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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
INIPERIALIST TROOPS MASSACRE HUN
DREDS OF NATIVES IN BELGIAN CONGO

NEW YORK-A New York Times
dispatch from Brussels, Belgium
reports the massacre by imperiaHst
troops of hundreds of natives of the
Congo, Central Africa, in the recent
uprising of the frightfully oppressed
natives of the Belgian colony.
The revolt flared up fiercest in the
Kwango district, which has a popula-
ton of 100000. This district is part
Of the Province of Congo-Kasai, The
dispatch admits that 992 natives re-
volutionaries were killed by the i'm
perialist troops armed with machine
guns.
The Times dispatch in seeking to
fool American workers as to the
cause of the uprising, declaring "the
natives suspected they were being
exploited 1t then attempts to show
that not the terrific exploitation and
swindling OF the natives, but local
superstitions, worked on by "medi-
cine men, caused the natives to
revolt against their murderous OPP
pressors.
The terrific effects of the economic
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Jewelry Workers to-
Meet to Spread the
Strike in Shops

The Kalina Shop on 46th Street
and 5th Avenue settled Friday with
it's men for SIS and $40 increases and
equal division of work, after days
of picketing,
The La Sale Jewelry workers Of
GA West 48th Street are on strike
since last Monday for increases in
their low wages.
After II years of no strikes, the
jewelry workers of Reiner g. Berkow
struck and won against piece-work
and for better wages. This encour-
aged the workers of La Sale and Ka-
lima to follow their example. The
significance of these shop strikes is
the solidarity of the unemployed
who are 80 per cent of the trade.
The Jewelry (bosses) Crafts Assn
sends unemployed jewelers. to the
shops on strike but they absolutely
refuse to Scab.
Tonight the Jewelry Workers In
dustrial Union is calling a special
mobilization meeting at the Labor
Temple, 18th Street and End Avenue
August oath at $50 p. m. to help
the strikers on the picket line and
to prepare to spread the strikes to
other shops ready for struggle
against piece work and starvation
wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
BANK FAILURES
DURING WEEKEND
Warren, Ohio, Closing
to Hit Workers

Bank, of Rockaway Beach, New
York, closed its doors Saturday with
deposits of nearly 100000. An
eleventh hour conference to merge
with another bank failed. The board
of directors issued a statement pal
pably intended to hide the precarious
state of the bank by attributing it
to malicious whispering No sub
stantions of the whispering was
offered however.
Warren Banks Close
The Citizens Commercial and Saw
ings Bank of Warren, Ohio, closed
its doors yesterday. At the same
time four building and loan asso-
Citations indicated the state of their
finances by demanding sixty days
notice Of Withdrawals. Another bank
at Warren, the Union Savings and
Trust Co. closed its doors at the
same time. Both banks had APP
proximately and a half million dol
lars in deposits. Many STEELE mill
workers with small savings will be
affected by this closing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
RUTH ST. DENIS, TED SHAWN
AND DENISHAWN DANCES
AT STADIUM.

Ruth st. Denis, Ted Shawn, and
their Denishawn Dancers make their
annual series Of appearances at the
Stadium concerts tonight, Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings. Hans
Lange will conduct for the Den
ishawns and in the Hall in, case of
bad weather.
Programs for the balance of the
week follows: Thursday: Suite from
Music to Shakespeare's Tanning of
the Shrew," based on old English
melodies, Albert Coates; Song of the
Volga Boatman, Arr. by Glazonow;
Till Eulenspiegel, Strauss; Sym
phony No. in B minor ("Path-
etique"), Tchaikovsky.
Friday: "Obernon" Overture Web
er; "The Fountains of Rome" Res
pighi; Suite from LA Boutique Fan
tasque," Rossini- Respighi; Symphony
No in C minor, Beethoven.
Saturday: Francesca da Rimini"
Fantasia for Orchestra, Tchaikovsky;
Mephisto Waltz No. /, Liszt; Turkish
March, Moussorgsky; The Musical
Box, Liadow; Overture to Tam
hauser," wagner Scheherazade,
Rimsky- Korsakoff.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

needs Of the pocketbook makers.
1.-THE workers will now have to be
on guard more than ever before. The
administration must go Immediately
and rank and file administration
must take its place.
"The workers must also beware
of the old Shiplacoff clique who
are trying to capitalize on the sit
uation and call clique meetings.
The workers should not attend
any meetings called by any clique.
THE workers should rally in
mass around the rank and file
committee.
"The rank and file committee
calls on all pocketbook workers to
come to mobilization mass meet
ing, Tuesday, August rs, at $3.50
p. m. at Irving Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
THE MIKADO" RETURNS TO
ERLANGER'S TONIGHT.

