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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
STOCK INJUNCTION
HEARING IS BEGUN
Doherty Seeks Permanent
Order to Prevent Barring
of Kansas Sales.
~ the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans, July ia district
court hearing to determine Wnetner
there was legal justification for an
order barring sale in this State OF curb
stocks of the Henry l.. Doherty Cities
Service Co. got under way here TO-DAY;
Judge George L. Whitcomb was asked
BY Doherty attorneys to make per-
manent temporary injunction to pre-
vent Gail Newcomer, State securities
commissioner. from execution OF his
orde- forbidding sale in Kansas Of all
the Cities Service curb stock except the
first preferred.
Legal Battles Imminent.
Several legal battles probably will
follow in the campaign of Gov. Harry
H. Woodring and the Kansas City Star
for reduction of 10 cents thousand
cubic feet in the city gas rate for gas
supplied by the Cities Service Co. to
Kansas communities. The present rate
is 40 cents a thousand cubic feet.
Last week Doherty, through his legal
representatives, filed suit in the Jackson
County, Mo. Circuit Court seeking
Sl2,000,000 from the Kansas City Star
for alleged libellous articles the news
paper printed in connection with its
editorial campaign.
The Kansas banking department
withdrew approval from the Cities
Service stock following an announce
ment by Gov. Woodring that negotia-
lions instigated by him with Doherty
officials in New York had failed to
gain the desired reduction.
Not Attack on Dohcrty.
Gov. Woodring later said the banking
departments action was not inspired
hxf1 HI yzI mi Gnlih0rofA
on Doherty as part of the States cam
paign for lower rates.
B. C.. Adams, Kansas City, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Gas
Service Co., holding company for
Doherty subsidiaries in Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma, said Doherty would not
be present at the hearing here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
MRS. FRANCES BREN0N,
WRITER. DIES ON COAST
MotEer of Movie Director, Aged 81,
and Widow of Drama Critic,
Expires at Film Colony.
Rv the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. July 13.-Mrs.
Frances Brenon. 80 years old, writer.
globe trotter and mother Of Herbert
Brenon, motion picture director. died
Yesterday at the home of her son In
the Summer movie colony at Mal.bu
Beach.
Until Is month ago Mrs. Brenon,
widow of Edward St. John Brenon,
London drama critic, had travelled ex.
tensively. making several trips around
the world, contributing to group OF
papers column entitled Things
Quaint and Curious" She once con-
Quoted a dramatic school in Minneap-
oils. She edited book on the Russian
revolution by DR.. Orrin Wightman.
Besides her son Mrs. Bremen Is sur
vived by daughter, Mrs. Roma Quincy
of New York The funeral will be held
in New York next Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
RAINBOW DIVISION OPENS
CONVENTION AT MACON
Veterans From 13 States Among
Early Arrivals for
Meeting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MACON. Ga. July l3-Veterans of
the Rainbow Division assembled here
today for their thirteenth annual re-
union.
Formal opening of the meeting was
not scheduled until this afternoon, but
last night early arrivals were registered
from California, Maryland, Alabama
Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Mime
sofa. Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
Georgia and the District of Columbia.
Father Francis p. Duffy, famous
chaplain of the division, was expected
today from New York, and tomorrow
afternoon will conduct memorial scrV-
icos with DR.. J. E. Sammons, local
Fp~t.st minister.
A barbecue Wednesday afternoon
will conclude the reunion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
FOKKER TO MANUFACTURE
PLANES IN OWN PLANT
Designer Breaks With Genera
Aviation Corporation-Re-
mains Director.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 13.-Anthony H..
G. Fokker, airplane designer and
builder, has definitely broken with Gen.
eral Aviation Corporation, a subsidiary
of General Motors, and will form his
own company.
He will remain a director in General
Aviation by virtue of his 25 per cent
stock ownership.
He will now start, manufacturing his
own planes he said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-13
falseTeefh

Don't allow your false teeth to drop
or slip when you eat, talk or laugh.
Just sprinkle a little Killing on Jour
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The daily worker., 1931-02-19
Buffalo Bull

