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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

0 Couzen of Ours
BY JORGE

5anator James Couzens, Michigan republican.
busting into print warning the capitalists"
Its our job, but he horns in. He says:
There is food for thought in the anti
.pitalist system devised by Soviet Russia.
1t is significant that both the anti-capitalist
nd capitalist systems now are running at full
speed and that both can be observed in OPP
Grafton at the same time. Which of the two
is the better is matter of opinion. From my
own experience, much prefer private initia.
tive, but am about convinced we can't rely
on it any longer"
So there is food for thought" in Soviet Russia
Yep, and food for workers, too. But only food
for thought" in capitalist America. He forgot
that,
Then he says that both systems are running
at full speed'-which is only half true Capt..
talism isn't doing so, otherwise why all the row.
Also, it is decidedly not matter Of opinion"
but matter of fact as to which is better" The
Soviet is certainly better for workers but rough
on-rats for capitalists, such as Senator Couzens
himself is
We are forced to write these remarks to
warn workers against falling into the notion
that such demagogs are "gong Bolshevik" He
says he is "about convinced" that private ini-
tiative" can't be relied on. That don't mean
that he is going to apply for membership in the
Communist Party. 1t does mean that we can
expect him to come out for fascism as a "com-
promise"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

An yet an apparently gullible
and idiotic public seems to think
that there is some truth in the
charges against them.
am a southerner. | have had
to engage in such racial fights in
the past. Let me reconstruct for
you what, in all reasonable proba-
bility, happened. Nine white
youths were 'hoboing" in conve-
nient empty and open freight car.
Nine colored lads entered, or
wanted to enter, the same car,
also as hoboes. (You will notice
that our newspapers, even in the
north, refer to these colored chill
dren as Negroes" saying nothing
about their being mere children,
and leaving the impression on the
ignorant public that they are
men. That is part of the scheme
to get them murdered without
waking up public sympathy. As
matter of fact, they are all
children in their early teens, one
being only fourteen and only one
being above twenty.)
But on with the story: The white
hoboes wanted to deny equality
to these young black hoboes. In
the south where Sim crow" is the
system, even a white hobo feels
superior to a black one. They have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
Daily Worker Leads Fight
for May Day

CONSTANT and merciless struggle against the
exploiters and oppressors.
To bring about an extensive mobilization of
the working masses for May Day, to strike great
er fear into the boss class, to break down all
illusions held by the working masses of the $50
cialist" party and other would-be leaders Of the
workers, the conscious fighting weapon of all
workers, the Daily Worker. must be distributed
IN the shops in the factories, in the mines and
on the farms. To build up greater confidence
among the Negro masses to convince them that
the leader In their struggles for Negro rights
and for the right Of self-determination, and the
leader TO save the nine Scottsboro defendants
VINO are on the verge Of electrocution, to cement
the unity OF Negro and white workers to assure
successful May Day demonstrations throughout
the country the Daily Worker is the organ that
must reach these masses OF unorganizer and
oppressed people.
1t speaks in clear, plain, fearless voice. It
sharply exposes the treacherous moves or the
ruling class and the nisleaders. 1t mobilizes the
workers to struggle on all fronts against boss
oppression and persecution.
Every worker must purchase and read the
Daily Worker to obtain the information so neces-
sary to successfully prepare for May Day. You
must pass the paper on to your shop mates
and unemployed comrades. Wrap your lunches
in the paper, put copies in your lunch box, and
at noon time give these to the workers When
you atted fraternal meetings take coles and
distribute them. Talk to the workers about the
paper; get their ideas; have them write short,
snappy stories about their wook, grievances and
experiences in the shops, fields, mines.
Systematic and energetic work. carried on to
Its logical conclusion, will win and convince
thousands Of new workers, OF the vitality and
Importance Of their working class paper. 1t will
win greater numbers to support and fight in the
struggles OF the workers and to demonstrate
and fight against their wretched conditions. IA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

