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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
Arrival at Providence Affords
First Study of Ban on
Convict Products.
MOSCOW PAPER SUGGESTS
BOYCOTTING AMERICA
Comments on Outcome of Retalia-
tions Affecting Other Nations
Are Made by Izvestia.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
| PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 23-The
Finnish tramp steamer AnversoiSe ar
| rived here today. seven weeks out Of
| Leningrad, Russia, with a cargo of
! lumber from Soviet Russia, consigned
| to a local dealer, and a knotty prob
| lem for Treasury Department officials.
Two hours after officials boarded the
battered tramp they would not advance
cargo.
The cargo is expected to furnish the
first test case as to the validity of
Russian lumber for import into this
country. The Treasury Department de-
creed an embargo against such imports
February 10 unless the shippers can
prove the imports are not produced by
convict labor.
Examination Awaited.
Treasury officials in Washington
awaited examination OF the cargo to
determine whether Russia had really
sent it to test Treasury regulations or
had only made gesture TO satisfy
home insistence for action.
Frank Dow, acting commissioner OF
customs, said when the ship officers
appear at the customs house to declare
the cargo and present the manifest the
collector of customs would determine
whether the shipment came within
regulations.
The collector would then report his
decision to Washington, after which
the Customs Bureau would issue in
structionS at to whether the cargo
should be admitted
Cargo May Be Admitted.
While no Official would say definitely
it was intim2tcd that even if the cargo
came from Southern Russia, the i'm
portees might be required to submit
proof that it had not been produced
by convict labor merely as a matter
Of form.
Treasury officials later said that If
there was no suspicion OF convict labor
1t would be admitted.
Oficials said they did not believe
American importers would have pur-
chased the lumber had there been any
question about It's being admitted and
they felt that the importers we're pre-
pared to submit evidence that no con-
vict labor had entered into the pro-
duction of the cargo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
HONDURAN FORCES
CLAIM VICTORIES
Fierce Fight Continues Near
ChameIeCon-YeSterday's
Dead Totals 29.

BY the Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA. Honduras, April %.
The government today claimed i'm
portant victories against revolutionary
armies in Northern Honduras. Heavy
fighting continued near Chameleon, not
far from San Pedro Sula, and rein
forcements were rushed to aid the
regulars
A total of 20 dead and many wounded
was counted in yesterdays fighting in
several minor engagements. but so fierce
was the battle being fought in the San
Pedro Sula area that it was impossible
to estimate the casualties there.
Chameleon Fight Renewed.
The battle at Chameleon, which has
for its prize the railway key point at
San Pedro Sula, between Tegucigalpa
and the coast, began Tuesday night.
The government forces repealed an at
tack on the town and there was a lull.
but the attack was renewed yesterday
afternoon.
Latest word from the area said the
government troops were holding the
rebels, but aid was asked and troops
we're rushed to the regulars assistance.
LoyalistS Kill Ia Rebels.
Federal troops attacked a rebel de-
tachment, commanded by Col. Saliva
dor Canales at Guaymas. 8 kilometers
from Tela. and defeated the group, kill
ing IA rebels including Col. Cana!es
Several prisoners, including Capt Ro-
doIfo Monies, we're taken The govern
ment troops lost 3 dead and few
wounded.
A rebel attack on Olanchit0 was
beaten off with loss Of II insurgent
dead. The rebels left some baggage
behind them, including rubber rain
coat with initials indicating 1t belonged
to Gen. Arturo Ordonez, one Of the
chief rebel leaders.
Telephone and telegraph communi-
cation between Tegucigalpa and North
ern Honduras were cut off during the
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
BOAT BLAST, lNJURING
FOUR, SHAKES VILLAGE
Gasoline From Leaky Carburetor
Blamed for Explosion at Dock
in Ontario.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUDBURY, Ontario. April 23.-With
deafening explosion that shook the
fishing village of Killarney, about 60
miles from Sudbury, the Killarney
quarry mail boat blew up at the dock
late yesterday. Four of the five persons
aboard were injured, but all will re-
cover.
Walter Burke, the operator, who was
unhurt, said he believed the blast was
caused by gasoline from a leaky carbu-
rotor
The injured included Mr.. McNair,
manager Of the Dominion Mines g.
Quarry Co.. near Killarney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
Gen. Hadjitch Dies in Belgrade.

