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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
NO JOBS THIS WINTER

AS long as it was possible to deceive the
masses, President Hoover at first falsely de-
clared that the worst would be over within
sixty days." and then, from month to month
he made further misleading predictions in
tended only to deceive and quiet the masses.
But now the last lie about this that the masses
could be induced to believe has been told. All
of those who speak for capitalism now admit
that there will be no jobs, that there will be
no end this winter to the desperate plight of
the unemployed workers and farmers.
And each of the apologists for the capi-
taist system now comes forth with policy"
for the coming winter of mass starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER!
The Communist Party Program for Unemployment Relief and Social
1nsnanceAgainst the Capitalist Program of Starvation

titles than the laborers who have made them
are able to buy with their miserably low wa ~es.
During the past 106 years, since the after
math of the Napoleonic wars in Europe, there
have been thirteen economic crises on world
scale. These crises have been coming more
frequently and in sharper form as capitalism
decays, and the present crisis is the worst
and longest of all)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

sharks and wandering to the cities to look for
work which cannot be found.
Never before has such wholesale ruin, such
blasting of human life been known in times
of peace"
In this immensely rich country, with its
countless billions of stored up wealth, the tens
of thousands of millionaires and muIti-million-
aires with all their luxury and waste cannot
even spend the wealth that has been extracted
by them from the toll of the workers and
farmers. Why is it that not one dollar can
be turned by our capitalist ruling class gov
eminent to prevent the starvation of those
who have created all of this wealth and from
whom it has been taken by robbery? Why are
millions of bushels of wheat being burned and
dumped into the sea while men, women and
children are starving for bread? Why are
fruit trees uprooted and farm produce de-
stroyed? Why does Hoovers Farm Board
advise the farmers to destroy millions of bales
of cotton that they have labored one year to
produce?
The answer to these strange questions is
That this is the capitalist system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

out means of living for many months. Mil
hons of others are partly nemployed-work-
ing part time. Hundreds of thousands of
working farmers are giving up the desperate
struggle against starvation on the farms, are
leaving their land in the hands of the money
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
IT is THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM

This wholesale ruin of the lives of millions,
this economic crisis is not some strange, mys-
ferrous thing that cannot be explained-as the
capitalist professors, Economists" and Estates
men, pretend to think 1t is only the logical
and inevitable result of the capitalist form of
production. Such "hard times for working
people cannot be separated from the capitalist
system 1t is the price the workers and their
families pay for the privilege" of living under
a system in which all Of the industries, all of
the means by which people live, are private
property in the hands of rich and powerful
parasite class. 1t is the system of capitalism
the system in which goods are produced in fac
tories and on FARMS not for the human needs
of those who labor, but for the private profit
of an idle and useless class of parasites, the
capitalist class. While hare-brained lies are
told by well-fed professors, to the effect that
the economic crisis and starvation are due to
"human nature or to 'sun-spots," as Professor
Jevons solemnly declared, or to Soviet dump
ing as the banker-bandits who are robbing
the farmers declare-all serious persons know
that such crises are an inevitable part of
capitalism, and while capitalism exists, must
come once in every few years, whenever the
stocks of goods produced by the labor of work
ers and farmers are piled up in larger guam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
PROGRAM OF STARVATION

This is the announcement by Hoover of a
winter of starvation and death. 1t is a pro-
gram of eviction of working class families
frcm their homes into the streets to starve
ed freeze in the worst winter that shall ever
Re been seen up to this time 1t is pro-
gram that has already begun with the use of
ned forces in Chicago where the police on
August Bird fired with riot guns upon the
workers in the streets for protesting against
tie eviction of an aged Negro woman. The
program of Hoover is the program of fore
Gesture of mortgages on farms, the seizure Of
household goods and the turning of farmers
and their families out onto the open road with
no prospects but to find their way as best they
can to the cities to join the already swollen
ranks of the unemployed, to join in the hope
less contest for jobs, while they sleep in parks
and beg for bread.
Hoover speaks for those who placed him
in power, for the finance capitalists, the heads
of the big trusts, the Wall Street gang that
rules this country. And speaking for them he
has declared that there will be no answer to
the starvation of the masses except more
starvation whatever degree of police
brutality may be necessary to suppress the
starving masses demand for relief
The masses of working people demand I'm
employment Relief and Social Insurance!
The government refuses. The Communist
Party declares that the masses themselves
must act to compel the capitalist government
to grant these demands.
ECONOMIC CRISIS DEEPENING
The American working people are today
plunged into the worst, the deepest, and al
ready the longest economic crisis in all of the
history Of the brutal system of capitalism.
Fully 35,oO0,00O workers are now unem-
ployed in the big industrialized countries of
the capitalist world, and the uncounted mil
lions of unemployed in colonial lands probably
amounts to scores of millions more.
In the United States not less than II 900 600
workers are unemployed and have been with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
STARVATION IS THE "WHIP" THAT
DRIVES WAGE SLAVES

