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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Too Much Fervor At
Funerals, Says Board

MEMPHIS.-That colored per-
sons are too emotional at funerals
was decided by the City Board OF
Adjustment last week when they pro-
hibited S. w. Qualls from establish
ing a mortuary at 4S1 Vance Ave.
nuisance and obnoxious to white
residents in the neighborhood.
The ruling of the board will be
appealed to the circuit court.
Qualls cotended that the estab-
lishment could not be declared a
public nuisance until it had proved
to be SO after operation, but the
group ruled that the smallness of
the lot and the narrow distance be-
tween adjoining houses would make
it a nuisance.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Trial of Sherman Lynch
ers Postponed Again

AUSTIN, Texas-(A NP)-Tria
of fourteen men charged with riot
ing at Sherman, when the court
house was burned and George
Hughes, charged with assault, was
killed, will not be held here dur.
ing this term of court, it was an.
nounced by District Judge J. D.
Brooks.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
More War Mothers
To Go To France

Notices TO war mothers who have
not yet made the trip to the graves
of their dead heroes that arrange
ments will be made to take them
this year, are being sent out by the
War Department.
All mothers and wives of soldiers
buried in European cemeteries who
have not gone on former trips are
eliPible.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
You'd Better Mind
What You Sing

JACKSONVILLE, Fiat h r e
men charged of drunkenness were
accused of singing on a street cor
ner in Jacksonville, Fla. "That
doesn't prove drunkenness" said
Municipal Judge NJ. B. Craft. Then,
turning to the defendants, he asked :
What were you singing?" Sweet
Adeline," was the answer. That's
different said the judge. "ren
dollars EACH"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
u. S. Drops II Charges
Against Okla. Lynchers

MUSKOGEE, Okla.-G. w. Skin
ner, white, one of the mob leaders
who helped lynch Henry Argo, a
half-wit, here last May. was freed
along with twenty-six other white
men on charges of destroying
United States property, in connec-
ton with the lynching.
The mob burned an army truck
used by nstional guardsmen who
were trying to dispense the mob.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Pastor Declines $500

NEW YORK CITY.-The Rev.
William p. Hayes. pastor of Mount
Olivet Baptist Church, refused a
raise of $500 in salary voted him by
the church corporation because of
the heavy Indebtedness of the
church and the depression,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Woman Joins League Staff

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-Mrs. Laura
Jean Rollock, former owner of n
prosperous dress shop, and during
the World War, a Y. w. c. A. work
err abroad, has been appointed di-
rector of the Brooklyn Urban
League.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Booker T., Jr., Gets Divorce

LOS ANGELES.-B ooker T.
Washington, Jr., son of the late
Negro educator, was granted a di-
vorce Tuesday from Nettie Hancock
Washington on grounds of deser-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
(By a Worker Correspondent

SPRING VALLEY, Ill,-The sup
ervisor of relief in Bureau County,
Mr.. Teckner, admitted to me last
Saturday that the only way the
workers in Spring Valley can get
relief is to do like the miners OF
Henryetta, Oklahoma, did-that is,
to organize and march into the town
and threaten to raid the stores If
they are not given relief.
went to see Teckner about the
wife of worker who lives in a two
room shanty and has five children.
This worker makes $3.50 a, day work
ing for a farmer and has little mon
ey. / asked that this workers wife
be sent to a hospital, as she is about
to have child and it would be very
dangerous to have a child in her
circumstances. Teckner said that he
had no money, that the county was
broke. The best thing he could do
was TO send for the County doctor,
and for this the worker was to pay
eight dollars.
'If you are sending the County
doctor, why is there charger" I
asked. Teckner said that the Cotfrl-
ty doctor was not the County doctor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
one KILLED, SEVERAL DYING
AS BOSS TERROR CONTINUES

police have taken steps to put q stop
to this phase Of the terror.
A vicious Indictment campaign
against Negro Communists Is being
carried on IN the boss press
This campaign is being supported
by the belly-crawling Negro reform
lists who have come out with offers
to act as stool pigeons against the
Negro workers. These takers, silent
on the Scottsboro and Camp Hill
outrages and on the murder of I'M
employed Negro workers in Chicago
are hanging their heads in shame"
because a Negro bandit is alleged 70
have killed a useless society woman
and wounded two others.
The Communist Party and the
Young Communist League have is
sued 10000 leaflets denouncing the
terror against the Negro workers and
the lies of the capitalist press and
police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

