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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
TRENTON BOSSES
USE CRISIS TO
LOWER WAGES
Throw S o p to the
Jobless to Keep
Them for u c..

TRENTON, N. 1.-THE Trenton
Unemployment Relief Committee Is
serving a double purpose. First by
throwing a slop Of charity here and
there it tries to fool the workers into
believing that the bosses try to pro-
vide relief. Secondly by providing
a handful Of Jobs digging bitches at
$40 per week it tries to prove that
workers with large families can ex-
list at so low a wage or even less.
At the beginning Of It's formation
it also tried, through fake registra-
tons. investigations and red tape, to
intimidate the unemployed and pre-
vent them from organizing into the
Unemployed Councils. The workers,
however, soon got true conception
Of the bosses committee and during
February on three occasions demon.
strated by the thousands against its
fake activity.
Lower Wages.
The bosses, who have created this
committee and at whose head is John
Campbell, president Of the Trenton
Potteries Zone Of the largest in the
country, were quick to grasp their
opportunity.
BY forcing a few unemployed to
work at $40 a week and in most cases
less, due to weather conditions, ETC.,
they have begun a drive to cut the
wages of the workers still employed
in the factories to the same level.
The Trenton Clay Products is good
example Of the many.
Here the head Of the firm got
his employees together. He not
only informed them that their
wages viii be cut 10 per cent, but
also delivered a lecture as to what
they may expect in the future.
They were told point-blank that
this Is only the beginning, that
they must expect more wage-cutS.
With this, Of course, went the story
Of the company operating at loss.
Worse Times Ahead.
However, they were told more than
this. They were told that even,
though this winter is bay they must
prepare for the next, which will be
much worse.
"YoM will get along fairly well this
coming summer" said this fellow.
But, you must prepare yourselves
for the winter. During the summer
you must pay up your debts. You
must discard your secondhand autos
and radios, if you have any. and also
your $25 and $50 month homes.
You must rent homes for $40 to $l2
month. You must learn to live on
81 or So a week." He also told them
they must avoid going to the shore
this summer If they know what is
good for them the next winter. This
is the future that capitalism has to
offer to Its wage slaves.
WdSC~Cub dlICA WdSC-SuI ID IdhlllS
place in all factories and mills
throughout the city. On top of this
the workers are taxed l per cent of
their miserable wages to supply
funds for the Relief Committee.
The workers must organize and
strike against these wage-cuts.
The unemployed must demand
union wages ON all public works so
that the bosses will not use them
as an example in cutting wages.
They must continue their fight for
real relief and for all their de-
mandS.
In the coming city elections they
must support their working class
candidates. They have learned
that capitalism. through Its lack
eys, has nothing to offer them but
misery and starvation.
~. WISNIEWSKY.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
Mooney Revelation
Brings Weak Groan
from William Green

WASHINGTON. D. g., March IT,
President william Green OF the AT,
of l.. has ct last been forced to say
something about the Mooney case,
MONEYS pamphlet. published In
January, and now running serially In
the Daily Worker tsee last page) jar
red him into that much action
But Ill that Green said, In an ar
ticle syndicated to all A. F. Of L.
papers, was that he regretted
Mooney had said those things about
the AT. of L. officials, and that "the
A.F. of L. whose unions have contri-
buted thousands of dollars to the
Mooney Billings defense will continue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
New York.

New York.
Daily Worker:
While tens of thousands of dis
abled veterans in New York City are
given buck-passing pie in the sky
advice by various fake veteran "aid"
organizations, one OF the leading
group Of takers have built UP bust
ness for themselves. The business is
the book-selling racket, in which
they hire some dummy dressed UP
as veterans and peddle books in the
subways and other places. The book
Takers then pocket the proceeds
between them. The names Of Hoo
ver, Coolidge. AL Smith and scores
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
ONLY ENGLISH DAILY
OF THE WORKERS"

From A. B. of Iron River, Mich,
we received the following:
Il am sending you ST. for the re-
newal Of my subscription which ex-
PRED some time ago. I would have
renewed it sooner but could not on
account Of lack of finances. I I'M
derstand that the Daily Worker is
the only English daily that tells of
the everyday conditions OF the work
ers and the necessity of organization
in order to get a better living stand
ard"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
JAMESTOWN PLANS
DAILY WORKER" DANCE

