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The Washington times., 1931-08-25
SHUNS
BIG SHOTS
!. Of CITY
Find Suspects Without Guns;
U. S. Joins N. Y. in Launch
Ing Action Against Criminals

U. S. Joins N. Y. in Launch
Ing Action Against Criminals
NEW YORK, Aug. Is G.N.S0
Gangsters were reported today to
be hiding their guns and getting
out of town as the militant crime
sweep-up Of the police depart
1nent continued on the tidal wave
Of public indignation against
1awleSSneSS.
With policemen and detectives
securing the haunts Of crookdom
with orders to shoot to kill on
the slightest show of resistance,
every known gunman, racketeer,
or ex-convict was being arrested
on slight.
Seventy-fOur suspects were
picked up during the past Is
hours. With the usual "pick-
ups" q company Of 1O6 prisoners
marched across the platform TO-
day at the daily police "line-up."
The charges against the
suspects ranged from vagrancy
to grand larceny and burglary.
The fact that no guns were
found on the horde of prisoners
corraled in the roundup was
interpreted by officials as indi-
eating that the underworld knew
the cops meant business. One
police official said:
"The big shots are laying
low, tOO-that'S why we haven't
been able to spot any yet"
Big Shots Missing
However, there was criticism
In anti-administration quarters
over the absence of well-known
gangSter chieftains among the
prisoners taken.
Police Commissioner Edward P.
Mulrooney attended the lineup of
prisoners. He praised the 16
policemen who took part in the
recent 10-mile gun battle through
city streets against bandits.
u. s. Operatives On Job
The arrests were viewed as the
first drive of police in cooperation
with the Federal Government to
clean up New York in the wake Of |
weeks of violence, during which |
two children were the innocent |
victims Of gunner and gangsterS. |
Public indignation over the Slay- |
ing Of innocent byStanderS in re-
cent street ShootingS was voiced
by more than 10000 persons at an
anti-gang rally last night in Madi-
son Square Garden. Thousands
were unable to gain seats and
milled around the hall.
Colby AsSails Walker
Bainbridge Colby, chairman Of
the meeting, attacked Mayor
Walker, city officials, and police
minced no words in spite of the
fact that Police Commissioner
Mulrooney was one Of the princi-
pal speakers at the meeting.
Mu1rooney promised a new
drive to smash gunner.
Prohibition was chiefly blamed
by the speakers for lawleSsnesS
in New York. Remedies offered
we're as follows:
Repeal of Eighteenth Amend
ment.
Mitigation Of unemployment.
DiSaFming of gunner.
Greater sense Of RESPONSE
bility by the public.
DivOrcing Of crime and poll
tics.
Acting Mayor Mckee, the city'S
executive while Mayor Walker is
in Europe, announced after a con-
ference with other officials that
plans for a drastic campaign
against criminals had been
adopted.
IS New Motorcycles
It was announced that rs new
armored motorcycles, carrying
two policemen armed with shot
guns, pistols, and tear gas bombs,
will be placed on street cruising
duty.
All police cars, armored motor
cycles. and police booths will be
equipped with radio receiving
sets.
The Washington times., 1931-08-25
CHURCH PLANS PICNIC

The Ladies' Aid Society Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church OF
Clarksburg, Md, will hold itS
annual picnic and chicken supper
in Kings Woods, near Clarksburg,
today. The fried chicken dinner
will be served from 5 p. m. to 8
D. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-16

Use it to Build Up Greater Confidence Among the
Negro Masses. to Cement the Unity With White
Workers in Their Struggles for Negro Rights and
for the Right of Snlf Determination
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
LEAGUE OF STRUGGLE FOR NEGRO
RIGHTS HITS FAKE LYNCHING FIGURES
nenounce Efforts of Motion, Dubois Crowds to
Soft Peddle on Bosses Murderous Lynching
Terror Against Negro Masses

apolosists for the imperiaiist oppres-
sors of the Negro and white masses.
1t Is an effort to stem the rising
wrath of the Negro masses against
their prosecutors, as well as to try to
justify the reformists' methods of pc
titions and prayers from which the
Negro masses are now turning in dis
gust. 1t is another effort of the i'm
perislists and their Negro lackeys to
divert the masses from militant meth
DDS of struggle and to win them to
the reformistS' approval of segregs-
ton, Jim-Crowism, etc.
The League of Struggle for Negro
Rights calls upon the white and
Negro masses for joint struggle
against the imperialists and their
Negro and white lackeys, for mass
violation of all Jim-Crow laws and
practices, for resistance By squads of
white and Negro workers to tie lyn-
cheers, for full equality Of Negroes
with other naticnahties, and for the
right of self determination for the
Negro malTities in the South "
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
HUNGER MARCH
ON MINNESOTA
CAPITOL, WE'D.
NewarkDenonstration
Aleo Tomorrow

