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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Christianity Practised By Colored Folk
Is Barnyard Variety Says Mencken
Enterprise News Bureau)

Christianity practised by colored
folk is of the "dunghill variety"
says H. L. Mencken, white, in
February Opportunity Magazine.
other adjectives used by him to
describe it include stupid, ignorant,
barbaric, preposterous, downright
simian (monkey). immoral, hog wal
low"
Mr. Mencken tells of the curse of
"barnyard theology, which is dis
grace to the human race and ten
times as degrading as any political
bondage ever could be.
Preachers are referred TO as
"black racketeers,y who boast that
all of them are fundamentalists. IL
they believe what they preach, he
says. they should be chased out of
their pulpits as public nuisances and
put TO useful work.
Mencken says further
81 see no reason Negroes should be
such heavy patrons of these dung
hill varieties of Christianity. II
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Seek Funds to Aid
Harlem's Destitute

NEW YORK-One hundred thou
sand dollars to relieve destitute fam
lilies in this economic crisis who are
denied the possibility of livelihood.
is being sought by the Harlem Co.
operating committee on Relief and
Unemployment, Shelton Hale Bish-
op, chairman.
Every person in Harlem now en-
ployed is being asked to contribute
to the fund a minimum of one per
cent of his weekly or monthly earn
ings over a period of five months.
The committee estimates that there
are 10000 unemployed persons in
Harlem, with many families having
had no regular wage Garner for more
than six months.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Merged Banks Open
Doors In Louisville

LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The opening
of the Mutual Standard Bank this
week marked another epoch in the
business life of Louisville. On
November IL, the First Standard
and American Mutual Banks closed
their doors because their funds were
deposited in a white institution which
was closed.
Tuesday morning, amidst flowers
and potted plants. the doors of a
new institution, the result of the
merged banks, opened for business
under the name of the Mutual Stand
ard bank. There was no run on the
bank. 1t appeared that nearly every
one was waiting to make deposits.
The officers were congratulated and
the clerks went about their bust
ness as before. The white institu-
tons are still closed. w. w. Sprad-
ling is the new president and j. R.
Ray and j. o. Blanton are the vice
presidents in charge of affairs.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
$1,000. 900 FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY
DePriests Attend White House Reception
Negro Year Book
Ready in March

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. :
The eighth edition of the Negro
Year Book, containing $50 pages,
will be ready for distribution about
the first of March, according to DR..
Monroe N. Work, editor and direct
or of the department of records and
research at Tuskegee Institute.
The book review division contains
10 headings including poetry, Ne
gro drama, folklore, stories dealing
with race mixtures and novels deal
ing with lower class Negroes. Thirty
five pages are devoted to the sub
ject of the Negro in politics, also
the growing interest of the race in
the Democratic party.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
"Hub" Mayor Snubs
Hunger Marchers

BOSTON = Get the hell out of
here. my time is valuable" Mayor
Curley told hunger marchers of the
Unemployed Council, including Stan
ley johnson, of Shawmut Avenue,
after two hours of wrangling about
relief for the jobless, last week.
The mayor asked johnson whether
be wanted job, and when the man
hesitated he said CURLY, at seems
to me more profitable to lecture"
The committee of the council who
interviewed the mayor demanded
the reduction of his salary to $4,000
and the establishment of a $40.-
100000 relief fund.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Aunt Melindy" Buried
In White Cemetery

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Melindy
Walker, reputed to be more than
100 years old, was laid to rest in
the white cemetery here Thursday
on the lot of the family whom she
served for a long number of years.
Mrs. Walker better known in
these parts, as Aunt Melindy."
gained national prominence some
years ago when she was selected as
the heroine of a series of articles,
entitled "Melindy-ism" by Rena
Shore Duncan, which were publish
ed in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Two Chicago Physicians
Get Rosenwald Awards

CHICAGO-Two more members
of the senior surgical staff of the
Provident Hospital, Drs. Roscoe C.
Giles and Julian Dawson, have been
awarded fellowships in surgery by
the Rosenwald Fund and the Uni
versity of Chicago. DR.. Giles is now
in Vienna and through the scholar
ship will remain several months
studying, while it is reported that
DR.. Dawson will do research work
here before going abroad.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05

