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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Holy
Bed-Bug''

The captains, gang, the mates, the
cadets. steward, bos'n, the black, the
yellow, the pink-all took sides with
the enemy,
The sailors charged. They swept
their enemies before them. They
drove them back like cattle. The
main deck was cleaned. The cap
tain's gang took shelter on the poop.
Like an angry wave the sailors rush
ed up and over the poop. The cap
tain's gang with their backs to the
wall, put up a determined resistance,
the last, desperate, dying attempt.
But it was not long before the fight
was over.
Captain Jock left his gang in the
heat Of the battle and took refuge
in his cabin. He locked all the doors
behind him and hid himself, van
ished. one by one the cabin doors
we're opened. A thorough search was
made At last the captain was found
shivering, perspiring, wet. He had
crawled under his bed.
Paul, the former blacksmith grab
bed the captains foot and dragged
him out like a wet sack. The captain
screamed, yelled, begged, stuck to the
floor like a leach. Throwing his arms
about, he hung on, clutched at every
thing like a drowning man. With
vice-like grip on the captains foot
the sailor dragged him out of the
cabin, over the steps, up the stairs,
through the companion way, in and
out through the pilot house and on
deck. Paul threw him near the sky
light, the opaque sides of which were
richly decorated with proud inscrip-
tons: In God We Trust
Captain jock, who was like a wet
sack, stirred suddenly. Screaming
and whining he got on his buttocks.
He turned toward the sailor. His
head feI forward, he bent like Turk
at prayer and began to beg and
whine: ooh. please, spare my life. =.
I'll do anything I'll give you
everything-you can take my money,
my ship, everything :"
"ship-everything," Numbered the
saidor, belongs to us, We, workers,
dig the coal; we mould iron, build
ships, load them, sail them. 1t all
belongs to us! The world belongs to
workers. There is no place for you
herein our world! You can 60
where you belong-to your Kingdom
of heaven! -"
Paul picked up the 200 pounds of
blubber. held the captain aloft, at
arms length above his head. He
carried him to the rail He stopped,
gave a mighty heave, and like sack
of straw. Paul tossed the holy cap
tain high up and far out into the
sea. There was great splash as
the 200 pounds of fat struck the
water. The next instant there was
another splash. but not so heavy, as
the batle-scsrred book shot through
the air. and landing with soft spat.
it slapped the face of the captain
who soon disappeared beneath the
surface of the ocean which is very
deep and mighty, and over which
the waves of destiny roll and sweep
on to better world
THE END
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
IN A CIT Y
tSung To the Tune of "Clementlne')
BY JANET CRUDEN

tSung To the Tune of "Clementlne)
/. BY JANET CRUDEN
: In factory, in a city,
1 Grinding push-rods for a car,
Worked grinder, faithful grinder,
Making seven bucks day.
and his job was safe and steady
So he had no use for Reds;
h Union speakers he detested
And their News he tore to shreds
FsThen the smash came and no cash came
~ And he lost his seven bucks.
~ ,ssYith thirty thousand other workers
- He was looking for job
= a Easy credit then did vanish,
Credit men came TO the house;
Took away all that they'd sold him,
left him only walls and floors.
Then the winter found him foodless
And his children had no clothes.
But the Welfare wouldn't help him
Z q For he "owned" house and lot I'D
/ 4. The worker lost both fait1, and hope thru
~ And he wondered what he'd do; u,
:. Bnt the Reds came and they told him
In minute what to do.
So he Joined them and he helped them,
And his wife and children, too;
Now they want to tell the jobIess
What they really ought tn do.
CHoRuS;-organize now, organize now
Organize now, obless men.
Then we'll get our Worls or Wages
Or wen know the reason why.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

