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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19
LIsABEULA ITEMS

Mrs, Hofmeister gave party last
Saturday afternoon In honor of her
daughter Estelle's thirteenth birthday.
Being 80 near ST, Patrick's Day
color scheme of green and white SEEM
ed most appropriate and affective.
The happy girls attending were
Shirley Morgan, Phyllis Shattuck,
Marion Maloney, Alice, Marguerite
and Helen Weggener Florence ana
Phyllis Sveinson, Irene Bengston,
Jean Gibbins OF Burton, and violettc
and Mildred Hofmeister, Mrs. Hof-
meister was assisted by her sister,
Mrs. Fuller of Ellisport.
Mr., and Mrs Maloney were among
those In attendance at the legislature
one evening last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Castle are in Seattle
this week getting their property in
shape to SELL They hope to become
Island residents.
oge Jensen OF Tacoma is spending
the week with home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Close and children of
Seattle returned to their home Sun
day after weeks vacation at their
beach cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Torgeson, of Montana,
old time friends Of Mr.. Jensen, visit
ed here recently, They liked the
Island SO well that they hope to re-
turn, not to visit but to stay.
Mr., and Mrs. Halkyard have gone
to Seattle, Mr.. backyard having re-
covered sufficiently to resume his
work.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19
High School Notes

The men in the faculty are invited
to the Saturday Night Club in Seattle
DR.. Uhl Of the University of Washing
ton, Dean of the School OF Education,
will be the principal speaker.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19

The school wishes to express It's ap-
probation for the interest which SO
many school patrons showed in the
benefit dance given here Saturday
evening.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19

The national oratorical contest
finals Of this school are being held in
the assembly Friday afternoon. Those
entering the contest are Marcia
Forbes, Gerald Fretz, and Lewis
Schmidt.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19
COVE, CEDARHURsT AND
COLVOS ITEMS

I. M. Kroskset left Wednesday for
Spokane where he will attend two
day session of the secretaries and
treasurnrs OF all of the Farm Loan
Associations Of Western Washington.
This meeting was called by the Land
Bank Of Spokane.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Hendrickson are
back on the Island, and are looking
around for a location. They left
several months ago for Tacoma, but
much prefer the Island
Mrs. Arthur Bryant, OF Andover,
South Dakota, and Mrs. w. q. Farrar,
OF Langford, South Dakota, old friends
and neighbors Of the A. j. Marsh
family visited them over the weekend.
After being shown over the Island on
Sunday by Mr.. Marsh they were of the
opinion that 1t was about the prettiest
spot they had encountered during the
winter, while they have visited yari-
GUS sections OF the coast.
Mrs. Crosier spent several days this
week visiting friends in Seattle, re-
turning home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Bruner spent
Friday visiting Mrs. Crosier.
Mrs. G. Aug. Peterson is slowly re-
covering from severe attack Of the
flu.
Mrs. AL. Hotchkins spent few days
the past week at home resting after q
prolonged period of strenuous nursing
Wilfred Reeves, who is teaching Ii,
Olympia, came home Friday evening
to spend the weekend, and was taker
Ill on Saturday with an unusually
severe case of the flu. He was unable
to return to work Monday.
Bessie Feldahl spent the weekend
at home with her family.
Mrs. Frank Sigrist spent Friday ir
Seattle and was accompanied home by
her little grandson, Larry Lindberg
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Anderson came
over from Seattle to spend the week.
end with Mrs. Anderson's parents, ane
took Larry home with them.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19
CENTER P. T. A. TO MEET.

The Center P. T. A. will meet at the
Center schoolhouse at p. M, March
20. For roll call, will the members
please be prepared to relate some in
teresting experience of their school
days?
Ottie " Bitle Pres.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19

