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Milford chronicle., 1931-11-13
BUCK ENDORSES
RED CROSS DRIVE,
CHRISTMASSEA
Governor Asks Support
OF Two Movements Soon
To Seek Funds
SEES MORE DEMAND

Two humanitarian movements
have been endorsed by Governor c.
Douglass Buck. He has issued two
statements, one of which urged Del
awareans to support the Red Cross,
which soon will launch it's annual
roll call.
The other statement asked that
aid be given the Delaware Anti-Tu-
berculosis Society's annual Christ
mas Seal sale.
The governors endorsement of
the Red Cross drive follows:
I'm cOmmemoration of the com
pletion of so years of service to
humanity, the American Red Cross
has designated the period beginning
on Armistice Day, November IL, to
Thanksgiving Day, as the 50th an
niversary roll call.
"The necessity of maintaining at
all times a national organization
prepared to act instantly and eff
ciently in times of great distress, is
universally recognized. In the past
so years the National Red Cross,
through it's 5000 chapters has fac
ed and met all demands upon its
resources, in a manner worthy of
the highest cOmmendation. The
coming winter will again bring in
creased demands for their services
and in order to enable both the
chapters and the national organiza-
ton to meet these urgent needs,
substantial increase in membership
is essential.
81 would therefore, earnestly call
to the attention of the people of the
State of Delaware, the 50th ami
versary roll call and urge that they
respond to the call of the American
Red Cross with ferVor that will be
unprecedented in our State"
Endorses Christmas Seals
Here is the Governors statement
endorsing the sale of Christmas
seals as sponsored by the Delaware
Anti-Tuberculosis Society:
"The 25th annual sale of Christ
mas seals sponsored by the Della
ware Anti-Tuberculosis Society will
be conducted throughout the State |
of Delaware beginning the day fol-
lowing Thanksgiving and continue
until New Years Day, 1882.
81 hope every citizen of our State
will support this humanitarian
by purchasing these seals
of surety, thus insuring the contin-
uation of the worthy work of eradi-
eating tuberculosis in which this or
ganization is engaged"
Milford chronicle., 1931-11-13
WEEKLY WEATHER
REPORT FOR MILFORD

Charles ]. Holzmueller, local wea.
ther recorder, reports the following
weather conditions in Milford from
Wednesday, November 4, to Tues
day, November 10, inclusive:
Milford chronicle., 1931-11-13
TrOnhY Winners

High over ALL. P. Hammond.
Glass Al. G. Highfield. Glass B,
]. w. Anderson. Glass c, A. w.
White. Glass D, S. G. Pierce.
Handicap-First, L. S. Evans;
second, H. C. Williamson.
Doubles-A and B, L. w. r. Wal
ler.
c and D-J. P. Hammond.
Simon trophy-W. N. Taylor.
Milford chronicle., 1931-11-13
Temperature Rain

Total Rainfall ...... None
Total Rainfall for October .....2.76
The following winds and condi-
tions prevailed during the same
period:
Prevailing
Wind
Nov 4 .Northwest-Clear
Nov. 5. Northwest Clear - Heavy
Frost
Nov. G. Northwest-Clear
Nov. 7. .HR5rthwest-Cle - Killing
Frost
Nov. 8. South-Clear
Nov. 8. .Southw est-Clear
Nov 10-Southwest-Clear
Milford chronicle., 1931-11-13

The only real relief for
unemployment is work.
Work is the only form of
insurance against unen-
ployment with which the
State should concern itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

