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Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
Oklahoma Oil
Price Increases

OKLAHOMA CITY, July 80. U.P)
Statewide increases in the price
of gasoline were posted today. just
two days before Gov. w. H. Muir
rays threatened shutdown of all
Oklahoma flush fields.
The Continental Oil company, of
Ponca City, led the move with a
one-cent increase, placing the price
of gasoline at Is cents a gallon for
standard grades and 18 cents for
high test products.
Gasoline company managers said
prices may increase even more if
the governor forces crude prices to
81 by Saturday, when he has
threatened to issue his shutdown
order.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
WORKERS
PRESENT
PROGRAM
American Federation OF
Labor Seeks To Prevent
Wage Cutting.
URGE SHORTER DAY
Employment Guarantees,
Creation OF Work And
Relief Fund Desired.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, July 30. (UP)-
Organized labor has stepped into
the labor situation in an effort to
prevent the impact of reduced in
dustrial earnings from falling with
undue weight upon the shoulders OF
the employee consumer.
The American Federation Of La
Dor today came forward with pro-
gram 1t believes would prevent suf-
fering next winter due to unem-
ployment. This program calls for
1. Shortening of work hours to
distribute employment.
2. Employment guarantees prom
ises from management that those
now employed will be held through
the winter so that the fear Of unem-
ployment which tends to encourage
boarding could be dissipated
g. Creation of more work, public
and private, even chores around
homes.
L. Collection of funds for relief,
both municipal and private.
The federations proposal for a
shorter work week drew favorable
comment from william N. Doak,
secretary of labor He said he ia
vored a five-day week and six hour
day and said the shorter work
period may be the solution" of the
unemployment difficulty. But the
labor department can do nothing
about the situation, Doak added.
The federation made no reference
to the question of reduced wages
against which the White House is
continuing its warfare.
In proposing its program, the fed
Grafton declared unemployment Is
growing more critical despite a
seasonal improvement due to the
harvest season.
I'VE must look forward to a worse
unemployment problem next winter
than last" the federation stated.
Follows Rail Stand
This action follows that of exc
cutiyes of railroad labor organiza-
tions. They declared railroad
wages must not be reduced in event
the railroads fail to obtain their Is
per cent freight rate increase. Any
attempt at reduction would be "re-
sisted" the labor executives warned.
At the same time President Hoo
yer has turned TO the problem of
preparing to meet demands for re-
lief next winter. He is engaged in
a series of conferences in which
John Barton Payne, chairman of
the American Red Cross, and f. c.
Croxton, acting chairman of the
Presidents committee on employ
ment, have figured. Both agree with
Mr.. Hoover in opposing any federal
action which might be classed as
dole They declared the problem is
one for local charity and munich
palities.
Criticism of the administration
course in dealing with the wage sit
uation came via Democratic nation
al committee headquarters from
Representative John N, Garner,
minority leader of the house. Cit
ing Secretary of Commerce La
mont's recent letter declining to in
terfere in Rhode Island wage cut
ting, Garner asked: What becomes
of the promise of the President to
do all in his power to avert the
diminishing Of the contents of pay
envelopes?"
He said Lamont's letter suggests
that next year the administration
will claim credit for all wage sched-
ules that have been maintained and
deny responsibility for all that have
been chopped"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
WOman's Record
Changes Plea

LOS ANGELES, July 80. U.P) -
Mrs. Marie Hood. 40 withdrew her
guilty plea and probation request
today after report was read by
county probation authorities.
Charged with grand theft in fleec-
ing neighbors on gold mine
scheme, Mrs. Hoods request for
probation was answered by report
citing past frauds and at least
three bigamous marriages.
She served four months In Sc
attic for mail fraud in May. 1890,
according to TIE report, and ef-
rected other bur 20 deals in Seattle
under the aliases of Marie Loder
and Marie Wilson.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
AVIATOR BROWNS