The men in the faculty are invited
to the Saturday Night Club in Seattle
DR.. Uhl Of the University of Washing
ton, Dean OF the School OF Education
will be the principal speaker.
A new ruling has been adopted in
the school regarding unexcused slips
The absence or hardness of each
student is careful recorded and three
OF such will draw makeup penalty,
and six will result in the forfeiture OF
grades.
The national oratorical contest
finals Of this school are being held in
the assembly Friday afternoon. Those
entering the contest are Marcia
Forbes, Gerald Fretz, and Lewis
Schmidt.
In combined meeting of the two
debate clubs on March 18th, an
elimination contest was held to de-
termine who should represent our
school in the King county oratorical
contest. Our competitors are to be
the following students: Lorna Daniel
son. oratorical; Virginia Jeffers, dra-
matte; Dick Slagle, humorous.
The school wishes to express It's ap-
probation for the interest which SO
many school patrons showed in the
benefit dance given here Saturday
evening.
The gym was beautifully decorated
with greens and crepe paper flowers.
The st. Patrick's Day motive was car
ried out in cleverly constructed
wishing well where punch was served
Indirect lighting from the balcony and
stage gave pleasant, soft appearance
| to the scene.
An especially arranged program Of
dance numbers was played by the
high school jazz orchestra. During
one dance, favors in the form Of
bright colored crepe paper caps were
given out. The orchestra is to b,
commended for its fine performance
At eleven-thirty delicious refresh
ments were served in the Home Eco
| Monies room.
4 The proceeds were large enough t;
successfully open the baseball season
4 Margaret Claire, sophomore, en-
tered school from Roosevelt this week
i Mr.. and Mrs Robertson attended
the tournament at the University thi:
last Saturday.
Miss O'Mahoney attended the Chi
cago Civic Opera in Seattle on We'd
nesday night of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. MAINS from zilla were
weekend visitors of Superintendent
and Mrs. Robertson.
Honor Roll for Six Weeks Period.
/ Bertha Anderson, Fielder Beall
Ezna Clyde John Corliss, Don Dun
bar, Sadie Edwards, Alice Ensing
Felix Fromback, Harriet Fuller, Joyce
Harmeling, Elsie Huston, Mrs. Huston
Geneva Jeffers, Virginia Jeffers.
4 Clara johnson, Charlotte Krokset
Patricia Lavan, Byron Levenseller
ona Nelson, Esther Peterson, Mar
garet Peterson, Norma Peterson
Robert Petherick, Betty Reeves Val
borg Sarvold.
! Lewis Schmidt Richard slagle
Tickle Smith, Mary Smell, Margaret
Takatsuka, Isobel Urquhart, Heller
Yoshimura
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19

Read the want ads.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-03-19

Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Hendrickson are
back on the Island, and are looking
around for location. They left
several months ago for Tacoma, but
much prefer the Island.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
Chi. Inter-Racial
Committee to Give
Press Benefit Dance

CHICAGO, April 6. - The Inter
Racial Committee of Chicago will
give a Benefit Dance for the Liberia
tor, Daily Worker and the Young
Worker, at the Forum Hall, 322 E.
43rd St, on Saturday night, May 9th.
This inter-racial dance will be the
biggest affair of the season. Hun
dreds of workers of all nationalities
will be there. The Inter-racial COM
mittee, working jointly with the rep
resentatives from each paper, will
have no stone unturned to assure all
of having the time of their life.
Take out your note book, make
note of the time and the place so
that you will not forget, The Liberia
tor, the Daily Worker and the Young
Worker are organizers of the working
class. Help to keep them alive by
subscribing for them, and supporting
them in every form possible. Watch
the papers for further notice of this
Dance.
The officers Of the Interracial COM
mittee are as follows:--C. M. De-
groot, Sec'y-Treas,; K White and F.
@. Buery. Chairman of Entertainment
Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
.L'HUMANITE HITS
FRENCH BOSSES ON
AUSTRIA TREATY
Imperialist Hypocricy
Shown Up

PARIS-Comnenting on the propos-
ed Austro-G German Customs Union,
the central organ of the French Com
mJmist Party, "LHumanite" declares
that it is a little too transparent, the
sudden interest of French Imperialism
in the maintenance of Austrias in
dependence. The Treaty of st. Ger
main had robbed Austria of it's vita
lily. Austria had become a colony
Of Anglo-SaXon capitalism and of the
League of Nations. Zimmerman, the
dictator appointed by the League of
Nations, sat in Vienna and forced
his will onto the Austrians. Under
his dictatorship wages were cut, the
working day heightened and the way
opened up for faseism.
No one in Paris or Rome thought
Of protesting. What right had the
French, Italian and Czechoslovakian
politicians to come forward as the
champions of national freedom? How
much did Italy care for the indepen-
dence of Albania as it signed the
Treaty Of Tirana? How much did the
Prague government care for the rights
of the German, Slovakian and Hun
garian minoritieS in CzechoSlovakia?
Why was nothing said about the in
dependence of Syria and the other
colored peoples at present under the
yoke of French Imperialism
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
BEET WORKERS
QUIT BOSS MEET
500 Walk Out and Go
to Union Hall

