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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

FIJI. Inc ?. P. and L. local office
,urse IS all excited this afternoon
pe ~ to play host to the Pas
m ~ ,oeai Office at refrigerator
csing and party. Vern Moon,
Ply, DAVIS and L. A. Iserman of
tend s.ahd arrived today to be in at
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09
Mrs. Charles Elliott

Mrs. Charles Elliott, 26, of
Adams died at Pendleton hospi-
tai Monday after taking poison.
She had been respondent because
of i'll health. Mrs. Elliott was a
former resident of Kennewick in
the Garden Tracts.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09
NEW COLLECTION BOX

The Post Office department is
installing an additional street col
lection box at the corner Of Wash
ington and Eighth Ave. East. The
box is the No. / size and makes
the ninth in use in the city deliv-
cry system.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

The boys OF the junior depart
ment of the Baptist Sunday school
were entertained Saturday after
noon at church party as the re-
suit of their winning a contest in
the school.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09
SUSANNA COMES no TOWN.

SUSANNA COMES TO TOWN.
- on Friday evening ait 8 o'clock
sae World Wide Guild of the Bap-
sise church will present a three
act play entitled Susanna of the
tnarsonage.' It will be given at
me church and there will be no
sSumsslon. A silver offering will
oe taken, and the proceeds of which
are 70 be sent as the annual gift
VI the Guild to World Missions.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09
WORK BEE

The fair board wants to move a
building to make room for anoth-
er one. If anyone has a yen for
hard work, show up at the grounds
Friday and help 'em shove it
around.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

The Misses Elna Beste. Winona
Rushton and Mildred fash expect
to spend this weekend in Spokane
where Miss Rushton and Miss fash
will attend a teachers convention.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

Miss Lydia Sickle was brought
home from the Linn hospital, where
she underwent an operation on her
hand, due to an infection suffered
a few weeks ago.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

Mrs. Perry Soth and two sons,
Bobby and Richard, are visiting
relatives in Kennewick this week.
They viii return home Sunday ac-
companied by Mrs. l.. w. Soth.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

Mr.. and Mrs. William Smith
and son of Spokane are spending
the spring vacation with Mrs.
Smiths parents. Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Al. Boyer on Gum Street.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09
NEW NEON SIGN

w. L. Marsh has a new Neon
sign installed in front of his store.
These colored illuminators add
greatly to the appearance Of the
streets.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-04-09

Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
&4:..
On Fraternal Orders
By JORGE

Recently a worker, who correctly opposes the
so-called "fraternal orders" under capitalist con-
troll, which stutify class struggle, wrote us, add
ing an objection to the I. w. o. international
Workers ORDER which he claims has high
rates which keep many out" and that zone
reason is the 500 week jobs and so on" He
adds: sta"-.
The average workers wage is 1$25 a week
and less. A workers organization should have
executives that live like workers and act like
us on the same average pay. Those that get
more opportunists." JsPo
Well opportunism must be measured by some
thing more than a salary. We chaps on the
Daily Worker once in while make opportunist
mistakes right when we miss pay days entirely
And the I. w o. officials are, we think, keeping
the class struggle pretty well to the fore. But
we inquired about all this and are informed
by the I. w. o. secretary that: ,.4
1.-THE l. w o. as fraternal benefit society
has lower rates than any other fraternal Or
ganzation, much lower than the German Kran-
ken Kase, Woodmen of the World, Workmers
Circle, ETC. AS to those supposed 500 salaries
he tells u.s. There can be no question but
that the officials of the I. W. o. are getting
salaries which are scheduled for the ptoletarian
fraternal organizations. The scale of wages for
the officials cannot be higher than $50. This
is decision of the I. w. Q. National Executive
Committee"
So it SENS comrade that you're bit mistaken
on both complaints. There are high rates"
and no ~$1o0 a week jobs" And if you still
think they are both too high well, we guess
YOU better join the I. w. o. and undertake, with
the rights of members, to change 'en.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20

for the hegemony in the struggle for national
liberation.
In carrying out the above outlined tasks the
Communists will gain strength and prestige
among the Warking class and the oppressed
people. In the course of their activities, the
Communists must and will secure the most mil
liant elements in the trade unions, mills, plant
ations, shops, ETC., for the building of the Com
munist Party of Porto fsco. The members of
the existing Communist groups must be i'm
inediately organized into shop or street nuclei
They are to regularly pay their monthly dues at
their unit meetings.
The passivity of the Communists and the lack
of initiative for Communist work, is due to the
lack of understanding Of the daily tasks. How
ever we feel certain that the above given sug-
gestions as to the immediate tasks of our COM
rades, If carried out, will ensure the way to the
formation of strong militant and mass Com
munist Party capable to lead the oppressed
masses to the overthrow of imperialism and the
rule of native bourgeosie in Porto Rico and the
establishment of Workers and Peasants Gov
eminent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
FROM EDITOR TO READER

