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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Daily Probe Reveals ImpermissibIe
Laxity In Unemployed Work
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the bills are not paid.
At n East Fourth st., there we're
two families with two to three chill
dren facing hunger, their gas and
light shut off, and eviction staring
them in the face.
At 80 Avenue B, family with six
children have already been evicted
and the family scattered At SO East
Fourth ST., woman with two chill
dren must sit in the dark at nights
listening to her children cry for food.
Another, an Italian laborer, on the
top floor of the tenement, is in the
same position.
At 81 East Fourth St, working
class mother WAGES eviction. The
savings of toll and many years that
she put in the Bank IF United States
has been wiped out by the bank
sWindlers.
There were many more such cases
in the one block. They welcome the
Unemployed Branch members and
hope with their long-suffering pa
tience that their own people will do
something for them.
But the Unemployed Branch--it
was lax in really investigating more
thoroughly, in sending committees all
through the tenements, who will talk
SIMPLY and concretely to the IInem-
ployed, who will patiently lay the
basis for organization of the house
and Of the neighborhood. Instead,
committees in hurry to get through;
haphazard methods in seeking out
these cases; in talking to the men
and women; in organizing them,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Daily Worker
I have become convinced of the
fact that the great liberal" Mr..
Murphy, Mayor of our dynamic De-
troit, is at the same time extraordi-
narily suited to be called fascist"
He has accomplished a very fine
thing. The victims of the capitalist
class robbery are kept divided so that
the American born workers do not
come in contact with the foreign born
workers at the welfare Offices.
He has things arranged so, that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
New Brunswick May Day and
Elections.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. MAY
Day demonstrations and open-air
meetings for the city election cam
paign are being prepared jointly to
rally the workers for struggle against
hunger and wage-cuts. The follow
ing meetings have been planned:
Wednesday, April %, in New Bruins
wick, 7:3O p. M. corner French and
New Sts.; speakers, Fielder and dis
trict speaker.
Friday, April "a, in Jersey City,
7:30 p. M, corner Newark and Jer-
sey StS.; district speaker.
Friday, April "a, in Newark-Unit
1, Monroe and Downing SITS, 7:30
p. M, speaker from district; Unit 2,
Montgomery and Broome Sts., 7:S0
p. m, speakers Kreuzpainter and
Wilburn; Unit 3, Hillside Pl. and
Waverly Ave, 1880 p. M. speakers
Edwards and Sepesy.
Saturday, April Is, in Newark
Unit at Boston and Hampden Sts.,
p. m; speaker Wilburn.
Saturday, April 25, in Linden, 4:30
p. M, at corner Wood Ave. and 18th
St.; speakers, Kreuzpainter and
Sepesy.
Saturday, in Perty Amboy, 7:30 p.
m, corner Smith and Elm ST.; speak
ers, Calabro and district speaker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Shirburne County, Mimi

Shirburne County, Mimi.
Daily Worker:
At the annual Township meeting,
this spring the farmers voted to dis
pense with the Service Co. Agent"
and in conformity with the vote the
County Commissioners did not APP
propriate any money for the mainte-
nance of County Agents.
Enters Business. First National
Bank of Elk River, county seat, gives
a banquet to Farm Bureau Leaders
State and Local, and it is decided that
they are going to make drive and
solicit farmers to contribute money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
PAY CUTS DUE
in STEEL MILLS
Demonstrate NJ y ]
Against Wage Slashes
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lively few pay cuts, Woods at the
same time tells the workers if they
do come "such a development would
be most unfortunate"
Try To HoOdwink Workers.
Green and the other takers of the
A. F. of L. follow the same line. They
keep telling the workers there are
few and insignificant wage cuts, and
they would be unfortunate if they did
come. The purpose of this is to dis
arm the workers to keep them from
resisting.
With a wage cut of 25 per cent
threatening the 5000 members of the
international Pocketbook Workers
Union, affiliated to the A. r. of l.,
Green and the other takers in this
union were forced to do a little man
euvering. The wage cut was set at
25 per cent to give Green and the
officials of the pocketbook workers
union chance to bargain and "com-
promise" on a 10 or Is per cent cut
to avoid a strike.
All the heavy artillery of the bosses,
such as propaganda in the capitalist
press, the preparation Of the state
machinery to break strikes, closer
unity between the takers in the A.
F. of L., the Musteites and all other
misleaders, is being put into action
to begin the national wage cut drive
that will effect every worker in the
country.
Organize and Strike.
Mass resistance must be prepared
now, apd the only organization IN
dertaking the fight is the Trade
Union Unity League, with the support
of the Communist Party.
May Day this year will be a gem
eral mobilization of the workers
against starvation and hunger, and
the wage slashing drive that will soon
fall like hammer-blow on all work
ers. Demonstrate May Day under the
leadership of the Communist Party
and Trade Union Unity League
against wage cuts,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
GREAT WESTERN SUGAR
ARRESTS IA WORKERS
WHO FIGHT WAGE CUT
Beet Workers dubbed by Police When They
Demonstrate for Arrested COmrade
Daily Worker:
Denver. Colorado.

