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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

Camp Merritt, New Jersey Every day we we're
lined up and searched for ammunition The
officers were afraid to have a single Negro
have one cartridge while in the U. S.
After a final search of the Negro troops for
cartridges and at the same time issuing am
muation to the white troops we were loaded on
the U. S. s. Leviathan.
Made Graye-diggers
On the way to France 500 white soldiers died
of the flu. We arrived in Brest right in the midst
OF the worst epidemic of the flu in history
From $50 to 300 deaths a day When the white
officers found that very few Negroes we're dy-
ing OF the flu, they made the Negroes do all
the scavenger work in camp. The Negroes all
furnished details to dig the graves and to load
and unload the dead bodies and to cover up
graves.
We did this two weeks and then were sent
to the front to an artillery camp. The food was
awful and the Negro soldiers were not allowed
to go to town and mix with the French people
1t was here we learned that General Pershing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
HOT n z w s!

nalistic opium and how it is created.
Gauvreau tells the story of his life
devoted to jazz journalism. The book
is in fictionalized form, but the char
acters are easily recognizable. The
owner of the newspaper is MacFad-
den, Of the McFadden publications
who has made himself many millions
by sexing the news and magazines
and setting the pace for all the tab
loids. McFadden appears in Hot
News" under the name of Bunny
weather.
Gauvreau, brought up in the best
traditions of American capitalism,
through his editorship of several New
England newspapers, gets his first
job on a tabloid. Bunnyweather gives
him his instructions, and Gauvreau
prides himself on his ability to carry
out instructions no matter how low
he must crawl. Bunnyweather wants
to reach the masses. He says:
Remember that am the champ
ion of the common people. Never
print anything that scrubwonlan
in skyscraper cannot understand.
Talk to them in pictures, flaring,
glazing pictures. Sit down on the
curbstone and chat with them. Catch
their eyes so that I can pour my
message into their brains!"
What is this burning message that
McFadden-we, mean Bunnyweasher
wants to pour into the brains of the
workers? Sex and money" says
Gauvreau.
The money is for Bunnyweatller
who has no scrupplss in squeezing
the life savings from the scrubwomen
by getting them to buy worthless land
plots.
The pictures are seni-nude chorus
girls enticing the reader on nearly
every page" With them go moral
sermons written by skypilots at the
rate of $1,000 week
There is an interesting incident in
connection with the pictures to show
that Gauvreau and his type do not
stick to semi-nudes to mislead the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

workers.
One of the tabloids has a clever
idea on carrying out the lying CAM
paign about forced labor in the So
Wet Union Gauvreau invented an
idea that stood them in good stead.
If Gauvreau wanted to picture a
bedroom scene and make it look
real they would photograph sim
liar, enacted episode in the editorial
office and then paste the heads of
the individuals involved into the
manufactured picture. Great stuff,
he thought!
Now we must rouse up hatred
against the Soviet Union! PLAY up
forced labor!" That's the instruc-
ton that rings in all the editorial
offices Of the capitalist sheets.
A bright young panderer takes a
picture of worker beaten in Ven
ezuela by the Wall Street protected
dictator; they paint in some Russian
scenery. A CORY article is written
and they offer the Photographic
proof
Strikes, revolutions, conditions of
the masses, war preparations, an un-
derstanding of the realities of life,
this was all taboo, Gauvreau writes
Most of the news is manufactured to
order. For months the readers are
fed on the Peaches Browning degen-
eracy, manufactured, Gauvreau tells
us, from the whole cloth by the
Graphic. Even murder was allowed,
to manufacture news desired by the
tabloids. Gauvreau tells how he plan
ned murder himself but he says
he stopped just in time.
Il realize how I had skirted to the
abyss of murder. 1t was a long road
to travel in a short space of two
years. What was I now? At best,
a panderer to the barest ia7sincts Of
mankind"
T his chest thumo Ding is really
praise and an attempt of Gauvreau
to show he really wasn't as bad as
he could be.
Bunnyweather told him to keep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