There is quite lot of talk about planning"
capitalism. Green and the A. F. Of L. official
dom are very much worried about capitalisms
failing because it can't plan economy and make
the two poles meet-production and consunp-
ton. Some capitalist economists talk about
planning" The more the Five-Year Plan in the
Soviet Union drives to success in the midst of
the world capitalist crisis, the louder the pleas
for capitalist planning"
The liberals who yelp about taking Commun-
ism away from the Communists" in reality mean
employing the idea of planned economy, grating
it onto capitalist anarchy by the bloody ANAL
gam of fascism. 1t is just as feasible to plan
capitalism as to graft dogs head on an apple
tree. Every nerve and fibre of capitalism shrieks
against planning. Planning means the end of
capitalism, and capitalism is not ready to COM
nit suicide
The basis of private property the whole ques-
ton of the production for profit the principle
of the distribution of capital through competi-
tion-the life blood Of capitslism-are choked up
in any effort to plan" capitalism on any scale
sufficient to make ripple in its economic life
None know these facts better than the capital
lists themselves; that is those capitalists not
forced to answer embarrassing questions in the
class rooms. Those at the helm of the profit
squeezing machinery, the $50" whose word is law,
look upon planning as enthusiastically as a ku-
lax views the success Of Socialist collectives
We have the staid Commercial and Financial
Chronicle april Is, 1881 even quoting poetry
to ward off this spectre of planning" They
remind the misled capitalist scholasticS who
talk about planning" that 1.-The best laid plans
o men and mice gang oft agley." They wisely
inform those who do not grasp the fundamental
laws of capitalism that: There is no way to
bring conflicting, competing industries into a
single plan" To bring home the lesson in a
clearer and sharper manner they point out with
remarkable grasp of their class position that:
NO plan can reconcile our many contradic-
tons and confusions"
These practical men Of capitalism who shy
free from this oil-and-water theory of planned
capitalism know that their profit-pumping sys-
tenn must be based on its anarchical foundation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Wall St. Govt Delivers T. H. Ii to-
Chang Kai-Shek tor Execution
lean government,

lean government,
If not stopped by mighty mass protest on
the part Of the workers, farmers, and all anti
imperialist elements in America, the revolution
airy movement will lose most valuable leader,
and one of its best fighters!
Owing to the deepening of the crisis and
growing discomfort of the masses, the campaign
of terror of American Imperialism against the
revolutionary workers, especially Negro and for
eign born workers, is greatly intensified. The
Scottsboro case the Serio case, and the cases of
Kenomatsu and Machado, all foregn-born work
ers marked for deportation, are all part of the
same terrorist campaign Of the boss class and its
government.
The growing instability of the tottering Chi
ang Kai-Shek regime in Marking gives fresh i'm
petus to his imperiahst Uncle" Sam to increase
its terrorist attacks against the Chinese workers
in America well as in China. Our answer
is mass protest, mass demonstrations against this
cold-blooded attempt to murder T. H Lii against
the ScottSboro case, and all such cases. We must
intensity fight all along the lines, and echo
ing the cannons of the Red Armies in China,
fight to winl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
PRE- CONVENTION DISCUSSION
YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE, u. S. A.
Organizing the Youth of the Needle Trades

in those few comrades who at one time did come
down to meetings and were involved in our gen.
eral activity. For an example, the various COM
mittees such as sports social educational, ETC..
do not meet and not involved in the max
ing and carrying out of decisions. The Execu-
tive made decision to have a mass meeting in
preparation for May LIST. So the Executive ran
off the leaflets and the Executive distributed
the leaflets and as result very few more than
the Executives came to the meeting.
The immediate steps that must be taken are:
l, We must Immediately set up youth trade
groups in the dress and millinery trade, whereby
we will be able to draw in again these comrades
that used to carry on work Also from a gen.
eral group Of the comrades in the other trades
with the perspective of building up groups Of the
other trades.
2 The task OF these groups to work out
plans for their perspective trades and at once
select few buildings, preferably where the union
is concentrating and where we have union shops,
for concentration points.
8, That the union organizers in the various
trades while visiting the shops, take a registra-
ton of all the young workers and that this
registration be turned over to the youth depart
ment. Also that at every shop meeting youth
comrade be present to take up the youth prob
lens and see to it that the conditions OF the
young workers live up to the agreements
4. The trade groups must make it their bust
ness to visit the young workers in our shops
as well as the contacts on hand They must
also keep them constantly informed through mail
an bishop meetings Of the various activity of the
youth department.
S. The leading comrades in the union must
demand, occasionally, report from the youth
department, and Sc eto it that they give the
necessary guidance to the young comrades
g. That the youth executive Immediately
work our concrete plan on work for mobiliz-
ing the young needle trades comrades for Ma
tional Youth Day.
T. Last but not least, the district Bureau OF
the YCL should call in few leading comrades
OF the fraction and take up the question OF how
Systematically we should recruit members OF the
youth section into the League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Metal Miners NMU District
Convention Plans Fight

