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The Washington times., 1931-07-11
Monument Planned
In AttUckS' Honor

Plans for the celebration of
the two hundredth birthday an
niversary of Crispus Attucks and
the erection of a monument in
his honor during the Washington
Bicentennial next year are being
completed under the auspices of
the Worlds Council of Ministers
and Laymen's Welfare Alliance.
Attucks, who was a negro, was
said to have been the first Amer,
ican to die in the opening cam
paign of the Revolutionary War.
He was at thai time a citizen of
Boston. His birthday comes on
March 5,
The Washington times., 1931-07-11
Suspect Denies Guilt
Of Masked Robbery

Herbert Carlos Owen, 40, of
903 Thirteenth st. N. W., a nurse,
arrested last night and charged
with robbing the manager of a
Sanitary Grocery store ten
months ago, today renewed de-
mails that he was involved in the
crime.
Owen was arrested at his home
by Policemen E. Waters and j. H.
Quinn, who charged him with rob-
bing Alton Duval. 10, of Silver
Spring, Md, of $3.50 as he left
the grocery store at Third and
Rittenhouse Streets, of which he
was manager. last october 25.
The man who robbed Duval was
masked.
The Washington times., 1931-07-11
Stores Here Start
Weekend CLOSin0S

Executives and employees of
Washington department stores
and many of the speciality shops
are enjoying the weekend clos
ing schedule which is to be in
effect during the remainder of
July and August.
The Saturday closing program
went into effect today. A few
of the stores have closed all day;
others operate on a halliday plan.
The Washington times., 1931-07-11
CANDIDATE WTHDRAWS

Frank E. Martin, Republican, of
Mulhall, Va, announced last night
that he had withdrawn from the
County Republican Convention as
a delegate and will run on an in
dependent ticket for the county
board.
The Washington times., 1931-07-11

POTOMAC, MD.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

already elected a strike and relief
committee. The committees are one
hundred per cent union.
Tried for Not Moving.
At Creeches, KY. George Perry must
come to trial for not moving his wife
and eight children out Of the Com
pany house, They have no place to
go but have received three days nos
ice. He was evicted for refusing TO
sign a yellow dog contract on May 9.
The average pay at creeches on day
work ranges from s216 to $50; fm'
coal loading, from 81 cents ton to
80. The cuts of the miners pay for
various reasons average from s45o
per month to $1,000; for light, from
s1.05 to sT.4o; for doctor" $500; hos
pital s1y0o; burial fund, 500; school,
fifty cents, although many Kids can
not go TO school as they have no
clothes or shoes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

The following letter from
Chicago is an example of
many, many letters that are
now coming in. Get into the
spirit of this Chicago COM
rade and put the Daily
Worker subscription cam
paign over the top,
Kindly renew my sub
scriptiOn for one month TO
the Daily Worker for which
enclosed find so cents. |
think your drive for 5000
subscribers is very timely,
and l am going to try for
new subscribers among my
friends. As soon as | get a
little money ! am going to
send in my yearly SUBJ"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
so OF 5OOO-12 MO. GOAL REACHED
3O4 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS IN,
CONTINUED FROM PAGE oSEl

employment work. the fight against CUTS boss terror
revolutionary activity every front.
Chicago still leads the show far total subs
concerned with 608 subscriptions per cent Of its quota
closely followed by the New York District which has
reached $50 months in total also per cent of its quota
New York had Red Sunday yesterday Look to your lare
Chicago the getting close Detroit still third in the
with 463 its credit This oS Its total
its standing proportion quota really higher.
District Pittsburgh, picking the Drive 1t achieved
ats months cent of its followed by Cleveland
with 272 months of its This heard
from the following Districts Boston with 3ss cent Of ~
quota Minneapolis with 222 cent g. Philadelphia with
2ls per cent
District 49, Connecticut forward with 1%s months
subs stands in proportion its at IL
minute squirt
The following hardly their
District TO- City, District a. Seattle District H. Cstow
and District IS. Butte
Friends the Daily
this week jackson,
work Of starting Daily Worker being taken seriously
enough by the comrades active the Drive More effort must BE-
made to link all activity starting
informal which strengthen the Daily Worker
Every approached the should invited
attend meeting leaflets enclosed
of the this point
fighting the Daily Worker
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21


