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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
What's On

WEDNESDAY-
Medical Workers, Attention
Dental workers, hospital workers,
nurses. etc, will meet tonight at 5
East 10th St, 8 p. m. All members
must attend.
Workers EN-servIcemen's League,
Branch No. 2
Will have its regular indoor meeting
tonight instead of tomorrow as usual.
Special! All members must attend
without fail.
chinese and japanese Workers Meet
A protest against imperialist ag-
gression in Manchuria will be held
tonight at the Manhattan Lyeeum.
&C East Attn street.
international labor Defense,
Nat Turner Branch
viii hold meeting at f49 w. 136th
Street, at y. m. All invited.
Metal workers Industrial League
Will hold meeting at East 18th ST.
Oop floor. All sheet metal workers
employed or unemployed are urged
TO tend.
Ex-scrvicemcn's League
in ono N-alr meetings will
be IN tonight in preparation for
Tho 5rd BIG PARADE" at 25th st.
and Sth Ave and Columbus Circle.
All out.
Mnpictoa workcra Club
will hold an election meeting at
$3.50 p. m. All members must attend,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Varied Talent At The
TUUC Ball October 8

Thousands of tickets have been
distributed to all unions and leagues,
fraternal, language and cultural Or
CARNATIONS, affiliated to the TUUL.
Indications are that the TUUC One
Big Ball will be a huge success. The
Workers Cultural Federation has ar
ranged to have the Workers Labora-
tory Theatre put on play and the
John Reed Club artists to draw car
toons.
Negro and white, employed and I'M
employed, organized and unorganized.
rally to the ranks of the TUULl
Show your solidarity, come to the
One Big Ball, October 3, in Rockland
Palace, 155th st. and Eighth Ave,
and help make it a success.
One of the best Negro orchestras,
John C. Smith band, will provide the
best dancing music until the early
hours. Tickets are only so cents in
advance, and so cents at the box
office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
FIRST VOTERS CLASS BEGINS
TONIGHT AT WORKERS school,

Needle Trades Workers Union, par
ticularly, should act on this appeal
not only to turn over money collect
ed thus far, but to extend and carry
on an energetic sale of Election Cam
paign coupons and the Party Plat
form in shop factory and shop gate
meetings and on the street at meet
ingJ that are held in the trade mar
kets. A minimum of $1,000 Party
Campaign Platforms should be sold
among workers in the shops and fac
tories.
Working class orga mutations, fra
ternal bodies, unions and workers
clubs are also urged to Immediately
arrange for special election campaign
meetings Of their members to en-
dorse the platform Of the Communist
Party and its candidates and to win
the workers to Join Vote Cormu-
mist Clubs in their neighborhoods in
order to vote Communist on Elec-
ton Day. The burning issues before
the working class during this cleo
tic1 time when mass hunger, mass
unemployment, and mass misery are
spreading like plague, and are
arousing the workers as never be-
fore to the message Of the Commu-
mist Party.
All workers are called on to give
the maximum time this week, which
is the remaining week of the sigma
ture drive to collect signatures to
get the red candidates on the ballot
in every working class section. On
the lower East Side, Harlem, Bronx
vile and Queens, there are still dan
gerous points which we must avoid.
Revolutionary workers of New York
can make these sections victory for
the Party by collecting signatures
every day this week.
All out for the Signature Drive and
for Red Election Victory for the
Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
40 BOOTHS TAKEN
FOR DIV. BAZAAR;
LAST MEET THURS.
All Organizations Are
Urged to Send a
Delegate