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. s.
On Wednesday the jobless OF Mime
hopeless" swarming before the agen-
cies, living in the dirty flop houses
and slowly starving on the bread
lines, will come out in thousands and
Joined by the militant workers who
still have jobs will march, joined by
the workers and unemployed of st.
Paul and the delegations from other
towns, and lay demands for immedi-
ate relief before the state government
at the state capitol in st. Paul
The legislature will be in session
and the fake ''farmer-labor" gcv-
ernor. Olson, will be having his in
auguration. Speakers and a commit
tee elected to present the demands
will expose the fake relief schemes OF
the farmer laborites and the A. F. OF
l. and socialists.
On New Years Day two we're ar
rested for holding meeting inside
the employment office. were taken to
CONFINED ON PAGE THREE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
HIT SUPPRESSION
OF YOUNG TOILERS
Defense Demands Post
Office Explain

NEW YORK.-Protesting the press
censorship exercised by the U. S. gov
eminent and its revoking of the Sec
ond mail rights of the Young Work
err" official organ of the Young Com
munistS, the International Labor De-
Tense, yesterday communicated with
he Washington authorities and de-
handed an immediate hearing and
specific reasons" why certain issues
OF that militant publication were de-
CARED unavailable. and second class
privileges cancelled.
The letter from the defense organ
ization also demands a similar hear
ing on the barring from the mails of
two other working class publications
the Young Pioneer" and the Spanish
weekly, Vida Obrera."
The post office department has al
ready asked of a number of militant
p !bhcations published in foreign Ian
guages to render full TRANSACTIONS of
their contents as we'll as sending
around their dicks and stool pigeons
to secure full sets of magazines and
papers. The workers must fight this
new reign of terror and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense will render its
full support to this struggle against
the bosses
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

NEW YORK. Pointing out that
even the capitalist press was forced
to report 38 lynchings during 1880,
the League of Struggle for Negro
Rights. in a statement issued yester-
day, sharply denounced the figures
Of 81 lynchings given out by Tuske-
gee Institute and of rs lynchings by
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
These figures are lies" the state
ment declares, and are in line with
the treacherous role of the Negro re-
formist organizations Of minimizing
the bosses lynching terror against
the Negro workers and soft-peddling
generally the frightful oppression to
which the Negro masses in this coun-
try, and particularly the 100000 liv-
ing in the South, are subjected by the
brutal white slave drivers democracy
This deliberate act on the part
of the Negro nlisleaders of covering
up the lynching terror is part of
their historic role as defenders and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
TO ANSWER THE
FAFSCISTS JAN. 10

NEW YORK. - Workers and work
ing-class organizations in New York
City are rallying to the celebration
of the Seventh Anniversary of the
Daily Worker January 10 at St.Nicho-
las Rink, and pledging to make the
occasion an effective answer to the
Fish Committee and the fascist Or
CARNATIONS viii Ii have called an an
ti-Communist meeting for January
9th
The obvious purpose of the anti
Communist meeting is to prepare the
ground for the report of the infamous
Fish Committee and its proposals for
additional working class legisla-
ton, especially legislation against the
foreign-born, the revolutionary unions
which in spite of the treachery of
the A. F. of L. bureaucratS are rally
ing the masses for struggle against
the bosses starvation system, and
against the acknowledged leader of
the workers and poor farmers, the
Communist Party and its press.
All workers and their organizations
are urged to turn out en- masse for
January 10 at the st. Nicholas Rink
to give a proletarian answer to the
Fish Committee.
LIN addition to addresses by WELL
known working class leaders, there
will be a fine musical program by
leading artists, including Sergei Ra-
damSky, the singer who recently re-
turned from the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
N. ]. WORKERS
THREATEN MAYOR
700 in North Bergen
Cry Lynch the Mayor
By RYAN WALKER

