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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-08-28
HONORING FIRST LEADER
BY TREE PAINTINGS

When Herbert Hoover, thirty-first
president of the United States, plant
ed an elm in the White House
grounds on April % in the name of
George Washington, he had as pre-
cedent for action just 1852, $40 SINH
lar paintings, all made as part of the
bicentennial tree-planting program
inaugurated by the American Tree
Association. And since he received
from the Association the buff and
blue certificate marking his enroll
ment with those who have paid their
respects in this novel manner to the
First President, nearly two million
more trees have been set in the
ground, to be dedicated on February
%, 1882, the second hundredth ami
versity of Washington's birth.
Thus is the citizenry responding to
the call to honor a national hero as
no hero has been honored before. 1t
is estimated that more than 10000
600 living, growing memorials will
have been erected to the Father of his
Country before the end of 1882, the
bicentennial year.
Hardly little red school house
far from the cities and hardly civic
organization immersed in affairs OF
business have failed to plan for
Washington tree memorial. The
governors of many states, following
the lead of lard of John Garland Pol
lard of Virginia, have spade welded
spade to set out trees on executive
mansion grounds. In Grand Rapids,
Michigan, 1900 trees, dedicated to
the revoslutiont war leader, mark
the start of George Washington
town forest which eventually will
have $4,000 or 10000 trees, and this
City is revalled by Hibbing, Minneso-
ia, Laona, Wise onsin, James town,
New York, Every school inland many
other places. Every sceool in Ocean
County, New Jersey, has registered
a planting with the American Tree
Association, and the schools of
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,
have $4,000 Seeding in the ground.
Colleges among them Keuka,
Oberlin and Trinity-have made tree
planting a part of their programs,
and many other colleges have had
paintings by graduating classes.
The bicentennial tree-planting pro-
gram, in which every American is
invited to take part, originated in the
forest thinking brain of Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the
American Tree Association, late in
1880. Years of study of forest prob
lens and of the 100000 cut
over acres in the United States have
convinced Mr.. Pack that trees are
vitality needed by this country, and
that he who plants tree is preform
ing service as truly patriotic as
those of another generation W no
manned the bulwarks at Bunker Hill.
If the nation will save the trees, he
has said, the trees will save the ma
ton. Millions of dollars are wasted
each year by erosion that the forests
would prevent; a timber shortage
lies ahead; the hundreds of industries
dependent on wood are threatened.
America cannot be self-sufficient
nation, as Washington planned it to
be, unless it replenishes its deleted
forest store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-08-28

Last June living costs were 6.5
per cent lower than in December,
and 9.8 per cent below June of the
previous year. Food prices dropped
nearly IA per cent in the half year
that ended in June, and smaller de-
creases occurred in the cost of rent,
house furnishings, fuel light and
other items.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-08-28

Scientists discover important
natural laws. Inventors apply
them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-08-28

In matters of charity you
must take "The Lord will
provide" as a command to you
to be his instrument.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-08-28
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

This is to give notice that the
subscriber of Cecil County has
obtained from the Orphans Court of
said County letters testamentary
on the personal estate of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
STATE HUNGER MARCHES FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE Bill
New Plans to Kill BOlshevism'

ONE capitalist through
" the colonies
and prepare for against the Soviet
Another interesting this direction yesterday
Shanghai to the N Y Times Shanghai the
and its detectives the world proposal
Monroe which discussing Marking to
provide Chang with money necessary rangle
Chinese revolution assigning for that the
tons being paid proposed
shall these
70 China The proposal contains the provision that these reparaonS
in
to China and expended u. supervision
@ Unless something constructive
viii dissolve Communsic necessary
dies he finds impossible without
Thus the Professor crushing
the Of which he arising markets
consequent unemployment and the the
81 At
ton Of Germany sell her goods to the
complete the blockade the
nisna and create favorable conditions
This scheme Professor
the project
Senate another evidence seeng conspiracy
which the whole capitalist sharpening
home and in the colonies
Union.
piece Committee report in Congress the police
militia and police the deporans
dive legaze the Communist attempts
the unemployment insurance
The capitalist and if
durial
the menace of revolt Of the million
nave condemned TO misery and starvation In this deepening
yby from to hour the capitalist committing
any crime enori against the workers against
toward the supreme
mpalis war comes in different world from that Of
1914 power one-sixt of the earth and VIC
orousy building socialist magnificent
The Five Plan the capitalists
frantic with fear at the time
capitalism when launches every capitalist
country there is growing rapidly growing workers
ngr and desperate realizing every the CAPT.
tehst sy that sucks their blood must be destroyed
ana mat soviet Union they see the only athefand of the workers
Thi must defended at all costs.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

