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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
WORKERS RETURN
EVICTED NEGRO
Resist Evictions of N.
G.. Landlords

CHARLOTTE. N. c., July ia
neighborhood branch Of the Charlotte
Unemployed Council, yesterday. put
back the furniture Of an unemployed
Negro woman, after she had been
thrown out of here home with her
furniture. The unemployed council
modified all the neighbors in the
vicinity and after a short meeting
took action. The eviction took place
on 9Th ST. in the First Ward, where
number Of families are threatened
with eviction and where the majority
of the workers are unemployed,
The Negro woman who was thrown
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
,eoxrlauEp raoM PAGE onE
.aen Of radical literature, ); Others.

sion OF radical literature, 3; Others.
Among the "a executed, 80 were
Communists. Among the 80 arrests
In sbsnghai. ~ were by the imperial
ist police in the Concessions. the
workers betnS handled over TO the
Kpemiptang Tor punishment.
Ia. tt1s. month Of last May, II was
alsc~ reported BY the Official dseu-
rnents Of the Kuoniifitang in the
anti Communist" campaign that
2s,3o7 Red soldiers have been slaugh-
Although it must. Be. differ
enStatsd that among the ''Red sold
ierso "a majority OF them were pea
SAINTS in the Soviet Districts de-
stroyed by the Kuomintang troops
who always massacre the population
wholesalcly. Workers can imagine
the number of victims Of the i'm
perialist. Kuomintang expedition
against the Chinese Red Army and
the Soviets!
Here Is another list Of the ac-
complishment Of the Wall Street fl
nanced Marking government. From
August to December 10, 1880, in
the tri-cities (Hankow, Hanyang and
N'uchang) alone, the public execu-
tons numbered 1872 Among them,
there girls According to crime:
rs for general work, executives, or
eanizers, propagandists. ETC.; % for
military affairs; is for labor activ-
tiles; for students movement; 16
from the Yangtze Bureau of the G.
G. Of the Communists Party: 70 for
hreaking iailA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
tCoNTINU I'd FROM PAGE ONEl

German CO italisrn, was definitely
undertaken yesterday. according to
capitalist PR IS reports, including the
United Press and Associated Press
cables. This action taken by the
General Staff of the French army,
with military advisers of other i'm
perialst powers present, was taken
at a meeting in Paris following the
deeper plunge of the German crisis
with the closing of the Darmstaedter
und National Bank, and the run on
every bank in Germany including the
postal-savings. The United Press
correspondent in Berlin reports the
situation as follows:
1.-THE rumble of revolutionary dis
content was increasingly audible
among the panicky, impoverished
masses.
''The excited depositors, almost
without exception, were discussing
the chances of a Communist upris-
ing.
~ Russia Has Hopes.
For example, in front of the Da-
nat Banks branch at Nollendorf
Square the United Press correspond
ent listened for half an hour to re-
marks like these:
After the war they told us all
German factory chimneys would
cease smoking If Communism were
established. Well, there's no Com
murisn yet, and no smoke from the
chinneys.
"And-'These Russians at least
have hope, even if impoverished.
while We are without money, food
or hope.
Crowds gathered in front Of the
shattered windows reading the pla-
cards placed there telling of the
banks closure"
The New York Evening Graphic,
in large headlines, reports: France
Girds for War to Meet Russo Ger
MANS" and in dispatch from Paris
states: "French military authorities
have ordered frontier garrisons and
posts to maintain closest vigilance
because Of the uncertain situation in
Germany, where a Communist revo-
luton is feared, and to take partic-
ular care to avoid any clash Of hot
heads of extremists"
This is definite mobilization for
war against the German masses, in
the event they move to overthrow
capitalism and its misery and starv-
alton and join with the Soviet Union.
Marshals Petain and Lyautey,
lead Of the military forces of France,
the Associated Press says. met with
Prime Minister Laval at the Ministry
of War to plan mobilization for war
to crush the German masses and
against the U. s. S. r.
The International News Service
quotes the French nationalist news
paper, La Liberte. which says French
troops already are being niassed on
the German border
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14