For example. the N.A.A.C.P. Is
caricatured as the National Social
Equality League with an official or
gan, the Dilemma edited by DR..
Shakespeare Agamamnon Beard,
founder of the league. graduate Of
Harvard, Yale and Copenhagen
whose naughty bearing never failed
to impress both Caueasians and
Negroes.
For a mere $4,000 a year. the
learned doctor wrote scholarly and
biting editorials denouncing the
Caucasions whom he secretly adj
mires and Iauding the greatness OF
the Negro, whom he alternately
pitied and despised.
"He deified the black woman but
abstained from employing aught
save octoroons."
Napolean Jackson
The secretary of the N.S.E.L. IS
DR.. Napolean Wellington Jackson
whom Schuyler describes as broad
Continued on Page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Own 2,236, 600 Acres
of Farm Land in Virginia

RICHM0ND.-A total of 1896
900 acres, or IL per cent of all
the farm land in the state, is owned
by members of the group, according
to a summary by L. B. Tate, white,
of the University of Virginia.
Charles City heads the list with
69.4 per cent of its farms owned by
Colored persons, having 456. Dick
erson and Buchanan have no farms
owned by the group.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
Ford Employs 5000
Dodge Brothers, 1,400

DETROIT.-Prior to 1910, Ne
groes here were employed chiefly as
porters and domestics, but today the
Ford industries hire 5000, and the
Dodge Brothers Motor company
ranks second with the number en-
ployed which is 400. The Packard
Car company ranks third with 700.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-05
SINGS For Radio

NEW YORK CITY.-Little Joe
Wells, bootblack, may have to de-
sert shining shoes for good since
a local radio announcer heard him
singing on a street corner. The
lad sang over the radio Thursday,
and created a sensation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
WILLIAMSBURG
RELIEF PLANS
Tuesday Is Collection
Day In Section
BY RYAN WALKER

Penn-Ohio Miners Relief COMMITTEES
81 Graham Avenue. appeals to every
worker and working class housewife
OF Brooklyn, in the name of the As
900 starving miners and their fanafl~
les in Pennsylvania-Ohio, West vir-
girlia and Kentucky, to help collect
food and funds. These miners went
out on strike against starvation. The
Williamsburg Section of the Penn
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com
rnittee has arranged q special day
for the purpose Of collecting food
and funds A truck will be at the
headquarters, 81 Graham Ave, on
Tuesday morning, August Ii. at 10
a. m. All unemployed workers and
working class housewives are asked
to participate.
They also announce that their
relief station is open every night
from $50 a. m. until II p. m. Meet
ings are held every Thursday. Work
ers are urged to come to the meet
ings and to actively participate in
the gathering Of relief for the heroic
striking miners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
ALBERT COATES AT STADIUM
TUESDAY

Fritz Relner ends his fortnight at
the Stadium this evening. The pro-
gram will include George Gershvtn
playing the piano part of his "Rhap-
sody in Blue, Deems Taylor con-
Quoting his Suite Through the
Looking Glass, Russell BENEFITS
March for Two Pianos and Orches-
ira, with the composer and Oscar
Levant as soloists, waltz of Allan
Lincoln Langley, Henry Hadley's
Overture In Bohemia" and the
Jubilee" and Noel" from George
Chadwick's Symphonic Sketches.
William D. DAILY will hold the baton
for the Bennett and Gershwin
works.
Albert Coates Will introduce five
works to the Stadium during his
first week and will conduct an all
Wagner program with Elsa Alsen,
soprano, and Paul Althouse, tenor,
as soloists next Saturday and Sun
day nights. Coates comes to New
York after his successful conducting
in Soviet Russia. Programs for bal
ance Of week:
Tuesday: Symphony No. in E
minor, Tchaikovsky; Sonata from
Cantata No. 81, Bach Whitaker;
Doubinoushka Russian Folk Melo-
dy), Rinsky Korsakoff; The Musical
Box, Liadow; Bolero, Ravel.
Wednesday: Overture "Leonore"
No. 3, Beethoven; Poem of Ecstasy,
Scriabin; Kaiser Waltz, Johann
Strauss; Siegfried Idyll, Wagner;
Capriccio Espagnol, Rimsky- Korsa-
koff.
Thursday: Symphony in D Minor,
Cesar Franck; "Rousslan and Lud-
nilla' Overture, Glinka; Aesop's Fa-
bles. w. H. Reed; Introduction and
Allegro for Strings, Elgar; Death
and TRANSPORTATION, Strauss.
Friday "Euryanthe" Overture
Weber; A Norfolk Rhapsody, Vau-
CHAN Williams; Perpetual Motion
(from Suite No. u Moszkowsky;
Waltz Tales from the Vienna
Woods, Johann Strauss; Symphony
No. in E flat major C'Eroica)
Beethoven.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
ANOTHER NEGRO
LYNCHED in SO.
Boss Terror Raging
Fiercely

