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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
All Out Today! City
Hall Demonstration!
Demand Winter Relief for Unemployed from
Board of Aldermen Which Has Millions to
Give Away! Go to Concentration Points!

get $4,000 each, for their years Of
flee holding.
But the starving jobless are to get
nothing unless they do something
about it.
This demonstration will demand
5000 100000 be appropriated in the
budget now under discussion, to be
used for immediate winter relief of
the jobless at the rate of $3.50 for
each, with $50 more for each depart
ment.
Other demands are as follows:
Free food, milk and clothing for the
children of the unemployed.
No eviction of unemployed workers
for non-payment of rent
Opening of all armories and unused
buildings for homeless workers.
Free gas and light for unemployed
workers. Lower rates for employed
workers.
The relief fund to be raised thru
the following means:
1. Stopping of payments to city
bond holders.
2. Withdrawal of appropriation for
the national guard and naval militia.
3. Cutting of officials salaries to
no more than $4,000 a year.
A. Taxation on all income above
S., 900.
All unemployed relief funds to be
administered by unemployed and EN-
ployed workers. We want no grafters
taking care" of the Relief Fund.
Not cent off workers wages for
charity relief We can't afford to
share" from our low wagesl Let the
rich share their profits Abolition of
forced labor on the wood pile.
The march led by the Down Town
branch of the Councils of Unemploy-
ed will start at Seventh ST. and Ave.
A at 80 am, and go TO Rutgers
Square, where it will be joined by the
crowd assembled by the East Side
branch, and thence on to City Hall.
The Harlem branch will assemble the
crowd IL leads at l33th ST. and Lenox
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

NEW YORK. = New York jobless
and employed workers will mobilize
in three different parts of the city
today, and march to arrive at the
city hall at 2 pm. where the board
of aldermen is meeting. The board is
handing out 1851 100000 for all sorts
of purposes. including nearly $780,
100000 to the bankers and millions
to police, contractors, for war pur-
poses, and everything else but relief
for the million unemployed OF New
York.
Mayor Walker is to get $4,000, the
president of the board of aldermen
is to get $4,000 and the presidents
of five boroughs of the city are to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

tors has begun.
Two young boys stood beside
the hastily built speakers platform.
They held up during the entire meet
ing placard announcing the Ma
tional Hunger March to Washington
section of which passes through
Scranton, few miles from Dixon
City,
Refused School and Ball Park
The meeting was to have been held
in the ball park At the last moment
the owners, who lease the ground
from the Delaware and Hudson Coal
Co. closed the gates and told the
miners committee that the coal COM
pany has threatened to cancel the
lease If the meeting was held,
The nipht fore permission had
been III 10 use the high school
erCltor1um but the city authorities
locked the doors and stationed po-
| uaa around tbs building, The miner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Ring OF STEEL AGAINST
SOVIET UNION TIGHTENING;
U. S. WORKERS PROTEST
$4,000 Demonstrate In
Union Square, New
York, Against War
Attack Seattle Meet
Demand 2 Billions Of
War Funds for Jobless
Telegram to the Daily Worker.)

Telegram to the Daily Worker.)
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 81. - The
anti-war demonstration here was
ruthlesSly smashed by the police. Sew
eral workers were badly beaten up,
and two knocked unconscious by the
police who brutally used clubs and
LACKS. Three policemen were
knocked down when lumberjacks re-
tailated with swift blows.
Seven workers were arrested and
bail refused for their release.
Three thousand workers demon
strated in protest against police bru-
tally and the war danger the same
night.
NEW YORK. - Fifteen thousand
workers assembled on Union Square,
Saturday, pledged revolutionary
struggle against imperiaIst war and
defense OF the Soviet Union at an an
ti-war demonstration called by the
Communist Party.
Adopting a resolution declaring that
the masses want no imperialist war
the meeting demanded the CONVEX
sion of the two billion dollars war
funds for the immediate use of the II
million unemployed and their fami-
lies in the land.
Bringing out the sharp contrast be-
tween the rapid rise of the living
standards of the Soviet masses and
the great success of the Five-Year-
Plan of socialist construction with
the unparalleled mass misery, hun
ger, unemployment in all capitalist
countries including the United States
speaker after speaker showed the i'm
minence of military attack on the
Soviet Union.
The resolution adopted at the meet
ing said;
1--WE workers in mighty mass dem
onstration assembled in Union Square
November 81, 1881, declare that we
want no war. We want immediate
cash winter relief for the unemployed
and unemployment insurance from
the government and the bosses. We
demand not one cent for imperialist
ornaments and war; turn over the
two billion dollars war fund to the
unemployed"
The National Hunger March De-
cember Z was endorsed by the mass
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

