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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
By HARRY CANNES.

HEHIND doors closed to workers conglonera-
ton of liberals, sky pilots, pacifists, Music
ties. betrayers Of the Negro youths in Scots
boro together with such renegades from Com
muuisnn as Bert Miller, will meet on June 9TH
at the New School for Social Research to build
up a new organization to aid the bosses to
befuddle the workers.
Invitations are being sent out on the station
ery of the American Civil Liberties Union under
the name of Conference for Joint Action
Joint action for what? The letter says such
matters as peace" civil liberty" rights of
aliens" minority races" repression" 'imper-
ialism and militarism' will be discussed
The purpose is to establish milk and-water
liberal federation that will attempt to fool the
workers into believing that the liberals are
against imperialism and war; for the defense OF
the rights of Negroes, against repression and
for the protection of foreign born.
Why this sudden interest in so wide range
of subjects among the usually slow-moving self
satisfied liberals? And what is the cause for
such great secrecy? The letter inviting the
carefully picked liberals and social-fascists in
ssts that: THE sessions are to be open only
to delegates from organizations and individuals
who register in advance"
Whom do they fear? Certainly not the CAPT.
talist authorities who heartily approve OF mis-
leading the workers, of confusing the masses on
the real struggle against imperialism. The
Musteite takers with their liberal angels want
to keep the revolutionary workers from know
ing the extent of their betrayals.
Why talk about minority races and against
repression?' Who is carrying on a nationwide
fight on every front for Negro rights? Is it the
Civil Liberties Union, or the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement Of Coored People
both of whom sign the call for this Confer
ence for Joint Action?" Mo- 1t is the League
OF Struggle for Negro Rights and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. 1t is the revolutionary
workers who are rushing into the breech on
the capitalist terror front.
The American Civil Liberties Union is domi-
mated by Roger Baldwin, recently expelled from
the Anti Imperalist League for his pro-Gan-
dhist and pro-imperialist support.
At meeting of the national executive COM
mittee of the -Imperialist League Baldwin
said: Il supported Gandhi until he betrayed
the revolution Now am against him."
Baldwin supports every bourgeois nationalist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
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The Class Role
of Mosquitoes
By JORGE

Concerning the noisy Mrs Grady. who asked
us, through the latest Trotsky organ the Sat
urday Evening Post" TO See Russia and die
laughing" Comrade zen writes that
In the great forward surge of humanity (the
Soviet advance to socialism,, Mrs. Grady is lust
about as annoying and as inconsequentiaI as a
mosquito buzzing about the head of scientist
at the critical moment of his most important
experiment
Well comrade, she is an insect all right But
then mosquitoes according to our experience
not only buzz but also bite And nobody should
get the idea that the Soviet gave her the air
merely for "a joke about Stain" Russian work
erS, and foreign ones, also, make Jokes about
Stain every day, and nobody cares.
Give the G. P. U. credit for having the goods
on her and her side-kick, who was calling for
american coal operators to organize against
Soviet dumping" before he was ten minutes over
the Soviet border on the way out
Even the article she wrote in the Saturday
Evening POST had far more serious things in it
against the Soviet Union than the Joke about
Stain. For instance, she said that she went to
the laundry there but found that the laundry
workers we're on the Five-Day Week and that
the place was closed, it being one of the days
off.
Now anyone who knows beans about the Five
with the continuous work week" that is, one
fifth OF the workers are off each day, but the
work goes on every day with four-fifthS of the
working force always on the job 1t is plain
that Mrs Grady was merely lying and not
joking about it, either.
However, even the joke she told about an i'm
aginary peasant who saved Stain from drown
ing and when he found out who he was asked
only that Stain not tell anybody that he. the
peasant, had saved hinl-ths joke is an old one
Indeed we had used that same joke on Mus
solini week or so before Mrs Grady's article
appeared Some Esperanto enthusiast had sent
it to u.s. translated from an Esperanto paper
We did not know that it was an old joke, sprung
on successive famous men for unnumbered cen
turtles But we doubt that the Soviet Govern
ment takes such measures as deportation against
people because they tell jokes that are too old,
No, it was no joke that got Mrs. Grady in
vtcd out of the Soviet Union There was a
counter revolutionary rat in the Grady family,
and maybe a couple of rats. Something more
than a mosquito.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
The Statue of Deportation

