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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13
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tCOhI1ALED FROM PAGB DhEB
that fully fifty per cent of the work
ers were white.
For two days preceding the funeral
a continuous stream of workers pas
sed before the bodies where they lay
in Spiro Hall, guarded day and night
by % Negro and white workers who
took turns in mounting guard. Day
and night the workers, men and wo-
men, some with children in their
arms, passed in SILENCE through the
hall to pay last tribute to these
murdered fighters of the working
class.
For days thousands of workers
gathered in protest meetings to ex-
press their indignation against the
murderous boss policy of answering
the demands of the unemployed
workers with bullets and gas.
Workers March To Funeral Hall
Marching columns of thousands of
workers from five different sections
Of the city conVerged on the funeral
hall at ! o'clock Saturday afternoon.
In front of the hall they we're Joined
by fresh thousands who had arrived
individually or in small groups. In
grim silence the workers massed
around the huge red-draped platform
erected in the center of the street.
The city government, whose police
had shot down Raymond and jack
son, had been forced to cut off all
traffic in the street where the fun
eral was held. All police had been
withdrawn from the area of the
funeral in face of the evident deter
mination of the workers to stand for
no interference.
The meeting was opened at one
O'Clock by the chairman, Herbert
Newton, a Negro leader OF, the work
ing class, who represented the ar
rangements committee. Representa-
tiyes of the international Labor De-
Tense, the League of Struggle for
Negro Rights, the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League,
spoke briefly, pledging the support
OF their organizations for the strug-
gle in which Rayford and jackson
lost their lives. Maggie Jones, leader
OF the Number Unemployed Branch
to which Rayford and Jackson be-
longed, called on the workers to join
the Unemployed Council in mass
and to stop every eviction in the city
Of Cleveland as a tribute to the slain
workers. She called for the inten-
sification of the struggle for unem-
ployment relief and for social insur-
ance, to be paid for by the bosses
and to be administered by commit
tees of workers.
A Fight Against Starvation
''This meeting today is more
than a proletarian funeral" de-
cIared Tom johnson, representing
the Central Committee of the
Communist Party. "It is above all
a fighting demonstration against
starvation and pauperization OF
the workers, against police terror
ism, and for the unbreakabie soli-
darity of the Negro and white
workers in the struggle against the
system which took the lives Of our
comrades"
Phil Bart, district organize Of the
Communist Party, called for mass
recruitment of thousands of Cleve-
land workers into the Communist
Party as living monument to the
memory of our martyred comrades,
1.-THE city government hopes to
smash the militant fight of the I'M
employed and beat them into accept
ing starvation quietly by the shoot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13
10000 PROTEST MURDER
OF CLEVELAND NEGROES

ing down of unarmed workers." Bart
pointed out, further declaring. but
this brutal murder, as this meeting
shows, will not terrorize the Negro
and white workers. On the contrary
it has aroused the deepest indigna-
ton in the hearts of tens of thou
sands of workers and inspired them
to greater struggle
For Unity JobIess and Employed
Bart called for the unity of unem-
ployed and employed workers in the
fight against the wage slashing cam
paign of the bosses, against their War
preparations, directed especially a.
the Soviet Union, and for united
fight for unemployment insurance
and for the unconditional equal
rights of the Negro masses, including
the right of self-determination for
the Negro majorities of the Southern
Black Belt, with confiscation of the
land for the Negro and white work
ers who work the land.
Grimly and silently the massed
workers stood until the speakers con-
cluded. Then Comrade Newton slow
]y read an impressive working class
pledge to continue, until final vic
tory is won, the struggle in which
Rayford and jackson lost their lives.
Thirty thousand clenched fists shot
into the air as Newton concluded
and 10000 threats roared out the
words of the pledge in unison.
Pledge To Continue Struggle
With the mass recitation of the
pledge the meeting ended, and under
direction of scores of captains the
workers fell into line, four abreast,
for the long march to the cemetery.
First came a picked guard of white
and Negro workers, followed by the
hearse with the bodies OF the heroic
dead. Behind the hearse marched
tens of workers laden with the flow
ers sent by working class organiza-
tons and individual workers. Then
block after block the long line strung
out, a sea of placards and banners
with many organizations marching
under their own banners. Behind the
marchers came lat cars and trucks
carrying women and children.
All traffic was stopped in the
main streets of the south side OF
Cleveland through which the process
sion passed. The marchers walked
in closed ranks in silence. The best
expression of the solidarity between
the marchers and the tens Of thou
sands of the workers who watched
from the sidewalks took place as the
march passed E. 55th st. and Wood
land. There a street car tried to
break through the line. Immediately
some 200 workers rushed from the
sidewalk and surrounded the car,
preventing it from moving until the
procession, a mile and a half long,
had passed. The same thing occur
red at another point to a police
squad car which tried to break thru
the procession.
For More Intensive Fight!
The funeral concluded with short
speech by Sandbers, secretary OF the
Cleveland Unemployed Councils, and
stirring appeal for the workers to
join the Communist Party by Her.
bert Newton, as the bodies were low
cred into the grave. Hundreds OF
workers filled out applications for
membership In the Party.
Still in silence, grim and deter
mined, the workers returned to their
homes to take up on the morrow a
more intense and better organized
struggle against hunger and police
terrorism.
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of approving the "stronghand" OF
Wall Street in Manchuria.
The dickering Of Stimson with the
League OF Nations is an attempt to
angle for general unity on the
question of directing the fire against
the Soviet Union, thus hoping by
bringing on the war situation to ex-
tend the drive for colonies into So
Wet territory with the aim OF ult-
mately overthrowipr tina workers re-
publiC. -st~s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13
DOak Tells JOhless
To Starve At Home;
Not Go To The Cities

