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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
A GOOD PROGRAM

A farm parley called by Governo
Floyd B. Olson, was held at the stat
capitol several days ago. This wa
attended by 25 farm leaders from gu
over the state, amongst those presen
being R. A. Trovatten, recently APP
pointed state commissioner of agricul
ture by the governor. Mr.. Trovattel
submitted a program for study which
will be discussed further at later
meeting of the body. The program
includes:
A state income tax.
Lower rates of interest on farm
loans.
Higher tax rates on the larger
incomes under the federal income
tax law.
Higher inheritance taxes by
federal government on the larger
inheritances.
Further support of the federal
farm board and suggestion that
the board give continued attention
to the organization of co-opera-
tives.
Support of the farm board prac-
tice of pegging prices of farm
products but that money payments
should be made through farm CO.
operatives only.
Protection of American dairy
farmers from the competition of
Philippine fats and vegetable oils.
Law to prevent excess profits on
merchandise sold to farmers.
Laws to prevent watering of
stock to prevent fixing of rates on
basis of capital investment that
does not exist.
Repeal of laws guaranteeing a
profit to any utility.
Solution of the unemployment
problem as basis for the build
ing of farm prosperity.
Readers of the Askov American vii
quickly recognize number of thes
issues as having been discussed edi
torially in these columns from time t
time. Much time and space has bee
devoted especially to the. propose,
state income tax; arguments hav
been advanced for higher rates on tn
larger incomes under the federal in
come tax; higher inheritance take
on the larger inheritances; protection
of American dairy farmers from tn
competition of Philippine fats an
vegetable oils; solution of the unem
ployment problem as basis for build
ing of farm prosperity. and so on.
The program offered by Mr.. Tro
vatten is the most constructive an,
comprehensive submitted to farmers
organizations and the people of tn
state by any head of the state agri
cultural department. The proposals
if carried out, would no doubt be O
much benefit to Pine county and ever,
agricultural county in Minnesota. W.
congratulate the commissioner O
agriculture on his vision and for tn
frankness of his appeal to all tn
people. May his efforts along thi
line be crowned with success. In MI
Trovatten, Governor Olson evidentl,
selected a man who is going to re
fleet credit on his good judgment an,
his administration.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

Johnny, 10, on applying for a posi-
ton as office boy was told by the
smart manager: mo, l am afraid
you are too small. 1 think the reason
is because your legs are too short"
With a smile the young applicant
looked up and replied: Huh, what
this place needs is brains, not legs"
He got the job.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
THE CAREFUL DRIVER

Comparatively few automobile &C.
cldents are caused by criminal reck-
lessness or fragrant errors on the part
of the driver" says the Hibbing Tri-
bune.
Most of them are caused by little
mistakes allowing attention to
stray from what you are doing; by for
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

the loss on the state? Not the Olson
administration but our friends good
friends: The former Republican adj
ministrations. The present adminis-
tration isn't losing the state anything;
it is only pulling out of the fire part
of what Preus and Christianson adj
ministrations chucked into the flames.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

Times, Monticello, Minnesota: The
small town belongs to the farmer.
1t exists mainly, if not entirely to
serve him. 1t is the place he goes
for a loaf of bread or loan at
the bank. 1t is there, usually, that
he attends a lodge meeting or a
chicken pie supper. If the farmer
never wanted a loaf of bread or a
chicken pie supper there would not
be any town. There might be a fill
ing station and a hot dog stand for
the convenience of travellers, but it
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
FOOLISH LAWS
(The Ortonville independently