the Starvation Army, and lined up
the unemployed sailors, lured by the
Starvation Arny's promise of relief.
Is of 400 unemployed sailors are held
for deportation.
The New York Conference for the
Protection Of Foreign Born, to be
held at living Plaza, Irving Place
and 18th St. on Feb. 9th, at II a.. m,
(and whole series of such confer
ences thruout the country will or
ganize the foreign born and native
Negro and white workers for the
struggle against deporting uncmploy-
cd, or any other workers-for the
release of Bebrics, and all other
workers held for deportation-ag against
the proposals of the Fish committee
and against the discrimination
against the foreign born in the city
Of New York
Be sure that your organization
sends delegates to this conference.
District Committee for the Protec-
ton of Foreign. Born, Room sos,
80 Union So, n. Y. City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
All Signature Lists and Endorsements
Mast Reach Neav York by Feb. S.

To allow time for tabulation of the hundreds
OF thousands of signatures for our Unemployment
Insurance Bill and the collective endorsements,
all filled lists and collective endorsements must
be in the hands Of the National Campaign Com
nattee for Unemployment Insurance, 2 West 18th
STREET New York City, no later than Feb. 5.
The National Campaign Committee calls upon
all workers organizations TO forward their col
lective endorsements at once TUUL local and
district secretaries are to forward the collective
endorsement taken at all street. breadlines and
mass meetings as well as the collective endorse
ments Of all hunger marches Immediately
Collective endorsements received from New
York City are nearing the 100000 total. The
Workinsman Sick Benevolent and Educational
Federation has just forwarded the collective en-
dcrsements Of II branches. The total Of ,indi-.
vidual signatures received by the National Cam
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
GRAFT ON RED
CROSS RELIEF

PARIS, Ark, Feb. 2.--The so-called
"relief" for drouth-stricken farmers
is being distributed from here. This
means that certain local merchants
are relieving themselves, while the
farmers are first insulted, then
cheated and robbed.
The scheme is to send the unfor-
tunates to those stores which charge
double prices for all goods furnished
on Red Cross acquisitions, and allow
the local Red Cross officials rake
off" ON all such business.
Only mass protest against this
obvious robbery. by the farmers form
ing their own Relief Council to lead
the protest and fight for the right of
their own elected council to super
wise and take charge of the relief
distribution, can stop this graft, upon
the starving.
Farmers here understand quite Wen
the need for an alliance with the
revolutionary workers of the cities.
and all who are asked gladly sign
the list demanding passage Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

accordance with the wishes Of the
Fish Committee.
The international phases of the
anti-Soviet war preparations, eX-
pressing itself mainly in cries for
embargoes on Soviet goods, are
shown by the campaign in Britain
against so-called convict labor. The
propaganda under the guise of so
Wet dumping" is greatly intensified
in France and Germany
At the same time. Professor Mon
roe, a Rockefeller representative in
Shanghai, sends a document to the
state department calling for creating
markets in China for Germany so it
will not have to lean on Russia for
markets. In this way. argues Mon
roe. a double blow will be directed
against Communism-in China by
support to the Nationalist govern
ment; and in Germany by saving
German capitalism and keeping it
from trading with the Soviet Union.
All these events are directly con-
nected with the growing crisis in the
capitalist countries and their active
war preparations against the Soviet
Union. The Fish Committee In the
United States, which gave the first
big drive to war against the Soviet
Union, is not resting content with
merely printing it's report. 1t is TAX
ing active steps toward war. The lies
about convict labor in the Soviet
Union are just beginning. Til ~
ternational unity of the bosses in this
cry shows their cooperation In pre-
pairing war.
The drive against the standard OF
living of the American workers,
against unemployment insurance, and
for deportations, takes place along
side Of the war preparations against
the Soviet Union. '-E"f-,'-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
HOT ANGER in
DANVILLE AT
UTW BETRAYAL.
Fake Agreement Used
to Betray the Tex
tile Strikers