1.-THE Unemployed Council and Dali
ly Worker sales force will hold a
dance Friday, March 81, at 8 pm. at
Nordic Temple for the benefit of the
Daily Worker. Comrade o, G. Mon
son will speak on unemployment, its
causes and remedy" Fred Hunt,
Jamestown Unemployed Council.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
FILIPINO FACE JAIL TERMS FOR Ism
CONDITIONS IN MILLS
IN NEW BEDFORD GET
WORSE; MANY JOBLESS
(By a Worker Correspondent

NEW BEDFORD, Mass.-The conditions in the yarmouth
mill becoming from day to day. In the shed
the bosses have sent home of three shifts that work
ing hours and the other two remaining shifts have been forced
hours While the bosses have these two shifts work.
ing IL hours there 500 looms stopped and hun
dred weavers out of work.
In the card the bosses will send home worker to
loaf and right there and then hire another who is looking for
work. The worker week and the second week is sent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
STEEL WORKER
SENDS Soc FOR SUB

J. d, Of Elwood, Ind. enclosed SOC,
writing:
"Tin Plate has begun work OH the
Gard of Feb, 4 days per week. This
is small town, conditions are bad
enough. Am glad you never stopped
my paper. Will send you some more
money in two weeks to renew my
subscription for the Daily Worker"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
Disabled American Veterans" Run Racket;
Hit Real Vets

of other capitalists were used by the
Disabled American Veterans, No. /
East And st.
The American Legion and the
Veterans of Forein Wgars are at
tempting to rebuild their member
ship and get joining fees from the
loans now being secured by a few
of the thousands Of needy veterans
waiting to be robbed Of half of their
tombstone bonus. All working-class
veterans are warned against being
led again into boss veteran organiza-
tons. Working class veterans must
develop demands for the full pay:
nlent, IS. Fl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
WALL ST. STARTS REIGN OF TERROR
AGAINST FILIPINO COMMUNIST PARTY,
FALLING LEADERS OF WORKERS
American Workers Must Demand Their Re-
lease; Filipino Bosses Help Wall Street j
Jail Communist Leaders 4

MANILA, Philippines. White terror against the newia
organized Communist Party of the Philippines has already b
$780, at great meeting in Manila It held many meetings
throughout Manila and the provinces calling the workers
and peasants to mobilize under the leadership of the Communist
Party against Imperialism and the bourgeois native akeys Of
Wall Street.
Soon thereafter repeated arrests followed First Comrade
Feeo vcepresden of the Philippine National Confederation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
Davenport Wages Cut to 171a Cents An Hour

hour. Most Of the other shops are
shut down completely and there is
no sign of them ever starting up
again.
The workers are beginning to
take action here though they are
continuing organization.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19

New Jersey company really covers
ali of them.
This wage cut will affect tens Of
thousands of workers; it will spread
to Canada to the Imperial on Co.
Ltd, branch of the Standard Oh
OF New Jersey, and to the Humble
, Oil and Refining Company.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
Davenport, Iowa

Davenport, Iowa.
Daily Worker:
Conditions are getting worse.
Vicious speed-up and wage-cuts
are takhi g place. The French and
Hecht Wheel Foundry have cut the
wages Of labor to I71a cents per
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19

Fight iynching. Fight deporta-
ton of foreign born. Elect dele
gates TO your city conference fol
protection of foreign born.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day on your job. The worker
next to you will help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19
REPORT FROM
BUTTE, MONT.

J. K. Daily Worker agent of
Butte, Mont, sends a report for
the week ending Feb. %. Out of
800 Daily Workers received, 1856
were sold on the streets, and 81
from house-t to- house. A Daily
Worker Readers Meeting is being
arranged, and if the comrades in
form us of the date, wen adver-
tise it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19

CARNATIONS viii participate in the
drive for mass Daily Worker by
visiting workers homes, popularizing
the Daily Worker. and getting sub
scriptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-19