E1iiG'E, STATES UllaJ Wf1JerS IN emma
hce Lson 'mysteciously kidnapped,
10. cured, shot, beheaded and the sur
vivors ii their opinionc do not please
the government, must scurry from
hiding place, like rats"
signatures for this protest now in
the hands OF the Chinese Ministry
we're gathered by a committee which
includes Lewis NIumford, John Dew
ey, Waldo Frank, M. r. Werner, Ed
murd Wilson and Malcolm Crowley
who interested themselves in saving
the lives of the remaining Chinese
writer's who are threatened daily
with execution for their political
opinions. This committee, in dis
closing the suffering of Chinese
writer's for ventu1ing to participate
in political affairs of their country
and expressing independent opin-
ions, stated.
It is impossible to know how many
Chinese writer's and students have
been executed during the past four
years by the Marking government
and by the war lords of the various
provinces. In most cases the names
of the victims have not been printed
In their own country, Let alone in
the American press. Nevertheless,
enough facts have leaked out from
f1rst-hand sources to give general
picture of the situation.
1.-THE Chinese have an extremely
able and vigorous younger generation
of novelists, essayists and poets. They
are engaged in the exciting task of
creating a new literature in tht vern-
acular. At the same time, most of
them are radicals, for the simple
reason that the whole trend of the
intellectual world in China has re-
Gently been toward Communism. The
result is that the government is Kill
ling them off wholesale. Poets of
feminist pamphleteers of twenty
seven, they are first tortured-we
have seen disgusting photographs of
this-and then led out to face a
firing squad. Schoolboys of twelve are
shot for having radical magazines in
their possession. Even the Chinese
Humanists, the disciples there of IT.
wing Babbitt, are being threatened
with Imprisonment. To write novel
about the working classes is a crime
punishable by heavy sentence"
An example of the treatment these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

describe the events which led up to
their own indictment on charges of
criminal syndicalism and will expose
the efforts TO discredit the commit
tee by framing up its chairman,
Theodore Dresser, on an immoral
ity" charge. The speakers will in
clude the following members of the
committee: Samuel Ornitz, Charles
Rumford Walker, Adelaide Walker,
Lester Cohen. Harry Cannes and
George Maurer, assistant national
secretary of the International La
Dor Defense Admission is rs cents
80 cents for reserved seats, .-....~
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Wall Street Experts
Admit Japan Aims to
Seize Mongolia
Rape of China Goes On
Plan War On Chinese
Soviets,

Open admission that
the japanese occupa-
ton of Manchuria is di-
rectly aimed at theSov-
let Union and has the
support of the United States
and the League of Nations is
made in a dispatch to the New
York Evening Post from its
Paris correspondent, Raymond
G. Carroll. The Posts correspondent
frankly gives the position of the i'm
perialists as follows:
"Why not state the truth, that
Japan energies victorious not only
in Far Eastern battles but here as
well, because the great western ma
tons, behind their League masks
and under their diplomatic camau-
fIage secretly want Japan installed
upon the Asiatic mainland, a de-
pendable sector of a protective ring
around Soviet RUSSIA"
To Attack Chinese Soviets
The dispatch leaves no doubt that
Manchuria is to be used as mill
tary base against the Soviet Union,
as part of the ring of steel which the
imperialists, led by the United States
and France have been forging around
the Soviet Union. 1t states:
"What Finland, Esthonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland and Roumania
do for conservative Europe in their
functions as buffer nations against
Soviet Russia, 1t is argued--and
settled for that matter-Japan, in
trenched in the Asiatic mainland.
would perform at the gateway of
the Reds backyard"
In addition to establishing a Man
churian base against the Soviet Un-
ion, the imperiahst powers have the
aim of partitioning China and crush
ing the Chinese Soviets and the
Chinese Red Army. This task was
formerly assigned to the imperialist
hangman Chang Kai-shek who has
repeatedly failed in his attacks on
the Chinese Red Army. The imper-
ialists now intend to tackle this job
themselves, with the Japanese armed
forces in China playing leading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
MASSESRALLY:
FOR START OF
NATL MARCH
Send OFF In Seattle; 5000
Block Streets In
Grays HarbOr

