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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Sharpen Attack On British
Workers On Local Scale

The attack on the living standards
of the British working class by the
National government under the lead
ership OF Mcdonald, the Socialist,
and under orders from the British
capitalist class is revealed by the
latest news from England as only
part Of the immediate general at
tack. The attack thus far made in
the recent weeks has been on a ma
tional scale. This will be sharpened
tremendously by the attack of the
local authorities. The New York
Times reported from London Satur-
day that the local authorities thru
out the country are nerving them
selves to equally urgent and unpleas-
ant economies"
These economies" are going to be
a vicious slashing Of the appropria-
tons that have been used for hous-
ing, new schools, poor relief, mater
nifty and health centers, and parks.
The Times reports that the local au-
thorities have been awaiting the ma
tional budget before making their
own decisions" The national bud
get has been made public, the budget
of hunger and starvation. The local
authorities will follow the lead of the
national government. Starvation and
hunger will be line of the budgets
Of the local authorities.
Both Macdonald and the capital
ist press have exposed the struggle"
of Henderson against the national
government program as nothing but
hypocritical lying in order to main
tain an Opposition" to the present
capitalist government. Macdonald
pointed out in the House Of Com
mons Saturday that Of the $3.50 o00,-
900 of cuts that the government had
proposed the Labor members of the
former government and now mem
bers of the opposition" had agreed
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Henderson Shown By
Boss Press AS Worst
Traitor to Workers

openly to cuts Of $290,00000O. The
opposition is ready to go thru with
all the cuts included in the attack
on the workers that the government
is ready to make.
This is clearly stated in the fol-
lowing item from the Times:
"SnOwden's patriotic exordiunr
sums up more strikingIy than any
other utterance during the last few
weeks in Great Britain the feeling
of mingled fear and devotion that
underlies the present political stu
alton in that country. And from
this sentiment there is very good
reason for believing the Labor Par
ty under the new leadership Of Ar
thur Henderson is really in no such
violent dissent as the superficial
events might indicate"
The same report of the Times
points out in startling clarity the
real significance Of the opposition"
Of Henderson. The opposition" Of
Henderson is designed to mislead the
workers now as to the role of the
Labor Party so that in the future,
when the crisis becomes sharper, the
Labor Party can be used as a final
resort to drive the workers into the
hunger slavery of the British capt.
alist class. The Times states this
straight out as follows:
"At the present moment, there
fore, It would seem that the break
between the Labor Party and It's
veteran leaders came partly on a
matter Of strategy. 1t has mObil-
lied against future dangers rather
than against an actual assault. Mr..
Henderson, speaking for the erst-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

their share of the Five-Year Plan in
two years and seven months.
Another speaker, a shock trooper,
informed the workers that only 9812
per cent of the months quota had
been achieved and urged them to
speed up and, if possible, double
their output.
ProIetarian Art.
The third speakers topic was
proletarian art, music and literature.
The proletarian art expresses the life
of the working masses, beautifying
and developing their cultural level to
ahigher plane. The art and music
of the capitalist states does nothing
to assist the struggles of the work.
ers-that is, the bourgeois artists
may be more or less correct in their
diagnosis of the social order, but
they offer no cure. The speaker
stated that the Soviet State, an "un-
civilized" country, is doing its ut
most to reduce the percentage of il
literacy, whereas in the capitalist
Civilized" states, in the Southern
part of the United States, for in
stance, illiteracy runs into heavy fig
ures.
The last speaker was q young
working girl She spoke of the role
of the women in building the Social
ist state. You find the women in
the industry as both skilled and I'M
skilled workers and engineers, receiv-
ing the same pay as the men for
the same kind of work and occupy
ing high positions in every phase Of
life. Refreshments and songs of
workers children ended the celebra-
ton. Comradely yours.
/. Likow.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

