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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
WHAT NEXT?


Words never formed by human lips
and spoken by voice that never ex-
listed were heard recently in the
London office of an American film
company. 1t was synthetic voice,
invented by the young Englishman,
E. A. Humphries, who reproduced
word sounds by copying the impress
sions from the sound track of talkie
film. He chose the words "all of a
tremble" and by analyzing the peaks
and valleys" of the sound track was
able to dissect them into their various
sounds. Afterward drawing them
separately on cardboard strips and
joining the strips together to form
the words, he photographed them or
celluloid film which when rur
through talkie protector reproduced
the words in deep bass tone.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
CLEVELAND LOSES OUT

The Fraternal Order of Eagles has
shown its sympathy with organized
labor by deciding to hold its conven-
ton this year in Toledo instead of
Cleveland, where it had been booked
for, in view of the lockout of wait
ers, mattresses and other crafts en-
ployed by the big Cleveland hotels.
In notifying Robert B. Hesketh, Sec
retary-treasurer of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees and Beverage
Dispensers international Alliance, of
the decision of the Eagles, Robert E..
Proctor, grand worthy president of
the Eagles, wrote:
II am particularly gratifed that we
are not going to Cleveland because
for many years | have been very
friendly with the local and state
union groups, and when | was in the
state senate received the endorse
ment of practically all of the rail
road unions and other unions repre-
sented. Naturally, did not want to
preside over our Grand Aerie cOnven-
ton in a city which is apparently so
unfriendly to organized labor"
Of course Secretary Hesketh, Pres
ident Flore and the other members
of the general executive board of the
cooks and walters international or
ganization are highly pleased at the
decision of the Eagles. They wish to
make public expression of their thanks
through international Labor News
Service, of which the Press is a part.
The Eagles Grand Aerie conven-
tion is looked upon as one of the
largest of the year, and in losing it
| Cleveland business suffers big loss
financially. The Eagles convention,
however, is not the only one lost to
Cleveland as the result of the lockout
of cooks and mattresses by the city's
big hotels. There are many other or
ganizations who refuse to meet there
under existing conditions. The rail
way trainmen have transferred their
convention to Houston, and the fire
men and enginemen have gone to
Toronto. 1t is expected that Moose
will also turn down Cleveland where
it is slated to meet this year
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
BOSS CAN'T
Break Union Agreement
State High Court Rules

New York Supreme Court Justice
Levy ruled that dressmanufacturer
cannot evade his obligation to en-
ploy union workers by withdrawing
from an employers association that
signed an agreement with the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
The court issued temporary in
junction against Lady Rejane, Inc
a corporation that resigned from the
Affiliated Dress Manufacturers AS
sociation and then replaced organized
workers with non-unionists.
Justice Levy restrained the corpor-
alton from violating it's contract
from continuing the lockout and from
directly or indirectly sending goods
to be manufactured into garments to
any person or firm that does not con-
duct union shop.
The order also prevents the de-
fendant company from manufacturing
or producing garments at any estab-
lishment which does not employ union
workers, whether such shop is oper-
ated by defendant or any other per-
son or firm.
"The injunction is a just answer to
any employer who seeks to evade con-
tractural obligations" said David
Dubinsky, secretary-treasurer of the
international union.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
A NEW "UNITED FRONT"
COMING

Communism becomes more acute
issue. More people grasp it in its
full size.
The fact that communism has de-
clared the kind of war it is now fit
ted to wage is understood where six
months ago it was ridiculed.
The major economic crisis" pro-
gram of Stalingrad is not myth and
Americans are coming to understand
it's gravity.
When communits in the United
States spread their destroying mobs
through our industrial sections, when
they seek to destroy unions, that is
but small part of the program.
The whole program is for war on
the democratic world.
The major economic crisis" is the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
FARMERS FORCED TO
LOW LEVEL

