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wo Killed, Three Injured When Negro Communists Attack Police
OK YOKE ADDED
TO UNCLE ANDY,s
y = \ = x
FAMILY CURIOS

An old Mexican OK yoke. secured
near San Fernando, was shipped w
relatives Of Uncle Andy MatherS.
typical Texas frontierSman, here
Monday by Ed McNabb. an Old
friend or the family.
The family, which resides near
Austin, --as q collection OF frontier
antiques TO which the tine wcrn *
yoke Will be added. They have n
other OK yoke which was used when
Texas was a republic.
Uncle Andy. the first white child
born IN Williamson county, died e
Gently. Until his death, he affected
the picturesque garb OF a frontiers
man and was q well known character
throughout central Texas.
The Smithsonian Institute IS hay.
ing an oil painting made Of him as
a typical early Texan.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
M-ISCELLANEOUS DATA
SUMMARY

A high pressure area OF consider
able intensity and extent appeared
over the Canadian northwest and
the adjacent states this morning,
attended by lowest temperature OF
the season at several stations in
the far northwest. 1t is preceded by
a shallow, trough-like low pressure
area and cloudy, unsettled weather,
and light to moderate precipitation
over a wide area, including prac-
tically the entire great central val
leys. Temperatures were unseason-
ably high yesterday and this morn
ing in Texas and the South-central
states, and rather cool TO cold over
the far northwest this morning.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
EVICTION OF
FAMILY LEADS
TO RIOT CALL

CLEVELAND, Oct. 7-P5-A Sec
ond man died today as the result
Of rioting last night which police
said was touched off by a COM
munistic demonstration against
the eviction Of a negro family.
John Crawford, 81, a negro. died
o Few hours after another tenta-
lively identified as Edward D. Jack
son was shot to death, and two
other rioters and two policemen
were injured.
Mob Collects
The outbreak-tne second led BY
communists here in the last two
nights-began when three police
men went to see why q mob of 300
had collected in front Of the home
where the family had been evicted
earlier IN the day.
As a woman shouted, "An right,
lets 60" the angry crowd s/rged
around the trio OF policemen, they
said, and attacked them.
Lieut.. Owen Z. McAdams, leader
Of the police squad, was pulled
down from behind. he said, and
was shot by his own gun a. he
grappled with his aSSailantS.
Patrolman Arthur Bockhousen and
McAdams opened fire, hitting three
Of the rioters.
Reserves Called
A hundred police yer rushed
into the area of the fighting. at
East 9th street and Woodland ave-
nue. in the negro section, and dis
persed the crowd which by that
time had grown to 1000.
The dead man was tentatively
Identified as EIvard d. Jackson,
about As. IN his pockets were an
open j~ack-knife and communistic
literature.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
of Minerals
On Body Is Studied

ROCHESTER, N. Y, Oct. z. Up
A study OF a new type Of diet Of
minerals in common foods Is under
way at the University OF Rochester
School Of Medicine and Dentistry.
To learn what minerals do TO each
other in the body is the first OBJ
jective. This was suggested, says Dr..
W. S. Mccain, in charge Of The
experiments, by a scientific observa-
ton that foods containing excessive
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
MAKES CHUTE JUMP WITH
LEG IN CAST

CALGARY, Alberta-So as not 70
disappoint a huge crowd, and 10
the safety features Of a para
chute. Frank Haddock attempted q
parachute Jump with one Of his legs
In a cast.
Haddock'S leg was hurt in a jump
at Swift Current recently and wi,en
the time came for his scheouieG
jump here. his leg was stlll III q
cast.
Regardless of the leg. Haddocx
climbed in a plane. bailed out al
1000 feet. and landed safely ai.eI
pulling his rip cord halfway down
to earth. His leg vas unhurt In tne
Jump which. Haddock says. was MS
l326th leap,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
w. c. T. u. to Elect

AUSTIN, Oct. 7AP-The Tex
as Woman's Christian Temperance
Union convention today undertook
the election OF officers without a
contest on the surface. Indications
were Mrs. Claude De Van Watts OF
Austin would be returned to the
presidency.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
Texan Acquitted

HOUSTON. Oct. 7-lP)-A district
court jury which deliberated his
case but 10 minutes yesterday &C
quilted L. o. Lies" Te-rant OF a
murder charge in connection with
the Staying OF Tom L. Bryant OF
Galveston.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
Wreck Is Fatal

HENDERSON. oct. 7-tP-L. d.
Hendricks, employee OF the Texas
Oil company, died here last night
from injuries received in a truck
wreck on the highway. His body
was sent to H%aynesville, La, for
burial.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
Injuries Fatal

