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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
HALF DOLLAR CAMPAIGN
All Districts Fight to Catch Up With New
YOrk's Increasing Half Dollars

New York several laps ahead quotas
dollars within the next couple preparing
greet May Day with Sody
increased do All sending
their certificates of
FIGHTING
The half dollars mounting nearly 10000
but that only
keep the running! The danger Is
Every wroker organization
SOCIALIST COMPETITION! Don't
bag Get to active,
Now the time for of his Party
Shove
Watch this report!
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the floor to oppose the new taxes.
The silence Of the chief demagogue,
La Guardia, was particularly notice
able as one by one the sales tax
against which he led the revolt" last
week was put over in a disguised
form.
Not a sign of the "bolters" could
be noticed after the midnight meet
ing of the Wall Street bankers with
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee Tuesday. So unobstructed was
the passage Of the new taxes that
Speaker Garner was not called upon
to take the floor as he was forced to
do Tuesday when all the pressure of
the Wall Street bankers was put upon
the petit bourgeois representatives in
congress.
A significant feature Of the pas
sage Of the new series of taxes is the
fact that the measure ives decided
openly outside Of the House of Rep
resentatives in conference with lead
ing Wall Street bankers and finan-
ciers.
The same thing took place before
the passage Of the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation act and the Glass
Steagall Banking Bill. The three
conferences express the growing fas-
citation of the Wall Street govern
ment and the unconcealed domination
of congress by the big capitalist Of
the country who are openly deciding
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
Farmers to Join
Hunger March in
Crawford County
Thousands Expected at
County Seat April 4

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ~ Several
thousand workers and farmers are
expected to marchc upon Girard, the
county seat of Crawford County,
Kansas, on April 4tth. Mobilization
meetings are being held under the
auspices Of the Unemployed Councils
in many towns and mining camps in
Crawford County.
Thousands of leaflets with a call
for the march and q chart of the
route of the nlarchers is being cir
culated. One Of the central demands
being raised is that the county shall
open up mines, paying the miners
regular union wages, and distributing
the coal to the unemployed families.
A special County Hunger March
song has been written by one Of the
workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
MILLIONS LEVIED BY HOUSE
IN DISGUISED SALES TAX

the policies of the boss government
outside of congress.
The new taxes levied on such ar
ticles as amusement admission, tele-
phones, cosmetics, sporting goods,
candy, soft drinks, chewing gum,
matches and other articles are as
much sales taxes as the original man.
ufactuers sales tax.
Even the burden of the tax on ths
various other items such as autos,
trucks, jewelry, furs will be born by
the masses in the form Of a spread
of the cost of the tax over a whols
series Of articles of maSk consunp-
ton.
The unofficial organ of Wall Street.
the New York Times, recognizes this
fact and wakes satirical over the
manner in which La Guardia and his
demagogic followers have pulled the
wool over the eyes of the masses"
In an imaginery interview with an
imaginery politician, the Times ad-
mits the fraud that is being put over
in congress as follows:
"Oh, yes. Those fellows will ae-
cept most anything il you call IL
something else. They abhor tariff
but they'll stand for 1t you call
it a domestic excise. They wont
have a sales tax If you hand it TO
them in one lump. But If you'll
only spend few days mentioning
everything everybody sells, one item
at time, they'll slap on the tax
and without much of a murmer."
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word that was said by the workers.
Burlak and Conroy demanded to
know why Edith Berkman who is a
citizen Of the United States through
the naturalization Of her parents was
held without bail or trial. They fur
Their made the statement that Edith
Berkman was sick with tuberculosis,
and if she died, the textile workers
would hold Mrs. Tfllinghast person
ally RESPONSIBLE, that the workers
would consider her the murderer.
They demanded to know who was
responsible for revoking the bail on
Edith Berkman, and Mrs. Tillinghast
admitted that it was on the demand
of the Lawrence Mayor and Safety
Director Carr, that the bail was re-
voked; thus openly admitting that it
was at the orders of the American
Wooden Company that Berkman is
still held. She further stated that
she would not release Edith Berkman
on any condition unless the court
decided TO do so at the hearing
which is scheduled to take place
some time in April, and that since
Berkman will appeal to U. S. Sup
RENE Court she will be my guest for
a long time"
This statement is an ooen chal-
lenge to the workers that unless they
this murder by degrees of Comrade
raise mighty mass protest against
Berknan, she will be allowed TO die
in the immigration Station
Mrs. Tillinghas was told that her
answer would be given to the work.
ers everywhere, that the workers
would not stop with the sending of
this one delegation, that mass DEM
onstrations and protests would be
organized by the National Textile
Workers Union and carried further
than her department.
After leaving the immigration Sta
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
National Miners Union Calls
on Miners to Turn Hooking
Valley Strike Into Real Fight

