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The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Visitor-Are there any moonshin- CTS in this part of the country?
 Farmer-Not any more.
 .Visitor-Prohibition agents got af- ter them, huh?
 Farmer-No-they got rich and moved to the city.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Mrs. Oliver Anderson, who re- ceived such severe burns and was SO badly shocked at the time of the N. c. Go. fire at McGrath, and who has been the house guest of MT. and Mrs Chester Brink since that occurrence, was an airplane departure yesterday for McGrath. The many friends of Mrs. Anderson will be pleased to hear that she has recovered to a large extent from the burns she received, though she is still incapacitated to some degree on account of her left arm not having entirely returned to normal.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Airplane mail was brought here yesterday from Anchorage by Plot Harry Blunt.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

NEW YORK, April 15.-Genera J. J. Pershing sailed for Europe today.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18
today

Miss Heen Rieck returned today from trip to McGrath.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Frank J. Guskey, following visit of several days at Grath, came up yesterday, via airplane.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Arthur Berry of Medfra arrived on Wednesday, renewed acquaintances with oldtime friends, and returned to McGrath on Thursday, headed for his Medfra headquarters.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Mrs. P. A. Anderson of Ophir was a Thursday town visitor.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Hans Erickson, travelling with the Misses Freda and Helen Kong, came Thursday, all three continuing to Nc Grath the same day.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

H. c. Wallick returned here Thurs day from a trip to Ophir.
 John Rieck was Thursday town visitor.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

Miss Gertrude Rody departed Mon day for Ophir, to which place she was transported by Joe Oates.
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

MT. and Mrs Clint Winan depart ed yesterday for McGrath on their way to Medfra. 3s
The Kusko times., 1931-04-18

John Happy Jacobson, after a visit of several weeks at McGrath, was a yesterday arriya, coming up with Pilot Joe Crosson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-05
SALE-HOUSES.

owner sell at once. beautiful s-rm. 2-bath
brick home. recently built, ami, deep lot,
garage: excellent condition. Adams 47a6.
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RENT HoUsEs-FUR. AND UNFUR.

Lease years or more OR. & b.. detached
house; excellent condition; splendidly fur
nished; garage; nice lawn, shrubbery, etc +;
sl35 per month furnished. Sis unfurnished,
if taken next ten, days Worth considerably
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RENT HOUSES-FURNISHED.

LARGE HOUSE, BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS
for July, August and September. IL Prim-
rose St, Chevy Chase, Md. Phone Wis. 1918
WILL RENT CHEVY CHASE MIDI BUNGA-
low for July and August at $40 per month,
furnished. Tel Wis. 3093-J.
l4i9 HARDWOOD PI. NW.-SIX ROOMS,
bath and sleeping porch, completely fur
riShed; grand piano, radio. electric fans.
etc; garage. From June is. for Summer.
S85 monthly: references required. Col 1882.
COUNTRY HOME, ROOMS AND BATH.
a l.. garage. for Summer months. 1909
Cortelyou ave. LIVINGSTONE Heights, near
Washington Golf and Country Club. Clar-
endOn 959-J-2
NEW GROOM HOUSE, APTSTICALLY
furnished. radio. built-in garage. breakfast
porch. sleeping porch Frigidaire: adults only.
1921 36th st. NV. 3 months from June Is.
s.
CLEVELAND PARK DELIGHTFUL, EIGHT
rooms, two baths. detached; June 10 for
three months. 1908 35th st. NV. Clev 0840.
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WANTED TO BUY-HOUSES.

HOUSE. DESIRABLE NV. SECTION. 7 OR
8 rooms: state cash price Address Box
1G-P. Star Office
ALL CASH FOR SMALL HOUSES z A
CARNEY. District $40. Room 1914. 1910
Vermont ave. NV.
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RESTRICTED

Cooperative apartment. Hampshire Gar
dens-Two bed rooms. living room. dining
room. kitchen with Frisidaire; three expo
sures; private park and club room. Pos
session july !; owner leaving city. Phone
Georgia 1864. 7'
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED TO, LEASE FOR A YgAR OR
loneeP in nearby Va. or Nd, smk house,
2 or more acres Of ground, suitable 4er pouls
try. farm. Adams 2a44 after pm.
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RENT-HOUsEs UNFURNIsHED.