August IS, demanding the release of
all arrested coal mine strikers.
Lillian Goodman, lid organizer Of
San Francisco, is touring the dis
trict arranging for the Sacco-Van-
zettt meetings. Despite the savage
attacks on the militant working class
movement in the Los Angeles dis
trict, Sacco-v anzettf day will be fit
tingly remembered.
In both San Francisco and Los
Angeles districts, Sacco-V anzetti Day
will be day of struggle against the
criminal syndicalist Law.
Throughout the country and the
entire world. the working class on
August % will thunder its demands
for the release Of all class war pris-
oners in the capitalist prisons, for
the release of the nine Scottsboro Ne
gro boys, the Camp Hill Negro CROP
pers, the militant Negro workers be-
ing framed in Birmingham, the Ne
gro and white militant workers ar
rested in Chicago in an attempt by
the bosses to justify the massacre
of unemployed workers in that city
on August 8, for the release of Moo
ney and Billings. of the Imperial VAL
ley prisoners. Mcnamara and Schmidt
for the release of the hundreds of
militant coal mine and textile
strikers held in Jail or for deporta-
ton in the effort OF the bosses and
thair rouernnaart 10 crush thA cfr11r-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
Relief Supervisor Admits Workers Must Fight
for What They Get

any longer. 1t sounds like graft to
me
Then asked him what the county
expected to do about workers who
will need relief this winter and the
many who are in desperate circum-
stances now.
II don't know" he answered.
"You don't think that the workers
in Spring Valley will stand by and
starve," 1 asked him.
IT never heard of them getting
anything except in Henryetta, Ok
lahoma," he said.
1t is plain, fellow workers, that
the bosses and their officials all re-
member Henryetta, Okla, and Eng
land, Ark. The way for us workers
to get relief is to organize and force
them to give it to us. Mr.. Teckner
says so himself. Now let's show the
bosses here that the workers in
Spring Valley here just as much CUTS
as the miners in Oklahoma. Join the
unemployed council. Get in the
fight for immediate relief. Demand
unemployment insurance, SIS week
and SIS for each child. Demand IS
week and 81 for each dependent
from the County as minimum re-
lief until the bill is passed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
new PARACHUTE
Is INVENTED BY
SOVIET EXPERT
Can Land Eggs With
out Breaking

A new parachute invention of the
greatest significance has been pro-
duced in the Soviet Union, accord
ing to latest cable reports. Walter
Duranty, writing in the New York
Times, describes this new device, and
the history of its invention, as fol-
lows:
"A new parachute invented by the
Soviet aeronautic expert, Grodhof-
sky, proved a remarkable success in
recent experiments at the Moscow
airfield, falling at the low speed Of
five meters about 1874 feet) a sec
ond, which permitted an undam-
aged landing for chicken and a
dozen Of eggs in basket, released
from a height Of 1000 meters (about
$3.50 feet).
"At present the apparatus is de-
signed for weights up to thirty-five
pounds, but its inventor expects soon
TO extend this to mans weight.
THE invention was prompted by
demand Of the newspaper Pravda for
a surer method of parachuting the
natrix now delivered by air from
Moscow at Leningrad, Kharkov, Tiff
lis and Novosibirsk for its special
edition published locally, because the
paper shortage and the weight of the
newspapers from Moscow hampered
the delivery OF printed copies, and it
was found that the matrix often
broke with the ordinary parachute.
"The apparatus consists of an in
expensive linen parachute attached TO
a long basket which has a rubber
l<hood The latter, automatically ex-
panding in the air, greatly reduces
the velocity.
"It is asserted that the parachute
will facilitate the delivery of parcel
post, perishable objects and supplies
to castaWays or beleaguered force,
and in this connection it is recalled
that three years ago, when General
Mobiles airship Italia crashed in the
Arctic, food and medical supplies
dropped from plane were ruined by
contact with the ice.
1.-THE device is also important for
urgent delivery of machine parts or
models to construction camps or
state farms in outlying areas not
provided with an airfield"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

