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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19

break the strike.
The miners must not be laid open
to this danger. The miners are put
ting mighty struggle. But relief to
strengthen the strike, is the crying
need of the hour. The miners resist
ance depends on the food and money
sent into the strike fields.
You're on one side or the other"
II you're on the miners side. you
must rush relief-food money, into
the fields at once.
The miners struggle against starv-
alton. against the bosses, is the fight
of all of us. Make the struggle Of the
miners strongerl Extend solidarity
Rush relief to the Miners Relief
Conmittee--Room, Gil Penn Avenue.
Pittsburgh, Pa, at once
VICTORY FOR TEE EE4ipMN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
By MAX BEDACHT.
VIII. American Democracy Against Sow
Dictatorship.

The most crushing" accusation made by
American capitalism against the Soviets is
that they violate every principle of demo-
cracy. Hoover and Hillquit, Vol and Fish
form one sanctimonious chorus in defense of
democracy. They all froth at the mouth in
accusing the Soviets of their dictatorship.
Of all the capitalist decptions and of all of
the capitalists sleight-of-hand tricks, demo-
cracy is the most subtle as well as the most
poisonous one. When the police club descends
on the head of a worker while on the picket
line, he is not hit in defense of the low wages
he is fighting against but he is hit in defense
of democracy. When the policemen murdered
Steve aKtovis, he did it not in defense Of the
starvation wages paid by the boss against
whom Steve was picketing; he did it in de-
Tense of democracy. When these days the po-
lice in Ohio and in Pennsylvania use machine
guns and tear gas bombs to prevent the strik-
ing miners from holding mass meetings, they
do not do it in the defense of the miserable
conditions under which the coal companies
force the miners to work, but they do it in
defense of democracy
What is this democracy anyway? Why does
It always have to be defended against the
workers and never against the capitalists
why does democracy Interfere III every Gull
flict between workers and capitalists on the
side of the capitalists and against the work
ers? Why does democracy provide for injunc-
tions against the workers forbidding them
from leaving or threatening to leave the
employ of the boss, or forbidding them to
talk to anyone about their miserable working
conditions; and why does that same demo-
cracy not provide for injunctions forbidding
the boss TO keep the workers out of employ
nnent and thus condemn them to starvation?
Even a superficial analysis will help US to
understand this mystery. The capitalist class
rs the ruling class in America. The political
structure of the United States therefore is
designed 10 represent and to defend the In
terests of the capitalists. One of the fathers
of the u. S. Government, Alexander Hamilton
pointed out that '"AIl communities divide
themselves into the few and the many. The
first are the rich and welLborn, the other the
mass of the people" Hamilton declared that
the function of government was to protect
the interests of the rich and well-born against
the turbulent and changing masses"
The structure of American democracy was
designed TO fit the requirements outlined by
Hamilton. The right of private property on
all social necessities is the supreme law OF this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
Conference Called
By Governor, Coal
= Company UMWA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

miners will close their ranks more
solidly under the National Miners
Union leadership"
Two Negro and two white dele
gates spoke, telling the governor they
and the rest of the miners will re-
turn to work only on agreements
with the National Miners Union.
Borich presented to the governor the
demands adopted by the striking
miners.
The gyeat efforta nAda By the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19

Note WORKERS who do not want
their names published because of
possible persecution should Indicate
this I'm sending in their contributions.
Collectors should also ask those who
contribute whether they want their
names printed.
Tuesdays totals were only $57S.72
less than half of what is needed
to stave off disaster. For the firt
time since the beginning of the drive
District s (Chicago) beat District
2 New York;, the totals being
S172.O6 and $157.O5 respectively. The
figures for the New York district
mark big drop; the New York COM
rades must not let up with the Daily
in such great danger,
District (Detroi) improved some
what, contributing S7S.41, but this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-19
BOSSES AMERICA, WORKERS RUSSIA A CONTRAST

