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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Thousands of Workers to
Answer Call of Daily for
May Day Greetings, Subs

Fright here!" will be the answer
OF thousands of workers to our appeal
for May Day greetings from indi-
Vidual workers, Party members, SYM
patllizerS and their friends whose
names flor Csc will appear in the
May / edition of the Daily Worker
sHere, tool" will come from unions,
fraternal organizations, workers
Clubs, Party units in the form of
a liberal financial greeting to the
Daily Worker. In addition, ads are
being solicited from local dealers ($2
per column inch) in every working
class neighborhood. Only few days
left to send them in time for the
May l issue. Rshu all greetings, ads
by the following dates: April 20 for
Districts IL, 10. IS, 10. April % for
Districts 7, 8, 8, 10, IL, II. April "a
for Districts l, 9 Upstate N. Y. only
3, 4, 5, 6, Is, 16 April IS for New
York City and Northern New Jersey.
NIVO WOlhClo III JklC oAIOpo3 III lId-
ternal organizations. unions, workers
clubs, and other mass organizations
to pour their greetings to the Daily
Worker for May Day! Units. sec
tons, districts, send collective greet
ings! Rush them without delayi
Daily to Spread in Ironwood. Mich.
Single bundle of 40 copies "were
sold from house to house to miners
in the locations" writes Irnla M,
while in Ironwood, Mich, as Dis
trict rep, who believes "it would be
very easy to dispose of a bundle there
every day." She informs us section
convention elected special commit
tee for building the DIV, electing
section literature agent, A. H, will
ing to work" We look to continual
ton of bundle soon. N. c., another
miner in Johnstown, Pa, when the
Daily failed to arrive once, stated
that in condition he is now in, he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

plans are going ahead to lessen the
drudgery of the home and to better
the feeding conditions Of millions of
workers.
Charles r. Ferlin, staff CORE
spondent of the New York Sun, in
a special dispatch from Moscow,
writes of the new communal kit
chens being built in the Soviet
Union. The headline that the Sun
gives this article must seem strange
to the 100000 American workers
who don't know where their next
meal is coming from. The title is:
Russia Will Feed Her Workers"
Ferlin tells about the planning of
"a large number of public kitchens
and restaurants. They are bent on
relieving these workers (the women
of household drudgery and at the
same time provide their husbands
and children with meals that hitherto
have been prepared in homes"
THUS the government has made
provisions in the 1881 budget for an
appropriation of $60,000,O00 for pub
lie feeding. This amount is 1870 per
cent over that appropriated for the
purpose in the past fiscal year"
BY the end of this year it is esti-
mated that between 100000 to
100000 people will be fed through
these communal kitchens-that is,
skilfully and scientifically prepared
food in sufficient quantity for ALL
while 100000 American workers
without jobs must eat garbage, if
they happen to have lost their re-
naming few pennies in bank crash
or to beg their bread from the
bullying and degrading charity fax
ers.
On May Day the American workers,
who are faced with the most drastic
wage-cut drive in the history of the
United States, with more of their
felloW-workers without jobs than
ever before, should think of what is
going on in the Soviet Union, where
the capitalist system has been de-
Stroyed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

lished group to sell Dailies," reports
Fred Walker, secretary, explaining
Portland trials consume much time.
Workers in Raymond, Mont, show
keen interest in the D. W., accord
ing to Wayne l.. G. who believes
spreading the Daily sis the best thing
we can do now even il 1t Is small
compared to what we're going 10
gain" He shows good understanding
OF special problems. Asks for Work
ing Woman" for Plentywood, Mont,
woman.
j. w. writes: Send some old copies
OF the DIV. 1t will help a great
DEAL" meaning the organization of
an unemployed Council in Tulsa,
Okla. We anticipate new copies once
the U. c. gets started.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

