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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
This is the ninth of a series of
S-!-cles on A. f. of L. and political
corruption in New Jersey.)
By ALLEN JOHNSON.

II the A. F, Of L. were an organiza-
ton which waged militant and un-
compromising fight to include the
condition Of the American working
class it would be swell organization,
but then, again, if capitalism didn't
doom the vast majority of workers
to a living death it, too, would be a
swell system.
AS the matter stands, capitalism
stands for the enslavement of SO per
cent of the population by the remain
ing 2 per cent. This per cent has
at its command the use of an entire
state apparatus, the law courts, an
army, the school system, the various
churches and the newspapers. AS SUBJ
sidiary allies it has the various pro
gressive" and socialist" parties, who
try to win the confidence of workers
by using fierce phrases, but who are
actually staunch defenders of capt.
talism-and trade union leaders of
the type who control the American
Federation of Labor.
II Is mistake to call all A. F.. OF
L. officials racketeers, unless one is
willing to designate Hoover, Morgan
Cardinal Hayes and their many coun-
terparts by the same name. They
are robbers all, slick, ruthless, savage
"obbers of the wealth created by the
working class, but to lump them with
racketeers is to flatter them. For
racketeers, after all, are considered
outside the pale and are sometimes
punished, while the capitalists who
steal on far wider scale are "sancti-
fed by all kinds Of bad smelling
holy water; their laws and their
priests and whatnot.
A. F. Of L. officials are not then
all and exactly racketeers, even
though they steal and shoot and SELL
out the workers who delegate them
to further, their interests. Their
crimes are the crimes OF capitalists,
Hnd because the A. r. Of L. performs
z definite function for capitalists
misleading workers into the clutches
of their bosses---its officials receive
governmental protection--almost as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Demand CITY Hall.


The Y. NJ. c. A. and reactionary
'2reign languGge organizations here
oortrol al halls and refuse to give
Ire strikers either hall or chairs. The
~t''ike meetings are held in an old
loft, with boxes and boards for seats
\ committee is going to the mayo
o demand the use of the municipal
hall.
Friday night there will be a mas
Meeting fefore the city hall if the
"7un:cinal hall is refused. There will
he local speakers and New Yor,
rTeakeTs from the Needle Trades
TT0~l1c-s' Industrial Union.
Two hundred have joined the
union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Tax Refund to
Rich Is Crime

(By a Worker Correspondent
LOS ANGELES 1t is a crime to
let the bosses get away for such re-
funds (as was recently given to the
tune of several hundred millions) to
go on much longer. To allow this
regime to give more money to the
rich while the poor unemployed
workers are starving.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

starvation and death. In spite of all
the rumors spreading around by the
capitalist press that 1881 is going to
bring back prosperity and be better
year than 1880 and the Glen Alden
Coal co. gives us a notice that they
will close six of its mines on New
Years.
Glen Alden Coal Co. is one of the
largest producers of anthracite coal
and it has announced the closing OF
nix of its mines permanently which
will affect approximately $500 min
ers and their families and some of
the miners have as much as and 9
children.
Must Fight Now.
The mines to be closed are: Hyde
Park, Continental and Sloan inScran-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
and File Hate Him.

The majority Of the rank ard file
hate Brandle so much that without
the protection of the police he long
since would have retired for good.
A. F.. of L, members realize that
when they fight Brandle they fight
not only this one gunman, but Mayor
Hague, Governor Larson, Bill Green,
and, as it will be shown later, j. P.
Morgan as well. Notwithstanding, an
enraged worker once shot at Brandle
and union after union has gone to
court seeking injunctions to prevent
his from interfering with the normal
pursuit Of their trades. But all to
no avail, for Brandle not only con-
trolls the state courts but the federal
courts as we'll
An Essex County sheriff once
saught Br; lie for days, seeking to
serve a sui Jena that called for his
appearance in a suit brought by
members of a Newark union. When
the sheriff finally located Brandle, in
the latter's speakeasy he was set
upo" by Brand and his thugs and
beaten almost to death.
Brandle's speakeasy is no mere
hangover of his saloonkeeper days.
II members of his union do not spend
a good proportion of their salaries
t';ere, it becomes virtually impossible
for them to get a job. A worker
loyalty to Brandle is measured by
the amount of time he spends in his
speakeasy--and there are no excuses
accepted
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
IT'S COLD CHARITY
FROM THE AMERICAN"

