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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

worker"
Soon the door was WIDE open. A
Negro woman appeared, wiping her,
wet hands on a towel Good morn
ing. Come in, sit down
It was so dark inside, at first We
thought we we're in a storage room.
My comrade looked at me and 1
looked at him. We could hardly say
word. The so-called room looked
like a four corner box. The only
window in the room faced a gray
brick wall which made it impossible
for any air or sunshine to penetrate.
The gas was covered with a piece of
rag. A dim burning candle took the
place of daylight. The dresser looked
very old. There were two broken
chairs, a table covered with a torn
oil cloth, bed, in a corner a kerosene
stove was placed.
When we entered the room, ne all
most stepped on something. Come
here, baby" the Negro woman said.
A baby, about four years old, was
sitting on the floor. nude. She took
the child from the floor and put him
into the bed. She was ashamed Of
her poverty.
He has just a couple of suits and
so he has to wait until they dry.
am washing them now. I have been
unemployed for some time. Every
day I look for work, can't find none.
No relief coming from anyone. I will
have to starve with my baby"
We will take you to the relief sta
ton, The unemployed council Will
take care of you"
She Looked at Us Wondering.
Her eyes became brighter She
looked at us wondering whether we
meant what we said.
I'VE are here 10 collect signatures
for the coming presidential election.
We are going to put on the ballot
worker for president. The only
Party which fights for unemploy-
ment and social insurance at the
expense of the bosses, is the Conn
munist Party, the party that fights
for the interest of the workers and
farmers, the Party that demands
equal rights for the Negroes and
self determination for the Black
Belt"
"Of course, I'll sign and I will vote,
| too
The rest Of the tenants did ike
wise. They all signed.
What a Contrast.
When we came out into the open
air we took a deep breath. we
walked along Fifth Ave. A maid
dressed in white wheeling light
gray baby carriage, a well-fed baby,
dressed in pink.
A lady came by with white, clean
poodle dog. What a contrast, And
only three blocks from Fifth Avenue.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Seamen Demand Free Speech in PhiIa.

have to speak in English or not at
all This is an attempt of the cops
to break up the NV. I. U. and stop
il from organizing.
Only few weeks ago Paddy Baker,
delegate of l. L. A.. sent gangsters to
throw bricks at the M. w. l. U.
meeting. At the close of the meeting
resolution of protest to the chief of
police protesting against police in
reference and illegal action against
the Polish speaker was read and
adopted by two thousand marine
workers.
Marine Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Deaths from Starvation Daily in Virginia

The Pocahontas Fuel Co who owns
and rules this section OF the state is
almost separate government within
the government. This company with
its courts, militia, thugs, stool pigeons
and fake preachers has created an
unspeakable terrorism, and ha S
brought down the entire working
masses to the standard of Chinese
coolies. No man on earth can chal-
lenge this brutal power. Death from
starvation is here in daily occurrence.
We must organize and fight in the
NM.U.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

should receive no encouragement from
any American citizen, high or low
High or low' in the opinion of
this regularly inclined Democrat"
the workers evidently are low and
he is going to try to keep them low.
Put Dies Bill Through.
Garner was speaker Of the house
when it passed the vicious Dies bill
a few days ago. Garner is the author
Of the so-called relief bill which is
now before the Senate, for appropri-
ating 100000, not for unemployment
relief or insurance, but for building
contractors, under the false and dem
agogic argument that this will benefit
the unemployed. He introduces his
remarks on belief in his statement
yesterday this way: mo sound
thinking citizen can favor the dole "
And by dole, Garner, like Hoover,
means unemployment insurance.
For Federal Wage Cuts.
Garner puts first on his list the
false issue of prohibition repeal. He
advocates lower tariffs, since he
comes from Texas, where no big in
terests demand tariffs. He calls for
more loans abroad and easier credit
terms for big business at home, for
collection of war debts and for reduc-
ton of costs of government by at
least one third. Reduction of govern
ment costs means in these years, cut
ting the pay of Federal employees, or
laying them off. Garner does not
suggest any reduction in war expendi
lures.
Carriers program shows he will be
a real enemy of the workers, both
native and foreign born, launching
terror and starvation on them no less
vigorously than Hoover does.
The other main Democratic Party
candidates for president are Smith
and Roosevelt. Their programs will
not differ materially from Carriers.
Roosevelt has already been caught
trafficking with the Ku Klux Khan.
Borah Tangles Issues.
The Republican Party is faced with
somewhat of a split because of b.
rahs sudden boiling and refusal to
support Hoover in the elections. b.
rah makes an issue of the "wet-dry' -
plank in the Republican Party plat
form, which he interprets as a wet
plank, to the considerable worriment
of number of Republican editors
who have been calling it a dry plank.
Neither side stops to explain how a
change from bootlegging to legal en-
ployment of certain number of men
in the liquor business can affect the
unemployment question for the work
ers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