Dear Jorgei-Upon recent visit to the So
called "Statue Of Liberty ! noticed con-
temptible demagogic inscription on one of the
pillars of this great mute edifice, typical Of
U. s. capitalist hypocrisy It reads as follows:
Keep ancient lands, your stored pompl" cries
she
with silent lips, "Give me your tired your
poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Send there, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
lift the lamp beside the Golden Door"
She lifts her lamp" these days, to show the
way out as per order Of Secretary Doak. In
deed there ought to be an Exit sign on her
appraised mitt. But while we're being poetic this
evening we are reminded OF another ore by
someone whose name we don't recall 1t said:
"They we're visit men who have set you
with your face toward open sea;
They would never dare to let you
Gaze al what the streets might be
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
A Correction

In the statement Of the League Of Struggle
for Negro Rights published in Saturdays Daily
Worker, entitled "For United Struggle to
save Nine Scottsboro Boys" a printers error
occurred. A quotation from statement by the
N. A. A. C. P was printed as THE N. A. A. G. P.
has already instructed its lawyers and O-Opera-
ted as far as possible 7 etc. The correct
text as given to us by the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights reads: The ~ A. A. C. P.
has already instructed its lawyers 70 cooper
ats as far az possible 49," etc
Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

ngton, and Tacoma. Yet Comrade Klein has a
study class in Council Bluffs, but no leading
comrade goes from Seattle to Tacoma to
ganize class. In regard to activities and de-
velopment of initiative by the employed and
unemployed workers, the two reports speak for
themselves. Every comrade active in our move
ment can draw his own lessons
ALFRED WAGENKNECHT, Secretary,
TUUL Committee for Work Among
the Unemployed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25
Uncover Starvation and Misery

The capitalist press the agents of the ruling class
has been publishing less and less news about
unemployment. 1t hides the starvation of the
unemployed workers families. We must
constantly expose the miserable treatment
of families of the unemployed by the city
governments and charity institutions. We
must uncover all cases of starvation, uh-
ACCOMPLISHMENT, sickness. We must pub
Iish these cases in our press, in the
Daily Worker in Labor Unity, tell
them at all workers meetings I'm
employed Councils should publish
bulletins to inform all workers Of
the starvation and misery of the
unemployed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Workers Order must bring it one step nearer
its goal. In the selection Of its leadership as
well as in the decisions about its policies, it must
and will be guided by the fundamental prin-
ciple of working class interests
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

MONDAY mornings mail brought the first
'n two reports on activities of unemployed
councils and bran ;heS.
Report blanks we're sent to all unemployed
councils and branches by the TUUL national
office requesting report on activities. Mon
day mornings mail brought the first two re-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-25

Question
How many dues paying members in your
unemployed branch?
How many members admitted since you
organized?
How many members attended your largest
membership meeting?
How many members attend now?
How many membership meetings do you
hold each week?
How many propaganda meetings do you
hold each week?
Has your branch investigated workers
neighborhoods to ascertain starvation con-
ditions2
Did your branch carry on struggles for food
for starving families?
Did your branch assist starving families
directly?
Have you large strong committee at
every meeting of your city government?
Have you carried on any major struggle
against city government latelys
Additional comment by Council tufts: We
are growing rapidly because we are taking up
things that interest the workers. We have an
executive committee of IA. Our young members
aged IS to 20 years, had very successful party
the other night Comrade Klein comes here
from Kansas City and teachers us in class
Geo. Papcun helps us very much. We are be-
hind in winning Negro and foreign born work.
ers but we are correcting this. We are going
out into the country May IS to speak to farm
ers. We are organizing a baseball team We
are beginning the work of organizing, metal
railroad, food and laundry workers into unions
who belong to our branch, many of whom are
employed We have 40 per cent women in oui
branch. They take militant part in our ac-
tivities We had rs children in our May Day
parade and 125 stayed out of school We take
up problems of the employed workers. We
forced a building contractor to give a five CEN
increase in wages and to reduce hours from
ten to eight.
Additional cement by Tacoma: Workers
will not attend meetings and carry on the work
Though this is most highly industrialized towr
in Northwest, we have very few class conscious
workers. Our branch members migratory anc
are leaving town for summer Little chance O
doing work now until cold weather come
again Had no TUUL members until yester
udy Wllell we organized u carpenters group
Plenty of poverty exists and VIE have more un
employed here than last winter when we hat
about 10000. Since May 1, a pulp mill, say
mill and the Milwaukee railroad shops laid of
another 1000 workers. am alone in the worl
here.
Our Comment: Possibilities for work smon
the unemployed are seemingly much more ad
vantageous in Tacoma than in Council Bluffs
Yet in Council Bluffs we have a mass move
ment, and in Tacoma activities are going to b
suspended for the summer. Tacoma makes tn
error of basing its movement upon itinerar
workers, instead of upon workers and familie
living in Tacoma. Council Bluffs receives al,
from its district headquarters, Tacoma does moi
Comrade Klein, in going from kansas City t
Council Bluffs, travels six times the distanc
between Seattle, district headquarters in Wash
Workers Order must bring it one step neare
its goal. In the selection Of its leadership a
we'll as in the decisions about its policies it mus
and will be guided by the fundamental prin
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
MINNEAPOLIS VICE
HEAD INDICTMENT
REFUSED YJUDG
Finds Document Faulty and
Sustains Demurrer Brought
by Defense Counsel

