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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28

divide up.
And it's to them I'd like you to be sending all
you can to- Their address is Room 205. Gil
Penn Ave-, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Well handle the picket lines our own selves,
thank you and take care of spreading that's
needed The troubles we ask you to take over
is to see that our children don't starve while
we're doing this. And after our feeding trou-
BILE, If you'll see what you can do about Shoes
because it's tough walking on picket lines with
swollen feet that begin to bleed sometimes. And
we say to you-if you do this that's standing
by us and we'll do the same for you some day
when you're needing us!
We're workers fighting against the bosses for
the right to live decent and If you workers
stand by u.s. tell you straight out, the bosses
and the law and the United Mine Workers that's
working with them will find their troubles pill
ing into mountain that they can't get rid
of by shootings, or evictions, or clubbings or
gassings-we1l be on top and they'll have to
come across with an agreement
You send the few dollars we need to buy
bread-each one of you that's with us, right to
the Penn.-Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com
n1ittee, Gil Penn Ave. Pittsburgh Pa-and
we'll do the res"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28
CARL PRICE

For the District Committee.
District Organizer,
Pittsburgh District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28
The ''L' Stands For Liar

According to one Alonzo L. Baker who writes
In religious dope sheet called s"The Life Boat"
the writer of this column will have to give up
his daily morning bath or be lost to Communism
Alonzo L. serves up rewrite of an article by
a San Francisco reporter, whose name and
whose paper he doesn't mention on the said
reporters impressions of two meetings, one a.
Communist street meeting and another a gos-
pei meeting in mission Some of it is funny
enough to make you mad:
Both audiences were composed entirely Of
men. Obvioucly poor men. Ragged men. Home
less men. Beth groups were composed of men
who felt inside that something better than
they had ever known was their due and that
they should have it, But how different the
two Philosophical
For the most part. the ragged men gathered
about the Communists improvised rostrum were
dirty and unkempt as well as poorly dressed
Inside the mission hall, every man presented
lace shining from fresh application of soap
and water, and every mans hair was combed"
We ash you at this point to remember that It
is important that your hair be combed, since
combed hair signifieth righteousness, even If
you haven't is cents to have it cut at the Moler
barber college. But the reporter proceeds to
connect up combed hair and philosophy:
The Communist speaker was preaching hats
and despair, convincing him that 1t was no use
trying anyway, that capitalism had everything
and everybody by the throat +. ;"
We have to interject right here that this Is
Right opportunist deviation that no Commu-
mist would be guilty Of this exaggeration Of tho
power of capitalism and the pessinist nonsense
about there being mo use trying" to struggle
against it. But we go on with the inquiring
reporter:
Inside the mission hall, song service was
in progress. Every present was singing
(They better, or they would get no soup and
stale bread!-Jorge). Songs that were bright
with the promise Of heaven were the favorites.
such as: I look away across the sea, where
mansions are prepared for me-"
The stiffs were probably thinking about the
Five Year Plan, but the reporter has no doubt
about what they were thinking and he proceed,
to give us his ideas on their thoughts as facts:
The men in the gospel crowd were not WORRY.
ing about either yesterday today or tomorrow.
Already they had been transported to heights
above their humble station here below. The
glorious heaven OF which they were singing had
already been partially opened to them
But only partially" Even Alonzo L. Baker
had to wind tip with the admission that-"The
men in the mission hall go forth to their soualid
lodgings The mansions prepared" for them
were not IN San Francisco. unless in this pot
'F il'ir,I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28
By EUGENE GORDON.

WHILE certain inspired leaders are advis-
ing Negroes to strike out along new lines"
and, initiating Ford and Rockefeller become
bi1lionaires, a group of black farm workers at
Camp Hill, Alabama, have actually struck out
along new lines They refused to scamper in
terror from the hired thugs and the blood
hounds of rich Alabama landowners Such an
organized stand among Negroes in the South is
so unusual, dominated as they have been for
generations by rabbit philosophy, and more re-
Gently by the compromising Justice" seeking of
the N. A. A. G. P, that not only is ruling class
Alabama dumbfounded, but entrenched Negro
leadership is ds1nayed
The reference in the daily press to Negro
reds" is significant. Although the black masses
of the South have much to learn about organ
ization what they have already done is encour-
aging. Acceptance of the International Labor
Defense leadership in this particular instance
shows both sense and courage.
One of the mistakes frequently made in the
past was that those who fought back did so
in individual and scattered instances. They
were seldom organized. 1t inevitable that,
pitted against the shotguns, rifles and blood
hounds of their ruling class oppressors, they
should be overwhelmed. The Negroes courage,
when properly directed, is always magnificent;
but he must learn that the most magnificent
courage Is futilty when expended by individuals
against organized ruthlessness of ruling class
terrorism. Thus, there is only one course for
the oppressed share-cropper tenant farmer, and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28