BELGRADE, Jugoslayia, April % Up.
Gen. Stefan Hadjitch, Jugoslayia S
most famous war minister, died today
after a stroke Of paralysis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
Manufacturer Is Dead.

WINSTON-S SALEM, N. c.. April Q;
(P).-William M Hanes, 40, vice presi.
dent of the P. H. Hanes Knitting Mil
Co, died today after several years
illness.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
BOYCOTT OF U. s. SUGGESTED.
Moscow Paper Comments on Effects Of
RetaIiations.
BY JUNIUs B. WOOD.

| BY JCNIUS b. WOOD.
/ BY Cable to The Star
| MOSCOW, U. S. s. r, April %
! Based on Austria's revocation of the ban
on Soviet eggs following Moscow'S re-
| taliatory prohibition Of imports from
that country. the Moscow Izvestia, Com
munist party organ, comments on the
| possibility Of similar measures against
| the United States and France, and the
| happy possibilities out Of the recent
| Soviet-German trade agreement Such
a prohibition of imports now applies to
| Canada following the latters exclusion
of Soviet anthracite.
Broad Economic Relations.
THE Soviet German agreement shows
! the possibility of developing broad eco
nomic relations between the Soviet
| Union and capitalist countries, on the
condition that our partners have no
adventurist plans CT hopes to reduce the
! speed of our socialistic industrializa-
! tion," says the inspired comment.
| 1t explains the decree, authorizing the
| commissar Of trade to boycott any coun-
| try, enacted following Frances dis
elimination against Soviet exports and
| that country is now convinced that
| those were not empty words.
Difficulties for Exports.
There is another country where ex-
perience may show that creating diff
culties for Soviet imports means diff
cuIties for its own exports" Izvestia
continues. We refer TO the United
| States. The latest figures on Soviet
American trade show that since the
| United States has applied preventive
, measures, based on senseless causes,
| Soviet exports and imports with the
! United States have been greatly re-
! duced"
/ The Soviet Union does not conceal its
! desire to develop economic relations
with the outside world. but 1t does not
appear in the international arena in
! terested in any kind or any quality of
orders and is willing to accept any con-
! ditiCns
tCopyright. l93lJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23

Radio Programs on Page D-4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-23
WEATHER.

CU. 9. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair, probably light frost and some
what colder. lowest temperature about 81
degrees; tomorrow fair, slowly rising tenn
perature. Temperatures-Highe 10, at
pm. yesterday: lowest, Al, at 800 pm.
yesterday Full report on page 3.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

January
Chief Police
SrThe activity and being
notorious fact that much the available aong
fusai to leave the city what 90
cutting which
social
the municipal the an
energetic and beneficial seizure of all those
ana who remain during working hours the
themselves
This class OF really despcabe
noy that they have into cutting
pace ~hefe they wish to live without working which cannot
under any circumstances least of all
offers the and parasite the
ana become useful efforts
and separating them from the of evil and crime
As parasites Of the
belong
contractors of the mills supply men that
able
the responsibility will the contents
immediate
listening
tons of anybody that might aims this circular
Yours respectfully.
CAPTAIN FREDERICK oUINTERO, NJ NJ
oaVaHy captain National Army, Provincial Supervisor
Municipal Police
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Conditions in Georgia Getting Worse

how the money man gets what poor
farmer makes.
I would like to tell the farmers
of the state unless they Organize in
union and put these conditions
down they will always be in this con-
dition.
Factory Workers Fit.
Not only the farmers should or
game, but everybody that works for
wages should do the same. The shops
are all cutting wages in Georgia.
Some have shut down. Some are
working part time. One shop just a
short way from the house here where
I live cut wages. The men that were
getting So and 81 a day got a cut
of SO cents a day, the 81 and SIS men
got cut of 81 a day. On top of that
they cut about half of the men off
QayofG.
Hard times and getting worse all
the time. I can't write often because
I am unemployed and have no money
to buy stamps with. III. D. V.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Seattle Workers Losing Their Homes

all OF these shacks are those owned
by workers, as there are only about
IS or 40 improved pieces of property
in the entire lot of 1900. On most
of these, assessments have been owing
to the city since 1928 This is the
end of the dream which many work
ers have had about owning their own
homes and their homes being their
palaces. There are many more pieces
of property falling into the hands of
the city, but SO far the first 1900
pieces have been disclosed by the
city authorities.
While capitalist authorities" on
unemployment endeavor to mini
mize the extent of unemployment, a
QUESTIONABLE of the local labor unions
shows unemployment among the A..
F. of L. members of Seattle to be as
high as 80 per cent.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Atlanta, Ga.

