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Evening star., 1932-07-09
FREIGHT L0ADlNGS FALL
TO 489,273 CARS IN WEEK
Decrease of e,526 Shown, as Com
pared With Last Saturdays
Figures From Railways.

BY the Associated Press.
Revenue freight loadings for the week
ending July were announced today by
the American Railway Association as
totaling 489,273 cars.
This was a decrease of 9,526 cars be-
low the preceding week and reduction
of 1888 cars below the corresponding
week in 1881.
Miscellaneous freight totaled 1873, los
cars, a decrease of 73,459 from the
corresponding week in 1881; less than
carload freight, 171,313 cars, decrease,
1904; grain and grain products, 30,-
338, decrease, 1887; coal, 67,23O cars,
decrease, 33,709; forest products, 49,
420, decrease, 1852; ore, Sill, decrease.
24.808; coke, 3,033, decrease, l,543, and
live stock, 1923, decrease, LOGS.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Burglar Gets $3.50.

A burglar who let himself into the
McReynolds drug store at 1743 G street
with duplicate key sometime after
the closing hour last night obtained
$3.50 in bills from the cash drawer and
escaped unobserved.
The loss was discovered by Maurice
Rodman, 2440 Sixteenth street, the
proprietor, when he opened for business
today. 81
Evening star., 1932-07-09
STRIKE PARLEY DELAYED
Union Officials Fail to Return From
Guadalajara, Mexico.

MEXICO CITY, July 9 (P).-Negotia-
tions to end the strike on the South
ern Pacific of Mexico were delayed yes
terday because union representatives,
who went to Guadalajara to discuss
peace terms with the workers, failed
to return
The leaders are expected today when
conferences will be resumed.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
WOULD SEPARATE SUITS
Injunctions Sought Against Two
Insurance Companies.

The District Commissioners applied
to the District Supreme Court yester-
day in separate suits for injunctions
against two insurance companies which
have failed to file annual reports with
the commissioner of insurance. The
court was asked to prevent the COM
panies from continuing in business.
The defendants are the Royal knights
Of America and the Columbian Frater-
nal Association, both of which are said
to have offices at 500 Seventh street.
Corporation Counsel Bride and AS
sistant Corporation Counsel Thomas F.
Cameron appeared for the Commits
sioners.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
CLAIRE WINDSOR ADMITS
ONCE LIKING BROKER
BY The Associated Pres.

BY the ASS0Clated Press
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9.-Claire
Windsor. pretty blonde actress, has al
legedly admitted under oath a former
fondness for Alfred c. Read, jr but
denied the charge of Intentionally alien
ating his affections, as charged in a
100000 suit brought against her by
Mrs. Read.
I thought Mr.. Read and his wife
were separated" Miss Windsor was
quoted by attorneys as saying in a depo-
sition taken in connection with the
alienation suit
Mrs. Read, an Oakland Calf, society
woman. also has fled suit for divorce
from her husband a broker. naming
the stage and screen actress as CO.
respondent.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Open Bell Casting Museum

LAUCHA, Germany (P).-The worlds
first bell casting museum has been
opened in this small Thuringian city
in a former foundry established in
1892. Casting of chimes with the
antiquated equipment ceased only last
year. 0
Evening star., 1932-07-09
CHILD BADLY BURNED
Dolores Hicks, 5, Ignites Hel
Dress Playing With Matches.

Five-year-old Dolores Hicks, 1924 G
street southeast. was in an undeter-
mined condition at Casualty Hospital
today after her dress became ignited
while she was playing with matches last
night.
She suffered severe burns about the
face, head and body.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Gas Death Called Suicide.

A coroner's jury yesterday returned
verdict of suicide in the death Of
Harrison Mourning. 40 who was found
dead Thursday from the effects Of car
bon monoxide gas in his garage in the
1900 block of Irving street.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
Boys Camp Rate SO Cents.

A large group of boys is expected to
take advantage of the offer of the Boys
Club of Washington by which any boy
may spend Sunday at Camp Reeder for
so cents. The camp truck wiz leave
the Cub at $3.50 am.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
KIDNAPPING BILL SIGNED
BY PRESIDENT HOOVER
Measure Provides 20 Years or
$4,000 Fine for Sending Ransom
Letters or Threats by Mail.

