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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10
Board to Hear Traction Plea

Hearing on the latest petition to
cut Greenfield off of traction service
by rerouting the Indianapolis to
Richmond line through Newcastle
has been asked of the public service
commission in petition filed
Thursday afternoon by Greenfield
city officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-10

% nn naST are few Of many ssie have
hi in sunni shoes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
F'WARK TO HOLD
PARADE, RALLY
Out for Election Tag
Days in N. J.

NEWARK. N. J., Sept. 22-The
next Red Rally and torch light par
AIDE of the Election Campaign in New
Jersey will be held this Saturday
Sept. 26th, in Newark. Five meet
ingS will be held at the following
corners at $50 p. m: West and Col
lege Sts.; West Kinney and Boyd
Sts.; Boston and Hampton Sts.;
Waverly Ave. and Hillside Place.
The main rally will be held at
Montgomery and Broome SITS. at $50
p. m. and at the finish a torch light
parade will be held, going through
the working class sections of the
city.
The speakers at the meeting will
be the Communist candidates for
Assembly and Freebooter of Essex
County, and the Communist candi-
date for Governor, John ]. BALKAN.
All day Saturday and Sunday is
Tag Days and house-to-house colIec-
ton days for collecting funds for the
Communist Party Campaign Fund in
New Jersey. Workers are urged to
volunteer for work at any of the
Communist Party headquarters in
New Jersey cities, for the Tag Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
'WORKERSDEMAND
LIGHT RATE CUT
Organize to Strik e
Against Robbery

The Communist Party, together
with the Unemployed Council, Ten
ants League and United Council of
Working Glass Housewives is con-
Quoting campaign against the in
crease in rates of gas and electricity
for worker and small consumers
Twice the representatives of these or
CARNATIONS have tried to present
their point Of view before the Public
Service Commission and each time
this has been sabotaged.
The Tenants League, Unemployed
Council and United Council of Work
ing Glass Housewives are circulating
a petition against the increased rates
The signatures so far collected indi-
cate clearly that not only are the
workers ready to sign but are pre-
pared to strike.
This will be organized within a
short time if the Public Service Com
decides that the robbery of
the workers shall continue.
All workers must sign and circu-
late the petitions. Get them at the
Unemployed Council, E. 10Th st.,
and at the Women's Council, 79s
Broadway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
LABOR DEFENDER
GREETS U S S R
Workers Greetings
Being Gathered

New York workers will have an op-
portunity of sending their personal
greetings to the workers and peasants
of Soviet Russia through the Novem-
Der Labor Defender. Between five
and ten thousand copies of this
issue, which will be a special enlarged
edition, will be sent to the leading
factories and collective farms of the
U. s. S. R., where the greetings will
be circulated among the workers.
This will be a living expression of
the solidarity between the American
and Soviet masses and Of the deter
mination OF the American workers to
defend the Soviet Union against i'm
perialist attack.
The price Of greetings in the No
ven1ber Labor Defender ranges all
the way from rs cents to $500. For
just a name, 1t is 25 cents; for a full
page it is 500, half a page $65, etc.
Hundreds of individual workers, as
we'll as organizations, are preparing
to greet through the Labor Defender
their comrades in the Soviet Union
on the celebration of the 14th ami
versary of the Russian Revolution.
Send in yours at once to the district
International Labor Defense office,
1893 Broadway, Room 40.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Ball to Help Get
Funds to Put Out
Paper, Vida Obrera'

NEW YORK.-MeXican music, as
well as an excellent program OF Lat
in American entertainment, will be
one of the important features Of the
Vida Obrera dance, Saturday night
at the Harlem Casino, 1i6th Street
and Lenox Avenue.
This dance is being run to obtain
funds to re-establish Vida Obrera
workers Life), the Spanish lang
uage organ of the Communist Party.
This paper has been repeatedly at
tackled by the government which
recognizes this as a powerful weapon
of the Latin American workers in the
United States. Mailing rights have
been suppressed.
Every worker should come to this
dance, where besides having a good
time, with an unusual program, he
will help Vida Obrera to appear and
take vital part in the present
struggles OF the Latin American
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
WIR INTENSFES
RELIEF DRIVE
Mass Collection of Food
Next Week