1.-THE Mikado," the last in the Civic
Light Opera Company's Gilbert and
Sullivan series, returns this evening
at changers Theatre. for a two
weeks engagement.
In the Erlanger production those
three Gilbertian stars-Frank Moulan
william Danforth and Herbert Wat
erous, will be in the cast, and How
ard Marsh will return, after two
weeks vacation, as well as Vera
Ross, Ethel Clark, Hizi Koyke, the
1panese soprano and Allen Water
IS, a newcomer in the opera forces.
With the conclusion Of the Gilbert
Sullivan schedule at changers,
come the other contingent of
> Civic Light Opera forces in 1.-THE
,rry Widow" with Donald Brian
nd Alice Mckenzie. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
HOOver's JObless
Relief Head
Lays Off Men

The Western Electric Company, a
subsidiary of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, To-
Gated at Kearney, N. J., has been lay
ing off on an average of 100 work
ers week since the first week in
June, according to the admission of
the works manager of the plant.
This official" figure is undoubtedly
an understatement of the real num-
Der laid off. In any case, this is the
real background of the Hoover
Clifford Conferences" on ways and
means as how not to give relief to
the millions of unemployed and their
families during the coming winter
of stark hunger and starvation.
Clifford, the director of the Hoover
unemployment relief" campaign, is
the president of the American Tele-
graph and Telephone Company
which has been firing workers for
months.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
GERMAN WAGES
TO BE SLASHED
STILL FURTHER
Socialis is Prepare
Betrayal BY Fake
Opposition Threats

The Bruening government in Ger
many is preparing a further attack
on the living standards of the masses
through "a relentless lowering of
wages and salaries" This is being
done at the command of the Fedora
ton of German Industries, the CEN
trail organ of the German trusts and
bankers. The Federation has put
the demand for wage-cuts at the
center of its general plan for the
worsening of the standards of the
German masses,
In order to keep hold of what sup
port it still has among the German
working class, the German Social
Democratic party is starting a fake
campaign against these proposed
wage-cuts. During the past several
months and particularly since the
Hoover moratorium plan, the be-
trayal of the German Socialist party
has caused tens of thousands of
German workers to leave it and join
the struggle against hunger and mis-
cry and capitalist oppression under
the leadership of the Communist
Party of Germany.
The German government, further
more, is cutting all municipal ex-
penditures which might benefit the
workers. In this campaign to reduce
government expenses at the cost of
the German workers the Socialists
are playing the leading role
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Suitcase Makers to
Meet to Plan Fight
On Cuts and LayOffs
By RYAN WALKER

A meeting of suitcase, bag and
portfolio workers, organized and I'M
organized, employed and jobless, will
be held Wednesday, August Is, 7:3O
pm. at Manhattan Lyceum, sc East
4th Street.
The meeting will be in the nature
of mobilization of the rank and
file workers of the trade to discuss
ways and means of resisting the at
tacks of the bosses on the living
standards of the workers which are
growing worse every day.
Wages in the industry have been
cut without stop. In the open shops
because of continuous cuts the work
ers are compelled to work unlimited
hours.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
NTWIU SIGNS UP
MILLINERY SHOP;
UNION DRIVE ON
Bathrobe Workers in
Campaign Also;
More Strikes