Workers who do not want their
names published because of pos
sible persecution should indicate
fhis in sending In their contribu-
tions. Collectors should ask those
who contribute whether they want
their names printed.
Fridays totals took a big drop to
S343.40. District New York; con-
tributed only s157.S7 for the day. All
the other big districts, 5 (Philadel-
phial, (Cleveland), z tDetroit) and
8 (Chicago) fell down badly, the
best being Is California;, which
sent in 1917.
District o (Minnesota) showed
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

cused the radical organizations Of
disappearing the motives OF the
State Of Alabama.
The report is a merciless indica-
ment OF Justice" as melted out to the
Negro people by the white ruling class
IN the South. 1t condemns the Scots
bcro trial" as a farce. In referring
TO the Judge and the citizens OF
sccttsboro, the report states:
They an wanted the Negroes
killed as quickly as possible in a
way that would not bring disrepuse
upon the town. They therefore
preferred sentence to death by
= judge, to = sentence Of death BY
, mob, but they desired the same
result, and were impatient with
anything that slowed up the con-
viction and death sentence which
they all knew was coming regard
less Of any testimony"
The report also makes an analysis
of the economic status Of the Negro
masses in the South, and brings on.
the class basis Of the persecution
Of the Negroes. It states:
las one Southerner I'm Scottsbero
put It, we white people just cosId-
not afford to let these Nixgers set
off because Of the effect n world
have on other Nixgers!'
The report directly accuses the
prosecuting attorney OF framing the
nine boys. as related to the investi-
gator by Victoria Price, one Of the
two girls forced to testify aagnist the
boys. Miss Ransdall states in her
report to the Civil Liberties union
that the girls spoke to her frankly
because never having met any Other
attitude on the Negro question. they
both assumed that this was my at
titude also, and therefore spoke to
me as they thought all respectable
white people speak" H
The report, which Is 80 pages in
length, concludes:
THE convicted Criminals eight
terrified, bewildered young Negroes
lie niiserably in their death cells ir
KiIby prison, awaiting their execution
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14

funds 60 TO the unemployed in the
form of immediate relief and unem-
ployment insurance! Demonstrate
August First against tmpenalist
warl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
LONG HOURES FOR LAKE SEA
MEN

BUFFALO.-Seamen on the Great
Lakes Transit Corp. are forced to
work IL hours a day. 7 days a week.
The company is member Of the
Open Shop Lake Carriers Assn. for
which Newton Baker Is attorney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-14
II MINERS FAMILIES
THROWN FROM HOMES
IN ARNOLD CITY, PA.
Fellow Strikers Shelter Evicted Miners and
Care for Their Furniture
Arnold City, Pa.

Dear Comrades:
At the Pittsburgh Coal Company mne-the place where
Mike Phapoch murdered by the deputy sherffs
own store sepsthe company only today finished ecng the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Many Names Proposed for Thirteenth Month

If thirteenth month is added to
che calendar, as many who favor cal
endar reform propose, what shall its
name be? AS yet the thirteen-month
calendar is only subject for discus
sion, but already George Eastman,
chairman of the American committee
on calendar reform, has received forty
four suggestions of names for the ex-
ira month and has forwarded them to
the League of Nations, which will hold
an international conference on the sub
ject.
Some propose that the new month
be called Between, Middlemonth, Gen.
trail, Medal or Mid-estival-names APP
parently chosen because, according to
some plans, the additional month
would be placed between June and
July. And since other positions for
the new month have also been pro-
posed, such names as Primavera, Pri-
mo, Ultimo and Annular have been
suggested.
Many are in favor of Sol or HeliaI,
which are Latin for sun and Gree,
dsrivati.e, respectively but others PR
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Forgotten
Ill Err OES
BY
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
His Reward a Debtors Cell

