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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

rested one OF the LID. Investigators on trumpet
up charges and got crowd of people to wreck
interference with their demands for food and
clothing for the unemployed and part-time
workers, and the bosses don't like that They
are afraid of the workers If they are organized
together. So the judge said that Jones had to
have another lawyer, and the judge appointed
the automobile in which the investigators were
going around, so that the other one couldn't get
away from the village Then they gathered to-
gether all the rich farmers from the whole
Eastern Shore of Maryland and when they had
about TOO of them they released the 22-year -old
girl investigator, Helen Mays, on bail and the
Judge told the lawyer that the case would be
moved from Snow Hill and that he could now
go home, and then this mob Of rich farmers and
Storekeepers, led by the mayor of Snow Hill,
caught all three of them, the lawyer, the girl
and the other investigator and beat them up.
Judge Bailey was there and saw it ALL And the
sheriff and his deputies were there and the
states attorney was there and they all saw what
happened and they all knew the mayor of Snow
Hill and the other mob leaders, but nobody was
arrested Finally, the sheriff let the three LID.
people into the jail, where they stayed until
night for safety, and then they got away to Bal
timore.
The whole object of this mob attack, in which
the judge, the states attorney and the sheriff
all played their part, as well as the rich farm
ers and storekeepers and the mayor of the town,
was to terrorize the LID. lawyer and investi-
gators SO that they would stop investigating the
case and stop defending Jones and let Judge
Bailey hang Jones, with the assistance of the
rich lawyer whom Judge Bailey had appointed
to defend Jones.
Concluded Tomorrow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

sought refuge In the deserted Industrial district
on the west side of the SchuyIldIl below Spring
garden Others have sought refuge In the
music bowl on Lemon HILL From both places
they were driven by the police.
EARLY In November the Metropolitan Opera
Company had its premiere at the Academy
Of Music. All the overwhelmingly generous
patrons of the workers of Philadelphia were
there-the Drexels the Biddles, the Stotes-
burys. The papers reported hundreds Of yards
of the most expensive silks, and scores of
karats of big diamonds and pearls. On the
same night Mrs. Anna Nathan, 81, of 354O
North Warnock ST., shot her three children to
death and then killed herself. Only yester-
day. said neighbor, Mrs. Nathan told me
her husband had been out Of work for almost
year, except for the little Jobs which he
could pick up for a week or SO as chef in
lunch wagons. His last job was in wagon
near Broad and Tioga St., where he made
but SIS week. She said she would kill her
self IL her husband could not get work soon.'
FIops and Financiers.
The city has several louse-ridden flop houses.
One marine worker, secretary OF the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, who exposed condi-
tons in the Seamen's Institute 25-cent flop
house, was recently arrested for slandering the
Institution and was given three months. Home
less workers who rebelled against flop house con-
ditions a few months ago were framed UP. one
worker early this year got 80 days in Jail for de-
mandng decent food at the filthy Lodge for
the Homeless.
Many OF the wealthiest people in Philadelphia,
it is admitted by the United Campaign, private
charity drive, contribute not a penny to the re-
lief funds All Of Hoovers pleas for giving to
the private charity rackets in order to avoid I'M
employment insurance and federal relief, have
had no affect on these cynical mllionaires. Let
the workers-the uneinployed-come and force
it out of us, If they cam is the attitude Of these
capitalists.
Graft.
Such public emergency relief" as there is in
wolves the blacklisting Of workers, underwriting
union wages in the job given, high overhead
salaries and graft The Mayors Committee for
the Relief Of the Poor and Unemployed was
found saturated with graft. high-pressure pro-
moters having received 20 per cent Of the amount
taken in during last winters drive. Out OF
collection Of 100000 some $4,000 actually
reached the unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

