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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
RELIEF DEMANDS
MADE ON LLOYD
OFFICES, PHILA.
One Thousand Jobless
Pack Into Offices;
Present Demands
Telegram to the Daily WORKER

Telegram TO the Daily Worker)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. H.
The Unemployed Councils here or
ganized a hunger march to the
Lloyd Committee offices Gin charge
OF local city relief given to limited
number of families) yesterday and
put the following demands to the
committee:
Fifteen dollars cash for each
unemployed worker and S1.O0 adj
tionaI for each dependent, weekly.
One quart of milk daily for each
workers child; free rent, gas and
electric for the unemployed.
A total Of 1000 workers invaded
the Lloyd Committee offices. A COM
mittee Of seven presented the de-
mands, a list Of needy cases. and
demanded to see Mr.. Lloyd i'm
mediately.
Arrangements were made to see
him the next day at 2 p. m. AL
workers are to come again to back
up the delegation's demands. Workers
present were promised relief by
Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

5000. Although no less than $50
Negro workers are totally unem-
ployed, no colored person is allowed
to enter a soup kitchen.
The Negro workers are reported to
be forming an Unemployed League
and to be turning to militant meth
DDS Of struggle against the brutal
starvation policy of the white ruling
class.
One Negro worker to whom the
Federated Press representative spoke,
said, when asked what they did last
winter:
when the white foIxs told us we
couldn't get In the soup house me
and about Is others started to sell
ing moonshine. But every dog
gone one of us was caught and sent
to prison, and our families were
left to do the best they could"
When asked what they intended to
do this winter, he replied;
''WeI, VEINS have just figured
that we couldn't help being put in
this here world no more than VEINS
can help being out OF work now,
and Il they don't help us this win
ter, we'ns are just going to take our
guns and get IL cause they VIII get
us anyhow"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

worldwide symbol, is not confined
to Alabama. In Pulaski, Virginia, a
boss mob terrorized the Negro popu-
ton for four days following a fight
between a white man and Negro
worker, who dared TO defend himself.
In Lincoln County, Georgia, two Ne
CONTINUED ON PAGE FIvE)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
VOL Praises Murphy
Hunger Regime
In Detroit
Unemployed, Kills Self

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. i1-w.
Drennin. 50 years old. who spent q
lifetime shaving for the bosses, faced
with starvation, because there was
not the least chance OF his obtain
ing job because Of his age and the
sharpening crisis, committed suicide
by shooting himself In the head.
Both the children and the aged
Of the working class are being driven
to their death by hunger.
DETROIT. Sept. 11.--while Mat
thew VOL takes special occasion TO
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
34White, Negro
Workers to Be
7 ried in Moo.
Unity of Negro and White Miners ROuses Fury Of
Coal Bosses
Operators to Use Stool Pigeons As Witnesses
Against Miners

NEW YORK, Sept. Hilary Oliver, Gan
zie Banks, Andrew Hinch, E. Phillips and
Floyd Murphy, Negro miners in Harlan Coun-
ty, Kentucky are awaiting trial in the local
county Jail with 20 other miners on charges of
first degree murder the result of the strike in the coal in
dusy where gangsters imported by the coal operators under
direction of the local police have been killing miners and na
hitting the relief kitchens well the prisoners relief station
set by the International Labor Defense Mrs Jessie London
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Sen. Reed Demands Greater
War Preparations by Z. S,

the chief points of the games will
be the use of commercial airplanes
for the first time for military ptr-
poses"
General Macarthur is taking part
In these games so that the United
States will be better prepared TO par
ticipate in the attack OF the capital
ist powers on the Soviet Union. This
is the next war" that Senator Reed
says the United States must prepare
for.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

The police terror continues against
the Negro workers OF this city on
the pretext OF attempting to solve
the hold-up and murder Of two So
ciety women ON August T.
: Negro workers are still being ar
rested in the attempt to frame-up a
Negro worker in connection with the
case. Nell williams, a society wo-
man who was with the two dead
women at the time Of the hold-up. Is
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Denied Relief, N. C. Negro
Workers Are Ready to Fight