g flock of stool-pigeons" employed,
and franle-ups were as ordinary as
running the paper off the press daily
When Rothstein, arch gangster of
New York was killed. Gauvreau got
a story telling of the inside life of
Rothstein. Just before the serial tell
ing about Rothstein's pavment Of
$4,000 to Tammany Hall boss for
the right to run gambling houses
''''77o'e"'ad 80 '-'''--I-' TIE serial
wes ordered killed. Why
IT was gettine close too close
-. to the truth"
n oth-- 500 ~---N-~ ~ 49,
masses. fill their minds with any
kind of degeneracy, but don't get "too
close to the truth"
The sport pages of the tab1oids and
--' o-'''<N''-t ~',-'- - ovidtl-'
read by the workers and Gauvreau's
description Of the type OF individual
who usually run these pages is in
teresting. Referring to his sport ed
itor, he says: HE instructed his men
from various dens of vice by tele-
phoning at irregular intervals
At election time the paper got its
instructions on whom to plug for Or
ders came from Tan1nlany Hall.
Drunken and doped editors wrote the
editorials The highest class edi-
torial and newspaper men were al
ways begging to be employed.
The book is written in the tabloid
'->cl-i ~ 1a1,t
the booze-filled editor can see north
ing but the glory of the chase after
That millions Of workers
are drugged with capitalist poison,
with lies, with the pandering to the
"basest instincts bothers this pen
prostitute not at all He still has
an important job carrying on the
same type of work in loftier style.
The book is a good description of
the filth and slime the capitalist
press feeds to the workers to keep
them from overthrowing the dunghill
of capitalism which sprouts such
poisonous weeds.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
GoV't Hearings Reveal
US. War Preparations

for the views that you have given
You have suggested two or three
times that you have been rushed
in this matter, and may say to you
that any supplement that you care
to add to the remarks that you have
made will be gladly received by the
commission"
Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of
the War Industries Board in the last
imperialist war, pointed out that
war is death grapple between peo-
pies and economic systems" which
sounds strangely like a recognition
of the fact that the Soviet and the
American economic systems are quite
different and that war against the
Soviet Union is not far off.
Arthur j. Lowell vice president
and national legislative representa-
tive of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen and Enginemen, wish
ed to assure the Commission that the
members of his brotherhood would
be loyal to the imperialist machine
whenever war came. He illustrated
this APPLY by pointing out how many
of his union brethren had served
in the last war. They were not only
in France and along the front, but
one special corps, known as the Rus
sian Railway Corps, served in Russia,
and they did real service"
DR. Thomas Hall Shastid, introduc-
ed by Secretary Hurley as the ''foun-
der of Give the People Their Own
War Power Qnc) in 1927, and author
Of just One Check on War, 1928;
How to Stop International War, 1928.
and Shastid Proposed Peace Amend
ments to the Constitution of Va
rious Lands" presented his patented
device for a cure for war under cap
itahsn. In the course of his state
7ent this sterling pacifist let slip
the following: THE Russian Govern
ment stands as the greatest known
to the peace of the world.
What will happen to the mythical
rights of free speech, press and as
semblage during the next war was
gketched by Herbert B. Swope, editor
of the liberal New York World
until 1928, and associate member Of
the War Industries Board during the
last war
Just as raw materials, capital (sic)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
BY P. r. DIETRICH.

While production is continuously
declining in all other branches of
industry as result of the ire
mendous economic crisis, we note
stupendous boom in the war indus
try of the imperialist powers and of
their vaSsai states. This is particu-
larry true of France, England, Italy,
as well as for Poland, Rumania,
Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and the
Baltic states. The economic crisis.
therefore, has obviously not brought
the development of war industry to
standStill. Quite the contrary.
Despite the aggravation of the econ
omic crisis with all its uncomfortable
burdens for the toiling masses, de-,
spite their financial difficulties which
are increasing daily, the governments
OF the capitalist countries are sys-
tematically increasing their expendi-
lures on ornaments.
That the expansion of the war in
dustries and of general armament in
all capitalist countries, partly carried
out openly and partly in concealed
forms, serve first of all the prepara-
ton for the war of intervention, is
.lloWn by the following factss =
French imperialism is exerting
o,y effort TO strengthen the fight
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

