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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21

after I arrived in Camp Anacostia
yesterday He blew and blew until
his face became all purple, but only
a few hundred assembled in front
of the platform where stood Waters
lieutenants.
What's the NATTER" I asked vet
who was sitting in an open front,
one room apartment made OF cracker
boxes. why don't the boys assem-
bic when the bugle blows?'
Assemble, he'll We're just tired
most of us-to tired to assemble up
there ia the mud and listen to the
bull of the camp commander and the
Fchaplair1 It's the same story all the
time and it's not getting US the bonus
or help for our hungry families back
home. We need action to win.
friend And the action of those lads
up on the platform is not the kind
for winin'."
I went TO see what was taking
SAecC OAA OiiC PlcOlCl ILL.,
There we're only only about three
hundred men out of the eight thous-
and who are carnped in the muddy
flats gathered around the speakers
platform. Sure enough the camp
commander was there and the chap
lain. I remembered the chaplain. I
met him the night before poseing for
the cameramen on the Capitol steps.
He told me his name was r. w.
Eyants, that he was preacher in
the army at Camp Taylor during the
war, that he is now helping the police
department ferret out reds in Camp
Anacostia as well as acting in the
capacity Of official sky pilot for the
Bonus Expeditionary Forces" He
is obviously a psychopathic case.
The camp commander was speak
ing.
One thing we have got to do is
to drive out the disruptors. If you
find red in the camp run him out"
'Tt's lot Of bunk, said a Ne.
gro vet from Mississippi.
A white vet who was walking be-
side him said, sure"
Against Hunger and War.
There are twenty thousand veter-
ans in Camp Anacostia and Camp
Bartlett and the buildings in Wash
ington. Here is a section of the
American workers upon whom the
Wall Street government depended as
reservoir for fascist shock troops.
Three thousand Of them sat on the
Senate steps displaying their misery
to the world. They asked the gov
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21

position it was retracted. However
this action will probably result in re-
stricting the use of the floor to Others
than the U. c,
Although the Associated Gas and
Electric Co gets most of its power
from the Genesee River and made
$112,000,000 last year from this river,
the company has persisted in an out
rageous attempt to deprive everyone
except the rich of gas and electricity.
In q single week they took out 1900
and the next week 1000 meters. This
has resulted in forcing the unemploy-
ed to use oil lamps for light and coal
for cooking in the hot summer. The
small amount of relief given to the
unemployed is made to cover the cost
for oil in the lamps.
Grocery Graft.
All grocery orders are made out to
stores which are owned by contribu-
tors to the Republican machine. Ex-
orbitant prices are charged the I'M
employed at these stores for old, stale
merchandise.
The Unemployed Councils are JON
ing with the LID. to help fight the
frame-up charges, Mass protests are
being arranged and plans are being
laid for the day of trial A mass meet
ing will be held in Washington Square
on Saturday night to protest against
the police terrorism
BY Milton Lewis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
JOBLESS FIGHT
IN ROCHESTER
Cops Victim Framed
While in Hospital

ROCHESTER, N Y. June pa
demonstration planned by the Unen1-
ployed Councils to protest against the
shutting off of gas and electricity and
reduction of relief was attacked here
by 100 policemen whose orders were
to keep EN- moving" Among those
arrested is a militant woman worker
Nancy Ventrella, whose husband was
framed-up on charge of felonious as
lsault.
The method of making these frame
ups is easily seen from what hap
pened. Comrade Vito Ventrella was
so badly dubbed that he was taken
to a hospital for treatment, While be-
ing treated. cop started to abuse
him with the most vile profanity, Be-
coming angry at this abusive language
the Comrade told the cop, IF anyone
| is a., it's you" Whereupon the COP
punched him in the nose Comrade
Ventrella in attempting to dodge this
cowardly blow reached out his hands
one of which happened to strike
table on which there was scissors
The cop Immediately seized on this
opportunity to charge him with "as-
sault second degree aBil was SET at
$4,000 property.
All except the woman had to spend
the night in jail until bail was raised
the next morning when they all plea
ded mot Guilty" Their cases we're
adjourned until June 18th. The Or
ganizer of the Unemployed Council
Genovesee, had his bail raised to
81 900 by order of Police Inspector
Fight for Floor.
In the City Council the committee
which was to present resolutions was
cut short in it's attempts to speak by
an irate councilman who stated that
Communists should not be granted
the right of the floor at the City
Council meetings" Raising the false
issue of the "impossibility of the U. G.
demands" Councilman MacFarlin in
troduced a resolution to prevent the
~. G. from sending delegations to the
City Council, The resolution was op~
posed by only one councilman, q So
called liberal, and because of his OPP
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
JOBLESS MARCH
ON TOLEDO CITY
HALL, JULY End
Relief Pledge Starts
Forced Labor