NEW YORK. - The Federated
Press reports that unemployed Negro
workers are being denied even the
rneager relief furnished to white IN
employed workers In Morganton,
N. C. The town has a population of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
ANOTHER NEGRO WORKER KILLED
BY BIRMINGHAM, ALA, POLICE

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept 11.-Another Negro worker
has been murdered in the police and boss terror directed
nnunist Party
Charles Horton died here last night after being picked
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

W0unU6d by an HutOn1Oplle dllu luSII-
I'd to the hospital two days ago.
In a death bed statement, Horton
declared he was shot by two white
police officers who charged him with
being member OF the Communist
Party. He was warned by the Of
ficers that he did not accept the
ruling class dictum of the inferiority
OF his race he would be killed. Be-
fore he could reply one Of the Of
Noers drew his gun and shot him. :,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12

established himself not only as a
national humanitarian leader, but he
has won for himself a warm spot In
the hearts Of the wage earning class,
no matter what may happen Oh next
election day. y ~-s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-12
Fake 'fCordial Relations" Cry
Exposed by Murderous Terror
Lynch Verdict Against Scottsboro Boys Only
One Instance of Widespread
Attacks on Negro Masses

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. lin their traitorous at
tents to wreck the defense of the Scosboro Negro
boys, of the boss class brazeny trying to
the raging boss terror against the Negro
Claiming the existence of the most cordial relations between
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Britain Fights Gold Basis
Observation-Disclosures
Continued From Third Page. }

parts adjust themselves closely to the
pound sterling. If France or the United
States were to abandon gold, even South
Africa certainly would also.
But there Is much more, 1t Is felt
behind Great Britain's present policy.
Unless all the countries go off gold,
Great Britain. 1t is said, may permanent
ly lose It's traditional position as the
worlds financial center. Its loss on
some f10O,000,000 (about $343 900, 900
at current rate of eXchange) of yearly
interest from pound investments abroad
will be heavy and 1t may be forced into
genuine imitation.
French economists and bankers tend to
believe that Great Britain is insincere
in its attacks on the gold standard.
Great Britain's aim, they intimate, is to
get everybody off, thus re-establish its
former relative positions and .hen re-
turn to gold again. This is admitted by
even some British economists, who add,
however, that Great Britain, when 1t
returns to gold must be able to return
on its own conditions, which apparently
are the reduction or cancellation OF
reparations and war debts and gen.
eral reduction Of tariffs.
Sir Arthur Salter, in a remarkable
article IN Cne LOIlQOll opeCIdlUl, plo-
poses the following policy for Great
Britain:
For the moment we should do every
thing possible to prevent an increase in
the cost of living. At the same time,
in accord with other countries which
have abandoned the gold standard, We
should prepare for eventual stabiliza-
ton founded on the produce price index
However in making these preparations
we should keep an alternative in case a
return to gold should appear imprac-
tical or undesirable.
Meanwhile we should negotiate and
cooperate with gold-standard countries
in order to obtain such notifications
and agreements as may facilitate the
proper circulation Of gold in the future,
and If six months or more hence the
outlook for proper circulation seems to
be reasonably favorable, We should re-
turn to a parity fixed in accordance
with the conditions at the time. But
| we should also have the alternative all
| ready and do our best to diminish Its
dangers"
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Needed-a Happy New Year

1t comes to this crash business for 1882
l don't believe in it. not really. And
you don't. and none of us does. II
makes fine reading for a Sunday morn
ing. but that's about all.
Indeed, think l can clearly foresee
what Is going to happen in 1882 and
why this crash will be headed off
Something like this: As the crash gets
near lot of people will feel that they
may as well have good time while
they can. There will suddenly develop
a rush for dry gingerale, oysters. pate
de fote graS, wood alcohol and tickets
70 sacred concerts-anything to spend
money.
There will be a general rush to con-
sumo. the rainy day" will have ar
rived; people will realize their capital
and spend it. The trustees of the col
leges will sell off the endowed chairs
and hold horse race. This onset
against savings and capital will initiate
the currency, raise prices beyond what
we can afford and thus stimulate in
stallment buyln. credit and employment
The demand for work will draw in i'm
migrants and boost the population.
Happy New Year Needed.
In fact, the whole good old machine
Will be tearing along again, driving
ahead at full speed Into the darkness?
Oh, not will turn out to be only a
tunnel with brighter sunshine than ever
on the other side of it and with the
slgnboard 1882 on the mile post.
All Of which means. If you state it as
a. solid, unreadable economic theorem
that our industrial society carries In it
as 1t always has a self-regulative prin-
ciple Of readjustment What we need
now is consumption, extravaganza
music, cigars, chewing gum-in short, a
Happy New Year.
But If that theory is wrong We can
easily find another.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
BY
BRUCE
BARTON.
~ a gloomy
| ] day I met
" a New York
man w n n

