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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
TOBACCO MARKETS
WILL REMAIN OPEN
Danville Warehousemen Have Re.
fused to Close on Request
of Growers.
spscial DISPATCH to The star.

DANVILLE. Va. October 3.-Dan-
vile warehousemen have formally de-
clined to close their warehouses as re-
quested in a resolution adopted at a
mass meeting of tobacco growers held
Tuesday afternoon in Chatham. The
refusal was contained in a letter signed
by heads of the citys eight warehouses
and forwarded to L. A. Bryant, chair
man of the committee of growers which
met to take action as a result of what
they held to be exceedingly low prices
paid for their tobacco on the opening
day of market.
The letter points out that to meet
the request to close the Danville and
South Boston markets would have a
disastrous effect on the two communi
ties named but expressed readiness to
acquiesce in the closing OF the auction
centers If the growers can arrange to
have all the markets in the Old Belt
close.
Meanwhile sales continue light on the
local market although prices have been
a shade higher for tobacco than on
the opening day. While the sales
blocked on the opening day little leaf
had been brought here since. - Only
about $4,000 pounds we're sold yester-
dav, compared with $4,000 pounds sold
TUESDAY. The average remained around
$3.50 per hundred pounds, it was eSti-
mated in absence OF official figures.
Whether the unusually small volume
of leaf in evidence since the opening is
the result of the action of the Chatham
mass meeting in requesting the closing
and in urging growers to keep their
product under barn roofs until prices
improve could not be definitely stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
STOCKS UNSETTLED
BY DROP IN RAILS
Market Closes Lower, With
!, All Groups Affected by
Renewed Selling.
BY CLAUDE A. JAEGER.
Associated Press Financial Editor.

NEW YORK, October Stocks were
unsettled by a fresh sinking spell in
the rail shares, which dropped to 5
points to new lows today, dragging down
the general list. The turnover was not
particularly large, amounting to around
q million shares, but leading stocks lost
ground easily.
The renewed pressure against the rails
vas coincident with the filing OF the
four-party Eastern consolidation plan
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and presumably indicated that
The market had discounted the favorable
aspects Of the plan we'll in advance.
Wall Street is particularly concerned
now over the prospect OF higher freight
rates.
rhe market closed virtually at the
lowest prices of the DAY. Losses of about
points were recorded by New York
Central, Union Pacific, and Santa Fe.
Southern Pacific, Chesapeake Corp, and
Baltimore & Ohio lost 2.
In the industrials. United States Steel
lost 81. points. dropping to new low
ground since 1918. Miscellaneous issues
of 2 to 4 points included American
Telephone, American Can, American
Tobacco "B," Bethlehem Steel. Case,
Eastman. du Pont. Drug, GOODYEAR,
Loews, Consolidated Gas, and North
American.
There was little in the way of bust
ness on financial news TO account for
the swift reaction in shares, after they
had laboriously managed to close higher
yesterday, and most observers regarded
it as rejecting a further wave Of harg-
over liquidation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

FOR WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 3, 1881

Week. Year to Data
Low. high low
Average price Of 90 stocks. e67O coll 1907 S6.08
same period a year aEo...,..,........ 24660 1888
last Week.
Total sales ,..,...,,......, 1536S.725 44s.534360
Same period year ago....... 15.733.426 64l.9429l0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
CRUDE OIL CONSUMPTION
IN RAPID INCREASE

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, october 3.-GroWth of
the use OF oil in the heating of homes
has been so pronounced that it is esti-
mated that If the present rate OF in
crease continues domestic oil burners
will be consuming more than two-thirds
of the present crude oil production by
the end of 1910.
Domestic oil heating really started in
1921 when there were 1880 burners
in operation consuming approximately
10000 barrels Of fuel oil per year. In
1880 there we're 654, 500 burners in
operation, consuming 29,790,000 barrels
per year and the figures so far avail
able for 1881. according to T. S. Hose,
petroleum engineer, show that there
will be an increase in the sale of burn
ers and an increase in the consumption
Of oil this year to approximately &c.
oo0,0o0 barrels"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
West Virginia Bank Closes.