DANVILLE. Va, Feb. 2. Mass
anger against the United Textile
Workers Union famed up here today
with the realization by the local tex
tile strikers that they Rad been
shamelessly betrayed by that treach-
erous organization
So sharp is the resentment of the
strikers that Francis j, German, lead
er in the betrayal. found it convent
ent to be out of town when the news
broke that the announced agreement
with the company whereby the strik-
ers were supposed to be taken back
in the mills without question as to
their union membership was direct
lie used by the U. I. w. misleaders
to facilitate their betrayal of the
strike.
The agreement was said to have
been arrived at between r. M. Nor
gan, president of Virginia coal
mine. who. was supposed to repre-
sent" the strikers by agreement with
the U. T. W., and DR.. Carroll Flip
pen of Charlottesville. brother-in-law
of H r. Fitzgerald, president of the
mills here, for the management.
Fitzgerald now denies that the mill
management had entered into an
agreement "of any nature. directly
or indirectly" with the U. T. w. or
its representatives. He declared the
mills were under no obligation, ex-
pressed or implied, to take back the
strikers"
In the meantime, the U. T. w. is
carrying out its betrayal by telling
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

strikes against all wage cuts.
In the above named groups
there are $50 affected. They
have elected a grievance COM
mittee of IL, and will see the
management Tuesday.
They demand no wage cut for the
openers, no installation of handovers
on shears, and no firing Of the feed
boys.
A strike committee of II has been
elected. There are Negro workers
on both the grievance and strike
committees.
They call on the hot mill workers
to support the strike. The company
was afraid to let the hot mill work
ers come i'll contact with these work
ers who have voted to strike and
told ] 500 of them not, to come to
work today, but to come Tuesday.
The strike will probably start Tues
day, unless the company yields.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
Editor of "Uj Elore" Jailed
By immigration Authorities
Held at Ellis Island Pending Deportation to
~ Fascist Hungary on 81 900 Liberty Bonds
Workers Must Protest

Monday forenoon. the U. S. Immi-
grafton officers arrested and held for
deportation on Ellis Island Comrade
Louis BebricS, chief editor of vi
Elore, Hungarian Communist daily.
In the original draft proposals Of
the Fish committee one of the pro-
posals was to call upon the depart
nent of labor to deport Comrade
Behrics, who, at the hearing before
the Fish committee, answering a
question of, the committee, stated
that the working masses in this coun-
try also, in struggling hunger and
starvation forced upon them by the
capitalist class, will find that it is
.unayoidably necessary to overthrow
the government of the bosses and to
replace it by government of work
ers and poor farmers.
The arrest of Comrade Bebrics
signalizes new stage in capitalist
class terror employed against foreign
born and against the entire working
class, since Bebrics is not only legal
ly in this country, but the ruling
class has not even such an existing
law which could serve as pretense
for the deportation of Bebrics.
We see, thru the action of the de-
partment of labor, that even before
the proposals Of the Fish committee
are formally accepted by congress,
To government goes, in practice
even further than their own laws ex-
tend, and start to carry thru the
proposals of the Fish committee,
aimed against every group Of work
ers-against the whole working
class.
The arrest Of Bebrics came two
days after raid on the Salvation
Army steamship. Broadway, refer
red TO as the floating home OF UNI
employed sailors" at pier Is. Staple
ton. S. l., where the immigration
and police officers cooperated with
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
Dress Strike Committee to
Report at Manhattan Lyceum
United Front Conference Executive to Meet
Tomorrow; Great Mass Demonstration
February IL in Lincoln Arena