The preceding article dealt with Soviet dump
ing. With actual Soviet export figures 1t proves
the fictitious character of the dumping charge 1t
shows this charge to be nothing but propaganda
and material for the manufacturing of holy war
myth by the American capitalists against the So
Wet Union.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
OWNER OF DUCK
CLUB PLAINTIFF
AGAINST DISTRICT

A new twist was given the old
story in a damage suit filed against
the Imperial Irrigation District yes
terday afternoon by B. J. Skupen,
proprietor of a duck club on the
southwestern end of the Salton Sea.
Varying from other suits which
assert farming property was dam
aged by rising waters of the Salton
Sea. Skupen asked damages aggre-
eating S38, ,450 on his claim improve
ments and business of his duck club
were damaged by the rising waters,
which made the property useless for
the purpose of duck club.
Skupen also asked the court to
issue an order directing the irriga-
ton district, through its servants,
to show cause why it should not be
restrained from flowing any more
excess water into the Salton Sea
during the pendancy of this action.
The complaint. listing asserted
damages, estimated $4,000 as dam
ages to business for three years,
$4,000 for loss of duck ponds over
flowed by the sea. $3.50 Tor loss of
blinds, $500 for loss of improve
ments and cost of moving improve
ments, and $500 for loss of two
miles of fence.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

have been fairly dumb. the painful
work of recuperation and repair has
been proceeding slowly in some di-
rections and quite swiftly in others.
There seems to 9be nothing basic-
ally wrong With the idea that the
cure for low prices lies in the quo
tations themselves and that, given.
enough prices, there ia
business TO lbe done"
That there Is business to be done
and b1einess being done in Ell Cen
tro Aproven by reports of local re-
TAI stores, according to r. B.
VI Bitelaw. president of the Ell Cen
II Chamber of Commerce. Be-
CT ,se of the national drop in prices
II total value of business done
h dropped somewhat in most
Il es of merchandise, Whitelaw
S tes but the volume of business
/ most cases equals, and In some
/ pc exceeds the volume of June a
or ago. Collections are satisfact-
h it is reported, and canvass of
local merchants indicates a
q neral feeling that next fall will
linp increased prosperity to I'm
/ Trial Valley, community which
IS fought successfully TO keep up
~ business morale in the face of
, Nationwide depression.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Published by
IMPERIAL VALLEY
PRESS. INC.
SETTING BRAHLEY RIGHT
W. C. COSTELLO
Manager

lUR esteemed contemporary, as the old
" fashioned saying goes, the Brawley
News, IN its issue of June %, takes to
task "an alleged Press reporter" for an
article appearing in the Press on June 26,
relative to the north-end claim for two
supervisors.
The Brawley News used an eight COL
umn streamer and several galleys of
type in an Intellectual attempt to put the
Indian sign on the Press man, whom we
are glad to state is a real newspaperman
and not alleged.
AT the outset, We may as well admit
that our reporter made mistake. He
made the mistake of being accurate, and
accuracy is something the News does not
always take into consideration when it gets
to juggling facts and figures.
The bone of contention which irks the
News is our reporters statement that the
population of Imperial county is 4S,594
persons. The News says the population
is 60,903. The News is right. That is
the correct population according to the
Fifteenth Census of the United States,
Population Bulletin, First Series, of the
State of California, copy of which the
Press has and which did not cost five
Genus Out Was given 10 Us STdlS.
But the Brawley News should know,
and we think it does, but it just likes to
juggle things that the basis of popula-
tion of the county governing the redis-
tricting matter, which is the cause of this
pleasant little squabble, is not the federal
census figures, but must be computed ac-
cording to the section of the California
Political code governing such redistrict-
ing.
For the benefit of the News we quote
Paragraph Is, of Article XVII, of Sec
tion 4246, of the Political Code, as fol-
lows: "For the purposes of subdivisions
thirteen and fourteen of this section, the
population of the several judicial town.
ships shall be ascertained by multiplying
the number of registered electors at the
last general election by three and one
half"
Paragraph Is, of the code, governs the
redistricting of counties into districts.
The basis of population which the super
visors must use, therefore, is the num-
ber of registered voters in the last gener-
al election, November a, 1880, which
makes the Press figures of 1854 cor
rect, instead of the 60903 which the News
would have them use.
The News might consult the county
clerk, or the supervisor of its own dis
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
VALLEY REMAINS
WHITE SPOT ON
BUSINESS MAI

