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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
BY Robt. Dunn

I ABOR DAY was first observed in New York
City in 1882. In 1884, the first Monday in
September was chosen by the American Fedora
ton of Labor as its official labor day In 1908
an unsuccessful attempt was made by more mill
tant elements in the A. F. of L. to change Labor
Day from September to May l, the real holiday
Of labor in other countries. But Samuel Com
pers and his machine spiked this move. Labor
Day was declared by law as early as 1872 in
Alabama, a nice reactionary state in which to
inaugurate the practice. In 1892 the U. S. Con-
gress declared it holiday while most of the
other states had made it legal holiday during
the period from 1872 to 1894
The day, says an official A. F. of L. history and
encyclopedia, would permit public tribute to
American industry" That's just about all it has
ever permitted or evoked from the officials of
the A. F. of L. unions. In 1918 the A. F. Of l..
slogan for the day was win the War for Free
DOM In 191 about 100000 unemployed are
enjoying that freedom-to starve-won in the
war that put most of the Federation's hierarchy
in government jobs.
Labor Day is now very dear to the heart of the
labor bureaucracy. The fat boys love it because
it is local labor day, and anything legal ap-
pealS to them 1t is also precious occasion for
them because it is so obviously an offset to the
May Day of the European and colonial masses
with its implication of international solidarity
and struggle. The A F. of L. business union
leaders hate the word international" and trem-
BILE tth ethought of international solidarity of
labor OF course they do express their inter-
national "fraternar' feelings after a fashion by
sending delegate to the annual sessions of the
British Trade Union Congress But as every one
knows, these delegates go for the ride the British
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Org. Letter

A comrade who picks things up found cops
of "The Church Bulletin" put out by a New
York catholic church, with a list Of 'Don'ts for
Churchgoers," from which the following inter.
esting instructions are quoted:
Don't criticize the sermon nor the manner
Of preaching. 1t is message from God.
Don't talk in church without necessity. Talk
with God, whom you may not have visited in
His temple since last Sunday.
Don't talk in the asles going out. Remem-
Der you are in the presence of God In His Holy
Sacrament. Your gossip will keep until you
reach the street.
Don't fail to see the holy water font and the
collection-box. Take few drops from the one
and drop nickel &C dime into the other"
We wonder what the penalty might be If ths
"lickory" Pensioners got mixed up on this last
Don't" and reversed the ceremony. 10
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Answer the Attack on Negro
Athletes

mers in Harlem for its Central Park swimming
meet. The Lawn Tennis Association-an AAU
outfit is for whites only. Negro players are
refused entrance into their Journeys. Many COL
lege athletic teams place Negro players on the
sick list" when they compete with southern
teams. The YMCA has hundreds of Jim Crow
organizations throughout the country. In adj
dition to this the "Y's" are scab furnishing
agencies as shown by the Duluth, Mich. dock
workers strike.
1t is only in the ranks of the revolutionary
workers that the fight for racial equality goes
on daily The Labor Sports Union Of America
is the only organization that fights Jim Crowism
and race discrimination on the field of sports.
In the ranks of the ISU, at its national and
international competitions, the Negro athlete is
comrade.
At the present time, just after the return Of
the workers sport delegation from the Berlin
Spartakiad; as the discrimination against Negro
athletes becomes sharper; as the Labor Sports
Union is preparing for its National Conference
to take place in Pittsburgh in November-the
LSU appeals to all workers to help it in its task
Of building workers sport organization which
is free from discrimination and fights against
race hatred. An organization which is based
upon the principle of unity of the working class
against the boss class Negro athletes must an
swer the Pittsburgh attack and constant dis
elimination against them by joining the ranks
Of the Labor Sports Union stubborn fight for
full equality must be carried on under the ban
ner of the class struggle.
Down with race discrimination For more
public athlete facilities Fairgrounds fields
parks, pools-free of charge for workers and
workers children, especially for unemployed
workers.
Down with the bosses Los Angeles olympics
Of 1897
Build the Labor Sports Union Of Americal For
Workers Spartaldad in 1891
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
District. Section and Unit
Literature Agents