NEW YORK.-"Slow it down, the
line is getting SMALL" yelled one of
the New York Americans men, when
he thought the charity swindle they
run on Times Square was getting too
small to take good picture The
line was little small, because some
of the thinly clad unemployed had
been standing SO long they couldn't
endure the piercing cold any longer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
WrnsS Admits 5,G0A, 600.
Newark Jobless Make Demands on City
Hall Crowd; While Police Attack Them
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crowd was broken up, when the police
reserves were called out. The ar
rested are: John Casper, Trade
Union Unity League district organ
izer, Shirley Etlin, Young Commu-
mist League organizer, Mary Kings
ton Saul Stark, j. Luden, S. Ruben
thai. T. Damascus, S. Ulrich, r.
Brothers. Mildred Shulmap, NJ Kill
arts. Eva Kollarich and H. Tillutic
Casper and Ludin who we're worst
beaten up are charged with assault
and battery and bail is set at $500
each. The others are charged with
lettering, and bail is $3.50 each.
Tom Myerscough presented the de-
mands for the delegation inside the
city hall for: removal of La Fera, the
present starvation expert who has
charge Of poor relief, for immediate
relief through the committees of the
joh,css and the workers who shall
+ fp1d to be made up of part
of the city officials fat salaries, Of
ii rnw Intended for bankers, etc,
no evictions, etc.
AMBRIDGE, Pa, Jan. THE AM
bridge city council, following the
militant demonstration of jobless
steel workers here Monday put over
its decision on their demands for re-
lief until Feb. g. The next day the
burgess was still holding the arrested
speakers of the demonstration pris-
oners, and refused even to talk to the
lawyer sent by the International La
Dor Defense. When AL Marsch came
up to find out what was being done
with the arrested organizers of the
Metal Workers Industrial League, he
vas thrown out bodily
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Militant PicketinG Forces Another
Danbury Fur Sion to Negotiate
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numbers in yesterdays parade, say
ing there were only 40 instead of the
400 who really were there, tomorrow.
demonstration will also march in
front of the office of the New Haven
Times
The relief committee has mapped
out program of house to house col
lecticns Saturday and Sunday. Re
lief will be handed out next week.
Hatters in the shops controlled bH
the United Fetters of North America
(AFL) have pledged to contribute
from thcir Saturday pay to the strik
ers' relief fund
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Glen Alden Coal Go. Shuts Down Six
Mines Permanently; $500 Miners
Thrown Out on Streets to Starve
Slow Starvation and Death Is Certainty Unless
Miners Fight Bitterly for Relief
Wilkes-B Barre, Pa.
Daily Worker:

Daily Worker:
The conditions in the Anthracite fields poor that
the workers cannot make decent living The mines only
working and two days week. have worked 1853 days out
of 312 working days in year in 1880 have made about
5000 average of $225 per day. This what work
in the Anthracite must keep family
What does that to miners? 1t means the moment
the mines close or laid off faced with slow
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

Enclosed find So, for which pleas
new my subscription for six month.
TO the only honest and fearless ad
Vocate of working class interests i
the U, S. All. A. Broad, Chicae
III.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

