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District l who are on strike.
The Grievance Committee as-
sailed them as "Reds" and re-
fused to let them speak.
This is in spite of the fact
that there are three mines with 1000
men, on strike now in Shenandoah, in
District 9, against conditions similar
to those in the Glen Alden mines, and
that $4,000 more miners in that Vi
cinity are prepared to go out.
The meeting of the General
Grievance Committee yesterday vot-
ed, according to the officers of the
meeting, by Al to 81 to continue the
strike. This is recognized by the
rank and file opposition here as only
the latest step in the complicated
maneuvers which the local takers
find necessary in their attempt to
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workers, slavery for all workers. -
also displayed complete disregard
for the facts themselves. He stated
that the Soviet Union enslaves !:
First, hundreds of thousands of
political prisoners, those who have
demanded some measure of freedom
for themselves or criticized the Sow
lets. The majority of these are not
bourgeois or middle class but social
list peasants and workingmen."
Calls For War.
Woll as is usual with the most re-
dictionary capitalists when speaking
to the most ignorant of their own
class, declared that the kulaks are
being killed off, and lavished praise
on these reactionary landlord types
who have resisted collectvization of
the land, stirred up murders of Sow
let officials and worker correspon-
dents.
Vol closed his TRADE with a
Slightly more guarded appeal to war
than Culbertson's, but nevertheless
an appeal to war. He said:
"Sovietism is real issue to the
American people and to every DEM
.ocratic people. The sooner this is
realized, the more sure will be the
victory of freedom over tyranny"
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Army
Serve Poison Slop

New York, N. Y.
Daily Worker:
/ am one of $4,000 employees of
the Prosser Committee employed at
City Island. Our foreman who is a
city employee told us last week that
all regular city employees are COM
PEELED to contribute weekly to So
called food fund The money thus
collected is given to the Salvation
Army, and this lousy soul saving
gang get paid so cents for each meal
they serve to the Prosser Committee
men.
Last Thursday they sent up a can
of slop to City Island which was SO
sour 1t stunk. The men refused to
eat it. The foreman, Mr.. Dineen,
and many other men protested. The
coffee was full of chunks of curdled
milk. The men worked all day with
out dinner. On Saturday, another
can OF sinking slop was sent up. The
workers protested to the helper on
the truck. The helper tried to get
T. h ' ling that it wes good
enough for us. We dared him to
come off, and we would have had a
good fight had not two cops come
over and stopped us.
The workers on City Island are
wise to these grafters who claim to
have divine mission. We intend to
get decent food, not slop 1t is high
time these hypocrites are exposed.
"A Park Worker.
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Capitalists Gambling Instructor and Labor
Faker Vol Unite in Call for War on USSR

Ely Culbertson, editor Of the
Bridge World, and Matthew Vol,
vice. president Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor and acting presi-
dent Of the open-shop, strikebreak-
ing National Civic Federation, as
we'll as an insurance company and
other capitalist enterprises, united
their voices yesterday for war on the
Soviet Union.
Culbertson enjoys certain fame
among the capitalists in their play
time periods as the foremost inter-
national authority on the game Of
Bridge. His mother was a Cossack
hetman's daughter, and Culbertson,
an American citizen, evidently han
kers for the good old days before the
Cossacks went red and ran the
Cars officers out His father was
an American engineer who was en-
gineer for company that founded
the second largest oil field in Rus
STA and exploited thousands of Rus
sian workers.
= "War AT Once"
Culbo. tson ad.'ises war at cree to
smash The workers fatherland be-
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Anthracite Celebrates
Fig hit Hour While
Boss Changes It to 9

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, April l.
All miners in the Anthracite take
the day off today to celebrate holi-
day known as Eight Hour Day."
which commentaries the winning of
the eight-hour work day in 1903.
Celebration of this holiday this year
is the greatest mockery, because the
companies are driving their men into
the longer work day The present
Glen Alden strike of 10000 men
started in one mine over the in
PRODUCTION of the nine-hour day.
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Fiiremen
Called to Slug
.JobIess Marchers
'LiberaP Gov. Ritchies Exposed AS Slugger
of Jobless When They Attempt to
Present Relief Demands
Two Delegates Reported Severely Injured;
One Finally Allowed to Speak
House Adjourns After Brief Speech; Call On
Maryland Workers to Answer Brutal
Attack by Mass Organization
BULLETIN.