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. r.
"Do your starving at home, there are
no jobs anywhere" is the callous ad-
vice given the unemployed by Sec
rotary of Labor Doak, in a statement
made here yesterday.
Doak adds to this the lie that the
cities are to care for their own I'M
employed but can not take over the
care of outsiders.
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ready for early morning delivery.

ready for early morning delivery.
Each member of the group con-
tributes equally to the expenses and
shares equally in the work.
I'VE distribute hundreds of leaf
lets, without any extra effort, simply
folding them inside the Daily
Worker
1--WE hold study circle every Sun
day afternoon.
Every morning We adopt slogans
for the sale of the Daily Worker. AS
an example, our slogan for today
was: Five hundred million dollars
for the bankers and wage-cuts for
the workers"
HERE'S HOW.
"The following is report of sales
for the past week;
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CoCKROACHEs sTARvE OUT

BUFFALO, N. Y, Oct. l2.-Well
over half Of the small business men
in certain lines fail even In q pros
porous year 1t vas indicated by
julius Klein, assistant secretary Of
commerce, In speech to the Natl
Restaurant Assn convention at But
falo.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13

One way 70 help the Soviet
Union Is 70 spread among the
workers Soviet 'Forced Labor"
by MAJ Bedscht, 10 cents per copy,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13
Story of Starvation.


ARRAY, KY Oct. 12.-"I want to
write to let you know of our condi-
lions here" writes the wife of a
striking miner at the Caroline mine.
There are five of us in my family
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Total. . 1900 1924 276
This is a good plan by which the
Red Builders can get by" But it
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Fight Yonkers Wage Cuts.

spread tne Slrlke 10 OIlleF ports.
Fight Yonkers Wage Cuts.
YONKERS, N. Y, Oct. l2.-Wage-
cuts in the factories in this territory
are a continuous process, the Metal
Workers Industrial League points
out in a series of leaflets to the
workers in the Anaconda Wire 81
Gable Co., at Hastings on Hudson
and in the Otis Elevator Co. at Yon-
kers. A wage-cut of l 5per cent was
just handed out to the wire mill de-
partment of the Anaconda Wire q
Gable Co., and 80 per cent cut in
wages in the garage and shipping de-
partment. AT the same time the
workers we're put on the four-day
week, getting IS cents an hour in
stead of scents.
To comba 1.-THE Wage-cuts and or
ganize the workers for struggle, the
Metal Workers Industrial League OF
Yonkers (P o. Box 1871 has ar
ranged mass meeting Saturday at
3 pm. at 252 Warburton Ave. Be-
fore this mass meeting. at z O'Clock,
there will be an open-air demonstra-
ton against wage-cuts at Larkin
Plaza.
In the Anaconda Wire q Gable
Co. plant four department commit
tees have been organized to resist the
wage-cuts. Though the Hastings po-
lice refused permit for an open-air
meeting the Metal Workers Indus
trial League is planning to hold
meetings anyway.
KANSAS CITY, Kans., Oct. Ia
Further reductions In wages are an
nounced in this district tArmourdale
District. Cudahy Packing Go. have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-13

