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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31

TOLD WAR Is NEAR
The very first thing done when
the guards enter camp is to issue
the arms, such as pistols, rifles,
bayOnets, machine guns, etc. The
officers warn everyone that they
must be kept in perfect working
order because they will soon have
to be used in actual warfare.
The first week we are taken out
each morning with the rifles to the
rifle pits where we we're instructed
to shoot at all kinds of targets.
Each man fires about So worth OF
ammunition each day. Approximate
ly 10000 men fire each day. In my
0ninion this $4,000 would be very
useful to the starving unemployed OF
Pennsylvania. But of course, the gov
eminent can't afford to feed civilians
One officer told me that there was
no reason for anyone to serve when
they can enlist in the army. Very
smart man, isn't he?
Trained to Fight "Reds"
After shooting at these targets we
were taken to a field where straw
men were placed in various posi-
tons. The majority of them have
long whiskers painted on them anc
our captain described them to us as
''Reds" and told to stick the bay
onets into their bellies"
We spent all afternoon sticking
bayonets into the Reds" But wait
till the time comes and see whose
belly our bayonet goes into.
One afternoon we had complete
parade of all the 55th brigade. Gen.
erals Price and Martin were present
and also the commander-in-chief OF
the National Guards.
He made a speech to us In which
he described how much better the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
SOCIALISTS HAVE
DIFFERENCES ON
HOW TO HELP WAR
But Anti Soviet Heads
Put It Over
Gable by Inprecorr)

VIENNA, July 80. - Thursday
mornings session of the socialist"
Second International Congress here
concluded the disarmament debate.
Julius DeutSch reported for the dis
armament commission, defending
the official resolution. Fenner Brock
way of the British Independent La
Dor Party followed, declaring that
the danger Of war was never greater
since the Versailles treaty; that it
was useless to impose trust in gov
ernments or the League of Nations;
that the utmost to be expected from
them was certain limitation Of ar
maments. He also stated that 1t
was impossible to distinguish bet
ween aggressive and defensive war
fare. Brockway declared there must
be no coalition with and no tolera-
ton of the bourgeoisie in the dis
armament question; the working
class must resist wars, not necessarily
WloAi q SCllCld Inc. IlC oOdICQ
that the socialists must use the OPP
portunity offered by the outbreak
of war to seize power.
Schmied of Switzerland declared
his delegation would not vote for
the resolution because the latter
was calculated to breed illusions.
Renaudel of France declared that
the resolution was superfluous any
how because the old resolution was
still unrealized, and that it was diff
cult for socialists participating in
bourgeois governments to carry out
the resolutions. He also stated that
the Soviet Union and the United
States must join the League of Ma
tions and that the Soviet Union
made radical disarmament propos-
ais but itself had armed.
Faure read declaration naming
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNE)

n NUN oNGb
ton"
The Ford plants, which will throw
$4,000 out of work at one blow, will
stay shut until Fall at least. No one
knows how much they will open then.
1t is certain that thousands of Ford
workers are out Of jobs in that plant
permanently. The Daily Worker sew
eral months ago warned the Ford
workers that during the summer the
plant would close down completely
and they would face starvation.
In this situation, Hoover, the
champion liar of Wall Street, is pre-
pairing his propaganda machine. Last
winter he fed the workers lies. He
is preparing to "feed' them again on
this sort of hot air. He called the
Red Cross in-the same Red Cross
that the bosses use for war, and that
refused to- feed the starving unem-
ployed He called other takers in to
study" unemployment. For two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31

ARDMORE, Pa, July 30-One of
the strangest cases of injunction
eering is going on in Indiana Coun-
ty, Pa. National Miners Union Or
ganizers are being stopped on the
highway and evicted from the coun-
ty, on the argument that they are
violating an injunction. There is no
injunction against the N.MU. But
when the organizers demand to see
one, they are shown an injunction
granted the Clearfield Bituminous
Coal Corporation against John Chi
zzoni, old time coal company stool
pigeon and now a member of the
International Executive Board of the
United Mine Workers, also against a
long list of the UNIV. local presi-
dents and secretaries in locals which
mostly do not exist at all. This in
junction orders Ghizzoni and his
agents not to scheme, combine or
conspire," to march, counter march
or picket" Ghizzoni of course does
not want to do any Of these things.
But the miners, following the leader
ship of the National Miners Union,
and with strikes going on, do want
to do such things as marching" and
picketing. The injunction against
Ghizzoni is then used against them,
not only to stop picketing but to stop
their speaking to the miners or or
ganizing them.
HARMARVILLE, Pa, July 3d.
Two hundred and fifty pickets ap-
peared before Harmarville mine this
morning (July 27D and pulled hum
bred out. There are still some work.
ing, and a bigger picket line tomor-
row will stop more of them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
by a Worker Correspondent