one supported by and guided by Communists
yet open to all workers.
What has this got to do with you? you may
ask. Well, we just wanted YOU to understand
how Communists are different than the S. L. p
Why Communists are attacked by the S. L. p
And what's all the row about. Because many
workers think: why can't these radical groups
get together? Why fight among yourselves?"
Yet, If you really know the life OF Lenin
you'll remember that the biggest part OF his
work was fighting against misleaders OF the
workers who pretended to be socialists" and
"revolutionists." Only by firm fight against such
people was the Russian working class prepared
to overthrow capitalism.
The S. L. p leaflet mentioned talks abor
capital and labor, But 1t says that "The fact
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
The Costa RiCan Trade Menace

don't understand the menace Of Costa Rican
trade For might there not be more bananas per
bunch on the six than on the eight! OF course
there might! And trust those Costa RicanS to
put them bananas on! Now you begin to under
stand the ruthless trade tactics of Don Cleto
Gonzales Viquez!
What song writer, making an honest living out
of selling songs such as Yes We Have No Ba-
nanas," can stand up under the avalanche Of
millions upon millions of punches Of bananas!
More, imported into the United States, while
the lawmakers at Washington sleep with chorus
girls, imported Ghe bananas, not the girls over
the protest of the American Legion, these enor-
nous quantities of bananas are crowding the
warehouses of our coastal cities, flooding the
market in yellow tidal wave of bananas that
has put literally thousands of unemployed apple
sellers out of business
And all this is done with the help of American
capitalists, who rocking not OF their country,
make money out of this goddess traffic by invest
ing in the United Fruit Company which imports
these bananas, wholly ignoring the fact that the
Apple Growers Association is losing ground and
will soon face bankruptcy!
What may be said of coffe we leave to your
imagination. More than 100000 millions
pounds OF coffe were exported by the Dictator
viquez in 1s2S-enough coffee to keep the whole
world awake nights!
But the world awoke too late Now in 1881,
Brazil, driven to the wall by Costa Rican compe-
tition, is forced to burn its surplus coffee or
dump it far out at sea! The world is getting
terrible lesson on Costa Rican trade methods!
An Accident? No! Bolshevism!
Naturally all this is not accidental. 1t Is de-
liberated Few know that the money gained by
this cut-throat competition in coffee and ba-
nanaS is going for BolsheviSm! OF course the
Bolsheviks will deny that it is Bolshevisn, but
Congressman Fish has decided that it is!
For Costa Rica, on August 4, 1928, passed law
which nationalizes all electric power available
throughout the country! An insult to insult!
A defiance of the very laws of electricity, so to
speak.
And, again, Americans will be surprised to
learn that Costa RIGA has frequently modified
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20

its Constitution. Laugh that off, if you cam For
any country that modifies its Constitution is
suspicious Ask the Daughters Of the American
Revolution!
So the Costa Rican trade menace goes on,
gaining slowly but surely on the United States.
While from 1922 to 1880 q. S. exports to Costa
Rica fell one per cent, Costa Rican imports into
the U. S. A. fell only one-half of one per cent,
and anybody can see that if this keeps on for
two hundred years, Costa Rica will have reaped
a harvest of gold from the dumbbell Yankees,
while they argue about the tariff.
In closing we again call attention to the men
ace Of Costa RIGA, and the fact that anybody
with name like Don Cleto Gonzales Viquez can
mean no good to the American people
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
Not the Same Appeal +"

The guy who sides up to you and offers you
a bottle which he calls "Pre-War stuff is log
ically to be suspected. The same applies to the
attempt by Haldman- Julius and Fred Warren
to palm off paper they are starting as the
pre-war appeal to Reason" ''''s
The old Appeal to Reason was paper in pre-
war days, of socialist agitation, fearfully vague
on basic theory but striking a popular note OF
protest at capitalism dished out with utopian
promises that "under socialism things will be
different" 800
That doesn't answer the question today, when
any movement has to responr to concrete strug
gle, and has to stand for socialism in its living
form in the Soviet Union-or stop being move
ment The so-called socialist" party, Abram
ovitch, czarist, white guards and all, has given
its blessings to the idea of "revivipg the Appeal
to Reason, so any worker can see what kind
of counter-revolutionary dope sheet it will be.
But there has been an awkward thing to ex-
plain If the Appeal is being revived" why
did it die? Why did it stay dead for over
decade? Montana farmer who was once its
supporter but who now knows that the only
party of really socialist policy is the Comnlu
mist Party, and the leading English paper in
this country that fights for the toilers is the
Daily Worker, tells us why the old; Appeal to
Reason died: rtrur
Fired Warren and Emanuel Haldeman-Ju~
Illus of Kansas trying to revive the old APP
peal. They betrayed the workers during the
war. by calling it the New Appeal" and back
ed Woodrow Wilson. The militant workers
quit 1t and now they say it went under during
the war and If the workers will support them
they will revive it. a@{f
"They going to fight for 'so-called just
ice, whatever that means. 1t is my opinion
that they want to stem the tide Of the workers
to the Communist Party and betray them In
the coming war just like they did in the last
imperialist World War"
Listen how these scoundrels try to lie out OF
their past betrayal:
1.-THE Appeal failed because of the black re-
action during and after the World War, when
for some years Socialist propaganda could find
audience and Americans in particular
hibited a bitter resentment or cynical indiffer-
ence toward discussions of social reform"
Horse feathers! Just like social,fascists to
lay their own treachery to the masses!
And everything that Haldeman-Julius says in
his present paper, the freeman shows that
the revived" Appeal will do just what our farm
er reader of Montana says. A lot of gable
about how beautiful everything will. be" under
socialism, but-but the Soviet Union. is not men
toned, and as an immediate aim he proposes
Justice and sanity in government"
Gentlemen, your "prewar" socialism is fake!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
appears that labor is sound asleep.