ing mine. The Local Rank and File
Strike Committee shall consist Of the
members of the National Miners IN
ion, Of the members of the United
Mine Workers, of the miners who do
not belong to any Union, as we'll as
Of the employed and blacklisted min
er Negroes, women and youth must
have an adequate representation on
the Strike Committees. The Strike
Committees shall be elected by all
miners at mass meeting.
. A Central Strike Committee,
representing all the striking miners,
shall be organized at once. The Cen
trail Strike Committee shall be or
ganized on the same basis as the
Local Strike Committee. The Cen
trail Strike Committee as soon as it
is organized, shall meet and formu-
late the demands of the strikers, pre-
sent demands for the approval of all
the strikers, and them submit the
demands to the Company as basis
for negotiations.
81 Locla Relief Committees shall
be organized in every striking mine
to take the necessary steps to feed
the most needy families. A Central
Relief Committee shall also be Or
ganized to develop relief activities
and organize relief collections in the
nearby towns.
q A mass picket line of all the
miners including women and chill
dren, shall be organized in every
mine in order to prevent any attempt
of the Company to operate the mine
on the basis of the wage cut.
This briefly is the policy proposed
by the National Miners Union. This
Is the only policy by which the min
ers can defeat the wage cut. This
policy emphasizes the unity Of all the
miners regardless of their Union af-
filiation. The unity of all the min
ers is the first prerequisite, is the alb
solute necessity, to defer the wage
cut and to win the strike. In addi-
ton to this unity. proposed by the
National Miners Union, mass milit-
ancy and mass activity of all the
miners is needed.
The miners of the Hanna Coal Co
can defeat the present wage cut pro-
viding they take the strike into their
own hands by organizing local and
Central Strike Committees, by or
ganizing Relief Committees and by
establishing we'll organized mass
picket line. The entire strike strug-
gle must be mssed on the united
front of all miners.
Smash the wage cut! Organize
broad Rank and File Strike Com
mittees in every mine!
Organize Central Rank and File
Strike Committee as the Iaeder Of
the strike!
Organize mass picketing in front
of every mine!
Organize broad relief COMMITTEES
In every mine!
Beware of the strikebreaking Off
cials of the U.M.W.A.!
Join the National Miners Unoin!
Ohio District Board of the
National Miners Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
T.U.U.L. Calls All Workers to Rally
Against War~Demonstrate April 6

The imperialist war is already a
bloody reality. japanese Imperialism
is making war on the Chinese people.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese
workers and peasants and their fam
lilies have been made homeless.
Thousands have been killed and
wounded by air bombs and machine
gun fire of japanese robber imper-
ialiSm. Japanese imperialism is, by
its invasion into Shanghai and Man
churia, only taking the first steps of
a definite plan to enslave the Chin
csc peoples, destroy the Chinese So
Wet Districts and to provoke a war
against the Soviet Union.
United States imperialism and
japanese imperialism clash on the
issue of Japanese invasion of China.
The United States imperialists are
jealous of the booty of the japanese
imperialists, but the United States
imperisNlsts, who are feverishly pre-
pairing for war against the USSR as
well as against Japan, do not hest
tate to use the most brutal methods
to suppress demonstrations of work.
ers against the Japanese robber war
in China. Only in the last few days,
following the clubbing and shooting
of workers in Chicago who demon
strated against Japanese imperial
ism, the Hoover government in the
city of Washington, dubbed and
Jailed workers who protested against
the Japanese invasion of China.
Despite the antagonism between
the United States and Japanese i'm
perialism, and even as result of the
sharpening of the situation among
the imperialist powers, all the i'm
perialist powers are now perfecting
their war plans against the Soviet
Union. In the front line of these
imperialist powers stands Japanese
imperialism, the same ruthless i'm
perialism that is already making war
in China and setting aflame whole
cities with their population of men,
women and children.
The recent meeting on disarma-
ment in Geneva further exposes the
war plots of the imperialists. 1t was
no accident that at this so-called
disarmament conference, United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
PITTSBURGH, Pa.