HENDERSON. Oct 7-lP-Sam
Norman OF jamestown. La. died
from the effect or injuries received
Monday In an automobile accident
on the highway near here.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
WEATHER

For East Texas: Partly cloudy
wednesday nj :; colder in north
west portion; Thursday cloud. W n
local rains in north portion; colder
except on the west coast.
Moderate to fresh southerly TO
westerly winds on the coast.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
BULLETIN

CFirst figures, lowest tempera-
ture last night; second, highest
yesterday; third, wind velocity at
8 a. m: fourth, precipitation in
last "a hrsl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
Buildings Damaged

GEORGETOWN, Oct. 7.-Pl-
Fire damaged n r0oming house. A
grocery store and a restaurant in
the business district la night. Loss
was estimated at about $4,000.
Poland has decided 10 assist
financially in the construction og
private dwellings.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
Thursday, under normal meteorol-
og1cal conditions:
High ....... 200 a. m; 1850 a. m.
Low ....... 7:40 a. m; 7:l2 p. m.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07

Fishermen off Ballantrae Banks
Scotland. recently caught a 500
pound bottle-nosed whale in their
nets.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-07
RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material change
In the river during the next "a to
B6 hours.
Flood Present 2a-Hr. ABR
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03

to wrong tendencies with regard to moves of
desperation among individual miners in the
face of the violence of the government This
tendency which increases now with the diff
culties in the strike, must be overcome. In this
connection it is necessary to combat the ten
dency that exists among some of the leading
comrades in the strike leadership to idealize
such individual acts Of desperation. This ten
dency found its highest expression in the coun-
terpoSinS Of the methods of the miners in the
Kentucky strike area prior to the coming in OF
the N. M. U. into the field as against the meth
DDS of mass struggle and mass mobilization
against the terror that were applied in the
Pennsylvania region. The best example Of the
effectiveness Of mass action and struggle in the
breaking of the terror was the forcing Of the
government to allow the hunger march in the
Allegheny County as a result of the huge dem
onstration in Washington County and the mass
preparations for the Allegheny County hunger
march
The Polbureau is fully confident that the
present weaknesses of the strike can be over
come. This can be achieved through the i'm
mediate correction of the mistakes that have
been brought to light In order to achieve this
we must concentrate on the following main
tasks:
In the Strike Area. The maximum attcn-
ton to the strike in Western Pennsylvania East
ern Ohio and Northern West Virginia The
tasks set forth in the resolution adopted by
the National Miners Conference can only be
achieved through first, strengthening the main
base of the strike. Our aim must be: (a)- To
check the back-to-Work movement. Cb) To draw
the miners who went to work back into the
strike. Co To extend the strike to the bordering
sections CFayette and Westmoreland Cd To
concentrate in these territories in Western
Pennsylvania on the largest and key companies
pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company etc..
In order to achieve these aims it is neces-
Sary to carry through the following tasks
ca Garry through reflections and the re-
neWal Of the local strike committees the sec
ton strike committees and the Central Rank
and File Strike Committee on the basis of
thorough discussion in which we bring to light
all the weaknesses and how to overcome them
To strengthen the strike executive and draw the
striking miners into the work of the day-to-day
leading organs Similarly we must re-elect and
renew the Relief Committees, and the other de-
partments of the strike machinery.
tb) To organize eoings in the mines where
the majority of the miners went back to work
To hold these miners under the influence of the
N. M. U. and do everything possible to draw
these miners beck into the struggle
Co Special efforts must be made To work
out local progrom Of action for each mine and
section on the basis OF the specific conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
We Will Defend Our Father
land, the Soviet Union

Germany was viewed as a likely ally of the
United States in the next war by Brig. General
tucius r. Holbrook, commander of the First
Regular Army Division, in an address before
the veterans of the Seventy eighth Division
The General regarded Russia as a likely
foe. We will face a new alignment in the
next war We will forget our foes of the
World War and welcome them as allies. This
is not an alarmist theory. Foes of the recent
conflict will work together against the common
enemy for the preservation of our governments,
our homes and firesides and our religion -
N. Y Times, July Is
Means Attack on Workers Fatherland
ut is not likely that our country will get
into war with any of its neighbors and
therefore the next war, like the last one will
probably be an overseas campaign, requiring
transport. Captain George w. Steele in an
address at the American Club of Paris, April
30, 1881
As the workers were driven into. the last war
by lies of the defense of the fatherIand so are
the capitalists preparing now for war with the
slogan of the defense of the home. The United
States is going 20 defend its "hone" by IAN
overseas campaign! The United States is
going to defend capitalism by an attack on the
Soviet Union The Soviet Union is the work
ers' home, the workers fatherand Defend the
Soviet Union against tire attacks OF the BOSSES
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Yep, We Rob the Cradle