1903 MILITARY RID, CHI Chs RMS. B.:
l. block Conn. ave; vacant. Open Sgt. ana
Sunday. OWNER.
1916 ST EE-5-ROOM BRICK HOUSE.
with garage. h.-w.h.; $50 per month. De-
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SALE-HOUSES.

SARE GEM FOR WHICH you CAN WRITE
Jour own terms Ideally suitable for Army
tensiyely entertaining. 4 home that Will
readily sell at any time. Chevy Chase: D. G.;
two blocks south OF Chevy Chase Circle, 200
feet off Conn. ave. Center hall. eight rooms,
two baths. artistic two-car GARAGE. Large
grounds, beautifully shaded. First floor in
cludes living room. dining room. library.
breakfast room. kitchen, pantry and bath;
all these rooms have beamed ceilings and
paneled walls; library walls are done in
beautiful French tapestries; two enchsnging
floor has three delightful bed rooms, bath
and shower; all French windows and doors
throughout. Artistic, expensive curtains will
go with house Ol-burning furnace. Must be
sold by 10th. Owner occupant. Cleveland $685..
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FALLS CHURCH, VA.

FNLIS NF1I MI, \,
Good ltz-story frame bungalow. rooms,
electricity, shower bath: "a ecre land in
high state Of cultivation; lots of fruit, close
to car line. A bargain at $4,000; can ar
rance terms.
Nice 2-story. 5-room house. cleo, furnace,
earaRe and cellar; on eooi road, close 70
car line and bus: acres land. 3 in wood
land; lots Of fruit. Price reduced for quick
sale haragln at s4,50o: eesy terms
to highway. lots Of fruit S acres: would
subdivide nicely $4,000; terms.
Lots of nice acreage, on hard road, that
wculd subdividc. Rec sonable terms. AZ
kinds Of property ut all prices. Farms. lit
lie and big VIII trade farms for suburban
houses and lots or city property, clear or
with small trust. Call on rs II YOU mean
business Phone Fails Church So ONCE;
79-J-r. residence.
H. II. ANDERSON & CO.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
LABOR OFFICIALDOM
IN THE NEXT WAR

Bureau Of Women and Minors in
Industry is to be set up the direc-
tor OF which, it is specifically pointed
out, shall be "a woman essentially
patriotic and not internationalistic;
appreciative Of the fact that women,
like men, must make sacrifices in
war If the last irnperialist war
is any guide we can safely predict
that plenty Of such women directors
and assistants can be found among
the top leadership of the A. F. Of L.
and the National Women's Trade
Union League.
The close associations Of the 4. r.
of L. with the preparations for war
are likewise seen in the fact that g
recent issue of the American Labor
Banner, weekly A. F.. of L. sheet pub
lished in Washington, carries an ar
ticle by a lieutenant colonel taken
from the magazine called Army Ordi-
nance. The War Department Off
cial writes furiously against war;
time draft of all labor in industry,
chiefly on the ground that it would
lead to revolution. The whole eff
fort, it is clear from this article, viii
be to keep labor under voluntary
control while fighting vigorously
against what he describes as "ur1-
PATRIOTIC agitators who will be Dor
ing from within
The danger of war is just not idle
talk. Every worker must be awake
to the threat Of new slaughter.
Into the streets on August / Let
the bosses know that you will not
stand for intervention either against
the German masses or against the
Soviet Union. Turn out in masses
On August /, International Anti-War
Day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
Workers Organize
Revolutionary
Culture