1RONWOOD, Mich, May 14.-The
third annual Metal Miners Con-
vention of the National Miners
Union, with 103 regular and frater-
nal delegates from Upper Michigan
copper and iron mines from the
MeSaba and Cajuna Iron Range in
Minnesota, met in IronWood. Some
delegates came over 500 miles on bad
roads. The convention led the basis
for future strike struggles in the
metal mining industry in this coun-
try.
Young miners, employed and I'M
employed, told stories of the SO per
cent unemployment that was forcing
miners to abandon their homes, to
see their families starve in the midst
of millions upon millions of tons of
ore and copper that they have dug
out of the ground, making huge prof
its for the steel and copper trusts.
The convention elected a new
District Board and a Resident Board,
centering their major attention on
Strengthening the union into a
strong fighting organization.
Mine Committees.
Most of the delegates came from
locals based on mine and shaft COM
mittees. They discussed the, problem
OF spreading further and deeper the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

influence of the union and roofing
it into the mines.
The discussion exposed new speed
up devices that are throwing more
and more out of work every day, and
impending new wage-cuts on top Of
the steady wage-cutting schemes
which are already in use.
The convention unanimously adopt
ed resolutions declaring solidarity
with the nine victims of lynch JUS
tice in Scottsboro, and of solidarity
with the striking dock workers ir
Duluth.
The resolution on the dock strike
spoints out:
In order TO win in the struggle
against wage-cuts, Speed-up, ETC., We
must have our own committees or
the job; in this your problem is the
same as ours. AS we build our mine
committees in the mines it is for you
to build the dock committees on the
docks and the waterfront.
Your mass picket lines will b.
taken as examples for the coming
struggles of the workers in all fields
This convention goes on record
with an appeal to all workers or
CARNATIONS to support the United
Front Relief Committee of the long
shore strikers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
go Ahead" Gary Officials
Answer JObleSs Suicide Threat
Relief Cut Off; Delegation Demands That
More Be Given; Force Way Into Office;
Rush Plans for State Hunger>Mar

GARY, Ind, April 27.-Protesting
the closing off of relief on the excuse
that all funds appropriated have
been exhausted, delegation of IL
Negro and white workers, men and
women, from the Gary Unemployed
Council went to the Calumet Town
ship trustees and demanded imme-
diately the opening of the relief Of
flee. Hundreds of workers are being
refused relief now on the excuse that
the appropriation for poor relief, for
the month of April amounting TO
only $4,000, has been all given out.
The state legislature several
months ago passed law stating that
the Township Advisory Board must
decide each month how much is to
be spent for poor relief in the follow
ing month. This law was passed in
order to limit the unemployed work.
ers to diet of slow starvation. Start
ing out by giving an average of SIS
a month in groceries to each family,
the trustee now refused to give more
than IS Or $40 month. On top Of
that a new plan of forced labor" is
now being introduced to make the
workers work three days for a bas-
ket of groceries. When the commit
tee came to the trustees office they
found dozens of workers waiting
there who had been told that they
could have nothing to eat.
One woman with four children
threatened to turn on the gas and
kill her children and herself. She
was told "go ahead and do it,"
When the delegation tried to enter
the office they we're stopped by de-
tectives who tried TO chase them
away, finally seeing the angry mood
of the workers, committee of three
we're allowed to interview the trustee
Mrs. Wells. She was very angry at
the nerve of the unemployed work
ers demanding more relief and want
cd to know why the unemployed
workers hadn't saved their money.
When forced TO admit that there
were hundreds starving Who could
:.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
By r. DooNPNG.

