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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16

vile. were Jointly indicted for house
breaking.
Joseph S. King was indicted for as
sault with intent to kill, assault and
battery.
Oliver johnson was named in q three
fold indictment charging Storebreak-
ing. larceny and receiving stolen goods.
The man is accused of taking four
overcoatS from the tailor shop Of A.
Elmo, in Hyattsville.
Other Indictments.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are Robert jackson,
HOUSEKEEPING, larceny, receiving stolen
goods; Robert Archie Ford, statutory
offense; Alice Chase, HOUSEKEEPING,
larceny and receiving stolen goods;
Howard M Dove, non-support; George
Washington, non support; James Med
ley and Theodore Green, larceny and
receiving stolen goods; John Fred
Nichols, non-support; Ernest Catonia,
two charges of larceny and receiving
stolen goods: John Henry Crump,
statutory offense; William Talbert,
larceny and receiving stolen goods; Clar-
ence Walters, larceny, receiving stolen
goods. and James McKenney, larceny
and receiving stolen goods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
AUTO DEATHS DRAW
TWO INDICTMENTS
Prince Georges Jury Charges
MansIaughter in PIisco
and Bowling Cases.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. April Is.
Abe Plisco of Washington, widely
known as Jew Boy Dietz." was indicted
for manslaughter today by the Prince
Georges County grand jury as a re-
suit of an automobile accident last Fall
in which Robert j. Mcknight, Bladens-
burg schoolboy, was killed. The Plisco
indictment was one Of 20 returned by
the jury.
According to police. Plisco was the
driver of a car which ran down and
fatally injured young Mcknight. Plisco
gained considerable notoriety in 1929
when he was seriously injured in a
gun battle in the old Rams Horn Inn
Another NIanslaughter Charge.
One other man was indicted on a
manslaughter charge as result OF an
automobile accident He was Wallace
Bowling, driver of a car which struck
telegraph pole at Clinton, few
months ago. Raymond Grimm, pas
senger in Bowling's machine, was
fatally injured in the crash.
Mrs. Margaret T. Bolin of Bladens-
burg was indicted on charges Of house
breaking. assault with intent to kill and
assault and battery She is said to
have broken into the house OF Harold
j. Rohrback. a neighbor
Lewis Georme. Albert Oriente and
Joseph Rose who were arrested after
an alleged attempt to crack the safe
in Sanitary grocery store at Hyatts-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16

Downs, grades 1T. Neersville-Louise
Mentzer, grades 1T. North Fork-Mrs.
Margaret G. Cockerill, grades 1T. Oak
Hiil-Mrs. Alice w. Coughlin. grades
IL. Philomont-Mrs. Helen N. Simp-
son, grades At; Mrs. Ida r. Bocock,
grades 1-3. Purcellville-Mrs. Frances
B. Graham, grade 6: Miss Hildred
Barker, grades AS; Miss Grace Shoe
maker, grade /. Red Hill and Syco-
line Miss Grace Trittipoe. Round
Hill-Mrs. Fannie ]. Harrison, grades
81; Martha Cockerill, grades AS; Kate
White, grades ga: Mrs. Minnie B.
Trussell, grades 1-2.
Sterling - Mildred Orrison, grades
At; Elizabeth Weadon, grades 1-3
Sunny Ridge-Clara Wood, grades II
Unison Bloomfield - Alton d. Neale,
principal Mrs Edith M. Beavers, high
school assistant; Mrs. Mary E. Monroe
grades As; Virginia McGehee, grades
1-3 Waterford - Katherine Bridges,
high school assistant; Jane Crawley,
high school assistant; Mimi Russell,
grades As Wheatland-Lillian Law
son, grades 1t. Woodland-Mattie l..
Hite, grades 1T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
REDUCTION IN CROPS
CONFRONTING SOVIET
Inefficient Distribution of Seed
Presents New Threat, Moscow
District Complains.
BY Cable to The Star.


