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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
TO PROTEST GAS,
ELECTRIC RATES
AT COMMISSION
Communist Party and
Others to Fig h t
Excessive Rates

Today at $50 at 80 Center Street
the office of the Public Service Com
mission, Room $50, the Communist
Party, together with the Unemployed
Council and the Tenants League of
Greater New York, representing
hundreds of thousands of workers
and small consumers of gas and cleo
tricity will protest against the recent
raising of the rates.
Mr.. Maltbie, head of the Public
Service Commission, pretends that
the rates are not excessive. How
ever, it will be clear from the tes-
timony to be given by workers and
their wives who will be present that
the New York Edison Company and
the Consolidated Gas Company
which made increased profits in 1880
are simply plundering the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
WIN IN EVICTION
FOUR ARRESTED


-Four workers were arrested, one of
them severely beaten by cops for
participating in returning the furni-
tur eof an evicted family.
Leo Romin, 546 East 18th Street,
unemployed for over a year and his
wife in the hospital was evicted with
his two small children. The Down
town Unemployed Council, together
with aroused workers of the neigh
borhood put back his furniture and
then held a meeting outside of the
house exposing the fake charity" of
the bosses and calling on the work
ers TO organize. 1t was during this
meeting that the cops attacked them.
The workers were arraigned in the
night court. They defended them
selves cross-examining the cops. Two
Of them we're sentenced to IS fine
or two days in jail. The worker who
was beaten up, had to be taken to
the Polytechnic hospital and the
fourth workers was dismissed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
Harlan Miner, War
Vet, Lies In j all
And Family Starves

HARLAN, KY, Sept 16.-When
Bill Gibbs came home wounded
from France after the World War,
he went back to his mine job in
the old mining camp at Sunshine,
ramshackle suburb of Harlan All
the while he was in France Bill
was told he was fighting for free
dom and democracy.
Just what this freedom" and
democracy" means Bill discovered
six weeks ago when, after five
raids by deputies upon his poverty
stricken home within two weeks,
Bill was thrown into Jail on
charge of criminal syndicalism.
Bill had National Miners Union
literature in his home
Meanwhile his girl-wife and
four children, all under 10 years
Of age, are starving in their tum-
ble-down old shack in the mining
camp of Sunshine. Bits wife,
l7-year-old girl, has been driven
nearly distracted by the cries of
her step-children for milk. Three
of the children. terrorized by the
night raids of the Harlan coal
company thugs and now starved,
have become seriously i'll.
Unless Bills wife and children
get food and milk at once, they
stand face to face with starvation,
Workers all over America must
come to their help. Send money
for relief to the Kentucky Miners
Aid, care of the International
Labor Defense, so East 18th St.,
Room 400, New York City
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
RATIFICATION CONFERENCE FOR
COMMUNIST CANDIDATES TONITE
All Workers Organizations To Send Delegates
To Central Opera House, 8 p. M; Great
Campaign For Workers, Jobess

Communist Party as the only party
fighting for the interests of the
working class. The racketeering
Tammany Hall machine and the re-
publicans and socialists, the thieves
out of office, who wish'to get in in
order to profit by the graft, will be
fully exposed
The ratification congress therefore
will be the beginning of a smashing
campaign in New York by the Com
munist Party. 1t will hear the re-
port Of the Communist Party repre-
sentatives who will appear before
the Public Service Commission to
protest against the latest robbery of
the Gas and Electric Light Trust Co.
Thousands of workers have signed
petitions demanding the cancellation
of the dollar minimum rate and the
20 per cent reductions on the old
rates. Not only have they signed the
(coNTISUED ON PAGE TWoD
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
Plotto Break Tom Mooney Threatened His Life
Wheeling Steel Go. Cuts
Wages; Metal Workers
League Calls for Fight
Mass Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa. Septem-
Der 9th to Mobilize Workers to Strike