NEW YORK.-The rift between
Japanese and American imperialism
over the plumber of Manchuria is
breaking through the diplomatic
screen. Stimson's latest note to the
League OF Nations, though crammed
with words about cooperation, con-
tains definite threat of military
action TO gain for Wall Street its
share Of the colony which Japan is
so rapidly grabbing.
The Japanese foreign office is
blankly telling Wall Street to keep
its hands off. The response In Japan
to what the American capitalist news
papers tried TO make appear as a
peaceful and mild" note to Japan
gives an indication of the bitterness
beneath the surface and the alarm
ing rush to war, An Associated Press
dispatch from Tokyo gives the reac-
ton Of the Japanese imperialists to
Wall Streets action as follows:
washington dispatches indicat-
ing 'soft-spoken but forceful Amer
lean intervention is likely In the
Manchurian crisis caused stir in
Tokyo today and brought . reit-
Grafton from Foreign Office
spokesman that Japan abidcs by
the hands Off policy, as stated Ina
nediately after the Mukden ont
break last month.
"Tokya contends the matter Is
entirely . local affair which should
be settled between China and
Japan"
Within China the mass resentment
against the nationalist government as
well as against the war OF Japanese
imperialst for colonies is reaching
huge proportions. A militant mass
demonstration In Canton was fired
into BY Chinese troops. Twelve work
CTS were killed and 100 were wounded
The cable dispatches from China
state that the demonstration was led
by Communist students. The British
troops In Hongkong md ether parts
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real intent is shown by the following
In the same A. sdispatch:
Secretary Stimson said the
American note Of last Friday to the
League was not at all to be inter
preted as inferring that the United
policy pending action by the
States has adopted a hands off
League"
In Japan a war atmosphere is be-
ing created, with the Japanese bosseI
declaring their immediate readiness,
to go to war to maintain their plum.
der. A United Press cable from
Tokyo states:
increasing indications that ia
pan is preparing to defy Wash
ington and the League Of Nations
We're evident today after the pub
hcation Of Tokio's reply to the
League note on Manchuria.
"The tensest atmosphere was
created in Government circles as
the reaction of the United States
and the League was awaited.
"As the hour for the meeting
drew near, 1t appeared evident that
Japan will stand her ground should
active Intervention in Manchuria be
attempted"
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE)
He has already once this year sent
the militia into Harlan County to
break the strike of the miners.
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I'LL. STATE
COURT OK'S THE
WAGE SLASHES
CONTINUED FROM PAGE OSEl

mittees, dump the labor takers and
spread the strike to other ports.
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KANSAS CITY, Kans., Oct. a.
Further reductions In wages are an
nounced in this district tArmourdale
District. Cudahy Packing Go. have
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Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
Continued on page 81
GUILTY VERDICT
BRINGS END TO
COLORADO TRIAL

FORT MORGAN, Colo. Sept. 81.
Up)-Its greatest murder trial end
ed with the sentencing to life i'm
prisonment of John Schopflin, 81
year-old farm hand for the Staying
of Enid Marriott, Fort Morgan, to
day sat back and awaited the next
step in the case,
Since the night Of November l6
last year when Enid Marriott
stepped from a train at the little
Virgins station, into oblivion, the
case has kept this section of Colo
RADIO abuzZ.
The discovery of her ice encaked
body in an irrigation ditch last Feb
ruary. a half dozen arrests and re-
leases, Schopflin's confession at
Stockton, Calf, to the murder, his
new confession" just before the
trial opened, naming Mrs. Nina Gill
liland and Mrs. Tom Mate as the
slayers of the teacher, and his trial
and sentence have kept interest in
her case at an intense pitch.
Today it was believed Schopflin
would take some further action in
the case.
The youth himself retained the
nonchalant attitude he assumed
after his confession, and apparently
planned to go to prison with the
same attitude.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
ANALYzELIQUOR
SERVED GUESTS
AT FATAL PARTY