One of five white spots on the
countrys economic map, Imperial
county is the largest of the five ac-
cording to the reflecting business
conditions of June l, published In
the current issue of Nations Bust
ness. This fact is receiving mucn
favorable comment from those who
have watched the economic map
for the past two years as various
communities have changed color
because of depression and the num-
ber of white spots has dwindled
and still Imperial county has re-
manned in the white, denoting bet
ter business conditions in this COM
munity than in most other sections
of the country. Other communities
shown as white, or good business,
are Monterey, Cal. a spot in the
south central portion of Idaho, q
small territory just cast of Waco
Texas and the coast of Maine and
New Hampshire.
Frank Greene. editor of Brad
streets, who prepares the Nation
Business map, states that earl
June throughout the country saw
very general bracing up of the buI
mess worlds morale or nerve
whatever word one prefers. II
well to remember that signs of inS1
provement have not been lackirtg
even in these terrible first f4l
months of 1881. While the prophet
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD f. GARRIS
Copyright, 1923, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGuYS
FIRECRACkERS

Come on, Daddicumsl Hurty!s
called the voices of many little rab-
bit children in Uncle Wiggily's hol-
low stump bungalow one morning.
I'VE want to get some before they
are all goneln cried Baby Bunty,
the little orphan, dancing up and
down with JOY because she felt SO
jolly happy.
whats this9 What's all the rush
ahout2' asked Uncle Wiggily put
ting his head over the top of the
banister railing upstairs. for he had
not yet come down for his break
fast. What do you mean, Baby
Bunty, about something being all
gone? Do you mean adyentures?'
/. oh. no. I don't mean adyen-
tures," said Bunty with laugh.
Because If you did" went on
Uncle Wiggily. singing one paw
over the slanting part of the rail-
ing. there are many adventures
in the woods as there ever were,
The only thing fer me to do Is to
find them. Look out now! Here |
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Berger Jewelry
In New Place

Even Though the building is not
entirely finished, the Becker Jewel
ry company now is occupying the
new store space next to its former
location on Main street.
The new quarters are artistic and
every modern convenience is pro-
vided for display. Vaults for stor-
ing valuables are of the most ap-
proved type, and the showcases and
counters provide for adequate dis
play of wares.
Workmen still are busy on the
store front but when completed this
section of the store will be one of
its most attractive features.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
MULE CASUALTY
in MIX-UP WITH
SPEEDING AUTO

A mule was killed and an auto
mobile badly damaged on the Dog
wood road a mile north of the Holt
vile highway, last night when the
car hit the mule, throwing him
completely over another mule and
its rider
The car, travelling north, was
driven by Alvin Immel OF Brawley.
He was accompanied by Blanche
Bentley. Paul Pinkard of Calexico
was riding one mule and leading
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

Imperial Valleys hundreds of
acres of alfalfa pasturage is PROV
ing highly attractive TO Arizona cat
tlemen. At the rate of $1.50 a head
per month for pasturage. cattle may
be shipped to the valley from Ari-
IONA ranges and kept here at good
profit to the owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

seven others from Calexico to
Brawley.
Miss Bentley was slightly injured.
She was bruised and cut by flying
glass. Pinkard was bruised when
he was knocked from the mule he
was riding. Immel escaped injury.
According to Pinkard, he was
leading the mules along the side of
the road when Immel's car, coming
at a fast speed, struck one of the
mules. The mule reared, and was
thrown into the air and completely
over another mule and Pinkard. he
said.
C. H. Kershaw of Brawley is own
er of the mules. He was notified
Immediately after the accident.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
In Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
July |, 1911