Answering the desperate call for
immediate relief from the starving
coal miners, the Workers Interna-
tional Relief and the Penn. Ohio
Striking Miners Relief Committee
have intensified their campaign for
the benefit of the heroic miners
striking against starvation.
Among the activities on the inlme-
date program are mass collection of
foods to begin on Saturday, Sept. &c
and to end on Friday, Oct. 2. Relief
sections, fraternal organizations,
workers clubs and individuals are
strongly urged to expend every eff
fort during the collection days to
gather the food that is absolutely
vital for the starving miners and
their families. Further directions
can be obtained at the offices ofthe
Workers International Relief, Room
$50, 79s Broadway.
Solidarity coupons costing ten cents
and to be distributed during the COL
lection period can also be obtained
at the w. I. r. office. =. SIZE
Workers, answer this desperate
plea of the thousands of starving
miners and their families for bread,
clothing and tents. Help them in
their heroic struggle against starva-
ton!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
ANTI-RELIGIOUS
GROUP ACTIVE
Two Branches Formed
Already in City

A working class Anti-Relgious
organization, the first of its kind to
be formed in the United States, has
been organized in New York City.
1t is called the Workers Anti-Relig
iouS League and is affiliated with the
Workers Cultural Federation.
The need for such an organization
has long been apparent, but the pre-
sent crisis has brought into sharp
ened relief the anti-working class
role of the church. Among the pri-
mary functions of the Workers Anti
Religious League will be to expose
anC fight the anti working class &C
tivit. of the churches during strikes,
their aid to the ruling class in the
keeping of the Negro masses in sub
lection and their participation in the
imperialist campaigns against the
Soviet Union. The role Of the mis-
sionaries as representatives of the
imperialist governments, as well as
the attempts of the churches and
their auxialiaries like the YMCA ant
the YMHA to bride the working class
with hypocritical gestures of char
ity will also be exposed and combat
ted by the League.
The Workers Anti Religion
League is being established on a New
York City-wide basis at first, BIZ
it is planned to build nationwide
organization as soon as it is practic-
able to do so. Two branches in New
York City have already been formed,
one in Harlem with temporary meet
ing quarters at 10 w. 116th ST., and
the other in lower Manhattan with
temporary meeting quarters at 100
East 14th Street.
The next meeting of both branches
will take place on Monday, Sept. %
at p. m at their respective meet
ing halls. A general membership
meeting will be held at 10s E. 14th
Street on Monday Oct. S, at p. m.
All workers and interested sympa-
ohizers are strongly urged to attend.
Communications should be sent to
the general headquarters of the
League at So w. 18th ST., New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
All Delegates Must
Attend Second Conf.
For Press Bazaar
BY RYAN WALKER

All delegates who were present at
the last bazaar conference must be
present at the next conference, which
will take place Thursday evening,
october 1, at the Workers Center, IS
East 18th Street, Room 2o5.
All other organizations which were
not represented at the last confer
ence should send delegates to this
conference. Every workers organi-
cation is urged to send delegates.
Delegates should be prepared to re-
port the concrete steps that their
organization have taken for the ba-
zaar. There are only two weeks left
before the bazaar and we must do
everything possible in these two
weeks in order to make the bazaar
OF our revolutionary press a big sue
cess.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Underwear Workers
Come to NTWIWU for
Strike Lead err hip

Alarmed at the response Of the un-
derwear workers to the call of the
Industrial Union for real struggle in
the shops against wage cuts and for
union conditions, the company union,
Local 81, sent out hired gorillas to
break up the open air meeting ar
ranged at 3oth st. and Madison Ave.
The workers Missed the gorillas and
promised to go down to the meeting
in Irving Plaza en- masse.
This weeks activities among the
underwear workers marked the be-
ginning Of the organization campaign
launched by the union Many work.
ers are coming to the office of TIE
union with complaints about the
conditions in the shops. The Indus
trial Union has appointed a special
organizer to take charge of the I'M
derwear trade.
The underwear department will be
open every day from in the morn
ing till in the evening. Workers are
called upon to bring their complaints
to the office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
IN. Y. Stikebreaker
Received Hundreds
OF ThOuS. in Graft.
Rockerfeller's Chic f
Thug During 1929

