are asked oreport to the New
York district office of the lid, 799
Broadway, room 4l0.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
INTEREST GROWS
in MAY 10 DEBATE
Foster to Debate
Music

NEW YORK. - The debate be-
tween VIM. 2. Foster and A. j. Music
scheduled to take place in the New
Star Casino, 107th st. and Park Ave,
Sunday, May 10th, at 2 p. m, will
serve to bring out clearly and def
nitely the fundamental differences
that exist between the revolutionary
trade union policy and tactics of the
Trade Union Unity League and the
Trade Union policy of the Conference
for Progressive Labor Action. There
are no individuals better qualified to
present these fundamental difference
es than the leaders of both these
movement-Fester and Music.
Confusion exists within the ranks
of the workers and it is necessary
that this be cleared up. 1t is no ac-
cident that the Music group. the I.
W. w, the Lovestone Group, found
common platform on May Day.
They are against the policy and tao
tics of the r. U. U. L. Howat, Hap
good, Deak, express the Music policy
in the mining industry as against
the National Miners Union which ex-
presses the r. U. U. L. policy in min
ing-as in mining so in ali industries,
The debate will not only make clear
the differences in policy and tactics
between the Music group and the
T. U. U. L. within the A. r. of l..
unions, but also towards the unor-
gained, the unemployed. and especi-
ally the Negro workers; that the
scope Of the debate be not only ma
tioaal, but that international rela-
tons and policy be brought out clear
".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
WORKERS SCHOOL
COURSES READY
Give Correspondence
instruction

The Workers School, the central
school of the Communist Party, be-
sides conducting the Summer Term
this year, has also decided to offer
correspondence courses.
In view of the deepening world
crisis of capitalism and the conse-
quent increasing demand for more
cadres in the rising revolutionary
struggle on the one hand. and the in
ability of hundreds and thousands of
workers in various parts OF the coun-
try to attend the Workers School on
the other, the correspondence courses
are of extreme necessity and i'm
portance.
In order to concentrate on its func-
ton Of training for the class struggle
important courses, as the Funda-
mentals of Communism, Political
Economy, and Leninism, with suffi-
Gent material and competent instruc-
tors. are being offered.
The courses are now open for reg
istration which should be made thru
writing to the Workers School, 49,
so E. 18th ST., New York City, N. Y.
Registration cards and detailed in
formation will be furnished upon
writing to the Workers School.
Workers are urged to take advan-
age of these correspondence courses
and popularize them among their
fellow workers. H'-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Trying Railroad Two.
Workers Jailed in
ScOttsbOrO PrOte st

NEW YORK. - Two of the three
workers arrested when police attacked
the Harlem parade Saturday, April
25, that protested against the Scots
boro frame-up were held for general
sessions court when they appeared
Monday in the magistrates court at
ass W. 151st st. The two workers,
Il. Paulus and John Tsernois, are be-
ing charged with felonious assault
though it was the police, acting in
solidarity with the lynch-courts of
the South, that did all the assauiting
and brutally beat up number of
paraders. The workers are being de-
Tended by Allan Taub, attorney for
the New York District of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
The L l.. D. calls on all workers
to help defeat this attempt to victim
jze workers for protesting against the
conspiracy to send nine innocent
young Negro boys to the electric chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

protection for women workers. T. For
equal pay for equal work. 8. Against
'rnchings and determinations of the
Negroes. 9. For equal rights for
Negro workers. 10. Against wage
cuts and for the speed up.
The Communist Party Election
Campaign Committee is preparing q
huge election rally Sunday. May 10,
at p. m. at Workmen Circle In
stitute on New St, at which VIM 2.
Foster, the Communist Party cam
didate for president in the 1923 cleo
tons, John J. Ballam, the Commu-
mist Party candidate for governor
in the present elections in New Jersey
and Richard B. Moore, well known
Negr oorator will be the speakers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
What's On