the newer or more diffuse organiza-
lions crystalline their program; to
create the necessary organizations
missing in important cultural fields.
In the first, We may say there is
such a problem as bringing the large
foreign-language groups into the
service of the American workers, and
the creation of American music and
songs for the music federation, the
encouragement of theatrical groups
to turn from the orthodox play-pres-
entation to agitation propaganda
short-forms. In the second, for in
stance, there is the e-eminently
important propaganda group, the
Film and Photo League. The FGd-
Grafton must relate the work of this
group to every workers club and to
the entire revolutionary press The
League must be encouraged and sup
ported in its showing of films, its
agitational work against reactionary
movies, the making of proletarian
film-documents, and in the spread
OF the function Of the worker-photo-
grapher. Immediate backing should
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sight. The last of it Is gone, and an
other truckload is expected today. i.
In the next room, two beds are
crowded. Here the family of seven
sleep. Cotton blankets cover the bed.
Under the blankets are pillows and
mattresses SO old that the original
colors cannot be guessed. It's too
hard to wash mattresses and pillows,
especially when water has to be car
ried up in bucketfuls and soap is a
rarity Anyway, if the water seeps
into the mattress stuffing, it causes
bugs. A surface cleaner must be used
and that costs more than a miner can
afford.
Sheets? Yes, the 12-year-old
daughter says, she saw sheets once,
and pillow slips too-ia hospital
when she visited relative. Ever
sleep on any? Oh, no. But the lady
next door made sheets out of flour
sacks. It's awfully hard getting them,
though.
And then the little girl got to talk
ing about sheets and such things.
Her mother came from the old coun-
try She said everybody had sheets
there, and pillow cases and real
feather blankets that were as light as
anytf/ y-but they could even keep
you warm in a company house. She
herself was born in Clarion, Pa.
and hadn't seen all these things, but
they were true, she assured us, her
mother said so. And the big farms
lad plenty of food there. MA said
she was just never hungry!" the sal
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ferent!" came the quick retort from
half a dozen.
TITS awful bad in Germany, too"
the old man says. 'EBut when yours
out of work they give you SONS
money to keep you from starving,
anyway. I got lots of folks there"
.. Things are just the same all
over" Terrible bad tirnes!' What
can poor folks expect?" you get
what you fight forl" Eyes, that's the
same every PLACED You get what you
fight for and make them give you'll"
It hear the miners got it pretty
good in Russia" another fellow puts
in. us it true they got a raise this
year?"
Yes, told him, it's true. In the So
Wet Union, the workers run their
own government. The miners got a
rs per cent raise in wages this year.
And they work 6 hours a day and S
days week.
And they say they get paid for
time they don't work-just for loaf
ing" somebody else says. That's the
two months vacation each year with
fun pay, I explain Eyes are round
with wonder. Loud CALCULATIONS. A
kid puts in, 1--WE get vacations from
SCHOOL," Her mother snorts, THAT
don't fill your belly rone!"
II reckon they must've put up
some tall fight for tllat" the ex-
Coolidge enthusiast says, "and I
reckon we got more than one fight
ahead before we git tfere!"
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Mobile he and others tried to form
a union, and at one time they sue
ceeded in having as many as 1900
at mass meeting.
Stool Pigeons SqueaI on Workers
But, "the bosses knew everything
from squealers. They arrested me 2
or 3 times. Then one night a gang
OF ku-Klux came to my house and
threatened to lynch ME if I continued
with the union. The workers were
weak and didn't stick. They black
listed me. I was a crane operator
before but now they will only hire
me for laboring work, and most times
not even that. They put my picture
IN the paper, and said that I was
just a Northern niger trying to start
trouble
The shipping bosses do not hire
longshore labor directly. They en-
gage a number Of little King Jesus
called gang foremen, who are good
slave drivers, to hire the men.
This leads to a system of bribery.
where workers must give a foreman
few dollars to get a job and then
keep feeding him so cents a week or
so, to keep a job. 80 percent of the
longshoremen are Negroes, as are the
foremen who are used as inforners
and scabs by the shipping men.
For cents an hour extra pay the
foreman drives his men so that after
a days toll on the docks, the workers
can hardly drag themselves home.
More speed-up and wage cuts are the
order of the day. + asked one fore
man what his work was. II am hired
as a driver for the men," he said.
The government also has miles OF
warehouses along the docks. They
buy cotton from the farmers cooper
atives. The workers in the govern
nent warehouses, COMPRISING and
storing cotton, make even less than
others, getting from rs to 331a cents
an hour.
Not only in Mobile, but all through
the Peon Black Belt, found a well
come basis for our movement. The
Scottsboro leaflets and the Southern
Worker that carried with me, open
ed wide the eyes of the workers and
farmers. Unity. class brotherhood
a new world Of hope unfolded itself
before their startled eyes
Send me more of them papers.
That's what we been needn all along
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1ow-cheeked youngster said.
The same song-Ethe land q
promise it had new verse.
The myth about America that
brought her parents here has blown
up. In the free" country, deputy
| sheriffs and state police club and gas
, and even shoot you if you walk on
the public highway to meet the nain-
ers Before they go into the pit and
tell them that it is starvation every
body is fighting against, and that II
fall the mines are shut down the
strike will surely be won. It doesn't
matter if you are child or wo-
; man. And as to making living-the
. evidence lay before U.s. Even the
youngster knew that all the COM
pany gives are kisses" xxx In .
row, to show that everything you
made the company took as being
owed" to them.
} The old folks shook their heads
No, it isn't at all what the "1and OF
IIl0 Tree sounded ike before you got
here. In the child's mind the old song
hadca new verse-the old country has
becone the mythical paradise.
+ Later the boys began to talk about
it, Maybe a new president would
-change things, somebody suggested.
i My brother in England writes
things is just as bad there, and they
have-a Socialist Teller at the head Of
Fittings" a miner in torn canvas shoes
put in. so presidents don't count
It's the rich that runs everything"
| sob, I don't know When Coolidge
was president, we got better pay" the
first miner put in.
ooh, yeah, how about the strike In
'27a Coolidge didn't make things diff
ssgrNtE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
BY HARRY ALAN PoTAMK1N.


