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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07
suaded that the Bolsheviks will remain in
power forever"

suaded that the Bosheviks will remain in
power forever"
Abramovich was referring to the French Gen.
eral Staff plan for intervention in 1880 or 1881.
He was part of this conspiracy as was fully
proved in the Moscow trials. And the Socialist
party of America especially its chief leader, Mi.
Hillquit (now in Vienna in the Congress of the
Second internationally was hand in glove with
the whole international gang of wreckers and
war-mongers.
Today the socialist leaders are fulsomely
praising the latest war moves of Hoover and
Mellon and pledging their completes support.
No doubt in Vienna, Mr. Hllquit will make
many moving speeches for peace" and for Sup
port of that great lover Of peace, President
Hoover" For that also is part of the regular
duties of socialist" lawyer, international
secretary" of his party, and representative Of
the former capitalists of Baku who were driven
out by the victorious Russian workingclass.
The workers of the u s. are rapidly awaken
ing to the treachery of their misleaders Of the
American Federation of Labor and the Socialist
party They are rallying in hundreds of thou
sands to the Communist Party, and to the In
ternational Day of Struggle Against War and for
Defense of the Soviet Union on August First
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07
BY EARL BROWDER

THE chief DELICATE from America to the Vienna
Congress OF the Second International is Mr..
Morris Hillquit. This gentleman is the out
standing leader of the Socialist party of Amer
ica and occupies the post of international sec
rotary" He has attended all Congresses of the
Second International for many years In his
own person he synbolizes the Nlole counter
revolutionary role of the Second In irrational.
Mr.. Hillquit is practising attorney -at-law,
and wealthy capitalist, his chief investments
being in the coal industry.
On the eve of his departure for Vienna. Mr.
Hillquit appeared in the United States Courts
to file lawsuit. On behalf of a number of
Russian monarchist emigres, former owners of
Baku oilfields, Hllquit demanded that the courts
should order Standard Oil Co. and Vacuum Oil
Co. to pay thirty million dollars to his clients
on account of oil purchased from the Soviet
oil trust which Hillqut claims was stolen" from
the Russian capitalists.
This court action was exposed by the Daily
Worker" Thereupon Hillquit was asked by the
socialist paper, New Leader" to issue state
ment against the "Boshevik perversion" of his
position. Mr.. Hillquit's own words in reply are
more revealing and damning than any comment
we can make. He said
THE actions do not involve any question of
socialist principle. number of Russian corp
orations who owned oil lands in the Baku
region are sizing the Standard Oil Company
and the Vacuum Oil Company for an account
ing. The actions arise from purchases of oil
by the American companies from the Soviet
oil trust. Similar purchases were made by the
Dutch Shell Company, which set aside GER
tain percentage of the purchase price to pay
the original owners of the oil wells The
Standard and Vacuum were invited to join in
the arrangement but refused, and these ac-
tons brought with the view of forcing
them to make similar provisions :.
THE present cases rest on the technical
ground that Russia is not recognized by the
government of the United States and that
our courts give effect TO its DEGREES.
'If and when government will recog-
nize Soviet Russia there will no longer be any
basis for these actions.
1T might he argued that the present ac-
lions will serve stimulus to the powerful
oil interests of America to urge early Soviet
recognition but that would smack of hypocrisy
and prefer to rest on the simple ground that
the actions are of political significance;
that they ordinary cases involving disputes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07
&4a;~.A-
Refer 1t to Senator Snoot
BY JORGE

Dear Jorge:-I notice that the first item IN
Prexy Hoover's 2O-year plan, is an increase Of
100000 in population
Nov, this is a figure larger than the ordinary
rate of increase would justify. Therefore, am
wondering just what means the Great Engineer
has in mind for the production of the extra crop
of babies.
Perhaps he plans to create rugged iradividu-
alsm shock brigades just as the Five Year Plan
mas It's socialist shock brigades. But I'm afraid
that IN our prudish nation, these would indeed
be shock brigades Please en1ighten mel. F."
Firstly 1t is lese majestic to ask what the Great
Engineer meant. Secondly, we refer YOU to Gas
ton B. Means book, THE Strange Death of
PRESIDENT Harding" as the capacity of latter
day presidents as well as latter-day saints to be-
come fathers of their country Thirdly. we re-
mind you that America is becoming the nrinci-
pal nation of Catholicism, where priests can
move about more freely even than in the shod
ow of the Vatican
What more do you want7
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07
A Rat Saueaks