by the way, Jorge" writes worker frol:
Boston, if I may be so bold as to ask you Whas
is Red, anyhow? You see, we have been
taught by the capitalist press that Reds have
long, black whiskers carry knife between their
teeth, look like pirates of the Spanish Main,
and are so old-fashioned that they think horse
pistols are machine guns.
"Ill tell you, Jorge I am sadly disappointed
in the Reds as have fonnd them in my search
for adventure Because every one Of them have
met has proved to be a man or woman of super
intelligence, and fearless in the cause of uphold
ing the rights of the oppressed
This small epistle is written by poor man.
out Of work, on the steps of Faneml Hall. sup
posed to be the Cradle of American Liberty"
You've answered your own question, comrade
We're just that cussed, besides, that we want
TO rob the cradle of liberty of you, and take you
for the Communist Party. All like you should
come over and slide dewn cellar door
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03

Gus strike bodies, particularly the Strike Execu-
tive that until now has not functioned properly
Ch) To organize and build the fractions in
the Central Strike Committee in the sections
etc
e. ID To pay special attention to the training
OF cadreS from among the miners for every
phase of the strike activity, including the Party
ID To increase the Party recruitment and
strengthen the work of the Party, the Party
agitation and organi2atonal work, the distribu-
ton of the press, ETC., along the lines laid
down in the resolution of the Poitbureau on
the Building the Party in the Mine Fields.
1t is necessary to give the greatest attention
to the following questions which, already stated
in the above tasks, must receive special atten-
ton:
2 Cadres The Party shall send additional
forces into the strike field both for the work
OF the Party and the strike activity in general
But the central tasks with regard to forces is
to build the cadres from among the striking
miners themselves. 1t is impossible to lead and
develop such big struggle merely with outside
forces. We must fight against all tendencies
to think that there are no forces from among
the miners The Party must send in additional
trained and experienced forces. But these forces
together with those leading forces already in
the field, must consider their task not the sub
stitution of themselves for the miners, but to
train and develop the leaders from among the
miners for the strike, the building of the union
and of the Party.
3 Building the Party Some progress has
been made in the building of the Party since
the adoption of the Politbureau resolution on
this task. But this work is proceeding too slow.
There still exists some hesitation in bringing
forward the Party among the miners It is
necessary that the Party assign some additional
experienced agtators and organizers to facl-
tate the recruitment into and the building of
the mine nuclei, the development of the work
and life of the mine nuclei. Special attention
must be given to recruit into the Party from
among the Negro miners, the unemployed etc
No results have been attained in the recruitment
Of women into the Party. This must be over
come without the increasing of the base of the
Party and the improvement of the work of the
Party it will become increasingly difficult to
cope with the problems of the strike and to
overcome all wrong tendencies that arise
d. From Among the Negro Miners. The i'm
portance Of the coal strike from the point of
view of Negro work cannot be overestimated
We have the largest mass of distinctly prole-
tartan Negroes as yet involved in any action led
by the Party $4,000 Negroes, 20 per cent of tc-
tai miners involved This is On the first be-
ginning of serious trade union organization OF
Negro workers by any organization in the United
States; CD it is the beginning of the entrance
OF masses OF Negroes into the revolutionary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Win the Strike!

existing strong and experienced relief machin-
cry Failure to build the W. L r. in prepara-
ton for strikes, which we had correctly fore
casted were approaching. And finally the Or
ganizationaI weaknesses in the collection of
relief, in the building of the relief machinery
both in the district and in the center at Pitts
burgh, the slowness with which the Party the
T. U. U. L. and the other mass organizations
were modified for the campaign, the inadequate
response of the press etc.
Cd Political mistakes in the conduct of the
strike. Here the most important are: Cd Slow
ness and hesitation in bringing forward the
Party. co characterization of the illusions
that still exist among the miners regarding the
U. M. W. A. 80 insufficient reliance in the
united front a. Tendency to look to national
strike perspective as the only way out of all diff
ficulties instead of attention to overcoming or
ganizational shortcomings in present strike
80 Failure to build mass defense which led
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trade union movement; and 90 it is the largest
acceptance by masses of white workers of the
principle in practice of solidarity of Negro and
white workers.
On the strong side, our work shows that %
the division between black and white has been
overcome almost entirely in practice, l. e., strik-
ing together, joining the same union, union &C
ceptance of Negroes on leading committees, az
relatively large proportion Of Negro miners rep
resented at July is conference, and large pro-
portion OF Negro delegates and CD adoption
of concrete, specific strike demands for equal
admission of the Negroes to good" mines and
equal access Of Negroes to all jobs
The weak side Of our work is represeted by:
Cd failure to develop to a sufficient extent the
specific demands of Negro mine workers, such
as would concretize for the Negro workers the
principle of solidarity of Negro and white; 90
failure to draw out and develop Negro leader
ship from the rank and file; go failure to place
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including the spreading of the strike, work
among the unemployed collection of relief, etc.
Cd To strengthen the local relief machin-
cry and to establish better relations with the
Pittsburgh relief office. To intensity the local
relief collections.
(e) Special attention to the building of the
N, M. U. locals. To improve the inner life of
the NJ M U. locals. To organize the Section
and District N. M. U. machinery. To effect the
real leadership of N M. U. locals in the strike,
in its mine,
d) To establish better relations and closer
contact between the center and the mines
through drawing of the miners into the leading
organs, through special instructors, ETC. To fight
against all tendencies to bureaucracy; to estab-
fish genuine trade union democracy from top
to bottom and guard against the reducing of
the leadership of the miners themselves to mere
formal approval of questions.
(g) To regularize the meetings Of the vari-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
EsdS%'~A&
If He's Worried About It
By JORGE

