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The Washington times., 1931-02-24
California Stauts
Due for Hall of Fame

A concurrent resolution accept
ing statutes of Junipero Sierra
and Thomas Starr King from the
State of Calinfornia for installa-
ton in the Congressional Hall of
Fame, was adopted by the Senate
yesterday on the motion of Short
ridge (RD, of California. It's
adoption by the House is assured.
The statues will be installed
with ceremonies March /, John
son (R.O, of California as chair
man and with the presentation
speeches being made by Short
ridge and Isadore Dockweiler of
Los Angeles.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Death Ends Career
Of Former Duchess

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. "a
1NSD The former Duchess of
Mecklenburg, remembered in San
Francisco as Mrs. Natalie Gel
richs Martin. widow of Peter D.
Martin, famed as an interna-
tional polo player, was dead
here today. She was the daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M.
Oelrichs, of Newport, r. I.
Two years after Martin died
at Santa Barbara, his widow
married Duke Henry Borwin du
Mecklenburg at New York in
1915. They were later divorced
in Germany.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Taxi DriUer Robbed
OF $3.50 bH His Fare

Carl Wilmington, 1400 L st.
N. W., a taxicab driver, last
night reported to police, THAT he
was held up by a passenger at
Rock Creek Church Road and
Woodley Drive Northwest and
robbed of $3.50.
Wilmington said the robber
engaged him at New Jersey Ave
nue. and H Streets Northwest and
directed him to drive to Thirty
fourth Street and Woodley Road
Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Buckley Death Trial
OpeniRQ POSTPONED

DETROIT, Feb. "a G.N.SO.
Trial of three alleged gangsters
for the first degree murder of
Gerald E. Buckley, crime-crusad-
ing radio announcer, today was
postponed until tomorrow morn
ing upon the request of Common
wealth Prosecutor Harry S. Toy.
Selection of a jury probably will
consume all of this week. Testi-
mony is not expected to start
until next Monday.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Desert Heat BaLks
Hounds on M0nhunt

FLORENCE Ariz., Feb. "a
G.N.SO.-Posses continued their
search of the surrounding Desert
country today for IS convicts who
escaped from the State prison by
scaling a 20-foot wall.
Bloodhounds were of little help
because the hot desert evaporated
the fugitives trail.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Shrine Club Holds
Annual Ladies' Night

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 24.-The
Alexandria Shrine Club will hold
it's annual ladies night celebra-
ton Monday night in the audi
torium of the Virginia Public
) Service Company.
An entertainment program, fea-
turing the Arlington Hall School
for Girls Glee and Dramatic Club,
will be given.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
COIOred Educators
Off for Conference

Led by Garnet c. Wilkinson,
first assistant superintendent of
colored schools, a group of negro
educators left the city yesterday
for Detroit. where a meeting of
the national advisory committee
on the education of negroes will
be held in connection with the
two-day conference of the depart
ment of superintendent of the
National Education Association.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Amnesty for EriIes
Asked in. PdruQlIQu

ASUNCION, Paraguay, Feb. "a
GN.SD Amnesty for political
prisoners has been demanded of
the government by labor organiza-
tions, who have instituted a gen.
eral strike to emphasize their de-
mandS.
Manifestos supporting the strik-
ers have been issued by the Com
munistS.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
DRUNK FINED S1oo

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 24.-War-
rem Jones, colored, arrested by
Patrolman Ira Posey last night
charged with being drunk and
carrying concealed weapons, was
sentenced to a fine of 500 and
costs or the alternative of six
months in jail.
The Washington times., 1931-02-24
Woman PLunges ~
Stories to Death

CHICAGO, Feb. "a G.N.SO-
Police today were attempting to
identify the body of a woman
who plunged 10 stories to her
death last night in full view of
thousands of downtown theater-
goerS.
When the body fell three
women tainted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
More Support to the
Marine Workers!
BY JOHN STEUBEN.