Perhaps our fellow traveller Theodore roreiser
is taking note of the avalanche of hostile com
ment that has been raining around his mama
IN the capitalist press since he dared to sneak
up for the mine strikers and against the coal
operators and their A. F. of L. strike breakers.
The first time he opened his mouth through
the United Press, in the miners behalf the Uni
ted Press put an Introductory note over his ar
tcle expressing emphatic disagreement with
wWhat he said
Then F.P.A., the columnist of the Herald
Tribune of the N. Y suddenly came to life with
the discovery" that Dresser isn't and never was
good writer. The N. Y. Times picks him out
for editorial comment cleverly designed not to
say anything very hostile about him, but to infer
that he is a sort of foolish generally
But the most despicable sort of attack was
gotten out on July l, by the fake socialist"
Haywood Broun a "lumpen bourgeois" picked in
gin, who writes a drive column for the N Y
World Telegram
The historical forces which are driving all
honest intellectualS into active sympathy with
the revolutionary masses who must revolt or die
leaves Broun untouched And for the good rea-
son that he is neither intellectual nor honest
But it has touched Dresser and it is to his credit
that he responds, unclearly at yet it may be-
but genuinely and with complete honesty
Broun, the Socialist aping his betters
throws mud at this honesty Content to be
clown of the rich himself, he hates those sin
cere enough of his class who repudiate such
knee-bending. He wrthed in silence when
Dresser spoke up against the Scottsboro lega,
lynching, himself white chauvinist admittedly
He hates Dresser more for openly stating that
W. M, uyoir
champions the only cure for human misery.
But when Dresser broke into the United Press
with a passionate plea for the miners striking
against starvation and a vitriolic condemnation
of the A. F. of L.. Broun the socialist" had to
say something nasty
So he analysed" Dreiser's literary ability The
result Broun's opinion that people of discern
ment refuse to recognize Dresser as one of our
great writers" And from this ridiculous prem
Use Broun make the charge that:
an his Dreiser's) effort to keep himself
before the public he has done little more than
make himself ridiculous. In taking up the
cudgeIs for the downtrodden, he has fallen
into that class known as parlor Bolsheviks,"
and so on.
So this socialist" rat in the garbage can Of
is one thing and the "downtrodden" another.
Also that Dresser has lost his ability to write,
questionable in the first place, because he has
taken up cudgels for the downtrodden." Very
nice comment for socialist to make!
But our opinion born out by history is that
if Dreser's writing ability ever did slacken IL
will be reborn by his mixing up with the vital
force of the class struggle. Any writer who
has been in touch with the revolutionary move
ment and then deserted it has lost his ability.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07

DEMONSTRATE AUGUST IL
Workers Republic Melons police miners
funds
Funds be turned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-07

Comrade DUNES article was written before
July 9Th but its publication was delayed several
days after it was received due to space diff
culties' For the same reason it has also been
necessary to publish Comrade DUNES article
in two instruments. The second instalment will
appear tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
NORMAL
AS CHILD SAY
FRIENDS
Acquaintance of Dead Mother
Calls Captive "a bright
and LoVabIe Baby"

Charges that little Edith
Riley always has been mem
tally defective continue to
bring forth indignant denials
from those who knew the un-
fortunate little girl before she
was turned over by the Dis
trict courts to her father and
stepmother, Harry and Elsie
Riley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph C. Mason,
2101 Third st. N. E., with whom
the father, Harry Riley, made his
home until the time Of his first
marriage, say. they knew Edith
well up to the time Of her sepera-
ton from her grandmother, Mrs.
Annadale, and that she was al
ways an unusually bright and
lovable baby.
Knew ChiId'S Mother
The MaSons met the first Mrs.
Riley, the dead mother Of little
Edith, shortly after her elope-
ment with Riley, then a boarder
in the Mason home. They be-
came greatly attached to the
young woman and after her death
continued a warm feeling of re-
gard for her children. Especially,
says Mrs. Mason, for the little
one whose birth had cost the
mother her life.
Says Mrs. Mason:
81 saw little Edith at her
grandmOther'S house an aver
age Of three or four times q
month. She was a darling
baby. And Riley repeatedly
said to me that the grand
mother could not be more de.
voted If she had been the
baby'S mother.
Child Snatched Away
Edith called her mama /
can never forget that day in
court when she was ordered
turned over to her father. Riley
and the Step-mOther walked up
to Mrs. Annadale and snatched
the child from her arms with
out so much as q thank YOU
for all the loving care she had
ShOwered ON the baby.
"The little one was frightened
and screamed mama and held
out her little arms. She was
still screaming as her father
bore her away. Cries 1 can
never forget. They ring in my
ears still. I haven't seen her
since she was sent to GaIlinger.
Somehow I haven't the heart.
I remember her too well .
plump and rosy infant anyone
mother might be proud to call
her own"
The Washington times., 1931-11-13

