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The Washington times., 1931-11-09

But that is the elusive thing
about the quaint old emotion.
It can't be analyzed. Like can
Ger or the common cold, it
can't be accounted for. Yet,
like the little dandelion, it
goes right on springing up and
blossoming, where it is least
expected or encouraged.
Everybody is positive that he
can give you the authentic
formula for love. One man
will tell you that love is all
imagination. Take a dash Of
moonlight, a soupcon Of sex
attraction, a handful of curl
osity and a LOT of imagina-
ton, and you have what the
average man calls love"
Another will cynically assure
you that love is nothing but
sex-attraction; that all the rest
is the bunk. And most young
moderns will agree with him.
They honestly believe that ro-
nance, companionship an d
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
The Path Is
Blazed

O400SN
That would be effective,
not only in that it would
divert the now triumphant
army of Democracy from the
work on hand, and split it
into fragments, but it would
convince the large independ-
ent element that the Demo.
cratic party lacks that soli-
darity and capacity for team
work which is essential to
good government.
Having fought desperately
to retain control of the Ma.
tional House of Representa-
tives, and lost, the party
now in power in Washington
pretends to be much pleased
that the House is to be or
ganized by the Democrats.
1t is not the first time the
Democrats have been so situ'
ated. That was the situa'
tion in 1911 just before the
triumph of 1912.
All the Democrats in the
House can do today is that
which they did under the
leadership of Underwood in
1911. Then, as now, the
President was Republican.
with the power of veto; and
then, as now, the Democratic
majority in Congress was
not sufficient to overcome
the veto.
But then, as now, there
were a few outstanding
things demanded by the pub.
lie and refused by the Ad-
ministratiOn; and on these
few things the Democratic
House concentrated its at
tention. 1t did not under
= take a sweeping tariff revi-
sion, for it would have been
labor lost with an opponent
in the White House. But it
did present separate bills
for downward revision Of
certain schedules and these
were passed-and vetoed.
That made the issue for
the election Of 1912.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Republicans Practically
Were Cleaned Out

Quite as ridiculous and IN
sincere is the labored effort
to misinterpret the New
York election to the coun-
try. Through propaganda,
the most amazing, the coun-
try was given to understand
that all Democrat leaders in
New York city are scoun-
drels and disreputable people.
In support Of this contcn-
ton, screaming headlines Of
insinuations and innuendoes
were fed the people outside
that city. The New York
press made it most emphatic,
day after day, that the issue
there was Tammany-Tam-
many being the regularly
elected Democratic organ
ization.
And the people went to
the polls and gave Tam
many the most smashing ma
jorities in history-on that
issue. The Republicans prac-
tically were cleaned out.
Only one of their aldermen
survived the storm. The
significance seemed clear
enough, didn't it?
But the laborious inter-
prefers are now telling the
country that it was not a
Tammany vindication at all
because, with the aid Of
the rotten borough system,
and a Constitution forbid
ding the rule of the ma
jority, the Republicans still
have a majority in the as
sembly at Albany.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Why the Assembly
Remains Republican

The Republican legisla-
ture that refuses to permit
an investigation of Republic
an communities, where spe-
cific charges of corruption
and Irregularities are made,
is said by these interpreters
Of the New York election to
have been approved in its
purely partisan and fre-
quently unfair " "investiga-
ton" methods in New York
city. This, because the Dem
ocrats have not overcome the
Republican majority in the
Assembly throughout the
State.
By the same token, then,
the Republican power COM
bination has been approved
by the people and the Roose-
velt power claims have been
repudiated.
By the same token, the
people of New York have
expressed their approval OF
the petty partisan opposi-
tion to liberal legislation
which has characterized Re-
ublican legislatures since the
election of Al Smith in 1918.
This, of. course, is utterly
false. The great majority of
the people of New York last
The Washington times., 1931-11-09

worthy son,
Mr.. Alexan-
der w ood-
rows death,
it being some
what sudden
and surpriz-
ing. Yet he
carried very
Chri S 1Sianly
under tn a t
sharp dispen-
Sation " y y
He went down
to the place
W h ere his
sons corpse
~ - "
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
WISE WORDS