MYTH the developing war situation, the marine
W industry must be considered one of the most
important for our penetration If we will be
able during the coming few months to spread
our influence and crystalline it organizationally,
we will be performing great task that has been
sadly neglected up to now.
The marine workers are ready for organiza-
tion During the last two weeks only, 10 and
IL per cent wage-cut was introduced on the
Grace Line, Ward Line, Munson Line and Bar
Der Line,
The A. r of L. and other unions in the ma
rine industry being rapidly discredited. On
the other hand, the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. affiliated to the Trade Union Unity
League, is growing, slowly but surely,
One of the chief reasons for the slow growth
of the marine union is lack of support from our
movement This must be openly recognized in
a spirit of proletarian self-critcism and rectified
not only in words but in action. Perhaps If our
other unions and fraternal organizations had
been aware Of the tremendous difficulties our
marine workers have to buck up against in their
daily work the comrades would have appreci
cted it more and given the Marine Workers In
dustral Union more help
Next Steps .i.
However, because we have neglected up to
row the comrades in the marine industry, and
the waterfront Gs whole, we must make up for
it by immediate and speedy action Concretely,
The Bureau of the Trade Union Unity Council
makes the following suggestions to the various
organizations and individual comrades:
l. Each organization shall donate weekly
small sum of money to the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union for organization work.
2. To supply the M W. I. U. with sufficient
literature.
3. Arrange affairs and parties for the support
OF the union
4. To help to distribute Systematically the
Marine Workers Voice"
5. Marine workers that belong to clubs and
other fraternal organizations should be induced
to join the Marine Workers Industrial Union.
The building up Of a strong Marine Workers
Union is one Of the best ways how to struggle
against imperialist war and Tor the defense of
the Soviet Union Working class organizations
and individual workers must take up the task of
organizing the marine workers AS THEIR OWN
TASK and help in this very important field of
activity of the TUUL.
Get Immediately in touch with the office OF
the Trade Union Unity League, or directly with
the Marine workers Industrial Union, l4c Broad
st., New York.
What crssnisstson, on individual wsgheg, WI
b. ~ nyvt = rss1saA tsNtads unvns 81 :.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
|'HARLAN REMEMBERS ITS DEAD"

Anniversary Of the Russian Revolution, when
the workers had ended hunger by establishing
a workers and peasants government
Next day, at Wallens Greek, the stage was all
set for the frane-up An official court stenog-
rapher was present to manufacture record.
The sex frame-up against Dresser had already
been prepared. But that was not enough for the
furious coal officials. The coal operators re.
sented the defiance OF the miners, who came u
thousands to the mass meetings vigorously a.
plauding and cheering the speeches for working
class solidarity, for strike and for a mass cam
paign against terror.
The entire force of the Kentucky coal oper-
ators is now bowling with fury because the miners
show renewed strength in their struggles. The
Straight Creek miners are now out again, 100
per cent, under the leadership Of the National
ton throughout the Harlan coal fields with every
chance of bringing out $4,000 miners in vic
torious fight against hunger.
New Wave of Terror.
A new wave of terror is preparing in Harlan
because the coal operators have been stung to
the quick by the exposure OF the miserable con-
ditions. They hate still worse the new life that
has been infused into the National Miners
Union.
The latest instrument OF terror is the trial
against the 30 Evarts, KY. miners on framed-up
murder charges now pending in the Blue Grass
region Of Kentucky. Here the rich landowners,
descendants OF the Kentucky save-owners, ex-
ploiters Of Negro tenant farmers and close asso-
ciates Of the Kentucky coal barons will sit IN
"judensnt" OF the framed-up miners. What
treatment the jailed miners can expect is indi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
MASS STRUGGLE WILL FORCE
THE GOVT TO PROVIDE
JOBLESS INSURANCE

