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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12
Big Amount For Fish Propagation

The state conservation council has
ordered expenditures of more than
81 900 for fish propagation and
Improvements at state lakes, parks,
and game farms. A resolution rec
ommending to federal authorities
the Immediate purchase of the 2200
acre McGhee marsh land near San
dusky, for use as a water fowl
sanctuary has been approved and
sent to Washington, d. G. Money
for the purchase of the Miller blue
hole, also near Sandusky, where a
cold water spring gushes out 4,200
gallons of water minute, has been
made available. The council ap-
proved the expenditure of $4,000
for the y acre tract, and announced
that super hatchery for the prop
agation of trout and other game
fish, probably will be erected on the
site. The budget included expendi-
lures of $77,967 for game farm i'm
provements, and similar amounts
for fish propagation and improve
ments on property near Lake Erie.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

chanan and wife of the twin cities.
Bernice Rowena Hanson spent
Sunday with Marie Darnell.
Philip and Paul Ash spent Satur-
day night with Frank Graham and
family
Raymond Hughes and wife are
visiting the latter's parents, Frank
Graham, and family.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12
TOdds

Mrs. Vera Barr and John Syphers
of Fredericktown were guests from
Wednesday until sunday of her sis
ters, Mrs. T. H. Geddes and Mrs.
viii Wymer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Webster and
children Of Bartlett and Mrs. Lydia
Michener of Chesterhill were guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs Edgar
Michener.
Miss Jessie Henery spent from
Wednesday until Friday in Zanes
vile, and attended the funeral of
Mrs. Jas. Hall.
Todds ladies aid met last We'd
nesday at the church, with 16 pres
ent. A short program was enjoyed
They decided to give another bake
sale Saturday before Easter.
Sickness seems to be the order of
the day in this community among
the school children Those sick are
Gayland, Maxine and Raymond Star
ling, Lena Faye Michener and Eva
lena Starting.
TOdds Church
Sunday school at 10 a. m. r. p.
Daugherty, superintendent. Owing
to the bad weather there was no
church Sunday evening
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12
vi. Y. Juvenile Grange

The following program will be
given at Meigs Valley Juvenile
grange Saturday evening. Mar 21:
Roll call, Bible verse; recitations,
Pearl Ray and Howard Martin !;
riddles. Agnes Sines; song, Martha
Louise Risburg; reading, David Wm.
jenkins; surprise, Carlton Martin
and Samuel Raw
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Born Wednesday at Bethesda
hospital, GAINESVILLE, to Mr. and
Mrs Ellis Miller Lois Jenkins) Of
near Cumberland, daughter.
Grandparents are Mr.. Elmer Miller
of McConnelsville and Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. T. Jenkins of Meigs
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Prof. ]. R. Smith of M. & M.
high school has been off duty for
about a week. suffering with IN
fluenza. Thos. Gessell of this place
and Mrs. John Adams are also
among the more pronounced cases OF
this disease.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Atty Emmett A. Taylor who has
been confined to his home with in
fiuenza, and threatened with bron-
chial pneumonia, is some better.
His mother Mrs. Eta Taylor who
has had influenza, and nose bleed
is better.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. Belle Fisher of near Neely-
Vile, who has been i'll with a heavy
cold and complications, is some
better Her son-in-law George
Buchanan of the same household,
has been confined to his home with
fin
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mr.. Solomon Morris of the Eagle
port vicinity is critically i'll with grip
and heart trouble. Mr.. Morris is
blind and deaf. His wife who has
been very ill. is some better.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

William, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Elliott of the east end OF
town, who has been quite i'll,
threatened With pneumonia, is
better. His mother who was also
i'll in a like manner, is also i'm
proved
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

VIM w Mills, 10, president Of
the First National Bank, Marietta,
and treasurer of Marietta college,
is critically i'll with influenza. He
is a director Of the Pure Oil Co.,
and is an uncle of former Vice
President Charles G. Dawes.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

