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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
INVADE DULUTH
CITY COUNCIL
Serve Relief Demands
on Steel Trust Mayor;
Big Demonstration

DULUTH, MINI, Jan. 13.--Three
thousand hunger narcherS on the
Duluth city hall yesterday. They
walked right into the city council
meeting. A committee of unem-
ployed workers, read the demands for
immediate relief, and spoke over an
hour to the steel trust mayor, Snively,
and the council members.
The mayor and the council refused
any aid.
The demonstrators paraded- and
held an organization meeting, at
which many joined the Council of
the Unemployed. and signed The de-
mand to pass the Workers Unen1-
ployment Insurance Bill.
The demands for Unemployment
relief made on the state governor
Olson in the hunger march on the
state capitol were read by Karl
Reeve and Herman Of the state I'M
employment committee, and endorsed
by this demonstration.
Reeve and Herman were on the
committee making demands on the
city council. --..-,-
The chairman of the committee
was Hurwitz, of the Trade Union
Unity League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Drop of fl PC. in NY. State
Employment Breaks Record

cember alone more than $4,000 work.
ers lost their jobs and were added
to the army of the unemployed.
1T is now late to talk of prevention
of unemployment said Miss Perkins,
because the drop has already taken
place" She said that the drop would
continue at least until March. So
great was the increase in unemploy-
ment that the Labor Department had
to make a new chart In order to fig
ure it out.
The great decrease in employment
took place in textile. clothing, food,
wood and leather goods factories. In
Syracuse there was a drop of 8 per
cent in employment; the textile mills
showed a cut of Z per cent in their
working force.
The New York figures, which are
usually given out bofer those of other
states, are an accurate reflection of
the growth of unemployment all over
the country. The figures in other
states vary only in fractions from
those of New York. Hence it can be
seen that there was decline of about
4 pea cent at least in employment
among all workers throughout the
rom these figures IT a.
~svss. ,..s-s 49,
workers were thrown out OF WORK dur
ing December.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
SHOE WORKERS
MEET THURSDAY
Open Fight on Terrible
Conditions in Trade

NEW YORK,-It is now over one
year since the organized shoe bosses
of Brooklyn and New York with the
active cooperation of the U. 6. Dept
of labor and the bosses ALL. Boot
and Shoe Union" broke their agree
ment with the Independent Shoe
Workers Union and locked-out $500
workers who refused to work under
open shop conditions.
Since then the wages of the work.
ers have been reduced to a starvation
level and the conditions in the shops
and factories have become SO utterly
unbearable that even scabs are re-
voting.
The fake Boot and Shoe Union"
working hand in hand with the bosses
in getting injunctions against the
workers and cutting wages, has been
trying to capitalize on the w(nkers
misery by fake strikes and liesADu
ing the past year the fake B. and S
has betrayed the workers in every
shop where the bosses called them ir
to put over another wage cut.
Every shoe and slipper worker
should attend the mass meeting ar.
ranged for by the Independent Shoe
Workers Union, which will be held
at the Lorrain Hall Thursday eve
Jan. 18th, at p. m. The speaker;
will be F. G. Biedenkapp, S.sAlex-
anderson, j. Magliacano, j. Johnston
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Workers Bookshop to
Give Big Reductions
for Purchases Now


NEW YORK-The Workers Book.
shop. now located at SO E. 18th St.
is offering 20 per cent reduction ON all
of the books carried in stock during
the week of Jan. IS to 10, inclusive
All OF the Marxian-Leninist classics
published by the International Pub
fishers are included in this sale.
Complete sets of the Moscow.7sews
containing the proceedings OF tf1estria
OF the leaders of the counter-revolu-
tionary Industrial Party, are being
sold at is cents per set. Twenty per
cent reduction on subscriptions tc
Inprecorr, Communist, Communist
International, Moscow News.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
-Four Gastonia Victims Ansever
Attack; 'USSR Workers Land

MOSCOW, Dec. 80 tBy MaiD.-
Four of the Gastonia defendants who
escaped prison sentences in No. Caro-
lima of Is to 20 years, who are now
in Moscow, issued statement an
swering various attacks carried in the
capitalist press of the U. S. The
statement declares:
In view Of the campaign conducted
by the socialist and capitalist press,
as well as by the leaders of the Civil
Liberties Union, we, the undersigned,
who have actively participated in the
Gastonia strike, arrested for our
strike work and sentenced to long
term imprisonments, state the fol-
lowing:
1t is not true that we have escaped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
"CHARCE IT TO MAYOR" SAY JOBLESS;
5000 MARCH ON DULUTH CITY HALL;
1000 AT CLEVELAND FOSTER MEETING
Chicago Jobless Send
100 to Demand Relief
From the Mayor