Forty booths have been taken so
far for the Daily WORKER reiheit-
Young Worker Bazaar to be held at
Madison Square Garden, Oct. s, 8,
10 and II. This is an indication of
the wonderful response that the drive
for the bazaar has been meeting, and
the final effort, to be planned at the
mass conference tomorrow (Thurs-
day. night at the Workers Center,
IS East 18th St., in Room 205, at 8
p. m, if made with the same vigor
as in the days just past, is sure to
swing the affair to glorious success.
Booths have been taken by branches
Of the International Workers Order
and by workers clubs, women's coun-
ellis. the Freiheit Gesang Verein and
language organizations. These booths
will offer a great variety of mer-
chandise for sale--clothing, furnish
ings, raincoats, leather coats, jewelry,
and great many other articles-the
sort of things one doesn't often pick
up at business establishments.
And there will be Music, dancing,
sports, and exhibitions by working
class organizations affiliated with the
Labor Sports Union.
Workers, a strong final effort is
needed. The Daily Worker, the Fret
heit. and the Young Worker must
widen their activities to meet the
wage cut and starvation drive Of the
capitalists. The capitalist system is
lettering and the Communist press
must not let the moment go, because
Of lack Of funds, for reaching the
millions Of workers who are being
forced, through the bosses attacks, to
enter the mass struggle. The bazaar
will give us these funds, if you do
rot slacken your efforts in these cru
cial days before Oct. 8. Only one
week left, remember.
Get greetings Immediately from
organizations and individuals for the
bazaar souvenir Journal Send in at
once the money that you have re-
ceived for tickets. Intensity your eff
forts to sell tickets. Intensity the
activity Of your organizations in the
sale Of tickets and greetings. And
be sure that your unit or your branch
Of any mass organization to which
you belong sends a delegate to the
mass bazaar conference tomorrow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

1t is of the utmost importance this
year that all workers who are citi-
zens shall cast their vote for the
Communist Party. In view of the in
timidation tactics which will be used
by the reactionsry parties and their
gangster henchmen against revolu-
tionary workers, the District Election
Camraign Committee has arranged
for a class for First Voters to be-
gin this evening at pm. at the
Workers School. Workers will re-
ceive instructions on the so-cnllet'
literacy test-that is, the test as to
whether YOU can read or write. which
is REQUIRED for all those who vote for
the first time, I'D which is used tn
try to terrorize the wor,-srs who will
vote for the only revolutionary portv,
the Communist Party. All workers
should register Immediately at the
Workers School, 35 E. 18th St, sec
ond floor, and attend the class
tonight ct 7 pm. After this
first session the class will prob
ably be transferred to Monday night
at the same time. The instructor will
be Carl Brodsky. Workers are urged
to register Immediately.
All workers who have not yet
turned their Tag Day collection and
money collected for the sale of Elec-
ton Campaign coupons are urged
by the Communist Party, District 2,
to see that these funds are imme-
diately sent in to the District office.
The members of revolutionary unions,
the Trade Union Unity League and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

Reports received from Lexington,
Ky. state that James Grace, Nation
al Miners Union organizer in eastern
Kentucky was horribly beaten by To-
cal police and released, after being
arrested with Tom Myerscough at
Neon. Ky, last Saturday Myerscough
himself states he made his own es-
cape in a rain Of bullets while being
beaten up by the Harlan county dep
uties Who had carried both men to
the Virginia border, and Grace at
that time was in the hands Of the
Ear,a1 deputies, not of the local
police.
The report from Lexington may be
correct il saying that Grace is re-
leased, but it is too early to be GER
tain. The extreme terror, the partially
underground character of the miners
organization in Kentucky. and the
great distances make it difficult to
get news quickly The capitalist press
services simply fail to give facts of
attacks on the miners
HARLAN KY, Sept. 29-John
Kirnbler, miner, who has been held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

Grams.
s. A stop to the degrading ques-
tioning and browbeating of vet
Grams and their families by the in
yestigators of the American Legion
and Department of Public Works.
9. No discrimination against for
eign-b0rn and Negro veterans.
10. Abolish system of appointing
"snitchers" and "handshakerS'' to
abuse veterans while waiting to re-
port at bureaus.
II. Publish monthly detailed re-
ports of relief given, number of
cases. new cases, cases closed, and
itemized record of expenses for dis
bursting of relief in order to elimi-
nate misuse Of funds, graft, dis
elimination, etc.
10. No discrimination against
veterans for fighting for better re-
Lief or for political views of vet
Grams.
Is. The administration Of relief
to be placed in the hands Of
Committee elected directly by the
unemployed working class veterans
as the only means of stopping
graft.
THE attempt of the American
Legion to feed the disabled and UNI
veterans and their families
on problematical beer is smoke
screen to cover the retreat of the
Legion on the bonus question: the
of the joint committee con-
tinues calling on veterans in the
American Legion to fight for actual
money relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
third Big Parade" Of Vets
to Demand Relief of City

