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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Urge Commission To
Refuse Application

WASHINGTON. May 20. Up
Southwestern railroads today urg-
ed the Interstate Commerce CON-
mission TO refuse the application OF
the Mississippi Valley Barge Line
company for through rail-barge
rates between ports on the Ohio
river and southwestern points via
Memphis. Vicksburg. New Orleans
and southern Mississippi valley
ports.
The railroads In a joint brief
said they did not feel that con-
greSs intended TO foster water
transportation "promiscuously". but
rather that il should be fostered
only TO the extent and in such in
stances al would better the coun-
try as a whole.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Tax Remission Bill
Signed By Sterling

AUSTIN. Tex, May %. Rl-GOv.
Ross S. Sterling today signed the
Orange county tax remission bill.
The law will provide for the re-
mission Of nine-tenths OF the state
property tax collected in Orange
county for a period Of % years.
Sponsors Of the bill said its pur-
pose was 10 permit the building Of
drainage bitches 10 rid Orange
county Of salt water. Rice fields
in that county had been ruined by
salt water. they stated.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Masonic Degrees To
Be Given Tonight

The Rio Grande council Of the
Masonic order will told a special as
sembly at 8 p. m. tonight for the 1uT-
pose OF comforting degrees on two
candidates.
The San Bulito companions viii
confer this degree. The recorder re-
quests members and visitors in this
vicinity attend.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Rio Grande River
Drops Many Feet

The Rio Grande dropped several
feet Wednesday. bringing 1t down
10 81 feet. IL was reported today
Flood stage here is Is feet. and the
recent rise brought the river up TO
over IA feet.
In San Benito. where flood stage
is q feet. the river fell TO 1913 and
at Mission where flood stage in %
feet. il dropped 10 IA feet.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
dav with moderate temperature
was the weather prediction fo-
Brownsville and the Valley.
Low temperature here wednes-
day was 70 degrees; high temper
Azure 81.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Report Article Of
Impeachment FRIDAY

NASHVILLE. Tenn, May %. a.
An article Of impeachment
against Governor Henry II. Horton
was reported TO the Tennessee
House OF representatives today by
a special legislative committee that
yesterday said impeachment was
warranted"
Representative John Upton,
chairman OF the committee, re-
ported that the article was based
ron the conspiracy laws of the
state and was IS pages in length.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Election Effected
Despite Opposition

PITTSBURGH, May 29-P-
Election of DR.. Lewis Seymour
Nudge Of Philadelphia as moder-
ator effected despite unexpected
opposition. the general assembly OF
the Presbyterian church IN the u.
S A. moved today TO consideration
of petitions from its DresbyterieS
for Reputation OF n birth control
report Of the Federal Council OF
Churches or Christ in America;
for withdrawal from that council:
and for and against immediate ac-
ton toward union with the Meth
odiSt and Reformed churches.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Gas Company Changes
Staff In Brownsville

Changes in the personnel OF the
Rio Grande Valley Gas Company
In Brownsville were announced to-
day BY Mike Groom local man.
ager.
Margaret wainwright will re-
place Dorothy Dennis as book
keeper. Miss Dennis IS to be mar
ried early in June.
Wendell Dancy Is succeeding
Jamie Tabor, who has been named
manager OF the Pharr office.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
GIRL RESERVE ON PROGRAM

HARLINGEN, MAY %. = NiSs
Elizabeth Allen. Valley Y. w. c. A.
secretary. presented five Girl Re-
serves in a unique musical program
before the Kiwanis club at the
Christian church this week. They
were Misses BERTHE Lee Klein, Vir-
ginia Thomas. Blanche Patton.
Louise Hill and Helen Flynn who
played several numbers. some Their
W compositions. on home made in
struments.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Local Banker Chosen
Association Director

Gordon p. Street, president Of the
Rio Grande Valley Trust Company
Brownsville. has been elected a d.
rector Of the Mortgage Bankers AS
ISOLATION OF Texas, it vas announced
here today.
The naming OF the local man as
a director took place at the annual
one-day meeting of the organization
in Houston Thursday.
f. A. Dittmar, San Antonio
mortgage banker with numerous
interests in the Valley, was also
named a director.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Fruit Man Killed

