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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18

control q fine Sports movement, Pioneer
group, and well-functioning Party unit. The
Unemployed Council meets in a school audito-
rum with a separate full-tir1e headquarters
furnished by he Sity the Union, Sports
Union, Pioneers, and Party propaganda meet
ings are held in school buildings The City
Council endorsed the Social Insurance bill last
winter and helped finance the delegate to Wash
ington In the primary election in March the
Party candidate for Mayor received 1879 vote
These accomplishments did not just happen.
They came as the result of a sometimes tedious,
always panstaking process OF teaching the
workers the lessons of the class struggle directly
from their own problems and experience. We
have never had weekly letter to direct our
work We have not had speakers assigned to
our Unemployed Council to go there and talk"
A decision was first made as to subject, and
then speaker qualified to deal with it was Sec
ured We did not urge outside utilization en-
a group not yet understanding its problems
and afraid of outside influence, but waited with
assurance that the struggle would lead these
workers beyond their narrow conceptions to
realization of the need of broad solidarity.
If Lincoln Park teaches the possibilities of
unemployed work, it also teaches the need of
fleMbility and Of reliance upon the needs OF
the workers and the correct policies Of the Par
ty, rather than upon any fixed and rigid forms
and routines to involve these workers in the
class struggle.
Unemployed work is potentially the most fruit
full field today, but it is far from the easiest
to work in. Only patient and paillstaking ap-
plication over a period and through process
which invests the workers as individuals and as
members of group with class understanding can
accomplish our task. It challenges the best ef-
forts of our most developed and capable COM
radaa
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
Strikers Mustn't 'Revep'

Among the autocratic act OF the Pawtucket
Rhode Island police who are trying to break the
strike of the textile workers that are fighting
wage cut, is the following one as told by the
Associated Press, July is;
THE case of two girls and man, arrested
last night for reyeling after they had jeered
workers tscabs--Jorge), were continued until
July go"
According to r dictionary 'reveling" means:
ITO join in merry making" But although we've
heard somewhere that one Of Americans DEM
ocratic" privileges is the pursuit of happiness"
it is clearly against the law in Rhode Island II
you actually ursue happiness till you catch it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
By Labor Research Association

Mellon interests dominate the coal industry
OF the region involved in the present Pittsburgh
Ohio strike, but at least the U. S. Steel Corp.
subsidiary National Mining Coz, several mines
of the strong Hllman group, of the FALSELY group,
the Taplin group, the Warner group, and the
Hanna companies, are also involved
Mellon Banks: Control and Influence of the
Mellon family spread far beyond the properties
of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. The mellon
CONTROLLED Union Trust Co, is the largest bank
in Pittsburgh At least six other Pittsburgh banks
are Mellon companies: Mellon National Bank
Union Saving Bank, Farmers Deposit Bank, City
Deposit Bank & Trust Co, Workingmen's Saving
Bank & Trust Co., and Forbes National Bank
Representatives of Mellon companies sit on the
boards of several other Pittsburgh banks Also.
the Mellon interests own considerable blocks of
stock in smaller banks in county seats and steel
towns of Pittsburgh district. They control, for
example the Citizens National Bank, of Wash
ington, Pa. and through one third interest
dominate the Butler County National Bank, &
Trust Co. These banks give the family power
full lever toward control of policy in coal COM
panies in which the Mellon family has no direct
investment.
Also the profits of the Mellon banks have con-
tributed largely to the building up of the vast
family foreuns. Union Trust Co., of Pittsburgh,
has been even more profitable than George F.
Bakers First National Bank of New York. Be-
fore 1911 it was paying 60 percent q, year in
dividents on par value of its stock. Then the
rate was raised to 100 percent; in 1917 it was
pushed up to 140 percent From April 1, 1927,
to and including January 1 1881, dividents have
been paid at the rate of 200 percent year, not
to metnion a mere percent extra dividend at
Christmas, which was started in 1904 and has
been paid annually ever since.
Mellon Coal Companies: In Pennsylvania, the
principal coal company controlled by the Mellon
family is, of course the Pittsburgh Coal Co.
with mines also in Eastern Ohio, and through
its subsidiary the Pike-Floyd Coal Co., in Floyd
County, KY. Subsidiaries in Pennsylvania OF
the Mellon controlled sKoppers group OF COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
Workers! Join the Party of
Your Class!

