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The daily worker., 1931-04-06
DRIVE TO BUILD
LABOR UNITY
Prize Is Trip to the
Soviet Union

NEW YORK.-A drive is on, led by
the Trade Union Unity Council, to
increase the circulation of Labor
Unity, official organ of the Trade
Union Unity League, to the point
where there can be regular special
Ne wYork edition of the paper, really
New York Labor Unity.
The Trade Union Unity Council.
which worked out the program, sets
the period between April / and
October as the time for this inten-
sive campaign. The Council calls on
all organizations taking bundles of
Labor Unity to double their orders
by October l.
But the Council points out that
the main task is to increase the
number of subscriptions, and has set
a quota of 1000 yearly subs or their
equivalent in 6-month and 3-month
subscriptions.
A system OF revolutionary compe-
ton is established, the candidate of
the organization or group of organi-
cations getting the best results to 20
to the Soviet Union for the Nov. TIA
anniversary celebration of the Boil
shevik revolution. If more delegates
are sent, the candidate Of those do
ing second, third and fourth best, In
order named. will get their chance.
The cost of sending these reprey
sentatives will be borne by the ma
tional Office of the Trade Union Unity
League and by the TU.U.C. by set
ting aside part of the total receipts
in the drive each week for that pur-
pose. This is purely New York
drive, the council reminds, and chal-
lenges should not go to organiza-
tions in other cities. Get full de-
tails from The Trade Union Unity
Council, 16 West 2lst Street.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

and beaten when he told the unem-
ployed Negro workers not to go
against the bosses government and
its hunger system, not to give the
cops any trouble, etc When the
cops, seeing the condition of Com
rade Brown and noting that Grant
was unhurt, refused to arrest the "a
unemployed workers pointed out by
Grant, the Garvey misleader told
them that Inspector Neal of the 23rd
Precinct had promised to arrest any
revolutionary worker pointed out by
Grant, the stool pigeon.
The cops refused to make an ar
rest, and suggested that Comrade
Brown should instead bring charges
against Grant. The unemployed
workers knowing the justice they can
expect in the bosses courts refused
to consider the offer.
Later in the day, Grant again re-
turned. This time with one police
man who was evidently specially in
structed by Inspector Neal to do as
his stool pigeon requested. This cop
entered the headquarters with drawn
gun. Grant now changed his charges.
claiming that the unemployed Negro
workers had robbed him. Pointing to
Comrade Arthur Williams, who had
just appeared at headquarters and
knew nothing of what had gone be-
fore, Grant accused him of stealing
his watch. He then accused Com
rade Campbell of stealing his money.
Both workers were arrested and
locked up on the eXorbitant bail of
$4,000, further proving full coopera-
ton with the Garvey agents of i'm
perialiSm by the institutions of the
imperialists.
The case of these two framed Ne
gro workers come up Tuesday morn
ing at 10 O'Clock, in the 121St Street
Court, near Third Avenue. All un-
employed workers are urged to be
ia SoC4lI w ollON lilGll SOlludIlly Will
these latest victims of the imperialist-
Garyey alliance.
These vicious attacks by the Gar
vey national reformists and their i'm
perialist masters will not retard the
Negro workers from militantly Wag-
ing the Negro liberation struggle SO
basely betrayed by these traitors. Nor
will such attacks prevent the white
workers 1as the bosses hope) from
giving full support to the struggle
against Negro oppression, against
lynching, Jim-CrewiSm, etc, and for
the right of the Negro ma jorities in
the Southern Black Belt, in Africa
and the West Indies to determine
and control their own form of gov
ernment
Negro and white workers! Demon
strate together May Day in Union
Square against starvation, wage cuts,
terror, and for unemployment relief
and insurance, and unconditional
equality of the Negro masses.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
WORKERS ORDER
HAS 7551 MEMBERS
To Hold Convention On
May 29th

