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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Pioneers Lead Protest of
1000 for Children's Relief
Militancy of Workers Children Prevents At
tack on Demonstration by Police

CHICAGO, Ill, Sept, 6.-On Sat-
urday September 5th, at 1870 pm.
3 300 children, Negro and white, as
sembled at the headquarters of the
South Side branch of the Unemployed
Council OF 1886 S. State, Chicago. in
answer to the call of the Young
Pioneers of America. They had come
together to participate in hunger
march to the swell home of Alder
man Anderson at $500 Calumet Ave,
and to protest against the starvation
and misery that exist among the I'M
employed as we'll as employed work
ers families in the South Side of
Chicago. After the children had
learned a number of pioneer songs
and cheers they all lined up with
slogans telling what is was all about
and with couple Of hundred parents
and members of the Unemployed
Council following in the rear, the
children set out for the Alderman,
When the children got there, the
police were already waiting. Though
there were lots of them there, "a
couple of squad cars, ETC., they made
no effort to smash the parade al the
outset because the spirit and solidar-
ity of the children and adults was so
great and such a huge crowd had
gathered. The speakers box was put.
up and young Negro worker from
the Young Communist League opened
the meeting of over 1000 children and
grown-ups. The first two speakers
were children, one Negro and the
other white. They both spoke about
the terrible conditions of the children
and the need of unity in order to
carry on the fight against hunger and
misery. A committee of mothers and
children was then elected to go into
the Alderman and present a series. of
demands which were briefly as fol-
lows: Free hot lunches, Clothes,
school supplies for children of Ilnem-
ployed and part time workers, no
charge for material used in schools
either in domestic science or manual
training work, more schools, complete
medical examination and attention
in schools at city expense. -
The police did not allow the CON-
mittee to enter the house and when
the chairman of the committee re-.
ported back, the workers all razzed
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to go to Montgomery to identify
a Negro worker held there on "sus-
picion." In several other cases where
she identified Negro workers the
Identification was smashed when the
workers were able to furnish evidence
that they were not near the scene. OF
the crime on August 4.
Eugene Braxton, young militant
Negro worker, one of many arrested
in connection with the reign of ter
ror here, has been released on $3.50
bond while the International Labor
Defense appealed the vicious SEN
tence against him Of $25 and 80 days
on the chain gang.
MONTICELLO, Fla.,-Roberty Will
iams, Negro worker sentenced to
the chain gang, was burned to death
while being tortured in the infamous
sweat box which the southern slave
drivers use to break the spirit of
white and Negro convicts.
A coroner's jury of white bosses
returned verdict that Williams
hmA = his death At bis own hands.
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gro shore troopers and woman were
brutally lashed by a mob of white
planters. One of the share troopers,
Rev. Bates, had demanded an in
vestigation into the death Of the
small child of w. L. johnson, a neigh
boring share cropper. Rev. Bates
charged that the child, who was
lame, was beaten to death by the
plantation owner. So the plantation
owners took out Rev. Bates and his
wife, and johnson, the father of the
murdered child, and beat them with
in an inch of their lives. The land
owners then ordered their victims
to get out of Lincoln County. 80 -
Lynching of militant Negro workers
is further used to intensity the ter
ror against the Negro masses in the
bosses attempt to keep them in
their place"-that is, in subsection to
the brutal system of landowner rob-
berry and oppression. Already this
year, 80 lynchings are known to have
occurred, with scores of such crimes
probably covered up by the boss
press. Last year, there were A
recorded lynchings.
The boss terror against the Negro
masses is not confined to the South.
In scores of northern cities demon
STATIONS against the Scottsborp legal
murder have been attacked by the
bosses police and broken up. Negro
workers have been framed up in
scores of instances. In Chicago
Negro unemployed workers were shot
down like dogs by police on August
at the orders Of Negro and white
landlords. Everywhere Negro work.
ers are singled out for the most
savage attacks and for discrimina-
ton in every field. Negro workers
suffer especially from unemployment
and from the boss denial of adequate
relief. In Harlem and other segre-
gated districts throughout the couIf-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Chinese Grew Mutinies
On Capitalist Yacht