WEDNESDAY,
Socco-vanzettf Branch lid
General membership meeting At
sa7s Boston Rd. at $50 PM Discus.
sion on Amnesty Drive,
Executive Comm. w.Es.L.
Meets at p. m. at 10 E. 10th St.
Workers Calendar
An Open Air Meeting
Under the auspices Of the Browns
2. m; at Hopkinsen and Pltkln AYES,
Brooklyn,
Open Forum of AmaIgsnated
Members
At p. m. at So e. Tenth ST., second
floor. Is the union putting forth any
demands TO the bosses and vice versa.
What is the attitude OF the Rank
and File Committee of Tailors 70 th1
question OF the. renewal OF this
aagreementy And other questions
taken UP. Free discussion to fol,
low speaker. Open forum will be
held every Monday from now on al
the same time and place.
To All slipper and stitehdown
Workers.
The Shoe and Leather Workers In
dUstrial Union is calling a mass meet
Tor p. m. at Manhattan Lyceum,
90 H. Fourth st. Come in masses.
Printing Workers Ind. League
VIII hold a membership meeting
70 discuss three month plan for in
classification Of activities at 1e w.
2lst ;. All printers are invited
Young blenders No. 2
Newly organized branch. meets at
2. m. at 1853 Reekman Ave, Bklyn
All young workers invited
Plumbers TUUL
Meet at 8 y. m. at is West e1st
St Important matters will be taken
up.
tntt Workers Youth Br. TWO
Meets at $40 p. m. at 1851 Bryant
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Workers Ex-Service I.
Mems League Holds.
Good Open Air Meet

NEW YORK. - The Workers Ex-
Seryicemen's League held an open air
meeting on Pitkin and Hopkinson
Avenue Monday night. Hundred Daily
Workers were sold and many pamph-
lets. They are also having a meet
ing on Wednesday night on Gath st.
and 9th Ave, and again they are
having their regular Harlem meeting
on 125th st. and 5th Ave. on Thurs
day night in conjunction with their
regular indoor meeting at the Pythi-
an Hall on 124th st. and Madison
Ave. All ex-servicemen living within
these vicinities should make it their
duty TO be there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Gastonia Branch. LID
Meets Thurs. to Plan
Work i'm the Shops

NEW YORK-Plans for carrying
the activity of the International La
Dor Defense into the nedle trades
shops of New York City will be
made at a membership meeting OF
the Gastonia Branch of the LID, to
be hald this Thursday. May 7, at 7
p. m. at 131 w. 2Sth st.
The meeting will also discuss the
rallying Of the needle trades work
ers in support of the house-to-house
collections for the defense of the
Scottsboro case that the New York
District of the LID will hold through
out the state this Saturday and Sun
day, May 9 and TO- All members
are urged to be present.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
JAPAN NIGHT AT
FIN HALL FRIDAY
Fight For Rights Of
Japanese Workers

NEW YORK.-On Friday, May 9th
at the Finnish Workers Hall, Is West
126th ST., an affair with an elaborate
program including a japanese play in
English and dance with good music
following after, will be given by the
Japanese workers club for the pur-
pose of raising funds for their CEN
trail Communist organ, Rodo News,
Tickets for the affair are only 35
cents in advance and can be obtained
at Workers School. Book Shop. Fin
niSh Hall, and Concoop.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
Jubilee Celebration
Freiheit Gesangsverein

NEW YORK.-The Freiheit &C.
gang yarein will celebrate its eighth
jubilee with the performance of the
oratorio 1.-TWO Brothers" social
poem Of J. L. Peretz-music by Jacob
schsfer, and an exclusive new pro-
gram of songs on Saturday evening,
May 9, at Carnegie Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
HTPpoDRoME.

Vaudeville-Don AzpIazu d fla
var1a Casino Orchestra, Harry Burns
& Co., Brengk's golden horse, Frank
and Warren Lassiter, Crowell 81 AL.
len, Cliff Crane with Emily Earle
Rassana and Charles Carer.
Screen--Lew Ayres in Iron Man
with Jean Harlow, Robert Armstrong
and Ned Sparks.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
FRANKLIN THEATRE.