each dependant, for each unem-
ployed worker.
Continued organization Of the I'M
employed into councils and the en-
ployed into the fighting unions Of
the Trade Union Unity League for
great struggles which are just be-
ginning against starvation and wage
cutting are more than ever neces-
sary now,
The last issue Of the Financial
Chronicle, organ of Wall Street,
makes it still clearer that the en-
ployers Of this country, far from
seeking to solve the problem Of saw
ing the lives Of the 100000 jobless
are bent on using the misery Of these
workers to beat down living stand
ards for all workers.
The Chronicle says, discussing the
railroad situation, "Only one other
means Of relief seems to be open,
and that is a lowering of wage
scales. IL. The process of change is
nevertheless slowly going on. The
union scale for a bricklayer in this
city is $3.50 day. But now con-
tractors are finding no difficulty in
hiring bricklayers at So a day. What
is more, labor leaders are winking
at this violation Of the union scale.
In the end. the unions will bow to
the inevitable and recognize existing
conditions by making the union scale
conform to the actual facts. Thus,
in private lines, readjustment of
the inequalities between wages and
other things is already taking place.
Railroad managers should at once
unite and take steps to impress rail-
road employees with the idea that
out Of a sense Of duty they should
act for the common good and ac-
cept a moderate lowering of the
wage scale" &.
And along with this is the an
nouncement in yesterdays trade pa
pers, that the Fall River textile mill
wage cuts run up to 81 per cent.
weavers are on strike against a Is
per cent cut. In Kensington, 1000
upholsterers have been striking over
a month against IA per cent cut.
And this is general policy.
Standard OIL Cuts
Now the Standard OIL Company
Of New Jersey comes out with a ten
per cent wage cut for all its work.
ers. While the announcement by
Walter c. Teagle, president of this
Rockefeller corporation, does not
openly say wages will be cut ter
pei cent, he informs all workers in
the company that costs will be cut
IL per cent" In its final form, this
will be direct wage-cut of from
10 to 20 per cent for the workers.
Besides, Teagle further announces
thousands Of workers will be laid off
He said many jobs will be "conso-
lidated," that is, one worker will dc
the work formerly done by two.
A report to the Daily Worker de-
clares that the Standard Oil Com
pany Of New Jersey has already fired
more than 900 of its men.
The cutting of costs" does not af.
feet the Standard Oil Of New Jersey
alone, but will take in all of the
Standard Oil companies in ever!
state. To get around the so-callec
ANTITRUST laws, the Standard OF
Co. has divided itself into separate
state corporations, but they are al
under the control of the Rockefel
lers and the announcement for t
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
HANGING
HELD SUICIDE
MISS MATHA HABEY

PAINESVILLE. Ohio, Sept. II
1N.SO .-Discarding a theory of
accidental death, Coroner o. o.
Hausch, of Lake county, today
returned a verdict of suicide in
the death of Samuel Livingston
Mather. jr., Is. son of S. Living
ston Mather, sr., Cleveland fl
nancier.
Dependency over the death of
his mother, Mrs. Grace Mather.
lastu June "a, and prolonged
Illness with asthma were given
as the causes for the suicide.
Young Mather, grandson of
Samuel Mather, Cleveland philan-
thropist, died in his room at the
home of his father, Mt. Glen
Farm, Mentor, Ohio, yesterday.
The death was not reported by
members of his family for several
hours.
The body was found dangling
from a belt which had been
fastened to the top of a door.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
LASHES
VERA CRUZ

XICO CITY, Sept. II
GNSD Heavy damage was re-
ported today in the wake of a
violent storm which swept over
Vera Cruz, while the entire east
ern coast of Mexico awaited wv
hurricanes heading northward
from the Caribbean.
Twenty vessels, including the
large coastal steamer Alfonso Mar
tinez, were capsiZed when tremen-
dOuS seas swept over the jetty
separating the inner and outer
harbOrs of Vera Cruz. The Ital-
ian liner Istria, anchored in the
harbOr, was damaged.
Many homes along the beach
were wrecked, and some les Of
life was feared.
Latest adviceS from Lower Cali
fornia stated that so persons per-
ished Monday in the port of
Santa Rosalia.
BEL II E, British Honduras,
Sept. II GN.SO.-New aid for
survivors of the hurricane and
tidal wave which took a toll of
1,5O0 lives in Belize was on hand
today following the arrival of a
British warShip with food and
medical supplies from Jamaica.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
Prosecutors Hint Strikes
At Ceilings WidouU

Alexander G. Blue led him to
pOstponement of the inquest until
tomorrow.
Police of New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey are seeking two
pirates" as the murderers.
Hint Hits Widow
District Attorney Blue bIuntIy
announced this morning he will
not call for the testimony of Mrs.
Ceilings either at the grand jury
or the inquest, "fOr the simple
reason that a possible defendant
can not be made to testify against
herself.
Mrs. Ceilings is lying in her
home in a state of nervous col
lapse, two physicians attending
her. One is DR.. H, T. Ceilings,
her father-in-law.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
BETTY DODD'
LETTERA ADDS
TOMYSTERY
IN CASE
Coroner Gives Damaging Tes-
timony Against Young Edu-
Gator Held in Killing Quiz