With the National
Hunger March already
under way, the delega-
ton from Seattle and
Houston having start
ed, preparations in cities closer
at hand are being speeded up,
and connected up with demon
STATIONS for the demands for
winter relief, no evictions, etc.
on local governments.
The departure of the Seattle hun
ger marchers was the occasion OF
a big demonstration in that city.
Three days before, 5000 workers and
unemployed workers demonstrated in
Grays Harbor, Washington, for relief
and against forced labor.
Today the Pittsburgh united front
conference on the National Hunger
March will be held and there will be
an Allegheny County Hunger March
through Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Friday there will mass city hung
er march of youth, women and child
dren in Cleveland.
Yesterday the st. Louis, Mo, City
Labor Conference on Unemployment
Relief and the National Hunger
March was held, and all this week
open hearings on starvation will go
on in st. Louis.
Yesterday huge united front City
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Tell of Writers
Kidnapped,
Shot, Beheaded

WASHINGTON, D. Cone hundred and
four American writer's protested today to the
Chinese ministry in Washington against "the
torture and execution of writer's in China for
their political opinions The protest, signed
by minority Of the outstanding novests poets and essay
lists in America, including Sinclair Lewis Thornton Wilder
James Branch Cabel John Dewey, Edna ST. Vincent INLAY
Rober Frost Edna Ferber Theodore Dresser Louis Bromed
V 3rt Elizabeth Maddox Roberts and Osward Garrison
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Meet of 5000 Hard Coal
Miners Opens Neev Fight
on Starvation, Wage Cuts
By BILL DUNE.

DIXON CITY, Pa, Nov. 22.-'ln 1902 the men at Kelly
Hill struck The operator said that would the
shaft before he gave to their demands The said they
would that grass before they'd go back to work his
terms the old fighting spirit of those days when the
thracte miners were building their union that want now
said Joseph Dougher of the Rank and File Opposition Com
mttee to 5000 miners seated hill above the ball park here
yesterday.
new revolt against the UNWA officials and the opera
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Dresser Committee to
Make Report on Mine
ISituatiOn November 20

The Dresser Investigating Commit
tee, which recently returned after
making detailed investigation of
starvation and terror conditions in
the Kentucky coal-telds, will give
it's first public report at mass meet
ing on Sunday, Nov. 90, at 2:30 pm
in Central Opera House, 2o5 f. 9th
st. The meeting will be under the
auspices of the New York District
of the International Labor Defense.
Members Of the COMMITTEES Will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

PORTLAND, ore.-Transportation
and utilities have cut wages al per
cent and laid off IL per cent OF the
workers, according to the latest
statistics. Service and government
employment has declined per cent,
with II per cent wage reduction.
Think over these figures. What do.
they mean to the workers? Can you
still retain your belief in the return
of prosperity. Doesn't it seem to YOU
that Hoover and few more are
lss'' Vi *tr 49, IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23
Report Your Trucks.
Cars, Vans, to WIR!

NEW YORK.-All who own
trucks, moving vans or autos are
requested to report TO Burns, at
Workers International Relief
headquarters, 16 w. 21st St., as
soon as possible, for the support
of the hunger march.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

marched to the old Miners Temple
but this seats only thousand. The
rest damned the windows and the
street and separate meetings had to
be held outside. The demands worked
out by the Rank and File Opposition
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

Ave, and proceed to city hall The
main section of the march will as.
semble at Union Square, at noon, anc
after meeting, go on to City Hall
Brooklyn workers will 90 directly tc
city hall. .l,.i,. aa..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-23

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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
NEGRO BOY, MASTER HARPIST,
ENTERTAINS CIVITAN CLUB

