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Evening star., 1931-12-19
ESCAPE IN SMOKE-SCREEN

Two Suspected Rum Cars Chased
Through Northwest Section.
Two suspected rum cars escaped
the use of smoke screens after
a chase through the Northwest section
of the city early last night by Pvt. T..
G.. Mower of the thirteenth precinct.
Mower reported that two colored men
occupied each machine. An investiga-
ton to locate the automobiles on the
description furnished by Mower is be-
ing conducted.
Evening star., 1931-12-19
ALCOHOL HEARINGS
HELD IN SECRECY
Indicted Firms Give Pleas for
Permits Behind Closed
Doors.
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE. December 19.-Meet-
ing here secretely, behind closed doors,
a board of inquiry from the Bureau of
Industrial Alcohol at Washington con-
Quoted hearings here this week on
the renewal of Government permits to
the United States Industrial Alcohol
Co, Maryland division, and its subsidi-
ary the United States Industrial Chemi-
cal Co.
Evening star., 1931-12-19
Expected to Continue.

The sessions are expected to continue
several days longer and neither officials
CT the company nor of the Government
will discuss any OF the details The
headquarters of this division of the
alcohol company are located in Balti-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
PREPARE MASS DEMONSTRATION FOR FEBRUARY Is
Robbing the War Veterans

WASHINGTON politicians all political faiths busy
with the bill is
tain what the final outcome of these will be The Bacharac
The bill is before the Senate Finance Committee According to
the today Hoover
vo the BILL which still remains doubtful the threat in both the House
the bill presidential
But all this only tempest in teapot there real differ
sorey must be
made the goats settlement reached The great majority of the
Representatives
from joining the fight of the unemployed immediate relief
elections actually
them think that they getting something for little nothing
This is shown by the following New York Times report:
According usually loyal followers President
its he b designs the next
ing which would provide for the immediate payment
the aul face value of the certificates"
report
approve argument
payment the Congress-
Secretary speaking
Hoover has opposed additional payments to the Veterans their
certificates This opposition based the
Importance cynical
disregard widespread
W will prevail and that the Bacarah bill will be adopted with
without Hoover's approval
that something
cided By among the veterans who
actually certificates
500 of their face value Under the of this bill
500 of the value of
interest Representative Hawey put
practically $1,000
veteran borrow the SOC authorized by the bill at the end of
fourteen @ expiration dEd the accumulated interest
he will hayea remainder
$4,000 (actually $71:i0-EdJ"
veteran
Rod He this addition
their families
and after IA wears will receive the full amount This E the Wow The ~
cal hrengs OF the capitalists trying
Against this robbery every veteran and every worker must FIGHT
Washington politicians ephacay Bacharach
The nationwide demonstrations
ment Day February 25th while fighting mtanty
appropriation pay every unemployed worker
and his family lump for their maintenance
months and for unemployment insurance must develop the
cash bonus not a loan, to- the veterans
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Frame UbM
NeSSln Case
Is Defeated

NEW YORK. - Mass pressure Of
the workers plus the fact that JAZZ
zy Mayor Walker did not want to
be questioned by the three leaders of
the october 10th delegation that he
ordered slugged in the city hall, was
responsible for the discharge of the
case against Sam Nesin, Robert Lea
less and Milton Stone yesterday in
the Court of Special Sessions.
The three leaders of the Unem-
ployed Council conducted their own
defense. They refused to go on with
the case until Walker stated he would
be present. The District @$torney
put on two witnesses. One was a
Tammany cop who helped to slug
the defendants, and the other was
the official stenographer of the Board
of Estimates. The stenographer'S
testimony contradicted the testimony
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
FORM FASCIST
GOVT IN SPAIN
Workers Will Lead
Real Revolt