NEW YORK.-At the last cam
paign carried on by the international
Workers Order, the National Execu-
tive Committee succeeded in organ
izing 54 new branches and in taking
in 2,815 new members.
The First Convention of the Order
will be opened in Madison Square
Garden on May the 29th. 300 dele
gates from 85 cities expected at the
convention.
The International Workers order
which is less than one year old, has
succeeded in organizing 1886 work
ers and 214 branches throughout the
country.
At the close of the first campaign
by the National Executive Committee
August 18th, the Order had 1851
members. On the 18th of March the
net gain in membership since the
first campaign, August the 18th, was
2,8l5 new members with 81 new Or
ganized branches. The campaign is
not completed The branches of the
International Workers Order will
carry on the campaign until the
opening of the first convention, May
the 2sth, at the Madison Square
Garden. The branches OF the order
will intensity the campaign from nov
until the convention. 800 delegates
from S5 cities are expected to par
ticipate in the first convention:
The main feature OF the conven-
ton is the mificatiop OF the Inter-
national Workers Order, the Hun
garian Sick and Death Benefit So
ciety, the Russian Mutual Aid Asso-
citation and the Slovak Workers So
ciety.
The International Workers Order
already succeeded in organizing Ital-
ian and Portuguese and at the pres
ent is organizing Youth Sections.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
GARVEY FAKERS, ALLIED WITH
POLICE, IN MURDEROUS ATTACKS
ON HARLEM NEGRO WORKERS
Grant of Tiger Division of u n A Desperate
as Masses Repudiate Garvey Fakers
Try Beat Up, Then Frame Unemployed Negro
Militants- Police, Back Traitor

NEW YORK.-Utteriy desperate in
face of the increasing reputation of
their treacherous leadership by the
Negro workers, the Garvey national
refor1nistS in Harlem are openly ally
ing themselves with the bosses and
their police in a vicious attack on
the joint struggles of Negro and
white workers against starvation,
wage cuts, persecution of Negro and
foreign born workers, and for uncon-
ditional equality for the Negro
masses.
William Partin. a Negro worker,
was mwderously attacked last Satur-
day morning in front of the head
quarters of the Harlem Unemployed
Council, 1853 LenoX Avenue, by the
GarYey faker, Grant, and several of
his misguided followers -Four unem-
ployed Negro workers who were in
the headquarters at the time saw
the attack and went to Partin's res
cue. Later when the group left the
headquarters they we're followed by
Grant who had enlarged his forces.
AS they reached 127th Street and
turned East, Grant and his gang at
tackled with knives and pieces of
piping. One of the workers, Com
rade Brown. was severely beaten and
cut. The other comrades, seeing his
serious condition, grabbed a taxi and
put him in it and speeded through
the Garvey gangsters. But for this
action, Brown would have been muir
dered as Comrade Alfred Levy.
Negro worker, was murdered by this
same gang in cooperation with the
police.
Not content with trying to murder
Negro workers who insist on waging
a revolutionary struggle against his
imperialists masters, Grant and his
gangsters later appeared at the
Councils headquarters with cops to
arrest workers pointed out by him on
the fake charge that he was attacked
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
TWO 0nens Workers
Dental Clinic In N Y

NEW YORK,-In addition to the
medical department for its members,
the International Workers Order has
now added dental Clinic. This is
open to non-members as we'll as
members, at equally low rates. The
clinic is situated at Union Square.
in the Office formerly occupied by
DR.. Mindel.
This clinic is the basis for work
ers Medical Center, in which the
l. w. Q. will have specialists in all
diseases available to treat workers at
extremely low rates.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
VAUDEVILLE THEATRES

