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Evening star., 1932-04-01
EMPEROR T|bER|US
BROKE UP BOARDING
Reconstruction" Law of 80
AID. Worked Very Well, In
dsed, Historians Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, April If Presi-
dent Hoover's Reconstruction Corpo-
ration works as we'll as did the law of
Emperor Tiberius in the great depres-
sion of SO AID, then it will work very
well. indeed say Dr. Kenneth Scott,
professor of classics at Western Reserve
University. and DR.. Robert Samuel
Rogers, also of that institution.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Dio Cassius,
ancient historians of the Roman EN-
pire, do not give all the details econo-
mists of today would like. but DR.. Scott
outlined the situation 900 years ago
as something like this:
Bankers and capitalists had been in
vesting money at rates of interest which
violated an obsolete law promulgated
three quarters of a century before by
julius Caesar which limited interest to
a low rate.
Borrowed Too Much.
The law also sought to create ali arti-
fetal demand for real estate by requir
ing financiers to have perhaps two
thirds of their capital invested in land
Many debtors had borrowed too much
and in an effort to ease their position
began accusing creditors of violating
the Julian law.
A magistrate referred the matter to
the Senate and the Senators, in panic
because they also were concerned, ap-
pealed to the Emperor, who gave all
creditors just 18 months in which to
bring their investments into conformity
with the Julian law.
The bankers thus called all their
loans, and such money as they received
they boarded to keep their position
liquid. They also avoided making new
loans because for every loan they had
to make an investment in land and the
real estate market was glutted. with
values falling from sales by debtors
trying to meet their obligations.
Emperor's Friend Kills Self.
Nerva friend of the Emperor. cried
out at the "loss of confidence and finan-
cial confusion" and committed suicide
Greatly aroused the Emperor offered
a relief measure similar to President
Hoovers. He made available from the
imperial treasury an amount equivalent
to between $4,000,000 and $1,000 900
(but much more than that then in &C
tual purchasing power), and appointed
a senatorial commission to distribute it
to banks. The banks loaned it for
three years without interest, each bor-
rover giving security in land double
the amount borrowed
BY this means" says Tacitus, credit
was restored and gradually private
lenders also came forward"
Evening star., 1932-04-01
Library to Open May l.

FAIRFAX, Va, April (SpeciaD -
Directors. of the Fairfax County Library
Association, meeting here yesterday,
decided TO open the library May l.
Mrs. H. M. F. Palmer announced that all
books now On hand will be catalogued
end srIangcd ~ that time.
4 In planned to keep the reading
room open two afternoons a week at
the start.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
0LDFIELD WINS SUIT
Automobile Racer Awarded So.
600 in Note Transaction.

SAN FRANCISCO, April / R.-
Barney Oldfleld, former automobile
racing driver, was awarded a $4,000
Judgment yesterday by the State Su-
preme Court.
The court held Oldfield was entitled
TO execute a judgement for the sum
against proceeds of a promissory note
given by Milton Sills, motion picture
actor. to J. NJ. Denaiger of Los Angeles,
and others. Oldfeld claimed a judg-
ment gainst Denaiger and contended
the sum collected on the note was in
fact property of Denaiger.
Evening star., 1932-04-01
NAMES COMMITTEES
Mrs. Lavinia Harrison Makes o. E.
S. Appointments at Herndon.
cvao;ol - ~. ctar

HERNDON, Va, April Mrs. La
vinia Harrison, worthy matron of Chap
ter No. SIS. Order of Eastern Star, has
appointed the following committees to
serve for the ensuing year: Ways and
Means, Mrs. Nellie Wiley, Mrs. Kath-
Evening star., 1932-04-01
PURCHASE BOOSTER TANK

Fairfax Firemen Increase Efficiency
of Department.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va. April 1.-THE Special
Committee of the Fairfax Volunteer
Fire Department appointed to make GER
tain changes in the apparatus, yester-
day afternoon purchased 150-gallon
booster tank for the big pumper This
Is larger by rs gallons than any tank
In this territory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
SMASH THROUGH
LAWRENCE BAN
Communist Message
From Hotel Window

LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept. TO-
Maria Correa, Communist candidate
for attorney general Of Massachu-
sets spoke from window in the
Franklin Hotel on Broadway, right in
the heart of town, Saturday night.
The mill owners and bankers city
council has ruled that Communist
election meetings shall not be held
in this mill town.
While this speech was being given
and the crowd was shouting its ap-
prevail. police, detectives, bell boys
and clerks and managers Of the hotel
we're frantically striving II break
down the door and stop the speaker.
A mass demonstration was planned
10 protest this ruling, and to smash
through police terror against the
meetings. A great crowd assembled
in the street, and Maria Correa de-
ivered rousing call to the workers
% fight the city councils plans to
put the jobless on IS cent q week
stale grocery relief ration. She de-
handed the right to hold election
meetings in which the Communist
program for unemployment insur-
,nce and cash relief would be ex-
liained. She called on the workers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
THREATS TO RAE
JEHOL TOWNS
Japanese Pla n nj n G
New Blood Baths

Manchurian volunteers and parti-
san troops are reported massing to
attack the Japanese forces in Chin
chow, important strategic city in
South Manchuria. Sharp fighting is
still proceeding around Hardin, and
Mukden, where the Japanese invad-
ers are belaguered. Insurgent activ-
tiles are also on the increase through
out North and South ManchlTia.
japanese troops blocked by volun-
teer resistance in their invasion OF
Jehol Province are threatening to
raze Jehol towns to the ground, UNI
less the insurgent forces cease their
resistance. Leaflets to this effect
were dropped yesterday by Japanese
planes on scores of Jehol Province
towns within 10 miles of the Man.
churian border.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
TOWN AROUSED
OVER KILLING
Masses Support South
River Strike
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

4NNN|AN l. 44t ~ Ill IN<(Hl Z <1NJG1 OlNGy
the factory gates and insulted the
women. The men heard of this and
came to the gates at 4 p. m.
Workers Threatened
At the Reiser Wash Dress Plant,
which was the scene of the shooting,
the deputies we're forced to Withdraw
on account Of the nilitancy of the
strikers. The thugs threatened the
workers and were answered with a
hail Of bricks. Police were present
and helped the deputies by firing
over the heads of the crowd.
In about half an hour the work
ers reformed their ranks and charged
the deputies. Women from the fac
tories screamed at the thugs to get
out. The thugs were driven from
the factory. They started firing aft
er they had retreated about fifty feet.
Workers in the nearby neighborhood
rushed to the scene of action and
answered the bullets with bricks. Po-
lice also fired shots.
1t was during this action that Wal
ter Rozak was killed. He was play
ing marbles two blocks away.
Following the murder, the police
and deputies jumped into cars and
rushed to the Boro Hall where they
barricaded themselves behind bolted
doors. The retreating police and dep
uties were followed by masses Of
aroused workers who demonstrated in
front of Boro Hall demanding that
the murderers come out.
Give us those rats" shouted the
workers in front of the crowd.
The prosecutor spoke from the
steps and begged the crowd to go
away. The workers laughed and
heckled his promise that "the guilty
will be punished
The sheriff began to speak when
someone cried: They'll try to get
them out the backl"
Hundreds Of workers rushed to the
back of the hall. The door was open
and a car was waiting to make a
dash with the gun thugs. The dicks
slammed the door and withdrew into
the sanctity Of the hall again.
In front the crowd kept demand
ing, give us those rats" American
workers-mostly youths-spoke with
Polish workers, many for the first
time. The Polish workers we're call
ing out, "Cossacks, murderers." Wom-
en- walked up on the steps and shook
their fists at the sheriff.
At IL O'Clock the troopers arrived.
They came rushing down alleys, guns
and clubs in hand. The workers fell
back across the street before superior
armed forces. Shots were fired by
the state police but no one was hit.
Workers. however, continued to pa
troll the streets throughout the morn
ing.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21

where the same thing took place.
The Matson freighters are the
Maunalei, Maliko and the Diamond
Head. The cargo is unIoaded in
Honolulu and is dynamite"
In addition to the above come re-
ports from San Pedro that besides
the heavy oil shipments to the navy
fuel station at Pearl Harbor, Homo
lulu, airplanes are being loaded for
this destination.
In the Northwest ports, the Mar
Inc Workers Industrial Union has
issued call to the seamen on the
Matson Line freighters to refuse
to handle war materials. The
Union is receiving effective sup
port from the longshoremen. who
in 1919 effectively stopped the
shipment of munitions for the
American Expedition of interven-
ton against the Soviet Union.
Recent weeks have seen tremen-
dous sharpening of the antagonisms
between American and Japanese i'm
perialism over the division of the loot
in China and supremacy in the Pa
cific. At the same time both powers
are desperately trying to unite on the
only common ground available: mu-
tual hostility to workers rule in the
Soviet Union. Both powers have
engaged in counter-charges that
each was arming and concentrating
naval and military forces in pre-
paration for the solution of their
by force of arms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
CHINA GENERALS
WAR SPREADING
Masses Push Boycott
Of Imperialists