Believe it or not, Elmer Bell, color
ed boy harpist from Tennessee, is just
about the best harpist there is. At
least, that was the concensus of opin-
ion among the Civitan members who
heard him play last week at their reg
ular meeting.
How he could play!
He had a small harp. He could play
it sidewise, on the back or on the end;
he could play it with his mouth or
with his nose; he could play it and
sing at the anne time; he could play
it while he danced. He could put it
in his mouth and play.
And it was good playing, too. He
knows almost 800 songs of various
types. He makes his living playing at
small amateur performances. He has
won two prizes at the Capitol's anna
teur night. He's good enough for e
ords and talkies.
Although of a timid and reticent
nature, he was lot bashful with his
harp. He could make it cut any kind
of capers and he did!
There's just about only one person
who can play a harp like Elmer Bell
and that's Elmer Bell himself.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
STATE IS FIFTH
IN CENSUS GAIN

North Carolina stands fifth in the
entire roster of states in percentage of
gain in population in the last decade,
it was announced after a study had
been made of complete reports from
the 1880 census.
The state showed a population gain
OF "a per cent, from fourteenth to
twelfth place in population in the I'M
ion. Only California, Florida, Texas
and Michigan had greater percentage
Of population gains than the Old
North State. Their gains were attri-
buted to the fact that the tropical
weather of the first two attracts tour
lists, Texas vast territory is being de-
veloped into a great dominion of many
resources and the automobile industry
in Michigan have caused great gains
there.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
NEED LIVESTOCK
TO BALANCE FARM
Dairy Specialist Urges
Farmers To Raise Live
stock In Addition To
Crops.

The problem of a successful south
ern agriculture will never be solved
until there is an adequate livestock
industry to balance crop production
and help to equally distribute labor
on the farm throughout the year.
"This is generally admitted by all
who are familiar with our FARMS"
says A. c. Kinney, dairy specialist at
State College. "However, few eastern
farmers have been willing, so far, to
accept this truth and prosecute the
idea as a farm practice. Insofar as
dairying is concerned, this failure to
develop has been due in part to a lack
of general markets. This objection is
being met by the establishment of
creameries located so as to serve the
largest possible territory"
MIR. Kinney says if dairying is to
help farmers of eastern Carolina pro-
duce a farm income, they must study
the COW as a means of converting
farm needs into cash. The good dairy
COW can make a higher cash retur
for all classes of farm feeds, including
grass pasture, than can any other class
of domestic livestock.
Even with the prevailing low pric-
es for butterfat, a COW that will pro-
duce two and one-half gallons of milk
each day testing AZ percent butter
fat, or 5000 pounds a year, will re-
urn to her owner $2.1O a bushel for
corn; $40 a ton for hay; $50 a ton
for cottonseed meal, and $40 a sea-
son for pasture grazing. This is based
on a price of Is cents a pound for
butterfat and 80 cent a hundred
pounds for the skimmilk left. There
is also an additional return from the
calves and the fertilizing value of the
manure.
When these facts are appreciated,
Mr.. Kinney says more cows will nee
essarily be placed in the great feed
producing section of eastern Carolina.
The result will be a brighter day for
farming in that territory.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
STORE METHODS
AFFECT PROFITS.
SURVEY SHOWS
Necessary to Concentrate
Upon Definite Sales Pro-
motion Plan.

Many stores during 1880 keyed
their organization up to do a volume
they could no do proftably by meth
DDS they had been using formerly, &C
cording to a survey of the Standard
Store Service company.
These stores could have obtained the
volume proftably if they had gone af-
ter it with the proper methods. Here
are a few of the major mistakes of
these stores in 1880, as listed by Ben
jamin L. Levinson, director of mer-
chandise planning of the Standard
Store company:
l. Failure to plan sales promotion,
merchandising, buying, expenses, etc.
an absolute lack Of coordination
between purchases and sales.
2. Lack of knowledge of exact con-
ditions.
;. Many stores based their selling
efforts on their buying efforts. Stores
making a profit knew what their Gus
toners wanted. They know how to sell
it and bought the quantity they knew
they would need.
4. A lack of vigorous and construc-
tive management and leadership.
S. Automatic marking of merchan-
disc on the basis of what it cost rath-
er than on the basis of what it was
worth.
6. Many tores frequently sacrifc-
ed their cash discounts in making pur-
chases so that the cost might appear
to be less than if bought on a cash
discount basis.
7. Many stores spent a good deal
of time worrying about their COM
p%etitors instead of their own business.
s. Failure to take mark-down in
time.
=. The promotion of unreasonable
merchandise was disastrous to many
stores.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
PERFECTS