must Join In the fight for unem-
ployed relief and against the cap
italist starvation of the workers.
Ruined Farmer A Suicide
ALTA, Iowa. Bert Wyoune, 81
years of age, living about miles
south of Alta, committed suicide by
hanging in the barn at his place.
He is survived by his widow and
two children. The reasons for COM
hitting suicide we're due to financial
worries such as mortgages, crop
failures, etc.
CHICAGO, Sept. 13-George A.
Heldt, As, of 1926 N. Irving Avenue,
committed suicide by turning on the
gas and slashing his throat with a
razor blade. Heidi had been unem-
ployed and suffering from starvation
and deprivation. The boss paper,
Chicago American, disposed of his
case with a one inch article on an
inside page, which attempted to
cover up the fact that the worker
had been unemployed by saying
that he was lin financial diff
diculties."
Another unemployed worker, Irv-
ing Carriyoau, the father of 49,
months-old twins, was sentenced a
few days ago to Is years in jackson
State Prison for attempting to steal
funds with which to feed his starv-
ing wife and babies.
Mrs. Carriveau left the court in
tears after Recorders Judge John ".
Brennan handed out this brutal
sentence to her husband.
Il don't know how my wife and
two little babies will live now with
me in prison." Carriveau said with
an effort to control the tears which
filled his eyes. IT couldn't get a job
for the last year and took to holdups
as a way out. But I should have
known better"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Capitalist Class Responsible
For Every Jobless Suicide

DETROIT, Sept 10. - While the
Federal Government and the local
Murphy regime try to cover up the
miserable conditions of the unem-
ployed workers and their families in
this country, the toll Of suicides con-
tinues TO mount among the jobless
workers.
Last evening the body Of Walter
Kobyliniska, As, was found hanging
from rafter in a barn at the rear
of his home at $500 Dubois avenue.
His wife, who discovered the body,
said that dependency over his in
ability to find work and the bosses
denial of relief prompted his suicide.
The case was reported in the boss
press in two inch article buried on
an inside page.
RICHMOND, Calif.-Charles Me-
lenich, 29-year old unemployed
worker took his life yesterday morn
ing by breathing poisonous carbon
moncxide gas.
Malenich lived with his mother,
Mrs. Wilhelmina Melenich, 1877 Sew
enteenth Street, who told the police
her son had been out of work for
two years.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn, - Issac
Abraham, 22-year old jobless worker,
Of 81 Talcott Street, attempted sui
eide by turning on the gas in the
kitchen of his home.
Abraham's small brother smelled
gas and called his father Abraham
was found unconscious. He was re-
vived with a pulmotor and sent t.
the New Britain General Hospital.
He will be released in a few days
to start all over again the hopeless
hunt for work while the bosses deny
him any relief. Suicide is not the
way out. Abraham and the millions
of other unemployed workers froced
to exist in misery and starvation
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

@ted workers nome, winch STANDS IN
a veritable park-their spacious con-
tent and meeting hall-their dining
hall-the library and reading
room, the playground for the
children-their tennis and foot
ball grounds. Nor have we time
to dwell on the workers dramatic
and music clubs, their dancing per-
forrnances. Suffice to say that the
achievements based on the workers
own talent was nothing If not ex-
traordinary.
4-Day Week. Hour Day.
The chairman Of the evening, a
young apprentice metal worker, in
his introduction explained the his
tory of the factory. Five years ago
(1s26) it was a small shop, with
only seven workers. Today about
5000 are working in the plant and
are completing a new section of the
plant that will absorb another thou
sand workers. Starting with six
day week and the e1ght-hour DAY
these workers have reduced the work
ing week to four days, followed by
one rest day. The working day con-
sists of seven hours with a ten-n1in-
ute rest period in both the afternoon
and the morning and a forty-minute
lunch period. Each worker receives
from two to three weeks vacation
every year in their rest home.
The workers share the responsible
tty of the management of the fac
tory. They have a school and
courses in the factory to prepare
from their own ranks qualified
workers and engineers for their own
plants. Such remarkable progress
has been made that the workers OF
~Lepse" have been able to complete
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
MASS GROWTH OF DAILY
DEPENDS ON D. W. CLUBS;
ONE IN EVERY TOWN!