funds to aid the fight to save Barney
Lee Ross from the electric chair, was
attacked by the police on the tech
meal grounds that no permit had
been given.
The workers, unawed by the police,
unanimously voted to continue the
dance in defiance Of the police edict.
This was the first time in South
Sioux City that workers had openly
defied the police, and the police
frightened by the militancy OF the
workers, withdrew in confusion.
Speakers at the dance exposed the
frame-up and lynch verdict against
Ross. A resolution Of protest TO
Governor Sterling was unanimously
adopted, demanding the immediate
release Of this innocent Negro worker.
Another resolution demanded the
immediate release of the 9 Scottsboro
boys, Mooney and Billings and all
class war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
JAPAN PLANS
NEW ATTACK
ON CHINCHOW
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CONTINUED FROA PAGE ONE)
nation last week Of the Wall Street
butcher, Chang Kai-shek, and forced
the whole Kuonintang crowd Of the
traitors in both the Marking and the
Canton wings to the vancouver of
setting up a new more democratic"
government as a means of decetving
the masses and heading off the anti
imperialist, anti-Kuomintang move
ment.
The failure of this act Of deception
was followed by the murderous
butchery last Thursday Of workers
and students in Marking, when huge
crowds demonstrated against the new
government.
Chang Retains Military Power.
Kuomintang sources now admit
that Chang Kai-shek remains a
force in the new "more democratic
government. A Shanghai dispatch
to the New York Times reports:
''There is an increasing impress
sion that Chang Kai-shek might
be reelected president at the Cen
trail Executive Committee meeting
scheduled for next Monday. Al
though Chang q few days ago
surrendered all official pests, his
power remains unchecked, espe-
cialIy in view of the consolidation
of his military position through
n series Of alliances with generals
loyal to him In Chekiang, Honan,
Kiangst and Anhwei.'
1t is reported that Chang may pre-
fer to remain for the mont uncon-
nected officially with the new pov-
eminent. Chang may want to wait
until his Canton colleagues are in
turn fully discredited before the
Chinese masses. He would then use
his military alliances to seize the gov
eminent and put himself forward as
the Savior" of China, in the hope
that in their indignation against the
Canton puppets OF Imperialism, the
Chinese masses might forget the
bloody role of Chang himself as an
agent of the imperialists.
Gen. HOMO In Cynical HypQcrisy.
In a statement dripping with i'm
perialist hypocrisy and cynicism, the
Japanese Gen. HOMO likes the war
situation In -fanchuria to the situ-
alton of the 10 American colonies in
their struggle against British imper-
ialism- HOMO elects Japan to the
role Of fLiberator" and "defender"
Of the rights and freedom Of the
Manchurian masses whom the Japan
ese are at present engaged in BUTCH
ering and further enslaving.
Il understand and sympathize
with the aspirations of the millions
Of inhabitants Of several races who
populate Manchuria, who want
freedom from bsndftry and inde-
pendonca and yearn for frien1ly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Mich. Farmers Force County
to Stop Foreclosure on Farms
First Victory Won When Ontonagan Farmers
from Eight Localities Put Demands to
Supervisors

ONTONAGON, Mich. (By MaiD -
Poor farmers delegates elected from
eight localities, Green, Mass, Fire
steel, Woodspur, Bruces Crossing
Trout Greek and Topaz; besides over
hundred farmer sympathizers
packed the county courtroom to the
great surprise of the officials of On
tonagon County here last week. At
the opening of the supervisors meet
ing the chairman of the farmers
committees presente dthe demands of
cancelling mortgages interests, back
taxes, etc. The stopping Of the sale
Of Fred Saubert's farm by the sheriff
was vigorously protested by the farm
ers with the result that the super
visors were compelled to elect a COM
mittee from among themselves, in
GLIDING four farmers to hold con-
ference with the representative Of
the Federal Land Bank for the pur-
pose of stopping the sale.
At one o'clock Sheriff Sehon read
the sale notice, during that time the
farmers were having the conference
with the Land Bank representative.
The Land Bank representatives came
out on the courthouse steps and told
the sheriff that the foreclosure came
out on the courthouse steps and told
the sheriff that the foreclosure was
called off or a period Is days. AS
difficult as it as to for the Sheriff to
stop the sale he was copelled to do
so by the mass pressure of the
farmers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
New York

