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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
CONT ACT OF
TWO NATIONS
STRENGTHENED
Agency's Purpose Ii
To Increase Travel
Through Valley

An indication OF the growing con
tact of the United States and
Mexico through the port OF Byowns-
vile is c in announcement Sat
urday by NJ. A. tJiggs) Bansbach
that he will open the Mexico
Tours and Travels. a Mexico tour
ist agency, here Sunday.
Bansbach has been traffic mana
ger I'm this country for the Cor
poracion Auronautica de Transpor-
ties since the lines opened, In
March, 1929. He has travelled ex-
tensively In Mexico during that
period. making al the II stops OF
the lines.
Offices Opened
Offices of the Mexico Tours and
Travels have been opened in the
Capitol theatre building.
Associated with MIR. Bansbach In
the operation of the bureau will
be c. H. McSpadden. who has been
connected with the Al a. Lloyd
Parker land company. He viii be
trip secretary.
Mrs. Maurine Pendleton. secre-
tary to MIR. Bansbach in his work
with the c. A. T. lines, will be In
charge of the office.
The agency will handle and ar
range tours OF all kinds into Mex
leo.
I'VE will take them any place.
and by any means-plane, rail,
automobile. or wen burro," Mr..
Bansbach said. The first tour will
start from Brownsville August IA.
returning here August II. and will
be TO Monterrey and Saltillo. going
TO Monterrey by plane. and to Sal
tillo by automobile. Mr.. Bansbach
will personally conduct this tour.
Tours Planned
Other tours will be arranged
later.
The bureau viii also handle res
ervations on air lines and boats,
give road information, passport in
formation. arrange refer e n C e S,
furnish chauffeurs 10 handle pri-
vate cars going into Mexico. furnish
hostesses to parties or women 60
ing into Mexico, and will operate
a general travel office, catering to
tourists and business men of this
country.
I'VE will work with the Browns
vile Chamber Of Commerce In ev-
cry way in its program OF stimulat-
ing tourist travel through here
into Mexico" Mr.. Banshach said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
Tax Opposer
To Speak In Valley

Talks opposing special tax levies
will be made in the Valley by RAY
Leeman, wee president and general
manager OF the South Texas Cham
Der Of Commerce. following a SINH
lar campaign in East Texas.
Brownsville. Harrington, San Ben
ito. McAllen and possibly other Val
lev cities are on his itinerary in this
section.
The regional chamber two years
ago adopted a policy OF opposing
special tax levies on business and
industry and militantly opposed such
measures in the recent session or
the legislature. 1T takes the stand
that Texas is t~ranscending from a
strictly commercial state to an inn
portant industrial section and that
this is no time TO discourage indus
trial development by imposing
punitive taxes ON business.
When washing chamois gloves,
add a teaspoonful Of olive oil to
the water. This keeps them soft
and pliable.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
Leather Plant Is
Planned Far Valley

A new leather goods manufactu--
ing plant. discussed with chamber
OF commerce officials In Browns
vile several months ago by a north
ern manufacturer who was IN the
city. seemed more likely Saturday
WHEN word was received 1T the
chamber that the manufacturer viii
return 10 the city soon.
He stated in his letter that In
formation he has been given by
the chamber OF commerce has about
convinced him that Brownsville Is
and ideal location for the plant.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02

discount rate from 10 10 Is per
cent.
One prominent German spckes-
man told the Associated Press that
the German people, finally freed OF
their illusions Of an immediate
long term loan. are beginning to
see that the nations financial ap-
paratus was bloated from foreign
loans and that the German people
had lived relatively ~carefree lives
on borrowed money without a
thought for the day OF reckoning.
This informant went 70 far ms
10 say that even II Germany could
get back ell the short tern loans
cancelled since the announcement
OF the Hoover plan. II would be un-
desirable 70 do 50. ms there has
beer too much reckless borrowing.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
Tomatoes Recognized