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 13.--Twelve
thousand militant jobless hunger
marched down the middle Of Madison
st. here yesterday, with banners and
placards and shouting for Work Oh
Food" Ten thousand more followed
along the sidewalks, and when the
parade stopped at Canal and Madi-
son, a giant demonstration of 10000
to $4,000 was held from which q
delegation of 100 was elected to &C
to the city hall with demands fol-
immediate relief.
Mayor Thompson found it conven-
lent to be away, and Breen, repre-
senting Thompson, refused to act or
behalf of the unemployed.
Eat and Don't Pay.
The masses of jobiess felt some
thing must be done at once, however
and all who could get in packed Rak-
los, Thompsons, and Child's restaur-
ANTS at the finish of the demonstra-
ton. They ate heartily and walked
out shouting, Charge it to Mayor
Thompson"
A hundred crashed the street cars
and rode away without paying fares
The plans of the march had been
changed, and the originally an
nounced demonstration at city hall
was not intended to be held. How
ever, several thousand gathered
there, anyway.
This demonstration was a tremen'
dous protest against starvation, ever
though the demonstrators wert
dashed by cold wind and furry o.
snow.
The delegation which went to the
city hall was led by Phil Frankfeld
Otto Wangerin, Banks Ga Negro UNI
employed worker.
The speakers at the demonstration
were Wangerin. Matheson, Frankfeld
Donald Burke (recently released from
Jail term given for leading jobless)
Louise Morrison, Gray, Joe BALLET
(of the Metal Workers Industria
League), Bill Gebert, John William.
son, Bydel, Williams speaking fol
the Communist Party, Satir for the
Young Communist League), Banks
and others, Qeaders of the Councils
of the UnemployedD.
274 At Conference.
Sunday the United Front Confer
ence on Unemployment was ATTENDED
by 274 delegates representing 80
workers organizations. There wer'
representatives from 81 fraternal or
CARNATIONS, A. F. L. locals, 10 Trad
Union Unity League groups, S You'll
organization, % unemployed coun
T. ches, the Communist Party, tn
ellis, International Labor Defens
Y. C. L., the Young Pioneers, ant
workers children in school.
The conference laid out plans TO
speeding up the collection of sigma
lures for the Workers Unemploy
ment Insurance Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
NEEDLE WORKERS
TO DEMONSTRATE

NEW YORK. - To show the will,
the determination and the power of
the many thousands of dressmakers,
the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union is calling for a demonstration
on Thursday, IL o'clock on seth st.
and 9th Avenue.
The Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union will soon send for the
call for the mighty dress strike. In
this strike, the dressmakers are fight
ing to put an end to the misery and
slavery prevailing in the dress trade.
In this strike the dressmakers will
fight to wipe out piece work, long
hours and sweat shop conditions. In
this strike, the dressnakers will fight
to establish week-work, the 7-hour
5-day week and to build the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union as
a mighty weapon in their day to
day struggles for better conditions.
Pledge Support.
Unemployed dressmakers met In
Union Hail, Isl west 26tn Street ON
Monday and pledged to take part IN
the demonstration tomorrow, and to
mobilize other unemployed dressmak.
ers.
All other needle trades are also
modifying. Yesterday at p m. sew"
eral hundred furriers met at Bryant
Hall in answer to the call Of the
Furriers United Front Committee The
fur workers discussed ways to COM
bat the schemes of Kaufman Of the
international Fur Workers Union to
force on them taxes. and pledged to
join the demonstration Thursday.
Today at one p. m. the cloakmak-
ers will meet IN Bryant Hail. and the
tailors will meet Al. II noon b Msns
yhattan Lyespm Tt
- - @'~~>~cA~<~ .ef tg "A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Crisis Will Be Worse
in 1881, Keynes Says

LONDON, Jan. Recommending
on the huge decline in British for
eign trade for 1880. amounting to
1,670,000, and the worsening crisis
in all basic industries In Britain,
pushing the unemployed army over
the 100000 mark, John Maynard
Keynes, one the leading British
boss economists painted a gloomy
picture of the future Of world
capitalism.
Nineteen-thirty one would be
worse than 1880 was the main
theme of Keynes speech over the
radio yesterday. Keynes called for
war measures to attempt to pull
British capitalism out of the crisis.
He said the international financial
situation would grow much worse
in 1881.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
POLICE ATTACK
YONKERS MEETING
Jobless Hunger March
Thursday at 7 PM.