Up in Buffalo, New York, they produce a Pc
culiar kind of humor possibly known as Buffalo
Bull"
One of the choice examples came to us from
comrade who sent clipping from the "Buf-
falo Courier" 1t seems that, with the city over
run by jobless workers, most of whom are slowly
and some rapidly starving to DEATH the Central
YMC.A, of that city thought it needful to stage
a lecture on Leisure"
The orator was a guy named Freeze, and he
spoke, in part as follows:
Leisure is opportunity. The first use to make
of leisure is to find that thing about which we
can be most enthusiastic"
We have the general idea that the thing most
jobless workers couldn't work up enthusiasm
about would-be to listen to lecture on the sub
ject of leisure
We expect, however, that they could go one
better by giving talk to the poor devils on the
breadhnes about the advantage of q balanced
diet.
Here In New York, some bright lad got the
idea that to keep the idle out of mischief, the
newspapers should be filled with advice that the
workers who are facing a hell of starvation
would have most delightful time, if they would
only pay visit to Grants tomb.
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
I ON TO VICTORY IN THE
NEEDLE STRIKE

Of living The reductions on the prices of dresses
are a daily occurrence. If a worker dares to
open his or her mouth against the prevailing
inhuman conditions in the company union shops
the boss Immediately replies, "if you don't like
it you know what you can do" For the least
thing workers are being fired in these union"
shops.
It is clear that the job Of organizing the work
ers and safeguard their conditions belongs to the
only fighting organization in the needle indus
try, the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union.
In carrying on the battle the NTWIU must con-
centrate and pay special attention to the most
underpaid and exploited section of this industry,
the Negro workers. 1t must make special at
temptS to win over on its side the workers who
still remained and are misled by the takers of the
ILGWU. The NTWIU must carry on an un-
compromising struggle against the Lovestone ele-
ments within the union who spread illusions
among the needle workers and propose to unite
with the misleaders of the uGWU, thus making
believe that these agents of the bosses are\ able
to defend and fight for the interests of the
workers.
The NTWIU must raise the fighting spirit Of
the workers through mass pcketing and mobi-
hzation Of the working class as a whole behind
the struggle of the needle workers.
The Communist Party as in all the struggles
of the workers will be heart and soul behind
this strike The needle workers who are mem
bers of the Communist Party will be the first
ones in the fighting trenches They must and
will be the ones to show examples OF stubborn
struggle and sacrifice for the interests of the
workers. The Communist Party is the flesh and
blood of all the workers. The struggle of the
needle workers is the struggle of the Commn-
ist Party. The victory of the needle workers is
the victory of the Communist Party. With de-
termination and faith in the workers, with sup
port of all the working class movements the
NTWIU with its militant class struggle program
will lead the workers to struggles and victories
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
Speed-Up and Wage-Cuts in
Pennsylvania Coal Mines
(By a Worker Correspondent

WESTLAND, Pa.-The miners in the Pitts
burgh Coal Co. mines, controlled by Mr.. Mellon,
are slaving even worse than the prisoners in
the workhouse. This is specially true of the
Westland Mine, one of the largest of the COM
pany.
The mine is equipped with the best loading
machines The speed-up on the loading machines
is something terrible. When the Jeffrey loading
machine was first installed it was scheduled to
load % cars day. When this goal was achieved
the 30 cars day goal was set. When 80 cars
a day had been achieved, 40 cars day became
the goal This also has been achieved, and now
As cars day is the goal that must be accom-
plished every day. The bosses are already pre-
pairing to raise it to so cars day.
The speed-up is actually murderouS on the
loading machines. The other day my buddy
was setting up post under the slate. All at
once he dropped as if dead. called pete, Pete,
what is the matter?" But Pete did not answer
I grabbed him and pulled him on a side. He
was motionless. With the help of the machine
operator and the driver, we laid him on the gob
We tried to wake him up but again he did not
answer.
We could not bother with him very long as
we had to work because the order Of the boss
is that the machine can not lose one minute
regardless of the consequences About two hours
d1GSr IIl6 uldll Ildu Ueeu &Jl1lS Ol1 SOp, dD-
soutely motionless, the boss came. We reported
the incident to him. This was his answer: Hell,
that's nothing we have plenty of such cases al
most every day." The man was over hours
on the COB before he was taken outside and given
medical treatment.
The wages are as follows: Operator, So; the
man on the right side of the machine, $3.50;
and the man on the left side of the machine,
$780, and the driver $5 day.
The company is now introducing the check-up
system. A check-up is being made Systematically
on every worker. They check up the speed of the
loading machine, hand loader, driver, slate man,
etc. Everyone must work at the top speed when
the check-up is being made. in this checking-up
the smallest detail is recorded. For instance
they check up how long 1t takes man to put
his working glow on, how long it takes to put
the pick aside and take the shovel instead, how
long it takes to drink water to change cars, to
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
BY BILL LAWRENCE

