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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
TOILERS RESPOND
TO NY COMMUNIST
ELECTION DRIV Z
But Campaign Should
Be Speeded Up to
Obtain Signatures

NEW YORK-The signature drive
to enable the Communist Party to
run candidates in territories where
the Socialist Party polled a heavy
vote last year is meeting with ex-
ceptionally good response among
workers, who had had their eyes
opened by the greatest treacheries
of the Socialist Party.
The fact that Norman Thomas, the
Socialist clergyman, is now appearing
before the public hearings on the
Queens bus racket, held before the
deputy comptroller, F. G. Priel, does
! not fool the workers. Norman Thorn
as and Company, the whole yellow
socialist leadership have sold out the
workers repeatedly in all struggles in
New York in every strike and in the
struggle for immediate relief for the
million jobless workers and their
families in New York. The fact that
Norman Thomas is now posing as a
champion for the bus workers fright
to unionize" and for the "6 day week
and hour day., means only an cleo
ton campaign tactic, not real fight
for workers demands. The socialist
party does not fight for the workers
The task for all class conscious
workers is to speed up the sigma
ture drivef smash the socialist party
influence in all sections of the city
and to get the workers this year to
Vote Communist, to elect Communist
fighters for the assembly and alder
manic posts who will expose the n.y.
pocriSy of the triple alliance of the
socialists and fight for the interests
Of the working class. Workers in
shops should organize Vote Commu-
mist Committees and then work in
their neighborhoods to organize Vote
Communist Clubs All workers Or
CARNATIONS should act Immediately to
elect their delegates on the basis OF
five delegates for every fifteen work.
ers to attend the Mass Ratification
Congress on Friday, September 10,
at Central Opera House. Make the
ratification congress a monster meet
ing in support of the Communist
Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Furious Boss Terror Raging
Against Negro, White Workers
|. L. D. Calls for Mass Protests and Amnesty
Demonstrations to Demand Freedom of
Class War Prisoners

NEW YORK.-A statement re-
leased to the press by the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights re-
cords 80 known lynchings for the
first eight months of the year. The
statement, which gives the names of
victims, the dates and places of the
lynchings, exposes the wide extent
and intensity of the murderous boss
class suppression of the Negro mas
ses of which the Scottsboro case
has become a worldwide symbol.
This brutal lynch terror is only one
form of boss suppression aimed at
sitting the protests and crushing the
growing struggles of the Negro mas
ses against their frightful economic
and national oppression. The hide
Gus crime of the Alabama bosses in
condemning eight Of the 9 innocent
Scottsboro boys to the electric chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

on a brazen framed-up charge of
rape" is lurid example of the in
creasing use of the boss courts in
clothing the lynch terror in the garb
of legality.
The attacks on the Negro masses
are increasing in fury and extent
with the deepening of the economic
crisis of capitalism. The offensive
against the Negro masses is part
of the furious onslaught of the ca
pitaliSts against the entire working
class an onslaught featured espe-
cially by the furious persecution
against the Negro and foreign born
workers. The boss offensive is dir
ected at crushing the struggles of
the working class against unemploy-
ment, wage cuts, starvation and evic-
tons with a view to forcing the
working class to bear the, full bur-
dens of the economic crisis in star
walton, suicides and general mass
misery.
Throughout the county struggles
of the workers, Negro and white, are
being attacked by the bosses and
their local and national governments.
The most brutal suppression of the
struggles of the striking miners of
Kentucky is occurring at this min
ute. Negro and white miners are
held in jail in Harlan, KY, on a
framed-up charge of murder. One
of the white mine strikers is facing
a charge of murder for defending a
Negro fellow worker against the
thugs of the mine operators.
In Chicago, several Negro and
white workers are still facing
trumped-up charges arising out of
the heroic defense Of the white and
Negro unemployed workers against
the police massacre on August 8,
when three Negro unemployed work.
ers we're killed and scores of white
and Negro workers wounded by the
police, cossacks acting under the or
ders of Negro and white landlords.
In Camp Hill, Ala, several Negro
troopers are still in danger of being
railroaded to long prison sentences
by the courts of the Tallapoosa land
owners who murderously attacked
meeting of the Share Choppers Union
in an attempt to smash the organ
ization of the enslaved troopers. One
Negro cropper, Ralph Gray, was
murdered by the landowners and
their police agents, and several
scores thrown into prison. Mass pres
sure, exerted under the leadership OF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
DELAY KY. TRIALS
TO STOP MASS PROTEST:
MUST RUSH AID TO MINERS
international Labor Defense for Funds and Nationwide
Protest; Fight far Harlan Miners Is Task
Of the Entire Working Class
Also Demand Wide Movement to Win Freedom for
I1ooney and Other Class War Prisoners

