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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

ney from his prison cell in San Quen-
tin Jail to launch a broad united
front movement to free him and all
other class war prisoners.
1t will expose the treacherous role
of the socialists, t:le fake progress
sive Musteites and their Lovestone al
lies, who are trying to stab the free
Mooney movement in the back.
The demonstration will also mobil-
ize all workers and workers organ
izations for the great mass Mooney
Harlan-Scottsboro defense confer
ence, to be held Sunday, october II,
at 10 am. in Irving Plaza, 18th. ST.
and Irving Pl Every workers organ
ization-shop groups, revolutionary
unions, A. r. of L. locals, fraternal
and cultural organizations-is asked
to send one delegate for every five
member
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Lancashire Workers Storm
CITY Hall in Mass Protest

ger program of the Macdonald gov
eminent continued Wednesday night.
Thousands of workers accompanied
a delegation to the Borough Council
at the Battersea Town Hall. They
demanded that the cut in the dole
be taken back, that rents be reduced
ten per cent. and that child and ma
ternity benefits be increased. The
workers in the demonstrations car
ried Red flags.
-Four thousand postal clerks, many
in uniform, marched in protest
against the wage cuts of the Mac
Donald budget from Clarkenwell to
Victoria. The police we're forced to
suspend traffic in the West End OF
London for over an hour.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Troopers in Hose Strike Area;
Full Fashion Ends Picketing

READING, Pa, Oct. L. State
troopers appeared in the hosiery
strike here yesterday and the strik-
ers we're caught unawares because the
American Federation of Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Workers officials have
been telling them that Governor
Pinchot is their friend and that the
state police would not be used to
break their strike.
Persistent picketing and the mill
tant spirit of the hosiery workers
have had the Berkshire mill produc-
ton demoralized for two days and
brought the call for state police from
the mill owners. But there are per-
sistent runners that the Full Fashion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

Thousands of workers stormcd the
City Hall in Stafford, Lancashire, the
center of the textile industry, on
Thursday, in a militant protest
against the dole cuts and the wage
cuts of the Socialist Macdonald.
Thursday morning thousands partici-
pated IN a march to the City Hall,
where they were net by scores OF
police on foot and mounted. The
workers resisted the attack of the
police determinedly. Many workers
we're beaten by the police and tram
pied by the horses. The workers
used clubs in resisting the police and
shouted Remember 1914 to 1913"
The militant demonstration of the
workers of London against the hun
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

9largeSt ones, picked this date to cut
wages. This shows the need for
united struggle of all workers and
unemployed workers to smash the
united wage cutting drive of the
bosses.
The situation in steel and on the
railroads is closely connected. It is
known that meeting of railroad
executives in Washington recently de-
cided TO cur wages on the roads Just
as soon as events in steel justified
it. They mean that they will slash
their own men unless such a revolt
takes place over the ten per cent
general wage cut in steel to prove
that the working class in general will
not stand for further lowering of
their standard of living
But because of the Watson Parker
law providing for lengthy red tape
proceedings in changing rail WAGES
and because of the general situation.
the roads are already making the first
propaganda and legal moves. Yes
terday attorneys of the roads appear
ed before the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and made perfunctory
arguments for an increase in freight
and passenger rates. They know that
such an increase is not likely, as it
would first of all not be economically
desirable; the rate that will make the
most money for the roads is lower.
rather than higher. Secondly, any
capitalist party in power will hes
itate to raise freight rates in the
midst OF crisis, when wholesale
prices are down even if the cost OF
living for the workers is not down.
The reason for the appeal for high
er rates at this time is given away
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Mass Protest Against
Sentencing of Powers
F or Strike Activities

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Oct. Trade
Union Unity League Organizer Pow
ers was sentenced today to four
months imprisonment and a $50 fine
because he defended himself against
attacks by scabs and police in the
silk strike.
Powers defended himself, bringing
out the determination of the T.U.UL.
to fight wage cuts of every sort.
The Judge is blocking an appeal of
the case.
The International Labor Defense
and the National Textile Workers
Union are preparing mass protest
meeting.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