A daughter was born Wednesday
morning at Bethesda hospital, Zanes-
Vile, TO Rev. and Mrs. Charles W
Stoneburner.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. Roy Anderson who has been
in poor health for long time. was
taken Tuesday to Rocky Glen sana
torium. for treatment.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mr.. and Mrs. L. V. Busche are eN-
pecting to leave about the first of
April for Canton. They have been
residing the last few years here on
Kennebec hill, Mrs. Busche taking
treatment at the sanatorium.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. Benjamin Humphrey Of NAL
ia remains in quite poor health with
heart and stomach trouble. Mrs.
Humphrey is 88 years Of age,
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mr. G. H. Roberts who has been
suffering with heart trouble for a
number Of weeks, is improving and
able to be up and about some
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12
LO G Al l. n e w 8

Mr.. VIM. Raney of the east side
who had bronchial pneumonia.
while better of that trouble, is now
suffering with complications.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. Chas. C. Moore of this place
who has been suffering with compli-
cations. is better and able to be up
and about some.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mr.. James Keyes of this place,
who has been in poor health for a
long time, has not been so well of
late.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Eugene. year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Huffman Of near Wesley
Chapel. is threatened with pneu-
monia.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. J. T. Newman of Neelyville
who suffered a bad attack of heart
trouble, early Wednesday morning,
and also has high blood pressure, is
imnroNing
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore of Kennebec
hill. who has been quite i'll with
cold and complications, is some bet"
ter
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

NYAL'S TONIC NERVINE com
pound for nervous disorders. Tones
up the system. $1.00 bottle.-The
Stanbery Pharmacy.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1931-03-12

Miss Jennie Plumley of this
place is housed up with heavy cold.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

BY ID. g.
IN May IL the elections for commissioners will
" take place. The two main boss parties, demo-
cratic and republican, are not putting forth
their official candidates, but throw their sup
port to the various independent candidates.
The Communist Party of this city is putting
forth its own working class candidates, Alex
Bennett Miriam Fireman and Simon Smekin-
son.
Running on a so-called independent" ticket
is manoeuvre on the part of the textile bos-
ses who put them up as their candidates. The
textile bosses feel that by running such Gin
dependent" candidates. instead of official re-
publicans and democrats, who have never done
anything to help the workers anywhere, they
can dupe the workers into believing that they
are voting for men who have no allegiance to
the bosses.
In their platform the bosses independent"
candidates throw forth no planks for which the
workers of Passaic should vote. In spite of the
misery of the workers in Passaic, the boss can
didates offer the usual false, demagogic slogans
of clean, honest and sound government"
Clean, honest and sound government was Of
fered the workers before. The result, however,
of such government meant graft for the po-
liticians extra profits for the bosses and I'M
employment, wage cuts, starvation, speed up,
part time work and suicide for the workers.
When Commissioner Turner went into office
he was without certain property. But now, at
the close of his term, we find that he owns
one of the largest laundries in the city Com
missioner johnson is unable to explain the ex-
penditure of large amounts of money during his
term of office.
This graft goes on at the expense of the work
ers of Passaic. Each appropriation made in the
budget finds thousands of dollars slipping into
the pockets Of the politicians. Each candidate
of the bosses accuses the other of graft in order
to win" the votes of the workers and each one
is correct in the accusation.
Once in office we know that the independent"
candidates will continue to approve the cam
paign of the bosses to make the living condi-
tons of the workers worse.
Whereas several years ago one of PASSAGES
largest textile plants, the Botany, employed
some 5000 workers, today only 1900 are en-
ployed. What happened to the 1920 that the
Botany bosses threw out of jobs to starve?
There is not worker in factory of i'm
portance in Passaic who has not suffered
wage cut or has been terrifically speeded up
The average wage for women workers is 28c
per hour and for men it is Acc per hour Taking
into consideration the fact that thousands are
on part time work, one can readily see the awful
impoverishment of the working class families
The city of Passaic, with population of 10000
primarily industrial has 10000 unemployed
workers. The. city officials not only did ex-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
The Coming Elections in Passaic