this doesn't stop the strike. The
strikers will keep strong picket line
on duty all the time. They are send
ing a picket over to Stimson's Mil,
another large mill, and are calling
upon the workers there To spread the
strike. The relief committee is out
getting supplies and registration OF
the workers most in need. The bust
ness men of the district, known as
Ballard, seem to realize that they de-
pend upon the workers for their
bills and several of them have told
the workers "to go the limit"
Demand Cut Return
The strikers demand the last cut
to be taken back and no discrinina
ton against the strike committee
members. They are meeting to de-
ternine if they wish to enlarge the
demands. Total cuts for all of them
this year come to between 80 and
SO per cent, the latter having been
received by the Cedar Shingle men.
We call upon the workers to spread
the strike through the northwest.
Strike is on now at Clear Lake and
Seattle Cedar and Phoenix Single
Mill. Build the National Lumber
Workers Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12


This conference will draw In dele
gates from Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and New Hampshire.
Sacco-v anzetti Day in Connecticut
will be followed Immediately on Sun
day, August %. with an Amnesty
Conferences to be held at Hartford.
q Albany Avenue, when a demand
will be made upon Governor Gross
for the release Of unemployed work.
ers now serving long prison terms
United Front Conferences for the
Sacco-vanzetti Day are reported be-
ing arranged in 20 cities in the Min
nesota District, which also includes
the northern sections Of Wisconsin
and Michigan.
The Cleveland District is arrang-
ing demonstrations throughout the
District, the largest to be held in the
Public Square in Cleveland.
An enthusiastic conference was held
in Philadelphia with plans for DEM
onstrations there and in all other
leading cities Of the District, such as
Trenton, Chester, Baltimore and
Washington, with demonstrations also
planned for the anthracite fields.
Pittsburgh is combining Sacco-Van-
zetti day with special struggle
against prosecutions in the coal
strike. with plans for delegations to
be sent to the governors of the two
states Of pepnsylyapla END Qhlp IN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
SUNDAY AUGUST 18th GALA DAY OF
DAILY WORKER PICNIC!

ployed and unemployed be organized
to sell the Daily Worker from house
to house. This group is to meet
with the Daily Worker Agent OF
Linden and Roselle, N. j. once a
week to check up on work and make
plans for the development of group.
The next meeting to be held August
20 VIII include a Social and Motion
Pictures!
Gala Day August 10
Next Sunday, August 1s is the date
of the Annual Picnic of the Daily
Worker! What a day this will be-
All events will take place as sched-
US; Workers Laboratory Theatre;
John Reed Club artists; Daily Work
er Staff; Labor Sports Unoni Field
Meet; prominent speakers; Dance
Orchestra; Refreshments and Food.
and countless other advertisements
Remember the place-Pleasant Bay
Park, Westchester, N. Y. Take Sub
way to East III Street then car to
unionport, N. Y. At this point
Buses will meet you and take you
{ othe grounds. II you haven't got
ten your tickets yet, come up 10
the 9Th floor. Daily, Worker Office
mic in New York has ever been
planned as carefully as this onst
Nothing has been overlooked 10 make
this the greatest event of the sea-
son. Every worker and sympathizer
of the Daily" is cordially invited
to attend. Don't let anything inter-
fere with your presence atSPleasant
Bay Park next Sunday. Bring eve
rybody or soul you know with you.
Subscribers and sellers OF DAILY
Wantedi
Writes a miner from Denbo, Pa.
I'VE are in bad shape now. There
were two girls and man arrested
the other day for distributing lea
flets. This mine Is still scabbing
] am glad that the Daily Worker
is helping me out a lot IL is tho
only way have to make some mo-
ney for my family" Stick to IL COM
rade! Other unemployed workers
should take note! For bundle orders
OF any size at l cent a copy to be
sold at cents-Write to the Cir
culation Dept. Daily worker, so K.
18th St, New York City.
"The Daily Worker" writes
worker from Corona, N. Y, lis the
only paper worth reading and copy
of IL ought to be in every working
mans home. Here's the paper that
tell the truth and talks about the
business of the worlSingclass. ] wish
the Daily Worker ever bigger sue
cess" Workerst Monthly subscrip-
tions at so cents will enable you tn
follow the struggles OF your class
in Pittsburgh, Scottspora Chicago
eco nTZ ststor a months -. =
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

