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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
"Mother's Day" Bunk Spread
To Cover Hunger and Deaths

up to the moment Of child birth have
far less chance of having healthy
babies than other women, and the
numbe of still births is greater
among factory workers than among
women who can stay at home during
the last weeks of pregnancy. Yet the
number of mothers who must go out
to work with no protection for the
months before and after child birth
is steadily increasing in the United
States. In Philadelphia the percent
age has increased from IA percent in
1918-19 to 81 percent in 1928
Boss Class Profits from Slushy
Sentiment.
In the face of these facts about
motherhood in the United States
what does the boss class do? Urge
maternity benefits for the protection
of working mothers? Social insurance
against unemployment and against
illness? Of course not. Only in the
Soviet Union is such protection estab-
lished.
The boss class in every capitalist
country wants profits and more pro-
fits. So few years ago some clever
advertiser for the capitalists invented
Mothers Day." Cash in on the sent
mental appeal of Mother. Make
Mothers Day a second Christmas for
buying surplus goods. Capitalize
child birth and make it profitable for
the ruling, owning class.
But the workers answer: demand
social insurance so that mothers may
have constant care and supervision
during the illness of pregnancy and
child birth. We demand leave of
absence with full pay for working
class mothers before and 2 months
after child birth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
POSTPONE CASE
OF 5 FRAMED UP
IN PATERSON
Plan Demonstration
for Trial

PASSAIC, N. j., May THE five
comrades arrested on a frame-up
charge Of murder in the Max Urban
strike, we're supposed to have been
arraignment this morning in court
before Judge Harley to plead to the
charge brought in against them by
the Grand Jury, The arraignment
however, was postponed for some
other day, probably next week.
At the same time. counsel for the
defense, Ward g. McGinnis, served
notice on the prosecutor and on the
judge that they will argue on mo-
ton either tomorrow or Saturday for
bail on all of the five comrades.
The demonstration which was sup
posed to have taken place this morn
ing in front of the court house, has
thus been foiled by the city authori-
ties. This is the second time this has
happened-the city authorities de-
layed the arraignment on the frame
up charge of first degree murder.
The Defense Committee. however,
will plan and organize a demonstra-
ton in front of the court house as
soon as the date becomes known.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
2 ,JOBLESS MEN
COMMIT SUICIDE

NEW YORK.-Peter Tannon, So
year old Negro worker, committed
suicide by leaping from the platform
to the tracks of the elevated at 151St
Street and Eighth Avenue and per-
ished under the wheels of an on
rushing train Sunday night. He had
been out of work for months and
was denied even the meager relief"
being handed out by the boss rack
cheering charity organizations.
Carl GroSser, 50-year old white
worker, who was laid off of his job
a month ago, committed suicide
early yesterday morning by inhaling
gas. When his wife awoke she found
his body on the floor of the kitchen
Mrs. Grosser said both herself and
her husband had been out of work
and we're penniless and starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

Conditional release of the nine
Negro boys of Scottsboro.
Driven by the most appalling misery
andStarvation, the masses of the
caribbean countries, especially of Nj
caragua and Honduras are taking up
arms against the FEARFUL exploita-
ton an depression of Yankee CAPT
talism backed by marines, warships
and airplanes, To strengthen and
tighten its iron yoke of mass suffer-
ing, the Hoover imperialist govern
ment is pursuing a policy of bloody
massacre against the revolving work.
ers and peasants of Nicaragua and
Honduras
While Mr.. Guggenheim, copper
king and ambassador to CUBA, just
arrived in Washington by plane to
confer" with Hoovenand Stimson on
conditions" in Cuba, the Butcher
Machado declared yesterday in an
interview that "as a soldier, he had
learned not to turn his back to the
enemy" American imperialism is
determined to maintain this bloody
agent against the developing strug-
gle of the Cuban masses by mass
violence and terror.
Fighting the same exploiters and
oppreSsors. workers and anti-imper-
lalists of New York must protest en-
crgetically against the Wall Street
war on Nicaragua and Honduras.
The meeting will also demand the
unconditional freedom of the nine
Scottsboro Negro boys whom the
bloodthirsty Southern bosses and
their government have sentenced to
legal lynching. William Patterson, of
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights, which is leading the nation
wide defense campaign for the
Scottsboro boys will speak. Other
speakers include Robert Dunn, ma
tional chairman of the Anti-Imper-
ialist Leagueu and Clarence Hatha-
way, member of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
Rush to Elect Delegates to the Michigan State
Hunger March Conference Sunday

Park home. These state cossacks
and gunner we're armed with guns,
tear gas and sawed-off shotguns, all
prepared for business" against the
militant and fighting spirit of these
workers who are being organized and
led by the Unemployed Council of
the Trade Union Unity League.
Never in the history that anyone
can remember among the workers in
Hazel Park was there such situa-
ton where poor family was forced
to leave their home under such a
murderous atmosphere by the state
police and other state instruments of
the bosses. The Unemployed Council
of the T. U. U. L. has been fighting
this particular eviction case and sue
ceeded up to this time, through the
cooperation OF the workers in the
city, in preventing it. The bosses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
BY GRACE HUTCHINS.
Labor Research Association.