tremely little to help them, but they refused
to hear the delegation of the unemployed work
ers at city hall on February 10 and are even
now planning to cut down the miserable charity
dole and cut down the number of the few fam
lilies which receive ii.
The poor master of the city has arbitrary
power to cut any one he wishes from the
charity list. The charity consists in S1-$3 slip
given to family for the week. With this slip
he must go to a specified store to exchange the
slip for food. And this store charges higher
prices than the rest.
Negro workers are particularly Disseminated
against. For absolutely no reason Negro workers
are turned away time and again when applying
for charity relief" And if anyone iG found to
have worked even part of day during the week.
he is not given anything no matter how starved
his family may be.
Young workers are very hard hit by the city
charity fake. Only those who have families are
allowed to apply for the dole This excludes
hundreds of young unemployed workers from
receiving even this meaSly relief from hunger.
When workers organizations make a fight
against such conditions we see that the bosses
do what they can to smash them. The bosses
try to terrorize the members of the organizations
and the workers by framing up their leaders on
every sort of charge When the National Tex
tile Workers Union in Paterson organized a
strike against a wage cut, of its leading mem
bers were framed up a charge of first de-
gree murder.
In regard to unemployment wage cuts speed
up, discrimination against Negro workers. the
bosses candidates do not say anything.
The Communist Party is the only party to
which the workers turn for an answer to
their problems. The Communist Party does not
offer any promises. 1t condemns the fake pro-
misses of the boss candidates as means of trying
to fool the workers as to their actual situation
and SO to prevent them from organizing to do
something for themselves.
The Communist Party states that only by Or
ganizing ourselves into fighting organizations
will we workers be able to solve our problems.
In organized way we must demand: the
unconditional release of the 5 textile workers
in Paterson and the Negro boys in Scottsboro
immediate relief for the unemployed full aver
aged wages to be paid by the bosses and city
treasury as unemployment insurance. the hour
day and day week without reduction in pay;
full economic, political and social equality for
Negro workers; the abolition of lynching of Ne
gro and white workers; death to the lynchers;
the abolition of the Fish Committee and the
immediate stopping of the deportation of
workers.
All these planks in the Communist Party
platform are summarized in the slogan; For
the Workers. Against the Bosses. This is the
main issue in the election campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
You Tell En-!

Daily WORKER have Just read an artios@
in your Saturday issue of Red Sparks, You say
the National Federation of Womens Clubs pas
sad a resolution urging the bourgeois govern
ment to deport all foreign-born Communists
and to jail all Americans that are Communists
and sympathizers, too
MY answer to that is that they will have to
build a thousand times more jails than they
have now, and thousand times stronger than
those they have now to hold them ALL
Being an American, born, and my family on
both sides in this country for six generations
and also member of the Communist Party,
7 make this statement-LLL, Unit /, Section 2,
District O."
We hope the conlrade don't let his enthusiasm
for going to Jail carry him to the point of con-
tributing any assistance to these who may try
to send him. In other words we are not de-
manding the right, as "free-born American cit,
liens" to go to Jail It has to be thrust upon
us as an unwelcome honor. A Red in the bush
is worth two in the cage, if we may mutilate
the old adage
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

their original investment. Then the rate was
pushed up still further and from July 1925. to
and including April in this year of worldwide
capitalist crisis and hunger, dividends we're paid
at the rate OF 100 per cent year. or 1000 per
cent year on the original investment
In this bank, George F. Baker is supposed to
have owned $4,000 shares, from which he re-
ceived s1,500000 year in dividends. And this
is only one of many corporations from which he
was able TO Give on interest" At the height of
his career he was director in 43 corporations
Fellow director and ally with Morgan in the u
S. Steel Corporation and the Pullman Co. he
shared full responsibility for ruthless hostility
when workers dared to organize or strike. He
believed in exploitation of the workers and the
piling up of wealth for owners of industry and
banking.
What the total value Of the Baker estate will
be is still unknown. Estimates run as high as
$500000,000. That the banker and his son, George
F. Baker, Jr., were both among the SO Americans
who had net incomes of over 100000 year
in 1929, is beyond question.
Baker was not only power in his bank and
wide group Of interreated corporations. Quietly
behind the scenes, he had guided the American
group which dominated the war settlements and
insisted on the payment OF debts and repara-
lions other figures loom large on the financial
screen, But since the death OF the elder j. p.
Morgan. No one has been in the class with this
- ------1a' A---- -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Dean OF Exploiting Has to Leave
His Pile