Richard Dix, Irene Dunno are at
the Franklin Theatre in Radio Pic
lures "Cimarron," screened from
Edna Ferber's novel On the vaude-
vile stage, remaining for the entire
week are Packer and Hall, Tinova
and Baikoff and Kramer and Boyle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Lillian Harvey and Willy. Fritsch
are co-starred in "Liebeswalger' (The
Love Waltz, Ufa's latest Viennesc
musical operetta and talking picture,
now in it's American premiere at the
Eighth Street Playhouse.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

GIVE YOUR ANSWER TO HOO
VER'S PROGRAM OF HUNGER.
WAGE CUTS AND PERSECUTION
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Fight Iynching. Fight deporta-
ton of foreign born. Elect dele
gates TO your city conference foI
protection of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06

Ethel Norris, coincidence, last seen
in Rain or Shine" viii be in the
cast Of Billy Roses Crazy Quilt, +"
starring Fannie Brice, Phil Baker,
and Ted Heaiy, when that revue
opens at the 44th Street Theatre
Monday night, May IL.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
O'Neill's Trilogy
to Be Produced
By Theatre Guild

The title of Eugene O'Neill's tri-
logy, which The Theatre Guild viii
produce next season, is Mourning
Becomes Electra" The three plays
require the same actors because the
principal characters run through each
OF the plays.
The action Of the trilegy, save for
an act Of the second play, takes place
in New England seaport town al
the close Of the Civil War. An act oil
the second play takes place on 4
clipper ship.
The Theatre Guilds production oil
Bernard Shav's comedy, "Gettins
Married" is now in its last week and
will close Saturday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
U. S. NOT ASKED
TO CONFERENCE
Ogden Mills Can See No
Reason to Attend.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Ogden
Mills, undersecretary of the treas
ury, expressed doubt today that the
United States would accept an in
vitationu to participate in any rep
arations conference this winter.
He said that as far as he knew,
no "feeler" or invitation to attend
the proposed reparations conference
at the Hague next month had been
received.
Asked whether the United States
would accept an invitation to rep
arations conference Mills replied.
mo, I doubt it very much.
Therell be no trips to Europe this
winter"
He said he could see no reason
why this country should be invited
to such a conference.
Mills was questioned Immediately
after he had visited President
Hoover early today at the White
House.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Depression Lowers Cost of
Greeting New Year,
Comparisons Show.
BY SANDOR S. KLEIN
limited Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-New York
will celebrate New Years eve eX-
tensively, but not as extensively as
in past years.
Entertainment, it is estimated,
will cost 20 to 80 1-3 per cent less
than a year ago.
Hotels, night clubs, and theaters
have made the usual announcement
they will be crowded to the doors.
Speakeasies, too, are preparing for
a big rush, and according to some
reports, so are dry agents. Night
clubs will be permitted to operate
until a. m, two hours beyond the
regular curfew.
There is a likelihood, however,
that more people will welcome 1882
at house parties than at any time
in the last decade. The depression
is the reason.
Some landlords are offering va
can't furnished apartments to rent
for New Years parties. One agent
who promises no limitation on noise
is offering seven furnished room at
SIS for the night.
Persons with small means, who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
RICHARD DIX FINED
FOR. TAX DODGING
Evasion of S33,025 in His
Income Returns Charged
to Film Star.