HAMPTON, Va, Sept. II
GN.SJ.-The case against Elisha
Kent Kane, University of Ten.
nessee professor. held here in con-
nection with the death Of his
pretty young wife, Jenny Spaham
Kane, took a sensational and
sinister turn today when Coroner
George K. Vanderslice appeared
in State Circuit Court and
charged that another woman"
had suggested to Prof. Kane that
he get rid of his wife.
Named Betty DOdd" <.~'
The other woman, Coroner Van
dersIice charged, is Betty DOdd,"
who signed her letters to the
young professor with the initials
''E. HI. D."
Mrs. Kane was drowned in
Chesapeake Bay while swimming
with her husband, and the cir
cumStanceS were such that the
local authorities are holding the
professor for alleged murder. ~.
Coroner Vanderslice did not
further identify the other woman
in the case. nor would he supply
any additional information con-
cerning her residence or position.
commonwealth Attorney Roland
D. Cook, however, said Miss Dodd
was an ernploye Of the United
States liner America.
Bail Again Denied
On the basis OF the coronerssl
accusations, Judge 20. Vernon
Sprately again denied bail to
Prof. Kane, and he was remanded
to jail for another hearing to-
morrow
The letter which the coroner
said contained the suggestion that
Mrs. Kane could be got rid Of
was not produced in court. The
coroner did, however, produce an
other letter which he said Betty
Dodd" had written Kane, sug.
gesting that they would go I'm
Continued on Page 2, Col. II.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17

HUNTINGTON, N. Y, Sept. II
GN.SJ.-Benjamin P. Ceilings
was battered to death as he lay
partly on his stomach on the
deck Of his cruiser, the Penguin,
was the conclusion of authorities
today.
The mL- der was committed
with milk bottle, which shat
tered in a thousand pieces as it
fractured Ceilings skull and led
Mrs. Lillian Ceilings. covering in
the little cabin below, according
to, her story, to believe q window
in a portfolio had been smashed.
sinister Facts"
"A certain sinister group Of
facts" which has come to The
knowledge Of District Attorney
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
One-tinae u. S. Agent
Is Taken for a Ride

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Sept. II
Q.N.S0.-The bullet-riddled body
Of Harry Volpe. As, was found
today on the rear seat of a sedan
car.
Volpe. police said, was under
cover man" for the Government
in the expose of the so-called ma
tional bootleggers' and rum run
ners' syndicate at Cleveland. Dur
ing the past few years, they said.
he had been in the illicit liquor
business in Rhode Island.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17

BROOKFIELD, H. Sept II
1NSJ-Citizens Of this little
town today pondered over their
unique municipal puzzle-the po-
lice department
And, while they pondered. two
seuarate forces Of men laid claim
to the title police department"
The actual policing was being
done by State highway patrolmen.
The original police department.
refusing to honor the order Of
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
CRUELTY PROBE
AIMED At 5
PRECINCTS
Headquarters Also Believed
in Path; Citizens Board
Proving Difficult to Find

Police headquarters and four
precincts other than the First
came under fire today in the
Grand Jury's inquiry into the
police brutality charges.
At the same time, the District
Commissioners were attempting
to shape up a civilian trial board
to delve into accusations con.
tanned in recent Grand Jury
report which said Orville A..
Staples, former policeman, had
been framed" s4
Board Hard to Get
The Commissioners during the
day interviewed a number of
prominent citizens, suggested by
trade and civic bodies, but were
having difficulty in getting ac-
ceptances.
This afternoon the committee
Of five lawyers named last Sat
urday to investigate the Grand
Jury'S report in the Staples case
was to meet and decide whether
a trial should be held. If the
attorneys recommend trial.
then a civilian board will func.
tion.
In addition to headquarters, the
precincts involved In today's in
qulry were the Second, Third.
Fourth and Seventh, it was
learned. Tive First precinct DO
llcemen are already under indict-
ment' on brutality chargL- grow
ing out of former Grand Jury
investigation, and the present in
qulry also includes that precinct.
Probe To Continue
When the renewed inquiry was
continued today, more than 100
witnesses were on hand, and it
was indicated that the probe
might be extended to next week,
Three prisoners of the District
Jail and three from Lorton were
brought up to testify today. Those
from the Ja.. are Arthur Henry
Below, Wolfe L. jackson, colored,
and James l.. Strange, colored.
From Lorton the men are Fran
els de Sales Carman, William ].
Sullivan and Charles E. Smith.
Below is serving 18 months on
charges Of false pretense and
larceny. He was sentenced Decem.
ber IL last, and the policeman
who testified against him when
he was indicted is Edward w.
Thompson, at that time a head.
quarters sergeant, but now a
lieutenant.
Doing Three Years
Jackson is doing a three.year
stretch on grand larceny charge.
He was sentenced April IL, while
Private Frank L. DOdSOn, of the
Fourth precinct, testified against
him at the time of the indict.
Hnent.
Strange is in Jail awaiting trial
on a charge of assault and bat
terry on Private Henry c. Houck,
of the Second precinct. Strange
was arrested August 3 and in
dicted last week. Houck appeared
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
PLANE FOUND
!. UNDAMAGED
ON ISLE
Whether Their Destination Is
1 U. S. or Japan Not Clear;
| Buriat Supplies the Fuel