Jefferson: Behind Office Doors"
with Mary Astor in the leading role,
is the play at Jefferson Theatre un-
til Tuesday. Ray Stanton, in Lit
tie Rhyme and Reason-Less." is the
star headline attraction. McGarry
and Dawn; Ware and; Harry Kah-
ne, and Miss Ann Suter; and Joe
Mendi's Trio complete the show.
From Wednesday until Friday:
Frank and Milt Britton, with their
gang. are the vaudeville headliners.
On the screen, Fathers Son. an
adaptation Of Booth Tarkingtons
"Old Father Young Son." is the
principal fare, with Irene Rich and
Louis Stone.
Other vaudeville acts are: Miss
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

Lydia Barry: Ludwig Satz; Cy Lam
dry: Miss Ethel Morris; ard Glenn
Belling.
Hippodrome: Screen Beyond
Victory" a new Pathe comedy drama
with B.ll Boyd. James Gleason, and
zasu. Vaudeville: Harden, brother
of Houdini. Seed and Austin Senator
Murphy, Jim Mcdonald. Hills So
ciety Circus, Jack Randall and Com
pany, Miriam Hoffman and Girl
Friends, and Joseph Pope Jones.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
What's On
MONDAY

Council No. IL
VII hold q lecture at $3.50 r. M at
B22 South Fifth Street, Brooklyn
Religion and the Glass Struggle"
Admission free.
Councils of Working Women
that meet tonight at s y. IN. are:
Bronx: 1900 Boston Rd
Bath Beach. 4s Bay 2sth st.
Brooklyn, l1S Bristol Street
Harlem: l43 East 103rd Street
New Esperanto Class
viii start for beginners at .. M
at the Hungarian Workers Home,
55p East Slst St, Registration until
April 10.
Workers Ex- -Seryicemep's League
Open air meet at y. m. at seth
81, between Lexington and Third
Avenues.
TUESDAY
Brighton Beach Workers Youth Club
meets al p. M. at 40 North Nep-
tune Avenue.
All Up~mpIoyed Comrades
should report at 12ist ST. Court al
~-rnAr of Third Avenue at 10 q. IA.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
SOVIET SECOND OIL PRODUCER
IN WORLD

Associated Press reports the cele-
bration in the Soviet Union of the
completion of the Five-Year Plan for
petroleum production in 21-2 years,
the Soviet now being second to the
United States in this field. Produc-
ton costs have been cut 80 per cent.
AT the same time wages have been
increased l3 l-2 per cent for 72,O0O
oil workers engaged in oil produc-
ton. Ninety oil workers have been
honorcd by the highest Soviet dec
GRAFTON. receiving the Order Of Lenin.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
WOMAN'S WAGE AND THAT OF
REST OF WORKERS INTERWEAVE

Mary Anderson, director of the
Women's Bureau, U. S, Department
of Labor, admitted that "a low wage
for women not only maintains a
low standard of living for women,
but in addition it tends to depress
the wages and living standards of all
workers" Women workers in all
fields are being won over and must
be won over for the revolutionary
movement.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Taxing Workers.

The Newark Unemployment Re-
lief Committee is rushing plans to
force employed workers to pay one
per cent of their wages to it, so it
can continue relief" until July. The
chairman of the committee states
There was only relief up to April
!. and since conditions are not inn
proving. funds must be raised to
carry on the work until July"
The committee of course is willing
to take money by threats of dis
charge from the underpaid part-t time
workers instead of levying on the
employers, who would not pay any,
way unless they thought the jobless
were on the verge of revolt. Up to
now the committee has levied taxes
on the city employees and school
teachers Since Dec. /, of all the
money collected, this committee has
spent only $3.50 per week for actual
relief in city with 10000 jobless.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
EXPERT TO DESIGN SOVIET
KITCHENS.