DE WITT, Ark, Aug. 9.--John
Parker, Negro worker. was lynched
by a white man and his Negro
henchman last Friday.
Parker, who was in the custody of
deputy sheriff at the time, was TAX
en- out of the deputy's car and his
body riddled with bullets. His muir
derers. travelling by automobile, had
intercepted the ,deputys car.
The deputy made no attempt to de-
fend his prisoner. After permitting
the murder of Parker, the deputy ar
rested the two men knowing very we'll
that the white man who lead the at
tack would not be punished for the
crime and that If there is any pun
ishment it will be the Negro tool of
the white boss who will be made the
scapegoat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
SHOE WORKERS TO
FIGHT WAGE CUT
Hold Successful Mass
Meet to Organize

NEW YORK.-In spite of the suf-
locating heat last Thursday, Lorrain
Hall was filled with shoe workers
who responded to the call of the
Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial
Union mass meeting.
The unbearable conditions which
exist in the shoe trade, as wage cuts
yellow dog contracts, securities, un-
employment and all the other evils
from which shoe workers are suffer-
ing at the present time were dis
cusSed at this meeting. The PREACHER
Gus role of the labor takers of the
Boot and Shoe" who mask them
selves with radical phrases and be-
tray the workers behind their backs
was very clearly brought out at this
meeting.
1t was pointed out that in the last
few months, the workers of few
slipper shops, under the leadership
Va bllC SAlOC dIlQ ACdO1ICI UOlhCA ILL
dustrial Union have successfully
counter attacked wage cuts. At the
present moment the Shoe and Leath-
er Workers Industrial Union is con-
Quoting a bitter struggle against the
Glenmore Shoe Co. The bosses en-
ploy well known methods as gang
sters, frame-up pickets, injunctions,
etc. The chairman of this shop stated
to this meeting that in spite of all
the workers are prepared to go on
with the strike to victory. 1t was
pointed out at this meeting that it is
the duty of every shoe worker to help
this strike come to successful end,
by helping it financially and also
participating actively on the picket
line. The meeting ended with cali
to all the workers of the shoe trade
to join the ranks of the Shoe and
Leather Workers Union, to organize
shop committees and help in the or
ganizational campaign TO build up a
strong militant union as the only way
to better the conditions of all the
shoe workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
NEWARK POLICE
ATTACK WORKERS
Negro. White Defend
Each Other

NEWARK, N j., Aug. 9.-Five
meetings protesting the police mas
Sacre of Chicago unemployed work
ers were held here, rallying hundreds
of Negro and white workers for the
fight against starvation and evic-
tons, and for full equality of the
Negro People, for which the Chicago
workers died
Police later attacked a miners re-
lief meeting at Ukrainian Hall, pre-
venting 1000 workers from entering
the hall Sixty workers had sue
ceeded in getting in the hall before
the police established their Gordon.
These workers proceeded to open the
meeting with the singing of the In
ternationale."
AS the strains of the revolutionary
song floated to the masses outside
the hall there was tremendous cheer
ing. A police captain then entered
the hall with several policemen and
attempted to drag out two Negro
workers. The white workers mill
family rallied TO the defense of their
Negro comrades. The police, rein
forced, then began to beat up the
white workers. This time it was the
Negro workers who rallied to the
defense of their class brothers.
Another meeting at the I. w. O..
Hall was attacked by the police, the
workers chased into the streets where
they defended themselves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10

NEIGHBORHOOD THEATRES
EAST sIDE--BRONx
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
SOLIDARITY DAY
FOR MINE RELIEF
Labor Day, Sept. Z at
Starlight Park

