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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Interesting Wedding
In Virginia This Afternoon.
Miss Agnes Grogan Wallace. daugh-
ter of Mrs Michael Wallace and Mr..
Edward Carter Harrison, son of Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Mrs. Jane B. Bradley has moved into
the city from her home in Rockville
for the Winter, and has leased an apart
ment at Wardman Park Hotel for the
season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Mr.. Rufus Putnam, Sd, direct de-
scendant of Gen. Israel Putnam, has
returned from the Yorktown celebra-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Mr.. and Mrs. B. Alexander Singer are
in their apartment at the Shoreham for
the Winter after spending the Summer
in their home on the West River in
Maryland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-21

Miss Eleanor Daniel, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Ernest H. Daniel, entertained
at dinner and theater party last eve
ming in honor of her house guest. Miss
Florence Sawrie CT Nashville. Tenn
The other guests were DR.. and Mrs.
Robert E. Moran, Miss Ruth Weldon,
Miss Helen Plummer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Flynn, Mr.. Walter Carter Mr.
Baldwin Cook, Mr.. Paul Lutes and Mr.
Humphrey Daniels.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Stockton Unemployed Council
Exposes City Welfare Takers

uncooked beans, a few rotten spuds
and some mouldy onions. This is
what they expected to feed family,
including one baby in arms who
needed milk. The family did not
even have the means of cooking or
any shelter, nor was any provision
made for shelter.
The Unemployed Council sent a
committee to the Welfare with this
worker to demand relief. The
CRATER (who, by the way, has con-
veniently resigned since he has been
exposed by the Unemployed CounciD
in charge stalled and told us to come
back. The committee did, reinforced
by many more workers. The police
put the worker in a car and whisked
him down to the Sallies. There he
got some food and enough money to
leave town. 1t is very significant
that the police were so anxious to
get this worker out of town, espe-
cially as the elfare head admitted
be had an agreement with the Sal
walton Army. The whole bunch
seemed to be afraid of an exposure.
The chief of police and about twelve
of his men attempted to intimidate
the workers, but the workers refused
to move until they were sure the
worker had obtained relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
(By a Worker Correspondent

STOCKTON, Calif-The fake
charity" organizations, whose main
function is to provide fat jobs for
politicians, we're again exposed by the
Unemployed Council. A migratory
worker, his wife and two children,
aged and IL months, found them
selves stranded in Stockton without
any food or money. They went to
the so-called welfare and were fatty
refused, on the grounds that they
did not live in town for a year. Ac-
cording to those takers a worker who
does not live in town for a certain
period need not eat.
The worker came to the Unem-
ployed Council, which has been &C
tive in forcing relief and exposing
those takers. 1t being too late to go
to the Welfare and force relief, the
comrades saw that the family re-
ceived enough for immediate needs.
The next day a representative Of the
Unemployed Council called upon the
supervisors and demanded that this
man and his family receive relief.
The supervisor wrote out a letter to
the Welfare. The Welfare referred
the worker to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army gave "relief,"
two loaves of stale bread, a mess of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Five More Dead on
Boulder Dam Job
Fighting Spirit Gains
Despite Defeat
(By a Worker Correspondent