that you have joined the Party means that your
work will be much more valuable to the miners
and the working class than before You will be
able to take part in the organization and leader
ship of ALL the struggles of the workers of the
great International August First demonstrations
against war, of the struggles in defense of the
Soviet Union, of the struggle for full equality
for Negro workers, of the struggle in defense of
the foreign-born, against the prosecutions of
the bosses government, of the struggle to or
ganize all the workers into the revolutionary
unions of the Trade Union Unity League, of
which the National Miners Union is a part.
In the coming election campaign, where the
Communist Party will have its own candidates
on a working-class program, all of these cam
paigns of the working class will be connected,
and our election campaign will expose the way
in which the bosses government Expresses the
workers and will put forth the immediate de-
mands for Unemployment Insurance, Abolition
Of Injunction, the Right to Organize, Strike and
Picket Abolition of Deputy Sheriffs and State
Police etc.
AS a member OF the Communist Party, you are
linked up with the international struggle of the
workers against world imperialism, with the
heroic struggle of the Chinese Soviets, with the
rapidly advancing German revolution, with the
struggle Of the Russian workers and peasants to
rush the completion of the Five Year Plan. All
these struggles are led by the Communist Inter-
national the world Party of Communisnl-of
which the Communist Party of the United
States is section.
We greet you then, in the name of the Pitts
burgh District Committee of the Communist
Party Together we will hammer out a strong
organization, recruiting still more hundreds of
miners steel workers, unemployed workers, ETC.,
into the Party and through our units and Sec
ton committees, build mass organization,
which will at all times defend the interests OF
the working -class, which will be the backbone
of the present strike of the miners and the
greater struggles which are before us, and carry
on the struggle for the complete emancipation
of the workers from the bonds of starvation
imposed by this rotten capitalist system.
Fraternally,
CARL PRICE
For the District Committee
District Organizer.
Pittsburgh District.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-28
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It's Good For the Soul
By JORGE

Addressing the London School of Economics
and Political Science, the Marquis of Lothian.
according to the N. Y. Times of July g. said.
in part;
Il confess that the prophecies of Marx and
Lenin about the inevitable development Of
modern Western society are being realized
with the most uncomfortable accuracy"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
SCHOOL ROWS
UP TUESDAY
County Board Will Settle
Olmito Superintendent
Difficulties

Armed with new authority by re-
cent legislative acts. the Cameion
county school board will meet here
81 ? p. m. Tuesday for the purpose Of
settling the Olmito school row and
possibly the old Wilson Tract bond
difficulty.
The Olmito district recently elect
cd a new school board which Tas
opposed to o. N. Rasco. superintend-
cnt who had just been given a three
Year contract by the retiring board
The new beard attempted 10 remove
Rasco from office and put in an
other man. Rasco stepped aside but
cid not give up his contract. This
matter Is slated 10 be ironed out
Tuesday.
The Wilson tract bond question
Is on old one. The district issued
$4,000 worth Of bonds some 20 years
ago. A legislative act split the dist
riot, creating Wilson tract and
Stuart Place districts. however. no
provisions were made for taking 40
the old bonded indebtedness. This
matter was recently referred back
10 the school board by the county
commissioners court.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
CONSUMPTION
BOOZE UNKNOWN
vi. z. Board Of Temperance
Says Statistics Do
Not Exist