MARSEILLES. France. July 30.
U.R-During secret tests today of a
seaplane intended for entry in the
Schneider cup international race,
the propeller broke and the ship
flew into Berre Bauou at 200 miles
an hour. The pilot, named Bou-
gault, was drowned.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
JUDGE REFUSES COMPROMISE
SENTENCE FOR AL CAPONE

CHICAGO, July 30. U.H = Fed
eral judge James H. Wilkerson to-
day refused to sentence AL Capone
under a compromise agreement, and
took a motion to withdraw the gang
leaders pleas of guilty under ad-
visement until Q p. m. tomorrow.
Judge Wilkerson's action came af-
ter a day of surprises in what was
to have been merely the formal
sentencing of Capone on the guilty
pleas he entered two months ago
to indictments charging income tax
evasion and prohibition conspiracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
BUOY IN DEEP SEA

PORTLAND, Me. (U.P) = A new
lighted whistling buoy, established
% miles off Mount Desert Island,
lies in the deepest water of any aid
to navigation in the United States,
according to the lighthouse depart
ment. 1t is moored in 228 feet of
water and weighs one ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30
BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

Copyright, 1881, by United. Press)
CHICAGO, July 80. U.P)-Al-
phonse (Scarface AID Capone is
through with the rackets" and is
determined Ito become an honest
man." he told the United Press to-
day while awaiting sentence to
Leavenworth prison.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-30

Continued on page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
BY WILLIAM L. PATTERSON.

In the public trial of Comrade 70
kinen. a member of the Finnish
Workers Club of New York City and
also of the Communist Party, the
Communist Party of the U. S. A. has
established precedent. Comrade
Yokinen was charged with entertain
ing views contrary to the program
of the Communist Party and detri-
mental to the interests Of the work
ing class" He was charged with
giving expression to the white SUI
periority lies that have been devel-
oped consciously by the capitalists
and the Southern slave owners"
In the pamphlet, race Hatred On
Trial" we find a detailed account
of the facts which led up to the
trial of Cotnrade Yokinen and to his
expulsion from the American Com
munist Party-his discrimination
against Negro workers who sought to
enjoy themselves at the Finnish
Workers Club. Conrade Yokinen
acted under the influence Of the
capitalist theology of white superior
ity." But Race Hatred On Trial
contains much more than a mere
recital of these facts The trial IT.
self was q ruthless analysis of the
social phenomenon termed race
hatred" race prejudice" white
chauvir1ism," and. on occasions, ma
tional .chauvinisr." The pamphlet
will bring home to the millions OF
workers of America, black and white,
who have heard of the trial only by
name, or upon whom the tremendous
class significance of the trial has
been lost, a comprehensive picture of
the source and nature Of race
hatred" 1t shows the progressive
nature of this malignant social CAN
Ger which gnaws upon the very
vitals of the working class.
We have said that Conrade Yoki-
men was charged with entertaining
NlCWc COllbld ally W tllC plD6ldlll VI JilC
Communist Party, with harboring
ideas detrimental to the interests
of the working class" What are the
basic principles Of Communism which
have a direct bearing upon these
questions OF racial perjudice," ma
tionsl cllauvinisln," white chauvin-
isn?" What interests has the work.
ing class which are common to black
and white workers alike, which are
common to the exploited and OPP
pressed masses of every nation?
Race Hatred On Trial answers
these questions clearly. forcefully
and trefutab1y.
It dissects the capitalist society In
which we live, it discloses its class
nature, 1t exposes the inherent an
tagonisms of these classes and the
ceaseless struggle of the working
class to escape from the insatiate
NAV of capitalism which through I'M
employment, wage-cuts and the
'lengthening of the working day. i'm
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