Yonkers, N. Y, Jan. 10. The
Yonkers police attacked the meeting
scheduled for Regis Hall, Monday.
The meeting was in protest of brutal
ity exercised on the unemployed DEM
onstration last week. The police
simply gave another example of bru-
tally.
WEIGH and Liss Resist Cops.
They lined the streets approaching
the hall, and barred all corners. Mil
ton WEIGH and Liss, leaders of the,
jobless, insisted on the right to use
the hall, and the cops attempted to
beat them up.
Workers of Yonkers will not allow
themselves to be terrorized and will
come out Thursday at Z p. m. to
march on the city hall and demand
half the $15,OOO,0oo city budget be
turned over to save the $4,000 Yonk-
ers jobless from starvation.
The same night the police were
smashing the unemployed meeting,
the city was throwing $4,000 feed
for the rich, who came to eat for the
jobless. There is more than a sus-
picion that this charity meal is paid
for out of the official 100000 fund
being collected for unemployment
relief. The fund is mainly taken
out of the already low wages of those
still working.
A campaign is on to force workers
to give days work, or half a days
work each week or each month for
this 100000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
BIGGEST INDOOR
CLEVELAND MEET
Endorse Insurance Bills
Will Gather More
Signatures

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 13-TWe
thousand came to mass meeting here
yesterday at With William z, Foster
was the main speaker. They enthus-
iaStically endorsed the Workers I'M
employment Insurance Bill. Hun
dredS of signatures were collected for
the bill, and lists were distributed for
gatherings of more signatures. This
is the biggest indoor demonstration SO
far held in Cleveland.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14

WE CAN NOT STOP Emergency Campaign
be rushed to triumphant
worker from Buffalo, New York writes:
handed copies Of the
Worker
VOICE OF CLASS.
We mxust make 1t possible to
member OF the working class We the
fcs We
OF having to miss issue
which could be corrected by the expenditure
There b Red Shock page Send an
funds immediately 10 tho Daily Worker % Es l2h ss
gis ~ n sSsTsps
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14

capitalist class justice for personal
reasons. We are Communists, or
gained revolutionaries, and we do not
act as individuals, we do not act on
oar own accord or out of personal
considerations. We act in the inter-
ests of the working class movement.
Our actions follow upon the advice
given to us by many comrades that
we could be much more useful to the
revolutionary movement by staying
out of prison as long as possible. by
carrying on Communist propaganda
and by modifying and organizing the
working class.
We also know that the leading
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE
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destroying literature attempt
'front.' fight
Daily Worker Comrades
the by which enabled
which the working struggle
n intensity.
Every day the attempt
stronger This must
COMPLETED.
Money from the 7th Anniversary celebration
obligations It must be rushed to the Daily Offices immediately Du1
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Report Of Editorial Staff At Saturday Meet

struggle. There will be a report
~ A. Landy, for the staff, on the
problems Of the Daily Worker.
Then the floor will be thrown open
for discussion. All working class
organizations should send dele
rates to present the problems of
heir organizations so far as the
Daily Worker is concerned in re-
porting their activities.
Bring your shop mates! Come
IN time, so there will be plenty Of
opportunity for discussion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
Unemployed Meets All Over
City Lead the Hunger March

M, st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. 13oth ST.;
Bronx, Friday, Jan. 16, 8 PM, Am
bassador Hail. 1915 Bird Ave.
Midtown, Friday, Jan. 16, 8 pm.
Bryant Hall, 9Th Ave. g. And st.
Downtown, Friday Jan. 16, 8 pm
Manhattan Lyceum, Sc E. 4th st.
Williamsburg, Friday, Jan. is, 8 p
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14

ALBANY, N. Y, Jan 13.-Again all
records of unemployment in the state
of New York were broken when there
was drop of Al per cent in factory
employment during the month of De-
cember, as reported by the state In
dustrial Commissioner Frances Per-
kins. This means that during De-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14

Every problem Of improving the
Daily Worker will be brought up
and al readers who came to the
meeting on Saturday, Jan. II, at
$50 p. M, Workers Center. second
floor. will be given an opportunity
20 voice their suggestions.
x.
THIS melting is called by the
editorial staff Of the Daily Worker
TO improve connections with the
readers SO that the paper win have
. wider source Of nswy Of the class
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-14
I BULLETIN.

