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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-23

Washington, d. C. (ILNS)-A half
million dollars have just been con-
tributed to the unemployed members
of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plas-
terers' international Union through
out the United States and Canada, ac-
cording to an announcement issued
by the executive board of the organ
ization.
This help to unemployed members
is extended through the cancellation
of the per capita tax on members for
November, December and January.
The tax which will not be collected
for the three months will approx
mate a half million dollars, the Off
cals said. At the same time all men,
bers exempted from the tax will con-
tinue eligible to participate in bene-
fits aggregating a million and half
dollars.
Union Finances Strong
In a joint statement issued by all
the officials, including President
Emeritus William J. Bowen, President
George t. Thornton, Treasurer R. j.
Gray, Secretary John j. Gleeson and
First Vice President Harry C. Bates,
it was pointed out that only the ex-
cellent financial position of the union
made the move possible.
"Our membership probably has
been as hard hit by unemployment as
any union membership" the statement
said. "Relief is necessary for these
men, many of whom have been loyal
members for long periods. The re-
mitting Of the percapita tax Of three
months will, in many cases, mean the
difference between maintenance OF
membership and cancellation. Our or
ganization offers benefits of great
value and these benefits will remain
in force, despite suspension of tax
collection.
On Solid Foundation
"This organization, with members
through the United States and Can
ada, has always conducted it's affairs
on basis of economy. We have not
indulged in dreams. Our per capita
tax comes from men who work hard
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-23

of participation in gains. Beside the
gains they made, or might have made,
the losses they have suffered have
been like mountains as to mole hills.
They have lost stock values, they
have lost in unemployment and they
have lost in reduced wages-a total
loss that cannot be computed on the
basis of any known statistics, but that
is staggering when loaded onto the
backs of wage earners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-10-23

Unemployment in Detroit this
winter will be less than last year, ac-
cording co John L. Lovett, general
manager of the Michigan Manufac-
turers Association.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
SOviets-The Organ
Of PrOletarian
ny v. I. EENTN.

Shame upon those who say. I'VE
have no apparatus with which TO
replace the old one, which invaris
ably supports the capitalist class's
for we have such an apparatus-th
Soviets. Fear not the initiative and
independent action Of the masses,
have confidence In the revolutions
airy organizations Of the masses, and
in all departments of the State you
viii behold the strength, the mag
nificence, the invincibility Of the
workmen and peasants. which they
showed in their enthusiastic sole
darby against the Kornilov uprise
ing.
Distrusting the masses, fearing
their initiative and independence,
trembling at their revolutionary
energy instead OF enthusiastically
and unreservedly supporting it
The essence Of the Soviet power
consists in the fact that the con-
tinuous and unique basis of all
State machinery and public authors
ity is constituted by the mass or
CARNATIONS Of exactly those classes
which were oppressed by capitalism
the workers and serni-proletari-
ans. peasants not exploiting hired
labor and forced to sell at least a
fraction Of their own labor power.
These very masses, which even in
the most democratic bourgeois re-
publics. though enjoying equal
rights in law. are stiIl kept in prac-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
On the 18th Anniversary Of
the Soviet Union

cialist world has multiplied its pro-
duction by 800 per cent above 1914.
While In the capitalist world. the
little group ofmonopolists grow richer
and richer. While the masses sank
into misery and degradation. in the
socialist world the whole mass Of the
population simultaneously raises its
political, cultural, and economic lev
Ell in a surging. enthusiastic advance
Of an entire people building social
ism.
What is the root OF the difference
between these two worids2
II Is the difference as TO which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
BY EARL BROWDER

For fourteen years the Soviet
Power has ruled over one-sixth OF
the globe. With every year. the an
niversary OF the seizure OF power by
the Russian working class under the
leadership Of the Bolshevik Party Of
Lenin has brought deeper under
standing to the workers Of the pro-
found historic significance Of the
events Of November z, 1917.
Today, more than ever, the les
sons of November stand out sharp
and clear.
Against the deCsying, collapSing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