Secretary of Commerce Lamont, writing to
Congressman Condor of Rhode Island about
wage cuts, tries to squeeze out few tears for
the poor capitalists.
He says that the capitalists have only the al
tentative between closing down their factories
Namont hasn't heard of any closed already or
cutting wages.
If it's closing down for lack of orders that's
worrying Lamont, why don't Lamont-who speaks
for Hoover-go after some Soviet orders? The
Soviet is buying hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of machinery in Europe-which the Hoo
yer government is trying to stop, not by offer
ing TO sell American machinery but by entering
european politics to use financial pressude to
prevent entirely as trade embargo preparatory
to war
So lot of American miners, metal workers
and those that make the things these workers
would use if they had wages to buy with, ara
out OF a job. Pharaoh's heart was no harder
than Hoover's head
Cot ~ on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Thanks For The Boomerang!

The Australian bushmen make curved piece
Of wood called a boomerang" which, when
thrown in a certain manner, will go a consid-
cradle distance and then come back to the throw
er. Sometimes, if he doesn't watch out, it comes
back and knocks his own brains out.
From this comes the definition that anything
meant to hit someone else, which comes back
and Injuries the fellow who started it, is boom
erang
We thought about this when we read leaf
let sent in by someone, issued by some obscure
fascist scoundrels calling themselves the Con
stitutional Educational League" of Lansing,
Mich
This leaflet makes great fuss about the I'm
employed Councils and starts off in great big
black type offering $1,000 reward if the informa-
ton it prints is proven untrue Some of it is,
but we don't want to go to the bother to collect
But what worries these birds is funny. 1t thinks
workers, jobless and starving give boot about
what causes the Constitutional Educational
League" cold chills 1t informs them in tones of
alarm that:
1.-THE Communist movement is organizing the
unemployed into what it calls the Unemployed
Council, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity
League and this workers are gravely informed,
"is the American section of the Red Interna-
tional of Labor Unions with headquarters in
Moscow" So therefore, and from this long way
around the bush everybody who joins the IN
employed Council is under orders from Moscow,
Russia"
Much obliged, gentlemen of the Constitutional
Educational League, the workers who read your
leaflet have been waiting for that! We are only
sorry that Moscow" can't be moved right over
to Lansing, because we think it could do better
organizing than those now in direct charge
Anyhow the workers who hear that if they
join the Unemployed Council they will get or
ders from Moscow" where there is no unen-
ployment wages raises instead of wage cuts
and the seven-hour day. will be climbing over
each other to join Thanks for the boomerN~g
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
The Telegram Versus the
Telegram

Again we are disheartened at the discovery
that the. NY. World-Telegram editor is liar
But hardly expected to find it proven in
his own paper. In the issue of July 80 we found
an editorial praising the Steel Corporation, as
follows:
"Action of the United States Steel Corpora
ton. refusing to cut wages. . may be
the sign of better day in American industry
II is particularly encouraging etc. etc
That was on page 20, among the editorials.
But over on page rs, in the financial news, the
financial editor Ralph Henderson,, gave quite
a different view, as follows
"a director of the United States Steel Corp
is authority for the statement that the COM
pany has by no means come to any final de-
cision on the question of wages for mill workers
and other employees The subject, he said, will
probably come up at the next monthly meet
ing of the board. This is somewhat contrary
to the impression gained from the statement
given out after the dividend meeting Tues
day. 1t was thought that only the salaried
workers were to be required to take reduc-
ton"
The World-Telegram has been running Illus
trated stories on how fast their financial editor,
Henderson,, can work And we must say that
somebody worked fast because this Hendershot
story telling the truth about Steel Trust wage
cuts was taken out in late editions, but the lying
editorial was let run in all editions.