The lid will bang down tight at
Imperial on July 5. On that date
the new liquor ordinance will go in
to effect. An ordinance similar
to that in effect in Ell Centre. re-
Gently was passed in Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
TEN YEARS AGO
VuIy 1901

Ten tons of delicious watermel-
ons and 1000 fine cantaloupes,
weighing more than two tons, dis
appeared as if by magic before a
horde of Ell Centro people last night
at the second annual melon feast
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Issued Daily, Except
Sundays. Entered at The
Post Office, FL Centre,
Calf, as Second Glass
Matter.

trict, to check up on the Press conten-
ton
It possibly irks the News to know that
the supervisors must count citizens and
not noses, in this redistricting matter,
and it was this irking that caused the as
tute editor of the News to emulate Don
Quixote by iousting with the redistrict-
ing windmill before discovering Just
when the sails come around.
And this alleged reporter" of ours
just must be more accurate in the future.
We have told him so. Not only for our
own protection, but for the protection of
our good friends on the Brawley News.
They copy from 80 to so of his stories each
month, without bothering to change
single word of them, and such implicit
faith in his accuracy is certainly entitled
to the utmost consideration.
The same article questions the fairness
of the Press editor in recounting the
county agencies in or near Ell Centro and
declares we should have included the
-four supervisors, which the News places
on El Centro's doorstep. We would like
very much to have included them to sat
isfy the News, but it wouldn't be quite
accurate.
Nothing would please Andy Preble any
better than to move El Centro to Imper-
ial; Calexico would certainly shoot us if
we claimed Bill Bates, and we can ina
gine what the citizens of Holtville would
do to Dave Vencil and to us, if we claimed
him. As for our friend Romeo Smith, he
is after us with a shotgun for mean
things we have said about the supervisors
And had we included them, without also
including Henry Jackson,-well it might
bother the Brawley News and it is too
un-Christianlike to bother anyone these
hot days.
That groaning is old John J. World
feeling the wrinkle Post and Gatty have
put in his hide.
Another good deed accomplished The
Wickersham committee has finished its
work.
Somebody ought to tell the Athletics
and the Senators that July 4 is almost
here.
Mr. Hearst wants a special session of
congress, but then William wants lots of
things that he is not going to get
est. Paul Swelters', says headline.
And he's got nothing on the California
saints.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

it was you shall hear in the next
story.
It will be called Uncle Wiggily's
Skyrockets,' and I think it would
be lots of fun if somebody would
fastsn we little white feathers on
ell the rain drops so when they fell
it would look like snow. Oh, boy
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

Fresno County tested 1424 COWS in
May, 281 of which produced more
than 40 pounds each of butterfat.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
.July 1. 1916

An increase in deposits in I'M
perial Valley banks of more than
$50 per cent in five years is an
nounced by the state superintend-
ent of banks. Five banks last year
reached total of s760, 0,830.79. In
1911 three banks totaled $209, ,703 .88.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

The only town in Imperial VAL
ley with pep enough to get up a
celebration for July 4, is Dixieland.
Contests. races and other events
are planned for the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

Butte county has set aside $4,000
for expenses of the farm advisors S
office during the 1922 fiscal
year
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

That large acreage of grapef !
to be set out in the valley within
the next two OF three years is lev
idenced by the fact that mhn
ranchers are studying the subtec
| of grape cultivation.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

given under the auspices of
chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Rebekahs Will
Install Officers

installation of officers of the Bar
hira Worth Rebekah lodge will take
nhee tomorrow night at Davis hall
Win the Brawley team as installing
officers.
lean Gale, district deputy presi-
dlnt of FL Centre, will officiate
uton this occasion.
All members of the local orde1|
ah urged to be present at o'clock
F Wallace Rawlings. high school boy
at Orland Glenn county, was
awarded a purebred Guernsey calf
as the best student in his line.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