class holds and uses the State Power
On November Z. 1917. the working
class of Russia. following the leader
ship Of the Communist Party Bol-
sheviksl of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin,
smashed the State Power Of the cap
italist class and the landowners. and
established the power Of the Soviets
Of Workers and Peasants. In the
capitalist world. It Is the working
class which has its organizations
smashed. its leaders killed and
Jailed, while the capitalist class
holds and uses the powers OF the
State. The different results Of the
two systems. arise from this basic
fact of witch class is in power.
Today the crisis Of capitalism has
already rea shed such a point that.
so long as this capitalist systec"
continues 70 rule, ever more millions
Of people must die. Capitalism can
no longer feed the people.
The working-class must choose
between capitalism and death, or
begin seriously TO struggle for So
cialiSm-which means to take the
road Of Bolshevisrn, Of November 2.
In this world crisis, the most
deadly Of the working-class is the
party that calls itself socialist" the
party Of the Second International.
In the name OF SOCIALISM" to which
It Is traitor. the Socialist" Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

natural result of the proved
bankruptcy Of the present sys-
tenn"
And Socialism will continue all
the time to improve its achieve
ments From month TO month and
day to day it will more sharply
than ever put the question to the
masses in all parts of the world as
to the two world systems, the two
relationships, the two roads. And
the Communist International and
its Sections will help the masses
to make their choice. and will take
charge Of this struggle for the
overthrow Of capitalism, for the
establishment of the dictatorship Of
the proletariat. ,s3'7s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

leads the masses back to the sup
port of capitalism, to which 1t Is
faithful servant. Just as the Boil
shevikS, under the leadership of
Lenin and Stain, have shown the
world the fruits of their policy In
the powerful socialist construction Of
the Soviet Union-just as clearly
have the opposite results have DEM
onstrated by the socialist" Second
International and its parties, under
the leadership of Macdonald and
Henderson in England, Hilferding,
Mueller, in Germany, Otto Bauer in
Austria, Leon Blum in France, Hill
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

tiee from all participation In political
life and from the enjoyment Of all
democratic liberties and rights-are
now brought into permanent, uns
avoidable. and. therefore, decisive
touch with the democratic admins.
tration Of the State.
The equality Of all citizens, irree
spective Of sex, religion, race or nae
tionality, which has always and eve
erywhere promised, but never care
r1ed out. by the bourgeois democe
racy, and indeed never could be care
ried out under capitalism. is imnee
diately and amply realized by the
Soviet power. or, in other words, by
proletarian dictatorship. Only the
dictatorship Of the workers can
achieve this equality, because they
have no private property interest
either In production or in the strpge
gle for distribution and r~iis&rif,l-
ton.
The old bourgeois democracy and
the parliamentary system were so
organized a. to keep the working
classes at the greatest distance from
the administrative machinery. But
on the Soviet power. i.e. proletarian
dictatorship. on the contrary, is SO
organized that 1t brings the masses
Of the working class In close touch
with the administration. The same
purpose Is attained by the legislative
and executive functions under the
Soviet organization Of the State,
and by substituting industrial units,
such as works and factories, for ter
ritorial constituencies.
Not only under the monarchy,
but even in the most democratic
bourgeois republics, the army was
an organ for oppression. Only So
Wet government, as the established
State organization of the classes OPP
pressed by capitalism, is capable Of
abolishing the dependence Of the
army on bourgeois leadership, and
Of really amalgamating the prole-
tariat with the army, Of arning the
proletariat and disarming the bou
geoiS1e.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

liquit and Thomas In the q. 8.
These false Socialists" have deli
vered the workers into the swamp
Of wage cuts. unemployment, and
helpless subsection to the capitalist
class. They have helped to estab-
blish fascism. and are now tbusy
helping prepare for the coming I'M
perialist war.
The capitalist class knows only
one way out Of its crisis; that Is
WAR against the working class Of
every country. and WAR AGAINST
THE SOVIET UNION.
The worting-class can only find
one way out Of the crisis: that is,
war against capitalist class OF its
own country and DEFENCE OF THE
SOVIET UNION.
The workers must organize their
forces for the fight; organize,
organize, ORGANIZE! The fight
against wagecuts, for unemployment
relief and insurance, against impe-
riaist war and for defence Of the
Soviet Union, win lead us, by step
by step. on the path already shown
by the Russian workers, by Lenin.
That is the path to the overthrow Of
the rule of the capitalist class. the
establishment Of the dictatorship of
the proletariat, Of the Soviet Power.
That Is the lesson OF November z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07

