davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

revolution broke out tomorrow, he
answered, Il already have"
Irwin Goodman, defense attorney in
all of the trials Of Portland workers
who have been arrested as a result
of the activities Of Oregon bosses who
are trying to smash the rising tide of
workers, made three motions for dis
missal and directed verdict of acquit-
tai. The court reserved answer until
tomorrow.
The International Labor Defense
appeals for the support of all workers
in the Portland cases as this is part
OF the concentrated drive of the Fish
Committee against working class ac-
tivities Eleven more workers are
still TO come to trial ,,SSs sss sss.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Militant Food Worker Dies in Milwaukee,

Comrade Gourkes was a bakery
and restaurant worker, member of
the Communist Party and of the In
ternational Labor Defense, where he
gave faithful services.
Rumors of his death in January
have been confirmed by the Social
Service Department of the Milwau-
Ike, County Hospital.
We honor the memory of Gourkes,
who has been laid to rest by the
county authorities, in Potters field.
A Worker Correspondent.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
linn. Y.C.L. School
Inference Will Be
Held On March 29th

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.-The Young
Communist League of District g.
Minnesota, will hold a district train
ing school this summer.
The scllolo will last for about four
weeks and young workers and farm
ers will be trained for the struggle
against their oppressors. "A confer
ence for this school will be held on
Sunday, March 30 at 10 a. m. at COL
Towers Ave, Minneapolis. This con-
ference will arrange the details for
the school.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Crosby, MINI.

Crosby, MINI.
Dear Daily Worker:
I'm dropping you a few words how
we went from here to Duluth, 10
miles, to hear our revolutionary
leader, William z. Foster. I met
comrades in Woodman Hall that
came over 180 miles.
When I came back from Duluth
many workers met me in the road
and asked me how I liked it. What
kind of man he was. I wish I could
of heard him, they said Workers
around the mine say he is the Amer
ican Stain.
1 will let you know the situation
here in the Crosby Cyuna Range
mines. We are working four days
week close to a year ago. Now Ar
NOR No. and No. 2 England Steel
Co. have started to work three days
a week. The bosses say they think
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
EIdorado, I'LL.

Eldorado, Ill.
Daily Worker:
i have been to Franklin and Will
hanson Co. and I have heard
from the miners that the coal COM
pany is trying to force another re-
dsuction at Old Ben No. 8. 1t will
BIS Is ga per ton reduction, which
means that the wages will be re-
ddced from 68cents TO about So
cents per ton.
The wage-cut will be carried out
by the coal officials since they
have ordered old Benton TO make
the gas shoot down coal, which
necessitates more men. If they
have to take on more men they
will have to lower the wages. so
the st. Louis papers report and the
other local papers.
If Old Ben makes this wage cut,
all the ether mines will do the
same thing. When this reduction
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
PROTEST. WAR ON
USSR IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, II.-A mass protest
meeting is being called by the Com
munist Party of Chicago against the
attempts of the capitalists and So
cialist betrayers to destroy the Sow
let Union.
The meeting will particularly pro-
test the sabotage of the Mensheviks,
under the leadership and influence
of the yellow Second International,
to make the year plan of the
workers government o failure.
The meeting will be held on Fri
day, March 27, at Peoples Audi
torium, PAST w. Chicago Ave, at
p m.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Greet Daily
With 1000 Subs

Readers! One thousand new
subscriptions before May 1!
From now on, every new
subscriber or renewer will have
his name printed in the May
Day edition of the Daily
Worker. In addition, his old
debt will be wiped out with
every new subscription. Be
prepared with an extra bundle
Of the Daily Worker for your
May Day demonstration. Use
1t to rally thousands Of work
ers In the campaign for un-
employment relief.
(See page 8 for dates Of May
Day editions to reach Far
West, Middle West, Eastern
States and New York;
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Milwaukee, Wis.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Daily Worker:
A militant Greek worker, Christ
Gourkes, passed from the ranks of
the living in January, after a long
illness. Comrade Gourkes was ad-
mitted to the Milwaukee County
Hospital July 10, 1880, and trans
ferred to the State Sanitarium at
Wales, Wisconsin. After being re-
turned to the Milwaukee County
Hospital for an operation, he was re-
transferred to the State Sanitarium,
where he met his death.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