New York.-"World supremacy of
American agriculture is passing, and
agriculture is rapidly yielding its
place as the major industry of the
United States,' says Standard of
Trade and Securities, in copyright
article on the future of framing.
The world, and especially Soviet
Russia, according to this review, is
being equipped for large scale agri-
cural output. This and other factors
make it inevitable that world agri-
culture must rule at permanently
lower values than formerly"
The small American farmer, it is
stated, cannot compete with upto-
date management and farm machin-
cry that reduce wheat growing costs
to 80 cents bushel.
'From 1880 to date, the proportion
of rural inhabitants declined from
Tia per cent to 43.8 per cent; in the
last 20 years the farming population
| receded from $40 per cent of the
| nations total to 22.2 per cent" it is
stated. "In the latter period, the esti
mated proportion of agricultural IN
come to that emanating from al
sources was halved, falling from 2O.4
per cent to 1912 per cent. Between
the period comprising 1910-1914 ant
1880, the volume of all agriculture
products was reduced Is per cent
The farmer is also finding increasing
difficulties in obtaining loans secured
! on farm property from private com
mericial institutions.
"The condition of agriculture, II
our opinion, is less of an influencing
factor on general trade tendencie
than formerly. American agriculture
will never fully regain it's forme
dominant position relative to industr.
as a whole, or to world agriculture.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
FARMERS ARE ADVISED
TO PLANT LESS WHEAT

Observation-Disclosures growers were
warned by Samuel r. McKelvie, of the
federal farm board, that they must
cut production 25 per cent or govern
ment stabilization operations cannot
continue.
The federal farm board is con-
vinced that American farmers cannot
afford to grow wheat for export,
McKelvie added. Russian exports, he
said, may be greatly expanded next
year and have "a seriously. depress-
ing effect on prices"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
THE UNION LABEL

These are times that call for the
most rigid adherence to the princi-
pies of organized labor. Particula rly
is this true concerning the demand
for the union label Those who pur-
chase union-made goods help to put
idle union men and women to work
in preference to those who, remain
outside the fold and contribute moth
ing toward the improvement Of indus
trial conditions. To help your fell
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
RELIEF NEED
Is Urgent Says Big City
Welfare Worker

New York-This city will face a
serious problem April l when 1.-The
$8,000,0O0 fund, contributed by citi-
zents to aid unemployed, is exhaust
ed, said William Hodson, executive
director of the welfare council, in an
address to welfare workers.
The $8,O0O,OO0 is being used to pay
heads of $4,000 families $5 day for
work in the parks three days week.
"On April l we will be faced with
the problem what to do next" said
Mr.. Hodson. "If business revives in
the next few months many thousands
still will require assistance. 1t takes
long time for families to recover
from such a depression"
Another group of welfare workers
discussed the same question from the
standpoint of the automatic machine
eve cannot continue to permit the
machineries of production to pile up
wealth for the few and leave the
many unemployed" said Paul U. Kel-
logg, editor the Survey.
"We have more unemployed thar
were in Pershing's army" he said
"Any invasion of America which
would put out the fires of our cities
and jeopardize the livelihood of the
heads of millions of American homes
would be regarded as one of the great
est assaults on our national security
in history. Yet that is what the bust
ness depression and resulting mass
unemployment have DONE"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
FINE SAMPLE OF LAW DELAY


The appeal of Albert B. Fall, con-
victed of accepting hundred thou
sand dollar bribe while secretary of
the interior in Harding's administra-
ton, was argued before the court of
appeals of the District of Columbia
last week.
E. L. Doheny sent Fall that $780,
900 in the far-famed little black
bag" on November 80, 1921. Almost
ten years have passed; and formal,
specific punishment has not reached
Fall yet. Informal punishment, to be
sure, he has felt He was forced out
of office, exposed as CRATER before
the world, branded as "faithless
public officer" by unanimous judg-
ment of the United State supreme
court.
But he has yet to see the INSIDE
of a jail, where probably thousand
men who stole ten dollars or less in
the last year are serving at the pres
ent moment. Fall is still at large.
still in possession of at least part
of the property bought with his bribe,
still employing high-priced lawyers
still staving off justice.
Talk about the laws delay!-
Labor.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
THE MIsNAMED BONUS BILL