LOS VEGAS, Nev.-The strike n
smashed here, but not the spirit Of
the workers. The combined might of
the governme1. md the Six Com
panies proved t. be too much for
the strikers at this time, who we're
so poorly organized.
The U. S. government, after placing
this section under semi-martial law,
began preparations for the importa-
ton of scabs, in order to convince
the strikers of the "hopelessness ~
their cause
The Six Companies open-air
slaughter house is again operating in
full blast. The appalling accident
rate continues. AS I write l have
before me the screaming headlines
in the local press, announcing the
death of five more workers at the
dam.
The horrible conditions continue.
The wage-cuts continue. The de-
mands Of the strikers have been de-
MED. The leaders of the strike have
been banished. Such has been the
outcome Of the courageous Boulder
Dam strike. Very firmly indeed has
the class struggle been brought to
these workers. They have learned
frors this strike. They say that the
next time they will win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
GOVERNOR ROLPH
SMILES AT MASS
MISERY IN CALF.
To Act AS Judge In
pheasant Smile
Contest"
(By a Worker Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-Smiling
Jimmy Rolph, governor of this state
and chief demagogue of the West
Coast, is ever on the lookout for
publicity to further his political am
bition. He is one of the worlds
greatest hand-shakers and publicity
hounds. Here is the latest attempt
to bid for popularity:
Governor Rolph is going to judge
which beautiful girl has the prettiest
smile in California. He is also going
to judge which baby has the most
pleasing grin.
Smiling Jimmy, when the contes-
tants in the beautiful girl smiling
contest meet, how many girls from
the canneries will be there? These
girls work long hours at an average
Of less than s1.50 day and how many
girls from the San Jose strike, who
were met with a brutal attack from
the city, county and state police when
they struck against starvation wages?
What did you do to keep the cheer
ing smile on their fresh young faces"
on that occasion? How about the
babies, thousands of whom do not
know what fresh milk is like and as
a result are wasting away and dying
from malnutrition and starvation at
a time when millions of gallons Of
milk is being dumped to keep up
prices? Will any af them be in the
contest?
But if we have to have a smiling
contest, then Rolph is the best quail
fled to judge. He well merits the
title of the smiling governor" from
long experience. He smiled when his
police framed Mooney and Billings
when he was mayor of San Francisco,
he smiled when his police thugs
dubbed workers in the longshore-
mems strike, when they dubbed the
telephone girls in 1921 when they
we're out on strike. He grinned when
his police and city legal apparatus
broke the backbone of the carpen-
ters' strike. He leered at the 10000
unemployed when they demon
strated on March 6 and used the
occasion to further his political am
billions. One time he did not smile
was last Jan. 7, when the workers in
a demonstration demanded relief for
the unemployed. When he attempted
to make a political speech they
shouted; ITO hell with your long
winded speeches, we want an answer
to our demands"
Nero fiddled while Rome burned,
Rolph judges smiles while 100000 un-
employed search in vain for work,
facing evictions, starvation and even
deprived of light, water and fuel.
Let smiling Jimmy judge smile con-
tests We workers will organize
Neighborhood Branches, fight for i'm
mediate relief and for unemployment
| insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Indiana Relief Fund
Not for the JObless,
Says Fat Governor
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
.TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Governor
Leslie of Indiana is trying to kid the
workers along with promises of road
work amounting to $750,0O0. This
may sound like huge sum, but it
amounts to nothing when one takes
into consideration the large vastly
increasing army of unemployed here.
The Governor stated in an inter-
view with the press that mo buns
who depended on the county trustees
for donations would be given work"
This means that the actual jobless
who are in need of food and shelter
will not be considered in this So
called relief program.
This fat parasite calls us unem-
ployed workers buns because we de-
mand relief from the county. We
must answer this by organizing
strong Unemployed Councils and
force this city to give us real relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
A Letter to Tom Mooney
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Dear Comrade Thomas Mooney:
letter the American prison
ing ten days through the whole district of the Moscow White
RussanBac railway amounting to $4,000 railway workers
well the whole SOcOny District with population amounting
to 100000 which members of MOPR,
tenationa Prisoners Relief Society Members Of MOPR form
ing shock brigades in your at the plants.
COmrade Thomas Mooney in the of $4,000 of
MOPR SOkOniy District sending brother
y hearty pn greetings wishes of firm revolutionary calm
working patience while expecting quick
lease from the damp American prison.
General emOnomc impeasc countries and the
revolutionary whole world bringing
the inevitable death of capital
COmrade Thomas Mooney not intend to demonstrate be-
Soviet Union
steady yourself country faith
leadership StaI will Socialism 1t evidenced
fact already erected the fundamental of socialist
economy
We members MOPR will not working support fight
revolution the whole world and their families.
brothy prOetaan geetngs5S railway
of railway, Soconky District.
b. F. KOULIIOF
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