(The Ortonville independently
The books now are damned to the
covers with foolish and meaningless
laws, but, add one more.
"The driver of a motor vehicle.
when travelling on a down grade, shall
not allow the vehicle to coast with
the gears in neutral" according to a
provision of the state traffic act.
If one were to confine his thoughts
only to the principle of the law, he
would say, "Fine!" However, when
the question of enforcement is con-
sidered, one must admit it just can't
be done.
Why. to enforce such law would
require road patrol with a per-
sonnet as large as the population of
China, for, in order to get the Glow
down" on offenders, a patrolman would
have to go buggy-riding with every
motorist. But, this isn't possible, so
therefore, the law will not be en-
forced, except as wise motorists make
i. operative. So, like a lot of other
laws prohibiting this, that and the
other thing, it will lie unnoticed with
in leather-bound volume of the
statutes of Minnesota.
Be that as it may, however, motor
lists who know their clutches at all,
will do little or no coasting unless
their gears are meshed, for there's
been many a crash 'twixt top and bot
tom of hill because drivers coasted
with their gears in neutral.
Consequently, it might be well, en-
forcement or no enforcement, to heed
the law, if only to save ones own
neck, and while we have no record,
it is a 10 to 1 shot legislators argued
for hours; yes maybe days, as to
whether this would be a good or bad
thing for the country-and posterity.
Mile Laos County Times: After all
maybe it could be called ''spoils
system" that the Farmer-Labor party
is bringing about at the state capitol.
Electing Governor Olson seems to be
spelling the graft of old line Re-
publicans in the rural credits bureau;
spelling the padding of payrolls by
Republican employees; and spelling the
scheme by which certain appointees
of the Republican administration lift
ed wads out of the state treasury and
lined their own pockets. They had
good picking until the election of Gov
ernor Olson spoiled it all for them.
Times, Monticello, Minnesota: The
small town belongs to the farmer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09

REFINED COLORED.
1927 N ST. NV.
End floor fiat of rooms and bath. $40.
Electricity
Gal Ord ST. NE
1St-hoor fiat Of rooms, kitchen and bath,
s32. so. Electricity. VIII redecorate.
BOSS & PHELPS,
14l7 X ST. NV. Nat $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09

HANDSOME ALL-BRICk
DETACHED HOME.
Center hall Of the colonial type. with
large covered side porch and slate roof;
we'll constructed home of rooms and z
master baths, a servants bath in basement
and lavatory on iSt floor, hardwood hoors
up and down, open fireplace. breakfast nook
and heated by oil burner; two-car Earaee.
This attractive home sold for $32Soo, but
circumstances are. such that an offer OF
only S2l.50O will be considered. Close 70
18th St and Rock Creek Park In section OF
fine homes Evenings call Georgia zoos.
LOUIS p. SHOEMAKER,
1907 New York Ave. Nat. 1883.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09
The ASHMEAD,

THos. J. FISHER 6; CO., INC.
1913 18th st. District $780,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09

PIG H ST NV.
Ants. OF / room, kitchen and bath,
430. 90 and s35 90; resident manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09

UNUSUALLY LOW RENT.
$40 BUCHANAN ST. N.W.-S5o;
Front apartment, overlooking sherman
Circle, consisting of reception hall. large
liyinV room, bed room, kitchen and bath.
Low RENT-S47.50.
623 9th ST. NE
Apartment consisting of reception han,
living room, bed room. kitchen and bath.
LARGE APARTMENT-347.50.
2i1i 18th ST. NV
Near 18th and Col. Rd
housekeeping apartment consisting Of =
unusually large rooms. kitchen and bath.
ONLY $3.50.
1927 l4th ST NV.
FRIGIDAIRE.
Apartment consisting Of reception hall
large living room, kitchen and bath.
DOWNTOWN APARTMEET-S50.
1925 x ST. NV.
Near Franklin Park.
Apartment consisting of rooms, Kitchen
and bath.
18th &R Dist $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09
SALE-HOuSES.
BUNGALOW-S6,7,

BUNGALOW-$6,750.
Takoma Park, in q most delishtful sec
ton on wide. paved avenue. soft. front.
sge; I2l,it; depth: has huge LIVING ToSm:
room. breakfast room, bed rooms. kitchen
and bath; hardwood floors, h.-w h, cleo:
large cellar. 1t is Just the home you are
looking for. Terms.
L. T. GRANATTE,
e27 18th St Rcaltor Nat o753.
Evening Phone Georgia 1900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09
2so7 CONNECTICUT AVE.
Near Cathedral Ave.