their pay increased, Dnelr lie mace
fuller. Planned industry is planned
for the workers.
Even the capitalist newspapers can
not remain utterly silent on the adj
yancement in the standard Of living
of the workers in the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics. A recent Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Moscow
printed the following facts about So
cial insurance in the Soviet Union
the safeguarding of the workers life
when old, i'll, incapacitated or acct
dentaly out of work
The Soviet government in one year
has put aside fund of $l,o58, SOC. 900
for social insurance. Last year $3.50, J.,
100000 was spent for pensions for
the aged and orphans, and $2l5,000,-
600 for free medical aid to workers.
In the United States Andrew Mellon
handed few big corporations $780,
100000 in one chunk for dividends,
Sothat the parasites could gorge and
wallow in Florida and California. To
the workers the American capitalist
government gave nothing but insults,
policemen's clubs and jails.
In this issue of the Daily Worker
we publish some photographs indi-
eating what these expenditures OF
the Soviet Union were for.
The Associated Press goes on to
tell some more of what life means
for the workers in workers coun-
try:
During 1880, the Social Insurance
epartm ent maintained 66l ,270
workers in rest homes; 1880 in sani-
toria, and 1880 in health resorts.
Besides, $1l5,ooo000 was spent for
workmen's housing schemes and
$33,0o0,000 for schools for training
and restraining of skilled labor. So
much for social insurance-the
amount of which increases each year
as the Five-Year Plan advances.
While unemployment in the capt.
talist countries breaks up tens of
thousands of homes, makes slaves
and beggars of the workers wives
and children, in the Soviet Union
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

are realizing that they actually can
obtain relief and even some protec-
ton from eviction if they fight side
by side in an organized manner. In
the east end of Duluth about rs work.
ers came to house meeting. About
half were women. Most of the fam
lilies were in immediate need of re-
lief. A committee was elected to go
to the Welfare Board to demand re-
lief for Is families in the neighbor-
hood.
The Welfare Board was forced to
give a hearing to the committee and
as result few families got relief.
One family with three children after
this hearing received an increase in
relief. Before they we're getting So
per week but now they get IS per
week for groceries. The workers in
the East End Unemployed Council
are determined to obtain relief for all
the Is families.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
NEW ORLEANS, LA.


Despondent because of unemploy-
ment j. G. DelBondi, 80 years old,
PSI Napoleon Ave-, drank carbonic
acid and died Sunday evening.
Yet our lousy lying boss papers
here keep feelings us workers that
the worst is over and things arc now
definitely on the up and up.
Like he'll they are. Fellow workers,
you amt seen nothing yet.
As long as you continue to starye
peacefully and take your own lives
without fighting back at the bosses,
SO long will they continue to cut
wages, speed up the jobs and lay off
more and more workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Jobless Suicide in New Orleans; Call for Fight!

Men, If you are going to die, die
like men. Die fighting for food, shell
ter and clothing. Don't kill yourself
to please the bosses.
Join the Unemployed Council at
308 Chartres st. Don't be afraid of
the police who expressly come there
to terrorize the timid.
Make some protest against the
damnable rotten boss system under
which you suffer, starve and die.
Come ON our fellow workers! Let's
give them such May Day demon
strstion here as will make the bos-
ses send q lot Of extra clothes to
the laundry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Negaunee Hospitals Allow Workers to Rot
Negaunee, Mich.

Negaunee, Mich.
Daily Worker:
Workers who can't pay for med
ical attention when they are sick
have to depend on the city for care
at the city hospital. Where they are
left to rot as far as the doctors are
concerned. The city doctors come
around two or three times a week
to see If you are living yet, if you
arc they feed you ON the same pills,
no matter what the sickness is. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Washington Saw Mills Are Closing Down
Aberdeen, Wash.