paigns for the successful carrying
through of the American National
Youth Day on May 3oth, in which
all working class children are to take
a prominent part.
Workers and working class organ
izations! Every worker who does
not want to see his child turned
against his own class by the bour-
geosie and their children's press
should support this magazine. The
bosses understand full well the dan
ger to their class in our children's
movement. Already the American Lee
gion of California has issued a reso-
luton calling for a physical fight
against the Young Pioneers of Amer
lea. The workers organizations must
consider one of their main tasks the
building of a children's movement
and the new Pioneer magazine. Or
ganize an apparatus for spreading
the paper. Adopt it as an official
organ for children in every organ
ization. Write for it. Send in adj
vance orders at once.
Working class specialists and tech
niciansl We must present in the
new magazine various technical ac-
tiyities such as radio building, wood
work, mechanics. etc. Through these
activities we will win the child of the
worker and the farmer for our class.
Write for the magazine. Help us
teach the children all these activi-
ties which interest them.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
"Race Hatred on Trial"

acid test of ''real international soli-
darity of the American white work
ers." It emphasizes the reaso s why
the Communist program demands
"they. the white workers, must
boldly jump at the throat of the 100
per cent bandits who strike a Negro
in the face"
This little pamphlet shows how
the campaign to secure full and
complete social, political and econ
onic equality for the Negro masses
must be carried into action. 1t dis
closes how the struggle for the right
Of self -deter1nination for the Negro
masses in the Black Belt of the
Southern states, which constitute an
oppressed national majority. is the
very pivot of the whole struggle for
the unity of white and black work
ers in America.
What must be of supreme interest
to the Negro masses of America is
the fact that while capitalist Amer
lea had no fault to find with Com
rade Yokinen, whose actions wild
ened the split between white and
black workers, the Comrade Yokinen
who saw the error of his ways, who
saw their effect as an agency de-
structive of class solidarity, iInmedi-
ately became persona non grata'
to the ruling class of America. When
he was no longer willing to be a
bearer of the germs of race hatred,
the rulers of America began proceed
ings to deport Comrade Yokinen.
That the Negro masses must be mob
ilized for determined struggle against
the deportation of the militant for
eign workers who are fighting des-
perately to unity the working class
and to destroy the strongholds of
race prejudice is made clear In this
pamphlet.
But the interest of this pamphlet
for the working class is by no means
confined to America. The trial of
Comrade Yokinen was OF an inter-
national character. Because of the
pressure and influence of capitalist
race superiority" propaganda upon
the working class, we will find COM
rade Yokinen's in every other Party
In the Communist International.
They must be uncovered and ruth
lessly weeded out. The trial of Com
rade Yokinen illustrates a dramatic
moment in the struggle for the in
ternationalization of the working
class. 1t has, therefore. international
Significance. These lessons must be
broadcast.
This pamphlet, Race Hatred on
Trial." must find its way into the
hands of millions of workers Of every
nation and color. No American
worker, be he an active REVOLUTIONARY
or not, can afford to miss this ex.
posture of the struggle of interna-
tional capitalism against the inter-
naturalization Of Labor
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Red Mother Goose
BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS

BY HENRY GEORGE WEISS
Goosey, gocsey, tramp man, where
do you roam?
In jail and out of jail but no place
Is home,
Up state and down state and all
around creation
Begging for bite to eat In the rich
est nation
Humpty Dumpty set up a bawI
Because he had nothing to eat at all,
Along came the sheriff and sher-
ifs men
And beat Humpty -dunnpty up again!
Little Jackie Homer
Was nothing but a foreigner,
Eating a crust and q crurnb,
When along came the nation
In the name of immigration
And said he caused starvation
And s,iirped him back where he
came from.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
A Negro Worker
Joins u p
BY RAY ROsENFELD