NEW YORK.--Calling upon the
thousands of unemployed World war
veterans to rally for a Third Big
Parade" the Committee of Veterans
from the Relief Lines and the Work
ers Ex-servieenen's League has ar
ranged a demonstration Friday, Oc-
tober 2, 1881, at 1890 to march on
city hall and place series Of de-
mands for immediate relief of single
and married veterans and their FAM
lilies. ~
The veterans will form in line at
Broadway, opposite the Custom
House, near Bowling Green and So.
Ferry subway station.
Pointing out the totally inadequate
relief given a limited number Of vet
Grams, a statement issued by the
Committee of Veterans from Relief
Lines and the Workers Ex-service-
mems League says in part:
Discriminate Against Single Men
1--WE have pointed out that the
American Legion and the Department
of Public Welfare are discriminating
against single veterans. The COM
mitee states that single men are not
being given any relief and that the
statement of Mayor walker that 1--WE
will not allow the veterans to suffer
unnecessarily, etc. Is only election
talk and that the single veterans are
not included even in that"
In $1,000 leaflets issued by the joint
organizations the following demands
to be made upon the city authorities
are listed: ee
]. We want work
2. The relief we get Is due us
II Is not charity.
3. There shall be no stopping Of
relief when getting temporary work
total income not 10 be less than
total relief received previous TO
getting work..
4. No changes In relief without
hearing-caee not to be closed
during hearing.
5, More new eases 10 be heard
daily.
6. Increased relief:
$50 a month for married vet
Grams.
$40 a month for each depen-
dent.
$50 month for single war
veteran.
$40 a month sor each depen-
dent.
7. We demand similar relief for
widows and orphans Of war vet
NEIGEBORHOOD THEATRES
EkgT gtfAw..RHAkX
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Knitters Strike

MILWAUKEE,, Sept. 2s.-About
$50 knitters struck in three mills OF
the Phoenix Hosiery Co. yesterday
against a 80 to As per cent wage cut
to which the Socialist union officials
agreed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Farewell Banquet to
COmrade Erenberg

A farewell banquet for Conrade L.
Erenberg who is leaving for the
Soviet Union will be held this Satur-
day evening, October 3, at the large
hall Of the Freiheit Singing Society
at LOG East 14th st. Comrade Eren-
berg has been one of the most active
functionaries in Section One of the
Communist Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
Speed Defense Drive While
More Miners Face Prison
Trials Start In Ohio, West Virginia Soon; Conferences,
Mass Meets For Mooney
PTTTSRIIRGH. p SAM. 2Q.-The

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept 29.-The cam
paign for the defense of striking miners in
four states and for the release of Mooney, Bill
ings, the Scottsboro boys and all other class
war prisoners is gathering strength, but the
need for quick action increases
The Seubenvile Ohio, Grand Jury is ready to report
The trials of strikers expected open within few
days The Wheeling, W. Va grand jury goes int osession
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

october 9th.
Fifteen miners have been released
from the Brook County jail in Wells
burg, w. Va, after being held for
months for heavy bail. Alec Dorsey,
president of the National Miners
Union local and about score Of
other miners are still being held in
Wellsburg.
Pat Toohey, who is touring the
country in behalf Of the Harlan,
Kentucky, miners, Tom Mooney and
Billings, and the strikers defense,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30
SeII-Out Of Loft
Strikers Rejected

CONTINUED FROM FACE oNEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

will speak in Steubenville, Ohio, on
October 18th, and in Bellaire on the
18th. He will speak in Pittsburgh
on the 9th in the Workers Center,
New Kensington on the eth and
Washington on the 10th.
Defense Conferences
Defense Conferences to which the
National Miners Union locals, frater-
nal organizations and locals of other
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-30