A friend asked him. "HoWS the market?"
Haven't the slightest idea"
The questioner asonished Don't stocks and
bonds?"
Sure do" my replied But know the things
can't disappear also that have chance Of selling
them at decent price market Therefore, should
torture myself by watching them day and figuring out how
much they have depreciated?"
The other looked if traitor to serious
ideals of American finance Wheeupon friend uttered
portant truth.
The trouble with these fellows Wall they
have taken their losses Is he said
Think OF It, Is times 700 What loss that makes Nobody
stand loss like that. If they'd put their lead pencils
they'd quit figuring the back envelopes the
OF newspapers and forget the whole thing they would
better of Taking loss IS doesn't
where 1t uses brain cells might
used for progress"
Every of us who has any heart
Wrung In the past few months We help
there are so many help.
work for whom there no work. ~
10 THESE victims Of the depression
VINO nave been wiped out and lack
make a tresh start our deepest sympathy
But there has been lot of whining the
have to whine % - ~ f ~ ~ "
nave been reading EmersonS diaries railroad bonds
went sour IN the panic of 1857
mouse burned his
and goes on to more important ~ ~
Such give respect for the
America has her full share them. ~ ~ ' ~
Bt am weary OF the boys who tell they would
nave had they had sole everything
lads take
Copyrght
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Passion Play Town
Feels Yule Poverty

BERLIN.-The report that Ami
Ruth. who played the part of Mary In
the Passion Play last year, has had to
enter domestic service in Sinfold,
Sussex, England, to help support her
widowed mother, is but one indication OF
the distress in Oberammergau, accord
ing to Mayor Ham Mayr. OF the al
legedly great profits from the 1880 per-
formances only small part is left when
the necessary expenses have been met
The Oberammergauers are dependent
on the tourist traffic, wood-carving and
labor in the forests.
In former years the Christmas sea-
son used to bring many orders for
carved articles, especially the manger
at Bethlehem with the Christ child
but this year almost none has come
in. The timber market is demoralized
and distress is very great.
About the only source Of income left
is the tourist traffic Hence efforts are
being made to popularize Oberammer-
gau as Winter sport resort. A new
skating rink has been laid out and a
ski lump built, while daily postal auto
bus service between the village and the
nearby Garmisch- -Partenkirchen has
been established. From Christmas day
until the middle of February, Mayor
Mayr announces, number of Winter
sport events will be held, including ski
running and jumping coasting and
skating contests. The traditional "star
procession" with music and song, will
be held on New Year eve.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Canada Experiments
For Sportier Fish


OTTAWA, Ontario.-Canada is out
10 produce more sporty fish. Even
though the fish in Canadian sea waters
and in the lakes, rivers and streams
throughout the dominion are consid-
cred as factious as any in the world,
The federal department of fisheries Is
1ot satisfied.
Experiments are being conducted to
produce improved types Of certain sport
Ash. These experiments in cross
breeding have already disclosed some
promising results, particularly in the
development of hybrid brown trout
Hybrids developed by crossing brown
greater growth than brown trout Of
the same age. and it is expected the
crosses will show somewhat increased
yameness, as well as other improve
mentS in type
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Norway May Feed Cows
Preserved Whale Meat