the bathroom at the very top
Of the house, but 1 never had
hot water.
"The cold baths made me i'll
once but I was not allowed q
doctor.
Edith's Room Rented
Edith was supposed to have
a room ON the second floor,
but after the first four years
our step-mother let the room,
and we did not know where
Edith slept.
We supposed she slept in our
stepmOthe room where there
were two single beds. But I
found out that was not true
when 1 had been allowed to
have q bath one night, and it
was fairly late. There were no
lights upstairs, so I went to my
StepmOther'S room for q candle.
I saw her in one bed and her
own son, Billy, in the other.
Edith was nowhere to be
seen, and there was nowhere
else for her to sleep. I found
out later that she was in the
closet off our stepmother's bed
room. She had no bed. I had
a made.up bed in the dining
room downstairs. 1t was terri
bly, cold in the winter and I
used to lie awake because we
rarely had enough to eat.
1--WE were never very clean.
1t got to worry me because my
skin was in such a state. was
twenty and had less liberty
than a five-year-Old child.
. II could remember my little
sister as a healthy, normal child
when I saw her blinking in that
dark cupboard, smaller than
she had been at four years old,
and with her legs too feeble to
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
LOUISE GRAVES
NEW DANCE
PUMPS
Little Edith RiIey'S Big SIS
ter, Trouble Over, Now
Would Enjoy Self

Never in her 20 years has
Louise Riley, sister of little
Edith Riley and one Of the
chief witnesses against the
stepmother, Elsie Riley, owned
a pair of dancing slippers.
Louise, now with her uncle
Malcolm Annadale, is an unusu-
ally pretty girl. She has a girls
natural longing for good times
and pertty clothes.
One of the first things she
is gong to buy when everything
is all right" is this pair Of party
slippers for which she has longed.
She is working now and her Uncle
Malcolm is inclined to be very
tender-hearted with his dead sis
ter's children.
She'll buy the party slippers
and then maybe she will go to
her first dance. Says Louise:
"Of course 1 don't know how
to dance but l guess l can
learn. 1t will be wonderful
having q real party dress and
going to a real party"
Incidentally Louise at 20 has
never had a beau. But that
doesn't seem to worry her. That,
too, can be arrange when
Everything is all right"
The Washington times., 1931-11-13

bear her, I thought my heart
would break.
81 have never been able to
guess why our step-mOther did
all these thi. IS, unless for spite.
She never knew our own
mother, but / have heard her
call her bad names. Once
stood up for her over it but she
only shouted at me. She never
cared what language she used.
Before we went to her, Edith
was a normal child. / remem-
ber her perfectly then. The
fact that she is out of her mind
Before Harry Riley's second
marriage, his three children were
happy and we'll, living with their
grandmother, Mrs. Annad dale
(their mothers mother), and
their two maternal aunts, Louise
Riley said. They lived in this
way for the first four years OF
Edith'S life, and then the second
Mrs. Riley went to court for the
custody Of the children and won
them against the grandmother's
anxious pleading.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
Stepnother Forced Her to Help Beat
Brother, Says Riley Girl

Continued From First Pdge)
this last year che got in q
towering rage and threatened
to beat the life out Of him. She
told me to hold him while she
did it. was afraid Of her,
but I said, T'll never do that
to my brother But she threat
ened to beat me, too, : mo- 1 was
terrified. 1 am not strong and
she was very violent. In the
end I had to ID as she told me.
I'VE never told any Of our
relations because we were
never allowed to see them.
From the time my father mar
ried her, no one came to the
house.
Not Allowed to Go Out
"We were never allowed out
Of the house except to 90 to
school, and If we were not
home within :, quarter Of an
hour after school ended, there
was trouble.
1--WE had no one to tell, and
we were afraid what they
might do to us.
"Once or twice I spoke to
my father about Edith, but he
never said anything more than
shut up He has lost all his
spirit since he married her. He
is just about as afraid of her
as we are, and he hardly ever
speaks. He never had any
affection for Edith or me. The
only one he took any notice
of was Francis.
81 never knew where Edith
was locked up, because 1 was
not allowed to go up to the
second floor where the bath.
room was. I was always made
to use the lavat0ry i'm the cellar
and to wash in the kitchen.
Occasionally she let me 60 to
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
Rep. Holiday Talk
To Dedicate School
MRS. BEAVERS