There have been many here of comrades On
the 9th of this month"; IA in. The Great Western
Sugar company called the beet workers together the night
of the 9Th Of Macs the president of the company
telling the that the Sugar company wasn't to blame
for cutting farmers $3.50 ton bees and also causing the
farmer to the workers wages down around per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
MORE MAY FIRST
MEETS THIS YEAR
Demonstrations A |
Over Country
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ASONIlN DbD HhOm FAOE ONE)
to State St., State st. to the court
house, where a short meeting will be
held. From there the parade will
proceed to hall down town and it
will end up in huge mass meeting
with a good program.
A United Front Committee, called
by the Communist Party, is formed
with delegates from 10 organizations.
The committee has had three meet
ings so far and will have another one
before the first Of May.
Open-air meetings, in order to
mobilize for the demonstration, will
be held on Monday, April 81, at
Broadway and Eighth st, Tuesday,
April %, at Seventh st. and First
Ave, and Thursday, April 80, at
Court and w. State st. Open-air
meetings will also be held April "a
and 25, also factory gate meetings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22

AKRON, Ohio.-Paul Kassay, who
was framed by the bosses here and
who is now out on $4,000 bail, will
be one of the speakers at the out
door as well as indoor demonstra-
ton on May Day. A conference to
prepare for May Day will be held
here at 1245 Prospect Ave. on April
"a. The May Day demonstration
will take place at IL noon in the
Public Square. The hunger march
ers to the state capitol will be given
a send-off.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
In the Kansas District.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Open-air
meetings are being held in Kansas
City, Sioux City, Omaha, Council
Bluffs, Pitcher and Oklahoma City
to prepare for the May Day demon
Strations.
Besides these demonstrations and
open-air meetings on May Day, in
door mass meetings will be held in
all the enumerated cities with the
addition of Houston, San Antonio,
DalIes and Galveston. We are also
breaking into new territory, such as
Pitcher, Tulsa, Wichita Falls.
This May Dey we will have dem
onstrations and indoor mass meet
ings in ten to twelve cities in our
district, while in 1880 it was only
two or three cities.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
Big u. S. Fleet Goes to War on
Nicaragua, Honduras People
Airplane Carrier Langley Carries % Bombing
Planes and Plenty of Bombs; Minister
Charges Communists Lead Revolt

huge fleet of American bateshps cruisers airpane
carriers with bombing planes and marines have been to
Honduras and Nicaragua by the mperast of the
United States to shoot down workers peasants in those
countries who fighting against the devastation ruin
brought in by the Wall Street,
interests. In Honduras the revolution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
In Cleveland Public Square.

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Nay Day will
be celebrated here in the Public
Square, where Charles E. Ruthen-
berg led the storing May Day dem
onstration during the last World
War. The demonstration will begin
at IL noon.
DETROIT, Mich.-A special leaf
let, issued in tens of thousands of
copies to the auto workers and the
hundreds of thousands of unem-
ployed, calling on them to down tools
and demonstrate May Day at Grand
Circus Park at p. m, is being dis
tributed widely here by the Com
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22

munist Party. The Ieaflet takes up
the concrete tasks for May Day and
calls on the workers to rally for
struggle on May l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22

VACAiioN: -- Beautiful Mountain
views quiet resting place, good food,
$3.50 weekly--Avanta Farm. Ulster
Park, New York,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
PhiIly Tops Weeks List

