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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
PARTY IN
AUSTRALIA LOSES
Bourgeois Bloc Led by
Ex-Laborite Wins

The steady decline OF the Labor
and Socialist parties in countries
where they have held office, has held
true also in the Australian elections
The Labor Party led by Scullin will
now have 16 in place OF the former
IS seats, and the left wing of the
party led by Lang raised its number
OF seats from to 2. AS in Eng
land, the Labor Party forced a bloc
of the bourgeois parties, led by a
former Labor minister.
The increase in Lang's vote is due
to his posing as more radical than
the premier of Australia. But al
ready it is reported that Lang, who
is premier Of New South Wales will
join forces with the rest Of the LABOR
Party.
The fruits OF the Australian Labor
government were 20 per cent wage
cuts in the government services
which includes the railway workers,
20 per cent wage cut in the WOODEN
industry and 40 per cent cut In
social insurance. The left-winger
Lang is responsible for vicious anti
Communist bills.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
GERMAN EXPORTS
DECLINE IN NOV.

Despite the desperate attempts of
the German government to expand
its exports and save Germany from
bankruptcy, the November exports
werealmost Is per cent less than
those OF October. In November the
exports were $17S,O0o,o0O or $32, 900 900
less than In October.
The recent emergency decree which
cut wages by 10 per cent was put
through In order to enable German
capitalists to compete more easily
on the foreign market. But because
OF the British tariffs and various
restrictions put on imports from Ger
many in tbs surrounding countries,
Q further decline is expected to take
place this month.
At present q committee of repre-
sentatives OF French industry are
meeting with German industrialists
IN order to work out trade agree
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
AFL Endorses Boss
MayOralty Candidate
inCleyeIand Election
[. O. Ford, Communist
Candidate Hits Move
of Boss-AFL Unity

CLEVELAND, O.-Atttachng the
endorsement by the Cleveland Fed
Grafton of Labor, of Morgan for
Mayor Of SCleveland as ::xfd fl.
Mayor of Cleveland, as another sign
of unity between the misleaders Of
the American Federation of Labor
and the bosses politicians" I. O..
Ford, Communist candidate for may
Or, issued the following statement
today:
1.-THE raiIroading through of the
endorsement of Morgan, Maschke's
man, for mayor, by the Cleveland
Federation of Labir is a further in
dication of the sell out of their mem
bership that officials of the American
Federation of Labor are making to
the bosses and their politicians in the
continued drive to slash wages and
prevent strikes for better conditions.
1t is another sign of unity among the
miSleaders of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, with Mclaughlin at
the head in Cleveland, and the bosses
politicians, which proves is made to
strengthen their efforts no tonly to
cut wages but to smash the splendid
struggle Of the workers for govern
mental unemployment insurance and
immediate unemployment relief, as
witnessed in the National Hunger
March to Washington and the strug-
giles carried on since"
"Only the Communist Party sup
ports and leads the struggle against
wage cuts, long hours, for unemploy-
ment insurance and immediate relief
for the unemployed to be paid by the
capitalists and their government.
A. r. L. With Bosses
THE American Federation OF Labor
officialdom has lined itself up with
an exponent of the worst sort of
grating regime in the history of
Cleveland, Morgan and his boss
nldotIlhbs
''T71e rank and file members OF the
A.. f. of L., and the rest Of the work
ers Of Cleveland are urged to beware
OF voting for such candidate. They
are also warned of the tactics OF the
officials of the American Federation.
The A. F. of L. officials here have put
another wage cut over on the paint
ers and plan to cut the wages of the
railroad workers"
Flight against these misleaders and
their political bosses. Vote Commu-
nst in the election against wage cuts,
sell-outs, for unemployment insur-
ance and immediate unemployment
relief"
The T. o. Ford For Mayor Cam
paign Committee announces its Cen
trail City Headquarters as at 1245
Prospect Avenue
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Green Tells J0bless to Starve
at Least Another Whole Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2o.-Follow-
ing its policy of telling the workers
to bear the increasing attacks and
not to complain while they starve,
the American Federation of Labor
issued its most monthly statement
about the economic crisis declaring
that recovery will be slow"
At teh same time the A. r. of L.
is forced to swing around from its
old type OF optimism and say that
recovery from this depression will be
a long process" The unemployed,
says, william Green, now amount to
1000, 000-a lie which is agreeable to
Hoover whose whole policy has been
to cover up the fact that there are
100000 unemployed.
I'VE must look ahead to at least a
year OF unemployment almost at pre-
sent levels" saw this statement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEl

