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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Duncan, Harlan Miner
Urges All Out Oct. 3rd
Huge Mooney Miners-Scottsboro Demonstra-
ton at Noon On Union So Saturday

NEW YORK.-Bill Duncan, one of
the fighting Harlan, Kentucky, min
ers who faces a charge of criminal
syndicalism, yesterday issued call
to all New York workers to join in
a huge demonstration this Saturday,
october 3, in Union Square, at 1890
p. m, and demand the release of
Tom Mooney, the Harlan prisoners,
the Scottsboro boys and all other
class war prisoners. He also called
on all trade unions, workers clubs,
shop groups and other workers or
CARNATIONS to send delegates to the
big conference in Irving Plaza, 18th
st. and Irving Place, on Sunday, Oc-
tober IL, at 10 a. m, where a great
defense campaign will be launched.
Duncan, who is now in New York,
having been released on bail, issued
his statement through the New
York District Of the International
Labor Defense, which is arranging
both the demonstration and the con-
ference. He declared:
Felt the Terror
"I have seen with my own eyes
and felt with my own body the ter
ror of the capitalist class and know
there are no crimes the bosses will
stop at to gain their ends. 1874 miners
in Harlan County are facing death
or long terms in Jail because they
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

dared to fight against starvation,
dared to demand bread for their
children, clothes and a roof over
their heads. These miners know
that they can expect no justice from
the capitalist courts; Tom Mooney,
rotting away these Is years, knows
it; every militant worker in jail who
isn't blind knows it. And they know
that only the power Of the united
workingclass all over the country can
free them.
Demonstrate!
"In the name of my comrades in
Kentucky, in the name of Tom Moo
ney, of the nine Negro boys in Scots
boro, in the name Of our fellow
prisoners of Imperial Valley and
Centralia, in the name of all the
fighters now behind the bars, call
on all workers to make this Satur-
days demonstration in Union Square
a mighty challenge to the efforts OF
the bosses to murder and imprison
all those who fight for the working
class. I call on every workers Or
ganization, big and little, to send dele
gates to the October II conference,
and under the leadership of the In
ternational Labor Defense organize
a great campaign TO snatch our com
rades from the paws of the CAPT
talist hangmen and jailers."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
i. S. AGENTS IN
SLIPPER STRIKE
Strikers Refuse to Be
Frightened

NEW YORK.-After failure Of all
sorts Of tricks to break the strike of
the workers at Melrose Slipper Shop,
II West 10th ST., government agents
have been called in to try and in
timidate the strikers.
On Monday, the shop committee
and the representatives Of the Shoe
and Leather Workers Industrial
Union of the Trade Union Unity
League had a conference with the
management. The committee pre-
sented the demands: Recognition of
the union, withdrawal of the last
wage cut, 44-hour week and recogni-
ton Of the shop committee.
The bosses evaded discussing these
demands, and tried to start an ar
gument over Communism. The union
representatives refused to discuss
anything but the demands. The con-
ference ended. Then came the gov
eminent agents with threats of ar
rest and deportation.
The strikers heard the committees
report on the conference, and many
workers took the floor and stated
they were proud to belong to a union
that fights for their interests, and
that they will not be frightened by
propaganda against THE Reds" IF
fighting for the workers means being
Red, then we are all Reds and glad
of it." they said.
All workers and all strikers are
called to mass picket demonstra-
ton tomorrow morning at 7 a. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
BIG FIGHT ON
PAY CUT LOOMS
IN MASS. MILLS
Lawrence w ork ers
Grid for Resistance

