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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
The Mayors sober" Tastes

Sometimes we feel so sorry for the editor OF
the N. Y. Times that we wish he were put out
of his misery, but when we read the edition of
August 18th, we were compelled to envy him
for his attainment of those heights of stupidity
where asininity becomes genius.
In an effort to put false color of dignity and
decorum on the didoes Mayor Walker is cutting
around Europe the Times must have gotten a
writer even more sycophantic than Haywood
Broun to cook up an editorial which opened up
by saying:-"Somehow Mayor Walker seems out
OF place in the gay resorts of the Riviera"
From that opening sentence it got worse and
worse. After stating that an Associated Press
correspondent travels with the Mayors party
the scribe gives the following st. James version
of what that correspondent actually said was
going on at Cannes France:
"The women wear beach pajamas of every
hue with sandals on their feet "a very unusual
place for women to wear sandals, it appears
to the Times scribe!-Jorge) Men appear in
flanneIs of red, white, blue and green. To q
of the Mayors sober tastes this vulgar
display must have seemed shocking"
o, yeahl Turrible shocking! But that was on
the editorial page, while over on page Is of the
same paper, the A P. correspondent mentioned
gave the following account of how New York
City's mayor expressed his disgust at-such "vul-
gar display"
''He was dressed in flashy blue ensemble.
which created mid sensation. Everything
worn by Mr. Walker except his sport shoes and
Panama hat was blue. His trousers were tur.
quoise blue, while his hose were sky blue"
And as for his sober tastes" the dispatch re-
lates that when Deputy Mayor Picaud of Cannes
proposed drink to Mayor Walker as the
greatest wet in America
"Seizing a champagne glass, Mayor Walker
responded:-If any proof is needed I'Il fur
nish it forthwith Thereupon he put the glass
to his lips"
It's mighty hard to write sober taste" edito-
rails against story like that, but the chap on
the Times is a glutton for punishment So along
toward the last of his Tammany- ordered song
of praise, he got off the following which is
enough to make the Pulitzer prize
eff ever anywhere man deserved and might
attain surcease from the cares of office and the
vicissitudes of public life that man was Mayor
mer of 1881. Yet our Chief Magistrate spent
only few days there cutting short his pleas
ant stay to resume in the line of duty what
must have been to him the distasteful round
of resorts like Cannes and Monte Carlo"
After that, we can only stand in open mouth
ed awe As for Mayor Walker we understood
that he was going to Europe to inspect sewers
for one thing, but it seems he's jumped into
them And at a pretty cost to somebody not
unrelated to the 100000 unemployed in New
York City. ...
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
The Midwest Workers Track Meet
in Chicago

WORKER sportsmen from Chicago, ST. Louis
w Gary Waukeegan, Kenosha and other cities
of the Illinois District will compete In a Cham
pionship Track and Field meet in Chicago on
September 6, 1881. This meet will be held by
the Illinois District of the Labor Sports Union
of America welcoming back the SpartaHad
Delegation of the United States recently re-
turned from Berlin after a successful campaign
against the worker athletes representing the
other countries throughout the world
Comrade Lehtinen, a member of ths
Waukegan Sports Club, Waukegan. 1l-
linois and the athlete representing the
Illinois District on the United States team,
will compete in some special events. among then,
being the 100 metre run, the running broad
jump and the high-jump. Lehtinn will also
speak on the experiences of the Spartakiad team
and on Workers Sports in the Soviet Union
The meet is especially significant since it will
be the starting point of an extensive campaign
against the bosses Olympcs, which will be
held in Los Angeles next year. The workers are
already on the Job in smashing the Olympics
which is only another means of the bosses war
preparations.
The result of their work Is shown In that
many crack athletes CT st. Louis Gary, Wau-
keegan, Kenosha, Milwaukee and other cite,
who formerly ran FOR the Amateur Athletic
Union, tne lake posses amateur organization.
have left those ran and will compete in the
Labor Sports Union Championship meet at
Chicago.
Similar meets are being arranged. but will be
held on local scale These meets will take
place in Waukeegan, Illinois and Milwaukee.
Wisconsin and other cities of the Illinois
District
The Labor Soprts Union will actively partici-
pate in the International Youth Day demon
strations. All worker sportsmen should be at
these meetings on Tuesday September 9Th, that
are organized in all parts II tia Chicago
District. x - -.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
A Young Miner Writes Of Conditions
in the Mines