District 3, Philadelphia is the prize district
for the week, gaining 100. Besides ordering
$500 extra for its district page making a total
Of 45OO not shown in the tables, two cities in
the district achieved excellent increases: Read
ing jumped by 81, and Chester 100, thanks to
real live wires in both cities who sell the paper.
instead of putting them on ice District l, Boston,
energies from Rip Van Wrinkle doze, adds 189 to
4 circulation. Couldn't you make it 100, Boston?)
j Increase is significant, aside from numerical fig
ure, because it indicates the first stirring of
activity in district hitherto in petrified state
since the start of the Daily Worker drive for
mass circulation. Of this increase, 1877 is due
to temporary orders. Last Monday, however
Boston took special page which, if made per-
manent, would result in q solid gain Another
gain of Is shows in New Bedford where John
Porter has started circulation activity District
5, Pittsburgh put on 70, aided mostly by special
orders from the State Hunger March. With Man
kin, district rep, back on the job, speedy Or
ganizational stability is expected. District 10,
California adds 81, owing largely to a good gain
of 100 in Oakland. District 10, Seattle, put on
increases of As, helped by an increase of so in
Spokane.
These increases may be put to the first "rllstle
Of Spring" Warm weather, longer hours for
selling; more workers out on the streets buying
the paper, especially with May Day notifications
throughout the country Only decreases are
found in District 6, Cleveland, which dropped 81,
due to cuts in Springfield and Columbus. Dis
trict g. New York loses S.
Renewals, New Subs, Etc.
total OF lib new subscriptions and 165 re-
ncwals we're put on during the week and so
subs dropped These arc apart from the total
OF 1868 very old subs recently taken Off
|. Here are the tables: 49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22
GAIN OF sos MARKS UPWARD
TREND IN CIRCULATION DRIVE

The first upturn in circulation for a period
Of three weeks is indicated in this weeks tables.
of the total increase of SOB, 315 is due to tenn
porary orders, leaving a solid gain of 1913 for
the week. During this time, the "New Economic
Policy" pay for all papers, went into effect
when some districts and cities decided they
could best pay for their weekly bundle of Dailies
by not ordering any Now there is an upward
trend in orders, and we hope from now on to be
able to show gains every week, hitting press
run of 10000 again. as against the average pres
ent press run of 37180.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-22

lively few pay cuts, Woods at the
same time tells the workers if they
do come "such a development would
be most unfortunate"
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
Tokyo Still Bars NeutraLs.
From Sino-Jap Farley

TOKYO, Oct. 20 GNSO.
Japan is as determined as ever to
brook no interference, either by
the League of Nations or by the
United States, with her efforts to
assure the security of her ma
tionals in Manchuria, it was
stated here today by foreign Of
flee officials.
The Tokyo government promptly
rejected proposals put forward at
Geneva that evacuation by JAP
anese forces of the non-treaty
zone in Manchuria begin within
three weeks.
NeutraIS Barred
1t also instructed Kenkichi
vOshikawa, its spokesman at the
League, to inform Aristide BRAND.
chairman of the council, that it
could not agree to the presence of
neutral observers at direct SinO-
Japanese negotiations.
An upset in the japanese cabi-
net, involving resignation of War
Minister Jiro Minami, was fore
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
CENTER OPENED
BY COLORED

Formal opening for the season
Of the Southeast Social House,
Third and G Streets Southeast,
the only community settlement
house of its kind in that section
Of the city for colored people,
will take place tonight.
The fall work Of the house
will be on display and the scope
of activities during the past year
and for the coming year also
will be outlined. The house is
under the auspices of the Wash
ington Welfare Association and
was established for the purpose
Of giving the colored youth of
that section wholesome recrea.
ton and a chance to develop
leadership.
The house is located in a com.
munity of nearly 10000 colored
persons where delinquency among
children is very high. A model
= nursery school also Is included
In its program.
The officers Of the association
are DR.. Dorothy Boulding
Ferebee, president; Miss Lydia
Burklin, vice president: Mrs.
Sara E. Gray. secretary. and
Major Campbell C. johnson,
treasurer.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
NJ DONALD PUTS
j. 8: IN HOLE
BY WILLIAM C. MURPHY, JR.

