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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12
Standard Oil Cuts
Prices for Chicago

Chicago, Feb. H.-R-The Stand
ard Oil Company Of Indiana Thurs
day announced a reduction Of two
cents a gallon in the retail and
wholesale price Of gasoline in the
Chicago area to go into effect Fri
day.
The new prices will be Is cents at
service stations and IL cents from
tank wagons, both including the state
three-cent tax. The cut was made,
the company announced, to meet
competitive conditions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12
No Lives Lost in
Explosion Of Mine

Mudken, Manchuria, Feb. 12.-{R-
japanese officials ct the Fushun
mines. rear here, announced Thurs
day that 5000 miners, who were en-
tombed following . gas explosion
Sunday, had been saved. Earlier re-
ports indicated fear Of Z heavy loss
of life.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12

Robert L. Craigie, the British naval
expert. and Rene Massigli, who has
been conducting negotiations for the
French, were understood here to have
resulted in no conclusion, and so far
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12

here Thursday a. made more remote
by the disposition Of France to build
an arrnored cruiser under the WASH
ington treaty battleship allowance.
The conversations at Paris between
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12
L HAS

Sydney, n. 8. ", Feb. l2.-Re
Dame Nellie Melba. famous Australian
prin1a donna. who has been seriously
ill, suffered q slight relapse Wednes-
day and probably viii not be able to
leave the hospital for another fort
night.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-02-12
NICKOLAY.HAYA NDSANDBURC
BIOGRAPHIES OF ABE BEST

opinion Of the recently published work
by Masters:
1T cannot be explained Or excused
from any standpoint, and might best
be judged from his indictment of
John Brown as horse thief and
murderer. One cannot read it without
thinking Of his Spoon River Anthol-
ogy. The dead do not talk back. His
Is the hugest libel that has vet been
uttered against Lincoln"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Build Rank and File Committees in the White
Goods Dress Strike

and lengthen the hours. In fact, he
is being well rewarded for his SER
vice to the bosses.
Shaw Took Bride.
Mr.. Shaw took a bride from a
boss, B. Obtaker OF $1,000, in order
to sell out the workers in that shop
Mr.. Greken, a member of the execu-
tive board, came out with the story
of the $500 bride and exposed him.
Now the same racketeer is defending
him and helping him to do the dirty
work again.
Workers, expose the takers and
their fake strike. Make the fake
strike into a real strike by eleciing
your shop committees. Demand the
return of the wage-cut, equal divi-
sion of work, no discrimination be-
tween races, Don't believe the fax
ers of Local 81. They are not there
to better conditions, but to make
them worse. They are there to pro-
tect the bosses and collect more graft.
Workers, don't be fooled, Join the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, 1871 w. 2sth ST.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
FUNDS NECESSARY
TO GRID DEFENSE
OF CANADA c. P.
Struggle Against the
Bennett Govt Of
Mass Starvation

TORONTO, Can,-The mass pro-
test and demonstrations Of the
workers and poor farmers of Canada
against the attack Of the Starvation
government" upon the militant or
CARNATIONS of the working -eiaSs,
zation of mass defense fund. The
must be followed with the organi-
Canadian Labor Defense League is
preparing for the greatest defense
battle in the history of the Canadian
working class. 1t will cost thous-
ands of dollars to defend the nine
comrades singled out by the auth
critics in this attack. 1t costs tholls-
ands of dollars to carry on the mass
agitation and propaganda necessary
for the defense and to supply the
dependents of our arrested and per-
secuted comrades with maintenance.
The Canadian Labor Defense League
will fight this battle to the finish,
leaving no stone unturned in any
phase of the struggle for the pro-
lection of working class rights.
The very existence Of the whole
working class movement in Canada is
at stake in this great political trial
now facing the courts. Every re-
source of the militant worhng-eisSs
must be modified to fight back upon
the revolutionary working-elass which
is eccasioned by the fact that the
Communist Party and the militant
unions mass organizations have been
leading the workers and poor farmers
in the struggle against hunger and
poverty.
Your dollars will be our fighting
ammunition. Send all you can
Give! Givel Givel In the interests
of your own elassl Send all dona-
tons and collections to the national
office Of the Canadian Labor De-
Tense League, Room 308-3sl Bay
Street. Do not delay. Send in your
donation today
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
HOOVER BIDS AMERICAN LEGION
TOSAVE CAPITALISM FOR BOSSES

