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Regulation Sized Gopher

At Minnesota, where varsity foot ball teams have been known, first as The Giants of the North and later as The Thundering Herd, there's a little 157-pound guard who is showing big delegation of guard candidates how that post should be played He is now fam ed whereabouts for being the small est regular guard probably in the history of football.
 ] His name is Jim Dennerly.
 Jim was so small that, even with all of his fire and fight, he could , not pull himself above the Gopher line behemoths until after he had spent a full year on the squad. Now, as junior, he is in the fore and is likely to stay there.
 i His biggest handicap is keeping his giant playmates from stepping on him. One of the normal sized Minnesota gridders did step on Jim's wrist and almost broke it.
 Coach Fritz Crisler says Jim is his best blocker and has no equals on the squad as a defense man. Minneapolis critics figure Jim is almost the equal of Bert Metzger tiny Notre Dame linesman, rated as one of the best last season.
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THE MARTHA SOCIETY

will give a dinner on Wednesday, October 28, at the Presbyterian Church Parlor. Dinner will be served from 5:30 to ' pm. at 75c
 per plate. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-26

St. Petersburg, Fla, claims to have established the first open-air post office in the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-26

Old papers for sale at the Elm. ptre office,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-26

Takes Chance on Art
 Bill McKechnie hasn't given up his quest for siuggers despite the tough luck he has had so far in helping minor league fence bust CTS to measure up to form against big league pitching.
 The Braves didn't collect much last season on Sheely, Worthington or Schulmerich, the trio they ad- vanced from "AA" company to help out Wally Berger
 Now they have jumped into the market to get Art Shires, who led the American association batsmen this year. Art was passed up in the draft, where he could have been had for $7,5O0 by the Reds, but the Boston club gave $10,000 and Catcher Al Bool for him.
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Old papers at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-26

his turn for Austin at other posi- tions. Against Preston July 20, 1912, he played second base and got three hits. Records reveal ne also played the outfield occasionally"
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Old papers ar ,xne l:mp,re.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
J0BLESS DELEGATES DEMAND FLOOR IN CONGRESS
DEMONSTRATE TOMORROW NOON ON UNION SQUARE
Make Them Do More Than
Study" 1t!

nm February just five before the National
ment to the
through Committee suddenly
eating that 1t has become aware that there unemployment in this coun-
try 1t has recommended that unemployment studied
gigantic 900
workers came onto the streets OF the cities OF this country demanding
Work Wages certainly
there unemployed workers and that they
Senate committee 1881
make the tante of knowledge something
be done? The only be that STALL gesture
needed put off the growing demand of the whole working
Unemployment Insurance.
When March 1880
for Work Wages the capitalists their
could wreck the movement by the whaens
and the failing OF Foster Raymond Minor and Amterand the
other fighters throughout
going to have prosperity back in sixty days"
Both capitalist
ever deee the gabbe Of experts about the bottom reached
having false Millions
thrown ooes onto he streets ana expected starve peacefully wide
and growing attack on the scales of those left
becoming open
and savage and mashamed
worker security slightest
The movement for Unemployment
police clubs Nor will be- Grover Whaen
Waramaker department the
March $780, have not only been neried jail
host OF new leaders In the eleven months fight for immediate relief
resistance eions and the mobilization
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
1t the nstence of
ing that has caused the u Senate Committee
as we say above noise And what has it done2 Well got
reporting favoaby' a resolution
But this resolution is not to establish Unemployment
mol Although the growing
millions the Wall
recommended to do is to study unemployment
to study it. the Senate
appropriate $4,000 that
job OF it, and report back time
This workers what will against demands
Oh ne Unemployed Deegauon when presents the demands of
millions of workers the Congress Tuesday
that. We are studying
unemployment insurance."
This dasard exposed only that but
therefore the streets must ring with the demands of the National
CATION and the Unemployment Insur
February TO- SO that the hpocr at Washington will
more than study but grant the demand for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Basic Industries Show
Crisis Is Getting Worse
New Flood Of Jobless
to Result; More
Wage Cuts