NEIGHBoRHOoD THEATRES
EAST siDE---shOkx
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-09

realize the great financial losses over-production In
East Texas has caused the oil industry
"A reliable statistician has estimated that produc-
es Of the country are receiving s~i.600.000 a day less
than they were receiving when the East Texas field
was discovered, while the producers Of East Teras are
receiving only $4,000 a day for distress oil now be-
ing run from that field. It is Rep. Hills viewpoint
that II the East Texans had o5eyed the ~proration
orders or the railroad commission and the price OF
crude should have continued. they would have re-
ceived twice as much for half as much oil and this
would have left the rest Of the producers a million
dollars a day. Furthermore he stresses there Is one
phase which should be Of vital interest to every citi-
gen OF Texas. It Is estimated that Texas Is losing in
taxes and university royalties more than SIS 600 a
a day. This sum. declares the lawmaker and men,
Der OF the oil and gas committee OF the legislature,
must be made up By placing additional burdens upon
the already overtaxed real property Of the state.
From the present depressed condition it seems TO
Rep. Hill that the weakness. II not the futnity, OF
agreed proration Is apparent. He believes that the
only permanent relief will be BY law. II favors legis-
lation which viii make p~roration legal and effective,
with provisions Of the law applying fairly and i'm
partially to all fields and producers, both large and
small.
To the governor. the lawmakers and the railroad
commissioners: "WHERE 20 WE GO FROM HERE?
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-09
The Once Over
HOLIDAY WEEKEND PORTRAITS

1.-The auto owner who got the wife and kiddies
up at 5 a. m. to set an early start and after an hour
on the road had to 60 back home for the keys to the
cottage.
2-The fellow who passed everything and had a
good chance Of beating the traffic jam when a leak in
the water pump "froze' his engine four miles from
the nearest garage.
3-The professional hIker who spent the Fourth NJ
July on a nice long walk in the great open spaces
while his wife stayed home and rearranged the medI-
cline cabinet 40 there would be no delay finding the
liniment for him when he got home.
4-The l0ng-suffcrlng family man who had to find
room In the fliVver not only for the wife. six child
rem and several crates Of dishes but for a dog. a cat
and the canary.
5-The driver who had almost reached his destina-
ton when the motorcycle cop got him.
6-The millions who rested up on the Glorious
Fourth BY playing IS holes Of golf On q crowded links
and spent Sunday wondering If it could have been
something they ate.
THE motorcycle nuts: mother in the sidecar with
the baby; father looking like a Goldbereian Paul
Revere. doing the navigating. and Daughter Lena
looking pretty scandalous On the rear saddle.
8-The people who spent the holiday in the parks
seeing how far they could throw newspapers.
9-The fellow in the car with his brakes on fire.
and with every autoist In the vicinity shifting the air
and e%xclaiming. II wonder Is my car burning?"
1O-The bald-headed, unshaven fat man asleep
alongside the road In a roadster from which he had
failed to remove a sign reading. TAKE Me Away For
S25p
1.-THE remarkable resemblance Of most hitch
mixers to ~eangsters.
l2-The male bathers who got into their bathing
suits for the first tire this season and realized with
considerable alarm that their skins had all the healthy
glow OF a hot-hcuse lily.
13-The girl who tried 10 walk back home from a
canoe.
14-The poor working man who spent the week
end driving 800 miles to the cottage. putting In the
screens. building a rock garden. and painting the
sun perth.
l5-The impatient autoist who footed the car ahead
out Of his path. only 10 discover II held two state
policemen. Was his face red?
l6-The man who invited a party on a three-day
trip on his power cruiser and found when they all
arrived at the dock that the sheriff had II under
attachment.
1.-THE disguised. dispirited. weary-looking people
who made the trip BY railroad
18-The disguised. d~isririted. weary-looking people
who made It by automobile.
l9.-The d~isgusted. d~ispifited. veary-looking people
who made II by boat.
20.-The disguised. ~disrfited. weary-looking people
who didn't 90 away az all.
What the French want 70 know IS whether. when
she started the world war. She thought she was open
ing a war Or a charge account.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-09
Commissions Without Power