Owen T. Webber, expert designer
of kitchens and restaurants of Chi
cago, is heading a corps of engineers
sailing on the steamer Bremen for
the Soviet Union to build twelve
community eating places which will
have a combined capacity of 100000
a day. In the plans children, and
these needing special diets, have
separate dining roms.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06

Against the high cost of living.
Against wage cuts and speed-up.
For the defense of the Sovie
Union!
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
NeWs Briefs
THIRD BEST BUYER IN

U. :.
S, Department Of Commerce re
ports show that the Soviet Union
has displaced both Germany and
Frange in purchases of American
good5 and has moved from fifth to
third place among U. S. customers,
being the only nation which has IN
creased its imports from the United
States. At the same time American
imports from Soviet Union have been
cut down nearly two-thirds,
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
Women's Party in Hyprocritical Plea

Reports from Atlanta, Georgia
state that Josephine Casey. represen-
tative of the bunch of hypocrites
who call themselves the National
Women's Party is in the south to
oppose the abolition of night work
for women in the cotton mills. The
mill owners abolish night work for
women pretending they do it out of
regard for the health of the women,
but really to reduce production. The
Women's Party oppose this hypocrisy
with another hypocrisy. on the gen.
eral basis that every misery and slave
condition suffered by men workers,
the women have a right" to share.
The daily worker., 1931-04-06
BIG WAR SHOWS PLANNED

Washington announces a big war
show, aimed to incite imperialist war
fever, to be held in Chicago, Bos-
ton. Washington, Philadelphia and
other places late in May The big
show will take place in New York
City on May %, when 672 military
planes will attack" New York. This
viii probably be used to justify the
appropriation Of another billion dol
lars for war while more millions of
unemployed go hungry.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
8 MEN ASSAULT
POLICE HERO

Charged with being one Of a
group of eight colored men who
last night tried to gang" Police
man Earl L. Baker, Second pre-
Cinct, at Eighth Street and Florida
Avenue Northwest, Fred L. Con
zales, colored, 81, of TIT Euclid
st. N. W., today was held under
bonds Of $1,000 after he had de-
manded a jury trial in Police
Court on charges of assaulting
Baker and carrying concealed
weapon.
Baker said the crowd of men
rushed him and that Gonzales
pinned his arms to his sides. He
freed one hand, however. drew his
gun, and arrest Gonzales. The
. other seven escaped. While they
were scuffling, Baker said, pistol
fell from Gonzales pocket.
Baker came into prominence a
year ago when he captured an
irate lover who had barricaded
himself in a room with his sweet
heart, whom he threatened to kill
If police interfered.
Baker crawled across board
from the roof of an adjacent
building to the window of the
barricaded room and arrested the
man,
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
SOCKET 7
. HOT, He FINDS
Staff Photo

Eighteen month old Maurice
Woolard, small son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurie Woolard, 603 Somer-
set Pl. N. W., is possessed of an
inquiring turn Of mind.
Because of it, today he is nurs-
ing q very painful burn on his
right hand and his mother is
seeing that he cannot get hold
of any more hairpins or other
thin wire objects.
Yesterday, while playing in
the parlor Of his home, he came
across an intriguing little. object,
small and bent. At the same
time. his eye was caught by a
queer looking dingus in the floor
board.
So, Maurice investigated. AS
a result the hairpin was melted,
Maurice was painfully burned
on his right hand and he has
entirely lost his curiosity about
what will happen when both
ends of a wire hairpin are in
serted into an electric light
socket,
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
DEATH CALLS WOOD, JR.
Generals Son Expires
in Al cohoIic Ward
of Bellevue

Word of the death of Leonard
Wood, jr.. son of the late Mai.
Gen. Leonard Wood, former gov
ernor general of the Philippines,
in the pSychopathic ward Of
Bellevue Hospital, New York, has
been received here. Mr.. Wood at
the time of his death was listed
as an alcoholic patient.
Mr.. Wood was widely known in
Washington. both through h..5 IA
nous father and through his own
activities here.
The younger Wood at one time
figured prominently in the theat-
ricals here. He leased the Presi-
dent Theater, in 1922, and for
more than a year operated there
q 1one-too-SuccesSful stock COM
pany.
About that time notoriety at
tached to his name through
charges that he had engaged in
selling worthless oil stocks to Of
ficerS Of the Army. A congress
sional investigation of these az
tivities was threatened by Sen
ator Caraway.
In 1925. after various theatri-
eal ventures. including the one
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
SMART PARROT
IS RESCUED