NEW YORK.-The disclosure that
Peter De Vito, Of Jamaica, Queens,
received $5O3, 900 from Rockefeller to
break the 1929 Standard Oil Strike OF
gas stations handlers and drivers, was
made yesterday when he was arrest
ed for failure to file proper income
tax on this huge sum.
De Vito is said to be at the head
Of professional strike breaking
agency. Federal Attorney Annen of
Brooklyn said Of De Vito:
HE is the biggest racketeer in
the strike breaking business and is
reputed to be the only man in
Greater New York who can sue
ceSsfulIy break a strike at any
time"
During the 1929 strike of gasoline
workers, Rockefeller used professional
scabS and strikebreakers to man the
gasoline stations and trucks.
Bosses Use De Vito.
De Vito is said to be hired by all
the big employers in breaking strikes
and his temporary falling out with
the federal government was due to an
oversight on his part. He will be used
again in the coming strikes of the
workers against wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
IN.
THREE VICTORIES
AFL Shows Sympathy
With Industrial Union

NEW YORK.-Three struck uphoI-
stery shops yesterday acceded to the
demands of the strikers under the
leadership of the Furniture Workers
Industrial Union. The workers of the
following shops won union conditions
such as the 4o-hour week, week work
instead Of piece work and other de-
mands including recognition of the
Furniture Workers Industrial Union:
State Upholstery Co., All Bedford
Ave, Brooklyn; Blumenthal Uphol-
Stery, EOS Grand ST.; Lewis Uphol-
Stery Co., Gates Ave.
The bosses and the foreman Mad
Ter, together with officials Of the
AFL local 76, forced workers of the
Rockford Upholstering shop into the
AFL organization. The workers, how
ever, demonstrated that they saw in
the Furniture Workers Industrial
Union their own organization, by do
mating S20.25 to help build the union
and aid the strikers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
LABOR RESEARCH ASSN. RE-
QUEST

Labor Research Assn. would like
to know the person who mailed us
some very interesting comments on
the Labor Fact Book on September
3. The letter was mailed from Ire
mont Station, New York. 1t was
written on buff paper in blue ink
and contained large number of
book and periodical references and
also enclosed a Department of Com
MERGE, Bureau of the Census, release
on persons ten years and over en-
gagged in gainful occupations" In
view of the value of the communica-
ton to us we are especially eager to
identify and have a talk with the
writer who forgot to give us neither
his name or address. Phone Dunn
or Hutchins at Stuyvesant 9-8637.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Outing Sunday By
Protection Foreign
Born Committee

The New York City Committee for
the Protection of the Foreign Born
will have an outing Sunday Septem-
Der 9th, 1900 p. m. at Ezra Park,
233rd Street and Boston Road.
A program Of sports will be given
by the sport section of the Young
FinnlanderS' organization. There
will also be literary program, in
Guiding lecture by member of the
National Committee for the Pro-
lection of the Foreign Born. Dane
ing will take place after the program
to late in the night.
How to get there Take Boston,
Westminster r. r. to Dyer Ave. Sta,
follow signs to the grounds.-7 cents
fare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
WAKEFIELD TO
SPEAK FRIDAY
Harlan Prisoners Tell
of Ky. Terror

Jessie London Wakefield, just re-
leased after spending six weeks in
the Harlan County Jail, and Bill
Duncan, militant Kentucky miner
who faces a charge of criminal syn
dicalism, will be the speakers at a
mass meeting this Friday night, Sept
25, called by the Borough Park
Branch of the International Labor
Defense. The meeting will be held
at $3.50 p. m. at 1873 43rd ST., Brook
Ign.
The meeting will demand the i'm
mediate, unconditional release Of
Tom Mooney, the Harlan miners, the
Scottsboro boys, the Imperial Valley
and Centralia prisoners, the Paterson
five, arrested silk strikers and all
other class war prisoners. All Boro
Park workers are urged to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
2 PENNSYLVANIA
BANKS IN CRASH
Money for Most Part
Lost to Depositors

WILKES-BARE, Pa.-The Dime
Bank Title and Trust Company with
deposits of $2,5o5,3 1899 and a capital
of $4,603,7 44, was closed September
2. by the State Department Of
Banking.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The State De-
partment of Banking yesterday
closed the Merchants Savings and
Trust Co. here. The total deposits
were not reported.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The prom
ised reorganization of the closed
Gankers Trust Co. was declared i'm
pcssible and liquidation of the bank
HSsets are now under way, with the
.epositors' share a low percentage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
II RED ELECTION
RALLIES SET FOR
BRONX SATIJR.
Communist Candidates
To Speak