TEMPLE. Nav %. Up Heze-
kiah Archie, g., Dallas produce man,
was killed and his companion,
Drue brennan. was injured early
today when the truck in which they
were hauling vegetables from San
Antonio TO Dallas crashed into a
concrete culvert near Troy.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
Spanish Royalty
Enter At Laredo

LAREDO. Nav %. Up The
Count and Countess De la Maya.
reported as being relatives Of for
mer King Alfonso Of Spain. passed
through Laredo this morning en-
route to New York from Mexico
City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
SAFE CRACKERS WIN. LOSE

HOUSTON. Nav 29-Pl-Safe
crackers had escaped today with
SiS6 from a drug store and had
been frustrated in an attempt TO
enter a safe at a radiator shop.
The knob on the drug store had
been knocked off.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29

With possible exception of the
civil district court and district
clerks office. the courthouse will be
closed Memorial day. Saturday, IL
has been announced.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-29
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
FARMERS MARCH WITH HUNGER DELEGATION IN OHIO
Let's Win This Fight, Too!

EVERY learn the victory by the nterna-
Oregon where there were Is work
ers arrested a charge criminal syndcaism
These arrests directly with raid the
the infamous Fish Com
of these workers which are being made separately
Coming on the heels acquit Ohio these
by organization WELL the necessity for the utmost
solidarity in its support
The against Kaay charged with criminal synd
cais was Haunted papers
being agent huabaoo raised because he
working Mysterious tales of
that
faulty about this the
poured attack the Soviet Union and the
Communists
Kassay was Party
we know of the
Mr. Fish descended
upon the workers immediate
everything both these with
obtained but also the judicial
criminal syndcaism law unconstitutional
supporting the
death Scotsboo
bama possible five
workers
mill of Paterson N. j.
Scotboro would
oppression
Immediately
national
cabled protest
10TH
lenged effectively
ready Negro boys
scottsboro speedily organize for the defense
this fight, too!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Hands off Nicaraguap Meet
To Be Held Friday in Harlem

In Honduras the armed struggle of
the workers and agricultural workers
is spreading throughout the country
The United Fruit Co. is helping the
government of Honduras to crush the
rebellion. American warships were
sent by Mr.. Hoover in order to mas
sacre the masses who are fighting
for bread and land, for freedom of
the country from Yankee rule.
All these struggles demand that
we support the oppressed masses in
their struggle for liberation The
New York Branch of the Anti
Imperialist League is organizing
mass protest meeting to be held Fri
day, May 9th, at New Harlem Ca
sino, 116th st. and Lenox Ave. at
8 p. m. Workers, anti-imperialists
voice your protest against Yankee
domination in Latin America. De-
mand hands off Nicaragua and Hon
duras. Join the Anti Imperialist
League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Parents of Scottsboro Negro Boys Accuse NAACP
Leader of Sabotaging Fight to SAGE Lives of Sons

,of the N A. A. G. p leadership to
trick the boys into statements and
hamstring their defense are adding
to the worries of the parents, already
sorely tried by the death sentences
hanging over their sons.
Mrs. Williams, mother of 14-year-
old ugene Williams, one of the con-
demned lads, returned from Georgia
last night bringing contracts with
the I. L. d. from the nearest rela-
tons of Ozie Powell, Is; Willie Rob-
ertson, II; Ollie Montgomery, II; and
Clarence Norris, 10. All close rela-
tives Of Charley Weems, 20, are
dead. The families of the other
Georgia boys all welcomed the de-
Tense of the L, L. d.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
TO WELCOME MRS.
WRIGHT TODAY
Collect Saturday and
Sun. for Scottsboro