THE school histories say that Rob-
L ert Norris merchant and bank
er Of Philadelphia, on January l, 11I7,
won victory for the American cause
in the Revolution and saved the Con-
tinental army when he started out
before daylight, went from house to
house, begged money from his friends
and finally got $4,000 in hard" money.
This he sent to Gen. George Washing
ton who was in desperate need of it
to get his soldiers to re-enlist.
But the school histories are silent
about the man who, Robert Morris
himself once declared, saved the Revo-
luton with his loans of. more than ten
times the amount Morris collected on
that historic New Years day and
whom a grateful republic allowed to
die in debtors prison with 100000
of the 100000 he had advanced it
still unpaid and his body to lie to this
day in an unmarked grave. In fact, it
is doubtful If a single school history
contains the name of Haym Solomon,
a Jew.
Solomon was born in Prussian PO-
land in 1740. When he came to New
York some years before the Revolu-
ton he was widely-traveled, we'll
educated young man and although he
had nothing to gain and much to lose
by doing so, he espoused the patriots
cause. When the British troops took
possession of New York, Solomon,
with many other American sympa-
thizers were thrown into the gloomy
old prison known as the Provost, but
fortunately for the cause he escaped
and went to Philadelphia.
In the Quaker city he quickly buih
up large fortune as a merchant and
banker. When the dark days of the
Revolution came and the struggle for
independence seemed doomed to fail
ure because of lack of money, SalO-
mon, through Robert Morris, lent
large sums to the Continental con
gress and in addition made loans to
such patriot leaders as Jefferson, Will
son, Ross, Duane, Reed, Mercer, Ar
thur Lee, Joseph Jones and Harrison
Randolph, to innumerable officers and
enlisted men in the Continental army
and to ministers and agents Of foreign
countries cut off from home by the
British blockade.
Just as his career was marked by
an early rise to fortune, so was it
marked by an early descent to i'm
poverishment. The new government
could not or would not repay him
and many individuals whom he had
befriended forgot his help. Saddened
by this ingratitude, both public and
private, and finally thrown into
debtors prison he died at the age
Of forty-five years. He was buried
in the cemetery of Congregation Millre
Israel in Philadelphia and when in
1917 his great grandson, William SalO-
mon of New York, placed memorial
tablet there it had to be put on the
east wall of the Enclosure because no
one knew where the grave was.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Pompey, the Negro Spy

NATHAN HALE was an American
~ spy who was discovered and paid
the penalty on the gallows. but his
regret that he had only one life to
give for his country has made him
immortal. Pompey was an American
spy who helped make possible one Of
the most brilliant victories of the
Revolution out his name and his ex-
ploits alike are almost unknown. Pom
pey was only a negro slave.
Pompey was the property and man.
of-all-work Of Captain Lamb who lived
on a small fruit farm near Stony
Point, N. Y, then held by a British
garrison. In the spring of 1910 Pom
pey began selling Strawberries to the
British soldiers who welcomed this
addition to their rations and became
steady customers. So Pompey became
a daily visitor and the British took
no notice Of the fact that the negro
was spending more and more time
each day within the walls of the fort.
They little realized that he was re-
porting everything he saw to his mas
ter and that Captain Lamb was pass
Anthony Wayne, who was already
making his plans for the capture of
Stony Point
About the middle of July Pompey
notified the British officers that he
could no longer come to the fort in
daytime since his master kept him
busy hoeing corn. Still unsuspecting
and unwilling to do without the other
fruit which the negro was bringing
after the strawberry season was over,
the officers told him to bring his wares
at night and gave him the countersign
so that he could pass the sentries.
Every night he was told the counter
sign which would admit him the next
night and this information was par
ticularly valuable to the kind Of at
tack which General Wayne had
planned.
The night before the proposed at
tack Pompey brought word that the
countersign was to be "The fort is our
own" and offered to guide the Amer
leans. Early in the evening of July
Is, Wayne set out and the negro led
the little army to within a mile and
a half of the fort. There final prepa-
rations were made for the assault
and at midnight the attack was made
The cry with which Wayne's men
swept into battle was the countersigr
which Pompey had given them-"The
fort is our own" and after 10 minutes
of bloody work with the bayonet that
cry was true for the Americans.
(Gl 1891. Western Newspaper Union)
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25

