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The Washington times., 1931-12-12
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Milton T. Harper. 27, and Edna v.
Props, 81. Mt. Salon, Va. The Rev.
&c. B. Austin.
Marvin w. Peers, %, and Helen NJ.
Nussear, 90. The Rev. L. ]. McDougle.
Merle E. Derton, SO, Amsterdam,
N. Y. and Juanita Odom, IS, Rocky
Mount. N. c. Judge R. E. Mattingly.
Prizelar Dunham, 81. Richmond, Va,
and Hattie Braudrick, As, Richmond,
Va. The Rev. ]. c. Ball.
Leslie A. BoItz. SO, Richmond, Va,
and Rosa B. Menclith, 40, Richmond,
Charles A. Garmatz 78. Baltimore,
Md. and Eutha G. Thomas, 3S. Bal
timore. Md. The Rev. H. M Hennig.
Harold r. Gibson, 81 McKeesport,
Pa. and Phyllis v. Morgart. 81. Jen-
nings, Md The Rev. A. a. McCallum.
Joseph S. Eston. SO. and Lillian E.
Christian. u The Rev. w. D. Jarvis.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
Reserve Credits
Decrease in Week

The daily average volume OF
Federal Reserve Bank credit out
standing during the week ended
December 8, as reported by the
Federal Reserve Banks, was ST.
932, ,000, 900, a decrease Of $14,-
900 900 compared with the pre-
ceding week in 1880.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
GROUND IS LOST
BY STOCKS
ON CURB
Active Trading FaVorites Car
ried to New Lows
For the Decline

NEW YORK, Dec. IL GN.S0.
Selling assumed climatic proper
tions in today's abbreviated curb
session, with a continuation Of
urgent liquidation carrying most
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
Mail Order Houses
Slash Tire Prices

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Mont-
gomery Ward & Co. have reduced
prices of it's truck tires 10 to Is
per cent.
Sears -Roebuck has cut its truck
tire prices by the same amount.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
SALES

SALES
Washington Gas SIS q $1,000 q
1OOA, $1,000 q 10OA, $1,000 q
1904, $1,000 q 10OA.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Is, $1,000@85.
Washington Gas IS A @ $500 q
1903.
Capital Traction Co., q 81. 4
@ 81, 10 q 81, 10 q 81, 10 q 81,
10 q 81, S q 81, S q 81.
Washington Railway and Elec-
trio pfd., Is @ 9312.
Lanston Monotype. 4 @ 81, 10
a 661a. 8 @ 6634.
Mergenthaler Linotype, 10 q
69h.
National Mortgage & Insurance
pfd., 100 q S34. 56 q 334, A q
3A.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
FRANK w. LEWIS

Frank w. Lewis, II, veteran
newspaperman, died last night at
his home, 1850 Monroe st. N. E.,
after an illness Of several weeks.
Mr.. Lewis was Washington cor.
respondent for several Tennessee
and North Carolina papers. He
succeeded Senator Cermack as
editor of the Nashville TenneS-
seean, which position he held
until he came to Washington ID
years ago.
Funeral services will be held
Monday at his home, with inter,
ment in Fort Lincoln Cemetery
Surviving are his widow, Mrs
Kate Lewis, and seven children,
Mrs. Frances w. Dammann, Mrs.
joseph Hodge, Miss Irma Lewis,
Charles A. and Edward c. Lewis,
of this city, and Mrs. Foster A.
Jones, Memphis, Tenn, and Mrs
James o. Bean, Houston, Tex,
and two sisters, Miss Ella and
Miss Lulu Lewis, Of washington
MRS. HONORINE w. WILLIAMS
Mrs Honorine Wanga Williams,
81, mother of" Francis P. Williams,
of 14l8 Webster st. N. W., died
yesterday at a Baltimore hospital
after a lingering illness.
A native of Quebec, Canada,
Mrs Williams was educated in
Paris and came to this country
in her youth. She was also the
mother of the Rev. Thomas D.
williams, of Baltimore.
Funeral services will be held
Monday at $50 from the Web
ster Street address. Mass will be
said at 10 a. m. at the Church
of the Immaculate Conception,
with interment in Mt. OllVet
Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