world Of capitalism, which is bring
ing hunger. misery. starvation and
death to new millions of workers
and peasants, there has arisen out
of the November z Revolution the
new world Of workers rule. Of pro-
letarian dictatorship. Of socialism,
Of protection and wen-being for the
masses.
Two worldsI Is there any longer
doubt as TO which Of the two the
masses will choose?
The world OF capitalism: Holding
the massed wealth OF the world. the
highest technique Of production. q
plethora Of the necessities Of life
but checked and paralyzed by Its
very wealth. condemning the pro-
ducers OF its wealth to death by
starvation or suicide In the midst Of
their products!
The world Of socialism: Holding
for only IL years the heritage Of
the ex-czarist empire. with its pow
erty. economic and cultural back
wardneSs - but already emerging
with sure and powerful steps to
safety and security for the workers,
overcoming its economic and cul-
tlIral backwardness-at speed ten
times that Of capitalism In Its
youthful prime. and already over
taking and surprising the capitalist
economies.
While in the United States. the
stronghold of capitalism. economy
declines by one-third In the course
OF year. In the land OF the So
Wet Power economic life expands
by more than one-third. While the
capitalist world drops far below even
It's pre-war level of 1914. the So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

The inaugural session Of the incum-
bent administration of the District of
Columbia Department Council was held
last Monday in the board room of the
District Building. Senior Vice Comdr.
Herbert G. Davis presided. Department
Comdr. Jennings is in Idaho on his va
cation.
Council Members E. C. Baker Of Maj.
Gen. Clarence r. Edwards Post and
Steve Uhlrick Of Potomac Post were
inducted into ONCE. Father Francis j.
Hurney Of Front Line Post was ap-
pointed deputy chaplain.
Comrade e. s. Bethlehem Of Equal
tty-Walter Reed Post presented the ap-
plication for the grant of a new post
charter, which application was signed
by IS employees Of the Post Office. 1t
is understood that of the IS signers
not more than 10 Of them are already
AFFILIATED with the v. F. w. and they
contemplate demitting from their par
ent posts coincident with the issuance
of the charter. The application was IA
vorably recommended to the national
organization at Kansas City.
Columbia Post. No. 1888, suffered the
loss of Senior Vice Comdr. j. Grady
Owens, who died July 4. He also held
the ONCE of junior vice commander OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Veterans of Foreign Wars

spengler Post, American Legion. He
leaves a wife and several children.
Funeral services were conducted at
Tablsr's parlors, 928 M street, July 4,
and interment was at Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. Both Columbia and
Spengler Posts participated in the. rit-
ualistic ceremonies at Arlington, which
included the singing Of Sleep, Soldier
Boy" the adopted song Of the V. F. w.
by MIS-. Charles H. Reilley. president
Of Federal Ladies Auxiliary.
Potomac Post met June Is in North
east Masonic Temple, with Comdr. Ed
win W. Warren presiding, when plans
were made for the posts annual Po-
tomac River moonlight excursion July
Is on the steamer City Of washington.
Guest invitations are being extended
to the comrades of the Temporary Sol
diers and Sailors Home, 921 Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast, under the COM
mand of Capt Thomas ludlow, as well
as to the members of the v. F. w.
Overseas Band, Drum and Bugle Corps.
Comdr. Warren officially presented to
his post the two silver loving cups
which Swere awarded by the District
of Columbia Department for having
achieved the largest sale OF tickets to
the V. F. w. Armistice ball, and Tor
having maze the DeSL dpptdIdIlCc u
any veteran unit in the marching
columns Of the encampment parade on
June l8. Comrade Oscar w. Hellings-
worth, past department senior vice
commander. gave a short address:
Comrades H. F. Volkman, Abe Grudd
and Frank Topash Of Front Line Post
were honored guests.
Front Line Post. of which A. V.
Cercell is commander. is now leading
the posts in the Department OF the
District Of Columbia, and also in the
fourth district, comprising the States
Of Maryland. Virginia, West Virginia
and the District of Columbia, i'll
membership, due to the Recruiting
Committee, under the leadership OF
Post Senior Vice Comdr. Walter P.
Boehm.
Adjt. Joseph B. Gardella. in charge
of arrangements for the ION to Kansas
City National Encampment" trip. Is
| DESTROYS Of obtaining, at the earliest
possible date, complete list Of COM
rades who purpose attending the 1881
| convention. It Is necessary for him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

