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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26

Following the performance Monday
evening lunch was served in the din
ing room and then dancing enjoyed.
1t was very unfortunate that rain and
snow Monday made the side roads al
most impossible, and as result many
were obliged to remain at home. In
Monday evening and were loud in
their praises of the performance. Be
tween the acts Miss Verla Hansen
gave two selections on the piano, Miss
Helen Gravesen gave a reading and
Mogens Tuxen entertained with song
written especially for the occasion.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
MORE WILLOW RIVER

Mrs. A. Baudin and daughter, Miss
Cleo, went to Duluth Wednesday of
last week to attend the mission serv-
ice at the pro-cathedral Catholic
church, returning Monday by auto
driven by her son, Jack Smith. He
and Miss Cleo returned Sunday eve
ming to Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Cofer and lit
tie Betty Ann, Mrs. Walter Wendt of
New Salem, N. D., and Mrs. Harold
Trowler of Minneapolis, stopped here
Monday evening and spent a day with
Mrs. Anna COfer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
There's a Difference.

Judge: Il cannot conceive of a
meaner, more cowardly act than yours
of deserving your wife. DoNyou realize
you are deserter?"
Prisoner: We'll, if you all knowed
dat lady as l does, boss, you sho
wouldn't call me no deserter. All is a
refugee-dat's what All isl
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
MORE WANT ADS

GET YOUR Easter bonnet now.
have a nice assortment of women's
and Misses spring hats. Prices
reasonable.-Mrs.A Arthur Lund, Ker-
rick, 25w2S-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26

FOR SALE Small pigs, IS pair.
Also good cattle dog, goose eggs 25c
apiece; turkey eggs zoe apiece
William Dobsinske, Box Is, Willow
River. 25w2S-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
SPRING COURT TO
BEGIN ON APRIL 6

The annual spring term of district
court will begin the week of April G.,
on which day the grand jury will meet
at 10 a. m. and convene. The petit
jurors are called for April Z at 10
a. m. Following is the list of jurors
drawn.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
Teacher Training Department.

II advertised that the poor would
be welcome in this church." said the
minister, land after inspecting the
collection, see that they have come"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
Sandstone School Notes.

This last week the first grade chill
dren illustrated their study on Hol-
Land by making Holland scenes in
their sand table.
Mrs. H. A. Johnson was a Wednes-
day caller this week.
The members of the second grade
are preparing spring booklets for
Easter greetings to their parents.
The sixth graders have started pen
Gil sketching and expect to take up
charcoal work.
The pupils of the seventh grade are
making airplanes and other toys.
Miss Cole is giving them instruction
in wood joints. They are also reading
Easter stories and reproducing them
in pictures.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26
High School.

The members of the girls and boys
glee clubs are praticing hard on their
operetta, Crocodile Island" which
is to be given this next Friday eve
ming. Miss Pearl Nickerson is di-
recting them.
Teacher Training Department.
Miss Feyma has just returned from
a months substitute teaching in Dis
trict No. 93-B. She took the place of
Miss Elizabeth Swanson, who under
went an operation for appendicitis.
Austin Stowell and John Tomczak
are ill with severe colds.
Anna May Workman and Madelyn
Kimball entered kindergarten Mon
day, having been detained until now
by illness.
Mrs. H. A. Johnson was a kinder
garten caller Wednesday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-26

The American is but s1.5O a year.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
ELECT NEGRO TO
MOSCOW SOVIET
Padnore Honored by
Russian Workers

MOSCOW, May 3.--George Pad
more, Negro worker from the United
States, has been elected a member
of the Moscow Soviet. The workers
of the Palace of Labor, the headquar-
tiers of the RILU, and the various
unions Of the Soviet Union, parti-
cipated in the elections, which took
place at mass meeting of over II, ooC
workers.
In his speech of acceptance, Pad
more pointed out that his election
to the Moscow Soviet was not only an
expression of faith in himself, but a
symbol of the profound internation-
alism of the Soviet proletariat, and
an answer to the enemies of inter-
national working class solidarity who
like the American chauvinists expeI-
led from Soviet Russia, have at
tempted to introduce the poisonous
imperialist theology of race prejudice
in the workers fatherland.
He ended his speech with the slo-
gans: Long live the Soviets OF
workers and peasants-the bulwark
OF the Soviet Union! Forward with
the Piatiletka Five-Year Plan) in
four years. Long live the solidarity
of the international proletariat! Long
live the world October!"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
SOCIALIST POLICE
CHIEF SUSPENDS
"ROTE FAHNE''
Many Hurt in Rote
Front Demonstration
Gable BY Inprecorr)