Since the governor is commander
in chief of the Pennsylvania state
police c"The Cossacks") and also of
the Pennsylvania state militia, this
answer means that bayonets, ma
chine guns, tear gas, clubs and re-
volvers will be used, at the request
of the officials of the United Mine
Workers of America. to drown out in
blood the fight against starvation of
$4,000 miners around Wilkes-Barre
and Scranton.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Oct. AL
ready the brutality of the state cops
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

ed Hosiery officials themselves also
called for the police to give them an
excuse to call off the strike. They
have continually claimed that unless
the Reading workers, especially the
Berkshire mill workers, came out, the
successful strike in New Jersey, New
York and Northampton would have
to be called off They made only
gesture towards calling out the Berk-
shire workers, but 5000 Of the outside
strikers marched to Reading this
week and partially pulled the mill
by mass picketing. The officials have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. l. Fifty-six
United Mine Worke strike breakers headed by
secretary Kennedy of the UM.WA. visited
Governor Pinchot and asked him to cooperate
with them and with the company to give pro-
lection to scabs in the Glen Alden strike.
The governor answered: II will all the power of my
office guarantee their constitutional rights
lean citizens to work where and under what conditions they
will"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
PAy 81 aSHED m PONTIAC
BRICK YARD
lBy a WORKER Correspondentl

10y q TOI iatI OOIICoPOIIUCIIU1
pom c, Mich. - In the Boice
,,'le.s 1Iic,. Yard here in 1927 we
got S8.42 for $4,000 bricks / hired
out here the other day and all they
will pay is 35 cents an hour for IL
hours day We get no noon hour
off and one has to eat on the jump.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
INSULT CUTS WAGES
lBy a Worker Correspondentl

-1ICAGO, Ill. - The Sam insult
Companies have been cutting the
wages of the workers right and left.
Yet insult and the other utility COM
panies are charging the same rates
for their products in spite of the
lower costs of materials and wages.
Silas Strawn's mail order house sells
shirts that cost less than two dollars
a dozen for over a dollar apiece.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

funds, graft, discrimination and other
abuses.
Two of the outstanding demands the
thorities are:
Increased relief:
$50 month for married veterans
CONTINUED ON PAGE Two)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

Build workers correspondence
group in your factory, shop or
neighborhood. Send regular letters
to the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

While steel workers organize and prepare
to fight the ten per cent wage cut ordered,
not only in United States Steel Corporation
mills but in Bethlehem and other big com
panies, the railroad companies make their first
steps toward cut and wage slash is under way for Gulf
Coast longshoremen:
October LIST is historic day for concerted attack many
industries on the workers and the workers standard
OF living All sorts of companies including especialv the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02

One way to help the Soviet
Union is to spread among the
workers Soviet Forced Labor"
by Max Bedacht, 10 cents per copy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
BULLETIN

BOSTON, Mass, Oct. Three
thousand Iongshoremen here voted
to strike against the SelI-out and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
BULLETIN.

NEW Notwithstanding from this land of
hunger and starvation well continuous drastic
wage cuts, delegation of around Ia American work
under the auspices of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, will go to the Soviet Union to take part,
along with workers delegations from all the
world, in the celebrations the 14th Anniversary
of the Russian Revolution.
The workers of New York will ratify the two
New York delegates, two marine workers, at the
meeting tonight~in Genital Opera House. The
meeting, which has been arranged by the Friends
of the Soviet Union, will start at $3.50 p m.
The delegation of American workers. which is
being elected mainly from mills in such basic in
dustries metal, mining and marine, will see for
themselves the tremendous drive forward of the
third decisive year of the Five Year Plan. They
E~-1 b. the Soviet trade unions, and
~ cbor. I've weeks. special visit will be
made to the gigantic steel mill at Magnitogorsk,
which is soon to open. This mill opens
of heavy industry in the Soviet Union.
The workers from America will present the work
ers in the Soviet Union with banner expressing
their solidarity. When they return they will report
the results of their observation to hundreds of thou
sands of American workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
CONCERTED ATTACK UPON
WORKERS PAY YESTERDAY;
UNITED STRUGGLE NEEDED
Bethlehem Plants Follow u s. Steel in Cut Of Ten Percent
Mass Meetings Rally Men
Strike Expected As Gulf Coast LOngshOremen Suffer
Hosiery Boss Shows AFL Is For Cut

wage cutting agreement signed by
the International Longshoremen's
Association in New York yester-
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Lewis Gang Asks Pinchot
To Smash Glen Alden Strike
BULLETIN.