All facts in the basic industries
show that the economic crisis is
heading for deeper levels-meaning
more unemployment, sharper strug-
giles, increased wage cuts.
Where is the talk about revival?
The capitalist press was flooded with
it in the early part of the year. 1t
is dying out The facts of deeper
crisis are too overwhelming even for
| the boss press to hide For instance,
the steel industry is in worse shape
| today than it was a. the beginning
of 1890 Nineteen thirty the most
optimistic capitalist admits was one
of the worst crisis years in history.
Nineteen-thirty one will be worse
AS for the steel industry a tele-
gram from Pittsburgh on Feb. 7 to
the New York Evening Post says "it
is clear that there is widespread
feeling of disappointment" in the
steel industry. The much-advertised
increase" is flop. Production is
below SO per cent of capacity and no
business is coming in. 1t will go down
lower soon. Other indications are
even worse.
| The Annalist reports building ac-
tiyity is going lower. Where is
Hoover's building program? 1t has
showed building to the lowest point
x,at he fo,. ofl,ar uh,,c;,,ace i,,cioo
tions," here are few from the Sun
day New York Times:
Electric power and automobile
output declined; the latest avail
able record of freight car load
ings showed a reduction; the com
modify price level reacted further.
and the weeks records of bank
clearings and (busincss) failures
again presented ua-ayorable COM
PARSONS with year ago."
| What these things show is that the
crisis is going to hit deeper levels.
The above facts of such sharp de-
cline we're not true of 1890. Then
there was slight seasonal rise at
this period
The whole picture of decline and
deeper crisis is summed up in the
New York Times weekly businec~ in
dex 1t is dropping after very
feeble upward movement. ''The
weekly index of business activity has
dropped back to within half point
of its Jan. 3 low" says the Times.
Every indication is that hundreds
of thousands more will be thrown
out on the streets jobless.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
EVICTION CASES
IN COURT TODAY
Markoff Speaks at 2 at
81 E. Fourth st.

NEW YORK.-The Down Town
Council calls on all workers and I'M
employed workers to be in the Magi-
strate's court at Second Ave and
Second ST. this morning to support
the victims of down town landlords
greed.
Lorenzo Silver and Meyer Silver,
arrested at the time crowd led by
the Down Town Council put back
the furniture of Yetta Fucker, who
had been eveicted at IA Suffolk ST.,
will be on trial on charges of disor-
derly conduct
Also julius Rokowsky of 206 E.
Seventh ST, who was evicted with
his sick wife and two children last
week, has been served with a sum-
mons to appear this morning in the
same court, because the jobless and
nearby tenants, led by the Council
of the Unemployed, put his furniture
back in the house. Be in court to
support Rokowsky. too.
Today, also, at p. M, in the
headquarters of the Down Town
Council. 81 E. Fourth ST.. DR.. Mar
Ioff, director of the Workers School,
will speak. Admission free.
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and police on the other. Last Thurs
day four members of the Industrial
Union were arrested after six COM
pany union ''gorillas' were severely
beaten for trying to break up the
needle workers picket line. On Fri
day police launched a ferocious at
tack on a mass picketing demon
stration in front of the same shop
but failed to intimidate the militant
picketers, who closed their ranks and
demonstrated again in the face Of
renewed clubbing by the police.
The picketers have learned that
resistance on the part of mass Of
workers is something that cops will
never stand up against, and the
needle trades workers have deter
mined to picket the Needleman and
Bremen shop until their demands
are won.
Meeting Tonight.
Tonight at pm. there will be a
combined meeting of needle trades
workers and members of fraternal Or
CARNATIONS in sympathy with the
coming strike. The meeting will be
CONTINUED ON PAGE TVvOl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
2 SP0NFA ANGUS
HUNGER MARQUES
Discharged Workers in
Hartford Force Re-
turn of Jobs

TOLEDO. Ohio, Feb 8-The Toledo
Council of Unemcloyed No. 2 held a
hunger march Feb, 4 in the Polish
Section Of Toledo About 500 Polish
and American workers part cipated,
The main meeting was held before
the residence of the city councilman
OF that ward. Several speakers spoke.
A Polish minister made an attempt
to disturb the demonstration, while
other Polish fascists called upon the
police department. This hunger
march was staged Unexpectedly.
The secretary Of Unemployed Coun-
eli No. /, which meets every day in
the Workers Center at 413 Monroe
ST. with q few other comrades went
to heln the comrades in the U. C.
No. to hold a meeting. There were
no leaflets distributed Or any notices
sent out. But because Unemployed
Council No. 2 has no hall, a meeting
i'll the open before the Catholic
AlukCil was Sl>ki ISU. LII d lew nv
ments several hundred gathered
around A woman comrade sug-
gested tI7at al march to the coun-
Gilman ord Her1and relief All pres
ent yelled: I'VE are ready
BY the time thew reached the coun-
cilman's home the crowd was too
large to be attacked by the police
The same night the hungry that
we're being fed on rotten soup at the
Toledo Welfare House revolted and
demanded better food Several mem
hers of the Toledo UnemDloyed
Council No l spoke. while about l00C
unemployed cheered them inside the
Welfare House In moment the
police were called They beat sew
eral workers and arrested r.
Eight Of the arrested were released
while four members of the Unem-
ployed Council were found guilty anc
sentenced to pay $50 and costs, o.
go to the workhouse to serve.
The international Labor Defense
is ARRANGING fer their defense. Or
Feb. 10 there will be a joint demon.
CONTINUED on PAGE FINEb
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Burn 125,OOO Bushels of
Wheat to Keep Up Prices