NEW YORK. - Mrs. Ada Wright,
mother of Roy and Andy Wright,
two of the nine young Negro boys
whom the lynch-courts in Scots
boro, Ala, are trying to burn in the
electric chair, will arrive in New
York from Chattanooga at 5:45 p.
m. today Thursday at the Penn
sylvania station.
Mrs. Wright is the second mother
of q Scottsboro defendant to come
north in behalf of the defense. Mrs.
JAMIE Patterson, mother of Haywood
Patterson, who was here for week,
is now back in Chattanooga.
AS part of the campaign to smash
this vicious frame-up, house-to-
house collections will be held this
Saturday and Sunday throughout
the city by the New York District
of the International Labor Defense.
The collections viii also help defend
the victims of another murder
frame-up, the five Paterson, N. j.,
silk workers who have been framed
up on the charge of being respon-
sible for the death of boss. Many
collectors are needed in order that
thousands of dollars may be raised
to smash these two outrageous
frame-ups. Volunteers are asked to
report at 9 am. Saturday and Sun
day at the following stations: 81 E.
4th ST.. 799 Broadway, room 40;
"a w. END ST.; $50 E. 81st St.; 353
Lenox Ave; 500 Prospect Ave; 140o
Boston Road; 2700 Bronx Park East;
81 Graham Ave, Williamsburg; 1876
18th st.. Williamsburg; ll8 Bristol
ST., Brooklyn; 534 Vermont ST.,
Brooklyn; 14o Neptune Ave-, Brigh-
ton Beach.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Mass Pressure
Frees Moore
IN Portland

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 6.-The
tens of thousands of workers rallying
throughout the United States to the
defense of the nine Scottsboro boys
will receive inspiration from the sue
cessful application of mass pressure
in the case of John Moore, whose trial
ended today with the freeing of
Moore.
Moore is the third OF the thirteen
Portland workers arrested under the
Oregon Criminal Syndicalist Act to
be tried, and the second to be freed
by the proper mobilization OF the
workers in his defense.
Before a court room crowded with
workers modified by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense to support the
legal defense of its attorney, Irwin
Goodman, the case was heard today,
with the same stool pigeons testifying
for the State that were used in the
two other criminal syndicalist cases
when Ben Boloff was sentenced to ten
years in prison and Fred Walker was
freed.
Moore Is one of the thirteen work
ers arrested last fall, directly after
raids on the Communist Party head
quarters when the infamous Fish
Committee paid its inquisitorial visit
to She Pacific coast and membership
books of the Party were stolen out OF
the headquarters of the workers Or
ganization. AS the loggers came in
from the lumber camps, they were
arrested and held for deportation OF
charged with criminal syndicalism or
suspicion of working class activities
Prosecuting Attorney billiard, in his
opening statement before the jury
and Judge Hewitt, stressed the de-
PENDANTS membership in the Com
munist Party and that he therefore
teaches and advocates the overthrow
of the government by force and vio-
lence," and that membership in such
an organization is therefore sufficient
gr~und to be convicted under the
Criminal Syndicalist Act.
The I. L. D. attorney scored the
hypocrisy of the boss courts and poin-
ted out that the Criminal Syndicalist
Act had laid dead ION the books
since 1919, and has not been used for
the past 10 years, but was revived by
the lumber interests in the hope of
crushing the revolutionary m S S
struggles of the workers against star
walton, wage cuts, police terror, etc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

The anti-imperialist struggle in the
Caribbean countries, particularly those
dominated by Yankee imperialism is
becoming sharper every day. In Mica
ragua the agricultural workers of
Porto Cabezas are joining detach-
ments of the Army Of Liberation.
Driven by hunger and despair, these
workers are taking to arms in their
struggle against exploitation and for
national liberation. u. S. imperial
ism answers this challenge with more
rifles, more marines, more airplanes.
In Cuba Dictator Machado, under
the leadership of Ambassador Gug-
genheim is coming to an agreement
with the leaders of the Nationalist
Party, in order to further strengthen
this dictatorship against the OPP
pressed workers and peasants. The
condition for this agreement is to
stifle the revolutionary struggle of
the workers and poor peasants who
are fighting against imperialist ex-
ploitation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

place at 301 w. 30 Street, yesterday
The place was packed and many
furriers had to go away This forum
was conducted by the Industrial
Union. and the furriers we're ex-
planned the meaning of the coming
elections in the Joint Council (com-
pany-union). The furriers were very
enthusiastic for the program of the
Industrial Union and expressed
their determination to fight in the
company union and in the shops for
immediate improvements in their
conditions.
KnitgOOds Meeting Today
Today. at 730 pm. at the Union
Hall, 131 West % Street, there will
be a membership meeting of Knit
goods Workers. Preparations are be-
ing made for a drive among the
Knitgoods Workers for organization.
The efforts of the company union
to push them into fake organiza-
ton drive completely failed and the
workers are turning to the Industrial
Union.
The cases against Jack Shneider
and I. Weissberg, organizers of the
Industrial Union, who we're held on
charges of assault, framed by the
company union, are called for today
at the general sessions court, Part 9,
Today there will also be the fol-
lowing meetings at the office of the
Union, at 6 p. m. Cloakmakers
Membership Meeting and meeting
of Hemstitchers, Pleaters and Tuck
ers. rtf@rgssx cAs.ssssxsss. y
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Mellon Covers Wage
Cut Drive With
Pack of Lies
"Cut Costs" He Says
But Makes 1t Appear
AS Rise in Standard