BALTIMORE, Md, April 1State police Maryland
hunger a thereto
back with the
beaten that they taken hospital of marches
The
After the battle with the police
demands
pahy" with the unemployed
The protest of the
ANNAPOLIS, Md. April Clubs and blackiacks were
the liberal governors to the hunger marcher
who arrived at the state capitol here today the
demands of the unemployed.
The United Press reports that when committee of q
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of the hunger marchers en-
tered the Maryland House to
present their demands they
were set upon and severely
beaten. They had sought to
present a petition in behalf of the
unemployed to Speaker Francis A.
Michael.
Fifteen were Immediately arrested
after being slugged. Two of the
delegates were seriously injured.
When the unemployed we're given an
exhibition of how the liberal" gov
ernor treats the demands of the Job
less, to cover up his tracks, Governor
Ritchie requested Sneaker Michael
to permit the remaining delegate of
the hunger. march to address the
House of Representatives The others
were in jail or bleeding in a hospital.
Several of the delegates went to
the governor in order to present their
demands. At the time of receiving
this story, no details were obtained
as to the treatment by the faker
Richie.
The beating began on the order of
Speaker Michael, according to the
United Press. The delegates came
INTO the house and asked for the
right to present their demands
Speaker Michael ordered them out
and then police were called in to
beat them up because they refused
to leave without speaking for the
unemployed workers of Maryland.
The police dubbed the demonstrators
mercilesSly.
The petition which the house re-
FUSED to listen to demanded:
l. Appropriation of a sum of
money for relief of Maryland unem-
ployed
2. Demand that Hoover call a
special session of congress to grant
unemployment insurance.
3. Reduction of the heavy salaries
| Va WV Se'plGdllSJ pO4lClcla0S and
turning this money over for unem-
ployment relief.
After the major part of the unem-
ployed delegation was dubbed and
jailed. and the remaining spokesman
was permitted to say a few words.
the house adjourned The spokes-
man for the hunger march was Ed
ward Bender Of Baltimore, of the
Trade Union Unity League. He was
joined during his talk by Leonard
Anderson, an unemployed Negro
worker, and William Lawrence. All
demanded the immediate release of
the unemployed workers who took
part in the hunger march.
Anderson said that the workers OF
Maryland would answer this vicious
Struggling by modifying TO force the
bosses to grant unemployment relief.
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Trial of Nine Negro Workers
Set for Day of Fair AS Press
Whips Up Lynching Sentiment
Already Drunken Mobs Are Gathering Threatening Lives
Of Prisoners Held on Usual Fake Charge Of Rape

SCOTSBORO, Ala, April 1 = Intensifying
their campaign of terror against the Negro
workers in an effort to smash the growing
unity of white and Negro workers as expressed
in the growing resistance of the workingclass
the persecution of the Negro and foreign born workers. the
local bosses and courts rushing through the fameup of
nine Negro workers who taken off freight train few
days and thrown into Jail the usual yncherror in
citing charge of attacking white women
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Does Not Dare to
Advertise Jobs

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-An en-
ployment bureau manager here told
the press that he does not dare to
advertise the few jobs that come in,
because he would be swamped by
applicants.
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The nine workers, Haywood Pat,
terson, Eugene Williams, Charles
Green, Roy Wright, Nose Powell,
Willy Roberts, Clarence Norris, Owen
Montgomery and Andy Wright, were
arraigned today under the charge
that they 'forcibly ravaged, debased
Victoria Price and Ruby Bates against
the dignity of the state of Alabama"
They are supposed to have attacked
the two girls after throwing off of
the freight train seven white men
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Unity League Headquarters, Is West
21st st.
Besides being its regular by-month-
ly meeting, the League considers thic
meeting of special Importance for
two reasons:
l. That at this meeting we will
adopt extensive plans for our organ
national campaign in all trades in
our industry. And
2. At this meeting we will discuss
the Program and Principles of the
Trade Union Unity League versus
that of the A. F.. of L.
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GLEN ALDEN GRIEVANCE
COMMITTEE MANEUVERS
AGAIN TO SELL STRIKE
Afraid of Rising Mass Resentment of Miners
Jockeys With District for Election Gains
National Miners Union Calling Conference;
Urges Miners to Take Over Own Strike
BULLETIN.