Practically every miner in Harlan jail on
murder charges, confederating, banding and
Criminal Syndicalist charges is in danger of
death by starvation, it was discovered today by
the international Labor Defense organizing a
world protest of the working against the coal oper
ators' terror.
Sheriff John Henry Blair has declared LET them and
starve in JAIL The prison authorities quick to respond
the sherffs orders Most of the imprisoned miners have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Speaks for Govt and
Lies About Rich
Who Own All

aires owned the country. Secondly,
he proposed immediate wage-cuts as
a solution" for the crisis.
Regarding wage-cuts, Strawn de-
clared:
THE wage earners," he said, must
come to realization that the manu-
facturer cannot resume production
at cost too high for the consumer
to pay. The situation demands, and
I believe will receive, the cooperation
of labor with capital
This precisely has been the policy
OF Hoover as yell As William Green.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
$4,000 CLEVELAND JOBLESS
FIGHT FOR JOBS; SCORES
DROP OF HUNGER, WOUNDS
Unemployed Council Calls for Demonstration; Plans
Hunger March October Is
County Had Offered Few ParIne Jobs Digging Ditche
For Bare Keep Many Wait All Night

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept 1O.-Over $4,000
unemployed workers massed at the county
storeyards here when they learned that few
jobs digging. bitches were offered for just
enough to keep a man alive. So great became
the of obess who started to form their lines the night
before that rush started and dozens of workers hurt
while scores of others tainted from hunger.
The Unemployed Council of Cleveland is preparing to hold
demonstrations at both the East and West Side county
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

pay slash will be soon an
nounced.
The financial editor of the
New York Evening Post de-
clares:
"Since a wage-cut has been
widely predicted in the steel indus
try, the general assumption was
that such a conference probably
would be to discuss wages as well
as other general operating econo-
miles,"
He also reported that when the
officers of the United States Steel
Corporation were questioned they
refused to say anything. Hereto
fore, President James Farrell of the
United States Steel Corporation re-
peatedly denied there would be wage
cuts. Pointing out that the action
against the office workers was just
a preliminary step to general wage
cut, the Post writer says;
cat the time the impression was
that this action was the forerunner
of a general reduction which even
tually would reach the wage
Garner"
He goes on to state that profits are
running down and the bosses look to
wage slash to make up the prof.
its, thus giving the parasites more
money at the expense Of the living
standard of the steel workers. He
writes:
with the industry operating
around 81 per cent of capacity, it
is obvious that the steel producers
are having difficult time making
both ends meet, and Wall Street
would not be surprised if third
quarter results show that the Steel
Corporation earnings failed to
cover fully the dividend on its pre-
| ferred stock"
To cover fully the dividend" the
executives who meet next week will
slice the slim pay of the steel work
ers, and at the same time speed
them up. This is admitted by the
same Post writer, who declares:
'In their efforts to bring down
expenses to offset loss of business,
it was predicted directors eventu-
ally would have to cut wages, de-
spite reluctance to do so for fear it
would have an adverse effect upon
sentiment and lead to widespread
reductions in other industries"
Several small strikes have already
broken out in the steel industry,
showing that the workers are FESTIVE
and preparing for action. Many of
them, through the capitalist press,
and through the lying propaganda
of Green and other misleaders Of
the American Federation of Labor,
have been led to believe there will
be no wags-cuts. This propaganda
is an effort to keep them from strik-
ing.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League, affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League, is carrying on
organization to prepare for strike
against wage-cuts. Every worker
must take part in this organization
drive, as the time is short and wage
cuts are coming soon. Shop COM
mittees must be organized every
where. Organize and strike against
wage-cutS!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

Matthew Vol and other leaders of
the American Federation of Labor
direct support to lowering produc-
ton costs through speed-up, longer
hours and direct wage slashes and by
the cooperation of labor Thy this
Strawn means the leadership of the
A. F. of L.-editor) with capital"
Strawn does not speak abstractly
when he calls for wage cuts. He has
in mind the Forthcoming pay slash
for 250,o00 steel workers, and the pay
cuts going on VI the leading cor
porations with which he is connected.
Strawn is attorney for the First Ma
tional Bank of Chicago, Montgomery
Ward g. Co.. which exploits thou
sands Of young workers; the Union
Stock Yards, where tens of thousands
xCnNTINIfEn nm pAGN TunEEA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