ing to law), Jones said yes, that the I. L. D.
lawyer was his lawyer. But the Judge said that
no lawyer connected with the International La
Dor Defense could defend anybody in his court.
He did this because the boss class courts as well
as the bosses themselves, are afraid of the work
ers when they are united. They see the white
and Negro workers joining together in the In
ternational Labor Defense for their own protec-
ton against the terror of the police against the
police frame ups Of workers. and against police
rich lawyer from Snow Hill to defend Jones'"
they said but really to see that the hanging
was done in legal and quick way. OF course
the LID lawyer had to leave then, but he came
back and he came back with petition to move
the case away from Snow Hill. Now, according
to the law when such petition is filed in
case the judge has to move the case and the law
says that anybody who is friend OF the pris-
oner can file the motion, so even if the LID.
lawyer couldn't act as a lawyer in the court at
Snow Hill he could still act as Jones friend,
and so the court had to accept the petition.
Judge Had New Trick.
But then the judge decided to try few tricks
himself. He decided to move the case to Cam
bridge, town not far away. Now, down on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, where all this hap
pened, they don't have judge in every town,
but one judge travels around and has several
courts. And fat old Judge Bailey, who was never
hungry in his life, is also the judge in Cam
bridge. He figured that he had Jones now, but
he was still afraid of the International Labor
Defense. He was afraid of their lawyer and he
was afraid OF what two investigators for the
LID, who were then in Snow Hill, would find
out about this case. So he wouldn't decide any
thing all day, but kept the lawyer in court until
the afternoon. In the meantime the police ar
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
Unemployment Relief" in
Philadelphia

TEE rise OF unemployment has been 50 acute
1 that the relief expenditures of ten leading
charity agencies Q: Philadelphia rose from
s1o7.7Ss IN September. 1880, to s517,554 in Sep
tember, 1891, an increase of 404 per cent. But
this doesn't begin to touch the actual need.
II you are lucky enough to get any relief at
all from the Bureau of Unemployment Relief,
YOU draw for family Of five-just 500 a week,
which b about SIG week less than is required
to maintain even the minimum subsistence level
Of life al previously determined by private char
ity statisticians. This 500 allows you nothing
Tor rent, clothing or incidentals.
Or. Beury, the wen-salaried president OF
Temple University, indicates his approval of this
standard of relief when he declared that "the
depression will teach the people appreciation of
spiritual and cultural things" Nearly 100000
unemployed in the city are now getting taste
y the spiritual and cultural joys.
Nice TO Be Horse.
One Of our Philadelphia correspondents in
forms US that when q traffic horse in that city
has outlived its usefulness it is sent to the
meadows of Bybery where it spends the rest
Of its days well fed and secure in the green
fields
But when a Philadelphia worker has out
lived his period of service to his expoiters well,
we quote from our correspondent
Thirty persons, mostly workers, have leaped
from the Delaware River Bridge since il was
opened. ~ T~
Hundreds Of dispossessed workers have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
THE FIGHT FOR ORPHAN JONES

This Is the second of series Of three articles
on the history of the vicious death frame-up
against 60-year old Negro farm hand, Orphan
Jones-a frame-up brazen in its savage torture
Of the worker by the police in order to extort
confession" open denial by the courts and
the governor of Maryland of the simplest con-
stitutional rights such the right to select his
attorney; followed by open lynch indictments
by leading officials Of the State and of the
County of Worcester; with attempt to lynch
the lawyers of the defendant and two investi-
gators sent to Snow Hill by the International
Labor Defense, an attempt by the court to
force the LID. attorney out of the case and
finally insistence by the court of bringing
Jones to trial on Dec. In Cambridge on the
Eastern, Shore, where armed lynch gangs of
rich farmers have been hunting Negro workers
for days. searching the jails for Negro prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
GREET NEGRO AND WHITE HUNGER
.MARCHERS WITH THE LIBERATOR'