SHANGHAI, Sept. 20. The anti
imperialist masses are continuing to
push their boycott against Japanese
goods.
Two Chinese stores which insisted
on carrying Japanese goods were
bombed yesterday by members of the
boycott associations. A Japanese
shop was stoned and its windows
shattered by crowd of angry work
ers.
Shanghai workers are also express
sing their angry protest against the
Generals war which, commencing
several days ago in Shantung Pro-
vince, is threatening to spread to in
clude all North partition of China by
the Japanese and other imperialists.
Marshal Chang is already actively
cooperating with Gen. Liu, who is
being supported by imperialist rivals
of Japan.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21

ties, and refused admittance into
the government owned hospitals, as
for example in Atlanta, Georgia,
the American Legion has never is
sued even single protest against
this, nor against the driving Of
thousands of Negro vets into tuber-
culosis. The Legion has refused to
issue charters to Negro veterans in
the majority of the places in tho
south, has jim Crowed those who
did manage to form even Jim-Crow
posts. In all of the conventions OF
the American Legion Negro vet
Grams have been either forced to die
while waiting admittance into the
Jim-Crow hospital at Tuskeege.
Alabama, center of the lynch area,
Or to hitch-hike to the North where
they have likewise been systematic
ally denied any real attention and
compensation.
ON TO CLEVELANDl
Negro war victims have every
possible type of discrimination
practiced against them. Gold star
Negro mothers have been jim
Crowed on the boats going to
France by the government officers
in charge of the detachments, in
Alabama, today, Negro tubercular
veteran, Willie Peterson has been
sentenced to be electrocuted on a
frame-up charge, in the same state
of Alabama where the nine Negro
innocent Scottsboro boys have been
sentenced to the electric chair,
white veterans of Alabama have
been horsewhipped, and forced to
slave on chain gangs. All of these
crimes against the war veterans.
white and Negro must be fought
by the rank and file veterans In all
parts of the U. S. A.
These, as well as other major is
sues to both Negro and white vets
will be taken up at the coming con-
vention Of the Workers Ex-Service-
mems League in Cleveland, Ohio on
Sept. 23-24-25th.
Veterans-Negro and white-on
to Cleveland
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
FAILURE TO OBSERVE LABOR SAFETY
REGULATIONS PUNISHED BY SOVIETS
THREAT OF CHACO
WAR SPREADING
Colombia and Peru
Rush ArmamentS

The Bolivian newspaper ultima
Hora" yesterday charged the Argen-
tine Government with giving sub
stantial moral and financial support
to Paraguay in the war between Boil
ivia and Paraguay in the Gran
Chaca region. The charge was de-
MED by the Argentine Minister of
War who, nevertheless, continued the
mobilization of Argentine troops on
the Bolivian frontiers.
The Paraguayan Government
which has already accused American
imperialists of aiding Bolivia, yes
terday reported the capture Of a
Chilean Army officer leading Bolivian
forces in the battle raging in the
Gran Chaca region. which yesterday
entered its eleventh day with una
bated fury. The present Chilean
government is VIGOROUSLY a tool of
Wall Street.
The developments emphasize the
acute danger of the war spreading
to include other South American
states as participants In the present
armed struggle between American
and British imperialism for control
of the rich oil deposits in the Gran
Chaca region. Agents Of the Stand
ard Oil Company are actively aiding
the Bolivian cause"
In the northern part of South
America, where the two rival imper-
ialisms are also in conflict, rabid
war spirit is being fostered by the
Columbian and Peruvian govern
ments. A few days ago the Colon
bian Senate voted a fund of $4,000
900 for war against Peru. Yesterday,
the Peruvian president Louis M. San
chez Cerro lead the chauvinistic out
burst in Peru with a donation of one
months salary toward national
defense fund to purchase ornaments
for Peru" In both Colombia and
Peru, the bourgeoisie are fostering
demonstrations demanding the i'm
mediate opening Of hostilties. The
Colombian Government charges the
Peruvians with Selling the Amazon
River port of Leticia which was
coded to Colombia under a former
boundary treaty.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
Worker Correspondence
martial LaaU" in Warren
Republic Steel Plant
All Workers Regardless of Organization and
Politics, Form Mill. Committees

