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DR.. and Mrs. Glends Harker were
hosts at a dinner party last week
for Mrs. Ballou, covers Nbeing laid
for Mrs. Ballou, DR.. and Mrs. r.
M. Lance, Dr.. Moore, DR.. and Mrs.
Harker.
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On Friday afternoon Mrs. Mau-
rice Altaffer and Mrs. c. N. S. Bal
lou were honored at a luncheon Civ
en- by Mrs Glenn Harker. Covers
were laid for: Mrs Maurice Altaf-
fer, Mrs. G. N. S. Ballou, Mrs. r.
E. Lee, Miss Sadye Daniels, Mrs.
James Robins, Mrs. James Brum-
mette, Mrs. E. S. Edmonson, Mrs.
R. M Lance, Mrs. Harker. The hos
/ tess was assisted by Mrs. Lance.
! Needlework, reading and conversing
occupied the time following lunch
con.
@am#man
The Crawford Street Bridge Club
met last week with Mrs. A. L. Gus
letter, substitutes for the afternoon
being Mrs. James Harrison and Mrs.
w. E. Jackson. Tea was served at
the conclusion of playing.
##n*$&*
BRIDGE CLUB
Mrs. w. Wasnidge entertained
members of. her bridge club last
Friday afternoon at her residence
on Hudgin Street. After most en-
joyable afternoon at cards, Span
ish repast was served, Mrs. Was
nidge, Sr., assisting the hostess.
Prizes for scores at bridge were
won by Mrs. Earl Seger and Mrs.
Robert Laney. Those present were
Mrs. A. w. Hegemeyer, Mrs. Craig
Pottinger, Mrs. Earl Seger, Mrs. L.
L. Odle, Mrs. Andrew Bettwy, Mrs.
w. D. Knight, Mrs. Robert Laney,
Mrs. Wasnidge, Sr., and the hostess.
The ladies will meet next at Mrs.
/ Wasnidge's home, Mrs A. w. He
gemeyer, acting hostess.
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ne took up the practice Of law in
Phoenix and in 1905 was appoint
ed United States district attorney
for Arizona byePresident Roosevelt.
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FERROCARRIL SUD. PACIFICO De MEXICO
PASSENGER SERVICE Effective January 49, 1881
Iexican which is the Central Stand
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The highly important part played by conveyor sys-
tens in all Ford Motor Company manufacturing and
assembly plants is graphically shown in the above
three pictures taken in the recently opened Edge
water. N. j., plant One of the pictures shows how
parts may be unoaded from freight cars within the
plant only few feet from the various assembly lines
Another picture shows automobile bodies starting
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
WHAT THE DAILY WORKER"
MEANS TO US

city to hold mass meetings. Notify as soon
as you can when you'll be here so can make
arrangements to have everything ready. If
you will send me some of these SC and 10c
pamphlets I would for them and next meet
ing night I'll take a collection and send the
money right in If there are any questions
you'd like to ask me thru letter, I will be
glad to answer them. The boys are enthused
over the organization and anxious to get or
ganized They have all asked me to find out
when they have another march at the state
house as they all want to march. hope to
hear from you and meet you in the near
future"
Daily Establishes Contacts
And these are not exceptions. The Daily
Worker in District is helping us to "break
into" many industrial cities mining Commu-
mites and to reach the farmers. This role of
the Daily Worker is not sufficiently understood
and not taken sufficient advantage of in regard
to connections with the workers established by
the Daily Worker
From this angle alone not speaking of other
angles such as the Daily Worker as leader
spokesman and agitator for our Party every day,
we must draw the conclusion that the Daily
Worker must be maintained at all costs. What
the loss Of the Daily Worker would mean to
the Party cannot be described in words. The
Daily Worker cannot be suspended. This must
be the watchWard of every Party member, of
every working class organization On the con-
trary the Daily Worker must be built into an
even mightier weapon. No wonder the Daily
Worker is the center of the attack of the Fishes,
Thompsons, Greens, the American Legion and
all other defenders of decaying capitalism.
Chicago RaIlying to Save Daily
In the Chicago District we are mobilizng our
forces to raise our quota in the $4,000 campaign
for the Daily and we are getting wonderful res
ponse from some ofsthe organizations. In three
days we we're able to raise more than $500 in
the city of Chicago alone. The rest of the
district is following suit. Organizations are be-
ing visited. While we are raising money for the
Daily, we also must increase the circulation of
the Daily. getting subs bundle orders, routes
and establishing regular sale in front of the
factories, on the breadlines and in the neigh
borhoods
Forward with the Daily Worker is the slogan
in the Chicago District!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
A Game of Fries Out