wage cuts take place we will find our
selves working and starving at the
same time.
During the hot summer days we
saw workers being carried unconscious
from the mill to the hospital after
they collapsed from the speed-up and
the heat. On day the bosses made
the mills work "a guage and it was
impossible to make the iron. Through
forcing the men to make the iron,
stickers and rough rollers developed.
The bosses run crazy from one mill
to the other giving everybody hell
The lockers in the mill are crowded
and dirty. We workers in this tin
mill demand that the company build
dry house and lockers outside for
the workers to change their clothes
and wash. Why? Because the COM
pany spends plenty of money to build
garages for the officials and there is
plenty Of room to have dry houses
for the workers.
In every department of this mill
the workers have grievances. We
must take an example from the Fort
Pitt Steel Casting Workers. The
Fort Pitt workers are striking against
a ten per cent wage cut. These
workers call on the other metal work
ers to take steps in their own mill
to spread the strike.
Build Committees
Organize a grievance committee and
have workers elected from every de-
partment so that the whole mill will
be represented on the committee.
Hold a meeting, work out demands
and present them to the bosses. In
order to spread the strike, workers,
we must organize ourselves. The Metal
Workers industrial League is the or
ganization for the steel workers Get
your shop mates to join. Write to
the MWIL, 1125 Walnut St., Nc
Keesport, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Pittsburg, Kan, Workers Face
General Industrial Lockout

and the boiler shop is likely to close
down any day now making it a COM
plete lockout in Pitsburg, town of
$4,000 people.
Can anyone be surprised when
every day workers come down to the
headquarters of the Trade Union
Unity League. asking to be sent from
capitalist America to Communist
Russia, where there is no unemploy-
ment. And most of these are skilled
workers-ex-army aviators, cleo
tricians, engineers, machinists, etc.
Hoover and Green should go into
another huddle with Fish and VOL.
They have made the workers in
America mad, alright, but not at the
workers in the Soviet Union. They
are angry at the capitalist robbers
in the United States of America.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
BABY STARVES TO
DEATH IN INDIANA
Prof. Lauds u. S. A. AS
Workers Paradise
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.-Every now
and then some prominent American
who has been in Europe breaks into
the press with rosy word picture
of the living conditions of the work
ers in America as compared with the
conditions of the workers in Europe.
The latest addition to this set of
takers is hte president of Butler Col
lege, DR.. Athearn.
From his glowing description Of
conditions in the United States
brought out in contrast with the con-
ditions found in Europe one would
think that want and suffering were
unknown in America.
His woeful ignorance or his mis-
representation of the facts is brought
out clearly by this little item I
clipped from the Indianapolis "Star"
of Sept. 5, 1881:
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind, Sept.
4.-(United Press A physician
gave starvation as the cause of
death of Robert Lee Johnson, 1S
months old baby, in his report
today.
"An investigation disclosed that
the johnson family of five had
eaten but one loaf Of bread as food
in q week, the doctor said. An
other child Is i'll of malnutrition."
This is not the only case of death
caused by starvation. There are
many deaths like this in Indiana, but
the press is keeping very silent about
it. The Unemployed Councils Of the
Trade Union Unity League is the
only organization that is really fight
ing for food for these children. All
the unemployed workers should get
into this fighting organization and
support the great struggle for unem-
ployment insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
UTICA Mine CORP.
ROBS MINERS AND
SMALL RANCHERS
Gains Water, Power
Control; Holds Grip
On Small Ranchers
by a Worker Correspondent