T the time of the strike was employed at
N the Duquesne mine of the Duquesne coal
Co. and was getting 30 cents for loading a ton
of coal.
I think it best to describe the conditions as
they existed before and at the time of the strike
We were continually receiving wage cuts, at
an average of three weeks after the first cut
from So cents to As cents then to 40 cents then
again to 80 and 10 cents in single cut.
OF course the day men were cut in proportion
from IS to SO day for skilled labor.
The highest was ever able to make in two
weeks was something like $50, that was when
we were getting So cents per ton and my last
pay was less than $40 for the same amount Of
work.
The cutters on this mine worked night shift
so when I cleaned up early had to walk through
mud knee deep and over stones and under loose
rock along the main way.
The cars at this mine are three ton cars and
if we received 20 hundred weight per car we
we're doing good. I managed to do it but it was
rare. So then in one day I would load five of
these cars and the next day all I did
was to load from two to four cars of slate for
nothing. I had to shoot this slate down several
times before it could be loaded so then my
powder expense ran high on that work and I
had to work in smoke caused by the blasting due
to improper ventilation.
So then it is evident that if loaded five cars
every second day and they gave me 40 hundred
weight I made So every second day. then of
course came my expenses such as carbide,
powder, ETC.
I think that I wasn't doing bad since other
leaders were making less, hardly more.
We who are on strike are determined to fight
to finish but we can't fight if other workers
don't help us out by collecting food clothing and
money and sending it to the Penn-Ohio Relief
Committee at 511 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa.
Comradely,
A Young Striker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
&4~.A
Save Us From Our Saviors!
By Jorge

Dawes Says Crisis viii Aid the World" said
a headline in the N. Y. Times of August %, but
in spite of it being good for us, we find the
following remedy in the next days Times
suggested by the Amsterdam Economic Congress:
Professor PaIyis said initiation may cure UNI
employment. DR.. Benham of London doubted
whether international action identical to ma
tiOnal initiation possible. little prudent
initiation, sort of world intOxication' he said,
might deliver prices from their absurd depen-
dence upon metal"
Sol Just wee, tiny bit of inflation-just "one
drink might give capitalist economy a sort OF
high mass" feeGng But if little imitation is
good, why not go on a regular bat?
And this workers, is the superior brains" of
capitalist rule which you are taught to respecti
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
A Radio Magnate Spends Millions on
His Wedding and Gives Ten Per
Cent Pay Cut to Young Workers

