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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
JObless Demonstrate At
Court House in Reading
Socialist City Administration Sits Behind It's
Machine Guns and Offers Starvation

after fifteen minutes, to avoid hear
ing those demands if the jobless
should come in with them anyway.
Clinton Bach, director of the poor,
proposes forced labor of the unem-
ployed at the rate of SIS week in
stead of real relief
Socialist Mayor Stump had Moth
ing to propose to the conference. A
committee of chamber of commerce
members, Mayor Stump. and others,
were elected to consider plans. The
unemployed are not represented on
it.
Hunger arch Oct. 28.
The unemployed denounce this So
cialist starvation administration
They will continue to organize and
demonstrate for food and relief, and
will hold hunger march on the city
council, october %.
The committee sent in by the job
less yesterday included candidates of
the Communist Party in the coming
municipal elections. Harold John,
Communist candidate for mayor, ad-
dressed the demonstrators, calling on
them to vote Communist.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Fear Chinese Masses
Will Turn Slaughter
Into A Civil War
Polish>Rumanian Army Stats
Meet to Plan Anti>Soviet War
Pilsudski Makes Secret Visit to Rumania, But
Capitalist Press Admits It's for War Aims

NEW YORK.-French imperialism
is forging the Polish Rumanian an
ti-Soviet war front tighter, while at
the same time the League of Nations
takes up the question of SETTLING"
the Manchurian conflict by a war
against the workers republic.
Despite attempts to hide the visit
Of Marshall Pilsudsk, dictator of
Poland, to Rumania, the capitalist
papers were finally forced to admit
that this war monger came expressly
to strengthen the alliance for war
against the Soviet Union.
Admit War Drive
SIT is admitted, however" says the
New York Times cable from Bucha-
rest, Rumania, that questions aris-
ing from military political Ruma-
no-Polish alliance-directed in spirit
if not in letter against the Russian
'danger'-will be discussed
Pilsudski was met by the Minister
OF War, the Chief of the General
Stalk and other military officers of
the Rumanian army.
Behind the move of Pilsudski is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

READING, Pa, Oct. 13.-Hundreds
Of Reading jobless demonstrated in
front of the court house here yester-
day, and sent in a committee of the
Unemployed Council to present de-
mands for relief to a conference of
the county commissioners, the social
list party city administration and
welfare" bodies.
1t will be remembered that this is
the socialist administration whose
chief of police, Scherer, boosted
through the capitalist press on Oct.
S that even though the city gave
nothing to the jobless, there was no
danger. The socialist administration
had purchased six new shot guns and
machine gun for the police force.
eff there are riots we can take care
of them with the machine gum" the
chief is reported to have said, as he
fondle dthe new weapon.
Flee From Jobless.
When the committee of the jobless
reached the conference, they were de-
MED the right to present their de-
mands for food for the hungry unem-
ployed, and the conference adjourned
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
American Workers Delegation
To USSR Gets Big Send>OH

and Ohio had not arrived In time
for the meeting.
! Negro Cotton Specialists Go.
Several members of the Negro cot
ton specialist delegation going to
work on state cotton farms in
Turkestan for two years were present
ON the platform, and Sutton Of their
number spoke.
A banner and statue of a shock
brigadier by Adolph Wolff was pre-
sented to the delegation as a gift
from American workers to the Soviet
trade unions. A message of greet
ings from the Icor was read.
William Weinstone for the Commu-
mist Party and Lena Chernenko also
spoke.
The delegation will sail Saturday,
october II, on the Caledonia.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
IOWA FARMERS
CAPTURE JAIL;
FREE PRISONER
A tion Taken After
Militia Attacks