Tomato growers of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley are making serious
inroads into the Florida market. said
MIR. and Mrs. J.. r. Smoak, Of
Tampa, Florida, who came to the
section to see what is going On.
They dropped into the tours de-
parsment Of the Brownsville Cham
Der OF Commerce while in the c'ty.
and indicated they may spend some
time here, or even try the growing
Of tomatoes here.
THE Valley is cutting into Florid-
SO much we decided to come over
and see how it is happening" they
said.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
SCOUT CAMP
PLANS MADE

MERCEDES. Aug. Mercedes
VIII be well represented at the iifth
annual camp at Rio Hondo for VAL
ley Boy Scouts. Aug. 3. A number of
local boys have signed up for the
first week. all Of the boys from
troop IL or 16.
Those who are going are: Emil
and Lawrence F'oSSler Herbert Al
ston. jeff Winning, Bernard and Ken
meth Galbreath. Shannon RDoh.
Randolph Bennett. Hoyt and Fer
guson Hager. Roger Terry. Bob Gar
riSon and John Row Barry.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
Bridge Purchased

EDINBURG. Aug. Purchase OF
a cement bridge south Of Pharr,
from j. f. Pate for $6i9.50. was
authorized BY the commissioners
court this week. The purchase price
represents so per cent Of the cost.
the order reads.
Other orders include purchase OF
a calculating machine for the tax
assessors office.
Employment OF Bryce Ferguson
county attorney as special retainer
for Fl. Tarpley, tax collector. in the
J. G. EpperSon tax contest proceed
ings, was also authorized by the
commissioners court.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
Trial BY Legislature
Faces Texas Judge

AUSTIN, Aug. /. R-District
Judge J. 3. Price OF Bastrop. today
faced a legislative trial for alleged
official misconduct.
The veteran magistrate was ac-
cused yesterday. In charges prefer
red before the Texas house by three
representatives, Of unlawfully and
negllgently approving excessive fee
bills from sheriffs in his district,
the 2lst.
The house voted. after a reading
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
SOLONS SEEK
DELINQUENT
TAX REVISION
Especial to The HerAldl

t1Pt1AdA w 4AAC AAtA~44F
AUSTIN. Aug. Ito avert Seri-
Gus injustice through taking peo-
pies homes and farms for delin-
quent taxes this fall, with no re-
course allowed them, and the pres
ent state machinery playing into
the hands Of professional buyers
in TO rob the owners, Rep. F. C..
Weinert and others viii petition
Gov. Ross S. Sterling TO submit 70
this session revising the delinquent
tax laws and the unqualified as
sessment laws.
Resolution Ready
Rep. Weinert had prepared a
resolution to ask the governors
approval Of corrective measures. A
partial list of signers with him
were Reps. A. p. johnson. whose
corrective delinquent tax bill was
choked 70 death in the senate in
May; Reps. Gus Nerzik. w. T. Saw
age, r. M. Hubbard. Jones of Atlas
cosa. Davis. Hughes. Harrison of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Port ISa-
bel Sunday, under normal Meteo-
BIOLOGICAL conditions.
High $500. 6:35 a. m; Ssh p. m.
Low ....... LOO p. m;
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
New Tourist Bureau VIII Develop ExcursionsFrom Valley Into Mexico

FL Paso. Rountree. Graves. Young
and Forbes.
The resolution recited that while
owners OF farms and homes are
levied in varying amounts up to
more than the full actual value Of
their property. less than 2ia per
cent OF the value OF intangible prop
erty such as money and notes. Is
assessed. though the constitutional
and laws require all to be fully as
sessed and taxed.
The resolution has nothing 10
do with the corporation intangible
assets, or earnings bill sponsored
by Mr.. weinert at the regular ses-
sion.
state Should Assist .
Liberalizing OF delinquent tax
laws would command attention be-
cause of harsh iniustices, Mr..
Weinert said. His resolution says,
The state should assist and not
penalize the delinquents in tax
matters. caused frequently by no
fault Of theirs. by granting a reas-
enable time In which to redeem.
subject to no penalty. minimum
costs and a reasonable rate OF in
terest.
The state. in itS sovereignty. IS
able to do this. and especially TAX
ing into consideration present econ
omic conditions. the state should
expressly be magranimous and lib
eral with its " people for the
sake OF its prosperity and exts-
tence."
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
WEATHER