With the failure Of the attempt OF
Jose Sanchez Guerra to form a cab
met in Spain, with the aim of fooling
the masses into the belief that
changes were to be made, Admiral
Juan Bautista Aznar y Cabanas, rep
resenting the most reactionary feudal
elements, formed an openly fascist
cabinet on Wednesday.
The halfway measures Of recon-
Cling the bourgeoisie with the feudal
landowners was a complete fiasco.
Now, to keep back the growing tide
Of revolution. led by the workers and
oppressed peasants, King Alfonso has
given full power to the most back
ward and reactionary aristocratic
leaders.
Admiral Cabanas has promised a
reign of blood and terror When ne
picked his cabinet he said: st am
navy man and I place myself at the
disposal Of he who orders. 1 be-
lieve, with the help of God, we will
go ahead"
All of the members of the Cabanas
cabinet are the most outspoken enc
mics of the workers and the rising
revolution in Spain. A strong CEN
sorship has ben clamped down. Ca
banas will begin his rule with muir,
ders and jailings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
The Daily Needs Your Help!

THE following quotation from letter this morning speaks
....}........,.
You are aware no doubt that there is Judgment against
you"
This of the bills that make the
Daily Worker Bank have fallen
them These bills added
circulation Gripping and endangerng
and Tuesday devoted solely raising the paper
The record of the various districts show that
quota is reached There have been Daily
before The Daily Worker receiving
received.
However we not connecting the financial
with activities and struggles against struggles
becoming sharp open
the district
for the hunger marches the
the
all these Daily appear every day The
increased circulation of the Daily
Worker receiving
We must increase donations qddate Red
Shook Troop lists mail Immediately Daily Worker
so East 18th Street,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
SWELL PlCKETINC
TO WIN; STRIKERS SHOW
GOOD FIGHTING SPIRIT
Go Out In Rain to Bring Out More Shops for
Strike; Hold Many Meetings All
Over the City
Hundreds of Shops Need Picket Lines to Get
Workers Out On Strike
Girls In Shop Write of Slave Conditions and
Appeal for Aid In Calling Out All
Needle Workers

NEW YORK.-The remarkable en-
thusiasm of the first day of the dress
makers strike here, with its cheer
ing, exultant mass meetings, settled
down yesterday to the important
business of mass picketing.
Considering the cold, rainy morn
ing, the picketing was good, but it
will have to assume the character Of
mass picketing if the strike is to
come to victorious conclusion soon.
The spirit among the eager but
still more or less disorganized strik-
ers is excellent. Shop meetings of
all strikers were held in ten halls
throughout the city. The N. T. w.
L U. entertainment committee has
arranged for singers, pianists, John
Reed Club artists and well-known
speakers to entertain at the mass
meetings today in Bryant Hail. Sixth
Ave, near And ST.; Irving Plaza, IT.
wing Place and 10Th St., and Man
haitian Lyceum, sc E. Fourth ST.
A score of shops in Manhattan and
the Bronx had walked out by noon
and many more were expected to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
STRIKERS!

II arrested give the police only
your name and address and nothing
more.
If you are asked for information
about your citizenship, your family,
your comrades names or addresses,
your membership in any organiza-
ton, your other activities, or, in fact,
any other subject in the world you
should not answer, because you are
not required by law to give any such
information to the police.
You are entitled to make three free
telephone calls from the police sta
ton and you should insist on your
right to use the telephone. Call the
local office Of the International La
Dor acknowledgements: s-375s---
and give them:
1. Your name.
2. Where you are held.
3. In what court you will be tried.
and when.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

has been going on yesterday and to-
day. A Support the Strikers meeting
called last night by word of mouth
had more than a hundred workers
present. Edith Berkman, Abe Hart
field, Trade Union Unity League Dis
trict Organizer, Nat Kaplan and the
representatives of the strike commit
tee spoke.
Today at 10 a. m the rank and file
committee went into the mill to in
terview the boss from New York. At
the same time the mill officials de-
cided to greet the workers in the
good old democratic way" and sent
down squad OF cops to terrorize the
workers on the picket line. A number
OF the pickets carrying signs reading;
Nine combs for tn deficiency guy.
Two combs for u.s." eve are not
horses. Give us two combsl' etc,
were herded by the police into the
station, Immediately after this at
tempt at terrorizing, number of
women workers came into the union
office and said: ITO hell with them.
Sign us up in the union!"
The arrested workers were later re-
leased, The company officials have
SO far refused to concede to the de-
mands and the workers are continu-
ing picketing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
JERSEY HUNGER.
MARCH FEB. 9TH
Route from Jersey City
to Trenton