appears that labor is sound asleep
People who write such stuff as that have no
faith in the working class. Think From the
great mine strike we hear the following
"The unadorned facts are that the men,
women and children of the Western Pennsyi-
vania coal fields show awe whatever in the
face of the armed forces; that they have re-
formed their picket lines as many as four
times and charged through tear gas barages
behind which lay barricaded professional kill
ers armed with machine guns The workers
had only sticks and stones.", go
Yet the S. L. P. says labor is sound asleep"
The Communists say that it is the S. L. F.
which is sound asleep! The Communists get
the support of the masses because they have
faith in the masses. The Daily Worker is not
just kidding you when it asks you,o thousands
of you workers who are not members. the Com
munist Party, to form Daily Worker Clubs in
order that the Daily may benefit by your adj
vice and your criticisms. We mean every word
Of It, nnf
Only because we are Communists do we open
our door to workers. to the masses. Comrade
Stain, writing about Lenin, who had deep faith
in the masses, bitterly attacks those who lack
that faith. He says in part: 4ce
"The theoreticians and leaders of parties
who know the history Of the peoples who have
thoroughly studied the history Of the different
revolutions from beginning to end, sometimes
fall victims of certain shameful disease This
disease Is called fear Of the masses lack Of
faith in the creative genius of the Masses
Comrade reader, we don't have that Shame
full disease" No real Communist does We
mean what we say when we urge you to form
Daily Worker Clubs, your own organization, a
club which should be socialbleo affair abso-
lutely voluntary, free from Dues tiresone rules
and "stiff -necked-isn," if you get our meaning,
but helpful to your favorite paper, as we are
helpful to YOU We have faith in the working
class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
Faith in the Working Class

THE other day reader wrote us about some
thing called the Industrial Union League"
which held meeting in New York suburb,
spending most Of the time attacking the Com
munists. They put out leaflet which speaks
about Socialist industrial unionsm." Sounds
kind Of radical to most people.
Now workers should realize what all this
means The Industrial Union League" is
neither industrial" nor union nor a league"
1t is something that few members of what
there are in the Socialist Labor Party" (and
they are darned fewD play with in order to
prevent workers from joining the Trade Union
Unity League the only revolutionary trade union
central organization in the U. S. A. The only
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20

struggle with the employed workers within and
without the unions.
3. The most urgent task of the Communists
is the organization of the agricultural workers
in the plantations. These workers are the most
exploited in the island and constitute the ma
jority of the wage earners. The comrades must
elaborate program of partial demands in &C
cordance with the existing conditions in the
plantations The organization of agricultural
workers into revolutionary unions and their
strike actions will shake the rural population
and as Lenin said:
"Only the strike struggle Is capable to shake
off the Iethargy of the countryside. to wake
the class consciousness and the understanding
of the complete necessity of a class organiza-
ton for the exploited rural masses, to reveal
to them in practical way all value of their
alliance with the workers in the cities"
The Fifth Congress of the Red International
of Labor Unions has elaborated concrete sug-
geStons to the close collaboration and all-
ance that We must strive to establish between
the city and agricultural workers 1t is, there
fore, fundamentally important, that we must or
ganize the thousands of unorganized workers in
the cities into revolutionary independent unions.
This, of course, does not mean that we must not
organize our left wing opposition in the reform
iSt unions.
4. The Communists must be In the leadership
in the movement for the national liberation of
Porto Rico. The bourgeois political leaders are
using more demagogy than ever in an attempt
to retain their influence among the masses and
check the growing demand of the people for
complete independence. They also are for the
independence" of Porto Rico but in reality they
work hand in hand with Yankee Imperialism.
The socialist party sends its representatives to
the White House for more American loans the
huge interests of which are to be paid by the
workers and peasants. The Nationalist Party is
more demagogic with its cleft" phrases on this
burning issue before the people of the islands.
They must strive to win the toiling masses and
the petty bourgeoisie, the students and city poor
for the struggle for the independence OF the
island. On the basis of concrete program of
partial political demands. the Communists will
succeed to lead the working class Of Porto Rico
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20
Tasks OF the Communist Party
in Porto Rico

