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The Washington times., 1931-10-20
District Guard Unit
Wins Y. f. W. TrODhU

Winning the Veterans of For.
eign Wars trophy three years in
succession, the Twenty-ninth Di-
vision Military Police Company
of the District National Guard
will be presented with it's prize
tonight at 8:45 on the parade
ground at Sixth Street and Maine
Avenue Southwest.
Comdr. Charles B. Jennings
will make the presentation fol-
lowing a parade by the company.
The Washington times., 1931-10-20

At Moscow, Idaho, this past
summer, Senator Borah, potent
chairman of the powerful Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, in
the course Of a speech he was
making to his constituents, at.
tackled the League Of Nations for
its failure to halt the unoff.c al
war that Japan is waging in
Manchuria against the n" re
c. -. to the
mater as the latest instance of
the Leagues futility.
Several days later, his good
friend Senator Glass, peppery,
former Secretary Of the Treasury
in the Wilson Cabinet. sitting in
the office of his Lynchburg new
paper, saw a press dispatch tell
inc about Borah's speech and his
attack on the League. Senator
Glass is a Staunch adherent Of
the League. He promptly sat
down and wrote a sharp editorin'
under the title The League Will
Act" Glass CRITICIZED his ser"
torial comrade for beiro too hasty
in his denunciation. The League
will act in due time, Glass de-
clared editorially.
A few days ago Glass stopped
in at Borah's office in the Senate
office - lding on legislative
matter. Th"t morn,.lg press dis
patches told Of Japanese army
aviators bombing Manchurian
cities and killing hundreds Of
non-combatants, among them
women and children. Weeks be-
fore, the Leagle meeting in
Geneva had decided that it could
do nothing to prevent Japan's
military aggression. japan had
refused to permit the League 20
act.
When Glass entered his office
Borah had before him the League
Will Act" editorial of several
The Washington times., 1931-10-20

authorities
that depends largely teeth
in name yOu?
The Washington times., 1931-10-20
IWOOdcOck to Visit
Michi0dn Districts

Amos w. w. Woodcock, prohibi-
tion director, will inspect the Ann
Arbor and Grand Rapids, Mich,
prohibition district on Thursday
and Friday, he announced today.
On his return he will inspect
the Richmond, Va, area, thus
completing his inspection tour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Don't Fight Back So
Bosses Slash Twice
Struggle Can S t O p
More Wage Cuts
Staten Island, N. Y.

Staten Island, N. Y.
Dear Comrades:
Speaking to some of the workers
inttle Staten Island Varnish Co. here
at Elm Park, who said that condi-
tons are getting intolerable
They said that in 1880 or at the
end Of 1880, after being speeded up
to capacity, many workers were laid
off. Those who were fortunate
enough to remain at work got a 10
per cent cut with no complaining
about it. OF course, the bosses, see
ing that no one complained a few
weeks later, cut down another 10 per
cent Of their wages.
Wages at this factory before these
cuts, were from $40 to $40 week with
only few skilled working there for
many years receiving $40.
I told them how to fight back and
organize. told them about the
DAILY Worker" about the Reds who
come to assist the workers in their
struggles for better conditions. I told
them that when they are ready to
fight to send for organizers by writ
ing to the Trade Union Unity League.
Staten Island Comrade.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
NEGRO LYNCHED
BY BOSS "POSSE''
He Rebelled Against
Forced Labor; Killed

CLARKSDALE, Miss. Feb. 49,
George Spann, Negro tenant farmer
who, in revolt against the system
Of forced labor under which he was
held as a slave without liberty to
leave the plantation of his landlord,
shot and seriously wounded Charles
ONeal, the landlord, was killed yes
terday BY q mob, supported by the
sheriff Of the county.
spann was hunted down with blood
hounds BY . mob which mode no
secdet Of Its intention to lynch him.
J. d. Neal and e. W. williams. dep
uty sheriffs, led the mob.
A number Of other Negroes who had
been rounded up by the sheriff dep.
uties In a terroristic attack on the
Negro population here were released
following the lynching Of Spann.
The boss papers boast that "every-
thing is quiet" and mo further
trouble is feared" intimating that the
local Negroes are too cowed by the
brutal reign Of terror directed against
them by the white ruling class to at
tempt TO defend themselves against
thAs vicious attack.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
WhiteWashCOb
Who Killed A
Negro Youth
Philadelphia, Pa.

