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The Washington times., 1931-05-15

the student who writes the best
essay. The IL silver medals will
be awarded for the best essays in
each Of the IL grades, while IL
bronze medals will be similarly
distributed for the next best
essays.
The certificates will be awarded
to students who write the best
essays in their respective classes
or sections.
Mr.. Adams stated today that
he hoped to receive a report
from the judges within 10 days
or two weeks.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
TAX
GIVES SHALF
REVENUE
New Bridge Projects Likely
to Be SIashed; Surface Work
Estimates Show Decrease

With estimates for the fiscal
year of 1888 less than the appro-
priation for 1882, the District
highway department is one of the
few municipal agencies to escape
the drastic cutting in the rigid
economy program adopted by the
District Commissioners in pre-
pairing their budgets.
The outstanding reason that
the highway department will
escape the slash is because one
half of its revenue comes out OF
the gasoline tax.
May Cut Two Items
The only items recommended
by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, Dis
trict highway engineer, which ale
likely to be cut are sums amount
ing to $1,272,50O for bridge work
during 1888, which compares with
appropriations of $460,000 in the
1882 budget.
Inclusion of a number of new
bridge projects in the 1888 esti-
mates caused the alarming in
crease. These projects included
an overpass at Fourteenth and
Water Streets Southwest, to re-
lieve Potomac Park traffic COnees-
ton, and work on the new Cal
vert Street, Benning Road and
P Street bridges.
Captain tehurst recon-.
mended S226,OOO for salaries dur
ing 1888, compared with S22O,SOO
allowed in 1892. The increase
was due to step-ups in salaries
which the Commissioners have
intimated they will suspend in
their economy program.
Item Shows Decrease
A total of $3,393,98O for
surface work during 1888 was
asked by Captain Whitehurst.
This represents a decrease OF
$167 ,120, compared with the 1882
allowance of $3,561, 100. Items
for this divisions work are
divided as follows:
Gasoline tax work, $1,000, 900;
maintenance and requirements,
S1,175,0O0; alleys and paving by
permit, $250,O00; widening and
resurfacing Constitution Avenue,
$133,980; sidewalks, $4,000, and
condemnation work, $1,000.
Among these items the only
increase is for the work on Con-
StitutiOn Avenue Northwest,
which will remain in the budget
since the work is joint Federal
and District Government project.
Show Slight Raise
Estimates of the District Fire
Department for 1888 amount to
$2,645 ,02O, compared with the 1882
appropriation of $2,583, ,920. Fire
Chief George S Watson requested
the establishment of another res
cue squad and salaries for addi-
/ tional battalion chiefs. two cap
tains, two leutenants and 80 pri-
Yates.
One half of the new personnel
was recommended for the. pro
posed new rescue squad. The
other half is to be assigned to a
new 500, 900 hose and truck station
to be erected at Brentwood Road
and Rhode Island Ave. N. E. An
appropriation for construction Of
this new station was included in
the estimates.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Alexandria Board
Names NelU Teachers

The Alexandria school board
meeting in secret session last
night selected the graded school
teachers for the next session.
With few exceptions present
teachers were reappointed.
No action was taken in naming
the high school teachers.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15

F. HUFTY WITH DOG
TRAINED DOGS for
leading the blind through
the streets have been OBJ
tanned by the Columbia
Polytechnic Institute, 1903
H st. N. W. F. Hufty is
shown with a dog at Seven
teenth Street and Pennsyl-
vania Avenue Northwest.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
WAR INSURANCE
CLAIM LEFT
IN TANGLE
Strange Case Brought to Light
When Mother Is Informed
Son Living With Her Is Dead