NEW YORK. - The membership
of the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union will take up the detailed
demands of the dressmakers in the
coming strike at the mass meeting
Thursday, February 5 in Manhattan
Lyceuni, 66 E. 4th st.
The report of the general strike
committee and the shop delegates
council, as we'll as a review of the
preparations for the coming dress
strike will be given to the meeting.
1t is expected that all the members
of the union will be present at this
meeting to participate in these deci-
sionS and will help secure an effect
i've struggle for the union demands.
A very important meeting will be
held today at 6 p. m. at Bryant Hall,
Sixth Avenue and 41st Street of all
the young workers in the dress in
dustry.
Recently thousands of young work
ers were drawn into the industry.
They were subjected to slavery on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

A plan to bolster up the lettering
Marking government of the Chinese
nlilitarists has been sent to the U. S.
state department by Professor Paul
Monroe Of Columbia University. So
called Chinese expert, who is now in
China. This plan is at the same time
aimed against the Soviet Union.
Cable reports from Shanghai detail
ing the plan state that Professor
Monroe proposes that the war debts
owing to the United States, mainly
from Germany, be given to the Chin
csc Nationalist SO they can be
strengthened in their fight against
the Reds.
Monroe declares his plan kills two
birds with one stone. Instead Of Ger
many paying the former Allied pow
ers directly. Germany should be per-
nitted to. ship its goods to China
This would be credited as a loan to
China. 1t would give the Chinese
militarists money to smash the ad-
yancing Soviets, and it would supply
market for Germany, so that it
would be able to pay its war debts,
and not rely on the u S. S. r. as a
market, aiding the Swear plan adj
vance.
The main thing that Monroe is
concerned about is "Conmunistic
excuses His whole document is
filled with references to China go
ing Red China making an alliance
with Russia. which would strengthen
Communism there as well as In Ger
many and in Europe generally"
: While the professor suggests the
details be worked out between the
United States. Britain and France, he
wants Wall Street to have the lead
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

Daily Worker.
The workers are entering into new
struggles. The dress makers strike
in New York City and the strikes
starting throughout the country are
the first indications of the organized
struggle of the employed workers
against the speed-up, etc.
The war veterans are facing sim
liar situation that faced them in 1920
They are making demands for cash
payments of the face value of their
bonuses. There are 100000 ex-ser-
vicemen, a great majority of whom
are workers. Many of them handi-
capped by their experiences in the
world war and a great majority of
them suffering along with the other
unemployed workers.
The capitalist politicians and the
officers controlled organizations like
the Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars
refuse to give them any consideration
and tell them to suffer along with
the rest of the workers who are in
distress. The Daily Worker is the
only spokesman for the masses of
world war veterans employed and I'M
employed
These new struggles and the strug-
gle for unemployed insurance are
reasons why the Daily Worker must
not cease publishing even for one day.
More than ever before the Daily
Worker is needed in the struggle of
the masses of workers.
Every subscriber receiving a Red
Shock Troop donation list should i'm
mediately enter his own contribu-
tions and get other workers to con-
tribute likewise.
Use the self-addressed and prepaid
envelopes for RENTING your dona-
tons. Readers who have no dona-
ton list use the Red Shock Troop list
on Page 8. Rush funds to the Daily
Worker, so E. 18th ST., New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
MAIL RED SHOCK TROOPS LISTS
TO DAILY WORKER SUBSCRIBERS

Red Shock Troop donation lists
have been mailed to all the sub
scribers. These call upon the workers
to make donations and get other
workers to donate to the Emergency
Fund.
This is our last call for funds in
the campaign to raise $4,000 which
represents the deficit in the Daily
Worker. Close to so per cent of this
has been raised. We must complete
the other so per cent. Unless this
amount is raised we will be faced with
the problem of not publishing the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