Minneapolis, May 6.-P-The in
dictment charging E. ]. Gustafson,
suspended head of the police morals
squad with wilful neglect Of duty, was
rejected by Judge Matthias Baldwin OF
district court Wednesday.
He found the indictment faulty,
sustaining q demurrer brought by
Eugene Rerat and James Robertson,
attorneys for Gustafson.
He denied, however, q motion to
quash the charge.
The whole matter, as a result, will
go back to the grand jury for such
further action as that body may
decide.
The demurrer was based chiefly on
the contention that the language of
the indictment did not state facts
sufficient to constitute a crime under
the state laws. This view was upheld
by the court.
Gustafson was indicted April ~
The charge of wilful neglect of duty
was based on allegation that February
Is he failed to arrest Mary Doe"
as the suspected proprietor OF q dis
orderly house. Gustafson was ar
raigned April % and entered a plea
of not guilty. His trial was set for
May 8 and he was released under
81, 900 bail.
The grand jury was reported draw
ing indictments against two other po-
lice officers Wednesday in its investi-
cation Of charges Of police corrup-
ton and vice protection.
No hint came from the grand jury
room concerning whom the reported
indictments would name or what the
nature of the charges would be.
The jurors have heard no witnesses
since Mayor william F. Kunze spent
three hours before them late Tues
day. Mayor Kunze was asked to sign
an immunity waiver and complied,
before he entered the grand jury room
Tuesday.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
GRAND jury PROBES
VIRGINIA OUTBREAK
IN Which -FOUR DIED
Sheriff Says Governor Refused
to Send National Guards.
men to Harlem

Harlan, KY, May 6.-P-Gover-
nor Elem D. Sampson was said We'd
nesday by Sheriff j. H. Blair, to have
refused to send in national guards
men following a new outbreak of
mine disorders Tuesday In which
four men were killed and one
wounded unless a petition signed by
leading citizens Of Harlan county Is
presented.
Sheriff Blair had requested troops
because he said he feared new out
breaks. Blair told the governor he
was too busy to circulate a petition.
Meanwhile national guard units at
Barbourville, Somerset and Williams
burg were reported ready to move
into Harlan and Major E. M. Sexton
reached Barbourville Wednesday
morning from Frankfort.
The lawlessness in the county
blamed on economic conditions and
labor troubles was ordered investt-
gated by Circuit Judge D. G. Jones
by q special grand jury.
Deputy SheriffS and mine guards
were fired on by a band of about 40
union Sympathizers near Evarts, and
in the resulting battle James Daniels
and Otto Lee. deputies. Howard
Jones, q commissary clerk. and Carl
Richmond, one of the attacking party
who deputies claimed opened fire
from ambush. were killed. Shepard
Purciful and Estes Cox, mine guards,
were wounded but expected to re-
cover.
Members of the attacking party
escaped into the hills after the battle,
and were not apprehended. Just be-
fore the battle, Sheriff Blair said. a
committee Of union leaders from
CONTINUED on page seven)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
QUESTION MAYOR IN
: GRAND JURY PROBE
Minneapolis Executive Erred, Is
Charge Made by Rev. Mons
M. Midthun