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. 18.-The
workers of New Jersey are planning
a hunger march, leaving Jersey City
and Paterson on Feb. 81 and picking
up forces along the route in Newark,
Linden, Perth Amboy, Elizabeth, New
Brunswick, will meet the marchers
from southern New jersey at Tren-
ton ON March 2. On that date they
will present the demands Of the hun
dreds OF thousands Of unemployed
workers in New Jersey, backed up by
the employed workers and workers
organizations, for unemployment in
surance.
The growing misery In New Jersey,
the layoffs and shutdowns in many
factories, the diminishing payrolls,
are opening the eyes of the vast
masses of workers, who are getting
into an ugly mood and who are not
content with the refusal of the state
to make any provisions for their re-
lief. On the way to Trenton meet
ings will be held in every city in
front Of the factories, public squares,
etc. Funds for the lodging and pro-
visioning of the marchers must be
raised. This work is being conducted
by the Workers International Relief
branches which are being established
in all parts of New Jersey. All work.
ing class organizations are asked to
contribute literally to this work.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Workers Die Like Flies on Bread
Lines; Suicides Increase Daily

Kulp family of 857 Acoma ST., was
starving, that the father. who is
ambitious to work, hasn't had job
for two years" The mother, who
recovered from her poison attempt
said she thought If she was out Of
the way, the children would be put
In homes. That's what capitalism
and its hunger system is doing to the
workers.
In New York City Mrs. Anna Kass,
rs, mother of boy of five, jumped
from the window of the fourth floor
of a tenement at TIT East Ninth ST.
yesterday. She was killed. The boss
papers say shse had suffered break
down as result Of worry.
In the meantime, unemployed
workers are dying like flies in the flop
houses and on the bread lines. Five
died in New York City yesterday
after eating the slops served at the
Municipal Lodging House In E. 25th
st. The boss press says they died of
ptomaine poisoning.
Workers, don't surrender
Fight against the capitalist sys-
tenal Out into the Streets. demon
strate Feb. 25l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

NEW YORK.-A huge increase in
suicides and cases of "reportable dis
eases" is shown In the current bulle-
tin Of the State Department OF
Health. After doing its best to cover
up the alarming increase in jobless
suicides, the Department admits that
the rise to new heights in the num-
Der Of suicides and homicides very
likely is a direct reflection Of the bad
economic situation"
The number Of cases of report
able diseases exceeded in 1880 the
total for 1929 by almost $1,000"
While these figures indicate the
widespread suffering of the masses
under the bosses starvation system
they are by no means correct, since
they include only cases in which the
doctors were called in. Many work.
ers are too poor to call doctor. This
Is true even OF those who still have
Jobs. For the vast army Of the I'M
employed it is a luxury they cannot
enjoy under the capitalist system.
In the meantime the toll of jobless
suicides continue to mount. as work
ers crushed by misery and starvation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Five Poisoned at Mu-
nicipal Lodging House
in New York

continue mistakenly to resort to this
boss-approved method of solving their
problems.
In Jackson, o., William Bartlett,
60-year-old farmer, could no longer
stand the sight of his invalid wife
starving before his eyes. He fired
a shot gun directly into his face,
blowing his head off.
In Cincinnati, John Ware, 80, with
a wife and two small children, COM
mitted suicide Feb. 16, following his
failure to find work and the refusal
Of the bosses and their government
to pay unemployment insurance so
that he could feed his starving
family.
The Denver Post Of Feb. 1y carries
a story with the following head:
Children Lack Food, Mother Takes
Poison The article admits that the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