NEW YORK.-Fearing the resist
ance Of the textile workers in Law
renee, Mass, where a general wage
cut takes place on October 10, the
leading mill bosses have planned out
their strike7breaking activity with
citizens committee" and Mayor
Michael A. Landers.
The Boston Sunday Post tells of
"a secret meeting of mill owners to
cut wages" This wage cut affects
from 10000 to $4,000 textile workers,
most of whom have already received
pay cuts within short time.
The bosses sheet, the Daily News
Record of New York, says: TT is
acknowledged that wages paid to
textile employees represent one of the
lowest of the group of marufactur-
ing industries" On top of this comes
the 10 per cent wage cut which this
same sheet says the workers are
preparing to fight. They put it as
follows:
Concerted opposition by every
agency representing the working
people to a 10 per cent reduction
in wages which it is proposed to
put into effect in every mill in this
district on October IL, began TO
crystalline tonight with representa-
tives of labor organizations taking
the lead in issuing vehement state
ments to the effect that every eff
fort viii be made to organize the
mill workers and assist them in
resisting any reduction in their
weekly pay envelopes"
H. A. Riyerer of the A. F. of L.
United Textile Workers Union in
Manchester, where the workers have
been forced to accept one cut after
another, is talking about resistance"
very much in the fashion of Green
and Vol who also said something
about resistance" to the steel wage
cut, but did all they could when it
came to put it over.
The Lawrence workers have always
followed militant leadership, shying
away from the fakery of the A. F.
of L. misleaders. The National Tex
tile Workers Union which has fought
many bitter battles against the bos-
SEES and their wage cuts is organizing
for real resistance against the wage
cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
u. S. BUDGET
HIT; KEEP UP
WAR ARMLNC
Pay Rich Bondholders
S450,000, But
Refuse Relief
S2.OO0.OOO,OOO Deficit
Talk Of Greater Taxes
For Workers, etc.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-With
the United States Treasury facing a
deficit of $2,OOO,OOo,oo0 the coming
year, mainly because during the crisis
the rich pay less taxes, and the war
ornaments program keeps going
ahead at full speed, government au-
thorities are talking about some ways
to make up the shortage.
The main attack is against the
workers through refusing any form
of federal unemployment insurance
or relief. The ex-servicemen are hit,
and Mellon proposes. and increased
tax, not for the rich who have the
millions and billions, but for the petty
bourgeoisie as we'll as for the workers
through all sorts of sales tax.
To begin the next tax drive In
order to avert a budgetary crisis,
the Hoover government follows the
usual lies about cutting down on
naval ornaments Behind all this
talk there turks the insistance that
the United States Navy be kept up
to the strength of the London naval
treaty, which means it will be built
up ready for war against any i'm
perialist competitor or against the
Soviet Union.
One source of stopping government
expenditures for the benefit of the
bosses, and transferring the money
to the unemployed, Is the payment
for the retirement of war debts. The
rich capitalists in the United States
hold around 100000 100000 in war
debt bonds, on which they are paid
every year.
The United States government pays
these parasites $450Oo0,o0o year as
interest. Instead of touching these
funds, the capitalist administration
looks to the workers who are harrass-
ed by unemployment. by wage cuts
and starvation as means of making
up an additional $2,0oo000,oOO.
A campaign is starting in Congress
now to save the rich exploiters from
further taxes. They will make all
sorts of pretenses at economy, espe-
cially economy when it comes to
starving 100000 unemployed, but
they will fight to the last ditch to
keep the rich from paying any more
taxes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
.rive Backed
By US. Govt;
More Coming
Constant Gain In Wage Cut Campaign Shows That
Workers Must Act Now to Stop 1t!
Railroads Coming Next, as Govt Prepares for Cul
Through Commerce Commission

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29-As the Daily
Worker forecast, the wage cut drive keeps on,
spreading to a wider group of industries Now
only the resistance of the workers can stop this
continuous attack on the living standards.
How closely the Hoover government connected with the
pay sashng drive shown by the action Secretary the
Treasury Mellon leading mperat in the government who
himself ordered the cuts in his Aluminium Company Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Upholstery Shops Mass
Pick citing Continues;
Relief Ba dly Needed

NEW YORK.-Yesterday a mass
picketing demonstration took place
in front Of the Marion Upholstery
Company, corner Grand st. & Briggs
Ave, Brooklyn, 10 prevent the scabs
from going UP to work All furniture
workers and all other workers are
called TO come down every day at
$50 in the morning to strike head
quarters, as Ten Eyck ST.. corner
Lorimer st., Brooklyn, to participate
in our mass picketing demonstration.
Relief at the present moment OF
the strike is very important. Work
ers and workers organizations. send
your contributions In to the union,
z z Mh 81. NsS 2oEk L..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
.Sell-Out of Loft Strikers
Rejected; Strike Continues
Young Candy Workers Fight Scabs and Cops
One Striker Is Shot Three Arrested

by Loft. In all the capitalist press,
Loft advertised yesterday that its
business had doubled in the last year.
All day yesterday there was a great
fighting spirit among the strikers.
They stoned truckloads of scabs and
police, they smashed the windows of
the factory and beat up a policeman.
During the fighting number of bull
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Professors Pay Cut