Aberdeen, Wash.
The Daily Worker:
A few words about the labor con-
ditions which is hardly worth men,
tioning for it Is all quiet on the
Western front 50 far a. the saw
mills are concerned. 1t is rumored
that Bay City mill will close down
from April I, so perhaps they figure
on another wage cut for the work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

Wish to state that we had Com
rsde Bloomfield down here from
Seattle a week ago on the 21st and
END and he held two meetings,
one here in Aberdeen and Sunday
evening In Hoquiam for a crowd
Of 200 to 300 that he held spell
bound for over two hours. So. after
all. perhaps the slaves will wake up
some time. -O.S,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

rooms are small and stuffy without
any ventilation.
This is an example of City Wei
fare and charity, slow starvation
until you get sick, and a menu of
pills in the hospital.
Workers. let's fight to get rid of
this lousy system that kills a work.
er and if he is lucky enough to last
out gives him pills. Down with this
fake relief.
"A Lucky Patient.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

NNONI1ND Eb EhOh EAUC ONCt
lawyer appointed by the Scottsboro
court to defend" the. nine young
sters and whose double crossing was
exposed by the defendants and the
I. L. D. The Negro masses reacted
Immediately against the double eros
sing boss lawyer, and the Ministers
Alliance of Chattanooga Wild had re-
tanned him for the defense answered
his attack on the I. L. D. by firing him
and branding him as a traitor.
Negro Refromists Aid Lynchers BY
Silence.
While the Negro and white masses
are rallying throughout the country
to the fight to save the lives of the
nine boys, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, the National Urban League,
the Universal Negro improvement
Association (Garvey Movement and
other reformist organizations continue
to maintain their treacherous silence
in the face of this murderous Frame
up and court room lynching. The
Negro refornlist press continues either
to ignore the case or to publish news
of it from the viewpoint of the south
ern boss lynchers.
So deep is the feeling Of the Negro
masses over the outrageous ScottSboro
frame-up and legal lynching that at
meeting in Negro church in Cha
ttanooga, the I. L. d, became the
chant of a Negro spiritual, and shouts
and stamping Of feet greeted the
news that white and Negro workers
throughout the country we're rallying
to the defense of the nine youths.
Negro and white workers. Rail for
mighty protest on May Day! Down
tools! Demonstrate May First against
the Scottsboro legal lynching, against
starvationl Demand death to the
lynchersl Demand new trial for the
nine youths with jury of workers,
Aidlk w VIC lNC6lOCOF AtONli WiblA pun"
age and share cropper slavery! For
full equality for the Negro masses!
Negroes can never get justice in the
courts of the white capitalists and
landlords! Demand the right of self
determination for the Negro people
the right to a Negro state in the
Black Beltl
NEW YORK.--While pushing the
preparations for huge militant May
Day demonstrations against lynch
ing, starvation, wage cuts and i'm
perialist war, workers organizations
throughout the country continue to
voice their horror and dentmciation
against the nurderous frame-up and
court room lynching against nine COL
ored youngsters by the Alabama boss
court.
A resolution announcing the frame-
up was sent to the governor of Ala
bama last night by the Detroit City
Council Of the Trade Union Unity
League The resolution declares, in
part:
This franz Up charge against
these Q young colored workers is but
continuation Of the wholesale lynch
ing of Negroes of which SO have
taken place in the last IS months. 1t
is through these methods that the
boss class tries to prevent the COM
mon organization Of Negro and white
workers in their struggle for equal
rights. against wage cuts, speed-up
and for unemployment Insurance.
Other protests we're sent by mass
meetings of workers held In the fol-
lowing places, in addition to those
already reported in tho Daily Worker:
Buffalo United May Day Confer
- fA-s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21

"nust have the D. W. Johnstown
ordered 100 copies carrying Johns
town story, a good method for gain
ing contact.
No Dust Gathers in Portland
"The Unemployed Council is get
ting rid of most Dailies but not yet
all. Trying to get regularly estab-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
Vacations and Improved Conditions for
Workers in Soviet Union; BreadlineS
and Garbage Cans for American TOilerS
Associated Press and n. Y. Sun Admit Life
Growing Securer and Better for
Toilers in the USSR

Millions of American workers will spend their vacations"
the breadnes Those who still in the factories will pay
for the bosses vacation by shaving longer hours at less pay
Conditions in the Soviet Union different With the
in productivity the workers vacations extended
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
U.S. GOVT SENDS WARSHIPS,
MARINES; MASSESFICHT;; But
LEADERS PLAN BETRAYAL
United Fruit Co. Controls Govt; Cuts Wages
Employs Slave Labor; the Crisis Has
Impoverished Thousands Of Workers

An armed uprising against the President CondresUned
Fruit Co. government of Honduras has broken out While
thousands of workers and impoverished in the
army which is bitterly fighting the government troops the
leaders of the uprising bourgeois generals who resent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
For full political and social rights
and seif-determination for Negroes!
Against imperialist war!