ing capacity of its allies along the
western frontiers of the Soviet Union
Poland, Rumania and Czechoslo-
vakia. The means of transport which
must connect the industrial bases of
the coming intervention in France
and England with Poland and Ru-
mania, the principal issues of the
attack, do not seem sufficiently Sc
cure; SO every measure has been
taken to strengthen as far as pos
sible the industrial bases for war in
Poland, Rumania and Czechoslo-
vakia. A further fact of importance
is the financial expansion of the
leading munition manufacturers of
Western Europe, primarily the
French firm OF Schneider Creusot
and the English firm of vickers, into
Poland and Czschoslovakia.
The Chief Arsenal of the Army
of Intervention.
Czechoslovakia has become the
principal arsenal of Eastern and
Southern Europe. 1t is at the same
time the connecting link of the Pol
ish-R umanian-Bal armies, since it
has much better transport connec-
lions with these countries than have
France or England. These facts ex-
plain why French capitalism has,
made the most of Czechoslovakia
industrial base, already highly de-
veloped before the war, to expand
and develop its war industry to an
enormous extent. For it's activity
Schneider Creusot has made use of
an entire financial system, in the
form of two large banks, the Union
Enropeenne," with a capital of
hundred million francs. and the
Union Parisienne."
These banks have played a special
role in developing Czechosolvakian
war industries and especially the
Skoda Works.
Tremendous Earnings of the Skoda
Works.
The "Skodowak," the factory news
pager of the Skoda Works, publishes
the following announcement: "a con-
ference of the financial consortiuin
OF Schneider Creusot-S koda was held
recently, at which the final balance
for the year 1880 was read as fo-
lows: Gross earnings, 257 million
crowns CT million more than in the
preceding year,; net earnings, g.
$4,000 crowns Zone million more
than the preceding year,; 127 mil
lions written off the books (43 mil,
lions more than the preceding year,,
dividend per share again amounts to
80 crowns"
Thanks to the efforts of French
and Czechoslovakian capital there
are at the present time in Czecho-
slovakia six rifle and machine-gun
factories, five artillery works, fiji
teen cartridge and shell factories,
four factories manufacturing air..
plane motors, eight gunpowder and
explosives factories, ten factories for
manufacturing gas poison and anti
poison gas materials.
In these enterprises more than
10000 workers are employed and in
case of war the number of workers
could be increased to 100000.
Polish Armaments Industry. 80
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
Ford to Fire More
Workers in August
Detroit, Mich.

Detroit, Mich.
Dear Daily Worker:
In spite of the fact that about
C5,oo0 workers were discharged
by the Ford River Rouge plant
since June Is, the annual "vaca-
tons" at the Ford River Rouge
plant did not even get started yet.
The real vacations will begin in
August. And do not wonder If
you hear next time from Detroit
about revolt of auto slaves. Where
ever you go here the air is great
" charged with the grievances of
workers. The bosses fear the
workers and drive to their shop
offices under police protection,
The workers when they see the
bosses grind their teeth and clinch
their fists and do not be surprised
when you hear about revolt of
ATTIC workers.-N. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

and men are conscripted or controll-
ed, SO must public opinion be dealt
With in time Of war It must be or
ganlzed and paraded under drill mas
tiers. Censorship and propaganda
are the agencies of domination.
For home consumption all wars are
defensive and all are based upon the
questions of national honor"
SWope urged the necessity of what
he called positive propaganda, ="
which however naive at times shall
proclaim our virtues, sublinate our
aims and accentuate our successes
and indict the views of the enemy
and minimize his achievements.
The actual industrial preparations
of the War Department we're brought
out in some detail by military off,
Gals who appeared before the Com
mission. Some of the outstanding
facts revealed in this connection
were the following;
/. Some 1875 factories have al
ready been "allocated to production"
OF war time supplies and some 10000
more are being surveyed for the same
purpose. Those companies that might
decline ALLEGATION will simply have
their source of raw materials cut
off.
2. Some $4,000 industriausts hold
reserve commissions in the army.
They are working with the War De-
partment, planning the capacity and
requirements of industry in war time.
8. Special raw material procure
ment plans" have been prepared for
what are described as Strategic" and
critical" materials, those not mined
or produced in this country.
4. The procurement planning divi-
sion OF the War Department alone
employs about $50 officers, full time
and part time, and has about three
hundred civilians and clerks work.
ing in it.
5. The War Department has pro-
jects for the control of the price
of labor" and control Of labor mi
grationsS in its full drawn Plan foril
Industrial Mobilization which occu-
pies about 125 pages of the report
Of the War Policies Commission. The
charts and diagrams in the
report all include important sections
on the mobilization of labor facilt-
ties"
8. These plans of the War Depart
ment call for the closest coopers-
ton with and utilization of the lead |
srs of the American Federation of
Labor, as shown in our article in the
Daily Worker, July 10, 1881.
7. The War Department has thus
gradually secured a hold over Amer
can industry and will in the coming
war have a complete Dictatorship
over all industrial equipment and
abor
g. In view of the close connections
between the War Department and
he Chamber of Commerce of the
United States and It's Special Com
nittee on National Defense, which
obbies in Congress for War Depart
nent measures, it can safely be IRE
licted that normal war profits VIII
e enjoyed by the capitalists of the
United States during the next in,pe-
lalisy war. |
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away from him and made him dance The GEN
eral In command then issued an order that
officers would only carry pistols when on duty.
All Southern officers always wore pistols, when
IN command of Negro troops We we"s then
given rifles, but no ammunition, and sent to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30
States Bordering U.S.S.R.
Armed Inberialist CAMPS