For East Texas: Partly cloudy
and somewhat unsettled Saturday
night and Sunday.
Light to moderate southeast to
south winds on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
RITIIFTIN

(First figures. lowest tempera-
ture last night; second. highest
yesterday; third. wind velocity a:
Q a. m: fourth. precipitation III
last "a hrs.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
RIyFR

There viii be no material change
IN the river during the next "A to
4S hours.
F1nnd prnrnnN 1l-Hr oa.fI-
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-02
l. DATA
SUMMARY

Sunset today I'll
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

solidarity in time of struggles, to create mass
base for the W.IR.
Few know the extent of the class solidarity
shown by the workers in the past. Despite all
shortcomings, millions of dollars were raised
since 1921 for workers relief abroad and here.
But the instrument itself, the relief organization
was neglected.
From the reports read to the conference by the
Comrades Wagenknecht and Scherer we are able
to gauge the wide possibilities Of a mass move
ment for workers relief, at the present time.
The following figures are very significant
For the Passaic strike-1926-hal a million
dollars were collected in cash and more than
that in food and clothing.
For the miners strike-1926- 2T-three hun
azed thousand dollars were collected exclusive
OF food and clothing.
For the Russian Famine-1s21-a million dol
lars in cash and more than that in food, me-
dicine and tools were collected
If you add the amount collected for the needle
strikers, Gastonia and Anew Bedford, etc. the
sum will be quite imposing. At the same time
not more than ten per cent of the millions of
American workers have been approached In
other words only per cent of the potential
relief resources have been tapped.
The state of mind of the working class at the
1926-27. Two years of crisis have done much to
lower materially the mode of living of the masses
of workers. Eleven millions unemployed; many
more millions leading the life of seni-starvation,
have caused mighty shake-up in the men
tally of the wo.kers. Gone is the belief in the
almighty power of American capitalism. Workers
have begun to think and to talk in terms for
struggle
The conference heard representatives of the
miners say: Give tent and a meal a day
and the strike will only now begin. The con-
ference heard delegates from the textile workers
report, that the spirit of the workers is unbroken
Steel workers assured of their readiness to strike
at the first opportunity. The, unemployed re-
ported preparations for the national hunger
march on the capitol In short, the conference
witnessed the rising of militancy and the will to
fight among broad sections of the working-clas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
District, Section and Unit
Literature Agents

See that you are supplied at once with the
following literature for current campaigns:
| Work Wages, by Grace M Burnham 10
Social Insurance, by Grace M Burnham 10
History of May Day, by Alexander Trach-
| tenberg 10
Race Hatred on Trial 10
Graft and Gangsters, by Harry Gannei 10
Lynching Negro Children in Southern
Courts, by Joseph North .O5
Little Brothers of tire Big Labor Takers
by William z. Foster O5
The Frame Up System, by Vern Smith 10
Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders 10
Youth In Industry, by Grace Hutchins 10
No Jobs Today, by Phil Bard .O5
Life In the U. S. Army, by Walter Trumbull 10
| For the UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN
| Fight Against Hunger .05
Out of Job, by Earl Browder .O5
100000 Unemployed 10
100000 Unemployed .O5
Also Work or Wages and Social Insurance
For the ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Why Every Worker Shuld Join the Com
munist Party O5
The Heritage Of Gene Debs by Alexander
Trachtenberg 10
American Working Women and the Glass
Struggle O5
Revolutionary Struggle Against War VS..
Pacifisn,, by Alex Bitteman o5
Also your local Election Platforms "Out
of job, Flight Against Hunger, Graft
and Gangsters' Race Hatred on Trial.
| "Lynching Negro Children In Southern
| Courts, Work or wagese Social In
| surance".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
TRAITOROUS ACTIVITIES OF
NEGRO REFORMISTS