MOSCOW, U. S. S. r., April 49,
With the country emerging from a hard
Winter and Spring sowing in the Soviet
Union behind, further complaint comes
frCm the important Moscow agricultural
district that inefficiency is threatening
to further reduce the crops. According
to survey of the district April 10, it
had received total OF $4,000 tons of
seed grain, which is only 81 per cent of
what should have been distributed by
that date
The distribution CT seeds, which is
a primary ess initial for crops. is syste-
matically behind collectivizaticn, even
though the work in the fields is delayed
by cold weather." says Rabochaya
Moskva.
Though tagging in Siberia and Ar
menia. the program o. grouping peas
ants on collective farms has been &C
claimed accomplished. Reports of
April 10 show that 11188,000 families
have been collectivized. embracing As
per cent of the so-called poor and mid
die class peasants in the S,viet Union.
In January it was reported that 1877 900
families had joined, in February, 1,52l,-
600, and in March. 662 900.
tCopyright, 193l)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
CANONICALS LOANED
FOR JERUSALEM VISIT
BY the Associated Press.


JERUSALEM, April 16.-The Arch
bishop Of Canterbury, wearing borrowed
canonicals-his own having been left
in the Morgan yacht, the Corsair-to-
day made simple, solemn entry into the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The orthodox patriarch officiated at
a special service in his honor in the
Church of the Crusaders, known as the
Orthodox Cathedral
A small mixed crowd witnessed the
modest procession, which included the
archbishop, on its march from JaTa
gate. The archbishop was accompanied
by the Anglican bishop, the residential
canon, the archdeacon and English,
American and Palestine chaplains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
Philippine PHYSICIANS
ILL WITH BLACK FEVER

While Trying to sanitate Culion
Island for Discharged Lepers.
BY Cable to The Star.
MANILA, P. l., April 16-Drs. An
tonic Ejercito and Alberto Laurel OF the
Philippine Health Service have con-
tracted malignant black fever, the
worst form Of malaria, while trying to
sanitate the interior of Culion Island
for colony of 1epers discharged from
the treatment colony on the same is
land.
Some fear is expressed for the ply
sicianS' recovery. as neither case Is yield
ing to treatment. Both patients are at
the hospital and are being attended by
the islands best malaria specialists.
This incident illustrates that even the
primary problems of leprosy are I'M
solved. The doctors have pioneered in
behalf Of the Philippine Anti-Leprosy
Society, which aims to resocialize lepers
proved negative and able to support
themselves.
(CopyriEht, 1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
SIX LEAP INTO ACID

Work men Panic Stricken by
Flames Seek Escape in Tank.
KATOWICE. Silesia, Poland, April 16
H1.-Panic-st stricken, six workmen today
sought to escape from a fire after an
explosion in the Laura Foundry here by
jumping into tank of chloric acid.
When their comrades pulled them
out. badly burned, one of the workers
begged for priest and his fiancee and
was married to her just before he died.
Condition of the five is hopeless.
An English gardener has made a
death wand" an electrified rod with
which he proposes to kill garden pests
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16

Continued improvement in China's
general political situation is causing
rosy predictions Of a marked economic
Advancement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-16
Middleburg Teachers.

Middleburg Eleanor G.. Adams,
grades ST.; Mary j. Trainham, grades
As; Eugenia Norman, grades ga;
Marion Carr, grades 2-3: Marie Gum
grade l. Midtown - Mrs Emma w.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
WOMAN KILLS DOG
TO FEED 5 KIDS
Worker Tells of Dire
Misery of Jobless
(By a Worker Correspondent)