kCaDle by AnpEeCOrTD
BERLIN, May 8.-The socialist po-
lice chief of Berlin, Grzesinski, yes
terday suppressed the Rote Fahne
for is days in connection with lead
ing article on the second anniver-
sary Of the prohibition Of the Red
Front League.
Thousands Of workers demon
strated in the streets in the working
class quarters on the anniversary of
the prohibition and demanded its
withdrawal. Demonstrations were
particularly large in Wedding and
Neukoelln where collisions occurred
with the police. Fifty-two arrests
we're made. Many workers were in
jured. Four police were injured. The
police were unable to prevent the
demonstrations.
The Fascist Kollatz, arrested In
connection with the murder of two
Reichsbanner workers (members of
the Republican army on the first
of January was released on bail. He
attended fascist meeting where he
was welcomed with tremendous ap-
plause.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Chicago District Is
Grooming Up for Big
Track Meet, May 10


WAUKEEGAN, Ill.Tlle Chicago
district OF the Labor Sports Union
has arranged a track meet here for
Sunday, May 10. Men and women
athletes will take part in the special
events in elimination for the Sparta
kiade. - 49,
The women's feature events will In
clude the so yard dash, the high Jump
and the basket ball far throw.
The meet will besS.fnIlowed by a
dance in the evening at-the Workers
Hall.
The Wins and Finnish girls are
preparing>to put forth their best for
ces for these events,
A Spartakiade educational outing
will be held Sunday, May IT, in the
Brookfield Forest Preserve on Sunny
side Ave. and 28th st.;,1chicago sub
urbs. z
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
PITTSBURGH, BUFFALO
MUST BREAK SILENCE
ON DISTRICT PA GES

with it and spread the paper over
the town. Workers will be convin-
ced the Daily Is alive to their pro-
blems, will be encouraged to write
more. Cost, 1c per copy, to be sold
for Sc. We prefer advance payment,
but where impossible, send order and
pay at end of sales. Following sue
cessful May Day meeting in Asbury
Park, N. j., comrades there ordered
100 copies Of issue carrying story.
Don't let good story die-broad-
cast it!
Along with subscriptions which, in
cidentally, being paid-in-advance,
help put the Daily Worker on a more
stable foundation, financially, come
sentiments expressing satisfaction
with the paper. CWe'l print criticisms
when we get them and we want
them, TODD From Elkland, Pa, Louis
M. writes, might be a little late but
can always find dollar for our pa
per. We need it bad. 1t is our loud
speaker" In the lumber regions of
Oswego, Ore, H. F. tells how he
bought copy of the D. w. 1t is
the paper for the workingmen. In
this section Of the lumber industry,
speed up and reduction in wages are
manufacturing distress. Can't find
employment in the woods, only in the
bread lines. Send me the Daily for
six months as soon as you get this
So" And Peter M. of Arnold, Pa,
along with dollar he chad pretty
hard time getting" for renewal, sends
this inspiring message: 81 want to
let you know that I Joined the Com
munist Party since the last time 1
wrote"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Member of NA,A.C.P. Denounces Refusal of Its
Leadership to Join United Front to SAGE Boys

/ Ovington, one of the white directors
of the NAACP.
For my part you cannot be too
radical in your efforts to save the
Scottsboro victims of race hate and
class justice. Were it not for the
protest at the fate of Mooney made
by Lenin in Russia fifteen years ago
he would have been forgotten and
murdered under forms of legality. I
say to you:
Rouse all the people! Make the
case a national issue! If necessary,
make it international Get millions
of class conScious radicals to demon
strate at American Consulates and
embassies in every great city of the
world!
We may not save the boys, but
we can develop hostility against their
murderers and create strong pre-
sumption in favor of their innocence.
AS a genuine testimony of my in
terest I enclose my check for $40.
Five dollars ion the lid and IS for
the Southern Worker" that cour-
ageous little paper that is carrying
on the work of the Abolitionists in
the very heart of the South.
Ignore the NAACP oficialdom,
those who at the time bartered the
wrongs of people for mere muir
derers uniform during the war while
arguing about the difference between
their captains salary and that re-
ceived for writing editorials about
CLOSE Ranks" and appeal again and
again directly to the membership.
will close with a final expression
of my appreciation Of the good work
done for the nine boys and remind
the NAACP that:
They enslave their children's chill
dren who make compromise with sin"
Yours sincerely,
A Negro.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

