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La gaceta., 1931-09-30
-Pasa, Antonio...-respon-
dio la Pr6diga.

-iAlabado sea el Santisimo
Sacramento del Altar! iTengan
sus e%xcelencias muy buenas no.
ches !,..-aiadi6 ell viejo, entran-
do con dos lamparas encendidas
y colocandolas sobre la chime
nea y en- ell velador.
En- seguida hizo un reverente
saludo, Y dijo a su anna en- voz
que hubiera ablandado las pie
dras:
-Senora: los novios estan en-
mi casa muy afligidos, Y antes
de marcharse a la suya pideu
para subir con ell ito
Juan a yer a sus excelencias...
Mi pobre mujer ha tenido que
volver q meterse en- CANA. Con-
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
CHRISTNER VENCI0 A MA.
TIE BROWN

Akron, Ohio, sep. 30.-Los
periodistas dieron aver la deci-
sion a K. 0. Christner, de Akron
Ohio, contra Matte Brown, de
Spokane.
Christner prob6 que no estan
equivocados los que aseguran q.
Ell es pugilista de cinco rounds,
pero en- ell case de anoche los
cinco resultaron ser los finales.
Brown gan6 ell cuarto, cuatro
fueron tablas y Christner gano
los 1ltimos cinco, por amplio
margen.
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amado a la armada.

NO, senior; no duermo...-
respondi6 ella con graciosa iro-
nfa.-iLo que estoy hacienda
desde que tie callaste, es admirar
ell poder y la actividad de tn es-
piritu!... Pero bueno sera decir
ahora que traigan luz, a riesgo
de que Sc desvanezcan tantos
fantasmas como ACADIA de crear
tn insoportable horror al ocio.
Aeababa Julia de pronunciar
estas palabras cuando sonaron
pasos en- la galeria; entr6 algu-
ma claridad por dsbajo de la
puerta, Y Sc oy6 la voz del ito
Antonio, que preguntaba desde
la antesala:
u Dan sus excelencias per-
misc?
La gaceta., 1931-09-30

de La GacetG No. 81
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
SALlO Ell TT
CHA Ell OESTE

Filadelfia, sepIe30.-Sali6 an
che de aquf en- direction de ST.
Luis, donde ell jNeves Sc ~efectua-
"a ell primer desaffo de la serie
mundial, ell club Filadelfia, cam
pe6n de laEiga Americana.
Miles de fanasicos despidie-
ron al team de Connie Mack de-
morando por cinco minutes la
partida del tren. Todos los pelo-
teros fueron ovacionados, sepa-
radamente, pero la mayor ova-
ci6n Sc tribute al viejo photo.
Aunque Mack dijo que tenia
la esperanto de ganar, la null
titud opina que su club triunfa-
a sin mayores dificultades.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
DEPORT

Clyde Harnage venci6 en- otro
de los "bouts" a Cecil McCullers
por decision; Herbert Carter hi
70 tablas con Claude Crosby, y
Buddy Hedden alcanz6 la dCci-
sion sobre Tommy Lee.
Tn nino de Sc libras, Kid Le-
wis, venci6 por nocao tecnico a
Kid Joe, del mismo peso.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
Joke
CAMPOLO PUSO A DORMIR
A WEPNER

New York, sep. 30.-A los 10
segundos del primer asalto, Vic
torio Campolo, ell gigantic de la
Argentina que todavia no III
enterrado su aspiration a la CO
roma de peso complete, puso no.
rizontal sobre la Iona, vencien
dolo, a Charley Wepner, de New
York.
La victima pesaba 1852 IL
bras y ell victimario 225.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
CARTER VENCIO A SABA

En- la pelea de mas importan-
cia ofrecida aver por la Arena
de Seminole Heights, situada en-
la avenida de Florida, Bill Car.
ter derrot6 a Charles Saba, dc
rribandolo varias veces hasta
que ell referee intervino, ponien-
do termino a la batalla.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
Con los Guantes

No divide que en- la primera
Sc "atropell6" al italiano; en- la
segunda, 81 los jueces son de la
misma clase, Sc repartiran ia
bias, y Sc dejara la "soluci6n"
para la tercera.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30
LA PRODIGA
NOVELA
pOr
D. Pedro A. de Alarc6n

d. Pedro A. de Alarc6n
nantes en- las densas tinieblas,
solo esclarecidas, cerea del no.
gar, por los rojizos destellos de
la lumbre... Nj Gcual podia ser
en- tai noehe ell asunto de su con
versaci6n? 5Cabfa hablar de 10
pasado? En- manera alguna!
5Habian de comunicarse 10 que
pensaban en- aquel momento?
/ Impossible de toda imposibili-
dadl Y, respecto al p~orvenir,
La gaceta., 1931-09-30