If the governor of Alabama is
as wise as he is eminent, he will
not send these homeless Negro
children to their death until he
has thoroughly investigated the
whole affair through his own
agents. All civilized people ev-
erywhere should urge him to that
course.
1t should NOT go unnoticed that
the law which executes men for
sex attack in the south, is only
enforced against Negro men and
boys, has never been enforced
against a white man, although at
least one hundred sex attacks are
committed in that section by the
whites against blacks, for every
one that is attempted by blacks
against whites.
The law is a subterfuge to be
used only against Negroes. If it
were not for the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, which for
bid (expressed) racial discrimina-
lions by the states, the law would
say "black men" or Negroes"
instead of saying that men are to
be executed for this offense. But
because Of these amendments, the
law, in order to stand up constitu-
tionally, must be written as if
aimed at all men, and is then en-
forced only against colored men.
That is one method of discrimi-
nation which it is hard to COM.
bat - administrative discrimina-
ton. Improvement in such sit
uation must involve improvement
in morals and civilization - So
cial evolution.
Colored lads in the south are
seldom the aggressors in these in
ter-raeial fights; they cannot af-
ford to be. Small wonder, then,
that these colored boys in Ala
bama, finding themselves so hope
lessly trapped, become anti-social
maniacs in Jail, tore up their beds
and bedding and everything else
that would yield to their bare
hands. They yelled their futile
and impotent curses against the
white race and all it's works.
No wonder that they went mad
with HATE = hate of society and
civilization, hate of their country,
hate of the world in which they
were born, hate of life and of the
forces that gave them birth. L
wonder if they even refrained from
hating God!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
By b. ID. AIMS.


THE capitalist class Is making broad attacks
on the living standards OF the workers 1t
musters together all the forces Of the State to
poison the minds of the workers with deceit
and lies. he poverty Of the Negro workers and
Southern poor farmers is nearing It's limits be-
cause of unemployment. starvation, lynching
and deportations hang over the heads of mil
lions. The working masses look to the reyolu-
tionary organizations to give leadership and
devise new plans for counter attack against
the increasing terror Of the boss bloss.
The fast growing militancy Of the workers and
farmers, the increasing unity, of Negro and white
toilers has met with new savage and brutal
attack of the capitalist bosses. The legal lynch
ings of the nine Negro youths In Scottsboro is
an answer Of the Southern landlords and capt.
talists to the growing spirit Of resistance and
unity among the Negro and white masses To
meet this new wave of terror, the Negro and
white toiling masses turn to those avenues of
revolutionary leadership which give them an out
let Of struggle, which cannot be found in the
Negro press nor the capitalist press, nor in or
CARNATIONS whose leaders are allied with the
reactionary press policy
The leader and organizer of the struggle to
fight against the increased terror of the native
and foreign-born, the Negro and white workers,
is the only English working class daily, the Daily
Worker. 1t is powerful weapon in the hands
OF the workers and can be best utilized by them
to mobilize masses Of workers to raise thun-
derous cry of dissatisfaction and discomfort,
to organize the masses, to carry on an energetic
struggle against the terror Of the oppressors.
1t calls upon the oppressed working class to
build gigantic mass movement under revolu-
tionary leadership in order to take the streets
which are Systematically denied the workers,
to demonstrate on May Day, and to carry on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27
PARTY LIFE
Conducted by the Organization Department of
the Central Committee Communist Party, U.S.A.
How to Use the Daily Worker
AS a Lever for Recruiting
BY J. d. SPIEGEL.
(Section 5, Chicago.)

I WANT to deal here with one or two phases of
! the election campaign conducted in our Sec
tion and the reason the organizational results
were not what they should and could have BEEN
On the whole the comrades in our section worked
pretty hard in this campaign, collecting sigma
lures, distributing leaflets, arranging for mass
meetings, auto parades, etc. In this work, how
ever, one could notice more emphasis being laid
on the spontaneous and dramatic $50 to speak,
than on the daily routine little tasks which when
done properly bring more lasting results for our
Party. The work Of calling meetings parades,
etc, although necessary, will not achieve what
following up individual workers daily in sys-
tematic way can.
At the beginning Of our campaign, the units
were instructed to copy all the names of the
workers who sign our nomination petitions and
save them, particularly names Of workers who
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-27