NEW YORK. - The Garder Lane
of is West Goth St., millinery shop
employing 26 workers, was organized
Thursday, The firm signed an agree
ment with the union. All the de-
mands of the workers were granted.
The millinery shop of Bremen g.
Mittelmark of 80 West 9th Street
signed an agreement with the union,
granting the demands of the work
ers after half day strike. The
blockers of the shop who are mem
bers of the Local AZ of the zaritslsy
company union at their meeting the
day of the strike decided not to work
with scabs. This decision surely
helped to secure a quick settlement.
Bathrobe Workers Start Campaign
To Organize Shops
At their membership meeting held
Friday night in the auditorium of
the Industrial Union, the bathrobe
workers working now under sweat
shop conditions unanimously decided
to start campaign to unionize their
shops.
1t is expected that in the coming
few days large number of shops of
this industry will go on strike to bet
ter their conditions.
Dress Shops on Strike
The following dress shops are on
strike; Needleman g. Bremmer, 1853
West 40th ST.; Beetle Dress, 327 w.
S6th St.. Noble Dress, 247 w. 37th st.
The Industrial Union calls on &C
tive workers to go to these shops
Monday morning, at 1880 a. m. to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

crisis on the colonial countries is
shown by the admission of the ire
mendous fall of prices for native
products. These prices dropped dur
ing the past year from one franc tc
Is centimes-a fall of IS centimes
The Times dispatch says:
"The natives were not pleased
when they got only Is centimes
for products which brought franc
last year.
The revolt involved the entire
Kwango district as we'll as other
parts of the huge colony. In Kizen-
dale, M. Week, the territorial agent,
ordered his soldiers to fire on force
Of 200 natives who resisted the at
tacks of the soldiers until moved
down by machine guns. Two days
later in the region of the village Of
Kandale, the natives drove away the
territorial agent, named Burnotte,
and his soldiers. Another force of
imperialist forces, under command of
M. Ballot, was attacked at KiIamba,
and destroyed, in spite of the fact
that the natives were fighting with
primitive weapons against the ma
chine guns of the imperiahstS. A
factory was burned down at Banghi,
and the missionary tools of the i'm
perialists driven out. Communica-
tons between Kandale and Kikwit
we're cut for several weeks.
Following these successes of the
native revolutionaries, a large force
was dispatched to Kwango to put
down the rebellion with a blood bath.
The Brussels dispatch boasts that
the workers and peasants have now
been forced back to return to work
and that the Belgian imperialist are
taking measures ito occupy these
regions more effectively even if they
are unproductive" According to the
dispatch, the revolt has forced the
imperialists to consider the question
of paying the natives, on some fixed
scale, even in times of crisis"
The Communist Party calls upon
the workers of the United States
and of the whole world to support
the liberation struggles of the African
masses! Down with imperialism!
Protest the murderouS attacks on
the revolutionary colonial masses!
Defend the Soviet Union, the fortres
of the world revolutionary movement
against imperialism!
The Rockaway Beach National
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
United DepOSitOrS
Plan Further Steps
To Recover Money
Demonstration Is Plan
ned for Saturday,
August 10Th

NEW YORK -Coinciden with the
news of the failure of the Globe
National and Trust Co., 813 Broad
way, Brooklyn, with four branches
and deposits of $6,OOO,OOO, depositors
of the Bank of the United States
are preparing further organization
for their demands for a state guar
antee of the recovery of their funds.
A meeting of the United Depositors
Committee. leader of the small de-
pcsitors in their fight for the full
return Of their money, will be held
tonight at pm. in the Has Build
ing, AIS Lafayette. All Bank of the
United States depositors interested
in recovering their money are invited
to this meeting.
Prepare Demonstration
The United Depositors Committee
is now preparing for a second de-
monstration at city hall for Saturday
August %, seeking to force the Tam
many administration and state
banking department to take such
steps as amount to state guaran-
tee of the payment in full of the
small depCsitors.
M. Greenbaum, a member of the
United Depositors Committee scored
the latest crop of reorganization
plans given wide publicity in the
capitalist press.
with banks failing every day
and bankers unable to keep up the
banks now open, the reorganiza-
tien of the Bank of the United
States is hardly feasible. The
seemingly endless stream of
schemes are plans merely to try
the patience. of the small deposit
ors, many of whom are in great
need now and must have their
funds" Greenbaum said.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
TAMMANY POLICE,
THUGS ASSAULT
ELECTION MEETING
Break Up West Side
Communist Rally to
Hear Candidate