Comrades! II is up to all Of us IL.
the army of Daily Worker fighters
to pledge financial aid to the Daily
Worker Sustaining Fund. Workers
everywhere have shown their readi-
ness TO support the Daily with regu-
lar contributions weekly, monthly
and yearly. Regular amounts every
week have been set aside by many
workers to support their fighting or
gan.
Especially in these hard times this
shows a splendid spirit of sacrifice
and loyalty to the Daily Worker, the
organizer Of the struggles on every
front. Small organizations have
pledged donations to the Sustaining
Fund.
Daily Worker Clubs every wherel
You can organize a regular sustain
ing list. Workers who might other
wise not contribute funds can readily
do so by handing in the donation,
large or small, to their Daily Worker
Club secretary. Sympathizers can be
approached to support the Daily
Worker with regular sustaining
pledges. Start the ball rolling now,
send in a bunch of pledges to the
Daily Worker.
Hold Affairs for Daily.
But, above all, affairs, picnics,
entertainments and outings should
be held all through September for
the DaiIy's benefit. Even small
units can afford to hold an affair.
If expenses can be kept at mini
mum, substantial sums can be
raised for the Daily. Monograph
leaflet today; several hundred
copies can be run off for dollar
and a half or less; spread them
where they will do the most good;
pass the word among your friends
and tell them to bring their fam
lilies.
There are now over 80 Daily
Worker Clubs in existence. Besides
discussion of contents of the paper
all meetings of the Daily Worker
Clubs should make preparations for
selling the Daily. Unemployed work
ers who are members of the club
should be urged to sell the paper
and collect subs on the street, at
factory gates, from house to house.
Workers who are employed should be
asked to pledge weekly or monthly
sums to the Daily Worker Sustain
ing Fund; Daily Worker Clubs should
organize affairs and benefits for the
Daily, at which time new members
should be sought out amongst those
who attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Jamestown Laundry Workers Get Two Wage
Cuts in Two Weeks

getting their wages cut both ways.
The cost Of the laundry, however, is
the same as it always was.
A Worker.
Editorial Note-This shows what
the bosses can do when the work.
ers are not organized. Workers
in the Pearl Laundry, get busy.
Organize a committee in the shop
representing every department.
Demand the return of the original
wage scale. Get In touch with the
Laundry Workers League, SO w.
Huron St, Buffalo, n. \. -..AAI.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Tampa, Fla.

Tampa, Fla.
Daily Worker:
The A. F. of L. sponsored picnic
at one of our parks and collected a
big crowd. One of our leading or
ganizers climbed on platform and
spoke to the people. This was like
q spark to powder. The people
crowded to hear him and applauded
after every pause.
This comrade that spoke sold
one hundred Labor Defenders at the
same gathering, he was selling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
FRANCE SENDS 800 TO LIVING
DEATH

Another cargo of human freight
was shipp ed by French imperialism
to the notorious penal colony, Devils
Island. Closely guarded by soldiers
the 300 prisoners we're marched from
the prison at st. Martin De Re Rance
aboard the steamer La Martiniere
where they were locked below deck
in iron cages like so many animals.
The ship is equipped with pipes carry
ing live steam which is turned on the
prisoners if they show any signs of
resistance to the fiendish brutality
of French capitalist class Justice
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Turn AFL Picnic Into Communist Rally

DAILY Workers" when he was ac-
costed by policeman and asked
what he was selling. He said Daily
Workers" The cop said, Get out
of the grounds Immediately with
that junk" The comrade responded,
"This is not junk this is a workers
paper and you have no authority to
throw me out" after which the cop
kept quiet.
After the meeting the audience
sang the Internationale and other
Communist songs.-V. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
jamestown, N. Y.