the strikers in their fight against the
bosses attacks on their already
meager wages. Police arrested 26
men and women and beat up sew
eral of them in the lookup. The In
ternational Labor Defense is defend
ing the strikers and rallying the
workers to struggle against the SEN
fences Of the boss-controlled courts.
The picket line tomorrow viii be
stronger than ever, as the militant
miners and their families defy the
police attacks on the strike. Every
where there is a militant spirit Of
struggle, but these workers and their
families must have relief immedi-
ately. Money should be sent to
Miners Union, Gil Penn Ave, Room
5l9, Pittsburgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Workers Will Mass In
Union Sq* at $50 b>m.;
Albany March, Feb 70
Albany Hunger March
Leaders to Speak
at Square

NEW YORK-New York workers
will come out on Union Square on
February 25 in participation in the
demonstrations against unemploy-
ment and for unemployment insur-
ance which will occur all over the
country and throughout the capitalist
world on that day.
The leaders of the Albany Hunger
March, which will start out for the
State Capital on February %, will
be among the speakers at the Union
Square demonstration. Harry Ray
nond, one of the March delegation
who will be released on February 20,
also speak at Union Square. Sam
Nesin, LealeS, Stone, the three lead
ers of the unemployed released yes
terday by mass pressure on the bosses
courts, will also be among the
speakers.
Negro, White Workers! Refuse to
Die Of Starvation! Employed Work
ers Stop work at P. M and sup
port the struggle of the unemployed
against the bosses hunger system and
for unemployment insurance. All Out
February 25!
NEW YORK--Full preparations are
under way for the hunger march of
about 500 workers who will march
from New York City on February Goth
to the State Legislature at Albany to
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
HARLEM DRESS
MEET FRIDAY
To Rally Support for
Strike

NEW York; mass meeting to
promote and spread the dressmakers'
strike among the Negro, Spanish and
italian workers of Harlem will be
held Friday night at the Harlem
Casino, 116th st. and Lenox Ave.
The meeting is sponsored by SYM
pathetic working class organizations
and workers. All Harlem workers
are urged to attend this meeting
Speakers from the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union will be
present to tell of the struggle of the
dressmakers to eliminate sweatshop
conditions in the industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

S<A\SbGN
The workers Immediately
went up to the National Tex
tile Workers Union office, and
organized themselves into the
union. They elected a COM
mittee to present their demands to
the boss, who answered: But let
them try it. If you won't go back
to work, well it's just up to you"
The workers, upon hearing the re-
port of the committee, voted unani-
mously for a strike against 8 combs
for 2 men, against efficiency experts,
against speed-up and for 2 combs for
one man.
The combing room is completely
tied up. Both day and night shifts
are out Today the section hands
and power men of the combing room
came out and the finishers were re-
leased for the morning because they
had no work.
The official in charge of the mill
called up the New York office Of the
American Wooden Company yesterday
(The Washington Mill is an Amer
lean Wooden concern) to come to
town to negotiate with the rank and
file strikers committee of the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union.
The strike has great significance
for all textile workers. If the COM
pany officiols insist on their outrage
Gus speed-up proposal today the strike
will spread to the other departments
OF the mill and also to the combing
rooms of the Wood and Aver, also
American WOODEN Company concerns
in Lawrence.
Militant picketing by the strikers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
LOCK OUT 500
RIGGERS FROM
BROOKLYN JOBS
Worker Arrested, Held
On $500 Bail