THE Needle Trades strike in Philadelphia is not
an isolated event 1t is only a part of the
general movement which is going on among the
workers in Philadelphia in preparation to strug-
gle for better living conditions and simultane-
ously against the A. F. of L. bureaucracy which
is doing its outmoSt to prevent the workers from
fighting The recent strikes in the shoe in
dustry the strikes of the textile workers in Ken
sington, which took place in spite of the A. F.
of L. officials, are indications that the American
workers refuse to carry the burdens Of the crisis
af American capitalism refuse to be starved out
and are beginning in an organized way TO resist
che attacks of the bosses.
This needle strike is direct result of the des-
perate attempt of the bosses to smash the al
ready low standard of living of the workers. It
is a determined strugple of the needle workers
to establish better living conditions and strength
en- their union to guard the interests of the
workers.
For years the needle workers have suffered
both from the bosses and the ILGWU officials.
The workers of the better paid line in the dress
industry (siID have long forgotten how a decent
weeks pay looks like. The union conditions have
been smashed. The effect of the speed-up is
so great that after a days work the needle
worker is completely unfit for any mental or
physical use. In the cotton shops it is still
worse. There the workers get from $500 to $500
dollars for 1880 hours of slavery. Especially
are the Negro workers being Disseminated, who
comprise almost a quarter of all the workers in
the needle industry in Philadelphia.
The agent of the bosses within the ranks of
the needle workers, the ILGWU is doing nothing
to improve the conditions of the workers For
years of existence the ILGWU has shown to "or-
ganize" $50 workers out of the 1000 in the dress
industry in Philadelphia In the So-called Or
ganized shops the workers do not know of any
privileges, union conditions or decent standard
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
A Bedbug Rails at History

why should there be any hesitation In driving
this horde OF enemies out of the country or
shutting their reasonable mouths and stopping
their revolutionary noise is beyond my under
standing" shouted Representative Bachmann, of
West Virginia, in Congress on Tuesday.
Meanwhile.
within stones throw of Battery Park every
morning, wagon loads of food are destroyed
rather than sell at a low market price Because
the owner cannot sell it at the usual profit, they
burn it and let people starve who have not the
money to buy it. In California they have an
egg-smashing competition because they cannot
sell eggs at an immediate profit, while children
go hungry and mothers commit suicide taking
their little ones with them,' we are told by C..
Bloom, of 159 E. 116th ST., New York
Bachmann, capitalist representative from West
Virginia, infamous for its massacres OF striking
miners and their wives and children at Cabni
Greek and Paint Creek, would stop reasonable
mouths" but not with food!
And though we don't except Bachmann to
learn anything from history, as long as mouths
have no food in them. you can expect plenty
of treason" to occupy that place.
The mothers who commit suicide" are GER
tainly driven out Of the country" and the
"treasonable mouths" of their little children are
forever senced--while food is burned and eggs
destroyed to guarantee Bachmann and his kind
PROFITS!
But there is another guarantee that goes along
with it, Bachmann, and that is the guarantee
collected by the Russian workers from your kind
on Nov. 7, 1911
And, if that be treason" make the most OF It I
The daily worker., 1931-02-19