Wy d HUAhCI SO4ICSpuAuCutI
NC KEESPORT, Pa.-While going
out for Unemployment signatures, ]
had plenty of chances to see the real
misery of the jobless workers.
On Shaw Avenue, a gas man came
up to shut woman's gas of, He
came into the. kitchen and asked the
woman what smelled so bad. She
lifted up the lid of a pot and told
him to look. 81 killed my shepard
dog to feed my eight children. My
husband hasn't had any work for
ten months"
After that the gas man cried like
a baby and said: Lady, won't turn
off your gas even if lose my job"
went to another house and a
woman told me this: "the landlord
came one day and swore he'd take
my furniture if didn't pay the rent.
The next day my husband, father,
and myself took all the furniture out
of the house, and left it empty, when
the landlord came, told him that
the furniture was being kept at my
fathers house, until my husband
finds job"
We have no Unemployed Council
here, and we sure need one.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Cleve. Charities
Refuse Aid TO
Family In Need
Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland, Ohio.
Daily Worker:
I have been refused help a number
Of times in many ways by the Asso-
ciated Charities. am trying to sup
port my children by keeping a room
ing house, but now as conditions are
so terrible and have been for a year,
! cannot even feed my family as !
should by any means.
When I went to the A. G. for help
they told me to dispose of my furai-
ture first. / haven't been able to get
any help only when I have taken
drastic action to get it,
Baby Gets Sick.
Finally they made me take two
tenants and pay me So q week for a
room that 1 always got $40 for and
told me if / would not let them stay
for Sc they would send them some
where else. A few days ago I told
them that did not have any coal
and that my baby was down with
pneumonia and told them that II
they would send me some coal they
could deduct 81 or so a week from
the rent they send for the tenant.
But they didn't send me any coal
anyway.
In order to get clothes for my chill
dren to go to school, I simply had
to refuse to allow my children to go
to school barefpoted, and kept them
home until the trusnt officer came
two or three times. He finally re-
ported to the school board and they
sent me notice to appear and give
reason for not sending my children
to school. And then and there I
made known that the Associated
Charities had refused to help me.
So the head of the department called
up and told them that something had
to be done.
No Coal In House.
They finally came and gave me a
small order on their clothing branch
for clothes, but We are out again, and
I suppose I will have to apply the
same method l used before.
AS conditions are today, we have
no coal, not much to eat and no
shoes for four of the family. The
baby hasn't anything else to wear
either.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
MCKEESPORT TIN
BOSS FIRES A RED
TOILER FROM JOB
But That Won't Stop
Organization
MeKeesport, Pa.

MeKeespert, Pa.
Comrade Editor:
Just a few lines to let you know
how the McKeesport Tin Plate Co.
treats Communists in their plant.
/, Frank Hill, was fired on January
q out of the mill. The super Samp-
SON of the hot mill dept. called me
in his office and said, Frank how
long have you worked in the mill.
told him six years,
He tried to get my history but
failed. He didn't come out openly
and tell me you are fired for being
a Communist and because you be-
long to the Metal Workers Industrial
League" But he said this: you are
fired, your services are no longer
wanted in this mill"
Hill Wouldn't Cringe,
When he was ready to leave the Of
flee he said you can come the next
day and get your money" I told him
and demanded my money the day /
was fired. He looked at me and said
alright. He also asked me if 1 had
anything to say before I left the
factory.
/ told him thatfI wish I could stay
in the mill long enough to organize
the workers into the Metal Workers
Industrial League. Boy, he did look
He expected me to beg for my job
but he got fooled,
I may be out of the mill but there
are other workers In the mill that will
carry out the work and also issue a
shop paper in the factory.
l also can do work outside and !
am sure going to do plenty of it and
the McKeesport Tin Plate 90. will
feel it and they will curse this Frank
Hill for being a Commullist.--F, II.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

with bugs. coolies, etc" Many OF
these workers have neither homes
nor money with which to provide de-
cent shelter. The company to meet
this situation, at one depot supplied
a shanty for them, to serve as wait
ing room and eating room, and which
is now also used as sleeping quarters,
About twenty men were sleeping
in there during the period of two
weeks" reports the steward, "and
the place became so filthy and dirty
that the general foreman would not
go in there to hire them for fear of
vermin. They were stealing. There
were several packages missing, and
also empty boxes were found under
the building. The police department
raided the shanty several times and
took in IS or 20 men"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
5000 APPLY FOR
JOBS; NOT HIRED
Policemen Keep Men
in "Order"
(By a Worker Correspondent