81 % Zenith Radio ~. A = a. \
IA Zonite Prdts a.. 81 So &
(a) Optional (b) Partly extra. Extra
(e) Including
~ s.5Oths stock is) Paid this year (AA)
(ww) With (xw) without
rants (") Ex-dividend. 90 Ex-rights.
Dividend rate in dollars in parentheses.
Years high and carried previous close
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
Gains In Many
Lines Listed

Omaha reports many busi-
ness improvements.
Reserve credits dip $14,-
600, 900 in week.
Cement firm adds $5OO,OOO
for plant.
Morse chain sales jump
22 per cent.
The Washington times., 1931-12-12
EndustriaLs and Utilities Wilt Under Fire
New York Bond Close
United states

Liberty 3hs $, 32-47..
Lib 1st 4ks 32-47.
Lib 4th AIS 1898.
Treasury 4As ~ S2..
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Miscellaneous For Sale

FOR SALE-Or might lease to right
parties; modern, well-equipped
cafe and soda fountain business
at Jacumba; stage stop; long lease
on best location in town. Suitable
for TWO women or husband and
wife with cafe experience. Ad-
dress Box 1885, Jacumba.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Real Estate Bargains

FOR SALE - Jacumba; 4-room
house, 2 bedrooms and bath. Ga
rage and store room; or will trade
for Ell Centro property. Write or
see John U. Enbank. Rt , Box "a,
El Centro, McCabe school. 9t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Real Estate Bargains

FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN-Five
rooms. double garage, extra good
chicken house, two lots 60xl60
each, on a fine close-in corner.
splendid shade, fruit and fine
shrubbery. Address r. N. Nc
Cahan, l04 Sixth street. Beau
mont, California. Telephones:
Office, 573: residence, 1888. 9t2
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
REFRIGERATOR, with frigldaire

with frigidaire
equipment for sale. Approximate
dimensions, 7x5x4. Oak box, plate
glass front, side door First class
condition. Used only few months
in florist shop. Can be bought at
a savings of one-half cost of new
equipment. For further informa-
ton write H. Kunkel, $40 San
Diego Savings Bldg, San Diego.
9t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Wmfed - Miscellaneous
MOMN POP
EM%@

GLASS JUGS WANTED-500 half
gallon size; no oil. We pay seven
cents. Purity Grape Juice Co..
293 Orange avenue. Off
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Houses Furnished

FOR RENT-4-room modern house.
furnished. 381 Orange st. 9tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Furnlsned, cool 3
rooms. lawn. shade. Private show
er ana hot water. $40 Adams. Att
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Desrabiy furnished
bungalow. Adults only. Call 59l
Len Rey 2tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Furnished 5 room
house, lawn shade and gas. Phone
495 or call 819 Main ST. 8tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished house.
Close in. Adults only. Call 59l
Park. SIi
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-5-room house, COM
pletely furnished. bedrooms.
Reasonable. 663 Holt ST. Ito
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Help " d.ted--Maie

MAN-With car for money-making
line. Repeat orders every week all
summer. Purity Grape Juice Co.
293 Orange avenue. TIL
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT = Modern furnished
house. 513 Brighton. 7t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

Darter and Hockett. hog farmers
near Delta, Colorado. last season
saved 8ia pigs per litter. a very
good record.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Rooms Furnished

ROOM FOR RENT-Close in, very
desirable and reasonably priced.
542 Olive. Men only! Call after 6
or before 9. 9t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
SCHOOL CENsUsDounxxn

MOSCOW, UP)-Fou~een miIl,or
children were receiving punAc schnol
education in 1880 and at least anoo.-
900 more will be enrolled In ss3l.
These figures were provided by Pros>
Andrew Vishinsky. head OF the
State Scientific Council here. About
1000 900 children were in schools
before the revolution
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
FOR SALE
Real BARGAIN

h6dI DdT SdIII
Five-room dwelling, modern
throughout and in fine loca-
ton on Wensley Avenue.
COMPLETELY FURNISHED
and that includes all bedrooms,
living room and kitchen.
If you are interested in buy
ing an up-to-date home in Ell
Centre completely furnished,
see this at once!
SACRIFICE PRICE-$4200.00
GOOD TERMS
Nuffer Land Company
SOB Main st. Phone 45W
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Situations Wanted