Murphy bed, closet, Kitchen and bath,
S2.so-S47.50,
Alcoye; available June LIST. electric
refrigeration, residen: manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-09

$500 X ST. NV.
Apts Of and rooms. kitchen and
bath, $40 90 to $4,000. Resident man
aEer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
Fascist Murderer
Grandi Tips High
to Hide Low Wages

WASHINGTON, Nov. POT o
show how generous" fascist muir
derers are, Dino Grand, fascismo's
foreign minister, tipped chauffers
who drove him around $40, sup
posed to be a record for tipping,
Grandi's generosity" however,
merely covers up the fact that the
Italian workers are driven at high
speed, under the fascist dictator
ship, for such miserable wages as
the following:
In the Province OF Lucca, in the
spinning mills, wages for women
apprentices are 20 cents day, for
spinners, IS cents a day. for men
laborers, 65 cents day. In Tus-
cany the most highly skilled male
cotton worker gets sl.i6 a day and
skilled women workers get So cents
a day.
Grand and the other fascist big
shots, squeezing the life blood out
of the italian workers, can easily
afford a $40 tip to show their gen.
erosity."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
Demand Endorsement of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill by the State, County
and Municipal Legislative Bodies!

TIE Hunger place
efforts relief local
county and authorities
Nearly
present year.
carried the demands of the to these legislative and
administrative bodies
political bodies first
loyalty wealthy by ordering police thugs
especially
election period they have changed their tactics.
They adopted sympathetic" hepessness They
crocodile the
people"
officials buck state and
With their these hypocc demagogues whose action
ats to the federal government"
the capitalist political machine which
in all
placing all legislative
endorsement of the Workers Unemployment Bill
cations should be selected all demonstrations that will before these
bodies insist such
provided with oppor
tdty their spokesman address without oaion
which
the fascist Grand
required for the providing the
this during
* SHOP, GROUP UNEMPLOYED
WORKERS II, WORKER
81 JOIN THE DEMONSTRATIONS YOUR
SEND YOUR RESOLUTIONS TELEGRAPH
INGTON ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE PRESENT
THEM PRESIDENT HOOVER!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21

Washington, and to endorse the de-
mands for unemployment insurance
and winter relief they will present to
Congress. William q oster, general
secretary of the Trade Union Unity
League, will be the main speaker at
this demonstration. The Workers In
terl1ational Relief Band will play and
the audience will sing the new song:
1.-THE Hunger March"
The w. I. r. in a special announce
ment yesterday stated that it has
hired nine trucks for the New York
delegation and that $4,000 is required
for this alone. The Tag Days, says
the w. I. r., must bring in at least
$4,000 to make this march success.
The w. I, r. urges delegates to the
conference Sunday to come with
pledges and donations from their or
CARNATIONS.
Many worker organizations have
already endorsed the conference and
Hunger March. The latest to send
delegates and endorsements are the
Office Workers and Paper Bag
Makers.
Office Workers Endorse.
The Office Workers Union an
nounces that mass meeting of EN-
ployed and unemployed clerks, held
Wednesday at Labor Temple has en-
dorsed the conference and adopted a
resolution which points out that
quarter of a million of office workers
are unemployed in New York, and
starving under peculiarly depressing
circumstances, since their only hope
to ever get jobs is to stay meat, clean
and we'll dressed"
Furthermore, employed office work
ers are at the mercy of the bosses
who exploit them in the name Of
charity, deducting from their wages
the money supposed to go for re
lief to the iobless. The Emergency
Relief Committee sends its jobless to
do the work, at scab wages, that Of
flee workers have been doing, thus
reducing standards of living for all.
Bag Makers Delegation.
A meeting Of the Paper Plate and
Bag Makers Local No. 107 in its regu-
lar meeting this week adopted q
resolution bitterly condemning the
a. F, L. Vancouver Convention for
opposing Unemployment Insurance,
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
READY TO MARCH
ON CITY HALL TO
DEMAND RELIEF
.B'klyn Demonstration
Prepares For Monday