A valuable parrot, able to speak
words of three languages, and the
incomplete manuscript Of a novel
were saved last night when fire,
believed to have been caused by
a dropped cigarette. wrecked the
interior of a sun porch at the
residence of Mrs. Bertha M. Du-
rant at 1893 F st. N. w.
The bird, which has achieved
international fame through it's lin
guistic ability, and the manu-
script we're rescued by Chief
White Feather, local wrestler, who
was a guest at the house at the
time.
The interior of the sun porch
was wrecked and fire, starting
from blazing pillow, burned a
hole in the floor of an adjoining
room.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
PARKWAY PLAN
STRIKES SNAG

The District Commissioners are
considering the area reduction or
the complete elimination of a
small parkway on Connecticut
Avenue Northwest near the Taft
Bridge.
Residents of the neighborhood
say they will protest against the
contemplated change, which was
suggested to speed up traffic.
Capt. H. c. Whitehurst, Dis
trict highway engineer, said the
two plans, which were prepared
in the office of Col. u S. Grant.
Sd, director of public buildings
and parks, had been submitted to
the city heads for action.
One plan calls for complete
elimination of the park. The other
provides reducing the plot to go
feet in length, 10 feet in width.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Wisconsin Professor
Addresses ROtHrians

DR.. Tracey Streveny, professor
Of history at the University of
Wisconsin, was the principal
speaker at the luncheon meeting
Of the Arlington County Rotary
Club yesterday at the Washing.
ton Golf and Country Club.
DR.. Streveny spoke on "The
German Situation Today" re.
viewing the causes of the present
financial depression from before
the world war down to the pres.
ent time. Two new members
Thomas N. DeLIashmutt and
Charles Ives, were admitted.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
100000 SUIT CONTINUES

Judge Robert B. Peter, sitting
as Equity Court, at Rockville,
yesterday overruled demurrers by
Joseph c. Cissel, counsel for the
Montgomery County Board of
Commissioners, in the suit of
Anna Bartsch Dunn against the
board Of commissioners. Mrs.
Dunn, in her original suit, filed
several months ago, asked $780,
600, claiming the county inbuild-
ing entrances to ColeSville Pike
at Georgia Avenue in Silver
Spring, appropriated her prop
erty without her consent.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
L|GHTN|NGK|LLS
FISHERMEN
At BEACH
Bolt Strikes Rods Wet in Rain;
Spectators Feel Shock and
Try In Vain to Save Victims

A Washington man and his
fishing companion are dead to-
day after being struck by bolt
of lightning as they were fishing
from a pier at Chesapeake Beach,
Md, late yesterday.
william Neumeyer, Is, of 615
Third st. N. w., and Charles
AinSwOrth, Of ElmhurSt, DEL,
were the victims. The men were
on the Seaside Pier. Spectators
said the bolt Of lightning seemed
to strike their fishing rods, wet
with rain.
Clothing Set Afire
A crowd of spectators witnessed
the tragedy and rushed forward
to extinguish Neumeyer's clothes,
set afire by the bolt. DR.. Hugh
M. Ward was called and pro-
nounced the men dead.
The bolt which killed Neumeyer
and AinSwOrth shocked 18 of a
group Of persons who were hud-
died near the men, seeking shell
ter from the storm. None was
hurt, however.
Sought to Regain Health
Neumeyer, who was a black
smith, had gone to the beach in
an attempt to regain his health
following a long illness, while
AinSworth was vacationing at the
shore with his wife and daugh-
ter.
His mother and father, a
brother, Anton, and sister, Mrs.
Helen Perry, all Of Washington,
survive Neumeyer,
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
Witch Doctor Must
Quit Prachcing
Medicine