Flowers by wire for Mothers day
"A Mothers day treat in the candy
shop, only $3.50 a pound" CThe I'M
employed will be glad of this good
news
'If you cannot go home, do as your
heart tells you, send her telegram. .
A five minutes walk on any shopping
street reveals these and more such
signs in the shop windows.
Over 5000 mothers each year in
the United States die leaving behind
them their newborn babies.
The United States, richest capital
ist country in the world has higher
death rate from child birth than any
other country in the world for which
statistics are available, and has held
this record for 20 years.
At least 10000 of these dead moth
ers could have been saved each year
II they had had money for proper
medical care, rest and security.
Babies die at the rate of 167 for
every 1000 live births in working
class families where the father earned
less than $3.50 year. But babies in
the families where the fathers earn
ed $3.50 or over die only at the rate
at 50 for every 1000 live births For
babies in families of the unemployed
where the fathers had mo earnings,
the rate is highest of all - 211 for
every 1000 live births
These cold facts tell the true story
ID working class mothers in theUnited
States. They are facts admitted by
physicians and by government sur
veys.
Working mothers who must con-
tsnue work through pregnancy almost
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

on the other hand, realizing the
growing leadership of the Unem-
ployed Council, modified all the
forces at their command to check
the building of organization among
the workers under the leadership of
the Unemployed Concil.
1000 Protest.
A thousand workers tby count of
the capitalist press) turned out to
protest the eviction. In the face of
guns and gas and fire hose, they
were not able to prevent it. But
they denounced the eviction, and the
movement for bigger and still more
militant unemployed council gained
impetus from the sight.
Prepare Hunger March.
The T. U. u l.. and the Unem-
ployed Council are now going ahead
with the program Of building up q
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

will urge and defend the policies OF
that organization, which is the center
of revolutionary unionism in the U.
S. A. j. Mvste, chairman, Conference
for Progressive Labor Action will de-
fend the policies of his grouup. Mr..
Music as the theological leader of
the United Textile Workers, has had
an interest in the strikes conducted
by that organization in Danville and
Elizabethton.
The debate is under the auspices of
the John Reed Club. The commit
tee in charge calls upon all workers,
organized and unorganized, to attend
and to arrive early, because the de-
bate will begin sharply at the hour
set.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

local council Of the unemployed,
of which there are many.
The marchers also struck a
blow at the Jim Grow policies
of one restaurant keeper, who
refused to serve Negro delegate
among the marchers. and stooC
aghast while the whole delegation
Negro and white, walked over to a
Negro restaurant to eat.
In Hamilton, a City of $4,000, the
hunger marchers wee warmly re-
ccived, and an unemployed council
was formed. A mass meeting Of
$500 was held.
MANSFIELD, Ohio, May THE
united Cleveland and youngstown
divisions of the Ohio state hunger
march arrived in this industrial town
of $1,000 inhabitants at 4:30 last
night, where they remained until
resuming their long hike toward
Columbus this morning.
The nlarchers were met at the city
limits by the unemployed council of
Mansfield and escorted by their band
into town.
In excellent formation the march
ers passed through the working class
and Negro workers sections of the
town, with masses lining the streets
and cheering them. The march
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08

militia with machine guns and
an armored tank into the Har-
lan-EvartS region. At the same
time the governor clearly in
Heated that these troops are
to smash the armed resistance of the
miners to the murderous attacks of
deputized mine guards. Governor
Elem Sampson issued a statement
late Wednesday that: IAN the vio-
lence there is due to Communists
from outside the state who have
taken advantage of the discomfort
resulting from unemployment"
In the teeth of this military inya-
sion of the Harlan County coal fields.
the whole force (2O0) at the Harlan
Gas Mines walked out yesterday in
protest against discrimination They
first demanded that the company
reinstate several employees who had
been fired for agitating against the
wage-cutS and bad conditions.
DuJ the u. III. w.
There are about 10000 miners in
Harlan County. The strike, in which
hungry men with families already
starving on two or three days work
a week are fighting for tn eright TO
live, centers around the Black Noun
tain Coal Co. mine at Evarts, near
Haranl This Black Mountain Coal
Co. is owned by the Peabody Co. of
Illinois, the same company that con-
trolls the FishWick district admins
tration in Illinois of the U. M. W.,
and which bribed former President
harrington of the district at rate
of $4,000 a year.
President Turnblazer of the Ten
See-Kentucky district of the U.
M. w. also shows a suspicious viii
lingness to have the strike broken by
the force of the state He has issued
a statement saying that district Of
ficials conferred with Governor
Sampson and agreed to have the
militia sent in, in return for prom
ises undoubtedly fake-Editor) that
the militia would keep Scabs out Of
the district and that the Red Cross
would feed the starving miners.
Civil War.
In the fighting during the last two
weeks around Evarts, two pitched
battles, and several smaller shoot
ings, have taken place, with five
men killed, of whom four we're depu-
tized mine guards and one was
miner. Three other men have been
killed in the mines by accidents and
two more shot in a fight which may
have been part of the struggle. The
starving miners have raided and
taken the food from company stores
and chain stores, and the mine
guards have burned l6 miners houses.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
BULLETIN.