DENVER, Colo, April 10.--At a
meeting of Mexican beet workers
called by the officials of the Great
Western Sugar Company Monday
night, 500 walked out of the hall
and proceeded to headquarters of the
Trade Union Unity League, where ar
enthusiastic mass meeting was held
and forty applications secured to the
Agricultural workers Industrial
League.
The sugar companies recently cut
the guaranteed price of beets to the
farmer from $3.50 to $3.50 per ton
The farmers in turn, through the
Beet Growers Marketing Associa-
ton, cut the contract price to the
beet workers from $23 per acre to $18
per acre, Wage-cut of more than
25 per cent.
The meeting was an attempt on
the part of the officials of the sugar
companies to smooth the situation
over and induce the workers to take
the cut lying down. Maddox was
pointing out to the workers that "the
situation wasn't SO bad" and even
that the reason they were all broke
and facing starvation was because
they didn't save their money. Sew
eral of the Mexican workers stood up
and denounced him in no uncertain
terms. He threatened to call the po-
lice and have them elected from the
hall.
Sanchez, organizer of the AgricuI-
tural Workers Industrial League,
jumped to his feet and appealed to
the workers to walk out of the hall
and to enroll in the A. ". I. L. The
beet workers responded by walking
out of the hall in a body and march
ing to T. U. U. L. headquarters, where
Sanchez and other speakers ex-
planned to them the program of the
A, WI. L. Forty were signed up on
the spot and many others indicated
their intention of lining up under
the banner of the Agricultural Work
ers' Industrial League, affiliated to
the Trade Union Unity League.
At the recent District Conference
OF the A. w. I. L. seven locals met
in a two-day session to discuss the
coming struggles in the beet fields,
affecting 10000 beet workers, of
whom $4,000 are Mexican and Span
ish.
The demands worked out by the
conference center on the following
points: Organization for strikes
against the contract system and the
rs per cent wage-cut; all disputes to
be settled by the workers grievance
committee and not the company rep.
resentative; all living quarters must
be habitable and sanitary, with fresh
water for drinking purposes at the
house; free medical and hospital SER
vice in case of sickness; workers te
have the right to obtain their owl
supplies without assigning wages
through the farmer to the merchants
and full payment of wages four days
after beets are harvested.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
NORWAY LOGGERS
ARRIVE IN U.S.S.R,
To Take Part in Build
ing Up Socialism

MOSCOW.-The first group of Nor
wegian loggers, consisting of 40 men,
has arrived in Archangelsk. The
Finish authorities refused to permit
the group to travel through Finland.
The logger Sorlin is the leader of the
brigade. He declared that the Nor
Wegian loggerS did not believe the
lies of the capitalist press concerning
forced labor in the Soviet Union. They
had come to take part in the building
up of socialism.
The members of the group des-
cribed the poor corJitions of the Nor
wegian loggers and the frequent
strikes organized in order to secure
improvements, Tomorrow the group
will leave for Cholmogory district
where it will work.
A second group of Norwegian log
gers will work in the Northern dis
trict of the Soviet Union about which
the capitalist press publishes such
hair-raising stories. A third group
will work in. the woods of the Volga
district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13

where / have visited and inter-
viewed him.
Old Jim still fOolishly hopes to
get back in the union, ON the hopes
that the president of Local 2, Rob-
ert G. EwaId, who is also a city
councilman, will get Jimmy on the
county payroll.
Ewald gets S100 weekly from the
local and since he is also city eoun-
Gilman of Detroit, Mich, he gets
$4,000 year here. This same
crook, Ewald, has his brother in
law sworn in as deputy sheriff and
has given him a job as superin-
tendent of the local, because of his
brother-in-law's former experience
as janitor Of livery stable.
The unemployed workers Of
Wayne County have no place to
hang their hats except in the
county poorhouse. The richest man
in the world lives i'm this town,
Henry Ford.
Bricklayers, mas0ns, plasterers,
fight! Don't starve! Organize an
International Labor Defense in
your district. Form your own
union, affiliated with the T,U.U.L.
A Suspended Bricklayer, PED.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13

woman without visible means of ex-
istence?
1t means that we who have no
jobs will be arrested on vagrancy
charges or any sort of charge for
that matter, and drafted into these
prison factories and be forced to
work for just what is handed out
to us.
While we shall be in there, other
charges will be trumped up against
us especially if we be good workers.
so that they can keep lis there until
we are too old, and of no further
use to them, then to be thrown out
to starYe in the streets.
Workers. let's get wise to these
dangers that threaten us before it is
too late. Join the Unemployed Coun-
ellis and mass to fight this sinking
system.
Unemployed Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
Many Jobless Bricklayers Suspended from
Union
Union
Salt Lake City. Utah.