'yart" 49,, Y 1900 unemployed
l. g n hunt for part time
jobs. The Unemployed Council will
demands jobs for all the men at full
union wages.
At the same time preparations are
being made for a County Hungar
March to start on October IS on
Cleveland, the seat of Cuyahoga
County, The demand of the hunger
march will be $3.50 immediate cash
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
Mayor Murphy Has Gay Time
in N. Y. While JObless Starve

NEW YORK. -Mayor Frank Muir
ply of Detroit is in New York City
having hell of good time" as
the Broadway columnists term it.,
while his Welfare Bureau in Detroit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11

nitrate for Russian oil. Chile i'm
ports oil products each year valued
at $36,OO0,oOo. The plan would in
volve establishment Of Russian re-
fineries here"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-11
US. Steel Heads Meet in Wall
St. for Drive to Slash Wages
New York Post Says 100000 Workers Will Get
Wages Slashed Soon Because Profits
Must Be Kept Up for Bosses

NEW YORK-Heads of the operating subsidiaries of the
United States Steel Corporation will meet here week
prepare the cut drive against 100000 steel workers. The
cut started by cutting the pay of office workers.
speeding steel workers firing thousands and the
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
BOY CONFESSES
TO MURDER

BROOKLINE, Mass, March 25
G.N.S0. = Following an alleged
confession by Paul~V. Hurley, 10,
that he killed Patrolman Joseph
O'Brien here last August, Assis-
tant District Attorney Edmund r.
Dewing today prepared to ask for
an early trial of Hurley and
Thomas Healey, 10, of Pittsburgh,
his alleged actomplice.
Less than an hour after his ar
rival from Baltimore, where he
was apprehended, Hurley ad-
mitted shooting PatrOlman o O'Brien,
according to Dewing, and told
authorities of his whereabouts
since his disappearance following
the shooting.
His arrest in Baltimore, accord
ing to Hurley, was brought about
by a friend, who notified police.
Healey was arrested in New
York following the shooting and
is awaiting trial in Dedham Jail.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
|NOTOR|ST DIES.
LOST IN W|LDS

HOMESTEAD, Fla, March 25
I.N.SO.-A graphic and tragic
story of how Thomas HI. Wentz,
wealthy NOrristOwn, Pa, bust.
ness man, became lost and wan
dered for 13 days through the
Everglades, existing on roots
and herbs, was revealed here to-
day by Indian trackers who
found his body after a three
weeks search by police had
failed.
Died of Starvation
Wentz come to his death by
starvation after becoming trapped
in the wilderness of the Ever.
glades when he attempted to find
aid for his disabled automobile
on a lonely "dead-end" logging
road, according to a coroner's
jury.
His body was to be returned to
NorriStown today.
The almost complete picture of
Wentz's activities during his fatal
imprisonment in the Everglades,
as reconstructed by the three In.
dian trackers-Chief Joe Osceola,
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
FIGHT
TO SAVE BOY
BY OXYGEN
Son of Lieut.. R. D. Crompton
Sinking Fast; Rescue Squad
Brought Back, Hope Slim

Fighting to save the life of
George Crompton, II, son Of one
of their comrades in the Fire
Department, Rescue Squad No. 2
today is constantly administering
oxygen to the youth in an effort
to restore natural respiration.
Young Crompton, the son OF
Lieut.. R. D. Crompton, 1911
Maple St., Silver Spring, Md,
who is attached to Engine Com
pany "a, was taken ill several
days ago with double pneumonia.
At about 3 p. m. yesterday
breaththing became difficult, and
DR.. H. H. Hewlett summoned the
rescue squad.
Working in three-man relays.
the squad administered oxygen
steadily until 1855 this morning,
when the crisis was believed past.
This morning at $50 the youth
started to sink again. The rescue
squad was recalled and has been
working steadily since.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the
rescue squad sent for more
oxygen. They reported at that
time:
Hes just holding on. We
are going to keep on trying
to save him."
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
Attack on Gandhi
Frustrated by
FOUOwer