But, some may ask, why cannot the enor-
nous stocks of goods and clothing (that cam
not be sold) be diverted by the government to
those who will starve this winter without it
instead of being destroyed?
The answer to this question shows the
cruelest fangs of capitalism. Starvation is
necessary part of capitalism.
Hoover and the class for which he speaks
will not abolish starvation-and do not wish
to abolish starvation. Starvation and the fear
of starvation are a necessary whip" that cap
italism must have to drive the working masses
to slave in the big industries at jobs in which
they have no interest, to make profits for
wealthy parasite class. The fear of hunger is
useful to the capitalists. The fear of starva-
ton is as necessary to the capitalist system as
the blacksnake whip was necessary to the over
seer to drive the chattel slaves to labor on the
southern plantations under the old slave sys-
tenn The capitalist class and capitalist class
government will not abolish this useful whip"
over the working class.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29
STARVATION PROGRAM TO AID WAGE
CUTS

The big employers are frankly interested in
having the working class close to the starva-
ton line-but meek and helpessly disorgan-
ized-this Winter. Why? Because the capt.
talist program for this fall and winter is to
put through enormous wage cuts and to speed
up the labor of the workers in factories-to
"rationalize' the factories, still further to re-
duce the standard of living to lower level
than has ever been known in this country
within the memory of living man.
To accomplish this reduction of the wages
of the American working class to a stand
ard of half-starved existence which capt.
talist spokesman among themselves openly de-
clare is necessary ito meet competition of
their capitalist rivals, a winter of hunger and
of desperate competition for jobs at any price
is necessary for the interests of the big cor
poration employers! 5
So, not only the immediate cost in taxes
moves the capitalist government to refuse un-
employment relief, but also the plan for fur.
Their and sharper reductions Of wages! Capt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
GEORGE ACKMAN, 70,
DIES AT HOME HERE
Lifelong Resident of Capital Had
Been III Week-Funeral to
Be Held Thursday.

George Ackman, 70 years old, life
long resident of the District of Column
bia, died this morning at his residence,
7l3 Fifth street northeast, after an ILL
ness Of one week His funeral will be
held at 2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon
at the funeral home Of w. H. Sardo,
Ala II street northeast. Burial will be
at Glenwood Cemetery.
Previous to his retirement a number
Of years ago Mr.. Ackman was connected
with the W. B. Moses & Sons Co., and
at various tiIpes engaged in the decor
ating and furnishing Of the White
House during the administrations OF
Presidents Cleveland and Mckinley.
Mr.. Ackman was one of the Oldest
members Of the order Of Elks, which
he Joined in 1888, the year following its
organization, in Washington. He was
also a member Of the Upholsterers'
Union and for a number of years was
an officer Of the local unit.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Minnie Ackman; two sons, George, jr.,
and Milton Ackman. both of Washing
ton, and two daughters, Mrs. Harry F..
Flynn of Newark, N. j., and Mrs. Fer
gllson Fague of this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
WRESTLING SHOW
WILL AID JOBLESS
Tournament Here Set for
May 21-Prominent
GrappIers to Enter.