HARTZELL TIE feOOFER takes
the guess work out OF roofing.
Phone 251-W. FL Centre. II
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Batcn shack, with
water, gas. Apply y473 Park. soft
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Large, furnished room,
with private bath. 457 Brighton.
Off
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Furniture For Sale

FOR SALE-Baby bed, high chair,
kiddie car. 442 Holt. 7t3
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09

FOR RENT-Furnished houses and
apartments, lawn and shade. Mrs.
Marie Land, COB Park. 20tf
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-09
Houses Unfurnished

FOR RENT-Unfurnis room
cottage, Phone 446M or call 684
Vine. 8tT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
DANE JOBLESS
FORCED LABOR
Arrested and Put to
Work Without Pay

COPENHAGEN.-With the growth
of the economic crisis in Denmark,
the police are increasing their cam
paign against Migrants" and other
homeless persons. Organized hunts
are made to round up such unfor-
tunate victims of capitalism. They
are then arrested for begging or for
being without visible means of sub
sistence,' and delivered in masses to
the municipal authorities for COM
pulsory labor. The social democratic
municipal authorities lend the police
every support in this brutal work.
The victims are held in the great
task-wrok colony in Sundholm. There
they are compelled to work under
strict supervision for pocket money!
about eight cents a week and their
keep. The work is performed for
private capitalist firms who in this
way are provided with cheap labor
by the social democratic government.
For the most part this forced labor
is for the Danish brewers. AS Dem
mark exports large quantities of beer,
the exploitation of these unfortunates
concerns the workers of other coun-
tries. Perhaps the conservative press
in Great Britain would like to con-
duct campaign against Danish beer
and against the forced labor which
il used to produce it? But it prob
ably wouldn't.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
Farmers in Regional Meet Plan
Militant Fight On Starvation
Over 100 Delegates At Regional Conference
of United Farmers League Show Determin-
alton to Fight Boss Hunger System

NEW YORK MILLS, Mimi, March
16.-The first United Farmers League
Regional Conference of the middle
Northwest states was held at the
Heinola Hall here Sunday, March 8,
with a good representation from
North and South Dakotas. Upper
Michigan, Northern Wisconsin and
Minnesota Over hundred delegates
enthusiastically received the reports
of the various state and district Or
ganizers and the report Of the central
office.
The Regional Conference formu-
lated plans for an intensified cam
paign of organization in the states
that were represented at the con-
ference. Organizers will be sent to
unorganized territories to carry on
organizational work among the Ne
groes and white poor farmers who
have been fleeced by Hoover pros
perity."
Tho reports and the discussion very
clearly brought out the fact that
never before have there been such
opportunities for the United Farm
ers League to rally farmers around
its program for struggle as there
are now. Farmers everywhere are
awakening through bitter experience
to the realization that only through
militant organization in alliance with
the workers of the cities can they
get relief. The Conference discussed
thoroughly the methods of approach
in carrying on our work as well as
the line to be followed in formulate
ing demands on the basis of the
United Farmers League program.
North Dakota has an excellent rep
resentation Of Is delegates of militant
farmers, many Of them being young
militant workers with such enthu-
siasm that win assure progress for
our movement. Also Upper Michigan,
Northern Wisconsin and South Da-
kota were well represented by a good
delegation from each state. Mime
sofa was represented with the largest
delegation.
The conference elected Regional
Executive Committee that will direct
the work in these five states. The
Committee has members from North
and South Dakota, Michigan and
Wisconsin who will be constantly in
touch with the work of the COM
mittee through correspondence and
will meet once Or twice a year in an
enlarged session
Beside the regular delegates there
were almost 200 visitors who followed
the conference work throughout the
session. Many Of the visitors came
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18

from long distances to listen in on
the conference discussions.
The United Farmer was discussed
by the delegates in very serious
manner All were of the opinion
that the United Farmer must be
made a semi-monthly in the very
near future. Comrade "Mother"
Bloor, the North Dakota United
Farmers League State Organizer, in
her appeal for support for the United
Farmer stated that 1--WE must make
the United Farmer a voice of the
militant spirit Of the hundreds of
thousands Of American farmers who
are being reduced to paupers by the
system of exploitation and robbery
Of capitalism, by building a mass
circulation and by giving our undi-
vided moral and financial support
to our paper" The conference m-
animouSly passed a motion to start
a well planned campaign to get five
thousand new subscribers for the
United Farmer during the next five
months. A collection of $l2l for the
United Farmer was taken at the Con-
ference in cash and pledges by Con-
rade Mother" Bloor.
All the delegates and visitors who
participated in the conference left
for home determined to work for the
United Farmers League in their re-
Spective home communities as never
before. "We can res assured" said
Comrade Harju, the editor Of the
United Farmer and the national Sec
rotary of the Unite dFarmers League.
that we shall see new spirit In our
movement as a result of the March
8 conference, for the comrades who
have been at our conference have
seen the fighting spirit of the farm
ers and now know that we mean
business and not only mere talk
about organizing farmers into the
United Farmers League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
MORE DISTRICTS NOW
PLANNING WEEKLY PAGE