French police came to the as
sistance of an American capitalist
Gibson Fahenstock, Jr. to put down
the mutiny of a Chinese sailor aboard
his yacht at Cape D'Antibes. The
Chinese crew were putting up fight
against the yachts officer when the
police came rushing aboard. Chinese
sailors are treated like cattle aboard
the rich mans pleasure yachts, IN
derpaid, underfed and terrorized by
the superior" white officers.
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of Duluth, called by the Trade Union
Unity League, to show the unity and
solidarity existing between the work.
ers and farmers and to link up the
demands of the starving unemployed
workers with those of the farmers.
A delegation of farmers, unemployed
workers Of Duluth, and metal miners
from the Mesaba Range, will be
elected at the demonstration at Court
House Square, and the demands pre-
scented to the demonstration for their
approval, before the delegation ap-
pears before the County Commits
sionerS.
To Hold Conference
On Sunday, Sept. 10, a st. Louis
County Conference called in Virginia,
Mimi, by the United Farmers
League, as well as a meeting of
Plowmen, at Markham, will finally
ratify the demands for the Hunger
March and nominate the delegation
to present them. All the workers
and farmers of st. Louis County are
being aroused and modified by the
United Farmers League and the
Trade Union Unity League to make
the Hunger March a powerful
demonstration. Thousands of leaflets
by the United Farmers League, and
by the Trade Union Unity League
and the Communist Party, which
support and endorse the Hunger
March, are being distributed.
The demands proposed by the
United Farmers League include:
1. Cancellation of all debts,
back-t taxes, and mortgages for all
poor farmers.
2. Tax exemption and reduced
rents for poor farmers.
3. Free feed for livestock, free
seed, free medical aid, and free
rent for needy families.
4. No sheriffs sales of livestock
or implements no foreclosures or
evictions.
5. Abolition of the County Agent
, and the State Rural Credits Bu-
reau.
6. Increase of taxes on the min
ing companies.
:. Minimum wage of so cents an
hour on road work.
8. No discrimination against for
eign-bOrn farmers, in giving out
relief or jobs, or on account of race
or color. (There are also number
of other local demands.
The following slogans are also ad-
vanced: Demand the freedom of
the Negro Tenant Farmers In Ala
bama; Free the Scottsboro boys;
Free Tom Mooney and all working
class Prisoners; Hail the Soviet
Union, where the farmers and work.
ers are emancipated-Defend the
Soviet Union; Down with the Farm
er-Labor tools of the bosses.
The line of march will start at
Cook o'clock in the morning, go
through Virginia, Cotton, and reach
Duluth about noon. The demon
stration is scheduled for about
one o'clock.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
YOUTH DAY MEETSRALLY YOUNG
WORKERS FOR MILITANT FIGHT
Many Steel Workers Attend Demonstration in
Baltimore; to Resist Wage Cuts

taken in fourteen months. This
meeting is being followed up with an
indoor affair to be held Saturday,
September IL, at the Finnish Hall,
703 Ponca st. A good program has
been prepared including a boxing
match, play, and dancing. All young
workers are invited. Tickets are only
Is cents.
SPECTOR AT BOSTON MEET.
BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 1.-TWO
thousand workers, more than half of
them young, gathered on Boston
Common to demonstrate on the 18th
International Youth Day at the call
of the Young Communist League.
One of the principal speakers at
the demonstration was Frank Spec
tor, one of the Imperial Valley pr1s-
oners, just released from San QUEEN
tin prison in California. The workers
cheered enthusiastically Spector's
message from Tom Mooney, calling
for a struggle of the workers to free
him and all other class war pris-
oners. kilograms were sent to Gov
ernor Miller of Alabama, demanding
the immediate release of the Scots
boro boys; one to Governor Rolph of
California, demanding the release of
Mooney, Billings and the Imperial
Valley prisoners; and a third to
Governor Sampson of Kentucky de-
manding the immediate dropping of
the murder charges against the Har
Ian miners.
The workers cheered when Keith,
district organizer of the Y.CL. called
for mass fight against the bosses
war preparations and for defense Of
the Soviet Union. The crowd unani-
mously decided to send a cable of
greetings to the YCL. of the Soviet
Union pledging that the Boston
workers would carry on the fight to
defend the Soviet Union.
A number OF young workers joined
the Y.CL. at the demonstration and
large number of copies of the
Young Workers, Daily Worker and
pamphlets were sold.
$500 DEMONSTRATE IN NEWARK
NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 9.--About
$500 workers, mostly young, demon
strated against bosses wars, wage
cuts, unemployment and for the de-
tense of the Soviet Union on I.YD.
at Independence Park, Newark.
A resolution demanding unemploy-
ment insurance, and for the defense
of the Soviet Union was sent to the
commission that is meeting in Tren-
ton to investigate the unemploy-
ment situation in N. j."
Many young workers Joined the
Y.CL. and 40 applications were filled
out for the Young Pioneers.
After the demonstration the work
ers marched through the streets,
carrying banners and singing. The
day ended with banquet and dance
ELIZABETH, N. j., Sept. 9.-1nter-
national Youth Day in Elizabeth was
marked by demonstration Of more
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Miners Relief Comm.
In Buffalo Welcomes
the Role of the W.I.R.