DETROIT, Mich, May 7.-AlI
workers organizations should send
delegates to the State Hunger
Marcn United Front Conference,
Sunday, May 10, at Ferry Hall, De-
troit.
Saturday there will be a mass
meeting and lecture, with Scherer,
from the national office of the
Workers International Relief, as
speaker, at Women's Federation
Hall. Second and Hancock SITS. All
workers and unemployed workers
and their organizations should
help collect funds for the state
hunger march on the tag days:
May Is TO II.
DETROIT, Mich, May lover
$50 gunner. state cossacks and fire.
men from Hazel Park and the sur
rounding territory of Oakland County
were called out in support of land
lord to evict Mr.. Orrilliss McGinniss
and his family from their Hazel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
American Legion
Can't Stop Daily

From r.. J. of Springfield, ILL.,,
comes this story:
"Was arrested four times,
and once before. First time
they took me in they brought
two fellows who asked all kinds
Of questions. Noticed American
Legion buttons on their coats.
Mayor took me 10 the city
council and they told me they
would not allow the paper to
be sold in Springfield any
more. I just laughed at them
Neither the American Lc-
gion, city government or any
other capitalist controlled in
stitution will stop the spread
ing Of the Daily Worker which
fights against terror and In
tirnidation of the bosses.
10000 circulation SPARKS pg. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MASS PROTEST TONIGHT
AGAINST WALL ST. WAR
ON NICARACUAN MASSES
Harlem Casino Meet to Call for Support of
Mass Struggle in Nicaragua and Honduras
To Demand Freedom for the Nine Nebro Boys
in Scottsboro Frame-Up

NEW YORK.-Tonight at p at Harlem Casino, 18th
St. and LenoX Ave. workers of New York, American and
American Negro and white will unite in powerful
protest against the Wall Street the workers peas
ants Of Nicaragua and Honduras, and will demand the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MILITIA, TANKS AND
MACHINE GUNS SENT
AGAINST ky. MINERS
Ohio Hunger Marchers Smash
Jim Crow Edict in Middleton
Governor Sees Masses Hailing Delegates OF
Unemployed and Agrees to Hear Demands;
Marchers Form Unemployed Councils
RILIETIN.


that bringing.
readiness delegation
Still granting
of and
MIDDLETON, Ohio, May 7. - Yesterday the Cincinnati
division of the Ohio State Hunger March reached Middleton
rgidy terrorzed where everything by the sub
sidiary of the American Rolling Mills.
The marchers got good crowd together and organized
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
MAY DAY PHOTOS WANTED

All comrades who took photos Of
the May First Parade and demon
stration are asked to bring them to
the Workers International Relief, 1871
West 18th St, to prepare for an ex-
hibition of photos of working class
events.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-08
U M " Agrees to Hay.
State Gunner Placed
Over Starving Men
Company Is Owned By
Peabody of Illinois
Famous for Habit Of Brib.
ing District Pres
idents

HARLAN, KY, May
7. The governor of
Kentucky, with the
consent and approval
of the United Mine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
HOWELL TO RENEW
DRY BILL BATTLE
Measure, Showed Back on Regular
Calendar, Loses Status as
Unfinished Business.

AS soon as the War Department ap-
preparation bill is completed by the
Senate, Senator Howell Of Nebraska will
make an effort to have the Senate re-
turn to the consideration of his pro-
hibition bill for Washington, he said
today.
The bill was displaced as the un-
finished business yesterday, when the
Senate voted to give the right of way
to the War Department appropriation
bill. This had the effect Of putting the
prohibition bill back on the calendar,
where it was before it was taken UP for
consideration last week. 1t will be nee
essary for the Senate to vote to take up
the bill again before it can regain the
privileged status Of unfinished business.
Senator Howell said today he would
renew efforts to get the prohibition bill
before the Senate whenever the oppor-
tunity presents itself. 1t may be that
the War Department bill win require
the rest of today, in which case no
move to return to the prohibition bill
will be taken until tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
BAR TO CRAMTON
DEFEATED IN HOUSE
Democrat Beaten When He
Tries to Prevent $4,000
Salary for Work.