ENID, Oklahoma. Feb. 8.--Faced
with an increase in the huge wheat
supply in the hands of the Federal
Farm. Board, the capitalists are al
ready beginning to burn wheat while
100000 unemployed face hunger
and starvation. Several days ago the
Enid Mill and Elevator Co., with 1885,
600 bushels of wheat owned by the
Federal Farm Board burned to ashes
under very peculiar CIRCUMSTANCES.
Who did this burning? 1t is known
TACT that the Federal Farm Board
was complaining that it was worried
about storage space. Wheat was pill
ing up and there was not possibility
Of shipping it abroad. Then comes
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Letter Of Unemployed
to Congressman Tells
of Mass Starvation
Make Report Feb. Is
Tell Results on World
Wide Fighting Day

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Delega-
tons from various cen.ers continue
to arrive, travelling by cheapest
possible mode; beating their way
on fre:rhts. using old cars and
trucks. There viii be about $50 in
the combined delegation. which
gathers in national conference here
tomorrow.
The Minnesota delegates arrived
yesterday, having made 1900 miles
in an auto since Wednesday. They
slept only one night while OH the
road. There are five of them, led
by Mu,tila, of Hancock, a copper
miner.
WASHINGTON, Del, Feb. 8.-The
National Conference on Unemploy-
ment Insurance, made up of dele
gates representing every trade anc
industry, elected by united front con-
ferences in all cities and towns, rati.
CONTINUED ON PAGE FINEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
This Special Edition Puts
Extra Burdens on ''Worke1'

Today's issue is special six page
unemployment issue printed to mob
ilize for demonstrations of February
10 and 25, the International Demon
stration Against Unemployment. This
added expense was made even
though we have only received to date
little over $4,000 to help liquidate
the $4,000 deficit which is checking
the Daily Worker.
The next ten days will be the last
days Of the appeal for funds for the
liquidation of the deficit which is
6chocking the Daily Worker. This
1puts the questions squsrely up to all
! of us: What are we going to do with
Sthe Daily Worker? Ceasing pubiica-
gtion is out Of the question This
Smust not happen. Retrenching, cut
Ating out engrsving bills and cartoon
expense, cutting the six page Satur-
&day paper or other sources of ex-
xpenses are possibilities for saving
k1resent expenses. but that must not
NJ done INCREASED INCOME is
ErHE ONLY SOLUTION.
4 In spite OF the pressing difficult
MICS Financially. we Used Up cycly
xounce Of rcsourccfulnc,s and re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Arltor to Speak on
Evolutionary Trade
UniOnism February Is

NEW YORK.-On Sunday, Feb Is,
at p. M, Israel Amter, district Or
ganizer of the New York Communist
Party, will speak on Revolutionary
Trade Unionism. This will be the
End OF the series of lectures organized
by the Needle Workers Literary Group
that was recently organized by the
Youth Department of the N. T. w. I.
u We urge all workers to make note
Of the date and place.
Other lectures arranged by the
Needle Workers Literary Group in
clude Sam Don on the History of the
Youth Movement and Herbert New
ton on the struggle for Equal Rights
for the Negro workers. Get the Sun
day educational habit. Come to the
forums and classes at the union
! headquarters at p, m. every Sun
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

ceived extended credits to the limit
and were able to print the Daily
Worker every day. The preparations
for the fight for unemployment in
surance demanded that the Daily
Worker act as the organizer in these
struggles.
Over 10000 readers OF the Daily
Worker are now receiving the RED
SHOCK TROOP DONATION LIST.
Every worker receiving Red Shock
Troop Donation Lists = Collect i'm
mediately from your fellow workers.
Workers not receiving these lists
send in your contribution filling out
Red Shock Troop Blank on page
of this issue.
Rush all funds to the Daily Work
er, so E. 18th St., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
FIRST KATOVIS
MEETING TODAY
Anniversary Meeting
Next Sunday

