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Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-01
Auto Racing

4
National League Pitching Leader
Fred Fitzsimons New York;.
Billiards
1871 Balkline-Welker Cochran.
1872 Balkline-Jake Schaefer.
Pocket Billiards-Erwin Rudolph
Three Cushion-Johnny Layton.
Bowling
All-Events - George Morrison,
Chicago (AB.C0.
Doubles-J. Divine and G.. Heup,
Detroit (A.BC).
Singles-L. Shotwell, Covington,
KY. (A.B.C).
Team-D. Graft and Sons, Kala-
mazoo, Mich. (A.B.CD.
Boxing
Heavyweight - Max Schmeling
Germany.
Light Heavyweight-Max Rosen-
bloom.
Middleweight-Mickey Walker.
Welterweight-Tommy Freeman.
Lightweight-Tony Canzoneri.
Junior Lightweight-Benny Bass.
Featherweight-Bat Battalino.
Bantamweight-Al Brown.
Flyweight-Midget Wolgast.
Football
National-Notre Dame.
East-Colgate. Army, Dartmouth,
Fordham, Western Maryland, Pitts
burgh.
South-Alabama, Tulane.
Middlewest Michigan, Mar
quette, Michigan State, Northwest
ern.
SOuthweSt-TeXaS.
Rocky Mountain-Utah.
Pacific Coast-Washington State.
ProfeSsional-Green Bay Packers.
Golf
British Amateur-Bobby Jones.
British Open-Bobby Jones.
British Womens-Diana Fishwick
England.
U. S. Amateur-Bobby Jones.
U. S. Open-Bobby Jones.
U. S. Professional Golgers' Asso-
ciation-TOmnly Armour.
.. S. Women's-Glenna Collett.
Hockey
Stanley Cup-Montreal Les Can
oa4SAio NWOl AZ
Polo
Westchester Cup-United States
(world championS.
Rowing
Intercollegiate-Cornell.
Swimming
U. S. Men's-Clarence Crabbe,
George Kojac.
U. S. Women's-Helene Madison,
Eleanor Holm, Georgia Coleman.
Tennis
British Mems Doubles-Wilmer
Allison and John Van Ryn.
British Mems Singles-William T.
Tilden.
British Women's Doubles-Helen
Wills Moody and Elizabeth Cross.
British Women's Singles-Helen
Wills Moody.
Davis Cup-France (world cham
pions).
U. S. Mems Doubles-John Doeg
and Gerrge Lott.
U. S. Professional SingleSVin-
cent Richards.
U. S. Women's Doubles-Sarah
Palfrey (U. s. and Betty Nuthall
(England.
U. S. Women's Singles-Betty
England.
TrapshOoting
Grand American Handicap-Ru-
fus King, Jr.
Track and Field
l00-Yard Dash-Wykoff, South
ern California.
220-Yard Dash-Simpson, Ohio
State.
440-Yard Dash-Bowen, Pitts
burgh.
800-Yard Run-Martin, Purdue.
One Mile Run-Sivak, Butler.
Two Mile Run-Manning, Wichi-
to.
High Hurdles-Anderson, Wash
ington.
Low Hurdles--Sentman, Illinois.
High Jump-Stewart, Southern
California.
Broad Jump-Gordon, Iowa.
Pole Vault--Warne, Northwest
ern.
Discus-Jessup, Washington.
Shot Put-Rothert, Stanford.
Hammer-Campbell, Michigan.
Javelin-Churchill, California.
Womens Sprint Champion -
Stella Walsh.
Turf
Two-Year-Old Champion-Equi-
poise.
Three-Year-Old Champion-Gal-
liant Fox.
Leading Winning Jockey-H. r.
Riley.
Leading Trainer-Jim Fitzsim-
mons.
Wrestling
Heavyweight-Jim Londos. Don
George.
Yachting
America Cup-Enterprise (world
LAME NOW EMPHASIZED
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
international Women's Day
of food.