The organizations that sent dele
gates to the workers cultural con-
ference on June IA have a member
ship of 10000. This does not in
clude tie membership of the larger
mass organizations. OF the 100 clubs
and declarations represented by the
265 delegates, 80 have no definite
cultural program. To help define
these clubs is major purpose of the
newly founded Workers Cultural
Federation. Precise aims and def
mite character are the essentials of a
workers club. A Federation, not or
ganized to supersede any of the al
ready existing unions of clubs, serves
as common center to direct the
aims and strengthen the form of
every workers club. Those clubs
that have experience in the cultural
fields can lend that experience tc
the newer clubs. The newer clubs,
arriving in the cultural arena at this
critical moment may be less con-
fused than the older, and may lend
fresher Interpretation and energy
The Federation is the clearing house
of experience, Interpretation and en-
ergy.
The central aim of the Federation
may be declared threefold: to bring
the older organizations into the SER
vice Of the present period; to helr
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18

to prepare cultural manifesto to
serve the Federation as common
platform, and to present to the
workers of America a clear picture
of the antagonisms between bour-
geois and proletarian culture and
wherein lies the ultimate victory of
the latter.
The two authoritative principles of
self-criticisn and socialist competi-
ton, principles in action, must con-
sistently serve the development of
the Federation. It is primarily for
these that the Federation has been
founded, for these are the working
ideas Of the aims of the Federation.
criticism is the exchange of ex-
perience, lessons learned from mis-
takes and successes. Socialist COM
petition, competition in behalf of the
working class, strengthens our use
of the cultural weapons and is an
other means of mutual experience.
Therefore, this coming fall the Fed
Grafton will sponsor the first ex-
tensive socialist competition in the
drama. The Federation will serve
also as the medium by which ex-
hibits may travel from club to club.
Already the artists groups of the
John Reed Club has offered COL
lection of Soviet posters for such
travelling exhibit and the Workers
Film and Photo League offers a
worker photographers show. The
Federation has not been slow to get
busy.
But, though busy with the national
tasks, it has not overlooked the fact
that it is a unit Of great interna-
tional of culture. To express its
solidarity with the oppressed revolu-
tionary writer's of China, the Fed
GRAFTON has begun its work to ex-
cite the social conscience of Amer
lean writers, artists, scientists, in
tellectuals generally, against the hor-
rible atrocities of the Marking gov
eminent serving the irnperialist in
terests.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
BY BARBARA RAND