A wrestling tournament, net proceeds
from which are to go to the fund Of
the District Of Columbia Committee on
Employment, will be staged the night
of Thursday, May 81, at Grihith Sta
dunn, 1t was announced today by George
J. Adams, secretary Of the committee,
following a meeting at the Transporta-
ton Building.
In cooperation with Joe Turner, local
wrestling promoter, plans were made to
bring here 10 or more of the most
prominent wrestlers in the East.
Headed by Frederic A. Delano a
committee consisting of 1873 prominent
citizens was appointed by the Board Of
District Commissioners to handle the
benefit tournament. Use of the Griffith
Stadium was donated by Clark Griffith,
president of the Washington base ball
club. Turner also has donated his Serv-
ices as promoter.
Selection Of the wrestlers will be
made by Turner, who announced that
he will try to secure the services Of
such matmen as Champion Jim Lon
White Feather, Rudy Dusek. Tiny Roe
buck, Jim McClinStock Paul Jones,
George Tragos, Doc Wilson, Billy
Bartush, Carl Pogello, Mike Romano,
Nick Nestor, Babe Caddock and George
Hagen.
The performers will not be paid the
usual percentage. but will get a fiat
salary, the rest to go to the fund.
Either five or six bouts will be staged,
it was announced. Possibilities Of Sc
curing the services of the Marine Band
and Nick Altrock and Al Schacht Of the
National Glowing staff were expressed.
Turner does not intend to stage his
own regular washington Auditorium
show that week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
TWO YOUTHS HELD
IN HOLD-UP KILLING
Police Check AIibi of Boys as
Jury Fails to Name
SIayerS.

Two 1s-year-old youths were being
held by police for questioning today in
the fatal shooting of James H. Lane,
received a bullet wound in the abdomen
Wednesday night, while resisting pair
of bandits, who sought to hold up his
street car on Nichols avenue near Tren-
ton street southeast.
Following an inquest this afternoon,
coroner's jury found that Lane was
fatally shot by "a person or persons
unknown to this jury"
Only meager testimony was given the
jury. Two men living near the scene
of the attempted hold-up, Theodore
van Sise and Samuel L. Hess, told of
seeing two youths walk up the street
from the car stop and wait for the ap-
preaching street car. Hess heard the
shot and saw two men jump from the
street car and disappear into the dark
ness across a field on the other side of
the street. Van Sise did not see the
men after the report of the pistol rang
out.
The youthful suspects were questioned
for several hours this morning by Lieut..
F. M Dent, acting captain of No. IL
precinct The lieutenant said the boys
would be held until their alibi can be
verified.
The pair was arrested through de-
scriptionS given by Lane before his
death in Casualty Hospital Sunday. The
suspects left town some time Sunday,
returning from Cumberland, Nd, last
night.
Only one witness, a colored woman,
who was a passenger on Lanes Con-
gress Heights street car, has been To-
Gated. She became greatly excited
when the shot was fired and has been
able to add little to Lanes version Of
the attempted hold-up. Lane told po-
lice the two youths boarded his street
car and shot before he had a chance
to hand over the money he had col
lected in fareS-about So.
Lanes description and a 32-caliber
shell projected by the bandits auto
matte and later picked up from the
floor of the car, are the only clues.
Several suspects have been arrested
and released after questioning.
Detective Sergt. Carlton Talley of the
police headquarters homicide squad was
sent to Richmond, Va, today, where he
will make an effort to trace the owner
ship of a stolen automobile abandoned
near the scene of the hold-up. Police
are working on the theory that the
stolen automobile was deserted by the
bandits. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
RUM CAR CHASE ENDS
AS TWO ARE CAPTURED
Pair Face Liquor Charge When Po-
lice Seize Alleged whisky
After Fast Pursuit.