A COLD FLOODED murder is being planned
by the Department of Labor of the U. S
Government, in cooperation with the Chinese
miltarist butcher, Chang Kai-Shek. The VIC
tim is Tao Hsuan Ii, Boxer indemnity student
a militant Chinese revolutionist and secretary of
the New York District of the Anti-Imperialist
League of the United States.
Lii was ordered by the immigration authorities
to appear at Ellis Island at noon Friday, May
Is, and be prepared to leave the country the
next morning for Shanghai via San Francisco
In Shanghai or any other port in China there
is not the slightest chance for Lii to escape fear
full torture and death. Under the conditions OF
the most brutal white terror in China, Ii can be
considered as dead as soon as he is on his way
to China as a deported revolutionist.
While the case was pending, an application
was filed with the Department of Labor de-
manding the right of voluntary departure. The
application was denied by the Department of
Labor on April Q with no explanation, and Ii
was subsequently ordered deported to China
where the firing squad or the executioners
sword is awaiting him. This is nothing short
of cold-bloded murder on the part of the Amer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
BY JEANETTE RUBIN.

CONSIDERING the situation of the young work
ers in the needle trades we have many times
come to the conclusion that we have wide
field for organization.
At present a continuous drifting into the in
dustry of Spanish Italian and Negro workers
is an important factor. These workers are most
ly young girls who have practically no traditions
of organization, but at the same time en-
during miserable conditions They receive at
an average of $10-$12 per week for about so to
80 hours under inhuman speed-up. These young
workers have not been corrupted through the
company union and ready to be organized.
But what are we doing about il?
Through the last strike we came in contact
with from 200 to 300 young workers and as
result of the strike a large number of these
young workers are members of our union work
ing in our shops and enjoying the 40-hour 5-day
week and $40 minimum wage. In some cases
the young workers are getting SIG to $l8 with
. clause in the agreement, between the union
and the firm that their wages are gradually to
increase until it reaches the maximum scale.
In all these instances we are doing nothing
In this respect we do not even have the names
and addresses of the young workers who are
members of our union and are working in our
shops.
Since it is true that we have very young
and inexperienced conlrade as youth organizer
we can hardly blame her for our shortcomings,
as she is very hard worker and sincere COM
rade Under these circumstances not once were
the young comrades called by the office staff
nor the fraction executive TO report what they
are doing and the same applies to the district
committee of the Young Communist League. The
district committee Of the League simply sat-
sfied itself with mechanically assigning in the
shock plan, to Bronx Unit that it be respon-
sible TO recruit five needle trades workers into
the League. In many instances the unit organ
izers look down upon the comrades doing trade
union work instead Of pushing the comrades into
trade unions
Up 10 date we have confined ourselves 10 a
small number OF comrades who continually have
small committee meetings; in actually getting
no results No attempt has been made TO draw
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Capitalism Apologies for It's,
Existence
BY HARRY CANNES

BY HARRY CANNES
CAPITALISM is now forced to apologize for its
v existence. Tons of newsprint and mountains
of electrical energy via the radio are being used
TO bolster up the faith of the masses in capital
ism. 1t is a hard job, but the theorists of the
bosses are inventive and resourceful. They have
a vivid Imagination.
Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon, in
a speech before bankers assembled at the In
ternational Chamber of Commerce in Washing
ton said on May S that Capitalism is still in
its infancy"
Every worker with half an eye open can see
the gangrenous decay of capitalism; he can see
capitalism dead in one-sixth of the globe and
a new socialist civilization growing out of it;
he can see millions starving to death; the pre-
parations for a imperiahst war to slaughter new
millions Yet Andrew Mellon, Millionaire ex-
ploiter, who admits he feasts well at the ban
quet of life mistakes the second childhood of
capitalism, the antics of decrepid old age, for
infancy"
And while Mellon sees this infant, fed on the
blood of millions of workers, growing and ad-
vancing, other capitalist representatives admit
more gloomy forebodings. For example Melvin
A Traylor leading Chicago banker, at the same
meeting of the International Chamber of Com
merce, after viewing the bankruptcy of capital
ISM beats his breast and cried: why have we
faed?"
Quite an admission Why have we failed?'
Lest any worker mistake what Mr.. Traylor
means by this deep concern, We must make it
plain that banker Traylor doesn't mean why
has capitalism failed TO feed the masses" Tray
Tor is concerned about capitalisms ability to
continue its ever-expanding process of squeez-
ing profit out of the masses.
Traylor, like all capitalist economists is sorely
puzzled He says: I'VE had an industrial plant
capable of supplying the satisfiable wants of
our population" then why don't we produce?
He answers his own question in this manner:
Then it was that we lacked foresight and a
plan" &c. capitalism has no plan; and Traylor
seeking to revive the faith in capitalism's future
believes capitalism can have foresight and can
evolve a plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15