Plans are being formulated by the
Penn Ohio Striking Miners Relief
Committee, in conjunction with the
w. I. r., for a gigantic celebration
of Solidarity Day, September 7.
Plan Big Program
On September 7, Solidarity Day,
therefore. the Penn-Ohio Relief
Committee and the w. I. r. will hold
huge celebration in Starlight Park,
the Bronx. In the afternoon there
will be a sports program led by the
Labor Sports Union, dancing and
entertainment. In the evening we'll
known leaders of tn eworkingclass
including william 2. Foster, will
speak, as will the chairman OF the
Rank and File Strike COMMITTEE of
the National Miners Union, who will
come in from the strike area for the
OCCASION. A pageant and concert will
follow the speakers.
The proceeds Of the celebration
will go to the relief fund for the
more than 100000. miners who are
striking against starvation in the
coal fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia and Kentucky, and
to the striking textile workers.
At least 10000 New York workers
are expected to attend this mass ce-
LIBERATION of Solidarity Day on Sep
TENDER 7, and the Relief Committee
and the w. I. r. urgently request no
other workngclass organizations to
hold affairs on that day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
DISTRICT DAILY"
PICNIC ON AUG. 16
Sports to Feature at
Big Picnic

The District 2 New York Annual
Daily Worker Picnic will be held
August Is at Pleasant Bay Park, and
promises to be an event of unusual
interest and Importance. Central
leaders of important class struggles
will speak at the picnic and explain
the role Of the Daily Worker in deep
ening and extending these struggles
and making them the burden of bat
tie of the whole working class.
To Award Prizes.
In addition this picnic takes place
right after the splendid response Of
the workers of New York to the sue
ceSsful finance drive of the Daily. A
cause of proletarian celebration and
JOY will be the awarding of prizes to
the successful organizations who
raised the highest amount of money
in the drive.
What may prove to be the most in
4CdIdlC OIi blAC JAOBI Will
take place in the sports field, where
a fine program is being prepared by
the Labor Sports Union. Included in
a varied schedule of sports will be an
exciting track meet, which will in
volve the best teams of the Metro
polls in labor sports.
With dancing and mass singing to
round out the event, Aug. is prom
Uses to be a gala day of proletarian
festival and fun. The orchestra has
been arranged to perform all day.
Workers should flock to the Bay in
their thousands on this great day.
Mass proletarian organizations
should involve their entire member
ship.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
} AFTER son STRIKERS WELCOMED
into, NTWIJ AT Big MEETING

arose and told of being members Of
the I.W.W or the Associated or the
"A. F.. of L. in former years, and the
futility of belonging to any Of these
organizations now, for everyone of
them was strike breaking orgariza-
ton, more interested in making deals
with the bosses than in fighting for
! the workers
The secretary Of the union, j, Ru-
bin, then explained to the new mem
bers very carefully the shop form of
organization of the revolutionary
unions affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League. He showed how this
form of shop organization prevents
the Bosses or any fake officials or
any boss stool-pigeon from getting
inside and doing any damage. He
showed how this form of organization
makes it possible for the workers
themselves TO make their own settle
ments and their own conditions with
the bosses, without being dictated to
by officials
Rubin Reports on Strike Situation.
Rubin then reported on the situa-
ton of the strike at present, how for
the first time since 1918 the dye
houses have been broken into, and
the Doherty mill is out, how the A. F.,
of L.-Associated combination, with
Gitlow, Zimmerman and Keller for
good measure, are trying to demon
alize the strike with fake settlements,
and how the workers Of the NT.W.U.
can combat these tactics. He ex-
planned the role of the union in the
strike as the leader of the strike, and
| that it is the task of every member
of the NT.W.U. to become a leader
Of the rest of the strikers.
J. Rubin, secretary Of the union,
Indignantly repudiated the statement
attributed to him by the Paterson
Morning Call" to the effect that "the
radical strikers are striking Tor the
establishment Of a manufacturers
organization, but is more interested in
organizing the workers" Rubin, in the
presence of two witnesses, had told
the call" correspondent that "the
N.T.W.U. doesn't care what the man
ufactrers do about organization The
NT.WU. is interested in organizing
the workers against the manufactur-
ers, and has no interest in organizing
manufacturers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
Committee for Protection OF
Foreign Born Launches Week
for Anti>Debortation DriVe
70 Hold Open Air Meetings, Demonstrations
Against Imperialist Deportation Practices