NEW YORK.-A delegation of
five Negro carpenters was sent to
the Unemployed Conference by the
ALL. Carpenters Local 1888. The
local is made up of Negroes. The
delegation declared its support of
the fight against evictions and for
unemployment insurance. One
member, Haines, was elected on the
delegation to go to Washington.
NEW YORK.-The Second Confer
ence of the New York Campaign
Committee for Unemployment Insur-
ance, which was held at Irving Plaza
on January IL, endorsed Program
of Action which calls for indoor mass
meetings to be held all over the city
on the night Of January is.
These mass meetings are being
called to ratify the delegates elected
to Washington for the presenting OF
the Unemployment Insurance Bill on
February 10 to Congress. The mass
meetings will also endorse the Bill
and stimulate the activities of work.
ers and the organizations to which
they belong on the signature collec-
ton campaign which starts on Satur-
day, January IT, and includes the
10 and 10 of January.
The meetings will be held in the
following places:
Harlem, Thursday, January Is, p.
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THE CITY HAS MONEY
FOR COPS; MAKE IT FEED
THE InuY .Ucoa -
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Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
FIRE INSURANCE
BILL OPPOSED
Kent County Firemen
Back Plan To Abolish
Fireworks In State
TAGS ARE DISCUSSED

The Kent County Firemen's AssO-
citation met at Houston Wednesday
night of last week. All companies
were represented with the exception
of Hartly and South Bowers. Speak
ing of the plans for the newly or
ganized Delaware State Firemen's
Mutual Benefit Association, Presi-
dent Haddaway said it was hoped TO
have a sample policy ready by
March. He also urged that the leg
islative committee get busy and look
after the interests of the fremen
during this session of the legisla-
ture. One of the chief items was the
2 per cent insurance law. The asso-
citation is opposed to any change in
the law. Delegates from Clayton
made inquiry concerning State
law to punish offenders who turn in
false alarms. President Haddaway
was selected to work with the legis-
lative committee toward drafting a
bill to be presented to the General
Assembly. The firemen are also
backing bill now before the legis-
ature to prohibit the manufacture
md sale of fireworks in Delaware. |
W. w. Pettyjohn, chairman of the
Board of Directors, urged that all
come to the February
Meeting with their carnival dates
[THrN 10 Page 5, Picasc1
Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
FORESTER GIVES
FIRST REPORT
Delaware's Forest Indus
try Worthy Of, EncOur-
agement, He Shows
OFFER LEGISLATION

Under proper forest management,
$4,000 of 3S0,00O acres of timber or
brush land, irrespective of the htou-
sands of acres of idle land in Della
ware, support a forest growth cap
able of producing not less than one
half cord of wood per acre per
year. This is revealed in the first re-
port of State Forester w. S. Taber
to TIE State Forestry Commission.
Converted to board feet, the an
nual increment on the $685. acres
amounts to 87,500,000 feet, which, if
valued at the nominal sum of IS per
1000 on the stump, would be worth
S437,500 per year to the landowners
in the State" Mr.. Taber explains.
These figures alone do not repre-
sent the true value of our forests for
in order to harvest this annual crop
from four to sixteen dollars per
thousand teet would be expended for
labor used in cutting and manufac-
turing the crop. If the manufactur- |
ers made no profit whatever on their /
on the basis of ten dol I
lars per thousand feet as the aver |
age cost of manufacture, there .
would be added to the wealth of the |
State $875,OO0 annually. This amount
added to the stumpage value, $437,-
500 of the annual increment makes
the annual revenue S1,312,500
Even though minimum values
were used in the above calculation,
it shows without a question of
lOubt, that Delaware's forest indus
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Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
100000 SOUGHT
FOR SCHOOLS IN
HOUSE MEASURE
Mrs. TSchudy's Bill Pro-
vides Immediate Outlay
To Complete Program
WILMINGTON SHARES
Raise State Board
Of Education From Four
To Six Members
WILMINGTON SHARES