The West Side Daily Worker Read
ers Club of New York City held a So
cial and miners relief affair at All
w. 5Srd st. last Thursday. An ex-
cellent program and the whole
hearted support and cooperation OF
the members and their friends made
the evening an unqualified success.
From the start at nine O'Clock 10
the finish at eleven there was not
dull moment in the entire program.
Comrade Fieldberg acted ms
chairman, COmrude Staten as Sec
retary and Comrade Firmanas,
chief auctiOneer of the evening.
While the atmosphere of the oe-
casion was one of extreme gaiety
and spOntaneity, nevertheless tne
meeting had it's serious moments
ms well. when Helen Stomsky,
the miners daughter and John
Paskic, the miner, brought US face
to face with the actual conditions
IN the mines, one could feel the
tenseness of the listeners and when
they had finished speaking there
was no doubt in the minds OF any
one present that the miners would
receive our whole hearted support
"Daily" Club Creative AS Wei Az
Recreative
Comrade Quirt with his funny car
toons brought down the house, Com
rades Model and Firman put on a
splendid exhibition dance. Comrade
Towney was master of refreshments
and certainly made a good job OF
e. Comrade Stevens won the prize
basket of groceries and asked for
suggestions as TO how to dispose OF
IL. Comrades Mcdonald and Staten
solved the problem by reporting a
case of restitution close by. so the
basket was carried to this family
and given to them. . Mcdonald and
staten reported on their return that
the family was Just preparing their
evening meal Of stale bread and
weak tea which was all they had
in the house The proceeds amount
ed TO SlS37, all of which was do
mated to the Miners Relief Fund
The program was concluded by the
singing of the International.
Comrades of other Daily work
er Clubs! Hold more social get-
togethers like the above! You VIII
soon find your clubs ovcrrun with
applicants! Make the meetings
more n social occasion than po-
IiticnI one in the beginning. Litter
you can work up TO the latter.
AT the last meeting of the Lin
den, n. j. Daily Worker Club il
was decided that workers in shops
were to be trained 10 write cores
pondence. For this work it was
moved that n Workers Correspon'
dence Group be appointed from the
membership Of tho club with a Press
Secretary In charge. II was also de-
cfded that a eroup OF volunteers ems
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
The Business Of Cops Is to Commit
Crimes For Capitalist Dictatorship
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

CONTINUED FROM PAGE
the atrocities that may be necessary to accomplish this reaconary
going working
send foreign born back the Fascist Chang
Shek Mussolini Pilsudski ETC. to be murdered'
OF not
police
armed forces of the capitalist government maintain
of the capitalist class and landlords
incidentally (and it is big ncdentD the police are of course
they defend
police framing up women feeding on
in addition to regular" protecting towering pinace
legal rackee the capitalist from the they exploit
and who must be shot protesting
starvation
Judges who the newspapers by the wicker
sham thousands prison
Of making them get out Policemen pass
nce upon the lower ranks of professional criminals hold
Judges habuay one years salary
for their jobs having
mayors who appoint them that this
from corporations pocket picked
81 in the streets of New York Chicago
will find pockets judges and highest office holders
This is the nseparabe cngs pros
titute Capitalism.
categoricay stated that the Uickersham report like the
Seabry inquiry in New helping
by exposing the smaller things carefully
not only the specific crimes particular individuals higher
up IN the ohsachybu conceaing
which they
What and should working connection with
this exposure of the capitalist government by capitalist
government?
There only one answer:
We must seabus
they are protecting and must utilize such facts
the building the destroy
the rotten system capitalist
slavery We must build the revolutionary working
to fight dayby against the endsh police
to the underworld of professional
third degree" methods place against the work
ing class; and up revolutionary Communist Party
which the only force that the capitalist
slavery.
The business police honest and gentle
but to commit crimes of violence against the working pro-
lection OF the egahzed criminal class that responsible
for the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
COTTON PRICES
CRASH; LOWEST
IN Is YEARS
Misery of Farmers,
Choppers Worsened