Minneapolis, May 6.-R-After
spending three hours quizzing the
city,s chief executive, the Hennepin
county grand jury investig ating
charges Of police protection OF VIC
and crime Wednesday questioned
bankers concerning accounts OF local
officials.
Mayor w. +. Kunzc. seeking reelec-
ton In the current municipal cam
paign In which the grand jury probe
Is an issue among candidates, was
asked, it was reported, concerning dis-
position Of complaints made to him
about local vice conditions.
The jury is understood to have
questioned Mayor Kunze concerning 9
charge by Rev. Mons NJ. Midthun that
he visited the mayors office five times
to ,omplain regarding conditions
without results.
The mayor also Il said to have been
questioned about q statement he made
Monday at q political meeting that
the grand jury had found little vice.
MI. Midthun, who conferred with
grand jury members Tuesday. de-
clared the mayor erred
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
NORTHWEST CROPS
HURT But LITTLE BY
Cold, EXPERTS SAY
Grains, With Possible Exception
of Flax in Some Quarters,
Are Unhurt
FRUIT SECTIONS SUFFER
Minot Coolest in Northwest
Overnight, While Grand
Forks Reports Snow
FRUIT SECTIONS SUFFER

st. Paul, May 6.-(P)-Snow and
sub-freezing temper lures, accom-
by heavy and killing frost in
many areas, came to the northwest
as the mercury dived as
low as IA degrees above zero.
Drops ranging from 20 to 43 degrees
In the last "a hours were common.
Agricultural experts agreed, however,
the cold snap would not have a dam
aging effect on small grains, although
fruit-bearing regions might be hit to
some extent.
At Winnebago the mercury tumbled
from a maximum of II degrees above
to % above, while at Waseca the
maximum was 70 above as compared
with a minimum of 20. More than q
quarter inch Of rain fell at each place.
Minot, N. D.. reported the lowest
temperature in the northwest, with
the minimum temperature IA degrees
above as compared with AZ above late
Tuesday. Dickinson had a minimum
of 16 above while at Grand FORKS,
where the thermometer registered q
minimum Of % above, a thin cover
ing Of snow was on the ground.
las far as small grains are con-
cerned," Paul Kirk, federal statistician
for Minnesota, said. II don't think any
damage has been done by the cold. II
might hurt flax, while it Is a little
too early to tell how it affected fruit.
Andrew Boss. vice director Of thu
experiment station at University farm
expressed belief that frost would moi
affect small grains.
Heavy to killing frost Is predicte<
for Wednesday night in Minnesota
Crookston reported a trace Of snow
while ut Albert Lea, In southern Min.
nesota, snow vas falling Wednesday
morning. Fruit men said it was too
early to tell whether their crops ha6
been damaged.
The lowest temperature reported ir
South Dakota was 20 at Lennon
while Fairfax, Huron, Sioux Falls and
Mobridge each had "a above. At Penn
bina, N. D., q minimum Of IS degrees
above was reported while Lisbon had
20 above. Glasgow and Glendive
Mont, each had minimums of q
above as compared with maximums OF
Sc.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
FUGITIVE AUDITOR
COMMITS SUICIDE
in CHICAGO HOTEL
Fred 8utke, Sought for Embez.
element and Forgery, Shot
Self in Head

Chicago, May 6.-RD-The body of
Fred Butke, 80, Kane county auditor,
sought on warrants charging the en-
bezzlement and forgery Of $64 ,904
from county funds, was found in q
Loop hotel Tuesday night.
He had shot himself through the
head shortly after engaging his room
Monday evening, examining physi-
clans said.
Butke had. earlier Monday, estab-
lished an $4,000 trust fund for his
wife.
The man registered as F. W. Beebe,
Aurora, but a note said simply please
notify Charles Borngrebe, Aurora"
who Is an undertaken.
Steps will be taken, States Attorney
George D. Carbary Of Kane county
said, to recover the $64,904 allegedly
embezzled from the county.
The missing money had come,
principally, from funds of the Kane
county farm and poorhouse, it was
charged. Frank Averill, the superin-
tendent, has been turning checks over
to Butke since Nov. q, 1922, officials
said. These checks were for the
county treasurer, but Carbary claimed
that Butke cashed them-an opera
ton facilitated by Averill's making
the checks out as cash."
He had been ordered to appear
Monday afternoon to appear at a spe-
cial session Of supervisors in Geneva,
the county seat, to explain his con-
duct. Instead. he vanished after
drawing 500 from the Aurora bank.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
BOY HERO RETURNS
TO COLORADO HOME
Brings Gifts From Mrs. Hoover
to His Mother; Has "a Har-
monicas, Too