DELAWARE, Ohio, Sept. 29.-The
faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, whose function it is to teach
how beneficial capitalism is to the
workers, got its wages cut 10 per
cent. In their usual manner, they
accepted the pay cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
81 TRANSPORT WORKERS FIRED
IN UTICA
lBy a worker CORRESPONDENT

10y q WUIKtI CUIItSpUHueHt'I
UTICA, N. Y.-The New York State
Railway Line layed off IS men this
week. Many of these men had from 10
to 20 years service. Also the D. L.
and w. freight house with force Of
about ten fired two men, one with
fifteen years of service, the other
with nineteen.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

Soviet Forced Labor"-Bedacht'
series in pamphlet form at 10 cents
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Zinc Co. Pay Cut
Philadelphia City Cut

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. 90
Major Lemuel B. Schofeld, director
of public safety, i Recommending a
pay cut of 10 per cent for city en-
ployes. Mayor Mackey said that the
city had 100000 less to spend this
year than last. Rather than increase
taxes for the rich the workers will
suffer through pay cuts and cut
ting down of the meagre unemploy-
ment relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

America
Again the preparations for wage
cuts on the railroads is shown in the
arguments yesterday before the In
terstate Commerce Commission. This
body deals with greight rates. The
railroads are asking for freight rate
increases merely as a dodge to pass
over to wage cuts. In the argu-
ments before the Commission very
little is said about rate increases, but
everything is said about wage cuts.
The latest demand for wage cuts
was made by Charles E. CotteriIl OF
Atlanta, Ca, speaking for the South
ern Traffic League and other organ
izations He followed the usual Inie
heard here Of declaring wage cuts
to be the solution for increasing pro-
fit for the railroad stockholders.
Envelope Co. Cuts Pay
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 29.-
The United States Envelope Co. cut
wages for all its factory and office
workers. The exact amount Of the
pay slash was not announced but it
is above 10 per cent.
Zinc Co. Pay Cut
POUNDSVILLE, w. Va, Sept %.
The United Zinc Smelling Co. will
cut wages 10 per cent on October l.
This is subsidiary of the Bethlehem
Steel Co which olcO ont nov
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CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
CAPONE IN NEW
TROUBLES

(Continued From, Page u
March, 1929, to support his con-
tention that he was then too i'll
to come before the Federal grand
jury in Chicago.
Faces Vagrancy Trial
Two of Capone's old friends,
Willie and Bennie Pope, were
called before the Federal grand
jury late yesterday and ques-
toned regarding AIS finances.
Both witnesses were said to have
been employed in the Capone
gambling trust and were queS-
toned regarding the gang czar's
finances.
Subpoenas have been issued for
other gamblers who might have
definite information of the
Capone financial status. The
same evidence used to convict
Jake Guzik, Capone's financial
manager, on an income tax
charge, are to be used against
the gang leader.
Since Capone faces a vagrancy
trial in the felony court on
Wednesday, he will be accessible
to the Government for a period
sufficient to complete the income
tax data, it was said.
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Of SHOALS
BILL AWAITED
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the matter back to Congress,
where a necessary two-5hirds vote
cannot be mustered to pass It
over his veto.
The President has used his veto
power more freely in the past
few days than any executive in
the past decade. He has rejected
several bills affecting war vet
erans' legislation, and also disap.
proved two bills which would
have given certain Indian tribes
the right to prosecute, still fur
ther, land claims AGAINST the Gov
ernment.
Overridden On Bonus
He ran into immediate opposi-
ton, however, when he vetoed the
measure increasing loan values on
World War veterans service GER
tificates from 221a per cent to so
per cent, and both houses
promptly repassed it by an over
whelming majority.
AS the White House views it.
the power bill now up for consid-
Grafton still remains the one
originally introduced by Senator
George w. Norris of Nebraska, in.
surgent leader, despite the con-
ference amendments under which
the President has authority to
lease the property within II
months.
Norris always has stood for
Government operation. The Ad-
ministratiOn contention is that
no private lease could be negoti-
ated even in a whole year, bear.
ing in mind the failure of infOr.
NAL commissions to rent the
power plant during the past
decade.
Plans Definite Action
Mr.. Hoover has given Southern
members of Congress assurance
he would take definite action on
the bill. Many have called,
urging he sign it. He has told
them the measure was receiving
careful consideration by the Fed
eral departments affected. He
gave them to understand he
would base his decision upon the
facts thus adduced."
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
REENACTS
BRIDGE CAME
KILLING
Former Senator, Gun CIutched
In Hand, Shows Jury How
Bennett Was Killed in Row

