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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20
OAKIE
IS SMILING,
WORKS HARD

HOLLYWOOD. 1t. 19.-Prac-
tically everything in this world is a
game OF give and take-with the
motion picture industry being no
exception. In the film racket,
those who can take a couple OF
socks on the chin and still come up
smiling are the ones who get there
in the long run.
Jack Oakie comes under that
classification. The comedian gives
plenty to his profession. But he
also can take the bumps when
necessary. That's one reason you
will be seeing his name on theater
marques for some time yet.
When the talkies took their first
strong grip on Hollywood Oakie
skyrocketed. Prior 10 that time he
had made a few silent films but he
didn't figure very prominently In
Hollywood's scheme Of things. How
ever, actors and especially come
dams with legitimate stage training
were at a premium in those days.
Jack not only vas a good comedian
but he had a fine screen personality.
The public liked him. Result-he
was made a star almost overnight.
But those who ride high some
times fall pretty hard. And If YOU
don't want 10 take ou- word for IL.
ask Jack. He'll tell you. Oakie
has had quite a lot Of trouble dur
ing the last few months. First. 1t
was a mix-up with managers. Then
studio executives decided that he
wasn't pulling them in at the box
office as fast as he should. OF
course, they never dreamed that the
fault might lie with the stories
they were giving him-they never
do. All they could see a that
Jack was losing some Of his pop
ularity. SO they denoted him
from a star to a supporting player.
That has happened before in
Hollywood. And almost invariably
the stars have squawked so loudly
that they could be heard almost
back to New York. But Jack took
his sock standing up. He didn't
'beef' or cry about his bad treat
ment. He ; rev that he could act
Just as well as ever and decided to
prove 1t.
That's what he doing now. At
present he Is playing a supporting
role 10 Richard Arlen and Peggy
Shannon IN To chdown.' And
he's working hard. too. b. his
spirit hasn't been dampened a par
ticle. He's still the same jovial
Jack who thinks serious thoughts
but seldom speaks a serious word.
With him around. life is just n
laugh after another. He can't help
Glowing. It's in his nature and no
matter what exec 1T es do TO him.
they won't be able TO whip that
spirit.
This Is no time 20 be complain
Ing about anything Jack told me.
SIN working and I'm making good
money-even il I don't get enough
Of IL. So why should / care If I'm
q star or not? Maybe I'll be a star
again n these days. ' was good
enough to get here once. so why
not again? But If I don't make il.
I'll still keep right on working
hard as long as the money comes
In. When I was starring. I got
blamed for every poor film I made.
Now If a picture doesn't turn out
well, somebody else gets blamed"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20
Constance Bennett
Seen At Dittmann
Sunday In Bought

Bought. the much heralded
warner Bros. picture-first vehicle
Tor Constance Bennett under her
new long-term contract which
marks her as screenland's most
nignly-paid star-opc..s an
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20

Agricultural Experiment Station
College Station. Texas.
The breaking for strawberry
should ~ done I'm August or Set
tember If the transplanting Is
" done In the early fall, says ~
u ". Binford, author Of the bfN
letin.
Valley soils most suited 10 Eroy'
ing OF Strawberries are Laredo
loan. which vs. not very extensit
the Laredo silt clay loan which,
known as resaca soil or ebony
of the region: and Laredo clay-f
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20

former role has done.
Miss Bennett is supported by
Richard Bennett cher father Ben
Lyon, Dorothy Peterson. Raymond
Mill nd, Arthur Stuart Hull, Ed
Nugent, Mae Madison. Maude
Eburne, Clara Blandick and Doris
Lloyd. The picture is based on the
novel "Jackdaws Strut" by Harriet
Henry. Archie Mayo directed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20
Strawberries Must
Be Planted Early
(By staff Correspondent

SAN BENIrO. Sept. lg.-In or
der TO harvest berries beginning
in December and cont n u &
through the spring. the general
practice in the Valley Is to set out
strawberry plants In September and
October. according 10 a bulletin
Strawberries Under Irrigation In
South Texas" issued by the Texas
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-09-20
Tragedy
At Arcadia Remains
Outspoken Drama

"An American Tragedy" feature
attraction at the Arcadia theatre.
Harlingen. today. Monday and
Tuesday on the screen as in Theo-
dore Dreiser's novel Is not sweet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
BY ]. AMTER.