the reserve who were assigned TO
CMTC camps this summer we're or
dered to lead the drill
To the question of the purpose Of
the drills he replied they we're to
make the 80 days training period
more advanced in military tactics,
etc, by eliminating the time necessary
for rifle and drill instruction.
l am attending further drills in
order to see the turnout and detect
the type of talks made to the men.
will keep you posted on further
developments
Comradely,
Officer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

had taken place just a short time
before. Bones and skulls Of humans
could be found in many places. where
the slaughtered people had been
burned.
Battered Ruins In Chapel.
saw also the pitiful sight of home
less people roaming about, with no
place to go, their homes all wrecked,
while Just few blocks away on the
Marking Road, where the capitalist
property is. a person wouldn't have
known there was war at Shanghai.
Not one Of the buildings of the for
eign settlement was touched; only
Chapel, where the workers lived was
treated to the murderous fire OF
japanese artillery, warships and
bombing planes.
Also coming up the Hoang Pu River
to Shanghai, Woosung Is on the
right, battered to ruins, where many
lives were lost. This town, too, was
inhabited only by working people.
Imperialist War Dogs.
Then, farther up the river. one
sees the battleships and destroyers of
many nations, there to help the rape
of China. There are English, Amer
lean, French and japanese ships of
war, with soldiers of all nationalities
at Shanghai, All these nations are
robbing and exploiting Chinese peo-
pie.
What great help to the Chinese
people II they could adopt a Soviet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
N. Y. CENTRAL LAY-oFF
New York City.

New York City.
June 18th the New York Central
laid off more workers on the Hudson
division. Some of the passenger de-
partments at the Grand Central have
been closed and great number of
girls laid of. Workers receiving a
salary of $500 a month or more got a
cut of 20g6. When the great Her
bert "overcane" the crisis, he for
got" the N. Y. Central workers.
r. r. Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
TAMPA DICKS ROB WORKERS
HOME

tampa, Fla,
My home is in this city. I was ar
rested at my home in the evening of
Nov. 7th after the cops had broken
up the meeting in the Labor Temple.
About five cops rushed into my room
and started beating me up.
The cops stayed in my house three
days using our food and running our
furniture. My wife did not dare come
home until they left. She had been
arrested with me. They took our
typewriter and seventeen dollars in
cash, and other personal belongings
which I never got back.
They took me out on the road and
made me lie down and beat me with
leather to knock the Communism
out of me-" as they said. When
through they left me to get back as
best l could. They also made me
drink two bottles of oil.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
International
Notes
so ARRESTED IN RUMANIA,
CHARGED WITH RED PLOT"

BUCHAREST.-Fifty workers were
arrested and many more are expected
to be arrested soon in connection with
an alleged red plot" discovered by
the police. The purpose Of the plot,
according to an official report, was
to cause discomfort in the Army,
A German whose name is said to
be Gustav Arnold is reported to be
the organizer of the plot which had
been backed by ample funds from the
Berlin Communist Centre"
The Communist Party was banned
by the government from participant
ing in the coming elections.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Stripped of Belongings by Homeless Buro
tBy Worker Correspondent)

= correspondent
being no more roonlers. When l
asked the bureau for room rent until
I got job I was turned down. They
wanted to send me to 1850 Washing
ton Ave, home" for jobless wor1-
en-, veritable poor house.
Il told them that l had some
things, a few personal belongings
which would like to store away. I
asked what to do with them and the
oficials advised me to sell them. l
sold everything, two trunks full OF
clothing at great loss. They then
---'> r.. r7-d 70 the poor houss >
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