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. %
An admission that the revolver
shots which killed John G. Ben
nett as the aftermath of bridge
game quarrel might have been
fired during a struggle was re-
garded today as a victory for the
defense of Mrs. Myrtle Bennett,
the widow who is on trial for her
husbands murder.
DR.. Stanley M. Hall, deputy
coroner and a witness for the
prosecution. admitted that point
yesterday while being questioned
by former Senator James A. Reed,
chief of defense counsel.
Re-enact Scene
GraSping a revolver in one hand,
the ex-senator re-enacted the
bridge game Staying before the
jurors yesterday in an effort to
prove that the fatal shots might
have been fired in the course of
! d GuSSAS UCb"CCu VIC W1AC dAlu nCL
wealthy husband on September
20, 1929.
Francis O'Sullivan, Reeds as
sistant in the widows defense,
helped the former Senator in his
exhibition. Together they dem
onstrated from which position the
revolver was fired.
Hoffman TeStifieS
DR.. Hall admitted that burns on
a, polo shirt worn by Bennett on
the night of his death were pow
der marks made by a revolver
fired at close range, a point the
defense has tried to establish in
support of the contertion a strug-
gle took place between Mr.. and
Mrs. Bennett.
Charles Hoffman, a player in
the bridge game the night of
BENEFITS death, took the stand
for the third time and related
what took place in the apartment
before the fatal shooting.
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
WRIGHT [AUDED
FORFARE WORK

Commendation to j. c. Wright,
teacher at Cardozo Business High
School, who figured greatly in the
movement for reduced car fare
for children of the public schools
was expressed by the Federation
Of Civic Associations meeting last
night in the board room at the
District Building.
The association named a com,
mittee to act on the advisory
council election which takes place
in April. The committee COM
prises DR.. j. j. Porter, H. D.
Queen, w. r. Giles, Charles A.
DeVaughn and w. w. Horad.
Much unrest has arisen in the
association over the refusal of
DR.. George H. Richardson, presi,
dent of the federation to be a
candidate for reelection to the
Citizens Advisory Council.
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
WITNESS TELLS
Of FPETT|NG At
FATAL PARTY
Youth Accuses Kirkland of
Drinking With Girl Victim;
Waitress Recalls Cafe Visit

VALPARAISO, Ind, Feb. %
GNS0 Witnesses at the mur-
der trial here of Virgil Kirkland,
81, former Gary High School
athlete, accused of killing Arlene
braves, 18, today described events
connected with the liquor party
which resulted in the girls death
last November 30.
It is alleged Kirkland and the
four other young men still
awaiting trial attacked Miss
braves during the fatal party,
held in Gary.
Waitress Is Witness
Before a capacity crowd, Miss
Victoria Leonard, a waitress in
a Gary restaurant, testified that
Kirkland and two of the other
accused men, David Thompson
and Paul Barton, visited the
restaurant on the night Miss
braves died. Miss Leonard tes.
titled:
kirkland had blood on his
hands. He washed it off at the
wash BASIN"
The waitress also declared Kirk
land made a slurring remark in
dicating that he had outraged
Miss braves, and that Thompson
appeared nervous when he saw
policeman near the door.
Miss Leonard said she looked
out a window and saw what
might have been person lean
ing against the back window Of
the car in which the trio arrived.
The prosecution contends that
Miss braves left the party for a
time in an automobile, accom-
panied by some of the men
present.
Saw Pair Dancing
Another witness, Richard Shurt-
ridge, a guest at the party. gave
details of the affair itself. He
said he had bought a gallon Of
alcohol and gallon of wine.
Asked about Kirkland and Miss
braves, Shurtridge, a clerk in q
Gary steel mill, said he saw them
drinking and dancing together.
He testified:
Later, I saw them both on
the davenport in a more or less
loving Scene."
Then, he said, he saw them on
the porch and overheard Kirkland
tell Arlene he loved her, and
heard the girl reply:
II want to go home"
Finds Girl Prone
Shurtridge stated that a few
minutes later, he heard a loud
thump on the porch and saw
Arlene lying on her face, and
picked her up. He quoted Kirk
land as saying:
"Gfve her to me, she's drunk"
According to ShurtrIdge, Miss
braves uttered low mean, but
said nothing.
The defense claims Miss Braves
death resulted from an acciden-
tai fall.
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
to me about it at all, and there
is no truth whatever in it.