NEW YORK, N. Yin attempt to
keep the workers in the fifth assem-
bly, district of Manhattan from hear
ing Harry Raymond, the Communist
candidate for assembly in that dist
riot, speak on the program OF the
Communist Party in the election
campaign, a Gordon of Tammany
police assisted by a gang of Tam
many hoodlums and misguided wor-
kers attacked meeting held by the
Communist Party at Tenth Ave. and
48th Street Friday evening at nine
o'clock. Two workers were knocked
unconscious by the clubs OF the po-
lice and bricks thrown by the Tam
many hoodluns and many were Sc
vererly injured.
The meeting had been called by
the Communist Party election cam
paign committee as one of the regu-
lar campaign meetings now being
held throughout the city. The wor-
kers on the west side have been
showing an increasing sympathy
with the program of the Communist
Party and many new members and
Sympathizers we're gained for the
Party in the last year. The Tam
many gang, realizing this, have been
busy for some time organizing their
forces in the neighborhood to attack
all Communist meetings. Many
attempts have been made in this
neighborhood IN the past to break
up workers meetings by attack
ing them with hangers-on who re-
ceive small favors from ]. F. Kill
grew, the present Tammany incum-
bent nominee for assembly. Failing
in this they modified the police to
assist the hoodlums.
The attack Friday night was well
organized, the police hiding in a
nearby building waiting for the
thugs to open the attack by throw
ing bricks The police then joined
the hoodlums and attacked the wor-
kers, who were defending themselves
we'll, the police smuggling right and
left with clubs and blackjacks split
ting workers heads and knocking
them. unconscious on the sidewalk
The Communist Party will con-
tinue to hold election campaign
meetings on the west side and calls
on all the workers to rally to these
meets and protest against the brutal
tactics of the Tammany police in
not allowing the Communist candi-
dates to be heard.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
What's On
MONDAY

MONDAY
Furniture Workers Industrial Lengue
All members must report in front
OF the Milgran Upholstery Shop, Sc
Scholes st, Brooklyn (near Lorimer
ST. this morning at 1880 a. m. for
mass picketing.
Downtown Unemployed Council
viii hold an open-air meeting at 10th
81. and End Ave. at s pm. There
viii also be meetings OF unemployed
daily from 1890 pm. to 400 pm
at 1874 Il. 7th st.
Manhattan Section
will hold n meeting at Workers Cen
ter, 90 u. 18th St, tonight at pm
T. T.. ID. Brooklyn section
viii hold a general membersh
meeting today at Boro Hall, Il
iSrd ST.. cor. 4th Ave. All lid mel
a4rs are asked to attend Tuesday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

help the strikers in their picketing.
The union calls the attention TO the
dressmakers to the Importance of
picketing the Needleman & Brem-
mer shop, which has been on strike
for the past months.
Furriers Chairman and Shop Com
mittees Meet Tuesday
The shop chairmen and shop COM
mittees of fur shops will hold a
special meeting on Tuesday right
after work at the office of the union,
131 West 18th st. Very important
problems will be taken up in con-
nection with the unionization of the
fur industry. Comrade Ben Gold will
attend this meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
Active Members to Report Monday
Morning I O'Clock

All active members of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union are
called upon to report Monday morn
ing, a. m. at the Office of the I'M
ion, 1871 w. 28th Street, from where
they will go out to picket the shops
on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24
POcketbOOk NJ a kers
Gust Right Wing and
Musteite Bureaucrats

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
co TO COURT ON
MATH TANCLES
When Geometry Gets Too
Tough, Trial Is Held.

%. E. D." changes to Guilty in
the solid geometry classes of Adolph
F. Thomas at Broad Ripple high
school.
Any time pupil finds that geo.
metric problem is too hard for him
the problem, and not the pupil, goes
on trial.
The class is turned into court
room, the problem is accused of be-
ing a nuisance, a pupil who claims
to have been able to solve the prob
lem is assigned to the defense coun-
sen, and Instructor Thomas ap-
points himself judge.
The class is the jury. No statistics
are available as to the number of
pupils who can swear that they have
read nothing of the case.
The plaintiff opens the case by
telling the jury why he thinks the
defendant is guilty. He accuses the
opposing lawyer Of being unable to
work the problem, and of being in
capable of defending his client.
Then the defense takes the floor.
He explains the how and why of his
solution of the exercise. He calls
witnesses from the jury who tes-
tify to the correctness of his state
ment.
The jury takes the case under adj
visement, and returns the verdict
which has little weight with the
judge.
If the defense counsel fails to win
the case, another trial is called with
new attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
STRESS ORIENT
AT LIBRARIES
Books Enable Pupils to Keep
Up on Events.