Phlladelphla, Pa.
Editor Daily Worker:
Some time ago it was reported in
the Daily Worker that young Negro
worker was shot down in cold blood
by a cop. here in this city. Well.
you know that that cop was found
not guilty in the investigation that
followed. OF course, it was farce
planned in advance, and the verdict
rendered was that the killing was an
accident in line of duty of the hench-
man of the boss class.
He said that his gun was dis
charged in the air, and as result j.
Chew. 10, got three bullets through
his head, for taking 10 cents worth
Of food. Isn't this clear? The cop
shot in the air and this Negro work.
er gets three bullets in his head, the
cop goes free.
This is capitalist Justice. II you
steal a loaf of bread, either you get
killed or sentenced for life; the Mel
Ions and Hoovers and the Morgans
steal millions and all they get is
medal from Congress.
--P.B.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
TEXTILE UNION PRESENTS THE
JOBLESS DEMANDS in BEDFORD
City Council Flees from Chambers With Shouts
of "Fakers" In Their Ears; Big Demon
stration On February 18th

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Feb. 49,
A delegation of 25 unemployed work.
erS elected at two meetings called
by the National Textile Union here
went to the city council meeting last
night to place the demands drawn
up at these meetings before the City
Council. Immediately on entering
the city hall, one of the city officials
demanded to know who the delega-
ton was, what they were there for,
and the names and addresses of the
different members of the delegation.
The delegation resisted this by stat
ing that they were within their rights
and did note see the necessity of CIV
ing their names and addresses. A
number of times the chief of police
Mcleod and his plainclothes men
tried to bulldoze the workers by stat
ing that they had no right to come
there before the council was in ses-
sion, but throughout these entire
proceedings the workers stood their
ground and kept the city council
members and the dicks on the de-
fensive.
When the city council opened its
meeting, Immediately the spokesman
for the delegation, Pat Devine, Ann
Burlack, Joe Figuerretto, and Math-
ew Souza forced their way into the
ground floor of the city council while
the main body of the delegation took
seats in the balcony. The demand
for hearing was placed before the
president, and he knowing that to
refuse a hearing would enrage the
workers, promised that 1t would be
taken up during the order Of bust
ness. Then he ordered the spokes-
man out Of the chambers stating that
they would be called in when the
matter would be taken up.
The spokesman for the delegation
refused to leave the room and were
forcibly elected by the police called
in for that occasion. Immediately
shouts of protest came from the bal
cony. AS soon as Devine and Bur-
lack were elected from the main floor
OF the city council chambers they i'm
mediately proceeded upstairs to the
balcony determined to raise the is
sue from there.
A very tense situation prevailed IN
the council chambers for the unem-
ployed delegation occupied the entire
balcony. The president Of the coun-
Gil rushed through the order Of bust
ness bent on getting away from the
delegation Of workers.
Immediately the communication
was read, Burlack got up and de-
rlanded to speak on the commune
cation. The president stated that a
motion to act on the communication
was before the council members. A
motion was made to refer the COM
munication. Pat Devine jumped up
and shouted this Is trick Of the
city council. TWO dicks who had
49,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
WAR VET CALLS FOR UNITED
STRUGGLE FOR BONUS AND RELIEF
Exposes Opportunists Who Try Betray Fight
By Preventing Unity of Veterans With
Rest of Working-Class

in their home town with the rest OF
their comrades who are cooperating
with the rest of the working class
they show they are not sincere but
are just bunch of opportunists and
are hired to weaken our solid front
organization.
The reason the veterans are fight
ing for the bonus in full now 10
years after the war is because they
are broke and they are not able to
get a job. Therefore they are fight
ing for immediate relief in the form
of back pay earned during the war.
They were working men before the
war, during the war. and they are
still working men, and their cause is
a working mans cause, and they
must stay with the working class in
a solid front fight and fight shoulder
to shoulder with men and women Of
their own class. Anyone who advo-
Gates a movement that separates the
vets from the rest of the working
class are just trying to weaken our
forces. They are traitors to the cause
and must be treated as such. Vet
Grams should get wise to these takers
and discourage them the best way
they see fit.
The veterans of Seattle want the
Daily Worker to expose these takers
in your paper, and to warn the vets
against these opportunists in the fu-
ture, to tell them to get in the IN
employment Councils and fight with
the rest of the working class against
the oppression of the capitalist class.
And remember that united we stand
and divided we fall.
Acc, a Veteran.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Philly Workers Will
Hear About Trial of
Soviet SabOtagers