LIE han dicho a Benny Leon
ard que pase de 10 facil a dificil.
81 quiere recibir de nuevo las Dol
sas de importancia. Muldoon, ell
viejo romano, cree que siete
amos de ausencia del "ring" no
facultan a nadie, por campe6n
que haya sido, a empezar la as
censi6n de la escala por la pri-
mera categorfa.
La gaceta., 1931-09-30

NCW 1OIh~QME.-La cOIHl-
sion Atletica de- kylado de New
York Sc neg6 aver a sancionar
un bout, presentado por ell
promoter del Madison Square
Garden, entire Pauline Walker,
i6ven pugilista de Trenton, New
Jersey, y Benny Leonard.
Al mismo tempo la comisi6n
hizo saber al ex-campe6n Ape-
SO ligero que debe probar SUI
bilidad en- los clubs pequenos an
ties de presentarse en- Ell Garden.
William Muldoon, miembro
Dc la cc-cisi5n, mantuvo que Ia
ausencia de Leonard del cuadri-
latero, durante siete amos, sig.
nifica que debe empezar por e
fondo, no por la c1spide.
Algo disgustado Benny inme
diatamente abri6 negociacioneS
para IN match con Pal Silvers
en- ell estadio de greensboro, e
! proximo microbes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
A Daily Worker Club Meets

talist press, and one after another the workers
took the floor.
Workers, many of them who had never spoken
in their lives at meeting got up and told what
they thought of the workers press and offered
many good suggestions for improving it.
One worker, obviously an old worker in the
movement, said that he though the Daily Work
err was not popular enough for all the workers
He advised that we discontinue all Party docu
ments and theses He said new workers would
not understand them and that they were of no
use in Attracting new workers into the revolu-
tionayr movement.
Another worker, not yet in the Party and
new reader of the Daily, followed him on the
floor THE Daily Worker" he said. lis the best
paper any workingman can read. 1 am not
good reader but can read and understand this
paper. I might not be able to understand every
thing on the back page-that is, the documents
that the other gentleman was talking about
but I understand everything else, and if I keep
on reading the paper a little while longer I'll
understand the documents and theses too"
This second worker was correct He pointed
out perhaps better than the speaker could have
the incorrectness Of the first workers criticism
He expressed simply how workers react to our
worker, although in the radical movement for
some time, did not know the function of a Com
munist paper. He did not know that we try
through our press not only to attract new work
ers into the movement, but to raise their idea
logical level as well. The second worker pointed
this out and showed that workers want to raise
their theological level and that the Daily is doing
it.
Another worker offered suggestion on how to
increase the circulation of the Daily. The Ne
gro workers were all enthusiastic about the
Daily. They all told how they read it and prom
ised to tell their friends about it. One worker
told about woman who was writing a poem
for the Daily and several promised to write for
the Daily about what is going on in their neigh
borhoods and shops. workers correspondence
group was formed on the spot.
There was much more criticism much more
discussion. The meeting lasted until late, but
nobody got tired. 1t was a good meeting, the
kind we must have more Of AT the next meet
one of the club members will speak on his ex-
periences in the South. They don't need out
side speakers any longer They can run their
own meetings, which is the way it should be.
Other clubs should profit from the example
set by this club. Make them real workers clubs.
Make your meetings interesting. If you do this
workers, you will attract many new workers into
your clubs and lay a base for making the Daily
Worker real mass paper supported and built
by the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
Mysticism in West Virginia Against
the Unity of the Miners