New YorK.
Daily Worker; The hotel workers
in New York should be organized and
taught to fight the greed Of the
money racketeers. The Hotel New
Yorker hires mattresses for $3.50 a
week, then they have the nerve to
deduct as an alibi $1.00 a week from
each pay for the unemployed, money
that the unemployed never see. Also
80 cents for laundry.
If you go to the YWCA they offer
to get you room from 81 to SIS a
week. Is that place for working
women or for high salaried profess
SIGNALS. The food at the Hotel New
Yorker would make any one sick, and
working on a nine hour stretch it
stands to reason many girls are out
sick and then lose their jobs. If you
want something decent to eat, you
have to pay for it.
When you apply for job there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

coming wage cuts on the railroads.
The purpose of the visit was to
work out plans along with the gov
eminent to break strikes and TO use
the government machinery in putting
over the wage cut. President Hoover
expressed himself as being q little
concerned with the announcement Of
a IS per cent wage cut when the
railroads would be satisfied tempo
rarily with a 10 per cent cut which
would net the stockholders Of the
railroads some $35o,0o0o00.
Willard answered that the idea Of a
Is per cent cut was brought up by
the railroad officials, though he did
not stat the reason. The New York
"Sun" reports the incident as follows;
'The press dispatches seemed 10
him, (Hoover) he said, to have
stressed the point that the rail-
roads had issued a thirty day ulti-
matum for Is per cent wage de-
crease.
'"Nothing Of the kind, Mr.. willard
said emphaticalIy.
Certain labor leaders had sug-
gested the formal serving Of such
notice, he asserted, and 1t would not
have been issued that way other.
WISE"
This again confirms the facts pub
hshed by the Daily Worker for the
past few months exposing the role of
the 81 railroad uni ON officials as
being among the most active forces
working for wage cut on the rail-
roads.
Only organization and strike by the
rank and file Will be able 10 stop
this united front of the railroad un-
ion nisleaders, the railroad bosses
and the government from putting
over q wage cut.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Hotel Mattresses Paid $3.50 Per Week

the head waitress tells you they ex-
pect ritzy types, regular Broadway
chorus appearances-all for $500 per
week, less deductions.
If you manage to get restaurant
job you last about two weeks then
you are back again at the agency who
split his fee with someone else. When
will these hotel Todd workers organize
and battle the greedy system that is
filling the town with prostitutes and
grinding the young into an early
grave. Read the suicides Of young un-
employed women. Many of these
cases do not get into the capitalist
papers. They are afraid of the truth,
these verrnin of the capitalist press.
A Hotel Worker
Editorial Note-The writer Of this
letter and all mattresses in the New
Yorker and other hotels in New York
are urged to get in touch with the
Food Workers Industrial Union, E..
10Th ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
A Metal Miner from Butte Answers Eve
Grady's Lies About the Soviet Union

husbands aunt worked barefoC$ed In
denim dresses all day long from sur
up until sun down on their parente'
farm in Pennsylvania close to Pitts
ton in their childhood days7"
DO you know any Of the ErsSg
women or men that had Ar education
or does your husband, William Grady,
know any Of his uncles or zunts THAT
had any education7"
DO you know the wages the min
ers get in the hard coal region Of
Pennsylvania or the soft coal Of
Alabama do not support q. family.
and let them live any better than
the Russian workers do today7"
How are the miners working today
In that part Of the country, or how
did they ever work? You know what
the miners't lives have been, If you
were raised in that Cossack ridden
anthracite region"
SO why go up to Russia 10 better
yourself and then come back home
crying blacklist spot on earth"
1t seems sane person or a sensibls
person wouldn't go up to Russia Or
Siberia and expect to 1--we in luxury,
after what Russia went through. And
granting it is as bad as you chain
don't you, as an educated person,
think they have done pretty good
considering the trouble they went
through"
Il know one thing, I spent two
years in Alaska twenty-five years ago
and must say We lived hard, but it
was the best two years Of my life.
When you met man he was man
and not cut-throat, If he told you
something, you could bet he meant it
and you could rely on it.
I don't know very much about the
way the Russian workers are living
today, but 1t sure beats the Cars
time andI can't remember anyone
writing midnight stories about that
country before the Reds got hold of
it.
So 1t seems to me that people who
live in glass houses shouldn't throw
stones. oh yesl ! know what am
talking about and can prove it and
lot more, Mrs. Grady.
TOM MORGAN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