we're called Colorums. They were
held in virtual slavery. Their lands
were stolen and their living made
uncomfortable. When they organized
nearly thousand peasants, men and
women, to fight against the land
lords, the Philippine constabulary was
sent in and pitched battle resulted
Three of the constabulary we're killed
and six of the peasants met death
at the hands of the protectors Of
the landlords slaye-system.
For a long time the American i'm
perialists in the island, together with
such bourgeois leaders as Senator
Roxas, tried to state that the Col
Drums were Communists or religious
fanatics who were not fighting for
any real demand. During the trial
the fact was brought out clearly that
the Colorums were not Communists,
but they were impoverished peasants
who. were fighting against miserable
conditions imposed upon them. They
were catholics, but not religious fan
atics. Both men and women took
part in the fighting and put up a
brilliant struggle.
Two of the Colorums, Cesareo Abe,
and Pedro Kalosa, were given life
mprisonment-the heaviest sentence
ever melted out here in the Philip
pine Islands on a "sedition" charge.
An American, and a Philippine
judge-symbol of the unity of the
Wall Street and the Filipino petty
bourgeois tools of Wall Street-hand-
ed out the sentence.
Thirty seven men were condemned
to term of II years in prisons. Two
boys we're sentenced to IA years each
in prison.
A huge wave of protest against
these vicious sentences is spreading
over the Philippine Islands. The lead
is being taken by the Communist
Party of the Philippines which itself
has been driven underground by the
arrest of % of its leading members.
The Proletarian Labor Congress and
the Peasants Confederation is organ
izing the workers and peasants to de-
mand the release of the Colorums,
and is carrying on a campaign to
expose the role of the imperialists
and their supporters.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

Minneapolis page, changed from
Friday to Saturday, will be distrib-
uted to the following territories: Min
neapolis, 300; ST. Paul, $50; Duluth,
100; Superior, so; Mesaba Range
Virginia, Chisholm, Hibbing), 100;
Hancock, 100; Ironwood, so; Negau-
nee, so. Gar
Minneapolis District (No. % to be
commended upon its initiative and
concrete work in pushing the Daily
Worker. In addition to effective
Daily Worker leaflet mentioned in
our column of May z, we received
copy of Daily Worker Bulletin No. /,
issue of April %, sent to all section
committees and Daily Worker Agents.
zone of our most important tasks
is getting the Daily Worker into the
ranks of the workers, and above all
into the ranks of the Party menu
Hers.' As our Daily grows, so will our
Party grow in power and influence.
We must set up a rigid apparatus
which will accomplish the building
of a powerful mass press"
District then proceeds with plan
for this apparatus, including Daily
Worker Committee and Daily Worker
Agent for both District and Sections;
for the Units, Daily Worker Agent,
Red Builders Clubs, Worker Cores
pondents. 70
Broadcast Worker Coassspondences
Incidentally, the effectiveness of
worker correspondence IL realized
only when the editions in which they
appear are sold in the specific loca-
lions to which they refer. When a
story on some local Burning situa-
ton is sent in, send an order along
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Brands as Sinister" Attitude of Leaders in
Scottsboro Case; Rank and File Revolt Grows
Against Attempts of Walter White,
Others to Disrupt Defense

with its policies but felt that I could
not expect it to go the limit in some
matters.
However, its sinister inaction in
the case of the nine black boys who
are in the shadow of the electric
chair in Alabama until the radical
demonstrations and other "unre-
fined" and "disrespectable" demon
strationS of Communists and work
ers had forced its hand, and its very
obvious desire to rob the Interna-
tional Labor Defense of its deserved
credit for exposing the monstrous
attempt on the part Of the white
ruling class in the South to sub
stitute the court room for the rope
and faggot," have driven me to the
conclusion that the organization has
outlived its usefulness. The fearless
and humane attitude Of William
Pickens deserves the unqualified en-
dorsement Of every Negro, especially
those who like myself are members
of tn NAACP.
Pickens has shown himself man
and your paper did a good piece of
work when it published his letter,
for it revealed to the public that at
least one prominent member of the
organization was willing to FIGHT
and CLOSE RANKS" this time not
as Du Bots did during the World War
to protect the millions of Wall ST.,
but to save the lives of nine, defense
less human beings. Since the NAACP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