INDIANAPOLIS Ind, April John L. Lewis international
dent of the United Mine Workers the 10000 striking
against heightened
them
the pledge officers
the public
guilty of promoting its continuance.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, April Rank and file represen-
atves of miners in District and District of the United Mine
Workers appeared before the Glen Alden General Grievance
Committee Monday with request that they be allowed
speak and offer solidarity the $1,000 Glen Alden
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Printing Workers
Industrial League to
Hold Meeting April 2

The next meeting Of the Printing
Workers industrial League will take
place this coming Thursday, April
and. at . r. n, IN the Trade Union
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| neatly braided and wound about
her hatless head. She wore no or
naments. That was the prerogative
of the male. Old Big Elk was a
structure Of splendor. His enor-
nous bulk filled the chair. His
great knees were wide apart. His
blue trousers were slashed and
beaded elaborately at the sides
and on his feet were moccasins
heavy with intricate beadwork. His
huge upper body was covered with
a shirt of brilliant green brocade
worn outside the trousers, and his
striped blanket hung regally from
his shoulders. About his neck and
on his broad breast hung chains,
beads, necklaces. In the bright silk
neckerchief knOtted about his
throat you saw the silver emblem
Of his former glory as chief of the
tribe. There were other insignia
of distinction made of beaten sill
ver-the star, the crescent. the sun.
On his head was a round high cap
of brown beaver like a COssack' s.
W iiIC DdNh VI llllo W dS SluNh an
eagle feather. His long locks, hang
ing about his shoulders, straight
and stiff, were dyed a brilliant
orange, like an old burlesque
queens, a startling, a fantastic
background for the parchment face,
lined and creased and crisscrossed
with a thousand wrinkles. One
hand rested on his knee. The other
welded languidly, back and forth.
back and forth, an enormous semi
circular fan made of eagle feathers.
Side by side the two massive fig
ures sat like things of bronze.
Only their eyes moved, and that
nightmarish eagle feather fan,
back and forth. back and forth,
regally.
Those dull black unsmiling eyes,
that weaving fan, moved Sabra to
nameless terror. "Yancey w she
cried again, through stiff lips.
"Yanceyw
At the note of terror in her voice
he was down the stairs and in the
room with his quick light step. But
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CHAPTER XIII