District. The recent 2 weeks special discussion
in the units proved absolutely unsatisfactory,
and brought out sharply the deep confusion that
exists on the question.
b. The establishment Of permanent class
with the view towards training cadres for Negro
work.
C. Party fractions in non-Party mass organi-
cations must see to it that the Negro question
is placed prominently among the educational ac-
tivities Of these organizations.
d. A question and answer box should be estab-
nshed In the Daily Worker as a means Of stimuli
ating the discussion. A series Of short popular
articles on the Negro question must be published
In the Party press as well as in TUUL papers.
e. The development of the most thorogoing
merciless Bolshevik self-crticism within the
ranks of the Party and Y.CL. The Party mem
bership must be encouraged to bring into the
open all manifestations of white chauvnism. In
cases where white chauvinism is definitely re-
vealed the comrades concerned must be fully ex-
posed with nthe Party, mass organizations, in
the Party press and in special resolutions from
the sections and units where such incidents
occurs.
(. White comrades must take the lead in the
struggles against white chauvinism The non
Bolshevik conception that the struggle against
chauvnisnl is principally the task Of Negro
comrades which in itself manifests an under
estimation of Negro work must be energeticaly
combatted
g. The leading Negro comrades especially
must conduct tireless activity among the rank
and file Negro comrades against all remnants
Of distrlst, suspicion and super-sensitveness in
regard to white revolutionary workers
b. simultaneously with the above must DO
developed joint struggles Of Negro and white
workers for concrete immediate demands, wen
planned organization Of mass solidarity demon
Afafona asainst AZ f0lns q discEimipatlQn seH
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
Good Cheer from Libertyville

Libertyvile, dear reader, is in Illinois w
suspect that it was called Germantown" befor
the World War. Anyhow, it is now Libertyville
and wants to be in style. So, says the Chicag
Tribune:
"a straw man, dubbed Old Man D'Pression
was placed in a casket and carried to small
park on the main street The procession was
composed Of all the business men and most Of,
the school children.
"Old Man D'Pression was scheduled to lie
In state there until next Saturday, when the
village band was to lead another procession to
the tune of 'Happy Days Are Here Again. and
pnblic cremation was to be held"
Such was the intention But the end Of Del
preston, who was fixed up with wax face AMI
posted gruesonely in coffin in the middle d
the village, came more quickly than his fellow
figured. You will have noted that while MOI
OF the school children" we're there, not all To-
lowed the business men,
And doubtless some Pioneer. strayed into In
ertyville, figured that only the fires Of revolt
ton would put an end to capitalist depressio
and in the dead Of night while the village poll,
slept and the good business men were in b,
with each others wives. Old Man OPPRESSION wel
up in flames.
The daily worker., 1931-02-19

"Ten Commandments"
Px Jorge

A sheet called "The Trades -Unionist," official
organ of the Allegheny Trade Council Of Balti-
more which specializes on ads occupying its front
page from banks and breweries gives most Of
the second page in its issue of February a. to
"Ten Commandments for Industry"
Printed in big type it starts of with No. 1,
addressed to Organized Labor" (unorgan1zed
labor is wholly left out), as follows
"ThOu shalt not permit any Of thy members to
place the union card above our country's flag"
No. @ says: 'Thou shalt not deny to any man.
at any time, in any place. the right to work as
free man and to receive wages as such"
Taken together, these are the doxology Of
strike breaking and the open shop. ITO capital"
gives four commandments to be a good boss"
while The general public" is commanded to
pay fair price willingly" and also "pay taxes
cheerfully.'
The Tenth Commandment is addressed ITO
everybody" and here it is:
Thou shalt honor and love thy government
for it is the peoples government, the best ever
devised by man, and there is none other like it
in the world"
We agree there is none like 1t in the world.
Nor are there anywhere else in the world such
labor" papers as the Trades Unionist
The daily worker., 1931-02-19

gregation and Jim-crowism in restaurants, thea
tres, residential sections, evictions. hospitals
schools etc.
J.. serious and energetic campaign must be
undertaken without delay on the part of the
LSNR and the Protection of Foreign Born Coun-
cils to counter-act the peralcious activities of
the white capitalists and the Negro reformists
and misleaders, thru open air meetings confer
ences, touring speakers to Negro and white or
ganizations, etc.
j. The trade unions and defense organizations
must finally build Negro departments, involving
the whole organization into mass recruiting of
Negroes and systematic drawing in of Negro
workers into leading committees in the organiza-
tions.
k. The demands of the Negro workers must
be raised in all leaflets, and in all agitational
and propaganda material.
]. Particularly in Negro Jinn-croW sections
special attention must be devoted by the Party
sections and mass organizations to the proper
attraction OF Negroes to all social affairs dances
concerts, ETC. The advertising material of such
affairs should carry special invitations to Ne
>groes; while among the speakers at these at
fairs. there should always be some Negro cam
rades.
m The greatest degree Of fraternization; the
closest association Of the white with Negro COM
rades in social life inside and outside Of the
Party is imperative
Only the most energetic and fearless struggles
to wipe out of the revolutionary movement all
chauvinist tendencies; only the most intensive
training Of the workers in the spirit of Bolsre-
vik internationalism which will enable us to
march forward toward mass offensive struggles
OF Negro and white masses against American i'm
perialism.
February 10, 1881. t'''''
DisHct Ccmmiteee Communist Party q U,s.A.
The daily worker., 1931-02-19
By GRACE M. BURNHAM.