Camp Anacostia.
Dear Comrades:
When we get in here, the stool
pigeons point us out to the M.P.s and
they took us to the commander Of
the camp. He says, You're damn
red All right, men, give him the
works" The strong arm squad
take you in car and beat you up
before turning you loose.
I was arrested last week and told
to leave town. We are still fighting
and calling for unity of all veterans
WIN the unemployed. The Negroes
are kept in Peru avenue in an old
broken-down house and have to wash
pots if they want to stay.
A preacher came down and told us
that we must take our bibles and
pray. A veteran was put out of the
camp for telling him to go to tell.
Comradely yours,
Negro Veteran.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
(By a Worker Correspondent

POCAHONTAS, Vain this coal
field the conditions of the miners
have become absolutely desperate,
They are working one or two days,
and very seldom on three day week
ly basis. For their work the miners
hardly get any money in return. All
expenses are deducted by the COM
panl as rent, hospital bills, insurance
and as salary of church preachers.
The poverty, privation and restitution
of the masses here no pen can COM
pletely describe.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
YUG0SLAVIAN OFFICERS
SENTENCED

BELGRADE. = Two officers were
sentenced to death by the Extraor-
binary Court for the protection of the
state. They were involved in a re-
cent conspiracy"
Several workers we're killed and
many wounded in several cities dur
ing the commemoration of Stephen
Raditch and his comrades of the
Croatian Farmers Party killed in Par
lament four years ago.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
VOTE COMMUNIST FOR:

l. Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the
state and employers.
2. Against Hoover's wage-cutting
policy.
3. Emergency relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by
the government and banks; ex-
emption of poor farmers from
taxes. and no forced collec-
ton NJ rents or debts.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

ST. LOUIS. Mo.-In this city we
have Bureau for Homeless Men
and Women. There is lot of pro-
paganda spread about the help
that this bureau is giving to the job
less A widow woman told me the
following story:
Il was working in Irooming
house for my room. I went to the
bureau for women located at 1890
Locust Street for aid. received only
s150 every two weeks.
Then I was forced TO leave the
coming house on ----''--t 20 4''---
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Ohio Worker ShoeVs Up
the Boss Glass Face OF
Local Charity Relief
No Relief for Those Who Don't Support Capi-
talist Parties

shoppers who can be relied upon for
strikebreaking, etc. New Boston
workers are tired of these conditions
and will support any organized effort
to better their lot.
New Boston Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
lny a WORKER CORRESPONDENT

PHILADELPHIA. The Phila-
delrhia Marine Workers Industrial
Union has been holding open-air
meetings on the waterfront. On
June 9th the police tried to provoke
Negro worker to fight the workers
who were standing around denounc-
ing the M. w. I. u
The second speaker was announced
to speak in Polish, as there are
about two thousand Polish longshore-
men who do not understand English
very clearly. The police came over
ard said that the speaker would
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Correspondence Briefs
INDIANA POLICE TERROR

RICHMOND, Ind.
Dear Comrades
Conditions are growing worse each
day The Red Cross has sent out a
few sacks of flour and the social SER
vice planned to cut the groceries the
following week. Police terror is ter
rtble here. No open air meetings are
allowed. The mayor has ruled day.
light saving time over the protests
of the workers, saying, ITO hell with
the people, I am running Richmond"
Fraternally,
xunpKEp
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23

knocked at the door. A tired voice
answered: Who is it?" "A worker
wants to speak to you about prob
lens of great Importance TO you as a
worker, about your conditions as a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Dies Bill Can Be Defeated,
Detroit Labor Attorney Says
Sugar Active in Victorious Fight on Bill in
Michigan to Register Foreign-BOrn

NEW YORKOrganized and effective working class protest kill
the Dies exclusion and deportation hill did the vicious Spoan
registration fngerprning bill in Michigan last year.
opinion active
attorney
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
only Three Blocks
from Fifth Avenue
By ROSE GROssMAN

Of sending
another with collect
block 1e2nd
street
bright
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Shanghai Death and Ruin
Told by a Marine Worker
Human Bones Litter Chapel District
(By a Worker Correspondent

q
witnessed of tbs
of fhtfulness carried out b.
The miitarists against the Chinese people
Shanghai Here th
real scenes this civilian district tina
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
Blanche, KY.