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 20. I'M
employed Negro and white workers
and part time workers are called to
a hunger march on the Social Ser
vice Federation and the Toledo city
and Lucas county officials, July 2 at
10 a. m.
The parade will form at the corner
of Elm and Superior streets.
The news of the coming demon
stration has provoked a sharp strug-
gle within the ranks of the employ
ers' agencies, each group trying to
White-wash itself for the starvation
among the thousands of jobless in
Lucas county. The Social Service
Federation declares that cases of
starving families are city problem,
and the city passes the buck to the
Federation.
Expose A Demagog.
Mayor Thatcher of Toledo was
elected on the basis of a lot of dem
agogic promises to prevent unem-
ployment and relieve starvation. The
Communist Party of Toledo has is
sued a statement exposing the mayor,
as follows:
Thousands have been cut off from
the city, more are losing what little
they have been getting. Rations are
being cut down to amount to $i.15
to s2.15 per week, forcing recipients
to work a whole day for it. Reg
ular city wages are supposed to be
60c per hour or s4.80 per day.
Forced Labor.
"Fair and square . Thatcher ap-
proved city ordinance forcing
every worker to work all day for his
groceries, How long will it be be-
fore every city employee will be
forced to work on q forced labor ba-
sisf The Fair and Square mayors
finance committee asked council on
June 10th to purchase riot guns. tear
gas bombs and hand grenades, so
that the police can take care of the
unemployed workers.
workers Employed and Unen-
ployed, if the mayor can force you
to work for the city for 6oc day,
how long before John WHY'S can
force you to work for him for the
same arlount2"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
ORDER III ELORE
EDITOR DEPORTED
Try to Ship Bebrits to
Fascist Rounnania

CLEVELAND. June 20.-touis Beb-
rits, editor Of III Elore, the only Hun
gar1an revolutionary paper in this
country, has been ordered to be de-
ported June % to fascist Roumania.
Comrade Bebrits last year exposed
before the Hamilton Fish Commit
tee the close relationship between the
bloody fascist government Of Admiral
Horthy of Hungary and the bloody
boss class government of the United
States Since then. the American
government decided to get rid of this
revolutionary leader of the Hungar-
ian masses.
Only last week, another revclu-
tionary worker. Alex Szilagyi. was ar
rested in Akron, Ohio, on fake
charge of illegal entry and was
brutally beaten up by agents of the
department of justice. He is now
being held for deportation.
This is in line with the boss class
government policy to terrorize and
deport foreign born workers, Edith
Berkman the courageous leader of
the textile workers union, Is now
being held for deportation,
The International Labor Defense
has demanded that Comrade Bebrits
be given voluntary departure. Flood
the Offices of the Department of
Labor and President Hoover with de-
nlands that this murderous policy of
deportation be stopped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
BY HARRY RAYMOND.

Tents made Of carpets, old rags
awnings and odds and ends of can
vass; 1eaky wooden sheds covered
with tin; shanties and miniature
COW sheds floating on sea Of mud
This is Anaccstia Camp, home of
5000 unemployed working men who
fought to make the world safe for
Wall Street.
Six cents day per head for food.
Mighty slim diet. Yet steel worker
from YOUNGSTOWN, Pennsylvania, said,
9That's more than I had to eat at
home"
Hoover, the government, Wall st.
got he'll here today.
Congress and Hoover are aaginst
anything which would benefit the
working man" A Negro vet from
louisiana said this.
A metal worker from Youngs-
town: "I'm getting sick Of this
talk about reds. TIM not a red yet,
but I'll be damn soon be one. I
read that red hand bill this MORN
ing and it's o. X. The reds are
fighting for the vets and the work.
ers."
The Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League is Illegal here, but 1t is here
Just the same. The best sections OF
the veterans from the big industrial
cities are forming themselves around
the w. e. S. L. groups. These groups
played havoc with jim crowism. The
Chicago contingent. two thirds OF
which are white, elected Gardner
Negro veteran from the Ninth Cav
airy as their commander.
The bugler blew assembly shortly
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
Conn. Communists
Challenge Socialist
Party to a Debate