IN International Women's Day the working
" women of the United States should wake up
to the fact that to the capitalist government they
are just SO many human machines for making
profits for the Bosses
In fact they are not even as important as
machines, for machinery is well cared for, oiled,
and polished geared to pace which will not
wear out its parts and fully insured against
breakage.
Workers in certain states and industries are
take his coat off, etc.
On the basis of this check-up new speed-up
will be introduced. No one is allowed to leave
his working place until quitting time. No one
is allowed to talk to another fellow. The COM
pany is afraid that the miners will talk to
each other about the National Miners Union
There is no man-trip. We must walk in. The
strictest company control and supervision pre-
walls in the houses The Coal and Iron Police
are stationed everywhere to watch every single
move of the miners.
Recently the cutters got wage-cut The pre-
vious scale was 10 cents per ton which made
it on an average of So per cut Now they receive
$2.25 per cut. The machine cuts feet deep
and % feet wide No set of cutters work less
than IA hours day. One day one set of cutters
were working continually for 25 hours
The weight of the cars about 3 months ago
was 80 a tons. Now it is SO to go. This OBJ
viouSly is wage-cut. The men on the hand
loading machines get 30 cents ton and the
hand loader So cents a ton. But the weight of
the cars are getting lower every month.
There were runors that the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. will put a general wage cut into effect the
intended rate being SO per day When this
wage cut was to take place, the Hillrnan miners
struck, under the leadership of the National
Miners Union, against wage-cut in the Edna
No. mine. The company postponed the in
tended wage cut fearing that the miners would
strike against 1t, under the leadership of the
National Miners Union. The coal operators are
afraid Of the revolutionary National Miners
Union. Every miner must know this and join
our militant union
The daily worker., 1931-02-19

materials or starve. Women workers ON who
depends the lives and health of the future ge
erations must refuse to so sacrifice thenlselv
further. Organization can put stop to {
slaughter on the industrial battlefield in the
s. as 1t has In the U.SS.R. Into the T.U,U
which organizes the masses into militant unior
Into the Communist Party which leads the wor
ing class to victory against all forms of eapdta,
oppreSsioui -. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
$4,000 is TAKEN
IN STOCK SWINDLE
Chicago Grocer Reveals Story of
Fake Market Losses in
Confidence Game.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, April ga little pleasure
trip to Martinsville, Ind, and Indian
apolis cost Matthias Reinert, rs, re-
tired Grocer, $4,000 In cash and $4,000
in Liberty bonds. He told police yester-
day about yielding that sum to three
pleasant IndiananS who had offered to
show him the secret of successful stock
market speculation.
Until recently Reinert, who lives in
Chicago, had been accustomed to go to
French Lick Springs. This Spring,
however, he admitted to friends that
French Lick was a little too lively-he
lost $500 in poker game. So he chose
Martinsville as quieter. and there met
a man who called himself j. A. Kirk.
He decided to ride back to Chicago with
him. On the. way they stopped at
Indianapolis.
On the street, Kirk exclaimed, why,
there's G. A. Mayo. He's the man that
made millions in Mexican oil. Let's see
where he stands on the stock market"
They saw, and each put 5000 in a
pool. In no time at all, they had
$500 ,000-in brokerage receipts. But
the broker" wouldn't pay them until
they put up $500. 900 collateral. Reinert's
share was $4,000. He got it and met
the trio at Gary. There he bought
more, land the market broke"
On the way back to Chicago for more
money, he decided he needed police as
sistance. They are looking for Kirk,
Mayo and the broker"