ID UT Gin did not come home on
ID Saturday. On Saturday, at
noon, when Sabra and Yancey
drove from the office in their little
utility car to the house in Kihekah
street for their MONDAY dinner
they saw great limousine drawn
up at the curb. A chauffeur, vague
ly familiar, lounged in front. The
car was thick with her red dus'
of the country road.
A vague pang of premonition
stabbed at Sabra's vitals. She
clutched Yanceys arm. Whose
car is that?"
Yancey glanced at it indiffer-
emily. Somebody drove Gin home.
| suppose. Got enough dinner for
company"
Donna had gone to Oklahoma
City to spend the weekend. 1t
must be Gin.
"Cim!" Sabra called, as she en-
tered the front door "Cim" But
there was no answer. She went
straight to the sitting room. Empty
But in the stiff little parlor, so sci.
dom used, sat two massive, silent
figures. With the Indian sense of
ceremony and formality, old Big
Elk and his Squaw had known the
proper room to use for an occasion
such as this.
"Why-Big Elk !"
Howl" replied Big Elk, and held
up his palm in the gesture of greet
ing.
"Yancey !" cried Sabra suddenly.
in a terrible voice. The two pairs
of black Indian eyes stared at her.
Sabra saw that their dress was
elaborate; the formal dress re-
served for great occasions. The
woman wore a dark skirt and a
bright cerise satin blouse. ample
and shaped like a dressing sacque.
Over her shoulders was the fine
bright-hued blanket. Her hair was
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his look of concern changed to one
of relief. He smiled his utterly
charming smile.
Howl"
How" croaked Big Elk.
Mrs. Big Elk nodded her greeting.
She was woman younger, perhaps,
by thirty years than her aged hus-
band; his third wife. She spoke
English; had even attended an In
dian mission school in her girlhOod.
But through carelessness or indif-
ference she used the broken, SLOW
enly English of the unlettered In
dian.
Now the two relapsed into i'm
passive silence.
What do they want? Ask them
what they want"
Yancey spoke a few words in
Usage. Big Elk replied with a
monosyllable.
What did he say? What is it?''
Il asked them to eat dinner with
us. He says he cannot"
Il should hope not. Tell her to
speak English. She speaks Eng
liSh."
Wig Elk turned his great head,
slowly, as though it moved on a me-
chanical pivot. He stared at his
fat, rOund-faced wife. He uttered
a brief command in his own tongue.
The squaw smiled little strange.
embarrassed smile, like a schoolgirl
it was less a smile than a contor-
tion of the face, so rare in her race
as to be more frightening than a
Scowl.
big Elk and me come take you
back to WaZhazhe."
"What for?" cried Sabra, sharply.
-Four o'clock big dinner, big
dance Your son want um come
tell you. Want um know he marry
Ruby this morning"
She was silent again, smiling her
foolish fixed smile.
God almighty !" said Yancey Cra-
vat. He looked at Sabra, came
over to her quickly, but she waved
him away.
Don't. I'm not going to-it's
all right" 1t was as though she
shrank from his touch. She stood
there, staring at the two barbaric
figures staring so stonily back at
her with their dead black Indian
eyes 1t was at times like that that
the Marcy in her stood her in good
stead. She came of iron stock, fiji
to stand the fire. Only beneath her
fine dark eyes you now suddenly
saw smudge of purplish brown, as
though dirty thumb had rubbed
there; and a sagging of all the
muscles of her face, so that she
looked wattled. lined. old.
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proud. l never could understand
why your uncle married her."
Huh !" Ruth wrote their names
on the tags. "Me, either! What q
life he must lead with those two
with them it's always me and
mine.'"
"And Anna is as crude as she
can be. Remember the time"
But the recording saint went on
He had found the value of their
gifts. And he was anxious to see
Aunt Caroline and Anna.
They were in large living room
before a merry fire. There were
great holly wreaths in the beauti
full windows. And from the kitchen
came the song of the cook.
Anna smiled across at her moth
er. almost through with Aunt
Martha's present?"
Aunt Caroline nodded. "Yes. And
| if you've finished Ruth'S handker-
chiefs, we'll get the package off.
hope Martha likes this"
"She will. Aunt Martha's a dear
Wouldn't it be great if they could
spend Christmas with US some
timer" Annals eyes glowed.
wouldn't it! Too bad you and
Ruth can't know each other better
You're so near the same age. Mar.
tha writes that Ruth is working
hard. She's going to amount to
something"
Anna arose to write the names
on the tags. III bet she does. Re,
member when she was a little girl
she used to be so ambitious? I'm
going to use this pretty tag on her
package. Isn't it fun getting things
off to them! l wish we could send
them something nicer"
Caroline smiled. Martha is SEN
sitive and l wouldn't hurt her by
sending things so much better than
she could afford for u.s. Little
things can express our love just as
well. I'd be happy with only card
from them. It's the thoughts, you
know. :"
Anna smiled and placed each
package tenderly into a box.
And the packages passed each
other in the mails. By chance they
had the same kind of tags:
merry Christmas and love from
Ruth and Aunt Martha"
Merry Christmas and love from
Anna and Aunt Caroline"
But the grown-up' Santa made
very different notations. For Christ
mas is a memorial to Prince
whose greatest commandment was
Love one another" and who said
Judge not" and "Revile not"
What will our Christmas gift rec
ord be? For who can prove that the
old, old lady was not right?
&C. 1891. Western Newspaper Union-)
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gifts and recording them truly. He
wouldn't judge by the means we use.
For,' the old, old lady smiled sweet
ly, love makes a gift great at
Christmas time"
In a small bungalow at the edge
of western town, a woman named
Martha, and her daughter, Ruth,
sewed. They and their house were
a bit shabby. But that does not
matter at Christmas time.
Dear mel" Martha sighed as she
took the last stitches, Il dread
Christmas every year. 1t means
work and sacrifice. could have had
good pair of stockings for what
| paid for Aunt CarOline's present.
But I'd be ashamed to send her
less"
Yes ~ Ruth snapped. "She and
Anna probably think we're trash
anyway. And look at what they give
us Last year Anna sent a bunch of
fancy boxes. Imagine what on earth
we'd do with them!"
"Anna's selfish, that's what ="
Martha nodded with sudden convic-
tion. "She wouldn't work the way
you've had to. She'd think it was
beneath her."
The idea enraged Ruth. She
glared. "Pll show her some day, the
insane snooty thing! I'm going to
be somebody. And she with her
pampered life-w
Martha nodded. She's just like
her mother. Caroline always had to
have her way. Always naughty and
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Made specially for
B a B les and
Chill . r : ri