WESTON, W. Va october (Pl.-
The National Exchange Bank here
closed today for liquidation. The Board
of Directors said Withdrawals Of de-
posts made the closing necessary. The
bank had capital of $150,o00 surplus
of $4,000 and total resources Of ap-
proximately $780, 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

CONTINUED on Page a.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1881 TO DATE

by W e. Bundin
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
By LEO THOMPSON

WHEELING, w. Va, March TO-
In the issue of the Daily Worker
dated March 10 there appeared an
article on the front page entitled
Baby Dies AS Jobless Father Is
Evicted and Denied Relief" AS soon
as we read about this case, the Un-
employed Council elected a commit
tee of four workers, two men and
two women, to investigate and to
interview the parents of the dead
child, If possible.
This is what the Unemployed
Council investigating committee
found out: The father, Glen Glib
bons, who is young worker about
% years of age, was working here
i'll Wheeling, w. Va. When he lost
his job, Of course, he was left with
cut any means of making a living.
Threatened BY Eviction.
Soon he was threatened with an
eviction by the landlord. He told
the landlord that his 17-months-o
baby would probably die of exposure
If he was evicted into the street. But
the landlord replied that he could
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Parents Of Dead Baby to Join Demonstration
Against Boss Murderers of Workers Children

lied when they said that the gen
erous" police and city authorities
took collection for a burial and
transportation to Steubenville. They
are even too greedy to pay for their
victims buriall
Trying to Hide the Murder.
Now after this baby has already
died as result of the murderous
charity-racketeers-t h Associated
Charities is trying to hush up the
whole thing to conceal their GRIM
inal responsibility by bribing the
parents with little two-room flat
which the Associated Charities now
proposes to pay for!"
The Answer Is--Fight!
These are the facts that our I'm
employed Council Committee found
cut Glen Gibbons ami his wife are
coming to the next meeting Of the
Unemployed Council this Monday.
Tuesday night they will accompany
company of the unemployed which
is going to the city hall to demand
immediate action against all Off
Gals responsible for the death of
this working class child.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
NEGRO AND WHITE JOBLESS MENACED BY NEW TERROR
Arkansas Legislature Admits Thousands of Miners Starving
No Starvation

DEcENTLY the editor the audacty state
edoally that industrial
ing the capitalist the grip business dpres
accompanied by starvation lack OF shelter and
clothes"
Evidently that such brassfaced lying
up tell to oe swnney OF 1920 East Sixth
Not that there any between New
the city the bodies and minds
little
chidren-are being wrecked for hfe-forever!
merely picking the March 10th edition OF the
hasten to assert most emphacay no Com
papewe confronted by enormous headline double
Desperate Man Arrested As He shapen Knife to XIII
Family"
that the had lost his
senses Yes why must look into
have death certificates giving the cause OF death
INDIGESTION when the coroner had to add that this was
Post"
desperation the loss of $laaweek job and
small children slowly
starving DEATH swinney old 1920 East Sixth
Avenue plotted kill himself carly
Tuesday afternoon. according to the police"
Now man by suinney hardly said be
know that self is no
the capitalists would be pleased the
ship fight insurance capitalist
just ordinary American worker enjoying the
children lost that $14l
There tyranny" "despoic Stain"
wages enough
abolish unemployment and thus force
mind sound in body So naturally the
POST
swinney collapse they
cammy afflicted by the
palsy"
picture prosperous capitalist Editor
Tmes But then know that Mr. ocs the owner Of the
declared that it important to keep capital
ped labor employed And the editorial writer
lying appearances tried interested
the attack the Soviet
stopping the mouths the starving with lies will
Swinney officially
killing
miserable existence
within slayery
And in terms of the million led by the Communist
stubborn fighting daily
misery capitalism
capitalism
Ind Government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
l2-HR. DAY FOR
CHI. MILLlNERS

CHICAGO, Ill.--The Illinois state
law says women are not to work
over ten hours day. At the Rich
ards Millinery Factory on South. Wat
er Street women are forced to work
over twelve hours day under a vi
cious speed-up and on piece work
basis. The boss hurries among the
tables urging the workers to a faster
race, and to cut down expenses he
fred the machinist, so when q ma
chine gets out Of order 1t is necessary
to phone for one. The workers sit
idle sometimes an hour before 1t is
repaired then the boss comes around
and bleats about hurrying to catch up
with the work
To combat these rotten conditions
we must organize Immediately under
the Trade Union Unity League. It's
fearless and militant record in the
needle workers strikes, stands as a
beacon light to us workers in the
Richard Shop Workers. Realize we
can not work under such circumstan-
~ much longer-Let's organized
u
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
DEFEAT EVICTION
.JOBLESS WORKER
100 Workers Support
Bronx u. G..