The following are the list OF or
ganizations which have sent in both
resolutions and money:
Hungarian Young Workers Club
(youth) $5; Karl Liebknecht Br. 1.
W.o. (youth) $1.2O; Slovak Workers
Society Br. 1o5 (youth) 81; Milan
Glumac $5.35; Russian Workers Co.
operative Society $500; Lithuanian
Working Women's Alliance So; Fin
nish Workers Club; Russian Workers
Mutual Aid Society.
This is just beginning. More
resolutions and money are on their
way. The workers of Chicago are
determined to maintain the Young
Worker" despite all attacks of the
government s.e.ssssas a,.. as.Al i. ..,,.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
20 to 100 Camden Workers Evicted Each Week

ise will not solve the problem at
present.
I have a statement here from the
court sheriff, stating that in Cam
den ana the vicinity around there,
about 20 to 100 eviction cases are
taken up each week. These work
ers are being thrown out of their
homes through no fault of their
ewn. They have received no re-
lief and have decided that the only
way out is to join the class strug-
gle. They have formed protest
leagues and unemployed councils.
"A WORKER.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

Camden, N. J,
Daily Worker:
In Camden, we see the Hoover
prosperity floating on the Della
ware River and under the bridge.
1t hasn't tried to stop here yet. In
fact it has been floating faster and
faster, straight ahead. / guess, into
the ocean.
Now, fellow workers, the situa-
tion here is growing worse every
day. The Victor r.. c. A. has a lot
to say, but nothing to do, only to
keep the workers with promises
that they have big prospect for
the coming June. But this prom
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
PITTSBURGH COAL co.
LAYS OFF 500 MEN AND
STEALS A MINERS COAL
Worked Hard Two Days Digging Coal and
Then Told He Had Nothing Coming
Miners! Fight This Brutal Robbery! Organize
Into the National Miners Union
Dear Comrade Editor
Herminie, Pa.


want you print this in the Daily Worker because want
other people to know how getting treated at the War
den of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They have laid off 500
in the month of February and lucky enough that
didn't get fired
But here the way the bosses treated for good while
went to the mine day and when got my place
caved in. So waited for the boss around He
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Chicago Workers Pro-
test Govt Attacks On
"The Young Worker"

CHICAGO, March 2o.-The action
Of the government in taking away
second class mailing privileges from
the young Worker" has aroused
great protest of both youth and
adult working class organizations in
Chicago.
The organizations hvae demon
strated their protest by sending in
protest resolutions to the Post Office
in Washington, as well as donations
70 the Young Worker Defense Fund,
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
JAMESTOWN SHOWS
PEP IN ID. w. ORDERS

Increase our bundle from $50 to
200. We are sending you our list of
statesmen of the paper at this date:
Swan Peterson, go; Oscar Munson, so;
Fred G. Hunt, so; Steve Costa, 20;
Hjahmar Carlson, 20; total, 200. Keep
the good work going on."-F. c. H,
jamestown, N. Y.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

on the streets of Columbus, and
would like to put it on sale. II you
can start me off at rs copies per
day, until build up this route, /
will do the best can to see that
they will remain on sale"
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
Drive Against Australian
Workers Carried On By Labor Party;
Workers Demand Resistance, Strike
Fakers in Trade Unions Issue Manifesto of
LEFT" Phrases to Keep Back Action;
Thousands Are Starving

SYDNEY AUralaWidespread industrial clashes
as result of wage cuts the shatterng Of labor conditions industry
smashing of the living workers.
unemployment The cuts being the govern
ment which rules Australia
Fifteen months when the government
there approximately 100000 unemployment
has increased by leaps and bounds until
$4,000 100000 jobless.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
READING BOOSTS
ORDER BY rs DAILIES

"Send me 225 copies daily instead
of 200, and 800 on Thursdays, in
stead of 275," writes Harold John Of
Reading, Pa, indicating that he
wants to keep his word when he
promised he'd order 500!
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

bunch Of grafters, as are the ma
jority of office-holders. And the
people here are so dumb that they
can't see, hear or smell.
Get a reporter in this city, it's got
al of them beat 4ssksIsas,. r-R G.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23

Use your Red Shock Troop List
every day ON your job. The worker
next to you viii help save the Daily
Worker.
The daily worker., 1931-03-23
TO START ROUTE
IN COLUMBUS. OHIO

From G.. w. Wilson, Columbus,
Ohio:
"The Daily Worker is not on sale
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Captive Charges Denied
Little Edith Receives
Many Toys and Dolls

In a flower.filled room at Gal
linger Hospital little Edith Riley
seeks to find the pleasures OF
childhood that have been denied
her for years.
Since her release Friday from
the dark closet at her home at
111O Rhode Island Ave. N. w.,
Edith has been the recipient Of
many gifts of toys and dolls
Those playthings are bringing to
the large blue eyes that for so long
knew only darkness, a. new light
Of happiness.
Edith smiles and her attendants
at Gallinger say that she is chang
ing from the silent, staring child
Of a few days ago into a smiling
little girl who enjoys her new life
to the utmost.
She has even found a playmate
Without companions for years,
Edith is the object of the atten
tion of Russell, a red-haired boy
whose own radiant countenance
is reflected now on the SCARED
face of the girl. They play to-
gether with a battered doll, and
smile and whisper about it. They
try to walk together, Russell on
his sturdy legs and Edith on the
thin, emaciated limbs that are
gradually finding strength again.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
TRUCK MISSING,
SOS BROTHER