WASHINGTON. May Is. p
The board OF temperance. prohibi-
ton and public morals of the Meth
odist Episcopal church said in a
statement today that neither the
association against the prohibition
amendment nor anyone else know
how much liquor was consumed by
the American people.
There are no statistics in regard
to the consumption of liquor in the
United States and can be none with
anv reliability whatever" II said.
The Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment has releaS-
ed a statement alleging that the
people Of the United States are now
consuming S2.548. 900. 900 worth Of
Intoxicating beverages annually
the statement said.
1T Is surprising that tbs anti
prohibition body would risk its
reputation for sincerity by the pub
lication Of a story which can appeal
only to the culhblc.r
The Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment had said 4
believed its estimate conservative
The temperance board said there
were manv indications that the
consumption under prohibition was
very much less than ii was when
the LIQUOR trade was untrammeled
and afforded every facility for
trade promotion"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
QUEEN HELEN
SENT TO EXILE
Rumanian Queen Is Ex-
PEELED From Royal
Family, Says Paper

BUCHAREST. Rumania. May IS
-Pl-Quesn Helen. estranged wife
0. King Carol and mother Of
Crown Prince Michael. has been
expelled from The royal family.
The newspaper Patria. official
organ of the Zaranist party. re-
veals that a dec.ee Is being drafted
for submission to the new parli-
amen confirming her exclusion
and stating she is no longer en-
titled 10 the rights and honors &C
corded royalty.
War Minister StephaneScs al
ready has issued to the army an
order. authorized by Premier Jorga.
forbidding observance OF the
Queens saint day next Thursday.
Parliament is expected 10 adopt
the measure as soon as IL assem-
bles and Queen Helen will leave
the country permanently soon
thereafter. terminating her I'M
certain MARTA. status Of more than
two years.
Helen divorced Carol while ne
was in exile in 1923 with Mile.
Magda Lupescu. When he made a
dramatic. flying return 10 Buchar-
est last year. she Spurned his over
lures toward a reconciliation and
steadfastly refused to be crowned
with him. She recently visited King
Alexander OF JuEoSlavia. her bro
ther-in-lav. az which time. II is
believed, her exile was arranged.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Engineers Party Is
Working Toward
Coast
THIRTY DAYS
Will See Brownsville
Port Survey Com
pleted

Borings On the turning basin site
of the Brownsville port are finished.
and the federal engineering crews
started working toward the coast to-
oay. according to T. w. Foreman
engineer in charge OF the work.
Everything is going fine" Mr.,
Foreman said.
He predicted thirty DAYS will see
the finish Of the survey work. IN
less there Is unusually bad weather
The borinES show a character OF
earth about as expected. except that
the sub-soil is sitter than expected
ear the turning basin. This may
add a small amount to the dredging
cost. he said.
The borings are made To a depth
OF Is feet. the depth the channel
and turning basin will be.
This is the only part Of the work
remaining 10 be done on the sur
vev. NJ. Foreman said.
He said that he would confer this
week with engineers and officials
OF ne Brownsville navigation dis
trict 10 locate on the ground. and
on maps. the exact boundaries o.
all properties secured by the Browns
Vile district for right-of-wsy.
Preparations TO push the port
work in every way are being mace
b. the navigation district officials.
and II now seems likely that The
contract for dredging will be let
earlier than expected.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Vandalie Quiet AS
Riot Under Control

VANDALIA. Ills. May IS. -tPD-
Quiet was restored today at the
state penal farm here where 500
prisoners rioted yesterday, burning
several buildings and wounding
four men. and national guardsmen
were ordered home.
Col Frank Whip. s~uperintend-
ent Of state prisons, said he expect
ed no more trouble.
Four prisoners, whose failure to
escape started the rioting. were held
in the county Jail. Three Of them
we're wounded. Another prisoner.
Clifford Ikes. was hit by a stray
bullet. Superintendent G. A. Metz
ger Of the farm said Ikes had no
part In the jail break attempt.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
| KILLED, 4
HURT SUNDAY
Accident Near Sebastian
Sunday Night Has
Fatal Result
BY Staff Correspondent