Communist Party o. S. A
P. o. Box 81 Station D.
New York City.
Please send me more information on the corn-
uunist Party.
Name ..........-..............
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Mail this to the Central once. Communists
Party. ?. Q. Box 81 Station D. New York CITY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
TRADE CONFERENCE
PLANNED BY NYE
North Dakotan to Propose Measure
to Govern Business Com
petition. \
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. October Ex-senator
Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota said
today he planned to propose at the next
Congress steps by which millions of
honest men" might gain some control
Of millions of dollars of law-made
competition"
Speaking before the Central Supply
Association, the Senator said this could
be brought about through a powerful,
flexible trade practice conference be-
fore which any unit of any industry
might go to present protests against
other units Of the same industry for
unfair trade tactics.
Unless such q conference were estab-
hshed, he predicted, the industries of
America would soon become so central
lied that monopolies would be in alb
solute control.
Such monopolies would ''annul the
action Of the law Of supply and de-
mand," and place the consumer "at
the mercy Of an unregulated and un-
restricted system"
His plan, he said, was better than
that which has been proposed in the
modlncation OF the Sherman antitrust
law, 1nasmueh as his permitted compe-
tition TO exist. Under his proposal he
explained, the little unit Of an indus
try might present its claims OF larger
units unfair tactics to the conference
ana receive quick decision without
mucn OF the red tape existing under
the present. trade lava,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
ARIZONA MAY GET
MRS. Judd TODAY
Insanity Plea Welcomed if
"SeIf- Defense" in Double
Staying Is Dropped.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, October 2s.-With
Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer of
two women, reported under observation
in the county Jail by a pSychiatrist
Arizona authorities here seeking her
return to Phoenix, said they w5uld
welcome an insanity plea in event the
indicated one of Selt-defense was
dropped.
They can't get anywhere with an
insanity plea" said County Attorney
Lloyd Andrews of Phoenix. Mrs. Judd
tried to conceal her crime and that in
dictates she is capable of distinguishing
between right and wrong 1t is this
ability which is the determining factor"
Despite The Ann.une4d plAAs d Mpl
Judds attorneys to take every step
return to Arizona to stand trial Ior
numbering her two former friends and
one time roommateS, Hedvig Samuelson
and Agnes lie Roi, Arizona authorities
were hopeful they might start for
Phoenix with their prisoner late today
Extradition papers were signed by
Gov. Rolph yesterday Mrs. Judds at
torneys said they would claim an error
was made in the issuance of the ex-
tradition papers and, failing in that,
would seek action on q writ Of habeaS
corpus
Police held for questioning a man
giving the name Of Fred williams,
transient. He walked into the police
station and said he had aided Mrs
Judd in Staying the two women whose
bodies were sent to Los Angeles in
trunks. Police placed little credence in
his story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

TIME majority OF French CORE
Spondents accompanying Pre-
mier Laval had never been in
i Washington before.
What impressed them most was
That washington has many parks and
public gardens yet there Is not single
fashionable out-cf-door restaurant Ike
the Pavilion O. Avmennonville or the
Chateau de Madrid in the Bots de
Boulogne IN Paris.
That there are no skyscrapers (and
They added Grace q Dieul"l.
That the President bothers 70 see
washington correspondents twice week
instead Of having his favorite reporters
come 70 see him daily by the back
stairs
That American political parties don't
subsldize any Of the important daily
That the big industrial interests don't
subsidize important dailieS.
That newspapers can exist without
subsidies
That washington newspaper men are
paid less, in proportion TO the cost OF
living than their Paris colleagues.
That. in spite Of that, they have
luxurious press club.
That Washington correspondents
don't have free passes on the principal
railroads No self-respecting Partisan
newspaper man ever pays his railroad
fare.
That Washington reporters should
enjoy another mans scoop" and con-
graduate him. instead Of trying to stab
him in the back
That hotels in this city are more
expensive and far less comfortable than
good French hotels
That the citizens Of the National
Capital should not enjoy citizenship
privileges and not be represented in
Congress.
1t is not surprising that the French
correspondents have been struck with
the beauty Of Washington's public parks
and have felt the absence of q pleas
ant and comfortably furnished out-of-
doors restaurant. Paris Vienna and
Berlin have not as many public parks
as We have, yet, the Bots de Boulogne,
the Pratter, in Vienna, and the Tier
garten. in Berlin. have beautiful and
expensive eating places where the pub
lie goes late in the afternoon and es-
pecially in the evening to get away
from the sweltering city heat and en-
Joy a pleasant rest In Vienna there
are open-air theaters, where light mu-
steal comedies are performed. In Paris
the Pavilion d'Armenonville is the rem
devious OF smart society, famous act
resses and literary lights. If a news
paper man is hard up for a good story.
all he has to do is to 60 out and spend
n few dollars on q dinner at the Pavil-
lon; he Is sure to come back with Cos
sip, copy for at least three days.
In the same way. it is not surprising
that the French newspapermen should
have been favorably impressed by the
lack of skyscrapers. All over Europe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
Washington Opened Their Eyes
French Newspaper Men Could Not Believe People
Here Have No Vofe-Impressed By Lack of
SkyscrGpers and Independent Press.