the meeting unanimously adoptet
the following resolution which is t.
be forwarded to President Hoove
and Secretary of Labor Doak.
The New York District of the
National Council for the Protec-
ton OF the Foreign Born, with a
membership of $4,000, protests the
increasing savage attacks through
the deportation campaign of the
Department of Labor against ever
wider sections of the population.
I'VE demand the repeal of all
deportation laws and the threat
ened exile this year OF 10000 de-
pOrtees as part of the annouced
program of the Department of La
Dor to send 100000 foreign born
out of the country.
we declare that the so-caIled
Wickersham Commission did not
touch its report the basic question,
complete liquidation of the deport-
alton evil and the recognition of
of the right of political asylum in
this country for all oppressed
I'VE demand the dismissal
OF all deportation charges and the
liberation of all political refugees
now threatened with deportation as
a result of their activities in strikes
and other labor activities"
The meeting received a telegram
from James c. Thomas. former As
sistant United States district Attor-
ney in charge of deportation work
in New Jersey. Thomas telegram
said:
LAS Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney for a number Of years
in charge of deportations have OBJ
served the inhumane. policy Of en-
forcinng the immigration laws. Con-
gratulations in your protests. Wish
I could be with you. Call on me if
can assist you"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10

NEW YORK-Plans for conduct
u vigorous mass campaign against
re U. 8. Labor Departments de-
rtstion policy we're drawn yester-
ay at a meeting of the New York
istrict of the Committee for the
rejection of the Foreign Born held
g the Manhattan Lyceum with some
10 delegates from workers organi-
atoms attending.
A district conference will be called
the near future, it was announced,
With the purpose of adding new fra
ternal, sports, cultural groups and
labor unions to those already en-
gagged in the movement.
Anti Deportation Week
The chief problem of yesterdays
meeting, however was the mobiliza-
ton of native, foreign born, Negro
and white workers alike for Anti
Deportation Week which will run
from August % to August 80.
During this week open air meet
ings and demonstrations will be held
in labor markets, shops, Communist
Party units, LID. branches and in
organizations otherwise affiliated
with the Council. The campaign will
end With large mass meetings at
Central points throughout the five
boroughs of the city.
The Importance of the struggle
against Doak's deportations was
emphasized in a speech by j. Louis
Ergdahl, secretary of the 1. L. D.,
who pointed out that the LID. is
now defending about 100 cases and
that 1,121 foreign born workers
have been deported from New
York City and vicinity since Jan
uary IA of the current year.
Declaring the findings of the
Tickersh&m Committee on the cues
on of deportation as useless to the
,rge mass of foreign born workers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10

p. ~. n J" Aug. 5,-The
Alase mce.sI C tie strikers in Turn
Hau this noo"ning vas reused to a
agh pitch Of excitement by the I'M
xpectsd arrival of Fred 8iedenkapp,
aSer of the strike, and his seven
omranions. who had Just been re-
aased On bail. pending appeal q
leir cases by the International LIZ !
or Defense. one after tpe other q,
he prisoners took the flooS telling q
.ow they were arrested, how they
,ere treated in Jail, and ended cir
oeeches with imprisoned appeals
or strong picket lines on Monday
Hthout fear Of the police.
Biedenkapp analysed the cause for
le sudden onslaught of the police.
e showed how the dye workers at
OTIS we're divided and split by the
3y and terror tactics of the bosses,
ow hard the picketers tried to
waken the ass-consciousness OF
hese terrorized workers, and how,
fter days and days Of discussion, the
iorkers were finally beginning to
Understand. It was at this point,
hen the bosses saw the workers de-
doping solidarity among themselves,
I'D against the bosses, that the mass
rest of the 54 picketers last Thurs
" started.
The strikers in the hall pledged to
me out on the picket lines Monday
ID not allow themselves to be ter
rized by the police.
ew Members Welcomed to NTWU
The first union membership meet
(; held since the strike began was
Id last night at the National Tex
e Workers Union headquarters. In
tie Of the intense heat and the
.orm which came up just before the
Getting was supposed to start, the
Il was packed with the old and the
W members Of the union.
3. Lieb one Of the founders of the
Mon in Paterson, and veteran of
cry silk strike in Paterson. made
elcoming speech, initiating the new
lenlbers into the union. The replies
y several new members revealed
their complete confidence in the rev.
olutionary union. and their convic-
lion that it is the only union which
can fight successfully for the .Pater-
son silk workers. One after the other
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-10
"RUDDIGORE" OPENS AT
ERLANGERS TONIGHT

"Ruddigore", or The Witches
Curse, eighth in the series Of Gill
bert and Sullivan operas at Err
hangers Theatre, will be presented
by the Civic Light Opera Company
this Monday evening 1t is next to
the last production in this summer
comic opera season, reproduction
of THE Mikado" being scheduled to
succeed it on Monday. August "a.
Milton Aborn has provided cast
headed by Frank Moulan, william
Danforth, Herbert Waterous.