10 me dDOuC IL Al dII' anu IHcEC
is no truth whatever in it."
The reason for holding the re-
port of former Chief Blanchard
for three years before considering
it is shrouded in mystery. Asked
why the report had not been
submitted earlier. the former po-
lice head is said to have de-
clared that mo one had asked
him for it,"
Previous Charge Made
Justice Morris yesterday was
named by Governor Ritchie for
another term, but the romina-
ton must be ratified by the
State Senate before the appoint
ment becomes final.
An alleged shortage in the ac-
counts of the justice of the peace,
who is also president of the
Associated Charities here, was
charged year ago, but the mat
ter was dropped when an adjust
ment was made.
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
Rural Health Bill
Goes to Conference

Coordination of activities relat-
ing to rural health and material
and child health is proposed IN
a bill approved by the House. A
similar bill has passed the Senate
but because of House amendments
the measure now goes to confer
ence committee.
The Federal board created
would comprise the surgeon gen.
eral of the Public Health Service.
the chief of the Children's Bureau
and the United States Commits
sioner q Education.
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BUREAU
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many of them pennileSs and un-
employed.
California Is First

employed.
California Is First
There were more than 200
men in line when the office
opened this morning. and they
started filing into the contact
division, presented their dis
charge papers and other creden-
tials and obtained their applica-
tions.
| First in the line was Jack
Faey. of Los Angeles, a veteran
of the Thirty-first Infantry with
a record of long service in the
icy wastes of Siberia.
Jack hitch-hiked across the
Continent, broke but happy. He
arrived here yesterday afternoon,
and went straight to police sta
tion and told his story.
You couldn't help but tell that
Jack was a veteran of the Siber-
ian expeditionary forces. He wore
the old heavy trench cap issued
to those troops and the heavy
overcoat that helped to keep
the chill of Siberian winter off
him.
Out of Work Some Time
At the police station the Off
GERS bought him a meal and told
him where the Veterans Bureau
was located. And at II o'clock
last night Jack was No. man in
line.
This morning one of the unem-
ployed apple venders gave him an
apple. It wasn't much, but it was
the best he could do. Newspaper
men bought Jack some breakfast
and thus fortified he awaited the
opening of the office.
Jack has been out of work for
some time, he said. When he gets
the money the first thing he is 60
ing to do is buy real meal. Then
some clothes. And then he is go
ing to look around for a job, and
he will have money to tide him
over till he finds work.
Behind Jack in line was Mel
son Baker, of 3523 Roland Ave,
Baltimore, a veteran of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry with a rec
ord of 18 months in France.
And then came a long line of
veterans of all forces and with
many months service. They re.
garded this passing of the loan
bill the greatest thing that hal
happened to them since the sign
ing of the Armistice.
additional bonus news on page b
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
WOMAN JUR|ST
FACES INQUIRY

(Continued From Page ~
covering a period from July IA,
1927, to February l, 1928.
According to the report of the
former police chief, fines during
the period in Judge Morris court
totaled S137, while it is charged
that the report of the court
showed only S92 collected.
Report Is Denied
Justice Morris today emphatic
ally denied that there was any
truth in the report. She de-
clared:
The council has said nothing
The Washington times., 1931-02-28
MARRIAGE LICENSES

ROCKVILLE, Md, Feb. %.
Marriage licenses were issued
here to Thomas Deane Lewis, 30,
of Bethesda, and Elizabeth Clax-
ton Elliot, 80, of Chevy Chase;
Freeman w. Chapman, 81, and
Rebecca MONTE, 20, both of Wash
ington, and John j. Healy, 35,
and Pauline G. Loffler, 81, both
of Baltimore,