there are stringent laws forbidding any
building TO have more than nine floors.
In Germany. an American building
company decided to put up sky
Scraper. After . good deal Of trouble
the Berlin municipal council allowed
the American concern 70 build an IL
story office building There Is no such
thing in Paris.
The French admire the imposing
beauty OF the New York skyScrapers
but do not see The reason for wanting
to go so high. It's wasting too much
time, they say. to 80 up TO the fifteenth
floor in an elevator. then spend at least
i've minutes finding the once you want
on that floor. The skyHrapeTs are GER
tainly contradiction Of the slogan:
Time Is money"
The White House and the State De-
partment conferences were . revela-
ton to many Of the French newspaper
men. They could not conceive how the
President or the Secretary OF State,
who are undoubtedly busy men, can
take enough time OF to see the wash
ington correspondents. especially when
they tell them so little. In Paris the
head Of the press bureau does all that
and IL fs only the highly privileged
newspapermen who occasionally can see
the head of the government.
Since NJ. BRAND has been at the head
of Frances foreign affairs only one or
two very well known newspaper men
can boast Of having seen the foreign
secretary at very rare intervals, mainly
when he wanted to see them for q
purpose.
1t was a most astonishing thing for
the French newspaper men TO find that
none OF the American papers are sub
sioizeo. either by political parties or by
important industrial groups and some
Of the reporters were hard to convince
that this really was the case. With few
exceptions, most of the Partisan papers
either are controlled or indirectly SUBJ
sidized. either by q political party or
by a man with political ambitions, or
by the vested interests This is due
mainly TO the fact the French newspa-
pers are published In no more than 10
pages, frequently much less. lacking as
they do, the advertising in American
papers.
None Of the French correspondents
who have come TO Washington for the
first time would believe that the citizens
of the National Capital have no repre-
sentation in Congress. The most I'm
portant and leading members of the
French Chamber Of Deputies come from
Paris; Premier Laval himself Is q
Senator from a Paris suburb. It re-
quires some sterling qualities for a man
to be elected by the sophisticated Paris
population. Consequently the news
paper men thought the same thing
would apply here. One correspondent
asked the writer whether Senator Borah
was elected by the washington elector-
ate and when he was told the inhabi-
tantS of Washington have no votes he
would not believe 1t. When this was
confirmed by other Americans present,
he threw up his arms and exclaimed
the classical: Bon dieu de bon dieu."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28