(By a worker correspondent
BROOKLYN, N. Y.-The Jamaica
Wet Wash Laundry, located at ITO
Liberty Ave. employs about 100
workers. Pullers and wringers were
receiving two years ago $38 for q
5-day week. The girls at that time
were receiving $18 to $40 a week.
These wages have all been cut
now, despite the statements of Green
and Hoover that wages have mot
been adjusted" CcuO. The hours
have also been heightened.
The men who previously got $3a a
week are now working from am.
to 1870 pm. for the large sum Of
$40 per week, and these workers
don't merely work, they run. The
girls work from 8 am. to pm. and
receive SO week. The boss, how
ever, receives the same price for a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31

ted front conference here TO discuss
plans for the August First demon
stration against the bosses war
plans, brought 100 delegates together.
They decided to hold the demonstra-
ton right at the Steubenville court
house steps, permit or no permit.
There were rs miners from the
Gastner mine, and they all voted to
join the National Miners Union, and
to hold a mass meeting when they
got back to their mine and strike the
mine.
Steel workers present at the con-
ference joined the Metal Workers
Industrial League in q body.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Stetson Hat Cuts Pay; Strike at Schoble Shop

the schoble hat shop for nearly two
weeks where the workers had to
slave hours per day at an average
of SITS. All work was and is piece
work and no chance is given to the
poor underdog to make even enough
to keep his body and that of his
family from crumbling into a heap.
Starvation is written on their faces
and yet, dividends are still paid in
the good old fashioned way by these
firms.
One Of the Hatters.
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the majority Of the French delega-
ton stating that the decision of the
French Party Congress not to grant
war credits did not apply to those
governments with socialist partici-
patton. The official resolution was
adopted against the votes of the 1.
L. p, the Polish Independent social
lists and the Jewish Bund. The
Swiss delegation Withheld its vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
TERRIFIC SPEED
UP OF WORKERS
IN FORD PLANT
Auto Workers Mus t
Organize to Fight

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July 3d.
About 600 men are employed at the
Kansas City Ford plant at the pres
ent time. Since Jan. the men have
averaged only three days of work a
week. BUT WHAT THREE DAYSI
Into these three days of work there
has been compressed and packed at
least five-day output. In other
words, Ford is getting five-day pro-
duction out of the men while only
paying them three days wages in
return. Right here you can place
your finger on the source of Henry's
s49,00o,000 profit Of last year! 1t is
the result of super speed-up and ex-
ploitation
Terrific Speed Up.
Right rs in the Kansas City
plant arounc 5000 men we're en-
ployed in so-called normal times.
They used to turn out about 1850 cars
a day, or, in other words, an av-
er&ge of about 7 men per car Now,
With GOO men on the force, around
40 cars are turned out each day
AN AVERAGE OF MEN PER
CAR. In other words, the men have
been forced into an 80 per cent
speed-up!
just a couple of weeks ago the re-
port went the rounds that orders had
been given to cut more men off !;
enc out of ten, the report stated.
Since then the company has been
slowly whiting away to get down
to this figure. They do this by
gradually piling up more work and
extra little jobs on the men. Being
unorganized and afraid Of losing
what little they are making, the fell
lows are compelled to work faster
and faster. At the end of the day
most of them are utterly exhausted
and played out.
Gyps Workers Time.
One characteristic way in which
the Ford Motor Co. gyps the men is
this: Whenever the line goes out of
whack for a few minutes-let us say
five or six-they force the men to
work an even ten minutes to make
up for this. Then again if man
is a minute late he is docked Is min
utes When the fellows go home at
night they are subjected to hunnili-
ating shake-dowri. They are COM
PEELED to open their coats and their
dinner buckets to the scrutiny of a
Waterman, as though they were COM
mon criminals.
Ford Workers! While Ford piles
up $48,000,000 a year, you are being
speeded up, having your wages cut
and being forced down to the very
barest existence. In the two or three
days that you work you are being
sweated out of every ounce of en-
ergy in your bodies. What are you
going to do abaut it? What is
needed is organization
All over the United States the
Auto Workers Industrial League,
which is affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League, is organizing
the Ford Slaves" and the rest of the
automobile workers. In Detroit many
of the men are lining up. 1t is high
time that here in Kansas City we
started to do something.
If you are ready to join In the
work send your name and address
to the Trade Union Unity League,
at 812 Wyandotte St., Kansas City,
Mo-, or else come down and visit us
at this address. Ford workers, con-
ditions are unbearable. 1t is high
time to do something Organize
to fight against wage-cuts and
speed-upl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
(By a Worker Correspondent