in the city Of Tomashev In Poland
proper. They were hanged as spies
which in militaristic fascist Poland
means the struggle to overthrow the
oppressive, obnoxious rule of the big
landowners, capitalists and bankers.
More workers and poor peasants in
all prisons are awaiting their death
at the lands of the Pilsudsky hang
men. The others are doomed to a
slow but systematic death in their
filthy cells-denied air and food.
This same Pilsudsky government
that is butchering the revolutionary
vanguard of the working class and
poor peasantry has assisted the rich
students and the underworld ele-
ments to pogroms on the Jewish
population in order to sidetrnck
the powerfully growing revolutionary
struggles in the cities and villages.
The pogroms on the Jewish masses
in a dozen of the cities were or
gani2ed precisely for the same mo-
tives as the bloody attacks on the
revolutionary workers and peasants
to stave off the approaching mass
revolt against the undesirable condi-
tons into which the capitalist sys-
tenn had put the greater part Of the
people. The fascist Poland has been
the first country to suffer from the
general economic crisis of capitalism
The industries are operating a neg
ligible part of their normal capacity.
The factories are hardly working at
all. Unemployment is growing daily,
accompanied by mass-poverty and
hunger. Even those who are still
working do not earn enough to main
tain themselves and their families.
The severe crisis and the tariff wall
erected by most countries has served
to cut off the Polish agricultural and
industrial products from their former
markets. Millions of peasants are
poverty-stricken. The huge military
machine, maintained by the fascist
governments and the corrupt prac-
tees of the ruling clique are draining
the meager resources left in the
country. Only through loans by
Paris and Wall Street was Pilsudsky
able to keep his regime from total
collapse.
The only way out, that the Polish
imperialists can see for themselves Is
a war against the Soviet Union. To
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
5yrian Troops Called
to Stop Elections

DAMASCUS, Syria.-After having
ordered the police to open fire on Sy-
rian nationalist who we're calling for
free elections, the French High Com
missioner ordered the closing of polls
to halt bloodshed. The elections have
been postponed indefinitely.
Besides calling out troops and fire
brigades the officials found it neces-
sary to cut off all communications
from this city in order to isolate the
trouble and carry out their bloodbath
without interference.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

DOEASAA ONll RoPClS 1Ol d LOuDlC vi
hours, and the money derived from
the sales is called the relief fund"
Legion Raids Town.
First the police and the American
Legion get so drunk that they barely
can stand on their feet. They go out
then and stop automobiles and force
the drivers to buy papers without
giving them back any change. Others
go around to the poor workers homes
bulldozing them and robbing the
workers of what little they have.
Altogether they robbed the people
OF 5000, out of which they paid for
the papers. They also gave a good
share of this money to the American
Legion. The few pennies that were
left went to relieve" the 5000 hungry
unemployed.
Mother Of Jailed.
A woman here, mother of seven
hungry children, was arrested here
recently for selling liquor to get food
for her children She was jailed and
fined $12.25, She told the police that
she could not pay the fine and said
il she could get relief she would not
have been forced to violate the law.
The city denied her any relief and
threw her into a cell while the chill
dren we're home starving.
The Oldest daughter came to the
police station to protest the mothers
~arrest and the police locked her up
too and tried to make her prosti-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Correspondence Briefs
SOVIET RAILROAD WORKERS
GET PAY INCREASE