PHILADELPHIA, P a.-First-hand
reports Of the great Moscow trial of
the eight cornter-revolutionary engi-
neers and Of the latest developments
in Soviet agriculture will be given
to workers and friends of the Soviet
Union at mass meeting to be held
here Friday night, Feb. 20, at $3.50
at Girard Manor Hall, 909-915 Girard
Ave.
The speakers will be A. B. Magil,
who was correspondent of the Daily
Worker at the trial, and DR.. Karl
Scholz, professor of economics at the
University Of Pennsylvania, who has
recently returned from the U. S. S.
r., where he made a study of the
collectivization movement In agricul-
ture.
The meeting is being held under
the auspices Of the Philadelphia Lo-
cal of the Friends of the Soviet
Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

been prepared for the moves of the
delegation Immediately grabbed De-
vine and bodily dragged him from
the room. The delegation shouted:
Let him go, we demand a hearing in
the name of the unemployed workers
Of New Bedford"
Burlack started to speak, with the
delegation on its feet, and the city
council escaped from the chambers.
Cries of "fakers, towards" followed
the council members out of the room.
The delegation marched out of the
city hall shouting the demands of
the unemployed, and singing Soil
darity.
The chief of police did not dare
to make an attempt to arrest any Of
the delegation.
With this preliminary visit the
workers of New Bedford are prepar-
ing for a mass demonstration here
on February Is, the time when the
world proletariat is coming into the
streets demanding bread, work or un-
employment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Portland, Ore., Points Way to
Increased Circulation by Way
OF Red Ne1Us Clubs; Sends TIPS

Portland, Ore, which recently
started new bundle order of so for
the Unemployed Council alone, is
carrying on work which should re-
suit in steady increase in circula-
ton.
'The workers are anxious to buy
Daily Worker. In Portland,
where the Daily Worker boys have
been arrested, beaten up and kept
for deportation, the Daily Worker
is sold," writes Minnie L., Daily
Worker representative. "Tn No
vember we used to get so copies.
To-day. Portland gets I2S papers, so
you see the Daily can be sold If
only the comrades realize the i'm
portance."
M. LIS letter clearly shows the re-
Spouse of the workers to the 'Daily"
despite government terror. She gives
some concrete suggestions on form
ing Red Builders News Clubs.
Each comrade knows a few SYM
pathizers," she writes. 1--WE also
have list of subscribers. Each unit
elects an active Daily Worker agent
with two comrades to help him.
These three call meeting of SYM
pathizers where the Daily Worker
agent Cor any Party speaker ex-
plains the importance of the "Daily,"
appeals for subs and arranges Red
Sundays. At the same meeting two
sympathizers should be added to the
Daily Worker committee, to meet
every week.
"They must arrange meetings at
least twice a month" she contin-
ues, "and should see that these are
made interesting, by musical pro-
gram and refreshments, SO workers
can become better acquainted and
feel at home. I'm sure if every city
will do that, the sale and subs will
double"
Comrade L. pays her bills promptly
and calls upon other Daily Worker
representatives to do likewise, SO that
the Daily Worker would not have to
appeal for funds SO often.
A report like this indicates the
possibilities which may be achieved
in selling the paper by systematic
work. We wish to receive reports a
little more regularly from Portland,
so that direct help can be given from
the national office.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Nabisco Foreman A Vicious Tyrant

hold your job. you have to go into
debt and get one. Now is there any
thing right in that? He is positively
rotten to poor people.
But he has all kinds Of graft COM
ing in to him and does not give a
damn about other people.
And not only that. When people
are out sick and come back again to
work, why they are sent to him and
he puts them through q third de-
gree. You would think he was a
doctor, the question he asks, so per-
sonal, and it is terribly embarrassing
for women.
Nerve Of him, he should not have
anything to do with women's cases
that are out sick. And, another
thing, he does not know how to talk
to women.
"A Worker in the Nabisco.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Denver Red Sunday Reveals Extent of
Unemployment

employment and poverty these work
ers told me:
IT would like to hear Foster speak,
but can't spare the money. I have
been out Of work since last Septem-
ber."
my husband is working. but there
are five of us to live on his $40 a
week: so you can see what IS cents
means to U.s."
IT was out Of work eight months
last year. I have had few days
work this year, but the wages Sre
so small it doesn't pay to work"
II can't buy a ticket. I am out Of
work and have no money. It looks
like we are going to lose our home.
We can't make our payments"
"I'd like to buy a ticket, lady, but
I have no money; I got no work;
can't find no job"
twenty-five cents? I haven't got
that much money. I have only
worked eight days since last August"
ID. E. E.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