By the Associated Press.
President Hoover today signed a bill
making it Federal crime, punishable
by $4,000 fine or 20 years Imprisonment,
to send ransom demands and KIDNAPPING
threats through the mail
introduced by Representative Cochran,
Democrat, of Missouri, the measure was
altered in the Senate 70 provide that
the letter sender would be subject to
arrest and prosecution at the place Of
mailing the letter only, and not at the
destination also.
1t was explained that arrest at the
point of delivery might force defendants
to stand trial far from their own COM
munity, thus perhaps working them an
injustice.
Evening star., 1932-07-09
REV. AUSTIN TO PREACH
TWO SUNDAY SERMONS
Services Are Announced for West
Washington Baptist Church
for Tomorrow.

Rev. C. B. Austin, pastor Of the West
Washington Baptist Church, will preach
tomorrow at IL am. and pm.
Meeting of missionary circles Tues
day at 8 pm: Circle No /, with Mrs.
John P. Moore, 1923 G. street: King
Circle, at the home of Mrs. e w. Lad
son. 3009 Cambridge place; Circle No.
3, in the Sunday school house.
The Juliette Mather Circle will meet
at the home of Mrs. Raymond L.
Thomas, 1892 T street, Wednesday eve
ming.
Prayer service Thursday evening.
The Ladies Aid Society will hold a
lawn party Friday evening at the
church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Some Tactics to Pre-
vent Stealing Com
munist Vote
Chicago, Ill,

OIlCdSO, III,
Daily Worker:
I certainly am able to give little
advice on election work. I have been
a judge of election in Chicago and
know a little bit about the crooked
ness and almost impossibility of a
minority party getting anywhere I'M
der present conditions.
Most of the petitions for placing
the names Of Communist candidates
are thrown out in Chicago because
those who signed the petitions voted
for some other party at the previous
primary. Some of the signers may
have voted. Most Of them, most like
ly we're voted by the judges and clerks
who Just before the polls close write
in the names OF all those who have
not voted yet and cast ballots for
them.
The only way TO stop that is to
appear early at the voting place on
primary day and tell the judges in
as important voice as possible, MY
name is so-and-so. l do not intend
to vote at this primary. II find
that my name has been voted, in
tend to hold this board Of election
official strictly accountable"
! Tel the same NQry 10 the prectuet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Put Back Workers Furniture

bailiffs, why in hell don't you do
the job yourself?"
The officers finally left without
setting the workers out.
The next day they modified two
dozen police, the fire department and
members Of the bailiffs department
and sneaked up to the house to evict
the worker. They evicted him-that
Is, set the furniture in the street, lock-
ed up the house and left.
Meanwhile the neighbours modified
200 strong and set the furniture back
into the house. The police were
helpless in the face of the enraged
workers.
she unemployed workers are solid
behind the Unemployed Council here.
They have pledged that there will be
no more evicted workers left on the
streets of Akron.
The Unemployed Council is growing
fast here. This Is only one of dozen
of successful fights against evictions
~. g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

a month, if in smaller town Of the
Soviet Union, the same family gets
ITO roubles month, while II they
are living in villages, they get rs
roubles.
am of peasants origin, from q
coSsack village, Glasounowskaya, Sit
uated the Don River basin. AS it
is known, cossacks were under pro-
tection of Tzarist's regime and often
became jacks of the working class.
When the February and the October
Revolutions broke out, the majority
Of cossacks inhabiting the basin Of
the Don River stood against the O.
tober Revolution. When the civil
war begun the majority of cossacks
Joined the troops of white guards,
but only little part of them support
cd the side Of Soviet Power. They
begun violent partisan's war in which
also took part.
1t was a hard struggle for the
Red partisans. But together with the
working class of Russia, we we're win
ming and restaurated our economy
on behalf of the toiling masses Of the
US.S.R.
Students of the Technicum are hv-
ing in the wards, in the spacious
clear rooms, which are always kept
in order and cleanliness. The stud
ents organize excursions, different
kinds of circles, as political, dramatic
music, anti-religlous, photo circles
and so on.
You see, comrades, that every in
valid Of the Soviet Union has the
opportunity of study. They are pre-
pairing not only 70 be skilled work
ers, but leading workmen too. Many
Of our comrades who had finished
the technicuns, trade technic schools
highest institutions and highest tech
mic institutions are engaged at the
present if a responsible work ane
perfectly perform their tasks.
If with my family would stay
In the camp Of capitalism, could
i've under such conditions, as des'
cribed above? Could badly iteratt
peasant, enter the Technictm on
such conditions?
I am waiting for your reply on my
question.
We beg you to bind up and tt
maintain close contact with the
students Of our techricuIn. Our corn
plete address is the following: USSF
Moscow, 81, Leningrsd Roadway IS.
L. Avtonomov, v. Kasaehkcv.
A. SarkiSoy, e. Schukcy.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