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. IA
new 6 per cent wage cut in the hot
mill of the Wheeling Steel Co. of
Yorkville, O., was made. This COM
pany cut the day men 10 per cent
a short time ago. The Steubenville
Blooming Mill, where the men are
working eight hours, have also cut
wages from 60 to 81 cents an hour.
The Metal Workers Industrial
League is holding special meetings
in both mills for the fight against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

and small users of gas and electricity
The permission of the Public Service
Commission to these two companies
to raise the rates while at the same
time lowering the rates of the big
consumers shows the control of gov
eminent by the trust.
The workers, more than million
of whom are out of work throughout
New York and millions of whom are
working part time will protest en-
phatcally against this procedure
and will take the necessary steps in
order to protect themselves from this
robbery.
All workers should be present at
this hearing. Bring along your gas
and electric receipts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
EFFORT TO SILENCE LABOR
PRISONER AIMED AT DEATH
IF Mooney Died, Mooney Case Would End" Was View
OF Officials
Spector, Prison Mate Tells Of Conspiracy; Mooney
Harlan Conferences, throughout U S.

An effort by state authorities of Califor-
MIA to deal out savage punishment to Tom
Money for MONEYS recent deunciation of
former Governor C. c. Young in the California
Supreme Court, which c~-@o2 --cIY close to a
Worker yesterday
It learned that after MONEYS denunciation some
months ago of the share of the officials of the California trade
union in the framep which resulted in his mprs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

this wage cut. Sweeping slaShes are
expected by the end of this month
in the United States Steel mills.
A mass conference will be held in
Pittsburgh on September 81 to mo-
bilize the steel workers for strikes
against all wage cuts. The Youngs-
town section is holding its conference
this week. The Metal Workers In
dustrial League calls for united &C
ton of all steel workers and for
building of the steel workers indus
trial union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
War Plot Against the Soviet
Union Seethes in Four Countries

Soviet dumping" and moreover
her general relations with Italy
would normally restrain her from
unnecessary provocation in that
quarter.
Consequently it is obviously upon
the British Navy that the main re-
lance must be placed in this case
to furnish the naval power which
seems indispensable to the preser-
walton of peace in the present crit
ical and highly complicated state
of affairs surrounding the Russian
situation"
The captains studious avoidance
of any word as to what the U. S.
navy would be doing in this war
would be significant. The time has
not come, in his opinion. to openly
state that the refusal Of the British
navy to fight the Soviet Union and
the pairing of the French and Ital-
ian navies, would leave the job of
blockading Soviet ports to the Amer
lean navy, but his article is written
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
GOVT THREATENS TO Use
iron fist AGAINST SAILORS;
SOCIALISTS ASK PUNISHMENT
Communist Party Of Great Britain Calls On Workers
To Greet Militant Sealnen On Solidarity Protests
When Fleet Lands
RULLETTN.

District Party
of the city Union Saturday, militant solidarity
demonstration with the British who have by their actions lit
British Imperialism. This demonstration will
against attempts the
outlaw the Communist Canada The workers of
Chilean
Wall of Chile
meeting solidarity greetings
the Macdonald nationalist of hunger and misery All
Union Saturday September 49, 2:SO
solidarity British
Directly following socialist" statement
would the vicious discipline against the militant British sailors
Chamberlain First the Admiralty in the
that further resistance of the sailors
would be dealt with under the Nav. Discipline Act
pointed further the which
decided
Macdonald admitted that this
th
cuts loyalty Macdonald opposed
them He disappointed that
the slash their living standards "loyay"
passvey into militant action they did.
of the capitalist point out that the attempt Of
the sailors to the
pleading with
which they had already made the effect that the
ships would be diverted to other points.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

NEW YORK.-Tonight at p. m.
at Central Opera House, 9Th st. and
Bird Ave, the public Ratification
Conference of the Communist Party
will be held. This conference rep
resenting unions, fraternal organiza-
tons, clubs, shops, ETC., will ratify
the platform and candidates of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
EMERGENCY MEET FOR BUILD
ING TRADES FRACTION.

An emergency meeting OF the
Building Trades Fraction will be held
on Saturday, September 8, at pm.
sharp at the Workers Center All
building trades comrades must at
tend ,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
ALL OUT SAT. IN SOLIDARITY WITH BRITISH SEAMEN
Fight for Free Food, Clothing
for Orkers' Children!