BUFFALO, N. Y. Sept. l1-As a
result Of the report given on the re-
cent w. I. R. conference, by Com
rade v. Morris, the committee del
egate, motion was moved and car
ried unanimously, that the present
Miners Relief Committee, becomes a
permanent w. I. r. committee, and
the organization Of a mass w. I. R.
organization, be Immediately started
Plans for mass meeting, to be
followed by banquet for the pur-
pose Of obtaining relief for the min
ers, were also outlined for the i'm
mediate future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

The wounded workers are Barnes
Bradley, %, shot in neck and back;
Julius Davis, 10, and Newton Ford,
II, all of Horn Lake, Miss. The
name of the vicious white man is G.
E. Calman.
NEW ORLEANS, La,-Following
attacks on Negro workers by the
K. K. K, the colored employees of
the Philpot Construction Company,
have been fired and replaced by
white workers. A few weeks ago the
K. x. K. fired fusilade into the
camp numbering one Negro worker
and wounding another. The sheriff
and the coroner's jury give the usual
explanation of murder by uniden-
titled persons.
JACKSON, Miss, Two Negro
workers trying to escape from a
convict camp near here were shot
down by convict trusty guards. One
of the Negro workers, Velma Green,
was killed. The two convict trusty
guards have been given their free
dom by Gov. Bilbo as reward The
Southern bosses make it a practice
Of using white TRUSTEES to hold the
Negro CONFLICTS in check and of using
Negro TRUSTEES against white convicts.
This heirs to pgomie the race hatred
policy Of the bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Another Negro Worker Killed
By Birmin CHAM, Ala. Police

LIBERTY, Miss.,-A posse of Anite
county landowners is using blood
hounds in man hunt for a Negro
worker accused of shooting a rich
landowner following quarrel over
wages. The Negro worker who
simply defended himself against the
slave driving landowner is threatened
with quick lynching if found.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,-John D.
Studmire, young Negro worker, was
fined 500 and sentenced to six
months hard labor for talking back
to a white woman clerk in a down
town store. He was charged with
aggravated" disorderly conduct. His
companion, James Campbell, was
sentenced to 10 days in Jail evidently
for being in the company of Negro
militant enough to stand up for his
rights.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, One negro
worker is near death and two others
seriously wounded following a "ceel-
bration" by a white boss who at the
ToiQt of sun ordered the Negro
workers to dance for him.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
BY TeIegram)

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. O..
Twelve hundred workers participated
in the International Youth Day
Demonstration here. A resolution
was adopted demanding the uncon-
ditional release of Mooney, Billings,
the Imperial Valley prisoners, the
Scottsboro boys and the jailed Ken
lucky miners. The resolution also
pledged the support of the workers
in the defense of the Soviet Union
and in the fight on the imperialist
war.
The workers marched to an indoor
rally singing the International.
Speakers for the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League
called on the young workers to join
the YCL. Eight applications for the
YCL were received.
Several German sailors who were
in the port of San Francisco and
who participated in the demonstra-
ton and the rally pledged to join
in the struggle of the German and
the American young workers in the
fight against the imperialist war and
for the defense of the Soviet Union.
Five hundred workers participated
in the International Youth Day dem
onstration against the imperialist
war at Stockton.
STEEL WORKERS AT MEET.
BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 9.-Inter-
national Youth Day between $50 and
400 workers packed the sidewalks at
the demonstration in spite of the
tricks of the cops to disband them on
the plea of blocking the highway"
The meeting was opened with burst
Of revolutionary songs by the Young
Communist League who arrived on a
truck carrying banners announcing
the meeting.
A very good percentage Of the
workers were young workers, many
Of whom bought Young Workers or
who filled out applications to join
the Young Communist League at the
conclusion of the meeting. The
speakers were Dorsey, Negro COM
rade, who was we'll received in spite
Of the fact that this section is ex-
clusively white" section; Comrade
Joan Hardy also OF the YCL who ex-
posed the efforts of the boss class to
win away the working youth for war
and who called on them to organ
ize into the Young Communist
League-and refuse to shoot down
other workers, but to join with the
revolutionary adult workers and kick
out the bosses.
Comrade Bradley Of the Metal
Workers Industrial League, was en-
Enthusiastically greeted. because the
workers know him as a steel worker
Of the Bethlehem steel. They list
ened attentively to his denunciation
Of the latest cut in t ehtin mill of
Bethlehem Steel which affected
mostly young workers-and applaud
ed when he told them how to organ
i2e and strike against the cut which
is the fourth these workers have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
FARMERS IN
MIMI. HUNGER
MARCH ON 2lSt