BY WILLIAM G. MURPHY, JR.
President Eoover's task of sal
vaging any considerable part of
the $4,000, 100000 European war
debt to the United States has
been rendered considerably more
difficult by Prime Minister Ram
say MacDonald's espousal of an
adjustment of these intergovern-
mental obligations.
In diplomatic parlance adjust
ment" means reduction" If not
cancellation" Hence there Is no
doubt in Washington as to what
MIR. Macdonald had in mind when
he issued a manifesto to his Sea.
ham constituency favOring a new
international agreement on World
War debt payments.
Handicap For Hoover
MacDonald's declaration, com,
ing on the eve of the visit of
Premier Laval of France, may
handicap President Hoover in his
discussions of intergovernmental
obligations with the French states
man. In effect, the British gov
ernment-so long as Mr.. Mac
Donald is Prime Minister-may be
considered as aligned with the
normal French position that the
United States should be repaid as
little as possible for wartime ad-
vances to the Allies.
This attitude of Great Britain
depreciates the trading value of
the intergovernmental obligations
held by the United States, in the
Presidents forthcoming confer
enceS with Laval.
So long as Great Britain held
aloof from the general European
demand for reduction or cancel
lation the United States was in
a position to offer curtailment
of war debts as an inducement to
general disarmament or to reduc-
ton in German reparations pay
ments if it should be determined
that the latter is essential to eco
nomic recovery.
Collection Hope Dimmed
With Great Britain openly in
the ranks of the debt revision
lists the chances for resumption
of debt payments on the expira-
ton of the Hoover One-year mora
tOrium would be considerably
more remote than at present.
Mr.. MacDonald's manifesto is
expected to furnish ammunition
for opponents of the moratorium
in Congress when the Hoover
agreement comes up for ratifica-
ton.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
z GANGSTERS
DODGE NET
Of POLICE
Scene of Fatal Conflict Near
Museum Of Natural History,
New York; Big Crowd Drawn

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 UN.S).
Heavy battle casualties were listed
today on the underworld war
front-one ex-convict slain and
three detectives seriously wounded.
The detectives had gone into q
rooming house on the upper west
Side, where they had trapped
three gangster killers. The de-
tectiveS went in with their heads
up.
They came out on a stretcher
after exchanging shot for shot at
barely more than punching dis
tance.
Policeman's Killer
Enrico Battablia, 26, former
convict, was killed. He was
wanted for his part in the muir
der of Patrolman Jerry Brosnan
in Fordham Hospital two years
ago.
BrOsnan, assigned to guard a
wounded prisoner, was peppered
with bullets as he dOzed.
The wounded detectives in the
hospital today were Edward Will,
James de Ferraro, and Guido Pes
sagno. Pessagno, with five bullet
wounds, was in critical condl'
ton.
The two companions Of the
slain gunman escaped over ad.
Joining roofs despite a Gordon CT
police, armed with machine guns
and rifles, thrown around several
blocks.
Scene Near Museum
Thousands of New Workers
thronged the area to watch the
house-to-house search by police
squads Juggling their sub-machine
guns.
The scene of the battle was in
West Seventy-eighth Street, near
the Museum of Natural History.
In a house near the shooting,
Bert Miller, IS, a circus salesman,
of Irwin, Pa, was found in bed
with his clothes on. He. was held
by police despite his protestations
Of innocence.
Coll Pal Escapes
One of the gunmen to escape
was Fats" Mccarthy, q member
Of the beer gang Of Vincent
("Baby Facet Coll, under arrest
on the charge of having killed one
child and wounded four others
during q machine gun fOray on a
crowded street.
The latest conflict between po.
lice and trapped gunner was
reminiscent of the capture of
Francis Ctwo gun") Crowley last
May, in which 100 armed police.
men besieged the murderer while
o crowd of 10000 looked on.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
WALKER AGENT
DEF|ES QUIZ

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20 G.N.SD
Bristling with defiance, Russell T
Sherwood, so-called financial
agent of Mayor James j. Walker,
wanted for questioning by the
Seabury committee, today reiter,
ated his determination to fight
any attempts to force him to &C.
cept a subpoena on Mexican soil
He said:
81 shall certainly decline to
present myself at the American
embassy to accept service from
the Seabury committee"
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
"GraduaI Withdrawal"
BY Japan Under Way

The peace note" which the
United States Government had
in the process of drafting for dis
patch to the Chinese and Jap
anese governments, calling upon
them to observe their obligations
under the Kellogg pact, probably
never will be sent.
Bowing to pressure from the
League of Nations Council, Japan
notified Secretary of State Slim.
son yesterday. through Ambas.
sador Katsuji Debuchi, that
Japan had withdrawn her objec'
tions to United States represen.
tation on the League Council
with respect to its relation to the
Kellogg pact.
Ambassador Debuchi informed
Secretary Stimson that Japan al.
ready has initiated a gradual
withdrawal" of her armed forces
from Manchuria. I
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
Merchants to Aid
Mail E0rIU' Drive