THE the children for free food and
that the Pittsburgh district for
free food clothing the miners children exposing all work
millions children the
part striking willingness fight
their The children Haboro when they told
by the Board of Education that this they will have to pay their own
the street painted signs
strike their
areno school, fitting
working class
In the mining section the undernuhed clothingess
the fighting together with their parents the picket
against continuing their fight in the schools
committee children and parents presented the
clothing to the school authorities and threat
the children from school, the five schools in the
milk crackers to the children
every and readiness fight for
children from the boss
class
huge picket
prepared of the Borough Halls in
Brooklyn the deepest hit by the raging disease
fane Paralysis Mass meetings being held throughout the city
education
school officials
All famous demagogues and
health commissioners etc,
splitting phosophc rules of health which meant
children struggling At the time these dema
the miners into submission club the unemployed at dem
golden with the
five million undenoushed sick children in the United States for whom
he has nothing to offer but fue ana tne famous cha
of the boss class Commissioner of Health Wynn OF New York comes out
hypocical Rules of Health for Children which
The child should have plenty Of norihing food and the growing
the adult He should nourhng
breakfast and glass of milk At noon he should have filling lunch
dishes
The rest of the family eats plus glass of milk"
children Paterson, New
fields which
cds health? deaths nante paralysis
the half starved condition of these children?
upon Wynn
Wynn very
necessary child
these organized fight of both parents
school Only the might
stop loads food milk into the
while workers children starve
struggle will for the workers
conditions
fight
the
children that recruited the Y during
the te backbone
chldrens struggle" that will
organizations every
willing the Pioneers active
conditions
children The parents the neghboood of the school
fight
demands presented to the Board of Education
part parcel
security from starvation it tbs
fight food clothing be the
unemployed workers throughout the U. s. A
Unemployed Councils.
Fight Unemployed Insurance
a Young o
Build working class parents leagues
p. food clothing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

in other words, means to vote the
Labor government into office when
the latter will put through the cuts.
The Eorc'd also threatens the sail
ors and writes it i3 impossible to con-
done INSTRUMENTATION
The fight against the cuts rests en-
tirely on the proletarian instincts of
CONTINUED on PAGE THREE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
What Navy Is For.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. IT,
Captain Dudley w. Knox, US. Navy,
retired, published in an article yes
terday in the press, in which he la
ments the mutiny in the British
Navy, because: THE British Navy is
one of the main bulwarks against the
threatened Soviet world conquest
and the breakdown Of our civiliza-
ton"
This phrase about Soviet world
conquest" is, of course, merely the
accepted form In which capitalist
propaganda refers 10 the capitalist
plans for war on the Soviet Union,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

Statements of various persons who
now hold or did hold high official
positions in the capitalist govern
ments of the United States and Ger
many expose some parts of the few
erish plotting of the capitalist gov
ernments of these countries and Of
France and England for war against
the Soviet Union. Some Of the la
test developments are described be-
low.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18
(Cable By InprecOrr)

LONDON, Sept. T.-Referring to the
naval mutiny, today's Daily Worker writes
that the AdmiraIs statement promising recon
sideration of the pay cuts represents success
for the men, but that the fight is not over and
can turn into defeat unless their action is organized
The sailors forget that the cuts first proposed
by the labor government.
The Daily Herald organ of the Labor Party advises the
men submit their case "hgh of electors which,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-18

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Neac Dez1ce 1Aids Goal Tests

THE Bureau OF Mines. in its annual testing
Of COAL collects and analyses mere than
100000 samples q year. The work has been
axtuous IN the extreme, with considerable labor
involved in transporting the testing equipment
from mine to mine. The samples Of coal, 600
pounds to a lot, have been broken up by hand
to O quarter-inch mesh In order that the
samples may be uniform and accurate and fair
tests made.
Now however, the work has been facilitated
through the development Of q special testing
truck equipped with q swing hammer directly
connected with o four-cylinder gasoline engine.
This breaks it up with dispatch and speeds up
the testing work. A rifle" separates the coal
into equal parts, after which compressed air
line driven by the same engine blows the
crlsher and rifle clear of any leftover coal.
In this way any carry-over from previous
samples Is avoided and the chemists are as.
Sured that the coal they are testing actually 10
100 per cent from the sample being investigated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