wa
HARLINGEN. May a5.-One man
was killed and four persons were in
lured in an automobile accident
that occurred near the floodway bet
ween Sebastian and Combes az
O'Clock Sunday night.
The dead:
HENRY c. WIRsING, As. Raw
mondville.
The injured:
F. o. ROBERTS. wrenched knee
and bruised chest.
w. c. ROBERTS. his son. broken
right arm
EMIL SCHULTZ. Raymondville
split tongue and severe forehead
laceration.
MRS. WILLIE BARLOW. Lyfcrd.
fractured kree and scalp wound.
The accident occurred as Schultz
attempted 10 pass a large sedan
which was driving behind a slow
moving truck. His car and the auto
mobile driven by F. o Roberts COL
lided head-on. the impact bein; 50
terrific that the front wheels Of 5-th
oars were locked and thrown high in
the air. Both automobiles were de-
stroyed.
Wirsing. his neck broken. died in
stantly. He was riding In the Schultz
car. The injured persons were rush.
c. 10 the Valley Baptist hospital,
Harrington. by Joe Baldridge and
Colt Mitchell. o. Lyfoid.
Officers experienced difficulty in
identifying Wi-sing at first.
No funeral arrangements have been
completed. pending instructions
from relatives residing in the north
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
WIND, RAIN,
HURT CROPS
Southern California Gets
Two Inches Rain I'm
Is Minutes

SAN FRANCISCO. May Is. PA
springtime rain that drenched
California from the southern citrus
region 10 the Siskiyou mountains
was breaking up toaay while agri-
culturists took stock Of their l,sscs
and irrigatiorists watched swollen
streams with satisfaction.
More than 1000 acres az lettuce.
ready for harvesting. we're report
ed los. in the Salinas Valley. The
barley and strawberry crops suf-
fered. In the Santa Clara valley and
the Sacramento area. the cherry and
strawberry crops were damaged and
walnut pear orchards we're threaten
e1 with blight.
Two inches az rain fell II IS min
utes at Santa Paula. Calf. "A down
pour in Fresno was accompanied by
a windstorm which damaged plate
glass windows.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Expect Special
Session in June

AUSTIN. Tex. May .. CPl-Lcg-
.slative halls were deserted to-day
and the lawmakers were back at
nome They went home anticipating
a probable special session starting
rext month.
The 13l day regular session. the
!, longest in history. ended late Sat
Gr5av. Several proposals, including
The two truck bills. mad not beell
acted on by Governor Ross S. ster-
ling.
Among the important measures
passed b. nc farty-second legisla-
ture were the three cents a package
cigaret tax and valuation Of titles
q! west Texas owners Of school land
10 all mineral rentals and bonuses.
II voted 20 submit a proposed con-
stitU.l0nai amendment TO exempt
5000 o. the value CT homeS.eads
from the state property tax.
The governor Gid not veto a bill
while the legislature was in session
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Flood Suit Goes
To Jury Monday

The Norton Barreda suit Conti-
nued IN the federal district court
Monday morning with defense still
offering testimony. The case Will
IN all probability 20 70 the Jury
late Monday afternoon.
Judge Randolph Bryant was 10
Corpus Christi Monday morning.
The case has been on trial four
days.
Dan Norton. grower. Is seeking
damages on allegation that Barre
da and others erected a dyke across
the county floodway which caused
his crops below Brownsville to be
oyerfloNed.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Tourists Want Tree
Ripened Citrus Fruit

The Valleys fame for citrus
fruit has spread SO far and wide
that a number OF prospective tour
lists TO this section are insisting on
ripe citrus fruit on the trees, even
in the middle OF summer.
In letters to the Brownsville
Chamber of Commerce from a
number OF persons IN Texas and in
other states the writer's have ex-
pressed the desire to come here
this summer. and 70 pick the
month in which citrus fruit Is ripe
on the trees
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
DEMPSEY NOW
READY TO file
DIVORCE SUIT
Residence Period Was
Completed Saturday
Night In Reno

RENO. New. May 25-lP-Hav-
ing completed six weeks Of resi-
dence in Nevada. Jack Dempsey
former heavyweight boxing cham
pion. today became legally qualified
to file a much discussed divorce
suit against his actress wife, Estelle
Taylor.
Whether the suit would be filed
today or al any time III the near
future vas problematical as both
Dempsey and his attorney, Robert
E. Burns. remained non-committal
Dempsey completed the residence
period Saturday. BY filing suit be-
fore noon today he could obtain a
hearing before night.
The former boxing champion an
nounced soon after coming here in
April that he had left his Los
Angeles home at the bshest Of Miss
Taylor and that although he still
loved her. he planned TO file suit
for divorce SO she might be free
tc follow her career.
Miss Taylor asserted she had not
sent him away but had remained
in Los Angeles keeping his home
for him while he had been travel
ing about the country. The actress
said the craftsmanship had not
been entirely on Jacks side Of the
family and that II any divorcinl
was 10 be done. she would file suit
herself in Los Angeles.
Attorneys representing each had
several conferences thereafter. pre-
sumably over the question OF a
property settlement but no an
nouncement has been made Is to
a n agreement.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
PRIMO KEPT
FROM SHARKEY
GO BY COURT
Federal Judge Holds
Garden Contract
Has Call
BOSTON COB
Left Without Opponent,
Tommy Loughran May
Substitute