~ LHtAGO f'Fe6S
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2o-Rich-
ard Dix, screen star, Monday was
fined $500 by Federal Judge Paul j.
Mccormick for evading s33,025 in
his income tax returns.
Dix pleaded guilty, explaining he
had hired an expert" to handle his
income tax matters, and had not
knowingly eyaded the tax.
He made out the returns and I
signed them without knowing I was
violating the law he said.
When he learned there was a
deficiency, he Immediately posted a
check for $4,000 with treasury
officials to cover any shortage, Dix
declared.
The shortages occurred in 1926,
1927 and 1923. government officials
charged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
NEW YORK TO GIVE
GAY ADIEU TO 1881

wish to celebrate New Years at a
hotel, can do sore for as low as $40
a couple.
TIE more swanky places are asking
ITO to SIS plate. The Savoy
Plaza, st. Regis, Governor Clinton,
Ambassador, Park Central Plaza and
Pierre are asking $40 a head.
The Central Park Casino, a gath
ering place for the wealthy and
socially prominent, has not dropped
nickel under its $40 price of last
year. Several hotels such as the
rry-Netherland, Park Lane
Ritz Towers and Ritz Carleton, will
have no public parties at all, but
are letting their rooms privately.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
THEFT SUSPECT
IS AMBUSHED
PennSy SWitchman Is Shot
Attempting to Flee.

Ambushed and shot three times
as he is alleged to have attempted
theft of merchandise from a rail-
road car, Beeler Reynolds, 3S, OF
Pip West Morris street, is in a
serious condition today at city hos
pital.
He was shot Monday night by
Lieutenant H. w. Quellhorst, 80
special agent of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
Reynolds, switchman for the
company, is charged with breaking
a freight car seal and vagrancy.
Quellhorst said while he was hid
ing in the car, Reynolds entered
and started removing cartons OF
cigarets and tobacco. Then, he
said, Reynolds fiashlight centerec
on him.
The railroad agent said he or
dered Reynolds to stick 'em up"
You know me-" Reynolds replied
Quellhorst said.
"You bet I do; put up your
hands," Quellhorst said he COM
manded.
Police we're told Reynolds ran to-
ward the door, the bullets striking
him in the legs as he attempted to
jump from the car.
Quellhorst was sealed in the cal
by railroad authorities after a series
of recent railroad thefts. The cal
was en- route to the Hawthorne
yards to be attached to a train fol
Madison.
Quellhorst said Reynolds entered
the car near the Terrace avenue
crossing, and that he believed an
other man was aiding Reynolds fol
he heard footsteps on the top of the
car following the shooting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
JAP ANESE MAY
CRUSH CHINA To
HALT BOYCOTT
Facing Bankruptcy, Nippon
Can Not Stop Half Way,
Observers Declare.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
United Press Financial Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Unless
the United States and the League OF
Nations take a stronger stand in the
Manchurian crisis than hitherto, the
writer is reliably informed, there
is grave danger that Japan win not
stop the war until China is crushed
completely.
The reason for this is the Chinese
boycott. Japan faces bankruptcy II
the Chinese refuse to do business
with her, and that is exactly what
China now is doing. However sue
cessful the japanese army may be
in Manchuria, therefore, the war will
be lost if the Chinese keep up the
boycott.
Military experts here are Of the
opinion, therefore, that Japan viii
have to do one Of two things to save
herself a licking. Either she must
withdraw her forces into her own
tiny railway zone in south Man
churia and make amends for what
she has done, or deal China such a
blow that the Chinese will have to
sign on the dotted line.
Boycott's Effect Visible
Nippon can not now stop. half
way.
The japanese in China are facing
ruin, according to reports from a
British source not ordinarily pro-
Chinese. The Aso Maru, a japanese
vessel, entered Shanghai with only
$50 tons Of Japanese goods and
these we're consigned to Japanese
merchants whose business has been
shot to pieces by the boycott. This,
it is said, is typical.
Half the Japanese shops in
Shanghai, it is stated, are unable to
meet their pay rolls and the others
have closed their doors and gone
home. Japanese cotton mills in
China are closing and the CONNER
cial department of the Shanghai
municipality has been forced to
order cotton yarn and cloth from
England to make up the shortage.
China's Best Weapon
Calling off the boycott was one
Of the five essential points which
the Japanese from the beginning
insisted upon as a basis of peace
with China. Up to the present
there has not been the slightest in
dication that China will forego will
ingly this one effective weapon ii
her possession.
The seizure of all Manchuria
only can aggregate the situation
The boycott, now disastrously eff
fective, only will be made the
more SO.
This being the case, there is rea-
son to believe that in the event the
League of Nations and the United
States fail to bring about ar
agreement between Japan anc
China, the japanese will have tt
fight it out with the Chinese ever
if they have to take Canton.
That would mean real bloodShed
If not real war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
ASK MORE SEAL FUNDS
Sale This Year Falls Short of Total
Needed for Work.