was his: he ate when we did and
slept when we did. There in the
other cell was a Cherokee Indian
who had been picked up for walking
the highway. He was about "a years
of age, and was headed for his home
in North Carolina. We were locked
up at 2 o'clock pm, and at o'clock
am, we had to put up big holler
to get something to eat,
The town has a one man police
force: he Is chief and everything but
the janitor. The janitor is q town
bum and is little cracked in the
head The chief gives him a meal
or two a day to look after the Jail.
About at night, along comes a
pretty old Negro. He was all in,
after hiking from Baltimore. and he
wants a place to sleep. This town
bum janitor wants to kick him out,
he tells him the Jail is full and for
him to walk over to the Jail in Hare
de Grace, seven miles north.
We told the old colored fellow to
stay there, and we asked the janitor
if he would be responsible if the old
fellow got hit with a car. He num-
bled something and then he told the
old man he could stay there, but he
would have to sit on a chair in the
cell and be locked up until morning,
the old fellow agreed to that.
The jail in that town is like
public toilet, anybody in town can
walk in and look your over. About
pm. in comes a husky lad from
New York. He heard that they had
some New Workers in the Jail, and
he came over to see if he knew U.s.
He was working in the town as a
linesman for the A. T, 81 T. company
He said we were up against 1t in that
town, He said they might lock us
up and throw the key away, so we
could hardly wait for morning.
6cttlng JUSTICE
In the morning I had to spend my
75c for breakfast. The janitor would
not get lis anything. He kic.aod the
old Negro out and told him never
to stop in that town again. At IL
am. We we're taken before the Justice
of Peace, five of lis all told, there
being my two friends, myself, the In
dian lad, and another local lad the
chief brought in with him, charged
with drunken driving and smashing
into another car containing two wo-
men, He was tried first. The JUS
tice fined him 500 or ninety days.
He had no money, SO he took the
ninety days.
The next tried was the Indian. He,
got ninety days. Then my friend
with the IS was tried separate from
us, and was fined $4.65. and given
one hour to get out OF town. Then
my other friend and myself were
tried as Migrants, and given 80 days.
About pm. we were llandcuffed
and placed in a machine, my buddy
and myself and the Indian, and the
lad that got 80 days for drunken
driving. I asked the chief what Jail
he was going to take us to, and he
said the Maryland House of Correc-
ton at Gessup's Cut, Md, 40 miles
south of Baltimore. In the car on
the way there had chance to talk
to the lad from Aberdeen. and he
said the Justice Of Peace got $500
from the county for every one he
tried, and the Chief got $500 from
the state for every man he delivered
at the M. H. Of Correction, and the
reason we got 80 days is because that
is the least they will accept them
there.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

Writersl Artists! There Is a cry
ing need today for revolutionary
cfildren's literature. Practically no
literature that will give the workers
child an understanding of the system
he lives under exists. 1t is the duty
of all writers and artists to rally be-
hind the movement for the magazine.
And to the children our appeal is:
Write for your magazine, Get other
children to write for it. Spread it
in school, on breadline, in the streets
and in the mills where thousands of
child laborers slave.
Forward to real children's maya
zine of the working class on May 1st
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

Daily Worker:
I have read quite a lot, Of late.
about convict labor in the capitalist
press, as regards Soviet Russia. I
would like to tell your readers about
some of the convict labor I know Of
right here in the U.S.A. and in the
state of Maryland.
January, 1880, two friends Of mine
and myself heard that the Western
Electric Company, in Baltimore, Md,
were hiring help on a construction
Of some buildings. Therefore the
three of us started to hitch hike it
from Albany, N. Y, to Baltimore,
Md, after a job. Well, everything
went all right until we got as far
as Aberdeen, Md, and there we made
the mistake of going into a vacant
field alongside of the railroad tracks,
to rest. We weren't there long, when
up came a railroad dick with a gun
in his hand as big as a cannon
pointed at us, and told us to put
our hands up.
Off to Jail
We were frisked and handcuffed,
marched down a road to a place
where this dick had his car parked,
got in, and were driven to the jail
in Aberdeen. And what a jail No
toilet facilities, no running water,
and an iron spring to sleep on. There
we're two cells in the Jail, which was
of wood and a fire trap. Before we
were put in the cell, three in one
cell built for two, we were frisked
for money. I had seventy-five cents,
but my friend had S. and the other
was broke. But any or all of the S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

workers made an unprovoked, vicious
attack upon Negro worker who ate
in their mess hall. A wave of pro-
test from the entire working class of
Russia overwhelmed these chauvin-
lists. They were tried and expelled
from the country. The permanent
interest of the working class demands
the most unrelenting, the most ruth
less. the most systematic struggle
against any political program or
platform, against any econmoic sys-
tenn which effects by its working
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