express sympathy to our Party and movement.
These workers were to be followed up with lit
erature. be called to our meetings, and generally
be drawn to us. Most nuclei did not do this
simple task Why2 Because they either did not
foresee the need Of utilizing the names Of these
workers for further concentration else did not
understand how contacts are made and followed
up.
One or two units, however, did copy some of
the names off the petitions. but they either laid
them away and forgot about them or when they
did send out comrades to visit these workers,
there was no system of how to go about this
work, and therefore no results, particularly or
ganizational results, we're gotten. Here for ex-
ample is how one nucleus went about this work
comrade was given the names of some of
the workers who expressed themselves favoraby
when signing the petitions. He was to visit them
and bring report to the next meeting. At the
next meeting he brought back a report" that
mo use, these workers are not willing to join
the Party" and that's that! So Of course, what
is the use Of visiting these workers? These are
actual facts. We can readily see that with this
approach to contacts, no results can be obtained
Still these workers who expressed themselves
sympathetically cannot be dropped Just because
they are not ready after visit to join our
Party. way must be found to follow up and
develop them systematically and thus bring them
nearer to our Party. 1850;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14

White Washable Silks
Pastel Washable Silks
Fluffy Pastel ChiffOnS
Cool Printed Georgettes
Plain Silk Standings
Embroidered Dot Crepes
Printed Silk Standings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14

remarkable group of high grade mill remnants
from Unknown makers fine chinEz and heavy
cretonnes worth four to five times this special
sale price! good assortment of wanted light or
dark-colOred patterns. Downstairs at Ayres.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
SEER CAUSES SUICIDE

Terrible Prophecies, With No
Grounds, Drives Mother to Death.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July Worry over a
seer's prophecy that her son would
go blind and her husband would
leave her were blamed by police
today for driving Mrs. Sarah Kost-
'ner, 26, to leap from a ninth floor
window and kill herself.
Mrs. Kostner's husband, Louis,
told officers his wife had been
respondent since having her fortune
told recently He said there was no
apparent basis for either of the
seer's two prophecies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
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A patented process
which permanently de-
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and makes them dou-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
PETER OLD MAN NOW
Hippo Reaches Ripe Age of %;
Dreams of His Youth.

BD United Press
NEW YORK, July 14.-Peter The
Great, Central park hippopotamus
has reached the ripe old age of Is
when most hippos are dead.
Peter. however, proved his good
health by eating his daily carload OF
hay and retiring to the far corner OF
his pool to digest it and dream OF
the days when he was a youngstre
roaming the banks of the river Nile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
SECOND BITING
POLITICAL BOOK
FAILS HOOVER
Merry-Go- Round Issued
Only Day After CauStiC
Mirrors of '32,'

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE
capital was RECALLED today with a
second anonymous and biting por-
trayal Of its leading personages.
Only a day after publication of
"The Mirrors of 1892" which dis
Z sected potential presidential can
didates, the firm Of Horace Liver
right today brought out The
Washington Merry Round" 1t
IS a caustic volume that takes it's
readers on swift whirl through
Washington political and social life,
recounting much gossip on the way
Its unnamed author stops here
and there for detailed analyses of
some figures Others he darts at
with the rapier thrust of a pointed
anecdote.
Herbert Hoover might have re-
manned a hero if he had not been
elected President, the writer says
Before the ruthless realities and
the merciless tests of that Office his
fundamental inadequacy Of charac-
acter undid him and he stands to-
day stripped Of all his carefully con-
3ured glories," it is asserted.
Has Petty Temper
Perhaps the most important
answer to Herbert Hoover's failure
is the fact that deeply ingrained in
his makeup are two unfortunate
characteristics, fear and vacillation,
which, coupled with a petty personal
temper, sorely try even his most
loyal friends"
The author declares the Wardebt
holiday plan was put over on Her
bert Hoover through the combined
efforts of Charles G.. Dawes, Dwight
w. Morrow and Andrew w. Mellon,
plus a dozen New York bankers who
clamored at him in person and by
long distance phone for a month.
Finally, his confidence restored by
trip to the hoSpitable middle west,
MIR. Hoover adopted the plan and
never was more surprised in his life
when it was heralded as his master
stroke"
Many stories are related about
other characters. The reader is told
for instance:
That Mrs. Stimson complained to
a friend that Mr.. Hoover was a
"slave driver"
Gives Bids to Children
That Representative Fiorella La
Guardia of New York gives his
White House invitations to friends
children as souvenirs.
That Mrs. Dolly Cams husband
telephoned newspapers to deny that
he was meek" or mild"
That the wife of an administra-
ton official smokes a pipe.
That Trubee Dawson, assistant
secretary of war, hid himself in a
mail sack and interrupted a tete-a-
tete, but nearly suffocated when
the lock on the sack closed and
friends were slow in releasing him.
The state department letters
critical of Mexico were somehow in
tercepted-and returned to the de-
partment by the Mexican ambassa-
dor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
MISSIONARY KIDNAPPED