1ntimacies exchanged in >e
early hours of the morning while
waiting for the dawn patrol, and
an almost fatal crack-up of
cruising plane on the Western
front led today to the revelation
OF & strange story of tangled lives
growing out of the great World
War.
The facts were revealed in
letter made public by Mrs. G. M.
Given, of Clarendon, Va. from
Lieut.. Alvin L. Prichard, of Louis
. vile, KY, reserve officer in the
United States aviation corps.
Faced Death Together
For more than a year, Lieut..
Prichard and his mechanic, Bruno
Ringsdorf. faced death together
in air combats and flaming
skirmiShes with German planes
over the battle front. And at
night. when they were safe back
in their billets, the two men
grasped at the opportunity for
friendship, telling intimate details
u of. their lives until each knew
the other like brother.
A Crack.up at dawn one day
separated the two friends for hos
pitalizatiOn and they never met
again, although later, when Lieu
tenant Prichard was back at his
home in Louisville, KY, he heard
BY letter from RingsdOrf at regu-
lar intervals from New York Tor
some time.
Notified Of Death
In September, Mrs. Mary Prich-
ard, mother of Lieutenant Prlcn-
ard, was notified by a Govern
ment hospital in New York that
her son had died there.
Since Lieutenant Prichard was
living with his mother in Louis
vile at the time, she knew that
some mistake had been made and
took no notice of the letter.
Shortly afterward, however, she
received a letter from a woman
In New York who claimed to be
the wife of Lieutenant Prichard,
asking that the mother aid her
In obtaining his war risk insur-
ance.
Puzzled by this second letter,
Mrs. Prichard corresponded with
the woman who, about a month
ago, forwarded a picture of her
husband to Mrs. Prichard, who
showed it to her son, Lieutenant
Prichard.
Identified as Friend
Lieutenant Prichard immedi-
ately identified the picture as
being that of his wartime me-
chanic, Bruno RingsdOrf, whom
he had not seen since the war.
Marrying under the name Of
Lieut.. Alvin L. Prichard in 1928,
Ringsdorf had successfully hid
den his own identity from his
wife for eight years until his
death revealed the truth.
The motive for his assumption
Of his friends name will never be
known, whether it was due to
some twist of the brain received
in the crash or for some other
reason.
Case Waits Decision
Inquiry here revealed the wife
had written to the War Risk In
surance Bureau on several occa-
sions for aid but has had diff
Guilty in getting her claim ad-
iusted. The matter is now up be-
fore the Veterans Bureau for ad-
Indication.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
8 Truck Drivers Held
For T1O Violation

Eight truck drivers working on
the Mt. Vernon Boulevard in
Alexandria were arrested by Sergt.
E. j. McDermott, of the State 20
lice, yesterday and charged with
driving without Virginia tags.
The case was continued until
tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
Child, 4, Hurt When
Hit bY Automobile

In the lone accident reported in
Alexandria, during the past "a
hours Helen Suthard, 4-year-old
daughter of C. H. Suthard, re-
ceived cuts on her eye and bruises
when struck by a car driven by
Walter Scott at Prince and Fair
fax Streets.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
2 GET COMMISSIONS

Commissions as officers Of the
Army Reserve Corps have been
issued to Major Ernest Everett
Danly, 1881 Cathedral Ave, and
Major George Arnold Holm, st
Elizabeth's Hospital.
The Washington times., 1931-05-15
600 PUPILS TO PERFORM

Approximately 600 children will
participate in demonstration of
the Community Instrumental
work in the public schools tomor-
row evening at 7:30 o'clock at the
Central High School Auditorium.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03

miners who are members of the Avella Unem-
ployed Council Immediately modified to go on
the picket line of the Cedar Grove mine. Hunger
marches to Washington, the county seat, are be-
ing organized to demand relief for the strikers
and the unemployed miners alike
AS soon as the strike began this week, the
United Mine Workers of America Immediately
came out in its despicable scab role as a COM
pany union and an agent Of the BOSSES p
T. Pagan, president of the district UMWA who
is hated by the miners and whose union has at
present not single functioning local in the
district Immediately issued statement aimed
to confuse the miners and brazenly declaring
that the UMWA was conducting the strike The
capitalist press Of Pittsburgh in front page
stories tried to confuse the miners by suppress
ling the fact that the strikes are being led by
the NMU and giving long quotations from Fa-
gan.
How the miners have so far reacted to the
Scabbing of the UMWA is shown in the fight
which occurred in the first morning of the picket
line in Cedar Grove At the strike meeting
the day before the miners had voted to go on
strike with two exceptions-two Lewis men of
the UMWA voted against the strike These
stool pigeons of the Carnegie Coal Co.. whose
three mines are now on strike, came to the
picket line the next day and tried to break it
up Among other things they slugged an old
woman, mother of one of the miners. The
striking miners of the Cedar Grove mine made
an appropriate answer to this strike breaking
effort and the stool pigeons of the UdWA found
themselves thrown in the creek at the end OF
the fight. The UMWA is now talking for or
ganization in the same manner that the United
Textile Workers did in the Gastonia strike They
are coming in and trying to break the ranks of
the strikers with their confusing statements
and their scab methods. They have announced
strike in the New Kensington section and one
in Coverdale, but the organizers of the NMU
are already in the field at these points and
the UMWA will find it very dangerous to come
into the mining fields of Western Pennsylvania
with its strike breaking methods
Along with the UMWA the coal bosses are
mobilizing their other agents. They have an
nounced that the state police are being held in
readiness awaiting word from the governor Of
the coal BOSSES Governor Pinchot, before swing
ing into action against the strikers They have
already begun to try to throw the workers out
of their homes. Yesterday at Atlasburg the
first mine which came on strike, 10 MIXERS re-
ceived notice from the Carnegie Coal Co. that
they will be thrown out of their houses by
June g.
The NMU is organizing for n mass struggle
against eyiettens The bosses of the Carnegie
Coal Co have already announced thu they
have no intention" of reduc,rg wages The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
The Strike OF the National Miners
Union in West Pennsylvania