Representative William P. Hol-
aday, of Illinois, chairman of the
House Committee on Appropri-
ations, will deliver the dedicatory
address at the Crosby S. Noyes
School tonight.
DR.. Frank W. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools, and Henry
Gilligan, member of the District
board of education, will also
speak.
The feature Of the exercises
will be the presentation of a
picture of Crosby Noyes by New
bold Noyes to Miss Margaret Pep
per, principal of the Brookland-
Noyes schools.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
Drought Is Topic
Of BiOLOgu GrOuu

The effect Of the drought upon
plant and animal life will be dis
cussed at a meeting of the Bio
logical Society of Washington at
the Cosmos Club tomorrow eve
ming.
The various angles of the sub
ject will be explained by M. B.
Waite, U. s. Bureau of Plant In
duStry; c. r. Lucas, U. s. Bureau
Of Fisheries; w. B. Bell, U. S. Bio
logical Survey; James A. Hyslop,
Bureau Of Entomology. and M. K.
Brady,
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
Former Chaplain
To Tell of HOIy Land

Capt. Frank M. Wells, of Little
Rock, Ark, former Army chap
lain, who spent three months in
Jerusalem, has arrived in Washing
ton to deliver his lecture "Jeru-
salem Under the Turks
His first talk is to be given at
the Wilson Memorial Methodist
Church in the near future. Cap
tain Wells has lectured on this
topic 1898 times.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
CH|LD'S PLIGHT
GRIPS HEART
Of NATION
Dolls, Gifts of Cash, and Toys
Make Ward at Hospital
Into a FairyIand

How a little child's suffering
has aroused the feeling of the
entire nation was revealed
today by the scores of letters
and gifts which poured into
Gallinger Hospital here from
all over the country for Edith
Riley, 13-year-old alleged VIC
tim of four years torture at
the hands of a cruel step
mother.
Told through the medium Of
the press all the pitiful details OF
the child's alleged Imprisonment
in o dark. foul closet and other
alleged tortureS inflicted on her,
mothers, fathers, young married
couples and even children have
written sympathetic letters, sent
money, gifts and offers Of a
home.
Mental Tests to Wait
The emaciated little girl was
improving fast under the care Of
physicians at Gallinger Hospital,
but officials decided to defer any
thorough mental examination
until later. They declared such
an examination would offer more
productive results when the child
phaS received the benefits Of some
weeks Of care and her mind has
beer given a chance to adjust it.
self in the direction Of normalcy.
Action Of the grand jury will
not await results of mental tests,
however, and was expected today.
From st. Paul, Minnesota, carae
q large doll: from Watertown,
Conn, came the offer Of home;
from New York came q baby
carriage and money. From
scores Of other places came mes
psages of hope and announcement.
Little Mary Kilian, "a 286 Day.
ton Ave-, st. Paul, who sent the
doll, wrote:
Dear Edith: Just q line to
say am praying for the re-
turn Of good health for you.
Love and kisses from . little
girl friend"
Two little girls from Jersey
City, Audrey Brophy, 473 Bergen
Ave., and Anna Kerry, 471 Ber.
gen Ave-, each wrote notes Of
encouragement and promises Of
friendship.
Doris Dawley, Of Guernseytown
Road, Watertown, offered to
share her home with Edith. She
wrote:
'My dear little friend: Daddy
and Mummie have told me all
about you and it made me cry.
How you m uSt have been
brOken.hearted all the time. I
wish you would come and stay
with me. Daddy and Mummie
said you could. We could play
together"
Ward Becomes Fairyland
A young married couple from
eSteubenville, Ohio, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Nogy, sent Christmas cards
and notes Of sympathy.
Ena Wilma, Of New York City,
sent her own baby carriage. An
unsigned letter from a New York
father contained two dollars.
Gifts poured in until the tiny
ward became a virtual fairyland.
A beautiful song-bird, sent by a
Washington woman, added its
twittering to the joyous atmos-
phere.
, Among the many gifts received
today was a large harmonica. The
child'S request for such a musical
instrument was complied with by
Alfred T. Marks, manager of the
Washington bureau Of the Music
Trades Of America, who received
the harmonica from the manu-
facturer, M. Hohner, Inc, of New
York.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
Virginia Bridge Plan
GiUen y. s. Approval
MISS WEAKLEY