the real fascist character Of the ma
tional government"
Ssito's appointment has been haul
ed by the Japanese financierS. That
the fascist dictatorship viii proceed
to initiate the currency and push the
burden of the crisis heavier onto the
shoulders of the masses, while en-
gaging in demagogic phrases about
relief to the farmers" is shown In
the following statement by Baron
Seinosuke Go, president of the Tokyo
Chamber of Commerce and Industry
'The Cabinets most Important
tasks are control of foreign sz-
change, moderate initiation, and re-
lief of farmers"
All dispatches from Tokyo admit
the catastrophe nature of the cap
itaDSt crisis in Japan and growing
unrest among the destitute, starving
masses. A Times dispatch ststes:
"Since the economic Causes Of
Japanese unrest are part Of tbs
world depression, responsible people
know that isolated recovery caEzmoe
be expected, but they welcome VS.
count Saito as an experienced aas
broad minded statesman who wis
be likely to steer q steady course
in heavy weather"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

Edith Berk1nan, heroic young Or
ganizer for the National Textile
Workers Union and one of the lead
ing figures in the Lawrence strike
has issued a statement fully ndors-
Ing National Youth Day as q day OF
struggle Of the working. farming and
student youth against boss war and
for the defense Of the Soviet Union.
Writing from the hospital in which
she Is held prisoner, Berlnen states
in part:
81 heartily endorse the call Of the
National Youth Day committee 10
the young workers Of New England
to take part in the demonstration
against imperialist war and hunger,
In Lawrence, Mass, on May 18th,
and 30th.
"On National Youth Day the
young workers must show their de-
termination to resist the bosses pro-
gram Of wage-cuts, refusal to give
relief to the unemployed. and their
plans to throw us into another war.
The refusal OF the city of Lawrence
to issue permits for the N.Y.D. DEM
onstrations must not stop our plans.
1t Is only continuation Of the at
tenpts of the bosses to prevent us
from fighting against our miserable
conditions. My arrest and the fact
that I am being held for deportation
for leading the Lawrence workers
fight is an outstanding example Of
the methods they use.
IT urge all young workers Of New
England to make National Youth
Day in Lawrence mighty answer to
the bosses attack on militant work
ers.
ION to Lawrence National Youth
Day!
Continue the fight against hunger
and war!
Demand my release and the re-
lease Of all other political prisoners!
(Signed) EDITH BERGMAN.
The revocation of the permit for
the demonstration by Mayor White
OF Lawrence on the ground that the
six remaining Civil War veterans
must not be disturbed by such mill
tant demands as the ones the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
$4,000 BEET STRIKERS NOW; 81.
81 COMPANY ORDERS SHOOTING

trail Strike Committee at once.
IS. Immediately take a registra-
ton Of the number on strike In your
territory and inform the Central
Committee at once. The relief COM
mittees must Immediately organize
SQUADS Of relief collectors and send
them to the towns, villages and farms
collecting food which shall be distrib-
uted by the strike committee Of each
section.
q Local and regional strike ana
relief committees must arrange to
take care Of as many evicted strikers
as. possible, by placing as many with
ether families as can be done,
IS. We must establish sectional
and regional strike headquarters for
the different regions. This must be
done so that the local strike and re-
lief committees can meet with other
. committees in their section and work
Jointly for the success Of the strike.
These regional headquarters must be
established in the following places:
"(a) In Greeley.-Tl1is headquarters
will take in Orchard, Essto, Ault. La
sale, Gilcrest and Greeley. The
committees of these places will then
know that the office in Greeley is
the sectional headquarters and all in
formation and leadership can be
found there, and not have TO come
to Denver.
"Cb) In Fort Collins.-This will take
in Longmont, Johnstovn, Fort Col
Inns and number Of other towns in
this region.
SO Fort Lupton.-To include Fred
erick, Fl. Lupton, Brighton, Hudson,
Puritan, Johnstown.
"(O Fort Morgsn.-To include
Brush, Fort Morgan, Sterling and all
towns along that line.
"(e) Pueblo.-To include Pueblo,
Salt Greek, Avondale, etc.
80 La Junta-To include Rocky
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