This Is part of larger study on
THE War of Intervention Against
the Soviet Union and the Second
international" 1t exposes clearly
the preparations for the attack ON
the Soviet Union through the ever
greater arming of the vassaI states
surrounding the Soviet Union.
While the arm;ng of the border
states by the haspcrialist powers is
pushed to the utmost the imperial
lists are piling up their own arma-
ments, both land and naval for
the attack on the Soviet Union.
The United States spends SO cents
out of every budget dollar for war
and has the greatest expenditure
for ornaments in the worId.-Ed)
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

production. The author is a for
mer New York newspaper man,
and his play concerns Hollywood
publicity methods.
"The Honor of the Family"
First Nationals screen version of
Balzac's dramatic romance of the
same title, will be seen as the
screen attraction at Warner Bros.
Earle Theater for the week begin
ming Saturday, october II.
Originally set for the current
week Helen Twelvetrees and Ri
cardo Cortez, in Bad Company"
will now have it's first local show
ing at the R-K-O Keith Theater on
the coming Friday, October 16.
There is but one Schuman-
Heink and the glory of her art can
never be put into words. Her i'm
pending visit, therefore for the first
time in Gilbert and Sullivan opera
she is to be here in the Messrs.
Shubert's revival of The Mikado"
has caused something of a furore
among theatergoers and music
lovers.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Attractions Due
Next In D. {.
Theaters

ELISA Landi in Wicked" is the
next screen attraction at the Fox.
EStelle Taylor Tin person. will be
the extra added stage attraction.
The Phantom Of Paris" is the
attraction that will be shown on
the Palace screen beginning next
Friday with John Gilbert in the
leading role.
Eddie Cantor will be seen be-
ginning next Friday at Loew's
Columbia Theater in his latest
production, "Balmy Days"
A brilliant cast and brilliant
story are promised in Twenty
four Hours" the Paramount pic
ture based on the Cosmopolitan
story by Louis Bromfield, coming
to Warmers Metropolitan Theater
for the week starting Saturday,
October II.
Morris Green, who staged the
Joe Cook musical, Fine and
Dandy" coming to the National
Theater on Sunday, October 18,
is coproducer with A. L. Jones, of
Louder Please" a comedy by
Norman Krasna that has Just
been announced for New York
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

radio. Over the instrument
was coming the report of that
great dinner to Maurice Cheva.
lier. And there was Dilling.
ham, just five stories away.
It wasn't Maurice'S fault that
Dillingham; wasn't at the main
table with him. It wasn't the
fault Of the Friars. It was lust
one Of those things that are
bound to happen along the
street called Broadway. Just one
of those things W. call an over
sight. ..
So Charles DILLINGHAM; at
tended the Chevalier dinner by
the radio route. He smiled with
the speakers, and he nodded his
applause at q fine statement.
But I wonder If. deep down, he
didn't feel the least bit strange.
Here he was: a producer who
holds q contract with Chevalier.
The French star in q Dillingham;
show today would 60 a long way
toward recouping the losses that
Charles Dillingham; must have
suffered. He hears the, acclaim.
but he cannot join in. He Is
the owner Of a star; yet the star
does not belong to him.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Mark HeIlinser
(Continued From Paae 3D.