was willing to "close ranks" and
forget grievances" thirteen years
ago in the interest Of the country,
why is it not ready to join a UNITED
FRONT or close ranks. fight in the
interest of the race and its integrity
against the charge of rape?
Apparently the NAACP believes in
discrimination for it not only sought
but obtained the aid of a great Amer
lean radical, an avowed agnostic, a
man who fought for Haywood, Petit
bone and Meyer years ago in Colo
RADIO, a man who is alleged to be an
anarchist in his views, Clarence OAR
row, in the Sweet case in Detroit, yet
it is now too respectable and soil
citious of the feelings of those who
rule America that it refuses to iden-
tify itself with Communist workers
who started the fight to save the
nine friendless boys who were rail-
roaded to the electric chair.
wonder if they who pretend that
they are carrying on the glorious
traditions of the Abolitionists would
have supported John Brown, William
Lloyd Garrison, Lundy, Fred Doug
less, Sohourner Truth, Gabriel, Nat
Turner and the rest of that noble
and immortal army who fought
against slavery? The trouble about
the Negro is that he is too damned
conservative. He seems determined
to prove himself less than the half
a-man he was described as by Miss
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
INTRODUCE 3-DAY
WEEK In SOVIET
UNION INDUSTRY
Exceed U. S. Electric
Output in 10 Years

Many factories in the Soviet Union
are going on a three-day week 712
hours, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Moscow dated
May 7. ....e
The factories going on the three
day week give the workers one day
off in every three. Hours are short
ened and at the same time produc-
ton is kept up.
At the same time G. 7. Lomoff,
president of a committee for the pre-
paration Of new 10-year electrific-
alton plan, reported that the Soviet
Union in the next ten years will ex-
coed the electrical output of the Uni
ted States. The Associated Press gives
the report as follows;
"Lomoff predicted that in that
period the Soviet Union will have
surpassed the United States in cleo
trification projects under the new
plan which will go into operation
early next year.
"The first ten-year plan originated
by Lenin is practically completed so
far as total kilowatts is concerned, he
said, but in some centers the schedule
fell far behind, That plan called for
1,750,000 kilowatts, with thirty dis
trict power plants. The total was at
tanned, but certain shifts in the
schedule gave the agricultural areas
only $4,000 kilowattS, whereas a mil
lion had been assigned to those dis
tricts.
"In the next five years, Lomoff
said, Russia expects TO exceed the
United States with production of
100000 tons of oil, 45O,oOo,0 900 tons
of coal and 100000 tons of pig
iron.
"These figures sound fantastic" he
said, but they will be found to be
of solid substance. We are forging
ahead in deeds, not in words"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

NEW YORK, May 8, 1881 (CNA) =
A rank and file member Of the Natl
Association for Advancement of Col
ored ePople has addressed an open
letter to the editor of the "Daily
Worker" sharply attacking the lead
ership of the NAACP for its sinister
inaction in the case of the nine black
boys who are in the shadow of the
electric chair in Alabama" The
writer, In donating to the defense of
the Scottsboro boys, bitterly criticizes
the national office of that organiza-
ton for refusing to join the united
front of all forces for the defense,
as proposed by the LID which is
handling the legal appeal Of the boys.
The name of the writer of the letter
is withheld at his request, although
the Crusader News Agency has con-
firmed his identity and standing.
The text of the letter follows:
New York City,
May 5, 1881.
Editor of 1.-THE Daily Worker"
so East 18th ST.,
New York City.
Dear Sir:
I am among those Negroes who
have been supporting by membership
covering several years and by fire.
quent financial contributions, an
onymously and otherwise, the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. I have done so
on the ground that the organization
was rendering the Negro race service
Of sort that it needed and that no
other organization was able to give,
namely, it addressed itself to injus-
tees of a purely racial nature that
affected Negroes regardless of their
class affiliations. During my long
membership in the NAACP I have,
very naturally, not always agreed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Cultural League of
Chicago Holds First
Affair on May 9th