American Is Captured, Held for
Ransom by Chinese Bandits.
BIZ THited Press
PEIPING, China, July 14.-The
United States legation today was in
formed that bandits had captured
another American missionary, Lacey
sites, in southern China. He was
held for ransom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14

Finding of the charred body of
Mrs. Marion Day Berrien (above) 4,
former Follies girl and widow of
Lieutenant Commander Thomas
G.. BARREN, United States navy,
on the fire-swept sun porch of
her home in Forest Hills, L. l.,
has prompted widespread police
investigation.
A night club proprietor, known
to have been seen often in her
company, was sought for ques-
tioning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14
EIGHT DIE IN CRASH
High Russian Air Official Among
Dead From Plane Plunge.


MOSCOW, July 14.-At least one
high aviation official was among the
group of fliers killed when their
airplane crashed near Alabino Sun
day, it was learned belatedly today.
Eight military aviators died in
the accident. V. K. Ntriandofilov,
assistant commander of aviation,
was reported among the dead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-14

NOT full fashioned,
but beautifully shaped
and fitted at ankles. by
a new automatic ma
chine.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24

FL primer ministro de Dina
marca, M. Staining, ha escrito
a Tom Mooney, expresando sim
patia con su causa.
Al obrero que cumpie injusta
condena en- la carcel de San
Quintin, entregara Ell mensaje
del estadista europeo, una CO.
mission del Comite de Defensa.
iCuantos de los tabaqueros,
despalilladoras, escogedores, de-
pendientes y rezagadores de
Tampa han escrito al goberna-
dor Rolph, de California, pidien
do la libertad de Mooney?
Los momentos son ahora pro-
picios para telegrafiar, no para
escribir, porque ell dia 20 Ell go
bernador ORA al celebre aboga-
do Frank P. Walsh, que sin de-
vengar honorarios demandara
que ell executive de California
conceda a Mooney, y 81 es posi-
BILE tambien a Billings, ell indul-
to Unconditional.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
HABLO LA MUJER POLICIA
EN- Ell CONSEJO DE PA
ORES Y MAESTROS

En- ell discurso que pronunci6
anoche ante ell Consejo de Pa
dres y Maestros del Condado de
Hillsborough, la Sra. M. K.
Christian, de la policia local, Sc
nal6 la importancia de formar
ell caracter de los adolecentes en-
ell propio hogan, y la necesidad
de mantener este dentro de la
mas perfecta discipline. Los al
tos ideales inculcados en- los pri-
meros amos, Sc reflejaran en-
los ciudadanos del mafiana.
Mrs. Godfrey O'Donoghue
dijo que la infancia debe desa-
rrollarse sin diferencia de casta
nj de classes y practicar 10 con-
fraternidad.
w. B. Lanier, f~uncionario del
Condado, recomend6 ell empleo
de un psiquiatra para visitar Las
escuelas, de acuerdo con un pro
.grama de enfermeras permanen
ties. FL juez A. P. Wiese, de la
corte juvenil, propuso la crea-
ci6n de un comite que visitara
a los familiares opuestos a Ia
education.
Inmediatamente Sc nombr6
I'm Comite, presidido por la Sra.
ID. M. De Mars, para pedirle a
la Comisi6n del Condado que les
ayude a restaurar ell servicio de
salubridad y la clinica dental.
FL Consejo celebrara su pr6xi
ma reunion ell % de Julio, en-
Seffner,
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
TEATRO CASINO