If bill offered in the House on
Monday by Mrs. Tschudy, the cham
ber's only woman member, is passed
$3,O00,000 will be made available at
once for completing the school
building program of the State, of
which amount $1,2OO,OOO would go to
the city of Wilmington and $780,
900 to the remainder of the common
wealth. 1t is understood that about
$1,OOO,000 already in the school bull
ding fund has been allocated to var
iOus districts.
If this bill should be passed it
would make a total of $4,000, 900
that has been appropriated towards
the school building program since
1927. That year the legislature pass
ed the firTt school building program
bill which was for $1,00O,O0O a year
for the next two years. In 1929 the
school building program bill appro-
priated $3,O00,O00, divided $1,5OO,OOO
for each year.
Mr.. Williams, president of the
State board, said on Monday that
this $3,000,000 would virtually COM
plete the original school building
program but that after these two
years there probably would remain
some additions to be built to schools
N different sections where they
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Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
SMYRNA RETAINS
LIGHTING FRANCHISE
Town Election Shows 800 TO I5I In
Favor OF Keeping Plant

At the special election held at
Smyrna on Monday residents of
Smyrna decided to retain the local
electric light plant and franchise
and to refuse the 100000 offer of
the Public Service Company of the
Eastern Shore for the plant and
franchise. The polls opened at two
O'Clock and constant stream of
voters cast their ballots until clos
ing time at o'clock. No town cleo
tiOn in many years had caused as
much interest and discussion.
The final returns showed 300 in
favor of retaining the franchise and
151 in favor of the sale. Considering
the returns from the angle of the
amount of taxes, there were SG008
in favor and $4735 against the re-
tention of the franchise.
The Smyrna Light Plant is bond
ed for $204,000 and is in need of ex-
tensiVe repairs. Many residents be-
lieved it wise to sell and pay off
this debt without acquiring an adj
ditiOnal one for repairs. c. r. Stew
enson, president of the Town COun-
Gil, was, however, enthusiastic in
support of the retention of the plant
and franchise, believing that the
financial difficulties could be over !
come and that it was of paramount
to retain control of the !
local plant. The results show that
The majority of the citizens agreed |
with Mr.. Stevenson.
Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
HIGH HONOR FOR
KENT COUNTY MAN
F. w. Richardson Gets
Master Farmer Gold
Medal Award
rs 4 FRUIT GROWER

Frank w. Richardson, Wyoming,
Delaware, was one of the thirteen
farmers to receive the Master Far
mer degree in Pennsylvania this
year. At dinner at Harrisburg, Pa,
Thursday night, before an audience
of 400 farm leaders and others in
terested in agriculture, Mr.. Richard
son was presented with a gold med
al by the Pennsylvania Farmer i'll
recognition of his success in farm
ing and his standing as a citizen.
The Master Farmer movement is
a nationwide plan sponsored by
farm papers to honor agriculture by
recognizing outstanding success in
farming and rural citizenship. 1t
covers all the United States and this
past year was introduced into Can
ada. The first Master Farmers were
chosen in 1925 by the Prairie Farm
er, which inaugurated the move
ment. The project has been con-
Quoted in the East by the Pennsyl-
vania Farmer since 1927, during
which time 68 outstanding farmers
in five states have been thus hon
pred. They are without exception
men who have done notable work in
and who represent a high |
type of citizenship.
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Milford chronicle., 1931-01-30
Bowers Beach Leads
State Shooters Loop
AtEndOfFirstHa5
MIHOTd Team Finished Second At Fridays Shoot
With Total Score Of 9O2 out Of Possible 1000
DOUeT Third With 89l; Milton Had 888

Breaking 9O8 clays out of pos.
sible 1000 in the four matches the
Bowers Gun Club captured the first
half championship of the Delaware
State TrapshoOter'sNL League on Fri
day. The Milford Gun Club victor in
Fridays final match finished second
with 902. Dover was third with 89l
and Milton fourth with 1888.
Milford captured high gun honors
in the final first half match at Bow
ers on Friday, with 224 out of $50.
Bowers and Milton were tied for
second place with 222 and Dover
brought up the rear with 220.
Individually the match was even
more exciting. Prior to the shoot
Henry Winchester, of Wilmington,
topped the list with 142x15O while
Norm Wright also of Wilmington,
was second with 139x150. These
nimTOds shot in the first squad fin
ishing - Winchester 42X50, Wright
45x5O. These results of course
the issue on 200 targets in
sofar as these gunners were con-