Millions of in industry in the United States
working for FOUR five and eight dollars per week. They
working tasks that sap their strengths break down the
delicate inner organs make them old before they
forty. Millions of working in factories, in
sanitary conditions, without light air and inhang all
sorts of poisonous fumes from dyes chemicals and
materials lint, etc.
The workers unOrganized and therefore help
less They driven to accept tn worst conditions and the
lowest wages out of the fear of unemployment
ger of their children.
Today ten millions out of work in the u. S. A. and
those and who still the job forced
to accept wage cut after the other The speedup gets
Those that can't keep with the pace
thrown out to face the misery of unemployment flop
houses and bread lines The business the country
have only method of increasing their profits and u.s.
by throwing workers out the street and by speeding
and cutting the wages of those that remain The Negro
workers. men and exploited to greater
degree.
On March s, International Womens Day, greet the
militant striking dressmakers of New York City and Pha
delphia. These strikers, and putting up
an heroic struggle against outrageous conditions speedp
and low In Lawrence ten thousand textile workers
the majority, wOmenare out strike against the
terrible conditions of works the efficiency methods of
speed-up long hours and starvation wages.
The working women Of the country should stand these
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
My Life

l never had any shoes in the
summer and only one pair in
the winter which they called
brogues. So I was helping the
lady work.
She had a piece of goods
hanging on the bush. It was
faded out In spots and it was
almost rotten, but but did not
ask the lady for it. / took Il
and hid it in the grass until
/ got ready to go home. When
she gave me the old shoes and
clothes for working two days
they were so rotten they
almost fell off me- = / went
out and got the piece of goods
and put it with the rest. l
did not know the lady saw me
until my mother had made
me a little shabby dress out
Of it. One day after l had
gone to school, as mother
passed this lady's house she
called to mother and told her
about what I did Mother told
her that she had made a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Domestic Workers Too
Must Organize and Fight

you waiting with empty promises
day after day, and weeks after
week.
If you stop a minute for rest
tie madam calls you, and be speedy
otherwise you get hell. The
wages Tor domestic workers are
cheap. Houseworkers get $50 to
$50 per month; couples get $125
to $40; chambermaids and watt.
resses get $50 to $75 month. The
families who four girls before
now take couples who must do four
peoples work, and show some hus-
tie. Employment agencies and the
bosses are now cutting the wages.
Soon we workers will have to live
on air.
Comradesl We must join to-
gether with the other workers. Let
us show the capitalists that we
are not any more know nothings"
for we are beginning to learn
whole lot. We will use our knowl-
edge in our own interest. Let us
build the Trade Union Unity Lea.
que and join the Communist Party.
The workers must understand
that only by organizing will we be
able to fight against the rotten
capitalist system. Let us build .
union Of domestic workers to de-
fend our interests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02

thousands of brave strikers in class solidarity on March
and pledge to support them in their struggles.
On International WOmens Day. call upon the working
women of the United States to unite their forces
against the speedup against the reduction of wages and
for better conditions in the shops We call upon working
women to support the tens of thousands of militant strikers
to fight together with the unemployed for the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill We call upon the work.
to fight against child labor Fight against imperiast
defend the Soviet Union where unemployment has been
abolished where there is special protection women
working women Of the United States-Negro, white and
foreign born join the demonstration in your city, come to
the halls where meetings being held March and show
solidarity with the working class of the United States
and of the whole world : &
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
The story thus far:

The Negro working woman
who writes this story was
born in Pendergrass, Jackson
County, Georgia. She had six
brothers and sisters, and her
father was a poor Negro
worker. When she was ten
years old her father became
a share cr0pper and they
moved tc a plantation. There
the children were put to work
- missing most of their
school. In the fall they stood
knee deep in water for four
weeks, cutting willows in the
swamps. Now continue read
ing:
Mother always used to say
that we girls ought not to
have to stand in water like
that, for some day it would be
injurious to us. But the boss
said it had to be done and we
had to do it. Myssister died
very young and | am in very
poors health now, and / am
not an old woman.
When the crop was made
we had to stay out of school
at least two weeks and help
mother in her work to get us
some secondhand clothes be-
fore we could enter school
again.
That same year I tried to
steal, but / was caught, and
it had a big effect on me at
the age of eleven years. My
mother put me out to helping
a white lady, cleaning up and
sweeping yards, so / could
help get myself some clothes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
By a Negro
Working Woman

dress out of the goods. The
lady said that would have to
come back and work another
day and pay for it, or she
would have me arrested. That
night my mother gave me a
whipping. l never had one
like It before, and / can never
forget it. The next day / had
to stay out of school a7sd T
i cd to work for that lady.
She worked me very hard, so
much harder than she had
before.
!: The next day l: went back
to school saying in my heart
that if I got naked and hum
CRY / would never steal any
more. Since then / have been
hungry many times. But so
well was / taught the lesson
of respect for the bosses
property by a boss when I
was still a child, that 1 could
never make up my mind to
steal again.
-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION

The facts brought out the trial of the traitors lead
ers of the Industrial Party eactionary AntiSOve Or
ganzation) in Moscow established definitely that all the
capitalist of the world are preparing to launch
war on the only workers government the Soviet Union
during this year.
The CAPITALIST governments, including the government
of the Wall ST. bankers are mObizing for war We can
already hear the beat of the drums The population
is being prepared for through all channels The press
church, movies all institutions of the capitalists are chant
ing the CRY OF WAR. The need of preparedness, the
sending of the delegation of War Mothers to Europe and
discriminating against the Negro Mothers the drive against
the foreign born attacks revolutionary workers, In
creased ynchngs are all part of u bosses prepare
tiOns.
The Fish committee investigation is used to mobilize
sentiment for war against the Soviet Union to poison the
minds of the American workers against the Communist
International and its American section the Communist
Party of the United States. The aim of the Fish CON-
mtee to outlaw the CP. Of USA is to make the Ameri-
can workers IeaderIess and helpless in their daily srug
giles in the shops and factories and the Unemployed
The Fish committee has the support and the endorse
men of all the outstanding patriotic womens organizations
including the treacherous Womens Trade Union League
anpendx of the fascist American Federation of Labor All
of the leaders in these organizations the gentle soul Rose
Shneiderman are frothng the mouth in their eager
ness to dscred the revolutionary workers and the only
land where workers rule These angels of peace are
schemng with the representatives Of war how
best to hide the real of preparations from the
masses of women.
Toward this end all sorts of fake Peace conferences
are held seeming differences among the groups of reac
tionary and socaed progressive wOmens organizations
are staged in order fool the in the u S. that
peace is possible under capitalism and to hide the everish
war preparations of the u S. Government.
Negro and white working women, wives of workers!
Rank and file members of the Women's Trade Union
League Young Women's Christian Association womens
organizations, Repudiate the stand of your officers your
betrayers and isleaders Take YOUR place with the repre-
entatives of your class; the WORKING CLASS. Fight
your treacherous Officials who scheming to bring
about war Against the Soviet uiien Kick them put Orr
ganze to- defend the Soviet Unoh the only country that
has really freed the from the bosses and the
stiton of church-a free and equal worker in building
socialism the Soviet Union Rally to the support and
join the Communist Party demand all war funds for the
unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
(By Worker Correspondent

The domestic workers conditions
in New York are very bad. There
will be more unemployed domestic
workers tramping the streets this
winter than ever before. Employ
ment agencies are packed with
workers looking for jobs but with
out success. If you ask for work,
they answer, "you just wait till
we get you a job" so they keep
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Fearful and Wonderful,
These Colonial Dishes

The good old days. of our Colonial
ancestors had many culinary high
points, the contemplation of which
leaves the modern American gasping.
Even the simple meal-time beverages
were given twists and turns that
threw them out of all semblance to the
cocoa, tea and coffee which today'S
housewife prepares with such perfec-
ton.
Chocolate drinks, now among the
most popular Of all soda fountain bev-
erages, Jared the worst at the hands
of the Colonial dame, Her favorite
variation of this delicious wholesome
drink was to put several links of sauS-
age into a kettle of chocolate and
then boil it. Honored guests were
which bits of sausage floated This
bit of refreshment was eaten with a
spoon.
incidentally the cocoa and chocolate
industry got its impetus soon after the
Boston tea party. Up until that time
hot chocolate had been served only on
state occasions.
Our forefathers and foremothers,
too, were particularly addicted to boil
ing tea In an iron kettle, draining off
the liquid and serving the remaining
herbs" buttered, under the guise of a
vegetable. The remaining "tea wa
ter" as 1t was called, was then con.
sumed without milk or sugar, simply
to help wash down the greens" Ugh !!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Fanatical Moslems in
Frenzy of Self Torture