Daily Worker
Here at Array, KY, we have about
one hundred blacklisted miners. We
meet every Sunday. We are in bad
condition but are going to stay in
it ur II hell freezes over the operators
and Red Cross We have had wage
cuts until we are starving to leath,
Our families are naked and starv-
ing but we will organize.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
GARNER FOR RED
BATTING PROGRAM
Borah Adds to Wet
Dry Tangle

CONTINUED FROM PAGE oND
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-23
NEGRO VET WRITES

IF. F. Crawford.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20
ELIMINATION OF WASTE

There can be butone criticism
of President Hoover's suggestion
that government printing bills
possible means of cutting govern
ment costs. 1t is that the suggestion
should have been a command with
a penalty attached to it.
If there is one form of govern
ment waste which has no defense
it is this working overtime of the
public printing presses. Not even
the old argument, that job-hold-
ers must be given something to
do, holds good for the government
would save money by keeping them
IN idleness.
There are government publica-
tions which serve a useful purpose
but there is a strong suspicion in
the public mind that most of them
do nothing more than waste paper,
ink, labor and money. Either they
contain information of value to no
one or they duplicate what the
press has already done with great
er economy and efficiency.
Should the public ever discover
the tonnage of bulletins, news
letters and clip sheets mailed to
the public press from government
bureaus under the frank only to be
dumped into waste baskets there
would be a taxpayers revolt which
might end in the throwing of sew
eral monkey wrenches into the
wheels of certain printing presses.
Why the forest conservationists in
Washington haven't awakened to
this waste of wood-pulp paper is
the greatest puzzle of all.-Ex.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

enterprise, superintended by teach
ers, where recompense is gagged
by production, would not come in
to competition with the white man.
A compilation supplied by NJ. d.
Snodgrass, agronomist of the Mata-
nuska station, shows a potential
market for farm products in An
chorage alone of S271,972 annually.
The heaviest items in the list show
eggs and beef to lead with approx
mately $52,2S1 each. with butter
running third with $34,254; can
ned milk, $25, $50; pork (fresh)
S22,76O; bacon. $1O,711; mutton,
S17,S00; etc.
This represents articles shipped
to Anchorage from the States. Now
add to this approximately the same
volume in Seward and Fairbanks,
and there stands market for $751;
919 only awaiting the conquest.
Now appears a propitious mo-
ment for laying the foundation for
feeding the Territory from its own
soil and at the same time solving
one of the yexing problems of the
hour-Seward Gateway.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20
JESUS PAID IT ALL"

Pine Bluff (Mo.) Clarion: Ev-
cry editor has received them-the
postmaster is not to blame. For in
stance there was man named Tim
Short who sent us three notices to
stop his paper, he did not want it
any longer. Upon investigation of
our subscription list we found Tim
was short $3.50.
He never paid cent, and yet,
as a matter of economy to us, he
stopped his paper. A few evenings
ago, we stepped into a church and
Tins melodious voice rang out
clear in soul stirring song, "Je-
sus Paid 1t ALL"
We might have been mistaken,
but his earnestness impressed us.
The next day we sent him a receipt
in full, begging his pardon for not
knowing that he had made an as
signment to the Lord.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20
EXPERIMENTAL FARM