For quite long while" we are informed by
a reader, Major General Amos L. Fries, located
in the Sherman Building, Washington, D. c.,
was in charge of the Chemical Warfare Division
of the United States Army"
Something went wrong. He was not reap
pointed.
"His next step was to open an office and hang
out his shingle as an engineer. Customers we're
scarce, in fact, there were none. What to do to
eat?
why not become a Red Batter? The thing
was done. He calls it The American Security
League Probably because it secures one Amer
lean an income.
THE first thing to do was to get out and hook
few rich goofs. 1t was done. The next move
was to hire a crew Of professional money -raisers
to get him steady flow of dough- The budget,
understand, calls for a salary for the General
of $4,000 per year. The old boy not only has
to eat, but eat tip-top,"
So our correspondent thinks that it was purely
accidental that the Major General launched the
red batting" organization. We are not so sure.
1t seems to us that the General is still working
for the U. S. Army chemical service. At least
figuratively he is spreading poison gas
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Bv BILL GEBERT


District Organizer District g. Communist Party
THE Daily Worker IN the period Of the last
few months. has made progress in reaching
thousands of new workers in many cities thru
out the country and in our district. But as
yet we don't sufficiently appreciate the role the
Daily Worker plays as organizer of our Party
and of our campaigns, Here are a few exam
pies;
In one of the big shops in Chicago We have
a Party nucleus. We sell the Daily Worker oc-
casionally in front of the shop One day to the
great surprise of a member Of our Party,
worker came to him showed him story about
the conditions in the shop printed in the Daily
Worker and asked our member, How does the
editor of the Daily Worker know about the con-
ditionS in my department."
Worke Was Won Through Daily
This little question answers many things. 1t
is clear that the worker was won for our Party
through the Daily Worker The confidence Of
that worker in the Daily Worker in our Party,
is result of the shop news in the Daily Worker
describing the conditions and calling upon the
workers to organize into the Metal Workers In
dustriaI League and to fight against speed-up
and wage-cuts This worker is possible cap
didate for membership in the c. P.
This is the result of bringing the Daily Worker
into shop but here is something more i'm
portant:
The Daily Worker reached an industrial town
of 100000 population-Evansville Ind. A worker
writes a letter requesting information about the
Communist Party and when he receives the in
formation, he writes the following letter to the
section organizer in indianapolis:
ct received your letter and am glad that
We are welcome to your Party If you are
going to be in Evansville in the near future,
I would like to see you and talk to you per-
sonaIly. You understand that I have to work
a days work for a living and that is hard to
get. The Chamber of Commerce and few
other businessmen have started a different or
ganization and are. spending lot of money
against me. Mote: This worker had started
on his own initiative a progressive organiza-
ton among the Workers. g. If you could
only be here day or two and see the con-
ditions you could see better what mean and
we could understand each other better. I'm
making arrangements in different parts of the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

ing and finger-printing all the foreign born
workers 1t calls for increase In the numbers
of State Troopers who are charged with the ex-
ecution Of this program.
1t therefore becomes our immediate task, (a)
tt. build up the most genuine and broadcast united
front movement from below to struggle against
the capitalist class, (b) this united front move
ment must be conscious of the fact that this
is not an attack only against the foreign-born
workers. but it is an attack against every worker
and working class family, (c) the united front
movement must build militant organizations in
the shops, among the unemployed, in workers
organizations and in the local unions of the A.
F. of L., Id mass meetings, mass demonstra-
tions, protest movements demanding the with
drawal Of this Bill must be organized, (e) The
building up of this broad united front move
ment must be extended thruout the entire coun-
try and to guard against the tendency that this
struggle only affects the foreign born workers.
% The movement must advocate and organi-
nationally work for the building up of strikes in
the shops against registration, ETC. Mass viola
ton not on state basis but on national basis
against this program keeping in the forefront at
all times that the Bill is directed in every and
all cases to reduce the standard of living, to
terrorize the workers, to crush the growing unity
between the employed and unemployed, between
the Negro and white works., (g) We must clearly
bring into the forefront the bosses program of
lynching, terrorism. and discrimination against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
The "MacFadden
Publications. Inc. "