SANDEFJORD.-'W Whale meat for
contented cows" may be the slogan of
the future If plans Of Norwegian whale
hshermen and scientists succeed. A
newly discovered dehydrating process is
said to allow the preservation of whale
meat for long periods of time, thus
making 1t possible to use all of the
whale waste" which is generally
thrown back into the sea, for making
food for live stock.
1nasmuch as millions of pounds of
this meat are thrown overheard by
Whalers during the course of a single
season, whaling interests are tremen-
dously interested in the possibilities of
the new process. The preserved whale
meat Is said to contain three times
as much protein as herring, which is
now fed to live stock in great guam
titles.
1t is also believed that this meat
may be used for human food, particu-
lsrly in times of food shortage. Crews
OF whaling ships ordinarily eat whale
meat as regular diet. and declare
that 1t is mot so bad" though they
admit that it is "a little coarse" Pre-
vious efforts to preserve whale meat
for human consumption proved to be
impractical because of the high costs
of canning.
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Italy Keeping Place
AS Aqueduct Builder

ROME, Italy-Italy's reputation as a
nation of aqueduct builders, earned by
the Romans more than 1000 years ago,
is being honorably and usefully main
tanned by present-day Italians. The
giant Appulian aqueduct, which ex-
tends over distance of more than 200
miles and will cost total of $50 GOO, 900,
Is still in the process of being completed
and extended Five other large aqua-
ducts are now under construction In
Italy and will eventually bring drink
able water to 100 communities which
have never before had adequate supplies
of pure water. It is estimated that In
10 years the Italians will have wiped
out the last of those many desert zones
whose Inhabitants for untold centuries
have never known the feeling Of bath.
Just one month ago a report came from
Calabria telling of how the local peas
antry had put out a fire with wine.
Evening star., 1931-12-27

formity has value, and reached a point
where it now resembles the Federal Re-
serve System" Another educator con-
demns, on the basis Of health examina-
tions of school children, the system of
marking that labels boys or girls as
dull" retarded" inferior" or the like.
| The head of great industry urges
specialized training that will really
equip university students for the practi-
cal problems of the business world, for
international banking, for the eco
nomics of modern industry. Another
educator points out the shortcomings of
certain vocational schools that are so
general in their method of instruction
that they fail really to prepare the
students for definite vocations.
Means Better Schools.
Out OF this discussion and criticism,
whether constructive or otherwise, will
come better schools in the next year
and in the years after. There Is a
can and should do a better job of pre-
pairing boys and girls for the social and
economic problems of life. In the last
year or two we have shown that where
there is will there is way in solving
educational problems. I refer to the
magnificent work that has been done to
make literate those of our adult people
who could not read or write.
Hundreds of thousands Of men and
women have had a new and glorious
world opened to them by instruction in
the simple arts of reading and writing.
An old woman finds joy indescribable in
being able to write to her son In a
distant city and to read his letters. A
colored cook sends for and proudly
peruses all the recipe literature offered
by advertisements. A boy in remote
mountain district, unable to attend
school, is now able to educate himself
with books furnished by State library.
amid tear -Gimmed eyes as she clutches
the Bible and for tlae first time can read
the faith of her fathers
In scores of schools and communities,
experiments in education are being at
tempted, with the sole purpose of max
ing the schools more useful to the pupils
| by better preparing them for the reali-
ties of the years to follow. Better
teachers are being sought and given
more freedom in method of instruc-
ton. Better ways are being sought to
give free rein for rapid progress to
children capable Of it. The shackles OF
a too-standardized, too rigid currlcus
lum are being removed. The opportuni-
ties given for specialized vocational edu-
cation are being broadened.
Improvement Assured.
We have set foot on a road that will
lead to better more useful, more bene-
fetal education. Our hopes for the
advancement of civilization must de-
pend largely on the intelligence of the
next generation, and the next, and the
next. And so education must change
and grow as the world outside the
schools changes and grows more COM
plex.
There can be no successful, cen
tralized dictatorship of education.
Progress In education will be made in
the new year and the years to come by
the unselfiSh effort Of the thousands Of
men and women In. many communities
who have tl,e welfare Of yo[vh ct heart
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Which City Objected?

From the Miami Daily News.
A radio announcer referred to Coun-
Gil Bluffs as being in Omaha, but then
why should radio announcers make
geography an exception?
Evening star., 1931-12-27
Just the Model.
. Des Moines Register.