Lewis machine in order to get back into the Of
fetal family His West Virginia Mine Workers
Union is the result. 1t is pretty much a skele-
ton organization The miners who support 1T
do so because they will still think that Keeney
is against Lewis and because their conditions
are so miserable that some form Of organization
is absolutely necessary. But they will not follow
Keeney back TO Lewis.
1t Is especially here that the role OF the Muste-
ties is despicable and dangerous for the miners:
Tippet who is the mining specialist of the
Musteites and who helped to check the mass re-
volt against the Lewis machine which began
December g. 1929 with a strike of more than
10000 miners led by the National Miners Union,
is now in the Kanawha field preparing the way
for a return to the Lewis UNiWA-in case the
present strike spreads and the militancy
of the miners and the need for unity with the
mass strike movement in Western Pennsylvania,
Eastern Ohio and the Panhandle of West Vir-
GINA bring them nearer the National Miners
Union.
But they are using all their forces to prevent
any genuine unity of the nliners-unity effected
by national rank and file delegate conference
a common program of action and common
struggle such as is proposed by the National
Miners Union. Those who oppose this program
are on the side of the miners, for the revival of
ing through new and more intense program OF
wage-cutting and speedup in the coal industry.
Wilson'S New Republic article is part of the
Musteite campaign for keeping the miners divided.
They intend to save the southern West Virginia
miners from Communism by keeping them iso-
lated from the masses of miners already on
strike, organized and led by the National Miners
Union and the elected rank and file strike COM
nittees and finally turn them over to Lewis in
the name of unity.
Thus in the United States as in Europe the
social fascists prepare the way for fascism.
1t is now necessary, following the National
Miners Conference in Pittsburgh, the heart OF
the strike area, to expose with increased
energy and on mass scale, on the basis of the
concrete facts of the betrayals, in Elizabethton,
Marion, Danville and Illinois, the treacherous
part being played by the Mustetes in the mine
fields of southern West Virginia, to carry the
united front from below into that field, and to
enable the miners themselves to drive these
advance agents of fascism out CT the coal camps,
The miners will do this as they learn rapidly
in this period of sharp class battles that the
Musteites are not for a united fighting front of
all miners, employed and unemployed, Negro
and white but are against unity--as wilson's
article shows
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
The Police Veto God

In Henryetta, Oklahoma, according to the N.
Y. Times of July 10, when hundreds OF starving
unemployed decided to march upon the food
stores to get something to eat,
THE Rev. Charles Holmes, minister from
Dewar, mining village near Henryetta, met
with the crowd in the City Hall before the
march and prayed for divine guidance. After
his prayer he addressed the throng, declaring
that the jobless should visit grocery stores
and ask for food, and if they did not receive
it, to take it."
Then the Times goes on to say:
Before the first store reached the head
of the procession was met by Oscar Adwen
prominent citizen and police officer, who
pleaded with the crowd merely to ask for gro
ceries and use no force. The niarchers ac-
coded to this
The result was that they didn't get much
But another result was that the sheriff and his
gang came hurriedly into town from the county
seat to see that the local cops got help in veto
ing God and unfolding capitalist private prop
erty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
&4;..
Kicking a Good Dog
By JORGE

Recently the capitalist press had its feelings
hurt by censorship order of Hoover to Wash
ington correspondents that they must not write
anything about him at all except what they got
from official sources"
Even the N. Y. Times felt grieved editorialy,
said that Hoover had been getting good
break" and therefore shouldn't be nasty.
Absolutely correct When the Republican Ma
tional Committee hired (of course the govern
ment paid for IT'D couple of new secretaries
for Hoover, to try to make Hoover look human"
to newspaper readers, the correspondents ate the
stuff up.
They told all about Hoover and the "boy hero
of Colorado blizzard" until we got sick at
the stomach. Then they did the best they could
with a puppy who "stole Hoover's egg" and
labored nightly to relate to 100000 iobless
workers whom Hoover tells to go off and die
If they can't wait for twenty years, how kind
hearted he is to his grandchildren
So it wasn't exactly fair for the old crouch
to kick the journalistic dog just because he was
caught breaking the speed laws of Virginia.
These capitalist journalists thought in their
slavkh minds, that everybody would be pleased
to know that the president of the nation ex-
ercises the divine right" of all despots to break
any law he likes
But there you are TIE despot don't like to be
known as one and he lams into the most servle
lot of bootlickers that ever polished leather
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
BY HARRY RAYMOND.