There were two brothers by the
name of Woods. big shot politicians
in Jail at that time, who stole millions
from the states funds for roads.
Don't know how they got in there.
suppose they didn't split right Well
anyway, they have the cream in Jail.
they we're fed the best on a special
diet In the prison hospital, whereas
we proletarians were fed about the
same as the Salvation Army feeds.
rottent w. 9. T.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

out a split In the ranks of the ex-
plotted masses or retards the con-
solidation of these ranks.
The program Of the Communist
Party conclusively shows why the
white workers must stand in the
front ranks of those struggling to
realize this unity. this internation-
alization of the working class. The
pamphlet proves this to be the very
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

This is this last instalment of
sailors story of the religious"
captain Jock" of the Hell Ship
Margaret who shanghaied, tor
tured and murdered his men and
how they finally got together to
pay him back. Now read on how
they got hind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

In capitalist America the robbed by the spectators
what left Is taxed the government that refunds bill
lions the boss corporations their houses cattle morgsed to
the landlords their kids starve
the Soviet Union workers
capitalists landlords collectively
Of land with the most modern machinery provided them
the WORKERS. farmers constantly
scndions peasant
a tractor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

Force Is the midwife Of every old
society pregnant with new one II
Is itself an economic power.'--Marxs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Workers, Awake!

It's time the workers of Baltimore
and the country woke UP. or pretty
soon you will have to go to jail to
get q job. Well. here it is March 3s.
1881. I have paid my debt to society
for the terrible crime of looking for
work. GIG days of for good ttn1e).
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

the liberties of American workmen
had not been placed in their keeping
Relief for the needy and the unfortu-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

We should attend to our everyday
duties just as much when our en-
ployer is absent as when he is
present.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

TED SMITH
Couldn't think of getting out the
Labor Day edition without the cut
of this old-time member of the Ma
chinists' Local Union in it. He's al
ways to be counted on.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-09-04

mates worthy but the
protection of the fovever keep
ties trade union function, which
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Weight Experts Will
Meet Here June rs

Discussion of new weighing de-
vices. bottles used for dispensing
lubricating oils at filling stations,
the marking Of packages under
the net weight amendment to
the food and drugs act, and the
supervision of postoffice scales,
will be among subjects discussed
at the Forthcoming conference
here on weights and measures.
The twenty-fourth National
Conference on Weights and Meas
ures, which will be attended by
officials of practically all of the
States and at least one repre-
sentative of the inspection service
of the Dominion of Canada, will
be held at the Bureau of Stand
ards, June to S, inclusive.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
TEE 7 D 7 TALER
SNUBS FRENCH
WINE TOAST
Los Angeles Mayor and Wife
Turn Backs on Pledge to
Health of Nations Chief

LIE HAVRE, France, May %
IUN.S0 Determined to uphold
the Constitution of the United
states on foreign soil as we'll as
at home. Mayor and Mrs. John C
Psrter, of Los Angeles, refused to
day to participate in the win
d'Honneur" (Wine of HONOR cere-
mony staged for the group of
American mayors by French Off
cials at the Havre city hall. Por.
ter explained:
II understand I am the only
dry on the trip. Let the others
drink all they please, but my
wife and intend to uphold the
Constitution of the United
States. We shall not drink a
drop during the entire trip"
Play U. S. Anthem
All the mayors and their wives
had gathered in the Salon
Rouge" Of the city hall after dis
embarking from the lie de
France. They took their places
at long table on which were
bottles of champagne, port and
bordeaux.
AS a band played "The Star
Spangled Banner" the chairman
raised his glass and proposed
toast "to the health of the Pres
1dent of France"
POrterS Snub Toast
Photographers started to take
flashlight pictures of the
ceremony, and at this moment
Mayor Porter and his wife left
the room. The remainder of
those present acknowledged the
toast.
Members of the party revealed
that famous firm of French
winners distributed a bottle of
wine to each mayor every even.
ing during the voyage across.
Mayor Porter and his wife, how
ever, sent theirs back to the
ships cellars" every night.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22