ton, the bank through stock dividend of 1900
per cent, increased its capital stock from 100000
TO $lO,000000. Every old stakeholder was pre-
scented with 10 new shares for each one that he
owned before.
Then, just after the panic Of 1907 Baker want
ca his bank to get into the great game of peddlng
stocks and bonds. but under the law this is a
closed field Of activity for national banks. So
Baker had the bright idea of issuing another
stock dividend-only 100 per cent this time-and
organizing the First Security Co. Of the City of
New York, in which the stockholders would al
ways be identical with the stockholders of the
First National Bank. Later other banks did this
Also but the idea was Bakers.
This increased the profits of the stockholders
and gave the bank much closer relation with
great industrial corporations. During the war,
the Baker bank twins subscribed "liberally" to
Liberty loans. But. in the words Of the wall
Street Journal" "this patriotic attitude in no
way initiated against the bank as a money
maker. Its record in this respect has been phen-
omenal"
1t certainly has From 1912 TO 1923 the total
dividend paid by the bank and its Siamese
twin, the First Security Co. ammounted only to
so per cent a year. But for old stockholders
who had been IN SINCE 1901, these. so per cent
dividends were anaaiyt6 ~ cit ~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
The New and the Popular

Wee Willie, hailing frcm Passaic, axes us if
we aren't becoming AN cid, stringy waguc,"
infers that we are soaked in q terrible con-
servatism' and have "a congenital hatred for
something new
From all this, he self -critcizes us because We
mentioned adversely the case of the Williams
burg Clubs come on card though he 1Wears
himself loose from that by saying he don't de-
fend" it.; then swears himself into it again by
an undiscriminaung defense Of popular songs.
Why are they POPULAR" How did they get
that way? Because they aid capitalism in keep
ing the workers minds off the class struggle
that is, they are the creation of the bourgeoisie
for tying the workers to the bourgeoise and its
system of class neutrality-suspicious..
Now, though Wee Willie may never have
heard of it, it is capitalism and its popular songs
which are "old"; yet here he is, kowtowing in
words to anything that is ''new"-in defense of
the old And not only the old, but the rotten
system of slavery.
Is not capitalism popular? How else do you
explain its power? And if it's popular, it's good,
eh? Perhaps the Daily Worker should print
all the racy divorce stuff the taboids do To
paraphrase Wee Willie against Wee Wile-'The
workers will buy the Daily then, and read both
the divorce scandal and our slogans" That's
bright idea we have met before and spent years
in fighting to make ours working class paper
and therefore Communist paper
Wee Willie is enamored of woras New"
means good "Old" means bad Popular"
things are just popular and that's all. No
class csntent is seen. Capitalism is old, COM
pared to Communism. Let him grab that up
like hungry pup proof that Communism
is o. K But we'll remind him that fascism Isl
newer than Communism So he's lost again Z
What's troubling Wee Willie is, we inagineH
rush Of "vanguardism" to the head The old
stringy walruses' in the Party, the "old foges "a
don't savvy how TO do things Yepl We refuss1
to be charmed because things are championedi
as new" or popular" we ask, first What Isl
their class content?
We might ask Wee Willie Just what organ
Rational results his Y. G. L. unit has right now
from its use of his popular song" idea, Did
you get a single new member that remained as
a class fighter? You just had dance, didn't
you?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
Ey ANNA ROCHESTER.
Labor Research Association,

