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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
FREDERICKSBURG MAN
GETS VETERANS POST
John M. George to Handle Insur.
ance Claims in Richmond
Regional Office.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, August 22.--Col. E
w. Jordan, manager of the Richmond
regional ONCE of the United States
Veterans Administration, announced
today the assignment of John M
George to this Office. Mr.. George, a
native OF Fredericksburg and q law
graduate of George washington Uni
versity, viii have the handling of all
insurance clalms against the Govern
ment in Virginia aiidnart of West Vir-
ginia.
He was for many years IA the Office
of the corporation counsel n the city
of washington. There are rev pend
ing 81 claims under the WatNEisk in
suras1ce act, amounting to $46NQ00, in
the Richmond once aloha.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
"FUN SWIM" FOR SCOUTS
Red Cross to Give Saving
Exhibition Tuesday.

Several hundred Boy Scouts of the
District, with IL Mohawk Indians as an
added attraction will gather at the
Tech pool. Tuesday morning, for a fun
swim" Tie activity SlIl open at 10
O'Clock and will be under the super
vision OF Worth Shoultz, scoutmaster
Of Troop 90
The Special Life Saving Corps OF the
District Of Columbia Chapter OF the
Red Cross will give an exhibition Of
life saving methods, under the direc-
ton OF Ira Lee Law, directing 1nstruc-
tor Contests in fancy diving and races
will round out the program
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23

wondering when and where he would
get his next meal
Talbert said he had been persuaded
to leave by another boy about his age
who at the last minute had backed
down. Talbert said he boarded .
freight at Camp Meigs Thursday, with
50 in his pocket.
His money lasted him until Friday
night. Then he begged meal IN
Baltimore restaurant. he spent Ihlfs-
day night In a vacant shack and Friday
night IN box COR, he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
AUTO LEAVES ROAD;
YOUTH, is, IS KILLED
Services Will Be Held Today for
Preston Boy-Wet Paving
Blamed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
DANVILLE, Va. August 22.-Clyde
Morris, It, was instantly killed last
night near MartinSville, Henry County,
when the automobile he was driving
left curve on a slippery road and
plunged into a ditch He Was the son
of Mr. and Mrs w. T. Morris of Pres
ton. Services will be held tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
Church Plans Festival.

Iceland, Md, August % Especially i.
"A base ball game, horseshoe pitching
G ntest, other events. and a Southern
Maryland dinner viii mark the annual
Labor day festival Of st. Barnabas
Church. September 2, in the church
grove near this place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
TWO BROTHERS HURT
IN TRUCK-AUT0 CRASH
New Jersey Youths Are Treated At
Hospital After Accident at
Gum Springs.
special Dispatch 10 The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. August 22.--
When a truck OF Charles King a. Sons.
AlexanS...ta. driven by Sam Blondhetm,
collided with the machine of Theodore
Hockenberry of Glen Garden NJ j.. at
Gum Springs, south Of here. yesterday
two sons OF the New jersey motorist
were injured
Theodore. jr.. Q, suffered a broken rib
and cuts about the face, and Harry,
4 years old. received bad decorations
about the head Both were given treat
nnent AZ Fort Humphreys Hospital and
later sent 10 the Alexandria Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
BODIES START TRIP.
Several Hundred Accompany March "a
Station.

Station.
PHILADELPHIA, August % UP.-
Mounted on q caiSSon, q casket con-
tanning the body of Capt John Gwinn.
one-time commander OF the frigate
Constitution and also that of his wife,
was started today on the way to its
final resting place in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Several hundred marchers accom-
panied the bodies to Broad Street Sta
ton, from where they will be taken
to Washington tomorrow for burial
Monday.
The bodies were taken Thursday from
Glenwood Cemetery, years ago the bur-
ial ground for many Philadelphians of
prominence, but now being abandoned
for building operations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
DAIRY WILL GIVE PICNIC
FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN
Arlington Company to Stage Third
Annual outing-Program
is Outlined.
Dispatch to The star.

Special Dlsp0tch 70 Int Sat.
ARLINGTON. Va, August 22.-One
hundred inmates OF the ST. Johns
Orphanage viii be guests of Herbert L.
Marcy. president OF the Arlington
third annual picnic given fer them by
the dairy company.
Ice cream, cake candy and milk will
be served the youngsters. while a pre-
tentious program az games and athletic
contests has beerssRrTanged BY oficials
Of the institution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-23
BASQUE PAPERS CLOSED
Two More Publications Suspended
by Spain.