WATERBURY, Conn, June TO-
The Communist Party units here
have challenged the Socialist Party
OF waterbury to debate on the is
sue: who is really leading the
workers to fight for freedom from
the bosses system of society, the
Socialist Party or the Communist
Party?
The Communists ask that the chal-
lenge be read at the Socialist Party
meeting and an answer be sent
within week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
Chicago Principal
Pay Lacking, Dies

CH1CAGO.-While the mayor and
the school board continue their game
Of passing the buck on the question
Of paying the teachers their back
wages, hunger and sickness and
death continue to take their toll
among the teachers.
Clarence A. Lentz father of four
children and principal of Lincoln
High School died on Thursday after
an illness of four days. He had no
money and was unable to afford
medical treatment.
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5000 VETERANS
MOVE INTO CITY
Leave Flats, Take
Over Empty Build
lngs
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

tional machine guns were yesterday
brought to the Marine Barracks.
Realizing the significance of this
Washington workers today distrib-
uted at all army posts leaflets cal
ling upon the troops to disobey COM
mands to attack the vets in the event
they we're ordered to do so.
A number of soldiers and marines
helped the workers distribute these
leaflets.
Fear OF the growing pressure Of
the rank and file veterans against
the high command, forced Waters,
hand picked chief of the Bonus Elk
peditionary Forces, to permit a rank
and file veteran to speak from the
platform at meeting held at the
camp. Previously only selected
few were allowed to speak.
More and more of the rank and
file veterans are putting forward
the fighting program OF the Work
ers Ex-Servicernen's League, and
pressure on their part has forced the
high command" to permit the cleo
ton of company committees and
commanders.
A sharp fight Is now on to seat
Pace in the executive committee OF
the Bonus Expeditionary Force.
Leaders" Try Jim Growing.
jim croWisn1 raised its ugly head
today when the administration gang
attempted to segregate Negro vet
Grams. A bitter fight against this
is being waged especially by the ILL.,
nois veterans which staged sharp
battle on the same issue when they
first arrived in Washington.
Support for the W.E.SLs demand
for an immediate demonstration at
the Capitol before Congress adjourns
is getting wide support among the
veterans. They say they will force
the demonstration over the head of
the high command, as they did
before the Senate when police raised
the Eleventh Street bridge which
spans the Potomac, In an effort to
prevent the spontaneous onrush to
the Capitol on Friday.
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eminent for their back wages to keep
them from starving The government
told these men to go and starve.
Great sections of these men are
disillusioned. Illusions remain in the
breasts Of many, but they are being
uprooted Communists in the ranks
of the veterans are on the way to
perform real BolshevilS deed. New
fresh cadres of American Commu-
nists are breaking through the ut
most fascist terror, are consolidating
q united front from below of the
veterans and the working class for
revolutionary struggle against hun
ger and war.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
JOBLESS MARCH
IN ARGUS, ILL.,,
DEMAND RELIEF
Open Air Meeting l.
Smashed By Police
With Aid of Spies

ARGO, ILL.,, June 20.-TwO hun
dred unemployed Negro and white
workers paraded to the city hall
here. demanding relief, and were
rejected by the mayor.
The Unemployed Council then
called an open air meeting, which
the police broke up. The stool
pigeons who notified the police and
helped to smash the meeting are:
Jack Borisuk, Michael koupka
and Boris Goluhovich.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 20.-Right in the face Of
flood of Optimistic predictions by General
various other spokesman that the low point
crisis has been reached the latest figures the
ments Bureau of Labor Stastics-showng that un.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21