Liberty mill couple of years ago,
the men in the Trumbell mill WAR
REM voted to divide work with them.
Since the strike Gin which the Liberty
men did not come out as well as the
Trumbell men did the company and
AA have worked to get the Liberty
men he best jobs, leaving the Trum-
bell men jobs mostly as floaters Eek
ira men who only work when some
other men are sick or all in or for
some other reason not working.
New men, we must unite employed
and unemployed in our union and
fight and we'll get just as much as
we ask for and fight for.
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pitfalls.
The Negro veterans are refused
employment except as menials in
the majority of cases, by city, coun-
ty and federal government admin
istrations of both the republican
and democratic parties, also in the
Socialist" city Of Milwaukee, Wis.
Pay has been refused tens Of thou
sands Of disabled Negro war vet
Grams, and the tricks used against
them are most effectively used at
the same time to cut off the pay Of
the white disabled veterans. Negro
veterans who strongly insist on
their rights are framed-up threat
ened with Imprisonment on lies Of
attempting to defraud the govern
ment" and thousand Of white and
Negro ex-soldiers railroaded to in
situations for the insane. Many
were forced into insanity, victims
Of the grating criminals at the
head of the Veterans Bureau and
the government: for insance,
Charles Forbes, and convicted
members of the Presidents cabinet.
BARRED FROM THE A. F. of L.
The American Federation of Labor
leaders have consistently refused to
fight for the admittance into the
A. F. of L. of even the disabled
Negro soldiers manned for life or
trained in the few trades they were
allowed by the government.
On the contrary, the henchmen
at the head of the A. F. of L., in
GLIDING the Socialists have actively
encouraged false race supremacy
theories and denied the disabled
Negro veteran even a right to earn
their living while there was not
mass unemployment Of more than
fifteen million workers in the
U. S. A.
TENS of thousands Of Negro war
veterans in need of medical
treatment in the south are today
denied any treatment by the char
ity hospitals for their war disabili-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21

advocate. The past stoppage which
lacked the support of the greatest
number Of workers proves this as
nothing else can
Some Criticism
The executive board of the N. T.
w. U. was rightly censured for al
lowing the stoppage to catch them
unawareS Preparations for the strike
should have been started at least
week before it was called, instead
leaflet was not issued until the day
Of the strike and a strong movement
was not begun among the confused
workers until the whole affair was
almost over.
At Sundays meeting, the board
was reinforced by new members
chosen from the rank and file who
will act.
The spirit of discomfort which is
now rife was expressed by one weaver,
a former member Of the u. T. w. u.
when he declared that nothing has
ever served to show him the hope
lessness of winning struggle under
the old leadership as the spineless
contest that has just been waged.
After the stoppage was called off. he
Immediately enlisted with the N. T.
w. U. and carried thirteen of the
fifteen other workers in his mill with
him. 1t was in this shop that the
united demand for shorter hours and
an increase in wages was granted.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21

py Gaining OUT the WeaYerS only, the
N. T. w. U. plans to unite all crafts,
in all shops, including the + dyers,
whose present conditions are, if pos
sible worse than those of the. textile
workers.
The new policy is entirely non
sectarian and calls upon all workers
to unite, regardless of present lead
ership or political belief. The great
est need is for organization, now,
while the mills are still busy and
while conditions, though extremely
bad, have not gone as low as they
will sink without a strong militant
resistance.
Build Committees
Workers are called upon to organ
lie shop committees and present their
united demands to the boss. This
policy has won victories in both, the
Cohen and Sugerman mills during
the past week. In the first case the
weavers obtained an increase in
wages and the demand of the wind
ers for a straight wage with deduc-
lions for slack periods was recognized.
In the Sugerman mills, an eight hour
day was put into effect and the
weavers received an increase. These
are only two of the many instances
where strong organization has prov
en- effective. The strongest weapon
is united action; workers must not
allow their shops to be split into
factions as the A. F. of L. leaders
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21