ment through daily work of every
man. 1t is for us to observe these
conditions (of crisis. And in times
of necessity our first duty is to
the people (capitalists) of the
United States. Nothing will give
a greater confidence to our cOun-
try (capitalists) today than your
enlistment and the vigorous sup
port you are capable to bring to
bring to prevent any additional
burden payment OF the bonus and
unemployment relief on your gov
eminent from whatever sources
they may come"
Legion officials prior TO the open
ing Of the convention admitted a
vast mass meeting sentiment among
the rank and file for the immediate
payment of the cash bonus. The
New York Times correspondent, after
an interview with Legion heads, tele-
graphed his paper:
while the national leadership
of the Legion seems as anxious as
the Hoover administration to eff
feet compromise on the bonus,
the rank and file of the legion
naires seem bent on forcing
through resolution favoring i'm
mediate cash payment of adjusted
compensation certificates"
The same correspondent admit
ted that there is great resentment
among the rank and file over the
fact that they are forced to pay 4
per cent interest when borrowing
their own money. The govern
ment, they point out, pays only
per cent ON money 1t borTows for
these loans, but force the men to
pay per cent. The men claim also
that the government makes
profit of S1O.OOO,OO0 or more an
nually on veterans loans.
In his report to the convention
Ralph T. o'Neil, the retiring COM
mander, boasts that the legion has
become "the most powerful ergani-
zation that our country has ever
known" and calls upon the war vet
Grams to save the bosses government
from the menace of Communism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22

result of the abandonment Of tn"
gold standard by the British bankers.
In one of the very few interviews
granted to reporters, ]. P. Morgan
today stated in London that the sus-
pension of the gold standard by
Great Britain seems to me a hope
full and not diseouraging event and
one brings the great work of the
government much nearer to accom-
plishment" He attempted in this
to hide the tremendous effect of the
suspension on the entire capitalist
economy. What he fears now is that
the U. s. banking structure will be
shaken severely as a result of this
blow.
The pound fell at one time to S3.75
cents on Monday and closed at $3.50.
The Bank of England had used up
practically all of the $3.50, 100000
cedits they had received from the
United States and France prior to
the present crisis.
1t is now revealed that the $780,
100000 which was the last portion
of these credits raised in the United
States is being brought together only
through the greatest difficulty on the
part of many Of the 100 banks in the
U. S. which participated in granting
the credits. This is revealed in the
New York Evening Post in the fol-
lowing:
But there was some trouble
foreseen in America of calling up
the full amount by the 100 banks
which stood behind the American
share of that credit. More difficulty
than had been expected was en-
countered in arranging this first
credit and 1t was deemed impossi-
Bile to arrange another one"
The PoCt points out further that
the prohibition of short selling on
the the New York Stock Exchange
Monday was dictated principally by
the fear of the collapse of the US.
stock markets.
THE policy Of the American
authorities is seen TO be not with
out common sense, in view of
Americas own difficulties, but it is
also appreciated as helping to bring
sterling to workable and steady
basis In the quickest possible time"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Errand Boy Given
Death. His Employer
Life For Her Crime

MERIDIAN, Miss, Sept. 81. (CNA)
Irving Pruitt, errand boy for Mrs.
Louella Williamson, a wealthy white
woman of this city, was sentenced to
De hung yesterday. His crime was
that he obeyed the orders Of the
woman for whom he worked and Sc
cured poison for her which she ad-
ninistered to her baby. The infant
died. Mrs. Williamson was sentenced
to life imprisonment which owing to
her social position will probably be
reduced to a term of few years.
The boss class in its reign of terror
against the cruelty exploited Negro
masses are utilizing every pretext to
carry forward their campaign of legal
lynching.
The court which sentenced an err
rand boy to death for performing the
errand demanded by his employer,
is the same court in which the lead
ership of the NAACP contends the
Negro masses can secure justice.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22