Application by the Virginia
department of highways for ap-
proval of plans of a bridge to be
constructed across the Black
water River at Franklin, Va, has
been Endorsed by Col. Frederick
H, Payne, Assistant Secretary Of
War.
The span is to replace one that
is in bad repair.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued
at Rockville to Emmett L. Flood.
80, of North Post, Mich, and
Mary w. Burch, Is, of Alexan-
dria; Tillman E. Grimes, 81, Of
East Falls Church, Va, and Ethel
Liggen, %, of Alexandria, and
William c. Hoch, 80, and Flora
Crandell, 25, both Of Washing
ton,
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
d. C.. "BT Board
To Sponsor Guides

The District Bicentennial Com
mission is to sponsor an official
guide service for the benefit Of
tourists attracted to the National
Capital in 1882 to participate in
the program observing the ami
versary of WaShington'S birth.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
$25;000 FOR FALL RIVER

An allotment of $25, 900 for the
Improvement Of Fall River Harbor,
Mass, has been approved by AS
sistant Secretary of War F. Trubee
Dawson.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
KILLS 114 GROUNDH0GS

FROSTBURG, Md, Nov. 13.-
Harry Dishong, Ormand Street.
probably holds the record in this
territory for killing groundhogs.
In 80 days he bagged ia, an aver
age Of four or five on each hunt
in Garrett county.
The Washington times., 1931-11-13
POLICE AUTO BURNS

Fire partially destroyed a Wash
ington police automobile near
Quantico, Va, late yesterday.
Two Washington detectives were
returning to the city with three
prisoners.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-24
WAGES

There seems to be a general agree
ment that maladjustment in distribu-
tion was major cause of the present
business depression. Two main con-
ditions producing this result are in
adequate knowledge of markets and
inadequate financing of possible GUS
toners.
The first deficiency can be removed
by governmental statistical agencies
and by co-ordinated fact finding by
organized industries. The second can
be removed only by increasing wage
earners' incomes. All wage earners
must have an opportunity to earn a
living, and there must be no lowering
of standards. Wage earners consti-
tue 80 per cent of the buyers in the
retail market. The retail market must
sustain production. This is why wage
cuts disturb the foundation stones
that sustain our economic structure.
Wages constitute only one element
in production. A wage cut after it
is discounted by lowering morale,
makes possible such a small redue.
ton in prices that the gain is com
pletely wiped out by reduced buying
power in retail markets.
The problem of overcoming market
difficulty can be better solved by bet
ter sales methods, finding and elimi-
mating waste in production, more eco
nomical buying, careful checking up
on overhead costs.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-07-24
LABOR SAVING GOES ON, BUT HOW
ABOUT ALSO SAVING THE LABORER? !?

In 1929
less work than in the peak
year of
Meanwhile population
of those
in agric hadde
Had there been no depression
problem the
tude
nd nothing done
Meanwhile
the making of textiles shoes and
radios looking labor industry
making their contribution these ia
bor-saving" improvements.
Increasing the number of tractors and combines and
orn-and-ca cutting machines
power being eliminated from the cattle
wheat hog cotton andg ginning processes
crowdng resulted drift
upon farmers that they
back a little farm-"where they at least can eat
Contributing the
the efficiency engineers the
motions and the OF the human
hands to the o the machine
applied in COOL engineering fashion,
qualified of the
worker job industrial and economic asset
right And sensible wants stop that
But looking after the saving of the laborer?
Four steel plants shut down and
steel Gary nd account of
of making sheet STEEL
the folks those other
fourt towns7
new process Grard Ohio has
the bloom in the pudding of wrought
iron this 100 produce
formerly required 1000 This has reduced the
of in 500 thus far
reductions unless the management secure
contracts to place of Bessemer steel
from the pudde but the Beem process
market years
Now back by this of cheaper
production itwilb the puddlers activity
displaced and steel workers in
case?