(From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays starr
BY rising vote of los to 43 the House
late today rejected an amendment to the
independent ofnces appropriation bill
which would have precluded Represent
alive Cramton of Michigan from en-
ploynent as an associate director of the
George washington Bicentennial Com
mission at a salary OF $4,000 q year.
This bill carries $338,195 for the COM
mission.
The fight on Representative Cramton,
who was defeated for denomination and
is to retire from Congress on March 4,
was started by Representative Warren
of North Carolina, Democrat. He
offered an amendment stipulating that
no oficer of the Bicentennial Commis-
sion should receive salary in excess OF
81 900 q year. Representative Warren
said he understood from newspapers
that Mr. Cramton lis to get 10000
a-year Job. I don't think this House"
he said, should deliver such salary to
him"
Representative Warren continued
that he would not object to any job
that Mr.. Cramton might obtain, but
so far as this particular assignment Is
concerned, there are thousands of men
III LIe On1CGQ 0GdJeS WIZ WOu4Q 11AC W
celebrate Washington's Bicentennial as
a labor of love and without pay"
Representative TilSon a Connecticut
Republican floor leader, asserted that
while various members of Congress and
other public citizens are serving on the
Bicentennial Commission, the name OF
Representative Cramton had never
been suggested by Cramton himself and
that If he should get this appointment
It would be absolutely without self-so-
Mr.. Cramton as o man of extraordinary
ability and intelligence. Mr.. Tilson
also said that he did not understand
that Mr.. Cramton has yet been ap-.
pointed and that If such reports had
gone abroad they constituted IAN un-
fortunate slip"
There was laughter in the House at
Tilson's mention of IAN unfortunate
slip" The House rejected the Warren
amendment without roll call.
The newspaper reports were based
upon a statement made at the White
House last week by Senator Fess Of
Ohio, vice chairman Of the commission.
Senator Tess made this statement fol-
lowing q conference with President
Hoover. He said he had proposed the
appointment of the Michigan Repre-
sentative, who was defeated at the
elections last November, and that Pres
ident Hoover had given him to under
stand that the appointment would be
made.
1t was further stated by Senator Tess
that Representative Cramton would re-
ceive a salary Of $4,000 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
AUDIT OF BANKRUPT
!. FIRM UNDERTAKEN
Department of Justice Men
Scan Books of SwartzeII,
Rheem & Hensey.

The Department of Justice today
began It's audit of the books of Swart-
eel, Rheem q Hensey, mortgage bank
ing house. for which receivers were ap-
pointed yesterday.
The investigation is being made
under instructions from United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover, who announced
yesterday he had received reliable in
formation Of the possibility of viola
ton Of law growing out OF the conduct
Of the affairs OF the company"
It was also learned today that spe-.
cial agents of the Bureau of Invssti-
CATION, Department of Justice, will be
assigned TO the case as soon as the
audit Is completed. 1t Is expected this
will require several days.
The receivers, Julius I. Peyser and
Henry p. Blair, went to the company's
office on Fifteenth street yesterday and
took possession of its books and records
The receivers were appointed by Justice
William Hitz after the firm had filed
a petition In voluntary bankruptcy.
In the petition filed with the court
by the company, the volume of its bust
ness was f1xed at $4,000 900.
The details of the investigation are
in the hands of Neil Burkinshaw,
assistant United States attorney, who
assisted in the prosecution of +. H.
Smith Co. officials recently.
Aside from legal developments in the
case of the firm of Swartzell, Rheem
Sc Hensey, one of the first effects OF
its voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was the hating of construction work
on the new buildings of the West
chester Apartment development and the
New Shoreham Hotel.
Builders Await Settlement.
The bankrupt mortgage banking
Arm acted in the original financing on
both of these projects, and due to the
bankruptcy proceedings the builders
of these two projects, both decided TO
stop construction work pending settle
ment of the resulting legal tangles. or
until some satisfactory arrangements
had been made.
Gustave Ring, president of the West
chester Development Corporation, an
nounced today that work had been
halted on the new building OF the
huge apartment development along
Cathedral avenue between Thirty-ninth
street and Glover Parkway. Plans Tor
the resumption of work there, he said,
now are under way and construction
NAV be renewed shortly, after certain
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed.
In this case, it is said, Swartzen,
Rheem q Hensey handled the original
financing, running to $l,35O,Ooo: After
this project was under way, II Is re-
ported, the property was reflnancea Dy
means of q loan from large national
insurance company, by which the first
loan was paid OF.
Harry M. Bralove, builder OF the New
Shoreham Hotel, large residential hotel
project on Calvert street, between Con-
necticut avenue and Twenty-eigntn
street, announced that work had been
stopped on the new unit of this build
ing. This project was financed through
SWartzell, Rheem b HenSey.