a speculative ventura part of the
robbery that capitalism pulls off the
workers with the complete sanction
of this Government.
For instance:
Coal is mined by production COM
pany, sold to or through broker,
which in turn is sold to selling
company and in nearly every in
stance the whole network of COM
panies is owned by an individual or
at most two or three men. That is
why coal is mined at the starvation
wage of 27c and SOC per ton and
retailed at from S. to as high as
$12 per ton within radius of 800
miles to the mines.
The writer visits the great onion
producing states every year, and he
saw onion farmers get an average of
1c per ID fer a whole seasons crop,
while at the same time the retail
trade were receiving l0c per pound
for the same onions. They too went
through the same combination of
agencies as brother coal.
Miners Charged Extra
Today the many coal company
conmissaries of eastern Kentucky are
retailing: Lard at 15c to zoe per
pound, the Great A. g. P. sells at
Ice retail; bacon at zoe to Csc per
pound; the Great A. & P sells bacon
as low as 10c same grade; coffee at
&c to soc per pound; the Great A. 81
P. sells coffee 10c to 40c same grade;
butter SOC to Goo per pound; the
Great A. & P. sells butter at 23e same
grade. ...
The main staples that miners must
have are always eutrageously priced,
Swest milk is usually 8oc per gallon.
Figure that beside the price the
farmer gets. A visit to the respective
stores will convince the most skep-
teal that today human slavery is an
established faet-right in the lap OF
the goddess of liberty" The gov
eminent is theoretically protecting
these interests, which by the way
and a very small minority of Am
orleans, against 100000 American
laborers-and we stand by awaiting.
for what? Arise from thy sleep
Workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22

taiism In all other countries con-
fronted with the same predetermined
of preserving huge profit for the
capitalist class. Now, we find the
American (rich-man) Red Gross re-
fuSing prepaid shipments of fruits
ranches of the Northwest into the
dreuth stricken areas last year, and
why? Simply because it would de-
press that retail merchant trade in
those stricken states. In order to
bolster up the retail and wholesale
standard of enormous profits, the
Red Cross issued orders on the mer-
chants in the respective communities
at that high price that capitalism
wishes so hard to maintain. Now
we are aware that in nearly every
community today there is cut-rate
cash stores, but in no case to our
knowledge did the Red Cross take
advantage of them. But on the con-
trary, used the stores where the
prices were the highest.
Build w. ]. r.
Members of the American Red
Gross should follow the actions of
thousands of their Kentucky breth-
ern-forsake such a tool of Hoover
capitalism Get cut of it and into
one that is being built for the work.
erS and practically the workers alone.
Any organization with capitaliStic
contact, is only a tool of that des-
trucyyi.ve force CT capitalism. Hence
the rcttteness CT the Salvation Army
and the American Red Cross, The
Workers Int0rne tional Relief is the
workirg-co Red Cross, the only
relief organization within the borders
of the U. S. designed for the work
ing-man alone. Tt is his salvation
and he should bend every energy to
make it a shining example to the
International working-class.
I am listing the production prices
of a number of articles below also
the retail prices. The marginal diff
ference in these two prices is sucked
into tie whirlpool of combination
of cap:ta,iss,,c enterprises commonly
known as selling companies, broker
age firms and holding companies, all
of which society can do without.
They ere O nuisance to society as
a whole. They are only intended as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
(By a Worker oorrespondent.)

NEW YORK.-Loeal 81 of the
White Goods Workers Union of the
American Federation of Labor is a
company union, a union for the
bosses and not for the workers.
They are calling out a fake strike
to collect and rob the hard-earned
money from the werkers-$l1.35 per
union book and IS cents for dues
in order to have on their payroll
money to pay for their gangsters and
thugs. The whole union is built on
raeketeering.
The workers are working long
hours and their pay has been cut
more than half in a so-called union
shop by the order of Mr.. Schneider,
Shaw, Golf and the rest of the
sacketeers.
$40 to SIS a Week.
The girls in the underwear shops
are getting from $40 to SIS week
for so long hours of work. What is
Mr.. Schneider doing to betteh the
conditions of the workers? He Is
telling the bosses TO cut the wages
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Thugs Attack Worker For Selling "Daily"