Misfortunes have been adding
up thick and fast for Joe Butler,
colored 40 D st. N. W., he told
Judge Gus A. Schuldt, before
whom he was arraigned in Traffic
Court today on a charge of driv.
ing with dead tags.
Policeman @. E. Hayne, of the
Traffic Bureau, said he stopped
Butler at Tenth and U Streets
Northwest, and found the tags on
his car had been issued to his
brother, James Butler, 40 Defrees
st. N. W., for another make Of
car. Butler explained:
my car was stolen, Judge,
and / found it myself. I was 50
glad to get it back I didn't look
at the tags, and / had my truck
stolen, too, but / haven't got 1t
back"
Judge Schuldt asked;
"HOw about your brother?
Those tags were issued to him.
Do you think he had your carr"
ITO tell the truth, Judge, 1
think he did. But he has gone
South now"
Judge Schuldt released Butler
on his personal bond.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
s HURT,.D DRIVER
Of CAR HELD

Six persons were carried to
Washington hospitals for treat
ment following an automobile
accident at Hollywood on the
Washington Boulevard early this
morning, In which they were in
jured.
Raymond Garner. colored, 912h
Twenty-fifth st. N. W., driver
of one car, is held by police on
charge of reckless driving.
The injured were: Caroline
Miller, Is, 902 Twelfth st. N. E..
driver of the other car. who re-
ceived lacerations of the face
and arms: Herbert Weiss. 10, 3"A
Fourth St. N. w., severe cuts
and bruises on his arms and tace
and internal injuries, and four
colored men who were with
Garner.
Miss Miller and Weiss we're
carried by paSsersby to Casualty
Hospital, and the four occupants
of Gamers car to Freedmen'S S
Hospital. to be treated for cuts
and bruises.
They are: Martin Ferguson. 81,
81 N st. s. W.; James Arthur,
80, 14l4 Tenth st. N. W.; Clifton
Diggs, %, 1872 D st. S. w.. and
David Eisby, %, 1924 Twenty
second st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
TRUCK KILLS 5
!. IN AUTO CRASH

NORRISTOWN, Pa, Nov. 9 Il.
N. SO.-Five persons were killed
and a man and his wife seriously
injured early today when a huge
truck crashed into an automo-
bile a mile east of Norristown.
Those killed and injured were
all riding in the automobile when
it was struck by a freight truck
operated by James Lamb, Of
Philadelphia.
The victims were Peter Polinik,
so, of Edgewater, N. j.; his wife,
Mary, SO; their two children,
Harry, II, and Susanna, 4. and
Steve Lucash. II, also of Edge
George Rodin, %, of Union
City. and his wife, Anna, %, a
daughter of the dead couple, were
injured. Rodin was driving the
automobile. Lamb was arrested
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
HOOVER To ASK
NON-:PART|SAN
SUPPORT
President at Work on Mes
sage; Expected to Seek
Political Holiday
BY GEORGE r. HOLMES
President Hoover has begun

President Hoover has begun
work on his message to Congress
which convenes four weeks from
today.
Extraordinary interest attaches
to the message, for in 1t Mr.
Hoover is expected to appeal for
non.partisan support Of his pro
gram and q moratorium OF politics
Present indications are that ne
will get neither.
Control in Doubt
The Democrats seem certain OF
organizing the House. They have
more than a remote chance OF
gaining the Senate, too, although
the present lineup gives the Re.
publicans paper majority OF
one in the upper chamber. Ill
ness, death or absenteeiSm may
change that overnight.
Under these extraordinary con.
ditions, and with the country still
struggling in the throeS Of the
depression, Mr.. Hoover is ex-
pected to ask his political friends
to stand firm and his adverSaries
to submerge their feelings and
partiSanship to the end that Con-
gress shall legislate for the good
of the country.
Plea Likely To Fail
To this plea the Democrats and
the insurgent Republicans are eX.
pected to retort that they will go
along with the Administration in
matters wherein their principles
are the same, but they are al
ready serving notice that they
will not swallow" any Admins
tration legislative program with
out thorough examination and
consideration.
A statement by Representative
Collier of Mississippi, one Of the
prominent Democrats in the
House, was fairly illustrative OF
the Democratic attitude. He said:
"Any bipartisan legislative
policy proposed by the Admins
tratiOn, would simnIy mean that
the Administration would Swal
low up the Democratic party.
"If there is no difference in
economic principles between the
Republicans and the Demo
Gratis, then the Democrats might
aStwell vote for Republican con.
| troll of the House and no out of
existence as a party"
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
CRUSOES
ARRIVE IN n, !,