Wy WOThVI NUfEtSpUiIutfttsT
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Philadel-
phia has within the last two days
seen the exodus of over two hundred
of the best hat makers in the city
who have uncerimoniously taken
leave for Newark, N. J. The Stetson
hat factory, VIGOROUSLY known for
its sweatshop methods and cheap
wages, yet charging top prices for
their hats, has given an other cut
to their employees.
A strike has been in progress in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
PA. NATIONAL GUARD
TRAINS FOR WAR ON
THE SOVIET UNION
Hold Maneuvers At Camp Gretna Against
Imaginary Red Enemy
Commander In Chief Tells Troops to Prepare
for War On Soviet Union
By a Militiaman

SCRANTON, Pa-Having spent two weeks in the Penn
sylvania National Guards (55th Brigade) Camp Gretna
have just what the United States government
by the peace conferences that broadly adverses
The true motive of the government unite all the other
governments against the only workers in the
world The United States is not preparing for peace but for
And here is the way they doing in Pennsylvania
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
Pittsburgh, Pa.

The workers every town should get the correct line
the local capitalist press that they explain ntelgenty
and convncng the role they play for the bosses the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-31
HOW THE PITTSBURGH
CAPITALIST PAPERS
ATTACK THE MINERS
The Press Speaks of Fairness But Lauds Scab
Policy of Lewis-Fagan Gang
All Pittsburgh Papers Work with Mine Owners
Ee Against the Miners @ O..

Daily Worker:
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
WHARF see n {
Of RUM FIGHT

A daring attempt to run a
boatload of whisky into Washing
ton in broad daylight was frus-
trated at the Municipal Fish
Wharf at noon today.
Two of the alleged bootleggers
were sent to Emergency Hospital
for treatment of wounds suf.
fered in the fight that followed
on the rum boat.
The captured men are Edward
Spiess. GOT Seventh st. S. E.,
and Steve Davids, of Alexandria.
Spiess suffered a possible frac-
tured skull.
Two policemen. of the Sixth
precinct, who had gone to the
wharf to buy some fish, heard a
man walking by whose boots
"clinked." Suspicious, they fol.
lowed and saw him take jars of
whisky out of the boots and place
them in a small car parked on the
dock.
Policeman William C. Grooms
placed two men in the car under
arrest and Policeman William
R. Laflin jumped on board the
boat. The two men on board
assaulted him. Groom, hearing
the fight, rushed to his partners
AID. They subdued the men, but
meanwhile the car with it's load of
whisky had escaped.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
EUROPE To j. s.
|NFEW HOURS
PREDICTED
Speed of 400 Miles an Hour
Can Be Made in Upper Air,
Swiss BaIIoonist Thinks

OBER-GURGL, Austrian Tyrol,
May 20 Q.N.SD D.-Flights from
Europe to America through the
stratosphere within a few hours"
were envisioned for the near
future today by Prof. Auguste
Picard. Swiss scientist who
penetrated that hitherto un-
charted region in a free balloon.
He said:
Cruising speed in the StratO-
sphere, owing to the absence of
resistance, would easily be 400
miles an hour, while engines
can be thrOttled down to 1000
revolutions a minute.
Cabins, however, must be
made air-prOOf and oxygen sup
piled by artificial means"
14S Degrees Below Zero
F Professor Picard said he plan,
ned To spend three days in the
little village of Ober-Gurgl to re-
cord his observations and tests
and to recover mis- instruments
from the balloon in which the
flight was made.
According to the scientist, his
most amazing discovery was that
the temperature in the StratO-
sphere is more than 148 degrees
below zero Farenheit.
Ideal Inside GOndOla
However. sealed as they were
in their gondola, the inside tenn
perature proved ideal and their
instruments flrnctioned perfectly
throughout the air voyage, he
said.
Prof Picard refused to make
definite statements regarding his
discoveries, saying that his OBJ
servations will require careful
calculation before they are given
to the world.
He announced he had been
able to measure the COnduCtivity
of gases generated by cosmic rays
and had accomplished other i'm
portant experiments.
Another Ascent Planned
Prof. Picard intimated that he
and DR.. Ripper may plan another
balloon ascent later in the year
to complete tests and observa-
tions.
(Other news of the thrilling
balloon trip on Page y
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
POL|CEMAN'S
PISTOL USED
|NQUARREL
IN WOODS
HairdresSer and Wounded Man
Tell Conflicting Stories; He
Accepts All Responsibility