JdIIIGSUUWII, ~. 4
Daily Worker:
The Pearl City Laundry Of this
city formerly paid the workers by the
week regardless of the time they
put in. Now they have q new way
to exploit workers. They asked the
workers If they would rather have
q time clock installed or dollar
deducted from their pay. The work.
ers thought that it would be better
TO take the dollar cut and they got
It. The following week the clock
mas installed also the workers thus
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
rBv a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
NEW YORK, N. Y.,-Meyer Sturm,
an unemployed worker, twenty-three
wears a member of local sos of the
International Bakers Union, was ex-
PEELED last week from the union by
the A. F. of L. takers for exposing
the unions corrupt officials at an
open air meeting at It'll Street and
Avenue B where A. Baron, the
unions publicity agent, was talking
on the great achievements of the
union"
sturm had been unemployed for
eyer a year. During that time he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
RAILROADS PREPARE TO CUT WAGES
OF 100000 RAILROAD WORKERS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEs

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl
the threat of the capitalist class to
cut the wages of all employed work
ers to the starvation level Railway
Age" admits this plan for a general
attack as follows:
"The question of reducing wages
in these industries is constantly be-
ing given more consideration and
discussion. The starting Of move
ment by the railways for reductions
unquestionabIy would be quickly
followed by the starting of move
ments for reductions in other i'm
portant industries"
This plan for a general attack by
the capitalist class was also brutally
stated by Creighton j. Hill Of the
Babson Institute on Saturday. This
capitalist statistician points not only
to the wholesale wage slashes but
also to the growing resistance Of the
workers to the sharpened exploita-
ton by the capitalist class. Hill
said that:
an brief, the outstanding factors
to watch in the labor outlook are:
The increasing spread of wage re-
auctions throughout general indus
try; growing unrest of labor with
a probable upturn in strikes during
the latter half of 1881 and extend
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
AFL Expels Unemployed Baker for Exposing
Takers
Takers

was sick and was operated on. He
has wife and four children and
owing to the fact that he was unable
to pay dues, the union officials would
give his no work.
At the meeting on Seventh Street,
where Baron the faker was telling
the workers of the great benefits"
of the International, Sturm, unable
to tolerate the lies of the faker,
shouted, Its a bluff" He thereby
explained the facts to the crowd.
One of the grafters phoned to the
officials and for this crime he was
pronounced out of membership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
ELECTRO-MOTOR PLANT
COMPLETES FIVE YEAR
PLAN IN TWO YEARS
Grows from Shop Employing Seven Workers
to Huge Plant Employing Three Thousand
New Homes, Libraries, Fairgrounds, Schools,
Dramatic Clubs Built AS Part of Plan
Moscow, U. S. S. R.
Dear Comrades:

Dear COmrades
tories shops of America share with you through
the DAILY Worker" my impressions gained few months
in the Soviet Union
was invited to celebration of large eectromotor fac
tory called "Lepse named after weknown LEADER, of
the important factories in Moscow The celebration held
their communicable home of the workers in the fac
tory.
At this time will not discourse the delightfully."- stu
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

Raise a new demand for the i'm
mediate unconditional release of the
nine innocent Scottsboro children!
Smash the boss terror against the
working-class Demand the release
of Tom Mooney and all class war
prisoners! Stop the deportation of
August Yokinen, now held on Ellis
Island, because of his defense of the
Negro maSsesl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14

Workers Correspondence Is the
backbone of the revolutionary press.
Build your press by writing for it
about your day-to- day struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-14
Force Relief For
Children: Miners
and Wives Starving

CONTINUED Oh PAGE THREE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
BROWN TO TESTIFY
ON ST. PAUL..LEASE
Postmaster General Prom
iseS to Explain Controversy
"0nce and For ALL"

Postmaster General Brown yesterday
promised to explain the st. Paul, MINI,
post office lease situation.
The late Secretary of War Good and
former Postmaster General New were
linked with the dropping of a grand
jury investigation in st. Paul post
Office lease during the 1928 presidential
campaign at a hearing yesterday of the
Blaine committee of the Senate inVeS-
tigating post Office leases.
Brown said he expected to testify
next week before the Investigating
Committee and. If given opportunity,
would explain "once and for all in an
orderly fashion" the controversy about
the st. Paul postmaster.
Brown would not comment on the
challenge of Representative Mas. Re-
publican. Minnesota, to make public
the results of an investigation OF Post
master Moos. Moos said Thursday
night at st. Paul he had been exonor-
ated of any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile the House Post Office
Committee agreed to meet Monday to
consider a bill by Mas to prevent first
class postmasters from continuing in
Office more than one year after their
terms have expired. Noes term ended
in January 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
IS. E. BOYCE, SR.,
| DIES At AGE OF 80
One of Oldest Odd Fellows in
District Held Many Offices
in FraternaI Order.