the fake progressive republican LaFollete the
contemplate demagogues from Mayor Murphy to
the Reverends Norman Thomas and A. j. Music
are worrying whether the masses will consider 1t
worth while to continue the present organization
of society," if we allow conditions of suffering
such as we now witness, to occur"
These agents of the bosses are franticaly ap-
pealing to the capitalist class to hurry-up and
enact some fake unemployment insurance mea-
sure before the masses under revolutionary lead
ership force them TO provide real unemployment
insurance. This is the meaning of the differ
ences" reported as between Senator Wagner and
his fellow politicians In the Senate Committee.
This is the meaning Of the feverish activities OF
the treacherous Socialists" who are calling
conference in Washington in vain effort to
offset the effect of the National Hunger March.
They are shouting to the bosses: Nov is the
time to buy Deal with us! We will give you
real bargain, something you can offer to the
workers as a substitute for real unemployment
insurance"
The millions of unemployed and part-tine
workers, the workers still in the shops whose
wages are being slashed and who are threatened
with the restitution which is the lot of the job
less, must tell Mr. Hoover that he cannot save
the bosses from the obligation to disgorge their
fat money bags for unemployment insurance. We
must tell Wagner Murphy Thomas Music and
Co. that we cannot be fooled with their "just-as-
good" or "best-that-can be gotten" brand Of I'M
employment insurance
The National Hunger March must be mighty
mobilization for Immediate Unemployment In
surance at full wages to be paid by the employers
and the government to all workers; to be adj
mnistered through organs elected by the work
ers!"
Rally to the support Of the National Hunger
March! :.
Forward to victorious struggle for real Unem-
ployment Insurance!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
BY HERBERT BENJAMIN

THE ruling class of the u S. and its government
make no secret Of their intention to resist by
all possible means the growing demand for I'M
employment insurance. During the first part of
August, Hoover in announcing his so-called relief
plans, again made clear that, his concern was not
for the mass misery which prevails for the work.
ers and poor farmers of this country. After con-
ferences with the heads of the U. S. Chamber Of
Commerce his plans were frankly announced in
the New York Times under the headline Hoover
Seeks Plan for Averting the Dole" This then Is
the problem with which Hoover, Clifford and Co.
concern themselves.
Thousands of workers may starve to death.
Thousands may die of cold and exposure to dis
ease. Thousands may be driven to suicide. The
living standards of the whole working class may
be reduced to the level of pauperism by wage
cuts and part time employment. Millions of
workers may be thrown into an army of per-
rnanently unemployed. Hoover and his masters.
the So rulers Of the o. S. and all who serve them,
will still continue to concern themselves with
only how to prevent the desperate workers from
forcing the enactment of system of unemploy
nent insurance at the expense of the bosses and
government.
But-When an aroused, united, militant work.
ing class takes to the streets When millions
unite in an insistent determined demand and
struggle for unemployment insurance When
Mr.. Hoover and his masters are faced with the
alternative Unemployment Insurance or the
whole damn works!-The workers will win unem-
ployment insurance in spite of the ,inwillingness
of the bosses and their government.
Many capitalist politicians already see the
handwriting on the wall. Prof. John Gray ex-
presses the fears of these politicians when he
declares that Large masses of honest people
have never consented to sit down and starve to
death quietly" The Tammany Senator Wagner;
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

Gated by the Mt Sterling KY, Courier Gazette"
one OF the leading sheets in the Blue Grass
county OF Montgomery "Au Communists should
be shot without benefit Of trial." wrote this
paper, preparing to give the miners fair hear
ing"
In New York, the New York Daily News"
which associated with Insul, the big utility mag
nate who owns mine property in Harlan county,
is now printing series OF articles attacking the
National Miners Union in Harlan and asking
for the electrocution Of the 80 Evarts defen-
dants. A more vicious series OF lying articles
has seldom appeared in the capitalist press. A
threat Of renewed murder OF miners is contained
in the following from the News" story:
1.-THE Harlan field is quiet now. 1t has been
so for three months. But the tension is very
real beneath the surface. Harlan is on guard.
An aroused community, backed by the Ameri-
can Legion, has crushed Communism and driven
IL to cover.
But there is many a little Red nucleus scat
tered about these hills, and the authorities do
not intend to let the trials inflame them to new
action Harlan remembers its dead"
The same story admits things which Sheriff
Blair failed to mention, namely, that Sheriff
John H. Blair himself war veteran enrolled
additional deputies local operators thugs ad-
mitted by Blair himself-H.G) and ordered his
men to shoot!"
1.-THE United Mine Workers. the American
Federation Of Labor, joined the campaign" to
shoot down striking miners, the New York Daily
News also informs the New York workers
Tho renewed terror in Harlan county VIII
not stop the advance Of the National Miners
Union The strike in Straight Greek win spread
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
&z4:-.4
No Man s Land
By JoR0A