MOSCOW, USSR. The railroad
workers and clerks have received
under the new measures a so to 100
per cent increase in wages. Railroad
engineers, who formerly received 200
to $50 rubles per month, now get 300
to 400 and even more rubleS. The
guards, who formerly got 100 rubIes,
now receive $50 rubles.
"A Railroad Worker.
SAN DIEGO. Cal.-our new IN
employed Council is getting into
action. The bosses had threatened to
evict a family from their home. We
at once sent committee to the Wei
fare and demanded that the rent be
paid. They asked us about our Or
flanization and we told them that
we were the same organization that
staged the Hunger March to Wash
ington. They gave us a check for
the rent with little delay. M.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
5 MEN ENTER JAIL;
TAKE OUT, LYNCH
NEGRO WORKER
Boss Press Agency
Tries to Cover
Up Crime
soosrlnupD raom FACE oSxs
Constable Thomas Bayette of Mag
nolia- The raiding party worked
combination lock on the cell door"


nolia. The raiding party worked a
combination lock on the cell door"
A later dispatch peddled the Vi
cious lie that Edwards was shot down
rs a fugitive" from Justice. This
dispatch states: -.
Isaiah Edwards, 10, fugitive from
the Montgomery County JAN, was
found slain near here today. The
coroner reported he had been fatal
" wounded by Deputy Sheriff Nell
Rotten, 81, Of Chambers County,
when he sought to evade arrest in
q stolen motor car. With the dis
covery Of his body, search by a pos
Sc was called off"
In this way, the bosses try to cover
up their brutal murder Of this Negro
worker. But their hes will not de-
ceive the working class. Edwards
was most likely killed by the deputy
sheriff acting as a member of the
boss lynch gang of five. This ex-
plains how the gang got the combi-
nation to the door of the cell in
which he was confined.
The lynch murder Of this young
worker sends the total Of known and
admitted 1ynchings to lot for the
present year. This does not include
the numerous unreported 1ynchings,
nor the legal 1ynchings through the
bosses courts.
Negro and white workers. Smash
the lynching terror! Organize SELF
defense corps Of white and Negro
workers! Demand the right Of Me-
gro workers to bear arms for self
defensel Stop the disarning Of the
Negro masses! Answer the lynchers
with mass defense Of the Negro work
ers and with a mass fight for the
right OF the Negro rnajorities in the
Black Belt to determine and control
their own form OF government
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF UssR

zAPOROJIE. USSR. Having
worked four months in the Soviet
Union as q chauffeur, | have found
the following: There is no unemploy-
ment,-rather there is shortage of
workers. We work seven or eight
hours a day and rest on the sixth
day. Every six months we receive two
weeks vacation with full pay. We
receive working clothes and shoes
free. Lately there has been a gen
eral drop in the cost OF commodities
and a considerable increase in pay.
To me this Is proof that this is a
workers government.
An American Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
FARMERS SHOW INTEREST IN
MOONEY CASE

KENT, Wash.-Many of the farm
ers in this region have sold their last
COW because they were unable to buy
hay, which has been steadily advanc-
ing In price since it came in posses
sion OF the warehouse companies.
Most of the farmers, I find, are in
terested in such vital questions as
the Mooney case, the Scottboro case
and naturally the Ballard case, which
concerned people who lived in their
own neighborhood.-W. r.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
LEGION AND POLICE
BULLDOZE TOWN IN
FAKE RELIEF DRIVE
Drunken Cops and Legionnaires Stalk Thru
Monessen, Pa; Fill Legion Golfers
Mother of Hungry Children Jailed for Selling
Liquor to Buy Food
.lBy q worker Corregpondentl

MONESSEN, Pa.-There about 5000 unemployed
workers in Monessen Those who workngand they
very feware working part time, which only two
days week Others who don't get any pay whatsoever still
keep their time cards in the mill These workers must get
money from somewhere and bring it to the mill office to pay
for their insurance
The reief plan here is somewhat similar the plans
other cities The police and the members of the American
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
INDIANS TAKE FOOD FROM
q. S. WAREHOUSE

MAHNOMAN, Minn.-On Nov. 10
the Indians broke into the govern
ment warehouse here and took food
to give to their starving families. The
Unemployed Council has been active
and has forced the county commits
sioners to give relief to some Of the
families-A Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

Red Builders, help get subscriptions.
Pierce through stone walls Of cap
itaiist press With k0oe Daily wsrkcr
svbssytnsessa. -s-4--A-A--.4 -----'--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

Every shop, mine and factory .
fertile field for Daily Worker sub
scriptions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22

We are pronouncing IN good Filth
the words tbs dictatorship Of the
proletariat and we shall make them
a reality" LENIN.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Kidnapped Kentucky Miner Found;
Mass Meetings Make Ready for Strike

CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
Those White House Curtains
Mrs. Hoover Tells Girl Scouts They Could Be Mended,
but Buying New Ones Will Help in
Present Depression.

frayed edges might be cut and the cur
tains made to do.
But the man in Washington who
would make the new curtains is having
a dificult time to maintain his estab-
lishment. An order for curtains for
the White House windows-they are so
awfully big-would be of considerable
help to him.
All Should Be Sisters.
Mrs. Hoover believes American wom-
Ell can aid definitely in preserving world
peace. "Friendliness toward our neigh
bors is the expedient way" she said.
Then she paraphrased the Girl Scout
law:
AN American woman should be q
sister to every other American woman.
At the outset. the First Lady
stressed the fact that she was attend
ing the convention not so much In her
official capacity as in the role Of an
interested listener who found that the
National convention gives me inspira :
tor for the coming year and
brings many old friendships to the
fore that have not been heard OF for
the past year"
This is a year for US to take stock
OF the serious side of Girl Scouting, Its
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
TREASURY DEFICIT
NOW HALF BILLION
Figures for First Ia Weeks
of Fiscal Year Emphasize
Federal Position.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press,
Cold figures emphasized anew today
the dificult financial position of the
Government, the deficit passing the
half-billion- dollar mark
For the first three and half months
of the fiscal year. which began July 1.
the Treasury books show the Govern
ment to be $500, LOG, 500 in the red.
Even as this was revealed fiscal ex-
perts of the department were bordering
over how to adjust the situation
whether taxes should be increased
President Hoover has said the study will
continue some time, with no decision
likely before Congress returns to work
in December.
Collections S629, 768,231.
The deficit is s485, 900, 900 more than
it was for the same period of the
previous fiscal year At the close OF
business October 10 the Government
had collected from all sources $685.
76s231 and had spent s1,131, 874.83l.
The receipts we're s25o,0oo,ooo less
than collected in the same period OF
last year and the expenditures $780,
600 900 more than spent in the first
two and cne-half months of the 1881
year.
The seriousness of the Government
financial position became apparent early
this year when income taxes dWlndIeo
avay at an alarming rate and the Gov
eminent finished the fiscal year on
June 80 with a deficit of s903,oo0.00O.
Income Receipts Of.
The chief cause of that deficit was
decrease of S550.000,000 in income tax
collections. In the two and one-halt
months of the present year income tax
receipts were S24l 100000 less than col
lected In the same period of last year,
when they amounted to 1851 100000.
Total internal revenue collections Tor
the present year amounted to $481, H.
sos, as compared to $738,62l,055 last
year.
since the Governments receipts have
been dropping away its expenditures
have been met by borrowing money
through issuance of Treasury bills. Ger
tificates of indebtedness and bonds.
Since March Is the Government has
sold securities amounting to S400.0OO.-
900, about half of which has been used
for refunding maturing security issues.
May Exceed Billion.
Any plan that might be approved by
Congress could have but little effect on
the present fiscal year, as it will be half
completed before Congress could act.
The deficit seems certain to mount to
Il 600 600 900 or more for this year.
1t could be taken care of through
security issues and a tax increase would
relieve the pressure on the Government
after next July l.
In the meantime. however. the Gov
eminent must provide for funding
1890 900 900 Of securities which fall due
in December and another S7OO,0OO,O0O
due In March.
While no official would venture pre-
dicticn of what course would be pursued,
it was believed the Government would
resort to another long-term bond issue
or an issue of notes combined with
Treasury certificates to meet the emer-
gency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
Science
Cold Virus Passed Through
Fine Filter.

Discovery of a filterable virus which
appears to be responsible for the com-
mon cold is reported by DR.. A. r.
Dochez In the British Medical Journal.
Lancet
This was obtained by passing wash
ings from the -pharyngeal tract
of persons suffering from colds through
a filter too fine to permit the passage
Of bacteria Then colds were produced
in both humans and chimpanZees by
incubation with the filtered material.
The virus was carried on through is
generations and the final product, which
contained about two quadrillionths OF
the original material, produced a mild
cold in two out of three volunteer sub
1ects. The virus remained active when
kept in an ice box from three to four
days.
There was some evidence, DR.. Dochez
reports that the virus not only pro-
6uced colds specifically but stimulated
other pathogenic agents which might
be in the nose or throat, such as the
pneumococcus, responsible for pneu-
monia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
the Associated Press.