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

tear fonts, and as performed by
'our own" Helen Hayes is q sterling
example of how to make ladies cry.
Nothing is left undone to ease the
way to the use of the handkerchief,
and we imagine that there has been
no more genuine grief apparent over
any film during the past five years.
Miss Hayes, in her screen debut, is
nothing short of magnificent.
lady who demonstrated the potency
of her skill as debutante tragedi-
enne in "Couquette," she proves IN
this that her skill Is something
completely beyond the usual require
ments of a screen heroine. Without
attempting to capitalize her charms
except for a few fleeting mo-
ments-she ranges the span OF
woman's lifetime with finesse that
is amazing in first venture. While,
of course, it is apparent that every
thing has been done to make her
the wistful, pathetic character she is
meant to assume, there is no direc-
tor on the face of this earth who
can make her as good as she is.
She is just Helen Hayes in role
which is so devastatingly tragic that
you might as we'll resign yourself to
an hour or more of such gloom as
will make the lady next to you
whoop. with grief.
The story concerns the long, long
fight of a young girl to make some
thing of herself in order to assist
her son who has been born, as they
say. cut of wedlock, remember
Madame ky The unpleasant sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07

potency of his feet, and fees with
the Silken damoiselle, leaving the
raging Mr.. Barrymore to eat out
what is left of his heart.
In the end the erstwhile Hamlet
may be observed dangling out of
the mouth of a funebral theatric
devil, which is the stage set for his
most ambitious ballet. having been
hacked to death there by a greedy
gentleman who suddenly found that
he couldn't live without the help Of
the genius pretty little dope pills.
Not cheerful theme-but to be
enjoyed by those who are not tired
of seeing one of this country's best
actors be as wicked as anybody
could be-and get away with it-al-
most. e. de S. M.
Carlo and Gable
In Susan Lenox."
THE most serious fad" which has
hit this country since the adj
vent of Rudy Vallee possibly. ex-
cuse me, Bing Crosby is the Garbo-
Gable love team. These two high
powered cupids are said to have
burst asunder every available record
at Loew'S Columbia Theater and to
have dislodged the roof on account"
OF sentimental signs that have flown
upward from satisfied customers.
While the picture itself, Susan
Lenox," may be something Of dis
appointment to the most ardent
Carlo fans, it nevertheless presents
this lady in her best hot and cold
moments and steadily advances the
boiling point of her popularity.
Those who would improve on her
method of catching a fish. or signing
for the square-rigged shoulders of
her dark-eyed Lothario, had best
betake themselves to the less decor
Gus tropics where probably only
more excitable things occur. Miss
Carlo is everything that you always
hoped she would be-human as well
as exotic-and she now forces you
to believe that she is a normal crea-
ture of flesh and blood, whose tall
entS far outstrip the mere coiff1ng
OF her hair or the flamboyant an
giles of her dress.
Much, too, must be said for Mr..
Gable His performance is smooth
and masculine. He INDUCES neither
in profliSm nor in other normal
traits of the overpopular matinee
idol. While 1t is true that ladies
prefer to miss their lunch hour for
glimpse of him. it is also true that
MIR. Gable, whether he knows it or
not, at least pretends to be CON-
pletely oblivious Of all the fuss he
Is stirring.
You know the story: Carlo in
pursuit of Gable. What more do
you want? E. de s. M.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-07
new M. {. BUILDING
NEARING COMPLETION
Announcement Made to Offset Ru'
mors U. S. Had Condemned
First Structure.