More than TOO enraged residents OF
North Bergen, N. j.. yesterday
threatened to lynch the mayor and
three members Of the board Of eoun-
cilmen, who had just jamnied through
an ordinance adding As more ward
heelers to the payroll.
Twenty policemen were swept aside
by the angry crowd who filled the
council room to Overlooking and stood
on window stills, chairs and partitions
to protest against the passing Of the
graft budget. Unemployment in North
Bergen, a small city in Hudson
County, has been heavy and not
penny has been voted by the councils
men for relief, although after a re-
cent supreme court probe it was ar1-
nounced that 100000 had been
stolen from the townships treasury.
A fake trial resulted in the failing
of one minor official.
When it was announced yesterday
morning that the councilnien In
tended adding the DC grsfters to the
payroll crowd of angry workers Inn
mediately gathered and threatened to
lynch the officials, crying: Lynch
the mayor" ride the crooks out Of
town on rail-" @Tar and feather the
grafters."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
| new COURSES At
WOR EEIRS' SCHOOL
Registration Open for
Spring Term

NEW YCRK.-lThe Spring Term of
the Workers School, for which regis
tration is now open, will give many
new courses in addition to the
original schedule. Some of the new
courses are; The History of the Com
munist International, by r. Baker;
Negro Work, by Ainis; Social Insur-
ance. by G. Todes; Revolutionary
Literature, by E. jacobson; Workers
Correspondence, by v. Jerome; Polit-
ical Economy, by j. Minded, etc These
new courses are added to enable the
workers to develop themselves in their
various fields Of revolutionary activi-
ties.
Other courses In the school, like
English, Russian, Fundamentals OF
Communism, Trade Union Strategy
Organization Principles, Dialetic Ma
terialism, ETC., will be given additional
facilities in order to smeet the need
of the workers.
On account of the fact that many
workers are suffering from unenploy
ment, wage-cuts, etc, the School
Committee has decided to reduce the
fees from 81 to So for each course
except language courses whose fees
are Sc each for two sessions per
week. In order to secure enrolment
in the various classes desired, work.
ers are urged to register early at IS
e 18th st.
In addition to the regular courses
the School Committee also pays
special attention to the Workers
Forum conducted by the school, as it
is of extreme value to the workers.
The Forum will be held every Sunday
night at the Workers School Audi
forum, 35 T. 18th St, second floor
This coming Sunday, Jan. 4, at p m,
San Don, member of the Agit-prop
department OF the Central Commit
tee of the Communist Party, will
speak at the Forum on 1.-THE Mean
ing of Bank Crashes"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
PUSH DRIVE FOR
WOPKF1'Rl[S CENTER

NEW YORK.-The drive for the
New York Workers Center is in full
swing In shops and factories, among
workers organizations the workers
are preparing for the 7-Day Bazaar
as well as for the banquet. Sections
/. 2, 5, 8. and 9 will have booths.
Branches A and 81 of the Interna-
tional Workers Order will have
booths. All synpathizers are swing
ing into line to help bring the build
ing which serves the working class
into shape.
Organizations which have not yet
elected delegates shall do so, also
shops shall elect delegates to the ban
quet. Admission to the banquet is
so cents All organizations are urged
to send donations through their dele
gates to help maintain the New York
Workers Center. The Freiheit Man
dolin Orchestra will play revolution
airy music at the banquet.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
Returned John Reed
Club Delegates to Tell
of Wreckers' Trial

NEW YORK.-The returned John
Reed delegation from the Soviet
Union, William Chopper, A. B. Magil
and Harry Allan Potamkin, will be
greeted at a mass meeting at Irving
Plaza Thursday evening. Jan. 8, where
they will tell the story of the trial
Of the conspirators against the first
Socialist Republic. Robert w. Dunn
will be chairman.
Chopper and Magii were present in
the court room during the epochal
trial as correspondents for the work
ers' press and will give first hand
report Of the entire proceedings
Many sidelights will be thrown on the
trial that have not been published.
Beside the story of the trial, the
international convention of writers
and artists that was held in Kharkov
will be told about. The John Reed
Club sent delegation over to this
important gathering, where some out
standing proletarian writer's and ar
fists attended, and the American
delegation will report on that event
also at Irving Plaza.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
FURNITURE WORKERS in
FIGHT ON WAGE CUTTING

NEW YORK. Thursday at all
furniture workers are invited to meet
in Manhattan Lyceum and discuss to-
gether what can be done to win the
7-hour day and 5-day week, unem-
ployment insurance, a single union
in the industry and to put a stop to
the present wage-cutting. The wage
cuts are scandalous, approved by the
A. F. Of L. union in the only section
of the industry that is organized, the
upholsterers.
The meeting is called by the Fur
niture Workers Industrial League Of
the r. U. U. l.. All members of the
league are urged to report for dis
tribution of leaflets every day at II
m. at 16 w. 2lst st.
There will be mobilization meet
ing tonight at Is w 21st ST. at p.
m to plan final preparations of the
mass meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
SHOW 5-YEARPLAN
in SLIDE LECTURE
DARN Just Returned
from USSR to Speak