unity of these workers fighting side
by side for unemployment insurance,
against race discrimination, lynching,
and for Negro rights.
Build the Liberator into a mass
organ which fights persecution Of the
Negro workers Put the Liberator
into the hands of Negro and white
workers battling against hunger.
Greet the Hunger Marchers with
The Liberatorl
Temporary Drop in Bundles
Because The Liberator finds itself
in an extremely critical situation due
to lack of funds and The added bur-
den imposed upon it by the post
office denying second class mailing
privileges, certain bundles of the
Nov. II issue. amounting to 1927 copies
we're held over for lack of postage.
For this reason. the decrease of I'll
shown in the circulation tables would
indicate an actual gain of 116 in cir
culation, had these bundles been
mailed i'll the regular manner. The
Chicago district adds 100, aided by a
new bundle order of 10; New York
puts ON II, As of which comes from
subscriptions, thus retaining the best
record for subs since the drive started
We cannot stress sufficiently the
need for all districts not to hold Lib
orator funds, but to rush them into
the office to insure prompt printing
prompt mailing, and prompt distribu-
tion throughout the country. w,
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have had to miss the issue of Nov. %
and combine it with the issue OF
December and unless bills are paid,
this procedure will have to be re-
peated. Collect for papers and send
the money Immediately to The Lib
orator, so E. 18th ST., Room 201,
New York.
Action, Orders, Reports
]. H. of North Little Rock, Ark,
enclosed 80 cents for bundle plus
report of a meeting of nine members
of the L. S. N. r. "Fhis is just the
beginning" he writes, "apd we expect
to have bigger orders hereafter y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

Sorry, comrade. your bundle was held
up the first week for postage. From
J. w. w. of Chicago comes boost
from so to rs along with advance
payment. San Francisco assures us
Of closer Supervision over Liberator
machinery. "Up until now we had
suffered because of too many changes
of comrades in charge writes M. r.
How about multiplying that single
sub that came from your district two
scription figures, along with bundles!
We want reports from other dis
tricts. Shoot them in!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
BY BILL BRENT
Part III

ORPHAN JONES was arrested on a Monday
and the states attorney announced that he
would have a trial the next Monday The In
ternational Labor Defense then employed
lawyer to see Jones and defend him. But the
bosses. in Snow Hill had had enough of the I. L.
D. and din't want them in the case, so Judge
Joseph l.. Bailey, fat-bellied tool of the bosses
and as mean and vicious as any judge in Har-
Ian, KY, or Scottsboro, Ala, made an order that
no lawyer employed by the LID. could see
Jones. Just the same the LID. lawyer went
down to Snow Hill when they took Jones back
there week later for his trial And the lawyer
saw Jones and told him that he was from the
l. L. D. So when the Judge asked Jones whether
he had lawyer (Which he had to ask accord
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

For long while We wondered whether
that poor little infant would ever bet beyond
the diaper and safety-pn age, We refer to the
Labor Sports Union, which for long after birth
barely existed with all the ailments of infancy
heaped upon it and nobody interested in whether
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05
She Played the Game

Something Of loneliness has passed away with the
death of Anna Pavlowa, the dancer. Something that
was youth and dawn-glow, and a singing wind and the
melody that Pan played before his pipes were broken.
Something that was brave and Triumphant and threw
itself against the stark background of life and tried
to glorify it.
Anna Pavlowa danced through life, and hundreds of
thousands have forgotten the barren sweep Of their
own lives as they let her carry them into enchanted
lands where fountains played and all nights were moon
lights. They caught a little of the alchemy that can
glorify the commonplace and their voices were softer
and their eyes more shining the next day and the next
and the next.
Those who touch the lives of people with a gilded
wand, who spill laughter and happiness into the crevces,
are as worthy of renown as those whose bridges and
towers reach star-high in the sky. They who bring a
fleeting beauty that is as fragrant as a rain-wet night
in spring, or as glowing as a carnival in some pleasant
land, have done much.
The balerna danced for others enjoyment when her
own heart was heavy because she no longer had a place
in her native land. But she knew that she must make
a crimson ball of her courage and toss it higher and
higher for others to catch and send spinning back.
Playing the game dancing to the music .
is the thing. And Pavowa kept perfect time with the
orchestra assigned to her, although the windbeats of
life across the Russian plains tore through her storm
hurt heart.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05
Reserved Seats Free