MADRID, August 2s GP9.-4The gov
eminent announced today It had gus-
pended two Pamplona newspapers.
Pensamiento Navarro and Tradition.
The papers were representative OF ex-
IRENE Catholicism and are among nine
BASQUE publications closed By the gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
Striking Miners Organize to Fight Evictions

miners orders to leave town, but
they have not gone as yet. They
said that they we're not going to let
their fathers and mothers fight a
battle alone which was also theirs.
On June 90 the company issued 200
evictions on the miners. One woman
defended her furniture and had her
clothes torn off her back by the po-
lice. Her little child went to defend
her and the brutal police threw the
child against the table. The miners
are organizing committee to stop
evictions. Everybody here awaits
eagerly the next issue of the Daily
Worker.
Womens and children's organiza-
lions are growing fast. If anyone
knows what organization means to
the workers, these striking miners
do and are ready to defend their
interests.
An Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
5-YEAk PLAN IN
AGRICULTURE
Soviet Specialization VS..
y S Farm Crisis

RED Villages: The Five Year Plan
in Agriculture" has just been issued
by International Publishers, 381
Fourth Ave, New York.
This book, the work of Y. A. Yak
ovlev, Soviet Commissar of Agricul-
ture, should be read by every worker.
The Five-Year Plan for agriculture,
Comrade Yakoylev shows, has been
more than completed now, with al
most 100000 Of the $4,000, 900
peasant strip farms moulded into
great collectives. BY the end OF the
Five-Year Plan period, Soviet agri-
culture will be completely socialized.
Red Villages contains a detailed
comparison Of Soviet Socialist agri-
culture and the farm CEisis In this
country. While the standard of the
Soviet farmers life has steadily risen
the book shows how the American
farmer is caught in crisis With the
warehouses bullying with surplus
grain while city workers face starya-
ton.
This special edition at so cents a
copy makes it available for every
worker reader.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
CHICAGO AUGUST |
CONFERENCE
Prepare International
Red Day Preparations

CHICAGO, Ill, June 22.-August
LIST, the International Red Day
against imperialiSt war will be a day
of mass demonstrations throughout
District 8. In Chicago, a call has
been sent out by the Communist
Party. Trade Union Unity League,
and Friends of the Soviet Union for
a conference to take place on July
10, Friday at Peoples Auditorium.
This conference will elect a broad
committee that will be in charge of
the mobilization of the workers on
August LIST. The struggle of the en-
ployed workers against the worsen-
ing of their conditions, the follow
ing up of the successful Illinois
Hunger March for unemployment in
surance, the fight for the release of
the Scottsboro boys are all part of
the mobilization of workers for
August LIST.
The slogan of the District Com
mittee is more demonstrations with
more workers than on May Day
This means that we have to surpass
the 26 demonstrations with $4,000
workers. Considering the splendid
response Of the workers reached in
new cities, in cities where they got
in touch with us through the Hun
ger March for the first time, this is
easily possible.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26

Virag out of the house by saying that
they were deputies and had right
to beat him up. Virag recognized
their voices, however, and did not
come out.
The deputies then came, but didn't
seem very interested in the case and
none of them investigated to see
where the gunner ran to, for they
themselves knew of the plot
The next day these two gunner
came to work, The deputy sheriff,
Mr. Charming, didn't care to arrest
these gunner. Why? Because they
all take their orders from Mr.. Mus
ser, the superintendent of the mine
The picket lines here are still go
ing strong The children are organ
lied to sing on the picket line We
are all glad to belong to the Ma
tional Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
LUMBER WAGES
CUT, WORKERS
OUT ON STRIKE