The suggestion that the Matanus-
ka Experimental Station be turned
over to the Indian Bureau for the
use of the native children now en-
rolled in government schools, ap-
pears to offer the most logical
course thus far offered.
One OF the greatest problems con-
fronting both the Indian Bureau
and Native orphanages is the dis
position of the wards of these in
situations after they have passed the
teen age and have graduated in
various manual arts.
There is objection on the part
of white labor to competition OF
these youths in the various pur-
suits of life. There is criticism that
many of the girls go astray, be-
cause of the discrimination in re-
gard to employment.
This may all be solved through
inspiring within the native boy or
girl a pride which does not stop
merely at arriving at the standards
set by those most intimately as
ISOLATED with the native in his
daily life. From this pride will
grow ambition to excel, to gain dis
tinctton, and in the same process, a
better economic condition.
For years, a canning factory,
creamery and kindred enterprises
have been mooted for Matanuska.
What simpler means could be en-
ployed than to combine education
with thrift by creating colony of
native boys and girls, along with
their elders, who have had the ad-
vantage of education, and utilize
the cannery, creamery, ETC., as an
incentive to advance and to make
money?
By the same process, the native
can be given an opportunity to in
dulge his love for agriculture,
markedly present, not only in the
coast natives but the Eskimos.
AS yet, Alaska has not arrived at
the point where the farmer and
the operators of such industries as
vegetable and berry canneries,
creameries and chicken ranches,
can pay the current scale of wages
owing to the seasonal nature of the
employment. Thus. a community
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

perhaps the only instrument en-
ployed for timekeeping from the
dawn of civilization until the in
vention of the water clock, as
cribed to Plato, about 400 B. C.
Clocks were not invented until
centuries later. While a primitive
instrument, called the horologium,
is said to have been devised in the
9th century,, A. D., the earliest
clock of which any description has
been preserved is one made in
Egypt about the year 1882. A
beginning in clock making was
made in Germany about 1864, the
clocks being regulated by balances.
The invention of the handspring
in 1900 and the pendulum in 1883
gave great impetus to clockmaking
and it is believed that the first
watches were made shortly after
ward. But the minute hand was
not added until after the invention
of the balance spring, about 1900.
While Mr.. Ohlsons idea of a
radio watch, which may be carried
in the pocket while kept going
through impulses from a distant
station, may appear fantastic, the
wonderful achievements already
witnessed must inspire a belief in
it's possibility.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20
RADIO WATCHES NEXT?

Olaf Gibson, chief engineer of a
eading watch factory, makes the
interesting prediction that watches
of the future may be run by radio
impulses sent out by broadcasting
stations.
Mr.. Gibson is quoted as saying
the time may not be very remote
when we shall be able to transmit
energy by this means to operate
watches without the aid of either
handspring within them or of a
local battery"
true, it will mark another epochal
advance in theological science,
which had it's beginning in the an
cient sundial. The sundial was
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20
ON THE SIDE OF THE LAW

A CoruoYa resident Iast week re-
ported the tneIt OIL SIX .hunureu
and seVenty-two bottles OF peer ana
five dollars in cash to the Iederal
authorities, making affidavit to
his loss.
While lawbreakers are notorious
for the speed and dispatch with
which they envoke the aid of law
enforcement officials when they
have been the victims of other law
breakers, The spectacle is always
amusing to the general pubic.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

Lewis A. Stockley of San Fran
cisco, who is interested in the es-
Enlistment of a paper mill in
southeastern Alaska, was in Wran-
CELL this week. He is now looking
over the country at the mouth of
the Stikine.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

That the one-pound baby born
recently to Mrs. William st. John
of Kansas City sets a record for
smallness is disputed by Mrs. Carl
Kraut of the same city. Mrs. Kraut
declares that her son James, now s
years old, weighed only three-quar-
tiers of a pound at birth. He is now
healthy boy of normal size.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

According to the director of a
Chicago civic organization, more
than 100000 women sought hus-
bands through matrimonial bu-
reaus in the United States last year.
1t is unlikely that any woman with
a good job had much difficulty in
finding a mate.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

An English inventor has hit up
on plan whereby he hopes to eff
fectively eliminate the back seat
driving. This laudable object is
to be obtained by the simple expe-
dent of building automobiles with
the back seat facing the rear.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

Two WrangelT Natives were ar
rested Sunday morning for being
drunk and disturbing the peace.
They were each fined $40. A third
Native arrested charged with fur
nishing liquor to Indians plead gull
ty to the charge and was fined
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
The man who is pleased with his
Just lot is the happy man.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1932-05-20

F. e. Breyman and Swan Pear
son were arrivals on the Uncle Dan
yesterday from Token.