paign Committee has shot over the 200 900 total
with many district reporting tens Of thousands
OF Signatures still on hand. The committee
points out again that all filled lists must come
for .sard at once and not be kept on file in dis
trict and local headquarters. The total of sigma.
lures must reach the half million mark within
two days. ~,
John Betz, the New York worker who lost
the record for individual signature collections to
Move Of ST. Louis, has regained first place.
Bclitz has now collected 1900 signatures. Two
workers in Baltimore collected $50 and $50 sign
atures respectively.
Collective endorsements from the large Foster
and Lenin meetings, all demonstrations and
hunger marches should be sent in by air
mail from all western cities. All signature lists
In local. and district headquarters should be
bundled and shipped to New York Immediately.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03

even a larger scale than all the other
workers. The union intends to de-
fend these young workers and calls
upon all of them to come to tonight S
meeting.
Friday night there will be very
important meeting of the workers
residing and working in the Harlem
section, at ST. Lukes Hall, 125 West
13oth Street.
A speaker from the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights will adj
dress the meeting.
Conference Executive Meeting.
The executive committee elected by
the United Front Conference Satur-
dey will have it's first meeting We'd
nesday in the Office of the union, l31
West 18th street. Detailed plans for
the mobilization of all workers Or
CARNATIONS, for the assistance in the
coming strike will be worked out at
this meeting.
A monster demonstration of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE TsY0l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
MINE AND STEEL
TOWNS SETTLING
Tear Gas in Ambridge;
New Councils Formed
and Action Planned
BULLETIN.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 2. - Eight
thousand unemployed are march
ing in demonstration through. the
streets of Buffalo. Scores are fight
ing with the police, pulling them
off their horses and beating them
up when they try to ride down the
jobless. The masses are angered
at the refusal of the city council
to grant demands for relief made
today by committee of IS. Sew
eral workers including the chair
man of the delegation, Kenneth
Kalke, we're beaten up by police and
are held incornmunicado. Others
arrested were rescued by the dem
Onstrators.
At the same time that word is re-
ceived from the more distant points
that their delegates to Washington
to hand the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill to Congress are start
ing, comes news of a considerable
number of more cities and industrial
towns arranging demonstrations and
hunger marches to back up this bill
The bill is presented Feb 10, and
the demonstrations will take place
on a national scale, that same day.
More and more, as one governor
and mayor after another blandly as
Sures the delegations of the unem-
ployed who come TO see them, that
nothing can be done for them under
"our system" of government, the
part-time workers and the jobless see
through the terrific barrage of pro-
paganda against the Soviet Union
now being released They begin TO
realize that in the Soviet Union there
srFxrr,.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
Fish Committee Directs Neev
Attack for War on Soviets

A new phase Of the Fish Commit
tees attack against the Soviet Union
is seen in the international drive
against Soviet goods. While the Con-
gressional Committee is "investigat-
ing" so-called convict labor in the
U S. S. r., perfectly timed cable
from Helsingfors is featured in the
capitalist press, emanating from a
mysterious ex-OGPU agent who had
been in Helsingfors over eight
months. His statement is written in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-03
EVICTED NEGRO
ON TRIAL TODAY
Accused of Entering
His Own Home

NEW YORK.-Upper Bronx Coun-
Gil Of the Unemployed calls on all
workers to be in the magistrates
court at 1914 E. 1S1st st. this morn
Ing to attend the trial Of John Smith,
a Negro worker whose landlord has
had him arrested for being unem-
ployed and entering on the premises
after an order for his eviction was
4ssued.
This family was evicted last week,
ind the Council of the Unemployed
seld a meeting outside. The workers
assembled there then put the furni-
lre back.
The landlord had Smith arrested,
md the case was dismissed.
Yesterday the cop brought Smith
mother summons, ordering him to
curt today on the charge as stated
.bove. 1t is said to be based on
'arsyraph 800, Section 485 of the
'enaI Code.
50 Gents Day.
sThe Down Town Council of Unem-
loyed held its usual meeting at the
-anllnany- agency at Leonard and
Sfsyette SITS. yesterday, and will
std another today between 10 a. IN.
rid-noon. Several thousand workers
adhered at the agency found the
My obs were few positions open
) sweep the sidewalks all day for
ycents day. They crowded around
1e councils speakers, although the
gency officials tried their usual tao
Is Of sllooing them up the stairs.
gent provocateurs tried to cause