Just off the Cedar Grove highway,
row of barracks, high on stills,
houses three hundred and thirty
three people-men, women and chill
dren. Every few yards, a partition
marks where one apartment" ends
and another begins. The apart
ments" in turn are divided into two
rooms each. .
Rickety steps lead up to the en-
frances. The roof is covered with tar
paper that seems to absorb and ra-
date heat as nothing else can. Like
most company houses, there is nei-
ther gas nor electricity. Kerosene
furnishes the light at night and coal
cooks what there is to cook. And
again like most company houses, it's
as hot as a turkish bath. The COM
pany houses had more room, but the
strikers wives say that the barracks
aren't full of bugs like some of the
old company houses are.
The first cubby-hole apartment is
the relief store. The food and cloth
ing brought in by the Pennsylvania
Ohio Striking Miners Relief Com
mittee from the Pittsburgh headquar-
tiers in room 205, Gil Penn Ave, are
stored there.
A few doors down, a family of sew
en- lives. In the first room is the coal
stove on which the cooking is done, a
few chairs. On the table is small
bottle with yellow dandelions in it.
The flowers come from the fields
nearby. On the shelf nailed to the
wall is shelf paper in elaborate seal
lops cut from newspaper to i 1 te
the kind the stores have in bright
colors and designs. No food is in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
What Is the Program OF the
Workers Cultural Federation?

be given to the League toward the
success of the Proletarian Photo
week the last week in July, and The
American exhibit at the Interna-
tional Exposition in Berlin in Octo-
Der. The third part of the FEEDER
atoms central aim can be illustrated
by the urgent need for proletarian
anti-religious or freethinkers union.
To carry out the purposes of the
Federation the executive board has
created a bureau composed of the
chairrnen of the commissions for the
various forms. The commissions will
be mass in character; l. e., they will
have worker representation to assure
a constant contact with the shops,
the unemployed councils, the work
ers' clubs. The commissions in
Glide: the educational, the commits
sion for MISUNDERSTANDING press,
rker-correspondence and publish
ing, the art commission, the film
and photo, the commission for mass
organizations, the anti-religious, the
commission for women, the Negro
commission, the commission for
youth, sports, the theatrical and
music commissions.
A Federation which has been eff
fected to clarity the struggle on the
cultural front must state the nature
of that Struggle. To that end a
special committee has been chosen
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-18
BY HELEN MARCY

AFTER travelling through hundreds
~ Of miles Of the Alabama and Mis-
sissippi Black Belt where the Negro
is enslaved in dismal turpentine
swarnps and sun baked cotton plant
ations, is was quite a shock to smell
the smoke and dirt of the cotton city,
Mobile, Ala.
Practically all Alabamas foreign
commerce passes through Mobile, but
due to the crisis and the intensified
production of cotton in other coun-
tries, cotton shipping has fallen to a
very low level.
This slump in the prime industry
OF Mobile has resulted in two third
Of the working population joining the
army Of unemployed, Of part employ
ed Long lines Of new private and
government warehouses have been
built along the port to house the ex-
cess cotton which becomes larger
each year.
found may way into the Warrant
Warehouse Co., where cotton is COM
pressed and stored. All the workers
except the petty bosses are Negroes.
The white foreman pointed with
pride at the huge cotton compress
which is workers were operating. The
machine puts about 400,oO0,OOo lbs.
OF weight on each bale, cutting its
size In half.
The machine Is very dangerous
since the workers must jump inside
its NAV while the COMPRISING is
going on and sew burlap around the
cotton. The speed-up is so intense
that the workers must compress 1870
bales an hour or more than bales
minute. Once q worker gets caught
in the press he is crushed to death
or his back is broken.
II the speed-up we've lessened, there
would not be such a great loss of
life. The foreman, however, had a
very novel way Of explaining it. THE
workers take q special pride in speed
ing up" he said. During the rush
season In the fall the workers toll as
long as "a hours at a stretch and
numerous lives are snuffed out, for
the sake OF the great God Mamnlo1.
Forced Risk Lives For IS cents An
Hour
The men at this machine make
rom % to 20 cents an hour. 1Jecro
women who smooth the tin hands