Only the organized power OF the
working class can save the political
prisoners!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
NEGRO MASSES
RALLY DEFENSE
Demonstrate Against
Lynching May i

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
A Sermon for Today
Just Before Dawn.
BIZ REV. JOHN n. GUM.

"Ij prevented (came before) the
dawning of the morning. and cried:
hoped in Thy word. Mine eyes prevent
Ego before) the night watches" Ps.,
cxix 147-14S.
The reference here is plainly to some
period in David's life which had been
like a dark night to him, and when
peering through the darkness he had
waited and watched for the break of
the morning.
Doubtless he refers to the time when
he was a fugitive exile, fleeing from
Saul and hiding in dismal caves, while
he waited for the fulffllment of the
dream that had been reckoning to him
since that day in his boyhood when the
prophet Samuel anointed him to be the
future King of Israel. It was long,
dreary night through which he waited.
Yet he kept his eyes strained toward
the eastern horizon looking for the
dawn to come.
Those who are familiar with the
story of David's life know that 1t was
not in vain that he waited and watched.
At last, and at the end of an hour
which seemed the darkest of all, sud-
denly the day broke. With a burst OF
enthusiasm the nation rallied to his
standard and proclaimed him King.
anu WIcu, III tdCcI years. lawn WIONC
IT came before the dawning of the
morning My eyes go before the
night Watches" / am sure he must
have been thinking of this dark exile
period in his life, and particularly Of
the denser darkness that came just be-
for the dawn of his coronation day.
This experience through which the
psalmist passed is one common to men
who have achieved success and renown.
I have followed the life-stories of many
such men. I have watched them grope
their way through the darkest kind of
night. I have seen them stand long
at the east window looking out through
the shadows, waiting, hoping, watching
for some sign of morning, and all the
while the darkness seeming to grow
denser and blacker. And then, suddenly
the night would be gone as the sun of
a triumphant day rose upon them.
Be not discouraged, We that are toll
ing and struggling through the dark
ness toward some life-goal. The night
that has already surrounded you for so
long may seem to be growing darker.
But never mind. Keep your eyes toward
the east. 1t may be only the denser
darkness that comes just before dawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
DOROTHY DIX'S LETTER BOX

TNEAR DOROTHY young
the ast @ g nov family NV ters are sTse and handsome and rcg
while little and lame and they ridcued
months decided them
strangers who much kinder to me than my own people but
starving affection. What shall do? BLACK SHEEP
not try counting blessings awhile instead spending
Believe
shedding
hard that sisters cruel and unIovns and YOU
them their
of
but in time wounds ache and the bitterness Of
our grief turns to gentle regret
inclination sepy spite
life In the make
clean break with your sisters Don't near them Keep Tar enough away
will with lot city there
yourself compannshfp
whom will friends And
and we have to work for it. silver platter
DEAR MISS
- UNHAPPY
jealousy
another
Of
guilty all the crimes that her imagination attributes to him.
wives
they wholly gu which onured their
Jealousy
stan OF the ory complex because when wife jealous because
she thinks that other attractive then Is
w w DOROTHY DIX
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10
Your Baby and Mine
BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED

Children are so poky that their
mothers are always incensed. He
takes a half hour to put on one
stocking; 81 can't get her to come In
when / call; she takes so long even
after she starts" Both of these atti-
tudes are typically childish. but the
adult ones are just as typical. After
to be finished. Some place to go after
1t is done. Other work to be attacked.
The adult who pokes has nothing in
teresting to do after his work is COM
pleted.
We can understand, then, why chill
dren are slow. There is seldom any
reason for them to hurry. What they
are doing at the moment is just as
important as what will. come after they
have finished.
Mrs. M. j. r. has an independent,
bright, impulsive boy of 6l2 who lags
on the way home from school. Because
he has to pass many stores he stops
to price a toy, helps q, woman with
her baby, carries package; in fact,
is a little handy man. His mother is
half frantic by the time he reaches
home. In addition, he embroiders all
his stories. His mother told him about
the boy whose tongue grew long when
he told lies. Now when she questions
and says, You can see for yourself,
has it grown any?" She is anxious to
handle these situations rightly and
does not know what to do.
Commend the child for wanting to
be helpful, but tell him that his first
duty Is to get home right after school.
At the moment he is being helpful at
your expense, for while he is winning
praise for doing kind deeds you are
worrying about his safety.
Tell him that unless he gets home
after school within a reasonable time
you have no recourse except to go
after him. since he seems unable to
manage this for himself. Stick to it:
call for him day after day until he
finds that he prefers independence and
speediness instead of being escorted
home. Find other opportunities for
him to be helpful
AS for the lying, he was bright
boy to discover that your tale was just
as untrue and just as fanciful as any
he ever told you. How can you inn
press a child with value of truthful
ness If you use lies yourself? / sug-
gest that you send me Self-addreSSed,
stamped envelope and let me send you
leaflets on Helping the Child to Tell
the Truth" and why Children Lie"
Put into practice some of the sugges-
tons in these leaflets.
Show the child that while imaginary
embellishments for stories make them
more interesting, he must differentiate
between the actually true and the
fanciful story Encourage him to OBJ
serve correctly; show him that 1t is
more difficult to tell exactly what hap
pened and to repeat exactly what he
hears than to make it up to suit him
self. Then If he wishes to enhance
his story you can say, 81 know this Is
the truth; the other is just your imag-
nation" II he understands that you
see the difference when he observes
correctly and when he does his en-
broidering consciously, then neither
truth nor imagination is sacrificed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

and then engaging a Senator near him
in conversation.
The biography which he supplied the
Congressional Directory will convince
even the most confirmed skeptic that
Morrow really likes to keep himself
in the background.
His is the shortest biography submit
ted by the new crop of Senators VINO
came in for the short session.
He Is content to make only Seve
statements about his past: No. / is
that he is a Republican. 2. He was
born In Huntington, w. Va, in 1878.
3. In 1895 he got an A. b. from Am
herst. 4. In 1899 he got an LII. B. from
Columbia 5. He married Elizabeth
Reeve Cutter of Cleveland in 1908. 6.
He lives in Englewood, N. J. And T..
He was elected to the United States
Senate in 1880 to I'LL the unexpired
term of Walter E. Edge and to the full
term of six years. ending March 8, 1887.
That's all. There's no mention of
the fact that he was formerly American
Ambassador to Mexico. He passes over
the fact that he was delegate to the
London Naval Arms Conference. And
one wishing to verify that he Is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-10

% popular even to this day. Men
would be IN knee breeches, buckle shoes
and powdered hair. Costumes can be
simple, but they should be cOlorful.
Paper costumes can be made, or old
fashioned ones from the store room
can be brought out and worn.
The boys should send valentines to
the girls, thereby securing partners for
dancing. or tabIeaux in which just two
Pose. These should represent pistures
On old valentines. The hostess supplies
the valentines for the boys to send"
and has the name of one Of the girls
In the company on each. The boys
do not know when they take their
are told 10 look inside and see that the
valentine goes, by their own special
delivery, to the person named on 1t.
Refreshments are served in boxes.
Paste fancy perforated candy box paper
around the entire edge of each box.
In each arrange sandwiches, olives,
nuts, little cake and an apple tart and
cheese. A section of Gruere cheese is
incest. Cover the contents with wax
uaper. Make paper flowers with wire
stems and thrust the stems down
through the paper so that the flowers
stand up in a dainty arrangement.
The boxes should resemble valentines
as much as possible. Hot or cold bever.
ages can be served from side table.
Give the boys Cupid's bows and darts.
On each dart there should be the name
Of one Of the girls. The boy finds