Salt Lake City. Utah.
Daily Worker:
! would like to tell something to
every bricklayer, mason and pIas-
terer who has been suspended from
the International Union for fail
ure of payment of dues to the in
ternational officers and district bu-
reaucrats.
The workers who are members of
this union have helped in pay
ments to build the gigantic sky
seraper, the International building
in Indianapolis, Ind. But our
dreams have been shattered by
these bureaucrats during the de-
preston.
At normal times the Interna-
tional officers give yen lift with
one hand and with the other hand
turn your poeketbooks inside out.
Brother workers, don't be fooled as
Jimmy Curtiss of Local No. 9 in
Detroit, Mich. was. Old Jim has
been member of the Interna-
tionai and in good standing for IS
years. Now he has been suspended
for failure of payment of dues. He
was given the privilege of re-
naming at the county poor house,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
u. S. SAYS LESS
EATEN IN 1880
Unemployment Means
Food Is Cut Down

WASHINGTON, d. c., April TO-
The terrific pressure of the unem-
ployment crisis finds expression in
the figures on the amount of food
consumed, as released, at least in
part, by DID. o. E. Baker, of the Blu
reau OF Agricultural Economics of
the government department of agri-
culture. Baker made his report
orally, but as he told in the United
States Daily of this city he said that
flour, a cheap food, was consumed
IN as great quantity last year as in
the year before, but dairy products,
meat, and some varieties of fruits
and vegetables fell off considerably.
The total amount of calories of
energy in food consumed was dis
tinctly lower last year than in the
year before, which shows that what
food eaten was not as good.
Baker gives the average flour con-
sumption per person in 1880 as 88
hundredths of barrel, while in 1929
in was SO. However. consumption of
OF butter fell off two per cent per
person; condensed and evaporated
milk six per cent, fresh milk be-
tween two and three per cent; meat
consumption decreased about five
pounds per person. Potatoes used
were less, also.
Baker stated that the four main
foods, making up three-fourths of the
total used in the nation, are flour,
dairy products, meat and vegetables.
Against persecution of the foreIgn-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
Half of New York Plumbers Are Unemployed

| treasury and the local unions are
bankrupt.
If member dares to raise his
voice against the sell-outs of the
union officials he is fined and stands
the loss of his job.
To eliminate these conditions, the
plumbers group of the building and
construction workers industrial
league calls upon the plumbers and
their helpers to organize into a mill
tant organization which fights
against the bosses and the union
officials; which fights against wage
cuts and speed-up.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
DraqVs Plan of Action
in Campaign for 1000 Subs;
Drops, Increases in Bundles

best to make weekly settlements every
Saturday" Sorry for delay, Georke.
You're listed now. We owe apology
to comrade Helen Frank. Madison,
Wis. who ordered Is daily on Feb. 25,
sent SO cents in stamps, receiving no
reply or papers.
c. K, Section 8, Cleveland, boosts
from to 25 to fill requirments of new
squads. C.Sotis, Chicago, gets 5 for
two weeks, P. Thompson, agent, Wor-
cester, Mass. sends % months subs,
also order for on Tuesdays, Thur
days. Nick Worzella, Manville, r. I.
news stand bright light, adds more
for PaWtucket, r. I. Edition of April
Z, s, was very good" he writes. I'm
proud of them. All disposed of per-
fectly." E. A. B., Bellingham, Wash.
orders ] a day for S. W., Deming,
Wash. Says Bellingham unit respon-
Sible for payment.
Bethlehem, Pa, Receivers
BETHLEHEM, Pa, explains previ-
Gus cut o Party members getting job,
also terror, only two active" writes
R, West. Have also succeeded in
breaking in League member and sew
eral Pioneers, established a weekly
route of 5, selling about z daily.
Pennsylvania Dutch and other Anne
ricans in the North side of Bethlehem
read Daily" with approval and en-
thusiasm. One on the Mayor. In
crease from 10 to Is immediately.
Building house-to-h house routes to
escape police and stool pigeons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
SWEDEN STRIKERS
REJECT SELL-OUT