tense of the system and courts responsible for
this hideous frame-up of nine innocent work
ing class children. Their attacks have been
directed not at the Southern boss lynchers and
their lynch terror, and suppression of Negro
rights but at the Negro and white workers de-
Tending the nine boys.
Again, when the landowners of Tallapoosa
County, Alabama, and their police massacred
Negro troopers and tried to break up their
union, it was not the murderous bosses and their
police that the Negro reforrnsts attacked, but
the white and Negro Communists who were Or
ganizing the croppers Negro and white to-
gether, to resist the swindlng practices of the
landowners
Not only do the Negro reformistS justify these
crimes against the Negro masses, but in Birm-
ingham and Chicago they are actually partici-
pating in the terror against the Negro workers.
In birmingham today we see the shameful
spectacle of Negro preachers and business men
supporting and abetting the boss terror against
the Negro workers and the Communist Party
In that city the bosses have put up reward
of $4,000 as an added incentive to the terror
against the Negro workers and the attempts Of
the police to frame-up militant Negro workers
in connection with the murder Of a society
woman on August T. Part of this reward" is
contributed by the Negro toadies of the boss
C4dSS WIZ JllIS seek 10 curry ldVOI WlUIl LIE
white boss lynchers.
In Chicago, the massacre of unemployed work
ers was planned at meeting attended by white
and Negro landlords and by local leaders of the
N. A, A. c. P. and a representative of the Chi
cago Defender. This meeting called on the po-
lice to use drastic measures against workers dar-
ing to resist the eviction of unemployed workers
and their families The massacre followed
within a few days of this meeting.
Negro workers. Repudiate these traitors!
Rally to the mass revolutionary struggle against
Jim Grow capitalism with its race hatred poison,
it's peonage and enslavement of the Negro
Masses its starvation and eviction program for
the unemployed Join the Communist Party!
Support the right of the Negro majorities of
the South to determine and control their own
form Of government! Support the demand for
the confiscation of the land of the rich land
owners for the Negro and white workers who
till the land! Down with jim Grow capitalism!
On with the relentless fight for Negro rights
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Nv CYRIL BRIGGS.

r7EIE blood of the murdered unemployed Negro
l workers had hardly dried on the streets of
Chicago where they had been shot down by
the police before the Negro refornlists we're has
tening to justify this frightful crime against the
Negro people and the working class.
Crawling on their bellies in response to the
orders of their white masters, shamelessly lick
ing the boots Of these masters before the eyes
of all the world, these damnable traitors came
forward in their traditional role of betrayers of
the struggles of the Negro masses, of apologists
and defenders of jim Grow capitalism and its
nurderous terror against the Negro and white
workers Typical of the attitude of these Shiny
tools of the white ruling class is the statement
of State Senator Roberts:
After hearing those men talk justify all
the police did today
This is a clear-cut, wide open endorsement of
the police terror instigated by the city govern
nent and the landlords against the Negro and
white workers fighting for the right to live,
fighting against unemployment and starvation,
against the cold-blooded denial of unemployment
relief against the eviction of unemployed work
ers and their families, against jim Crowism
and Negro persecution. 1t is a complete en-
dorsement of the suppression of the Negro peo-
pie and Of the whole murderous system of lynch
terror and peonage under which that suppression
is carried out. This role of defender and apollo
gist for the brutal inperialist oppressors of the
Negro masses is definitely the role of the Negro
reforrnists today
This fact is made more and more clear to the
Negro masses as the struggle against Negro op-
preston sharpens, and these masses facing
the necessity Of fighting for their very existence
turn to the revolutionary movement which alone
is carrying on a rght against hunger and evic-
tons, for unemployment relief and for uncondi-
tional equality for the Negro people.
In the Scottsboro case, the traitorous role of
the Negro Uncle Tom reformists is clearly eX-
posed in the underhand attacks on the mass de-
Tense of the nine Scottsboro Negro boys by the
leaders of the N A. A c. P. These attacks
have been carried even to the extent of refusing
the floor at N A. A. c. P. mass meetings and
at the Pittsburgh Conference of the N A. A. C.
P. to parents of the condemned youths William
Pickens, Walter White, DR.. Du Bots and other
nisleaders have frantically rushed to the de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
BY MALACHI EPSTEIN