A drinking party early today
preceded the shooting of Leonard
Hoffman, 25, of 1921 Belmont st.
N. W.. who is at Emergency Hos
pital in a serious condition with a
bullet lodged near his spine.
This development came to light
today when detectives questioned
Miss TiIlie B. Wilson, %, a hair
dresser. of 500 Third st. N. w.,
who told police she shot Hoffman
when he started to follow her into
the woods near Fourteenth Street
and Rhode Island Avenue North
east at 4 o'clock this morning.
Stopped for Speeding
According to the story told by
the girl, who is held at the
Woman's Bureau. she. Hoffman
and Policeman Charles B. KIM
ball, of the Twelfth precinct, went
to the woods on a drinking party,
after she and Leonard had been
stopped near the Twelfth precinct
station by Kimball for speeding.
During the conversation about
speeding, detectives said the girl
told them, the question of whisky
was brought up, whereupOn q
quantity was later procured. Then
Leonard and the girl followed the
policeman in their car to the
rendezvous, where they began tn
slrlsfIs. she said. yss
Used Policelnan's Gun
Miss Wilson. according to her
story to the police. left the two
men in the woods. and when
they started to follow her. she
told them to go back. The po-
liceman agreed but Hoffman fol-
lowed her. according to the girl.
CONTINUED on Page 2, Col. u
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
]. s. ACE To TRY
PACIFIC HOP

TOKYO. May %. - Thomas
Ash. American wartime aviator,
took off today for Sabishiro
beach on the first leg of his pro-
posed flight to Tacoma across
the Pacific Ocean.
Ash, who is flying the mono
plane that failed to carry Har-
old Bromley ard Harold Gatty
on a similar attempt last year.
was cheered by thousands of
school children, enthusiastically
waving American flags as his
plane rose from the ground.
Uses New Device
The American plans to start
on the long nonstop flight
across the ocean at 7 o'clock to-
morrow morning Is p. m. Wash
ington time. today.
The aviator expects his plane
to rise unhindered from the
dragging sands of the beach be-
cause of a new device that will
be attached to the tail skid.
The device, which consists of a
dolly wheel" supporting the tail,
is automatically disengaged when
the plane takes the air.
$50 Miles from Tokyo
Sabishiro beach, from which
Ash will take off, is $50 miles
northeast of Tokyo.
Ash expects to make the flight
of 4.488 miles in about 40 or so
hours.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
S|X-STORY FALL
ENDS LIFE Of
D. {. WIFE
Mrs. Ralph GoIdsmith's Body
Found at Entrance of Home
of Her Mother in Law

Mrs. Dorothy May Goldsmith,
1917 Varnum st. N. W, wife
of Ralph Goldsmith, merchandis-
ing manager of Lansburgh and
Brothers, was mortally injured
this afternoon when she leaped
or fell six floors from the roof
of the Woodley Park Towers
Apartments, 2737 DenvonShire Pl.
N. w. Mrs. Goldsmith was "a
years old.
According to Donald Davis,
colored doorman, Mrs. Goldsmith
entered the building and asked
for the apartment of her mother
in-laW, Mrs: Charles A. Gold
smith, wife of the vice president
OF the LanSburgh firm.
Found Her Body
d Mrs. Goldsmith hesitated, he
said, and he went upstairs in
response. to an elevator call. Re-,
turning some time later he found
Mrs. GOldSnith'S body lying in
front of the entrance.
Police believe Mrs. Goldsmith
walked up to the roof, as all
windows in the building directly
above where she fell W ere closed.
She was Semi-cOnscious when
found, both legs being broken in
the fall. and she was horribly cut.
Placed in a private automobile,
She was rushed to Emergency
Hospital, where she was pro-
nOunCed dead a few minutes later
by DIR. Harry F. Kaufman.
Ill Health Cited
Police questioned Alfred Perry,
colored chauffeur, who drove Mrs.
Goldsmith to the apartment, but
he was unable to throw any light
on the fatal fall.
Mrs. Goldsmith had been in i'll
health for sometime, police
learned.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
ADVANCE UNIT
OF AIR ARMY
ONWAY
Climax of Flight ManeuVerS
Here Tomorrow; Fleet Thrills
Baltimore and Philadelphia