1t is called bonus bill, but it isn't
bonus bill.
The bill permits veterans to bor-
row more money on their certificates
Veterans desperately in need car
hook their certificates and stave off
tragedy.
To fellow at the end of his rope
$3.50 is fortune.
That the government will take Az
per cent compound interest is on the
other side of the picture. 1t somehow
takes the starch out of the word
bonus"
But, be those things as they may,
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION

Sixteen of the 20 Latin American
nations have enacted workmen's COM
pensation legislation. Eleven of the
16 nations make specific provision for
compensating occupational diseases
as well as accidental injury.
This record speaks well for the
Latin American countries, which some
Americans look upon as backward.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06

lows in this regard is of far greater
Importance at this particular time
than under normal conditions, and
every friend of organized workers
should make a special effort to get
union-made goods in order to keep
those at work who have jobs as well
as to make it possible for other union
men and women to obtain employ
ment
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06

the bill will help desperately needy
families, and it will put money in
circulation.
Those reasons, in the minds of
many, weigh above all reasons
brought forward on the other side.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06
COMPENSATION URGED

Oklahoma City.-Governor Murray
has asked the state legislature to Gre
ate state workmen's compensation
fund. He suggests that $150,OOO be
appropriated to set up the fund.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06

Following the lead of London,
Paris now is installing turntables in
some Of the narrow streets so auto
mobiles can turn around.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-03-06

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
ALL URGES BOSS
RAID MILITANTS
Defends Injunction In
Orleans Strike

NEW ORLEANS, La, March 49,
The longshoremen's strike is now in
its third week and the officials of
the International Longshoremen's AS
ISOLATION (AFL are still preaching
to the strikers to be good, and what
ever they do, never listen to the
advice of the Marine Workers In
duStrial Union. The MWIL advises
the strikers to take over the strike
into their own hands and carry it
on to a victory, as the AFL is plain
ly working for a defeat Of the men
on strike. The AFL urges all the
strikers to obey the injunction against
affective picketing, and to take or
ders from the police force. The ad-
vice of the MWIL is exactly the OPP
posite. The Injunction and police
allow only four. pickets at each cor
ner.
Holt Ross, AF'L representative in
New Orleans, has q signed article
in the March 6 edition of 1.-THE Fed
erationist," official organ of the rail
way workers and endorsed by all
the AFL unions here. In this article
Ross complains bitterly. because the
steamship companies have not yet
forced local authorities to raid the
Communist headquarters and cite the
guilty parties for contempt" Ross
states plainly that he wants the raid
because the Communists" chat is
the MWIL) have circulated leaflets
urging that the strikers act in mass
and 60 on the docks and smash the
injunction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14

The Cleveland District sends some
criticisms on its Ohio page which is
valuable from the, point of view of
clarifying the relations between the
editorial department and the dis
tricts. We quote:
"The Cleveland comrades COM
plain that the Daily Is not doing
justice to their Ohio page. In
looking over the page, there is
some Justification. In the March
issue there is no news. from the
Ohio District either on the front
or back page. They are entitled to
four columns, and they received
less" 49,.
Cleveland is justified in its COM
plant on receiving less than four
columns of space. The Worker
Correspondence department. finding
one of the Ohio articles exception
ally good, appropriated it for the
Saturday Worker Correspondence
page.
However, we must explain to the
Cleveland comrades, and to all
comrades, that articles from dis
tricts are sometimes used on the
first and last pages, but this is
neither promised nor guaranteed.
Such articles largely depend upon
the contents, as well as the date OF
the issue, but the editorial depart
ment is eager to cooperate when
ever possible In using extra stories
on page one and the editorial page.
II suggested to the comrades that
In sending in articles, they indicate
their preference of the articles they
want printed in case you are COM
PEELED to eliminate some Of them.
Therefore you can be guided by the
Importance Of the various news
items in accordance with the opinion
Of the comrades. - ~
A very good suggestion. We have
but one more to add-that all ma
terial be in two days in, advance, so
that all copy for the Friday page
must arrive on the preceding Tues
day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
ARMED THUGS
ASSAULT MINERS