VIE climbed the narrow, dirty stairs
w until we reached the top OF a
dingy, smelly hall with garbage strewn
about. We knocked at a door and a
frightened voice answered, Whose
there?" "Open the door, sir no
fear" we said. A man opened the
door and stuck his head out. 1--WE
represent the Communist Party"
Whereupon he ushered us in and
asked us to be seated.
The room was dimly-lit IN order to
save on the electric bill which he
hadn't paid for several months. A
few dirty, broken pieces of furniture,
a. table, some chairs with rags piled
high and small squeeky folding bed.
The atmosphere spoke of extreme
poverty and want.
He was tall, thin, Negro worker
who appeared more dead than alive.
His cheeks we're sunken in, accentu-
ating his cheek bones. His eyes, fall
len in their sockets and lifeless. No
teeth. Long skinny arms and legs.
A picture Of literal starvationl
We told this worker that we came
to acquaint him with the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, that
we want him to sign the petition for
the bill, and also join the Unem-
ployed Council,
He soon began to express his SYM
pathies and tell us about himself, He
had been cook, working in a Fifth
Avenue Restaurant for years. One
day, the bread-slicing machine took
off two fingers of his right hand. Then
the boss had no more use for him
and fired him. He could get another
man who had all his fingers and
cheaper too.
The Negro worker hasn't been
working ever since, and that was q
year ago. Since he has been going
aroud borrowing money to keep his
wife and two children alive. And now
he has exhausted all his credit. There
were many bills to meet. The gas
and electric bills hadn't been paid for
the past two months. They threat
ened to shut of the supply.
This worker continued in his Sob
bling voice and now reached the CHI
max. And there was the rent! He
hadn't paid the rent for two months
and was sent disposses a few days
ago. At this point, the man almost
broke down.
We began to talk to him and show
him that the thing to do was not to
starve but to fight! We assured him
of help and told him all about the
Unemployed Councils, who fought
against evictions and how they put
the furniture back into the house of
the evitced workers.
"Say that's the kind of organization
for me-" he exclaimed, and he's been
good member ever since.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

periali5t wars and so forth, takes
their amending toll of lives Of work
ing-class men, women and children.
The pamphlet lnfolds the manner
in which this small ruling class in
capitalist society maintains its posi-
ton OF power, Of life and death over
the untold millions of toilers. It
shows how the control of this ruling
class OF all media of propaganda
the press, schools, theatres, churches,
and so forth, enables them to spread
among the working class the I'M
scientific, perricious doctrine of
white superiority"
1t shows how the acceptance OF
this vicious doctrine is furthered
among the workers by placing the
white workers IN a privileged posi-
ton as compared to workers who
belong to the so-called colored ma
ton. 1t shows how subtly this is
carried on in America. splitting the
ranks of the working class. pitting
white against Negro. Negro against
foreign born, and thus render less
difficult the exploitation of the
masses as whole.
The pamphlet brings to the fore
front the program of the Commu~
mist Party for the internstiona1iza-
ton of the working class; for the
united front of the workers of all
nations against the united front of
the exploiters Of all nations.
The pamphlet shows this program
in action. The trial of Comrade Yo-
kinen. while unique in the history
of the American labor movement,
has its counterpart in the interna-
tioral trial Of two white American
workers in Soviet Russia. These
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18

Hi diddle diddle
An empty middle,
And a policeman's club DER the head,
Is Hoover's receipt
For something to eat.
v
Drought and sun and hickory dock
Dry up the feed Of the farmers stock,
Just like the bosses legally steal
From under his nose the farmers
meal,
The bankers are in the counting
houses boarding up the money,
The workers are in the flop houses,
starving without any.
The parasites at Palm Beach Iolllng
In the water,
Hoover In the white House plotting
blood and slaughter.
Everything Is nice and fine, little
children starving
lVliss prosperous, srleraid lime all
the rich are having.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
A NeW Magazine for Workers
Children on May First!
Statement by Editorial Board of
New Pioneer Magazine.l