by J.
IN every field of c.idcavor, the workers face
two enemies-the capitalists and their TOOLS
the socialists and A. F. of L. bureaucrats In
the struggle that the workers are carrying on
against the efforts of the crisis-unemployment
wage-cuts, speed-up, persecution of the foreign
h4p, lynching of the Negroes, the workers find
thssA enemies speaking different languages, but
fighting together against the interests of the
working class. Thus the capitalists openly and
brutality attempt to suppress the militant work
ing class organizations The liberals, reformists
and socialists attempt to speak the language of
the workers, being forced to this position by the
growing demands Of the workers in struggle
But the aim is the same; to make the workers
accept the capitalist system with its misery,
starvation and suffering for the workers and
poor farmers.
The socialists have another function In the
struggle: to keep the workers away from the
struggle. They have the same policy as the
bureaucrats of the American Federation of La
Dor, even though at times they speak a diff
ferent language In all the strike struggles, their
policy is to keep the workers from putting up
a real struggle, from taking the leadership into
their own hands. Another function-and very
important one-is to keep the workers from
uniting in their struggles, to expel the mill
tants and keep the rest under the heel of the
reactionary leadership, who are the tools of the
capitalists.
In every field, the role of the socialists is the
same. In the sports field, cultural and other
fields, the social democrats are splitting the or
CARNATIONS and keeping the militant rank and
file from uniting in struggle for the interests
of the workers in the organizations
On the one hand are the revolutionary work
ers who in the sports field are organized into
the Red Sports International In this Inter
national are the revolutionary workers of many
countries. They are carrying on militant
struggle for the interests of the workers which
means the fight against hunger, against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of the Soviet
Union The bosses are opposed to this inter
national-and through their tool, the Lucerne
International, are trying to crush the spirit of
revolt that is rising in the ranks of this in
ternational The workers of this international
see their interests betrayed they see this in
ternational taking vicious stand against the
Soviet Union. When they raise their voice,
they are expelled as, for instance tens of thou
sands of workers, who have been expelled in
Germany, France. Finland, etc. No member of
the 1ucerne International is allowed to part-
cipate in the Spartakiade Revolutionary inter
national meet. They are not allowed to com
pete with the Red athletes from the Soviet
Union This is a tyranny established to keep
the workers from uniting their forces.
The Red Sports International. on the occasion
of its tenth anniversary, is holding Spartakiade
in Berlin from July to r. Athletes from many
countries will participate in the Spartakiade
but it is possible that the Soviet athletes will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
National Youth Day Next Step
to the Spartakiad

900 participants are expected from all countries
of Europe, United States, South America and
Canada.
AS against the Spartakiade the Lucerne In
ternational is arranging an international meet
at Vienna at the same time. And one year
not be granted vsas. Nevertheless about 10O-
later will occur the bosses Olympics. the express
sion of the bosses plans for the working class
further suppression and training for war against
the Soviet Union provided war has not already
been declared against the Soviet Union, owing
to the brilliant success of the Five-Yesr Plan
which the bosses fear so much.
The Labor Sports Union, section of the Red
International is organizing the revolutionary
athletes into the revolutionary sport organiza-
tions as opposed to the American Athletic Union,
and other patriotic sports organizations. 1t
aims to offset the bosses shop and neghbor-
hood clubs which serve to fool the workers The
Labor Sports Union is preparing for the Spar
takiade. Beginning with May 30 in Passaic, N.
J., and ending in New York City on May 81
National Youth Day will be the occasion of
the selection of the delegation to represent the
revolutionary athletes of the United States at
the Spartakiade,
Elimination events will be features and large
delegation will be selected, which will sail for
and meet on June 10, IA. The young revolu-
tionary athletes number in their ranks some
splendid stars but this is not the feature of
the Red Sports International which is based on
collective achievements, and not individual stars.
National Youth Day will be more than an
athletic meet 1t will be day of demonstra-
ton against the miserable conditions that the
workers, and especially the young vorkers have
to suffer in this land of prosper, :" 1t will
be a day of protest against all the evils that
the workers have to endure. 1t will be a day
Of demonstration against the rapidly coming
mperalist war and for determined defense of
the Soviet Union
When the U. S. delegation arrives in Berlin
it will meet not only the Red athletes from
the other countries, shut representatives of the
Communist Parties of France. Czecho- Slovakia
and Germany, of tie Red Trade Unions who
have been theoretically working for and prepar-
ing the Spartakiade and will attend it as frater-
nal delegates
The struggle of the workers goes forward on
all fields. The field of sport is not exempt The
workers who are being entced into the bosses
sport organizations, and are offered all the
advantages that the bosses with their big capt.
tai can offer, must remember that this is not
done for nothing. The workers pay for it-and
the bosses use it in order to hold the workers
fast to the system under which they are ex-
plotting us TO the bone.
All workers c~%e on National Youth Dayl Ali
revolutionary athletes participate in National
Youth Day, Make National Youth Day the be-
ginning of our campaign against bosses and
socialist-traitor sports
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
The Daily Worker Must Be Saved.
RAISE the $4,000 Fund!