CLfAR LAKE, Wash.-The work
ers of the Clear Lake Single Co.
struck against a wage cut of 20 per
cent announced by the bosses on Fri
day. Mass picket lines were estab-
lished in which the Unemployed
Council of Sedro Wooley participat-
ed. BY Monday morning as the re-
suit of the mass picketing the great
est part Of the men were out on
strike.
Tuesday the boss, fellow by the
name of Melbey, offered to take the
packers back at the old scale, but
the rest of the workers we're to get
cut. The workers rejected this be-
cause they saw Immediately that it
was only an attempt of the boss to
split their ranks and break the
strike.
The workers put up the following
demands: No wage cut, no discrimi-
nation, recognition of the mill COM
mittee and no speed up. The boss
refused these demands and the work.
ers sent delegation to Everett to
spread the strike into the other mills
owned by the boss there. The strik-
ers have resolutely prevented the
boss from bringing any strike break
ers into the mill.
Good Support for Relief Committee.
The relief committee set up by
the strikers has received good sup
port from the farmers in the neigh
borhood. The Seattle Unemployed
Council has pledged the strikers It's
support. They have already placed
unemployed workers on the streets of
Seattle with banners to warn work.
ers away from the strike scene. The
strikers are also receiving the active
support Of the National Lumber
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
TAG DAYS START TODAY!
ALL COMRADES ON STREET!
LEVIN IN CHICAGO THURSDAY!

Today is the first day of National
Daily worker Tag Days. Every Par
ty, League, Pioneer and fraternal or
ganizGtiOn member must be out on
the street today. tomorrow and Sun
day with boxes soliciting funds for
the Daily. Every single box must
be. put into immediate action! Every
comrade must be made responsible
for the success of the Drive during
these banner days. Failure at this
point of the campaign means actual
suspension of the Daily Worker,
Suspension of the Daily Worker at
this time means disaster to the
working class! Fill the boxesl Com
plete your quotas Save the Daily
while you can! Hail Daily Worker
Tag Days! Make these days memoir
able in the workingclass calendar!
COmrade Levin, Business Mama
ger of the Daily Worker now ON
tour to the Districts thruOut the
country will he in Chicago Thurs
day and Friday of this week for
conference with District Func-
tiOnarfes. Following is his itin-
erary from this point on; Mil
waukee, June %; Minneapolis,
June IS; Butte, July /; Seattle,
July 3; Portland, July 4 or q; San
Francisco, July q; Los Angeles,
July II. Meetings of Friends and
Readers of the Daily will be held
on July 4 at pm. at Workers
Center. 913M Tacoma Ave-, Taco
ma. WASH. and on July at
Workers Hall, 1917 Third Street,
Portland. Ore. Meeting at Butte,
Mont, will be held July / at Luc
Hall. Other meetings will be an
nOunced later.
The strike situation and the
stories in the Daily Worker are
pushing up the circulation of the
Daily in Pittsburgh District. Com
rade Levin's short stay in Pittsburgh
also instrumental in arousing COM
rades in the Campaign for Funds.
Intensive activity promised by Dis
trict 5, ON coupon books, also greater
action during Tag Days.
District 6, Cleveland, assured
Comrade Levin of closer cooperation
between Party Units and the Daily
Worker. Up till now the Daily
Worker was considered as sort of
autonomous republic in Cleveland.
There was not sufficient direction
and connecting up of Daily Worker
with Party activities.
All volunteers for the Cleveland
DIV. Tag Days are to report at the
following stations on Saturday and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
STRIKE AGAINST
WAGE SLASH
New Haven Needle
Workers Out

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June 25.-
Yesterday morning, twelve young
girls Of a skirt factory here went out
on strike against two dollar wage
cut which the boss attempted to put
over on them. The workers in this
factory have been receiving SIS and
as low as SO a week.
With the help Of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union, a
strong picket line was formed the
next morning. The workers sue
ceeded in keeping out one of the
three girls who had remained work.
ing in the shop.
At strike meeting at the TUUL
hall, Strike Committee was elected.
The girls are very enthusiastic and
determined to fight it out until they
win. They have voted unanimously
to picket the shop morning, noon
and night and will carry signs pro-
claiming that they are on strike
against wage cut.
There have been frequent lay-offs
in this shop until from 40 workers,
there are now only Is workers. Now
the bosses are going further and are
attempting to force a wage cut.
Under the leadership of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union
the girls are determined to stick to-
gether and win back the cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
Many Cities Go Into
Action Today to Aid
Save Daily Worker