arations for the strike. Hundreds of workers
have Joined the National Miners Union In the
last few days Broad strike committees have
been elected in each mine and joint meetings of
the strike committees of all mines on strike
are being held. The Section Committee of the
NMU is conducting the day-to-day leadership
of the strike
The rapidity with which the miners are mob
ilzing to spread the strike is evidence that the
NMU Of Western Pennsylvania is now in the
period of strike struggles on a larger scale
against the wage-cuts and unemployment. At
meeting in Slovan, Pa, 300 miners came to
the meeting, not only from the mines which are
already on strike, but from number of the
surrounding mines which are still working. The
meeting discussed not only organization into the
NMU, the demands of the miners, the func-
tioning OF the strike committee and relief COM
mittee, but also the question of spreading the
strike TO other mines A miner from the LANCE
10th mine spoke, stated that there we're many
miners from this mine present, and a meeting
was called under the auspices of the NMU for
the Langeoth mine the following day to discuss
strike preparations and strike demands The
same was true Of the Bulger and other mines
of the section
Another example Of the growth OF the Ma
tional Miners Union is seen in the fact that In
this strike there was united action of the en-
ployed and unemployed miners, One hundred
kAa l<sak
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
BY CARL PRICE.

TWENTY ONE hundred miners are now on
4 strike in Western Pennsylvania under the
leadership of the National Miners Union. Thir-
teen hundred in Washington County and eight
hundred in the Vesta No. mine near West Vir-
gnia The strike bears out the statement of
Comrade william 2. Foster at the Western
Pennsylvania district convention of the National
Miners Union held in Pittsburgh on May 1924
that this powerful and successful convention
marked turning point in the life Of NMU.
The scores Of thousands of miners of Western
Pennsylvania, having reached the point of act
ual starvation, with their standard of living cut
rs per cent, have determined to go out on strike
against the unbearable conditions. At the con-
vention Of the NNU, which represented 10000
miners, one miner after another spoke of the
numerous wage-cuts, unemployment, evictions,
and starvation and declared that under the
banner of the National Miners Union they would
60 out of the convention and organize strike
struggles against wage cuts and for better con-
dtions.
The present strike shows the progress of the
National Miners Union since the strike which
occurred in Westmoreland County In this strike
there is a ftnctioning section committee of the
NMU with an organized section leadership, in
some of the mines now on strike, as for ex-
ample the Cedar Grove mine, there was a func-
tioning local Of the NMU which organized prep
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
Amsterdam