come. Eta realized to herself, when
1t was either matter of escaping the
turgid shorror of those terror-ridden
days or going mad. Her father was
sacrificing his life to a cause that
thanked him sacrificing his SAN
ity, because sometimes it seemed to
Eta that the madness of Illustration
lay in pools in the old mans eyes,
the same madness of Illustration that
might be said to lie in the pool of
Etta's heart.
The days were unbearable The
nights were unbearable. The comings
and goings of Rouke, mumbling of in
justice, mumbling of wOrkingmen's
rights, mumbling of widows and chill
dren, mumbling of pensions. mumbling
of organized labor. made day and
night alike nightmare.
One night Eta, in a frenzy of what
might have been actual madness,
caught her father by the coat lapels
as he came staggering in from meet
ing around midnight and screamed out,
between Sobs of agony and means Of
pain, her inability to prolong their
kind of life. For the first time, ROuke
seemed to realize some Of the mental
agony and deprivations that had been
his daughters. The years of her din
ming it at him had apparently left him
unmoved and now, suddenly, looking
at her frenzied eyes, hearing her tor
mented cries, he seemed to under
stand.
After he succeeded in quieting her
that night, ROuke agreed to sacrifice
the uppermost interest in his life
better conditions for the day laborer-
and move with his daughter to the
country. He admitted defeat. He ad-
mitted to the need of the change Of
environment for them both.
And the next day, in the midst Of
an impassioned and what he an
nounced was final plea for pen
sion bill for the wives of laborers who
had been widowed by accident in the
trade, Rouke toppled over and dropped
dead.
1t was as it should have been. On
the rostrum of his Cause, Rouke had
surrendered only to death.
Eta felt that way about 1t and
secretly blessed the destiny that had
not permitted her father to live to
surrender.
Eta still occupies the tenement in
Clancy street. Taking up where her
father left off, she is the moving
spirit in the movement to obtain bet
ter working conditions for the day
labOrer. Every day she lectures in
some meeting hall or another and, by
night, she harangues.
The neighborhood children. when
they see her coming, stick out their
tongues and cry. "Blah-blah."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25

fer Lunar, Lune, Lunes or Luno, after
the Latin for moon. Some would fol-
low the precedent already set in NAM
ing the months by giving the new one
the name of one of the Roman god
desses Minerva, Venus or Ceres-and
others by giving the month number
in Latin; included in these are Ire
cember, Sextember, Undecember, I'm
december and Sextober.
Again, it has been pointed out that
the new name might serve to symbo-
lizc new spirit and to that end, Lib
erty, Pax and Progress have been pro-
posed. Others favor Christ, Christus.
Salvador, Vincent, Benedict and Plus
Other names proposed thus far are :
Remador, Melton, Treizer Maxine,
Evember, Avent, vacance and Woodro
New York Times.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Hard to Explain Moods

The cause of moods lies usually too
deep to be casually determined. Pos
sibly we all keep spiritual and invis-
ible company which lifts us up or down
to its level. Else there is no easy ex-
PLANTATION for the fact that sometimes
the future looks promising, amusing
and worth its price, while on other
days the view is so hindered by hur-
dies, obstacles and holes in the road
that we are tempted to give up the
journey and sit down by the side of
whatever fate may put into it.-Ex-
change.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Atmosphere Part of Earth

The atmosphere is considered as an
envelope of the earth and just as
much part of the earth as the rocks
are. 1t goes with the rest of the earth
through space and is essential to the
life of the earth and to most of the
processes in operation on the earth
surface. A balloon suspended in the
air, even though it is not connected
with the surface Of the earth, is being
carried through space by the rotation
of the earth and by its revolution
around the sun. This, of course, is
in addition to the winds or movements
of the air due to other causes.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Paying for Civil War

The United States government met
the expenses of the Civil war by lay
ing an income tax of 8 per cent ON all
incomes over $500, by tariff duties,
by internal revenue and by issuing in
terest-bearing bonds to the extent Of
81, 199, 100000 and Notwithstanding
notes to the extent of S450,0O0,0O0.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Monarch Expert Archer

and patron of the chase, wrote w. w.
Greener in '"The Gun and Its Develop
ment," says the Detroit News. He
was a great archer, and although gen.
orally using long-bOw, he frequently
made use of the cross-bow when shoot
ing for wagers. At the Field of the
Cloth of Gold he shot his long-bow
against the French cross-bow men and
won their applause, putting his arrows
successfully in the center at twelve
score yards, whilst they with their
cross-bows were unable to hit the tar
get
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
In Six Parta

An epitaph quoted by the Natal Mer
FURY via the Boston Traveller, reads !:
I'm Memory of Our Father, Gone TO
Join His Appendix, His Tonsils, His
Kidneys, His Ear-Drum and a Leg
Prematurely Removed by Hospital
Surgeon Who Craved Experience"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Character in Smile