THE West Side Daily Worker Club, which was
l organized recently by small group of read
ers and friends of the Daily Worker at 4o1 w.
57th Street, New York City, serves as an excel
lent example of what a Daily Worker Club
should be. Although this club is very young
indeed it is still in its swadling clothes, being
only three weeks old, and has only as yet twenty
some members-it is one of the clubbiest little
working class clubs that this writer has ever
seen.
We can learn much from this club and from
the workers who have organized it. 1t is pro-
letarian from top to bottom. The absence OF
any kind of stiffness and formality that is often
found even in proletarian groups in America, the
general air of working class frankness with
which the meeting last Thursday night was con-
Quoted, the fine social atmosphere and COM
radely feeling and the excellent discussion that
followed the meeting, all contributed to make
the meeting success
The club itself is already a success and if the
Daily Worker Clubs already in exstance and
these being born throughout the land will fol-
low the example of the West Side Club it will
not be long before we have hundreds of per-
rnanent clubs functioning everywhere where
workers will be glad to come for a social even
Ing and entertainment to discuss the Daily
Worker and help build it into a mightier mass
paper.
What did ve find when we went down to this
little club room on the West Side? A group
of workers waiting, sitting stiffy in chairs wait
ing for a lecture? No We found Negro work.
ers. white workers, American workers, workers
of various nationalties thoroughly enjoying
themselves worker could not help but enjoy
himself among such a crowd.
The day before the meeting the members Of
the club busted themselves foraging for re-
freshments. They brought homemade cakes
and pies and all kinds of good things to eat
1t was a warm night so they had big crock
of lemonade. They called in Negro worker to
furnish music on a guitar
We had music and ate and talked and enjoyed
ourselves generally and then the chairman of
the club called the meeting to order He told
Of the purpose of the club and after briefly car
rying out the clubs business we talked about
the capitalist press and the Daily Worker We
suggested that everybody talk, to tell what they
think of the Daily Worker, to discuss the CAPT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
By LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

cTATE vagrancy laws which began to appear
- in the South after the Civil War and during
the economic crisis of 1873 are being used more
than ever a weapon against the working
class in the United States during the present
economic crisis. The employers meet the mass
misery of the workers by applying these laws
to unemployed workers picked up in connection
with strikes, hunger marches or demonstrations
The penalties are heavy fines, long chain gang
sentences, or bondage under an employer who
in order to get this type Of forced labor may
pay the fine and court costs. This is one way
of obtaining cheap labor. The planters and in
dustrial exploiters of the South regularly resort
to this practice especially against Negroes.
Reports from southern states show that the
victims of the vagrancy laws are radicals. Com
munists, members Of the Trade Union Unity
League, many c. them Negroes The laws are
used to force Negroes as well as white workers
to toll at whatever wages are offered. Unem
ployed workers are picked up on the streets of
southern cities sentenced for vagrancy, and
forced to work on the chain gangs or state
farms. Often they are leased to contractors
in mines and turpentne camps This is form
of forced labor" about which Matthew Woll
Hamilton Fish, and the other anti-Soviet ele-
ments have said nothing.
Practically every state has some kind of vag-
rancy law. The following states define as "vag-
rants those persons out of work and without
visible means of support: Colorado, Connec-
ticut Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts,,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire Tennessee,
Texas Wisconsin, and South Carolina. And they
do not specifically exclude those who are idle
because Of strikes or lockouts. In other words
the yagrancy laws can be used against strikers
as well as against the growing army of unem-
ployed. -----~,----- -.------ -,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA.
Vagrancy Laws Against Workers

And the vagrancy law of South Carolina can
easily be used by land owners against share
troopers both Negro and white, for it applies
to persons who occupy or being in possession
of some piece of land shall not cultivate enough
Of it as shall be deemed by the trial justice
to be necessary for the maintenance of himself
and his family"
In Arkansas and Oklahoma the laws include
as Migrants those who are without work and
who are mot actively seeking work" Under
this definition a worker who has been black
listed, say in cotton mill village, and who has
already tried at every mill to get Job and
been turned down, can be quickly classified as
not seeking work ard convicted as vagrant
In another group Of states the vagrancy laws
are so worded that a jobless worker can be
arrested and Jailed and given fine, or both,
if he is able to work but refuses any work Of
fered to him. Thus, an employer may force
men to work under any conditions which he
dictates, holding over them the threat Of arrest
if they refuse, no matter how low the wages.
States having this type of vagrancy laws are
Arizona, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas,
Kentucky Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah. Virginia, and
Washington.
Then there is another set of states which in
clude idle persons as Migrants but which quail
fly the term idle" as "dissolute idle or idle
and Of doubtful reputation idle transient" or
idle without home" The terms can easily
be stretched to include any unemployed worker
and certainly any active labor organizer. The
laws of the following states fall in this class
Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota,
New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode
Island South Dakota, Vermont, and wyoming.
The international Labor Defense is fighting
these laws. One practical way to fight these
vicious vagrancy laws is, therefore. to support
the work of the International Labor Defense.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
To Toiling Masses of All the World