was published, just a few. No doubt
many more will be paid before the next
list Is published, but there win be no
rush.
On Main street the merchants dis
cuSS the debt revision program of their
astute and inscrutable townsman. They
don't want to be quoted No need Of
tnat. DR.. Putnam Is all right, they saw.
he Just has his whims. He's a good
friend. great giver. They don't want
10 antagonize him. One never knows
Wnen one will land in his hospital, the
only large and well equipped one within
radius of so miles. They express
themselves anonymously.
Well" said one, while I'm not on
the list, will say that feel sorry for
some OF those who are. / heard of one
poor chap today who ran around town
tTylng@ to borrow enough to paw his bill
oefre his name was published. He bor-
rTowed it. Now, you know he couldn +
nave borrowed 1t If he had no credit
Ihat's proof enough that he was GOOD
for the bill" O'
One merchant shrugged his Shout
GERS and observed 1t was just "a shrewd
collection scheme"
Now, the good doctor Is hearing what
the citizens are saying about him. but
ne doesn't mind bit. Like Brutus. he
Is armed so strong in honesty that
what they say passes by as the idle
wind" His escutcheon of citizenship.
ike his fathers before him. is unsuIIied
he IS one of the most generous eivers
70 Marcelines charity chest. Even
those citizens whose ire is aroused bv
his regular debt revision tell stories of
MS private phifanthropies which he
himself has never mentioned.
Advised Against Printing.
But. he Just has ideas" one mer-
chant said. He was advised against
printing those names, but he said, I'm
doing the printing"
DR.. Putman's father, DR.. Ben B. Put
man, practiced medicine in TAarceIine
and its vicinity for 40 years before his
son came out of Rush Medical School
to aid him.
=, Together they practiced 10 years.
tnen the elder doctor died. Father and
son have practiced a total of 10 wears
IN Marceline. And now young Ben. DR..
Ola'S only son, is preparing at Cornell
70 continue the family practice.
lOopyrisht 1881. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
COURT BARS CHILD
OF NAN BRlTTON
Testimony in Libel Suit Over
Answer to Presidents Daugh-
ter" Not for Girl IL.
Nv the Associated Press.

~ tne AksoSlANfu EtNASs
TOLEDO, Ohio. October 2S.-Eliza-
beth Ann. IL. daughter Of Nan Britton,
author Of the Presidents Daughter,
must be kept from the court room dur
ing the prosecution of the authors libel
suit against G. A. Klunk, Marion, Ohio,
hotel keeper Federal Judge John M
Killits ordered today
The court told Miss Britton's attor-
neys. william F. Marsteller of Cleve-
land and S. E. G. Moore Of Toledo
that the girl should not be permitted to
hear testimony that is likely to be pre-
sented, including the reading Of ex-
tracts from The Presidents Daugh-
ter" and from The Answer TO the
Presidents Daughter"
II is on the admitted sale by klunk
of the latter book from his hotel news
stand that Miss Britton bases her suit
alleging defamation of character.
Judge Killits conferred with attor-
news on both sides in his ONCE and
then announced that the burden OF
proof should rest upon the plaintiff 1t
"a a question OF fact, he said whether
some statements in the book The
Answer 10 the Presidents Daughter"
refer to the plaintiff,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28
HOtbed Of OutlAwry.

FsitSihar. the station on the Chinese
Eastern Railway where q destroyed
bridge has involved the Chinese and
japanese in heated controversy, is
about 100 miles northeast Of Hardin
and has long been hotbed Of outlavry.
It is only aboHt IS miles from a
mountainous section of Mongolia which
has been for decades q stronghold for
the funghutses (Redbeardsl and other
outlaws who prey on travellers. At
this point and at Hailar and many
ether stations between Hardin and the
Russian boundary at Manchuh there
have been troubles with raiders who
harassed the railway zone.
Ever since the railway was Jointly
constructed across Northern Manchuria
by the Chinese and the Russians this
western strip has been subject to bandit
raids. Chinese control in this western
section Of ManchuriA has always been
weak. Under the cSariStsc regime,
the Russians had much difnculty pa
trolling the strip Of railway and fire.
otiently had 10 negotiate with the ban
dts ana buy them OF because the
CHINESE authorities were not powerful
nmRh ~ police tlne territory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28