Beating their breasts, scourging
their backs with chains and cutting
their sealps with sword blows, crowds
of the Shah sect of Moslems in Basra
and other cities keep alive the mem
DRY of a great tragedy.
Fourteen hundred years ago, In a
battle on the plains of the Euphrates
grandson of the Prophet Mahomet
were exterminated.
Year after year the defeat is pub
licly mourned. Loud chanting is heard.
punctuated by the rhythmic beating of
their breasts by parties of - or 20
men, stripped to the waist, who sur
round their leaders.
The grief symbolized by the breast
beaters is repeated by the chain beat
ers. These ascetics lash themselves
with kind of cat-o'-nine- made
Of chains.
In the holy cities, during the first
nine days of the month of Moharram
the swordsmen parade the streets and
work themselves up to the climax or
the tenth day.
They form up in huge circles, chant
Ing and shouting their formula OF
grief for the dead Hussain. Each cir
Gle moves round in quickening rhythm
until with delirious shout the leader
brings his sword down on his own
head. That is the signal for all tc
follow his example.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
LITHOCRAPHERS
HIT BY MACHINE

New York. - "Labor-saving ma
chimes and new methods have perma-
nently reduced the opportunity of
steady employment for large per-
centage of hand transformers and
litho stone engravers," declared Rob-
ert Bruck, first vice president of the
Amalgamated Lithographers of Amer
lea. eve should give most serious
attention to prevention of new ap-
prentices in both branches.
''The worker today is more con-
cerned with assurance of steady en-
ployment at wage allowing him
good standard of living than all the
social legislation that has been pro-
posed.
at is true we are interested in old
age pensions and other necessary
benefits, but steady employment will
always be the goal of the workman.
1t is possible and will be realized
whenever apprenticeship ration is
properly adjusted, hours of labor re-
duced and ruinous price cutting prac-
tices eliminated"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
MAN HELD IN SHOOTING
OF 3 UNION OFFICIALS

Washington. - Tom Connors, 81
years of age, is reported to have been
identified as the man who fired fu-
silade of shots at three officials of
the International Union Of Operating
Engineers in a restaurant here on
May 21. Connors was arrested in
Berwyn, ILL.,, suburb of Chicago.
One of the shots hit Frank Lang
don, associate editor of the unions
journal. Langdon lost one eye as a
result of the shot Arthur M. Huddell,
president of the union, was saved when
bullet lodged in a pocketbook in his
vest, but died several days later from
heart attack. Before his death, Hud-
cell attributed the shooting to his at
tempts ito eliminate racketeering in
our union"
Connors was arrested at the in
stance of the United States Depart
nent of Justice.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Colonial Mail

The following is from Elson's His
tory of the United States; "The mail
was carried By postriders, who fol-
lowed the main roads as far as there
were any; on reaching the roadless
settlements they found their way
through the forest as best they could
by the trails and bride paths. The
postman left city, not at regular in
tervals, but only when he received
enough mail to pay the enpenses of
the trip. The remote settlements were
fortunate if they received mail once a
month. Benjamin Franklin was ap-
pointed postmaster general in 1853,
and he served about 90 years. He
soon made the service paying one to
the crown. Yet even then the amount
of mail delivered in the whole country
in year was less than that now de-
livered in the city Of New York in one
day."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events Of the
Week, Here and Abroad