NEW YORK.--An illustrated lee
ture showing in a graphic manner
the startling advance in the Soviet
Union finder the F'ive-Year Plan will
be given on Sunday, Jan. 10, at p.
m. at the Irving Plaza. Irving Pl. and
18th St., by Coinrade DARN, who has
just returned from the U. S. S. r.
The lecture is Under the auspices of
the Friends of the Soviet Union and
will be given in the Russian language.
The lecture will especially dwell on
the class struggle in the villages, the
Grain collections and the iinperialist
war plots against the Soviet Union.
All workers are urged to attend this
valuable lecture and showing of pic
lures illustrating the practical carry
ing out of the Five-Year Plan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06

they mad Z5,OOO agents ana
collectors busy in 40 large
cities, circulating question
naires. This census was put
through with much secrecy, at
the orders Of President Hoover.
All reports were sealed and sent at
once to Colone. Arthur Woods.
former police commissioner OF New
York, who heads the presidents
committee on unemployment.
1t seems that the official census
reports taken last April we're so thor
oughly muddled, in the effort to keep
the total low, that even the reac-
tionary government did not know just
where it stood. and had to resort to
another census for facts needed. And
it is taking no chances on exposing
the fraud in the official census.
Count apple Sellers.
1t is known that even the unof-
fetal census counted hundreds of
thousands of apple sellers, slowly
starving on a lew cents earnings
day as employed. 1t also counted
as employed" the receivers of emerg-
ency work, which means in New YorF
only SIS a week, and in other cite
very much less. 1t counts as employ.
ed all getting even one days work
week in factories. And even then
Hoover fears to publish the figures!
The ten million jobless workers
must organize, demonstrate, and all
workers, jobless and employed, should
sign the signature lists demanding
passage Of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill! Lists that will
hold over 2 million signatures are in
the field, can be had at any Council
of the Unemployed or militant labor
union. and should be filled in by some
of the more than 100000 jobless
by some of the more than 15,000,00c
who work part time by all Other
workers, who face part time. unem-
ployment, speed UP, wage cuts, at any
time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
PHILHARMONIC.

The Philharmonic Orchestra, under
the guidance of Arturo Toscanini,
will give their next concert on We'd
nesdsy night at Carnegie Hall. The
program: Raft, Symphony No. GIN
VALDEZ, OPP. 1853; DIndy, "Istar,"
Symphonic Variations, OPP. 40; Glinka,
Fantasia, Kamarinskaya"; Rossini,
Sinfonia from the Opera, "L'Assedio
di Corinto." This program will be re-
peated on Friday afternoon.
Saturday morning, at Carnegie,
Ernest Schelling will conduct the last
young peoples concert.
At the Metropolitan Opera House,
next Sunday afternoon, Toscanini will
conduct an all-Wagner program which
will include the following numbers
Prelude to "Lohengrin' Overture and
Bacehansle from "Tannhaeuser" !;
Siegfried's Rhine Journey. from
"Gotterdaemmerung"; Prelude and
Love-Death, from Tristan and
Isolde; Prelude to die Meistersin-
GER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
S MnRE BANKS
GO TO SMASH
Deposition of Bank Of
u. S. a Suicide


Six banks crashed Monday. The
State Security Bank, one of the most
prominent state financial institutes
in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was closed. More
than $2,000000 in deposits we're in
volved. -Four banks smashed in In
diana. In st. Charles, Mo, the Cen
trail Trust Co.. with deposits of over
$l,000000, closed its doors.
NEW YORK.-While Grain moves
to whitewash his fellow Tammany
henchmen who have robbed 100000
depoSitors of their savings in the
Bank of the United States, George J.
Gellius, 52-year-old janitor, commit
ted suicide because his life's savings
of $1,000 we're swept away in the
bank crash. Gellius had stood in line
for days in the bitter cold attempt
ing to get the SO per cent loan prom
Used. He never got it, Instead he
caught cold and was laid up in
bed with acute bronchitis. Unable to
work and with his hard-earned saw
ings in the pockets of the rich bank
robbers, Gellius decided to end his
life.
Meanwhile, behind well-closed doors
District Attorney Grain is planning
to cover up the highway robbery Of
the bank officials, with whom are in
VOWED such leading Tammany politi-
clans as AL Smith. Gilchrist, Kenney
and Kresel
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
EVA LIE GALLIENNE
AS CAMILLE"