A countrywide meeting was held by
the farmers in the courtroom and a
county committee of action was
elected. This committee of IA farm
ers pledged to carry out the organi-
rational tasks under the leadership Of
the United Farmers League, also 1t
was stressed by the speakers that we
should not forget our official news
paper Of the UFL, the Producers
News which was being passed out to
the farmers during the meeting.
The sheriff was again provided
with the usual "bodyguard;" a car
load of state police from Houghton,
Mich, who followed the speakers
around the town after the meeting
with a purpose OF creating trouble.
1t was definitely pointed out at the
meeting thatthe state police are al
ways ready to defend the rights of
the banks and the sheriff against the
interests of the farmers which caused
the state police to follow the cars into
which the leaders Of the farmers
went home in.
The usual trick that the county
supervisors try to pull of on the
farmers is that postponing a fore
closure sale is illegal. But when
enough pressure is brought upon the
county officials by the farmers the
postponement becomes legal" 1t be-
came legal in this case for no other
reason but that the farmers were
militant in their demands and scared
these politicians out of their wits.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Charities Block Aid to Starving Worker

received S.. We received nothing
from them before or after that. The
investigator, Miss Allen, went to all
my relatives and friends, first telling
them about our plight and trying to
get them to help us instead OF the
charities. In the meantime my wife
discovered this and when Miss Allen
came to the house ordered her out.
Since then our name must be on the
books In red ink.
Charles Smith, Is Boerm st,
Editorial Note-Upon investiga-
ton, the Williamsburg Unemployed
Council discovered that the Smith
family was actually starving. There
was not . bit Of food In the house.
The family was living on apples and
potatoes picked up In nearby yacaut
lots and yarda
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

turns 10 Work al repairing CIle SCreeG
for three days. They are given for
this sort of letter of credit for $12
in the Independent stores. No money
is given to these workers for their
work. The money is given to the
business men. They charge high
prices for their goods, and in this
way they get rid OF their goods and
reap a small fortune.
In the past the people bought a
great amount Of their food from more
reasonable merchants in neighboring
towns, but the local credit system has
done away with lot Of this. Very
few Of the people here understand
this, even when they can't get credit
at the A. and P. stores. This new
local credit system is advocated and
was put into operation by the Boost
ers Club, an organization composed of
company officials and business men.
=. Boosters Club Holds Affair
Another amusing incident that &C.
CURED here was an entertainment
organized by the Boosters Club. Ad-
mission was a gift of some article
such as food or clothing-this to be
distributed to the destitute. Needless
to say the gate receipts cannot re-
lieve the situation Of the workers; it
does not even give temporary relief,
How could unemployed workers pro-
vide enough food and clothing to feed
and clothe the unemployed?
Workers Awakening
In small boss controlled town like
the workers are terrorized to the
utmost to keep them from organizing
Many of the people still believe in the
"bigheartedness of the companies"
Soon they will wake up, however.
Many here have already awakened to
the fact that the bosses remedies will
not relieve starvation. When they
all wake up here look out fat bellies
in the Boosters Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
FIVE YEAR PLAN
TO END in 1892
Control Figures Give
Lie to Enemies

The figures for the F1ve-Year Plan
rrcgram for 1882 show that the plan
will be ended next year, that is in
ton will be SO per cent xffiz fihff,.
four years. The increase in industrial
production will be So per cent. This
publication Of this program is blow
to the lying enemies of the Soviet
Union who recently started cam
paign to convince the workers of the
world that the Soviet Union was on
the verge of bankruptcy and that the
plans for 1882 will show a large
downward revision.
At the opening session of the Cen
trail Executive Committee of the
Russian Soviet Republic two days ago,
President Kalinin said:
I'VE have no doubts at present
about the complete fulfillment of the
Five-Year Plan in four. The Five
Year Plan which upon its inception
was called a hollow fantasy by our
foes is now a common phrase in
every tongue"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Negro Miners Back Kentucky =
Strike Call for January First