Whatever else may come of it. the present battle be-
tween the president and the senate furnishes the nation
with an interesting spectacle, even If it isn't a new one
and the seats are free.
: The low down" on the battle over relief for the
drought-stricken areas of the country probably will not
be disclosed to the public. but the energetic newspaper
reporters at Washington will get enough of it to keep
the nation interested.
Everyone loves q fight, as witness the manner in which
the crowd gathers to view any street disturbance, and
here we have some Of the most prominent persons IN
the world engaging in real disagreement.
If it were regularly scheduled and staged, what an OPP
portlnity there would be for a leather -lunged announcer.
I'm this cawnaw we have Hoibert Hoovah, the defending
chanpeen. In this cawnaw We have the United States
senate, the aggressive challenger" Then the bell would
ring and the battle would be on.
This part Of the spectacle is, Of course, denied to us,
but the bell has rung just the same and the fight is on.
We see Bill Borah scamper, waterbucket and all, from
the corner which he occupied at the 1928 election when
he was Hoovers chief second, to that of his rival. We
see new seconds take his place.
And back in a corridor we have Senator Caraway
battling Justify with Representative Cramton OF Mich
igan in a side-show of their own.
And everyone may have a ringsde seat practically
free. for it is all told in the newspapers and they are
cheap.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05
A Strand in a Rope May Solve
Lynching Problem
VALLEY City Times Record

VALLEY City Times Record)
Investigators are now working on the Bannon lynch
ing under the direction of Attorney General Morris.
Gov. Shafcr has ordered a most searching investigation
Of that case. The prosecutors are tying their faith to
pinning the crime on someone through the agency OF
a red strand running through the rope that hanged
Bannon. II they find out who manufactures that brand
of rope, who sells it in Mckenzie county and who has
purchased such rope, then that slender thread may
lead to some of the leaders in the Jail raid that fateful
morning.
If any peron or persons are apprehended for this
~lynching they face four counts at the bar of Justice
murder, riot, conspiracy and the taking of a prisoner
from the custody Of police officers.
These charges under ordinary circumstances would
be staggering to most people, but to those who took
part in that %lynching, to our mind, it means little. We
doubt very much. with the mind of the public feeling
as it does today. that a jury could be gathered together
that would convict a single person in that terrible
tragedy. You say that is poor stuff for you to write
when you believe that lynching should not be tolerated
We admit the charge, but we can also see and sense
the feelings Of the people in that section of the state
where those murders were committed.
If there is any merchant in Mckenzie county who
will remember-and he will forget very conveniently
to whom he sold some of that brand of rope, we miss
our guess-he would be putting himself in line for
ostracism from his fellow men. The state has a hard
job ahead of it in trying to fasten this ~lynching on any
body-ninety per cent of the people hope the state
will fail.
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KFYR
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
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~ AAsAO~S
7:OO-Farm flashes.
1:1O-Weather report.
7:15-Farm reporter in Washington.
7:30-Old- time music.
Rehabilitation period.
walker.
9:00-Sunshine hour.
9:30-World Bookman.
10:O0-Opening grain markets; wealth.
er report.
10:10-Aunt Sammy: daily household
chat.
10:20-New release hour.
1O:45-With Uncle Sans naturalists.
10:57-Arlington time signals.
1l:0O-Grain markets.
1l:l5-German program.
ll:3O-Organ program: Clara Morris.
12:00-Grain markets.; Bismarck Trib-
une news n weather; lunch
Pm. con program.
2:OO-Grain markets: high, low, and
close: Bismarck Tribune news,
weather, and st. Paul livestock.
2:l5-Musical matinee melodies.
2:oO-Siesta hour: Good News radio
magazine.
3:00-Music.
5:00-Music.
5:15-Uncle Paul's kiddie time.
5:S5-Stocks n bonds.
5:4O-Bismarck Tribune sports items.
5:45-Bismarck Tribune news.
5:50-Music,
6:O0-Dinner hour organ recital:
Clara Morris.
b:oO-B. II. S. choral club; C.. e. Lar
son. director.
7:OO-Newscasting.
7:15-Legislative tidbits.
a:3O-Studio program.
S:O0-Chevrolet chronicles.
o:5V-l. u. A. barn dance.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05
Add Whist to Your List