PITTSBURGH, Pa,
March 81. Forced by
mass hunger and a new
wave of wage cuts IN
the coal industry to call
strikes, the United Mine Work
ers of America in two districts
is preparing a betrayal of the
miners more drastic even than
that made at the Pittsburgh
TERMINAL Coal mines in this vicinity.
The latest announcement is that
the UNWA will call out 10000 min
ers in Ohio and the West Virginia
Panhandle on Friday. But the I'M
ion officials have taken no steps
whatever to make the strike effec-
tive or to rally the workers for Strug-
gle. Twelve thousand miners went
out on strike last month, so that
about $4,000 are expected on strike
altogether by Friday.
The workers who forced the call
ing of the strike are given no hand
in conducting the strike, the UNfWA
officials waiting for the strike to col
lapse so that they can force the
workers back at the wage cut scale
Of So day and 80 cents ton pro-
posed by the coal operators.
In the Illinois district the situa-
ton is even worse. The operators
for some time have been proposing
drastic cuts. The agreement expires
on Friday, and the bosses declare
there vii be shut down.
The UMWA officials talk vaguely
about strike, but in reality they are
uniting with the coal operators on
an agreed 30-day shutdown, with no
militant struggle of the workers, in
order to strengthen the bosses and
weaken the ranks of the workers.
This agreed 30-day shut down is one
of the most open betrayals of the
Illinois mine workers yet made by
the UNWA officials. 1t is just ex-
actly what the bosses want, as the
UMWA officials are determined this
should not develop into a real strike.
The United Press dispatch from Chi
cago where the coal operators are
meeting with the UMWA officials
refer to this 30-day shutdown as
follows:
"The expected shutdown was
described as neither lockout nor
strike by operators and union
men. They said the period was ne
ccssary to complete negotiations of
new working agreement"
This should be clear to all miners,
1t is an effort to smash the ranks of
the workers and prevent real, mil
liant strike.
The National Miners Union has
issued statement declaring:
The National Miners Union calls
upon all its members to take &C
tive part In the strike and to make
it real strike
It also calls upon all rank and file
members of the United Mine Work
ers to take an active part in every
phase Of strike, adopting the policy
of the united front, of turning the
strike into a real struggle, against
wage cuts, against starvation condi-
tons, against the attempted betray-
ais of the UMWA officials. To win
the strikes, to broaden them into real
struggles, the National Miners IN
ion proposes:
u To organize a Local Rank and
File Strike Committee in every strik-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01

Smash the illusions Of the pa
cifists In the struggle against war.
Learn to struggle in the revolution
airy way against war. Read "Rcvo-
.lutionary Struggle Against War
Versus Pacifism," by A. Bittelman,
Ave cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01
NTWU DELEGATION DEMANDS .s&
RELEASE OF EDITH BERKMAN

ton, the delegation vent to the Car
ney Hospital to see Cornrade Befk-
man. Here again the hospital was
surrounded by a squadron Of Police
and plainclothesmen and the dele
cation was barred entrance to see
Edith Berkman even for a few min
utes. .r-
This open terror, this Juror Of the
capitalist class can be met only by
large mass protest on the part Of the
workers, and those friends of the
working class who are interested in
Seeing Edith Berkman liberated, and
once more in the ranks of the work.
ing class revolutionary movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01

How will the war zone In the
next war cover also the civilian
population! Read Chemical War
fare by Donald Cameron. ten
Eaa.s
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01

Set quotas, start revolution
airy competition, in fight to
save Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-01

THE Soviet Union Stands for
Peace" the great speech made by
Comrade Litvinov, representative
of the Soviet Union at Geneva,
shows the peace policy of the So
Wet Union and the war plans Of
the capitalist nations. One cent
pamphlet.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
Paxton Farmers Ask
Telephone Rate Cut