lew YORK. Moy~ 25.-Pl-Prnmo
Camera today was restrained by
Federal Judge John Knox from
fighting Jack SnaTkey at Evvetts
Field, Brooklyn. June 10. The IN
junction action was brought by the
Madison Square Garden corpora
ton Of Illinois.
The judges order also restraints
Camera, the ponderous Italian, from
meeting any other leading boxer
pending trial of the Gardens suit
to force Camera to carry out a
contract with 1t. which calls for him
TO meet. in September, the winner
of the July 3 bout at Cleveland
between Max Schmeling and Young
Stribling.
Jimmy Johnston. co-promoter OF
the Camera Sharkey fight. said the
decision caught him entirely BY
surprise and had no idea what his
next step would be.
II had been suggested that Tom
my Loughran. the Philadelphia
who has won nine straight fights
since Sharkey knocked him out two
years ago. might be substituted Tor
Camera if the latter was not per-
mitted to fight the Boston COB.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
DICTIONARIES
GET FIRST IN
LAREDO MEET
Resolution Opposing
Abandonment Fort
Brown Passes

The John Hanson Post OF the
American Legion. Brownsville,
brought home the bacon from the
Laredo district convention, winning
the attendance prize for the third
consecutive time and thereby gain
ing permanent possession Of the
large cup offered as the award.
approximately so Legionnaires
left Brownsville III automobiles
Saturday and early Sunday morn
ing. arriving In Laredo. the con-
vention city, In time to be present
Sunday noon at roll call.
The resolution drafted by the
local post opposing the ABANDON
ment Of border posts in general and
Fort Brown in particular was Of
Tered TO the resolution committee
OF the convention. was approved
unanimously. and when voted upon
by Legionnaires in the hall passed
without a dissenting vote.
"LegionnEires realize the impor-
lance of military posts in this
section DR.. Lawrence Olmsted.
local commander said Monday.
our resolution was read 10 all
members attending the convention
Sunday morning. and the points
We stressed were f~avorably receiv-
ed"
The resolution will be forwarded
70 the state headquarters of the
American Legion. for approval and
later sent 10 the War Department.
II was drafted by Tom Stevenson.
Harbert Davenport. and w. o.
washington.
The Brownsville Drum and Bugle
Corps. state champions. was ac-
corded the honor Of leading the
American Legion parade through
the streets OF Laredo.
A large number OF Texas Legion
naires attended the convention.
and Il was said to have been one
Of the most successful ever held.
In judging winners ar attendance
prizes. the number OF Legionnaires
from any one post are multiplied
BY the miles Travelled. and the to-
tai figure is used in determining
place winners.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Man Held On
Stabbing Charge
tBy Staff CorrespCn1ent

SAN BENITO, May 25.-W. ID.
Walker Of the river community
near here, Is being held IN the city
jail in connection with the stabbing
Of j. r.. Lee. an employee OF a pack
ing plant at Carricitos.
Lee is confined 10 a hotel room
here with a severe wound in his
abdomen.
According 10 accounts. the two
men engaged in an argument re-
garding the amount Of wages due
Walker by the packing company,
and the stabbing resulted.
Walker is said 10 have claimed
that he was due more wages than
the company paid his son who was
sent by the father to collect the
money after Walker had obtained
another job.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-25
Gives Blood To
Save Mans Life

HARLINGEN. May 25.-One pint
Of blood from the veins OF SuEerin-
tendent Montgomery OF the Stuart
Place school system has been in
lected int the veins Of X. p. Prit-
chett. prominent farmer Of the
some place. in ar effort to save
his life.
Mr.. Pritchett Is IN the hospital
here suffering from pernicious
anaemia.
Should another TRANSMISSION be
necessary. Z. A. Riehl Of Harlin-
gen has volunteered q pint Of his
blood.