I asst week there was lot of noise made about
the wedding of the daughter of Atwater Kent.
This wealthy manufacturer spent million dol
lars on this wedding with million dollar yacht
given the couple as a gift At the same time
the papers were silent about the wage cut of 10
per cent and the big layoff that affected two
thirds of the workers when the season started
three weeks ago
After nine months of layoff, small percent
age of workers mostly youth were called back
under 10 per cent wage-cut with increased
Speed-up, and in some cases young workers
spending from 7:30 in the morning to 10 o'clock
at night at the factory (testers and repair mem.
Men have been replaced by girls; former petty
bosses put on the belt depriving other workers of
the jobs and in most cases one worker doing the
work of two and three operations being COM
bined in one, allowing workers to make half of
the previous wage
Young workers are used mostly with the idea
in mind that we will work harder and not kick
about the wage, The employment manager at
Kents was heard to remark to an older worker
in the factory applying for Job for her niece,
as she strong?"
On time work. last year the girls received IS
cents an hour at present they are receiving 80.
On time work men who we're receiving As and
so cents an hour on an average, are now getting
IS and 40 cents an hour. Some married men,
with children to support, are making on an aver
age of SIT week including overtime The aver
age wage of the young workers and the majority
are young workers, is from $14 to SIG week at
q neck-breaking speed
Now the bosses are again initiating their lay
off program. Workers are laid off daily in va
rious departments, with the usual premise of
being called back We are working under the
constant fear of being laid off, afraid to work
too fast, because there is danger of another
wage-cut and as one worker expressed it, wen
work ourselves out Of job" The workers have
paid for million dollar wedding of a parasite
we have given her a million dollar yacht out
of the 10 per cent wage cut. Our reward in the
near future will be- no work with starvation.
The only solution for these wage cuts and
speed-up with layoffs will be through union Or
ganization that will organize the fight for bet
ter conditions The Metal Workers Industrial
League is the organization to which the workers
should join for an organized fight in this shop
There are many demands for the workers and
young workers which should get the response
from all workers in this shop. Form grievance
committee right in the shop or department and
get in touch with the Metal Workers League
which is located at 1902 Kensington Aye, in
Phiadelpht> "A ,,tgt..a 49,
n
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
Bosses Prepare New Horrors for
Young Workers
WALTER TRUMBULL

THE War Department recently demonstrated
its latest weapon, the phosphorus bomb
which beats anything before devised for the
murder Of workers. The new bomb, upon ex-
ploding. releases burning phosphorus over wide
area and Immediately sets afre anything within
that area. The liquid fire used during the last
mperialist slaughter was a plaything as COM
pared to the new weapon. Workers in the next
war may escape shells and bullets and may even
escape the poison gas and disease germs that
are to be used against them but will still have
TO face the prospects of being burned to death
The Young Communist League calls upon all
young workers TO make this International Youth
Day challenge to the war mongers and de-
fiance of the plans for new imperialist wars in
which the youth are to provide from their ranks,
the sacrifices in blood, agony and horrible death
Added to the starvation that follows unemploy-
ment the fake Hoover Relief and the lowered
wages for those who are still working, VIZ are to
be called upon to murder young workers D, other
countries for the profit Of Wall Street We are
to burn and be burned We are to fill the ranks
of inlperialisms armies that profits may 20 for
the owning class
Young workers everywhere are called upon to
make tais International Youth Day definitely
record the unwillingness Of the youth To fight
another imperialist war and to record our de-
termination to convert any imperialist war that
the war mongers start into civil war for the
overthrow of the capitalist system and the
establishment Of Workers and Farmers Soviet
Government
Turn the imperialist war into civil war for
the overthrow of the capitalist system and the
establishment of workers and farmers Soviet
government in the United States.
Defend the Soviet Union. the workers father
land AGAINST irpperialst aatsAaj ,ss,is, ma sssu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-02
One Poor Woman

Mrs. James J. Walker wife Of the Mayor
was to be the guest of Police Commissioner MuI.
rooney today on the seventeenth and last ex-
cursion of the season arranged by the New
York Police Department for poor women and
children."-N Y. Post August 81
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

phone pole and the car came to a
stop.
Gaylord and Derry, who had paid
no attention to the officer until he
fired, stopped fighting abruptly as
the guns report brought them to
consciousness of what was going on.
They started ru- ming toward the
car as it slid over the slippery road
in peril of topping over and they
reached it just as Irene lost con-
sciousness.
The men whC had fought over
her, both battered and CORY, lifted
her tenderly from the motor car
and got her into Gaylord's roadster.
1t made Derry sick to look at her
and so it was Gaylord who an
swered the officers questions.
Nevertheless it was Derry who
held Irene in his arms while Gay
lord drove them to Oakdale and to
the hospital. He held her, but he
did not look at her.
Some of her clothing, which the
officer dug from her suitcase, pill
lowed Irene's head and Derry saw
to it that her face was covered
as closely as it could be without
smothering her.
Hospital attendants took her from
him when they arrived there and
put her on stretcher, carrying her
away.
do you think she will die?" he
asked Gaylord.
"You might walt and find out, "
Gaylord told him, "but I think
you'd better fade out of the picture.
Meade"
Derry nodded. So only Gaylord
and Tommy we're left in Irene's
life.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18
Indians at Road Session

BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, June ia score
OF Indians, remnants of the once
powerful Miami tribe, formed one
OF the feature attractions at a bar
becue today in connection with the
annual meeting of the National
Appalachian Way Association.
United States Senator James E.
Watson spoke. The convention
opened Wednesday and will con-
tinue through Friday, when the
delegates will go to Peru to visit
the circus winter quarters.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18
u Now Go & % On WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR

"TAYLORDl" The name, as
W Irene uttered 1t, rang out
with terror that was the most gen
uine emotion Derry ever had heard
her voice.
AS Gaylords car neared them,
Irene not only feared him physi-
cally, but saw all chance of a recon-
ciliation with him fading forever.
Derry sat quite still beside her
and II she thought about him at
all 1t was to assume that he was
frozen with fear.
On the contrary, the young man
sat still because he was not afraid
and because he did not know what
TO do
Gaylord drew up alongside them
and iammed the cars brakes with
a force that sent him skidding into
the banked snow at the side of the
road. Before the car had come to
a stop, he had flung open the door
at his side and sprang out.
Derry did not wait for him. Sud-
denly he found inaction in the face
of this wild man not at all to his
liking. He, too, stepped out into
the road. He was directly in front
of Gaylord and in another instant
they stood face to face.
80 it's you!" Gaylord rasped.
'Tm going to knock you into the
middle of next week"
you and who else?" Derry re-
torted.
Gaylord drew back his fist and
then suddenly dropped it. He
looked past Derry to Irene, then
again to Derry.
Who's responsible for this?" he
asked curtly.
Derry was tired Of being thrust
into the role of a home-breaker and
was in no mood to listen to repe-
tition Of Gaylord's remarks on a
former occasion.
What about it?" he challenged
you're getting Irene back. That
ought TO satisfy you"
Gaylords gaze snapped back to
Irene's blanched countenance. She
could not look away and under her
husbands scornful scrutiny she be-
gan to flush.
He turned back to Derry. you're
mistaken" Gaylord said coolly
''You may keep what you took"
Sorry I can't oblige you" Derry
said wickedly. 1.-The young lady
prefers a man with money"
r n
GAYLORD showed his surprise.
" what do you nean?" he asked.
Doesn't she know?"
"I was about to tell her when you
came along" Derry explained.
us what true?" the girl asked.
Didn't you know Derry was in
with the people who struck oil this
morning?"
Struck oil?" 1rere repeated
vaguely.
Gaylord laughed. It see you
didn't know" he said witheringly
your future husband is bud
ding millionaire"
Never mind that future husband
business" Derry cut in. II wouldn't
have her if"
why, you contemplate sneak!"
Gaylord cried and this time his fist
shot forward to a glancing mark
on the side of Derry's blonde head.
You think you can get off like
that, do you?" Gaylord ragged.
You're going to take your medi-
cine and I'll see that you get it,
tool"
why, damn youv" Derry, half
crying with rage struck back. "In
see you both in hell before I'll mar
~ her!"
a n
"OONIE on and fight" Gaylord
~ urged although Derry was
lighting and fighting well, too.
''Ive been waiting for a chance to
knock you off the earth. Come on
and take it!'
They tore at each other while
Irene sat watching But it was not
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18
Mr.. PUBLIC OWES S4oO
Average U. S. Family Debt Is Esti-
mated by Merchant.
3y Tnitcd Pres

% y 2 NtIJU 7 7 to0
st. LOUIS, June 1S.-The average
American family is $400 in debt,
the National Retail Credit Associa-
ton convention was told today by
Sidney Baer, department store vice
president of St. Louis.
Baer estimated that future SAL
aries "have been drawn upon to the
extent of $10,5oo, 100000, an amount
greater than all the gold in circu-
lation in the worId.'
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18
SCHOOL HEADS SETTLE
DESK CONTRACT FIGHT
Award Local Company Extra Bust
ness After Hot Battle.