-t.f' SAbltlftd, Nd.
Forcorrs: 'a
I wish to state that conditions in
tlanta are very bad. They are not
ply bad in, Atlanta, but It's the same
ll over the state of Georgia. There
las been a, number of banks closed
4 Georgia. this past year, and are
'ill closing their doors this year. So
don't see anything that looks like
BOD times in Georgia.
Lean Year For Farmers.
At this writing the farmers had a
Dor year. ? Cotton was so cheap,
|ices were to 10 cents a pound,
j they did not get the cost of max
g the crop back. They lost money,
al hard-earned money that was
'afted from them by the money
an. So they are in worse shape
lis year. e.. -
The tobacco crop in South Georgia
e year Of 1899, brought 80 cents a
und. This last year it brought 10
Id IL cents pound. So you see
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Wholesale Wage Cuts Rage in Small
Rhode Island Textile Town; Worker
Gets Signatures for the Relief Bill
Increase Number of Looms for Weavers and
Cut Their Pay at Same Time
Workers Should Answer This Attack By Or
ganMing for Fight in NTWUH

the straw bosses are getting a 10
per cent cut and the help per cent.
The Prendergast Co. has just is
sued notices telling their employees
they are going to be cut 1912 per
cent.
They have all taken their cuts
and never in one case have they COM
planned.
AS I've been blacklisted for the last
8 years all I can do is to give the
Daily Worker to anyone who will
read it and they ar efew. All can
do at present is to thank you for
keeping the paper coming and hope
to be able to earn few dollars soon
and help to keep the only real labor
paper I've read in 35 years alive.
I am sending list of names for
the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
&C. G.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

Of an original military order, the
original being in the possession OF the
Daily Worker.
And from the same Cuban sources,
the Daily Worker gets the following
story as to the results of this forced
labor in Cuba. 1t says:
"Old and young are taken from
the streets and from the houses,
day and night, and dragged off
fOrcefuliy TO work. There are sup
posed to be enough workers for
the Zafra 1.-THE sugar cane harvest,
We have already 100000 unemploy-
ed, and immigration is stopped.
"But the following explains why
the workers don't want to be sent
to cane cutting. The pay is thirty
cents for one hundred arrObas lone
arroba equals twenty-five pounds of
cane. cut, trimmed and loaded,
and 1t is practically impossible to
make these thirty cents in fourteen
hours of work.
Besides, 1t is no longer labor, but
worse than prison labor. The work
ers have absolutely no protection.
All sugar areas have been militariz-
ed. At the least suspicion the peo-
pie are simply shot down. The fol-
lowing took place in Pinar del Rio:
"One of the workers who had been
forced into the work, told the over,
seer that it was impossible to do,
this work for thirty cents. The
overseer made no reply, but shot a q
bullet into the workers heart. Two,
workers who stood nearby indig-l
nantly asked the oyerseer why he.
had shot down an innocent person.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Bldg. Smbeys
Feel Weight OF
EcOn0micCyisis
New York.

NtM 1OIh.
Daily Worker:
Ralph Wexler, lawyer, 81 Park Ave,
is the champion exploiter Of super
intendents. There was super in his
employ for years at $3.50 per month
and 10 men helping at $50 per month.
The rent runs from $4,000 to tele-
phone numbers. The super's living
quarters were below the street. Space
provided for a restaurant on the
ground floor, vacant three years, was
given him to make an apartment for
himself. With violation of every ex-
listing building law, without extra
pay, he built an apartment better
than any in the house.
LayOffs In House.
Nearly completed the owner tells
him before Christmas, discharged
three men in order to make things
60. The super has to run the eleva-
tor three times a week, from p. m.
to IL p. m, himself. After Christ
mas he got $50 reduction in wages.
Jan. Is the super is fired. After
firing him the owner asked him to
stay five days to break the new man
in or he would get no references.
The supers think that they are
exempt from the average, have no
time or opportunity to see or hear
how his next fellow human being
lives or is treated. Don't realize that
he is the next in day or two. They
think they are different. They are
not concerned with revolution. With
40 years you are exceptional are fired
or work for less. The next man,
your children step in this cancerous
condition. In lifetime you cannot Sc
cure bread for your old age. With a
thought of the future you expect help
from your children. Comrades, be
honest with yourself, fight for con-
ditions now.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
ON
NEGRO, FOREIGN
BORN IN WARREN
Try to Split Ranks of
the Unemployed
Warren, Ohio.