Another good deed accomplished The
Wickersham committee has finished its
work
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

That groaning is old John J. World
feeling the wrinkle Post and Gatty have
put in his hide
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

est. Paul Swelters'', says a headline.
And he's got nothing on the California
saints
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01

Somebody ought to tell the Athletics
and the Senators that July 4 is almost
here.
Mr. Hearst wants a special session of
congress, but then William wants lots of
Ia. 4 "a ;c 1roiaa1r Z q Got
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
INSURANCE CONCERN
CITED IN VIRGINIA
National Retirement Club Charged
With Transacting Unauthor-
lied Business.
special pisnatch to wac star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, August 1.-THE
National Retirement Club for Fire
men. District of Columbia organi-
cation engaged in an assessment in
surance type Of business, has been cited
to appear before the Virginia State
Corporation Commission August 25 TO
show cause why 1t should not be fined
for transacting business In the State
without certificate Of authority.
The concern, 1t is feared here, con-
tends that its business is transacted
by mail and that therefore it does not
have to domesticate in Virginia. 1t
operates under the supervision of the
Insurance Department of the District
Of Columbia.
The constitution of the concern states
that its object shall be to furnish i'm
mediate financial relief to its members
IN case Of their retirement from active
duty In the several paid fire depart
ments throughout the United States
Memberships are obtained by paying
81 month continuously into the con-
Germ. each member in good standing to
receive upon his retirement from fire
department service, the sum of 81 $50
Sidney Beiber is president of the con-
Germ. He is retired fireman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-14
MANOBOS BELIEVE MAN HAS
THREE SOULS, CARAVAN SAYS
One in Body and Two Trailing Like
Shadows-Hereafter Is Continuation of
Earthly Existence, They Think.

of Ibu, somewhere below the pillars of
the earth.
1T Is said" says Garvan, "to resem-
bic in all particulars this earth of ours
Lofty mountains, lakes, rivers and
plains exist there. About half way be-
tween this world and the big country
Of Ibu-mistress Of the lower world
there is a great river of red water
Here lives Manduyapit the ferryman
From Manduyspit's to Ibu's is said to
be journey Of seven days along a good
broad trail. Americans, Spaniards and
people of other nations do not pass on
the Manobo's trail, because each is said
to have its own, and the country of Thu
is said to be divided into districts-one
for each nation.
Journey to Ibu.
when the soul finds that 1t is all
alone, its fellow spirit having been seized
and devoured, it begins the long Journey
to Ibu. One weeks travel brings it TO
the great red river. Usually the ferry
man takes a soul across gratuitouSly
If he declines, the spirit is obliged to
return and plague it's relatives, who
must negotiate with the priests to bring
their influence TO bear. If the souls
should desire to pay a visit to their
living relatives, they invoke the family
dieties and are borne back to the world
on the wings of the wind, without hav-
ing to undergo the fatigue OF a 14-day
journey.
Thus great settlement is no gloomy
hadeS, nor Is it a paradise Of celestial
JOY, 1t is simply a continuation Of the
present life, except that all care, worry
and trouble are ended. The spirits of
relatives take up their abode in one
house and pass quiet existence under
the mild sway Of Ibu. They eat, work
and even marry
Until the spirit is across the great
red river, according to Caravans ac-
count of the native beliefs, there is
danger that 1t viii return. So the liv-
ing relatives do not feel at ease until
after the death feast, which marks the
end of all relations between the dead
and the living. This is a great BAN
quet 10 which everybody in the settle
ment is invited and which lasts several
days. 1t is assumed that the dead are
present with the living, and the priests.
to whom they are visible, describe the
hearty appetite with which they eat
Henceforth they have no claim on the
hospitality Of the living. No relative
dares be absent, for this would expose
him to the strange waywardness Of the
enyious dead
After the death feast relatives of the
dead man may marry. But forever
afterward 1t is forbidden to speak the
name Of the departed. He can be re-
ferred TO only as my father" or my
cousin