Morality knows nothing of
geographical boundaries or dis
tinctions of race. Spencer.
What is not In a man cannot
come cut Of him surely.
Goethe.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Only a Loan

Long ago someone sent me
this:
I'm his 'Analecta,' Robert
woodrow has a touching Incl
dent of his own father. He
was much affected with his
The Washington times., 1931-11-09

This Thing, Called Love"
The things which pass for
Glove" these days, are almost
as numerous as the things
which pass for ''pre-war liquor"
Or for heart-failure.
Every day, somebody discov-
ers a new definition of love.
We are all trying to reduce
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
The Post MOrtem
Reflections
: Bu Claude G. BOWers'

Tuesday voted the Demo-
cratic ticket-but the Assem-
bly, remain Republican. That
is because by constitutional
prohibition there is no demo-
cratic form of government
in New York.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09

In slow untangling Of the line
Perhaps it is too much to hope
That in this grave emergency
The rescuer will cut the rope.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
INSTALLMENT II
San Francisco Labor Council

AGAINST the open and concealed enemies Of
II the workers and therefore of Mooney and
Billings the labor movement must wage re-
lentless fight Only continued struggle by labor
can wrest Mooney and Billings from their dun
geons. The workers must shatter the lies Of
the Scharrenbergs, Caseys and O'Connells.
They must smash the chains by which the
labor leaders" would bind these two men for
ever in San Quentin and Folsom No A. F. Of
L. body in California has ever made even pre-
tense to support Mooney and Billings except
when forced through the pressure of the rank
and file. The Benedict Arnolds of labor have
used every trick even violence, to smother the
just resentment of the workers against this
15-year-old outrage.
The officials of the San Francisco Labor Coun-
Gil have throttled, at all times, the wishes of the
workers they are supposed to represent. They
have never been sincere when asked to help
Mooney and Billings On Sept. 2, 1916, an ap-
peal from the Defense Committee in behalf Of
the bomb defendants was filed without action
by the Council while on Sept. %, 1915, a letter
written by Billings requesting aid from the
Council was pigeon-holed by the Law and Legis-
lative Committee. A few months later Feb 49,
fering to aid Mooney and Billings and adopted
resolution instructing its ever-convenient buf-
fer, the Law and Legislative Committee, to Elm
veStigate" the bomb trial
Mother Jones, labors Joan Of Arc. appeared
before the Council Dec. 20, 1918, and made
stirring appeal "for the Council to send dele
gate to the Mooney-Billings Labor Congress"
which was to be held in Chicago the following
January. Despite Mother Jones' pleading, the
Council refused to cooperate with the labor
Congress, assuming the position that no effort
to free Mooney and Billings should be taken
outside the regular A. f.. Of L. channels. what
an ironic statement The regular "a f. Of
L. channels" never helped the two imprisoned
men. and the Council was well aware OF this
fact.
When the friends of Mooney and Billings
heard about huge mass meeting held at the
Coliseum, Chisago, where over 10000 citizens
under the auspices Of the Chicago Federation
OF Labor demanded Congressional investiga-
ton Of the frame-up, they decided to hold a
similar meeting in San Francisco On March
%, 1918, resolution was introduced in the La
Dor Council requesting labor's endorsement for
mass meeting at the Civic Center Auditorium.
Did the Labor Council give this endorsements
OF course not! The Defense Committee deter
mined to hold the mass meeting without the en-
dorsement OF the Council, and a huge throng
heard Moth Jones and Mrs. sheey sheffington
speak
With true Irish pugnacity, Mrs Skeffington,
wife OF the Irish publicist murdered during the
Irish Rebellion, said: IT want you politicians In
the labor movement to know we are watching
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
&4l-.<-
Attention of Mr.. Fish
BY JORGE