An influx of unemployed persons is
feared by the South this winter and
efforts are under way to discourage
the influx into Florida, at least, ac-
cording to reports received by the
department of commerce.
New styles in women's felt hats
for fall and winter are reported
bringing a rush of business to hat
factories in Danbury, Conn.
Approval of the five-day working
week was voted by the annual con-
vention of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary of Yeshiva Col
lege, meeting in New York city re-
Gently.
| A strike of Havana street car work
ers is continuing, negotiations for a
settlement of the dispute having
failed at meeting held August IL.
Henry Ford has announced a vir-
tually complete shutdown Of all Ford
Motor Company plants, throwing
fo,ooO men OUT OIL WOTK IOf all 1n-
definite period
| Call has been issued for the 47th
annual convention of the Trades and
| Labor Congress of Canada, to be held
in Vancouver beginning September
9th.
A Labor Day celebration in which
100000 persons will participate is
planned by the Chicago Federation of
| Labor, a feature to be a parade with
| 100000 trade unionists in line.
Opposition to the railroads pro-
posals for Is per cent increase in
existing freight rates was voiced re-
Gently before the interstate commerce
commission by law committe rep
resenting regulatory commissions of
six Western states, by the National
Grange in behalf of 100000 farmer
members and by the Associated In
dustries, Inc, of New York.
About 100000 homes in the
United States, one-third of the total
in the country, are equipped with
radio sets, according to calculations
of the census bureau.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
CLOTHING DOLLAR
HIGH POWERED

Washington, D. c. (ILNS)-The
purchasing power of the clothing dol
lar now has reached the highest point
in 10 years in an index constructed
by the Y. S. department of labor.
The dollar expended for apparel is
worth $1.97 in terms of the 1920
dollar. To put it in another fashion,
one can now buy for 81 cents the
same amount of clothing that cost 81
in 1920.
1t was in 1920 that clothing prices
touched the record high of all time.
Prices Of food and of all other neces-
sites except rent also peaked in
that year. Rent waited until 1924 to
reach its top"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
M0lders' Vice President
Dies Following Operation


indianapolis, Ind (ILNS)-Eduard
c. Alden, Boston, Mass, vice presi.
dent of the international Molders
Union, died at st. Vincent Hospital
where he was taken when he arrived
in indianapolis from Bloomington
Ind, two days before. He was suffer
ing from an acute attack of gall blad-
der trouble and was sent to the hos
pital for an emergency operation for
gallstones. Mr.. Alden had been max
ing tour of the Middle West in be-
half of the union when he was
suddenly stricken in meeting at
Bloomington. The body was taken to
Boston for burial.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
PAINTERS PAID
BELOW SCALE

Washington, D. C. GLNS)-Paint-
ers now at work on the new internal
revenue building here are receiving
So day, SO below the union scale of
81 a day. Apparently the federal
government approves So day as the
prevailing scale, though it means
wage cut for union painters. Pre-
vention of wage cuts was sought in
the law passed by the last congress
providing for the paying of the pre-
vailing wage on government work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
Buzzard Attacks Plane

Various observations have been
made on the behavior OF birds when
encountering airplanes, and not the
least interesting OF these is sent by
Mr.. G. Abbey, Norton Manor gardens,
Sutton Scotney, TO Bird Notes and
News: During the late autumn of
1880 the common buzzard was seen
about here many times. One day a
bombing airplane came over and was
at once attacked by buzzard. The
bird flew over, under, in front, and at
every angle; just kept clear; returned
to the attack, and finally made off, and
was out of sight In half minute. The
eagle-like size made 1t appear at first
to be Moth airplane attacking the
giant bomber. London Mail.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21

The Alliance Construction Com
pany of New York is the contractor
on the internal revenue building
painting job. twenty-five non-union
painters We're brought to Washing
ton by the New York concern and
other men have been hired here.
1t is said only skilled painters are
receiving the So daily wage. Others
get 81 or less, while laborers are
paid $4
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21
GERMAN JOBLESS
INCREASE

Berlin, Germany.-The number of
unemployed workers in Germany in
creased by about 100000 in the 12
months ending May 81, according to
report made by William E. Beitz,
United States consul here.
The employment exchanges report
a total of 100000 out-of-works. Of
this number, 2,508,000, or only 61 per
cent of the total number of unem-
ployed, are drawing some form of un-
employment insurance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21

$1,000 to $4,000 annually, 10 PEI
cent; from $4,000 to $4,000 annually
1914 per .ent; more than $4,000 an
nually, Is per cent. Wage earners
are not affected by the cut. The last
salary cut was made in 1921, when a
reduction of about 20 per cent was
made.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-08-21

The spirit of liberty is not merely
as some people imagine, jealousy
of our own particular rights, but a
respect for the rights of others, and
an unwillingness that any man,
whether high or low, should be
wronged and trampled under foot
Doctor Charming.