NEW YORK.-The Bronx Borough
Hall Council and the Boston Road
Council yesterday defeated an at
tempted eviction of an unemployed
worker and his family at 1872 Bry-
ant Ave. THE worker has been job
less for some time, unable to find
work and refused relief by the bosses
and their government.
Two policemen were unable to dis
perse a crowd of 100 workers who
gathered to support the councils. The
furniture, which had been thrown on
the sidewalk, was moved back in spite
of the cops. Many workers joined
the Unemployed Councils and pledged
themselves to militant struggle against
eviction and for unemployment re-
lief and insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
BROOKLYN MEETS
PREPARE MAR. e
Fight Deportation and
Lynching

NEW YORK.-In preparation for
March %, National Day of Struggle
Against Lynching and Deportations,
there will be a series of meetings held
in Brooklyn this week.
On Wednesday night, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will hold a
street meeting in front of 1878 43rd
st. On the same night, the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights will hold
an indoor mass meeting at 1858 West
23rd St., Coney Island.
On Friday night another indoor
meeting will be held at the Finnish
Headquarters, at 764 40th St.. under
the auspices of the Committee for
the Protection of Foreign Born.
The demonstration in Brooklyn on
March % will start at seth st. and
Ninth Ave. at 2.30 p. m. and end
up in a mass demonstration at 50th
st. and Fifth Ave.
One phase of the terror against
Negro workers is seen today in Coney
Island where Negro workers are be-
ing terrorized against joining the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
and where the A. F. of L. racketeers
are trying to force Negro janitors to
join a fake union and pay S. for
t. privilege of Joining.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
RAILWAY PAY.
CUTS TO HIT
WORKERS
British R. R. Men Also
Get Wage Slashes;;
Takers for Them

An attack against the wages of
the America nand British railway
workers is being made almost at the
same time. From London comes the
cable report that thousands of Brit
iSh railway workers today March
15) refused to accept wage reduc-
lions declared by the National ages
Board, although their leaders urged
them to abide by the boards deci-
sion" AS in the United States, where
the function of the A. F. of L. is to
urge the workers to accept wage
cuts, SO in Britain, the Labor Party
takers and trade union misleaders
help the bosses put over wage cuts.
A huge strike-Waye is in preparation
in Britain.
In the United States, under cover
of the consolidation plan Of Hoover,
wage cuts are being prepared for all
railroad workers. Doak, secretary of
labor in The Hoover cabinet, was put
into office, taken from his job in
the Brotherhood of Railroad Train
mems Union, to urge the workers
to accept the coming wage cuts
Hoover is now attempting to put
over the big railway consolidation,
which will constitute a double-bar-
relied attack against the railroad
Workers-it will eliminate 100000
railway workers. and begin wage
slashes against the others. This is
admitted by one of the leading Wall
Street papers, speaking for the rail-
way bosses, the Financial and Com
mercial Chronicle March IA, 1881
They say all wages must come down,
particularly that of railroad workers.
What is more" they point out, ia
Dor leaders Gin the A. F. of Id are
winking at this violation of the union
scale" That pay cuts are already
taking place, they further admit, say
ing: THUS, in private lines (rail-
roads, readjustment of the in
CAPABILITIES between wages and other
things is already taking place" What
must be done then? The Chronicle
comes out openly and says all rail-
road workers wages must be cut and
to do this collective action alone
can accomplish the desired result"
They already indicate that they can
count on the leaders of the railway
unions. Secretary of Labor Doak
has been put into a government job
to help along, and no wonly the &C
ton of the workers themselves, I'M
der the leadership of the National
Railroad Workers Industrial League,
can they organize and strike against
these wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Wheeling Unemployed Council Will Demon
strate at City Hall to Demand Stop to Murder
c-5 Starvation Policy of Bosses and Their Govt