Macfadden, incorporated, is liar On May
20 it started off press release sent out free to
all papers carrying their advertising, with the
following prevarication:
NEW YORK, May 2o-Frank J. Moran busi-
ness manager for the International Brotherhood.
Communist society, arrested in San Francisco
yesterday, today was positively identified as
George w. Perry slayer of Mrs. Cora Belle
Hackett-Perry near Lac du Flambeau, Wis, July
6, 1890"
This supposed mistake" is no mistake Nearly
every capitalist paper in the country is being
stuffed full of lies like this against the Com
munists 1t is a part of the Fish Committee
program that is being carried out to create
wide hysteria against the Communists and the
Soviet Union. Of course the international
Brotherhood" is NOT Communist society"
But that made no difference to the lying Mac
fadden Publications, Inc.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
The Program of the Fish Comm.
in Action in Michigan

very plainly in the statement by Senator Chester
M. Howell who said, "this issue should not be
delayed because the less that is said about this
bill the better it will be for all concerned"
The attitude Of Governor Brucker is highly in
favor of the Bill and he surely will sign the
Bill within the next few days. This Bill is not
only directed against the foreign-born workers,
but is aimed at the revolutionary leadership and
mass militancy of the American working class.
The passing of this Bill by the capitalist class
and the State Government in Michigan is the
reply to the increased mass demand on the part
of the starving masses for Unemployed Relief
and Unemployment Insurance. Senator Chester
w. Howell made it very plain in his statement
when he says, this Bill to us is weapon to
deal with the Communists who are planning
march to Lansing in proper fashion" OF
course, the Senator has In mind that this Bill
will Immediately be applied into action against
all marchers who will be organized into the
State Hunger March in the state of Michigan
which is scheduled to arrive in Lansing on
May o.
The whole Bill is not yet made public but the
information which can obtain shows plainly
that this law represents an organized attempt to
crush every semblance of working class organi-
zation which struggles against the increased
mass misery and mass exploitation by the cap
italist class.
The BIZ provides for registration. photogrsph-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Wichita and Milwaukee

In Wichita, Kansas, We near, the Reserve
Officers Association the Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution and other 100 per centers, hav-
ing succeeded in avoiding a great peril.
AS in the rest of the country, red flags we're
being used at dangerous street crossings of rail-
roads near school houses The patriots finally
succeeded in changing the colors to green. Green
flags for red "avoid the possibility Of Installing
radical ideas into youthful minds by familiar
contact with the red flag" was the idea.
This struck a responsive chord in Milwaukee,
where the socialist" paper, the Leader" also
finding the red flag bad for sore eyes, said that
it didn't 'care much for the red flag" and
added:
Red is not a very appealing color Letters
written in red ink hurts the eyes literally, arid
anything red hurts the eyes of complacent people
figuratively."
So the socialists" are out of consideration
for such "complacent people" as the Reserve
Officers and the counter-revolutionary DaugA
tiers Of the American Revolution, ready to haul
down the red flag. Which recalls the stanza:
ut suits today the meek and base
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
To cover beneath the rich mans frown
And haul that sacred emblem down.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
Statement of the T.U.U.L. On the
Ladish Drop Forge Strike