report that explosives from the Du-
pont Powder Works are being loaded
by night on every Matson Line
freighter visiting Puget Sound. An
extract from the workers report
states:
when the delegates went to the
dock he got in touch with five
members of the crew of the S. S.
Maunalei. They admitted that the
ship was loading explosives. This
loading, they declared, is done I'M
der cover of darkness, out in the
stream. A barge comes alongside,
no name on IL, and unloads. The
sailors do the work, getting time
off in Honolulu. They were very
reluctant to talk, declaring that all
were under pledge Of secrecy.
One of the crew had been on an
other ship of the same company
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
BLOCK WORKERS
REPORT ON USSR
Minneapolis Bosses
Stop Meeting

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20. = over
1900 workers and other friends of
the Soviet Uion held protest meet
ing in front of the Wesley Temple
Hall on September Is to protest the
action of the Rev. DR.. Mecklenberg
in cancelling contract for the hall
for the report of two American work.
er delegates just returned from the
Soviet Union.
The two returned delegates, Walter
Frank and Maurice jacobson, were
supported by their brother union
members and many friends in de-
nouncing the action of the minister.
Wage-Cutting Minister.
Speakers at the protest meeting
accused the Civic and Commerce
Association of intervening to prevent
the meeting. Macklenberg had con-
tracted with the secretary Of the
Friends of the Soviet Union for the
meeting. A few hours before the
meeting was scheduled to begin,
Macklenberg advised Walter Frank,
one OF the delegates, that the meet
ing could not be held in the Wesley
Hall because he, Walter Frank, had
been active in strike against wage
cuts at the new post office site, When
challenged by Frank to state his
position on the hunger program Of
the bosses, this reverent minister who
collects salary of $4,000 per year,
declared that 20 cents per hour was
good enough for workers during the
crisis.
A Liar Flies In
In an attempt to prevent the work
ers from Minneapolis from learning
the truth about the triumphat pro-
gress Of Socialism obstruction in the
Soviet Union, the Civic and Com
n1erce Association, in addition to
banning this meeting, brought an
anti-Soviet speaker by airplane from
New York. This gentleman, Carvath
Wells, a Fellow of the Royal Geo.
graphic Society and of the National
Geographic Society, was rushed in to
repeat the four-year- lies about
the Five-Year Plan and the Soviet
workers,
The returned worker delegates will
answer the lies of this prostitute of
harried capitalism at huge mass
meeting in the immediate future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
By SOL HARPER

THE Workers EX-SerVicemens Lea
1 que, as major part of its work,
has carried on a strong fight for
the unity of the veterans Negro
and white, native and foreign born
before, during and since the
bonus march to Washington. In
Washington the rank and file vet
Grams under the leadership of the
w. E. S. L. conducted a courageous
fight against the special Jim-Crow
policy, and divide and rule tricks"
of the Hoover government, it's Of
ficials, GlaSsford, the military po-
lice, and other agents, including
those in control of the Veterans
Administration. 1t fought partic-
ularly the actions of the Waters
clique to segregate the Negro bonus
marchers by placing them in
separate camps, and sections of
buildings as they did in Camp
Marks, during the June 7th parade,
and in Pennsylvania Avenue Bar
racks
We must point out that the first
place the police and War Depart
ment attacks (of the government
was made against the Southern
Negro and white veterans on Penn
sylvaria Avenue where at one time
more than 200 Negro veterans from
the South were jim Crowed on the
top floor. The first bonus marcher
arrested was Negro disabled vet
eran. Contrary to the exception
of the government that the white
veterans would not unite in strug-
gle with the Negro comrades there
was immediate unity of the South
ern white and Negro bonus march
ers in defense against the murder
Gus attack upon them by the MUIR
derers of Hushka and the other
vets.
IMPERIALIsT WAR OF 19l7-1S
In all of the wars of the imperi-
alist government, the Negro work.
ers have been drafted, enlisted and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-21
Seize 8 Children of
Unemployed Widower

CONNEATVILLE. Pal recently
spoke to a man here by the name Of
Steve Homoky. His wife died in 1890.
He has nine children. They took his
farm away from him and divided his
children among different people. Two
children they took away to a home
for the feeble minded in Polk, Pa,
and they do nothing for the father.
What we need here is a real or
ganizer and a speaker. The workers
here want to be organized. The char
ity here refuses all relief to the FORE
ign born.
IS. M.