From the campaign of Mr.. Fish and all his
kind we gather that dumping" is an hostile
act justifying blockade and even war against
the bumper by the dunpee.
That being the case, it may be embarrassing
to reveal the fact that the Canadian government
has put the Dumping tag on United States soft
coal, of which some 100000 tons is sent into
Canada every year.
Canada claims that U. S. bituminous coal Is
being exported into Canada and sold there at
ian unreasonably low price" So an official
Order in Council has been issued, laying down
tariff rate into Canada for additional duty
on American coal equivalent to the difference
between the invoice mine price and the value
as fixed by Canada The value set as a mini
mum is 81 per ton on slack bitun1inous and $125
on run of mine.
Now you coal diggers, just dig up some cases
of forced labor in the mines, and let's give Fish
dose of his own medicine. Don't expect Fish
to get sore at Canada, however, as he seems 10
be quite lobbyist for Canadian pupwood. AS
we said before if he and Matte VOL are not
getting paid for it. they are scabbing on '1egi-
innate British imperialist agents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
AND
ANSWERS

Question: Would you kindly let know
through the Daily Worker some information
I am not a member of your Party but would
like to be, so would some of my friends ALSO
but here is one drawback. We are afraid II
VIC gave our name and address to the COmmu-
mist Party, that the state some one of these
days may decide to grab hold of the mailing
list of the Communist Party and expose all of
the names to the world.-A Worker.
Answer: The leading committees of the Party
realize these problems. Measures are taken to
safeguard our members, their names and adj
dresses. .-.-
Question: Some workers claim that in New
York State they pay a certain amount of
money to men who unemployed and have
been residents of the state for at least 10 years.
l don't believe it. They say this was printed
in the paper, Bollettino Della Sera.--A C.,
Penna.
Answer: The capitalist press is continually
printing stories like this to deceive the workers
1t is not true that the New York State gov
eminent gives any relief to the unemployed
in money or in any other way. And we know of
no other state government that pays any I'M
employment relief, The big noise about public
works, which is practically the only proposals
even considered by state governments, was an
Juliet 4O1 vi EIOpdSdLudy very Lew GAIId JOUS
have been given on public works. New York
state maintains few free unemployment agen-
cies, but that is all.
These workers may be thinking of the New
York state old age pension-about five dollars
weekly for workers who must be over seventy,
citizens of the United States Excluding all of
the foreign born workers in New York who have
not been naturalized), and give proof that they
have no children able to support them They
must also be residents of New York State for
ten years.
Workers who want to know more about the
old age relief" measures and fake unemploy-
ment insurance schemes should get the new ten
cent pamphlet on Social Insurance by Grace
Durham. 1t may be ordered, by mail from the
Workers Library Publishers, Box 14S, Station D,
New York.
Question: Does the Labor Sports Union Club
permit Negro workers into membership
Asked at the Yokinen trial.
Answer: The position of the Labor Sports
Union has always been one of equality for the
Negro workers. One of the principles of the
Labor Sports Union is for the right of Negro
athletes to participate together with white ath-
etes in all athletic and social affairs No race
discrimination in any form whatsoever. For full
Negro rights. AS workers organization &C
0epting the working class principles in connec-
ton with the Negro workers, the Labor Sports
Union stands Fundamentally behind the League
of Struggle for Negro Rights and gives it its full
support In this struggle. The Labor Sports Union
makes special efforts to enroll Negro athletes into
its various sport clubs and groups and always
invites them to participate in all its athletic
and social affairs. The vesa A. c., which is the
sport section Of the Harlem Finnish Workers
Club to which Yokinen belongs, has Negro
members.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25