Physicians tell us that one condi-
tion is nearly always present when a
child has digestive upset, a starting
cold or other little ailment. Consti-
patton. The first step towards relief
is to rid the body of impure wastes.
And for this nothing is better than
genuine Castoria Castoria is a puya
vegetable preparation made specially
for babies and children. This means
it is mild and gentle; that it contains
no harsh drugs, no narcotics. Yet it
always gets results! You never have
to coax children to take Castoria.
Real Castoria always bears the name:
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! there. He told me he had seen
| them"
"Seen theml That miserable Ga
Zelle Slaughter said that he's out
there all the time. All the time, |
tell you, and that he and Ruby
drive around in her car, and he
eats with them, he stays there,
! he"
'Pll speak to your father. Gins
coming home Saturday. GaZelle is
angry at Gin, you know that, be-
cause he won't notice her and she
likes him"
She turned her clear appraising
gaze upon this strange daughter of
hers. She thought, suddenly, that
Donna was like a cobra, with thar
sleek black head, that cold and
slanting eye, that long creamy
| throat in which a pulse sometimes
could be seen to beat and swell a
little-the only sign of emotion in
this battling creature.
I'll tell you what, Donna. If
you'd pay little less attention to
your brothers social lapses and a
little more to your own vulgar con-
duct, perhaps it would be better"
Donna bestowed her rare and
| brilliant smile upon her fortnight
mother Now, now, darling |
suppose | say. What do you meanY
And you say, You know very well
what | mean"
you certainly do know what
mean. If you weren't my own
| daughter I'd say your conduct with
Tracy Wyatt was that Of "A"
"Harlot," put in Donna, sweetly
Donna! How can you talk like
that? You are breaking my heart.
Haven't | had enough? I've never
complained. have 1? But now
you"
Donna came over to her and put
her arms about her. as though she
were the older woman protecting
the younger. Its all right, man.
ma darling. You just don't under
stand. Life isn't as simple as 1t
was when you were frontier gal.
| know what I want and I'm going
to get it."
Sabra shrugged away from her;
faced her with scOrn. I've seen
you. I'm ashamed for you. You
press against him like alike a"
Again she could not say il. An
other generation. "And that horse
you ride You say he loans it to
you. He gave it to you. It's yours.
What for?"
She was weeping.
81 tell you it's all right, mamma
He did give it to me. He wants TO
give me lots OF things. but | won't
take them-yet. Tracy's in love
with me- He thinks I'm young and
beautiful and stimulating and won
derful. He's married to a dried-up.
vinegary, bitter old hag who was
Just that when he married her.
years ago. He's never known what
love is. She has never given him
children. He's inSanely rich. and
not too old. and rather sweet.
We're going to be married. Tracy
will get his divorce. Money does
anything. IT has taken me a year
and a half to do It. I've never
worked so hard in all my life. But
it's going to be worth 1t Don't
worry. darling. Tracy's making an
honest woman of your wayward
daughter"
Sabra drew herself up, every inch
the daughter of her mother, Felice
Venable. nee Marcy. You are dis
gushing"
Not really, if you just look at
ii without a lot of sentiment.
shall he happy. and Tracy. too. His
wife will be unhappy. I suppose
for while. But she isn't happy
anyway. as it is. Better one than
| three. It'll work out. You'll see.
Don't bother about me. It's Gin
that needs looking after He's got
a streak of-Of-" She looked at
her mother. Did not finish the SEN
tence. "When he comes home Sat
urday I wish you'd speak to him"
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Going without his supper is ten
times the punishment to a boy that
it is to a man. Think of that.
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Family Secret

Teacher-Where does wool come
from?
BoyS-Sheep.
Teacher-What is made from it?
No answer.
Teacher-Well, for instance, what
are your trousers made of?
Willie vOlunteers-My dads.
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N OLD. old ladv fold m,

N OLD, old lady told me
something strange one
time, Santa Claus" she
said, "is the saint of little
children. But there is a
grownups' saint at Christ
mas time, too, who stands
beside lis measuring nnr
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Ever see two little boys playing
horse" nowadays?
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Baby Kangaroo

A baby kangaroo is about the size
of a mans thumb.
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Just for Comparison

Three hundred thousand worlds
the size of this earth could be stored
inside the sun.
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The broad highway to destruction
is a One-way street. No stream OF
travel is ever seen coming back.
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Estimate of Eriendship

Hello, Pal, lend me nickel, Will
you? l want to call up a friend"
Here's dime. Can up all your
friends"