NEW YORK, August 11.-As a re-
suit Of the governments estimate of
the large amount of cotton which
will come into the market at the close
Of the present season the price Of
cotton fell yesterday to $40 cents a
pound, the lowest price in over twenty
five years, or since aJnuary, 1905. The
decline in price yesterday which has
amounted to II per cennt was one Of
the most drastic in the history Of the
cotton market. Since the end Of June
cotton prices have dropped about 40
per cent. In the past year cotton
prices have dropped fifty per cent.
This drop in the price Of cotton
means that the misery Of the poor
and middle farmers and choppers Of
the South will be sharpened greatly.
The farmers and troopers who are
now in the debt Of the bankers and
fertilizer and food merchants will be
driven further into bankruptcy.
The fall Of the price Of cotton has
greatly shaken the economic position
Of Egypt which depends to a great
extent on the production of cotton.
The Egyptian government will not sell
any more cotton at the present time,
except TO the Soviet Union, in order
to try to prevent the further crash
of the market. The Egyptian govern
ment knows that sales in the capital
list market are not for cotton to be
used in production but to spectators
who will try to make profits by push
ing the market down even further
Cotton which is sold to the Soviet
Union will be used for increasing the
amount of goods for the workers and
farmers of the country.
| The fall of cotton prices at this
time is not only an indication OF the
deepening of the crisis but will itself
sharpen the crisis further.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12
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(CONT!.UED FROM PAGE ONE1
ton organizer and section committee
in each
Central City seems TO be the prob
able storm center now. There ale
several hundred new members Of the
NMU there, and one Of the ten cc1,
companies has announced that it ,.iI
discharge all union members. - It
does, the Central Pennsylvania strike
will very likely start right then.
There are a number Of poor farm
ers in Central Pennsylvania who have
been used to working in the mines
in winter. 1t is significant Of the
dread the coal companies have Of the
strike developing that they have Or
dered all these farmers to drop their
farm work and be prepared to enter
the mines now, otherwise they will
be blacklisted this winter.
SCOTS RUN, West Virginia, Aug.
11.-Twenty-four delegates represent
ing 10 mines and 5000 miners in this
field where the UNIV has signed wage
cutting contracts with the bosses,
met in conference here Sunday and
made plans to strike this whole field
Conditions are extremely bad. Not
only is there the usual short weight
on the scales with UNiWA check
weighman), and the usual no pay
for dead work, etc, but the UMWA
has looted $1,000 in check-off from
the miners who are so poverty strick-
en- that many come to work barefoot
ed. The UNIV district and interna-
tional office are continually levying
more assessments on these men. The
contract made by Van Bittner, UNI
WA. district president, cut the wages
from SO cents a ton to 80 cents g
ton, and now the companies are put
ting over another wage cut, under
the UMWA contract, Of eight to nine
cents ton. Down mine cut cent;
last week
There is a savage terror by armed
deputies and state police. Those whit
show the least resistance are on tht
blacklist.
Some Of the coal companies have
entirely abandoned the use of US
money, and pay, when they pay any.
thing, only in scrip-brass money
of their own coinage and good il
their own double priced stores only
|
NASONTOWN, Pa, August IL
Here in the coke coal region, hitherto
untouched by the strike, very sig
nificant mass meeting and conference
took place Sunday.
Three hundred miners assembled
to hear William z. Foster, of tht
Trade Union Unity League, and re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-12

spoke TO the men still in and the
leaflets were distributed to all of
them.
At noon, Sidney Bloomfield, dis
trict organizer of the Communist
Party, spoke and asked those who
we're coming out to step over the
tracks and join the pickets. About
81 men came over The strikers I'M
mediately added five Of them to the
Joint rank and file strike committee
and also six women. Pickets we're
on duty at quitting time and few
more men came out. Wives and
daughters of some of the strikers
we're on the line, talking and per-
suading those still in to come out
Build Auxiliary
Wednesday night the strikers held
meeting and registered over Y men.
Some women, not in the strike but
svmpathetic to the fight of the work
ers volunteered on the auxiliary. A
hall committee was selected by the
strike committee and Thursday pro-
cured store from one of the small
business men. A mass meeting was
held there in the afternoon and the
relief committee and youth committee
we're elected from the strikers and
sympathizers.
The boss shut down the mill but