See that you are supplied at once with the
following literature for current campaigns:
For SOLIDARITY DAY-September
Work or Wages, by Grace M. Burnham 10
Social Insurance, by Grace M. Burnham 10
History of May Day, by Alexander Trach-
tenberg 10
Race Hatred on Trial 10
Graft and Gangsters by Harry Cannes 10
Lynching Negro Children In Southern
Courts, by Joseph North .o5
Little Brothers Of the Big Labor Takers
by William z. Foster .o5
The Frame Up System, by Vern Smith 10
Tom Mooney Betrayed by Labor Leaders 10
For INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY-Sept.
Youth In Industry, by Grace Hutchins 10
No Jobs Today, by Phil Bard .O5
Life In the u. s. Army, by Walter Trumbull 10
For the UNEMPLOYMENT CAMPAIGN
Fight Against Hunger .05
Out of job by Earl Browder .05
20,0 900 Unemployed 10
100000 Unemployed .05
Also Work or Wages and Social Insurance
For the ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Why Every Worker ShuId Join the Com
munist Party .o5
The Heritage of Gene Debs, by Alexander
Trachtenberg 10
American Working Women and the Class
Struggle .05
Revolutionary Struggle Against War vs..
Pacifism, by Alex Bittelman .O5
Also your local Election Platforms, "Out
of job, Fight Against Hunger, Graft
and Gangsters" Race Hatred on Trial.,
"Lynching Negro Children In Southern
Courts. Work or Wages, Social In
surance".
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
&a,,ll:as.
A Doubled BarreIed Review
By JORGE


This is review of two booklets. one is ''Yoo
Hoo Prosperity" which took two men to write
it and one more to illustrate it., Eddie Cantor
and David Freedman listed as authors with
the accent heavy on Freedman It sells for
$1O07 "or carload OF wheat" and is published
by Simon & Schuster. e.S -@es
The other booklet is "Red Sparks" written
lone handed by Jorge illustrated by Ryan
Walker, distributed by the Workers Library Pub
fishers, Pc. Box 148, Station D, New York CITY,
and-it retails for a buffalo nickel.
Both are full of jokes, but otherwise they are
worlds apart. If you read them both you will
see the difference between bourgeois and pro-
letarian humor, the, one negative, the other with
positive social aim. Here is the only contri-
button Eddie Cantor's book makes to Commun-
ism in America:
1.-THE other day I passed Union Square and
saw local Communist standing on the corner,
hitting himself on the head with club What's
the idea? asked him. missed the last meet
ing' he explained"
OF course, capitalism is getting SO hopelessly
insane that even the poorest sap-stick comedian
can find endless laughs at it. But why pay a
dollar for nickel's worth of wit and humor
when you can get dollars worth for nickel
in the first Red Sparks pamphlet issued We
give you fair warning that if you buy the first
one, we'll make another collection CT Sparks and
get out another pamphlet, ad inYAitum So.
there!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01

standing by the International Labor Defense be-
cause they know that Walter White and his
National Association for the Advancement of
Certain People" are not their sincere friends"
as Mr.. White would have them believe, but the
tool Of the imperialist oppressors to divert the
Negro masses from the necessary struggle for
Negro rights. 10 assgyt
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
BY JANE DILLON