Workers. Answer the call of the heroic
Chinese toilers who are fighting against the
bloody white terror of Chang Kai-Shek, the
tool of American Imperialism Turn out in
masses August First! Demand the with
drawaI of American gunboats from China!
Defend Soviet China!
Dear Comrades:
The rapid growth Of the Soviet movement
in Kiangsi Human, Hupeh, Fu-kien, Honan An
whei and other provinces of China causes panic
in the ranks of the imperialists, the Kuonin-
tang, the nlilitarists, the e-organizationists,
headed by Van Tsin-Vei, the hquidatorS headed
by Chang Du-su, the social democrats, headed
by Den Yan-da the Rights, headed by Lo-
Chang-lun, the chauvinists the Russian White
Guards and all the other varieties of the Coun-
ter-revolution in China. The imperialsts give
direct help to the Kuomintang and control its
army of 100000 men and its navy. The failure
of the first Kuomintang campaign against the
Red Army has made the international and
Chinese counter-revolution hate the heroic
workers and peasants Chinese Red Army and
it's leader the Chinese Communist Party even
more than before.
simultaneously with the second military ex-
petition against the Soviet districts for which
the inperialists and the Kuomintang had
equipped army of over 100000 men, they
modified all the forces of the counter-revo-
luton from the Kuomintang reorganization
lists down to the vacillating elements in the
Chinese Communist Party itself for the struggle
against the Chinese Communist Party and the
revolutionary workers and peasants who have
risen under its leadership against the present
regime. The reactionaries endes~o our to drown
the Chinese Soviet Revolution in Re blood of
millions of Chinese workers, peasar s. soldiers
and poorest elements of the population.
In the struggle against the Soviet districts,
they make use of aeroplanes poison cases. and
big long-ran guns sweeping clean off the face
of the earth whole towns and villages. The
imperialists and the Kuonlintang do not spare
the revolutionary population, using rifles.
chine guns and cannon against all-old men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-21
This Is the last of series of three articles.
"A reply TO Edmund wilson's New Republic
Article of July 81
By BILL dunno
Article III.


From l921-I922 to 1924 Keeney was hanger
on with the machine With the disappearance
of the union in southern West Virginia his use
fitness to Lewis disappeared. Van A Bitner be-
came the organizer of the bought-and- paid-for
delegates from there whom Lewis needed for
convention purposes.
In 1e23-24 the rise of the left wing against the
Lewis machine began In one election Voysey,
an Illinois miner practically unknown outside
his sub-dstrict, actually defeated Lewis by
referendum and compelled to allow Voysey 60
900 votes. the Lewis machine stayed in office
only by the most obvious ballot thievery and
terrorism.
Following the signing of the Jacksonville con-
tract in 1924 when Lewis agreed to drive 200,-
900 miners out of the industry and put over the
speed-up for the operators, the left wing organ
lied the save the Union" movement which cul-
minated in the strike of 100000 Pennsylvania
and Ohio miners in 1923 The Lewis machine
betrayed this strike. The conditions of the min
ers became increasingly terrible, notably in
West Virginia.
Keeney appeared for a brief period in
the 1871 period to fIirt with the Save the
Union" movement but only, as was discovered
later to be able to make detailed report to the
Lewis machine.
Keeney was able at the reorganization" con-
venton in Springfield in 1880, in which the
Musteites took part to swallow without vonit-
ing the nauseous dose prepared by Harrington,
the S25,0Oo per year stoolpigeon, the crying John
Walker FishVick Howat and other choice speci-
mems of the Peabody Coal Company, types OF
renegades and jackales preying on the miners.
In this he in no way differed from the Music
ties who hailed this back-to-LeWis movement as
blazing the trail to salvation for all the miners
Of America. This of course was for the con-
sumption OF the miners. Musteites never had
any doubt as to where the movement was going.
All they wanted was to smooth the trail so the
miners would not stumble on the way and fall
into some Communist machine-gun nest.
The "reorganzed" Illinois faction leaders soon
found their way back to the UMWA. But since
Keeney could not deliver the coal miners Of
southern West Virginia for Lewis, both because
there is no checkoff there and because they
would not stand for it, he was left out OF the
settlement and consequently had to find other
methods of bringing enough pressure upon the