Eva lie Caffeine will play Mar
guerite Gautier in THE Lady of the
Camellias' Dumas play, which will
be produced at the Civic Repertory
MARITIME" by Jean Jacques Ber-
nard, will be presented this evening
by the first studio group at the Civic
Repertory Theatre.
John Drinkwater's comedy, Bird
In Hand" will begin a return en-
gagement at the 49th st. Theatre
this evening.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
NEGRO QUESTION SUNDAY

NEW YORK.-Harry Haywood, Ne
gro work director of District 2, Com
munist Party of the U. S. A., will
speak on the Struggle for Negro
Rights this coming Sunday at three
o'clock at the Harlem Workers Fo-
rum at 308 Lenox Ave.
Haywood's address will be in line
with the latest decisions of the c. I.
on the Negro work of the Party, and
all workers are urged to attend. The
question of the right of self-deter-
mination will be exclusively dis
cussed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
VILLAGE OF SIN" AT CAMEO.

The Soviet film, Village of SIM
the screen feature at the Cameo The
atre today and tomorrow.
Appearing at the Cameo as the Sec
ond Russian masterpiece in this week
of Soviet cinematic repertoire, "Vil-
lage of Sin" is film of the village,
with its customs, its superstitions, its
prejudices, but of village with the
breath Of a new era calling 1t into
new life.
Storm Over ASIA" another Sovkino
feature, will be shown on Wednesday
and Thursday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
More Banks Close.

A worker correspondent, writing
from Van Voorhis, West Va, states:
The biggest bank in Morgentown. w.
Va, closed its doors on Jan. and
a number of miners ana farmers have
lost their money. At the same time
two wage-cuts have taken place in
Scots Run, w. Va. The Rosedale
Coal Co. has cut wages cents ton,
from 80 cents to 81 cents. Day work
ers were cut from 40 cents to 80 cents
on day. The Paisley Mine has also
cut wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
6 WORKERS WOUNDED in
new SPANISH CLASHES

MADRID, Jan. 5.-Wounding six
workers and making many arrests.
mounted police charged with sabers
a demonstration of workers in Ma
drid's central square, Puerta del Sol,
yesterday.
The workers were protesting against
being barred from visiting the work
ers held in the so-called "mo0eP'
prison, the terrible conditions of
which had caused the prisoners and
outside workers to protest The DEM
onStration was led by railway workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
Labor and Fraternal

DUE TO LIMITED SPACE NO.
TICHS CAN BE RUN FOR THREE
DAYS ONLY, INCLUDING DATE OF
EVENT.
An S-Day Drive For the New York
Workers Center.
md for the printing press has been
authorized by the Central Committee.
The drive will open with banquet
IN the 11th of January and will con
time with a haznar for seven days.
We urge al organizations not to ar
rnrre H"S affairs during this drive
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-06
HOOVER HIDES FIGURES
IN SECRET CENSUS OF
JOBLESS TAKEN DEC. 5
Fears to Expose Mass Misery; Uses $4,000
Metropolitan Life Agents to Get Facts
Unemployed Workers! Show Yourselves By
Demonstrating; BY Signing Bill!

NEW YORKt-The Hoover unemployment commission has
taken secret of the obes and keeping the results
secret dares not give the figures until they
properly censored This fact became knovS when the Metro
potan Life Insurance Co officials admitted yesterday that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
RADIO Man GETS
GOOD COUGH ADVICE
Customer suggests
REM

Mr.. WIN. Perkins of 1914 Perrys-
vile Ave-, Pittsburgh, Pa, is a
radiotrician, and giving service to
his customers means a lot of
travelling around in bad weather.
LAST winter | happened to get a
pretty bad cough-and-cold," says
Mr.. Perkins. ct bothered me
quite bit at night. My throat
was sore and | had a tight feeling
in the chest. | was repairing a
radio at a lady's house, and she
heard me coughing. She told me
to try REM, for her little daugh-
ter had used it with very good
results. got a bottle at Krey's
Drug Store at Perrysville Ave. 6
Charles ST., and | noticed in
few minutes that my throat felt
easier. In a day or so the cough
left me-" REM's great remedy
for coughs. as thousands who have
used it testify. Profit by their
experience---insist on REM!