THE parents of the ScottSboro BOYS read with
indignation and disgust statements in the Ne
gro press given out by Walter White, secretary
of the N.AACP. Claude Patterson, father OF
Haywood, wrote to Mr.. White asking him to
keep his hands off Haywood. In reply to Com
rade Patterson's demands Mr.. White sent
four-page letter of explanation"
Mr.. White starts out with true Christian
humility: IT have no feeling against you be-
cause of the letter you have written because
know from its tone that you do not know all
the facts which are involved" He then goes
on to sing the praises of Attorney Beddow, who
only few days ago publicly withdrew from
the case but has evidently been persuaded (by
a large fee?) to remain.
"They (fneaning the LID have said to you
that the only hope OF saving the boys is by
destroying the system under which they were
convicted" But the parents know that the In
ternational Labor Defense has capable lawyers
to defend the boys in court. They also know
that we're it not for the mass protests from
workers of all races all over the world organ
lied by the LID, their boys would have burned
in the electric chair on July 10. And they know
that the twenty-five years OF "gentlemanly"
pleading in the boss courts about which the
N.A.ACP. so proudly boasts did not prevent
their boys from being framed up and will not
prevent Quiet DoyS lIOul iiicctlIS WIFI d
liar fate Mr.. White, in common with the black
and white bosses, thinks the Negro workers are
too stupid TO see through his lies.
He tries to win the parents with tales about
the victories" of the NA.A.C.P. Then he says
I'm contrast. is the record Of the International
Labor Defense. This latter organization has not
been able even to save white people" Mr.. White
Of course does not mention the reduction OF the
long sentences Of Paul Crouch and Walter
Trumbull; the saving of Salvatore Accorsi and
Greece and Garlic from the electric chair; the
freeing Of Yetta Stromberg, whose case was
fought through the U. S. Supreme Court; the
dismissal Of criminal syndicalsm charges against
Roy Mahoney, Negro worker; the smashing of
the frame-up against Paul Kassay; and just
recently the freeing OF twenty Of the twenty
nine Negro share troopers at Camp Hill, Ala
bama These and other cases in which the IL.
D. has moro than met the NAA.C.F.h standard
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Walter White Explains"

of success" are forgotten" by Mr.. White But
the workers, Negro and white, remember
Some of the leaders of that movement (the
LID have even gone so far as to admit that
their ultimate desire is to destroy the American
government and If in doing that the life of your
boys must be sacrificed this will be done" This
is Whites Interpretation for the benefit of his
masters) of the fact that the LID. refuses to
hold forth to the workers the illusion that there
will be no victims under capitalism The IL.
D. utilizes the courts wherever possible to snatch
their prey from the claws of the capitalist buzz
yards, but it does not rely on courts alone.
The deliberate lies about threats against the
lives of the Governor and other officials of
Alabama are in direct contradiction to the most
basic principles of the LID, which call for
mass resistance against boss persecution, not in
dividual acts of terror and revenge We know
that one Governor will be replaced by another
Governor, just one Walter White will be re-
placed by another Walter White, to lick the
masters boots, until the workers and farmers,
black and white, rid themselves of the whole
caboodle Of bosses and boss-nen.
Common sense will show that he can be
saved only through the legal processes which
now govern this country" says Walter White to
the father of Haywood Patterson. All, Mr.. White,
but 1t takes uncommon sense, uncommon to boss
toadies, to know that evidence is not enough to
acquit these boys or they would be free today.
We have evidence, and we will bring it into the
courts and before the working class OF the world
because we know that only the mighty voice
Of the workers and farmers can force the courts
to listen to this evidence. &
This misleader again and again tells the boys,
the parents, and the world at large that their
minds have been poisoned, they do not I'M
derstand, ETC., etc. But they understand you
only too well, Mr.. White. And they answer,
they'd rather die fighting, If necessary, than
crawl on their bellies along with you!
The Negro workers have tasted boss justice
as dispensed by the Southern courts and they
know that no Negro has chance there They
realize that only mass protests from Negro and
white workers throughout the world and mass
membership in the International Labor Defense
wid save their boys and prevent other boys from
being railroaded to the electric chair. They are
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
BY FRANK HENDERSON.


THE attempt Of Negro youth to use the new
100000 swimming pool recently opened in
the city of Pittsburgh resulted in a riot. White
hoodlums, under the Influence of the vicious
poison of race hatred supported and encour-
aged by the police, made several attacks against
the Negro athletes who are fighting for the
right to public sport and recreational facili-
ties without discrimination. This attack against
the Negro workers is a result of long years Of
discrimination against them on the sport field;
the sentiment which brews daily in the sport
pages Of the bosses newspapers; and the fight
Of white and Negro revolutionary workers for
full equality for the Negro workers
This incident in Pittsburgh is not an isolated
case of determination. The whole social order
is contaminated with race hatred Jim Crowism
is Of the pillars of capitalist exploitation Of
the working class 1t causes fights and riots
among the workers themselves 1t blinds the
workers from seeing their real enemy-the rich
boss class. Race hatred even seeps into the
ranks Of revolutionary workers. 1t finds its way
into the field of SPORTS.
But on the sport field the boss class has
difficult job of proving that The Negro ath-
lete is inferior to the white sportsman. At the
present time we have worlds champions in
many fields of sport. Negro baseball players
barred from big league playing, have organized
their own teams which could easily win over the
best of the big league professional teams. There
are world champions in boxing namely, Brown
bantam champ; Kid Chocolate, Junior light
weight and Thompson weterweight. In foot
ball and track and field sports Negro athletes
climbed to the top. This in spite of constant
discrimination against them.
Cases Of discrimination and Jim Crowism hap
pen daily. The Amateur Athletic Union, off,
cal (bosses) sport organization recently held in
New York special elimination for Negro SWIM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
Anything But A Dole!