George Galloway, "a, colored,
of Ballston, Va, witch doctor,
faith healer and fetish fighter,
who recently branched out into
the field of medicine, has been
informed by Arlington county
officials that he must confine
his practice to fighting
fetishes and lay off the
medicine.
These instructions were given
the doctor as the result of a
complaint registered with the
county health department by a
colored laborer who said that
Or" Galloway had charged
him $27.7O for a box of brown
pills to cure mis- stomach
trouble.
After taking the pills, the
laborer said, he almost died.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
ROBBERS RAID
SUBURBS

Thieves broke into a number of
homes in the Bethesda and
Chevy Chase. Md, sections last
night, getting only a few dollars
for their pains. Police said they
know the identity of one Of the
housebreakers.
The home of A. c. Lewis, 21S
Thornapple ST., Chevy Chase,
Md, thieves, was entered and
about SO taken.
The office of the Personal
Bankers Co., at Bethesda, Md,
was entered and IS stolen.
The home of Harry Birch, $500
Grove st., Chevy Chase, was
ransacked but, as the family is
away, the amount Of loot is not
known.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
A. r. Rickard Granted
Bail in LiQuOr Case

A. R. Rickard, Of Beltsville,
Md, was released from the
Bladensburg jail today on $500
bail to stand trial for the illegal
possession Of gallon and one
half of allegedly intoxicating
liquor seized near his home by
Prince Georges county police dur
ing a raid.
The man was arrested on a
warrant served by Policeman
Claude Reese. and will be ar
raigned in Hyattsville Wednes.
day.
The Washington times., 1931-08-28
CAPITAL ELITE
FACE GLUM
WINTER
Salary Cuts, Other Economies
Doom Forthcoming Season
To Odd State of Boredom,

Gold lace and champagne will
be at a premium in Washington
this winter.
The worldwide depression has
hit the Diplomatic Corps and, with
the wholesale Slashing of salaries
at the various embassies and lega.
tions, the prospects for a gay win
ter, socially speaking, seem slim.
Last season saw q steady de.
cline in the number and brilliancy
OF the parties given, and this year
we'll, society will have to depend
upon something besides the Diplo.
matte Corps for its fun.
Chilean Gets No PAY
The new Chilean ambassador,
Don Miguel Cruchaga, it is under.
stood, is to receive no salary at
all. Wealthy in his own right, he
proposes to maintain the embassy
out Of his own funds but as he is
a widower and something of q
bookworm it is not probable he
will go in extensively for parties.
The Argentine ambassador, DON
Felipe Espil, a bachelor, has al.
ready served notice that he In
here for business not pleasure.
His reasons, however, are personal
and not financial, although the
embassy staff has not escaped the
general wage reduction.
Salaries at the Cuban embassy
have been steadily on the decline
for months. First 5 per cent
cut, then 10, IS and now 20.
The German government began
cutting its diplomatic corps sal.
aries some time ago and today,
according to one secretary, the
average pay is more than so per
cent less than it was this time
a year ago.
Italian Economy Tight
The italian embassy on Six.
teenth Street, one of the most
beautiful in Washington, is fac.
ing a dull winter. A IL per cent
CuG mas reduced IQ0 SGd1I 10 Qe~
spair and economies heretofore
unknown.
The British staff alone seems
to have survived the holocaust
with, however, its allowance for
entertaining severely trimmed.
The gay young blades on the
staff, society's chief standby in
time of stress, are suffering from
the general depression, their
private fortunes affected if their
salaries are not. This winter
they'll be lucky if they can
give the debutantes a dance,
much less orchids.
On feature Of the depression
will be the curtailment Of diplO-
matte champagne. Ambassadors
and ministers are guarding the
precious wine with the zeal Of
revenue agents. When the pres
ent store is consumed there are
grave doubts as to the possibility
of its being repleniShed and
hence the economy wave,