NEW YORK-A call to all to
mobilize for the march on City Hall
Monday at 2 p m. to demand that
the budget now under consideration
by the Board of Aldermen contain
an appropriation of 5000, 100000 for
immediate winter relief, was cheered
to the echo by a crowd of 1000 as
sembled at Brooklyn Borough Hall,
yesterday.
The Borough Hall demonstration
took place as a result of hunger
hearings in which many cases of
starving families were brought to no.
tice. A committee of white and Ne
gro workers of the Brooklyn coun-
ellis of the unemployed led by Van
Veen and Flaiani and with the re-
representatives. of the starving fam
lilies In attendance went up the
steps of the borough hall, which a
great throng watched. Police barred
the committee from the building, and
informed them that Borough Presi-
dent Hesterberg had left and nobody
would see them. Speakers told The
police and the crowd that the same
delegation and same crowd would be
back Wednesday.
This flouting of the starvation OF
the workers made a great sensation
when the committee reported back.
A resolution demanding relief and
unemployed insurance was adopted
with thunderoug approval.
Many of these I'm be in the demon
stration which marches on the city
hall, Monday. Brooklyn workers will
G directly t the ely halo rafh?tH
60 diecly to the city hall.
A main body of marchers will as
se1nble on Union Square at noon and
then proceed to city hall, Monday.
Trade Unions and other workers or
carnations are to be in this line of
march.
The Down Town branch of the
Unemployed Councils will gather all
jobless workers and others they can
mobilize at Seventh st. and Ave A at
11.30 a, m. They will meet there
until noon, and march then TO Rut-
gers Square where they will join the
crowd led by the East Side branch.
They will march then in combined
demonstration to the city hall.
Harlem jobless and workers will
meet first at l34th st. and Lenox
Ave. at noon, and from there go to
the City Hall.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
ABERDEEN PARTY
VOTE PUT AT 312
Workers Rallying to
Communist Party

ABERDEEN, Washington Joseph
Schroyer, Communist candidate for
mayor in the primary elections on
November 14th, received 312 votes,
nearly 10 per cent of the total votes
cast.
Many supporters Of the Communist
Party could not vote because they did
not register it was reported.
The capitalist politicians were
worried by the entrance of the Com
munist Party in the election field.
With strike in two OF the sawinills
and large hunger demonstration on
the eve of the election they redoubled
their effort to keep the stranglehold
they now have on the workers of this
harbor.
The Party will follow lip this good
vote by recruiting workers for the
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
JUDGE PICKED
TO CON Wet
BILL BURNETT
Facts Show Harlan
Coal Operators Chose
Mt. Sterling Court
Miner Shot In Defense
Thugs Were Attempt
ing, To Kill Negro
Miner

NEW YORK.-Bill Burnett, framed
up coal miner whose case in the Mt.
Sterling court is just about to go to
the jury of rich landowners Of the
Blue Grass country of Kentucky, was
deliberately turned over to Judge Pre-
witt by the Harlan County coal OPP
orators to face electrocution, evidence
in the hands of the International
Labor Defense shows. Burnett is the
first of 81 miners who were framed-up
on murder charges growing out of an
attack of deputy sheriffs, paid by the
coal operators, against striking
miners,
The Burnett case was rushed
through quick tgial here with coal
company deputies comprising the pro-
secution witnesses" Burnett when he
went on the stand, according to cap
italist press dispatches, said that he
did not kill Jesse Pace. He said the
company gunner came to a group of
miners who were Winding their own
business and started to attack them.
Burnett declared that they partic-
ularly attacked Negro miners and
that the others came to their defence.
1.-THE officersmgot out of their cars
with guns in t@ir hands," said Bur-
nett Jim Daniels comes over to an
old colored man and Jerked him
around and kicked him or kicked at
him. got mad and walked around
the end of, the gondola car. A fellow
named White stopped me and Said.
Where you goin'?' 1 told him 1 was
going home. (His house was near by.
He says, You're not goin' no-place.
He pulled his gun at me, and when
I threw up my hands he shot and
hit me in the hand"
The company gunner had delib-
.erately been sent down to the mining
camp ito get the miners"
The International Labor Defense in
exposing the connection of Judge Pre-
witt. who is presiding in the Burnett
case, with the coal operators, points
out that Judge Prewitt six years ago
performed some important political
favors for the coal operators At that
time there was sharp election con-
test on in Harlan county for sheriff.
The coal operators candidate was Jim
Green and the miners supported
Floyd Ball. The election was con-
tested and Judge Prewitt, now trying
the framed-up miners, was called in
to settle" the election. He decided
in favor of the coal operators sheriff.
The scandal stirred up by this act
was SO rotten that the Kentucky
State Court OF Appeals called new
election and the anti-coal operator
man was elected. He was shot dead
a short while thereafter. All the min
ers were convinced that he was MUIR
dered by the coal operators.
When the framed-up murder
charges were sent TO Mt. Sterling, the
TACT was brought up that Judge Pre-
witt was coal-operator's man. Judge
Jones of Harlan is reported to have
said that Judge Prewitt was no longer
sitting on the bench.
The open actions of Judge Prewitt
in threatening witnesses and miners.
and his attacks ON the National Min
ers Union, shows that he is again
performing his rotten duties for the
for the coal barons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
Must Raise Funds Now to
Finance the Hunger March