BUFFALO. N. Y. October 15.-Mrs.
Herbert flowers suggestion to Ameri-
can women during periods of economic
stress is Keep on living normal life"
The one who is not in trouble will
have to help the one who is in trouble ="
she said in an interview yesterday. Mrs.
Hoover is here for the National Con-
vention of Girl Scouts.
Flashing her quick smile, she Of
fered other terse comments
do not 'curtail too many of your &C.
tivities that are essential, because other
wise you throw the whole machine out
of gear.
If we all stopped buying any more
things than we have to have to keep
life and soul together. employment
would drop tremendously.
Keep Spending Money"
Keep on spending money as a people.
Every one should seize the opportu-
nifty to do what he can
Celebrating on the need for not cur
failing necessary expenditures, Mrs.
Hoover referred to some of her own
housekeeping problems.
THE White House windows" she
said will need new curtains within
the next year or two. I suppose the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
CRASH OvERTURNS TRUCK,
INJURING FOUR MEN

Four men we're injured. two seriously,
lision with an automobile at Sixth
and p streets today
Those hurt were Dewey Strong. 30,
colorec, 222 II street southwest, driver
OF the car. internal injuries: Arthur
Watson, a, colored. 218 D street, In
Jured spine and cuts: Theodore String
err 1S. colored, 1921 Eighth street.
sprained shoulder, and Leroy Atlee, 20,
colored, same address. bruised leg. The
driver of the truck. Alonzo H. Stringer,
%, colored. also of the Eighth street
address, was unhurt. as were two other
colored men riding with him. Strong
was alone.
Watson and Strong were taken to
Freedmen's Hospital. while the Others
declined treatment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
MAN HELD IN ATTACK
Accused of Beating Woman About
Head With Hatchet.

John Williams Woods. 80. colored. s15
New Jersey avenue, attacked Mrs.
Rachael Wade, 48. colored. same adj
dress with Ratchet early today, beat
ing her about the head, according to
police.
Woods. who accused the woman of
biting him. was arrested by Policeman
F. r. Tierney on a charge of assault
with deadly weapon. The woman was
taken to Emergency Hospital.
Woods. police reported. served two
years in the Federal Penitentiary at
Atlanta for setting fire to Shiloh Bap-
fist Church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

z. Lodge and Arthur Carr, delegates TO
the Federation of Citizens Associations.
For the best gardens In the COM
munity. the title of master gardener"
was conferred on the following, who re-
ceived prizes of shrubbery: George L.
Williams. Herman Oldham Gilbert L.
Rodier. John j. Smith. Frank S. Lilly.
Jet aWayland Arthur Carr, William T.
Belts, D. s. Burch and Marvin c.
Moore.
test went to l.. A. Vernue, James c.
Dulin, Eugene C. Miller, Charles E.
Cause, Vincent B. Smith, Dennis H.
Noonan, Thomas E. Lodge Robert H.
Stone, William r. Manning. Ora G.
Visel. C. e. Caldwell and Joseph Hop
kinson
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15

much-encouraged Service" she said.
In this year of trial and depression,
we may see what part In alienation
the Girl Scouts will take, individually
and collectively.
There has. as yet been no general
program for this winter advanced for
the organization as a whole, but 1 was
greatly interested in the long discus
sion OF the subject at the Executive
COMMITTEE meeting, as I am sure YOU
would be, to see how the Girl Scout
troops, all over the country, were al
ready meeting their share OF the prob
lens In their various communities"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-15
CIVIC HEADS NAMED
IN UNIVERSITY PARK
Herbert L. Brooks Elected
President OF Citizens
Association.

Herbert L. Brooks was elected presi-
dent of the American University Park
Citizens Association. succeeding D. s.
Burch, at the annual meeting of the
association last night at Hurst Hall.
American University.
Prizes we're awarded in the garden
contest for the year. photographs of the
gardens competing we're displayed by
means of projectoscope and there was
musical program.
Garden Prizes Awarded.
Other officers were named as fol-
lows: Marshall j. Gleason, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Blaine McCollum. secretary;
Mrs. Ora @. Visel. treasurer; Thomas