THE Corcoran Gallery OF Art holds is great
exhibitions Of American paintings bien-
nially and this is the or year, bat that does
not mean that there viii not be events OF in
terest beneath its roof during the coming season.
Quite to the contrary, several notable one-man
exhibitions have already been planned. the hrst
Of which will consist Of paintings BY w. Elmer
Schoheld, one Of our most distinguished paint
ers Of landscape, Winter pictures and the sea-
Also Of immediate interest Is the st. Memin
collection Of little portraits, heretofore kept in
an album and now placed in cases so that the
visitors can see the entire number without
turning q page and with the utmost con-
venience.
A NEW art gallery Is to be added to Wash
ington this season, or at least an old gall
lery redecorated and under new auspices. This
Is the gallery at 11o6 Connecticut avenue, once
known IS the Art Center which has been taken
over and refitted by the home construction d.
vision of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Thee j. Morgan, the well known local painter
who has made an enviable reputation for him.
self throughout the country by his paintings,
has been made director, and Is planning to hold
in this gallery during the coming season
series Of notable and unusual exhibitions OF
widely varied character. Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Herter will be among the early exhibitors Mr..
Heter showing portraits and other paintings,
and also very beautiful series OF textiles
which he has designed. Later in the season
viii come an exhibition of paintings by w. Les
ter Stevens Of Princeton University and Rock
port, Mass. Charles C. Curran, secretary Of the
National Academy of Design, will be one OF
the exhibitors in December, and Jerry Farms
worth will show q group of his portraits therein
in February, his wife exhibiting . group Of
her still life paintings at the same time There
win be bronzes by well known sculptors, illus
trations in pen and ink by Thornton Oakley.
prints by Andre Smith, Thomas Handforth and
NAatt VwifR
the exhibition Of etchings by Andre Smith,
Mrs. Charles whitmore Of the Print Corner,
bingham Center. Mass, will give talk on
"Etchtngs and Etchers," and when Thornton
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Calendar of Exhibitions

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Seven
teenth street and Neto York avenue.
Permanent collection.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900
Tpentu-frst street. Permanent col
lection NTH recent acquisitions.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Tenth
and b Constitution dUcnue) streets
northeast Permanent collection.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Testh
and B streets southwest. Etchtngs b.
George r. Pio,pmdn, october to No
Defpber I.
FREER GALLERY OF ART. TtDelth
and B streets southwest. Permanent
collection.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Print Dtut-
ssou First street bet,Ceen East Capitol
and B streets southeast. Contemporary
American Prints assembled by the
American Federation OF Arts for en-
hibition in italy.
ARTS CLUB OF WASHINGTON, 20f7
street northwest. Paintings by MEM
bers of the Landscape Club, September
q to October II.
TEXTILE MUSEUM, 1880 street
northwest. Rugs, tapestries and other
TEXTILES OF the Near and Far East
Open Mondays Wednesdays and Fri.
ddvs, to o'c'oci:. Admission By
card. obtainGble at the Office of G. II.
Myers, 1908 street northwest.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY ART GAL
LERY. Modern French Color Prints
lent bv College Art Association, Octo-
Der to IS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
The Snner Soul.

II haven't tackled contract yet;
I reckon, as a whole,
The game would be too hard TO get,
Bemoaned the T1mid Soul
Some one is only spoofng you,
You'd learn it IL you tried,
You'd find It isn't hard to do"
The Bolder Soul replied.
Just then the Saner Soul cut in:
when all is said and done,
Although you might not always win,
You're bound to have more fun"
Such folks might quote the country boy
Perhaps he really said it:
"I'm going to town to taste its JOY,
But golly, how dread it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

during September series Of attractive water
colors by Wells NJ Sawyer, q former washing
tonian q member of the Society Of washington
Artists and the Washington Water Color Club.
These water colors were made in the Mediter-
ranean islands and countries apd here and
there In the United States Some Of the most
charming were made in Taormina. Sicily, re-
calling its novelty and charm. Those in this
country were chiefly scenes on Cape Cod and
IN or around Charleston, S. c. With his SON.
in-law and daughter Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Farms
worth Mr.. Sawyer spent some weeks In the
latter city last Winter
\h/H1LE MT. Sawyer was in Washington last
w Spring he painted in oils an extremely
interesting and accurate picture Of the State,
War and Navy Building Seventeenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, which is soon to put on
new dress and pass from the era Of mansard
to the familiar and governmentally approved
classic. It was because of this anticipated
change that Mr. Sawyer painted this picture,
and 1t Is now hanging in the State Department.
Eventually it may be regarded as an historical
document. The view which he chose was from
the west side of Seventeenth street and Penn
sylvania avenue, looking toward the main
facade, and admirably has he depicted the
great mansard roof and the long orderly rows
Of windows while beyond, through the trees,
one catches glimpse of the White House,
above which, marking the passage Of time and
the changes in life is an aeroplane.
For many years this great building occupied
no long by the State, War and Navy Depart
ments, has been held up to derision, but after
all, it is not a bad example of the architecture
Of the time in which it was erected nor III
adapted for the purposes to which it was dedi-
Gated; and fitness and use eventually create
Id rknVHc
TO come, viewing this picture. will wonder why
it was thought necessary at this time to give
this great monumental building . new and
classical frock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