During the Hoover regime we have heard a plenty
about commissions. and not a few unkind remarks
have been made anent the commission appointing
proclivities OF the chief executive.
Some Of the critical remarks have been directed at
the President from Texas. a state which should be
the last in the Union to have any criticism to make
OF commissions. state or federal. until she has clothed
some OF her own commissions with al least a suffi-
cient amount 0f power 10 furnish a reasonable excuse
for their continued existence.
Texas has a railroad commission. practically all OF
the powers or which we're shorn when the Federal
government appointed the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
OF later davs. since the oil industry has become n
matter Of public concern. authority over drilling or OIL
and gas wells and kindred affairs has been LODGED
I'm the railroad commission. with apparently no author
iy granted 70 make the rulings OF the commission
stick.
Ssst recently We have been treated 70 the enlighten-
ing spectacle Of East Texas oil operators telling the
commission very frankly that they are disobeying the
proration order passed BY that body and that they
will continue to dlsobey until the commission passes
an order which meets with their approval.
But the railroad commission IS not the only one
Texas has state Board 81 Water engineers. to
whom applcatlSn must be made. nominallv. for auth
oritv to divert 70 pTsgate w any or the public waters
Of the state. Just what would haDDen should the COM
mission ever refuse 70 allow such an application IS
~problematical, for 70 our knowledge no such applica-
ton has ever been refused.
There are those who are inclined to the belief that
one reason the board has granted practically every
application made for use of the waters Of the Rio
Grande Is because the board fears a test Of rs own
legal right 70 exist.
Certainly it has seemed SO In the Valley, where
our own very competent engineers tell Us that further
diversion OF the water Of the river might very possibly
lead to shortages which would endanger the old and
establish developments.
The time Is coming when there must Re r showdown
on this matter az the use 81 the waters Of the Rio
Grande. and the quicker Il comes the better u will
be for all concerned IN the future Of the Valley coun-
ties.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-09

band died and left her little 70
live on; she was too old TO 20 after
the career" and now she merely
stands and watches the big par
ade' Of Broadway 60 by. stands
and wonders how many girls In the
crowd are even MS she once Was.
and will wind up. .where7
And there's the Ease OF a play
wright who doesn't exist. He's been
dead for a number or years. Yet
plays keep coming out under his
name. and stories appear In maya
zines under his name.
And this is the story: for years
this man has been a well known
figure in the play-belt. Almost
every season saw n Of his pieces
on the stage. Some we're success
full and some Topped. "A certain
well-known editor and literary
figure had been his closest friend.
also his agent. 10 some extent: had
ordered many OF his stories and
edited many OF his plays. At any
rate, the playwright and his wife
uULN met QtALI cQAAE 1FAIc A&O III
an out-of-town theater disaster.
They had no children and they left
no will.
The certain literary figure was In
possession Of a number Of manu-
scripts. These have been rewritten
and revised. ana at least one has
been turned into a successful play
All under the name Of a dead
man!
Inside the New Amsterdam thea
ter. one OF the sensational features
Of The Band Wagon" Is a number
called The Beggar's waltz The
tragic pantomime is revealed Of a
street-beRFar who dreams Of the
glories inside a theater.
And for the past three NIGHTS as
the crowds left the real theater.
they were startled BY the sight of
lust such a derelict whining in
Fortv-SecOrd street.
For life is also like that
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-09
Of Cigaret
Tax Are Uncertain

AUSTIN. July 9. Rl-what effect
the tax Of three cents per package
on cigarets. authorized az the last
session Of the legislature. will have
on the sale Of the flags" in Texas
was a matter OF conjecture among
state officials. The tax will become
effective at midnight. August 81.
When the tax was up for con-
sideration In the legislature, re-
ceipts were variously estimated be-
tween 100000 and $4,000. 600.
Since that time the estimate has
dropped TO around the $4,000, 900
mark with several officials and
members OF the legislature estimat-
ing the receipts at approximately
$4,000. GOO.
One-half the receipts from the
tax will 90 to the general revenue
fund to bolster II against the con-
tinual demands made on IL and the
other half will be credited to the
public free school fund. The tax
originally was sponsored by men,
bers Of the education bloc In the
house but was defeated when the
house refused 10 print IL on minor
ity report after Ii had received un-
favorable action from the revenue
and taxation committee.
The tax was added to a pedd-
ler's tax bill In the senate after
heated argument. The contention OF
opponents Of the tax that the act
ion OF the senate was unconstitution-
al because the constitution declares
all tax measures must originate In
the house was overruled and the
house by a few votes concurred In
the amendment
Shortly after the tax was passed
by the legislature talk flew fast
and thick that its constitutionality
might be attacked IN the courts.
Since the heat Of the session has
abated. however, these threats have