FL insuperable programa de
aver, Sc repetira hoy.
En- LA Gran Jornada', peli-
cula cuya acci6n Sc desarrolla
en- ell legendario Oeste, TRUMAN
por su maravillosa labor arts
tica, Carmen Guerrero Y Jorge
Lewis.
La obra ha sido calificada
como la creaci6n de un genio"
Y en- ell ~argumento Sc describe
con todos sus vicios y virtudes a
los colonizadores.
"Paga ell Anunciar", cinta que
completa ell prog~ama, hace
reir y entretiene al pGblico.
Tn grupo de artistas de La
vanguardia interpretan los mas
importantes papeles en- esta pro
ducci6n, que Frank Tuttle diri-
giera.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
LA SESSION DEL AYUNTA-
MIENTO

Bajo la presidential de Tom
Henderson celebr6 aver session
Ell ayuntamiento.
Sc acord6 pavimentar la ave-
nida Hillsborough, 81 para este
no hay necesidad de recargar
las contribuciones, pagando la
ciudad $6,458 y los propietarios
$8,29S.
FL CONCEAL Nuccio manifesto
que tan necesario como paw
mentar Ia avenida Hillsborough
es pavimentar la Gale Ounce.
En- la discussion del presupues
to, que Sc efectuara manana por
la noche, en- session extraordi-
maria, Sc tratara de incluir un
credito para esa obra.
Sc lego una petici6n firmada
por vecinos de Ybor pidiendo
Sc prohiba la reunion de grupos,
a jugar, en- un terreno situado
en- la avenida Is entire las Gales
20 y 81. Los vecinos dicen que
los m~uchachos sc reunen a pro-
ferir malas palabras Y cometer
fechorfas.
Pas6 q informe del alcalde
Mckay.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
CORTE DEL
~" CONDADO
RETRO SUS CARGOS Ell IN
DIVIDUO QUE ACUSARA
LEVINE

AL juez del condado Sc presen
to aver ell abogado Paul Lake,
en- compania de Ed Leayine, in
dividuo detenido bajo la acusa-
ci6n de asalto y robo en- despo-
blado, pidiendo sc rebajara a 81
cliente la fianza de $4,000 que
lie habia sido senalada.
Como ell juez Sc negara, el
letrado Y Levine volvieron una
bora despues trayendo con e.
Hos a w. L. Jordan, dueno de
una estaci6n de gasolina en- ell
canine de Plant City, que ha-
bfa identificado a Levine como
uno de los autores del robo.
Jordan Sc retract6 en- presen-
cia del juez de la identification
que hiciera y entonces este Oh
10: listed vino a VERNE para
asegurarme que en- la carcel
habia identificado a Levine, y
que este lie habia dicho que lie
devolverfa las maquinas y lie
pagarfa algdn dinero 81 retiraba
la acusaci6n."
40 que 20 lie die a listed, re
plic6 Jordan, fue que Ell duenc
de las maquinas, W. L. Wilker-
son, era Ell que habia hablado
con Levine.
Indignado, el juez llam6 a JoI
dan un mentiroso com1n y dis
puso Ia libertad de Levine.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
.COMENTADO Ell DISCOURSE
DE ALCALA ZAMORA

Madrid, JUNO 24.-Los pc
riodicos comentan ell 1ltimo
discurso politico de Aleala Ia
mora, opinando que las regio-
mes deben gobernarse auton6-
micamente, pero s~ujetas al po-
der central. Estima que ell pro-
blema de los latifundios reQuie
re un Immediate estudio Y re-
seduction.
Cree que la asamblea cons
tituyente debe abordar Y de-
cidir, con arreglo a normas de
iusticia, la question religiosa.
La gaceta., 1931-06-24
LOS
Ell SABADO
a DE JULIO

La Association de Comercian-
ties de Tampa ha tornado ell a.
cuerdo de no empezar a cerrar
los jueves al mediodfa hasta el
dfa 9 de julio.
Ell dia a de julio, aniversario
de la Declaration de Indepen-
dencia ,todos los establecimien-
tos cerraran sus puertas, no obs
tante caer en- sabado.