Towner. Colo. May 6.-tR-The
hero of everyone In Towner. Byran
Untiedt, was back home Wednesday.
The lad who visited President Hoo
yer because he saved several lives in
the school bus tragedy near here in a
March blizzard arrived Tuesday, just
in time to help his mother With the
weekly washing and to aid his father
in feeding the pigs.
Tuesday night he slept in his own
bed, after distributing to his family
the gifts he brought. Mrs. Hoover
sent a table cloth to his mother. Mrs.
H. A. Untiedt, and another box had
an inkwell and pen set from her.
Twenty-four harmonicas, ranging
up to 10 inches In length. were
brought and Wednesday Bryan prom
ised well have q family concert every
night"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
Fiue Persons Are Found
Murdered in Mississippi
Officials Believe Four Were
Killed by Farmer, Who Then
Committed Suicide

Blue Mountain, Miss, May 6.-tFe
Five persons were found slain In their
home near here Wednesday. Author
tiles expressed the belief they were
killed by A. w. Carter, q farmer. whose
body was located q short distance
from the others.
In addition to Carriers body, that
Of his wife, their two daughters and
a woman roomer in the home were
found about the house.
The wife, Mrs. Nora Mattox Carter,
80, two children, Martha, nine, and
Mary, eight, and Miss Anne Jeffries,
IS, were beaten to death with a ham
mer. Carriers death was due to q
shotgun wound.
Mrs. Carriers skull was crushed and
her body badly beaten. The children
apparently yer killed with one blow
Of the hammer. Miss Jeffries' face
was crushed.
The bodies were found Ly neigh
bors who went to the Carter home
when members Of the family did not
appear about the dwelling at the
usual hour.
Charles Howard, a farmer who led
the searching party, told officers cries
we're heard during the night, appar-
emily emanating from the Carter
home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
DENIES He SET FIRE
WHICH KILLED THREE
Colorado Man Arrested After
Daughter Accuses Him OF
lncendiary Act

Greeley, Colo. May 6.-R1-Jamea
v. Foster, 40, denied accusations OF az
i1-year-old daughter as a coronerS
iury met wednesday to investigate g
fire which fatally burned his wife ano
two children in bed Tuesday.
The daughter, Mildred Foster, wno
ESCAPED the flames. was quoted py
Seacil Roberts. chief OF police a
saying: ,,r
"Daddy did it. He woke us up
threw gasoline in u faces n III
q match to the room.
The district. attorney said ne woulo
file q first-degree murder cnarge
against Foster. a salesman. who aiSe
was accused of firing the home IN 9
deathbed statement to police by M
wife, Mrs. Myrtle Foster, 40.
The other victims were Geraldine
Foster, three. and Airline. 10 months
old. Mildred escaped, although sne
also suffered burns.
Foster was arrested near Ault. Colo
He asserted his wife had been act
ing strangely and threatening te
end 1t ALL"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1931-05-06
RENO MAYOR wins
With BIG MARGIN
E. E. Roberts, Liberal Leader,
Shows Under Two oppo-
nents in Race

Reno, Nevada. May 6.-R-Mayor
e. E. Roberts, liberal leader of Reno.
and all his administrative officers
except n councilman, were re-
turned to office for four year terms
at q municipal election Tuesday.
The mayor, father-in-law Of Wal
ter johnson of baseball fame, de-
cisively defeated two opponents.
It will be Roberts third successive
term as mayor of the city, nationally
known for its quick divorces and
open gambling resorts.
In his campaign the mayor de-
Tended Nevada's divorce and gam
bling laws and attacked prohibition.
He described the legalized gambling
law as a means of removing the
mask of hypocrisy" from recognized
conditions, by l~egalizing games which
were being operated unlawfully.
Speaking from the pulpit Of the
Reno Methodist church at the invita-
ton of the pastor, Mayor Roberts
urged the placing of open barrels Of
good corn whiskey" on the city
streets to free the community Of
b~oOtlegRerS.