There is very simple test by which
it is said we can tell good people from
bad. If smile improves mans face,
he is a good man. If a smile dis
figures his face, he is bad man.
William Lyon Phelps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Few Really Useless

So long as we love, we serve. Sc
long as we are loved by others woun
almost say we are indispensable; an.
no man is useless while he has q friend
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25
Everlastin1

A fraction of grain of musk will.
scent room for years, and the curl
GUS thing about it Is that at the enc
IF that time its weight Is not dimin
shed By the smartest fraction.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-09-25

BY HUGH ALIEN
THE presence of 100000 persons
from all sections Of the country,
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, first lady Of
the land, formally christened the
o. S. S. Akron, worlds largest air.
ship, in the great zeppelin dock on
Akron municipal airport, Saturday
afternoon, August s.
Added to the throngs in the
building who actually witnessed
the ceremonies. millions of listen
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-04
HIGHWAY WORK
CASES CALLED

SAN BENITO, Aug. 4-warrants
have been served on a number Of
residents OF Valencia Park. San
Benito subdivision just outside the
city limits, for refusing to work on
the. roads and a concerted fight
against enforcement Of this law in
the subdivision is expected TO be
made VIXEN the case comes I'D in
the justice OF peace court OF l..
NJ. Valdetero wednesday morning.
Warrants were sworn out against
] T. Hargrove, r. T. Collins, w. q.
Mathes, S. p. and A. r. Harrington,
and Jack Elliott.
The warrants we're made out at
the request OF Pete Lawton, named
overSeer for the precinct in which
the subdivision is located. A number
OF those charged are planning TO
fight the case. and have retained
attorneys for this purpose.
None Of the Valencia Park streets
lead into any OF the roads maintain
ed by the precinct.
Under the law those living within
the confines Of a road district must
either appear in person when called.
or send a suitable substitute or pay
S.. Three days work a year r re-
quired.
The work done IS n the nature OF a
cleanup. weeds and other objects be-
ing removed from the road which
enters the Brownsville highway just
a. the east city limits.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-04
Youth Starts Prosperity
Wave, Then Disappears

the catering manager. William Kie-
fer and said:
Gould you serve about l25 din
ners an hour from now? It's a
board OF trade convention. How
much will 1t cost2"
They argued about the price and
finally reached an agreement.
Now" he said. III go out and
get a deposit and the flowers"
Instead he went 10 the barber
shop. 1t was time for the BARRIERS
TO 60 home. but the prospect Of for
ty shaves, kept them waiting. The
bootblacks stayed for the same
reason. Then the young man next
appeared at another hotel, where
he ordered more dinners, more
shaves. more shoe shines. That
done he rode by taxi to a depot
and bid Chicago adieu
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-04

CHICAGO. Aug. AtPE For a
time last night 1t looked as though
a young man, without coat or hat
and with a novel under his arm,
had started a prosperity wave in
Chicago.
But today a group OF cooks, cab
starters, bootblacks, and others
were asking the police 10 look
around for him. Nobody seemed to
know Just what would or could be
done with him If he is caught. but
the compliments were hoping 1t
would be plenty.
He ordered approximately 200
dinners. forty haircuts. forty shaves
forty s~hoe-shines and forty cabs
and then disappeared without pay
ing for the taxi he used TO make
his exit from Chicago.
He appeared at two hotels, at
least. At the first he approached
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-04
BODY FOUND
FLOATING IN
RIO CRANDE
Firemen Began Search
Of River
Saturday
NV Staff CorresDondent)

DONNA, Aug. 4-Members Of
the Donna fire department recover
ed the body of Manuel Cano, l3-
year-old boy drowned north Of here
Saturday afternoon, at 4 a. m.
Tuesday morning at the Donna
pumping Dant.
The body was found floating In
shallow water near the plant, ap-
proximately four miles from where
the youth was drowned.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed at noon Tuesday.
The youth was drowned Satur-
day afternoon when he, his father
and another relative went 10 the
Rio Grande TO prepare a place for
watering horses. The elder men
were working on the bank and
heard the boy call for help in the
river.
When they got to the banks the
boy had disappeared. The father
rushed into the water and got in
to difficulties himself and had 70
be rescued by the other man.
The alarm was turned in and
the Weslaco and Donna fire de-
partments and other persons con-
tinued the search until the body
vas found this morning.