CINCE December, 1880, the Ladish Drop Force
Co, of Cudahy, Wise, has been slashing
wages right and left BY April, 1881, the wages
have been cut by more than so per cent On
May 4, another 10 per cent wage cut was put
into effect.
The TUUL. was first notified Of the wage
cut on May 3, but due to the slowness of the
local Cudahy comrades in obtaining hall soon
err the T.U.UL. was unable to hold a meeting
with the workers until May S. Instead of call
ing the workers together on the eve of the wage
cut or at least on the day of the wage cut
this short delay had its effects upon the pend
ing strike The slowness of reporting the strike
situation and wage cuts proves that the COM
rades do not realize the possibilities of the de-
veloping strike struggles
Exactly SO workers responded to the call of
the TUUL the first meeting, and drew up their
demands in the Ladish Drop Forge Co. It was
also decided to call another meeting the next
day, at which rs workers showed up. At this
meeting the TUUL failed to utilize the enthu-
thiasm of the workers, OF lay down the organ
national basis for a real strike. The TUUL or
ganizers did not consolidate sufficiently the
ranks of the workers by creating an Organiza-
ton Committee which would have the task of
preparing and finally pulling the strike in the
following few days The TUUL instead was
allowed to be carried away by the desire of the
workers to strike. and consequently a strike
vote was taken at this meeting. The strike
was then called for May 7. Due to above mis-
takes the strike was weakly prepared organiza-
tionally and ideologically.
Despite the activities of the company, more
than one-third of the workers struck the first
day of the strike. Steps were taken Immediately
to elect broad strike committee of "a workers,
representing every major department in the
plant. Out of the strike committee and ex-
ecutive committee subcommittee on picketng,
publicity etc, were elected. The strike COM
nittee was hte central authority in conducting
the strike
At a mass meeting Of the strikers it was de-
cided to organize mass picketing and the num-
Der of pickets increased every day. Towards
the end of the strike, the wives of the strikers
were involved on the picket line But the out
standing weakness in picketng was the lack of
militancy, which proved in the long run, that
the workers we're unsuccessful in keeping out the
scabs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
RAs'..
Popularity
By JORGE

Hoover isn't the only one who is "econo
mizng"-at the expense of the workers-these
days. The Japanese government is cutting wages.
too.
And the Mikado has become so popular that
he has to go home in an armored car with a
tremendous guard of police and troops-who
haven't had their wages cut
Readers of the capitalist press should ALWAYS
be bit leery of the popularity" of kings and
other capitalist rulers like Hoover 1t is about
80 per cent manufactured
Hoover just now is busy trying to make every-
body believe that the postal service is "econo-
MIXING" painlessly, not cutting down the SER
vice nor hurting the interests of the post office
workers.
This Is hooey The clerks and carriers will be
speeded up, the carriers routes enlarged and
loads made heavier, just as a wage-cut in fac
tory is put over by the speed-up. The substi-
tute carriers may just as well give up hope,
which is their principal diet, of getting on the
regular payroll-that is reserved for Hoovers
valet and his new publicity man, who is trying
to make Hoover appear human"
The government employees have some "as-
Citations" differed by lot of bootlickers and
bureaucrats But they need a union and need
it bad. And the only leadership which can help
them is the Trade Union Unity League, 2 w.
18th St, New York City. Give this to your
mail carrier
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
what Ganggter Zuta Kept in Lis Poison Boz

TO revenge his friend and collaboration, as we'll
the Chicago Tribune for the loss Of one
of its important links with hte underworld the
Capone gang set out to kill Jack Zuta one Of
the leaders Of the Moran-Aiello gang suspected
of completely in the Lingle killing, zuta was a
crafty individual He was financer for the
Moran Aiello mob" After the killing of Lin
GLE Capone pursued zuta reertlessly zuta
fled to Kentucky, then to Wisconsin But less
than two months after the murder of Lingle,
Zuta was executed in a Wisconsin summer re-
sort He was feeding nickles into mechanical
piano telling everybody. this is the life" The
Capone gunner swooped upon him, seated him
in a chair and riddled him with machine gun
bullets. The Chicago Tribune was reyenged;
but Zuta's evil deeds lived after him to plague
some of the finest people in Chicago"
Zuta Could Write
zuta knew how To write, especially names
and figures. He kept a complete record of his
grating operations for the fifteen years of
his gangster career. "Zuta's poison box" as
his safety deposit vault was dubbed in Chicago
gangland, was never made fully public. It in
Guided without exception every leading capt.
talist politician in Chicago Zuta's poison box
contained records of weekly payments Of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in protection
money.
$4,000 to Thompson
Formost was the payment of $4,000 to the
Thompson election campaign. He contributed
literally to the Cermak Cook County political
machine zuta was close friend Of Thomp-
sons and accompanied him on many of his
trips. His boxes were veritable Who's Who
of Cook County politics and crime said the
New York Times. Only a few names Of the
who's who" were published and only those that
would do the least harm. Among the men known
TO have received checks or money from Zuta
we're: Judge Joseph W. Schulnnan, for more than
ten years Judge of the Municipal Court Geo.
Van Lent former state senator and political
leader; Emanuel Eller son of Morris Eller,
former judge Of the Municipal Superior and
Criminal Courts, all republicans. Eler got the
money from Zuta for work done while he was
Judge Then there was Richard j. Williams,
sergeant Of police and assistant to Frank D.
Loesch capitalist crime 'reformer," who got
$500 from Zuta Checks were also made pay
able to the Regular Republican Club of Cook
County He contributed heavily to the demo-
Gratis as well. These papers contained a card
from Charles E. Graydon sheriff Of Cook County
reading: ITO members of the department The
bearer, Jack zuta, is extended the courtesies Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
BY JOHN SCHMIES