The capitalist papers report that
500 farmers of Southeastern Iowa
marched militantly upon the New
London Jail yesterday and took pos
session of it, smashed the look, and
set free Ronald Hart, 20 year old
farmer previously arrested for shout
ing to militia that he was "Just a
farmer, standing on my rights"
At last accounts, the militia and
sheriff's officers had not re-captured
Hart.
This is only the latest development
in the resistance Of the poor farmers
to the scheme of the big companies
and the state power to put them out
of business as competitors. Tint
scheme is to administer the tuber-
culin test to cattle, and kill off the
COWS of small farmers If the cows
react to the test Cows of the high
dairy companies have owners with
influence and don't get killed.
The farmers have fought this I'M
fair test for long time. Yesterday
a column of state militia equipped
with a machine gun, charged with
fixed bayonets crowd of $50 farmers
who blocked the road of the COW
testers to the McKinnon farm. Only
with the bayonets at their chests did
the farmers dispense. 1t was here
that Hart was arrested. Two others,
Mike Hennessey and Henry Conner,
we're also arrested, and are in Mount
Pleasant Jail.
The crowd broken up at the Nc
Kinnon farm came to New London,
was reinforced by others from other
counties, and made the Jail delivery.
State troops are still attacking and
dispensing groups of farmers wherever
they find them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Racine tSocidlist" Mayor
Orders Workers Attacked
Many Injured as Cossacks, Backed by Legion
Fascists Break Up Red Rally
Workers Resist

RACINE, Wis, Oct. 13.-"S ocialist"
police and legionnaires last nigrt
brutally attacked 1000 workers at
tending a political rally of the Com
munist Party on the eve of the con-
gressional election in this district.
Many workers were viciously club
bed and blackjacked by the combined
forces of fascist legionnaires and po-
lice. E Peterson, member of the
Young Communist League is in Jail
in a critical condition. L. Oxen, Sec
ton representative was beaten by
police while being taken to Jail Many
other workers were arrested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

| NEW YORK.-Giving the 1881
American Workers Delegation to the
Soviet Union an enthusiastic send
off, 1900 workers at the Cooper
Union meeting, Monday, october r.
adopted resolutions of greetings to
the workers of Magnitogorsk on the
completion of the largest steel mill
in Europe, and pledge of support
to the Soviet workers in building a
socialist society.
The keynote of the meeting, opened
by the Red Front Band, was struck
by Marcel Scherer, chairman of the
evening and secretary of the Friends
of the Soviet Union, when he said
that the delegates came from the
fighting sections of the United States
to witness the building of free
workers society and to see the con-
traSt between capitalist and workers
rule.
Four Marine Workers.
The marine workers delegation of
four, veterans of the sea and water
front, included Tom Burns, seaman,
of San Francisco, John Green, sea-
man, of New Orleans, George Wick
man, Negro longshoreman of New
York and Smith Hopkins, seaman, of
New York. Burns spoke for the
group and told of the conditions of
the marine workers in the United
States.
Abraham Lewis, Negro steel work
err of Youngstown, spoke on behalf
of the steel workers in the delega-
ton which includes Sam Langford,
Negro furnace worker of Gary. Ind,
and metal worker from Pittsburgh.
Nick Kovacheff of Niagara Falls, a
chemical worker, was the other menu
Der of the delegation present at the
meeting. The miners group from
Western Pennsylvania, West Virginia
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
City Wide Meetings to Build
Resistance to Pay Cut Drive

Communist Party has issued a call
for mass demonstrations throughout
the country.
In New York the following indoor
meetings have been called to fight
against wage cuts. The meetings
will be held Wednesday, october IA,
at 8 pm.
Downtown Notwithstanding
Lyceum, sc E. 4th St.; speaker, Earl
Browder
Midtown Manhattan-Bryant Hall,
Sixth Ave. and 40th St.; speaker, VIM.
w. Weinstone.
DECENTRALIZATION Casino, 116th st.
and Lenox Ave-; speaker, J. StacheI.
Bronx--569 Prospect Ave.; speaker,
Robert Minor.
Williamsburg - 1916 Flushing Ave. !;
speaker, Harry Cannes.
South BrookIyn--Finnish Hall, 1854
10th ST.; speaker, Sam Don.
Brownsville - Rockaway Mansion.
Rockaway and Livonia AYES; speak
or, Tom Johnson.
Call ~ IS In the Bronx.
The will be 8 open air meetings
tc.- int at 7 pm. at l6lst and Pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
PUSH FASCIST
PROGRAM IN
6 E R M A N Y
Communists Demand
Removal of Police as
Reichstag Opens
Bruening Tells Plans
Socialists Help Fascists
In New Move
Gable BY InprecOrrl