A Soto 60-mile-an-hour chase through
Southeast Washington streets yesterday
afternoon eliminated in the arrest of
two men on charges. of possession of
liquor and the seizure OF an automobile
and 10 quarts of alleged corn whisky.
The men-Albert Wilmuth Hunt, rs
years old, of OXon Hill, Md, and Nor
man Diggs, colored, % years old, of the
1000 block of New Jersey avenue south
east-were sighted near South Capitol
and M streets by Policemen H. @. Bauer
and John Auffenberg of the liquor
squad, who Immediately gave chase.
During the pursuit the alleged liquor
car narrowly escaped striking other
vehicles, police reported.
In addition to the. liquor charge,
Hunt, who was driving the car, was
charged with reckless driving, driving
without a permit and failure to exhibit
a registration card. Dfggs, who was al
legged to have thrown q case 81 liquor
from the car, was also charged with
breaking glass In the street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
MAJ. D. C. HUTTON DIES

Mai. Daniel G. Hutton. Medical Corps,
U. S. A., stationed at Fort Mason, San
Francisco, died yesterday at Phoenix
Ariz., where he was on a visit, accord
ing to War Department advices. Born
in this city December Is, 1893, Maj.
Hutton was graduated from the medical
department of the Maryland University
in 1915. He served as a first lieutenant
and later as a captain In the Medical
Corps of the Maryland National Guard
from 1915 until July, 1920, when he
was commissioned as a captain in the
Medical Corps of the Regular Army.
He was promoted to the grade OF major
in April 1929. His wife, Mrs. Eddie r..
Hutton, was with him when he died.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
PAVING CONTRACTS
LET BY D. c. HEADS
$500, 600 Worth of Sewer
and Highway Work Is
Ordered.

More than 100000 worth of highway
and sewer contracts were awarded to
various bidders by the District Commits
sioners today.
This is the second group Of contracts
to be let for work which will be car
ried out during the present working
season.
Lists of the streets to be paved, re-
paved or widened under these contracts
have already been printed. One of the
contracts, however, related to but
single street, Bladensburg road north
east, from L street to the District Line
The center Of this will be paved over
and other improvements constructed
by the w. P. Mcdonald Construction
Co., at a total cost of $l14,965.9o.
Curb Contract Let.
A contract for construction of cement
concrete curbs and cutters went to the
Highway Engineering Construction Co,
Inc, for $132,865.75. Contract for re-
placing sheet asphalt street pavementS
was awarded to Corson g. Gruman Co.,
Inc, for $207,851.
P. T. McDermott Co., Inc, received
contract for laying cement concrete
roadways for S202, 323.50.
The street widening and repaving con-
tract went to the Union Paving Co, Inc,
for $751;, 1880.
The contract for grading various
streets went to L. P. Haw at 295 cents
per cubic yard for grading where the
haul did not exceed ! mile, and / cent
additional per cubic yard for an over
haul Of one-quarter Of mile.
Sewer Work Ordered.
Contract for the construction of Gen.
trail avenue service sewer in Benning
road northeast between Forty-fourth
street and Central avenue, in Central
avenue between Benning road and
Fifty-second street southeast and in
Fifty-second street southeast between
Central avenue and East Capitol street
was awarded to Lyon & Lyon for
S13,806.35; the contract for the con-
struction Of Hoban road service sewer
between Reservoir road and T street
went to Charles r. Guthrie for 81, 051 "A,
and the Warren F. Brenizer Co. received
contract for the construction of
sewers in the line of Oklahoma avenue
extended, on the property Of the Young
Brown Junior High School for $9,975.17.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24