Governor Roosevelt figures out that $2o,oOo,ooS
given to contractors-is enough to keep a mill
lion workers employed all winter. $50 each and
says headline Commission is created and
Dole Is Barred" VI
Out in the drouth region of North Dakota and
eastern Montana, the Red Cross is relieving"
the stricken farmers, at 50 per month. But
that's mo dole" either. -@
3 The capitalist government is ready to sacrifice
every workers life rather than "humiate," de.
grade" them or undermine their Initiative" bv
"dole." Aren't the bosses fearfully concerned
over our sotls! @~f'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-01
FIGHT STEADILY FOR RELIEF

Organize Unemployed Councils to Figh,
for Unemployment Relief. Organize the
Employed Workers Into Fighting
Unions. Mobilize the Employed and
Unemployed for Common Strug.
giles Under the Leadership Of
the Trade Union Unity League
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
CHEyROI EFT MOTOR COMPANY
EMPLOYS MANY MEN

More than $4,000 people are back at
work as d result of the introduction
of new 1882 Chevrolets, and S20,O00Oo
worth of new cars or parts had already
been built at the time Of the pubic
announcement, according to statement
released by w. S. Knudsen president
and general manager OF the company.
The statement follows; Chevrolet
Motor Company has its normal force
Of men back on the job after a two
weeks shutdown for inventory and
an equal period of model-change shut
down during the months of October and
November.
THE Company's policy during the
last year has been to retain as near
an equal number of men on the pay
roll as possible and vary the hours
according to the demand for cars; IN
addition, during the short demand
periods, inventory has been built up
to increase the weekly hours to the
greatest possible number.
1.-THE result has been that the NUM-
Der Of employees in any month during
the wear, except the shutdown month
of October, has not varied more tnan
! 7go on a total Of $4,000 men, and the
hours have averaged close to forty per
week: 391a to be exact When inventory
takes place, no workman is required TO
turn in his badge but remains on the
payroll until work starts up again.
present force numbers $4,000 men
working 4 days or nights per week
| r;nim,,n,. and more than 10000, 000.0 90
worth of new cars or parts Tor new
cars have been manufactured. OF the
$4,000 employees now on the. payroll,
over $4,000 are employed in the COM
pany's plants in Detroit, Flint Saginaw
and Bay City. 49,
in addition to the $4,000 men EN-
ployed countrywide by Chevrolet, Fish
er Body Corporation maintains 10000
men working exclusively on Chevrolet
bodies, and in addition to this, the
dealer organization and their statesmen
amount to $4,000 people, leaving grand
total Of over $4,000 people working oil
rectly on Chevrolet products.
"The company feels its responsibility
during times like these to extend every
effort to keep its organization en-
ployed, and with the splendid country
wide reception Of the new 1882 Chev-
ro1et, has every confidence IN being
able to do its bit in the most con-
structive way
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Rexford News Items