The use of this card system en-
abieS Brandle to throttle any revolt
on the part of the rank and file.
II v~0~ker protests against an out
us resolution, as when Bran
die made himself life delegate of
irOnworkers' local is at a salary of
$3.50 a week, he is either badly
beaten, tE-own out the unic~ or
beth. BradIe has often entered
union meetings escorted by . score
of Hague policemen. At one meet
ing of the Hod Carriers Union the
uniformed thugs probably saved his
life.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Cleveland to Reach
Full Quota In 10000
Circulation Campaign

ment Bureau Send me the Daily
Worker.
Il used to be stead reader of the
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secret census taken in 40 cities Dec
By the government and the Metro
politan Life Insurance Co.'S 25,009
agents brou9ht enough of the raa'
facts about the more than 100000
jo.7'79s to the governments atten-
tor. Tat they can't print those fig
urls! Now tl,ey will go through the
forlnii5 Of a fake cersus, after
wl7i~,l Il can be announced that there
are p,cybc three or four million job
less.
Woasg Admits 100000.
Perhaps the fake census will admit
as much as Cal. woods, head o.
Hoovers committee admitted yester
day He estimated the number of
jobless at between four and five mil
lion, less than half the real number
as admitted by statisticians for this
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
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CHESTER. PA, FORMS
RED BUZZ DERS NEWS CLUB

Chester, Pa, is the latest city t.
0rganize a Daily Worker Booster
Club.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08
Stops 2 BOSS PAPERS;
TAKES DAILY WORKER

Keep up the good work. Here Is
one SUBJ" writes w. A. w. Of Center
vile, Iowa. put it on and get tn,
1aper started at once. I secured i,
by. using my Daily Workers. After
-ead them I passed them on and b
doing. so caused this subscriber t,
see where he belongs. He told m
he stopped two capitalist papers am
was going to take the Daily Worker
The Daily Worker is good seed ant
will bear good crops"
STARVATION BRINGING
MANY To THEIR SENSES"
James Murphy, Portland, Me
writes:
ut seems that starvation is bring
'ng many to their senses. I, for on,
ealize the socialist party is bourgeoi
Used to be member of the social.
narty, but I noted the good worl
that one of your members was doinP
on Sixth Ave, around the Employ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

Daily while working in Passaic Wor-
sted."
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
MORE POLICEWOMEN

ANNAPOLIS, March 1O.-A bill
repeating the State law limiting
the number of policewomen in
Baltimore to five was introduced
in the House last night by Dele
gate Goodman of Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
PL A n
To SELL c. G.O.P.
To NATION
Opening Campaign Gun viii
Stress Hoover Regimes Four
Years of Achievements

If President Hoover is to be re.
elected next year, the votes Of
the normally Republican Middle
West must be held strictly in line
for him.
Acting upon this political
theory, the Republican high COM
mand in Washington announced
today the first step in a cam
paign that has been mapped out,
with White House approval, to
sell" the achievements Of the
Administration to the disgruntled
agriculturists of the great grain
belt.
The Opening Gun
This step, which might be
termed the opening gun Of the
1882 Presidential conflict, con.
sisted of the formation Of IAN
advisory council for agriculture"
headed by two Administration
stalwarts from the wheat and
corn belts, Senator Capper (R0
of Kansas, and Senator Dickin-
son (R0 Of Iowa.
The farm vote of 1892 has been
causing the Republicans acute
worry. Despite the setting up OF
the Federal Farm Board, and the
expenditure of half billion dol
lars in its operations, corn and
wheat, the great money crops Of
the Middle West, are at the low"
oSk nFinNS in a nIlarter Of a cen.
tury.
The Republican vote Of the
great Middle West, reaching from
the Alleghenies to the Rockies.
has always been the veritable
backbone of Republican strength.
When that vote has gone
against the Republicans they
have lost, the last occasion being
in 1915.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
OFFICE of l
BONUS ROBBERY
|ND|CTS 5

The robbery of Owen F. Cox,
512 Fifth St. N. E., of his $425
veterans bonus resulted in three
indictments against five persons
by the District Grand Jury today.
A peculiar maze of offenses
featured the robbery. The money
is alleged to have been snatched
from Cox by Charles Bolden, col
ored, who turned it over to Edna
M. Lee, 81 Fenton st. N. E. Dur
ing the struggle with Cox, Mrs.
Lee is said to have given it to
her sister, Laura Monroe who was
hiding the money when Preston
Henry and Sterling A. Reed, also
colored, took the money from her
and escaped.
Henry and Reed, according to
police, then took the money to
Jennie Buck, also colored, at 81
Pierce st. N. W., who gave it to
her son, George Buck, Of 1014
Seventh st. N. E. and George hid
the money in a jug.
All the parties we're confronted
by Cox, and tie Grand Jury was
puzzled as to whom to indict.
Finally Bolden was charged with
robbing Cox of $425 and Henry
and Reed were charged with rob
bing Laura Monroe of the same
money in a separate indictment.
A third indictment holds the
Bucks on a charge of receiving
stolen property.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
RESERVE FUNDS
FEED HUNGRY