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Wage-
cutting and an attack against the
living standard of the workers is one
of the foremost questions being taken
up by the leading bosses of all coun-
tries represented at the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce, now
in session here. The other question
is how to organize the attack against
the Soviet Union.
Today Aloyse Meyer, president of
the European Steel Cartel, compris-
ing the leading steel industries of
Europe, in which the U. S. Steel Co.
is also interested, came out openly
with demand that wages of all
workers be cut in all countries of the
world. Meyer said that the crisis
was caused by high wages"
Mellon Says Wages Should
Be Cut.
Yesterday, Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon madcsa demagogic speech
which the capitalist newspapers in
terpreted as being against wage
cuts" Melons speech, by no amount
of twisting, can be interpreted as a
mo wage-cut" policy. Mellon said
the bosses should cut wages and
yelp about maintaining standards OF
living" Melons own words are:
prices must be revised and costs of
production and output brought down
to a point where demand will again
be stimulated and goods move into
consumption"
Bringing down costs Of produc-
ton" to any capitalist means, first
and foremost, slashing wages. This
is what Mellon was for, an insidious
system of wage-cutting while telling
the workers that living standards
would be maintained.
Calls for Universal SIashes.
But today, Meyer, head of the En-
ropean Steel Cartel, came out with
what every capitalist has in his mind
and acts on, but doesn't usually
splurge across the front pages of the
capitalist press. Meyer came out
directly for a wage-cut for every
worker in the world. He put the
matter bluntly. He told the capital
lists that the solution of the crisis for
capitalism can be solved by a smash
ing attack against the standard of
living of the American workers.
Organize and Strike.
The A. F. of L. is aiding the wage
cutting drive 1t is trying to make
the workers follow Hoover's policy OF
talking about maintaining wage
standards" while putting over an ef-
fective -slashing campaign. The
Trade Union Unity League is lead
ing the resistance to wage-cutS. AL
workers must organize and strike
against wage-cuts!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Dress Pickets in Fight With
Needleman Bremmer Thugs

NEW YORK.-Yesterday morning
at 7:30, several hundred sympathi-
zers of Needleman e. Bremmer strik-
ers joined the strikers on the picket
line. When the scabs, gorillas and
detectives protecting the scabs ar
rived, struggle broke out between
the striker sympathizers and the
scabs and gorillas. Police reserves
were called out, but the strike sym
pathizers were determined to resist
the gorillas who have been making
attacks on the strikers, and they
succeeded in DOING it despite the
viciousness and brutality of the po-
lice.
Many workers were dubbed by the
police and were carried away by the
sympathizers.
But the police and the gorillas
encountered such determined oppo-
sition from the fighting sympathi-
zers of the strikers that the police
we're finally compelled to take all
the gorillas inside the building, after
q fierce fight lasting half an hour.
Two workers. Rubin Berger and
Alex Hartenstein, we're arrested and
are framed-up on felonious assault
charges. They we're held on $4,000
bail each.
The person making the charge
against Berger is police spy, still
on the force. This proves that the
company not only uses private hired
thugs but can use the Tammany po-
ice for part Of its dirty work.
/, An open forum of turriers took
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
URGE WORLD WAGE CUT
FOR WORKERS AT NT'L.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SOVIETS ONE OF
CHIEF TARGETS
Cooper Is for Credits;
Others Surely