MIR. and Mrs. Archie Thompson re-
turned the last Of the week from Seat
tie where they had been visiting
Miss E. Weller left Friday evening
for Whitefish to spend Sunday with her
folks.
Mrs. Heine De Groot went to White
fish Wednesday to visit friends few
days.
Ed. Olson spent Wednesday in White
fish with his two sons, Edwin and New
ton Olson.
Clarence Eschwig went to Fernie
Friday returning Saturday.
Mr.. Sherman of Whitefish was here
Friday between trains.
Mrs. O. G. Johnson was in Libby
Wednesday on business, accompanied
by Fred Marvel.
A. E Johnston of Fortine was here
Wednesday.
Frank Baney Of Libby was here Mon
day.
Mr.. Logston of Stonehill was in Rex
ford Saturday few hours.
Webb Carey Of Eureka was bust
ness caller Thursday.
Miss Clemintine Shanahan went te
Kalispell Saturday between trains.
Gahart johnson spent Tuesday II
Eureka.
Felix Kuchenski was business Wis
itor here Thursday from Stonehill.
M. A. Deschazer and son Olser
transacted business in Libby Monday
Mr.. Dorm Of Eureka was here Fri
day few hours.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wenzler drove
to near Gateway Saturday to call or
Elfred Sumo family, accompanied BY
John Friesen and Neils Jorgensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simpson of Eureki
were in town Thursday calling OF
friends.
Francis Mcclure spent Sunday visit
ing his brother in Eureka.
Mr. and Mrs. d. A. Martin ane
daughter were callers in Rexfore
Monday doing shopping.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

Mr. and Mrs. James Orr called at
the M. |. Davis home Wednesday eve
ming.
E. w. Scott has been busy building
a new cellar.
Another cold snap hit here the first
of the week.
Homer, Ernest and Penrod Davis
spent last Wednesday and Thursday on
the East Fisher looking for horses. The
snow is getting quite deep and IS
drifted and some of the horses on that
range are having a hard time getting
anything to eat
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Beebe have
their new house nearly completed.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
McGinnis Meadows

Kyle Beebe hauled hay from the c.
E. Gilbertson place last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Orr and baby
visited last Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. Scott
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Davis spent sew
eral days last week here with their
folks.
Mr.. Krebbs of Libby was caller
here Wednesday.
The snow plow went through to the
county fine last week, going over both
the new and old roads. q
The Orr children came out from Lib
by Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Spurzem OF
Kalispel have been visiting with Mr..
and Mrs. C. e. Gilbertson
James Orr and son Bill went over
to Thompson river Saturday on bust
ness. They returned home Sunday.
M. /. Davis and son Morris have
been cutting wood the past week.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

Senate is a place of ready tongues, but
Moses was too quick with invectives
The private war has delayed important
legislation, like the moratorium on war
debts and other emergency measures.
No power of divination is necessary
to predict that the rebels are not pla-
Gated by the peace-makers.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
.'BIack E.ridays''

Iii English history the name BLACK
Friday" II given to Easter Monday,
April ii. 1860. when many soldiers OF
Edward III died from cold before the
city Of Paris. English schoolboys give
file name To the first Monday of school
after the long vacation, and 1t Is also
applied to Monday. March 3D. 12O9,
when the Irish attacked the English
settlers In Ulster and put some thou
sands to the sword.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Shipping Luxury

Swimming pools wern first Installed
In the three German ocean liners, the
Imperator, the Vaterland and the Bis
marck, which are the BerengarIa, the
Leviathan and the Majestic, rcspec-
lively. The Berengaria began serv-
ice In 1913, and the other two were
built about the same time. The first
Cunarder In which 4 swimming pool
was installed was the Aqultania.
which made her maiden voyage IN
1914
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17

The dark of the moon Is the In
terval OF few days OF invislbilHy
when 1t Is near conjunction with the
sun. The moon mt that time is be-
tween the sun and earth. and nearly
In a line with them. the unilluminat-
ed face OF the moon being presented
to the earth. In relation to the moons
phases, this period comes between tbs
last quarter and the new moon.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-12-17
Ura1 Happenings

MIR. and Mrs. Livengood and chill
dren drove to Libby Wednesday
MIR. and Mrs. Jerry Noon and Rachel
Knight spent the weekend with rela-
tives in Warland.
Grover Hammons, Harrison O'Brien,
Mrs Dodie and daughter Audry of
Rondo called at Hedge Hammons' Sum-
day.
Frank Day is among the latest vic
TINS Of grippe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hedge Hammons and
Jerry Fritsch drove to Libby Mon
day.
The weather took a serious cold the
first of the week.