Hungry children in the District
schools are being fed with the
funds now in the treasury OF
the Parent t-Teacher Association
and no effort has been launched
to raise any additional money, 1t
was learned today from Stephen
E. Kramer, first assistant super
intendent of schools and chair
man of a committee appointed
to cooperate with the organlza-
ton.
It was recently agreed that the
parent-teacher groups would en-
deavor to raise funds to provide
food for children unable to
purchase it. Up to the present
time, Mr.. Kramer declared, the
organization has not felt the
need to raise additional money.
The parent-teacher group had
proposed to raise money through
school entertainments, but no
necessity for such a move has
been found.
The children are being fed by
the local branches of the
organization and the deficit
which the branch suffers is sup
piled by the central group. The
parent-teacher groups have been
supplying milk and crackers to
the hungry children at recess
time.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
QUAKE DEATHS
MAY MOUNT
To 300
JugosIav King Orders Soldiers
to Return to Devastated
Area; 1000 Homes LeveIIed

BELGRADE, March 10 GN.S0
Augmented relief forces labored
in the central Balkans today to
alleviate the suffering of thou
sands rendered homeless by week
end earthquakes, and to prevent
an outbreak of epidemic.
King Alexander Of JugOslavia
ordered all soldiers whose homes
are in the devastated areas to re-
turn at once to aid in recOnStruc-
ton work. JugOslavia was the
worst hit of the three Balkan
countries. Twenty Of the de-
stroyed towns and villages are
within its borders. The remain
ing IA severely damaged COM
munities are located in Greece
and Bulgaria.
Approximately 1000 homes
were levelled, with unofficial esti-
mates placing the dead as high
as 800. The injured reached into
hundreds.
Panic-stricken inhabitants, shell
tered in all sorts of makeshift
accommodations in the midst of
bitter cold, salvaged as much as
possible from their tumbled
homes. The Red Cross and army
detachments fed them and cared
for the injured.
A flood of contributions poured
in to relief headquarters here in
response to an appeal by King
Alexander. He has set up head
quarters at Nish to personally
supervise relief measures.
LONDON, March 10 GN.S0. j..
Renewed earthshocks Jared north
ern Japan today, terrifying inhabi-
tants of the already damaged
towns of Hakodate and Aomori,
according to messages from Toxic.
Although yesterdays temblor
considerably weakened buildings
in the affected area, no fresh
damage was reported after the
latest shocks.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
MILITIA CAMPS
GET FUNDS
Photo by international

The Militia Bureau has au-
thorized the following construc-
ton at National Guard camps
throughout the country, the War
Department announced today.
Golden, Col, $2,95O; Camp
Foster, Fla, $2O.98S; Boise Bar
racks, Idaho, $12,57O; Little Falls,
Mimi. $51,23O; Las Vegas, N. M,
$16,298; Peekskill, N. Y, $4,000:
Palacios, Tex, $24,4O6; Mineral
Wells, Tex, $12,495.
Other allotments approved for
construction work includes Doni-
phan, Miss, 1924; Canyon, Waco,
Houston and Belton, Tex, saba;
Camp Williams. Wis, $34O; Rapid
City, S. D., $215; Camp Conley,
w. Va, $811; Wagner and Ko-
nawa, Okla, $197; Elmore county,
Ala, $100; Pine Camp and Peeks-
kill, N. Y, $4,000.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
500 Attend Luncheon
Of Community Chest