to have this information. 30 that he
may make all preparations without any
further delay. Members Of Front Line
Post who have not as yet filled out his
QUESTIONABLE and contemplate making
the Kansas City trip are urged TO do SO
at once. Already IS members have sig
nified their intention Of going TO the
convention and present indications are
that the number will be greatly aug
mented before entraining time. Front
Line Post is out to capture this years
prize for the unit post assembling the
largest marching contingent and trav-
cling from the most remote distance
from Kansas City in the encampment'S
big parade.
Chairman Floyd Caskey Of the Ways
and Means Committee reported nearly
one hundred comrades Of the post last
week went to one Of the Southern Mary
land resorts and enjoyed the fishing.
grabbing, boating, etc. The arrange
ments were in charge Of Abe Grudd.
Follow Me Post met at the Concord
Club on June IS, with Comdr. Phillip
R. Belt officiating. Chairman Campbell
of the Ways and Means Committee an
nounced that plans are completed for
a moonlight excursion this month.
Comrade Sigmund Milbrandt and Ell
Busada were elected as delegate and
alternate, respectively. to the National
v. F.. w. Encampment, which will con-
yene in Kansas City the last Of August
At last Thursday nights meeting an
early adjournment was ordered to well
come the evenings honored guests from
the Ladies Auxiliary, when program
was given.
Follow Me Auxiliary met June IS at
the Concord Club, with Mrs. Blanche
Melton, president, onciating. Mrs. Mel
ton was elected a delegate and Mrs
Roberta Fawcett was elected an alter
nate to the national convention. The
auxiliary recently held a card party al
the home Of Mrs. Louise Downs, or
Maryland avenue northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
CHINA Is PLANNING
HEALTH AID REFORM
Commission Of q. s. and European
Experts to Devise Formula for
Medical instruction.

GENEVA.-China Is on the eve OF
adopting three-year plan for medical
reform, according to statement made
to the Health Committee Of the League
II Nations, sitting at Geneva.
The Leagues committee has decided
TO outline, as requested by the Chinese
government, q formula for local medi-
cal instruction. It will emphasize o
co-ordinated and direct medical con-
troll for instruction of an essentially
practical nature, with training school
adequately equipped for forming q corps
Of government medical practitioners.
The organization will be centralized, but
special schools dealing with various
maladies are also suggested. Discretion
Is left to the Chinese government as to
the Language in which this instruction
Is to be carried on.
Both the Chinese and japanese dele
gates to the conference went on record
as recognizing the necessity Of revising
the Oriental conception of pharmaceu-
tical products. It was decided that q
commission should be appointed, COM
posed OF American and European ex-
perts. to outline q plan to harmonic the
Eastern and western conceptions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
Threads ANY Needle.

Much of the hand sewing Of today
is done by the older generation, whose
eyes are not quite up to the standard
required for threading the needle. and
new aid for this operation consists
Of a very fine wire of a hard spring
like quality bent to q diamond shape
and secured to q suitable handle. This
wire passes through the eye Of the
needle readily and then the thread is
passed through the acknowledged
loop, whereupon It 10 q simple matter
to pull the thread through the eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12
MEETINGS THIS WEEK.

Monoay-FrOnC Line FoSC, no.
1401, Logan Hall, 1902
Fourteenth street, pm.
Tuesday-National Capital Post,
No. 127. Pythian Temple,
1912 Ninth street, 8 pm.
Wednesday-Overseas Military
Band, Drum and Bugle
Corps. National Guard Arm
ory,' Sixth and Pennsylvania
avenue, 8 pm.
Ladies' Auxiliaries.
Monday-Federal Ladies' Aux
Hilary, Thomas Circle Club,
1926 Massachusetts, avenue,
SPIN; Front Line Ladies
Auxiliary, Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club, Eleventh
and L streets, 8 pm.
Tuesday-Nattonal Capital
Ladies' Auxiliary, Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth street,
pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-12

Skinker Bros. Motor Co. .Fredericksburg, Va.
Richard Waliaeh, j.. .Warrenten. We.
Rockhesd service Station. .Lufey.. We.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
Youthful Californian Picked
To Dash Off With Net Crown