MERGED, Cal, Sept. 81. U.H)-
Sheriff w. T. White today was hav-
ing analyzed liquor served at a
party near here Saturday night
which was blamed for the death of
a man and pet 'posslnn and the
illness of six men and two young
women. He was quoted as saying
action would be taken if the liquor
is found to have been poisoned.
Clarence Oids, 20, laborer, died
only few hours after drinking the
liquor. Okie Clerk, 20, and Glenn
Allen, 19, were taken to a hospital
but recovered. The others made
Ill, all regarded today as beyond
danger, we're Edward Olds, 90,
brother of Clarence; L. H. Harlow
40; George Brown %; Fred Glib
bons, 30; Rosie Shaffer, 18, and
Ida Condor, 18.
Sheriff White was told the party
gathered at the Bouscha residence
On the Merced Sewer farm after
Saturday midnight. He said the
revelerS en- route to the farm found
a tame 'possum, which they gave,
as joke, some of their liquor
The animal died.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
HUMBOLDT JUDGE
WILL PRESIDE in
CLARK RETRLAI
Hearing On Murder
Charge Opens Today In
Los Angeles Courtroom

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 81. U.P)--
Judge Harry w. Falk, of Humboldt
county, was selected as judge Of
the second trial of David H. Clark,
charged with the murder of Her
bert Spencer, magazine editor
when the retrial opened today.
At Clark's first trial, at which
the jury disagreed II for acquittal
and one for conviction. another out
of the city jurist, Judge Stanley
Murray, OF MADEIRA county, presid-
cd
Although Clark, former deputy
district attorney and candidate
for municipal judge at the last
election, is standing trial only for
the Spencer killing, he is charged,
in another count. with shooting
Charles Crawford, a Los Angelica
political boss.
At his first trial the dapper Clark
admitted Staying both men. He
pleaded self-defense, saying Craw-
ford and Spencer threatened him
during an argument in Crawford's s
office shortly before the election.
Clark claimed Crawford asked him
to help frame" Chief Of Police Roy
Steckel.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
SS.EXANINATlON IN MURDER TRIAL
FAILS TO BREAK DOWN TESTIMONY

NOGALES, Ariz.. Sept. 81 up
A prolonged cross examination of
Mrs. Louise F.. Marshall. ~, being
tried on a charge of murder. failed
today to alter in any way her story
that she shot Thomas K. Marshall,
so, her husband, while crazed with
fear of poison plot.
The aged and stopped defendant,
who broke down while teStifying in
her own behalf, was calm and col
lected under cross examination. She
answered questions of Arthur La
padre. assistant attorney general, in
a firm voice, reiterating her claim
that several attempts had been
made to poison her and that she was
convinced that Marshall and Mrs.
Henrietta Seymour, former house
keeper with whom she said Mar
shall was having an affair, tried to
kill her.
The prosecution, seemingly,
made no effort to confuse or
hewilder the aged and wealthy
defendant. Even her statement
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
Continued on page 81
DISMISS CHECK
CHARGE AGAINST
FAMOUS AVIATOR

LOS ANGELES, Sept. Il. U.P)-
A four year old check charge in
Missouri against Winston Bert Hall,
famous war aviation ace, was dis
missed in superior court here today
at a hearing of a writ of habees
corpus obtained last week by the
aviator.
Halls attorney told Judge Will
liam Tell Aggeler that the district
attorneys office had been notified
by Trenton, Mo, authorities that
the case against Hall had been dis
missed there.
Hall and Captain Flood Shumak-
er, also a former army flyer, are
under bail here in connection with
civil dispute over airplanes worth
100000 which the flyers were to
secure for Julian S. l. Liang, rep
resentative of the Chinese Nation
alist government.
LANG seeks to restrain Hall and
Shumaker from receiving $4,000
held in transit in Los Angeles.
Hall and Shumaker claim they
ordered the planes and allege that
LANG attempted to back out of the
deal when conditions became un-
settled in China.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
Continued on page 81
SPECIAL SQUAD
IS ASSIGNED TO
FIGHT GANCSTERS