CHICAGO, nl.-On Saturday, May
9, a large affair is to take place at
the Peoples Auditorium" 2457 West
Chicago Avenue, Chicago. The pro-
ceeds of this evening are to go 40
per cent to the Communist Party, 10
per cent to the Young Communist
League, and so per cent of the organ
ization sponsoring the program, the
Workers Cultural League of Chicago.
The Workers Cultural League was
established few months ago, and
is striving t ocarry on revolutionary
cultural activity on a large scale. 1t
is composed Of representatives of
various proletarian cultural groups.
AS May 9th is It's first affair, all
workers should come to it. Tickets
are 40c. in advance, SOC. at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
SEIZE 100 INN. ].
FOR DEPORTATION
-
u S Born Woman De
ported,

GLOUCESTER, N. j., May A.
More than 100 workers were crowded
in the filthy immigration station
here today, awaiting deportation, as
the result of raids by immigration
agents on militant foreign-borr
workers on Delaware River boats.
Sixty-four of the, workers were
seized in tour of dredging machines
on the river between Palmyra and
Gloucester.
WASHINGTON, May 4. An Amer
lean woman worker and her three
young children were deported tc
Canada because the woman married
a Canadian worker in Detroit and
so "lost her citizenship"
The woman, Mrs. Lillian Larch
had lived in Canada for@some time
before the death Of her husband
Her children we're born in Canada
The deportation wasscarried out
with only twenty fours hours notice
according to the National Woman's
Party, which is protesting this par
ticular deportation asase burning in
dictment of the inequalities remain
ing in our national law, as between
native born men and women.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
FOREIGN LEGION
SOLDIERS F @ R
SOVIET DEFENSE
Greet American Revo-
lutionary Workers

A soldier in the Spanish Foreign
Legion in letter to the Daily Work
er, greets the American workers and
calls for a fight against capitalism
under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party. His letter follows:
Dear comrades: We wish to send
our greetings and best wishes to the
Daily Worker which leads the fight
for the emancipation of the workers
under the leadership Of the Commu-
mist Party in the u, S. A. We can
not write more for there is a great
chaos on accounts of the TRANSITIONAL
ton from the Monarchy into a bour-
geois republic. Next time we will
write more.
"All power to the workers!
"Proletariat of the work, unite! Let
us fight and work together, workers
of all lands, and then we will win.
Soldiers of the Spanish Foreign Le-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Plan toEnd Emergency
Work in Providence If
Not Too Much Protest

PROVIDENCE, R. T., May 8.-The
Emergency Unemployment Commit.
tee," which has been keeping about
1000 Of the several thousand jobless
here on SIS week work, met last
week and announced that its funds
would be exhausted after June 10,
and the men would be fired.
The chairman said. Continuation
Of the committees work will depend
on the public demand for it,"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
lid Wins Two Important Points in
Fight to Save Lives of ScOttsbOro Boys

Communist Party, a vigorous protest
was made against the legal lynching
of the nine Alabama youths. A tele-
gram Of protest was sent the Ala
bama governor.
HANCOCK, Mich, May 7. - Han
cock workers joined their voices to
the thunder of protest against the
planned legal massacre of the nine
Alabama youths. A telegram of pro-
test was sent to Gov. b. M. Miller of
Alabama.
SALT LAKE CITY, May 2.-Work-
ers of Salt Lake City gathered in the
May Day demonstration here strong
ly denounced the frame up of the
nine Negro boys. A telegram of pro-
test was sent the governor of Alabama
demanding a new trial for these in
nocent boys, with a jury of workers,
at least half to be Negroes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09

gion who are synlpathizing with the
Soviet Union and are ready to defend
it against all attack of the imperial
lists"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-09
Il FILIPINO PEASANTS GIVEN HEAVY
JAIL TERMS FOR FIGHTING AGAINST
SLAVERY, ROBBERY OF THEIR LAND
Labor and Peasant Movement in Philippines
Aroused Filipino Petty Bourgeois Lackeys
Support Wall Street Terror

MANILA, Philippine Islands.-By the combined efforts
of the American imperas and the native bourgeois sup
porters Al Filipino peasants have received heavy prison terms
for the uprising in Tayug Pampanga of January H. 1881
The and who took part the peasant unrsng