parties without endangering them
selycs--without radicalizing the work
crs thereby-without advancing the
proletarian revolution! The Conlmu-
mist platform should include proposals
that the other parties would~not dare
adopt When the worker reads the
Communist Party platform he should
Immediately see the difference be-
tween the Communist Party and any
other Party.
One proposal that would immed-
lately kindle the revolutionary spirit
of the worker and at the same time
express a reasonable immediate de-
mand is:
The immediate Opening up Of every
idle factory, mill and mine and the
cultivation of all idle lands, under
the management of workers councils;
the products shall be distributed
among the workers.
Such demand would leave the
bourgeois parties dncluding the S.P9
terror stricken. They would not dare
offer the same thing. They could only
denounce it and thus expose them
selves.
Comradely,
S. c. SPITZER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

ance are gathering over the polit-
icaI horizon, and little is being
done to relieve the tense situation"
On the same page that this dis
patch is printed, the Chicago paper
carries a dispatch reporting the eyic-
ton from their homes Of hundreds
of Soviet citizens in Hardin by jap
anese troops who are pouring into
the city and are seizing all available
buildings for barracks.
The japanese militarists and So
cialists pushed through their drive
for a fascist government yesterday.
The Japanese Emperor appointed
Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito to
head a national government" Saito
was formerly Governor General of
conquered Korea. He is advertised
as a liberal" His appointment, in
preference to one of the known fas-
cist leaders, is intended to deceive the
Japanese masses and the world as to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Wants to Stress Reyo-
lutiOnary Nature
of Party
Dear Comrades;

Dear COmraQeSs
The election platform OF the Com
munist Party does not, to my mind,
sufficiently describe it as reyolu-
tionary party. The platform does not
contain a single proposal that the
republican or democrat or socialist
parties would not be willing to insert
in their platform--with the sole ex-
cepton OF the clause calling for the
defense of the USSR. OF course, these
bourgeois parties would not actually
keep their promises. They wouldn't.
But the point it.: the masses Of the
workers believe they could and would !
To worker who is not familiar
with the. activities Of the Communist
Party, and is ignorant of its prin-
ciples, the Communist platform, for
unemployment insurance, for farm
relief, for equality of the Negro,
against the wage cuts and against
capitalist terror, does not MINED
lately disclose itself as workers
party, as revolutionary party. The
worker does not look for the fine
distinction between these demands as
advanced by the Communists and as
advanced by the socialists and bour-
eeois parties.
y This CRITICISM does not spring from
the sophisticai argument that imned-
late demands are incompatible with
q revolutionary proram--that the
two are sntagonisticy But the PRO-
posas IN the Communist p,s*forr,
i&An z In rAeksn -gn by shs hoprgnots
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Districts. Sections!
Rush Orders
for War Issue! Out
Saturday. May 18th!

The special war issue Of the
Daily Worker, containing an y
page supplement will be dated
Saturday, May 2sth, approaching
the breaking point. The fascist
Japanese oyernment--the spe1e~
head Of world imperiaIiSt policy
is determined TO carry oct ths
program Of aggression and war OF
the Soviet Union. Soviet citizens
In HarbIn are being continually
terrorized. arrested and beaten n
= deliberate attempt on the part
of the Japsnece militarists to FRO
woke the Soviet Union into a stats
Of var,
All Districts, sections. units.
mass organizations. syunpathstse
individuals should Immediately
send in their orders for this issue
at the rate of one cent q copy.
payable in advance. Ne orders
will be filled unless paid for IN
advance. The issue goes to press
Friday night; therefore all ORDERS
must be received In this once bs
Friday noon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Communists Vote Groevs IN Duluth,
MINI. and Atlantic City, n. ].

basis of their activities against the
Spviet Union and the Communist
Party. The conference voted over
whelmingly to eject the Trotskyites,
and this was done,
The whole six-hour session Of the
conference was fun of tumultuous en-
thusiasm, which rose to a high point
when Gebert called on the workers
to assemble in tens of thousands to
protect the National Convention.
Gebert read an item from the Sun
day Daily Times which said; THE
Defenders of America Organization,
decently formed in Chicago to pro-
mote Americanism and combat Com
munism, has started a movement to
prevent the Communists from hold
ing their convention in the Coliseum"
Cheering delegates pledged to mob
ilize the Chicago working class TO de-
fend the National Nominating Con-
Vention.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
(By a Worker Correspondent