not wait until May 1 for the next
grocery bill, she excused herself say
ing that she only had a certain
amount to spend and it was all spent
and she could do nothing about it.
The Gary Post Tribune stated Fri
day that As angry workers threatened
to break into the trustees office I'M
less the trustee would listen to their
demands.
The Gary Unemployed Council will
go again to the trustees next week
and will take with them hundreds of
workers whose families are also abso-
lutely without food. At the same
time the Unemployed Council is mo-
bilizing the workers for the May Day
mass meeting at Turner Hall ia St
and Washington. Also cars are be-
ing arranged, delegations being elect
ed to go to Indianapolis on hunger
march starting May g. Funds are
badly needed for the hunger march,
all workers and workers organiza-
tons should send donations to the
Trade Union Unity League, $40 w.
18th Ave-, Gary, Ind.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
SPENDING MAY FIRST
BEHIND PRISON BARS

BY j. G.
Come on, move along; where do
you think you are? Get off that
monument! 1t amt made for you
guys to preach your doctrines from!
Don't you know that monument is
there in honor of the boys who gave
their lives for their country, for free
dom and democracy"
Fight for Right to Talk.
We insisted on our rights to speak
from the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment, and to We were taken in"
The crowd cheered us, and booed
the cops.
you are charged with" began the
sergeant, well, never mind what you
are charged with, you will find out
later. Put them in the cell, officer.
Into the Prison Cell.
When entering the cell I found
five Negro girls there who greeted
me rather coldly, but we soon be-
came good friends, What you all
in TO-"
"Oh, for speaking at the May Day
demonstration on the square"
We'll, 1 declare, they locked you
up TO speaking to them people out
there about May Day?"
They sure did" said I, and pro-
ceeded to talk to the girls about May
Day, about the nine boys in Scots
boro who are facing the electric
chair. The girls were interested, and
soon began to ask all sorts of ques-
tons. The discussion became inter-
esting. Each began to relate prob
lens which faced them.
The Girls Tell Their Story.
when I was IA 1 worked as a
housemaid. The lady she done paid
me Sc a week. I didn't mind the
hard work. I didn't mind the heavy
wash had to do, nor the Scrubbin
of the floos in all the rooms, for I
was young then and could do all
sorts of hard work and was glad
when I got my half day off on We'd
nesday, which spent talking to the
chauffeus on the block. What got
me sore, was not the hard work, but
the fact that she wanted me to scrub
the pouch outside. could not stand
having the boys see me doing all that
kind of work, so when I tells her
this, she said: Well, you can't work
here if you don't like to do that job
well, looked for work till 1 had
eaten up every penny had; / didn't
want TO go into the kind of life I is
leading now, but when l got hungry
so that I could walk no more l went
over to man and asked him to get
me something to eat. He bougth me
meal and asked me to pay for it
Well, that's how / started into this
game, Wish had died before did
it. Can you all tell me how l can
get out of it?"
Charities Drive Girl TO House.
Another spoke:
When my man lost his job, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-15
Enforce "VOluntary"
Wage Cut on Calumet
City. ILL.,, Employees

CALUMET CITY, ILL.,, May 8.-All
municipal employees in Calumet City
ILL.,, industrial suburb Of Chicago
have been made to take a so-called
voluntary cut In wages Of 20 per cent
Firemen and policemen, who have
been getting $3.50 a month, will now
get 1872.
The mayor Of Calumet City, John
Jaranowski, announced with flour
ish, that he will take-in salary
only $4,000 instead of $4,000.
The municipal wage cuts are seen
as forerunners of a general wage
slashilg campaign in tbs various
factories and uinA =