SCRANTON L-Scores of mine pckes
today by police among
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-02
Gable by Inprecorrl

liable by InprecorrJ
MOSCOW Oct. LIN the course of the third and
decisive year of the FiveYear Plan of socialist in
dustry, the Soviet Union has been enriched by 518
new factories, mills and mines. A large number of
these have already been opened during the past nine
months At the very beginning of the fourth quarter
of the third decisive year. two giants of socialist in
dustry are opening: the Kharkov tractor works and
the Moscow Automobile works. These are to be fol-
lowed by the huge Magntogorsk and the Kuznetzk
metal mills; in Nijny Novgorod, automobile factory
and the first ball bearing plant in Moscow, the Berez
nikv chemical mill in he northern Urals the Ural
Machine Building works and others
Open Two World Giants
On the first day of the fourth quarter the two
world giants built by the working class in the Soviet
Union are able to report their victories The Kharkov
Tractor works was built and equipped in Is months.
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,coNriNyEp ON PAGE rHREEl
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03
u. 5. AMATEUR
CHAMPIONS

Following is the list of u. S. anna
teur champions and ~runners-up
since Inauguration OF the annual
tournament IN 1895.
1866. b. Macdonald, IL and IL.
c. +. Sands.
1s.S-H. J. wigham. 8 and 7. j. G.
Thorp.
1871. J. wigham. 8 and 6. w. r.
Belts.
Is98-Findlay s. Douglas. 5 and 3.
w. b. Smith.
1a99-Herbeft NJ. Hartman. } and
2. Findlay S. Douglas.
19O0-Walter j. Travis, ? up. Find
lay s. Douglas.
190i-Walter ]. Travis. 5 and 4.
Walter K. Egan.
f902-Louls N. James. 4 and 2,
Z. NJ. Byers.
i9Os-waiter j. Travis. 5 and 4. E.
M. Byers.
1904-H. Chandler Egan. 8 and s.
Fred Herreshoff.
1905-H. Chandler Egan. 6 and 5.
ID. L. Sawyer.
1906-E. NJ. Myers. 2 up. George
s. Lyon.
1907-Jerome d. Travers, 9 and
5, Archibald Graham.
i903-Jerome ID .Travers. 8 and 7.
Max II. Behr.
1909-Robert A. Gardner. 1 and 2.
II. Chandler Egan.
1910-William G. Fownes, jr.. 4
and 3, Warren K. Wood.
191i-Harold H. Hilton. I up t37l
Fred Herresho...
1912-Jeromc u. Travers 7 and 6.
Charles Evans. jr.
1913-Jerome ID. Travers, S and 4.
John c. Anderson.
1914-Francis Quiz {, 9 and 5.
Jerome d. Travers.
1915-Robert A. Gardner. 5 and
4. John G. Anderson.
1el6-Charles Evans. IT., 4 and 3,
Robert A. Gardner.
1917-1916, not held.
19l9-S. Davidson Herrone 5 and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03
west STARTED
GOLFINIG HERE
Alfonso Escalante Another
2eason Why the Game
Flourished Here

Two men-Wlliiam S. West and
Alfonso Escalante-haye been the
moving powers behind the Browns
vile Country club SinA It's estab-
Issnent in 1910.
lack IN 1909 a iaNyer-mine 20
er4sor shook tie ice OF Alaska of
his feet and came 10 Brownsville.
He was a golf enthusiast and
Claimed the championship Of
Alaska. although there IS no rec
ord OF a golf course n Alaska at
that early date.
On arriving in Brownsville. West
took stock and found there we're
lots Of poker players. six-gun art
lists. fishermen and hunters-hul no
golfers. So he set out to correct
tina fault. He banded together a
number OF prominent citizens and
established the Brownsville Coun-
try club. Not only WIS he the nov
Ing power in organizing the club.
but he has been prominent In its
maintenance for 81 years.
West needed q jack-of-all-trades
e. keep the club and course IN
shape. Alfonso Esealante was the
man he picked and the selection
was a wise one. Alfonso has been
with the club ever since through
good times and bad. II you want
a club fixed. or r you want a
perfect party setting. Alfonso Is the
man you want to see.
Fresh from the Mexico CITY
Jockey club. Alfonso took 70 golf
" IN a vim. He learned the busi-
ness from the ground up, joining
the organization when the course
was begun. The art OF clubmaking
he Earned under J. II. Taylor. not
the immortal j. H, but another
Ensfshman who learned his golf
at S.. Andrews.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03