Warren, Ohio.
Dear Comrade:-
I want to tell you a few words of
what the conditions are in Warren.
Negro and white foreign born work.
ers are Disseminated in the starva-
ton institution called the Community
Fund.
Here is proof: One Negro worker
who gets II cents for 8 days and an
other Negro worker gets $4.30 week
for in the family. He gets II cents
day for each person in his family.
Try Split Workers.
The person who calls himself an
American gets more They call him
into another room and he gets his
order and the Community Fund pays
his electric, water, gas and insurance
bills.
The Negro and foreign born work.
ers never get that, but when we
worked in the mills. the starvation
institutions and company officials
stole our days wages. But when we
ask for our money back they don't
give 1t to us. They call us Bolshe-
viks, and Communists and send us to
the city officials to ask them for help.
A Spy System.
The city officials turn us back to
the Communist Fund which asks our
story how we were born and when we
will die.
But we found out that it was spy
system and gave the names of pro-
gressive workers.
I call you workers, Negro and white
to come up to us and join our IN
employed Council. Don't starve, Or
ganize and fight. We hold meetings
every Friday morning at 10 o'clock
in the Hippodrome Hall on High st.
and will demonstrate on Feb. 10th.
UNEMPLOYED WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
WORKS TEN WEEKS,
SENDS $40 SUB

u have been lucky enough to have
worked ten weeks this year and,
therefore. am enclosing check for
$40. In order that I might continue
to have the pleasure of reading the
Daily Worker and help spread the
good news to hasten the day that
Revolutionists all over the world are
dreaming of. Hope this donation will
be multiplied a thousand times"
w. Nagel, Phila., Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

and we're immediately shot down
by the same overscer."
Workers! You who have listened to
the war-making lies of Congressman
Fish, Of Matthew Vol, about forced
labor" in the Soviet Union. You who
have read the capitalist press fairy
tales from Riga and Helsingfors, but
who know from the fact that all cap
italists hate the Soviet Union and
hope TO destroy it by war! Workers.
here is absolute proof of forced labor
III Cuba, virtual colony of the Unit
ed States, sugar plantation for the
National City Bank of ]. Pierpont
Morgan
But, Workers, do you think for one
moment that the Fish Committee, Mr..
VOL, or Secretary Stimson will bar
sugar made by the forced labor in
Cuba from entering the United
States?
Morgan is making money out Of
that sugar and it will not be bar
red. Even the rival beet sugar CAPT
talists of the United States who
would bar it if it were possible. are
doubtless too weak to overcome the
influence of Morgan's National City
Bank.
But understand, workers, that the
Hoover government and the Ameri-
can capitalist class are not at all
shedding tears about forced labor
so long as they can get profits from
it! .e
Understand, workers, what hypo-
critics the capitalists are, when they
gable about forced labor" in the
kSoviet Unioni
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Detroit, Mich,


ar Comrades:
While ! am writing this letter. in
ny shop in Detroit the ex-service
n are asked to sign their names
a petition list regulating their
ner demands for the payment of
bonus certificate. This, they are
d. must be done, in order to pro-
1 their country against high taxes,
lose their jobs.
one ex-service man walked into
taurant of the Brush st. neigh
hood and ordered a meal. His or
amounted to As cents. After hav-
eaten, he opened a package of
tv newsrapers and offeredrto pay
his meal in kind. A blue apron
a rair of cotton gloves. I'm
nv, Mister. he said--vou see, / was
en- a lob YESTERDAY n was supposed
60 thirrs with nv last fewl cents.
TO r-co',ed outfit told me this
ming. THEY'VE CHANGED thnir mind"
I wont Won to take ii, we no use
It, cause no more looking for Jobs
start this morninr. so bouoht
me, am goin' to fight from now
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Seattle, Wash.