NEW YOEk.-The serious danger
in which the success of the National
Hunger March TO washington is be-
ing placed by the lack of progress in
the financial campaign for the
March. Yves sharply brought out yes
terday by A, w, Mills, organizer of
the Unemployed Councils Commit
tee for the National Hunger March,
and Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary
OF the Workers International Relief.
They stated;
mot q single city is sufficiently
engaged in the collection of funds to
finance the National Hunger March.
Must Raise Quota
This Is bound to have serious con-
sequences if we do not make correc-
Son Immediately. The quota Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21

were outnumbered and out-slugged
by the Tammany thugs urged on by
their magistrates, judges, sheriffs,
borough presidents and district lead
ers who had been outraged by in
vestigation of their private fortunes,
growing with mushroom like rapidity
in this period of general depression,
but the graft probes are not over,
there is lots of friction between AL
Smith and the aspiring Roosevelt,
whose presidential boom does not sit
well with the Tammany chiefs.
Tammany Angles For Labor Support
Tammany, about ninety per cent
Roman Catholic, with a few Jewish
leaders thrown in to show true Cath
ole iberality, does not like the Roose-
cvelt alliance with the protestant
south. Tanlmany needs more labor"
support for the democratic national
convention as against Roosevelt who
is the white-haired boy of the labor
leaders of the American Federation of
Labor.
The interests of the catholic church
must also be served as far as possible.
Mother church does not like to see
an influential son or former son,
even though he has erred sadly, slip
away to the Reds. Frank P. Walsh, a
fairly competent engineer in such
situations, being a much better poll
tician than a student of jurisprudence
and being also ''close enough to
Governor Roosevelt as his attorney in
the st. Lawrence waterway matter to
give the desired appearance of unity
among all forces of the New York
democracy" probably has set the
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIyE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
Unemployed Workers! Here Is What Ma
tional Hunger Marchers Demand
of Congress
of Congress

Fifteen hundred elected delegates
Of unemployed workers is every city
Of the United States will be in Wash
ington Dec 6 and after a National
Hunger March in which the first de-
tachments. have already started.
N They will place before congress and
4 efore President Hoover the follow
4 NJ demands:
~. Unemployment insurance equal
10 full wages, to be paid for by the
government, through special taxes if
necessary. They will demand that
Congress pass the Unemployment In
surance Bill brought there By the last
Hunger March.
2. Special Winter Relief Of $3.50
cash in lump sum and $50 addition
al for eech.dspendent.
3. Seven hour day without reduc-
ton in wages; federal program of fur
nislling work to the jobless at full
wages; abolition of terror and dis
elimination against Negroes and for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21

Sunday in Stuyvesant Casino. This
united front conference will organize
for the terrific struggle to force the
bloated Tammany officialdom of New
York City and its enormously wealthy
capitalist masters to feed the million
starving unemployed here 1t will
form organization for the next steps
in preparing the National Hunger
March on Washington.
First of ALL the conference will con-
slider the many nominations for those
to go on the March, made by the
workers organizations sending dele
gates to it, and will make final
selection.
The conference will take reports
on the campaign in the various or
CARNATIONS to finance the National
Hunger March, and will make prep
arations for Tag Days here on Nov
Is and 20, for house to house collec-
lions, etc.
Tt will endorse the Sport Festival
arranged to raise funds for the
march, by the Metropolitan Workers
Soccer League, at Dyckman's Oval,
Nov. %.
1t will mobilize for the demonstra-
ton before the Board of Aldermen
Monday, to demand S200,00oo0o be
appropriated in the city budget for
winter relief.
1t will start preparations for the
great Bronx Coliseum meeting on
Dec. 2, to send off the New York
delegation starting next day for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-21
Marine Fraction to
Meet Sunday, 10 AM.

NEW YORK.-On Sunday, Novem-
Der 2Sd at 10 am, at the Workers
Center, 35 e. 18th st, meeting of
the marine workers fraction will take
place. Every Party comrade connected
with the marine industry, whether he
is member of the Marine Union or
not, must be present at this meeting
where q District representative to-
gether with our comrades will discuss
the problems and tasks before US at
the present time