Representative Plan. This plan is
really nothing but a Soothing Sy-
rup" to keep the workers commended.
Inasmuch as the Employees Repre-
sentatiyes have no actual power to
prevent any unjust decisions being
made, the representative plan does
not hold water" and is nothing but
a cleverly planned hoax to prevent
the workers from organizing an ac-
tive labor union.
The c. F. & I. has always been
very quick and willing to order out
the militia to handle any militant
workers. The attitude OF the G. F.
& I. Company toward its workers
has been an attitude Of oppression.
On the pages of history this COM
pany will go down as the Ludlow
Murderers."
The workers of the steel and coal
are looking forward to the day when
the Communist Party will release
them from their bondage of steel
chains.
Pueblo Steel Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
ROB OLD STEEL
MEN OF PENSION
Big Plants Fire Many
Workers

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Feb. 18.-In
the Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant in
this city 60 old workers were fired
last month. They have service rec
ords Of from 16 to Is years. In the
first ten days Of February % more
were scrapped.
This is the way the steel corpora
ton gets out of paying its measly
pensions that it promises to the
workers If they slave hard and don't
strike. In many of the cases where
the older workers we're fired their
pensions were due in a short time.
Many more were laid off in the
Schwab plant. and this is the plant
that has already laid off so per cent
Of It's workers and the balance work
on the stagger system, two to six
days In the week. The Lorain steel
Works. subsidy Of the U. S. Steel
Corporation Is working on the stag
ger system, with go per cent OF the
original forces. The rest have been
scrapped.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League Of the Trade Union Unity
League is organizing the metal work
ers to fight against these conditions.
The Unemployed Council is calling
on the workers to demonstrate on
Feb. Is, on World Unemployment
Day. to demand immediate relief and
unemployment insurance
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
CHICAGO DISTRICT
ACTIVITY STEADY

L. Lift, Daily Worker representa-
tive in Chicago, is utilizing the fra
ternal organizations for the $4,000
circulation campaign.
"PIease see to it that the bundle
orders for different organizations
are sent out on time. We are try
ing to involve the organizations in
popularizing the Daily Worker so
that many are beginning to order
bundles for the night they meet"
he writes. eve are continuing to
build up the Daily Worker Build
ers and Sustaining Council"
Chicago ordered 5000 copies of the
Friday, Feb. 10, issue, the first dis
trict page, which is being used for
mobilizing workers for the Feb. IS
unemployment demonstration.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Very Little Work Going On In San Diego, Cal

Dielion of Florida is paying men rs
cents an hour for doing carpenter
work on an auto exhibit that Is be-
ing put up at the foot Of Broadway.
Marked ON the black board in the
'free" employment office the other
day was a sign 1.-TWO first class lati1-
ers, $3.50 day. Celery pickers are
paid rs cents an hour and work FIVE
TO six hours day. A Mexican celery
picker said the boss got commits
sion on each man he hired and
charged each man rs cents a day
to haul them to the job.
&C. G,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
PREPARE MASS
DEMONSTRATION
FOR FEBRUARY25
Chi. Jobless to Mass at
Union Park
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEl

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
was called for the preparation on
February 25tt, the hall was packed,
and every worker present took the
floor and declared he would do every
thing to make the hunger march a
success. On February 10th, 5000
took part in the March. On Febru-
airy 25th not less than 10000 arc ex-
pected. The hunger march will start
at 1900 noon at 18th and Central,
and from there will go to the west
end and back to the city hall where
a delegation will present the demands
of the unemployed to the city coun-
Gil.
At Scranton, Pa, Public So.
In Scranton, Pa, on Wednesday,
February 25th, huge mass unem-
ployment demonstration, called joint
ly by the Communist Party and the
Trade Union Unity League will take
place at noon in Public Square,
(Mitchers Statue. Preparations are
being made for a wide distribution
of the special edition of the Daily
Worker
Word has been received that the
Glen Alden Grievance Committee
thru pressure CT the rank and file
is calling rump convention of the
UMWA, District One. The Glen
Adm Coal Company has closed down
nine colleries this year, throwing
thousands of miners out of work.
The miners are demanding the re-
opening of these mines, and have ap-
pealed to the district officials and to
Governor Pinchot but all they have
gotten is promises" but no action.
The miners themselves are now act
ing and the rurnp convention of dis
trict One is their first expression.
These miners are no longer depend
ing upon the promises of the dis
trict off1cialdom and the "Pinchot"
committee.
In Minersville, Pa, on February 25,
march from all surrounding towns
will be made on the county seat, in
Pottsville, Pa, to put forth the de-
nlands of the unemployed. Unem-
ployment in this vicinity is effecting
thousands of workers.
In Detroit, Mayor Murphy's Unem-
ployment Committee, in its drive
against foreign-born workers, are
using numerous dicks and stool-pige-
ons. At the welfare stations, soup
kitchens and flop houses, these agents
terrorize and croSs-examine the
workers as to their being entitled
to draw the miserable pittance.
To fight against this, the Unem-
ployed Councils of Detroit are effect
lively preparing to put an end to this
intimidation and to expose Murphys
attempts to fool the workers. The
Unemployed Council is rallying thou
sands of workers for the February
25th demonstration, demanding the
creation Of city unemployment
fund, through taxation on incomes
and property of the manufacturers
and business men.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
CLEVELAND
CHECKS UP

j. Fromholz, Daily Worker repre-
sentative of Cleveland, writes:
1--WE will have a complete report
next week on our Red Builders
Clubs. We have overcome some Of
the obstacles in building the clubs
and we will begin to push forward
this week." he continues. you will
find pistrict lining up with the
rest of the districts, pushing the cir
culation upward"
Fromholz concludes: 'The workers
can be reached, If we will only go
out after them, and for this we are
mobilizing the councils and the Daily
Worker Red Builders News Clubs"
incidentally, Cleveland is contem-
plating an Ohio page for Feb. 81,
setting good example Of what can
be done with systematic organiza-
ton.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Denver, Colo.

DCIlVeI, SOlU.
Daily Worker:
The Denver papers tell us it is a
privilege to live in Colorado, that
people In Colorado have suffered less
from the crisis than the people in
any other state. When the unem-
pIoyed workers Of Denver marched
to the state capital, Jan. 81. and pre-
scented their demands for immediate
relief, the senate appointed COM
mittee to investigate unemployment
in Colorado, and the committee ESQ
the capitalist papers told us) found
that there was no serious unemploy-
ment situation in this state and con-
ditions did not Justify the demon
stration.
But yesterday one of the Denver
units had red Sunday in the pack
ing house district, for the house-to-
house sale Of tickets for the Foster
meeting. About two-thirds Of the
men I talked to were out OF work.
Here are some Of the stories Of UNI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19
Carnegie Steel Co. Has New Tyranny

would sell like hot cakes, so they or
dered big stock Of shoes. Seeing
that their agent couldn't scare the
workers into buying the shoes just
because they work in Carnegie Steel,
what was their next step? The
bosses told the workers at work to
buy the shoes because they had to
get rid Of the stock before March
l, 1881. II they didn't buy any shoes
they would get their time.
How can the workers Of Carnegie
Steel buy shoesf They work Two and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-19

cusc of laying of more men with the
result that the remaining men had
to perform the same amount Of work
in many cases that had been done
by a much larger number Of men
previously.
During the last year many men
have been laid off and many others
have been put on to 8 days work
per week.
Company Union Here.
The Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. is
handicapped by having no coal and
iron ore within easy reach; the
greatest quantities of coal coming
from the Walsenburg district and
points further south. Practically the
entire supply of iron ore is obtained
from Sunrise, Wyoming. Inasmuch
as the company cannot produce its
basic iron as cheaply as many of
the more propitiously located COM
panies in the East, the handicap falls
chiefly on the employees.
All labor difficulties of the plant
are handled under the Rockefeller