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 Q.N.SJ
Capt. Elmr ]. Palliser, Of San
Diego: Carbon Brauner, of Spring
field, ILL.,. and Paul Stachwick. of
Huron, S. D.. who were ship
wrecked and cast away for six
months on the CocoS Islands, in
the Pacific Ocean. $50 miles west
Of Panama. arrived in New York
on the s. s. Virginia today.
The three men were on their
way to the San Juan River in
Guatemala on a tour Of explora
ton. Their 26-foot yawl, the West
Wind sprung a leak in the heavy
weather and was pounded to
pieces on the beach Of the CocoS
on April IS.
The men were rescued on Octo.
Der ~ last by the U. S. s. Sacra-
mento, called to the scene by
julius FleiShmann, son of the
yeast magnate who found their
tracks when he put into the
islands on his yacht the Camargo,
They were travelling steerage
in the Virginia under the guidance
Of a vaudeville actor who gave
his name Ss Hal Jerome.
Jerome refused to allow them
to talk to newspapermen at first,
and then. refused to allow them
to give anv but the most meagre
details Of their experiences on the
desert ISLAND.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
P[UNGERS Turn
To WHEAT

CHICAGO, Nov. 9 I.N.SJ.
The meteoric advance in wheat
prices has transformed the grain
market into the nations specula-
tive center.
Not only has the general public
come into the grain market, but
SPECTATORS have swung from the
stock market to the grain trade.
At least IL stock brokers have
purchased memberships in the
Chicago Board of Trade. The
price of seats has advanced from
$4,000 to $12,500 apiece.
Sales of wheat futures one
month ago on the board Of trade
we're $780, 900 bushels. Last Fri
day 69,O63 900 bushels were sold.
Strong Eastern interests, con-
vinced that wheat is going to
lead the country out of the de-
preston, have bought wheat and
are standing on their original
holdings, traders here report.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
5000 Take Tests
For InanliqrUtiOn job

More than 5000 persons took
the Civil Service Commissions S
examination Saturday for the po-
sition of immigration inspector,
field service. Others will take the
exami-~ ction later.
Like, the postal service, and
other field positions, the appll-
cants had to be actually domi-
ciled in the States in which they
claimed residence. About SO tenn
porary employees of the Census Blu
reau here, facing removal soon,
went to their respective homes to
take the tests.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
TIP ON CHILD
CAPTIVE WINS
$40 AWARD
Severance of U. S. Workers
and A. F. of L. Takes
Second Prize

The news tip on the discovery
of an emac:ated 13-year-old girl,
held captive in a closet for four
years, won the first prize of $40
in The Washington Times contest
for - week.
Proposed severance Of the af.
filiation between the National
Federation Of Federal Employees
with its mother organization, the
American Federation Of Labor,
! ,ok the second prize Of SO.
An alert woman who telephoned
the To on the Navy test plane
crash, in which Pilot E. c. Ritchie
lost his life, earned the third prize
c: IS. 5he was ahead Of a dozen
OF. tipsters.
Cuts in the staff of the Census
Bureau which changed the bureau
from a beehive of humanity to a
deserted village" as told to The
Times by a Census worker, won
the So prize.
Six So prizes were awarded for
t.Js on the f. ing: The shoot.
ing Of horse which had suffered a
broken leg when struck by an
auton. obile; identical injuries suf'
fered by two sisters a few days
apart in similar accidents; the
death Of F. M. Warren, l712 Irving
st. N. W., in a wreck at Mt. Har'
mony, Md; the capture Of two
roy. in a hardware store at ''an
re-, Md: the scoring Of a hole In
one by an amateur golfer, and the
the-' of cheap jewelry" from a
drug store.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Turns Evangelist
To Keep His Health

Still spreading the doctrine
that the best place for the unem-
ployed ex-service man is right in
his home town, and that his
home town has moral obliga-
ton to take care of the veterans
without work, Sergt. l.. B. Loewen-
stein returned to Washington to-
day and gave a radio address
over station VOL before continu-
ing his itinerant evangelism.
Gassed and shell-shocked in the
war, Sergeant LoewStein has to
remain in the open air and must
keep active because of his physi-
cal condition. Paradoxically, he
urges unemployed veterans to re-
main at home and not wander to
strange communities.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
10 Years Held Right
Aae to Start School