not help it, that he must collect his
rent, that If his baby was sick why
didn't he go to doctor and get a
certificate, etc. Then Glen Gibbon
and his wife were forced to apply
for help to the Associated Charities,
but after pleading with these char
ity racketeers for two different times
they were refused help.
No Money for Doctor.
They had no money for doctor
bills, so they decided to go to Steu-
benville and New Alexander to look
for work, but all in vain. They
started back towards Wheeling pen
niless and on foot, and in that Sc
we're, intense snow blizzard the baby
died In the arms OF its mother from
pneumonia and exposure--a victim of
the capitalist starvation conspiracy
Of the Associated Charities and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Business Picks Up
or the Undertakers;
ont Die! Fig h t
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 16.
-Despondent because her husband
was out of work, Helen Karorfte,
81 years old of 1872 Ogden ST., at
tempted suicide by taking poison.
The condition of this woman is
critical, and there is no hope for
recovery.
Frances Pincotto OF 10Th and
Arch SITS, mother of five children,
attempted to jump from the Del
aware Bridge, cop stopped her
from doing SO, it looks like they
have cops on this bridge to stop
all such attempts because this is
not the first case in which unem-
ployed workers have been prevent
ed from jumping over this bridge.
Prosperity is coming back, sure,
look at the list of suicides, which
makes increased business. for
the undertakers.
Better times will come only
when we are going to fight for
them!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

cialist party, and their despicable
underworld Jewish Forward" in ca
boots with the international running
dog of imperialist counter-revolution
Abramoyitch, for the organization of
internal wrecking activities and i'm
perialist Intervention against the So
Wet Union.
Hillquit and Thomas wined and
dined Mr.. Abramovitch, and raised
thousands Of dollars for his counter
revolutionary activity in behalf of
Czarist emigre, and imperialist in
tervention. The Forwards, and lead
ers of the socialist party relation with
the white guard monarchist DIAM
garoff, and the Fish Committee in
the war campaign against the Soviet
Union will be fully exposed. This
meeting will also be a demonstration
against the increasing brutality of
the government against the foreign
born, and Negro workers, and the
attempt to murder two leaders of
the unemployed, Coder and Hurst, by
the fascist Khan, and government of
Dallas, Texas. The thousands of
workers expected to jam the hall will
demand the immediate liberation of
Yokinen, Bebrich, Ii and Serio,
threatened with deportation to meet
certain death at the hands of the
fascist hangmen ruling these co,ln-
tries.
In the name Of the immortal COM
munards, the bravest fighters on the
Paris barricades and the heroic fore
runners Of the Bolshevik revolution,
and the historic Canton Uprising. the
revolutionary workers OF New York
will intensity the fight against the
counter-revolutionary plots against
the Soviet Union, will smash the
Hillquits and Thomases, Abramovitchs
and Fishes, iinperialist war mongers
against the Soviet Union. Rally to
the meeting. Defend the Soviet
Union. Smash deportation and all
persecution Of foreign born, and fas-
cist terror --~-w ~-vs s.tr--~sr-%s.
aW.,--. .Sl1nj
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Powers Are Driving to
War Against Souiets, Says BabSon
''It's War to Death Be-
tween Communism
and Capitalism"

Capitalism and Communism-"h hos
tile economic systems are coming to
grips in war to the death" Thus
Roger Babson leading capitalist econ
onlist informs his parasite readers in
a Special Letter" sent out from Bab-
son Park, Mass. on Morch Is, 1871. In
this manner Babson tells his capital
ist readers that the war against the
Soviet Union is coming rapidly and
that they must prepare for the attack
against Communism, the advancing
Socialist upbuilding in the Soviet
Union.
His letter headed "Real Issues in
Europe, Fascisn, Communism. Capt.
talism, tells of the decay of capital
ism and the necessity for organizing
the capitalist powers for war.
Our country today is the very bull
wark of world capitalism" says Bah
son, land with France comforts the
worlds gold, nayies and territories"
France, as every workers knows, is the
leading imperialist power in the open
preparation for war against the So
Wet Union. The United States,
(Wall Street, will act with the French
bosses in this war, says Babson. s1n
the event of trouble, France may find
the United States once more her ally
...." he admits. Despite disputes over
the victory or refeat of the Five-Year
Plan, we must realize, at least its par
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Protest American Socialists
Wreckers at Commune Meet