over the city and so they mobilize
hoodlurns and thugs in order to pre-
vent the sale of our fighting work.
ing-class paper. The fear of the
Cincinnati bosses about the coming
struggles for relief this winter is the
main reason for this attack.
But, thugs or gangsters, floodluns
or cops will not stop the sale of the
Daily Worker in Cincinnati. I'm
back in the park selling our paper
to the workers.
The workers of Cincinnati should
know about the general terror and
the bosses solution for the present
crisis. That is the reason I'm writing
to you.
Sam Macdonald
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22


class and of the entire population
In the early part of the case MIR.
Darrow was approached by the In
ternational Labor Defense, but at
that time did not seem to realize
the importance of the case. While
1 welcome his entrance into the
case at this time, particularly be-
cause of his high standing in the
legal profession as result of his
defense of long series of working
class and civil liberties cases, still
/ must point out that his cOnnec-
ton with the case through the N.
A. A. C. P. must be regarded as an
attempt on the part of those In
charge of the N. A. A. C. P. TO
keep up their own criminal sab
Otage of this case to date.
"As chief counsel in this case
have had considerable experience
with the maneuvers of the N. A.
A. G. p. to utilize this case for
their own ends, to the detriment of
the defendants. The N. A. A. G. P.
worked with the Ministers ALI
ance, which employed Mr.. stephen
H. ROddy, who is charged by the
boys and their parents with be-
traying the interests of the defen-
dants by urging them toplead guilty
to this atFoeious frame-up and
putting up no defense for them in
court. Press reports stated that the
N. A. A. C. p. employed Mr.. Bed
dow, who filed formal notice of
his withdrawal from the case after
Mr.. White had informed the pa
rents that MIR. Beddow was in their
IN. A. A. G. P.) employ and had
been persuaded oremain. In con-
nection with the employment Of
these lawyers the N. A. A. C.P. en-
deavored by deceptive letters to the
parents and relatives of these i'm
prisoned boys to induce them to
take the case out of the hands of
the International Labor Defense
and myself as chief counsel, an act
which, if eonsummated, would
have left them without any sde-
quate defense. This series Of acts,
combined with other reprehensible
actions on the part of the N. A. A.
C. p, has completely diseredited
them with the defendants and
their parents.
"AlI the parents and next of kin
Of the boys, all of whom are min :
ors, have signed contracts employ
ing me in these cases, and that
they had employed no one else and
, would not do so without my con-
; sent. The boys say that Walter
White and other representatives Of
the N. A. A. c. P. have visited the
prison in company with various
lawyers, trying to induce and ter
rorize them in order to get them
to sign statements that the N. A.
A. c. P. had some connection with
the eases. Under this pressure APP
piled to the boys in the shadow of
the electric chair, press reports
quote Mr.. White as saying that
some Of the boys signed for him.
Since that time the boys have
talked and written, begging me and
the I. L. D. to keep MIR. White and
the N. A. A. C. P. away from them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Arrest Workers For Bogus Checks: Guilty
Banker Free

assumed names. But we find that
he was the biggest buyer of the
"swindled" merchandise. The fact is
the guilty parties we're a very
ignorant bunch, or poverty drove
them to it. But watch the capitalist
courts now, They will say that
ignorance is no excuse before the
law. The poor citizens will make
time" in Atlanta, The rich mer-
chant-banker will make time" max
ing money-the usual way. Such
are the roads Of capitalism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio
Dear Comrades:
A former dick and stool pigeon of
the Cincinnati police department
weighing about 100 pounds attempted
to attack me while I was selling
Daily Workers in Washington Park.
This attempted attack is another in
cident of the general terror going on
in Cincinnati.
Four hoodlums stopped me and
threatened to bump me off If I came
back to Washington Park to sell the
Daily Workers. The bosses of Gin
cinnati know that the Daily Worker
is fighting for the unemployed and
organizing the workers generally all
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
Songs! More of
Them!