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 U.S).
The withholding of children
from school until they are 10
years old was advocated today
by DR.. David Hnedden, professor
Of education at Teachers College,
Columbia University, in announc.
ing the results of his survey on
existing educational conditions.
DR.. Snedden asserted that the
tendency to discipline young
pupils in formal academic rou.
tine has been overdone in the
United States.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
ALEC B. FRANCIS
DISAPPEARS

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 9.-After
years as one Of Hollywood's be-
loved character actors, Alec B.
Francis is playing the lead" in
a most mysterious disappearance
on the Pacific Coast.
Strangely absent since Satur,
day, Francis is being sought
throughout Southern California
It is feared he has suffered a
nervous breakdown and amnesia
has developed or that he is the
victim Of foul play.
Francis, known to movie goers
throughout the English speaking
world as the kindly old gentle
man that rescues the poor little
kitten Just before it is run over
by a fire truck or receives into
his home the outcaSt daughter OF
q hard hearted father, once ad
mitted a life time ambition to
play tragedy roles.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Vet Jailed $50 Days
For Stealing Dishes

Hardy j. Story, 81, a world
war veteran, TBS Sixth st. S. w.,
today was sentenced to 180 days
in Jail by Judge Isaac r. Hit
in Police Court after he had been
convicted of stealing dishes and
TOOLS valued at $40.
Story was arrested after he is
said to have sold the articles,
stolen from the home of Charles
E. Stentz, 725 Seventh St. S. w.
Story said they had been given
to him.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
KICK
At HOURS GUT

Hugh L. Kerwin, director of
conciliation, Department of Labor,
will confer this afternoon with
representatives of carpenters en-
ployed at the Naval Air Station
Delegates representing the union
men called at the office of the
Secretary Of Labor, William N
Doak, today. complaining that
although the union rates per
hour, S1.35la were being paid,
the hours had been drastically
cut.
They charged they were not
being credited with their full
time and Mr.. Kerwin arranged
for a conference,
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
William, Tell Stunt
Fatal to IOwan;
Killer jailed

ROCK RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 8
dN.SO George Marnett, SO,
whose attempt to re-enact the
William Tell feat went 'awry,
was held in the county Jail to-
day charged with manslaughter
in the killing of James Dickin-
son, 40
Witnesses said Dickinson, a
close friend Of Marnett, placed
a bottle on his head and chal-
lenged Marnett to shoot it off :.
The first two shots missed.
The third struck Dickinson in
the head.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Peace To Be Subject
Of National. Forum

A world peace program will be
discussed at the formal opening
of the sixth season of the Ma
tional Forum at the Jewish Com
munity Center on Wednesday
night.
Mrs. George Hyman, president
Of the local branch of the Wom-
ems International League for
Peace and Freedom, will speak
on proposed armament reductions
and DR.. Samuel Schmalhausen.
noted psychiatrist; will discuss
the future of civilization.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Father Asks Court
To Return Child, J

Farley Warner Eaton, a mu'
sician. today asked the District
Supreme Court to compel his
mother and father-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Dodd, 1907 Kennedy
st. N. w., to turn over to him
his three-year-old daughter, Char
lotte June Eaton.
In his petition. Eaton, who is
represented by Saul G. Lichten'
berg and Edward G.. Aaronson,
states that the child's grandpar'
ents have been keeping her at
their home and will not let him
have her. The baby's mother is
in Gallinger Hospital receiving
treatment.
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
Northeast Citizens
To Discuss Traffic

A meeting Of the Northeast
Washington Citizens Association
will be held tonight at the Lud.
low School Building, Sixth and
G Streets Northeast.
In a notice sent to members,
Joseph Notes, secretary, said mat
tiers for discussion would include
the appointment of standing com
mittees, the disposition Of ashes
and refuse, traffic conditions and
a new membership drive. Re.
freshments will be served, and
women are especially invited to
attend,
The Washington times., 1931-11-09
DOGk To Be Speaker
At Clarendon Rites

Represents tative Howard w
Smith, of the Eighth Congress
sional district of Virginia, and
Secretary of Labor w. N. Doak
are TO be the principal speakers
at the unveiling and dedication
on ArmiStice Day Of the memorial
to the World War dead erected in
the center of Clarendon Square
by Arlington Post, No. 139, Amer
ican Legion.
The exercises. starting at z
o'clock, will include a brief ad
dress by Frank M. Sherwood
chairman Of the Legion memorial
committee. Invocation will be
by the Rev. Perry L. Mitchell
pastor of the Clarendon Baptist
Church.