NEW YORK.-Thousands of mill
tant New York workers will gather at
Central Opera House. 67th st. and
Bird Ave-. on Wednesday, March Is,
p. M, to demonstrate their burning
protest against the Menshevik coun-
ter-revolutionary wrecking plots
against the Soviet Union, and to
honor the memory Of the Paris Com
mune, the first seizure Of power by
the Paris proletariat. Comrade Will
liam 2. Foster, I. Amter M. j. Olgin
and j. Louis Engdahi will expose the
part played by Morris Hillquit, and
Norman Thomas, leaders Of the So
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Prepare May Day
Demonstrations
Conference Called for
March 30

NEW YCRK.-The continuation
and deepening of unemployment, the
intensified wave of wage cuts and
speed-up which has spread over the
entire country, the increased presec-
ution of the foreign born, and lynch
ing Of white and Negro workers who
fight for Negro rights, demands unity
in revolutionary struggle of the work.
ing class.
May Day, the international day of
working class struggle, must find the
forces of the. working class more
united than ever. The development
of socialism in the Soviet Union, and
the continued preparations for war
by the United States government,
must open the eyes of every worker
to the necessity of unification of
working class forces under revolu-
tionary leadership.
May Day this year will find the
workers united in struggle under the
leadership Of the Communist Party,
the Trade Union Unity League, and
the Unemployed Councils. To mob
ilize and organize the workers for
gigantic demonstration on that day,
these three organizations have called
a United Front Conference which
will take place at Manhattan Lyceum,
sc E. Fourth St., on March 30, at
p. m.
All labor unions, shop groups and
shop committees, Unemployed Coun-
ellis, workers fraternal and cultural
organizations should elect three del
egates each to this conference. Take
up this matter in your organization
Especially unions Of the American
Federation Of Labor, where the re-
volt against the fascist leadership
is growing, must elect their delegates
to this conference and unite with
the masses of unorganized workers
Negro and white, men, women, in
the struggle.
Make this United Front Confer
ence and the N.ey Day demonstra-
ton a mighty 'roLSst against the
conditions that arr I. ing the work.
ers more and more. and against inn
rerialist war, anei for the defense
Of the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17
Hamburg Fascists Fire on Bus,
Murder Communist Councillor
Severely Wound Another and Shoot A Pas
sengers; Admit Fascists Policy of Assassina-
ton; Mass Resentment Aroused
Especial Cable to the Daily Worker

Especial Cable to the Daily Worker)
BERLIN, March 16.-On Saturday
night between twelve and one, two
Communists, Hennin and Cambley
boarded a night but from Fuenfhau-
hen to Hamburg, after speaking at
Communist meeting. Three fas-
cistS followed them. Suddenly the
fascists drew revolyers, demanding
to know whereAndree, leader of the
Hamburg Anti-Fascist League was
Henning, Communist Councillor in
the Hamburg City government rose
and declared that Andree was not
present, whereupon the fascists OPEN
ed wild firing, killing Henning and
severely wounding Cambley, then
wounding seriously woman teacher
and several other passengers on the
bus, including child.
The fascists then compelled the
bus driver to stop. The passengers
dismounted and the bus drove on.
The murderers fled The news of
the cowardly assassination of Hen
ming cuased tremendous excitement
and indignation.
Yesterday evening local fascists at
tackled some workers and two fascists
we're wounded.
Three of the murderers of IIennin,
including an ex-policeman were ar
rested. The murderers admitted they
were members of the fascist party
and were acting under instructions,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-17

Wheeling Steel Corporation.
When they suddenly found their
baby dead, they went to Wheeling
undertaken and the police, who had
the crust to tell them that they
"broke state law in bringing dead
person over into another state
(Ohio) without death certificate!"
AS if these starving. unemployed pa
rents brought their dead baby to
them Intentionally
Forced to Take Dead Baby Back.
Being themselves guilty of the
murder of this unemployed worlSe~g'
child, the city authorities and the
coroner forced these penniless, grief
stricken parents to take the child
back to jefferson County, Ohio,
where the baby supposedly died,
without giving them any money for
transportation The bosses papers