tby a worker correspondent
PHILADELPHIA, Pal got up
while it was still dark yesterday
morning and started for Hog Island,
that barren waste of land that
stretches out into the Delaware, be-
cause heard that men were to be
employed in the making of an air.
port.
After leaving the trolley I walked
two miles. They will employ six
hundred men. There were 5000 slliv-
ering there in the cold, many with
out coats, while an icy wind blew up
from the river. We waited more
than three hours. There were po-
licemen, Of course. to keep us in
order. We tried to start q fire to
warm ourselves, but the policemen
stopped lis. A burly fellow in front
of me pointed derisively at a crowd
Of Italians and Negroes. He adj
dressed the crowd. Those dagoes
and niggers, they steal the jobs from
the Americans"
I am South American. MY
blood was boiling. "You are an
American" I asked. "Yes." Were
you born in this country?" He stuck
out his chest, Yes. I was born in
the United States" "Well, what
have you got for being an Ameri-
camp" inquired. Nothing" he an
swered.
A little later, ! asked him the
time. II don't know" he replied. II
have no watch" oh" I laughed.
mo watch. Not even a dollar one.
An American, born in the United
States, but he has nothing and no
watch" The crowd laughed with me.
AS TO the job, they said there would
be nothing until next week and then
only men with families would be en-
ployed, which means one has TO 60
through lot Of red tape
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
CRISIS BREAKS UP
WORKER FAMILIES
Bosses Undermine the
Home, Not Reds"
Portland, ore.

Portland, Ore.
Daily Worker
According to figures published in
the local capitalist press 5,3is men re-
gistered for work on the oregon bee-
SEES fake highway employment pre-
gram. 1t was announced that i,7s0
men would he hired. When they
found how many were registering
(and they have undoubtedly lied on
the figuresl they fired $500. However
they are working on stagger system,
seven-eighths of them working 8 days
a week.
They are receiving $500 a day and
in some cases have to furnish their
own transportation, so it is easy to
see how much relief they are getting.
Most of them are married men and
they and their families are slowly
starving on $4,000 to $4,000 a month.
A very important admission made
by Q. II. Gram, state labor commits
sioner. After pretending Oregon I'M
employment is now solved he says:
In times such as these families be-
come separated. The men get the
wanderlust and sometimes the wreck
age they leave behind In the way Of
disrupted families is enormous" As
there are around 10000 unemployed IN
Oregon it is plain to see that 1T Is the
boss starvation system that breaks up
the family without any need Of help
from the reds" (who ara for the
keeping together Of the working class
family. ms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
SLAVERY AT new
FALLS LAUNDRY
Girls Driven at a Ter
rifle Pace
Little Falls, N. ].

4lbble rhllSi IN. y.
Daily Worker:
Although Abraham Lincoln was
supposed to free all the slaves, the
Wander May Brothers of Little Falls,
N j., do not seem to realize this,
for the conditions in the Little Falls
Laundry, of which they are the own
ers, are almost as bad as the slaves
had to put up with before the Civil
War.
The highest paid men, except the
truck drivers, who are also the
bosses stool pigeons, get from twenty
TO twenty-five dollars per week, and
although they have only enough
work to keep them for two or three
days a week they are made to come
in every day and do jobs that would
cost the owners about twice as much
as they get if they had to hire some
one to do it, and there is no extra
compensation for it.
NAILS 4AuSt A1AP4OAAChs
The girls who work here are really
the most exploited of all, for they
work piece work (peace for the
bosses but none for themselyes) so
much a hundred pounds, but when
it comes time for the weights for the
day to be marked down they are
only given credit for about half of
what they did, and if they put up
any fight about it they are fired. The
owners are continually reducing the
rates per hundred pounds and they
tell us if We do not like it then we
can get out and they will get some
one in our place. The highest that
they can make is from So to $40 per
week. They have to report in on
Monday at a. m. and work till Z p,
m, on Tuesday, 7 a. m. to $50 p. m,
Wednesday from z a. m. to $50 }. m.
and then about two or three hours
on Thursday.
More than once we have tried to
organize among ourselves, to put up
a fight against these conditions, but
there is always some stool pigeon in
the crowd who runs right to the
bosses and tells them who is trying
to get things started and they are
fired on the spot, and the rest of us
are warned that if we try anything
like that we will get the same, SO the
only way this can be worked out is
for someone from the Trade Union
Unity League to come around and
try to organize from the outside, and
that is just what we are waiting for.
B. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
COOLIE WAGES IN
DALLAS, TEXAS
Even Skilled Workers
Hit By This
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor: Dallas, Texas.
In Dallas there are some pecan
Smelling factories. One located on
Payne st. and one on Commerce st.
One Mexican girl worked five days
on Payne st. and was paid $2o5. She
quit and went to the Commerce st.
place and worked three days for 65
cents.
There is place on Lamar St
where contracts are let for sewing
aprons 65 cents per dozen.
A skilled carpenter got a days
work thru the Federal employment
agency. He dug up two trees by the
roots. chopped them into firewood
and leveled the ground putting in a
full day and received $3.50. Another
carpenter did few hours work of
the same kind 70 RS cents.
Workers, wake up and unite and
put up a stop to this. Organize in
the Trade Union Unity League and
the Communist Party.
"A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
BOSSES PUT OVER
10 P. c. WAGE CUT
Slick Work on Part OF
Misleaders
New York City.