Information has been received
from a number of cities on the
preparations for the big Daily
Worker Tag Days that start TO-
day and continue tomorrow and
Sunday Thousands of dollars
must be raised during these three
days to enable the Daily to exist.
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pitts
burgh, San Francisco, Buffalo and
Boston are determined to make
up for their bad showing in the
drive by raising enough money on
the Tag Days to fulfill their
quotas, while New York is deter
mined to double its quota.
In Detroit and Pittsburgh the
Tag Days are being held Jointly
for the Daily Worker and for
miners relief. Detroit is organiz-
ing a special concentration to-
morrow and Sunday, when at
least 1000 collectors are expected
to be in action. In Chicago the
Tag Days will last only two days,
starting tomorrow. In every city
every class conscious worker must
participate and help save the
Daily
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
PLAN GENERAL
STRIKE IN PERU
Protest Massacre Of
Oil, Sugar Workers

A 24-hour general strike is planned
in Peru. according to an Associated
Press report, from Lima. The Gen
eral Confederation of Peruvian
Workers, the cable states, at meet
ing on Sunday decided unanimously
on a general strike against the
massacre of workers at the oil fields
of Talara and the sugar plantations
of Chiclayo.
None of these massacres of work
ers was reported in the capitalist
press in the United States.
Another meeting, addressed by
members of the Communist Party of
Peru, was held, calling on the SOL
diers, workers, peasants and students
to overthrow the present puppet
government of imperialism and
establish workers and peasants
government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
STATE TROOPERS, DEPUTIES SEARCH
MINERS HOMES; ARREST STRIKERS

shooting by the deputies.
The coroner is holding his inves-
tigation in secret, not even newspa-
per men being allowed in. He is sub
peoneying witnesses, including min
ers, and his own stenographers take
down what they say, or what the
coroner wants it represented that
they said.
The Central Rank and File Strike
COMMITTEE, with 1921 members pres
ent. today appointed a committee to
make all arrangements for the mass
funeral of both Peter zigaric, killed
by the deputies in Wildwood, and of
Mike Filipovich, killed by the dep
uties in Arnold City.
The committee also denounces the
secret hearing, preliminary to shift
ing the blame from the deputies to
the miners and bolstering I'D the
charges of collation. of Injunction,
'rioting," etc. which face those ar
rested.
Sheriff Cain of Allegheny County
has already issued statements white
washing his hired murderers. and
claiming that they fired in self de-
fense."
Newspaper reporters and miners
saw two of the Butler Consolidated
company officials firing their revolt
vers at the pickets Tuesday.
One bystander, not a picket, SOW
the wounded miners lying on the
ground at wildwood, twenty min
utes after they fell. He said to Chas.
Hasford, president of the company,
why don't you call somebody to
hep them?"
why should / have them attended
to- said Hasford, gloating over his
victims. Let them lie where they
falll"
PINEY FORK, Ohio. June s5.-
Warrants for the re-arrest of fifteen
strikers apd strike leaders released
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26

sunday; Ukrainian Workers Home
1861 Auburn Ave; Hungarian Work.
ers Home, 1909 Lorain Ave-. Finnish
Workers Home, 1903 w. 5Sth St,
South Slav Workers Home, 5607 St..
Clair Ave. Collinswood Youth Cen
ter, SOS E. 152nd St; Hungarian
Workers Home, 11123 Buckeye Rd.;
Jewish Workers Home, 141O1 Kins-
man Rd.; Polish Workers Home
Pulaski, f.. G7th and Chambers Ave-;
55th St Unemployed Council, 1855 E.
55th St, Bird floor.
COmrade LeVin's return trip
after leaving Los Angeles will in
ciude Salt Lake City, July II; DEN
yer, July 10; Kansas City, July Fl,
ST. Louis, July -. and Chicago
again on July 20. Return dates to
he arranged during progress of
trip for following points; Detroit,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washing
ton, ID. c., Baltimore. As result of
Comrade Levin'S tour the Daily
Worker apparatus we hope will be
organized SO that the Daily Work
err can be more fully utilized I'm all
campaigns of the Party.
Districts should make prepar-
atoms now to fulfill quotas In
campaign before COmrade LeVin'S
arrival SO that immediate work
can begin under his direction to
puma up Daily DlStrlcI apparatus
Watch for exact dates of readers
meetings in Workers Calendar!
All Daily Worker readers in War;
rem, Ohio. are invited to attend a
meeting of readers and subscribers
of the Daily Worker at Hippodrome
Hall, Friday, June 26, at 8 p. m.
This meeting is the first step in
building a d. w. Club in Warren,
also to become acquainted with the
new DIV. agent. The meeting will
also devise ways and means of sup
porting the Daily Worker.
Daily Worker Club also being
formed in Albany, N. Y. I'VE are
calling meeting of DIV. readers to
build a Club" writes E. B., Albany.
"This move we hope will again help
us to sell the Daily in the quanti-
ties we used to-" Lets have "A DIV.
Club in every workers neighbOrhOOd
in the country by the end of the
year, Comrades!
All comrades and sympathizers in
Baltimore. Md, urged to report for
volunteer work during Daily Work
er Tag Days beginning Saturday,
June 81. The following stations will
be open all day: S. Greene St., 1906
E. Baltimore St, 705 S. Ponca st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
Unemployed Miners of
Spring Valley Ote
To Support n. M. u.
CBy a Worker Correspondent