Add whist to the list of popular indoor sports.
Not bridge, as it is played nowadays, but good old
whist as it existed before bridge became fashionable.
Teams from Hamburg and Fessenden met recently III
an in~tcr-community contest, with 20 men on each team
1t was a real get-together and good fellowship reigned.
Down at Jamestown they are planning whist contests
which will enlist the interest of persons from all parts
of Stutsman county. They will play grand and "nula"
to their hearts content and everyone will have a good
time.
Whist, of the od-fashioned kind, may be a little out
of date, but then the folks who play it probably never
had social aspirations-and they still get a lot of fun
out of it. Whist is still the big brother of bridge, be
it auction or contract.
A good cook can forgive anything in a husband but
q bad stomach.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05

was anti-socialist and its aim was the
defeat of the reds or radical element
which after the World war appeared
to be gaining a preponderance Of
power, with consequent disorder. The
Fascist organization was mostly Of
young men who were dissatisfied with
the findings of the peace conference,
in which it was held that Italy was
Disseminated against. The party
grew rapidly until among the ''black
shirts" as they were named, there
were upwards of 100000, practically
all young men. They formed a po-
litical party under a protectorate, but
on obtaining power expressed adher-
ence to the monarchy, September 10,
1922. Mussolini became both the head
of the party and of the government.
@. Why is a shop where locomotives
are repaired called q roundhouse?-
A. v.
A. The. shop is round, since it is
built around a turn-table, hence the
term roundhouse.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05
The Weight of a Petition
Grand Forks Herald)

If the plans of those who have framed and circulated
the petitions are carried out, the people Of North Da-
kota will be called on a year hence to vote on a pro-
posal to amend the state constitution so as to move
the capital from the place where it has been for more
than 40 years, and where the territorial capital had
been for several years before statehood. In spite of
statements to the contrary, this will necessarily involve
delay in the preparations for the building OF a new
capitol, for until it is determined where the new build
ing is to be erected, architects cannot proceed intelli-
gently with plans for it's construction. 1t is true that
plans for a building can be drawn without there being
any particular site in mind. Sometimes such plans are
drawn, the result being that when the building is
erected it sticks out like a wart or a sore thumb.
If a commission is authorized to build on the pres
ent grounds, it will consider, among other things, what
portion, if any, of the old structure can advantageously
be used in the new one. Decision on that point may
have an important bearing on that type Of building.
# the site remains undetermined. the commission will
be ignorant, until after the election, of frontage, area
and many other factors which are of prime importance.
neglect Of which would be disastrous. What group of
men having any regard for their own reputation would
accept a commission on these terms: "You prepare
plans for a building and we will pick out a site later
on"
This situation, if it arises, will arise through the
operation of the North Dakota law providing for the
initiation of constitutional amendments by petition.
Under our law 10000 persons can require the sub
mission of any proposed constitutional amendment by
signing and filing petitions to that effect.
The intent OF the law is to provide for an effective
expression OF public sentiment in an emergency in
which the legislature has failed to act or has not had
opportunity to act. It's actual effect is to make the
constitution the ~plaything of any who, for whatever
reason, think it worth their while to circulate petitions
calling for a vote. Any group, we'll organized and well
financed, can obtain the signatures of 10000 North
Dakota citizens to any petition whatever. There are
several times that number of persons in North Dakota,
who, if properly approached, will sign anything. It il
easier to sign than to refuse, and so long as signing
costs nothing, the signing is done, quite often without
a thought being given to the subject matter involved
Under such circumstances the initiation of amend.
ments to the constitution by petition becomes a farce
and if it involves the calling Of elections and the hold.
ing UP Of important public works, the farce partakes
Of the nature of tragedy.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-05

lift theirs to ours or they will drag
ours down to theirs.-Owen D. Young.
\ X X
I am careful to never say a civil
word to %flatterers, and they adore
me.-George Bernard Shaw.
X X X
In order to save Nicaragua it is
necessary to destroy it.-General Au-
gustino> SANDING, Nicaraguan insur-
gent chief.
X X X
The IL boys who form the Notre
Dame varsity team could, l believe,
hold their own with any other II
boys in the country in the classroom
Knute R0ckne.