The new f1ve-story apartment build
ang Of the Methodist Board Of Tenn
perance, Prohibition and Public Morals,
adjoining the present Methodist Build
ing at First street and Maryland ave-
nue., is nearing completion, it was an
nounced to M t h odist ministers
throughout the country in the latest
issue Of 1.-THE Voice." board publica-
ton.
The announcement was made to off,
set rumors that the Federal Govern
ment had condemned the Methodist
Building and that occupants of that
building would move into the new
structure. Considerable publicity was
given more than six months ago to a
report the Methodist Building would
be condemned for Supreme Court
Building park. DR.. Clarence True Will
son. general secretary of the board.
reiterated today that this rumor is
untrue
The new building, located at ITO
Maryland avenue, is faced with white
stone and will contain SIS apartments
It is expected to be ready for occu-
pancy December l..
Revenue from the building will be
used toward paying off the indebted
ness incurred in its construction and
as an endowment for the Temperance
Beard,
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'D|CE TO DETERMINE
FLYER OF PACIFIC
Five Pilots to Let Chance
Pick Man for Hop
From Hawaii.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. November T.
Five aviators sailed yesterday for
Honolulu on the liner President Cool
idge, planning to shake dice to decide
which one should attempt to fly back
aboard a monoplane safely slowed
away in the Coolidges hold.
Heading the group was j. K. Althaus,
former German war flyer. With him
were H. S. Mead, w. S. Loudon, Tom
Darby and Harry Forbes. Their plane
has cruising radius of $500 miles.
It IS 2,400 miles between here and
Honolulu.
Plane 20 Hours Crossing.
to gamble with me for the privilege
of plotting the first plane from Hawaii
to the mainland" said Capt. Won AL
thaus. who although he has been an
American citizen several years still
speaks with a slight accent. 1T will
be solo flight. We hope to complete
it in less than 20 hours"
With wind of 10 to IS miles an
hour, Won Althaus believes he can take
off from Wheeler Field, "a miles from
Honolulu, the principal Army airport in
Hawaii. He has taken the plane OFF
with test load i'll 4,100 feet with an
8-mile wind, while the Wheeler Field
runway is about $500 feet long. The
planes cruising speed is LOG miles an
hour.
Plane to Carry Pay Load.
ut will be a commercial as we'll as a
scientific flight" he said. I'VE will
carry pay load"
Also aboard the President Coolidge
was Helen Wills Moody, the tennis
champion, whose husband. Frederick S.
Moody, is in charge of the ships brok-
erage Office. Mrs. Moody will be gone
two months and will play tennis in To-
kio and Shanghai and probably Manila.
Stoke Trent. England, just elected
its first woman lord mayor.
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DAVIS WILL STUDY
HAWAIFS F|L|P|NOS
Islands Governor General
viii View Labor Status
on Way to U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, November Gov. Gen
Dwight F. Davis said today he intended
to study the Filipino labor situation In
Hawaii and California on his way &c
Washington this month. He hopes tc
sail November 81 on the liSer President
Lincoln or on the President Jefferson
November 26.
Gov. Gen. Davis recently received
reports from Gov. Judd Of Hawaii urg-
ing that steps be taken in the Philip
pines to prevent Inscriptions brokers
from sending independent groups OF
Filipino laborers to Hawaii on false
promises of employment The Philip
pines Department of Commerce Bureau
Is investigating activities of the brokers.
Few Migrate to u. S.
Only SO Filipinos sailed for the United
States in October, while 273 returned
TO the islands. 1t was reported here
that thousands of FflipinoS are unem-
ployed in Hawaii and the United States:
Accompanying the governor general
will be his daughter Cynthia, who will
20 directly to Washington to join her
sister Helen at a finishing school. The
three plan to spend Christmas at their
st. Louis home.
Plan Reunion in Paris.
Later they expect to sail to Paris to
1oin Mrs Davis and another daughter,
Alice. tor the first family reunion since
Davis became governor general in July,
1929. Dwight Davis, jr, sailed Wednes-
day for Paris.
The governor general was silent con-
eer1ing reports that he was not return
ing to the islands, but friends say he
wants to remain in the United States.
Davis smiled at rumor published IN
Manila papers that he was a likely
choice of the Republicans for Vice
President.