Amicable settlement Of a school
board disagreement which arose
Tuesday over awarding of a con-
tract for school desks made in an
other city when an Indianapolis
plant submitted the lowest bid,
Wednesday was reached by compro-
mise.
Awarding of q contract for the
desks to the Business Furniture
Company on a bid of $975.20, when
the Columbia School Supply Com
pany, a local plant, submitted an
1912 bid, was deferred by commits
sionerS Tuesday.
The board, after inspecting sam
pies, awarded the contract to the
Business Furniture Company, but
at the same time awarded another
contract for 500 folding chairs to
the Columbia School Supply Com
pany on its low bid of $500.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

AS Tarzan approached, he heard the crashing
OF underbruSh and the voices of men. Bolgani,
the gorilla, was fleeing with greater haste than
caution, thinking only of escape from the terri
flying thunder-stick of the Tarmangani Aban-
coming his usual wariness, he hurried through
the jungle and chanced to pass directly under
meath tree wherein lay coled great python.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

BERYL BORDEN hops that a radio
career will help her forget her hopeless
love for TOMMY. WILSON who is en-
gagged 20 her half-sister, IRENE. She
goes about with PRENTISS GAYLORD
until Irene learns that he Is rich and
manages to win him away from Beryl.
After a hasty marriage they depart
for Csvlords western home. In despair
Tommy drinks heavily and joins evil
companions. Beryl catches cold while
irving 70 find him TO urge him to break
with the bootlegging gang.
Her throat IS affected and the doc
tor tells her her singing DAYS are over.
When Tommy realizes that, Beryl has
made this sacrifice 70 save him, he re-
forms. gets another job. and starts night
courses 70 finish college. Beryl feels re-
paid for her sacrifice.
Irene ouarrels with Prentiss over an
affair with DERRY MEADE and comes
home. She seeks 70 win back Tommy's
love
Because she thinks Derry is poor, she
decides to break with him and makes
a trip TO Oakdale. Derry meets her,
but she Is recognized by q friend Of
Prentiss who telephones 20 him
Irene tells Derry she can never marry
him. and he dcnounces her as heartlcss
iust as Prentiss arrives.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

1t was on this scene that Stimbol and Tarzan
came at the same moment. Moving as ever
silently, the ape-man had remained hidden in
the middle foliage when he looked down upon
the tragic scene beneath him. At once he un-
derstood the disaster that had overtaken the
gorilla. Then he saw Stimbol raise his rife,
intent upon bagging two royal specimens with
q single shot.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

BY Blosser
By Martin

In Tarzan's heart was no great love for tha
gorilla. Since his childhood the shaggy man
beasts had been the natural foe Of the ape-uan
and his tribe. But now when he saw the brute
hard pressed by two enemies, there rose within
Tarzan a sudden pity for the beast fighting
without a chance Before Stimbol could FIRE
his weapon, Tarzan dropped upon his back,
telling him to the GROUND.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

The snake was disturbed both by the crashing
sounds of pursuit and the roaring voice of Slim
bolS rife. Now, upon the full grown bull-gorilla,
the python launched his relentless coils quickly
encircling Bolgani, who strove desperately to tear
away the slippery folds. But he was borne to
earth beneath living force that held him help
less.
The Indianapolis times., 1931-06-18

"COME on and fight" Gaylord
~ urged although Derry was
lighting and fighting well, too.
"1've been waiting for a chance to
knock you off the earth. Come on
and take It'll"
They tore at each other while
Irene sat watching. But it was not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-22
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