SToCKHOLM.-As already report
ed, the reformist leaders of striking
textile workers have accepted a COM
promise rejected by the overwhelming
majority of the strikers in ballot
vote, and throttle the strike. In many
places, however, the strike is being
continued under the leadership of the
revolutionary trade union opposition.
The workers Of these factories in
Moelmdal have adopted similar de-
cisions. At a conference OF textile
workers organized by the revolution
airy T. u. opposition in Goeteborg
which was attended also by represent
atives of the textile workers in Boros
and Halmstad, national program for
the Swedish textile workers was adopt
ed together with a resolution to con-
tinue the struggle despite the sabot-
age OF the yeforrnist trade union
leadar2 ests%ss <~s~~.sA..
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13

day they get it in the afternoon, but
they are not allowed to miss day,
even If there is no work for them
at all. Just to help Mayor Murphy
keep them away from the welfare
lines.
And in the metal division is the
same thing, only worse. When the
new models came out last August,
the fendermen were getting one dol
lar for shaping and finishing of that
monstrous fender. The polisherS
we're receiving thirty-tive cents for
their work on the front tenders.
Later on the bosses found way to
fool these workers with the group
piece-worS. A sign was put up in
the shop, ordering the men to pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13

District 8, Philadelphia, is on the
march in May l, drive for 1000 year.
ly subs or renewals. A plan of action
has been drawn and instructions sent
to section. April 1926 will be Daily
Worker week for securing subs, re-
neWal,s greetings, ads for the May Day
edition. The district expects to use
$4,000 copies Of the May l, issue. NJ
Silver, Daily rep is appealing to the
Party membership to raise the cost
The Trenton section chalks up 10
per cent of the sub quita. Note the
change in the rates of the May Day
editions: Pacific Soast Dists.12, 13,
10, 10 Apr, "a; Midwest Dists. 7, g.,
8, 10, IL, I'D Apr. 81 Eastern, Dists.
l, 2. Upstate N. Y. only 3, 4, 5, G.,
Is, 16) N, Y. G., No. N. j. Apr. 30.
Stops
The days mail was replete with
stops, increases and new orders. Stops:
S. M. Martin, Universal, Inc. writes:
Stop my bundle Of 5. Was in Jail
since April LIST, for leading Hunger
March, with 5 more comrades in jail.
Want chance to get rid of these bun
dies, then I'll start again." st. Louis
cuts from ITO to 100 because, says j..
Lawson, Section Organizer, "a number
of comrades that use to sell have
found jobs. Within short time will
increase the bundle OH more respon-
sible basis" They complain no credid
given for recent payment, no receipts
forwarded; also BelleVille and Madi-
son, ILL.,, are not counted in st. Louis
section. We promise immediate action
and correction.
Cleveland Red Builders News Club
runs around. Cuts bundle of 100.
when we organize a more reliable
membership, will inform YOU" says
Walter Rajecki. Comrades should
have built routes, sold before facto-
ries, issued leaflet to unemployed to
increase the r. B. N. C. Mistake to
wipe out present bundle completely;
loses contact with workers.
Pickups
Increases, new orders: Dina =
burg, Section D. w. agent, Toledo, o.
increases from 10 to $50. George
Lewis, New Castle, Pa. last Saturday
ordered SO. st promised to do level
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13

duce at least eleven of these tenders
otherwise discharge will follow, Seven
was the limit a man could produce
before.
The men tried their best, but not
all of them were able to hand out to
the boss that required amount of
work. Some we're discharged and the
rest kept under terrorism of the
henchmen. With the length of the
time the boss reached his goal, and
now the men must produce eighteen
of these tenders per nine-hour day.
If anyone talks organization, he
sure won't last very long here.
IF. S.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
BIG INCREASE IN
CZECH JOBLESS
Figures Reach Highest
Level

PRAGUE, Czeckoslovakia. ~ Off
cial figures show the number of I'M
employed workers to have been 337,
700 at the end of Feb. However, the
real unemployment figures are from
100000 to 100000. The worth of the
official figure is shown by the fact
that 10000 unemployed are registered
for Slovakia, whilst the President of
the Chamber Of Commerce in Bratis-
lava declares that there are at least
$4,000 unemployed in Slovakia. In
any case, even the official figures rep
resent a record, being 1900 higher
than the previous highest level in Jan.
1923. the worst point of the defation
crisis.