DELPHIA, May %.
How General Washington would
have crossed the Delaware River
if he had been provided with The
facilities of the present-day
United States Army was demon
strated at Washington's Crossing,
when troops from Camp Dix re
enacted the famous. scene.
Lining the banks of the Dcla-
ware on either side we're hundreds
of spectators, some of them de-
Scendants of the men who made
that perilous crossing with their
general in the ice-choked river.
But the troops which crossed
sat in aluminium and duraIumin
pOntOOL boats, which were pro-
PEELED by OutbOard motors.
Washington was not certain OF
making the Pennsylvania shore.
These modern fighters simply sat
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
a d. G. Men Ordered
To DUTY at Arsenal

Four Washington men are
among the seven officers Of the
Chemical Warfare Reserve, Third
Corps Area, ordered to active
duty training for two weeks at
Edgewood Arsenal, Nd, effective
June IA.
They are First Lieutenants Mar.
shall J. Goss, 2726 Connecticut
Ave. N. W.. and Charles S. How.
ard, 242 Tuckerman St.; Second
Lleutenants Lee Turner Richard,
son, U. S. Geological Survey, and
Alexander j. Stirton, 2009 I st
Lieut.. Col. Arthur Bradley More
land, Quartermaster Corps Re.
serve, of 1868 Parkwood Pl. N. W.,
goes on active duty with the con.
structing quartermaster at Fort
George G. Meade, Md, effective
June |
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
AUTO INJURIES CYCLIST

Frank Meyers, II, 1854 Kenyon
st. N. W., was injured yesterday
morning when he was knocked
from his bicycle by an automobile
at Sixteenth and Fuller SITS. N
w. He was taken to Emergency
Hospital and treated for cuts to
his arm and possible internal in.
iuries. According to police, the
automobile was driven by Owen
L. Lentz, 1921 Mt. Pleasant St
N w.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Coast Guard Seeks
BOyS Lost on Lake

CALUMET. Mich, May %
0.N.S).-Coast Guard crews to-
day were searching in Lake Su-
perior for two sons of w. P. David
son, of st. Paul.
The boys left Isle Royale Tues
day in a motor boat and failed to
arrive in Duluth.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22
Troops Cross Deldwdre
in Washingt0n's Path

in the boats with their machine
runs, their high-powered rifles
and were whisked across the Della.
ware. Even their gun carts, am
munition carts and mules were
taken over, safely and quickly.
The Washington times., 1931-05-22

Today, mpossbiliy for many years becomes reality
Today, for the first time since 1921, the cream of
Americas blue blood fabrics tailored in brisk English
fashions presented $25 'Oih trousers Most
stores would label this sensatona sae We consider
just another example of how much more save
for customers because make the clothes we
sell We're proud of the character of these
Two Trouser Suits In their luxury of fabric, their
distinguished Styles and their cusomyPe needing, they
exact cOunterpars of the costly clothes which for
years have been displayed along the upper reaches of
New Yorks exclusive Fifth Avenue They have the
"adefor.meloOk" of custom-taOred suits. And they'll
hold sharp crease for long time There are
sizes to fit everybody and full range of coors for
late Spring and early Summer And remember,
trousers tUith eUery suit
The border vidette., 1931-01-31
ARIZONA LEADS II STATES IN
TAXES LAST YEAR

Washington, D. c., Jan. 90
Although Arizona is termed the
Baby State" aud is known to
have barely scratched the sur
face of its resources in develop
ing itself, the young state turn
ed in more income tax to the
government than any one of 12
other states during the calendar
year 1880.
This was shown in figures re.
leased by the Internal Revenue
Bureau yesterday.
OF q total of 81, 1872, 986, 1913
collected from all states. Arizona
contributed $3,O33. .O37.7O. which
was more than Arkansas, Idaho,
Mississippi. Nevada, New Mex.
leo, North Dakota. South Dakota,
South Carolina, Utah, Vermont
or Wyoming produced in the
way of income tax.
A decrease of $169. .837 1854 for
the nation was shown iu the col
lections as compared with the
previous year.
The border vidette., 1931-01-31
ROAD WORK WILL BE PUSHED