BERLIN, Oct. 13.-The Reichstag
opened today after almost half
year holiday. Following the reading
of the new government declaration,
Bruening spoke, explaining the ne
cessity of alterations in the. cabinet,
by pointing out that the coming win
ter demanded concentration of the
governments repressive powers in
single hand. He stated that the ap-
pointment of General Groener as
Reichskehr Minister and Minister Of
Interior offered the necessary guar
antee of determined action.
Answering the Nationalist attacks,
he declared that the policy of the
present cabinet is also national. He
declared that state interference in
private finance and industry was
made necessary by excessive abuses
and warned the National opposition
against forcing him to make revolu-
tons. Here the Communist deputies
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
BY ERNEST r. Y-IGH

CANTON, Ohio-Betsy Ross, the
great granddaughter of tie creator of
the American flag, is facing death by
slow starvation while waiting for
eviction. / found her recently in
Canton when / was out collecting
signatures. She met us at the door
and invited us in. my doors are al
ways open to all you Communists
she said with the accent on the III"
in Communist. She conducted us.
through her front room which was
also bedroom to her kitchen which
was just large enough TO let one
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

The Socialist mayor, Swoboda,
had denied permit for Communist
political rally, hoping thus to prevent
an exposure of tn treachery of the
Socialist Party and its characters as
political party of the bosses. When
the workers insisted on exercising
their political rights, Swoboda mo-
bilized the Legion fascists and sent
his police to break up the political
rally.
The workers fought back with the
greatest militancy and many of the
police and Legion thugs suffered jim
juries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

be a report on the Plenum of the
National Committee of the TUUL.
held in Pittsburgh on october and
&c Comradc Joseph zack will make
the report.
The report will not only deal with
problems discussed in Pittsburgh. On
the basis of the decisions of the PIE
mum a program will be presented on
how to struggle against wage cuts
and unemployment in the New York
district
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Says She'll Vote Com
munist Next
Month

person turn around in
MY friends" she declared after
seating us, I'm not going to apologize
for the dirt here for 1t is not my
fault nor my husbands, but the cap
italists' fault those big manipu-
lators, grafters and legal crooks, I
know them she shook her fists. X
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

NEW YORK. - Building resistance
to the huge wage cutting campaign
instituted by the employers and
bankers against millions of workers
still in the factories and mills, the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Trade Union Unity
Council Will Hear
Report On Plenum

A special meeting of the Trade
Union Unity Council Of Greater New
York will take place this Thursday,
October is, at 1880 pm, sharp, at 5
lE. 10th st, IN the large hal
The main point on the agenda will
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Mass Picketing to Keep
Lawrence Mills Closed
Rank and File Strike Delegation Goes to Boston State
House Against Strike Sen-0ut
Demand End of Wage Cuts No Arbitration Free Speech
And Release of Arrested Strikers

Ton is calling mill meetings this week
ted Textile Workers Union and the
so-called arbitration board. The de-
mand of the striking pickets is: no
wage cut; no arbitration; free speech
for the Lawrence workers; immediate
release of all arrested strikers and
organizers.
The National Textile Workers Un-
to select their strike committees in
addition to broadening the already
formed united front General Strike
Committee.
Relief stores opened up today. The
National Textile Workers Union is
calling a wooden conference in Bos-
ton next week to spread the strike
and to build up militant organiza-
ton.
CHARLOTTE, N c., Oct. 10. -
The Burlington and Charwick mills
here cut wages again yesterday of
textile workers 10 per cent. The Ma
tional Textile Workers Union issued
leaflets to the mill workers affected
calling on them to follow the exam
pie of the $4,000 Lawrence textile
workers and call a strike against
wage cuts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
Betsy Ross, Great Grand>D Daughter of
Colonial Heroine Starving in Canton