upward, disappear for a hundredth
OF a second, and then blot out the
scene with a huge black disk that
Just admitted a little angle Of light
at EACH corner Of the screen: the
ball covered Bobby and everything
else. II stuck fast in the mat-box and
had TO be plucked out, badly chewed
up by the metal ridges into which
Il was wedged.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03
Easier Than An Ace

Easier lnan An acc
The camera kept rolling along.
like Old Man River. and the sound
record caught q lot OF CONVERSE
ton which probably didn't get into
the finished picture.
But tn first shot was a perfect
b~ullseye. and subsequent shots. some
at slow-motion. smaeked soiidiy
against the padding within six inches
OF the lens, to show up IN the pic
ture Is Il coming right out into the
composite face of the audience.
Its n good deal easier than max
ING n hole-in-one." said Bobby. I
had been playing rolf some 20 years
when I got my only ace-in 1927 at
the 18th hole. East Lake: a shot of
ITO yards. I'm glad It didn't wreck
the camera. But they told me to hit
IL If I could"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03
Hit Camera
They Said and
Bobby Did Il

Bobby Jones has added an unusual
baIlseye II his record OF a single
holc-In-one shots ard he now poss-
esses one Of each. Tie buliseyc was
achieved during the p ogress OF his
motion picture series.
l suppose the bullsege was the fun
NEST shot yer made. in some ways.
Bobby was working az tie FlIntrIdge
Country club. near Hollywood. and
he was to demonstrate some big ron
shots. The Gamers Was mounted
with the lens about seven feet above
the turf, on q platform. Both am
era and eameraman were protected
by heavy padding.
Ready. Aim, Firei
Bobby was stationed just 50 feet
away, armed with a No. ? iron.
Now" said the director. TRY TO
hit the camera-try 10 hit the lensl"
Bet you a dollar you can't hit It
In q dozen shots" said n onlooker.
Bobby squared of and assumed
MS stance. The bulseye was a square
black opening. known as the mat
box which projects in front OF the
lens. shielding It from indirect rays
Of the sun. It IS four inches square
at the outside. diminishing IN = SER
les Of aluminium ridges rs 1t narrows
down % the lens-tunnel.
Roll 'emlr sang out the assistant
director. giving the signal % start
the camera and sound recording ma
chimes.
"Whaml" said the big iron. And
"Whackl" said the ball. smacklng
the mat-box fairly in the center.
On the screen. You could hear the
Shes Of delighted amaxement from
the crew. as You saw the ball flash
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03

English golfers spent III $50, 900
pounds In pursuit of their game in
1929. There are 564 900 golfers in
England. according to a late census.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03

4. r. T. Jones. ir.
1920-Charles Evans. jr., 7 and @
Francis Ouimet.
192i-Jesse Guilford. 7 and q
Robert A. Gardner.
l92a--JeNi Sweehser. , and 2.
Charles Evans. jr.
1923-Mar n. Marston, l up (38).
jess Sweetser.
1924-Robert T. Jones. jr., . and 3
George Won Elm.
1925-Robert L. Jones. r., 3 and I
Watts Gum.
i926-George Won Elm. ? and L
r. T. Jones. jr.
I927-Robert T. Jones, IT,. Q and Z
Charles Evans. ir.
1g28-Robert T. Jones, jr.r 10 and
Q. Thomas p. Perkins.
1g29-Harrison II. Johnson, I n
3. DIR. 0. F. Willing.
1g30-Robert Jones, 1rs 3 and Z
Gene Romans.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-07-03