A resolution approved by the Pax
ton Farmers club and said to bear
the signatures of Sc of 81 rural tele-
phone subscribers in Paxton town.
ship, asks reduction of SO cents per
month in phone rates.
The subscribers, patrons OF lines
2, 4, 5 and 10 operating from Red
wood Falls and owned by the Red
wood County Rural Telephone COM
pany, threaten to have their phones
removed unless the rate is reduced
from $1.5O per month to 81, reduc-
ton of 33 and one-third per cent.
The resolution was passed at re-
cent club meeting at which Bert
Kleaver, secretary of the company,
was the principal speaker. Mr.. Kleav-
er stated that reduction in rates is
impossible without infiicting loss
on the company, which has 1,400 sub
scribers. Fifty cents per subscriber
is $500 per month to the company,
of $8,400 per year, he pointed out.
The company's financial statement
for 1881 showed profits of $3,424.43.
1t has never paid stockholders divid-
ends.
A reduction in rates would necessi-
tate a hearing before the state rail-
road and warehouse commissioner, it
was pointed out. The resolution asks
the company to consider the matter
before May 1.
The resolution reads as follows:
We the patrons of rural telephone
lines No. 2, A, 5 and 10 agree that if
the rates are not lowered the tele-
phones may be removed and at the
Paxton Farmers club the resolution
was adopted to have the company
consider the matter within reason
able time, not to oe later than May l.
The reduction asked is so cents per
month. We feel that due to the limit
ed income which the depression has
brought about, the ohone rate should
not be above 81 per month.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
Mrs. S. E. Weber, Early
Gales Resident, Dies

Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Nettiewyynnt Meth
odist church in Gales township for
Mrs. Silas E. Weber who died Satur-
day afternoon at the county home
where she had been livizg for two
years.
Mrs. Weber lived in Gales township
from 1885 to 1880 and in that As
years made many friends in and
around Milroy. She was prominent
in the Mothers Circle of the Meth
odist church.
She was born in Wasioja, Dodge
county, September 5, 1868 and lived
there until. she was nine years old
when she moved with the family on
her fathers homestead, northwest OF
Tracy. She resided on the farm near
Tracy until 1885 when she was mar
ried to Silas E. Weber, who survives
her, and the couple moved to Gales
township May %, 1885.
Eight children were born, one OF
whom died when he was four years
old. The other children are Myrtle
A. Peterson, Bozeman, Montana;
Peter S. Weber, Tacoma, Washing
ton; Elmer G. Weber, Minneapolis;
Harriet j. Wolfe, Box Elder, Mont
ana; Lind M. Weber, Three Forks,
Montana; Gerene R. Sweely, Salines-
vile, Ohio and Mary Alice Reed,
Ashford, Washington.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
FORMER REDWOOD WOMAN
DIES IN FREEPORT, ILL.

Word was received here Tuesday Of
the death of Mrs. Fred Cole of Free
port, Illinois, where she has lived
since her departure from Redwood
Falls ten years ago.
Edgar Cole, nephew, received the
telegram Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
Cole died Tuesday morning following
a stroke several days previous.
Elsie Augusta Fryer was born in
Buena Vista, Illinois, June 2, 1872.
She was married to Fred Cole in Nc
Connell, Illinois, and then settled on
a farm in Stephenson county, illinois,
later moving to Freeport, Illinois.
The family moved to Redwood
Falls in 1911.- While in Redwood
Falls Mr.. Cole was the street COM
missioner for several years. In 1922
the family moved back to Freeport.
She is survived by her husband
two daughters, Mrs. Vernie Agney
and Mrs. Violet Smith of Freeport
and one son, Roy Cole of Cedarville,
Illinois. She is also survived by five
grandchildren.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
vocal selections.

vocal selections.
Monday evening the members OF
the trustee board and stewards will
meet at the Herman Becker home to
balance the books of the treasurer
and stewards.
Tuesday evening the annual meet
ing of the church will be held at 8
o'clock for the purpose of electing
two trustees and transact other
business that will be brought up at
this meeting. All members of the
congregation are urged to attend.
Family Night and prayer service
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock.
Orchestra practice Thursday 8 P. M.
Ell. C. E. social and business
meeting this week Friday evening at
the church parlors. The Ed. Lueck
family will entertain.
You are always welcome to attend
our services.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
NOTICE FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the
Clerk of the Board of Education at
school district Number 18, Delhi,
Minnesota for the --anitor's position
before May l.
The board reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
Signed, Mrs. A. D. McCorquodale,
4O-42-1t. Clerk.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07

nut Grove Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Zeug visited
at the Walter Zimmerman home
Thursday evening.
The band concert and dance Mon
day evening were well attended and
neJIed the pand neat sum.
Mr. and Mrs. William Haag and
Mr. anu Mrs. Louis Grams spent
Thursday evening at the Jens Larsen
home.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07
Middle Greek Couple
Married Last Week