A comrade OF Section s. Unit 2, in New York
has discovered something. Perhaps it Is a hith-
erto ungrabbed colony that place called Mt
Vernon, N. Y.
Anyhow, a year and half ago, the YCL and
Wilds OF Mt. Vernon (Which appears to lay
couple OF points N.N.E. of the Bronx Zoo, and
Is visible to the eye on clear day from Mt
Coop. The exploratory expedition, being ac-
companled by brass band, alarmed the savage
rulers OF that unknown land, and after fierce
battles was driven back
NOW, after this time has gone by it appears
that the tracts left there by the missionaries
OF the expedition had some effect on the opprea-
sea section OF the population. Indeed there is
one applicant to the Y.C.L. and several appli-
cants to the Party who have been waiting all
tnlS time Tor the second coming" as it were
OF their redeemer-all Negroes But their re-
deemer is in no hurry, this century or the next
VIII do. Besides, the section leadership Is afraid
OF being charged with red imperialism
So reports the comrade who yentured into
this No Mans Land. It's not without claimant
because the NA.A.C.P. has been busy there, and
the camrade says that he promised "ouite a few
contacts he discovered that he would "get the
help OF the Party" But when he approached
the Section leadership, he says IT was told
l cannot do anything because this is not their
territory"
Well maybe 1t isn't. But after these Me- 10
workers have been waiting for year and hi
1t might not be amiss to find out WHOSE tsr-
rltory it Is and see that something is done a,o ~
it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
1t PAYS to Advertise

Between the comrade who gets lob at q m
and has by Has a. M told everybody in sight
and hearing that he is Red, and the comrade
who has been working twelve years in his shop
and not soul knows he is a Red-there is small
choice; the one gets fired at IL noon and the
other might as well be- for all the good he does
the Party.
However, we started out to tell you about an
irish taxi driver who is in somewhat different
conditions, true, but knows how to put in his
horn and, rather strangely, finds it pays. But
OF course, he is only sympathizer and isn't
afraid to speak up for Communism as MANY
Party members are
Communism is coming like a house afre
1t can't be stopped I told that to Park
Avenue girl drove home the other night She
began it by asking how things were. said. not
SO hot and one thing went to another and we
got to talking of Russia. So / told her Com
munism was the workers only salvation and
nothing can stop it.
Il looked back into the cab, and there she
was over in one corner biting her nails. be
she went up and told her rich papa about the
terrible Red taxi driver Anyway, she gave me
IS cents tip"
Much the same thing happened he tells at
some length, with regular Full Belly But"
says the taxi driver I'VE parted the best of
friends and also IS cents tip"
AS class measure, of course, we must rec
commend that the only sure way for taxi driv-
ers to better their conditions is to organize under
leadership OF the Trade Union Unity League and
light their bosses. But this story is funny SHOW
ing how the capitalists feel themselves on The
defensive and alphabetically fork over IS cent
tips tothe RED Menace We must make them
give Unemployment Insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
BY HARRY CANNES

BRINGING out the truth about the starvation
conditions in the Harlan coal fields is con-
sidered by the coal operators government crime"
enough to warrant 20-year Jail sentence. The
whole Dresser committee, along with several In
ternational Labor Defense members and repre-
sentatives of the National Miners Union, have
been indicted for criminal syndcalisnl. Judge
Jones, the operators office boy in the Harlan
and Bell county court house, merely writes out
the indictments and his hand picked grand jury
signs them.
What infurlated the Kentucky coal operators
most was the enthusiastic meetings of the miners
in Straight Greek, on Nov. Z, and the mass meet
ing at Wallens Creek the next day, Nov. 8. The
Dresser Committee had announced that the
meetings would be "a test Of free speech" as
Commonwealth Attorney Brock had declared
free speech existed in the Kentucky coal fields.
The meetings we're called under the auspices OF
the National Miners Union and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense.
Most of the speakers at both meetings were
miners and their wives. In eloquent language,
born of struggles and long suffering, they told
of years Of hunger, betrayal by the United Mine
Workers. and then of the hopeful organization
of the National Miners Union which was carry
ing on a militant fight against starvation.
Several members of the Dresser Committee
then told of their investigation and the desire
to get at the truth so that It could b. published
and broadcast. George Maurer for the Inter
national Labor Defense spoke Of the irterna-
tion&l solidarity OF the workers in the fight
asaeast terror and hunger. spoke for the labor
xM' talyQe q the MgnAatcanee Of Nov. ~ the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26
The Rich ManChurian Prize