NEW YORK.-The election cam
psign is in full swing in the Bronx.
1t started out with collecting $4,000
signatures and very successful sec
ton ratification banquet and + now
continues with house to house can
wasting and big political mass rallies.
On Saturday, September IS, at 8
pm, there will be eleven open air
rallies at the following places, where
the candidates Of the Party will ex-
pose the role Of the three political
parties, the democratic, republican
and socialist.
10th st. and st. Nicholas Ave,
Y.CL. to take care.
174th St. and vyse Ave, Y,CL 10
take care
Aldus and SO. Boulevard, Units 3,
and 5.
Intervale and wilkins, Units 7, 8,
g, 10, Is and IT.
18Oth st. and DAILY Ave, Units 10
and 10.
gath st. and White Plains Rd.,
Units 20. 81. % and %.
18th st. and Combrelling Ave,
Units II, IL and IA.
Prospect and Longwood AYES, Units
6, Is and Is.
163d st. and Simpson Ave, Y.CL.
lS9th st. and st. AIMS Ave, Units
/, and vel.
Claremont and Washington Ave,
Y. C. L.
At these open air meetings hun
dreds of party platforms are being
sold and the workers are recruited
into the vote Communist Clubs"
A large truck with Communist slo-
gans is going from meeting to meet
ing, stopping at busy corners and
spreading the Communist standpoint
on the different issues of the pres
emit election; unemployment, wage
cut, speed up, war danger, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
ADMITS CHARITY
RELIEF WILL NOT
AID THE JOBIESS
Bosses to Mulct the
Workers Still In the
Shops For Funds

Declaring that he estimated the
number of unemployed in New York
at 100000 or more, Lawson Purdy, a
director Of the Charity Organization
Society, said that the combined forces
of state, city and private charity
agencies would not meet the demands
of the jobless this winter Purdy
admitted that all his organization
would do would be to estimate the
extent of the need of the 10000
jobless and their families totalling
we'll over a million in New York
alone.
Purdy, in line with the policy of
the bosses to make the workers still
working pay for their miserable
charity said that the employed would
be mulcted heavily.
A total of $3.50, 1874 persons were
given limited amounts of food, cloth
ing. rent, fuel and found jobs to the
extent of 81, 36,75784, from october
81, 1880 to June 80, 1881, the Mayors
committee for the relief of the I'M
employed reported. How farcically
inadequate this sum is may be seen
when by doing problem in division
it is found that each person SO "re-
lieved" received a fraction more than
25's cents.
The City Free Employment Agency
9Iaced workers at jobs that would
1e extremely temporary, the longest
la5ting for a week and the average
.. two or three days duration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Harlem YCL Mass
Meet to Protest Chile
Threat of Execution

The Harlem section of the Young
Communist League has called a mass
meeting in the Spanish Workers Cen
ter, 10 w. 116th ST., Friday, septem-
Der Is, pm. in defense Of the
Chilean leaders under threat of ex-
ecution by the Chilean bourgeoisie.
This meeting will be a rally to
bring the Latin American workers
of Harlem to the Young Communist
League demonstration on Saturday in
front of the Chilean consulate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
"TABU", SOUTH SEA FILM, AT
CAMEO THEATRE SATURDAY.

'Tabu", the picture that recently
played on Broadway for an extended
run, will be shown for the first time
at popular prices at the Cameo The
atre, beginning Saturday morning.
"Tabu" features Reri, the Polyne-
sian dancing girl from Tahiti, who
has since appeared in the "Follies".
The story is romance of the Poly
nesians with all their primitive life
and habits.
"Tabu" was directed by F. w. Muir
nau and the story was written by him
in collaboration with r. j. Flaherty.
The entire production was filmed in
the South Sea Islands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Carl BrOdSky VIII
Teach Class For
First Voters

Glass for first voters begins
Wednesday evening Sept. 3oth, 7
p. m. Carl Brodsky, instructor.
All workers who are citizens and
will vote for the first time this
year should attend this class. First
voters are required to pass test
of reading and writing called lit
eracy Test" The class will cover
this point and instruct workers on
{ - rights at the polls. Register
immediately at the Workers
School, Bird floor, SO e. 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
College Students
Hear Wakefield On
Harlan Situation

NEW YORK. - Jessie Wakefield,
who was recently released from the
HARLAN, Kentucky jail, spoke to
about 200 students of the City Col
lege Social Problems Club on the
situation in the coal fields. Follow
ing her talk a collection was taken
up for the International Labor De-
Tense and telegram protesting the
frame-up Of the miners was sent to
Governor Sampson of Kentucky.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
LsNR DANCE SAT. IN BRONX.