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 81. W.P)-
A special squad of deputy sheriffs
whose names were held secret, to-
day we're assigned by District At
torney Buron Fits Ito rid Los An
geles of gangsiers."
The move came in conjunction
with an investigation Of an alleged
cxtortion plot, said to have been
aimed at the widow of Leo p. Ber-
gin, wealthy soap manufacturer, by
an eastern gang of gamblers.
The deputy sheriffs, it was said,
will work in close cooperation with
q special squad from the police dc
partmcnt and representatives OF
Fits office.
Four men, all from the cast, were
at liberty under bond in connection
with the Bergin case. They are
Frankie Foster, Chicago gangster
mentioned in the Jake Lingle slay-
ing; Eddie Rollins, New York gam
bier; Pat Rollins, a brother, and
Marvin Hart, alleged beer racketeer.
Fits claimed that Bergin lost
$4,000 TO Rollins in a New York dice
game in 1929. The soap magnate
paid $4,000 and stopped a check for
$4,000. Fits said that Bergin liter
ally was "hounded to death" and
that threats were transferred to
Mrs. Bergin when her husband died.
The case came to public attention
when Henry Leslie, an investigator
for Fits, accidentally shot and
wounded himself while "staked out"
in an effort to capture extortionists
who were to meet Mrs. Bergin's
chauffeur and collect some money
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
M& R14~
u jass s,SsevSt pyNsa~,s sss
ENGLISH ACTION
KEENLY FELT IN
EVERY COUNTRY
Stock Exchanges OF Eu-
rope Closed; American
Business Affected.
BY UNITED PRESS

Decision Of the British govern
ment to suspend temporarily opera
ton in part Of the gold standard
echoed throughout the world today.
Principal stock exchanges of Eu-
rope closed with the exception OF
the Paris Bourse, where prices re-
acted senSationally in heavy liqui-
dation.
The pound sterling dropped to a
sale quotation of S4 per pound in
New York, compared with close
Saturday OF S4.847s. In London. the
pound was quoted at S4.40. In Par
is the quotation was 100 francs to
the pound or about s4.30.
The price Of gold in London fell
to "a shillings liz pence from 85
shillings 81, pence today
Immediate effects in cOmmo-
dities were to increase prices
abroad. Liverpool cotton shot up
sharply as did metal at London
In Bombay silver and cotton
prices advanced. Liverpool rose
cents n bushel.
Bankers in New York held
hurried conferences to check
the first effects of the British
decision which they anticipated
because of general lack of
knowledge of the situation.
Leading bankers here did not be-
lieYe the situation serious SO far
as this country was concerned. Am
erica, according to an influential
banker, has only about S50,000,00C
credit in England aside from the
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
Sun Tan, But
No Fish Yarn

Visions of days at the beach
were called up in the district
attorneys office this morning
when Elmer w. Heald, district
attorney, returned to his desk
after a vacation of three weeks.
His sun tan complexion was
responsible for the visions.
Everyone waited eXpcctantly
for the story about the big fish
which escaped, but he even
failed to mention the small one
caught. Something was wrong
as no returned vacatiOnist acts
that way.
In answer to a direct ques-
ton Heald told of working on
a new house on SandalwOod
during his entire vacation.
Deputies and stenographers
arc enjoying the sun tan with
out being bothered with a fish
yarn.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21

While this summer may have been
the hottest on record, it has proven
decidedly beneficial to both aspara-
gus and grapefruit growers since
these two crops are ready for ship
ment much earlier than ever before.
The first asparagus shipments
went out Saturday, September 10,
considerably earlier than ever be-
fore, according to all available rec
ords in the agricultural commits
sioner's office. The first shipment
of IL crates was made by the DC
Ranch Co.
Harrigan announces that already
a considerable amount of grapefruit
will pass the test for shipment but
in view of the fact there is general
260 car holdover from last season,
Imperial Valley press., 1931-09-21
Barker Drops
One OF First
Deer OF Year

One of the first deer to fall be-
fore the craftsmanship of an I'm
perial Valley resident was brought
in by Jack Barker the latter part
of the week.
The handsome buck provided a
banquet for Barker and the men,
bers of the hunting party. Those
who dined on venison were Bar
ney Brock, D. L. Hahn, Frank Gowie
and Barker.
San Jacinto mountains provided
the hunting grounds, the region
near Deer Springs being the scene
of the kill. Two hundred bucks
we're said to have been taken out
of this section the first day of the
season. Five hundred hunters
checked into the region at Forest
Service entrances.