WASHINGTON, May 6. - Discus
sion of the Soviet Union was forced
into the open today at the Interna-
tional Chamber of Commerce, meet
ing in convention here, with over
1000 delegates attending, when Col
Hugh L. Cooper, famous American
engineer, and president of the Am
erican- Chamber of Com
merce presented copies Of pam
phlet to all the delegates entitled
Trade with Russia"
The question of the Soviet Union
was uppermost in the thoughts of
all the eXploiters gathered here, and
while they planned repriSals, econo-
mic blockades and war against the
workers republic, the plan was not
to permit the issue to come forward
openly.
Cooper, who is engineering the
Dnieper hydro-electric project in the
Soviet Union. is the leading hydro
electrical engineer in the world. His
programs -was for unlimited credits
to the Soviet Union. He proposed
commission to study the matter of
credits and trade TO the Soviet
Union.
Try To Hide Plans
Yesterday British and other dele
gates openly declared they did not
want the question of the Soviet IN
ion to come up in the sessions of
the convention They do not want
their hand forced in the war prepar-
ations. Behind the British delegates
we're the French, many leading Am
eTican imperialiSts, Mathew Vol,
Hamilton Fish, and such war mon
gers.
Col. Cooper said that trade of
$3,000.000,000 could be readily devel-
oped with the Soviet Union; that
in the present crisis which under
mined the capitalist countries, they
could not overlook such an import
ant trade He said nothing was
more heart-rending in the capitalist
countries than worker tramping
the streets wearing out his soul and
sole-leather hunting for job he can
not find"
Cooper said that trade between the
U. S. and the Soviet Union thus far
has aggregated $75O,OOO,oO0, with
cold cash profit to the American bus
mess men of $450,0O0,000.
He hit the lies about dumping"
and the red trade menace" Cooper's
hope is that by unlimited trade with
the Soviet Union the capitalists can
demonstrate the superiority of our
(the capitalist system" This has al
ways been Cooper's idea, that the
Soviet Union could complete the Five
Year Plan and should be aided in
SO doing (of course, with adequate
profit to the capitalists, and that
this would lead in the direction Of
capitalism.
Thus far there has been no open
discussion on Col. Cooper's proposals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
Hearing On Motion for New Trial for Haywood
Patterson Postponed AS State Prepares
Fight; LID Files Motions for Other Boys

to ask the parents to follow the lead
of the N. A. A. G. P. and to sign a
statement repudiating the I. L. D.
and its United Front Defense policy.
1t asks Mr.. and Mrs Paterson not to
confer with or show the letter to the
l. L. d. local organizer.
Warn Boys Against Betrayal.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson at once got
in touch with the 1. L. D. organizer
and sent wire to Haywood to sign
nothing unless his parents are pres
ent. The other parents of the Chat
tanooga boys are also sending letters
to their sons. The constant effort
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

y t } unexplained shooting
which may have been a part of
the general civil war which is
going on between starving
miners and the company gun
men.
The total number known to have
died in the last two weeks is ten. So
far only the capitalist press stories
have been received. The Daily Work
or is making every effort to get direct
information.
There are some members of the
National Miners Union in the vicin-
ity, but no actual organization, so
far as is known here. The capitalist
press speaks, however, of posses of
citizens being organized to- hunt
down the left wingers or run them
out of the territory"
According to available and appar-
emily reliable information, the strug-
gle started about a month ago with
the locking out of all miners by the
Black Mountain Coal Co., which has
a mine at Evart, and an attempt to
operate on part schedule with scabs
brought in from outside. Other COM
panies followed suit.
Even employed miners in other
mines are practically starving on part
time work and wage cuts, as were the
Black Mountain Miners before the
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07

capitalists and their state govern
ment opposing the /. l.. D. demand
for a new trial for the nine youths,
Mrs. jamie Patterson today accused
Walter White Of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Col
ored People of sabotaging the de-
Tense of her boy and the other eight
youths. She declared a letter re-
ceived by Mr.. Patterson purporting
to come from their son to be a rank
forgery. The letter states that Wal
ter White of the N. A. A. G. P. was
in Kilby Prison on Monday to visit
the boys. The letter then goes on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-07
(By Telegraph to Daily worker)

(By Iciegraph TO Daily WorKer)
CHATTANOOGA, May 6. - The
court hearing on the motion filed by
the International Labor Defense for
new trial in the case of Haywood
Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro
frame-up victims, has been postponed
to allow the state to file counter
affidavits and briefs in opposition to
a new trial for these innocent Negro
children, eight of whom have been
sentenced to burn in the electric chair
on July 10.
In the meantime, General Cham
lee, leading Chattanooga attorney en-
gagged by the l. L. D., is in Scottsboro
today, with Joseph Brodsky, New
York attorney of the I. l.. d. filing
motions for new trials for all of the
defendants.
With the southern Landlords and