Gus coal The chief seam of this coal is covered
with an immense quantity of oil shale having an
average thickness of 459 feet and estimated at
S million tons. From this shale oil is produced.
At present only little of it is used, to supply
the Japanese Navy with fuel
The amount of iron ore in southern Manchuria
is not known how much lies unused in northern
Manchuria. The estimated amount OF gold is
1923 million ounces. And the forests are so huge
that they have not yet been measured. The pres
ent estimate is 30.5 million acres.
1t can easily be seen that Manchuria is mint
for which the imperialist nations will send mil
lions of workers to die, in order to control it.
The largest enterprise in Manchuria is the South
Manchuria Railway The railway is japanese
monopoly and has been one since the Russo
Japanese War The railway employs 10000 Jap
anese and 5000 Chinese. Besides these about
$4,000 Chinese laborers are in the employ Of the
railroad. The annual budget of the road is about
$150000000. 1t owns enormous storehouses,
workshops one of the biggest locomotive works
in Asia, fleet of ships and harbors, coal mines
and land to the extent of $500 thousand acres.
(The territory on both sides of the line are Jap
anese property Also hospitals, chemical works,
oil pressing works and all sorts of factories.
Even the schools in the territory surrounding the
railroad are owned by Japan and the children
are not taught their native language, Chinese,
but Japanese.
The discrimination practiced against Chinese
in Manchuria is exposed by the differences in
the wages paid Japanese and Chinese workers.
Whereas Japanese carpenter in the city of
Dairen receives an average of 50 day, the
Chinese carpenter only gets 10 cents. Japan
csc mason earns $225 day and Chinese 80
cents. Japanese painter earns $l65 day
and Chinese painter is given IS cents for the
same work And so in every industry. The low
est paid workers are the Chinese coolies who get
Is cents a day in Dairen. Japanese don't even
take these jobs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-26

MANCHURIA, the scene of the present war, has
h been danger zone in world imperialism
since the end of the last century. The Sino-
Japanese War; the Russo-Japanese War, the
Chinese Eastern affair of two years ago have
conferred about this territory Of $4,000 square
miles The reason for this is the wealth that
the country contains and the desire of the i'm
perialist nations to control 1t.
The total production of cereals in Manchuria
was 1856, 7s9 1888 bushels in 1927. OF this about
half was exported The percentage of exports
holds true in other years. And yet only about
half of the arabic lands are cultivated In China
at least hundred million people are starving.
If Manchuria were developed 3oo,0oo0o0 people
could be fed on its agricultural products.
Japan has a shortage Of agricultural products
and imports great quantity Of its food from
Manchuria. The most important Manchurian
crop is the Soya bean of which over five and
quarter million tons were grown in 1929.
But more important to the imperialist nations
than the agriculture in Manchuria are the vast
natural resources of coal, iron, gold forests and
soda The coal fields of Fushun, east of Mukden,
cover an area Of Is square miles. 1t is estimated
that within this small area there is deposit of
one billion, two hundred million tons of biturnin7
COI1lT are udlly III COllIdCI Will WOIkeIS
and where in many instances good functioning
shop nuclei can be organized.
Special emphasis must be placed on drawing
in workers in the existing shop nuclei and build
ing new shop nuclei where the possibilities
list. In the last recruiting drive this was one OF
our weakest points.
real campaign must be made to bring back
those proetarians who dropped out of the Party
due to mshandling and bad inner life OF the
Party units.
Special committees must be set up in the Sec
tions to handle the applicants and assign them
to units without delay.
II the proper attention is given to the drive
our Party will really be rooted in the shops and
factories.