Santa Barbara. Calf. This partnership.
at It's outset. was not entirely satisfac-
tory to either player. for Vines regarded
Glednlll as trif1e too polite and Gled-
hill looked upon Vines as a bit of a
rowdy.
1t has. however, resulted in a Arm
friendship and produced a succession of
doubles victories, including the national
clay court championship.
1nasmuch as the California axocia-
ton decreed that 1t would send both OF
neither East the combination also has
placed upon turf courts the most prom
ising singles player CT recent wears
During his brief career Vines has
beaten Johnny Doeg, the national
champion. two out of three times. He
has beaten Frank X. Shields. United
states Davis Cup player, four times;
Johnny Van Ryn once.
During the British American team
matches of last year he registered A de-
clslve win over Frederick j. Perry. the
rising Briton. and repeated this con-
guest In capturing the Casino final at
Newport.
In his Eastern campaign prior IN
Newport, Vines swept through the fields
at LongWood and Seabright. scoring I'VE
set trlumphs over Doeg in both tourna-
Tents.
His one lapse was at Southampton
where he showed the signs OF strain and
defaulted to George M Lott after four
sets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
NET TEAM
ASSURED VICTORY
Has a Clean Slate Entering
International Series
Home Stretch.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
~ PHILADELPHIA, September g.
- The English players In the in
ternational tennis series at the
Germantown Cricket Club. with
four straight victories to their credit,
enter the home stretch Of the compe-
tition without trepidation.
The foremost players the United
States can muster stand in their path
to clean sweep Of the classic, but after
yesterdays matches the Britons feel
they have little to fear.
John Hope Doeg, United States sin
giles champion, was vanquiShed yester-
day by 17-year-old Marcel Bernard Of
France, GO, Ga, and the doubles
team of Doeg and Lott fell before
Christian Boussus and jacques Brugnon
OF France, 81, 6-3.
Vines Plays BroussuS.
George Patrick Hughes of England
meets Doeg in the singles today and
teams with Fred Perry against the Lott
Doeg doubles combination. In another
match Ellsworth Vines of California
meets Boussus. Andre Merlin Of France
plays Keither Gledhill, United States,
in an exhibition.
Perry, partner of Bunny Austin on
the British Davis Cup team. won easily
from Merlin yesterday. 81. IS. AS
result OF its perfect record. England
clinched the trophy offered to the team
totallng the most points.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
Washington Horseshoe Tossers
Start Division Finals Today

- EVEN senior divisional play-offs,
with community champions and
runners-up engaged, will be
played late this afternoon in
the Washington section Of The Stars
metropolitan horseshoe tournament.
Competition will start at Sis o'clock.
Divisional play-offs in the boys di-
vision were in progress all through the
day.
Because of large fields and limited
time, some of the preliminaries will
require several days. Those eligible are
urged to keep in touch with playground
directors in charge Of the play-offs.
The pairingS were published yesterday.
South Carolina Avenue pitchers, I'M
der the direction Of S. F. Harriss. organ
lied in a hurry and barely will peat
the divisional play-offs deadline. In
the final are william Hunter and Frank
Acton, with the former leading % to l5
in a 50-point match, postponed from
last evening It will be finished today
in time to allow them to compete in
the Virginia Avenue division finals.
THE first matches in the challenge
round at Silver Spring will be
played today, starting at $50
o'clock Lawrence Clarke will meet
George Snable, last years runner-up,
and Joe Moore, the 1880 champion, will
take on Edgar Harvey. The final will
be pitched Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-03
uy11InG TOO soon
Sol 1a%,r
els

comman and unfortunate results
are that he looks up too quickly,
thus topping his ball, or that he
turns his shoulders so that they sxe
partly facing the direction line when
contact Is made. The latter fault
results in a tremendous pull or q
smothered bail.
Johnny Farrell, whose timing and
balance are perfect. tells me that
these are two Of the results from
hitting too soon.
Sol Metzger offers an Illustrated
leaf1et on Driving" which will help
every golfer having trouble off the
tee. Send stamped, addressed en-
velope for 1t. Address Sol Metzger
in care of this paper.
(CopyriRht, 1917