tby WORKER correspondent
ANGELS CAMP, Cal.-Utica Min
ing Corporation, which controls the
water right in this region, is out to
rob the small ranchers and miners
even more.
Angels Camp area includes many
small ranchers and mining claims
Water is an absolute necessity. When
the Utica Mining Corporation cor
nered the water supply it agreed to
supply all these claims and ranches
with water at a specified rate. They
are now trying to raise this rate or
else cut off the water supply. A year
ago the Railway Commission refused
to permit them to either raise the
rates or to cut off the supply.
This is an exampl of the "democ-
racy' we enjoy. When one branch
of the bosses government makes a
gesture, some other department in
terferes. The mining company went
before Federal Judge Louderbach,
who issued an injunction restraining
the Railway Commission from inter-
fering. The agreement between the
small mine owners and ranchers and
the Utica Mining Corporation, under
which the company got control of
the water, now amounts to only
scrap of paper. This is the way the
SO rulers control the destinies of this
country. The fact that the Railway
Commission made a pretense of pro-
tecting the small ranchers and min
ers only means that they are thus
trying to keep up the illusion of
democracy.
The water users have protective
association. But this association put
their entire dependence on appealing
to the supreme court. We must or
ganize into the United Farmers
League. The water and power in
terests have almost every small
rancher in California at their mercy.
Only through our own organization
of small ranchers can we combat
them successfully.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
KY. FRUIT CROP
LEFT TO DECAY:
MINERS STARVE
Rich Landlords Refuse
to Give Rotting Crops
to Hungry Miners
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
GOODLOE, Ky.-Great fruit crops
around here. In seven miles from
here are large mining camps where
the miners are literally starving.
Peaches and apples galore, but the
owners, as rule, have these rotten
fruits for sale, not to give away.
I made remark about wealthy
codger who owns thousands of acres
of land, and vast orchards of fruit,
saying, didn't see why, if the min
ers brought wagon that this land
lord wouldn't give give them a few
wagon loads Of fruit My informant,
who was landlord, himself, and
who had given away considerable
fruit, replied for me to just try it.
HE wouldn't give you an apple"
That is the foundation of capital
ism-rotting apples and capitalism
in this section is rotting and decay
ing far more faster than the apples.
This same landlord runs trustees for
schools in many districts, his domains
stretching far and wide, and him
having four sons and a daughter who
teaches school. Usually he Just de-
mands that his tenants and renters
vote his way or get out, and that
gets him elected. But this year, 10
and behold, the renters and tenants
backfired and the landlord got beat
in many districts. The masses are
coming to the fore. Workers. In
all lines and industry, awake to class
conscience and stop this rich dicta-
torship that fosters slavery. Organ
ize and fight for a dictatorship of
the workers and farmers. A gov
eminent of and by you Down with
capitalism. Up with the workers and
farmers flag-a Soviet U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
RROR SPREADS
SEARS PLANT
| INDIANAPOLIS
Militant Worker
: Speaking at Shop
Gate Meeting
y a Worker Correspondent

~ a Worker Correspondent
oIANAPOLIS, Ind.-One of our
ades, who started to speak at a
ng in front of the Sears Cab
Plant, was pulled off the box
lie police and thrown into the
car. He was taken to the po-
headquarters and locked up.
talked to several workers from
plant and they say that they
My drawing $3.50 day for 10
: work. The workers come out
lie plant in disgust.
speaker went today to address
workers at the plant and was
ed by Morrissy's cossacks.
2 plant made two wage-cuts re-
" and informed the workers
they would reduce the wages
/.
is firm makes cabinets that re-
from $50 to $75 each and the
my uses the most vicious speed
lethods. A worker who has
! children to support showed a
check for 5000. This was his
is pay. We will probably have
comrade out Of Jail when you
his letter.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Workers Stdrve in Las Vegas
While Bosses Play Roulette

This is simply another symptom
Of the declining days of capitalist
civilization. Just as the Roman
civilization had its day, so the civil
ization of capitalism has had its day,
which is now drawing to close, as
can be readily seen throughout the
world.
The capitalists, to solve their prob
lem, would like nothing better than
to fly at the throat of the Soviet
Union, but they are held back
through the fear of a single thing
mutiny in their armed forces and
revolution in their own country.
For, after all, the armies and navies
Of the capitalist nations are COM
posed of working men
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
treat to Raise
Ky. Tenants Rent
ndlords Press More
4mands on Farmers

By a Worker Correspondent.
JEYSVILLE, XVI just made a
through the farming sections
lloyd County. Crops are pretty
But, get this-the landlords are
anding that their tenants not
pay their unjust share for a
to work on the fat landlords
but to gather and store the
lords share into the granary
of charge. Also, 1t is reported
pod authority, that next year the
are to be raised one-third on
4 and one-half on roughage, al
taking everything the poor ten
raises and produces. Rentersl
ants! Organize in a body against
/ outrageous schemes to rob you.
the "fat-bellied" landlords be-
the tenants and renters have
It the limit. They are ready for
AIlion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
|URCH ADVISES
BLESS TO PRAY
4 Lends Deaf Ear
70 Supplications
Omaha, Neb.