Seattle, Wash.
Fifteen hundred pieces of Seattle
operty. on which there are 2 or
ore local Improvements assessments.
we been overdue for a year and will
sold at public auction on Feb. Is
the city,if purchasers can be found
This comes in the midst of a much
vertised campaign on the part Of
dealers in lumber and building
iterials calling upon the workers to
uild and own their own homes"
st like the bank failures coming
the heels of. the advertising cam
ign Of the bankers exIorting work
to be thrifty.
Seattle boasts that it is a city of
my home owners, among whom, of
lrse, are many wage workers who
n their little shacks. Practically
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

dirty buns" etc, but finally gave
permission to enter.
Board Evasivc.
The board of commissioners had
been scheduled to meet at 1890 but
it delayed opening its session until
Ills, apparently hoping the crowd
would go away.
Finally when it had to start, Sepesy
delivered the demand for: $40 per
week cash relief for each jobless
worker, with So more for each de-
pendent; free rent, gas, light and
heat for the iobless, free car fare
for unemployed workers school chill
dren, no vagrancy laws, armories and
public buildings to be turned over
to the jobless for lodging, $40 a week
minimum wage on the city part time
work; 100000 to be appropriated
from the city treasury at once, and
100000 more to be accumulated by
cutting city officials salaries, and
taiiing the big corporations.
The city commissioners heard the
demands, said not a word, Eyes, no
or maabe," and simply adjourned and
scurried away.
The jobless will not take this for
an answer. The Unemployed Coun-
Gil holds another meeting tomorrow
at 10 a m. at 30S Elm ST., all invited.
and will make plans for further pres
sure on this board.
Endorse Bill.
The crowd outside the city hall
marched seven blocks to the Workers
Center, which it damned full. and COL
lectively endorsed the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill. 1t also
voted to take part in mass demon
stration in support of the bill, Feb.
TO- at 2 p. m, at the city hall.
Saturday and Sunday there will
be tag days to Finance the state
hunger march on Trenton. Means
will also be found to finance the del
egate sent from here to Washington,
FEB. 10.
New Orleans Delegates.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Feb. 4. - A
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
'WOrkers i'm Superior Treated Like Dogs"
Superior, Wis.

Superior, Wis.
pear Editor of the Daily Worker:
The workers in Superior are treat
ID like dogs. While was passing
he breadline I saw about 25 to 80
ben standing inside. So I went in
md stood for a while.
After a spell the dishwasher came
|ut and he was drunk. He spoke up
md said what you guys standing
round for. The meal won't be ready
|ntil 8 p. m. Get out.
But one man spoke up and said,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
PITTSBURGH WOULD JAIL ALL
JOBLESS.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. 49, Unemployed
workers who are reduced to beggary
i'll order to exist would be hid in
prison should the Pittsburgh Cham
Der of Commerce members have their
way. In demand made to the
mayor to arrest all who beg. the
directorate of the chamber declared,
Conditions are a disgrace to the
city, presenting spectacle which re-
fleets upon our citizens as failing to
take care of the helpless and the
needy"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Fish and Co. Quiet About Slave
Labor Where Dollar Imperialism
Rules; Spread Lies About USSR
Over 100000 Unemployed in Cuba, But Police
Force Workers to Slave for Low Pay
Worker Who Objects to Slavery Is Shot Dead;
Fish Protects Morgan's Millions

The Daily Worker today offers positive proof forced
labor in the production of Cuban Published another
column of this is Photographic reproduction of mill
tary order Gin Spanh of the Cuban army captain FREDERICK
Quntero who under martial law supervising all police in the
province of Pnar del Rio An English translation published
with the photograph.
Workers will take notice that this proof not the lies
and ISLANDERS such the capitalist papers publish about al
legged forced labor in the Soviet Union photograph
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
s1s FOR MONTHS WORK

MONTESANO, Wash.-A South
Slav worker, who had put in 80 days
work for the Schafer Bros. of Mon
tesano, found that after he had paid
his commissary of 80 cents and his
board, he had left just $l3. He had
worked all of the working days in
that time. 1t had cost him $1.50 a
day for his board, besides he had
paid out hospital and state COM
pensation, etc. This would make q
good story for Believe it or not"
w. III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05

81 suppose you're. mad because we
didn't go out and split wood for a
couple of hours" Just then a big
pot bellied guy came out of the
kitchen and said, you'll chop plenty
of wood if send you to the work
farm for couple of months. Will
you get out or will I call the cops?"
So the workers went out.
I certainly think it's a damned
crime and I sincerely hope that the
comrades will not shirk what is their
duty but organize, organize.