Phoenix, Ariz Jan. 26.-W.
w. Lane, state engineer, an
bounced today double shifts will
be put to work, starting today in
the state highway departments
engineering Offices and drafting
rooms to complete plans for all
road work in the 1930-1931 bud.
get.
This will be done, Lane said,
to clear the way for procedure
with any emergency work which
may arise under authority OF the
legislature in connection with
federal aid emergency relief
funds.
Plans must be completed at
once for work involving use of
$418, 438 of federal funds now
available. and if legislation now
pending is passed by the Arizona
legislature, 81, 40. 481 more OF
federal monies will be available,
making a total of So, 800, GA for
highway construction, most of
which must be completed before
September /.
The border vidette., 1931-01-31
NocAl Es GIRL GETS INSURANCE

An inheritance which was due
her for nearly IL years and un
known to her until last June
today has put Miss Johanna Al
len, 10 year old Negress of
Nogales, into possession of a
nice home, fine clothes, an auto
mobile and independence, says
Thursdays Nogales Herald.
An insurance policy made out
to her by her half brother, Steve
Jorden, Jr., who, was killed in
France in 1918, has been paid
by the United States government
to the amount of So, $40 and Miss
Allen will receive $57. so a month
until 1888. She was seven years
old when the policy was written.
AS a result she has purchased
a home at 1887 Grand avenue,
furnished it and bought an auto
mobile. The balance of the in
heritance has been invested in
securities.
The war risk insurance policy
was for $4,000 which was to be
paid to the legatee at the rate of
$3.50 a month until the full
amount was paid. Due to the
inability of. the government to
locate Miss Allen the money has
been earning interest at the rate
of 1886 year.
Last June Miss Allen was in
formed by her step father, Steve
Jorden, Sr., that she was named
on the policy and he had failed
in an effort to have the policy
changed over in his favor. She
Immediately instituted an inquiry
and proceedings to obtain the
money. 1t came to her as a be-
la ed hristmas present.
Miss Allen came to Nogales a
year and a half ago.
The border vidette., 1931-01-31
WRIT G. BOWMAN MAY LOCATE
IN PHOENIX NEXT YEAR

Writ G. Fowman, principal
owner of the First National
Bank of Nogales, may locate in
Phoenix when his resignation
as president of the Aqua alien
tie Hotel company, A qua Calien-
te, Mexico, becomes effective on
December 81, according to yes
terday's Arizona Republic OF
Phoenix, which said in part as
follows:
Mr.. Bowman, Mrs. Bowman
and their daughter, Petty Jean,
are guests at Hotel Adams
They will spend one week here,
leaving then for a brief visit in
Tucson and Nogales
They are on a vacation trip,
motoring through Arizona
Pm strong for Phoenix, Mr..
Bowman said : so strong for it
that intend to locate here with
in the next year. I've already
told my organization that will
resign December 81 of this year.
I plan then to return to Phoenix
and if l find some business that
interests me Ill get into it.
I've spent 80 years in Arizo-
ma and feel that | belong here
Mr.. Powman has large busi-
ness interests in the state
consistent and plentiful ad-
vertising is the greatest factor
in building up tourist trade he
said. His own organization, he
pointed out, maintains an adver-
tising and publicity department
to emphasize the attractions OF
it's hotel and the section in which
it is located. This department
costs more than 100000 a
year. !.
"Mr. Bowman, who is well
known throughout the state,
first came to Arizona as rail
road man, later entering the cat
tie business. the import and ex
port business, finally becoming
associated with the Aqua Calien
te hotel company about five
years ago"
The border vidette., 1931-01-31

Cooiidge-H. L. Nash purchas
ed Smith Camp ground on Hard.
ing Ave. from D. f. Smith.
Tubac-E. G. Shankle purchas
ed Thomas D. Casanega 4OO-acre
ranch located about three miles
mort of this place. for $50, 1000.
Phoenix-A. w. Q ain sold bis
business and assets Of Phoenix
Daily Doings" to Glen A. Coul
son.
Somerton McClug leased
lunch stand recently vacated by
Mrs. Jolly. on Canal Street op
posite hotel.