Because sale of Christmas seals
has not reached a total which will
insure next years development of
preventive and curative work,
Marion County Tuberculosis Asso-
citation and the twenty volunteer
friends" have issued a joint appeal
for additional funds.
The fund has established Sunny
side sanatorium, the nutrition camp
for sick children, fresh air schools,
nutrition classes in city and county
schools, and has developed the
county nursing program and health
program in industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
MRS. IDA JOHNSON DIES
Funeral to Be Held Thursday for
Former Columbus Woman.

Mrs. Ida M. Johnson, SO, of 3015
South Meridian street, died today
at the Methodist hospital Services
will be held at the home Thursday
at 2. Burial place has not been
selected.
Mrs. Johnson, daughter of Philip
and Mahaley Brown, was born at
Columbus, Ind, Oct. %, 1872, where
she lived until she came to Indian
apolis in 1912. She was a member
of the Christian church at Column
bus.
She is survived by her husband,
George johnson, and six children,
Arkley, Harmena, Grace and Nina
johnson, and Mrs. Zelma Hurt and
Mrs. Beryl Thompson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
FINLAND'S DRY
LAW At STAKE
IN Referendum
Retention, Modification or
Repeal of 12-Year-0 Old
Act in Balance.

BIZ United Press
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec.
29-Finland went to the polls to-
day, after a severe snowstorn, in a
referendum on the prohibition
question, the first in the nations
history.
Approximately 100000 women
voters and 100000 men were eligible
TO vote. A heavy ballot was ex-
pected, despite the storm which
might cut down on rural district
voting.
After twelve years of prohibition
in which many problems similar to
those of the United States have
been encountered, the people will
vote on three alternatives-con-
tinuation of the present law, modi-
f1cation permitting the controlled
and taxed manufacture of light al
coholic beverages, or repeal of the
prohibition law and manufacture
of light and other alcoholic bev-
erages.
Voting will continue today and
Wednesday.
Campaign Intense
The country was flooded with
pamphlets and propaganda during
the campaign, one of the most IN
tense in Finland's history Some
of the dry posters even threatened
wet voters with punishment at their
final judgment day.
Neither side was sufficiently con-
f1dent to predict the outcome. Even
the press admitted that the complex
situation made forecasts useless.
The vets counted on reports that
the party bosses of the chief dry
parties, the Farmers and Laborites,
were having difficulty in persauding
the rank and file to vote dry.
1t was expected that definite re-
suits of the poll would not be avail
able for a week as all the ballots
must be brought to Helsingfors to
be counted.
Modification Seen Likely
Regardless of the result of the
referendum, many quarters consid-
cred it probable the cabinet would
ask parliament to amend the pro-
hibition law either partially or to-
tally as an urgent measure to in
crease the state revenue through
liquor taxes.
The vets point out that an i'm
mense amount of smuggling is car
ried on in Finland to meet the de-
mands of the liquor trade and that
the government is deprived of the
taxes on liquor in the illicit trade.
The voting was the climax of swift
series of developments in which an
increase of crime and drunkenness
and the budgetary situation COM
PEELED the cabinet to submit the
prohibition question to the peo-
pie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
CIemency Pleas Heard
By United Press

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Dec. 90
twenty-five pardon petitions ano
sixty-seven parole petitions from
convicts in the Indiana state prison
were before the prison board OF
trustees as it met here today. The
case of Nick Sudovich, convicted in
Lake county on a manslaughtel
charge, is expected to be heard
Sudovich is sought by immigration
authorities for deportation.