the Lawrence mill strike last wear.
spoke to the crowd from the window
of Jervais apartment, calling for ,psr.
nanent organization to stop all evic-
tons and cutting off of gas and
electricity. -.
The crowd moved on only when a
whole carload of police and a squad
of state cops came down. BY that
time the meeting was over anyway.
No one would point out leaders Or
the speaker to the police. No eve
ton took place, 90
Fight Evictors in Pittsburgh =
PITTSBURGH, Pa. June pa
large number of jobless workers, led
by the Unemployed Council commit
tee came down to No. 1892 Rylie ST.
last week, where they found the
landlord and constable and three
helpers who had been paid a pint Of
liquor each. had thrown out the fur
niture Of a widow woman, unerns
ployed and her sick mother
When one of the landlords stool
pigeons pulled knife, the crowd
flogged him with a fence picket and
made him carry the stuff back In.
Unemployed workers and q com
mite of the Unemployed Council
held meeting and heard speeches
for a few minutes at Gil Kirkpatrick
st.. June 7, then put all the furniture
back in, When the police got there.
they found the temper of the crewd
so high that they did not dare make
arrests. Instead, they carried off TO
Jail for their own protection, the men
who we're doing the evicting. 80
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policy of wage cuts. charity doles,
forced labor, ruthless suppression and
deportation as Hunger Hoover. The
chief claim to fame Of Ely creature
of the State Street bankers, is his
work in smashing the Lawrence strike
of October. 1881.
For Open Autocracy
Elv. in line with the fascist pro-
posal of Owen D. Young. calls for a
change in the constitution of the
United States, to centralize authority
in the hands of the executive through
appointment rather than election of
state officers n
Mayer James M Cur1ey of Boston,
Roosevelt man and reputed pro
gressive' Democrat said in a pros
perity day address last Labor Day:
''The most pleasing feature in con-
nection with the depression is the
fact that the industrial leaders of
America have stood firm for the
maintenance of the saving wage and
have refused to cut the same"
This demaeog Curley, BALKAN
stated, ignores the wave of wage cuts
which has swept through every In
dustry of Massachusetts,. robbine the
workers in many cases of half their
wages.
Socialist Strike Breakers
THE Socialist Party nominated Al
fred Baker Lewis for Governor of
Ma sachusetts at Springfield last
week. Lewis is an ex-preacher like
Norman Thomas He claims to be
2 militant socialist, but the party Is
Judged by its deeds, BALKAN said.
and not by its verbs, and he showed
how Lewis associated with Governor
ely and the A. F.. Of L. to break the
last Lawrence strike.
Ba1lan promised he would carry on
relentless struggle against the So
cialist Party strikebreakers of Massa-
chusetts.
Demonstrate For Fcrd
The whole audience stood up in a
spontaneous demonstration when
Ford entered the hall. AS soon as
the workers recognized him. they
began singing "The International {"
and a group Of young workers started
to march around the hall, singing
Solidarity"
For nearly an hour, Ford told the
workers of the tasks before them. He
analysed the character and the re-
suits of the Republican Party ma
tional convention, and showed how
the workers were waiting for leader
ship to rally in wide masses around
the platform of the Communist
Party Ford called on the delegates
to 60 back to their homes and local
tiles to rally the workers in their
neighhorhoods and their towns for
the struggle against hunger, wage
cuts and war and to pile up a huge
Communist vote as a working class
answer to oppression. Ford stated
and explained by concrete examples
the six main points of the Commu-
mist Party's national plpattorm.
The nominating convention opened
the drive for the mass collection Of
signatures to put the Communist
Party candidates on the ballot II, this
state.
The delegates raised sl2e towards
the election campaign fund here.
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$50 CENTS AN HOUR"
SOUNDS GOOD UNTIL
YOU KNOW THE FACTS
Houston Grain Trimmer Works One Hour il,
Choking Dust, Then Is Laid Off
Spends Two Hours On Deck and Two Hours
Going to Work, All for One Hour Pay

It is your hard luck.
The longshoremen in Houston must
organize to fight for better candi-
tons in the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union
"A Longshoreman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21
FOR RELIEF GROWS WITH UNEMPL OYMENT
Government Figures ShoqV 3.2I
Percent Increase in J0bIesS
Army in Month of May, 1882
1000 Demonstrate Against Shutting Off eff
Relief in Kansas City; Negroes Militant