NSOUSHUS0 EFV" FOBE 81
thing at all, Dillingham; lnune-
diately gave his permission to
Lasky. With the result that
Maurice came to this country
and turned out his first talk.
ing picture.
The developments you know
as well as I. Chevalier, employ.
ing the most remarkable per-
sonal magnetism the screen
has ever known. Immediately
jumped into the front ranks Of
the picture stars. Today he is
probably the biggest box office
attraction in the country. And
because he has been so thor
oughly regular under all condi-
tions. there is none who envieS
him his success.
A few nights ago, the Friars
Club rendered a dinner to
Maurice Chevalier. It was one
Of the biggest events of the
season, and everybody who
meant anything in New York
turned out to pay their respects
to Maurice. The affair was
held in the grand ballroom Of
the Hotel AStor.
On the fifth floor of the
same hotel sat Charles B.. Dill
lingham. He was alone in his
room, and he sat facing a
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Concert Notes

Dorothy Radde Emery, Wash
ington composer. will be honored
in a musical program at the
Y. w. C. A. tomorrow afternoon
at 5 o'clock.
The Washington and Baltimore
chapters, American Guild of Or
ganists. will be entertained by the
Richmond chapter Monday night.
Miss Charlotte Klein, dean of the
Washington chapter, will play a
recital.
The Westminster Choir will come
to Washington November 4 at
Constitution Hall, sponsored by
the Washington Federation of
Churches and the D. C. Fedora
ton of Music Clubs.
Music lovers will have an un-
usual treat October 20, when at
Central Community Center a
joint recital will be given by
Louise Homer, contralto, and Sid.
ney. Homer, composer, and the
Homer sisters.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

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The Washington times., 1931-10-10

Spartanburg. S. C.-"Whenever
I am in a rundown condition I
use DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. I had become very
nervous, had no appetite, lost
weight and had very little am.
bition to do anything" said Miss
Julia Ballard of 200 John st.
But a single bottle of the Dis
covery' proved it's worth-I was
soon feeling normal"
Every package Of DIR. Pierce's Fam
lily Remedies contains a symptom Blank.
If you desire free medical advice. fill
out the questionable and mail it to DIR.
Pterce's Clinic Buffalo. n. Y. Ask your
druggist for
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The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Late Stage News
Direct From
Broadway

NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Mary
Young has been engaged by Viii
liam A. Brady, for the leading
role in Woman of Destiny"
which will likely be his second
production of the season here, fol
lowing his presentation of
Church Mouse" which opens at
the Playhouse Monday. The play
is by Sam Warshawsky and is
said to deal with the career of a
presumed woman President of the
United States. Casting will start
Immediately for Miss Young's
supporting company and rehear-
sails will commence within a fort
night.
Roy Royston and Carlotta Ryan
have been added to the cast Of
the forthcoming Peter Arno sa-
tirical musical comedy, Here
Comes the Bride" Douglas Byng,
London revue clown and COM
edian, arrives here today to ap-
pear later in the season in a
musical comedy under the direc-
ton of Norman Bel-Geddes. ..
Gladys Freeman, player for Be
lasco and ziegfeld, will appear in
"Counsellor-at-Law," the new FL
mer Rice play now in prepara-
ton.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10

SociateS are receiving, Roxy will
show the Germans how Yankees
handle big broadcast.
Roxy made a speech the other
day from Moscow. OF course, the
talk was less than the dust in
the eyes of the Rooshans, for
Rothafel can't speak a word of
the MuscoviteS' lingo, but Roxy
nevertheless said he was glad to
ETC., ETC., ETC., and a bespectacled
interpreter translated the talk.
The Washington times., 1931-10-10
Honor
O.D.youlne
On Radio
BY STANLEY BIGELOW

Get the big Ones!"
This must be the policy of the
insurance company which on
Tuesday inaugurated a series of
broadcasts with an address by
former President Calvin Coolidge
over an N.B.C. lookup.
Next Tuesday Owen D. Young
will be the subject Of q dramatic
biography. Mr.. Young's thrilling
career will be presented to the
radio audience by Frazier Hunt,
author and newspaper correspond,
ent.