had done the wrecking.
Police and deputies charged through
the streets then, rounded up all the
miners they found, and Sheriff Rob-
inson told the men who had come
from johnson City in Williamson
County that If they were ever found
on picket line in Franklin County
again they would go home in a
wooden overcoat"
Many who we're deluded by the
Legion. idea, and who were beaten up,
now begin to see things differently
and to understand also that the Ma
tional Miners Union is needed by
the miners.
The sheriff, Robinson, while run
ming for office had fooled many by
his loud statements that he Is for
the miners and against the COM
panies. There should be a big gain
In the Communist vote here next
election.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
COder and Hurst We're Saved From .
Death By Poor Negro Farmers

him, that the two workers were taken
into the woods near Hutchins, where
heir hands were bound and the abb
ductors began beating them with
doubled ropes. The kidnapping part
had driven through Hutchins, anC'
turned to the left on an isolated
gravel road, within mile south c
the town of Hutchins, and turne
east until 1t came to where SINAI
WOO den bridge crosses Cookies
branch, which winds its way into
Trinity river.
Later a Dispatch reported found
tracks where motor cars had driven
eff the road near the bridge. Foot
prints were followed down the sidc
of the road, across barbed wire fen
ces, and into the creek bottom.
In the muddy bottoms we're found
foot prints which indicated a strug-
gle had taken place. The prints led
to the waters edge. Bars story
said: at was learned the man Coder
had been beaten and thrown into
water, knee deep. The water was
cold as ice and very clear"
The Dispatch reporter tells of
fences crossed by the party showing
traces of the passage.
Rylie Rawlins, farmer living 300
yards from the place of the murder
tells of hearing horrible scream
during the night. He says he thought
it was children playing, and went
back to sleep.
Barr gives more details, in his
story. which he later admits he got
from the district attorneys man
Hurst was made to stand and watch
the tortures of Coder. Then the kid
napers took Hurst, followed the
gravel road in semi-circle for two
miles east, took Hurst from the car,
forced him over a barbed wire fence
into cotton patch, and repeated the
beating According to this story
they left Hurst lying. after they had
knocked him down on the muddy
ground.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
DEMAND RELEASE
IMPERIAL EIGHT
Resolution Sent to APP
pellate Court

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Demanding
the release of the eight Imperial
Valley class war prisoners, worker
students gathered at the opening of
the District Workers School sent a
resolution to the Fourth Appellate
Court, Fresno, Cal. The resolution
follows:
THE eight Imperial Valley Pris-
oners: Frank Spector, T. Horiuchi,
Braulio Orozco, Eduardo Herrera,
Lawrence Emery, Carl Sklar, Oscar
Ericsson and Danny Roxas, have now
been in Jail for eight months for the
crime of organizing the agricultural
workers of Imperial Valley. They
have been sentenced from 3 to AZ
years in San Quentin and Folsom
jails.
1--WE workers gathered at the open
ing of the Workers Dis trict School
of California, 1919 10th Street, Ber-
kelley, California, protest the rail-
reading to San Quentin and Folsom
prisons of the above named workers
and demand their immediate and
unconditional release.
1--WE demand the repeal of the
anti-labor Criminal Syndicalism law
and,
1.-The immediate transfer of Sklar
and Horiuchi from Folsom to San
Quentin until their release; and
Amnesty for all political pris-
oners.
Emma Cutler,
Secretary Workers Dist. School, Cal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
reenville Councillors
neak Away as JObless
Workers Demonstrate
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEp

eusal to meet the delegation repre-
oenting the workers of Greenville.
The workers of Greenville, thousands
OF whom are starving, will take fur
ther steps at the March is mass
meeting to demand immediate &C
ton from the city government.
Hit Vagrancy Laws,
The Unemployed Council of Green
vile has already got results. On
March 8. the day after the first mass
demonstration of over LOCO workers,
the chief of police announced in the
local press that those looking for
work would not be arrested as
Migrants.
The Greenville Piedmont stated:
THE question OF vagrancy laws hav-
ing been raised, Chief J. E. Smith
explained the meaning of the term
and pointed out it had nothing to
do with unemployment" Three Ne
gro workers, arrested under the
Vagrancy laws, were released. One
of the demands that the workers at
the mass meeting voted unanimously
to organize and fight for was "Aboli-
ton of vagrancy laws and the chain
gang system. The immediate release
of those arrested under the vagrancy
laws"
Workers also report that in the
last few days the Red Cross. which
for week has been giving only
enough food to last two days, and
then after asking all kinds of humil-
iating questions, has increased its
rations. The Red Cross gives no re-
lief to Negro workers.
Several hundred white and Negro
workers have joined the unemployed
council in the last week and many
are joining daily. A committee of 20
unemployed workers is out signing
them up. Other unemployed work
ers have been distributing sleaflets,
Money is being raised by the work
ers to pay for ads in the paper and
other expenses. Thousands of en-
ployed and unemployed workers of
Grecnvile are starving and ready
for action.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
FASCIST MAKES Al
SPEECH; JAIL l,lOO
German Unemployed
Fascists. Clash
Gable by Inprecorr)

BERLIN, March l3.--Police arrested
| l 100 workers yesterday night to pro-
tect fascist meeting at which Fran
zen, minister of the interior of Bruins
wick spoke. The Communist Party
mon the greatest advance in the re-
rent Brunswick elections, gaining
more votes than any of the other
parties. The socialist" party lost
votes.
The streets were fii1ed.with workers
who demonstrated. against the fas-
lcists. Collisions occurred with fas-
cists. The fascists were driven of.
Today a clash took place between
fascists and unemployed workers in
the court yard Of the Labor Exchange
ht Spandau. Eleven were injured. The
police we're compelled to arrestd four
been fascists. Similar collisions took
blaze in the Beuthstrasse- Labor Ex-
change. 9ra~e
Sentences in the arms trial were
announced today at Leipzig. The
keichswehr employees, Postner. was
iiven five years at hard labor, and
bss of civil rights for ten years. The
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
N. Y. BUILDERS
START "ABC" CLASS

The latest developments in the
N. Y. Red Builders News Club is a
class in Fundamentals Of Commu-
nisrn, which they will hold Sunday
at 10 a. m. at the club headquarters,
1902 w. 18th ST. The regular jam
boree will take place alta p. m. the
same day. ..a
Lorenzo Stokes, now serving SEN
tence, pending appeal, for selling the
Daily Worker, was, taken. to the hos
pital. When he heard he. would miss
the Albany Hunger March, he got a
sudden heart attack. But every
things o. K. now. -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-14
Milwaukee Bazaar to
Md Party Finances on
March 21st and 22nd

MILWAUKEE,, visa large in
ternational bazaar for the benefit Of
the Communist Party has been ar
ranged for March 81 and %, at Mil
lers Hall. 9th and State SITS.
The growing organization Of the
workers struggle against the social
ist lackey rule, and for unemploy-
ment relief is making greater de-
turn requires more funds.
An attractive program has been
arranged and all workers are urged
to attend and meet with their fell
low-workers in a good social affair.
Music and entertainment has been
provided for and admission is only
10 cents.