Lancaster, Ohio, Aug. 12.-Henry
Weaver, Lancaster inventor, had puz-
lied long over mans ancient and I'm
alleviated subservience to a wheel
barrow. Now he has solved the prob
lem with his "autobarrow," which
pulls the man.
He has attached a motor to the bar
rows wheel, guides it with the han
dies which once were used to push,
and is dragged along behind it on roll
er skates.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
WELL W MILES
DEEP IN CALF,

How deep would you guess man has
gone down into the bowels of the
earth?
In the San Joaquin valley of Cali
fornia N oil we'll, Williams No. 1,
is down 10000 feet, or nearly two
miles This we'll, believed to be the
worlds deepest hole made by man, is
SO miles northwest of Bakersfield.
Although drilling at this depth is
very expensive, especially in the face
of oil prices which have dropped SO
per cent within a few months, dig
ging continues Biologists declare that
a depth of about four miles they will
strike a vast reservoir of oil that will
justify the expense of tapping it.
At 10000 feet the bit is passing
through a blue shale and now stands
in a column of mud more than a mile
deep. But this mud is a help instead
of hindrance in drilling for it serves
to plaster the walls so that in most
formations drilling can be continued
without inserting a casing.
With almost every spot on the
earth's surface visited, about the only
exploring adventures left for mans
daring are to soar into the heavens or
to be borne into the 'innards" of
Mother Earth. The former has greater
adventurous appeal, but digging down
into the ground offers a better pros
pect of wealth in the riches to be
found in the interior of our planet.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
PAYS DEARLY FOR KISS

Sacramento, Calf, Aug. 1.-THE
appellate court ruled today ]. A. Fitz-
gerald must pay $~11,S46.S0 damages
because he kissed a woman while dt;v-
ing an automobile, causing the car to
overturn.
Damages were awarded to Mrs. Julia
Williamson, who was injured in the
crash, which resulted in the death of
Gus Klein.
Records showed the three, with
Mrs. Lou Tressler, were driving from
San Francisco to Stockton, where they
all lived, when Mrs. Tressler said:
SPunky, kiss me- Fitzgerald did, and
the car overturned.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
GIRL IS KILLED
IN AUTO WRECK

Waynesville, Aug. 12.-Miss Mildred
Galloway, II, daughter of a Waynes-
vile lumber dealer, was fatally injur-
ed when her automobile skidded on a
slippery curve and overturned. Three
other girls were hurt.
Miss Galloway died soon after reach
ing a hospital here.
Miss Alberta Galloway, sister of the
dead girl, and Misses Susie Fisher and
Helen Morrow, both of Waynesville,
escaped with cuts and bruises. Miss
Alberta Galloway was at the wheel of
the machine.
AS the car skidded, overturned and
then plunged over an embankment on
Highway No. 10, Miss Mildred Gallo
way was hurled from the car and
through a dense forest below.
The accident was held unavoidable
and no inquest will be held.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
Horses Get Big Kick
From Charged Water

London, Aug. IA drink, right
fully styled chain lightning, was dis
covered here by horses.
Substantiating the old saw about
leading a horse to water without max
ing him drink, tradesmen were start
led to see their horses rear when they
took a couple of drinks out of a
trough.
investigation showed a high tension
cable had fallen into one end of the
trough, charging the water.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13
AUTO KILLS SIX-TOED CAT

Centerville, Iowa, Aug. 12.-Like
most cats, Oppie had nine lives.
But unlike the others he had six
toes on each foot, a distinction which
made Oppie known to almost all per-
sons in Centerville, many of whom
were in the habit of feeding him cream
pufs.
The extra toes, however, were use
less when he tried to cross a street
yesterday. An automobile wiped out
all of his nine lives at one time.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-08-13

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10. Too many price lines cut down
the net profit. Stores should concen-
trate On best selling price lines.
II. Too great expansion. 1t IS bet
ter to take a chance on losing a little
bit of that temporary business than
to take a chance on losing profits over
a period of years.