NEW YORK.-Five hundred work.
ers. who organized into the Rigging
and Safe Movers Union, have been
locked out. Up until two weeks ago
they were unorganized and were
working for IS day, with no pay
for overtime. They we're working 10
and II hours.
The workers organized and went
on one-day strike, in order to force
the boss to sign contracts with the
union. These contracts provided a
wage scale of So, with s1.50 for over
time. The bosses signed. However,
on Tuesday, Feb. 10, they were locked
out because the bosses did not want
to recognize their union. The work.
ers were told that if they would tear
up their union cards they would get
their jobs back and would be given
a full weeks pay.
The leader Of the bosses is the
Center Trucking Co., Hope ST., Brook
Ign, and since Monday he has been
running his trucks under police pro-
lection, with policeman on every
truck. The other trucking concerns
are willing to settle with the work.
ers and up to the present time have
been letting their trucks stand idle.
The American Federation of Labor
has been collaborating with the
bosses in a clever scheme to avoid
paying the union scale. 1t goes this
way: The Center Trucking Co. Sc
cures a number of membership cards
from the A. F. of l.. union. These
are given to the men when they
come to work. The workers carry the
card, but do not receive the union
scale. One day he works under the
name Of Brown, the next day under
the name Of Smith, in accordance
with the name on the card that is
given him.
The workers went over to the Hope
st. Garage, in an attempt to win
over the scabs. They were met by
2o-4o thugs, who proceeded to fight
the workers. One Of the strike
breakers hit one of their own men
on the head with piece Of iron. A
striker was arrested for this and
charged with felonious assault. He
was held under $500 bail.
Two hours later the trucking COM
pany brought over a piece Of pipe
which they said they had found in
the garage. ct is the kind of pipe
that can be found in quantities in
any garage) The bail was then in
creased to $500. The case comes up
tomorrow in the Williamsburg Plaza
Court In Brooklyn.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
WANNA STATE TROOPERS
ATTACK MINE PICKET LINE

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 1s.-State po-
lice yesterday launched a brutal at
tack on the mass picket line of the
striking miners and their families at
Edna No. Mine.
Many strikers were beaten UP, as
we'll as their women and children,
who have been on the picket lines
right along helping their saen fight
against the wage-cut which would
condemn them to increased starva-
ton and misery. Conditions, the
workers declare, are ban enough now.
Many families exist on hunger ra-
tons because of the low wages paid
wages which the bosses now seek
to cut further.
Several scabs were beaten up by
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

throughout Chicago in preparation
for February 25th, when thousands
of workers will be rallied to fight for
immediate relief and for unemploy-
ment insurance.
Expect 10000 In Cincinnati.
The Unemployed Councils and the
Trade Union Unity League of Gin
cinnati are preparing for the Febru-
airy 25th hunger march on Interna-
tional Unemployment Day. The mem
bership are of the opinion that TO-
600 will take part in the march on
this day. Over 40.000workers are out
of jobs in Cincinnati In the last
unemployment meeting here which
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Chicago Jobless to Mass at
Union Park

All over the country preparations
are being made for world Unernploy-
ment Day, February 25th. In Chi
cago, due to mass pressure of the
workers who marched through the
streets of Chicago on February 10th,
a permit has been granted for the
northeast corner of Union Park, cor.
of Randolph and Ogden on February
25th, at $3.50 p. m. All previous at
tenpts to use this place for unem-
ployment demonstrations have been
met with police brutality and slug
gings. 1t is the growing militancy
Of the unemployed which finally
forced the permit for Union Park.
Dozens of meetings are being held
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
400 Combers Strike in 4
Lawrence WOODEN Mills
Ask National Textile Workers Union to Lead
Them; Threatens to Spread Workers
Fight Inhuman System
BULLETIN

LAWRENCE - Four mer af
strike Mill combers Joined the Wash
Wood Mill strikers today The strike spreading to the
following overtime
milton the National Textile Workers Union The requested
strike committee Settlement will that
of the four mills
night
Union Essex
LAWRENCE Mass, Feb 18.-Yesterday morning, the
cobng department of the Washington Mill walked out against
the attempt of the bosses to make two work combs
which terrific of speed and almost impossible to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
NEEDLE TRADES FRACTION
MEETING

There will be a Needle Trades
fraction meeting Of all Party and
Y. G. L. members Sunday, at IL
noon. All comrades are instructed
to report at the usual place with
out fail as most important matters
connected with the strike will be
taken up.
DISTRICT COMMITTEE,
Communist Party of U. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

The Unemployed Councils Are
the Fighting Organizations for
Immediate Relief and Unem-
ployment Insurance for the
Unemployed Workers. Or
ganize Them Everywhere
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