BRONX, N. Y.-The Alfred Levy
Group of the League of Struggle for
Fegro Rights is giving a dance this
saturday evening in connection with
The Liberator circulation drive.
The dance will be held at 500 Pros
D2ct Avenue, the Bronx. Excellent
dance music has been obtained, and
all workers are urged to turn out for
a nice evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Red Election Tag
Days This Satur-
day and Sunday

Special Election Campaign Tag
Days Saturday and Sunday, Sept.
18th and 9th. All members of
revolutionary unions, members of
the Trade Union Unity League,
needle trades workers, all workers
in shop and factory, support the
Red Drive for funds. Help place
Communist Party candidates on
the ballot. All out for Tag Days,
this Saturday and Sunday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
Won Grona Dancers
To Appear at Icor
Concert SATURDAY.
Won GRoNA DANCERS.

On Saturday, September 26th. the
IGOR" will hold its annual concert
at Carnegie Hall, 57th st. and Tth
Ave-, New York, for the benefit Of
Jewish colonization in Bro Bldjan,
U.S.SR. In the program win parti-
cipate the following artists:
Won Grona and his 8 dancers, an
outstanding exponent of the modern
dance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
ZANGWILL'S MERELY, MARY
ANN" AT THE HIPPODROME

Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell
are seen in their newest romance,
Merely Mary Ann, at the Hippo
drome this Saturday. Beryle Mercer
j. M. Kerrigan and Arnold Lucy play
leading roles in the film version of
Israel zangwill's we'll known story.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25
What's On

FRIDAY
Intcg~-tionaI Labor Defense,
Alfred Levy Branch
Comrade Engdahl will speak at
be held at 525 Vermont St, at pm,
under the auspices of the LID.
Workers are invited.
TWO. Youth Branch 404
VIII meet at $50 pm. at the hone
of Lily Sachuoff 1151-46 St, Broot,-
lyn.
TWO, Youth Branch No. 4O4.
The Intwor Br. will meet tonight,
$50 p. m. at the Home of Lily Sach-
poff, 1851 46th St. B'klyu. All young
workers and students invited.
sports Br. TWO.
will meet $50 p. m, at 1900 Bos-
ton Road. All young workers and
students invited.
Middle Village Youth Branch
Young workers and students are
invited to the open forum to be held
tonight Mt 1 Fulton, Middle Village,
LOu@ Island. ..... 49,. 80. ....,
youth TWO, Jamaica Branch
Will have a discussion at Finnish
Hall, 1926 Union Hall St, $3.50 pm.
Bronx Branch
win meet at $3.50 pm. at 400 Bos-
ton I'd.
Friends of the Soviet Union,
Williamsburg Branch
will hold mass meeting at Grand
Assembly Hall, 3lS Grand Street
(nesr Havemeyer). Pauline Rogers
viii speak on What 1 Saw in the
Soviet Union"
Harlan Prisoners Speak.
Jessie London Wakefield, just re-
leased from prison in Harlan, Ken
lucky and Bill Duncan, one of the
striking miners will speak at 1879
43rh Street Brooklyn, September %.
at $40 p. m. All workers are invited
TO hear them.
Metal Workers Industrial Lesgu
A very important membership
meeting will be held September %,
s pm. at f. 10th st. Every mem
her must attend and should bring
fellow metal worker with him, en-
ployed or unemployed.
Workers Laboratory Theatre
VIII have its regular membership
meeting September rs, at pm. at
100 Broadway, in room 3s0. All in
terested are invited.
Friends of the Soviet Union
Williamsburg will hold a mass
meeting al Assembly Hall, 31S Grand
street (near Havermeyer), Pauline
Rogers win speak.
Women's Council ~
Will have lecture on the 5-Year
Plan. Sept. %, at 3 pm. at 140 Nep- |
tune Ave, Brooklyn.
SATURDAY
TWO Nors No. 4OI
win Dt 2G, at $3.50 |
pm. at I'd. Good time |
assured all emission 3bo In |
--"-7ce; .Je at door,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Workers Correspondence is the
backbone Of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for d
about your day-to- day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Build workers correspondence
grown in your factory, shop or
r bOrhood. Send regular letters
" the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Will have its regular membership
meeting September rs, at s pm. at
100 Broadway, in room $40. All in
'terested are invited.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

Williamsburg will hold a mass
meeting at Assembly Hall, S1S Grand
street (near Havermeyer), Pauline
Rogers win speak.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-25

viii have 81 lecture on the 5-Year
Plan. Sept, IS, at pm. at 140 Nep-
tune Ave, Brooklyn.