lived in my better days In California
next door to the Hoover family, Then
was recognized by all the big shots.
went to church and interpreted the
Bible literally, am schooled very diff
ferently now I tell you, my friends,
I am old l was born June %, 1855
in Knox County, ILL.,, but my blood
still boils when I think of losing my
property and becoming penniless all
through no fault of mine. I also re-
member when / was little girl and
my father was an officer in the Civil
lCONfp NpJHn IN PACE pHup'.I
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
League Maneuyers Are
Lying Moves To
Fool Workers
CONFLICT Is SHARPER
Seek Common Front For
Attack on U.S.S.R
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK.-Nine more war
ships have been rushed by the
United States Navy, under Wall
Street orders, TO the Manchurian
war zone, as the imperialist con-
flicts sharpen. The New York
Graphic declares: I'm apparent
preparations for definite declara-
ton of war in Asia, as japanese
military planes bombarded three
Chinese troop trains, on their way
to reinforce the garrison now in
Manchuria, the United States navy
has ordered seven modern subma-
rines and the U.S.S. Campus to
Chefoos China, from Tsingtao. Two
other submarines we're sent to Taku
Bar, in support of the first flotilla."
The first flotilla consists of 10 bat
tleships recently rushed to China
by Wall st.
The Graphic goes on to state:
This puts the United States sub
marines in a most menacing spot
where they can intercept Japanese
transports en- route to China"
NEW YORK.-Through the de-
mand of Japan, the League of Ma
tons virtually slammed the door in
the face of Wall Streets representa-
tive in Geneva, where the Manchur-
ian war crisis is being discussed"
Prentiss Gilbert was supposed to rep
resent the American government, but
on insistence of Japan he was not
allowed to be present as an "ob-
This shows the extreme
sharpness of the conflict and is in
dicative of the lineup of forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14
BULLETIN

BOSTON, Oct. 13.-Edith Berk-
man, organizer of the National Tex
tile Workers Union, who was ar
rested in Lawrence and brought
here by the immigration auth0ri-
ties to keep her out of the present
strike of $4,000 textile workers
against wage-cuts, was denied bail
by the United States Circuit Court
of Appeals. She is held for depor-
tatiOn. Though out on $4,000 bail
before the strike, she was immedi-
ately arrested when the workers
went out against wage cuts, and
now the courts are holding her in
Jail.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 49,
Strikers here are mobilizing to picket
the Arlington and Kunhard Mills
where the bosses declare they will at
tempt to open up today. There are
$4,000 on strike in this city against
a general wage cut of 10 per cent.
On Sunday and Monday the strik-
ers modified a large rank and file
delegation to picket the state house
in Boston today at 10 o'clock to eX-
pose the sell-out move of the Uni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

OOIliOdI NA1llClIGO NY cdP
,anese airpla n e S, as
we'll as a rapid mobil-
ization of Chimes
troops were the latest steps
Tuesday in the war develop
ments in Manchuria, where
American and Japanese imper-
ialism are driving to a new
world slaughter.
That Chang Kai-shek and the
other Chinese puppet generals were
modifying their armed forces against
the Chinese masses as much as for
war to help Wall Street in its con-
flict with Japan over colonial loot, is
shown by cables to capitalist news
apers in Manchester and New York
A recent issue of the Manchester
Guardian declared that lombard
ment of Marking by the Japanese
leads to war and possibility of Com
munist rising in alliance with the
Soviet"
Chinese Masses Rising.
In other words, the Chinese masses
are answering the war threats Of the
imperialist powers over the plumber
of Manchuria by an anti-imperialist
struggle against Chang Kai-shek, the
tool of Wall Street, and are threat
ening to turn the oncoming imper-
ialist war into civil war.
The same idea Is expressed in a
cable from Hallett Abend, Shanghai
correspondent Of the New York
Times, This cable says:
Despite this WAR declaration
against Japan, which Is designed
primarily for foreign consumption,
General Chang Is rapidly moving
reliable troops and enormous stores
of war supplies into pivotal and
strategic area In Central China,
evidently fearing civil war more
than a war with Japan"
Impcrialist Conflicts.
The seriousness Of the war dan4
ger, and the movement of the biz
imperialist powers for the lineup in
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Impcrialist Conflicts.