800 Block Eviction in Lawrence; Unemployed,
Council Stops Two Evictions, Pittsburgh
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-18
fine RECORD IS
SET DURING 1881
BY POST OFFICE,

encouragement for local residents
is contained in the announcement
that machine stamp cancellations
on letters and cards leaving the Ell
Centre post office during 1881 ex-
ceeded in number those of 1890
In 1881 the machine stamp can
cellations we're 2,340,001, the num-
Der not including the large. thick
envelopes which must be stamped
by hand, according to the post
master.
Machine stamp cancellations in
1880 reached q total of 100000.
Until October l, 1881. postal re-
ceipts were greater than those for
a corresponding period in the pre-
ceding year. After October l. how
ever there was a slight decline.
the year ending with 1881 showing
a three per cent decline from the
year before.
Postal receipts for 1890 were S700C
ahead of those iii 1929.
In 1881. the greatest number of
machine cancellations took place in
December when 253,970 letters and
cards passed through the automa-
tic cancellation machine. There is
no way of estimating the number
which are hand stamped at any
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-18
| OF Interest to Women
LOCAL CULINARY EXPERTS TO ENTER
COOKING SCHOOL RECIPE CONTEST

, it is anticipated that many or
iginal recipes will be entered.
Miss Elmer Martin, home econ
omics expert. asks that the recipes
be turned in each CO of the con-
test, and various firms have offer
ed number of attractive prizes
which will be awarded the winners
in the contest. Local women will
serve as judges, and their names
will be announced in a later issue
of The Press.
Everyone is cordially invited TO
attend the school which on We'd
nesday and Friday will be held
between the hours of > and 8, and
on Thursday, from 10 a. m. to u.
noon. Miss Martin will be in
charge and has a number OF Splen-
did and valuable pointers to give
the classes She is ranked as one
of the leading home economists
on the coast and is familiar with
the butane gas properties so viii
have much OF practical value TO
give her students. She IS the au-
thor of The Cooks Corner which
has been running in The Press for
some time.
Each day, door prizes Will be
featured and at the end Of the
three days session, special prizes
will also be awarded. Every woman
in the community is invited to at
tend the school and It is hoped
that attendance viii be large.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-18
SEWING BEE AT
DONGHUE HONE

Another sewing bee is announced
for tomorrow. January 10, by Mrs.
J. w. Donohue, chairman of the
Ten Thousand clubs committee on
public service.
The meeting is to be an all day
affair at Mrs. Ronohue's home,
682 Wensley avenue, and is open
to any woman interested. Repair
ing garments from the clubs
clothes closet and making new will
occupy the women. Each woman
who attends is asked to bring her
sewing equipment and sandwiches
for the luncheon.
At the sewing bee held earlier in
the season. much work was accom-
plished and in addition, the women
who attended had an awfully good
time so it is anticipated that even
more will be present tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-18
Churches
Schools
MRS. ADA DENYSE
TO BE SPEAKER FOR
TEN THOUSAND CLUB

Ten Thousand club members are
anticipating with pleasure the
meeting this week when Mrs. Ada
De Nyse of Riverside, state fedora
ton speaker. will give the program
assisted by Ellis Rhodes of the
Academy of Music.
Mrs. De Nyse, as Ell Centrans
who have heard her before will
testify. is a most delightful speaker.
possessed of an abundance of ready
wit, which sparkles through her
talks. She has chosen for her sub
ject The March of Time, or What
Has Happened to America"
Ellis Rhodes, assisted by Estelle
Livingston at the piano, will givc
a group of songs. He is a favorit6
singer of El Centrans and is Ger
tain to give a most ENJOYABLE
program.
Music section members will be
tea hostesseS for the afternoon, ana
at the conclusion of the meeting
members are invited to remain for
tea and to enjoy the hospitality
of the section.
The business meeting will start
at 2:30 p. m. on Thursday. Janu-
airy 21. and will be followed by the
program. Ali members are asked
TO be on time.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-01-18
FINAL CALL FOR
TWO RESIDENTS
OF H0LTVILLE

Fred Rocier. So died in the Holt
Vile hospital yesterday after a brief
illness. He formerly made his
home in BraWley.
Funeral services were conducted
from Arnold's funeral home at II
o'clock today. Interment was at
Mountain View cemetery.
He IS survived by his parents who
reside IN Louisiana.
BWnla-t Hartwig. Il, resident
Of Hcltyille. died thee yesterday
after an illness Of brief duration.
He was born in Germany but had
been a resident of the United
States for 81 years.
Funeral arrangements await di-
rections from relatives in the east.
In the meantime the body is at
Arnolds funeral home here.