The vanguard of the great
aerial armada that will appear
over Washington tomorrow in
the final event of the annual
army air corps maneuverS dropped
in at Boiling Field today.
This afternoon the first OF 24O
planes began arriving following
maneuvers over Philadelphia and
Baltimore. Thirty planes landed
at 1880 o'clock.
Have Bases Near BY
Other planes in the mighty
provisional division of almost 700
planes will not base here, but
viii fly to Logan Field, Balti-
aanrer Langley. .. Field, Virginia,
and other airports as far away
as Delaware and Pennsylvania.
The final maneuvers will start
here at 1890 tomorrow morning,
when the Capital will be attacked
from the air by half hundred
planes.
A squadron Of huge Condor
bombers will fly up from Lang
ley, accompanied by observation
ships, to bomb the District. Pur-
suit and attack planes will take
the air at the same time from
Logan Field to come to the de-
fense of the city, and the battle
will rage over the Potomac River.
Pass In Review
Following this engagement. the
20-mile long aerial parade of
units will take their place in the
almost TOO planes, and they will
pass in review up the river.
The program had been set for
1890 but was advanced an hour
in order not to conflict with the
Memorial Day exercises at Ar
lington Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
First f Years of ChiLd's
Life Held Most Vital

sociation. DR.. L. Pierce Clark.
psychiatrist, of New York, de-
clared that these early years car
ried the greatest responsibility
of parent to child"
The child during the first
three or four years of life is pass
ing through the oedipus period,
the period of emotional adjust
ment of the child to both par
ents. particularly to the parent
Of the opposite sex.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
CLENNA To WE'D
KIN Of VARE

PHILADELPHIA, May 29.-The
elimination of a romance which
was fostered on the golf links
was seen today when Mrs. George
H. Collett, of Greenwich, Conn,
announced the engagement of her
daughter, Glenna Collett, to Ed
win H. Ware, jr., nephew of Will
liam Scott ,are. Mrs. Collett
said the marriage will take place
shortly.
Glenna Collett was five times
crowned queen of American wom-
en- golfers.
M. Ware is a construction en-
gineer.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
GIRL FLEES CAR
At GUN POINT

Telling a tale of having leaped
from a moving automobile after a
man had attempted to attack her,
Dorothy Springman, II, is in
Casualty Hospital today suffering
from cuts and bruises.
The girl, who says that she
lives at 1925 Sixteenth St. N. W..
was taken to the hospital late last
night by Shirley BOwley, a taxi
cab driver, of TakOma Park.
Knows Man as tom"
Bowley found her in the street
in the 500 block of Twenty-sixth
st. N. W., where he had been
called by residents who sought to
assist the girl.
According to the girls story,
she went for ride with a man
whom she knows only as Tom. "
The man made advances to her,
she says, and when she repulSed
him, he drew a pistol and threat
ened her.
Then she jumped from the
automobile, according to her
story.
SWOH 90 o. pSSnySH
Detectives said Boley told them
the girl refused to go home and
demanded that he take her to
the southeast section. En- route
there. Boley said he saw a police
man whom he asked what to do
with his fare. The policeman
was said to have instructed Boley
to take the girl to Casualty
Hospital.
Miss Stringman was reported
as much improved today.
Police said that in August of
last year, Miss Stringman diSap-
peared for several days and was
the object Of an intensive search.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
Igloo, Bryds Famous
Dog, to Be Buried
At DedhGm

BOSTON, May 90 G.N.SO.
'IglOO-he was more than a
friend"
With this simple epitaph,
etched in a small marble monu.
ment placed over his grave,
1gloo, the little white Fox ter.
rier Of Rear Admiral Richard
e. Byrd, known to millions as
the dog who accompanied his
famous master to both the
North and South polar regions,
will be buried within the next
few days" in a little plot in
Pine Ridge cemetery. Dedham,
Admiral Byrd announced today.
Only members of the immedi-
ate household will be present.
including Byrd's son, Richard.
jr., IL.
The Washington times., 1931-05-29
Shoots His 'HerOine,'
Gets SpeedY Justice

WAUSAU, Wis, May % G.N.S)
Walter Grunewald, 48, author,
was serving a 1O-to-25-year term
in the penitentiary today. "a
hours after he had shot Miss Jean
Zick, 27. heroine in his novel,
THE White Queen" Grunewald
confessed after the shooting and
pleaded guilty to a charge of
assault with attempt to kill. He
said he had quarreled with his
sweetheart because she gossiped
about him.