was carried out by Big Business in Chicago
Every Party was ruled off the ballot except 'the
two parties ordained by God" However in the
proceedings it was clear that the main purpose
was to rule the Communist Party off the ballot,
despite the fact that the C. P. was the only
Party in the present campaign that filed by
mass petition and not through the so-called
caucus convention.
Side by side with this fascist attack on the
Communist Party goes the increasing use of So
clal demagogy by Big Bill Thompson, and in
particular by the next probable mayor, the dem
ocratic candidate, Cernak. Thompson who is
the agent of the insult utility interests and SUD-
ported by the fascist deader Of the Chicago Fed
Grafton OF Labor, Alderman Oscar Nelson calls
upon the workers to vote for him because he
SAID he is a friend of the poor people. But the
workers are beginning to realize more and more
tnat the Thompson policy is the bosses policy
OF hunger and wage cuts, of terror and war
against the workers Cermak, who has organ
lied Labor Union Committee" has gotten the
support OF such racketeer officials in the Chi
cago Federation OF Labor as Martin Drkin head
OF the building trades, who on last March 9Th
openly called for the beating Of the unemployed
workers. Cermak, who is the candidate Of hio
business backed by such millionaire exploiters
as Melvin Traylor Of the First National BANK
mccormick OF the International Harvester and
the Anti Soviet war crying Chicago Tribune, and
also to certain extent getting the support of
Samuel insult, is trying to hide the bankers and
manufacturers support by telling the workers
that he will end unemployment. help the Negro
masses etc.
The Communist Party calls on all workers to
protest against the fascist removal Of the Party
off the ballot. to resist the social democracy Of
Thompson and Cermak. We Will rally thou-
sands Of workers to Vote Communist ON April
7th, for the class struggle program Of immediate
relief and unemployment insurance. of struggle
against wage cuts and speed-up unity of Negro
and white workers. against lynching, defense of
the Soviet Union, and for workers. government.
On April It'll vote for: Otto n wanserin. for
mayor: Lydia Bennett for Ctty cleeis August
HoaneioA Soe ON Eeamu4 .sasenxxss.a, Vs.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
From Bardoli to Delhi

ferent from both What is all this if not a
deliberate attempt to mix up the cards to con
ceal from the masses the price for the sell-out
to British imperialism?
In this seemingly hopeless mess Of inconsis-
tencies, contradictions and denals the leading
parts are well distributed. Gandhi is already
being heckled by the Bombay workers who gave
him a reception" which, according to the New
York Times, had never before happened to him
in lifetime" Gandhi is already obliged to de-
fend himself against accusations of Seling-out
to the British. From various parts of the coln-
try come reports that the masses continue to
fight in spite Of and against Gandhis agree
ment with the viceroy. ALREADY the extremists"
says the New Republic, rushing to the defense
of the Mahatma, "and their sympathizers in the
United States are saying that Mr.. Gandhi has
betrayed his own principles and gone over to
the side of the British" Too bad!-for the In
dian capitalists. But they have reserve-its
Nehru and his cleft" associates. The young
Nehru has proven his loyalty to the capitalist
class dts not for nothing that Gandhi calls
him disciplined boy') and his ability to play
with radical phrases. Nehru can be relied upon
to save the prestige of the National Congress
and thus preserve the leadership Of the masses
in the hands Of the bourgeoisie. So it's Nehru
on whom the Indian bourgeoisie Is now placing
its stakes, who is now being pushed to the FORE
front to put up fake opposition to Gandhi and
to talk independence, to be achieved-where do
you think?-at conference with British i'm
perialists!
Both GandM and Nehru are representatives Of
the Indian capitalist class, both carry out the
policy OF the Indian borgeodae through its
party--tle Indian National Congress But as
far as the Indian toiling masses are concerned,
gerous than Gandhi, exactly because his name
did not yet figure openly in the deals between
the Indian bourgeoisie and British imperialism.
Nchru is in opposition to Gandhi-bcware Of =
new betrayal This is what the Communists
must now tell and explain to the Indian workers
and psasantA Nevertheless. the very subetttu-
9sq b - xp6lsn hegl1le = Mshgy -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25

This is the twelfth instalIment of MONEYS
own story of the treachery Of the A. r. Of L.
chiefs in the Mooney Billings case. Written
last year and made public just this year, 1t
gives review of some Of them from the time
of the original frame-up, In 1916 In the
eleventh installment, Mooney told how John
O'Connel, the present SECRETARY of the San
Francisco Labor Council, fraternized In 1916
and 1918 with Roster, president Of the cham
Der of Commerce and the chief pIotter against
body that Mooney and Billings were guilty,
and Should be put away for life" Now read
on!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
More Capitalist "Justice"