Records of the mothers Bible
class AT a Birmingham, Ala, church
are posted on an oak panel wnicn
was formerly a saloon fixture.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30

nURINC the past few months this market has
- been flooded with certain cheap coffees.
These coffees, masquerading as the finest brands,
are being sold both in bulk and unsanitary paper
bags.
The housewife may wonder why there is such
wide variation in coffee prices. A confusion of
values is bound to arise when we find one coffee
selling for l9c, another for Csc, while the better,
more reliable brands sell for slightly higher.
tits high time that housewives be given accurate
information this subjec They are entitled to it
Just as they are entitled to know, for instance,
the butter fat content of the milk they buy.
What Determines The Value Of Coffee?
The value of coffee is determined by flavor. All
coffee is used because of it's avor-for that unique
inspiring exotic p4uancy particular to coffee alone.
Relative Amount Of caso svo In Seven Nationally Known
Brands OF Coffee as Determined BY Van csvs Laboratories
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30
AT THE MOVIES
CAPITOL. THEATRE

Promised as On innovation in screen
musical comedy, Eddie Cantor's new
est picture, 'Palmy Days." will be
presented by Samuel Goldwyn at the
Capitol Theatre Monday as successor
to the goggle-eyed comics inaugural
"'Whoopie" Of last season.
Eddie appears as an unwilling as
sistant to q gang Of crooked fortune
tellers and spiritualists, planning to
wreck q bakery by installing Eddie as
an efficiency expert. The story was
written by Cantor, Morrie Ryskin.l
and David freedman. It IS q .rowdy
comic strip kind Of q yarn moving
blithely from the phoney n1ystic's holy
Of holies to the splendor Of futuris-
tic bakery,-onc of those Rube Gold
berg bakeries, manned" by an I'M
posing assemblage Of Hollywood's IS
most. decorative fernininity,-to the
Ziegfeldian opulence of swimming
pool scene, with q hundred prize
bathing beauties competing with
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30

equally proud swans for attention, to
a moonlit garden party with young
love cooling among the lilac bushes.
and on and on.
Sharing the comedy honors with
the besdy-eyed and ebullient Eddie is
elongated Charlotte Greenwood. To-
gether, they lead their company
though striking gymnasium num-
ber, giving more authenticity than
usual to elaborte and complicated
precision routines by a large dancing
chorus. And they lead the cast in an
exhibition Of dunking g-as-it-should-
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30
PARAMOUNT THEATRE

"New Adventures Of Get-Rich-
Quick Wallingford," hilarious ro-
nance Of high finance and love, with
William Haines in the role Of the
happy lucky CRATER of the George
Randolph Chester "Get-Rich-Quick"
stories, will come to the Paramount
Theatre today, and, incidentally,
brings to the screen q Haines that
will surprise the fans.
As the nimble -witted, wise-crack-
ing bunko man, in a story suggested
by the famous Wallingford series in
Cosmopolitan Magazine, Haines has
a unique blend Of comedy mixed with
a few heart interest moments that
give him opportunity for some finer
dramatic action.
Incidentally, the picture introduces
to the screen new type of laugh
maker In the person Of Jimmy
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30
To 'Point-Up' Appetite
Just Stimulate Bowels

Whenever the end Of the day finds
you out-of-sorts food doesn't tempt
you and won't digest; breath is bad;
tongue coated, just chew candy
tablet before bedtime. Tomorrow
you'll be a. new person!
A candy Cascaret clears up bill
GUS, gassy, headachy condition every
time. Puts appetite on edge. Helps
digestion. Activates bowels. =,
Cascarets are made from cascara,
which authorities say actually
strengthens bowel muscles. So, take
these delightful tablets as often as
you please; or give them freely to
children. All drug stores sell Cas-
carets for dime, and no dollar
preparation could do better work.
Advertisement.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-10-30

the will was filed, that the Thomas
A. Edison Industries, Inc, has . sur
plus Of $1,000, 900. Unofficially, how
ever, it was stated the corporation III
its entirety Is valued at approximate
" $4,000, 900.
Although not stipulated In the will
itself, the Edison estate at Llewelya
Park, on the outskirts Of West
Orange, N. j., was left by the inventor
to his wife. It comprises thirteen
acres Of beautiful countryside and IS
valued at upwards of $200,0 900.