With the popularity of the weekly editions con-
tanning articles of local news interest expressed
by the three districts now receiving special issues
of four columns each, Chicago Philadelphia, and
Cleveland, more districts have shown response
to the value Of district pages and are planning
such issues for their own territories.
Besides the three already mentioned, the line
up is as follows: Pittsburgh will order four
columns every Monday starting March %. Buff
falo asked for page starting April IT. but we
suggested Tuesday, day not yet selected by
any district. Minneapolis has ordered dis
trict page Of two. columns every Friday, and
will receive their first issue March 81 California
has placed definite ORDER but has not yet
selected Its date. Butte Mont, is now negotiat-
ing with the various sections in the district for
material, and will try to arrange for space In
New York, the Bronx is considering ordering q
page of four columns, and contemplates ordering
1000 extra copies week
Seattle and Detroit are the only two large
districts not yet in line for district page. OF
the smaller districts, we urge Connecticut,
Boston. Kansas City, and Denver to lose no
time in planning weekly issue in order to
strengthen their apparatus and raise the cir
cuIation-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
CIVIL LIBERTIES
WHITEWASH COPS
Southern Chief Sends
Letter to Police
nv a Worker CORRESPONDENT

LOS ANGELES, Cal - The real
character of the Civil Liberties Union
is shown in the letter sent by Clinton
j. Taft, director of its Southern
branch to Roy E. Steckel, chief of Po-
lice of Los Angeles. The letter in part
says that his organization took cog
nizance of the fact that there was
no violence exhibited by the Police
on Wednesday, February 25th in ar
resting Communists at their so-called
demonstration"
In other words it is merely the VIC
lence that Mr.. Taft the head of the
Civil Liberties Union is worried about.
When the workers are arrested on the
picket line for demanding higher
wages, when the unemployed are tax
en- to Jail for demonstrating In hun
ger marches, when the right of speech
and assemblage is followed by sem
fences of many years in the prison
cells, the Civil Liberties Union not
only does not dare to raise its voice
in defense of the working class but
on the other hand it deliberately en-
dorses the action of the so-called law,
for the letter further states that, I'VE
feel particularly grateful over the
showing that the Police made on that
occasion (meaning the Feb. 25th dem
onstration0".... 1t further says "we
as an organization have never OBJ
jected to the Police Department max
ing arrests"
White Washing Agency.
OF course not. The Civil Liberties
Union has long ceased to fight for the
principles that its name stands for.
1t is more and more deteriorating into
tool of capitalism to fool the work
ers into the enemies camp.
The Civil Liberties Union will have
to shake hands with its brother Or
ganization, the A. F. of L. the Amer
lean legion, ETC., but hands off of the
working class. We will defend our
own class. We will build and sup
port the LID which is the only Or
ganization in this country fighting for
all rights of the working class.
"A Sympathizer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
Chicago Worker Jailed for Selling ''DaiIies'

all well dressed and fed. After they
made a lot of noise about Jesus we
told them that we were locked in and
so we could not go to Jesus and that
the best thing they could do for us
would be to get us some ham and
eggs for we were too weak and hun
CRY to pray to Jesus for some.
Since the city's officials are too
busy the heed the demands of the
workers, the workers here have de-
cided to organize. They have joined
the Trade Union Unity League and
the Unemployed Councils. They will
continue to sell the Daily Worker
as a method of organization. Jesus
is too busy playing his golden harp
and Hoover and Thompson are very
much rushed with politics to alleviate
the rotten conditions among the
workers. "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
LSU BALL LEAGUE
IN PHILADELPHIA
Conference March Fl,
At 1908 Tasker ST.

PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-The worker
sportsmen in Philadelphia are start
ing on a real fight against the bosses
in the field of sports. Before the
baseball season actually begins the
Labor Sports Union in this district is
getting busy, organizing baseball
leagues here. A number of teams
have already sent in their requests
for admission into the Labor Sports
Union Baseball League.
In the call issued for their confer
ence to organize the league and ar
range the schedules of the teams, the
L. S. U. states in part:
For Workers Sports.
Spring is close at hand and the
opening of the baseball season with
it. The fans are going to be told
that they should go to see the Won
derful Al Simmons and Jimmy Fox
and the Worlds Champion Athletics.
But for us young fellows, many of
whom have been out of work and
can't even buy a baseball glove-for
us the sport pages have nothing to
say, In fact, they want to keep our
minds off our troubles and keep us
thinking about the famous stars. In
both professional sports and so-called
amateur" leagues under the control
of the AAU and the city politicians
they always pick out a few good
players and let the rest of the fell
lows go hang, especially the working
fellows who have to work six days a
week and haven't the time to prac-
tice. Therefore the Labor Sopts
Uhson is building LSU Baseball
Leagues in Philadelphia.
The Labor Sports Union invites all
labor sportsmen to send delegates to
our conference regardless of race,
color, creed or religion.
"Your club or team is cordially in
vited to send representatives to the
Conference for the Philadelphia La
Dor Sports Union Baseball League to
be held Saturday March 81, 1881, at
the Labor Sports Union Center, 1908
Tasker Street, 2:30 p. m. sharp. For
information, write to the Baseball
Committee, Labor Sports Union, 1908
Tasker Street, Philadelphia, Pa"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
PRISON LABOR
USED IN FINLAND
Export Products of
Forced Labor"

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. = Swedish
timber trade is suffering from the
forced labor employed by its COM
petitors. However, this forced labor
is not in the Soviet Union but in
capitalist Finland. Prison labor in
Finland has developed rapidly since
the fascist victory. A number of
railway Sns intended for the timber
trade ar o,r e built exclusively with
prison iaoov Further, the author
tiles are organizing quarries at which
only prison labor will be employed
These quarries will produce flagstones
for export in competition with the
Swedish quarries which employ nor
NAL wage labor. The political pris-
oners in Finland, of whom there are
large numbers, are mostly employed
in the timber trade. Sharp punish
mentS are inflicted for failure to
produce the norm set. The first time
the punishment is four days soil
tary with bread and water. The sec
ond time IA days solitary with bread
and water, and so on. Even the
Finnish timber merchants have suf-
fered considerably from the COM
petition of prison labor. The gov
eminent has come to their assist
ance by letting them in on the. bust
ness. Great profits are being made
and yet the goods are still under
priced.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18

period, and we hope no other district or section
is guilty of such gross negligence on the part of
leading functionaries.
Were it not for the healthy increases in some
of the districts, the loss before the flow of
bundle cuts was stemmed would have been sew
eral hundred. As it is, the net loss of solid
circulation for the week was only 100.
Bundle cuts may be avoided by issuing short
attractive leaflets inviting unemployed workers
to the Red Builders jamborees or meetings; care
fully organized work on the part of the Party
and League members to cover selected spots each
day with the Daily Worker, with a different
comrade each day whenever necessary; cooper
ating with fraternal organizations in establish
ing steady bundle orders for weekly, bi-monthly
or monthly meetings, and in drawing in unem-
ployed workers in the organizations to form
group of steady Daily Worker sellers. This last
method is very well illustrated by the Chicago
district which has established permanent Daily
Worker Builders and Sustaining Council with
over 80 delegates representing organizations
many of whose organizations have already Or
dered bundles donated money, arranged for af-
fairs and are voluntarily contributing an OPP
tional affiliation fee.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE>

Educational Society. The steel town
from the Mahoning Valley were we'll
represented by Negro and white
workers.
Trivia and F. Miller made reports
on the economic situation, problems
facing our movement, preparation for
the state hunger march and how it
should be organized. Many workers
took part in the discussion, especially
on the point in the resolution de-
handing full wages for workers I'M
employed insurance. Many were not
in agreement with that, stating that
there must be a more definite de-
mand of SO much per week. But
after the discussion the resolution
was endorsed unanimously.