The annual meeting Of the Com
munity Chest will be held this aft
ernoon in the ballroom Of the VIII.
lard Hotel, and more than 500
reservations have been made for
the luncheon that will precede the
rendering of reports.
Bishop Edward Mcdowell Of the
Methodist Church will deliver the
invocation and Mgr. Edward
Buckley of st. Matthews Church
will give the benediction. John
Poole, president of the chest, will
preside.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Mayor Walker Goes
On Month Vacation

NEW YORK, March 10 Q.N.SD.
Mayor James j. Walker was on
his way to California today for
a months vacation.
He was accompanied by c. w.
Galloway, vice president Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
who lent the mayor a private car,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Blunenthal,
and George Collins, his secretary.
Mayor Walker expected to
spend most of his vacation at the
winter home of Samuel Unter.
meyer at Palm Springs.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
PR 0GRESS|VES
EXPECT 122
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(C0ntTnued from rage ~
all 1 care to say about it at this
time"
Senator Ashurst CD of Arizona
said:
'T shall be away from Wash.
ingtOn by the time this con-
ference gets under way. 1 will
not be able to take part in it."
Many Cant Attend"
The number of members of
Congress who have been invited
and cannot attend" is large
enough to cause concern to the
leaders in the parley, but this has
been offset to a certain degree by
the number of outside leaders in
the economic and political field
who have accepted invitations.
The chief reason why the con-
ference is not favored by the So
called bloc of mild prOgresSiveS"
is because they believe it will be
dominated by radicals, according
to reports heard at the Capitol
today.
Progressivism is one thing, and
radicalism is something entirely
different, say these members of
Congress. They fear thai an un-
welcome discussion of the forma-
tion of a third party will be in
jected into the parley, despite
assurances of Senators Norris and
La Toilette to the contrary.
Fear Prohibition
It also was forecast today that
the prohibition issue, despite its
exclusion from the agenda, will
be forced upon the parley, if Rep
resentative La Guardia 'RO of
New York is able to attend it.
Mr.. La Guardia is now in the
Naval Hospital for observation
and treatment of a kidney all
ment, but hopes to be out to-
morrow.
Seek National View
The conference, its sponsors
said today, would be devoted first
to obtaining a cross-section of the
national viewpoint toward pro
gressive policies, and second, to
laying the foundation for a ma
tional organization for enacting
liberal legislation.
A preliminary list of the pro
gressives of both parties who &C
cepted invitations to the confer
ence failed to include the names
of either Frankling D. Roosevelt,
governor Of New York, or Clifford
Pinchot, governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
It was said Roosevelt declined
on the ground he could not spare
the time from his gubernatOTial
duties, while PinchOt was re-
ported to have indicated he would
attend at least one session Of the
conference.
Names of IS Announced
William Green. president of the
American Federation Of Labor;
DR.. Charles Beard, Of New York;
Frank P. Walsh, chairman Of the
industrial relations commission /;
Fred Brenckman, of the National
Grange, and Bruce Bliven, Of the
New Republic, headed the list of
acceptanceS. The names Of SIS
persons we're issued by the confer
ence managers with a statement
this represented but half the ex'
! pected attendance.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Stone Predicts Cut
In Wheat Acreage

Present prospects are for a
drastic cut in wheat acreage for
the coming crop, in line with
the Farm Boards policy of urging
reductions, but little curtailment
in cotton planting, Chairman
Stone declared yesterday.
The board has not decided as
to whether it will conduct cot
ton and wheat stabilization opera
tions in the coming season, he
added.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10

EVELYN O'HARA
THE FORMER secretary to
Gerald Buckley, slain radio an
nouncer of Detroit, Mich. Evelyn
O'Hara testified in the trial, of
three mea accused of firing the
fatal shots. The murder was
committed in the lobby of a
Detroit hotel.
The Washington times., 1931-03-10
Photo by International


VIVIAN GORDON AND DAUGHTER
THIS EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPH shows Vivian Cor
don slain Broadway butterfly with her daughter Bonita
Bschof in the days before the murdered beauty knew
the '1ighted way we'll Benta ended her life by gas
few days after her mothers body discovered in
New York park.