thing I should pay for"
do you know what the punishment
Is in Washington, D. C., for the
Il don't know. I'm worrying about
1t now. I was in hopes 1t would be
the scaffold, but am not sure"
you hope it's capital punishment
Eyes"
.''You want the extreme penAltyP"
Eyes. I think with what little ability
I have to think that person OF my
sort is a danger to the community.
had q very severe accident at one time
and was unconscious for Is days, and
the doctor during this period stated
that would never regain consciousness
or / would be insane the rest Of my
life II didn't die"
where did this accident occur?"
Salem, Greg, State Fair. was
driving an automobile"
do you know whether or not the
victim was wearing glaSses?"
The only way l have the impress
sion she was wearing glasses was that
the washington papers carried an &C
count Of a fingerprint on her glasses,
is the only way know of 1t"
do you know of anything else that
would show you committed this crime?"
THE mere fact that am telling you
I did. They have these prints which
will verify that I was there"
Then you are certain that you, your
self, strangled this woman?"
To this. the final question in his con-
fession of March 10, Tucker nodded
hts head and replied, yes"
The statement was taken in the CEN
trail homicide detail. Los Angeles
Police Department, on March 19, in
the presence Of Capt. j. B. Miller, De-
tective Lieut.. E. j. Romero and Police
Officer p. r. Lee.
Giving a more detailed account Of
the actual crime, he said:
II went down to this place. 1t was at
night time. l knocked on the door, and
this poor old lady came to the door and
let me in. l made some statement about
umbrellas, as that was her business,
and I strangled the poor old dear and
killed her right there, and left her right
there in the room that she let me into.
And that is the story, and that's all
there is to It, Noticing In the papers
they mentioned there were fingerpr1nts
on eyeglasses. can't say the lady had
eyeglasses"
Tucker told the Los Angeles author
tiles of worrying over the crime, ana
described how one time while in WASH
ington he was walking down Sixth street
and mumbling to himself about 1t.
Tucker declared In the statement
that he had been arrested many times
on charges including drunk, resisting
arrest, seeking coppers and poking them
and kicking them, and biting-no,
never bit them" To one query Tucker
replied: Listen, am tired. Get me
! hung, will YOU"
Tucker then referred to himself dis
guestedly with unprintable words, add
ing In a tone OF disgust:s Il am sup
posed to be a college gradIate."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-24
Pop GUN" HOLD-UP
SUSPECT CAPTURED
Man Caught by Intended VIC
tim Believed Wanted in
Other RobberieS.

Overpowered by the intended victim
Of q taxicab robbery, Paul Alexander
Clements. pop gun bandit" suspect, was
turned over to police of the second pre-
cinct station last night and is being
held for investigation into three hold
ups yesterday. Clements, who Is 80
years DID, lives at Cherrydale, Va.
One Of two Capital hackers who were
taken to Virginia and robbed by q man
with q black derby identified Glenn
ents, police say, following his capture
by Treat A. Newman of Hyattsville, Md.
The other was expected to view Glenn
ents at No. station some time today.
Weapon Proves Cap Pistol.
Newman told detectives he was hailed
by Clements at Second street and
Massachusetts, avenue and directed to
drive to Sixth and U streets. Reaching
the HOO block of Sixth street the
and pressed the muzzle of q pistol
against his head, Newman said.
Ignoring the order to remain still and
turn over his money, Newman grabbed
the pistol and wreSted It from the
grasp of the bandit. It proved to be a
harmless cap pistol. The cab driver
then turned his prisoner over to Police
men G. N. Strange and W. c. Handley
OF the second precinct, who booked
Clements for investigation.
short time after Clements appre-
hension, Henry H. Smith of $40 z Street
Is said by police to have Identified
Clements as the man who forced him to
drive to Cherrydale, Va, earlier in the
day. The bandit took so cents. all of
Smiths earnings, but handed back half
Of the money.
Victim to View Suspect.
The man hailed his cab at Seven
tenth street and PENNSYLVANIA avenue.
Smith said, and made him drive back
to Pennsylvania avenue and TWENTY
second street before he quit the hackers
automobile.
George Byrd of 8 Boyd avenue. Ia
koma Park, Md, reported to police an
hour later that he was hired by q man
answering the description of the bandit
who robbed Smith and was made to
drive to Clarendon, Va, where he was
relieved of $3.50. He then drove the
robber to Eighteenth and II streets.
Byrd was to view Clements TODAY in
an effort to identify him as the bandit
who took his $3.50.
Woman Robbed Of S157.
Held up at pistol point by a colored
man Wnlle alone In her bakery shop, at
537 Eighth street northeast, last night,
Mrs. Annie Eich Of 1913 Maryland ave-
nue. northeast was forced to hand over
$157 in bills which she had concealed
in the store.
The colored man pocketed the money
and dashed out, running north on
Eighth street. Mrs Eich followed to
the door In time to see him jump into
an automobile parked at the corner
and drive on. She was unable to OBJ
tain the license number.
Mrs. Eich told police of No. 9 per-
clnct she recognized her aSsailant as
the same man who came into her store
Saturday night to buy an ice cream
cone. She said at that time he acted
in suspicious manner.
Mrs. Eich furnished a description of
the Dandit and lookout was broadcast
to all the precincts.