Samuel E. Boyce, ST., 80 years old,
one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the
District of Columbia in point of years
OF membership, died at his home, 7l3
Tenth street northeast, yesterday.
Death followed a stroke of paralysis.
Mr.. Boyce was a member of the Odd
Fellows and active in all branches OF
the order for more than SO years. He
was a member of Eastern Lodge, No. l.
ard served in all the chairs OF that
lodge. He was a. past grand and served
as secretary for over 80 years consectivs-
ly in the lodge. He was past chief
patriarch of Fred E. Stuart Encamp-
ment, No. 7, and past grand scribe OF
the Grand Encampment and member
of Dorcas Rebekah Lodge for more than
IS years. He belonged to Canton Wash
ington, No. /, OF the Patriarchs' Militant
and served through all the chairs and
was accorded honors and given the rank
of colcnel in the Patriarchs' Military
army.
He was a member of Camp. No 2, of
the Patriotic Sons of America and a
member of the Bricklayers' Union for
40 years
Mr. Boyce is survived by two sons,
Samuel E. Boyce, jr., and Walter f.
Boyce, and three daughters, Mrs Min
ME B. Robinson and Mrs. Elsie b. Heit-
man, the latter of Elizabeth, N. j., and
Miss Emma F. Boyce.
Funeral services will be conducted at
Deals funeral parlors, 8l6 H street
northeast, Monday afternoon. at ?
o'clock. Interment will be in Glenwcod
Cemetery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
VICTIMS OF QUAKE
RETURN TO HOMES
Sanitary Conditions Improve in
New Zealand Towns-160
Bodies Buried.
Nv the Assoclated Press.

BY I0e ASSOC EISSSs
WELLINGTON, New Zealand. Feb
ruary due to a considerable I'M
provement in the sanitary and relief
situation in the Hawkes. Bay district,
stricken by an earthquake last Tues
day, orders for evacuation Of Napier
have been re5cinded.
Occasional tremors continue, but there
has been none of a serious nature for
many hours Many inhabitants are re-
turning to temporary homes in the
vicinity of the ruins.
The deputy harbor master at Napier
said today that the harbor, the floor OF
which rose from S to 18 feet during the
ouakes, has gradually sunk again, al
though until sounding5 are taken its
new position cannot be charted. 1t IS
believed that the H. M S. Veronica,
marooned by the receding waters, will
be able to get out without difficulty.
Work of recovering bodies OF victims
proceeds.
To date 100 victims have been buried,
many of them unidentified, in Napier
and Hastings More than 1880 have
been treated at the Napier Field Hospi-
tai and before evacuation was. stopped
10000 persons had left Napier and
Hastings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
SENATE WILL REPORT
BICENTENNIAL BILL
+. B. Adult Sanitorium Measure
Also to Go on
Calendar.

Favorable reports will be made to the
Senate within the next few days on the
bill to authorize 100000 from District
funds for the expenses of the District
of Columbia Bicentennial Commission,
and the measure to provide for build
ing for adult tuberculosis patients on
the same tract acquired for children's
tuberculosis sanitorium at Randall Sta
ton. Md
The District Committee also decided
yesterday afternoon to report favorably
a modified bill to provide for closing
of barber shops in Washington on Sun
days, but Senator BleaSe of South Caro-
lima, announced he would oppose its
passage by the Senate. The new bill
also is opposed by DR.. c. S. Longacre of
the Religious Liberty Association.
The bill to provide funds for the local
commission on arrangements for the
Bicentennial was Endorsed by DR.. c. H.
Marvin, chairman of the District BIZ
centennial Commission.