The winning over of the children
from the influence of the bourgeoisie,
through their schools, church and
press. is one of the main tasks be-
fore the working class, if our children
are not to become inlbued with a
strikebreaking and jingoistc spirit.
Today, more than ever before, is the
capitalist class making q sharp fight
for the influence over the children
The working class is faced with the
necessity of making counter attack
for the control over the influence OF
the millions of American children.
To do this it is necessary to inlnle-
diately take up the problem OF &C.
tually organizing a mass movement
of working class children.
Among the first steps to be taken
for the building up of such a mass
movement is the publishing Of a
magazine for workers and farmers
children. An intensive drive is now
taking place to get this magazine out
by the First of May. Against the
militaristic, anti-labor propaganda OF
the tremendous bourgeois cnildren's
press, we must present q workers
and farmers children's magazine.
we, too, can approach the children
through their interest in sports, so
cial life, scoutcraft, and the like. The
main purpose of the New Pioneer
magazine will be to attract the
workers children and give them live
h and interesting material to read,
and through this to satisfy their ma
tlral interests, at the same time edu-
eating them in the spirit Of class
struggle against the bourgeoisie.
This magazine for the children is
to be a twenty-four page magazine,
containing fiction stories, sports, ar
ticles on how to make radios, air
planes, articles on nature and science,
scouting and outdoor life. 1t is
planned to make this magazine avail
able for every workers child, and Tor
every worker as well. 1t will sell for
5 cents the copy, and subscriptions
are to be so cents per year.
Workers! Working class childrenl
This magazine will be out by May
LIST all over the entire country only
if you strain every ounce Of energy
to create an apparatus to take care
of it and to develop real campaign
around it. After May 1st comes In
ternational Children Campaign, from
May First to fourteenth. This year
the children exist under the most I'M
bearable conditions. We must make
this International Children's Cam
paign one of the most rousing in the
history of the children's movement.
To do this our magazine must come
out in time to mobilize thousands of
children for the campaign. And this
international Children's Campaign is
to be one-of the preparatory CAM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-18
Rr IoHN PETERSON

Paul the Lettish blacksmith got his
accordion and began to tune up. His
big, coarse fingers handled the keys
with dexterity that was amazing.
The brawny arms with bullying BIZ
ceps held the accordion so gently,
caressingly. His huge shoulders
slumped, head hung down, fell a
little to one side, he seemed to have
all relaxed, gone into a trance, there
was a PARKWAY look in his calm and
grey eyes; perhaps he was seeing the
barricades again, the red flag proud
" waving above armed workers be-
hind; his face became pensive, a faint
smile crept over and expanded, as
again he saw the barricades, the red
flag above the workers in trench
helmets behind, disciplined, we'll
armed with rifles, hand grenades,
machine guns, artillery, tanks, air.
planes his face changed, became
stern. martial, he struck boldly and
played: The Workers Flag Is Deep
est Red"
Anders, his chrHn sat near by think
ing deeply. his head moved with the
stirring tune. Some of the crew lis
tened in proud silence, some hummed
along swaying slightly to the rhythm.
Just 81 days at sea and the good
old ship Margaret running like a wild
mare, had rounded the Horn and was
ready to pick. up the southeast trade
wind which was slow to come.
The trouble started in the usual
way-drive, drive, drive. The ship
must make. a quick passage, for the
captain wants the bonus in gold SOW
ereigns. But the wind stopped blow
ing, it cared nothing for the ship,
did not give a damn for the, captain
and his bible and the bonus of gold
sovereigns.
With maniacal joy he began order
ing the sailors about, he would make
them brace the yards around, back,
again around and back, trying to
catch the Slightest puff of wind. And
without the Slightest murmur the
sailors worked and pulled on the
ropes. It WIS pulling-"till your
arms dangled' below your knees" and
the men were also hungry-"so hun
CRY, you could pick the slack skin
off your hells1 and wipe your tears
1t was not enough.
The breakfast came. But there
was no breakfast. for there was
nothing to eat. The sailors held
meeting. Two men we're chosen and
sent aft to ask for more hard tack
(sea biscuits9ar on going aft the
delegates were. set upon by Captain
Jock and his mates and mercilessly
beaten. Then the crew rose like one
man, one strong, solid body. They
marched aft to the captain and "the
mighty fist led them the way.