NEW YORK.-Open air meetings
all over town throughout the week
lead to a mass demonstration on the
first anniversary of the murder of
Steve Katovis. The anniversary
meeting is next Sunday at / p. m. at
Ambassador Hall
The anniversary commemoration
meeting will be under the joint aus
pices of the Trade Union Unity
Council, the Food Workers Indus
trial Union, the Building Mainten-
ance Workers Union, the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and the Coun-
ellis of Working Glass Women
The first of the open air meetings
is tonight at 8 p. m. in front of the
cooperative on Allerton Ave.
Katovis was a member of the
Building Maintenance Workers Union
and a Communist When the Trade
Union Unity Council called for mass
solidarity of all workers in the long
fight of the Food Workers Indus
trial Union against Millers Market
in the ronx, Katovis did his revo-
lutionary duty by attending a mass
meeting across the street from the
market
Murdered BY Police.
There policeman singled him out
after the cop had been prevented
from attacking the speaker at the
meeting, and deliberately shot Ka.
tovis in the back. He was placed
under arrest in hospital. where he
lived for several days, continually
tortured by policemen standing ovei
his death bed and browbeatiug him.
A grand jury OF bankers white
washed his murder
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ELECTED
DELEGATES OF UNEMPLOYED TODAY;
PRESENT INSURANCE BILL TOMORROW
ALL OUT FOR THE
INSURANCE BILL!
Jobless and Employed
Fight Starvation
in New York!

NEW YORK-Today the New York
workers, fighting speed-up. suffering
from wage-cuts, see the million job
less tramping past their doors. and
know that at any moment they may
be poblcss, too.
On theii way to work they pass
the blocks Icpg breadlines, of hungry.
oa'nt men turning ssllow and slowly
dying on a bowl of soup a day.
They read in their papers of bread
strikes in Chicago, of housewives. and
half time workers and the unem-
ployed parading, fighting the police,
facing clubs ard black jacks for a
few cents off the price of a leaf of
bread.
T''ev PIav While You Starve.
49, .'-~-- 800 &C - ''.t-~----I o-9
son in Bermuda "-that island para
disc of the rich being fal to
flowing of those who have gorged
Themselves on profits wrung from
f'-''-'7'-'@e3 focd to the poor. and low
wages to the worker, profits saved
hY giyi>g onlv fractions of cents on
tho dollar to fake Unemployment re-
lief.
They see the veterans of the world
o'0"ghter in France going gaunt end
iCbless in the land they made safe
for democracy" and they see the
Fifth Avenue Association" of bust
ness men meeting and voting to put
out propaganda against bonus now
for the world war veterans.
Tomorrow. in every city In the
United States, the employed and un-
emnloyed workers will be out demon
strating for unemployment insurance.
They will be demanding that the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, on that Gay being presented to
/ o-rgress. shall be passed, and that
the war funds being gathered by the
Hoover administration to kill off the
-rlrr'rs r'Nr'-e~e chall be used instead
to save their lives
New York's demonstration will be
in Union Square. at noon. All on
Union Square. tomorrow, at neoni
Fight for unemployment insurance!
The Labor Sports Union plans to
take prominent part in the demon
stration tomorrow All Labor Sports
Clubs with banners and their entire
membership mobili2ed are to be at
Room 800 at West 18th St not later
than 1880 a. m. so as to be able
to march to Union Square and be
there at II noon sharp.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

this fire of Federal Farm Board
wheat.
Is this a convenient way for the
Federal Farm Board to dispose of its
wheat and cut down the huge over
production? The facts indicate that
this is the truth.
Capitalism burns wheat while mil
lions starve. Last year, the wholesale
vegetable and fruit dealers dumped
hundreds of carloads Of foodstuffs
into the river, to keep UP prices. The
Federal Farm Board is burning wheat
to keep up the price of wheat and
to dispose of its surplus, This is how
capitalism handles surplus wheat
Millions starve but the wheat must
be burned.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Danville Strikers, U.T.W. Be-
trayed, On Verge of Starvation