To lot of people, Amsterdam Is only the
name of city, just another dam" so to speak.
But to the working class movement the word
Amsterdam" also means the International
Federation of Trade Unions the same breed of
cats as the A. F, of L. with bit more socialist"
paint. The IFTU has its offices at Amsterdam.
Just now looking over the press publicity sheet
of Amsterdam" dated April 49, we notice some
funny things Under the heading of General
Information" it says: Further Decline of Un-
employment in the U. S. A." You never noticed
it here did you? But that is beginning.
The main article is entitled Victory of DEM
ocratic Revolution in Spain" little pre-
vious." After speaking about the alliance of
the socialists" with the capitalist republicans,
it says: In the meantime Fate has decided:
the monarchy has been overthrown by the bal
lotting votel"
The monarchy did not yield, however until
the masses went onto the streets and Alfonso was
persuaded that if he didn't vamoose the masses
might go to extremes" and upset capitalism
as well as the monarchy.
The Amsterdam" International sent a wire
to their Spanish section, saying in part: "Ndav
the new Government bring the working class all
the social reforms which they need" And il
comphmented the socialist" leader Largo Cab
ellero Tor being appointed by the capitalists to
the post of Minister of Labor. May it be
granted to you to do all that will lead to the
emancipation of the Spanish working class"
Events since that was written have shown:
The socialists" are suppressing strikes for $50
clal reforms" such as wage increases Thew are
turning machine guns on the workers They
have allowed the monarchists to arm. and
sheltered the Catholic church from the anger of
the masses. Only last Friday they said that the
government would not take action to separate
church and state. They have "postponedp TAX
ing lands from the nobility and the robber
church to give TO peasants
The Spanish socialists have taken Keren-
sky's advice, sent them from Paris to Beware
of Bolshevism and agitators" They have ar
rested "a Communist leaders for simply hold
ing meeting last week, yet are allowing Il
monarchists free rein TO organize and arm
That-dear reader. is what Amsterdam
social reforms and working class emancipa
ton means in practise That is what Socialists
dol
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
AND
ANSWERS

Question: am in search of ideas concern
ing Industrial Democracy, perhaps you could
help me?-T, Los Angeles.
THE Industrial Democracy that you hear about
does not mean that under such arrange
mentS the workers really have anything to say
ai1out how industry is run. On the contrary
Industrial Democracy" is a scheme of the bosses
for keeping the workers subjected to them, Just
as democracy" in the government of the coun-
try is an arrangement for keeping the capital
lists in power over the toilers. Only under
Workers Government will the toilers be able to
run industry. And only when organized in Surong
fighting unions, that fight against the Bosses IN
stead of Cooperating with them in some ''in-
dustrial democracy scheme which ham-strings
the workers, do they have anything to say about
wages and conditions of labor in capitalist gov
erned countries
We refer you to Company Unions, and the
AUGMENTATION of Labor both by Robert W.
Dunn, for a bunch of concrete facts about how
industrial democracy works in practice
Concerning the article which you sent read
the Church and the Workers, a 10 cent pamphlet
by Bennett Stevens, which will tell you something
about the way the church works for the capt.
talsts against the workers.
Any of these references can be obtained from
the Workers Library Publishers, Box 140, Station
D, New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03

In Defense of Prize Winners
By JORGE

Readers will recall that the Pulitzer prizs
went TO Mr. Knickerbocker for his first series
of anti-Soviet stories, and to Mr. Edmund
Duffy for cartoon (even pictorially bum one)
against the Soviet Union
Behold, now, Oswald Garrison Willard, blos-
somming out in the Nation of June with q
protest against the way the N. Y, Post "headlins
writer's have misrepresented poor Mr.. Krlicker-
booker. They have done him dirt" says vie
lard 'Tf Mr.. Knickerbocker was not outraged
he was entitled to be-" af1irms Willard But
evidently Knockerbocker is NOT outraged. or
why is he silent? Why, indeed, does he launch
q new series to be so shamefully treated by
those dastardly headline writers?"
You must learn the dark and dreadful truths
MIR. Knickerbocker is an example of forced
labor! Yes stree, bob! He is rouned UP by
the Gaypayoo of the N. Y. Post and deported to
foreign lands, there to toll away like Little
Nellie Gray" who was sold down the River, un-
der the brutal overseers of the N. Y. Postl
This sickening slobber over journalistic
prostitute would turn the stomach of a good
healthy dog, particularly as it is accompanied in
the Nation with another cartoon by none other
than the prize winning arti-Soviet cartoonist.
Edmund Duffyl
This cartoon also makes out that the "head-
lle "IlVeIS Ore UIle IdScdIS VINO are Responsible.
But Duffy anti-Soviet cartoon didn't need any
headline writer to '-nisrepresent" him. 1t was
just plain anti-Sovet.
Even the possibility of forced labor as in the
case of the outraged" Mr.. Knckerbocker could
not alibi Duffy. And his role as prize winning
press prostitute is even more cinched by the
proof that he will draw for both sides, for or
against the Soviet.
Meanwhile you chew this over see If some
thing can be done to "liberate' the victim Of
the N. Y. Posts forced labor" Mr.. Knicker-
booker He simply can't be standing for all the
outrages of headline writer's" just for the mon
ey there is in it!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
Greetings to the First Congress of
the Communist Party of Philippines