@ASW @Ot N1Vys
Comrades:
Three hundred workers employed
at the Max Schwartz cigar factory
at 54th st. and Second Ave. have
just got sample of union treach-
cry, by being forced to accept 10
per cent wage-cut. The factory is
sued notice of a IL per cent reduc-
ton, whereat the union committee
of the International Cigar Makers
Union consulted with the bosses i'll
the name of the workers. The COM
mittee accepted 2 per cent mitiga-
ton and the workers are conse-
quently getting cut of 10 per cent
1t is clear that 10 per cent was
probably decided upon by the en-
pIoyerS and the union representa-
tiyes. Fearing that the workers
might see into the unions double
playing if no modification of the re-
duetion was obtained, they therefore
pretended LIZ per cent cut The
union then attempts to save its face
by getting the cut lowered to the de-
sired 10 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
GARBAGE MEN
ARE NOT PAID
N. Y, Workers Facing
Starvation

NEW YORK.-Garbage collectors
have not been paid since the first OF
the year. A driver of a truck in the
Bronx told worker that there were
three men on his truck and that two
of them had not eaten anything all
day. The workers have no money,
are behind in their rent and every
thing else.
When the workers asked their fore
man when Sthey would be paid, he
answered them by saying He
couldn't tell them" When the called
the municipal building and asked
when pay day was coming around,
they were answered in the same
manner. '-
The workers must organize and
fight against such gross cheating of
their pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
Worcorrs, Write for
Special Number of 'Trud

Tud OF the Central Council of Unions Soviet
special
unemployment situation abroad.
The Soviet workers anxious read first hand accounts the
situation the United States
respondents.
worker wt
TONS struggle for relief signature
marches demonstrations cuts yo WOrcors should
thinking attitude Party
description married single
Names places dates specified
will their published in the Trud"
small photos with their correspondence letters will
ceive consideration.
Address Worker Editor,
st, Write Immediately
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31
KICKS" FORCE
IMPROVEMENTS
Show What Can Be
Done by Protests
Spokane, Wash.

OpOkdttt, Wdoli
Daily WORKER
Well here in Spokane we can sure
see the results of exposing the mis-
erabel conditions and the eXploita-
ton of the unemployed by a few
past masters in the art of grating on
unfortunate unemployed and home
less workers.
Those who visit the Hotel DeGink
now will sure be surprised to see the
big change for the better. Where
before the men at the home we're
charged for every little thing they
got on their credit cards. things are
different now.
Forced improvements.
They even fixed up shower baths
with four spoyts, two big boilers In
the basement to give them plenty of
hot water to wash their clothes and
take baths any time during the day
or night. The credit system as it
existed before is entirely done way
with. According to their books they
served from January LIST up to the
18th, 23,073 meals at the home. Well
workers, that will show you that with
a little kick and exposure you can
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-31

cOnCrdCG Work. Atter IA Gays tne poSS
came around and gas as much pay
as he wanted. heard one miner
who worked 6 days received $151.
When the miner complained to the
committee lthe Lewis conlmittee) the
next day his place was vacant and he
has not worked for and a half
months.
The Lewis leaders always take sides
with the company. My local has
over l,4o0 members and at meeting
we never see more than is to 20 men.
Miners are afraid to come because
if they say anything the next day
the union officials report to the boss.
Payment of union dues is falling
every month.
Need Revolutionary Union.
At our meeting last week the fin
ancial secretary reported a falling off
of from 500 to $3.50 in dues. A year
ago we had $500 in dues for Janu-
airy. Now VIC have $500. The miners
are baking against the Lewis gang
and John Boyland district president
of the UMWAl. Now it is up to the
progressive miners and the National
Miners Union to get busy and organ
ize N,M.U. militant miners organiza-
tiens. -B.