DANVILLE, Va, Feb. 8,--Follow-
ing the betrayal and practical! aban-
donment of the Danville textile
strikers by the United Textile Work
ors Union, great distress exists in
this region, particularly in the
Scheduled Mill village according to
John Hopkins Hall, jtate Commits
sioner Of Labor, who with a repre-
sentative from the Federal Depart
ment of Cancellation. helped in the
betrayal Both of them had been
invited in by the U.TW.
Hall admits that many families Of
union members on the black list of
the bosses have only days fooe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

on hand, and that the U.TW. has
refused to give further relief TO these
workers who have been left out in
the cold by its treachery Some other
families have no food at all Red
Cross aims, as in other sections of
the country, is absolutely inadequate
Here it consists of small bottle OF
milk and can of tomatoes.
Many of the strikers are sick as
a result of exposure arising from
evictions from their homes, and from
mslnutrition or actual starvation. In
the meantime, the State militia is
still on hand to see that the starv-
ing workers do not resume the
struggle which the U.TW. betrayed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Mass Picketing Today at
Needleman 6 Bremen SHOP
All Brooklyn Workers Meet Tonight to Support
Coming General Dress Strike; Many Meets
Proceed Lincoln Arena Demonstration

NEW YORK. Needle trade work
ers will engage in mass picketing to-
day at 7:30 a. m. in front of the
Needleman and Bremen shop, 263 w.
40 ST., as a challenge to the exploit
ing owners and to the IL.GW., the
company union which sent scabs to
the Needleman shop after 40 workers
in the N.TWIU. had been locked
out.
Several clashes have already taken
place between the needle workers on
the one hand, and IL.GW. thugs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHESTER

CHES TER. Pa.-Approximately
$4,000 workers are unemployed in this
highly industrial city. This comprises
SO per cent of the working popula-
ton and IS FER cent Of the resi-
denial population
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Shops Now Struck
Und or Leadership
of N. t. w. |. u.

Rcscn.hal and Epsel, $50 w.
31th st.
Atlas Dress CO.. 306 w. 3Sth st.
Ksbnc and Sacks, 1i9 w. 2ath St
Edythe Dress Co, $50 w. seth St
Ncca'cman and Bremen. 2G3 W.
a0,h st.
Tilianc D-css CO., 30 w. seth st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09
Demonstrate Tomorrow!

Demonstrate Tomorrow!
Organize Unemployed Councils to Fight
for Unemployment Relief. Organize the
Employed Workers Into Fighting
Unions. Mobilize the Employed and
Unemployed for Common Strug-
giles Under the Leadership of
the Trade Union Unity League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-09

CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE,
The Washington times., 1931-09-12
Laurel and Hardy
Shine for Palace

Laurel and Hardy, Stanley and
Oliver, offer Washington patrons
their first feature length comedy
this week at Loew's Palace in
Pardon U.s." Conceded to be
the most popular stars of short
feature comedy this pair give
promise, it is said to develop into
comedians on a par with Harold
Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and others
of the laugh-making world.
An extra added attraction is
seen at the Palace this week in
the form of Monsters of the
Deep" This production was &C
tually filmed in the South Seas
and it is reported that many
interesting as well as educational
shots are seen that have never
before been filmed.
On the Palace stage Fiesta"
is the attraction direct from the
famous Capitol Theater in New
York. In this production many
featured acts are found that
include Charney and Jean, Joyce
Coles, Nicholas Oaks, Carlos
Peterson and Joseph Pope Jones.
The Fiesta" senoritas and the
Palace Syncopators round out
the program.
The Washington times., 1931-09-12

players known to local theater-
goers. Mary Loane has the lead
ing feminine role opposite the
star, and others in the cast are
Dulcie Cooper, Brian Donlevy,
Eileen Wilson, Kathryn Givney,
Matthew Crowley, Burke Clarke,
Adelaide Hibbard, William T.
Hays and Forrest Orr.
He Gets the Girl
The story of the play concerns
Peter Turner, a glib and fanciful
young bank clerk, whose mad
and audacious schemes skyrocket
him overnight to within striking
distance of fame and fortune.
On the eve of his triumph he is
exposed as a fraud and imposter
yet withal an ingratiating and
lovable one. His unmasking, it
develops, is in the end beneficial
to him, as it results In the ulti-
mate attainment of all the things
to which he aspired; including,
of course, the inevitable girl.