clared that the only country in the world that
is not suffering from the economic crisis, but
on the contrary is rising rapidly and has long
left behind it the pre-war level Of production,
is the Soviet Union. This is not welcome news
to the imperialist countries which are strug-
Cling for power, some of them for existence,
facing the economic crisis in their own coun-
tries The struggle for power is sharpening the
antagonisIns between the United States and
Great Britain, Italy and France But the an
tagonislns between Communism and capitalism
are still sharper. All the nations represented
at the League of Nations, when Litvinoff pro-
posed peace policy as against the capitalist
war policy, had to recognize the unique position
of the Soviet Union, which as a country of the
workers and peasants alone can offer peace.
Peace will not be accepted-for capitalism Is
bent upon war to get out of the crisis-even
though the capitalists know that the next world
war will result in turning all Europe into
Soviets.
In this crisis, with the inperialsts preparing
for war. the capitalists want to destroy the rev.
dictionary movement. The attacks Of the U. S.
government through the Fish Committee clear
ly show the way: Smash the Communist press;
smash the Communist Party and revolutionary
unions: terrorize the Negro and foreign-born
workers michigan foreign-born registration;
smash the revolutionary movement
Daily Must Be Saved.
The answer of the workers is: You viii not
smash the Communist press; you will not smash
the Communist Party and revolutionary unions;
we will fight against your terror methods
against the Negro and fOreign-born workers!
You cannot smash the revolutionary movement!
Our first act of solidarity and class unity
will be to save the Daily Worker, our revolu-
tionary mouthpiece. The danger signal OF the
Daily Worker will spur us on-the $4,000 fund
will be raised In the shops and mines, we
will form committees to raise funds to save the
Daily Workeri In the unions, clubs and mass
organizations we will form committees to raise
funds We win mobilize the workers. employed
and unemployed, and they will go among the
workers and collect the dimes, quarters and
dollars from willing hands to save the Daily
Worker
Hoover, Fish, Vol, Green, Norman Thomas
Hillqut and all the capitalist enemies OF the
working class have smiled too soon: The Daily
Worker will be saved to continue the fight for
organization and struggle against the economic
crisis, against the danger of war against the
Soviet Union, for the overthrow of capitalism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Org. Dept Central Com
mittee, Communist Party, U. S. A.
The South End and Roxbury Branch of
the Unemployed Council Got Food
For Starving Families that the
Puplc Welfare Department
Refused TO Feed.

TWO weeks ago a committee from this I'm
employed Branch went to the Public well
fare Department and spoke to Miss Shay de-
manding THAI immediate relief be given to some
starving families.
Miss Shay speaking for the Welfare Depart
ment answered that she Don't care il they
starving"
Mayor Curley knows about this and refuses
to do anything. In Thursdays papers he says,
Boston has the best relief system in the
country" Mayor Curley's system is to starve
the families of the unemployed workers, quietly
The South End and Roxbury Branch of the
Unemployed Council got busy and sent out
committees of unemployed workers in the
neighborhood and got food for the following
starving families that Mayor Curley's welfare
department refused to feed.
l. The family of Mrs. Moore, So Mortified
ST., with two children, had been unemployed
for months and no food in the house.
q Mrs Costello, who is sick and can't find
work, is being thrown out of her home by the
greedy landlord, and is in desperate need
g. Mrs Bryant of 81 Mortified St, Is
widow with two boys had been unemployed for
MANY months, was forced to move by the land
lord, and needs money for food and rent badly.
f. Pat MacBride of 81 Mortified ST., is IS
years old, has little room in the cellar, which
he gets for cleaning up the house. He gets
no wages and is compelled to get his food from
the streets or wherever he can find it.
At the same time while we are collecting
food for families like these we must fight for
cash unemployment relief for the 100000 job
less in Metropolitan Boston
This Unemployed Branch is planning to sand
another large committee of unemployed work
ers to the City Council and to Governor Ely to
demand regular relief for these and all other
starving families in the South End and Rox-
bury.
Fellow unemployed Join the Unemployed
Branch Don't starve quietly
Join us in the fight for relief. The City Gov
eminent has plenty of money for graft and
Investigations. We can get relief if we will
fight for it,
Come to the meeting of the branch,
Every Tuesday and Friday, 80 p. M, lib
Dudley Street, Roxbury.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
American Legion and V. F. w.