KARACHI, India, March IS
UN.SD.-A 60-year-old follower
of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi to.
day warded off the blow from
the butt-end of a black flag
aimed at the ''holy man" by a
member of the Indian Youths
League, which staged a hostile
demonstration when the nation
alist leader and his party ar
rived at Malir station, II miles
from here.
The youth leaped forward to
strike Gandhi, but white haired
Pundit Malaviya rushed in be-
tween and frustrated the at
tack.
1t was the first attempt to
inflict physical injury on
Ganhdi since he launched the
civil disobedience campaign.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
WOUNDED ON
WILD TAXI
SPREE
Army Mans Son Compelled
Driver to Take Ride Which
Ended in Uptown Area

Charles M. Wesson, 3rd, "a, son
Of Lieut.. Col. C. M. WesSon, U
s. A., whs was shot by Detective
M. F. Mahaney, of the Eighth
precinct, on the night of Jan,
uary 16, died as result of the
wound last night at Walter Reed
Hospital.
Young WesSOn according to the
testimony of ]. r. Jensen, 529
Ninth st. S. w., a driver for the
Diamond Cab Company, com
Wandered his machine and
forced him on a wild ride during
which he fired several shots
from q revolver.
Drove to Airport
Jensen said that he picked the
youth up at Florida Avenue and
Twentieth st. N. W., and drove
him to the Washington Airport,
where Wesson was employed in
a clerical capacity. It was when
he left the office that the
weapon was first in evidence.
After forcing Jensen to drive
him through Potomac Park, young
WesSon is said to have fired three
shots from the weapon and then
demanded that the driver take
him to the point from which they
started.
1t was at KaIOrama Road and
Connecticut Ave. N. w. that De
tective Hahaney tried to stop
Wesson and fired the shot which
penetrated WesSen's breast below
the heart.
Shooting Justified
For several days the youth was
lying between life and death in
Garfield Hospital. He was later
transferred to Walter Reed, where
he died last night.
An inquest into the death will
be held at the District morgue
tomorrow morning /at 1880
o'clock.
Mahaney is not being held. as
investigation revealed that the
) shooting was justified, Wesson
having brandished the revolver
as though to shoot the detective.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25

BALTIMORE, March 25 GIN.
SO.-A messenger boy delivered a
cablegram this morning at the
home of Peter Balko. soap fac
tory employe, and things started
to happen.
He shouted to his wife and his
four small children that the $3.50
ticket he bought in EngIand's
Grand National SteeplechaSe lot
terry had won him $500.
Then Began to Look
Mrs. Balko Rugged him and the
children shouted. Then Balko
ended the happiest moment in
his life and started to search for
his ticket.
But he couldn't find it.
Ransack the House
His smile gave way to wrinkles
of worry as he and his family
ranSacked the house several times
The Washington times., 1931-03-25

chickie, chickie;" "Chick, chick,
Siss, chick, chick"
It's the big feature of farm and
home week, and for months the
poultry folks of Way Down East"
have been "oiling up their voices"
for the battle of sound, poise and
appeal.
"The "King" or Queen" of
chicken callers will be crowned"
with a catching hook, familiar
article in every poultry house.
The word crowned" as explained
at U. of M. today, is used in the
sense of presentation not in the
vernacular. Second prize is 100
poultry leg bands.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
BANDIT SEIZES.
S45 IN NOON /.
ROBBERY
Debonair Youth ShoVes Pis-
toI in Cashiers Face; Walks
Away in U Street Throng

A daring midday holdup was
staged by a youth at the Frazee-
Potomac Laundry, 1903 U st.
N. W., today. He robbed Mrs.
Myrtle Cheek, cashier, of $45
from the till.
Just before the noon hour, the
bandit, described as about Fl, 5
feet 6 inches tall, and weighing
about 100 pounds, stepped into
the laundry, flashed pistol, and
demanded the contents of the
cash register.
Mrs. Cheek emptied the regis
ter of it's bills, which the robber
smilingly thrust into his pocket.
Maintaining a debonair calm in
his slouch gray hat and topcoat,
he then made his way to the
street and mingled with the noon
crowds along U Street.
The cashier telephoned the
Eighth precinct police.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
NATIVES
GREET HOOVER

ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands.
March 25-A picturesque parade
by natives of the Virgin Islands
today featured the arrival here of
President Hoover on his tour of
the West Indian possessions of
the United States.
The President was greeted at
the pier by Gov. Paul Pearson and
Capt. Waldo Evans, retiring naval
governor of the islands.
AS Mr.. Hoover and his party
disembarked from the U. S. S.
Arizona, he and his party made
their way to the dock in a motor.
(Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
40 BOYS AND.
G|RLSL|NKED
INWHOOPEE
INQUIRY
New Evidence HaItS Hearing;
BIadensburg Section Stirred,
Bars Photos Of Principals