SPRING VALLEY, Ill-At the sec
ond meeting of the Unemployed
Council here last week so or so
workers were present. Most of them
we're miners who worked in the mines
which closed down about n year ago.
The Council listened to the report
on the hunger march and applauded
the statement: eff the state does not
come across with relief we will have
a hunger march not of a thousand
but of twenty thousand"
All present voted solidarity with
the striking miners of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia and sup
ported the National Miners Union as
the leaders. This is significant be-
cause of all the miners present be-
longed to the UMWA-and some
still do.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
California, Pa.

California, Pa.
Dear Editor:
The miners are battling against
starvation and death at the Vesta 4
mine that is on strike here.
On the picket line one miner was
beaten up, by the Coal and Iron Po-
lice. A few minutes later four min
ers were arrested for hollering at
those going to work. One Of these
was beaten up so bad that he was
sent to the hospital in an uncon-
scious condition. Another miner who
had a stick in his hand was arrested
for carrying weapon"
Negroes Militant.
The police are very much afraid
of the young miners. The Negro
miners are very militant and active
in the strike. They shout: "Stick
together men. and we win win the
strike"-wtict is true.
Tha coal company gave the young
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26
eve Will Fight to Finish" Says Striking
Miner
Miner

The scabS are afraid of the chill
dren, too. Kids between the age of
6 and IA are on the battle line with
their parents. We can hear the cops
say: shut up, you little bastards. Z"
The children shout back: Go jump
in the river, you yellow scabs."
Terror is spreading fast, but we
won't run away. We will fight to a
finish. The State Troopers say
that they are sent here to help us
and then they beat us up. We are
determined to win this strike and to
bring others out on strike with us.
"A Striking Miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26

on bail here yesterday we're issued
today. No charges we're made, and
Under the outrageous Ohio statutes,
men can be arrested on blank war
rants and held 70 hours without
charges being preferred.
Seven of those released have al
ready been thrown back in Jail.
The intention is clearly to prevent
any of them from taking any part
in the spreadingOhio mine strike.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 25.-The
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee at its meeting today voted to
call conference Of representatives
of all womens auxiliaries of the
NMU, with representatives also from
non-striking fields to organize dis
trict leadership, work out a policy
for winning the strike, and to make
the auxiliaries a permanent body.
The conference will be held in Pitts
Jul Sh' ony D. oo p III, Oioy tlluC'
at Workers Center Hall, 2157 Center
Ave.
In the evening of the same day,
and in the same hail. there will be
a mass meeting of all women work.
ers in Pittsburgh. The purpose is
to mobilize women workers to help
in collection of relief. The mass
meeting will be addressed by miners
giyes AND daughters
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-26

and Bill Brown, a cutter, both of
whom work here but live out of the
strike zone.
First On Picket Line
John Virag, having not thing to
eat in the house, was the first man
on the picket line. His act brought
many more miners out on strike.
On the night Of June 10 Browser
and Brown came into town armed
with guns. The deputies, who search
everyone going and coming, allowed
these two thugs to come in armed.
Attacked by Gunner
Browser and Brown then proceeded
to get drunk in order to get nerve
enough to do the dirty work they
started out to do. They then went
to Virag's yard and commanded the
neighbors at the point of gun to
keep quiet. They then tried to get