With the eyes of the world turned
to the events which are happening
in China and Japan, the public
libraries are offering the school
children of the city chance to keep
abreast of current events in the
Far East by reading books, includ-
ing:
WITH TARO AND HAMA IN JAPAN -
by Etsu Sugimoto-Two American chill
dren 90 to Japan to visit their grand
mother. They learn many interesting
things about the country the life of the
people at home, the queer customs. The
author wrote "A Daughter of the Samu-
LITTLE BLACK EYES: THE STORY
OF A LITTLE GIRL IN JAPAN" by Mrs.
E. Norton-The story of a little Japanese
girl which tells about festivals, holidays.
and many interesting customs of the
country.
J. TroWbridge-The story of a little Amer
lean girls adventures in old China. Betty
called their terraced gardens in China the
"lsyer-cake gardens"
CHINESE INK STICK by Kurt Wiese
"A story of a very unusual Chinese ink
stick that tells about life in China. It
tells of the old bamboo painter of the
letter writer who had a booth on the
street corner: and Of the colorful life that
passed his table.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
WINS STUDY H0NORS
Cathedral Grid Star Scores
in Classroom.

Taking his place beside Barry
Wood, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa,
and candidate for all-America
honors, is John Ford, captain and
star back of Cathedral high school
city championship team.
Ford placed on the high honor
roll of Cathedral for the first quar-
ter of the present scholastic, &C
cording to the statement issued
Tuesday by the director of studies
Thirty EIGHT boys were awarded
top honors for their scholastic work
during the period. Those on the
high honor roll are:
Joseph Braun. Vincent Bruno, John
Ford, John Kirsch, Harold Knarzer,
George Kuzma, Alfred Meunier, Richard
Pfeiffer, Floyd Washburn, Willard Bates,
William Gearns, John Mann, Harold E.
Miller, Norbert Roth, Francis Schuster.
John Culbertson, Friedrich Engle, Thomas
Fitzgerald, Thomas Gillespie, Joseph Hill
genberg, John P. OConnor, Irwin Rohr-
man. John M. Sullivan, Jack G. Sweeney,
Charles Yeager, Frank Bardash, Ed Clay
| pool, Charles Fox Robert Holmes, Howard
Mcintosh, Ed Murphy, Jack O'Connell
Clarence Pheger. John Ratio, Carroll
Smith, Charles Sprsgg, Edward Sullivan
| Clarence Walker.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25

DELLS? Any kind of bells.
~ John Agal, $50 West Twenty
eighth street, can tell you about
them.
He knows bells from the time
primitive man shook dry seeds in
a. gourd to the present when man
plays beautiful melodies on the
carlton.
He is shown above, telling about
the old dinner bell, the finishing
touch to every Hoosier farm.
To the right are shown row
of bells which really are flower
pots. You wouldn't think they
were musical, but you haven't
heard John play Hot Cross Buns"
on them with the stick he holds
in his hand.
John learned about bells along
with his third grade classmates
at Benjamin Franklin school No.
36, at 2801 North Capitol avenue.
All the pupils have taken up
the subject, and have traced the
bells from their origin.
Many of the pupils have drawn
pictures of outstanding examples.
Others have written short essays
about certain bells.
They know about the tinkly
glass bells of tn eChinese, of the
discordant COW bell, of the historic
Liberty bell, and of chimes.
Want to know anything about
bells?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-25
DIAMONDS ON AIR
Frank B. Wade Will Speak
on Public School Hour.

Diamonds" will be the topic of
Frank B. Wade, head of the chem
istry department at Shortridge high
school tonight, speaking during the
seventh broadcast of the Indianapo-
lis public schools over WKBF from
8 to $50.
Also on the program will be a
chorus of forty pupils from school
No. 26, Sixteenth street and Co.
lumbia avenue.
The chorus will sing God of Our
Fathers" by Warren, eff With All
Your Hearts," by Mendelssohn,
Pilgrims Chorus" by Wagner, st
Would That My Love-" by Mendels-
sohn, "Serenade," by Schubert,
Home Road" by Carpenter, and
"All Through the Night" a Welsh
folk song.