and complete independence of the Philippine
Islands At the same time we urge the Conmu-
mist Party of the Philippines TO carry on ruth
less struggle against its own national bourgeoisie,
the capitalists and landlords who betray and
sell out to American imperialism for share in
the profits of the exploitation Of the Filipino
workers and peasants.
Long live the new section Of the Communist
International-the Communist Party of the
Philippine Islands! Long live the United revo-
lutionary front of the toiling masses of the
Philippines.
COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S. A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03

From the Communist Party of the United states
of America
TO the Communist Party Of the Philippine
Islands Manila P I:-Fraternal revolution
airy greetings to our new sister party Of the Phil
ippine Islands In the name of the revolution
airy proletariat of the United States Of America,
the Communist Party of the U. S. A. pledges its
closest cooperation and active practical soidar-
ity in our Joint struggle against our common
class enemies-imperialsm and capitalism.
We pledge most energetic mobilization of the
working masses and uncompromising struggle
for driving out American imperialism from the
Philippines and for immediate, unconditional
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03

sters, was strangled on lonely highway two
hundred feet from police booth because she
threatened to talk" Another was poisoned in
Bellevue Hospital, city institution
Not only were the police involved in the vice
scandal but judges got their share Judge Jean
Norris was one who had her hands in this vice
ring. She collected money from a bond fixing
group as well as from the framing-up of pros
titutse and other women.
Following the usual procedure in these cases,
as in the Lingle murder in Chicago, and the
Buckley killing in Detroit, the New York po-
lice picked gangster goat to throw into the
headlines of the newspapers as the real muir
derer" The case was too raw to leave "un-
solved" so the police solve it by picking OH
gunman by the name of Stein. Confessions
were obtained from some of his pals-whom he
undoubtedly double crossed in another deal
and the real murderers whom the police know
will never be embarrassed by appearing before
a court. e,v w, -
49, ~~> eTo be seavausaa. II IIIHLI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03
"Said the Spider to the Fly"

John L. Merrill, head of the All America Ca
bles Corporation and likewise head of the Pan
American Society, speaking as the Yankee i'm
perialist spider to the Latin American fly, grated
thusly at the Foreign Trade Conference last
Thursday:
Il am firmly convinced that the big majority
of nations and peoples in this hemisphere which
we call American, are awakening to the fact
that we can trust each other"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-03

miners there struck against reduction from
dc to 40c. a ton. But they will not be sat-
isfied TO go back to work at the 44c wage
scale. They are demanding SIC ton, the right
to have a checkweighman. pay for dead work.
and recognition of the union The Carnegie
Coal Co. was afraid 70 post written notice Of
the wage-cut and instead sent around its fire
bosses to notify the men orally of the wage
cut which was to take place June LIST. AS soon
as the men heard of the wage-cut, which is
by no means the first in these mines, they did
not wait for June list, but went on strike i'm
mediately. The following mines are on strike:
Atlasburg, Cedar Grove, Mcdonald, Vesta No. g.
Other mines, such as the Duquesne and W.
Francis, Bertha, Buger, Midlanss, Gilmore Buff
falo Langeloth are already greatly affected by
the strike and are expected to come out within
spread to other sections of Western Penna.
In this strike a mass union must be welded
together. The miners are now in this struggle
beginning preparations for the bigger struggles
to come. They do not see the perspective of
strikes on dstrict-wide scale as something
visionary. They are struggling to lay the basis.
through mass organization into the union and
through this stI.ie struggle for demands for
district scale, acknowledgment, increases in wages
and recognition of the union. Under the slogan
Every miner in Western Pennsylvania into the
National Miners Union" and "every wage cut
must be met by strike" the National Miners
Union is building mass organization In West
tern PENNSYLVANIA. * TTw@5gruv>...