Startling new developments in
the crusade begun in prince
Georges county, following the
arrest yesterday of seven high
school students who are alleged
to have participated in liquor
orgies at a house in Cheverly
Manor, resulted today in a hear.
ing being postponed until Mon
day morning at 9 o'clock.
Justice of the Peace Retta d.
Morris, who was to have held a
preliminary hearing this morning,
announced that she had been
told by the States Attorney to
suspend action until he could
probe further, as the matter was
Every far reaching and might
extend to Washington as well as
other sections"
Thorough Quiz Planned
Just what the boys and girls.
who were taken in the raid at
the home of Michael Sullivan in
Cheverly, have told police Off
Gals, Justice Morris declined to
state but she did say that there
are many more boys and girls
involved in the matter. She de-
clared:
"The case has been post
pOned until Monday at the re-
quest of the States attorney.
We have learned that the place
where the children were arrested
has Been re11d ezVotis for many
tiisreputable people from Wash
ington. This investigation win
be far reaching and we are
going to the bottom Of it."
Police were also reticent about
(Continued on Page IS, Col. -
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
NJ lean REPLIES
=. TOW|FE'S

Edward Beale Mclean, million
aire publisher and sportsman, to-
day in Equity Court defended his
action in instituting Mexican di-
vorce proceedings against Mrs.
Evelyn Lucille Walsh Mclean and
asked the court to dissolve the
temporary injunction recently or
dered by Justice Jesse C. Adkins
restraining him from carrying on
his suit.
Mr.. Mclean points out that
while he is resident of the Dis
trict of Columbia, he still has a
right under the laws of the Mexi-
can state of Morales to institute
divorce proceedings there.
He did not file the Mexican di-
vorce suit in defiance of the local
court, which had already ordered
him to pay $500 monthly ali
mOny to his wife, he says, nor
was he seeking to evade his do
meStic obligations.
On the contrary, he asserts
that a copy of the $500 consent
decree in his wife's suit here had
been transmitted to his attorney
in Mexico to be ratified by the
Mexican court in his own pro-
ceedings.
The answer was filed by At
torneys Peyser, Adelin and Pey-
ser, whoU assert that they will
ask the court to set a date for a
hearing for Mrs. McLean's ap-
plication for a permanent injunc-
ton, and at that time will pre-
sent evidence in support of Mr..
McLean's answer and will ask the
court to dissolve the temporary
Injunction which is now in eff
feet and to deny the applica-
ton for a permanent injunction,
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
Renner Misses
Nichols Air Record

AKRON, Ohio, March IS
G.N.S0 Miss frankie Renner,
pretty Akron aviatrix. today re-
ceived word from the United
States Bureau of Standards an
nouncing that the official alti-
tude recorded by her Paragraph
during her attempt to set new
women'S record March 13 was
24,990 feet, nearly 5000 feet
under the record Of Ruth Nichols,
New York. She said:
"Get the plane ready and
Ill go up again."
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
30 ARE KILLED
. IN INDIA RIOT

z LONDON, March IS QN.S0.
Thirty Moslems were killed today
and 100 injured in bitter clashes
between MoslemS and Indian Ma
tionalists at Cawnpore, according
to messages from Allahabad.
Several Europeans were in
cIuded among the casualties. AS
the street fighting grew more
intense, British troops were
called out to help police quell
disorders.
The clashes began when
Moslem shopkeepers refused to
join in a day of mourning for
three Indians hanged Monday
ait Lahore.
The MOslem shOpkeepers, it was
stated, conducted their business
as usual despite the HartaI
mourning Strike) proclaimed by
Nationalist factions.
The three men were hanged for
the Lahore bomb conspiracy of
1928 and the murder of a police
official.
The Washington times., 1931-03-25
Students Use Each Other
As 7argets-One Shot

keep the affair a secret. but the
shooting, which occurred Mon
day, was disclosed when Young
Stuhr was found in the hospital.
Tired of target practice with
Charles w. Spinney, of Punchard
High School, AndOver, yOun g
Stuhr and EdmundSOn, according
to AndOVer police, began close
range practice. Each from be-
hind bOuIderS fired as close to
the other as possible. One bullet
fired by EdmundSOn struck 3
rock, ricOchetted and imbedded
itself In Ehs Ede, q StulB