The seriousness Of the war dan..
ger, and the movement of the big
imperialist powers for the lineup is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-14

Call ~ IS In the Bronx.
The will be 9 open air meetings
q. mt at 7 pm. at l6lst and Pro.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-23

dividend and al that sort Of business.
But IL Is not honest for US to- 90 on
and sell our goods below the cost pro-
duction and deprive our stockholders
and our workmen Of what they are en-
titled to.
It is certainly impossible to conduct
business as usual" If conpensations are
reduced generally, A reduction of ten
per cent from wages means q reduction
of more than ten per cent in the buying
power of the people. The reduction of
the buying power through the curtail-
ment of income of those who rely upon
weekly stipends for everything they need
means reduction in production. means
reduction of working forces. means ad-
ditional idleness, Wage cuts are the
beginning of this chain of forces Price
cutting intensifeS the process, aeceI-
crates 1t. Mr.. Farrell's plea for wage
maintenance and price maintenance is
plea for return to normal business
methods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEwELL.

Times change, and we with them
says an old saying. Certainly this car
BE- trller of nothing more than court
ship
A modern courtship is both amusing
and interesting to an old-timer.
If you watch the boys and girls OF
today as they keep company" as We
used to say, you will discover that they
have discarded the axiom, "Two's COM
pany, t1res's a crowd"
A crowd is what they all like, appar-
emily.
Nothing suits the young lady better
than to have three or four swains hang
ing around at once.
And none of the young gentlemen
seems to mind this state Of affairs in
the least.
They mostly spend their time, as far
as we have been able to discover, pay
ing no attention at all to the young
lady, or at least pretending to pay 20
attention to her.
The young lady. for her part does
not permit the boys TO interfere with
her tasks in the least
If she is moving the lawn, she goes
right ahead moving it.
Some Of you old-timers might think
the boys would help her at the task
but not bit CT It.
She Is just as able to NOW q lawn as
any. one of the opposite sex. and
neither expects nor desires aid.
So the boys take to playing base ball
Now we have the modern, outdoor
athletic courtship in full swing.
There are all her young barbarians
~ Ia-
having good time, after his fancy,
Not one of these fine barbarians
pays the slightest attention to the lady
Well maybe there is a slight bit of
exaggeration in that. Occasionally one
of the boys will stop his flinging of the
base ball TO give the girl playful push
with his elbow as she whirrs by.
Maybe one Of them will even go TO
the extent Of dropping blade of grass
down the back OF her neck Now, this
looks almost something like!
But no, our young modern miss re-
CARDS this with no emotion whatever,
can see.
She goes right ahead moving.
~
BY this time the boys have got enough
of throwing the ball around, and have
Minerva to get through with her task.
We will be reminded that this is not
courtship, nor even keeping company;
that neither the boys nor the girl take
themselves at all seriously at their age,
but meet simply as friends and COM
rades.
This is essentially true. The better
class of boys and girls, despite all the
bunk which has been written about
modern youth, seem far less interested
in sex, as sex, than did the young men
and women of past ages.
The difference seems to be that these
young moderns, in most cases-or
should 1t be just many eases?-realize
that they are not yet able to think of
marriage, and therefore gladly put of
the consideration.
This gives them a care-free attitude
which did not mark their predecessors.
Perhaps they have gotten farther away
from the old ideal of two souls, born
the world apart, etc.
The l6-fashionsd eourtship, even in
its preliminary stages. took itsc-f very
seriously.
There was deal Of telephoning, and