FTER four months of comparative in
activity the art season in Washing
ton opens now with good deal OF
zest, and there is every prospect or
a lively and interesting Winter.
The Phillips Memorial Gallery,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

Oakley's illustrations are on view, later in the
month, he win give talk ON illustrations"
Such a series Of exhibitions, so well planned
and conducted, should prove . very genuine
asset to art interest in Washington.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1931-07-16

lensege Matt S zavartan .fogad.
tam bar6 kosz0neset. Plutot visz
szahivtam, de 3 mem engedelmes-
kedett, nagy volt a kisertes, hogy
maradjon, inert bar6ne megsi.
mogatta ot puha kis kezevel Is
cukrot adott neki S cukoreves
Plut6nak mindig nagy gyongeje
volt.
Nehany kozonyos szot yaltot-
tunk a szep 6szi reggelrol, Pluto
r6l meg bar6 egeszsegi allaps-
tarol.
A baro nevetve beszelte ell, hogy
feleseget leanyanak nezik, ami
b5l sok furcsa felreertes tamad.
Egy fatal igyved peldaul harom
napig kiserte 6ket lepten-nyomon,
mintha arnyekuk volna. Epedo
pillantasokat vetett Katinkara,
sot megvesztegette portast. =
hogy egy levelet csusztasson a
"kisasszony" kezebe, mikor az
"0reg ur'', az apja, mem lesz OFT
hon.
A levelen jot nevettiink S en- AIT
irtam a boritekara: ''az Greg ur
mem apja annak a sep n6nek, kit
on, uram levelevel kitiintetni szi-
yes volt, hanem a ferje. Kiil0nben
hizeIeg neki, hogy a baronot, aki
hat ewes asszony, meg sokan fla
tai leanynak nezik.'
Az0ta a fatal ur mindig gon-
dosan elkeriil benniinket, minde-
nitt kiter az utunkb6l, pedig en-
mem veszem rossz neven teljcsen
io szandeku tevedeset.
Leirhatatlanul gyonged pillan-
tast vetett nejere. k0szont S bot
jara, meg barono karjara ta-
maszkodva lasSu, vontatott lepes-
sci ment odabb. A hiitelen Pluto
nagy zavarban ALT az ut k0zepen.
Mem tudta magat hirtelen elhata-
rozni, hogy velem maradjon-e
vagy utanuk fusson9
(Folytatjnk.)
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1931-07-16
A Z0LDUZsORA ELLEN

Debrecenb6l jelentik: - Hal
du varmegye k0zigazgatasi bi-
zottsaganak leg1t6bbi iilesen sok
panasz hangzott el arrol, hogy a
megyeben ismet elburjanzott a
z0ldhitel-uzsora. Szamos gazdal-
kod6, felsz6lalasok szerint. po-
tomaron, 9-1O peng6ert adta el
remenybeli buzatermeset es ez az
ar, tekintve a gazdak sulyos anya
gi helyzet6t, mar az uzsoraval ha-
taros. A gazdak gondjaival visz-
szael6 buzavasarl6k szemelyet,
sajnos, egyetlen esetben sem tud-
tax eddig kinyomozni, inert ma
guk gazdak is titkoljak, kinek
adtak ell z0ldbuzajukat, att6l tart
va, hogy az iigylet visszamegy. A
k0zigazgatasi bizottsag, a feline
riilt panaszok folytan, elhataroz-
ia, hogy erelyes akci6t indit a
zolduzsora let0resere.