From the Des Moines Register.
A statue Of Cupid, dug up in Italy,
u minus . hand, both legs, . nose and
an ear. II Reno Is looking for q house.
hold god, this would probably be the
boz .- :, ="
Evening star., 1931-12-27

They Grind Exceedingly Slow.
From the Topeka Daily Capital.
Well, the wheels Of Congress are
grinding again, and times should soon
get better or worse, according to how
you regard Congress. = '..
Evening star., 1931-12-27

Today, with a desire everywhere to
hold down public expenditures, in
creased attention is being given to what
Is taught in the schools, and how. As
one observer has recently recorded: at
Is more important to have a good teach
er working In an ordinary building
than 1t is to have an ordinary teacher
working in fine building"
The schools are receiving criticism,
some Of it merited, much Of it un-
merited-but all helpful from the
standpoint Of arousing real public In
terest in the all-inlportant subject of
education. A prominent woman novel
ist. on the narrow basis Of her observa-
tion of young peoples behavior on q
transatlantic liner, speaks of American
boys and girls as beautiful young
idiots" quite ignoring the fact that
there are millions of earnest, intelligent
young men and women working hard in
the schools who aren't playing around
steamship decks. A college president
declares: '"The instruction Of the aver
age American student has been stand
ardxed beyond The point where uni
Evening star., 1931-12-27

Wrecks Were Avoidable.
Mony unfortunate wrecks Of distrib-
utive firms could have been avoided
during the last two years if more ac-
curate charts had been maintained by
them for the better guidance of their
operations, II warning signals had been
set and needed. Careful analyses Of
the retail bankruptcy records under
taken by the Department Of Commerce
In recent months reveal that far too
many hapless victims have proceeded
on the theory that their own inteln-
gence end knack for shrewd dealing
were sufficient to carry them through.
Those qualities are, of course, invalu-
able: but in coping with crisis of such
magnitude as this one they are far
from sufficient.
The old rule-of-thumb Is likely to
be caught in some very uncomfortable
jams in the fast whirling, intricate
machinery Of modern distribution. Too
many things can happen, too many
factors are influencing the trend OF
business these days to permit their being
those admirable virtues Of individual
trading shrewdness and commercial
intuition.
With the invaluable asset Of abun-
dant factual data from wide range Of
reliable sources, both Official and non
official, the distributor of today Is In
a position Of unique advantage to profit
by the shortcomings of his predecessors,
to put his house in order. There is
abundant indication that through the
activities of hundreds Of trade organiza-
tions and the trade press throughout
the country, he is already ION the Job"
1t may well be, therefore, that 1892 will
go down in the annals of American
business as the year of the big house
cleaning in the distribution wing Of our
business establishment Such a re-
freshing aftermath to the recent period
Of dreary stagnation in that sadly bat
tered structure would indeed compensate
in large measure for the discomforts q
the h4aw nnlanenhod paSk 49,.
Evening star., 1931-12-27

Distress Brings Haste.
In every business storm the first i'm
pulse of those in charge of the tossing
crafts of trade end industry is for a
hasty jettisoning of whatever happens to
be loose on the deck of the distressed
vessel. Usually the things last taken
aboard are the ones first seized upon
for this purpose, regardless of the fact
that there may well be some far less
desirable items down in the hold which
ought to be the first to 60 over board
to make the craft more seaworthy. And
SO, in the present situation, as dihicul-
ties were encountered by our distribu-
tors, they were inclined, perhaps quite
naturally, to abandon first Of all those
recently acquired items in their ex-
penditures, such as marketing research,
accelerated advertising and other ad-
junctS of the newer scientific selling
technique AS a matter of fact, the
present is exactly the period when lust
such improved distribution devices are
most needed. 1t Is uncertainty that
breeds fear; lack Of knowledge that
foments costly blundering. And the
purpose of market research, of closer
analysis of the wastes in distribution
is to dispel that uncertainty, to enable
us to exploit more efficiently hitherto
ignored trade opportunities.
Scientific advertising these days has
become tnseparably linked with Just
such sound, thorough marketing re-
search practice. It is an indispensa-
be element 10 Tia sxpaoltataon q tho