THE anti working class Bill which is being
sponsored by the Fish Committee was adopted
in the Michigan State Legislature on May 20
and is now before State Governor Brucker to
be signed. The Bill If signed Immediately be-
comes law and all aliens (as it is called in
the Bid are given 80 days to register. THE
act prohibits the employment of any alien who
does not possess a registration card issued by
the State Department of Public Safety; firms
violating this provision would be subject to
fine of 500 and the employment office could
be sentenced to 80 days in prison" The Bill
further says, "the minimum fine for failing to
possess certificate is $50 and the maximum
is $780," The Bill also carries with it Jail
sentence up to 80 days. According to the Detroit
newspapers the following were the sponsors of
this Bill: (a) the Fish Committee (b) the au-
thorties Of the United States immigration De-
partment and the United States War Depart
ment, and (c) the representatives of the Auto
mobile Manufacturers Association.
The measure was drafted in series OF weekly
conferences with Federal authorities in Detroit
last winter. The law makers we're told, accord
ing to the newspaper information, that the prin-
cpe aims of the Legislation is to reach Com
munists who are attempting TO stir unrest"
The work OF this Bill was kept secret and was
!. only announced after the adoption OF the Bill
siness sssts lIfrslstsrs. This can b. seen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01

Not only did the strikers come out on the
picket line but with the aid of the Cudahy
Unemployed Council on the second day of the
strike, the number of strikers grew to ITS or
IS to 80 per cent of the ottaI workers in the
plant.
The company did everything possible to break
the spirit of the strikers. The company sent out
threatening letters to all strikers urging them
to return to work, and at the same time notify
ing the ex-employees that jobs we're available
in the plant. These methods and the spread
ing of wild rumors, were used as means of break
ing the strike. The company with the help Of
the capitalist press, and especially the Milwaukee
Leader, the official organ of the socialists tried
to work up Red scare and in this way break
the ranks of the strikers. Stool pigeons were
sent into the ranks of the strikers, as well as
into the strike committee. And due to the fact
that the strike committee was slow in register
ing all the strikers, they were too slow in ex-
posing the stool pigeons and the agents of the
company. 1t was only later that about hun
dred strikers were registered by the strike COM
nlittee, and committees were elected to visit the
more paSSiev strikers, well as the scabs. The
TUUL likewise took steps to organize as many
as possible into its ranks and 40 workers Joined
the Metal Workers Industrial League.
On the third day of the strike, the company
succeeded in importing a hundred scabs over
night had in this way lay the basis for break
ing the strike. The strike committee in this
situation did not succeed in rallying the strikers
for an organized retreat. The morale of the
strikers began it's downward trend and it was
necessary for the strike committee OF officially
call off the strike. AS a result some workers
were victimized and many refusing to go back
to work under the Shaving conditions imposed
upon them by the company.
Although the company succeeded in breaking
the strike, it could not put through it's general
ten per cent wage cut The company being
forced OF withdraw 8 out of 10 percent wage
cut for the piece rate workers, and out of
10 per cent Tor the day rate workers.
Among the outstanding weaknesses Of the
strike was the inability to strengthen the TUUL
organization among the strikers, so as to pre-
serve strong shop organization even after the
strike wasover. 1t was also seen in the failure
to sell Daily Workers and Labor Unities in suf-
ficient numbers. Although more Labor Unities
were sold than Daily Workers.