OIIldIldJ INGD.
Comrades:
+, Omaha Council of Churches
the Omaha Ministerial Union
( that they have come across a
that will "solve'' the unemploy-
/; problem. They are going to
Irage widespread prayer for
le Rev. Mr.. Esveld said that the
lcil OF Churches holds no meet
in September, but that its mem
would be notified and the sug-
on made to them that they heed
call for prayer and mention the
onal Federation's attitude to
orkersl all the praying that you
do will not help you one bit in
ing a job. In fact, it will work
other way-you lose all that time.
talism is the thing that causes
10 be idle and starving! Only by
wing capitalism from the earth
you find relief! The way to re-
: it is to fight it-don't pray to
odl "A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
(By a Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURG, Kan.-Before the
Wall Street crash there were two
brick yards here, employing around
$50 men; tile yard, employing
about 200; an iron works, employing
$50, and the K. G. S. shops, employ
ing ,from 800 to 900 men, making
total of 1900 workers.
Z What do. we find today? The two
brick yards have been closed down
for a long time. The tile yard closed
down completely few days ago. At
the iron works there are only eight
men working and at the X. G. s.
railroad shops there were only 300
men working two and three days a
week, but now the shops are closed
down completely and indefinitely
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Starvation Sweeps OverWestern NebraSka;|
ManyWorkers Desperate, Attempt Suicide
Omaha Press and Cops
Suppress News of 4
Suicide Attempts
(By a Worker Correspondent
Omaha, Nebraska.

(By a Worker Correspondent
Omaha, Nebraska.
Dear Comrades:
With the thermometer lowering
around so in the shade, and green
leaves still on the trees, the people
of SCOTS Bluffs County, a sugar
beet district in Western Nebraska,
already see a winter unprecedented
with starvation and horror ahead Of
them.
Three Attempted Suicide
In just two days at least three
persons were sent to hospitals in
Omaha as the result of trying to
"end it all" Jake Simon, ex-cafe
owner, respondent over loss of prop
erty and failure to find work, shot
himself in the head The bullet
glanced from the skull, but Simon
may not recover. John Jamovich
was found late at night on viaduct.
He was groaning and it was dis
covered, after the doctor arrived
that he had taken poison. The po-
lice surgeon branded it as a stall"
like he does with every poison case
that has chances of recovery.
Mrs. George Raines was found in
an unconscious state, with three gas
jets of her stove turned on. "She
has been respondent over financial
troubles for some time" her mother
told the police. There may have
been other acts of this sort during
the time stated, but the local CAPT
talist newspapers and the Omaha
police force are determined to sup
press all such news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
tBy a Worker Correspondent

LAS VEGAS, Nev.-While starva-
ton runs rampant on the outskirts
of this town. in the town proper
thousands of dollars are being squan-
dered nightly on the roulette tables
and at other gambling games.
A beautiful contrast of capitalist
civilization. So common has become
the sight Of the unemployed in all
Of the cities searching the garbage
cans for food, that forbore to men,
ton 1t In my last letter. But here,
too. in the city garbage dump, men
and women can be seen searching for
bits of potato and whatever else
looks sdihlA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Write to the U.S.S.R.

''The letter which you forward
ed to us from a group Of workers
in Stockton, Cal, was published
on the front page Of the Pravda.
1t was read In every factory in
Moscow. 1t was q wonderful
stimulant."
The foregoing was taken from a
letter to the 'Daily Worker" from
a group Of workers In the Soviet
Union. These workers want to
hear more from the American
workers. Write to them through
the International Letter Ex-
change, Daily Worker, so e. 18th
ST., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
lAY WEEK ONLY IN U. S. S. r.

BY a Worker Correspondent
one breath Secretary Jahncke
that the five day week is at
1, and in the next warns his
ers against the spread of Cons
istic propaganda.
I'd like to know just where the
;tant Secretary of the Navy
Is that the five day week orig
ID.
looks as if Jahncke has to admit
story for the workers, but hates
We Communism the credit.