BALTIMORE, Md-While the SUBJ
scription campaign for workers pub
locations was going on, group OF
militant Finnish workers from Pitts
burgh, Pa, had gone to Weirton, W..
Va, for the purpose of introducing
workers literature to fellow wage
slaves and taking subscriptions for
workers paper. Upon arrival there
the workers were met by the steel
trusts police. They were subjected to
three hours investigation and all their
literature, valued at about $50 seized
and destroyed
1t was learned at the end of the in
vestigation that the stool pigeon po-
lice informants we're the members
of a Finnish boarding house, COM
posed of White Guardists and fas-
cist elements.
Prior to this deplorable plot, the
same parasites on the workers flesh,
had forbidden the use of a mail
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Thomas Nomination Speech
ISLANDERS the Soviet Union

MILWAUKEE,, May 23.-The Rev.
Norman Thomas is again the social
list party candidate for president and
James H Maurer of Pennsylvania is
again candidate for vice-president
Nominations were made yesterday by
the convention Of the socialist party
held here.
In an acceptance speech Thomas
repeated the customary socialist
party ISLANDERS Of tho Soviet Union
as q means Of aiding in the imperial
list plots for war and intervention.
Among other things, he said: I'VE
are not Communists preaching a
ruthless doctrine of inevitable blood
shed and dictatorship" He said he
hoped the people Of this country
would be able to solve their problems
without resort TO the methods Of
Soviet Russie."
lses HnArvg Z RactdsA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24
Chicago Conference
Elects 1877 to the.
Natl Convention
Big Chicago Conference

CHICAGO, Ill, May 23.-The Chi
csgo City United Front Election Con-
ference called by the Communist
Party, met here yesterday with 452
delegates representing 232 working
class organization and elected 1877
delegates to the National Commun-
list Nominating Convention. The de-
legates to the National Convention
include 1873 who are non-partisan,
and include 48 Negro workers. The
city conference also elected nine de-
legates, among them four ex-service-
men, to the State Nominating Con-
yention, which will meet June 20 in
Decatur, I'll. The conference elected
United Front Communist Election
Campaign Committee Of 3d.
There we're represented at the con-
ference: five locals of A.FL. unions,
20 groups and local unions Of the
Trade Union Unity League unions,
eight minority groups of ALL. I'M
ions, 10 branches of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, and three
branches of the Workers Ex-Seryice-
mems League.
Among the delegates to the con-
ference we're workers from the Stock
yards, western Electric, Crane and
other large shops, and among the
delegates to the National Convention
are large numbers of workers from
the shops 80 ~.
Herbert Newton made the main re-
port. ,NeYton, is q, Negro worker pro-
posed by the Communist Party as
candidate, for Congress in District
No, /, against the Republican Party
Negro representative of the. capital
iSts%. Oscar De. Priest. >an5-,t
Newton. explained the main issues
of the campaign, and elaborated OH
the six planks in the proposed ma
tional platform.
Newifoff reported on the orgsnizs
tional tasks of the campaign
The resolutions committee report
endorsing the national election plat
form proposed by the Communist
Party and proposing Foster and
Ford as nominees for president and
vice president OF U. s, A., was &C
cepted with enthusiasm, as was like
wise the state ticket and the reso-
luton endorsing the mass session oi
the National Convention in the Coli
scum, at 7 pm, May %.
During the discussion, there we're
reports from many shops, trade I'M
ions, and unemployed council bran
ches.
John Williamson opened the con-
ference. William Browder, McDon-
aid and Bennett we're elected Off
GERS Of the conference.
Williamson, reporting for the Gre
dentials committee, recommended the
expulsion from the conference hall OF
three Trotskyite delegates on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-24

To further SOW pacifish illusions
the socialist party nominee for presi-
cent depicted Hoover as pacifist
and said: I'm an impotent sort OF
way he desires peace"
Thomas never said one word about
the fierce ravaging OF China by
Japanese imperialism and the drive
Of the great imperialist powers for
war and Intervention against the
Soviet Union.
While helping the war mongers by
slandering the Soviet Union and the
Communist Party as opponents Of
bloodshed, Thomas was careful to
refrain from commenting upon the
alliance between the leaders Of the
Sccialist-controlled unions OF the
needle trades in New York and the
sanssters srd Tammany police who
vase murder oampalsps asainsa
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