ST. PAUL, Alaska, Sept. II
u.N.SJ Don Moyle and Cecil A.
Allen, California aviators who
disappeared ten days ago attempt
ing a nonstop flight from Japan
10 Seattle, are planning to take to
The air again today.
Their plane Is undamaged and
ready to resume the flight, accord
ing to word received from the Rus
sian Soviet steamer Buriat, which
found the missing airmen on
Navarin Island, where they were
forced to land when they ran out
Of fuel.
According to the conversation
conducted from st. Paul, with a
Russian priest acting as inter
gx.eter, the fliers are preparing
Ez0F an immediate laopoff. Their
plane has been refueled by the
Buriat.
Destination in Doubt
The Russian priest. interpreter
said the rescue ship was vague
as to the planned destination Of
the fliers, but as far as he could
understand they planned to so
direct to Seattle
Later. in communication with
another vessel, the priest said he
heard the Buriat say the fIierS
might return to Japan.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
DETROIT GANG
MASSACRES 8

DETROIT. Sept. II G.N.S). =.
Arrest of every hoodlum in De-
troit was ordered today following
the massacre of three alleged
"hijackers."
Six persons already have been
taken into custody Those killed
in the massacre we're Joseph
Sutker, Hymie Paul, and Joseph
LeibovitZ, all known police, char
acterS.
The men were kinnaped in their
own car, which had been stopped
by o traffic light and herded into
the apartment. There they were
lined against a wall and felled
with q fusillade Of revolver shots.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
KILLS
I IN ASYLUM
Photo by Internati

CLEVELAND, Sept. II G,N.S0.
The death toll in the typhoid
fever epidemic at Cleveland State
Hospital for the insane, which
has stricken a total of 1872 of
its patients, mounted to seven
today.
The latest victim Of the dis
ease was Mrs. Josie Bagalek, 80.
While officials hoped that the
epidemic had reached its peak.
l. was stated that the period
Of illcubation OF typhoid gef1ffs
Is about three weeks and the
exact outcome of the epidemic
will not be known until after
that time.
The Washington times., 1931-09-17
NAVAL OFF F|CER
KILLED IN FALL
At HOSPITAL
Walter Reed Board Probing
Com. John BIackburn's
Fatal Drop Of Three Flights

Commander John A. Blackburn,
U. SIN, SIS, a patient in the
phySr0therapy ward of Walter
Reed Hospital. jumped or fell to
his death today from a rallied
porch on the third floor Of the
hospital building.
He was unconscious when hos
pital attendants picked him up
and died on the operating table
a few minutes later.
Had Medical Aid
The victim had just received
treatment for an Did jaw injury
at the dental clinic, which is on
the third floor, and had stepped
out on the porch, ostenSibly for q
breath of air. An attendant, hap
pening to look out a window, saw
that he had disappeared. and in
vestigating, discovered his body
living three stories below.
A board of inquiry has been
appointed by hospital officials TO
determine whether blackburn nc
cidentally fell from the perch OF
leaped. The railing enclOslmg the
porch was said to have been IN.
tact.
Several Operations
Hospital attaches said that
Blackburn, who was admitted to
the hospital in March, was not
considered a patient requiring
surveillance. He was suffering
from a fractured jawbone and
had undergone several operations
at the hands of plastic surgeons
there. While suffering consider
able pain at times, he is said to
have shown no signs Of despon-
dency over his affliction.
Blackburn is survived by a
widow who lives in California.
Before entering Walter Reed Hos
pital, he was connected with the
Veterans Bureau.
Commander Blackburn, who
was a native of Indiana, was re-
tired from active service June 80,
1880. after 16 years sea service.