Many workers, both young and
old, have sent in songs, but many
more are needed for the new song
book that is now being prepared.
Let us hear from the workers in
the South, particularly the Negro
workers who are struggling for
Negro rights. What song have you
to offer? Send it in Immediately
to the Workers Library Publish
ers, Pc. Box 14S, Station D, New
York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22

much when he issued the following
statement: Appropriate steps are
being taken to apprise the League of
Nations and the powers signatory to
the Kellogg pact of the unwaranted
actions of Japanese troops"
Neither the Washington govern
ment or the League of Nations have
indicated as yet the steps they intend
to take in answer to the appeal OF
the Marking government. The Chin
csc delegation of the League OF Ma
tons is still awaiting definite word
on what action they will urge upon
the League Assembly.
Japanese Entrenched
In the meantime, japanese troops
are enthenching themselves along the
southern Manchurian front. Fight
ing in many sections has taken on
a sanguinary character. Casualties
continue to mount as Manehurian
troops at different points put up a
sernblance of resistance. The New
York Herald Tribune dispatch re-
ports the following Japanese casual
ties:
Japanese casualties in the fight
ing in Manchuria are sixty-five
killed and 1877 wounded. In the
fighting at Mukden two Japanese
were killed and eighteen wounded,
while in the fighting near Chang
chun, which had centers at three
points, the Japanese casualties
were: Nanling, forty killed and fifty
wounded; Kwangchenstse, twenty
three killed and sixty nine wound
ded. No reports Of japanese casu-
alties have been received here from
Polling, the third point.
Manchurian casualties are much
greater.
japanese demonstrations have
been reported from many eenters in
South Manchuria as Hardin, Tsitsi-
har, Anda, Manehun and others.
japanese troops have been ordered
to suppress tire demonstrations,
The fact that the situation is
broadening out in world imperial
list conflict is seen in the statement
of the japanese imperialist govern
ment that Marking Intervention
makes "the problem too big to be
localized" However, the pretense
that the occupation of Manrhuria is
military inlident" and dould be
settled is still being maintained by
the japanese.
Struggle Sharpens
William Simns, foreign, editor OF
the Scripps- Howard papers in saying
that Japan will not relinquish occu-
pied sectors of Manchuria without a
struggle, tells of the effect of the i'm
perialist outbreak:
"In so doing the Japanese oc-
cupation of Manchuria) it has
trampIed upon the tOothiess KEEL
Iogg pact and serapped the nine
power treaty signed at Washington
ito respect the sovereignty, the in
dependence and the territorial adj
ministrative integrity of China"
In describing the rich resources Of
Manchuria that Japan has now seized
and that British and American i'm
perialists look to with jealous eyes
the New York World Telegram
writes:
Manchuria has 10000 square miles
Its population is 100000,
1t is larger than New York, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Alabama,
Indiana and Tennessee put together
In climate it is like Iowa, the Dako-
tas and Montana.
1t is grain country, rich in min
erals.
Japan owns the South Manchurian
Railway, from Dairen CPort Arthur
to Changchun.
Japan owns several branch lines
and is constantly pushing out new
"feelers," along which she accurnul-
ates concessions" and acquires mil
itary control.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
(By a Worker Correspondent

GOODLOE, Ky. - Great stirrup
around here. Quite number of
people have been ordering the neces-
sites of life, giving bogus" checks
ETC., for same. The postal inspectors
have made the rounds, scores have
been put under bond for their ap-
pearance in federal court.
The peculiar thing about this in
cident is: That the local postmaster
is wealthy land owner, merchant,
reaacr and he knew many of these
parties were ordering parcels under
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
CHAMLEE WARNS NAACP TACTICS
MENACE SCOTTSBORO DEFENSE
Chief of Counsel Points Out That Parents and
Boys Have Chosen Mass Defense
Policy of l. L. D.

MIR. White did ali these things after
/ had informed him of my contract
with the parents and the boys In
writing. Now at this stage taess
diScredited elements Of the n. A.
A. C. p. try again TO play . role
in this world-famOus trial by hid
ing behind the name and prestige
of Mr.. Darrow.
(Sgd) GEO. W. CHAMLERS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
SOVIET PRINTING PRESS BUILT

The first Soviet printing press was
built in July at the "Yagoda" factory
in Rybinsk, Ivanov Industrial Region.
The work turned out by the machine
was of excellent quality. Two more
presses were in the process of con-
structien and were expected to be
ready early in August. ! r