square feet, restricted to the name and
address CT the business TO be located
on the premises so incloSed, and of the
adjoining business.
Limiting total area Of sign or signs
on any one building, lot or parcel of
land to 100 square feet, with the privi-
lege of erecting signs. Of such area en-
each street frontage OF corner build
ing.
Authorizing the inspector of build
ingS to make safe or secure the removal
Of dangerous signs.
Protects Fire Escapes.
Prohibiting signs from cbStructing
any window, door, fire escape, balcony,
platform. etc. or tngresS to or egrees
from any building.
Prohibiting signs on public space
and signs or banners carried on or
except that signs may be displayed
on vehicles If such signs advertise the
bona fide business of the owner.
Prohibiting the display of adver-
Using signs on vacant business prop
erty, except one sign not TO exceed
square feet in area giving the name
business and new address of the for
mer occupant, which sign may be dis
played for not to exceed go days, and
III AUAJ VI III SdtC BlHI1b.
Requiring that no existing sign
shall be repaired, altered, repainted
or moved unless it be brought into
compliance with the requirements of
all applicable regulations.
Signs May Be Rebuilt.
Providing that no new billboards
may be erected, unless application for
permit be approved by the Commits
aytcffNn
billboardS located in commercial and
industrial areas may be repaired and
rebuilt when authorized by the Com
missionerS; that all outstanding au-
thority and permits for the erection
and maintenance of billboards and
wall signs are fescinded, and in lieu
thereof a new list of authorized bill
boards and wall signs is hereafter to
be established to become effective on
tons become effective to which list
there shall be adAed no billboard or
wall sign site or area unless specifically
authorized by the Commissioners, and
the permanent removal from the list
of any billboard or wall sign aban-
doned for any cause whN tsoever.
Numbering Of all billboardS and wall
marker to be conspicuously displayed
so that the police can detect any un-
authorized billboards or wall signs
which may be erected or painted.
Provision that persons engaged in
the sign business shah publicly display
in their place of business license is
ued by the superintendent of licenses
and that permits for signs shall be
kept on the premises where the sign Is
TO be located.
Part 2 of the proposed regulations
to govern real estate signs under the
separate act of Congress, approved
March 4, 1918. no permit to be required
for real estate signs not exceeding 6
square feet, restricting to 40 square
feet real estate signs within the resi-
estate signs in the outlying and I'M
subdivided sections of the District.
Also providing for the marking of all
such signs with letters giving the per-
NIT number and date of permit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-28

Continued From First Page.)
but not the publication of them. The
debtors of Marceline, like the foreign
powers, prefer to have their debt-revi-
sion negotiations conducted secretly. A
bare announcement they deem quite
SUFFICIENT,
Only rs debtors were catalogued in
Putman'S first paid advertisement. He
promises three more inStallments Many
OF his debtor patients feel very much
as they did when they called at his
private hospital for their operations.
They are perspiring. The good doctor
offers no anesthesia.
Perhaps this treatment of DR.. Put
mans arch philanthropy may seem cyni-
cal. The inference is unfair. DR.. Put
man really Is sincere. He discussed
it last night in his ofdce without a
twinkle of his surgical blue eyes or q
witch of his business-like lips.
1t was Just as he had stated in the
grim prologue to the first list OF for
given debtors:
Recognizing the fact that extremely
low prices prevail for all local products
and that an excessive burden Of debt
will retard local business, propose to
deduct the sum of $4,000 from ac-
counts owed to me. A list will be
published each week and the credit
granted for the amount will be set OPP
posite each name until the sum Of $10,-
900 has been reached. Ola Putnam. /"
Can't Understand Merchants.
Returning from a call, this slight,
prematurely gray physician adjusted
his boutonniere, lighted q cigarette,
and explained everything.
Il cannot understand why the mer-
chants did not join me in this worthy
enterprise" he said. I'VE are in a
period of defiation. I do not see why
the working people and the farmers
should be required to bear the burden
Of the loss. am willing TO share in
it. That is why have cut many &C
counts from 20 to so per cent and ex-
plunged others. We all must pay. We
are paying for the World War and bad
economies.
Sooner or later everybody must come
to the same thing lost $50, 900 or
$40. 600 on stocks and bonds when the
crash came. 1t made no difference.
would have lost it anyway. What II
l had sold out at the peak? AS BUSH
ness man, would have reinVested my
money in other holdings and would
have lost it there. I invested my time
in my work. The value Of my work
has debated. Hence, I am adjusting
my accounts. That is all there Is TO It,
Some Of these accounts 90 back
three or four years. Some OF my ac-
counts, Of course, 90 back 70 my fathers
time"
The incalculable doctor never cracked
smile
mo. sir. Out Of all those IS persons
whose names have published. only
one has thanked me. I see no reason
why al Of them shouldn't thank me.
do you?"
A Few Have Paid Since.
Oh. yes. A few Of the overdue &C.
eosnts have heen paid since The -