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Preparations for strike so ahead full
speed
In Galloway a WIR. relief kitchen
was established. A kitchen is being
established at Blackmonts 30 Every
mine there is organized one hundred
per cent in the union. A local Of the
NM.U. was established in Kettle
Island Friday.
At the Pioneer Coal Co, one Of the
biggest mines in Bell County, where
no cash has been paid for six weeks
when the men heard on Friday that
the store was being cleaned out, for
feited their cash, got scrip and bought
groceries. The company made no eff
forts to fill the store. About 125
men and their families are dependent
on the company.
The miners of Mingo Hollow have
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Hundreds jailed AS
Wall Street Terror
Spreads In Manila

MANILA.--One hundred forty-five
members of the Tanguian Society, an
anti-imperialist organization. were
jailed here charged with sedition and
Indictment to insurrection in the new
campaign of Yankee inperia1ist ter
ror that is sweeping across the island.
The Manila press Is carrying SEN
sational stories about planned out
breaks and revolution and the whole
constabulsry is continuing a general
roundup Of all persons suspected Of
membership in antt-imperialist or
CARNATIONS. The Tanguian Society is
demanding immediate Independence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
am the father OF seven small chill
drer, the oldest thirteen years of age.
I have been out Of work twenty
months and have received aid from
no one in Brooklyn or New York. The
Brooklyn Bureau of Charities pre-
vented me from getting aid from the
Mayors Committee and also from
getting work from the Gibson Com
fnittee. ! registered at 1885 Broadway
and when it was time to get work I
was disapproved by the Brooklyn Bu-
reau Of Charities.
The reason the bureau is preventing
my family from getting relief is as
follows:
Ten years ago we applied for aid
md aftsr Two weeks investigating w
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

The Friends of the Daily
Worker group in Aberdeen,
Washington, is the SECOND
group, following the Leban-
on club, to send in a sub
scriptiOn to the Daily Work
er. What are the other
groups doing to help the
campaign for 5000 12-month
subscriptions to the Daily
Worker?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21

Eve Garrette Grady, wife Of an
American engineer, has been writ
ing slanderouS articles in Liberty"
about the Soviet Union. She has
also been delivering talks over the
radio, specializing In lying abcut
the conditions of the Soviet work
eFs. A metal miner in Butte,
Mont, who knows the background
Of the Grady family, has written
the following reply to the Grady
ISLANDERS In a letter TO Liberty"
Butte, Mont,
Nov IL, 1881.
EditorzThe Daily Worker:
L am sending you a copy Of my
letter to Liberty" 1t is reply. and
also q few very interesting questions,
to Mrs. Garrette Grady's articles in
Liberty in regards to Russia.
81 have been reading Eva Gar-ette
Grady's silly stories about Soviet
Russia. And call them silly because
she puts me in mind Of little child
some one took its candy away from.
They, Cthe Gradys) went TO Russia
and stayed about two years as close
as I can find out and got canned"
out as we call it, and then came
home knocking everything socialistic.
No schools, no churches, no baths,
no morals and this and that and the
other"
Nov / want to ask Mrs. Grady II
they had any sanitary conditions or
fine schools or modern homes in the
anthracite mining camps of Penn
sylvania when her husband was a
boy
IF she was raised in dirty company
houses or camps called the patch"
around Scranton or Wilkes-Ba or
Pittston?"
''If she can remember little breaker
boys, or mule drivers, or trappers
door tenders from the age Of 8
years and up, going to work for few
pennies day part time, no schooling
at all, to help support much too
large a family, all because the pa
rents were so illiterate and ignorant
they knew no better than to have
them and try to raise them?"
"Do you know, Mrs. Grady, your
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
Children Hungry in Hard Coal Region

One Of the mines here shut down
recently throwing 900 men out Of
work. Many of my friends who are
high school graduates, are not work
ing and can't even buy a job. When
they went to school, they were told
that they were on the rosy pathway
to success. 1t turned out to be the
thorny pathway to starvation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-21
(By a Worker Correspondent

10y WOIhtI 7OOlItoEOIIutHO7
CHICAGO-After coming to the
Jewish Free Employment Bureau for
over a month, I, and half q dozen
other younger fellows were given jobs
that were supposed to last until
Christmas" / was to be an entry
clerk and sorting packages at the
Boston Store Delivery garage.
We started to work last Tuesday at
IL noon and worked until II mid
night. The next day we worked from
10 am. until $3.50 am. that morning
Ia hours! And Thursday another