GORGE p. BAKER, who died the day after
May Day, wos looked UP to by fellow CAPT
talsts with reyerential awe, as the head Of the
most profitable financial institution in the United
States.
When George F. Baker was living with his
grandparents before the Civil War he received
the greas inspiration of his career from an uncle
who sat around all day while the rest of the
family worked. Told that his uncle could do
this because he lived on interest" the thrifty
George made it his life work to live by finance
And how No buccaneering against trusting
investors; no splurging speculation; but steady,
canny, quiet drawing in of profits from other
mems work The story is tied up with the record
OF the First National Bank of New York. 1t
expresses the essence of capitalism.
The bank was organized in 1863 Baker got in
on the ground floor because he had the right
kind of friends and they had already given him
chance to prove that be had sharp eye for
money. In 1877, at the age of 81, he stepped
into the presidency of the First National Bank
From then until his death he was not only the
head OF this aristocrat OF banks (Which accepts
no deposits under 100000 but power second
only to the House OF Morgan,
In 1901, about the time that Baker was help
tnxAAcsxsn 10 nrgaxnze the us steer Corpora
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

applied in all our activities in the struggle for
immediate relief for starving families
Although necessary activities to struggle for
direct relief for starving families of unemployed
workers should be entered into more energetcal-
ly, we must not fall into the error of considering
this new task as the only task we have before|
Us and thereby discontinue all other forms of
local struggles. The city governments, charity
institutions, etc, are lessening the amount Of
relief which was given to unemployed workers.
during the winter months, in some instances
cutting off relief altogether This calls for inn
mediate local struggles against lessening relief
discrimination of bread lines and fIop houses
etc While we organize our forces for house toI
house canvassng to ascertain cases Of stsrving|
and undcrnourished families, we niust ~ thi-
TIM intensity all local struggles agairs hizi1
rents, high food prices, against evctors against
- ,sssssaa 3; sas; ~ VIZ aSe!Isas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

A Crossword Puzzle
By JORGE

For the various folks that still think that the
capitalist press is worth something because it
gives facts accurately" we analyze news dis
patch from Cairo, Egypt, printed in the ~ Y.
Times of April So
An excursion train, carrying third-claSs pas
sengers and therefore made up of old, wooden
coaches took fire from a hot-box it is said
three miles before it reached Benha Station.
1t was travelling at 60 miles an hour" That
means that there were only three minutes be-
tween the time the train took fire and the time
it reached Benha Station-right?
And it is said that 'the station master at
Benha tagged the express and halted it"
But in that three minutes, we are led to be-
heve, the flames spread like tightening from
the rear to the forward cars. panic broke
out among the terrified passengers in a mad
rush for doors and windows. Passengers
leaped from the windows Of the flaming
coaches'-and so on. Forty-five dead and forty
one injured
Well, We have no doubt but that the British
imrerialists who boss Egypt caused that many
deaths, with their rotten old coaches for third
class passengers But if all that's said, could
happen in three minutes we'll cat your hat
Don't ask us to explain it,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12
The Lawrence Strike

THE Lawrence strike if all signs are not
misleading, is the turning point in the develop
ment of the strike struggles" writes Jack Stach-
ell in Some Lessons of the Lawrence Strike
which appears in the May COMMUNIST. The
story of the strike, the mistakes made, the part
ial victory, and the next steps, as described in
the article, form contribution of strike expert
ence that is of Importance to every American
worker
Writing of "The Crisis and the Strike Curve
for $780," Phil Frankfeld compares strike stat
istics for 1927-28-29-3O with those for 1920
21-22, analyses the new tactics of the bosses
and points out that the bosses offensive first
finds the workers hesitant, but as it sharpens
in the crisis, soon meets with tremendous mass
resistance. The article, in the May Communist
concludes with an examination of the perspect-
ives for strike struggles in 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-12

Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight
for Unemployment Relief. Organize the
Employed Workers Into Fighting
Unions. Mobilize the Employed and
Unemployed for Common Strug-
Asss giles Under the leadership of