dom and all social relations of Americans
(about the only humans) are prescribed for all
generations to come up to the lend of the
world" in the Declaration of Independence, the
American Constitution and the Bible
The forefathers said nothing one hundred
and fifty years ago about capitalist system,
its complications unemployment, starvation
etc, and therefore it is taboo, I'M American un-
lawful to elaborate on such problems, let alone
fight for dictatorship of the proletariat.
Moses, Christ and the Bible have never known
or mentioned capitalist system problems OF a
proletariat, Soviets. etc. and therefore it is a
dissertation of Jewish. Christian and all other
GODS the Almighty, all knowing, beyond whose
knowledge there is nothing left to think of or
conceive: all was created and revealed by the
forefathers and religion.
II we want to know more we may find out
after our death, when we get 10 heaven or he'll
The living are never TO know more, except what
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27

was revealed by Moses Christ, the forefathers,
at the orders of an all knowing God. There is
no mind, no wisdom beyond Christ and the
American constitution
The Legion's slogan--"For God and Country"
express that psychology. This slogan is the
starting point, pivot, around which center the
activities of the Legion and the VFW in their
savage attacks upon any and all efforts of the
proletariat for emancipation. Under these slo-
gans of archaic patriotism and religion, these
veteran organizations act as the chief enemy of
the working class, as the most loyal watchdogs
for the continuation of ruthless, cruel capitalist
oppression.
Their role in the class struggle, their appeal
to the ignorance of the masses to the brutal
egotistic sense of race superiority and vanity of
American capitalism and imperialism. The A.
L. combats the class struggle of the starving
awakening American proetariat under the slo-
gan of God and country" rousing more dark
and backward prejudices than do the bosses
themselves or Che American Federation Of
Labor. These veteran organizations are the
greatest enemies of the American unemployed
and employed masses Of hte working class
The ruling class of America know well how
to use this power. The A. l.. and v. r. w. are
organized on national, fascist basis OF CO.
operation of exploiter and exploited, boss and
worker With them there is no problem of any
interest of the working class. The worker just
exists as an object of exploitation, for the con-
venience and welfare of the bosses.
In order 70 keep this powerful tool OF the
49, IA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
Bv |. AMTER.

AGAIN the Daily Worker faces suspension.
n Again the Daily Worker must appeal to the
workers all over the country to come to its sup
port. Again the enemies of the Daily Worker,
the Communist Party and the revolutionary
workers smile in derision, for they hope that
the Daily Worker will be lost to the revolution
ary movement Hamilton Fish, Matthew .Woll,
William Green, Norman Thomas and the CAPT
taist class and its lackeys rejoice when the
revolutionary workers, Negro and white and
the poor farmers face the danger of losing
their most effective mouthpece,
The economic crisis is becoming worse. The
heads of tventy-four leading banks Of the
world including the United States meeting at
Basic, Switzerland on May 20, declared that
they wish there was some definite mechanism
that could be set up to meet the present crisis
but their hands are tied" The big bankers OF
the world can find no way out of the crisis. In
London, the representatives of all the leading
nations of the world meet on the wheat prob
lem, and can find only one solution for the
agricultural crisis: cut down the acreage, limit
the production and the expectation OF wheat
% that the price of bread will rise. The rail-
way companies of this country want to help
the crisis by boosting freight rates, which will
increase the cost of living.
Matthew Vol and his brother traitor and fas-
cist, William Green, who attempted to sell out
the workers in November, 1929, when they
promised Hoover that there would be no strikes
cuts, while the manufacturers promised there
would be no wage reductions, now admit that
they have already taken place in IS per cent
of all industrial establishments!
Unemployed Starve.
The unemployed continue to Starve. The y.
S. and state governments categoricaly refuse
to grant unemployment insurance. Some of the
proposals are for industrial insurance" left to
the discretion of the employer, and with re-
strictions that will exclude the present unem-
ployed and many still employed. Charity and
the other forms of relief have been cut off
flophouses and breadlines have been closed
evictions take place by the thousands every
day The cost of living and rents do not de-
cline. Children continue to starve. The Negro
workers and poor farmers who are always dis
crinnated against, are Disseminated against
even in the race against hunger.
No Crisis in Soviet Union.
At the meeting Of the League of Nations, Lit
vinoff, representative of the Soviet Union, de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-27
Thanksgiving Day

Mayor Walker is being photographed thank
ing Police Commissioner Mulrooney, and Mu'
rooney is thanking District Attorney McLaugh.
lin, and Mclaughlin is thanking his lucky stars
all over a so-caled confession"
The police had to have fall guy" in the
Vivian Gordon murder. So they persuaded"
or questioned" one fellow until he confessed"
But kindly note that he confessed" that an
other fellow did the killingl
The confession" was obtained latter night
of questioning" of which the World Telegram
gives the following comment:
ut was no secret at Police Headquarters that
the long examination of Schlitten yesterday
had not been peaceful"
In other words he was beaten up. But as a
reward for coming through with a confession"
he will not even be indicted, but only used as
a witness while the guy accused, who apparently
is crook that can be dispensed with, will get
the axe.
Thanksgiving day always was gala occasion
for everybody but the turkey. But we wonder It
Tammany expects sensible people to believe all
this barney.