MluQle OTceh, april O-V cuIiCoudy
afternoon Lilah Sommerfeld and
Floyd Fisher were united in marriage
at the brides home. Rev. o. S. Mon
son performed the ceremony. The
bride was attired in white satin
ankle length dress and a veil. She
wore white slippers and carried a
bouquet of roses and ferns. Inez
Sommerfeld, sister of bride, acted as
bridesmaid. She wore a lavender
chiffon dress with tan shoes and hose.
Ada and June Mae Fisher, little Sis
tiers of the groom, were flower girls.
They wore white ankle length dress
es.
Pearl Fisher, sister of the groom,
played the wedding march, lone Som
merfeld sang II Love You Truly" and
Mrs. Monson sang Because"
At $50 a reception was given at
the brides home. Immediate rela-
tives and friends attended the recep-
tion. The bridal couple left Thursday
for Chicago and Milwaukee. They
will live on the groom's farm one
mile west of Olivia.
Gust Lueck and daughter Helen
and son Donald, Ed. Lueck and
daughter Iva and son Percy visited
Mrs. Gust Lueck at the Loretta hos
pital in New Ulm Sunday.
A farewell party was given at the
Evangelical church parlors Friday
evening for Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Schroeder and daughter who have
moved to Danube and MI. and Mrs.
Arthur Draeger and daughter who
have moved to North Redwood. At
ter short program lunch was serv-
ed.
/ Margaret Lueck spent the weekend
with Grace and Margaret Ann Gaff-
ney.
Rev. and Mrs. o. S.sMonson, Stella
Sather and Helen Hauck spent Tues
day in the Twin Cities.
DR.. Buffers. of. Renville called at
the Herman Birkholtz home Friday.
Mrs. Amelia Gaffnev of Redwood
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth Gaffney.
Melvin Dreyer and Dick Grey call
ed at the Frank Gaffney home Satur-
day..
f! Little Delborne Kurtz, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Steve Kurtz, was operated
on for appendicitis Saturday at the
Montevideo hospital.
Mrs. Fred Schumacher went to
Minneapolis Tuesday to visit with her
sister.
| M. and Mrs. Harold Becker and
daughter 10 Ann were callers at the
Christ Kurtz home Tuesday.
Misses Ruth Gaffeny and Violet
Kurtz visited with Mrs. Clark Spon-
augle Wednesday.
Mrs. John Frodoehl, Mrs. George
Schafer were visitors at the Sam
Stillmacker home Tuesday.
Violet Kurtz spent several days
with Ruth Gaffney.
! Mrs. Erwin Draeger has been ill the
past week with the flu.
| Jay Franklin was business caller
in Willmar Thursday.
| Dorothy Lindenberg and Lucille
I Schumacher visited school Thursday
Frank Schumacher and sons did
paper hanging at Redwood Falls sew
eral days last week.
! Rev. and Mrs. o. S. Monson and
Adeline Lueck visited with Mrs. Gust
Lueck at the Loretta hospital in New
| Him Friday
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07

Mrs. M. j. Bertrang went to James,
vile Monday to accompany her moth
er to Minneapolis where they visited
Miss Laura Murphy, a. sister of Mrs.
Bertrang. Miss Murphy was a form
er teacher in our public school
Morgan.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07

Again Lionel Barrymore FORCES to
the front. This time in a different
role. When you see him in the
Broken Lullaby" you will admit that
yon have seen the greatest after war
film that has ever been staged by any
actor. See one of the seasons great
est pictures when it come to the
Redwood Theatre, Sunday and Mon
day. 4O-lt.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07

Mrs. Erwin Otto of Hartford, Wis
consin, Mrs. John Zupher and Arnold
Loose of New Ulm were here on busi-
mes Monday.-Morgan.
The Redwood gazette., 1932-04-07

Evening Service e----------1:30 +. M.
Sermon, "a King Who Wanted to
be Popular Through Idols"
Special music by the choir morning
and evening.
Choir Wednesday.
Orchestra Thursday.
The Missionary Society met at the
home of Mrs. Byron Doyle Wednes-
day afternoon. At the last meeting
there were 40 members present be-
sides the women who were visitors
and also the children. There has been
a fine missionary spirit in this group.
Last Sunday was very fine in the
attendance of young people at the
evening service. Approximately be-
tween 60 or 70 were present. we
invite all these young people to come
back every Sunday, and it possible,
to bring some of their friends with
them. We also wish to urge all our
older people to come, first for their
own sakes, and then also for the fine
example they set for the young peo-
pie. This is very important.
A week from next Sunday we will
change our services to one-half hour
later. Kindly notice this change.