From clipping sent us which we can ider-
tify only as seeming to come from 1.-THE Pro-
gressive Press of st. Louis, we learn Of beau
tful case of capitalist class Justice" The facts
are given as follows:
son the morning of Sept II, 1880, Alexander
Zander and John Graf, members of Bakers
Union No. 4, peaceful and law-abiding citizens,
were distributing circulars asking people to pur-
chase Union label bread, in front of Julius 0.
Thompson's bakery, 5001 Emerson Avenue. The
two men did not modest anybody and handed
out their literature in a quiet and legitimate
manner"
From what followed, 1t is clear that being
"law-abiding" citizens and conducting them
selves "legitimately" didn't help any in winning
the strike. For:
Julius o. Thompson came out OF his store,
armed with a revolver, assaulted Graf and fol-
lowed zander across the street, fired and killed
lander"
So few gestures were made. Arrest and
release on $4,000 bail But the bail was only
for the term of court ending on Feb Q, 1881,
and new bail should have been arranged or
Thompson jailed by that date. The court Of
ficials so enthusiastic and particular in failing
workers. somehow" let the bail expire and
Thompson remain free.
So when the case was called on March O.
everybody was present except the defendant
Thompson. He had left the city 1t was found
out and the bail had been given back to the
bondsmen. Then, the story goes on:
persons expected the daily press would take
the case up editorially, as they surely would
have done had an employee killed his employer
These expectations were illusions. None Of the
daily papers in st. Louis have since mentioned
the case either editorially or in the news
columns"
Now it strikes us that rank and file workers
of the A. F. of L. ought to learn from this lesson
that the democracy" supposed to exist in this
country is only capitalist dictatorship in dis
guse, very thin disguise at that.
And also they should remember that such
outrageous capitalist Justice" could not happen
in the Soviet Union, where the dictatorship is
that of the workers. Don't get excited about
dictatorship" in general, but find out for which
class it works.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-25
Fascist Attack On Communist
Party In Chicago

THE bosses through their Election Board have
ruled the Communist Party off the ballot in
the coming city elections on April 7th. This
fascist attack in the so-called "land of the Free"
takes place despite the fact that 20758 workers
in Chicago signed the petitions to place the Com
nunist Party on the ballot. The deepening crisis
which expresses itself in Chicago in constant lay
offs in the big shops in wage cut after wage cut,
increasing speed-up, with the stagger system be-
coming the general rule, with actual hunger and
starvation spreading amongst the masses, with
10000 directly depending upon the charity in
stitutions of Chicago, who are handing out fewer
and fewer crurnbs--is met by the workers, with
more organization and struggle against the
bosses. The militant demonstrations and hunger
marches in the city of Chicago, the growing
mass action against evictions, the growth of the
Unemployed Councils all under the leadership of
the Communist Party, have actually scared
finance capital in Chicago. AS an answer to the
growing support of the masses to the Commu-
mist Party and in order to facilitate a whole
sale attack upon the very living conditions of
the working class In Chicago, the bosses in
structed their puppets In the City Hall to rule
the Communist Party off the ballot.
However, the millionaire parasites of Chicago
are mistaken if they think they can hold back
the onward mdTCI OF Tie WORKING CLASS uIlQef
revolutionary leadership. More theoretically
than before the Communist Party will rally more
and more workers in struggle against the starva-
ton program of the bosses, and by a broad
sticker campaign will rally thousands of work
ers to Vote Communist on April 7th, despite the
fascist attack Of the bosses.
The proceedings at the Election Board clearly
exposed the rotten class character Of the CAPT
talist state In Chicago-the heart OF decayng
American Imperialism The complaint against
the Communist Party was signed Jointly by the
two official lawyers OF the republican and demo-
cratic parties, Mr.. Tyrell and Harrington, re-
spectiyely This shows the united front Of
Finance Capital against the leader Of the work
ing class-the Communist Party.
Mr.. Tyreu tried to explain that "the United
States constitution ordained (My 0odD that
this country should have only two parties, the
p1uh~ean aqd aamoen4Ar md tiaia b Acs
4