last 20 years 100000 people died Of malnutrition
and $4,000 of tuberculosis in the last decade
Roosevelts report presents the darkest picture
in this history of Rorto Rico. The huge surplus
profits of American sugar barons and bankers
and the native latifundists are extracted from
the very blood of the toiling masses in the city
and countryside. Illiteracy is widespread. There
is q meagre provision for children's education.
The Porto Rican children sit at school benches
with their stonachs empty They are pale,
emaciated.
In the last years a series of spontaneous strikes
took place. Because of the lack of militant and
sincere leadership, the workers were betrayed by
the yellow socialist leaders. The leaders of the
American Federation of Labor are not interested
to organize the workers. More than 10000 women
and children toll in the sweatshops. These yell
low leaders consciously hinder the organization
OF the workers in the plantations sugar, tobacco
and fruiD The plantations constitute the key
position of the imperialists and landowners in
the economic life of the country
In the face Of this situation. important and
urgent tasks confront the Communists of Porto
Rico. The Capitalization of Communist groups
which must inevitably lead to the organization
of strong mass Communist Party, is condi-
toned by their daily activities in the class strug
gle. The Communist Party can only. develop
and thrive through the participation in the daily
struggles of the working class in all aspects of
the work. Let us enunerate some of the most
immediate tasks of our Communist sympathizers
and groups in Porto Rico:
/. Within the existing trade unions, con-
trolled by the reactionary yellow leaders, the
Communists must strive to organize revolu-
tionary opposition or left wing groups on the
basis OF concrete program for the betterrnent
OF the conditions of the workers, for higher
wages, sanitary conditions in the shops, insur-
ance against accidents, recognition of the unions,
etc. The Communists must be the live wire with
in the left wing groups who are to explain to
the workers the necessity for the militant strug-
gle against the yellow leaders and win over the
majority to their side around the program OF
immediate economic demands
g. The organization of the unemployed work.
ers into unemployed councils. Here the Commu-
nists must elaborate a program of action for
concrete demands: Social insurance to the un-
employed to be paid by the government and the
anperialist enterprises, the funds to be admin
istcred By committees OF workers The unem-
ployed councils must strive to link up their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-20

snd beans must hear, is-Costa Rica
Every American worker who sees his factory
closing and the boss going to the seashore while
he goes to the Board of Charities must ask him
self this question: What has Costa Rica to do
with all this?
The traveller in Central America, admirng the
palm tree lined shore of Costa Rica; the grocer
of Cincinnati, busily short-weighing a customer;
you, the reader scanning these lines as you stir
your coffee, never imagine, in your simple
nlindedness, the dark danger that lies there
under the tropic sun, there in Costa Rica
I'll tell you. But it's hard to stretch the thing
out for two dozen articles Yet I'll tell you, for
am the Prize PiffIe Peddler of the World! (lo
not Of the World, but the POST. But don't ex-
pect me to be one day in Rome and the next
day in Norway, because the editor of the Daily
Worker refuses to fake the date line. He's no
newspaper man He actually studies Hegel, and
underestimate the peril of Costa Rica.
Now that the history, flora and fauna OF Costa
Rica have been made clear to you, let us ex-
anime the menace of Costa Rican trade.
Men have been killed in Costa Rica! Fair
young girls have been ruined in Costa RIGA!
Mosquitoes bite like the dickens in Costa Rica!
All, hal Malaria and mystery 1urk behind it's
bordersi
We dare say that you never heard Of Don
Cleto Gonzales viquez. Isn't it SOP Yet we must
reveal the bitter truth! e is President of Costa
Rical
Think of it. man with name like Don
Cleto Gonzales Viquez is bound to be against
America! The very syllables smell of intrigue
banditry, plotsi Is he loyal to the Stars and
Stripes? What an absurd question:
Bananas Bring Dismay.
For Costa Rica, with Don Cleto Gonzales Vi
ouez at It's head, is carrying on ruthless cam
paign to ruin the young American song writer's
And many more besides! You doubt it? Look at
the factsl In 1895, Costa Rica exported 1851 900
punches of bananas valued at s6,421, 900. By 1929
It had increased its banana exports to 6H2,17o
punches.
What of 1t, you'll say thinking that 100000
punches of bananas are less than 100000 Huh!
That Is only q superficial analysis of those who