President Mark Lansburgh, of
the Merchants and Manufacture
ers Association has appointed a
"shop early, mail early" commit
tee to cooperate with the Post
office Department in expediting
the mailing Of Christmas gifts
and cards.
The committee, composed of
Arthur j. Sundlun, chairman
William Friel, John r. Palmer,
Arthur Baum. Sylvan King, John
A. Beute, Charles H. Frame,
Dewey Zirkin, Joseph D. Kauf-
man. George McCann, A. r,
Compton. James Parker, M. M.
Watson and Mr.. LanSburgh will
meet Thursday.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
Edison Will Be Buried
With Methodist Rites

benefit to the rest Of mankind.
In him were all the elements
that 60 to make the man Of
God.
His death was a fulfilIment
Of his valuable life. It was as
gentle as though he had fallen
asleep. Its story was told in
the great poem of Alfred Ten
nySOn, his Crossing the Bar
which begins:
"'Sunset and evening star"
And then the clergyman went
on and finished the poem.
While he spoke. a small group
of women stood reverently beside
the casket. They were members
Of the women's guild of Mrs.
Edison's church. You could feel
their sympathy go out to her over
the body Of her dead husband.
800 Orchids in Wreath
The soft voice of the minister
rose and fell in cadence over the
aroma of 10000 flowers that we're
banked against the walls of the
room. There were 300 orchids in
a wreath eight feet high which
was presented by the employees of
the Edison illuminating COM
panies. There were thousands of
other blossoms and autumn leaves
and palms dropping fronds.
Outside the crowd wound slowly
to the building which housed the
remains of the inventor. Their
feet whispered in a shuttle. You
could sense the reverence in their
slow stride. Ten thousand per-
sons passed the bier, came and
paused for a second for a last look
at him, went on and out.
All creedS. All colors. All ages.
The bent and the infirm. The
young and eager. Moving slowly
past for one last look at him.
Edison. The inventor. The man
who made the phonograph. And
the moving picture. And the in
candescent lamp.
Ford, FirestOne on Way
All through the day kilograms
and wireless messages poured into
the home in Llewellyn Park and
into the office at the factory.
Messages from the Pope and from
MuSsolini and from the French
Ambassador at Washington and
from thousands of others of the
worlds great.
Henry Ford and Harvey Fire
stone, the two cronies of Edison,
probably, will arrive in West
Orange before nightfall.
President Hoover, it was ex-
pected, will arrive tomorrow. sc-ne
time shortly after noon. He will
stay just long enough to attend
the services, It was understood.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
Confined From Page u

(CoTtInued from rage ~
the ladies guild of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Orange and
was moving spirit in the gather
ing of the funds. with which the
present edifice was built.
It was through Mrs. Edison
that the Rev. Arthur H. Brown,
pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church in Orange, started
yesterday morning a series of
three short prayers a day, at 8
in the morning, at noon, and at
sun-down, which will be con-
tinued through today. 1.-THE next
service will be those with which
the dead wizard is consigned to
the dust.
"Sunset and Evening Star"
BE-, In his prayer at sun-down last
night, the Rev. Brown quoted
from the Book Of EccleSiastics, in
Which Jehovah painted the glory
of the heavens. Said the clergy
man:
"This man was also touched
with the spirit of Jehovah.
"He stands out among US for
his love of truth, for his pa
tient persistence, for his hu-
mility before the great facts of
life, for his eagerness to be of
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
HOOVERS HOME
FROM FETE

A picked detail of Maryland
State troopers conveyed Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover from An
napolis back to Washington to-
day. The Presidential party was
returning from Yorktown, Va,
where it had attended the sesqui
centennial celebration Of Corn
wallis surrender.
UppermOSt in President Hoover s
mind was the possibility of at
tending the funeral Of Thomas
A. Edison tomorrow.
The President was anxious to
pay a last tribute to his old
friend, who died Sunday, but at
the same time was reluctant to
upset the diplomatic arrange
ments due to Premier Lavars
visit.
The battleship Arkansas an
chored off Annapolis at daybreak
today. The Hoover party left the
ship in small boats after an early
breakfast.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
InQuests to Be Held
TOdaU in TLUO Deaths

A coroner's inquest will be held
today in the death Of William
Gray, 33, colored, of 108 Van st.
S. E., who died late yesterday at
Providence Hospital from in
juries suffered in a crash between
his truck and an automobile at
North Capitol and L SITS.
An inquest also will be held to-
day in the death of Frank Ed
wards, who died last week at
Gallinger Hospital of injuries be-
lieved to have been received in a
fight October 4.