IT happened ten years ago. Famine was stalking
the width and breadth of the Volga region.
World capitalism was gloating The BolShevik
Revolution must go down with the bodies dead
from hunger. First there was the Civil War, then
the war with Poland, and now the Hunger. The
BoIshevid cannot save themselves. Bloody re-
venge is at hand.
Practical Hoover went step further. He had
some happy experiences in outmaneuvering the
Hungarian workers. Thousands of workers had
paid with their lives for the crumbs Of white
bread given by the charitable American capital
lists Hoover's relief" had been instrumental in
crushing the Hungarian Workers Revolution.
Why not try the same ruse again on a much big
ger scale? To CLOSE Che lid on the Bolsheviki'
(the gay expression of big banker); what mat
tered the wasting of some thousands of tons of
flour?
Hoovers ARA and It's numerous agents went
at it with great zest But alas, they did not for
see that the Russian workers would refuse to be
bought by the American mperialstS. The coun-
ter-revolutionary efforts of Hoover were frus-
trated by the vigilance of the Russian proleta-
rians. Wall Street had in mind to steal march
on the other capitalists by building base in
Russia on flour sacks. When the Soviets are
ended-and all the wise men of capitalism
prophesied the speedy end of the SovietS-
American Imperialism would reap the full bene-
fit of its benevolence toward the hungry
International Solidarity.
At that critical moment the workers of all the
countries again demonstrated their international
class solidarity. With tremendous enthusiasm the
workers everywhere responded to the call of the
Soviet toilers mass movement for Soviet
famine relief sprang up in all parts of the world
The ground was taken from under the feet of
the ARA Its agents could not boast of a mo-
nopoly in distributing relief in the Volga region
Bread, medicine tools from workers in foreign
countries were seen in Soviet cities and villages
with the sign: Workers International Relief 1t
was during the famine on the Volga in 1921 that
the WI.R. came into being
Ten years have passed and a changed No
longer can the enemies point out to the Soviet
Union as the land of starvation. 1t is here in
HooverS blessed America and in the capitalist
countries that millions of workers are jobless
and hungry, while those who still hold on to
their jobs suffer wage cuts, speed-up and in
human worsening of conditions.
On August % a national conference for work
ers' relief was called to deal with the struggles
OF the American workers The conference met
in Pittsburgh in the midst of bloody strikes In
the coal fields of Western PENNSYLVANIA Ohio
West Virginia and Kentucky, in the midst of
textile strikes in Paterson, Rhode Island and
Pawtucket Valley. The conference had as its
aim the building of mass movement for class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16

contained many defects. The most obvious, OF
course, was that the petition was not pushed
energetically enough, and not enough signatures
we're collected; thus not enough pressure was
brought to bear on the members of the tax board
Had many thousands of signatures been collect
ed instead of only 50O it is extremely likely that
the majority of the members of the tax board
body elected indrectly--would not have dared
vote against.
Another defect was the failure to clear up suf-
fiently among the farmers in general the i'm
portant differences between our movement and
that of the small capitalists, also the failure to
rid them sufficiently of their fear OF taking any
move that might be construed as "unconsttu-
tonal." Some effort T-s made in this direction;
the big majority of the farmers, however, re-
NAMED hazy on these important questions An
other error was the failure to link up the move
ment with work in the rayon mills, themselves
The opportunities for such connection were ex-
ceptionally good, since hundreds of the mill
workers live on the farms, and many hundreds
of the farmers and their families are blackisted
workers.
The movement was, however, a step In the
right direction. 1t remains to spread and multi
ply such movements and TO push them with the
proper energy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-01

Since early childhood the Lacey girls had been familiar with the poem, If you're waking call me early, call me early Mother dear" That poem of Tennyson's was writ ten for May day. They knew all about the English traditions of May poles, May baskets and May day festivities. It was only natural. then that Claire begged for party on May day. Please, Mother. may ask some of the girls in for the afternoon? We can play bridge or anagrams or backgammon. Then we will want some refreshments and I thought I'd like a May day cake
 What's your idea of May day cake, Claire?" Why I thought we could have a cake in the center of the table and decorate it like q Maypole. With white or pale green icing we could have slender stick of candy upright in the center. then we could wind vari-colored ribbons about it, finally having them lead 10 favors and place cards